The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1900, Page 2

o THE SUNDAY CALL. 1 7 3 L J I crel 8 e 4 | ) , & AN GRS IV AN B & A > ety r they be stout or not greatest thing in the world. There’s for- “Who is to blame for the misfortune? “I'm glad she aldn’t get onto our tip, s A e { the way they have tunes to be made. If you want to buy I'll Don't the stocks behave prétiily, or are all the same.” ¥ osaillthe Yy e squatty heap, as a hen show you where that broker's office is— the brokers wicke “Ja, ve keep ver shtill. Dot dip's de hers. They talk with only two blocks off. “It's both, m' dear. The stocks is no beach, dot dip.” 2 they talk in a voice llke “Don’t you think it would be a good ood. Ye buy an’ ye buy, an’ as soon as “How many shares are you goin' to re smooth and shrewd and plan for me to talk the matter over ye've bought the ints to pay g ever first " They's non av thim no good now, except All T ~ot de money to puy, an’' I make a n tim pushed forward the brokers *Oh, whatever you do don't talk to any ©0ld Belcher. She's a pretty good ol’ boy, hoosband borrow, too. - : g " in and gathered in the pit. -Some of these women,’ she whisperéd. “You but she's’ twinty-foive cints—tin t's the best thing I've seen In ten the gallery, but 2 s 1 ; cama by way of Montgomery can't trust what they fell you. Don't lis-, share an’ fifteen ciats f year.” you for an and some came from the opposite ten to them. Some of them say it's'a bad 1t's holgh. “What's the best thing?" asked a won CUREBSTOME —35.5 | offices. But that ain't so good as comin’ | hers an’ watchin’. Some of us have been ‘ comin’ twenty or thirty makin’ a reg'lar busi any other business—it downs. iuere’s fortunes made an “What do you pay the brokers for buying or sellin e woman was telling me that the and their friends make all the there is made.” She must have been other was tel to wealth.” stand Ir tent ucky.” me that it's orm San co Exchange ran in with his yel- ng the rep: of sales 1ght ripple und him, re was a then calm 1 see for yourselt how & my first acqual { strutting toward me and giving a s | v N is half ‘ ing sigh. ““Them brokers is half asleep | now. But things °Il be bet I'm goin’ to make plenty mor before I get through.” She reached a confidential and stubby hand out from under her fur. The fur was the nondescript kind that a stray cat's when dogs are withir sembles t me ou.” she said 1 grew mentally and bodlly evas she came closer. Her eyes were like a the eyes I saw In the room, beady and There's a fortun’ fur you, let me teil 3 th Think of what I dome, and I plump friend. stopping before them. no older than you when I started “Dot noo oatmeal I tell you for break- just a few dollars was all I had. An’ ses haired woman. what I done fast,” said the shor eled to Europs twics A girl entered the room, nodded mo- like a p I went to Paris I rosely to three or four of the women and hought inks of Parls clo'es stepped directly to the railing. si An’ jeweiry. You should watched the bidding for sev then went out again. I cc side, where an alley chortens the way } pale, gloomy face and her look of despair from the big front door of the San Fran- \ after the door closed cisco Stock Exchange, which has ‘“‘the 1 m 14 see her ain't it? She's a servant an’ lead.” were a dull looking lot ot thing, because they want to keep you “An' the brokers. There isn't a honest ke T to: waill baitet BAAE Sear (hina men, who joked each other ¢ut. You min' what I tell you." man among thim, so hilp me af there is. i e At i N DS » Her Tatlh r Y rtedly now and then and lounged Back In the darkness of the corner and Rascals, ivery wan. See thim two walkin' , o 5 " C 000 o POl 2L T ‘rh held spiritiess confab. of her fur collar was to be seen a cau- Off together? See thim ““1““" BONT. aanhieds i Me Naids Se 8. 3 in- i ¥ They g ;ality, ve see. s L. & s U “Ihe: nothin’ o N’ now tlous narrowing of lids over gleaming They're puttin’ up some rasca 3 til & d $800 .t e los: 1 THEre's nOUINS il AL NoW. e Lo e They're a bad lot. Have nothin’ to do ‘il #he had $000, an’ then she lost it ali ‘m:.' puffy neighbor apologetically. ‘“Some- €Yes. with ony dv Mm it deay.” at once, an' now she ain't got nothin'. times they get excited—gee! Maybe they At the other end of the row I talked will to-day. It's great Wwith the melancholy widow l\\'hen ey do. y swat each * s a bad place, m’' dear, a bad fother. My, though. An' p . she said. *It was a sorry day for they throw ecach other over the rallin’. me whin forrst Ol come here. Don't lis- Poor thing. She pulled her long, greasy vell around . k her and sank, pudgy, into the folds of it, _~She don’t lose ef she puy an’ den go and wiped first one blinking eye and then home. Dot's vot I tell her. Buy vot you the other with .the corner. of the veil's Vant to pay, den go home an’ don't lister say. Ef you listen you nefer hah to nopody, 1 Them's times, I teil you. See that ol' ten to non av thim women what tills ye 4 know how to puy, ar u go bust. Don’t o P e St : I to the melancholy L = {feller over there, about 70 year ol'? You diffrat. Ye'll be sorry af ye do. Ol am. st Y listen to none of de women, I say to her, widow walted for me. twouldn’t think ir, but he give that red- Thim as makes money has got a pool but sne don't listen to m: = headed one a terribie cut on the jaw one With the brokers. The brokers live lojke “Good-by, an' don't listen to any av the ) sink non av ““Then she done what you told her,” put lday, he got so The red-headed larrds av the land on the money of poor Women,” said the melancholy WIdOW t0 . o't ™ qpo ol putee colored, denrr” she el one's a match though. He let Women. Torkey an’ cranberry sauce they mMe. phlegmatic woman. i e Bt ape Sy phongs him know what's what. He ain't red- have, while we eat dry bread. Do you There was some shifting of position go- o i B b i ST G 6 SRS ¥m thankful fur that, Of am. It's a - headed fur nothin’. F a nice man, he think all they wants is commission? Half ing on. I moved to another row. s doy Oif come he an’ it'd be a 3 tell her, ‘Don’t listen to nome of o s to me, ‘I couldn’t hit an the profit s what they take for sharrting, A short-haired, short-skirted woman woman' an’ she don't listen to me. you gamble ‘but T had to let him and they rob us all the time. Thim that's crossed the room and sat beside me: She came heatedly. The putty-colored one LNere 3 thim axil til ye aier know what's what. I tol’ him this aln’t 8ot a pool'll till ye there's forchins to be talked softly to her neighbor on the other ¢iiicq lazily and did not argue further. 0y &int to 2”'”“\‘1 Ot had y no prize ring. I did." Aln't that keen fur made. But don't ye listen to non av side. There was a feeble flurry of excitement W O me Nare you, though? He's a good man, he is. thim, m’' dear, or you'yj be sorry.” Dade's gettin' ver scare’,” she in the pit. One broken shook another, Better ask m about stocks when you “Are you losing all the time?” ; who was not of his own size 3 want to bu: All the tolme. OI'm goin’ to get out av gettin’ scared,” answered An operator who had not yet jolned the Rothing > JopreTimEs T BRo WERS f76H7 Anp A4/ OVE ANOT/IER ©OvER THE frEan WITH THER CATES . 5. v b sorry doy fur you, to ol' men,’ sa good mon wanted more.” “So vou t what you had and gained “She’s alwi 1 was not there to buy, but I did not it as soon as Oi see the chance, an’ this {he other. But_she keeps on just the others stepped to the rail to listen, and “Yes,” she replied say so. place’ll niver see me ol' bones agin whin game. I've seen her aroun’ -here ever 1 folowed her. She left me and entered a broker's m, but 1 ra 50 called because they scratch up ola “He's a g00d man,” she went on. “I've Wance Of gits out.” since I've been comin’, and that's forty- *Do you have to keep track of every- office. Through the glass door I noticed gs ncbody wants, the old things Known him a long time back. I knowed ‘“‘Are you walting to come out even?" four year in March.” thing so closely?” I asked I that some explanation was evidently de- E ! have watched bLeing zotten stocks. This is a neat him when I made my first fortune.” “Aven! Aven, did'ye say? If wance ‘Ja, but she haf reason to be scare dis “All the time,” she answered. “There's manded of the broker, for his face was em as I sat in enough explanation and convincing. And “Then you've dane well here?” & ¥ o Of was aven O'd be well off, Oi kin tell ‘time. She put all her money in-von no use gamblin’ at all if you don't watcl ty of the “chippers is *“Wel 1 should say so. Why, I've ye that. Aven, m' dear? It's a rich mine, 'cause ein fortune-teller tell her to, Some of ‘em comes an’ goes, but it ai t of the Sunday dinner made two fortunes and traveled to Europs woman Ol come here, an’ it's a poor an’ now she get scare, 'cause dey say dot no good that way. Them that makes a s rown or black or gray {(wice like a princess. This business Is the wan Of'll lave.” mine ain't goin' to pan out.” business of it comes here at 9 for the SARAH COMSTOCK. atory ng for the pers was dark. The bustness far more I . ms were upward @ caught, but of =3 pparer does not need