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The Trump
Card Mine
By GUY HALLECK
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certain stock and secured' a contract
from him that if I named it and he
bought and made a profit he was to
give me 4u per cent of his gains. Then
I told him that 1 believed there was
something up in Trump Card.
lie consented to make a small invest­
ment In it by way o f observing its e f­
fect on the market, and, being busy
himself, committed the matter to me.
I found that the only stock to be had
were scattered shares held by those
who considered their investment a
dead loss, and most o f these did not
enre to sell nt the present low market
price. This strengthened the confi­
dence o f my backer, and when I pro­
posed to go about among the former
stockholders anil pick up the stock at
private sale, paying an advance ou the
market price for it. he assented.
In this way I got what stock did not
belong to the original owners, and
then I began to bid for more on the ex­
change. Some stock came out, and ray
backer feared that we were buying a
dead horse. But it turned out that the
ring had sold some stock to prevent
the price from going up. This they did
because some o f them had not got all
the shares they wanted.
When I had bought all the shares my
backer would stand for and had put
back the money I had received for
those the managers had so kindly re­
lieved me of, I was obliged to await
developments. They came one day
when there was a scramble for Trump
Card stock on the exchange, and It
wont up like n squirrel climbing the
trunk o f a tree. My wife, who was as
much absorbed In the matter ns I.
came to me with the papers giving an
account o f “ A Stir In Trump Card"
and throw her arms around my neck,
delighted.
Evidently the secret, whatever it
was, had come out. The company had
struck a new vein not connected with
any other and was getting out ere that
assayed $300 to the ton.
• I reaped a small fortune, but after
n'l I was disgruntled bo in o 1 did not
got revenge on those who had bought
r 'y stock frr n song when they saw
fine prospects «head.
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I had worked In the Trump Card
mine, where they were taking out gold
in paying quantities, and had invested
my savings in it, I had subscribed for
my stock when the owners were form ­
ing the company and they needed mon­
ey. Consequently I got a good lot c f
stock for very little cash. Three hun­
dred and fifty dollars was all I had,
but It, bought me 10,000 shares o f stock.
The "lead” on which the value o f the
mine depended soon died out, and the
mine appeared to be worthless, but the
Incorporators knew of paying veins
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which ran in our direction and believed
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that some o f them extended into our
property. So they held on until a rich
vein was discovered on adjoining prop­
erty, and there was a fine chance by
digging down a hundred feet to strike
the extension. But those interested In
both mines kept the secret from out­
siders, and our managers got on to It
only from their neighbors trying to
buy us out.
I '-as completely ignorant of nil this.
One morning I was told that, the com­
pany had no more work for me, it hav­
ing collapsed, hut since the original
owners did not. like to see me lose any­
thing they would buy my stock at what
1. To m ac Q uality
I had paid for It. 1 thanked them, but
the
corner-stone
told them that I saw no reason why I
should not suffer with the rest, and I
and Style the cop­
would put the certificates away and
in g stone.
consider them charged up to profit
and loss. But they insisted on making
2. To sell at the
me whole, and I, unsuspicious, sold
torrrst price consist­
them my stock.
ent irith the sm a ll­
’/or some time after this, so far ns 1
knew, there was nothing doing in the
est projit a bore cost.
Trump Card mine. Occasionally there
was a quotation nt from 3 t o o cents a
3 To felt the t r u t h
share on the mining stock exchange.
in p r i n t a n d act it
One evening while walking by the
i n the store.
property I was surprised to see some
workmen coming out o f a hole In the
Athletes Go to War.
ground, carrying their dinner pails. 1
A. A. P E N N IN G T O N
Among the troops that left H alifax
asked one o f them if they had been recently was the One Hundred ami
at work, but he was a Norwegian and Eightieth Canadian Sportsmen’s bat­
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Oregon
spoke no English. In fact not a man talion, and in its ranks were such tine
o f the lot could understand a word I fellows ns A. E. Wood, the fifteen mile
said.
record holder; Tom Longboat, the fa ­
I f I had simply discovered that work mous Indian runner; Lou Marsh, an­
was being done in the mine 1 would other famous distanccr; Tom Flana­
not have become suspicious. But that gan, who first won fame as Longboat's
the owner had thought fit to employ manager, and many other well known
(hose who wish to
only those who could not communi­ sportsmen. This battalion was recruit­
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«ot ii better KO­
cate with inquirers seemed singular, ed entirely from young men who have
DAK this son son,
especially since when I was working followed track athletics, hockey and
wo have made arrange­
for them their men were mostly Amer­ football, and It Is considered the finest
body o f troops that the Dominion has
ments whereby we enn
icans.
take in a few good old
Booking at the sales list o f stocks sent to the war zone.
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style machines in trade
that evening in the newspaper, 1 saw
on new ones,
more sales o f Trump Card shares than
1 had noticed for several weeks previ­
ous. though the price had only advanc­
W ith a little thought aud care of
ed a fraction. I w< ndered If some­
thing was going on. That night 1 lay shoes the fam ily shoe bill may be re­
duced at least one-third. The present
awake thinking.
I sent my w ife to llmrer In the tie! ;li- day liquid polish used on shoes is apt
’ rhood nf the mine and watch. She to crack the leather uml ruin It. Most
snw nothing unusual. There was in th­ liquid dressings have a certain amount
ing alive In It '-o far as she could see. o f acttl. and this destroys the oils in
The same night I went to the prop­ the leather. 11 one must use liquid
erty nud sat on a stump near by till dressings, once in two weeks wash o!T
2 o'clock in the morning, when a cart every bit o f dressing from the shoes
loomed out o f the darkness nud pass­ and apply a liberal coating o f castor
oil and set the she, s in an airy place
ed away Into the darkness again. I
for tw o days. T l e elasticity o f the
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noticed that It was without a creak. I
leather will be renewed and the sh
knew
enough
about
mines
to
believe
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Oregon.
become soft and pliable. Wipe shoes
that It was carrying ore. and the axles
carefully before applying the next coot
were inn tiled.
^ o f liquid dressing
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The next day 1 went down to Den-
ver. whore I procured an interview
Tennis All Year In Japan.
Women would be happy it they could with n man who had held a lot o f
Japanese
lawn tennis play* rs enn
Trump Card sto k, but had sold it nt
live long without getting very old.
a small profit 1 ofore the mine collaps­ play all the year r tun; hi the Flowery
The game was Introduced
People who make fools of themselves ed. 1 ti>ld him that I could give him Kingdom
into Japan by the English.
a
pointer
on
a
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respective
rise
n
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never fail to attract attention.
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Day. Our low round
trip Holiday ticket!
allow you plenty o,
time. All points in
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Dec 21 to 23 inc; Dec. |
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limit 15 days from date
of sale.
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points in Washington
and Idaho Dec. 22 to
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Jail. 3,1917.
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time of trains,
fares, etc.
ohn M. Scott, G. 1*. A.,
Porttand, Ore.
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