Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 386) (1913 02 21)

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WHO MAKE tf = th i wi or UR SE LES aid the boy, tightening his grip on the go when I get you inside.” step out. You’re wanted in the office,” s: arm.and collar. “Oh, I say, let me go!” protested the man. “Ill let you mister, chap’s “Come along,

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P Ro Mae 3 : “ Fame and Fortun Eniered aus nate to’ Act of Congress, in the year 1913, in_ the officer of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d Street, New York. Post Office as Second-Olass Matter. Pntered at the New York, N. ‘ Tresued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. s Xs } Noy 886... : NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 21, 1913. Price 5 Cents. OR, A TOUGH LAD FROM MISSOURI. ‘ By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER Ty THE LAD FROM MISSOURI. ase wonder who that tough-looking fellow is?” said Dick Oliver to Sam Swett as they passed a husky boy with a Swarthy face, bound into the Stock Exchange as they passed out, “He appears to be somebody’s messenger.” “That chap? He’s Broker George Brown's new boy. His name is Harvey Birch, and he’s from Missouri,” said Sam. “From Missouri, eh? What part of Missouri—St. Louis?” “No, from the interior of the State.” “How did you get your information about him?” “Our office is in the same corridor as Brown’s. One of his people told our margin clerk and he told me.” “Do you know what brought him Hast to Wall Street?” 7 “His father sent him on to Brown to make a broker of im, ” . “That's prey geod! Brown.” | “T couldn't say anything about that.” “If his old man expects to make a Digit of him hé must have money.” “T believe he's pretty well fixed. He owns a big farm.” “Some of these Western haysceders make money enough to own a bank. My dad has never made enough to own a house and lot, that’s why we’ve always Hved in a flat.” \ The two boys separated at the corner of Broad and Wall, each going his own way. In the meanwhile the subject of their conversation de- livered a ncte to Mr. Brown from his cashier and then left the Exchange. ~ He was new to Wall Street and the Hast, having only been a month in the city, but during that month he had got welt acquainted with his duties and with the run of things in general in the financial district. ‘Although he had come off a farm, nobody would have sus- “pected it from his talk and actions. There was nothing slow about him, for he was as keen a lad ag stood on two feet. | 4 Though new to the Wast, he fell in with the swim from the day he got off the wenge in Jersey City and crossed the river to New York. is fichier must have a pull with The first Ee he did was to hunt up Wall Street, inquire | his way to George Brown’s office and report his arrival. That ecgtiehan was looking for his coming and had a boarding-place picked cut tor him, kept by the widow of a former clerk, whose name was Whitcomb. e "Tt teok Birch Jess thanva week to. get the hang of ‘Wall ‘Btreet and the lay of the city below Forty-second street. “t 2 i F ~ Be A ty < icy! ATE ee ‘By the time we introduce him to the reader he was as fa- miliar with New York as many boys born and brought up there, that is, in a general way. With this introduction we will follow Harvey back to his office where he reported to the cashier and sat down to await further call on his services. ; A minute later a red-headed messenger, named Casey, who worked for a New street broker named “Allen, came gliding into the office. fe “What do you want?” asked Harvey, going up to him, — Casey locked at the Missouri boy in a supercilious way. The visitor had worked in Wall Street for four years, and he sometimes acted as if he owned it. He had heard that Broker Brown had taken on a new ‘Boy, and had seen Harvey several times on the street and at the Exchange, and for some reason he was not disposed to be friendly toward the newcomer. sd Possibly he objected to new boys breaking into the Wall Street messenger ranks, unless they took off their hats to him, “Why don’t you say ‘sir,’ you lobster?” replied Casey. you know who I am?” ° “No, but I don’t think a whole lot.of you from the way you act, ” returned Harvey. “What’s your. business?” “You're cocky for a new thing,” sneered Casey.. “What you néed is a dressing down to show you your place, name is Tim Casey, and I was raised in the Fourth Ward. TI don’t take sass from anybody. his fingers under Harvey’s nose, “Neither do I,” replied the Westerner, calmly, grabbing the chunky form of the visitor by the arm, swinging him “ “Do around and then seizing him by the collar of his jacket and - the waistband of his trousers he ran him over to the door with perfect ease, in spite of the Fourth Be edie: is strenuous ob- jection to the treatment. Opening the door, Birch fired him bodily. ‘into the Sorrteon }and shut the door upon him. This performance naturally attracted the attention of the half a dozen customers in the roof as well as that of the. cashier, “What’s the trouble, Birch?” he asked the boy. ; “He tried to start trouble with me/and I sat-down on him,’ me replied Harvey. Here the door opened and ets came in breathing fire and- brimstone, “Just you wait till I catch you outside, you fresh guy, and — Vll put it ail over you for keeps,” he reared, fiercely. . Thew he eropecd up to the cashier's w indow and shoved digs a note. “I want an answer,” he said, in a surly way. : Well, my ‘ Get me?” and he ee 4:

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BROKE ByBROWW'S. BOY. faene. “ducers reese eae Harvey returned to bis seat without taking any further noticé ,of him, while the cashier opened the note, read. it, wrote an answer on a pad, inclesed it in an envelope, ad- * dressed and handed it to him. 7 During the few minutes Casey stood at the window he kept his glaring eyes fixed on Birch. What he didn't intend to do to that lad, when he got the chance, wash’t worlh mentioning. He took the envelope, went to the door, turned as he opened e and shock his. fist in a threatening way at Broker Brown's Oy. This bit of antagonistic pantomime didn’t raise a hair on Harvey. All he did was to take a good lock at Casey for future use. He picked up a Wall Street daily and began looking it over, ‘ang five minutes later the caghier sent him out again. Harvey ‘had made a good impression at the office hecarse he wasted no time on his errands. ; Neither did he make any mistakes, of a new boy. ' He always made sure where he was going, and whoohe was 4 to. see, and whether*he was.to get an answer or not, and then \ irest to his destination and exeduted his errand, ch he hurried straight back. That ts What all the brokers Nked in their boys, and in jus- tice to. the messenger employers received. But there are exceptions to every rule, and the exceptions, as a general ‘thing, do not last in Wall Street. Taps 4 842) business transacted in the financial district is too ‘im- pertant to be slighted, anyway, and when an office boy is observed to-be getting carcless he is warned, avd if that fails to produce results he is fired. . ee Harvey wis back again ina short time with an answer ‘ which be handed to the cashier. He! wad § gent cut again almost irmediately, and so he was kept on the: jainp up to early three o'clock, when the cash- jer handed him the bank-hook, bicated out with bills and as might be expected fraternity as a body, that is. what, theit | i oe ae) Ree. Te s Whatarthe matter here?” he said. “That boy didn’t kick you. It was the red-headed chap. I saw him do it around this boy’s leg.” Casey came rushing up and was going.to smash the fat men in the face when the porter seized his arm and arrested the blow. ; “None of that now,’ said the potter, “or I'll turn you over to an officer.” ; “What's the matter with you?” snarled Casey, “The geezer slugged me in the jaw. Do you think Im going to stand that?” & “You'll have to stand it. Ricked ythe nian,” “Who kicked him? Mo? Here the iat man got his doer. The porter followed to let him out. f Harvey put in his pdok and Casey shoved his in, toa. The teller brushed it back and took Harvey's. It took several minutes for the teller to foot up the depcgit slip and make the entry in the book, then he took Casey's You got what you deserved. You You're off your trolley.” bape es started for the closed “book while Harvey started for the door. The porter had walked down the corridor, pained aes up the wall desks. By the time he, came to the: sooF Casey was ready to go out, too. 8 The boys ima de eueit exit Les oe hee take that back to the office with you,” said Casey, slapping Harvey in the mouth. The next moment Casey: was roiling over in the gutter from. a blow straight from the sieulder delivered by Birch, who’ stood, with flashing eyes, ready to shag ls Be A Mat CHAP HR. If, Sone ame N BROWN’S OF FICE. checks, and. Ape him to take it to the bank and make the] day's daposi Harvey ed the bank and found a line ee away ceiving | ‘teller’ Ss window. ‘He fell in behind a fat man with a sour face, The porter was shutting one side of the door, as it aaeteds about a minute of closing time, when Tim Casey dashed in| ret and bumijed against him. oie NV Ey dant “Aw, forget it!” returned the red-headed boy. . He went to the end of the line and found Birch there, whom he recognized. him and gave him a rough push against the The fat man ed one of his elbows back angrily and } dug it into Harvey's side. + The boy took’ 10 notice of that, but iain around asked ee “Casey, whom he identified, what he pushed hint for. 4°) “Who nushed- you?” retorted Casey, ‘ag Bore en: “You did,” said the boy from Missouri. PSP ovou re GreaLINg, Why don’t you move up?" and he Fors t “Harvey another shove. eke guess yowre looking for trouble,” ‘ad the Western lad. | “Aw, turn around’ or I'll push your face in!” said Cas ey, Rea gavenily. Harvey did not want to make any. disturbance in the bank, : for he knew if he got into a scrap th would mean trouble for both him and Casey. ‘ Accordingly, he, turned around without a. word: Casey tock this as an indication that Broker. Brown’s new boy was taking water. _.. He crowded up against Harvey and made’ nis’ position as uncomfortable as ‘possible, digging his: SERS, knuckles into the young ‘Missourian’s back. Harvey took no notice ontw ardly,, but “ thought a few » thing § inwardly. ‘Finally the fat man reached the window and | estiees dn his pook. Dasey slyly gave him a-kick on the leg. fat man boiled over and raising his fist. shot i at = A. Harve ey. ‘ he Westerner saw the blow coming and ducked. he fat, man’ 8 fist landed on Ca, asey ‘'s jaw and sent him reel- backwa cis od ng ee damage, he had. done the ptout man | grabbed | nd began to. abuse. nee are him. ; you look where you're going?” said the OEE / {and bad only been a month in the city. Tim Gasey did not get up with his customary promptness. , He was dazed by the force of the blow, which gave him the momentary impression that the bank building. had fallen in — on. him. Several boys in the vicinity saw Harvey Eiiock Casey down and, with a whoop at the prospect of a fight, they came ee ing to the ‘spot. Casey was Enown to two or three of them, and asa serapper of ne mean ability, but the Westerner was a stranger to all, “Get up, Tim, and soak him!” said one of the bunch. Tim got up slowly and somewhat painfully. 3 He felt of his injured jaw and looked at Harvey, wonder- ing if there really could be any connection between the two. — “What hit me, Mike?” he asked his friend. vie “What hit you? That guy’s fist hit you. Are you going to stand for such a@ knockdown? Who js the gazabo?” “Do' you mean to say that geezer hit me?” said Casey, in- \ereculously. Bel That's what he did. It was a clean smash, too. him: mow, and knock the tar out of him.” Yasey looked around on the grinning faces of the*boys. ‘He saw he must do something to even matters up. ‘With 4 howl of rage he made a sudden dart at Birch and ‘swing both his fists with. bis head down. , Harvey sidestepped the. ws and gave. Tim uppercut that. rattled every # nae in his head. “Cheese it! Here comes a cop! ” eried the ook scattering like chaff under a blast of wind, Jasey caught a glimpse of the policeman’s: ‘uniform coming across the street aud he took to his heels me a frightened hare, for he and the ceps did not mil w él : “What's the trouble here?” asked ihe asicer, coming up! to where the Missouri lad stocd. ; “The Chap who's running down the street ie! the trouble, We were in the bank together. He's taken a ‘grouch against me for some reagyon and he got gay with mé in the depost- . tors’ line. When we caine out he slapped my face. I soaked him in the face and knocked him down. When he got up he came at me like a mad bull, and I handed him anecther crack rs in the jaw. That’s all there was to it.” - What's your name, and whe do you work for?” Harvey told him, and added that he came from. Missouri The officer had started to put his, ae ae for future | reference, but decided from: the fact that the boy had san away Be onaa the moet to pie: mae ~ he Mt: ‘his book ie Z Go for a sharp Riot

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BROKER BROWN’S BOY. me 8 § up; teliing Harvey to be careful in the future about diesbeing Then he tripped him up and g#abhed the hand that held ’ {n the public strect, for it was’ a misdeameanor, and he} the weapon. was liable to arrest. Tt was at that moment the stenographer entered the room Then he walked off, and so did Birch. with the nete for Mr. Brown to sign. ial When he got back to the office the cashier told him that| She uttered an ejaculation of alarm. : : Mr. Brown wanted to see him, so he went into the private safe Terry, send in two of the clerks, please,” said Mr. room. rown. 5 “Fiere’s a letter I wish you to take up te Watson & Co., ship Before she could turn around the revolver went off in the chandlers, on Sceuth street, this side of the Brooklyn Bridge. visitor’s fingers, and the bullet shattered the «glass and Do you think you can find the place?” perforated a handsome water-color picture on the wail. « South stréet runs along the Hast River, doesn’t it?” The girl uttered a scream of alarm. es,” | Wer scream’and the report of the weapon brought the whole a ine I can’t miss the place, for the street has only one| office force running in to see what had happened. ‘ side to it, and I know where the Brooklyn Bridge is.” The occupants of the corridor were also startled, and some “Sit down. a moment, I have another errand for you to| of them came into the office in a hurry. execute in the same direction.” : Harvey had the man pretty well In hand, but he. eens not Harvey sat down and Broker Brown pushed a button, which! do more than to prévent him from getting up. — brought in Miss Terry, the ¢cenographer. Broker Brown. ordered his cashier to help rates secure Brown dictated a note aiid the girl went back to her den to typewrite it. As she-passed cutside, a man, fairly well dressed, came in, unannounced. “ft want to see you, Mr. Brown,” he said, aggressively. “Well?” said the broker, eyeing him unfavorably. “There’s. the statement I. got. from your cashier, closing out my account,” said the man, -slanuning it a on the desk. j Brown glanced at it. ? va. “What's the matter with ie? Isn't: it ri ht?" “No; it isnt right. I bought 100 shares of Southern Rail- ey at 116. 1 found ott that it went to 126 at two o'clock. This statement says. it only went to 121. You have skinned me out of half my profits. Tm not going to stand for that kind of thing. I want what is coming to me—the other $500.” “You appear to forget that you met qe on Broad street at half-past eleven and told me to sell your stock at the market. I made a memorandum. of your order on a pad and you signed it. If your™ memory fails you my. cashier will show you the order. At the time you instructed. me to sell Seuth- ern Railway was geing at 121.° I sold it for you at that price. “If you had. waited till two o'clock you would’ have doubled _ your profit. it isn’t ‘my, fault” if yeu sold out too soon. “Had I had my good reason for believing that Southern Railway would go five points, or three points higher, I might have advised you to hold off. The rise was, I think, generally un-- expected. In any event. you have tio cause to find fault with me. I carried out your orders, and, as a broker, that is All|. that can be expected of me. “I don’t believe you sold my stock at 121. I believe you told your cashier to record it as sold, and you have pecketed the other $500 yourself.” | Harvey’s first errand took him to Hanover street, near Such a statement as that was practically an insult, and Wall, and having left the note with the. feet a to whom it | the objectionable visitor. “ One of the clerks got a towel and tied his hands behind his a back, after which he was seated on the sofa. eae | “Shall I telephone for a policeman?” asked the cashier, 2 “One moment,” said the broker. “Now look here, Mr. © Gregory, you have made yourself amenable to the law. You . have drawn a gun on me, and that’s a’State’s prison offence, — But I have no wish to disgrace you any more than you have disgraced yourself. If you will promise to behave yourself, and g0 away, as you should have done when Tasked you to, ~ I'll let up on you and will make no charge against. you.” — 7 The visitor promised, for he realized that he had put him- self in a bad hole, so he was released, and left the office — guite docilely. Ay owre a plucky boy, Harvey;” sald Brown, when it was all over and the clerks had returned to their duties. “You may have saved my life, for there is no saying what that man might have done when’ blinded by his” unreasoning anger. Half of the crimes in the world are committed on the spur of the moment, but that does not excuse their com- mission. I feel indebted to you and depend on it i won't forget it.” Mr. Brown then handed Harvey the note and told him to — leave it at the address written on ‘it, which the ye lates to do, and started on his double errand. ar CHAPTER Til, SE cake Gea eae THE WATCH THAT WENT FASTER THAN THE OWNER LIKED, Broker Brown requested his visitor to leave his office. was addressed he started for South street, ; “I'll leave when you pay me the other $500; and T’ll never} Reaching that thoroughfare he passed along the west side “come neat you again. “I’ve often heard you’ brokers were} of ii—the side lined with buildings. fe a skins, but I never was sure of it till now!” cried the “aah After walking several blocks he came to the store of = om mae suid wepaai otabae tne cel ee Watson nd S) fer chandlers, and walked in. arvey,” ’ ntleman out.” — > He asked for Mr. Watson and art “What's that? Show me out before you ‘settle with me? counting-room, StS EE eee back: Ree * I won't go!” cried the visitor. He delivered his note to the head of the firm, and as there “Hand him his statement,” said ‘Brown, passing the paper| was no answer he left and kept on up the street, pasetng: to his messenger. oa the bridge: ; “TWere’s your statement, rie Mr, Brown requests ‘you to He was off for the day and was at liberty to go home. * ee Jeave the room, so [ think you had better do it,” said Harvey.|. As he was not familiar with this part of the city, and | “Don't talk to me, you young whippersnapper! Keep your | dinner at the boarding-house was yet two hours off, he thought x oar out of my business!” he might as well pick up a little information. “If you refuse to go peaceably, Mr, Gregory, Tll have to} It was a pleasant afternoon and he enjoyed the stroll, rt call id a clerk to help: my boy put you ont: You have been| withstanding he had been on his legs almost continually. guilty of a “highly insulting remark—se reflection: om my|since nine that morning. busincas honor—which any broker would resent as itiper-} Ai length he came to a small park by the river side and - tinent and uncalled for ‘on your part. After that I shall|‘he sat down to rest. hereafter refuse to do any business with you.” Seated on the bench opposite to him was an old gentleman "You refuse to pay me that $500, you have defrauded me} who looked like a well-to-do farmer. He of?” He appeared to be greatly interested in the various craft, , “Whatever that statement calls for is all you are spent aes up and down the river. to, all you will get. Now leave at ones.” Harvey took the afternoon paper out of his pate and, “a before I take satisfaction out of you,” * said the man. began reading: it. haye cheated me and 1 shall blow the roof off your) In a short time a smooth-faced, slippery-looking soatyidual Nie sy no matter what the consequences are to me.” *|sat down on the same bench with the farmer. _ oh ria With those words Be whisked out a revolyer reg pointed it} By degrees he edged up to the old gentieman. Ae s e, broker, Harvey happened to look over and noticed the neweo! =p) ; jether he meant to carry out his threat or only attempt whose face he didn’t fancy. Be uft Was never known. : e thought his actions were suspicious and he watches ~ Harvey saw the glint of the weapon, grabbed ‘him around | while pretending to read the eure 5 the neck and swung pas away from his employer's desk. ©! The smooth-faced fellow - ‘got i

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4 : BROKER BROWN’S BOY. old man and pointed out to him various localities across the river, Finally he pointed at something up the river, and when the farmer turned to look Harvey saw him steal the old man’s Wateh and chain in a slick way and slip it into his pocket. Then he got ‘up and said he must go. “Hold on there, Mister Man,” said the Missouri lad, jump- ‘ ing up and stepping over to. him. ' “What do you want?” the rascal demanded, aggressively. “I want you to return that watch’ and chain you took from this oid gentieman.” ; The farmer clapped his hand§ to his vest and found his chain missing, and He found his watch gone also. He uttered an ejaculation and looked at the. thief. “Return this party’s watch and chain at once or IV’ll have you arres sted,” said Harvey. c “You have a nerve to accuse me,” away. “Produce!” said the boy. “I haven't got his waich, or chain, either,” said the fellow, favoring the Missouri boy with a black took. f "Yes, you have. i saw you pinch them.” “You're a liar!” said the thiet. “Grab him, mister,” Harvey said to the old gentleman, “and we'll search him!” “You won't search me!” snarled the thief; who. suddenly struck the boy a blow in the face and todk to his heels. Iiarvey Birch was after him like a shot, shouting, “Stop thief!” _ Although there were a dozen men in the vicinity they made no effort to head the feilow off and so the chase continued, with the old gentleman falling hopelessly in the rear. .. The crook tried every possible way to shake his young “and active pursuer off, but in vain. _ As they passed up a nearby street, Harvey called out to _the passersby to grab the vascal, but no one took enough in- terest in the chase to do so. The man suddenly darted into a cheap. pnd Bitty entrance of a. tenement and ran upstairs. Harvey, teok note of the doorway and followed him in. He started up the stairway as the fellow reached the top _of the flight. The ‘crook kept on up and Harvey, taking two steps at a bound, began to gain on him. said the man, edging On the third floor the rascal ran down the hall, and Har-: very heard a door ‘slam. ~ «When he ‘got on the landing the man had vanished. ».. Harvey was unable to tell into which of the several rooms -. he had gone. He stopped and wondered what he should do. Several families evidently lived on that floor, and the boy did’nct like to intrude on the wrong one. - Doubtless the man had locked the door te which he had passed to block his pursuer. Harvey thought of retupnang to the street and idokkinsé for a ‘policeman. That, however, would leave the coast clear or ane thief to _ Make his escape by way of the roof, He thought the best thing he could do’was to hide and wait for the man-to come out. The question: was where could he hide?- There wasn’t any place in the ‘corridor or hall where he could conceal himself. SS While he stood considering the problem a nearby door opened and a man came out of a room. He walked toward the stairs, but when he got close is Harvey he stopped and looked at him. “What are you doing here?” he said, roughly. “Ym waiting fora party,” replied the Wall Street boy. “Who are you waitin’ for?” “What do you want to know for?” The fellow grabbed the young Missofirian and whistled. at Birch. ‘If the two men expected to lay the* boy out easily ond es were mistaken. Harvey proved the tough customer he was from the ae He broke the first man’s grip with a jerk and hit him)under the car ‘with the force of a small pile-driver, sending him back against the wall. 3 stopped him. . Harvey followed up his advantag Ze by handing him a left- ander on the jaw, and the crook ultered a pont of pain, - Out of the same door rushed the thief and he made a spring, = “ a 8 ee “Then the thicf got it square in the nose and the blow |, His companion recovered and returned to the scrap, but he found the boy all ready for him, They went at it hammer and tongs, for the man was some- thing of a fighter in his way, though not very skilled. The thief held off until his companion roared to him to sail in and help him. Then he joined in and Harvey had his hands full with both of. them, " They landed several heavy blows on him, but they pro- duced littie effect; while every time he got in a crack it made the recipient wince. The racket naturally attracted the attention’ of the persons in the rooms and several of the women tenants came to their deors and looked on. : Fighting was not an unusual incident in the tenement. It was a red-letter day in the calendar of the house when nothing happened to attract attention. Many ’longsheremen lived in the building, and when they came home drunk and out of humor, their favorite recreation was to wallop their wives or children. This, however, was a different kind of a scrimmage, for a young, well-dressed stranger was involved. The women took him for an instalment collector and part of them sympathized with his predicament. “None of them ventured to butt in, though, for they knew better than -to do it. Finally a big Irishman came upstairs and took in the situa- tion, He saw that two men were trying to do up'a boy and ‘his sehse of fairness objected to that. “Hold on there, give the b’y a chance!” he said. of you is enough for him.” With that he seized the thief just as he found a goad open-. ing to land a swinging blow that would have laid the boy out. himself. “Hold on to him. He’s a thief!” said Harvey, backing away from the other man so as to prevent the thiet trom getting away. “A thief is it? What has he stolen?” asked the “teadtr ns “A watch and chain from an old jaameaneeore Hold him ti I search his pockets.” 5 ‘The thief struggled and the other man started to help aim. “Stand back now,” said the Irishman, “or you'll have to deal with me.” Harvey rau his hand into the pocket in which he had ses the fellow drop the plunder, but it wasn’t there now. It proved to be in the other pocket, to which he had trans- ferred it after showing it to his pal, and the boy got posses- sion of it. The: crook protested that the watch belonged to him, but — the | Irishman didn’t believe him. ‘If the watch was yours’ you wouldn’t carry it in your pocket that way. And this boy wouldn't accuse you of steal- ing it. Hand me the watch and ‘I'll hold it till the matter is settled night. We'll all go downstairs, and hunt up a police- man and put the case up to him,” said the Irishman. = “That suits me,” said Harvey. . It didn’t suit the thief, and he objected. “Tf the watch is yours what are you kicking soda I’m giving you a fair deal,” said the Irishman. “I don’t want to go to all that trouble,” * said the crook. . “He’s afraid to let a policeman arbitrate the matter for fear he’ll get pulled in on suspicion. If he won’t agree you and J will go to the station-house and leave the watch with the police,” said Harvey. “Come on, then. These chaps can follow. uy.” They started downstairs, but the two men made. no effort to .g0 with them. They gave up the fight to recover the stolen watch, and so Harvey and the Irishman found their way to the precinct station-house without them. There the boy told his story and the Irishman handed the watch to the desk sergeant. “Who was the man that you saw robbed?” asked the officer, Harvey started to describe him when in came & police- man with the old gentleman himself. “Here’s the :man now,” said the boy. The old man stated that he was a farmer from Sullivan County on a short visit to New York, and that his name was Amos Hadley. His story of the loss of his watch practically corroborated age A s statement. When asked to describe his property he aid so easily, hand it was handed to him, ane desk man telling him that he ~ Ve “Why, one + ."Let go, blame you!” cried the crook, struggling to free _ } ,

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BROKER BROWN’S BOY. probably never weuld have seen it again but for the bey following the thief up and recovering the stolen articles. “Tm obliged to you, young man,” he said, gratefully. “I suppose I ought to pay you something for the trouble you’ve been put to.” “I don’t want any pay, sir. You’re welcome to my services in the matter,” replied Harvey. “That’s| kind of you, but I don’t want you to feel as if I hadn’t done the right thing,” said the farmer. “Maybe you'll go around to my hotel and have dinner with me. I should be real’ glad to have your company.” “Tt's a bit early’ for dinner yet, isn’t it?” said the Wall Street boy. “By the time we oar to the hotel, have a chat and.a wash, I guess it won’t be too early, sonny.” Seeing that the old gentleman from up-State was really anxious to have him dine with him, Harvey accepted the in- vitation, and they left the station-house together and started for the Astor House, on Broadway, near the post-office, where the countryman said he was stopping. re CHAPTER IV. te iste “ TIE FARMER FROM UP-STATE: “I should be glad to know your name, young man,” said Farmer Hadley, “Elarvey Birch. I-work for a stock broker in Wall Street.” Fg? DO “YO or Well, well, I’m real glad to meet some one from ji Street. I went down there this morning to see the bulls and bears at the Stock Exchange, but the chap who runs the elevator wouldn’t take me up to the gallery. ‘He told me I had to get a ticket of admission from a broker. As I don’t know any broker I couldn’t get a ticket.”- “You come to our office to-morrow, here’s our card, and I'l get you a ticket.” “Will you, now? That's real kind of you. for you if I ever get the chance.” “Tf you don’t see me in the reception-room it’s a sign I’m out, so sit down and wait till I come in.” “All right. Whereabouts in the city do you live?” “I board up on Thirty-eighth street.” “Then your. folks don’t keep house?” “Yes, they do, but not here in the Hast. a big farm in Blank County, State of Missouri. in New - York about a month.” “Well, well, so your father is a farmer, like myself. I’m real glad to know it. I feel better acquainted with you al- ready. I hope you'll come up and see me some time. .My wife takes summer. boardens, If youll come up it shan’t cost you a cent.” “hank you for the invitation, Mr. Hadley. a chance to accept it.” “T hope you will. So you’ve only been a month in New York, eh? Must feel kind of new to you.” “Tm pretty familiar with the town already.” “Aye you, now? I guess youre a pretty smart young fellow. T’ve heard that you've got to be real smart to work in Wall Street. What do you do?” Harvey gave the old man a general outline of his duties, “You have short ‘hours, don’t you?” “From nine till half-past three or four.” “You worked. longer than unet when you lived on your dad’ gs farm, I'll bet.” “Yes. The work hours on a farm are long.” “Kind of pleasant change for you, I should judge.” “Tl admit there is a whole lot of difference.” Yl do as much My father owns I’ve only been I might find “T've heard that’ city boarding omses weren't nothing to. brag of.” te “T’ve no fault to find with mine.’ sala “T reckon all boarding-houses, cape alike. I stopped at, one once, and I was most starved that week. Didn't get half enough to eat. Had to go to a restaurant two or three times to fill up the vacancy. That’s why I’m at the Astor House this trip. You can get as much to eat, there as you want. The different things are all printed on a bill-of-fare. You just | pick out what suits you and the waiter brings it to you, just like a restaurant, and you can pay as you go, or have it charged up to, you on your bill if youre stopping at the Shouse. Then there’s a reading and writing room, and you can buy a paper or a magazine without going outside. want to send a message to anybody in a hurry the clerk be- hind the counter rings something that eae a boy in uniform i 2 ; es 7 Pose eS or If you | who'll take your letter for you in no time. You can’t get no such accommodations at a boarding-house. It costs more, Ill admit, but it’s worth every cent you pay,” said the farmer. By this time they came into Park Row above the Brooklyn Bridge. They walked down to the bridge, crossed over to City Hall | Park, and kept on to Broadway. A short walk then brought them,to the Astor House, which stood diagonally across from the front of the post-office. Harvey dined with Farmer Hadley, and during the meal entertained him with what he had learned about Wall Street. “Do you smoke?” asked the old man when they came into the rotunda. “No, sii the boy. “Time enough for you to learn,” said the farmer, buying three cigars at the stand for a quarter. Harvey then invited Hadley to go to an uptown theater with him .that evening. “We'll go, son, but it will be at my expense. treat,” said Hadley. They rode uptown on a Broadway car, attended one of the big theaters, and after they came out Harvey put the farmer on a downtown Broadway car, which would take him straight to the Astor House. On the following morning Harvey told Mr. Brown about his experience with the crook and how he recovered the farmer's watch and chain from, the rascal. 7 “You don’t look much the worse for your scrap “with two men,” said the broker. “You're a pretty tough lad to hold your own so well.” : “You get to be tough on a farm, particularly a big one like ours in Missouri,” said Harvey. “By the way, I wish you'd give me a ticket of admission for the Stock Wxchange gallery. I promised it to the farmer. He wants to see the bulls and bears in action. I told him to drop in here any time after ten and I’d have it for him.” Mr. Brown signed a card and handed it to his messenger, who then returned to his post outside. . Shortly afterward Farmer Hadley made his appearance and Harvey gave him the card, That's a luxury I haven't acquired. yet,” Tones This is my Agee “Hand that to the elevator boy and he’ll take you up,” a said Birch. Hadley thanked him and started for the Exchange. Harvey often passed Sam Swett in the corridor and on the street, but neither had spoken to the other, This day, however, they became acquainted. wz oy Harvey carried a note in to Sam’s boss, William Haley, about noon. Sam told him that Mr. Haley was engaged and he’d have to — wait a few minutes. “All right,” said Harvey. “You haven’t been long with Brown?” said Sam, “Only a month.” ‘ “T heard you came from Missouri?” “T did. Who told you?” Sam explained how he acquired the fatormction “Your father owns a big farm where you came from, e heard.” “That's right.” j \ “Well, Birch, seeing as we're close together here we ought ‘ to be friends. % “T have no, objection to that, What's your name? “Sam Swett. I live up in Benen Where are you eeait.2 out?” Harvey told him. “How do you like it at the. Rearsnue: -house?” “First-rate,” “Many boarders there?” ; s 8“ Quite a number.” he ee “-“How do you like New York as far as you’ve got?” i <T tater like it. Seems to be plenty of life here.” ould say. New York is the liveliest place I know ot. Move out of it and you feel as if you were dead. I suppose you find running errands in Wall Street a ane bit differ- — bom to working on a farm.” ee be do. I’m glad I came here.” “Hope to go back rich?” “Hardly. It takes all my wages to pay my Senatane however, allows me $5 for spending-money.” “He does? You're lucky. Want to know how to make some extra money?” “Yes. Can you show me how to do it?” “Save up till you get $50, then go around to the little bank on Nassau street and buy some good stock on margin. | You * Sg & “Daa “

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& BROKER BROWN'S BOY. . as ea ten ek ee ote atte a Ban ee WE PETRI eS Ae ye ET sae} can carry five shares for that. You want to pick out a stock It struck him that here was a chance to put Sam’s sugges: that’s going up. Go long on: it. Watch it closely and when j tion into practice. - it looks as if it was going to drop sell out and collect your He thought first of constilting Sam about it, and eveilt profit. I’ve made $200 that way, and expect to make $1,600 | slipped into Hatey’s office to see him on the subject, but Sam ‘In. the course of time.” happened to be out on an errand’ so he rettirned to his post. Harvey was impressed by Sam’s suggestion. In a few minutes the cashier sent him up to a a ‘stationer's “f should iike to try it after I get the hang of how the|on Nassau street. : = market runs," he said. “I wouldn’t have to save up $50. I} This errand: took him past the little bank. could strike my dad for it and he’d send it to me.” Quite a number of men and boys were going in, and ‘some “Your father must be liberal-minded. Most farmers look, coming out. at a dollar several times before they let go of it.” Harvey was curious ‘to atch a sight of the interior, so on “Well, my dad makes plenty of monéy off the farm and he|his way. back he vertured to enter, and found himself in'a isn’t mean about spending it. Last winter he bought my | big, oblong room, crowded with perscus of ‘all ages and ap- sister a new piano, and he bought mother a set of furs that made folks stare. He's going to buy a high-power touring car this spring, and I wouldn't be surprised if he and mother Game on in it here to see me.” “Gee! Your father is’ quite a sport, isn’t he?” grinned Sam. | “He's all to the good.” “BWxpect to become a broker some day?” “T might if it didn’t take too much capital.” “Wifty thousand might give you a start, but if you did pearance. All were interested in the quotations that were being aoe up on the blackboard at the end of the room. Many were standing in line at the margin clerk’s window. That individual was very busy that morning taking orders, chiefiy for D. & 0. Harvey understood the meaning of the quotations on the blackboard, for he had grown familiar with it through the great blackboard in’ the Stock Hxchange. He followed the figures of D. & 0. and each time it went much business you’d need a ict more. Brokers have to pay outright for the stocks they purchase fory their customers, | an eighth cf a point higher. Suppose a customer erdered 1,900 shares of A. & C.on mar-| “I might as well be a sport and getsin, no matter what the gin, and the price of the stock was 90. He'd. have to put up| result will be,” he told himself, $10,000 deposit and you'd have to advance the rest, or He had $150 in an inside pocket and so he took his place $80,000. Of course, you could borrow sixty per cent. or so; in the line and when he reached the window he told the clerk -of the value of the stock at your bank, but it would take about | he wanted to buy fifteen shares of D, & O. on margin. - $25,000 of your own money to swing the deal, anyway. And that would be only one customer out of a bunch you did 2 business for. Of course, everybody doesn’t buy stock on margin. ° . Conservative “yee usually steer clear of marginal ‘deals and buy only what they can pay outright for.” “You seem to know a lot about Wall Street. How long ‘ haye you been working down here?” “About two years or more.’ “Expect to be a. broker yourself?” “Hardly. ‘There’s no money in our family, and you can’t be a broker without capital.” 3 “Get a partner with money. ence.” At that moment Sam’s visitor pe oa and Harvey was shown into his room. In a couple of minutes he came oi with an answer in his “hand. — hte He nodded to’ Sam and passed out. " - After that the boys becamie gocd friends. 3 You could furiish the experi- eae CHAPTER V. : HARVEY'S PIRST DEAL, on Nassau street was not lost on Harvey. He was more than willing to make some extra mone eould be done, but he felt that he hardly knew enoug the stock market to dabble in stocks. ine _. However, he thought it would not be amiss to eeu e the Money necessary to make a beginning when the time came, ; 60 when next he wrote to his father he asked him to” send him $100 for a-special purpose, - Birch, Sr., sent it without asking any questions, in the shape of two money-orders, which ‘the boy duly collected. In the meanwhile he cutlivated Sam’s society and asked : for more information about speculating. Sam told him a lot, described the various deals he Ahad engaged in, and mentioned a number of messengers who ‘had made a bunch of money through marginal speculation. Sam introduced him to one of those lads, and the lucky lad aid it was as easy to make money in Wall Street as to roll ‘a log, that is, if you know how to do it. ‘As Harvey had to admit that he hadn’t been in Wall Street about study the matter up. x So after that he began watching the stock report every day, ‘aud taking notice of the, rise. and. fall of the yarious a stocks. At Sam’s suggestion he hades a practice of reading over, at ery chance, one of the daily Wall Street dailies, as well as’ important financial weekly. In this way Harvey acquired a lot more information about aes district than he could haye picked up in any other way. One pee aarp i eee that D, & 0. was going up like a ‘iain’ suggestion about speculating through the little bank | share.’ Jong ‘enough to know how to do it, he concluded he would ; "That will cost you $150 deposit,” said the clerk. és “Here’s the money,” said Birch, pushing the -bills MOWER ap im. _Yhe clerk counted the money, made out a little printed memorandum in duplicate and told Harvey to sign them. The boy did so and one of them was handed to him. All this procedure had been previously explained. to: him by Sam, so he put the piece of paper in his pocket, left the window and started back for the office. He knew that when he wanted to sell out he must present the memorandum at the same window and sign another one that would be handed to him for that purpose. He had been away some time on his errand, but the cashier made no Basie supposing he had been detained at the sta- — tioner’s. When alway: returned to his seat he took out his memo- randum and read it ever with some interest, for it repre- sented his first venture on the market. ‘By it he saw that he had purchased fifteen shares of 1D. & O. at 86. - “If the price goes to 90, and I sell out, ’'l inate $4 a share, }iess commission of the little bank,” he thought. “As it ap- pears to be going right up, and I heard a man say it might go to par, which is 100, why, I may make more than $4 a | At first he was going to tell Sam, sghitin he saw him, about ae] his first deal, but on second thought concluded not to. “YT might make a bull of this thing before I get out of it, jand he might giye me the laugh,” he said to himself. “I guess T'll keep it to myself, then if I lose nobody will Enow but — myself. If I win. I’ll tell him.” Meg That day a lady, plainly attired, with a vinegary a came into the office and asked to see Mr. Brown. — “What name, ma’am?” asked Harvey, politely. “Mrs. Terhune.” “Take a seat, ma’am. Mr. Brown is busy at present: As — soon as he is disengaged I'll take your name in.” ' She sat down in the seat near Harvey’s and waited. Presently she said?” vine “Do. you think he'll soon be at liberty? I'm in i hurry.” “Yes, ma’am, I don’t think you'll have long to wait.” “You seem to be a nice boy,” she remarked, after a Dause, “Thank you for the compliment, ma’am,” “You're a new boy here, I guess?” Yes, ma’am. I’ve only been here six weeks.” “What became of the other boy who did what ai are pore Ms e was “promoted to the counting-room,” | didn’t like him. He was saucy and independent, | ear he kept me from seeing Mr. Brown.” “Ts that so, ma’am?” » “This, And he used to make fun of me, too. I am pretty sharp and see more things than some people suppose. Now, | you’ re polite ‘and nice as a young gentleman ought to he. UE fean see your parents brought you up right.” B: Sad ‘usually try to ado that, don’t they, _ Some- geht naam a?

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paps BROKER BROWN’S BOY. . ” eB ats Hs 0 afraid not. Things are different to what they were when I was young. How old do you think I am?” . Mrs. Terhune was easily fifty-five, but she tried her best to dress and fix her face up so she would look much younger. Her .efforts were not as ‘successful as she imagined, and hardly anybody was ever deceived. Harvey looked at her and sized up her age, but he recol- lected that his mother often said that women did not wish to be told their true age, and always wished to’ be thought younger. He thought it rather odd that. the visitor should. put the question to him, but as she had and had herself complimented him, he felt that he must, flatter her a little. “Well, ma'am, I couldn’t say how old you are, but I should think you were about forty-two or three,” he said, with appar- ent frankness, “Oh, dear, I’m older than that,” she said, with a gracious smile, for she was greatly pleased at the estimate Harvey had put on her years. “Not much older, ma’am. You have a niece fresh com- plexion, and I don’t see many wrinkles in your faee, Yo can't be over forty-five.” “Tm alraid you are ae to flatter mo,” she said, “with a simper, if “Not at all, ma’ am.’ ‘ ee *: “You are eran a very polite ‘boy. Is Mr, Brown still engaged?” ae ? “Yes, ma'am." “It is vepy aceite vd have to wait,” she said, with’ a frown. At that ene the eooe of the private room opened and Br coker Brown’s visitor came out. “I'll take your name in now, ma’am,” said Harvey. So he wet in and told his boss that a lady named Ter- hune wanted to see him. “Terhune!” ejaculated Brown. Sidetrack her, “T don’t want to see her. She-is a nuisance.” © “J don’t see how I can shake her, for she knows you aré in.” |. “* Tell her I can’t see her to-day.” “Yes, sir.” ‘Harvey delivered the’ mnessage to) the visitor. “Can't see me!” she cried, ‘angrily. “He must see ihe, I have business with him. I have lost $2,000 in this office and ani‘ entitled to some consideration. Go baek and tell him I won't leave the office till 1 do see him,” ‘Harvey carried her uitimatum to Brown, “Well, show her in, and in five minutes come in and say I’m wanted in the counting-room,” said the broker. So Harvey showed the lady in. AS the’ ‘door closed after her Sam came in with a note tor Bins . '“¥le’s engaged for five minutes with a jad. narod Ter- hune,” sald Harvey. , “What! thatcld cat?” said Sam, with a can “Do you know her?” “Bet your life I UOT: her, and she knows me. Tm crazy.” : “Crazy! What do you mean?” “Oh, the ‘last time she was here, about a “month before you ie, when Tiarker was messenger, she turned up ong day f with blood in her eye over a deal she had lost money on, and Mr. Brown wouldn't see her. Harker tricd to get her out, but she wouldn't BO. Then he came over to our office and conferred with me. it. was arranged that I should come “in with a note and then be taken with a fit and)scare her.” “How did the scheme work?” “Firstrate. She nearly threw a ft herself. Harker shouted, ‘Look out for the erazy boy!’ and that settled her. She made for the door and didn’t stop till she got to the elevator.” “Did Mr. Brown make a kick about the disturbance?’ . “He came to the door to see what was the matter, but. it was all over then, for Mrs. Terhune ivas just going rough the door’ at a two-forty gait,” laughed San. “What's the matter with the lady? «Why doesn’t Mr. ihe care to gee her?” “Oh, half the brol “ers in the Street know her by sight, mad 9 dozen of thent have get rid of her as a customer because ‘she has proved herseif a nuisance in one way or another. we She is particularly obnoxious when the market goes agai nst She seems to think she ought to win all the time.” She told me gh¢ lost $2,009 in this office.” “I don't ‘know ia eae about that. ‘How came Brown to way tow 9 bad a penne couldn’ get tid of Bes,” She thinks uy | a loud et ee Ame ‘ 5 “Why didn’t you go into the counting-room: and get a Pointer or two from Harker? He knows how to handle her.” “I’ve got to go in now and teli-Mr. Brown he is wanted in the counti ng-room——the five minutes are more than up.” ~ “Better send me in with my note, I'll start her,” said Sam, “Would you throw another fit?” “No, I wouldn’t dare do that in’ Brown’s room. a, face or two at her, this way,” and Sam showed what he meant. “She'll recognize me as the crazy boy and will ae what. happened before. - She ought. to be afraid of me “Til tell Mr. Brown you are waiting to deliver’ a note, He'll tell me to show you in, and then while he’s reading your. note you can try your acting ou the lady. It’s too bad she can’t see, herself, that she’s not wanted and go quietly.” Harvey went in and announced Sam. “Send him in,” said Brown. Harvey did so, leaving the door sjar. ; He expected to see Mrs. Terhune take an expeditious leaves Instead of which he heard a howl from Sam, followed by smack. He epened the door and looked in. - : The lady was standing up and had Sam by the left ear and was slapping his face good and hard. Of course, Mr. Brown immediately interfered and the lady let the sheepish-looking Sam go, He realized that Mrs. Terhune was too smart: to be imposed upon twice by the same boy. Brown took advantage of the lady’s action to request her ; to leave, as he had no further time to waste on her, and te Qe could not have her as a custemer any longer. “Very well, very well,” she said. “I won't trouble you any more,” and she walked out with her nose in the air. f Every day D. & 0. went up higher and Harvey. watched. the rise with intense interest. Finally it reached par. mF Something advised him to sell out then and he aid shi his - stock going at 1003-8. He was told to call any time after three o'clock Hort AS: for his statement, which would show him how he stood, He knew about how he stood, anyway, and when he saw his” gtatement it showed that he had cleared $210 on the deal. | And so he shock hands with himself on the success of first deal in the stock market, Ne ; I'll make | j ia % CHAPTER VI. THE BAG OF GOLD. After he collected his money he told Sam about his firs deal, and that young chap congratulated him on his success i “You got out just in time, Birch,” he said. “You sol at the top of the market. How came you to just hit it Pct: “Luck,” replied Harvey. “I heard a broker say it would | i probably go to par. That was the day I bought the Shapes 80. J held on for par.” ts “You were lucky, but you don’t- want to bank on what. you o hear a broker say. They haven't a sure line on what's going me to happen. That was just his opinion.” a “It turned out to be correct.” Pes: “Just by accident it did. {1 wouldn’t have taken the chance on D. & O. you did. Y-might have held out for 95, but not a point higher. The chap who looks for the last dollar usually — gets dumped. You want to keep on studying up things in — the Wall] Street papers, and watch to see how they turn out. I wouldn't make another deal if I were you till 1 learned mere about the game. It doesn’t pay to go it blind. You’ re sure to get it where the chicken got the axe,’ Harvey theught Sam’s advice good and resoived to follow ftw > His resolution failed him a few days later when. the ‘papers said that A. & G. was likely. to advance Ber erat Panes side of the next ten days. ‘ It’s a risky thing to go into a deal on the Rc of what By a newspaper prints. The report might turn out right, and again it might tanec been printed at the instance of a clique of operators who wished to interest the public in some stock they desired to uniead at a good figure. Harvey wasn’t up to snuff and he bought thirty shares at 5 62; on margin, : Some people ate born’ lucky—nearly everything they: ‘x proves a success. Harvey figured that the papermiednt five or six points whi it said several, If the price went up five points he intended to nell): it wai go up shy points, but the boy from Misaourl Sat

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BROKER BROWN’S BOY... runving errands that he had no chance to go to the little benk, and order. his stock sold. ‘ This fact proved lucky for him, for a few days afterward A. & G@. went up five points more. 4 hen he did get the chance to sell he made $300 instead of 150. ‘He was greatly tickled over this and told Sam about his luck. “T. call that; pig luck,” was Sam’s comment. “What in- * duced you. to go into A. & G.?”. Harvey exp ed what the newspaper had said about a probable advasme’ in its price within ten. days. < -*Say, look here, you mustn't believe everything you see in ‘ the? papers, particularly in the way of stock tips.” < “Well, that looked a good thing. It turned out all right, ~ anyway.” My “Nine times out of ton it wouldn’t ae turned out.” i “That may be, Sam, but as long as it did turn out in my favor what's the use of arguing about what might have hap- penca?” t “I'm speaking about the future. Now that you’ ve won a bit of money 1 wouldn't like to see you drop it on the next ; deal. How much have you made on the two deals?” Ki “Vive hundred dellars.” : “That's twice as much as I’ve made since I started in a year ago. You are doing swell,” a He certainly was, with a Wall Street experience of less than - three’ months. - Next day Broker Brown called him into his private room. “Here’s a list of a dozen brokers,” said Brown. _.“Go “around to cach and find out if they have any Nashville Short Liine. When you find any of the stock offer 801-2 for it. If the. broker accepts that figure tell him to deliver it C..O. D. ‘wat’ my office. Be sure and get a memorandum of any pur- chase you make.” § “Ail right, sir,” said Harvey, who started ou? at once. The first office he went into the broker told him he had 1000 shares of the stock. “I am instructed to offer you 801-2 for it,” said Harvey. The broker locked at the tape and found that was sae ay} oint above, th y market price. “Who < are you buying it for?” at “George Brown.” Ce “You are working for Le aide _kept so busy eh | while ago, but Tf Cesp SiMe to ' my “Very well, I'll ‘deliver the «certificates C. 0. D. right - away.” MG an write you “out the order and you can give me your - um of acceptance.” , man cr ee were exchanged and Harvey went on to’ te nex roker. ; ‘He visited five iwonaee before he found any more of the “stock, then he struck - 2,000: shares which he ordered sent | Bhi Cc 0. Dz to his. boss. p That's all ho could find, so he returned and reported. “You have done ver well,” said Brown. “The stock is gearce. i hardly thought you would get any.” Harvey had an idea that the stock must be in for a rise or Brown wouldn't have bought the shares at an advance iss the market. ‘As he was passing the little bank he went in and left an order for 50 shares of Nashville Short Line, at 801-2 or $1, if the bank couldn't get it below that. Such a simall order was easily enecnted, but the bank had to. pay $1 for the shares. Harvey was pupae: Ld going it f deal inside of a month Gibk ‘Thore was some method in thi S, one, scarcity of the stock to caused Beat Was scarce when his boss sai Secs a? ‘day or two he found out that M pe DAC) shares for some’ syndi ate» corner it, and that,meant ther if the combine could bring it. if the syndicate had got control 0 on the market. He was returning up New street. after beds an errand : when he saw Tim Casey bang ane, a, sl A. D. T. messenger rie. pete was his third as, fa tat on the nd she had no doubt ote ad bought lee ‘who wanted to uld shor ‘tly. be! Sapo in it q phils “was very ‘likely ‘the m jcrity of the shares that saa ek was be the act of He ’ grabbed Casey just. aa y kick. ving: the messenger a aa ) Petes. ‘The ‘essenger took, savantage of bee he nce ~ \turned down Exchange place and made his eseape., ray Ne “What did you upset me for?” demanded Casey, springing \{up and facing Harvey, aggressively. “1 thought I'd stop; you from bullying that boy. Why dont you tackle a. boy of your own size?” said Harvey “Why don’t you mind your business?” “I consider it my business to prevent you from making life miserable for that little messenger.” “Vil get square with you, see if I don’t.” “You only think you will. You tried to do that a little don’t -see that you did much, You ran away like a sneaking coward when. you saw a policeman coming, You’re nothing but a bag of wind.” With those words Harvey walked away. Next day Harvey was sent to the Sub-Treasury to exchange a package of gold notes for a bag of coin. : The sum he got amounted to $10,000 and was quite weighty. Quite a long flight of wide stone steps led to the door of the building, and when Harvey started down them he saw Casey and another lad coming up. ; Casey saw Harvey but gave no sign. As the young Missourian passed, him hoe turned and gave Harvey a shove. Birch wasn’t expecting anything of the kind and he lost his balance, dropped the gold and! went rolling down ths flight, to Casey’s intense delight. Two men lounging on the sidewalk saw what happened, and while one of them went and helped Harvey up, tho other ran up, picked up (the bag, of gold and rushed off with it. Broker Brown's boy saw him running Gown the steps with it, and breaking away from the man wlzro was trying to detain him he gave chase. » In his hurry to get away the man tripped on the ast step and went sprawling onto the sidewalk. As he serambied up” Harvey sprang upon him and he went down again. -. The fellow had fallen on the gold anfl his body covered it, , Harvey tried, to,roll him over to get at it. The fellow resisted his efforts and the other chap. eame to his aid. Several pedestrians stopped, thinking the man had hoon! struck down by. heart failure or a fit. Harvey calied on one of them to help him roll the fellow over, “He’s a. thief and was airy lee to eat away with a bag of gold I was bringing to my office from the Sub-Treasury,” said the boy. . ‘ aio “The boy is lying,” said the man, getting up with the bag of gold. “The gold is mine. He tripped me up*and expected: i to get away with it himself.” “That's right,” nodded the chap’s pal, thing. This boy ought to be arrested. until a policeman comes.” The other man then started to walk off with the gold. * Harvey struggled to get away trom the Oe ve held him, but couldn’t.” At that moment Sam Swett came along. : “Hey, Sam, give me a hand here!” cried nace 7) “What's the trouble?” “N “I’m being robbed of a bag of gold. The fellow crossing the street has it, and this fellow is holding me so I can’t, ; chase him.” “Let go of him!” said Sam, grabbing the man by the arm. “Mind your businés¢ and sheer off or i’ll have you pulled into,” Harvey wriggled around and gave him a short- hand punch in the stomach. That caused him to partly release his rip and the lad. from Missouri quickly wrenched himself free. “Come on, Sam, help’ me catch that rascal. ‘here He down Broad stre Sp: ” gaid Harvey. tila The two boys dashed after the man. The other uttered a warning shout to ae companion. The thief increased his rapid walk to a run, for he couldn't escape the boys: ; Seeing he was sure to be nabbed he dropped the bag any nin suddenly “T saw the ‘ane : I'll held on to him fo goes Thus Harvey recovered his bag of gold. “How did it happen?” asked: Sam. : “All through that Casey boy. He pushed me down tho Sub-Treasury steps, and the bag fell. out: of my hands,” “said _ = Harvey, who then told Sam what Ese: pel Harvey reported the incident to Mr. and the roher: notified the police, giving a description ee the, tyro men. pee Whatever efforts the police made — “them were ‘not diye B Bie ba 80 ane men wore A t aauetot . ‘ Sia peg

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BROKER I BROWN’S BOY. : : o A week pee Harvey sold his Nashville Short Line shares for 96 and cleared a profit of $750. Thus his original $150 had increased to $1,400. CHAPTER VII. IN PERIL OF HIS LITE. Things went along without incident for a couple “of weeks, daring which Harvey, tickled over his success in speculat- ing, kept his eyes wide open for another chance, and at the same time learned all he could about Wall Street methods. At the end cf that time he accidentally learned that: a syndicate of wealthy brokers had been forced to boom a cer- tain small railroad after getting full control of the visible shares, The name of this road was the Iron Mountain, and it was not a line that was usually dealt in largely, for there was -not a whole lot of it. on the market. The control had lately been acquired by a New York bank, and the president of the bank was the brother of the man who ‘got up the syndicate after a congitirations ‘with his brother, The shares yielded a semi-annual dividend "ahd most of jt that was around was held by, small investors. The object of the syndicate was to start a rumor reflecting on the ability of the road to cotitinue its dividends in the future, and thus frighten the smail holders into » ‘selling as the price began to drop somewhat. These rumors would be circulated off and on “until as much of the stock had been shaken out as possible, then the syn- dicate would see to it.that all the rumors reflecting on the road were ‘denied officially. The price would then be boosted as high as possible by ‘methods known in Wall Street, and when it had reached as high a figure as could safely be expected the shares would be unlodded on the public again, and the members of the combine would divide their profits and quit. '. It is unnecessary to explain how Harvey learned all this, but he did and procecded to take advantage of the informa- tion, : Fle waited till the stock had dropped a number of points} and then he put in an order at-the little bank for. 140 shares at, £0 ee margin, and the bank got ibe shares without much tro Harvey tipped Sam off to the good’ ‘thing and that lad was able to buy 40 shares. For some days after that Iron Mountain fluctuated a good bit, with a continucus downward tendency which did the business the syndicate was looking for. Such es the state of affairs when Harvey ran;across Mrs. Terhune one morning on the street. ° She was’ looking around for a broker who would place an order on some stock for her, but all fought shy of her custom. “Good-mérning, Mrs. Terhune!” said Harvey, politely. -“Good-morning, young man!” she said, sourly, remember- ing that he worked for Mr. Brown, whom she was very sore against, “It’s a wonder you'd notice me.” “Why not, ma'am? We had a very pleasant conversation at the office the day you called there,” said the boy from Missouri, _ The boy’s manner was so affable and his smile so taking that the lady’s frigid demeanor melted somewhat. “Your employer didn’t treat me very nice that day.+ In fact, he as good as put me out of his office. office boys usually take their cue from their bosses, so I was surprised to see you address me in such a friendly way.” “Well, ma’am, Mr. Brown had his reasons for treating you the way he did. He’s a busy man, and he is not partial to ‘lady customers because they take up too much of his time, and he can’t tell them to go like he would a man. He wasn’t anxious to see you that day, but you insisted on seeing him. As he was very busy he didn’t like it, and so he was a little rougher than he really meant to be. I hope you'll excuse him. body down who approaches him in the right way.” “Maybe he is, but he didn’t treat me like a lady, — I of it back.” “He was afraid you would drop more and didn’t want to he rage you to speculate any more." i have a right to speculate if I want to. I earn my money honestly ‘keeping 16as gers, and have a right to use it as I ger a please.” xs “T suppose sollte behind in the game?” pe Me ‘have lost more than $4,000 in Wall Street.” Le SO TPve noticed that] as they used to. I assure you he’s a fine man, and he’ll never turn any- , lost aj} lot of money in his.office and I wanted a chance to get some} tumble and when the . “Then you ought to quit, for luck is against you.” “T intend to try again. TI brought $1, 600 down with me to put up on L. & M.” “Tf you’ re determined to speculate some more Ull give eon a sure tip.” “What is it?” “Buy 100 shares of Tren Mountain. “Never heard of it.” “Tm in on it.. Tll show you,"..and Harvey produced his memorandum from the little bank for her ins spection. “My gracious! Are you worth all that money?” she said. “You're only an office boy.” “I know it, but I’m lucky at the game. i and you'll win if you sell out in time.” “How shall I know when to sell out in time?” “You'll be safe to hold it for a ten or fifteen point ewe “But I can’t find a broker who will‘do business with me.” “Go to the little bank on Nassau street.” “I’ve been told to go there, but I found so many men in the place I didn’t like to go in.” “Let me have your money. I'll give you a receipt for it TH put it up for you, and when I sell my own shares I'M sell yours.” After some hesitation Mrs. Terhune agreed to do it, for she said he looked like an honest boy, and she believed she could. trust him. “T wouldn’t do, this for anybody but you, because you: hae ‘lost so much money. I'd. like to sée you win some ot yk back.” The result was Harvey got her money and bought 100 | shares of Tron Mountain for her at 91. She gave him her address, and he promised to let her. know how the deal went on, and when he sold out. That afterncon there was a: flurry over Hrie at the Stock Hxchange. i Jt had been selling around 42 for some time. ‘ oo At one o’clock that day it suddenly boomed upward .and great excitement tock place in the board-room oyer the un- expected rise. Nobedy could account for it, ‘= Whatever interests were pushing it — not be ascer- tained. Speculative traders fell over one another in their efforts to buy and sell it. Ses it continued to soar many who had sold bought in ain. as two o’clock the price was up to 50, and when Harvey reached the Exchange with a note to his boss he fou d place in an uproar. a Sam was there trying to reach Haley with a note} nd allie. the messengers found it unusually difficult to reach the - brokers they were after. Most of these brokers were in the big crowd around ‘the. Erie standard, where the volume of sound was terrific, A forest of hands were waving in the air, and when trad- ers detached themselves from the mob they looked badly ~ = rumpled up. ne “J haven’t seen anything quite “as icaly as this before,” ; Harvey said to Sam. ; “Wait till you see a real panic here and then you'll think ~ the world is coming to an end,” grinned Sam, . “When am I likely to see one?” : bait “I couldn’t. tell you.. They don’t have them as often now It’s so risky that some big-bug generally, — comes to the rescue in time to stop it. We have small panics, though, every once in a while, when the bottom. drops out of a boom, but they don’t last, long, and are seri- ous only to the people on the wrong side.” . ged like to find out where Mr. Brown is,” said Harvey. “And I’d like to spot Haley.” oe In a few minutes Brown, rumpled and perspiring, sepa- rated himself from the Erie crowd and Flanyey got his. note to him. =f “All right,” said Brown, after reading it. : He appeared to’ be in excellent humor. Hardly had Harvey left the Exchange than Erie began It’s going up.” ‘You do as I say pies o'clock hour arrived it wags dowa to 40, or two points below where it started. About two next day Brown handed Harvey a note to deliver to a broker named Hanley on Exchange place, - Harvey hustled over there and was admitted to the private ‘s iidn’t look pleasant. a: i ‘Dig six-footer, with a red face and an ‘aceressive

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10 Pose OKER BROWN’S BOY. a ES aE aS ee * When he read the note he uttered a howl of rage. Jumping up he seized Harvey, ran him to the decor and kicked him into the waiting-room. The boy fell ali over himself from the force that had been applied to him. ‘His unceremonious’ exit from the private room naturally’ at- tracted the attention of all in the office. Harvey picked himself up, brushed himself off and started back to demand an explanation of such rough-house treat- ment. He had never been handled that way before and he couldn't understand it. One thing was certain, he wasn’t going to stand it from any man. Men were shot Scag, out in Missouri for a great deal less than that. If the trouble ee in the contents of the note that wasn’t his fault. He was bound that Broker Hanley, even if he was as big as a Mountain, must make some sort of apology for throwing dsim bodily out of his room. “He opened the door and walked in. ’ Hanley was walking up and down his room like a tiger in his cage. ¥ ‘He had thrown open one ‘of his windows to admit the air, for ‘between the steam heat and his concentrated passion the ‘room. felt oppressively hot to him. The broker glared at th joy the moment he appeared. | Harvey lost no time im/coming to the point. . “Yd like to know what you mean by throwing me out ‘of your SSpaes hae he sald. “I’m not used to that kind of thing, and “won't ‘ge With a roar Hanley pounced on him. y Lifting the boy off his legs’ he gave him a swung and flung him straight at the window. : ‘Harvey went through it like a shot, and but for a piece of good luck his young career would have been wound wp then and there, for the office was four stories up. ' As he felt himself going out he clutched at the window- ~ gill with both hands and caught it. His flight was arrested and there he hung in a very pres carious Situation, unable to help himself. - Unless somebody came to his assistance it would only be “@ question of time when his grip. would relax and, down he Would “goto the sidewalk. - “The moment his form went out through ~ a window, Broker Hanley realized what he had done, and his feelings hanged like lightning. Ori He hought he had killed the bey, for he did not notice his a finge: | elutching the sill, and he staggered like a drunken man against the wall and covered his face with his hands. : “My heavens!” he gasped, “what have I done? I’ve com- pusiod. a murder. I shall be arrested and——” ~ that moment Harvey,’ seeing the Hopelessness of his sit- atee Qn, began calling for help. Hearing the boy’s voice so close to the window, Hanley. ; rushed there and discovered where his victim was, and the _ desperate clutch he had.en the window. ’ Reaching down he grabbed Harvey by the arms and dragged ‘ him into the room. ‘ Then, with a chalky face, he dropped into a chair and began: mopping his face with his handkerchief. scape. but. never anything quite so ticklish as the one he had just escaped. - He looked at the broker a moment, and the thought at once crossed his mind that the” man must have gone temporarily ~ CPazy. En no other way could he account for the handling he had received. The amazing part of the affair was the SARIS TATE strength displayed by the trader. Harvey Birch was no easy proposition to awhed with, and yet Hanley had used him as easy BB though he had been a quere child. It struck the boy he had better | another paroxysm on or thore ¥ - happen to him. iS eave before the man got vas "no telling. what might a _ Accordingly he started for the door. | Se el TaN Sak ? | Hanley jumped up. . ; ‘ “Don’t go!” he said. the window. - mand over myself, Ae Trg oe i “{ di@n’t mean to ‘throw | “you out of I did not know what I was doing. 1 Jost com- f |you some satisfaction, however, if,he pays you a substantial _ Harvey got on his feet, mighty thankful for his narrow ° Katee 3 He had been in some tough predicaments gut. in Missouri, Had I Killed you r should es Blowasa my brains out. Thank heaven, you are safe. I will make amends in any way in my power. Give me a chance.” Harvey stopped with one hand on the knob of the door. “You are too dangerous to have anything further to do with. I guess you’re crazy, for nobody but a lunatic would do what you have just done. You ought to be put into a strait-jacket before you do any more harm. That’s ali I want to say to you, but it’s likely you’ll hear from Mr. Brown on the subject.” ae Harvey opened the oe and hurried irom the office.. CHAPTER VIM. THE WALLET THAT VANISHED. When Harvey got back to his office he reported to Mr. Brown the reception he had received from Broker Hanley. His employer was fairly staggered by his story. “Do you mean to say that he actually threw you out of his forth-story window?”. ejaculated Brown, aLnOs se pes lously. “He certainly did. And if I hadn't iorenkaver oaneRt hold of the window-sill as Ep was going out you’d never have — secn me alive again.” “Good gracious! The man must have been Pees demented to do such a thing as that.” “He certainly acted like a lunatic. I noticed when-I went -. ; in first that ho looked awfully grouchy. He took your note and read it. Then he jumped up with an imprecation and.ran. me out into the reception- room, giving me a kick that landed me on all fours. I couldn't stand for an insult like that — and went back to demand .an Sep nalion and an apology. 1: got the window instead.” Say alta “How did. you. escape?” : “He pulled me in after seeing what he had done, ‘and started... to tell me how sorry he was that he had been so strenuous, but I didn’t care to listen to him. I was afraid he might» break out again, He was as strong as a bull, and handled me with the greatest ease: I propose to get out.a warrant for his arrest and put him through for attempting my life. ~ If the man is crazy I suppose I can’t do anything, but other- — wise I guess I can make him sweat.” sf “T judge that the trouble grew out of. my note, which owas he a demand on him for the settlement on the Erie stock he_ Fs hought of me yesterday. He. bought the shares just before. ¥ the price began to tumble, and I heard ne lost heavily by > the transaction. That, however, was his lookout. He owes, me a large sum of money, and he will have. to pay up or make an assignment. All that does not excuse his conduct ~ towards you. I shall make it my business to call on him at onee and threaten him with arrest and pr osecution unless he makes it right with you.’ & “T don’t knew that his apology is of any use to me now,” said the boy. ‘i ; “Fell have to make you more substantial amends. ! a ae us : ‘tell have to indemnify you for the scare he gave. you and— the hate ible peril he placed you in.” “T wouldn't go through that experience again for a million — dollars.” ; : “T should think not. Once is enough for a lifetime. You © have stood it better than most boys would. It will afford sum, Should he refuse to do so you can send him to. prison. iy - Mr. Brown” put on his hat and left the office. He returned thirty minutes later and dalled Harvey a his rooni. \ “T have settied the Twatter with him and accepted in your name a check for $1,000, which is little enough. Here it is. He seems to deeply regret his impetuosity, and made a very — humble apology to me. Ag he appears to be sincere I agreed to sidetrack any action on your part if he would pay you / $1, 000 He consented, and so we will consider the incident closed, You are $1,000 ahead, and you do not seem to be any the worse for your hazardous experience, Under these cir- | cumstances [ think you had better consent not to brosecute tee him.” : "All bight, sir. Whatever you say goes with me.” Eeoree And so the matter was settled as far as Harvey was con- cerned, though he did not) soon forget what he had passed, through at the hands of the athletic. broker. A thousand dollars was some baim to his tingling derves,.*, i and ag he counted on making a couple of thousand more out of the anticipated rise of tron Mountain, he felt ee ‘The incident in question, however, had not escap ed atten on ‘the outside, os saci ee. &

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‘BROKER: BROWN’S BOY. ph ioe { SIRENS. SIRS 3 a A clerk in the window apposite had seen Maver come out of the window and cling to the sill, and he had called the attention’ of others in the office of the exciting sight. Harvey's shout for help had aroused attention in other offices in the neighborhood, and a seore of persons saw him dragged back into the room by the broker. ‘The news of the boy’s peril and rescue spread around and! reached the ears of a reporter, who proceeded to make an investigation. ! This led him to Hanley’s offic. 1 But everybody in the place professed the most profound | ignorance concerning the affair. Ne got an interview with Hanley. That gentleman assured him that somebody had been} hoaxing him, “Tf a boy in some way fell out of one of my windows’ there | isn't one chance in a thousand that he could grab the sill i and save ‘his life. Somebody has filled you up with a ghost- © story.” The reporter didn’t believe it was a ghost-story he had heard. -- He was shrewd enough to guess that Hanley was trying to cover up the affair and prevent it from getting into the - newspapers. } That made the newspaper man all the keener to secure the | i kacts, He was not successful and had to let the matter £0, a ‘Wall Street escaped the ‘knowledge of a stirring sensation | 26 which had happened in its midst. ae day or two after that Iron Mountain began to rise when | th ie Management officially denied the many rumors that had been © gating’ around about the road not doing as well as’ usual, { Harvey heard his boss-talking about the matter, and | speculating, as to what was in the wind. That day the stock recovered five points, going to 95, which | Was near its cystomary standing. The jump represented a gain of $900 in a few hours to the /° boy from Missouri, H , It showed him he had made no mistake in ecaeata on the Jae lid he had picked up. : immediately wrote to Mrs. ‘Terhune and told her if she toe d-at the daily market report in her morning ‘Paper. she} ; would fiud.out that her shares were worth $500 sak than | she paid for them. _. Next day about noon, while Harvey was sitting in nis Bake: awaiting a call on his services, a man with a soft hat entered, ! looked around and then walked over to the ticker where half , a dozen customers were grouped. - -‘Flarvey had never seen him there before and concluded he } had dropped in with the idea of watching the quotations, and | | - might place an order with the cashier: Strangers often came in and made use of the ticker infor- ; ae ~ mation without leaving any order. S, The ticker there was for’ the use of any, visitor whether he became a customer or not. : Be ‘The boy- gave him no * dates after the first glance, and | a few minutes later he was sent across to Haley’s office with a note. When he returned he met the stranger coming out, of. the door. ‘Inside he found the reception-room in an uproar. One of the customers declared somebody had stolen his “pocketbook containing several hundred dollars. « _ “Who was standing near you?” of the stranger, whose face had not impre The man who was robbed couldn't say or certain, as he had’ not paid any especial attention to ihe. persons around him. “Phe man who just went’ 0: it stood. “gloss up behind you,” said one of the parties present. “He was a stranger. He made for the door as soon as you put vOur hand in -your | ‘pocket and said your pocketbook was gone.” I Harvey thought the stranger ought not to be allowed to ibs. leave the building. until the matter had been investigated, | and he started for the door to see if he could intercept him | before he went down the elevator. } The-moment he got out in the corridor he saw the stranger waiting for a down cage to take him. on. |. { { Harvey rushed over to the elevator shaft, which was only igen a ty feet from the door of the office. hen the elevator came down and stopped. ey ‘the stranger was stepping aboard. of. it the lad from Laie | Harvey, asked Harvey, thinking | had prevailed that he had stolen the pocketbook. ed him favorably. | issouri reached ont selaed him by the sche and fan. searched. Maybe me aropped it to get rid of ty” sat sa ‘aed ‘i es ee at roi, Uh the' ation y The elevator man and the passengers looked astonished at the boy’s action, while the stranger tried to release himself and put up a strenuous protest. Harvey paid no attention to him, but began dragging him ! along the corridor. “Ceme along, mister, step out.” You're wanted in the office,” said the boy, tightening his grip on the chap’s collar and arm. rants “Oh, I say, let me go!” protested the man. i “Tl jet you go when I get you inside.” | The struggle between them naturally attracted considerable. oe notice and brought Brown’s cashier to the door, — 3 “Here’s the man who was standing behind Mr.. Crosby | when he asserted he was robbed of his pocketbook,” said! “}ie’s making.such a kick about returning that I think he ought to be searched to see if he has the goods on him.” “This is an outrage!” said the’stranger. “Somebody wil have to pay for pulling me around this way.” “Charge it to. me,” said Harvey, shoving him mepenly a the office. Mr. Brown was in the waiting-room talleing t. the mar who had lost his wallet, te All the visitors had expressed a willingness to be searched, * hy but the broker was loath fo subject them to such an ordeal: Harvey shoved his man”forward. He was recognized as the yearn who stood behind robbed man. : am There was no evidence against him and the -questio should he be searched? x “Let go of the man,” said Brown, and the boy rele “Tt has been suggested that everybody ‘in the rooni ; time this gentleman discovered that his pocketboo was miss-° 4 ~ ing pe searched,” said the broker. “Have you any objection to that?” bee A The stranger declared that he had, after the rough: house | | treatment he had been subjected to. “Why wasn’t I asked to return instead of Sele grabbed roughly by the collar and dragged in here like a dog?” he said. “If that is your boy you are responsible for his con- © duct.” 4 “I'm afraid you've acted too roughly with this man,” Brown to Harvey. “He’d have. scaped down the elevator if I hadn’t said — grabbed — | him and stopped him from getting into the cage,” replied the | | boy. “Under the circumstances I think the easiest way out of . ,this matter is for everybody to submit to.a search. It ig ~ , only a matter of form, since none of vou: are accused of tak- ‘ jing the gentleman’s wallet.” This was agreeable to all but the avant, but seeing that jhis refusai was arousing suspicion he finally consented if everybody would stand in line and be treated alike. Mar “I'll stand at the head of the line and be searched first’ an pe Tam in a hurry to go,” he said, walking briskly ‘to. the ticker S |machine and standing there. ath: The others lined up and the-cashier was asked to search the parties. Dine Broker Brown directed Harvey to ‘stand at the door | eat keep visitors out until the ceremony had» been gone rar Nox with. The stranger was duly searched, but nothins was found OB: Te, him that did not appear to belong to him. . ‘The result was a matter of surprise, for the impression % He was allowed to go and he walked out without a word Pe The other six were subjected to the same search, but the missing wallet was not found on them. That gave the idea that the man had lost his eaiens before he entered the office. The gentieman declared that he had had his wallet in hi hand a short time before he found it was gone. Ad r However, the wallet had taken its departure and there - seemed no prospect of the owner recovering it, and all pres. $e ent gathered around the ticker once more. Suddenly one of them looked down, stooped and held up a red leather wallet. “Ts this your missing property, sir?” he asked. “Yes, thet is my poc thook, " said its owner, varatshs “Where did you find! it?” .— “One the figor behind the machine ere, dropped it.” S “The chap we thought took it, stood against the ticker 6. ia You must have

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BROKER BROW 8 BOY. see ‘After talking the matter over the bunch. came to the con-| been overcomie thad not the young man who had hold of cné clusion that the man who had been suspected dropped it]of his assailants come to his rescue. when he found he cotld not leave the room without sub- mitting to a search, het was Harvey's opinion, too, when he learned how the wallet had been found behind the ticker, for he remembered that the fellow had taken the unnecessary trouble to walk over to the tieker to be searched. And so the matter ended, to the great satisfaction of the man to whom the wallet belonged, who thus got back the $300 he had given up as lost. A week Jater Iron Mountain reached 105 and Harvey sold beth his shares and these of Mrs. Terhune. His profit on the deal was $2,100 while the lady’s amounted to $1,500 The afternoon he collected the money he called on Mrs. Terhune. He found that she lived in a little three-story old-fashioned brick house in the Greenwich Village section of the city. he rented the rooms on the three floors to individual : lodgers, living in the three-room basement herself, and made -. quite'a profit ovt of the roomers, for it was.seldom she had oe room vacant, and she got a fair price from her people. ert *tm glad. to see you," young man,” she said, epening the area, gate, “Come “in.” arvey” went in and was conducted to her Pens “room in rear, where she had some sewing on the table. Psp ‘sold ont your stock yesterday at a profit to you of 1,5 0, ‘There is the money, together with your $1,000 de- % and there is your statement from the little bank,” he said, handing her both. “Did T.really make $1,500?" she said, her vinegary face relaxi ing into a smile .peculiarly her own. “Dear me, I _ never was so lucky before.” 1 were fortunate, for I gave you the benefit of miry tip. eT ae $2,000 myself.” “Tam much obliged to you. present of $100.” “Not a cent, Mrs. Terhune. I did you the favor without any idea of receiving any reward for it. I knew Iron Moun- tain would prove a winner, and I saw no reason why you couldn’t participate in the profits.” “It was very kind of you,” she said. ““ AN] right. We'll let it go at that.” After remaining half an hour, Harvey took his leave, with _ @ warm invitation from the grateful lady to call again. You will let me make you a Xs ety 7 e ik verde» CHAPTER IX. & co es THE TIP IN THE POCKETBOOK, “ ‘One evening Harvey was walking’ up Broadway about eight o'cloc The street was fairly full of ‘people going to theaters and other places of amusement. As he. commotion and heard a ery for help. A store of passing pedestrians stopped and looked in the direction of the sounds, but that, was all they did. : Harvey hurrying forward was amazed to sce a couple of _ men struggling with another man and a well-dressed woman Dae scream on scream, “Help! help! I’m being robbed!” cried the man, ae ‘That Was enough for the lad from Missouri, '.* He darted into the mix-up. -- “Keep away or I'll brain you!” hissed one of the men, ising a slung-shot threateningly. -Hlarvey’s. answer was a heavy blow on the jaw that "stretched the fellow ott as clean as a whistle. "tr Be man who was attacked, relieved of the second asgail- ‘grabbed the other and a fierce” tussle took place be- B Cwten them, get Harvey went to the gentleman's aid and” hetween them the - rascal was captured. ‘The crowd closed in cn them when it was seen that the crook was getting the worst of the “argument. The chap who bad been knocked down got up and disap- - peared before any one had the nerve to try and detain him. When the trouble was all cver a policeman appeared from somewhere and asked what the trouble was about. The gentleman explained that he and his wife were on the way to the theater from the hotel they were stopping at when he was suddenly set upen by two mien, who began beat- ing to his arm around his neck, garrote fashion. iso object was evidently spied E and he would have + \ 7 , i ia aae ten the corner of 40th street he saw a sudaeth ing him about ihe pead with their fists, one of them endeavyor-: He remarked that a dozen men might have come to his aid at the start, but not one of them had made a move to do $9, until he and the plucky boy had practically ended the trotble between them by capturing the pristner, whom he directed the policeman to take charge of. yet “I will go to the station-house with you and*make tho charge of attempted highway robbery with pase Olt against this man,” he said. “And Ill go with you as a witness if you consider my pres- ence necessary,” said Harvey. a The officer handcuffed the man, for he looked like a can- gerous customer, and marched him off, accompanied by ‘the gentleman, whose name was Dixon, his wife and Harvey. The proceedings at the precinct station-house were brief, and the crook was locked, up. Mr. Dixon, his wife and Harvey were directed to at the police court in the morning. “So you are connected with Wall Str eet?” said the gentle- 5 man when they stepped outside. Harvey had given his name and saahaets address, desk sergeant. iar “Yes, sir. I work for George Brown, 2 stock broker.” “You have done me a great favor, young man, and I assure you that I won’t forget it. I would have been knocked out and robbed in the presence of a seore or more of people, on a prominent part of Broadway, but for your pluck in coming to my aid. I really can’t understand the indifferenee of the public in such a case. Why, the crooks appear to have full swing in this city. The very daring of the attack’ they made on me indicates that they counted on the crowd hold- ing back. I think it an outrageous state of things. I should not be surprised to hear of some rascal knocking a man down in a crowded sireet-car, robbing him and making his escape without interference ‘of the part of the public.” Mrs. Dixon expressed her sentiments in the same way. “I daresay I might have screamed myself hoarse without securing a single champion from those cowardly men,” she said, indignantly. “They ought to be ashamed to look in a glass and call themselves men.” “Are you visiting New York?” asked Harvey. : “Yes. We are from the West. I came to New York to appear to the [transact some business.” “T am from the West myself,” said the boy. “Indeed! I am pleased to hear it. What part of the West, may I ask?” “Blank County, Missouri.” : M “ “I thought you had the pens and voice of a Westerner, ea I am pleased to find that impression confirmed. I think, my — dear,” he said, turning to his wife, “that it is too late for us, to go to the theater this evening. We will, therefore, ~ return to our hotel. We shall be glad of your company, Birch, if you have no engagement: to keep,” said Dixon. Harvey had no engagement, having come out only for a stroll after dinner, and so he accompanied the gentleman and his wife to their hotel. They had a suite of two rooms at the Park Avenue Hotel, - and Harvey went up there with them. Mr. Dixon asked him how long he had. heen. in Wall Street, how he liked his position, and whether he thought of remaining permanently in New York. The boy gave him frank, replies. Mr. Dixon then said that his business: in New York was to promote the ‘stock of a silver mine in, the Bullfrog Dis- trict which he was interested in. “The company has authorized the issue of 150,000 treasury shares to raise money for additional development purposes, ” he said. .“From present indications the mine has an encour: aging future. Thosstock ill be offered for ten cents a share, cash; or eleven cents on the instalment payment plan. The allotment for the Hast is 100,000 shares, and I hope to push the whole of it off right here in New York.” ' Harvey passed’ a pleasant two hours with his new frionds and then took his leave, Mr. Dixon promising ig call at his office to see him in a day or two. Pa The affair at Broadway and 40th street was Sty published 1% in the dailies next morning and read Bae a large number of the inhabitants of Gotham. Broker Brown read it on his way ra Swath and was sur- prised to seo his messenger’s name mentioned so prominently — in the story. “That's. just like the + ee he said. back and see any | robbed. He is certainly as plueky as Faces come, be ie strong as a young bull, He has proved — a a ma WARS: ‘ee yt ; , + r “He wouldn't hoid —

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_— himself an uncommonly good boy and messenger. Few boys handicapped as he was when he started in could have made good so quickly. He’s sure to make his mark, if energy and ambition can accomplish it.” When he reached the office he called: Harvey into his room and asked him for the full particulars of the incident. Harvey told him that the newspapers had correctly re- |. BROKER BROWN’S BOY. ported. the affair, and that he could add little to their ac- counts. He explained that Mr. Dixon was interested in the Little Giant Silver Mine, of Bullfrog, and had come Hast to dispose of a considerable amount of development shares among the investing public, Then he asked permission to go to court to testify at the captured crook’s examination before a magistrate. He obtained permission to go. To make sure that he would be on hand, a policeman called for him at quarter of eleven. He found Mr. Dixon and his wife in court when he ar- - rived there. When the crook was called to the bar he pleaded “Not guilty.” Then a choap lawyer announced that he had been retained to leok after the prisoner’s interests. He waived examination and asked that a reasonable bail be fixed so that his client could secure his release until the Grand Jury had considered the facts and passed upon them. The magistrate accordingly remanded the prisoner to the Tombs and fixed his bail at $1,000. This was subsequently furnished by an acceptable bonds- man and the crook was released from custody pending -pro- . ceedings against him. -- Harvey returned to Wall Street and resumed his duties. After returning from the bank where he had put in the day’s deposits, Mr. Brown sent him with a note to a broker in the Mills Building. The broker was busy and he had to wait. s Hé sat down .on a chair near the ticker, when, to his sur- prise, the chair gave away completely and landed him on the floor with a crash. The accident was very amusing to a couple of men present, who laughed heartily. | One of them came to his assistance, helped him up, and, - spying a black wallet on the floor in the midst of the ruins ~~ of the chair, and.supposing it was his, picked it ay and stuck it in his pocket. Harvey did not take notice of what the man did, and for the time being he remained in ignorance that he had i into possession of property not his own. In a few minutes the broker was at liberty and Harvey went in and gave him the note he had brought. The broker read it, scribbled a reply and, putting it in an - envelope, handed it to the young messenger, who immediately left. Harvey handed the note to Mr. Brown and went outside to wait till his services were no longer in requisition for the da, Then it was that he felt something in his side pocket, and -’ putting his hand there pulled out the black pocketbook. “This isn’t mine. How in thunder did it get in my pocket?” he asked himself in no little astonishment. As he couldn’t find an answer to his own question ne pro- ceeded to examine the wallet. It contained $100 in bills, numerous memoranda and a card bearing the date of that day which read as follows: “The syndicate is complete and is backed by the North- 7 *, western Bank. The combine will start in buying away, 80 get busy yourself and go the limit on the stock I men- tioned to you—O. & N. It is good for a fifteen-point rise at least. When you have cashed in s F me - cent. rake-off you promised for this “This looks like a first-rate pointes thoubht Harvey. “I would like to know who this wallet belongs to so I could return it; and I’d like to know who J.D. 4s, so I could find yout whether he is in a position to hand out a tip that looks a pike a winner.” : “ie further examination of the wallet brought to light a note - ‘Dearing the printed heading of the Northwestern Bank. -. The note was addressed’ to Chauncey Kane, No. — Broad ~ street, and contained a request for him to meet the writer at the Empire Cafe, at two o’clock, on the date of the note, " which was a week back, and was signed John Dillon. The writing was the same as that on the card, so J. D. 0 wos clearly John .Dillon. . e twenty per A list of the bank officers printed on the notehead showed that Dillon was one of the vice-presidents of the bank. “This. pocketbook is the property of Chatncey Kane, I should judge,” thought the boy, “and as his address is No. — Broad street, I ought to have no difficulty in-restoring it to him: Tll go in and tell) Mr: Brown about it.” The. broker was closing his desk preparatory to leaving the office. Harvey showed him the pocketbook and told him haw he had found it in his pocket, and was quite ignorant how it got there, “That is rather a remarkable circumstance,” sald Brown. “It. certainly “is, sir, money.” “Is there any clew in it to its owner?” “There’s a note from a man named Dillon on the note- 13, particularly as it contains $100 in . head of the Northwestern Bank, and it is addressed to Chaum ~ cey Kane, whose address is- given as No. — Broad street. From that I figure that the wallet belongs to Kane.” “You'd better ‘call on Kane and see if it’s his property. though.” “That’s the astonishing part. of it, T can’t undaeerny it.” “When did you, find it in your pocket?” “A few minutes ago.’ “Since you returned from your errand to the Mills -Bulld- ing? ” ea be ~ Had it been there before you went on that errand don’t. you think you would have: noticed it?” “T might. when I carried the day’s deposits to the bank.” “Were you:in a crowd going to or coming from the bank? “No, sir.” , “Or going to or returning from the Mills shop AES “No, ¥ sir. ” . 8 “Then I can’t account for it getting into your pocket. A thief when detected in the act of plying his light-handed business often slips the stolen article into thie pocket of a bystander so that if he is caught nothing epi pene him At any rate, I’m sure it wasn’t in my pocket. Tye is funny it should have found - way into your pocket, - would be found on his person. Such could hardly have hap- ~ pened im your case or you would recall acai in: nection with the circumstance.” a “No, sir. I don’t think anything like that happen: at mie, », “Well, take the pocketbook down to Mr. ‘Kane it is his.” eon- Harvey left the office and walked into the building Boyes the number on the note. A glance at the wall directory showed him that Chauncey . Kane had an office on the third floor. He went up there and found by the sign on the door that, es Mr. Kane was a stock broker. Zid “Ts Mr. Kane in?” he asked a clerk, “Yes. “T do.” “Well, go in that room. You'll find him disengaged.” Harvey walked into the room and found'a gentieman with ; Want to see him?” See a florid countenance and long, blond side-whiskers, seated at a - desk, “Mr. Kane?” he. said, interrogatively.. “That’s my name,” said the broker, a iaeind up. “My name is Harvey Birch, and Tr work for George Brown, stock broker.” “Well?” “T found a pocketbook that I have an idea belongs to you.” “Yes, yes; I lost my wallet somewhere. I think si ‘the Mills Building.” “That's where I found it,” said Harvey, who dii not want | to say he had found it in his pocket, as that would look like a ghost-story, and would probably lead to a lot of useless questioning. “Let me see it, please.” “What color is it?” “Black.” “That's right. How much money was in it?” “TI couldn’t say exactly, but close to $100.” ; “And there was a note addressed to you signed by——” “John Dillon,” said Kane. “The pocketbook is yours. Here it is.” He handed it to the broker, who opened it and ran the contents rapidly over. “Tt’s all, right,” he said. “You are-an honest boy to re- turn it to me, Allow me to hand you $50.” “It isn’t necessary for you ‘to offer me any reward, sir.” “That's all right. Take it as a present.” ; * a “uf ee ; 60 it a

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BROKER BR I'd rather not take so much,” The contents of the wallet, inde- “That's half the money, “Oh, I can spare it, st OWNS BOY. Then Harvey went on his way, Later on he told Sam about the ineident, and they facbued - pendent of the money, are worth ten times $50 to me, so I. in- | over it. x sist that you accept the bflls.” ; Harvey tock the money, thanked him and then took Nis eave, ae CHAPTHR X. KNOCKED OUT. Satisfied that the tip was all right, hire bought 400 shares of 0. & N. on margin at the little bank next morning, the market figure being 85. He also put Sam on to the pointer. That young chap having won a roll en Harvey's previous tip jumped at the chance to get in on another. ae, args do you manage to get hold of these tips, Birch?” he BABES! “Oh,. they just | come my way because I’m lucky,” replied Harvey. “And you say this is a winner?” “Just as much of a winner as Iron Mountain.” _ “That was a good one. I made over $500 on it.” | “Well, with the money you have you ought to make $1,060 this time.” Sek “How much do you expect to make out of it, five or six : thousand? Say, you're going some for a new thing in Wall |’ Street. I never saw any one catch on like you have.” tie “I took your advice and have been studying the market () - right along.” ' -“Y’ve been studying it for over two years and haven’t made out as well in the market as you have done since, you ‘started speculating,” . “hat’s because I’m luckier than you. } am satisfied that - luck counts for a whole lot in Wall Street. I haven’t made --. g bad deal yet, and the one I’ve just got in on is the fifth.” “Ii I follow your lead Pll make a boodle quicker than by going on my own hook,” At that moment a rotten apple struck Harvey on the ee a der, caromed and hit Sam square in the nose. He uttered a howl of pain. _ Harvey turned quickly and saw Tim Casey's grinning face -. peering from a doorway. ' He was satisied that young rascal had flung the missile. “Wh threw that apple at me?” said Sam, holding his nose. A AH 8 thrown at me by Tim Casey. oy e iY ee Tli knock the daylights out of him,” said ae oa ie in that doorway yonder. We can’t catch him. he moment — we) started in his direction he'd cut away. When 1 st him again: Tl call a to an account for his : “pet.” é \ “Td like to catch him now. I’m ‘just. in the humor to——” His gazo lighted on the grinning Casey. --‘_In a moment he made a bee-line, for him. —s- Gasey saw him coming and. disappeared. ; He scurried upstairs and when Sam got to the door he Ly ‘was not in sight. Harvey did not follow Sam, but vent on to his office, An hour later: he encountered Casey) on Beaver wee Catching him by the ear he said; ; “What did you throw that rotten apple at me for?” “What's the matter with you? Let me alone!” “You might. have put my eye out or Sam Swett’s. I'll give you something ~ make you remember not to do such a. thing again.” ‘He gave Ces a slap on each cheek and walked away. Casey, wild with rage, called him many hard names, A banana-cart stood a few feet away. At the end of it stood a small pile of prereipe: fruit, Marked one cent each. ‘Casey selzed one and flung it after Harvey. Jt whizzed past his hat. “The lad from Missouri turned and started back. . - Casey made a dart to cross the street, struck the end of the - Panana-cart and upset it and its contents on the sidewalk, falling on all fours in the gutter. The Italian who was in charse of the cart uttered a roar of ra Be. ae picked himself up like a monkey and was up the reet like a flying meteor. _ ‘When Harvey saw the ruin made by his enemy he stopped pnd chuckled, _ *7’'d@ hate to be in his shees if that Italian got hold of him,” ne said, looking at the infuriated fruit man, who was dancing Atke a lunatic around his overturned sal ih de i 3z. : Two weeks passed, during which 0. & N 082. Then it teek a boom on and jumped to par, Harvey and Sam sold out and. gathered in a good -profit— the former making $6.000, and the latter about $1,200. , The boy from Missouri was now worth over $10,000, and he had only been in Wall Street six months. +; He wrote encouraging letters to his father and mother. but he never mentioned a word of his successful speculations, and his father continued. sending him $5 a weeks. for pociset- money. This money he put in a savings bank, for he had no use for it, and did not care to mix it up with his working funds. In the meantime Harvey had met Mr. Dixon, the mining promoter, several times. That gentleman presented him with a handsome diamond pin for what the boy had done for him and, incidentally, his wife. The Sunday papers contained an ailuring advertisement setting forth the advantages offered by the Little Giant mine to investors at ten cents a share, and Mr. Dixon, who had taken an office in a Broad street building, sold the stock like hot cakes, i In a month he had got rid of every share of the Wastern allotment and was ready to return to Bullfrog, where the Mine was situated. The evening before he started he invited Harvey to dine with im and his wite at their hotel, and the boy accepted the invitation. ‘After dinner they went to a theater, and at the close of the show Harvey bade Dixon and his wife good-by and.started for his boarding-house. a The block he lived in was deserted and silent, and Bis foot- sicps echoed on the sidewalk as he wa ked alotig.”:. : The papers that day had spoken pet the. probatite rise in copper stocks and the boy from issouri was wondering if he would be able to make any mone out of a line: he had not touched yet. Bee. In this ‘mental occupation he reached “his. abiding place BA and turned to ascend the steps, when suddenly four tough- looking young fellows. appeared out of the area where they. had been hiding and seized him. Four to one looked like an easy proposition for the ag gressors, but they soon discovered that they had tackled a small. cyclone, With two blows Harvey knocked a pair of them down, and then proceeded to Boney off the other two before the others ‘got on their feet. clyeaet He would likely have succeeded, for when he landed a blow | it did damage, but one of the downed raseals seized him by the leg and embarrassed his movements so much that one ~ of the others managed to reach him with a slung-shot, and that was a little bit more than Harvey's head: could stand, He went down and out and the scrap was over. ty During all this time a night-hawk cab had been standing jai a, short distance away close to the ¢urb. hee The driver viewed the conflict without leaving his perch. i ‘When the finish came, the bruised quartette picked Harvey ~ up, carried him to the cab, opened the, “aad and threw him ae inside. Two piled in after him and two crov d on the driver, who. whipped up his sorry-lo off down the street toward the west. . gradually went up ea ‘the ssat aisles S g hag and drove It mig ave been two hours gs _ the lad from ae Missouri rec ered his senses. ie He found himself bound tightly and Htretehed on a bed in a dark room, the outline of which he could barely make out by the Hght of a starry sicy which came through a window at one end. A glimmer ‘of light came under a door connecting with an- other room, and Harvey heard voices of men in there. The conversation was boisterous and coarse, and from the © words he caught he judged they were playing cards. It was not long before the door was opened and a young, dissolute-looking fellow came in and flashed, a match close. ; to Harvey’s face. : “You've come around, have you?” he said. Pe Without another word he turned around and walked oa eS : closing the door after him. ; Harvey's wonder was net why he had been dieaivked: but why he had been brought to that si after having been ‘s knocked > out, ; pat $: aot

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BROKER BROWN’S BOY. He. was “not kept long in ignorance. Wifteen minutes later the door opened again and a bearded man entered with a lamp, which hé placed on a, shelf, “Now, young fellow, do you know why you are here?” he | said. “No,” answered Harvey: “Because you buited into a little affair on Broadway and | 40th street a month ago and a‘friend of mine was arrested. + You spoiled a neat job and that put you in bad with us. We’ve been watching you ever since and laying for you, but last night was the ‘first chance we got of reaching you. Now we've got you we'll give you a chance to do the right thing} We might have eroaked you last night and left you for the: cop on the beat to find and send to the morgue, but we thought we could do better by bringing you here.” “What's your proposition?” “The proposition is to have the charge against our pal dismissed. He's out on bail for the present. We want you te go to the man who was attacked and get him to call the matter off. He’ ll do it if you ask him, for you saved him from a knockout, and his ticker and wallet from being boosted. | Give me your word to do the right thing and we'll take a chance on you,” said the man. “T can’t do anything, ” occurred to him. “I might get him to go West right away, but i can’t guarantee to make him drop the cage.” “How far West could you get him to go?” “Where he came from—Nevada,’ “That's some distance. How do you expect to work it?’ of you've been following me up I guess you know I work in Wall Street. a “Yes, we know that all right.” “He’s connected with a mine ovt in Nevada. I can tell him a thing or two that will ae him think wee better get out there in a hurry.” “You think you can do. ‘that, oh?” “J Imow I can do that much.” a Well, how about. yourself eben the case comes up. You're itness.”: it isn’t) certain Tu be able a2 identify your pal when I see cht would like to see him punished, on general } but as long as he did’ the gentleman no injury | hit ain, ‘pr Tm te ob ‘particularly interested in what happens to him.” prt tale ‘the matter over with the bunch and if they say ‘you \ can go you ae be released; but’ if you 0 jback on us we'll croak you as sure as you lie there.” With that parting ale vo man tooth, lamp and left; the rooul, ' ‘ CHAPTER | st : THE MOUSE IN THE "MARSIT. After the departure’ of the crook’ ‘Harvey. began to test the tightness of the cord that bound his arms together; ‘Bxerting all his strength ‘on %t he finally loosened it enough to enable him to get one of his arms free. After that the rest was easy. x “We got off the bed, went to the door and listened. Several men were talking and arguing in the next room. Then he went over to the window, softly raised the sash and looked. out. He found he was on the top floor in the rear of a five- story tenement house, which was one of a block of such * houses, and that a line of shallar buildings faced on the next street. A long succession of ene filled in the space between, aeross which fan a maze of clothes-lines, from many win- dow to'tall poles at different spots in the center,» There were fire-escapes to each house, but nearest to the window Harvey looked out “of was. several yards away. -s Apparently it would require wings to. reach it. “There ig no eseape this way,” he thought, “an other exit is through the room where the men eae % Tookink down he saw that the window below was down, about a foot. from the top. 5 He had heard of people escaping from a burning house by | br 7. means of sheets tied together, and he wondered reach net window by the aid of the sheets on the ‘Te struck a match and looked at the bed. The spread was thin and worn, and so was the blanket mderneath. —~ . where was only one soiled shect: on the bed. ee The three articies mentioned, if tied together, so an- - pwer. _ He determined to see if they would, bed. ¥ i; said Harvey, and then a thought) stove, a chest of drawers and other articles. _ ASSESS SESE TS ES Sk ee a a ee Ree a the ou he could | He bad no time to lose, for his late visitor was liable to ; return at any moment, and the boy was net anxious to sub- | mit to his terms. He tied the three articies together, then attached the spread to the leg of the bed and threw the rest of his improvised line lout of the window. dt was plenty long enough; the only question was would it ‘hold his weight. If it parted With bim in the air he would drop» four full | stories into the yard below, and’ that teant certain death. Harvey being pluck to the backbone determined to risk it: Testing the grip of the spread to the bed he CEsp bed out of ‘the window and took his chances. Thé spread held and he.stipped safely down to the bianca Thet held all:right, tco, and he reached the window-sill below without having to use the sheet at all. mC Raising the lower window-sash he stepped into the woomn. It had a bed in it, like the room he had left, but no one | was in it. | He struck a match ‘and found the connecting Cor just as it was above. He opened it and found himself in a dark living-room, the x {principal furniture of which was a table, several chairs, a ee He saw a door leading into another*rcom, and a second — door which he judged opened on the common corridor of that | floor. it was locked and bolted, but as the'key stood in the joke these obstacles were easily overcome and he let himself _ out of the plaee. The corri ; match showe £ r was as dark as Egypt, but the flare of another him where the stairs were. There was ncthing to prevent him going down and so down he went to the floor below, and so on to the ground. floor, i where he found the street door. This was not locked, as it wes left open day and night for the free ingress and egress of the tenants, who were of a low and shady character. ‘ Once on the street he felt comparatively safe, fuouehs ‘his’ £ ; surroundings showed him that he was in a tough locality, é The ground. floors of the buildings were occupicd by ee l / Stores and many: groggeries. All were closed at that hour. He saw several men slouching alone the pare $0 avoid suspicion he concluded to iniitate their slouching gait himself. He reached the corner all right and found he. was on 41st street by the sign on the street lamp. Read 6 He turned up the avenue to 42d street without, “meetin 4 with a soul. ithe He knew he was ‘on the west side and on the confines : a bad locality. } He started east ata smart pace, keeping to the “edne? of” ich: sidewalk and using his eyes to see that no one approached him with unfriendly intent. ; A clock showed him that it was nearly two in the morning. In-due course he reached Broadway, and from there to-his boarding- -house he found it plain sailing, and reached | his | room without further incident. ‘Next morning he debated whether he should call ‘at Bean: lice Headquarters on his way downtown and report his night's experience. i He finally decided that it wouldn't ao any good to do 80, When Mr. Brown reached the office Harvey told him his story and asked him if he thought it was advisable to ate quaint the police with the matter. .“Do you remember the house you were eee to?” asked ithe. broker. ; Harvey admitted that he did not. i “It was one of a row and about the center of the block, but I could not go there and say which one it was,” he said. — “Then you might as well let the matter rest. You on nly ‘saw one man, and it is probable he was disguised by a false. beard, so if any arrest followed your complaint you” oe Ine not identify the prisoner, and he would be discharged.” So Harvey let the matter drop. " ; When the grand jury shortly afterward took up the case, | Mr. Dixon and his wife were back in Bullfrog, and the jur did not consider Harvey's testimony sufficient to indict | accused one. The result was the case was dropped against ‘hind. the got off. i "The crooks believed that Harvey was the cause of Dixon ee ‘returning West, and he received a note from one of § Ve | eek nia

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BROKER BR OWN'S Bey. 7 telling him he had done a wise thing, and that he would not be bothered again. Harvey turned his attention to the copper situation and waited to sce what would happen. ' The Wall Street papers gave considerable space to and the big stocks began to advance some. One financial publication sugested. that Caledonia Copper was the: best proposition for small investors. This stock was going at about $b. Harvey decided to buy 2,000 shares of it outright and see how he would come out on the speculation. He advised Sam to buy some of the stock, but that lad did not think there was enough money in it to bother about its copper He lived chiefly on the vegatables he cultivated around his habitation. His age was ‘variously estimated at between eighty and ninety years, and people alluded to him as the last ef the . wreckers. f His name was Jake Billings. : Whenever he appeared in the village he patronized two places—the oldest tavern, where he purchased a jug of the best whisky, and the original general store where he bought several pounds of smoking tobacco and ‘such stores as he wanted. He held no conversation with anybody, and his taciturnity and rather forbidding face, seamed and scarred like the weather-beaten sides of some old develict, prevented any “But you have something over $2,000, and have made most| familiarity from others. of it by following my lead, so if you bought 400 shares, and it went up only $1 you'd make $400, and that’s a bunch of money—about as much as a year’s: wages to you,” said Harvey. °F) think. about it,” said Sam, but he did not appear very enthusiastic. Whether he thought it over or not he didn’t buy any Galedonia, and as a consequence he did not participate in the boom that shortly afterwards cate and landed Harvey a $10,000 winner. “Aren’t you sorry you didn’t go in?” said Harvey ‘when Caledonia was up to $10 a share. “If you’d bought the 400 shaves you ‘d have doubled your capital just as I have doubled mine.” Sam admitted that he had been slow, but there was no use kicking now. About this time there was an unusual slump in the stock market. the result was that business became slow in Wall Street. "The lambs on whom the brokers fattened kept away and none ‘of their funds found its way into the finaneial district. » Many of the traders took advantage of the condition of ae to go on a shooting or fishing trip, from two to half a dozen going off together. © Broker Brown got up a party of five and picked out Barne- t tee as the scene of a week’s outing contingent on the market net picking up in the meanwhile. PRrewn concluded to take Harvey with the party, and the Borges Missouri was delighted at the idea. The party Jeft New York on Saturday afternoon via the Centhat Railroad of New Jersey and were landed at their _ destination early the same evening. ‘They put up at the village inn, where: accommodations had ; “Boon secured in, advance. Next day being Sunday the party rested @t the inn. After breakfast. next morning they started out with a guide - who was hired to take them to a good shooting-ground. } The landlord of the inn loaned Harvey a shotgun’ so he could take part in the sport. The day was cloudy and the wind blew from the sea. This was favorable for shooting and the party began accu- mulating bags of game soon after they got on the ground. They had prought a bountiful lunch along and ate it about one o'clock. Shooting was then resumed, but as the afternoon progressed a mist came in from the’ ocean and the party began to find some difficulty in keeping track of one another. _ As the air grew darker and the mist thicker it was decided “to éall. further sport for the day off. 4M When all ha nds were rounded up every one but Harvey “was accounted for, ~ & hunt was started to find him, but it proved unsuccess- seu though the brokers fired off the guns and shouted lustily. Finally the guide suggested that he probably had worked e his way arcund the long sandy ridge and they would’ overtake him on their way back. It was the only safe route the boy could have followed when he found himself separated from the party, for any other course would have taken. him info the intricacies of the marsh. It happened, however, that Harvey got confused by the mist and went off think about, — ~'Phis route was a fairly solid path running to the conter ‘of the big swamp, where there was a large patch of stable]. soil cn which stocd a story-and-a-half house inhabited by one of Barnegat’s oldest inhabitants, a man who lived a hermit- like existence, and was only seen in the village once in a 7 ee, while when he went there to’ purchase supplies for mt oy Harvey stumbled upon this old man’s habitation about the time he was missed by his friends. He saw its blackened boards looming up before him in the misty air and he wondered what he had struck. ‘ The two windows looking seaward were closed, but an- . other window, facing in the direction he had come, was open, and through this opening came the strangest sounds the boy ever heard in his life. He could not tell whether it was an animal or, a man who uttered them, but whoever it was seemed to be in great distress. On the presumption that it was a man who was in trouble, Harvey approached the door of the house. At that moment he heard’ the reports of several shotsuns from the direction he had come and the sound of distant shouting. ; I guess they’ve missed me. Now Tf “That's our party. know about where they are. I’ll hustle along in that diree- tion as soon as I see what’s wrong in this old shack,” theught : the boy. As he spoke sounds that were distinetly human reached him through the window, so he lost no time opening the Slay and walking in. CHAPTER XII. THE PRICE OF A GLASS OF WATER, , 5 The habitation consisted of one larga room on the ground floor, with a ladder leading to the half-story above. ' The room was furnished with an odd assortment of old. furniture and filled with a ‘miscellaneous assortment of odds and ends, the general character of which indicated the maritime leaning of its occupant. * The small, rusty cook. stove had no fire in it and was choked with wood ashes. The old wooden clock on the largest shelf had run down and its pendulum, seen through the glass door, was at rest. There was nobody in the room, The sounds Harvey had heard outside came from the floor above, and were groans of a man in pain. pec Harvey. laid down his gun and game-bag and ran up the Sie: ladder. Poking his head up through the trap he could see aia! at first, so dark was, the place. “Hello!” he said.” “What’s the matter? Are you ill?” The groaning stopped and he heard a hoarse whispering as of a°very weak person trying to speak with poor success. Harvey jumped up into the half-story and narrowly missed bumping his head against the sloping rafters in the dark. Before advancing further he struck a match to investigate the surroundings. On a pailet against the roomiest side of the half-story Jay the form of a man fully dressed in rough garments. An empty mug and a common kerossne lamp that had purned out stood close by on the fioor. There was no furniture in the place, nothing but a sea: chest and a lot of marine dunnage in the shape of coils of rope, a fishing-net, de baa hanging from nails, and: such like, ~ Harvey walked over to the sick man and saw his glaring. peyes fixed upon him. 4 ot “Water! water! in the name of heaven!” he gasped, in-a. o caught the import of the words. “Where'll I find the water? Downstairs?” asked Harvey. The man nodded his head two or three times with some effort. — The boy grabbed up the mug, went down the ladder and found a small fancy keg surrounded by brass hoops on a shelf in a corner, It had a spigot. ; ; “4 i « { into the marsh, @ route the guide did not| tone so hoarse and indistinct that only }sie Boye: aiexpi cere 7s

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™ BROKER BROWN'S BOY. Ag: 3 exe it was. Awoth irds full of water and while Harvey was Atling | the mug he saw a five-quart stone jug on the floor. Before returning upstairs he renioved the cork and _— of the contents. i It was whisky. . “That wae revive him,” thought. Harvey. some.” : He picked “ap a glass, half filled it with whisky and care- fully, carried Poth the water and the spirits up the ladder. He handed the jug of water to the parched man first and he drained it with an eagerness that was painful to look at. Some of the water went against his breath and nearly strangled him. i After a paroxysm of coughing he finished the water to the rop. Harvey lit several matches to give the man light. Fearful that he would swallow all the whisky the same way as the water the boy poured most of it into the jug and handed him a couple of swallows. ; The man drank it cagerly and cried for more. _ Harvey gave him a secend dose and he revived somewhat. His voice became louder and he insisted on a third drink of whisky. Harvey was not sure he ought to have so much all at once, but the Man was so insistent that he finally yielded and let him have’ it. . The man then fell back and breathed heavily, but he seemed to. feel better than ait first. . Harvey looked at the lamp and saw there was no oil in it. He decided to refill it if he could find the kerosene down- stairs. . Leaving the man as he was he went ‘down and found a ~ €an partly fri? of. oil. He filled the lamp, trimmed the wick and lighted it. Then he went back upstairs with it. The man beckoned to him to approach close. “Pm an old man. My name is Jake Billings,” he said to _. Harvey, when the boy knelt beside his rude pillow: “I feel Iam dying—that I won't last many hours. I was teken sick several days ago, and with no one near I have suffered the | torments of the infernal regions ever since. I wanted drink and could not get it. I am too weak even to crawl out of this bed. “I shall never leave it alive. I don’t know who you 7 are, boy, but I can see you are a stranger around here. You have given me drink and I am grateful to you. You are the * first person I’ve spoken to in a friendly way for years. I ee lived here alone for thirty years, but the end is come pau ig take him last. It was bound to in time, but I did not think it would take me so quick and short.” “Tt was a long speech for the sick man and he was. obliged - to pause from weakness and shortness of breath. Harvey waited to hear what else he had to say. Billings pointed at the jug that held the balance of the whisky and the boy gave him another drink. “This revived him and he went on. _ “If you will remain with-me here till the end comes I will ; make jt worth your trouble.” ‘* “Tam willing tc do what I can for you, but I think you ought to have a doctor as soon as possible.” “IJ don’t want any doctor. He could do me no good: I’m too old to rally after What I’ve gone through. You may not believe me, but I am ninety-two years old.” “As old as that?” said Harvey, surprised, for the ‘man's hair was not white, but an iron gray, and he had more of it than some young ‘people. ’ His features, though now thin and pinched, looked rugged and as tough as nails. . “Yes, as old as that. Pm the last of the old Barnegat ‘eolony of fishermen, and in those days we were wreckers as -well. Many a ship and smaller craft has come ashore along ‘the outer beach before the lighthouse was bullt and the Coast Guard came bere to warn and save those driven this . way in stormy weather. From the wrecks we had many rare ' pickings—gold, silver, jewels and other things of more or less value. I never married and instead of spending my find- ings in liquor at the dram shops in the village I hoarded it up. I have now a preity pile, ape I don’t want to see it go into the hands of the land-sharks that live around here now. a ant | has buoyed me up some, and so my hoard is yours, but I re you in charity’s name to stay wie me during my last ours.” — He paused again and Harvey assured ‘him that he would re- main with him. He told the sick man how he had come that way with a shooting party, consisting of his boss and five Wall Street brokers, and how when the mist came in and grew thick around the edge of the marsh he had become separated from the party and wandered to the house. “I don’t believe I’d be able to find my way back to the party f now, for I’ve no doubt that the mist is thicker than it was when I came here, so I suppose I'll have to stay here any- way until somebody familiar with this locality comes after me. If nobody comes the chances are I'll have to stay till morning,” said.Harvey. “You have no idea where you aré now, then?” said ys “Not the slightest.” “You’re in the middle of the marsh, on a smail place of solid ground. I put up this house with the help of two of my old friends nearly forty years ago. For a few years one of them lived with me. Then he died and from that time I’ve lived alone, shunning the new generation that was grow- . ing up in this vicinity, for there was nothing in common between us. I’ve only visited the village twice -within-the last» ourteen months. I have always been able to raise enough in my garden to live on, to which J have added fish I have caught in the bay and ducks and birds ['ve shot in the marsh. Ii I could have raised tobacco and made whisky 1 never would have gone near the village.” “T guess the free, open and simple life you lived preserved your life beyond. the usual span of human kind.” “Yes, that is so. Fresh air, no worry and exercise, with a plain diet and pleniy of it is all any man needs to live on, The life of cities is involuntary suicide.” Harvey agreed with him, but still what is the use of a long life when you cannot have a good time. “Do you see that chest yonder?” said Billings, “Yes,” replied the boy. _ “It has a stout lock, but here is. the key,” the article from a hole in his mattress. lock it and look into it.” Harvey followed his directions. When he threw up the lid of the old-fashioned sea-chest he found a tray filled with ies and odds and ends, oe a sailor’s sewing-kit. “TI see nothing but clothes,” “Lift the tray,” said Billings. The tray was a deep one, but the wearing apparel was not very heavy so he lifted it without miuch trouble. Underneath ‘he saw an oid, fadéd American flag spread close around the sides of the trunk. ; “Shall I remove the flag?” he asked. = Si “Yes, but put it back after you have ‘seen. ata is under- neath,” said the dying man. Harvey pulled one side of the flag back. Beneath it was a considerable space filled with boxes of gold and silver coin together with several bundles of bills. There were also boxes holding old-style watches, golden fob watch-holders, and hundreds of bits of jewelry, in which giistened diamonds, rubies, garnets, pearis, emeralds. and other gems. Pah aPC There were many valuable inlaid trinkets and other ane cles too numerous to specify. The display fairly amazed the Wall Street. boy. m2 eee “You did not steal this?” he said. “Not in the sense you think. I took it from corpses washed | ashore from lost vessels. Some of it I found in wrecks that and he took “Take the lamp, un- he said. had drifted on the sands with no one a d to lay claim to anything. It is all fair spoil, my Jad, perfectly fair, fo I took none of it against the owner’ “wishes. And now | I y give it all to you to do with as you please, for T have no nie ther use for it. It is the price of the glass of water. It will ~ make you rich in a way and you are welcome to it.” Ae CHAPTER XIII, ey : CONCLUSION. r Harvey was not a little staggered’at the extent of the ese § I intend to give everything to you if you will stand by me|stranger’s legacy. till I drift out on the uncharted sea of eternity. You will find that my hoard is worth many thousands of dollars. will give you a start in life.) Before you turned up I would have given every bit of it for a cupful of water. You gave] self to see if he was really awake. me the water, and more, you nEanest me whisky, Shae Yes, he was awake all right, Ij was equally astonishing to him. That he shculd come in for it in such ‘an unexpected way ~ It seemed as if he must be dreaming, and he pinched im- ;

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* 18 sa oan ee BROWN’S BOY. ‘ - - SSeS Then it occurred to him that he wound “aids ouble in “You were Exont eut to look fcr me, 1% “suppose?” said thi ‘taking away any of the old man’s property after he. “was dead. boy. a { There was no witness to this legacy, ee therefore it “Of course. Are, you ready to go back with us?” wouldn’t stand the test of law. se “No,, The old man who lives here is ill in bed. He says he’t He called the dying man’s attention to the 5 ki dying and he asked me to remain with him till he died. _ Billings thought a moment and then told Harvey he would| promised to do go.’ find paper, pens and ink downstairs. — “So old Jake Billings is really giving up the ghost, is he?) “Draw up a kind of: will and I'll sign it,” he said. said the man. “1 thought hé was going to liye forever. H¢ “That won't go, either,” said the boy. was an old man when I was,a boy running around the peal Why not?” He must be a hundred.” will'to be valid must have at least two witnesses.” “He told me he was ninety-two.” en the only thing you can do is to go downstairs, pick “Then you've been talking with him?” f out a couple of small bags you will find there, fill them with “We had a long talk.” * the money and jewelry, and carry them off with you as scon| “Then you're the first person he’s been sociable with since as” Tm dead.” I can remember—all of thirty years. What did he tell you? “I could do that, but when I report your death, if you do| Anything about himself?” die, I might be suspected of taking your property, which I had “Yes, A number of things., He said he was the last of the no right to.” old fishing colony of. Barnegat.” { Finally Harvey decided to make out a bill of sale for the| “He certainly is, He lived when wrecking was a popular sea-chest and its contents for and in consideration of the sum | occupation. I'll bet he’s got,a lot of money hidden away in of $5, the old shack.” 3 “Make it any way you think best,” said Billings. “Come up and see him.” So Harvey drew up the paper, handed the man the bill and “Maybe he wouldn’t want to see any of us.” he signed the document. “I guess he would be glad to if he really is dying.” Then he relocked the chest and put the key in his pocket. The shooting Harvey had done had awoke the old man | He went ys hive and prepared some gruel for the dying} from his fitful slumbers, and they found him wide-awake. man. The neweomers spoke to him and he told them he was fast We tried to. take it, but could only swallow ‘eae spoonfuls, | drift ing out on the unknown sea. He prepared some hot- whisky and Bate. Billings gome of “This boy has done me a great favor, I was suffering the tz. greatest agony when “he came here aud relieved me,” said’ “The: old man dropped ‘off to-sleep. - yen Billings, “He has made my last moments peaceiul so I want Harvey, feeling hungry after his” afternoon's sport and him to have ali I leaye behind, me.’ ‘tramp, went down to see what he could “find® to eat. “Your money, you mean?” He found coffee and made a small pot of it. “yes, and all my traps.” He also found a bag of soda crackers. _ “Then you'd betier make a will and have the thing: ue up ni The smell of the coffee made him more huney, so he} right.” plucked two of his smallest birds, cleaned them, and fried| “I’ve given him a paper that covers that sea-chest and its them in a pan, seasoning them with pepper and salt, contents. You “had better look at the paper and then sign There was no butter in the place, as the old man never it as a witness that I have given it to him for the sum of five used it, but there was fat enough to accomplish the frying. dollars.” ' Hunger is the best sauce in the world, and Harvay felt Ho “All right, but you ought to keep enough back to see that disposition to quarrel with his own cooking, Aviich Wag } YOU are Trespe etfully buried,” said the man. pretty fair, all things considered. “Tll make out a new paper,” said Harvey, “covering that.” ; He ate bot birds to the bones and otal there: were more. The new paper read that Jake Billings transferred: every- ‘ He topped soft with coffee and cracker, S. ed thing of which hé died possessed of to Harvey Birch in con- Feeling pretty good he returned to the old man. _ sideration of the sum of $260 to be expended on his funeral, Before doing so he looked out. and found the: mist: as thick | Which should include a suitable headstone and a lot in the as a) er ae ary fog.) # village cemetery. F told him that it was seven o'clock. | he old man signed it, and all present, excepting the ‘hoy, ae ve EL S. - % ‘Hp wondcred what Mr. Brown would do about hig absence, | Signed it as witnesses. i obably he would hire a number of the inh bitants to; Am hour later Billings died. gtart out to beat up the shooting-gronnds for him, 2 ; The house was then locked up and Haryey accompanied, ae: 5 eee Bs ‘any case he did not worry, : jmen back to the inn. isd e knew he could get away from the house as soon as day- Hie was received with acclamation, and his story: was. iis. oa and the mist cleared away. ~ tened to with interested attention. went upstairs and sat beside the sleeping Billings. Next day the coroner held an inquest on Billings, listened . gating was. a dreary sort of vigil to keep away out there in |to Harvey and the other witnesses of the old man’s: death,. i the ‘center of the marsh. wig ane issued a permit*for his burial. _ Harvey, however, let his thoughts’ dwelt on is strange ‘legacy, and he tried to estimate the value of it. . There were several thousand dollars in money, and the jewels might pan out a great | deal ilore when their value was estimated by an expert. pared for interment, and then allowed to remain on View. In any case, with his capital of $20,000, he would be he Nearly everybody in Barnegat went to see the corpse 0: dered a rick boy. fisherman-wrecker. - He wondered aN his folks out on the Missouri farm} Speculation was rife as to what extent the young New. “wou id say. when he wrote them telling how prosperous he had become wee he came to Wall Street. to the inn, and gave an order to the local undertaker to give the dead man a first-class funeral, \ The body was taken to the undertaker’s, where it was . into a good thing, which was the, truth: esi Le searchers, who knew the way to the old wrecker’s 7 THE ie ne ow ise, were coming there, for the shooting in that ae wi FO ee ee aac dicated that the strayed boy was there. n a short time they, arrived, guided by a fire Harvey pad Eee ms, EAD POSTAL FOR UR FREE CATALOGUE, Harvey at the first chante had the webeehiet ‘removed’ | Yorker benefited by his death, many believing he had come, i { i iy ged, and almost before the boy knew it. tt was; Harvey bought a grave in the best part’ of the cemetery, — j * |had it railed in-and a neat shaft put up to the old man's: cone t it was he “heerd the distant report of guns. memory. ve “That's ota a party hunting for me,” he thought. Altogether, the expense was twice $250, butvhe aid not © As the man was still sleeping he ran downstairs, ¢ got | grudge the money. his gun, stepped outside. and fired oF both barrels. « | -Heo found that there was $8,000 in money in the chest, and ore firing followed closer. — is sa the jewels panned out $20,000 more. He put i more cartridges and fired them off. “Thus his trip'to Barnegat was the luckiest thing that ever wo sho Ollowed still closer, at the edge of the marsh. happened to Broker Brown’s boy. FL Me rvey fired for the third time. " t , er an interval a shot was heard closer still. Next week’s issue will Baten “THE ODDS AGAINST. 4

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hie _ between them. } lantie coast, and the Mare Island yard is now about to Wf ; ’ RB ona em AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. _ CURRENT NEWS Between 25,000 and 80, 000 muskrats were killed in Wisconsin within ten days, ‘according to the declaration of AM. Rosenstein of the La Crossé Fur and Hide Company. The average price for ‘muskrat hides is between 40 and 60 cents, making a total of ‘812, 560 that has been paid out to Indians and trappers by fur and hide companies of La Orosse. Scores of Indians who live en the west side of the Mississippi are daily procuring checks for as high as $30 and $40 for muskrat hides, while many farmers and boys, seeing the possibility of “easy money,” temporarily have become trappers, j Indications are that the New York and the Mare Island navy yards will. divide two big contracts for naval con- struction that will give employment to several hundred + men for a year or two. ' leum in large part for coal.as the fuel for the new battle- The substitution of crude petro- ships has made necessary the construction of a new type i of naval auxiliary, to supplement the present collier, Con- gress authorized the construction of two “oilers” not to exceed $1,140,000 each, to be built at navy yards, and, while the preliininary ‘bids show that the Mare Island yard “is prepared to do the work at a lower figure than the New York yard, it is probable that the work will be divided One of the “oilers” is needed on the At- undertake the construction of the two gunboats “Mo- ‘ peer e and “ Palos,” which will probably tax its resources. p: | Branchville, N. J., well knows. ¥ ie: that a doctor remoyed the seed and left the eye free to ex- | | his eye wlien Rose was thrashing oats last summer. _ caused him pain at the time, but he could not reach it. ; War ‘comparable with the South’s record. : 8g0. men and women in the South i Wie haha’ eye is a fertile field for growing grain, as Jacob Rose, of ‘Greene Township, across. the river at Rose made a start in the direction of. Meee ae oats farming, using his right optic for that purpose, but the experiment became so painful -ercise again itg normal functions. Rose did not know that + was’ going on until the doctor fetched out the oat’ kernel, “sprout and all. ) about the time the sprout began rummaging around the in- : terior of the eyelid in search of a place where it might ‘Phe distress had become most intense The seed flew into Tt pierce through to more nourishing soil. After a week or two of half blindness and pain, the irrita- tion died away and he forgot about it. The growth of the seed lately renewed his trouble and he sought the advice of marvelous progress in industrial development and com- Mereial importance that statistics stagger the mind. His- tory g gives no account of recovery from the desolations of _Eorty odd years were producing barely igh to ca on, ens for every mun, woman and : oy Fe ‘ ber of railway spurs have’ been run inte a The new South in the last thirty years has made sae Soy of five ease + ° 4 ehild, white and black, there is a per Malina production of over $200 a year, and the then bankrupt South has to-day over $1 ,000,0 00, 600 deposited in banks, over $2,100,000,- 000: invested in sianigucdiee and a like amount m other property. The combined value of the South’s production last year in agriculture, manufactures and mineral output amounted to more than $6,000,000, 000, or over twice as much as the total value of all the slaves in the South when they were demonetized by Teor Suis igbesn proclamation. Frank. Chance’s Highlanders are homeless, Unless the Giants generously return a compliment to Frank Farrell, the local American League team may be put about some- what in securing grounds for this season’s schedule of games. Farrell's lease of the Hilltop field, expires on April, 1, so that the present plant will be unavailable unless a new lease is taken.. Such a step would incur a tremendous expenditure, for the owners, realizing that Farrell intends. . to move in the very near future, have asked an exorbitant rental. Farrell is rushing work on his new plant. at Broad- way and Two Hundred and Twenty-fitth h street. creek bed. Within a very short tim) oxo be filled. But there is no chance of ( for play before the sprmpg of 1914. “creat hole will field being Teady As Farrell did not.) 2 ; A TUS ; arsh and old commence operations on this site until after the death e of John T. Brush, it is believed that negotiations with the former president of the Giants had been opened with — a view to having both local major league teams. aie sai use of the Polo Grounds. e Selling crickets is a lucrative business in Ji apan, “where zt the insects are valued for their songs and kept in: cages like canary-birds. In Tokio there are two Wholesale mer-. chants who send their agents into the stree sof the Jarge cities, The insects are carried in little good seller clears approximately from ¢ dollar a day. An insect valued for its music brings from two to seven cents. hopper are considered excellent singers, The singers are collected from the fields in September, before pin eenate They ate taken from the grass 2 d shut up in glass jars, Soon after they are imprisoned ° the females lay their eggs’ and die altost immediately afterward. ‘The jars contain- jing them are kept in a cee 80 degrees centi- grade, The young come forth in, “March, The loss of eggs. is about’ ten percent. The male.is the, singer ; er; he only igy an object of commerce; and from one _hundre ei cultivator, despite all his care, has only ry 8 he lot‘ of fhe locust is a martyrdom from birt itp: ae The locust is the toy of the Japanese childs he is caught 0 on bamboo twigs rubbed with a gluey substance, ‘ mented according to the ignorance or. the cruelty of his keeper. The fe of the singing insect never exceeds _ a miboo Chg es. A is ighty bets to. Shier} and tor-° same = The Kusa hibari is the most valuable of all the songsters, but the common cricket and the’grass+ pe

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ow RO - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. -——————— THE BOY DIVERS ed THE MYSTERY OF THE SUNKEN SHIP By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER IV. (Continued) “Look yorder !”” “What is that?” “A. vessel in the fog!” The exclamations emanated from the lips of the trio in a chorus. Like a spectral vision they all three saw the dark, indis- tinct outlines of a black, schooner-built vessel running in- shore, enshrouded in the heavy mist. “The black schooner—the mysterious vessel of which we have often heard the fishermen tell!” exclaimed Dick. “Yos, it must be the strange craft whose secret on this coast no one knows,” said old Dan. “And as I live, she is running straight in shore!” oried Mark. “She is making for the mouth of a lagoon there!” cried the veteran diver, “Phere she goes—out of sight into the swamp! She has made the entrance of Indian lagoon,” said Dick. Even as the lad spoke the mysterious black vessel disap- peared as abruptly and PERO, as if the sea had sud- “denly engulfed her. But the next moment, high in mid air, a red light flashed through the fog above the swamp “A signal light at the mast head of the black schooner !”” exclaimed old Dan. Mark glanced northward; then he cried out in excited tones, while he pointed up the coast. “See! See yonder! There is a’red light Hashing from the tower of Captain Onslow’s old coast mansion.’ Old Dan and Dick wheeled like a flash. They saw it was indeed as Mark announced. But even as they looked at ity the red light jn the tower of the old mansion went out, ma when they turned and looked again toward the swamp, the-crimson light they had "discovered above it was.no longer visible. ‘In silence the trio stood for a moment. - Wonderment and expressive surprise were depicted upon all their faces . “Clearly we have chanced upon a great discovery,” were the words with which old Dan broke the silence. - “Yes, There must be a secret understanding between Captain Onslow and the men of the mysterious black _ Schooner,” assented Dick, and Mark concurred in his opin- ; don. The trio went on. Having reached their boats, pa un- + moored one of them, loaded it with the articles they had with them, and towing a smaller supply boat after them, pulled away for the sunken ship, little thinking that a ter- rible peril awaited them there. CHAPTER VY. A THE TORPEDO—ONSLOW AND THE SUIPWRECKED SAILOR. The object which the boy divers and their veteran in- structor had first to attain, in their researches in the sunken vessel, which was a West India merchantman that had gone down in a storm but a few weeks previously, was . to ascertain if the rich cargo she was known to be laden with was yet ‘worth saving. They had made one descent the preceding day, and located the position of the vessel at the bottom of the sea. But the perilous and difficult task of exploring the ship — below decks yet remained for them. It is in the interior of submerged vessels that, as all divers are fully aware, the venturesome sea-searchers en- countered the greatest dangers. The cargo is liable to be adrift under hatches. A lurch of the vessel may take place, a door may become jammed | shut, imprisoning the under-sea explorer, These natural accidents have caused the doom of many a brave diver, despite the exercise of all possible caution on his part. But, as if the perils which from natural causes always surrounded the task of the boy divers and their old com- rade were not sufficient, they had now been augmented by the villainy of man. When the sailor, who was cast up from. the wreck of the preceding night, was carried away from old Dan’s cabin by Captain Onslow’s band, they proceeded to the old coast mansion. Fortune favored the desire of the villainous band, their wish to surround their movements with secrecy that night. On the way to the old coast mansion they encountered no . one, and when the mansion was reached, Captain Onslow and his followers were admitted by one of the strange, — dark, foreign-looking men, belonging to the are of his servants,

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. t i) 1 ——— ' Fever and delirium still held sway over his troubled brain, and he was borne to a retired chamber and placed upon a couch. A great sea chest, such as ship surgeons carry on their yovages, occupied a corner of the room, and opening it, ' Captain Onslow disclosed a collection of medicine’ vials, from which he at once proceeded to compound a draught, “which he administered to the abducted seaman. While thus engaged he made the discovery that he had lost his silver match-box, and seemingly much alarmed, he lost no time in dispatching one of his men to look for it, e Tt was the man alluded to who fired the shot which so nearly struck Mark, in old Dan’s cabin. ‘The rascal had an old grudge against the lad. He was a worthless vaga- ~ bond of Seminole village, who hid his real vocation behind _ the pretense of gaining a livelihood as an honest fisherman. E The wretch brought Onslow the news that his match-box ‘ - had been found by Mark. “This is a bad mishap! Now we shall have old Dan and the two young rascals he has made so much of, after us. They will try to find the man from the wreck!” cried Cap- tain Onslow, upon hearing the report of his emissary. He paced the,goom excitedly. . His brows were contracted in lines of thought. 5 At length he exclaimed: ; “The old diver and the two lads know too much for my safety. They will work to baffle me in securing the great treasure of Captain Lynn’s sunken ship. I swear they _ shall not defeat me! The shipwrecked seaman shall tell ~ the gold secret, to me alone! The submerged fortune shall be mine! To that end, at the outset, I must seek to rid i my self of those who mean to become the obstacle to my ~ suecess.’ ‘ Some hours later, (epee Onslow and three of the men who had been his doiiradas at the cabin of the old diver that night left the coast mansion. One of the band carried. a covered bes of considerable size, with the utmost care, and the others seemed rather : Se to avoid a too close contact with him. Captain Onslow led the way directly to his boat- honse, and there the box, handled with great caution, was de- posited in a boat, which the quartette entered. “Now, then, for the sunken ship, where old Dan and _ the, boy divers will, in all likelihood, resume their labors on the morrow,” said Captain Onslow, he four men plied the oars with a will, Already the storm had well-nigh passed. The sea no longer ran high. ~The boat was not in much danger. - Onwards, through the gloom, rowed the party until they reached the beach, where the diver’s boats were drawn up. Then Captain Onslow set the course for the sunken ship ' by means of a compass. Hvidently, he knew where the divers had located it; for ere long he ordered the boatmen to cease rowing, and gad ey We are over the submerged merchantman now.”” Then the box, which has been particularly alluded to, ras opened, and the contents, by the light of ‘the ship’s}. gg ge nna oS paar eg SG tage gene pam pe eg PT IEEE TSE SOMES NE VE ETERS ES LR a The sailor from the wreck was carried into the mansion. | metal object with a wire attached, that terminated:in an innecent-looking float, made of a piece of driftwood. “A submarine torpedo!” exclaimed one of the men, as the infernal, death-dealing machine was exposed to his view. . “Yes, and now I'll set the spring, down upon the wreck!” replied Captain Onslow. The foe of the boy divers busied himself for a moment or so with the great torpedo. Then-he gave the order to lower away. Carefully the metal cone was lifted over the side of the boat and lowered beneath the waves by means of the at- tached wire. Whensit reached bottom the float at the end of the wire - was left swimming on the surface. ot and we'll lower it _ With an expression of demoniac satisfaction on his face the leader of the night band muttered: “Now, I'll swear the boy divers and old Dan will | never follow us on the ocean trail of the treasure ship. Let a boat once run against the float of the torpedo, and the ex- plosion that will hurl the cecupants of the craft into eter- nity will immediately take place.” Having set the terrible death trap for the brave lads he feared and hated, and their noble old instructor, Captain Onslow and his men rowed back to the old coast mansion. When morning dawned, Captain Onslow found that the — man from the wreck was much improved. THis fever was ~ no longer high and his delirium had passed away.™ “Where am 1?” asked the waif of the wreck, looking up in wonderment at the face.of Captain Onslow, who bent above his couch. “Oh, J remember! We were driven on the-rocks, was dashed among the breakers, bruised and battered on the rocks, and strangled by the rushitig, boiling waves. T have been rescued,” added the old seaman, before Se ae Onslow could respond to his first inquiry. “Yes. I saved you. You are among friends. be well cared for, give yourself no anxiety. I am Captain James Lynn, and you are now in my house.” “Lynn! Did you say your name was Lynn i and the sailor gave a tremendous start. “Yes, I said so, and I am a seaman, and 1 appreciate your éondition, ‘4 have lost dear ones in wrecks brother, a Wayne Lynn, went down in his good The Conqueror,” replied Onslow. only ship With fiendish cunning he was seeking to lead the sailor to the betrayal of the secret of the lost treasure ship, if such knowledge he possessed. For the space of a full moment the sailor*did not speak, Then he replied, while Captain Onslow leaned forward, eager to catch every word of the weak-voiced utterance: I’m from down East, and, The. vessel that was wrecked last night was the Esmeralda, of 5s “My name is Barton Drake. as you have no doubt seen, I am a sailor by trade. New York, homeward bound from Aspinwall.” — You will — Captain Onslow was intensely disappointed, but he con- 5 : cealed his feelings as best he could while he went on me ing OPEL ROD about the Esmeralda. (To, be Continued)

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22 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FACTS WORTH READING SENDING BEES BY PARCELS POST. Humming away on the farm of Gregory Coleman, a well known apiarist, living seven miles from ‘Ottawa, Kan., a number of bees await the arrival of the rural mail ear- rier to begin the initial lap of a journey via United States mail to Coleman’s son in Alhambra, Cal. The insects were deposited in the sting-proof parcel which is to convey them to their destination, When he learned that Postmaster Waring of the Ottawa Postoffice had. received $1,228.80 _ worth of the new parcels post stamps from Uncle Sam, Coleman opened negotiations to mail the bees to his son. Waring, however, intonned him that the limited office quarters were inadequate to be converted into an apiary, and advised Coleman to wait until morning to buy his stamps. ‘The eight-pound shipment was weighed, and the _ bee keeper instructed that he would be assessed the maxi- mum rate of 96 cents. SAND FOR GLASS MAKING, The preparation of glass sand has recently become a highly specialized business, and in the middle Mississippi Valley 15 or more thoroughly equipped plants are at pres- ent employed. The materials used for glass sand in the central United States, according to the United States Geo- logical Survey, are mainly bedded sandstones, and a com-. plete process of preparation includes quarrying, oe crushing and grinding into component grains, screening washing, draining and final sercening to various. sizes. Some beds of sandstone are so friable and pure that only blasting down and slight crushing are necessary before the sand is dried and screened. ‘Many plants, however, wash their sand in the course of preparation, particularly those in Illinois, where hydrau- licking is employed to obtain sand from the quarries. Washing doubtless removes, even from high-grade sand, considerable silica in such a ‘fine state as to be detrimental, as well as an appreciable quantity of clay and other unde- sirable impurities. e ; TWO MALE BLACK BEARS BORN IN CENTRAL PARK. For the first time since the institution of the menagerie in Central Park, New York, the population of animals has been increased by the birth of two black bears. ‘The two cubs were discovered the other day by Keeper: Joe Cun- rs ningham. Both are males. Their aie are Rose and i Bob: ‘The black bears are in a cage igang that of the white : 4 polar bears. The first warning Cunningham had that any- s thing unusual had happened was when he noticed great excitement among the polar bears. As the keeper tried to understand the antics he noticed the black bears for the first time, and his attention was attracted: to them at a most opportune moment for the cubs; for, just as he dis- j Raced them the father, Bob, with ‘evident intent to kill FA she | rushed upse: the babies. The mother turned and met the male, and for a time the two engaged in a flerce encounter. : Keepers Billy Shyder nae Bob Hurton came running up in answer to Cunningham’s call, and between them the three men succeeded in separating the fighting bears and removing the menaced cubs from the cage. The young fellows were taken to the hay loft and will be fed on — a bottle. FIGHTING IN THE AMGHAN. Another sea fight between the Greek and Turkish fleets oceurred January 18, about thirty miles to the south of the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Greek war vessels attacked the Turkish squadron and foreed the Ottoman warships to return to the Dardanelles in disorder. The Turkish flagship is said to have suffered considerably. The engagement lasted three hours. Only one Greek was wounded, while the Greek warships were not damaged. according to a long dispatch sent by Admiral Countouriotis to the government. The admiral telegraphs: “All last night the Turkish erniser Hamidieh, accom- panied bya destroyer, carried out a reconnoissance. be- tween T'enedos and the Mavro Islands. In the morning the Turkish fleet left the Strait, steaming toward Imbros, . then turned toward the southeast of Lemnos and arrived — within twenty miles of the northwest of Tenedos. “The Greek fleet immediately steamed to meet the enemy, consisting of the battleships Kheyr-ed-Din-Barba- rossa, Torgut Reis, Messovdieh and Assar-i-Tewfik, the — : eruiser Hamidieh and thirteen destroyers and torpedo boats. The Greck fleet consisted of the battleships Averoff, — Hydra, Spetsal and Psara and eight gunboats and de- stroyers.” The Governor of Tenedos sends the following: “The naval fight began at 11:25 a.m. Both sides fought desperately, The Turks, at 12:50, began slowly to retreat, At 1:10 the Turkish battleships were steaming in disorder ~ toward the Strait, firing at. long intervals against the Averoff, which was pursuing at a distance of a aes and rapidly overhauling the enemy. “The Hamidieh headed the flight. ce of the Turkish battleships ceased firing, and was apparently disabled by the fire of the Averoff. The fight ended at 2:30 p.m. - when the enemy re-entered the Dardanelles. “The Barbarossa and Torgut Reis throughout the Aghi wore enveloped in smoke, but they continued to fire slowly... When they entered the Strait they had a list to starboard. The Greek fleet ceased the pursuit. when it came within range of the guns of the forts and remained cruising of : the entrance.” A dispatch from Admiral Countouriotis says: “Have beaten the enemy’s fleet, which was steaming re toward Temnos, and pursued it almost into the Strait, where it took refuge in disorder. We had only one man fe slightly wounded. The damage to the Averoff is insignifi- « re cant and the athe: reas a the fleet has not been. Ms

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CHAPTER VIII (continued). “Tell you what,” said Ned, when quiet was again re- stored, “this gold of ours is all right, but just now gun- " powder is hat we want. If we could make a lot and fix _ up a cannon of some sort we could Bombard these black _ fellows the next time they come at ts and give thém a sur- prise that would last them for the reel of their lives.” “That’s a good idea,” I said. “At any rate, we will | need gunpow der for blasting and for getting game, and if - we can make it, so much the better.” | “T don’t want to slaughter these hillmen,” said Bess. | “Jf we can frighten them it will be sufficient.” x “You can’t gat any good out of them,” said Ned, “and | we’ve got to scare them off. That necessarily means kill- ing a lot of them. That’s be only thing they under- stand. a _ “Theff that takes us back to my first proposition,” said ‘and we must have gunpowder and civilize these men.” Ina few days we took a large party and went to the cave, where we collected quantities of saltpetre and ag it away in sacks made of palm fibre. _ There were willow groves on the island and we cut de x quantities of trees to use in making charcoal, storing them ina warm, dry place to season. _ “Now or hsce we want is sulphur,” T said one day, “and the only place I know of where we can get it is on my sland, on the volcano. We will, no doubt, find a lot of it na free state near the crater.” “AN right, we'll go there,” said Ned, “but you are _ over looking one thing. We must have iron to make our -eannons of. Where are we going to get it?” “We'll find it, I said.’ “The first thing to do is to ‘welt ready for our expedition to my island.” “We made our preparations, s saying that we were going to visit the spirits in the smoking mountain on the other island, but that no harm would come to them ag long as they Netuained true to us, for’ we found it necessary at times’ to work upon their SESH AE SS in order to keep hem in check. We set owt for the island and long before reaching it aw that the voleano was in eruption again, the smoke be- ing visible for miles. i . On landing we were met by my people, who were greatly i alarmed on account of the voleano, but I told them that the mountain spirits were merely breathing and that I would go up and quiet them. | ‘Unless the voleano became most active there was no reat: danger in ascending it, for it would not be necessary go. very near the crater and it was athe fortunate that 2 oe FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. NED, BESS oe MYSELF © THE SEARCH FOR THE eine LOST GOLD MINE By ED Ne KING (A SERIAL STORY) it was in sagihlork just then, as we would be more likely to find what we wanted than at any other time. Aiter a rest of a'day, during whieh time the mountain continued to vomit fire and smoke at regular intervals, we took a large force to clear the way for us and started through the jungle to ascend the mountain. 23 tt was only by reassuring my men that they were in no- danger while I was with them that they could he induced to go at all, but at the end of a few hours, finding that no! harm came to them, they forgot their feats: When night came we camped and’ at sunrise next morn. ing set forth once more on our journey. We came to a tumbling mountain stream and followed it for some distance, pausing during the forenoon to rest and eat our luncheons, for the march had greatly tavegy ‘) us. 4 Ned and I withdrew a short distance from the camp to a place where there was a fall and a decp pool of water beneath it, and here we enjoyed a bath and a swim in the cool waters of the pool. Ned wanted a last dive before going eas and while IT stood on the bank he dived deep down into the pool, where he remained until I began to be alarmed, although p could see him plainly, the water being so clear. At last he came up, swam rapidly to shore and then, gti: he came toward me, held out his hand and cried: * “Look, Art! I have found it at last!” ’ His open palm was filled with gold dust. CHAPTER IX. % j IN MANY PERILS. x aS 5 fond Wee at the ere of the pool,” said Ned, “and : there must be more aboye the fall, where it has lodged, This has been earried over during a flood ‘and has lodged , in the sand, but above is where we will find the most of it” ‘There is good gold on the island, ‘old chap, just as “I have always said, and now we’ve found Ae + ea He dived again and I went with him, both of us bring dust. ‘ We washed out the latter and when we rejoined Begs } ] @ had a good double handful of it tied up in my Peon chief to show as the result of our excursion. Ned was for starting a placer mine at the spot at ‘pig ; and getting all the gold we could, but I dissuaded him, ing up double handfuls of sand thickly mixed with ae eae

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEI ORLY, “There will be time enough for that,” T said, ‘ besides, it is likely that there is an enormously rich mine somewhere in the group compared to which a find like this is as nothing.” Leaving the stream, we struck on through the woods and at last came to the track made by the Java in the former eruption, the traces of fire being still very plain. Following this path we finally left the woods, crossed a gully through which the lava had formerly flowed and then started to climb the black, bare side of the mountain, which puffed out flame and smoke every few minutes. Up and up a zig-zag course we toiled and when the road became too steep we made some of the men carry Bess on their shoulders, Ned and I walking alongside. On and on we went, but now and then the wind would blow the smoke toward us and we would be nearly choked by the sulphurous fumes. We paused on a level platform below the great cone and seven or eight hundred feet from it in a straight line, and took in the magnificent view spread out before us. Showers of stones and cinders fell about the crater, and many huge, glowing masses rolled down the precipitous sides, but fortunately not in our direction. ~ Were and there we could sce that the surface was col- ored quite yellow, and upon proceeding a short distance we came to a decided dip in the ground, which we had not 4 fore noticed, where there was so much free sulphur that it lay about in great hunks. Every now and then puffs of steam would spurt up and _as I descended the side of the basin I fee the ground trem- ble distinctly. “Be careful, Ned,” I said. “You batt tell at what mo- ment this crust may give way. Better scatter the men and not have too many at one spot.” The men were visibly alarmed, and I knew that if any- _ thing happened we could not depend upon them for an instant, for they were ready to flee at the slightest danger. _ We had brought bags with us and Ned and I at once directed the men to gather up the lumps of sulphur, and as fast as a bag was filled, take it away. Once a man, in tugging at a larger lump than usual, opened a fissure in the crust, causing steam and foul smelk ing vapors to escape, at which he turned and fled. in a great fright and could not be induced to return. Tt was dangerous work, for the fumes were likely to come about one at any moment, and so Ned and I kept the men moving, changing the gangs frequently and even sending a man back when he had worked a few minutes. I watched the crater as well as the men, for I knew the mountain was capable of any treachery and one could never be certain when a stream of burning, seething lava might come rushing upon him. ‘The puffs were becoming more frequent as well as more _ violent, and soon I noticed the strange, stifling stillness about the air which I had noticed before, and I said to ee . Ned: ; “Come. I dare not atay longer. Get the men together . and start them down. If I am not mistaken we will have _ another fierce eruption before long.” vey che pollen: to the men to desist and to cai their loads” ‘and'| down the mountain, the line eee at once formed, we three following in the rear. We had scarcely left the level platform I have men- tioned when there was a terrific explosion, a column of flame and smoke a hundred feet high shot up from. the mountain top and streams of lava began running down the steep sides in all directions. Then the crust in the little basin cracked in a hundred places and smoke and steam poured out from them, and I was glad indeed that I had been warned in time and had left the place. ig ese there was no lava stream flowing toward , but stones were falling in all cinegyads and others , seemed to roll in otir very path. | Both Ned and I called to the men not to he frightened and to keep together, but it was not an casy matter to con- : trol them and we three, Ned and I assisting Bess. had to- get over the ground rapidly in order to keep up with them. | T was glad that Bess had always been so good a walker, for otherwise we would have been obliged to carry her and then the natives would have escaped from us. We reached the shelter of the woods at last, but it was: not much of one, for many. of the trees were on fire and we presently reached the little gully to find a flood‘of red- gies lava at the Lottom and no way to get across. The men were running up and down, chattering and” cesticulating, and I saw at onee that something must be done w thous delay. : We might make a detour, but it was shorter jy the way” we came, and even moments might be precious just then. I suddenly remembered a trick I had once seen in a cit-4 cus, though why I should have remembered it at such a- time I cannot tell, and I immediately determined to put the idea in pr actice. 7 I immediately called up a dozen of my men, separated | them into three groups of four each, and quickly ‘explained what I wished them to do, : One man in each group stood firmly on the brink and — the others climbed to his shoulders and then up a8 a ae tower increased in height. The men locked their legs and arms together, their. heads out, and then at a signal the whole tower fell, the” undermost man being held by his companions, the upper= most man seizing a tree trunk on the opposite bank. i. el ‘The four living towers fell at the same time and there was a human bridge, broad and strong and safe for any 4 one to cross upon. x Ned, Bess and myself hurried over and then I called: to A others to follow quickly. When. I had twenty or more men on my side of the gully I quickly directed them to break down and uproot the trees and throw them rapidly across the chasm, close to the human bridge. a There were trees on this side and there had ingen: ‘none to speak of on the other, and as the men worked rapidly. and with a great deal of energy, a rude bridge was soon ; wn across the gully. q Then those who were still on the candies side, assisted. by some on our side, aided the men of the human bridge to reach the other and all hurried over - our side. 7 Sr ae ae be Continued) Xt . parse

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Sg ee A eee eA ee, te. tee Me allo e Sie % - Mrs. John Cummins, of Woburn, Mass.,tis a woman of ‘grit and enterprise. She is the owner and manager of one of the largest farms in New England. She cultivates 400 acres, disposes of the milk from twenty- -six cows, keeps two stalls in the Boston market, and 1 raises 2,000 hogs a year. Three hundred and fifty Mohammedan pilgrims from India to Mecea were drowned at Suakim, Hgypt, January 2, by a. flood which overwhelmed the entire caravan at is encampment midway between the sacred city of Medina, Arabia, and the port of Yembo, on the Red Sea. A sud- den avalanche, accompani red by great torrents of water, wept down the mountain in the neighborhood of the camp, earrying away inits path people, animals and tents, -- An escaped convict’s efforts to see his mother, who was eported to him to be dying, led to his capture at Worth, il. Tony Landers, one of the trio who broke jail at Joliet nitentiary, was the man ¢aptured. He said he bad left is. companions not more than ten minutes before, and posse which took Landers went on to seek the others, liam Dunne and Frank Thompson. Landers was over- en in a cornfield after a farmer had notified the police. jie PIER T ae EE aN i ns Colima: Volcano, Mexico, is in violent. eruption and resi- dents of several towns and villages near the mountain are flight, fearing death. The big crater is throwing out mormous quantities of lava, sand, ashes, and poisonous ses. No persons haye met death, although hundreds of attle and other animals have been killed. Hundreds of ‘efugees arrived at Guadalajara, January 21, on a train c omposed of box cars. The fleeing people liad found it essary to shovel away a quantity’ of volcanic sand he- e they were able to move the cars. The last eruption of Colima occurred in 1903. President-elect Wilson said at Trenton, N. J., January that he had invittd Colonel George W. Goethals, the Panama Canal builder, to confer Sieh him at his ome The President-clect’s announcement that he would fer with Colonel Goethals is believed to be an indica- 1 that he will name him as Governor-General of* the | Zone after his inauguration. President Taft sent nel Gocthal’s name to the Senate for confirmation as rnor-General, but withdrew it when Senator Brande- nformed him that the Democratic Senators intended ock confirmation, At the time Governor Wilson hotly nied that the Democratic Senators were acting in accord- ée with his wishes, liam C.J. aise a well-known. follower of ath- who, some years ago took up his residence in Lon- and later went to Australia, is again in this country a visit. Before his travels are ended he will have ted tiie ONE, Now in baeee in Sydney, he FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FROM ALL. POINTS 25 é states that the Australians are close observers of every- thing connected with sport in the United States, and when in San Francisco he attempted to close a deal where- by four-of the best athletes on the coast would make a trip to the land of the kangaroo. The men named were Ralph Rose, Fred Kelley, Clarence 8. Edmundson, and Tra Courtney, the first two of whom were winners at the Olympic games. It is stated that a fund of $5,000 will be subscribed if they conclude to make the trip. Rich- ard Coombes, the James E. Sullivan of Australia, is es- pecially desirous that the Americans show the Australians their abilities in their given lines, as he thinks their ap- pearance will give a great impetus to amateur sport in that country. When the Ward liner Saratoga arrived at Quarantine, New York, recently from Havana with seventy cabin pas- sengers and mails from Havana, the captain reported that the ¥essel had collided with a manatee off the Florida coast and had to go astern to clear it, The manatee or cowfish, as it is called by sailors, fouled the stem of the Saratoga and was such an immense mass that the chief officer, George Dollar, was lowered over the bows in a bo’sitn’ 8 chair with an axe to cut it adrift, but failed. The engines were reversed and put full speed astern as a final resort. The fish was described as being about eleven feet long, black in color, and weighing several tons. One of the officers of the Saratoga satd that it was a rare occur- rence to sce a manatee off the Florida coast from the deck of a steamship, as it was so timid that the slightest noise disturbed it. The last-he saw was at Zanzibar, Kast Africa, he said, where the Sultan had one of the huge mammals moored ¢l ose to the palace so that he and his hareri could zo off in the royal barge and use it as an island when the. mercury went above 120 degrees in the shade ashore. Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacifie Rail- : way Company, has established a bureau’ of efficiency, under the jurisdiction of the operating department of the road, to be in charge of George E. Slade, third vice-president. — The chief purposes of the bureau will be to promote the | welfare of the patrons and employees of the company, to. effect greater efficiency in operation, to raise the standard of individual and departmental work, and for a greater de- gree of dispatch and safety in the performance of the functions of the company, An official circular regarding its organization says: ‘The superintendent of each division will act as the local representative of the -ureau, to whom employees will offer suggestions and report conditions and practices with respect to which the bureau can play its: ‘part in effecting improvement. Employees: are requested to confer freely on all subjects and to make suggestions for the improvement of the service, or in working condi- tions as they now exist.” that every employee ought to feel a personal interest in the movement for the benefit, not alone of the patrons of seal i zo bat: of pepe s and ee . Sin eee Emphasis is laid on the idéa

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ae Fame aad. Porta ‘Weekly NEW YORK, FE mabe a1, 1918. TERMS TO ikon ie Single Copies, . iikte wituane heads One Copy Three Months .. One Copy Six Months. . One Copy One bi eae Postage Free. HOW TO SEND MONE Y— At our risk send P.O. Money Order, Check or Rogistered Leiter; remittances in any othor way are at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. hen sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envel- ope. iVrite your name und address plainly, Address letters to Bixcuaim Tovey, President : .05 Ceats .65 Cents $1.25 $2.50 Frank Tousey, Publisher 168 West 23d St., N, Y. © M. Haorines, Treasurer Omas. K, Nytanpun, Secretary ITEMS OF CURRENT NEWS ‘The first motorcycle “century” of the new year was made by Iver Phillips and Jere Miller, of Minneapolis. As mid- night was striking on New Year’s eve these two plucky motorcyclists headed into the open country, regardless of the cold and a foot of snow, and chugged away for Red Wing. The ‘distance for the round trip was 104 miles. ‘Dhey made it, under trying conditions, in six hours. _ A “dry” inauguration would mark. President-elect Wil- son’s induction into office if a petition presented in the Senate January 22, by Senator Gallinger on behalf of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, is favorably. acted on by Congress. The petition urges the closing of all sa- loons in. the national capital on March 4. Further action by Congress will be necessary if President-elect Wilson desires to have a public reception in the Capitol or any other government building as a substitute for the inaugural ball, to which he is opposed. An increase in capitalization from $5,000,000 to $40,- 000,000 is being planned by Montgomery Ward & Co., to meet the requirements of the establishment of its exten- sions in New York, San Francisco and other cities, The “new stock will be offered to the amount of $25,000,000 through a banking syndicate, and the remaining $15,000,- 000 will be held by the present owners of the business. About 300 employees from the Chicago establishment will be transferred to the New York house. Superintendent Thorne, of the Chicago, plant, will become general mana- ger of the New York store, A novel way of mountain climbing is provided im the new electric suspended railway up the Kohlererberg, in the Tyrolese Mountains. The suspension cables, 5,400 feet in length, are carried on twelve steel supports, and two cars each accommodating fifteen passengers and the driver “are operated, one being hauled up the hill by duplicate traction cables while. the other is descendi ing. Complete safety appliances are provided, and a rhagtificent view ig opened out as the car rides steadily and smoothly up the 2,760 feet from: the Hisack in thirtecn minutes, _ It is a curious fact that the bsg oa of the mud | tified thereby. "Bulge of thy motor out ht Killed an!” : FAME AN D FORTUNE WEEKLY. ete pt SS sane IS recently determined. It is found, on analysis, to consist offprganic matter, more or less decomposed, interspersed with minute round bedies about sixteen one-hundredths of an inch in diameter. These bodies have been called coccospheres and coccolites, and are so set in the mud as to resemble mosaie work. Some of these look under the mieroscope like thick watch glasses. Immense numbers of minute shells are also found. .'The mud is excessively sticky, being rendered so by minute pellets of a jellylike consistency. These pellets are’ dotted all over their sur- faces, and are found to contain great numbers of granules, from one-four-thousandth to one-twenty-thousandth of an inch in diameter; they are, undoubtedly, organic in their - character, formin ‘2, perhaps, one of the representatives of the assumed ground between Plants and animals, i“? JOKES AND JESTS. “Haven't found your dog yet, I hear?” asked Smith of his eee Jones, “No,” answered Jones, ruefully. “Well, liave you advertised?” asked Smith, “What's the use?” said Jones; “the 0m can’t read.” Mrs. Pokernose-—This paper speaks about the political ; atmosphere. What is meant by “political atmosphere?” Professor Pokernose—It’s composed of oxygen, paltepeeny: hot airand campaign cigar smoke. ; \ (SAS! tera : 4 “The Minister—Mackintosh, why don’t you come to chureh now? Mackintosh—For three reasons, sir. Firstly, J dinna like yer theology ; secondly, I dinna like yer sing- 2 in’; and thirdly, it was in your kirk I first met my. wife. f * SS a SALE. ORs 2 Ure IeS SS “And when Delilah eut Samson’s hair he erate mild P as a lamb. Can you understand it?” asked the Sunday school teacher. “Well,” said little Tommy, reflectively, — “it does make you feel ’shamed when a woman atte your 4 hair,” 7 “Do you act towards your wife as you did before you~ married her?” “E Beit I'remember just how I used to act when I first fell in love with her., I used to hang over ‘the ferice in front of her house and gaze at her shadow on the curtain, afraid to go in. And J act just the | same way now when J sep home: late. " ae A farmer, while loading hay in his field, was attacked: i his neighbor’s bulldog. “p he man defe nee himself with the pitchfork k and sent the dog yelping home, The neigh bor rebuked him and asked why he didn’t use the, blunt end of the fork first. “T would have,’ * replied the farmer, “it 1h dog had come at me blunt end first, ee ite ‘Two Marylanders, who were -yisiting the National aie sem at W ashington, were seen standing in front: of an. Egyptian mummy, over which hung a placard bearing tl inscription “B.C. 1187.” » Both: visitors were much, mys- Said one: “What do you make of that, 4 Bill?” ‘Well, said Bill, “I dunno; but ne it was the : Ie EE cha se i PE ae

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. ee AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 27 BE THE YELLOW HAND. ii? By Alexander Armstrong. “Oh, please, missus! Oh, please don’t let him do it! He'll kill me, missus! He has me back all cut to pieces now! Oh, please, missus, please!” ° The boy, homely, ragged, dirty and forlorn, clung to my _ skirts desperately, daubing my unfortunate Newmarket ; with bread and molasses, but, bless you, I hadn’t the heart to push him away, for he was not more than five years old at the most, and looked so much like my sister, Susie’s little Tom, who died, that I believe I could have fought’ that horrid Italian—actually fought with my fists, I mean, - just as men do in many a worse cause than mine. . “Keep off!” I shouted. “Keep off, you beast! Lay a ie hand on this child if you dare! I am able for you—do you 5 2? He was close to me, the monster! His hand was raised 3 to strike either the boy or me—it matters not which. That was the reason I shouted as I did. “You villain!” I cried. “Don’t you do it! Don’t you do it! 47? He drew back, growled out something and darted round the corner. J knew the reason in an instant, for Officer Regan came hurrying up behind me. : - “Faith, an’ ye’ve had a narrow escape, Miss Lovelace!” he exclaimed. “That Eyetalian was a bad one. He meant | murder, so he did. I saw it on his face. What’s the muss, anyhow? Is it about the bye?” Yes, it was about the boy, but just then T was eis of something else. It was the hand which had heen raised to strike me, a oe hand as yellow as if it had been gilded. ‘I turned to the boy and asked his name. Archie Grace,” he lisped. “I used to live in Harlem, ‘but. my mamma. died and then there was only Mr. Stephani. ‘ Oh, he’s an awful bad man, missus. He beats me like any- thing, he does. Say, missus, won’t yon let me go and live with you?” - “Why, no, Archie; I can’t very well do that,” I an- - swered, “but if I can a it Mr. Stephani shan’t get.you again.” “Take him around to the Station,” I said to Officer Regan. “I'll call in the morning and see what can be done forthe child. I’m in a tremendous hurry just now.” And so I was, for I had been sent on a case, and was é already late, when I happened to run against the Italian f the Central Office. A few minutes later and I was on the Third avenue ele- ‘2 Mrs. Packer, or, rather, it had been her house, for Mrs. Was the person I-expecied to ‘find in charge. A word now about myself, and after that there need hindrance to my story. [ 8 Mise Arabella Lovelace ; my Seoaaa is that ‘ofa and little Archie on Mulberryi ie pabe within a stone’s throw | ated road, being hurried uptown, bound for the house of ker was just deceased, and her nephew, Ralph Gordon, | | to bas On whatever case J am Maca [ go without. question. In this instance I had been ordered to report to Mr. Ralph Gordon at eight o’clock, and at the appointed hour to the minute I was there. I found the Packer mansion an old, rambling frame structure, located near the banks of the Harlem. The pre- cise street 1 prefer not. to give. Mr. Gordon met me in the parlor after a.moment, and . the instant my eyes rested upon the man Itook a dislike to him, He was a middle-aged person, sleek and smooth-shaven, with a great, round, bald head and little, mean eyes, which seemed to iook at you, through you and all around you, as. though he were trying to penetrate your inmost thoughts. “Ahem! So you'are Miss Lovelaée, the female dete¢- tive??? he began, slowly. “You are prompt. It is but just eight o'clock. ” “Tam always prompt, sir,’? I replied, returning his bow. “Very good. -Pune tuality ig a great virtue. Be seated, Miss Lovelace, and I will proceed to inform you of fie purpose for which I have requested your presence in this house.” He cleared hig throat-and interlocked his fingers, resting the hands upon his knees. “Your duties, Miss Lovelace, will be simple, You are here under the guise of a newly engaged housekeeper. I. think you will-be able to play that role?” “T ought to. I have only played it about a haridred and fifty times before,” I replied. “Very good—very—good, miljar with it. missing willl.” f “Meaning the will of Mrs. Packer?” . i “Meaning the will of Mrs. Packet, my deceased aunt. Understand: me, I do not know that there is a will: Iam not’ at all certain that there ever was one. On the other hand, there may be; in which case, I desire to know it. You follow me, I presume?” “Certainly.” “My deceased aunt was a peculiar woman, Miss Lov iat: In fact, I may say, a very peculiar woman. One of her peculiarities was 4 faculty of quarreling with every one— © why, she even quarreled with me!” “Y’m sure I should quarrel with you if we were logettiae twenty-four hours,” I thought, but I said nothing ‘aloud. “She died, leaving an estate valued at $2,000,000, »* con- tinued Mr. Goxdga. “Por twenty years she had’ been a widow. There. was one child, a daughter, who married © against her mother’s wishes some six or seven years. ago. My aunt turned her out promptly and never saw her after- ward. Later the poor thing died, leaving me the sole ie at-law to my aunt’s estate.” “Did she die childless?” I asked, To my surprise the question seemed: to throw him into a passion.» “Of course she did!’ he cried. “Who gays she aan’ i? There was a child, but that died, too, and I can prove it. Be good enough to confine yourself to the business for — which I have engaged you, Miss Lovelace. matters with which you have no concern.” “T beg your pardon!” T sci hastily, for 1 had no vish You are then piel fa- Now for the object. It is to discover a These are —

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bg “As I was saying, my aunt may have left a will,” he con- tinued, more mildly, “She was found dead in her bed, and no one knows what she did or did not do; for years before her death she would admit nobody into the house, and lived alone with her three female servants. There was a man called in to do rough work at times, but.with this excep- as no one ever entered her doors.” “Are the servants still in the house?” ce Yes. 22 “Do they know whether Mrs. Packer made a will or not?” “Precisely what I want you to find out before the funeral takes place. You must question them and learn what’ they know.” “When is the funeral to be?” “Day alter to-morrow.” “Tt is a short time to work in. better go about it at once?” To this he made no objection, but impressed upon me that I was to bring the will instantly to him in case I should he so fortunate as to find it, and ten minutes later I found myself in charge of three Irish women of uncer- - tain age, who regarded me with looks of suspicion and dis- like. “This has either got to be a quick case or I shall have no case at all,” I thought. “'T'o attempt to make’ friends with these women under the circumstances is absurd. I cer- tainly ought not to have undertaken it, and unless matters look brighter to-morrow, I shall give it up.” . I sat there for nearly an hour, and was just thinking about retiring when Mr. Gordon suddenly entered the kitchen and asked me if I would like to help him ice for the will. Of ,course, I said yes, and until after midnight we searched in old Mrs. Packer’s sitting-room, adjoining which | ° was the bedroom where the corpse had been laid out. . ' Together we ransacked drawers, closets, cupboards and every imaginable ‘place, with not a few in which I should "never have imagined that any one would dream of hiding a will—under the bottom of stuffed chairs, the interior of feather beds and other ridiculous places. At last we gave it up and I returned to the kitchen, for a bed had been made up for me on the same floor. Mr. Gordon retired to the library, which opened from . the same passage as my room, where he proposed to attend to some writing, so he informed me. _ Such was the situation at midnight. I was just thinking of lying down upon the bed when all os once I heard a noise. It was a very strange noise. 'To my ears it sounded like a board splitting. It seemed vo come from the kitchen, as near as I could make out, “but on looking into that room and seeing nothing wrong, _ I returned to my bedside and sitting down, waited just as if I were expecting something, shough why I did this I’m sure I do not know.: After about ten minutes I heard another noise. I caught up the candle and glided into the kitchen. _ dust then the noise was repeated. Tt came from the laundry beyond the kitchen door. _ I stole into the laundry on tiptoe, and no sooner had I Prem than a Me tic Puee met my ae May I suggest that I had FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. There was a big copper boiler set in- brickwork on the other side of the room, and what I saw was a hand coming up out of the floor—a yellow hand! There was the hand—the yellow hand—pulling away the bricks beneath the boiler and pushing them out of the way around the corner, one by one. I understood what had happened at a glance. The owner of the yellow hand had entered the cellar by the outside door and forced up the piece of board so as to get at the bricks. Could I doubt that the hand belonged to the man Ste. phani? . Breathless I watched him, but it was only to sec brick after brick removed. Placing the candle upon the floor, wondering as I did so ; if he could see the light, or whether he was outside a par- tition which I had observed near the cellar door when I. went the rounds before closing up for the night, I braced one hand against the wall, and bending down cautiously, stretched the other out. In one second I had seized the yellow hand—seized it just as it closed, upon a folded paper of legal appearance which lay in the opening made by removing the bricks. I held on in spite of the struggles of the yellow hand, screaming witli all my might, until Mr. Gordon came rahe ing in to my relief. “T’ve found the will!?? I cried? Tie it! Quick!” “Tie what? Are you mad?” “Tie the yellow hand !” He flew away, but was back in a moment. es I was still holding on. He tied the yellow hand, and then forcing open the fin 4 gers tore the paper away. Meanwhile he had sounded the burglar alarm. ” “Tt is my aunt’s will,” he breathed, opening it by the candle’s light. “Ten thousand furies! Cut me off with a shilling—leaves all to the boy, Archie Grace! Thank heaven, the brat is dead and I’m his heir. It amounts to the same thing as though all were left to me.” co * He oy * # * a But it didn’t amount to the same thing at all, for I happened to know that the boy, Archie Grace, still lived. © The police came and captured the owner of the yellow hand. oy As I had supposed, he proved to be the Italian, Stephani. - It afterward turned out that he was the man, who had been in the habit of doing rough work about Mrs. Packer's. kitchen. ~ He confessed that he saw her hide the will ine, carly one morning shortly before her death. 7A Also he confessed that he had taken Archie Giger after” his mother’s death, hoping to wring’ money from Mrs. Packer. i I told what I heard Ralph Gordon say, and that ‘et tled it. ae The ragged urchin whom I left at the wtattenent se proved to be a millionaire twice over, and ponies ‘never got a cent. j Last week Archie turned eee, and caine int fortune. - . “ “Got a rope! Help me! eae wae

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 29 Ne Oe ee ad ' vessels of all classes constructed in the United States dur- ing 1912, there was a notable decrease in the total tonnage, _. according to the report of the Bureau of Navigation of ' the Department of Commerce and Labor. During the year 1,727 vessels were constructed with a total tonnage of 292,477, while figures for 1911 show that: 1,592 vessels were constructed of 309,640 tons. Steam steel vessels " showed a decrease in 1912 over 1911, while steam wooden vessels showed ain increase. : i : co] _ The controversy over foreign mission figures has been adjusted, and it became known recently that Ameriea beats all the rest of the world in gifts to the heathen, so called, ~ in larger measure than had been supposed. . The adjust- _ ment came as part of the conference of foreign mission _ workers held in New York during the last few days. Ex- _ perts report that America last year gave $17,317,000. This is $4,500,000 more than the previous year, and makes America beat its nearest competitor, Great Britain, by more than $7,000,000. The new committee having charge of these statistics claims 1,163,419 Christians as actual _ members of churches in foreign fields supported by Ameri- ~ can money, or, rather, fostered by it, and in publie and : Etege schools J 1,800, 000 pupils, ‘K ‘f ‘A machine that can lay three miles of tials a day is Be used in the cozstruction of the Excelsior Springs Fe division of the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph a Railway. It is to be transferred to the thirty-three miles of unfinished track between Kansas City and St. Joseph ~ ag goon as the four-mile trackless gap between Kansas City -and Excelsior Springs is finished. The tricklayer travels on the track it lays. The men who control the machine stand in the engine house, and lay the track by jerking certain levers. Behind the engine house the material rains follow close and feed the tiés and steel rails to the racklayer. ‘The ties are carried forward along a projecting arm by a belt conveyer. They are dropped in the right places and the rails are carried forward and set true to he gauge. Men follow and attach fishplates, and put in enough spikes to. keep the rails from spreading as the track- ayer moves forward. The rails are spiked fast after the - tracklayer has passed. John R. Wilmot, scientist, author, inventor and pro- ter, who recently was paroled from the Joliet peniten- wy after serving five and a half years of a seven-year mtence on the charge of forgery, is in the county jail his deportation to England. Wilmot, who is said to hold egrees from English universities, was arraigned before : Percy L. Prentiss, immigration inspector. His pres- ence in this countr y was held to be undesirable and his de- While there was an increase of 135 in the number vf re awaiting a formal order from Washington, ordering’ GOOD READING: consumer. Being a convict, he could not patent them, but he planned to. float a company as soon as he was paroled. When he stepped from the penitentiary door he — was arrested. The main point against him was said to be his criminal record. In England he is said to have been known under the alias of “Tom Crawshaw.” English rivals to the Cornell girl student whose propor- . tions approach those of the Venus de Milo are daily in- creasing in number. The latest discovery is a young woman whose measurements, it is asserted, are identical with those of the famous statue but for a slight difference - in ankle and calf. The possessor of this perfect figure is so modest that she prefers to be known as “Miss X,” but it is understood that she is well known in the social world and belongs to one of the best-knwn families in Scotland. Mrs. Porter Bailey, an artist, has taken her measurements, which are as follows: Height, 5 feet 4 inches; head, 21.3 inches; neck, 12.5; chest, 23; bust, 37%; waist, 26; hips, 38; thigh, 22.5; calf, 13.7; ankle, 8; knee, 15; upper arm, 12.5; forearm, 9.5, and wrist, 5.9. The measurements of the Venus de Milo as taken by those who measured the statue in the Louvre years ago are the same as those given, except that the ankle and calf are 7.4 and 13.2 inches, re- spectively. “Miss X,” whose age is 21, has, according to Mis, Bailey, a perfect skin and beautifully molded and rounded limbs. “Miss X” says that she has no fads re- carding diet, and does i. few little exercises when she rises in the morning. Knowing that she had a good figure she — placed herself under the care of a Peen culturist in- order to be properly developed. The drawing for the $300,000 prize in the exhibition lot- tery, which will probably be the last lottery authorized by the Italian Government, took place in Rome, January 15, It was performed in the presence of the’ mayor, the min- ister of finance, members of the Municipality Exhibition Committee, and an enormous crowd, which included 1,000 English and American visitors. A large proportion of the tourists, visiting Italy in the last three years, had bought tickets in the lottery, consequently the interest in the drawing assumed an international character. The lucky number was 2,594,836. While Signor Bobbio, the notary, was examining the urns, which contained the tickets, he fell down in a fit. Immediately superstitious spectators cried, “Throw him out.” They feared he possessed the evil eye. An hour’s delay ensued before order: was restored, and the services of another notary was obtained. Finally the extraction of tickets from the two urns began, This was done by two blindfolded orphan children. The an- nouncement of the winning number was received swith cheers, althongh the holder of the ticket probably lives in Sa Northern Italy, where that particular series of tickets was sold. Several thousand tickets for the lottery were lost with the Titanic, having been pas? By; Italians abe es in America, is

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“ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS ENGLAND SCAR ED AGAIN.’ England is perturbed by news of another mysterious and presmuably German airship traveling over. the country | Januéry 21. This: time the vessel was sighted at Cadiff, South Wales, and, according to the sole witness, Captain Lindsay, chief constable of Glamorganshire, it was Sed ing at the time in a westerly direction. Tt will be vecailed that before dawn on January 4 an airship was seen fying over Dover from the sea in a north- easterly direction. About the same time attention was directed to the fact that Jights had been scen m the sky at night over the Bristol Channel, which were believed to be those of an airship going in a westerly direction. PARCEL POST IS BOOMING. The number of parcel post stamps printed and distrib- uted is 339,500,000. Befcre January 1, when the service Was solnpliciet I 292,455 stamps were issued. In the first three weeks ‘of the systein’s operation 186,287,545, Btamps have been supplied, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is being foreed to iss stamps at. the ‘rate of 12,000, 000 a day. Lhe value of the parcel pos st te fe distrivuted is $18,- 011,120. - Chicago EON 45,000,000 stamps, valued at $2,673,000, and leads all other cities. ond, with 15,200,600 ae yalued at $930,000; New York City third, with 15,000,000 stamps, valued at ‘#700, - 000 ;, Philadelphia fourtlt, with 6,000,000 stamps, valued at $3% 9.000, ‘and Boston fifth, with 8,000,000 stamps, valued at $125,000. Shesé five cities received 85,200,000 stamps, with a value of $4,895,000, 1b8; RACING NAVY GRAFT j Gratin = selling of supplies to the Navy Department, as: disclosed hy the “investig: gation by the Depar ‘tment ot Justice and naval authorities » May extend to officers’ be- yond the grade of stewards, according to statements made by officials at Washington, January 22, Conspiracy among contractors furnishing food supplies to the navy is alleged, and the inquiry has been directed along this line, ‘There isa suspicion that the contrac- tors at the various stations, including New York, Newport, Boston; Philadelphia and other cities, are in a conspiracy to.exact the highest possible prices for inferior supplies. Such a system of grat among contractors for other work has been. discovered, and it is regarded as highly prob- able that the same method of fleecing Uncle Sam is em- ployed in furnishing supplies for the navy. WANT MILITIA “FLIERS.” : An aviation corps of the National Guard, New Yor', is proposéd in a bill which Assemblyman Cuvillier, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, is preparing for early introduction. Mortimer Delano, secretary of the Aero Club of America, has. submitted a proposed forma-j tion for the corps. It calls for. a battalion of three flying FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | brigades ate to be St. Louis was’ sec | Gry ay the first to — of six: oe to three bi- wey penny she pera sh Hata planes and three monoplanes; the second to include two | hydro-aeroplanes, and the third one aeroplane. ‘I'he bat- talion would be’ officered with a major, adjutant, quarter- master, surgeon and buglers. Each squadron would be in command of a captain-pilot, with the necessary lieuten- ant-pilots and, other officers and privates. The usual ae Guard maneuvers are to be aban- doned this year. Instead, the military authorities purpose to establish at Peekskill officers’ camps. of instruction for the Ist and 2d brigades and the other branches of the ser- vice, including field artillery, cavalry, signal corps and medical corps. . Camps of instruction for the 3d and 4th established at points convenient to their home stations. ¢ Ne Major General O’Ryan submitted a report’ to i avtnany Sulzer, in which he states that on September 30 last there were 16,519 officers and men in the guardy an increase ot 819 over the preceding year. ae Alter having spent nearly $450, 000 on the Blinvelt State rifle range, in Rockland. County, the State proposes to abandon it. Residents of South Nyack complained last summer that stray bullets’ frem the range were finding their’ way into the village. It is planned to locate the range Where the bullets wil strike the side of a mountain, atid to turn the present property over to the Palisades Park Commission, PRINCESS’S DOG BITES HOTEL MAN, Princess Louise of Belgium, daughter of the Late King Leopold, has just been ordered to pay a hotel official here $60 damages “for allowing her bulldog to bite’ ‘the com- plainant, thus. considerably diminighing the value ‘of his “person,” as the French law quaintly puts it. In effect the vietim considered that the value of his person had been reduced exactly $1,000, but the judge fixed a much smaller figure. ake has developed into a chronic litigant and is now wholly absorbed in her latest suit for an Heian Princess Louise began her second action against the Belgian state over her father’s millions at Brussels ow November 25. .The case is expected to last months, and if, a8 a year ago, the princess again loses, she proposes to take the ease finally to the. Supreme: Court at Gotha, in which state her father sank most of his money. The prin- cess is now in a worse condition financially than she has eyer been. Her! principal source of income has vanished with a round table decision of the leading continent fal money-lenders, who have all been vietimizd, ae to lend her — The princess © ne | herited a pillion and a quarter dollars from. her father in ~ 1909, and over a million of this was paid off in debis. In ot her lover, Mattachich, another e¢ent, the past three years, it has now come 'to light, this strani couple have contracted debts in excess of $3,000, 000. tachich is referred to as the more extravagant ‘of the tw @ ‘To her ever-pressing creditors the princess, now a whites haired old Jady, smilingly announces that: she dis “wor Mat © BINS S See 4 i ; g 4 3 ;

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THE SURPRISE FOUNTAIN PEN A novelty of the greatest merit! “looks just like a gen- uine fountain pen. But it isn't. That's where ans the joke comes in, If you take off the cover, a. nice, ripe, juicy } temon appears. Then you give the friend > yon lend it to the merry ‘ha-ha.” You ) Might call it an everlasting joke because you ) ean use it over and over again. Price, by “mali, postpaid, 10c. Z _ WoLrr NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. YMITATION CUT FINGER. A cardboard finger, carefully bandaged with linen, and the )side and end blood-stained. When you siip -it' on your finger and show it to your friends, just give a groan or two, Re nu se it up, and pull @ Jook of pain. ‘You will get nothing but Bympathy until you give them the laugh. Then duck! Price, 10c., postpaid. H, F. LANG, 1815 Centre, St., B’klyn, N. Y. THE LITTLE GEM TELEPHOYE. The transmitter in this telephone ig made from the bost imported parchment; with ordinary use will last a long time; can be made in any length by. adding cord; the only real telephone tor the _diustrated, with full’ directions how to. uso ‘them. Price, 12¢., postpaid. : WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St... ¥, +, Ton TOM-TOM DRUM. Hold the drum in one hand and with the thumb of the other gi cresting against the side of the ; drum manipulate the drumstick with the fingers of the samo @hand (as indicated in the cut). With practice it is possible to Sttain as great skill as with a real drum. movable sounding board can be adjusted for Bgither heavy or ght playing. ‘®xtensively in schocls for marching, 1 Price, ce. each, délivered free. ©. BEHR, 150 W. 62d 8t., New York City. RARE POSTAGE STAMPS. Sage Our packages are the best, as each contains at least 2 rare ones, worth the price of the whole lot. Start a collection. In time it will grow very val- uvable,. Every known. variety of foreign and domestic stamps in these packages. Fifty va- tee Ietiss for 6 cents; one hundred, 19 cents; two hundred, 20 cents; three hun- fred, 35 cents; five hundred, $1.25; one thou- Sand, $3.25; two thousand, $18.00; 1,000 mixed ot, 25 cents. All in good condition and worth wice the amount Wwe ask, fe YOLY’ NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. CARD THROUGH THE HAT TRICK With this trick you bar- row a hat, and appar- ently shove @ card up through the crown, Without injuring the card or hat. The oper- ation can be reversed, the performer seemingly » Pushing the card down through the crown into the hat again. It is & pares trick which will puzzle - 8nd interest the closest observer and detection . 48 almost impossible. It is so simple that a erform it in-a fow Price 10 cents each, by mail, post-paid OM. V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th 8t., N.Y. \ A eres ee RAPID CIGARETTE MAUR. This little article should be in the pocket of every smoker. With it j a perfact cigarette can be » made in ten seconds, You will find them equal in appearance and {far su- pe. or cigarette at pleasure, as it’s just as o rol @ cigarette as to fill a pipe. very + of the cigarette maker is handsuinely kel-plated. Price, Ihe, or 8 for 40c. by Taail, postpaid. BOG: i ra f NOVELIX CO 22 W, 36th Sty NH. ¥. Teh ha arg : i The * They are used j It « are . “Money; each one put up in a negt box; fully | a ER aS NN ee a) PS Pe Accuracy _ Penetration The World’s . Record Holders Remington-UMC .22 cal: cartridges have broken two recorde in two years. The present world’ &stbur Hubalek was Remington- UMC .22’s are mad This inoreases their shocking and ki WG 8 100-shot gallery record, 2484 ex 2500, held by made with these hard hitting .22’s, They will help you, too, to break your best shooting records. Remington- UMC—the perfect shooting combination REMINGRON ARMS-UNION METALLIC CARTRID ‘The Nomingion-UMC cubs make o find ce, too, with hellow point bullets. Hing power. GE 299 Broadwar New York City co. vat We guarintee to COR nN eT FR Ee! teach you 10 play r by mail and will give you a Beantifes Ger- lesson, Write to-day for our book- i net or any Baud lngirument absolutely Pree. let and wonderfn) tuition offer. . You pay weekly 26 lessons are tak- oe i : INTERNATIONAL CORWET SCHOOL en. Instruniong is sent with first 261 Musieal Kinll, Moston, Maan. MEREDYV sent toyou on TRER TRIAL If it curos, sond $1.00; if Give exprenoffies, Write today. WK. Stariine, 237 Ohio Ave., Sidney, Okla, $-—OLP COINS WANTED—BS $7.75 Paid for RAMH date 1853 Quarters and $b¢ without arrows. CASH prem- iums paid on hundreds of old eoins. of Keep ail money dated before 1596 and Sonar send ‘THN cents at once for New Illustrated Coin Vaine Book, size 4x7. Ger Posted and muke money easy. C.F, CLARKW & 0O., Coin Dealers, Box 21, Le Roy, N. ¥. ®0-BOO CARD Here is au innocent, and very Jaughable ractical Joke, It consists of a card, Postai size, blackened on one ‘fide, oxoept a white circle in the center. On the other a wes is an interestiug sentence, Iral form, £0 that one has to keep turn qd around in order to read it, nep ng thecard around an The turning of the card causes the dark side to blacken the reader’s fiigers. Price 10 cents each by mall, postpaid, C. BEMR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. rinted i _—————— LAUGHABLE GG TRIOK This is the funniest fi % trick eyer exhibited and Se } always produces roars of seu ; laughter. /The perform- jer fays to the audience that he requ'res some © ©8838 for one of his ex- periments. As no spec- be tator carries any, he ¢alls his asgistant, taps him on top of the head, he gees, and an ese comes out of. his mouth. This is repeated until six eges are produced, It is an easy trick to perform, once you know how, and always makes a hit. Di- rections given for working it. Price. 25 cents by mail, postpaid, IL, FE. LANG, 1315 Centre St., B’klyn, N, ¥. TUR MAGIC WALLET 4 ,_|it, puzzling people, wile being }used in a practical way to carry . | bank bills; letters, Invoices, ete, Open with the straight bands on the left, lay a bill on top of left, and the bill will be found under the crossed bands. Close J _iowadiet, cpen to: the right, and ijl be found under straight bands. How did it get there? That's the question. Price, 12 cents each, postpaid, — G. BEL, 150 W. @2d Bt, New Xork Clty, not, don’t, Lots of fun can be had with } . | bands, close wallet; open to the , I will send as long as they last my 25c¢ book STRONG ARMS for 10 Cents In Stamps or Coin Illustrated with 20 fuli- page, half-tone cuts, show- ing exercises that will quickly develop, beautif and gain great strengt iri ‘your shoulders, arme and hands, without any apparatug, IN AGDITIGN TO THE ABOVE, I will be pleased to an- swer any question on de- veloping or reducing any other part of your body, without additional charge. PROF. ANTHONY BARKER 1785 Barker Bldg., 110 Vi. 42d St, N.Y. FstabHkhed 28 yoata in New York City Ee Sa

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} FOUR WEEKS (A LOUD BOOR). Has the absolute and oxact shape of a book in cloth. Up- on the opening of the book, after having it set up accord- loud report similar to that of a pistoi-shot will be heard, much to the amazement and surprise of the victim. Caps not mailable; can be bought at any toy store. Price, 65c. by mail, postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1515 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. Bi: VANISHING AND RE- APPEARING . EGG.—Very fine, easy to perform and it and mystifying effect. Eggs jis made to appear and vanish right before the eyes. Beautifully made. Price, 25c M. Y. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N. ¥. LITTLE RIiP’s TEN-PINS. ing balls, packed in a box. With one of these miniature sets you can play ten-pins on your dining-room table just as well as the game can be played in a regular alley. Wyery game known to professional bowlers can be worked with these pins. Price; 10c. per box by mail. postpaid. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. The ji, this little iy bottle 1s ee te Be At cannot be made to Me down, and yet by Spey passing the hand over it, the per- former causes it to do #0. This trick affords great pmusement, and is of convenient size to carry BDOU. 6 cc eciccccccscccovccsecereveekrice, 106 ©. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. SURPRISE PERFUME BOTTLE. 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. This is a simple and clever joke. Price, i0c. each by mail, post- paid; 3 for 25ce, H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. THE SWIMMING FISH Here is a fine mechanical toy. It is an imitation gold- fish, about 4% inches long, and contains a water-tight compartment which will not allow it to sink. To keep it in a natural position, the lower fin ig ballasted with lead. To make it work, a spring is wound up. You then throw it in the water, and the machinery inside causes the tail to wiggle, and propel it in the most lifelike man- ner. When it runs down the fish floats until it is recovered, and it can then be rewound. Races between two of these fishes are very interesting. Price, 25 cents each by mail, post- _ paid. } C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New Work City. THE SPOTTER, OR THE EDUCAT- ED DIE.—The per- former _ exhibits a die. The Aco of Spades and five cards are now taken from a pack. The Ace of Spades is thoroughly shuffied with the q‘ other cards, which * are then placed face : down in a sow on the table. The die is now thrown, and as if embodied with superhuman intelligence, the exact position of the Ace is indicated. With- out touching the die, the performer picks up the cards, gives them a complete shuffle and again spreads, them out. The die is rolled as before by any person, and is sesn to come to _@ stop with the locating number uppermost. The card is turned over and found to corre- gpond in position. Price, lic. H, FE. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. © in each set there are | ten pins and two bowl- - ing to directions furnished, 2 | produces a marvelous | beautifully ornamented | | | 1 | { | | : GOOD LUCK BANKS, } ITCH POWDER. Gee whiz! What fun you can have with this stuff. Moisten the tip of your finger, tap it on the contents of the box, and a4 little bit will stick. Then shake hands with your friend, or drop a speck down nis back. In a minute he will feel as if he had the rm seven years’ itch. It inake him seratch, roar, squirm and will | make faces. But it is perfectly harmless, as it is made from the seeds of wild roses. The ‘ horrible itch stops in a few minutes, or can ' be checked immediately by rubbing the spot with a wet cloth. While it is working, you will be apt to Jaugh your suspender buttons ‘eff. The best joke of all. Price 10 cents a by mail, postpaid, WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. Ornamental as well as useful. Made of highly nickeled brass. It held’ just One Dellar. When filled .t opens itseif. Remains locked until refilled. Can be used as 4 watchcharm. Money refund- ed if net satisfied, Price, 10c, by mall. . L, Benarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. CACHOO OR SNEEZING POWDER. The greatest fun-maker of chem all. A smail ameunt of this powder, wmpen blown in a reem, will cause everyones to sneeze witheut anyone knowing where it cemes from. It is very Nght, will fisat in the air fer some timo, and Boa ney every neok and cerner ef a reem. It less. Cachoo is put up in bottles, and ene bettie contains enough te be used from 10 to 15 times. Price, by mail, 10c. each; 3 for Z5a, WOLEF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. | SPIRIT SLATE-WRITING.—No trick has ever puzzled the scientists more and created & greater sensation than the famous spirit- writings which appear between sealed slates which have freely been shown cleaned, care- fully tied together and given to a spectator to hold. These spirits answer questions. Sold by us complete, slates and secret. No chem- ical used. Price, 75e, M. V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N. ¥. THE FLUTTER-BY, This mechanical flying machine is worked by a new principle. It looks like a beautiful butter- fly, about 9 inches wide. 5 In action its wing moye- ments are exactly like those of a live butterfly. It will travei through the air about 25 feet, in the most natural manner. As flying toys are all the rage, this one should be a source of profit and amusement to both old and young. Price, 18e. each by mail, postpald. H, BE. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. %. MAGIC CARD BOX.—A very cleverly made box of exchanging or vanishing cards. In fact, any number of tricks of this character can be performed by it, <A very necessary magical accessory. Price, 15¢, M, VY. GALLIGAN, 419 W. OGth St., N. Y¥. asd Ae the form of a.fan and a spectator is requested to mentally select one of the four. The cards are now shuffled and one is openly t taken away and placed in The performer remarks that he his pocket. has taken the card mentally selected by the spectator. The three cards are now displayed and the selected card is found to be missing. Reaching in his pocket the performer removes and exhibits the chosen card.’ Price, lie, Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. . is perfecttly harm- | [ JUMPING CAR pretty little trick, eas} — perform. Effect: A ‘se! ed card returned to} deck» jumps high into air at the performer’s 4 mand. Pack is held in hand. Price of appar with enough cards to form’ the trick, 10c. AN, 419 W. 56th St., N. 4 GALLIG THE DEVIL’S CARD TRICK.—From t cards held in the hand anyone is asked |} mentally select one. ‘All three cards ‘placed in a hat and the performer rem first the two that the audience did not sel 'and passing the hat to them their card | mysteriously vanished. A great clim | highly recommended. Price, H. F LANG, 1615 Centro 5St., B’kiyo, N. | APPEARING BILLIARD BALL.—A 80 ; billiard ball, beautifully made, can be ma to ayfpear in the bare hands with the slee\ | rolled back to elbows. Very fine and ez | to do. Price, $ M, V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N. ¥. RISING PENCI an pencil and shows top and bottom. T pencil is laid on t palm, the perform calling attention his hypnotic pow over innate objec The pencil is se slowly to rise, f lowing the | mo\ ments of the oth hand. The witnesses are asked to pass th: hand around it to assure themselves thread or hair is used. Price, 2 C. BEHR, 150 W, 62d St., New York Cit hey “KNOCK-OUT” CARD TRICK.—Five car are shown, front and back, and there are two cards alike. You place some of them a handkerchief and ask any person to he them by the corners in full view of the aux ence. You now take the remaining cards a request anyone to name any card shown. TY done, you repeat the name of the card al atate that you will cause it to invisibly lea your hand and pass into the hand@ierchi where it will be found among the other ecarc At the word “Go!’’ you show that the chos ecard has vanished, leaving absolutely or two cards. The handkerchief is unfolded any person, and in it ia ivund the identte card eee - hi, V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., THE MULTIPLYING CORKS.—A sm: round box jis shown to be empty and one. the spectators is allowed to place three cor in it. The coyer is put on and the box handed to one of the spectators, who, up removing the cover, finds six corks in the be Three of the corks are now made to Mri ive. * . mysteriously as they came. Very Besees 565 ' Price, J H. FE. LANG, 1816 Centre St., D’kiyn, Ni, |

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HOW TO BECOME A NAVAL| THE HAND.—Containing rules for tellin CADET.—Complete instructions of how to gain| tunes by the aid of lines of the admission to the Annapolis Naval Academy. | the secret of palmistry. Also the Also containing the course of instruction, de-| telling future events by aid of moles, scription of grounds and buildings, historical; scars, ete. Illustrated. oy sketch, and everything a boy should know to/ No. 77. HOW TO DO FORTY T K 49. I e become an officer in the United States Navy.| WITH CARDS.—Containing deceptive Card. ‘conducting debates, outlines for debates, | By Lu Senarens. Tricks as performed by leading conjurers a ane ations for discussion, and the best sources No. 64. HOW TO MAKE ELECTRICAL] magicians. Arranged for home amusement. rocurin, ormation on the question | MACHINES.—Containing full directions for pee Fully illustrated. * v ie OW TO STUFF BIRDS AND AN- making electrical machines, induction coils, HOW TO BUILD AND SAIL > A handy book for boys, contain- MH directions for constructing canoes and th most popular manner of sailing them. Fully iustrated. ; : HOW TO DEBATE.—Giving rules No. 78. HOW TO DO THE BLACK ee te dynamos, and many novel toys to be worked | —Containing a complete description — aluable book, giving instructions | phy electricity. By R. A. R. Bennet. Fully| mysteries of Magic and Sleight-of-Han Ss oop tek mounting and: pre- | fllustrated. gether with many wonderful experiment a EG te, No. 65. MULDOON’S JOKES.—The most] A. Amderson. Tilustrated. Le a apy original joke book ever published, and it is No. 79. HOW .,fO BECOME AN ACT brimful of wit and humor. It contains a| —Containing complete instructions how — large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, | make up for various characters on the st ete., of Terrence Muldoon, the great wit, hu-| together with the duties of the Stage \ nager, - morist, and practical joker of the day. Prompter, Scenic Artist and Property M hip No. 66. HOW TO DO PUZZLES.—Con-| _ No. 80. GUS WILLIAMS! JOKE BOOK — 6 y taining over three hundred interesting puzzles| Containing the latest joke 4 anecdotes ang = and conundrums, with key to same. A com-| funny stories of this world-renowned German if plete book. Fully illustrated. comedian, Sixty-four pages; handsome cc ored cover, containing a half-tone photo the author. f 81. jancho, P, No. 67. HOW TO DO ELECTRICAL urs, and many TRICKS.—Containing a large collection of in- Le ae structive and highly amusing electrical tricks, Oe together with illustrations: By A. Anderson. las’ No. 68. 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Handsomely illustra: for performing over sixty Mechanical Tricks. TO BECOME Fully illustrated. : 94.99 ir ful truct 72. HO i ining in ‘ion re rf DS.—Embracing all of th sul s, the use of words and it deceptive card tricks, wit us- ar and submitting m : : 3 ing valuable informa’ legibility, and gene cri ae) te"