The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 26, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
JAPAXKSK HICK C AMliLKK.
Ip Like a docket Down Like a Stick,
l ate of a Klyer.
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There is a romantic tale going the
rounds of Kakigara-clio and Kabutocho
these days of a man who came to
Tokyo with practically nothing, played
the rice market, won millions and
then lost it all. The rocket-like career
of this one-time child of fortune has
. covered less than three months. It
was in March that he first invaded the
arena where the bulls and bears play
with other people's money: it was
last week that he was definitely cleared
out.
His name is Kakuhara, and up to
March, when he came to Tokyo with
something like 1,000 yen in his pocket,
he was leading the prosaic life of a
small shopkeeper at Shiuoka. Times
were good, the farmers in his district
were making money and spending it.
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MIS little Sliop prosptueu anu i\ai\uhara
salted away something over 1,000
yen. He had heard stories of the
vast fortunes being made over night,
in Tokyo. He decided to test his
luck.
It was in the latter half of March
that he made his appearance in the
rice section of the Tokyo Rice and
Produce Exchange. He started as a
bull; he bought rice. The succeeding
fluctuations of the rice market were
upward. He waited till the peak was
reached and then sold. He now had
enough capital to begin operations on
a larger scale. He bought again and
with judgment that was uncanny, or
with the luck that a beginner is supposed
to have in all games of chance,
he was right again. The beginning of
the April trading on the exchange
found Kakuhara a millionaire, and
ambitious to get into the multi-milionaire
cla-ss.
Bulled the Bice Market.
About tHis time he formed a combination
with one of the most noted
or notorious gamblers in Japan, one
Hanzaimoa Oka. popularly known as
Okahan, a man who has lived for
years by manipulating the various
markets. This Okahan was one of
the speculators who called down the
popular wrath at the time of the 1 91 S
rice riots by their alleged profiteering.
His big home at Tsu was made the
object of an attack by an indignant
mob. With this man Kahuhara form
ed an alliance and together they sei
about to effect a corner of the rice
market.
Bears |Run for Cover.
They were partially successful, for
when the time came for the settlement
at the end of April, the bears
were caught short and ran for cover.
They had to pay penalties to the
Kakahara-Okahan combination. Kakohara's
pile passed the two million '
mar^. His ambition grew.
But his judgment?or luck?deserted
him. He still believed in the
game of the bulls, in buying rice, al- {
though there were many signs that
pointed to a drop. Farmers in the
country, hard pressed for money, be- J
g*an to ship rice to Tokyo, on consign- 1
ment, willing to take what they could
get for it. Operators who had been
holding rice in the big go-down in
Fukagawa, alarmed by this turn, became
sellers. 1
Bears "Clean" Kakuliara. 1
With the stage thus set, the bears, ]
tired of being victims of this interloper
in their game of chance, set about (
to get him. They formed a selling <
combination, under the leadership of J
I
a man named Xagaslwma, who. just 1
back from Xew York, was oelieved to
have learned something from the 1
bulls and bears of Wall street. Every- ^
thing favored them and when the *
slump in the rice came on the Exchange
on May 22. they caught Kakuhara
and "earned" him. He was
caught holding So0,000 koku of rice
on margin. He was able to meet the
~ first demand for a payment of additional
margin of 22 yen per 100 koku,
but the second demand found him
"broke." His bargains are to be sold
at auction.
Back in the little shop in Shizuoka,
Kakuhar can now astonish the vil<
lagers wi. . a tale that can rival the
best romances of Wall street, Lorn- '
bard street or the Chicago 'Change.
He was a millionaire for about two
months, anyway.
Such is Fame.
The secretary of a periodical published
not far from New York city
and noted for the literary flavor of its
editorial pages once received a letter 1
from a subscriber asking for the ad- 1
dress of George Meredith, the novelist.
The secretary had a careful examination
made of the long payroll
of the company, but the search was in
vain. A reply was, therefore, sent to
the subscriber couched in this language:
"We are sorry that we are unable
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IO gIVc; \u? iuc auuicca \jl
Meredith, of our St. Louis office. Perhaps
you can ascertain it from him."
Jim McDonald, a negro of Lexington.
X. C., has been sentenced to die
on October 8, for attempted criminal
assault upon the wife oPa white farmer.
GUKKKS AS SHAVKKS.
' I m1 of the Kii/or lioomed KBst IJy i
Alexander.
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Barbers are a time-honored insti-j
union. Back in the fourth century B. J
C. the ancient Greek used to wend his j
way to the corner barber shop, lean j
back in the high chair with a towel
wound lovingly about his neck, and
tell the white-coated gentlemanonly
they didn't wear coats in those
days?to do his worst. And lie usually
did.
The barber shops offered all the
comforts and conveniences of our
most up-to-date establishments de |
luxe. The barber after the approved
modern fashion, shaved the patrons,
trimmed their hair, suggested a newpomade
or hair tonic?if perchance,
the hair was "getting a bit thin on
top, sir/' Or if the ancient Greek
looked doubtfully in the mirror
frowning over gray hairs that were
beginning to show, the sagacious barber
produced a bottle of hair dye and
murmured, that after all, a man was
as old as he looked?or words to that
effect.
And even as you and I, the man
who strolled casually into a barber
shop to get a shave rarely escaped
without a face massage, and perhaps
a manicure. For the care of the nails
was included in the "service" the
really good barber shop offered its
customers. In fact, some of itlie
larger shops went still further and
kept a chiropodist. Even the historic
Greeks of the fourth century B. C.
suffered from corns.
Xo one knows the exact date at
which the original barber started in
business. But about 330 B. C. 'Alexander
the Great started the fashion
~ ? it n 3 4.
ui me ciean siiciven race arm irgiu
away the barbers began paying off
their mortgages and putting money in
the bank.
Do You Know About Your Bible?
There are 3,586,489 letters? There
are 773,692 words? There are 31,173
verses? There are 1,189 chapters?
There are 66 books? That the word
Lord is used 1,855 times and that the
word Reverend occurs once, in the
ninth chapter of the Eleventh Psalm.
The middle verse of the Bible is
the 8th verse of ythe 118th Psalm,
while the 21st verse of the 7th chapter
of Ezra contains every letter of
the alphabet but "J."
The nineteenth chapter of Second
Kings, and the 37th chapter of Isaiah
are alike.
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The longest verse in the Bible is
the 9th verse of the 8th chapter of
Esther, while the shortest verse is the
35th verse of the 11th chapter of St.
John.
The 8th, 21st and 31st verses of
the 107th Psalm are all the same,
while each verse of the 13th Psalm
ends alike.
There are no words, no names in
the Bible that are more than six
syllables long.?Dearborn Independent.
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Solve the Storing Problem.
There is no more important matter
relating to food supplies in the South
than the problem of storing and saving
sweet potatoes.
In recent years methods have been
developed by which "sweet potatoes
can be kept through the storage season
with a loss of less than three per
cent. due to decay," according to the
['nited States department of agricul:ure.
When the necessary facilities
for keeping sweet potatoes without
serious loss from rotting are provided
throughout the south, the sweet potato
will become one of our best
staple crops, for the use of sweet potatoes
is rapidly increasing outside
the south. In fact, if sweet potatoes
?an be safely and economically stored
their use will be greatly increased in
the south, for under present conditions
they are generally more or less
high priced and scarce for six months
af the year.
While a satisfactory curing and
storage house is not very expensive,
still the small farmer may find the
cost too great. Therefore, cooperative
curing storage houses should be
built in every neighborhood. There
is no better opportunity for cooperation
than in providing neighborhood
sweet potato storage facilites.
The essentials for keeping sweet
potatoes are, well matured potatoes,
one distinct or well defined variety,
careful harvesting and handling, and
curing and storing in a properly constructed
and ventilated house where
a fairly uniform temperature of
around sixty degrees can be maintained
during the storage season.
Mixed varieties require different
handling, immature potatoes or those
injured by frost, and rough handling
which bruises the potatoes must all
be avoided if the potatoes are to be
cured and stored satisfactorily.
Plans for houses that have been )
proved satisfactory may be obtained
from the extension forces of each
state or from the United States Department
of agriculture.?Progressive
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^ We will offer a great selection of spring and fall yearlings, a ^
L few spring pigs and some young boar prospects. 1
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