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Show CHASING PHANTOM PROFITS. "He won more than a million dollars dol-lars on the big decline in stocks la" : year," says the account .of a rccen. suicide; "but unfortunately he over- j stayed his market and lost it all." In i which experience he had a' great deal 1 of company. And in the big decline of last year. I the bull of 1906 lost his winnings, T while the advance upon which the bull won wiped out the gains' that the bear had accumulated in the last preceding pre-ceding slump. The speculator's winnings win-nings arc mere stage money something some-thing that he can look at and amuse himself by handling for a little while until the manager comes around and takes it up for use in the next scene. Wc should like to sec or credibly hear of the books of that broker n cither grain or stocks, doing a purely speculative business of considerable magnitude, and extending, say, over twenty years, which will show a net balance of real money secured and taken away by his customers. The Post. ' |