Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 355) (1912 07 19)
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4 " Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 Ee apace ita ee according to Act of Congress, in the year 1912, in the office of the a Librarian of Congress Washington, D. by frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d St., York. Entered at the New York, Ow. Post Office as Second-Class Matter. No. 355. NEW YORK, JULY 19, 1912. BOUND TO BE A MANAGE MAKING MONEY IN BASEBALL | By A SELF-MADE MAN - te CHAPTER I. THE FAT& OF A BASEBALL FRANCHISE. “Say, Joe, Mr. Buckley has sold the ball park to Abner _ Doane and he is going to some German watering-place for his heaith,” said Dick Willis. _ “The dickens he has!” exclaimed Joe Lawless, in a tone of interest. The speakers were two boys who met in a street in Summer- dale. } “Yes, the deal was put through this afternoon,” said Dick. _.. “I’m sorry to hear that Mr. Buckley is out of baseball. He was the founder of the Silver Lake League, and he built the ; “sport up in this locality. In fact, he put Summerdale on the '-. map. .It was a great idea to start a baseball league in this vicinity. ‘The summer visitors took to it like ducks to water, and twice as many of them have been coming to the lake since the Jeague was organized two years ago. Two new hotels have been built and any number of new cottages. The storekeepers of the town have been making bunches of real money since jaschall became an institution on this side of the lake,” said ‘oe, who lived in the town with his widowed mother and had - played ball on the local nine. “That's right.” nodded Dick, any team in town this year.” He looked disgusted, for he,’ too, was a ball player. “No team! Why not?” exclaimed Joe, in astonishment. “Because Abner Doane doesn’t think a whole lot of base- pall, He's never taken any interest in the game,” _ ‘“What did he buy the park for, then? The league fran- - chise goes with the pall field.” “J heard him say he was going to hich the park into an all- around amusement resort. He said there was more money in sideshows than in baseball.” | “He said that?” “He did.” “Do you agree with him?” “T do not,” said Dick, in:a decided tone. “Did you hear anybody else ‘coincide with him?” E ;” replied Dick. he carries out his ideas, you, J and the other boys who - haye made money playing on the team will be out of busi- 1eSS unless we can get a chance on the other three teams, or rising and public-spirfted person. with fore, secures another piece of suitable as a ball park.” > would do that. It would cost too much land, “but I’m afraid there won’t be aoe ay ne and Fortune Wee STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY 2 uild even a small grand- | r utfield in good al . New York. Price 5 Cents. ~* 2 4 shape as the park ground. It would take alt the profit of two good seasons to even up the outlay, and then if anything went: wrong with the Lake League the backer df the new park might meet with a considerable loss.” “T don’t know what Summerdale will do this year without. Fa its ball games. The town will get a setback,” growled Joe. =e “The visitors can take the trolley or the boat across to” Lakeport and see the games at the other places.” “That's all right, but they won’t take the same interest in. the sport. The visitors to this burg are all great rooters for d the home team, They came to see\us win. They followed us around the circuit for the same reason. What special in-. terest will they take in seeing Lakeport beat Rockhaven, or ~ Icse to Spring Glen? I am surprised that Mr. Buckley sold the park to such a man as Abner Doane without exacting a — guarantee that he would use the park for baseball during the | ia summer. g “I guess he took it for granted that Abner Doane would use — the park for the purpose for which it was constructed. With a good grandstand, a first-class diamond and well-rolled out- — field it would appear almost ridiculous to try to use the park for anything but baseball, particularly when the sentiment — of the town and its summer visitors ig taken into Sonpicentr tion.” “T never took Abner for a fool. He is too hard-headed a business man to change a zopd policy into a poor one,” said” Joe. “He’s rich enough to do Abont as he pleases.” “I know he is, but he made his money by running his fies tory on a sharp business basis, and taking advantage of everything that came within his reach. Jt seems odd to me that he would start a new and questionable experiment at the park instead of following up and improving one that was al- % ready a success.” : “That’s the way I look at it, but Abner has his own way of doing things. and I guess he isn’t above making mistakes, especially outside of the business he’s been in most of nis et life. Because he’s made a big success of his: shoe factory is no sign that he knows how to make his sale running an amuse: ment enterprise. Running an inside business is one’ thi: eatering to the general public is another.” “Your reasoning is quite correct, Dick.. Howeyer, we know definitely just what Abner will do. He might repr this town in the Lake League, after all.” 4 ' Dick Willis looked doubtful. “We shall probably know at the end of the week. Then a meeting of the four managers on Saturday aftern believe you. know. Mr. Buckley wilh. be. ee Se nd
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; his intentions are with respect to the park. He’ll be curious _to see how the baseball men do business. If after he has been - elected on the board in Mr. Buckley’s place he lets out his intentions, the others, who would naturally object to the loss of Summerdale from the circuit because it would mean a ~ Monetary loss to them and because there is no other town - within easy reach which has a ball park, would be sure to use - all their eloquence to persuade him to reconsider his views.” “They svrely would do that. I wish I had the same chancé _ Abner has to run a ball team in this town and you'd sée how “quick I’d do it.” “Have you the managerial bee in your bonnet?” laughed » Dick. “T admit I have. young Lawless. - “But you're’ the best shortstop in the league. play ball and look after the business end, too.” “I know I couldn't, and I wouldn’t try to do it, I’d sooner own and run a ball team than be a star player under salary ~ to somebody else.” ~ “I wouldn't. I’d rather play ball than eat,” said Dick, en- thusiastically. © *“j like to play as well as you do, Dick. You know I’ve al- ‘Ways played for the best I’m worth. But a baseball magnate is mcre important than a player any day, ard he stands t Make a good deal more money. <A fellow can’t play ball as the business of his life, for as he grows old he naturally be- ‘comes slower, and a ball player these days can’t make the tear unless he’s fast, and the moment he slows up, even temporar- ily, he goes on the bench. A fellow is liable to throw out his “arm, or sprain or break a leg, or injure himself in a dozen different ways, so that he’s put out of the game for weeks, or _ permanently. The game to-day is altogether different to what } it was twenty years ago. The public insists on getting the _ very best for its money. A star ball player. is a hero only so jong as he keeps up the pace... As soon as he’s down and out it’s good-night, though he may have been the mainstay of his ‘team and the idol of the fans. There is very little sentiment about the public. It’s an exhilarating sonsation to stand in the limelight, but think how you feel when the interest in you wanes. I'd rather be the fellow out of sight, who pulls the strings and grows a bank balance. Take it from me, Dick, I’m bound to be a manager if I get half a chance,” said Joe. “It would ‘suit me first-rate to play ball for you, Joe, but I’m afraid that will never be. The way things look now you'll ‘snapped up by the’ manager of the Lakeport team just as on as it becomes certain that Abner Doane isn’t going to ase the Summerdale franchise, and I will probably get a bert with Rockhaven or Spring Glen.” . _ “Look here, Dick, don’t you sign with any other manager - ontil I say the word. If I should go to Lakeport it will be ng, too. We've always played together It’s my greatest ambition,” declared You couldn’t i conditional on you goi on the same team, and I wouldn't like to play against you.’ “You've expressed my own sentiments.” “Let me tell you something else. If Abner won’t use the park for baseball on his own account I’m going to canvass the town for enough financial backing to maie Abner a good offer for the lcase of the park. If he can be assured six or seven per cent, on his investment he might take it, and give up his visionary idea of running a miniature Coney Island. Tt would cost him considerable money to put up buildings to house his sideshows, and even if he had a successful first sea- son he wouldn’t make a dollar. More likely the balance would be on the wrong side of his ledger.” \ ; “That's a fine idea, Joe, if you could work it,” said Dick, nthusiastically. ! You leave it to me. I'll put it up to the storekeepers, the ttage owners and the managers of the hotels. They know what baseball has done for Summerdale in two years. lass of people who come here during the summer are not he people to take to cheap sideshows, believe me. is the national game. It’s got a mighty strong grip on country, and the business that has got the grip is a yinner. Stranger things have happened in this world t I may be the manager of the Summerdale basebal: eason, and perhaps for many seasons to come,” said ss, nodding his head in a way that showed he meant really ‘think ‘there’s a chance of your pulling out in Abner throws up the sponge, the rest of the boys, who waitin pe signed, had better be given a quiet hint of at is on the : nee, Bae Fs BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. I ever knew him to get off.” first academy term had aise: et representing Summerdale this season. I’m going to be at the meeting on Saturday to learn just how the cat jumps. if Abner takes a decided stand against baseball, I’ button-hole the other managers and tell them what I intend doing, and it’s a dollar to a doughnut they’ll back me up in it, for they want Summerdale to remain on the circuit.” “By ginger, you’re all right, Joe! JI didn’t dream you were so full of business. I'll bet you’d make a success as a baseball manager.” “That remains to be proved. Talk is one thing and practice another. The only way that my efficiency as a manager cam be shown is for me to.be put to the test. Mr. Buckley is a good business man and he ran the team successfully, though he didn’t make as much out of the game as he might have dene. The fact was he ran the Summerdale end of the league more for the love of the sport than because he was anxious to make money. If I run it I’ll run it for all there is in it, from a financial and business point of view. You see, I need the money and he didn’t.” “Hello! here comes the old man’s son Clarence. He’s just got home from the Wimbledon Academy for his vacation, Isn’t he the dude?” said Dick. “Yes. He looks a whole lot different to what he did when he went away.” said Jos, looking at the stylishly dressed lad who was approaching them, carrying a big cane in the middle, as if it were a suitcase, Although ke was not yet a college boy, he aped' the manners and dress of many of that class. His trousers had a turn-up band, and he wore low-cut shoes, silk stockings, a checked suit, a loud tie, with a large stone ormmament, and a soft hat, turned down in front and tilted rakishly over one ear. : In his mouth was a cigarette, and he eyed every girl he passed. ‘ “T should think the sight of him would give the old man a fit,” said Dick, with a grin, “for Abner has no love for anything pronounced.” : “It did,” laughed Joe. “I was at the railroad station yes- terday when Clarence arrived. Abner was on hand to meet | him. When Clarence came oyer to him the old man looked — at him disapprovingly. ‘Young man,’ he said, ‘you look like . an idiot.’ At that moment the agent came along, shook Clar- ence by the hand and said, ‘You're looking fine! How much | you resemble your father,’ ‘So he has been telling me,’ Glar- ence answered, chipperly, and that was the only clever thing , get Dick laughed heartily and then Clarence Doane came and stopped in front of them, \ CHAPTER II. CLARENCE DOANE. “Hello, Doane! You're looking quite swell,” said Joe, | “Kind of improved your looks to go away to boarding-school.” “We don’t call Wimbledon Academy a boarding-school,” said Clarence, loftily. Aa hg “You lived there, didn’t you?” : bees “Of course. We have our own rooms and we dine in the — refectory, but it’s miles above a common boarding-school.” : *I didn't insinuate that it was a common boarding-school,” said Joe, “It must be something of a superior order or you wouldn’t have gone there.” ; ; ae: “It is,” replied Clarence, in a very self-satisfied way. . “I — wouldn’t have anything to do with common places ‘or com- © mon boys.” WAS eae Y “I suppose Dick and I should appreciate the compliment you pay us by stopping to talk to us,” said Joe, ironically, “You fellows are all right,” said Clarence, in a patronizing way. “Pve known you a good while, and have gone the high school with you. You're not on the same plane as the chaps Who \attend Wimbiedcn Academy, but that. isn’t your fault, you know, Your folks are poor, while theirs are well off; but as long as you belong to this town and are fellows, I don’t see any reason why I should not ackno your acquaintance.” a pats Sot The two young baseball players grinned. — Clarence had always been inclined to put on his father was owner of the big shoe facto as the richest resident of the place, ti j aised him airs aertede
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BOUND TO BE 3 A cas moras timation, and it was clear that he regarded himself as gad the superior of any lad in Sumerdale. Had any of his academy mates lived in the town it is cer- tain that he would have had nothing whatever to do with Joe Lawless and Dick Willis, or any other of his former school- mates and piayfellows, whose circumstances were consider- ably below his own. As he had to associate with some fellows of his own: age for companionship sake, he compromised with his new dignity so far as to accept the temporary friendship of sich boys as he fancied, fully resolved to shake them as soon as the sous of the rich and well-to-do summer visitors arrived on the scene, “Well, Clarence, how did you like the academy?” asked Joe. “T didn’t like it at first. The rules and regulations were too strict to suit me, but I got used to them because I had to, and then when I got acquainted with the best of the fellows, : things ran along all right.” “I suppose you intend to go to college when you graduate at the academy?” “Certainly. Everybody that’s any account goes to college.” “Then I’m afraid that Dick and 1 are of no account, for Sie is no chance of our ever attending such an institu- tion.” “You don’t need to go. Your circumstances compel. you to seek an ordinary living. A college education would be af no use to you. You see, I’m going to be a lawyer—not a common one like Smith or Jones of this town, who are only ordinary court Jawyers—but a big corporation lawyer, whose services command anywhere from $1,000 up, as a retaiming fee. I suppose you know what a retaining fee is? That’s the first : payment, and is merely.a drop in the bucket where a big case ‘is involved.” “T thought you were going to succeed your father in the factory.” _ “No; I'shall hire a manager to run the factory. A manu- } facturer is all right in his way, you know, but my’ father’s factory isn’t a big one as compared with the corporations of the country. You see, My governor isn’t ambitious to dis- tinguish himself like me. He never went to an academy and a college, and consequently his ideas of things are old-fogyisn. Things are different now to what they were when he was a boy. College education was not considered so much the proper caper as it is now, Business wasn’t conducted on such a big scale, either, There were no trusts or gigantic cor- porations. Every tub stood on its own bottom, and competi- | .. tion kept a fellow’s nose to the grindstone. All that is’ changed now. Individual — ‘industries have come together, - joined Hands, you know, and have been merged into nice fat monopolies that limit the output and establish one price that allows a big profit to the insiders. A fellow can get rich in a year now, Where before it took him all his life to make less (+ taoney.” ' ‘Clarence discussed the subject as if it were a favorite topic -and one in which he took great interest. - “Then you expect to dxplicate ail your father has made in! the past twenty-five years or so in a year or two when you get to be a big corporation lawyer,” said Joe. ne “Nothing: is more certain,” replied Clarence. “But don’t let us discuss the subject, for you probably wouldn’t under- stand it, nor feel interested if I went into it.” Joe and Dick looked at each other, Clarence evidently considered his mental standing as ’way above. theirs, though he graduated fyom the high school sev- . eral points below them. ete he academy niust have done wonders for him, or he wished to make it appear that it had. bey hear you fellows have been playing baseball during the summer for money,”, went ov Clarence. “You class yourselves fi uppose We. come. under that head, for when an athlete “pay for his services he ceases to be regarded as an »” said Joe. v, but ae are loads of amateurs who can put it ver some of! the professionals. I guess our academy ball could beat any mine in the Lake League.” a saw what the league chaps put up in the last summer and the year before. In my: dt was nothing to. brag about. id. ah he way of salaries.” ; tionately, as is paid I don't siti the ; . | National Baseball Commission. a the. aa Mr. ‘leagues, either. We played the Hampden Interstate League ‘team and we beat them hands down. I pitched for our team.” , “You did! I didn’t know you were much of a ball player. You remember you tried to make the town team last year, were given a trial and the boys knocked you out of the box in the first inning.” “T didn’t have a fair chance; besides, I’ve learned a great deal since. I expect to tender my services, free, to the Sum- merdale club this summer.” =f “You'll have no difficulty in. ‘getting on the team if there is one.” i “Of course not. But why do you say ‘if there is one?’ Up. ay “Oh, no; but Mr. Buckley is out of the game.” “Ts that so? Somebody else will take his place, of course.” | “I don't know. Haven’t you heard the news?” rose | “What news?” shee “Your father has purchased . the ball park, and the fran- 5: Mr. Buckley will be proud to secure me, : Has the league pee * , chise goes with it.” | “He has! That’s news to me. about it.” a “Dick is the best pitcher in the Lake League. He practically _ health is poor. He has to go to Rurope to be cured.” — | “And he Sold the park to my father?” oy { “So Dick has just told me.” i “That’s right,” nodded Dick. “Oh, if my father has bought the park there’ll be a. tesim | here, all right, and I'll be manager and chief pitcher of iad “In that case I suppose you'll engage all the old team? “Ns said ‘Joe. *“T don’t know about that. I might hire you two.’ pretty good shortstop, and Willis can pitch some, use him to help me out,” ” “Dick is the best pitcher in the tere League. ite practically won the pennant for Summerdale last. year.” “T only saw a few games, as’ Il was away in the moun-— tains. If you are so good, Willis, I'll take you on; but I must see you work first. If you please me T’)l give’ you a few pointers, and probably you'll be able to pitch in every ‘other: game.” { “You must havé improved remarkably if you can be. any better than Dick,” said Joe, “He made a record during the” final games last summer.” “Recollect,. I had the advantages of a trainer. ) Our team was corched. by one of the New Hngland ‘League pitchers—4 chap who is gcod enough to be in a major league club.” “That was an advantage, of course, Dick hes pieked wp all his points from college pitchers who have been down her au and improved on them. However, we won't talk about that, What I want to say is this: Your father is not a baseball iadherent, and Dick heard him say that he was not going ve use the park for baseball this year, ‘but for some other kind ad 1 of amusement in which he thinks there is more money, 62 Gass f “Who did you hear him say that to? asked | Claren turning to Dick. ~ ; “i Willis mentioned the names of the two Persons. ' “Oh, Vil fix that,” said Clarence, confidently. ° jBovernor that I will manage the team, and he peedire dot Vabout the park at all,” | “If your father has bowght the park ‘with certain {tens of ‘his own in view you may find that he won't listen to you,” said Joe. hives Vl show tien that I have He didn’t tell me anything a x ‘You’ te a wh ¢ could SS Os | “You leave the thing to me. been to the academy for nothing. Tt will suit me ‘first-rate jmanage the Summerdale team. I know two or three pro- fessional players—men who have jumped their contracts with the big leagues because they weve uot offered the salary ; are entitled to, They’l] put backbone in our team and wi Il go through the Lake League like a knife through soft butter. We'll win every game and cop the pennant hands dow: |. “It would be foolish to make your team too strong, — people around here knew that one of the four team practically certain of winning every game it took | | they'd lose interest in those SAIS and eel woul he imuch of a gate.” ar | “Pooh! It’s the sdvonased team that aiaws ‘the mo vasserted Clarence. “People want to see classy ball. “I don’t think players who have been outlawe to have in. the Lak ag no Buckle
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4 BOUND TO. BE: A MANAGER. 3 hart Mr, Bueidleys. isn’t a ees ppeebali manager, then. I'll bet I'll have a better team here than he had last summer. show the summer people real live baseball, I'll fill the park } at every game. on our grounds.” “Then if your father gives in to you you intend to make a good many.changes in the team.as it stands now?” — tet “I certainly will. If I keep three or four it will be as many as I’m likely to sign, and they’ll have to work cheap.” “We're all working cheap as it is. The salary limit is.$100 - for the two months. Dick, last summer, and the others have heen promised a fifty per ' cent, raise for winning the pennant.” “I’ve nothing to do with Mr. Buckley’s promises. Any arrangements he’s made do not count, now that he has gold | ‘the park. I wouldn’t pay $100 to any local player, but I’d ‘give $200 or $800 to a well- known professional, or even more,” » Joe and Dick saw that if the Summerdale team came under ; “Clarence. Doane’s management that they wouldn’t eut much figure on it, Both mentally resolved that they wouldn’t play ball for | ' €larence for a cent under what they got last year. They would ask for their release, and if they got it, and they guessed Clarence would give it to them as soon ag not if he could afford to hire regular professionals, they’d. go over - to the Lakeport team, the manager of which would take them both in a minute, for they were admittedly two of the best players in the Lake League, Sea eleven out of twenty-one games and won eight of hem The conversation broke up with Olarence’s last statement,’ and Joe and Dick walked off together, leaving the factory “owner's sou to pursue his own way. = CHAPTER III. s JOE, AT HOME. oy m afraid this new turn of affairs will block my managerial “plans, ” said Joe. “If Clarence gets his father to alter his plans, and let him run the team and the park olahe will be no, use of me doing anything.” fs “That's right,” nodded Dick. re would make a Mighty poor manager, and the chances are there would be levee in the league before half the schedule had been ep aye v ‘tine the old man toe disband the team and close up the park the moment he saw how things were going.” Ay “Well, things will have to rest until Saturday, by which Beat time: something definite may come to the surface. » _. By that time the boys had reached Joe’s home, where his} widowed’ mother lived in a pretty little cottage left her tree and clear by her husband, together with a little money in! bank, for the late George Lawless, a builder by trade, had; ‘been an industrious and provident man. “Good- by, Dick!) Come around after supper,” said Joe, open- ; ‘i “ee the garden gate. . “Ny ceue | will fb ae my father has something for me to do.” _ Diek then walked off. . Since the first of the previous October the two boys had | been working for a surveyor named John Wilint, the Lake League season opened with the morning game on July Fourth, and’ continued thereafter till Labor Day—a period. of two menths—they were to have Wednesday and : - Saturday afterncons off to play ball with the Summerdale ream, Flint | ‘was something of a baseball fan himself, and always "attended the games when he could, rooting for Summerdale to win. .. The same arrangement would doubtless hold good if Sum- | » merdale had no team that year, and the two boys went to ad -. Lakeport, a good-sized manufacturing town a mile distant on | the other side of the lake, or to either Rockhaven, at the | rthern end of the lake, or Spring Glen, a large village a le from the lake, both keport by trolley. . a eat Joe had two sisters, one of whom carried on a rising millin- , ery and dressmaking business’ on the main street of the town, - Her brother’s prominence as a clever ball player on the local ad. , I and two or three others got that ! reached from Summerdale and | oy Vi; had ‘to give out, which, of course, was not a great deal, as | | “His father jae: probably lose money, and it would a } |down in black and white and properly certified by Mr Joe had made a batting average of 410, while Willis had. with, and she enjoyed a practical monopoly of any trade they i they came to Summerdale: well provided, but still there was always something Wanted, and she-was called on to provide it. Joe’s younger sister helped her mother keep house, and when Joe entered the cottage he’ found her in the kitchen, pre- | paring supper. “Hello, Nelle! T’m baétk again, like a bad penny,” said her brother, kissing her. “You mustn't compare yourself to a bad penny. You’re pay thing but bad, brother, dear.” “Where’s mother?” “She went around to see Mrs. be back presently.” “JT suppose we'll have supper in the course of events?” “Tt’s almost ready now.” “That’s good news, for I’m ag hungry as any hard worker.” “Did you have a hard day?” “Joe and I and the boss surveyed old Doubleday’s farm, and you can gamble on it we three dic some walking this after- noon.” “Is Mr. Doubleday going to sell his place?” “No; I think he’s raising money on a mortgage.” “Does the farm have to be surveyed to get a mortgage?” “T should smile it does. The Summerdale Bank is mighty particular about the security it takes. It wants Moa “lint, \ Brown, who is. sick. Shell who is the official] county surveyor.” “Do you hope to be a surveyor one of these days?” “T’'d rather be the manager of a baseball team and the owner of a league franchise.” . “Your head is full of baseball, Joe," smiled his sister. “It’s well there’s something in it, even if it isn’t ag well stored as Clarence Doane believes his head’ is.” ‘ “Dear me, Clarence Doane doesn’t knew so much. He was *way down in the high school graduating class.” “That's all right, but you ought to see him now, after'a — year at Wimbledon Academy. Talk about dudes. ‘He's va picture.” “So you told us last night. station when he got home yesterday afternoon.” “So I did. 1 forgot about it. Dick and I met him a little while ago up the street, and helooked gayer than yesterday, I guess he ‘exvects to a all the girls in town erazy’ by i his shape and style.” “His appearance won't affect me any. a bit. He isn’t my style.” “You don’t want to forget that his father ee counted rich, ‘and that Clarence will some day come in for all his property. Besides, he expects to” become a big corporation lawyer. and make a raft of money.” “He'd make a pretty lawyer,” laughed the girl, derisively, I Hever: liked him “He hasn’t got brains enough. You've got to be smart to make a good lawyer.” “T guess you have. Ah, here comes mother. And we shalt have supper as soon as Jessie gets home from her shop.” “ We needn't wait for her, because she is eften delayed, you know.” You said you met him at the» Supper was put on'the table in a few minutes and Joe ate . ‘like a hungry boy. Jessie came in soon after they commenced and took her eure, lt was understood between them and their boss that when | at the table. “How’s business to-day, Jess?” asked Joe. “What a question! plied his sister. “That's so. sider myself as smart as the next fellow.” “You're smart enough. “What a calamity that would be! Deane on Main street this afternoon?” “No, I’ve got something better to do than “Koh cut at the "passersby, Besides, I have no particular interest in Clarence, Doane.” “Mr. Buckley has sold the ball park to Abner Dede: and 'Glarence expects to manage the team this summer,” — “You don’t mean it!” cried his sister. ; “Tt wish I’ didn’t, but unfortunately it’s the state ‘mean about Abner Doane having bought the park. That Claren will manage the place is another question altogether. | ‘ says that Abner intends to cut out baseball and estab! ek aones among the summer Besa of cheap sideshows in the grounds.” — “Tf he does that you won't play ball this summer.” “Don’t worry about me not play g if Summé : . job wil You know this is my: busy 4 ee mak ea I’m always asking fool questions, though I con- 1 wouldn’t own you if you wasn’t.” Did fee see Clarence,
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league. : Nothing was added after our signatures were affixed.” Pee TO" BEA ‘8 MANAGER. ——~ —— = = : minute, or with either of the other teams. A shortstop of my “But I don’t agree to using! the park for baseball at all Lert distinguished ability doesn’t have to go begging for a chance | summer.” to play ball. Any team that angles for me will have to take Dick, too; but after the way he finished last season there is no fear he won’t land a job as quick as I will.” © Jee then told his mother and sisters how he was figuring on going around town and srying to secure backing to lease the park from Abner. “I'm afraid my scheme will be knocked out by Clarence, for he will naturally have the call with his father, provided the old man will give up his own plans, which strikes me as doubtful, for he’s a stubborn old chap. Take it from me that Clarence’s swell appearance isn’t doing him any good with his} father. Abner never put on any style himself, and he doesn’t like it in his son. I wouldn’t be surprised if Clarence’s - academy airs will kill his chances of getting hold of the park.” “Do you think you could manage the park successfully?” asked Jessie, “If I didn’t I wouldn’t consider the matter. I am pretty well up in baseball matters outside of the playing field. Last summer, when I was out of the game cn account of a sprain I got in sliding for second, I helped Mr. Buckley at the busi- ness end, and I didn’t let anything get away from me, for it has always been my ambition to run a ball team. ‘There’s money in it.” At that point Dick came in, said howdy-do all around And Joe got up and took him to his room, where they had another conference on the subject of baseball, CHAPTIER IV. THE LEAGUE MEETING, At three o’clock on Saturday afternoon Mr. Buckley, repre-| senting the Summerdale franchise of the Lake League, walked | into the @rystal Lake Inn witu Abner Doane, and proceeded to a private room, where he found already assembled and waiting for him the other three managers of the Lake League —Harry, bs teeaaspe of Lakeport; John Kingsford, of Rockhayen, and Wm, Weaseley, of Spring Glen.’ “How do you do, Mr, Buckley?” said Gordon, shaking hands with him. “Glad to see you!” The other two gentlemen greeted him in simlar fashion, and then all looked inquiringly at Abner Doane, whom they knew as the Summerdale shoe manufacturer. “Gentlemen,” said-Mr. Buckley, “it is with regret that I am | obliged, owing to my poor health, to sever my connection with the Silver Lake Baseball League.” His words acted like a dash of cold water managers, who recognized Mr, on the other Buckley as the father of the “I am sorry to ‘hear that,” said Mr. Kittgsford, and the _ others said the same, and it was clear they meant it. “T have sold the park with the franchise, the’ latter subject to your ccnfirmation, to Mr. Abner Doane, of this town, whom 'you all know by reputation, conditionaily, of course, that he | either manages the Summerdale team this season, or leases the ; ground during the nine weeks of tlie schedule to some respon- | sible person who Will manage it.” “ “Hold on,” put in Abner, “I didn't agree to no such condi- Lions.” ; a OU didn’t? They’re in the contract which we signed in duplicate.” “Tf they are, which I didn’t notice, you'll have to take them out or the deal\is off. I don’t intend to run baseball at that | park, but- something else more profitable.” Mr. Buekley stared at the shoe manufacturer. “tt’s funny that you didn’t know the exact contents of the paper you signed,” "nm pretty careful about signing “ae ee: said Abner, “If that matter was in it you must have put it in afterward, which ain't legal.” “Loam surprised that you should say such a thing, Mr. My lawyer drew up the papers, one of which was sub- to your inspection before you were asked to sign. Then I don’t se repand it,” said Abuer, hemming and haw- As a matter of fact, he knew all about it, but had hoped to evade the clause after getting possession of the property. : magined the question would not be brought up until ekley lad sailed for Burope, which he intended d,; which Abner intended with you,” ’“T am sorry, but I can hold.you to your contract: . “T don’t call that fair,” protested the old man. “Perhaps we can find somebody to take it off your hands,” said Harry Gordon, the youngest of the managers, who did not fancy admitting Doane, anyway, as a member of siege ti i Lake League. » “Well, you get somebody, then, and I’!] sell it to him for $500 ; advance,” said the pees hoping to make by the trans- ‘ action, “No, sir; if we try to find a man to relieve you of a con- tract you wish to repudiate you may be thankful if you are 2 not required to pay a premium yourself,” said Gordon. s “T reckon you’re all taking an advantage of me,” Doane, angrily. ‘ ; “Look here, Mr. Doane, rather than have you throw out such — an unfair insinuation against my brother managers, Beige <5 ay said assure you, are perfectly straightforward business men, I w cancel that agreement and try to find another purchaser for — the park, though it may seriously incommode me,” said — Mr. Buckley. “That suits me,” said the old man. “Here is my copy ot the contract. You can return me my deposit.” “You shall have your deposit on Monday, sir, but I shall ; deduct from ‘it the expense I have been put to so far.” ene) “How much will that be?” “T couldn’t tell you until I see my lawyer, but it will nat i hurt you much.” “Al] right. You ‘can send your cheek to the factory office. I will new take my leave.” ' With a slight nod to the league managers, coNeetively,. shoe manufacturer walked out of the room and the inn, x Joe Lawless was downstairs in the public room, waiting to see how things turned out, and he was surprised to see Abner take his departure alone. : “Something is up,” he thought. hey Wenner what it is? The old man looks huffed. I guess pressure was brought to bear on him to use the park to carry out the schedule which has been prepared, and he put up a strenuous objection. Ags he has a hold on the park the question-is, will he givein?” ~~ Had Joe known that the deal between Mr. Buckley and Abner Doane had been called off ‘he would have been hugely delighted, : : However, he began to entertain hopes that things. might come his way somehow. ; After the departure of the shoe manufacturer the tour mane agers conferred together as to what could be done toward — getting somebody acceptable to the league’ bg take es park, off Mr. Buckley’s hands. es “If it wasn’t for the fact that I need ene ene Td. hold. on to the park and simply look for a lessee,” said Buckley. 9 — “Do you need all the money?” asked Harry Gorden, “Well, gentlemen, I’ be frank with you, {1 am in-a pret bad way, physically, my physician says. Nothing short of the Spa baths will save me, and even they may prove a failure. In — that case I shall die. Not a pleasant prospect, 1 assure you, but,” with a-shrug of his shoulders, “we all have got to die — some time, so why should | complain if heaven has decreed | that 1 must go before I want to, Healthier men than me, well men, I might say, are likely to precede me, through accident — or other wise. Life Js\but a lottery, after alla game of chance--and Death comes when he is least expected. 1 want put my house in order—settle up my business affairs—so Pi the worst comes my wife may not have any more cher on her hands than is absolutely necessary," said Mr. Buek. “We understand you, mr. Buckley,” said Kingsford, “a es ‘you may depend on us ‘doing our best to help you out, m 4 oun han s you, gentienien: Tt is what I meets expect of 3 end if I have one (oe it is the neneaaitg, of ‘par ting comp said Buckley, with some emotion. ; There was a short silence and then Gordon said; 9) — ave you call the hace. to order, Mr. eel ee ead the psn season. They were accepted as read. “Mr, President,” said Kingsford, Buckley nodded. ah “The pennant’ having been duly awarded to. which won out by a Garrison finish, the box work of a Baha and the patting o
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BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. _ committee of two, composed of Messrs. Beaseley and Gordon, submit to all the board, which embodied the purchase of the to submit this season’s schedule and vote upon it,” continued park, he understood, and its continuance as a ball field. Kingsford, “But before one of us makes a motion to that The gentlemen decided that they would return to their _ effect I move that a special committee of two be appointed to meeting-room and listen to what. the boy had to say. secure a purchaser for Summerdale Park who will consider | This was accordingly done, Joe being invited to accompany the interests of the league ag his own.” | them. “4 “Second the motion,” said Gordon. | “You all know Joe Lawiess, gentlemen,” said Buckley, The president stated the motion and then put it before the presenting the lad. . “members. 1. “We all know him as the best all-around ball player in the It was carried, as a matter of course. league,” said Harry Gordon, “and I also enjoy his personal ac- “T appoint Harry Gordon and Jehn Kingsford on that com- , quaintance.” _ mittee,” said Buckley, “and they will report to me personally “Gentlemen, I have come forward with my proposition with aS soon as they can do so.” , the idea that the price Mr. Buckley wants for the park is a 2 The committce on schedule subniitted that brief document, reasonable one,” began Joe. “I figure that it must be to have _ which embraced the usual twenty-one dates, calling for forty- caught the attention of Abner Doane, who is not a person to - two games. : !pay fancy figures for anything he is after unless there is a The short season was to cpen on July 4, with morning games good deal more in it than there can possibly be in the ball between Lakeport and Summerdale, at Lakeport; and Rock- park.” haven and Spring Glen, at Rockhaven. | “The price agreed on between myself and Mr. Doane was a : The afternoon games were between Summerdale and Rock- very reasonable one, I assure you. Taking in consideration the haven, at Summerdale; and Lockport and Spring Glen, at improvements, which make it a complete ball grounds, it is Spring Glen. . eheap, and it has been used to adyantage for other purposes. The four teams were to play each other in order on each besides baseball,” said Buckley. Wednesday and Saturday afternoons thereaftér, the season! “I will now state my plan in a few words. It is this: I ' winding up with the afternoon games on Labor Day, which fell propose to canvass the storekeepers, the hotel people and cot- that year on Septentber 7. - tage owners for subscriptions to a fund large enough to buy -- In the event of a tie between two of the teams it was to be the park. ‘These subscriptions are to be taken in sums of $5 pieved off on the following Saturday on the grounds of .ne.of or any multiple of that amount, and will entitle’ the sub- ‘ le non-contestants. i seriber to a certificate showing an interest in the property as ~The schedule was approved and adopted. ~ | purchased. The property is to be held by the Board of League — The managers were authorized to sign their players under; Management in trust for the subseribers for a time for a : (the salary limit rule, which had been placed low in order to’ company to be known as the Summerdale Amusement Com- ais discourage the signing of real professions who might. be at pany. AS soon as the company ig formed, the subseription i liberty owing to disagreements, or for some other reason. | certificates shall be exchanged for certificates of stock in the — _ ~The Summerdale players were to continue under reserve, to company, the yalue of one share of stock to be placed at $5: be turned over to the new manager, whoever he might be. )As the present baseball season is now practically upon us I | _ The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the presi- shall offer my services as manager, or I will lease the park ~ dent, who was to continue in office until his successor wag for the season from the trustees, provided the trustees. are chosen, f willing to accept my bid and have the necessary confidence in , Pease praetnes my ability to run the Sumnierdale team through the season _ CHAPTER V. without a hitch. Of course, Sometimes in that case s shall aan site } JOB SUBMITS HIS PROPOSITION ; play ball, as it will take all my time and energy to look after Bie Fee fi ; , é d pl: " _ The four managers walked downstairs to the bar to take a IN hy ru IP 1 aca Ric eka ea Le ol pe ue drink before ‘separating Fay ena Bee as 4 4 ith om; $ dis fo , listen _boy’s proposition w _ Joe walked up to Mr, Buckley and shook hands with ee, Pet her Re amen. Setar ete Ones. PeOn ane Xa a Ss . «not a litle interest. : ; bee understand, sir, that you have sold the park to Abner) tt was a good one if it could be put through. Doane,” said Joe. k to it wit Gate “I did sell it to him, but as he has declined to use the See on ee SO ee Soe eee r) rene * “ rds h . Sth * i b et _ grounds for the Lake League games this season the deal is off, ' Shares oars 5 Pi eee Ae ua cee a ae ~ and another man must be found,” replied Buckley, i Lawless is the very thing in my mind to cover the situation, ares * i z A and I believe it will work, too. The price asked by Mr. Buckley — ene tel ag Seats like ‘to submit a proposition. ‘|for the paris as it stands is $10,000, and the ground itself if v wont ae aimed Buckley, in some surprise. ‘cut up into building lots, as it is bound to be some day, would © a pee oy ie ifetch double that sum, The grandstand and other improve- gh: < il ph Y “I think it would be better if I stated the matter before is ments at the four grounds were built after one plan and entire Board of Managers, because the matter will probably | See his EAE na ranaean cake ae ea have to be discussed so that a decision can be reached at | pro rata among us, consequently we can figure the value of ey, . once, as there is no time to be lost if the thing is to be wit da the improvements as being worth say $6,000. Figuring the — : operation,” said Joe. present value of the land at $7,000, which is really low, the aE : . {purchaser of the park would practically get $13,000 for his Buckley looked at the boy, reflectively. money. Under Lawless’ plan it will be necessary to raize | He wondered what scheme his shortstop had in his mind.! $10,000 cash to put the thing through. I should think this “Is this a plan of your cwn, or do you know some person could easily’ be secured in this town, the business people of 2 nancially able to buy the park for whom you are acting?” : which owe so much of their summer prosperity to the base “The plan is entirely my own, and I believe I can put it league. Two thousand shares of stock, temporarily rep ough if I receive the fricadly support of yourself and the sented by subscription certificates, at a par value of $5, would i er managers.” : . |do the business. Gentlemen, I am in favor of accepting Law Well, the failure of Mr. Doane to stand by the terms of the less’ plan and authorizing him to go ahead and see what contract I made with him has seriously interfered with the can do to make it a suceess. We will! give him a weelk te plans I had in view for taking an early steamer for Burope. a showing. In six days his efforts will show whether ft] ‘TI have appointed a spscial committee to try and help me out, scheme is likely to take with the people most interested i e Twill introduce you to the two gentlemen so that you can’ summer prosperity of Summerdale. We can meet here next: y your plan before ihem. If the committee thinks favorably Saturday afternoon at three o’clock to hear his report. If it proposition they will report to me on Monday, and I shows results the problem facing us will be practically gs nsider it and act upon it if it meets with my approval.”! and Mr. Buckley will be able to get away almost as soo on’t you think that is a waste of time? Now that you though Abner Doane had stood by his contract. In concl e other managers are here on the spot, wouldn't it be’ will say I have known Joe Lawless for
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BOUND TO BE pleased to hear your views on the subject,” said Harry Gordon, sitting down. Mr. Kingsford, as the other member of the special commit- tee, took the floor and said that he fully coincided with all his colleague had said, and, assuming the chairmanship of the committee. by reason of his age, he moved that the Lawless plan be given a week’s trial. Mr. Beaseley seconded the motion, saying that he concurred in Mr. Gordon’s views. “Before putting the motion to. a vote, gentlemen,” said Buckley, “I will say that I think well of the scheme myself. I will also say that I have known Joe Lawless since he was a little boy, and I have the very highest opinion of him in every way. That he would make a capable manager IT also believe. Last swumer, while out of the game, owing to an injury _suffered on the field, he assisted me in the general manage- ment of the park, and he also looked after the team and the finances, while the team played one game in Rockhayen and an- other in Spring Glen. His work in that respect was quite satisfactory to me, and were it consistent with my interests to hold on to the park while J went to Europe I should ap- point Lawless as my manager while I was away. I will say further that to encourage Joe Lawless and help him make his plan a success, I will, myself, take one-tenth of the pur- chase price of the park out in subscription certificates.” The other managers clapped their hands at the last remark. . “If the subseription list falls short,” said Harry Gordon,™ I guarantee to take $100 worth of certificates.” “T will take another $100 worth,” said Kingsford. Beaseley said he’d take $100 worth, too. “Gentlemen,” said Joe, “I thank you for your favorable con- sideration of my plan. J feel certain it will succeed. I have talked the matter over with several members of the team and every one of them is so enthusiastic over it that they have agreed to take their’ season’s pay out in certificates.. That will represent another fifth of the amount, but in order to avail ourselves of their offer the money will have to be ad- vanced, or sent to Mr. Buckley at the close of the’ season. Possibly he might be willing to accept a kind of mortgage “note executed by the trustees. If this is not considered ad- visable I will not aceept the players’ offer. _ pany is formed, the members of the team still wish to get an interest in the park the capital stock can be increased to say 2; 500 shares, which will provide a cash balance in the treas- ury. at . The managers nodded, and es the pl dee a aie was put to _vote and carried. “As the manager of the Summerdale tonin and of the park you will be one of us, Joe,” said Harry Gordon, “and-I’ll see ~ that you hold on to your berth.” “Thank you, Mr. Gordon; you and the rest of the board will find that I’ll hold my end up, and that I’ll give you a good fight for the pennant.” There being nothing further to detain them, the gentlemen - left the inn with Joe, who felt tickled to death over the oppor- ‘tunity that appeared to be within his grasp. Pi CHAPTER VI. ON THE LAKD. : Joe was full of enthusiasm when he met Dick down the “‘street and told him that Abner Doane’s deal for the park had fallen through, and his scheme to secure financial backing to anagers of the league. “That's good news,” said Dick. Summerdale this year as usual, and Clarence Doane won’t be _ the manager of the park, as we feared he might become, thre ugh his father.” i ‘te You mustn’t forget that he is going to offer his services 2 free as a pitcher, and from the way he taiks about his ability - as a slab artist he expects to play first fiddle, If you want to know. my opinion, I think he’s a bag of wind. If I run ae park I'll give him a trial and we'll see what he amounts “I hope you'll take a whack at him yourself with the bat. extent,” said Dick. ll see about ‘that’ when the time comes. If, when the com-| purchase the property had met with the approval of the} “We'll have baseball in ‘He'll be a good one if he ean prevent you from hitting the ball Just now [| on my hands—I’ve got to do some tall r ¢aj If the people I visit don’t a fe have bedava penets which | A MANAGER. . he “T think I’ll start the ball rolling right away.. There is Mr. ae in front of his hotel. I’ll see what he thinks of my plan ” Joe walked up to the hotel man, who knew the boy by sight as one of the town league team. The boy lost no time in putting the matter before Jones. At first the hotel man said he didn’t care to subscribe any- thing. “Don’t you know, Mr. Jones, that you’ve done more business in the summer since the league went into operation?” _ “What of it?” i “Suppose there is no baseball-in this town this summer, you'll find there will be a ‘falling off in your busincss, and it will’be much worse next year.” “T doubt it.” “Tam sorry you doubt it, but a man of your experience in” the hotel business ought to see the advantage that a league team is to this ‘town.” Le “As long as we have a park fitted up for baseball we Be have A the games.” ; “Abner Doane had arranged to buy the park and turn it oats a sideshow: amusement enterprise if the league people hadn't blocked him. Had he been able to carry out his plans oo . would have been no baseball] here this summer. The le [ through me, is going to raise the necessary capital to buy the 5 park so as to keep Summerdale in the circuit. The $100 that — I expect you to invest is not like an ordinary subscription. Some titne in September an amusement company will be formed, and you will receive $100 worth of stock in it. ‘That stock will give you a pro rata ownership with the other sub- scribing stockholders in a piece of property worth at least $3,000 more than it will cost,” said Joe. Jones became interested as soon as he found that his. sub- scription was to be returned to him in the shape of stock in an amusement company, and he asked ung for more par- ticulars. x Fifteen. minutes later Joe secured a jasinarandai agreement. we from the hotel man that he would subseribe $250 if the pro- : ject was endorsed by Mr. Buckley, “Thank you, Mr. Jones. I'll get the endorsement. I’m ‘glad you asked for it, I ought to have thought about getting Mr Buckley’s endorsement in the first place, for it is bound to save . me a lot of argument.” Ss Joe went straight to Mr. Buckley’s house, showed him the hotel man’s agreement and suggested that he. drew up. a paper outlining the scheme and endorsing it. ; : i The gentleman obligingly did so, and Joe took it away with ‘ im, At supper that evening Joe told his mother and sisters all that had occurred at the inn that afternoon between Syldaierus & and the managers of the Silver Lake League. “Td like to take some stock myself,” he said, “but as ce: ex- pect to lease the park and run the tearm, I'll need all the money I can scrape together to set the ball rolling, I will have to borrow some of your surplus change, Jessie, if you'll Jet me have it, and mother will have to furnish some-backing, too, I'll have to pay a good many bills, for one thing or an- other, before the season opens on the Fourth of July. Ther are eleven games on the home grounds and ten away from Summerdale. I will have the advantage at the start, at any rate, of a team that won the pennant last year, and if we hae, a good showing right along the interest in pas team will ‘hol and we will draw the money.” “You ‘talk as if everything was decided,” dala: ‘Jessie, : “Nothing is decided yet, but as I have already promises 310 shares of stock, not counting 100 more that the play want to take, I, think there is no doubt about things g through. As to becoming thea manager, undér a lease, I. the backing of one of the managers right now, and onl: the approval of another to make it certain. As I am work! to save Summerdale to the league, you may be sure tha’ the managers will vote the lease to me as: a reward for 1 endeavors.” “Why not let the league make you manager ale a a “Then I wouldn’t make the profits T see in the sche 1 One new kink I’m going to work that hasn’t been thous before in the league. That’s the score-card as a advei medium. I’m going to improve on it. Instead pe of cardboard with the score diagram on e middle pages for the double score-card. Tle sel back outside cover space for the eleven hom first page wae and printed in
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. BOUND TO BE A MANAGER: © 1 tractive. People will think they are getting a whole lot for rather glad when Clarence turned up, though he was no par- their nickel then, but it will only be advertising matter, with ticular favorite of hers. — _ the exception of a space reserved for the league schedule,' Joe and Dick had been-out about an hour on the lake when which will keep the spectators informed about where the teams they rounded a point and saw another boat directly ahead of play on the different dates. That of itself is something new, them, containing a hoy and a. girl. too,” said Joe, i “That must be Clarence,” said Joe, “for I recognize his ‘“You ought to make a geod profit out of that,” said his boat. I wonder who he’s got with him?” ~ sister. | “Some girl of his acquaintance he is trying to impress with _“I expect to.. We sold between three and four thousand the idea that he’s a great boatman) I'll bet,” replied Dick. \ ‘cards last season at the eleven pares, With a bright cover, in “I think she’s taking chances going with him in such a yi stitched form, I ought. to sell all of 5,000 this season. At any breeze, for if something should happen and he loses his head, rate, I intend to take the advertisements.on the basis of 5,000 as he’s likely to do, she would be placed: in a position. of _ ‘guaranteed circulation, or 500 to a game. I will try to get all great danger.” __ the advertisements for the season, which would save me the| “It's a-blowing a bit harder than when we started. Clar- time and trouble of chasing around each week after new ones jence is carrying a full spread of sail, which I call risky for to replace those taken out.” | aim te do. He ought to set the girl to hold the tiller while “I think that’s a grand idea, Joe.” he takes a couple of reefs’in his mainsail.” “There’s nothing grand about it. “What he ought to do and what he is doing are two different other managers haven’t put it into practice. Take it from me, he is trying to show off, and he extended scale on all big league grounds.” I think, for the young lady’s . “I suppose you have other schemes up your sleeve?” i sake, we'd better follow them.” “Maybe I have, sis, but they're not developed yet.” Hardly were the words out of Dick’s mouth than a sharp _ Joe had the Boston addresses of three college boys whose gust of wind careened the-boat the ywere interested in and parents came to Summerdale every year. ‘the sheet slipped out of Clarence’s hand. Two of these lads played on the Summerdale team. without! The wind carried the boom far beyond his reach, and the pay in order to hold their amateur rating, which they were Sailboat began to wallow in the choppy waters. obliged to do or be disbarred from the college nine. ; Such an accident was liable to happen to any. careless boat- Joe wrote them each a letter that night, telling them that ™Man under the same conditions, and had Clarence done the — the opportunity was theirs if they spoke at once to-buy stock right thing he would have tried. to bring the boat’s head up into’ 2 in the new company to be formed to take over the park prop- , the wind with the helm, which would have caused the boom fe ‘erty and the Crystal Lake Basehail League franchise. ‘to swing back and have given him the chance to recover the “You can buy certificates at $5 apiece, each of which: will , “Beet é 2 t 360% “ ; But Clarence made no effort to do the right thing. g Be Sealey be # bad investinen aos sy = pele eee wl The accident’ rattled him and all he did was to gaze blankly the temporary certificates will probably be sold during the at the boom, which thrashed the water with each roll of the . boat. ut oe thie thing, Tats Shee 5 Poser ee ae ee While the position of the pair was not absolutely, dangerous. es ? at the moment, it was disquieting and uncomfortable, ee ne, ets sundae wifes Basle Fe “Why don’t you do something, Mr. Doane?” asked Miss ‘ 4 Nea Darling, nervously. Yeast ta take the: wile’ of tie. next ot pr te *I—I don’t see what I can do,” he said, as nervous as his Y * companion, _ “What for?” asked the surveyor. “I don’t, know that I can; «we shall be capsized and drowned, for we're half a mile get along without your service. I’ve got you broken in on from the shore. Oh, dear, I wish I hadn’t come’ with you. I my work and your absence would incommode me consider-: thought you could be depended on. You told my mother that ably.” ; |what you didn’t know about a-boat wasn’t worth talking ; “Pil tell you why I want to get off,” said Joe, who'then apout. You had no right to deceive us so. Oh, dear! what—< _ explained the baseball situation to him, ‘oh, there’s a boat following us.. Why don’t you call for help?” ~ _ After some demur Flint agreed to let him off. | -Clarence looked around and recognized Joe and Dick in the 3 “don however, said nothing to the surveyor about his inten- approaching boat. tion of becoming manager of the Summerdale park, because ‘ : that meant that a good part of his time would be taken up OS een ete Bu ares ar pocagiites ee ae and ae June, July and August, attending to his own business, TRAnors useless attempt to teach the-end of the booni : that he would be practically out of the surveying field for ; In doing as he “careened the boat: so “far over that Migs a a jot three months, Darling sprang up with a shriek and, extending her arms to-— On Sunday afternoon he and Dick hired a sailboat and went Ward the other boat, cried: *) out on the lake, for they were almost as much interested in , “Help! Help!” boating as they were in baseball. Another fiaw of the wind heeled the boat still further to the There was a smacking breeze that carried the boat along at a leeward, and Clarence, fearing’ he would be thrown overboard, fine rate. i sprang back. The Doane property backed on the lake and had a private, He struck the girl so heavily that she lost her balance and went overboard, backward, disappearing, with a shriek, into the water, I wonder none .of the | It’s done on an , things. ‘ considers it plucky to take a risk. . aot _ Clarence owned a handsome sailboat and often went out sal j. Ker. _ ~He was no g cat boatman, but he had great confidence in his abilities in that line, _-He always managed to pull through without meeting with “any mishaps, which was due to good luck more than to good management. On this afternoon Clarence persuaded a young aay, whose acquaintance he had made the previous summer, to take a “sail with him, on assuring her mother he was thoroughly pro- fi ient in the management of a boat. : he young lady’s- name was Dora Darling, and she was a - pretty and lively girl of seventeen years. ‘ - father, who was a wealthy Boston merchant, owned one of the best cottages on the lake shore in the Summerdale | ummer colony. ‘This year his health having suffered from to close appli- pts his business, his physician had advised him to start earlier, so he had opened his Be: a full thirty days hefore the summer season began. e was the only one occupied at this time, and his Town good deal on ber own reuources, was CHAPTER VII. THE RESCUE. i “Now he’s done it!” ‘cried Dick, when the boys saw tat mainsail shoct away to the leeward, “That*ckump will never be able to recover it. Head for her, Joe.” be Joe did so and they rapidly approached the floundering sail ! boat. “Of all the lobsters I ever saw that fellow takes the’ cake,” said Dick, “Why doesn’t he try to bring his craft into. es wind?” “Because he’s lost his head, from the looks of thisiea: It's lucky we're at hand to help him out. The boat can’t capsize | while she’s in that position, but I’ll bet the girl is acme all right.” “ | “And I'll bet Clarence isn’t feeling very chippy. : going to do? Well, I'll be jiggered if he ain't trying to. oie the boom with the boat-hook. He. ought to see it’s too far o for iim te aaa ; ‘ -
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BOUND TO BET AM ANAGER. It was at that moment Miss ‘Darling jumped up and, looking | at the onrushing boat, called for help. As Joe waved his arm, reassuringly, the: catastrophe hap-! pened that we described: at the end of the previous ehapter. “Good gracious, she’s overboard!” cried Joe aghast. “Take the tiller, Dick.” “What are you going to do?” “Go forward and wateh for her to come up. dicate with my arms.’ Miss Darling came up several yards to the leeward of Clar- ence’s boat. Steer as I in- Joe waved his right arm and Dick put’the tiller the es way. The boat's head swung around till Joe held up both hands, and then Dick headed it steady. 3 6 The imperilled gir] threw up her arms and sank for a second ime. The case began to look more than serious, Joe feared they would pass the girl before she came up! again, and he began CES off his shoes and divesting him- self of his jacket. His original intention had been to reach for the girl and hau] her on beard, but he feared that was no longer possible. ! . He gazed anxiously around on the water as they passed the other boat. “Here, give a fellow a hand!” shouted Clarence, thinking ' only about his own personal safety, Joe didn’t hear him and Dick ignored his appeal. Just then the girl came up ance yards from the side of the! boys’ boat. . Her life depended on ies action on Joe’s part. © He dived overboard and struck out for the sinking little beauty. She began to sink for the last time as he neared her, and he was forced to dive to catch her by the hair. Kicking. out» he brought her to the surface and she made, frantic efforts to clutch him. He evaded »her grasp and managed to. seize her from be- hind. “Stop struggling, miss,” he said. head is above the water.” ‘Miss Darling seemed to regain her presence of mind, ‘aud finding herself buoyed up, remained passive. “That's right,” said; Joe. “You’re as safe as if you were ashore, miss. I’m a regular water-dog. Here comes om boat.” ‘In a brief space of time Dick brought the boat into the wind and she stopped a yard away. Joe pushed the girl ahead of him and dans easily reached her | Side. | With Dick’s help ‘the girl was got trite the cockpit, and Joe followed with the agility of a gymnast, “Now, miss, where shall we take you?” “You're the bravest boy in the world!” she cried, seizing him by the two hands. “You have saved my life, and I shan’t for- get you as long as I live. What’s your name?” “Joe Lawless, miss.” “The shortstop of the Summerdale team?” she exclaimed. “Yes, miss.” “To think that you, whom I have so much admired, should save my life!” she cried, with sparkling eyes, Dora Darling.” : “Then you live at the Darling cottage and your father is Howard Darling, of Boston?” “Yes.” : ’ “What shall we do about Clarence?” put in Dick, howling at us like a stuck pig.” “Run down and we'll recover his boom for him,” “We'd better take him in tow. If you take the tiller and run under his stern I’]] jump aboard, get the boom in and lower the sail,” said Dick. . ; “He might object to the latter proceeding. I'll steer for the shore and you follow in Clarence’s boat. 1 must get this young ! lady home as soon as possible.” He ran close to the other boat and Dick jumped in and seized the tiller, As Joe sheered off, Clarence shouted: “Hold on there, Put Miss Darling on board bend and I'll ‘her home.” / you ’Il take me nowhere, Mr. Doane” answored Dore, in- “J would have been drowned for all the help I got all go aoe. in this: boat, ene I don't want you agi “Pll save you. See, your — a) Fans “He’s “My name is! ‘With those words she turned her back on Clarence, and the (two boats shot apart. Go into the cabin, Miss Darling, and get out of the wind, I ‘know where the Darling cottage is and I’ll take you there as fast as T can.” “T will do anything you say, Mr. Lawless. You have won my " | gratitude and esteem, as you have already won my admiration for your skill as a pall player. My father and mother will _be as grateful to you as I am when they learn that I’ would ‘have been drowned but for your splendid effort in my behalf. I won't say any more now, for if I talked all day I couldn’t thank you half enough.” With a glance that sent the blood quicker through Joe’s: chilly body, for the wind made his wet garments feel any- , thing but comfortable on him, Miss Darling turned away and entered the cabin. | “Don’t sit down, Miss Darling, but keep moving around and | exercising yourself,” he called after her, She nodded back sweetly at him and followed his advice. | Tt was a mile run to the private wharf on the Darling prop- jerty but Joe’s boat made it in a short time under the stiff d breeze. Running in and making fast to an iron ring, Joe cailed Dora out of the cabin, helped her on the wharf and bade her Tun’ to the house: with him. Her mother and father were seated together on the vit ;porch when they appeared, looking bedraggled and damp from their immersion in the bay. Mrs. Darling started up with a startled exclamation, and the jmerchant also rose from his chair, hastily. “Heavens, Dora, what has happened to you? overboard?” asked Mrs. Darling, anxiously. “Yes, mother, and right in the middle of the lake, after Mr. Doane lost contro] of both his wits and the boat, and I you never can sufficiently thank, His name is Joe Lawless, and he belongs in this town.” Mr. Darling seized Joe by the hand and proceeded to. thank him in a fervid way. : Then his wife added her thanks, “You're welcome,” said Joe. “You want jto rush your daugh-. ter to her room, remove her clothes and give her a vigorous rubbing down with alcohol. I’m going home to give fayaee mig ‘game kind of treatment.” “Don’t go,” said the merchant. seit with me “and ri |have you attended to in my room and lend you clothes until you can send to your home for others.” Mr. Darling took Joe by the arm and led him into the house. He rang for a servant and asked if his valet was on the premises, Finding he was, he directed that the man come at once to his. room. He took Joe upstairs to his own room, which adjoined his. wife’s, and told the boy to peel off his wet clothes. The valet, appearing in a few minutes, was directed to give Joe a rubbing-down in trainer fashion, which he proceeded — to do. Did you fall: | would surely have been drowned but for this brave boy, whom — y “Give me your address, Lawless, and I will senda servant a ‘for fresh underwear and another suit,” said the merchant. Half an hour later Joe’s dry clothes appeared and he put. them on, his wet dnes having in the meanv been sent to the laundry in the basement. *< Joe then repaired to the porch with Mr. ing, and there told the gentleman all about the accident on the lake. “Tt was indeed providential that you and your friend were at hand to render my daughter so precious a service, and the obligation you, my dear boy, have placed me under can never be repaid,” said the merchant with emotion. “ord is our only child, and it would simply have broken our hearts had she been brought home dead to us. You have made wu your friends for life, and anything we can do for you will | ; cheerfully done, and we shall welcome the opportunity with — I hope you will tell me how I can be of service sae satisfaction, to you, for I cannot let your service go without some fitting reward, which, at the most, would only but partially testify our appreciation of the service you have rendered us.” “IT want no reward, sir. have saved your daughter’s life, and you and Mrs. D from ‘a great sorrow. I have simply done my duty. reward can equal] the satisfaction a fellow takes in that reflec- tion,” replied Joe, In a manly way, that raised him p ‘more degrees, if that were possible, in the mer "3. ager words do you great pipes my — boy, but I am amply repaid in knowing” 3 EY ng E fad rom
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10 BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. i devetend + that S ehones we will Seas the subject of a reward, | Mr. Darling, if I thought there was a chance of you losing as being inadequate in any case to repay the debt we owe any money by it, but I honestly believe you. will get even you, you must permit us to make you some suitable acknowl- {more than full value for your money, for the ground is said edgment of our gratitude.” ito be easily worth $7,000, while the improvements, put up by - “You can present me with a small present of some kind if'a man under a contract, embracing the four ball parks, cost “yon insist,” said Joe. “If you bought a few shares in an Mr. Buckley a quartér of $25,000. Wowever, you will investi- amusement company I am trying to organize I’d call the gate all this for yourself, and you will be afforded every Op- Matter square.” : od will buy all the unsold shares with pleasure to oblige | SSYION 5 3 a *“Thank you, sir; but I wouldn’t ask you to do anything like | that, for only abeut 300 of the 2,000 are so far spoken for. I will tell you about my plans if you would care to have me do so,” eR Go ahead. I am interested in anything connected with you.” Joe at once told the merchant about the baseball situation in ‘Summerdale. How Mr. Buckley, being compelled to go to Europe, had de- eided to sell the park property, which carried the Summerdale | league franchise, at once. He described how the deal with Abner Doane had fallen through, and how he (Joe) had come forward with an offer to try. and secure the necessary financial backing to pur- chase the park property, which was roughly estimated to be worth about $18,000, but could be bought for $10,000, - Joe then went on to say that he intended to have a com- Dany formed at the close of the season to take over the prop- erry: from the trustees and that every person who subscribed $5, or any multiple thereof, would be entitled to one or more shares. of the capital stock, and a proportionate undivided interest in the property. fier he had gone all over the raged points hé told the Sierchant of his ambition to become permanent lessee of the ; : park and manager of the ball team representing Summerdale | in the Silver Lake League. ' He expected to achieve his ambition if his plans. went! through all right. Mr. Darling listened to him attentively, and an idea formed * in his own mind—a way through which he thought he could, * "indirectly, reward his daughter's preserver. “You say that 200 shares nae, been bought out of the 2,000?” | he said. sy “They have not actually “ge bought as yet, he they are practically spoken’ for.” PENANG you include any en your own account in a list?” «No, sir. I’ll need all the money I ean rake together to start the season at the park,” 3 “In the event that all the shares will have been sold and temporarily held by the trustees, you are certain of getting ‘the lease of the park?” dena think there is no doubt of that, sir. of one manager, and have no doubt of getting a unanimous vote. In any case, as the Blan is mine I am entitled to the first consideration.” : “Tre: but some man with money, hearing that the park 4g to be jeased, might make a better offer for it than you could afford to do and the trustees would feel bound, in justice to . the responsibility they had assumed, in letting it to the high- - est bidder. terests of the subscribers would have to be considered ahead of sentiment. “Tf such a contingency should arise T would canvass the majority of the subscribers for their votes,” said Joe, “You could do that, of course. Now, I have a better plan. T will either go to Mr. Buckley and purchase-+the property out- right, or I will buy the rest of the unsoid shares and thereby become the ruling power in the proposed company. Then you will be certain of the lease of the park as long as you wanted it. The advantage of the first proposition is its simplicity, settling the whole case at once, I think it preferable. The “moment I sign the contract with Mr. Buckley, I’ll sign another with you giving you this year’s lease at a nominal rental, ith the privilege of renewal on the same terms. I think you ad better let me do this ag a slight evidence of my gratitude to you, ,” said the merchant, Joe's head fairly swam at the prospect laid before him. It he said yes to it the problem was immediately solved. if nothing had actually been done in carrying out my ay except certain offers I have had for subseription ; shares, all but one offer having been made purely to give me Bae :) Kegs aging start, and which will be withdrawn on. re- qi : Tu moet your offer—the one to purchase the 5h a I really would not let Fis) do T have the backing , ) They might prefer to let you have it, but the in-!) this, \ portunity to do so,” said Joe. “All right, Lawless, we will consider the matter as settled | between us. I'll sign the contract to-morrow, and then you can go ahead without waiting for the conveyance of the title, , which will take from fifteen to thirty days,” said the merchant. | At that moment Dora and her mother appeared on the scene, CHAPTER VIII. DORA DARLING. The young lady did not appear to have suffered any injury ifrom her involuntary bath and the effects of remaining perhaps thirty minutes in her wet clothes. Joe thought she looked uncommonly charming in the simple gown she wore, with a rose in her hair, as indeed she did, for Dora was one of the loveliest girls that favored Summerdale iwith thelr presence, and her chic style added greatly to the charm so bountifully bestowed upon her by nature./ She smiled sweetly on her preserver and asked him how he felt after his bath and the strenuous exertion of saving: her life. “Vm all right,” laughed Joe. self?” ? “Oh, I’m feeling all right,” she answered, archly. “I’m used tto being in the water during the summer, but not to being: thrown overboard, unawares, in the middle of the lake. Vil ‘admit that I lost my presence of mind and could not swim a ‘stroke, I’d bate to tell you ‘what I think of Mr. Doane. J “Wow are you feeling your- jasked him several times to return to the shore, but he insisted b “He's “Tve been out on there wasn’t the slightest danger with him at the helm. 'a pretty boatman,” with a curl of her lip. But admitting that was an accident, Why, he acted hold on the boom, Doane should have known how to recover it. fin a perfectly helpless way the accident did. 1 realized that we were both in actual dan- hae of our lives. When I saw you boys coming on bebind I umped up and-——” “That’s where you did wrong, Miss Darling, ‘saying so. accidentally knocked you overboard.” f “Well, I couldn’t help it. I was nervous and excited.” “As long as you came out all right you can feel satisfied, i guess.” “In one sense I’m glad it happened, for it has afforded me the pleasure of your acquaintance,” she said. ; i “Thank you, Miss Darling. The feeling is mutual.” “Oh, don’t. thank me,” said Dora; bewitchingly, “T like to know real nice young men.” Joe blushed and looked etabarrassed. The girl seemed to enjoy his confusion. “Don’t you think yeu’re a nice young man?” she said, mis+ chievously. | “Really Miss Darling, I can’t answer that question,” said ‘Joe, blushing more than ever and looking down. ae 4 j and rescue young ladies from a watery grave?” she persisted. ill at ease. “Indeed T am not. the heroine was saved irom. death by a nice young man who. appeared at the critical moment.” jthe Jake often with boatmen and I never saw one yet lose ri ae pardon me for on Had you kept your seat’ Clarence wouldn't have. *T think you are mistaken about that, » said the boy, feeling: ou T haye read ever so many books in which ; “But your cass happens to be real life and not fiction,” said , and that frightened me more than |: ‘ pts Lei “Don't you know that only nice young men jump overboard - ¢ Joe, gaining a little courage, when he found himself. being 4 pushed into a corner. “The exception only proves the rule, Mr. Lawless, "Therefore you are a natural born hero, while 1 am the unfortunate hero- ine who has;given you the opportunity to get into the lime- ‘light. All Summerdale will hear of my rescue to-morrow through the morning paper, and then you will stand sa a e Oe ie of glory.” “Really, you make me out. better. than I deserve,” “Not at all.’ As the hero of the occasion you ar to the front of the stage,” she said, giving him del one glance. “If you have any doubts as to your right 2 ye he a real hero . I can prove the fact.”- |
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BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. “Who won the pennant for Summerdale last season?” “My friend, Dick Willis, who was with me in the boat to- day, ” said Joe, promptly, “Not at all, though I’l admit he was a big factor. won the pennant.” “How?” You “Dear me, how poorly you remember important events!» When the league finished its season Lakeport and Summerdale oon Fea for. the honors, Isn’t that so?” “ t S] ” ag tie was played off at Rockhaven before a great crowd.” ‘It was.” “Well, I was there. When the last inning began, with Sum- merdale at bat, the score stood—-Lakeport, 3; Summerdale, 2.” “Correet.” “The first two up were easily put out, Then Willis, the poorest batter, came up, the last one in the batting order. It ~. seemed all over but the shouting.” “Tt certainly did.” “But the unexpected happened and Willis lined the. ball to far left and took three bases. How the crowd from Summer- dale shrieked! Dear me, I Split a new pair of gloves myself. I really did, I assure you.’ “That was too bad.” “Not at all; that hit was worth it. hugged Willis at that moment.” “T must tell him that,” grinned Joe, now quite at his ease. '*Don't you dare! What happened then? You came to the bat—you, the premier batsman of the league, who led off. The crowd—the Summerdale part I mean—called frantically for a hit. Anything that would score Willis and tie up the game. If.Il had been a boy I would have shouted, too. But I could only watch and pray that you would put a holé in the back fence. Two strikes were called on you, and my heart was in my meuth when—you know what happened. What’s the use of me telling you?”. : »“¥es,/ Il know,” said Joe, his cheeks burning as he thought of that hit ovét the fence that won the great game for his ‘team, ‘At that moment he recalled the pandemonium that took place atnong the Summerdale rooters—the cheers, yells, tin horn. tooting, and clapping of bands as he tore his way to second, and then ambled home, As he touched the plate he was surrounded by a multitude of frenzied admirers who lifted him off his feet and carried him to the dressing-room. — It was the erowning achievement. hes his baseball career up _ to that point. “There was nothing left of my nau gloves when you reached the home-piate. I could haye——” ; “Hugged me, I suppose?” said Joe, slyly. Dora now blushed vividly. “T was ‘going to say kissed you, for I do love heroes, ‘doesn’t that prove my case? Aren’t you a hero?” “A baseball hero is merely the creature of the moment. - Had I played next day and lost the game through errors, where would my honors have been? The Summerdalers would have howled at me; ‘Whoever told you you could play pall?’ ‘Back to the high school team!’ ‘Take him out!’ and so on, Basebail fame, Miss Darling, amounts to:nothing more than a pieasing notice ‘in the paper and the changeful adula- tion of the fans, .One moment you are a popular idol, the mext—what’s the use?” “And yet the sensation'must be the height of human happi- ness," she said. “Oh, if. I were a boy I’d be a ball player, and ee ae practice till I became’a star player.” “Unless one is a natura] born ball player he never can be- ‘come a star these days,” said Joe. “Perhaps not, but I'd get as near to it as I ecovid. If I only made a hit with the crowd onece—just once, I believe I could : die happy,” said the girl, with dancing’ eves, I believe I could have _Now, there isn’t a lovelicr girl in all the——” “That will do, sir,” said’ Dora, clapping her hand across Joe’ $s mouth and blushing like a rose. “But,” protested Joe, looking for his revenge, “you have in- isted that I am a hero and that you are the unfortunate ‘oine of this afternoon. Doesn't the hero always say nice i the heroine? Isn't that his. privilege?” 1 ke advantage of it,” said Dora, doaminhly. / Whatever you say goes with me. But I ow caried you long iad on this oveasion: i “Yowd make a hit with a crowd anywhere, Miss Darling, for: the subscription plan_ SUNReCeRBAEY: “T suppose I must yield to your wishes.” “Don’t you want to?” she asked, coquettishly. et “Want to, Miss Darling? I could set here and talk to you forever.” ‘ . : At that moment they were called to tea and found Mr. and Mrs. Darling awaiting them in the dining-room. Joe remained an hour after the meal and then went home, promising to call again on the young lady very soon. cree CHAPTHR, IX. regia JOE BECOMES MANAGER OF SUMMERDALE, 7) ee On his way home that evening Joe went out of his way to” call on Mr. Buckley to inform him of the unexpected change | in the situation. macs That gentleman was home and received the boy Se his. sitting-room. rs “Well, Joe, I suppose your visit refers to the plan you are. of working. I hope you are meeting with encouragement,” seer “Something has happened which has changed the whole as-. pect of affairs.” : “What has happened?” “T have found you a purchaser for the park who will taney. it right off your hands at the price you ask, $10,000." —. : “Indeed! Who is this person?” ae “Mr, Howard Darling, a rich Boston merchant.” “This is certainly a surprise to me. How did you manage to get him interested in the matter?” Joe proceeded to tell how he and Willis, while ont boating — that afternoon, saved Miss Darling from drowsting: in the lake. “Mr. Darling is doing this to repay the’ debt of gratitude he considers he and his family are under to me.” “Allow me to congratulate you on having secured such an! influential friend.” said Buckley. “Your managerial hopes are now assured.” “T guess they are, sir, but I was bound- to ‘be a manager, anyway. 1 am to meet Mr, Darling at the Summerdale Bank at ten in the morning. Where can. we meet you?” “Wither here or at my lawyer's.” “Make it your lawyer's. If you get there before us apepeunee> him to draw up the contract so that it can be ready for irome- diate signing. Mr. Darling is taking my word for everything go as to save time.” a Joe then. went home and astonished his folks with what. my aay Me had accomplished that afternoon, though they were aware he — ie had saved Miss Darling's life, because Dick Willis had called —~ after tea expecting to find him at home, and Dick had tine? ¢ over the adventure on the lake. : ( Indeed, when the Darling servant came after Joe’s clothes — his mother and sisters guessed he had get into the dake somehow, but knowing he was a fine swimmer and learning . that he was at the Darling cottage they had felt no ‘euxtety concerning him. The real surprise he treated them to was his suecess: in achieving his managerial aspiraticns so much sooner than he had expected. ots Joe met Mr. Darling next morning at the bank and they went around to Lawyer Smith's office, where they fougd ue: ul Buckley awaiting them. “Mr, Buekley, this is. Mr. Darling,” introduced Joe. The two gentlemen shook hands. No tine was lost in proceeding to business. Buckley furnished the merehant with all the ers eve dence of the value of the park and its improvements, and as- ‘9 sured him he could furnish a clear title, Mr. Darling said he would put the legal matters in the | hands of Lawyer Jones, and have the closing of the title hur- ried. <4 He then signed the contract and paid a deposit of $1,000. There was nothing more to be done except for the merchan . to call on the lawyer he intended to employ to search the title and close the deal. : Joe, having nothing to do himself for the present, ‘reported at his boss’ office. “The scheme that was to engage my attention this week is off, Mr. Flint, so I won't have to remain away,” said Joe.” “Ym glad to hear it.” ; “T found a single purchaser for the ball park. which ren a as usual this summer.’ : “Good!” said Flint. “Now help Dick on his wo: By : “You stopped at the Darling cottage yesterday, didn’t you?” 7 ”" said Dick ane Joe went to the. table at Ww which :
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BOUND TO. BE> A MANAGER. ployed making a diagram plan of the farm they had surveyed’. The two collegians to whom Joe had written and received on Saturday. j offers from to take stock-in the proposed amusement enter- “Yes. I took tea there.” prise, which had to be declined owing to the change of plans, “You will be selid with the Darlings after this. I suppose acted as substitute players. you will get a handsome present for saving the young lady’s In arranging his team for the opening games the only life. hi weak spot was the positon at shortstop, left vacant by his “T have a surprise for you, Don’t fall. off your stco] when inability to play. t I tell you.” + When the Harvard boys reported, as they promised to ao, ’ “What is it?” jhe intended to try one of them at short and fill centerfield “To begin with, the subscription business is off.” with one of his other college substitutes. “The dickens it is! Why?” | The only trouble was that the new shortstop was an un- “Because Mr. Darling has bought the park, and I’m to rep-; known quantity in that position and it was not advisable resent him as the manager of the Summerdale team on the to shift any other player. league board... I'm to ~un the park myself on a lease, and make! He visited the Darling cottage quite often, and can ‘you or break on my own showing.” | wonder when it possessed such an attraction as Dora, who was “Wpon my word, you do surprise me. So you are to be a.not only a bundle of loveliness but a dyed-in-the-woo] base- ' manager, after all?” ; ball enthusiast, who had the fine points of the game at her “Yes, that’s settteu. In fact, everything is _ractically | finger-tips. ‘settled in my favor.” They talked baseball by the hour, and Dora knew that the “My, pexiing is doing this because you saved his daughter?” ; Summerdale team was in want of a crack shortstop. » “That's about the size of it.” She had a cousin at the Brown University, and he was a Joe then got busy and the boys had little more to say to each dandy in the position, but he never came to Summerdale. ‘other until half-past twelve, when they went home to their! Without saying anything to Joe, she wrote to her cousin, ‘dinner. | whose name was Billy Thorpe, *and asked him if he would, On Saturday afternoon at three, Joe met Mr. Buckley and as a fayor to her, come to Summerdale that season instead they ‘went to the Silver Lake Inn together. of going to Bar Harbor, and play ball with the local team, ‘The other managers were on hand, curious to learn the . result of Joe’s scheme to raise the $10,000 for the purchase ! “Now, Billy, you will ovlige me, won't you?” she added. of the park property. .“The team needs an Al shortstop, and I and all your other “After Buckley and the boy had been welcomed, the former admirers know you can play the. position to perfection. You tock bis seat and called the meeting to order. | have told me that the scouts belonging to two or three of the “This being a special meeting, only special business will big league teams have been watching your work with the be transacted,” said the president. “The first thing in order, view of keeping you in sight, so as to try and land you when 4s for me to discharge the special committee which I ap- you get through college next year. <A particular friend of pointed at the last regular meeting to consider means for mine is managing the Summerdale team this year. I want him relieving me of the park property. That: object has been | to win the pennant. The Summerdales won it last year by accomplished, throvgh Jee Lawless.” ;one game. They are al] fine players, but so are the members . “He has raised the needed funds, then?” said Mr. Kings-, of the other three teams in the Crystal Lake League. Take it ford. ' from me, Billy, it’s going to be a hot race, and I want you to _ “He has done better. He has found me a purchaser with | come here and give us the benefit of your skill. If vou will, whom I have signed a contract which I can promise you will |I’ll love you six days in the week. - “be carried out. This gentleman, a Boston merchant, has “N. B.—There will be lots of pretty girls here, and as most | ‘bought the park in Lawless’ interests. Lawless is to rep-|of them are interested in baseball, like myself, you are sure’ tesent him on this board, and our young friend will be the|to make a hit with them. Now, do come, Write at once and lessee of the park as long as he cares to handle it. All that;say ‘Yes,’ and relieve my impatience. | remains now, gentlemen, is for me to tender my resignation “Your loving cousin, ‘as a member of this board, which I do with regret.” “Dora.” | His resignation was accepted, and then Mr. Kingsford _ ‘made a speech eulogizing the retiring magnate, and wishing bim a happy recovery from his malady. ~ -. Buckley waited until Joe was proposed and elected a mem- ber of the board, and then, shaking hands all around, took his departure. Mr. Kingsford was elected president, and Harry Gordon re-elected secretary. ‘Then the board adjourned to meet again on the last Satur- day in the month, which was June, to attend to the final busi- ness connected with the opening of the season on the Fourth of July. In a few days she got an answer from her cousin. oe SN “Dear Dora: “Yours received and contents noted.’ You are such a sweet little pleader that I believe you’d persuade a heart of flint to _ do as you wish, much less a susceptible chap like myself. If . you weren’t my cousin—but there, never mind that. I'll come to oblige you. I couldn’t turn you down to save my life. If your friend, the manager, stands in need of a shortstop I’ll play for him, free, gratis, and for nothing, of course, and [I promise you I’ll do my best to help him land the flag. “Yours in haste, ye. Binny. Dora fairly shrieked her delight. . f She rushed to her mother and told her that Billy was com- ing down to spend the season with them. , “I’ve invited him, and he must. have the best room in the house,” she said. “The best?” smiled her mother. “Won't the one next to yours do?” she asked, : f “Yes, yes, of course it will! Billy is just too lovely for anything! ” ; a “Indeed!” laughed her mother. oe “He has agreed to come and play on Mr. Lawless’ team, ata) my special request.” ai Nf “Did Mr. Lawless make the suggestion?” eres : “No, mother, he doesn’t know anything about it.’ » : ; “How do you know, then, that———” ah eae Half of them worked in positions where they could get off| “He'll have him? Leave that to me, mother. Mr. Lieeloat is ia m Wednesday and Saturday afternoons to play on the team, ; worrying because his team is weak at short, and that’s where : and the other half attended an academy in the neighborhood, | Billy shines like an eighteen-carat diamond. I’m going to ich closed on June 20, 30 that the $75 was pocket-money |spring him on Mr. Lawless as a big surprise.” : to them. In the meantime, Joe was hustling like a good fellow. ; Willis’ contract called for $100. — The best part of the team practiced every afternoon after at nly seven of these dy had played regularly the pre-| five, and played a regular game on Saturday afternoon with - I|the best talent that was available. Joe watched their work, under Tox ena. the second CHAPTER X. PREPARING FOR THE OPENING. A week later Joe surprised Flint by notifying him that hay- ing become lessee of the bal] park he would either have to have a three months’ leave of absence or he would resign his job as a rising surveyor altogether. } eg He got the leave of absence, for Flint didn’t want to lose him. '. Then he started in to get things in shape for the season. ¢ “The members of the team under reserve had been practic- ing every Saturday afternoon with outsiders, at the park, and they were called into Joe’s office, near the grandstand, and contracts offered them to sign at the rate of $75 for the ; twenty- one games. | oe
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; BOUND TO BE hes _ MANAGER. 13 Ne man and new captain, ‘and offered -igaeettOhe that were ct “And you've induced him to agree to come here mnie pinay, . alent to orders, and which were followed. for me?” UE Willis went against them in the games, and they found him & “T have.” i hard to solve, which prepared them for the shoots and curves “Really, Miss Darling, I ean’t thank you enough.” . «* of Parent, the crack twirler of the Lakeports, and the bal “Then don’t try,” she laughed. ° delivery of Niles, of the Rockhavens. Joe returned home that evening feeling extra good, During the day Joe gave all his attention to his business | He ‘was promised a shortstop who would. be an improvement matters. | over his own work in all points save perhaps at the bat, though ; He had the grounds put in the best shape possible, and an-j Billy Thorpe was no slouch with the stick. other ticket-window opened to accommodate the big crowds He was now thoroughly satisfied with his line-up, and felt — he looked for. : confident that he would be able to make the other: teams He engaged the same ticket-seller Mr. Buckley employed, hustle to win out. and hired a friend of his for the new window. The usual posters, announcing thé opening of the Crystal — There were two gates—one leading to the grandstand, the | Lake Baseball League season on July 4, with morning games other into a lane communicating with the right and left; between Summerdale and Lakeport, at Lakeport; Rockhaven bleacheries and field in general. | and Spring Glen, at Rockhaven; and that Rockhaven would . About two-thirds of a big crowd had fo stand, as there were play at Summerdale in the afternoon, and Lockport at Spring + not seating accommodations for them at any of the parks.'Glen, were gotten out at the expense of the league manage- Joe had an interview with Mr. Darling on the subject, and ment and posted up about the four places, and all around the that gentleman told him to hire a builder and add as many | neighboring vicinity. é more plank seats as he thought proper. These posters were to be replaced on July 5 by others, So Joe called two builders into consultation at the park and / giving the full league schedule, which were to stand. $ asked for an estimate for doubling the bleacher-seat capacity. That is all the advertising that was done, since everybody He gave the contract to the lowest bidder and told him to interested in baseball around the lake kept track of pcs hustle the work. inserting a forfeit clause to take effect in schedule. case the seats were not ready on July 3. Joe, however, decided to get ont special: handbills for the ten “We'll have the finest park on the circuit,” said Dick, when’ home games succeeding the opening one on the Fourth, and Joe told him that he was going to double the field seats. ‘have them. circulated about the business section of Sapnet i _ “I’ve engaged the band, or the best part of it, for two o’clock, | dale. e oer and whether it goes over to Lakeport or not in the morning, it He knew that the sight of these bills would induce niany- r will be on hand, don’t you worry. By the way, come into the | people to visit his park who might otherwise let the games office, I want to show you the cover design of my new score- | slip. card.” p His whole team was on hand now, with the’ exception ot _- “Cover” design on the score-card!” ejaculated Dick. “You| Billy Thorpe, who had written Dora that he would arrive at’ ‘Mean to haye,an engraved border around the seore diagram?” ‘Summerdale on Saturday afternoon, June 30, ay train oe “No. This is something new in score-cards around here,” | Boston. : said Joe, leading Dick into his sanctum. Dora sent him word she would meet him in oe pony: phaepon | He took a piece of cardboard out of his desk on which wasjand she told Joe to call at the cottage that evening vand dine drawn for photo reproduction the cover design, which rep-| with the family. resented a large baseball, on which was inscribed: There was a final exhibition game that afternoon. between “ fs ahs Summerdale and the high school team, admission to which was , Joe Lawless, Manager.” hg ae Mes nal ion paar placed at a quarter to the grandstand and ten cents to the 3 bleacheries, now almost completed in their entirety, and the ; Behind the ball, on either side and paeially visible, were | field. a two players in uniform, ; This game Joe ‘advertised by dodeera: clronlated all over the : A pair of crossed bats at the top, flanked by a catcher’s | neighborhood. mask and mitt. As there was a meeting of the league board te vissioaienl at. - ..... Other bits of paraphernalia were drawn at the bottom, the/ three, he could not be on haitd to see how things worked at — } whole filled in with scroll work. . the business end, so he delegated the JOb: to Dicky: who was not my In the background was a dim representation of a grand- going to play. - : stand. in- part. Sees ; A small supply of the ordinary single sheet score- cards were A nee, tS printed for this occasion, with the Summerdale line-up on _ CHAPTER XI, - one side and the high school on the eengt and these were to ." pretty well.” n ti p “He played centerfield last sierra He got $25 for the outside back cover and $20 for each in- ~ “Yes, and he’s a fine outfielder. I hated to change him, but | Side cover. “he’s the only man of those I’ve tried who shows good form| For the borders on the diagram pages he got $25 more, in at short. He plays both positions almost equally well. You all $900. pe “may remember he filled my shoes last summer while I was| He intended to print an average of 1,000 fot a game, making out of the game. But, you see, he has a wonderful wing, and] 11,000 cards, and expected to sell 7,000, at any rate at a nickel ean throw so accurately to home from the outfield that if it apiece, making $350 more. wasn't for the fact that shortstops get many more chances than} On the expense side he would have to pay for the paper aind an outfielder, I’d have hesitated to bring him in.” printing of 11,000 covers, printed at one time, the front page “Well, you can put him back in center, I’ve got a fine}in three colors, and the three advertising pages in two. + shortstop for you.” The design cost him for drawing, Reyna ucene on pinta and “You have?” cried Joe, in surprise, electrotyping, about $75. “Yes; my cousin, Billy Thorpe, of Brown College. You’ve| The 16-page insert would be printed before each. ‘dents _ heard me speak about him. He’s counted as good as many|from a standing form of type, the only changes being fessional shortstops in the big leagues. I’ve written to} made in the line-up of players on ‘the scoring diagram. Gan apd asked him, as a personal favor, to come here and The cover and inset was then io be attached by a ] y, on the Summerdale team, and he promised me he would.” | wire staple, making a complete folder, nF ve heard about him from several’ college boys. They told * The boys he engaged to sell them: were to- get ace _was a L wonder at short, covering the penton like aj every one they sold, which embraced probably, an 0 $75. The Ga pail was: ig teal more” than a toutes ott
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BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. 46. that Joe would make nearly $900 profit out of his advertis- ing: score-card. “Take him outside and introduce him to Captain Nevins, Dick. Tell him to give Clarence a fair chance in the box to r se That $900 represented a mighty big item of profit, and was show what he can do in the pitching line.” a new item in the receipts of the Summerdale Park. Joe’s arrangement with Mr. Darling for the lease of the| “All right...Come along, Doane,” said Dick, . Clarence followed hitn out of the »ffice, and Joe went on with j _ park was four per cent. on the gentleman's dhs. meagan or|his work. $400 for the whole year. : His running expenses would include ten players at $75, one * at $100, while he got three of his best for nothing. ; Then there were the wages, each covering eleven after- noons, of two ticket-sellers, two or three gatekeepers, as the 5 ease might be, four men to patrol the grounds on three sides _ of the fence, six special officers inside the grounds and several other employees. He would have to supply all the baseballs used at the home ze asi and the cost of these was quite an item, running up _ between $75 and $100 for the eleven games, for about six new balls were used up in each game, not through actual use, - but: by being batted into the bleacheries, where they disap- ‘peared mysteriously. Clarence Doane had disappeared from town after the acci- dent on the lake, and remained away for two weeks, or until the 20th of June, when he suddenly appeared at the ball park, ; ooking as dapper as ever, and asked for the manager. ‘The team happened to be practicing’ at the time, which frente probably knew. - He was sent. into Joe’s office and he was surprised to see that lad at the desk very busy with details of management. : ello, Lawless!” he gaid, pompously. “Hello, Clarence!” replied Joe. “Where have you been Lace Dicks and I met you out on the iake?” siting,” replied Clarence. “I want to see the manager of the park.” “You see him,” said Joe. ‘Clarence looked around the little rom, but saw nobody but “Oh, come now, don’t fool a chap!” he said. “Tm ‘not ‘fooling you, I’m the manager.” } How could you be the manager? one of the players.” -197 Mont lool. as if°lwas playing at present, do I?” The am is practicing outside on the diamond. I’m in need of an- other good pitcher. Want to show what you can do? If you lake good I’ll pay you $75 for the season, whether you work in one game or more.” “Say, Lawless, what are you giving me?” nuked Clarence, eredtilously. “A chance to get on the team if you can make it.” At that moment Dick eame in, arrayed in his uniform. “Hello, Clarence!” he said. “Where did you spring from? I thought you had shalen the burg for good.” _ Clarence glared at Dick in an uniriendly way, for he hadn’t forgotten how Dick had taken the management of the boat out of his hands on that eventful Sunday, and sailed to the You’re only “Say, Dick,” said Joe, “Clarence doesn’t believe I’m the ‘Manager of this park.” “What's the difference?” returned Dick, “You're the man- I am really the manager, Clarence, Here’s the evidence of ie fact,” and he handed Doane a letter addressed to him as Manager of Swnmerdale Baseball Park. larence was convinced, but much against his grain. ou’ll pay me $75 to pitch for the team, will you?” he said, in a lofty way, as if he wished to impress Joe by the fact that he. considered himself worth considerably more than that. will, if you make good,” replicd Joe, who really had no se or anather twirler, but he thought his offer a safe one, for e very | much ‘doubted that Clarence had the ability to come to , I'l make good! ” said Clarence, confidently. “Didn't I ou that. a pitehed for my academy team against a pro- mal club and won the game?” elieve you did,” said Joe. arence had told the exact truth he would have ad- at he hadn't lasted a full inning in the box. is sent in to replace the regular pitcher who was a time when the academy was ahead. y runs made by the professionals were earned off as taken out before they tied up the score, and itcher who went in mavens * the opposition een wine ve ' tickets, but the sali CHAPTER XII. CLARENCE GETS THE BOUNCE. “Want to get into a uniform, Doane?” asked Dick. find you an old one that'll fit you close enough.” “No, I don’t bave to change my clothes to pitch a few balls,” replied Clarence, “All right, suit yourself,” Dick called to Captain Nevins, and that young man came up, “You know Clarence Doane, I guess. Joe Lawless told me to tell you to give Doane a try-out in the box,” said Dick. Nevins told Clarence to peel off his jacket and get into the box, at the same time calling to one of the team’s pitchers who was serving up his brand of shoots to the bulk of the players who were indulging in batting practice. The infield and outfield were populated by a score of boys, - who considered it an honor to field the bail when it was batted out, The regular catcher, whose name was Bassett, was at the. rec eiving end. 2 “What's this, Nevins?” he said, nodding at Clarence. — “A new man who claims to be a good pitcher,” replied | Nevins. “He's the son.of old man Doane. I thought you knew him,” ; “Is that Clarence Doane?” ejaculated Bassett. “Holy smoke! . what a dude he’s got to be! Where did he learn to piteh?” “Search me! I'll never tell. you.” Nevins sent one of the best hitters up to sample Clarence’s ; assortment of shoots as Doane picked up the. ball and inet a pared to distinguish himself. va “All ready, old man, let her go!” said Bassett to the new Fe pitcher. wi Clarence wound up after the most approved fashion of box men and Jet the ball go. |. What he intended it for it is hard to say, but it went over” the catcher’s head and hit the base of the grandstand, The second ball went wide of the plate, and Captain Nevins decided that the new man was either nervous over his trial or lacked control. The third was a str aight ball over the plate and the batter laced it into leftfield and gave way to the next batter. pit Clarence served him a straight one, too, and he put it over mS the fence in right. “He's easy,” said the swatter as he left the plate. ‘ And that was the general verdict of all as they walked up. in turn and pounded the ball whenever Clarence put it within their reach. Finally, Captain Nevins took a shy at Doane, and his swat. % would have earned him three bases in any game. “I don’t see any use of*you keeping on, Doane,” he ‘said, “You, don’t seem to haye anything in your repertoire that , would puzzle a cross-eyed mule. You'd better take a few ” lessons before you ask for another try-out with any team, Get out there, Higgins, and do your prettiest.” Clarence left the box with a look of disgust on his face. on don't feel well this afternoon, that's why I didn’t do * better,” he said. Clarence put on his jacket and then hung around and. watched the batting practice. No one addressed him, and after awhile he walked out of the park and went home. He felt mad over his experience, which had, been humittat? ing to him, and though Joe had aad nothing io do with it, his resentment against the young manager was keen. Rae Joe was at the park on the last Saturday in June when the ~ final exhibition game with the high Banat as was to be ~ played. ig As he had to be in Lakeport at three ofclomi.: to attend the _ league meeting he had to leave the park in charge of Dick at a half-past two. The ticket-windows were “opened at two and the gates at th same time. A considerable. crowd of young opi had already assem. bled, and the one special officer, on duty formed them in line, which reached down the road in the direction of 7 The crowd filed into ve park a8 fast as “( “ ru -
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A \ _ Bees BOUND TO BE A MANAGRER. ‘time, and soon the grandstand was pretty well filled and the bleachers populated to a large extent. As half-past two drew near, Joe prepared to go. “There’s. a bigger attendance to-day than I counted on,” he said to Dick, as they stood at the main gate. “There’s going to be a mob. You wouldn’t think the high school would draw so well,” replied Dick. . “The people are coming to see how our team pans out after its long rest,” said Joe. “They want to get a line on us so as ' to calculate what our chances will be against Lakeport and » Rockhav en on the Fourth.” | “How can they tell what kind of a game Lakeport or Rock- haven can put up at the start unless they’ve seen them going through their paces? It takes a couple of weeks for the teams ' to get into their stride. However, we’ll polish the high school off in good shape with our least effective twirler in the box. By the way, when is our new shortstop going to show up?” “He’s coming down from Boston this afternoon. I’m to meet him at the Darling cottage at dinner.” “While you’re over at Lakeport, see what’s doing in Gor- don’s team, I heard he has two new men who are said to be cracks.” “Here comes Clarence, I heard he is sore on me because he was turned down by Nevins as a pitcher.” “What do you care? The exhibition that he gave that day, Was pretty rank. He can’t pitch worth sour apples.” It was a hot afternoon and Clarence wore no coat, He -had ‘the latest thing in summer shirts, and a jaunty- looking straw hat. He didn’t go near the box-window, but Pareed up to the open gate, and ignoring Joe and Dick, started to. walk in. “Yiold on, Clarence,” said Joe, catching him by the arm. “Where’s your ticket?” “IT don’t noed any. “Show your credentials, then.” “What credentials?” said Clarence, in his usual lofty way. “A card from the editor, showing that he sent you to cover this game.” : “Do you doubt my word?” “Your word has nothing to do with business. buy a ticket.” “T tell you,. I’m a reporter, and I’m going pay ‘said Clar- ence, trying to pass in. The crowd stopped and looked on: “No bluffs, Clarence. You’re rich enough to afford a quarter for a grandstand seat. Go and buy it like a man and don’t try to Sponge in. I’m not in baseball for the fun of the f. thing,’ *"said Joe, | ° “Pm mot going to pay.” | “Then stand aside. You're blocking up the way.” ) ae ‘tell you I’ve a right to go in, and I’m going to stand on $0) my rights.” wi “Gome, now, get out of here! I’m running this ball park th’ and you hayen’t anything to say at all,” said Joe, seizing , Clarence by the collar and waistband and running him out Let through the gate, amid a chorus of approval. wil Clarence, mad with rage at his ignominious expulsion, lA threatened Joe with dire happenings in the near future, but the young manager only laughed at him, and after giving his ihe nal instructions to Dick, started for the quarter-of-three _ boat, which would take him over to Lakeport., I’m reporter for the Times.” i é 2 ye RRS EA 2 @ (os rea ae Care Rat AER TEE Show up or Sib =e en a oe CHAPTER XIII. THE OPENING DAY, That evening Joe was introduced to Billy Thorpe on the veranda of the Darling cottage, and was much pleased with his face and athletic build. “Glad to meet you, Lawless,” said Billy, heartily. “Dora, my cousin, insisted on me coming down here this summer and playing on your team, so here I am. As Dora is the best little girl in the world, I couldn’t think of refusing her re- quest. Besides, as you are the young fellow who saved her life on the lake, I feel it my duty to do as much for you as I would for Dora in this case, Allow me to tignis sib for ‘the service you rendered her.’ “Thank you, Mr. Thorpe. 1 appreciate your words and your kindness in. sis here to help me out at a weak spot in which you hav e reputation of excelling.” “Youre welcome, old man,.and you may depend on ‘me sta) est. If] didn’t I would hear from Dora.” — rtainly would, Billy. You’ ve got to put up the game. Hew: am going to attend every game culated Se On bt ena oS he eS ee plays, and if you fail to make a record I’ll read the riot act ie, to you,” said Miss Darling, shaking her finger at her cousin. “See what I’m up against, Lawless,” laughed Thorpe. “I guess you'll hold your end up, all right,” saia Joe. * The dinner-bell rang and then all went into the dining- room. y “Your uniform is ready for you,” said Joe, to Billy, after “ dinner, * = Thorpe had forwarded his measurements, at Dora’s request. “Glad to hear it. What do I owe you?” “Nothing, The park furnishes the uniforms—everything, — in fact. Whether it was the rule te do that or not I couldn’t think of charging you for a uniform when you are going to furnish your services free.” Dora joined them on the porch, and soon afterward her father and mother came on the scene, too. The young people’s talk was chiefly baseball, as one mntght suppose, for the league season opened four days later. ; The hotels were already well filled, and would be crowded — from the 3d to the 5th, while two- thirds of the cottages were. open and occupied, and Monday and Tuesday would see the balance of them in commission, i As there were many new people in Summerdale that year, Joe was having a neat circular issued, to be deliver ed amens: . those persons, One of these was to be tacked up on the bulletin- board in the different hotels. Tn fact, Joe was leaying no stone unturned to secure a record attendance at his park during the seazon. j “What was the score this afternoon?” asked Dora, By 8 ‘had not gone to the game between the Suninierdales and the high school team, “Twelve to two,” replied Joe. It-seemed unnecessary to state which team tints the twelve. “Who pitched for Summerdale?” she asked. ‘ “Wllis pitched six innings, and was hit six times safely. Davis finished the game and allowed two hits, one of whi was a home run into the rightfield bleachers, at the end the : carpenters are finishing up,” replied Joe. “By the way, Clarence Doane came to the grounds. just before I left. tor Lakeport and made a scene at the main fate.” “What caused him to do that?” asked Dora, “He tried to bluff his way in.as.a- reporter to save a Sauk ter. I don’t suppose that he cared for the quarter, but h wanted to show the crowd that he was on the free list. and therefore a person of some importance. I blocked him, as | happened to, be inside the gate at the time. When he ingisted’ ee he was.a reporter I asked him to prove it. He couldn’t: do it, so T told him he’d have to pay if he wanted to see the gam He put up such a kick that I had to bounce him, Spanish style.” “We seems to be insufferably stuck up,” curl of her lips. She then explained to her cousin that Clarence Doane w the boy she went sailing with the day she blmost: lost her ite on the lake. “Ho not only assured me, but Beh Sate Lod that he was a thoroughly capable boatman, but when the matter vias put to — the test he proved woefully deficient in ability, IT have’ had y nothing to do with him since,” she said, * Joe then told Billy Thorpe of Clarence’s attempt to make the team as a pitcher, He had already told Dora about it, and she had not been surprised at the failure of the shoe manufacturer’ x she te. make good, “JT didn’t see his effcris, but Captain Nevins and: Diek Willis, both told me that many of the kids who hang around the park af can pitch better. K “He had nething at all but a fair amount of speed, and a! lacked control, the most imvortant of all things to a pit T can’t say much for the Wimbledon Academy. team if he allowed to go in the box, He told Dick and me that he piteh against a professioual team and beat it. I guess he woe a whopper.” The Summerdale team hed orders to report for practice a cne o'clock on Monday and Tuesday... : Billy Thorpe was on hand and Jce introduced him all around. r His work at short easily confirmed all that had been sates it, and it infused added confidence iavos wha Test. et eam verything was ready for the opening of the. i er is Oar f ashy . satd Dora, with a a the rightfield new section of the bleachers, and this we surly. be e finished Flea the eoutract, im.
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16 BOUND TO BE A MANAGER, na ae Joe feared that the procession in Lakeport would keep the attendance down at the morning game, which began at half- past ten. It was the first procession of importance the town had had. for some years, and the people would want to see it, Well, it couldn’t be helped. Harry Gordon would stuffer more financially that he would. ae visiting team received forty per cent. of the gate re- ceipts, figured. at 25 cents: grandstand went wholly to the home management, And right here is where Joe figured on making a little, extra money on gala occasions. He had had a small section of the bleacheries, on either | side next to the grandstand, fenced off with lattice work, posts | “erected at the four corners of the section, and a piece of sailcloth stretched as a roof. A man was to stand at the entrance to this section and gell admission to it for two cents extra. Joe’s intention was only to make this charge on special, occasions when a big crowd seemed assured, As this scheme was not in practice at the other grounds he had to get permission from the league board before he could -earry it out. He received’ this permission when the other managers learned he had double the seating capacity of the bleacheries. » It could not be adopted at the other grounds because it would reduce the space alloted for seats to the general ad- missions. — terest onthe money he had expended in enlarging the sitting capacity of the park. Wm. Beaseley, who owned the Spring Glen team, also owned two hotels in the place and many cottages which he rented, - He was a rich man and could afford the luxury of carrying on the least profitable park on the circuit. _ During the two seasons already played his team had finished _ ‘last, but this year he had sent out an agent to secure a a number of strong college players. «they could not receive direct pay for their services he arranged to give them board and rooms practically free at one of the largest of his cottages. He also managed to secure an exceptionally good profes- sional battery at,the salary limit of $100 each, with the private understanding that the two men would be boarded free at one of his hotels. This was: ‘str etching the league regulations somewhat, but ag Beaseley was a good fellow and Wis-park had so far not paid | expenses, operating and fixed, the board was disposed to wink | at his new methods, At any rate, Spring Glen seemed likely to make a good bid for the pennant this season. 2 That promised to draw a large influx of spectators from Cup uemeniale, Lakeport and Rockhaven when their respective ‘teams played at Spring Glen. When the morning of the Yourth of July dawned under a : cloudless ‘sky. al] the teams in the league were on edge for the fray): . After peek tart Joe went to the park, where he met the assistants de intended taking with him to Lakeport to guard his financial interests. The team was not on hand at that hour. The members would meet there a little later to get their grips, the bat-bag and other indispensable paraphernalia, after which they would take a boat that would land them in Lakeport at half-past nine. On account of the games and the procession, the Crystal rake Transportation Co. issued an order that the boat was to eut out her trips to Rockhayen up to 1 p. m. and cross, back a and forth between Summerdale and iakeport. - This was no inconvenience to people wishing to go to Rock- ven, as they could take the trolley. After 1 p. m. the boat was to run only between Rockhaven and Summerdale, because the Rockhaven team played in summerdale in the afternoon. This special change in the time-table was posted up in all _ publi¢ places in the three towns a week before the Fourth. lh arrived, with his seek oa at the Lakeport park before Already quite a crowd was on hand waiting for the ticket- windows to open up. ummerdale, as the pennant» sa was has 08 a strong the extra quarter for a seat in the Joe intended: to tise this extra money to pay Mr. Darling in-! SE think we shall have a good crowd in spite of the pro- cession,’ he said. Pe hope so," replied Joe, ten cents to me,” “You'll draw a mob this afternoon at your opening, and | you have splendid facilities for seating them compared with | the rest of us,” said Gordon. | “As those extra facilities cost a bunch of money, I hope the public will appreciated what I am doing for them,” said Joe. “Depend on it they will, for it’s a whole lot more comfort- able to sit through a game than stand.” By the time the Summerdale team appeared there was a very fair crowd on hand to welcome the players when they came out of their dressing-room. They were duly applauded and getting out on the diamond put up a snappy preliminary practice. The Lakeport team followed them and were equally up in their work, Then the game began, with Higgins on the firing-line, Dick | Willis being reserved for the afternoon game. We are sorry to say that Higgins was knocked out of the iets in the third and was relieved by Davis, who managed to ; hold the Lakeport hitters, Lakeport won easily by 8 to 3, much to the disappointment of Dora Darling, who was on hand to see her cousin perform, Billy Thorpe, who being a new man, was watched with in- terest, particularly as he held down Joe Lawless’ position. No fault could be found with his work, which was fast and clean cut, but he did nothing at bat, missing two chances to | score runners on third, and Dora read him a lecture at the lunch-table. | The crowd gathered early at Summerdale Park for the open- ing in that burg, and Joé ordered the ticket-windows and gates opened half an hour before the advertised time. The enlarged seating capacity was greeted with great satis- faction by the spectators who patronized the field, and the bleacheries filled up at a rapid rate. The morning scores were chalked up in large type on a blackboard, where all could see them—Lakeport, 8; Summer- dale, 3. Rockhaven, 2; Glen Springs, 1. i Mr, Kingsford, of Rockhaven, was on hand with his aids to keep tab on the business end, and he and Joe viewed the gathering multitude with great satisfaction. The attendance promised to break the league record at Rockhaven when the tie was played off between Summerdale ~ and Lakeport, the preceding year. The extra seats proved a great boon to the crowd. : The sections where the additional ten cents was asked — | filled up quick, for the awning was a welcome protection i : the hot afternoon sun, The rush for grandstand seats did not take place till “halt an hour. before the game was to begin,’ then the cottagers and hotel people flocked to the park in a drove that kept the ticket-sellers busy. s A large delegation from Rockhaven was on hand, chiefly in, 'the bleacheries. They were armed with tin horfis and whistles. Joe had built a special private box for the Darling family and their particular friends, and Dora made sure of a ree seat, t She had brought a flag to wave and a tin horn to blow, a she intended to make Rome howl every time Summerdale scored, or its players made a brilliant play. ra Her cheeks were flushed and her lovely eyes sparkled with excitement. The only cloud on her pleasure was the knowledge that Joe, whom she was desperately interested in, Was not going” to perform. After the preliminary practice the game began, and Joe and, Mr. Kingsford, in the box-office, were treated to frequent es roars of applause as the game proceeded. x : : These shouts set Joe's blood all of a tingle. For the first time his new role as manager seemed dull dake lifeless alongside the excitement of the ganie to which he was accustomed, Pot, Word came to them at intervals that Rockhaven’s new 3 pitcher was cutting the Summerdale batsmen down like the sickle does grass, but Rockhaven was doing little better ee against, Dick Willis. ee ‘At last Joe and Mr. Kingsford finished their counting ‘u up and were at liberty to view the game from their respectiv f | team’s benches, no other spot being psa ea bate ee on the roof ot the grandstand i “very paid spectator represents r
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i BOUND 20. BE A “MANAGTR. The score was a tie, nothing to potnuney at the beginning of ‘e sixth inning. ‘Rockhaven at bat, with one out aid-a ian on third, who ad reached Dick for a two-bagger inio the crowd and then lade third by a great slide on a sacrifice fly to rightfield. The crowd was agog with excitement. A hit would score a run, and oue run might win that game ‘om the way the Rockhayven pitcher was working. Dick leoked a bit nervous, for he knew how much was de- endi ing on him, and there was a strong batter up. He got two strikes on the man, and the next ball broke harp ‘toward the outer corner of the plate. Crack! The ball went, like lightning, over short, and the unner started for home amid frantic yells from the Rock- javen contingent. ati But something happened just then that changed things con- aaa Sis derably. Billy Thorpe was seen to leap into the air, spear the ball with his bare right and as he dropped back he fired it to the ‘third baseman, completing a great double play. ; Well, say, thé Summerdale rooters went simply crazy and ‘pandemonium reigned for some minutes. Dora blew her hern, waved her flag and jumped up and down like a wild girl. Dropping the horn, choice expressions, Indeed, she nearly fell out of the: box into the reporters’ gtand in front, and we'doubt if she’d have cared if she had. Billy Thorpe Peapiyed an ovation as he came in, and he de- served it, Then the game. went on into extra innings before the un- expected happened again. There were two out in the twelfth, when Dick Willis, who never could accumulate a batting ‘average, hit the first ball ; she screamed, “Oh, Billy!” and other into the new extension of the bleacheries for the circuit and won his own game, fo the satisfaction of the greater part of / the crowd: { Before that happened the result of the Lakeport and Spring ir Glen game was put up on the blackboard—Spring Glen, 6; { Lateport, 0. CHAPTER XIV. 3 CONCLUSION. - It had hgon a great opening day for Summerdale Park. A great crowd had been in attendance, as erowds Went at the lake, and the people had got their money ’s worth by seeing a great game. Hverybody was satisfied, except the Rockhaven team and thelr rooters. } ‘The Jatier ccnsidered that Suniirieraate had won by a fluke. i “They said Diek Willis could not repeat that hit he made in a hundred years. Although Mr. Kingsford wished his side had won out, still he was perfectly satisfied with everything else, for he carried guite a bunch of money back with him to Rockhaven—and after all it is the meney that counts in baseball. ; The surprise of the day, until the details of the game were read in the local papers, was the defeat of Lakeport by Spring Glen. It was the professional battery, na steam, that did it. Ep, It was a matter of doubt if the professional pitcher had done - better than Mgan, the new twirler of Rockhaven. He certainly put it all over Summerdale, allowing that team only three hits, one of which—Dick Willis’ —had beaten him. r Spring Glen was scheduled to play at Summerdale on Satur- day, and as there was a great deal of curiosity to see the com- ae paratively new team, Joc. looked for another big crowd. : He was not disappointed—the crowd came and once more Joe sold his special section out at ten cents extra per head, The score-cards, which had made a hit with the crowd on the afternoon of the Fourth, sold well at this game, too. Higgins pitched for Summerdale, and the professional for i Spring Glen. iter a fine contest, Spring Glen won by a margin of two ¥ backed by the strengthened ‘of shavings there and I thought how easy it would be at. | Kelly will find it and in an hour or two he'll be snoring vel the ing, = BA will put ane Lawless out of busine haven appeared there once more, followed on Saturday by Spring Glen, and on the next’ Wednesday by Lakeport. : Then there wag another two weeks’ interval while Summer-, dale played at the other three parks on the circuit. And so the season went on, with Spring Glen either one or two games in the lead, and Summerdale second, while Rock- haven and Lakeport, alternated, third. _ Lakeport was not doing as well aS was expected, and attend- ance at the home grounds suffered somewhat. Joe took in the most money because Summerdale was play- ing a steady, consistent game, even if not in the lead; but the’ margin between Joe’s players and the leaders. was so narrow that the people of the town looked to see his team close the gap at every game. The last day of the season, Labor Day, when morning and’ afternoon games were to be played, arrived, with Spring Glen still one game to the good. With only two games to play, many private bets were made that Spring Glen would win the pennant, or, at the worst, ue with Summerdale. Clarence Doane had attended most of the games and he alway’s rooted against Joe’s team. He had found out that Joe was not only manager of ee park and team, but the annual lessee of the property. He discovered that Mr. Darling was the owner of the park, and then he understood how it had come about that Joe se- cured control of the property. yi Joe was a steady visitor at. the Darling cottage and, as the reader knows, in high favor with Dora, and this fact Glarence gradually got on to, and it did not improve his feelings toward Joe, whom he now hated with all the ardor of his little soul. He longed for an opportunity to get even, but there seemed no possibility of such a thing happening. 5 That Joe was making money in baseball was pretty gener- ally understood, for he had not:had a poor day since the season opened. ie The smartest move he had made was adding to the park's et seating capacity. - (aca Many persons who had remained away at times the preced- eh ing season becatise they didn’t care to take the chances of standing, had no such fear now unless they came at the last moment, and even then they managed to find a seat, as a rule, © \ He had kept up the extra ten-cent charge for the covered sections of the bleacheries, because he found that his patrons — were willing to pay it, although his original intention was only to make the charge on special occasions. i This money counted up when multiplied \by eleven. Z : Then hig score-card was a Winner, as we have already ex- plained. It was the night before Labor Day, and Joe counted that his last day promised to be a hummer. Clarence, who would return to the Wimbledon Academy in a few days, was sitting in his room in an ugly. frame of mind. With him was a crony who found it profitable to Ree, ae to him, “Td give $100 to any one who would show me how to get square with Joe Lawless,“ said Clarence. “Produce the mazuma and I’ll show you how,” said his friend. “Tell me and I'll give you $100 if it can be put through.” “Set fire to the park grandstand.” “Why, that’s a crime!” fairly gasped the shoe iki : turer’s son. ‘ / r= “What do you care so long as you’re not caught?” “But I would be caught.” “Not if you follow my lead. While the team was away ae Lakeport yesterday I was over to the park playing ball with some of the high school boys. We got permission to use the | C3 diamond for a scrub match. Before the game I was nosing : around behind the grandstand when I discovered a couple of loose boards that leads into a vacant space between the two dressing-rooms, | noticed that the carpenters had leit a the grandstand on fire if a lighted match came in ‘contact with those shavings. The place is guarded by a night day watchman. I know the night chap. He’s a lush on quiet and Lawless doesn’t know it. If he was presented a pint flask of liquor he’d drink nimself into a state stupidity. Now, if you’ll get a bottle of booze I'll put it whe: of watching. Then it will be easy for you to climb over fence, pul] the loose boards out of place, set fire to the shavin; and skip. The park will go up in fire and snioke before orn-
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Sock BOUND TO BE A MANAGER. SOE It.was a rascally piot, but it arrested Clarence’s attention. “J wish somebody would do it. IV’d be willing to pay $100,” 7 he: said. ; “Whai’s the matter with you doing it yourself and saving most of the hundred. Ill only charge you $25 for fixing the watchman.” “Tt’s risky. If I was caught I’d be sent to jail.” “Phere isn’t one chance in a hundred of you getting caught. It’s. casy,” ae “Will you go along with me and help?” / “I will if you pay me $100 altogether.” ~ “When will you take the liquor to the park?” +. “Right away if you get it.” »- Clarence decided te get a bottle of whisky out of the cellar. A quarter of an hour later Clarence’s crony left for the park with the whisky bottle under his arm and $25 in his pocket. It was Sunday evening and Joe tad passed the afternoon and . dined with the Darling family, and the two important games - of the morrow, both to be played on the park diamond, were discussed. - After tea; Billy and Joe went to the park together, as Joe had some business to attend to in his office which he wanted to finish up, for he would have no time to attend to it next dav. ‘He finished up at half-past nine, locked up and he and Billy prepared to go. At that moment a boy appeared at the top of the fence, near the main gate. He dropped inside and started for the Bittle room where the watchman ate his night lunch. He looked cautiously around and placed ths hottle, the cork Py 2X ee had been partially drawn, beside the watechman’s food A pai “When be turned to retrace his steps, Joe, who had followed him up, grabbed him. “Wheat brings you here at this time of night, he asked, Steve, taken by surprise, was speechless. "Yell the truth, or I'll turn you over to the police,” said Joe. After some hesitation Steve said that he had brought a “bottle of whisky to Kelly, the night watchman. ‘Kelly turned up at that moment and Joe asked him if he had told Baker to fetch him the liquor. ‘The ‘night watchman dented that he had made such an ar- Yangement wilh Steve. “What was your abject in bringing the whisky to Kelly?” de- -manded Joe. “Where did you get it? It’s a quart bottle of the - «finest three-star, and is easily worth. $2.” Steve didn’t want to’make an explanation. Then a piece of paper with the name “Abner tee eat type- “written on it struck Joe’s eye. Steve Baker?” af - « “You got that whisky from Clarence Doane, " he said, shar ply. i “Steve was compelled to admit that he had, “Tt is evident you and Clarence are up to some game. ‘What "$8. it?” said Toe. aa Steve wouldn’t tell, but on being threatened with arrest he FE admitted that. Clarence had: paid him $25 to bring the whisky and leave it where Kelly could find it. ~ Steve showed the money and Joe looked at Billy Thorpe. The young manager knew that Clarence hated him, and the fact that he was willing to pay such a sum as $25 merely to yet a botile of whisky to the night watchman gave the affair a serious look. learly, Clarence’s object was ie get Kelly drunk. - : “Look here, young man, if you don’t tell me the truth back ; of this whisky T’ll call an officer and have you taken to jail. ' When you’re examined before the magistrate you will tell quick enough,” said Joe, sharply. Secing that Joe meant business, Steven, in a panic, con- fessed that Clarence’s object was to set fire to the grand- stand and burn up the park that night. His confession staggered both Joe and Billy, ‘It was so serious that Joe decided to take Steve to the arling cottage. . ‘The whisky bottle was ‘prought along as evidence. a When the matter was put before the Boston merchant he as ‘staggered, too. , @ consultation, the whole party proceeded. to. Abnet house, got him out of bed, for he had retired early, laid oe Ftelnes before him. . ould denied Paws son’s eonnection wi pens ease it; SED. POST He sent for his son who was impatiently awaiting Steve's return, When he walked into the parlor and saw Joe, Steve and the other, and the hard look on his father’s face, he turned white with fear, When taxed with his contemplated crime he denied it and ealled Steve a liar, Steve, seoing that Clarence intended to throw the guilt on him if he could, told several more facts that left no. doubt of Clarence’s guilt, Clarence was sent back to his room and Abner Doane begged that Mr. Darling and Joe would not disgrace him by pressing the charge against his son. -They consented to hold off if he would settle the matter with his son himself in a way that would teach him a lesson, “T’ll do it,” said the old man, in a tone that showed he meant business. Next morning Abner called his gardener and coachman and ordered them to drag Clarence to the earriage-house. Then the old man sent them away, picked up a horsewhip and gave his gon a terrible whipping—one he never forgot for the rest of his life. On the following day he was bundled off to the Wimbledon Academy. A big morning crowd saw Siimmerdale beat Rockhaven, and when the blackboard announced the defeat of Spring Glen by Lakeport, a tremendous yell went up, for everybody knew that the pennant now depended on the result of the afternoon game between Summerdale and Spring Glen, That the park would be tested to its utmost capacity was a foregone conclusion, and Joe proceeded to provide for all emergencies. Te asked for a double force of policemen to keep the crowd within bounds. ; He also ordered his aids to be on hand earlier than usual. The game was scheduled for 3.30, and when it began, with Dick in the box for Summerdale, the attendance at the park had broken all the ‘league records. That the players on either side were koyed up by the knowl-. edge that the winner would bear off the pennant) was Seen in their playing. Most of them were vervous, and many fumbles of grounders’ took place among the infielders. : Billy Thorpe was an exception, He was coolness itself, and his playing was sometimes mar FN velous. ; His great work gradually steadied his team-mates, and when the sixth inning was finished Summerdale’s 8 victory seemod almost .certain, Spring Glen began the ninth inning four runs behind, : As Dick Willis was at his heat, the visitors had apparently no chance to win. The first batfer reached Willis for a single, and the next man put the ball into the crowd back of the ropes, which gave two bases under the ground rules. Dick lost his nerve for the moment and hit the next batter, filling the bases. Then the Spring Glen rooters began to yell, for things looked good to them. With two balls and two strikes on the next man, Dick let loose a high fast one over the plate, The batter lined it ont low between short and second and it looked as safe as any hit ever did and every runner started on a wild scramble toward home. fy ney Billy Thorpe threw himself bodily at the ball and speared it while on his side, a foot from the ground. Rolling over, he snapped the ball to Captain Nevins at sec- ond, and Nevins hurled. it to the first baseman, completing a ‘ brilliant triple play. and winning the game. : Summerdate had won the pennant and pandemonium risabe: Thus Joe’s first season as a baseball managey ended in. halo of glory and a big balance in bank over all expenses, To-day Joe, the husband of Dora, is president and of one of the major league Eras eeviyis, and hess is” big money in baseball, Next week’s issue will contain “A BOY BROKER'S. LARS; OR, THE MYSTERY Or A bpGoaaie ae Wali Street story.) | ,
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——— FAME AND FORTUNE WEBKLY. 48% CURRENT NEWS According to recent laws enacted in Melbourne, Aus., ‘no Sunday papers are permitted, no hotels are allowed to open their barrooms from midnight on Saturday until _ Monday morning, and any one driving past a place of worship at a faster pace than a walk while service is in progress is liable to be arrested. "News comes from Perryville, Ky., that when the two - daughters of Smith Cox, who lives on the J. W. Moss farm, awakened the other morning they found a huge black- snake coiled on the foot of their bed. One of the girls in - the dim light mistook it for a garment and attempted to pickit up. Their frightened screams brought their father, who killed the reptile. “y af —_--- Hightoen persons were killed outright and twenty-two - others were injured when a bridge spanning a ravine at ‘ Bantam, Teland of Java, in the ‘Dutch’ Fast Indies, col- lapsed, according to a cablegram received the other day . from Batavia. The accident Sanne while the bridge was crowded with pilgrims making their way to the ghritie of My jasizame for religious ceremonials. | “Forty persons were drowned and immense property ~ damage done.by a cloudburst over the district about Vladi- - kavkaz in the Caucasian Mountain, according to a despatch received from there recently. Thirty ae of the tracks of the Vladikavkaz Railroad between Besslau and Syep- zowsk were washed away and many buildings destroyed. " ges tae ig an important eh ety station. “ Kansas lawyers are now sciereil and indignant because some of the cattlemen are inclined to settle their disputes without resorting to the courts. The disputants choose three men as an arbitration committee, and the committee - decides each case. Not long ago a case involving $60,000 was thus settled in Eureka, and not a dollar went to the wyers. No wonder they tear teix hair as — finger _ Wishing Ring, a four-year-old colt, owned by J. B. ioe - pess, the Cincinnati turfman, won the sixth race at La- _ tonia recently, at odds of 900 to 1, which is believed to be the biggest price ever paid against a winning horse th rough the pari-mutual system of betting such as is used ek bel tracks. ng, Poytonia, at 1,000 to 1, won at Washington Park, : hicag, in 1894. The exact amount paid in the 2 mu- als on ioe Ring were $1,885.50 for $2 to win; $744.- co scetie and 172. 40 for $2, third. There were “et iw as ioe in baseball pools and the sinall > of he Planers > i on his Bee Under the old system of bookmak-| ; Searchers were out thirty-six hours, but could not find the berries and had destroyed several beds. The managem nt « J coal court, when it was alleged that three’men in Philadelphia collected between $1,700 and $1,800 a day on pools and paid out an average of $80 a day to the winners. The testimony was given by Central Office detectives at the, — pean hearing of Charles Flemming and Joseph uarkins. The men had been arrested, charged with bemg ~~ gamblers for their activity in distributing the drawing — eards for the baseball pools. Frederick Haverly, a settlement worker, of Kentish town, North London, Wngland, tells a remarkable stor of kidnapping and branding recently. He says he was lured into an automobile by two men, who drugged him, When he awoke he was in a cellar, tied hand and foot. He was taken upstairs to a room, where a number of men in black hoods like inquisitors tried to make him retract ~ certain statements. They tortured him with a flexible band of steel around his head and branded his forehead with the letter “H” for heretic. He was afterward liber- ated in a fainting condition and found himself on the high road near Barnet. The police are now investigating — his story. One clue is a, document in red ink, written in . Italian, which the inquisitors placed in Haverlys soaps rin Several pretty girl members of the teaccetihe tie of the high school, at Atlantic City, N. J., created a sensa- tion the other morning by appearing in classes with one leg covered with a black silk stocking, while the other was covered with white. It was done to advertise a minstrel - show to be given by their fraternity. Prof. Miller, the Principal, noticed considerable agitation, and it did not take him long to learn the cause. He directed the young — ladies to go into an adjoining class-room, in company BC ty. one of the women teachers, and there they had to change ‘ about until each pair of legs was garbed in colors that matched. After the changes were made, Supt. Boyer made an inspection and was shown just enough hose above — te the shoe tops to be convinced that the 1 a exchange : had been made. To find a large South American tapir in her chicken — yard among her Plymouth Rocks was the experience of Mrs. Charles Ruggles of No, 910 Highland avenue, when she started out to feed the family flock the other day. Mrs. Ruggles screamed and the entire neighborhood was aroused. The animal had been badgered by dogs and w: in a rage when the keepers of the show, from which it he escaped, arrived. Some of them were severely bitten be- — fore he was captured. The tapir, which cost $1,000, had broken out of his cage in the animal arena of the sho 7 animal. He had been feasting on the surrounding straw- promptly paid the large reward offered for his. capt and the women in a Sagem have come out the
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ogee e “laughing. nay £ ve FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. THE “RED BOYS” > _ THE YOUNGEST CHAMPIONS OF THE DIAMOND By H. K. SHACKLEFORD (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER XIII. (Continued) ‘Nan blushed rosy red and looked confused. Jennie stole an arm about her waist, and Nan drew close to her like a frightened child. ~The Avon sports had won heavily, and every girl was invited to a sumptuous supper at the hotels. The Red ' Boys were hailed with delight by the boys who rejoiced Ahat a boy nine had won the game. All wanted to see Buck Hardin who had slung a bull by the tail. The small ‘boy believed he was a David who had downed his Goliath, and that great things were in store for him. He was ‘called for constantly, but he would not leave Nan Joline’s ‘sige. “These Troy Champions feel very sore over their de- feat,” said Harry Martin, coming into the hotel and speak- ing to all the boys. “Keep well together and utter no harsh word ‘to anybody. Miss erkeley, our boys have done well, ch?” - ©Yes, indeed,” said Cicely. “I am sorry I did not have $1,000 to put wp on the game.” “"*«) wish I had,” said Harry. “T am going to be ready for the next game,” said Cicely, “T'll put up all my jewelry and bet every dia- “mond.” ° “You might lose,” said Phil. “Then I’d have a good ery and get an awful scolding,” “she replied. ~ €T wouldn’t risk all on a single game,” Phil remarked. “YT don’t think-it would be wise to do so.” “But you would do-your best to win if you knew I had risked all, would you not?” ' “T do my best to win every game we play,” he replied. *] should be very sorry to have you lose on us.” “J would be afraid to bet all my diamonds on the Red Boys; and I know that’ Nan feels that way, too. Just look at her now, I do believe she is in love with Buck Hardin,” arid she Yooked over at another table, where sat Buck and _ the fair Nannie in half whispered dkprrece pee utterly _ oblivious of their surroundings. _ “She couldn’t love a better fellow if she tried ever so hard,” Phil remarked as he watched the couple. “i “He i is a fine fellow,” she remarked. pears se ” and Phil looked serious. “I ‘think some of vou : ‘should keep away from us poor boys.’ os 2 and she looked him ees in the: Be “But what a tow \ “But if Nan loves she’d go to the end of the world with him—family or no family.” “Good for Nan! I like a plucky girl as well as a plucky boy.” The signal for the train startled them and all arose and made.a rush. They were soon on board the excursion train. Martin saw Phil, and said: “There’s a hitch about the gate receipts and I am going to stay over till to-morrow for a settlement. wife about it as soon as you get to Avon,” “Twill. money?” “They are in bad humor, and there is some old quar rel to be patched up I believe.” ~ The train started and in due time arrived at. Avon, The local. sports had won a good deal of money and were in a humor to paint the village red. Phil and Buck escorted Cicely and Nan to their homes, When they were together again, soon after leaving the girls, Buck said to Phil: “Tt’s a dead secret between us, Phil, I am engaged to Nan Joline.” “Whew!” and Phil came to a stop and ,whistled. “Yes. She just owned up, and said it was all O. K. be- tween us. Says we must wait. two years, keep the secret and build a neat little home before we hitch. She is go- ing to bet her diamonds on us, get a start and pile up money, while I am to lay up half I make playing ball.” — Phil whistled again. “You always were a bold fellow, Buck,” he finally said. “That's the way to get along,” Buck replied. “Don’t be afraid. Seize the bull by the tail and sling him around. Why don’t you go for Cicely Berkeley? peaches and cream swect on you.” “Heavens ! grown!” - “She’s only eighteen and you a little over seventeen. — I am only eighteen, and we are going to wait two years. — But you want to get her promise, Alex Heath is dead in love with her, you know, and is very eA You can wait too. too.” CHAPTER XIV. THE TWO MEN UNDER THE TREES. ~The two all ee Paste under the tnoos Tell my - Hope there will be no trouble, over the — She is just 4 T am only a boy and she a young lady ;
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ye. Buck Henan had accepted an invitation to spend the | field, both challenging the Red Boys.to match games. She night with him, which aceounts for his being with Phil. They passed on and were,soon out of sight in the dark- ness. But a couple of minutes later two dark forms stepped out from behind the trees. “Somebody is with him,” said one in a low tone of} voice to the other. “Yes; it’s Buck Hardin. was saying to him?” “No. I eaught only a few words. “All caught was this: Berkeley? She is just peaches and cream sweet on you. “The deuce! Did Buck say that to Phil Fordyce?” an ei “Well, hanged if I don’t believe it’s half true—if not all.” Alex gritted his teeth, and hissed: “If he gets in my way there, [ll kill him as sure as my name is Alex Heath.” They were Alex Heath and Fred Joline. They had concealed to waylay Phil Fordyce, and this time were armed. Buck Hardin’s presence probably saved Phil’s life—or at least from a terrific heating. “T have heard that Nan has been saying some very pleasant things about Buck Hardin sinee that bull scrape last week,” remarked Alex as they walked homeward, arm in arm. “Oh, yes. I’ve heard her myself say he was as brave as a lion, and as handsome as he was brave. We can’t stop Nan in anything. The best way to manage her is not to oppose her in anything she wants to do. She'll get dis- gusted with him after awhile. If the old folks eaeed a row, she’d go right off and marry him, boy as he is.’ “But Cicely may be built the same way,” said as “Tf 1 kill the cub she can’t get stuck on him.” “Oh, but that won’t do, you know,” said Fred. “But Vl make it do if I find she is in love with him,” and Alex gritted his teeth in a desperate rage. . “Wellf you want to go with her more than you do. Go to the ball games, het on the games, and let her see the contrasts between a boy like him and an educated gen- tleman.” “T was thinking of that the other day. all the games after this.” The two young men separated and went to their re- spective homes at a late hour. When they met at the post-office the next morning they heard everybody talk- ing about the Red Boys at Troy and the splendid pitehing of Buck Hardin. Over $2,000 had been brought back by - the local sports, and $3,000 more would probably be brought down by Harry . Martin when he .came—all for the Red boys. The tradesmen of the village would get in- --ereased trade, and bills would be paid that had been run- ning too. Judge Aiken, who owned the bull that chased | ~ Nan Joline’s red parasol, was there and said: “That baseball nine is worth more to the town this' ‘Reason than any nine men in it.” _ The day passed and no news had come from Harry Mar- | Two dispatches awaited him at his store His wife “finally opened them. One was a challenge from the Elm| Club at ; New Haag and the other from the club. at cer Didn’t you hear what Buck What did he say?” I am‘ going to AES A = eee Siri: re oH ~ 2 i word to the other members. ‘sent for Phil and told him. “Good! That means more money for us,” and he sent Fiverybody was giad. from Brooklyn. Then, a little aS Eas one came from Philadel Iphia. “Boys; our forthe is’ made,” exclaimed Phil. “If we win in all four places itll be at least $20,000 for the elub.” The boys were jubilant. They were at Martin’s «lore ‘Why don’t you go for Cicely | just: at sunset, when a telegram came from him to = Z 999} wife. It electrified the village. . Two hours later a challenge came: - “Tell the boys Pll be down on the 10:15 train. Money all right.” That’s what she read to them. woke up the street. People ran out of the other stores to hear the news, and when they did hear it, they Tee too. : “TLet’s meet him at the train in uniform, boys,” sug- gested Tom West, and it was agreed to. They hurried home to supper and came out again in ‘the red colors of the nine. Half the town turned out, and when Martin got off the train a great cheer greeted him. | “There was a good deal of growling and kicking,” Harry. said; “but they paid the money at last. I want to de- posit it in the safe of the Riverside House till to-morrow morning, when it will be divided.” The crowd marehed to the Riverside House, a big sum- mer hotel, where the clerk counted the money—$3,100 in. all—and locked it up in the big safe. Then the sports wanted to have some fun. They called on Harry for a speech, but he wouldn’t say a word. ‘Then they seized Phil Fordyce and demanded that he tell them how the game up at Troy was won, | They stood him up on a chair, and he began vs telling exciting incidents of the game. The crowd cheered and Phil seemed to forget where he was. using well-chosen words to describe the enthusiasm of the Avon. girls at a critical moment. dies eagerly listening to his glowing tribute to the magical influence of the girls on the energies of the Red Boys. He denounced the conduct of the Troy team in scathing and raised.a laugh at the expense of the umpire. When he ceased the crowd nearly raised the roof ng — terms, hotel. “Hanged if that boy isn’t a natural born arate ex- “T never heard.a_ neater speech in my life, and he seemed to be utterly — claimed an elderly guest of the house. unconscious of the fact that he was making a speech, too.” The sports seized him and bore him about the office on their shoulders. “He is a baseball orator!” cried someone in the cron “And can speak as well as he can play, too!” ence an- other. “You bet he can.” Buck Hardin was astonished. (To be Continued) = \ They gave a shout that » He spoke rapidly, He was eloquent, and — ere he was aware of it the stairway was packed with la-~
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FACTS WORTH READING — | HATS IN THEATRES, fairy properties. The Department will try to grow some ® r A decision of the-High Court of Brandenburg, Germany, |of the vines for ornamental purposes in Washington this allows women to wear hats of any size they please in a|summer if it shall be able to endure the kind of tempera- theatre. Herr yon Jagow, the head of the Berlin police,|ture Washington offers. If the plant does not come to issued an order that no woman was to be allowed to wear | maturity a good bit of it is expected to make its planting a hat during a theatrical performance. Offenders were | worth while. Washington has lots of spots it would like to be punished. The Actors’ Association brought an ac-|to cover with something that grows green in a hurry. tion to determine the legality of this decision, and the —_-—— lower court upheld Herr von Jagow. The ruling of the “BOMB” WAS A TOBACCO JAR. _ High Court allows the possibility of a definite order of | Arthur Derrick, of No. 954 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, _, the Berlin police authorities being ignored by the public.|N. Y., received recently from a messenger unknown to se : SEER him a pasteboard box wrapped in light brown paper. With- LARIAT SAVES A DROWNING MAN. in was a round object with what looked like two fuses ate The most peculiar rescue of a drowning man ever effect- | truding from a hole in the top. ed along the bay shore was that of Nicholas Cook, of Santa} Trembling lest he be blown into atoms before he _ Monica, Cal. He is a workman on a pier and fell into the | reached his destination, Mr. Derrick made all haste to the sea, together with a heavy iron wheelbarrow. Ralph avenue station, where he carefully handed the box — His feet became entangled in the barrow and it held |to Lieutenant Carey, who let it soak in a bucket of water. him under, with only his’ hands protruding from the break-|Then Patrolman Mahland carefully removed the found ers. He waved frantically and attracted the attention of | object. Arthur Wildes, another workman, who was formerly a| The supposed bomb proved to be only a plaster skull, cowboy. evidently intended for a tobacco jar, Inside was a pack- - Wildes snatched up a long rope, tied it in a noose and | age of tobacco fastened with a cord, the two ends of which — Fadiged the hands. So accurate was his aim that at the |had been mistaken by Mr. Derrick for fuses. On the skull first cast his noose slipped upon the wrists and tightencd.|was the inscription “Better to Smoke Now than Here-. ~ and Cook was drawn to safety. after.” The wheelbarrow came up with him. Mr. Derrick told Lieutenant Carey he had had trouble eer ee with some of his former tenants, and he suspected come. ~NO FLAG ABOVE OLD GLORY. one of them had sent him an infernal machine. He was ‘That no flag, banner or emblem should be officially per- | chagrined to find he had been made the victim of a practi- - mitted to wave above the Stars and Stripes is the con-|cal joke. af tention of Senator Heyburn. He understands that on a eh forts and battleships, other ensigns are often elevated GIVES UP EVANGELISM. Res above the national colors. After being converted by Billy Sunday at Canton, 0., To ascertain the actual facts Mr. Heyburn the other|last January and: actively taking up evangelistic work, afternoon offered two resolutions, which were adopted by| Jack Cardiff, boxing instructor at the Y. M. C. A. and. ‘the Senate. One is addressed to the Sceretary of the } Navy claimant to the welterweight championship, will now aban- ; and the other to the Secretary of War. Each calls for| don his newly chozen field and return to ‘the roped arena. the real situation concerning this matter in the Army and|“A man must live,” says Cardiff, in explanation. Nas The boxing instructor plans to fight titider a commission - the opinion of Mr. Heyburn there should be legis-| of five Canton business and professional men and to invite tion, if necessary, to’ prevent any official of the Goyern-| all the ministers of the city to be present. His first go it from displaying any emblem, flag or banner‘above | was scheduled for this city July 3 and it-was the first ring: 0. Glory. bout here within a year because of the objections of min- 3 ae AUP a) eens isters. Cardiff will not give up his study of the Bible) > THE FASTEST GROWING BEAN. however, so he says. ough the instrumentality of Mr. Field of Boston,| “I am enthusiastic,” he declared, “but I realize: the tho has no other known name, it is said, the foreign plant | amount of money it will take to prepare me for the work utr duction office of the Department of Agr sonitine has | of evangelism and in the meantime I must support ahs a ust come into the possession. of a wonderful bean, w ae and wife.” ‘Mr. Field, as he dropped in upon David Fairchild, Mick McKinney, president of the Standard Athletic of ‘ge of the office mentioned, likes to call the bean of ihe Club, is aiding Cardiff in promoting ring contests here, — t “celebrated as the vine from which sprang Jack’s| It is expected that Cardifi’s opponent will be Jimmy rad. ner, of, Reise Mass: Bilder = Ses been. Sent oi ee ‘ “as the’ canaveleta. The natives say cae ws faster than a man can walk and ter a atelvate to iT TP raat
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FAME AND. FORTUNE WEBKLY. IN THE KLONDIKE 88 OR, A BRAVE FIGHT FOR GOLD AND FAME By ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER I. A FAIR YOUNG HEROINE. “What a perfectly lovely sunset. How I do wish we could stop long enough to make a sketch of it. If I only had my pencils I would try to do it as we go along. Mamma, just iYnagine how grand that huge bowlder would look in a picture, It is so majestic, so stately. A party of sight-seers, Bay, a dozen or so, could camp there’ in safety from the sun’s hot rays.” And the speaker, a slender, graceful blonde maiden of nineteen years or so, leaned forward in her seat so that she might have a better view of the scene through which the big, heavy stage-coach was rumbling in its own way, rolling and swaying from side to side, lumbering up hills, dashing madly down steep inclines where it seemed impossible for the horses to keep out of the way of the wheels that threat- ened to touch the pair nearest them, Circling rocky curves, ~ brushing against ov erhanging ledges, yet never coming: to the giieh witch the pale, aristocratic looking lady inside constantly predicted for it, and the destruction of every passenger with it. That she was the mother of the young girl, who had gone ‘into raptures over the wild, rugged, yea prin scene, even a stranger could not doubt. But where the daughter ad- ‘uited, the mother complained, declaring they would never j live to return to dear New York, the only place in the wide world not inhabited by savages. Her complaints caused an amused smile to light up the otherwise sad face of a fine-looking man not yet far away from. the early forties. The rich brown hair was thickly studded with silver, and the expression of sorrow in the ‘dark eyes made him appear older, but when he smiled one saw how handsome he really was, and that it was grief not years that had whitened his locks and. lined liis broad, scholarly brow. As. his stepdaughter ceased speaking, for that was luis relationship to the blonde eee ee he remarked carelessly, yet with twinkling eyes: aes, my dear, a huge bowlder indeed. And speaking | j relter for a picnic party, what an ideal spot for a band ©: outlaws to fire upon a passing Brageunene gute oe tartled oxy fone from the young lady’s. lips, ind she arrell in p epee. Bat ext: pale beneath the perfumed pearl powder which aided 1) delicate | hig fatal mistake in making the widow of a distant cousi complexion—one of her chief attractions—and of which she was very vain. She clutched her father’s coat sleeve” with nervous, trembling fingers, for courage was not one of her virtues, asking tremulously : “Papa, do you mean ihat we are in danger of being waylaid and robbed, perhaps even murdered, by those hor- rid outlaws? Oh, I wish we had never left New York. I wish we uy never come out to this wild, dreadful place. I am going to start for home when the next town is reached.” “And leave all the scenery you were raving over a mo- — ment ago?” the gentleman questioned, with a Taugh. “My. dear, I thought you had more courage than to let a mere — joke upset you. There are no road agents that I know of in any part of the country at present.” ° = “Then I must say that such jokes. are in accent poor taste,” the sharp, fretfnl voico of Mrs. Darrell broke in. “You know, James, how timid and shrinking Hildred — is, and in such a time as this, too. The dear child will be ill to pay for it, see if she is not.” ae Judge Darrell made no reply to his wife, but his aa smile spoke volumes, for he rememibered the fits of temper his tiniid, sheinking stepdaughter had indulzed in when — her unfortunate dressmaker was late with a ball dress on several (different oceasions. Long ago he had discovered n F #8 his wife, He was not the man, however, to admit it, an after a few attempts she Iéirned that she could quarrel © with h him, for her unkind remarks were ¢ always met with a polite, though chilling silence, There were two otliers in this family party, both of them Ri young men, mere youths in fact, for the eldest was not twenty-one, and his companion a full year younger. _ The former, a handgome enough youth ia a dark, dashing style, but with an expression that few liked and none trusted. lfis eyes, bold, black, roving, held a look in their dusky depths that was not’ p foheak ae a close observer and ‘sti dent of human nature would see something cruel in’ the thin line about his lips. It was the face of one who wisued to oe seer fe of ee Dee who was silent concer - saying: ies see eee makes “A wise endl but n true friend,” is the truest ever written. The face of the younger youth was not only h d som but frank, open, manly. The noble nature of hee ssa in pl line of his Ate cut features,
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‘over 24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. of were often taken for bine His complexion was as fair as the other’ a glint of gold in the midst of the silken’ tendrils that fell a marble-white brow, The first thought of one meeting him was his beauty, _ the second, a wonder at the pallor of his face, too white for | perlect health. And that was the reason why we find him, in company with his half brother Basil, his guardian, and uncle, Judge Darrell and family, tr aveling in the West in, search of health, believing that the clear, crisp, bracing Colorado air would do more good than all the medicine in the world, taken in the uncertain winter weather of New York. Always strong and robust, a model of physical strength and athletic beauty, with no long illness or no apparent reason, his health had been. failing for some months. The best and most skilful physicians were con- sulted, but they were baffled, one and all. In despair one suggested change of scene, and he lost no time in leaving New York, to the regret of his friends, for Alain Claire, or Allie, as his near friends called him, was a great favor- ite, while Basil, his half brother, was not liked at all. Alain, knowing this, sought to. make up for it, trying to make himself believe it was because he would inherit a would have but a few thousands. f every sport, s was dark, his waying hair a shining brown, with , There was not a boy in college who could | handle the oars with him, and there were only about half a dozen who dared put on a pair of gloves and stand in the ring with him. In his regiment, too, for he was a member of thie gallant Seventh, the pet of the fair sex, he was ‘noted as being the best shot. At Creedmoor he neyer missed a medal, And now, he was so ill, so weak, his am- ‘bition all gone, his one desire heing—rest, It did not seem | possible for auch a superb specimen of splendid young manhood to fade into a semi-invalid in so short a space of time. “You are all wrong about this bracing air doing Alice so much good,” Mrs. Darrell remarked plaintively. “he hardships he will be foreed to endure will surely kill him. T do not understand, James, why you would have me suffer also. Well, you will go back to New York with two less than you left it. I never could stand exposure, and ever since we left the city I have felt myself failing.” Mrs, Darrell’s plaint day and night was her delicate state of health. She would lie for days upon a sofa, lan- guid, feeble, unable to bear even the sound of her hus- band’s voice, But let her receive cards for a fashionable ‘ball, and lo! as if by magic, the fretful invalid blossomed princely fortune when he reached his majority, while Basil earth into a stately matron of such splendor and delicate — beauty, that she was often taken for Hildred’s elder sister. Basil’s father and Alain’s were brothers, the former be-| And although they were mother and daughter, they were ing blessed with but little of this world’s goods, and shortly | really jealous of each other, strange as it may seem. Mrs. after his death his widow became the wife of his brother,| Darrell had been a reigning belle in her youth, and she who had just returned from California with a fortune. ‘Her ‘first marriage was not a happy one, but in the last ae ~ union she lived a life of perfect, undisturbed bliss, and when her husband died she did not long survive him. The! Alain replied, knowing her weakness. entire fortune was left to Alain by his father, Basil’s share | a hundred times rather have it otherwise, and he had se- cretly resolved that when he came into possession of his fortune, Basil should have one-half. He said nothing about it, however, keeping his intentions to himself. Short- ly before the father’s death, the elder son had openly defied him, showing such a nature that the will was changed, and he had no one to blame but himself. He hated Alain, ~ though pretending to be so anxious about him and his health. Mrs. Darrell had-also decided that when the for- tune was in the hands of the young heir he should wed her fair daughter, the daughter secretly cherishing the same idea, for she was very fond of the young man whom she called cousin Allie. ‘Seeing a storm brew! ing, Alain was the first to prevent it, as he had many a time in the past.’ With a gay laugh that he was far from feeling, for the last ten days he had been ‘failing rapidly, he said: “Tf there are any outlaws in this part of the West, and they stop us, one good look at me and you will see them getting away so fast that their coat-tails will stand out straight, They will take me for a living ghost. posta, that you are safe with me.” The fast falling shadows of the coming night concealed the evil smile that accompanied those easy words, and in So you see, oom of the stage coach no one was able to see the ‘in the shifty, black eyes. A sigh fell from Alain’s hought of the time when he was the first in! was not ready to yield up her kingdom to her lovely daugh- ter, “Why, Aunt Marcia, you are improving every day,” “T never saw you have a finer tint in your cheek,’ You are looking younger not being over five thousand. The kind Heuriad boy would | than Hildred, upon my word you are!” “T am not the type to grow old,” the lady returned, gra- ciously. “I will look no ‘older ten years from now than I- do to-day, It is the dark, bold type that coarsens so rap- idly.” é As she finished speaking, she glanced coldly at a slender, — upright figure sitting in the darkest corner of the coach, It was that of a young girl not more than seventeen or eighteen, and the occupants of the dark, swaying convey- ance had no opportunity of seeing the beautiful face, save when she boarded it at the small town when the driver had stopped to change horses. ‘Then, with the afternoon sun- light shining full upon the rounded, yet givlish figure, in its plain, cheap dress, the perfect face, with its red, tremu- lous mouth, the dimpled chin, the creamy skin, soft and fair as a lily petal, the dark eyes shaded by black silken’ lashes, so long that they cast a shadow upon the velvety cheek, the proud; g graceful head, overrun with curls like. strands of brown atin, on which rested a broad-brimmed felt hat, pinned up in front by a large, silver star, they — stared at the vision in amazement, for a fairer face, ‘a more perfect form, not one among them had eyer beheld, 'The i short skirt revealed a pair of dainty feet, and the gloveless hands, clasping the guitar case, were small, though some= what tanned from exposure to sun and wind. Every move- ment had the grace of a wild fawn, and she carried he sath se ey of a young queen. (To ‘be Continued)
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: ; : * i 4 4 _ New Jersey. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 85 FROM ALL POINTS Peter Henry Carpenter, inventor of the toy balloon, which amassed fortunes for others, recently entered on his ‘seventy-seventh year, on the meager wage of $8 a week. He sold his patent for $500. Carpenter lives in He is an odd character, believing that fifty cents a day is enough for any one to live on. President Taft recently signed the act of Congress lim- iting to eight hours the daily service of laborers and me- chanics employed on government work, and immediately _ afterward issued an executive order exempting any con- - tract in connection with the Panama Canal until-January 7: un . s avenue, Yonkers, N. Y., _ day after- an absence of twenty-four hours, they found day night. - ises. _ terward, carrying gripsacks anid bundles. to the onlookers that the men were burglars, failed to notify the police. 1, 1915, The canal will be finished before that date, AC- cording to the expectation of the engineers, ‘Captain Dunbar of the steamship Buckminster, which arrived at New York recently from Cuban ports, said that when seventy niles south of the Winter Quarter Shoals _ lightship, off the Virginian coast, she ran through a school of more than 150 green turtles, some of which were - more than five feet long. It is unusual for turtles to travel so far north. working in northward at this point and that the turtles were in this current. Captain Dunbar thinks the Gulf Stream is When Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hoffarth of 145 Nepperham returned to their home the other that almost everything of value had been stolen. . The > police investigated, and found neighbors who said they Saw an automobile stop in front of the house late on Sun- Several men alighted and entered the prem- They were seen entering the automobile shortly af- It did not oceur so they Four boys, each eleven years old, were burying alive Carl Warth, four years old, of No. 9908 Carfield avenue, ‘Cleveland, O., the other day, when his screams attracted is mother. Asa result a probationer, Charles Heberthart, as summoned the boys to. the juvenile court. The story s. Wrath told Heberthart was grewsome. ‘The four oys didn’t like little Carl and they planned to punish im. They dug a grave six feet long, three feet wide and four feet deep in a vacant lot back of the Warth house. ig en sash oahag Carl into the ah shoved him into the Phe Krupps have just designed a new safety shell es- intended not to burst prematurely and scatter quneeriuely. | in the combined training of infantry as eae shell i is of ee to have heen the largest sale known in the history of the Memphis. But after a year there she started out for her. se, tent office force fe take care of her order and when this acts a half-ounce burster attached to. it splits the tin and blows out the’chalk through the slits in. the walls of the shell, giving the appearance of an ordinary | shrapnel burst in air or on graze. This shell can be fired over infantry as safely as a solid shot, and is considerably cheaper than shrapnel. ree After sixteen hundred years of silence, the Paris Arena, where once Roman gladiators fought, will now resound to the plaudits of a modern audience assembled to witness: the skill of modern gladiators in the shape of pugilists, Instead of the cestus the boxing glove will be the weapon’ of offense. The arena has been partly excavated and re-’ stored and, to give it some semblance of its old use, Car- pentier, the middlew eight champion of England and France, will give boxing exhibitions. . This, however, is” not the main attraction of the planned per formaziées, The arena will form an open air theatre; in which the ee ial of “Caesar and Cleopatra,’ by Paul Suchon, isto be- given in a few weeks. Between the acts of ao eae the Freneh champion will do his boxing. That the Japanese are determined to do more night. fighting than ever in the next war may be inferred from the fact that they have just introduced into the service an. illuminating 50-pound shell for the heavy field gun, con-. taining sufficient magnesium composition to give a bright. light for fully twelve minutes. In battle salvos of these — shells will be fired into an enemy’s works before the as-_ sault is delivered. It has been found hy experiment with » dummy figures that the defenders w hen they stand up to, fire are sharply silhouetted against the ‘light, enabling the attacking infantry to take good aim at them while. they are lying invisible in the dark. The Russians, too, © have learned their lesson as to night fighting from the | Manchurian war, and are issuing searchlights at the rate | of one per regiment to permit the delivery of svell aimed ‘|rifle fire at night both in attack and defense. One of the most. active members of the brokerage di-. vision of the cottonseed product trade is Miss Kathryn Ballou of Memphis, Tenn., who is-helieved to be the only woman broker in the business. Miss Ballou has made a really remarkable success ever since she started in to sell” cottonseed products, and her business is. still growing, | Along in July, 1910, Miss Ballou made a sale of ninety-two ©, _ tanks of értide oil for future delivery, which is believed cotton seed oil trade, and this was an advertisement which spread her fame far and wide. Miss Ballou first went into’ the business as an employee in the office of a broker in. self, on a very small scale at first. Her business increasec to such an extent, however, that she now has two. offices in the. Exchange Building and a large ar si {
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- Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, JULY 19,1912. . Rinsis CODES 5. carck lac asdpocceccsbicgaWucdeusareccyens tye opy Three Months Bua opy Six Months One Copy One Ye Postage Free. HOW TO SEND MONBY—At our risk send P.O. Money Order, Check, or Registered Letter: remittances in any other way are at your risk. | We accept Postage Stampa the same as cash, When sending silver wrap the Coin in ‘@ Bepar ate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envel | ope. Write your naine and address plainiy, Address letiers to (| Qerou toneas, Prertent Frank Tousey, Publisher Nad 168 West 23d St., N. Y. _iTEMS ue CURRENT NEWS| To save the | tes of] ape box Jumber a Californian has. "just invented a machine to saw the knot-holes out to a ieee an size and to cut plugs to be fitted into them. uk ; Vinamas M. McNamara, who has been hunted thirteen years for the murder of James S. Keller in Lexington, Ky. February 28, 1899, was apprehended in. the lobby of a Louisville hotel by Sheriff Scott, and was taken to Lex- _ ington and lodged in jail, He secrets his identity. Pia it! > The isin district of the ae of Canning, in the Annapolis Valley, N. 8., was practically wiped out by fire early the other morning, Only three buildings in the in- dustrial section remain standing. - The loss totals nearly $70,000. The blaze is said to have started in the store of the Cornwallis Trading Company. The flames spread with great rapidity. - Canning is the home of Sir Frederick pene former Minister of Militia. eo There are still some pretty good sized catfish in the ‘Missouri river. Two fishermen took one from a net near the Hannibal Bridge the other morning that weighed 125 pounds and was a scant inch short of five feet in length. The fishermen walked into the city market with the big fish suspended across their shoulders. ish dealers at the “market said it was the largest Missouri river catfish that , had been brought in in ten years. ‘The fish measureed eleven inches between the yess ¢ Cloth made from seaweed is the very latest thing. The eaweed used is found on the southern coast of South \ustralia. It grows on’ a limestone bottom, but the aetion of the tide through, many centuries has sifted over ‘it ward, lies ona deposit of its own fiber, intermixed with sand and shells, and varying in thickness from four to — twe nty-four feet. This fiber has been used for bedding 2 midge ‘Mixed with = it weaves rd an asses of shells and sand until the plant, forcing its way ané ede ego purposes, for rope, mats, linoleum, army of my islochies: FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. \ ——— —— Ganz Essler, 14 years old, of 1124 Hudson street, Ho- boken, N. J., at 2'o’clack the other morning saw a man leaving the warehouse of the Bomadell Mercantile Com- pany, directly opposite. The man hurried down the street, passing Christopher Grevner, a bartender, and William Cassler, a night watchman. Immediately after this there came an explosion in the warehouse, which contained raw rubber worth $25,000. Flames shot out. Firemen put out the blaze quickly. But Chief Michael Dunn discoy- ered that the flames seemed to have started in three parts of the two-story brick building at once. He reported this to the police and Detectives McClaughrey and Schaffer investigated and arrested Edward E. Wilhelmi, President of the Mercantile Company, at his office, No. 95 River. street, on a charge of arson. Grevner and Cassler were sure he was the man they had met just before the alarm was given. Recorder McGovern held Wilhelmi without — bail. : ; re, 2 a eer Sa ee Ree JOKES AND JESTS. giopinaging I “Ever surrounded by wolves?” ‘No; but I knew the sensation. I used to open the dining room doors at a — summer hotel.” | ; Mrs. De Good—Wouldn’t it be a good idea to put your money in the big family Bible? Deacon De Good (con- temptuously )—Y -e-s, and some day the minister will pone in and cabbage every cent of at yee Bridget—Shall I Vave the hall-lamp, burnin’, ma’ sat | Mistress—No. I am pretty sure Mr. Jones won't be home a before daylight. He kissed me three times before he left and gaye me $20 for a new spring bonnet. Says bea Wisbs its rie ve 2 ane wae Seth Saba? ee ee ered Se rhe “Took here, Mr. Clerk,” said the fussy guest at. the hotel, “there are two teeth gone out of that comb in the washroom.” “Oh, is that so?” replied the clerk, busy at the desk, “Ill have the dentist in to-morrow, to look at it!” Thief (acquitted of stealing a watch, to his advocate) I thank you, sir, from the bottom of my heart. I have no- money to pay, he ‘but here is the watch; take it; it is the : soon. Traveler—Eh? Has this hotel changed hand? Clerk— 4 Yes, the old landlord busted up—owed thousands of dollars _ to all the provision dealers in the neighborhood, For ev ten dollars he took in he spent twenty. Traveler—To bad! Too bad! He’s the only landlord’ I ever met ( knew how to keep a hotel. f % bi that your band should play Seah alleen pand, id |
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ey) “ “Has she on her neck a ted mark like a strawberry ? r’ THE CONVICT’S DAUGHTER. “She has.” “Then this letter speaks only the truth,” he said. “It tells you, Vernet, who Evelyn is, I suppose?” A fair, bright spring day, and all around Valley Home-| “ Yes.” ‘By Kit Clyde. stead bright with sunshine. “Would you be aa enough to allow. me to see it?” ce It was such a pretty cottage house, with flowers bloom- Pardon me. No.” ; ing everywhere. 4 The lady’s gentle face flushed, but she continued: i ‘Standing by the window was a girl of eighteen, tall, slen- “Surely you might let me, who haz been her mother for der and graceful—a girl whose face was fair as a lily, with Yet, read it, Vernet.” ; ; ‘ crowning golden hair and lovely, liquid eyes of forget-me- | She looked at him as she spoke, and noticed that his face not blue, ins white as death. R : By the little inlaid table near the center of the room sat| “1 cannot,” he said; Bech Mrs. Dalton, plead with Eve- an elderly lady, some sewing lying idly in her lap, while, lyn to marry me at onee.’ - she watched the girlish ethene: kit Her a aes: At this instant Evelyn herself came in, a smile on her _ Suddenly\Evelyn turned toward her with an expression . ‘lips and her eyes glowing with welcome for her lover. of terror on her face. | When a lover pleads as Vernet Brandon did he is seldom — “Mamma,” she said, “I have such a strange dread hang-|Tefused, and when he went away Evelyn had promised to ing over me—a dread ‘of I lenow not what? be his wife in two weeks from that day. eer pie nervous, dear, Go out and take | a walk and! The two weeks passed quickly, but somehow during them — you will be better.” i Vernet looked anxious and worried; but the w edding- day, “1 will go down the lane and gather a basket of wild dawned at last. i - flowers, mammay.and if Vernet comes tell him to wait for ae what a bright, clear June day it was—the sun shin- rey g, the birds singing, all nature smiling and joyous, as if eS tyon had better put on a hat, dear.” tp aan in the occasion with every auspicious omen. “I like to be bareheaded; I like the soft breeze among | In the quiet old village church they were married, and — my hair. *I will only go es enough to gather the flowers, | people said that a fairer bride never stcod there before ; ; - for Lam going out with Vernet.” foc. Vernet thought that Evelyn looked like a vision in her _ After Evelyn went out, Mrs, Dalton sat sewing, a half robes of misty white, her pearly, fair face glowing Dee as aap pensive expression on her face. ta costly veil that shaded it. : _ “T hope she will never hear it,” she said; “she is so sen- The words were spoken that made them one: ere was a : sitive and delicate, the blow would ie darvibte’ ” Rees breakfast, and then, half smiles, half tears, pls _. At this instant a gentleman entered the room—a hand-| Started on her wedding tour. some youth ‘of twenty-three, Two months later they returned, and she was installed in - TE wag Evelyn’s betrothed husband, Vernet Brandon. , the stately house of the Brandons ; for Vernet was their One glance ‘at his face, and Mrs. Dalton saw something ‘only son—their only child, ang the JOUBE. people made had exeited him.’ itheir home there. “What is it, Vernet?” she said. It was an old saying in the neighborhood that the Bran- } He sat down beside her and drew an open letter from . dons would yet get their pride pulled down, for it was ~ ~ his pocket, then looked at her earnestly, , almost unbearable; and yet it was not an arrogant pride, You will tell me the truth, I know,” he said, his voice lit was more a cold, haughty exclusiveness that surrounded 4 ~ trembling with emotion. “Ts Evelyn -your daughter or | sem. i ~ not?””. Old James Brandon had often said, in his pride, that he | si Mrs. Dalton grew pale, and was silent for a few mo-| Would rather sce his only, his idolized § son dead than mar- = eect we rae eae - ments; then she answered: ried to one whose family was not what it should be. But — : “Byelyn is only my adopted daughter, but she is very |e was well pleased when Vernet wedded beautiful Evelyn — _ dear to me.” Dalton, for the Daltons were an old and respected family, : - “Tell me, do you know who or what she is? Mrs, Dal-|and that Evelyn was not Mele own child he neyer ‘sus- ny ton, is she a foundling left at your door ?” pected. m7 aa She is, but no child of my own could be dearer to me.| So beautiful Evelyn was welcomed to her new ace. ‘eae rever it happened that Hvelyn came to be left as she all was happiness for a while—all was happiness till Eve- she is a lady by instinct.” {lyn one day received a letter, and that evening stole out to he young man was silent for several moments, then he; meet ihe writer of it beneath the bright starlight, peaking slowly, his voice almost inaudible: And there she heard a tale that blanched all the lowely: Dalton, will you Pea me a few more pease color in her face, that caused the light to fade mom ber fied.” eyes. 2 i ‘ From that day Byelyn was aad She grew pale and — d had she around her neck a| delicate, and it seemed as if tomeLhing was SITY ; t—a locket, with the hia on her mind. i: a: One evening Mr. Brandon, passing. of Hvelyn ‘thought he heard 1 the vq ‘yo
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| ‘man to whom I gave the money, is my brother. “Ks heaven is my judge, I never dreamed it. When Vernet Brandon came back that evening no fair FAME A be out so late? He was passing on, when suddenly out from the shadow passed a slender, graceful form, and oné glance told him it was his son’s wife. She did not see him, but flew up the pathway, and en- tered the house by one of the side doors. . From that day James Brandon watched E velyn, and one evening saw her meet a dark-eyed youth, and saw her—or was he dreaming, perhaps going mad} ?—saw her give him a roll of bills. When she turned for home he faced her. > “Well, madam,” was all he said, but she grew white as death, her form swayed slightly, and without a word she fell forward at his feet, cold, silent and lifeless. With no compassion on his face, he lifted her and carried her into the house, then laid her on the sofa. Ringing the bell, he called for assistance, and when Eye- lyn’s own maid came in he told her to see to her mistress. - He then sought his wife. . “Where is Vernet?” he asked. ie ec went across to Moorland,” she said; “he will not be back until evening, He told me to tell you.” He then told her of Evelyn’s meeting with the stranger. ’ When Evelyn opened her eyes, two cold, hard, question- ns eyes were bent over her. She essayed to speak, but Mr. Brandon stopped | ier with @ gesture. _ “T will speak,” she said, “and you must listen. I know what you believe, but it is not that. ‘The man I met, the T will tell all, then do what you will.” They both looked at her. ~ ©T am not Mr. Dalton’s own child,” she said. “I am a ~ foundling; i in pity they took me in; I was a deserted baby, lying at their door.” Another long pause—a pause in which her breath came and went hurriedly, in we her cheeks flushed and paled y turns, “T am the child of a convict,” she said. “Did you know this when you became Vernet’s wife? Said Mr. Brandon, - 9% ‘Had I known it, I loved him far too well to marry him with that know ledge i in my heart.” Mrs. Brandon’s face softened, but Mr, Brandon gave no sign of emotion. “Hyelyn,” he said, “I will give you your choice. You say you love Vernet. Prove it by going away. If not, L will tell him all, and if he refuses to sue for a separation J will turn him from my door. Will you come between “him and his inheritance? He must either give you up, or all hope of ever receiving a cent of mine. If you will go he will never know the story. He will think of you as dead. He will think some accident happened to you.” : e greeted him, no tender smile welcomed him, but he r dreamed the truth—never dreamed that Evelyn was then Pare away from those she loved—never ND FORTUNE WEEKLY. — Vernet Brandon was going insane for the loss of his wife. “Tt is a wonder,” his father said, “that she did not go to her mother.” His son looked at him. “Father,” he said quietly, “you know that Evelyn was only Mrs. Dalton’s adopted daughter.” “And you know it, too,” his father said. “Yez, I know it,” he replied. “I knew who she was and what she was before we were married.” “Then tell us,” his father said, “whom we were honored in having for a daughter-in-law.” “T need not tell you; you know it already,:father. Yes, . lest you think I shrink from saying it, she was the daughter of a convict.” “Therefore no fit wife for you, my boy.” e “You learned the truth; you drove my wife away; but I will find her, should I search the earth; my love will lead me to her.” ‘ “Vernet,” his mother said beseechingly ; to her coldly. } “Were you not my mother,” he said, “but only a woman, — with a mother’s heart, could you see what is dearer to me _ than my life driven from your door?” ! “You threaten to disinherit me,” turning to his father; “again you played upon Evelyn’s childish heart, Disin- ” herit me you cannot do, This moment I put it out of your power. A cent or a cent’s worth belonging to you I will neyer take, either during your life or at your death, unless the day comes when you ail take Evelyn to your heart and — home, when you receive her as my honored w ife ; and if | that dey neyer comes, you will never look ec my face ft again.’ The next moment. he was gone; the father and mother _ were alone. vi ae i * cd ‘ ae ae Three years had passed, and still Vernet Brandon had not found his wife, neither had his foot crossed the threshold — of his father’s door. But at last he found her—not among ~ scenes of want and poverty, as he had often pictured her, The world had been ringing with the praises of a new authoress, whose first book had been a perfect gem ; and on of Vernet’s dearest friends had fallen madly in love with the authoress, One evening he told Vernet the story of hi love and his rejection ; ind in return Vernet told him th story of his lost love, and showed him the miniature o! Evelyn. ; e CharlesGraham looked at the pictured face, then erasped his friend by the hand. i e “My fair Jove and your lost wife are one and the same,’ he said. “Vernet; that is the face of Marion Clyde, authoress of the ‘Story of a Heart, ” Vernet was soon in the presence of his wife, and By knew the loyalty and tenderness of the heart of band;‘and, clasped in his arms, she thanked Go love @ hose. value she now knew; and when old but he turned ~ don died, Vernet was his heir, ‘for years bef pened, ‘Evelyn. nee goue back with full a d i
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~ The region about Bernwala, in Ceylon, was not long ago _ afflicted with a veritable plague of snails. Through these animals are extraordinarily prolific, they do not often ap- pear in sufficiently large gc aie to make themselves ob- 3 “Toxious. - Twelve young men arrested in various parts of the west end of Queens borough, New York, the other Sun- day by members of the strong arm squad for disorder on ears and elevated trains faced Magistrate John A. Leach vin Hunter’s Point Police € ‘ourt. Upon each of the twelve "a fine of $10 was imposed, with the alternative of going to jail for ten days. Few of the dozen had the money and the others were allowed to send for it. _ Cobbling is recognized as a trade in the vocational schools of Buffalo. Several schools are now set aside for teaching trades to: young boys and girls, and the latest addition to the course is one in cobbling. A competent in- -structor has been. engaged to teach the young men how to repair shoes. Theve are a number taking up the course, = and it is certain that the trade will not eacetne extinct with the young generation send ymg the principles of re- aes old shoes. : dhtost continuous earth tremblings and an increase of activity of the eruptive forces of Mount Colima volcano have recently caused the people of Zapotlan to flee in a panic to places of safety. Showers of voleanic ashes are falling over a large territory. Fears are felt that the town of ie may again be destroyed. It is recalled that on March 25, 1806, an earthquake, which preceded a ‘violent outburst from the yoleano, killed more than one ‘thousand: people in the town and destroyed most of the goiidaies. for the Insane at Poughkeepsie. ew he fashion. 0 lads entered the notion store of Joseph Reiss, No. purchasing various articles. a counter. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘ GOOD READING ’ The footie of New Rochelle, N. Y., arrested a fashion- bly dressed man who was wandering about New Rochelle ecently, acting queerly. He was committed by City Judge ‘Samuel P. Swinburne to the Hudson River State Hospital The man, who has the ippearance of a wealthy Malian, and says his name is Enrico Dylenzi, cannot remember where he lives or any- ing about himself. He has told the police that he was physician, an artist, a veterinary surgeon, and a gentle- n, He speaks English fluently, and without any foreign ent. His clothing is of the best material, and of latest ird avenue, New York, the other day. Women The lads quietly One of them seized a pocketbook and ig ‘com anion. Reiss caught one lad near 1 ne drew a corn knife and slashed 29 Yaufman, seven years old, of No. 229 Forty-first’ street: His companion escaped with the pocketbook. . After a doctor had patched up his wounds, Reiss went to the Chil- dren’s Court and made a complaint against the lad, who was held by Justice Ryan. Rosie Gravelin, ten years old, is under arrest at Water- bury, Conn., charged with housebreaking and horse steal- ing. She is the leader of a little gang of depraved chil- dren, seven in all, who broke into two stores and divided the “swag” like veteran yeggers, shaking dice for the odd fragments of candy, cigars and: pennies. They also broke inte- the home.of.Mrs. Angeline West. Rosie boosted two little boys, six years old, through the window.and they got a gold watch, three pins of vaide and a chain. Vhey then stole a horse tied near the public green and were having a joy ride to Winsted when they were:overhauled,: .:: In Italy at the present day cigars are given to soldiers as part of their daily rations, but in 1848, to. protest against the Austrian dominion, the Italian. patriots re- nounced tobacco, which was a government monopoly. .The Austrian government, to retaliate, supplied cigars gratis to’'their army, and the soldiers blew the smoke from them into the Italians’ faces by way of sneer and defiance. The Italians not only abstained totally from smoking any sort of tobacco, but they snatched the offending cigars forcibly from the Austrians’ mouths, throwing them into the gut- ters. ended in the ejection of the Austrians from Ttaly. ; Mee. Mildred Cody, the wife of Maurice foae a cane connected with a magazine, was beaten and robbed on the Annadale Road, Annadale;..Staten Island, N. Y., the other afternoon. Mr. Cody telephoned to the Staten Island police last night that he had found his wife unconscious, and asked that assistance be sent and an inquiry started. District Attorney Fach and Detective Sergeant Smith of | Airs the St. George station went to the Cody cottage. Cody said he had found the front and rear doors of his cottage locked, and finally forced the rear door. All the doors of the room had been locked on the outside, He had forced the door of his wife’s room and found’ her un- conscious on the floor. He had tried to arouse her, This was one of the many causes of friction which » i but failed, and called in neighbors to aid him. With their as- Se sistance Mrs. Cody had been revived, but she had been _ unable to tell a very clear story of what had happened. — From what she had said it was gathered that a strange man had entered the house and demanded money, and — when she refused beat her in brutal fashion. Her a ant took some money away with him. Mrs. Cody: sa robber entered the cottage between 8 and 4 o'clock, so ‘that she must have lain unconscious for several - ‘Dr. Deylin said she was suffering mainly from sh a Seba et and was not : cae mags hurt.
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80. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘ ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS } es We, ee DIRIGIBLE, UP 9,925 FEET. A world’s record for altitude for dirigible balloons was made the other day by the scout dirigible Conte, an air- ‘ship: belonging to the French Army, which attained’ a height of 9,925 feet. ‘The altitude record for dirigible balloons was hitherto held by the French military dirigible Adjutant Reau, which, on Dée. 7,°1911, ascended to a height of 7,053 feet. ES NUGGET IN CHICKEN. They teed the chickens pure gold in Gold Hill, Ore., at least that is the conclusion reached by W. H. Kenworthy of the Medford fish market, who recently found a gold nugget in the craw of a hen imported from that city. The nuggét was about the size of a pea’and was perfect in every way. It assayed $1 pure gold. It is expected that ae. Hill chickens will be in great demand hereafter. ‘REX BEACH NOT GOING BLIND. Friends of Rex E. Beach, the author who, it was re- ported, was going blind, visited the novelist recently in his Summer home at Lake Hopateong and learned that the report was false. Mr, Beach is in the best of condition, having fully recovered from the ‘slight attack of iritis from which he was suffering about two weeks ago. The novelist was. at work on a new story when his; aaa called. to see him. ee - STUDEBAKER GEMS “STOLEN. _ Jewelry worth $12,000 to $15,000 was stolen the other igh from a safe in the Summer home of George M. _ Studebaker of Chicago at Little Boar’s Head, near North _ Hampton, N. H. The police believe the combination of the safe was turned by an expert locksmith: The theft was discovered by Mrs. Studebaker just before midnight when she went to the safe and found it open and the _ jewels missing. A roll call of the’ servants showed that cs ‘William oe the butler, was. ae GOT $10,000 BOOK FOR 89. A 1760 edition of Foxe’s “(Book of Martyrs,” one of eo th rarest in the world, has just been unearthed in San d was made by Theodore Kytka, a hand-writing expert, 7 10 was looking for samples of inks that had held their for hundreds of years. a hoe London a few days ago a that J. Pier- ge: Detesn had purchased | John Bunyan’s copy of the o a Martyes” for stor 000." ale age foe for his | the ground together. | undertook to interpret the testimony offered by three SI cisco in a second-hand book shop. This sensational of WIRE KILLS BOY AND RESCUER. Sammis Bolles, 10. years old, of Brentwood, N. Y., was killed by an electric shock here the other afternoon, after — he had climbed a telephone pole, and George Williams, — a farm hand, was killed while trying to reseue him. Young Bolles climbed to the top of an iron support that | held a number of electric wires. His right hand came — in contact with a live wire, and he received a shock that — caused his death. His body fell across’a network of wires and hung suspended. is Williams: who was at work in a field nearby, heard ee screams of the two other boys who were with Bolles, and he hurried to the rescue. He climbed up the iron sup- port until he was able to grasp Bolles’s foot.. As soon | as he caught hold of the boy’s foot, Williams received the full force of the current, and he and the lad dropped Lee Of FE ae a 4 - cs LOST HIS TEETH AND POSITION. ifs Because of the absence of his upper front teeth, Adel- bert Gross, Pueblo, Col., has lost his position as offici court interpreter. On Socios of the great number of court cases arising here in which various nationalities are in- s volved, an “expert linguist is eee to interpret. the testimony. Gross can speak fluently seven. languages, but whos he yonians in court, he found that he could not nai eith the court of the witnesses understand him. ; He recently suffered an accident which deprived ae his upper front teeth. Although he understood the lat guage of the Slavonians who were in court, the lispin 2 dental sounds ‘conveyed by their mother tongue were’ 1 ing, and as a result the case had to be postponed another interpreter with the ie apt erie of teet is found. 3 BOYS TO GUARD FORESTS. | Under the direction of the State Game, Fish and | ; estry Department, companies of the Michigan Forest ad auxillary fire ra, organized for. the ai Sat ‘formed Hironahon the State. The department believes that it has ate. no n in placing the auxiliary surveillance of its forests i { hands of the boys of the babe: pint and expe these boys to make good,” The asuniin ) organized | are ‘iat
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Neigh like a horgo; whine like a Uppy; ging like a ¢nnary and iroltate birds end beasia of Self and anda ool Prtoucealy 10 ataty Stor So cunts ct Mi fe OO mea DOUBLE THROAT GO. DEPT. KC FABNCHUONN, Nk Wizard Repeating guar LIQUID PISTOL = & Will stop the most vic. fous dog (Or man) with- ou Lay etry ye injury, erfectly safe tocarry without dange: of leakage. Fires and Fechiarges “oy : pulling the trigger. Loads from any Liquid. No cartridges required. Over six shots inone loading, All dealers, or by mail, SOc. Pistol with rubber coy- ered holster, 5c, Holsters separate, 1c. _ Money order or U. 8. stamps. No coins, PARKER, STEARNS & GO., 273 GEORGIA AVE., BROOKLYR, N.Y, & HAY FRVER RE express to you on Free Trial, IX sent b Nickel-pratey Gin. long, Pat'd, Almost anyone ¢an learn it at home. Small mabe enane reeeee.: by aa ne for particulars . y ° rele) 6 Bigelow St., Peoria, UL ig Scag _ CACO O% SNEEZING POWDER. The greatest fun-maker ot them all. A small amount } of this powder, when blown 1 a room, will comes from. air for some nd corner of ess. Cachoo is and one \ om 10 to tim 8 for 250," oa NK, | 299 Broadway, New York City HINDOO FLOWER-POT TRICK With this trick you can make a plant grow right up in a flower-pot, before , the eyes of your audience. An ordinary empty earthen flower-pot is handed to the spectators for examination. A hatidkerchief is then placed over it, and ayo you repeat a few magic words, and % wave your wand over it. When the handkerchief is removed there is a beautiful plant, apparently in full bloom, in the pot. each outfit. Price, postpaid. oM. O'NEILL, 425 W. 56th St., N. ¥. GOOD LUCK GUN FOB The real western article, carried by the cowboys. It is made of fine leather, with a highly nickeled buckle. The holster con- ull directions with 15 cents by mail, by all the most famous scouts, Any boy wearing one of these fobs will at- tract attention. It will give him an air of western romance. The prettiest and most serviceable watch fob ever made, ( “one to-day. Price 20 cents each by mail postpaid. M. O'NEILL, wees as Ls Sh MO ee You Gan Get One for Six Cents! Has a picture of Fred Fearnot on one aide and Kvelyn on the other. The chief characters of — “WORK AND WIN? The Medals are beautifully fire-giit, In order that every reader of thig Weekly may secure ox to any add postage pa return mal ~NK TOUSEY, P West ®8d Street, New tains a metal gun, of the same pattern as those used © Send for
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floor, through the hat, with a solid thud, or b a vow can et by the ordinary method. ete. This trick never fails to Bectators and can be repeated as often as _. In it with this scientific toy. PUZZLE. | The head is finished tn black japan, and in the mouth is a highly pollshed steel ball. The puzzle is to pick out the ball. Price, 10¢c.; 3 for 25c. by mail, postpaid. } M. O'NEILL 425 W. 56th St, N. ¥. \ VANISHING CIGAR. This cigar is made In exact imitation of a good one. It is held by a rub- ber cord which, with the attached safety pin, ig fastened on the inside of the sleeve. When offered as it is about to be taken, it will to a friend, Anstantly disappear. Price, 100. each by mail, postpaid. 3. KENNEDY, 303 West 127th St., N. YW. PIGGY IN A COFFIN. This is a wicked pig that died at an early age, and here ~*~ he is in his coffin ready for ® burial, There will be a great # many mourners at his funeral, for this coffin, pretty as it ooks, is very tricky, and the man who gets it open will feel real grief. The coffin Is made Of metal, perfectly shaped and beautifully ‘Yecquered. The trick is to open it to see the pis. The man that tries it gets his fingers @nd feelings hurt, and piggy comes out to “@runt at his victims. The ‘ubular end of the foffin, which everyone (in trying to open) presses inward, contains a needle which stabs the victim in his thumb or finger every time. This is the latest and a very “impressive” trick. It can be opened easily by anyone in the secret, and as a neat catch-joke to save | yourself from a bore is unsurpassed. Price, 0c.; 3 for 25c., postpaid; one dozen by ex- | press, 75c. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. X. | ot MAGIC DIE BLOCK. A wonderfully de- ceptive trick! block, two inches square, is made to ap- pear and disappear at pleasure. Borrowing a hat from one ofthe | ; ; 4 i gerry Fo0 plage block on top, sliding a cardboard cove eich pa He examined) over it. At the word of command you lift the cover, the block 4s gone, and the same instant it falls to the to one of the spectator’s hands. You may a this excellont trick by passing the block through a table and on to the floor beneath, r throt into the drawer, oH pace he Paste dents astonish the esired. | Price, 35e., postpaid. J, KENNEDY, 303 West 127th St., N. X. A$ BUBBLER. : / The greatest invention of the age. The box contains a blow- ipe of neatly nameled metal, and five tablets; also printed di- rections for play- ing humerous soap-bubble games, such a Iloating Bubbles, Repeaters, Surprise Bubbles, Double \Bubbles, The Boxers, Lung Tester, Supported Bubbles, Rolling Bubbles, Smoke Bubbles, Bouncing Bubbles, and many others. Ordinary bubble- blowing, with a pipe and soap water, are not) It produces larger, more beautiful and stronger bubbles he games are intensely interesting, too. * ; Price, 12c. by mail. H. F. LANG, 215 Walworth St., B’klyn., N. ¥. ATEST GIANT TYPEWRITER. Itisstrongly “made, but simple in construction, so that any one can ; quickly learn to . 2 operate it, and mews = ene ) write as rapidly as Aaiisaeateaa, BETS TEA ET " pen and ink, The ; : aa of the 2: t tly used being so groupe a acwtive rapidly; the numerals, ‘punctuation marks being to- whey i t PICK-ME-OUT | A solid» | ne you can tia, let it bil an make at 1s, 8 THE FINGER THROUGH THE BAT. Having borrowed a hat from y your friend, push your finger through the crown of it, and it is seen to move about. Though very amusing to others, the owner of the hat does not see,the joke, but thinks it, meanness to destroy his hat; yet when it is returned it is perfectly uninjured. Price, 10c, each by mail. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. RAVELLING JOKE, Yards upon yards of laughs. Don't miss it! WHveryone falls for this one. It consists of a nice lt- tle bobbin around which is wound a spool of thread. You pin the bobbin under the lapel of your coat, and pull the end of the thread “through your button hole, then watch your friends try to pick the Piece of thread off your coat. Bnough said! Get one! Price, 12c. each, by mail, Postage stamps taken same as money. H. F, LANG, 215 Walworth St., B’klyn, N. Y. LITTLE GIANT MICROSCOPE. This powerful little instrument is made of oxidized metal. It stands on two supports made } »the exact length, to get a sharp, 1-inch focus on the object to be magnified. Thers is a high- powered lens of imported glass mounted in the circular eye-piece. It can bo used to detect impurities in liquids, for ex- amining cloths, or to magnify any object to enormous size. Can he carried in the vest pocket, Price, 6c, each, postpaid. M. O'NEILL, 425 W,. 56th St., N. Y. SLICK TRICK PENCIL. This one is a hummer! It is to all appearances an ordinary, but expensive lead pencil, with nickel trimmings. If your friend wants your pencil for a moment, hand it to him. When he at- tempts to write with it, the end Instantly turns up, and he cannot write a stroke. Price, 10c., postpaid. H. I. LANG, 215 Walworth 8t., B’klyn., N. ¥. IMITATION FLIES. _ eae | true to Nature! A i dandy scart-pin and a rattling good pjJoke. It is impossible to do these ping justice with a description. You have to seé them to understand how lifelike they are. When people see them on you they want to brush them off. They wonder “why that fly sticks to you’ so persistently. This is the most realistic novelty ever put on the market. It is a distinct ornament for anybody’s necktie, and a decided joke on those who try to chase it. Price, 10c. by mail postpaid. WCLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. THREE COIN REGISTER BANK CO). One of latest aud best novelties on the market, It adds and registers Nickels, Dimes and Quarters put through the same slot. It hoids coins to the amonnt of Ten Dollars, and then opens itself automatically. One lever action does ali the work, Other banks only hold one kind e¢f coin, ( whereas this one takes three a kinds. The threecoin bank is handsomely finished, is guaranteed mechanically perfect, operates with ease and accuracy, and does not get out of order, Price, by express, $1.00 H. F. LANG, 215 Walworth St., B’klyn, N. ¥, ? RUBBER TACKS. They come six‘in a box, A wonderful imitation of the real tack. Made of rubber. The box in which they come is the ordinary tack box. with the tacks. Place them in the palm of one hand, ‘hen Your trier Then, a then qi pens on the market. you ‘haye to do is to dip it in water, and it | will write for an indefinite period. can only be learned by procuring one, and you can make it a source of both amusement by claiming to your friends what _ it can do and then demonstrating the fact. ~ Moreover, it is 4 good pen, fit for practical use, and will never leak ink into your pocket, ag a defective fountain pen might do. = Pa NEW TEN-CENT FOUNTAIN PEN. q One of the most Vet and mystifying: t requires no ink. All The sécret Pleasure and Price, 10c. each by mail. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. SLIDE THE PENCIL, The pencil that keeps them guessing. Made of wood and. lead just like an ordinary pen- ~ eil, but when your victim starts to write with it—presto! the lead disappears. It is so con-. structed that the slightest pres- sure on the paper makes the lead slide into the wood. Very funny and a practical joke. Price, 10¢. each by mail, postpaid; $ for 25e, lutely harmless. Price by mail i ; 2 for 25e, ‘i Bey SSD . WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St.. N. ¥. fun had by this little novelty, especially in the prewar ee of ladies, Is more than can be im- agined. no other fun to be compared with it. H. ¥. LANG, 215 Walworth St., B’klyn., N. ¥, mail, postpaid. Fis WOLET NOVELTY ©0., 29 W. 26th St...N. ¥. This is a great | parlor entertainer and you | can play a lot of tricks} H. F. LANG, 215 Walworth St., B’klyn., N. ¥, + BLACK-EYE JOKE. * New and amusing joker. The victim is told to hold the tube close to his eye so as to exclude all light from the back, and ‘then to remove the tube until pictures appear in the center. In. trying 5 to locate the pictures he will .re- ceive the finest black-eye you ever saw. We furnish a small box of ~~ blackening preparation with each tube, so the joke can be used in- _ iat definitely. Those not in the trick . will be caught every time. Abso- © PIN MOUSE. Tt is made of cast metal and, has the exact color, shape and size of a live mouse. Pinned on. your or somebody elge’s clothes, — will have a startling effect upon the spectators, The screaming ~ : It a cat happens to be there, there's Price, 10e, each by mall, postpaid; 8 for 25, DUPLEX BICYCLE WHISTLE. 4 This is a double whistle, pro- __ ducing loud but very rich, har- "” ' monious sounds, entirely differs ent from ordinary whistles, : ig just the thing for bicyclists or sportsmen, its peculiar double and resonant tones at once at- tracting attention, 2 ported whistle, handsomely nickel plated, and*will be found ~ a very useful and handy pocket — companion. Price, 10c,; 8 for _ 25e.; one dozen, be.,, sent by ~——s It.is_an im-) TRICK CIGARETTE BOX, Sieg This one is a corker! Get a ; box right away, if you want to | — have @ barrel of joy. .Here's the secret: Jt looks like an ordi-— > nary red box of Turkish cigo- / rettes. But it contains a trig- —- ger, under which you place a paper cap. Offer your friend a smoke and he raises the lid of | the box. That explodes tha cap, * and if you are wise you wlll get . out of sight with the box before © he gets over thinking he was | shot. Price, 15c., postpaid, J. KENNEDY, 303 West 127th St, N.Y. ITOH POWDER. Gee whiz! ean
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HOW TO C@LLECT STAMPS AND COINS.—Centaining valuable infermation re- garding the collecting and arranging of stamps and coins. Handsomely filustrated. Ne. 56. HOW TO BECOME GENEER.—Containing full instructions how to become a lecomotive engineer; also directions: for building a model lecomotive; together _ FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, with a full description of everything an en- gineer should know. Ne. 62. HOW TO BECOME A PHOTOGRa- PHER.—Containing useful information re- garding the Camera and hew te work it; alse hew te make Photegraphic Magic Lantern Slides and other Tr: parencies. Handsomely illustrated. No. 62. HOW TO BECOME A WEST POINT MILITARY CADET.—Explains how to gain admittance, ceurse of Study, Examinations, Duties, Staff of Officers, Post Guard, Poli. Regulations, Fire Department, and all a boy sheuld know to be a cadet. By Lu Senarens. No. 68. HOW TO BECOME A NAVAL CADET.—Complete instructions of hew to gain admission te the Annapelis Naval Acad- emy. Also containing the ceurse of instrus- tien, description of grounds and buildings, histerical sketch, and everything a boy should knew te become an officer in the United States By Lu Senarens. 64. HOW TO MAKE ELECTRICAL MACHINES.—Containing full directions for making electrical machines, induction collz, dynames, and many novel toys te be werked by electricity. By R. A. R. Bennett. Fully tl- lustrated, Ne. 65. MULDOON’S JOKES.—The mest eriginal joke book ever published, and it is brimful ef wit and humer. It centains a large collection of songs, jekes, conundrums, etc., of Terrence Muldoon, the great wit, hu- merist, and practical jeker ef the day. No. 66. HOW TO DO PUZZLES.—Contain- ing ever three hundred interesting puzzles and conundrums, with key te same. A complete boek. Fully illustrated. Ne. 67. HOW TO DO ELECTRICAL TRICKS.—Containing a large cellection ef in- structive and highly amusing electrical tricks, together with illustrations. By A. Anderson. No. 68. 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HOW TO HYPNOTIZE.—Containi! , ea valuable and instructive information re empleyed by the leading hypnotists of —Containing information regarding and the é containing valuable ing the science of hypnotism. Alse ing the most approved methods whic world. By Leo Hugo Koch, A.C. No. 84. HOW TO BECOME AN AUTH mip laces, the ane a woeee he er preparing and submitting man’ no information as te ¢t neatness, legibility and general acne ton o manuscript. aye ‘a - 168 West 23d St., New