What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1729, 18 July 1874, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude of counsellors there is safety. —Old Proverb. Some people who have been acting on tbe principle of believing every man honest until they have discovered him to be otherwise have found out to their cost that they x)ught to have reversed the principle in its application. There is something about scrip dealings which befets an elasticity of conscience. Persons aying scrip for safe too often look upon taking in their friends as a venial offence, and this begeis suspicion—a feeling that pervades the breast of a good many just " now. One gentleman recently was thinking of bu}ing some stock. Jlo consulted one whom ho had looked upon as a friend, and the friend intimated that he was a buyer of the same stock at a price named. This friend had means of obtaining information not possessed by many, so that No 1 thought be-was rigl'it in purchasing. He acted on the gratuitous information of his friend, " sprung " a. shilling or two on his friend's buying figure, and became', the holder of a parcel of scrip. Soon after the shares went down, and the individual who trusted his friend, found atl-ast he had good grounds /for believing -—that he had been sold. He is under the impression that the scrip ho bought belonged to the kind friend who so adroitly cajoled him into buying. His suspicions ' having been aroused he is now wary of what he does. ]\*ot only is he shy of his "friend," but he is suspicious of all mankind, and will bo henceforth in all share transactions. , instances of this kind might be given ad. lib., and there is nothing tending to bring share jobbing into disrepute more than these same transactions, in which men take a mean advantage of others under the guise of friendship. Certain stock s are beginning to be looked upon as "wild cat," from the numerous fishy transactions M'hich have surrounded their manipulation. Of. course it cannot be expected that a higher state of morality will be practised hero than amongst other scrip dealers; persons have been '• sold " before over shares, and will be again to the end of time. There is one bar to carrying on these little games to any great * extent—the limited market; but from what has transpired during' the past, few weeks there can be no doubt that amongst the ring who manage to pull, the wires in mining, from the taking up of ground to the winding up of the companies, there are some individuals who have graduated in a very M?h school of Takin. Inno T cents bewa^p! If you must speculate do it through a legitimate channel. If a man advises you to buy, examine well the motives by which he is actuated, and if you .miss one good chance from over caution you will save money in the long run by avoiding snares ever set to catch flats.

If toutera beguile you with.offers of scrip, With assurances they have the very best tip, And impress on you not to let the chance Blip, Don't believe them 5 for they may be hopiug to ship, Themselves and your money away—right away— Let 'am rip! If their shares are as go.?d as they try to mate out, Believe me, their reasons are open to doubb, These gentlemen know their way well about— Are most friendly disposed—ever ready to shout; - . - As Corniahmen. say—to do with them have nout— Xet them shout! At the "Wharf" and th<» "Nil. Dasporandum " each day, Also at the corner just over the way, The sharks may be found, so honest inea say, Plying their trade, no conscience have they, . So long as the flats continue to play— . With the bait Of " wild cat" beware, its the devil's own bait, And it's certain to land you in yery poor strait; If jou want to invest, just bide a wea—wait Like Sandy, take time, and gang your am g \te Or of worthless scrip too much you may * takeJust Wild Oat! There is certainly a great anomaly in the way Orangemen celebrate the " Glorious Twelfth." Ono set of men believe that they are doing the correct thing by making the occasion an excuse for a dance; others again look upon the anniversary as something above Christmas and Good Friday and a little below the Sabbath in precedence as to celebration. They fight their battles over again, and fight imaginary battles—single combats to which that of Christian with Appolyon in the Valley of the Shadow of Death was a mere scrimmage. Some people say this enthusiasm —this fervid eloquence in de- ' fence of a purely imaginary attack partakes of the absurd. There is such a^ thing as protesting overmuch. One 6l the people of cosmopolitan ideas has penned the following, which he thinks might be appropriately inserted. in what eveybody says. It is epigrammatic, and therefore. to the point— If Orangemen believe that Truth to all j| „ dear— That Charity's a virtue (which to most it clear), Why don't they stick to one, and praotice t'other— Lot Catholics alone, and live, at peaoa with one another.