Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 507) (1915 06 18)

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No. 504 MAY 28th,1915 / 5& (onls. The sun was just setting behind t the distant hills when Fred ena Bert came unexpectedly upon na startling sight. Two weather-bleached corpses, with their arms bound together, lay as they had fallen on either side of a tree.

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ame and Fortune Weekly STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY Issued Weekiy—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second-Class Matter, by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d Street, New York. Striving for Fortune By A SELF-MADE MAN SELIG uae CHAPTER I. { It was about the middle of May. and a yery fine morning, | that Miss Pillsberry came into the Gardner store to ask for a re she had been impatiently expecting for two or three z . ays. c woe ins ee pond Meecha SeiEndilt: des etn) oe had called the day before in respect to it and had been d ¥; : os * disappointed. = 93 Senn pita pean: th esa? aged to aoe Brvodicygis Evidently, from the tone of her voice on this occasion, she ms hal eae aps 2 epi arena mio a th counter | Seemed to entertain no doubt but that the letter was snugly of rd sees D "Yebaa e : 5h 8 et ger Wey gr sandwiched between others in the box, and only awaited the th the Catches Store and postoffice of the age at Alton, | ready fingers of Fred Bowers to come forth. 3 “Good-morning. Miss Pilisberry,” said Fred, pleasantly, enh Sonar nee si Sok bei + ep Seiiios tnieed jumping down from his stool to wait on her. “I will look and ‘gary y, - ; . see.” was in full accord with his personal appearance. Miss Pillsh ; ; “tra ‘ , n Winkle existence, as if the spirit of that noted charac-| I do want to see my brother so much, I haven’t seen him since — er brooded over the place. : he was married, six years ago.” ; mad But dw the summer it woke up and was endewed with Fred silently sympathized with her in her disappointment. a e, for half of the people took in boarders, probably in Probably it will come in this evening's mail. 1 will be ee ‘Senses than one, and an influx of city folks made the the Jookout for it. If it comes, and bane Gardner does not ob- — _ L ‘and*woods and by-ways huw after a fashion. ject, I will bring if over.te your-house.” See

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“Phank you. You are such a different boy from Tom Gard- ner. I often wonder why you stay here when you are so unkindly treated as I have heard. I think most boys would want to make a change.” oe " bt cart # “Tf think I shall soon, Miss Pillsberry,” replied Fred quietly. ~ “Do you really mean that?’ she said quickly. . “Yes, ma'am. Iam only waiting to get money enough to pay i my way to New York. I hope you won't mention it, Miss Pills- berry. Mr. Gardner wouldn't like to hear that I intend to leave hs him, and it would make trouble for me.” = “Oh, I won’t say a word about it, you may depend.” see, “Thank you, Miss Pillsberry.” “What a nice, polite boy he is,” thought the spinster as she ¥. left the store. +4 As Fred was mounting his stool again a very pretty red- ¢heeked girl came into the place. a Her rame was Kittie Redwood, and her father owned a a “small farm near Alton. _ The Redwoods took summer boarders to help out their scanty income, and consequently Miss Kittie was kept pretty busy | helping her mother to wait upon them during the season. pe and ais lively as a young colt. She and Fred were the very best of friends, and they were ‘always glad to see each other. “Hello, Kittie!” exclaimed Fred, delightedly. “What brings | you to the village.” es “Why, pa’s light wagon brought me,” she giggled.” “id “Oh, say, Kittie, you’re too smart this morning. Did you x ‘come in here to see me or to buy something? en. -asoth.” “Well, I'm glad to see you, all right. What can I do for you?” : “HHere’s a list of the things we want. Mother wrote it out. - ¥ou want to have the bundle ready when pa calls around with _ the wagon.” “T'll see that it’s ready, Kittie.” H - “re you all alone this morning?” : “Looks as if I was, doesn’t it?” “Yet. Where is Tom Gardner?” _ “Gone fishing.” “Do you ever go fishing?” } “Not if Mr. Gardner has any thing to say about it, and he generally does.” -“T think it’s a shame that you don’t get more recreation.” - “What's the use of kicking against a stone wall?” ai | shouldn't put up with it if I were you,” replied Kittie op m going to dig out for New York.” “Do you mean that?’ she asked, with a grave face. “I certainly do. I've tried hard to do the right thing by ~ Mr: Gardner and the fumily, but they don’t seem to appreciate Yad my efforts.” “That's a bargain, now.” a “So as soon as I get enough saved up to take me down the » Yiver and keep me a week or two in the city I'm going to make a sta’ Srey ‘shall be sorry to have fou go, Fred,” said Wittie, swing- ing her sunbonnet to and fro. “Very, very sorry.” ie Kittie?’ ~ “Oh, beca Because what?” ‘ Because I like you, Fred. There now, I've said it,” and she joked covertly at him from under her long lashes. And T like you, too, Kittie. I'll write to you when I get to city and tell you how I get on.” Vill you?” she asked eagerly. “Sure ‘I will, Will you write to me, too?” mend hs from the shelves the various 4 “Aponte a on the list, and after he had checked them he pam to make a bundle of them. _suppose you you're going to take boarders this summer, as , aten’t you?” asked the boy. » ‘Oh, yes. Gas built !an addition to the house, so that. e’ll be able four or five more.” | should phe 4 HS g006 deal = rok for you aa. your mother, y “The Chilton ee ae boarder , there ’ St s - Oe ee = hw STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. “So I’ve heard. We'll have two a week foe now and six by the first of June.” “Those are the early birds.” “They're going to stay all summer. By the way, didn't I see Miss Pillsberry leaving the store just before I came?” “Yes. She was after a letter which she said contained fifty dollars from her brother. It hasn’t got here yet, and she was disappointed. She told me that she was going to visit her brother at Chestertown. The money she expects is to pay her traveling expenses.” “It will be a new thing for her to go traveling. She hasn’ t been away from the village as long as I can remember.” “That's right. She hasn’t been out of Alton in fifteen years at least.” At this juncture Mr. Redwood entered the store. “The bundle is all ready, pa,” said Kittie, pointing to it. The farmer nodded pleasantly to Fred. = suppose Kittie has been talking you deaf, dumb and blind,” he grinned. : “Why, pa, the idea!” “Not at all, Mr. Redwood. Zs I was very glad to see Kitty. I She was about thirteen years old, as bright aS a new penny |like to talk to her.” “Oh, you do; eh? We find her a great chatterbox at home,” laughed the farmer. “Aren’t you just horrid, pa! ™ “T’ll trouble you for a package of smoking tobacco, Fred,” said Mr. Redwood, hauling out a long buckskin purse. The boy got the tobacco. “What's the damage?” asked the farmer, putting the pack- age in his pocket. “Altogether you owe us $2.35,” replied Fred, handing him back the slip Kittie had brought, with the cost of each item marked against it. f “T guess I have the exact change,” said Mr. Redwood, after dumping the contents of the purse on the counter, and sepa- 3 rating two one-dollar bills and thirty-five cents, which he ; pushed over to the boy. “That's correct, Mr. Redwood,” said Fred, putting the money in the till. “Come along, Kittie,” * said her father. “Your mother said I | Should hurry back.” “Good- by, Fred, Remember you mustn't leave Alton without seeing me.” “T won't, Kittie. I couldn’t think of doing that. Good-by.” The boy mounted the stool once more and took up the old - copy of a New York paper he had been reading when Miss q Pillsberry entered the store. Lal is “Fred Bowers, come out in the Kitchen and fetch me a pail a of water.” The boy obeyéd with his customary promptness, but in Miss — x Minerva’s eyes he had lead on his feet. : “It’s a wonder you wouldn’t, move around more lively,” she said sharply, as he placed the ‘pail on the fioor near the sink. Fred made no reply. He was quite used to Miss Gardner’s way, and had learned 5 from experience that it was better to say nothing when the. =5 spinster wagged her tongue. : = “Come now, don’t stand there gawking at me. Take that — pan of potatoes and peel em. See that you don’t take all oF "3 about it, either,” she snapped. Fred got a knife and started in. “I hain’t seen Tom since breakfast,” she remarked after, a while. “Do you know where he is?” “Gone fishing, I believe.” “Who was that gal talkin’ with you in the store a while 7 ago?” asked Miss Gardner. “Seems to me you might better be ‘tendin’ to business than wastin’ your time wines Sass “That was Kittie Redwood,” replied Fred. “Huh!” sniffed the lady. “She was talking about the boarders they're going io 4 CHAPTER II. THE MEETING IN THE GORGE. Mr. Gardner returned from a neighboring village about half- past eleven, and soon afier his sister thrust her head in at the rear door and called out: 7 2a this summer, for one thing.” “Some people will do most anythin’ for a dollar,” a = Ses door Gardner. Just then Tom Gardner appeare. dozen very ta i strung on a

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“TI want them for dinner,” table. - “I don’t see how I kin cook ’em, Thomas,” replied his aunt. “Well, you want to find a way,” he said in a surly tone. “That ain’t no way to speak to me, Thomas,” she replied, sharply. Tom took no notice, but walked on through into the store. Fred was kept busy at one thing or another until dinner was ready, when he was sent into the store to call Mr. Gardner and his precious son to the meal. As for himself, he never had the honor of eating with the family except on Sunday. "He was expected to remain in the store until the others had finished, and then he was called to the table himself. What was left was considered good enough for him. Sometimes there wasn’t enough of that to more than half satisfy his healthy appetite, and as a consequence he went hungry. Tom got his fish that day, as he knew he would, though his aunt cooked them much against her will. For that reason when Fred came to the table he found a : tolerable amount of food awaiting him, for which unexpected - blessing he was truly thankful. After supper Fred was sent as usual in the wagon to the railroad station, six miles away, for the mail, and of course if he found any express packages there intended for Alton, or any <r ordered by Mr. Gardner, he brought them back with m The road to the station was a wild and romantic one through the Mountains, which Fred found particularly dreary in winter and early spring. it was dark when the boy reached Undercliff Station. The train had arrived and passed on half an hour before, he found the mail bag waiting for him. €@ left the bag that was to go down to Kingston by the Morving train, and after a few minutes’ conversation with the station agent, who was on very friendly terms with him, he started to return to town. Half way back along the road he entered a gloomy gorge, where the hills towered all about him. \ It broadened out in one spot into a wide.plateau, and sum- mer visitors were often told that this was the spot where Rip Van Winkle had played the famous game of ten-pins with the mountain dwarfs. A ghostly-looking tree was also pointed out as the identical _ place where Rip had passed his twenty years of repose among its roots. None of the people who lived in the neighborhood believed the story, of course, but nevertheless many of them had a sneaking idea that the gorge was haunted. _ Fortunately Fred was not troubled with any nervous fancies of this kind, for he had to traverse the gorge twice a day for four months, whether he liked to or not. ‘He rarely met a vehicle, and still More rarely a pedestrian _ at night in the gorge, so that he never looked for any. On this oceasion, however, he was a bit startled to see a solitary figure sitting on a decaying tree trunk in the middle of the plateau. At the moment the moon was just peeping above one of the _ distant peaks, and its rays falling upon the motionless figure threw his shadow half way across the road. “Who the dickens can that be?” Fred asked himself, as he ~ looked at the strange apparition. ¥ The sound of the horse’s feet and the ring of the wagon wheels aroused the man, whoever he was, ‘He stared across at Fred and his rig for a moment, then got up and staggered in a kind of uncertain, tipsy way toward road. nod reined in and waited for him to come up. “Shay, boy,” he said in an inebriated manner, putting his hands on the shaft to steady himself; “going to (hic) Alton, aren't you?” % ‘¢ t am,” replied Fred, looking closely at the man, who was vel! dressed and of rather fine appearance, “Are you stopping the neighborhood of the village?” he added, wondering if t ‘was the early boarder at Chilton Farm, about whom he heard. “if you. are, I’ll be glad to give you a lift to your og place.” ust" what I was ‘bout * ask you to do, young man. Been t walking for my health. Got lost somehow, and want to } get back, Live at Chilton Farm, brt don’t want to go there at this hour looking like this—you understand, Bis SE soeple sheets in the wind. ‘Took a drop of to keep the cold off. But le don’t un- to a Tut “toxicated. Give me bard came, STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. he said, dropping the fish on the Hurt my reputation. Understand? Won't do ’tall. People see me this way, sure to talk. Then news get into papers. Sena- tor Smith drunk. Bad sign. Won’t do. Now do me the favor to take me to inn at Alton. Proprietor friend of mine. Won't talk. Everything all right—see?” Fred saw what the gentleman was getting at, and of course was perfectly willing to help him out of his dilemma. He got down and with considerable difficulty assisted the man to get up on the seat. The senator had so little control over his limbs that he would have got a nasty tumbie only that the boy's strong arms upheld him. At last he got his passenger seated and drove on at a slow trot. “Shay, boy, what name?” “You want to know my name, sir?” “Zat’s right.” “My name is Fred Bowers.” “Bowers! Knew a man named Bowers once. Shaved him from long term in State prison. Fine man, but he had close call. You look like fine boy. How old?” “Fourteen.” - “Don’t shay! Big for (hic) age. Old ‘nough to keep secret, ain’t you?” c The senator looked anxiously at Fred. “What kind of secret?” “What kind of secret? Why, finding me two or three sheets in wind down in gorge. Understand?” “Yes, sir. You don’t want the fact known?” “Zat’s right. Smart boy. Remember what I said a while back. Won't do to have name in papers with disagreeable facts. Understand?” “T understand, sir.” “Bright boy! Like to reward sensible boy. this,” and he offered Fred a small roll of bills. “No, sir. I don’t want to pay for doing you a favor.” “Nonsense! Put it in your pocket. Plenty more where zat came from.” “I'd rather not take it,” protested Fred: ““Why not?” i? | don’ t want to be paid for helping you out of your trouble. I am quite willing to do that for nothing.” Senator Smith scratched: his head and looked hard at the young driver. Apparently it was a new sensation for him to find any one who was satisfied to do something for nothing. He was afraid Fred's, words covered some other motive, and the very idea made him uneasy. Maybe the boy intended to make something by sending the news of his condition to the newspapers. While he was considering the matter Fred drove up to the door of the Stag Inn at Alton. “Here we are, sir, at the Stag Inn. That's where you wanted to go, isn’t it? I'll call Mr. Drew, the landlord.” “Wait a moment. Promise me you'll keep secret, young man.” “TI promise you on My word of honor,” “Good boy! Call landlord.” As Fred started to alight the senator dropped the wad of money into his pocket. “Got him (hic) zat time,” chuckled Senator Smith, as Fred entered the small hotel. “Can’t shay now I didn’t reward him in suitable (hic) manner,” Landlord Drew came outside and sized up the situation in — a moment. With Fred’s assistance he guided the senator upstairs to a ‘ room and helped him into bed, while the boy drove on down ee the street to Mr. Gardner’s store. oA Here, take replied Fred. sy CHAPTER III. FRED HAS A RUN-IN WITH TOM GARDNER. When Fred drove up te the store with the wagon Mr. Gard. ner was standing in front of the door looking as dark as thundergust. “What kept you so long away?” demanded the storekeeper, wrathfully. The boy was about to explain about his meeting with eae ae tor Smith and how He had brought him to the village and — helped get him up to a room in the Stag Inn when it iemoee M to him that he had promised to say nothing patric Yay = so he remained silent.

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‘oral we . “IT asked you what kept you so long away. Haven’t you got a tongue in your head?” ‘Fred by the arm and shaking him in a savage way. » “I don’t think I've been any longer than usual,” replied Fred, doggedly. “You don’t think!” howled the storekeeper. “How dare you say that, you young jackanapes! You've been half an hour longer than usual. ; mail, and have gone away. - complaints agin me. . blamedest lickin’ you ever had in your life. I s'pose you stood 2 around chinnin’ to the station agent, you lazy young villain!” -. To this Fred made no reply. “Why don’t you answer me?” cried the exasperated post- ‘Master, “What's the use? You won't believe me,” replied Fred. \} Mr. Gardner glared at his boy viciously. i Then he picked the mail bag out of the wagon and gave _ Fred a rude push. . “Take the rig and put it up. If you're over five minutes doin’ it I’ll skin you alive.” ‘ Fred led the horse and wagon around into the yard, and unharnessing the animal, put him into his stall. Nidtee te First ching I know there'll be ce Then he reappeared before the store and began to take the boxes and other articles exposed outside into the place. RS Mr. Gardner was behind the counter sorting the mail into _ the pigeon-holes. Tom was seated on a soap box smoking a cigarette. He did not offer to help Fred move a single article. In fact, it gave him great satisfaction to see the drudge of _ the family work. The more work Fred had to do the better it pleased him. Finally, when Fred had about finished, Tom slyly kicked “over a smai!l box filled with-new potatoes. “What did you do that for?” demanded Fred, who had seen _ the mean act. ; “What are you talkin’ about?” grinned Tom, insolently. >t “You kicked that box of potatoes over.” a “Kicked nothin’ over. It fell over itself. ‘ap now and put ’em back.” _ “Pick them up yourself.” “Tf you den’t pick ‘em up I'll tell dad.” “Tell him if you wish to. I'll tell him I-saw you knock it J “over.” _ “He won’t believe you,” snickered Tom. “I won't pick them up, if he kills me, and, further,” walk- ing up to Tom with a resolute air, “jf you don’t pick those ae Vo el wee You can pick ‘em potatoes up right away Ill knock the head off of you right | stout rawhide and, burning with resentment against the bey, here in the store.” Tom shrank away from him in alarm. _ He was a big coward, and, although Fred had never struck _ reason, for Fred could have handled him with one hand, b Tom was thoroughly startled by the look on the other's _ face, which showed that he meant business, so he jumped up - and fled behind the counter for safety. _ Fred, however, was after him in an instant, undeterred by _ the presence of Mr, ‘present. r Tom set up a roar when Fred grasped him by the collar. “Let me alone, will you?” he cried, kicking out at the de- 3 ‘termined boy. : But Fred's ‘plood was up. ey He had already been angered by the reception he had re- ceived from Mr. Gardner, and he was ripe for rebellion. Gardner or the half a dozen villagers _ struggling and howling son of the storekeeper from his place of refuge over to the pile of scattered potatoes, and, pushing im down on his knees, said: Pick them up, or I'll make you dance for it!” £, irxe uproar, of course, had attracted general notice. Mr. Gardner came from behind the counter, and as soon as ex! realized that Tom was in Fred's clutches he attacked the be boy savagely. “How dare you lay your hands on my son, you reptile!” he : _ Foared, belaboring Fred over the head with his fist. - One of the villagers interfered and dragged him away. oa? DO you want Aa kill the boy?” he said, keeping between ani mie daunted, maintained his hold on Tom. “Pick up those ae 5 you ae me?” he demanded reared Mr. Gardner, grabbing | said the villager. Utterly regardless of the consequences, he dragged the} boy in the morning, he retired to his own room and went to. ee ne ae STRIVING FOR FORTUNE “Let the boys fight the matter out between themselves,” “I saw the whole thing. Your son is in the wrong. He kicked over that box of potatoes on purpose to make Fred pick them up.” “T don’t believe it,” snarled the storekeeper. “I saw him do it,” replied the villager, coolly. The people in the store were now gathered about the scene asked his People have been here lookin’ for their |of the troubie. “Did you upset that box of potatoes, Tom? I've a good mind to give you the/father. It fell over accidentally.” triumphantly. “I knew he “Didn’t do no such thing. “There,” cried Mr. Gardner, didn’t do it.” “He did do it,” now asserted Fred. “He did it on purpose to give me the work of picking them up, just as if I didn’t have enough to do without that,” cried the boy indignantly. “You're a little liar!” snarled the storekeeper. “Leave Tom alone and pick them potatoes up or I'll skin you alive.” “I won’t pick one of them up,” replied Fred, defiantly; “not if I was to be killed for it.” y “What!” roared Mr. Gardner, aghast at this evidence of re- bellion on the part of this drudge. “Tom upset them. Make him pick them up.” The storekeeper tried to get at Fred again, but the vil- lager prevented him. The boy then dropped Tom and walked away from the crowd, seating himself on a sugar barrel at the end of the store. Tom got up, gave the pile of potatoes a vicious kick, scat- tering them about and ran out of the store. Mr. Gardner shook his fist at Fred, and, with a muttered threat of what he would do to him later on, returned behind the counter. People came and went for the next hour, some o? them after mail and some after’tobacco and sundry articles. \ Fred sat on the barrel and nursed his indignation for half an hour, after which he deliberately walked up to his room, leaving Mr. Gardner to close the store himself. L¥ The boy had reached the last straw of his patience, and was determined to leave the Gardners for good that night. ’ He packed up his few articles of personal property in an old " grip he had acquired, and taking the five odd dollars he had saved almost penny by penny in the last two years from under =s the corner of the old rag carpet where he had kept it con- cealed, put it into his pocket. Then he sat down by the window to wait until the house was quiet. After Mr. Gardner had closed the store he hunted up a softly mounted the stairs to his room with the intention of satisfying his feelings. a Fred had anticipated some such move on the atorehenpies w him in his life, he wes afraid of the stout boy, and not without | part; and had not only locked his door, but barricaded it with a heavy dresser that formed part of the furniture of the little shabby room. Mr. Gardner swore when he found that he was balked in his amiable intentions. He had some idea of breaking the door down, but he was afraid that while he was engaged in doing it the boy would ~ escape by the window, which overlooked the roof of the kitchen addition, so he refrained from carrying the idea out. Then he thought of getting a ladder and climbing upon ‘the kitchen roof and entering the room by the window, but finally concluded to wait until morning, and then give Fred a double dose of the rawhide. So with pleasant anticipations of what he would do to the bed. CHAPTER IV. THE ROBBERY OF THE MAIL, “~ Fred heard Mr. Gardner come upstairs and try his door, a he guessed what the storekeeper’s object was. ms He listened until he was satisfied that the head of the Gardner household had gone to his room, then he removed the — barricade from the door and sat down to wait for another hats to pass. : When he heard the clock in the room underneath eleven he decided that it was safe to make a move, so” ice locked his door, thrust his head out and listened intently. The house agemed to be wrapped in silence and gloom. Removing his shoes and taking them in os

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“Don’t say nothin’ about it, and I'll put the money back.” - “Back where?’ “Into the envelope, and I'll put the envelope back in the pigeon-hole. oo looked hastily around for the envelope, but couldn’t ‘see it, Then he looked on the floor behind the counter, and on the other side of the counter, but could not see a sign of it. _ “Where is it? I didn’t burn it. Only started to do so.” “ve got it in my pocket.” replied Fred, who had been watch- ing the scared boy with a curious grin. a “Give it to me, then,” cried Tom, holding out his hand for it. 3 “It wouldn't do you any good, for it was partly burned any- » Way.” “I don't believe it.” 2 “Then I'll show you,” said Fred, putting his hand in his = _ pocket and pulling it out to show the boy. Something else came out with it and drepped on the counter. ; . That something else was the roll of. bills Senator Smith had dropped into his pocket outside of the inn that evening unknown to him. ‘Tom Gardner's sharp eyes lit upon the bills at once, and he utiered an exclamation of surprise. Then a crafty expression came into his shifty eyes. “I guess if it comes to that I ain’t the only thief, after all. Where did you get all that money, Fred Bowers?” CHAPTER VY. THE SPRINGING OF THE TRAP. appearance of that roll of bills from his pocket. _ He stared at the wad as if it had been a snake or something i of that nature. ero If he heard Tom’s insulting words they made no impression on. his senses at the moment. ‘om, however, with a covetous chuckle, grabbed up the roll and counted it in a twinkling. “Fifty dollars,” he grinned. “Just the same I got out of the letter,” and be tossed it back, picking up the roll he had pil-| _ fered and holding it tight. mine. felt he had settled the diffieult problem with which he bad | heen confronted a moment before. Fred. conidn’t help seeing that things had taken an unpleas- ; “And such a big sum, too, for he had mechanically watched Tom count it ever, and when his young enemy announced the = amount he could hardly believe the evidence of his eyes and be 1 be at once he remembered the roll which Senator Smith had tried to press upon him as a bribe for his silence as to the politi¢ian’s condition. “It must be the same,” he thought. “The senator managed in some way to drop it into my pocket.” Certainly that must be the truth, for in no other way could he fiecount for the possession of so much money. But Tom’s self-satisfied grin and half-sneering expression ade him exceedingly angry. easily saw that the storekeeper’s son believed he had ob- that money in some underhand way. “ee a eee isn’t it?’ said Tom, with a malicious chuckle. it isn’t a bargain,” cried Fred indignantly. “Do you wink T stole that money?” “Where would you get fifty dollars all in a lump if you didn’t “teal it? You've been robbing dad’s till, I’ll bet.” “What!” gasped Fred, startled at such a suggestion. “You needn't pretend you haven’t. But I don't care whether “pate or not. He can stand it. It'll be a good joke on for he’s closer than a clamshell, and it'll do me good to » the fuss he'll make when he finds out the money is gone. 1 be sure to say you took it, so if I was you I’d dust out at efore he finds out he has been robbed.” Ps arly Tom Gardner was a model son. ft had ‘as much bear and respect for his father as a stone. d found himself in an embarrassing situation. eouldn’t 2 Ee armies roti tet ea son wouldn't believe ¥ -. Fred Was never so surprised in his life at the unexpected | “I guess you don’t want none of| knew it by the broken handle. Anyway, you won’t get none. If you tell on me I’'ll| night. “tell on you, see?’ and he ebhuckled with satisfaction, as he! hate him worse’n p’isen. aaa sud pot it tn pocket ar STRIVING FOR FORTUNE fully determined to return it to Senator Smith as soon as he could, though when that opportunity would occur he couldn't po gcigen he gave up his project of leaving the village that n g t “Are you going to return that money to Miss Pillsberry?’ he asked Tom. “Sure thing,’-grinned the boy. “Just watch me do it.” He picked up the envelope, put the fifty dollars into it and stowed it away in his pocket. “T'll carry it over to her in the morning,” he added. “But you'll have to explain how the letter and the end of the envelope came to be burned. How are you going to do that?” “Don’t you worry about that.” chuckled Tom. “She'll be glad to get the money without waitin’ to know too much about what happened to the rest of it.” “All right. Fix the matter up any way you think will let you out of the serape and I'll be satisfied. ” Tom grinned broadly. He felt that the fifty dollars was as good as his own now. “Fred is only putting up a bluff,” he said to himself. “He wants to hold onto that money he’s stolen from dad. I thought he was a chump, but I guéss he’s pretty slick, after all. Gee! Won't dad be wild when he finds himself fifty dollars out?” That reflection evidently tickled him greatly, for he snickered loudly. “I guess I'll go to bed,” he said. been in bed at all yourself?” The suspicion had just struck him that Fred had come into the store to look at the till and see if his father had left any money in it overnight. The fact that his father was uncommonly careful with his money, and never left any around loose, did net appear to strike him. : “That’s my business,” replied Fred, in answer to his ques- tion. Tom chuckled as he moved around the end of the counter. Fred picked up the candle and followed him. When he reached the entry door he blew it out. At that moment Tom stumbled over an obstacle in his path and went down on his hands and knees. He put out his hand and felt of the obstruction. : “T’s a valise,” he said to himself. “Fred's valise, too. I So he’s goin’ to light out to- That's why he hasn’t been in bed. i’m glad of it. I I hope I'll never see him again.” Tom decided not to let on that he suspected PFred’s inten- “Say, how is it you ain't ons. He was afraid the boy might change his mind and postpone _ his project. So he got up and began to tiptoe upstairs. He resolved to watch, however, to see if Fred really took his departure. As for Fred, he did not dare remain downstairs under pres- ent circumstances. That would be altogether too suspicious. Therefore he followed Tom up to the passage above, leaving his shoes and valise near the entry door, and went to his room once more, where he expected to. pass another hour until he was satistied Tom had fallen asleep and the coast was clear. Hardly had the two boys closed their room doors behind them — than Mr. Gardner came out into the passage in his stocking feet and, leaning over the railing, listened intently. He had been aroused by the noise made by Tom sprawling over Fred’s yalise. Sitting up in bed, he listened, not quite sure as to what it — was that had awakened him. ’ : Then he fancied he heard the stairs creak, whereupon he jumped out of bed and opened his room door just a moment too late to catch the two boys on the way to their rooms, “{ wonder if anybody has broken into the store?” he asked himself, after listening for a full minute and hearing nothing. 4 He determined to go down and see. e Taking care to make as little noise as possible, he desceniat ” the staircase. ry Pausing at the foot. he listened again: Not a suspicions sound reached his ears. Then he moved forward to the entry door leading trite Be store. : He looked into the place, but it was as dark and silent as the grave. “Guess I must have been mistaken,” he thought. “There ; hain’t no one here.” gi He started to go back and he also oped, over Pred’ ‘3: oi “What's that?’

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He investigated the object and found that it was a grip. His roving fingers also discovered Fred’s shoes. ‘Oh, ho! I begin to smell a mouse. That young rascal Fred Bowers is intending to give me the slip to-night. The villain! After all I've done for him. Kept him in victuals and clothes he was knee-high to a grasshopper. If that hain't grati- tood may I be—— Never mind! I'll just keep quiet ‘round here and wateh for hin to come from his room. I'll give him the surprise of his life—the monkey! And to-morrow morning | I'll lick him till he won't be able to sit down in a week.” So, with the grim determination of wreaking a terrible ven- geance on the hapless boy, he hunted up, a bit of candle and some matches and, taking his seat on an empty cracker box just ae the store door, he lay in wait for the appearance of his victim. A full hour passed and the sitting-room clock struck one be- fore anything happened. Then a door above was softly opened and closed and the stairs began to creak under the stocking-feet of some one descending. The storekeeper grinned savagely, and his fingers worked in anticipation of the moment when he would pounce upon the unsuspecting object of his wrath. Whoever was coming down had now reached the foot of the staircase and had paused to listen. Then the newcomer crept forward on his hands and knees as if searching for something. As soon as his hands touched the valise he gave a grunt of satisfaction. At that instant, like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky, Mr. Gardner sprang upon him. AS his talon-like fingers fastened on to the boy’s jacket the youth uttered a cry of fright and commenced to struggle. “Ho, ho, you young villain!” roared the storekeeper, with savage earnestness. “I’ve got you, have I? Goin’ to sneak off in the dead of night, were you, thinkin’ I wouldn’t know nothin’ about it. I'l fix you, you pestiferous little monkey! Tl warm your jacket nicely for. you. When I’ve got through with you, you'll think you'd been drawed through a knot-hole, and a mighty small one at that.” He shook the boy as a cat might a mouse. “Oh, oh, oh!” whimpered his victim. “You're hurtin’ me. What's the matter with you? I ain’t Fred Bowers; I’m Tom.” “Tom!” gasped the storekeeper, releasing his hold on the y. “Is it really you, Tom?” “Yes, it’s me,” replied his son, in a sulky tone. “You ’most -~ shook the breath out of my body. What did you want to do? Kill me?” Mr. Gardner struck a match to make sure that his ears had not deceived him. Sure enough, there stood his son and heir, Tom Gardner, half dressed, the picture of a very rumpled boy. ' ie ue et, as WD CHAPTER VI. FRED'S DEPARTURE FROM ALTON. “What ‘are you doin’ down here at this hour of the night?” asked his father in no little surprise, as he lit the piece of dle. | What are you doin’ down here yourself?” replied his hope- _ ful son, disrespeectfully. “~ heard. a noise somewhere in the house, and I thought , ‘some one had broken into the store, so I came down to look into it. T found them things yonder,” pointing at Fred’s shoes and valise. “They ain't got no business to be there, and they wasn't there when I went to bed. So I just thought I’d set ‘trap and see what Id ketch.” Na “And you ketched me instead of the one you was watchin’ ‘for, didn’ t you?” grinned Tom, as he began to comprehend his _ parent's error. “T did, unfortunately.” admitted the postmaster, in a grump tone. “I thought I had hold of that pesky Fred Bow- That's his grip and them are his shoes. Anybody with an eye kin see that he’s plapned to run away to-night. wed I intended to give him a sound lickin’ in the rnin’, so he thought he'd play a march on me, the young - Well, I've been waitin’ nigh on to an hour for him e down after his things, but he ain’t showed up yet.” er mes out the cee iag dad, if you're thinkin’ of ketchin’ STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. E Me RS Seal Se SS Atte Bato Sie Sar BEY Cael AE. ST aa a Aa Or APT ? “Now, Tom,” said his father in a conciliatory tone, “you might tell me what woke you up and sent you down here. There hain't been no noise that I know of, for I kept as quiet as @ mouse.” Tom tried to think of some excuse to account for his actions and remove any lingering suspicion in his father’s mind. He was not very successful, and was about to fall back on silence as his best defense, when suddenly a brilliant idea struck him. Fred had $500 in his pocket, the exact amount that he (Tom) had abstracted from Miss Pillsberry's letter. , There was bound to be trouble about that letter in a day or two. While he really believed that Fred had stolen that money,. maybe by piecemeal from his father, it would be ever so much better if he could make it appear that he had stolen the spinster’s letter, for that would relieve him of any suspicion, in the matter. He rather hoped Fred would get away, as that would simplify affairs, but still if he was caught with $59 in his possession, he would have a hard time trying to clear him- self of the charge Tom intended should be brought against him. “Well, dad.” he said, slowly, “I had an idea that Fred was going to run away to-night.” : “Bh? What made you thirk so?” “He acted kind of suspicious like to me.” “If you thought so why didn’t you tell me?” “I wasn't sure about it, so I thought I’d watch and see if, he really intended to do it.” “Well?” said his father, impatiently. “When he went to his room I peeked through the key-, hole, and what do you s’pose I saw?” went on Tom, making; up his story as he went along. “How should I know what you saw?” growled his father, — “IT saw him countin’ a roll of bills.” “A roll of what?” gasped the storekeeper. “A roll of money.” “You must have been mistaken. Where would he get any money ?” : “TI wasn’t mistaken, for I saw the money as plain as I ever. seen anythin’ in my life. It was a lot of money, too. He must have found it, or maybe he stole it. You ain’t missed any money, have you, dad?” “No; but if that little villain has any money in his pos- — session he must have taken it from the till, a dollar at a time, when he got the chance. He could do that once and a while without me knowin’ anythin’ about it. The thievin’ little monkey! Just wait till I lay my hands on him. I'll skin him nlive.” “He put the money away in his pocket, and, while I was lookin’ to see what he was goin’ to do next, my foot slipped ag'in the door. He jumped up and I ran back to my room, Then you came up and went to bed.” “You ought to have come and told me what you'd seen.” “IT wanted to ketch him myself. After a while I heard bim go downstairs. I started to follow when he made a noise — down here as if he’d fallen over somethin’ and back he came again as fast as he could and ran into his room.” “That must have been the noise I heard.” “TY waited for him to go down again, but I didn’ t hear him. Then I went to his door and looked through the keyhole once more. Everythin’ was dark inside, and I didn’t see nothin’. I waited a while longer, and then I came down here to sea if he had sneaked without me hearin’ him, when the ‘first thing I knew you grabbed me.” 4 “I reckon he hain’t gone yet, for he wouldn't go without ; his valiseé and shoes,” said Mr. Gardner. “He’s waitin’ up in his room till he feels sure that there isn’t no danger of his being ketched. I think the best thing we kin do is to go up there softly and nab him where he is.” “All right. dad. You go and I'll follow.” The storekeeper started to lead the eye with his hopeful son at his heels, : Mr. Gardner chuckled to himself as he thought how sur- £ prised Fred Bowers would be when they marched in and pounced upon him. Unfortunately for the success of this artful design, was too bright a boy to be caught napping. While the foregoing conversation was proceeding in the try Fred. leaning over the railing of the passage above, interested listener to it. ; Wontar ie tal" t And this was how he happe He had actually opened door for bis final ne > Sa op

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STRIVING eae thoueht so.” with a grin. do you hail from?” “Alton. in the Catskills.” “Up in the mountains, eh?” “Yes!” “You've never worked in any kind of a hotel, \ end up.” “Where are you stopping?” Fred mentioned the place on West street. “All right., You'll live here with the rest of us: get your traps and report to me as scon as you come back. | Understand?” ‘ os Fred said he did and started off for his grip, which held all of his worldly possessions. tingent showed him where he would sleep and brought him a regulution uniform to try on. It fitted him perfectly, much to the head bellboy’s satis- faction. suppose you're ready to eat, aren’t you?” *” “Ves, ” “Come along, then. It’s our dinner hour.” “Whereabouts in the country have you?” #No,” accra Fred, cheerfully; “but I guess I can hold my So go + When he returned to the hotel the boss of the bellboy con- FOR FORTUNE. 7 He asked her to write to him and let him have all the news from home. This letter, for some unexplained reason, did not reach its destination, and Fred waited in vain for an answer. He theught a great deal of Kittie, and her silence caused him to feel quite bad for a time. ‘ “I guess she doesn’t think enough of me, after all, to write,” he said to himself some weeks afterward. “Well, I've done my part. I promised to write to her and I’ve done it. It’s up to her now. If she doesn’t care to send me any word, why, I can’t make her, that’s all. I did think Kittie liked me a good bit. She always acted as if she did, at any rate. I ~— to have her throw me down, but what’s the use of kick- ing?” He was too proud to write her a second letter, and so Kittie Redwood, who was eagerly and impatiently waiting for Fred to write and let her know where he was, and what he was doing, felt sad on her part at his silence. She. in common with everybody else in that part of the - Catskills, had heard the story which Tom Gardner had in- “You'll wear that when you're on duty. Understand? I | dustriously circulated about Fred’s wickedness in robbing the mail. Miss Pilisberry. to whom the postmaster had made ood the $50 for fear that a complaint on her part would cause He led him to the. servant’s hall, in the basement, near the | him to lose the post-office, had nothing to say against the big kitchen, and piloted him to a table where several other bellboys, were getting outside of their mid-day meal. “Sit down and pitch in.” said his guide. “Help yourself to what you see, and don’t be afraid to eat all you want. After dinner I'll instruct you in your duties, and give you a ; few pointers you will do well to follow.” é One of the pointers Fred received was a significant man- date to divide all tips he received with his “boss.” Failure to do this right up to the handle weuld lead to un- 4 pleasant consequences, said the bellboy. “That's my perquisite for putting yon on to good things, see?” said his instructor. with a grin. “It’s one of the rules of the house, and a boy who doesn’t ante up gets it where the chicken got the axe. Some smart alecks, wio thought they knew it all, tried to ring in their own bookkeeping on me. The chap whese place you are going to fill was one of them; there’s only one set of books kept in belldom, and I keep that, ‘so don’t waste your efforts trying to get more than is coming to you unless you get tired of the job. Don't get the idea in _ your head, either, that when I ain't around that I don’t know all that’s going on. Now that [ve made you wise to a few _ things come upstairs and I'll show you where you sit. I'll let a little more light into your mansard roof another time. Do _ the right thing ‘by me and it’s dollars to doughnuts that you'll own a hotel like this some day yourself.” : “Do you expect to own one?” asked Fred, innocently. “Sure [ do. Every head bellboy expects to be his own ‘ hotel manager before he begins to shed his second teeth.” c It didn’t take Fred long to get the hang of his duties and the run of a city hotel like the DeLux. - Some boys naturally come to the front at once, and Fred was one of these. Before bis first month was up he had become the most popular bellboy in the house, and his services were in con- f tant demand by the guests of the house. _ Phis of itself would ordinarily have given rise to a lot of sy among his associates, and got him into no end of pri- wy Aan x squabbles, but for two things. - @Qmne was that his genial ways and abundant good nature - won him the friendship of his companions, while his strong _ physique and evident ability to mee care of himself compelled their respect. 3 pene other was his strict cnectinthine of the many and fre- rge tips he received from the guests to the head y which made him a favorite with that personage, who msequence became strongly biased in his favor, and him pe in many ways that proved of great advan- to him in the long run. away and Fred soon got accustomed to the ad he liked the life and noise of New the old humdrum existence he had ell eg te in his job at ‘the Hotel DeLux to Kittie Red ae 0 how he yes come | F | He ‘thrust his hand into his pocket and pulled o out a anarion stpposed eulprit when questioned on the subject. Although there was no doubt at all that Fred had run away, and that the $50 had disappeared at the same time, which was naturally a suspicious circumstances against the boy, she maintained that the evidence against Fred was not conelusiv e. SOthér people, however, after listening to Mr. Gardner's ators, hatked up by sundry details furnished by Tom, were of a différent opinion. In fact, about the only persons who really appeared to be- eae in Fred’ s innocence were Miss Pillsberry and Kittie Red- 00 E Tom lost no opportunity to make the situation as black as he could against the runaway, and his efforts in this di- rection were more or less successful. After a time it came to be noticed that the postmaster’s but |son was spending more Money than he was ever known to spend before. To account for this he gave out here and there that he was now chief clerk for his father and was in receipt of a regular wage. His unusual liberality. however, did not increase his per- sonal popularity, and when he found that fact out he began to secur on the village and asked his father to let him go to a York, where he felt sure he would be more apprect- ated. Mr, Gardner, parture. Tom then grew cranky, and made himself quite objection- able to the customers of the store. His father stood this until his patience gave out, and one night he gave his hopeful heir a sound beating. Tom went to bed vowing vengeance on his parent. Next morning .he was missing, and so was a roll of notes Mr. Gardner had placed the evening before in his bureau drawer. The inference was plain. His father tried to locate him, and even went so far as to however, objected strenuously to his de- | notify the police authorities of New York to be on the look- out for him, but nothing came of it. ‘ Tom, suspecting the tactics his parent might adopt. did not come to New York at that time, but hied himself to Phila- delphia, and so all trace of him was lost. a. CHAPTER IX. THE MAN WITH THE OILY TONGUE. Fred had been attached to the bellboy staff of the Hotel DeLux for about a year, and was now a fine, handsome boy of fifteen, when he was sent one afternoon to Room 38, on the second floor, with a pitcher of ice-water. Knocking at the door, he was told to come in. ce Entering, he placed the pitcher on a small marble-top. table. : _ The occupant of the room was standing by one of the win- ee dows looking out on the street. : at os “Here, boy,” he said, holding out his hand.

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STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. il Fred advanced to receive it, and found himself face to face with Senator. Smith. | for the fact that he heard the man mention the name of Sena- tor Smith and ask his companion what was the number of his The senator noticed his look of surprise and hesitation after | room. he had accepted the money, and said: _ “Well, do you wish to say anything to me?” “You are Senator Smith, aren't you?” “That's my name.” “1 think you were stopping at the Chilton Farm, in the Cats- kills, near the village of Alton, this time last year, sir?” “I was,” replied the senator, in some surprise, regarding the boy searchingly. . He did not recognize Fred, however, which is not singular, seeing it was at night he had caught his only glimpse of the boy, and he was half drunk at the time. “You don’t remember me,” replied Fred; “but I recollect ; you. I was living at that time with Mr. Gardner, the post- master. I was bringing the mail on our wagon from Under- cliff one night and I saw you sitting on an old decayed tree in the gorge. You said you had been taking a walk and had _ lost your way. You didn't want to,return to the Chilton Farm that night, and you asked me to take you to the Stag Inn, in the village, which I did. I don’t know whether you remember the circumstance or not, as it took place about a year ago.” : Senator Smith looked intently at Fred for a moment or ‘two without speaking. : “I recollect the circumstance, to which you allude. You did me a great favor, young man. I wanted to see you again, but found you had left the village rather suddenly. Can I do anything for you now? If so, don’t hesitate to speak out.” _“No, sir. But I wanted to call your attention = Whig fact that you dropped $50 in bills into my pocket that night. How, that is a lot of money for a person to pay for such,a sma service as I rendered you on that occasion. Besides, I. didn't want to be paid for doing you the favor. I don’t think,yo} were aware that you gave me so much money; therefore wish you'd let me return it to you.” P _ “Return it to me!” in an astonished tone. “Yes, sir. I don’t think I have any right to keep it.” “Look here, young man, I gave you that $50 to keep mum about a certain matter. In plain words, you found me partly under the influence»of liquor, and I didn’t want that fact to leak out. I remember now that I put the money into your jacket pocket because you refused to accept) it when I offered it to you.” “T found it that night, and if I had not left the village as ard as I did, I should have called on you and handed it . I should like to do so now.” “Nonsense! I couldn’t think of taking that money back. _ TI have more money than I know what to do with.” “But, sir, $50 is a lot of money for you to——” “Tut, tut! Don’t say another word about the matter. You earned the money all right. I always try to pay in proportion rs ee r Bh x to the service rendered me. Fifty dollars was a mere baga- by _ telle—I should liked to have given you more—but it happened to be all I had about me at the time. If you've kept that 4 motley ever since for the purpose of returning it when you met me, you've done a very foolish thing. The money is ab- a __ solutely yours, so don’t worry about it any more.” _--*With these words the senator gently pushed Fred toward the door. There was a small yard behind the hotel, where the covered barrels of refuse were kept, and where other odds and ends in _ the way of boxes and crates were stored pending removal. . An alley led from one end of this yard-into Twenty-second street. _ A few days later, about eight o’clock in the morning, Fred, _ who was off duty at that time, entered the yard and crawled in among a pile of erates close to the rear wall of the hotel. _- One of the guests on the sixth floor had accidentally dropped a valuable ring out of her window and she had asked the boy to try and find it. _ Fred hoped to be able to recover the ring, as it would be a $10 bill in his pocket. _He crawled around behind the crates, and felt as far under their sides and ends as he could insert his fingers. ; _ Hie had about come to the conclusion that the ring had fallen nto one of the excelsior-tilled crates when, to his intense satis- faction, he discovered it snugly imbedded in a small hole in _ the flagging close to the hotel wall. - that moment he heard the subdued tones of a man and z ‘an in eager conversation within .a foat or two of where he would have thought nothing of this circumstance but a : as ¥ > : . ‘ aie PAS evel - vi ote ie et ¥* se OE ee “It’s 38, on the second floor,” she replied. “And what floor do you work on, Sallie?” he inquired. “The second.” “You have a pass-key for all the rooms on that floor, haven't you?” “For all on the south and west corridors.” “Do you look after No. 38?” “Yes; Nellie Jones and I—the chambermaids work in pairs —do up that room.” “And I suppose the senator tips you liberally, doesn’t he, Sallie?” “We ain’t got no cause for complaint,” replied Sallie. “He seems to carry a lot of money around with him?” “He’s rather careless with it. Nellie found a $10 bill behind the table the other morning.” “Did she whack up with you?” “No. She returned it to him that afternoon.” “The deuce she did! What did you let her do that for? The Senator never would have missed it.” “Well, he gave her $5 for her honesty, and she gave me half of that.” “Honesty be blowed!” growled the man. Nobody gains any- thin’ by bein’ honest. I tried it for a while and came in for the short end of everythin’. Now, look here, Sallie, you want to keep in with me, don’t you?” “Of course I do.” “That's right. You're a fine girl, Sallie. you to the Island next Sunday afternoon.” “Do you mean that?” asked the girl in a delightful tone. “Sure I do. But I need the dough to give you a bang-up time. I want you to show me up the back way to the second floor, and let me into Senator Smith's room this afternoon when he’s out. I dare say there’s some money to be found I'm goin’ to’take in his clothes. And maybe I could get a peep into his trunk - without him ever findin’ it out. That'll put me in funds, Sal- lie, and there won’t be nothin’ too good for you on the Island Sunday. What do you say?” “Oh, I don’t know, Jimmie. the girl, doubtfully. “Risk be jiggered, Sallie. Besides, it won’t be your funeral if anythin’ happens. I’m about as fly as they come, girlie, and it won’t be the first time I’ve worked the game. Nor the second, either. You'll help me now, won’t you?” “T’'d like to, but——” “Oh, come now, Sallie, don’t be squeamish. I-could put my finger on several of the girls who would give their eyeteeth for the chance to do me a favor like this. There’s Annie Egan now——” , “Don’t mention that deceitful thing!” cried the girl, angrily. “T hate her!” “She thinks a heap of me, all right,” chuckled Jimmie. “Do you like her?” asked Sallie, in a jealous tone, tapping the pavement of the yard with the toe of her shoe. } “Not as well as I do you. You're a good deal better lookin’ than she is, but she'd do most anythin’ to get me away from you. She'd let me into any room on her floor if I asked her, and give me full swing to pick up anythin’ I could find. But I’m givin’ you the first chance, Sallie. You stand in with me and you can put it all over Annie Egan, If I can make a haul out of the senator I'll buy you some swell clothes, so that Annie won't be one, two, three in it with you.” “I'd like to put her nose out of joint, the spiteful thing!” cried Sallie, venomously. 2 “You kin do it all right by stickin’ to me. If she sees you — to the Island with me next Sunday sh’ll be so mad t t——"’ , “Tll do anything to get the best of her,” compressed voice. ; 2 “That's the way to talk, my charmer. I've found out that the senator is goin’ to a caucus this afternoon at three. I'll be on hand here at that hour, You just take me up to his room and trust me, and I'll lift enough, either in money or somethin’ else, to give you the time of your life and make all It’s an awful risk,” replied the other girls bite their tongues out with envy. Is it a go?” The girl thought a moment, as if weighing the chances; then she said: ‘ “I'll do it, Jimmie. Ili do anything for you if you'll drop Annie Egan and let me be your steady.” t a you're the only pebble on the beach with me,” . , said Sallie, in a Bee “It's a bargain,” replied Jimmie, promptly. “After this” 4 ae

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_ The chambermaid permitted the sneakthief to kiss her, and then the two parted. ‘*“Gee whiz!” exclaimed Fred. “That's a pretty slick rascal. He’s filled that girl clean up to the eyes with solft-solder. I don't believe he cares a rap for her outside what he can make through her help. There are some pretty tough specimens in New York, bet your life! It’s up to me to queer his little game, and I’m going to do it all right. I'll just hand him out the surprise of his life.” _ Fred crawled out from behind the crates, went. into. the hotel and dusted himself off, and then marched up to the sixth floor to return the ring to its owner. For this service he received a reward of $10. CHAPTER X. AT THE POINT OF THE PISTOL. It was Fred’s plain duty to notify the manager of the hotel of the conversation he had overheard, and let him take meas- ures to catch the sneakthief and deal with the chambermaid as he thought best. - .The boy, on the contrary, thought that it would be a big . feather in his cap if he caught the man himself. — The question was how could he put his plan into successful ie execution. vi ‘His idea was to get into the senator’s room and lay in wait for the crook. ; -When he showed up he meant to capture him red-handed, with the goods on him, and appropriate all the credit for the performance. Before he went on duty that afternoon Fred borrowed a re- volver from one of the porters. “I wonder how I'm going to get into room 38 when the time comes for me to make a move? To get possession of the key after Senator Smith has left it at the desk seems to be out of the question. I may have to tell the manager, after all.” - One o’clock came and Fred hadn’t got any nearer solving the problem of getting into room 38 on the quiet. As the clock struck the hour there was a call on the an- : ag nunciator from room 38, and Fred was sent up to find out 5 what Senator Smith wanted. He had a visitor in his room and he wanted a bottle of a __ ehoice brand of whisky, a siphon of seltzer and four glasses. a . Fred filled the order and got a quarter for himself. At two o'clock there was another call from room 38, which _ Fred answered. ‘Senator Smith wanted a couple of cigars of the fifty-cent Brot "brand, as his supply was exhausted. ‘The boy noticed that both the senator and his friend were ms "pretty well corned and in quite a jovial mood. Fred got the cigars, fetched the thange for the $5 bill, and ee >was leaving the room when the senator called him back. He was hunting in his pocket for another tip, and not find- 4 Sigs any loose change he pushed a $1 bill at Fred. “Never mind, Senator Smith, it’s all right,” the boy said, not wishing to accept such a large tip on top of the previous, - one for so small a service. “Take it, young man,” insisted the big politician. sides, I want you to do mea favor.” “Al right, sir,” replied Fred, picking up the bill. “Get my gray suit from the closet and help me on with it.” [pe soho had quite a job assisting the senator to peel off his ‘Atte suit and put on his gray garments. .. Tr he had got them on and looked at himself in the glass — his mind again and wanted to go back to the brown friend, however, objected. ’s half-past two now,” ke said, “You haven't time to make another change. We must be off, for we're due at the ‘Waldorf-Astoria at-three sharp.” - * Ail Anat old man,” said the senator, clapping his visitor on the back. “Come along. Here, young man,” to Fred, “lock my aoor-and take the key to the desk. Understand?” e ” replied Fred, eagerly, grasping the key. or ie the two gentlemen were out of the room he locked r and followed them to the elevator, where he left boarding the cage, and started apparently for the stairs. hung around: the corridor for ten minutes, to make sure » Senator Smith and his" ries 8 had gone; then he returned pom 38, eros door, entered and relocked it after taki Key out and put Ri Matie spatees “ Be- STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. He thought the closet would be a good place, but on second thought rejected it because the expected thief might come there first of all, and Fred wanted to allow him to get down to business before he interfered, The only other available hiding-place was the bed, and un- der that Fred crawled with the revolver in his hand, and then lay very still awaiting developments. Twenty minutes passed away on leaden wings to the con- cealed boy, and he was getting tired of his monotonous posi- tion when he heard a key rattle in the lock. A woman entered the room, cautiously followed by a smoothly-shaven, youngish man, who snatched the bunch of keys from the lock, relocked the door on the inside and then glanced around the apartment with a sharp eye to business. Fred could only see the lower part of the woman’s dress and the man’s trousers from where he lay. “Now do hurry, Jimmie,” begged the chambermaid, whose voice the boy recognized as belonging to Sallie. “Don’t you worry. No one will come here,” he replied, sharply. “I watched Senator Smith and another gent board a downtown Broadway car. He won't be back for a couple of hours at least.” “But I’m awfully nervous, Jimmie,” protested Sallie. “Oh, brace up! What's the matter with you? I thought you had some spunk,” said the young crook, contemptuously. Fred worked himself forward so as to bring his face near the edge of the bed, and, judging from their positions that they were not looking in his direction, he ventured to stick his head out and take a look at the intruders. The girl Sallie he immediately recognized as a trim, good- looking young woman with whom he had often exchanged. words when they met in the hotel basement. She had been employed in the house about eight months. {Hér companion was a squarely-built man of perhaps thirty years.) 90 He was fairly well dressed, his sack coat being buttoned up to his throat. His movements were quick and to the point. At the moment Fred glanced out from under the bed he was taking up the Senator's trousers from the chair where the boy had laid them. He ran his deft fingers into the pockets, but found nothing. He cast the pants over the back of the chair, with a smoth- ered imprecation, and then turned his attention to the coat. The outside pockets yielded nothing, and again he swore under his breath, while his fair confederate looked on. with some trepidation, for, being new to this kind of business, she was clearly very much frightened lest some accident should reveal their presence and purpose in the room. Holding up the coat, which was a handsomely-made garment lined with silk, the crook thrust his long, slender hand into = inside pocket. : Instantly a different expression came over the man’s face, sd he drew out a package of papers and a crumpled roll of bills. He glanced at the papers hurriedly and dropped them into a + side pocket; then he turned his attention to the notes. be ihe “This is something like it,” he said, with a grin of satis- ; faction, for he noticed that the upper bill was a yellow-back with a big 50 on it. Fred thought it was high time for him to take a hand in the proceedings, so he crawled partially out from under ne ; bed, and, covering the rascal with his revolver, cried: ak; “Drop that coat and money—quick! ” rs The crook started back as though he had received a gal- vanic shock, and glared savagely at the boy, like some wild animal at bay, while the chambermaid threw up her handiy xe with a shriek of dismay and promptly iagninase : F / » CHAPTER XI. Jes 7. How ae MOUNTS ANOTHER RUNG IN THE LADDER OF SUCCESS. The thief mechanically dropped the coat, but his talon-like fingers held on to the bills. As Fred wormed himself out from under the bed his atten tion was for a moment distracted from the crook. The fellow made instant use of his momentary advant by thrusting the money into Ale pee and springing woes door. : Ae Sib he}

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scene hi ais od ow he irpose didn’t antly. > Tom antly; of re- e vil- ‘rowd, ore. scat- ttered ehind after r halt room, d was in old e had under | COn- up’ a » boy, on of eper's with little in his es was would Y . the h out. n ‘the Lnaily ouble lio the nt to STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. ridor and descended the stairs, intending to leave the house by the kitchen door. He meant to walk nine miles to the station below the one at which he had been accustomed to get the mail, and where people alighted who were coming to Alton and the immediate vicinity of the village. When he reached the foot of the stairs, however, he was somewhat startled to see a light in the far end of the-store. | belonged, as well He knew no light was burned in the store after Mr. Gardner } retired for the night, and his curiosity induced him to tiptoe his way to the door of the passage and glance in to see why the light was burning. His impression was that the storekeeper had come down- stairs to get something he wanted, though that was a most unusual hour for him to do such a thing. The light, a dim one, proceeded from a candle on the counter behind the letter boxes, and Fred was amazed to see Tom Gardner looking over a bunch of letters he had taken from one of the pigeon-holes. “What is he up to?’ Fred asked himself, as he stood and watched his movements. whence had taken them. Tom acted as if he was doing something he knew to be wrong, for he looked all around the store, and especially to the open doorway, in the shadow of which Fred stood, before he made another move. Apparently reassured, he took a Knife from his pocket and began to slit open the envelope he had laid aside. “This doesn’t look just right to me,’ mused Fred. “He seems to be opening a letter that does not belong to him. Whose letter can it be, and what does Tom want to find out?” At the distance he was away from the spot where Tom stood he could form no idea of the real meaning of affairs, and he began to consider the advisability of getting closer, if only to prevent the storekeeper’s sou from doing something he would afterward have reason to regret. Although Tom had never treated him with the least degree of kindness or consideration, and had that very evening given an exhibition of the petty malice he bore against him, still he had no hard feelings against his young enemy and would have been ready to do him a favor as soon as not. Fred couldn't help suspecting that Tom was bent on some mischief. Not unlikely he bore a grudge against the person to whom the letter was addressed, and he was now working some sneak- ing scheme to satisfy his spite. “T should like to find out to whom that letter belongs, and then I would try to put him on his guard against the trap, whatever it is,” thought Fred, as he watched Tom’s actions. Tom opened the letter and took out the enclosure. “My gracious!” exclaimed Fred. “That looks like money.” The boy tossed the envelope and what seemed to be a letter on the counter and then, after another cautious look about the store, he began to count what Fred was confident was a small wad of money. Tom put the money in his pocket, then took up the letter and deliberately burned it in the flame of the candle, to Fred’s intense amazement. He was proceeding to do the same with the envelope when Fred’s grip slipped out of his hand and struck the floor with a bang. Tom started as though stung by some poisonous insect, ut- tered a cry of dismay, and upset the candle on the floor. The store was plunged into intense darkness, and a stillness like death fell upon the place. Tom, almost frightened out of his senses, didn’t dare to tiove for the moment, lest he betray his presence where he had no right to be at that hour. | cover that the envelope Was addressed to Miss | berry. He saw the boy take one letter from the bunch, lay it upon : the counter, after carefully examining the address and weigh- | ing it in his fingers, and then return the others to the hole | | pected a letter containing to his original plan, while he had yet time: but that would be to leave Tom in possession of his ill-gotten money. Small as had been Fred’s opinion of Tom Gardner, he never dreamed the boy was capable of committing such a daring theft as that which he had just witnessed. He was aware that Tom was a rank coward. so he determined to work on his fears and make him confess to whom the money as compel him to give With this idea him he put down the grip, which he had snatched up again and softly advanced into the store, his stocking-feet making no sound. He knew where there was a match safe, reaching for a match, ‘he struck it, and as it flared up Tom gave a scream of fright and ducked under the counter. Fred walked forward, picked up the candle from the floor w his spoils. before so land lit it. On the counter lay the ashes of the burned note, and beside them the partiy consumed envelope. He looked at the superscription and was st iggered to dis- Tabitha Pills- The letter had arrived by that night’s mail, then, and it had not been registered. Like a flash, he remembered that the spinster had teld him she had mentioned to Tom, th that she ex- $50. e afternoon before, So the young rascal had been on the watch for it with sinister intentions. He put the over the counter, said: ket, and, leaning mutilated envelope in his pect “Come out of there, Tom. I know you're there, for I saw you dive under a moment ago. - Show yourself.or I'll call your father.” That threat was merely a bluff, as Fred. from. motives of policy, had no intention of arousing Mr. Gardner. It had its effect, however, for Tom Gardner. countenance and widely distended eyes, em place of concealment. “So, Tom, I never thought you had the wickedness and nerve to rob the mail,” said Fred sternh “Who says I robbed the mail? I didn’t do no such thing.” “It won't do, Tom. I saw 3 ith a chalky 1 from his erge gasped Tom. “It’s a lie! I was watecbing you all the time from the entry vay. I saw you take the bunch of letters from out of a examine them, select the one ad- | dressed to Miss Tabitha Pillsberry, open it, take a wad of He imagined that his father was coming into the store, and | he knew that if he was caught there he could give but a lame explanation, which would tell blackly against him when an investigation was started about the missing letter he had just been feloniously handling. A vision of the village lock-up, and something worse beyond, flitted across his terrified brain, and he fairly trembled in his shoes. Fred, on the contrary, was wondering what he ought to do. He was a bit alarmed, lest the noise might have awakened Mr. Gardner, and be more than half expected to hear him coming downstairs at any moment. His first plan was te retreat by the kitchen door, according |} money from it, which you put in your pocket, and then burn the letter and start to burn the envelope when Ll drapped my grip, which startled you so that you upset the eandle. Isn’t that the truth?’ Tom, realizing ‘that he had been detected in the act, had nothing to say in his own defence. “Now, then,” went on Fred, “what are you going to do about it?” “Tf you tell dad he'll lick me,” in great terror. “I guess you deserve a first-class whaling for what you’ye done,” replied Fred, having no sympathy for the little rascal. Suddenly a happy idea struck Tom, and his countenance brightened up. “Say, Fred, don’t say anythin’ about this and I'll give you half the money,” he said eagerly, diving one hand into his trousers pocket and bringing up the money which had been sent to Miss Pillsberry. “Well, you’re a nice little scamp to make such a proposition to me. Just as if I would accept a penny of money that didn’t belong to me.” “No one will know anything about it. in this roll. I'll give you twenty-five. things with that.” “If this was daytime I'd give you a licking myself for sug- gesting such a thing to me. I'm not a thief, Tom Gardner.” “Ho!” sneered Tom. “You needn’t be so stuck up about it. Vll bet you'd copper the whole thing if you had got first shy at it.” “You little lying rascal, how dare you say that?” cried Fred angrily. “Do you mean to give me away. after all?” asked the store- keeper’s son, with a snarl. “You'll wish you hadn't, that’s all.” “Will 1?” ¥ “Yes, you will,” doggedly. “I guess not. You don’t seem to realize what a serious thing you've done. The government will take this thing in hand and 1make you sweat pretty lively for what you’ve done.” Tom turned livid with apprehension. whispered the convicted youth, There’s fifty dollars You can buy a lot of Te fs : ; ig 5 a st VE ae 2d ee ee ee

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is Jimmie!” The rascal paused. “Now back away from that door,” ordered the bell-boy, sternly. The sneakthief hesitated. " “Do as I tell you, or I'll put a ball into you. This is the last time I'll warn you,” said Fred, in a tone that showed he meant business. The crook concluded it was the part of prudence to obey this command, but he did it with a very ill grace. ! Fred backed up to the wall where the electric button com- _ municating with the office was, and pushed it. } “Get into the center of the room, Mister Jimmie,” said the boy, as he moved over to the door, stepping across the uncon- scious chambermaid to reach it, keeping both his eye and the muzzle of his revolver on the sneakthief. The rascal had no alternative but to ied if he didn’t wish to risk stopping a bullet. Fred unlocked the door and waited. In a few moments a knock came at room 38. Fred opened the door and found one of his companions there. The boy gaped in astonishment as he glanced into the room. . - “Is the manager in his office?” asked Fred. tes “T don’t know,” answered the other bell-boy, with a startled : look as his eye roved from Fred’s revolver to the motionless girl on the floor. ' < His impression was that his associate had shot her, and he began to back away in great alarm. “Send the manager up here, Billy,” said Fred, sharply. “Or if he’s out tell the head clerk to come up.” ¥"3 th00 Billy was off like a shot, and he flew down the stairway sto the office as if a mad dog was at his heels. D He certainly delivered Fred’s message after his own: fash- ion, for not only the manager, but the head clerk and bees pro- * prietor as well, came rushing up to room 38. _“What’s happened here?” demanded the manager.- © Fred explained the situation in a very few words. ie “Go down and send our detective up here,” said the man- ae ager to the head clerk. faa | give in,” spoke up the crook, as the clerk left the room. “Then put the money and those Papers you have in your pocket on that table,” ordered Fred: Pethe thief obeyed. The manager advanced and took charge of Senator Smith’s property. _., In a moment or two the hotel detective appeared, and the -Yaanager ordered him to take the crook to the Tenderloin station, on West Thirtieth street, and make the proper charge against him. “Now, Bowers,” said the manager, “you've done the house - a good service, and I’ll see that you’re suitably rewarded for z ee as Ze ; e and the proprietor shook hands with the boy and baths an him on his pluck, Yow, go and bring the housekeeper here.” found that lady up in the linen-room, and she promptly so the manager's summons. ‘Bring Ahat young woman to her senses, and then lock her n her room,” said the manager. “When our detective re- . from the station he will have a talk with her.” suppose I may now return to my regular duties, sir,” Fred, looking at the manager. That gentleman nodded, and the bell-boy went downstairs \d took his accustomed seat as if nothing had. occurred. other bell-boys were in a fever of excitement, and the t Fred appeared hey; began to question him with the en you didn’t shoot Sallie Dunn?” cried Billy, the bell- boy who had answered Fred's ring and afterward spread his t _ startling impressions of what he had seen in room 38 before - the other boys. rey “1 should think not.” ier was she lying on the floor for, looking as white as a “She had fainted.” t what made her faint?” persisted Billy. achat was the matter with her?” chorused the ,other -% ~ i y hed ies want to know ‘too. much,” grinned Fred. u going to tal: yaad = ina Pemepraied \ STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. - “Stop where you are or I'll shoot you as sure as your ahi “T don't believe the manager would care for me to say any- i 13° thing more about this affair, just new, at any rate.” ‘ yee all Fred would say, and they had to make the most of it i As soon as Senator Smith returned to the hotel and heard i what had happened in his room, he sent for Fred. “You seem to be always doing something for me, young man. You saved $600 of my money and a package of nego- tiable securities, I was so careless as to leave in my clothes, worth $10,000. I shall divide the money with you,” and he handed Fred $300 in bills. 1 The boy knew there was no use of refusing the present, so he took it and thanked the big politician. “Tut, tut! I don’t want any thanks. “You've fairly earned all I have given you. I am going to keep my eye on you, Bowers. You seem to be as smart as boys come. I may be | able to put something in your way yet that will be better than. your present job. on.” Next morning the manager called Fred into his office and presented him with $250 as an evidence of the proprietor’s ; appreciation of his services. “T’m not doing so bad in New York,” said Fred to himseit ¥ that night, as he contemplated the balance of $750 to his credit . in the Dime Savings Bank. “I’ve only been in the city a year and started this account with that $50 the senator gave me ~— up in Alton. If I keep on at this rate I'll soon become a small capitalist. I guess I get twice as many tips as any boy in the house. I think Jim Bates (the head bell-boy) has got as much out of me as he’s going to get. If he can get me fired now he’s welcome to try it on; but it’s my opinion he knows better than to try it.” Fred had to appear at the trial of Jimmie Hogan, the aucun: : thief, and that light-fingered individual got three years up % the river for his essay at the Hotel DeLux. i As for Sallie Dunn, the management did not prosecute her as an accomplice of the crook, but simply discharged her with- out a reference. After that Fred was in high feather with the house, and. three months later, when the head bell-boy took a job at another hotel he was promoted to fill his shoes. Fred immediately gave his subordinates io understand that. he did not intend to hold them up on tips, as had been the . custom of his predecessor, but that they could keep every penny that came their way. In consequence he jumped a hundred per cent. in popularity among his associates, who from that moment were ready to Swear by him and stick by him through thick and thin. Fred’s bank account grew more rapidly than ever now that he was promoted to the important position of head bell-boy, and before the holidays came around his balance had risen to four | figures, which was a very comfortable reflection for a boy ot a yet sixteen, who had passed most of his life as a thankless and unpaid drudge in a country store. I like to help boys of your caliber to get CHAPTER XII. i KITTIE REDWOOD. ' wT ah One New Year's eve Fred Bowers and Billy Butler went to 3 a popular theater to see a spectacular production which ea having a big run. - “Tt's the finest show on earth,” exclaimed Billy, etuphutiealls, when they came out into the night at the close of the show. | “It’s all right. Fulger is a peach, isn’t he?” remarked Bred “Bet your life he is. Wasn’t that rag-time song with the : } human rainbow behind him great?” x ; “What do you mean by the human rainbow, Billy?’ asked Fred, in some astonishment. ae “Why, those girls, of course. What else should 1 mean Don’t you remember? Blue calcium lights were thrown one row, red on another, green on a third, pink on a fourth, so on. There must have been more’n a hundred girls’ on te ‘2 stage. and when they came to the last line of the chorus, and with Fulger in the lead, they danced simply swell! How the house did come down! Hello! What are you looking ate” iv Fred had stopped suddenly on the edge of the gutter, WF which glistened in the zaslight. + He bent down and picked it up. It was a magnificent gold-enameled badge, thirty-five diamonds.

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ae STRIVING : eihahle was a tiger’s head, whose mouth held a large diamond, ‘and whose eyes were formed by a pair of blazing rubies. “Gee! What a find!” gasped Billy. “I’li bet that’s worth a g thousand dollars.” _ . “It seems to be very valuable,” said Fred, holding it up so that the light of a street Jamp could shine upon it. “Watch those diamonds sparkle.” i “I'll bet the gazabo that lost that is pulling his hair out by the roots by this time,” said Billy, rather envious of his com- BS. evra good fortune. “What are you going to do with it? r, £7” 3 : “Not on your life. I’m going to try to find the owner.” “You are!” exclaimed Billy. “How are you going to do it?’ “Tt is sure to be advertised for in the ‘Lost and Found’ col- wmn of some paper. If I should miss it through that channel : od advertise it myself in a way that only the owner will iden- eit,” “You ought to rake in a big reward. If it was me I wouldn't five it up unless the geezer who was so careless as to lose it came down with a good wad.” “Billy, that wouldn’t be a square deal. A man’s property is his property, and there isn’t any law compelling a person to ‘reward the finder of a lost article.” “S'posen there isn’t. He ought to do it just the same. The chances are that anybody but you wouldn’t give that badge up unless he saw something at the other end.” “T shan’t refuse a reward if it’s offered; but I’m not going to hold the owner up for it, even if I had the chance to do so.” a “Huh!” grunted Billy, as they walked on down Broadway toward their hotel. 3 Next morning a notice describing the lost badge appeared in a@ morning's paper. ae A “suitable reward” was offered for its return. Billy Butler saw it first, as he was on, the lookout for it. “IT wonder what that geezer means by a suitable reward?” he sniffed. “A fiver, perhaps. I'l bet that badge is worth $1,000 if it's worth a cent. That diamond alone in the tiger’s - mouth ought to be worth $500, not to mention the other thirty- five. and the rubies, which are worth as much as diamonds. A feller who can afford to sport such a thing as that must be avell heeled, and should come up with the dust.” Ile showed the advertisement to Fred. "There you are now. The chap who lost the badge offers _ a suitable reward,” with a grim. “I don’t take any stock in a suitable rewards. I like a feller to come out and say what he’s - willing to give. You ought to get $100. It’s worth every nickel a4 it. ” Fred read the advertisement. ' It was signed “George Wakeley, and street.” “Pl call on Mr. Wakeley this afternoon, and return him his badge, after he has properly identified it,” said Pred, cutting out. the advertisement and putting it in his pecket. - Fred stepped up to the desk at the Hotel Balmoral at half- “past four o'clock. “Ts Mr. Wakeley in?” he inquired. The clerk looked at the key boxes and then said: _“L really couldn't say if Mr. Wakeley himself is in his rooms. ‘Just wait a moment. What is your name? Does Mr. Wakeley know you?” “My name is Fred Bowers. I am not acquainted with Mr. I came in reference to his advertisement about a Hotel Balmoral, Broadway ‘Oh, yes. He'll be glad to see you.” "Phe clerk made a memorandum on.a Card/and sent tt by a bell-boy to Mr. Wakeley’s rooms. Cg boy returned with word that Fred Bowers was to upstairs “The bell- -boy will show you to Mr. Wakeley’s: rooms,” said clerk, and Fred followed him to third floor front. “Walk in,” said a sonorous voice in answer to the boy’s pe ne-pell boy opened the door, and Fred walked into a splen- furnished sitting-room. e found himself in the presence of a finely built man, with zed complexion, who looked as if he had spent the greater his life in the open air and under a Warm sun. bore a hearty and genial expression, at- had the swing and freedom of the untrammeled wilder- ‘ nee oe time the manners and polish of a perfect 1 Bowers, T believe?” dia said, Say aR at da 8 be FOR FORTUNE. “Mine is George Wakeley. I am happy to know you. Take a seat.” *“T called in reference to your advertisement,” began Fred. as he sat down. “Pxactly. I lost a very valuable badge last evening on my way to this hotel from the Amsterdam Theater. I set great store by it—in fact, I value it far beyond its intrinsic worth, which is considerable—because it was presented to me by the city of Santiago, Chili. I presume you found it, or represent the person who did so, therefore I will give you an exact descrip- tion of it to establish my right to its ownership.” He described the badge so correctly that Fred had no doubt that it belonged to him. “T guess it’s yours, all right, Mr. Wakeley.” he said. “I found it half imbedded in the snow of the gutter about a bloek from the New Amsterdam. I shall take great pleasure in re- turning it to you.” He got up and, taking the badge from his pocket, handed it to Mr. Wakeley. “I am very much obliged to you, young man,” said the gentle- man, evidently delighted to get his valuable trinket back. “You &re welcome, sir,” answered Fred, politely. “IT said in my advertisement that I would give a suitable re- ward for the return of the badge,” said Mr. Wakeley, putting his hand in his pocket. “T will not refuse any little acknowledgment you may wish to give me, sir; but I hope you will understand that I made no demand on you for any reward. The badge being your property, you are entitled to receive it back without feeling under any obligation to pay me for bringing it to you. Itisa satisfaction in itself to be able to return you so valuable an article.” “You are evidently a very honest and conscientious boy.” replied: Mr, Wakeley, in a pleased tone. “I am very glad to meet such a one in this great city, where every one is for himself without much thought for his neighbor. Were you bern and brought up in New York?” »“No, sir.! I was born and brought up after a fashion in the Catskills.” “Indeed!” exclaimed the gentleman, regarding the boy with a fresh interest. “What part of the Catskills, may I ask?” “A village called Alton, near the Cairo & Catskills Rail- road.” “Alton!” eried Mr. Wakeley, in surprise. “Did you know the Redwoods that live on a farm-a few miles out of that village?’ ; “IT knew them very well indeed, sir,” ished in his turn. “T am a first cousin of Mrs. Redwood,” “Will you excuse me a moment?” “Yes, sir.” The gentleman went into an inner room, In about five minutes the door was opened and a lovely little vision of chic beauty appeared in the opening. She looked rather doubtfully at Fred, who returned her gaze with interest. _At first glance it had struck him that there was someting familiar about her. For a moment he could not say what it was. Then, as she shyly advanced into the room and cocked her pretty head to one side, as a certain person used to do of old, the scales dropped from his eyes, and he recognized her. “Why, Kittie Redwood, is this really you?” he cried, jump- ing from his chair and advancing to meet her. replied Fred, aston- said Mr. Wakeley. CHAPTER XIII. MR. WAKELEY GIVES FRED A TOKEN OF HIS APPRECIATION. “Yes, but I'm not sure that I ought to have come in here to see you,” she said, with the same doubtful expression on her face. , » “Why not, Kittie? Aren't you glad to see me?” “Y-e-s, but I don’t think you deserve-——” She paused and looked down at the carpet. “Don’t think I deserve what?’ he asked. in some- astonish- ment. “You promised to call on me before you left Alton, and you didn’t’ do it. Then you said you would write to me and you didn’t—— ” * “But I did write to you, Kittie,” ‘he said eagerly. “L wrote to you before I was two weeks in this fat telling you bi fis

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sa ve was obliged to leave the village in such a hurry that it was , impossible for me to see you.” = “Why, I never got any letter from you,” she exclaimed, look- “ ing at him with a different expression .on her face. “Did you = really write?” b “I did, upon my honor, Kittie. I waited and. waited for _-—- yout to answer it, and when you didn’t I - “How could I answer when I didn't get your letter, or know F _ ~ Where to address you?” _ ~ “That, then, accounts for your silence, and I thought you 2 had deprived me of your friendship for the future.” “Just as if L ever would have done that, Fred,” she an- = swered, reproachfully. “I did think it e that I didn’t hear from you, when we were such good friends in the village.” “And I thought you had found somebody you liked better than poor me in the city,” with a laugh and a blush. “No, Kittie,” he said, with an horest ring in his voice that assured her that his words were sincere, “I have been over a year and a half in New York, employed in a big hotel, where I see lots of fine girls, and yet I haven’t seen one that I could _ dike better than you.” “Oh, Fred, do you really mean that? Aren't you jollying me just a little?’ she asked, with a pleased expression. “T have never said anything to you yet I didn’t mean, and I don’t think I will begin now. We used to be good friends, and I hope you won't think of shaking me now that you have grown so big and pretty, and are dressed out so fine. Why, ittie, what are you doing in New York, anyway? And you're stop- ping at one of the toniest hotels in town, too. I can’t under- stand it.” “iat 3s She laughed merrily. - “Why, Iam ona visit. Iam staying with Mr. Wakeley aod his wife. Mr. Wakeley is mamma's Cousin.” i ~ “So he told me.” Saad how came you to know Mr. Wakeley, Fred?" she: aaued -“I never was so surprised in my life as I was when = came and told me there was a boy named Fred Bowers in = sitting-room, who bad come from Alton and who said he our family. I could hardly believe the evidence of my senses. He insisted that I come out and see you, so——” “You did,” interrupted Fred. “Well, I’m right glad you did, for if there is one girl in the world 1 wanted to see it is you.” “Oh, Fred,” she answered, blushing rosily,’ “That's the truth,” he said, nodding his head in a very posi- tive fashion. “Aren't you glad? Own up, now, Kittie.” ; _ “Well, yes. Are you satisfied now?’ —- *@ertainly I'am. How long do you expect to remain in New > Bork?” S “Really, I am not sure. Probably a week or so longer,” - “Then you'll let me come and see you again before you go back, won't you?” Sy eek should be glad to have you call. But you didn’t tell me Ww you came to know Mr. Wakeley. He's only been six weeks in New York. and before he came here he spent sixteen years in ‘South America, in Chili. He’s a Civil engineer and jis quite wealthy.” “Well, Kittie, I haven't known Mr. Wakeley more than ten nutes altogether—that is, up to the time he went in yonder m to tell you I was here.” _ “Why, how is that? How came you to eall here?” then proceeded to tell her bow he found Mr. Wakeley’s a ‘Snvainna presentation badge in a gutter on Forty-second street, how he had seen Mr. Wakeley’s advertisement in the morning ih and how he bnd called at the Balmoral to return him ro} i said Fred in a gallant way, “I feel I have been perty. ‘And now,” sufficiently rewarded by having met you, Kittie, and in having our little ocean squared up. “I haven’t felt so ppy in a dog’s age.” ittie laughed in a joyous way, as though she, too, was well _ pleased with the way things had turned out. Just then Mr. Wakeley entered the aitting- -room with his _ wife. to whom he introduced Fred. ) Satter a short’ conversation athe hoy = he guessed he’d have tO £0. se fou must eome and see us again, Fred,” said the civil heartily. “Kittie will remain with us a couple of xs imiore, I guess, and I dare say you will enjoy seeing her us you two are sid old friends,” and he looked quiz- boy. ore want you to take this,” he a Do not be afraid—it won't ‘oo sages oo your. kind- . fte: STRIVING FOR FORTUNE 15 fh iri) Dh oe Thus pressed, Fred accepted the envelope and put it in his pocket. When he got back to his hotel and examined the contents of the envelope he found a $500 bill. “Flow much did you get for returning that badge?’ asked Billy Butler at the supper table that evening. “I got a bill,” replied Fred, with a grin. “Five or ten?’ snickered Billy. “Maybe it was twenty,” hazarded his associate. Fred shook his head. “Fifty, then?’ “No, Billy, it wasn’t fifty, but if you add another nought to it maybe you'll strike it.” : ye you mean to say you ‘got $500?” gasped Billy. “. 0.” " “Oh. come off! Show up, and I'll believe you.” is Fred took out the envelope and showéd him the bill. “Suffering grasshoppers! I didn’t think you'd get more than a tenner. That chap is all to the mistard! MY “He certainly is a fine man. I hope to know bim better © some day.” “Do you? Gee! I wish you'd give me an introduction.” The boys rose from the table and went upstairs to relieve a pair of their comrades who had the evening off. ie = ol, CHAPTER XIV. iL FRED CLEARS THE CLOUD FROM HIS REPUTATION, e. +4 Fred saw Kittie Redwood once more before she returned to ; her home in the Catskills, arid at that interview she told bim about the charge of robbing the mail which had been pale ’ hasty departure from Alton.» “Do you mean to say that .Mr. Gardner actually accused me of taking Miss Pillsberry’s letter?” he exclaimed with a flushed “Yes, Fred. he did. He said he meant to have you arrested — and put in prison for it. He even hinted that he suspected you had also taken some of his own property.” once and faced him. Why, it’s an outrage! Tom Gardner took — the money out of that letter himself the night I left, for I _ caught him-in the act of doing it.” a “I did. And he promised if I would not say a word about it that he,wonld take the money to Miss Pillsberry in the morn- ing and make some explanation that would get him out of the tf blame of the whole thing on me, did he? And here I’ve been — ever since supposed to be a thief. Oh, Kittie, this is terrible! — What shall I do? I'll have to go back and try and straighten “You ean’t do that now.” a Sree “Why ean't I?” “Because Tom Gardner ran away from Altonga year ago” “Ran away, did he?’ x “Yes, and it is believed that he took some of his tathene money with him.” myself somehow with the people who know me at the village. I can't haye such a charge as that hanging over my head, Did Miss Pillsberry believe I took her money?” so strong against you. Neither did I, Fred. Nobady <omie cal make me believe anything bad of you.” “Thank you, Kittle. You're a true friend,” replied and Tom brought against me?” Kittie tola him dhat'Tom asserted that he had sean the of $50, the rg amount the letter was supposed to contair “That was ma ae ’ from Senator Smith, who was at that time fas at ef Chilton Farm; for a service I rendered him.” you could prove it. That would set Age seat ae 3 “I can prove it, Nittie.” oo “Oh, I'm so glad!” she Ca against him by Mr. Gardner and his son immediately after his face. “If I had known that I should have returned to Alton at Q “You did?’ difficulty. Sd the little rascal kept the money and laid the matter out. Ill make Tom confess, or I'll break his basi.” r and has not been heard of since.” “I don’t doubt but he did. But, Kittie, I'll have to square “No, she didn’t believe that you did, though the evidence with much emotion. “What was the evidence that Mr. Ga in his possessio: replied Fred; “but I received that. “I believe you, Fred; but I do wish for your own sa ke. tl “Senator Sasith is stop

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STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. | ——— he actually presented me with that $50 for a service, which | structures for their material at a further profit to the boy of - heed not be mentioned, of course. You can take this back with | $850. so that Fred cleared altogether on the deal the sum of _ you and show it to your father and tell him what I saw Tom do. | $2.500, which raised his capital to nearly $4,500. In fact, } will make out a statement myself, in the form of an - affidavit, and swear to its truth before a notary. That will be better. Then your father enn take both documents to Mr. _ Gardner and show them to him and also to oflers in the village. _ You will do this for me, won't you, Kittie?” Wittie assured Fred that she would be only too happy to! help set him right at the village. so Fred got the senator to give him a signed paper about the $50, and he made out his With over $4,000 to his credit in the Dime Savings and ey own affidavit, charging Tom Gardner with the theft of the| Greemwich banks, Fred was eager to increase his financial letter in question, detailing all the circumstances of the case,| Standing, so that when he reached his majority he would be together with the reasons which induced him to leave Alton in| #ble to start in some business for himself if he felt so dis- CHAPTER ‘XY. mu “¥ FRED GETS A TIP ON THE STOCK MARKET. , A such a hurry. -. He teok both these papers to Kittie at the Balmoral Hotel, but as she was out shopping with Mrs. Wakeley at the time, he did not see her before he left the city. _ She got the papers all right, however, took them back home With her, and her father used them to such good advantage in . Fred’s behalf that even the postmaster, who was still rather _ bitter! against his son for stealing his money and from whom ‘he had not heard a word since his uneeremonious departure from town, admitted that Fred Bowers might be innocent of the charge of stealing Miss Pillsberry’s letter. - “The maiden lady herself was delighted to learn that Fred - Was able to prove that he had not taken her letter, and, as “she had more than half suspected Tom to be the guilty one all _ along, she made it her business to circulate the news broad- cast. Kittie made Fred happy with a letter giving the results of . te efforts with the papers, and telling him that no one in _ Alton now had the least doubt as to his fapppente in relation ie Miss Pillsberry’s letter. . Senstor Smith evidently had taken a nasi fancy to Fred, iter when he was in the city he always insisted that the boy answer his attendance calis to his room. As he invariably tipped Fred most liberally, the boy had -¢ome to look upon the politician as a gilt-edged cinch. day when Fred brought him up a box of his particular grade of Havana cigars, he turned to him and said abruptly: “Tiow much money have you in the bank, Bowers?” ~ “About $1,800, sir,” replied Fred. Li e r _ “Pretty good for a young fellow of your age. By the way, ‘how old are you?” “Sixteen.” “Well. I'm going to put you in the way of making a few) dollars,” ~_ “tm very much obliged to you, ate, -t “Put, tut! You’re welcome. Now listen to me. The city } ondemned the property forming the approaches to the East River bridge. On Monday the buildings on this ornd will be sold at public auction. The tenants have been ed by the city authorities to vacate at once. Now they won't, for they are being quietly tipped off that they can re- main for three months by paying their rent regularly. Only ttuin people on the inside know that the buildings need not torn down for three months. These people, and I am one f them. are going to attend the auction next Monday and bid he best of these buildings. and afterwards, when the time we shall sell the buildings at private sale to building a companies. Now, you had better attend that sale say, $1,500, and buy in two or three of them. You'll be to collect three months’ rent, in addition to what they will erward fetch at private sale. All the money yon collect in ‘om a five-story tenement will be clear profit, and I to say not a building will feteh a price equal to its -yalue in old building material. You meet me on the 3 noon, and Fl see that your bids get in on the ground th those on the inside.” the Monday in question Fred arranged so that he was get off work in time to meet Senator Smith on the nd where the sale was going to take place. — : i and his political friends bought in’ the bulk race FS and three < Aaa were assigned to Fred ost of $400 ea ; ne teenies a man to Renees, the oe for the en- Si adion ‘¢ - ‘ =. Hath ag Reiger chad been Nera: Fred his th, on the” “pea = eign posed. He had heard a good deal about fortunes being won and lost, too, for that matter, in Wall Street in a day, and sey- eral times he had been tempted to go to one of the branch offices of lending brokers in the vicinity of the hotel and tak- ing a shy at the bulls and bears. Prudence, however, prevented him, though he continued to make a study of Wall Street methods and talk on the sub- ject with messenger boys and clerks who worked in the finan- cial district. They often poured glowing stories into his ears, and offered to double for him any money he had accumulated from his tips. But Fred didn’t care to intrust any funds to a second party so precarious a game of chance. “If I ever put my money up on stocks,” he said to himself one day, “I*!l do it first hand. Then I'll know where I’m at even if: I lose.” Fred had been a bellboy about two years when one day he? was sent to answer a Gall at Room 98, on the third floor. ao apartment was one of a suite occupied by William Métealf, a prominent Wall Street speculator, who had only regentiy become a guest of the house. he broker sent the boy downstairs to bring drinks and cigars for himself and two friends, and when Fred returned with the order he got a fifty-cent tip. During the afternoon, which was Saturday, Fred answered rings from Room 98 half a dozen times, and every time he was requested to fetch up drinks or cigars, or both. It was half-past four o'clock when Fred answered the sey- enth summons from Room 98.- “This is what I call a good thing.” grinned the boy to him- self, for each of his trips to the broker’s apartments, after the first, had netted him a quarter as he took the elevator for the third floor. He Knocked on enter. The three gentlemen still sat around a marble-top table in- the center of the room, which was littered with papers and cigar stumps. 2 Their moyements, Fred could not fail to observe, were very hazy and uncertain. Kyvidently the drinks they had absorbed had affected their brains aud clouded their thoughts. “The chambermaid will have a fit in the morning when she ~ sees this room,” thought the bellboy, as he cast a hasty — glance around the apartinent, “Look here, boy.” said Mr. Metcalf, in a sleepy way, “EO want you to go on an errand for me.” “T can’t leave the hotel for half an hour yet, sir. I'll call in the door of Room 98 and was told to a messenger for you.” Riss “Call nothing,” ‘replied the broker, with a slight hiccough. © “Tt want you to carry a message for me yourself. Under- ‘ stand?” ee “Yes. sir. Ill do it if you can wait half an hour. Tm Ose at five.” rer Mr. Metcalf seemed satisfied to wait that long. and as ‘Fred pets was turning to leave the room he told him to’ fetch up some more cigars, a Fred brought the cigars right away and received his sixth — GS quarter. making two dollars in all he had received bas aioe that afternoon from the new guest. “Don’t forget. boy, five o ‘clock sharp. Might as acl web SA a up. a botile of seltzer with you when you come, tne Lege “Yes, sir.” é “Prompily at five “Fred knocked again on ‘the doo age Room 98. — Pg aio ‘in thick tones. making a at Se Metcalf’ "s = _

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ie 4 al OO AS Pa _STRIVI NG FOR FORTUNE. : uv bs AM 4 the ce with a decidedly foolish look upon his face, was! apparently trying to- check off something with his fingers. CHAPTER XVI. . ‘ Mr. Metcalf himself was reaching for a paper containing 4 1a lot of pencilled memorandums. which had slipped to the FROM BELLBOY TO MILLIONAIRE. a carpet just out of his reach. Be “Boy, pick up paper, will you?” Next morning Fred looked up the market report of the 3 Fred: recovered it and handed it to him. previous day’s operations at the Stock Exchange, and found oo The broker held it before his eyes and seemed to be study-| that P. & M. was ruling at 66. a ae ~ ing it. “If I see Senator Smith to-day I'l] ask his advice on the ~~ o Then he got up in an unsteady way, took up a glass and} subject. If he thinks well of it, why, he can go in, too, and s ; to fill it with seltzer from the siphon Fred had brought) get a rake-off. He's been pretty good to me, and I’d like to with him, according to orders. put something in his way.” - Mr. Metealf, quite unconscious of the force he was re-| After dinner he found that “the politician was in his rope, leasing, pressed the lever down hard. so he went up and knocked at his door. , : The liquid struck the bottom of the glass like a bullet from| He was told to enter. " a pistol and an artificial geyser immediately resulted. “lello, Bowers. What can I do for you?” asked the senator, 4 ‘The stream of seltzer flew in the direction of the sleepy | genially. 4 yisitor and struck him full in the mouth. “] want to ask your adyice about a little speculation I'm The shock aroused him so. suddenly that he tipped back-| thinking of going into.” = - ward, chair and ali, and measured his length on the carpet. “A speculation, eh? Let's hear what it is.” Fred hastened at once to his assistance and helped him back| _ “Mr. Metcalf, the broker, who has suite 98 and 99, on tiie yeas on his chair; taking his handkerchief from his pocket and floor above. sent a note by me to a friend yesterday afternoén " wiping away the moisture which had drenched his collar and| 4dvising him to buy a certain stock which he said would ad- E necktie. vance rapidly before the end of next week.” Mr. Metcalf looked astonished at the havoc he had created,| “That's it, eh?” said the senator, becoming interestéd é while the other gentleman laughed heartily, as if he thought| “What was the name of the stock?’ =" : _ the accident awfully funny. “Pp. & M., sir.” “s ii The broker had dropped the memorandum on the floor again| “How came you to see the contents of the note?” ~ os ss and was examining the metallic top of the siphon as if he “TI wrote it for him.” ke ce: thought it was out of order. “Why didn’t he write it himself?” :$ He saw the paper on the floor and once more asked Fred| “He couldn’t.. He was not feeling well.” ‘ to pick it up. which the boy did. “Who was this person, if it isn’t a confidential matter?” -— Phere was a small fancy desk in a corner of the room, and “{ don’t think I ought to mention names. He had prom- toward this Mr. Metcalf turned. ised the tip, and I guessed from his manner that he was ex- = ‘He opened out the flap and seated himself before it. pecting it. At any rate, he seemed greatly pleased when he ‘Taking a sheet of notepaper, he started to write something| read the note, and he told me to tell him he’d use the tip. L on it, but his efforts in this direction were not satisfactory| He told him to go the limit on it.” : to him. ’ “Look here, Bowers, this may be a good thing. If it Is After spoiling a couple of sheets he turned around and mo-| I'd advise you to see it through. You wait till to-morrow tioned to Fred. _ night. I'll see what I can find out about that stock to-morrow. My - ‘The boy went over to see what he wanted: If it looks to be the correct thing Il! go along myself a few — sel “Sit down and write a few words for me, young man.” | thousand and I'll give yeu ten per cent. of my winnings in Fred took the chair the broker vacated. acknowledgment of your letting me in on it. You can also as “Write as I dictate.” put all your pile on a ten per cent. margin. But don’t do-a “Yes, sir.” thing till you hear from me.” ly : Ae “Mr, John Fisher, No. 128 West — street, city.’ Got| “All right, sir. I’m much obliged.” a “that?” Next evening Senator Smith took Fred aside and told him u WS Ken, Bir.” _ « ‘Buy P. & M., Monday, without fail. Go your limit. No risk. Sure thing. Sure to go to par inside ten days.’ Got i down?” es, sir.” to buy the stock. % On "Tuesday morning the boy, after figuring that he whtila. Le require $3,960 to hold 600 shares of P. & M. on a margin of ten per cent., drew the money from his two banks, took it. x around to the uptown office of Gage & Co., stock brokers, and sige np SE me pen and I'll sign it.” ~ put it up on the stock with all the nerve of an old-timer. ~~ ‘i broker sprawled his signature at the bottom of Fred’s| The Senator had informed him that he had purchased 5,000 vind reiting and then he told the bellboy to address an eny sn shares for himself down in Wal! Street. ; a ah Next day P. & M. went up to 68. On Thursday the stock closed at 73. Friday morning the stock began to attract such attend at the Exe hange that it went up with a rush to 80 before | business closed: for the day. ‘ Mr. Fisher. put the note inside and seal it up. ‘red obeyed. hat's all.” said Mr. Metcalf. “Here's a dollar. Take e to Mr, Fisher right away.” he boy went to his room, changed his uniform for his “day clothes, and then started on his errand, jumping on a Broadway car. wonder what he meant by “Buy: P. & M., Monday, with- fay ” mused the boy. Phen, like a flash, the meaning of those words formed it- ) his brain. " ty. that must be a stock tip Mr. Metealf is sending some rend or business associate. P. & M. are the initials of some ms 4 rand whose shares are about to advance in the market. r. Met calf, probably has insidé information om the subject. George! Vl bet I've hit it. I'll just make a note of those 1 would not be at all surprised but I have got on thing. The stock, according to the broker, is sure par inside of ten days. I wonder what it is selling noon, Pp. & M. reached par Tuesday morning and Fred rane ott to Gage & Co, and ordered them to sell the stock, { The clerk telephoned to'the Exchange and in fifteen utes Fred was out of it and at liberty to figure up his p Next morning he yot his statement and a check for thing like $24,000, of which four-fifths represented his Senator Smith cleared $165,000 on the deal, and he | sisted on Fred accepting $16,500 fn return for the tip. — Thus the bellboy found that he was worth about $41,000 It wasn’t very long afterward before Fred overheard real estate men talking about the land boom on Long Islan r “We ought to make a good thing ont of it,” said one of the et ean find that out inthe morning, T think I see the! men. “It can be bought for something less than $1,000 | ke a small wad myself.” acre, und should net us five or six times that amount. ie street on bai mented Mr. fisher lived was reached, = to take the whole thirty-five acres.” “We can get it for it a third down, I suppose?” his companion. _ “No. It’s spot ‘cash, but we can get a loan’ o} s20000 on 1f.% { “2 They decided to try and raise ahi money te land, then form a_ ny to. the necessary | paint NO. 128 to te: an imposing brownstone front. the nope: revi eH pg asked for Mr,

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STRIVING FOR FORTUNE. ec = os Fred had been thinking of investing his money in real | Then she msinseined the ecard out of his hand and read it. estate, and he thought he would consult Senator Smith on! “Nittie, will you marry me some day?” asked Fred. eagerly. _ tie subject. “Do you mean that, Fred?” she said, with swimming eyes. _ He repeated to the politician the conversation he had over-| “I do.” heard, and once more asked his advice. “Phen my answer is—yes.” The senator found that owing to the newly projected transit| “That is all I wanted to know, Kittie. That is what brought facilities the property Fred had told him about was almost |me to the Catskills.” “7 certain to become very valuable in a few years, so he decided He pulled her head down on his shouler and kissed her. to take a thirty-day option on the land in his own name in A few months later Fred ceased to be a bellboy at the the boy’s interest, pending thesnecessary legal arrangements | Hotel DeLux. ‘ ‘ to have a guardian appointed for the bellboy. He was promoted behind the desk. Before the time limit was up the Manhattan Trust Com-| On his twentieth birthday he was formally aceepted by Mr. ‘pany became Fred’s guardian and purchased the property for | Redwood as his prospective son-in-law, and Wittie, declared him for $33,000. she was the happiest girl in the world. _ The company received an offer of $40,000 for the’ property On Fred’s return to New York he received through the inside of a month, but Fred had no idea of disposing of it. trust company an offer of $75,000 for his Long Island prop- During the fall Fred paid a visit to Alton, or rather he | erty. stepped with the Redwoods on their farm for two weeks and He decided to accept it, and when the money was paid -_—Terr had the time of his life there. over he wrote Kittie that he was now worth over $100,000. He told Mr. Redwood and Kittie how well be was making} About this time Mr. George Wakeley paid another visit to out in the world. New York. “What will you ever do with so much money if you make His chief object was to raise additional capital for the pur- it?" asked Kittie, with a smile, after her father had left the |pose of enlarging the operations of a gold and silver mine in sey Chili in which he had the controlling interest. . “When I’m married I guess my wife will find use for some| He learned that Kittie and Fred were engaged to be mar- of it.” ; ried, and he invited the boy, for whom he had a great liking, & . “Married!” exclaimed the girl, her ete changing. “Have |to dine with him at the Balmoral Hotel. { SS you a girl in view?” Fred accepted, and after Mr. Wakeley had found out how De: “T have,” he replied, promptly. successful Fred had been he offered the boy a half interest Miss Redwood became very sober and changed the conver- in the mine for his $100,000, a sation. | Fred accepted his offer at once, and arrangements were set ss “You baven’t asked me who she is,” said Fred, slyly. ron foot to carry out Mr. Wakeley’s plans. “Some New York girl, | suppese,” she replied, with a slight | “YT don’t thank ‘you a bit for taking Fred away from me, toss of hér head. ‘Cousin George,” said Kittie, tearfully, when Mr. Wakeley “New York State girl—yes. But I’m not sure whether she’ niiand Fred, who had resigned from the Hotel DeLux, much hdve me when the time comes.” to the regret of the proprietor and permanent guests alike, _-=#Oh, I guess she will if you haye plenty of money,” re-| paid a flying visit to the Redwood Farms previous to their torted Kittie. departure for South America. “I had an idea; Kittie, that money wouldn't make any} “I dare say you are dreadfully down on me, Kittie,” re- — ference with you.” plied the gentleman, soothingly. “But I assure you both an it won't. If I liked a man well enough to marry him I|Clara and myself will take the best of care of him. | Two a . wouldn't care whether he was rich or not,” she said in a tone ; years won ‘t be long for you to wait, little one. Then he will _ Which showed she meant it. pas after you. By that time he ought to be a very wealthy “That's what [ thought, Kittie. Now, sigioding I tell you! young man.” this girl’s name, will you keep it quiet?” “JT don’t care whether he's peniltny or not, Cousin George. — “ “I am not very curious on the subject,” she replied, with | I would marry Fred if he didn’t have a dollar.” ae — & little frown. Fred and Kittie had a yery tender parting, and the girl” x “Well, you sail that pretty decidedly.” ; teried for a whole week after he had gone back to New” York. Then Wakeley and Fred sailed for Chili, remaining pay Fa two years, after which they came back, Fred hay ing hea “IT meant it.” _ Fred drew a pencil from his pocket and wrote something on a card, _ “There's the only girl I care a cent for in this world, and |# millionaire. aS: the only girl I mean to marry. Read it.” — It was a very pretty wedding that took place in the Alfon = i I don’t want to know anything: about her.” Methodist Church, and under a sunshiny sky Fred and Kittie | She threw the card on the table and walked over to the|Decame man and wife. indow. One of the first to wish the newly-wedded couple long life _ He followed her after picking up the card. ~ and happiness was Miss ‘Tabitha Pillsberry, who sent Kittie. ; “Are you jealous, ‘sazigg he asked, putting his arm around |@ sofa pillow embroidered by her own hands. oe waist. — Senator Smith was also present, and acted as best man on “No, I'm not jealous,” abe said, Swinging away from him. Fred. ei cate? He presented the bride— with a necklace of pearls. 2 “You're crying, “Kittie,” - 3 said, sottly. ; “3 On their wedding trip they stopped at the Hotel Pele emt, 7s in New York. . Yes, Se are. “Why ae you read fhe card?” “In my striving for fortune, MKittie,” he said to. bis. wife e I don’t care to,” with an angry sob. that night, “it seems to have been but a step that I ia me to read it Te you, ‘The words on that card from bellboy to millionaire.” the swe ectest irk in all me ess ae Next week’ 3 issue will grees soe ame aii | eee? Alt EE SMART ROE BOY IN IN LOWN.” o.* of

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FAME Twenty-eight million buttons for the British army were _ recently ordered in Canada. Canadian factories are pro- _ dueing equipment for the French, Russian and Belgian ca as i as for the British. a ao is satiated that between 250 and 300 miles of khaki _eloth and its substitutes, from fifty-four to fifty-six inches wide, are being woven every week in Great Britain for clothing for the British army. One malt alone produces forty mil es of ap weekly. a A paper lifeboat that cai ean be packed away in a space of ~ about one cubie foot, but which, when inflated, is declared Ses be seaworthy and durable, is the invention of a retired admiral of the Japanese navy. The boat is made from ie Japanese paper called “hashikirazu,” manufactured rom the mulberry tree. a; A surf-board—which has been christened a swimming z -eki—driven by bicycle pedals attached to a motor-boat _ propeller, with air tanks to keep it afloat, has been used re- cently on the beach at San Pedro, Cal. The board is _ shaped like a ski, with the front end eurved up. It can be used in the roughest surf and considerable speed can . be attained with it. tlers last year, recently appeared in the county clerk's Paice of New York and made application for his first enship papers. re: n in the wrestling game. $3 age and weighs 225 pounds. one of them. I’ve been here for a long time now, and : ady feel that I am an American.” tiny electric motor, probably the smallest ever built, recently exhibited at the University of North Dakota. weighs thirty-four grains complete, and was constructed nee Needland, a jeweler of Hillsboro, N. Dak. The 1sio at the eur are : Length, .563 inch: height, eter of oguniyintator: .0106-inch. The armatuse, w hich hs four grains, has six slots and six commutator seg- 2. 5-volt battery supplies the energy. nas Macnamare, Parliamentary Secretary _of the ty, announced in reply to a question in the House mons the other day that 460,628 tons of British gz, other than: warships, had been sunk or captured e German navy sinee the outbreak of the war: Mr. added: “The amber of persons of all na- led. in connection with these sinkings is ap- ee ‘The popiniiae, of, German shipping. not British navy to May 15 one German or neutral 1 therewith. AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. CURRENT NEWS ‘Wiladek Fivmko, winner of the Paris tournament for| bananas may no longer be grown, the land will produce Wladek is one Of the most powerful | hausted, He is only twenty-two years| sugar mill has been erected on the premises by the Hon- “T like America and I duras Sugar and Distilling Company, at a cost of half toe the American people,” said Zbyszko, “and I want to| million dollars, to take care of the resulting cane crop. ale Ali one Nc pe wp ered ple eae ge ik a ta 19 ’ The cannibalistic tendencies of foxes have proved a se- rious drawback to the valuable fox-raising industry_ of Prince Edward Island, according to a recent consular re- port. Not only are the pups frequently eaten by their parents, but females are sometimes killed and partially eaten by their mates. As the adult animals may be worth several thousand dollars a pair, this is a serious matter. A remedy is found in the filing down of the canine and bicuspid teeth of the male fox; this gives the female such an advantage in a fight as to insure her safety, and also minimizes the danger of the teeth of the. parent fox being caught in the skin of the pups when playing with them, giving him a taste of blood which tends to make him want. more. ; - Wine iu _— ~ Tt has remained for American brains and American capital to put to practical and profitable use that greatest of all problems of the hot, low countries of Central and South America—the worn-out banana land. Experiments conducted by American planters have shown that hogs pastured on grass and fattened on bananas produce a su- perior, almost odorless lard and finely flavored meat. Hogs, it has been found, can be raised on the worn-out banana lands and fattened on the small, unmarketable bunches of fruit.borne on these areas. So much for the | banana land in the course of its deterioration! When j 5 = bountiful crops of sugar. Two thousand acres, near Ceiba, Honduras, the banana yield of which was long ago ex- has so responded to sugar cultivation that a That the possibility of the United States becaasding Bae > volved in the European war gives to the naturalization — oath administered to would-be citizens of this country a _ graver significance than it has ever had before was pointed + oi out by Judge John C. Rose to the applicants appearing before him in the United States District Court in Balti- — more for examination for naturalization. Judge Rose — 3)said: “If any of you to-day take that oath, he pledges — himself hereafter to make this country his country and to support it in whatever conflict it may have with the Pere oy: of his birth. It may involve the sacrifice of some of dearest and most sacred of human ties. If any one ot you take this oath, he binds himself to accept on such — questions the decision of* the President and Congress of : the United States, and he is as much bound by them as i any American, all of whese ancestors for two centurie and a half have dwelt on this side of the Atlantic. of yon feel that you are asked to undertake more than y ‘can in good faith perform, withdraw your applicati There were thirty applicants, and none withdrew. those admitted 15 were Russians, 2 Germans, 2 Tris! and’ | each from: Bg Soe Tialy.

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20 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ~ JOLLY JACK JONES _ KNOCKING ABOUT THE WORLD By ED. KING ~ 2 nis Sah alae GPR Shi | ina Se ese (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER IX (continued) No sooner were’ they in darkness than Jack began to c . “Knew I would,” said Dobbs. “It’s all right, Jack. hear footsteps moving about one of the rooms. _ Take this revolver, boy, and we will make a start.” Presently there was the sound of an opening door, and ¥ eas “But Abe?” the footsteps were heard at the other end of the hall. * “Bah! I don’t fear Abe. He’s the biggest coward orf|* Dobbs trod on Jack’s toe. “record. All I want to do is to catch him in the act of| This was signal enough to make the boy stand ready. swiping that money which was brought in here to-night,| Nearer and nearer came the footsteps, but it was en- and I believe I can do it, too. You just come on. They tirely too dark to see who this night prowler was. ought to be asleep by this time, and he will begin to think Just as the man came opposite to them Dobbs flashed _ about getting in his fine work.” his light. a - “Shan’t we wani a light ?” “Up hands, Black Barton,” he shouted. “You double Bb. % “Yes, and we are going to have one. I'll start my thief! T’ve got you now!” “pocket electric going again. oe little thing, isn’t it?| It was Barrett. _ Jack, you are a brave boy.” There he stood with a small bag in his hand. » “Oh, don’t throw boquets at me,” replied Jack. “T| “Dobbs! Have you gone crazy ?” he gasped. _ _kmew from the first that you were not what you seemed At the same instant there was a rush of feet from the © : to be.” other end of the corridor; lights flashed, and a voice eried — _ “Yes, and I: knew you suspected me, but you thought I! out: oi was a burglar, so you went shy of the mark, after all.| “This way, boys! This way! Here are the burglars! _. Come on, boy. Come on!” We’ve got them now!” oo ~ Jack now followed Mr. Dobbs out into the long corridor, “Bad luck !” hissed’ Dobbs, and he sprang like lightning down the back stairs and into the kitchen again. at Barrett’s throat, pinning him against the wall. x ? _ The room was dark, and the outer door had been shut > and fastened on the inside, * “Only thing now is to make sure Abe don’t shoot us ; e from behind,” whispered Dobbs. “Keep your eye peeled, CHAPTER X. got box; and fire if you think necessary. I'll back you up.” Hay _ They passed out into the hall then, and ascended the ccagian ede le ig dae ha NY ars rap »main staircase on tip-toe. Fie ay pes “We have five rooms to visit,” breathed Dobbs. “Wel: To Jack’s infinite astonishment, when the lights eame a just be as still as death about it, thongh. Where in flashing along the corridor, he saw that they were in the — iaisat : thunder is he? I guess he has taken the alarm and gone hands of the goat-bearded sheriff, Mr. Sanders, proprietor : ected? | of the High Rock House, and several other men. Meanwhile Mr. Dunning Dobbs had snapped a pair bhi He had scarcely said the word when Jack caught his) pandeuffs on the wrists of the man Barrett, and held ie i: eeve and. pointed ahead. covered with a revolver. f BA. man lay stretched upon the floor further along the! He had thrown back the lapel of his coat also, and PES orridor. gold detective’s shield blazed upon his breast. It was ss : she ! on gasped Dobbs, hurrying forward. “Lay low,| shield he had shown Jack, which so amazed the boy. — ane ! This is Barrett’s work !”) “This way, gentlemen,” he called Bon “I have trap paral. to be entirely unconscious when they got to| the burglars. Here is your man, Mr. Sheriff, and ther are four others drunk and asleep in the rooms, and here, ere were black marks: about his threats looked as Mr. Sanders, is the dough bag. It does not contain all — Thad been choked to death. =. your money, but it does contain part, and the rest can be oa dead,” whispered Dobbs, after hastily bending supplied. ‘Pleased to meet you, dep although our “Now for the tug-of-war. Stand by, Jack} coming was rather a surprise.” : there will be something doing. Out) 0 Og “Who in thunder are you?” dudeonaed! the the reason » ne of the burglars,

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ; “ “ Pa “He is!" cried Barrett. “He is right in with the rest of us, he ig “Hold on, hold on!” Ptdica in Dobbs. “It won't work. _ Iam Detective Duff of the United States Secret Service, a dear friends. This man is'one Black Barton, pickpocket, safe blower, all-around thief. In these rooms dead drunk are four more crooks, one a noted counterfeiter. I hold them all under arrest, and T shall arrest any man who in- 4 — terer with my work.” . . This was the beginning of a long wrangle. Jack was simply knocking about the world with his ahs et and by the merest accident had run up against all _ this business which made such a stir in the newspapers at that time. br oN Detective Dutf at last satisfied the sheriff that he was all he claimed to be. : The bag proved to he filled with jewelry and bank bills, * and Barrett had a lot more about him, The four men asleep in the other rooms had nothing, for Black Bartoi had been through them all and col- lected the plunder in the bag. ‘Abe, who soon came to, turned out to be a treacherous assistant of Detective Duff, whom the detective correetly suspected of being false. ‘He had been choked by Barton, who no doubt would ave killed him if matters had not turned out as they did. Learning that preparations for counterfeiting on a large e were on foot, the government ordered him to open ) as a Wall street broker and try to get in with the gang. The plan ‘succeeded. The house in the woods was hired ostensibly for the purpose of starting the counterfeiting ant, and here Duff enticed the five crooks, each of whom been Tequired to show up a certain large sum of ney before being admitted to the ee. which was ‘urn out the ‘ ‘queer.’ part of thi¢ money was paid over to Duff to purchase nery, ete., the rest remaining with those who brought subject to future call. They were to divide the pro- sf the High Rock Hotel robbery. ified enough to send all hands to the penitentiary terms, and that was where they went. u nately Mr. Sanders was able to identify some of sh as money stolen from the High Rock House. ds and other gems found on Barrett were also part contents of the safe, and these were returned, but ive was allowed to take his prisoners to New , as the “government had the first claim, and they ‘wanted for many crimes. The sheriff had traced s to the old house and got the others to B with make the arrest, was Aischarged from, the secret service, ae nar- Sout to prison with the rest, for his treach- ] otf Hae re: n the criv "Pho: ais Ko ee with sat m et ge a4 » tive the dinner the shrewd detective had gathered in “his. pasds greed to get. the Hive ks ketene ‘but at the last moment our banjoist fell want a youny man and a first-class player, of ‘course, one discreet enough to keep his mouth shut as to he might see or hear. You know me, and— 5 teadbed: wished him good luck, and let him go on his way, although he urged him to stay by him and go in for de- tective work. But Jack refused the offer. “T’m no detective, and I don’t know that I want to ie one,” he said, “I’m just a poor boy knocking about the. world, and I propose to see more of it. I haven't half done my travels yet.” So Jack moved on with his brother, the banjo. In this way he visited several of the principal cities of: the United States. Among these were Boston, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Cleveland. At the latter place he put in three weeks with a variety: show, for the weather was cold and he wanted to be under cover. He kept on picking up money here, there and every- where, and as he had no expensive habits to throw it away on, the fund began to grow until the boy reached a point where he would have very much hesitated to have let any of his chance acquaintances on the road know just| — how much money he carried about him. Jack was very particular about this, and although he had a pleasant word for everybody and was just as jolly as ever, he made no close friends. Jack had done his last turn at the Eureka Music ‘Hall, on Superior street, Cleveland, one cold winter’s ev and was just bagging his banjo preparatory to going. to! iB his room, when pretty Minnie Collins, who did a soubrette 2 turn, put her head in through the door and said: “Hello, Jack! The stage manager says to come to. Oe him before you go: home.” “All right,” replied Jack. “I'll be there. What dean: want ?” tell, antl Jack had to restrain his impatience until he the stage manager himself. des “Hello! Have you made up your mind to quit Satur- ; day?” asked the stage manager, when Jack came into ‘his room. “Yes, sir; just as I told you,” replied Jack. “Sorry for it. Give you another week if you want. “No: I’m going on to Detroit. I want to see Pranwd in the United States before I’m through.” 3 “And not a bad scheme, either, for a boy like you, re plied the manager. “Well, seeing that I can’t hold I'll do you a good turn, Tale Here’s a letter which came to me by the evening mail. If it’s any use to you, why n use it. I shouldn’t wonder if eam would be hg dollars in it at least.” ie The letter read as follows: Soa Dear Sir—To-morrow evening T give a little esti ait ment at my houee. The music was to be entirely done and cannot come. Can you supply his place? TI sh e rest of the letter was torn off bial oh Pe he Eiger But as Minnie did not know, of course she ce mt ES ase | BY hs ater, 4 4 ear Te ae Te ad yaaa st ‘ iS oF; ur ae & , i

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. SEAWEED AS FOOD. ; sYrish moss or carrageen is a much branched seaweed, % creamy white when dried, which grows upon rocks along ___ the coast of the British Isles, New England and the North- ern Pacific. SS Iceland moss is not a seaweed, but a lichen growing in _ boggy moorlands in the Far North; it is eaten by reindeer and also provides food for humans. Like the sea mosses, _it makes a delicate jelly. Another edible seaweed is dulse or diliske, which grows on the rocky shores of the British Isles and also on the Pacific Coast. The fronds are rather flat and branching, dull reddish purple, meaty in texture; the flavor, while salty, is sweetish and spicy. On the mest coast of Ireland it is eaten raw, just as one might nibble fruit or candy. Trish grocers in New York sell it, and after cooking Trish moss: “Wash about one-half ounce, scant, uf the moss very thoroughly, rinsing through several ‘waters. Add one _ quart of milk in a double boiler and cook until the moss ‘is soft. Strain but do not press or bruise the moss, or it _ will make the blanc mange dark. Sweeten to taste, add _ flavoring and set away in a mold. It makes a firm jelly, which we serve with cream instead of milk, but we prefer ‘the milk. The moss boiled in water, strained, and the liquid used in lemonade, is very soothing as a drink in case of a cough or feverish cold. CUP YACHT IS BEING MADE READY. © The work of fitting out the Resolute has begun. A new _ suit of sails has been ordered and will be ready before the __|yacht is in racing trim. This will make the eighth com- _ plete suit of sails the cup yacht has, and in addition she has many jibs, forestaysails and jib topsails. Some of these sails have never been used and others have been used - lonly a few times. Capt. Frank Miller is to be the professional on the Reso- _ tute. He has had considerable experience on large racing peaahte and acted as mate on the Independence, the Con- ‘stellation and on the schooner Ingomar when that yacht _ was sailed by Capt. Charles Barr. Miller is now at Bris- _ to! and soon will engage his crew and start to rig the Reso- a Jute. | The yacht will be managed, as she was last year, by : ‘Robert W. Emmons 2d, and will be sailed. by Charles _ Francis Adams. At Bristol the riggers have taken some of the spars and of the Resolute out of storage and attention al- dy is being given to some of the many little things collectively go to make a successful racing yacht. It bable that she will be rigged with the bowsprit and ries City Inland work “soon. will be started on the Vanitie C ae th Christiansen wall net pt a fine racing crew a ete sleet ion esac SSieneesineeile SSE Sp ER: FF RST EA NE NREL SR UIOCRR Ya =a ND OO SER: EOS RENEE USENET SNIDEgOEEENB REP PTTESIE cura ee ITEMS OF INTEREST and able to make a better showing than she did last year. Capt. Christiansen has the reputation of being the best man to get a racing vacht in trim and to handle sails; and with ey erything working harmoniously on board the yacht, and with good racing wind and weather the contests be- tween the Resolute and the Vanitie should be much more interesting than they were last year. COMPARATIVE FIGURES After remarking that the entire American business in coal tar colors amounts to only $10,000,000 a year, and that the world’s production is only $100,000,000, Arthur D. Little gave to the United States Chamber of Com- merce at its recent meeting in Washington some compara- tive figures as follows: “The gross business of the Woolworth 5 and 10 cent stores in 1913 exceeded the entire export business of the whole German coal-tar color industry by $11,000,000. The sales of one mail-order house, Sears, Roebuck & Co., in the same year were far greater than the tota] output of all these German color plants, and its last special dividend is about twice the amount of their total dividend payment in 1913. The Eastman Kodak Company, with about twice the capital of the largest German color compayy, the Badische, and with a Government suit on its hands, earned during 1913 net profits of over $14,000,000, or 230 per cent. on its preferred stock and over 70 per cent. on its common, while the Badische with the beneyolent and ap- preciative support of the German Government earned 45 per cent In that year the entire German industry paid $11,000,000 in dividends. The Ford Motor Company witli one standardized product does a greater annual business than all the German color plants with their 1,200 products and earns four times their combined dividend while pay- ing three times their wages.” Mr. Little went on to speak of the waste of our own natural resources, which, he said, “offer opportunity for the, ultimate development of a score of industries, each of a magnitude comparable to the color industry of Germany, and for the almost immediate upbuilding of hundreds of . smaller enterprises relatively no less profitable. We waste, for instance, 150,000,000 tons of wood a year, a billion feet of natural gas a day, millions of tons of flax straw at every harvest, untouched peat deposits fringe our entire Atlantic seaboard, beehive coke ovens flame for miles in Pennsylvania, wasting precious ammonia and exciting no comment, while the burning of a $1,000 house would draw — a mob. The whole South is a reservoir jof industrial wealth untapped in anv proper sense. We have heard these things so often that we can go to sleep while hearing” them. We need to reallv sense them, to get before our con- sciousness a clear conception of what they actually meay in — terms of wasted wealth and present opportunity. When we do this. and there is no better time than now, let us apply the lesson of the German coal-tar color industry to these far greater problems and solve them by the com ‘o pelling agency of err ee intensive Tesearch.” Sgt ay rw

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THE NINE CHAPTER ITI (continued) Bagley had often said to young Parton if he saw chance to make good money on the quiet, outside of the business of the house, to promptly let him know, and that if the prospect was good he could put up a neat little sum as an investment. A few days after Parton’s visit to the little village of - Homesdale the junior partner received a private letter in _ his mail from the young salesman. It was dated at Homes- dale, and read as follows: “My Dear Fred—-At last I think I have stumbled upon a bonanza, which you haye often charged me to be on the _ lookout for, This afternoon I was asked to umpire a game os » of baseball between two pines made up of boys between | seventeen and nineteen years of age. It was played on the grounds of the village schoolhouse: between the home team and a nine from Crow Hill, a little village eight miles below here. They were all sturdy young fellows, who had been brought up to wield the ax and crowbar, logging in these Adirondack Mountains. Of course there are no dudes ‘among them, for they are rough and tough, strong as mules, ut as jolly and good- natured : as the average monkey. When looked at them I found that I knew personally nearly all _ of them. You know I am ready to oblige anybody just for “the fun of the thing, and am willing to umpire anything from a funeral down to 4 country dance. When I was that every umpire of a baseball game runs up against, and acted a promise from every one individually not to kick rainst any decision I might make, stating at the same time if they did net so promise they must furnish me with . iren pot to fit over my head. They laughed and said there was no pot in the village big enough to fit me; so they romised not to kick, and 1 umpired the game. “Now let me tell you, old man, that I have seen hun- oh dreds of games played by crack teams all the way between % cago and. New York, but never in my life did I see sucly : played as the one I witnessed this afternoon. This ‘Homesdale team here is made up of nine wonders; in fact; consider them the Rough Riders of the Pisoni Field. y seem to have muscles of steel, and their actions like grease’ d lightning, while their pitcher is a marvel of science ‘curves, twists and spirals. He had not pitched more two balls before I began to take particular notice of ork. T have seen mite wie ” famous — but FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. asked to umpire the game I naturally thought of the peril | ‘| the postoftice. WONDERS eS, | a THE ROUGH RIDERS OF THE DIAMOND FIELDS By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY) | “Then, again, he could make a ball wig-wag and zig-zag a| through the air liké a leather-w inged bat. It’s a fact, old | man; I’m giving it to yon straight, just as I saw it. He S44 every batsman dizzy ; ; several times he retired the Crow Hill team without a ball being hit. I am willing to bet my salary for the next twenty-five years that he can pitch out any team in the United States, “Now, if we will take those fellows in hand and back ‘them against any other nine between the two oceans, we can sweep the field, scoop the boodle, carry the pennant and boss the baseball world. Never in my life until this day have I regretted not banking my salary every month instead of investing in red paint and innocent hilarity. “They are just what I say—nine wonders—and if you will put up the ‘filthy lucre’ to back these fellows and fail ito win, 1 will sign an agreement to let you draw half my salary and black your shoes until you are reimbursed, pro- vided always that I come in on the ground floor when the ~ divvy is made of the profits. Yours till death, | “Parry.” As soon as young Bagley read the characteristie letter of the traveling salesman he went out to the telegraph offite ~ and sent a dispatch to Parton in these words: an Clinch the “Letter received. I'll back your tinder : (Signed) ‘Frep.” bonanza at once. Parton was at Ellington when the dispatch reached him, and he waited another day in order that he might drive over to Homesdale in a buggy, it bemg Sunday when the firm would not expect him to attend to business. He | reached the village at about ten o’clock in the forenoon, very much to the surprise of those who had assembled bo te “Hello!” greeted one of the merchants. “What’s up? “Nothing in the world,” he replied, “except a natural — desire to come over and see you folks. It is as good a place to spend Sunday as can be found anywhere in this region; — the air is good, ‘the men are square and honest, the women — sweet and beautiful, and the cooking good nee eck ie ; saute. “We" i put up-a Pee ree over you when you die with the statement on it that ‘here im: a man who’ ee li md ef : “Oh, please- don’t do that,” laughed Par, “becau it bes pated upon the entire ceniigmalge”. :

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FAME AND FORTUNE ‘WEEKLY. —~ “Why, how is that?’ another asked. “Yes,” he continued. “I’ve'seen a great many games “Why, just think how it would sound, ‘here lies a man| played by the crack teams all over the country, and you _ Who never lied, and Iwould be lying there all the time. | fellows can hold your own against any of them, and | am _ That would make out that you fellows are the liars.” willing to back you for all I am worth.” © ethene’ Tul be hanged!” ejaculated an old citizen,) “J don’t see how we can, unless they come up here to BP is pier a epeeirays nparien een ta ack ee play, for beens leave our work, except on a Saturday until the} afternoon, when we come in to stay over Sunday.” truth is a lie or a lie is the truth.” ” Qh. I can arrange that,” said Parton, “How much do “ ”» ? ~ ; ° ? bs we’ Sina ce Rap aie pa naga 7 = peaaeine you fellows earn a month?” Ke “ary before you can put i thing isdn weet dea coer thirty dollars and found, ” was the reply: . once knew an Irishman who went into a cemetery to ad- bide cecal actu Oy ea = sf i monn ~ imire the tombstones and read the epitaphs. He was very thirty dollars a week, your board and trave Wee much surprised to find on nearly all of them that every- for three months if you will stop work, stop talking an ne body went to heaven who was buried there, and asked me play whenever ‘or weliegever Ewan yoni _ where the bad ones were planted, as all the epitaphs he “Do you mean thirty dollars a week for each one of us e had fead showed they were all good. ‘Oh, well, Mike,’| for the whole nine?” i said I, ‘when a man is dead, we have to let him down easy. “For each mi of you,” said he. e ee : Tf you will notice on most of the tombstones, you will see “Geewillikens!” gasped young Knatt, the pitcher, “Ill ” a little line which says “Peace to his ashes.’ ” "Yes,’| do it, for one.” _ said he, T noticed that, ‘Well, said I, ‘they are the bad “Oh, we'll all do it,” said Robinson, “but do you really oe ones, because there are no aches without fire.’ ‘Bedad,’| mean it, Parton?” vy ia says he, ‘that’s fine, and doesn’t hurt the feelings of his “Of course I do, and I am ready to give each one of Be friends. But,’ Kaiat he, ‘what’s this?’ and he pointed to| you ten dollars apiece to buy your uniforms and pay your another tombstone, and says, ‘that puzzles me.’ ‘What| way down to Utica on the day the game is to be played, “i _ puzzles you? I asked. ‘That,’ says he, pointing to the I don’t know exactly where it will be played, but Pm going line which read, ‘Here lies a lawyer and an honest man.’| to try to get it at that point. Do you think the rest of the a ‘What is it about that which puzzles you? I asked. ‘Why| nine will go into it?” Z “T know they will,” said Teddy. od did they bury them both in-the same grave?’ he said. I had to explain it to him, and he made the same remark| “All right, then; you know I’m a man of business and at you did about the india rubber in the English lan-|am considered a good Business man. I’ve the ninety dol- lars right here in my pocket to hand to you, but it must be on condition that you follow strictly my instructions.” “No trouble ahout that,” said ‘Teddy ; “we'll do any- : thing you say that is fair and square.” = - Pa “Kyerything shall be square and fair, boys. The first © . thing to be done now is to get your uniforms, which I want to be a blue shirt and “trousers, with a white belt. and big white letters on the breast of the shirt” = > “What are the letters?” Teddy asked. RE “Two R’s. 2 . ; : “What do they stand for?” “Never mind about that; I'll tell you after the Fis * game is played. Each of you must have a white cap, and be ready to leave on two days’ notice, but you must m say anything about it to anybody outside of the team, n Page even to our home folks. Don’t even mention my name, eS or that you are going to play with any other team, but you may say that I have made the nine a present of the mir form; people will think that is all right, and that I did it solely to advertise business. Now, what do you say! “It’s all right,” said Teddy... “Very good; I will leave it all in your pence, and : | nothing to the rest of the nine about it. It is. to be f <* sehe three months. I am going to make big money out of it, During the laugh that followed the drummer’s story Teddy Robinson and Tom Knatt, the captain and pitcher ¥ ‘the Homesdale team, came along. Parton shook hands ith both of them, after which he hitched his horse to a post: in front of the postoffice, and whispered to both that he wanted to see them privately as soon as he could get _ away from the crowd. “AML right.” said Teddy, “we'll wait for you down at here nein: sat down on a rude seat under the shade of at, aii oak. — -| and. when I SP. we'll have a big aad aster: all exp are taken out” i: oi |. “That’s all. right,” gat he Ato boys gered his. h akin, it Jaslene bel Sete of thie;

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2 i, 7 a a ctpre Uy aie See SO Sk hit i i : URL I re LED N PUR EY Seven? hee rey ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ies TIMELY Te TOPICS Placing a wedge under a door is one-of the most effec- tual means of closing it, for pushing upon the door from the outside only increases the effect of the w edge. A con- venient device of this kind is made of saab says the Scientific American, and it not only serves to wedge the door, but also contains a mechanical bell mounted on the ~ Nine-tenths of the gold mining of Russia is done on ie Sad belonging to the Crown, There are 84,000 workmen A employed in the industry. 2. Acland, the financial secretary to the Treasury, Es speaking at a meeting in London, estimated the cost of ‘the war to England at $150 a second. This means an ex-| same base and behind the wedge in such a way that pres- penditure of $12,960,000 a day. Lloyd George’s recent|sure on the face of the wedge causes the bell to ring. estimate was $10,500,000. The base carries a set of short points underneath, so that it % can be put in place and grips upon the carpet or flooring % so as not to slide out of position. Such a deviee can bet?" fe carried in the pocket, and it is to be recommended for : “4 traveling. Cotton flags will float over public buildings and from ast Guard cutters and other vessels of the Treasury Department soon. Tests have just been completed by the department with flags made of American cotton in- ead of imported bunting, and these have showed that te While two little bear cubs were in the buggy orying for. their mother, who was tearing up the road in a frantic” Me effort to reach them, Martin Brosims-was with whip and F. cotton, flags are serviceable, durable and more economical | * voice urging his team of horses to speed to Hibbing, Minn., # 4 A han wool bunting. Chester Hume, who has been in the county jail, Minne- olis. Minn., since Dec. 5, almost cried with joy recently en told ‘by Jailor Nels ‘Nelson he could leave the jail. as back in his cell an hour later, smiling, for his of freedom was spent in a dentist’s chair, where he ad 1 an aching tooth pulled. Hume was tried on a robbery tge two months ago and the jury disagreed. He is in jail ayents retrial. following an encounter with the cubs and their mother near the C. L. C. springs. Brosims, who has purchased a a farm near Bear River with the intention of beginnin By: % ie tensive farming there, was on his way to the farm. “Sli Austin, of Hibbing, was with him. The men saw the fag cubs in the road. The mother bear was not in sight, so. they picked up the cubs. Three rods further on they sind * the mother bear sitting on her haunches in the middle’ of rs 4 the highway. As soon as bruin heard the cries of her — progeny she advanced on the team, which was turned toward Hibbing at a gallop. The cibd are now on exhibi- tion at “Slim”. Austin’s place of business.’ i i That the long arm of the German spy system ‘reached: into ‘the - plant “of the ‘Thomas B. Jeffrey Company a Kenosha, Wis., and through one of its agents, supposed! an employee of the auto truck manufacturing concern ae. placed enough emery dust in the cylinders of $350, prem gts af 3 worth of auto trucks under construction for Great Brit e Councils’ Liberty Bell Committee recently adopted | and her allies to insure the rejection of the trucks by a ‘y of the bell’s trip to San Francisco, and have |inspector of the foreign governments at New York, is. fficials of the Panama-Pacifie Exposition to fix the story rapidly gaining circulation in Wisconsin. qt was) July 17, as “Liberty Bell Day.” Following a+. get Great Britain to recede from its original rejection” and parade here the bell will leave Philadel- |, the order that Thomas B. Jeffrey, head of the Sih on Monday prt AR July 5. During the twelve- pany, was aboard the Lusitania en route to Liverp » the coast, it will be illuminated at night so |r, Jeffrey was one of the passengers who was rescued ; she hire Sina which it passes | hen the liner was torpedoed. Exeentive officials of Pug company, it is understood, have guarded the facts in the case, but at a dinner recently tendered ex- President Ta t be _ The ten pabeadites which the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation is constructing at Quincey for the British Reaieent will be launched shortly, within five months 0 ‘time the keels were laid. The trial trips will fol- oon after, and the boats could be ready for commis- by July 1, although they are not to be delivered until the war. The average time for constructing sub- es in this country previous has been more than Sey Id turkey Linda that has been in the posses- ‘ustice John | W. Probst, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., for ears disappeared from his poultry yard last ‘fall. 2 Probs supposed it had died. The buzzard had mall bell attached to its neck for. many months. ‘Sunday the justice was startled by hearing a i nar a tree arte te residence. is alleged to have admitted the reasons for Mr. Jef presence’ aboard the Imsitania. The trucks, had they inspected and turned over for work upon the -fielc France, would have been racked to pieces in a few and would have been rendered worthless, it is ‘Any- ek saeeaed prove ‘the ‘identity of the p er

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cs eA _ Fame and Fortune Weekly : NEW YORK, JUNE 18, 1915. 9 “TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS . Frank Tousey, Publisher 168 West 23d St., N. Y. nS GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES _ The University of Pennsylvania Amazon expedition has C made another journey into the unknown, and is now ex- (re SI Cre Pe INE Sey ers SPS pata ee Pe Cee The expedition expects to spend six months in that region and to return to civilization at Para. Several new mortars recently mounted at Fort Andrew, " Boston, and capable of hurling projectiles weighing half a ton eight and a half miles, were tested. They are said to be the most powerful weapons on the coast. The pro- jectiles are not explosive, being designed to sink a vessel by tearing a hole through her by the force of their fall | rg from a great height. “ "C. R. Kolb, president of a local manufacturing concern, Battle Creek, Mich., has refused an order from a Euro- pean Government for shrapnel shells. The order, if ac- cepted, would have amounted to about $3,000 a day for an indefinite period. “I could not sleep easy with the thought that the product of our plant was murdering boys in Eu- rope,” said Mr. Kolb. “If the United States wanted the shrapnel we would make them.” Tn the course of the present European war it has been noticed that parrots work themselves into a state of in- tense excitement and screech loudly on the approach of an aeroplane, even before the latter is visible to human eyes. A number of these birds were placed on the Eiffel ‘Tower and other suitable points of observation in order ‘to test their utility as sentinels. Unfortunately, however, they are unable to distinguish between friendly and hos- tile aircraft. . A life-saving parachute has been patented in which a device that may be worn as a garment has a flexible over- ___ hanging'and relatively wide skirt band secured to the body _pertion at a point near its upper end and beneath the arms the wearer and flexible stays are secured to the lower end of the body portion and to the outer edge of the over- hanging band so that as the wearer descends his down- - wardly extending legs will operate upon the stays to hold the band at its outer edges so the latter will expand and ate as a para Bibs in, Ce Pate EN Ta! |. Tp % mo FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ; ain't missed anything but my watch as yit, —— The naval correspondent of the London Times gives an account of a previously unreported naval action. The report from Buenos Ayres, he says, that the German auxiliary cruiser Navarra was sunk in the Pacific off the coast of Chile on Feb. 11 is incorrect. This vessel came to her end in the South Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil, three months earlier, being sunk, by the British converted cruiser Orama. The latter met the converted German cruiser Navarra off the coast. of Brazil. In the engage- ment which ensued the speed of the Orama and the marksmanship of her gunners quickly told in her favor. In a very brief time the German vessel was on fire and her guns silenced. Nor does it appear that the British vessel suffered any injury. The crew of the Navarra got away in their boats, and were taken on board the victor, and the German vessel soon afterward went down. — GRINS AND CHUCKLES ewnt do you carry that umbrella, little boy?” asked the passerby curiously. “It’s not raining and the sun is not shining.” “I know,” said the youth, “but when it rains pa wants it and when the sun shines ma wants it, and this is the only kind of weather I can git ter use it at all.” Master—Can a leopard change his spots? Freddie— Yes, sir. Master—Now, that’s quite wrong. You know that a leopard cannot change his spots. Freddie—Oh, but he can, sir, readily. Master—Well, tell me how, then. — Freddie—When he’s tired of sitting on one spot he can : change to another. ¢ “There’s a strange man at the door, sir,” announced the new servant from Boston. “What does he want?” asked the master of the house impatiently. “Begging your pardon, sir,” replied the servant, a shade of disapproval manifest in his voice, “he wants a bath, but what he is asking for is something to eat.” ? ay ABS Og ae, ee eee et “Oh,” sighed little Rastus, rolling his eyes soulfully, “I jes’ wish I was a Junebug!” “Why foh you wish dat, chile?” asked his fond mamma. “’Cause den I fly straight to heaven!” “Huh!” scornfully and discouragingly re- — joined mamma, “you fool nigger, doan’ you know dat a. woodpecker ketch you-all “fore you get halfway dar?” — } ie yi An old farmer in Ayrshire had a habit of feigning deaf- — ness when he wanted to avoid answering an awkward ques- _ tion. One day a neighbor said to him: “I'd like to bor-— 3 row your cart this morning. Mine is having a spring s mended.” “You'll have to speak louder,” the old farmer z eee Oe answered. “I don’t hear very well—and I dont like to lend my cart, anyhow.” + st + An old negro in Carrollton, Mo., being ill, was re by a colored physician; but as the patient did not im-. prove, a white medico was called in. Doctor S—= fo the darky’s pulse for a moment, and then examined his tongue. “Did your other doctor take your temperature?” he asked. “I don’t know, sah,” he answered feebly. “ . + r 4 P

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nae FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. a r men who have spent their all, and now hang around and Madness is a terrible thing. tion. Few there are outside of the medical profession and the} Jt was among such men that Harold Goasbeck had famities into which the dread disease has made its waY, | fajlen. who can understand, can conceive, even the slightest part} Could they have seen the future, could they have guessed of the dreadful truth. , : _., |the end, they would have dashed the poisonous cup from _ _ But what makes the fact of insanity more horrible is| pis lips. But the end was veiled from their sight, and _ that in most cases the fault lies with the victim him- they led him on, drinking at his expense, borrowing’ his self. ‘ : 3 money, involving him in moral as well as financial ruin. - When putting to your lips the. first glass of liquor, Two nights in each week, nothing they could gay ox ab young man, remember that the abuse of this stuff has could tempt him to join them. Those were the nights of nal a re en ae eee ee made more maniacs than all the other causes combined. day hy bl with The cursed stuff does its work so insidiously that at last potas San ee ee a man goes to sleep at night perfectly sane, and wakes up Poor girl! in the morning a madman. : He 3 2-day, th h It may take years to leap up to the fatal point, but the meet teh som A eho tigre ghia Pact ages rest comes with a rush. In all the years of my experience with insanity (the #uthor is quoting a MS. of his uncle, it will be remem- bered), I bave met with no case more harrowing than that _ f Haroid Goasbeck, whom | this day saw laid away in _ the grave. + Harold Goasbeck was the only child of wealthy parents. ee et she coal cee catep ats Instead, she sought and found an opportunity to speak ‘ they were, too, of their family, of their descent from the to Harold, and warned him what the a d must be if Titdeesbackeri | Nelly learned the truth—and Harold, frightened, swore Until the age of twenty-three Harold Goasbeck had been he would cox nea a modest young man, honest, thoroughly straightforward,| But it was -already too late in the day. The demon and temperate even to abstinence. Then he began to take drink had already obtained too great a hold. 2 a a drink now.and then. Still he always managed to be perfectly straight when His parents were not alarmed by this, for it was no more ne a I mene and hin. sppestpuce, there. yas always than thousands of young men did, without any harm be- punctual to. the minute; falling them. But they were alarmed when one night And Nelly, innocent, happy, trusting, never awakened to eee ied lender: thn taituctices! liquor. the truth until it was thrust upon her in all its bideows ~* They talked to him kindly, yet reproachfully. reality, 2 He ‘acknowledged his fault, and promised not to taste} Just as the clock struck eight on Wednesday evening, ‘i | Tiquor again, Nor did he so long as they lived. the door bell rang. Her heart pulsated a little faster, her But they paid the debt of nature a few months later. face lighted with a suiile—a smile that became frozen as Mr. Goasheck died: first, and his faithful wife was she saw Harold stép within the parlor door, She saw that his hand sometimes trembled, that his eyes were heavy, but she never guessed what blight it was which wes slowly descending upon Harold’s life—upon her own life. Her twin sister Madge, with her perception undimin- ished by love, keenly guessed the truth, but would not lisp a word to Nelly, for that word would break her heart. ~ g beside him in less than a month. Forgetful of the day, he had drank heavily. Suddenly ' —_ feft immensely rich by his father’s death, Harold be-| remembering that it was Wednesday, unaware of his actual ~ eame a thing for young men who had already spent their|condition, he had hastened to her house. Bs: fortunes to prey upon. One long and sorrowful look Nelly fastened upon him, For a long time’ he resisted their temptings, strength- and then burst into tears. He tried to console her, would ened in his resolutions by the dear face his memory. ever |bave touched her, but she shrank away, carried, that of Nelly Sargent. 2 “Oh! Harold—Harold !” 3 They had long been devoted to each other, ana were en-| Jt was all she could say. to be married. One thing which she had an especial horror of was liquor. And Harold had kept the knowledge of his single escapade religiously from her. | Fatal was the/day when he again put the glass to his and swore never to drink again, Vain oath! Hoping for the best—yet fearing—Nelly -forgave him, but sent him away; she could not bear to see him so: Phe ice broken, there was little aiitientiy in persuading | "The turning point in Harold’s life had arrived. He him to drink again. knew it, and strove hard to do. what was right. bas = “False eee who aug and cajoled him, led him} But hew could he refuse when the boys asked him to ‘ jdrink? They were a jovial, whole-hearted set, and would \ THE MANTAC’S VICTIM. help to plack any “pigeon” who falls into their hands. e3 They would recoil at thoughts of anything dishonest; are. By Kit Clyde not actually wicked, yet enact a part on the stage of life which brings in its track nothing but ruin and desola- Deeply moved by her sorrow, he asked for forgivenegy

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FAME men to stand. Nelly said: “Wait!” in his hands now, even though she loved him so deeply. _eompanions. resolute. kiss her. Tay, & IMPs ment ring he had placed on,her finger so long ago was ‘missing. And a vague and terrible fear filled his. heart. + She saw that he had noticed that the ring no longer “hy pied its accustomed place, and, disengaging her hand, a e took the ring from her pocket, and without a word i ‘laced it in his hand. “What is.this?” he demanded, ¥e u “Your own conscience must tell you why I return this & , & pledge received goodness knows with what pleas- ure. Good-by, Harold!” eer She glided to the door, paused, Saeed about to speak |: ne again, then silently faded from sight. © Stunned, scarcely able to comprehend, ‘elutching the ring in his hand, Harold left the house. — “She gives me up merely because I take ‘a glass now 8 and then,” he bitterly said, as he sat in his room the next h morning. “But she loves me still—ha-ha! and I'll break her heart as she has broken mine. I'll drink—ay, drink w she drove me to it. I wonder will she drop a tear? Ay, gallons of them!” and he laughed, gleefully. _ ‘Already had the demon began to steal his reason. Yes, ee ‘Husa Goasbeck even then trembled on the verge of in- Ses Pee . * From that hour he drank—as the saying goes—“like a Ps. ‘ty although we fail to see the aptitude of the simile. 4 d every glass of liquor he poured down his throat was phe y done with the insane desire to avenge himself n the girl who even then was growing wan and’ pale with - grief on his account. - A year passed away. ‘He was given now to the wildest extravagances, the debauches. ~ his hands trembled, there was a nervous uneasiness in. all he did. A competent man would have said: “His nerves @: all | unstrung; the man is more a madman’ than a m z ep em. up, boys!” he cried to half a dozen boon com- ‘Danions Je room, so called. “Fill ’em up, boys! hort life but a merry one!” nat fiwhs! A = % Where, ~ ar eS, Ridicule! It is the hardest Hane: in the world for most Harold’s good resolutions did not hold out twenty-four hours, though it was months before Nelly could be posi- tively sure he had been drinking before coming to! see her. _ The day originally set for the wedding came and passed. She dared not trust her future life . Fate so shaped matters that she one day saw him in the street, too drunk to stand alone, supported between two When he came again, she went to the parlor to meet him, with a face, oh! so sad and pale, but firmly set and _. She gave him her hand, but would not permit him to “And as he held her hand, he noticed that the engage- yself into the grave, and on my deathbed I'll let’ her oe and bitter sorrow. is face had grown haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, gathered: about ‘a table:in' private part of @ sam- ¥ egirsn a a benacen the table = teow a-mad | AND FORTUNE WEEKLY: looks were so wild, his manner so strange. There was something wrong with him. Ah, there was! Suddenly catching up the bottles he began to hurl them fiercely. about the room, breaking the globes, and then springing frorn the table he smashed the chairs and every- thing in the room that’ was breakable, The spirit of destruction was upon him, and he rended everything nf which his strength was capable. Meanwhile his companions tried to calm him. But in vain. Turning at last, ke sprang at the throat of one, and would have choked him to death but for having been dragged off; and then they all rushed from the room, leaving the maniac alone. j A policeman was called, but before he came the mad- man had made his escape from the place. A His eyes were lurid; he champed his teeth, and rushed along the street with a definite and dreadful purpose gleaming in every expression. He arrived before the house in which Nelly Sargent lived. - A servant was just issuing through the basement door, and as it opened he dashed in. He knew where Nelly’s room, wasrsituated, and straight to it he rushed, waving a revolver in his hand. He found the poor girl on her knees beside the bed. ‘Tears were flowing from her eyes as she prayed for him. He’ only knew that it was her. His crazed brain was filled With the idea that she had wronged him—not that _ he had broken her heart—he had come for revenge, and quickly cocking the revolver he sent a bullet into her brain — just. as she turned her pale, wan, tear-stained face ae him. : Without. as much as a groan she sank to the floor. Fs. With a startled look on his face he bent above her. ~~ “That’s not Nelly!” he cried. rosy and beautiful.” The change had indeed been great. “She was plump and ; No wonder he aid 2 not recognize that thin, pale face, with its expression of q He rushed from the room, dashing hither and thitheg h as a bloodhound seeks for-a scent. Upstairs—dow nstairs —and into the sitting-room, where he came face to face with Nelly’s twin sister Madge. +s Snap! The pistol failed to go off, and hurling it from & him with a cry of disgust, he sprang at Madge, and twining his fingers about her throat commenced to choke — her, while he filled the house with his awful yells, ‘The madman’s fury must have robbed her of her me had not a man’s figure bounded across the threshold. An ‘instant. and then the newcomer sprang forw. seized the maniac by’the collar and dragged him | clenched his fist and dealt him a fearful blow on the ae : ple which stretched him senseless on the floor. ie Harold Goasbeck was placed under my care not a if hours later, raving mad. I ordered his bonds it andhad him placed i in a padded room. 4 “Better he should die than live in such a mental 3 dition,” I concluded, and he was kept without liquor. hk: = Dancing, singing, shouting, he was never quiet fora ok |single minute during a whole week, and then exhaustion — caused his death. :

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Brooks, Marshall, Mich., — Dear Sir:—I began using your Appliance for the cure of rupture (Lhad a pretty bad case) I think in May, 1905. On November 20, 1905, I quit using it, Since that time I have not needed or used it. I am well of rupture and rank myself among those cured by the Brooks Discovery, which, considering my age, 76 years, I regard as remarkable. Very sincerely yours, Jamestown, N.C. SAM A. HOOVER. Child Cured in Four Months 21 Jansen St., Dubuque, Iowa. Brooks Rupture Appliance Co., Gentlemen:—The baby’s ture is alto- gether cured, thanks to your Appliance, and we are so thankful to you. If we could only have known of it sooner our little boy would not have had to suffer near as much as he did. He wore your bracé a little over four months and has not worn it now for six we ANDREW ECGENDERGER. The above is C. E. Brooks, inventor of the Appli- ance, who cured himself and who has been curing others for over 30 years. If Experience I Have Produced An Appliance for Men, Women and Children That Actually Cures Rupture. Ten Reasons Why You Should Send for Brooks Rupture Appliance 1, It is absolutely the only Appliance of the kind on the market to-day, and in it are embodied the principles that invent- ors have sought after for years. 2. The Appliance for retaining the rupture cannot be thrown out of position. _ 3 Being an air cushion of soft rubber it clings closely to the body, yet never blisters or causes irritation. 4. Unlike the ordinary so-called pads, used in other trusses, it is not cumber- some or ungainly. 5. -It is small, soft and pliable, and positively cannot be detected through the clothing. 6. The soft, pliable bands holding the Appliance do not give one the unpleasant sensation of wearing a harness. 7. There is nothing about it to get foul, and when it becomes soiled it can be washed without injuring it in the least. 8.. There are no metal springs in the Appliance to torture one by cutting and bruising the flesh. 9. All of the material of which the Ap- pliances are made is of the very best that money can buy, making it a durable and safe Appliance to wear. 10. My reputation for honesty and fair. dealing is so thoroughly established by an experience of over thirty years of dealing with the public, and my prices are so rea- sonable, my terms so fair, that there cer- tainly should be no hesitancy in sending free coupon to-day. Remember T send my A; I say is true. ou are to be the judge. Fill out free coupon below and mail to-day. Free Information Coupon C. E. Brooks, 1942 State Street, Marshall, Mich. Please send me by mail in eo wrapper your illustrated book and full information about your Appliance for the eure of rupture. RE PRs at Pina ood yet chaskskamecnia CDi nen VF aning a negs SetMervebepend codk Re Se Diay acs nawadece ss sStete.. sc cheers liance on trial to prove what

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— RES — FAME AND. FORTUNE. “WEEKLY. Saige a PERS ta “*. ”@ 4t France’ s foreign. trade has decreased almost 50 per cent.| to the first power-house, where it rushes from 6-inch noz- cable from the American Consul General at Paris. Dur-| miles an hour. It strikes the buckets of held 94 inches: merce amounted to $597,346, 773 against $1,009,890,835| locomotive traveling 100 miles an hour. Each pair of t the same months last year. Imports were $420.665,116| these wheels develops 23,500 horsepower. Then the water ainst $583,363,923 and exports were $176,681,657 | falls through more tunnels and pipes to the lower power- ‘against $426,526,921. house, where it sets more wheels spinning. In each power- ous supply all sorts of. machinery are employed. Even} across the 240 miles of desert and mountains to gh mixer, but the big concerns with their sanitary | full power shall have been realized “it will form an ine? plants and improved methods have carried the machine into| haustible mine of energy, with an output that could no end, and a visit to the model factories reveals all that has other, because they cannot comprehend or guard against been accomplished along these lines. The dingy kitchens an attack’ different from that ne by one of their own of the old days have been abandoned for the bright, clean,| ind, says a contributor to Youth’s Companion. ‘The pre- airy workrooms flooded with sunshine. Every precaution datory beasts in many cases overcome their prey, not be- _ is taken to guard against contamination, the employees} cause they are very much stronger, but because of the fear _ being garbed and gloved in white. As a result of these’ and confusion that their strange method of attack rouses measures, the consumer is assured of a product which is as|j) their quarry. safe, if not safer, to eat than something from his own| for example, a dog of a fighting breed charges like a kitchen. | lion, and nearly every member of the deer tribe, including _ The enterprise of the big bakers has enabled them to ex-| even the elk and the moose, flies from him in panic; but tend their operations into many fields and has practically| when one of these animals learns the real power of a dog, eliminated the domestic baking of bread. The large con-| it is a different matter. ie _ cerns have not only undertaken to supply the local market} Hobart Ames kept a number of deer in a park at his am ¥ 3 Re 4 but send their emissaries far and wide through the neigh-| winter home in Tennessee, among them a buck with a fine boring country. With excellent train service and automo-! set of horns. The buck came to have a ie ¥e contempt ~ bile trucks deliveries can be made with a promptness that! and dislike for dogs, and any unfortunate dog that got arantees a strictly fresh product each day. Consequent-| into the deer inclosure did well to escape with his life. The ae, one of the most laborious processes of the home kitchen | puck had learned that no dog: could withstand his charge fi ee is done away with. or the thrust of his horns, and running from them was the : ees last thing he thought of. On the other hand, the dogs CALIFORNIA’S BIG WATER POWER. were greatly puzzled by an anima! that ought by all rules = far the greatest hydro-electric development in| to run away, but did not. America is that now well under way to completion on the} One night the big buck jumped out of his yard, and Mr. Big Creek that flows into the San Joaquin River, about| Ames’ foreman put the dogs on the deer’s track. They _ %0 miles east of Fresno, Cal. This short stream falls| found him in a thicket a quarter of a mile from the house. 9 4,000. feet in six miles and drains a basin of about 88|There was a fight, and then the dogs were ‘seen coming e Miles, over which there is an average annual rain-| home at top speed, followed by the enraged buck. His fall’ of more tian 80 inches. The Pacifie Light and Power; hair was turned the wrong way, and his eyes burned redly Corporation is turning this tremendous waterfall into elec-} as he charged every dog he could overtake. Several of tricity -and transmitting it to. Los Angeles, 240 miles} the hounds were badly hurt, and all of them were scared, y. The Scientific American deseribes how this river|'They fled to their own quarters, and it required the com- “heen dammed to make a reservoir with a capacity of bmed efforts of the kennel mén and stable boys to rescue ‘acre feet, which is now being increased fo 120,000|the pack. Probably if a single one of those hounds had feet by raising the dams. There are two power-| learned to fight a deer at bay, “his example would have been 3, one halfway down and the other at the foot of aha by his mates. = < ds » + _ FRANCE’S FOREIGN : TRADE DECREASING. _|the fall. The water runs through a tunnel and steel pipes % ce the war began, according to statistics received by|zles witha velocity of 350 feet per second, or about 240 ing” the first four months of 1915 the total foreign com-|in diameter, making these spin as fast as the drivers of a house there are two main generators, each of 17,500 kilo- nae ABOUT HALF A MILLION LOAVES A DAY.| Watts capacity. Here the current is generated at 6,000 Tt has been estimated that New York eats about half a| Volts. raised by transformers to 150,000 volts. It is million loaves of bread a day. ‘To turn out this tremen- carried Wi six aluminum cables, each an inch in remy 3 ; he smallest baker has long.been equipped with his patent| eles. The Scientific American says that when the pane realms where it was not believed possible to enter. The | be equaled by the consumption of over 8,000,000 tons of 'y has been revolutionized-until a product has been coal per } year in a very efficient plant.” aur “af ’ turned out which is never touched by the human hand Re Co at ae until the consumer tears off the sealed covering. HOW ANIM ALS FIGHT. ; : Many ingenious appliances are employed to attain thie} animals of different species do not often fight one an- pe Riss POPE Pee ee ak oe ef 2 fe . dn ew dana Wh atu Vi Pie = Sree 410 Saeo Mie Cate ot et * tothe eee 4 pir pee o. S TORS ALS aes se i ee a pie

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bs - golored worsteds = ae 3 ; CRAWLING BUGS _. These t beetles are beauti- fully enameled in natural, brilliant colors, There is a roller under- neath, actuated by hidden springs. . When the roller is wound up the _ bug crawls about in the most life- like manner. Try one on the maid _ if you want to enjoy yourself. Price, 12¢. each, by mail, postpaid. FaxGER THROUGH THE HAT. btgtta 3 borrowed a hat from your friend, push your Anger through the crown of it, and it is seen to move about. Though amusing to cthers, the owner of the hat not see the joke, but thinks it meanness destroy his hat, yet when it is returned it perfectly uninjured. Price, 10c. each by mall. FP NOVELTY CO., 39 W. 26th St., N. ¥, WINDOW SMASHERS. The greatest sensation, just from Paris. A most wonder- ful effect of a smashing, prs falling ane or glass. It will electri body. x7 the same et? m =f pg the . me Tro ) discs to the floor. Every pane of aus tn the house apthorg fe seem ee erty pmsapd shat- tered. . mail, po . < se’ of six plates. * aml ag HL FP. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. KNITTER Every boy who wants 4 whip-lash, pair of reins, or any other knitted article of similar kind should have & signs can be made by using with this handy little object. It is handsomely lacquered, strongly made, and the wires are urable. : Price, 10c. each, by mail, postpaid. Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d New York City. WEEKS (A LOUD BOOK). - Has the absolute and exact “s on the opening of the book, ing to directions furnished, @ loud report simfMar to that of a pistol-skot will be heard, much to the amazement and surprise of the victim. Caps not mailable; can be bought at any toy store. Price, 65c. by mail, nostpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th si. N. Y¥. epee ee TRICK CARD CASE A simple looking ease like those con- taining an ordinary pack of playing cards. But the top card is only a dummy. Hid- den inside the seeming , pack is an ingenious mechanism; when you pull out the pack a trig- Knitter. Anybody can work | it. The most beautiful de- | shape of a book in cloth. Up-_ after having it set up accord-— ger is released and explodes a cap with a loud } report. Perfectly harmless and yet a source of no end of fun. f Price, 25c. each, by mail, postpaid. | FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., N. Y. TRICK.— Four cards are held in the form of a fan and a spectator is requested ‘¢ mentally select one of the four. The cards are now shuffled and one is openly taken away and placed in The performer remarks that be his has taken the card mentally selected by the et. ectator. The three eards are now displayed = the selected card ic found to be missing. _~ Reaching in his pocket the performer removes Price, lic. d exhibits the chosen card. 2 N. ¥. FRANK SMYTH, 388 Lenox Ave., SURPRISE MOVING-PICTURE MACHINE. It consists of a small nickeled metal tube, 4% inches long, with a lens eye-view, which shows a pretty ballet girl or any other scene. Hand it to a friend who will be delighted with the first picture, tell him to turn the screw on the side of the instru- ment, to change the views, when a stream of water squirts in his face, much to his surprise. The instrument can be refilled with water in an instant, and one filling will suffice for four or = five victims. Price, 30c. each by mail, postpaid; 4 for $1.00. 4 BASEBALL PUZZLE —_ Here is a tough one. It looks Hke a watch. Inside the glass is a diagram of a baseball field. At each base there is a small depression. Rolling around are a number of tiny bir€-shot. The trick is to get a single shot in each of the depressions on the bases. It can be done, if you know how; but if you don’t, the task seems impossible. Price. 12e. each, by mail, postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St.. B’klyn, N. Y. SNAP BACK MATCH SAFE. Just cut! A trick match safe. It is a beautifully nickelled box, a) of the size to hold matches. But Ew when your friend presses the spring to take out a match, the lid files’ back, and pinches his finger just hard enough to startle without hurting him. This is a dandy! ae Price, 5c. each by mail, postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. ¥. THE FRIGHTFUL RATTLESNAKE! To all appearance it isa harmless piece of coiled paper with a mouth- % Piece attachment, but upon placing it to one’s mouth, and blowing ~ into the tube, an imita- tion enake over two feet in length springs out of the roll like a flash of lightning, producing a whistling, flut- tering sound that would frighten a wild In- dian. We guarantee our rattlesnake not to bite, but would not advise you to play the oke on ae ygeesg or —_- ee snake packed a box. 3 for 25¢., mailed postpaid. 55 3 WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. MUSICAL SEAT The best joke ont. You can have more fun than a with one of these noveities.. All have to do is to place if possible). Then tell your friend to sit down. An unearthly shriek from the little round @rum will send your victim up in the air, the most puzzled and astenished mortal on earth. Don’t miss getting one of these genuine t!augh producers. Perfectly harmless, and never misses doing its work. Price 20 cents each, by mall post-paid WOI.FF NOVELTY CO., 29 W, 26th St., N. X fon, THE DISAPPEARING CIGAR. A trick. You ask a friend if he will have a cigar; if he says yes (which is usually the case), you take from your pocket or cigar case, an ordinary cigar, and hand it (to him. As he reaches out for it, the cigar instantly disappears right before his eyes, much to his astonishment. You can apolo- gize, saying, you are very sorry, but that it Was the last cigar you had, and the chances are that he will invite you to smoke with him if you will let him into the secret. It is not done by sleight-of-hand, but the cigar actu- ally disappeare so suddenly that it is impossi- ble for the eye to follow it, and where it has gone, no one can tell. A wonderful illusion. Price, 10c.; 3 for 25c. by mail, postpaid. Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. COMICAL RUBBER STAMPS. A complete set of five each figure is mounted on a separate block, any boy can set up a regular parade or circus by print- ing the figures in differ- ent positions. With each set of figures we gend 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 and entertaining novelty gott-n up in years. Price of the com- Plete set of Rubber Stamps, with ink and ink pad, only :0c., 3 sets for 2ic., one dozen 80c., by mail postpaid. grotesque little people made of indestructible rubber mounted on black walnut blocks. The fig- - ures consist of Policeman, Chinarnan, and otber iaughable figures as shown in pictures. As © BEE, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. ! H.’e. LANG, 1815 Centre St., Biklyn, N. ¥. you) one on a chair seat} (hidden under a cush- new and startling | & HAY FEVER REMEDY cont WS Dy ig itcures send bs ranet. don’t. Astt OBACCO improve your health, HABIT cn ee de Regain manly — vigor, calm REEVES, clear eyes and ahperier Mental Breage a Fevasco Book. Werth lus weles in &. J. WooDS. W228 Station E, New York, N. Y. GREENBACKS Pack of $1,000 Stage Bills, 10¢; 3 packs, 25¢. Send fo a pack and show the boys what a WAD ©. A. NICHOLS, JR., Box 90, THE PEG JUMPER. A very effective pocket trick, easily to be perfermed by any one. A miniature paddle is shown. Cen- tral holes are drifled through it. A wooden g is inside of the upper hole. Showing now — th sides of the paddle, the performer causes, by simply breathing upon it, the peg to leave the upper hole, and appear in the middle ons, Then it Jumps to the lower hole, back to the middle one, and lastly to the upper hole. Beth sides ef the paddle are seventeen: shown. Price by Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York NORWEGIAN MOUSE. A very large gray mouse, measuring 8 jicnes from tip of nose to ew: of tall. The body of mouse is_ hollow. Place your first finger in his body, and then by moving your finger up and down, the mouse appears to be running up your sleeve. Enter a room where there are ladies, with the mouse runn’ag up your sleeve, and you will see a rapid scat- tering of the fair sex. Many practical jokes can be perpe- trated with this small rodent. Price, 10c.; 3 for 25c. mailed, postpaid. FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., N. ¥. WHISTLEPHONE This is one of the greatest musical in- struments ever invent- ed. It is made entirely of metal and is almost invisible when in use. With it, in a few mo- ments, you can learn to play all kinds of tunes, Lave lots of fun, please and amuse your friends and make some money, too. Fine for either song or plano accompaniment or Dy itself alone. You place the whistlephone in the mouth with half circle out, place end of tongue to rounded part and blow gently as if to cool the lips. A few trials will ena- bi. one to play any tune or air. Price 6 cents euch by mai}, post-paid H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y¥. = KANGAROO PADLOCK. A handsome padlock stamped out of polished steel. It locks it- self when the hasp is pressed down into the lock, but the puzzle is to unlock it. You can instantly unlock it with the key, but no one not in the secret can unlock it. You can slip the hasp through a friend’s buttonhole and force him to wear it until you release it, although he may have the key to the lock; or a boy and girl can be locked together by slipping the hasp through a buttonhole of their clothing. Many other innocent and amusing jokes can be perpetrated with it upon your friends and acquaintances. It is not only a strong, useful padicck, but one of the best puz ever invented. Full printed instructions sent with each lock. They are @ bonanza for agents, as they can be readily sola ‘for 25 cents each. Our price, i5e.; 2 for 25e.; one dozen, $1.2@, sent by mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 23 W. 2cth Si, N. D oucarITy N.Y.

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f THE BURNING CIGARETTE. exe soe ROROT NSS = The greatest trick ratimepoteeestee) joke out. A perfect imitation of 2 smoul- @ering cigarette with bright red fire. It fools the wisest. Send i0c. and we will mail it, WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. DELUSION TRICK. A magic litt.e box in three parts that is very mystify- ing to those not in the trick. <4 the magic box. Made of hard ood two inches in diameter. Price, 12c. H. @, LANG, 1315 Centre St.. B’klyn,; N. Y. i TET REPRE ‘GLASS PEN.—Patent glass pen, with nice Gip, writes like any ordinary pen; each put up in wooden box. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. Y. a me é MAGIC COINER. A mystifying and amusing trick, Tin blanks are placed under ‘the little tin cup and apparently coined into dimes. A real money- maker. Price, 20c. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., d. we THE MAGNETIC TOP. ~ A handsome metal, highly magnetized toy. A horseshoe and a spiral wire furnished with each top. When spun next to the wires, they make the most surpris- ing movements. You can make wires of dif- ferent shapes and get the most peculiar ef- fects. Price, 5c., post- paid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. A coin placed on a piece of | paper disappears by dropping a nickei ring around it from | Price, 10c., postpaid. | VANISHING AND RE- APPEARING EGG.—Very fine, easy to perform and it produces a marvelous and mystifying effect. Egg made to appear and right before the Beautifully made. P Price, 25c. FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., N. Y¥. INDIAN FINGER TRAP. A couple can be joined together and their strug- gle to be released only 7 makes matters worse. It will. hold them as tight 2s a rat-trap, and the more they try to pull away, the tighter it grips. Our traps are extra long. Price, 10c. each; 3 for 25c. by mail, postpaid. Cc. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St.. New York City. eyes. GIANT SAW PUZZLE. This puzzle contains twenty-one pieces of weod nicely finished; ‘take them apart and put them _ together same as illustrated. Everybody would like to try it, as it is very fascinating. Price, by mail, postpaid, 25a each. C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. NEW Tiwv-CENT FOUNTAIN PEN, One of the mest peculiar and mystifyin pens on the market. It requires ne ink. Al you have to do ie te dip it in water, and it will write for an indefinite period. The secret can only be learned by procuring one, and yeu can make it = 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, as @ defective fountain pen might do. Price, 10¢. each by mail WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W. 26th St., N. ¥. TO READ X-RAY WONDER ero This is a wonderful Mttl optical illusion.’-In thse, you apparently see the ‘bones in your hand, the, hole in’ a J pipe-stem, the lead in a pen- == cil, etc. The fprindiple on . which -it is operated cannot be disclosed here, but it will afford no end of fun for any person who has one. Price, 15 cents each, by mail, postpaid. FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., N. Y. THE IRON CROSS There are lots of people who want to bring the European war into this country. But we don’t want ft. When you find a foreign patriot shooting off his mouth, just pin one of these iron crosses on his lapel. Guaranteed to cork up the most blatant troublemaker on earth. . Price, 10c. each, by mail. postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B'klyn, N. ¥. COIN PURSE You cannot lose your change by carrying one of these handy purses, They are made of the finest Morocco, with a clasp that simply will not unfasten itself. Within are heavy rubber receptacles for hold- ing nickels, dimes, and quarters. Each compart- ment holds a number of coins, They cannot be abstracted unless you take them out your- self, Pickpockets hate these purses. Price 25c: each, by mail, postpaid. H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y¥. TRICK PURSE One of the most in- nocent - looking little pocketbooks you ever saw. Hand it to your friend, and tell him to help himself. As he unfastens the button a spring inside causes the purse to fly open, sending several coins up in the air before his astonished gaze. This is a real fun maker. You cannot afford to be without one. Price. 25c, each, by mail, postpaid. C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. WE WANT YOU '“WMioving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine devoted to Photoplays and Players Absolutely the finest little publication on the news-stands a PRICE 5 CENTS A COPY @ ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY BEAUTIFUL COLORED COVER DESICN + New portraits of actors and actreeses every week - EVERY NUMBER CONTAINS THIRTY-TWO PAGES FINE HALF-TONE FRONTISPIECES Get a copy of this weekly magazine and see what itis Six Gripping Stories, based on the latest and best films, each profusely illustrated with fine half-tones of scenes in the plays. Photographs and Biograplsies of the most celebrated Photoplay actors and actresses. Special Articles relating to Moving Pictures, written by the greatest authorities in the film business. News Notes from the studios about the doings of everybody of prominence connected with the Photoplays. Scenario Hints and the names of all the companies who may buy the plays you write. Toems, Jingles, Jests and every bright feature calculated to interest both young and old. GET A COPY NOW trom your newsdealer, or send us 5 cents in money or postage stamps, and we will mai) you the latest number issued. FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher | (68 West 23d Street New York

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