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Show Speculation. Morris Sellers Largey, the young Montana millionaire, who is devoting himself to the theatrical business, said at a dinner, apropos of his new theater in New York: "I think that theatricals offer a fine field for shrewd investors. They are very steady. They are not as the slave trade was during the Civil war. "Perhaps you have heard of the slave who -wanted to buy his freedom. This was before the war, and, since he was a very good slave, his master would not sell him to himself at any price. "But as the war approached its end the master, not unnaturally changed his mind. He sent for the slave one morning and asked him if he was still of the same mind abcut purchasing himself. "The slave scratched his head, looked at the ground, and faltered: " 'Well, Marse Henry, Ah did wanter buy mahse'f, but Ah beer, a-studyin' erbout it right smaht lately, sah. an' Ah done come to de 'elusion dat in dese times niggah prop'ty am too on-sartin', on-sartin', sah, to put any money in.'" |