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The news got around that Jim Mapes had made a killing in the sugar market, investing all th'e money he could get hold of in that commodity months ago, and selling it at a hundred per cent profit. His friends were inclined to make much of thd thing, to brag about his foresight, his business acumen, and one day in a gang someone referred to him as a financial genius. ffe was a modest sort of guy, and this was going too far. He said:

"Aw, nuts ! I'm not a financial genius, or anything of the sort, just a blundering sort of guy who does the best he can. I'll tell you how I came to make that sugar money, and you'll see how simple it was. One day I went home and my wife was starting a Victory Garden. I went out to look. She had a big sack of fertilizer she had bought and was putting onto the garden patch. I askid her how much she paid for it, and she said five dollars a hundred. That's five cents a pound. I looked at the stuff and it was mostly cow manure.

"The next morning I happened to be looking over commodity prices in the paper and I noticed that sugar was selling for three-and-a-half cents a pound, wholesale. So I got up all the money I could, and bought sugar with it. That's all there was to the thing. Hell, it don't take a genius, does it, to know that sugar is worth more than cow manure?"

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