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Recently, an episode in the West showed that the farmer is just as difficult to advise as the investor or stock trader. The Department of Agriculture, after an investigation, reported that the decrease in potato acreage would amount to about 6% this year...
Everyone can, of course, see what is going on in the stockmarket, at least on the surface. Trading is becoming less active, prices are stabilizing on a lower level than obtained a few months ago. This much every ten-share trader can see. But the inner significance of it, the perception of the economic forces which are responsible for it-these are less obvious...
...raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down to the harbor he went, took ship, sailed off in the dawn, Partner Parton with him. That was long ago; nobody knows what became of him; only Jervaile was left...
Arthur W. Cutten of Illinois, trader in grain, reputed to have made 15 million on paper in the present bull market, is celebrated for his efforts to avoid celebrity, to hide his light under a bushel...
Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...