Show PITY PERSONAL I INSIE VIE WAll J In Tn giving the Ih views 0 ne ness s men of the country Boston News Bureau lows JM As to the effects of ote p tent opinion Is changing because he heads a great reat but because of his WI economic conditions Is C Chr Ch bins bin's prediction that reon reconstruction prosperity Jn will continue after npr the wi the Wi wide attention The frel Guaranty Trust tak takes th peace l necessities of the thO iw tries will ill wi h he hI l ent and volcan volcan vol w I can be he supplied at at at th the tho a only by hy America and h hI hedly hel I edly ecly right 1 4 Rca Readjustment j I But Rut peace neice Is atm distant et cst banking and most moat flat ast critics I r find hold to the the tv v vend vend I end nt of o I the hp European com coni O f not In sight ht Ind Indeed It till that while the market ec has hasing haJ I Ing 11 itself f to the opposite signs of prolongation ton of 3 have multiplied The aUe allied I France s looi-s n as RS if it It U might other deadlock German Jr j r the Russian nuan advance In luj theatre of th the war ar Is nor Indications lons briefly arEt 0 sides t there here I Is s to be a I te lefi ton to pf pErmit lt the lines and the a supplies of o ammunition has it II it I Is bellev belev that through the Morgan bithe br bi br the Ile allies will place and Jr placed on a R considerable sc Be tracts tract for munitions for Ep Epand Ere Etl and Russia nUsIA to use le In batt kaisers kaiser's ers er's legions during 41 1 twelvemonth This affairs T I may Rd add curent currently with wih a decided u uI cultural con conditions The Is II augmented augmenter b h hundred million bushels hushel ov ove month ago a fair corn Cr Crabl or r rable able abl abl and the yield of Continued on page 1 I I PITHY PERSONALITIES Continued from page 10 barring accident to be one of the larg est in the history of the South The Market Arguing from the foregoing experienced critics think August will be a bull month In security markets market History discloses that period Is often orten one of unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual speculative activity By the end of July the crucial crop weeks have passed and the disposition is- is isto to discount dis count the harvest of the autumn This year such inclination is foreshadowed by potential accumulation of stocks stocks stocks-as as of United States Steel by the Morgan Interests Interests in interests In- In and their following Union PacifIc Pa- Pa by the Rockefellers American Smelting by the and their colleagues and Reading and New York Central by the First National bank bank- Standard Oil capitalists respectively and American Can by Daniel G. G Reid and the tho multimillionaires long long- identified with the latter property Of course domestic domes domes- tic politics continue to figure as a powerful powerful-if if unobtrusive factor in marcel market mar mar- cel leet calculations Protection and preparedness pre pre- and a repetition of tho great grest political upheaval of nineteen ye years rs ago agos is s what the country Is looking forward to 10 o in November unless the most discerning discerning dis dis- students of the situation are all wrong Incidentally it Is recalled that the he uplift which followed William Mc- Mc inley's election lasted for over five years ears Politics The The conviction so widely held that a great Republican victory is in the cards Is s largely based of Course on the argument argument argument ment that normally the party is in the majority Only twice in more than sixty years have the Democrats elected a president over a united opp opposition Both times they won with Cleveland In I 1884 and 1892 1802 But the closeness of ot the he former victory merely accentuates the he contention that normally the Republican Republican Re Re- publican party controls Not for days after the 1884 election was the come ome known And then it Proved a a. beggarly majority of of a few tew hundred voles bailiwick by bythe votes in a Coney Island the he grace of John Y T. McKane 1 The Southland It is too early to figure ort Ott final results August being a ticklish month of cotton cotton- may cotton may reach but but that the yield the he astounding bulk of ot bales not impossible Already the of- of seems tidal indication based on Washington Washington's s and information as regards acreage acreage and condition is for a crop of over bales including But the government as every one is aware has a wea-Kness wea for fOi understatements understatements under under- statements In this connection 1 It has underestimated planting a million two millions three millions of ot acres before now This year prices at planting time were abnormally high The chances are that every farmer put in every foot of ot ground That is why some ome of the most level lovel headed students feel that with anything anything anything any any- thing like normal weather conditions from now till November the South will raise one of the biggest if r nt rl l the very biggest I cotton crops In its history Swimming The latest latet fad of the tired business businessman man is a swim during business hours hours- On the ground floor of oC the Woolworth building in Professor sixty sixty- foot tank may be seen bank clerks and bank banle presidents practicing practicing- in office hours the breast stroke the tho trudge on and the Australian crawl strokes supposed to be affected only by the tho experts Meffert h is p popular downtown Some Somo years ago he was ars swimming r 1 Instructor C 0 of tho Knickerbocker Athletic club and developed developed developed devel devel- its Us famous champion water polo team He lie also developed Bud Goodman who won a barrel of oC championship medals and who is the best all round swimmer in the opinion of many fans tans in the country country country coun coun- try now that the wonderful Charles M M. Daniels of the New York Athletic club Is out of the game The TIte Wolf They y tell a 1 funn funny story In Jacks Jack's about David Lamar L Dropping into the famous famois Dunstan emporium at 3 o o'clock clocK one morning he sat down at a table at which were several sporting men men ana and the conversation turned to cards r I i Wolf Vol ob- ob dont don't believe In gambling the ser v d tl and right now not far from us ua usI I 1 see a a. young o ng man It has ruined Then after er a n 1 bIt bit lt At that I should not object of his hearers hearers hear hear- to playing a little faro One ers era ran a gambling house so 50 the little party was soon seated at a faro fare table Give me a n 2000 stack Lamar said to the dealer and tossed across the table his ala check for Then he waited for change The proprietor yawned The dealer smiled lIe T The others h buttoned l t their I overcoats aSt The he lights ht one b by one began to go out And the Wolf Volt went to bed of course without that 1 11 change 1 Now WC David j Lamar Is In a Southern jail and the street misses him and his tall holdups Ps and andi recalls that with all his i rJ y years of scheming scheming- against predatory predators t wealth he at no time accumulated much wealth himself After a big big- market deal in which old United States Leather common cornmon com corn mon had a lightning advance of 30 points he once appeared It Is related in a well known roadhouse and displayed a roll ron or orone orone orone one hundred 1000 bills But those who knew the Wolf Volf well weIl sa say that he never r possessed n a fortune lie was a spender He lie ne lost money In the stock market It Is said faster than he made it there Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper p men who know sn what ra v a clever man d dhave he was sometimes t wonder n what a he would U have done in a legitimate calling He had a fairly engaging engaging- personality He was a good talker He knew the of corporations Much of the time one of the most Ingenious lawyers lawers In the thew country w was his mentor t h Gaited aalt d dIfferently differently differ dIffer- rc it seems m p probable t that he would have got into the graces of big men and made millions But the Wolf had his own ideas on these points Will VIII he exploit exploit ex ex- th In the same old wa way when he comes back to the street Or by then will he have grasped the moral of his career that It pays pas to be straight Cures Love of speculation is inherent In people Everybody likes to bet If It were not so 50 the race tracks would be he closed and all the gamblers would have to go to work There is is the case of a multimillionaire whose name is seldom mentioned In Wall street who was so in infatuated infatuated In in- with roulette he played even after he he- suspected he was up against a crooked wheel The proprietors of the gambling house he frequented quarreled over v the spoils spoils largely largely delbe his 1 and totaling l a fortune e. e sPI Infuriated rl because s he did not get g-et his full share one of them went to the millionaire and told him he had been cheated out of thousands of or dollars Get a wheel heel said the latter put It up UT n my house and show me how they did It This was s done The gambler demonstrate demonstrates dem dem- r the sd d device rC of of the e ege ge electric wires and how they could make a little pea play havoc with the chips on the l layout P Good d God t d exclaimed la the victim i ithe the house hOUM have a good enough thing without without without with with- out that But he was cured Money Europe's unknown gold old holdings aggregate aggregate aggregate gate enormously Britain with South Africa and other sources to accumulate from Crom has a huge stock of the precious under cover So has France ditto Rus Rus- sia ala I understand by the way that a lot lotof lotof lotof of Russian gold is to come this way t to swell the tremendous stock of the metal meta already stored in United States treasury vaults This stock now reaches the unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented un un- un- un total in New York of over Some students students students' are WonderIng wonderIng wondering wonder wonder- Ing if it will climb to a billion James Whitcomb Riley Like all other hal f eal cal poets James Whitcomb Whitcomb Whitcomb Whit- Whit comb Riley never realized what were his best utterances but on the contrary he was most partial to his second or third best best he he did not even know what his hiss best hest was I remember Interviewing him twenty years ears ago when he was wa traveling over the t country reciting r his verses S rm h r Vh When n I asked him what he thought ug his best poem was he replied If I remember correctly I dont don't know but I guess The Frog What do you think I replied that I was quite familiar with Riley poetry which I admired but T could not nat locate The Frog My selection of his very best couplet was thelast thelast the tho last one In An Address to a Disconsolate I Farmer Farmer oth Farmer otherwise wise a rather tame effort Here Is the couplet For the world is full of roses and the therose therose therose rose Is full of dew And the dew is luIl full of heavenly enly love which drips for me an you A Mile Under Ground New York financiers who were recently the guests of President Agassiz of Calumet Hecla Heels on an Inspection trip of the company's mines at Calumet Mich were wera kept on the Jump taking taking- in the sights during their short stay And they went the whole o figure too heth ti al although g gel el I a am told that some of them were not over enthusiastic when Mr Agassiz announced that the next thing on the program will be a trip a mile under ground He meant of course that he lie was going to take his guests down feet teet to the bottom of the Red Jacl Jacket et shaft one e of f the deepest e in the world er n Visions io o of inky i darkness darkness and s and perhaps ps never getting out alive caused alive caused some of ot the he more timid to think they had seen enough But imagine their lh surprise I when nl f er d after ft d donning old clothes they clothes l they dropped the entire feet teet as comfortably as if It they hev they had been beeh in the elevator of New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's most modern skyscraper And Inky Inley darkness No electric lights all the way including the mile or more which they traversed under ground Ken I hear the Guggenheims have been re recent recent recent re- re cent buyers of Copper If earnIngs earnings earn- earn Ings continue to pile up in the treasury for some months at the present rate ate there will be other buyers at higher pr prices Copper g er stocks are on a peace basis but there Is no peace In sight eight and there Is B no peace In sig sight t for copper Steel Common I hear from Crom good International sources that the foreign selling of Steel common commonIs commons Is s nearly over When this Is really fInIshed finished fin- fin shed Steel common should sell eel several points higher |