Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 422) (1913 10 31)
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OCT. 1X 1915 ka Pant Hat LD | a TF. Ferguson snatched the satchel out of Hal's fingers.and rushed off with it. “Stop thief!” shouted the boy starting to follow him. Then Ferguson’s two accomplices stepped forward and blocked Hal. shoving him against the side of the entrance.
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¢and Fortune Weekly _STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY — z > Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Hntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1913, in the office of the ca | } Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d Street, New York. os Entered at the New York, N. Y., Post Office as Second- Class Matter. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31, 1913. ' Price 5 Cents. . ~ No. 422. TOGKS AND BOND: eet as THE FIRM WITH A GRIP ON THE MARKET (A WALL STREET STORY) By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I. “Oh, there you are,” said his friend, coming over, S.-i thought I’d give you a call. If I’m in the way, say so, and Y Ill return the way I came.” “In the way, not at all. Glad to. see you, but I don’t set how you could get away from Walt Street. Had an erran over this way?” “No. I just came over to kill time.” : “That’s something new for you, isn’t it? I never knew yo to haye any as to a You Messengers are always kept ol the go.” Mi “We partsalt are. oi wouldn’t be here now only I had run-in with my boss this morning and quit the office.”~ ~~ “Phe dickens you say. What was the trouble about?” ‘The other hatches were receiving goods from the pier. “Two brokers called to see the’ old man, and as he was busy Ke Sam, who was in the employ of the steamship company, they had to wait in the receDtion-room till he was disengaged. "was keeping account of the number of boxes sent aboard from | They stood not far from my chair and began talking about a ’ the lighter, and his record was expected to tally with the|tip one of them had got on the prospective rise of a certain shipping list furnished by the man in charge of the lighter.| stock. As I am always out for information of that Kkind,.I- This was only one of the various duties Sam was called upon | listened to them. One of them got on to me and gave me a to perform in the course of the week, but it was one that re-}cali-down. I wouldn’t have minded it, as I was in the wrong, 5 quired absolute correctness on his part. only he talked rather nasty, and his manner riled me. I talked _ He couldn't go to sleep over the work, for errors were not | back to him, giving him to understand that I wouldn’t take ‘tolerated. such a raking from him or anybody else. Well, he reported — ‘There was little sentiment wasted by the dock officials, from |me to the boss when they went inside, After they were gone the lowest to the highest. 4 Mr. Green called me in and handed me a call-down. I di __>Sam knew what he was up against, ‘and being a smart boy, | like it and told him so. One word led to another, and I finally he: managed to hold down his job. | told him he could get another messenger, for I was through. « As he uttered the words at the beginning of this chapter, | Then I walked out and left the office,” said Hal. 3 “ which ‘was his: mental way of keeping tab on himself, his eyes Sam listened while he kept his main attention on his work, wandered a moment from the work in hand to the side of the Another double five was crossed, and up went BBE boxes a. steamer, shining dully in the morning sun. the sling. , Coming down the rope ladder was a well dressed boy about “And that accounts for you being off your tous? ” he saa, is Own age. | giving his friend a glance. shyt the steamer’s upper deck was away up in the air, it was “That accounts for it,” said Hal. ike descending ne side of a three-story house to reach the “Think you'll have any trouble getting another pincer” said ghter. Sam. ee It was something ot a feat, too, for one unaccustomed to| “I’m not thinking of another place at present. es ong rope ladders, clinging to the smooth iron surface of a| “No?” aime ‘side. “No,. The tip I picked up ‘fain those prokers - wes © “wo rt tte “He } THE CALL FOR HELP. “Ten and tally,” called out Sam Davis, making a diagonal _ line across four vertical marks he had previously drawn in his rae salty book. en “He was standing on top of a load of boxes on:a long lighter a : ee eree alongside of a big Huropean steamship which lay at Stor covered pier on West street. The steamer was taking cargo aboard through ‘five ae. hare and all was bustle and excitement. The lighter was unloading at Hatch Three. — didn’t seem to greatly bother the lad who wag in the act | more than my job. I have already Vanked on it to the exte scendin Bs though he was not accustomed to the exercise. | of my capital, and I’m going to spend 8 ss cd wa nine the a “ian on the boxes near him and looked around. . stock until the deal culminates.” “Sam recognized ‘him, and with some surprise. , “Think youll make something out ‘of it, oe lo, Hal, what brings you here at this time of the day?”|\ “I expect ‘to, for I believe it’s a sure’ winner.” ; ni he. spake t to keep rns of aS sb thought t there gent ses ngs 2 of that — » Bireet.’ ine :
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; 3 as} STOCKS “AND BONDS, ‘ er “There isn’t anything actually sure. What we call a sure winner is something that has all the ear-marks of panning out.” : “Bar-marks is good,” said Sam, as another sling full of . boxes went up. “T see they keep you puay. here,” “Bet your life they do. A lot of stuff is sent across the big pond.” “Youre keeping tab on the number of boxes that go poard?”” “Yes, I am what they call a checker at present.” “And when this jeb is done, what will you do?” “I'm not a mind reader. There is always something for me to do.” ‘ “When does this steamer sail?” “To-morrow morning.” “Will they have her loaded by that time?” _ “You can gamble on it they will.” Another steamer was tied up to the pier below. 5 Nothing special appeared to be going.on aboard of her at that moment. , As Ha! iooked over at her he saw a face framed in one of . ‘the reund portholes high up near the deck. Tt looked like a woman’s face, but he wasn’t sure about it. The face yanished, but a woman’s arm was thrust out and a handkerchief was waved in a vigorous way, “Look over at that steamer, Sam. There’s a woman behind one of those portholes waving her BAS SECTOMIGE at somebody. | I wonder if it’s at us?” he said. Sam took a hasty look. “She’s in one of the staterooms, Ren She might be waving at : you. ” * +! Hal, for the fun of the thing, took off his hat and bowed. | ed The arm and handkerchief was withdrawn, but almost im- %: ‘mediately the arm reappeared and commenced waving again.’ In place of the handkerchief something else was in the hand. Suddenly the article, whatever it was, flew into the air and fell to the surface of the water, where it floated in a siugelsh | way. Saving good eyesight, Hal saw the index finger of the - woman’s hand pointed in the direction\of the floating object’ Clearly she was calling his, or somebody else’s, attention DBO seis: : The object, which seemed to be a light cardboard box, was drifting slowly toward the shore end of the piers. Hal called Sam’s atention to ‘it and told him how it got: there.. ee, “It's a bit of a jolty, a guess,” s: said Sam, turning back to ‘his work. “The arm had been wihdrawn, but the face was now at the - porthole again. = She seemed to be’ looking straight down at the two boys, ; put. it was impossible to determine that fact exactly. Hal walked over to the outer edge of the cargo on the! lighter and looked at the floating object. : Then he pointed at it and looked up at the porthole. Out came the arm again and was wayed. “tt was some fool play. ; Looking upjand down along the side of the lighter he saw f Ps rowboat tied to the end of the eraft that faced the river. ‘He went to that end and looked down at the boat. | The lighter being low in the water, it was a simple matter to get into the boat after untieing the painter from a cleat. Nobody on board the craft was paying any attention to him. Should he take the boat and row after that white object? It seemed a fool job. Nevertheless, something impelled him to do so. ’ ; He knelt down, cast off the rope and stood up with it in his “hand, Then, he wayed his hand at the face in the porthole and pointed at the float. .- The arm came out once more and pointed, thovgh rather | wide of the mark, for the person behind the porthole eduld not Bee, the surface of the water. That determined Hal. He dropped into the post: got out the oars, the. object in the water. | : _ Sam missed him, and looking around to see where he had one, spied him in the boat. { To ‘say he was surprised would be putting it: mildly. “What are you Bis to?” he Or. é , and pee for Hal was puzzled to understand the meaning of it all unless | a He pulled it out of the water and saw that it was a thin pasteboard box, tightly tied each way with a piece of ran On the outside was written the words: “Open—Important. Hal looked at it doubtfully. He was afraid it was a kind of April fool affair. He had gone so far in the matter that he felt he might as well see it through, even if it was a joke. He hated, though, to have anybody get his “goat.” He pulled out his knife, cut the twine and opened the box. Inside was a sheet of paper written in lead pencil by. a fe- male hand. | It ran as follows: “Whoever finds this will please notify my father, George Weston, No. — Wall Street, at once, that I am a prisoner in’ Stateroom No. 11, on the steamer Bristol City, which Sener some time tomight for London, England. Ask for any reason able reward for the service and it will be paid. “Netti Wrston.” “Gee whiz! this can’t be a joke!” cried Hal. “The writer is ~ evidently the victim of some crooked business+ I'll hustle over to Wall Street at once and call on Mr. Weston. I know there’s” a broker by that name. The girl struck luck when she ¢ele- graphed me out of the porthole. Not one in a hundred would have understood what she was driving at, or taken the trouble to go after this box. I must let her know that I’m going to — carry out her wishes.” * Hal pulled back to the further end of the lighter, climbed: on board and secured the painter to the cleat. The.face was still at the porthole. © Hal held up the box in two sections to show he had opened i ite The arm came out of the porthole and was waved again. | “T’ll bet the poor girl is glad,” ‘he thought. “I wonder who abducted her aboard the steamer, and why?” ae He went over to Sam, who was still checking away. 5 | “JT recovered the box the girl threw out of the porthole,” hs said. “What in thunder did you take all that trouble for?” sald Sam “Never mind. I took it, and I guess I did right. Let. me ' read you what was in it,” and Hal read the appeal. “What do you think of it? That girl has been kidnaped by some rascal who intends to carry her to England for some purpose, and she’s locked up in a stateroom aboard that steamer, which looks like a tramp freighter. I’m going to carry her message to her father in Wall Street, and then I guess thére’ll be some- — thing doing.” “Looks kind of queer to me. said Sam. ) | “ll risk that. I’d rather chance being made a fool of than ‘learn later that I might have served theygirl.” “Did you see anything in/the papers this morning ‘about a | br oker’ 8 daughter reported missing from her. home hy J H “No; “The papers are quick to print anything of the kind.” s “The girl might not have been kidnaped till this morning.’ » “T don’t see how she could have been taken aboard that — | steamer against her will without nae the suspicion of | somebody on board.” ; “Well, I haven’t any time to fers the case out. I'll let you oe enow the results later. Good-by,” and Hal started up the rope ladder. ; ie You may find it all a hoax,” mk | CHAPTER JE : Ua ay THE BOMB EXPLOSION. | Hal didn’t lose any time in getting over to Wall Stroet... | As a messenger he was, accustomed to rapid locomotion, end D |on this occasion, beleriae that he was engaged on a Worthy; d errand, he put his best foot forward.’, The number he was aiming fer was on the south side i Wall Street below ‘Broad. | . It was a modern cffice building, and among its aeOnge ‘of ‘tehants housed many brokers. Just inside the entrance was the directory of the te attached to the wall, arranged in’ alphabetical order, \wit | nuinber of the office and the floor on a line with each. i | It was a simple matter for Hal to run his eyes down to and there, sure: onoueh, was George Weston, Room 555, Fitt Floor. Hal stepped into an, elevator and got out at that floor. _ We followed the numbers till he reached the office, the doo: | of which bore the sign, “George Weston, Stocks and B ' Standard Securities Bought and Sold.” - j Bs | Entering; he marched up to the bean 8 window nd > for Mr, Weston,
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“He's not in.” Was called uptown an hour ago. I’ll take your message,” said the cashier. “He's got a daughter, hasn’t he?” said Hal, The question surprised the cashier. “Yes: Why do you ask?” “Ts her name Nellie?” ae ASS : “Have you heard that anything has happened to her?” ' “No. What is the meaning of your question?” “Read that,” and Hal shoved the penciled note through the window. The cashier read it. i “My gracious!” he exclaimed. “How did you get this?” Hal explained the circumstancés. “What is your name?” “FElarry Rowland.” . “Take a seat, will you? Mr. Weston’s house. » disturbed. Maybe Thevens ‘to wait. In a few minutes he called to Hal. “Mr. Weston is at his house, and he wants to talk to, you over the wire,” he said. “Ceme inside and go into the booth.” Hal put the receiver to his ear and called “Hello!” uh “Are you the young man who just brought a note to my of- fice from my daughter?” / “T brought a note written by a person who signed herself - Nellie Weston, which directed the finder to call at the office of George Weston, in Wall Street, and tell him that she was a prisoner in Stateroom No. 11, on#the steamer Bristol City, which is to sail for London to-ni pate poe steamer is lying at Ha I'll telephone for information to He went away in a hurry, and looked his paper indicates the reason.” hier went to the telephone booth and Hal sat down Pier —, on the Hudson,” replie “Where did you find the note?” _. Hal told him of the circumstances under which he came into possession of the note. _._ “What is your name and address?” Ks Hal tolé* him. “You have done my daughter and her family a great favor, young man, and I will see that you are suitably recompensed for your trouble.” “Tt was no trouble, sir, You needn’t worry about recom- pensing me. After picking up and reading the note, I be- lieved your daughter was in trouble, and consequently I con- sidered it my duty to carry out her wishes.” . “YT am under the deepest obligations to you, and I won’t ah forget it. The name of the steamer you say is the Bristol 2 City, and she’ s lying at Pier —?”. © hy “Yes, sir. The young lady is in Stateroom 11, on the star- board side.” Sieh q “Thank you, Is there anything else you have to tell me?” eThat's: all; sits” “Good-by,” and the broker rang off. Hal left the booth and stopped at. the cashier’s desk. -“When Mr. Weston comes in you can give him the note, with the box it came to me in. It is of no special importance ‘ now, as I telephoned him the facts contained in it, and he will be able to act on them as well as if he had the note. I will go now.” . PR Ns had better leave your address with me,” said the cashier. Sie gave it to Mr. Weston. & “Tt might be to your advantage to let me put it down with your name, for Mr. Weston might inislay it.” ‘Hal had no objection to giving it again. ~~ Then he left the office and took his way to the little bank on ‘Nassau street, where he had made his deal on 100 shares f A. & R. ‘stock at 90 before he went over to the river to ‘see his friend Sam Davis. The reception-room was filled with customers and loungers, all more or less interested in the quotations that were being chalked up on the big blackboard at the end of the room. “This was the first business day in three years that Hal : ‘Howland found himself completely at leisure, and the sensa- on was a noyelty to him. ‘ But for the deal he had gone into, which involved most of his capital—a capital made out of the market through divers small deais of a similar nature—he ‘ ‘would ae have found ime hanging heavy on his hands. ‘Heretofore he had never had the chance tol sit down in the ce as whatever business he had had with the little bank aie on the sly, ~ i One est rown up hig job, he was the boss of his own Wy and could. git louaae as. long as he chose, | i y STOCKS AND BONDS. . Bee , J A dapper young chap eccupied the seat next to him, and: after a while he began @ conversation with Hal. He told the boy that he was the advertising agent for a cer tain railroad publication, and was in the habit of taking flyers in the stock market. He had just made a deal in Steel common, and expected to capture a few hundred in consequence. He was somewhat inquisitive as to Hal’s identity, and why he was in the little bank. The boy, who did not believe in being too confidential with strangers, skilfully evaded giving out any information about himself, When Steel common showed a slight rise over the opening price, the young man got up:and left. ; By that time it, was between™hali-past twelve and one. . As there was no movement in A. & R., Hal left the bank himself at one and went to lunch. 3 After eating a fifteen-cent lunch he went to the Curb Ex: U change and hung around there for a while. eae Business was brisk within the ropes, but there was no par- © ticular excitement. : After a while Hal, went back to the little bank and bought ER an afternoon paper on the way. Under bold headlines the disappearance of Nellie Weston ‘) was set forth. a According to the newspaper there was no clew to whee, bate become of her. The police had various conjectures on the subject, witch: in the light of what Hal. knew, were wrong. The fact was stated that an employee of a certain bank had | been paying hér considerable attention, but as her parents did ‘ not approve of his visits, for the young lady, was hardly sev- — enteen, he had been turned down. His name was Ferguson, and his age given as about thirty. It was not intimated that he had any connection with tiie { girl’s disappearance. : , When the Stock Hxchange closed for the day, A. & R. had gone up a quarter of a point above what Hal paid for his 100 shares. Hal hung around Wall Street until his usual hour for going #5. home, and then he took an elevated train. to Harlem; where he lived with his mother and two sisters in a flat. His father, who was a theatrical advance agent, Was out on _ the road ahead'of a musical comedy company, which was play- al ing to good business in the Middle West. ¥ Hal said nothing to his mother when he got home about af having quitted his job. He knew she wouldn’t be pleased to hear it, and as he had $200 besides the $1,000 invested in his deal, he intended to come up with his week’s wages just the same as though es were at work. As he expected to double his investment in A. & R., he was - not worried at all about the future, ; Both his sisters were office stenographers, who, like jee eS : paid in a part of their wages for the support of the house, and . spent the rest on themselves. 1B The flat was a very nice one on ‘Seventh avenue, with an | elevator run by a bright-looking coon in livery, who, between his wages and the tips that came his way, was in prosperous — cireumstances, and therefore inclined to put on a few frills. When Hal’s sisters got home the family had supper and then he put on his hat and went out to call on a friend. The friend in question not being home when he called, = started down Lenox avenue to One Hundred and Twenty-fift street, intending to go to the Harlem Opera House, where fa was on the free list by reason of his father’s connection with” the profession. An electric lamp burned in front of a large grocery store, _ which was closed at that hour, shedding its light on the ens trance to a barber shop next door kept by an Italian. It also illuminated the upper part of a flight of stairs lente ing from the sidewalk to a basement beneath the barber shop. The door of the basement was shut and padlocked. : Two men stood at.the top of the steps. : i oa As Hal came along they were tossing. a coin as though’ to. decide a point between them. s ; The 'coin rolled down the steps. One of the men was tall and had a black mustache and brigandish goatee. % The other was short and smooth shaven. The short man started down to look for the coin, , The tall, goateed man handed him a package. y ue At the foot of the stairs, where the rays of the are lig’ failed to penetrate, the small man lighted’ a aati as { ‘Presumed, to look for the loat coin, :
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4 . The boy thought no more of the eireumstance; Saas as his attention was attracted to an automobile which was stalled at the corner close by. While he was looking at the effor ts of the chauffeur to crank _ her up, which for some reason did not succeed, a man brushed against him, and he saw it was the fellow with the fierce “goatee, accompanied by his unwhiskered friend. They started across the avenue, but had not gone very far before Hal and everybody else in the immediate neighbor- hood were startled by a stunning explosion. Haljturned and saw white smoke rising up the steps from under the barber shop, the big show window, bearing the bar- uate name, of which was a goruplete wreck with all its con- ents, The grocery windows and aiieee near by, including those on floor above the barber shop, had also suffered from the 5, shock. aX Two half-shaven men came rushing pdanic-stricken from the shop, followed by the terrified proprietor and his young as- sistant. The-neighborhood was thrown into great excitement, and there was an exodus from all the flats of white-faced men and - women, as well as children. While everybody was up in the air over the cause of the elon the sight of the smoke aroused a strong suspicion the mind of the quick-witted boy. ita 8 suspicion connected itself with the coin-tossing pair. He locked in the direction they had taken .and saw them eurrying up the side street. ; which was wudoubtedly the effect of a bomb, they would have stopped and shown the same curiosity that was depicted on the faces of everybody else within sound of the noise. ‘The fact that their only concern seemed to be to get away i ‘as fast as they could without running, induced Hal to’ start ia _ to trail them. They went straight ahead till they reached Park avenue, down which they turned, walking under the New York Cen- “tral ‘elevated tracks.) street and entered after them. - ‘chap ‘went straight over to the wash-room and disappeared. ie sat in a chair and kept up a furtive watch. ~The ‘short ny companion. ' The tall man soon returned to the bar-room, and Hal was somewhat surprised to notice that ‘he had lost his goatee, ‘Phat ae Fre that he had used-a false one as a ‘partial 4 disguise, 7 ue a Its less’ made quite a difference in his Jooks— -more than one weuld think. .* But Hal wasn't deceived in his identity. - & ‘He walked to the side door, stepped out, and his companion followed. ' As Hal had no ) idea ‘of losing them if he could help it until he had traced them to some Place where they | wete likely to ‘stay long enough for him to bring a policeman into the game, he glided after them in a casual way. They walked up Ore Hundred and Sixth street to Third avenue, turned down that strect | nearly ih blocks, and en- Pat “tered a cheap restaurant. : Hal hung back a little while, and when os did not appear he entered a cigar store next to the restaurant and bought a package of cigarettes. Walking out, he drew out one cienroete, put it into his mouth ‘and, entering the Festadrantys asked if he might have a ‘mateh. ¢ ‘The proprietor pointed toa er ookery mateh- “holder, and Hal helped himself to one. He struck it on the rough side of the holder, and as he Bh lighted the cigarette he turned around and gaye a sharp look about the place. - He saw the two men at one fie the tables giving their order to the waiter. Satisfied that “they would ordain’ fnete! for, a while, Hal st led outside. .— le knew there was a police station on One Hundred and rth. strect, between Third and Park avenues, about half a af e the restaurant, wing away ‘the cigarette, he hurried to. it and told his 30 pected of doing the cause ne had. removed at He reasoned that if they were not guilty of the explosion,. ‘Hal shadowed them to a saloon near One Hundred and Sixth _ The beardicss man stopped at the bar, but the tall, goateed jan ordered a drink without waiting for his _ PAME, AND Sota WEBKLY. was regarded as corroborative of Hal’s statement. ‘seeing ‘the business manager in the box office, he opened thi |grin. limelight to-morrow. When did you get a the saloon, and | the men were now eating in the restate rant around the ¢ er in Third avenue. That was enough’ to interest the police, and three detectives” were detailed to” accompany Hal to the restaurant and arrest | the men, ; i CHAPTER HI. THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING GIRL EXPLAINED When they reached the’ place the only customers in the. j restaurant were the suspected pair. ; *“There are your men,” said the Wall Street boy. ve The officers walked up to them and told them they qweres, wanted. “What for?” asked the smooth-faced chap, without BIE BPRS & any trepidation. Pees. “You will learn at the station-house,” was the abrupt’ an- swer. The tall man protested that it was an outrage to take them away from their meal, but the officers were inexorable, and they had to get a move on. oe They looked hard at Hal, whom they believed was respon- \ sible for their predicament, ‘and tried to think if they had ever met him before, At the station they were charged with setting off a bomb ab the cellar door on Lenox avenue. They both denied knowledge of the bomb incident. After giving their names and addresses, as well as other particulars, they were searched, and the false goatee was found in the tall man’s pocket, He declared that he didn’t know how it eame in his pocket, ; but an examination of his chin, just below the under lip, showed that it was “gummy,” and as the goatee exactly fitted - the gummy spot, the evidence that it had been attached there Then the two men were locked up, and Hal, ap ai giving - 4 his name and address, was allowed. to go. ; , ; fs It was too late now to go to the show that he had hitlateh witnessing, but he went to the theater just the same, and door and walked in. #5 “Hello, Hal, how are things?” asked the business manage “All right. Did you hear the bomb explosion a Mie ago on Lenox avenue?” ; “Yes. Somebody tried to blow a barber shop up, I tae t by a man who was around there. Were you over there’ “T was there at the time the explosion happened.” “Were you? Any’ arrest made?” af “Not on the spot, but the two men implicated in the b were arrested later on Third ayenue near One’ Hundred and Fourth street.” “How did the police get them?” alte ; ey “Through me. Pe ‘ Wek “Through yout” suse the DUSENES manager, in, urpris “That's what I said. arrest. They would Have eecsaied but for me.” “Did you sce them set the bomb off?” “No, but I saw enough to convince me and any other Intel ligent person that one of them did.” wh “Let’s hear what you saw,” said the manager, in’ a Nou interest. 2 Ah i Hal told his story, and both the business manager an the — ; assistant treasurer, who was also in the box office, agreed the evidence against the two yoen was as ers warr their arrest. — ; “You are quite an amateur biaarar ice the manager. *Oh, that isn’t a digeumataawe on what I did this ‘morn said Hal. i “What did you do this morning?” asked the ‘busin ager. Hal told about the note written by, Miss Nellie Wes r ported in the afternoon papers as ‘missing from he ‘ho which he recovered from the water after it had been c of the porthole of the steamer Bristol ‘City, on board the girl declared,she was being held a prisoner. “By the lord Harry, Hal, you are: going ‘some,”. business manager. “You are sure to be in) the “= ti About’ haif-past ten.” “The girl should have been rescued long : it 2 | be in the evening d 2
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Pet , Bh “You've got a sporting extra here, haven’t you, Joe?” the business manager asked of the assistant treasurer. “Yes; there it is. The only thing I looked at was the base- ball scores.” ; The business manager pravies it up and turned to the first ; page. “4 Across the top of the paper, above its heading, was the : %, line in big type, reading: Sas “Missing girl found on tramp steamer.” “There you are,” said the business manager, pointing at the line. “Now let’s see if the facts jibe with your story.” > Under the usual scare heading the paper printed all the facts connected with the finding of Miss Nellie Weston. _ Hal’s name was there, as the person directly responsible for her rescue. f What the boy had said was fully verified with additions. It appeared that Ferguson, the young lady’s ardent admirer, ~ was behind the abduction, and that bis purpose had been to ‘take her to England and there force her to marry him. He called at her home that morning and invited her to take | a short walk with him, as he wanted to talk with her before _ he left the city for Chicago, -where he said he was going at ence, as. he had accepted a fine offer from a bank out there. She, however, refused to leave the house, saying that what- ever he had to say could be better said in the parlor. Thereupon heweized her and threw a handkerchief over her face and held it there. "e+ ‘deavored ‘to scream, but her senses left her almost at once.” room on the steamer, with Ferguson waiting for her to come ; LO. rier! , would solemnly promise to go to Hoboken wiih him, give ner | age as cighteen, and marry him. — Spon her refusal he left her, stating that the steamer would a ‘ leave that night, and that as he had represented her as some-' “what deranged, any. fuss she might put up would avail her. ‘nething. A ¢ The young lady did not give in. to despair,. but set about thinking of some way to defeat her abductor’s Dlans. ‘ She wrote the note that led to her rescue, put it in the paste- board box she found in the locker, and then seeing the two | boys on the ape a short distance away, started to attract aah attention, with the results already described. sagt ites Vieston declared that she was deeply grateful to Har ry : lowland for acting so promptly in her behalf, and she ex- pe ted to haye the Sbeeeiaity soon of expressing her senti-. ay ments to him in person : Such was her statentent, as given to the press} and the pa- per said the: ‘police were looking for Ierguson, ahd expected to d him in jail in a few hours. The strange part cf the proceedings was that nobody in the se had secn Miss Weston Carried out, of it by Fergtison, y had any cne in the neighborhood cbserved the’ abduction, : ugh it took place in broad daylight, inference was that Ferguson had a cab waiting outside, e€ could not have taken her away ctherwise. at : police were trying to locate the vehicle which had taken | : ¢ in the kidnaping in order to arrest the driver, who was j qari as a confederate. @ steamer’s second officer, who was on duty at the time ‘Weston was brought to the pier and takon aboard, as| jas the steward, and one or two others connected with | steamer, werd subjected to police examination, and their - guson as mentally unbalanced, and he was conveying her 2. ice a sanitarium to her home in England, > “Well, Hal, you are a hummer,” said the business managor Regs these facts will be republished in the morning papers, ; u must send your father a copy of one of them with the irked, The bomb incident will also be printed and ark that, teo. buy a auontiax: etna and take it homs for my € oe to read, "said Hal. “Heavens, but she tha ca aituan " STOCKS; AND BONDS. ' Se it,” said Hal. Miss Weston said she: struggled to release herself and en! The next thing she knew was finding herself in the state- | Then he told her his plans, but offered to call them off if she | tements showed that the girl had baen represented by ‘Fer-).’ It will give him a now opinion of. ou; have q rand her sec pide as Restiigs ven 5 \ . e _ “No. The latest paper I have seen was a five o’clock edi-}a good-looking chap, I see no Teason why you shquldn’t win tion, and there was-very little that was new about the case.” | the girl and a wad of her father’s dollars in the end.” “Thanks for the suggestion, Mr. Wise. I’ll make a note of ~ ood-night, gentlemen.” Hal bought a sporting extra of a newsboy outside and took {it home with him: | “We heard something that sounded like an explosion soon | after you went out,” said his sister Susie. “Do you know anything about it?” “I know all about it, for I was standing close by when it went off.” ~ “You. don’t mean it. { "A bomb,” “My gracious! Where did it go off?”' “On Lenox avenue, a few blocks from here.” “Did it do much damage?” “Quite a bit, I guess. At any rate, it created a lot of e® citement in the neighborhood.” “T should think it would. I suppose it was another of those outrages we occasionally read about.” | “The two men responsible for it were caught.” hes “I’m glad to hear that. Generally they get away.” hee iF “Those chaps would have got away only for me.” : BN | “Only for you?” i. “Yes,” and then Hal told his sister how he followed the two.” men he had seen at the place where the explosion happened — , until they stopped at a restaurant on Third avenue to eat.. 9 _ when he turned the matter over to the police and they were Y arrested, ' : “What a boy you are, Hal!” eried his ‘sister. “I suppose _ you'll have to appear against them in court?” \ “T have promised to do so, and if I don’t keep my word the- police will be after me, for they have my name and address.” | “Mother won't like to hear that you are mixed up in this : matter.” “Where is she?” ; “She and May went in to see Mrs. Dixon : a vB minutes, ( ; and have been there for more than an hour.” «- “Well, you know I told you all at the supper table about what I-did for the girl who wrote that she was a prisoner | aboa ard the steamer Bristol City.” : oe ‘Yes. ” “And you read what the paper said nhent the missing girl?” “ Yes. ” f “And you were all satisfied that the two. girls were the same?” “Of course. There was no doubt about it. The paper said the girl's name was Nellie Weston, and that her father was a Wall Street broker. The note you picked out of the water. was signed Nellie Weston, and the writer said. her father was - George Weston, of Wall Street.” _ “tere ts the sporting extra, and it clears up everything sath _uceted with the case. Read it.” Susie did so, and she soon came upon her brother's name’ in print. ‘Why, they've got you in it,” she ania, t “Of course. The story wouldn't be complete without me, © — ) seeing: as { blocked the kidnaper’s game by carrying the meg- — , sage to her father.” i Susie read every word, and then rushed across the hall into the Dixon‘ flat to show the paper to her mother. iy When Mrs. Howland and her daughters returned to their — at, Hal was in’ bed. ; What was it?” 3 | CHAPTER IV. 5 (ces HAL Visits THE WESTONS, *“No use of my going downtown this morning, mother,” dade: Halat breaktast, “for I’ve got to be at the police court. at i ten.” ‘ “J suppose not. I am sorry you mixed yourself up in the : "matter. It was the business of the police to catch | those men, not yours.” € “That’s all right, but/the police probably wouldn't have got them if T had not trailed them to the restaurant, id “But it was not your business to trail the “As there wasn’t & policeman around at the: time ihe Spomiy exploded, I think it was my duty eh Prevent the rascals from getting off, scot free,” Bae) , “You will gain nething but x dite FE by it, and following so i soon on the heels of what you did for that. young sede is likely to give you a prominence that I object. to.” ; “Well, it can’t be helped. I think I did the right thins “Your employer will not be jelbhaed to haye | you Report A pat the office.” : 7 ae ‘ 4 5
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Hal made no reply to that, and soon afterward he put on his hat and went out. He was in court at about ten, and had to wait half an hour before the two men were brought to the bar. They pleaded not guilty. The barber whose shop had been partly wrecked was in court. He had previously been called upon to identify the prisoners if he could, but, he couldn’t, for he had never to his knowledge seen them before. ~~ He declared to the police that he knew of no reason why his 4 establishment had been singled out for destruction, though *. on being questioned he admitted that he had been obliged to discharge his previous assistant for good cause, and that the man had told him on leaving’ that he would regret it. Neither of the accused was that man. When Hal was called on to testify at the examination of the men, he told what he had observed about their actions at the scene of the explosion. The most convincing part of his testimony was the package ~ he had seen the tall man pass to the small one as he started » down the steps ostensibly to look for the piece of money which . had rolled down-to the basement door. Neither carried this package away with him as far as he could ‘see, and nothing of the kind was found on them when they were searched in the police station. ~~. The lighting of the match, while the most natural thing in ‘the world when taken in connection with the missing, coin, was also a necessary preliminary to the setting off of a bomb. The flipping of the coin was au excellent blind to cover the real object aimed at, but still as no one had actually seen the . gmall man set\off the bomb, Hal’s testimony could only be ac- --. eepted as circumstantial evidence. Direct ‘proof being lacking, the magistrate decided to hold ' the matter over until the police had made further investiga- d tions. — if ‘He placed bail at $500 each,‘and this being furnished by two friends of the accused, they were allowed to go. ‘Hal then took an elevated train downtown and reached the little bank about noon, where he found that A. & R. had gone up’ to 91. When'the Exchange closed at three it was ruling at 91°3-5.' He reached home at the usual time and found a letter await- A sie him from Broker Weston, inviting him to call at his house on Madison avenue at his earliest convenience. ’ He went around to the nearest drugstore, looked up the / proker’s house telephone number, and .called it up. “Well,” replied a girlish voice. Hal wondered if Nellie Weston was on the wire. “Ig Mr. Weston at home?” he asked, ' "No, He hasn’t come home yet. Who a this?” j _ “Harry Howland. if ““" }%e aeard the girl utter an exclamation. “You are the boy who did such a great peewee for me yes- ‘terday.” i “Are you’ Miss Weston?” . © Yes, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to you. you will call and Jet me,do it !n person.” fh? “T will eall if you really desire/I should.” ti ' “T do desire it very much indeed,” “When I got home a few cainutes ago I found a note front your father asking me to call’as soon as I could. ‘ do so, and I called your house up to find out when it would be . convenient for me to do so.’ . “Any eyening that suits you.” “T can call to-night or to-morrow evening. Which shall it be?” “We will look for you this evening if/ you say so.” “Very well. will be at your house around eight o ‘clock. : ‘But really, Miss Weston, J am not looking: for any thanks for what I did for you. The moment I read your note I recog- “nized my duty and carried it out. I know you feel grateful to me for saving you from what was in store for you, and your acknowledgment of the service is Fons au that I am en- titled to,”’ said Hal, | “You say that very. nicely, Mr. Howland, oe I appreciate -.. your sentiments. It makes me all the more desirous of re- nay ; , beating my thanks to you in person. Then my father and *mother would hardly feel satisfied unless they thanked you, also, in person, so you see you will oblige us tp A “muuch by ealling this evening.” ev, ry well, Miss Weston, iL will de on hand at. sig time 1 _ stated. Good-by.” rang ‘off and returned home. I——— I hope I decided to mlepentable ne told: aie mother and: ee that he® which the stock: rose slowly 6 ; - SPOCKS. AND BONDS. oa 2 SR SEG YE ACPI NEES SS) : was going to call at Broker Weston’s house that evening rien : response to Mr. Weston’s note. “Dear me, I hope you won’t lose your heart to the girl you © have saved, » said his sister May, with a mischievous smile, “What do you care?” replied Hal. ine “We can’t afford to lose you yet, brother dear.” Sy “What are you talking about?’ I’m only eighteen.” a “True, I had forgotten you were too young to cee about matrimony.” Ag “I don’t intend to take up with any girl until I can see my way to support her in the proper way.” “T suppose that Miss Weston, being the daughter of a Wall f Street broker, has everything her heart can wish for.” “T guess she: doesn’t suffer for anything she wants.” “Well, you must let us know ail about her when you come back. She doubtless has many admirers in her own set, and you can hardly expect to compete with them.” ag You're doing all “T haven’t said anything ‘on the Rebae it the talking.” ma “The newspapers say that she is winch above the average in good looks.” % “Tf you girls got into the newspaper limelight the reporters , would say the same thing about you.” eG “That is real complimentary-of you. TI sincerely hope we may neyer get into the newspaper limelight.” AS “J hope you won’t, either, in such a way as Miss Weston sa has. You might not be lucky enough to find’ a rescuer at — your elbow like she did. 1 tell you she was mighty fortunate, ~ for not one Fekete in see would. have taken a boat and. Tape ves Hal pushed back his chair and went to his room to bie for his visit. t He left the house at a quarter past seven, looking his” A maid answered\his ring at the Weston house, and on § ing his name he was shown upstalfs to the family alee room, where he was received by Mr. Weston. ii “Tm glad to make your acquaintance, Howland,” said’ ‘the : broker, shaking him cordially by the hand. “You have ren dered us a great service, and we’cannot thank you enough.’ “You are welcome, sir,”. said Hal. i In a few minutes Mrs. Weston came into the room, au pressed the pleasure she felt in mecting the young mat whom they were all so much indebted. Then Miss Nellie herself made her appearance looking charming in a handsome house gown that fitted her’ t¢ fection. d Her father presented Hal to her. She was a pretty girl beyond a doubt, atid ‘the Wali Sivect. boy was’ much impressed. “T suppose vou don’t recognize me, for you saw me at distance,” said Hal. t “Well, I don’t know. Your fees looks a ‘bit familiar me,” she smiled. ’ “Pm the boy, anyway.” “There’s no doubt about that, I guess,” she said, with an other smile. “I’m awfully glad to meet you.” “And I’m glad to meet you.” “T am now able to thank you in person.” “J regard it as a privilege to have been called upon you the service in question, so I guess we’re even, aren't. Pee : “Oh, dear no, how could we be? You saved me from b 1g carried across the ocean to Hngland by that detestable me Over there he would have had me fully in his power, thoug I don’t believe I would have consented to marry him undey any circumstances. I assure you that my gratitude to you is boundless.” bs “All right, Miss wedi IT accept your gratitude as ment in full for services rendered,” said Hal. The conversation then became general, and Hal pleasant time till ten, when he got up and said Bs gu it was time for him to go. He received a cordial invitation to call again at an early” date, and, promising that he would, he took. his TORRE: Han to rende CHAPT R V. ; ; f HAL AND THE GIRL WHO FURNISHED HIM WITH A . The police failed to find Ferguson, the abductor, conclusion they reached was that he had gone out o. The authorities of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, an places wére asked to look out for him and. Hal was at the little bank next morning at t he put in most of his time Cue Test a ce week, ' = ts;
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STOCKS AND BONDS. He handed his mother his usual contribution to the house when he got home on Saturday, and she entertained no sus- ‘picion that he was not still working for Broker Green. On Monday, A. & R. began to attract notice, and the specu- lative brokers dealt in it to some extent, The price fluctuated, but the trend was upward, and it closed two points above the opening figure. Next day it went to par and the outside speculators got - in on the game and bought to the extent of their capital. On Wednesday it ran up to 105, and Thursday it boomed to 115, » That was risk enough for Hal and he sold pit: dlenting a © eke. of $2,500, which was more than he had calculated to Thake . Next day a bear clique jumped on the stock and it tumbled ees ‘back to) par, causing a pani¢ among the lambs who were long on it at the time. ee A few days later he met Bessie Burton, Broker: Green’s stenographer, on the way to her lunch. “Why, Hal, how came ret to leave the office so suddenly?” she asked. .. “Thad a run-in with ne boss and. quit.” Ee “That was .too: bad. - -awfully sorry, for we were such good friends, you know.” _ “I hope we are still, Bessie, even if I am out of the office.” “Of course we are. Have you got another position?” “No... Don’t want any.” ‘ _ “Why not?” she asked, opening her eyes. “Because I am doing better as my own boss.” “Are you in business for yourself?” “Tf' you call speculating in the market a business, TL ata? “But you: did some speculating while you were in the office, ; that is on the quiet, and you were pretty successful.” - “I am more successful now, for I ean give all my time to any deal I have on the hooks, I made $2,500 since I quit | Greer.” , gens ‘much as that?” . “Yes, as much as that.” * “Do you kildéw I’d like to speculate, too.” “You would? Have you got the bug?” “Pmiafraid I have,” she replied, laughingly. “I got hold ‘of a tip this morning, but as all my time is engaged at the office, I don’t see how I can make use of it.” ' “Hand it over to me and I’ll make use of it if it’s any. good } and give you ten per cent of what I win if/I’m so lucky.” M¥' do it. How much stock can you buy on margin?” “a mean by plunging—going the whole hog, make or! - break?” ; “Yes, Pi te. “Three hundred and ‘seventy shares.”, * -“J've got $1,600 in the savings bank. If I get you $1,300 of it ‘you could buy 500 shares.” . “Surest thing you know, Bessie. If you do that I promise ‘to. put. the deal through, and if we win I’ll hand you all you make on the 130 shares and ten per cent. of what I make on my 370. That's fair, isn’t it?” yk certainly is; but the tip is worth whatever it costs you,” said Bessie, who was out after all she could make, “tm glad to hear it. Let’s hear all about it.” Bessic. told him that that morning Broker Green had been C} ngaged by a syndicate to buy every share of D. & L. he could pick up on the quiet, that is, outside of the Exchange. * He was furnished with a list of brokers to cail on. pI, other brokers, had been taken om for a similar pur- cand they bad been supplied with similar lists embracing lifferent brokers. / None of the three were to cajl on any broker not on his . stock is now valine at 80,” said Bessie, “and the syn- expects to send it up to 100 or over. The combine has: ots of money. The gentleman who made arrangements, with ; es bought were to be delivered C. 0. D. at that bank, which was acting as treasurer, advancing seventy per cent, of > market | value on the shares-as fast as they came in.” as satisfied the tip was a good thing, and asked Bes- n she would let him have the $1,300. eet me in half an hour at the entrance of our office buila- y nd I will give it to you,” she said. ~ ‘i TH be. there,” said Hal, and he Hastened to his When I heard you’ were gone I felt! la bit angrily. ‘the way to lunch and let her know what awas the trouble, ‘naped broker’s daughter, and also the bomb outrage, and she vyont down to. the Seoman’s Bank and. arew the | 7 As she passed the money to him, Broker Green came out of the door and saw them both. He was greatly surprised to see his stenographer hand his: late messenger a small roll of bills, but did not dream that the sum amounted to much. Nevertheless, he was suspicious as to the transaction, and his new office boy approaching at that moment, he called him, and pointing Hal-out, told him to fellow him and see where he went. When Hal parted from Bessie he went straight to the little ‘bank and bought 500 shares of D. & L, on margin at 80. Green’s boy did not follow him into the little bank, as he had not been told to do so, and so did not find out what he did inside. Later he reported to Green. That satisfied the broker that Hal-was speculating, ‘and that he had persuaded his stenographer to lend him some money to” help him out. He called the girl into his office before he went home, and said: ‘ _ ‘Have you seen owland lately?”.: “Yes, sir; I saw him this afternoon when I went to hinch,*- “Did he tell you what he was tanee. “Xe “ Yes, ” q “What is he doing?” ide “I'd rather. not say, sir,.as its was told to me in confidence.” “Hum! Well, it has been reported to me ihat he-is specu ; | tating at the little bank on Nassau street.” Bessie made. no reply. : “It was also reported to me that you loaned him some °° money.” ; "7 “No, sir, I did not,” she replied. “My intormant saw you hand him a roll of pills, a “Yd like to know who your aniformant was,” said. the bitte spiritedly. “No matter, Wha&tever he says is te be relied on. Yow abe ffowland some mnoney around one o’clodlk to ‘day, didn’t you?” - “As it’s. nobody’s business but my. own, I decline to’ say whether [I did or not,” said Bessie, with a flush. “Very well. I won’t press the question. I merely wish to warn you against loaning that boy any money. He is bound to lose it in a bucket-shop, and then he will be unable to pay you back—at least, for some time. Thats all, Miss Button.” Bessie got up and returned to her. den in the couniing-room, “T should like to know who saw me let Hal. have that money, and then reported the fact to Mr. Green,” she thought, “Maybe it was our new boy. I do not fancy” him much, for he looks like a sneak. J suppose Mr. Green thought I loaned Hal $10 or so. There would be something doing if he knew I passed him $1,300 of my money to put upon D. & L. He would know then I had heard something , not intended for my ears, and he would read me the riot act. Well, I ought to double that money oy the tip, and with ten per cent. of what Hal makes on his $3,700, I won’t eare Much what happens. Iam a first-class stenographer and typist, and can always get a 00d position if IJ should lose this one. Any- way, with $3,000 in my pocket I-could afford to take a vacation for a while. In fact, I might carry out my ambition of open- ing up as a public stenographer. I could get plenty of work | by looking for it, and by hiring two or three girls to do it, I could do a land office business and make a jot more money ~~ than Mr. Green pays me.” Bessie gave her head an independent toss and went on with aa \ her work. She was an independent little lady just eighteen, an orphan, ; with no one to rely. upon but herself, Wyods She had a room at the Young Women’s Christian Associa+ ‘es ita ‘in Harlem, and got her meals wherever the whim ‘suited er. She had been working for Broker Green just’ one year, and during that time she had picked up a whole lot me Wall Street. experience. ates She and Hal were chums to a certain extent, Sat she nithaea Pa him greatly when he suddenly disappeared from the office, 4 5 She wondered that he didn’t come around and waylay her on wr she felt almost angry with him because ‘he didn’t: Pe if She saw his name in the paper in connection with the. kid: ie wondered if these matters were engrossing his attention. e did not know that he was busy watching a stock deal in which he had.most of his funds invested. Neither did she know that Hal had made | aA sounié ime) tempts to meet her, and had fatied for one reason or anothe When she did meet him, as we have scen, her, Praia,
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8 STOCKS AND BONDS. full of the tip she had captured to haul him over the coals, and now that she had gone into a sort of partnership with him / in the D. & L. speculation, ‘she let the matter go by default. | He had oramiteed to meet her every day after that in order to keep her in touch with the deal, and she was satisfied with | that arrangement. CHAPTER VI. ‘ A GIRL WITH A BUSINESS HEAD. A 500-share deal, involving a deposit of $5,000, was an ex- ceptional transaction at the little bank, which had the repu- tation of being a bucket-shop, though the proprietors repu- diated the insinuation, as most of the customers were people | who were financially unable to go higher than fifty or a hun-} dred shares at a time. Consequently, when Hal put in his order for that amount of | D. & L., the margin clerk regarded him with some interest. “You're getting to be some speculator, Howland,” he said. “Oh, this is just a flyer,” grinned Hal. “A flyer! fice?” “What office do you refer to?” ‘ “Why, Green’s, where you work.” \ “T’m not working for Green any longer.” * “Aren't you? When did you quit?” “The day I saved the daughter of Broker Weston frdm go- ing to Hurope against her will.” “{ forgot about that distinguished hm I begin to See | t&e hole in the millstone.” “What hole, and what millstone are you talking about?” “T begin to understand where’ this sudden wealth of yours has come from.” “You've got a great head, Higgins, only it is not properly } furnished. Your gray matter is not working along the right lines. If you deduce from the fact that I did Broker Weston’s ‘daughter a great service that her father has contributed royally to my exchequer, | you are as much mistaken as if you Had lost ‘your shirt.” _*T don’t know where.else you could have picked up $5,000.” | _ “Ts your memory so short that you don’t- remember I won| $2,500 on my A. & R. deal a day or two ago? You yourself handed me a check for $3,500 odd, which included my de- posit.” “That’s true enough, but $3,500 isn’t $5, 000.” “Tt’s within $1,500 of it, and don’t you suppose that I had some change left over when I went into that deal?” Eas thought you put up all of your money.” “Well, thought is a very unreliable thing to bank on. Where’s my memorandum?” ' “There it is. I hope I shall have the pleasure of returning you your $5,000 with a surplus.” “7 hope you will,” said Hal, who then walked away. On the following day at half-past twelve, Hal met Bessie! -. according to their arrangement in front of the Sub-treasury Y » ployer.” ru take the other half.” . Building. “Well, Bessie, I’ve made the deal. Here is the memorandum. ‘If there is any slip-up about it, we stand to lose our money,” said Hal. \ “I don’t think there will be any slip in our coming out | ahead,” she said. “You Bay the syndicate is figuring on pushing it up to par?” Yes.” “Tf it should go that high, and I should hold on to that point, we will win $10,000 between us.” “That would be fine,” she said, her eyes sparkling. “Tt surely would. Your share, including ten per cent. of | my winnings, would amotnt to, over $3,000. At your present wages of $15 you wouldn't earn that much in four years.” “Tf I make $3,000, or even $2,000, out of this speculation, I shall resign my position right away.” “What for? “Fifteen plunks. 8 a week are not to be sneezed at.” : \ “JT think I ean do much better by starting out asa public | stenographer. It has always been my ambition to. go into | business for myself and thus be independent of any one em-| eB George, Bessie, there are no mosquitoes on you. That’s “my idea, too. As soon as.I make money enough Ty open an office for myself.” “Let us open an office ogether. You ‘take halt a room and . “Not.a bad idea. But, 1 say, what’s the. matter with our oing into mer hnorening Hemece . aes as Fes and rs | Have you been robbing the safe over at your of-; on the door in big letters, and at the bottom, in small ietters, Miss Burton, public stenographer.” “I'll consider your suggestion, but if I accept your propo- sition, the sign must be different. It must be Howland & Co,, Stocks and Bonds, with my name at the bottom.” “All right. Any way you'say. But we mustn’t count our chickens before they are hatched. Everything depends on how we come out on our combined deal.” “Of course; bub I guess we’ll come out all right.” “T think we'd make a bang-up firm, for we’re both ambitious | to get ahead and make money. You think more of business | than you do of putting on frills. The frills will come later after we are established. It will be something new and out. of the common for Wall Street to have a boy and a girl broker- age firm. Heavens, if the newspaper fellows heard about it there’d be a half-column story with our pictures in all the — dailies, and half of the brokers in the Street would invent some excuse to call in order to see the fair member of the firm,” grinned Hal. ! “That wouldn't do at all,” said Bessie. enough to want to-have them calling on me except on business. That’s one reason why the firm would haye to be Howland & Co. As the Co., I could remain in the background. The other reason is that as my name would have to go on the door as a public stenographer, it wouldn’t do to have it up as a pantene in the brokerage end.” “T guess you’re right about that. = “Well, I must go to lunch now. think I’ve taken more time than I’m entitled to.” “That's right. Good-by. I'll see you to-morrow at the same i time and place.” They met regularly every day after that, and D. & L., after a Buon of five | 88. | That figure was reached ten days later, and then it ines’ z : in one afternoon to 95. Ae | Brokers and the lambs, too, believing another boom was, got busy buying. ; held on to see how high the price would go. lot of small speculators out of a week’s growth. xe The small fry hastened to sell. f } vanced again. | Then those who had sold at a small profit, or no profit at-all, | began kicking themselves, and most of them Bouene agai the strength of what was coming to them. : This enlarged the brokers’ commissions. » | Whichever way things went in the market espe gentlemen managed to get their pound of flesh. | With business piling in on them the brokers were exeoed: |ingly jolly. | After the exchanges closed they hied themselves to the. baseball games, leaving the routine work to their clerks. : Those who didn’t go to the Bemeh enjoyed themselves other: wise. \ As Hal’s business day was over at three, with the olésing of | the exchanges, he sometimes went to a game, too, | While the former sold again at a small advance, phe! latter ‘ Mg On the following day the stock dropped to 92, and seared a While their brokers were executing their orders one price ad ee “T don’t like men Se, I'm afraid the cashier will points, began going up steadily till it ‘reached a |. The deal appeared to be breaking his and Bessie’s way, and be he was as happy as any of the brokers. His mother and sisters, as well as. his Harlem » ‘Goi ak ' ances, supposed he was still working for Green, and he did inot let on to the contrary. | One of these days he hoped to be ible to give his folks” } surprise of their lives. When D. & L. got up to 98 he began to consider the ad | visability of selling out. “T think I’d better get out from under,” he told Bessie th | day. “It isn’t safe to hang on for the last dollar. is up to 98 now, and it may never go to par. At.any moment 'it may go to. pieces, and all our profit would be lost to Us. | At this moment we stand to win $18 a share.” . | “How much will I make if you sell now?” she said. ‘age | He figured it out in his head. eet ““ANiowing for commission and interest charges, I should | say a little less than $3,000, which includes your od per cent eed on'my winnings.” “Sell out, then,” said Bessie, promptly. “fy “All right, pard. Sell it is. I’) hustle back to th _ bank, put in my order and then go to Aunch with an eas science.” When he got back pe the up to 98 28. He ordered his: stock sold. , ae ‘bank he anal ‘that D. & EL The stock’
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STOCKS AND BONDS. ; 9 He hung around the room for fifteen or twenty. ‘minutes, dur- | go up on Nassau street, to a second- hand office firnishiie ing which the price went up another eighth, and then satisfied establishment, and pick out our furniture. We each need a- that he and Bessie were out of the game, he went to lunch. roll-top desk, though maybe a flat, table with drawers would On the second morning following the bank settled with him, suit you better to put your typewriter on.” : Bessie’s profit on her 130 shares was $2,340, ‘with a rake-off; “Yes, I would prefer that,” she said. of $667 on Hal’s profit of $6,670. ; “Half a dozen chairs would answer for ‘both rooms. “That gave her $3,000. | T’ll need a small letter file cabinet, and a safe that we both - a When he met her that noon he handed her that sum, plus‘ can use. Also each office must have a rug, and I shall have _ her deposit of $1,300. j to stretch a wooden railing across my room, with a gate in it, “Now I’m worth $4,500,” she said. » to keep strangers at a distance. Then the walls should have a _ “And I’m worth close on to $10,000,” he said. “How about few pictures to relieve their bareness. I must arrange for that partnership?” , ticker service, too. A telephone goes with the larger room, 'and when you want to use it all you have to do is to step in “T’m on,” said Bessie. \ “Good. Is it an even proposition of $4,000 each?”. jane help yourself,” said Hal. . . “We must talk it over first. I don’t intend to commit my-| They reached one of the stores that dealt in second-hand self till I know just where I am. To-morrow is Saturday. | office supplies, and picked out the desk, the table andthe let- We'll ‘meet here at one o’clock and I'll let you treat me to a ter file cabinet. ; nice lunch. While we are eating we will go into all the par- Hal paid for them and ‘ordered them delivered on Monday ticulars, so come prepared with facts and figures.” afternoon, “You're business from your shoes up, aren’t you? You are, The rugs and other articles were purchased elsewhere. the right kind of partner to have. I'll look around for an Hal saw Bessie to her abiding place and then went home. — office this afternoon; for I guess we’ll double up all right. You! On Monday morning he called on the agent, paid the rest of - woulan’t lose the chance of going in: with an enterprising the first month’s rent and got his lease. young fellow like me for a minute, and I couldn’t duplicate! Then he went to a Broad street stationer’s, bought such. you in all Wall Street.” {books as he and Bessie would require, and ordered the neces- viFZ know, ” she smiled. “I like you a whole lot, Hal, but,’ sary printing, which included 500 business cards for Bessie nevertheless, business is business, It Asn’t as if we were and as many for the firm. going to get married, you know.” After that he went over to the Curb Exchange. Then she walked off. Here he noticed that a certain industrial stock was rising, “She's a hummer, all right,” said Hal, cbbing after her. | Bepeole gave an order to a broker to buy him 100 shares on margin ; ( ~ The broker sent his young man with bim to get the $1,000 { Ly. ; CHAPTER VII. : deposit. \ gE NEW FIRM. Hal kept. his money in a safe deposit pox, the rent of which Hal isk Bessie according to appointment at one o'clock | V8 only 35 a year, and -whers 1} “was perkactly safe—even than in a bank. next day aud took her to a restaurant on Broadway. { jee RO : ‘Bessie, although only: moderately pretty, was chic and viva-' This deal was a private one of his own, for the firm would oat, qe, jnot go in business operation until the foliowing Monday, ‘cious in her way, with a swell little figure, and attracted as 3 * much notice'as though she were much Totkos looking. ; though the partnership agreement was already in foree. - While waiting to be Beryets Hal presented his plan of co-! eatne erie, ga.b00 laeaeea to cone te the broker advanciag "partnership. Hal returned to the Curb and watched the stock in half- Hach was to put in $4,000, making the capital of the firm past twelve, by which time it had gone up a point. Ma 000. Then h t to lunch. - > They were to doa general speculative business in the market, | Sea es eae ; with Hal as the manager of that department, and conduct a Pies Baty ROP RAED He ORR Te Ta Sr espe a public stenographer’s business under Bessie’s supervision. | a7 Hal was also to try and build up a brokerage business. to | He then went to the firm’s office and waited till the furniture supersede speculation, which was always dangerous, but was-|20d furnishings arrived. necessary at the start in order to pay their running ——- Part of them came at two. and give them a profit. The railing, with a man to put it in place, got there at three, The partnership was to run for one year, subject to renewal! 2nd while he was working on it the safe was delivered and | by mutual consent, and each was to draw $15 per week out of | Placed where Hal wanted it. . the common fund. ; The furnishing of the rooms. was completed. by four, by In case financial disaster overtook the firm through a specu-! Which time a si painter appeared and Placed on one of the lation by which they were cleaned out, Hal, who would have! f doors, “Howlan | & Co., Stocks and Bonds,” and on the other, over $5,000 at his back to fall back on, engaged to keep the “Miss Burton, Public Stenographer. Office Hours, 9 to 5. office going and gee to it that Bessie got her $15 each week, | As Hal stood contemplating the firm's sign after the painter whether she made it out of her end of the business or not. ; had gone away, a messenger he knew came up to him. Bessie agreed to the arrangement, and after lunch Hal got “Hello, Hal. 1 didn't know you had a relative in the two partnership blanks and filled them out according to the | brokerage business,” said the messenger. ~ above plan, and they signed them in duplicate, I didn’t know it, either. fe) ~~ He then took the girl around to an office building in Wall! “Who is this Howland, then?” and the speaker pointed at the Street and ¢alled on the janitor to show her the office he had door. i previously inspected. “That Howland is myself.” -** It consisted of two connecting rooms, each having a door! “Yourself! Get out! What are you giving me?” | -4@Sa ning on the main corridor. “You asked me a question and I answered it.” o “This will be an improvement over what we have figured! “Why didn’t you answer it straight?” of on,” said Hal. “You can have a room to yourself and put| “I did. This is my office.” ; your name on the door, The firm will have the other room! “Your office! Why, you're working for Green.” as with its name on the door. Then there will appear to be no} “I hayen’t been in his office for thrée weeks.” PSs connection between the two businesses,” “Have you left?” “ha | “That's fine,” said Bessie; “but what is the rent?” | -“T have, and I am opening up for myself now.” GS Leg: vey “Pretty steep for a small firm just starting out, put. it’s’ “Oh, say, don’t give me such a steer as that. How could om “worth it, I guess,” he said, mentioning the rent, i you go into the brokerage business?” 4 -“Tt’s more than I think we ought to pay,” she said. | “It’s a free country, isn’t it? I have the right to go into = “One successful deal by the firm ought to fix that all right. any honest business I choose.” Tm in favor of taking the suite.” ! “But you don’t know anything about the brokerage busi- . Bessie hesitated, but finally gave in to Hal, and the rooms ness.” Re were rented, Hal paying a deposit on account until he could} “How do you know that I don’ sy cid rey gee the agent of the building on Monday and settle with him' “It stands to reason that you don’t. You've ton been a mes: ¥ A about the lease. : ,senger like myself, and you Aone suppose I'd have the ‘nerve “711 have to give Mr. Green one week's notice,” said Bessie, to say I was a broker.” ay oe as they walked over to the elevator, — “Well, there’s my sign. Make what you like out of it” “Of course. It may take several days for me to furnish The messenger, whose name was Brown, opensd ‘the door Wr 16 rooms up and ae aie ready for, eps ast esd will now and looked in. i
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U0 es STOCKS AND BONDS. He saw nobody there and no sign of business. Ge this is really your office?” he said, doubtfully. eg.” “Who's your partner?” “That's one of my business secrets.” “We’s putting up the money, I suppose?” “We each putin an equal amount.” “J didn’t know you had money in the background.” “You aren’t the only one that doesn’t know it.” “But it takes a lot of money to run a brokerage office.” . “Tt won't take so much to run this one for the present.” “Where do you expect to get your business from?” “T haven't any idea on the subject at this moment.” penses.” *{'m not worrying about the rent and my other expenses.” Brown seratched his chin and finally gave the matter up. parved at the door, As it was near five then, Hal waited for Bessie to come out of the building where she was putting in her last week, “You didn’t meet me at the Sub-treasury to-day,” she malt “No, I was busy. The office is all fitted up. Come and see at,” said Efal, »“Yes. Everything came. to-day “anid is in place.” /“T thought the office wouldn't be ready for two or three days. i pou. ‘I expéct that will be delivered to-morrow.” *“Do you want my four thousand to-morrow?” expect, to do any business before you ‘re on the job. Did you give Green notice that you were going to quit him?” {Nes Te was taken by surprise, and wanted to know why “What did you tell him?” _ ' *T-told hint I had the chance to open up.as a public stenog- rapher, and I was going to avail myself of it.” cgming your own boss?” grinned Hal. “Ho did. not. He told me hé thought I was acting foolishly. | When I said that I didn’t think so, he of ilered me $2 a 1 “You've got to do business to pay your rent and other ex- iS iere Hal. locked up, and they went downstairs., together and She appeared at five minutes after the hour. “owhat, already?” “iiverything is ready except the typewriter I ordered for “No. You needn't turn that in until next Monday. ‘I don’t I was leaving. “T suppose he congratulated you on the eS aria of be- to remain.” “Well?” said’ Hal. - . “T refused it’and told him to get another sirl, as i was sure- ly going to leave on Saturday;” .“So the matter) is. settled?” “Of, course.” By this time they had raaatiga the Burling Building, where - the office was, and they took the elevator up to the sixth floor. Bessie was pleased with the look of the rooms, though her _-offiee bad little im it besides the. rug, her table and three chairs. . “Tt you want anything else in here I will get it for you,” said - iter. “Nothing fee at present. o Et l B Until i get more work than e nicely,” she said. ae ter staying a, page time they left for their homes. ,; f yf CHAPTER VIII. THE LADY WITH THE HRI “BONDS. Hal followed his private deal iill Friday, by which time it was up to-45 and a fraction, then he sold out and added $500 ‘to his capital. On Monday morning Bessie appeared at her office at halt- past ning She found Hal sireddy on hand reading a Wall Street daily. “ft guess I’d better run down to the bank where I left $4,000 of my money on: temporary deposit, and fetch it here,” she ‘said. “Yes. I have $4,000 of my money in the safe, less what I have expended for rent, furnishing, and petty expenses, I have everything entered in our cash-book and ledger, and 3 we'll go over it together when you get back.” [Inside of twenty minutes Bessie returned) with: the money ef and handed it to! Hal. me STG: was all in $100 bills. : They went over the entries Hal had made in the books, and OF Bessie. had no- objection to make to any of them, © | find your package of business cards on your desk, » mie shave ie some Canvassing in your interest, : ‘time ago.” - o@anSbandle myself and have to hire a girl, this will do very |- -be the owner of the securities was in his office and wante to .ago,” said Hal. away oo ie the acta oft my HpnGet. | A and here is a list of half a dozen people in this building who. do not employ stenographers, but who hire a girl from a pub- ? lic stenegrapher’s down the street to come in at stated times to take dictation. The girl types it at her office, and her boss sends it back by his errand boy. The gentlemen said they would much prefer to have somebody in the building do their work, and were glad to hear that the opportunity was about to present itself! You will call on each of them and make . whatever arrangements that pays you.” ; “You're a good boy, Hal. I will call-on them right away. It. I get them all, their work should keep me fairly busy to: start with,” said Bessie. <4 She went out and Hal returned to the perusal of a financial weekly, He occasionally took a look over his ticker to gueeete how — the market was going that morning. There was nothing special on the tapis, so he gave miost of © his attention to his papers. Ny by door epened and a smartly-dressed, handsome lady ‘aut tere i Hal got up and offered his visitor a chair. Then he inquired what he could do for her, “T want lo see a member of the firm,”/she said. “My name is Howland,” said Hal. “Dear me, you lock awfully young for a eee: you were one of the clerks,” she said. ‘ “No, ma’am. I am the head of the firm.” “Well, well, T never would have thought it. Drummond—Mrs. Drummond. fs Hal nodded. “Do you buy. bonds?” i “We buy bonds on order,’ and sell them in the same ene “T am going to leave the city in the morning on an extended 4 visit, and I’ve brought down some Erie Railroad bonds I’ like to dispose of.. Could you ‘sell them for me right away?” Let me see the bonds, ma'am,” The lady opened her bag, took outa package and handed it. es to Hal. Opening it, Hal found ae first mortgage bonds worth and a fraction each. - “You, want, me to sell these?” he asked, | “Ves. As the amount is’ only small, I inn benneh fine y tL might buy them yourself at a price that would pay Bie eis Ny. a save me the trouble of coming back.” a Hal could easily have done so, but though he saw that. ne bonds were good, he felt a suspicion concerning the lat ieee, Jay He could not say just why he entertained this f against her, but he did, and his natural caution warned hita to go slow. Reig een “Are these your own donde: ma’am?” he said. “Certainly. My brother made me a'present of them some = ise ra 4 Hal made a note of their numbers. i % “A gentleman on the fioor was speaking about asia ‘tee Erie bonds a while ago. If you don’t mind waiting ~ Ti se if T-ean ‘sell these to “him,” said the boy, with a’ purpose ‘in view, - <5 “Very well. I’ wait. It coir saye me a lot of bother. if could sell them right away,” she said. ; Hal tuok his memorandum of the numbers of the bonds, and going into one of the offices on,that floor, asked pertaission to use the telephone, saying that his was out of order. He could not use his own telephone without the lady hear ing what he said, and he did not care that she should. © — He was accorded the privilege, and he immediately called 1 the’ executive office of the Erie Railroad and. made: ingair as to the bonds. 4 He gave the numbers, and stated that a lady claimi A sell them. ane “She gave her pame as Mrs. Drummond,” ’ said Hal. a In a few minutes he was informed that. the books showed that Mrs, Kate Drummond was the owner of the bonds in question, and had owned them from the time they were 4 ei ten years since. ie _ “She said her brother made. hes a present of them some ime “Jt is‘safe for me to buy them, then?” “Well, hardly. ‘We have just received word from “Mrs. Drummond that the ponds ‘were stolen from her house w other property during the night. You Had better notify ~olice and have the party who offered them to you aries | “Hadn't you better send somebody over to my aes aM
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ae STOCKS AND . BONDS. aes eas bet RE "ig Hal ave the information, and was told that a clerk would ~ be right over. He returned to his office and found that Bessie had returned with a batch of work. _ “Have you sold the bonds?” said the visitor. is “No, ma’am, but I guess there will be no difficulty about |, ee that as soon as the gentleman comes in. He is expected any ‘minute, and IJ left word for him to come in here.” E “But I am in a great hurry,” said the lady. “If you think you have a customer for them, why not buy them yourself and sellthem to him? They are worth $104.25, I will sell them to you for 103, that price to include your commission.” ~ “JT would take them if you could wait till i sent to the bank for the money.” “Would that take long?” Perhaps fifteen minutes.” Bet cael Welt” _“Very well.” Hal went into the next room and told fs facts of the case Stor Bessie. “I've got to hold the lady somehow till. the clerk from the ‘Erie office gets here,” he said. “I've agreed to, take them if she would wait till I sent: out for the money. That is only a bluff to gain time. -Just run out and stay about fifteen min- utes, and she’ll ‘think you have gone for the money. If you ‘meet a policeman on the street bring him back with you, but et him out in the hall till you notify me that. he is on ce got up; put on her hat and left her office by way of al’'s door so that the visitor would see her go out and think ee going to a bank to get the money. He began talking about Wall Stréet to the lady to fill in the time, and she pretended to be interested, but as a matter of fact the boy could see that she chafed at the delay, and was anxious to get away. 3 Fifteen minutes passed, ten, the door opened and two men ie appeared. “vanced to the rafiing. hae Hal went over to meet him. i “Tam from the Erie Railroad,” said the man. -,.. "Come in,” said Hal. “ifere are the bonds this lady wants to dispose of.” * “Those are your bonds, madam, and your name is Drum- ond?” said the Hri ie man to, Hal's * “cusiemer. e ae ec ‘and when did, ‘you buy them?” © } “not buy’ Tigi. My brother gave them to me some me-ugo.”” “How . long ago? Three tite. six months or a year?” “our or five months ago.” Isn’t it a fact that you were sent here to sell these bonds omebody else?” said the Erie man, sharply. p e jay looked startled and be opgcea but declared such was GY feet. 4 <4 you positively assert that these bonds are your prop- yy, and: "that your name is Dr umpsond ?” , Certainly td.” ‘T am sorry, madam, but. THA Brie Office was notified an eur ago that these ten bonds hed been stolen from Mrs. Drummond. How do you account for thet?” not true that they were hair I've had them ail ie,” said the lady. : : i here do you live?” lady gave an address. an compared it with a slip of paper in his hand. nt H nd. that we have om our books. Tm afraid you are not the 3 represent yourself to be. As the bonds have been sd stolen, I shall have to order. your aoe on suspicion, e an investiga jon? | i ; he ee uttered a subdued shriek and feinted. _ Bessie came in at that moment, and Hal told her to try iene the visitor. Jisne a himself got a glass of! water and sprinkled hey face uid. hysterics. fons honestly by the, bonds, and had the right to afin decided to “ave her down to the office of the d have the matter locked into” there. : have fee ‘amie one of whom was a Se- adam, you haye not given the right address of Mrs. Drim- | ihe said. j ‘it will not do for me to be identified in its purchase. As you ° ‘ | between us. .I will ‘collect it in the usual. way and pay halt was soon brought to ‘her senses, "seed! timedtetety went |the amount ti you.” e. had peen Gnteted down by Bessie, she insisted | bread.” words on it which he. signed. | they could: find wa told to eine. ce Shey eret Service daisies! take the lady away, as it was not pleas- ant to have a commotion in one’s office. _ After she was gone he told Bessie all he knew about the af » fair, and she said he had done the right thing to call the at- tention of the railroad cffice to the transaction. : By that time it was lunch hour, and Hal’ went cut, is ee /his partner to go on with her work, CHAPTER IX; HOWLAND & CO,’S FIRST ORDER. n During the next two weeks all the money earned by the ae was what Bessie collected and turned in for the work she did. Hal did nothing more strenuous than read the Wall Street papers and stroll around looking. for information that didn’t pan. out. One day Hal met Broker Weston on the street. : “Hello, Howland,” said the broker, “why don’t you drop im “, at my office some time? -I’ll be pleased to see you at any time.” “Thank you, I will. Call and see me at my office, Here is ie my card,” and the boy handed him one. be “Why are you in the brokerage pains ake said Weston, in ~~ surprise, “{’'m trying to work up a business.” “{ thonght you told me: you were working for Broker Green?” “T told you I had been working for him, ‘I left him = day I helped your daughter out of her trouble.” *And you've been in business for yourself since?” “Part of the time since. I've only been in business two weeks.” “You have a Partner, I see.” : BS ‘gy “Yes, sir.” a a “Ts he a regular broker?” : “No, sir. My partner has worked in a brokerage office, of them sat down near the door, while the other ad- that’s all.” yee “Are you doing any business?” if) “Some, but not enough to pay our expenses. ‘yet. PLR ky game “Have you capital enough to carry you. alongs until. you ‘Se- Bet. eure/enough business to make your office pay?” seal SS “Yes, sir. And there is more we can: call on if it should prove insufficient.” “Well, I hepe you will get on, Howland, You have my very best wishes. If I can be of any service to you, let me know,” “Tt will, Thank you for the offer,”.. “T should like to square the ‘obligation T owe you,” “Oh, never mind that obligation, It is always a pleasure to —~ render a service.” “But I do mind it. Don’t fail to let me know in case I can” serve you.or your firm. I will do it with pleasure.” . The broker said good-by and wettt, into the Exchange. ; Two days afterward, while Hal was Bitting, at his desk, read- ing the Wall Street News, and wonder when something would turn up*in his line, the door opener a Broker Weston cane in. “How .do you do, Mr. Weston, : * Come. right in,”. said Hal, jumping up. | The broker walked in at the gate, and through the open ; connecting door he saw Bessie working away at a lively: Sf on her machine. } He. naturally concluded that she was, Howland & Co.’ stenographer, and he presumed that the other room was the~’ — firm’s ccuniing-room, vee Weston took the seat next to the hoy’s Aas and Hal. offered f @e ‘him a cigar, which he accepted and lighted up. “I haye come to put a as ts business in your way, Howland,” “Glad to hear it, sir. What can we do for you?” said Hal. “ “J have a large order for a certain stock; and for reasons are presumedly unknown among the trade aqehe 13 it ade me that you might be able to get the stock for me.” “fT guess I can do that all right,” said Hal. ; “Tn a case of this Kind, the commission would be. ai “That wiil suit us all right. Half a loaf is. better than no It authorized Howland & Co. to buy eeory shaie of C.
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12 STOCKS AND BONDS. “The stock is going at 75,” said Weston. “You must buy | as close as you can, but I will give you a point leeway of the | market. You can give 76 if you have to, If the price rises, your limit will be a point ahead of the last quetation.. Do you { understand?” “Yes, sir.” ; “There are eighty or ninety thousand shares on the market, | but, of course, you can't expect to get more than fifty per cent. | of that quantity, if you get that. The rest, as far as it can be} reached, will have to be picked up on the Hxchange. Here is a list of the brokers who are known or presumed to have , some of the stock on hand. Call on them first, and be careful | not to let them suspect that you are buying much of it. After | you have exhausted the list, start in and work the other Wall Street offices, and then the Exchange Place ones. Report to me daily, Have all the stock delivered ©.0.D. at Taylor &| Co., the bankers. Write on one of your pads, ‘This is my sig- nature,’ and sign it, and I will hand it to Taylor & Co’s cashier.” s Hal did so and handed the paper to the broker, “Start out at once, and hustle, for the buying on your part must be done as soon as you can.” “T’ll get on the job at once.” “Very well, that is all at present. You have a nice little | suite here, and I hope your firm will come to the front.” “The firm certainly will if we receive a few more orders of this kind,” said Hal, who saw quite a wad of commission money ii the broker’s order. As soon as Weston went away Hal entered the order in his book and then ran in to carry the good news to his partner. “We've got our first brokerage order, Bessie, and it’s a good one,” he said. “That's good,” she said, with a smile. “We may make $2,500 or $3,000 out of this.” “As much as that?” she exclaimed, in surprise. “Yes. We get half of the commission, and the order is for as much ©. & D. shares as I can pick up in a short time. It’s about time I was doing something to hold up my end,” “T guess you'll make mest of the money for the firm.” | “Then the only thing I can do will be to marry. you and “keep it in the family,” he laughed. “Tt would have been pati ie if you had not taken me in as your partner.” “Tm not kicking over iat I’m proud to have you as my partner. There isn’t a smarter girl than you in Wall Street.” “That is quite a compliment, and I am eee, you mean att, “T wouldn’t try to fool you, for you're too inves to fall for You ‘anything of that kind.” “Well, you’ve said enough now during business oun: » want to get busy on your work and let me attend to mine. T have quite a stack of it to-day. I am mae a of hiring one girl and taking time off to\look for more work.” | “That's a good business idea. The more bus siness you can get, and the more girls you have to hire to turn it out, the more the firm will make, It never pays for the boss to do all the work. He can only do so much. It’s the boss’ business to look for work and hire others to do it.” Then Hal returned to his desk, slapped on his hat and went out to begin buying C. & D. for Broker Weston. The first name on the list was Snot ses Fink, of the Atlas Building, Wall Street. Hal hustled to his office. =" “Is Mr. Fink in?” he asked the office boy. ra ae , “Yes, ” “Disengaged?” : “Yes. ” i “My name is Howland. (Take it in to him,” Hal was atimitted and found a small, well-dressed man seated at his desk. “Well, what can I do for you, young man?” *Here is my ecard. I called to see if you have any C. & D.” “Are you a broker?” said Fink,- incredulously. “Yes, sir, Not a member of the Exchange, of course, but a broker, just the same.” “You have desk-room at that number, I suppose?” “We have a suite of two rooms. Don’t imagine we are irre- sponsible, for we are not. We are doing a regular business.” “Never heard of you before.” “That's because we are new comers.” » “Where did you come from?” “From good old New York, But fam in a hurry. Have you the stock ra am after?” ; pz | 5 What tock are you after?” ; i hala iy I | stock to Taylor & Co. I will get my catceiges ” said Fink, pulling. have a swing at about 90,000 shares, and I may get 60,000. | his telephone to him, | working like sixty.” i “CO. & D.” “T have some of the stock, but I’m not selling it in small ' quantity.” f “T want any part of 5,000 shares.” Fink opened his eyes. “Have you got. the money to pay for it?” “Our bank will pay for it on delivery.” “Your bank!” “Yes. Taylor & Co, You see being under age we can’t draw checks on our money. So we get around the matter by | Sending the stock we buy to the bank, and the bank pays for it, and advances money on it if we need it.” “T want 75 1-2 for 4,000 shares,” said Fink, figuring on a ~ pad. “Have you the money at your bank to pay for it? The _ stock will cost you $302,000.” by broker looked at Hal as if he. expected te see him stag: gere But he was disappointed. “The market price is 75. Ill give you that for it, and you'll get your money on delivery of the shares.” ' “My young friend, I am not gelling at the market. only one price, 75 1-2.. Take it or leave it.” Hal saw that he would have,to give it, so he closed with him. “Who are you buying the stock for?” asked Fink, curiously. é “That isa’t a fair question, Mr. Fink. I may be buying Sted for the firm on a speculation, or I may be buying it for one ot: our custontiers,” “You seem to have a good bank account.” ‘ “We couldn’t do business unless we had plenty of money. ” « “Tow long have you been in business?” “Long enough to learn the ropes.” f “Tt’s funny I shouldn’t have heard of you.” “Well, you’ve heard of us now. Pin it in your Saws. gainst the next time I eall on, you.” ri “This is no fool game, is it, young man? If I send that Wee Le have “Call up Taylor & Co. and ‘ask ae bank if Howland’ s orde for 4,000 shares of C. & D. ig good.” Fink did so, and learned | that the stock BS a be paid fo on delivery. That satisfied him, oe he regarded Har with a lot, mtceiat ay respect. Anybody that was ede for $802,000 was no ordinary individ. 5 e ual in Wall Street. : “Who is it to be transferred to?” “George Gates.” , “All right. There is your memorandum.” : He handed him the order made out in proper form. ate That concluded the business, and he went to the next broker i on his: list. : He worked like a Trojan, and exhausted his list by. haltpast three, by which time he had bought 25,000 shares, Then he went back to his office and told Bessie he had done pretty well for one day. { “Our commission so far amounts to $1,500,” he said. f ve “Without taking any risks,” she said. cae “Wxactly.” “That's the way I like to do business.” ns sata “TI agree with you, but as we are not likely to get another" a good order like that in some time, or any order at all, we will have to do a little speculating to keep the ball Tolling)” piper “Slow and sure is the best motto,” said Bessie. “That's all right, but I can’t sit around idle and see you. Pe “As long as I am satisfied, what do you care? Suppose You turn in $2,500 on this. order you've got, it’s a lot of money. It will take me a long time to make anything like that. If you only have something to do once a month you are likely to. make more for the firm than I can be Ses the whole thirty xf days.” “Say, Bessie, this will be our third ik in business q the eleventh since I cut loose from Green. I think it’s” atone time to surprise my folks with the news,” said Hal. “T think it is, too. It will be a big surprise for them.” “Surprise! , I almost hate to spring it on them.” a “Why, they'll be delighted to learn that you’ ne "ah “rea \ broker.” ; “Ym afraid they'll think I’m joking. And I can hardly blame them. From a messenger boy to a Pies is somet way out of the ordinary.” “The world is full of strange happenings.” “I know; but people don’t ACCES anything aici with pis ot wae boys.” i ‘ am
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“STOCKS AND” BONDS. “Tf your people doubt your statement, they have only to come down to Wail Street and call at your office to get all the ‘proof they want.” “That's right,” nodded Hal, who then returned to his desk - and sat down to read the afternoon paper. ° CHAPTER X. HAL SURPRISES HIS MOTHER. Hal called on Broker Weston next morning and reported what he had done the previous day. |. “You did first-rate, Howland. I have already got a report . from the bank, and your efforts are perfectly satisfactory. You won’t do so well to-day, as you have no list to guide you to the-right places. You will have to hunt for the stock, and may call on a dozen brokers before you find one who has any C. & D. on hand,” said the broker. “Well, I'l] do my best to find it,” said Hal, who after a few minutes’ talk with Weston started out to make his round of visits, . The first five traders whose offices he visited had none of the stock. — ‘fhen he got 500 shares at 75 3-4. Half an hour’s further hustling resulted in 200 more shares. Soon afterward he found a broker who had 2,000 shares, for ! ' which he had to give 76, the market price having gone up to 15. 1-4. : When noon came he had bought 4,000 shares. ' During the afternoon he picked up 6,000 more. ‘His commission that day amounted to $625. . On the following day he found 15,000 shares. "That added $937.25 more to his bill. ' He finished the week with 5,000, making 55,000 in all. Weston then called him off and told him to send in his bill. He, made his account out, $3,437.50, and carried it to the office himself. Hi. On Mondayemorning he received a check tn the first mail. “The firm is_ worth $10,900,” he said to Bessie. “The rent ‘for next. month will be due in three days, and that will make x4 a little hole in it, though not so that we will greatly notice it. - Our first month ends with an expenditure of $637, which in- cludes furnishing up the rooms, while our receipts amount to } $3,537, leaving us a profit over all of $2,900. Nothing the matter with that, is there?” “T expect to make more ouf of my end during the coming th,” said Bessie. sti tanet scare up another order. I think we'd better insert a standing advertisement in several of the papers and see what _ happens.” - *Pput in a small advertisement for my end in a couple of the Wall Street dailies.” Motel Moet He started out to attend to the staal It was about this time that Ferguson, the bank clerk who EX ‘abducted Nellie Weston as far as the steamer Bristol City, ventured to return to New York in disguise. He figured that the police had forgotten about him by that time. - -He had been out West, but no place he yisited seemed like - little old New York, and so he drifted back. He blamed Hal Howland for, the failure of his scheme, and | Way. yea, he determined to get square with him if he could. ‘Soon after he got back he set about locating the boy. The papers at the time of the kidnaping had stated that | ‘Hal was a SHRSEHOE a in Wall Street, working for Broker perm ‘Green, - Ferguson called at Green’s and learned that Hal was not |. employed’ there. any more. _ “Where is he working?” he asked the cashier. «J couldn’t tell you,” was the reply. “I hayen’t seen him gince he left us.” ‘Ferguson went to the messengers’ entrance to the Exchange and asked a dozen boys without result. Ther. he struck one who told him he had heard that Hal ow $° in business for himself in the Burling Building. aed 'erguson went to the Burling Building and inquired of the elevator ‘starter. sixth floor, Room 614 g.” "Bona he said. “Weston must have give ee nl; \doubling our money.” He was told that a ngs named Howland had an 9ffice on He went up to ‘that ‘floor, found No. 614, ait saw the sign wiand & Co. on the door, with the words “Stocks and | ‘ ‘Dttets, ; th et wonder how a kid like him could get into the brokerage . n him a financial | 8 jonas and his ee has. ne the rest.” 13 He opened the door and looked in: Hal was sitting at his desk, and Ferguson got a peg look : at him. “So that’s the duck who queered me,” he thought, as he closed the door. “I must think up some way of putting it over him.” d j A day or two later Hal learned that a syndicate had been formed to corner and boom L. & M. shares. After a talk with Bessie he decided to buy 1,000 shares at 80. It took nearly all the firm’s money to cover the margin, but as the tip locked good, and he had $6,000 of his own money to fall back on in case of emergency, he put the deal through. He was returning to the office with his empty hand-bag in his hand when he was spotted ‘by Ferguson, who had two com- panions with him. : As they had seen him come out of the little bank, they be- — lieved he had money in the bag, and Ferguson determined to run the risk of getting hold of it. He stated his plan to his companions, and they fell in with it, as the part they were to play was the least dangerous, They followed the boy to the door of the Burling Building. The two confederates remained at the entrance while their leader stepped up behind the boy. The corridor was clear at the moment and favored his pur- pose. Ferguson snatched,.the satchel out of Hal's fingers ang rushed off with it. “Stop thief!” shouted the boy, starting to follow: hing 4 Then Ferguson’s two accomplices’ stepped forward and blocked Hal, shoving him against the side of the entrance, =~ -/ Hal put up a struggle, when the men began to apologize for rr gud up against him, saying they hadn’t seen him in their at The young broker believed this was a He, and | that they were in league with the thief, but he had no time to consider the matter, for he was anxious to catch the rascal who. had — got away with his bag, even though there was nothing in it. By that time Ferguson was lost in the crowd on thé side-. nha and as he wasn’t running, the boy was uvable to spot im. He had a look at the man,\however, and thought he would . kpow him again. ¢ It struck him that he resembled the pergon who had looked into his office a few days before. He did not dréam it was the man who had tried | to carry Miss Weston to England. Pip He had to give up the rascal for the present, and whe re- turned to the office without his bag. The two men who had blocked ven hastened to rejoin. Fer- guson at a saloon on Pearl street, where they had agreed to meet if the job was pulled off successfully. Their disgust may be imagined when Ferguson cut the satchel open and it: was found to be empty. .— Ferguson was mad enough to chew ‘a ten- -penny nail. . He had taken a great risk in making away with the bag, jand after coming out of it with flying colors there proved to. be no plunder to divide with his disappointed companions: a They left the saloon resolved to get at the hoy some ae ; = the meanwhile, Hal told Bessie how he had been ore “ of the empty bag. | ig “Tf those chaps had tackled mo going instead of coming : they probably would have got away with thE $10, 000 1 I had’ >) in it. As it was, they got nothing.” : “How fortunate!” said the girl. ; “J should say so. That money represonted our whole deg ; tal, save enough to pay our running expenses for & couple of months.” Wh a It's a wonder the rascal wasn’t stopped and arrested: on the | street.” - “He would have been, only he was. lucky. » Well, the deal is. made, and we stand a mighty good | chance of more than’ ¥% + Bos “Phat will be splendid. I hope you will be cautious, ‘though, — and not hold on too long. I'm afraid I shall be nervous ee ; the deal is closed out. 4 Lt Og eae re going toe get nervous we’ a better give aaah lating. Bs They proved to ee from people out of town who had a p the firm's advertisement, , f
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the other enclosed a draft for $1,000 with his order for 100 | news to surprise you. » Shares of M. & C. on margin. j “Here's our second customer,” to Bessie: “How did you get him?” “Through the mail, in answer to one of our advertisements.” “That's encouraging.” “T got three letters, but the other two merely wanted infor- mation about the market.” “You will answer them, won’t you?” “Of course. I'll get up a short market letter and you can copy it in duplicate, using carbon paper.” “T will do that.” “Tf our advertisements bring many inquiries, there will be ‘extra work for you.” -. .. “{Y-guess we can afford to hire an assistant for me. We could 7 get.cne from the typewriter company. One who hasn’t had much experience, and who will not want high wages. She will get the experience with me, and I will raise her wages as she becomes more proficient. It will be a good chance for the right girl,”: said Bessie. 5 » « “We'll get her right away. I’ll run up to the typewriting ~. company where 1 bought youy machine and! tell them what “you, want.” ; “That will give me the chance to look around for more nivicae . - “Just so,” nodded Hal. He attended to the matter next day, and a girl was want whom’ Reeeoyt to. work. hat day 1 was-served with a notice to appear before Gra oP and testify against the suspected bomb ras- é ‘turned his beard money in that week he handed thee the. surprise. ‘he had had in store for her. to & prise you, mother,” he said. hat is the surprise?” said Hal, showing the order be hig. an involuntary trip to Hngland—three ; hisag, woh “About it, ‘Why Fey ni aia’ yon leaye?” _ “We had a run-in.and. “Well, J'm not leased’ t your: ey Where nage you been wopking since?” ' * ae rn je week 1 Beye) been in business for my- pe »” * fas Cerhat, pave'y you been. Ronee sat bis mother, not looking a = bit pleased. a et, A There is my busines card, m and he. handed, her one. (es “Howland & Co. Stocks and Bonds, Room 614, Burling Balldhe, Wall Street, New York City,” she read. “What kind on “of LL en is this?” 7 “Bro kerage. Very similar, in a einai way, to Green’s busi- ~ness.” “Where did you get the money to go into this business?” ‘ » “Made it out of the stock market while ee for Green.” brokerage end is unlucky.” i “Suppose I marry you before you’ask for a settlement, ‘then I won't be out anything, for what’s yours then’ will ‘be mine.” “Suppose I won't consent to marry. you, what then?”<" ). “You wouldn’t be such a fool as to let a good thing got away from you.” : “Dear me, what a fine opinton you have of: yourself.” » mt The world judges a person hy the estimate he puts) om, Se self.” ; “Not always. Some people put on a lot of bluft about’ tifeane: selves, but as any one can see fain 12 them: it doesn't 80. for much.” “That may ‘be, but bluff counts for a whole lot, just. the sme There are thousands of people living on a pluff, and their neighbors think they are worth.money: I believe in a ‘good. : bluff, but at the same time T also believe in having ees behind it to back up the bluff.” “ag “You are putting up a cet as a broker, with no business to back it yet.” “That's the right kind of ‘a bluff. No one knows what bast ness we are doing. And we have the money to pay our way. Tae “Tf that deal went to pieces we wouldn’t have the money.’ “Well, I’ve got $5,000 in my safe deposit box, and that would see us through. You've got a couple of new customers, so your end a oe mt up. I don’t see that the firm has vany CAalse | to w 7 Bostic didn’t think so, either, and they locked’ oF and went. home. ; Saturday morning came around again, and i, ve M. was uD to 93. Bessie’s ‘department had cleared $40 that week over ru -ning-expenses, but this did not include her proportion - ‘the: rent, nor her $15. ~ rrp The firm had $700 in the safe, $10,000 wa. on L. & M., and i $8,000 profit in sight. L. & M. was the center of interest on Monday morning. d Brokers bought and sold— right and left, and the ‘public : bought and held on. ‘It went right up to par by noon, and at one lo’ ‘clock it. was selling at 102. Hal sold out, though it seemed 1: kely to go five or six points He believed on being on the sate side. | That put $17,000 more into the firm’s coffers. “If we went out of business now we'd pocket. $10, 009 ap above our: orleina capital, i Hal told Bessie. ue
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STOCKS AND. BONDS. Z ag “And we haven’t been two months in business yet. How lovely!” she said. “Everything is lovely when the goose hangs high,” he an- swered. Hal testified before the Grand Jury, and that body handed down an indictment against the bomb rascals. Later, when their trial came on, they did not appear, aud their small bail was forfeited. As both were lialians, it was said they had gone buck to Italy to escape the consequences of their crime, which they had undertaken in the interest of 0 an friend, the barber’s assistant. A couple of weeks after the coup: toflana & Co. had pulled off on L. & M,, a well-built-man, with a full beard and clerical coat, came into Hal’s office one afternoon ‘at half-past four. He. was accompanied by two men in somber apparel, like hiniself, both wearing shorter beards, trimmed to a point. Ke Bessie was out, but her assistant was busy at work. .. Hal was at his desk. : The three men lined up at the railing. uf What can I do for you, gentlemen?” asked the boy broker, going ‘over to the eae Nag am the Rey. Cuddy,” said the man with the full ‘beard,’ in a-deep ie. “ewe are raising a fund for the heathens a the west coast of Africa. We propose to send a box-of red innel shirts, and other necessary wearing apparel, to our ' missionary at Gaboon. Any small contribution from you will be thankfully received, and your name will go down among ; the list of donors. Pardon’me, haye youa glass of water? Tt's a warm day, and talking is quite exhausting.” '- Hal pointed to a ceoler in the corner, and told his visitors ~~ to help themselves. While they were doing so he went to the safe, took out a $5 bill, relocked the cash drawer which held $2, 800 belonging % “to the. ‘firm, the rest of the money being in Hal's safe deposit Si sDOXx, shut. and locked the imner steel door, and was about to ; Shut. the outer doors, when the Rey. Mr. Cuddy, coming sud- denly throws the gate, seized him and.stopped him. _ ,One of his companions turned the key in the corridor door, wid the other, coming inside the rail, closed the door leading to Bessie’s room, and stood with his back against it. “Pardon me,” said the Rev. Mr. Cuddy, pushing Hal up gainst : the one closed. door of the safe, and holding him there with his hand on his throat, despite the boy’s struggles. “pardon me,” said the man, who had locked the door, throw- pk t sabi te towel over) Hal's face and tying it at the back of his neck. he produced cord from his pocket and bound the boy's j arms behind. him. i Both men ’ ‘then shoved Hal into his pivot chedr and tied him Ip ‘The Rev. Mr. Cuddy. picked up the key ae the inner steel I had dropped, and, throwing the safe wide open, pro- - led. to unlock the inner. door. ‘his gave him access. to every part of the safe but the cash ap ent, - Oy air Hal ay n’t doing any business to. speak of, there was lit- ate in the ga e but the few books used by himself and Bessie. ee oD he eriend gentleman saw that, and he looked for the : key, to the treasury. Sn Not: seeing it in any of the. pigeon-holes, he looked in’ the i) small drawers. At hung upon a little brass tack close against ‘the front of the “top. drawer. “The reverend gentleman didn’t notice it there, as he expected aA find it in the bottom of one of the drawers, He fumbled the few articles over, but failed to find the e Spent to the helpless ba, and went through his pockets. ‘He took the $5 bill and other bills the. young broker had, ss than $10 in all, but failed to find the key. At this juncture Bessie got back, and noticing that the con- necting door was shut, presumed that Hal was engaged in a |, Having a bunch of work, she sat down at her machine and gan to rattle the keys at a ‘lively rate. “Pardon me,” said the Rev. Mr. Cuddy, gripping Hal tightly y the throat and lifting the gag, “tell me what you ie with the ey of the cash compartment.” Hal. had. nothing to say Collecting: as we are for’ the heathen,” said the, eke a entleman, in a low but menacing tone, “we have no time to lose. Tell ney or I shall be under the yee of choking tng ; othing,” said the Boy, Sam helped her. “eutting | oe insensible Hal free, The clerical gentleman tightened his grip on the lad’s throat. “T think you will,” he said. going to have it.” Hal struggled and gasped for preath, but he was game. He did not believe the man really intended to kill him. The rascal, who was Ferguson in disguise, was in a humor to go to. some length, He gaye the boy's throat another squseze. Perhaps it was harder than he intended. Hal threw out his chest in a desperate effort to, get his» breath, just as a man being legally strangled under the old ° ~ laws trying to get his breath. Then with a groan he relapsed into unconsciousness. - As his head fell limply back, Ferguson saw he had géne too~ far, and released his throat. “| “Get some water—quick!” he said to his nearest confed- erate, The man brought the water, “pte Ferguson tore off the towel. j It was dashed in the boy’s whits face, but he did nat come to, nor show the slightest signs of life, Ferguson tore open his vest and ‘put his ear, his heart. He didn’t hear a beat. , ; “I'm afraid he’s dead,” he said, huskily, thoroughly. glarmed. at the situation. “Good heavens!” cried his companion, “we'd better’ dust, then. If we’re caught it means the electri¢ chair for us. ’m going.” Tt was now five o’clock, and Regsie’s assistant was pe on her hat to go. ici The three men, started for thé corridor door. : In their trepidation they forgot to ent. their rictiin: sfree.:- One of them opened the door and eee out. ; Several people were passing along + @. corridor. toward the elevator, and he closed the door to wait. till nes were ont. of ¥ the way. oh As soon as the cortidor was empty the fice. ‘ At that moment Bessie’s assistant, with ‘Bessie herself; came ° : to the door of the next office, and they. saw the three men leave. - After saying what she had to say to the girl, Bessie. shut . the door, and, presuming Hal was now at Ubert ty; she sare oF the connecting door and looked in, y Her eyes lighted on the motionless pues or ther: partner, : tied to his cpeie: # “We need the apes and we're sepven from the of y { CHAPTER XII. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER. With a ery of consternation Bessie tushed over to Hal, ‘ Her heart almost ceased to beat when she saw how white and ghastly he looked. ; She could see that something terrible had happened to him. His face was the picture of death. Across her excited brain flashed the exit of the three ‘anfvile terial looking men from the office a few moments before. At that moment the door opened and Sam Dav § came: in. He had been there calling on Hal once before, and bad been BN introduced to Bessie. : “Oh, Mr. Davis, do come here. Hal. I’m afraid he’s dead,” “Good gracious!” cried Sam, rushing over. to his chair. Who has done this?” “Three men, I think, who just left,” said Bessie. “Oh, do , see if he is still alive. I will telephone. for an ambulance.” She was too nervous and excited to think where to tele- phone .to. All she could do was to connect with the switchboard op- erator on the ground floor, give the number of the room, an ask the girl to telephone for an ambulance in a a. : ae The operator, wondering, what was’ the matter up in morn | 614, sent off a hurry call to the nearest hospital. : Sam discovered that Hal’s heart was beating: lace ds and xe ; said he was not dead. eit “Look at his throat. He was choked, ” he said. “Poor Hal, This is terrible.” ins She got water and a apres her partner's fore Something has happened £0 :44 she said, in great agitation, — ; «Why, he’ stied » Ke ; fi a sage from Room. 644, ‘and he came up m once to see what the matter. ; . He was T iantehen at the state of thine. } “How did this happen?” ae he asked, pulling out his tte ay ‘
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STOCKS AND BONDS. Bessie said she knew nothing more than having seen three men in ministers’ garnients leave the office just sarin she discovered her partner in his present state. “Three men, eh? The police must be notified a once,” He called up the switchboard girl and told her to notify Police Headquarters that one of the tenants of the building had been assaulted and almost murdered, and to have an officer sent at once. fn the meanwhile, Hal was slowly coming around. Sam ran to the néarest cafe and brought some brandy which helped the good work along. Finally Hal opened. his eyes, and, gasping, looked wildly around. His hand went mechanically to his throat, which hurt him a good deal. / He could hardly speak, and was quite unable to give an explanation of his predicament. At length the ambulance rolled up to the building and the surgeon was brought to Room 614 by the elevator man. He saw that the boy had been subjected to a gevere choking, and, without asking the cause of it, he applied himself to help- ing Hal's throat. In time Hal was able to speak and tell what had happened. - By that time a policeman arrived, and to him the young breker described his assailants. “They were doubtless disguised,” said the officer, “and they will got rid of their false beards and clerical clothes as soon as they can. We raay get the men, but it will be difficult to fix the crime on them. I will report the facts to the cap- tain at the station-house,” Tt’ was half-past six before the office’ was locked up and Hal, stiil feeling very rocky, started for home. 9h ie went honie half sick, for the shock had, greatly up- eset her. _ Not only was Hal her partner, but down in her heart she thought more of him than she was willing to admit. Hal’s mother and sisters were greatly upset, too, when he turned up at nearly half-past seven, looking ag if he had been ‘drawn through a thresher, ~ His story gave them a great shock, In. Hal’s mind it was clearly a case of attempted robbery / of the most daring kind, and he was pleased to think that they were disappointed of results. He hoped the police would catch them. »The story appeared in the morning papers and thus got all “around Wall Street. it brought Hal for the first time into prominence. ' He was down at his usual hour next morning, and his first caller’ was Broker Weston, who had read about the agsault in the paper. “You had a tough experience, Howland,” he said, after Hal had gone over the particulars for his benefit. “Tough! Don’t menticn It. I know how -it feels to be hanged ard et survive the ordeal. I ’can feel’ the rascal’s fingers now. “It will be some time before 1 forget the awful “gensation I went through. The police boast that crooks do not. come below the dead Jing, but it is evident that some of them do.” . t A number of ‘brokers called on him that day and intro- | duced themselves. ee They were curious to gee this young broker thatlad met with such a strenuous experience, and to learn Paine about him. Re They did not learn a great deal, but they éarvied: away the impréssion that he was a clever young fellow. , | The police arrested two or three men on suspic jon, but Hal, " when they were paraded before him, could not say they were - eonnected with the outrage. Ferguson had taken care to leave the city again, for he knew his arrest would lead to his recognition as the Kidnaper of Miss Weston. ‘ ie Summer wes over before Hal saw another chance to make a deal that looked promising. : Then he bought 1,000 shares of Hrie, which’ was eer pretty low and, was beginning to rise. The firm cleared $9.000, which raised their capital to $35,000. Bessie’s work had run down during July and August, but with. the coming of ccoler weather it began picking up again. ; Sho hustled around, leoking for More and got enough to - keep herself and two assistants going. Hai’s father. was home during the summer, and he was greatly surprised to. find’ tnat his son was in the brokerage business for himself, He came down sah the office end was ianroeeead: to Bessie, eet ‘tried to rob lis He ne companion was getting on. me he sized his son’s partner up as an uncommonly smart: © When Labor Day came around Hal went down to a summer resort on the north shore of Long Island to spend a couple of days at the cottage of Broker Weston. The family usually stayed away till the middle of Septem- ber. The boy broker spent most of his time in Nellie Weston’s company, and they had a good time together. One afternoon they went cruising along inshore in a Cat- boat which Hal knew how to manage, and they landed in a little cove at the foot of a short line of cliffs. A path led to the top of the cliffs, and they started up: IOs. get a view of the Sound and the distant shore of Connecticut ,— from the top. ae At a certain spot the path branched off in two directions. A Hal took the wrong one, Which led around a jutting crag, and then down into another cove hidden from the outside, the ; water of which flowed in and out through a narrow inlet. rat Instead of retracing their steps to the other path they went, « : on, and soon got to the cove. ap Here they found a large hut constructed out of wreckage, and a small black sloop at anchor. Smoke was issuing from a rusty-looking stove-pipe that bs ‘came through the roof of the shanty, but they saw no one. about. After seeing that the only land exit from the place was by the path they had come there, they started to return. ae? Then their retreat was suddenly blocked by a man who came ‘from behind a great boulder. Nellie Weston uttered an exclamation, for she recognized — this man as Ferguson. ' EAS A CHAPTER XIIt. : ve IN THE CovE. “Well, .Miss Weston, I see we meet again,” with a malicious grin. “Tt don’t wish to have anything to say to you, i Mr. Rergu- gon,” said Nellie, drawing back. ; “Ferguson!” cried Hal, ne this the fellow who kidnaped ye you?” eb “Tt is,” she replied. 4 “And you are the boy who spoiled all my plans,” said Fer- guson, with a scowl, “I bave a bone to pick with you, and I~ think this is a good time and place to settle the matter.” Something in the man’s tone and manner put Hal in mind | of the man who stole the hand-bag from him, and there | Ray also a suspicious resemblance between the fellow’ and ate erook who posed as the Rey. Mr. Cuddy, i The Wail Street boy began to entertain an idea that he ‘aed. face to face with both of those scoundrels in the ae) of ; Herguson. PE “Stand out of the way. We want nothing to do. rit you,” i Ae he said, f | “Oh, I couldn’t think of parting with you both after the un expected pleasure of meeting with you in the neighbérhood: Of my summer residenée,” he said, with a wicked little laugh. ‘owhat do you mean, fellow,” cried’ Hal, butting one arm about Nellie, to reassure her. “T mean I intend to offer you the hospitality of my seaside 5 bungalow. I am’sorry it isn’t as fine, nor \as large, as: you are. perhaps used to, but such as it is you are welcome to enjoy lig seclusion for a while. Visitors come this way so seldom that” T appreciate the honor of your company,” he said, st tere, grin. “We don’t choose to be made a fool of by. you,” said Hal, in’ a resolute tone. “Get out of the way or there will be some- -! thing doing you won't like.” =i Ferguson laughed and, putting his fingers to his aba: Bae a sharp whistle. Two men came out of the hut and looked toward them. At the sight’ of these men, Hal was almost certain as to the identity of the three men who assaulted him in his office and safe. The boy, realizing ‘that they were in a nest of age d termined to get the girl away at any rate. | “Are you going to get out of the way?” he said to Fergus The rascal, refused to budge. Hai sprang upon him and shouted to Nellie to run for oat. ; “Go, go!” he eried as she struggled with the man... ' " bins said the raseal, “Catch that girl and bring her back,” ibd Feiguson his companions when they came running to. git as 2G es Bienes Sadi Naa (i i
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7 i i oh ab . “STOCKS AND BONDS. at One of them started after Nellie while tie other grabbed hold of Hal. Phe boy had no eaenies at all with the two of them, and was thrown on the ground and held down. Nellie fled as fast ‘as she could, but instead of running to- ward the boat she darted up the other path, which led to the top of the cliff. _ This was the best course she could have pursued, but in any case she did not haye much chance. Yanking Hal on his feet, Ferguson and his associate, holding him each by an arm, forced the boy toward the hut. Pushing him inside, they took him into a small, dark, back frousm, built into the wall of the cliff, and, picking up some rope, tled him to one of the uprights of the building. There they left him, closing the ramshackle door upon him. Tt had neither lock, bolt nor handle, and was full of breaks that let in shafts of dull light from the main room beyond. In a few minutes the third man returned leading Nellie, whom he had caught close to the top of the cliff. “Well, young lady, you see there is no use in trying to get] away from me,” said Ferguson, with a grin, compelling her to | “You eluded me once by a neat little stratagem, | ES enter the hut. - but I don’t think you will be able to repeat the performance.” _ “How dare you treat me in this shameful manner?” she eried, indignantly. “Pardon me, it is your own fault if I am compelled to use force,” he said. Saar e eR oe easily hear every word that passed in the next room, z ‘When he heard Ferguson say batapden me,” he no longer had _ the slightest doubt that the rascal and the bogus minister . Were one and the same. _ “Where is Mr. Howland?” said Nellie. “Ho is quite safe, I assure you,” said Ferguson. *“T want to know what you have done with nim,” ‘manded.. -“T told you helwas safe. We have got him nicely tied up so ‘he: won't be able to interfere between us.” : *¥ou are a coward. When my father hears about this last + outrage he will, see that you are well punished. ee “7 think’ not. tf expect to be. his son-in-law by then.” : “Do you think I would ever marry you—never!” “Neyer is a long day, Miss Nellie, I assure you that you will marry me’ right | away, and that you. will consent to the ; ceremony, iif ’ “You must be crazy.” “J am not crazy. I am simply resourceful. she de-| I have just erst 2 of a way to compel you to yield your consent.” _ “There is no way to compel a woman to do what she will 1 “y beg to differ with you. You are young and inexperienced -in the world. You will learn as you grow older. Long ago— that is, when I first met you—I made up my mind to marry .. I. would have succeeded, but your parents interfered. Sou — of attracting outside attention when I a. delightful motor honeymoon through the sylvan is of Kingland. However, the pleasure was only de- WwW will he married on this side, and have our honey- 6 ‘ane If your father will Dut up the price T will will ne yer marry you. You can't make me do it,” gata ellie, defiantly. _ We'ghall see. Fate was kind to me when she brought that cnight errant of yours on the scene with you. I shall use him i e Again) in the game. 4 : a o you think you could buy him over to hata: you? You ver sone “He is. a gentleman: and would scorn to have any |. ealings with you.’ -*“¥ don’t intend to try to buy him over. In fact, I haven't ‘the wherewith with which to bribe any one at present. But) : ‘you wish to save his life you will consent to marry me this ing: ney st What do you mean? * eried Nellie, startled by his words. plan mn! <Sd0m: « rin te, aie death will follow.” o/ you mean to say you would kill him?” r- do, as surely as the sun shines at this moment, You hold| d he dies as the TIPARE: of the tide.” e in your hands. Consent to marry me and he 18 mee vote his stock with us for a consideration?” “You would not dare do sucha chine as that,” cried the girl. “T'd dare do anything to win you. This is a secluded spot. People hardly ever come here, so there is little chance of in- terference from the outside. If you let the matter go to the end, and the boy dies, his death will be on your head, as well as on mine. We shali biry him out in the Sound, and no one will ever know what has become of him.” Nellie was now thoroughly terrified, and she begged Fergu- son to haye pity on her and let them both go. “Tf you will promise me now to marry me: this evening I will release your friend at once. That will save him from any part of the ordeal I have mentioned.” “I cannot marry you—indeed, I cannot,” she sobbed. . “Very well. Then, as the tide is coming in we will begin the proceedings.” “No, no, no!” she cried, seizing him by the arm as he started for the door, “T say yes, for we have no time to lose if the performance is to be a success-;” “Oh, don’t; oh, don’t!” she begged, hysterically. At this moment one of the men came in hastily. “Two gentlemen are coming down the cliff path,” he said, hastily. “What are you gcing to do to escape discovery?” “Gag this girl, quick!” said Ferguson. “Where's Benson?” “At the door.” “Go in the back room and gag that boy. Then nail that piece of wood across the door. AS scon as you ’ve finished, gpme down to the edge of the water and we'll take you aboard.” Benson rushed in to the back room and tied a handkerchief across Hal’s mouth. ‘ Then he came out and began nailing up the door. While he was doing it Ferguson and the other man carried Nellie aboard the black sloop and shoved her into the little cabin, Fergusen’s associate returned in the rowboat and took Ben- son off. They rowed around to the front of the sloop, grabbed a rope handed over by Ferg,yson, and a minute later nek were contin the sloop out througo the narrow channel. They only went as far as the entrance, apa while Benson re- mained in the boat and rowed just enouga to keep the sloop from drifting back with the tide, the other helped Ferguson get the sails ready for instant hoisting. % , They, did not hoist the canvas though, but waited for events to shape themselves. When the two well-dressed men who had started down the cliff reached the cove, there was no ‘one in sight, aud: the place appeared quite deserted. t . CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION. The newcomers looked around at the bare ick the hut. and the waters of the little basin. ‘ “This spot appears to be deserted,” said’one of the gentle- men, “Let us sit here and continue our talk.” “There might be somebody in the hut. Let us see,” said the. other. The door stood open and they walked in. x “There is no one here,” said the first speaker, . “Let us use these stools,” said the other, Be are prefer- able to the rocks outside.” : “Very well. We will talk here, then.” The gentlemen sat*down. Hal struggled to get rid of the gag so as to eall out to them, ‘4 but he could not get his mouth free. r “You say, Mr. Carter, that all we need to get complete eon-/ re trol of the troliey line is to secure the block of stock owned) | by old Milburn?” said the gentleman who had suggested taking possession of the stools. “That is right. The whole success of our plans, which we — eh been working for the past six months, hinges on that stock.” “How is it that the present management, the party in power, has net got hold of it?” “They have been trying to, but have been unable to locate the present whereabouts of the old man.” “Do you know where he is to be found?” “TI do. I have had men out locking for him. They. ‘have ick found him up at Orange Lake, living with his widowed | Lat daughter. @ . Fees “Do you think he will sell the stock, or an he be induced to. “The man who finally weede him has been Seunging 1 him 3
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/ { ene 4 Perey 1S ‘4 peoesy AND BONDS. oe jee T quietly on the subject. He wired me yesterday evening that | There Ferguson and his pals were found securing the sloop the old man is willing to sell out at little above the market price—say, 56.” “How many shares has he?” “Five thousand one hundred,” “How came he to have the extra one hundred?” “Oh, he bought the shares a long time ago in piecemeal, ee is the number now in his name on the company’s ooks.” “He must be preity well fixed to be able to hold onto them in spite of the fact that the line has not paid any dividends for the last two years.” “Well, I don’t know anything about his resources. The _ chanees are he has no need of ready money, or he would have ‘sold on the present rising market.” “Tt is fortunate he doesn’t know how valuable his stock is ‘to the parties fighting for the control of the road. If he did he would demand a heavy figure for it.” ‘ “And he’d get it. The people in control would give any _ price in reason for his shares, and our syndicate would bid _ correspondingly if we had to, ” “Now, all we've got to do is to. shake the tree and the fruit will fall into our laps.” “Exactly. The figure he asks for the block is $285,600. He told my man that if he would put up ten per cent. of that he would sign a thirty-day option for the transfer.” “That is $28)560?% “Of idcurge.” f “What did your man tell him?” “That he would communicate’ his offer to the parties he represented, and no doubt a messenger would’ be sent to treat with him on those terms.” “Well, who is going to see him?” “Tam. I shall take the ten o’clock train for Newburg in ~the morning, and the trolley will take me to the lake. He lives in a white cottage within half a mile of the lake.” “Good. Then by to-morrow afternoon we will be in control of a majority of the trolley stock.” The gentlemen lighted cigars, got up and left the hut. In spite of His terrible predicament, Hal had grown inter- pviee in the talk of the gentlemen. The subject of their conversation attracted him. When they finished and got up to go, the boy made a des- -perate effort to attract their attention, but did not succeed. As they appeared to be his only hope, he strained hard at ‘his bonds and broke them. In a twinkling he tore off the gag and shouted, but his ery did not reach the ears of the gentlemen, who were half way up the path by that time. (@ Getting rid of the cord, he threw his weight against the oor: It yielded, for the piece of wood nailed to hold it was but “ingecurely fastened by Benson, who was in a hurry. “ Rushing out of the hut, Hal saw that the black sloop was { gone. He figured that the men had sailed her into the Sound, car- rying, Nellie with them a prisoner. | He rushed up the path till he reached a@ point where he could see the Sound. The black sloop was lying at the entrance of the inlet under bare poles. . Coming up the coast was a swift steam launch, with several mien in her. As yet she was out, of sight of Ferguson and his pals. | aot was the chance to capture the rascals and’ rescue the girl Hal.started to clamber down the face of the sine While he was doing it the launch came in sight around a projecting point, and the three rascals saw her. inia moment they got busy, and the two companions of Fer- uson got into the rowboat and began towing her back into ae basin out of sight, eee reached the water’s edge just as the launch came along close in. He began’ signaling to the men in her. | The launch bore in toward him and ran close in. “Hello, are you stuck?” asked one of the men. “No; but I want help.” “What for?” “To gave a young lady trom three rascally crooks. who have her in their power.” “Where are the crooks and the young lady?” “On board of a black sloop in a cove here.” oe ite. told to step aboard, and the, launch ran in through the inle ‘constituted the firm which for a few days had had a erlp 0} to a tree. They were captured after a fight, during which Hal released Nellie from the cabin of the craft. The three men were bound and put in the cabin, the sloop taken in tow, and the party went on to the wharf of the sum- mer resort where the Westons had their cottage. The constable was sent for and took charge of the three men, who Hal said were wanted in New York. Broker Weston charged Ferguson with abduction, and Hal a charged him and his pals with assault and attempted robbery.” The New York police were notified by wire, and detectives came and took the men to New York. Ferguson was in due time tried for abduction, conviched and Dh sent to Sing Sing. The other two were tried for helping Ferguson at the cove, and sentenced to two years each, but Hal could prove ‘nothing against them himself. On the evening of the events just narrated, Hal decided to take advantage of the pointer he had heard inthe hut. . He determined to get the 5,100 shares of trolley stock from old Milburn, at Orange Lake, and hold it. for a big price. It was necessary for Hal to carry at least $28,560 with him, and he could not get the money before nine next morning, when the safe deposit vault opened. : He interviewed Mr. Weston about it. “Yd give you my check.for the amount, but the old mam — probably would not take it unless it was certified,” said the broker. “You must take the cash.” dpe “Tt can’t get it till after nine,” said Hal. ate “Take the eight o’clock train for Newburg and TI will tele- hy gradh the sum you want to you at sagas es nine, Be at the ex- rs press office ready to receive it.” j ; The matter was so arranged. in Hal reached Newburg at quarter past nine and went directly to the express office, where he saw the manager. ( : While they were talking the telegraph order came. / The manager wrote a check on the Newburg Bank, and Hel. rushed over and got it certified, then he started tot Orange ; ake, where he arrived at half-past ten, & He was directed to Milburn’s cottage, and went there Bae once, hy ih, Hal had no difficulty in securing the, thirty-day option on the stock at 56, and paid ten per cent. of the sum on deposit. , The stock was in a New York safe deposit vault. — * He took the option back with him, and when he reached hits : office hé explained what he had done to Bessie, who approved ~~ Of ti Then he took $28, 560 from the firm’s funds in the. sate deni 3 posit box and returned Broker Weston the money he had ad- a vanced to him. 5 That afternoon Hal had a call from the two gentlemen who. had unwittingly put Him in possession of the facts on which he had acted so promptly. ue They told him that they had heard he had bought, old Mil bi burn’s stock, and they asked him what he wanted for it. nd “What will you give?” Hal asked. “Firty-seven,” said the spokesman. “Nothing doing,” replied Hal. “What do you want for it?” he was asked. “Seventy-five.” “Preposterous!” said the gentleman, impatiently. “Not at all, gentlemen. Our firm has a grip on the nae and if you want to loosen that grip you'll have to pay for it If you don’t want it at my price I'll offer it to the other side,’ The gentleman offered him 65, but Hal shook his head. Then they went away to consult the syndicate, 4 For ten days the young firm held the market in their power, and the fact was printed in the papers, then the syndicate ac cepted his offer and sent a certified check for the stock, : “Bessie,” said Hal, when the deal was over, “we're worth $132,000. There is nothing left for me to do but to marry you — so as to keep it in the family. Are you willing, sweetheart?” She was, and in the course of time they were married, a then the fact came out in the papers that a boy and a a \ the market. Next saueks issue will contain “STRANDED IN THE. © OR, A BOY ee A HEAD FOR BUSINESS. mM :
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ee tes "FAME AND FORTUNE if WEEKLY. 19 The day of dungeon and dark cell confinement in Sing Sing and Auburn prisons is gone. The Superintendent of State Prisons, John B. Riley, issued an order recently prohibiting such punishment for inmates of the two ‘insti- tions. Unruly prisoners hereafter will be placed in iso- ation cells or confined on short rations. This plan has been in operation at the Clinton prison for a week and has oved successful. The deficit of the Federal Treasury for the onion fis- cal year is $10,343,000, compared with $4,850,000 a year ago. September, however, made a better showing that ous months, receipts exceeding disbursements by $2,- 000, The net balance in the general fund is $123,- 000, Ww hile the total cash in the Treasury is $2,020,- ; 0. National banks were increased during the month to % 513, and the total outstanding national bank-note cir- ation ‘is $759,031,000. le repairing the State highway at the top of Gn: neague Mountain, near Concord, Md., Ralph Hopple d Elias Snyder, who were tearing down a stone wall, nd an express money box, of heavy sheet iron, lined wood. The lid was partly open and the lock had ees with an iron hook found near r the box. It is = ting was” veal to athe nations. An Fees now ‘being made to show that the idea of the settled more or Wee orderly and peaceful social state to which We give. the name of civilization came from Chaldea or lonia, ones that sort of iach existed long ne y Monae ite yous are making some tte ee So far, however, the land of Egypt er person in St. Petersburg, has’ arranged and ~“yfiaced on exhibition a clock with a phonograph attach- yi ent that will repeat at an hour set, according to the ’ rs desire, such orders for announ 5 as may i ted, to it. A contemporary rigl he tired housemother, and adds that in the nurs- olemn timepiece could be made to pay, ‘Children, to. get up; dress qui¢kly.” In the kitchen. at ur, es would be ready with: “Breakfast at eight ry; dott forget”; and in the breakfast room, Gi start in ten minutes, or you will lose your man face, from whose uncanny mouth come = ine of the hours, as well as any directions [CURRENT NEWS. tly calls this a, ‘The dial of this clock of the future is, we are’ When George Rogovoy, a Russian tourist, sat down at a table in a Chestnut street restaurant, Philadelphia, the other night, he did not know that before he arose*he would throw away a pearl supposedly worth .$2,000 and retain one valued ‘at $5,000. Rogovoy and his wife began their dinner with oysters, and the former was eating his third bivale when he bit into a hard substance. He supposed. it was part of the shell, and threw it on the floor. On eating the sixth oyster Rogovoy’s teeth came in contact with another hard substance, which he took from his mouth and examined critically. Believing that he had found a gem he took the object to a jeweller, who pro- nounced it a pear-shaped pearl of perfect contour, and placed the value at $5,000. ; J. T. Hoops, a farmer, residing near Holdman, Ore... arrived in Pendleton recently and telegraphed an appeal. to Washington for government aid in fighting jack rabbits that have infested the central part of Umatilla County, and are doing serious damage to growing wheat and rye. Owing to the State bounty on coyotes, they have been — practically exterminated, and with+the disappearance of © their natural enemies the jack rabbits have. multiplied in ~ serious proportions. Poisoning, trapping, shooting, . dogs, and all other methods of attacking these pests have had. little effect. Hoops claims that’ in one instance a section of grain land 15 miles long and 12 miles wide has been eaten clean by the rabbits. Hoops will urge the govern- ment to send agents here to inoculate captive rabbits with the bacilli of a disease fatal to these rodents, known as rabbit distemper,” with the expectation that those inocu- lated when turned loose will infect all others that they come in contact with. : Preparations are far advanced for a new and important British Antaretie expedition under the command of J. Foster Stackhouse, a nephew of the famous physician, the late Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. Mr. Stackhouse was inti- mately associated with Captain Scott, and his objective — will be King Edward the Seventh’s Land and the unknown _ area to the east of it. King Edward’s Land was discov- ered by Captain Scott in 1902, but he did not land there and no Briton has ever trodden its soil. For the voyage a special boat—the Polaris—has been built in Norway, — according to designs approved by Nansen. Captain Scott also saw the plans and made suggestions regarding them. _ According to present arrangements the expedition will start from the Thames ebout August 15 next year and en- ter the ice at latitude 70 degrees. south and longitude | LOO, degrees west. It will winter in the pack ice and stay, if” — The return journey necessary, a second or third winter. will be by way of the Panama Canal. Stackhouse himself has never heen to the Antarctic, iy he has had a good pie of Arctic Suetges SOR act eae Nee ai Er
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x f elit me, with | me, 20 FAME AND “FORTUNE WEEKLY. AN IRISH ROBINHOOD — THE HEROES OF THE BRIDGE By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER II (continued). Cries of rage burst from the French soldiers as they saw their leader fall with his horse, and St. Ruth sprang to his feet and rushed toward the outlaws, crying: “Charge for France and St. Dennis! Death to the vile robbers !”” “Back to your coverts,” cried Barney of the Bow, sud- aenly dragging his young friend to the; rear with him. “Warewell. St. Ruth, till we meet in Athlone. count on us to defend the bridge, but not to strike against youth and virtue.” “Where’s my friend?” eried De Courcey, as he found himself forced back into the dense wood, where the horse- men were unable to charge on them. “Hete he is,” cried the giant, who bore the lad in his arms as if he were a child. “I will tend to the boy. Where away now, brave. Barney of the Bow?” “To the ford, to the upper ford, with all the speed you can. We must cross the river ere the proud Frenchman reach there.” CHAPTER IIL. THE FIGHT ON THE SHANNON SIDE. While retreating into the depths of the dense wood, the outlaw and his friend could hear the cries of rage that burst from St. Ruth and his soldiers as they endeavored | to find a path whereby they could pursue the fugitives. _ When they reached a safe distance, young De opacey ‘said to the giant: “You can let the lad down now: and rest, my good friend.” . “Sure "tis ne trouble te carry the little fellow till the horses come,” replied the big fellow, tossing his burden as if playing with an infant. “Drop the lad, Fingal, and let him join us,” pee the outlaw leader. “Look to the horses yourself, and see that they are ready for us at the pass.” The giant obeyed on the instant, and the lad was soon by his friend’s side, erying: “Oh, I am so glad he did not see me, dear friend. How can we thank the brave man who served us so well?” “By not saying another word about it, Miss Una Dubois. iy knew your mother when she was a Miss Fitzgerald, and it would be queer, indeed, if I would not serve her daugh-| _ ter when i in need. De e Oi you must yet go to ee Bd: = Gy You may | ‘hearts around you,’ bof. an : owl. bys ; = y R, mde i ctor her oy Sey “Ti, will be very hazardous for all of us now, sir. St. Ruth will be your enemy hereafter as well as ours.” + | “Not he, when his anger wears away. And what do we ; care if he is? We must fight to defend the old town, or I y would send an escort with you to the west. Join my band ; for the PIRACH, and the mischief a one of St. Ruth will ever know you.” “Can you disguise the pair of us, then?” “That 1 can, and I can give you a place of shelter Athlone, where you will be safe until the priest cum roe = in wedlock, if you are not married yet.” ’ ees are not, good friend. she Una, will Rake come Hi chenae. of the old town.’ “T will, ae Charles, but I tremble at the ee of gi the ates. “St. Ruth will ¢ be busy enough with the English; I warrant. Hear th guns playing: on the old fortress now. That music call him back to war, if hé is but a true soldier. On t ford before they get there ahead of us.” "Silas they atte the: ford, some two miles’ al nibeleg ie way: now, and they will soon espy us. “Push on, then,” cried Barney of the Bow, in fie tones. “I’d give the proud foreigners a blow or two, ) that they are all wanted to fight ‘against the Hngli While passing through the wrod, the. leader of the o ut laws, with the assistance of some of his followers, ha ‘gue: ceeded in disguising his two * Beabie in the most d of hese wild companions. ‘Plunging into the stream, they were all pe a fore the Frenchmen reached the opposite bank; but could proceed on their journey, loud, warlike cries W and the clashing of swords. — ; “Up with you and see what’s going on, ¥ the leader, Boe to a Bic soy “Yo have
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. pee ‘The giant climbed the tree with all the activity of a monkey, while De Courcey turned to the leader, saying: SOT “am: certain I hear the English war-cry mingled with _ the French, sir.” “Then St. Ruth is in danger, and we must go to his rescue. What do you see, infant?” “Gallant men battling hand to hand. It is the English _ who are at the French, and the bulldogs are two to one against them.” ; _ “Back to the rescue!” cried Barney of the Bow, dashing - into the stream again. “You. will remain here with the lad, De Courcey.” “Not I, on my honor, while I can strike a blow against the English.’ #4 “Then what is to hecome of the lad?” “Think not of me, but hasten to the rescue,” ; eed girl. “With due permission,” eried the giant, dropping from the tree, “I will take care of the lad. There’s a nice nook oe. there, where he can be sheltered and see the fun.” “Then up with him and then over,” said the leader. The French are giving way. If St: Ruth is taken or “slain, Athlone is lost.” _ Grasping the pretended lad with one arm, the giant seized)a branch of the tree and raised himself up again with the lad, as he cried, in jovial tones: you “will be an owl ‘to-night, my boy but don’t you er to stir from your nest until I come for you, as the “hawks are abroad.” _ Seating the girl on a strong limb near the trunk, the fellow ae to Jo ae mittee as he sk > eried the i 4 ; The giant sprang on tne: horse the young irl had been ing, ‘and dashed back into the ford again, flourishing ig battle-ax. Barney of the Bow and De Courcey were the first to ch the other side, and the leader dashed into the wood ont of him without waiting for the others, as he cried: ‘After ‘ime, men of the Shannon side, but sitter no war- ty at present.” i n St. Ruth and his men found that they could not ne their way ‘into the dense wood’ on their war-steeds Ig qried: eR e along the bank, an we will cut them off ere they While ‘fects was a ‘rugged path SHRTS slong the penis e river, leading up to the ford, the horsemen’s moye- s were slow, and the outlaws took short cuts through A On nearing the ford, where the ground was ae open non the river. bank, St. Ruth was suddenly surprised a e force of English troopers) dashing out on them e/ wood, and shee comlaie war cries, as myer Di pcpuaaehoiain had has bate to aie his } Hs 74 p Bit of the ales and the outlaws, the French: eet the ene oe ‘the: ‘English were on him, G believed fas he was attacked by a pmction i “Charge for France and good King Louis,” was St. ‘| Ruth’s response, as he dashed in among the foe with his inen. “Brave Frenchmen will never cry for quarter.” Then steel rushed against steel, and bright swords flashed together in wild confusion, while many a brave, rider rolled over on the greensward, to sieep his last sleep on the banks of the Shannon. | Some half a dozen of St. Ruth’s.men gathered around their chief at the first onset, as if to protect him from the — swords of their enemies, but his spirited steed soon bore ~ him into the thickest of the English ranks, and the French leader was soon-fighting alone. i Although the English were not aware of the ford being . above them, they moved and fought to cut off their ene- ~ mies’ upward march, and thus drive them back toward Athlone and their own camp..- The French struggled, after the first onset, to cut their way up the river bank, but they were outnumbered and forced back at every point, though fighting with = most desperate courage and yalor. When St. Ruth saw his men giving way, he steed this’ steed to’ join them, as he raised his war-cry, and cut around him with all the force and skill he could com- mand, ba Several of his men rushed to the rescue at the rienbaes and the French leader was soon in the midst of his own friends again. “One more charge for France and glory!” cried St. Ruth, as he led his shattered troop at the foe once more. “Burst through their lines, brave Frenehmen’!” The F trenchmeh were brave, indeed, but they could not. — burst through that -solid phalanx of English steel, and, — some of them reeled back from the Shook, while several fell on that field of honor. “Charge on them!” yelled the English edit’ as’ he made a dash at St. Ruth. “?Tis the French general him- self, and he will be our prize.” “Down with the French!” yelled the English, as they pressed on their foes with renewed vigor. “Let us capture or slay their general, and Athlone is ours,” is “To ther rescue, to the rescue!’ yell led a fierce voice from the wood. “Back and form again, St. Ruth, and - let us haye at the English bulldogs. At them, my brave bs lads of the Shannon, and show them what Trish’ steel: is. made of.” Then out from the witle of the wood burst tite Tin : ’| outlaws, Barney of the Bow and De eae leading: the ga way. i Close behind them rode Fingal, brandishing his battle- raf ax, as he cried: “shes “Down with the English builldogelt Cleave them ee the ve earth! Hurrah for the boys of the Shannon ch Aan forever !”” cae | He Aland Ae . N BARNEY. ‘OF THE siti PROVES mis sKTL IN BATTLE es The Irish outlaws made a terrible outcry when ru oh from the wood on their foes, and the English leader “fully (Le be Wee iae
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R2 YALE MAY LOSE LEGACY. - Yale will lose the $700,000 bequest made by Mrs. Mary _. 0. Hotchkiss, of Hast River, in case the claim made by her granddaughter, Mrs. Louisa Goodno, New Haven, is sustained. Mrs. Hotchkiss died several months ago, leav- ing her entire estate to Yale, subject to a life use by her daughter, Marie Hotchkiss, Mrs. Hotchkiss was the wife of. Henry O. Hotchkiss, who died in this city in 1884, leaving an estate of about $200,000. His widow was administratrix of the estate, and Mrs. Goodno represented to the Probate Court that her grand- mother, the administratrix, applied the estate to. her own use instead of dividing it among the three children, as directed by the will. Mrs. Goodno is the daughter of Nathaniel Hotchkiss, one of the three children, and Mrs. Goodno claims the share which her father inherited, The case will be appealed to the Superior Court. , FIREPROOF CLOTHING. Fiat “Fireproof clothing next!” ; : That was the statement made recently cote the Na- _. tional Association of Cotton Manufacturers by Professor _ Wilham Henry Perkin, of the University of Manchester, b in the center of the’ English cotton manufacturing in- dustry. . “Children now may be dressed in the fireproof clothing, actors may have their costumes treated to resist flame, lace curtains that usually are a menace in homes lighted with gas or oil may be made less hazardous,” said the pro- fessor, who made upward of 10,000 burning tests before a solution was found that would stand constant washing - with soap and other compounds and remain non-com- bustible, i Professor Perkin demonstrated Yefore the manufactur- Pa ONE four specimens treated to resist fire. The first was the material processed but not washed; the second the treated material after being washed ten ‘intes by hand; the third showed the material after being machine washed, twenty times in a laundry, and finally a portion of\a garment | “in actual use for two years, washed every week and prac- tically in rags. All resisted fire and Professor Perkin asserted that no amount of washing with hot soap and water would re- move the fire proofing agent. LONDON STATISTICS SHOW THAT INTOXICA- ra TION GOES WITH PROSPERITY. “Tt statistics are to be believed prosperity and drinks go. eae in hand in England. There has been more work and more drinking during the last twelvemonth. ; - Public houses (on licenses) have decreased by 10 per cent. since 1905. re bat the convictions for Packie in 1912 were At the end of 1912 they numbered | FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, FACTS WORTH READING “An increase in convictions,” states the report, “may be due almost directly to the extinction of licenses—e. g., the druhkard may be driven from his old haunts in a back street, where he used to soak unseen, out into the open, where he is arrested.” London, with a total of 50,382 convictions, shows a far higher proportion of convictions for drunkenness (caleu-— lated per 10,000 of the estimated population) than either — the county boroughs or the non-county boroughs. e During Pebruary, March and April, 1912 (the months of the miners’ strike), there was a persistent decline to far below the corresponding record of 1911. “There was a still more rapid and persistent rise, with — the return of good work and wages, till July. The 1912 figures for Greater London, unlike those for 1911, show a decline in June and July (the months of the transport workers’ strike): In August, when that was over, the figures rose again.” THE FINEST PENITENTIARY IN THEU.S. © Federal prisoners at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., have com- — pleted the construction of the finest penitentiary in the — United States. Five years ago the Government made an appropriation of $643,000 for the project. It is declared ihe new structure would have cost the Government $3,- 000,000, but for the material assistance of Col. Thomas H. ‘Slavens, commandant of the United States Military prison at the fort. The completion of the new eames will mark a com plete change in the character of the military prison. In stead of making convicts of army deserters and petty of fenders, Unele "aan is going to try a new plan. Th e is entirely too much soldier material wasted by the system. Uncle Sam is going to conserve this by giv deserters a chance to get back into the ranks, rirodey the reformatory, and clear their records. The labor on the new buildings was the easiest rete bi for Col. Slavens, Confined in the prison were men from every walk of life, bricklayers, stone-masons, plumber: mill workers and laborers. ‘Those who knew no tr were given instruction In performing the work of ordina laborers: There are now 960 prisoners, most of them arm deserters, and 300 of these were employed on. er CONe ta struction proper. Pais te In addition to the work on the prison, which consister of querrying in the prison quarries, crushing stone, mix prison farm and sic in clothing “te where eh is made for the prisoners. The prison is built ‘of conerete blocks, with individual cells fitted with electric: li toilets and ies conveniences. There is an andito same. number. prison stage. = artist is now painting scene
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CHAPTER X (continued). So you want me to go with you to protect him in case ‘trouble? Is that the idea?” asked Tom. “That's just it, but he must no know. If he was to - find it out he would be very angry, and it would ruin all ur business chances with him; but still he must not— shall not go there without some one to watch over him in se trouble comes.” “Tl watch over him,” said Tom quietly. “Tf it isn’t fe for him to go alotie he- shan’t go alone, that’s all.” COB at, ie TI don’t want ere h cas Father thinks 3 Vl take my allies on that, Rates Even if your 3 should take his work away from me, I could still Re I oi sure, Kate. I don’t make ey”. I know my business. on on that te ths 1 “Tbs all settled, Kate, as far as I am concerned,” he sai When shall I meet | you, and. where? mors your time and place.” si Let it be at the Red Bridge at half past alten * said hurriedly. “And now [eave me,, I shall be there on cel, and you want to bave yours. I wish I dared to you so ie a ears so saga we mig ght Deng father back fase it! You will not be afraid to use it if 8 comes. to worst ‘and oe life is in ae will il y ‘give ime permission to open ae : a true friend, Tom,” said Kate brokenly. “Now or I must hurry home before I am missed.” leaving Tom to return home alow: ‘>and make tions to his agli and sister as ee coud, ta PAME 0 FORTUNE WEEKLY. as : YOUNG TOM BROWN OR, THE BOY WHO KNEW HIS BUSINESS By ED. KING ° : ry, (A SERIAL STORY.) I ki ‘Kate turned. the | corner of Main street and ; What was this mystery which uated over the Merwin — family ? Tom did not know, though of course he speculated a good deal upon it between the time when he left Kate and half past eleven, when he rode up to the Red Bridge on his wheel. It was a dark, dismal night. The wind sighed mourn- fully through the trees which lined the nek on either side. Tom slipped off his wheel and stood ate against the bridge rail peering.about for Kate, when suddenly he heard footsteps coming along the road behind him. : At first he thought it was Kate and it puzzled him, as he had passed no one after leaving the town. But after all it might not be Kate, and it at once ‘oc- curred to him that it would be better to hide until he was’ sure. There was plenty of chance, for stretching back from the bridge for the distange of fully half a mile was a piece’ -| of woods through which the road ‘passed. ; : oF Tom slid in among the trees and drew his bike after _| him. He had scarcely taken his place when he knew that it could not be. Kate. .The step was a man’s. but it moved slowly and feebly. Something seemed to tell Tom that the step was Dr. Merwin’s, and in a moment he knew that he had guessed — correctly, for the old man came into view around the turn’ © in the road. He shuffled on until he reached the Red Bridge, where. he stopped and looked around. “Tom!” he called. “Tom Brovit! I want to speak Boe you! ‘Tom, are you there?” Taken all aback, Tom did not know shia to do.” Evidently he mst have passed Dr. Merwin without — Evidently also he had been seen,” What was ee knowing it. he to do? Just then an owl gave a dismal hoot from a tree behind him. “Tom Brown! to me, ‘Tom Brown. I want your help |” CHAPTER XI. AT MIDNIGHT IN THE SWAMP, Never i in all his life had Young Tom Brown found him: self so puzzled as h8 was now. ; What span he ces It was heavy, Ten, “Boca, called Held anaeee again. “I know you are hiding in there somewhere! Come = j
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ie “look here, boy. You are no fool. 24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEE RLY. . Tn some way his presence at the Red Bridge had been betrayed to the old doctor. To come out'and show himself would be to betray Kate’s confidence, and yet to refuse this old man who was calling upon him for help was some- thing that he felt he could not do. But there is always a way out of every dilemma, and Tom found a way out of this quicker than he thought, for all at once a hand wag laid upon his arm, sey there stood Kate Merwin at his side. “Tom |” she whispered in a voice so low that although she stood right at his elbow Tom could scarcely hear is “Tom, you go. Don’t say that you saw me! Go and do gust whatever he says.” “But, Kate! How did he find out?” breathed Tom. “Hush! Nota word! Go.” his answer settled it. ‘Tom was there strictly upon Kate’s business. ready to do just as she said, So he took his bike and walked boldly out into the road, approaching Dr. Merwin who stood leaning against the bridge. “Good evening, doctor,” he said in his usual cheery way. “You called me and I am right here. What can I do for you? I am entirely at your service if I can help you in any way. ” After that who can eat that Young Tom Brown knew his business. There is not one boy in ten thousand who could have faced this situation as Young Tom Brown did then. “I knew you were there, Tom,” said the doctor, speaking. in a quick, nervous way. “Kate went after you to-night. ‘She told you to meet hér here prepared to protect me against imaginary dangers. You consented and you did right, and I appreciate “it. saw you pass on your wheel. I was hiding among the bushes at the time. Kate is not . coming, Tom, but I promised that you-should go with me into the swamp, and here T am ready to start.” Tom was immensely relieved. The way Dr. Merwin put the situation it was not neces- sary for him to say anything. -. “Of course he could not understand the situation, but so Tong as it was not necessary to betray Kate’s confidence he did not care. “T am ready, doctor,” he said. “I hardly knew |what to do when you called, but you have been very kind to father and to me, and I want you to understand that there is nothing that you can ask me to do be a that I will not do fieoly:. If it comes to a fight “Tt wowt! It won't!” said the doctor hastily. “Kate exaggerated the danger. By the way, boy, what did she ‘tell you. What did she tell you? I want to know right away 1’? _ “Why, she told me nothing, sir,” apes Tom. “Nothing at all, I assure you.” “Good!” said the doetor with a sigh of relief. “Now You have proved that to everybody in Dimsdale during the-last few weeks. Every family has its skeleton locked up in the closet they say. Unfortunately mine won't stay in the closet; it has got down into the swamp, and I am obliged to interview it +; be blind and deaf to all that you see and hear. He was }up to it. s all I ask, N ow come Be, ie can ess Jou soe +f to the swamp I suppose. Unfortunately r am. too oa: e ride one, so I shall have to trot along the best I can.” * Tom assented and they walked done together, the doe- tor proceeding with slow and feeble steps. “Ah, Tom, you think you have your troubles in the: building business, I daresay,” he remarked, “and I have no doubt you think that with a man like me all rung smoothly; but it is not so. I would gladly sacrifice every dollar I am supposed to be worth to-night if I eould bie stand in your shoes.” Tom was wisely silent, for he felt that the deat was talking more to himself than he was to*him, and that no answer he could make would do any good. ns A little later and they came to the swamp, and here Tom left his wheel concealed among the bushes, and they started a together along the old wood road. ‘ ‘Where was Kate? ; res Once or twice Tom ventured to look back in the hope of seeking her, but Kate wags nowhere visible; yet he felt sure that she was near him, and that her eye would be upon everything that occurred. They walked along quietly now, for Mr. Merwin had stopped talking. He seemed calm and determined. Just before ‘they reached the clearing he stopped, and, 1 turning to Tom, said: ey) “We are almost at the ruins of the old Chics ree S are we not?” “We are,” replied Tom. “A few steps sii Ww. bring us out into the clearing where it stood.” “Very good. Then I must go on alone.. You can ‘cree after me, and remain in.the shadow of the woods, and re- member you are to make no move unless you think that my life or my liberty are in: danger. Then act promptl but if you have to use your revolver do not shoot to ki Remember, there is nothing so terrible as to have the deat! of a fellow creature upon your conscience. You had better be dead yourself, my hoy—better by far |” : “T shall look out for you in any case, sir,” replied. Tom “T promised Kate that.” ei “Be careful,” replied the doctor, arr then he walked into the clearing, leaving Tom to creep on to the edge of the woods. The doctor pushed’ ahead with a firmer step than he shown at any time since Tom met him, and took his near the ruins of the house. . Although ‘we have neglected to mention it, a shower up on the: night of the fire, shortly after Tom, Arthy and Kate left the swamp, It was a good heavy one while i lasted, an tinguished the fire so that a portion of the old f still remained standing. The front door was in this part, and Vom, as he eered out from among the trees could see Dr. Merwin walk dll y “Ned! Ned!” called the doctor, pausing in. 1 fre door. “I am here, Ned! You don’t have to deal - woman to-night. Come out and show yourself like a There was no answer but the sighing of the wind the trees ; but at the instant the doctor called, ‘Tom that he could see a man a pat one ies the windows. ‘
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_ The next step is to treat this mass in a rotary spinning- machine. First the mass is spun into a coarse yarn. Then iti is drawn and spun until it becomes fine and quite strong. “In case a hard, strong thread is required for certain fabrics e asbestos yarn is placed i in a doubling and twisting ma- ine, where two or more of the yarn threads are combined. the asbestos is to be impregnated with rubber a smooth, ard-finished thread is not desirable. _ For a long time the problem of spinning asbestos pre- sented many difficulties by reason of the manner in which the threads persisted in slipping past one another. Hvent- an it was found that, wader the neces ck a thread ected The result is that, after many years of expe- ‘tment, manufacturers nowadays are able to turn out a igle asbestos thread one hundred yards in length and not eeding an ounce in weight. * ma piano company in Indiana is in position to sup- music to the homes of all the telephone subscribers, at the same time advertise their business in an ef- ective manner. ‘At first the scheme attracted only a cu- tious crowd, but later the company began to receive hun- dreds of telephone calls from persons anxious to hear ayorite selections. The music as it comes over the e is of good tone, and where party lines are in operation, ny as twelve families frequently hear the concert at time. | The revolving ship is one of those inventions which, al- igh, they, are obviously impracticable, seem to have a ion for the inventor which is rather difficult to ex- Several years ago there was built and tried in this a boat of the revolving type which, if we remem- ghtly, reached a stage at which it was launched and empt was made unsuccessfully to. propel it. Ac- g ‘to a dispatch from London, a Paris inventor is oe upon another of these ordt t, and judging from ia descriptions available, the designer is follow- g the lines-that were proved to he “altogether im- eal fully a dozen years ago. neport of Postmaster Edward M. Morgan’ of the ss transacted by the New York posto fice for the ths ended September 30 showed gross’ receipts of This was an increase of $2,990,703.28 gross receipts for the same period last year, which ,688,716.82. The increase in the gross receipts he Ha quarter of this year was $968,381. 97 over the e in the receipts was attributed to the inaug- ‘parcel post service. Tf it keeps on grow- Morgan said, the postofiice poe: for $30,000,000, it FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 5 FROM ALL POINTS: three to four months. or ‘the quarter ending September 30, 1912. The iste ts distance in a commercial installation, es In order to give the apprentices at naval training sta- tions amore thorough course in the elementary study of arithmetic, geography, grammar and spelling, the Secre- tary of the Navy has ordered the course extended from This will not. be done until the complements of the ships of the Atlantic Fleet have been filled prior to sailing for the Mediterranean. on October 25. -The Secretary intends to extend the course to six months. wherever practicable for the exceptional cases of » apprentices who are backward in their studies, and. also to afford the opportunity for those who have chosen special branches, such as radio electricians, artificers and machin- fags to perfect their knowledge of the chosen branches. An enterprising house mover in West Somerville, Mass., finding it practically impossible to move a three-story dwelling as it stood, sliced it. straight down through” the ridge of the gable, and carted it away in’two sections. Hach section was about forty feet high. ‘The base, however, was thirty feet in length by twenty in width. The result, >| of course, was that every moment it threatened to topple over. ‘T'o obviate this, the brick from the chimneys and the stone from the foundations were loaded upon the first floor for ballast. While the work of slicing -was going on braces, of course, were required to hold the parts firmly in position. When the two parts were reassembled ten. miles away from their original site, the workmen put them together so well that, with a new coat of paint over the whole, no one would ever have suspected the remarkable feat that had been achieved. The house at its old location — stcod ten feet above the street level. This was: the reason that the peeuliar method oF trans fini it had to he re+ sorted to, eee to Professor J. A. Fleming, several of the most powerful wircless stations are now generating ether waves, haying a length from crest to evest of about four miles, and these disturbances can be “detected” at dis- tances up to 6,000 miles from their source. ‘That is, four such stations would suffice to girdle the earth. Obviously, - however, the ability to “detect” the signals over this vast distance, presumably under favorable weather conditions, is a very different thing from the power to maintain com- - | mercial communication along the route. As yet the wire- less service available to the public covers ut a third or at. most half this distance. There is as yet no means of de- termining the practical limit of wireless communication. Improvements in apparatus, perhaps even some new dis- covery as to methods of stirring up the ether, may revolu- tionize the art and upset all present standards. But at present even the most successful systems get into serious difficulties when called upon to maintain constant com- — munication over a line abont 2,000 miles in length. A recent British wireless commission was able to secure but one demonstration on a)line a thousand. mules long, al- | ae : though | several companies declared their ability much to. gn
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. —_—_— Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31, 1918. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS ‘ .05 Cents .65 Cents $1.25 $2.50 Postage Free. HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P.o. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances ia any other way are at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver ‘wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envel- ope. Hrite your tame and uddress plainly, Address letters to Sixcxrary Tovary, Preaident t Frank Tousey, Publisher ahaa Wears a 168 West 23d St., N. Y. BRIEF BUT POINTED ITEMS Omas, I. NyLanpxs, Secretary pickpockets that are working in a neighborhood they often ask the letter carriers to help them. The postman can tell them in what mail boxes he finds the most empty pocket- books, After a thief has picked a man’s pocket he wants to get rid of the empty purse as soon as he can, and what could be easier than to drop the looted wallet in a mail box? Then it won’t be found on him and nobody can say - letter carriers find many empty pocketbooks in the boxes. ly ieee ary y The democracy and vivacity of King Alfonso are con- _ tinually cropping up. One day the King left his steam yacht, the Giralda, moored off Bilbao, and went on a mo- tor trip inland, accompanied by a solitary friend. On the} return journey darkness set in, and the King found he| Ve@¥s. - had no headlights. He drove cautiously, in the hope of finding a village, whence he could telegraph to the Queen | * on the yacht. His majesty was getting anxious, when two eyclists passed. “Want a lift?” shouted Alfonso, and the men, astonished to recognize the royal driver, pulled up| ea were not permitted to visit the resident | boarders. lof doing so, and was court-martialed. The head maste ‘The ingenious Alfonso put them in the tonneau of the car, strapped the bicycles behind, put the little oil lamps in front. of the big machine for headlights and went on his way. shal itself for the northward migration to the nesting ' grounds is not often granted to human observers. Last year a flight started from San Diego harbor. For weeks _ the loons collected. in the harbor. They came from all points, until’ the water was fairly covered with them. By paring for some great event. They had hitherto been = formation captain. |—Don’t you find Bob rather rough? Daughter (blushing) When detectives are trying to find the meeting place of —Yes, ma. And he says he shaves every day! ih } ‘girl; but you married “her. | “That's a fine baby of yours, Bill,” said the boss to h he saw him throw it away. After every big convention the | chauffeur. “Yes, Mr. Wilkins,” said the chauffeur. ‘ The opportunity to see an immense army of loons mar-} the middle of March it was clear that the birds were pre- “What are you doing, Si?” “I’m paid to shoot th | “There goes one now,” said I. “Shoot, man! W. LY faults in the formation, which the leaders hastened to correct. There was great changing of places in the ranks; sometimes entire companies would unite to form a bat- talion, and these battalions join into a regiment. It was interesting to see that when several companies had united, most of the leaders joined the ranks, and left a single bird in command. About noon the ranks were all formed, and the birds extended across the harbor in a long black line facing north. The general, with his staff about him, swam a few paces in advance. When all was ready, he gave a loud call, and sprang into the air, followed by the entire army. In two minutes not a loon was left in San Diego . harbor. eee JOKES AND JESTS. Mother (whose daughter is engaged to a young farmer) First Man—How’ do you do? Second Man—Reg pa don, but you have the advantage of me. First Man Yes, I suppose I have. We were engaged to the sax wife and J are pretty, proud of him. He’s the latest modi cl all right—a self-starter, with an automatic horn that would wake the dead.” ~ "he Boge eine + MA Ares ae “Star of my life,” whispered the love-lorn youth, “4 hat star would you call me?” asked the beautiful gi Bewitching entrancing Venus.” “But I woul rather be Saturn.” “Why, my fair one?” Saturn gets a new ring occasionally.” (i eae At a certain college in the north of England the dy One day a male student was caught in the act ~ addressing him, said: “Well, Mr. Blank, the penalty the first offense is 50 cents, for the second $2.50, fi third $5, and so on, up toj$15.” In solemn tones the trespasser said: “How much would a season ticket cos Si Hopkins got a job last spring at shooting muskr: for muskrats overran the mill-owner’s dam, © There, in th lovely spring weather, Si sat on the grassy bank, his on his knee; and finding him thus one morning. oa d rats, sir,” he answered. “They’re underminin’ the d you shoot?” Si puffed a tranquil cloud from his “Do you think I want to lose my job?” . i 1 ete., of ‘RAME ew! York, N. Y. Required EY, 168 W. 23 st, 23d St., New York. Owners— Tenowi “bon Guoles Fa a \ es “otal oldera,
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FAME A FIERCE TIGER HUNT. AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. SK SSE REN FTES DOSEN OP RIT ENIER I DT ALA SEIS SIE SOEE PEI ST LETS AS TR ES) 27 A little in advance of our scouting party of natives was a bit of green jungle, heavy and dark. We could see by the -| rustling of the grass that it was the hiding place of some By Paul Braddon. -- In March, 1880, I was traveling in India, our party consisting of three ladies and one gentleman. We decided to camp and live quietly, spending our time gathering orchids and other botanical specimens.. We therefore “pitched our tents in a small clearing on the outskirts of “the dense jungle, near a military village in the hill country. Our Hindoo servants soon made us very much at home. _ It was wonderful to see how they transported every neces- sary luxury, and, as by magic,’ raised tents furnished with — earpets, chairs, books, and even a bird cage. _ Early one morning, as we were lingering over our “chota haziri,” or “little breakfast,” always taken in India on rising, and speaking of the noises made by the wild animals _ during the night, my attention was attracted by ‘the great chattering. of Syild monkeys in the dense jungle close by. _ At that instant a native came running into the tent in a great state of excitement, salaaming, but waiting for us to sp eak. “Kya chahte sho ?” (What do ae want?) Mr. Norton = ea. : “Sahib, plenty big tiger near. by. He is Bidhas near the nala.” ‘We held our breath for an instant, then the blood seemed leap faster through our veins. A tiger so near! The nala, or stream of water, was but ten rodg from our tent. Immediately we make preparations for the hunt. We : on leather belts, well filled with cartridges, selected Many men see him. ed off to da wa khana. Here we found a party of sepoys drawn up in line awaiting our arrival. We soon sed the little stream, where we saw the tiger’s tracks e mud of the ane Hooking like the footprints of a ‘is eee care. The Hindoo ig owing to his ledge of the jungle, wag'made the leader of the entire and we began our march. AS S ppery as oe The hi grew so near Goto: ‘at t was impossible to keep in a direct line. Progress cordingly slow. ‘e ight have been out three ound. watching every atch of jungle and elephant grass for a sight of the beast e ¢ longed to meet, when the wild chattering of a troop of onkeys indicated that the tiger was not far off.. What an xciting moment it was. Though the heat was intense n 1d we were very tired, on we went as stealthily as possible, ugh sometimes falling on the slippery leaves. But pare feet of our Indian hunters'made no noise as they thily stole through the dry grass. Heated, breathlessly, Another chatter of monkeys, a flutter of pright-winged birds as we stepped into a small grassy space, circled by tall palms, ahowed. us that the ca isarady his” ‘BrAyeN great animal, A consultation was hurriedly held. How ‘should we attack him? There was not an instant tobe lost. Again the tiger moved, and for a second we saw his yellow , coat gleaming through the green. Our talk was suddenly ended in an unexpected way. A clump of elephant grass at one side was quickly parted. A great flash of yellow bounded toward us, a gleam of blazing eyes made our blood run cold. A tipress—a mate of the royal creature in the jungle--with open mouth leaped suddenly upon us. Motionless with amazement and horror we stood. Oh, - the fearful, cruel face, as she stood lashing her tail from side to side. “Her hot breath almost’ burnt my face, as with outspread claws she made one fierce bound toward me, dashing the sepoy in front to the ground. I was paralyzed with fear. Surely my last hour had come! But a native sprang between us, the rifles cracked, the hunting-knives gleamed. It was soon a hand-to-hand fight. One gallant’ young sepoy lay senseless, blood dripped from the shoulder of another. Still the “entaged: tigress held her ground, while fear and a ‘horrible fascination riveted us to the spot. Although bleeding from a great wound in the shoulder, the tigress once more made ready “8 spring. The ladies were in imminent peril. But the brave Hin- doo doctor, knife in hand, plunged almost into the jaws of the tigress in deadly embrace. Over rolled man and beast; sometimes a gleam of blood-stained white showed where our poor defender was writhing ; but the great tawny body of the tigress seemed to fill all. space. None dared to shoot for the rifle shot might kill the man instead of the beast. FinaJly—it might have been seconds, but it seemed hours—a brave young sepoy rushed up, knife in hand, his swarthy face under his isthe turban gleaming with excites ment. “Mem Sahib!” he cried. “My doctor! He saved my wife and child. He must not die to-day!” and the brave fellow rushed forward into the jaws of death, His silver-hilted knife, sharp as a Toledo blade, gleamed with lightning rapidity, and it descended just over the heart. The tigress gave one scream that made the jungle re-echo, then lay quiet forever. She had fought bravely for her mate and little ones hidden in the jungle, but against numbers. _ The poor doctor, blood-stained ai senseless, was drawn away from under the outstretched paw of the dead animal. The other men escaped with only a few scratches, except the brave rescuer, who had a great gash eut in his brown cheek by the enraged tigress. ‘A The splendid creature lay stretched on ‘the shin ne golden brown skin with its velvety black stripes flecked — with blood, gleaming in the hot Indian sun. From tip to tip she measured twelve feet. All was joy and excitement, for as we dashed water in the face ofthe wounded doctor, he opened his eyes and smiled faintly. “Thank heaven, the Mem Sahibs are safe fe and ve |
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+ THE ROBBER’S CROSS. Shey Harry White, as -he strolled before breakfast around the outskirts of a,small Spanish town on the southern slope of the Sierra Morena; “and I’ve been in it three weeks and not had one adventure yet. A mam gets no show at all in. _ traveling nowadays, Hello! here comes somebody in a hurry.” Very much in a hurry, certainly, seemed the sturdy Spanish peasant who had just a ppeared on the top of the steep ridge over the boy’s head for he was leaping from crag to erag as recklessly as a wildcat, and at times even ewinging himself over some deep cleft by the bough of a tree as if in such haste that he had no time to think of such a trifle as the chance of a broken neck. \ But in this case it was “more haste, worse speed,” for : all at once a large stone gave way beneath the Spaniard’s feet, and he came tumbling headlong down into the road _* amid a whirlwind of dust. Harry, whose sympathies were already. enlisted in favor of a man capable of such feats of strength and daring, -flow to the spot, feeling as if he had really met with some- thing like jan adventure at least. But when he reached the’ fallen man he stopped short in sheer amazement, And well he might. The man whom he had seen bound. | ing along’ the ridge had Jong gray hair and beard. He' was quite sure of that, for he yemembered wondering that, an.old man should be so active. The hair of the man. be- | fore him was short, thick, and black as night, and he had ; no beard at all. | Meanwhile the stranger had managed to sit up and was, wiping the blood from a bad cut on his forehead. In doing so he discovered the loss of his false hair and beard, /and met Harry’s eyes fixed wouderingly upon him. “Well,” asked he fiercely, answering the boy’s glance with a deflant: stare, “do you know me? 2” Rog Poe NO! ADE I don’t want to know you,” said Harry, in ~ broken ’ Spanish, rather nettled at the man’s imperious tone, “T suppose you're a smuggler hy your disguising | - | yourself in that way ?” j pe thie wees, o am,” replied the other, with a strange smile. ie « Are you going to give me up to the police?” : “Not I!” cried Harry. . “It is not the style of English- men to give away a man who can’t stand up for himself. ye “Ah, yowre an Englishman, then?” said the smuggler, | looking curiously at him. “Well, if you are willing to} - help me, T’ll tell you how to do it, Give me your arm as far as the chapel of St. James, about half a mile down the’! c: road—for I find I’ve sprained my ankle too badly to walk | : » alone—-and then I’m all right.” 4 os whistle from the smuggler, five wild-looking horsemen with 6 thiékets, one of whom led by the bridle a fine black horse, | on which they at once mounted the crippled Spaniard, not without casting more than one puzzled and suspicious look is for your good: deed, ” said the tall smuggler, | UJ k it to. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ca!l Spain the land of adventure,” muttered ; ; Redona are upon our trail. » We must retreat at one. At last they reached the chapel, and then, at a peculiar | . long guns on their shoulders started out of the encircling | a Hon ct en a TR RE LN $8 | Ana, as you seem anxious to meet with some Spanish _ | brigands, it may please you to learn that you ip seen ; half a dozen of them to-day.” Bais Po * - * * Pr ‘ esa * 4 a $4 this strikes me as the very’place to fall in with that mice — man, Pedro Gonsalvez, the brigand captain who seems to 2 ! “Just my luck! T’ve' lost my way, sure enough ! And be terrorizing the whole country at this time.” The speaker was no other than our friend, Harry White, e jnow grown into a tall young man, and revisiting, after five ‘years’ absence beyond the Atlantic, his former haunts in, : Southern Spain. | | What Harry feared came only too soon. <A hoarse shout _ was suddenly heard among the bushes, and, before he could draw his revolver, he was surrounded by a gang of — fierce-looking men, whose grim ruffianly faces and scan : | ing eyes boded him no good, : A smart stroke from the butt of Harry White’s hea whip felled the foremost man, but the rest at once dragged him from his horse, and, in spite of his furious struaeiee , bound him hand and foot. ' “Tet me kill the dog!” roared the injured, robber. wh head was bleeding freely. “He shall never strike a Sp iard again!” “Not so fast, brother Juan,” said another. “He looks like an Englishman, and the ‘English are all rich. make him pay a fat ransom.” The robbers laid their prisoner on the hors se, Aine lec him up a steep, zig-zag path to a kind of rocky platfo walled in on three sides by unscalable cliffs, , while on ‘fourth Jay a precipice of several hundred feet.’ Here about twenty more br igands were encamped, and ! Harr y White, suddenly remembering his silver cross, Jo eagerly to see if the man who had given it to him was 0 ‘of the band; but he could see no one in the least like him, Just then a hasty step was: heard below, ‘and Bh tall ot dark figure, springihg up the rocks as nimbly as a x | tain goat, came bounding on to the platform. — d “Up with you, comrades!” shouted the newcome : was no other than the formidable Pedro Gonsalvez h | “We have been betrayed, and all the soldiers, from et | Who is this—a prisoner?” iar “We took him in the valley yonder and haye ke : hin | for ransom,” replied one of the bandits. \ Instantly a dozen ‘eager hands were tei pockets, and the brave lad, giving himself up for ] pared to die like a man. But as his watch was -d forth by the robbers, the silver cross that a ae asked, hitesietlly . “Where did you get that cross ?” “Tt was given to me five Sarah ago by a ) by a fall, ” replied Tine, troleie fixedly at fie “And I am the man who gave it,” said Gonsalvez, a1 ing his hand warmly; “and for that good deed you s depart free and unharmed. Comrades, give his bacl | that you have taken. Follow that path, whi you to the Ve ae % San cee bie when.
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STOCKS AND BONDS. 29° _ Much indignation has been arroused in Nottingham, England, by the allegations of some of the old and de- crepit inmates of the Basford Workhouse, Nottingham. ‘They have been yoked to the plough and made to do horses’ _ work on land belonging privately to the guardians. ee? All the electric lights in Mullins, 8. C., went out sud- “denly the other nig ght and stayed out. The next morning ‘linemen — found a ‘gosach green snake tangled in some 8 On a pole. The snake | had) crowled to the top of the , and, coming in contact with the wires, forced a short t uit, put out the lights, and incidentally died. Phe world’s first lighthouse for airships and aeroplanes il soon be unveiled at the Johannisthal Aerodrome out- de Berlin. The tower, which has been erected by a Ger- ht, are said to be visible for many miles. . = “attractive lady of iiaiie five opened a barber shop Chicago, and the men of the neighborhood, many of , are hoary-headed and bald, so enjoyed the ‘manipula of her dainty fingers, that they visited her shop to aved as often as twice a day. The wives of some of the lemen who suffered from the “shaving fever,” called 1 the pretty barber in a body and forced her to emigrate. J. du Pont, first vice-president of the E. J. du Nemours Powder Company, impelled by a phil- : motive to put radium within the reach of the sses, has purchased four of the six existing radium ore nines in’ this country, situated near Centre City, Col., and i develop them. ' Mr. du Pont has decided to do ‘this es friendship for Dr. Howard Kelley. a Baltimore eae believes radium is a certain cure for cancer. erite Hoticben, ened fun ene: known as the me baby,” has arrived at San Francisco, safe Ft appy, after traveling all the way from Vienna, Aus- Hugging a big. teddy bear, she climbed down in recently and ran to her mother. he child lowing notice, printed on oilcloth sew ved on the her dress: “Please, dear folks, direct me kindly to isco, to my mamma. All my papers‘are in my ts if you need to look at them. I thank everybody much. . But please don’t kiss me.’ Every ome she told her Bashan “was mighty good to me.’ The eiBoi ees of i ded N; a has a woman “Weston.” é is Mrs. Phomas Lauber, eighty Years old, of Van Dyes 3 me ng the ‘Sumer, ieee home. at 4 ae Ok? ma | ‘tacle. e | spoken of prpmmmentiy as a cncea ie anal yt of evga) i GOOD READING o’clock in the morning and arriving at 6 p. m., and going without food or money. her upon her arrival. she enjoys walking in the open air. Relatives at the lake provide for Mrs. Lauber. takes the walk because The Hamburg-American, the Cunard Line and the White Star Steamship Company have signed a contract with tthe — Directors of the Port under the terms of which Boston-will byild a drydock large enough to accommodate the largest ship afloat. be signed by the Directors of the Port here. to be the largest in the world. The steamship companies . agree to pay to the city $50,000 a year, whether they use The contract, after a few minor changes, will The dock is he drydock or not, or if they use it more than the number of times agreed upon, they will pay the regular drydock rates. This rate is to be paid the city for twenty years. Owing to the poisoning of the Bruges-Ostend Canal the harbor at Ostend a few days ago was covered with the floating bodies of myriads of dead fresh water fish. ‘There are many mills on the banks of the canal which discharge chemicals of various kinds, but no such wholesale poisoning of fish had ever occurred before. The water could hardly be seen for the white and silver bodies, Passengers by the steamers leaving for Dover were astonished at the spec- There were great carp, trout, bream, and dozens of other kinds of fish. Dead eels, floating stiff and straight, ilooked like black sticks, against the background of silver seales and fins. Some ‘very virulent poison must have found its way into the canal. ‘The pungent smell of the fish pervaded Ostend, The explosion of ary. ‘batteries with which he was ex- perimenting caused serious injury the other day to Perry OW: Hale, Yale’s star fullback in tthe team of 799 and one of the greatest all-around athletes who ever attended the University, “Fragments of the batteries flying in his face cut him over,and under the eyes and it is feared that the sight of his lef ‘eye is permanently gone. His brother, Kellogg Hale, and Harry Dagnall, a cousin, were severely ent on face and hody. “All three were taken to the Middle- sex Hospital, where they were attended) by Dr. Mitchell, who said the injuries of all were most serious, but ‘those of Perry Hale gravest because of the danger to his eye- sight. The men were at work in a laboratory that Mr, Hale has: in the rear of his residence. There has heen such a». plague of chicken thieves on the Connecticut farms that Hale sought to plan an electric alarm especially adaptable _ for the safeeion of barnyard marauders, and had before him a group of dry batteries. The crossing of wires over-— changed the batteries and there was an explosion that sent agged fragments flying in- ‘all divections. Perry Hale, — ee leaving Yale, became prominent in. polities. He was. for a time city engineer of Middletown and has been sex nena re
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b 80 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS HOW ASBESTOS IS SPUN. ° The violators so far are said to be half-erown boys, ‘When it leaves the cobbing-sheds asbestos is sent to the| some men are reported to be engaged in it as well. Gam spinning-mills in bags containing about one hundred| Protector Fred De Witt is after the Be and if found pounds. It is then first carded by a machine somewhat! they will be arrested. es resembling the saw-tooth gin seen in cotton-mills. This} The only streams of any size running into the Esopus machine separates the tangled fibers, upon the completion] between the dam and Saugerties are the Sawlill and th of which operation there occurs a final carding on a regular} Plattekill crecks, between Kingston and Saugerties. Thes carding-machine. Leaving this carding-machine, the as-| streams are almost dry, and between the Hsopus and % hestos is combed smoothly and the fibers are laid parallel) short distance up these streams there are waterfal: in a uniform mass, considerable height over which'no fish except those of the trout family can mount. The Great Falls, at Glen are practically dry, a} little trickles of a a going ve them. A JAPANESE PILE-DRIVER. : A Japanese pile-driver consists of two guide poles sup- ported vertically over the spot where the pile is to be driv- en. Mounted between the guide poles is the hammer, which consists of a heavy block kept between-the guides by means of cross pieces secured to it. At the top of the guide poles are two pulleys over which pass ropes attached ‘to the hammer at one end and each tied at the other end to a dozen hand ropes. These are seized by gangs of men on opposite sides of the guide poles who haul the weight to the top of the pile- driver. and then let it drop on the pile below. The Ulster County Fish and Game Protective Assoe tion is seeking permission from the Conservation Commis sion to net the fish from the pools and holes in the Bs and remove them to streams like the Walkill and t Rondont, where there is plenty of water. If this is not lowed the fish will soon die by the millions. { i » . A NBW TREE-PLANTING MACHINE, is dent of Ephrair, Utah, and tried by oreneans fo at’ the Utah expertiient. station. If the invention pro as valuable as it promises, its adoption in the reforestatio: work of the forest service is likely to follow. Wit a mechanical planter the personal element that now e largely into the probes: of each individual tree can A LARGE DEMAND FOR RADIUM. As a result of the unprecedented demand for radium and mesothorium in Germany the price of the former has gone up $10,000,a gram. It is now quoted at $115,000 a gram. Cautions have been sent out to institutions and laboratories which are endeavoring to get even the small- est portion of the radium, warning them against spurious) q great deal, tree experts say, as some men Sac radium which is appearing on the market. The craze for ciency for speed, and are likely to put a tree in the radium and the enormous prices‘offered are said to be giv-| with the roots bent back and upward, ‘and this in ing strong impetus to’ the incentive to swindling, and sev-| instances retards growth or even kills the little tree. » eral cases are said to have beem reported. There are 453.6) rious tree-planting devices have been tried at 2 grams in a pound Troy and therefore radium at $115,000] times for putting small seedlings into the ground. On 0 a gram would sell for $52,164,000 a pound, an advance of| these consists of a large wheel set with spikes, wh $4,536,000 a pound. However, there. is only about a gram| the wheel revolves over the surface of the ground, p $$ of radium in. existence. eS holes as with the old-fashioned dibble. Pine seedli SSE CEN ere gathered in bundles are automatically dropped int GREAT FISHING POOLS. holes and the earth firmed in about them. This ma Fish by the thousands are being caught in pools along| however, is of use only on level ground and in soft s “Esopus Creek, New York, in peach baskets fastened to the| conditions not found in the mountain areas of the ends of poles. In some places the supply is so plentiful] tional forests. The new Utah device is a hand tool, wor that it is possible to pick the fish out with the bare hand.| ing on the principle of the corn planter, by which he Many complaints have been made against the practice as a| dividual tree is dropped into a hole made by the mach violation of the game laws. and the roots covered with soil as the plante The situation has been made possible by the closing of | moved. ‘the Ashokan dam. Since then the watér in the creek,| Thig is only one of ‘the many echemes. which have from the dam to Saugerties, has dwindled to a little trick-| tried for tree planting. Broadcast sowing has pr ‘ed too ling brook. Wherever there is a natural barrier, like a| expensive of seed. One of the most successful der rock ledge or a clay bank, in the stream the water has| for dropping seed is a heavy rake with a hollow hat settled back into the natural basins and pools, f By means of this the soil is stirred and the se Bass, sunfish, catfish, perch and other fish have sought dropped. and covered by means of the rake, the - refuge in the pools and deep holes by thousands and can using a emall lever at the top of-the handle to “be Bae out with baskets. ; | proper number of seeds. contained therein,
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fTIoK POWPER. Geo whiz! What fun yeu cap have with this stuff, Moisten the tip of your finger, tap it en the contants ef the box, and a little bit will stick. Then shake hands with yeur friend, or drop A& speck dewn his back. In a minute he will feel as if he had the : seven vears’ itch, It ake Rim goretch, reer, squirm and me ‘But it je perfectly harmless, ar -made from the seeds ef wild roses. The pate ch steps in a few minutes, or can hecked iminediately by rubbing the spot a we While it is working, yeu o - cloth. ‘ost joke of ail. Price 16 cents @ msail, pestpaid. x. GooD LUCK BANKS. ~ Ornamental as well aa useful. /Mado of highly nickeled brass. held’, just One Pellar. When iteelf. Remains : Money refund- ed if net satisfied. Price, 1c. _ by mail. , 1815 Centre St., Rklyn, N.S: OR SNEZEKZING POWDER. ‘ig The greatest fun-maker of chem all. A emall ameunt ef this yewder, when blewn in a reem, will cause everyene to sneeze witheut anyone knowing where it It is very light, wifl feat in the ‘time, and penetrate every neok faream. It is porfecttly kerm- hee is put up in bottles, and ene tains enough te be used from 10 te Price, by mail, 10c. each; 3 for 25a, OVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St. N. Y ¥ NDER - This is a wonder? little optics! illusion. In use, you apparently see the bones in four hand, the hole in & pipe-stem, the lead in a pen- cil, “éte. The principle on == which it is operated cannot Phere, but It will afford no end of person who has one, “Price, 16 by rail, postpaid. 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y¥. SWIMMING FISH Tiere is a fine mechanical toy. It is an imitation goid- fish, about 4% inches long. and contains a water-tight ~ compartment which will not — allow it to sink. To keep it rai position, the lower fin is ballasyted . To make it work, a spring is You then throw it in the water, ch -y inside causes the tail to ropel it in the most lifelike man- nm it runs down the’ fish floats until vered, and it can then be rewound. tween two of these fisher are very tins. Price, 25 cents each by mail, posi- 50 Ww. 62d St., New York City. EGG TRICK This is the funniest * trick ever exhibited and alwuys produces roars of laughter. The perform- er says to the audience that he requ‘res. some ewes for one of his @x- periments. As no spec= : tator carries any, he | tiiap taps him on top of the gags. and an esg comes cut of hiy he is repeated until six eggs are “LAUGHABLE t is an easy trick to perform, once ow, and always makes a hit, Di- given for working it. Price, 25 cents postpaid, == LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥- ER ADROPLANE No. 1. Will /fly on a horizontal : line 150 feet! Can be flown ; in the house, and will not injure itself nor anything in the room. The most per- ‘The motive power is fur- nished by twisted rubber _ bands contained within the to laugh your suspender buttens | fect little aeroplane made. | vs SOLID-BREECH accuracy by expert gunsmiths. ‘to work, from the breech. REMINGTON ARMS-UNION METALLIC CA! men WHISTLEPHONE This is one of the Sreatest musical in- Struments ever Invent- ed.’ It is made entirely of metal and is almost invisible when in. use. With it, in a few mo- ments, you can learn a to play all kinds of tunes, Tave lots of fun, please and. amuse your friends and make sorne money, too. Fine for either song or piano accompaniment or | You place the whistlephone | by itself alone. in the mouth with half circle out, place end of tongue to rounded part and blow gently as if to cool thé lips. A few trials will ena- ble one to play any tune or air. Price G cents ech by mail, post-paid Hi. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B'kiym, N. ¥. PIGGY IN A COFFIN. This is a wicked pig. that Gied at an early age, and here ‘@ burial. There will be a great for this coffin, pretty as it open will feel real grief. The coffin is made of metal, perfectly shaped and beautifully Jwcquered. ‘The trick is to open it to see the pig. The man that tries it gets his fingers gnd feelings hurt, and piggy comes out to Brunt at his victims. The ‘ubular end of the Gofin, which everyone (in trying to open) presses inward, contalns a needle wnich stabs the victim in his thumb or finger every time. This is the latest and a very “impressive’’ trick. the secret, and as a neat catch-joke to save yourself from, a bore is unsurpassed. Price, 16c.; 3 for 2ie., postpaid; one dozen by ex- press, 75e. WOLKE NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. SLIDE THE PENCIL. The pencil that keeps them guessing. Made of wood and lead. just’ Hike an ordinary pen- cil, but when your victim starts f to write with it—presto! the . lead disappears. It Is so con- structed that the slightest pres- sure on the’ paper makes the lead slide into the wood. Very funny and a practical joke, Price, 10c. each by mail, postpaid; 3 for 25e. H. F. LANG, 1815 Gentre St., B’klyn, N. Y. MICROSCOPE. By nse of this wonderful little mi- stagnant water until you see dozens of crawling insects; is also useful for inspecting) grain, pork, linen, and numerous other articles. This little instrument does ee Bat as good work as the best microscopes and is invaluabie to the household. is made of best finished brass; size when closed ix24 inches. Price, 30c. F, LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. HAMMERLESS Sure Safe Shooting for Man or Boy—And a Simple Rifle to Care For The Remington-UMC .22 Repeater is rifled, sighted and tested for It shoots as you hold, proved safety device on every Remington-UMC .22 repeater never fails Accidental discharge is impossible. : The Remington-UMC .22 Repeater is easily cared for. In taking down, your fingers are your only tools. and extractor, come out in one piece-=permitting the barrel to be cleaned The action handles .22 short, .22 lung or .22 long rifle cartridges—-eny or ell at the same time without adjustment. Remington-UMC—the perfect shooting combination RTRIDGE he is in his coffin ready for ! many mourners at his funeral, ; it~) looks, is very tricky, and the man who gets | croscope you can magnify a drop of | “Solid-breech Hammerless PEATER SIDE-EJECTING The simple, im- The breech block, firing pin co. 298 Broadway, New York City at as svete ASTHMA 3 LOTS OF FUN FOR A DIME Ventriloquist Double Throat ~ Fits roof of mouth; always invisibic; greatest thing yet. Astonish and mystify your friends, , Neigh like a horse; whine like 2 puppy; sin) like a canary, and imifate birds and beasts o the field and forest. Loads of fun. Wonder. fuliavertion. Thousands sold. Price: only 10 cents; 4 for 25 cents, or 12 for 5¢ cents Double Throat Co.Dpt. k Frenchtown,N.d ' i! 5 Wonderful Instrumon, VOICE THROWER'1 OoSsersrs . i “esl power. Sounds a) pearto come from a¢reat distance away, Heldunseenin themouth, - DN Mystifies overybody. Sends dime for yours todey. Cur great ontal Saisgie and Mystery included free. 00.,D° WINONA, rid ; a Keep all money dated before 189i and send I’ HN cents at once for Ne Illustrated Coin Value Book, size 4x7. Get Posto and make money easy, C. y. CLARKE & OU,, Coia Dealers, Box 21, Le Koy, N. ¥. $2 OOO YEARLY BUSINESS OF YOUR' own; ry mail order, parcel post; honest and legitimate; smal) capital; original methods. Write L. CLEMENT MOORE Specialist New Egyot, Ne 4 REMEDY sont to you on PRES TRIAL Tf it cures, send $1.00; if not, don’t. Give oxpreagoffice, Write todey. W. I. Btorline, 837 Obie Ave., Sidney, Ohia, S—OLD COINS WANTED—% £7.15 Paid for RARE date 1864 Quarters and $34 without arrows. CASH prem: jums paidson hundreds of old coins. It can be opened easily by anyone in | a different sorts, and RICE POST GARD n Good Magazine tor one year, Tho WHOLE THING for only ter Gents. ROBERTS & CO., 8247 WOOD SI., CRICAGG "Lie 3 You Gan Make $ g reams Dirootory. All kinda of 2; qraai 4.10 conta portage for blank book und eurilt, Wo want. milion Ta Pe PETOON & O0., MeKINLNY PART, CHICAGO). Kile R rf PER 100 COLLECTIBA your nelghbore numos for ont ERUBEEE TACKS, They come six in a box. A wonderful. imitation of the real tack. Made of rubber. The box in which they come is the ordinary tack box. This is a great parlor entertainer and you can play a lot of tricks with the tacks. Place them in the palm of your hana, point upward. Then siap f the other hand over the tacks and it will seem as if you are committing suicide. Or you can show the tacks and then put them in your mouth and chew them, making believe you have swallowed them. Your friends will think you are a magician. Then, again. you can exhibit the tacks and then quickly push one in your cheek or somebody else’s cheek and they will shriek with feur. Absolutely harm- less and a vary pructicel ana funny joke , Price by mai', 10c. a box of 6 tacks; 3 for 25e, ‘“WOLEF NOVELTY CO.,, 20 W. 26th St. N. ¥ (
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For Look! either A GRAND PREMIUM $2.50 of the. following: The dupa on the back case is a fancy engraved seroll. . SIEFI. Also known as @ Japanese butterfly. A pleasing novelty en- closed in an envelope. When the envelope is opened Fiffl will fly out through the air for several yards, Made of colored paper ss to represent a butter- ly six inches wide. Price, 100, M, V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th St., N. Y. VANISHING ClGanr. This cigar is made in exact imitation of a good one. It is held by a rub- ber cord which, with the attached aatety pin, is = fastened on the inside of the gleeve. When offered to a friend, as it is about to be taken, it will instantly disappear. Price, 10c. each by mall, postpaid. ©. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. SfAR AND CRESCENT PUZZLE, The puzzle is to sepa- rate the one star from the linked star and cres- cent without using force. Price by wail, postpaid 10c.; 3 tor 25c. WOLEE NEARER co., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. SPRING TORS ~~ Something new for the boys. A top you can ePin without a string. % This is a decided nov- ay elty.. It is of large size, made of brass, and has a heavy balance : j rim. The shank con- tains a powerful spring and has an outg casing. The top of the ahonk has a milied edge for winding it up. en wound, you merely lift the outer cas- g, and the top spins at such a rapid speed that the balance rim ke@ps it going a long time. Without doubt the handsomest and ‘best top on the market. Price 12 cents each, by mall, post-paid. BLY, LANG, 1815 Centre St., Biklyn, N. ¥. )C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York “City. oe in Your SobsonpeeuP Now to Nickel plated and polished; pro- duces a near-pierc- ing sound; large seller; Mllustration actual size, Price, 1%c. by mail. WOLFF Royale 00, 29 W. 26th St.. N. ¥. pada teniete lia ahs get tedel Liheddilh bifuina redanias dediah THE INK BLOT JOKER. Fool Your Friends, —The greatest novel- ty of the age! Have a joke which makes everybody laugh, ' More fun than any other novelty that has been shown in years. Place it on a desk, tablecloth, or any piece of furniture, as shown in the above cut, near some valuable papers, or on fine wearfiig apparel. Watch the re- sult! Oh, Gee! Price, i5e. each, postpaid. ©, BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. THE FLUTOPHONE, ; A new musical in-- strument, producing the sweetest dulcet tones of the flute. The upper part of the instrument is Placed in thé mouth, the lips covering the openings in the centre, : } Theh by blowing gently upon it you can play any tune desired as easily as whistling. But little practice is required to become a finished layer. It is made entirely of metal, and will ast a liftime. We will send full instructions with each instrument. Price 8 cents, by mail, postpaid. ALA. WARFORD, 16 Hart St., Brooklyn, N. Y. + THE AUTOPHONE, A smal] musical instru- ment’ that produces very sweet musical notes by placing it between the lips with the tongue over the edge, and blowing gently into the instrument. The notes produced are not unlike those of the fife and flute. We send full } ; printed instructiong whereby anyone can play PENG they can hum, whistle or sing, with very little practice. Price, 10¢.; 3 for 25e., mailed, postpaid... Look! One of these fine watches FREE to anyone sending us One—1] year’s subscription at. . . -Two—6 months’ subscriptions at . . Four—3 months’ subscriptions at , . 1.25 each 0.65 each “Moying Picture Stories,” “Happy Days,” “Wild West Weekly,” “Fame and Fortune Weekly,” “The Liberty Boys of ’%6,” “Se- cret Service,” “Work and Win,” There is only one condition—send us the money and we will send you the watch, and any one of the above publications for the period subscribed for. Description of the Watch . it is American-made, open face, stem gn and set, bs will run from 30 to 36 hours with on or “Pluck and Luck.” went @ smart s 4 Price rer of Deaut be produced. (as combinat , colors. | 3 N iy ce THE GERMAN OCA WOLF 29 W. 1 tion. ment, by the aid of wh ee short time play any tune — “and sweet music on this odd-looki Price, 10c. b HM. I’. LANG, 1815 Centre § Pp tral holes are drilled through Iu. peg is inside of the upper hole. both sides of the paddle, the ps by simply breathing upon it, : the upper hole, and appear in t! Then it jumps to the lo hole middle one, and lastly to 1G Both sides of the paddle are. BS i C. BER, 150 W. 62a Sie the Tivetinet i, cin. re Blectric But cn is. ip easly the ee)