Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — THE OLD-SOAKEM BUCKET SHOP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE OLD-SOAKEM BUCKET SHOP.

How dear to my heart are the bucket shop earnings, When fond recollection presents them to view; The clerk, the mechanic, far wealth vainly yearning, And every one else I was able to do. No longer they’ll come with the bulk of * their wages, And hand them to me, wbenfor margins I call; No lodger they’ll find .in the newspaper pages The news that a bucket shop’s gone to the wall; v The well-furnished bucket shop, swell looking bucket shop, The bucket shop ready to go to the walL How oft have they stood by the ticker and waited. To learn what theik profits were going to be I How oft to their sorrow they’ve found they were fated To leave all their profits forever with me. Their coin I How I seized It with hands that were glowing,

And safe In my pockets It speedily fell; Alas! now my business they’ve been “overthrowing, The bucket shop business that did ’em up well. The lucrative business, the get-rlch-quick business, The bucket shop business that did ’em ~ m> well. Alone in my sorrow, I scarce can b* lieve it, I’ll profit no more as a bear or a bull J My business Is gone, and I ne’er can retrieve It, I find they have broken my wonderful pull. l No longer I’ll rake In their money and spend It, No longer Ue*Out when my customer* ' ' call; - The Legislature has passed a bill that will end It, * Forever the bucket shop’s gone to the wall. The old soakem bucket shop, cash-getting bucket shop, —... ____ The bucket shop now that has gone to the wall. —Detroit Free Press.