Show A VICTIM OF A corporation how a I ana G general agats a froien out by ills companion companions speaking of corporations said a I 1 prominent I 1 romi tient sl louis banker baliker 1 I recall with painful reminiscence reminisce tho the fl first ono one of which I 1 lud had the honor bonor tobe to be a stockholder it happened in IS GSand and I 1 was just fifteen years of age of course I 1 had no idea that it waa was really a corporation in which I 1 had invested but as I 1 look back upon the incident the realization rushes upon ine me that I 1 was a victim of corporation methods ibi ile pr 0 vl I 1 1 f 1 I 1 wey A at t a vera early ago age iry ivy 1 tor for pursuits d at t r rhodi I 1 gotico 1 a very general fur for inroy eairly and cakes anil anti an limited supply inthe in the market many of the children posse possessed coppers iud ud rl rackela ric kela ckola but it was nearly P mile ibi e from tho the school house to the country town and tho the boys were compelled to forage upon the tile neighboring sugar cano cane fields and orchards to satisfy the youthful after n careful survey of the market I 1 decided that tho the school wa was confronted by a condition not a theory in a few days I 1 luid secured tho the cooperation of half a dozen boys avith a capital of thirty cents in which I 1 held ten cents of the stock and was consequently named as president and manager of the candy store which wo we proposed to open on the grounds we found an enormous d dead ead and fallen tree whose butt end offered little resistance to ou on penknives ves at noon ono one day I 1 notified the stockholders that a mooting meeting would be held immediately after school and at that meeting I 1 as president and manager cat cut an all olm opening ning into the dead tree fashioned a elicit shelf therein and attached a door whilo tho the stockholders looked on in admiration I 1 then proposed that early in tho the morning each stockholder should bring with him five cents worth of candy wherewith to stock tho the juvenile store to my astonishment it was moved and seconded and carried that tho the candy should be purchased and delivered at once so that the stor might have an earl early yand and perfect opening tired as I 1 waa was I 1 repaired lo 10 the town invested my ten cents in iu cheap candy returned to tho the school ground where already the twilight was making ghostly figures among the trees and deposited my treasure in the sto stoe 0 it was quite dark when I 1 reached home and being unable to account for my whereabouts the president and manager went to bed and with a back aback stinging from the effects of a switch liberally applied next morning I 1 hastened to the school grounds in order to be first at the ceremonies in imagine my surprise when I 1 found there seated in a row all the tile stockholders I 1 congratulated them on their interest in the enterprise and then threw open the door of the candy store it was empty I 1 for a moment I 1 was speechless the stockholders bent their heads and said nothing they looked suspiciously contented ano anc when I 1 intimated that some good man among us had bad gone wrong they were all prepared to prove that a daring burglar had in the midnight hour deprived the tile corporation of its assets ten bearo later ono one of tho the stock stockholders bold admitted that be he had helped his brethren in disposing of the stock st louis republic |