Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 442) (1914 03 20)
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N° 442 _MCH.20mW 1914 ~—S5(onls aa ec < The street-cleaner raised his snow-shovel, and was upon the point of striking the falling man when Tom rushed up behind him and seized both of his wrists. Instantly a scene of the greatest excitement ensued among the snow-shovelers who had been looking on.
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STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY = Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 ner year. ny Jal Entercd at the New York, N. No. 442. ‘NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1914, A Smart New York Boy Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 19f4, in i office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. O., by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d Street, New York Y., Post Office as Second-Class Matter. X Price 5 Cents. OR, _ FROM THE TENEMENTS TO WALL ST. By A SELF-MADE MAN . jes CHAPTER I. ' A BOY IN HARD LUCK. belt re T'll get a job to-day,” said Tom Duncan to himself, as he gallied forth from a cheap lodging-house on the Bowery near Chathany Square. “My money is almost gone, and if I don’t*catch on to something right away I don't know where oe: li fetch up-—maybe on the Island as a vagrant, for the cops ‘are quick to pull in chaps who look down on their luck. "They've got to make a showing for their wages.” ‘Tom was a New York boy, born and brought up in the big city, like thousands of other boys whose lots are cast in hum- ble circumstances, and yet at the time we introduce him to the reader’s attention he had .no home, nor a friend he could call Satine for assistance. He had never. dreamed how friendless a person can find him- ae ai in his native place when-misfortune jumps on him with both feet, so to speak. | It wasn’t so long since that he was living with his parents ina cheap but comfortable flat on the upper Wast Side. a "Then he had all he wanted to eat, a good bed to sleep in, and a “when he. graduated from the publie school hig father did not " think it necessary’ to put him at work to help out the family - resources, but sent him to the high school to, add a, few frilis to bis common schoo] education. df | We was half through his third year at high school when Fate, with little consideration for his pronase or ‘nis youth, dumped him on the toboggan. ~ The first blow was the sudden death’ of. ia mother. That threw the internal economy of his home out of gear. His father, who was a carpenter, with a steady job at union wages, took his wife's death so much to heart that he quit work and took to drinking, an old failing he had cunge himself to drown his sorrow. he stoppage of income, added to the expenses incident to © burial of his wife, brought his finances to low- water mark, pape a threat of dispossess from his landlord. Then came the second blow. . i a slipped off the, roof of a three-story house, fell. to the. ground md broke his neck. Thus within two months Tom found timsei an orphan. uy is. Bus ‘there was little money to pay an ‘undertaker, » o save his last parent from the potter's field, "Tom sold all ree By, buried inth had his father hi m tite. wee Panera! te. ene him: father having permitted his life insurance policy to furniture to a second-hand dealer jor a, fraction of its. ‘sat Stave ‘with ¥ hat woke him up; he pulled himself together and gota new m the second day after: Dunean, Sr, ‘returned to Ponte he’ self homeless, with five: dollars in his pocket, which the un- dertaker, who happened to have a heart, handed him when he learned he was flat broke, Then Tom put up at a lodging-house, where the price was 25 cents for what was called a room, but was actually a narrow space between two unpainted board partitions wide enough to hold a cot and leave space for one to stand beside it. ‘These partitions ran the length of two sides of the third floor of an ancient building on the Bowery, which probably had a history as long as your arm. ~- At any rate, there were many old buildings aJl the way from (the Brooklyn Bridge up Park Row and beyond Chatham Square, dating from times before the Civil War, that if their records could be unfolded to the light would furnish plots for a score of lurid melodramas of the old school. Tom took his meals anywhere he happened to be when he | was hungry, and the nieers he patronized were cheap hash- . houses. _ He was young, had a good digestion, and’ re stand them. -Hvery day he hunted for work at places that advertised for help in the morning papers.) Two or three of the big dailies: printed six and eight columns of such advertisements, and one would think it was easy to pick up a job, especially when you were not over particular as to the kind of work, But Tom didn’t find it easy at all. Every place he went he found sa al applicants before and after him. It was srprising how many boys were looking for work, and it was even more surprising how boys inferior in bas ments to gti got the preference over him. Why2 fo just luck. When se e on life’s toboggan, nothing comes your way. ; Then when you land on your feet, owing to a turn fon.the — better in your affairs, how many opportunities appear to turn up. AG Aen Tom left the lodging-house that morning he was at the. end of his resources, and also, fortunately, at the end of the toboggan. future. . s , was still heated: but not the same kind of hope with: which he started out ten days before, The sky was blue above his head, and-he might) be excised ; if he felt as blue, perhaps a darker shade, as the sky. Although the backbone of winter had been reported - as. ‘broken some days since, that hoary old rasral made a last” effort to prove the weather sharps were liars, ‘and engineered a heavy ‘sngWsalk bo now _ Sapeed th Le hp Arua the» © was not Jone very cheerful, as-he had no line on ile me and Fortune Weekly.
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BI 9: _ Street Cleaning Department was-doing its best to get the dirty soft stuff ont of the way. The morning was bright and balmy, and the p:~ks -were rapidly filling up with steady loungers who, unlike ‘Tom, felt that the world owed them a jiving without any effort on their part. “We all know that the world repudiates that debt, and rarely helps anybody who does not try to help himself. Tom would gladly have heiped clean the streets if his ser- vices were asked for, but he did not know where’to apply, and he wouldn't have been taken on if he had. fe waiked down the street, crossed Chatham Square and en- * tered Park Row. He carricd more than a dozen advertisements in his pocket | he had cut from one of the morning papers. He was bound for a place on Spruce street as a beginner. His usual luck attended him there, so he crossed the lower end of City Hall Park to Broadway, aiming for an address: on Warren street. : As he was'about to cross Broadway he saw an altercation be- tween a well-dressed man and a street cleaner helping to load @ cart with snow. The. man was clearly very angry, for. he shook his fist at the worker, who was a tough-locking nut. As he turned away his foot slipped on a piece of frozen slush, ahd he fell in the gutter. The street cleaner raised his snow-shovel, and was upen the ; point of striking the fallen man, when Tom rushed up behind ‘\ him and seized both of his wrists. ' Instantly’a scene of the greatest excitement ensued among the snow shovelers who were looking on. Rwo of them made a rush at the boy as their comrade turned around fiercely to see who had interfered with him. Luckily for Tom, who would have been roughly handled, a policeman came along. He asked what the trouble was, and Tom explained, pointing at the stranger, who had recovered his feet. The man then accused: the snow shoveler of bumping him into a snow heap, and wanted him arrested. The policeman adjusted the matter on a peaceful basis and walked on. “Tm much obliged to you, boy, for coming to my assist- ance,” said: the stranger in a friendly tone, “What's your name?” “Tom Duncan,” replied the boy.’ “You are on your way to work, I suppose?” “No, sir; I’m looking for work.” “What sort of job are you looking for?”> “Anything that I can earn a living at.” The man looked at him attentively, “Where do you live?” he asked, ; ; “Nowhere in particular. I haven't a home now, and am » hanging out at a cheap lodging-house on the Bowery.” The gentleman looked surprised at hig. answer. “You don’t look like a boy in hard luck,” he said. “T’ve been up against hard luck ever sincé my mother died about ten weeks ago. I had a comfortable home then, and my fathor wags doing well at the carpenter business, while I was attending the high school. My mother’s death broke my father all up, and he stopped working and began drinking, Two weeks ago he braced up and started to work again: On the second day he fell fron» the roof of the building he was work- ’ Ing on and was kilied. J had to sell our furniture to get money to bury him, aud nee threw me out on the pone That's the “. whole story. ” : AYVou have been up against it preity, bad, young man, Our sili meeting: may prove fortunate for you. How would you ‘like to work in Wall Dtreehy » “First rate, sir.” “Very well. Bs hour. T need a boy in my office, and i will give you a chance to make good.” - ~*Thank you, sir,” sh Sus Tom, getting to work. | delighted at the sudapaee of vised. the card over. It ran as follows: <change, No, — Wall Street, New York City.” “Te'sa stock-broker, and he said he woul d- give m6-a,. etisnies to niake good in his office,” said peed guess I've fallen on my feet at last. Sige: for enotigit te A SMART NEW YORK BOY. | -_ afte |a couple of feet, Here is my business card. Call upon me in halt The gentleman walked rapidly off down dee ae and Tom “Richard Harlow, Stocks and wands, ‘Metater! of the fing ral be om, in a tone’of satisfaction. | Time I did, for I’ve got | Thus speaking, Tom, after getting the time tron 2 store clock; started ‘down ao ae 8 himself at a slow pace. area CHAPTER II. A RASCAL AND HIS VICTIM. Tom walked into Broker Batlow’s office about the desbenated time, asked for the gentleman, and was shown into his private . room. In the course of: his conversation with the broker he men- tioned the financial stringency he was suffering from, and he received a $5 bill to help him out. Then he was put to work as office boy and messenger. When he was in the office his duty was to show visiters into the hoss’ root, if that gentleman was in, answer questions put — to him by callers, and be at the beck and call of the cashier. Business happened to be slow in Wall Street at that time, so he found his work comparatively easy during the rest of his first week. ' He was paid $6 for a full week, and he offered to return the $5 he had received in advance, but Harlow told him to forget about it. Business was brisker the following week, and Tom had many errands to go on every day, but he put them through all right, for he was determined to show that he was able to fill the bill right up to the handle. 4a Both the broker and the cashier were satisfied with his — efforts, and after he got his Posehn pay envelope vi was Te garded as a fixture. Tom gradually got acquattited. with aay of the ameages boys employed in the Street. Some he liked ‘and others he didn’t care Bich for. One of the latter was a stout boy named Cady, who worked for an xchange Place trader, He was a great bluffer, and something of a bully. When he blew into the messengers’ entrance of the ‘Bix. change you would think he owned the building, If the rail was crowded with waiting boys he wouldn’t stand back and wait his chance as he was expected to do, but. would squeeze himself in between two of the easiest looking boys, and as a result somebody was forced out, and a kick took place. : : Cady being big and aggressive, he got away with the trick | Ws every time until he happened to try it on Tom and another ~ i boy. He recognized Tom as a newcomer, and did not expect much epposition from him. © Brie) NES VY i ns He was mistaken. Rushing in one morning aoe eleven o'clock, he saw, that the rail was full. f He jabbed his elbow in forte Tom and a small, fat youth ca named Munson, intending to squeeze in between them, _ j rather shove the fat hoy out of his place, “Here, what are you doing?” eried Tom, resisting his. effort “What do you s’poge I’m doing?” grinned Cady, contingent his tactics, “There’s no room here. ch said Tom, grees OE al SAw, io itt” said vagy. chest. “What did you do that for?” cried Cady, angrily. “To teach‘you to keep your place.” a “Are you looking for trouble?” said Cady, witha. ‘Spout “No, but you can’t butt in here and shove this chap rt Cady dug in again, and Tom handed him another Ne tha : took his breath. % The bully thereupon punched him. in the back. Rede! Tom turned around aed gave ni a shove’ that Binet iw By this time all the ieee were on ‘to the aetna None of them liked: Cady, and nothing would hay suit them better than to see him done up, but they had ; such a thing would happen, It was the first time Cady had received a “set-back d lost his: temper over it. ; He struck out at Tom's face with all his might, zs es Tom dodged and, seeing that Cady meant mischief, hes rut back, landing on. eet lad's A! and evar a= down AS eicge amo. tolerated
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A SMART NEW YORK BOY ) Se ESS EDT NATED SEE PIE The attache, however, had not seen the blow struck, and did not know who was responsible for the downing of Cady. The other boys wouldn’t give Tom away. They were quite tickled over his exhibition of prowess, and felt that Lem Cady had met his match at last, and would prob- ably not get so gay with the rights of others in the;future. So the attachee had to content himself with expressing his sentiments, and a warning to the boys to cut out punching one another in the future or something would happen to the guilty ones. Tom delivered the note he brought and got out before Cady Was sufficiently recovered to take any further action. ‘He determined to get square with Duncan at the first chance, oe he said as much to the crowd in order to save Iris reputa- tion, Tom returned to his office, reported, to the cashier and sat down to await his next errand. The door opened, and a sprucely-dressed young fellow of per- haps twenty came in in a jaunty way. ; A diamond ring of some value flashed on one finger, and a cigarette was between his lips, . Dom saw him and, getting up, asked him what he wanted. The Visito¥ stared at him in a supercilious way. “Who, are you?” he asked, almost contemptuously. The question somewhat astonished the office boy. : e thought the young man had a good deal of nerve to ad- dress him that way. “Tam asking you what’s your business,” said Tom. The visitor removed the clganetip from his mouth and blew a cloud of smoke, “You Jook like a new thing here. gess’ place?” “What did you come here for?” asked Tom, _ “Because - it suited me. Is my uncle in?” “Your uncle!” “Richard Harlow, Esquire.” . “Is Mr. Harlow your uncle?” “He was at last accounts. Is he in?” “No. He's at the Exchange.” use “Very. well, TU eall again later. You'll know me ne xt time, I Gare say.” Thus speaking, the natty looking caller walked out. As Tom was returning to his peat the cashier called ii to his window. - “What did Perry Bates want?” he inquired, “Perry Bates!” said Tom. : “The young man you were just talking to.” “Ts his name Perry Bates?” “Yes. He's Mr. Harlow’s nephew.” “So he told me, He wanted to see Mr. Harlow.” “He's got an awful nerve after what he “3 ‘The cashier ptopued short and, after a pause, told Tom that was all. An hour later Mr. Kighlow returned to his office. Haye you taken Joe Stur- 2 ‘Dom was seated in his chair, and he followed the broker into | oo his. ‘office to tell him that his nephew had called to see him. - Mr, Harlow frowned and looked annoyed, “Tf. he calls again, tell him I den’t want to see him,” he said. . “Very well, sir,” said Tom; returning outside, Perry Bates did not return later. as he said he would—at ~ 2éast he didn’t show up before "Tom left for the day, at which time the broker had gone away hitsel?, ‘Tom didn’t hang out at the cheap todgifig-house now. He shook the’ house the day he; went to work, and. was boarding with a widow on & side street off Third avenue, near the Oooper Institute. He paid $1. 50 a week for his reom, and got his meals ata “restaurant, a That evening, Tom went, to a cheap theater on ‘the Bowery ‘to ¥ see a ‘traveling show. ‘Phe performance was over at a Gdns Hen past eleven, and Tom started to walk home, the Gistance not being far, . | ae Tt was a blustering March night toward ' the! end of. the nonth, and a heavy overcoat felt mighty comfortable. The wind: came tearing down the wide Bowery, and whistled | ; (Man, and’ whether he is the cause of yoyr trouble or not, Re $ , Bround the corners of the side strects.” ; Fine sport it made with a shivering Jad who stood hudéled “up ta in a doorway as Tom pass td. The Wall Street bey took him for: a tramp, he looked 60 wretched. & “Tom, sienhtig how narrowly he haa’ escaped: the'same fate, felt inhis pocket for a nickel to hand him, for he: could hardly. afford a pee sum at that time. = At tha moment a blast of wind took his hat off and carried unde poe at the curb, | Pv ae Nae trae you,” bE EON TSE ESET UEP ORIOL TE PTS TR al Tom ran to recover ‘it. it took him some moments to find it, for it had got danse between the spokes’ of one of the wheels. “While he was extricating it he heard a voice exclaim: found you, what do you want.” . “I want you to help me, “Mr. Bates,” said a boyish ‘voice, in quivering tones. “ ‘Cpe Bates. You ruined me! You profited by my crime! And now when ft ask you for a little help you.turn me down as though I were a dog.” ; * “Blame your impudence!. How dare you-——” “My mother is ill—maybe dying, She never recovered from thing for myself, Give me half a dollar to buy medicine and a little food for her,” | the policeman standing on the corner.” » Tom was astonished at what. he heard. by gas lamp, was that of his boss’ nephew, Perry Bates. personality when he called at the office that afternoon, and from the way he addressed the shivering lad, the same Tom had noticed in the doorway, Duncan did not acquire any better Opinion of him. should know the young tramp, and he was still more surprised ing by the crime. Evidently there was something unusual in. this: case, and Tom remained where he was out of curiosity to learn more. “But my mother is dying,” persisted the lad, “Let her die. It’s no business of mine,” replied Bates, brutally. j Y “No business of yours! How can you say that?” “What do you mean? How is it my business?” “You know that what I earned in your uncle’s office’ ee my mother and I. When I lost my job on account of the game you put me on to, it broke her heart. I would have been ar- rested and sent to prison or the Reformatory, only your uncle didn't prosecute me. I might have told him the truth, and put |you in a hole, but.I didn’t. I kept my mouth shut, and for that you ought to do the right thing by me.” thing to do with your crime?” roared Bates. t day if you hadn’t bullied me into it. Then you kept it all y rself, and all I got was the blame of taking it.”. “You're a liar! eould I get it and keep it when you took it yourself?” «+ “You made me hand it over to you.” “You infernal little imp! Take that!” : f Perry Bates, white with rage, struck the lad in the face and dow n over his eyes, he hurried up the street at a rapid pace. CHAPTER IIT. ? i A DARK PICTURE OF A GREAT CITY. The tre mpish lad ‘slid to the curb and leaned” moaning egaimst the wheel. Tom, convinced that he was the victim of some rascality on Bates’ part, felt awfully sorry for him, helped him up. “You're in trouble,” he said, “Trouble!” replied the boy, ina hollow tone) . |treated you in a brutal way.” “He ig the cause of everything. He has ruined me; getting on alliright until he used meas a cat's, paw. “Tell me your name.” 4 re “Joe Sturgess.” ’ + roe Until recently you were working in Broker Hark Low's cffice?” : a “Yes, Did you know x me down . in Wall Strest?: “it on’t wy ha ike ae) aD oh “Get out. How dare you stop me on the street, you young thief!” : “Thief! If I am, who made me steal? Who but you, Perry the shock of the disgrace I brought upon her. I don’t ask any-. » He looked at the speaker and his face, reflected by the one Tom had not been greatly impressed by the young man’s — He was surprised that such a prosperous looking young man when the lad accused him of making a thief of him and Pure ; “You young scoundrel; how dare you insinuate. I had any-. sent him reeling against the wagon, then pulling ‘his soft: hat Coming from under the wagon, he went to the lad and 4 “T wish wes dead!” : jie Fe “Don’t say that,” said Tom. “Brace up... Iwill help. you i E"can.” “You will help me?” : / : “Yes, I heard what passed between you and that young 1 was “Not a cent, Take youtself. off or [’ll give you in charge of # et never would have touched the money I took to the bank I never told you to take the money. How ENS
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A SMART NE —_—— “No, I never saw you before to-night; but I went to work for Mr. ‘Harlow about two weeks ego, and I heard that my predecessor’s name was Joe Sturgess.” “You are working for Mr. Harlow! Then for heaven's sake beware of his nephew, Perry Bates, the man you saw me talk- ing to. ‘He is’a big rascal, and he will try to ruin you as he aid me.’ “He won't find me as easy a fut as you, particularly as I have a pretty good idea now of his character.” “You don’t know him. His uncle thinks he’s fine as silk, but he’s a sport and a gambler.” “I guess his uncle doesn’t think as much of him as he did. He called to see Mr. Harlow to-day, and I’ve got orders not to admit him to the private office. In fact, Mr. Harlow told me ile tell him when he calls again that he doesn’t want to see ne? “Then he’s found out something, for he never turned him down before.” 4 . “This is too cold a spot for you to stand talking to me. You are shivering all ove®. You'd better have a glass of hot whisky. TI! pay for it. “Then I'll let you have half a dollar to buy medi- ‘cine for your mother with.” Joe expressed his gratitude to Tom, and accompanied him into a saloon to get the hot whisky that he really needed. Notwithstanding ‘the lateness of the hour, Tom decided to visit the tenement where Joe and his sick, mother lived, and see what he could do for the woman. Tom was poor enough himself, but he Kad a large heart, and one go hungry rather than see some unfortunate creature suffer. On their way down a side street from the teas wary. Joe told Tom all’ the particulars of the theft of $200 from the day’s deposits he carried one day to the bank. Joe did not attempt to excuse his own guilt, but it was clear * from the statement he gave Tom that Perry Bates, as cunning as he was dishonest, was at the bottom of the crime) and was the only one who actually gained by it. | It was after midnight when Joe turned into the entrance of a wretched tenement—a five-story double-decker—and, » fol- lowed by Tom, passed through the filthy lower: hall to the yard in the rear, and thence into the rear building. The house that Joe and his mother lived in was crowded from|/ the ground floor to the roof. Even at that hour the tenement was not quiet, although most of the tenants had retired to their beds. _ One family was having a party in honor of the christening of the baby. _. ‘The scraping of a fiddle, the beat of dancing feet, arid a con- _ fused hum of voices, mingled with laughter, saluted the ears of Tom and his guide as they crept up the dirty stair way.@ Jo@ opened a door on the next floor. ; A Jamp was burning low on a cheap table in the room, which was furnished with a stove, chairs, a closet holding dishes, and f other things. ; “Poor mother! She was groaning with pain when I went out,” said Joe. “I don’t hear her’ now.’ ' “She has probably fallen asleep. Don't make any noise,” said Tom. _ Joe took up the lamp and went into an adjoining room, ; where. his mother lay in bed. Holding up the light, he looked at the ee figure, with half open eyes and dropped jaw. _ Her appearance alarmed the lad. ~“Mother! mother!” he cried. “Speak to me,’ td » She would never speak to him again, for she was dead. W YORK BOY. 4 ie On the following morning Tom was at the office ak his usual, me, iS His thoughts were largely coueseied with poor Joe Sturgess. It looked pretty certain that the lad’s mother would be « buried in potter’s field, as/they had no money to pay for even the cheapest funeral. What would become of Joe himself Tom couldn't say, but if he could get the lad a position of any kind, so he could support himself, he intended doing it. ? As for Perry Bates, Tom could not half express the senti- ments he felt toward that young man. That he was a well-dressed rascal was quite clear. ° From Joe’s account he was a rounder and gambler. He had taken advantage of a mistake made by that weak lad and threatened to have him! discharged from his job unless he took the $200 from the bag he was carrying to the bank and handed it over to him. He swore to protect, Joe from trouble if he did as he was told. The lad fell a victim to his wiles, lost his position and nar- rowly escaped arrest and imprisonment in consequence, and was then cajoled and bullied into keeping his mouth shut when he should have madé a full confession in his own defence. Tom belieyed that Mr. Harlow ought to know the truth of the case, but he felt he had not been long enough acquainted with the broker to venture to tell him the story as he had it from Joe. Besides, he couldn’t prove it, though he was thoroughly gat- isfied Joe had told the exact truth. ,He was indignant, however, to think that Bates should escape from the responsibility. of his part in the affair, and peor Joe should have to suffer, when the former had reaped all the benefit of the crime. The only satisfaction he had was that Mr. Harlow had found out something concerning his nephew’s shortcomings and was sore on him, He wondered if Bates would come back to see: his uncle as he said he would. He did not doubt that the young man had nerve eppkey ‘to do it. He was not wrong in his surmise, for Perry Bates came in about noon that day and asked if his uncle was in. “tHe’s not in,” replied Tom, shortly. _ “When will he be in?” ¢ “I don’t know. I told him yesterday Sian he enaa trom. the Exchange that you had called, and hé told me to tell re if you came again that he didn’t want to see YOu, es Bates glared at Tom, “He told you to tell me that, did he?” he said. “He did,” said Tom, bluntly. it “Well, I’m going to see him, anyway, do you understand?” ‘ie # 1 es} “MI right. 1 don’t care, but I won't announce you.” : a guess you will,” said Bates, sasha “Youll do what ’ you're told.” “I've done what I was told by Mr. Harlow. He's my boss, w2 and I am paid to obey his instructions.” ~ “You're a pretty chippy chap. it you put on any frills with me you'll get in trouble.” ~ “Oh, I don't’ know,” replied ‘om, independently. “I don't know what you have to do with me.” “Don’t you? You'll find out if you don’t mind your vs and q’s.” if “Is that so? You won't find me so easy as Joe Sturgess. te “What's that? What do you know about him?” aS te ; “I know enough to understand what kind of a es os are.” Me _ As the truth began to dawn, on, the boy, he uttered a wailing ery that brought Tom into the room. He was better acquainted with the symptoms of death than Joe, and he saw at a Benge that all was over with Mrs. Stur- gess. _ *Your mother’s troubles are over—she is dead,” he said in’ pitying tones. _ Joe understood and gave way to a burst of grief. Tom let him wail till he stopped of his own accord, then he led him into the next room and talked sympathetically to him. — You'd better come to my room and stay with me. You can’t do any good here, and you can return in the morning and notify the family across ‘the hall, who will advise you what to do.” i , Joe, however, wouldn’t leave his dead mother. e had a ‘small room behind hers, and he would turn in “How dare you talk to me that way?” “Tam not afraid of you for a copper cent.” '*All right, my fine young spark,” hissed Bates. ‘made an enemy of me, and you are going to regret it,” “Tf you try any games on me you are likely to regret it. your- | self. That's all I’ve got to say to» you,” and Tom ‘returned to his seat. Bates ‘paced up and dow n the? room like an ‘anery tiger cage, ¢ While he, was fuming at the EM pat he got from in the Boy his uncle’ ¢ame in. | ty “I want to see you,” he said to his relative, Wa Fst “What do you want?” replied. Mr. Harlow, veurtly “We'll talk it over in your room.” —, ; “No, we won't. TI have heard a report. about you tha ; +; “You pea, ws hint te etter awhile: (00) Tom remained with him till inait gaat one, and ‘him. went’ to (0. gings, after eee him a pad for tits: immediate ‘that of gambling. When e accused 3 you of it you, an vinces me you are unworthy of. oe PD oecyate that have her tofore ‘existed between us.” | ‘ Rigs: “What have you heard?” “T have learned that to. your. other, follies 3 ow whe
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ft os! : 9 TI took your word. do with you. You are a disgrace to the family, In future you will keep away from the house. If you call you will not be received there, You will receive no further advances, from me to pay debts accumulated by card play. Now go and pune your own row. I am done with you.” The broker turned his back on him and entered his ‘own room. With a muitered oath Perry Bates turned on his heel and left. the office. CHAPTER IV. WHAT HAPPENED ON FORTY-SECOND STREET, When. Tom started for home that afterncon he found Joe : Sturgess waiting for him at the entrance to the building. “I'm glad to see you, Joc,” he said. “What about your mother?” “She has been taken to the morgue, * said Joe, with a sob. “To be buried at the city’s expense?” *Yes.” : “Too bad,” said Tom. “Ccme upstairs with me,” “What for?” “Because I want you to,” Joe reluctantly followed him. ; “Stay here till I come back,” said Tom, when they reached the corridor of the third floor, where! Harlow’s office was, Tom had made up his mind to appeal to the sympathies “of his employer, though he wasn’t sure how the broker would take it, But he was willing to risk a call-down for the sake of the lad who had been led astray through the weakness of his character. He knew Mr, Harlow was in his office, and he marched in. “Mr. Harlow, I'd like to say something to you,” a straightforward way. “J will listen to you, Tom,” said the trader, who had taken ‘a liking to his new boy. “I hope you won't get angry with me, but it seems to me it is my duty to. ‘tell you something I have learned, though it reflects on your nephew, Perry Bates.” “Go ahead,” said Harlow, in some surprise. “T am not a tale-bearer, sir, and what I have to say I should not mention only I feel an injustice has been done to a poor fellow who can’t defend himself.” “Well?” said the broker, looking interested. *Then Tom told about the interview he had seen and over- heard the night’ before on the Bowery between Joe Sturgess and Perry Bates. He told the story of Joe’s fall from, owsdiy, as the lad told it to him, and how he had accompanied him to the miserable tenement where he lived and found his sick. mother dead. “J just met Sturgess outside; he is now in the corridor, and he told me his mother had been taken to the morgue, and that means. she will be buried by the city.’ It’s too bad to think of ‘> her being consigned to an unknown grave, so I. thought Id my eae the liberty of asking you to help a little to save her from ; _ right to talk this way about a member of your family. isn’t because I wish to injure him, but because I toe) for poor Witty dollars will probably do it, and if you will give $25, : ana advance me the other half, 'll pay you back a dollar a week, I will, honest, sir,” said Tom, earnestly. The broker looked hard at his new boy. i “Do. you mean to say you have only known Sturgess since last night?” he said. | “That's all,” replied Tom. “And in spite of the fact that he @amitted to you that he! took the $200 under the circumstances you mention, you have en such an interest in him that you want to; help bury his | : | about, and bought ten shares of A. & B. on ‘Margin at 85. mother?” j _ #¥es, sir. It may strike you as atranees sir, put I can’t help it. I feel for the boy. 1 don't believe he would haye taken the - money had he not been’ influenced by your nephew, whom. I up as a cruel and heartless young man. Perhaps I have no Joe Sturgess. He is thoroughly miserable and heartbroken I want to help him. I might haye been down in the “boy. ‘this job-in your dffice. 1 am very grateful to you, sir, and Ir am ready to work my legs off - me to prove it to you.” Mr. Harlow was not insensible to. the: earnest: way in which Tom advanced Joe's cause. Peat He Sy He saw the boy had a big heart, aud had the e makings Pha: aplendic an ‘in him. 6 “A SMART NEW YORK BOY. : oy You lied to me, so I want nothing more to, "he said, in am sorry to” say from the little I’ve seen of him, I have sized | It. over the death: of his mother, and I am sure he is not a bad. gutter myself like he is now had you not generously given me | SSNS Y Tom went up a hundred per cent. in his is mecushins and he came to a decision at once. “Ts Sturgess outside?” he asked. ! “Yes, sir.” “Bring him in.” t Tom went out, but had a great deal of trouble in persuading Joe to see the broker, “You must come, if’ only for your dead mother’s sake, Joe,” Tom said. “I am going to save her from potter’s field.” | That statement had its effect, and Joe reluctantly followed es him. He stood before the br oker shamefacedly—a wreck of what™! & he had been when employed in the office, and Harlow could # not help feel sorry for him. a By talking kindly to the homeless boy, Joe was finally per: ny suaded to make a clean breast of the theft, in which he impli-. . cated Bates as the cause of the crime. Harlow made no remark, but -he thought a ‘good deal... “My lad, [ am sorry for you,” he said. “I am going to help you, but you can thank your new friend, Tom Duncan, here, ; for it, since I should not have learned the truth but for him. | I will see that your mother is suitably buried in a cemetery ; lot where you will know where her body is. You can also — |} thank Duncan for this, Not one boy in a thousand, perhaps, ten thousand, would take the trouble in your behalf he has : done. You can’t be too grateful to him. That is ail, 1 will send an. undertaker at once to take charge, of ‘your mother’s” body. Come down to-morrow and you shall have his’ address and then you can go with your mother to her grave,” That ended the interview, and the two boys left together. Joe told Tom that he would never forget what he had done for him. “That's all right,” said Tom., “I. believe you appreciate it, and that you will try to keep to the straight road after this.” “T will—I will,” said Joe, and he meant it. * Broker Harlow was as good as his word, and saw to it that : Joe’s mother was buried in a regular cemetery. rap He wouldn’t allow Tom to chip in toward the expense. , “T ean afford it and you can’t. You are making little enough : now to support yourself,” he told his office boy, and Tom ae satisfied as long as his new friend’s mother was sayed from an unknown graye. Good deeds never. go unrewarded in some shape or another, | and when ten days later Tom found a pocketbook on the street _ with $125 in it, and no clew to the’ owner, we are inclined to” “ | believe, that it was put in his way by kind Fortune. He showed his find to Mr. Harlow, and asked the broker | what he ought to do about it. “Acvertise it in a general way in the paper,” mentionaie i certain one he thought the most likely under the cireum- | stances, “and watch the lost and found column in oe most important dailics.” Tom followed his advice, but without result. Fe Then the broker, told Tom to put the money in a savings j bank to his credit. That afterncon he ran across one of ‘his messenger friends. “I wish I had $50,” said the other, whose name was Bob | Baker. “What would you do with it. if you had?” asked Tom. “Slap it on A. & Bi stock. It’s going up. I’d double money.” : Tom’ looked interested, and asked for particulars. | Baker told him enough to arouse a desire on his part make some money out of A. & B. 7 | After thinking the matter over that evening, he took $100 of the money he found, went around to the little bank on Nassau — street next day, which he had. heard the messenger boys tale He had very little knowledge about speculating in. stocks, and steod ges chances of jonas to one ‘of he gir t eal gtoek would surely go to par, aga So he did apes sell, but waited for of ie rise the oth Points, hain mouth, as the saying is. | ‘ Nevertheless, A. & B. went to 100 and i a traction in, and Tom sold. : He cleared $150 out of the deal — i When the little bank settled with him he found eel: a fund of about. $275 at his back, and he was eo des Seon les felt asi nig and the future looked ery
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“Joe had got a job in a small printing Office at $5 a week, r end he and Tom took a larger room together, which cost them $1.25 each. ‘ Tom loaned Joe money enough to get a good suit of Clothes, and other things he needed, and Joe paid him 25 cents a week on accoynt of the debt, which was the best he could do on his “small income, ‘ One evening Tom treated Joe to a show at an uptown thea- wuten. When they came out at a little’after eleven they found the street misty with a fog which had made its way uptown since » late in the afternoon. Such a thing as a fog did not bother the boys any, though it ‘interfered somewhat with the vehicles trying to make tithe ~ on the streets, fc They started east along Forty-second street, bound for Third avenue. They could have taken a street car, but they saw no need of spending two nickels for the trip, when they were strong and healthy and good walkers. In the middle of a business block a gray-haired man of aver- age build issued from the door of a large store, which he shut ‘and. lecked. The other stores in the neighborhood were closed, many of them for several hours. As the man turned to walk toward the Grand Central sta- tion, in the block below, two shadowy forms emerged from a neighboring doorway. . They glided straight after the elderly man. Yom thought the actions of.the two men suspicious, and - ealled Joe’s attention to them. “They came out of the next, store, didn’t they?” said Joe. “Wo. They were standing in the door of fhe next store when the man ahead came out, and they started after him at onee.” “Do you think they are up to anything?” - “J fear they are.” ‘The words were hardly out of Tom’s mouth when the boys saw the two men suddenly spring on the man in advance and strike hin down. “Then they knelt down to rifle their victim’s pockets. i “Gee!” cried Tom. “They are footpads. We must stop their ittle game. -Come on.” _ Neither of the boys stopped to think that the two men would _tufn on them and knock them out for interfering if they could. __As they rushed up, the men heard them and sprang up in arm, ee ve you got the pocketbook, Bates?” said one of them. Pay eS: ' “Light out then,” cried the other, starting off on the run. Tom grabbed the one addressed as Bates, and tried to hold - him, but with an imprecation the fellow struck him a blow in, - the. chest and got free. ' Then he disappeared into the mist, and the boys heard foot- * steps echoing along the sidewalk, ‘om, however, bad caught a fleeting glimpse of his face, and ir: had recognized ‘him as Perry Bates, his employer’s rascally CHAPTER V. CADY TAKES A SHY AT TOM AND cETs THE WORST OF IY. s There wasn’t the least usevin chasing the two men, so the boys turned their attention to the fallen man. hey found him insensible. e had been struck down by a slung-shot, or some similar d of weapon. — ‘The side of his head was out wieere he received the cowardly 7 Is he dead?” asked Joe, in a hushed tone. No, he is breathing. He seems to be only temporarily eked, out, We must carry him to a drugstore so he can be Vv Tas proved to be an envelope that had geohauly come out | han’s pocket, and had been dropped ia his assailants urry, ae out with whatever it held. was impossible for Tom to read the superscription on it in e fog. and. gloom of the night, so he shoved it into his pocket. lat moment Several people bound for the railroad station midnight the: er train out a town to their homes u A SMART NEW YORK BOY. a ; “What’s the trouble here?” asked one of the men as the party stopped. “A gentleman knocked out by a .couple of crooks,” replied Tom. The ladies of the party looked at the insensible man in a nervous way. “Tg he badly hurt?” asked the person who made the first inquiry. “T eouldn’t tell you,” answered the boy, “but I think he will / come around all right when treated by the druggist aeross the way where we are going to take him.” The boys lifted the injured man, who proved a good weight for them to handle, and started across the street. They carried their burden into the drugstore, and explained matters to the druggist. The victim of the outrage was found to be well dressed and prosperous looking. ; The heavy watch-chain that crossed his vest had not been — touched, Neither was bis wateh gone. A diamond ring that looked to be worth $300 shone on his finger, and a diamond scarf-pin still reposed in his handsome tie. “The rascals only got his pocketbook,” said Tom. “Flow do you, know they got that?” asked the druggist. “I heard one of them say he had it just as we rushed up, and they took to their heels.” “You came in time to save most of his valuables,” said me druggist.ags he applied restorative measures to tine peneeley aa aaNbicnae man. ‘ The gentleman was brought to his sensse. os At first he was a bit dazed and could not make out where he was. “What happened to me?” he asked. The situation was explained to him. “My gracious! I had no idea two men were waiting to rcb- me. I’ve been cleaned out, T suppose?” he said. 5 “No, sir. I guess you only lost your pocketbook and its contents,” said Tom: ‘Then) I haven’t lost much,” said the gentleman in a tone of relief. “My head feels very sore where I was, hit. Am I hurt much?” - “No,” replied the druggist. scalp ‘wound. You are fortunate in getting off so easily, judge you owe your eScape from robbery. to these two boys, who reached you just as the men attacked you.” The gentleman said his. name was Edward’ French, yan that he was proprietor of the store the boys had aeea Babe come out of. J He had remained late looking over his books, his mene tae ing gone away at nine o’clock. He expressed his gratitude to Tom and Joe for their kindly ~~ services, asked them for their names and addresses, and said ‘ he wouldn’t forget them. He said if they would put him on the Madison avenue car, — 4 when one came along, he would be able to get home all right.) “We are willing to go home with you if you want us to,” said Tom, , sy “t s; “You have merely suffercd a I Te “Tm much obliged to you for the offer, but it isn’t neces sary,” he said. He accompanied the boys outside, and when a car showed ap, they put him on it and continued their way penne. “TY’ve a surprise for you, Joe,” te haa : “What is:it?”. ¥ “I saw the face of one of the men who struck May French rt ei i down, and I recognized it as Perry Bates.” wv “You don’t mean that!” exclaimed, Joe, in a tone of surprise, i STt's ‘a. fact.” : “Bow could you tell it was he in the fog and davtneas??> s “From the light in the store window in front of which the - assault was committed. As’ Bates jumped“up the light shone for a moment in his face. aria: IT heard the other man pion him Bates.” “What are you gaing to. 0? about the matter.” “I suppose it’s my duty to, expose thearascal, “put I. don't ‘want-to bring trouble on Mr. Harlow. I shall do nothing, until I have told my. boss, and ask his advice,” “T guess you're right,” said Joe, ~ “Tf Perry Bates has taken to robbing people to raise money he’ll soon find himself in jail without any help from me.’ When Tom was undressing himself he EOS Gas “You aida’ t tell the gentlema P his pocket he had picked off Mr, French’s He had forgotten all about-it. 7. ; Same that fee nee ; eae to Joe.
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A SMART nee YORK BOY. f ois oR ee Ae a a of money in it. I never thought to return it to the. gentieman. That lad then watched for Cady, met him’ on Exchange bs Bates and his crook friend missed something when they failed Place, told him what he thought of him, and a fight ensued. to get away with this.” | Cady got a good beating himself, and returned to his office Joe opened his eyes when he saw the sizé of the wad Tom with a black eye and a firm resolve to get square with Duncan pulled out of the envelope. *. Somehow. On counting it Tom found that it amounted to $600.. -' In the meantime, Tom visited Mr. French at his store on “ll. take it to Mr. French to-morrow afternoon. He’ll be Forty-second street, and handed him the envelope with the glad to get it back, for when he misses it he'll feel. sure that $600, explaining how it came into his possession. the two rascals got away with it,” he said. “You're an honest boy,” said the store-keeper. “I’supposed Tom carried the money downtown. with him next morning, the thieving rascals who attacked me had stolen it along with — and, putting it in an envelope addressed to himself, asked the my pocketbook, for both were in the same inside pocket of my cashier to put it in the office safe till he asked for it. ; Overcoat. As you saved the money for me, I think you are. That afternoon he told Mr. Harlow about the previous: entitled to some recognition.” ; night's adventure, and how he recognized one of the footpads, Thus speaking, he handed'Tom $100. Na as Perry Bates, ; ; “That's too much, sir, If you really want to give me some- cee The broker. looked much disturbed. ; | thing, Pll take $10,” said the boy. i 3 “Are you positive it was he?” “You'll oblige me by accepting what I am offering Vous Leys ' “Yes, sir. And his companion called him Bates.” ‘can easily afford to give it to you, and the service you ren-’ “Too bad—too bad! I am afraid my nephew is thoroughly dered me is easily werth that. Here ig $25 more I Want vou to bad. Did you tell the gentleman that you recognized one of hand your friend.” “ his assailants?” | Tom reluctantly accepted the money intended ‘for Himssif; ‘ “No. I wouldn't do that on your account.” , | though he offered no objection to taking the $25 for Joe, forhis > “That, is Kind of you, Tom. Although it would seem to be friend necdoed money badly. x your. duty to furnish the police with the clew you obtained, I, He asked Mr, French if he had notified ‘the police about the ai would rather you said nothing about it.” assault, and was told that he had, but he ae little expectation A “All right, sir. I'll keep silent on the subject.” : that the men would be caught. “The gentlenian will, of course,.report the assauli to the’ Joe was delighted when Tom handed hia the $25 that eve- © authorities, and the police may round up my nephew. In that ning. : case he’ll have to take his medicine. I shall do nothing ‘to He wanted to pay Tom right away what he owed him for~ help him out of his scrape. He is an eyesore to the family, his clothes and other things, but Duncan wouldn’t take it. and deserves little consideration.” | “Take your time about it. I have plenty money now and Mr. Harlow did not feel like saying anything more on the don’t need it,” he said. subject; which was a painful one to him, so Tom returned to Joe then insisted on paying Tom $1 a week instead of eh oe his seat outside and was soon sent on an errand by the cashier. | cents, and Duncan let it go,at that. ; He was crossing the street when an apple hit him a glancing f : “= ~~ blow on the.head, and then bounded off into the face of a gen- CHAPTER VI. tleman who was passing, displacing his eyeglasses ae hurting THE HOUSE AMONG THE ROCKS. oné of his eyes. Three weeks passed away, and then Tom learned from his” x A bootblack who was on friendly terms with Tom Wiahed up | friend, Fred Munson, that a. syndicate had been formed to cor. to him. ~ iner L, & O. shares. as “See dat geezer hustlin’ up de street? He t’rowed dat apple; . Fred by this time had rounded up $50, and he said he was ‘at yer,” he said. “I seen him do it.” . | going to put it up'on the stock and double it, or do better.- . Tom looked and recognized the retreating figure as Lem} Tom concluded to follow suit Cady. | He had been inquiring inte and studying the speculative — ' He did not chase after him, but picked up the gentleman’s game since he made his first winning, and saw only the bright ‘ glasses and returned them to him, at the same time telling side of the game. him he knew the boy who threw the apple, and if thé gentie-; He had $370, and he put up $250 of it at the little bank on man wanted to follow the matter up he would find out for him) L. & 0. at 90, on the usual margin. . } He ‘who Cady worked for. ~ Perry, Bates did not dream that one of the boys who hac eee “Do so, young man. Here is my business card: The rascal ‘interfered with him and his companion that fogey night on ne nearly put my left eye out. Tl see that he is punished for his Forty-second’ street was fom Duncan, his uncle’s new mes-— 3 ruffanly conduct,” l'senger, and that the lad had recognized him and could ‘have i Tomi looked at the card and saw that the gentleman was caused his arrest on the charge of attempted highway rob- manager of an insurance company on Pine street. ,bery, thereby putting him in a very serious predicament, “Tl bri ing you the information this afternoon between three | | Bates had got acquainted with a gang,of crooks, and havin; - and four,” said Tom, walking away. : ‘no money, now that his uncle had cast wis off, had thrown jn When he went into the Exchange he inquired of the boys his chances with them. who Cady worked for. : Big The organization was known as the Owls, and they had a Two or three knew and told him. secret rendezvous somewhere mp in the Bronx, which was not ‘Tom wrote the name of Cady’s employer on a sheet of paper, | so thickly built up in those days as it is now. : referred to the bootblack who had seen the young chap throw . The gang, however, preferred the glitter and excitement sa BS apple at him, and left the envelope at the gentleman’s of- Manhattan to the quiet retreat in the outskirts, and hun Ee “fice, with his own name and address attached. lat a certain Sixth avenue saloon run by a man named. ‘Clan y, The result was that the gentleman called on Cady’s boss, | who profited considerably by their custom. | showed a discolored eye; and preferred a complaint against | He allowed them the use of a room in the rear of ihe saloon’) f the guilty one. where they played cards, drank freely and plotted crime. : Cady, was called in to face the charge. The police were more or less cognizant of their doings in- a He denied he had thrown the apple in Lae oes and. said | city, but they could not get any criminating evadence agains : af some other boy did it. them. The gentleman said he guessed he could: prove what he said, | - Now/and then a detective visitea® tte saloon in disguise, bu E as he had two witnesses. as Clancy and his bartender were ieery of strangers whos Later on he brought Tom'and the bootblack to the office, actions seemed at ail suspicious, they invariably passe the The bootblack testified that’ he Knew Cady, and saw him word to any of the gang who might be in the room on : es throw the apple at Tom. occasions, and the crooks made a quick get-away by a _ Tom said he had not seen’ Cady. throw the apple, but had route known only to themselves and the proprietor. — - seen him walking rapidly up on the other side of the street; Consequently the detectives had their trouble for nothing when the bootblack called his- attention to him as the party| perry Bates hadn’t forgotten Tom Duncan by any me: who threw the apple. ie ; He had sworn to get even with him for his independent The result was that Cady, whet he came back from an havior that morning in the office when he cae on his rrand, got an awfully calling down from his. employer, and and got turned down hard. as told if another complaint was made against him he would | During the. weeks that since passed he oceasio scharged. of the boy and tried to think uD some. scheme ady Jearned who the bootuivek! was who ‘tola in ‘him, ‘and in trouble. z anise Hah: on New street the next day, | gave him Ihee ad _ Although he was a pretty good schemer, ‘he fatl ay) nia ge Se reported the fact to Tom “ant a Sitges plan that Promised sucee 9
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a, at “A SMART NEW YORK BOY. “About this time he learned an important secret connected Iwith the Owls. As his uncle was a broker, the crooks figured on making him | useful to them in connection with an enterprise they had | quietly engaged in far some time. This enterprise was under way at the headquarters in the Bronx, and was now comling to a head under the supervision of _ the leader of the gang and two expert assistants, After Bates. had been carefully sounded, and then sworn to secrecy, he was iet in on the game. He was handed a package of ten-dollar bills, told to disguise himself, and sent downtown among the mpney brokers to buy English sovereigns and Bank of England notes. He followed instructions, and returned to a certain sporting house uptown with $5,000 worth of the foreign money, which _ he handed over to the chief of the Owls, who pan: him ere for st his trouble. Next day he was dispatched to Philadelphia on a similar - errand, and returned the same evening after carrying out his “mission. Then he was sent to Boston to buy more Bnglish money. ‘Bates, although aware he was running a considerable risk Bt in carrying out his orders, had thoughts’ only of the big money ‘he was making. : On his return from Boston he was told that; his services _ would not be needed for a while, and that he could have a good time spending his money: He had been paid in the English money, and he was told he sip had better represent himself as a British tourist until he had ' changed his funds into American bills. He was glad of a chance to lay back on his oars, for he knew he bad planted $15,Q00 in counterfeit $10 bills, and the newspapers had mentioned that a new counterfeit bill was in circulation. for the banks had detected the cheat when the money brokers made their deposit, and the new plan of work- ing off the spurious money was soon known to the Government, ‘and Secret Service detectives were put on the Job of capturing the counterfeiters. Other members of the Owls were employed in planting. odd $10 bills around among the tradesmen in different parts of the - city, and several thousand dollars worth were got rid of before 2 - they were called off. One afternoon Broker Harlow called Tom into his room and old him he wanted him to deliver a packet of New York City bonds to a customer who lived in a spacious plies toned 1ouse well up in the Bronx. “You will Have some walking to do after you leave tia ele- ated,” said Harlow. “You have three hours of daylight before u, so you ought to reach the house and be well on your way ck before dark.” ‘Yes, sir; I guess I can make it all right with the description of the locality you have given me,” said Tom. ie left the office on his mission at a quarter, of four. . On his way up Nassau street he met Joe with a bundle of nmted matter under his arm, ou’ll have to, go to supper alone to-night, Joe,. for I’m d for the oa ck en ve the Bronx, and I guess I won't get <i € ito fis Ke wis going to, and then weit on The city was beginning to build up in that neighborhood, vertheless there were great tracks of utimproved land ‘streets had been cut through here and there, and ise, nothing had been done in that line. ‘The house Tom was bound for could easily be reached over Spitintn route, and it took him just three-quarters of an hour ¢ sie there after leaving the elevated station. - aie the packet, a a receipt for it, and started plo cks. ok it, but after: hie part. way across, the prount rocky and uneven that he saw “he wae) losing time ing it by that route. Le sti mbled along in the gathering darkness, wondering ; as going to come out at. | 1 fool to leave that street. back there. Now I've lost. ig wilderness of rock and dirt. It. da, Might, for then g fellow could -|out here on the score of safety. ldn’t mat- re and get a line on Foes: but now I am liable to tumble into some hole and break my neck,” thought Tom. That made Tom more cautious in his movements, and he wen’ slower and slower as. the ground became rougher ond ithe evening darker. ‘Suddenly a light flashed in the air a short distance Bhp ; of him. It was the gleam of a lamp in the window of a house. Up to that moment Tom had He idea that he was near a house. He did not think PETE could be a house in that uncharted © neighborhood. But he saw the eutting of the window, and the shadowy form of the building itself, looking like a blot against the horizon. He: wondered who lived in that out-of-the-way place, access to which seemed to be so difficult. Possibly there was a street cut through at this point, and the house faced it. : Tom hoped so, for he was tired of fumbling his way over the rocks, i The light disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. As Tom Went forward the same light, or another one, ap- ‘peared in one of the ground floor windows. He walked up to the window and looked in. Three men, one with his hat on, were standing talking. - One of them wore a beard, and he held a package in his hand. He handed it to the person with the hat, who looked lik young chap, and he slipped it into one of his inside packer As he turned toward the door, Tom saw his face. He uttered an ejaculation of surprise. The young man was Perry Bates. Then a heavy hand was laid on Tom’s arm, and he: was gripped tight. “Spyin’, eh?” said a rough voice. ‘ “What do you mean?” replied Tom. | “What are you hangin’ ‘round this place for?” : “If you mean this house, I’ve just come upon it. I've lost my way by taking a short cut from Blank avenue, and I don’t know where I am at this moment.” At that mement a door close by opened and Bates stepped out. “Ts that you, Sanders?” he said. “Tt's me, all right. “Who's with you?” . “A boy I caught looking in at the window.” “Better tell the boss. I'll call him” He returned into the house, and presently came. een with the bearded man, who carried the lamp. He raised the light and peered outside. ‘ The rays fell upon Tom and the rough fellow whi had nold of him. ; Bates recognized his uncle’s messenger, Fes “You—Tom Duncan!” he cried. “What brings you here, and ‘ at night?” “T came up this way on an errand,to a party on Blank ave- nue, and on my way back took what I supposed was a short cut across the rocks, That’s how I happen to be here. kat difference does it make to you, anyway?” “You know this boy?” said the bearded man to Bates. ; “Yes, I know him. He works for my uncle in Wall Street. fy “He’s here by accident, I suppose?” “Tle may be, but you'd es detain him on general princi ples.” —— He took the bearded man ‘aside and said something to” him. * The result was Tom was marched into the house, ‘taken into the cellar and locked into a roomy closet, no attention $ being paid to his protests. X } CHAPTER VILI.- TOM MAKES AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. sore on hese ‘ ‘But he couldn't help wonderiie why Bates was visiting at that houge so far up in the Bronx. Then it occurred to Tom that the occupants | ‘of the ‘house. might be crooked associates of the young. aman, and that sine the night exploit on Forty-second street. he might be hanging After the way he had been treated, "Tom. ‘dias not believa’ ee! the people of the house were anything to. -*“They don’t look honest,” thought the boy. profession al crooks, they’ Te next door to it. down here so he could, take it out brag about. | ETE.
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. Man. ‘from the building if 1 can.” — I wonder what he intends to independent to him at the office. If He do to me? Something mean and cowardly, T suppose. goes too far he'll get in trouble.” Tom struck a match and looked around the closet. . : It was a large one, equipped with shelves, on which there were a Variety of things done up in paper and'tied with Biriae Tom was not interested in them. He centered his thoughts on the door to see if he er not foree his way out of his prison pen. lf he was able to do that, ; Rrabably he could make his escape from the house. An examination of the lock showed that it was only a com- mon one, and Tom believed that with a little effort he could force it. He took out his pocket-knife and tried to press the tongue of the lock back with the big blade, but met with poor ‘success. On the lower shelf he found a small steel jimmy, Inserting the thin end between the lock and the catch, Tom put pressure on the instrument, and in two minutes he had the door open. 4 “So far so good,” he ejaculated, exultantly. “Now to escape He dropped the jimmy into his pecket, for he thought he might need it again, and struck another match to get a line on his immediate surroundings. In the center of the place was a rusty, hot-air furnace, with four big pipes branching off from it, to different points in the ceiling, up through which they disappeared. The heater did not look as if there had been a fire A it for a long time. There was a bin with perhaps half-a ton of coal in it against one of the: walls, and a pile of kindling wood near by. The stairs were near a partition, ‘Tom was on the point of ascending them when. the door nave opened, and the man with the beard, followed by two smiooth- -faced young men, appeared. The boy had just time to dart under the stairs to ayoid detection. The men came down into the cellar and went toa padlocked door in a long partition, which the man with the lamp opened. “The stuff ought to be dry by this time,” said the bearded “We have now $100,000 worth of the bills ready for us ' to take down South and plant where we can. We must take. the press and the rest of the outfit apart, and bury them in the corner where the hole and box to receive them bas been | against the back wall, to be replaced later. prepared for their reception, We must remove all other evi- dences of the work so that if the Secret Service detectives should come here after we are gone they will find nothing to | ‘show that the counterfeiting business has been carried on in this house. Our plant will be sate, and one of these days we can use it again with new plates.” Those were the words Tom heard as the men came down the stairs, opened the padlocked door and disappeared beyond the other side, and then the men’s retreating partition, The boy heard the catching of a lock and two bolts on the footsteps. Tom was surprised at the discovery whe had accidentally made, He knew all about the bogus $10 notes sitet had been put in circulation if the Wall Street financial district through the “money brokers. Tt had been the talk of Wall Street at the time the crooked ss ‘job was pulled off, and naturally all the papers had something to say on the subject. In a day or two the press described ne the same trick had : been worked in Philadelphia and Boston, ‘Then the Government detectives got busy, hae the money brokers of other cities were notified to be on the alert. This warning arrived too late to saye the money brokers ot Chicago, St. Louis, Denver and other places West, which ap- peared to have. Pose. worked simultaneously with the Hastern cities. While the Govéinmant agents were aghast’ at the extent of the conterfeit bills planted, they ‘got word that the trades- ‘people of New York were being vietimized in small amounts. ‘The case was so serious that‘all the sleuths who could be ; out 0 hate scent, and a most. ee effort Th tir om soe ead pei him that he hae actitiontally: stum- t upon the headquarters of the’ ‘counterfeiters, who were bury their’ PAR and conceal | all the evidences: A SMART NEW YORK pee maybe for some timie, and be caught into the bar, $100,000 worth of spurious bills which they intended ta turn . into good money at their leisure, and he planned to make the. South ‘the field of their next operations. : Tom believed it was his duty to find out all Be could about the rascals and their plans before he left the house, even if he ran the risk of being recaptured and held prisoner for a while © to come, It would be a big feather in his cap if he was instrumental ~ in securing the, arrest of the ringleader. His name would get into the newspapers, and probably the © Government would pay him a considerable reward. His services, if successful, would be worth it. So he glided over to the door, listened for sounds on the — other side, and hearing none, prought the steel jimmy to bear — on it. yi ; He soon found that the door was proof against a.mere . jimmy. ‘ It would take a heavy sledge-hammer to break it open, 3 3 he had to give the attempt up to open ‘it. He looked the partition i over, but it Was solid, with no openings between the board ‘ Apparently further investigation was blocked in that direc. r tion. 5 While he was thinking the matter over he penne a noise on. : the other side of the door, and hid himself. * The door opened and one of the young men came out and ran upstairs without shutting the door. . He was after something, and he did not think it necessary to : secure the door, ? ‘Tom took advantage of the chance to slip into the space ‘he: Py yond, which proved to be simply a passage. a A-door stood ajar in the other partition, and PHLOUED this” came a stream of light. Tom ventured to look into the room beyond, and saw that it a was the workshop of the counterfeiters. : A plate press, operated by a spoked wheel, something like the steering wheel cf a ship; only thé spokes were longer and i thinner, stood in the center of the room. ae ; An ink plate with a two-handled roller stood beside it. The rest of the counterfeiting paraphernalia stood about, A The bearded man was taking the press apart. zm 4 ie far corner was e hole eight feet By four, and of some ‘ ept The flagging had vied removed to dig it, and the slabs lay Fearing the speedy return of the young man, Tom dared take only a rapid survey of the room. Then he retired to the end of the corridor and crouched down in the dark. A minute later the young man returned with a pot of white lead. He shut and bolted the door and entered the work-room. ; Tom then returned to the door, which was open on a crack and watched the men inside. It took them an hour to dismantle the press, The shiny steel working parts were’ carefully cleaned of. } oil and dirt, covered With white lead, and placed in the hol where a long, flat box lay at the bottom to receive them, The other pieces of machinery were also taken apart treated in the same way. { It took three hours to élean everything up, including replacing of the slabs, which were cemented in lace, and th tis covered with a thin coating of dust. The last batch of printed money was gathered up, co into packages like one sees in a bank, and Placed it) a grip. Tom concluded that it was time to get out, but he di how he could do it without arousing suspicion, for when the men started to leave they would find the two bolts dr mathe The leader would probably think that the young ma he returned from his: Arrant upstairs: had forgotten, ° lected, to shoot the bolts The young fellow youll swear that. he ‘didn’t. f ' What this would lead to Tom couldn't say, but he was a a | that if he did not withdraw while the chance was his he ‘ be locked in there, and then he wouldn't be able On the whole, he decided that it was to his int ‘a break for freedom. right away, SO che softly dr LW stepped into the open part of the cade shut the do ie fully and ran up the stairs. ae a he door let him into an — i,
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A SMART NEW YORK BOY. Paci ra wk —e ees SY SPRITE AE DPSS EINS EPA, Hear™ '- Alight came through the keyhole and under the door. ' he windows here were not fastened, and Tom says ae 4c -. Tom put his eye to the keyhole and saw seven smooth-faced, opened’ one. L tough-lookine young men seated around a deal table, playing He looked down into the darkness, but could see no way of cards for stakes and drinking from a couple of bottles that getting down in safety. “passed from hand to hand. Then-an idea, struck him. -_., There was a stove\in the recom, together with pots and pans, He took several of the blankets and tied the ends together. ‘indicating it was used as a kitchen. One end of the improvised rope he secured to the bottom . There was also a cheap dresser, with plates, cups and other of one of the cots. . articles of cheap crockery on it. The rest he dropped out of the window, after. testing its | These chaps were members of the Owls, and were the bunch strength. who had circulated the counterfeit $10 bills among the trades- © Climbing out, he trusted his weight to the combined blankets people. 2 : and lowered himself down. Tom naturally took them for part of the-counterfciting gang, When he reached the end he let go and landed on his. feet _ and he knew it would not be well for them to catch him. after a short drop. re , There was a door at the end of the entry, protected by a; “Free at last!” he breathed,-in great satisfaction. seCidy lock, two bolts and a chain. | Fearing that one of the gang might be on the watch outside, »-/~ Tom glided over to it, and flashed a match over the fasten- ‘for it was owing to that fact he had been caught when he ings. ae ;looked in at the lighted window in the early part of the eve- The door evidently opened out into the air. ning, he crept silently off into the darkness of the night, over The boy made up his:mind to escape that way, and was in the rocks at random, hoping that luck would enable him to - the act of uncoupling the chain as a beginning, when there: find his way out of that trackless neighborhood. came a pounding frem the outside—three loud cracks, @ pause, Several times he found himself at the edge of a precipitous / and three more. | drop, the depth of which he could not fathom in the daritness. i He judged there was a way cut of his predicament, but he Sie! \ 1eould not find it. Sie : CHAPTER VIII: B Tf the sky had only been clear and the night bright he proba- 0 j ; bly would have got clear, but he did not dare take any chances of a tumble. Tom was a bit rattled for the moment, but realizing that he _He afterward learned that the house was built on the rocks “thust get out of the way mighty quick, he ran up the stairway thirty odd feet above the street level, although no streéts' were ’ that led to the second floor. ; blasted through in this vicinity. VOM ESCAPES FROM THE HOUSE. The kitchen door was flung open and one of the card players , It had stood there for many years, and a path led from the eame out into the entry and walked to the door. front. door over the rocks to earthy ground several hundred He knocked twice on it, paused, and knocked twice more, {Yards away to the east. “The party outside repeated his first signal. Tom missed the path because he failed to discover it in the: ‘Phe door was then unlocked and thrown open.’ (darkness. ° *“Where’s Hague? I’ve got important news for him,” said It was two- eéloctk in the morning when Tom eventually _ the newcomer, whose voice proclaimed his identity ‘to Tom as blundered into low ergond which finally brought him to a ‘Perry Bates. street. “Downstairs,” said the young, chap who let him in as he re- The first street tain flickered a long distance ahead, but it ‘locked the door, \ _served as a guide to the boy. “Go and tell him I have returned and want to see him at. Half-an hour later he came to the elevated road, made a once.” |” | note of his surroundings with the view of getting a line on the . “Go down yourself aaitl pound on the door.” | direction the counterfeiters’ house lay from the spot, then — Rates started down the cellar stairs, and the other man re- Walked to the nearest station and took a train downtown. » urned to the kitchen, shutting the door after him. | It was going on five when he got to his room and aouing Joe - Mom decided that it was too risky to make his escape by the Sound asleep. entry door, as he had intended, as there was a window on the | He tumbled into bed, but so busy were his thoughts with his ’ Janding where he was standing, so he concluded to drop out Bight’s adventure that daylight came filtering through his win of that if he could open it, dow before he fell asleep. “When he went to it he found that the window was nailed cee Hed Pat Die Renal hoe aeee oF and saw his “ie Sead places, which prevented him from raising ee He knew Tom must have got in late, and did not try at arouse him. ‘The upper sash was also secured by stout cleats, which only Tom wasn’t in the habit of getting up much before & Maasten: f a Bete ane uate eee an poi nabs of eight, anyway, for he didn’t have to get to the office until a |few minutes before nine. eres Be pio ae ree i Joe had to aot to the printing office bey hour earlier. Tom was still asleep when the landlady came in to make his Bae not locked, and he opened it and slipped into a small 1.4 at half-past nine, and knowing that he had overslept, she woke him up. ie Jdstenine to see if any one was lsd) there, and hearing. “Gee! Is it as late as that?” sisted Tom, when she told him : 7 s the time. f : ‘here was a bed with rumpled coverings on it, just as its | “Yes. Were you Pi Jate last night?” - egy Res ted eaters, a faded carpet on the floor, a wash. | tt oe a ae oe ee how ae ‘ ie H - after. Pie nd of wood, a small, cheap mirror hanging against’the wall, He got ‘up, took a hasty breakfast of coffee and rolls, sped ar “which was a Barrow? shelf o which was a comb and re the office oe indie ‘a : ; | “You're late this morn ng,” sa the cashier, with a. slight G spnmete mt oz en evry tere werent ox age Tres ona wang for Zou te gt | rate 4 “All ri Is Mr. Harlow in is room? ¥ i; es here ane a window, but it was nailed down like the entry | “He Sige : a Noo : ‘ i ‘ y is { ioe ae nee HB a few minutes? J have something im- ae rom this room was equa y imposs le. | por ant to te m,” . + pier i ‘ tried another door off the éntry, and it admitted him} “It will have to, 1 suppose.” : all running to the front of the house. } Tom hurried into the boss’ room. ] - ere he found the main stairway to the hall door and other’ “I’m an hour late this morning, Mr. Harlow, i sald the i, | “but I think I have a good excuse.” , i whe doors led into other furnished bedraoms, larger than the! “I'll'take your word for it,” smiled the “broker. “You deliv. Ue fered that packet all right, eh?” : rained the windows of each and found them all‘ “Yes, sir. Here is the receipt for tte Now 1 want ae you something out of the us oY pat fais e stairs ‘to the third, landing. : i |” “Sit down and go ahead.’ E : d r room: three aunties with: cots and “Tom lost no time in Men aiiabice sink eee, ‘stra! : drumpled. baa his al r, after, explaining | Bow ne arenes. was who et
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. A SMART NE to his taking what he thought was a short cut from Blank ave- nue in the direction of the elevated road. He made no mention whatever of Perry Bates, who he was satisfied was connected with the counterfeiters. That young man would have to take his chances with the Secret Service people when they got busy with the information he (Tom) supplied them with. Needless to say that Broker Harlow was not a little aston- ished on learning that his messenger had actually discovered the headquarters of the counterfeiters who were. giving the financial world so much trouble, He decided that Tom must be put in touch with the Govern- ment sleuths without delay. This was easily arranged, and an hour or so later the boy: had an interview with two Washington Secret Service men who were investigating the counterfeiting business, but had not made great headway so far. ’ The information supplied by Tom: was seized by them with avidity. Thoy beard his story, and then questioned him closely. “You could guide us to the house, couldn’t you?” said one. “I am not so sure that I could,” replied the boy. “All I know is that it is built among a great waste of rock, some- what to the north of —— street, and probably a mile west of the elevated road. It has three stories, and as near as I can remember, has a square look. The blinds on most of the win: dows are closed, and the second story windows are nailed up. It is more than probable that the ground floor windows are'se- cured in the same way. The front door is locked, bolted and also protected with a chain. So is the side door. I don’t know anything about the back door, but it must be protected like the others.” The detectives auestioned him about what he had observed in the cellar, and they got from him an accurate description of the three wen who took the machinery apart and hid it in the corner under the flagging. After a protracted interview the detectives: decided to hunt for the house themselves, as they judged they could do as well as though they took the boy along. ’ As they did not doubt from what Tom said ‘that somebody was on the watch at the place all the time—on the outside at night, and at an upper window commanding the approaches in the daytime—the lad’s presence in the neighborhood was likely. to arouse suspicion, as his escape had long since, been discovered. That afternoon six Government men went out to the neigh- borhood indicated in a general way by Tom, and found a house answering the boy’s description. he It appeared to be deserted. They surrounded the rocky ground at a distance until dark- ness fell, and then they closed in on the building. One of them gave the signal Tom remembered had gained . admission for Perry Bates, but it produced no result, so it was repeated. The back door was then forced in, and three of the officers - entered, while the others remained outside on watch. There wasn’t a sign of any one in the house. it was searched from the ground floor to roof without result, Everything was found as the boy had described, so there was no doubt about the building being the right one. Then the cellar was paicrey and things found there as Tom had told, ' The partition door ‘was padlocked; but the lock was soon foreéd, and the officers gained admission to the: assage and the counterfeiters’ work-room beyond. It was bare of everything likely to throw any ‘hint of what had gone: on there for several months, Not. a scrap of paper even was found to furnish a clew. That end of the cellar looked as-innocent of having been‘the scene of any wrongdoing as any cellar in any: other house. - The rascals had covered their tracks well. ' But for what Tom had seen, the counterfeiting’ machinery: “would probably have remained hidden where they put it. — The officers proceeded to dig up the flagstones. in the corner j ‘mentioned by Tom. ‘They found a floor of earth underneath. > ‘This, however, was suspiciously soft. é c made. With a shovel found outside on the rocks an excavation was Lt a depth of four feet ies eneountered wood. aie one to be the cover of the box. on hour’s digging enough of the’ box was. Jecnetion to o: be beeen into, and then ‘the’ Bape ere ¥ W YORK BOY. i Tom’s story was proved true, and the officers were highly pleased over the outcome. Three of them remained in the house the rest of the night, and the other three returned to Manhattan. Next morning a stout wagon drawn by two horses was driven up to the house by the only possible way of approach, the machinery loaded on it; and the stulf carried to a Government — building in lower Manhattan, where it was inspected and pho- | ~ tographs made of it, ‘= Three detectives remained in the house until it became a | certainty that the counterfeiting birds had flown. and were not likely to return: From Tom's statement it seemed’ conclusive that they bad gone South, and several officers were sent in that direction, _ A full report, including the photographs of the machinery, was sent to Washington, and due credit for the discovery given to Tom Duncan. He received an official letter from the Treasury Department, complimenting him on the part he had played in the matter, with the assurance that he would in due time be suitably re- warded. a This letter he showed to Mr. Harlow, and the broker told | him that he would be well taken care of by the Government. All the facts connected with the case so far were kept secret coi the public, so that the counterfeiters wouid not take alarm. Not a newspaper printed a word about the progress made by the Secret Service Department. ; A score of officers Were scattered around the chief Southern cities to watch for the circulation of more counterfeit $10 bills. © And so matters stood awaiting further developments. CHAPTER IX. . } AT CLWAR LAKE. ~~ s About this time Tom, while on an errand to the Mills Build- _ ing, heard a couple of brokers talking about an anticipated — be rise in D. & C. shares. : ’ Only a few days before he had closed out his L, & O. deal - of 35. shares, which he had bought at 90, at a profit of $555, which brought his funds up to something over $909: His. luck in the market induced him to get’in on D. & C., although he had very little to base a winning on. a es ap sixty shares at 78 with all the confidence in the wor ‘ Luck did not forsake him, and on the day before. Decoration. oes Day he sold out at a profit of $300. 3 He now felt like a small capitalist. , mee He kept his eyes open for another chanee, failing to reais. that he was only a gambler in a very risky game. aa very next deal might wipe out all the money he had Roe T Dacotallert Day being a general holiday, Tom and Joe de- cided to go off somewhere for the day. After figuring on various places they picked out Clear Lake, down in New Jersey, where Tom had heard fishing was good. They got up early, had a good breakfast at the Third avenue — restaurant they frequented, and started for the ferry on West — street, where they bought tickets over the Central Railroad, eo New Jersey for their destination. } An hour's ride brought them to the village of Waverly, the we nearest point'to the lake, which was two miles to the west, A wide avenue lined with trees and many handsonie resi- dences took them right to the lake, which was a, beautiful e panse of water, dotted with smail islands. A number of fine residences, built on extensive ground were on the side of the lake at which the avenue ended. ~ The other side the water laved the foot of rocky bluffs ani | low cliffs; where the lake ran out of sight in a dozen plac forming coves and miniature bays connected by short str it the scenery of which was rugged and lonesome. _ The boys learned that the best fishing was to be got o e! other side of the lake, in the coves and bays, where, for some (a ‘reason, the fish preferred to run. : \ It was necessary for them to hire a sailboat’ at the wh. near the country inn much frequented by automobile partic a Small craft could be had at from a quarter to fifty cents ai hour, or for a stipulated price by the day. The services of a boatman was -not included. ; There were also many private boats on the lake, for ever, | residence had its little wharf and boat-house. You could buy bait and rent fishing lines, with or withou ‘poles, ‘at the inn. teen Tom had had some experience with, poate’ and was il a small one as good as pigbenge
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2 A SMART NEW YORK BOY. e ~ On this occasion he hired the boat and let Joe put up for| we'd better go down and make a start in the boat. When we - ‘the bait and lines. got down we saw the smoke coming out of the chininey, and I There was a fair breeze blowing across the lake when the| rushed into the kitchen to tell my aunt and uncle. Lem began’ - boys shoved off. yelling fire, and then we all got excited.” : Tom steered along close in shore at first to test the boat's “More water down there!” called Tom from the roof. sailing qualities on that wind, and they were SPSS Te a point| Joe climbed up with another pailful, which he handed to when stidddenly they heard a cry of fire. Tom. They looked shoreward and saw a plain residence, ‘very like “Oh, My money!” suddenly ejaculated the old man. on the a farm-house, standing back a hundred yards from the lake.|} roof, turning as pale as a sheet. “I must save it.” ; The kitchen chimney was belching smoke and flames. He attempted to slide down to the ladder, but his legs gave / “The chimney is afire,” said Joe. way under him, like wilted rags; and he would have rolled off . ~. “And the house might follow if the fire isn’t put out quickly,” | but for Tom, who seized him by the arm in time to save him. - gaid Tom. “Here, brace up!” cried Duncan, alarmed at his looks. ox “There only seems to be a woman and a couple of boys| His eyes were elosed, his lips blue and ashy, and his ‘frame around,” said Joe. “We had better run in and give them a/ motionless. hand.” Tom found himself in a fix, with the man in one hand and Tom thought they had better, so he steered for the small| the bucket of water in the other. - landing, to which was moored a:sailboat like their own. He shouted to Joe, who was half way down the ladder, to | ‘Tying their craft, they ran to the house. come back and help him. By this time the smoke was pouring out of the chimney in a Joe dropped the empty bucket he had received from his dense volume, mingled with big sparks of burning soot and | friend and scrambled back to the eaves. small jets of flame. “What's the matter?” he asked, as his head rose’ into sight. - They now saw a man on the sloping kitchen roof. “Grab this old man, I think he has fainted. Hold him till He had got there by means of a ladder he had planted|I empty the water into the chimney, and then I'll help you get against the eaves. | him down,” said Tom. Only one of the boys was in sight in the yard, | Joe crawled up till his feet rested on the topmost rung’ of _ He was tying a bucket full of water to a rope so the. man| the ladder, and laid hoid of the old man’s legs. ‘could pull it up. That relieved Tom, and he rushed the bucket of water over “Help get another bucket of water, Joe,” said Tom. “I'll go| to the chimney and poured it down, sending up more smoke, up the ladder and steady the pail while the man gets on the} but not so much as before. ‘ridge which he has got to traverse to reach the chimney.” A few more bucketfuls would put the fire out he believed. _ When Tom reached the top of the ladder he saw that matters} He threw the bucket down on a bit of garden dirt and _. were growing more serious. hastened to assist Joe. f ‘" Smoke was issuing around the shingles where the brick “My, money, oh) my money!” groaned the old man as ne work came through the roof. grabbed his arm, ‘a The heat was igniting the light, dry woodwork, and unless The boys found that the old man Was little better than a prompt, measures were taken the roof would be on fire soon. | bundle of skin and bones, and did not weigh much. ' ‘The man on the roof was old and dried up—all of sixty-five Even at that it was no easy matter to;descend the ladder ~ years of age. with such a burden. He was very much excited over the peril that threatened the| _ With some difficulty they succeeded in getting the old man house, which was his property. to the ground, and leaving Joe to drag him away, Tom rushed He was also more excited over something else. back and drew up the bucket of water which Will en had Se under him. Tom dumped it into the chimney with good results. He was really not able to cope with the fire, for his legs ae Tom saw that he was in great ‘danger of falling. As he turned away he saw the other boy, who had taken no Let, me take your place, sir,” he said, scrambling up the | part in the proceedings other than to shout “Fire!” at the be- hingles with the’ pail of water. ginning of the excitement, running down to the landing place. -“T’miruined! I’m ruined!” groaned the old man. While waiting for another bucket of water Tom. watched Don't worry,” said Tom. “We'll have the fire out in a] him and saw that he got aboard of the sailboat moored there’ : i near their own, and was casting off the stoppers of the main- _ “The house will burn up, I know it will.” sail, with the intention of hoisting it. pay No, it won’t. My friend and I will put the fire out.” “He's a pretty chap,” thought Tom. “He ought to be. help- ; ; ‘Tain’t no use. It’s just my luck.” ing to put the fire out. I wonder who he is? He looks like 3 . ‘Tom discharged the water around the base of the chimney somebody I know.” : d let the chimney ‘go for the moment, “Haul up!” shouted Will Brown from'below at that moment. _ As he let down the bucket to be refilled, Joe appeared at the} Tom hauled up the dat of water and poured it down the aves with a full bucket. : chimney. Tom slid down, got it, ran up on the ridge again and emptied! Hardly any smoke came up now, and the amateur fireman it into the blazing chimney. guessed he had about drowned out the fire. . «she smoke rose in his face like a dense eloud, and had he The exertions of the three boys soon finished the fire. “no dropped to the ridge he might have lost his ba alance and| The kitchen looked like a. wreck. ~ / : , en. / It was afloat with sooty water and the ashes from the stove. He crawled back along the ridge out of range of the smoke, The water had put the fire out and covered everything with iy ‘roaring to Joe to hurry up with the water, hauled up the |steam and d hay ful attached to the rope by the other boy, who a the old|. The old lad “ot the house was upstairs attending to her hus- nephew. © band. te 4 Where s that other boy I saw around here?” said Sous tothe} When Tom came down and announced that. all danger was who was doing his duty. : over, he learned that the old man’s name was eae Maslin, on’t know. The last I saw of him he was running into |and that the woman was his wife. ; : : ouse, Fle hasn’t come back yet,” said the boy, who said) They lived in. the house with their nephew Will- bhowi and me was Will Brown. “I guess he went up to the room through which the chimney ns to see if there was any danger of it catching fire. The s coming out through the shingles.” the unfinished attic room. There’s a hole in the up there, but it doesn’t run into the flue.” — “WwW Ly should there be a hole in the chimney?” t only happened this morning. Lem and I were up there breakfast hunting for something we wanted to take the lake po us. We eet! to restling, and Lem fell | bynee kg tumbled, ‘out. He picked back. ay went “to” her. ae, 0 the inn with gotiie butter, eggs. ‘and two. Eucisa chickens, — be ee . The Maslins, being small farmeérs, supplied the inn with ; what the proprietor needed in that line. ‘i “Who's the other boy?” asked Tom of Brown. “He dian’ do a thing when his services were needed. He ought | be kicked. He’s down at the boat getting ready to sail ¢ ( ff in her ‘ Is he as visitor?” “Yes. He's my cousin, ‘Lem Cady, tom New puts ona lot of Btyle, because he’s a , city. boy gasp of surprise. i Street myself. aid,
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A SMART NEW YORK BOY. runs-in with him, aad the last time I gave him a good licking. ‘So he’s your cousin? I’m not surprised that a chap of his stainp shirked his duty. I suppose he’s Mr. Maslin’s nephew?” “Yes. He came down here last night to spend the holiday.” At that juncture Cady came on the scene, “Are you ready to go sailing?” he said to Will. Then he recognized Tom, and scowled darkly. “What are you doing here?” he snarled. wanted.” . “He-and his friend helped save the house from burning up,” said Will. , “Bah! The fire didn’t amount to anything. Come on if you're coming. I didn’t come down here to waste my time hanging around this old ranch.” Then there was some fresh excitement. Old man Maslin, on his legs once more, came rushing out of the house like a wild man, his hands reeking with dirt and soot. “I’ve been robbed!” he cried, with convulsive energy. “Robbed! Ruined! Every cent taken!” he groaned. “Where did you have your money?” “I hid it in the chimney where the he was.” Je it was burned up?” *“You’re not Who was in the house at the time?” . - Tom's eyes mechanically rested on Lem Cady. That youth looked nervous and disturbed, and was slowly backing away toward the corner of the house, “Lem wasin the house,” said Will Brown. “You're a liar!” eried Cady, still retreating. The old man looked at him suspiciously. He was suspicious by nature, and’ perhaps he had reason for distrusting his young relative. “Were you up in the garret, Lem?” he’ asked, in a feverish, eager way. “He and I were both up there before the fire,” said Will Brown. “What were you doing up there?” “Hunting for something we wanted to take out with us in the boat—a line and an extra lead sinker.” / “How long before the fire?” asked Maslin. “About two or three. minutes.” “Was there anything the matter with the chimney then?” “Yes, several bricks fell out of it, and Lem picked them up to put them back. I went to help him, and he upset me. He said he did it for fun. Anyway, he only put two of the bricks , back. Dyes “Did you see him take anything from the hole in the chim- ney?” “No, but I saw him put his hand in his inside pocket.” “You have taken my money, Lem Cady,” cried the old man, angrily. * Give if back to me this instant.” _» “Didn't see your money,” replied Lem. Then he turned around and made tracks for the landing. 4, . CHAPTER X. j ys THE PURSUIT OF CADY. “Stop him! ‘Stop him! He’s running away with my money!” cried old Maslin, in great excitement. “How much of your money. do you think he- has?” asked Tom. “Over $600. Tt’s‘in an old red pocketbook. Run after him ‘ahd get it back for me, and I will give you a dollar.” » Cady was already at. the landing. _ Stepping aboard the sailboat, which was the property of his uncle, he hastened to hoist the mainsail, which was ready to ye run up. “Tom doubted Eee much if his. escape could be cut off. There remaines the alternative | of Joe and himself. chasing ry and catch a . The two boys’ started for the landing, followed by Will AAS may be supposed, Mantiiee hininele? wad no runner, and a8 left. rapidly in the rear, but he did not is on that 3 ac- ment whens sie: ‘saw her shi husband runniae ioe a z e > three. boys, and in thg seas of ae land and there; or in etek of that inside’ of the ne, he bias headed for, von th ae She couldn’t understand what it all meant. Cady detected the pursuit almost as soon as it was begun. He hurried his movements and soon had the mainsail up _ and the sheets fast to the cleats at the foot of the mast. All he had to do now was to cast off the mooring rope, and this he did as Tom got within a few feet of the landing. - “Did you ever get left, Tom Duncan?” he said in a sneering, triumphant tone as the boat receded and he seized the tiller and put her on a course that if maintained would carry him straight across the lake into a rocky cove. “Come. back with your uncle’s money,” on the landing. “Go back and take a rest. I haven't got his money, What do I want with it? I’ve got enough of my own,” returned Cady, “What are you running away for, then?” s “Ain't running away. I’m bound on a sail. Good-by.” Cady turned his back on Tom and faced the way the boat was going. par Joe and Will Brown had reached the landing: while the old - man was still putting forth his best efforts, nap bett he could ; see that is was useless. He was overcome with despair when he saw his rascally nephew sailing off in his boat. He was sure the boy had no intention of ‘coming back, bat ‘would abandon the boat at some convenient point on the other side of the lake, and then go off with his money. n that case the only recourse he had was to go to the vil- lage and set the constables on. Lem’s track. The fugitive would be able to catch a train a mile beyond the lake and get clear off. “We'll haye to chase him in our boat,” said Tom to Joe, “Want to come with us, Brown?” “Yes, I'll go,” said Will. “I was soing sailing with Lem, but f that’s off now.” “Get aboard, then, you chaps. He’s got some start of us. If his boat is faster than ours we won’t be able to catch him. Otherwise we can head him off and make him face the music; ” said Tom. They piled into the sailboat. Joe and Will hoisted the mainsail and Tom cast off from the landing. : Mr. Maslin came staggering on to the little wharf. ; “We're going to follow him in our boat, Mr. Maslin,” said fy Tom. “If we catch him we n take the money away from him Raley and bring it back to you.” “That's right. That’s right,” said the old man, eagerly. a3 As the boat shot away from the landing, and.Tom laid his course after the other boat, Cady turned around and made out ~ their purpose. ~. ye He put his thumb to his nose and wagged his fingers de _ tisively back at them. Apparently he believed he\had too good a start to be over- hauled. ‘ That fact remained to be seen. . The lake was two miles across at that point, and that dis- . tance would furnish a fair test of the speed of the two boats. The wind was fresher than when Tom and Joe left the _ wharf where they hired the boat. r Tom was expert enough to work the boat to the best ad- vantage, and he was fully resolved to catch Cady if he could.- — He soon made out that Cady was no slouch at handling a sailboat. mes He kept her right up ‘to her course, and she flew ahead like a seabird. pita “J don't think we're gaining rata on him,” length. “Y think we have cut him down a little,” replied Tom. — .Cady certainly compelled Tom to do his best, and the latter . had to admire the skill he displayed. — F It was the first time he had ever seen anything about ‘aay to admire. its Both boats dashed rapidly on ‘thelr course toward the shore. P Cady was unfamiliar with that side of the lake, which. was, a disadvantage to him under the conditions he had to face. Doubtless he expected to find numerous opportunities. ane Es land at the foot of the low line of cliffs, broken into rifts here — said Tom, pausing said 8 oe; at shore, but. as’ ig were following Cady; ‘and not ‘eadin way, it did not matter so much with them. They saw Cady stand up. in the stern- -sheets of his soa she came within hailing distance of the land, evidently tor ari. of exam ae the prospect ahead ;
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44’ A SMART NEW YORK BOY. sheet and stood further up the lake. “T thought he was surely going into that cove,” said Tom, as . Cady put his helm up. “It is clear he could make out no! landing place there.” “The bank is too high all about there, that is why. he|s wouldn’t take any chances,” said Joe. “He couldn’t get ashore without smashing the boat,” said “Oh, he knows what he is about,” said Tom. give him credit for knowing how to sail a boat.” The chase was still about a quarter of a mile ahead, which showed that Tom and his party had not gained much in the two-mile pursuit across the lake. Cady was now sailing parallel with the shore, on the lookout for a convenient place to land. Tom saw that the trend of the land would drive the fugitive nearer them if he kept his boat-off a bit, and pointed her nose ahead of the other. This he did, and chuckled at the advantage he expected to Teap. Whether Cady got on to Tom’s tactics, and realized that if he kept straight on he was bound to lose ground, or he discovered. a landing-blace, certain it is he suddenly hauled his wind and ran by the shortest route for the shore. “There he goes!” shouted Tom, grasping the main sheet and putting down the helm. A “T don’t see any landing-place for him y run in at, » said 0e. . “There’s a place to land at the spot he is making for,” said Will, who was pretty well acquainted with that side. of the lake, from numerous excursions along its shore. “He has chosen a first-rate place to get ashore.” \ “He must have been over here before in your boat,” said Tom. “No, he hasn’t. He’s just caught on to the spot by accident.” “Tll be hanged if I can see any landing-place from here,” said Tom. “Don’t you see a break in the) precipice?” “I see something that looks like a r ft or break,” . “That’s the spot he is heading for. It’s a kind of./gully, through which the water from the hills makes its way into the lake. A small boat can run in there alongside a shelf of rock, and a fellow has only to step ashore from the nek. 4 “Ts there a path up the rocks?” “No; but one can make his. way up through the gully, witch widens out into a sort of cove, It is a diffleult job to do it, but if hem has nerve enough, I guess he can make it.” _ “Then he stands a good chance of reaching the top of the precipice?” » “Yes; for half way up the path is easy to the top.” _ “Well, if he can,do it I guess Joe and I can do it, too, and’, f (pel a you as well. We'll follow him and catch him at the top.” “T'll have to It was likely that Cady had discovered this available landing- | place from his position in the boat, which showed that his eyes were sharp and he was not asleep. \ _ He ran his boat into the outlet of the gully, lowering the Mainsail as he approached the narrow opening, so that the boat lost her headway in season to prevent any injury to her hull as she grounded in the shoal water. Of course, she disappeared from the sight of the pursuers _ behind the projecting arms of the gully. Will suggested that their best plan would be to run in past the shelf and ground the boat upon an abrupt gravel beach at the head of the gully. This patch of landing could not be seen by any one running into the gully, and'as Cady could hardly know about it, they’ would gain a slight advantage that way. : “You are sure we can do that?” said Tom. “I don’t want to smash this boat. It’s a hired one, and I had to leave a de- 5 If I follow your suggestion we'll, come out all “Yes, for the patch of beach is there, and the ee won’t |. “hurt the bottom of your boat,” said Will. “All right,” said Tom. In a few moments they opened up ‘the entrance of the gully, and they could see that Cady had taken to the shelf and was iP Deuce up over the rocky side of the gully. i He, was already a third of the way up, being aided by bushes rew out of the crevices. red. for Lees The rocks did not appear to suit his fancy, for he let out nis | i pointed out, penetra ee gravelly patch. was, amd Tom done, and was surpriséd when the other boat shot past it and | made direct for a mass of rocks at the head of the ravine. Having headway enough on to accomplish the landing, Tom | told Joe to drop the mainsail. The boat shot inbetween the rocks and grounded on the gravel, and Cady, looking down from his perch, saw her come to an abrupt stop. He saw the three boys jump out of her and haul the boat higher up. Then he realized there was a landing there, and that his cousin Will knew about it and pointed it out. Tom and his companions started after Cady by another route even more difficult than the path the fugitive was follow- ing. Cady eradually neared the top of the gully where it merged into a ravine. Here the rocks had crumbled away and he had to proceed i with caution. The verge of the cliff was fringed with bushes, ‘beneath which stuck out the arm of a tree that bent down and out to the extent of a dozen feet. “ Cady threw his arms over this and hauled his body up on it. His purpose was to stand on it, for that would bring him right among the stoutly-rooted bushes at the top, and then all he had to do was to haul himself up over the edge, and then take to his heels across the slooping ground beyond. From the looks of things the advantage now lay with him, for his pursuers could not accomplish the ascent where they were for ten minutes, and Cady might use that interval to get out of sight. Then something unexpected happened, The tree limb broke under the fugitive’s weight just as he reached up and seized the bushes. ; He dropped a couple of feet below the edge of the cliff and hung there in grim desperation, unable to draw himself up to the top, and certain to fall to his death among the rocks below as soon as his atten gave out and his grip on the bushes relaxed. CHAPTER XI. ‘YOM BUYS A LOT OF MINING SHARES OHEAP. ~ Tom and his two friends heard the crash of the tree limb as ~ it gave way, and looked over at the spot where the fugitive was climbing, expecting to see him disappear over the top of ic ravine. nstead of which they saw fis desperate predicament he was nowt in. “My gracious!” ejaculated Tom. against the cliff and: can’t reach the top. way he’ll fall and be killed.” “We must save him,” said Joe. “Tt’s a question whether we can or not,” replied ' Tom. “Look at him. He's stuck If the bushes ‘give “Help! help! help!” came from Cady, who realiies the ides- By: perate fix he was in. “Come on, fellows, we must try and save him,” aaid Tom. ; ' The three lads hustled to complete their toilsome journey Up ip the face of the cliff. Every moment they expected to hear the crash of Cady’s body sliding down on the rocks, Tom was the first to reach the summit, and he dashed around the edge of the ravine to the spot where his Wall’ Street lenemy hung. Looking down, his gaze encountered the white, despairing features of the bully. - inf “Save me! Save me! 1 will give up the scanugs said Cady, he in a frenzied whisper, for his strength was fast giving out. Tom reached down and seized one of his wrists. , i i “Don't let go, or you. might drag me.over,” he said, “The bei other fellows will be here’ in/a second.” r; Cady had no intention of letting go his arip on the bushes y as long as'he could hold on. « . Tom's grip helped relieve the strain on that arth, and the — young rascal began to feel a slight giimmer of hope. © ur Joe came up, reached down and caught his other wrist. “Now then, give a good pull,” said Tom. 5 They both exerted themselves, and Cady. was hauled up : foot, stil! clinging to the bushes, but Telieved of all strain on : his arms. é “Once more,” shouted Tom, and he and Joe raised Cad: several inches -higher. PAN That was the best they’ could do till win ‘Brown came up, which he did in a few minutes. } “Brown caught Cady by the collar, ‘and then » a united he , ‘ raised the boy fe a level with’ the edge, :
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15... “Now, Cady, let go of the bushes and get a fresh hoid higher, ” said Tom. Lhe boy did sc, one hand at a time. , “Pull with. us when, you feel yourself rising, i aaded Tom. A niinute later the three rescuing lads hauled the imperilled boy over the top of the cliff te safety. The reaction was too much for Cady, and he fainted dead away. , There was no way of getting any water on the top of the cliff, so they had to wait till Cady recovered of himself. To avoid any trouble about the stolen money, Tom went cabden the lad’s pocket as he lay unconscious, and found the old red pocketbook described by Mr. Maslin. “ll open it and count the money in your egrets he said to Will. The pocketbook contained $635 in bills. y “T wonder if Cady really intended to run off with all that money?” said Tom. “Looks as if he did,” said Will. “Why, how would he square himself if he spent it? Mr.’ Mas- lin wouldn’t have stood for such a loss. He would have sent word to Cady’s father, and then there would have been some- thing doing, I should think.” “IT guess there would,” nodded Will. “Lem was crazy to ' gteal that pocketbock. I don’t know what he was thinking about. I guess he didn’t know there was so much money in it.” “But he heard his uncle say there was over $600 in it,” said -Tom, “That was after he had hold of it, and then he didn’t want to give it up. No one actually saw him take the pocketbook out of the hole in the chimney, so maybe he thought the theft couldn’t be proved against him.” “Well, as the case stands he hasn’t made anything out of it, and he came within an ace of losing his life. I’ll take the wallet back to Mr. Maslin, and then Joe and I will finish the ‘day fishing, as we originally intended.” “At this point*Cady recovered his senses and sat up. ‘He looked the worse for his adventure up the cliff. He also looked and felt foolish at the outcome of the affair. Tom didn’t care to taik with him. “Come, Joe, we'll go back to the boat,” he said. They returned to the patch of gravel beach by the route they had reached the top of the cliff, leaving the cousins together. ‘While they were pushing the boat off they saw Cady and Will coming down themselves. They hoisted sail and started,on their return course. Cady and Will reached the Mas slin boat and shoved off, too. They did not follow Tom and his friend, but laid their course for the largest island on the lake. _\Bvidently Cady did not care to face ‘his: uncle | in a hurry after what had happened. Tom sailed the boat back to the Maslin iaadine. and leaving Joe in charge of her, walked up to the house. The damage created by the fire in the chimney, so far as the kitchen was concerned, had been cleared away by Mrs. Maslin and her niece, and that,room looked as Gane and span as it ‘usually did. Mr. Maslin was not at home. His wife said he had gone to the village to see the idle about the chances of catching his nephew in case the three boys failed to overhaul him. 2 ‘om said would not wait for him. '“We caught Cady on the other side, and I took the wallet from him. “Will Brown, and found $635 in it. There it is. husband will find it all right when you give it to him.” ; “why won't you stay and ‘take dinner with us?” asked Mrs, Maslin. “My husband will want to thank you for all you haye done for us this morning. We are satisfied that you and your ; + friend saved the house by your prompt action, and now you have saved the money. and my husband fr ma lot of trouble concerning it.” — | OD Gah much obliged to you for the invitation, but my friend! he said. and I came to the lake from New York to fish. We have lost BA ouple of, hours, and want to start out again right away.” “hen let me put up some lunch for “YOuUs? z ‘ “We have a bundle of sandwiches, a. pie and some teat’ with | a bottle of milk we bought at the hotel, We sha’n’t need any-| ig thing more till we get back.” Well, Be suppose you know best: ack * Not. aD late in the afternoon.” ae do ve expect to: “Why not stop here then and take tea ‘with us? TH ‘have it One-tenth of a cent a share. } Roa = ‘five. oO see 2. 80 x08 will have piety of, time A a a eater are Aworth: more than that.” A SMART NEW YORK BOY, ; } {am offered only $10 for these 10, 000 sh ares, of Yellow ‘Jacket catch the train from the village. My husband or Will can drive you to the station and save you the two-mile walk.” The last suggestion was something of an cbject to’ Tom, so he said he and his friend -would call for tea after returning their boat at the inn wharf. The matter being settled, Tom returned to the landing, and ‘he and Joe started off on their delayed fishing trip. They had a good‘time in one of the havens on the other side, where they caught two strings of fish: They returned to the hotel wharf at a quarter to ‘five, re-- turned the boat and walked to the Maslin house. : aaa old man “was-there and the table spread waiting for) them Mr, Maslin expressed his gratitude for the return of his money, and also thanked the boys for putting out the fire. ‘He offered Tom $5, but the Wall Street. hoy refused to take it. While they were eating supper, Will Brown returned alone: He said Lem was afraid to come back, and he had landed him at a place where he could walk to the next station south © of the village, Mr. Maslin said he was just as well nisaadd that Cady Had ~ ae returned, for he certainly would have given him a good: écture, He said he intended to write to Lem’s mother—his sister— detailing the boy’s rascally act, and requesting that he di@ not visit them any more, After supper the horse and wagon was brought around, ard Will was delegated to drive Tom and Joe to the village. “The two boys left with a cordial invitation to come down and stay over the Fourth/of July, and they proniised to do so if nothing happened to change their minds. They reached New York: about nine that evening, and an hour later entered their lodging-house. Things went on as usual with Tom during the next two weeks, foe market was dull, and business, as a matter of course, slow He did not have to ‘do much rushing about, having Blbaty of time to deliver his messages. One day he called on a broker in the Coddington Building on Broad street. with a note. As he passed, down the corridor on his way to the office, he — saw an open door and heard the sounds of an auctioneer’s voice inside. He stopped a moment and looked in. There was a crowd of people in there, and a man mounted on a table was asking for bids on some article of furniture, That showed an auction sale was.going on. Tom watched for a few minutes, and then went on and ae. livered his note. On his way back to the elevator he entered the room where the sale was going on, and found that the auctioneer was now selling piecemeal the ‘contents of a safe. “Now, gentlemen, what am I offered for this bunch of mining certificates? Mining and Milling Co..of Paradise, Nevada.. Will somebody start it at a dime a share?” i “A dime!” cried a voice. “Why, that’s a busted mine. The stock isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.” “My friend; you must be mistaken,” said the auctioneer, suavely. “Surely such handsome certificates could not be ae solutely valueless.” “That's what they are,” said the voice. i “If they were worth nothing, the late Mr. Risdon would : i I counted the money before your other nephew, hardly lumber up his safe with them.” I guess your | “He probably Kept them on a bare chance he might get : something out of them some day.” a The auctioneer knew the Yellow Jacket shares had no value. It, was his business to have a general idea of the worth ot the stuff he was employed to sell, cA ud, it was his business to get something for nothing | if he | cou ne “Who'll start the ball rolling on these Yellow J acket shares?” 2, “Will somebody s#y a nickel a share?” ass Nobody would do so. j “Four ecents—three, two, one. Who'll give a ‘cont a share? Lites thousand cents, or $100, for this handsome. collection of “engraved certificates?” “T wouldn't Bive $5" for the whole bundle,” voice, ' “I'll give you $10 for the bunch,” said Tom. - . “Ten dollars! Why, it’s the same 2 giving them away. said. i frst Think of it, Why, the vi res Ten thousand shares in all of the Yellow Jacket —
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eo at the right moment,” he said. Lae) \ 16 A SMART } NEW YORK BOY. “What good are ‘the pictures?” asked the voice. “They are splendid specimens of engraving. z “Bah!” cried the voice. “Knock ’em down ‘to the boy and put up something that has a value.” “T am offered $10 for these shares; who will make it Sitst said the auctioneer. Nobody would raise Tom’s bid a nickel. “Ten dollars once—$10 twice—$10 for the third and last time. Sojd to the young man yonder for $10, Step up, pay the money and take away your bargain, I wouldn’t be sur- prised if those shares made your fortune some day.” Tom stepped up to the clerk, passéd over the $10 bill and ‘received the bundle of stock that the mining world had long since regarded as worthless. Tucking it. under his arm, he started back to his office, not: quite sure but he had made a fool] of himself in bidding in the stuff, t ‘ CHAPTER XII. a! AN UNEXPECTED DEMAND FOR YELLOW JACKET. “Can I put this bundle on top of the safe till I go home?” “he asked the cashier when he got back. “Certainly. What have you been investing in?” “A lot of mining shares.” The cashier opened his eyes. , + “I didn’t know you had money to. spare in that: direction. What is the name of the mine?” “The Yellow Jacket.” . The cashier burst out laughing. “Why, that stock isn’t worth anything. The mine has been | dead these two years. Who stuck you on it, and what did you pay?” \ “T gave $10 for 10,000 shares at an auction. is “You can’t lose much. But, frankly, ee stock isn’t worth $1. How came you to buy the stock?” ' Tom told him about the auction. The cashier laughed. © “You were the only easy mark that. hiegpehed into the office | ‘ “T dare say the auctioneer ex- | pected to have to turn that bundle of certificates over to the janitor for waste paper.” “Ten dollars won’t break me,” replied Tom, up against experience. of that during his lifetime.” “That's true enough. Some have pay dearly: for their ex- | T lost a thousand dollars once in real estate when I was a young man, by buying it on the instalment plan—$100— After I was in it to the tune of the. '» thousand, the company of fakirs. that was booming the prop- perience. down and $25 a month; erty busted up, and then it/developed that a trust company > held a blanket mortgage on all the ground. The promoters had paid the sorpaty its interest; but none of the principal. The result: was any longer they quietly threw up the game, the trust company foreciosed on the property, and everybody who bought was stuck like myself, for we had no title deeds to show, the arrangement being that we were only to get our deeds: when we had paid all we owed after the lapse of the years stated in our ‘contract. If you ever wish to buy ‘real estate, don’t do it on : : , contract, unless you know that the sellers are honest and re- sponsible. people who are able to carry out their part of the agreement. Thousands of poor Beonie have been swindled in such real estate deals.” . ‘¥Thanks for the tip, Mr. White. are paste your advice in : ee hat, then I’ll remember it if the time should ever come when I'am tempted to imitate your. example,” said Tom. . Tom took his bundle of worthless stock ROME: with him that | afternoon. / _ After supper he showed, ‘the stock to Joe. » “Where did you get all that, stock?” asked his friend, looking, e the engraved certificate with an envious eye. “Bought it to-day at an auction sale.” 5 “At an auction sale!” cried Joe. “I never heard of stock _ being sold that way before.” _ eee uess it isn’t, as a rule. How much do you suppose I gave ‘for the batch?” ; : “Couldn't guess. I suppose: you must have got it. cheap.” " -. “Pen dollars.” g “A tenth of a cent a share. The stock can’t be, worth much, 4 “It isn’t worth anything, I understand.” Ba ‘ “What did you buy it for, then?” aS die Xe Fost for the fun of the thing. What are you gal leg tales with it?” uf “TI charge it | A person has’to puny a certain amount hen the fakirs found they couldn't hold on’ \ _Taest observers would have. decided that he | “T’ve got on the track of 10,000 more, but ana, (liter i | “With the expectation that it will be wort something Sone day?” “¥ don't know. been so for the last two'years.. Dead mines don’t often come to life. Some day when I own a small house, 1 can paper one of { the garret rooms with the certi ficates as an object lesson.” | “YT guess you can stand the $10.” “Yes. I’m worth over $1,200. ; “And you didn’t have,a cent when you took my place at Harlow’s. “I had fifteen cents.” “You've done mighty well inside of six months.” “T think I have.” ; “You're a smart New York boy.” “Thanks for the compliment. I’ blow you to a show ie morrow night’ for that. Let’s go down to the Cooper Union for an hour or so.’ | Joe was willing, and they went, going into the library and | passing the time till nine o’clock in reading. | Two days after the auction sale a Curb broker named Smythe | calted on the auctioneer who conducted the sale of the dead broker’s ‘effects, “You went over Dickson's effects before you started the sale, | didn’t you?” he said to the auctioneer. “Of course. We always do that,” was the reply. “He had a bunch of mining stock in his safe, I understand?” |. “Yes. I called a broker in to‘look it over and give me an | idea what it was worth. Then I arranged with him to offer it on the Curb at the best figure he could get for it, which he did, ,and it was worked off that way.” | “Didn’t Dickson have 'a bundle of Yellow tis ee cates?” | “Yes. There were 10,000 in the lot. They were worthless, however, for the mine had gone out of business a od while ago. ” |. “Yes, I know. What did you do with them?” “I put them up for a bid on the chance that I might get a6 | for the lot.” “Did any one buy them in at that figure?” “A boy bid $10 for the package, and no one tried to raise his offer, so he got the stuff. ) the bundle would have gone to the janitor for waste paper.” “A boy bought that stock, you say?” “Yes—a well-dressed young fellow. He looked like a broker’ 3 | messenger.” “Did you take his name?” Pen (oe ay had no use for hissname. for me.” “Td like to see him. for that stock; maybe $25 or $30. “Tm sorry he didn’t come to the auction, then. he want with dead stock?” } “I couldn’t tell you,” said Smythe, evasively. to do without that sioc “You are about’ the district a good bit, aren’t you?” \ “Yes.” “Tf you should happen to see the boy, f guess you ay recog nize him again, send him around \to’ my office. apts is ee card.” “All right,” answered the auctioneer, who did not think he. was likely to run across the lad again: When Smyth got back to his office he found the man Hey who had commissioned him to buy any Yellow Jacket: ne could find. He was dressed in a free-and-easy style, with a steer | wide-brimmed, light-colored hat. It was easy to see that he was a stranger, r, in New York, and had come from Ag ) West. eae “What luck?” he: asked the broker. i) | “Lve picked up 20,000 shares for you, but I had te give a See cent.a share for the “stuff,” said Smythe, who really hadn’t given a fourth of that, having got some of it) for ee he friends who were tired of having it around. “All right,” said the visitor, who had given his Soren »Harrison. aes of the party; _They will cost Shae a cont a sh. , guess. vie é tay, I) pay it,” said Porven, promptly. 133 } BT g - none of my siness, of course, Mr. Havitaon, but it seems strange that you should want ‘80 many shares of a dead ‘stock. Heve OM any idea that the ne mine is going to come t His $10 bill was enough Our cashier says the mine is a dead: one—~ If he hadn’t come along I guess - if know a man who would give $20 for What does _ “As it would be‘hard to find that boy now, I guess he’ Ns ges i vo ye en, ee a eee Ses a Seva
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‘A SMART NEW YORK BOY. - ee “It's a problem,” Mr. Smythe. “I am buying up the stock Hast here, just as my partner is buying it up out West. Our object is to seeure control of the property with the view of going over it more thoroughly than it eyer has been worked. Somé of the mines in the immediate neighborhood are doing pretty well, and I and my partner are willing to risk some money in a dead one, as we can ‘t aiford to get in on a live one to the extent we would wish.” “T call it a rather risky venture,” “It is, but nothing ventured nothing won. mines that have/comeback to life.” “I can count them on the fingers of one hand.” “Well, try and get hold of that 10,000 you mentioned. be in to-morrow.” Harrison paid for the stock Smythe had secured for him, and carrigd it away to his room in the Astor House where he was stopping. ' Smythe grinned after he left, for he had made $150 in addi- tion to his commission. Some traders would have considered that taking advantage of a customer, but Smythe didn’t look at it that way. All was fish that came to his net. He hoped to trace the stock the auctioneer had sold and make $50 more on that. Tom Duncan was returning from an errand down Broadway at about the time Lew Harrison, the Westerner, reached the corner of the same street and Wall, He started across with his bundle of Yellow Jacket under his arm, not seeing the express wagon that =e bearing down on him, ’ The driver and Tom both saw his peri and yelled at him. The former tried to rein in, but he saw he was bound to hit the man. That is, he ould have done so but for Tom, who sprang forward and pulled the Westerner back just-in time to save him. He dropped his bundle, though, and the wheels going over it ‘tore off. the wrapper and exposed the nature of the contents. There have been I will CHAPTER XIII, “THE WES'TERNER. ieee kind of you, young man,” said, Harrison, when he realized what he had escaped. “I sha’ n't forget” it.” “You're welcome,” replied Tom. The boy stepped forward and rescued the man’s Dannie from the dirt. He was surprised to see that it contained a lot of Yellow Jacket certificates, “Here’s your bundle, sir. to sell that stock?” “No. I’ve just bought it, ” “What, Yellow Jacket! I’m working for a broker, and I’ve heard that Yellow Jacket isn’t worth anything at all. It’s a dead mine.” “Yes, it’s pretty dead at present, but it might not stay dead.” “T wish it would wake up myself.” “Why so?” . “Because I have a bunch of it in my trunk ‘at home ay “You have?” cried Harrison. “Yes, ” ba _ “How many shares have you?” . “Ten thousand,” ~*Tl buy, them from you.” “The whole ivt?” “Yes.” “What will you give for them?” aad “What do you want?” - 4 -. *You’re doing the bidding.” “Tl give you a cent a share.” “That's $1002” a“ Yes. ” ri “No, I don’t think I’ ve take your offer, m vhesitate to make a hundred dollars clear?” |. ine You admitted. that the ‘mine is pretty ‘dead, but said it ~ . might not stay dead. He ti m about that mine.” “Nonsense!” “Tt doesn't look like nonsense. when you have just bought a bie) bundle of the shares, and are anxious to hand me $100 for 10 000 shares more. useless things. At any Tate you don't Jock i ‘TTL beta doller yor re: The mothe West. Pes Xl, adind: tat,” Mase Tye Lae fae like that kind of a Been down in Wall Street trying tomer who is looking for some of that stock.” “You say yourself the stock is worth nothing. Why do you] pow. I oe you have some inside informa-| trunk,” People don’t throw their money away om} you can hand him the package.” Adin* t itd hat $0.2” | i -- arr “Aro you from Goldfield, "Bullfrog. Pitnalce: or——-” j “Tm from Paradise.” “*T thought so. That's where the Yellow Jacket mine is. You know something new about that mine, and you've come Kast to buy the stock up before the news gets out to i gen- eral public, Own up now. “Nonsense! ” “You said that before: but you ais t mean it. I suppose you don’t want to admit anything to me because f work in Wall Street, and you think I might interfere with you. Well, I won't say any more. Good-by.” , “Hold on a moment,” said the Westerner, seizing him by the arm. | iq “What do you want?” : “Ym stopping at the Astor Housé. Will you take dinner with me there this evening? I owe you something for the service you rendered me.” “You don’t owe me anything. You're welcome to; the ser- © vice,” “I think differently. If you'll meet me in the rotunda at — half-past six we'll go to dinner, and I'll tell you something . wort about Yellow Jacket that will make you glad you met me.” Tom hesitated, then the thought of learning something about the mine, as well as having a good dinner at the Westerner’s expense, decided the question, and he accepted the invitation. “Very good. I'll expect to see you at half-past six. By the way, you have not told me your name.” “Tom Duncan. What is yours?” 6 “Lew Harrison.” “I'll be on hand at 6.30, Mr. Harrison. Good-by.” They separated, and Tom returned to his office. On his next out-door run he was recognized by the auctioneer who sold him the stock. “Hello, young man,” said the auctioneer, stopping him. “Did you want to see me?” said Tom. “Yes. You don’t remember me, I guess.” “No, though I’ve seen you somewhere lately.” “You certainly have: You saw me yesterday.” “Where?” “Tm the auctioneer who sold you that Yellow Jacket aie ” “So you are. Think you stuck me good, T suppose?” erinned Tom. “No. The certificates were worth what you paid for them. me “Think so, do you?” AGE “Yes. If you want to make a profit’ on your bargain I can” put you In the way of doing it.” pal “How ?’ f “Call on Broker Smythe. Here’s his card. He ne Nour “But I’ye heard that the mine is dead.” “That fact needn’t worry you.” { ‘ “How much profit can I make on that stock?” . “Smythe said he’d give about $25 for the 10) 900 shares.” “How came you to know that he wants it?” ) “He spoke to me about it. He knew that the broker howe, x effects I sold out had the stock,” i “Why didn't he attend the auction and buy it?” “Probably he didn’t want it then.” “All right. I'll drop around and see him, maybe.” That closed the interview, and Tom went on his way. After Tom, left the office for the day he called on Kibo" Smythe. — He sent his name \in and was admitted. “I’m the party who bought the 10,000 shares of Yellow Jacket | at auction yesterday. The auctioneer met me this afternoon and said you wanted to buy the stock. Is that‘'so?” rates » “That depends on what you want for it,” said Smythe, cau- tiously, “The stock has really no value, and I wouldn’t Myself give a dollar for all you’ve bought, but I have'a customer who wants 10,000 shares for Some reason, and I’m buying for him, You gave $10 for the certificates. Well, Vl give ~you $20.” a8) “IT will consider your liberal offer and let you know to-mor- " gaid Tom. i “T'll make it $25 if you'll sell now.” be “I couldn’t sell now, for the certificates are uptown in my % “That's all right. I'l take your word if you promise to bring ‘ | them down in the morning. You are working for whom?” 5 “Richard Harlow, broker. “T will send $25 over to you in the morning, Py; my doy, and »"No.” said) Tom, 71 haven't asrectl to acce pt your “offer may decide net to take it at al G0 > f e eeahote else Will’ ie the stocks trout you. - Te wi on b
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18 A SMART NE deadwood on your hands. it $30.” Tom wouldn’t. He had only called on Smythe out of curiosity. All he would say was that he would consider the matter and let Smythe know, and with that doubtful arrangement he took _ his leave. Better take me. up and I will call CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION. Tom called at the Astor House at half-past six and found the Westerner waiting for him in the rotunda. “I’m glad to see that you are on hand to the minute,” said Harrison. “Nothing like promptness in keeping an engage- ment.” ns “That’s the way I do business,” said Tom. “Do you know I’ve taken quite a fancy to you, Duncan?” “T guess I can’t find fault with that, sir,” laughed Tom, A a ight have saved my life for all I know when you 'pulled me: away from that big loaded wagon. There is no , Saying how I would have come out had I gone under the |. , Wheels. It would certainly have meant a spell in the hospital if nothing worse. Naturally, I am yery grateful to you.” * “Td feel the same way, I guess, if our positions were re- “versed. But that is past and gone now, so let us forget it,” “I shall not forget it right away, and I am going to pay you back by telling you a secret about the Yellow Jacket mine. Of course, I shall expect you to keep it to yourself, and I guess you will see the advisability of doing so when you hear the facts. Now let us go to dinner.” The meal was excellent, and Harrison confined his conversa- tion to the city and what he had seen of the metropolis since he arrived a week previous. He made no mention at all about the mine, and Tom did not eonsider it his place to bring it up. Dinner over, they walked out into the rotunda, again. “Have a cigar?” said the Westerner, walking toward the | elgar stand. “Thank you, but I don’t smoke,” replied Tom. “Not even a pipe or cigarettes?” : “No, sir. _ for boys, nor for men if indulged in to too great an extent.” “I think you are right. Men drink and smoke more than is good for them, as a rule. What one man can stand that way another can't. If every ;man studied his limit and stuck to it the practice wouldn’t bd so bad; but I never met the man yet who could truthfully say how much of either his system could stand without injury. So the man who takes chances with himself, and most men do one way or another, is bound to re-. gret iin the end, even if he lives cut what seems to be his ‘allotted span. Let’s go up to my room.” They took an elevator up to the filth floor and walked down oe corridor to the Westerner’s room. .. “Dake a seat,” said Harrison, after turning up the gas. “Now we'll talk about Yellow Jacket. You say you have 10,000 shares of the stock?” ; “Yes, sir.” “When did you get it?? y “Yesterday afternoon, at the auction sale of a deceased ‘proker’s effects.” "You got it cheap, I suppose?” “Wor next to nothing, or I should not have bought it.” “You knew that it was‘-known as a dead mine?” “I knew yery little about it at the time, I guessed it couldn’ t be worth much, or it wouldn't be offered for a song. I bought it simply on the chance that perhaps the mine might, ' in the course of time, come back.” _ “Then you made a ‘icky venture. The mine is not as dead as it has been credited, though the fact naturally was not a ‘known. My partner, Jack Hinton, and myself are prospectors and mining experts.. We have made lucky. strikes in our time, “and have lost our grip on them owing to one reason or another. . During, the last year we have been devoting our attention to layed-out mining prospects on the chance of finding some- thing in them. That’s the kind of property one can buy oa ‘cheap, and we were looking for cheap propositions, for we had rery litle money to invest in anything. Six months ago we tackled the Yellow Jacket. At the end of two months the _ prospect was not encouraging, and I proposed to chuck it up ud try elsewhere. Jack persuaded mé to stick a while longer. He seemed to’ feel in his bones that we would make a strike.|_ ree weeks rolled away, and then yoo dream came ae We struck ore, and rich ore, too.” avs cried Dor. wit I don’t drink either. I don’t believe either is good W YORK BOY. Se eee ee eS “We did. We said nothing, of course, but we followed the Z strike up, and saw that the owners of the Yellow Jacket had a good thing. When we started prospecting in dead mines we always protected ourselves with-an agreement or option which gave us the privilege to purchase the control of the property at a stated price within a certain period of time. In the case of the Yellow Jacket the term was six months, We took up the option at the end of seventeen weeks, securing something over a half interest. The rest of the interest was divided up among over a hundred thousand stockholders, practically all of«whom regarded their stock as a dead issue. We proceeded to buy that stock up for a mere bagatelle. A few became sus- picious and refused to part with their shares for the price we | offered. We would have given more, but dared not, for that would have set the tongues of the mining world wagging. However, we now own seventy-five per cent. of the stock, and are willing to let it go at that. The other twenty-five per cent., including yourself, will be the lucky ones, and we'll divide the result of the discovery with ourselves.” “Then the Yellow Jacket is coming to life?” said Tom. “Tt will be a very live mine a Month from now.” “And what will my bunch of shares be worth?” “Sixty days from now you ought to be’able to sell the stock for a nickel, if net more.” “That would be $500,” said Tom, after a rapid mental calcu- lation. “You would be foolish to do it, though. I expect to see the price go to a dollar inside of a year.” “A dollar! Then my shares would be worth $10, 000. ° “Certainly. And ‘if the mine becomes) a regular dividend payer, you would be able in time to get Owe ‘or three dollars a share for it. The par. value is $10.” “That was, a lucky purchase T made, Broker Smythe offered me $20 for the stock this afternoon, and raised his offer to $20. ” o “Smythe of the Caxton Building?” “Ves, ” “He has been picking up the stock for me. The package I had under my arm when we met on Broadway came from his | office.” “How much did he get for you altogether?” “Thirty thousand shares. f “Ts there much more besides my own floating around here?” “Not a whole lot. I believe only 50,000 shares were sold in the Hast. Now, my young friend, when we reorganize the com- pany, as my partner and I intend doing right away, we will elect you one of the directors. is “But I’m only a boy.” “That will be all right. .You will vote your stock in connec- © tion with ours, so that there will never be any doubt about our absolute control of the mine.” “ATL wight. T’ll stand in with you, for it will be to my in- ok terest.” “Pom remained till eleven with his new friend, and then went to his room in great glee, but he said nothing to Joe about his fresh turn of luck. Next morning he read in’ the papers about the arrest of the chief of the counterfeiters, and several of his associates, in- elucing Perry Bates. ; The men were brought on to New York and jailed. < The Third Degree worked on Bates brought out the connec: tion of the Owls gang with the counterfeiting business, and the buach was arrested at the saloon one day. i Ultimately, the counterfeiters were convicted and sent to the’? iM penitentiary. Shortly after their conviction Tom. received a reward of $5,000 from the Government. ; Before that happened the Yellow Jacket mine came back to. life officially, and he received an offer of $1,000 for his book from Broker Smythe, which he refused. x Three months later he could have sold it. for $2, 500. And the prospect was it would go much higher. ‘Tom could therefore consider himself worth between $3, 000 All of this he had made himself, in addition to his wages, during his first year in Wall Street, wie proved Wes was: a 2 smart New York boy. Ss ‘Next week’s issue Will contain “MARK MILTON'S $ MINE; oe OR, A SCHOOLBOY’S - INHERITANCE.” he eee ac) POSTAL FOR OUR FREE CATAL
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 19. CURRENT NEWS. - » What is surely a record for speedy loading : is that held by the GreatyLakes steamship “\Villiam E. Corey,” which ' When at fo, Wate, Minnesota, took 10,100 tons of iron ore into her hold in 28 minutes. The “Corey” is of the hopper bottom type of construction. An inflammable dart for use by aeroplanes was tested in France by experts with satisfactory results.. The dart earries gasoline which explodes on contact. Its purpose is to set fire to dirigible balloons or buildings. Three of | ‘ the darts were dropped from an aeroplane 600 feet and found their mark. James and. George Belknap, brothers, of Rollette, N. D., and suitors for the same. girl, played poker to de- terming which should have a “clear field” to the young -iwoman’s affections. James won, and he and the girl, Miss Jessie Peltier, made arrangements to be married. When James returned home George was absent, but’ he thought nothing of it until an investigation disclosed the fact that the loser and the girl had eloped to Canada to be married. In his testimony before the House Naval Affairs Com- mittee, Secretary Daniels advocated the construction at the navy yard, Norfolk, of a drydock of the internal dimen- sions of the Panama Canal, namely, 1,000 feet long, 110 feet wide, with a depth of 40 feet over the sill. Such a dock would accommodate the largest dreadnought that - will ever be built for the United States Navy. That the dimensions are not too great is shown by the fact that some nations, at the present time, are building warships Pyle are considerably over 700 feet in aan John Enos, who guided the J bia C. Fremont expedition through the Rocky mountains in 1846, is going blind at _ ithe age of 103. He lives in a tepee on the Wind River ‘ reservation near Fort Washakie, Wyo., and despite his “age is robust. The failure of his sight, however, is caus- ing him acute anguish and it is feared that he will not long survive the time when he is totally blind. Enos, - whose father was a French trapper, was living in a tepee on the Wind River at the spot where he now ‘lives, when, in 1846, John C. Fremont and his exploring expedition arrived. ca j at : Charles Aldrich, of Freeport, ‘Nv a Se avvaiting with interest the “opinion of New York experts concerning ithe - yalue of antique silver he unearthed on his premises bor- guns ‘East Rockaway Creek. The silver was in a tin box and buried several feet below the surface at the base of vi small cedar tree, which Aldrich had dug around prepara- tory to moving. The box. was corroded and the silver “blackened by age. In the collection were spoons, knives, and forks of a rare old design. Thi ds believed ¢ the silver set| al pate is Bae have been buried ‘dgring ap | when they start to chase a oe out vf a baipiess > says Tee. : Three crooks are picking bird shot from their systems to-day, made cynics forever by an experience they had in the Susquehanna Railroad yards in Rochelle Park, N. J. They drove up to the railroad coal pockets and commenced removing journals from freight cars when August Schnei-- der, a watchman, interrupted them. When they threat- ened him with a revolver, Schneider, in quayering accents, pleaded with them to leave the cars alone. “It means my ob, boys,” he. moaned.. “You’re a good guy,” they said, ‘and to show you ve re all right we’ll'be back here with some booze for you.” Schneider sprinted home and got his shotgun. The three reappeared as they had promised, one of them carrying a quart bottle. Schneider waited until they were lined up effectively when he a the trigger. * Oddly enough, in the persons of Charles Bender and ~ James Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian School has the uaique distinction of having as its products two members of the rival baseball clubs that fought for the world’s champion- ship. One is now being acclaimed as the greatest pitcher — in the world, while the other is undoubtedly the world’s greatest athlete. All of Carlisle’s stars for the last fifteen years have been trained by Glenn 8. Warner. In addition to Thorpe and Bender, Mike Balenti learned baseball at — Carlisle. He is now coaching football at St. Louis Uni- versity, having played baseball with the St. Louis Ameri- cans. LeRoy played league ball since leaving Carlisle, while Johnston, another Carlisle product, pitched for Cin- cinnati. Frank Jude was with the National League in Cincinnati, but was retired. St Ee J. L: Woodward, a farmer, living near Clarendon, Texas, bes vouches for the absolute truthfulness of a snake story that borders closely on the unbelievable. .While-Woodward’s: _ ~ sons and another lad were hunting rabbits they chased one into a prairie-dog hole near the home of W. H. Peters. br Using the forked-stick method of extracting rabbits froin’ sy holes, they brought the animal forth, but with it came a rattlesnake. This reptile they had no more than killed # until another one gave evidence of his presenee. ‘This “— one also was killed, and the boys left the spot. . Next day they returned for further explorations. From that hole ok they took seventeen rattlesnakes, eight coachwhips, five tee builatanes, and one water dog. “The rattlers,” said Wood- ward, “varied in size from nine inches in length, with a 3 button, attached, to five feet long, as big as a man’s. arm, with nine wattlos and a button. Some of the other shake Be ‘were more than six feet long, and large accordingly.’ a It # has been said that no other reptile will hibernate with : rattlesnake, but this theory has been disproved by. this» : markable discovery. Tt is also disproved that a bullsnake will kill rattlers. “Rabbit chasers hereafter should | bees prepared for something warmer than a rabbit oe
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FAME BRD FORTUNE WEEKLY. CHEEK AND CHANCE — TRAVELING ON HIS WITS By ED. KING a (A SERIAL STORY) i CHAPTER XIII (Continued), ° ye He was decided to make no attempt to.recover any part of the treasure at the present time. It. was his best plan to continue the hunt but a short time longer and. then _ return to civilization. He knew how to make, his way to the. spot now with ease. He could mature plans later on for recovering the _ gold. He would part with Oxley, and the next time return - alone. As winter was coming on, this might not be until spring. In the meantime he must continue traveling on his wits, and at the same time keep a lookout. for the lost heir, as Dr. Markham’s will requested. Oxley had the evening meal, ready when Andy and Fraser reached camp, ‘The guide seemed to readily fra- _ternize with the stranger, and the latter put on very ; E leasing manners. \ Seated about the camp fire, sipping coffee and eating f juicy yenison, Fraser told’ many wonderful | stories of former hunting trips. _In the course of his conversation he suddenly said: “One season T ran across a man who used to be rated in this region as a deer hunter, We struck the trail of a bull moose up near the northwest carry, and tracked him to a big yard, where there were others, ve think his name w as——” in SE re him a significant glance, cried: “Markham? Why, he was my employer. chap. He died but a short time since.” “Dead?” gasped Fraser. “The old doctor dead?” “Yes, ” replied’ Andy./ child, and 80 ies ‘as known waly money enough to bury him,’ 5 ; Fraser contracted his eyebrows He’ did not look at Andy, who had turned a bit pale. ‘i pacaret is queer,” he said. “Markham was a man of eat wealth. Who was with him in his fad cs er was,” said’ Andy, quietly. ae ‘Fraser. turned to the young outcast. Oh,” he said, xing a penetrating gaze upon him: “Did ay ‘nothing of any property of his, or its disposition race : el. was not in ‘the room when Dr. ‘Markham died,” re- Fine oa YDr. Markham, if Oxley looked at Andy, and: before the latter could give | him. “And he left not a chick ral. neat Ne through the clothing and other effects. tha fire. {seemed to.meditate an approach. In his. ee hand ait. |tered the keen blade of: a, knife. Does he mean to kill: ash? i et ae “Nor was anyone ote. ds! was found dead ; ; rigtat ‘ ay 5 Ss ve “You ate wrong,” replied Andy. “He told me what | disposition to make of his effects a short while before. They sold for barely enough to bury him.” There was silence. Andy felt, as if the stranger was | looking him aa and through. But he, cept his Beige: e well. “Oh, well,” moment to me. as you might say. hirh.” a a Then, to Andy’s relief, the subject was changed. .Praser: — proved a rare entertainer. He sang songs and told stories about the camp fire until a late hour. f ns a » When it became time to retire Oxley rolled hineelt 3 up in his blanket and was at once sound pee pe apparently did the same. But Andy could not sleep. Try as he would te Woo. the gentle’ goddess, ‘she ‘would not come to his embrace, After awhile, however, he dropped off into a sort of half conscious, trancelike state, Reg How long he lay thus he never knew. A sound near mer him woke him entirely, and he opened his eyes without moving. The light of the camp fire bcd illumined the yi vicinity. ay And by it, he saw that which gave ha a era state t3 and at the same time held him spellbound. iN Fraser, the stranger, was moving about the camp noise- lessly. He seemed to be searching among the effects of the campers, and now thoroughly argaee ae watched said Fraser, lightly, *‘it is a Snaittaol ariel Markham was a singular man: Eccentric, I am sorry he has gone, for T liked ‘Silently and, swittly. the. young outcast saw him ‘go ° Again and sori he went over them apparently Ae a eet: ait. den Andy’s blood. grew. cold. gest Fie The stranger turned and: ‘glanced dike the fore by His eyes glistened like burning ‘coals,’ and he “Heavens!” muttered Andy, with horrible fascination. Then with a powerful ‘effort ily hale 4 move ae doubtless. was’ his salvation as well: as res oF cee ee
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. Se TE ige Mestethocminciomenac? ginetnes iteunbeatos scr hese miner tse: wecws bomeiweamensnsta Wamarsm ns arena sass yg manana CHAPTER XIV. OUT OF THE woons. Andy sprang up and grasped Oxley by the shoulder. He shook him, and the guide opened his eyes stupidly. “Quick, get up!” whispered Andy. “If you don’t want to be murdered in your sleep, get up!” In an instant Oxley was wide awake. feet. . “What’s the matter?” he asked, sharply. “The stranger 6 “Where is he?” Gone !? Oxley looked about him in amazement. “Gone without ceremony?” he asked. queer chap. Did he wake you?” “He has been through our effects, and if he hasn’t: taken all our valuables we are lucky,” reclared- Andy. Then ' he recited the scene which'he had ihe aaa Oxley lis- tened with interest. “We'd better investigate,” he said. Both now began to search the camp and vicinity. But not a trace of Fraser was to be found. Oxley was skeptical as to the murdezous intentions of the unknown, and said: . “He'll show up again. Probably he went out, to stalk a deer, by. ” ‘ But Andy did not share this assumption, 'though he said “nothing. He had arrived at a most startling conclusion. He remembered that Darius Smith was of light) com- plexion and very red hair. To be sure Fraser was the ‘opposite of this, but \it would have been easy for Smith to disguise himself. Andy recalled the tracking of him to the hiding place ' _ of the treasure by Fraser, his searching questions in regard | ~ to Dr. Markham) and his ransacking of the se effects | ‘and mysterious disappearance. _ “Sam Fraser is no other than Darius Smith in dis- guise,” he muttered. will, which IT have in the silken pouch about my neck. He hoped to find it in my effects. That is why he came here alone. Not finding it, had I not been awake——” The possible consequences were fearful | to consider. That both he and Oxley might have been “murdered in their sleep he felt sure, for Smith would hesitate at no crime to gain his ends. ate Tt was an experience which Andy never forgot.’ He’! oe that he had a deadly foe to contend with, and that he must always gra’ pple with him in the dark. Smith knew of the existence of the treasure, and ‘was ' bound to learn its hiding ane Andy: alone stood ' ‘in his” 3°, He sprang to his “Well, he’s a 3 Andy shivered, me Sur ‘boy eee elected upon ‘all this che Se aiid a’ re strange sensation. It almost seemed as if there was a fear- | aL almost in the shape of a fore ohanaceed Pa aa w! gold. ti al ost willing to let it. lie tone in, ois resting seemed to him that it could es be lng up mI aw ful consequences. Ps: le half regretted shaving acquired the my) He'll be back with a haunch of veniso ip and | Sia lmet Dr. Markham. It had brought. a puee load upon his shoulders. Thus he felt for awhile. But presently te elasticity of youth came back, and he was resolved upon a new plan of action. First he was resolved to leave the woods. Knowing now . for a certainty that Darius Smith was shadowing him, he 'was desirous of throwing him off the track. So he called Oxley and said: “I’m going to pack up and start ib Molunkus to-day.” “Eh?” exclaimed Oxley, in, surprise. “We haven't got the moose yet.” \ “J can’t help it. Another season I may return. this time.” Oxley inclined his head in-assent. “All right—you’re the boss. You think Molunkus is ‘the nearest point for us to strike, do you?” “It is the mouth of all Aroostook roads. Thence we can return’ to’ ‘Bangor, and—then I rate find a job.” - - Oxley’s face fell. “That means the same for me,” fe said. keep me in your employ?” “T cannot: afford it.” “Then the old doctor really left you nothing ?” “T have not two hundred dollars to my name,” replied , ‘Andy. “I am not as well off as when I first went to work for Dr. Markham. Once more I shall be traveling on my _ T have important matters to attend to. T have had hunting enough ° “You will vot ” | wits.” Oxley henna exceedingly glum. Andy noted this; ad ‘|understood that the fellow did not credit his statement. This, however, made no difference to Andy in his plans, The camp effects were packed up and carried by: pack- . ing to the banks of the river, where the canoe was found, land thence they journeyed down the river on the way, to i ; Molunkus. But when night settled down over the’ BY, ‘woods, : Andy slept, but, little and kept one eye open for trouble. * For he could not get rid of the idea that the villain Darius ‘Smith might be following them. ‘But Smith did not again;show up. They reicad the backwoods town of Molunkus in safety. Thence by stage: they reached Oldtown, and proceeded to Bangor by rail. H Andy could not help a mental review of the incidents... which had befallen since his first arrival in that city on the.» | Penobscot. He was then. without money, a stowaway from: ns Caroline Jonas, and his ‘only friend was Jason Bent. In spite of Bent’s record and his blighted career, > ey still felt toward him a sense of the deepest a ahaa Te, {Bia he owed much of his present success, He strolled down to the wharves. The Caroline tinea was no longer there, but there were other. vessels, and as he ree . watched the crews engaged in their duties something of a, Mee: longing came upon him to go to sea. He refldtted, however, that. this was. beyond all. pose: ing @ spiritual protest from the old’ doctor’s grave itself. ihe aS. aways aide and, hana ey the vets. bility, He had. assumed the task given him by Dr. Mark- . oie ham, and to have slighted it would have seemed like bring-. -
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nome Salt _naily came tumbling from branch to branch and was dead -and Oro Rebéll, farmers, near McAfee, 22 BSS FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FACTS WORTH READING BEAR HUNT IN NEW JERSEY. A few days ago farmers of Vernon and»residents of New Milford notified Sheriff Maines at Newton, N.. J., that. a bear from the mountains, near Wawayanda Lake, was, terrorizing the town by raids night and day on barn- yards, and now and then frightening women and children from the highways. ‘The Sheriff advised them to hunt the bear down and. kill it. William Griffs of New Milford and William Jamison got together a hunting party of many farmers and with twenty dogs be- gan the hunt on Friday morning. The dogs struck the trail of the bear in a mountain near McAfee and pursued it down the mountain side into a swamp, where they treed A fusillade was immediately begun and the bear fi- when it struck the ground. The carcass was taken to New Milford, where the hunt- _ ers gathered toward evening at a tavern and had a jolly finish to a day they will long remember. CAN'T STOP HATPIN EVIL. The police are beginning to believe that la belle Paris- ienne is invincible. ‘T'wice- has the Prefecture issued a stern edict against unprotected hatpins, but the Parisienne merely smiles, shrugs ‘her shoulders, ss often bristling like a hedgehog. To Prefect Hennion was first. trusted the task of re- drophobia. buking careless hatpin wearers, but, although he had he- ‘5 which has been introduced acts as a preventive to bone taint, completely remoying the specific or animal heat from the fish to be cured. Instead of salting, sun drying or shipping the fish in ice or refrigerating cars, the fish are dumped into a tank holding sea water which has been filtered through four \cylinder-like tanks containing Willow charcoal and screens lto remove the noxious gases and foreign substances. ‘Next, brown sugar is placed in the tank holding the fish to serve as a gerihieide for’ such organisms as may be active at freezing temperature. Then by refrigeration the tem- perature is lowered to 10 deg. Cent. ‘below zero, during which 'time 16.1 per cent. salt is added to prevent ice formation and to assist the formation of a thin protec- tive coating over the fish themselves. Having allowed the fish to remain in this treatment for two hours they are_ ready for shipment, removed from the tank, and placed in the Pgs tas or barrel to await teasieporiation| to market. A QUEER CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. ay _ That hydrophobia can be caught from a mad dog with- out his biting or even touching the victim has just been — proved in a suburb’ of Budapest, Hungary. <A small boy was bitten by a neighbor's dog. The dog was at once cap- tured and. examined, because in Europe the authorities are goes her way,! very much more careful in preventing rabies than in the United States. Examination gave reason to suspect, hy- — The dog was killed, which would have aroused a storm of sentimental opposition in’ America: Micro- — _ eome the terror of tlie Apaches, he failed ignominiously scopical investigation proved the doctor's suspicions to ‘be. to bring about the slightest change in the Parisiennes’ | dangerous habit. ~ ‘For a few days after the order was issued the younger » and more energetic policemen produced their notebooks and took the names and addresses of fair offenders, but a smile disarmed them and people remained in as great danger as before. This week M. nh made a new rule. Since the majority of the gouged and lacerated cheeks occurred in| the Underground or in omnibuses, he ordered the guards to refuse admittance to all women with unprotected hat- oe of ea pins, but the subway guards, who are reputed to be the most heartless of men living, proved too gallant. Inquiry at headquarters show that not a single report of such exclusion has been made, although in every train the "gags aman are pray visible. A XBW FISH. CURING METHOD. | right, and the boy was sent to the Pasteur Institute for * aulicrabies treatment, - After inoculations of the preven- tive serum for seventeen days the child was returned to his parents evidently out of danger. So far the case pro- — sented nothing novel. But the day after the boy’s return — his mother developed symptoms. of hydrophobia and was ; removed to a hospital. There she died, as is almost. in- | variably the case when the serum is not administered _ long before symptoms appear. The question arose as to how the mother became infected. The boy was obviously well when he returned, for he has remained so ever since, - Also, the symptoms appeared in the mother too soon to have come from such a later source. It was sug. ggested: that she had kissed the boy before he left for the hos- pital. This could not infect her, as. the. rabies. ‘microbe — had not time.to have spread over the: boy’s system. The _ ‘mother had not come in contact with the dog. or even : seen it: At last it was found that the mother on the da - A method has recently been introduced in Halifax, of the biting had sewn up the rent im the hoy’s. trouser is Nova Scotia, which promises to revolutionize the fish in- dustry wherever carried on to any considerable extent, says Vice Consul General Eugene M. Lamb. % This process is based upon the theory that! putrefaction h is ia caused by bone taint, due! to. the fact that caused by the dog’s teeth. She had wet the thread in lips after passing it through the cloth, thus nenyteniat the rabies ‘Taiderobes left by the dog’s teeth to her mot and into her system. In spite of such cases as this ar ‘statistics from every alae city. oy the w rid, there 2
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. - _TEN-DAY ISLAND Cote THE SECRET OF OLD 33 . By GASTON GARNE ae ae CHAPTER JIT (Continued). — “Yes. That was his promise. to-night. Thank heavens, he has kept his word !” “We can escape!” cried John Jacks, roused to garnets asm. at last. i “Then if we do the rest follows,” replied Mr. Mackin- tosh. “Boy, what I tell you is true. I know where there isa treasure buried which will make both of us worth 5 millions.” ° % ‘ “Ts or was! >» said John Jacks. isa long time.” ; y “Yes, yes! I know, I know! But it ig there still. I am sure of it, No, don’t ask me where, for I will not ~ tell until we have passed beyond these walls forever. Now, _pake up that boy ; ; of course he must go with us, since he is here. Quick! ‘There isn’t a moment to be Tost! Tr fasten the ladder to the bed.” It was amusing to see Joe’s staring eyes, when John Bracks aroused him, and he beheld Old 33 in the room. He entered right into the spirit of the plan, however. Tt could not have been otherwise, for 4 in Joe’s eyes what- ever John Jacks did was right. if _ Having secured the ladder to the rounds of the iron bedstead, Mr. Mackintosh threw it out of the window with little ndise as possible. : It dropped down into the water, and then as he looked t John Jacks began to feel for the first time that there really a chance for their escape. thought so, too. ay, Johnny, we can do it! med, “Hurry up and go down.” ese Softly! Softly!” said the old convict, ‘There’s many nee for a slip yet. Are you dees John Jacks?” / AN ready, sir.” “Phen. go, and may good luck attend you,’ You will come next, an ies es, yes! Go now!” he boys had dressed tideisie es by this time, of course, nd John Jacks threw: is degs out of the window and down the Jadder, whicl: hore lis eg tee ae med to be very Gye | one keen glance toward a vertain re a little ong the wall, which opened int ‘a room used by fayton - i a boat- house, he p “Remember, tty years We can do i !” he ex- It was to be put there| (A SERIAL STORY) ged as into} 7 4 \ The old convict was there looking down at him. He. waved his hand, and then John Jacks saw his legs come out of the window. “Oan he do it? the hoy. lis heart was in his mouth as he watched Old 33 de- . sceittl. It was pitiful to see the old man’s form tremble, to watch his feet move wildly this way and that as he tried to get them upon the rounds. At every moment John Jacks thought he must surely fall, but he did niet; and at last he reached the boat and sank down in the stern more dead than alive. “Pree! Free at last!” he murmured. “Free after fifty years !” si Joe came down the ladder like a. monkey, plece forward. “Now, John Jacks !~ down the inlet! Will his strength hold out?” thought and took his Now!” eried the old convict. “Pull Pull for your life!” John Jacks lost no time in obeying, and all might have gone well if it had not happened that the sash made by John Jacks when he struck the water was heard by the guard in the tower at the end of the High House, whers the prison Wall began. Instantly the guard touched an: Mesuilc batton which - communicated with a bell in Colonel Gayton’s chamber, and the ringing of this bell meant an escape on the: sh ae side of Wareton jail. : Throwing his whole strength into his arms, John Jacks pulled: down the inlet. As they neared the boat-house door there came a flash of lightning brighter and more enduring than any the/boy. had ever seen. i aot At the same instant the door in the prison wall flew ‘open, and Colonel Gayton and a keeper, han armed with rifles, ee in the breach. “Great guns! It’s John uecks and 01 331% cried the warden. . Thvo rifles cracked then, and two. shots came whizzing toward the boat. ~ CHAPTER IY. ae ees: I she INTO THE SWAMP. re the igre © pies Paes have Lane there ‘is no ad
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a But the lightning did not hold, add at the moment when aim was taken darkness was coming again. Thus the shots all went astray, and thanks to John Jacks’ strong pulling, the boat shot past the door all right... “Down, Mr. Mac! Down, Joe!” whispered the boy. “They will peg away at us, and we have got the tower to pass yet.” Old 33 crouched low in the boat. . He was hatless and without any outer garments to pro- tect him from the pitiless storm; nor were John Jacks. and Joe any better provided in that respect, except in the matter of hats, for overcoats were things not allowed in Wareton jail. As for the rést, all three wore the penitentiary slates: a loose blouse w ith green stripes, and trousers with one leg’ yellow ‘and the other blue. It was adress not to be mistaken anywhere, of course, and in that wild community woe-be unto the fisherman or turpentine gatherer who would dare to harbor any man wearing these clothes. (The shots continued to come. © ~ Y ; Wild shouts were heard. The big ea bell’ of the prison tolled three times, which meant an escape. John Jacks’ heart was in his mouth as he pulled on to- ward the tower. “Tf the lightning comes now we are lost,” he thought, for he knew that old man Crab, who stood night guard in the tower, was reckoned a dead shot—one of the best hams with a rile in the State. And the lightning did come just as sey were abreast of the tower, and yet that was the time old man (ont missed. dy He leaned far out over the railing and. let fly, and yet for all that the shot flew harmlessly over their heads. It was not written that either of those three helpless ones in the boat should die just then. We are all right now, Johnny!’’eried Joe, as they shot past the prison wall, and stood on down the inlet. “Pull, pull, John Jacks!” murmured Old 33, “Waste no time—take no chances! ‘To be captured jap would be ‘terrible ! Heaven won’t.have it so, 1 am gure.” ..¢ His teeth were chattering, and he was trembling i in every limb. . f ‘John Jacks path to realize that the old convict: was in F around hyar.” almost’as great danger as though a dozen men stood over | him with rifles ready to shoot bullets into his head. “fel! never stand it! Never in the wide world!” he thought, “oF eo a fool to gst it Met what veould: BS Croan) f Sure enough, what élse could he*have doridl? ee ne With the hole discovered i in the cell by 33 W as as’ wee as dead in any case. “There had been Wh Aa deacrant from: W. areton jail of nae late. All were ne oes ‘ils worked in £ eaibohaiae gangs in the pine. swamp, ‘and not in the prison itself; but it # had ¢ eee the wrath of the tyranical warden, just the with I own ands -PAME AND FORTUNE Hie ae want it. ‘swore ‘that the next man who was caught | TOE ava — SaaS INS SaaS Sata, He see done such things before, and he would not hesi- tate to do them again. j John Jacks did not regard ‘his own chances.as worth a rush if they were caught, and it would haye been just the’ same with Old 33 if he had refused to aid him when, the hole in the cell wall came to be found.’ But in spite of his gloomy thoughts John Jacks tried to he encouraging, for that was his way. “nl How are you feeling, Mr. Mac?” he asked. very cold ?” “T can stand it! “Are you I can stand it!” muttered the old con- _ viet. “Yes, I am cold, of course; terribly cold, but I can stand it, boy.” : John Jacks pulled off his jacket. ’ “Take this and button it around your neck with the — back out, Mr. Mac,” he said. “It will protect your chest S, some, anyhow.” “No, no! Put it on: aun” provested the old man, . feebly.. “The idea eee you sitting there aust in your shirt! | I won't have it so.’ ie “But you must take it,” dostahadl John Jacks. « don’t I’m wet through, anyhow, and the nearer naked ~ I am the better for me. Fasten it “around your neck, Mr. — Mae, oe bossing this job and you have got fo do ast as I say.” ; / 4 The old man obeyed, but his hands trembled so ‘that he could scarcely button the coat. hos “They have started after us,” said Joe, presently. aes , That's right,” replied John Jacks, “1 hear them. | W ell, it was to be expected. They haven't caught us yet, though, and thank goodness they can't use ths blood: hounds on,us so long: as we stick to the boat.” “They, will overtake us,” said Old 33, after listening’ ‘a moment. “Something must be done. J ohn Jacks, do you | know this sw amp at all? ia ite ae “Not at all, sir. 1 never went out with +hé turpen- tine gang. I don’t know the nes blessed nae shout ie it that’s the fact.” a‘ “And ‘I know almost as little,” replied Old 33. ay! a if a total stranger in this’ part of the country when Twas arrested fifty odd years ago, and as 1 never went out of | the prison in all that time, of ROE I nes had no ) chance to learn about it since,’ ae Right here was where Joe came in, “{ know all about it,” he said, proudly. s* he toy q MI ges 5 “T was. raived “Good 1” er nied. Old 33. “Boy, how far a a ‘a Dis “Three miles, , i to ‘Ten Day island? Kegon eas NY, “Yen Day Island! Why that’s five miles ie the oe and three miles out from Jand !” RR “Ves, yes! ', You' know it, I see. Were you ever there: ; ONG, There don’t “nobody: live on ‘Ten’ ‘Day ‘Isla Tain’t sale. The gea washes, right over it: some asin? “What! What!” cried Old oH his voice rising almost: to a. shriek. “The sea washes over en Day I 1d? ‘didn’t use to. Don’t tell ‘me that, hoy! that! Ay whit if it should Lhe
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vs FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. \ 25 Cite BT 9 re Oe ee ee ES FA Cracksmen carted a 200-pound safe from the residence of ene Nex into a box car at the Lake Shore yards, - Toledo, 0., 500 feet away, where they blew it open and escaped with $175. The robbery occurred while the mem- ” bers of the family were asleep. . Despite the fact that his left leg was broken between ankle and knee, Stanley Krokoloski, a Polish farmer of Loup City, Neb., dragg zed himself 100 feet to a thicket by au ereek, There be cut two erutches with his knife, and “upon these managed to drag himself half a mile to the home of his brother, where he received medical treat- ment. To add ‘to his discomfort, a blizzard was raging at the time and the mercury was below zero. The farmer had been in town and was on his way home when his team tan away and threw him pe of his di es e % The only lacrosse Te factory in the world is located _ at Cornwall, Ontario, according to a consular report from that place. The game originated in that region, and the Indians thereabotit have special ‘skill in whittling the handles of the sticks. The factory employs ten’ Telans, ost of whom will work only i in winter. ,Three-fourths of e product is consumed in Canada, the ‘rest going to the nited Kingdom, Australia, and "New Zealand, except Pg principally to the Carlisle Indian Sehool and Ithaca, N. Y. About $2,000 worth of hickory wood for the sticks is ‘annually imported from the United States, while the gut comes from England. on the Mend they have eda coranne Posty: hve oiher ae who mid their ave eee aes Land ieee door ple asia Pacific Ratlwas, which tis a on Tien hela and which was feared by certain ax, The at om which the settlers filed is inlaid in ns County, Washington, and is opened for the first me for Pes i HON f, anon, n Hannay eae A, Birmingham), “of tidak: England, tells the story of how an Irish f family named . O'Flaherty are to be benefitted by the proprietor of a | tion, which is on file in the ‘Clinton Circuit Court here. ii Brown sets forth that while he was walking up Clinton avenue one evening last June, a large gray rat leaped out - Friends of the cabman gathered and threat-. ahead of him and bolted behind ‘some articles set out by ‘a hardware store. -Brown joined the chase. Just as the rat seemingly was cornered a section of steel. roofing which was standing i in front of the store, tipped over and snapped the bones of his leg. He holds the, city responsible for permitting the poking to stand on the walk. In its answer \ the city points out that. Brown was an employee Of: tae 4 | Me U, T., and not of: the city of St. Johns ; that he had: «op and threw it cae the sea in a ae never hon. hired or engaged to chase rats for the said city, and that he engaged in the chase, on his own initia- ‘tive fit responsibility, with: ‘the: vesult that the fault,
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26 FAME AND FORTUNE \ WEEKLY. ye ek Fame ‘and: Rortane Weekly NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1914. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single Copies . One Copy Three Months.... One: Copy SLE Months: zesty sWececne rs ticse/iads,on tts ve One Copy One Year Postage Free. HOW TO SEND MONE Y—Atour risk soud P.O, Money Order, Check or Registered Letter: remittances in any other way are at your risk. ‘e accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. Wheu sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the enrol- ope. IWrite your name and address plainly. Address letters to PT miniereecas Frank Tousey, Publisher f 168 West 23d St., N. Y.- _ Cas. K. Nrtanpxe, Secretary | ITEMS OF CURRENT NEWS The Newfoundland reindeer herds, established five years ago hy Dr. Grenfell, have proved as great a success in Newfoundiand and Labrador as have the herds of the United States Bureau of Wducation in Alaska, where the pioneer experiments were made. The original: herd of 300 Lepland reindeer has now increased to over 1,200. In northern Newfoundland and in Labrador there are few horses or dogs for haulage purposes, while the Labra- dor dogs,are yicious brutes which attack and devour even human beings. Harnessed to a sled, two reindeer will pull 500 to 700 pounds 30 miles a day, and they are also successful as pack-animals, carrying loads up to 200 pounds. The other economi c uses of the reindeer are well known. After another season it is proposed to dis- tribule the animals to the mission stations in Labrador, where eventually the Alaskan practice of lending small herds to the natives will probably be: adopted, -05 Cents .65 Cents When Mrs. Kate Rinchardt, janitress of the tenement at 133 Orchard street, New vow, picked up three pieces of fine wire with odd little caps attached to them a week or _ 80 ago, she put them away with the idea that they might be useful. Sapee Bishop, who has boarded with the Rinehardts for eighteen years, tried to utilize the wires the other day in repairing a scoop with which pretzels and ‘doughnuts are removed from the oven by bakers. He picked at one of the'caps, and in the explosion which fol- lowed the thumb, middle finger, and index finger of his _ left hand were blown off. The whole tenement was shaken, ' and the frightened occupants fled to the street. Bishop | as rushed to Gouverneur Hospital, where his wounds were dressed. His right hand was lacerated too, Just a ‘what sort of explosive was in the caps the’ police could not determine. How the mysterious bits of wire came to be f lying about the premises, Mrs. Reinhardt could not ex- plain. s ‘ bd t ofestor Dall. Oni of Ancons\t in the Valle Vibrata, Prov- in ip: ‘The bodies are not really |b ‘small. cabins containing from | i A burial’ acs of fie Biaae ge hes just ee found a ¥ and are ‘ranged. slong either ‘wall ont se ¥ou the truth, madam, T don’t apnk he’s. vain oe lise platforms sloping toward the center. With a ee exception the bodies all rest on one side, with the knees drawn up, and it is assumed that the dead were placed in this position togive them the attitude of prayer in their death chamber, for it has been established that the custom of praying on the knees was already in existence in the Stone Age in Egypt. In one of the cabins, almost in the center of the group, there are no bodies, but a big circular hearth, around which, it is assumed from the quantities of bones of animals and fragments of broken earthenware found there, the funeral hanquets were held.’ The others found,in the cabins with the bodies have remarkable im- portance from the archaeological point of view, as they prove the existence of a degree of civilization, especially as regards vases and such utensils, never hitherto observed ORT RC RIMES 2 See | . { in the Neolithic Age. JOKES AND JESTS. : o 4 : \ Wife (bitterly)—How can you talk that way? You know that I never pester you for money. Hub—No, but the people you buy things from do. * ald “What does your husband do all the time? I never ‘ see him about.” “He acts for the movies.” “But in spare moments?” “Then he goes to see himself act.” “T am telling you the. trath when T say that I ee much happier when I was poor than I am now.” “Then. why don’t you let your millions go and be poor again? “Mamma, if people upset the salt-cellar, they liave a quarrel, don’t they?” “Yes, dear.” “And if they don’t - upset the salt they don’t quarrel, do they?” “No, darling; — but why do you ask?” “Well, it. wasn’t the salt- cellar, is upset ; it, was the ink pot.” — Be —_—_———— Ae “My graci is, boy,” said the facta “you do. certainly — eat an awitil ot for a little boy.” “Well, sir,’ ” replied the boy, “thayhe I’m not so little as T Ibok from the ou one side.” : “I knew you were coming to-night. to call on my ter,’ said Willie. “How aia you know?” etic Staylate. Wir Sis wah been pak al the noon.” Pat ness ! 7 thought you took ee heade off. a, just chicken. salad. Rete Mrs. FFegucatgeone you think it yery ‘selfish my husband not to make a will? Mr. Bluntly—Well, own since he married. he) tr They, say set when an ostrich is: L wis
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THE YOUNG TRAPPER. / By Kit Clyde. Aleck and his father had been trapping in the winter of 1873.in the depths of the woods, not far from the “divide” between the streams which flow north into Hudson Bay and these which flow south into the St. Lawrence. It was sixty miles or more to the uppermost of the 7 French villages. _ Whey had a winter camp w “here they made their head- started, one afternoon in March—toward the last of their trapping season—to go to Bentley House, a trading post “seventy miles away, with a pack of martin as weighing _ forty pounds or more, on his back. He did not use snow-shoes, for there had een Ng a thaw which had settled the snow, and as cold. weather fol- jowed, a hard: crust had been fomnee: making excellent walking in the fir woods, entirely free as rs are soe i under brush, | With the pack on his back it would take over two days i to walk to the trading post, and Aleck was therefore obliged to be in the woods two nights. After some hesitation he decided not to take a gun, : which would add an unwieldly ten pounds to his already ‘heavy load—thefé being ordinarily no wild animals in the woods through which he would pass w hich he stood in much fear of. — He and his father had, moreover, but a few chanees: of q powder left from their winter stock. The first night out Aleck camped, after a fashion pe- by an upturned fir- -{ree root, and on the other by long green fir boughs which he stood up against’ the root. _ His fire was at the foot of it, and his bed of boughs laid on the ground, from which he had cleared off the snow. Thus protected} he heated on the coals his supper of road and meat, and made a tea in a dipper from melted ow water; and though the-air, outside was sharp, he lay awn, fecling very comfortable, and soon fell asleep. Late in the night he was aroused suddenly from his leep by a big told nose thrust directly down upon his face. Some creature had pushed its muzzle through the fir oughs over his head, which, in the position in which he , was close to the side of the shed. hough fully awake in a second, Aleck did not dare to estthe beast should seize lim with its teeth. ‘The, creature sniffed at his face several times, then out me its big rough tongue, and licked his’ mouth ‘aiid nose. eck could not endure oe go Hass in his pee a. Sea ta oS = + 93 be ee @Q- Ba m2) bald =r) ee Le ae f=} Ps car ou iy a S ae ‘Tn an stake ‘Med Sap a ast: seized his hatchet, ard his unseasonable visitor ‘run’ ‘off, preeee & e snow-crust at every spring. way it snuffed he had Uittle doubt that it was ea which the’ recent warm rain had roused from. its er ; and well knowing | ope fa FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. © . ; quarters and stored their skins, and from this camp Aleck, culiar to such woodsmen, in a selfer formed on one side} land fleeing foe. shed, “Tayenous 27 condition it was probably in, he sat up watching and lis- tening till daylight. He did not see the as eat visitor while he was. get- ting his breakfast. As soon as it was fairly light he started on his journey. again with his big pack. The forenoon was cloudy, and by nine o’clock it began to snow, the flakes scattered and large at first, but grow- ing thicker and finer ere long, so that our young woods- ‘inan was obliged to: get out his compass in order to keep his course, which was in part, however, ‘along a line spotted by his father the previous autumn. -foward noon he thought that he heard two or three times the snow-crust break at a distance behind him, and began to surmise that some animal was following him, though he had not been able to see if his apprehensions were correct This was partly on account of the storm and partly from the closeness of the tree trunks. At length he determined to know what had caused the noise, and, stepping behind a bush, he waited for five minutes or’more, when he caught sight of a large bear, which he had no doubt was the one that had roused him so unceremoniously the night before, though the creature’s hair was so full of snow that it was difficult at first#to tell what it was. The bear was following cautiously on his track, stop- ping after every step to smell,and listen. Aleck yelled at him, and then went on, thinking the old fellow would become tired from his long walk, and would give it up of his own accord before night. He saw nothing of the bear during the short time he stopped to eat his cold Iunch, an hour or so later, but he had not been walking very long after that before he’ heard. the crust break again. F This gave him the first real feeling of uneasiness he had experienced in, regard to his pursuer. For though a bear or panther may at first follow a man very shyly, if hunger prompts it to keep on his track for many honrs, it grows) bolder, and finally attacks its prey. Aleck knew this, and hence felt some apprehension when he found the bear had followed him all the afternoon. - By nightfall he knew it would be likely to attack him. He thought that he had better try at once to frighten the creature from his track; so, after passing some thick hemlock, he made a long leap sidewise, to the left, behind a very large spruce ital and stood still there, concealed. In a few minutes the bear tame in sight, covered with snow and steaming. It was following on Aleck’s tracks in the snow, carrying its head down like a hog. On it shuffled, till, céming up Mo the point where Aleck had short, partly raising its eyes covertly ahead, At this point, and before it had time to glance about, Aleck jum ped from behind the spruce right at the creature, Ae are ed the loudest and shrillest yell he was capable of. He says the bear june three feet off the snow, and ave a how] that would have matched his own. tons it whirled and ran, while Aleck, as well as he could « for laughing, sent yell ~ yell after, his now. astounded A wild animal aah often be > frightened ~* a tl eaped aside andthe track seemingly ceased, it stopped as
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as) trick, and from the way this bear ran Aleck hie he had seen the last of him. But the rabidly hungry brute foal did net run far, for our young trapper vith his heavy pack had not gone on for more than half an hour longer, when again fe heard” that familiar but ominous crushing of the crust behind. “1 knowed then,” said Aleck, “that I had ‘got to have it out with hims for if you try to scare a creature that way, and he picks wp his courage again, vou had a sight better let him alone, for now: he’s sort’o’ mad at himself for having got skeered. L knowed by his. following me so long that the old chap wanted me bad, and that he meant to keep after me till dark. _ “The storm drove so, too, that if I did not nearly perish _ I should have to make a winter bunk with boughs under the snow to sle: to dig me out of in the night.” Under ‘such circumstances, our young trapper deter- mined to come to terms with the “ranger,” and settle at once the question as to who should eat the other. He now wished most fervently that he had taken his gun, His only weapon was his hatchet, 4. With it he cut a heavy green’ stick, then went on to-a: favorable place, past a low fir clump, when he again leaped aside hehind a great swamp maple, and glided from that behind a large fir six or eight paces aside. ‘Reaching the fir he dropped ‘off his pack, and grasping his hatchet firmly in his right- —or throwing—hand, stood waiting. Immediately he saw the ranger coming peri apy on, with its nose in the tracks as before. _ Just as the creature came to the end of his tracks, Aleck hegan to .chirrup with his lips, as to a dog or horse, at W hich, the bear: pricked up his ears, raised his nose from out the stow, and, seeing Aleck, Axed his eyes steadily on him, growled and stood his ground. ° Stepping partly out from behind the tree, Aleck now swung his arms, as if he were paw ing the air. Seeing which, the bear made a noise halfway betwixt a » whine and a roar, and rising on his hind feet, imitated with his fore-paws the motions’ which Aleck was making. Phat was his challenge to combat, for though not yet savage enough to rush on the young hunter, he was not * afraid of him. iar Ais still pawing the air, though in doubt whether he had - better ‘risk throwing his hatchet, and thus lose his hold ea it, or use it at close quarters. ‘Well knowing what an ugly ereature a large bear is, hand to hand, he determined to venture all on his skill. ‘Yet there was the chance that, thrown ever so deftly, the | “bis might knock the flying weapon aside with his paw. Le ithe distance now fag age them was thirty-five or ' forty feet only. Making several feints, ‘Aleck néied the manner in which ~ the creature warded with his paws, then, collecting all his _ strength, and fixing his eye upon the spot on’ the bear's exposed neck which he most wished to strike; he launched the heavy hatchet with a single muscular impulse. Bui se beast neat the motion and warded ee, re FAME. AND RORTUNE W EEKLY. ep in—just the thing for that old ranger: Observing the beast’s mood, Aleck moved a step toward * erin ceeds ‘that ‘of a pure white diamond. Effo gnc eet . ir he ~ The thin, sharp outer point of the whirling blade cut deep into the left side of its neck just below the under jaw. | Aleck saw the blood start as the hatchet fell imto the | snow—then he seudded from onetree to another at his handsomest paces, hearing a loud grow] in his rear as the? bear bounded toward him. r ‘But finding after he had run some distance that the animal was not getting very close, he turned, and dis- covered that it was standing stil] among’ the firs, swaying its head io and fro: Afier a while he ventured to go round in its rear od pick up his hatehet, when he saw that the animal was | bleeding freely. | It lay very quietly down in the course of ten or fifteen | minutes, and was soon helpless. | An hour later Aleck had a bough shed to shelter him — from the storm, and was burning down a fine bed of glow- ing coals to broil a bear-steak over, making quite 4 ‘show of ‘comfort, even there alone in the wintry forest. | eR gant eer 7 y Much interest has been aroused at Birmingham, Ala., j iby the discovery of a rarely tinted uncut diamond on the surface of the ground near Cook Springs, in, St. Clair County, a few miles from Birmingham. It is the fourtn uncut diamond found in that part of the State, and it is | believed that in the great coal fields of this. State lie de- posits of other carbon in its most highly crystalized form. This diamond is of delicate greenish tint, different ‘from. any known field, according to one of the experts who ex amined it and offered to buy it for his collection of rare stones. The finding of this diamond brought an official jhquiry to a local jeweler from the United States Geologi- cal Survey, asking for all the. details, as to the’ exact loca- tion of the stone. Strange to say, the diamond has been lying around: the home of a St, Clair farmer for eight | years. It was brought to the jeweler’s attention by J. Ei. Isbell, the farmer. ‘Tle found it while he was selecti trees for a'lumber concern. ‘He noticed a sparkle at hi fect, but passed on, thinking it was turpentine drip. second impulse caused him to turn back, and he picked what he took to be a preity specimen of ordinary BY erystal and carried it home. He put it on his. em wheel and the stone cut a groove through the adaman ‘hardness of the emery. The stone was sent to George Kunz, of New York, an expert and owner of a ¢ 0 of rare stones. © Kunz declared it is a very pretty crystal of unusual tint, and asked if it was for salé, ‘| local jeweler purchased it from the farmer, and the with two others, drew up a partnership agreement und which ‘financial backing is to be furnished with whi investigate the soil and develop it if conditions '\ One of the uncut diamonds: 5 lianey, pita ahs in sores the pure “hits Haste polished facets. Its tint is very delicate green h something like that of an aquamarine. It y fouri¢nths carats. Tts value is consid ly. ‘investigate the location bi ascertain
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, ‘ - | @00D READING = enna Captain Scott's journals, kept by hint during his antare- tie expedition, have been deposited by Lady Scott in the British Mnseur, where they have been on view since ~ January 17th, the second anniversary of Scott’s arrival at the South Pele. They comprise the three small, pencil- : written books\that were found on the explorer’s body -by the searching party in November, 1912. ; Miss Emma Boughner, a young girl, compelled a gang - of workmen emplo, 2d by the West Virginia Traction and _. Electric Company of Morgantown, W. Va., to lose a half- » day’s work when she jumped into a hole they had dug in order to erect a pole in front of her father’s home. After » waiting for several hours for the girl to leave the hole the foreman decided io place the pole at another place. a es The seventeenth dreadnought for the German navy was - launched at Kiel,. Sioa Februar) 21 and named “Kronprinz” by the Crown Princess Cecilie. The Crown Prince, who was tg have delivered an address, was pre- ~~ vented from attending the ceremony by illness.. He has iit yet completely recovered from the attack of tonsilitis which caused him-to be confined to bed on* February 16, by order of his physicians. Prince Henry of Prussia} therefore acted as his substitute. The “Kronpring” is to be the last German d ag ac ee to carry 12-ineh guns. betes 5 a1 ‘he manner in which the Japanese Mere agasoed the ‘discovery: of Dr, Mikimoto, a well-known scientist, that. petrl oysters could be made by artificial means to produce _ their. gems, is deseribed in The Graphic, London. The new industry has already attained such proportions that s aluable erops of pear Is are I regularly | harvested and placed upon the market. They dre in every sense of the word] tne, pearls, as beautiful as those obtained in the ordinary way. One strange feature of the industry is that the i vor k of gathering the pearls,is done by women divers. oe In the ‘Philippines, as in Japan. silubite is found in connection With extinct or dying voleanoes. In places one encounters iyi cones of. peatly pure anlphas et me still issue ep eae gases. Sulpinur is ailkc found Hes meating - the Yoleanic, rocks sin. Koh neighborhood of hess gions ii the. Philf ppines will fae important Bie ‘quantities of sulphur-permeated rock, . When, the. sulphur, Lis not ibe Many ek a) ae tae! ayy material the Ww ater. French Jesuit missionary, and captured and held two others for ransom. An army of 25,000 Chinese troops is now converging on “White Wolf's” vicinity of Cheng Yang-Kwan, further to the north in the same province. whom are armed with modern rifles. ‘The opinion is ex- and his followers they will The troops show a ; terminating “White Wolt* form the center for another rebellion. bandits. Charged with writing to President Wilson and threaten- | ing to destroy Washington, “if conditions are not bettered in this country,” George Bernhardt, a chef, of 6% Mitchell Street, West Orange, was arrested in bed the other morning by Detective Bernard Heslin and Patrolman Harry Dang- ler. For the last four months a number of letters, post- marked Orange, East Orange, and Newark, and signed “God's Son,” have been sent to the President warnin him that if he “didn’t get busy and fix things in this country and make it worth living in,” he would “know what’s what.” Secret Service men took up the case, and hardt. his arrest “might wake the President up.” Three years ago the chef was arrested after escaping from an insane ‘asylum near Philadelphia. He was held for thirty days in the County Jail, but as he was a lunatic he eajla not be extradited. Arraigned before Police Recorder 1 of the Federal authorities. ; NG hemerkable engineering. feat will ‘he, ccetactiaet when the water is sent through a seventeen-foot tube run- ning trom the Ashokan reservoir, in the ‘Catskill Moun. tains, New York State,-to supply New York City, 127 “miles away. known, exceeding. the .Panama Canal, because, of the aqueduct necessitated piercing mountains, under- mining rivers, neling, thror ay the bowels of. New York City from end to ‘end, When ihe water first. enters the 127 7-mile tube it will take three days. to reach Naw York. City, The. aque- duct wi I] have a flow of 400,000,000 gallons per day, and has a reservoir capacity of 900,000, 000 gallons to be used | in*case of fire: ‘The Ashokan Peseess where most of is stored, is. duilt in the heart of the Cat ki sire. create this reservoir, seven wie. were t 2,000. “White Wolf” there has a force of 2,000 bandits, half of © pressed here that unless the opportunity, is seized of ex- strong disinclination to corne to close quarters with the. ° on the advice of Chief of Policee Bamford arrested Bern- . He admitted his guilt, and eaprceed the hope that. homas : McLaughlin the bine ‘day he pleaded guilty to haying sent — the is, and was held in $1,000 bail to await the action» ‘The Catskill Aqueduct, as the enterprise is — has been. declared by many to be an exploit far ; whereas the canal — meant digging dirt. and dredging channel, the building traversing deep and broad valleys, and tun- — 29
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= 80. png ae i Serge FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 4g f ARTICLES OF ALL KINDS WIFE A DETECTIVE. “The authorities of Columbus University, New York, are on the watch for a band of smooth talking young men, representing themselves as Columbia students earning their way through college by selling magazine subscrip- tions. ‘The “student,” according to his story, has to sell 5,000 subscriptions for a magazine at 50 cents or maybe more apiece in order to get a full four years’ scholarship in Columbia. Sometimes he is in the college and some- ‘times in the engineering or law school, but che rarely de- parts without getting ‘the subscription. The magazine never comes. It is understood that one who was asked to subscribe is the wife of a dean in the university, and that she, as de- tective, got a lot of valuable information out of the sup- posed agent before she let him go. / MOVING BOG. A quaking mass of bog several square miles in area is on the move in the neighborhood of Carrick-on-Shannon, Treland, and the panic-stricken inhabitants of the country- side are fleeing before the threatening disaster. The bog slide has ices brought about by abnormal rains. Many thousands of acres in “the counties of Galway, Leitrim and Roscommon are submerged and the roads are im- ‘passable except in boats. The people in many instances have been isolated from communication with their neigh- bors, owing to the Shannon breaking its banks. The flooded stream is carrying many carcasses of cattle “and other livestock, while haystacks and outhouses as well vas f farin implements have been washed away. ‘The shifting bog bears the appearance of a treacherous morass broken up by huge fissures filled with water. Des- perate efforts are being’ made to drain away enough of the water to’ check the advance of the mass, but the Shan- non is so swollen that great difficulty is found in stem- ming its progress. Tt is not unusual ,for this bog—part of the great Bog of Allen, that stretches almost clear across the center of Treland—to “move.” A few years ago a section of it traveled nearly half a mile in the region of the Suck of Castlerea. - It carried along with it churches and houses and there was quite a panic, but ‘the bog didn’t sink after call. “THE BATTLE-PRACTICE TARGHT. A, modern battle-practice target consists of a ‘submerged hull carrying a mparatively light superstructirre. The superstructure of the target is thirty feet high by sixty feet long. Its height is therefore approximately the av- ge’ height of a battleship above its water-line. T'he hi is about one-tenth of the overall length of a modern: he hull, or eg is built up solid of 12- hotimbers, strongly bolted together; and it| es in aaa over ne about cat feet, in m width about and that. Searels men who. ‘take up. wor 5 feet 6 inches, in depth about 15 feet. The bottom of the hull is. ballasted and to each end is attached a heavy chain bridle, to which is made fast the towing hawser. ‘The superstructure above the deck of the raft (the latter is ordinarily, about awash) is the target proper. It con- sists of a number of stout uprights, across which is nailed - a series of horizontal battens or strips of wood. Over this is drawn a net of rather coarse mesh, which is hauled up to the top of the uprights and then drawn taut by blocks and tackle attached to the bolt rope at the bottom of the net and to the deck. The target is towed, usually, by a battleship, the distance from the ship to the target being ordinarily between three and four hundred yards. The ship that does the firing steams past the target, either in the same or the opposite direction to that in ‘which the target is being towed, and “lets fly” at it. On the quarter deck of the towing ship is a group of officers who'obserye the fall of the shot: The splash of these is photographed, — and, latterly, moving picture machines have been utilized to show exactly what takes place. After a ship has fired, the “seamen” lower a boat, row over,to the raft, and take down the net, which is then spread out on the deck of the firing ship and’ ‘the number of holes is counted. ee _BEE STINGS FOR RHEUMATISM. It has long been known that: bee stings are of great value in the treatrnent of rheumatism. The poison which a a bee injects into Your body when it stings you not only relieves the rheumatic-pains and swellings,, but makes a person more or Jess immune to further trouble from the — disease. This result is due, it is believed, to the formic — acid which is found in large quantities in the bee’s venom. Formic ‘acid, as has been shown by experiments with hun. as dreds of cases, is the best of antidotes for the poisons in the system which stiffen the joints and muscles with rheu- : matigm. Now it has been discovered that bee stings are as effective a cure for inebriety as for rheumatism. This important discovery was niade quite by accident. in a, London hospital. Five men were being treated for chronie — rheumatism. Four of them had been hard drinkers for years and one was a confirmed drunkard. Bee stings were _ applied to them and the rheumatic condition promptly _ subsided. When they were finally discharged they found. that the treatment had done more than cure the the ma tism—it had destroyed their taste for aleohol. isight of a drink nauseated them, and since lea hospital several months ago not one haa, touchet The hospital physician, who were a greatly asto: this unexpected results as their patients, have sei a widespread investigation into the effects of bee on drunkards to see whether they are an infallib for inebriety. Facts: already brought to light sho an. intoxicated. person. 4g quickly. sobered by.
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VATTLE CLANCHERS With a pair of these creepers clinched on your shoes you can defy the slipperiest Ice or snow. No matter how slippery the road or how steep the hill, these claws of steel will carry you Safely over them. A child can adjust them in 30 seconds, No’ nails, straps, screws. or rivets are needed. They will not injure your shoes. No need to remove them indoors—sim-~- ply fold the heel-plate for- ward, reversing the spikes under the instep. They are comfortable, durable and in- visible. Just the thing for postmen, golfers, hunters, woodsmen, bralkemen, wiiners and all who would insure life and limb in winter weather. 25 cents a nalr, postpald. , H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. NAIL PUZZLE. Made of 2 metal natls linked together, Keeps folks guessing; easy to take them apart when you know how. Directions with every one. : Price, €c.. postpaid, WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. MAGIC COINER, A mystifying and amusing trick. ‘Tin blanks are placed unde» the little tin cup and apparently coined into dimes. A real money- maker, Price, 20c. C. BER, 150 Ww. 62d St., New York City. ITCH POWDER. Gee whiz! What fun you can have with this stuff. Moisten the tip of your finger, tap it on the contents of the box, and a little bit will stick. ‘Then shake hands with your friend, or drop a speck down his back. In a minute he will feei as if he had the seven years’ itch. it wii make Him geratch, rear, squirm and _ make taces.. but it is perfectly harmless, as | it is made from-the seeds of wild roses. The horrible itch stops in a few minutes, or can he checked immediately by rubbing the spot with a wet cloth, While it is working, you will be apt to laugh your suspender buttons off. ‘The best joke of all. Price 10° cents aj. +) DOR, Bee ostpaid, f WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 20 W. 26th St., N. ¥. tree siren cies MUSICAL SEAT The best joke out. You can have more un than a circus, with one of these novelties., All you have to do is to place one on a chair seat (hidden under a cush- fon, if possible), Then tell your friend to sit ep down. An unearthly — ; ghriek from the little round drum will send your victim up in the air, the most puzzled and astonished mortal on earth. Don’t miss getting one of these genuine laugh producers. Bentectiy harmless, and never misses doing its work. Price 20 cents each, by mail. post-paid WOLFE NOVELTY CO., 20 W 2th St, N. ¥ LUCK GUN: FOB > ‘the real western article, earried by the cowboys, It is made of fine leather, with a highly nickeied buckle. _The holster con- tains a metal-gun, of the same pattern as those used 2 by all the most famous scouts, Any boy wearing Good tract attention. It wil) give him an air of western romance.* ‘The prettiest Hl fob ever made. Sena for H one to-day Price 20 cenig ' each by mail postpaid. OM V. GALLIGAN Gd W. 6th Bi A x oie ‘or under one of these fobs will at.'| and most serviceable watch | \ THE FOUNTAIN RING. A handsome ring connected with a rubber ball which is concealed in the paim of the hand. A gentle squeeze forces water or cologne in | the face of the victim while he is examining it. The ball can be in- stantly fllled by immersing ring in water same as @ fountain pen filler. Price by mail, postpaid, 12¢. each. | LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. DELUSION TRICK. A magic Httie 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 arpund it from ‘ the magic box. Made of hard wood two inches in diameter. Price, 12¢, M, VY. GALLIGAN, 419 W, 56th &t., N. ¥. { ROUGH AND BKEADY TUMBLERS. These lively acrobats are handsomely deco- rated with the U. 8, flag and with gold and : , silver stars and hearts, Pa CeDEN A Upon placing them up- | on any flat surface and tilting it they at once | begin a most wonderful performance; climbing and tumbling over each other and chasing each other in every direction, as if the evil spirit was after them, causing roars of laugh= ter from the spectators. They actually ap- pear imbtied with life. What causes them te cut up such antics is a secret that may not be known even to the owner of the unruly subjects. If you want some genuine fun send‘ for a set of our tumblers, / Price per set 10c, mailed, postpaid, A.A, WARFORD, 16 Hart"St., Brooklyn, N. ¥, | 2° A Eee RAP LO Aa i ERS AN aS ay | A, a. pid | { IMITATION FLIGS. Absolutel true to Nature! A dandy scarf-pin and a rattling good i joke... It Is impossible to do these pins justice with a description. You f have to see them to understand how lifelike they are. When people see, them on you they want to brush them off. They wonder “why that fly sticks to you” s0 persistently. This is the most realistic novelty ever ;Put on the market. It is a distinct ornament for anybody's necktie, and - a decided joke on those who try sto | chase it. Price, 10c, by mail postpaid, C. BENR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. BINGO, It is a little ‘metal box. It looks very in- nocent. But it is sup- plied with an ingenious mechanism which Shoots off a harmless .cap when it is opened. You can have more fun then a circus with this néw trick. Place the : BINGO in or under any)article and it will go off when the ar- tele Is epened or removed. It can be used as a funny joke by being placed in a purse, Cigarette box er between the leaves of a magazine, alse, under any movable article, such as a book, tray, dish, ete. The BINGO ean also be used as a Burglar Alarm or as a Thett. Preven by, being placed in a dtawer, money til, under a door or window, any article that would he moved. or disturbed should a theft be attempted. Price 15. cents each, by mail, postpaid. WOLF NOVELTY CQO., 29 W. 26th St., N. x. ne —- YOU ALL WANT THIS MEDAL! , You Gan’ 6st One for Six Cents 1 Has a picture of Fred Pearnot on one side and . Evelyn on the other. The chief charactegs of “WORK AND WIN” The Medals are beautifully fire-gilt. In order that every reader of this Weekly may secure one ormore of these medals, we have put the price away elow cast, as you will seo when you recelve it, Send to us THRED 'Tywo- ( ONT POSTAGE | STAMPS, and we : will send the medal to any: nconress postage paid, by . xeturn mall, _ You can secure ag many medalsas you want, : : plainly to ~ ublisher | ow Xorm Adare | for Lesson on Cartoon Drawing and booklet, _RYMEMBBRI- j button, which the ¥ at ee iy peace to | press for change of picture. Inste : are | Bhother. picture appearing, the, “enkech tus ic ri a hn vale ss $—OLDYD COINS WA | 47.15, Paid for KARE date 1853 Quarterd and o}¢ without arrows. CASH prame fums paid on hundreds of old aol Kove all money dated BOtore.1a06 send ‘EN cents at once or. Ne Tilustrated Coin Valine Book, size 4x7. Get Fos and make money easy. C, KO ARK & CU., Cola Dealers, Box 41, Le Roy, MN. ¥. . Learn to Draw Cartoons, 25¢. ‘'Cur= toouing and Jllustrating for Profit.” Your money back if uot satisfactory, Send today, Kasex Schoot of Cartooning, 55 Currier Bldg., Lynn, Mass. "VOICE THROWER" Qebs cmt swre Sper vaya Seta de egy aan end Myst, frog. Mok ANLANY O0.,.09 WINONA, MIATA REMEDY sont to you on FRED YRIAT, Xf is cures, vend 61.00; if not, don't, Give oxprossoffice. Write tod=y. Wel, Storline, $37 Ohie Ayo, Sidney, Chia, ASTHMA LOTS OF FUN FOR A DIME Ventriloquist Double Throat. | Fits roof of mouth; always invisible; greatest thing yet. Astonish and mystify your friends, Neigh like a horse; whine like a puppy; sin: like a canary, and imitate birds and beasts o| the field and forest. Loads of tun. Wonder- fulmvention. Thousands sold. Price: only 10 cents; for 25 cents, or 12 fer 50 cent, Double Throat Co.Dpt. « Frenchtown,N.b PACKAGE --- (06 : 68 SPLENDID GAMES, BeOheckers and Oness with fen, Dominoes, Fox & Geese, 9 Men Morris, Au» we thors--48 cards, 22 Songe Piaaenl9 Fun Cards, 48 Mag C) Pane Tricks. 70 Great Puzzle RS S34 Jolly Jokes & Riddles 68 Money Making Secrets,12 Love Letters: 175 Ways to Flict, How to Charm Others, toTsll Fortunes and) 500 other things to entortnin the entire family all winter. .This 50¢ Pac! sent for 10 conta, ST4R NOVELYY CO., CHICAGO, Flash owr (Million t EASY MONEY cs ct'nin QC and make ‘erm ail “rubber.” There goods are himade in Weebington and are dandiey.Basy money hand Jing thom. Send 100 for sample “wad,” and Big Cai vAddrors , McKINLEY CO., ‘® , WINONA, MIN) You Can Make $9.00; 0) for boo! auc. = W. BON & 001, different sorts, ond RIGE POST CARDS a Good Magazino for . The WHOLE THING for only ten gan SUbLaNs a0. gaat WOOD SE CHICAGK.. Uke BIG Rio} ane SSN Was 3 THE X-RAY REVOLVER With one of these cund ‘ou can defy the alte Law with impunity. It is used to geure, and net to shoet. It is impossi- ble to detect the fact that it is not @ genuine revol- ver. Can used as a pa ment, or in other ways. ts each, postpaid. : eM. V. GALLIGAN, 419 W. S¢th St. NX. NEW TEN-CENT FOUNTAIN PEN, | Ce n ' Wey 3 One of the most p»eculiar and aresivieg pens on the market. It requires no ink. A you have to do is to dip it in water, and {t will write for an indefinite period. ‘The secret can only be learned by procuring)one, and you can make it 2 source of both pleasure and amusement by claiming to your friends what it can do and then demonstrating the fact, Moreover, it is a good pen, fit for practical use, and will never leak ink into your pocket, asa detective fountain pen might do. Price, 10c, each by mail WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. SABE Se . JUMPING TELESCOPE. : a This is an obiong A tube in exact imi- ‘ tation cf a tele- scope. By locking ane setae raveala one ehiy magus- ‘fled picture of a “dancer or other | subject. It con-~ tains on the side a part Shoots out, as shown in illustration. It - is encirely harmless, but gives the ‘victim @ genuine scare. Re} : ail, gostpaid. st, Ne wore Baverk: 4 Fm ad fg : ay oy ce
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SfAR AND CRESCENT PUZZLE. The puzzle is to sepa- rate the one star from the linked star and cres- cent without using force. Price by mall, postpaid 10c.; 3 tor 250. WOLFF NOVELTY Co,, 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. THE INK BLOT JOBER. Fool Your Friends —The greatest novel- ty of the age! Have a joke which makes everybody laugh. More fun than any * other novelty that has been shown in-years. Place it on a desk, tablecloth, o1 any piece of furniture, as shown fn the above cut, near some valuable papers, or on fine wear'ig apparel. Watch the ro- @ult! Oh, Gee! Price, lic, each, postpaid. ©. BEHR, 160 W. 62d St., New York City. SNEEZING POWDER. The greatest fun-maker of them all. A small amount of this powder, when blown in a room, will cause everyone to sneeze without { » apyone knowing where it eomes from. It is very light, will float in the air for some time, and penetrate every nook and corner of s room. t is perfectly herm- Jess. Cachoo is put up in bottles, and one bottle contains endugh to be used from 10 to 15 times. Price, by metl, 10c. each; 8 for 25c, WOLFE NOVELTY.CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥- CACHOO OR THE MAGIC DAGGER. A wonderful illusion, To all appearances it is an ordinary dagger which you can flourish around in your hand and suddenly state that you think you have lived long enough and had better commit suicide, at the same time plunging the dagger up to the hilt into your breast or side, or you ean preterd to stab a friend or acquaintance. Of course your friend or yourself are not jin- jured in tle least, but the deception js perfect and will startle all who see it. ‘Price, 10c., or 3 for 25c. by mail, postpaid. ©. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. i ‘, ‘. ‘, Premium Coupon \ ‘, ELE ave peceecs ies This coupon when fproperly filled out ‘fPand forwarded with ‘subscription price en- titles the holder to Pre- #mium mentioned. ‘, S, ‘. S a sy + “a m Look! One of these fine watches FREE to anyone sending us One—] ‘year’s subscription at. . . $2.50 Two—6 months’ subscriptions at . . Four—3 months’ subscriptions at . GOOD LUCK BANKS. Ornamental as weil as use- ful. Made of highly nickeled brass. It holds just One Dol- lar. When filled it opens it- self. Remains locked until refilled. Can be used as a watchcharm. Money refund- ed if not satisfied. Price, i0c. by mail. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. CARD THROUGH THE HAT TRICK , With this trick you bar- row a hat, and appar- ently shove a card up through the crown, without injuring the card or hat. The oper- ation can be reversed, the performer seemingly pushing the card down through the crown into the hat again. It is a trick which will puzzle and interest the closest observer and detection is almost impossible. It is so simple that a ehild can learn how to perform it in a few minutes, Price 10 cents each, by mail, post-paid H. F, LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. COMICAL RUBBER STAMPS. A complete set of five on @ separate block, any boy can set up a regular arade or circus by Riacks ng the figures in differ- ent positions, With each set of figures we wend a bottle of colored ink, an ink pad and full instructions, Children can stamp these pictures on their toys, picture books, writing paper and envelopes, and they are without doubt the most amusing an entertaining novelty gott n up in years. Price of the com- lete set of Rubber Stamps, with ink and nk pad, only 10c., 3 sets for 25¢., one dozen 0c. By: mail postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klym, N. Y. a grotesque little people made of indestructible rubber mounted on black walnut blocks. The fig- —" ures consist of Policeman, Chinaman, and other iaughable figures as shown in pictures. As 4 each figure is mounted ELECTRIC PUSH BUT TON.—The base is made of maple, and the center piece of black w inut, the whole thing abouy 1% inches in ;/ diameter, with a metal hook on the: back so that it may be slipped over edgs of the West pocket. Hxpose to view your New Blectrie . Bell, when your friend wiil ush the button expecting to hear it ring. ‘As soon as he touches it, you will see some of the liveliest dancing you ever “witneseed. The Electric Button is heavily charged and will ‘give a smart shock when the button fs pushed Price 10c., by mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. THE GRLUAT FIRE A great Sensational Trick of the Day! With the Fire Eater in hig possession any person. can become a perfect salamander, ap- arently breathing flre and eject- ng 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 neigh- borhood don’t fail to procure oné. We send the Fire Eater with all the materials, in a handsome box, the cover of which is highly ornamented with illustrations in various col- ’ ors. Price of all. complete only i5c., or 4 boxes for 50c., mailed postpaid; ome dozen by express $1.20. N. B.—Full printed instructions for per- forming the trick accompany each box, which also contains sufficient material for giving several exhibitions, _ H, F, LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. EATER. DUPLEX BICYCLE WHIS?LE. This is a double whistle, pra- ducing loud but very rich, har- monious sounds, entirely differ- ent from ordinary whistles. It ig just the thing for bicyclists -or sportsmen, its peculiar double and resonant tones at once at- tracting attention. It is an im- ported whistle, handsomely nickel plated, and will be found a very useful and handy pocket sompenteny Exits, 10c.; 3 for w0C.; One ozen, 1 2 mail, postpaid." a WOLFF NOVELTY CO,, 29 W. 26th St.. N. ¥. A CRAND PREMIUM { ¢ Look! 1.25 each - 0.65 each © For either of the following: “Moving Picture Stories,” | “Happy Days,” “Wild West Weekly,” “Fame and For- tune Weekly,” “The Liberty Boys of ’%6,” “Secret Service,” “Work and Win,” or “Pluck and Luck.” There is only one condition-—send us the money ($2.50) and we will send you the watch, and any one of the above ss _ publications for the period subscribed for. Description of the Watch 4 .Send in Your Su ae Name... eee eeeeeee se eeser ones, i ; FRANK 5 5 MAATCHD vecrevervorsers srs seeeerress 2 ol ib pate ceeesess esos Polished Nickel, Gun-metal with Gilt center and plain Gun-metal. It is American-made, open face, stem wind and set, and will run . from | 30 to 86 hours ‘with ome winding. The movement is the same size as an expensive railroad timepiece, absolutely accurate, and each one is guaranteed. The cases are made in Gold pe reate, yt The design on the back case is a fancy engraved scroll. *y | bscriptions Now to ee OUSEY, Publisher = fj ~ 168 West 23d St., N. Y. {i Meira siege ste Fk
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(A Wall Stree: |444 The Young Banker: or, The Mystery of a Money Box. y tory. . \ 417 Lost in the Baixans; or, The Luck of a Young War Correspondent. 418 Plunging to Win; or, The Deals of a Wall Street Office Boy. , 419 The Young Shipper; or, The Boy Who Was Always on Top. , uw For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 5 cents per copy,-1 ies Wee stamps, by 168 West 23d'St. FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, - - - - Fi . = a - % IF YOU WANT ANY BACK NUMBERS _ | ‘ of our weeklies and cannot procure them from newemeulene: they can be obtained from this office direct. Write out ae * ‘fill in your Order and send it to us with the price of the, weeklies you want and we will aentd them to you by return mail. _.. POSTAGE STAMPS TAKEN THE SAME AS sige y BLAS 11 ORANE TOUSEY, Publishe:, + - 9 (+ RR ge a) =. lee eae ea West 23d § ai uncth wa; ouR TE wc EN , oa No. 46. HOW TO MAKE AND USE ELEC- with a full des ription of ‘everything an en- .TRICITY.—A_ description of the wonderful | Sineer should kiow. BERS. “showing many curious 7 aie figures and the magic of numbers. By A. An ty , > - | derson. Fully illustrated. ih, t 5 st ti ; to- No. 60. HOW 10 BECOME A PHU TOGRA ully ate gather with dull Hintroeetone fon mak idg aiken | PHER.—Containing useful information re- No. 74, Hi WRITE LETTERS. i tric Toys, Batteries, etc. By George Trebel, | 88rding the Camera and how to work it; also RECTLY,.— ntaining full ‘instructions for A.M. M.D. Containing over fifty illustra. | how to make Pktoxgraphic Magic Lantern writing letters on almost any subj also H tions. Slides and other q BL encies. Handsomely | rules for punctuation and coming illustrated. specimen letters, No. 47. HOW TO BREAK, RIDE AND No. 62. »M -EST POINT No. 75. HOW TO BEcon DRIVE A HORSE,.—A complete treatise on MN yee TON, PeWBECOME, A ven. to gain | —Containing — trick: ' the horse. » Describing the most useful horses admittance, course of Study, Hxaminations. Cups and Ba for business, the best horses for the road; also | Duties, Staff of Officers, Post Guard, Pol: ustr -yaluable recipes for diseases peculiar to the Regulations, Fire Department, as all a bo sae horse, should know to be a cadet. Lu Be be is No. 48 HOW TO BUILD AND SAIL No. 63. HOW TO BECOME A NAV: a ia Bate Ree, Bal teens CANOES.—A handy book for boys, containing | CADET.—Complete instructions pos, a palmistr full directions for constructing canoes and the pei sey ee tA ue one Shah pe ae Ht age scarsnlata: mre ji conta 3 . } most popular manner of sailing them. Fully tion, description 2 OL Ae a aildlngs. No. 71. HOW TO DO FORTY, illustrated. } historical thing a boy should | WITH CARDS.—Containing dec No. 49. HOW TO DEBATE.—Giving rules know onl eather ihe: United States | Tricks as Dertonmied by Aeading: s for conducting debates, outlines for debates, 7 By Lu Senarens. masician uestions for discussion, and the best sources: No. 64. HOW TO MAKE ELECTRICAL : fo. ayeneurins information on the questions | MACHINES.—Containing full directions for | Containing a complete d as d making electrical machines, induction colls, | teries of ‘Magic and SI! 7 ; a. 50. HOW TO STUFF BIRDS AND | dynamos, and sae aoe toys to be worked | with many wonderf ANIMALS.—A valuable book, giving instruc- | by electricity. By R. . Bennett. Fully tl- | Anderson Iuetrs tions in collecting, preparing, mounting and lustrated. No. . Preserving birds, animals and Insects, No. 65, MULDOON’S JOKES.—The_ most . 61. HOW TO DO TRICKS. WITH original joke book ever pubiished, and {t is cAnbs. —Contalning reat of the gen- | Primful of wit and humor, It contains a eral principles of sleight-of-hand applicable large ea eecan of songs, j kes, rR Aad to card tricks; of card tricks with ordinary | ¢t¢: Nat. aakeo te Muldoon. the great wit, hu “eards, and not requiring slelght-of-hand; of me Be recHea! joker of the one oa roel s involving sleight-of-hand, or the use of ine over shave uae DO hee 1 Deedes caren. sclally ‘prepared cards. Illustrated. ng over three hundred interesting puzzle : 52. HOW TO PLAY CARDS. Giving LOU BOT jefe Rete same. A complete i oa ne ‘rules and full directions for playing | °° ully ilustrated. the: a 81. HOW TO MESMERIZE.— 5 Buchre, Cribbage, Casino, Forty-five, Rounce, |-,.No- Bi HOW . TO! Bo _ ELECTRICAL ing the most approved methods of me _ Pedro Sancho, Draw Poker, Auction Pitch, All 5 also how to cure all kinds of dis Fours. and many other popular games of ¢ is animal magnetism, or magnetic ‘hea comedian. xty-four pages ored cover containing a h together with illustrations. By y ‘ r Care cs Yo 6s “HOW TO DO CHEMICAL TRICKS aoa! pe ee auth No. 58. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS.—A | —Containing over one hundred highly amus- tONo. 82 HOW TO DO PALM wonderful little book, telling you how to | ing and instructive tricks with chemicals. By | ini th ved ur sweetheart, your father, mother, | a. Anderson. ‘Handsomely illustrated. ? bt ae tne anet hance ope at her, employer; and, in fact, every- No. 69. HOW TO DO “SY GH! -OF-HAND. anes ib nes on one and, sce ybody you wish to write to. ‘| —Containing over fifty of jatest and best ‘tog. Darenoiaen aa une n ow TO KEEP AND MANAGE | tricks/used by magicians Alxo contains ‘N° | acter by the b a ng complete information as to the | secret of second sig i : re of raising, keeping, tam- | No. 70. HOW TO MAKE. MAGIC TO YS | Oe. 88. HOW T SS at Noe “ ff Containing full directions for making wae valuable and fi as ctive information re Toys and devices of irae kinds. Fully illus- ing the science of “hy prot N How TO- Re Oo CHANICAL es the most ie Lb Pa b ‘HOW TO COLLECT sTAMPs AND | 1 complete instructions for Tso, ch, [NI ae vee. valuable information AND sixty M anical Tricks. aes ator AN av : : . reg: coilecting and arranging of: ? fa 7 WTO DO SIXTY TRICKS To BRCOM Be es oe wifi Camps. Embracin of the latest stru tions how cks, with illus- » ? bli £