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Show Cannot See Them IT is laughable to watch the men who deal in stocks in this city. They are justly very proud of their new exchange; they meet there dally and startle the echoes of that part of town with their clamor, but in fifteen minutes after recess or adjournment they are back In the old haunts on Second South, looking wistfully at the blackboard, and debating probabilities on the curb. They remind one of the house cat that, having hav-ing lost favor, has been put In a sack and sent by a boy to be released a mile away amid entirely en-tirely new and strange scenes, but which by unerring un-erring instinct is back on the rear fence in half an hour, with a look of perfect complacency amid the familiar surroundings. We suspect that in time these stock dealers will finally realize that the family has actually moved away, but they have not reached that point yet. The atmosphere at-mosphere of Cactus street has not yet acquired the needed ozone. |