Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 425) (1913 11 21)

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IN eee A, a if my al ip 7 ow, boys, all together!” sang out the foreman, as he steadied the log with his gripper. “One more shove and it will hit the rock.” The men shoved, the huge log swung into 1 place and the boy was saved.

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: _STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY | . Tesued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. ° pce e according to Act of ieee in the year 191%, in the ees of the Librarian of Congress, Weshington, D. apt Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 28d Street, New York Ente*ed at the New york, Y., Post Office as Second-Clasa Matter. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 21, 1913. Price 5 Cents. é' aD OR - b j ct -.. & WINNING “SPECULATOR y ‘ 4 By A SELF-MADE MAN ‘ 17 ; * oy Gas 5 i " : ; ae CHAPTER I. It had been wrung from,him by the sharp point: of a pin in- HUD eee serted in the end of a stick which had been jabbed into his Jeg ¥ dala HE ACCUSATION, ; by a big, loutish-looking boy named Phil Potts, who sat across- ; from him in the last row of desks. h Jackson!” called Mr. Simcox, the principal of the tae eae unpppullar, boy. in the echool: with) eveny- é Institute, in a stern tone. BERS)! ivedwatr ? anuwereil a. sturdy, bright-faced boy, rising in the He todied to the principal, ran errands for him, carried in- — ; formation reflecting on his schoolmates to him, and was guilty _ is (oh ais occupied: by Cd eet TENS emt Of | of other mean tricks, which Mr. Simcox construed as loyalty © to his interests, and therefore rewarded Potts in various “ways, he ii * gaid Mr. Simeox, severely. and neyer took any notice of his shortcomings. if Tom Beaseley might | have confessed that he’ uttered the Sight ang. doscorating the busts OF Shakespeare, [“OWeH!” and explained why he'eould not help doing so, but he \ ’ | was not a tale-bearer, Bes e didn’t believe it would do much d Byron with an application of red. oe black good, any way.- Taugh; quickly PRN aa from the lower corner of the As he jeft the room he registered an intention of getting followed by a general snicker from the pupils, brought a |Square with Potts. anger to the principal's sallow countenance. — .| “Now, sir,” said the principal, returning to Joe Jackson, si !’ he roared, glaring about the room. “are you guilty or not guilty?” i ce of the tomb settled wpon the assemblage. - “Not guilty, sir,” replied Joe, ina round full, nauate tone gain to the lad who was the: center of attraction, | that carried no indication of guilt with it. ‘said: ; “Philip Potts!” said Mr. Sinicox. . Ba Ri ly ‘ The sneak and toady shuffled his feet uneasily and slowly -eame from the corper of the room. arose, looking decidedly uncomfortable, ines darted a look in that direction. ; “Did you see Jackson coming stealthily from my study at yon make that noise, Tom Beaseley?” he demanded. | half-past eleven last’ night? Nes: .” replied that em promptly. “Yes, sir,” replied Potts, in a low ‘tone. aay id then?” . “You're a liar, Phil Potts!” shot from Joe’s angry and in eae } ‘ oe P dignant lips. ois 1” roared the principal. “Silence!” roared the principal. “How dare you interropt ie the witness?” 4 aie “Because he uttered a rank falsehood, ” retorted Toe. hi ¥ pane ; “Silence!” shouted Mr. Simcox. | rs 1 Who made that sound?” “But I have the right to defend myself,” protested Joe. re , sir,” replied the boy, with a very red face. “Silence!” howled the pr ee el seizing. a book and bangfig “An was you.” the desk with it. ? : H ‘i thing, sir,” protested Beaseley. pi Joe subsided. ‘ i othing! What do you mean by using such an “Now, Philip, you ‘are sure the. boy you saw coming from — expression? _ What were you sent to this school | my room was J oes ” said the principal. “Speak up. Don’ oe to speak correctly. If you did not make the | be afraid.” Soe w sa did it. Tell me this instant or ‘I shall| potts shuffled his feet dnd reluctantly: opened his ‘mouth t f i reply. st who said’ it} sir.” nd learn. “fi fifty eg from the tenth “At ‘that moment a missile, in the Shean. of a dried pea shot al through the partly open window. ¢ ‘ At was preneted P. by a. long, thin, in t

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2 howl] and began sputtering and gasping in a way that aroused a laugh from the scholars near him. This unexpected exhibition astonished Mr. Simcox. “What is the matter, Philip?” he asked in a mild tone, At that point Phil succeeded in ejecting the pea. It flew with some velocity into the eye of the lad in front of him who had turned around to look at him. “Here! Whatare you doing?” he demanded, rubbing his optic. The boy at the next desk PEON EE, for he thought it awfully funny. # “Moses. Beach, leave the roam, sir!.” eried Mr. Simcox, Beach was the boy who had laughed. - Moses got up and disappeared. “Wow!” howled Phil, at that juncture, for a second hard pea had struck him in the eye. : A gnicker ran through the room. “Tn the name of common sense, what is the matter with you, Philip?” demanded the principal. “Somebody fired a pea in my mouth and another in my eye,” said Potts. ' A third pea whacked him on the nose, and he sprang away ’ from his desk. As he did so he caught a fleeting glimpse of the grinning face of Tom Beaseley outside the window. “Tom Beaseley did it with his pea-shooter,” said Phil. outside the winder.” ; Mr. Simeox, taking the cue, rushed to the window nearest him, threw it up and caught Beaseley in the act of discharging his fourth’ sbot, “Beaseley!” he rdared, “go te my study and wait there till I come.” “He’s With visions of a caning in prospect, Tom sneaked away in| discomfiture. Order having been re-established, Phil Potts was directed to continue. He stated that the boy he had seen leaving the principal’s study at so late an hour the night before was, in his opinion, : Joe Jackson, though he admitted that he had not got a square look at him. mee “How is it you were out of bed and sneaking around the hall at that hour?” asked Joe. “Silence!” cried Mr. Simcox, who did not wish his witness evoss-examined. ? “Will you ask him yourself, sir?” said Joe.: The principal glared at. Joe. “T have no doupt he had a good reason Bas: being in the cor- ridor at the time,” he said. “But it's against your rules.” “You didn’t pay much attention to my rules when you went to my study and committed that outrageous piece of business.” “J did not visit your study last night, nor at any other time except when you were ares ‘Se ; “Philip Potts saw you.” “He did, not see: me. If he says he did he lies. as good as his any day.” And it was 2 great deal better in his own estimation, and in the estimation of the bulk of the scholars. “That will do, oe oh lig Sit payne Philip, saan ‘Marsh, _ stand up.” Marsh was Potts: particular erony, the only one he could count on as a friend. ~ Whatever Poits asserted, Marsh was willing” to swear to‘if _ called upon to do so. My word is squeaky voice. sy “Now, Marsh, were you with Potts last night in the corridor leading to my study about half-past eleven?” , u Ex » *Yes, sir,” squeaked Marsh. = *Bxplain why you and Potts were downstairs at that hour “when you should have been in your room.” : “é heard a suspicious noise down in the corridor. It woke us up. Phil said he guessed burglars had got in, and he said ‘it was our duty to go. and see what caused the sounds, and if it was burglars we would go to your room and wake you up. ; When we got down to the bottom of the steps In the dark we saw a light shining under the study door. I said il guessed ‘ ere was nothing wrong—that, you were in there reading or writing. Phil said we ought to Make sure about it, and he told “me to look through the keyhole, J did, and I saw Jackson standing at the table painting a ee of red moons ‘on the face of one of your ae ete, ; That's a lie!” ¢ ee Oe «Silence!” ejaculated thet princinal e put a dab of red o tor the a” and made black Ines ‘on oat and across th slibly, yi AN THE LUMBER TRADE. “You are certain that the person who was doing the painting was Joseph Jackson?” said Mr. Simcox. “Yes, sir. Anyway, I saw him coming out of the study after- ward. That's the time Phil saw him.” “How could you see me or anybody else in the ca des manded Joe. a “You had‘a candle in your hand.” oy “Oh, I did?” said Joe. “I’ve always known you to*be a little. 4 sneak, but I didn’t think you were such a barefaced liar.” “T ean prove it was you,” retorted Marsh, defiantly. “Prove it, then.” “You took the meerschaum pipe belonging to Mr. Simcox 2, away with you and carried it up to the room where you sleep cs 4 with your bunch. I looked through the keyhole and saw you hide it behind your trunk. I'll bet it’s there now.” “Ha!” exclaimed Mr. Simcox. Then, turning to his assistant : teacher, he said: “Mr. J inx, go up to No. 11, look behind Jack- He was an insignificant Ipeksne lad, with shifty eyes and a son's trunk, and see if my pipe is there. I did not observe that ss it had disappeared from my study.” Mr. Jinx, a hatchet-faced young man, a graduate of some. college, who occupted the post of assistant instructor, left. the. room, and his return was awaited with much interest by all in the room, particularly Joe, who was certain that if the pipe — was found behind his trunk that it had been planted there by either Marsh or, Potts, both of whom he knew hated him most cordially. Ms He realized that the accusation was a plot got up by his wan enemies to bring about his disgrace and’ have him severely punished. When he looked at Marsh he noticed a trnunanene grin | 01 his mean little face. ‘ ‘The grin was also reflected on Potts’ countenance. Fy He was therefore prepared fox the production of the pipe by Mr. Jinx. The assistant instructor was absent about five minutes, “Well, Mr. Jinx, did you find the pipe?” asked Mr. Simcox, — “No, ‘sir. There was no pipé behind Jackson’s trunk,” re- plied Mr. Jinx. The grin disappeared from the faces of Marsh and Bre and they looked at each other in great discomfiture. em CHAPTER II. SENTENCED TO THE DARK CELL. Joe was perhaps as surprised as his two enemies. 3 Mr. Jinx ae not add the piece of information that he ha the hie Male study. cE Beaseley was one of the six—-bunch, as Marsh called hee who slept in the room, consequently his presence there cou i not be regarded as suspicious. He had no business to be there when he had been-erder the study, and Mr. Jinx.considered that he fulfilled his d by telling him he had better go there or his punishment ¥ likely to be severer. Beaseley went, and the assistant instructor returned ay class-room. PIN hind Jackson’s traak? said Mr. Simcox. “No, sir,” replied Mr. Jinx. “Did you look well?” , a £ did. ” “Did you look anywhere else in the room for it?” me § gave a glance around, but I was a request look Bebind the eee diets ; cipal, Pert “Nothing, ie tip ital Hapa Cala IG from’ ‘behind the trun} and put it in his trunk when he got up this ‘aorning,” r Marsh. “You're at iberty to: agam ine my trunk, Mr. ee Joe, nue ‘0 hand you the key. et advantage of by the principal. He judged that his pipe was not in? the strani 4 guilty of taking it, wouldn’t have made the offer, atts He set considerable store by his pipe, ‘and: didn’t lose it, but ‘its temporary absence from ‘his study is valuable busts. 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but the boy had come to the school san dloadod by the repu- tation for mischief. He had been pelitely put out of two schools for raising high - jinks generally, and Mr. Simcox had accepted him only on his promise to behave himself. Joe had kept his word to fellave; though it was a difficult matter for him to keep straight, and Mr. Simcox was bégin- ning to have hopes for him, and to plume himself on his abil- ity to successfully handle a pupil who had proved too much for the heads of other schools, when to his anger and dismay is outrage on his precious busts was pulled off the night be- fore. _ Give a dog a bad name and it will stick to him, is an old saying. _Joe’s reputation in the past at once caused him to be sus- pected, and suspicion soon became a certainty when Phil Potts ) called on Mr. Simcox and told him what he alleged he knew - about the attair. _. “We won’t discuss the pipe now,” said the principal. = will ‘go to my study and wait there till I come.” “Do you believe the statements of Potts and Marsh that I peas in your study last night at a late hour, sir?” demanded Joe. “T am obliged to accept their stories, for one corroborates _) the other.” “Then you must believe I am a downright liar, since I have a sate’ denied having been anywhere near’.your study at he time mentioned. Furthermore, I deny all knowledge of ‘©. trick pulled off by somebody on your busts. .I had no ae St the matter whatever,” said Joe, earnestly. “The case is closed. Go dir ectly to my study and await ae + coming.” WT object to being unfairiy dealt with. You have condemned Me onthe statement of two boys who are enemies of mine, -. and who have deliberately lied to get me into trouble. I won’t _ stand for any such deal as that.” *Good boy!” came from one of the scholars, but which one it was im fF os a 2 “You et possible to tell. “Go to myestudy this instant, sir, do you hear?” roared the ‘Joe saw it was useless to argue the case further, -. He was up against it, and all on account of Potts and Marsh. “Y'll make. them regret what they’ ve done,” he muttered, and e left the class-room. “I'll give each of them the biggest whaling he ever had in his life. I’ll compel them to own up - that they lied about me, and my room-mates will help me do it popit necessary. Those two scalawags are a disgrace to any @:ool, I ean't see how Simcox stands for them. I suppose it is because they act as spies for him. A real decent principal ve ‘wouldn’t tolerate spies. Well, if Simeox thinks I intend to _ Mmeekly submit to be punished for an act I didn’t do, he’ll find out his mistake.” - When Joe entered the principal‘s study he found his room- - Mate, Tom Beaseley, there looking out of the window which Verlooked the garden, On the table on one side of the room stood the three disfig- ured busts. 3 They were certainly decorated to the queen’s taste. shakespeare bore a scarlet red nose, a red moon on each cheek, vertical black stripes pa his throat, and horizontal ones cross his forehead. ‘Milton had a full black eunes as far as paint would make it, A and three red crescents on his forehead. is Me: ‘ron’s countenance was ornamented with all manner of a str ange red and black birds and beasts, crudely executed. : _Angry and disgusted as Joe felt at that moment, he couldn’t “grinning when he looked at the decorated busts. Tom turned around when he heard the door open. He thought the comer was the principal, “Hello, Joe, Have you been sent here, too?” he said. Yes, a. been found guilty on the perjured testimony of Cy and arsh.” ae ane Ot dauning up, those busts?” he ide at Ce performed the job?” aven’t the.least idea.” etl Se yu can take it.from me that it was either Potts or Marsh, 1 of them: teeter. Then they laid, the blame of it on something on them at the first chance I get.” 'd knock the daylights put of them. I saved you ‘at IN THE LUMBER TRADE. ST AES RE oP OE ics EW ATR BE Nats PLE as 55 Man aR ahah NOR a IO ral Tacs Mitel Bd ae cc URE ed Irae ee TENA 3 en nace “Taking old Simeox’s meerschaum. I was standing outside ; the class-room door listening to what was going on inside, cu” rious to learn how the case against you was pr ogressing, and I heard Marsh tell Simcox that you had taken his pipe to our room and hidden it behind your trunk, I made a bee-line up- stairs for the room and looked behind the trunk, fer I was sure that either Marsh or Potts had put it there to get you in bad with the principal. It was thére all right, and I removed it. I was about to take it to the study~here when Jinx sud- denly came in and caught me in the room. He toid me that as Simcox had ordered me to go to his study I had better do so without. delay. Sol cameright away. There’s the meerschaum on Simecox’s desk.” “Thanks, old chap,” said Joe. “You've shown Marsh up as a liar on one count, but Simcox didn’t. call him down for it. Those sneaks have a pull with him, and their word goes fur- ther with him than any one else’s. Some day, however, they'll get all that’s coming to them, and it will be a heavy dose, be- lieve me.” “So Simcox has pronuonced you guilty of monkeying with the busts?” © use Yes. ” . “And sent you here to receive your sentence?” “There’s little doubt about that.” “And I’m in for a heavy lay-out, too. Simcox caught me operating the pea-shooter on Potts. I expect it will be the Black Hole for mine for at least forty-eight hours. I wouldn't be surprised but you will inhabit the other cell for a week.” f “T'll run away first. If I were guilty I wouldn’t object to whatever punishment Simeox chose to inflict on me; but to be punished for what I didn’t do, I won’t stand for.” “T don’t see how you can help yourself unless you skip be- fore Simcox appears and tells you your doom.” “No, I won’t make any move until I make a final protest.” “Tt will be too late then.” “How will it?” “As soon as Simcox announces your punishment he'll see to it that you perform your penance.’ Before Joe could make a reply the principal walked in.’ He stalked majestically to his desk and, sitting down, swung @eound and looked at the boys. “Thomas Beaseley, I sent you from. the class-rogm with directions to repair to your room and learn the first fifty lines from Chapter X. of the History of the United States. Instead of obeying yon went into the yard with an implement called a pea-shooter and began shooting peas at Philip Potts in the class-room as he was in the act of telling me his story about © the vandalism which had been committed in my study ‘last night. Your pufishment will be three days in the dark cell on bread and water,” said Mr. Simcox, tapping the hand-bell, on his desk. The gardener of the establishment, who had evidently been waiting outside the door for the signal, walked in. “Take Beaseley to one of the dark cells and lock him up He is to remain there for three days,” said the principal. . Tom was immediately marched away, and Joe was left alone with the head of the institute. “Now, sir, gaze upon your handiwork,” said Mr, Sissons pointing at the defaced busts. “You ought to blush with shame at being the author of such an outrageous piece of business. Those busts are ruined beyond redemption as works of art. _ Am I to suffer the pecuniary loss of replacing them? It would ~ be manifestly unfair, So I shall write your uncle an account — of your deed, and request him to make the loss good.. As this is your first practical joke in my establishment, I will, not go to the extreme of sending you away in disgrace, as you justly deserve, for your uncle told me this was the last chance he was going to give you to acquire an education at school. You have already disgraced yourself at several institutions of learning, — and I am going to see if I can’t reclaim you by a little judi- cious punishment that shall fit the crime. I am satisfied that you are really not a bad boy, but a spoiled one. I regret that after promising me you would amend your ways that you have broken your word. That is the worst feature of this unhappy Ws affair.” : “T haven’t broken my word, sir,” said. Joe, stoutly. “TI nave never broken my word yet. I ‘aid not deface your busts. I was - not in this room last night. The statements made by Phil Potts and Hen Marsh were not true in the faintest particular. They are both down on me, and this is a put-up Job to get me expelled from the school.” “T am compelled to believe them when both of them’ teli the same story. I sce no reason why they should be down ‘on-you, as you term it. They are very good boys.” =A ee a pair of- encaits, ug the wh school Kneera it 4

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4 IN THE LUM They carry tales to you, and that is why you defend them,” said Joe, boldly. “That will do, sir. I won’t listen to another word. Your punishment will be a week in the second dark cell on a partial bread and water diet. If after you have been incarcerated three days you are truly penitent, and send me word that you are ready to promise to amend your ways, I will consider the question of releasing you and permitting you to return to your studies. That is all.” Mr. Simcox tapped his bell as before, and the gardener, who had returned after disposing of Beaseley, answered the call. “Put this young man in the dark cell next to the one in which you have piaced Beaseley: He will remain there seven days unless I remit a sorbate of the sentence,” said the prin: cipal. Then Joe was led seas to the cellar of the building and ocked into the cell in question, where he was left to ruminate upon his situation. CHAPTER Il. A BREAK FOR FREEDOM. As tbe footsteps of the gardener died away and silence fell upon the cellar, Joe heard three knocks upon the stout wooden partition which divided his cell from the adjoining one. Of course, the knocks were made by Tom Beaseley, and Joe answered them by three knocks on his side. “What's your sentence?” asked Tom, through a hole which had been cut by some boy in the past to communicate with a fellow, sufferer in the next cell. “Seven days,” replied Joe, putting his mouth to the hole. “That's: a long time for a first experience down here. Forty- eight hours is the usual time. As Simcox igs tease my of- fence a rank one, he gave me Sixty.’ “You've been here before, I believe?” “T should smile—seyveral times,” Ks “How do you like it?” “Y don’t like it, but I’ve got to grin and bear it.” “Tt don’t intend to if I can help it.” “You can’t help yourself. You're locked in aie me and y | can’t get,out till the gardener lets you out.” -*Oh,/T' don’t know. This cell is only built of wood.” _ “Tt's strong enough to hold you just the same.” “Maybe it is. I’vé got a good, sharp, strong jack-knife. ' bet. I can cut my way out before the week is out.” 1 “You can’t do it. The puro and the kitchen “boy visit a prisoner three times a day with his bread and water, a hunk ‘of meat thrown in at dinner time, and they’d notice any - damage done to the woodwork. Then you would be searched ‘and your knife taken away. The matter would be reported to 'Simcox, and you'd probably get an extra day, * said Tom, “Do they always examine the cells at each visit?” “No. But they couldn't help seeing any cutting you did on the door.” . “7 notice. that the back of the cell i is sige. That's the foun- : "dation of the house, isn’t it?” “Yes.” _ “Both sides are constructed of stout boards. This side is the partition between our colle, What's eet the other side of my cell?” j AEBS Dig, coal-bin.” '/ “Ts it full of coal now, do you know?” “No, I should think not. It's late in the sprite, and most of the coal has been used up.” kes the coal-bin kept locked?” No, I don’t think so.” “TI might be able to: loosen a board next to Ahe bin, 3 _ “I don’t believe you could do it.” i | “Well, I'm going to try and get out somehow.” : ' “7 wish you could, but there’s small chance of it. Even if you ta, what good would it do you? The damage would be ‘Tepa ‘ired and you'd be sent back to do double time.” ‘Don’t you believe it. Id quit the school.” “Then your uncle would be notified, and when you got home | he’d send you’ back.” “I wouldn't, go home.” | 1 here’ “would you go?”. Narn don’t know, but! Vd hike for some oti r ‘Sines u haven't any money to speak of. vs wouldn’t make a ly differerice x ¢ z ; Fic | 0 to work for somebod: e sound of footstep: d th . ea vic ae ve busts yourselves.” neck. Why don’t you say something?” side of his shirt and soaking him good, "| : fiture. line and marching into the refectory for dinner, © brought the prisoners their dinner, which constated 8 a plate of meat, potatoes and bread and butter, glass.” and then the prisoners were left to themselves agail he was cautious. lighted it and held it close to the grating. ~ “Hen told me you handed him a ee # ‘sent a healthy ‘stream in en direction. ¥ BER TRADE.: oe Semebody came to Tom’s cell and peered in through the — opening. 28s Owing to the darkness within he could see nothing. “Hello!” said a voice in squeaky tones. “What do you want, Hen ‘Marsh?”’ asked Tom, recognizing « the voice. “Oh, this is where you.are, Tom Beaseley? like it in there?” said Marsh, with a chuckle. “None of your business. Get out of here.”. “What would you give to get out?” Tom made no. reply. “He, he, he!” Jaughed Marsh. : There was a small pitcher of water and a glass in both catiat = Tom partly filled the glass and approached the grating. “Are you there?” “Yes, I’m here,” said Marsh. “Can you see me?” “No; it’s too dark.” “Put your face up close and look hard. z “7’m doing it.” Swish went the water into the Sneak! s face: “Wow!” howled Marsh, falling back. “What did you do that f f for, you big stuff?” he added furiously. “To make you keep your distance, you spy.” “T’ll get square with you for that, see if f don’t.” “You will, [don’t-think. Wait till I’m released and Pll mak : you sick of living, You and that.putty-faced Potts lied abou , Joe Jackson and got him sent down here, We're going to fix. you for that. ru bet a dollar you and Potts painted tnose How do you - “Aw, bet your small change first.” “Get out of here and leave us alone.” rok “Go sit on a tack,” said Marsh, moving on ito Joe's: ¢ “Hello, you lobster., What are you thinking about?” ; Joe made no answer. ‘*[ hear you're in for a week. Ain’t I glad you got it. in th T'll bet you won't play any more tricks in this schoo Oy The entire contents of Joe’s water-jug came iiroue grated opening and landed on Marsh’s chest, running dow The sneak uttered a howl and danced around outsi After abusing Joe in choice terms he went away. ety The two si ieaaeih? laughed spats ae over Marels ae washed their hands and faces preparatory to forming: i Twenty minutes later the gardener and the kitchen “What do we drink?” asked Joe. “Water,” said the gardener. “You've gat 3 a jugtul “There’s no water in my jug,” said Joe, “You don’t mean to say you've drank it all nee Cf “T mean to say that the jug,is empty.” j The gardener looked and saw it was so. - | He told the kitchen boy to fill it ata faucet in ‘he ri About the middle of the afternoon Potts visited them)’ — Marsh had warned him of the soaking he had received, an (et He had brought a small piece of candle with “ith, That enabled him to see inside of Joe's sak. Joe was ine on his iron cot. Phil grinned when he saw where he was. F -“Good-afternoon,” he said. “Go to thunder,” responded Joe. pany 271i “I'd like to hand you one, tod. Sips “T think you need one yourself,’ » said Potts. | He blew out the light, then raised a_ garden aim in the dark at the spot where he had seen oe’ 1} He expected to hear Jo SOULS

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IN THE LUMBER TRADE. 3 B 'He coughed and sputtered, and the squirter fell out of his “Are you really going to cut?” asked Tom. 5 ; hands. : “Say, what would happen to me if I didn’t? Aren't you Joe and Tom gave him the laugh. | coming with me?” “T'll fix you for that, Joe Jackson,” he hissed, picking up| “Where are you bound for?”* j the squirter and walking away as mad as a hornet. | “T haven’t the slightest idea. All I care is to get as far “I’d like to have that sneak in here for ten minutes,” said away from Simcox as I can.” ” ‘Joe to Tom; “how I would lay it in to him.” “But your uncle will be pretty angry with you.” “We'll fix him when we get free,” returned Tom. : “Let him,” said Joe, opening the door and stepping out into A few minutes afterward Joe discovered that the pillow of , the yard, followed by his friend. “I’m going to,make my own his cot was soaked with water! j way in the world.” : He was mightily surprised, for he couldn’t account for it, {| “I'm.with you. I’m sick of-this school, anyway.” He told Tom. Say, here’s the window of the pantry open. I'm ag hungry “Potts must have done that.” as a hunter, for I didn’t eat more than a couple of mouthfuls “Eow could he do it?” of that bread. Give me a boost up and I'll see what IT can “He must have had a squirter with him, and he thought to} hock in the eatabie line,” said Joe. give you a soaking.” “You'll get caught.” as “Then he got beautifully left. The wall at the head of my “Don’t you worry.’ Wouldn’t you like a few more moutt-~ _ cot is wet, too. I guess he lighted the candle to see where I fuls?” i was. If I hadn’t got off the cot in a hurry he’d have got me, “T should say I would, but” Tm going to report this to the gardener and ask for a dry “Never mind your buts, give me a back.” : pillow. If can’t use that one now.” Tom bent down, Joe mounted on his back and peered into Joe, however, had no occasion to use a fresh pillow, as the pantry where a swinging lamp was burning low. events shaped themselves. / The door that communicated with the kitchen was slightly When supper time came the gardener was away onanerrand ajar, and Joe heard the cook and house girls laughing and . to the village, and Joe and Tom waited so long for their sup- talking at. their supper. per, which was limited to bread and butter, that they began to} He clambered in at the window and opened one of the doors fear they were not going to get any. ‘of the big ice-chest. | Finally about seven o’clock one of the male helpers he The first thing he saw wes part of a joint of cold mutton. ' peared, accompanied by the kitchen boy, who acted as the He pulled it out by the end of the bone and, “going to the “buttons” of the institute, or lad-of-all-work. window, said: : The boy carried a lantern, and the man two plates of bread} “Lay hold of this, Tom.” os and butter. f ~ | His friend took it. Tom’s cell was opened first, the plate passed in to him, and} A loaf of bread, an apple pie and a hunk of butter on a the door relocked. wooden. platter followed. Then the door of Joe’s cell was opened. A bottle of milk, two-thirds full, with a couple of. table That lad had formed a resolution to make his escape if he' knives completed Joe’s foraging efforts. could when his door was next unlocked. | “Now we'll walk down the road a bit toward the village, and “The prospect of remaining seven days in solitary confine-' under the shelter of the hedge we'll have: our supper,” he said, ment, half of it at least without the presence of his friend as soon as he rejoined his friend. : _ }Tom in the next cell, was unbearable to him. j They covered a quarter of a mile ita the lights of the . When thesman passed in the plate to him, Joe grabbed the village showed in the, near distance. . : ~~ buttered bread with one hand and sprang out of his cell, up- Then they sat down. ‘ gpesetting the man in his rush. i Joe cut off several slices of bread, then a’ hunk of the mut- : Quick as a wink Joe snatched the lantern from the youth and | ton for Tom and another hunk for himself. v i gave him a shove that landed him inside the cell. “This tastes good,” said Tom, with his mouth full. ‘He slammed the door and locked it. “Bet your life it does. Have a drink?” and he held out the »--.Then while the man was getting up he opened Tom's cell milk bottle. and called him to come out, They finished the mutton between them and ate halt ‘of the “ y pie. idk oe as te “Where are we going to sleep to-night?” asked Tom, “Ts. or CHAPTER. IV. _ | too cold to bunk out of doors.” Pingel , ee ‘ IN THE FREIGHT CAR. | “We'll find a barn somewhere.” } Ni ‘Here, what are you up to?” demanded the man. “Let that ) “Barns are usually locked.” er tanae “boy ront-and get back into your eell.” | “Then we'll beg a lodging at a farm-house.” r- r--“"Pom,” said Joe, as his fr iend stepped out, eating his bread | “They'll make us give an account of ourselves. The farmer and. butter and wondering at the invitation to freedom ex-{ will be sure to suspect that we belong to the institute, and will ’ tended by Joe, “are you game to skip out with me?” ” : guess we are running away. He'll be iikply te detain us while “Where - -to?” asked Tom. he sends word to Simcox.” i : “Any where, so long as we get away from the dark cells.” The sound of wagon wheels approaching from the village at “There'll be an awiul row if we leave the cellar without, per- ‘tracted their notice. i Rei p : ere “T wonder who this is?” said Joe, es “Well, I'm going to. Soave whether you do or not.” It proved to be the gardener on his way back to the school. . . “1 won't desert you, no matter what the consequences.” The -pboys recognized him in ‘the ia: and ‘drew their ‘ i. “All right. The only obstacle in our way is this individual, ; hats down over their eyes. aA must be prevented from giving ses alarm, Help mg shove | ‘The hats, by the way, were not their own, but two: sey him into your cell.” , taken off thé hooks in the entry when.they left the cellar. ~ “Oh, I say, none of your didoes,” gat the man. “If you ‘two! The gardener, if he noticed, them, took them for village don't return where you belong, I'll have to make you.” , boys. I * “@rab) him,” eried Joe, seizing him by one arm, while Tom | The wagon rattled on and once more they were by. them: fastened on the other. “In with him.” , selves on the deserted road. t The man was not very for ‘idable, but he put up a struggle. | They got up and walked forward in the Biddetiot of the vik “You'll get into trowble over this, you chaps,” he said. lage. $s “we'll risk, it,” returned Joe. “Get in there with you.” _ Skirting the outskirts, they came to the railread tracks, ; % os re Man struggled hard to avoid ‘going into Tom’s cell, but On the siding stood a couple of box freight cars. } fat oys had the advantage of him, and in he went, the Baers | ‘One was closed, with a tag attached. say Se Ge locked on him. | ‘The door of the other was open a few inches. _ : Leaving the lantern on the floor for the benefit of the new “This car’ would be a fair. place to sleep if we didn’t, have igoners, the boys started for the cellar stairs. lie on the bare floor,” said Joe. rive me a back and, vu oe Joe fed the ary up, opened the door and stepped tito the what it looks like inside.” ; ry. , here was no one in sight. eg 2 yet ey to get. in. a The tudents: were all at evening study. i Striking a match, he i ait was pretty well filled with: ‘bags — sth like to put it over ‘Potts and Marsh before T left the of feed. , by the satainia atom pais fee; .* Bog waaay little | “We'll roost here for ‘the: night, * ne ; said, after selling Tom ; } et was in the car, on oats me Re ; Mounting Tom's back, he pushed the door open fat énoug say

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IN He helped Tom up, Shoving the door into its original position, they sat down |as soon as he entered the kitchen for his supper, appeared. on a couple of bags and began considering their future. Three miles south of Rockdale village was a town called | boys couldn’t, have tricked him like they did Smith. Wexbridge. They proposed to go there in the morning and take a train for Auburn. THE LUMBER TRADE. At that moment the gardener, who heard about the troub As he was a big, muscular chap, he was satisfied that the ie The principal had the same opinion, and he regretted that ~ Jackson and Beaseley were served with their supper by ‘any “s one other than the gardener, who was in charge of those sent - They could get the same train at the village, but did not |to the dark cells. ips consider it wise to be seen buying tickets at the station. _ Inquiries would surely be made of the agent by Mr. Simcox, ‘descriptions had bought tickets for Rockland, and then the head of the institute would have a dine on their destination. a ‘After talking an hour they grew sleepy, and climbing up on _ the top of the bags, wheré they had lots of room, they took off » their jackets, spread them over themselves, and were presently - asleep. oa - and he would tell the principal that, two boys answering his | they didn’t, sir. “So they carried off the key, did they?” said the gandonsen oi glancing at the hook where it hung when not in use. “No, © Here it is on the nail.” ae Smith and Billy were immediately released, and returned to. the kitchen looking very foolish, while Mr. Simcox started up- oe ‘stairs, expecting to find Joe and Tom in their room.. ‘ Of course he didn’t find them there, for by that time ‘they ’were climbing into the freight car. A search of the building, the grounds and the outbuildings In the meantime there was the dickens to pay at the insti- | failed to’ reveal the missing boys, and the principal at once by » tnte. When the man and the kitchen youth-of-all-work failed to | reiurn to their duties, their absence was remarked and re- ported to the housekeeper. i She sent one of the girls to the cellar to see if they were ) gtill there. 2 The girl saw the lantern burning on the floor, but no sign of -.. those she was in search of. * Wondering where they were, she went over to the lantern: Chen she was appealed to by a voice from behind the grating of one of the cells. “Let me out, Molly. escaped.” he girl recognized the voice of the kitchen man and went to the doer. She could not let him out, nor the youth who set up a howl } Those boys locked me in here and in the next cell, because Joe had hung the key which opened both cells on the nail where Tom said it belonged, and the girl knew. nothing about it. “The key is not in the lock,” said the girl. “Then those boys have carried it away. got back yet?” “T think not. He hasn’t been to his supper.” “Then report the state of things to the housekeeper and tell her to notify Mr. Simcox that the two prisoners have got away and locked me and Billy in the célis, and carried off the Key so "owe can’t get out.” pet The girl returned to the’ kitchen and told the facts to the : Housekeeper, : That lady was a bit staggered by the condition of affairs, and she went at once to Mr. Simcox's study and told him. . \*Do you mean to say that those two boys have got. out of ‘their eells and lecked Smith and Billy in their places?” eried tue principal, not a little staggered himself by the unheard-of /action of his two rebellious students. e “That is what Mary Fallon reported to mé when she re- Sant: from the cellar, sir.” : eke: Simcox jumped up and accompanied her to the kitchen, Asai ore he questioned the girl, then he went down in the cellar ‘himself and verified the outrage: . “Bow came you to let those boys get away, Smith?” de- manded the principal, angrily. “You were supposed to unlock only one door at a time.” i “That's what. I did, sir. The boy who was in this eell, whose is “name, I think, is Beaseley, gave me no trouble. .I passed his " supper to him, he took it, and I locked the door again. Has the gardener _ The boy, there, Jackson, took ‘the buttered bread and then tipped the plate in my face. To prevent it falling and break- - ing I let go of the door, whereupon Jackson gave me a shove - Ynat sent me staggering back. I tripped over Billy’s foot and __ fell on my back. Jackson grabbed Billy, took the lantern. from him, shoved him into the cell and locked him in. Then before T could reach him he unlocked the other cell and called Bease- Jey out. locking the door on me, then they went away, taking the key with them,” said the man. | “T should think you could have handled them both. You’ re a man and they are only boys,” snorted Mr. Simeox. _ “They're very strong, and the Baie of them were too much for me, sir.” 4 } “Well, this is a pretty how-de-do. week, and Jackson shahl have a severe caning when his week i ‘ them now and ep the Be ep ‘that T can let Thén |* - {I went to the other cell, opened that and passed the plate in.| sitting up. The two of them seized me and forced me in here,| money between us. * However, they shall pay | ; early for this open rebellion. Beascley shall remain“here a} Every mile we travel in this car is so much sa e concluded that they had run away. fis He told the gardener to take Smith and the other man ae servant in the light wagon and try to find him. ny The gardener then remembered he had seen two boys sit- ting against the hedge on the road to the village when he was returning to the institute. He was sure they were the fugitives, so he headed for the village. sey c} Several hours passed, during which Joe and ‘Tom slept se renely on the top of the bags in the freight.car. Then the whistle of the north-bound freight train brought: the station agent out of his cottage tlose ‘by. The two box cars on the siding were to be picked up and carried to the end of the road one hundred miles away. ~~ The agent with his waybills walked down to the siding. to meet the conductor when he got Gut of the caboose, He flashed his lantern on the two box cars and noticed’ that one of them was not locked. “That's just like Jenkins,” he muttered. “I told him ts ‘be Pes sure and spring the lock on that car door, and here he has le it ajar as an invitation to tramps to take a free ride.” He pulled the door open and flashed his lantern all around | inside. Apparently there was no one in there, and not dousidenin necessary to make a search on the top of the bags, where g darkness hid the two sleeping boys from his sight, he shw the, door tight, put the hasp in place and snapped the lock. Fifteen minutes later the two cars, attached to the freight, were rolling away from Rockdale, and the boys were unawar that they were on the-move, and in a direction opposite that they intended to go, e CHAPTER VY. ; THE RIDE (HAT ENDED IN A SURPRISE. The freight train ran along for an hour or soe at gait and then stopped at a town about ten pear from dale. : Me The two cars taken on at the latter place were at the end — of the train next to the caboose. er Those three were left on the main track, while. ‘2 coupl of ; cars were dropped and a half loaded one eon on. on the main track. | They came together with a jolt which woke up Joe and 7 ae. 4 “What was that?” asked Tom. 2 “Blessed if I Hello! this car is being moved, m sal : They heard three toots some distance ahead, and then t train started on. *Oh, L say, this car is being carried uway from the siding. Hadn't we better get out?” said Tom. ; “No,” said Joe, “we're in for a iree ride. Thidfreight train: is doubtless going on to Auburn, and we'll get there without the trip costing us a cent. That's lucky, for: we haven't. uch — Only enough to have paid our fares by passenger train in the morning. Under the pres nt ci stances we probably will reach Auburn two or t ire h ‘ahead of that train, for we'll travel all ace Turn 0. to sleep again.” ; a “But this car might not g0)all the way 1s: Aubi 1 Tom. ; Lay bat ira % “Then we at take the: passenger train the balan The boys lay down again and soon went It never oecurred to them that the train might be ‘the os ene direc! tion they were eoleuie on, ;

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ae Be Ae IN THE LUMBER TRADE,” —- Perhaps it was because their thoughts were centered on Auburn that this was so. Six miles further on a car was dropped off, and as the train. , went on ohe or more ¢ars were dropped and occasionally one taken on. The jolting awoke the boys a couple of more times, but as _ they knew the cause of it, they went. to sleep again. ne Morning dawned over the country and, after a wus, the sun rose. At seven o’clock the freight was still several miles from its | : destination. Tt was switched on to a village siding to wait for the early passenger from Bingham, the end of the route. gat The boys woke up. i “I wonder what the hour is?” asked Joe. “The car isn’t moving. I guess it was dropped off some- wheré, along the road,” said Tom. “It's morning. I see the light shining under the door.” “Why isn’tit shining through the door? You left it the way | » sve found it, partly open, didn’t you?” > “That's right, but it isn’t open now. One of the train hands must have closed it.” mary so, hope he didn’t lock the door,” said Tom, uneasily. “We'd ' be in a nice pickle if he did.” get y=» “Oh, I don’t know. The station agent, is bound to open the “door efore long.” “May not be called for to-day.” . “Well, I’ll'see whether the door is locked or not,” said Joe, slipping down jand trying it. “Yes, it’s fast all right.” _ “Then we'd better pound on it. If there is any one around | he’ll hear the racket and then we'll be released.” “And we might be turned over to the police for stealing a) voride:” _“That would be rough on us.” “At that moment they heard the whistle of a locomotive. The passen¥er was coming in at the station a short distance “away. sa sae ecuple of minutes they heard the passenger pass. ee en they felt their car in motion again. +. “We haven't been dropped off after all,” said Joe. “The | 5 “freight was standing’ on a siding. waiting, for that train. to 5 BSS 27S 2s! ‘ ~ “We ought to french Auburn soon, don’ t you think so?” asked fers i a ithe -fistance from Rockdale; but as it is only forty. miles be-. tween the two places, and we’ve been running all night, off and | ‘on, I should say we were due to arrive pretty soon.’ ‘I’ve teen told that freight trains run ten to fifteen miles an our bédCPzcn stations. Now if this car was hooked on around | idnight, and it’s seven or eight o ‘clock now, the train ought, ré run more than forty miles.” — : “But we can’t tell how many stops it made, nor how long. Hts ‘stayed at any piace. Sometimes a freight remains a good: wh le on a siding waiting for some train which has the see way to pass,” ‘here are no passenger trains running on this road sip skdale way after nine o’clock. How do you know but we have passed Auburn? We have no evidence that this freight , a) “pound for that place we'll have to go with it.” uppose it goes clear through to Boston?” ee believe this ear is es to seahaee “Tt’s only half} ded fide eh br - ng. may vhappen that will end in our release ple the food was eed and they Hoead their breakfast of it. 7) Ww - ‘one has nothing else it fills in. main su ire to prove a serious matter if they had to remain long ped up in the_ freight car. 1e train ran steadily along for perhaps three-quarters of uur, then the locomotive blew a, long whistle, ne re coming to another fe A te > ga, y, \ a “Hie won’t open it till these bags are ween for, and ue -*J hayen’t any idea how hong it takes a freight train to make | goes nly as far as that city. It may be going on to Portland.” } d pie for the morning meal was a new experience, | planin difficulty was they had nothing to drink, and that. by woods of considerable extent. ij was to make for a small restaurant they saw sik 3 the yey “eu came along soon afterward and carried the caboose off by itsel : All the varied sounds of a busy railroad yard reached the ears of the boy, and as there was no further moye: made by: ‘their car, they believed it had reached its destination, and _ they looked eagerly forward to their release. After a time the yard engine came up and carried three cars of the train, theirs among the number, ee the platform on one side of the train shed. !. They heard men passing and repassing reswiedey, now, and | the sound of hand trucks rolling along. It was close to neon before the door “of their car was opened, The sunshine flashed in, and in another moment they were. discovered, “Well, I’H be jiggered! * cried one of cS station men, gazing oe at the boys. “So you chaps have been stealing a ride; » | “Tf you, call being locked into a car and run off with stealing @ ride, then we're guilty,” replied Joe. ; “How came you to be locked in this car? You must have. vy, ‘sneaked in while it was lying at Rockdale, for that’s where” a \ begs car came from.” \ Joe explained how, he and his companion came upon the | car standing on the siding, with the door partly open, and as | they were looking for a place to pass the night, as they had’ j 20 money to pay for a lodging, they got in and went to sleep on the bags of feed. “We didn’ t expect the car would be moved during the night,” . "We! went on. “This morning we intended to take the first pas- senger train for Auburn.” : ; “For Auburn, eh?” grinned the man. | “Yes. Is this Auburn, or have we been earried further on?” “Tf you were bound for Auburn you’vé been tracling in the — | wrong direction to get there.” / ( ‘ “Traveling in.the wrong direction?” said Toe.’ “Auburn is forty odd miles south of Reckdale, where you | Sot on this car. You are now at Binghant, about 80 miles: Baas: of Rockdale.” “Eoly smoke! is that 50?” gasped the boy. “That is so. This is the terminus of the read. You'll have 'to pay your way back now, and it will cost yow three times as ‘much as if you had taken a passenger at Rockda e going the right way.” — “But we haven't money enough to. urine over piel ; distance. er ; t “Well, that’s your funeral. Come now) get a@ move on, oun may consider yourselves lucky that I don't turn you over ‘to ~ ‘the station agent. He might use you roughly, for it’s consid- ‘ered a crime to sneak a ride on a freight car: I believe your’ story, for you don’t look like young tramps, and I am willing ‘to allow that you wouldn't have gone to sleep in this car had you known where it was bound.” “Ym afraid we're in a bad hole. “We've got to eat, and we ‘haven't the price of more than half a dozen meals.” “You look like pretty decent sort of chaps, who haye homes, Why don’ t you telegraph to your parents for money to get back — te with?” ; q “T haven’t any ‘par ents. I live with my uncle when I’m at — home. He's a banker at Clearha ‘en, and ais some ways © from here.” “You can easily reach him with a telegram. You can-ex- , ! plain matters when you get back. J dare say he'll send you~ | enough money to see you through, and your friend, too. Well, ee I wish you both luck.” * \I can’t stand here talking all day. “Come on, Tom,” said Joe, and the boys left the car and Pao their way oy of the yard. Hay j if CHAPTER VI. ; ; 4 ON THE ROAD TO THE LOGGING CAMP. ‘Bingham was a small town on the Kennebec of about 1, 000 inhabitants. _ Its chief Fe eae was eauee and it had many saw ‘and mills ountry round about was sparsely settled and covered LS The ei The first thought of both lads when they reached siete oot 5 “Do we eat?” said Tom. | “T think we'd better,” eta Joe, situation afterward.” + ; “We're all of seventy- five miles _ from sibsuat 't get there if we wanted to feturh without mor mon d n't want to et we If! can W. fess

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re i THE UMBER TRADE. Mae i eva to look out for something to do myself or I'll be apt to gq hungry.” “You won't go hungry as long as I have the price.” They entered the restaurant and had a square meal of meat, vegetables, pudding and coffee. The price was thirty cents each, and Joe, having the most hloney, stood for it. “We must hunt up a cheap lodging,” said Tom. Joe asked the proprietor of the restaurant if he could refer them to a cheap lodging-house. : The Bingham House down the street will accommodate you _ for fifty cents a night, but if you take a room by the week it will be cheaper,” said the man. Fifty cents apiece for a night’s lodging was rather a princely sum for them to pay in the state their-finances were in, and Joe asked the restaurant man if there wasn’t a cheaper place. ‘Oh, yes, there are several lodging-houses where you can get a room for a quarter, with a discount by the week. You'll ‘find one in the same block with the Bingham Housé,” was the reply. _ The boys started off te find the place. On the way they came to an intelligence office on the ground - floor. i ' There was a large sign in the window which read: “Men wanted by the Somerset Lumber Co. Good pay. Also a couple of boys to make themselves generally useful.” “Here's a chance for us,” said Joe. “Let's go in and see what the jobs amount to.” ‘ They entered the office. | : ' “We noticed the sign you've got in the window whieh states that the Somerset Lumber Co. wants a coupie of boys,” said Joe to a man at a desk. The man looked them over critically. “You'd have to rough it up in the logging camp, and you two don't look as if you were used to pele work,” he said. “Do you live in town here?” “No, we're strangers from down the State.” “What brought you up here?” “A freight train. We thought we were traveling south; in- stead of that we landed here a short time ago.” “How came you to travel on a freight train?” “We were accidentally locked ina box car.” “How was it you were locked in?” - “We thought the ear was anchored on the siding for the night, and as we had no money we could afford to lay out for lodgings, we got into the car to sleep there. When we woke up: and found it moving we supposed we were going south to Auburn; but were fooled, for the car was brought here. That’s how we happen to be in these diggings. Now that we’re so far north, we'll have to get work or we will go hungry.” “Well, if you chaps want to try life among the loggers Ti send you by the covered wagon that starts this afternoon,” - said the man. _ “What will wé have to do?” iaveca Joe. “You'll have to make yourselves useful.” “How much pay will we get?” “Your board and $4 a week.” “The $4 will be clear, then?” , “Yes, You won't be able to spend any of it except fe to- ~ bacco and whisky.” 5 “We don’t smoke or drink.” _. “Then there won't be no deductions, except for necessary aa articles, you may need. But there ain’t any use in you going * with those duds on. You want a rough working outfit—+woollen | : boots, pants and jacket that’ll stand wear, and a pair of stout boots.” i ; «We have no money to pay for those, things.” m “PH fit you out if you engage to go.” | mel To on if my friend will go.” Bip s3) with you,” said Tom. =, on down and wait till: I draw up the papers for you to 8 gn ” > ; f . In the course of ten minutes. ‘a filled-in’ agreement was handed each of the boys to affix their signatures to. ‘They read it over and saw that it was a labor contract for ‘the season. sce aime. was, up icy were to forfeit half of their wages. cay * ‘ i y. got. ‘|quaintance might only have been a brief bar-room one. se already, when he learns the news.” bad sort. om go to another school. son, who acted as his assistant, and told him to take Joe and Tom around to a certain store and see that they got what they required for the work they were about to engage in. : They were soon fitted out with the necessary clothes, and beught other things their conductor said they, would need, in- cluding a couple of grips to hold their things in. “How about the suits we have on?” asked Joe. get them in our bags.” “T’ll take you around to a pawn shop. You can raise four or | five dollars on them, and theyll be kept in good condition till you get back.” } They went to the loan shop in question, and the broker took them into a back reom where they took off their good ciothes and donned their working apparel. ; Each received $5 ‘on his clothes. _ The agent’s son then showed them around town, taking them to several of the mills. Here they saw great logs reduced to rough boards. These and other kinds of lumber formed the chief, articles of freight carried south from the town. They learned that the logs themselves were sent down the various streams that emptied into the Kennebec, and they saw thousands of the logs dammed in the river along the banks where the saw mills were located. In fact, the whole river front of the town was covered with logs of different sizes, each one marked with the stamp of the — lumber company to which it belonged. 4 Dozens of men were walking about on these logs, which were jammed together, sorting out the logs and marking them —— with red, or black, or yellow. streaks of paint, so that thet ownership would be more easily distinguished. : | The boys learned more about the lumber industry that after: a noon than they had ever dreamed abont heretofore. oi About quarter of five the agent's son advised them to ‘get. “ their supper at a restaurant, for the wagon would start at Six, and they would get nothing to eat till they FeaCRee: the log- ging camp. “You'd better have a lunch put up,” he said, “gor tt might be delayed on the route. In any case, you will h reach the camp until along in the forenoon ahh you will find that a lunch will come in handy.” | ~ ; Joe and Tom followed his advice and had a number oft a wiches, a whole pie, and two’ pint bottles of coffee prepared them. They stowed the food in their grips and were then guide the place the wagon started from. ee The vehicle was a kind of “prairie schooner,” being. arebed 4 over with canvas, supported by stout hoops. — Half a dozen stalwart men in rough, be isiach the trip with the boys. Hiss, Vieng One of them was seated beside the drives bibiaze f They all appeared to know each other, whe uae sain 2 “We can't ' Joe and Tom were the last to get into the vehicle, sat down at the back, with’their legs dangling out, The driver cracked his whip, and his team of f started on their journey, which was to lead Pace wneoe forest wilderness. ” “How the boys at the institute would gape ‘if they saw a now,” said Joe, with a cheerful grin. “And how old Simcox would tear around after his sarde to send him after us,” said Tom. f { “JT suppose my uncle on the lookout for me to show home, for, of course, he has orci been plone a running away.” ft “My step-father will be as ‘mad’ woods, and have drawn $100, less ‘what is eet oe up us, which oughtn’t to be over $25, we'll go back wit) in our potkers and experience in ae heads, a a Bian § “My mother will be so glad rig see me then - that $ we allow her husband to punish me.” Be <a) “I haven't a mother, more’s the pity, but my uncle is I’ve lived with him six years, and I guess » tr his patience with the pranks I’ve eut ‘up, but, he has n {punished me.to any extent. I don't expect. rh be ed My uncle will probably take me. bank and have me learn the business.” _ “Make a banker out of. you, en “A bank clerk m : is hae bes the 2 around

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EN Hi LUMBE R ae ADE. ea See | +The road twisted this way and that, following the course of the least resistance. It was not a made road, except in spots, but the hardness of the surface made travel comparatively easy over, the ~ first » stage of the journey. f With the coming of twilight the driver stopped at a water course to give the horses drink, and he took advantage of the rest to light three lanterns. One of these he hung at the front of the vehiele, another at the rear, while a third was suspended in the center of: the wagon. Soon after they started on again night closed in-upon them and the woods began to close in denser upon the wagon trail. ‘No sounds broke the stillness but the tramp of the horses and the creaking of the vehicle as it swung to the right or to the left. The lights cast weird shadows about the trees, and at times the boys fancied they saw a man’s rough countenance staring at them fromthe shades. Inside the wagon the men were gathered in a group playing eards for small stakes, smoking and passing their pocket flasks around. The boys were not asked to join in the game, and would have politely declined the invitation had it been extended to } ‘them. '. Sometimes the wagon covered the ground rapidiy, at other times it went slowly. '. The pace all depended on the character of the trail, which erew rougher and rougher as they proceeded. The boys were seated inside now, opposite sides of the canvas wall. f] They watched the card playing till they grew sleepy and ‘fell into a doze, which soon became a deep sleep. The game did not break up till near midnight, when the wagon drew up ata wayside shack which did duty as a road- house. All the men, including the driver, adjourned to the bar, _ wkere a sort of lunch was served with drinks. The horses were watered by a boy belonging to the house, - who, when he finished the job, got " on the seat and looked ; * into. the wavon. tie spied the two sleepers, and saw they were boys. Getting inside the vehicle, he drew near.them and started to eel 'Tom’s pockets. — He worked as genuy. as he could, for he did not want to get ‘caught: Ly ea Te had extracted a quarter from Tom's vest, and was look- ‘ing for more ‘when Joe woke upsand saw what he was doing. He gaye the light-fingered lad a violent kick in the chest and then jumped for him. » The scrimmage that followed awoke Tom. “What in thunder is the’ matter?” he ejaculated, rubbing tis eyes. shecaedh found this lad going dhrbugh your pockets,” said Joe, Bc Was. astride of the young thief, “See if you’ve lost any- ing.” ‘Tom ‘lened the quarter, and: mentioned he fact. Cough up or I'll bang your head against the floor of the wagon,” said Joe, grabbing the youth by both jaws. ‘Tl give it up if you let me go,” said the lad. ALL right,” replied Joe, partly releasing him. ‘fhe boy returned the quarter to Tom, then they rape him out, of the wagon. 4p t vas not only at rest, but empty of passengers and driver. : We must be at some stopping place,” said Tom. hey looked out and saw the rambling two-story shack ‘ates. with light. ! The clinkimg of glasses reached their ears, which convinced ‘them the men were inside drinking. Tnside of ten minutes the passengers and the driver came locking out,, They ‘elambered into the wagon, and the party. was presently on the move again through the pia obscurity of the woods. CHAPTER VII. SAD THE LOGGING CAMP, if e only one awake. horses had been over the’ route so often that they knew. , and | needed little guidance from him. torning broke they were sia a wild vee lone: ee with woods on either side. : a with their backs against | “Where are all hands?” asked Joe, noting that the vehicle | _| fellow can only be young once, and if he doesn’t ee the most iF Ch “wagon traveled slowly during the night, the driver be-| The sun rose and ‘morning came on apace. Joé and Tom woke up and saw the other passengers sleeping around them. F Deciding ‘that they might as well eat, they proceeded to o so. Then they went forward and got on the seat with the drives. “How much further have we to go?” asked Joe. “Some distance.” “When do you expect to reach the camp?” “Round eleven o’clock.” “What time is it now?” : The driver consulted his cheap watch and said it was hal- past seven. ¢ , “Don’t seem to be anybody living around here.” “Very few, and they’re along the river.” “What. river?” “The one yonder,” said the driver, pointing with.his whip. The boys looked, but could only see indications of water at intervals. “T suppose we won't find the work easy at the camp?” “T'll bet you won't,” grinned the man, “What induced you to come? Did the man who hired you tell you that yeu. ‘d have a picnic?” “No. He told us we'd have to do real work.” “You don’t lock like chaps who've been used to hard tS Your hands lock white and soft. Where do you hail from? “We hail from a boarding school.” ; “Yes? This ain’t vacation time,” “T know it. We ran away because we, or at least I; didn’t get a square deal.” type) “Ran away, did you? Haw, haw, haw! I reckon you'll wish you were back afore long. What did the master do to tea lick you?” “No. He accused me ofa trick I was not guilty of, and ‘took the word of a pair of sneaks before mine, He sentenced me to. a week in a dark cell in-the cellar of the school’ building, on low. diet. I wouldn’t stand for it and made my escape. Tom here, who got three days in the next cell! for some monkey . business, concluded to. go away with me, and here we are; but, we wouldn’t have been here if we hadn’t gone to sleep in a ~ freight car, got locked in and were brought all the way to Bingham, where we landed almost on our uppers financially, When we looked around for some work to pay our way,, this job was offered to us and we took it. That's the whole story. a “Well, well; what'll your folks do whem they learn you. ve run away from school?” “T haven't any folks; only an uncle who’s a banker iii a small town. I hayen’t any idea what he'll do. I don’t imagine he’ll.be able to do anything. He'll have to wait till, t turn up. Tom’s, parents will probably look for him, but 1 think the chances are against their finding any trace of him while he’s up in this trackless region. Bingham seems to be the end of. civilization in this direction. 1 guess we'll be dead to the t world while we’re at the logging camp,” ‘ “The work will put bong and muscle into you. ‘You won't look like you do now when you go back. You'll be. tanned brown, and your hands will be as hard as brickbats. You'll be — able to lick the daylights out of the schoolmaster. Haw, haw, haw! ” Key “T could do that now. He has a gardener, ealneey tat who's tough nut. We never would have got away if he hacen ‘around when we made our break for freedom.” “Six months from now he'll find you chaps a nuts to handle.” ' “7 don’t imagine we'll go near him. , At least I won't, A “Are you sick of schooling?” ; ; : “T’vye had about all I’m likely to get. Tom and t are’ preity ae well educated outside of a college course.” iif Lyin “Tt’'s a great thing to be educated. If { had had more schoo ing I wouldn’t be driving this team for a living up here in th backwoods. Seems to me you chaps weré foolish to run awa} from school.’ I’ve always heard that boys have a pretty ‘good: time at boarding schools, playing baseball and football and. mixing in other kinds of sports. I’d give a whole lot to be young again and have a chance in one of them schools; but ¢ & , ‘ - j j of his chances he’s apt to regret ta” ib 4 The other Dassengers were hier as) aD NOW, and | some of |Tom and the prospect around: The wagon ees the tall woods. Sime aud ne mori wore on, They began abate men occasionally. along, ‘the ines _ They were all tough and weatherbeaten looking Follows i arrived at se RARE noon,

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10; ’ , Is ¥ Tt consisted of alcellection of es qacscs The lergest was occupied as the quarters of the men em- ployed there. Adjoining it was the cooking and eating house. One of the buildings was occupied by the superintendent “and two clerks. j Next to it was the company’s store. The wagon stopped before the door of the office. All hands got out with their grips and bags and were ad- “mitted one by one. Joe and Tom hung back and were the last to go in. The superintendent looked at them critically. He saw they were boys who had not been used to roughing it. He qtiesticned them sharply after looking at the papers they had signed, which had been forwarded with others in custody of the driver of the wagon. They put.on a bold front and made no admissions about running away from school. In the end Tom was assigned to help the cook, and Joe was told he would be sent into the woods with a gang. The men began coming in from the woods to dinner. us The foreman of one of the gangs was’ summoned by the superintendent and Joe was turned over to him. : A boy attached to the camp told Joe and Tom to follow him with their grips. '’ ‘They were taken to the second story of the men’s quarters, where they saw a double line of cots, supplied with bed clothes, ranged along the walls, about two feet apart. A number was tacked against the wall at the head of each cot. - Joe was given cot No. 11, and Tom got No. 2%. They were told to shove their grips under their cots. » They were then taken down to the dining-room in the next pbuilding. Here a long table of boards, baa on “horses,” openRee ' the center of the room. Joe was given a seat at the end of the table. Tom got no seat, but was ordered to report to the cook. : He soon found that a meee of his duty was to wait on the ; table, ‘Nearly everything was set out before the workers sat down to eat, but Tom had to carry a huge coffee-pot around and fill ‘thé cups.” He also had to bring on additional bread, and pass thing | ' when asked to do so. i After the men were through, the superintendent and clerks ~ ate at a smaller table, and Tom had to wait on them. He ate his own dinner with the cook and ‘his assistant, helped clear up and wash the dishes, after which he had a - Toafing spell until he was called on to peel potatoes, and at- tend to other kitchen service for supper. E His werk was continuous from half-past five in the fagrnbas _ until about three in the afternoon, and from half-past four until eight or later at night. After dinner that day Joe accompanied chopping gang No. 3 to the woods, and he found his work was to drive the mules that were employed in hauling the: logs to the river, where men were stationed to get them into the water and line them a: head on, down the stream. ee had ng* loafing time at-all until vee gang knocked off at au Then. he drove the mules into camp, to their quarters, fed Rat in their stalls, fed and watered them. _ By the time he got to supper the men were about through. _°.. After supper his time was his own. re He ‘could go to bed when he pleased. "big room below their miee pie quarters, or out of doors, as it - pleased them. ees small library of second-hand books of standard fiction, travels and other works stood on a shelf, but were not often - in-use, the men preferring to play cards, or dominoes, or "checkers when they remained in the room. Tom was not through work till half-past eight the first eye- ning, and Joe hung around waiting for him. 4 They swapped experiences, and while Joe had no kick com- , Tom was dissatisfied with his job, which he declared was one, and he didn’t like it at all. ‘got to turn out half an hour earlier in the opie rou,” he told Joe. “I have to ‘work a couple of hours ough a have a swing each afternoon of from an. hour 8 to two OBIS: ‘he men passed their evenings and Sundays either in the) THE. LUMBER TRADE. The worst of it is that t have to. trifling causes,” and the combatants pounded ene. ; 5 n ——— = “Nothing to do? I'll have the mules to feed and look after,” said Joe. A He found when Sunday came that, if the day was all right, he simply had to take the mules to an open spot where the grass grew and tether them to stakes within reach of a- Fivulete and leave them there till near dark. He also discovered that he was. liable to be called on at any - time during the day to render some small service to somebody in authority. h The company’s store adjoined the superintendent’s ouster It was in charge of a large boy. Here were kept all the groceries consumed in the camp. Also a supply of wearing apparel and other, things. ; The men could find here a general supply of smoking and chewing tobacco, pipes.and a low grade of cigars. Whisky in half-pint flasks were also freely sold, but any man thus invited to.drink found intoxicated was fined and — locked up to sleep his jag off. Everything bought by the men was charged up against them, | , and the sum total deducted at the end of the working season, — when the men returned to civilization to pass the winter: The boys arrived on Thursday, and when Sunday came each» had had a taste of his line of business at the camp. Joe was very glad he had not been sent to the kitchen, and he did not blame Tom for kicking at his destiny. “T’m dead sick of the job,” Tom told Joe on Saturday night “Tf I could get back to school I’d go there and stand the caning — I'd probably catch. I don’t mind werking hard, but J prefer — to have a voice in the selection of the labor. I am treated like -— a scrub by the cook and his helper, and I feel like one. It’s . degrading business and I hate it. If I could run away I would; : but there’s no chance of finding one’s way back to Bingham» through that desolate stretch of forest. A fellow would have to carry several days’ supply of food, and there is no way” ofe: getting it. Now you’re employed on @ regular job, and even Ath you're ordered about like a nigger, owhich I haven't heard you. say you were, you’re on 4 par with the other workers. You sit down with them at table, and have the satisfaction of knowing you are not a servant to every one, from the superintendent: ; down, like myself.” ‘ “I’m sorry you hayen’t the same work to do that I have, even. Zs if we were in different gangs, as, of course, we Wo id be,” sai Joe: “The work is continuous, and a whole lot haréer™ what you have to do, but I don’t dislike it, and it will be. easier when I get accustomed to it. The mules are’ broken. to ’ the business and have given me no trouble so far.” 3 ~"¥ou’re off to-morrow all day, while I’ve got to work. the: same as any other day, except that I may get an extra hour off | in the afternoon, and we get through earlier in the evening ES because Sunday night’s supper is a light affair.” ‘ “Oh, well, six months will soon pass, and we'll quit’ the’ é perience for good. You will probably go back to the institute next term, but it is hardly likely IT will, My uncle Sei me to finish this year, anyway.” aan ‘Tom was not called till’ half-past six next morning, anit and the rest of the regular workers were not routed out t tl half-past seven. ~ ; Bets ah Breakfast was an hour later on Sunday, ep , After the meal Joe took his mules out to grass. He naturally made the acquaintance of the other boys - performed similar duties with gangs one and two. ; One was named Jimniy White and the other Tommy Bu ce, By They were very ordinary lads, who had not enjoyed the ist vantages of education to any great extent. This was their second season with the company, and bo h were thoroughly experienced in their work, fs They gave Joe many points that were of service to iit the three hobnobbed together all Sunday morning, while Tom worked away in and around the kitchen and “tiningo0: CHAPTER vill, Sep “TOM GOES INTO THE RIVER. : accustomed to their work in the camp. Tom, finding that kicking would do no ‘good; senna over his duties, and gradually made himself popular cook and his assistant, and they ceased to ss hi any more than was necessary. Joe got along fine hauling the logs to, ‘the river, hail-fellow-well-+met with all the men’ in) the camp.. Scraps occasionally took. place bepween the 1

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aN THE . LUMBER TRADE. 1 ASSIS IE SPNTSINE SE *“WGAPTT AL OOR ISTE —S The three mule-hauling boys only met in the camp, and they | _ never had any disagreements. On the whole, Joe was not sorry he had come to the logging camp, while. Tom figured on what he would do with the: bunch ; eau he would get when the camp broke up in the late a Neither expected to return in the following spring. ; Tt was now summer and the weather was warm enough most of the time to suit anybody, and it felt hot to the men who} were doing the hard work. On Saturday afternoon Tom came out to where Joe was busy ! with his mules. He often put in his two hours of relaxation that way. me He liked to talk with sic ie he was interested in the. stapling. ‘When a good-sized log was in process of transit he would seat himself astride of it and ride to the river. This afforded him great fun. a ‘Though not ‘always, for sometimes the moving log would bump against an obstruction, and Tom would. get a tumble. . Sueh accidents compelled him to be spry to avoid getting : hurt, for the log was liable to roll over on his leg and break it. | Joe being at the head of his tandem mule team, sometimes | ~ consisting of six animals, when the log was extra big and _ heavy, he could not tell if his companion was treated to a ~ tulfable till he heard a yell from Tom. On the Saturday afternoon in question Tom’ had. made two trips from the cutting ground or clearing to th river, which was a harrow and turbulent stream which took its rise up in the mountains a few miles away. The current was swift and was deep enough to drown any- body who fell in and couldn’t swim. Even a fairly good swimmer would be at some Gleed vantage in it with his garments on. ait A lerge number of logs rose and fell with the action: of the , water, and the men in charge. of them were getting ready to “set them free so they could float down to the Kennebec and | “= Bingham, wheresthey would be caught by the boom. stretched o ‘across the river at that point. .. The logs were close together and passage across them looked easy ‘while they lay at rest except for the irregular motion v: impar ted to them by the current rolling underneath the mass. “To the loggers, who were accustomed to the peculiar move- \ a ments, of thelogs, it was easy to scurry about upon them— | as easy as running about on the stable ground, and their care- less movements gave a false idea of ‘the security of the mass as a stamping spot. ‘Several times Tom had been on the point of getting out on the logs to experience the sensation, but had been warned by _ Joe. not to do it. ‘They’ re wet and slippery, and if you don’t bear your weight on ‘them just right they will roll more or less,” he said. “If your foot slipped between them. you would run the chance of a breaking or spraining your ankle, perhaps your leg.” - “They don’t look so dangerous,” said Tom. “Looks don’t count in their ease.’ “But lock at the way the men skip around on hen: They hever meet with an accident.” "re accustomed to doing it. “pheir legs are educated ovements of the logs. They get around by the sense ch. You can notice that they’re very spry in their move- is a rule.” sao Kk at that chap out ‘ners standing still on two logs. if “He’s got them balanced just right.” Well, those two boom logs, that are fast to both banks, re safe enough.” “T suppose you'd like to run aieeek them to the other side stream?” would for the fun of the tite! aa md ‘Well, take my advice and don’t do it.” “Haven't you been on the logs yet?” “Yes. It is necessary for me to lend ‘a hand Ltietiaten and | + men taught me how to walk them; but I’m far from be- - ing expert at it yet, and I don’t care to do it, The sensation a vits He ests right.” 3 ‘felt, an irresistible longing to. go across the nger the temptation {up and they would save him. ar, especially when you go on them for the first time. | getting one of the boom logs ‘across the imperiled boy’ s path ind of helpless, and it takes all your nerve Ly keep | for him to lay hold of. ~ 0 say when he got back home. ‘that he| ! veg’ a Why not wait here at he tun log: a : stretched across the stream. acted as a boom and held the bobbing logs from getting away. ~ At the proper time a couple of men would cross over and | release the opposite ends of.the boom logs, paying out the long rope. The confined logs would then slip down the stream, those nearest the men going first, generally speaking, though not invariably. Between the pull of the stream and the pressure of the logs, it was some job for the men to let the boom logs swing and prevent the other logs from being caught by the rope; but they | usually managed it without much trouble. s The slipping of the boom: was about to take place, while Tom was on the spot, and the idea struck him that he would prefer to see it from the other side, a He remained on the river bank while Joe went back to the clearing with his mules. ; Finally he asked one of the men if he didn’t think he could” get across all right. “T wouldn’t try it,” was he reply.. “You aren’t used to the business, Them logs are as skittish as young colts. You see, they're more restive here on account of the roughness of the . stream. Besides, if you got across you’d have to return on | the two boom logs after they had been brought back in place |and secured again.” “Biven so; they’re more stable than the other, logs, because being tied they don’t roll much, and I think the only Specie | point of the logs is their rolling quality,” said Tom. ~ niles The man shrugged his shoulders and walked away. 9 “Just then Tom heard Joe shouting to his mules ‘as they ; , were dragging another log to the river side. 3 At the same moment the foreman of the river squad ‘told his two helpers to cross to the other side and release the boom. ; “s _ If he was going to make the attempt to cross on the: logs, this was Tom’s last chance for the present, and he realized it. On the spur of the moment he jumped down on the end of the boom logs and started across on them. } bbe This, as he had calculated, was the easiest way, for being secured at both ends the long logs were fairly stable—that is, _ they couldn’t roll like the free logs, but being at the end of mY) the wobbling mass, they were constantly being lifted ‘by the upshoot of the current escaping from under the logs above. d This lifting motion was not regular, nor wag it uniform, » It was more or less jerky and uncertain, which aie: nothing to one used to it. The boiling of the water had a tendency to confuse dabed vision. It confused Tom at the very moment, and an upward {ump -of the two logs threw. him a bit off his balance, aes The result was the boy lost his presence of mind and sheeted head foremost into the river. ee Joe, who saw Tom start across and was watching him with ~ some anxiety, uttered a shout when his friend took his header, 5 All the men saw his mishap. , Before they could draw a second breath almost, Tom came to the Surface several yards.away and was whirled off down ° the stream, Ne Joe started on & dead run down the bap 2 and soon came up with his friend, who was Teens strenuous but vain efforts to swim to that bank, | : “Keep afloat, old man, and rl run ahead to the bend poe try to get you there, for the stream swings in thet way,” he called out, encouragingly. , At the eall of the foreman the two hands Ge had crossed the logs to release the boom came back, and the Sal cached on a run after Joe, They shouted to Tom as they passed him to keep his courage | A third of a mile down a second collection of logs held by a boom had just been released, and the boom logs. were left 3 \lying against the bank so that the course would be clear for ‘the passage of the logs above. The men were making for this point with the fateniton of This could be done quickly pause the stream was shallow for several yards out, and there was’ a tocky ledge along the ! bottom for the men going into the water to brace thetr fee against. f When the them. uN men overtook J 02, the Heian told him ey , t

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12 IN THE. LUMBER ‘TRADE. him. The water is too deep at this point for us to venture in. But for Joe’ s aid he would have een, drawn under the log. Pe We'll get him at the boom below.” and carried on down the stream. There was nothing for Joe to do’ but accompany the men, The foreman saw that the rescued bas was like a wilted and he did so. flower, so he sent one of the men out on the log to hoes him They reached the vacant boom below in a few minutes. to the back. Of all the logs that had been there an hour before, not one Joe pulled himself backward, for he did not care to take ‘was now in sight. the chances of standing up on a single log with the stream” They were on their way to the Kennebec. dashing over it like a mill race. “Now, boys, we have no time to waste,” said the foreman, Tom was conscious, but that was the best that could be said picking up a great steel log gripper, which was a load in itself |for him. for an ordinary man unaccustomed to its use. Some whisky was poured down his throat and he was al- 4 One of the two long logs lay within easy reach. lowed to lie against a rock to recover. “Grab the end of it and lift it between those two rocks,” said| The boom log was then released from its hold on the rock, the foreman, stepping into the water and preparing to grip the | and the current swung the end back to its former position log and help the work along. against the bank. ‘The end of the log was hoisted up on the smooth, rocky sur-| Leaving Joe with Tom, the men returned to the boom above, face, and then drawn in far enough to give the men a purchase | and in a short time the logs up there were released, and they on. it. : came rushing down like a big bunch of Marathon racers at Throwing their weight on it, they lifted it clear of the cur-|the start. ee rent and swung it around till it pointed across the stream— “You had a narrow squeak of. it, old man,” said Joe. “I , ‘not straight across, but diagonally ‘up the river to allow for % % the swing of the current when it hit the water. eg eB eke ay to you: not to try log crossing again.”, The foreman went out as far as it was prudent to do,| te felt too weak to indulge in conversation at that moment. gripped the log with his implement, and shouted to the men| jo. feq him another parc of whisky, and that put: ait Je. : ~ to shove the log a foot. ife into him’ Seed i This was done, and he saw by the dipping of the end of the “T thought it was all over with me, ” he said let length. Kt log that the men were losing their purchase on it. first I thought I could easily fetch the bank, for T can swim Releasing the gripper, he came in a yard, gripped the log rel Nay again and ordered the men to give the shove that would send ay Ect, Pebeeg Fppebe tse ugg 9 re means . ; ieee ee. tn /the water, it. So I had to give up and go along with it.” The foreman braced himself to hold the log against the tide. a The moment it struck the water it required muscles of steel devas eve a ase ee Joe back to where ea _ to hold the log. Whén Tom learned.that #t was five o'clock he said he’ d et a - “Another shove, my lads,” he cried. z mhe end of the log shot further out. faltng Own from the cook when ae got back for being away. "The fereman had to go with it, and he reached a spot be- sand oleh he dare hat ieceea: Re “However, when he learns hint I’ve been through ef sven mle sing d dist: from the end of the log t th it will be all right,” he added, “for we are good friends.” ? Niels Spee ied Fhe: aiEneo aL? en sd aot “The foreman of the chopping gang will go for my~ ‘scalp. de> Then he shouted for information as to the whereabouts of because I’ve not hauled a log for nearly an hour,” sai Tom, who he calculated could not be far off now. but when I have explained the particulars he wilt und i ock watching for a sight of his the reason of my absence.” ; vA no oe (eRe eae ea a So Tom started for the camp and Joe chased his mules back e saw his head coming) alon three- uarters of the way | to the clearing. oh the Pease " . 4 y _ Tom’s narrow escape was reported to the superintendent He was afraid he would miss the end of the log by a foot or |@nd the boy got a calling down for venturing out on the lo ee ot “Had you lost your life and the matter was followed up by He was also afraid that even if he hit the boom log he would |Your parents, the company could have been held responsible - he too exhausted to grasp it, or to hold on. legally, and compelled to pay damages,” he said to Tom, 0 ‘ / ‘We determined to get out to the end of the log himself and after this I want to hear of no more skylarking from: Pi ‘seize Tom the instant he came within reach. Do you understand?” th an He came down from his perch and ran out on the log, tell-| Tom sald he did, and ‘that ended the matter. ing the foréraan as he sprang over the gripper what he in-|, Joe was coming in to dinner with the gang one: day. le tended doing and where Tom was in the river. the covered wagon drew up before the offic and a Mie ae _, There was a rock near the further bank where the boom Fy logs were anchored at that side, and the foreman determined to simplify the situation by getting the log all the way to it if he could. _. *Another shove, my hearties!” cried the foreman, releasing the gripper. Lats} Gene men shoved. But with nothing holding it the log swung down with the stream. ‘The foreman dashed forward and gripped it again, ‘The log was nearly straight across. when he stayed its _ progress. Joe, far out on the end, saw that Tom would pass Ms of |, his reach unless the log could be sent farther out. m ’ He shouted the fact to the foreman. Tom’s fate depended on what happened during the next few _ seconds. ‘If he passed beyond the reach of the log and his rescuers the chances were he would be drowned as soon as onnatn nar ure gave up the struggle. “Now, boys, all tégether!” sang out. the foreman, as he steadied the log with his gripper. “One more gui and ‘it will} hit the rock.” The men shoved, the huge log swung into piace and: the boy man got out, \ He proved to be the general Manager of the. ‘company, the main office of which was at Bingham. The Somerset Lumber Co, owned about half of the saw matlll aa at that town, and was the most Se een of all the Tumibe companies in that county. tae f The manager had come to the camp to see how. things wer running there, though the superintendent kept him pretty well informed through his weekly report. E He also had an important piece of business on hand, whi¢ was to acquire for the company a fresh tract of timber land the Praag hig ‘running along the river further to th nort The company had been after it for soma time, but the old man who owned it, and who lived on it alone, in hermit fash-— ion, had steadfastly refused to sell, though offered a very { fair. price for it. : The company was eager to get it, as the land’ they: had being rapidly denuded of its timber, and in a year or Y the choppers got further and further from. the river, t of getting the logs to the stream would become'a serio het Extr ae and mules nti have to be hired to ac the same results now otic shed oe vay sel and \ tig animals. . tf, Ne tor 4 CHAPTER IX. ie Jia | y the arm and hauled hint up on the wh a i ne Ww is

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LN He asserted that money was no object to him, for he had little use for it. All he wanted was to be left alone during the few remaining ‘years of his life. He declined to say whether he had relatives living to whom the property would revert in the event of his death, In fact, no information of any kind could be got out of him. The county records showed that he, had owned the property for over twenty years, and that he paid the State ‘tax, the only. one he was up against, regularly. On the other side of the river for seyeral miles up and down there was no timber growing closer than within six-miles. of _ the stream, and the lumber company had no use for the land, so every few months somebody in its interest visited the old . hermit to see if he couldn’t be induced to sell his tract. The old man, whose name was Hubbard, visited Bingham - three or four times a year for supplies, going and coming in a - dilapidated old sailboat. i As he was entitled to right of way, the loggers always had _to get his boat over the booms, which was no great difficulty. ; He had not passed either up or down since Joe and Tom had been at the camp. As a matter of fact, he had not been seen in six months, and _ the general manager of the company, having been advised that ' Hubbard was'a month or two behind his regular time for vis- iting the town, began to suspect that he might be dead.. He had come to the camp partly to investigate the matter. ‘The men had an hour for dinner, independent of the time it _ took them to come from and return to the chopping ground. This gave them at least an hour to lounge around and ~ smoke, for smoking, was prohibited in the woods, awing to the "prevalence af the dried brush, which during the summer was _ like tinder, and was liable to catch from a lighted match dropped’ into. it. A’ fire started under such circumstances might lead to very disastrous results, When Joe came out of the diidule nonin that day he took a : shady seat which happened to be under the open window of _ the superintendent's private office. _- Eneide the room the superintendent and the manotal man- ager “were conversing. “ij eir talk. rekited to the coveted tract ‘of land owned’ by Hubbard. % Joe heard every word, ‘and learned that the company was willing to give any price in reason for it. - The manager said that he intended visiting the old man on yy ie che following morning, and he expected the superintendent |’ to accompany him. _ He was afraid they would find Hubbard ‘dead. Elis death would throw the property into the hands of the _ probate court, and not only keep the company from purehasing it for some time, but would bring it in competition with other panies when it was eventually put up for sale. "hp ‘manager hoped this condition of things would not spire. RS } ‘5 curiosity was greatly excited concerning Hubbard, the - hermit, and fie. wondered why the old man did not accept a good price for his property| and remove to the pale of civViliza- here he*could pass his last few years in comfort. returned to work with his geng and forgot about the R i “some reason a couple: of his mules were skittish that noon. | This was the first 5 ae he had noticed them behave that way. ‘During the transit of the second leg to the river they eli him considerable trouble and delayed his trip. ee an. there about the inusual conduct of the two animals ae the mules a ‘question suddenly made. a break up the ver. As he sedans ‘their services, he couldn't afford to Jet pe t away, $0. mounting) one of the bs eal mules, he started after Btty: dance, Hewever. but he Kept them in hey held close to the’clear ground along the river. lowin them all of saint miles, hé began to close in ptu uring them, Me spurred his ount forward. lost up to the fugitives, ‘when’ they saddens e woods, : no little disgust, but thes dete 1a e to let hens B05. biel rn get a raking avas responsible for the my work, and I at h 3 +t THE LUMBER However, he got the log to the river, and was teitihe thet, a possible,” wouldn't; it.” ean t TRADE, 95 be surprised if I was compelled to work next Sunday to clean up the logs that are pilimg up on me. Hello, here’s a very . respectable looking shanty in a clearing that seems to be planted in vegetables. I wonder who lives: here?” As he was hot. and thirsty, he decided to stop and ask for a | drink. He dismounted, tied his mule, lest it should take a notion to make a break for freedom on its own account, and knocked on the half-open door. Something like a groan came from within. - Joe repeated his knock, and another groan answered him, He pushed open the door and entered. He found himself,.in a tidy-locking room furnished with a table, several chairs, a stove, a dresser, on which was an array < of dishes, a book-case full of books, a shelf on which stood a clock that was not going, and many other things. Pots and pans were hung around near the stove, and several pictures adorned the rough log walls. Again he heard the groan, now quite plain, and it came from an. adjoining room, the door of which stood wide open. Walking over, he looked in. The sunshine coming through an open window fell upon a cot, and upon the cot lay stretched a white-haired old man. Instantly the thought struck him that the figure. was: Hub- bard, the hermit, the subject of the conversation between the manager and the superintendent. “Hello,” said Joe, “what's the matter? “Yes,” said the old man, in a hollow tone. “That’s too bad.. You appear to be all alone. do for you?” : “In the name of heaven get me a drink of cool water.” “ll do it if I can find the water.” “There isia spring at the back of the house,” said the ‘old | fallow, with some difficulty. “Take a pitcher and fill it: Joe found a pitcher on the dresser and, going to the rear of the premises, saw a spring bubbling up there. | 1 He filled the pitcher and hurried back to the old man. . Filling a glass, he held it to the man’s eager lips, He drained every drop and fell back with a ree of satisfae- , tion and relief, : . While the sick man lay still with his eyes dfened: Joe took a drink himself. “T would like to ask you’a question,” said Joe, when the old man opened his eyes and gazed at him doh asm “Ask it.” “fs your name Hubbard?” 2 “Yes,” nodded the sick man. A oui That was enough for Joe—he was face to face wi hers, mit of the woods. — we / Are you sick?” What can I CHAPTER Xx. Jon's FIND. “How long have you been ill?” asked Joe. “T haye not been feeling very well for nearly three months —net well enough to make my regular trip to town; but I've | only been real sick for two days. 1 gave out all at once, and had to take to my bed, as you see. I am now. helpless to do anything for myself, and I looked for nothing but. a speedy death. Your unexpected coming has been a blessing to me, for I was parched for a drink. I would have given every dol- lar this land of mine is worth for that drink. of cool, water. My gratitude to you is boundless. What fortunate chance brought you to my house? It is Beldom q see the face of ans fellow-man in this wilderness.” Joe told him how his chase of the ‘two. mules, which he had failed to capture, led him there. Mee ‘ “Then. you are in the employ “of the \domter set, Lumber Co. 8 “Yes.” “Ts this your first season. with the company?” Bet, pig fae Fg “What is your name, and how. came you to take service with the loggers?” Joe told how he and his friend Tom had run. away from’ the ‘ Rockdale Institute, and had been carried to Bingham | in. BHF freight car, and that being in financial straits, they had see to work for the lumber company that season. i “T suppose you want to get back to your work as soon you can?” said the old man. “T ought to, but I won't leave you in this iaties wit doing what I can to help you kai make you as camtortable said Joe. # “Thank you, boy. I believe you, have: a ‘sympathetic bee T wish | you would Te my medicine chest fi from the « I have-a yioter ‘and sac to tak mething t i Bs

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14 IN THE LUMBER TRADE. . ae Se ——_—. Sosa eens Joe brought the chest. “ He opened it and saw it was a specially prepared homeo- pathie case for self-doctoring, There was a book of instructions which gave the symptoms of various ailments and diseases, and the medicine to take to afford relief and a cure. Joe asked the old man to describe his symptoms, for he believed that the fever was one of the symptoms of his trouble, and not simply a fever alone. As the fever had to be allayed, he selected the medicine ap- plicable to fever, and gave him six pellets, which was the right dose. “You must take these pellets every hour till you feel better. Joe felt of his pulse and saw it was high. There was a small white implement used for taking a sick person's temperature, and the old man directed him to place one end of the tube in his mouth and see what it registered at the end of a minute. - When Jce.told him, the hermit pointed out another medicine in liquid form. “Get a clean glass, fill it about half full of water, and then with one of those droppers put six drops of the medicine in it,” he said. “The boy followed his directions. ’ He then asked the old man if he had any tea in the place, and if he had, should he prepare him some. The hermit said he had tea, and would like a cup. He told Joe where to find it, and he went out into the next; room, built a fire, boiled the water and made-the tea. He found some soda crackers and brought them to the old .'man with the tea. . “How do you feel now, Mr. Hubbard?” asked Joe. “Ah little better—thanks to what you have done for me.” “J don’t think you ought to be left alone. You need atten- tion. When you get well you ought to sell your property and Z0 to town where you can get a doctor whenever you need one.’ “No, * said the hermit, “I shall live and die in the wilder- ness. JI have experienced nothing but ingratitude\from the ' world, and I want nothing to do with it. I will make an ex- ception in your case. You have done me a great kindness and T appreciate it. You shall-not regret it.” “The Somerset Lumber Co. is very anxious to secure your property. I heard the manager, who came to camp to-day, tell the superintendent so, It is most advantageously situated close to the river, and the company doesn’t want any other company to get hold of it. tendent are going to pay you a visit in the morning.” I “T don’t want to see them. I won’t talk to them. ill to talk, anyway. Besides, I won’t sell.” “They are afraid if you should die the property would be thrown into court while a search was made for your heirs.” “J haven’t any heirs, I hayen’t anybody in the world.” “Then your property would go to the State, I suppose,. and “the lumber company would buy it from the authorities, but in cca avoid by setting it from you before you die.” “The State’ sha'n’t have it, for the money would go to the {Bee politicians. “s -*Then you will have to will it to somebody, or sell it.” “T will. Ill sell it to you for $1 on condition that you will not claim it till I am dead, and that you will visit Ts once a week as long as you remain at the camp.” Joe's heart gave a dig jump at the prospect of Being hold of | such a valuable property. _ But there ‘was a difficulty in the way. ” Being under age, ie could not legally take title to real es- ie “hie. pci (Eh bvtaatoned the fact to the old man. f “J will fix that. You say you have an uncle?” ; Bi “Yes. ” ; \ Re yy Le your legal guardian?” : % “Veg. ” _ “Have you full, ensden te in him?” “Oh, yes: He’s all right.” the property to him in trust for you, inserting a clause to the effect that I am to retain possession of the property as long; as I live. After I am dead’ you can sell the property,to the tun will have no trouble in panier ie “the necessary: Roe ital, the. rege a, a6 but it was as. sit as Sa " The manager and the stuperin- Tam t afi fo The ti 27, She ole througit’ idan he had: slid and massive roots. . ‘that case there would be competition for it, which they wish tote Ly me “oe re! {he would crawl out. ‘opening he expected to find in it. SOL. g 5 satan “Then the first time J am able to go to towh I will transfer | limbs Duanch out,” he:thought. that ww: “ber company that will give the highest price forit, or yous¢an)} 4 form a lumber company of your own to take the. property. wer!) “What good is the money to me? I would have to thingle with the world to spend it, which I never will do. I am per fectly contented here in this solitude. I will not make’ fi change now that I am drawing near my end.” “Well, is there anything more I can do for you before I eof I will ride up here after supper and see how you are getting — on, and, if necessary, remain with you all night.” i “You are very good, boy. I believe you are deserving of my iB liberality. There is nothing more you can do now. I shall be glad to have you come back this evening and remain a while. I may need your services.” Joe then bade him good-by and left the house. To his surprise he found the two fugitive mules eutaide ‘eat ing the vegetable sprouts in the truck patch. 3 He approached them cautiously, but they made no attempt i to get away. Securing them, he took them back to the chopping ground, where, as he expected, the foreman went for his scalp. He explained why he had been so long away, though he did - net mention that he had spent an hour at the old hermit’s house, but the foreman said he had no business to let the = mules get away from him. He was later reported to the superintendent, but nothing eame of it. After supper that evening he started for the hermit’s plang. on foot. a He had intended to ride, but he couldn’t take.a mule without: attracting attention, and he did not. care to let. anyh dy at ‘the — camp know where*he*was goin He followed the river es spot or opening into: the woods,. which one fad 260 before, though. itis true Joe had made a note oj when he started back so he would know it again... At any rate, he was, dé ; so far up: the ‘river. He.entered the’ woods at that’ point when he ‘stepped into a hole conceal down to the bottom of it a depth of seven pig He felt around and found that the hole was ni matches in his pocke oll " ‘Of an o} Pintovt earth around fi @ lay betwe 0 x ‘ him. wa ad The singular part of: through the hollow of tached a large tin box, @ business was a rope hangt ; he tree, to the end of which was’ a da ‘anned,. with a gilt ee hae, ri JO% Wi te sd and Fusty. ging there a considerable time. ted it and found it fairly heavy. . wonder what is in it. and how it fe place as this?” the boy asked himself. A small ee that evidently belonged ‘tort After taking a It proved a more difficult. job than it looked managed to extricate himself. Then he carefully exaniined the trunk ‘of the tree for | Although he knew the trunk was hollow, it looked perfect “THe. pentane must ibe above, ‘in the crotch where th pay 7 OE eraivled’up to. that: point, sicher: another, fate and $2) aoa the hole. was? - . fite a a “Ubny dowa Ante ib Einlol thule Us tr tge nails had been ‘driven into the i side together so ae their Lacie es stren

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IN THE LUMBER TRADE. 15 Cutting the rope off close to the nails, he lowered the box to| cleaned the key “and the lock and had dust opened the box the ground on the outside. when you woke up and called out to. me,” Then he slid down himself. ’ “What is in the box?” Cutting the key loose, he tried to insert it Into the lock, but “Money, and a lot of-it, in gold and paper.” both it and the keyhole were rusty, and the key wouldn’t go in. The old hermit looked around astonished. “The key and the lock will have to be cleaned out and “Money!” he said, incredulousty. oiled,” he said, “and then, I guess, they will work all right.; “Yes. Look. I'll show you.” Ill carry the box to the old man’s cottage.” Joe lifted the cover and held the lamp so the light would It took Joe nearly an hour to find the clearing where the| shine into the box. cottage was. “My gracious!” said Hubbard. “It is ‘money. How much?” When he walked in the hermit was asleep. “J haven't counted it yet. e bey He lighted a lamp he saw on the dresser, and he proceeded “You can do so now. to put in his time on the box. © : Joe had no cbjection, for it was a pleasant job, as he was He found some sweet oil and a piece of rag and got busy | curious to find out how much he had found. ~with the key first. There proved to be $5,000 in gold and $15,000 in bills. He seraped the rust off as well as he could with his knife, Nothing else was in the box except an old newspaper, beats then cleaned it till it shone with the oil and the cloth. ing a date of twenty years before. ‘Then he applied himself to the keyhole of the box. The newspaper was called the Portland Press, and a part of This was a longer and more difficult job. it was missing. ; An hour passed and at last Joe got the key to work. | It had been used to pad the box with. “It turned in the lock with a loud snap that awoke the old| “You are rich, young man,”’said the old, hermit, “and you. hermit. will be still richer when you come in control of this property | ‘At the same moment Joe pried up the cover with the blade| after I have passed away. Truly your lucky star guided you of his knife, and found that the box was full of money, part|'to this part of the State.” of it in double golden eagles. “Those mules deserve some credit. I wouldn’t have come “Gee!! this is a great find!” he ejaculated, excitedly. out to these woods but for them. They probably saved your © ae. life as well as helped, me to a smail fortune. We have both op ; ; ! reason to be grateful to them.” ’ : CHAPTER XI. “J suppose you will give up the logging camp now and go 2 A SMAEL FORTUNE. back to your home?” said the hermit, regretfully,as he thought & of losing the boy’s society just when he was congratulating wnt juncture he heard the old man call ite Whe's himself on having made his acquaintance. : “Pp “J haven’t considered what I will do now that I have a bunch 7 I’m here,” i F > ru - went into the comin with the hor caoee hie. me noe of money. I wouldn’t like to leave you abruptly-—certainly [ Hubbard looked at the box, which he believed contained | Wouldn't do it until you are well once more. It wouldn't be ; treating you right when you have promised ‘to turn over this Soe aus sea ol ar brought for him from the logging property of yours te me. I intended visiting you. as often 2s ape?” you cared to see me, and also introduce, my friend Tom to a os eceplied aeceeitie Palins van the a4 you, if you cared to know him. I dare say this money will ie nd in asleep when 1 came in, and would not disturb keep until the logging season is finished. ‘Three months more . “Raw do you feel?” 5 ~“Psetty good. ‘The sleep helped me. I don’t feel so feverish | ¥OUr care. s I did, and my brain feels clearer.” “You feel you can trust me with so much?” said the old ‘Joe felt of hiv forehead and saw that it felt kind of moist | man. F: and not dry and hot as it was before. “Why not? You couldn’t spend it around here.” ‘ “You're: better,” he ‘said. “Y judge so by the feel of your “I might run off with it when I got well.” i head. air. “Tf you’ won’t turn your own property into money, I guess “Did yo ow any trouble when you got back to work this the contents of this box will be no great temptation to you.” afternoon? _ “You told him that you accidentally came across this house ,happy here with my books and my solitude. What more do I _ .and found me ill, and that you stopped to help me.” colts es ere see . “No, I didn’t mention you at all. I-laid all the blame of my; | “Your way of accumulating happiness wouldn't suit the, nor Leet “absence on the runaway mules. They deserved it. It didn’t| most people, but if it pleases you I don’t know that you. could "G0 Tie much good, though, for the foreman told me that I had| better yourself by making a change. I have heard my uncle _ no business to let them get away.” say that real happiness does not exist in this world except in . “Then I suppose you said nothing about me at the camp?”| Spots in one’s life. He said contentment, if acquired, was the “Nothing at all. I intended to come back and T did not want|Hearest approach to it. You appear to be contented in this anybody to guess where I was bound.” lonesome place. If that is a fact, you could not be happier | “What have you in that box?”! ~ under different conditions. I have read about hermits, but -. “You'd never guess.” Veer you are the first I havé¢ ever met. You must have had some — “Some food you have brought me from the camp?” powerful reason for separating yourself frem civilization in 4 h ad all you needed for the present in the house.” =. out in these wilds.” 7 foie missed my route in returning here. I came Sg foot, for! die with me,” said the old man, in an impressive tone, “Yes. I fell ante a hole under an old decayed and hollow| Still there is always a chance that some unscrupulous: person t might intrude upon mé and, finding me helpless to resist him, f Sn didn’ t eee yourself?” rob me, At the back of the house, behind the spring, you will «Did you? Rather a singular place for it to be.” | there. Get a bunch of brush and cover the hole, and it will be “Jt wasn’t put into the hole the way I got there. The chances| safe, I guess.” e. the hole was there when the box was hidden. I found it} Joe followed the hepnitt's inaanuclbas rousht him fresh croteh and pulled the box out, for I judged that it It was going on gt of val eo or it ‘woulda’ : have sbeen hidden | body was asleep Ww enj he ‘got there. : tos Spay He had no difficulty in: eenins his bed, for the door opens rae ping on the. stairs was loc kked., Bi e you slept Tr. In a Se Hue nS) ‘was as sound asleep himse! self, ‘the tree. After I got out of the hole I climbed the good-night, started for ae. camp. “You are right, my boy. I have no use for any more money _ “Y got a rousing call-down from the foreman.” than it takes to purchase things-that I actually-need.. ‘T am *No. I brought you nothing from the camp. I figured you|.the first place before you knew that you would be contented = ce guess I have, though my stock of groceries*have riin out.”| “I had. A very strong reason. It” is my secret, and it will d to. the end of a rope which ran up through the hollow! water and the box ‘of soda crackers, and then wishing him ne ight, the camp was quiet and every: Ne will finish it up. In the meantime, I will leave the money in - 44 ey couldn’t take a mule.” ; i “Do you want me to remain with you to-night?” salt gde “That was something of a walk.” “No. You can get me another pitcher of spring watery) ul _¥Not over three miles, and I don’t mind that. I met with an| leave a few crackers within my reach. Also the lamp ate adventure soon after taking to the woods.” low. Lock your box and take the key away with you. Shove “An adventure?” it under my cot for to-night. I guess it will be safe. there, -— No. I found this box in the hole.” ~“.\ | find a hole that runs under the flooring. Shove the box in. a

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AS wT LUM BER RADE. No. one but Tom asked him where he was the preceding | by coming to Bingham and contracting for al! the lumber and evening. He had not been missed particularly. He informed his friend that he would tell him later. At half-past seven ‘he started. with the gang to work. About nine o'clock the superintendent and the manager, on their way to visit the hermi it, stopped at the chopping. ground a while. : They found the old recluse in bed, but feeling ers well for a sick man. The manager asked him how long he had been ill, learned why he had not paid his usual visit to Bingham. He used the old man’s illness as a strong argument to get him to sell, his property, pbut Hubbard! told him he never in- tended to sell it. “You mean to leave it to some relative, I suppose,’ manager, *T have none, When 1 die this property will go to a boy who did me a gréat favor.’ The manager tried to obtain the name and address of the fortunate boy, but the hermit refused to give it. “You will learn when it comés to him,” was all he would say. and * said the - man, for the property seemed to be further off than ever from the company. Finally We and the superintendent went away, and that af- - ternoon he took the wagon back to town. That evening Joe paid another visit to old Hubbard to see how he was coming on. nu ae him much better and able to get up for a little while. “What have you had to eat to-day?” asked’ the boy. . “Nothing but erackers,” said the hermit. _ “Pi inake you some tea and toast. I’ve fetched ha : ea a loaf of fresh bread from the camp, and some butter,” said “You Have made me feel hungry,” said Hubbard. _.. Joe made the tea and toast, and the old man finished both,’ after which he said he felt better than ever. “Tl be able to get about a little to-morrow and can look after myself,” he said. “As to-morrow is Saturday, T won't come again till Sunday morning;” said Jee... “/ Very well,” said the hermit. After remaining about an hour, Joe went back to the pa He found Tom waiting for him to turn up. “Now tell me where you have been off to these two said his friend. Joe told him how he had accidentally made the acquaintance, the hermit, and what he had done for the old man. e did not tell'Tom about the tin box full of money he had % Meine nor about the promise given by Hubbard with reference to his property. ~ And so Tom remained in: tenorane of his: comrade’s good fortune. y ' Wa We ie pass fights,” ‘of: : i . CHAPTHR, XII. \ ¥ + : / % FIGURING ON‘ A SPECULATION IN SHINGLES. tk The wagon came into camp next morning, and, as usual, the ariver brought a bunch i okie for the men and a bundle of newspapers. fe _. The papers were aa on dale at the’ store and Joe got one of j _them. “He ‘eatin to a shady spot to. read it. The lumber trade was always an important subject with fa _ papers of the State, and Joe read that owing to the fact: there had heen a large demand for lumber that summer, market was short and the price was rising. The lumber companies were taking advantage of the fact, as a matter of course, | The paper hinted that shingles and other lumber products would soon follow suit, but at present the. demand for the former. was not equa “to the supply. \, Phe ar ticle went on to say that owing to the heavy expense ) the lumber companies were under, and the slow collections ‘that ear, ier could not afford to, restrict their, output, which ble to do pia have resulted in still ae ? the that the qe. that a person with ‘eS ie puircli of. jhis scheme would have no such effect on the building in | His order would be filled as fast as’ pessib ‘| necessarily have to eease. |running in luck, is the chap who wins the ‘oftenest d ping, ey Pais 33 i be one ia ‘shingles turned out by the mills for a month and hoiding the stuff back until the price jumped, as it was bound to do, for a very large part of the visible supply in the State came from that. town. “Could a speculator really .do that?” asked Joe. ber dealers in the cities.” “Tt de; shipments on six months’ time, and sell to smaller dealers on three and four months’ time. The smaller dealers sell to the builders on one, two, three and four months’ time, according as those people can raise the funds to pay... A man who pays in thirty days is considered a cash buyer and gets the bed rock ! The man who can’t pay undér sixty days So with thé price on all he buys. has to pay a little higher price for his lumber. contracting builders who are compelled to ask for ninety or 120 days—the longer time the more his lumber costs him. ‘you val ou it is with shingles and everything else in the lumber lines. understand?” } ; “Yes,” said Joe. 4 “As the lumber companies have to wait six months on the q average for their cash returns, which involves the larger part The interview was decidedly unsatisfactory to the lumber,| of their shipments for a season, they necéssarily have to have Even at that they. ais constantly having their notes discounted at their local a good capital to conduct their business. see ae- | ‘I thought all the. lumber was shipped under agreement with the big tum. The big, lumber companies take the output in large _ banks in order to raise money to pay their running expenses. — This discount accommodation is a source of great profit to the — It represents the main part of their ; Take the lumber business away from the town, and — one bank would be amply sufficient to do all the business that two banks at Bingham. business. would be left. Well, now that you understand the situation, you can seo how a capitalist could walk into Binghani and’ be. received with open arms if he said he wanted to buy so many — million feet of lumber, or a half million bundtes of shingles, for spot cash on delivery. He could make a: contract. at the very lowest wholesale price, for money down telks every time, The companies need it, and are willing to make concessions: to ‘get it,” said the clerk. “Why isn’t that done, then? gyndivaten are formed to Lies cargoes of coffee and such things, why not lumber? should think,” said Joe. cle “They could, certainly, but as ancl a gigantic enterprise would, for a certain time, paralyze the building: ‘business, it would lead to a public investigation, and the combine “wouid find itself in hot water, and have to loosen ERY Reet “T see,” said Joe. } “But what a big syndicate could not do on a asa SC small speculator could engage in on a limited basis, be as a whole, For instance, a man could come to Binghaz contract for 500,000 bundles of shingles if he _Enew t gles were short in the market, dependent on Bingha supply. to pay for thirty days. If he were a stranger, ov his eredi not vouched for, if he had say $15,000 or, $20,000, he eo ‘up as evidence of good faith, his ponteac’ aut go, all ri le, and while i being turned. out all ordinary shipments’ of shingle If there was @ run on 1 a position to. ship his. ‘shingles at a profitable advance old price, or, he! could hold them back for a still highe taking a considerable risk, for the moment his order was fill shipments would begin again, and the famine would b bro: All speculators, however, have to run risks— the word sp tion implies it. The tnap who can see ahead correctl: 3) Joe, when he went to dinner, felt that he nae fobr nee, thing new, and he wondered if he hadn't found ay ‘ploy his $20,000 capital. A As soon as Tom was at linerty, he and ‘Joe star hermit’s house, Per ‘Tom was curious. 40 see. ihe old man who « tract of timber himself to sel’m yned and, aud preferred to live on it. all it for a good price and enjoyi Be y will purchase these days..|. ae? They. found. Habbard up and south though e w | weak. on his ane ; friend, i were During their stay he said that he tense gol iA dozen millionaires could corner the lumber trade of this aook eS He could buy on a cash basis of thirty days, plete was known to be gocd for the money he would not be expected

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é Ly THE LUMBE R TRADE, Vv on the fatiawitng week if he felt able to make the fowha ie in comfort, for his groceries and other articles were practically alll « out, and he must purchase a fresh supply. The only kind cf meat he used was smoked ham, he said, as he lived chiefly on the vegetables he raised in his truck patch, of which he always had a plentiful supply, more, in aay than he could consume, Riches boys remained a couple of hours: and then BESS their The wagon brought a bunch of newspapers on Wednesday when it arrived, and Joe bought one when he caine in with the gang for dinner, After the meal he went to a shady seat and read the news, Teter hs what was said about lumber conditions. Phe wholesale prices were the same as those last noted, but the papér said that the price was certain to go higher within a week or two, Shingles were not as yet affected, but the Bingham News said that several of the mills had stopped making them in order to rush out more lumber, for all the mills were behind in their lumber shipments, owing to the number of orders on their books. ‘This stoppage in the production of shingles was likely to af- fect the price if’ a shortage took place in the market, which seemed likely from all indications. That evening Joe went out to see the old man. _ He carried the paper with him for the hermit’s benefit, and indirectly to use as an exhibit in the lumber’ matter. Me told the recluse about the conversation he had had with the clerk on the preceding Sunday morning. “Now, Mr. Hubbard, I have been figuring on going into a » speculation in shingles. That $20,000 I found ought to put - another $5,000 in my pocket if 1 work the oracle right. Sev- eral of the milis, it is announced, have stopped making shin- - gles to push the making of hoards and such stuff. This cuts down the output of shingles at Bingham from a third to a half; Now if | go to Bingham with you, when you make the trip, and make, a thirty-day contract with the other mills for all the shingles they can supply me, IT will have a corner for that time onsthe shingle industry of the town, unless the other - mills resume making them. [ can put up the $20,000 as secu- rity, say $5,000 with each mill, and then watch the condition of the shingle market. At the end of two weeks there ought | do be a rise, certainly at the end of three, Whether there is or not, I must then begin arrangements for disposing of my . shingles. If will go on to Portland, Belfast and other centers 1s aed (offer the shingles in carload lots to the big wholesalers at Bs shade under the market, and I guess f will have’ no great trouble in closing out all-I have: contracted for. If I need - more moné¢y to see me through, asl may, I will call on my uncle and put the matter up to him, and I'guess he’ll help me out if he sees T stand to win. what ‘do you think about it?” asked Joe, with sparkling eyes. “2 think it is a great risk for a young fellow Pkt! you to un- are * said the old man: “You might lose a considerable hy eae of the $20,000.” » } Joe, with boyish enthusiasm, didn’ t think he would lose any- “thing, even if the scheme was not a financial success. _ _*Tf the price did not advance a cent I'd stand to make the Cpittarante between what I had contracted to pay for them and the wholesale market price.” “But your plan is to ‘buy the shingles at the lowest cash “price, AWwhich will medn that payment will be exacted in thirty _ days from the delivery of each lot. I suppose you understand ia that there are different grades of shingles which fetch different ne Ah prices, the wholesale prices on which run from say $3 to $6.50 er thousand? Do you intend to restrict yourself to one grade, or several?” ' j zm The shingles that: weit: around $4 at present to builders are the gre atest” demand, I should be able to deliver them in Portland for $3.50 and make $1 a thousand. Suppose the price of the: Cy shingles advances to $5? I will make $2.” “7 know, if your plans go through all right. You could buy it 30,000 bundles with your money, or say 120,000 shingles. seems to me that wouldn't count a whole lot in the market.” ‘T expect to buy twice that. amount.” ‘ “How. ‘can you’ when you propose to pay cash to che mills?” ; “Cash is thirty days. I will have thirty days in which to sell ‘of them, and get the balance of the ‘money to make good.” at is all right on paper, but you would have to sell for o get your money in, and if your collections were slow abe. ina hole. Besides, how are you going to find enough customers? ‘Everybody in the building line. buys: on time | way you can put your speculation through successfully is to be on the safe side yourself. You are in a Position to take a- fair risk. You have $20,000 which you ean invest in anything, and which you can sell on time yourself without haying to worry whether your money returns to you in thirty days or 120, as long as you deal with responsible firms. The money will enable you to buy your stock at the lowest rock bottom figures, below the figure that the mills sell the same stuff to the big wholesalers on four or six months’ time. Say that you buy 30,000 bundles of shingles and pay for them, you will own them out and out. Then you can go around among the smaller dealers and sell them in lots to suit at a shade below the whole- sale price the big dealers charge. of double profit. If the price should ge up you will make so much more. If it should go down you will probably have a margin of profit in sight. So you can win out anyway. Since you are determined to go into the speculation, that’s the way T would advise you to tackle it,” said the old man. “That is my idea exactly, though I intended to take a risk in order to make twice as much. I see now that I probably would. not be able to sell the shingles in a way that would return mie the second half of the money I should need in time to pay-up- for a double quantity,” said Joe. t That will give you a sort ; “J admire your enterprise, but .as you are only a boy and. © not an experienced speculator, it would be the part of. prudence not to take any more risk. than you can help with your first venture. in order to insure success.’ Joe agreed with him and made his plans accordingly. CHAPTER XIII A WINNING SPECULATION, I i ‘ ¢ ; { ae e ‘Joe knew he could not very the camp to carry out his plans, so he determined to take French leave. He would sacrifice half of what he had earned so far, put that amounted to very little in comparison with what he ex- pected to make out of his contemplated speculation, Besides, being worth $20,000, he had,no further use for the $4 a week and board that looked pretty good when he was on his uppers. He guessed Tom wouldn’t object to quitting. the/camp on the same terms, either, for though he was getting on pretty well now, haying got used to his work, he was not in love with the loggers’ camp. " Joe thought he. could use his friend as his assistant in the enterprise, thoug would be of ‘use, However, he wa he could afford on a companionship. ~~ At any rate, Tom wou he had gone. On tlie following evening he and Tom walked out of the camp together into @he woods, and then Joe laid his plans’ before him, after telling Tom about the money he had found. *Gee! You’ re a lucky fellow,” said Tom: “Why, $20,000 is a fortune. Jf I had that much I wouldn’ t do anything but” enjoy myself. for the next few years.” “That would be foolish. You'd fritter your capital away in- stead’ of putting it to profitable use, as I propose doing. I -ex-> pect to clean up several thousand dollars in my aii pee: © ae could not say yet in what way Tom company for ‘him. if nothing else, and : . ; dnt care to remain at the Camp after It would be better, to content yourself with less Brn: ; is expenses for the pleasure of his — x : y well get.a leave’ of absence from — 4h) lation, and then go into some other money-making enterprise. - “* Now that I have a bunch of money, I think” ‘there is little | chance of my going into my unele’s bank. I prefer to be my own boss and do business my own way,” said Joe. ~ / “So you’re going to quit'the camp right away?” said Tom.’ “Tram, Are you coming with me?” “T'd like to, but you know I. haven’t any. money. Neither ‘ome ‘us can collect our half pay before the end of the season, when everybody is paid off. That doesn’t make any difference to ~ you, for you are rolling in cash, but it makes. a difference to me.” “Don’ t let that worry you. I'll see you through, and if I tem find something for you \to do in connection with my digsenal tion, I'll give you a fair salary.” “AN right. [’m with you. you are gone. *~ Sli thought you wouldn’t care to. Well, let’s” walk ow hermit’s and see when he’s going to start for Bingham, “There'll be a squeal from the oor vnsniwe st ey the large dealers you would expect to sell, a a Ne i h ? Now t ied the larger Gee eee! the Jonger the time, | oa I don’t want to stay here after Ne

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18 IN THE LUMBER TRADE. i; bard to meet his boat after it has passed the lower boom. Then our departure will not be noticed.” “That’s a good plan; but how are we going to get our grips out of the sleeping room?” “That will be easy. We'll take them out when everybody is asleep and hide them in the woods. Now as the old man hasn’t got much in the eating line aside from vegetables, you must get away with two or three loaves of bread, some butter, and { anything else handy. You can stow the bread in your grip ~ and make a package of the rest.” They reached the house in the woods and found Hubbard reading a favorite book. P Arrangements were made to leave on the following Thurs- ay. Hubbard said they had better start late at night. At midnight Thursday the boys, who had been lying awake in their bunks, arose, dressed, and taking their grips in their hands, stole downstairs and outside. They went to the storeroom behind the kitchen, where the food in immediate use was kept in an ice-chest and on shelves, and Tom opened the window which he had left unfastened on purpose. Joe: boosted his friend in through the window, and waited *for-him to get what he was after. He passed out two moderate sized loaves of bread and then & small package. * They then started for a point a hundred yards above the * upper boom. . Here they found the old man waiting for them in his sail sig Aiyees which had a small cabin like a catboat. No time was wasted getting under way. ‘The boat was worked over the boom and was carried rapidly “down to the second, and thence to the third, which was the - Jast until they reached the booms of another lumber company. Here.they found the booms full of logs and had to drag the boat across them. ' However, they passed all obstructions before morning, and soon after sunrise reached the Kennebec, which was navigable at that point for boats of light draught. The brief trip down the river was performed without ad- venture, and they duly reached Bingham. ‘Joe took his box of money to a local bank and left it there on temporary deposit. He then bought a paper and studied up the lumber market -with particular reference to shingles. The price had been slightly advanced to the builders, but was no higher otherwise. ry The boys recovered their clothes from the pawnshop, paying the interest, and a small extra charge for care. Next day Joe got down to business, He called at a mill that was maki for 6,000 bundles, on a cash basis, de’ -. He got the bed rock ‘price. - He went to each of the other four contract. The other mills in town had stopped making shingles, filling orders from their reserve stock. 2. _ Joe found ‘that the five mills had almost enough shingles on _ hand ¢o fill his orders, and this fact made a difference in his 23 ; calculations. He called on the hermit and told him asd things were. “T find that it will not be possible for me to corner the shin- gle industry in this place for even an hour. The best I can do will be to clean out the reserve stock of the five mills. I » can’t touch the reserye of the other seven mills, but I have found out that it is low now, and that they will soon run out unless they start.in right away to make more. I would need at least $50,000 to tie up shingles for a week or. two.” The old man pondered. “V’ll tell you what I'll do. T’ll borrow $20,000 on my note at one of the banks where I am known, on the security of my land. That will give you a better hold on the shingle business. _ Contract for a second lot, but buy them on ninety days’ time. - That will give you some hold, though not ee a corner on the business. Understand?” “T do,” said Joe. ; Next day the old man said he had the money on deposit. . He went around with Joe and guaranteed payment on 70,000 bundles of shingles on ninety days’ time. That gave Joe the call on 100,000 bundles of shingles, 25,000 a shingles and contracted ry within thirty days. lls and made a similar i mills ‘a week or more to complete the order. The only free shingles now obtainable in Bingham were those in stock at the other. seven mie, which did not Le seers up| pganncts bundles, : at of which were ready for delivery, and it would take the five [ Joe then called on the freight agent to arrange for cars, and found he would have no trouble in getting all he wanted. Two days afterward there was another rise in the price of the grade of shingles Joe had bought, but Joe’s speculation had no connection with it. It was too small a deal to affect the market in general, though it was bound to affect the local markets dependent on Bingham for their supply. But it happened that, lumber conditions in general through- out New England at that time favored a rise in all kinds of lumber. The hermit usually only spent two or three days in Bing- ham, and then returned to the wilderness, but on this occasion he appeared to be in no hurry to go back. One morning he brought Joe a document he had executed. It transferred all his right and title in the property he owned to Joe’s uncle in trust for himself. Joe took the paper, thanked him, and said no use would be made of it as long as he, Hubbard, lived, unless with his con- sent. Orders for a large quantity of shingles was sent in to the mills at this time, for immediate delivery, but the mills could not fill the orders right away. They were tied up by Joe’s big order. The price of shingles in all the small places between Bing- hand and Portland were considerably affected by the condi- — tions at Bingham, and the price jumped up $1. Joe then began to arrange for selling his accumulating stock. He-sent Tom in one direction while he went in another, and offered shingles at a certain reduction from the market rate. They dealt only with small concerns who were good, and by the time the mills had finished his order, old Hubbard, who ~ was acting as his agent in Bingham, was shipping the peat in carload lots daily. , In this way Joe got rid of 50,000: bundles. He still had another 50,000 to sell, and he went to Portland, ~ Belfast and other large places and offered his shingles at a. discount below what the big wholesaler, who stood by the: market, wanted. He found no difficulty in finding customers on a sixty-day basis. EAT Six weeks from the time he started his speculation he had — sold his last carload of shingles, and had realized a profit of 25 cents on each bundle, after deducting storage charges at Bingham, freight charges, which he stood for, and other ex- — penses connected with the speculation, which included wages’ to Tom, his traveling expenses and many other items, é During al! this time old Hubbard remained at Bingham, and is back there Joe and Tom went. } The sixty-day time clause in the sales would enable him Olan settle with the mills on the ninety-day purchase of the 70, 000 bundles, and release the $20,000 of the old man’s money. _ He would then get back his own investment of $20,000 and a profit of $25,000 more. When everything had been cleaned up but the collections’ j the old man said he was going back to his house, but would sth come back in thirty days to get his HBOS and pay his note held by the bank. : “Tom has written his folks and I have ‘communicated: with my uncle,” said Joe. “I sent him that paper and I have his | reply. Read it. You will see how amazed he is at my good, fortune.” Tom received orders from his step-father to come. home ‘at once. NS He reluctantly departed, saying he hoped to come’ back. He didn’t come, for he was sent back to the Rockdale Insti- tute, where he told the boys the astonishing story of his and ae Joe’s experiences from the moment they ran away from Sie school. At the end of the thirty days Joe made his collections, se tled with the old hermit, spent a week with him, and then started for Clearhaven to see his uncle. As our story concerns only Joe’s winning speculation, we cannot follow his career further. : He devoted his funds to other speculations, every one of which proved so successful that Gai a who knew m ealled hin a Bag res speculator. P Next. weeks: issue will contain “A BOY’S BIG DEAL: oO} THE WALL STREET TIP THAT WON.” ! acs

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FAME AND’ FORTUNE WEEKLY. 49 CURRENT NEWS The Paris police are investigating.a remarkable pearl affair. An individual, whose name is undivulged, has dis- covered a means of hiding defects in pearls by a process of enameling. Many pearls prepared for the market have been seized by the police. One pearl valued at 80,000 franes by an expert is declared to haye a real value of only 13,000 frances, f W. &. Puett, a farmer and fruit grower, living eight Be miles from Cassville, Mo., brought in several baskets of “fuzzless peaches last month. The peaches are of the cling- _ stone variety and are exactly like an ordinary peach ex- ‘cept that the skin is smooth, like that of an apple, and has deep-red color. Puett has three trees which produce these _ fuzzless peaches, and he says they were grown from the seed of the ordinary fusny-skinned Elberta. ir, The trunk of the elephant may justly be considered as ne of the miracles of nature, being at once'the organ of respiration, as well as the instrument by which the animal supplies itself with food. Nearly eight feet in length, en- owed with exquisite sensibility, and stout in proportion to the massive size of the animal, this organ will uproot trees or gather grass, raise a piece of artillery or take up anut, killa man or brush off a fly. ; A iene ig a ad in the London “Lancet” ofan Yuta who actually. swallowed all his movable property in the shape of fifty-nine Kabuli rupees, equal to about $12 in American inoney, in order to avoid -a taxgatherer, The / details were given at length in the. “Tancet, ” where the : recor’ Lea betetgs: of i 1e ENeoh stent sighs ay Gould, ig ae Hnglish narialiae p 1 several colonies of ants in fower-pots, setting these na large trough of water, so’that the insects conld not: After they had become accustomed to their new ! he stretched ibe rn rom ane flower- spon to the a hea “harmattan” has been given to a drv, fio periodically blows from ihe interior ‘of Africa Atlantic during: December, January and Feb- s Sion By a fog « or dry haze, which some- ks togeth rere ats oi ase course of time these caked together, The Kaiser has made a sketch to commemorate the loss of the naval Zeppelin, and the picture will be finished in colors by Professor Bohrat. It wil) form a companion pic- ture to the Emperor’s widely known cartoon, “The Yellow Peril.” It shows a naval airship lighthouse on a rocky ‘coast. On the left is the figure of Germania with the im- perial insignia, a crown of bay, and the imperial shield. There is a shining cross in the sky and in the center the figure of Christ with a crown of thorns. Underneath the picture is written the text: “Greater love hath no man. than ’ this—that he lay down his life for his friends.” James Huffman and his wife were sitting in their home on a farm near Glasgow, Ky., a few nights ago, talking about their son, Virgil, and wondering if he would ever. come home. Virgil had been away twenty years, seeking his fortune in Alaska. There was a knock at the door, and- Huffman opened it, to see a dusty traveler, who said he was tired and was secking lodging for the night. Huffman thought he could do nothing for him, as there were visitors . in the home, and the traveler turned to go. But Mrs. Huff. — man could not see the man turned oat into the night, so called him back. They led him into thé hall, wnder the — swinging lamp, and as the light fell on his face the apes | couple recognized him. There was a glad reunion. Virgil Huffman had been prospecting in Alaska for a number of | years, and he had prospered. Now-he will make his home ‘ with his parents. SA Ay ve Ae The water of the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, is so buoyant — that a man may lie on his back in it and easily float, with — his head and neck, his legs to the knee, and both arms to the elbow, entirely out of the water. On assuming a sit- ting position, with the arms extended, his shoulders will rise above the water. On account of the extreme buoy-— s _j|ancy of the water, swimming is laborious, from the ten- dency of ue lower extremities to rise above the surface. — The lake is 75 miles long-and 30 broad. The first to navi- ’ gate its w iets was General Fremont, in 1843. Tn saltness BE the Utah lake is not to be compared with a Siberian lake in — i Obdorsk, which for a long time has. been entirely roofed — with a deposit of salt. It is 9 miles wide and 17 in length. Originally evaporation plaved the most prominent part in coating the lake over with salt, but at the present time the salt springs which surround it are adding fast to the thickness of the crust. In the long- ~ago period evaporatio of the lake’s waters left great salt erystals on the surface, — Thus the water were finally entirely covered. Te 18 78 the Jake: fount a

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ww On. FAME 2. AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. AN IRISH ROBINHOOD > THE HEROES OF THE BRIDGE S By GASTON GARNE CHAPTER V (continued). “Phen they must be Dutch deserters or scouts of the— “Hist, and await me, while I take a peep in here, -tertupted the giant, as he parted the tall rushes: “If you » hear the ery of a bit, advance in my track.” E Stealing through the rushes with all the caution of a| monster.’ Out, with the. “torch till we see if we find any fox, the big scout was soon peering in’ at the opening of thing on the rogue worth taking.” rh the cave. The three Danes were seated around a rude table, and one held a torch ‘to the giant’s face, while Otto bent - throwing dice for the spoils they had just secured, as well Gon u to examine his pockets; saying: t Sites fs RS aaacine liquor from a flask near them. « \ Fingal could see that the red-bearded rascals had their |meat for the season.’ arms ready for instant use, as their guns were within |: “reach, their huge axes were lying on thie table, and their|the giant “suddenly seinen Otto by the legs, spr ing » short- swords were sticking in their belts. gly. customers, ” muttered the giant, as’ he glanced have they done with the pretty bird foo the tree??? 5 he girl was not to be seen in the cave, as she was se- -eured in a small alcove in a dark corner at the end. While Fingal was meditating about attacking the three - ruffians singie-handed, Otto reached out, his hand as if to grasp the flask, when he suddenly seized the large ax and let it fly at the opening with great force and precision, springing up at the same moment, and crying: i “Some pros wling hound is on us! Look to the damsel, ‘and bear her out the other way, While I jenere the pas- “Otto heard. that aie me ve sprang # ‘the opening of) the eave, sword in hand, crying: i Phe ‘blow was well, aimed, and the prowler is oy Out, with the torch, and seize your arms, brothers.” Pingal was on the, point of springing in to attack the cals, when he conceived the idea of putting forth a little ati rhereby he might secure a bloodless victory, and thou: aid from thé others. Ee eping perfectly quiet in the long igtion’ ‘outside the ave, and stretching himself at fuil length with his face. oe Wy while he kept h alt | eine deciinn on the ion) (A SERIAL STORY) ae »| trate giant, and he then peered through the reeds, listen; ” in. |ing very intently the while. ~ around the cave and listened to the foreign tongue. “What |had been a club, and “knocked the others senseless i Me the giant. pretended to be sleeping the sleep of is The keew eyes of the Dane were soon fixed on the pros “Tis but a single prowler!” he cried to his brothers, springing out and staring at the fallen giant, “and he is.a The two ales Danes were soon. out. w vith their brothe “What a-pity *tis Rk a wild boar, and we ‘vould ‘hay Uttering a loud roar, like unto ones ‘of the wild boar -|his own feet at the same moment. Then Fingal swung the rascal around his he Da c=) rushes, as he yelled aloud: “Tve caught the foxes, and they are bagued, f ends, i: In and secure them !” When De Courcey and the two. outlaws) iets t ae opening of the eave they found Fingal holding Otto i over his brothers, and ready to strike them a bie Bios * move. Beh vain ier io some time tied When: they did open their eyes again they ie arms were aap behind ices with @ Xnd $0 the ee i W oan prey. ‘o our pheasants, Drag them along to Athlone, and w them a bright ante of Trish justice—the dogs rae The three Ve Danes were Lgiay out rou oh th When ie eacuea thas abt sigh the | cured, the Irish outlaws fastened their p mals with long girths, and: they, were the ord e along with the riders, Fingal then struck Otto, as sits evi sage hae Ge ae eh ble is

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4 be FAME AND FORTUN EB WE EKLY. 21 ecoousimenaad One glance down at the eth, and «the giant ee — answered : “They are all ahead of us, and brave Barney will look _ for usin Athlone very soon. On with you, Turks, or I’ll make you bellow out with pain. Who comes here?” men dashed out on them from a wood, the leader pr, ansWering : “Friends of King James and France. you?” “St. Ruth, by all that’s wicked!” muttered Fingal, pull- ing up. The prisoner Otto caught the sound of St. Ruth’s name, while he saw the disguised maiden shrinking back with ‘her lover at the same moment, and he cried: “Brave General St. Ruth, yonder is a disguised maiden, who boasts that she is your enemy. I crave mercy at your hands from those wild Irish savages.” Ha, giant, is it j ee “On my fetes bud, "eis thie ris De Cone: Baan the— - ‘ 7 , _GHAPTER. VI. Bea. SEER GIANT OUTLAW SPEAKS AND ACTS. A a Roth issued oe the rood ie intercept De piehdes sian) in the -woeltt the Prench general t De Courcey and his friends had not pro- ourney after crossing the ford, and thus awaited them in the wood. ee he other hand, being ms as- fee ‘ible a Tite Sesame ‘ue St. Ruth was hold b back to Aisi the: brave we and his foes? prisoner wi Trish’ outlaws: — a with their ato The question was asked aloud, as a party of mountain | “Back, St. Bhs on your i * cried the young Irish} | fense. | cause, I am your equal. | him who ‘strikes for honor and for love. esa yeneral St. Ruth, how you interfere with those who travel under the protection of our Irish Robin — Hood! *Tis poor return you make for the serv ices ren- dered you this very night.” As the valiant Frenchinan was chivalrous and generous enough when his passions or prejudices wére not aroused, he winced a little under the rebuke, but one glance at the defiant De Courcey roused the evil spirit of self-assertion within him, and, he cried, as he motioned to his followers: “Advance and seize that presumptuous fool who. has drawn on me. Sir Giant, out of the way, or we will teach you a lesson in manners to your superiors that may benefit you in the days to come.” “Hold, hold, St. Ruth!” yelled the giant, raising him- self in the stinraps and poising the huge ax. “J swear by the mother who bore me that I will cleave you to the very earth on the instant if you advance another step in this. . outrage. Shame on you. 1 say! “Tis you that should take lessons in manners and manhood, to thus assail a youth »>| who fought like a double liero to save your life and honor to-night !” A murmur of applause arose from St. Ruth's foll owers on hearing the daring denuneiation of the giant outlaw, ; and their leader turned on them abruptly, as he eried, in. fierce, haughty tones: } i “What! de vou, soldiers of France, thus countenance treason? Am I to be bearded by robbers and—” “Again and again, St. Ruth,” cried De Courcey, “do iP hurl the vile word in your teeth. While I do not lead an army of brave men, my blood is as pure and as noble as yours aud my name as spotless.” “That is true; by the light of true chivalry,” giant... “You have chosen to believe a vile charge against me, — sir,” continued, De Courcey, “and you denounce me as a robber and an ingrate, without hearing a word in my de- You are not my chief; and, .as a soldier in the As such I demand of you a trial at arms. Ivappeal to the gailant men under you to bap me that courtesy which is but my due.” “Bravely spoken,” cried Fingal, “St. Ruth, as you are— a valiant man and a gentlenian of France, give him the trial.” “And the trial he will have with a vengeanc e, onied” eried the ‘St. Ruth, flinging off his belmet and undoing his breast- plate. “I will encounter the Ivish thief on “equal terms and punish him as he deserves. rea me to remove ties. trappings.” ‘ i Three of the French horsemen sprung from Shety aie to obey the order, while the giant clapped his hands in — ,| approval, as he cried: : “Hurray for a fair fight, and my best taecinig! be. with Will” it be on. be 5 ee td RNY | horseback or on foot, gentlemen?” As that me desires,” cried St. a aaa nis.

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22 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FACTS WORTH READING «= AN OLD SOLDIER CHARGED WITH SLANDER. Because he sent a postal card in which he referred to a girl as a “pension thief;” Thomas Borland, an inmate of the Soldier’s Home, Milwaukee, has been arrested under a federal warrant. Owing to his Civil War record and the fact. that he saved President Lincoln from death, United States District Judge Geiger is trying to save him from prison. At an engagement near Washington Private Bor- land forcibly drew President Lincoln from a parapet where Confederate bullets were flying thick. A moment later two soldiers were killed on the spot where the President ‘ad been standing. . OUTWITTED BY BEARS. The War Department has allowed the soldiers of Troop I, First United States Cavalry, stationed in the Yellow- rt stone National Park, $10.80 for beef stolen by bears. ‘The pes department refused at first to allow the claim, but upon -. receipt of the details of the theft, did so. Col. L. M. Betts the meat from the bears, hut were outwitted. A screened - frame containing the meat was suspended by wires attac hed ~ to four trees, forming a square. No corner of the frame was within foie feet of any tree. To get meat for meals the cooks used a ladder. One night a hear climbed one of the trees, w ent out on a limb twelve feet above the meat, dropped on it and bore it to the ground. When morning came meat and bears were gone. - » ITALY’S AVALANCHE FENCES. Ttaly has just completed a line of fences to protect its railway between Termoli and Campobasso from avalanches of snow. This railway runs through a mountainous district “to the east of the Apennines where the snowfall in winter is so heavy and the mountains so steep that avalanches con- stantly crash down and fill the cuts. The snow- -fence is described by the Engineering News as being made of re- inforced concrete posts spaced 6 feet 7 inches apart and joined by 38-inch pine planks sliding into grooves in the standards. This fence is designed to tesist safely a uni- form thrust ‘of 20. pounds per sqtlare foot or a concentrated ‘horizontal thrust of 660 pounds at the Bi of mess section _of fence. é _ A $600 DRINK. The most expensive drink taken by a member of a major league team during the 1913 playing season cost seach $600.05. The playe rer who drank the costly beverage is one of the best men in the business, but he has long shown a tendency to topple from the water wagon at, times when his services were most needed. Before signing up with his club for last spring, he promised not to take a drink dur- sag explained that his men had taken every precaution to save | - plant. |machine shops, boiler shops, smithies, engineering and pat- he kept his word he, mba to reecive a ments to keep his men in good ‘condition. The player in question kept his good resolution for many weeks, but one day he slipped from the narrow path and, entéring a saloon, ordered a glass of beer. While he was drinking it es the wise manager of the club strolled in to see what was_ going on and, taking in the situation at a glance, informed — the surprised and dazed player that the nickel’s worth of — forbidden liquid would cost him the entire bonus plus the price of the drink. A FLOATING WORKSHOP. The British Admiralty, says The Sphere in its “Naval Notes,” has been responsible fora great number of innova- tions in warship building, and has proved as fertile” in origs3: inal ideas for the improvernent of the more humble vessels which generally goes under the name of fleet tenders. — term includes all those colliers, oil carriers, repair victualing ships, mother ships, and others which are useful to the main fighting force. ss At ve present moment eS ropa ee is Beane the ee Eel will be stationed at Crile This ‘sti 1 yessel will have three decks, and will in shape be recta lar. Tt will be 450 feet long and 90 feet wide. The b deck will seek the coal ‘bunkers and SHOR: also. “On the Fives Apore will ie foand the for i a ternmaking departments, and also accommodation for th workmen of all branches. The top deck will have!ho room for ois staff of 140 to 150 officers and mens GERMANY HAS A UTOPTA.. Klingenberg, a town in Southern | Gone oy of a modern Uiopia. “Tt not cuy supplies eve with well paid work and relieves him of all his m and state taxes, but gives him an annual allowance of § for pin money, with occasional gifts for holi ay f tions. pa The: fortunes of Klingenberg, jwhich has. about Bis habitants, are founded upon its deposits of clay. account of its fire-resisting properties is widel particularly to the United States. The deposits are worked by the muniei an annual profit of $100,000, and every K entitled to a Dees as miner, The fortnigh is qiade to every citizen aoe @ To prevent the Hoot by Germans from all pa | necessary ‘to limi

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, YOUNG TOM BROWN R, THE BOY. yee8 KNEW HIS BUSINESS By ED. KING Fae: (A SERIAL STORY.) : CHAPTER XIV (continued). Tee} Breathing vengeance and threatening Tom’s arrest, the “Tt can’t be done, my boy. You might’ pick up a lot | Walking delegate walked away. of tramps, but they are not mechanics, you couldn’t do “There !” “cried ‘Tom. *That will show them that I . Seany. thing With them, If you mean to fight, I ee see | know my business.” But Jim Roebuck shook his head doubtfully. , “T ‘suppose you couldn't help it, Tom,” he said, teagie all the same I wish it hadn’t happened. I knew that fel-. - low some years ago in Chicago. He’s as bad as they make ‘em,-and he'll get back at you as sure as fate. ” “That’s all right, Roebuck,” Tom’ replied. “What's done can’t be undone. Now I am going to see Mr. Plautz.” ~ “Which will be to follow out my idea! » “Yes. I’m no fool: You are an older hand at the bel- than I am. Whatever you say shall be: carried out ; oe business. now! Ae s j= ow “AS oO ate o mM ov pe =| =r a = oS a 3 te fo} Ae wR @ = s wm >) be for) per — ts>) S Led o ES oo 5 CHAPTER XV. i TROUBLE ON THE TRAIN. “I’m sorry for this, Tom,” said the ‘architect. “Of course I caimot doubt that Dr. Merwin will consent to any reasonable delay, but Mr. Jones and the others will not be. so lenient. If you ean’t settle it up with your men they will probably want to break the contract and turn their jobs ov at to some of se new contractors who have come to town.’ P “Tet them,” said Tom. “I hall do my best; no one can” do any more. Give me three days, Mite ‘Plautz, and you’ will see work going on full swing again.’ To this the friendly architect agreed, and Tom spGet iwo of the next three days in St. ere to which city he | went by the first train, sR Arthur Penrose went with him, for company only, for, of course, Arthur knew nothing of such “.*iness as that in which Tom was engaged. ae | Poni went straight to the secretary of the bricklayer unien and told his story, He was courteously received, and told that a mecting © g| would be called to consider it the next night, at whieh he was invited to be present and tell his story. ae Tom attended the meeting, and without. the’ least. show of embarrassment mounted the platform and state his i case. he “setled sak Tom. «Pm oft for St. Louise “ead aven’t settled wid a “Com esa and until yez be: niver a hand’s turn done on dis job, and don’ t vake no aol 4s : sy h alt. ate wild in upite S the ‘early re a came up to Tom. ouse did me dirt last night!” ie: snarled, “and ng to get square. ‘Settled; is ib? Take that, oO sc ee a ; ieaiat proboscis, and blood. in his and started for ‘Tom, who jumped 1 age the collar and the pte seat baeniniensiy’ in Tom's favor, - be After the meeting was over the proliant of the -jcalled Tom. aside and told sie that Ais men h MDT £09 oc. 5 > a) acd Estat DS @2 ie es zg =. — ce bv] Mar | : c oO pS

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. “many hours as you and they agree upon,’’ he further said: “We have been waiting for just such a chance as this. You can rely upon a good gang being réady to start witi you for Dimsdale to-morrow night.” This was a great triumph. for Young ‘I ‘om Brown. _. His application to the ‘carpenters’ union had the same result, for here in St. Louis the two bodies pulled together in perfect harmony. Tom now wired the result of his mission to his father . and Mr, Plautz, and also to Dr, Merwin, whom he had visited before leaving Dimsdale. When the train left St. Toouis that night ‘Tom had his men aboard, and they were good, sturdy fellows, too, pre- payed to hold their own in any fight. The train was a local, as the. express did not stop at _ Dimsdale, and Tom and Arthur got what sleep they could ‘on the goat of an ordinary car, for there were no Pullman ears attached to the train. : They were due at Dimsdale at half-past four. After three o’clock Tom found it impossible to sleep, and as Arthur was in the same fix, and the boys having the car almost to themselves, the workmen. being in tlie car forward, they began to talk. “Where in the world are you going to put these fellows ‘to liye, Tom?” asked Arthur, sutldenly. “T don’t suppose any of the regular hoarding’ house keepers will ee to “take them in.” “Oh, that’s all fixed,” replied Tom. “I know my busi- ness, Arthur, Yow don’t t suppose I am such a fool as to forget: to look out for that!” “Well, hardly. T just thought of it, though.” “Oh, I wired Roebuck to hire the opera house. You - know the first floor is all right.’ We can put up cots on the stage, Three hundred men could sleep there.” “And how many have you got?” “Well, there are a tundverd i on board with us hae and fifty ‘more coming over io-morrow. 'That’s all I care to handle for the present. T may have to drop one or two of the contracts, but if it is so I shan’t shed a tear, I'll have - all T can handle even then.” “By Jove, Tom, I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes,” said Arthur. «T should be a a every moment to get a bullet in my back.” Well, this sort of thing is what you have got to stand if you are going to bea successful contractor,” replied Tom. a haven't the "least doubt that the strike is a put-up job, -a scheme worked by some of the Chicago contractors who have come into Dimsdale. I'll fight ’em, though, Arthur. T'll show them that I know my business, and--heavens and: earth! What’s that 2” i Suddenly the train had stopped on n the air-brakes. ‘Tom and Ar thur were thrown forward against the next seat with great forée, hut neither was hurt at all, ig Tom, “springing up, made a rush for the door. a “What's the matter?” he demanded of the brakeman, who was hanging off the platform and peering. forward. ‘Tt was pitch dark and the wind blew almost a gale, for | a storm was close at hand. | “Blessed gal know,” réplied the ‘brakeman. ‘ight this. side. of i half-anile HAS BE -gomething ry ee ie . “We are | _ There may be| fof A i LA \ himself. cried Tom. him and puted him back. Arthur. It begins to ‘look’ as though you Ww that this is some of the strikers’ work. ; Bet .|joined them. , ee each other ss five i it. Bn SEITE ‘Tt was a tremendous responsibility for a boy of his years. He knew perfectly well that if it had not been for his father’s dld established name he never would have been : able to hire one of the men who were now under his charge. “J must go forward and see what it all means, Arthur! i : he exclaimed. Lights were flashing, and men were heard shouting on — ghend by the engine. “You had better look out for yourself. I believe its BL hold-up !” the brakeman said. “Come on, Arthur!” eried Tom. “We will cet into fhe next car with the men anyhow. In case there is going Ber be trouble I want to be right on hand.” “T believe it’s the work of the blamed old unions,” ees tered Arthur. “We have been sliding through this Ls ness altogether too slick.” : Tom jumped down and hurried forward. As he did so a man jumped off the car ahead, which was ms occupied by the newly-engaged workmen, and came hurry- ing toward him. “Ts that you, Bogs aaa ?” he demanded, as he dre near ‘Tom. “Yes,” replied. Tom. Instantly a revolver cracked, and a shot went whiz : past the head of Young Tom Brown. CHAPTER XVI. ON THE TRESTEE. | Lucky for the futuré of the firm of Brown & ‘So shot missed young Tom Brown. ae Tt could hardly have been otherwise, for the nigh very dark. “My! Are you hurt, sire”? cued the Irak ht ing forward, « friérid drop dead on the spot. “Tt’s all tin It’s all Rem Pr not “Tl chase ine V2 suet Arthur, malig a | a “No, no! Don’t think of it,” ine Tom, ot They hurried forward to the engine, | Many of the workmen came flocking out: of Everybody was talking ahd the. shot,

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 FROM ALL POINTS _ The largest dock east of Suez has been opened at Singa- pore. It has an entire length of 89214 feet, a width of 100 feet at the entrance, and a depth, over the sill, at. high water ordinary spring tides, of 34 feet, with 24 feet at ex- treme low water. ‘his will, so far as can be seen, at pres- ent, anticipate any likely Dreadnought requirements for some time to come. his hugé dock can be relieved of its Dumping power. a oe - Blackberries thrive more luxuriantly in Australia than Europe or America, their growth being so rapid that in nany places they are regarded as an agricultural pest. ike the first rabbits, the original blackberry vines have wn and multiplied until they bid fair to cover the face he country. The bushes are not cultivated—they can ; fter themselves, as many Australian agriculturists are painfully aware—but the jam made from their fruit is ence On the farm. 1 — - progress is being made with the gigantic Apulian £ wl hich will carry the water from the springs of iver Sele in the province of Avellino right through nines to the Steg! oa of Italy, age te it ve 100, ,000, 000 ale every twenty-four hotwea: Th "the the ote is estimated at $25, 000, 000, says a con- eport. ie re ¢ the main ee line oe be as ide lines. - a commercial went down the throat of ie ees in Atchison, iain, G0. McCaskill,” ‘at the home of N. D. Merritt, its owner, and a little spree. The wolf, on its way to the , passed chieken pens by the dozen: and went pheasant abode. A heavy. Wire fence ‘proved use and the wolf went through with no é next morning it was a that about vner of the wolf has agreed to pay 22, 000,000 gallons of water in less than two hours by the; i ciently tempting to make one forget their unwelcome. wolf, a night or two ago, when the animal broke | xre mnigsing and Keno was asleep on the k throughout: | the lessons; thus th eo stopped, questioned and often imprisoned as vagrants. But there is nothing to do but finally let them go, and they invariably return the next year. An effort to aid and pro- tect these gypsies, and incidentally the perplexed authori- ties, is being made by a Swiss clergyman, H. Heuyer. He has or ganized a society, one of the purposes of which is to instruct the gypsies in the Christian religion, for these nomads are all pagans. The success of Mr. Hcuyer’s ef- forts, however, is considered very uncertain. The difficult question of whether it is high treason to turn a bust of the German emperor with its face to the wall has been settled by the sentence of four months’ im- prisonment passed upon Herr Schatz, of Saargemund, Germany. And yet the luckless Schatz may plead that he had a certain warrant for his rash act. It may be remem- bered that the people of Alsace have recently been giving some trouble, and the emperor shook his mailed fist at them, metaphorically speaking, and said that Alsace might find itself incorporated with Prussia unless it learned to | behave itself. Prussians themselves, by the way, resented the implication that their kingdom was a penal establish- ment—but that is another storys ‘un sending his paternal admonition to Alsace the emperor concluded with the words that the people “had so far seen only his good side, That was enough for At an ensuing meeting of a but they might soon see another.” the enterprising Schatz. French society to which he belongs Schatz quoted these. words of the. emperor, and then, advancing toward an im- ~ pevial bust that was on. the shelf, he wemarked ; “We will see the other’side at once,” and turned it with its face to the wall. | Winter institutes for farmers, at which ten-day courses in all kinds of rural subjects are offered, are becoming a regular feature of educational work in. Candas. For several years such an institute has been in operation, each winter at Truro, Nova Scotia. Kdward Island and a large number from New Brunswick, these two provinces subsidizing all of their inhabitants who art wish to attend. Recently Prince Edward Island has estab- lished an institute of its own at Charlottetown. The courses offered here include livestock, poultry, horticulture, soil aah seed selection and dairying ; besides women’s : These | |courses are given free to all inhabitants of the island who | -jeare to take eget Je of aan and f piiepieabelt is Mahe evltiv ation, courses in housekeeping, domestic science, etc. ° the: Tele ee ae rained “ gi Last year the attendance at this’ — place numbered about 400, of whom 100 were from Prince

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© /9g. : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. aoe Fame and Fortune Weekly while prospecting in Sorithers California. He told of the jositee of a rich vein and drew a diagram of its location ie hile dying, according to the story that has come down to the present: -day Leightons. His daughter, then seven “i Be sue ae ieee ea | | years old, later martied ©. P. Leighton in Sacramento and é | the family came to Oakland to live. It was when Mrs. — TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS | Leighton’s' daughter, Miss Frances, found the ancien os cents || (rawing and learned the story of her grandfather’s deat 165 Cents. |’ that she obtained consent from her parents to make $2.50 search for the lost. mine. She has built: a eabin and. . Postage Free. . {making the search alone. ; HOW TO SND MONEY ae our risk send P.O, Money Order, Check i fee Os. Rogistered Let remittances in any other way are at your risk. } Woe accept Postage ‘Staanoe the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envel- ; ; ope. Write your name and address plainly. Address letiers to | 2 ee peoreecie | --Brank Tousey, Publisher |p JOKES AND JESTS. — 168 West 23d St.,,N. Y. Old ‘Train Robber—You seem to take naturally to thi _ Cas. i Nyuanpuer, Secretary business. What did yer used to do in the os N Train Robber—I druv a taxi. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 21, 1913. BRIEF BUT POINTED ITEMS : Two pots of gold and a skeleton were recently unearthed | “In politics, I presume it is always ie to saw) - in San Francisco by G. W. Tyler, while conducting Hast and say nothing.” “Not always, Sometimes the peo _ grading operations. The gold, in dust and nuggets, was! send a man to. Coligress to get rid of his gab.’ * worth about $500. The skeleton was believed to ‘be that of | TIT BS ad a as - some ancient Indian chief, as, in addition to the gold,| iss D-—I can trace my duosetngss Haale ihe many valuable trinkets, such as those with which Indians | formation, Miss E.—That’s nothing; I can trac formerly decorated themselves, were found with the bones. | pack years and years before they attempted to etre é aly A big horned owl swooping down for a goldfish in the | First Mother (reading letter ‘from son at coll fountain at the east entrance to the White House, became | | Henry’s letters always send me to the dictionary. entangled i in the water lilies in its basin and was drowned. Mother (vesignedly)—That’s nothing; J. ack’ s alwa: It was found floating on the water supported by its out-| me to the bank. tly stretched. wings, which measured four feet. Owls have _ been heard frequently in the trees on the White House; Mrs. Culchaw—l suppose in pitting together y grounds, but attendants said they never had seen gol eae you secured some paintings by Raphael ? >. before. Sante Newrich—By raffle! Certainly not!» Be: ee for everything. © § ees kot ¥S Walter McRay, a diver, lives to tell the tale of a forty- 3 five- minute fight with a devil fish: eighty-five feet beneath _ the surface of the water at Seattle, Wash. MeRay every need it simply because he was rich? Dr, Park now and then telephoned the progress of the fight. When | once—and hang it all, the man up and oer and he finally give the signal and was hoisted up the tentacles | lost my wealthiest patient. ae of the dead fish were around him. He had stabbed it eleven! ~ Rie Soy tie ee ee _ times before he was able to strike it in a vital place. The; Mrs. Ferguson—George, what do you re t body measured “pe feet in circumference. you want to draw some money out of a bank? : Sl re, sou—You have to put some money in the b ee dog gave its life recently to save a boy and a girl, hand. ae always heen my experience, — a ifilldcer. of William Wageman, a farmer living near Red | Br RPC Sai Sze i Lake Falls, Minn. A leopard, which had been at large} Aunt Mandy is an old colored mammy since escaping from a circus at’ Crookston, attacked, the | sophical turn of mind, but given to many’ P children. Their dog was near by, and it charged the animal; | Christmas day her mistress, an exceeding p - diverting its attention while the little folk ran into tho |j in a contemplative mood. “Just th house. After it had killed the wi the leopard escaped ‘she said, “1908 Boris ago to- day, 4 into a cornfield. ~ 1908 years ago.” “My! My 148 ; ———- : times do fly!” ried. of Miss Frances Lei éhton, ditched of Mr. and : Mrs. C.'P, Leighton, of Oakland, Cal., have learned that s abandoned the study of music to work with pick shovel 1B pale attire in a. remote oe. in the South- Dr. Post—Did you ever operate o on a man wie; \ y 7 have saved the house tho nd wi

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A FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. at — = a he 5 ‘| He will be here soon, I think. But he is much too old to THE GOLDEN CROSS MYSTERY. ride around the country in this fashion. It is not safe: “I know that, but it’s of no use to reason with him. T By John Sherman. felt uneasy about him—that is why Iam here to-night.” eA | “Does he usually collect a large amount of money?” 3 ‘Many years ago there lived near Manchester, Hngland,a| “Yes; too much for an old man to have about him.” wealthy old gentleman named Julian Vernon, With him|: ‘The two men at the table here exchanged glances. resided William Vernon, his brother’s son, who was asso-|. “Well, he is very foolish ; that,ig all [can say,” said the jated with him in business. landlord. “YT suppose he will return through Ashdene The old man, though now on the verge of three-score | toad; that’s as safe as any in these parts, I think.” and ten years, was yet in the habit, as he had been for| The two men arose at this point of the conversation, and nearly half a century, of riding into Manchester alone, | after settling their score, quietly w ithdrew from the inn. once a year, to collect his rents. This business usually | -“Do you know those fellows?” I asked my host. took two or three days for its transaction. “No; they are strangers hereabouts,’ Boniface returned. Being of a miserly disposition, he preferred to do the “Rough: looking customers—one of them especially.” errand himself father than pay an agent, however trifling “Yes, I noticed that.” * th charge might be. “Presently he exclaimed : Will Vernon constantly upbraided the old man with the} “I feel strangely anxious about Mr. Vernon, Wilson, If- folly of the thing, but it was of no use to remonstrate. | he does not return within the hour, T shall ride out in Mr. Vernon could find no reason that was of sufficient | Search of him.” ; , ‘importance to prevent him from pursuing the course “Wait till the moon rises,” Wilson replied. “It’s so dark ‘th he had marked out for himself. yow can’t see your hand before your face. ean do just as well as an agent,” he said. “T’ye at-| Suddenly there came from without the sound of hoofs. — ided to ea business for many years, and have not been| “That must be thé old gentleman,” exclaimed Wilson. “But I never knew him to ride so before. He must. he alarmed at something. He is coming at a fearful pace.” The clatter of hoofs now grew louder and more distinct. T waited anxiously. In a moment the horse was visible. It was riderless ! 7 Mr. Vernon had been murdered and robbed! Great was the sensation caused by the mysterious mur-~ dev of the old gentleman. He had disappeared from the | face of the carth so suddenly that not the slightest clew was left to point to the manner of his taking off. The two _ men that I had seen’in the Golden Cross had vanished. ” Diligent search and tireless inquiry failed to bring to light any. facts that would tend to throw the least light on - the mysterious murder, 7? said Will, “Youngsters 100 wise oe Mad “Don't try to aintats’ to your alders’ can take care of myself, never fear.” ach | were his parting wotds on the occasion of his last Manchester. On this day his nee, ie more : Bion of ‘Sogn ane Geet him: on his ey The old lways made, his headquarters at the “Golden Cross” : Id transact his aster in the gree be retwmn Ten years passed, and the tragedy was well-nigh for- gotten, During that lapse of time, however, I had made it a point to stop at the “Golden Cross,” whehever I should find myself in that part of the country, and many a time was the topic of the Vernon murder discussed and speeu- lated upon by the. good host and myself far into the night. On the oceasion of which I am about to write, I had just arrived at the inn on a usual visit. The landlord gaye me a cordial greeting. . “Tye been thinking about you all day, Mr.——,” he said,. “Tt is just ten years ago to-night since poor ola Mr. Ver: i | non was murdered.” ; “Ves,” I yveplied, “I remember it well, and I shall nevete rest, till his murderers are brought to punishment.” As we talked in this strain, we observed a middle-aged : man approaching from an opposite direction: He accosted the inn-keeper and desired to know if he could be accom- modated with a room. : fe fu “Certainly, sir,’ * Said mine host: “Hleie, Boots, Pras [this party to a room.” ne” ens ah With al nod the man shuttled , when by a fortune pacts oa of cirewh- ‘ound myself in the outskirts of Manchester, had been sent hy my superiors to look up a little had caused 2 considerable amount of annoyance vi aristocracy in that. neighborhood, and on the. day in , as I was driving by the home of the Vernons, 1 Jed by Will, whose father I had served in a matter oa was quite young and whom, consequently, T ite well. : f ng on. Aaa extening I noe we aot. fookthe ata oe table. : thought them rather ards,

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See Sr eS 28 fore, but where T could not at finest remember. Suddenly came light, and my whole frame trembled. “What's matter, ill 2? “Oh, no,” I answered. “But I have an odd request to make. Can-you arrange it so that I can have the room next to this stranger?” Te rather a strange fancy,” replied the landlord, —euriously, “but 1 think I can accommodate you.” “Thank you. Do not mention to any one what I have ‘suid. I have reasons for secrecy.” ‘At an early hour T went to my chamber. TI’lay on the outside of the bed and listened intently for the faintest sound in the adjoining apartment. li wag getting on toward midnight when I heard a move- ment in the stranger's room. the sir?” asked Wilson. “Are you is { arose softly and listened with suspended breath. In a moment I heard a latch lifted, and then a door was cau- tiously opened; a man crept aloag the passage, stealthily descended the stairs, opened the outside door and passed out. The instant the door’ was lose I sprang to a window ehich overlooked the yard. In a moment the man had passed by the corner of the | house and was fully revealed by the light from the moon. He looked anxiously toward the house, then walked to one of the outbuildings, soon reappearing with a spade over his shoulder and walked in the direction of the Ashdene road. [ crept downstairs, carrying my hoott which I speedily dzew on in the open air. 1 then started off in pursuit of ‘the stranger, keeping as much in the shadow as possible. Occasionally the man paused | and looked around; then he moved stealthily on again. Suddenly the man turned to the lett oid pausett beside , a clump of bushes. First he examined the ground carefully and peered down as if in search of some coveted prize. Mh, T have it!” said he, aloud. spot.” The next moment he had driven the spade in the ground, He threw up & few shovelfuls of earth, his attitude’ one of |, extreme nervousness, after which he stooped, picked up something aud held it toward the moonlight. Tt was a small box, and I knew by the dull, clicking sound that it contained money. Feeling satisfied upon that » point, IT hurried back to the inn, where [ arrived fifteen |. minutes before the stranget. , 1 watched the fellow on his return, saw him replace the spade in the shed, heard him ascend the stairs and enter his room. Soon‘all was silent. I listened awhile longer. - then, feeling satisfied that the man was asleep, groped my “way to the ‘landlord’s room and requested him to get up immediately. fn a few moments Wilson appeared, rubbing his eves. “Flush! eried I, as he was about to speak, “Be cau- “This is the very fe ia As I stand before » you a living man, I have found old Mr, Vernon’s murderer to-night.” ; Sepa: it? fea ni at last mana ed. Ry hie erin out, Ai i) Pia ty ‘i Nae “FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘the night of his arrival at the “Golden Cross | Victoria’s accession in the factory, and a compa ison Ten niinutes after I was on the road. My first care. was - to procure a warrant for the stranger's arrest, and then, in company with two of the police, I started back to the~ Golden Cross inn. Be. It was daylight when we drove into the yard, and the ; stranger was just coming down the steps. On a signal from me he was taken at once into custody. and conveyed to prison, where he underwent an examina-_ tion before the magistrate, who committed him. for trial at the next assizes. .During the time between the examina | tion ‘and trial Martin Blake, for such was the stranger’s © name, continued indifferent to all persuasions to confess his. crime. sar no way to cause him alarm, but when I was called and — stated, as is customary with members of or profession, im a calm, clear voice, that I had recognized the prisoner * as one the men : ee seen at the inn on the ven night Tuli ha nidwerienits and al eters aba followed res ns vi oe the box was concealed, Blake’s guilt and terror beea manifest as to convince people of his guilt. Heo Suffice it to say, that the jury, after a brief-declar returned a verdict of guilty, and Blake was sentenced t hanged onthe very spot where he had buried a small tion of the stolen money, the attempted. recovery of whi had caused his arrest and conviction, > tgeate ine Baas 5 processes are canna % make the tiny steel needle familiar to every one, but the fact : one.an idea of the perfection to which its manufa ren been brought. A needle is shown of the time of Quee the. one A a to-day shows. what strides, ais Bt: ness Rhee been. brought to bear ee He shaped shaft, white in color, with an ir -e Head much larger than the body of the object, ly-drilled circular eye: such was the needle w seamstress of 1837 had to sew. The modery ‘As with an evenly-tapered point, a head no wider th: an an eye pee smooth ie and w ell aati mode 4 making’ has ie proligi one ae fee 0 the “calyx-ey ed” needle, one of the latest de the article. As it is: tbvended: through a slit i the head instead of in the a: way, ther must suilicient elasticity to allow the thread to pe s into th without being frayed or cut, and at the. same tim sides of the head must be capable of sp nging Lo again so as to prevent the cotton from slipp the meoiies is threaded. It is endens nee )

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FAME ‘WEBKLY. . - “AND FORTUNE / - GOOD READING } . - . . . . Strange as it may seem, it is ‘possible to light your cigar’ j by means of ice. Take a piece of clear ice, shot one inch thick, cut it into the shape.of a disc and with the palms of the hands melt its two sides convex, giving it the form f a double convex lens or breniing-elias: Now, if the sun will only condescend to shine, focus its rays on the end of your cigar, and the feat is done. aes The trial hepa at Berlin Octdber 23 of one of the direc- “tors and a foriner agent of the Krupp armanent works, who ve charged with bribing government officials to. betray cial secrets. The accused are respectively Otto Eeclus i Maximilidn Brandt. The proceedings were uninterest- ing Maa for the’ CGS by, Brandt a5, his ee et ‘as to contracts Goat to be given out byt the dotnah aca : ment. \ -€0 mission that came to this pre to study mu- ary summer home i in Maine and was placed on the Ham- | V erican liner Amerika, now on its way across to f It = ie een to Professor’ Dr. Oskar von approximately $4, 000, 000. to the Cornell Uni- |. of trustees. It is understood that the gift, the ge sum for the establishment of the branch of the M dical College in New York City. ift will give the medical college an annual in- : ‘Although interested in Cornell, Colonel t He is an neanber of the the Cornel University Association, 5 ) hi eee y ¢ r § ea. lion that invaded the town of fhenpore ay it collided | with ‘the seams, Newport, | passengers on tl 0 ihe bo ays it ina ns. ‘The - ‘sledge arrived. here on Thursday “from the dical. College was annotnced to-day on behalf of he history of the university, was presented by ver H. Payne, of New York, who prior to that. The interest e man, having i graduated from the an an ax recently after a decidedly stren- tions are not pope, icone they prey on “Perhaps it began angry lah determined to get it headed for eld nh While swimming : sive and. Aiunige inekoates: Ray Munker, sixteen years old, went swimming in Win- wood Lake, Kansas City, Mo., with several other bovs. They had been in the water only a short time when Mun- ker suddenly began struggling and shouted, “Help!” Then — he sank. His companions swam to the place where he had - gone down and, dived and splashed and lashed the water into foam in a frantic effort to find him. him come up a few feet away and swim away casily, laugh- ing. It was great sport. Again and again he tried it, until finally his eries-for help went unheeded. , When he shouted the Jast time the boys scarcely looked at the place where | he had sunk from sight. had forgotten the spot where they last saw him. ‘Thirty 29 Then)they saw ° And when they did miss him they - mainteee later they found his body at the bottom of the lake. Efforts to restore life to the boy were futile. ~ More than one-fifth of the men who served in the army. and navy of the United States during the Civil War were — still on the Government’s pension roll at the beginning of — the present fiscal year.. This was shown by the annual lic on October 22, in which it appears that on July 1 last there were 462 B79 Civil War pensioners. In the last year there was a decrease of 34,884 such pensioners, 200 pensioners of all classes. - There rémain 1,142 Mexican War pensioners and 1,066 from Indian wars. The last sur- viving pensioner of the War of 1812 died eight years ago, although 199 widows of that war’s fighters still receive pensions, a decrease of thirty-ning since last year. ° Dio leads the states with the largest number of pensioners, 77,599, followed by Pennsylvania, with 75,610; New York, RR AER Ss ene eS cat ie SA 68,270: Illinois, 56,482; Indiana, 49, 987; Missouri, 29,=: 490; Michigan, 34, 298, and ‘Massachusetts, 3 34, 124, ) report of Commissioner at Pensions Salizgaber, made pub- while the _. net loss in the entire pension roll was 40,094, leaving 820,- The fury of militarism which has oad over Burope , ; has had a ridiculous resulf in the decision of the little re- public of San Marino, about 100 miles southwest of Ng enice » “ i. on the Adriatic coast, with a population of 10,655 to in , crease its armament. Up to the present the military power | of the republic has consisted of one truck field gun, brought ie in 1893, and under its protection the country tae existed — in perfect tranquillity and freedom among agen ession, ae to meet the demands ot the new military ‘situation ine ‘Burope San Marino lias now invested in a whole battery four field guns. ‘As the Balkan War has demonstrated manifest superiority of the French guns, Sfn Marino placed ‘its order with the Creusot firm. At the same that the armament is increased the military foree raised from nine to thirty: men. A que! ie The new gur of nine miles across, hence ib will be im ing

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30 - CHEAP. ASPHALT PAVING. There is coming into use in Germany a cheap and ready method of asphalting a stone-paved street which is show- ing good results. The spacés between paving blocks are cleaned out to the depth of about an inch, and then a layer of melted asphalt is flowed over the street surface, the depth of the layer being about one inch. Before it is cooled, sand is sprinkled on and. the surface is smoothed. At Frankfort a section of this kind is now laid, and it ap- pears to stand the wear remarkably well. Should the method prove a success in general practice, it will afford an excellent means for deadening the’ noise of city traffic at a small expense. It is quickly carried out, and it need ‘not stop the circulation on narrow streets for any length of time. Moreover, repairs are easily made. ‘ BUBONIC PLAGUE RATS. “Dr. James E. Crichton, the local health officer, said re- cently that there were many bubonic plague rats in Seattle and that the situation was serious, but that the Health - Department hoped to prevent an outbreak of the disease. “Not for six years,” he said, “has, there been a base of bubonic plague in a human being in Seattle. In those six years we have found twenty-four plague rats. A consider- able number were taken during the plague outbreak six years ago, and recently seven were killed ina section of the water front which has been thoroughly isolated. Thou- sands of dollars are being expended under the orders of the Health Department in tearing down condemned wooden buildings, constructing cement basements, and otherwise making the water front ratproof, The infected district is two blocks long and one block wide and fronts on the bay. We are trying to make it impossible for rats to lodge or ~ __ breed on the water front.” ARCHERY GETTING POPULAR. At the annual archery meeting, at Le Touquet, France, ‘the record flight of 459 yards has aroused great interest. Tt is not widely known that there is an excellent body of - archers in’ London. Very few would suspect the presence _~ of the delightful Old World sport, an arrow’s flight from the rear of Marylebone Road. It is here archery flourishes in a modest way under the auspices of the Royal Toxopho- - lite Society. Hither more than one member of the House of Commons may be seen wending his way. Here are bows ~ and arrows taken trom the tombs of Egyptian kings, dat- ing back to BX’. 2600. Tn a glass case is a small Turkish bow, an arrow from which made a marvelous flight. The | French flight of 459 yards 8 inches has been erroneously * described as a record since 1794, The marvelous little ‘Turkish bow of Regent’s Park also has a record. During 1795 Mahmoud Effendi, a member of the Turkish lega- tion, with his bow in Regent’s Park shot an arrow 480 "yards, as measured by three members of the Royal Toxo- | Pholite Society. Probubly the longest distance fights of pe ee ee ee i” ae FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ; ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS ed Ralph { Payne Gallway, Bart., in 1905. In private the distances covered were 420, 415 and 412 yards. At the meeting his Py distance was measured at 367 yards. Far from languish- — ing, the sport of kings and ottlaws is making satisfactory — progress in this country, which possesses nearly eighty societies. -Archery, like other patrician sport, does no court publicity, and probably this accounts for the ‘ide that the sport-is dying out. CAUGHT IN DYNAMITE GUARDED CABIN, — After eluding Government officers all summer, Da Hall, of Pike County, Ky., is now under arrest, following an unexpected visit paid to him in his dynamite guarded — cabin neat Bluehead Notch, in the Cumberland Mountains With his arrest all the “moonshiners” accused of the assas sination of two revenue officers and the desperate wound- ing of a third are in custody. — BS a f The capture of Hall came after a chase which rivals th exploit in Oregon of “Tracy, the Outlaw,” a few ye ago. Hall, however, did not perform his deeds on so pub: lic a stage as did ‘Tracy, so the world outside was not aware of the diamatic events that were happening back in. th Cumberland Mountains. es) Ree vhs United States Deputy William Fields succeeded in cay turing Hall. Eyer since the battle of last May, when Bi and his companions killed two of Field’s comrades, Fiel had been bent on capturing the outlaw, and at last loca hima in the Bluehead Notch country. Hall had scattered through the country, and he became aware Fields was after him. For weeks he and Fields ? game of hide and seek through the mountains. ih Ke eee At last Fields discovered a cabin hidden in a recess. remote as almost to avoid detection, which Hall was usin as his hiding place. He also discovered that Hall, avy possessed great ingenuity and considerable m skill, had fortified his place in a most remarkable He had procured dynamite which he had planted in around his retreat: By an ingenious contrivance arranged electric wires running from inside the cabin to these mines by means of which they could he e from within by a battery. 1 Makan If Fields had not discovered the secret of the he and his deputies might have been blown up whe essayed to capture the mountaineer. Just before Fields and three men surrounded the cabin. Fields | forward and cut the wires. He then called’ on Hal surrender, threatening to burn the cabin and kill the ov law if he refused. — ay ee eae _. Hall says he tried to explode his mines, bu found the wires had been cut it was y seless rendered meekly enough, and the chase of mo ~

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DELUSION TRICK. i: ‘ A magic litte box In three = parts that is very mystify- ing to those not in the trick. . A coin placed on a piece of paper disappears by dropping a nickel ring around it from the magic box. Made of hard - wood two inches in diameter. Price, 12c. | M. V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. 56th &t., N. ¥. PERCH POWDER. j Gee whiz! What fun Xs you can have with | this stuff. Moisten the * tip of your finger, tap ! it on the contents af } the box, and a little! bit will stick. ‘Then shake hands with your friend, or drop a speck down his back. In a minute he will feel as if he had ‘ i the seven years’ itch, “It will make him scratch, rear, squirm and make faces. But it is perfectly harmless, as ; it is made from the seeds of wild roses. The horrible itech stops in a few minutes, or can be checked immediately by rubbing the spot with a wet cloth. While it is working, you will be apt to laugh your suspender buttons off, Whe best joke of all. Price 10 cents a box. by metl postpaid. > WOLKE NOVEFTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥, COMICAL RUBBER STAMPS, A complete set of five grotesque little people made of indestructible rubber mounted on black walnut blocks. The fig- ures consist of Policeman, Chinaman, and other laughable figures shown in pictures. each figure is mounted on @ separate block, any boy can set up a regular parade or circus by print- : ing the figures in differ- sitions. With each set of figures we ttle of colored ink, an ink pad and , structions. Children can stamp these | es on their toys, picture books, writing and envelopes, and they are without tathe most amusing and entertaining t:2 up in years. Price of the com- t of “lubber Stamps, with ink and “JUMPING TELESCOPH, CS This is an oblong tube in exact imi- tation cf a tele- seope. By looking , through it, reveals ; one highly magni-' fled picture ot a dancer or other subject. It con- tains on the side a button, which the £ ——— victim is ‘told to : $s for a change of picture. Instead of! another picture appearing, the entire inside art shoote out, as shown in illustration. Be einely harmless, but gives the victim a _ genuine scare. a _zrice, ibe, each; 2 for 28e. by mail, postpaid. ‘ ‘VOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. Dy 7, BUBBLE BLOWER. With this device, a continuous series of bubbles can be blown. It is a wooden, cigar- shaped blower, encas- ing a small vial, in which there is a piece eas 4 ; of soap. The vial is lied with water, and a peculiarly perforated ork jp inserted. When you blow in to the mouthpiece, it sets up a hydraulic pressure rough the cork perforations and causes bubble after bubble to come out. No need of ipping into water onco the. little bottle is Mlieg. Price, 1c, each by mail, postpaid. . BENE, 150 W. 62d St. New York City. : OG) i WHISTLEPIONE This is one of the Sreatest musical in- atruments ever invent- , ed. jIt is ance entirely of metal and is almost Invisible when in use, With. it, in a faw mo- ments, *ou can. Jearn to play all fun, to i? ool the Ups. jay any tune or air. o, ents ©sth by matt, post-paid 1815 Centre St, B’klym, N It. -most jump out of his skin. - Penetration The World’s Record Holders Remington-UMC .22 cal. cartridges have broken two records in two years. The present world’s 100-shot gallery record, 2484 ex 2500, held by Arthur Hubalek was. made with these hard hitting .22’s. They will help you, too, to break your best shooting records. Remington- UMC .22’s are made, too, with This increases their shocking and killing power. Remington- UMC—the perfect shooting combination REMINGTON ARMS-UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO, The Remingion-UMC cubs make a find hollow point bullete, , 289 Broadway, New York JUMPING CARD—A pretty little trick, easy to perform, Effect: A select- ed card returned to the deck jumps high into the air at the performer's com- mand. Pack is held in one hand. Price of apparatus, with enough cards to per- form the trick, 10, GALLIGAN, 419 W. 66th St., N. ¥. M, Y. CACHOO OR SNEEZING POWDER. 08 chem atl, A small ameunt in a reem, will anyone knowimg where it comes from. air for seme time, and penetrate every nok Qnd cerner ef a reem. It is perfecttly karm- less. Gachee is put up in bottles, and ene bettie contains encugh te be used from 10 te 15 times, Price, by mall, 10c. exch; 3 for 25a, WOLFF NOVELTY CO,, 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. “ TRICK FAN, A lady’s fan made of colored silk cloth. The fan may be used and then shut, and when it opens again, it falls in pieces; shut is perfect, without a sign of a break. A great surprise for those not in the trick. Price, 35¢e. by mail, postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. SURPRISE KINEMATOGRAPH, geason! It consists of a small metal, nickeled tube, with a lens eye which shows a pretty bal- let girl in tights. Hand it to a friend, who will be delighted with the first pic- ture; tell him to turn the screw in center of instru- ment to change the views, when a stream of | water squirts into his face, much to his dis- gust. Anyone who has not seen this kinema- tograph in operation is sure to be caught every time, The instrurnent' can be refilled with water In an instant, ready for the next customer. Price 25e. by mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St.. N. Y, SURPRISE LETTER DRUM. Stung! you! The joke? You senda » friend a letter. He opens it, | _ and that reieases the drum, i. & Instantly the sheet of note anteed to- paper begins to bang and thump furiously, with a rip- 4 ‘ping, tearing sound. Guar- make a man with iron nerves al- wh « The greatest fun-maker o | of this powder, when biewn © Cause « everyene to sneeze witkout : It is yory light, wii fieat in the: and open again and it | The greatest hit of the’ view, | 5 ‘That was one on ! GREENBAGKS! Big bunch of stage money, 10e, The Literary Enterprise - 343 Lowe Ave., Chicago, that creates @ new yo. VOICE THROWER’ 1 Ocissmnss arto come from a great distance away. Held unrcenin themouth, 4 ‘Dy Myatifies everybody. Bend adime for yourn today. One preatoatalog of Magio und Mystery included froo. McKINLEY CO., DY WINONA, MINN, Wonderful Instrumem thing yet. Astonish and mystify your friends, fy Neigh like a horse; whine like a puppy; sing _ 7 like a canary, and imitate birds and beasts of nfabesey the field and forest. Loads of fun. Wonder- fulinvention. Thousands sold. Pric+: only Asp 10 cents; 4 for 25 cents, or 12 for 50 cents, ait Double Throat Co. Dpt. K Frenchtown, N.S OLD CoO} iy WANTED. $1 to 9600 paid for hundredy of coins dated hefors 1884. Send 10 cents for our coin value book, i may mean your fortuna. KOCKWELL & CO. 2268 Archer Ave.. CHICAGO. Lis MAGIC RUBBER TACKS, They come six in a bo: & wonderful imitation o: 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. PACK CARDS & big Catalog by mail 5c. Bates Mogio€o., 5 Melrose,Mass. - {f you are committing suicide. show the tacks and then put them in your | they will shriek with a ver Price by mati}, Ibe, THE GRLAT FIRE EATER. { A great Sensational Trick of | the Day! With the Fire Hater in his possession any person can become a perfect salamander, ape parently breathing fire and ejects ing thousands of brilliant sparks — from his mouth, to the horror and consternation of all behold« ers. Harmless fun for all times, | seasons and places. If you wish — to produce u decided sensation in your neighs borhood don’t fail to procure one. We send the Wire Water with all the .materials, in @ handsome box, the cover of which is highly ornamented with flustrations in various cols. | ors. Price of all complete only 15e., or a | boxes for 50c., mailed postpaid; one dozen by | express $1.20. 4 fie N. B.—Full printed instructions fo: forming the trick accompany each bony also contains sufficient material for gin | Several exhibitions, : Ces oe LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, NX iis tg vine

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A GRAND Look! PREMIUM Look! One of these fine'watches FREE to anyone sending us One-—] year’s subscription at. . . $2.50 Two—6 months’ subscriptions at , . 1.25 each Four—3 months’ subscriptions at. . (0.65 each For either of the following: “Moving Picture Stories,” “Happy Days,” “Wild West Weekly,” “Fame and Fortune Weekly,” “The Liberty Boys of *76,” “Se- eret Service,” “Work and Win,” or “Pluck and Luck.” ' There is only one condition—send us the money and we will-send you the watch, and any one of the above Face publications for the shes subscribed for, ee Description of the Watch It is American-made, open face, stem wind and set, and will run from 30 to 36 hours with one ‘elidings The movement is the same size as an expensive railroad timepiece, absolutely accurate, and each one is guaran-_ | teed. The cases are made in Gold Plate, Polished Nickel, Gun-metal with Gilt center and plain Gun-metal, The design on the back case is a fancy engraved scroll. _ Send in Your Subscriptions Now to we FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 168 West 23d St.,N. Y. City pee " a . ae ‘ , GOOD LUCK BANKS. DEAD SHOT SQUIRT PISTOL. Ornamental as well as useful. If you shoot a man ade of highly nickeled brass, with this “gun” he will Tt hela’; just One Dollar. When be too mad to accept filed .t opens itself. Remaine - the ancient excuse—‘T iécked unth refitted. Can be used didn’t know it was This. glee is mad exact ca +3 a8 one. is held by a ru] ber cord which, with th jattached safety pin, as @ watchcharm. Money refund- loaded.” It loads easily fastened on the inside of | ed if not satisfied. Price, 0c. : with a full charge of the sleeve. ee re) ed by mail, water, and taking aim, press the rubber bulb | to a friend, as it is about to be talcen, it will . } at the butt of the Pistol, when a smail stream | instantly disappear. eas _ Y = * 4 of water is squirted into his face. ‘The best Price, 10¢. each b il, postp H. ¥. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N, Y. thing to do then is to pocket your ; fs J . y mail, po ; 4 gun’ and rt S y. 62 : y | f . run. i There are ‘loads of fun” in. this wicked Ch UP AD eer oa ee es / ‘ little joker, which looks like a real revolver, THE PEG JUMPER. trigger, cock, chambers, barrel and all. Price A very. effective | ORly 7.3 4 for 25c.; one dozen 60c. by mail ko SER aR ho yt B. LANG 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N, to be performed by om , en re St., yn, N. XY any one. A miniature 1 paddle is shown. Cen- tral Pa A Bhai cea ton pik gh aha pee. eg is inside of the upper hole. owing n < Both sides of the paddle, the performer causes, THE FLUTOPHONE. . by simply breathing upon it, the peg to leave the upper hole, and appear in the middle one. “Then it jumps to the lower hole, back to the middle one, and lastly to the upper hole, Both sides of the paddle are repeatedly shown, Price by mail, 15¢. C. BERR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. — take them ae put + them’ & ame as inust A new musical in- strument, producing the z Sweetest dulcet tones of : : the flute. Ths upper ; Re” chee part on the {nstroment Z cif fe dale s placed in the mouth, A / apy erage the lps covering the mF. ines nose reste St., openings in the centre. y Then rie blowing gently |. eke ae En oe or ; upon it you can pla ? JUMPING FROG, any tune desired as easily as whistling. Bat . THE FIGHTING ROOSTERS. { pad full ony Pa This little novelty creates | Httle practice is required to become a finished fighting . _ a world of laughter. Its | player. It is made entirely of metal, and will p ehief attractiveness is that | last a liftime, We will send full instructions | (if fy met have real ave it takes 2 few seconds be- | with each instrument. , (Le =o legs and: fle i fore leaping high in the air, Price 8 cents, by mail, postpaid. i moyements | so that when set, very inno- | 4. 4A, WARFORD, 16 Hart St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. vy i fentine! ‘are pg Bi tly Fay ae aie of an unsuspecting person, “he is suddenly startled by the wonderful | _\ $ jue ae ‘{ielixe, epee oF this frog. Price, ‘1b¢. each by mail ; is known only to the operator, who can | stpaid. ; if ‘ them to battle with each other as . F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. SPRING TOPS | Pe gee Oe as desired, indepentient of ot Something ne fighting proclivities they male ve boys. ee Sethe ee mantel ornaments. Price for the pa spin’ without @ string. | strong box, We; 3 pairs for 2 <. pos This is a decided nov- | 2 Borer “NOVELTY €0,, ¥ - MANY 2OOL KEY RING. The wonder of the age. The great- est smal! tool in thé world. In_ this ) i : a ia of large ‘tle instrument you have in combina- 7 ; Bing. made of brass, and tion seven useful tools embracing Key / ane ra as a heavy balance | THe: ELK HEAD ; t : rim. The shank con- Pe vise ie sla he Etter tains a powerful spring — ld BB Ha a at ne and Screw and “has an outer. ¢ ‘ top of : os the eke asing. | 7 i ; tia toy, but a useful ink has a milled edge for — i We pate cle, de of ater, eraak ‘tem- NOR a ae nd, piel he cc Jee joln them. the pl vill cay jad ig nickeled. T I pi 4 ; $ :