Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 378) (1912 12 27)
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LI MONEY .ar 1912, in the office of the ST 0 R [ ES ‘a F be = cs : Se PES MEE A, Price 5 Cents. BOYS WHO MAKE hk MAME jny expanding You are my me. United = Siar Seas —, = ea = ho = Ee = SESE, " Sir = ae At that m ed the officg bearing the unconscious Fred in his arms. Nellie, Bert and the bookkeeper sprang from eee their desks and rushed forward with ejaculations of consternation. :
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STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY < ~ issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Kntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1912, in the office of the Librarian of Congress Washington, D. C., Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 28d St., New York. ca Entered at the New York, N. » Post Office as Second- Class Matter. No. 378. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 27, 1912. —-— Price 5 Cents. s IN THE MONEY GAME . ‘ OR, THE LUCK OF TWO WALL ST. CHUMS Ls ; ‘ By A SELF-MADE MAN Bed CHAPTER. I. IN THE MONEY GAME. “Hello! What are you looking so glum about?” asked Fred eenor of his chum, Bert cia one Saturday noon in Wall treét. , “Nothing much. My boss dieoverak I had bought 50 shates jof D, & P. on margin a week ago, and he politely told me that |my valuable services were no longer needed in the office.” “Wired, eh?” grinned Fred. “Good and proper; but you needn’t grin about it. Some day your boss will find out that you are rede tea too, and then / you'll get it yourself.” “Shake!” said Fred, holding out his hand. “What for?” _ “Misery loves company.” ~ “What do you mean?” “I’ve just been bounced myself.” “No!” exclaimed Bert, increduously. “Yes,” said Fred, with a confirmatory nod. “What for?” “Same reason as yourself.” “Speculating?” “Pre-cisely. Somebody put him on to ans and he lost no time in giving me the razoo.” “Well, I'll be jiggered! What are you esti to do?” “T was going to ask you.the same question.” “Look for another job, I suppose.” '“Expeet to get it without a recommendation?” * “That's what’s bothering me.” “Care killed the cat. Cut it out. Look cheerful. Observe My serene countenance. We're both in the same boat—out fa job. What's the odds? We've got $500 apiece deposited » is security on our deal. We bought D. & P. at 75, It closed if o-day at 85. Balance in our favor, ten points. That eae re’ve doubled our money. We're practically worth °$1,000 ach. I’m going to cash in. I advise you to do the ‘he stock’ will be sold first thing Monday morning, then ® flush.” “But meaty feel like a fish out of water "without a job.” “lve a proposal to make to you. iter “What is it?” . “We'll combine our funds and go ‘ita the moriey_ game as 2 regular. business. We’ve done pretty well at it while work-| ng for our respected employers. We ought to do better We _ rothing | else. to. occupy | our minds. What do you say?” cp ho'll hold the money?” te; f rae eavert, financier T am ‘the goods.” Sie “Where do I come in?” “You'll be the junior partner.” “T’m as old as you.” “Granted; but I have the bean. Observe my expanding forehead. That tells the story in a nutshell. You aré my chum. That’s why I am going to let you in with me. United we'll stand; divided—you won’t be in it.” PARDON Lge roves Ane: “Not so you could notice it.” Se “You've got a nerve.” ; “That's one of my chief assets. don’t we?” “I’m willing, but I don’t want to be a silent partner. I want to have some say.”= “Of course. You can say “all you want. » “Suppose we don't agree on some business matter, will you go ahead anyhow?” “Certainly not. I won’t put up a cent of our capital with- out your consent.” | “Then I’m on.” - “Put it there, pard.” The boys ratified their agreement with a hand-shake, and from that moment they were in the money game, hit or miss. “Now let’s go up to the little bank before business is closed down and order our stock sold,” said Fred. To the little bank on Nassau street they accordingly went. They reached the bank just in time to transact their busi ness before the place closed down for the week. ? “What shall we call the firm?” asked Bert when they, came out. a “Bassett & Rowe, Speculators.” see are “Boy speculators, " y ‘ ois “Of course.’ ee “When I téll my mother I’ve lost my tig she'll go. for: m5 25 .pcalp.” : “There is no need to tell her. We'll both hand in our pay ‘every Saturday just as if we were working. If we are lucky, © g Well, do we double up or .|and make a bunch of money, then we can bucak the news at_ i ¢ | home and it will be all right.” : “JT didn’t think of that. As long as I tard in the. coin every | week she'll suppose | I’m still on the Job, paid things will go on © | smoothly.” “That's the idea, exactly. Now, what shall we do with our selves this afternoon?” aie _ They decided to go uipete first and hand | thelr pay over reer ‘their mothers, — a ‘They both lived on the ¢ ibrar for their Peau
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IN THE Fred’s mother was a dressmaker, and was doing very -well at it, though she had to work cheap, as all her customers were persons in moderate circumstances. . Bert’s mother added to the income her son turned in’ by running a small store, her stock in trade consisting of news- papers and periodicals, stationery, candy and a miscellaneous stock of a hundred other things. _ She and her son lived in three rooms behind the store, on “the ground floor of a big tenement, and were very wéll known ‘in the neighborhood, for they haa lived in the same place a » good many years. The boys had attended the same school,/ grown up. from . little chaps together, and finally got messenger positions in Wall Stteet about the same time. On Monday morning Fred and Bert met as usual and went down to Wall Street together. On this occasion they took their time, walking instead of going by a Second Avenue train, for they had lots of time. Indeed, they had ail day before them. Tt was the first day in two years, barring Sundays and _ holidays, that they felt themselves to be young gents of leisure. The sensation was unusual to them and they hardly knew how to get accustomed to it. The fact that they had agreed to go into the money prec ‘in preference to looking up positions as-messengers had litt! bearing as yet on the situation. - The idea was more of an experiment than anything eise. . The money game, as Bob called it, was the most risky ven-« ture they could have bit upon to devote their energies to. : Any. level- -headed | adviser would have told them they were a couple of fools to embark in such a thing. - +The fact that they had been so fortunate ag to accumulate oo thousand doilars apiece speculating while they attended to their legitimate duties was no sign that they would do Weiter on their own hook, or even half as well. Rather were the chanees ten to one that their capital would quickly melt away in the stock market maelstrom and, leave them at the end of a few weeks flat broke, _ Forty-nine men out of fifty, acquainted with Wall Street, ae have told them flatly to put their money in.a savings A ank and hustle for fresh jobs. ‘Had they received such advice and Reina on it this story "would not have been written. There is a tide in the affairs of boys, as well as men, whieh ‘if taken at the flood leads on to g00d luck, . These two boys simply blundered into this tide ieanucs they were unwise enough to think they ‘could do what com- " mon sense indicated they could not do. They hit it by sheer good fortune, and we hope, by. stating this fact, that no boy who reads this true narrative of Wall a Street will undertake to imitate their example. - Because a boy happens to fall off a five-story house, hits” an awning that deflects him into a cartful of sawdust, out of . which he rises smiling and unhurt, is no reason why another Bh experiencing a similar fall, should get .off so easily. Fred and Bert reached Wall Street in due course, They felt lonesome when they looked around their stamping- - grounds and saw several messenger boys out on their early - errands. They had often pictured to themselves the. délight of being their own bosses, so far as the contro! of their own move- ‘ments were concerned, but now that their time was-at their own disposal, and they could do as they pleased, somehow or a$ another the feeling of satisfaction was missing, even though they Iknew they were sach worth $1,000, or would be when their D. & P. stock had been sold that morning. the shadow of the Sub-Treasury Building, then strolled down road street, past the Stock Exchange. . Reaching Beaver street, they turned to retrace their steps. A man, rushing around the corner, dashed against them, sending Fred staggering several feet away and upsetting Bert altogether. As the man ran across the street without stopping co 3 _ apologize, Fred heard the, shout of, Dahid thief!” a : A ry ry ie A eaters as CHAPTER 1, THE PURSUIT AND CAPTURE. ‘Fred, tiaaiiee! his cue from tho shout: which. was heen veral times, ‘at : Ha Somer RL Aieen tai, darted aiter the nan in full chase. — : The. chap had s | speed, eee esi of ee and was making | They stood for a while on the corner of Nassau street, in MONEY GAME. cereale cea pales ie pot rape osprey be a al ene bec ch endeared rare A APIO The ex-messenger, however, was right in his element when it came to sprinting, and he began to gain on the fugitive. The man skirted the roped-off enclosure which had. just been placed in position for the use of. the Curb brokers, none of whom had as yet arrived, and flew down, Exchange place. ' He did not look behind, probably for fear of attracting additional attention to himself, until he reached Hanover street, when he saw he was being chased by a boy, with other pursucrs some distance behind. He put on a spurt and reached Pearl street, in which he turned, with Fred close behind him. Pearl street is rather narrow, and runs in the shape of a bow. It is lined with wholesale houses, and in the busy part of the day is not easy to make speed on, either along the side- walks or in the street. Tt was fairly busy when the fugitive dashed into it. There were trucks backed up against raised platforms where skids blocked the progress of pedestrians, and there were many wagons threading their slow progress up and down. the thoroughfare. The man took to the street and dashed between two trucks going in opposite directions. Fred lost him for the moment, but being an agile boy, ac- ecustomed to dodging people and vehicles, he slipped under the heads of a team of horses, calling down on his head a roar from the driver, who reined in, and spied the man just vanish- ing around another team in front. ~ The boy hustied ahead, full of the excitement of the chase, He hadn’t the slightest idea what the man had stolen, but the feilow’s. evident purpose of. getting away, if he could, indicated he was guilty of some crime, even if it were merely petit larceny. Indeed, the amount of the theft played. no figure in Fred’s mind. Had he seen a boy reb an apple-stand and skip with bis spoils he would have chased the thief just the same. The chase led Fred into South street, fronting on the Hast River. By that time all the other pursuers had been outetripped and thrown off the track. FA The man found it impossible to throw Ired off, no matter . how he dodged and twisted about, Finally he ran out on one of the piers. “I’ve got you now,” thought the boy. unless you jump into the river.” On the north side of the pier lay two RS loading; on the south side a triple line of canal boats, thosé nearest the wharf unloading goods from their center hatchways. ums The pier was an extra wide one, and not much crowded with — merchandise, so Mred had no trouble in keeping the fugitive in sight. ‘ Ho ran out toward the end of the dock, and Fred thought vies he was going there, though he could not. see what good it was.’ | going to do him, but when half the distance out he suddenly °— sprang on board one of the canal boats that was idle, and from that to the next beyond, and then to the third, which Jay on the outer line. He could go no further for the river lapped the side of the boat, and a wide space lay between him and the next dock. - “Oh, that’s your game, is it?” muttered Fred. “I don’t think you will escape me, for I have you cut off from the dock.” ’ The Wall Street boy had also taken to the canal boats, — and by the time the fugitive reached the end of his tether in that direction Fred was.on the middle boat. < He wag taking his— time now, to recover his breath, and because there was no further need of rush. The man had stopped, because he was blown, too, and Bete stood watching the boy with a wary eye. na It was quite possible for him to resume his flight by run- a ning along the deck of the boat, to the bows, and stepping on the stern of the one ahead, and so on till he had covered the four canal boats that made up the outer line, there Relag. : twelve altogether in the bunch. ed Bob looked to see him do that, and that was another rear eR gon why he slowed down, for-hé intended to follow the man by keeping to the middl¢ boats, thus always being between, the fugitive and the pier. The man, however, made no attempt to follow that Plan. Probably, he saw that the boy practically had him. cornered. se He looked around the boat he was on, walked to the stern, ny Lah, and then disappeared around the deckhouse or cabin. ‘s By doing this the fellow put the cabin between ‘him, ; = ed, just as one might put a table in a room, becweey him ing to ae him, ; “xou can't escape ;
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IN THE MONEY GAME. es ne ct a lane 3 If Fred chased him around the house the man would thenjstiddenly, dashed toward the stern and leaped for the tug- ed be able to make a dash back for the pier. oe the boy didn’t PoHOyy him the fellow could stay where’ he aS. tie could dodge eithes way, and to that extent had the ad- vantage of the situation. aaa bit his lips with vexation when he saw how the case stood, He remained at the side of the middle boat and waited to see what the man would do next. The man apparently did nothing but keep out of sight. Hie put it up to his pursuer to make the first move. Thus matters were at a deadlock between them, ? If the mah chuckled from his point of temporary’ vantage, certain it is Vred did not follow suit. “Thus: ive iminutes passed away. Fred loexed wp and down the string of canal boats; but not & man was in sight. Several women were in evidence, either hanging out clothes ar attending to other domestic labor connected with their end of the boat. There was nobody at. oll in sight on the boat Fred was on, nor on the beat where the fugitive had taken refuge, Fred wes thinking about advancing to the cabin and pound ing on it to attract the attention of anybody whe might be inside when suddenly the man appeared on top of the deck- house. ‘ae a ca mas Sa He walked to the edge nearest the boy, iced down at him and said, with a grin: “What are you following me for?” “Just to get the kinks out of my legs,” replied Fred “Well, you'd better sheer off. I don't know you, and J don’t want you hanging at my heels, understand?” '. He stopped grinning and looked a bit ugly. ' “Why did you run into and “upset me and my friend at the corner of Beaver and Bread strects?” “Have you been following mo on account of that?” “No, Ive been following you because you've stolen some- thing,” ” Get out, you're dreaming!” “Maybe I am, but 1 dare you to Babog: back to Broad street with me.” “What will I do that for?” “To show that you’re not afraid to face the music,” “TI don’t know what you're talking about.” “What did you try to keep out of my way for when you saw if was after you? Why didn’t you stop and ask me what I was after? Why are you keeping away from me now?” said Fred. “What do you want with mie, anyway?” “I want you to go back to Broad street.” “You've got a nerve. I came down here on business.” “I know. Your business was to try and throw me off your track, but, you see, it didn’t work.” ag want You to get away from here or there’ Il be trouble.” “Do you own this canal boat?” asked Fred, sarcastically. “Are you going about your business?” ad “Yes,” “Then go.” “Tm going about it now. ready to leave with me.” “One would think you were a cop,” sneered the man. | “Tf I was i'd climb up there and get you.” “Why don't you climb up, anyway, and see if you can get me? here's a short ladder against the house, I came up that way.” “And while T was getting up you'd jump down on this side and leave: mine in the lurch. I didn’ t cut my eye-tecth yeater- I shall toned qhenevax you get ” day.” “Who are you,- anyway, and what interest heve you in catching me?” “Come dewn and I'll ave you the whole of my family his- tory as we walk back.” © _“Do. you see any green in my eye?” jeered the man. “Not at this distance, but I know you have a yellow streak,” “Tye a great mind to come. down and kick you into the . rlyer.” + “Come on’ ‘and see if you ean do it.” “At that moment a tug came puffing up and was in the act of passing the stern of the canal boat when the man’ s atten- tion was attracted’ to it. — ‘ | In & moment he had formed a eesiation: ; i ue “et coming ‘down,” he said to Fred, with a shifty grin. ‘ Pegs just as well, for somebody will be along here é gently who will help you down,” returned the poy. The ye Sere rage ‘down sracrres pedal ot! peat, Laieca ssiones j Tia TRAE OE LE. GRE EF UR AE ROE IR it VBE SES ORI ei ERED EIST SOR AEN Eat OME TTL EIN OME ARS a DN Lee MER ER ME Pe CE Rate ca LS eas ree Lite OO NCEA MAG SEEN OIE boat, : He had caleulated’the distance nicely and he landed on all fours in the stern of the boat. Fred rushed to the stern of the midd@ie boat and looked over — oe the few feet of water. The fugitive was picking himself up.” He turned to the boy with a malicious grin. “Did you ever get left?” Just then the tug stopped, and the action of the tide awUnS: her stern toward the canal boat. } Fred saw his chance. He ran back seyeral yards, turned, darted toward the stern again, took a flying leap and landed plumb against the as- tonished rascal; both going down in a heap on the cous of the tug, Fred on top. remark. “At any rate, not this time.” CHAPTER IIT. FRED GETS A SMALL REWARD,, Naturally a struggle took place between the two, but Fred Was as strong as a small ox and as active as a monkey, and , managed to hold his advantage. «Then two deck-hands, who had seen the whole of | the affair, ¢ fae manded to know what had brought them a ard in that un- ceremonious way. ; “This raseal led the way to escape me, ana’ fehawss to a block him,” said Fred, go hae “What has he done?” asked one of the nien. “T haven’t done anything,” replied the man. imp has been following me around annoying 1 ‘me. I got, tired of his nonsense and tried to escape him, . “Aren't you man enough to stand that Bey: off?” said ‘the deck-hand, “It doesn't look as if he was,” laughed Fred. nim,” Fred allowed the fugitive to esi but at once seized him by : his coat-sleeve. “Hie’s wanted somewhere in the financial district for theft,” said Fred. bia .“That’s a lie!” roared the man, hotly. ““Tf it is I’ apologize and make’ it ali right with you, ‘bat when a chap is running away from one or more people. shout- ing ‘Step thief!’ it looks suspicious.” “Was he running away from people shouting ‘Stop thier?” asked the deck-hand. “He certainly was. I took up the chase and followed him down to those canal boats, where he managed to stand me off. Now that l've got him I intend to call in 2 policeman to arbitrate the case,” said Fred.” proceedings. The case was explained to him. “Well, you two will have to go ashore at the dock. You’! have to settle the matter between you, It’s none of my bpsi- ness, and I don’t want you aboard.” “All right, captain,” said Fred. land us.” The tug was worked in against the spiles. Fred clambered up, but the man held back. ~ “Get ashore!” bellowed the captain. “Carry me up to the next pier, won't you?” asked thie. man, 3 “Get ashore, I tell you.” As the man made no move to obey, the: ‘captain ordered ais men to pitch him on the pier. He was fired up, bodily, which gave Fred a fine chance to fasten on him. While the fellow lay floundering on the boards, Fred strad- : dled his back, drew his arms together and tee them itt Rigns3 bandkerchief. Pee) Now you'll go to a police station under suspicion,” said Fred. The man got up, but refused to budge from the spot. — A couple of longshoremen came over to see What the tounte was about. Fred put his difficulty up to ene: They didn’t want to interfere, but bald. they raid go. far as the street and look for the policeman on that post. — ‘Half-way up the dock they met the day watchman, told } “No, 1 never did,” he said, in reply to the man’s jecring Dy from the time the man made his leap, came © up. and de- ee “This young “Let him up, young fellow, and tell us what you want vith na At this point the captain of the tug took a band e the 3 “Pull up to the dak and uy “Now get up, If you were not guilty of some foedtaak act ons you wouldn’t have run away and given me all this trouble, —
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4 IN Merk they had learned from Fred, and he came down to inves- igate, - = re oases Fred’s side of the question and the man’s general enial. “If you haven't done anything wrong, why don’t you go with the boy?” said the watchman. “Why should I? -It will be out of my way to go where he wants me to. The whole thing is an outrage, and I demand ‘that you release my arms. i’m not going through the streets this way.’ “Come. up to the head of the dock and I'll see what can be done for you.” The watchman started off and Fred told the man to get a move on him, . He refused, however, and delibérately sat down on a string- meteee.*-\* “All right,” said the boy. ean. The watchman went to the little house at the entrance to the pier and telephoned the nearest station-house for a police- _ man. af . In due time one arrived and the watchman told him about _ the case and then sent him down to the other end of the pier to interview the parties himself. The alleged thief saw the officer coming and, turning to Fred, said: 4 “ook here, young fellow, what'll you take to call this Fis thing off?” Me “Pm not taking bribes,” replied Fred. “If you're not guilty of anything wrong you needn't be afraid of facing the ‘music, You could have settled the matter an hour ago as well as now—in fact much better, for by offering the resistance you have you have made me certain of your guilt.” “Won't you take $10 and let me go?” “Ne, I wouldn’t take $100.” “You'll regret it,” said the man, darkly. “Maybe I will, but £ doubt it.” Winding he could do nothing with the boy he ty ees silence. -in a few minttes the policeman came up to them. I'ved told his story to the officer. “What have you to say?” the policeman asked the man. - “Nothing, except it’s all a mistake on this boy's part.” > “I’m ready to go to the station-house, officer, and back ‘ep my charge against this man. If he can prove he is innocent ‘I am willing to stand the consequences,” said Fred. The officer thought that was fair enough, So he told the prisoner he’d have to go along, whether he liked it or not. _ He released the fellow’s arms and the three marched to the station. It happened that the desk sergeants of all the Aaestaed station-houses had received word that a man, whose: descrip- - tion was given, had stolen a package of bills, amounting to $1,000, from an office on New strect, an hour and a half | before, and detectives were out looking for the guilty party. v When Fred toid his amy, the sergeant guestioned the man pretty closely. Feeling satisfied he was the party wanted, he ordered the chap to be locked up, and telephoned th, arrest of a suspect to the office that had been robbed, dante that somebody’ be | sent to the station-house to identify the man. Fred left his. address and then went up to the littie bank, here he found Bert watching the blackboard and waiting Ais him to turn up, — “T can wait here as long as you relapsed dito S 4, “Where have you been all this time?” Bert asked. - “You know I started after the fellow that upset you.” “Yes. I followed, too, as soon as I got up, but when I THE MONEY tun after your trade.” me ; and the rest of the bunch reached Pearl street you and the man were not in sight. How far did you follow him?” Fred told him all that happened. “So you cornered the man and got him taken to the sta- ou and locked up?” ; Yes. ee the police find anything on him when they pa i inhi diag os arg couldn’t tell you. .He was searched in another room.” “Well, Iet’s go to lunch.” pas ‘They started for their favorite quick-lunch house together. Hie). 6h See,Dy & P. is up to 863-8.” ; _ “Yes. It has held its own and advanced nearly a point and rs a. half since the Be igen y opened. a we ‘d- held on we'd me made $75 more,’ “I think it’s bad policy to hold Ried for the last dollar, as so “many of the lambs do. We've doubled our money, and we juek to feel satisfled, tos its a a ae ing extra. chances. 1 GAME. “Tm not kicking,” said, Bert. The boys returned to the little bank and spent se after- noon there. The evening papers had the story of the theft, me the ar- rest of the man,on whose person the package of money had been found, Fred’s name was printed, and he received the credit for the capture of the man. Next morning a letter was left for him at his home. Tt was from the firm that had been robbed, thanking him for his services in the matter and inclosing him a check to his order for $100. “That's pretty good pay for a couple of hours’ time,” he thought. “I wouldn’t mind gathering that much in every day. I’d soon be well off.” j He endorsed the check and presented it te his mother, after telling her how he had come by it. “That will be a gréat help to me, Fred,” she said, “though at present I’m doing very well at my business, but many of my customers are poor, and I have to wait some time for my money, and ‘from others I have to take it in instalments, << i’ which isn’t like receiving it all at once when the work is done. I have a great many debts on my books, though I believe the money in most cases is good.” “IT suppose you have to trust people in this neighborhoed - or you would get but few customers,” replied Fred. ff “That is true. .Everybody seems to buy things: on the in-, stalment plan where they can get them that way. “It's an expensive way, for the dealers charge at least ten per cent. more on running accounts.” “Yes, but poor people never would have anything if they a had to pay cash down fer it.” ‘ng “I know, because they wouldn’t.savye and put the ‘money | aide in advance and thus save the added ten per cent, They © can always manage to scrape their weekly payments together, unless they fall into unexpected hard luck, because they know if they default the dealer can come down on them and take the goods away, no matter if they have paid nearly all. that is owing on their contract. I tell you, mother, cash talks »— every time. When you have the money in your pocket to pay ©. down you can always: get the lowest price, and Sealers will’ When Fred met Bert a little later he told him Avot the =4 check, “You're lucky,” said his chum. “It would have taken you three months to earn. that much if you had remained old Butler’s messenger.’ “T guess it would, That is where the loss of my gente has put me ahead.” ‘ ye “I wish some one would throw $100 in my way.” ae “I gave the money to my mother.” Be Pe “What, the whole of it?” : = Palthe "Yes. She needs it in her business.”’ ” “IT thought she was making a good thing out of the , dress: "5 making. me . _“She’s doing very well, but she has to trust most of her customers and take her pay as they can afford to give it. I generally go on a collecting tour every. two wecks to stir up some of the tardy ones. If my mother | could get in all that’s — y owing to her at this moment she’d have ante a tence of the long green.’ ; “Does she have many bad debts?” * “Not many. When one of her customers moves ‘away tT have. ‘é to look them up and frequently dun them for weeks to get the money out of them. You have heard people say that it’s cheaper to move than pay rent. They mean debits. A whole lot of people move in order to get out of paying the accounts that have accumulated against them. Storekeepers have been bitten so often that they have become wary who thy trust ve, these days. Tenement people, who have so little personal property that they can move at very short notice, find it diffi- cult now to run up a bill. A smooth talker, who can throw a good bluff, has the best chance. as ‘By that time the boys had reached the little bank and they went in ¢ and got front seats, as only a small portion of the — regular habitues: had as yet arrived. we : CHAPTER IV. ise THE BEGINNING OF THEIR LUCK, “After the Exchange opened and the quotations began com- ing in there was a noticeable sagging in D. & P. - cod “You see,” said Fred, ‘we didn’t get.out any too quickly. We might have made $100 more each, but it would have been t The stock is pie BOW, and isis
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We Tush to sell out which will knock it down still further. We are out of it and don’t have to worry about where the price goes,” “This is kind of slow. Bert. “Go on. I'll meet you at lunch at twelve-thirty.”’ So Bert left his chum in the little bank and started down Broad street. He went in at the messengers’ entrance of the Exchange be- cause he was acctistomed to go in that way a dozen times a day, and he felt at home there. He meét two or three chaps he knew well, and they sup- posed he was still working for Broker Crane. He did not tell them that he was-a lad of Jeisure. . Coming out on the street again he walked over to the Curb Exchange and hung around there a while. He was interested for a while and then he got. tired and wondered where he would go next. He saw a friend of his enter one of the office buildings and he chased after him to exchange a few words, but he lost the boy in the crowd going in and out. He jumped into an elevator from force of habit and went up with it. . When. it stopped at the fourth’ floor to let a couple of men ‘out he got out, too, and made a bluff that he was on an errand. He went.into the office of Jackson & Small,-and asked for Jackson, He knew the broker wasn’t in, for he had seen him over at » the Exchange. One of the clerks told him the senior partner was out. “You can leave your messager with me,” he said. “Got to see Mr. Jackson personally,” said Bert, as the only way he couldsget out of it. ° “Sit dow n and wait, then. '? moment,’ », Bert-sat down long enough for the clerk to retire to the countine-room and then started for the door. AS he stepped out into the corridor the door of the, firm’s ‘private room opened -and- Small let out an important cus- tomer of the firm, “Lose no time in getting onto the job, Small,” visitor. “Take in every share of L. & OQ, until you get orders ‘to stop, and have them delivered C- 0. D. at the Taylor | Bank. ; ieaaiaie “We'll attend to your orders at once,” said. Small, wishing | the caller good-by and shutting the door as the gentleman Walked away. Bert was satisfied he had got hold of a tip, and as it was close to hali-past twelve he made a, bee-line for the quick: Tunch house he and his chum patronized. Every seat was taken and a bunch of people were. standing. te looked around to see if Fred was waiting for him, but couldn't make him out, so he tool up his: position near the door to wait himself. Five minutes later Fred appeared and Bert ‘caught him by the arm. “ull house, i see,” said Fred. aks “What else do you expect at this hour?” ’ “There's a couple of chairs just vacated *at the counter. ae on before somebody else freezes on to them.” They ordered stew, coffee and pie. “Where have you been?” askd Fred. * “Several places s—the Hancock Building last.” ‘What took you in there?) eee Ts ane ‘sey age x ; , : fk mieleed” up a" “good tip iain: sd ens “What wus it?” By “VN telr you when we get outside.” Ten: minutes” afterward they were on the street and Bert ‘was informing’ his chum about the pointer on L. & QO, | “Looks like a good thing, red. U’mrin favor of ‘getting in’ : “on. ait for our first. deal,” said Bette, fo . “Dagree with you. As soon as we collect what is coming to us I'll buy 200 L. & O. We ought to double our capital,” ; paid ‘Fred. - ‘That’ will be great. As good as two years and a half wages | as messengers for each of us. JI guess ae made no ae cae in getting into the money, game.” “We can tell. better by our senent average of results than b a single fortunate decal.” When they went home thie atterndon they were ia ‘on & 0: which they had bought at 60. I'm going out to shake a leg,” said He is liable ‘to be in any a IN THE MONEY GAME. (SMES ED De BE 2 SP Ee Es SE said, the | [Soe i tically describe it in your advertisement, there is nothing fore jit. on his desk, graph messenger boys, rushing ina boisterous way out of the; American Tract Society Building, pushed Bert into the gutter. He went down in a sitting posture, while the boys gave him the Jaigh and ran off down the street, punching at each other. As Bert, who was a bit mad’over the incident, started to get - up he saw something sparkling against the curbstone. He picked it up and looked at it curiously. AIS “What have you. got there?” asked Fred. aes. “T should say it’s a watch-charm, covered with real or imi- — tation diamonds,” replied his chum.- “They seem to be real ones to me,” acid Fred, examining it. “I should say that yeu’ve found a prize package.” “Then I’m willing to forgive those chaps for their rough-— house. business. Letous go to some jeweler and have nit, estimate the value of this charm.” Fred was willing to accompany him, so they turned anes. as far as John street and entered one of the establisitments ” ined Ve im on that street. The clerk who came forward looked the charm over ands asked Bert if it was his property. “I found it on the street and I want to get a line on what E it is worth,” replied the boy. The clerk took it to the back of the store and showed it. to another man, When he’ came back he said the charm was worth fully $300 at retail. “You had better watch the newspapers and see if ifs advor- tised for, In that way you may be able to restoré it to the Tae owner; who will doubtless be willing to pay a handsome re--— ward to get it back,” he said. “Where did yow find it?” ~ Bert declined,to say where he had picked it up. | “J’ll watch the papers, as you have suggested, and if noth . ing comes of that I will advertise yA fad *T would,” said the clerk.” “The — for, that.” : : The boys walked déut of the store. ; “You should not have told him you were going ky said” Pred. ~ “Why snot?” : “He has a full deseripiion of it now, and he could get a friend to watch for your advertisement in the paper he sug- sted, auswer the advertisement and claim the charm, Hie © ~ would be able to furnish a pretty accurate description of the charm and get possession of it for a reward of $25 or $50. ae, fact, he would not be bound to pay you. any reward. ; owner of a lost article has the undisputed right to remain om it if hescan prove, with reasonable accuracy, that the property co is his. People make a business of answering all advertise-. ments © -of found property on the. ehance of buncoing the finder,” said Fred, “Flow ‘could a person not the owner describe this charm?” asked Fred. % “Fie’'d make a guess at it; would probably not come. within a. mile, and you would tell.him the property was not. agree that it wasn’t, then, and would try to talk” “into showing it to him. ‘Then he'd thank you and go away. Next 2 day you'd get a reply irom a confederate who, provided with — the description supplied to him by the first akon would oe a valuable one, is the pest paper ” 1 ~~ , to. advertive®: ; people who try to live by their wits instead of deine 2 an honest day’s work.” 5 “T guess l’d better not advertise this charm, then.” “You could advertise it, but you should make sure ‘tha the claimant who described: it correctly was a responsible _ person, or had responsible connections who would guarantee them, i should advise you to watch the pagers for a days before you think of a Noor it.” & “That's what I inteng to do,” Nassau street again. On the following morning the charm, was’ advertised ‘ees and $190 reward was offered for its return by a tenant of the American Tract Society Building. ! , The boys called there on their way downtown, bultine. tleman, whose name was Brown, had not yet reached sa offi 80 they waited. ‘ f Hiescame in “inside of half an hotr, and Bert =) sho Sai into his private room, i “My name is Bert Rowe. tisement. T came in reply to your. adva 2 I found the locket which you lost. As you pra nie ‘me to do but hand it over to sa Here it is,” and Bert “I am. atauch bakes to you den bringing it back. ;
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y ; ee you a check for the amount of the reward,” said Mr. Town This he did at ‘once, and Bert’ departed’ $100 richer. - “You have nothing on me now, Fred,” he said. ‘This check balances the one you got for capturing the crook, ll follow your example and give the money to my mother. She needs it,.and it will give her quite a lift.” They. walked down Nassau street and went into the little nk. Nothing happened of any importance that day and they went home at four. On Friday, L. & O. went up half.a peint, and another half a point on the following day. During the following week the stock gradually advanced to 70. “We made rio mistake getting in on this,” said Bert. . © “Apparently not, but we can’t expect to have such luck right » along. ‘Tips that are winners are not flying around: the Street. You caught this ono by a lucky accident. We must ‘make all we can out of it,” said Fred. . On Monday the stock, advanced three points more and on ‘Tuesday it jumped five. Its phenomenal rme made it the feature of the Exchange and there | -was great excitement over it. - The brokers bought and sold it themselves on two or three point margins of profit. Bew ot therm would take chances: of holding it véryMong at its advanced price, for everybody knew it was inflated, above its real worth. gi ‘ _ The price was liable to go to pieces at any moment. ; ey, Ou Wednesday, when it was up to about $1, Bert was. stand- * qug near the: Exchange: and ov erheard a bunch of traders talk- ing about it. “They said that a rot of people were going to burn their ‘fingers with it. “T expect to see the stock go to smash any minute now,” said one of them. “I am surprised it has held up so long. I doubt oy the insiders are holding om for a higher figure. The inter- ‘ests back of it have probably already soid out and the mo- ; ment a raid is made on the stock it will be good-night.” ; Bert hurried back to the little bank where he had left Fred, ana told him what he had heard about L. & O. “{ think we had better,sell, don’t-you?” he said. “I sold out ten minutes ago,” replied Fred. “Good! We're safe, then?” “Yes, I guess we. are by this time. ‘We'll clear $4,000. That's a whoie lot better than. working for Butler and Crane.” “Bet your life it is,” said Bert, in a jubilant tone. ed CHAPTER V. : THE MIDNIGHT BURGDARS. ay & O. didn’t go to pieces so soon as the knowing ones ex- "ipeutea it would. ’ On the contrary, it went up to $3 that day, and ithe: Ex- - change went howling mad over it. Bert, as he and Fred noted the closing quotation that day. “That’s true enough, but I think we took pretty desperate chances holding on as long as we did. It isn’t often a stock, ‘and particularly such a stock as L. & 0., goes up 23 points. It must have tremendous backing. It’s: had the Exchange by : ears for more than a week, and the outside speculators } ‘have gone dopey over it. It might drop without a crash. Just low enough to keep up the interest in it,and the market from eing disturbed,” sald Fred. We ought to get our money now.” -"Tt's ready for us, I guess. I’m ae to take a certificate if: deposit instead of the cash. It's much safer to carry around.. By and by we can rent a safe-deposit box and put ‘our money'in it. No need of rush about that. Luck might go against us and we awake have enough cash left to’ put box.” cul to the i nae and asked for his statement, for the. -chufis did business in his name, and he got it. ~“Tt's all right,” he said, looking it over. \ “tificate of deposit for the amount.” | ~ He got, it and they went home. e hat eae the two chums treated cane to the “Give me a cer- They took i a show at one of the uptown Broadway houses. After the performance they went to 4 restaurant an icare light supper, after which they started for home, : They walked eastward along one of the’ side. streets: to aa a hac avenue a downtown. ; “If we'd have held on we'd haye made $400 tnéie,” said IN. THE MONEY GAME. | TE ies eR Be aa he pa ac ea ea I eet pe ae TSS LIE OAT ft I nh PRN LEN Rs AE ISO Soh EE SN SA PE NE BREE aN SYS ISAS SONS. AOR _ chums ne in walt cai Speleideeesneemmnansasneeei Tl The street was lined on both sides with tall brownstane fronts, inhabited by the better class of people, and was silent and deserted at that hour save for occasional pedestrians, like themselves, who were out late. t was after twelve, an hour when good people are generally in bed enjoying their first sieep, You wouldn't think it was late around Times ere and the theater district. There life seemed te be at its flood. That neighborhood was all ablaze with electric lights, the sidewaiks full of people of both sexes walking toward the four cardinal and many minor points of the compass, while street-cars and taxicabs made the streets sonorous with sound and as full of action as the busiest hour of broad day. ~ The Great White Way is always at its best and brightest around midnight, that is why the live New Yorker gets home- sick away trem good old Manhattan Island, The two chums left all this behind them when they started for the Mast Side elevated. They. were not sufficiently interested ini the gay light life in New York to hang around the maelstrom of gilded pleasure, They were in the middle of a block between Sixth and Fifth avenues when a third-story window was suddenly thrown up and the startling cry of, *Help--murder!” echoed on the ; silent night air. They came to a step in front of the house. “What's the trouble?” Fred shouted back. “Thieves in’ the honse.. Run for the police!” cited woman, who appeared to be 2 servant, Hardly were the words out of her mouth before she wal suddenly pulled back out of sight and the window was slammed down to the accompaniment of a muffled shrick. — Where to find a policeman in time to head off the thieves, if thieves there really were in the house, was a problem to the. ee boys. It was a long block, and even if they separated’and atakted for each corner the crooks would have plenty of time to make: their escape, “What shall we do?” asked Bert. cop?” “I wonder how the rascals got in?” said Fred. and try the front door. I'll try the area gate.” The area windows were protected by iron bars waich- showed no signs. of having been tampered with. The lock of the gate opening on the space under the Btaop cried the ex: : < “Where will we find a ys “Run up P ti had been picked and stood slightly ajar. That was evidence that burglars’ had entered the house Fred pushed the gate open and tried the door. It yielded td his touch for the key had been reached ané th bolt withdrawn by means of the cust tomary method of poring circular holes near the lock and then sawing out a round hole © large enough to enable the operator to insert his arm so-that— he could reach the key ‘and bolt. Fred stepped out in the area and called to his chum. “The front door is locked,” said Bert. “Come down here,” said Fred. Bert hastened to join him, — +i “Here is where they entered. I am assuming there was more than one in the job,” said Bert. “I am going into the house. You must come with me.” , f “What are we to do, try to capture them? Seems to me we shall be taking considerable risk, for it’s likely those * aad are armed while we haven’t even a toothpick, ‘3 paid Bert. “We must try and block their escape some way. “We ought to find something in the kitchen that will answer fo weapon.’ ; Judging that the basement hall would, take them to kitchen, they followed it back, and @ door admitted them the cooking. quarters. - Fred lighted the gas and they soon found a rolling-pin and a potutomasher, either ef which was a formidable weapon — at close quarters when wielded by a determined arm. « They then took their way wp the basement’ stairs to the — parlor tloor; walking as softly as they could, be They heard the voice ai a ore on the floor above telling his companion to shoulder his bag and ere on, ; { “They're coming down,” said Bert. i eae “Let them-come. They won’t see us in the gloom if wo _ crouch near the floor,” said Fred. “I'll take the chap ‘in. ad: vance snd you tackle the other. The only effective way is to crack them on the head, and you want to ae certain of - the blow so as not to ‘give then ye chance’ Sit a ‘re- volyer on ts.” 3 The men were pw ‘coming down ag stars one the two. alt Lai ees, a ;
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eee, _TN THE, MOREY Gann, ; 7 “Bach of the fellows had a fat bag cf ee oa with him. “the house when the rascals surprised her. : ishguted for help and told us there were thieves in the house ie ' She was overjoyed to hear that the scoundrels had. been ithe uncertainty of finding a policeman induced us to. enter : | prevented from carrying oif her master’s property, and that! your house, when we discovered that the area door was open, _ the police would seon arrive to take paTES. of them. é and maké an effort to. block the rascals’ eseape. It teok a Leaving her. to dress ner Fred returned to the hall' little nerve and some judgment, tor we believed the men bene were armed, and this proved to be the case,” “TY guess. Vd better, open the outside door end wateh for the} “Well, the rascals would have got away with several thot whe he ‘he said to Bert. i gand dollars’ worth of valuable property, including all ot : his he did acd presently up the street came vhase officers. the personal jewelry of my wife and daughter. You have,” patrol wagon. uy ‘therefore, placed me. under’ great obligations to you, and £ a called to them. and ihey stopped at the’ hou assure you I won't let ait Aarti ny eroguized:: , Where are. you. ce is oo. three. officers were soon in, the house | coking at the | employed?” : a rascals. and ssumage’ to the facts ai é et » the: “We are not employed a present. We have been brokers? be < ; -/ messengers: until about a month ago when.we each Sikes Paceramens ith ur aes and bot
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IN THE MONEY GAME. s “Then you have been working in Wall Street.” ; Mrs. pint and the two girls also sent additional presents “Yes, sir; for about two years, J was in George Butler’s to express their gratitude to the two chums for saving their office, and my friend was in Thomas Crane’s.’ diamonds and othen property. “You have: found some difficulty in getting employment, So the boys congratulated themselves on the results of their \~Thave you?” ‘hight adventure, but for all that they were not through sate “We hayen’t looked for another position, either of us. We. the affair. ee done a whole lot better speculating on our own ae think you could do better than that. Speculating in the Sane rise and fail of stocks is merely gambling in futures. It is | ‘ CHAPTER VII. an extremely precarious way to risk one’s money. And you | i THE TIP THAT FRED FOUND. boys are taking an added risk by patronizing a bucketshop,' A couple of weeks passed and the boys did nothing more as 1 presume you do.” strenuous. than. watch the blackbeard in the receptian-room “We patronize the little bank on Nassau stret, and though of the littie bank, or stroll around the Wall Street district to it has the reputation cf being a bucketshop, because one can stretch their legs, | _ - purchase as low as five shares of any stock on margin, it is Then Fred noticed that M. & Nv was going up slowly but - doing a bona-fide business—the bank really buys and holds, steadily. - the shares for its patrons, thereby, in my opinion, taking it “I think it wouldn’t be a ae idea to i say 6§00 shares out of the category of bucketshops. 1 know the brokers haye | of it,” he said to Bert. “Hven if we gold on a point and a halt ' given it a black cye because the bank practically encourages or two-point advance we'd make something, ‘and everything . boys and chcap clerks,to speculate. In that respect it is a} counts. A profit of $1 a share would be $600. That doesn’t - buecketshop. We have made good maney there, and are satis-| look as big to us now as it did when we were working for * fied to make it our headquarters for the present,” said Fred.) Butler and VEBES, but it’s a lot of money, just the’ same, to ~; "Well, I won't criticize your methods,.whether I approve of ;make in a few days.” them or not. I am a Wall Street broker. Here is my card. | “Whatever you say suits me,” said Bert. “L-shall be glad to see both of you at my office, and if I can} “All right. Come over to the window, fereafter I’m going be of any service to you you can depend on me to help -you,” | to make all deals in both our names so you can act in ¢ase said the gentleman. hm not around, We are equal partners, and you here as-" PEae: that monient the two burglars were brought before the} much right to close a deal as I have; if, in your judgment, you j é aie piced. | think it best to do so,” “i r They. ‘were represented by a cheap dasaers who proceeded} “f don’t know whether my judgment is as good as rains 1 ee to brow-beat the servant when she went on the stand. * | said Bert. 7 “swore the prisoners were the two men who had entered} “Whether it is or not I want the bank to recognize you as sy oom, dragged her away from, the bee sh and gagged and) My par ‘ther, Occasions are likely to arise when quick action ound. her. 9 becomes necessary to close a deal to our advantage, or to save ” The lawyer tried his best to make’ her: acmit that she was:us from loss. If I am not. on hand it will be your pac to” not sure that the accused were the men in question, but did | step into the breach and act. You can't do this wuless the =~ = hot succeed. j bank understands that you. are authorized to close out a deal : Then Fred took the witness-chair and told his story. ij made by me. See the point?” ip . “What induced*you to enter the house?” asked the lawyer.! Bert understood, and the two chums went to the window Z “The woman's cry for help, and her statement that there | together. : cys “were thieves in the place,” replicd the Wall Street boy. “This is ty speculative partner,” said Fred to the clerk — “Why.didn’t you go for the pelice?” “We are going to make our deals jointly hereafter, because is “You needn't answer that question, ” said the magistrate. each of us are equally interested in it froma financial point ~~ + Your Honer: » protested the Jawyer. of view. I want it understood that either of us has the right — Confine yourself to your cas¢,” retorted the judge. to close out the deals either of us make. Now, we are going ee “The lawyer endeavored to shake Fred’s identification of the! to buy 600 shares of M. & N. at the market, “Te Rowe should i By oners, but without avail. order it sold I want you to séll it” Bert swore! to the men’s identity, and that he had seen them “That’s all right. You will both sien the buying ope and. -pringing the bags of plunder downstairs. I will make a note to the effect that whichever oné of you The three officers who carried the rascals away in the; presents the memorandum and tees the selling order will “wagon ‘identified them positively. be recognized,” said the clerk. — zal} e contents of the bags were displayed and Mr. Davis, That was satisfactory and the deal was made—600 M. & Nu, pits ‘bis. mite and daughters testified that it was their property.| at 85. of he result was the two men were remanded back to the “The deposit was $6,000, which Fred paid over, fk “Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. Two days later, while seated by himself in the a vank, -. Mr. Davis introduced the boys to his wife and daughters, | Bert saw M. & N. drop an eighth. Hg and then went with them to Wall Street. , It was then going at 87 3-8. ’ During the ride Fred told the broker that he and his chum He went to the window and ordercd t 4 stock sold, which “were no one-horse boy speculators. gave the firm a profit of $1,200. 6 “Our last operation was 500 shares of L. & O., which we}, ‘Fred, at the time, was talking to Broker Davis it i office. old short a couple of days ago, before the slump we counted] He was telling him that they had gone in on 6 mn. This morning we covered the deal at a profit of $7,500.| and that the price had since then gone up’ two polr 1at’s the way we are doing business,” said Fred. half, His statement quite took the broker’s breath away, for| “I think waa better sell,” said the broken.” d ne up” 6 had. supposed the boys were-dealing in five and ten share | seven points in the last ten days, and the market 1 joks tome | 's on. a very limited capital. as if it was on the turn.” ae ieee He had nothing more to say against the plan of operations, He picked up the tape of his private ticker ity footed at ethcesk he advised them to be extremely cautious in the busi- “M. & N. is dropping,”’he said. “In the last three transae-~ ss they had taken up, for the money game often sent the tions it has fallen off three-eighths. You'd better ‘sell it ae st experienced speculators to the wall, even though they once.” Ay ( considerable capital at their command. “My partner has the memorandum and I guess he Enows — “Always keep an anchor to the windward,” he said, “In| enough to get out from under when he sees things toppling,” a | other ‘words, do not embark recklessly in a deal. The best- said Fred. : laid plans and the finest prospects often go wrong. Be sure| However, he deemed it wise to’ run up ie the little bank to” ep enough of your capital back to make good a call} see if Bert had sold the stock. ~ : onal margin in case of an unexpected fall in the| When.he got there M. & O. had lost. a Dont. F 2 Pas ; e ‘of your stock. In that way you are likely to avoid] “How about the deal?” he. asked chee if “being wiped out, and are in a position to Secure all the ad-|. “Sold out when I saw it was star vi renli ea Bert, By vantage of a_recovery in the market price.” . “Good! The country is safe. guess we a Se © all of The boys admitted that his advice was good, and Brat haid $1,000.” - intended to follow it, then they bade him good-by and| “We ought to make more if the bauk’s into the little bank to see how things were coming on. | promptly.”. j ) days - afterward , the broker sent each of the’ boys a “We may assume that he did, for he knows its 5 businéas One hel valuable present, as ‘an evidence of: his be iat ae are getting on pretty welh IT think,” their se ces, :
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IN THE MONEY GAME. vg into the money game a month ago with $1,000 ‘apiece capital Fred tock a lead pencil from his pocket, ran it under the and now, if we decided to call our partnership off, we could | flap and soon had the enyelope’ open, cut a $14, 000 melon. That’s going some, Tf think.” “The showing is quite satisfactory to me,” replied Fred. “As for calling our partnership off, we can hardly dq that except by mutual consent, for our agreement calls for one year, subject to renewal if both parties are agreeable.” “Oh, I don’t want to call it off, don’t you worry. There’s too much money in it. Our bosses did us a great favor when they bounced us. We ought to call upon them and express our thanks,” said Bert. “You can call upon Crane, if you want, but Butler won’t see me in a hurry.” « That was where Fred was wrong, for an hour later he ran into his late employer on Broad street. “Hello,” Bassett! Who are you working for now?” asked the broker, in a comparatively friendly way. “Wor the firm of Bassett & Rowe, speculators,” replied Fred. “Bassett & Rowe, speculators!” ejaculated Butler. “Specu- lators in Wwiheata rt “They're in the money game.” Butler looked puzzled. “T don’t’quite understand. of yours?” “The senior partner is myself.” “Oh, I begin to see what you are driving at. You’re,not working for anybody. You are continuing your foolish course of action for which I let you go.” “Tt am much obliged to you for doing that. I am making more money in five minutes now than I collected in wages for -a year at your office.” ~ “Pm happy to hear it,” said Butler, with a whimsical smile. “Do you intend to stick at this thing until you are broke?” “J hopes»there is no danger of the firm of Bassett & Rowe going broke, sir.” “Speculators in futures are always in danger of coming to seriel: advantage.” “JT don’t call it poor advantage, sir. I have been away from your office about a month now. I was practically worth $1,000 when I drew my last pay from you. Now I’m worth over $7,000. Haven’t I done pretty well? Vil leave it to you.” “Are you telling me the truth?” — “Did you ever know me to tell you what wasn’t true?” “No. I'll admit you were a perfectly straightforward young fellow, and I have felt sorry for letting you go, I might have taken you back had you called on me and asked | ae. rein- stated, promising to quit speculating in the future.” “T have had no regrets over my- discharge. It has been a benefit to me from a money-making point of view. I hope to be. worth twice $7,000 before long.” “Tf you haye“made all that money speculating since you left my office you have done better than ninety-nine people out of a hundved; but, remember, you might lose it quicker than you've made it. Other and shrewder persons than you, with “big bank accounts have gone to the wall through the same kind of speculation you are engaged in. If you are $7,000 ahead of the game you couldn’t do a wiser thing than bank it, quit speculating and go to work. But I suppose you won't. . You young fellows know more, in your own opinion, than your elders, and you have to learn by experience what you refuse to accept by word of mouth.” “Tt am much obliged, to you for your advice, Mr. Butler, but rm spoiled now for working for anybody else unless things should turn dut badly, in which case bg ‘shall take my medi- cine and look for a job.” “You are the doctor, young man, I ie you well, but. i have had thirty years’ experience in the game, and I haye - found that the best way to get on is to let the other fellow do the guessing. Good-by,” and the broker walked off. ' “He's right,” thought Fred, “The man who does the guess- ing generally guesses wrong, but when one is playing in luck J believe in following it till it changes, but not after it changes. The fellow who goes bankrupt is the chap who tries _ to buck against luck when it’s on the ebb. ‘The moment things change with Bassett & Rowe I shall propose to quit, or at least haul off for a while:” Ces Walking across Broad street toward the Curb ad ara Fred Saw an envelope in his path. Is the senior! partner a relative : “the boy picked it up. ) Se F will be able to get 175 for it. I regret you are employing your time to such poor} It looked clean, as if some one had just. dropped it, and Ee was aeated, but bore no name or address, only the rasan He took cut the enclosure d read the following: “J. D.—You have asked Pe my Nace . Phat is something am not in the habit of giving out. Ihave all L.can’do to advise myself and do it satisfactorily. However, - I owe you a good turn, or a favor, or whatever you chose to” call: it, so I will so far unbend as to suggest—merely suggest, you under- stand, that if you should get im en_U. P. at once you can’t go far wrong. It’s ruling around 165 at present. Unless my foresight fails me those whe have it a week from to-day ~ : And it may go higher. At any ~ rate, you'll make no mistake in buying it to the extent of your — cash balance, and holding it for a ten-point rise, whieh will ~ mpault in you doubling your money. “4 mous very sincerely, Pigs” _ “Tf T, J. doesn’t stand for Thomas Jardine, I'm a lobster of ~ the boiled type, for P’ve seen those pot-hooks before in the ~ course of business. The letter reads like the operator—cau- ~ tious but convincing. Fred, old boy, you've struck a? gilt-— edged tip that ought to put Bassett & Rowe on the sunny | side of Easy Street. U. P. is Jardine’s particular persimmon. If he says it is likely to rise ten points, you can bet your — last dollar that he knows it is going to rise. If Pknew who — J. D. is, and where to locate him, I’d take him this letter, for it’s a shame he should miss such an elegant pointer, Pd take the letter and leave it at Mr. Jardine’s office, but that ~ would show the finder had opened it, and U. P. might” £0 down instead of up in consequence. I’m afraid J. D. ra have to go ‘without his tip unless he meets his friend Jardii or the messenger confesses that he lost the letter,” said Fre Deh Fred put the letter in his pocket and later on ne sealed. a " up’ again. “38 When he met Bert he told him about the tip and saan bh ba) ame the letter, ft “I know it’s from Jardine, for I'm familiar with his writ. ing. This is where we'll make a ten-strike and double our capital. We can afford to take a plunge on the strength of that tip, for it’s as good as gold,” said Fred. So the firm of Bassett & Rowe plunged on U. P, at 165, on | margin, to the extent of 1,400 shares, and the little bank’s margin clerk gasped at their order, which was the biggest the bank had received for a week, most of its transactions being small. To swing the order the bank would haye to advance some- thing over $200,000, and as the bank had no such money at its disposal it was ‘obliged to hypothecate the stock at about seventy per cent. of its market valuo. The boys knew that they would have to pay interest on over $200,000 for as many days as the deal ran, and the bank would deduct it from either as deposit or their profits, us ~ the case might be. Naturally, when you make use of euiie people’s money you have to pay for it. The chum firm didn’t worry over that. rte They didn’t expect the deal to run much over a week and they looked to make such a good thing out of it that the — interest charge would cut a small: figure, : With all their capital up it is only reasonable to suppose — ae that the chums were a bit anxious over the result in spite) of the fact that they felt sure they, were going to win. They hugged their seats in the little bank and watched the blackboard for every quotation put up for U. P. E On the day after they made their deal the stock went ye ee oint. a ; “Now we're on our way,” said Bert, gleefully. : But they were mistaken, for before the Exchange closed the price dropped back to 159 5-8. z However, to make a long story short, U. P. finally got a ul gait on and began going upward in earnest, a little at ay time, : On the eighth day it registered at-176: ~ “Shall we take a little more chance on it?” said Fred, Pay “J think we may, for it’s a gilt-edged security,” ee “ Bert. : ; So Ten waited snother day and the price advanced to. ry 1766 : Then Fred would take no further risk and orderad® the stock sold. When the little bank settled with the boys they found. they ‘ had made a profit of $15,700, and that raised their eke to $30,000, with a trifling $400 over. 4 Such is luck!
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my enee 10 . IN THE MONEY GAME. ; : ties ; It only took a couple of days for the chums to furnish the ‘CHAPTHR VIII. place up with a rug, a safe, two desks, a table for Miss Travers : in ‘and half a dozen chairs. THE CHUMS OPEN AwOPrion IN WALD STREET. ; They hung’half a dozen appropriate pictures on the walls | ’ } and then the place was ready for business. “Bert,” said Fred ore ‘torning, “Jet’s rent an office. We | Nellie Travers brought her typewriter and went to call on ean afford the luxur ee and it will add style to the frm, What {the gentlemen in the bullding who had promised her work Af do you say?” — | she eame there, . “An office costs money down here, and we really have no} A painter put “Bassett & Rowe, Stocks and Bonds,” on the - use for one,” replied his chum. , door, in good-sized lettering, and Gown in one corner, in small } “Then we'll make use for one. We'll make a bluff at the, letters, “Miss Travers, Public Stenographer.” 3 brokerage business, Bassett & Rowe, stocks and bonds, will, Fred put an advertisement in three papers, and the boys lock pretty nifty on the frosted glass. Then we'll put a stand- felt like real brokers, ing advertisement in one or two of the papers which will! Of course, the other tenants of the offices on the corridor - dnform the public that we buy and sell stocks and bonds on; noticed that the room had been rented to. a firm in the broket- a commission basis, and that we will be happy to supply pros-:age line, and their curiosity was excited as to who they ‘pective customers with reliable information about the market ' were, for nobody knew them, free, gratis and for nothing. How oes that strike you?” The clerks who worked in the offices were as curious as their ge “Tt would strike Re all right if P thought there was any-| employers, at least some of them were. . thing in it.’ Broker Fosdick, whose suit of offices was’ facing the office There will be something in it after we hook a few cus-| of the new tenants, felt it was bis duty to make the aequaint- tomers, ance of the.new brokers and learn whence they had come, 5 sO” : But neither of us know a whole lot about running a brok-} as to be able to spread the news. 3 erage office.” He was a “nosey” man, who let nothing escape him, par- ~*Pooh! What do we need to know? We open an office. | ticularly a customer, if he could help it. ant Enter a man who's seen our advertisement in the paper. He! He was not popular with his office force on account of his “ “leaves an order with us to buy 100 Peekaboo Preferred, at the j prying nature. Wh _ Market price. He pays us ten per cent. deposit, One of ts | When not ehgaged with a visitor he kept the door of his, ; ‘goes out and buys the stock. It is transferred to our CUS} private room open so he could keep tab on his clerks. | tomer and delivered to us C. 0. D. We pay for it. Enter | He was not a member of the Stock Pxchange, but be had a eustomer after stock. Hands us the balance due in cash oF! business arrangement with a broker who was to handle such Sree check and we give him the ertificate, after We : husiness as he couldn't execute himself. ~ : get our ‘commision. Easy, ‘isn't bi On the first Monday after the chums started: thetr new 3 “Where's the profit? We'll have’ to. pay ‘the. takes we. get | . venture, Broker Fosdick walked in on them. a § the stock from a commission, for we "ul never be recognized as He was surpr ised’ 'to see two boys senteaae, the only desks real brokers, We'll only be putting up a bluff and paying | in the room. a : “good money for the privilege of doing it.” “Ts Mr. Bassett in?” asked Fosdick,” Pee - oleae ‘ “YUL call on Mr. Dayis. He'll execute our orders on a half! “yey gir, That's my name,” said Fred. eae - commission basis. I’m, tired of sitting around the reception-; «aro you one of the brokers whose. nai 2 on the door?” room of the little bank waiting for something to turn up.) «] am)’ ; | _ We're tmaking money, it’s true, but we're losing a. lot of wh owre only a boy,” he sniffed, et Maks pte ‘valuable time that we might employ in getting a sfart In a “ You ir. rm y y; I ust business that some day might amount to something. We van! “where aid you come from?” 4 ire a practical Wall Street bookkeeper any time to post. us. | “TZ haven't the remotest idea, sir. I aes born in this city.” ‘Some old chap with loads of experience and nothing else, and | “Then you belong to New York?” fon ‘who will be glad to work cheap. We can even get a sBtEDO: | “No, sir. I don’t belong to anybody untess it's, ae mother,” -rapher for nothing.” “What kind of an answer do you call that?” snorted ie “For nothing?” ‘nosey broker. “Sure thing. Miss. Nellie Travers, you know her, she’s “What other kind of answer do you expect?” - erazy-———-” t “Did you get your experience in Wall Street?” "Crazy! What do you mean?” A tings OD ba “Permit me to finish my sentence. Never butt in when a “Who did you work for?” “gentleman is talking, She’s crazy to start out, for herself as| “Mr. George Butler, of No. — Wall Street.” ue ed Way 1 public stenographer. She has two or three perspective cus- “You were one of his clerks, I suppose?” re tomers already in her eye.” ° “J was his messenger.” n her eye!” grinned Bert. “Good placa for them.” “What's that? His in taal vill you be quiet and don’t get funny. I was talking with “Yes, sir.” er bars day. She told me if we would rent an office she’d! . “Do yow mean to say ba ve jumped from a messenger to a go in with us and pay part of the rent, and do any work we} broker?” 'might have for nothing. Now, there’s a chance. We'll put| “7 guess that’s abotit it.” § Wily. her name in a corner of the glass—Miss Travers, public stenog-} “What do you know about the brokerage business?” _rapher, We'll pay two-thirds of the rent, she the other third.| “Ys this a civil service examination?” ‘After we get business we'll look for the bookkeeper. ‘ Thirty “You are impudent, young man.” thousand dollars is capital enough for us to start, I'm in}. “4nd you are mighty curious about what Fer ee iat: ‘pases favor of it and only await your distinguished co-operation to you. May I ask who you are?” put the matter into active execution. I thought you’d jump!” “j{ am the tenant of the offices opposite. hh pe is, te aes, the idea.” dick.” tit “Oh, I guess the plan is all right. You can count me in on “Oh, you’re.a broker?” snes Where can we get an ofiice?” “fam, and I'd like to. know how it am you Bote “Tye. got a place picked out already in the Dunkle Building, | ance to set yourself, up as a broker?” ; Me i floor, Gome around and look at it, Only, one easie but | “Did anybody ask you that question. hen i started in uy at’s good enough for a beginning.” 5 ; “Certainly not. I wasn’t a boy.” te Hs should think so.” “But you were a boy once,” persisted Fred. the _ "They went around to the building and Fred got the janitor, | “What has that fact got to do with the ‘matter we . Trish giant in uniform named Mike, to show them the discussing?” | ‘ yacant room. | “TT thought maybe you'd remember how you felt ie ‘Bert liked it, so they called on the superintendent and took , and that you'd give me the benefit of it: @ lease. of it until the following May, Fred giving ‘Broker | ‘The broker glared at him. Javis as their. reference, and paying down the ae month’s; “Are you trying to make a fool of me?” he snarled, “No, sir, I couldn’t improve on your own efforts.” “What's that?” : A Aon Mr, Fosdick, 1g would be glad if you would explai Mt sou will state your ere, by i } e
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4 IN THE MONEY GAME. fae it “No. I wasn’t sure the case was serious enough.” “TI think we 'd better get a doctor, at any rate, for him.” my No, no,” whispered the stranger, hoarsely, “don't get a doc- tor. It’s just an attack I’m accustomed to. Let me rest here a while, I'll be all right again shortly.” “All right,” said Fred. “You can stay here as long as you choose, If there is anything at all we can do for you we'll do it gladly.” “Thanks, pard. I don’t need anything, unless———” “Unless wheat?” “You' ve 2 drop of whisky handy.” besa “We haven't any in the office, but I'll get you some. It will be no trouble.” “Tll go for it,” said Bert. “Well, run over to the Empire Cafe and buy a half-pint flask f of their best,” nodded Fred. ip Nellie, who had gone back to her table, resumed. her work, _Fred put on his hat and started on his: errand. ae “You say you are subject to these fits?” said Fred. to the : stranger. ; “Tt isn’t a fit. It’s.a weakness of the heart. I'm not ag - strong as I look. I’m from the West—Nevada. My name is Hank Gibson, Some years-ago I got into a saloon scrap and — was shot close to the heart. The ball is in there yet, stuck in the muscles. The doctors, after probing for it and failing’ - to dislodge the ball, told me they dare not operate further, ag’ the lead was too close to my heart. They thought I might pull through with it in me, and I did. But once in a while I have. these spells come on and I drop, like a shot. This is the first in six months. Any extra exertion, or ‘excitement, will bring | on an attack, so I have to be as careful as I can. 1 SUPPOSE, they'll fetch me some day, though when I get over them feel, no further inconvenience till the next attack. It was fort unate I went down outside your office. I might haye fallen in the street—any where. They take me suddenly. I feel a ‘sharp 4 pain and then everything grows black and I know. nothing : more till I come to,” said the stranger. Bert came back with the flask of whisky. : Fred poured a good drink out in a glass and handed it to the : stranger. ‘ “He drank it slowly at first and then finished it at a parts Seva “That's the stuff,” he said. “It puts life in a chap. There, m T ¢an sit up now, and in five minutes I'll be ready to go.” “Don’t hurry yourself. ‘You are welcome to remain in our ~ office as long as you choose.” j SSI REO ROE RIN OC IIE A RETR OSE YS ERE IIS TTT POE STE TEEN DR IEG RETETS S SELL ISS MO LLTE SEL OSE SS AEP NE IIL SG ELE SLES RE TREY ONS “Bah!” ejaculated Fosdick, rising, “I must find out whether this building is going to be turned into a kindergarten for suckling brokers.” “It might be put to a worse ‘use, a With a snort, the broker marched to he door. “Bah!” he said, and then he walked out. The chums looked at one another and laughed. No doubt Miss Travers would have laughed, too, had, she been at her typewriter, but she was out taking dictation. “T wonder what he wanted, anyway?” said Bert. “I imagine he came in just out of curiosity to get a line on the new firm,” replied Wred. “I didn’t like bis questions; that’s why I handed it to him the’ way I did. It is really nobody’s business who we are, or why we are in the brokerage business. Nobody is going to help us unless it might be Mr. Davis, if we Zot into difficulties, financial or otherwise. Visitors are wel- come, but I shall treat them as they deserve. Nosey people will get it straight from the shoulder from me every time.” Here the door was opened and the postman walked in with a letter. CHAPTER IX. THE CHUMS GET THEIR FIRST CUSTOMER, : bs “Yor the firm,” said Fred, as he proceeded to. open it after: the departure of the letter-carrier, : “Who from?” asked Bert. ; ' ‘i “Give me time to find out. Oh, it’s from some man out on, Long Island. He has seen our advertisement and wants in- formation about the Minerva Gold and Silver Mining Com- pany, of Tonopah, Nevada. Says he has 1,000 shares which he potent over a year ago from a man in the Flatiron Building who was advertising the stock) for sale as the finest. invest- _ ment on ¢arth. He says he h n't heard anything more about the mine, thétigh he's written Several times to the company. Looks as if he was stung with one'of those wildcats that pro- moters work off on the credulous public once/in a while.” “You'll answer it?” “Of course. That's our duty.” “What will you say to him?” -*T must make inquiries about the mine, and whatever I “YJearn Til post him about, The chances are it won't be in his favor. That reminds me we must subscribe to a couple of good Western mining journals. so we can get next to what is * going on in the mining properties out West.” . “Good idea.” Fred put on his hat and went out. ; A, eee you. boys in business in this room?” f Ciel : : hile Nellie Travers came in and went t z ; Rae coals. i ate at sah m% bs savidinias “What do you do?” ; Bert continued to read one of the Wall Street dailies. We buy and sell railroad, industrial and mining stocks, Iso all kinds of gold bonds, on commission. - Half an hour passed away. rise hed oe. Then, during a brief spell of Behe, hit the girl ad peg: are are brokers, then?’ ee “ing over the letter she had just written and comparing it with $ i her shorthand notes, footsteps came slowly along the corridor, You look young for the business. How long have you been ~ ” ty he office and then something crashed heavily | *¢ it? i e Bey deg rag ae suaktne it violently. é ¥\ «Not long. We used to work for a couple of Wall Street ay "Nellie gave a nervous jump, while Bert sprang to his feet.| traders. Now we're bosses ourselves.” ey ! t was that?” asked the stenographer. “~ guess you’ chaps are pretty smart or you couldn’t get: . is Ream a a eg put I’m going to find out,” said the| along. You seem to be doing business all right,” said the — junior partner. stranger, looking at rane Travers, whose nimble fingers were He walked to the door and threw it open. flying over the keys of her typewriter. hat was huddled up there, and he| “Oh, yes, we're doing a little something,” said Fred, who Aeoiied es es eyes the door was eh, like a jag of| did not think it necessary tO admit that they were still merchandise might, inert and helpless. waiting for their first customer. ee “My goodness!” exclaimed Bert. “What have we bere?” You young fellows have done me a real service and I’m. ’ Nellie felt like screaming, for the strange man had all the|srateful to you. I can put some business in your way that] — ippearance of death on his sun-burned countenance. — repay you.” i Oia heavy. beard concealed the greater part of his face, while “We shall be glad to execute any commission you give Us, ai attire consisted of a new suit of ready-made store clothes. | Mr. Gibson,” said Fred. The corridor was empty at the moment and so Bert dragged| “You charge the usual commission, I suppose?” pa - the ‘man into the office and closed the door. “Yes;” He saw that the stranger was not dead, in spite of his| “I was going to give my business to Broker Fosdick, for I_ ghastly looks. was recommended to him by a Goldfield firm of brokers, but: i sg Moither was the man suffering from a 1 fit, as far as the boy| seeing I owe you a good turn, and Fosdick ain’t nothing to J could see. me in particular, if you can do what I want, the contagion rently, he ‘ainted from some cause, which Bert re-] is yours.” Are sara te stalwart: looking men like him do not} “ ft it’s in the brokerage line, as I judge it is, we can fx a faint eas you up all right,” said Fred, in a confident tone, ; ba With ilies help, Bert got him. on the aounee and, getting| “I’m feeling all right now. TJ’ll go over to your dost and % a less’ water, tried to bring him to. talk business,” said Gibson, suiting the action to the word; His tts were successful and the man open. sa his eyes just Nellie put on her hat and said she was going e lunel as Fred came back.’ oi | | Bert said he guessed he'd g0, too, Af his ‘Presence — “Hello!” said Fred. “What has. happened “here?” ; upeded. % ‘Bert explained matters in a few words. | i Fred told him t6 go on, as he ‘would attend to ‘their cus Did you telephone for an ee ares. red. tom ey : F Roe
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| st “42 : IN THE MONEY GAME. ” Sit eae — ~ - waee: oo at a : “IT suppose your name is Bassett,” said the Aad she ai “You | on rate for shares worth one and under two cents,” said * seem to be the head of the fitm.” | Bert. “Yes, that’s my name.’ “I know it, but everything counts with me. ri bet ‘it “Very good, Now, Mr. Bassett, I came Hast to buy up| would give Broker Fosdick a fit, after what passed between Minerva mining stock, ” began Gibson. us, if he learned that we got even a dollar in commission “Minerva! ” ejaculated Fred, in some surprise. away from him.” He had been investigating the mine and had learned that; “Oh, let him go bag!” it was considered no good. “Sure; he can go to grass with all the pleasure in’ the: A hundred thousand ‘shares had been disposed ‘of by a| world. ‘Now, I’m going to lunch, and then I’! look around art promoter at ten cents a share. | for Minerya shares, so you need not expect to see me pack. A great many of these shares had subsequently been sent | ifor a while. In the meanwhile, dictate a letter to our Jamaica .to Wall Street brokers to be sold, but as there was no market | correspondent, telling him that Minerva isn’t worth the paper” for them they had been returned to the owners. it’s written on, but if he wants to get, rid of it. we’ll take the . ‘Fred had gathered this information to send to the firm’s: certificates off his hands for $10.” Long: Island correspondent, whose letter was the first busi- Thus speaking, Fred left the office. ness cammunication the chums had received. Bert dictated the letter to Nellis. “You have heard about the mine, of course,” said Gibson. “It’s our first,” he said, as he finisheds : “We received a letter from a mati in Jamaica this morn-| “There always has to be a beginning,” she replied, with a - ing, asking for information about it.” ° smile. “How many shares has he?” “Yes. I only hope more will follow. We've nailed our first “One thousand.” customer, too. The gent who fell in on us so unexpectedly.” — “What did you intend to write him?” | “Oh, he'was coming here, then?” “That the stock was worthless.” 2 “No, he wasn’t.. He was going to the man opposite—a Verye: “Worthless! ” said the Westerner, with a quiet chuckle. disagreeable sort of man, who paid us a visit while you were “YT have been looking it up and I find that it is regarded as | out taking dictation. He said things while he was in here - “a wildcat.” that we didn’t exactly approve, and Fred, acting as spokesman % “Then it must surprise you that I wish to buy the stock?” | for the firm, handed him a few back. He didn't like his re, “You must have some pretty. good reason for doing so.” ception and left in a hurry. Our customer had a letter to him, - “Naturally. Write to your Jamaica correspondent and but Fate willed thatewe should get him. I guess’ we'll go offer him a cent a share.” ; along now, for it’s the first customer that’s the hardest to got SED o you mean you will give’ that?” ~—at least it was in our case, for we have no friends we can “Yes. And I'll take all you can get for me at the same | COUNt on,” said Bert. ar rate. I know that 100,000 shares lah In the meantime Fred went to lunch and then Steriod out | , to get as many pee as I pot bat hidld' ot. pte oe aisas | look for Minerva shares, without reference to his’ list. eee order for an indefinite number of shares and I'll sigu it. | Not many of the brokers had any of the stock han a leave $L 000 deposit with you to show you that I mean busi- ene ees pr SOY ahaved ies “three ditterent’ Wa dha ae? ness.’ A “T guess that stock isn’t as worthless as Wall Ph brok- [Bs Be ae $22, and the traders were glad to get rid of ag nh ie oe is oP ia Pars elena Bags mi Me This was less than.a quarter of a cent a share—next_ door = Pres ee cate . — eoligra | but I don’t think any- pee te ee ie halt Sant casei ody but me would offer to buy it just now.” ' " Fred passed the order to him and he signed it, » | Nellie was nearly through with her work. | ® “T have a short letter to dictate to you,” he said t } - Then he handed the boy: $1,000 in bills and took his receipt | uput | want: you to make about a dozen copies of Shone'ad ede “bs the money ‘ ; pests essed to each of. the people on this list.” Pea ere __ “Ym stopping at the Astor House, where any communication | ai took her till five o’ ‘clock "ty write them, with the ‘envelope will reach me. The soonér you get hold of the stock the bet- to match. ter. I'll like it. Here is a list of all the Hastern’ stockholders | Then the officé was closed for the day and, on the way home. of record, with their addresses, which I copied off the book with his chum, he mailed the bunch. of the company. I daresay a lot of the stock has changed “Next morning he dictated a letter to the firm’s customer. hands without any notification reaching the company, for the “Here, Bert, take this up to the Astor House and leave it — “comipany has practically been out of business for a consider- | jat the deat: “Rend irand hen seal it up,” said Fred. * able time. It's going to be reorganized, and {f your firm! On the following day answers began coming in froin thie! would care to take the Hastern agency I’d be glad to have you | (holders of Minerva stock, to all of whont Fred had offered a do it. I'll tell you right here that you won’t regret it.” cent a share for their stock. “If there's anything at all in it for us we'll be ‘Glad to take Some took up his offer and notified the firm that they nea At,” said Fred. | mailed the certificates; the rest, with a few exceptions, wanted — as oT wou Idn’t suggest the matter to you if I aian't think it, to know more about his offer, at the same time tenting. sir it. = would Bb you.” _had cost them ten cents a share. i Mr. Gibson, we'll talk about it ater we have’ A few didn’t answer at all, and these Fred idea to. be of the stock as we can pick up at the price. ' people who had either changed their address or had disposed _ ial ob at once.” : -of their stock in some way. : , Maybe T’ll drop in to-morrow and see how you're getting The firm secure 40,000 more shares, which. gave them hal on,” said the Western man, getting up. ‘ of the stock that d been sold in the Hast. % “Do £0.: We'll be glad to see you.” The Westérner called, learned results go far, aie iny Then Hank Gibson took his leave, and Bassett & Rowe had | the two chums to dine with him at the Astor House, | got their first customer, atch was a matter of congratulation, They accepted, the invitation, and after dinner the to them. tee ; \ ; ‘turn, invited him to go to the theater. a gece top i |. He went with them, and thus ey became better acivainted + CHAPTER xX ein. | with their. first customer. ‘ e ah ; While they were trying to sdoule: the Minerva shares | THE CHUMS MAKE A BIG HADL. vas - . | received letters from different people who had seen their } Shae little while Bert and Miss Travers’ meas and Fred ; vertisement in the papers, and these wanted informat , eae his chum about the order he had got from t 1e Westerner. | | the stock market in general, and some of them dy “We must treat him well, because he’s the firma ‘fret cus- making investments. a tomer,” said Fred. In reply, Fred dictated a brief market letter : and a) ha ' “It was singular the way we captured him,” cate “Bort, 'Make the necessary copies, which Wes mailed’ to the ct “Yes, it was. We've got one on that nosey egal across spondents. Sat ‘cage t eA BY. the time he firm had gathered in 20,000 more. s] : + Minerva, Fred told Bert that as B. & J. was going’ Pe und for is office when he we un- might as well try their luck with it. — letter of introduction.” A Sie why not?” replied Bert. : Re : oo oie Fred seo ost 1,000 aia at 5, on “the Aa
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IN THE MONEY GAME. | CS he After holding it three days the firm let it go ata profit of | The fact that they had sold his option instead of taking it - $2,000. jup ané paying for the stock still further convinced Fosdick ‘ During this time they had had severa’ visitors—traders that the boy firm had no great amount of money at their back. who had heard about them and dropped in to see them. ~ However, he knew they had made nearly $25,000 on the Broker Fosdick did not bother them again, and they were option, and he was not greatly pleased to think that he was iy ual as well pleased. “ !the means of giving them a financial lift. They passed him several times in the corridor, but he! He determined to try and do them some way in order to get ‘turned up his nose at them, which only made them laugh. | square, | Finally they reported to Hank Gibson that 80,000 shares | was all they could get of the Minerva stock, so he settied CHAPTER XI. : ee fe with them at that and allowed them to retain the $62 Fred had “saved on the first 10,000 shares. THE CHUMS HIRE AN EXPERIENCED ASSISTANT. BL, » Then, telling them they would hear from him in a ahore! One morning Fred noticed an advertisement in a Wall time, hé started West. {Street daily that struck his attention. One mor agi shortly afterward, Bert collared another good: A bookkeeper, with many years’ experience in the financial | + tip. | district, wants a position in a broker’s office, where he would He learned on good authority that a syndicate had been | be willing’te make himself generally useful. « as _ formed to corner L. & M. { He could be addressed by initials, care of the paper. Just for the fun of the thing, Fred called on Fosdick and i With a capital of over $80,000 the chums had become am- — asked him if he had any of the stock for sale. : ; bitious to get a real start in the brokerage business, but, out- “No, I haven't,” snapped the trader. “I wonder at your! isidé their standing advertisement, they didn’t know how-to “nerve coming here and asking me for it.” ‘get customers, for they had no friends to apply to. “T should think you’d be glad to do business with us,” said; They had probably had 100 or more answers:so far to, thelr Ae ne * ‘advertisement, but none of them produced results. ~” aps “No, I don’t’ want to do any business with boys.” | They all wanted information about the market, and ‘when “why not? Isn't our money as good as any one else’s?”; they got it that was the last the firm heard from Mies : BY “J don’t believe you've got any.” * Fred showed the advertisement to Bert. ¥ “What do -you suppose we're doing business on—hot air?” | “T think I'll answer that,” be said. Or don’t believe. you’re doing any business. Nobody would | “What.do we want with a bookkeeper? We’ re not doing Je so foolish as to trade with kindergarten brokers.” any business,” answered Bert. y “Oh, all right. Since you haven’t got any L. & M. I'll say} | as know it, but we’d like to do some business, wouldn’t Rygood-by, but Vil bet you haven’t nerve enough to sell us an} we?” a" } ; ioe _option on 2,000 shares.” . i “Sure Swe would.” 2 a What's that? Sell you an option on 2, 000 shares?” | “Very Well. I thought I'd have the man call here and aie as “Yes. I'll give you two points. above the market, which is!a talk with him. If he can give us a few pointers that will - 80, for a ten-day option en the ‘stock, and we'll put up five | help us: get business, why, we'll pay him for his information. — per cent. of the current value as security. “We want the stock, |In that way he can put a little money in his pocket while © , but-we can’t afford to pay for it. just yet.” f | waiting for a position. See the point?” Five per cent. on’$160,000 was $8,000, and Fosdick demanded | “Yes. Go ahead, Your idea isn’t a bad one. We can afford ae know. if, he had the money. “| to pay well for the real goods.” “We've got the money in the office. You can have it in five | “So Fred answered the advertisement and ibe. party called “minutes, RE j at the office. “STAG ‘take - you up,” said the ‘trader, promptly; thinking he’! He was a well-dressed, gentlemanly man, with a mustache! as making a‘good thing of it. |and chin beard. He knew there was $4,060 in it for ‘him, anyway, léss the| He said he lost a position held by him for fifteen, Years by “Yost: of carrying $160,000 worth of stock ten days. the firm going out of business. : 0 € would have to hypothecate it as soon as he bought it,; He was thoroughly acquainted with the brokerage Dusiness, a fo * he didn’t have that much money to tie up, but as long as’ and could fill in at any office position. e could get his pank to carry the shares for him at the pre-j| Fred told him what the firm was looking for. : a 5 railing rate of interest he stood to win a profit out of the boys,| “We have no’ need for a bookkeeper, but we are willing to ‘and the satisfaction of making something out of i Was | pay for : information that will put us in line for securing cus- - considerable. ee itomers,” he said. : So the deal was made. | “And after you get the customers, ean you handle them?” ae ~The chums also bought 2,000 more shares igronen the little | ' asked the gentleman, with a smile. “Have you capital enough ~ “pale at 80. to carry ona brokerage business, and:do you know how to te Both deals took $28,000 of their money, but they felt pretty | raise money to carry stock for your customers?” ‘eertain of coming out on top. . ee “TI guess we can make out somehow.” } Fosdick did not buy L. & M. immediately, as he ‘would have’ “Somehow is a poor way to put it. I-can give or sell you ~ “ done under ordinary cireumstances, because the price dropped expert: advice, but I can’t guara tee that it will oS Productive: , * a point, and he saw the chance of making more out of it by | of results.” ‘waiting. 4... “We don’t ask you to guarantee anything but ‘Your advice.” On the second day it went down another ies: and he| “Look here, young man, the best thing you ean do, if you - rubbed his hands. can afford it, is to hire me as advising manager and book-— _ That was the time he’ should have aahity for it would have | keeper. I will engage with you at $20 a week, and if at the — ‘ turned him in an additional pEOns of $4, oo or Edoehiggng et he end of the first month you think I am a losing proposition — — figured.on'at first. ; _ -j we'll call the arrangement off. I think, however, I will be able ‘He held off, looking to see it go lower. » |to put you in the way of more than $80 worth of experience, nstead of that it took a sudden jump up to 81, and he lost | and that you will also get your money back with interest.” 36,000 that he might have made. \“All right,” said Fred. “We'll give you a trial.” 4 / Next day it went up half s point more, ana. then he got “The first thing you will want is a set of books,” said the: we red and bought it. 'i gentleman, whose name was Wilford Gray. “I will open them phe bought it it arobped back to 79, and he kicked him. and show you how to keep them in case you decide that you _ for not waiting. ~ __|eannot afford to keep me.” ; He was so, mad about it that he made himself “extra a “Oh, if you can get us i the swim, in a business sense, pcan “io hls ferke all that day. a we'll keep you all right. e do not qxpect to make ise Os Lé@y began going up again. | at the very start.” ‘& ine fe me ‘kept on till it- reached 95, on the ae day ot} “How much capital hake you?” e tion. “Wighty-six thousand dollars.” e The: ‘boy. firm then sold the option “A Mr. Dayis, at 94, soe The boalkeeper looked surprised. 2 “$24,000 out of it. _ “As much that?” he said. 5 “they ‘also sold the 2,000 they had at 8 little bank at. ie Saat er ere 7 a price and made $30,000 more. _ e er I think you ought to. be able to make ‘a start as jar! ses | all they cleared $54,000 off the tip, and,' to a certain ex- as. zon do not expect. too winch wisn do you want ihe to me?” ata?) put it over Hosdiek, who only made a Pas hun ria? rs hed can. start in right away. » » ae asd " Oy jai
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IN THE MONEY “cane CHAPTER XIII. THE LADY AND THE GOVERNMENT BONDS. * _ Qne morning a handsomely dressed and chic-looking lady walked into the office and asked for Mr. Bassett. j “That’s my name, madam,” said Fred, jumping up “and oficring his fair visitor a chair beside his desk. ¥ “My name is Mrs. Douglas Taylor.” Fred bowéd and waited for further developments. “My husband is a traveling man and is away from home good part of his time. He makes a lot of money in his busi- s, and instead of banking the surplus he puts it in bonds. ee, © thinks them safer, and they draw a better interest. He| : says they are convertible into cash at any time. A month } ago he presented me with a thousand-dollar Government bond as a birthday present, which was good of him, don’t you think?” © “Yes, ma’am;”’ it was quite Mberal on his part,” ZRUTSG | _ Fred, quite taken with his fascinating visitor. 5 “T intended to keep it and collect the interest when it came ie, but, dear me, I saw the loveliest spring suit at Madame 4 engali’s, on Fifth avenue, yesterday, and it is really cheap at the price, $400, she asks for it. Ae hat to match it, and I can’t get that less than $50. Then there are, other things. When I had footed everything up I aes found they would cost me over $600. I-either have to sell the nd or go without the clothes. It seems a shame to dispose te: ol: that bond so soon after I got it, but whet am I to do? I Seaxeally Thust have the outfit; and so, seeing your advertise- smént in the paper, I decided to call on you and get you to ‘Did you bring the bond with you?” asked Fred. "T have it in my bag.” Tn a few moments she placed it in Fred’s hands. eahiet © understand that these bonds are worth a premium?” she pata. tN ae Wes, that is quite true.” “How much can I get for it?” About eleven hundred dollars.” ; ow lovely! Will you take it and give me the money, Accotinn your commission for selling it. I suppose you'll sell it right away. These Government bonds, I’m told, are as ‘ - good as gold.” Fred saw that the bond was an ordinary coupon one, and that it was readily negotiable. OU say this is your property?” _» “¥es. My ‘husband bought it. I don’t know when or where, cS nor how long he had it before he gave it to me.” of “The lady, whose name is Taylor, brou; hat here to sell. She ‘wants me to give her the cash for f said Pred, ' “Where does she live?” — _- “I didn’t ask her.” f TEA Dols: She is a married Indy, I suppose?” aves A? “Flow came she to get the bond?” , : “She says her husband gave it to her for a birthday present | short time ago.” | “And she wants to turn it int to money?” , 3 “She wants to buy a new dress, a new hat and other Pecericah | - which she says will cost her $600.” — ' “Rather extravagant, I should say.” “She told me that wher husband, who is a traveling rane e “makes lots of money.” ‘ _ ' *] should think he did to be able to give away thousané- | _ dollar bonds. Well, get her full name and address ‘and then. Bee ited her you'll have to send to your bank to get the money. Come, back to me with the information,” — Fred returned to the lady and found out that her name was rs. Laura Taylor, and that she lived at the Khedive Apart: | ment: house on 45th street. by ‘* : bred figured out the value of the bond, deducted his com-, ; mi on and’told her what she would get. 4 | “*Phat will be quite satisfactory,” she replied, with @ smile. ~ “Vory well. I will send to the bank for the Gash,” said the} boy, taking the slip with the information to the bookkeeper. ; He looked at it, made a note of tht number and series of the | sae and putting on his hat went out. ) ; Going next door he asked to use the telephone a minute, and ; ceived. ‘permission. “He connected with the Khedive Apartment-house. oes a eed named Laura Taylor live. there with her huss) Leen who @ drummer?” he asked the inpeioat who* 9 an-! = the information that has brought you down. here, - “No, sah. Nobody of that name in the house.” “Very well. . That is all.” Then he went over to the Stock Wxchange and iiguinee it, any Government; bonds had been reported as lost or ATE recently. He was aD ces to the bulletin board where various notices were posted up. He found that a dozen Government coupon $1,000 bonds ae: been reported as stolen from. a Fifth avenue mansion that — morning. Going over the numbers, he found taste one of them corr sponded with the one offered for sale by the lady. He made a note of them all and then communicated wit J Police Headquarters. ; He was told that a detective would be sent down at once: “Get him here might quick, then. A lady has offered t the % bond for sale at our office, and we can *t keep her too long.” “He'll come down in a car at-once; Your firm is what?” “Bassett & Rowe, stéck brokers, Dunkie Building, « ig flocr.” “All right,” and the desk sergeant rang olf. The serene walked slowly sea to the » baltainee ut He saw hens was a man sitting inside. The bookkeeper waited around the door and in fifteen’ f utes an auto rushed up and stopped. { tae A sharp-looking Irishman, dressed in ae business suit, ee out. ’ J He came into the building and looked at the Sila " names. “Looking for Bassett & Rowe?” asked Gray. ; The man eyed him sharply. “Yes. How did you know?” “Are you from Headquarters?” awhy do you ask that?” ‘ Because I’m Bassett & Rowe's bookkeeper, and I telephon os “| i} “Oh! The lady is upstairs?”, F “T presume she is, and quite impatient by this time, aig “Let us go up, then.” Up they went. é ary “You go in first and go to your desk,” said the detecti t “T will follow in a minute. Pay the lady the money and tal ie zi her receipt. Then we'll have her.” — Pe The bookkeeper went in, hung up his hat, opened the~ and took out the money, which he counted out and carr over to the lady, with a receipt, The lady took off her glove, signed the ete and ‘he bod elung to her chair for support. nes “I must go,” she said to Fred. io “Allow me to see you Lat the elevator, Mrs. ae he ish ca Fred, politely. — gp 1% “Don’t trouble yourself, waniie man,” said the detective; ing the boy for a clerk. “I'll attend to that. Where i y Government bond the lady just sold this firm?” he added, ee | ing’ at the bookkeeper. : “Here it ds.”” Seas “ll take it, and the receipt, please.” ar it) “How is this?” said Fred, in astonishment. an stolen with others this morning, and this lady, whom bt ‘ ‘ nize, will have to explain how she came by it, 4 ee “Stolen!” ejaculated Fred, as the lady actena, a ery. . The detective laid his hand on the lady’s arm. %. “You'll have to.come with me, Nance Whiting.” “Sir, you are. mistaking me for somebody else. My nam ia ¢ « i “Yes, I know, you are eailing under the name ‘ot Laura "Tay lor here. Your clever ruse has failed and you will haya to account for having that bond in your possession. ‘You have received the money for it, for which I hola your receipt, 0) j you see we have it on you good and proper, my lady.” “Are you going to take that bond away, sir? Are you a | detective? * asked Fred. : ee “T am a detective and f am going to take the poids? “He's all right,” said the bookkeeper. his young ma Mr. Bassett, the head of thé firm,” he added ‘to the detecti The detective looked surprised. “Well, now, 1 took him fora clerk,” he skid. receipt for this bond,” he added to the b name of the “Department and Til sign ae “3 2 the ponte a Lesa “Make ae a coltkeeper, “4 in
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M150 wrote the following on a piece of paper: “There's | he the meanwhile, itr. Mason introduced himself to Ff the door with a man in it. He may be waiting for|thanked him for saving his property, and assured him would not forget the service. y He vied” ‘it to the detective. . A few days later he called at the’ office ef the chums and: was a | 7 le Sficer nodded after reading it. e | welcomed there. WwW eu hold shies woman’ here till I.return?” he said to; Shortly after Mr. Mason went ewey “Rr ea Kot a letter od. Hank Gibson. “LI Ne ” + R’ Wtf “I if you order me to. A ‘| “I am sending you a tip that’s a winner, A aot lead of. MeN ne Ae that you. do so. ore has been discovered in the Cinderella Consolidated. Ther shel no, detective left the office. are a-few thousand shares of the mine floatihg around Wa fair visitor Showed signs of an incipient fit. rae, S ; treet... Buy every “one you can. get hold of. The price pee 5tis is an outrage,” she said. “What right has that pee h me in here and apcuse me of stealing that bond. It is today, is ZOne eras, at, Rain 10 a quarter, renga. oi gets out, and will go higher later on Me 4 nd my. pat Fas te have secured a big’block of it, and xDoct, to aes enough whe of it to help matters in“the Minerva, Which is pannin t first-rate for a comparatively ii thing. If. I were ‘you™ & uy in the unsold shares of erva yourselves at the ~ } market price of 20. You won't los@ anything by it.) Accord- 4) roperty. I insist on being permitted to leave this office,” nf ighe started for the door, but Fred blocked her exit. si u.can’t go, madam. I regret the necessity of detaining ; ., /-bi the orders of the detective are mandatory, and I am t " Noor ble for your presence here.” hewoman continued her howl, _ during which Bert, whio | 7 S Ha ban: Sout al Lie tithe, eartie’ tn, ing ‘te our advices you still have’ 00 shares, on hand. need the money, and the more work: ere able to. do the bette ou ioe the eed then at his partner. » {the prospect wit! be for the mine. “By taking that bloclt Vpt'sthe trouble e asked, shall look upon!you chaps as one of us, and we'd rather ie Fr Bey to tell him, but before he got far the: detec: you gain than outsiders... Besides, we'd have’ your 3 ive xturne § “Nav, madam, I’ll trouble you to come with me,” he said, | “So wrote Hank, and after Bert read the letter the chum a $nethat showed he meant’ to be obeyed. | sulted and decided to buy in the. 25,009 shares at 20 cents x lady, got up and accompanied him downstairs, yaieeeh They could easily afford to expend the $5,000. © « Ss nd her companion, who had come with hor in the eab,| They also decided to buy up Cindercila Consolidated ! shun enarrest.: |. “Broker Fosdick acrdéss the hall had a block a while “Thifpalr were at once taken to Police Headquarters, Pll call on him and see if he's got the stock yet,” sai nak é Fosdiek had the stock, 20,000 shares, and he. said he’ . it at the market. ay ee) CHAPTER XIV. “You offered to sell it at a bargain a while ago,” said Fred. THE CHUMS MOVE TO BETTER QUARTERS, ‘| “ft know I did,-but) I needed the money then,” said the’ nd-the bookkeeper were both summoned to appear at | broker, with an artful look. A ae court on the following morning. “And you don’t need it now?” - ignified-looking, white-haired gentleman was also on bdeeal gta ; adetate ne Sete palebass Pee,’ « end) — eis ell, Tl teke the stock,” sa re Sie Pee laa > bea a ake oral tab see ay aon robbed ra ot it. Its only a small item. Send. the vot tisibatee: ~ > -bonds and other valuables e la risoner, who} ~ eon }Was an expert confidence operator, with a rales record in ee your receipt for the money and we'll attend to the frases j othe cities: besides New York. fore. The. stock has got to be sent to Goldfield for the Fi st ic gat as Mason, and his residence as No. — /potmpany has no agent here.” : d -ySo the deal was made and Bassett & Rowe came in pos f Ss tte i yw he had been hoodwinked by tie woman, who | ‘session of the shares for $800. nee reply to his advertisement for a private secre- : re fs 3 epost aeeaieked up 20,000 more from two other : rokers at the same price. ay » had drugged and then robbed him of the property de. ae di was expressed to the office of the secretary at Die ri [cts ae , eld. 3 . ie ‘positively identified the woman prisoner as the.party in Before they received their the poem me ie ais the ‘ion, find in the mine came out and the price jumped to cen’ red the waa called to the stand and told about the lady’s! When Fosdick heard the news he was mad over it. v At his office, for the purpose of selling one $1,000 bond. . Three days later he was madder still when additional d iy sr Senge ee woman eee as that person, and algo | ies ae the Bie - ms ene i y Be bor when it was handed to him nerva also advanced to 75. cents. Roe 0 cs Gray then testified. “When the young firm got its shares back from " Gondiiond: a d that while he and Mr. Bassett had had no suspicions | letter from the president of the Cinderella Consolidated onesty of their customer, they considered it their duty, | companied the Rom pret hee in Wail Street, ; ‘ here negotiable security was offered for sale by persons) “We shall want a Soars ad e ce in 2 a ree “as es mine inknown to them, to obtain reasonable assurance that pore now coming to the fron as ares arge bs ers” seourity. ‘offered for sale really belonged to the seller, i our be are disposed to ee you _ e gh le aiAdy snap icaened tyak ste Gul wou Uta thoge, TAC ee | hee Ricaiee enddigh ip pels, Aad (0 inch ‘wintiaas tr pee he, lady and Jearne at she did not live there } he c Then he dearned at the Stock Exchange that the bond in on the Cinderella Con idated, and notified the sci 325" ie) ees , with others, had been,stolen from a gentleman’ named , the vA ie a bet as ay ames i ; ae ‘Mason. — 6 refer you erva nin ‘oLretend., of communicating with the firm of irokers, whose | pah, for which: wo are the Eastern representatives, t ame was- pated to ber cot a he got In touch with the | peaage c 90 tlapayort ah a Zone anes and, we are’ la olice, because time was importan ers 0 nerva stoc wrote Fred. : ? The result was the lady was arrested in Bassett Phe oe The result was, Bassett & Rowe got the agency, ee after 6 had tarped:, i 2 the bond and received e | pobidenets gh pee dn ie Mine Bai add a to thet ee oney: for it ; oor, an created more comm me He identified the prisoner, the bond, and the receipt. ” pat, es who began to think that the boy firm was “ "The detective went on the stand and had something to say,’ punipkins” after all. \then the magistrate held the woman for the ac | of the) a aa t ae Minerva had advanced to 30 cents and oh rand jury: jo erella Consolidated to he ey prisoner was then brought to the bar, but. as notl-| Both stocks had cost the firm $5800, and they were wor ould be proved against him, except that he had accom- on the Goldfield market $23,500, so the.chums were consider: “§ d the lady to Wall Street in the cab, he ‘eh discharged, | ably. eye on their mining operations, besides, being ag : tas the police regarded him as the “man hind,” he was, for both of the companies. ot lost Biot of. ae Sc In the meantime their business was * increasing and: e made no effort to keep out of the way, but Bs the course office had grown too small to accommodate it. _an hour appeared before a judge with a lawyer = ‘ve. The superintendent of the building told Fred : lady, who. was then Peleased ¢ “away , ae of three rooms on the fourth floor which the . 5 ne
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The ‘rent, however, was prety stitf, more than they wanted | are oho ‘nbolleelber told thém in the long run it would be ne heir Fain apie to take the guite. | “Probably Miss. Tavers might take one of the rooms for! her, business has: inereased’ se that she told me shegcoaldn't: handle it under her present conditions, even with the girl ou allowed her to hire,” he said to Fred. *She doesn’t want | separate from you, gam told me, and she doesn’t know what “Tl talk to her,” ania Fred. | i red had a talk with her and an agreement was Hg mad one ot a them, in’ which Bert coincided, that she could have eof the rooms ®f.the suite for its proportionate rent. Bassett & Rowe “Moved into their new quarters on the first | of of May: Ap? tee ee Dhe ‘partners“how | had a private reom to themselves, partie’ bookkeeper had a space rdiled off from the customers and | allers for himself, where the new sate was installed, the old: ne being put in the private room. Miss -Travers took possession of her room, off the middle | a put her name and business on the aoor and hired another | ee gir ig 3 ve “The: ‘ohange proyed advantageous to all -hande. eir improved quarters greatly helped Bassett & Rowe. i ‘heir customers felt more confidence ‘in the firm. $ a result, other custoniers came, brought there by a young!” ler employed on the recommendation of the bookkeeper. | fhe firm got out a daily market sheet now, is was copied in manifold in Nellie’s office, who was! ‘inning to get considerable work from the chums, ‘It will be cheaper for you to hire a gir] for yourself,” she ad to Fred one day, when she presented ber weekly bill. ‘Prebably, but you stuck by us, little girl, from the start, and were a great help to us in many ways. We are going to stick to you, no matter what it costs,” he Kepues fou are very good,” she answered, “but I am yrgenerous | ‘i yack now, and I don’t want to rob you. 1 } «jy “You've already robbed me of the most bye cetie. 8 thing I poss esses, Nellie.” i LY, Mr.——” op the mister. ‘though you won't let on.’ ‘She locked down at the carpet and made no ropes +. “Do you love me or don’t you?” ae Yes, Fred. I have always loved you from——” know, and youll marry me some day not far off?” “Tf you wish me to.”, ; : Hs course I do,” he said, etching her in his artis and Kis Pane ng mg just as the private room door opened and Bert You've stolen my heart, and you kelow s# B D be f rut > iat he ee ae He ‘aaped and hastily. walked out again. CHAPTER xv. CONCLUSION. There now, see what you've done!” she cried in great con- ‘Bigion, struggling to escape from. his embrace. “What have I done? Just kissed you, that’s all.” ; reed ‘O.K.'d her bill and she collected the money from the iokkeeper on her way back to her own quarters. i ‘hen Bert came in. eB. a ‘aa Res he remarked, with: a grin. a hy} * r You saw me ant aon none ua but she he ‘aid, and pas nearly "pads a fit.” yful- il fit, for = kissing her you have : ed. ” oF Sntaaliges you ‘on Sa tnfenn such a > girl If you Nal in’t taken her I would have ‘tried my fas, luck os her. didn’t know before you were a tailor. i That do you mean by that?” — Be Why, I caught you pressing your sult’ Funny boy. re’s lots of time. We're young yet. If we embark | “we'll take you siete to do the Owe sng." me funny yourself.” — MONE ide. hat did you | = Ag IN: THE MONEY GAME. Eo do you two expect to ecu on the sea of fioaitit: : rE T appeaj Lit” ‘le “I took 4 bunch of orders oyer to Davis. messenger boy as well as junior partner.” “I thought you liked to run around on the outside, So ldo. By the way, I was in the Empire Cafe! bite.” “ “After a ‘bite? There's no dogs in that place,” dost” a Freq. “Oh, say, cut it out! I saw Fosdick in there with ee i of friends,” “Well?” ‘ “He's putting up a Job on us." F a ee “Is he? How kind of him. tow did you learn about’, * a “Overhcard their conversation. We're going te Bet. ¢ $F tip to buy A. & B. We are to be told taere is: a’ SYR 4G j beliind it. As goon as we bite——" B's : aie: Fe “Tf we do.” *The Fosdick bunch will bring about a slump and cart, “Tf the Fosdick bunch ean do that they're good on¢ yi | got ‘the tip already, but it didn't come from the osdh _ crowd. Mr. Mason was in here, and he tel@ me to.ge in. A. & B. He gave us an order to buy 10,000 shares” fe “hi to be delivered C. O, D. at his bank. If the Fosdi¢k bur a > icounting on A, & B, to put us in a hole they're off thei ( 'Maybe they’ get pinched themselyes,” said Fred. eee : ines said Bert. ‘Wd like to see them caught iy the wh trap.’ x L Later on Fred got a note from a broker he. Enew, i ta off to A, & B ieee iy. “Get in for ‘all you’ re worth and you'll make a att ofico i isaid the broker. ¥red grinned. ile went out and bought the 10,009 shares for Mr. ‘eae Then he called on Fosdick. ie “Want to sell me another option?” “On what?” ; tt Role Bye, 4 ‘ ta “Phinds it's going up?” eniunea Posdick, Cate his 3 “Ido. Its going at 90, Tl give you 92." if “Make. ita halt and Tl take you.” > ; “A half goes,” and the deal was made for 5, 000 shar} Fosdick was in gteat glee. - Did he go out and buy the stock, for by So. doing he to win $12,500? te did not. Onthe contrary, he and nis siontia' sot together and Wy on A. & B. : The price sagged. The syndicate behind helped on the one: work by, Knock in it down. to 80. Gk WN eee Fosdick could tlave shouted for joy he was ‘go. Bassett & Rowe were over $60,000 to tho ba That was true, but the option had seven days 3 Next day, A. & B. began to recover, and it recove that it took Fosdick’s breath away. Eb By the time he woke up it was going at 95. ; Hic found himself as much to the bad as he might: ‘ to the good. oan 3 Pie Fie bought, however, and it was licky:he ‘Aid'so, rey On the day the option expire: A. & B, was going at phi yee ay Fred called on Mz. Mason, who, by previous ac advanced the boy $200, 000. Z Then the boy. called on Fosdick for. ‘the. stock oa per i option. “T’s hy pothecated at my, bank,” said the broker, sourly, “We'll go over to the bank, then.” ©« tb We They did and the Stock was released. Fred carried it to Davis and he sold it right away 2 market price, and 80,000 instead of gétting Pitter ‘Basset Rowe made over $60,000 on the option... Ie With a cash capital of $160, 000 and 66, 000. poe shares sf Minerva and Cir gretiE Consaiidated. worth, 35 Pen hi e he said E ee me ‘ing ‘every week, ¥ eee And so we will leave ‘tier. in the ee gam. eyes fixed on half a million in the future and d tain ou the luck of two Wall Street chums. Next week's: igsue will contain “A. GOLDEN TREAS B OR, THE MYSTERY OF AN OLD TRUNK,” a ahs ¥ et i w the
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2 ae Pe the St. Quentin station on the Northern Railroad | nenance there has just been installed a wireless tele- heh station for réceiving time signals from the Liffel set the station clocks more accurately than before. The distance from Paris is about 95 miles, so that the time signals are well re¢eived even with fie. small aerial used. ‘No doubt the railroad will extend the use of the wireless 10d. j in the future. A station which is so equipped can Iso send the time. over the ordinary telegraph lines ‘to ther railroad stations. Defying: the doctor’s instructions that a “seventy-five ear old kid” couldn’t fast for more than a day or two, orge P, Bemis, ex-mayor of Omaha, fasted for fifteen d one-half days, and says he feels 200 per cent. het- than he did before. “In all that time I did not eat a , only drinking water,” he said. “I just wanted to the clinkers out of my system, and I did it all right. the end of the fasting, October 2, I wound up with a rkish, steam and shower bath and a shampoo thereafter. d I will be seventy-five years old next March. I started fasting September 24, after mae and finished it the gal’ October 9.” mae “i The iimtestion of what is er to Ga testes as the Great n erican ‘Desert has shown this strip of country to be ery fertile land that had needed only adequate water ply, and the extension of irrigation has been’ part of evelopment of several of the great electrical trans- systems in the arid zone. At the same time the re ‘efined experience with irrigation has shown an t application of the electric motor, viz, for the ‘work necessary to make the newly ‘provided r supply available to the farmer. The actual amount water needed (under skillful farming) is’ small and y be brought to the farmer’s very door by motors sup- d with electrical energy at a favorable rate, viz., $20 pe horse power for the six months’ season. pitthog for the pardon of a modern Jean Valjean is a ig largely signed in New Orleans, La. The case is that ‘Emile Dealon, arrested two days ago for a crime com- Mitied thirty-three years ago. For many. years Deaton ad been considered a model citizen in New Orleans. His eat was caused by. an anonymous letter. Before at- I his majority, Dealon and Wdward Broderick, who Ince has died, set fire to a church on St. Charles avenue, prank. They were arrested and Broderick turned evidence, Dealon, who did not reveal his real is sent. to the State penitentiary for fourteen er a few months he dug his way out from the or years drifted about the world. Eighteen ie went back to New Orleans settee down il FAME AND cD FORTUNE WEEKLY. eeeeeeteetoete CURRENT NEWS 19 Mme. Emma Calve, whose Carmen has enthralled three eontinents, may never have the full use of her voice again. The diva was forced to ‘cancel her engagement at the »| Olympic Theatre at St. Louis Nov. 17 at nearly the last ; moment, and is confined'to her room at the Hotel Jeffer- son, Two throal specialists are attending her. A conges- tion of the larnyx, which keeps her from speaking above a whisper, became more pronounced late in the evening. The inflamed’ condition is confined to her throat, doctors say. Preston Walsh, her manager, blames Chicago atmos- | pheric conditions for her malady. This morning when she “arose she found she could not speak. “I hope Mme. 9 Calve will recover,” said ‘Dr. Oliver Campbell. “This. : ‘ probably is nothing but a violent cold which will pass’. away, but it is possible her voice will be eget = ida manently.” Dr, Samuel Woodrow, pastor of the First Congrega- tional Church, Washington, and cousin of. President-elect Wilson, preached a sermon’ recently. on the “Social Un- rost,” in which he said in part: “A young man in New _ York inherited recently $65,000,000, for, which he toiled an not, neither did he spin. His father had” not either toiled or spun. This young. man, if placed on his own resources, a} Peould not make five dollars a week. I tell you that: auch ray izhts as these cause more anarchists than all the radical street speeches that ever were matle. Statistics 'show that 0 per cent. of all the wealth of the country is in the hands — of 5 per cent. of the people. It would he much better if - Rockefeller and Carnegie, instead of giving millions to found libraries and great charities, should have given the - 2 people, by just wages and moderate prices for the neces- sities of life, the opportunity to build. their own libraries.” The United States will prohab ly possess the oldest , painting on canvas in the world in a short time se picture, which was discovered by Robert de Rus Luxor, Egypt, is about 3,500 years old, and it is ex in wonderfully bright eolors on well preserved cloth, belongs to the period when art in Kgypt had’ reache zenith, and the figures in it are not nearly so. stiff a usual roek paintings ornamenting the interior of Egy; tombs. Rustafjaell i is associated with an English con any engaged in agriculture in upper Egypt, and all his’ spare time is devoted to arehaeology. Besides the painting he has uncovered some valuable papyri and the largest collec tion ever made of Egyptian flint instruments. Before | he left Luxor with the painting an American traveler offered the finder a large sum for the.work, but at that time he was determined to keep it for his own collection’ — and refused to patt with it. Since his return, however, @ the offers have been raised to such @ figure that he has consented to negotiate for its sale. Rustafjaell declares that the most tempting offers have been made by the Lon- | don glia of. it ne collectors, and he feels sure that
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‘FAME AND Sam Sus WHEKLY. BOB B AXTER THE YOUNG STAMP COLLECTER OR, A THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM ONE A By GASTON GARNE CHAPTER XVII. (Continued) “Who is a thief himself—and you know it!” cried Bob, indignantly. “I never stole the album, miss. The story he told you was all a lie. If yon had only been willing . to listen to me you would have been spared all this, but I don’t understand how your brother came to leave the album with you.” “T can tell you nothing ee it,” said Mattie, and I’m sure I don’t want to do you any injustice. You have saved my life, and I shall never forget it. You-~——” » “Stop a minute. Let me tell you the whole story!” cried Bob, and as ‘they made their way through the fog the story was told. “Tt can’t be possible!” cried Mattie. he would never do such a thing! scoundrel. He has pestered me with his attentina for weeks. Why was he not on board the aro if what you say is true?” “Do you know that he was not?” “Well, of course I can’t be sure, but I:did not see him,” -“You may depend upon it that he was there. You would have seen him soon enough. I am inclined to think that your brother left the album behind by accident. He must have found it under the bricks, where I hid it. What excuse did he make to get you on the steamer ?” _ “He'told me that Mr. Schlingerwitz, the man I work for, was on board, and wanted to see me.” { “chlingerwitz ! Do you mean the dressmaker on Fifth Avenue?” mm, “Yet. He is my petpinyer: cs _ “Why, I thought “You mean,” interrupted Mattie, “that, like every one ele, you wondered why I appeared at the theater dressed - Tike a millionaire’s daughter, while my home was in a dirty tenement house on the Hast Side?” -_ €T own up I did wonder at it,” said Bob, “but you needn’t tell me anything you don’t want to. If you still believe me a thief, Miss Jing “ “But I don’t. I now believe every word you have told me is true, and I won’t have you call me Miss Jing again. Bob Baxter, I am Mattie to you from this moment. You saved my life, you have proved yourself faithful to the trust my poor father imposed in you, I ; “You shall have the money I got for that are inter- rupted Bob. “You must take it. vel, “But I won't. Father gave you. the spins and the “Bad as Bill is, i Charles Walling is a} (A SERIAL STORY) j money is rightfully yours. my secret ?” “Oh, I don’t care,” said Bob, delighted with the ee alteration in Mattie’s manner toward him. “If it is any- thing you would want to keep to yourself a “But. it isn’t. It’s nothing that Iam ashamed of,” nee , sisted Mattic. “I’m Paklingare itz’s dummy—that’s all. ie “What do you mean ?” “T mean that I amhired to‘exhibit all the latest “tashidee in public. I drive the women crazy with my elaborate toi- lets, and they immediately rush to Schlingerwitz’s and or- der dresses like the ones I wear. Now, Bob Baxter, you . know all there is about it. Dear me’! it is beginning to rain, and the dress I have on under this old cloak ig worth three hundred dollars—it will be charged to me if it is spoiled! What shall I do?” = “We are right in shore now,” said Bob. “Draw your cloak about. you. Perhaps you can save the dress. Pshaw¥ I thought I was eee directly for Mr. Percival’s pier, but this seems to be another place.” ee It was another place, and a yery lonely one. A In the darkness and fog Bob could only distinsuich a E anh old stone house standing close to the beach, upon” which he had pulled the boat. Pik The rain was pouring in torrents, and as there way not another house near, Bob helped Matic out, seized the * big album, and together they hurried up the beach, guided” by. a light which burned in one of the windows in the lower » story of the house. 4 When they reached the spot Bob was surprised to find * that the house was a mere ruin, searcely fit for human habitation, é The deor stood wide open, and when he had conducted ~ Mattie in he found that they had the whole place to them- _ selves. There was no one there. When he called there was no. answer. The room was dirty and bare; the plastering had fallen in heaps; even the floor seemed hein and ihe root leaked so badly that the rain came pouring down into the g lower hall over the stairs: Yet in spite of all this there was a lantern hanging upon. But don’t you want to hear | this lantern here,” exelaimed Bob, after he had coe : a nail driven into one of the window sashes, the feeble flame — ——for the lantern was lighted—-shining out upon the bay. “Well, upon my word, I’m much obliged to whoever left ee exploration ‘s the house eee eee ers OO ays
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. fone a VRS Ee Ne OO “Let us take possession of the room above this, Mattie.| .“I laid it down by ihe window. “Come into the front The windows are all whole up: there, and yow'll find it} room here, and keep perfectly still. WM bring it to you. more comfortable. As soon as morning comes, and it won’t| Maybe they won't stay long.” be long,, P'll get a carriage and take you to New York.”| “They'll be sure to stay till the rain is over. I’m’afraid — This plan was agreed upon, and taking the lantern, Bob| there will be trouble befere we are through with this busi- led the way upstairs, ness, Bob.” As they were passing through the hall a‘gust of wind,| « They’re coming in,” said Mattie. “Let go Bob. # promise to behave ae “4 : hots (To be Continued) — 3 ey 2.
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KINDNESS WON HER RICHES. . Miss Marion L. Covert, a cripple, of Poughkeepsie N. Y., will receive $150,000 left her by Gerald Thurston, a Chicago piano manufacturer, as the result of attentions shown him more than twenty years ago when she was six years old. Thurston died three years ago in Chicago. There will be a final accounting in Brooklyn, and Miss Covert will then receive the property willed to her. Miss Covert met Thurston in Marlborough’ while she was visit- ing relatives there and Thurston was boarding at a neigh- boring farmhouse. She gave him flowers and hunted the finest fruit in the orchards for him. He returned to _ Marlboreugh every summer and spent much time with the child. When he was in Chicago they exchanged letters and kept up the friendship. Miss Covert was surprised to learn that the aged man had left her most of his prop- erty. . When seen the other night Miss Covert said she was very happy, but had not fully decided about her plans for the future, except that she would probably go to New York to live and have her parents make their home with hex, TURKEY BETRAYED? Has Turkey been sold? The following story from Bucha~ rest, if true, would go far to prove that the almighty dol- lar has played a leading part in the disaster that has over- taken Ottoman arms: “Turkey was sold to King Ferdinand before he took the field. He had used part of his enormous ape 4 fortune through his agents in Constantinople: ‘to such effect that not only was he in possession of the most treasured secrets of the Turkish war office, but he’ was assured of the mas- terly inactivity of some of the leaders of the Turkish forces. “Tf you. will look at the direction and daring of Gen. Savoff’s policy it becomes at once apparent, that he had ~ other forces to help him than those which were under his direct command. He would not have dared to face halt the risks before him if money had not spoken. ' “Dissensions between generals, unwise night attacks, unsupported movements, a policy of waiting and of fight- ing at the wrong moment, the occupation of strategic posi- _ tions and the checkmate always awaiting the movements of generals who thought that they were about to surprise the enemy-—these facts tell their own story. 4 “There is reason to believe the authorities in Constan- _ tinople know by now that King Ferdinand’s purse has been at least, as long as his arm.” |... “MOTOR CYCLISTS AS ESCORT. - When Governor Wilson becomes President Wilson and rides down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington on the fourth day of March next, thirty motor cyclists from his fap old home state will be part of his escort. _ The thirty motor cyclists are members of the Savainah “(Ga,) 3 Motor Cycle Olub, and each rider has affixed his name to a written request that the motor cycle escort be. “4 . { UB ae tras fapatigd : r “ aenepted, by Governor Wilson, This request has been for-| FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. — FACTS WORTH READING | | parations for the ‘event. ere long be exhausted,” warded to the governor, and the motor cyclists are con- fident that the reqnest will be granted. Governor Wilson was born’ in Georgia. Mrs. Wilson at one time called Savannah “home.” It is for these reasons particularly that the Savannah motor cyclists desire to do honor to the incoming Président by forming part of his escort on the day of his inauguration. It is understocd that the Georgia Hussars, the oldest military organization in the State, will also escort Gov- ernor Wilson on March 4. So, confident are the Georgia motor cyclists that their request will be granted that the club is now making pre- The thirty riders are planning to ride to Washington from Savannah, starting on Feb. 25 and taking one week for the trip. They would expect to proceed in a leisurely way. The club of which they are members will give them a big. “send-off.” Every member of the club is a member of the Federa- tion of American Motor Cyclists, and the club itself is affiliated with the F. A. M. : GIANT FOREST PIG. fen, Africa is not only pre-eminently the land of mammals; it is the home of many large and curious beasts, says Dr. Frederick A. Lucas, director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. From Alfred J. Klein the museum has received speci- mens of the giant forest pig, which have been mounted by F. Blaschke and placed on exhibition. © - “Wor something like fifteen years,” says Dr. Lucas, “ ait was suspected that the forests of Central Africa harbored some giant member of the hog family, but owing to the — retiring habits of the animal it was not until 1904 that.a_ specimen fell into the hands of a naturalist and the ani-. mal was properly introduced to the scientific world. | “Very little is known of this new acquisition at the — museum, partly on account of the hahits of the animal, — which are nocturnal, and its abode in, the tall grass of the jungle. re “The hunter forees his way through ae bamboos and underbrush up to his eyes in grass—there is a grunt and |a rush away and the game ig never seen. “On the slopes of Mount Kenia at an elevation of 6, 000 feet, Carl E. Akeley found evidences of numbers of these. pigs, their tracks following iy elephant wales in cis i region. ie The body of the forest pig is deep and reer and ae head is long and equipped with upturned ferocious look- ing tusks. It is said to be quick and roree when in” action, a “Tt is quite probable that other curious specimens 1 Te- main to be discovered,” says Dr. Lucas, “although wi the rapid opening up ‘of the country and its exploration. by sportsmen, it would” seem. that. ite ein: ~
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 93° IN THE KLONDIKE : ‘A BRAVE FIGHT FOR GOLD AND FAME 3 By ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG (A SERIAL STORY) : CHAPTER XXIV (Continued) ~ ©To be sure, sir, but I will take no money for. it,” the ‘ ‘woman said, her greedy eyes fastened upon the leathern bag that he drew from the breast of his hunter’s frock. “Just 4 moment, sir. My only daughter is ill, and I will j fix up another bed for you. She has been so bad that » “To not let me turn. your sick daughter out of her room,’ the stranger interrupted, politely. “I can rest in any corner, for I assure you that I am tired enough. A _ blanket hefane th fire will do, and I——” A slight noise in the other room caused him to turn his : head, and the next instant he had caught a glimpse of Valera’ s face, One bound, and he had seized her by the arm, and drawing her forth into a larger and lighter Foor, he called huskily : “My girl, who are your What is your name?” s “My. daughiter, sir, who has been so ill,” Mag whined, ‘ her eyes blazing, ‘while she drew from her bosom a fearful in looking knife, holding it up before Vallera’s eyes, but.) ' where she stood the stranger could not see it. dearie—-come back to bed agin. Her hand was on Vallera’s arm, but with a ‘ery “of fear the: girl clung to her new protector, and seeing that the game was up, with an oath the hag made a motion to draw a revolver, but the unknown was quicker. “None of that,” he said, sternly, covering the old fiend witht his weapon. “Vou canndt fool me! I want you to go and stand’in that corner with your face to the wall. First, lay that knife and revolver on the table. There now, do not move until I bid you, or V’ll fire. The first sign ‘of treachery seals your doom.” - Mattering something about being innocent and mean- ing no harm, she obeyed him. Then he turned to the trembling girl, asking hoarsely: BU tate 38 “Tell me what is your name. Do not keep me in sus- ense, for I could swear that-my wife, my dear dead love, lost to me forever—in this life—had ‘come back from the grave. Your name, my child, your name!” — Looking at him Vallera felt her heart grow warm and der, toward this man. She had no fear, nothing save dship and trust. My name is Vallera De Toures, and my father——” “Stands before you!” burst from the stranger’s lips, and e caught her in his arms. “Oh, my child, my long-lost li ile daughter. Heayen has given you back to me after all 4 years, and Henri De Toures and his wicked wife, MEO: y 3 ; What made ye get up, | have not had their revenge after all. They have caused me misery encugh, but my time has come. Vallera, do you doubt that I am your father?” ‘1 know you are my father,” she smiled, leaning her head upon his breast. “My heart told me so the moment: I looked into your eyes.’ “My darling,” and the father kissed her tenderly. “Some day I will tell you the whole sad tale, It would take too long now.'. Let us get away from this! fearful place before y / ha A sound of many yoices came suddenly to their ears, and springing to the door, he barred it, saying hurriedly: “They have discovered my hiding place and we must fight for our lives. Heaven help us, my child, for——” “Vallera! Vallera!”’ called a yoice, and at the sound of it. the girl gave a ery of joy. “Allie’s voice!” she cried. “Allie, Allie, T-have foun my father, my own dear father!” It wag ihe searching party, and five minutes later Val- “Qome, j Jera was standing between father and sweetheart, an arm. of each about’ hen, Her story was soon. told, and’ then they wended their way. homeward, leaving Mag to aMtaty the arrival of Rex Bouton and his teniper. Tt was a happy night ‘all around, and when a messen- ger was sent for Judge Darrell, and he went hastily to — Vallera’s home, only to find his beloved nephew alive and — well, his joy knew no bounds. Basil who suspected some- thing followed him, and peeping through the window, saw it all. Not a word did he say, but creeping quietly back home again, he proceeded to rifle his uncle’s desk and safe, an undertaking that was more than profitable, for he had a difficult task in finding a way to carry the money which was not his own. Still he did not hesitate or falter. He managed to get away with it all. Leaving a cool, inipu-” dent note behind him, regretting his departure, he quietly — went forth from the home that had sheltered him, leaving his uncle—a beggar! And from that day they never met. again. He was never even heard of by one of the family. So he never faced. Aldin after his crime of attempted murder. However, Judge Darrell was not left a beggar, ne i through Alain and Vallera, he once more built wp another + — fortune. Gilbert Forrest, Vallera’s father, was also very wealthy, and by and. by he told her the story of her life. We will not repeat it, for. it was the old, old story of hatred — and revenge, a sipleri child, a ditto dying of a broken heart, and “Heaven at diet making all = nagntes AB.
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24, for the guilty ones, Henri De Toures was killed over a game of cards in “The Delphine,” and his wife returned to Paris. Rex Bouton was shot in the Klondike for steal- ing his partner’s gold. Ahd now, we will leave our heroine and her hero. They ~ - are still in the Klondike, and will remain there for many a day yet. Fortune smiles upon them, and old and young, rich and poor, high and low, all love and reverence the Princess of the Klondyke. THE END. A NEW SHRIAL - BEGINS NEXT WEEK THE TITLE WILL BE NED, BESS AND MYSELF The Search for the King s Lest Gold Mine); BY ED. KING BE SURE TO EEAD IT NEXT WEEK——— U. S. ARMY HORSE PROVED INFERIOR. The need of better horses for the United States army was emphasized at the late horse show. The breed of these horses is, improving year by year, yet at the show AeA horses are not as good as those of foreign armies. the pick of our horses were at the show. I sincerely hope that public opinion will perstiade Congress to provide the ~ otism,’? they appeared distinctly inferior to the horses ridden by the English, Belgian and Dutch army officers. All the Enropean powers maintain great establishments to pro- yide remounts for their cavalry and artillery. Capt. Guy V. Henry, Thirteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., instructor in the mounted service school at Fort Riley, Kansas, said in the closing hours of the show: ©The public must ‘have realized at the show that our And remounts we should have.” - Lieut. E. Van Dooven of the Belgian army said; “The American army oflicers showed marked improve- ment in' their horsemanship, and their mounts were better. - I have watched them with keen interest for two years at the exhibitions in Stockholm and London. International ~ complications have much to do with the improvement. Be- sides some of the gentlemen. of the American National Association have given stallions to. the remount depots of the UmNted States.army. This displays the finest patri- P. A. Kenna, who won the Victoria Cross in the and who was the hero of the horse show, said: Col, Soudan, ... “On the other side, officers haye realized for a long time |. the need of foresight in regard to remounts. “there is a change here. ‘I can see In a little while aS same will be true with the mounted service of your army.” - The three Holand Hussars who took the lion’s share of gat prizes—Lieuts, Labouchere, a Sa and Mathon—were «reticent. ‘ - ‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘ments at that time, he succeeded in securing the one Ege! of valuable material and information being obtained. On - “Next year when we meet: sain: we will tell what we | "think bss: the American oe aerin band ore i | + NOW HEADS EXPLORATION.’ Leo E.' Miller of Indianapolis left that city recently for the upper Orinoco Valley, in South America, as the head of an exposition sent there by the Museum of Natural History. In February, 1911, Miller went to Colombia with a museum expedition, but in a far different capacity. He went that time “for experience,” and at his own expense. He was a tenderfoot.. He had never been any distance from his home town before in his life. The reason for the decided elevationof his place in this expedition is his remarkable success in the last one Though he was only an amateur bird enthusiast and student, according to his own summing up of his. attain- trophy sought by the party. Jt was partly for the purpose of making a biological survey of certain sections of Colombia that the museum sent out the party, but the special purpose was*to secure, possible, specimens of the cock-of-the-rock, one of the aia beautiful of the feathered folk of the tropics, as well as one of the rarest. Little was known then of its habits, and specimens of it were ae by only a few museums in the world. : | When all others gave up the task Miller strove to find the bird, and did. “He brought back eighteen specimens, — as well as many eggs and nests, though he nearly lost his life several times. The museum, through his work and— : direction, has the best collection of that rare bird now known. Sy y Before he returned, in ‘September of the present. year, Miller had been a regular member of the musum staff, Now he goes out as head of the present ee da which will be of a year’s duration. The purpose of the present trip of exploration is som what akin to the preceding one. The country traversed will be studied, as will the birds and mammals, specimens, of which will be brought back by the party. In February, 1911, the other expedition started out. wi Frank M. Chapman, curator of birds, in charge. Colomb was the destination, Later Mr. Chapman and an artist of the party left Miller,, who continued his explorations southward, finally going into a practically unknown cow: try, the Cocal. The pack mules were discarded, and In f dians were engaged to carry the outfits. ‘The only inha OS a itants met in the Cocal were a few degenerate eens and Indians. In all, Miller and his Indians tramped fifteen’ hundred miles, The suffering was so great that several times he was tempted to turn back. He reache ed Noanama, which place he called the sickliest in the world He traveled about’ twice the distance on rafts ane in’ we sthall boat that he did on foot. ie In his long journey Miller discovered, besides the sick: liest place, one which he considered the most it) fale: Nei oe a4 As the region to which ,the latest dane is oie is considered one of the richest for exploration, museum officials said there was every possibility of a great quanti ti ty the last expedition twenty-four hundred Bac: - bir dg and mammals were collected. A
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Everybody tips his hat at Harvard these days. The custom has been growing gradually for several:years and it is now in full bloom. erery student of the university and there are over 5,000 of them—tips his hat to Presi-| ent Lowell when he meets him on the street or in the } yard,-and the chief executive of Harvard returns the silent i greeting in like manner. The students universally wecognize Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs and Dean Byron . Hurlbutt and several other w ee known. members of the Harvard faculty by tipping the hat. Students in the | ‘courses at the college are. expected te tip their hats to the profe assors or assistant professors whether th ey know them personally or not. The line is drawn. against the instruct- 3, however. Dr. Philip Newton, lecturer and inves Shite of the Na- | tional aici in W ashington, D. C., who has just ‘re- turned from the Philippines, pélieves ihat the diminu-} ¢ Live ‘negroes called the Negritos, who are, found in the mountains. of all the larger islands - of the Philippine | rOUp, are the original natives of the Philippines. . “They | re been pradually driven into the mourtaina by super- | rees,” said Dr. Newton, “and I presume there are not e han 25,000 of them in the islands. They are the ct type of savage. They have no houses, wear no FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FROM ALL POINTS it has just been reported that the concession conveying — possession of the harbor of St. Thomas, West Indies, to — a powerful sy ndicate of ‘Danish financiers’ has ‘now been revoked and control has passed back to the Danish eae : ernment. “If is stated thatthe revocation was due to dem- — onstrations made in Denmark against it because of the m possibility of the syndicate transferring the concession to a foreign power. \Germany was the nation chiefly fearcd= in this connection. Rumors of the possible German ac-— quisition of St. Thomas, now held by Denmark, were first heard many years ago, when Denmark wanted to interest the United States in purchasing the island. Captain Christmas came to this country and offered the island for $4,000,000. Since then, at intervals,-the story has been circulated that an international syndicate was on the point of acquiring St. Thomas and that Germany wanted to ‘buy or lease it as a naval base in western waters. Such a sug- gestion is absolutely fantastic, and was never seriously: considered by the state department. Culture of bacteria that-cause diseases among tats and other rodénts havé been ‘used for several years as means for’ exterminating these pests, Experiments made with sev- eral different species of bacteria in the tropics have in” many cases given inconclusive réesults;” but ‘the experts ng and live by hunting. Occasionally-—very decane | Meutution is being continued. In Jamaica, where the rata i j—they 5 erow a little:rice. They use poisoned ar: |eause a yearly loss of half a million dollars to the eocoa 4 and are very similar in stature and habits to the | plant, a special study has been made of this method of rat _ an dwarts. The men are usually four feet six or inches in height, and the women about four feet Among. themselves they think nothing of tn the northeastern part of Luzon there are oilies of them in a ee never Hee penetrated | football coaching headquarters were closed Nov. r the § season. Head Coach Howe has gone toh his home ew Jersey, and will devote the remainder ‘of this ool year to Y. M. C. A. work. He may study law later. oach MeDevitt has gone to Annapolis to drill the ards this: week, and’ Scully and Vaughan. have Yale’ s football réceipts for the sea- vill amount to about. $70,000. This includes $34,000 the Harvard game, $28, 000 from the Princeton e, $10,000 from the Brown game, and the remainder he minor contests. This will be easily increased by $100, 000 another ae with the ‘opening of thé new te stadium at Yale and the game in the Harvard stadium. Yale’s outlook for next season is. fair, with tt, Ketcham, Pendleton, Warren, Avery, Flynn, Car- nold, Punelly, Markle, Castles and Cornell, of this rans, in the squad. Ketcham, ceritre,. will prob- ted 1918 captain next week. In case the pres- @ “ace eeiae pa) Philbin, Shes : Zz CLUE PIE EE A se oP SENT SS SEE tas AA extermination.’ Since 1908 there has heen at work a goy- . » ernment commission on the extermination ‘of rats. “After: trying and discarding poisons and traps, the commission furned to thetuse of a virus. It soon came to the conclu- sion that the cultures prepared in Europe underwent cer- — itain deteriorative changes because of the heat and light and thus lost their efficacy. In some cases the ies: . cultures even imparted to the rats a-certain race Bp 5 againgt further inoculation. It is always necessary to use the virus fresh and in sufficient quantities. Mr, Cousins, — ; director of the ‘agriculture for the colony, undertook the vie study of ‘a virus adapted to the tropics and succeeded, = aiter a year, in producing encouraging results with a virus w prepared in his laboratory, The virus is inoeulated into. rats that are then set free. Mr. Ashby, chief of the gov ernment laboratory at Kingston, states that the rats in- — fected with the cultures died in from three to five day. ep If they become infected naturally there is a period of — several days during which they do not seem to suffer at all; then the symptoms develop rapidly, leading to. many) deaths. He confirms the view that the virus prepared m2 cold countries fails to do the desired work in the’ ‘tropics. - The best results were obtained by making sub-eultures: the imported virus at Kingston, then’ inoculating a numbe: of rats and setting them at liberty. These rats di few days, in the meanwhile spreading the co other rats. The dead rats are eaten by the sur | | continuing the Sane extermination even afte: pe | “ty we
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nac. Lake, N. Y.,; Nov. _ for deer. at each other by the two armies was 566 tons. 25 Paine ae Pornine Weekly NEW oe DECEMBER 27; pee Near eI ESI a ee UA RENE SOOO dan BESET ROO TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS a SIAC OPNR GS womens Eady) hg do uabeincemewmcanl cra daetany 105 Cents One Copy Three Months. “ .65 Cents j One Copy Six Mouttts,...... $1.25 Une Copy One Yeur......... $2.50 Postage Free, HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P.O. Money Order. Check or Registered Lever: remitiances in auy onher way i ace ab your riak We Accept Postage Mvampes (ho gavhie As Cash, When sending stiver wrap the Coin in aseparare place of paper te ‘avoid cutting the énvel: ope. 1 Pile your naule and Uaaidtes plainly, Adaréss deecers bo Frank Tousey, Publisher 168 West 23d St, N.Y. Sincniaih Fenaxr, Crasidons i XR. Hasrinas, Km Re tee Hreaarer INELANREB, Seereee} ae Bet Ta Liat AE I SNe Toiden, © 17 years oe fell with his rile ef Noe: 29, while hunting rabbits, and re- eeived a bullet in the groin. This is the thirty-sixth hunting accident in New York State this fall. Several of those shot are dead. Many of the victims were mistaken The. game season is not closed on rabbits, and the list of casualties is likely to be sti ll greater before it is over. The entire number of men engaged on both sides in the} battle of Gettysburg was 160,000; Federal, 90,000, Con- federates, 70,000. The losses were 53,432, about equally divided eer the Blue and the Gray. During the three days’ fighting the aggregate amount of lead and iron shot In the ' light of this fact’ the wonder is that the losses were not - much greater. The steel gasoline schooner Osprey and her crew of six i men were lost at the entrance of the port of Marshfield, | to Buenos Ayres, where he was taken aboard ae: St Quen- | keeper, making another moye on the Sones: : ‘as @ passenger, — ras 7 é : sta : covering a distance of 39,000 miles. out ‘aboard a freighter for Europe via Suez. Oregon, Nov. 1, when the vessel crashed into the jetty ina heavy sea. Captain Jacobson tried to bring the schooner in over the bar, where the waves were running - mountains high, but the wind failed him and his boat was swept down on the jetty. Christofferson, the avi- ator, with a newspaper reporter, made two trips out over the wrecked vessel in his biplane, but could do nothing to save the crew. ‘The Barber freighter St. Quentin brought in from Buenos Ayres the other day a lone passenger named Joseph R. Jordan, who has been sailing the seas for two years, His home is in Santa Barbara, Cal., and as soon as he was discharged from the St. Quentin he started for the Pacific coast. up to San Francisco in November, 1910, and after making _ merry for several nights woke up-one morning on board-a | A traveling man who was making his first trip to the tow tramp steamship bound for Japan. When he got to Yoko- Later he sailed up and down the African coast and finally crossed FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | unsatisfactory, owing to the political outlook, and to the | popular tendency to hoard gold go as to be ready for any Jordan went } The Bank of France continues its rigid restriction of — payments in gold, but is issuing enormous quantities of hank notes in small denominations of 50 franes, or $10,” and is putting a large amount of silver in circulation. Americans and others going shopping receive piles of big silver five-frane pieces in change for their payments by bank notes, and it is a common sight to see customers proceeding to their bankers to get checks cashed holding eanvas bags in their hands to receive cumbersome heaps of silyer coins. In fact, some banks supply these bags gratis. Leading financiers expect considerable shipments of gold- to the United States as a natural consequence of the splen- did American crops. The monetary situation there is emergency. _ JOKES AND JESTS. i “Whatever you do, dear,” wrote the ardent lover, “don't show my letters to you to any one.” “Have no fear, dear- est,” came the reply.. “I’m just. as much ashamed: oe them as you are.” And, with that, the engagement became a matter of histgry. Registry Clork-—It is necessary’for me to ask the mother of the bride if she has nothing to say before I proceed with the ceremony. Voice of Mother (in background )—All [ have to say is that if T hadn’{ had a good deal to say already they never would have landed here, ; peepstacoenso stat ee “Oh,” sobbed Mrs. Casey, ““some wan told me husband’ Pat he c’d have his pants pressed be lettin’ th’ steam roller — run over thim, an’ Pat troid th’ scheme!” “Well, aa Y do you ery?” asked her friend, Mrs. Garrity, “Oh!?>. wailed the wife, “Pat forgot t? take se pants off first ye “Why is it,” asked the curious ‘guest, “that: poet men usually give larger tips than rich men?” “Well, euh,’ 2 said the waiter, who was something of a philosopher” as ¢ well, “looks to me like de po’ man don’t want nobody. to. i find out he’s po’, and de rich man don't want nobody to : find out he’s rich.” \ 7 eae x “Where are we, Bobby?” she asked. “I don’t know, grandma,” answered the little boy. “‘Didn’t the brake- man say something just now?” “No. He just stu’ his head inside the door and sneezed.” “Help me with these things, Bobby!” she exclaimed, hurriedly. is Oshkosh, ae where we get off.” ers jis Se ee Ina South’ Carolina tows that was “finished” before the : war, two men were playing checkers in the back of a store, is ; é was watching the: oie) eee not being Satta ‘with the ataier of the totes te some customers who iad fda oa tered the front door. “Sh! Sh!” answered the! é Sra. : and Here go out.” ith
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y FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY. ; ae 4 sai j was deserted. The sitting-room was in. confusion, and THE CRAIGSTON MYSTERY. | everywhere there were’signs of a struggle. I felt that I had discovered the evidence of 4 crime, *This house is fatal!” I eried. “Why so? a neighbor asked. “Craigston was murdered here.. Now Mr. Barker and his daughter have either been murdered. and their bodies concealed, or they have been abducted,” ’ I replied. “Do you think that?” he‘asked. i “T do?” I sprang to my fect. I was excited. By Col. Ralph Fenton. / | [received a telegram from my old friend Jerome Barker “one Saturday night, summoning me to = house in the eet of Ashton. » T left New York the same night, for the tone of the : Peléstam was most urgent, This is a copy: ‘ “Ashton, October —, 188—. “Come at once, Must see you without delay.” and, heaven helping me, I'll track them down if it takes Rt Jerome Barker was a man well advaneed in years. He : a jifetime to accomplish the task,” I said. _ was poor. An unlucky speculation had impoverished him. - He was a widower. Qne child, a lovely daughter, who was _ the joy and sunlight of his home, had been ‘spared to him. . She was pure and good, gentle and affectionate. The ideal of womankind was she! and I considered myself a _ particularly happy man, bécalige she was my affi anced wife. Jerome Barker resided on the outskirts of the country ‘village, in ‘an old tumble-down structure that had once . - beet the pride of the county. Charles Craigston, a wealthy sea captain, built the slate in ten years before he was mysteriously murdered, and : b the: place fell to‘decay, and passed into other hands. To the day of which I am writing the secret of who S killed Charles Craigston had not been solved, and it Y - seemed that it never would be. 7 was not in the country at the time of the Craigston © tanerder, and had no hand in ‘the imyestigation of the case. ~~ Upon my arrival at Ashton I hurried on foot in the ' direction of Mr. Barker’s, My heart was full of joy. I "was soon to enfold the girl I loved in my fond embrace. Butt was algo curious, I could not help wondering what : Barker could want of me. Reaching his residence, I was surprised to find it closed. ere Was no evidence that anyone was at home. The ; _ blinds were drawn, ; I knocked. No answer. I tried the door. It was fas- nea: T was somewhat alarmed, Passing to the rear, P ak tried the door ‘there. ‘This: was also secured. All was silence. It oppressed me. +46 “Filled with misgivings, I took a seat on the porch. Sale wait a reasonable time for their return,” I thought. supposed they were not out of town. They would not have left after telegraphing me to come at ouce. Of this ‘was confident, Tt was evening. As the shadows lengthened I became ore and more uneasy. — “why do they not return??? - Again and again I saab bss this seston 1 could “not answer it, I waited an hotr pies Then I set out for the village, 5 mew amy affianeed and her father had some good friends | tion or that of her father. men. ‘They wore rough boots with large nails in the soles. The tracks led through the garden. They entered the meadow at the rear of the house.. Beyond was the wooded mountains. The forest there swept away for miles. Phe mountains were inhabited. ers—dwell in isolated cabins there. It struck me that the abductors’ of my affianced and her father’ had gone to the mountains, lost. I could follow it no farther. What was to be dote? I knew not. Upon whem should T eall for assistance? “We may as well turn back. The trail is lost,” I said, 3 thought I would organize a party and search the mountains, At this moment an old hackwoodsman, strode forward. He’s a bloodhound from Georgia. Sold his parents to an Tans Tom show. Got right smart fer *em, too. Specs I better send Belija Billdad—that’s my youngest son, this o? my bloodhound purp. Bet a coonskin he’ll track yer men down fet ese? i “Send the boy for the hound, by all means, Delay not que: on a run for his father’s cottage. there was still hope that I might find the missing: ones. But what had puzzled me was to find the motive for this loved by all, She had no suitor save my self. It seemed Ae FCW ve a rR Cad ata 2 a there. The residences of these friends I visited, but no} At last the boy, Belija Billdad, arrived, ‘Te lea a ‘gs nce of Nellie or her father could I find. No one. had | hound. The animal was yellow. He was, moreover, the © ‘that day. Iwas now positively alarmed. ~ most savage looking ‘specimen I ever saw in my life. “Tl find the trail of the assassins or the abductors, 3 I began the investigation. I found the tracks of several — A rude class of people—lumbermen amd charcoal burn- In the meadow the grass was thick. Tere the trail was | “Tye got a dog to hum that are lightnin’ on trailin’, } ere likely eul yere—arter Hunkidora, which are the name. “All right, guvner, I’m off,” said the boy, and he started ote We awaited his return. If the dog proved. of service, that no one in the world could gain anything by a Spdiee Boke a moment. I'll pay you well.” These remarks I made _ outrage. Why had Nellie and her father been carried off? i Therein lay the mystery. There was never yet a crime — committed without a motive. Mr. Barker wag a poor man, — and to my knowledge he had no enemies. Nellie wag be~. Accompanied by. some of the people of the town, I re- |. Meanwhile the hoy had put the hownd on the trail. “The 8 rned to the residence of Mr. Barket. The premonition ¢reature uttered a long-drawn howl. Then he darted : f e npending calamity was strong upon me. . | ‘away. With long’ arid rapid bounds he dashed across the field. We followed. re We reached the forest-clad mountain, pees re ehed t ‘the house. The door was forced. The in~| revealed, | There as Behe one there. The snp.
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hours we continued our pores: The ees was never at fault. _ Day grew to a close. became overcast. “Leoks like rain,” said the owner of the hound. “So it does, and-should it rain, will not the trail be lost? The water will destroy the scent,” I said. “That's right, cap; but I do hope, arter all the trouble we’ me tuck, it won’t up and rain and knock ug out in that Way,’ ’ replied the old woodsman. After that we anxiously watched the threatening heay- ens until the darkness became complete and we could no longer do so. The hours wore on. Midnight came. The ‘sky began to lighten. The moon came out. Still no rain, “We are all right now, and from the actions 0’ Hunki- Gora, I take it we are comin’ to our game,” said the old | woodaman, “Better be cautious now, dad,” said the boy Billdad. After this we advanced with cireumspection. Presently the report,of a rifle rang out. Mingled with The night came, on, and the sky £Yesen the detonation of the discharge came a terrible howl. “Oh, sufferin? Samson! They hev shot the purp. Oh, Hunkidora! Hunkidorat’ cried the old woodsman. As he spoke he bornded forward, gun in hand. Myself ‘and the others followed. A moment later, bursting through a thicket, we came upon a cleared space. Phere was a ledge of rocks there. Jn the ledge was the openmg ‘of a cave. A nan stood there with a sriols ing vifle in his hand. his feet lay the dead body of a hound. The old woodsman uttered a yell of rage at the sight. Bang! Thus his rifle spoke. He fired at the man who stood at the entrance of the cave. The bullet struck him. He fell. We all rushed to him. i ‘At that moment a scream from within the cave reached my ears. I entered it. I had recognized the yoice. It was that of Nellie Barker. . Within the cave I found her. I also found her father. Both were«prisoners, bound hand and foot: Quickly I severed their bonds. Then a hurried explanation followed. “Phe reason I telegraphed for you was this,” said Mr. +. Barker. i‘ Then he continued as follows: “Although T have always kept it a profound secret from all, even from Nellie, she a my daughter by adgption only. She was left at my door» when a mere thing» not more than two years old. _ My wife took her and ‘cared for her, and our hearts went out to her as though she were our own child. “4 few days ago a strange, dark-looking rman called at “may house. He made a good many inquiries, and led me 7 at wf Se ‘to talc of the past., Finally he asked me if I did not find a. little girl infant at my door seventeen years ago. ‘ ae deny bev “Nellie entered the room. At the sight of her the stranger was strangely agitated, and when oe ellie was gone he said: I did “That girl is the infant who was left = your door.” Then he went on to say that the child was his own, that he had been obliged to desert her, and that he had come: now only to assure himself | sa ae lived. es bbb AND: i! ORTUNE WEEKLY. «y and ees in soe? ae daughter always.” ; Soon after he was gone. That very night, after dark, T saw him lurking near the, house; and last night, as we ~ were about retiring f or the night, the door was dashed © open, and the shaver who elairaeel to be Nellie’s father — and two other men, all strangers to me, entered. We / were seized, bound and hurried here. The cause of the — outrage J cannot comprehend. An hour ago all the men.” ut the one who claimed to be Nellie’s father left. He — remained on guard. me This was Mr. Barker’s story. ea: As he concluded the boy Billdad entered the cave and said : ee “Phe man dad winged is pat and he wants to The mystery of that mau der was a mystery no more. “Tn a jewel case in my residence—rooms in sh cit the address of which you will find on this card, you will - find a locket containing the evidence of the identity . © the girl,” added the dying man with his last breath. Next day Nellic and I visited the dead man’s room Nellie sank into a chair, agitated and nervous, wh opened a jewel case on the table and took out the locket. It contained the needed papers to establish Nel claim to the fortune, and in due time she received Within the year we were married. eet The mileage of our blood circulation route astounding facts in our personal history. Thus it been calculated that, assuming the heart to, beat six nine times a minute at ordinary heart pressure, the. goes at the rate of 207 yards in the minute, - miles per hour, 168 miles per day and 6,320 year,’ Ifa man of eighty-four years of age co Q Hee blood eee preg in i Blood vile bie ee? he Keep her as your own: ‘ SEA a ae, St RSE aE a a
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Officials were surprised recently at Montgomery, Ala., when a winsome young woman called and requested that she be permitted to shine their boots. She proved to be ‘Miss Evelyn Altofair, originally of Nashville, Tenn., who started out from Mobile six months ago on a “shoe shin- ing” tour of the United States to win a wager of $1,500 and convince the world that a woman can do anything she sets her mind to. Under the agreement she is to go into every State in the Union, making her living through- out by blacking shoes. According to the latest reports from Monastir the Tark- ish garrison did not surrender, but fled in all directions, ‘ leaving a large amount of war material behind. After the terrific battle which preceded the fall of the city, most of the Turkish soldiers fled in the direction of Plorina, F fifteen miles to the southeast, pursued by the Servian cav- ~alry. The Turks lost 20, 000 killed and wounded in the i ‘battle, and the Servian casualties were also very heavy. - The Crown Princ® of Servia made his entry into "the eity the other day. : ¥ _. While the new variety of glass known as quartz or acid glass is valuable from the fact that it resists heat and ~ does not erack when suddenly heated and cooled, so that various, apparatus can be made: of it, such glass has a 5 tendency to crystallize when heated for a long: time near » the melting point. This makes the glass mechanically weaker and it changes more with heat’ A new glass made by M. Thomas dees not become devitrified in this ‘way, and he obtains it by using silica to which is added a small amount of certain metallic oxides, these being acid oxides, especially zirconium or titanium Cais: As small an amount as 0.1 per cent. is enough to increase the . mechanical resistance by 20 to 50 per cent. and the gen- ral properties are much superior. He considers that the ass contains a colloid solution of oxides, so as to hinder verystallization. 7 pies ey Wall-E: Rittle, a nbutitain farmer living near Lead ‘Hill, Ark, came to town recently with his family of a wife and twenty children to “trade.” He is the head of one of those families Whose individual snembers are out- fitted from head to foot once in a year, and that at the be- ginning ee winter ne he pee arrived in pow in me through ee Hill, They wore aa ee their La ae before 6-o’clock next morning, and the goods they bought almost filled their wagon. Twenty-two pairs of shoes made =the: ‘most interesting “display. Mr. and Mrs. Rittle were “Married twenty-one years ago. Their twenty children elude two seis df twins. “The oldest. child is twenty es are ere es) and nine gina All the young FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY a ea re aR a a NN GOOD READING | he will die. ars old, and the youngest, twins, are four months old. 25 For twenty years of faithful service as the only woman keeper of a seacoast light, Mrs. E. A. Fish of Point Pinos, near Pacific Grove, Cal., has received the United States government efficiency medal and a letter of recommenda- - tion from the chief of the lighthouse service. The decor- ation is in the form of a solid gold star, surrounded by a circle of red enamel, bearing the letters “U. 8. L. H. 8.” and “Efficiency. ” Mrs. Fish has had full charge of Point Pinos light since the death in 1892 of her husband. Point Pinos light was established in 1852 and is one of the few. of the early structures still in perfect condition. It is situated at the end of Monterey peninsula, three miles. from Monterey, and marks the entrance to the bay. Other women are caring for harbor lights, but Mrs. Fish is the only one in the United States in full charge of a seacoast light. Carl Warr, the German laborer who held possession of the Central police station at Los Angeles, Noy. 20, for more than an hour, threatening to blow up the place with an infernal machine which he carried, said his right name was Carl Reidelbach. The man collapsed from the wounds dealt to him by James Hosick, city detective, who struck him over the head with a blackjack. Police surgeons say The prisoner denied he intended to blow up the police station. He said his only purpose was to have the police help him to meet the head of the Pacific Elec-. trie Company, to whom he wanted to show his machine. “Idid not even want to hurt him. I merely was going to show him my machine and tell him I would blow him up unless he raised the wages of his workmen and other- | wise improved their condition, One of the finest features of my machine is that, instead of pulling a trigger to set it off, one hag to hold three triggers to prevent it from going off.” 4 For the first time since 1896 Ebenezer Henderson, a bachelor and a Democrat, who lives on a small farm hes tween Olivet and Eaton Rapids, Mich., has had hig hair cut. His friends say that they hardly recosnize him with his thirty-six inches of long Jocks missing, but Ebenezer doesn’t mind that, so great is his relief. In 1896 Hender- son, who is Baton’ s most enthusiastic Democrat, stated to his ‘friends that he would not visit a barber shop until the — s| Democrats had succeeded in placing their man in the White House. Bryan was the party candidate that year, and Hefderson did not expect that he would have to wait more than a few weeks. However, the great leader was beaten, and Henderson was doomed to four years without a hair cut. Defeats in 1900, 1904, 1908 gave Henderson — no opportunity to lose his hair and he “became one of the unique sights in the county. After the election of Wilson Henderson hitched up his horse and drove to Bellevue, where a barber worked for one forenoon shearing his hair. The longest measured nearly thirty-six ae and baer by We, “A filled a bushel basket, ee vee eh ieee
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value, posed reception to be given her navy, the battle cruiser | 0°48. “both for skill and endurance, plans a Boston- ‘Seattle _ the Union of South Africa. The ships will be manned by “My plan may seem impossible to the layman,” said — GREE UP Oe TN hy ee as tee Wy, a - being unusually plentiful and some of the slain veritable | and the last referred to will be as fully equip) 7 eee ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, Be Ge eo ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS | ; nese rancher who failed to appreciate his agricultural zeal, ‘Pwenty miles south of Coleman a grimly weighing 920 pounds was shot by a rancher named Sutherland, and on — SHERMAN LEFT ALL TO WIFE. The will of the late Vice President James S. Shérman,: filed for probateiat Utiea; N.. Y., was drawn April 23, 188%, and by one clause bequeaths the entire estate to his | Operator Mountain, xt undhog: district, four grizalies wife, Mrs, Carrie B, Sherman. The will was written on javere shot/in a tingle aay y By Jennings and William 4 foolscap paper in Mr. Sherman’s own handwriting. The | Waldon, whose cache they hed raided and whose horses ¥ witnesses were Myron W. Van. Auken’ and TD. Pitcher.) were attacked by the quartet of Bears when they came ~ of Utien.. There is nothing to indicate the value of the i upou them. One of the horses was sa_hadly cla wed that : éstato other than the exegutor’s petition, whieh states that fe it had-to be destroyed, there is property worth more than $10,000. - However, it |, ~ In Silverdaie, Creston, a grizzly cub was shot in a tree q by 16-year-old Miss Israel, the mother bear. peels and. j Prov identially not appearing on the scene... Inthe Simil- — ikameen Government Surveyor Chipman was so badly — :. FLYING BOAT FOR THE NAVY. tas aled by a grigzly that for several days his Brera, was” : Lieut. T. Gelison of the aeroplane department of the despaired of. | 4 United States Navy, the other day witnessed the final Up in the Barkerville district Frank Kibbee, a veteran. tests of the flying os oat, a new type of ‘hydro-aeroplane | trapper, was all but killed by a monster grizzly “whieh had built by Glenn H. Curtiss for the navy department. The | broken clear of the trap in which he had been taken, The test was witnessed at the Curtiss aviation station in Ham- | opportune arrival of Prank Connors, his trapping mate, mondsport and the machine attained a speed of 59.5 mae sayed Kibbee’s life and cost that of the bear. ‘he man is is understood the estate will approximate $800,000 in an hour, carrying an operator and 200 pourids extra still im a precarious condition at the Barkeryille general weight. The machine tested is intended for special use | hospital, where Dr. M. Callanan is ee him. in the navy and is designed so as to be launched from the { ener of a movitig battleship | PLANS LONGEST AIR FLIGHT. AUSTR ALIA AWAITS: HER NAVY. In celebration of his first anniversary as. an) ayiet ‘Australia is already beginning to enthuse over the pro- George A. Gray of Boston, holder of several ayiation re¢- Sydney and the swift cruiser Melbourne. which is fitting | fight, carrying in his machine a passenger, who will b out in England preparatory to their journey to home his mechanican, Chauncey Redding. ee waters, and it is assured that a great patriotic demonstra-, Gray’s feat, if accomplished, will be the grestet of its tion will mark their arrival. kind on record, for by the completion of the journey. | will not only hold the endurance title, but the speed rec+ the Suez canal, going down the African east coast, calling ord as well, the former by reason of the length of the tr at Durban and m aking a stay of some days at Cape Town, |224 the latter because he expecta to fly from Boston t this last upon the urgent invitation of the government of | Chicago in twenty-four hours without alighting once. The new war vessels will make the yoyage by way of a mixed ‘crew of officers and men of the royal navy and Gray, “but after long consideration and close study Tam the Australian Naval Reserve. convinced it is entirely feasible, In the first: place, entails a trip of more than 4,000 miles—niearly 5,000, The first lot of officers and instructors for the Royal be exact, counting digressions ‘from thie A? ai bet Naval College at Geelong, now on the way from England, Boston and Seattle. are” expected at Melbourne within a few days, and they, z will at once give attention to the tenders of the plans and As they used to say on the plains, 1 shall ride ligh ‘specifications which are to be issued for the building of that is, there will be nothing ou the machine - but wit the permanent naval college at Gervis bay, New South | #8 absolutely necessary to, sustain flight. Of course on #l ee the port of the new commonwealth. eapital. first leg—the longest of all—that from Boston to Chicago, ~ {we plan to carry along some sandwiches. But outside of a5 SEATS EASA EES isuch a light lunch there will be nothing doing in the eat- HUNTERS GET PLENTY OF BEARS. © | ing line for either of us until we reach the. ‘Windy: ity. The season’s bear hunting in British Columbia has been| “For the trip I shall have two Burgess W right bip $ ‘exceptionally g good from the hunter’s standpoint, the game |one to be used regularly, the other in case of emery ¢ giants, ‘grizzlies, silvertips, cinnamons, blacks and one or | one we shall leave Boston in for Chicago. _two creamy Kermodes up in the Bella Coola mountains, “We shall be able to carry forty gallons of -gasolin One big cinnamon weighing 790 pounds was lately shot | this should sustain we for the first abe leg of while industriously Spas ie in spo potatoes by a Chi- ' The start i, a. mad le in pie
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GIANT saw | PUZZLE. This puzzle contains twenty-oné pieces of wood nitely finished; take them apart and put them together Samé as illustrated. Everybody would like to try it, as it is very fascinating. Price, by mail, postpaid, 25¢, 3 cach. HK. F. LANG, 1815 Cente st., B'kiyn, N. ¥. - EL DELUSION TRICK. - A magle littie box in thres parts that is very mystify- ing to thoso not in the trick. | A coin placed on a piece of : paper disappears by dropping | a nickel ring around jt from | yt the magic box. Made of hard») ‘wood two inches in diameter. Price, 12¢. | ' MM. O'NEILL, 425 W. 56th St., N. ¥. ITCH POWDER. Gee whiz! What fun you can hate with this stuff, Moisten the tip of your tinger, tap it on the contents of the box, and a little bit will stick, Then shake hands with your friend, or poe a speck down his back. In a minute he will feel as if he had the! seven years’ itch. It gseratch, roar, squirm and dy omake bim be checked immediately by rubbing the spot While it is working, you guspehder buttons Price 10 ¢énts a with a wet cloth. Wil be apt to laugh your ef, The it Joke of all. box. by mail, postpaid. WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 20 W. 26th St., N. ¥. COMICAL RUBEDR STAMPS. A complete set of five grotesque liftie . people made of indestructible | rubber mounted on black walnut blocks, The fig- ures condist of Policeman, Chineman, and other “laughable figures as shown in pictures. Ag » Sach figure jis mounted . on @ separate block, any boy can sot up 2@ regular parade of circus by print- Divtgatage sete ing’ the figures in differs ent positions. With each set of figures we wend a bottie of colored ink, an ink pad and ful} instructions, Children can siamp these _. pictures on their toys, picture bobks, writing ~ papér and envelopes, and they are without doubt the most amusing and entertaining novelty gott'n up in years, Price of the com~- ri piste: set ot ‘Aubber Stamps, with ink and dink pad, only 1@¢., 3 sets for 25c., one dozen 90e., by mail postpaid. . JUMPING TRIESCOPE. . . ‘ This {s an oblong tube in exact imi- tation of a tele- acope. .By looking through it, reveals one highly magai- fled picture of @ dancer or other subject. It <con- tains on the side a button, which the 7 inuita is told to a change of picttre. ) icturo appearing, the entire inside pe or shown in illustration. It ely harmiess, but gives the yictim a . Ls , eae ach; 2 for 2be. by mall, postpaid, ©HE FLUTOPHONE, f A. hew musical {n- ‘ strument, producing the’ sweetest dulcet tones o: the flute. The uppe on AI upon it you can play - tine desired as eset! 2 tor. » rr be { + ake faces. But it is perfectly harmlies, ag; ~~~ Instead of} Qa Accuracy Penetration The World’s Record Holders Remington-UMC .22 esl. cartridges have brolcea two records in two years. i REMINGTON AR oR ft js nade from the seeds of wild teses. The i Ree FLOWEKS tM ‘ thowt eXception, tha horrible itch stops In a fow minutes, or pot | mést beautiful and in- teresting things on the market, They consiat of a dozen dried-up sprigs, néetly encased in handsomely decorat- ed envelopes, just as they are imported from Japan. Place one sprig in 2 bowl .of water. and it begins to exude Then it slowly opens out They It is very amusing to watch them take form. Small size, price 5 cents; Hoi size, 10 vents a package, by mail, postpatd. _M. O'NEILL, 425 W. i6th St., N. ¥. “JAPANESD TRICK KNIFE. You can show the knife and instantly draw dt across your finger, apparently cutting deep Into the tiesh. The appears on the blade of the knife, giving a startling effect to the spectators. ‘The knife is rémoved and the finger is found In good condition. Quite an. effective illusion. Price 10¢, each by mail. WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥ SEE-SAW PUZZLE. , The most absorb- wera ing puzzle seen for regattas yi various bright tints. into various shapes of exquisite flowers. are of ail colors of the rainbow, ps — years. The kind 4 you sit up half the night puzzle both balls, one in each pocket. Price, 10¢.; 3 for 2%¢e. by mall, postpaid. M. O'NEILL, 425 W. 58th St., N. ¥. to do, The is to get ‘ SURPRISE KINEMATOGRAPH, The greatest hit of the season! It consists of a small metal, nickeled tube, with a lens eye view, which shows a pretty. bal- let girl.in fights. Hand it toa friend, who will be delighted with the first pic- ' ture; tell him to turn the .,. serew in center of instru~- ment to change the views, when a stream of water squirts into his face, much to his dis~ gust. Anvone who has not seen this kinema~- The fnstrument can be refilled with water in an instant, ready for the next customer. Price 25¢e. by mail, postpaid. WOLIY NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St, N. ¥. RICK FAN. : A lady’s fan made of colored silk cloth, The fan may be rey an red blood ; The present world’s 100-shot gallery record, 2484 ex 2500, held b Asthur Hubalek was made with hase haa hitting 22's. és They will help you, too, to break your best shooting records. Remington- UMC -22's nre made, too, with hollow point bullets. Thie increases their shocking and killing power. Remington- UMC—the perfect shooting combination i} } _ Street, Jersey City, N. J. | | | | | ‘tograph in operation is sure to be caught | | every time. | 15 timos. Tho Remingloo-DiC cubs woke « find 299 Broadwar New York City FALSE. ) MUSTACHES,. oh bata te yh ‘BEARDS, ETC. for 25c.; full beards and side you watt, Address OH AS. UNGHR, Dept 5, 316 Union LOTS OF FUN FOR | | A, DING a to! of rou! aes roel Tes eaecuecrasrare i oy 1 whine Biko , RY perey: ahvg kaa chmery fad tonit endl becels Bald on th Nei Art May Mer OGUSLE THNOAT CO, DEPT. Ie RRBNOROWN, Made MYSTERY, MAGIC AND FUN, 200 Jokes and Riddles, 78 Toasts, 67 Parlor ' tricks. 8 Fortune ‘Telling Secrets, 52 Money-Maklog Secrets, 22 Funny Readings. All 100. Postpaid. CHAS. UNGHR, 816 Union Street, Dept. §,, Jersey City, NJ. . y 3 A WONDERBOL ILLU- . SION. You can staba friend. Your friend is nod injured in the least, 12¢ each, or b ford OmAS ‘UNGMN, O16 Val raya 2c & »Orstor gic. CG Wee 6 s on thy Dep. 5, Jersey City, N. J. , 4 ve CACHOO OR SNEEZING POWDER. Pi The greatest fi ror a 5 chem all. A Bei person \ jez of this pewder, when blewn in & reom,. will cause ; everyone to anéesze witheut _anyone knowing where it comes from, It is very light, will fleat in the | air fer gore time, and penetrate every neok — and cerner of wm room. It is perfecttly harm- lesz. Cachgo is ties up in: bottles, and ene bottle containg ondugh to be used from 16 te Price, by madl, 10c. exch; 3 for 26a, a: WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th Sti, N. ¥. VANISHING AND RE- APPEARING EGG—Vory - fine, easy to perform and it produces a marvelous and mystifying effect. Egg ‘4s made to appear and. vanish right before the eyes. Beautifully made, » Price, 25¢ © My, ae ae ie Pio. Al 425 W. 50th St, Nv x. . a eaateieshahcteenia RARE POSTAGE STAMPS. Pi
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G00D LUCK BANKS. Ornamentea! as well as useful. Mace of highly nickeled brass. It held« just One Dollar. When filled = .t opens ftnaelf. locked until refilled. Can be used ed if not satisfied. by mail.. NA PUZZLE. Made of 2 metal nails linked together. Keeps folks guessing; easy to take them apart when you know how. Directions with overy one. Price, 6c., postpaid, WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th Sti, N.Y. VANISHING OIGAR. 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, is fastened on the inside of the sleeve. When offered to a friend, as it is about to be taken, it will instantly disappear. Price, 10e. each by mail, postpaid. | H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. giycnernaaieitatainpnietalemye ee aimee a Sees el GOOD LUCK PUZZLE. It consists of three horse- shoes fastened together. Only a very clever person can take off the closed horseshoe from the linked horseshoes. But it can be done in a moment when the secret is known. Price, by mall, 10¢. each. H, F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. ROUGH RIOER DISC PISTOLS, / Made of nicely col- red wood 534 inches long. The power {s furnished by bands. Ten dises of | cardboard with each pistol. Price, Ge. each, postpaid, WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. | IMITATION GIANT DIAMONDS. . +, Diamond rings or studs of half-inch and one inch diameter are heard of in y stories only. We have them ‘ imitated by prodigious spark- ling stones which will deceive Ae ae e any spectator. e mail, tpaid, wize, 25¢e. each; large is aSDceRORS eas a 4H, F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥.: MAGIC PUZZLE KEYS. Two keys interlock- ed in such a manner it seems impossible to separate them, but when learned it is easily done. Price, Ge., postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 20 W. 26th St., N. ¥. THE JUMPING FROG. This little novelty creates a ‘world of laughter. Its chief attractiveness Js that it tekes a few seconds he- f fore leaping high in the air, man ™ so that when set, very inno- céntly along side of an unsuspecting person, he is suddenly startled by the wonderful activity of this frog. Price, 15e. each by mail postpaid, : J HH. EF. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥, ALUMINUM DRINKING CUPS. These handseme little cups are very handy'in size, do not leak, and tre Satin finished. When com- pressod, can be carried in the vest pocket. They hold a good quantity : Gerad rand mre very strong, light, bit yet duvrable. rice, 14, iy - ue Dald, 2 i each, post WOLFY NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. W. SURPRISE PERFUME BOTTLE, 4 Those in the joke may freely smell the perfume in the bottle, but the uninitiated, on removing | the cork will receive the contents in his hands. and eléver joke. Price, 10¢. each by mail, post- paid; & for 25, t MH. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. ¢ f Remains | af a watechcharm. Money refund- | Price, 20c. | two | rubber , in| THE MAGH CIGAR CAS. A beautiful and per- fect cigar case, made of imitation alligator and sealskin leather; worth a quarter as a cigar case alone. It 7 can be shown full of cigars and instantly handed to @ person, upon opening it, finds only an empty The box has @ secret spring and a who, case. in the secret. Full printed instructions sent with each case. Every smokar should have one. Price, 20c.; 2 for 35c. by mail, postpaid; one dozen by express. $1.50. 7 e$ C. BERR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. NORWEGIAN MOUSE. 5 A very large gray mouse, measuring 8 inches from tip of nose to end of tail. The body of mouse is hollow. Place your first finger in his body, and then. by moving your finger up and down, the mouse sleeve. Enter a room where there are ladies, with | mouse runn'ag up your sleeve, tering of the fair sex. Many ’ ‘ practical jokes can be perpe- | trated with this small rodent, Price, 10¢.; 3 for 2he. mailed, postpaid. H. ¥. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. A NEW SQUIRT BADGE. Great fun for the mil- lion! Wear it buttonhole and then press the bulb and watch the other fellow run, Price, 4c. Cc. BEDR, 150 W. 62d St. New York City. ) | | THE ELK HEAD PUZZLE. ; Just ‘out, and one of the most fascinating puzzles on the market. The stunt 1s to separate the antlers and re- join them. It looks easy, but try it and you wil! admit that } it is without exception the best | puzzle you have ever seen. You can't leave ; it alone. Made of silvered metal. | Price, 12¢.; 3 for 30c., sent by mail, postpaid. H. EF. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. MARBLE VASE, A clever and puzzling effect, easy to do; the apparatus can be minutely examined, Wffect: A marble can be made to pass | 4 from the hand into the closed nm ae a sioner before 8 shown empty, This i beautiful enameled turned woud: vase. a Price. 20c. M, O'NEILL, 425 W. 56th St., N. ¥. ies ae THE MAGNETIC TOP. A handsome metal, highly magnetized toy. A horseshoe and a spiral wire furnished with each top. When spun next to the wires, they make the most surpris- ing movements. You can make wires of dif- ferent shapes and get the most peculiar ef- : fects. Price, 5c., post- / paid. L. Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. TEE CROWN STYLO. Made of aluminum, satin ‘finish, © guaran- a teed not to leak. This stylographic ink pen- cil is made on a new pian. It cannot cor- rode ajid will outlast and outclass any simi- Jar pencil on the market. It is a splendid writer, and is easily kept in order. Bach one packed with a filler, and a. clip to hold it in your vest pocket. / Price, 25¢. each, postpaid. HM. EF. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. RAPID CIGARETTE MAKER. This litte article should be in the pocket of every smoker. With it a perfect cigarette can be made in ten seconds, You will find them _ equal in This is a simple | far su- by mail, postpaid. double case, and can be operated only. by one | 7 appears to be running up your | the | and you will see a rapid scat- | in your | 1 | i THE LINK PUZZLE. The Sensation of the day. Pronounced by all, the most ~~ _ baffling and scientific novelty ra out. Thousands have worked at it for hours without mas- tering it, still it can be done in two seconds by giving the links the proper twist, but un- ~ le. 3 you know how, the harder youstwist them the tighter they grow. Price, 6¢.; 8 for 16e.3 one dozen, 50c., by mail, postpaid, ‘ WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th S8t., N. ¥. LINE WINDOW SMASHERS. The greatest sensation, just from Paris. A most wonder- ful éffect of «a smashing, breaking, falling. pane or glass. It will electrify every- body. When you come home, slam the door shut and at ; the same time throw the ~~ discs to the floor. Every pane of glass in the : house will at once.seem to have been shat- ; tered. Price, by mail, postpaid, 85¢., a set of six plates, H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. WY. fy THE FIGHTING ROOSTERS, A full blooded pair of. fighting game cocks. These lWliputian fighters have real feathers, yellow, legs and flery red combs, their movements ~when | fizshting are perfectly nat- ural and lifelike, and the secret of their movements is known only to the operator, who can casa them to battle with<each other as often — and as long as desired. Independent of their ss fighting proclivities they make very pretty — mantel ornaments. Price for the pair in a atrong box, i0c,; 3 pairs for 25¢. by mail, postpaid, WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. ; 3 7 r THE PEG JUMPER. atk - A very effective j pocket trick, easily caer to be performed by . i oS any one. A miniature paddle ts shown. Cen- _ tral holes are drilled through it. A wooden ~ peg is inside of the upper hole. Showing now both sides of the paddle, the performer causes, by simply breathing upon it, the peg to leave _ the upper hole, and appear in the middle one, Then it jumps to the lower hole, back to the middle one, and lastly to the upper hoie, Both sides of the paddie are repeatedly shown, | Price by mail, t5e | C. BEUR, 150 W. 62d St., New. York City, DEAD SHOT SQUIRT PISTOL, Bs If you shoot a man | with this “gun” he will — be too mad to accapt — the ancient excuse-—“I didn’t know it was loaded.” It loads easily with a full charge of water, and taking aim, press the rubber bulb at the butt of the Pistol, when a small stream - of water is squirted into his face. The best, thing to do then is to poeket your gun and run. There are “loads of fun” in this wicked little joker, which looks like a real revolver, — trigger, cock, chambers, barrel and all. Price — only %e.; 4 for 25e,; one dozen 60c, by mail — postpaid, : H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St.. B’klyn, N.Y. ———$—————— THE HIDEOUS SPIDER. _ ; Fun for every- body with one of these handsome brutes. His body ie 3 inches long, besutifully enamel- | ed green, with white ridges, yel-_ low speckles, bulging eyes, and a big red - mouth. He is armed with six less and two upright feelers, made of flexible spiral springs. A dark, invisible thread attached to his body lets you shake him in the air before your friends’ eyes, when the legs wiggle in @ most natural, lifelike manner. Guaranteed to maka any lady howl and to scare the bravest hero | on earth out of his boots. abort ena £ Price by mail, 10¢, we WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W..26th St., N. ¥, MINIATURE COMPASS CHARM, When not sely ingida ; 1Os (een WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 29 W, 26th St. N. ¥.| H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre st.,