Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 649) (1918 03 08)

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MARCH 8, 1918. sTORIES OF BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. _ Z ‘oR. A CANAL ROUTE TO FORTUNE "AND-OTHER STORIES Ty 4 SELF MADE MAN. % as Gracmndien ‘vines : /§= you, you young inet hissed Dave Wambold, closing with Jacke and trying to'force him into the-canal. Millie uttered a shrill scream,which attracted her brother’s notice. ~ grabbed a boathook and ran forward to Jack’s essistance.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY Issued Weckly—By Subscription $3.00 per year. Entered at the New York, N. Y., Post Office as Second-Class Matter by Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street, New York. No. 649. NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 1918. Price 6 Cents. JACK JASPER’S VENTURE as nae Dee ) A CANAL ROUTE TO FORTUNE Bo . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES JACK JASPER AND HIS FRIEND BEN BURLING. ¥ “Missed again, Ben,” laughed Jack Jasper, as the smoke rom the muzzle of Ben Burling’s shotgun floated away and water-fowl he had shot at winged its low flight across - It seems to be goin’ ” i i a tone g back on me,” replied Ben, in a “Tt isn’t the fault of the gun. 1 : ,* chuckled Jack, gu You looked crooked, that’s ; tow could I look crooked? No, it’s the blamed gun, I wh, are I never missed twice in succession before in the RN course of my life.” : n looked critically at his weapon, but he couldn’t find cieicote re the fault, if any, lay; nevertheless, nothing could tao him that his failure to hit the water-fowl was due Sod Want of skill on his part. Ja and Ben Burling were both residents of Cam- the 1 town which was situated on the north border ight Mar that extended for some distance around the Be Was about) eighteen, and lived with his widowed oo and a sister im a small cottage on the suburbs of Pld ya and close to the water course of an old disused Thiet by water diverted from the Salmon River. canal circled around the edge of the marsh and Once @ part of the town. vere n a time canal boats came down the Salmon River the canenterport, a flourishing manufacturing town, entered “way. at Camden, pas: through the artificial water- . i dumped freight and even peancnacets at Jordan, a on the west shore of Lake Cadillac, whence they were sean in a small steamer to Eastlake, on the op- ; But the building of a railroad which took in Centerport ; ‘Brg business of the canal boat company into a omist-bound. freight and passengers were carried a much ‘qui Bet + pa it is true, but the iron road made he old ps ered cae he cost of carriage was higher than As time ig. ; money in a majority of cases, shippers natu- "y Preferred the railroad to the slow-going water route, “0 the canal transportation company went out of business boats and the canal itself to the rav- oN “and neglect. 2 4 was man of twenty-five years of a young r friend of Jasper’s. ip ivemynti dey Millie, who was an uncommonly a! a Jot my Fite ‘ | , By A SELF-MADE MAN. Jack and Ben had been employed until lately in a small furniture factory, Ben as engineer, and Jack as fireman; but the closing down of the works on account of the failure of the company threw them out of work. With plenty of time on their hands, they had gone shoot- ing on the Camden marsh, a favorite amusement of theirs, on the day we introduce them to our readers, and had al- ready bagged a fair supply of game. “I guess it’s time we started for home,” said Jack, taking a look at the sun, which was low down in the sky. “I reckon you're right, Jack. We don’t want to be caught on the marsh in the dark, and we’ve got quite a way to go before we can reach the bridge that crosses the canal.” “We’ve done pretty well,” said Jack, glancing into his stuffed game bag. “I’ve got fodder enough here to fill our larder. We won’t need to call on the butcher for several nay and that’s quite an item, considering I’m out of a job.” “You’re better off than I am, anyway,” replied Ben, “for your mother owns her cottage, while I have rent to pay.” “That’s right; but the rent you pay won’t break you or make the landlord rich.” “Well, six dollars a month is something. If I didn’t have it around the first of the month old Grimes would have a face on him as long as a_ yardstick.” “T shouldn’t think that six dollars would worry him much. They say he’s very well off. I heard that he holds mortgages on a dozen buildings in Camden, and on one or two outlying farms besides.” “It wouldn’t make any difference if. he owned the whole of Camden, he’d be just as graspin’ as he is now.” “Funny that an old man like him should be reaching out after the dollars, when he’s got more now than he can pos- | spend if he lived to be a h “Spend! Why, he doesn’t spend anythin’. He ay hoards it up. <A cent jooks bigger to him than a dollar does to you and me, r as we are.” “T know he’s got the reputation of being a miser; but people always exaggerate such stories. I don’t believe he’s worth half what folks imagine he is. , lot of money in the canal company when it went up. That canal was a pet hobby of his, and it broke his heart when the railroad put it out of business. They say he hasn’t been exactly right in the head since the failure of the com- pany. he helped to finance.”’ i “Don’t you worry about his head,” said Ben. “ i I had as shrewd a beuWhat. good 1s What’s the use distant re ns of piling up gold for somebody or even ny , ae ee c 52" i so ee ee time as possible - Pa Te I alws money- pes. s .) r vee They say he lost a I eS. head on my shoulders. I'll bet I’d soon money toa person if he doesn’t enjoy it?

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won't need it, for she’s bound to her. man.” “I guess she is. She’s a fine little housekeeper.” “None better. She can make a dollar go as far as any woman, and further than most.” While talking together the young sportsmen were pick- ing their way at a good pace across the marsh. This wouldn’t have been an easy matter for one not so ‘ well acquainted with the placé as they were; but both had the topography of the marsh down fine, having visited it a hundred times or more, and there was little fear of them walking into any treacherous spot. They could now see the trees that lined the deserted , canal in places, and the rising ground beyond. They could also see an ancient mill, which lifted its gaunt and hoary remains on the edge of the marsh near the bridge which they had to cross to reach the road to Camden. No one in: the county could remember when this mill { was in Operation; nor was there any record of the date when it was erected. There was a tradition that the miller had hanged him- self to one of the rafters, and on the strength of that legend the old place was said to be haunted. Whether it was or not tow people had the opportunity to find out anything on the subject, though it is true that two or three farmers, passing that way late at night, as- serted that they had seen a ghostly kind of light in one of the windows. te on each of these occasions the farmers were known to have gone home boozy’from a tavern on the outskirts of Camden, and might reasonably be supposed to have been in that condition when they passed along the road opposite the“ old mill; their stories met with little credence. It was quite possible they mi sy ip have seen the flash of a match as some tramp who had sought shelter in the mill his pipe, but as for ghostly lights at the mill or any- ere else, the community did not take a By stock in them. ee Fut disappeared entirely as Jack and Ben got within feet of the mill. F ey eel to the dried bed of a stream that had at some “f sect date flowed that way from the Salmon River and lost" itself in the marsh. It was this stream which had furnished power to the - mill, and no doubt the drying up of it had put Fhe mill out _ of business. s _ No _one living in that locality, and there were some old ts, could recollect ‘when that waterway was not iret as it hy rps now. : Now that they were out of the marsh and near the Sei , Jack and Ben didn’t care how soon it got dark, for =y were not much over a mile from town. ; me} step. out, Ja I’m feelin’ as hungry as a hunter, ‘| and I’m in’ I ean’t get outside a brace of these birds, = cooked as only Re a can cook them, any too soon,” said nfortunatels eee ‘in stepping out, Jack’s weight came on a ich slipped aside, and his ankle turned un- ‘ Dein, he went with a cry of pain, and, what was worse, he couldn’t get up. co” asked oy ee Ben. _ “What's the matter, Jay «“The matter is I’ve om ined my ankle badly, and [ can’t pk, Pe T'll never be able to walk home. You'll have to : to,the canal, so that I can bathe it, or it. will swell hot an clephant’s. foot inside of half an hour, t I’m up ap Prompt a get ee cold ” everything at the start of an accident of p the swelling down I'll soon get over it, but if Yl be laid up for a week or two,” said Jack. do’ it?” seemed lying there with mali- itent ‘to i ne up. Come, now, hi me up, and me along. I'll have to hop on one foot.” a great deal of. na tyan hha terse Jb the canal, and then he had a terrible job “boot hig for ae ‘aaliche. already 2 _ JACK JASPER'S VENTURE. t some chap to look after | erful galvanie battery, and he had to grit his teeth to av¥yt m. consider her a prize package for any likely young utgering a howl. sment,” replied Jack. this kind. es “Does it hurt?” asked Ben, noticing the expression ; his companion’s face. “Hurt! Oh, no, it doesn’t hurt at all. It feels love a replied Jack in a sarcastic tone. “I wish you were enjidul ing the same sensation, for misery always likes compatTh “Thanks,” chuckled Ben, “I’d rather the pleasure wWhre1 yours.” nd “Gracious! the water is cold. It puts my teeth on edg Ey “You don’t expect to find the water warm at this tiok of the year, do you?” “Of course not. It ought to cure my sprain in shkpe order. It’s about as painful, though, as having one’s | at amputated.” “How do you know that? You never had a leg cut o a “T just said that. to give you an idea of my sensationse en this moment.” # It was rather heroic treatment that Jack forced him to undergo, for the water was icy cold, and for a timemce made the pain in his foot almost unbearable; but Jack grit clear through, and as the swelling went down the pMY: decreased. Ke He bound his ankle up with a wet bandage made oul of his handkerchief, held in place by Ben’s handkerchief.) “I Over this he drew on his stocking and then shoved } “( leg into his boot. “Tt won’t do for me to rest my weight on that ankle he said to Ben. “You must help me as far as the mill then go and borrow a cart of Farmer Bradley and t me home. By favoring my ankle all I can for a day or I'll be all right. Had we been somewhere out of reach water I’d have been in a bad pickle.” Ben’ assisted Jack into the ground floor of the old m. where Jasper seated himself on a box which stood uni the stairs leading to the second story. “T'll leave my gun and bag of game here with you,” s eae “and | I'll get back with some kind of a vehicle as s as I can.” “Yes; don’t take any more time than you can help, § I’m anxious to get home and doctor my ankle with Ii Ben assured him that he would hurry, and then hasten « pith leaving Jack to the silence and solitude of the ancié « on ; . er CHAPTER I. DESCRIBES WHAT JACK HEARD IN THE OLD MILL. Twilight was now on the face of the landscape, and_ shadows of the ground floor of the old mill, which day had banished to the corners, began creeping forth like 1 animals from their lairs ze the jungle. a It was. a lonesome spot at the best, partieularl y after ¢ d “Tf I was at all nervous I eedia't like to be oblig remain in this old rookery after dark,” thought Jal “Thank goodness I’m not affected 1 at way, for they say person’s imagination can go a long way toward maki spooks out of nothing at all.” p At that moment the silence of the mill was sudde! broken by the sound of slow and heavy footfalls somewh Sy down under the flooring. : “What’s that?” Jack, becoming alert all at on§,, “There is somebody in ,this mill—down in the cellar wh the wreck of the disused machinery lies oar tk : Who can it be? Some tramp probably who has been sno, ing there and has just woke up.” “oe The footsteps sounded as if Be agicee g a stairs now; they came nearer every moment : Presently he could hear them in a room beyond an | 0 rway. i Jack fastened his eyes on the door which he could make So RR ey the ee, a ‘the eo, art ean 4 ean ibialiy shia ape was am o for. st pontoon door, « where he on

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OM He did not look at all like a hobo, and Jack wondered the building. ; man stretched himself and yawned as if he had been one in a sleep in the depths below. Then he proceeded to walk up and down the room, ap- ently ruminating, while the smoke curled about his head hd lost itself in the air edg Every time he came to the outer door he would pause and ok out, after which he resumed his stride. © boy got the idea from his movements that he was mpecting somebody. : At that moment Jasper caught the faint sound of foot- on the bridge. ; & “I wonder if the ems to be All doubt on the matter was dissipated by the appear- hee of an average built man in the doorway with a grip. That you, Wambold?” asked the man with the pipe, | pyancing to meet the newcomer. < Of course it’s me. Who else would come here at this our, or any other time, for that matter?” was the reply. welt he was doing in at’s Ben, or is it the person this man paiting for? It’s a little too soon for Ben to j ” “Did you m b?” “Of course I did. yes s’pose I’d forget you?” I should hope not, for there’s nothin’ left below but a “ckage of crackers, and that wouldn’t go far on a hungry stomach.” rT 8 a : working all day, I s’pose?” said Wambold. Up to about two. en I lay down and took a sleep. “8 woke up about ten minutes ago.” ow is the second plate ting on?” MAC, newly tnihed. “Well, it’s time we looked around for the necessary coin MNIt also disclosed the fact that the man was commonly article.” \ “Rob him, you mean?” ° qpate what the world ealls it,” chuckled Wambold. s A “So is this business we’re engaged in; but the promised ae our enterprise largely overbalance the risk in- “Yes, as far as the plates go they will be a perfect fac- umile of the ones the government uses to turn out the new aie ay Pusranice fhat. If the paper and printing are any we ought to get rich on the rapid plan.” You needn’t worry about the paper, Spangler. The gov- : is doing that now over the unexplained disap- of a case of it. The case will get here in due All that bothers me now is the press and other but I think I’ve hit on a way to get the money them. ne bee him, and find that, beyond a doubt, on many houses in Cam- here. I’ve also daily of er hg somewhere be ne outs for years. family reasons, she prothe Each brother ir sister’s death y, with some of Cy asked Spang ler, : actin such & yarn on JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. 8 the other brother has also tipped the gardener to forward him the same information.” “How in thunder did you learn all this?” “I found it out through the gardener, who was an old pal of mine once, and whom I can still depend on.” “Oh, that’s what took you to Hastlake yesterday, is it?” “You've guessed it. I arranged with Bilkins, ‘that’s the gardener, that when he received a telegraphic message from me containing the single word ‘Grimes,’ he was to go to the Western Union office and send a message to old Adam stating that his sister was at the point of death. Well, I sent that message this afternoon.” “Go on,” said Spangler, much interested. “As Adam Grimes has made an arrangement with the operator in the telegraph office at Camden to send him by special messenger without delay any message that comes for him from Eastlake, he has undoubtedly got the gar- dener’s despatch by this time, and has either started, or will soon start, for his sister’s home.” “Well?” said Spangler. 3 “That will leave his cottage without any one but his niece, who is only a girl of seventeen, to protect his prop- erty. Now it-is my purpose for you and me to visit the cottage about midnight, break in by the back way, which should be an easy job, chloroform the niece, and ransack the premises for the old man’s.ready money. If there are a few thousands on the premises, as I feel certain there are, we ought to get them, and then the problem of raising the funds we need will be solved. How does it strike you?” “All right. You have a great head, Wambold. But where and when shall I meet you to-night, for I know you don’t care to hang around this mill for four or five hours?” “You know the blasted oak tree on the mound about half- a F between here and Camden?” “Yes.” “Meet me there about eleven o’clock and I'll have the tools needed to break open the miser’s strong box, if he has one, which I s’pose we may reckon on,” said Wambold, taking a cigar from his vest pocket and a box of wind lucifers from another Roreet Jack Jasper had easily overheard every word spoken by the: men, and he had listened with eager attention to the plan afoot to rob Adam Grimes. He determined to acquaint Ben with the facts, and get him to go to the police station in Camden and put the au- _thorities onto the job, so that the two rascals, who were evidently counterfeiters as well, would be captured when they started to break into the old man’s house. Unfortunately for Jack’s purpose the wind lucifer that Wambold used to light his cigar made a big flaring light, and as Spangler was standing facing the stairs, - th which Jack sat, the rascal detected the boy’s silent presence at once. Jack knew that it was all eo * d3 him, for the two guns stood out of his reach ard he was not shape to either escape or offer any kind of an effective resistance. “Hold on, there,” he Gasulatedk fearing Spangler might step on his sore ankle. “I’m not going to run away.” At that moment Wambold flashed a second wind lucifer, and the two men saw Jack sitting on the box, and making no effort to move. : CHAPTER IIL IN WHICH JACK FINDS HIMSELF IN A FIX. “Who in thunder are you, and what are doing in this ; an ed Wambold, holding the match down so he ld examine s face. j wT belo in Camden, and I’m not here from. choice,” iD Sack Jasper. ; Pat 2 do you mean by saying you’re not here from. oice ?” E ; ; af as out shooting with a fri on the this Pde On our way back past mill I ~ < A ee FP ie cd

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Then he got up and put on his hat. “I’m goin’ away and I can’t tell when I'll get back,” he d, addressing Jack. “As a matter of extra precaution Z hall lock you in here, and I shall be compelled to tie a Piece cloth around your mouth to prevent you from shoutin’ in ase you should hear any one walkin’ around above your You see, we can’t afford to take any chances, seein you are against us.” Spangler did not bother about the rope which held the Bete it for granted that it was secure. oo tight. and after putting out the candle, which left the ellar in the dark, he opened the door, walked out and djusted the stout padlock on the other side. _ ack heard him making his way up the stairs, and then eard his footsteps crossing the floor above, after complete lence ensued. “He’s gone,” muttered the boy. “Now to make a break or freedom, if the thing is possible for me to accomplish.” Inside of five minutes he had removed his hands from the rope and the gag from before his mouth. Sito) coils of the rope still held him loosely around the His jack-knife soon made short work of them and he got on his feet to find that his injured ankle felt compara- tively all right. PER “That cold water treatment did wonders for me,” he thought, “and several hours’ rest has greatly helped it. It eels almost as good as ever, but I must not be too gay with it or I may spoil the cure.” : ; ‘He walked to the table and lighted the candle with one of the matches he was accustomed to carry in his pocket. Then he looked around the boxed-in room. Spangler’s grip, containing the counterfeit plates and his engraving tools, stood on the floor. “If I can get away from here and hide that where the ‘rascals couldn’t find it—say atethe bottom of the canal, near the bridge—I’d be doing -the. piven pens big service, and I might get a reward,-too,” thought Jack. “The problem however, is to get out with the door padlocked.” r Jack tried the door and saw that it was too strong for him to make ‘any impression on it. + The partition itself was also strongly built and extended up to the ceiling. Apparently wood taken from the upper part of the mill had been used in its construction. ~ 38 k then turned his attention to other parts of the en- ees)! ; amide ea nes A ‘ * palit” tone blocks were as solid as the day they had been ve t, and were backed, of course, by the ground on all sides nearly the level of the building. . _It was clearly impossible to bore on Sides in a limited space of time. Looking at the ceiling in a ‘easual way, Jack thought he Saw the outlines of a trap-door in one corner. ; closer inspection ay . -. He got the two boxes the men used for seats, put one on top of the other and mounting them tried the trap. _ It was tight and immovable from long disuse. Jack, however, was not! discouraged by this circumstance. 80 he took a bit of Joist that stood in the cellar and pounded cy against it. ‘ t oa re was a stron, for months had oa Oy his arms muscul _ trap yielded to his persistent efforts. w it backward with ‘* Se oy, and aigpelinit coal into a farnace i : ell for a first-class co | that hour and then go to Adam Grimes’s cottage. have time to go home and then notify the police before they tied a small piece of cloth around Jack’s mouth, not | wait We th the houta e’s way ‘through the| showed that his eyesight was good. He was reasonably sure it was not bolted on the other side,} slam and saw the road to} JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. 6 BSE ELE IO 5 SP ERTS SIE EERE ST: Vn SEE SE SSRN Ser ee CHAPTER V. WHEREIN JACK OFFERS TO DEFEND BESSIE BANNISTER AND HER UNCLE’S MONEY. “Tt must be close on to eleven o’clock now,” thought Jack, as he marched along with a limping gait. “Those\two ras- cals arranged to ‘meet at the scarred oak along this road at I won’t If. Grimes got that telegram and has started for Eastlake, the cottage will be wholly at the mercy of those rascals, for the old man’s niece could hardly stand them off even if she discovered them breaking in, but the chances are she’ll be asleep in bed: when they get there, and she won’t have any show at all. I think it’s my duty to go and help her frustrate their scheme. I don’t see any other way just now of putting a spoke in their wheel.” The more Jack thought the matter over the more resolved he became to try and save the old man’s property from the two counterfeiters. As he drew near the scarred oak tree he became cautious, for he knew it would not do for the rascals to discover him. However, he had both barrels of his shotgun loaded, and he determined to shoot at them rather than submit to recap- ture, much as. he disliked the idea of shedding human blood even in self-defence. A turn in. the road brought the scarred oak in sight. One man, evidently Spangler, was standing beside it smok- ing. Wambold appeared to be behindhand in keeping his ap- pointment, which was quite satisfactory to Jack, for it wo give him time to reach Grimes’s cottage ahead of the men— a very advantageous point, ; In order to escape ngler’s notice all Jack had to do was to take to the woods behind the oak tree and circle around to the road further on. 4 This plan he followed, soon leaving Spangler and the scarred oak i ; > In due time he reached the old man’s cottage which stood a hundred feet back from the highway, without pene a@hy- thing of Wambold, approach from town he had been watching for. d tir ’ As he placed his hand on the gate he made out a figure in the distance which he judged was Wambold crouched down behind the fence, where he could observe the person as he p: Serre j It was Wambold, walking at a brisk rate, with a carpet bag in his hand. As soon as he : House so after a few min-| ~ * , So in order to_ escape observation he let himself into the front garden and

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6 2 the police, even if I didn’t have a sprained ankle, I decided to come right here and help you stand the scoundrels off.” Bessie didn’t know Jack, and she had some doubts as to the propriety, or even the prudence, of admitting a strange boy into the cottage at night where she was alone, so she hesitated about complying with his request, especially as she could not imagine who in that neighborhood was wicked enough to plan a robbery of her uncle’s home. . “J don’t think it would be the right thing for me to let you into the house at this hour when my uncle is away,” she said, doubtfully. : } “Tf you don’t let me in,’ miss, I’ll have to stand here with my gun ang take my chances against them single-handed, for I am resolved that they shall not rob the cottage if I can help it,” replied Jack in a tone that somehow inspired her with confidence. : “If what you have told me is true, you might be hurt down there,” she said. ries “That’s a chance I’l] have to take if you won’t let me in, be answered. “T have never heard my uncle speak about you.” “He doesn’t know me personally. He only knows me as a friend of Ben Burling, who lives in one of his cottages.” “You are a friend of Mr. Burling’s, then?” _ “Yes. He and IJ are great friends. I was his fireman at the engine-house of the Camden Furniture Manufactory until it shut down-the other day. I live half a mile from here, close to town, with my mother and sister. I assure you that you need not be afraid to admit me to the house, and it will be greatly to your interest to do so.” / There was an honest ring to Jack’s voice that further re- assured the maiden, and she finally decided to take the chances. . Before going downstairs, however, she took her uncle’s revolver from his bureau drawer. Ayres Drawing the bolts of the front door, and unlocking it, she ped back, the revolver partially concealed by the folds er wrapper. As she stood there in the full reflection of the light of a lamp she had brought downstairs and placed on a small table in the hall, Jack thought he never had seen a lovelier girl. Her features were of the clear-cut Grecian type; her form ‘was symmetrical and graceful to a degree, while her golden hair was plaited in two coils that hung down her back below the line of her waist. \ _ “The robbers will be here in a few minutes, miss,” said Jack, not making a moye to enter the cottage; “but if you still have any doubts as to the honesty of my purpose you can close the door, and I will remain out here and do my best to defend you and your uncle’s property.” There was a frankness and honesty in Jasper’s bearing ‘and a sincerity in his manly countenance which dissipated a i _her doubts, and she said, in a calm voice: “Come in, Mr. Jasper; I feel that I can trust you.” Jack accordingly entered, and putting down his gun and game bag made the door fast again, _ “The men intend to break in at the back of the house, so IT had better go there. Will you tell me your name, miss?” “Bessie Bannister.” “Thank you. I am pleased to make your acquaintance even _ in so informal a way as the present,” he said, with a smite. _ Jack was a geod pone manly boy, and the girl took an or instant liking He _ She no longer entertained any doubts as to the truthful- ness of hjS statement about the projected robbery of the tage, nor of the propriety of admitting him under the cir- ANCES. ~ of Ss ; =; ig q % wn the light ant place the lamp on yonder aL intend to give these rascals a surprise mak “1 will turn do elf,” said Jack. : they won't soon forget (te. _earrying ou have a revolver, I see. Have you the nerve to use it suiloa confide nfidentl ing it, and,T am not afraid to ‘me to do,” she said . ina Way Lied aes =k. he JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. this part of the programme out, Jack said: | him “T should hope not. ‘My father was an officer in the a and was killed with Custer at Little Big Horn, while grandfather fought erg the Rebellion with the 110 Illinois Regiment,” she said, proudly. “Miss Bannister, I take my hat off to you. I am proud} W know the daughter of any hero who fell with Custer. I ha¥ept read the story of that fierce one-sided fight, and my blo¢ Ja quickened in my veins and my soul thrilled as I tried &f imagine the awful massacre of those men as they foug) doggedly against overwhelming odds and fell to the last mat Jack spoke with the fire of enthusiasm in his eye, and tiisa girl saw in his admiring glance a newly-born respect for ht S that instinctively softened her heart toward him. “While I remain here, Miss Bannister,” continued Jack, wish you would go to one of the upper front windows af watch the road in the.direction of the old mill. The two mt were to meet at the scarred oak, midway between here 2 the mill, and then come here. I saw one of them at the waiting for his companion, who passed this house just befo I aroused you, so we may look for them at any moment now “T will do as you bid, Mr. Jasper,” said Bessie; “but, want to thank you now for so generously coming to my 2 to-night. I fear but for you these rascals would have g into the house and have overpowered me before I had a hilt of their intentions.” » : _you how I came to find out the designs on this place,” said Jack. ' li ate went upstairs, leaving her rev: table. a Whon she glanced down the road from a window in he uncle’s room she saw. two men coming toward the house, of of them carrying a carpet bag. “These must be the thieves,” she thought, watching ther from behind the eurtains. “How fortunate it is that I hay olver on the kitchélg a protector in the house! How good he is to run the risk o facing those two men to save me from a terrible experi ence and protect my uncle’s property! How brave he is, ané how handsome!” Wambold and Spangler paused at the gate and looked a y the house? : Tt was dark and silent. b Satisfied that the place was prectically at their mercy, they ke opened the gate and entered the garden. Bessie immediately rushed downstairs to the kitchen, whe Jack stood, gun in hand, waiting for the burglars to show up “They have just entered the front yard,” she said, in ¢ low, excited tone. : “Here’s your revolver, Stand back of me in the ent The rascals will probably try to force an entrance throught j the window of this room, as it is easier to overcome than the them the door. The moment they get it open we must give ' surprise of their lives,” said Jasper. As he spoke both’saw the two men come into yiew around the corner of the house. see They walked up to the kitchen window and peered inside. Jack pushed Bessie back and k¢pt out of range of the ras- cals’ vision. : ; Then the young people awaited the next move of the thieves with a feeling of excited suspense. ; - CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH WAMBOLD AND SPANGLER MEET WITH AN UNPLEAS- i ANT SURPRISE. ; Wambold and his associate lost no time in beginning opera- tions. 5 They selected the window, as Jack judged they would, and began work on it. Their object was’ to reach and unloosen the catch which held the two sashes. pose : ; To accomplish this Wambold first se tened a rubber sucker | surface im to run his arm gh 1 Z ess Giving the r rap, it came away, and Wambold paeeiet it to floor my means of a long string attached to e. sucker. = . res Then he i arm, turned the catch and pushed the os - bony ate ts : cag * 4 > i ee

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the contents of sh horagcn 1 in e leg. ah ah pain Spangler fell into the groaning on the floor. stricken at the unexpected and warm re- received, started to run. to the window and discharged his other barrel 5 ared around the corner of the house. i Jack ran to the gear es where he -found that and was looking at the dis- burg’ ‘ handy, Miss Bannister?” asked the boy. one in the sitting-room,” she replied. lamp in there and then come back.” noting a familiar ring in the boy’s voice, looked with an e of surprise, recognized the was securely housed behind a strong of the-old mill.» : laimed, with something like an imprecatton. all ” replied Jack, as Bessie carried the I tired of be hoa in the cellar , so I worked myself free of the rope the bac thi igi ec eae conveyed the . se and him on the lounge. tion to make. JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. ili ark ete 1 abi It took some time for the extraction of all the small = and by the time Spangler’s wounds were dressed the r men arrived, and he was rem to the Camden jail. © ore doctor also took his departure, leaving Jack ar one. - Jasper then told the girl the whole story of his. from the moment he sprained his ankle at sun mill to the time he had made his escape from started for her uncle’s. cottage, hoping to be off the burglarious plans of the two counte’ “My uncle got a telegram about five — lake, which said that his sister, my aunt. live till morning, and told him to come Bessie. “He got ready at once to ° him to ride across to. Jordan and ec lake, so he took the ferry across + he could connect witha train t! Junction, from which point he “When he reaches his siste dispatch was a fake one. J having sent it, otherwise he The object uncle away from this co have a clear field for t* my ankle, and been ob! went for a rig of se their plan would ha “T’'m afraid it wor he heaeee all me fs ing his property. feel deeply indebt me, and I shall : She gave Jar and he felt tha’ for her sake.

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alled on to testify. e made no offer to reward Jack,.but he assured the boy € weuld not soon forget the service he had rendered Bessie nd himself. Bessie smiled and offered Jack her haud. Jasper took it, held it a moment or two, then wished her good-night. CHAPTER VIII. : IN WHICH THE CANAL ROUTE IS DISCUSSED.. _ The story of the attempted robbery of Adam Grimes’s cottage, and how it was frustrated ec Pe the plucky con- duct of Jack Jasper, was duly chronicled in the one daily paper published in Camden, and it ereated a sensation, for, ‘8 we have before remarked, such a thing as a burglary in and its environs was’a rare oecurrence. Two officers had been sent to scour the neighborhood for miles around after Wambold, Spangler’s companion in guilt, | they were unable to find him, so it was concluded that egg taken time by the forelock, and left that part of the Some days later a quiet looking man, dressed like a busi- ness man, called at the Jasper cottage and asked for Jack. He was teld that the boy had gone off shooting on the JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. 9. He found Bessie Bannister in the court, waiting to be! The caller having obtained all hé wanted, complimented Jack on his pluck, hinted that he would not be forgotten, and took his leave. Next morning’s paper contained the news of a fifteen per cent. reduction in the wages of every employee, except the executive heads of departments, on the D. & G. trunk system, of which the line running to Lathrop, Centerport and. other points north on the western shore of the Salmon River, was an important branch. Sh The departmental! clerks, station agents and. the heads of the various mechanical branches accepted the reduction with the best grace bees could, but the engineers, firemen and a host of other employees made a big kick, and seemed dis- posed to resist the mandate. Meetings were held by the disaffected ones and committees waited on the various division superintendents to veiee the objection of the men to the announced wage reduction. The committees received one reply—that the business de- pression throughout the country caused heavy loss to fall on the railroads, and the reduction was imperative and would be enforced. 5 Two weeks from the promulgation of the wage reduction order the engineers and firemen of the Centerport branch went on strike, and the whole passenger and freight service of this line was tied up as tight as a drum. Not a wheel was allowed to turn except an engine and a postal mail car twice a day each way. The engineers and firemen on the main line and other branches continued to report for duty, although the tying up of the entire system was threatened. The Centerport branch, it developed, was to be used to test the power of resistance on the part of the company, because it was the only outlet by rail for the large ore ship- ments of the Esmeralda Copper Mines. Of course the shippers and the general public raised a howl at once, for all towns along the line of the Centerport branch from Clayton Junction north were cut off from rail- road communication with the main line. *‘ These towns were nearly all on the river, but the railroad having put the old Salmon River Navigation Co. out of com-. mission, there wasn’t. a steamboat running on the river to help the people out in this emergency. . ven had there been steamboats in readiness to equip a temporary service the unusual low water in the Salmon River that spring would not have carried them over the shallows atap called Sasafax Bend, one mile below Camden. Freight of all kinds, particularly the output of the Es- meralda Copper Mines, was held up by the strike, and every day the situation became worse. ack Jasper and Ben Burling were greatly interested in the outcome of the strike. At the end of a week they found it was no nearer solu- tion than on the first day that the men went out. “Say, Ben, I heard to-day that if the company succeeds in getting engineers and firemen enough to begin moving its rolling stock the freight handlers will at once quit work,” said Jack. : “I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. The employees of the entire system are making a test case of the Centerport branch, which is a most important part of the line. If they can keep it tied up they may be able to bring the road to terms. y P Pate strikers, I hear, have plenty of money in the strike ni lee

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10 v *“Do you think you could run such a transportation line?” “T’m sure of it. . 3 “Then why not call on old Grimes and broach your idea? He owes you a debt of gratitude for saving his money-bags. If you put the matter to him right he might be willin’ to back your scheme enough to put you on your feet.” _ » “Pve been thinking about it, Ben,” replied Jack, with an earnest look. “I'll eall on the old man’s niece and have a talk with her about the matter first. She’s a sensible girl, and is friendly toward me. She can tell me whether there is any use of me striking her uncle on the subject.” b “That’s right,” nodded Ben. “Now is the time to work this idea up. It might prove the stepping-stone to your fortune.” “A canal route to fortune would be something new these up-to-date days when slow things don’t work as a rule,” laughed Jack. “Well, the situation on the other side of the river is most unusual. You might say that the whole mechanical force of the D. & G. system is fighting to bring the company to terms by keeping the traffic of the Centerport branch stalled. The company is losing a lot of money every day, but the wages lost to the strikers is being made up to them by the assessment on the men working on the rest of the system. That puts the strikers on Easy Street, and will enable them to hold out indefinitely if they cdn keep the railroad from moving its rolling stock.” “The company is going to ask for the aid of State troops ta kéep the strikers from bribing or intimidating the new engineers and firemen who offer their services to the road, so the morning paper says.” E “And I suppose the company will call on the courts to en- join the strikers maintaining a picket line, and all that; but 1 wager the men are determined enough to find means of getting around all the difficulties they find themselves up against.” “They're in for a big fight in order to the longer it lasts the bétter it would be said Jack. . “Sure thing. It would give tee the eHiance to build up a business that you might be able to Ggptinne even after the railread settled the matter. The only thing that will be against you is the slow method of canal transportation; but ' then the canal is short, and the route to Eastlake direct. - The Eastlakers would find it to their advantage to support you, and also the steamboat company on Lake Cadillac, All that you need is a backer in this, and oid Grimes is the man. The trouble is he’s closer than wax, but then the canal was _ originally his scheme, and a pet hobby with him. Put it up to him right and perhaps he’ll see you through whether he can make any money out of it or not,” said Ben, encourag- wa sas their point, and ~ ‘ingly. f _“} will. Vl call on Miss Bannister this afternoon,” said J rising from his chair, with a newly-born feeling of- - enthusiasm in what he considered a brilliant scheme, in which he thought he saw the chance of his life. _ After dinner Jack Jasper started for the Grimes cottage. ee ee ae ae scheme whic condition of the Centerport branch _ of the D. & G. Railroad made feasible. fu anything was to be done it must be pushed at once, and ack was determined to strike the iron while it was hot. _ He was full of ambition, and had the determination of a ¢ of industry who sees the chance to make a n=s' Be dye: Mocs tee ssive. effort. e pulled the old-fashi bell handle and Bessie came to She ¥ « plied, leading him with. sunshine and = . ean put JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. | you,” went on the boy. ‘or my canal idea,” | - the object you have in view.” him in it, when his ‘sister came to which, she said, had just been left by a boy. in @ handwriting unfamiliar to him, Jasper looked at signa- unicati as follows: _ : “Tt is natural for me to be oye? enthusiastic about a scheme that strikes me as a winner.” “ “TI will listen to you, but I’m only an inexperienced gi in matters of business, so I cannot promise you what val = my advice or suggestions may be to you. My uncle would F better able to advise’ you than I, and I know he will giad assist you, for he has taken a great liking for you. He h told me so. This is unusual for him to do, for he does nk, care to make new friendships. You appear to be an excéef) tion. He says he is sure you are a bright, ambitious bop; who will make your way ahead in the world. Indeed, - was talking about reviving his canal project in view of thy, present railroad situation across the river, and putting yd, in charge of the business if you were willing to make th); venture. “He was!” almost gasped Jack. “Why, it is about canal route that I came to speak with you. I wanted sound you on the subject to see if it was of any use for m, to interview your uncle about it.” . “Ts it possible!” she exclaimed, with a look of surprise. am sorry that my uncle is out at present; but I would s gest that you cal] this evening and see him. If I am ni mistaken he will be pleased to take the matter up with yo : 24 : Were he a younger man I think he would start the can! route himself in view of the present circumstances. Thalg ‘however, is out of the question; but if you have ambitiot ideas connected with the canal I think he will help you every way he can.” “I believe he still controls the right-of-way and has p vented the franchise from lapsmg by running a boat fro this town to Jordan and back once a month since the com pany went out of existence?” “Yes. The canat route: could be revived at any time if id to use it.” “Well, 1’ll tell you my plan, and you can let me know whab] you think of it,” said Jack, who proceeded to outline thi; scheme he had in mind. “I think it a very good plan,” said Bessie, when he ha finished, “and I feel sure my uncle will approve of it, an help you carry it out.” df “You encourage Mie greatly, Miss Bessie—I beg your par don, I should say Miss Bannister.” ; \ “You may call me Bessie if you wish,” she replied. “Mis Bannister seems too formal between us, and you are almos like an old friend already.” ; “Thank you. ~So you really think your uncle will loc favorably on my plan?” r “T really do. I know he is anxious to do you a service if: recognition of the debt he feels we both owe you, so I wo ] advise you to call and see him early this evening. I will him that you will call, and I will explain, in a general way, t r I ¥ — “T am greatly obliged to you, Miss Bessic.” “You need not be, for I am glad to be of any service t you,” she replied in a tone which showed she meant it. ' After talking a while longer Jack went away. ns ') CHAPTER TX. TREATS OF A LETTER JACK RECEIVED AND“ HOW HE AND BE! VISIT WHITEHALL STREET. Jack had finished his and was preparing to ‘visi Adam Grimes for the ed of la his canal rou scheme before him, hoping t he would able to int his room with a not Tearing open the envelope, which was the bottom of the brief comm on. To his rise he saw t the writer was Adam Grimes. At least t was the name signed to the note which

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- reflectively, as he read the mote over again. “Why hould he went fh see me there at night, when his cottage fhe idea such a good one that he wants to er with me where he has the books and d company on tap. Probably the reason he has a place business in Whitehall street is because the rent is cheap grhere, and he doesn’t mind appearances. I know it is one of he poorest streets in Camden, and down along the river front. Laborers and stevedores live there with their fam- ies. It isn't a locality that I’m stuck on visiting at night, peut I suppose I must do it if I want to secure the financial gssistance and co-operation of Mr. Grimes.” Jack went downstairs, told his mother where he was bound and left the house. As he was crossi at the other end. . f Hello, Jack, I was just going over to your house,” he said. vere you coming to call on me?” _., : - _ “No. I’m on my way to meet old man Grimes. ~ “Where do you expect to meet him?” asked Ben, in some Surprise, for that wasn’t the road to the Grimes cottage. “At his office in Whitehall street.” ; ; Whitehall street!” ejaculated Ben, still more surprised. “You don’t mean to say he has an office in that locality?” “That’s what his note says.” “You got a note from him?” Yes. A boy left it at my house a little while ago.” an by ae» you to meet him in Whitehall street?” o. 16, “T never knew before that there were offices in that street t is the toughest section of Camden. I suppose you know g the bridge over the canal he met Ben that?” “I know it, and I’ve been wondering how it happens that the old man has a place there. I suppose it’s because he may own the building, or because the rent is cheap.” “Well, this is certainly a surprise to me. I supposed that he transacted all his business at his cottage.. I don’t see what he wants with an office, anyway.” “It might be the old canal company’s office.” _ “No,” replied Ben, shaking his head, “the canal company had their office on Wayne street, near Washington. _ _ “Well, I made an arrangement with the old man’s niece to call at their house to-night in relation to my canal project, and te on i the point of starting for the cottage when the boy 1e note.” — ‘ “Did Grimes say what he wanted to see you about?” “He didn’t state it in so many words, but I judge from What he did say that it is about the canal matter he wants to talk with me. He said that he wanted to repay me for Saving his house from being robbed by putting me in the Way of making a good deal of money. If he has decided to -Me up in the canal scheme that will probably put me in the way of making a deat of money.” : aera ut I shoul Neg! Le ctnge es would be the most con- venient place for him to hi is interview.” _ c iL think so, too; but he appears to have a different idea.” He certainly acts a whole lot different from most people, _ Jack Ben were walking into the town while they ear- Wher thet toad ttage Ben said dat if Jack | en urling’s co’ en sai ac] fad no objection he would walk with bim as far as White- Street. Pan 45% ’ be gad any objection,” replied Jack. “In fact, I shall _ “You intervi “Oh, the old ig al JACK. JASPER’S VENTURE. waitin’ yer yer.” ; “Goodnight, Ben,” said Jack. head of the stairs. 11 The two walked on, talking, their conversation drifting around to the possibilities offered by the revival of the canal route. J At length they reached Whitehall street, and Jack began looking for No. 16. It was a short, dirty-looking thoroughfare. ih The whole of one side, where the odd numbers ran, was occupied with the cheapest kind of ramshackle tenements, filled with the poor class of Camden. The opposite side, running between two wharves, was cov- ered with similar kinds of buildings, in which lived the riff- raff of the town in boarding-houses of the lowest grade. There were saloons sandwiched in between ship chandlery and junk shops; with here and there a restaurant that looked far from inviting to either Jack or Ben. “l’d have to be pretty hungry to eat in one of those places,” remarked Ben. “I’d walk a long distance on an empty stomach before I’d do it,” replied Jack. “Here’s No. 16 now.” The number was inscribed in rude white figures, evidently the work of an unpracticed hand, over a narrow doorway leading into a narrow, dark and filthy hall. It was the last building in the world where one would ex- pect to find an office;'and both Jack and Ben looked at it doubtfully. “Are you sure you’ve got the number right?” asked Ben. “Maybe it’s 116 in the next block, on the other side of that wharf.” 16 is the number in the note,” replied Jack. “Well, if the old man has an office in this building he must be off his perch, that’s all I’ve got to say,” said Ben. They noticed a rough-looking man lounging in the door- way, who eyed them sharply as they came up. As they came to a pause opposite the doorway the fellow stepped forward and said: “Are yer lookin’ for Adam Grimes?” “Has he an office in this building?” asked Jack. / “That’s what he has. He’s expectin’ a young feller named Jas to call here to-night. Are you the party?” “That's my name.” “Yer was to come alone, wasn’t yer?” “My friend here thought he'd walk as far as the street with me.” *“Yer friend kin go on then, and you kin foller me and I'll show you upstairs to the office.” ‘ “What part of the building is Mr. Grimes’s office?” “One floor up in the back.” | “Well, Ben, I'll see you in the morning and let you know whether it was the canal scheme or not Mr. Grimes called me here to talk spout, said Jack, smothering his repugnance to enter the building. ; “I don’t like the idea of your entering this place alone, Jack,” whispered Ben. “Somehow I have my suspicions that all isn’t just right.” ‘ . “Nonsense!” laughed Jasper, who was pluck to the back- ere be to me?” ’ bone. “What danger can Q “Come on, young feller,” interrupted the tough. “I’m Ben responded in a half-hearted way, and watched his pap and the tough enter the black hallway with some misgivings. As they disappeared in the gloom he started reluctantly Sa Te ealking Mti tock hustuawionod. icsmorsalet ‘oad tha r y feet he ip irresolu A 2 as if he had come to a sudden resolution he ‘arued about and retraced his steps. , , / CHAPTER X. | HOW JACK FINDS HIMSELF IN A TRAP, AND BEN COMES TO HIS Ces F ui rere et ‘the meantime Jack followed his to : dirty oil suspended in a 0 of the walls, pene dim, uncertain illuminatio th the sar Pye Ee” ee + lige y Sink De he 2 <n

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12 JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. im : Se of the panels, and a yoice, which did not sound like the old “I asked you how. you liked the idea of a cold bath t St man’s, responded, “Come in.” evening,” continued Wambold, angry because his threat h@ng The fellow threw open the door and told Jack to walk in-| failed to unnerve his victim. oF side. “How would you like it?” retorted Jack, in clear-cut toné St As the por obeyed he followed him in, closed the door and “T wouldn’t like it any more than you do.” Be shot the bo “You’ve got to die some da ay, and if you have a murder | In aiden to the fact that the room did not show the| your soul, you'll be worse off than I am at this momentHe slightest resemblance to an office, the action of the tough was | replied Jasper. ee so suspicious that Jasper instinctively felt that he had fallen| - “No preaching, young man. I don’t believe in none of yo 0 into a trap. psalm-singing nonfense of a hereafter of fire and brimsto® Like a flash the thought now came to him that the letter} When we’re dead [that’s the end of us. You'll see your fa'" had*not been written and sent to. him by Adam Grimes, but) ish in a few minutes. As I suppose you're looking fore™é by some one else from sinister metives. harp and a pair of wings in the hereafter you might mum If that was true who could this emy be, and what did he| over a few prayers'to pave the way ahead. I haven't « “J hope to gain by so artful a trick objection to you shuffling off in your own way if it will mag. The answer came even as the eae passed through his you feel any happier. I'll be satisfied to know that we a re brain. quits.” Out of the gloom of the adjoining room stepped a well-| During this interview the tough chap stood with his ba 3 dressed man. against the bolted door, apparently unconcerned as to his ¢4 One glance at his face explained everything to Jack. nection with an affair that looked as if it was to end wif* aay The man was Wambold, the counterfeiter of the old mill. a murder. “T am delighted to meet you again, Jack Jasper,” he said “Get that piece of rope in the next reom, Higgins, and billy with an evil laugh. this chap. Ifthe resists I’ll help you,” said Wambold. = : “T suppose you wrote that letter, signed Adam Grimes, The tough left the door and stepped into the adjoinily which brought me here to-night?” replied J ack, aggressively. | room “Your supposition is correct, young man,” chuckled the Jack instantly saw a chance for his life. He stooped quickly, picked up a stool from the floor z “Well, now you’ve got me here what do you want with) flung it with an underhand swing at Wambold. me? : Then he made a dash for the door. ty “To settle scores between us,” As he drew the bolt the rascal, who had evaded the sto His answer was not reassuring to the boy. by an agile jump to one side, Sprang forward, grabbed " “You’ve done me a whole lot of harm, you man, and I’m| by the arm and pulled him back. ] going to get square. I wouldn’t have mind ned your standing} “Not so fast, my young friend,” he cried; “we don’t pally Spangler and me off at Grimes’s cottage so much if you| company that way.” hadn’t got away with those plates of the treasury notes. He swung the struggling Jack around with one hand, a They segresent weeks of skilled and peborions labor on the} finding that the boy was too.much for such a grip he dropp part of Spangler, and we counted on them to make the haul | his revolver on the table beside the lamp &nd seized him wi _ of tara at reckon we'd have Soe it if. you bade butted | both hands. in on your game foo ou’ve done us up, for “Quick with that rope, Higgins. This boy is as stron Pixel is sure of ten years for the cottage affair, and the| a young bull.” ae : . > * ak Se | deuce. 's how many more when the overnment takes As-he spoke the corridor door opened and Ben Burlin male. hand; ‘while rm out of the fortune I pepected to oa been listening and preparing for aedibn outsidl rus in. _ “I don’t see that you’re entitled to any sympathy,” lied He snatched the revolver from the table and pointed it ‘Jack, boldly. “You knew what you were up athy,” replied Wambold’s head. you undertook crooked work. n “Throw up your hands or I'll put a ball through yot Bee 3 eo didn’t know what you were up avainst when| head, you rascal,” he cried, in a ringing tone. our oar into our busnees," gritted _Wambold, = that Maney. Higgins appeared at the door with th with a & blnck look: a did my duty and I’m not worrying about the conse- “He was staggered by the change in the situation. ‘ quences.” nstead of cominz to Wambold’s side he darted back in “You crow mighty loud for a young rooster; but I guess | the room. and making his way to a-side door, let hirase ; your crowing won’t last much longer. Do'you ‘realize that | out into the corridor and ran downstirs. : tp in my power?” ; Reaching the sidewalk he uttered a s‘will, peeulia~ -vhis am through treachery which soon brought several ef i. gang from their loungi ™ Ope oad justifies the means. a to prevent me from | place outside a neighboring sal ? killing you/right here in this room ?” added Wambol-t, taking} Hurriedly explaining cite: he led them u pstairs 2. gv eye ios pocket. | Wambold’s assistance. Em ree Jac pet you’ve got murder in your heart, »| The counterfeiter was taken complet aly by surprise by : pipe! what whieh- he did not altogether | unexpected appearance and quick action of Ben Burling. ; ae bagig ter. had been turned on him so rapidly that it tod e rascal BEES a bit, once because he showed | away his breath the of fear. 1916 “Let go of ‘that boy and throw n> your hands or 1 shoot “You'd better flop ya a your “knees and bef for your’ 45,Sure as I live this minute,” spoke Ben again. _ ,There was no doubt but he meant what he said, and wi ie whe yore oa? retorted Jack. “for an imprecation of rage Wambold Jet Jasper go. = robably made up your mind to do me up somehow.” “Now, up with your hands, you scoundrel, and back uh ; a How : to against yonder wall.” a here, and Wambold, trembling with fury at the d on ; zs ment, he he realized he was, ny reluctan is. chasm. be for his. i was of more importance to him than anything else. _ - “You cote | in time to save me, Ben,” said Jack, with feeling of deep gratitude toward his chum, “You must hi followed me into the building.” PR a did, because I more than suspected that. you were 1 some kind of a trap.. 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oe JACK . JASPER’S VENTURE. 43, t Seize those chaps!” he shouted. “Sit down,” said Mr. Grimes. “My niece told me that you Stand back!” cried Ben, swinging the revolver around and | wanted to see me on a matter of business.” . mging it to bear on the toughs. “I do. It is about the canal, the rights to which you con- Higgins and his gang paused, for they were not anxious/ trol.” stop a bullet. | “JY will hear what you have to say.” Ben saw that notwithstanding the advantage rested on his} “I am out of work, with no immediate prospect of getting - gn side the situation was a critical one. | another situation. The strike on the Centerport branch of ntHe and Jack could hardly hope to escape by way of the} the D. & G. road has put a plan in my head by which I think eet with so many to contest their retreat. I could build u> a good business if you were willing to back Open the window yonder, Jack,” he said, “and see if we| me. I havg no capital to invest, therefore without your help pn Set out that way.” | I can do nothing.” qj While Ben held the enemy in check with his weapon Jasper| “Well,” replied the old man, “let me hear what your plan ng up the window and looked out. | is, and how you propose to work it. If I think it feasible I 1ere is no escape this way except by jumping into the! promise to help you out.” : ne ver,” said Jack. “I propose to put the canal route into commission once Aes then and I'll follow you,” replied Ben, backing to-| more. While the strike is on it will relieve the business ard his friend. situation at Centerport if merchandise can be carried to Stop them!” shouted Wambold. Eastlake and reshipped there by rail. The strike has also = toughs made a moye to dash forward. tied up the Esmeralda Copper Mines. I have no doubt that 4g Pen fired straight at them and Higgins fell back with a} if the boats were put in operation a profitable contract could of pain. be made with the mining company to transport its ore to The bullet had passed through his hip. Eastlake until the strike was broken or settled, and possibly e shot created confusion in the rankgeof the enemy, ana| afterward. As things stand now I could make my own rates. hder cover of it and the smoke, Jack an@ Ben sprang in suc-| My first object would be to make hay while the sun shone, | ihe from the window into the dark and flowing waters| after that I would try to continue carrying freight on the he Salmon River. best terms obtainable. “Your idea is good,” said the old man. “Go on.” i “J would make an arrangement with the Lake Cadillac CHAPTER XI. Transportation Company to carry the boats and lighters across the lake from Jordan to Eastlake and back. I am TREATS OF THE RESULT OF JACK’S VISIT TO ADAM GRIMES. sure I could make good terms with the company, for its busi- Th 3 ; ness is scarcely more than paying expenses at present.” B ey sank like a pair of cannon balls, but came up quickly. The old man nodded approvingly. pa were good swimmers, and as soon as they located| «Then I would call on the leading, shippers at Centerport A sen er, they began striking out for the nearest wharf. | and contract to carry their merchandise at a fair price down fiat Bhp started off they glanced up at the second story! the river to the canal, through that route to Jordan, and led b ugh which they had made their leap and saw it) across the lake to Eastlake. I would advertise in the Cen- the forms of the toughs. — terport and-Camden papers, also in the Eastlahe papers, for ‘ Reaching the wharf, they easily climbed up to the string- | 7 ‘should pn to mo back goods bound for Camden and ece and then stepped on to the planks. ' Centerport that could not get through by rail. From the “ . . . We had a close call that time,” said Ben, rubbing the} present outlook the strike is going to be a long and stubborn yater from his eyes. ‘id ; one. I propose to take advantage of the crippled state of I had the closest one,” replied Jack. “Only that you} the Centerport branch and get my hooks into their freight ame to my aid I’m afraid I never would have seen another | traffic as deep as I can.” unrise. I owe you a debt of gratitude I never can repay.” Jack went on outlining and expanding his idea, and Adam T'll never try to collect it,” laughed Ben. “Now, step out| Grimes became deeply interested in his project. vely. We must get away from this locality and keep our| “Your yenture has the elements of success in it, Jasper,” lood moving at the same time. We'll jog-trot it all the] he said, “and I am favorably disposed toward it.” ray home, and then we won’t catch eold.” “T am glad you approve of it, sir.” ; started through the river front of the town at a} “You are going to take Ben Burling as your general as- n gait, taking care, however, to give Whitehall street a} sistant?” de berth; and their wet and beseageted appearance at-| “That is my idea.” : Farced. some attention from many of the pedestrians they| “Your choice is a good one, for he is an honest, straight- me suck sates uct ated is 5 de is forward young fellow.” ey reached Burling’s cottage. when “« : i fo out of the race after bidding Jack good-night. a mined ni found him such, sir, and I have known him ot wishing to alarm his mother and sister with a recital “Well you. can go ahead, Jasper. I will back you with experiences that night, Jasper entered the house by y gh to give you a good start, then it will be up to’ e y vay of the woodshed roof and the window of his room, coos, all through. nia en nah bial oot rule dow Jack et "bran you, et” replied the overjoyed bay; “but mug Giving the gate a slam to announce his coming, he entered be understood that the money is in the nature of a loan, to he Rouse as if nothing of a starlie nature Rad occrred| Ne FPOait Oot. dependent have that way, wil poy 2 aa and a ag his mother nor Sister noticed anything vou ent for the use of the bonts vee ores an whatever you Next mo a ; the ink is fair for the right-of-way throug e canal. ice station a hii iy 6 eon pigs Lahtias ait | “That is a fair and business-like proposition. I will have Officors were gent to investigate No. 16 Whitchall street, | contract drawn up which we will both sign. That will put at Wi in the meantime made.himself scarce, | the success or failure of your own venture right up to you. hile the Wiewne rudently retired to their hiding | It will make you realize the responsibilities you have as- places to wait till tikors blew over. — sumed in trying to make the business pay.” During the afternoon Jack sent a note to Bessie Bannister; “Yes, sir. All I want is a fair chance to start the ball explaining why he. had not called at the cottage on the night | rolling. If I succeed it will be a satisfaction to know that I ” efor ag arranged, and telling her that he, would, surely be| ag not hsoltely boosted into good Tuck through yous He sent the letter lag caiginde g i rr, “Your sentiments do you credit, Jasper, and make me feel The brought word that Mr. Grimes would be at | all the more confident that you will come through with flying home, Aeywalh = LE ; — I suppose you will start in at once. ; supper and Bessie admitted him. “To-morrow m , sir. sae ‘ ” said. is in his room.} “I will loan you $5, as a starter. Call here at eleven oe Bayan | to-morrow and T’'ll have the money ready for you.” | sideri ! ate? wey T will merely Tet you have the boats as they stand. You

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14 will have to pay all the expenses oe running them. I ex- my you will need more than $5,000 to get on your feet; no matter, all you have to do is call on ‘me and I will supply you with the sinews of war. It will be up to you to turn my assistance to the best advantage. z i do it, you, may depend on,” replied Jack, in a resolute That closed thé interview and Jack went downstairs to ac- quaint ‘Bessie with the result of his talk with her uncle. She was delighted that her new friend’s pros looked rosy, and told him that she would watch his progress in his venture with the utmost interest. Jack then went home, feeling that Dame Fortune was beckoning him onward with smiling face. CHAPTER XIL IN WHICH WAMBOLD GETS A PART OF WHAT’S COMING TO HIM. Next morning Jack called at Ben’s house to acquaint him | ; ‘with the result of his interview with Adam Grimes. Ben, was tickled to death at his young friend’s success in ed around the old man, and congratulated him over his Pel shall expect you to be my right hand man, Ben,” said Jack. “I can’t pay you large bas at the . but just as soon as things are running smoothly I will take "care of you. . You won’t have to strike to get more money.” “I'll stand by you, Jack, and do my. best to make your canal route to fortune a big success. Don’t worry yourself oa. my wages. What do you expect me to do?” I shall want you to be my superintendent of transporta- s tion.” “That sounds pretty big,” laughed B “It will be a ible position. I chal look to you to rs that the boats ‘through the canal all right and across Poo os have my hands full running i aren at Cen and exercising a general supervision over the b “When are ‘you ing to start in?” “Right away. [Tm going to meet Mr. Grimes in half an hour. He has promised to loan me enough money to get under way. I want you to meet me at my house im- dinner. I’m going to take a boat through the canal to Jordan this afternoon to kind of blaze the way. At Jordan I’m going to cali on the managers of the steam- boat company and make arrangements for the towing of | boats across the lake to Eastlake and Ryda I shall intro- for we . “All a old man. What you say goes with me.” ack then departed to keep his engagement with Adam The old man had the money ready, which he handed to) Jack, with a promisso tiga Grimes then took him to Foe basin, where nine canal- ry note boats ee "Hs Inthoduced ack to the man and told him that he had leased the boats to the ¥nand that he was to take orders| notice. going said take one of the boats through the canal this Jack. ; “Have a mule on hand all ready for on 2 os | & : iMac letter introducing you to my agent my tugs there.” JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. = sia before the rascal was w where the man After leaving Mr. Girmes, Jack went to the office of yid “Daily Times” and inserted the following advertisement: SHIPPERS TAKE NOTICE. On and after Monday, April 1, Mdse. of . kinds will be carried to Jordan and East via the Canal Route and Lake Cadillac, daily, at LOW RATES For particulars call. at the office of the Canal tion Co., at the Canal Basin, foot of Forrest Street. JOHN JASPER, General Manage He left an order with a local printer for similar hand which he intended to have distributed among the shippe Camden and vicinity. Then he went home to dinner. . cer had finished his dinner when Ben and his sister peare “Say, Jack, Millie wants to go to Jordan with us on canal boat. Have you any objection?” asked Ben. “Not the slightest. You will ao as welcome as the flov in May, Millie,” replied Jaspe “Thanks, Jack, laughed The girl. “I knew that wouldn’t turn me “Well, we'll get on, then, as the trip, though a short will take us about all the afternoon. We'll stay over nm! aboard at Jordan, but there is plenty of accommodation you. You shall have the honor of cooking for us, or perh I should say that the honor will be ours of of y admirable culinary efforts.” They started for the basin and found one of the canalbe a the, entrance to the papal, ready to proceed on its way e Bi .. stout ninle which was to do the drawing was tied bo * Millie was assisted aboard and Ben fellowed. Jack unloosed the animal, attached the tow-rope to and cried, “Gee-up!” He started off as unconcernedly as though he had ne done Sopng else in his life but weg Oi canal-boats, w Jack, with a long switch, followed after him Ben and Millie seated themselves in the ‘bow, and fo while kept up a running conversation with Jack. For the first mile everything went on well, and Jasper no trouble with the’ mule. nprosching the old mill, and wi The boat w&s now ap’ have to pass under the Ben had gone aft for some purpose and Jack was ab@e to. call him forward to haul in the tow-rope as soon as detached it from the mule to allow the boat to shoot bridge, when a man suddenly sprang out from a bunch bushes and rushed at Jasper. The boy instantly recognized him as Wambold, but be off his guard, he was unable to put himself in a posture him. “ll fix you, you young viper!” hissed Wambold, with Jack, and trying to force him into the Millie uttered a shrill scream which attracted her broth attention. He grasped a boat-hook and ran forward to Jack’s assi&te ance. Jasper almost lost his balance, and would have been easy victim but for his agility. He managed to slip around, sink to his knees and Wambold by the thighs. Before the fellow dreamed what was going to happen, Ji got a good hold on his legs, swung him and, ing all his strength, pitched him headforemost into the cat There was a loud splash and Wambold sank out of sig! Ben uttered a oe of satisfaction and looked at the sg; “ ari 1 e “ “ ‘ + in ‘ ’ 2) n re ro clos! AS

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f e two sides of the canal near the mill. ) Wambold had gotten out of the water, and breathing engeance against Jasper had made a second rush for him, hen he found that the boy was now out of his reach. Dripping and swearing like a trooper, he remained on the obridge and looked after the boat with an ominous gaze. -} Finally he shook his fist at it and started for the mill, ithin the entrance of which Jack saw him disappear. ~ j sl CHAPTER XII. , ROUTE. “Who was that man and what did he attack you for?” sked Millie Burling. “You remember that two men attempted to rob Adam rimes’s house and that one of them Was captured while e soap escaped?” replied Jack. es “Well, that’s the chap who escaped.” “Oh! He tried to throw you into the canal.” _ That seemed to be his object, but I turned the tables on 1m, and he went in himself instead,” laughed’ Jack. He was awful mad, wasn’t he?” smiled the girl. “Yes, he looked kind of mad. As a rule, people don’t feel ie good after getting the short end of things.” Say, Jack,” said Ben from the shore, “that was Wam- bold, wasn’t it?” : “Yes, that was him all right.” “He’s hanging around to reach you again. end word to the police when we get back.” ) “I intend to, but it’s likely he’ll expect me to do that nd will skip out to avoid capture.” “Looked ‘to me as if he wanted to drown you in the canal.” “He certainly intended to throw me in, but the trick orked like a boomerang.” < . “You got out of your predicament very neatly, while he Fot more than he bargained for.” » ; ee 5 get worse than that if he tackles me again,” You’ll have to he sun was sinking below ‘the distant horizon when the MPanal-boat reached the end of the route at the town of Jor- Jack and Ben moored her in the in, which was large enough to contain several boats like her, and stabled the mule in a small barn close by, which belonged to Mr. too late for Jack to attend to the business that t him over there, so it was postponed till morn- e. ; He went ashore and purchased a supply of provisions, / e cooked in her best style. A 3 They remained on deck talking about the new canal en- Hterprise and other matters till nine o’clock, when they #ermed in for the night, there, being a separate compart- nent for Millie to sleep in. Next morning Jack and Ben put on. their. best clothes Tend a nine o’elock started for the office of the naviga- on company. i ; Mr. Cole, the manager, was in his’ private room when in their names and they were admitted. Mr. Cole the letter gt introduction he had then stated the of his visit. manager was to learn that traflic ¥ be Saas and was pleased to the co-operation of the steamboat company be a ary factor in the plan. ap te Was ready to taik Wosinesd with Jack, who introduced Ben as his superintendent of transportation, and they got ck nted lower terms than the . 4 ies ney a He handed The ot JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. idge, where he met Ben, handed him the switch, and was | f WHICH JACK OUTLINES THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE CANAL | 15 _ On their return trip to Camden, Jack told Ben that it t in time to drop down on the roof of the boat’s cabin as; would be his business to see that the boats kept moving, e long craft passed clear of a wooden link that connected | not only through the canal, but across the lake to Eastlake, and vice versa. “You will see to it that my agents at Camden, Jordan and Eastlake attend to business right up to the mark,” went on Jack. “You must visit shippers in Camden who regularly send merchandise East, and’ make them under- stand that the canal route has advantages for them 4f all times, whether the railroad on the west shore is running or not. You must see Eastlake shippers who send goods to Centerport, and solicit their trade for the canal route. In fact, I rely on you to keep this end of my transportation business going in goed shape.” - - “You’re going to locate yourself at Centerport, eh?” said en. “Yes, for that is the keystone of the situation. It is a big shipping point, and I shall fight to get and control as much business as I can handle f there. I will be in touch with the Esmeralda mines at that point, and if I secure a good contract from that quarter it behooves me te look after it and see that everything works smoothly in the direction of Camden, where it comes under your super- vision.” “You talk like a general laying out a campaign.” | “That’s about what I’m doingj I’m laying out a busi- neSs campaign.” ~~ CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIBES JACK’S PROGRESS WITH HIS CANAL ROUTE. Early next morning Jack crossed the river \to Lath and hired a rig to take him up to Centerport, a dista. of fifty miles. He reached his destination early in the afternoon ana registered at one of the hotels. The first thing he did was to call on Mr. Ball, Mr. Grimes’ agent, and present his letter of introduction. He explained as much of his plans as he considered neces- sary, and the agent told him he thought the idea_a good one as long as the strike on the railroad continued, but he did not see that the sclieme would pay after that. He told Jack that the tugs were at his service, and that he ged have one or all of them whenever he was ready to use them. - Jack told him to send one tug down the river to Cam- den ight away. : As soon as it arrived at that town Ben had orders to send it back with six canal-boats in tow. cops the first two boats through the canal, Jack. paid a hurried visit to his mother and sister. ; Then he called at the Adam Grimes home, and was warmly welcomed by the old man und Bessie. He recounted to Mr. Grimes all he had done so far, and explained what he still had to do to put his plan into full working order. . + “That’s the right way. Well, I have the contract ready for you to sign in duplicate, and that will complete the ar- rangements between us.” __ “All right, sir. I am going on to Eastlake to make a traffic arrangement with the P. & Q. line. I will oods over the D. & G. where shippers insist, as : é Q. covers all points East as well as the other road.” Jack then explained his plans for the future, by which he hoped to control traffic even after the strike was over. Mr. Grimes was pleased at his foresight. “You seem to have hit the keynote of the situation,” he said. “The P. & Q. people will jump at this chance to cut in on the business of its rival. With the support and pres- tige of that road at your back, success ought to be When are you going to call on the manager of the mines? oT ws |

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16 NAR Sate eeermen Ug ter! 2 JASPER’S VENTURE, a brief talk with Bessie before starting for Jordan on horse- by way of the roundabout road. “You’re a busy boy now,” said Bessie; with a smile. “I should say I am, Miss Bessie. I’ve got just as much, if not more, than I can attend to. I’ve got a line of opera- tion to look after extending from Centerport on the north to Eastlake on the southeast; but then I’ve got an able as- sistant in Ben Burling. I feel I can thoroughly depend on him, and that’s a whole lot at this stage of the game.” “I hope you will write to me when you are not able to come on here, for I want to keep informed of your prog- ress,” she said. 4 will gladly do that. And now I guess I'll have to go. It is getting late and I have to ride over to Jordan after ampere so as to meet the boats when they arrive at that place Bessie went to the door with him, and their parting was of the friendliest. kind. | Wambold’s reply was a fierce imprecation. “Are you hurt much?” “You’ve hurt me enough,” snarled the counterfeiter. “Jam sorry I had to shoot you; but I was obliged to so in self-defense.” At that moment a rig approached them through gloom, and the driver reined in with a sharp “Whoa!” “Hello!” came a yoice. “What’s the trouble?” “l’ve shot a highwayman,” replied Jack. ner “The dickens you have,” ejaculated the driver, dismou® jing and coming forward. “Are you going direct to town?” asked Jack. . 7 “I'am. May I ask who you are?” : “Jack Jasper. I live on the outskirts of Camden, bes the canal.” “Ah! You're the young chap who got hold of th counterfeit pi.tes @nd turned them over to the gove ment?” “Yes,” replied Jack, wondering who this man was, he had not mentioned anything about the counterfeiti business to anybody save Ben Burling, his mother sister, Adam Grimes, his niece and the Secret Service and he was pretty a they had not spread the news abot’ The town authorities were holding Spangler only on t Jack started for Joniae directly after, an early supper| charge of attempted ‘burglary. CHAPTER XV. IN, WHICH JACK IS HELD UP ON THE ROAD TO JORDAN. at his home, and as his road led by the mill, on the oppo- “Maybe this is the man I’m looking for,” said the stré ‘site of the canal, he wondered whether Wambold was still} ger, striking a match and taking a view of the wound in the yicinity. rascal. Immediately after his return from Jordan on the canal- “The man you’re looking for!” ejaculated Jack, in sv boat he had notified the Camden police of his run-in with} prise. “Who are you? the rascal on the bank of the canal near as old mill, and} “My name is Smith. I belong to the government officers were sent out to look him wu Service. I’m here on a still hunt after Dave Wambo They failed to find him, though ee searched the mill Spangler’s associate in the counterfeiting business.” : A: oe cellar to roof, and the neighborhood pretty thoroughly Phe oa Smith, this is your man. This is Wambeldf repli asper. oe however, had the idea that Wambold was not very “Are you sure »” far away. “Yes.” It was nearly dark by this timé, but that fact didn’t gl Jasper , for he knew the road well, and there no danger 1 his way. ni hs ern a figure jumped out into the road before him ' and waved his arms and hat in a wild way, like a person ian stop a runaway. 's horse was frightened by the apparition and reared "Phe man, whoever he was, sprang forward and d the animal’by the bridle, ere neant # in thunder is the matter with you?” demanded if he had run across an escaped lunatic. Jasper, “Get down,” pe Be the stranger, in a menac “Get down or Tl Eine aol alae a gu He found that Wambold was not seriously ry as oe “Help me put him into the wagon, Jasper,” sail “I’ve been around this locality for ten days looking fe, him. I’m much obliged to you for helping me bag hit and shall notice you favorably in my report to the Burea’ When the case is wound up against the two men the 2 ury Department will doubtless reward your services in # matter. zz Jack assisted the otis to put Wambold into the wagow,, where he was handcuffed as a matter of precaution. : The Secret Service man then bade the boy good-nigh® and drove off to Camden, while Jack remounted h prec al es para rd wey. toward Jordan, where h Sabian keenly at the fellow through the gloom, and gn ha Bor mitt pe sat rem pple ; day 3 flashed across boy’, ; Jack put up at a small hotel, and after breakfast ne ol again. et 8 mind that he was up against pane ag went over to the basin to have a talk with hifw: agen dl Yooked be ad ola Weir at Mis: Bans, ‘And He found the two canal-boats moored, waiting y . “Are you going to down of your own accord or shal}| towed across the lake by a smal] steamer ‘belonging te th ‘3 ree down with this six-shooter?” said the man in| D@vigation company, Jack did not go with them, but took the regular steamé ¢ sai Mls gay down,” ‘replied Jack, thinking of a plan to out- over, which landed him more than an hour ahead of th boats. aT 40% ¢ A ; e

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JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. vz rome proposition to throw all through freight from} and returned to the basin to. find that the two boats, had : tae ee East into the hands of the P. & Q., par-| arrived and departed an hour since. ularly his intimation that he intended to try and secure} Then he and Ben went home to dinner. eoncrigt for carrying the output of the Esmeralda mines, : Th ed the attention of the general freight agent, and he Muthorized the local agent to enter into a liberal traffic ’ Mga for one year with the Canal Transportation Co. CHAPTER XVI. Bis immediately telephoned his agent to forward all rchandise not specially marked D. & G. to the P. & Q.! CONCLUSION. reight depot. He then called at the D. & G. freight offices. The three boats from Centerport were in sight when Jack and Ben got back to the basin. The agent was ; h clearly surprised to learn of the revival of ” e old canal route, but presumed that it was merely a “Crandall must have got the boats off early this morning, en eee expedient to relieye the freight blockade at Cen-| about daylight,” remarked Jack. “That’s the way I like to . see business done. I think I am fortunate in my agents. After contmunicating with the general agent in Chicago,| Jenkins, of Eastlake, is a hustler, and Billy Brown, whom ® made a satisfactory agreement with Jasper, the arrange-|I sent to represent me at Jordan, appears to oe ron it i i oun at ent to terminate when the D. & G rte 2 i n . - yoad was able to move|__ When the three eanal-boats arrived it was ae trains once more over the Centerport branch. they carried nearly a dozen passengers who wanted to get 0 the ‘ en phoned his agent, to send all D. & G. freight| to Eastlake. Afte epot of that road until further notice. _Crandall had charged them $2 fare, and had put pro- r dining, Jasper returned to the dock and found that | Visions aboard so that they could dine at the rate of fifty © steamer was bringing in the third canal-boat from Cen-| cents a meal. This” t 8 oe the one which had unloaded a part of its cargo = and a small portion at Jordan, but carried y thfough freight to Eastlake. Re posi to Jordan by an early afternoon boat, Jack He — to Camden. . “rage at the Grimés cottage after supper and re- “You A progress up to date to the old man. ates erie aot phates in shape in a mighty short time nPbroving pobre an) enterprise,” said Mr. Grimes, with: an mally the way to do business, sir,” replied the boy “When are you goi - going back to Centerport?” the morning with the first two boats from East- ake, Jack found Bessie awaitin i itti p g him in the sitting-room ard pay oa an hour with her, after which he Wrelit bales . got an early breakfast and then rushed over to Ben’s ¢- Burling was expecti i \ hs. the ean are a ng him, and ‘they walked to the office had been around among the people who had re oa East, and they expressed these ves as glad ' D> seit + te to send them by the canal route. ae = strike had held up freight shipments several of bya nm manufacturers had been obliged to cart mer- - 20 by road to Jordan, take it across the lake on the eth r and carry it to the depot in Eastlake. ee, e shippers told me they Bays glad to continue canal company even after the strike was settled ns their foods could be delivered’ promptly at the freight a Eastlake, as this would save them the trouble of ' ng their wagons across to Lathrop b ferry, and the mary delays the wagons met with at freight yard,” The captain of the tug brought a letter to Ben and an- other to be forwarded to Jasper if he wasn’t at Camden. The boats were full to their hatches and carried some light merchandise on their decks to be landed at Camden. Word was received from Brown that one boat was on its way ae the canal to Camden with freight for that - town and Centerport. : It was expected to arrive about dark. “Get a lot- of naphtha torches and hire a night gang, Ben. I want her to go up the river to-night. I’m going with her,” said Jack. Jack reached Centerport at eight next morning and found the wharf stacked full of freight ready for shipment by the Canal Transportation Co. The railroad situation was not much changed, though the company was trying to move trains with the help of the State militia. Jasper was now ready to tackle the problem of the cop-. per ore transit. : The mines had been compelled to shut down owing to the inability of the company to ship its product. — Jack visited the mines and made a: proposition to the JO n manager. “T will to carry your ore to Eastlake and ship it “But a canal route is slower than molasses.” oe “My canal route is short and direct. It takes thirty hours at the best for the D. & G. to carry a train of ore ; these mines as far as Eastlake. 1’ll do as well and “Well, all you have ; i I ae : to do is to show them that we will ‘ty all freight to Eastlake from this place a great deal 1 wai than they can get it around there by railroad via Ptlese ie replied Jack, “Give it to them strong, old man.| j ee time to get our wedge in“while the railroad is Nn e@ While Jack was talking with Ben a messenger came inform him that his nee would be ‘required at court pel against ba Id at his ecuasinadlec: mc ‘way of i td “eae at 3 summons, but there was “Three More boats full_of freight had come down from late the previous afternoon, and Ben had sent On the following afternoon a messenger called at the & office of the Canal Transportation Co. and told Jasper he ~ was wanted at the ral offices of the Esmeralda Cop- Vi per Mines, on W: on s' = “He called there and was ushered oon a room, where he nem ° un x hee: tugs would be enough to keep his boats moving up and down the river. tn ; Don’t the ” said Jack, as he , over till the canal.”

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18 JACK JASPER’S VENTURE. With the contract for carrying the whole output of the| portation arrangement, devised by Jack, is in operation Esmeralda mines in his possession, Jack’s canal venture be-| tween Eastlake and Centerport via the old route. came an assured success. Jack owns two big specially constructed ferryboats, ¢ * "The officials of the D. & G. road were paralyzed when| °f Which carries freight trains across Lake Cadillac they learned about it. tween Eastlake and Jordan. They compromised the trouble with their employees, and Five miles of railroad follow the course of the old a when the strike was declared off the company called on the} from Jordan to Camden, and the cars are run direct Esmeralda Mining Company to fulfil its contract, which had| the boat to the tracks. , ; yet many months to run. The rail line then runs north fifty miles to the new td The president of the niine replied that not only was the] of Egypt, opposite Centerport, where the cars are ti contract broken, but that the company was about to sue] across the river in the second big ferryboat. S: the D. & G. road for damage ineurred through the delay in Jack also leased the road running to the copper mi h the forwarding of several train loads of copper ore. from the D. & G. eompany, which had no use for it aff The railroad brought a counter suit, but lost in both cases| the boy had cut them out of the copper traffic. y after months of time spent in appeals to higher courts. Jasper is president of the company which owns the The D. & G. road, in the meantime, was chagrined to| road and ferryboats. see thousands of tons of copper ore tapped in its own ter-|. The company carries passengers between Centerport @ ritory by its rival, the P. & Q., through the instrumentality) Eastlake, via a regular ferry across the Salmon River of Jack Jasper and his canal route. - Egypt, thence by rail to Jordan, and by boat to Eastlal Not only that, but Jack held ontoynearly all the-big Cen-| but its main business is in freight. ( terport —— after the strike, which was another hody| All the freight cars bear the initials of the P. & Q. re blow for the D.. & G, line, q and it simply acts as a connecting link fer the P. & Q. li The company~cut rates down in a futile attempt to put the canal route out of business. “The profit Jack made out of the copper transit enabled him to meet every cut made by the railroad company. In the end the railroad had to throw up its hands and share the Centerport business with the Canal Transporta- tion. Co. By that time Jack was quite an important person in the transportation businéss. He was making big money and saving it with visions of expanding his facilities and gathering in more trade. . With the help of Adam Grimes he bought the Lake Cad- illac Transportation Co., aud added it to his system, thus making his line complete between Centerport and Eastlake. et , . _ To-day Jack Jasper is a big man out West, and his-name Next week’s issue will contain “AFTER BIG MONE) 4 is often seen in the daily prees. 5 Nt OR, TURNING THE TABLES ON THE WALL STRE Ss «The canal route is out of busniéss, as an improved trans- BROKERS.” and its profits come from the charge per ear it recei® from the trunk line for carrying the cars between Cent@y port and Eastlake. ? Jack lives in a fine house in Camden, and the chai lady who presides over it was’ once Bessie Bannister, whom Adam Grimes left all his money when he died. We must not forget to mention that Jack received a ward of $5,000 from the government for capturing counterfeit plates, but that came to him at the begin of his successful canal venture, and helped’ to make hie independent when he needed money to meet the big expen’ of the canal] route, which ultimately led to his fortune. ‘ : A NEW SEMI-MONTHLY THE TITLE IS “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” PRICE 10 CENTS A COPY / ~ | HANDSOME COLORED COVERS, 48 PAGES OF READING. | LOOK FOR IT The ereategt magazine published, for old and young. IT. CONTAINS Rousing feature stories, detective stories, based on mysteries, short stori i i P ioothy hae on beeen ding cunttes, ? novelettes, serial stories, and a vast GREAT AUTHORS. - | FAMOUS ARTISTS. FINE PRESSWORK. _ | This magazine contains more reading matter for the ice than similar i stands price thz licati , Guth iets eet em — THE CARDS OF FATE GOODE he ‘ + - - aeRO |. BUY A COPY Now! | her, 168 West 23d Street, New York City 2 ° i % ‘3 Ad ee WwW e< as 5 . i, we4

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i FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 19 HELP YOUR COUNTRY! » SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE. its own food and feed stuff would be much more In a short time a million checks a month will be | economical and would effect a great relief in the sssued from the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance to | transportation problem. ; he families of the men constituting America’s fight-| _ He urges upon the people of the South, especially ng force. the farmers, to relieve the strain on the railroads There had been up to January 18, 1918, 473,116| as much as possible during the coming year by pro- pplications for total insurance of $4,011,391,000. | ducing their own food and feed crops, thus render- ‘the average amount applied for still’‘keeps near the ing unnecessary the transportation of such mate- maximum of $10,000. A steady effort is being made | Trials from other parts of the country to them. fo make our fighting forces “100 per cent. insured,”| The Secretary emphasizes the fact that he does nd'there are many military units in which every | not suggest that the growing of cotton should be member is insured and in some of them every man| discouraged, but that the South, in addition to rais- | msured for the maximum of $10,000. ing all the cotton that it can well cultivate, should 1 The automatic insurance granted by the law| grow hay and corn for its stock and produce as much eases on February 12, but by that time it is hoped| food as possible for its own people. — Phat our whole military and naval forces will be He says, “If the South can feed itself, the effect ‘100 per cent. insured,” with the result that the| will be to release from unnecessary ‘service in the : ‘amily or dependents of everyone having a family| South a vast number of freight cars and engines br anyone dependént on him will be provided with| and greatly help to win the war.” ; ets el a and insurance in case of his = tA ag ee Heath,: an e member himself, if disabled, will : eceive a monthly allowance, and if totally disabled, WHEATLESS PIE DOUGH. will receive in addition rehabitation and special edu-' A Wheatless pie dough, made of ten pounds of ation and training to fit him for some work. barley flour, one and a half pounds of shortening, The efforts of the Treasury Department to have five ounces of salt, and about two and a half pints — ei he ary nd oa re | abel ie errs Ge ee x un i i ? 1 ” og «gp Rg Wate tee Repco nies es who states that-barley flour has a percentage of oil people at home of the soldiers and sailors if they | ¥”™ t will join in urging them to take out the insurance in itself —— measurably decreases the shortening ) requirements. A CONSERVATION BUN. Through the West a popular form of conservation _ bread has been a special raisin bun made, according to a formula evolved by a Los Angeles baker and indorsed by the Raisin Growers’ Association of Cal- ifornia. Sweetening in this bun is secured from _ as so that no sugar is needed, and the flour — used is a mixture of rye, rice, and wheat. Ieee $ THE SCHOOLS AND THE TREASURY. The tremendous effective national service that the schools and school children of the country can ren- der is being availed of as fully as possible by the ‘Treasury Department in its work. In a great num- ber of schools Liberty Loan clubs have been organ- ized, and many bonds also have been purchased by ndividual pupils. The War-Savings campaign is endeavoring to have a War-Savings club established in every school in the country, and organized and ndividual effort is to be stimulated in every way. _ Secretary McAdoo has said that he would like to ee every schoolhouse in the United States an open forum, where patriotism and loyalty are taught, and a center of national service in its community and among its pupils and patrons. The school as a medium to reach the people of the rural districts) ; .. of especial value. ; ~~ dant OUTH TO PRODUCE MORE FOOD. s

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20 (A SERIAL STORY.) CHAPTER XXII (Continued). “T think you did, sir.” “Will you kindly close it soon and make sure that It is locked?” “Yes, sir; certainly.” Yet Milt did not start at once, for the old gentle- man had said “soon,” and there really did not seem to be any rush. Truth to tell, the boy was thinking hard of some- thing else just then. Three days before he had mailed a letter to Annie Irving, telling her where he and Chub were now. He had also begged Annie not to believe the dark things about him that had appeared to be true. He had promised her that some day he would convince her that he was as honest and straightforward as she could want him to be. He had wound up by begging Annie to send him a cheering letter. “T wonder if she’ll write?” Milt muttered. “Or does she believe, now, that I am as big a scoundrel as some other folks think me?” - Meanwhile, the red-whiskered prowler outside the _ study window had heard Judge Hepworth’s Just an instant this stranger hesitated. Then cautiously he crept in through the open window. He pulled open the safe-door, taking a hasty sur- __ vey of the contents. a “This "ll do,” he chuckled, as he drew out a small _ package of government bonds. - On tiptoe the prowler went to the study-door, _ through which he had already seen our hero’s coat hi g. : He slipped the bonds into Milt’s inner pocket, then folded the coat over carelessly so that the _ bonds did not appear at a first glance. hi = ia young cub comes in op rere Fe i and doesn’t know how to open again, e ve trouble trying to explain what he’ll find in his _ pocket,” grinned the prowler, as he went out through gets rattled and doesn’t ac pei ttle one See TEL the window again. “If he gets ra FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. TWO FOR R——- THE CHEAPEST BOY ON EARTH By GASTON GARNE yet, at his best, he looked strangely out of place the _| constables. here pretty soon. I know all about Mill through | for Milt, he’s—”" ‘ ee > ¥: . Pa & <3 re q “It seems to me that if I am to listen’ to your} - gee Bass Me GTS , pas sa So poe oar a ails ¥ - Paes oa ae ae Soke 4 3 ' iz f ti 4) a! é F ¢ ‘a4 ee “ 22% nS yi Gal ae Pag ney ob ore? ek Rt egy Set as Te pur A CENT After a few minutes Milt roused from his d dream with a start. “The safe!” he exclaimed to himself. close it.” He went quickly into the study, shut the door securely, and caught the lock. “There, that’s closed well enough now,” mutte the boy. He left the house, going through grounds to seek Chub. Some minutes later a stoop-shouldered, hea jawed, seam-faced man trudged up the long dri way without being seen by our hero. Arrived at the front door, and his ring bei answered by a servant, the latter took the n that he gave up to Judge Hepworth. “Job Whaxter?” mused the old gentleman alouf°? “Say that I’ll come down. Show him into my studP@ please.” Ic Three minutes later the old judge descended stairs, made his way to the study, and greeted caller. cues Job was gotten up carefully in his Sunday bes “T said udy of a gentleman. “I s’pose ye don’t know who I am,” began Jo “But I’ve heard something that makes it my boundé duty to come to you.” : ; “You look like a man who could be depended upé to do his duty,” commented Judge Hepworth. “Thank ye kindly, jedge. Well, I’ve heerd thi you’ve got a young scalawag here named Milt Bra lock.” “A__a what?” demanded Judge Hepworth. “A young scalawag, I said! Oh, ye needn’t sta and look at me that way, jedge. I know what PR talking about. I got him out of the almshouse, anh raised Milt Bradlock, up to a few weeks ago. 4 knew all about him and his doings, He did dirty, and he and a feller named Chub Eastmath that’s also here, I’ve heerd, are both wanted ové in Westford for tryin’ to rob Mr. Miller, one o’ mg: neighbors. I’ve told Miller, and he may have thé Pe 0 Bradlock, jedge. I heerd he was here ane m! niece, Annie Irving, that’s some sweet Milt. 4

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. al errupted the judge stiffly, “young Bradlock| puld be here, too.” . 5 est fie | Oh, call him, thne,” agreed Job. “I can face him, ess, a heap sight easier’n he'll want to face me!” Opening his study-door, the judge saw Grace pass- | B through the hallway. Grace,” he called, “if you can find Milt, ask him| step here. I have a caller whom he ought to see.” | Grace hurried outside, calling. Our hero soon ard and answered. “a Father has a caller in his study that he wants | u to meet,” Grace announced. Thanking her, Milt hurried into the house. As) eee his coat, hanging on the nail, he took it Just then the old judge, hearing his step, threw en the study-door. “Come in, Milt,” he called, pleasantly. “We have caller,” ; ie Swung his coat around to draw it on. ic he did so the package of bonds slipped out, nang at the judge’s feet. What are these? Papers of yours?” queried the a man, bending and picking them up. a Of a sudden Judge Hepworth straightened him- f, looking first at the papers, then searchingly to our hero’s face. : “Well, sir?” queried Milt. - I—I don’t understand this,” faltered Judge Hep- orth. “Why, Milf, these are governments bonds at I left in my safe. I asked you to close and kt the safe! What can this mean?” “Tm blessed if I know, sir!” ejaculated the boy, ring dumbly at the accusing papers. ' There! What did I tell ye, jedge?” roared Job faxter, leaping forward. “This ain’t the first = Milt Bradlock’s done wrong. He sold me out. d betray any friend on earth.” “But I. don’t know anything about these bonds, 3 talsered Milt, taking them in his own hand nd staring at them helplessly. “If you think I took m from the safe, sir, I didn’t, and I don’t know Ow they came to be in my coat.” A carriage | had drawn up at the door. “opie stood looking in, | rear a thief! Caught right red-handed!” roared > Whaxter. , 4. cry from one of the three people at the door ilt wheel about. — z : Bob Hubbard and his daughter Millie, Irving who had uttered that cry. , jedge!” rang out Job Whaxter’s tri- ice. “There ain’t no mistake about it. Three Milt Bradlock was the cheapest boy on ee a “Wh — wh — what’s that, jedge?” gasped Job Whaxter, thunderstruck. “Will you be good enough to make less noise here?’ demanded the old gentleman. “But I—I 4 “Be good enough to be silent, or else leave my house. It appears that we have business on hand here——” “Of course we have,” broke in Job; though his voice was meeker under the judge’s stern gaze. We” “You have nothing to do with the business, as nearly as I can discover,” went on Judge Hepworth, irritably. Now please keep still, Mr. Whaxter, while I endeavor to find out what this all means.” Milt’s ancient enemy, his mouth wide open and his eyes bulging,.collapsed into a chair and sat looking staringly on. With a milder look in his usually kind old eyes, Judge Hepworth turned toward Bob Hubbard’s par- ty at the doorway. “May I inquire the object of your visit here, at this time?” he asked of Bob. “Certainly,” Mr. Hubbard replied. “This young man, Bradlock, and his friend Eastman, were em- ployed by me, not long ago, as minor clerks in my hotel at Royalton. I was obliged to send them away under a cloud of dishonesty. Job leaped to his feet. ' “There! What'd L,tell ye, jedge?” he demanded, in a voice hoarse with triumph. P: “Silence, fellow!’ almost roared Judge Hepworth. “But this young lady here,” went on Hubbard, “persuaded me to put*her in my hotel office as cash- ier, She was there some weeks, but at last she dis- covered that my day clerk and manager, Abner Penrose, was robbing me steadily. She caught him- well to rights, and then I made Penrose confess that he put up the jobs of robbery against Bradlock and Eastman, in revenge for their having. caught him at some crocked tricks. Why, Penrose even went so far, in his fight against these boys, as to have a gambling friend of his who come to the hotel on purpose : He passed jewels to Penrose, who slipped the jew- elry into the pockets ( in the office and so of course I felt sure that they were young thieves. confessed all.” “OQh—Annie ” cried Milt, who had been glancing. i at his sweetheart with joy-wet eyes. | “JT don’t know what this scene here means, “I didn’t blame you, even at the time,” Milt | es. But, thanks to Miss Irving, Penrose has been caught at new tricks, and has , i Brad- lock,” went on Hubbard, holding out his hand. a Bu 2 I want to apologize for my suspicions of you!” o>, passed for a gentleman _ to be robbed of jewels. of the boys. We searched them | Aes oars be *

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45 a CURRENT NEWS Some ingenious workmen in Petrograd more than | most secret assemblages of the tribesmen and 175 years ago carved six cannon out of blocks of ice, | ported them to headquarters. “The collection 4 turned them in lathes and bored them for six-inch | advance of large bodies were watched and follov shells. And they actually fired salutes from them. |and when the moment for attack arrived the trib The ice was sufficiently strong to withstand the ex-|men’s formations were broken up or destroyed plosion of nearly 2,000 grains of real gunpowder. _ | low-flying aeroplanes dropping explosive bombs scattering them, or leaving them exposed to a by the advancing British line.” The aeroplane revolutionized the conditions of border warfare. The Dead Sea is about forty miles long, with an average breadth of nine miles. Its depth varies from 1,320 feet in the north to very shallow depths | in the south. Its surface is 1,312 feet below the| In submarine vessels explosions may occur ei level of the Mediterranean Sea. The water of the | through a collection of gases from the batteries' Dead Sea is intensely salt, being eight times as salt | by reason of leaks in the pipes or tanks of the as the ocean. As a consequence a human body can- supply system, or through bursting of the air fle not sink in the water. The sea has no, known out- | belonging -to the boat, or the air reservoirs in let. automobile torpedoes. The greatest danger is f explosive gases, which have been the cause of. explosions in modern submarine craft, and & greatest danger in this‘connection is the liabil eon the pe years of Washington’s administration, e people of Western Pennsylvania started upris- |é : : . ings. against the power of the excise authorities, |Of @ leak in the gasoline pipes or tanks, says # known at the time as the “whisky insurrection.” | Book of Wonders. This gas is a heavy gas andy About the middle of 1799 General Neville, the chief |#°¢S to the bottom of the vessel, where it is ™ excise officer, was attacked in his house and in other | 8° ¢asily detected as a gas which rises. Ther ; places valuable property was destroyed. There was )2° certain way of guarding against leaks of BT a tumultuous meeting of the people at Washington, |/ine- A leak may occur at any time in a pipe} _Pa., and a rally of armed men at Braddock’s Field. tank of gasoline through some cause or other The uprisings were brought to an end through the matter how carefully inspected, and the gas fré vigorous efforts of James Ross, a prominent lawyer this is so active that it will go through the tinié : of ‘Washington, Pa., who had been elected a few | hole imaginable—even through a hole which wal months before to the United States Senate to fill |Will not penetrate. The crew of a submarine ist : : ways subject to this danger unless the tan é =e the unexpired term of Albert Gallatin. | built outside the hull of the ship. There had been recently placed on the market an appliance for sterilizing drinking water. It is also said to remove taste, odor, color and hardness, and electrolysis is employed as the sterilizing agent. bi appliance consists of a large glass jar, provided a faucet and an electrode member. The latter A phalanx in ancient Greece was a body of § diers, from 8 to 16 ranks deep, and armed v lances 14 to 18 feet long. Their shields joined, 2 their pikes crossed each other, to make it diffie for a foe to break the compact mass. At first sists of two plates which are wired to the near- phalanx consisted of 4,000 men, but this num 3 est source of lighting current. In operation the jar | V5 afterward doubled by Philip, of Macedon, 2 ‘is filled with water and the current turned on. De- Me ae herigy ' Lysalcnay ae | : ding ot onian phalanx. A grand phalanx consisted of abot Bae eter, Dap m yten ty pe meget i 16,000 men. Polybius, the historian, describes _{thus: “It was a square of pikemen, consisting | Si oe ane ppt eve: ea lenis tat be. baw sixteen in rank and 500 in depth; the soldiers sto so close together that the pikes of the fifth 2 extended three feet beyond the front; the rest, who “The British siilbicicteses in India appear to have pikes were not serviceable owing to their distan! sc "found in the aeroplane an effective cure for the|from the front, couched them upon the shoulde = oF nnial uprisings of border tribesmen. Accord- | of those that stood before them, and so locking the Ls g to Aeronautics, a campaign against the Mahsuds, together in file, pressed forward to support and pus - an unruly tribe inhabiting the “no man’s land” be-|on the former rank, by which means the assat WS pheahe the frontier of India and the territory of the | was rendered more violent and irresistible.” _ Amir of . was brought to a successful | word phalanx is likewise used for any combing clusion a a few wudkes early in 1917, with the | of people —e to act sine firmness aud una onan echt promptly discovered the wee i cee at eet ete “ay at nee PET Paha ALS Re sai + ae “= 4 ee 3 . Saree ; Pe Pee sie

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 23 ON SUCCESS STREET E Z ¥ TWO AND TWO MAKE TWENTY-TWO d ey ie ores : By ED KING ‘T (A SERIAL STORY) CHAPTER V. ’ A FAST WHIRL. \ H 5 © Could not leave, however, until he had shaken all around. « ~“0n’t dare forget that you’ i f : you’ve promised to call ‘de, — afternoon,” whispered Bess. “If possi* Sak more interested than ever in the doers of + ' “iris deeds as yours!” sb. pene Thurston got away from the great BY. Utte went trudging rapidly down the drive- Ary, rly happy, he felt as if trading on air. ie ate couldn’t have gone through better,” Ack. mn Imself exultantly. “My, how easy it was! Cy rey, there’ll be a big,.bunchy reward— one pe sy you mustn’t forget, old fellow, that i¢ter th ple suffer from shrinkage in their gratitude : €y've slept over the matter!” a aa turned out of the dark driveway at the gate thik; as confronted with dazing suddenness by a His oe hace fellow, | he, Steadily-gripped revolver : ‘ai i bos “iy ad stared straight in "Y coolness. “Ye turned my si 2 y side partner over . bulls, They hain’t got me, but I’ve got you! Pye. 3 ye ear of me. I’m Dandy Jim, that 7 ae oo late for anything but i i : ers bills.” oe . Lo ee she P with yer hands!” ordered Dandy Jim, as eet in a daze with the suddenness of » Stood staring at the captured yeggman’s . = “fem, and as promptly as he knew how. re was something in Dandy Jim’s eyes that e hesitation and warned against argument. ?, you march!” ordered the fellow. “Straight + Snarled this other yegg. “I could kill ye, Urse, but I may have something else in mind. ae out of yer line for the rest of the epped along briskly as soon as the direc- ve been waitin’ fer ye!” clicked the fellow in| pip Jack put his hands up about as high as he could) that to a stretch of woods, and hence on out on a * hillside. Below ran a river. Here, near the hill’s crest, lay an irregular line of drain pipes, placed there for the building of a new sewer. “Now, you lay down there!” ordered Dandy Jim, indicating a spot beside one of the drain pipes. “What——” beganJack. “Tt ain’t no time to talk!’ sneered the yegg. “And this ain’t the place, neither!” Surely not the place to disobey any orders! For this spot appeared to be at least half a mile from any house, and the time was still in the dead of night. . : Still under cover of that big, menacing revolver, Jack lay down on the ground, his hands resting on the earth above his head. Dandy Jim bent down, knotting one end of a long, thick cord around the boy’s ankles. ie The other end of this cord he tied around a stone. Stepping over to the drain-pipe, the yegg threw the stone through. “Now, get into that pipe,” ordered Dandy Jim, lifting the boy, and shoving his feet first into the ipe. It Was a tight, snug fit, but the fellow managed to wedge the boy inside the pipe, until only his shoulders and head remained outside. Yet Jack kept silent, for an instinct warned him that any interference with this grim scoundrel would be met by swift punishment. Dandy Jim brought the cord back over the out- side of the pipe, using the further end to tie the poy’s wrists along the top of the pipe. : , “Now, I reckon ye’re pretty snugly tied,” chuckled Dandy Jim, sitting down on top of the pipe to leer at the boy. 2 “Can I talk a bit now?” asked Jack, mildly. “Tf ye’re quick and short about it!” | “Now that you’ve got me tied up in this infernal shape, what do you mean to do with me?” — : “Goin’ t’ leave ye right there in the pipe,” an- nounced Dandy Jim. sk That didn’t sound so badly. Jack almost felt like h he was to go had been mentioned by breathing again. Peer os was here,” went on the yegg, “he'd Sexe " “If my pal Er i ee ay hay DR be : 4 es eee. sa t Sane ae S) © . ch & 1 took them presently into a field, across! say a hole in the ground, an’.a pine box for yours. ae

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3 24 But him and me does things different. I take milder measures. Ready for your, ride?” “My ride?” queried Jack in sudden dread. Dropping his revolver into a pocket, Dandy Jim bent over, bracing his hands against the iron pipe.| here at the right moment?” our hero questid ‘Shove! “For heaven’s sake, don’t!” pleaded Jack, pite- ously, as the pipe began to roll. “Got an idea where the ride ends, have ye?” chuckled Dandy Jim, giving the pipe another turn. Jack’s face was now in the dirt. The river! This brute was going to roll him, fast | in the pipe as he was, down’ into the water. Sinking in an instant, Jack knew well how many | I’m on my travels to sell ’em. Towser is the minutes of tortured life there would be left for him. ' “Don’t! Don’t do it!” screamed the boy. “Scares ye, does it?’ jeered the yegg. “Yes, it’s awful!’ In heaven’s name, don’t!” “Cheer up!” soothed the fellow. over !”” ° He bent to give another hard shove against the the cops. pipe. Gr-r-r-r! There was a swift rush of feet. Ere Dandy Jim could straighten up and whirl about, he felt himself seized from behind and thrown. A man, fighting like a fiend, was on top of him. boy asked, A bulldog held Dandy Jim by the throat, growling, snarling, panting viciously. “Better stop all yer antics!” warned a voice, the} with sound of which made Jack Thornton throw joy. It was Bob Evans, the dog-trader, whom he had t befriended. . (Yer gun is in this pocket, ain’t it?” demanded Bob, coolly, as he reached for the weapon. ‘Don’t stir, or my pup will bite your windpipe, I’m afraid.”’ - Evans coolly pompante himself. of the revolver, then stood up, “Yegg,” he asitidanted: “it'll be wise for ye to stay where ye are. If ye don’t, Towser ’l] chew ye pieces. He’s a fighting dog, with a record, and he often gets ugly.” ~ Then, without waiting to see whether Dandy Jim! would obey, but k yt the revolver in one hand, Bob Evans untied Jack me helped him out of the ‘drain-pipe. “Right glad to help ye, Mr, Thur: “ Bvans} holding out a dirty hand __ Jack pounced upon it. “Now, if ye say so, Mr. ‘Thurston, we'll put Mr. i -Yegg in the same place he had you! pr + “Sust the idea,” Jack agreed, eagerly. Wwe ’t try to roll him into the water.” n,”’ announced ost shyly, and et jinder the clutch of the dog’s teeth, ve can. a better deal by letting me go.” | FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. } “It’ll soon be | will be to get him to the station-house.” “Only we egiootin after the slowly rolling pipe. - 175 p it, I tell yel” frothed Dandy fun ae wild: "" See here, gents,” whined Dandy Jim, ‘still lying | terror. to his trust. dy Jim crawled into the drainpipe, and was speé made fast. Now Jack turned upon the dog-trader. “Evans, how on earth did you ever happen eagerly. “Asleep in them bushes over there,” dog-trader, pointing to a near-by clump. “Surely you’ve got a home? If not, you have some money.” “Oh, I’m a good deal of a hobo,” Evans confes Specially at this time o’ the year. I bought # setter pups outer that money ye made for me, # grinned oe I leave at home most times. I brought him with) this trip—and glad I did. Now, what we goin do with this chap?” . “T think,” answered Jack, “that the best thp “All right, then,” nodded Evans. “I’m off Here, Mr. Thurston, ye may want gun, and J’ll leave Towser to watch, too.” Evans was off and out of sight in no time. Jack stood looking at the disconcerted yegg “Tables turn quickly sometimes, don’t they?” “Ye’d better let me go!’ warned Dandy 4 threateningly. “It’ll be money in yer pocket, years added to yer life.” “I’m afraid I don’t believe you,” smiled J “Such fellows as you and your pal are best beh} he bars. It’s safer for all honest folks, myself, cluded.” ; “Kid, have ye any idea how the yeggs stand baj, ed together? Yer name will be passed around am& the boys until there won’t be a county in the wh ‘| U.S. that ye’ll be safe in!” “T’ll take a’ chance,” murmured Thurston, iné ferently. Then, suddenly he started forward, uti ing a cry of “Gracious! That won’t do!” For Towser, nosing around at one side of | drain-pipe at the ticklish crest of that slope, had! it rolling ace to start it down the hillside tow! the water. ‘ “Be quick, kid! gasped Dandy Jim. Jack sprang forward to seize one end of the p G-r-r-r-r! It was ecisitits left on. guard, faith “The dog won’t*let me:touch it!” Seca J “But the dog——” “Never mind if ye do get bit! Are you ot g see me drown, helpless as I am? Never ‘mind: dog, I tell ye!” ‘

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; 3 4 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 INTERESTING TOPICS court-martial to ten years’ imprisonment for drop- ping a hostile proclamation in Germany. Reprisals are demanded by the daily Mail for the action of the German military authorities in sen- tencing two British airmen to ten years’ imprison- ment for dropping leaflets in Germany. The news- paper, which features the story to the exclusion of most other news, Says: “The enemy is carrying out the threat published after the report that a million copies of President Wilson’s declaration of peace terms would be dropped from airplanes in Germany. The Germans first began to\drop propaganda leaflets in the Al- lied lines more than three years ago. The practice helped to wreck Russia and cause the disastrous Italian retreat.” The Daily Mail wants the reprisals to take the form of putting German officers and prisoners on the same rations and living conditions as British prisoners undergo in Germany, |, WIRING AN ARMY CANTONMENT. Ome idea of the magnitude of the new National say cantonments has been given from time to he, but thus far no mention has been made of the ‘trical work involved. It is therefore of interest ote that in the case of Camp. Travis in Texas but 275 miles of copper wire were required, large- tor overhead outside equipment. The interior ‘ing called for 22,000 electric lamps, 11,000 por- ‘in receptacles and 11,000 rosettes. - HEAVY SNOWSTORMS IN JAPAN. Japan has suffered from unusually heavy snow- : Mn winter—especially in the northern part of ©€mpire. In the Hokuriku districts snow fell to "epth of nearly six feet; in the city of Fukui the N was even more severe. At Imasho snow was «feet deep on December 25; and in the neighbor- town of Ono it attained a depth of eight feet. Avalanches of snow occurred at four places in _Nomi district, Ishikawa prefecture. Many nen belonging to the Okoya mines live in tem- ary houses and ten of them were buried under Snow. Only five men were rescued alive. On MSequent days other-snow slides occurred, attend- by additional loss of life. * train from Naoyetsu was stalled all night near en station. Before rescue came the snow had letely covered cars and engine. All passengers © Saved. Snow fell at Takaoka for ten days and TMnountain districts was ten feet deep. “DON’TS” FOR USE WITH THE CHINESE. Here are a few “don’ts” for persons doing busi- ness with Chinese. They are selected from a long list’ published by Millard’s Review: Don’t use the word “Chinaman.” Don’t say “Chink,” unless you are trying to make enemies. _ Don’t imagine that all Chinese women bind thtir feet_or that all Chinese men wear queues. Modern Chinese are discarding these things, just as modern American women are ceasing to wear “hobble skirts” and American men to wear “peg-top” trou- sers. Don’t ask your Chinese friend whether he eats rats and dogs. It will please him just about as much as it would please a ae to ask him if he ate snakes and toad fro ‘ Don’t try to m PY oss believe’ you know all | about China just because you have visited China- town in San Francisco, Shanghai or Hongkong. They are no more like the real China than the east . side in New York is like America. Don’t expect all Chinese to be honest any more sy. oS you oe tae hav ai to be — * on’t think t use one or two inese in Cana aE signers Neuen ian bat ioe your city operate laundties all Chinese in China are rways. They will measure 200 feet and dis- Sagan 7 ae oped Siig business. Chi we about 5 tons. a dish plane by Chinese fe Atseriea for Kot ae Y Rahs eka ca can eater 8, and is unknown in China. =| ae “eqn in yey a as to effect a decided — Don't: become discouraged at China’s ip etn peti eating te itt - D WILL TURN QUT A CHASER EVERY 2 AY. ‘ oduction plans Be the navy’s new anti-subma- : le craft contemplate the delivery of a finished at every day. The first vessel has already been x ed in the fabricating shops at the Ford plant ials that go into construction are fed into of the plants as rapidly as it is planned to 2 the completed product at the other. The number of boats contracted for will be under tion simultaneously at one stage. r bat eg ae as

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26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 1918. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS | .06 Cents .75 Cents One Copy Six Months One Copy One Year POSTAGE FREE HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. 0. Money itp Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other wey tS at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the sdme as When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate plece Write your name and per to avoid cutting the euvelope. ot pap ress plainly. Address letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES Everett Newcomb, an eleven-year-old farm boy, of | Monana, Iowa, walked barefoot in his nightgown | from his home to town, one mile, asleep, and was none the worse for the experience when awakened. Walter Markline, of Reading, Ra., arrested for robbing a half-dozen coal offices, pleaded guilty to the offense and was sent to the Spring City Institu-} _ tion for Feeble-Minded, from which institution he escaped a few days before committing these rob- beries. Rural Policeman Paysinger went out in the Mal- lory portion of Mulline, Ga., and failing to find the negroes for whom he went in search he resolved, not to return empty handed, so he came down upon a large rattlesnake and dealt it a death blow. The} git was res inches long and = twelve rat- es the belfry of the Riverton (Md.) Methodist_Chur¢h onto the shoul- ders of Benjamin F. Kennerly, the sexton, while he ~ Was ringing the bell. After a lively chase the snake was cornered in the church auditorium and killed. It evidently had made its home in the belfry and fed ~on birds which roost there. — EO oy os eT oe Pin; A aixathat black ene fell my. at le Be a aS ae _ During a severe storm that. ‘avant over Lake Mich- a large number of wild geese were sighted. e largest flock was seen at Twin River Point ifphenoune. The flock consisted of more than 300 . The geese were confused by the flash of the jight and broke the tower glass, one-half inch thick. One of the geese killed in the impact with the tower _ glass wer over five resi FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. [ select grades of whisky are utilized. It will no practicable for the Medical Department to § over the large quantities of all kinds of liquot obtain the small quantity of satisfactory wh} which would be of use to it. The Ordnance Dep |ment, after consulting with the .Chief of the 8 Ot Se Division of the War Industries Bay” (Mr. Summers), and the chief chemist of the /reau of Internal Revenue, has come to the cor ry, ' sion that the use of this alcoholic liquor by that | partment is not practicable. The Ordnance Dep n ment states that for the manufacture of smoket- powder very pure alcohol is needed, and that f-< redistillation’ of ordinary commercial intoxicat,** ‘liquors might lead to the introduction of impt*' ties in the redistilled alcohol which would injuri®@; | ly affect the powder manufactured with the usé such alcohol. The Ordnance Department cannot) ford to take the risk of producing poor powder i the sake of conserving this confiscated liquor. " | \ GRINS AND CHUCKLES | She—There seems to be a doubt whether kis: i. ‘is proper or not. He—Let’s put our heads toget _and consider. re Visitor—I hear you have been very ill, Nettie. }; you suffer much? Nettie (aged five)—Yes, ma’te I enjoyed an awful lot of paim. he ain PS ES nite Mrs. Hoyle—My husband had $100,000 wherit |married him. Mrs. Doyle—How much has he noes Mrs, Hoyle—Oh, he has most of the ciphers left. a Muffit—Hello, old chap! How are you feeling |day? Weeks—Oh, I’m improving slowly—very slq* ly. Muffit—That’s good! I’m delighted to hea “Why are you always quarreling with me.” “3. you need not get angry. Just explain to her i. gentle tone where she is wrong.” “But she is né wrong.” 10 “Just my luck,” wailed the woman. “Here i§- chance to send letters to the British Isles for © than half price, and I don’t kngy a soul in Engl to write to.” . “John,” said a. business man to his Sicilian f# vendor, “why did you leave Sicily?” “My co. try,” answered John, ‘“‘ten-cent a or This count, ten-cent cigar.” + “De Riter has had a novel (published, IT hea “Yes. It’s called ‘Pygmalion,’ and it’s having a D ——— sale in Chicago.” “Why in Chicago p§, _ “Well, I believe the people there w@

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 27 the absence of Mountain Joe, for everybody had faith that he could have rescued the lovely Inez from | the dreadful state in store for her. “Finally, just as the unhappy Spaniard Was giv- ing up in despair, Joe suddenly put in an appear- There comes Mountain Joe on his: pony,” said my | ance. md, Colonel Fleance Fitz Roy, as we were seated) “If you will recover my child, said Romuldo, ‘I @ shade of a spreading mulberry, in the Granda | will give you a million dollars. You may have half za of Tucson. my property, and whatever else you ask.’ he person referred to was a handsome-looking “I’m not particular about the reward,’ said Joe, h of perhaps thirty-five, somewhat. above the) ‘but I’ll try and rescue the girl.’ dium height, of graceful carriage, and agile ap-| “And then he set about making preparations for rar e. the undertaking. ® was armed with a half-carbine, half-navy re-| “Several gallant fellows volunteered to go with , that hung in a belt by his left side, and was him, but he declined their services. d in a buckskin suit. “He oiled up that overgrown revolver of his, ‘Mountain Joe, as you call him, colonel, seems to| stowed away about ten pounds of jerked meat in his Yather a fine specimen’ of the frontiersman, but! clothes, and, taking the trail of the Kickapoos, set n’t see anything remarkable about his pony, to out early in the morning, and followed it all day T you particularly refer.” © °° cautionsly; and by night was far up in the moun- thereby hangs a tale, which I will unfold if you} tain. ay e listening to it.” "7 “The next day near noon, as he reached the accel G 0 on—tell it by all means.” of an immense precipice, the redskins opened upon Mountain ‘Joe, as he is called, was born some-} him in the rear. ere in the Eastern States, and, infatuated with} «Je was completely trapped. ; % ndian stories he had read, ran away from his) A) means of retreat were cut off, and there was ents and came to the Southwest. death both before and behind him. But he has had some hard knocks since, and the! “But Joe made up his mind to die game. dest were received in earning that pony, orrather) “Dodging behind a rock, he opened with his shoot- e dollars’ worth of it. ing iron, and made it’lively for the ambushers. xou see, a few years ago old Senor Romuldo,! “Every shot told, and soon a dozen dead Indians ~ ® ranch lies out along. the Pinto’ road, owned] were stretched out on the mountain-top. By E ony and one of the loveliest daughters in all; “But their comrades were undaunted, and nearly se parts. . one hundred of them made a rush to seize him. “He was immensely wealthy, and owned several; “He had already killed twenty-six of them, but he able mines, and there was no telling how much | saw that he must soon be overpowered. and silver bullion he had stored away. “Flight was impossible, and preferring to kill him- Now, all the young fellows around here were) self rather than be tortured by the Indians, he rushed ¥ after the girl Inez, but Joe set his heart on| to the precipice, fully two thousand feet high, and ony, and wanted to buy it. leaped boldly into space. He is a fellow who always had his own way, anh “But during his fearful descent he did not lose his $ a blessed good thing that his head is always presence of mind. ent, otherwise somebody would get into trouble. “He was going down near the face of the rocks, But when Joe tried to buy the pony, everybody and observed that stunted pines and hemlocks grew ught he was balked for gnce. out of the frequent crevices. senor asked sixty-five dollars, and wanted| “He began grasping at the tops of them, which ido to trust-him for the rest of it till he sage pes first bent and then broke, but he found that he was e e from a hunting expedition. ~ breaking the force of his fall. = his the old Spanish curmudgeon refused to ao; “For the last five hundred feet the bushes were __ A Joe vainly appealed to his ae. to loan him thick, and Joe was soon going down, dropping ire or he Hanis one to the other in perfect safety. , he got mad, and swore he would not| “At last he reached the bottom, ‘suffering teat a pack: a community. - few bruises and several rather serious wounds re- ne a he left, and was not heard from for a| ceived in the contest with the Indians overhead. “Just as he was congratulating himself upon his he sictiaae a band of Kickapoo Indians wonderful escape another pack of red devils broké ~ ve dawn upon Romuldo’s ranch, during his > 7; ; from the chaparral and opened fire. | psec ard his stock, and carried the _ AN ARIZONA ROMANCE By Kit Clyde j =. 4 - ° mountain fastnesses. | Joc

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28 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. “The Indians were immediately upon him and | fired two or three volleys down the hole, and then covered it up with immense boulders. “Joe had fallen some twenty feet, and realizing | g the danger from shots from above, got under the shelving of the rock, and thus avoided the balls. “The Indians, supposing him dead, made no fur- ther investigations. “Realizing his desperate situation, Joe set about extricating himself, and found that he was in a vast cave with a large number of ramifications. “In the midst of pitchy darkness he began his ex- ploration, which continued for four or five days, but which seemed to him as many years. “The jerked meat satisfied the cravings of his ap- petite, and he found plenty of pure water to drink. “At last he gave up, and lay down to die. “Listening intently, he heard what seemed like hu- man voices, and this once more gave him heart. “Crawling in the direction from which the sounds came, he at length reached a point from which he was able to look into a vast rotunda, fitted up in| facts, as I have done. The senor was as good barbaric splendor, and lighted with pine knots and| his word, and got a surveyor to divide the ra sputtering lamps. - “There, reclining on a couch of bear skins, he be- ‘held Inez Romuldo talking with an old Indian squaw, -who apparently was her jailer. “At length the old hag withdrew in an opposite direction, and Joe speedily made his presence known ‘to the fair captive. | _ “A hurried consultation followed, and the whole situation was taken in. - “Inez explained that she was held a prisoner by the chief of ihe tribe of Red Eagle, who(was deter- mined she should marry him. } “The entrance to the cave was marrow and well concealed, and its existence was known only to a few of the Indians. “They. still swarmed in the ev landaicia: but in : two weeks were going south for a raid upon the set- os tlements, and only a small-guard were to be left in the cave. » “All this Inez hurriedly expiecned: to Joe, and it was agreed that he was to lie concealed in the un- explored portions of the cave to the rear, recover _ from his wounds, and wait till the Indians left, be- . fore attempting a rescue, while Inez was to furnish _ | him with provisions from her own allowance. ; _» “The chief, Red Eagle, in the meantime treated her. with distinguished consideration, offering — no indignities, and ordering that she should ha whatever she called for. . “After three weeks of weary waiting, ae learned ‘om the: old woman that Red Eagle and his braves ey took up their places in the. lier corner. iar to sleeps nye 15 | entrance of the cave, which was found after -made him take the sixty dollars, and let him hi* -are to be married next week, and we will both ¢g the wedding.” them of their surplus wealth. As a result the s ‘The bag consisted of tigers, leopards, bears, Wi. | goats, wild boars and deer. The hidd of the larg- tiger announces Mr. Yamamoto, will be offere Col. Roosevelt... - i aa e = hall, and Mountain Joe melee ‘impatiently | ould | dinner, at which his friends feasted upon the ¢ i cave, ne the toughness a joatic-ems. not, however, ee fF it} the ess and origina - tiger aroma “That sleep was their last, for four shots f Joe’s revolving carbine fired in rapid succes - killed them all before either was aware of his er. “The old woman was forced to guide them td, mer tortuous windings, and Inez and Joe emerged #4: their living tomb just before sunrise. e “Joe then saw that he had passed entirely thro#™ the mountain. is “Romuldo and his friends had long given #e both up for dead, and their feelings may be bet imagined than described when they returned and sound after their miraculous adventures. “Ever since then Joe has ridden that pony, }: has been perfectly happy.” Cc “But you don’t mean to tell me, colonel, that? got no other reward than that little miserable pM of horseflesh? He married Inez, of course?’ © “That’s the way the story writers would things,” said the colonel, “but they never deal*! into two equal parts, and showed Joe about fit cartloads of gold and silver bullion as his s “ “No, sir,’ said Joe, ‘I want none of these, I¥ F that sorrel pony. Here are the sixty dollars, # I want to know if you will trust me for the of” five dollars?” me “‘T’ll give you the pony and anything else £9 want,’ said the senor. ‘You deserve anything you will ask: for.’ “But with all that the senor could do or say, - the pony with five dollars due on it.” “Well, that is the most unnatural ending #. wonderfully romantic story I ever heard. © Col@ Fleance Fitz Roy, there is something wrong with} sentiment and civilization of Tucson.” “Now, don’t deceive yourself there again,” | in the colonel. “Mountain Joe and Inez Rom¥” : TIGER.SKIN FOR ROOSEVELT. Tiger hunting is the latest pastime devised] . Japanese narikin, or war millionaires, to reliL : of a big Korean tiger will soon be on the way Col. Theodore Roosevelt. ‘ Tdasaburo Yamamoto, smiled upon by fort f and the shipping boon, has just returned ff a lavish hunting expedition into the wilds of Kom D Upon his return to Tokio the ineivideins gave 2 ti : Nace

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. , FROM ALL POINTS tAL GOLD BRICK LANDS MAN IN JAIL. Days and nights of diligent search into the past © of Charles Johnson, of Los Angeles, Cal., the h who was arrested by the police when he tried Sell a real gold brick, resulted in his being iden- fd as one of the most wanted burglars in the ited States, the officers say. : the discovery of a platinum ring setting in the d mu brick caused Johnson’s arrest. ‘he gold had been melted and formed into a ick but the platinum had resisted the heat and tained its original form. When Johnson was questioned about how the gold Me into his possession he could not offer satis- “tory answers, and was held by the police pending “— her investigation. “CALIFORNIA'S FAMOUS ORANGE TREE DYING. A ‘battle for the life of Southern California’s most mous tree began the other day, with the noted "rus culture experts of the world on the firing he. After bearing the first navel oranges ever wn in the United States and being the parent ‘Sroves producing $67,000,000 in choice fruit an- on Y, the tree at the head of Magnolia avenue in WVerside is believed to be dying. A. D.Shamel, of the United States experimental : ese Dr. H. J. Webber, of the University of Cali- a horticultural department, and consulting ex- } are making every effort to diagnose the dis- e that threatens death to the pioneer among the uu sig of citrus trees now spread over the State. The tree was planted in 1873 by Mrs, C. L. Tib- ts, who obtained it from the Government horti- Itural gardens at Washington. It came originally ‘ m Bahia, Brazil. The variety of fruit was named ish ngton navel, in honor of the national capital. -. MARKET FOR MOONSHINERS. tven the moonshiners have caught the profiteer- g fever. The moonshiner is operating in defi- e of the Reed amendment, and that is sufficient e tariff upward. Travelers from sections 2 who get on the trail have no trouble in secur- upply—if they have the money. The price, ‘point named by the ’shiner, is $10 a gallon. ation, in his opinion, for a revision of the part where this industry flourishes say that stuff is delivered at the still or at some secret. night and dispose of the stuff direct from the still within 25 hours. Nobody can get moonshine liquor that has the “age” to it. Hot from the still it car- ries the traditional bite of the adder and kick of the mule, and concentrated lye is said to be a mild tonic in comparison to it. This explains why the men who drink it are regarded as meaner than the men who make it. The North Carolina moonshiner is too respectable a gentleman to drink the stuff he makes. The doctor may \take his own physic; but the moonshiner places a higher value than that on his own life. He makes his pizen to sell. AMERICAN WOMEN IN INDUSTRIAL WAR WORK. There are approximately 1,266,061 women in the United States engaged in industrial work which is either directly or indirectly necessary to carry on the war, according to an estimate based on surveys made in 15 States for the National League of Wom- en’s Service by Miss Marie L. Obenauer with the sanction and assistance of the Department of Labor. “These million and more women,” said Miss Oben- auer, “are in the front rank of the industrial army of defense. They are the important women of the Nation. Bands do not play in their honor; they do not wear picturesque uniforms; yet in the business of winning the war it is as necessary to protect their working efficiency as to safeguard the fighting effi- ciency of the men on the firing line.” The figures given are conservative, Miss Oben- auer states. It is estimated that the normal increase in the number of women employed in the industries surveyed since the census.of 1910 was 20 per cent. There were approximately 3,500 women employed in the munition factories in 1910; The number is now 100,000, according to Miss Obenauer. This again, she states, is a conservative estimate. She includes aeroplanes when speaking of munition fac- tories. “The thing our survey impressed upon us,” said Miss Obenauer, “is that woman can not escape her world-old job—the jeb of feeding and clothing She finds this to be her job outside as well as in the home if she is to be an important factor in winning the war. ; “She longs to do her bit in picturesque fashion, but she is needed most for the work which she con- moonshiner has been put to the trouble of it outside his ~snanen pres , and. ce some ris es a 2 ah i a

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0 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. |. A FEW GOOD ITEMS fh PAPER IN POCKET STOPS BULLET. * William Mincer, a citizen of Spencer, Ia., was shot in the shoulder by Charles Rogers of Esther- ville. Another billet hit the paper in his hip pocket and was stopped. The trouble occurred over a land deal and a judgment obtained-by Mincer against Rogers. \ WORLD’S SHIP LOSS IN WAR 9 PER CENT. The German newspapers assert that in the first year of the unrestricted submarine warfare 9,000,- 000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping were sunk and that only 4,000,000 tons have been built to off- set this. As showing how unreliable is the information which the German authorities give out, the Asso- ciated Press is authorized to state that the claim . put forward exaggerated the actual tonnage lost by more than 50 per cent. ‘The total net loss of the world’s ocean-going tonnage since the outbreak of the war, including the losses by marine risk as well as by enemy action, and allowing for enemy tonnage captured, amounts to less than 3,000,000, or 9 per cent. of the tonnage available at the outbreak of the war. - , BIG DEMAND FOR BUTTONS DUE TO GOV- ERNMENT NEEDS. The Government demand for large quantities of buttons has led American manufacturers to attempt to purchase back the stock of wholesalers and. job- bers of buttons at the price asked thé cutting-up trade in order to fill Government requisitions promptly. The figures furnished by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce show also that there has been a greater demand abroad for buttons made in this country. The exports of buttons and parts from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, amounted to $1,982,104, as compared with $1,902556 in 1916 and $654,372 in _ Buttons, espe¢ially the larger sizes, 40 to 55 line, are used on overcoats, of metal, horn, or vegetable ivory, are now much wanted. The de- mand has not only absorbed the American product, _ but has apparently stimulated the import trade in birds were caught in the suburbs of PhiladelPite by James Hunt, Sir., of that city, who has stathgs a movement to encourage the catching and eal! of English sparrows in this country. Sparrow pie is a staple English dainty. In country English sparrows are considered a pest} | cause they destroy grain, and therefore their bog make clean, wholesome food. Special traps 2 been devised by which several dozen sparrows I} be caught at once, either by day or night. Sparré f are easily prepared for cooking by a simple cleat process of cutting away the necks and legs peeling the skin off, feathers and all. WAR COSTING U. S. $24,000,000 A DAY.tu Ten months of the war have cost the United Stag, about $7,100,000,000—at the rate- of nearly 3: 000,000 a day. > More than half of this huge sum, or $4,121,00, 000 has been paid as loans to the Allies and the IF ance, about $3,000,000,000, represents Amer outlay for its own war purposes, exclusive of than $600,000,000 for ordinary governmental penses. D _ The wayr’s toll in money is increasing at the Yiec of more than $100,000,000 a month, and indicati@) now are that the two remaining months of the 4 tion’s first year as a belligerent will run its,war AF to nearly $10,000,000,000, of which $5,000.000-4¢ wilh be for Allied loans and about the same amow for the army, navy, Shipping Board and other W agencies, _ | These figures were compiled the other day fr the latest available Treasury figures, x OREO : NEW UNITED STATES STAMPS. fF Thirty-seven new spaces in the stamp albums}. coming years already are assured as a direct res#) of the status of the United States as a belliger@) power. It is not customary for a nation to wag war without providing something of interest to pl atelists. The South and Central American count which have aligned themselves with the Entei) have not yet issued war stamps, but it is expect that some or all of them eventually will do so. ~ ’ The contributions of the United States in f respect are various. Most of them arise out of & war tax legislation enacted by Congress. Twent one-documentary revenue labels soon made their a pearance, ranging in values from one cent to $1,048 Is, deeds, conveyances and kind This practice was adopted by

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’ SNAP me reai tiiug hie grafter. If Smoke you must have met h‘m. He @ few choice cigars in your pocket Wakes no bones about asking you for Ou are all prepared for him this How? Take one of these cigars shap- (which {js so much like a real clzat fe liable to smoke it yourself by mis- - Bend the spring back towards the Peted end, and as you offer the cigar let thé spring and the victim gets a sharp, Dg snap on the fingers. A sure cure frafters. Price, by mail, ten ceuts PER CIGAR. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. / 81 — CONQUERED IN 3 DAYS pleasant, strengthen tobacco or snuff. jurious to health O HAG for tobacco or snuff Babit, in 72 hours. rettes, cigars, pi © TOBAGC lL offer a genuine, guaranteed remedy ing. Overcomes that peculiar pervonemess snd craving fer ¢ One man in 10 can.use todacoo without apparent iajury; to the other 9it is polsoneus seriously in several ways, cadsing such cfsorders as nervous dyspepsia, sleeplesenesa, £4, belcbing, gnawing, or other uncom- fortable sensation in stomach; eenstipation, headache, weak eyes, less of vigor, red spots on skin, throat irriiation, asthma, ronchitis, heart failure, lung trouble, eatarrh, melan- STOP eholy, neurasthenia, impotency, loss of memory and will power, impure (poisoned) blood, rheamatiem, luom- RUINING tite, bad teeth, foul breath, ennervation, tude, lack of ambition, falling out of bair, baldness, and many other disorders. It fo unsafe and torturing to stiempt OUR to cure yourself of tobaceo or anu habit by sudden stopping—lon't do it. ‘The correct method is to eliminate the nicotine L i F E t poison from the system, strengthen the weakened, irritated membranes and nerves and geaninely overcome AS EGRET times better while feeling always in robust health: My sive, reliable. Also Secret Method fer conquer- the craving. You can quit tobacco and Hae 4 yourself s thousand F R E E beok on Tebacce and Snuff Habit Is is mild, ch Sc bdago, soiatios, neutritis, heartburn, torpid liver, loss of ap {ng habit tn another without his knowledge. Pull particulars iocloting my . Pestpaid or three for 25e. BEHR, 150 W. 62d St., New York City. THE SPIDER WEB PUZZLE. A very interesting Iit- tle puzzle. It consists of a heavily uickeled late and brass ring. fhe object is to «get to the center and back. This is very hard, but > * J ie we give directions SS os *.*/ making it easy. Price, 2 10 cents each, by mail. postpaid. FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., N. ¥ - CACHOO AND ITCH POWDER. 8 ltch powder, Cachoo and Bombs are lallable, we cannot accept orders for less One Dollar’s worth of an assortment. Y can be sent by express only, on which Will prepay the charges. YLFF Novelty Co., 168 W. ?3d St. N. Y- SCIENTIFIC MIND READING. Wonderful! Startling! Sel- entific! You hand a friend a handsome set of cards on which are printed the names of the 28 United States Prest- dents. Ask bim to_ secretly select a name and hold the ecard to his forehead and think of the name. Like a ’ 4 Saad MAGIC LINK PUZZLE. 5 the same way magicians link their . Tt looks dead easy. But we defy body to do it unless they know the ~ Price 10e, by mall, postpaid. WOLFF Novelty Co., 168 W. 23d St., N. ¥. wey = — (PSOE wee T* Y the ring from the side | . A number of : \ on rings The U QIU) isetndt i n em to- J ether just .ex- | 65 West FREE book tells all about the wonderful 8 days Method. m if you smoke or chcw. free. Don't deiar. Keep this: sbow to others. This adv. may ot gppeer agein. Mentic jied in plain wrapper. A . = iddre: EDWARD J. WOODS, 228Y, Station F, New York, N. ¥. ‘GREAT BURGLAR FUZZLE. | s | ie"itw se! Rider Agents Wanted most fascinating Everywhere to ride and exh = 4. puzzle ever placed on ae i = Patente ay . | andborn, carrier, , tool It consists of four | coaster-brake, mud guards and if revolving dials, anti-skid tires. Chol ign 00 4408 , each dial contain: | eos inanger”™ fcc ctbicycles. ing 16 figures, | “peu ‘on approval VERED 8 and 30 DAYS TRIAL. Send for big To} tree catalog and figures in all. en the safe these ! Parti of our hi & Is muet be) La phe fo apa en turned around un-| 2iees " til the figures in| TIRES Steen and pores fat ’ each of the 16 col-| ii bicyeles—at half us prices. h a ee tee aa ne lan pw , en ba: until you | gether total 40 The puzzle is made on the exactly what you need. Y lan of the combination lock on the larme gut our prices, rms ene hte FREE cassivg. | tron safes that open on & combination of EAD c TICAG ‘ | figures. Persous have been known to sit Dept. M 188 up all night, so interested have they be- come trying to get each colnmn to total 40. in this fascinating puzzle. With the printed key which we send with each puzzle the fig- ures can be set In a few minntes So a8 to total! 40 In each column. . Price 18 cents: matled. postpatd, HH. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyo, N. ¥. OLD MONEY WANTED $2 to $300 EACH paid for Hundreds of Coins dated before 1895. Keep ALL old Money. ou may bave Coins worth a Large Premium, Send _10c. for New Ifustrated Coin Value Book, size 4x6. Get Posted at Once. CLARKE COIN CO., Box 35, Le Roy, N. ¥. JAPANESE MAGIO PAPER. The latest, great- ET 5; est and best little WONDER BUTTON-HOLE LAMP. Cutest thing out. Makes a bright A E trick perfected by 3 the ingenious Jap- scene for blocks. Burns any oll #4 anese is called Yaka |. Boys go wild over it. By mail, 15c. Hola. Tt consists c. A. NICHOLS, JR, of two packages of Box 90, Lincoln Park, New York. specially prepa : paper, one a senst- tized medium, and the other a devel- oping medium. process of manufacture is a secret. y wet- ting a white sheet, and pressing a pink sheet on top of it, the white sheet will develo quaint photographic scenes, such as jand- scapes of Japan, portraits of Japanese char- acters, pictures of pecypar buildings, God temples, ete. These pictures are replicas o actual photographs, and print up in a beau- tiful sepia brown colcr. Intensely Interest- | ing for both old and young. Price, i%¢ per package. by mail, postpaid. WOLFF Novelty Co., 168 W. 23d St., > A> A To the Wife of One Who Drinks I have an important confidential message for you. It will come in a plain envelope. How to conquer the Hquor habit in 3 =r and make home happy. Wonderful, e, lasting, reliable, inexpensive method, guar- anteed. Write to Edw. J. ‘oods, 228, septian F, New York, N. Y. Show this to others, POCKET SIGNAL CHART With Booklet of Instructions in accordance with U.S. ARMY AND NAVY SYSTEMS, 1918 With this chart the authorized codes are quickly learned. Signals are read and veri- fied immediately. Can be operated with one hand while the other writes, GREENBACKS Pack of $1,000 Stage Bills, 10c; 3 packs, 25c. Send for a pack and show the bays what a WAD you carry. . C. A. Nichols Jr.. Box 90, Lincoln Park, N. Y. ‘TWO-CARD MONTE. This famous trick gets thi a card For use by Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, Boy we Price 10e, by mail, postpald. Scouts, Girl Scouts, Lone Scouts, Red Cross OLFF Novelty Co., 1683 W. 23d St., N. ¥, Societies, Schools, Y. M.C. A.s—besides Military, Naval and Patriotic Organiza- — aapmmmcmnetin Fay tions, Enlisted Men, Camps, ete. We can criek ever exhibited and make oe very low rates in quantity. aywage peed regs Write To-day! former say the au o requires ot The Booklet which goes with the Chart is endorsed by authorities as being the simplest, clearest treatise on signaling. Price, 10 cts. each by mail, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO. _ ‘Twenty-third St, New York City | ’ <

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; TRICK CIGARETT; BOX. This one is a corker! Get a bor right away, if you want to bave a barrel of Joy. Here’s the secret: It looks like an ordl- nary red box of Turkish cigarettes. But it contains a trigger, under which you place r cap. Offer your friend a smoke Sud be valbes the lid of the box, That ex- ise you will des the cap, and if you are W ergy rat sight with the box before be gets t out os King he was shot. Price 15e, post- over thin aid. WOLFF Novelty Co.. 168 W. 23d St. N. Y¥. PAPEL BLANCO. Four cards are placed ip a One card is removed the balance are now shown to be changed to blank cards. be thoroughly examined. Price 10e, by mail, postpaid. 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. ¥. H. F, LANG, THE MODERN DANCERS. in 4 gilt fyame, the size of our engraving. by it moving in furiously, the hea’ from the mateb warlu ing them up. If you Want to see an up-to date tango dance senu for this pretty charm. Price, 15 cents, or 3 for 40 ceuts, sent by mail, postpaid. WOLFF Novelty Co., 168 . 23d St., N. ¥. THE ELK HEAD PUZZLE. Just out and one of the most fascinating puzzles on ( the market. e stunt is to separate the tiers and re- join them. It looks easy, but try it and it Is without exception the best purzie you bave ever seen. You can't leave it alone. Made of silvered metal. Tice if¢.; 8 for 80c., sent by mail. goreet 6 / Cc. BEAR, 150 W. 62d Street, N. ¥. | | | ) | The cards can | | These daucers are set | liguting a mateb and | circular | form at the back they , ean be made to danc | ou will admit that | MAGIC CARD BOX.—A very cleverly made box of exchanging or vanishing cards. In fact, any number of tricks of this character can be | performed by it. A very necessary magical accessory. Price, 15c, FRANK SMITH, 883 Lenox Ave, N. ¥. THE WAR FOUNTAIN PEN. A very handsome foultain pep case to which is attached a pocket holder neatly made of metal and highly nickel-plated. When your friend de sires the use of your pen and gets it. he is very much astonished when he removes the cap by the sadden and loud noise of the explosion that oc- curs, and yet a little paper cap does {t all. Price, 35e, by mail, postpaid FRANK SMITH. 383 Lenox Ave, N. ¥. ARD TRICK.—Five cards “KNOCK-OUT” C are shown, front and back, and there are no two cards alike. You place some of them in a handkerchief and ask any person to hold them by the corners in full view of the audience. You now take the remaining cards and request anyone to name any card shown. This dne, you repeat the name of the card and s ate that you will cause it to invisibly leave your hand and pass into the handkerchief, where it will be found among the other cards. At the word “Go!” you show that the chosen card has vanished, leaving absolutely only cards, The handkerchief is unfolded by any person, and in it is found the identical card. Recommended very bighly. Price MWe. each ¥ mali, post; H. F, LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’kiyn, N. Y¥. READ THIS ONE! “Moving Picture Stories” | A WEEKLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO PHOTOPLAYS AND PLAYERS PRICE 6c PER COPY THE BEST FILM MAGAZINE ON EARTH BUY A COPY! Magnificent Colored Cover Portraits of Prominent Performers! $2 PAGES OF READING Lessons "~- Foams, J in Seeoeris Writing okes, and every bri; ‘THIS LITTLE MAGAZINE GIVES YOU MORE F cles are b the greatest exports in their a i a copy NOW your EACH NUMBER CONTAINS es of Actors and Actresses Films on the Screens tone Scenes from the Plays es About Prominent People in the Films Actresses tudios and while Picture-making in the and names of ght Com TION ON THE MARKET! procure; its cular line. two | | of fits | these imitations on her bedspread. es who buy your plays Feature of Interest in Making Moving Pictures OR YOUR MONEY THAN ANY OTHER SIMILAR PUBLI- - profuse illustrations are exquisite, and its special arti- this publication the very best of its kind in the world. , OF send us 6 cents in money or postage-stamps, and we will mail you HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street, New York City | their dimes is _ Habits formed in early POCKET SAVINGS BANK. A perfect little bank, handsomely plated. Holds just five dollars (50 It cannot be opened until the bank when it can be readily emptied and re ready to be again refilled. Every should see that their children have # Savings bank, as the early habit of of the greatest impo life are seldo’ gotten in later years. Price of this bank, 15¢, mailed, postpaid. C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d Street, N. LUCKY PENNY POCKET PIE This Landsome piece is made minum, rese sowewhat ip s appearance 4 dollar. In the of the pocket pi & new one-cent cvin, inserted 1 a way that it be removed. laws prevent showing this On one side of the Piece are the words, “Lucky penny piece; I bring good luck,” and the of a horseshoe. On the opposite side, our mascot,” “Keep me and ne roke," and two oni of four-leafed ¢ These handsome pocket pieces are by many to he harbingers of good lu Price 12 cents; 3 for 30 cents; by postpaid. C. BEHR, 150 W. 62d Street, N- < ¥ our engraving). IMITATION BED BUGS. This toy is an exact imitation of friendly little fellow who shares your] eats out of your hand or leg and whi cepts your humble hospitality even out an invitation. The fact that he insists on introducting all his. friends family circle, sometimes makes him unpopular with the ladies; most woman you know would bave seven if she saw two, or even on Si contained in a transparent envelope. fF 10c, by mail. H, F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, PRICE 6c PER COPY ENJOY YOURSELF! OUT EVERY FRIDAY

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY —LATEST ISSUES 614 After the Big 615 Tittle Jay Perkins, the Broker: or..Shearing the Wa)] Street 616 The Young Coal Baron; 617 Coining Money: or. The mond Mine. 619 A Game Boy: or, 620 A Waif’s Legacy: 621 Fighting the Mon Kings: Wall Street. a Wall Street. 626 Jack’s Fortune: or. The Strangest Legacy In the World. $27 Taking Chances: or, Playing For Big Stakes. Lost In. the Tropies; or, The Treasure of Turtle Key. 629 Ten Silent Brokers: or, The Boy Who Broke the Syndicate or. Five Years With the Miners. Boy Plunger of Wall Street Among the Tusk Hunters; or, The Poy Who Found a Dia- From the Sinms to Wall Street. 629 Diek. or, How it Made a Poor Boy Rich. or, The Little ge 3 With Grit; or. The Young Salesman Who Made His 623 Ted, the Broker’s Son; or. Starting Ont For Himself. 624 Dick Darrell’s Nerve; or, From Engine-House to Manager’s ce. 625 Under a Lucky Star: or. The Boy Who made a Million In 634 Eastman & Co., Stocks and Bonds; or, The Twin Boy of Wall Street. * Broker. Market Street 641 From Speculator of cate. 643 A Street. all Street 630 Only a Factory Boy; or, Winning a Name For Himself. $81 Fox & Day. Brokers; or The Young Money Makers of Wall Street. @32 Banker Barry’s Boy: or, Gathering the Dollars In Wall Street 633 yen" the Land of Gold; or, The Young Castaways of the Mystic sle. For sale by all newsdealers. or will be sent to any address on réceipt of price, 6 cents, per copy. In money or postage st HARRY E, WOLFF, Publisher. - IF YOU WANT ANY BACK weeklies and cannot procure them from newsdealers, they can be obtained from the publishers di and fill in your Order and send it dae ae ule of the weekl of these mail. No. 46. HOW TO MAKE AND USE ELEC- TRICITY.—A description of the wonderful uses of electricity and electro magnetism; to- er with full instructions for making Batteries, etc. By George D. Containing over fifty il- No. 47. HOW TO BREAK, RIDE AND DRIVE A HORSE.—A complete treatise on the horse, Describing the most useful! horses for business, the best horses for the road; also valuable recipes for diseases peculiar to the horse. No, 48. HOW TO BUILD AND SAIL CANOES.—A handy book for boys, contain- ing full directions for eb eege 3 canoes the most popular manner of sailing them. Fully illustrated. No. 49, HOW TO DEBATE.—Giving rules for conducting debates, outlines for debates, questions for discussion, and the best sources for procuring information on the question given. No, 5%. HOW TO STUFF BIRDS AND TMALS.—A valuable book, giviug instruc- tions in collecting, preparing, mounting and preserving birds, animals and insects. No. 51. HOW TO DO TRICKS WITH er eis, a cppeiens “a ue general ples of sleight-of-hand appli- cable ter gard tricks; of card tricks with ry cards, and not requiring sleight- of-haad; of tricks involving slelght-of-hand, or the use of specially prepared cards. Il- lustrated. No, @ HOW TO PLAY CARDS.—Givme the rules and full directions for playing Enchre, _Cribba no, Forty-Five, Rounce, Pedro Sancho, Draw Poker, Auction Piteh, All Fours, and many other popular games of cards. No. 5. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS—A wonderful little book, telling you how to write your sweetheart, your father, moth- er, , brother, employer; and, in fact, ata and anybody you wish to write Ne. 5. HOW TO KEEP AND MANAGE PETS -—Giving complete information as to the manner and method of raising, keeping, taming, breeding. and managing all kinds of Sart also giving full instructions for making cages. ete. Fully explained by twenty-eight illustrations. . 5S. HOW TO COLLECT STAMPS D Cea taining zatumhie informa- regarding collecting and arranging Stamps*and ecolns, Handsomely illus- BECOME AN aining full instructions how locomotive engineer;*also direc-~ Beet a a model Lo AB or should aia , Publisher, Lead ¥ all newsdealers. or will be sent to any address on rece”? OUR TEN-CENT HAND BOOK No. 60. HOW TO BECOME A PHOTOG- RAPHER.—Containing useful information regarding the Gamera and how to work it; also how to make Photographic Magic Lan- tera Slides and other Transparencies. Hand- somely illustrated. No. 62. HOW TO BECOME A WEST POINT MILITARY CADET,—Explains how to gain admittance, course of Study, Exami- nations, Duties, Staff of Officers, Post Guard, Police Regulations, Fire Department, and all a boy should know to be a cadet. By Lu Senarens. No. 638. HOW TO BECOME A NAVAL CADET.—-Complete instructions of -how to gain admission to the Annapolis Naval Acad- emy. Also containing the course of instruc- tion, description of grounds and buildings, historical sketch, and everything a boy should know to become an officer in the United States Navy. By Lu Senarens. No. 64. HOW TO MAKE ELEC?PRICAT MACHINES.—Contatining full directions for making electrical machines, induction eo dynamos, and many novel toys to be work =f electricity, By R. A. R. Be illustrated. No. 65. MULDOON’S JOKES.—The most original joke book ever published, and it fs brimful of wit and humor. It contains a large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, etc., of Terrence Muldoon, the great wit, hu- morist, and practical joker of the day. No. 66. HOW TO DO PUZZLES.—Con- taining over three hundred interesting puz- zles and conundrums, with key to same. “A complete book, Fully illustrated, No. 67. HOW TO DO ELECTRICAL TRICKS,—Containing a large collection of instructive and highly amusing electrical tricks, together with illustrations. By A. Anderson, No. . 68. HOW TO DO CHEMICAL TRICKS.—Containing over one hundred highly amusing and instructive tricks with chemicals. By A. Anderson, Handsomely illustrated. No. 69. HOW TO DO nnet, Fully SLEIGHT-OF- ] HAND.—Containing over fifty of the latest and best tricks used by magicians. Also ake ae the secret of second sight. Fully ustrated. No. 70, HOW TO MAKE MAGIC TOYS,— Containing full directions for making Magic Toys and of many kinds, ‘ully il- lustrated. : No. 71, TO DO MECHANICAL TRICKS.—Containing complete illustrations for aig hems over sixty Mechanical Tricks, Fully illustrated. No. 72, HOW _TO DO SIXTY TRICKS WITH CARDS.—Embracing al) of the latest and most deceptive card tricks, with. illus- trations. t of price, 10c. per copy, the Boy Lawyer: or, 1 (40 Rreker Dexter’s New Boy: or. A Young Innocent Stroke of Luck; or, The Boy ns 644 Little Hal. the Boy Trader; or, Picking Up Money 645 On the Gold Coast: or, The Treasure of the Strand 646 Lured by the Market: or, A Boy’s Big’ Deal In Wal 647 Trading Tom; or, The Boy Who Bought Every 648 Favored by Fortune; or, The Youngest Firm . 649 Jack Jasper’s Venture; or, A Canal Route to BS NUMBERS ies you want, and the weeklies will be sent to y GE STAMPS TAKEN THE SAME AS MONEY. ar) Blue Stone; or. The Treasure of the Jungle 625 The Little Wizard; or, The Suecess of a Young In f After the Golden Eagles; or. A Lucky Young Wa A Lueky Lad: or, The Boy Who Made a Railroad Pag ' €38 Ton Good to Last: or, Six Months In the Wall Street Winning a Big Fee. Mill to Millions: or, The Poor Boy Who Bée Steel Magnate. { (42 Three Game Speculators; or, The Wall Street Boys Who Made Money 166 West - = No. 73. HOW TO WRITE CORRECTLY.—Containing full inst! for writing letters on almost any also rules for punctuation.and comp? with specimen letters, No. 75. HOW TO BECOME A CoNJ! —Containing tricks with Dominoe& Cups and Balls; Hats, Em? thirty-six illustrations, No, 76. THE HAND.—Containing rules for fortunes by the aid of lines of the the secret of palmistry. Also the telling future events by aid of moles, sears, etc, Illustrated. HOW TO DO FORTY ly iNust: Ne. 78. HOW TO DO THE BLA wei aie | Illustrated. No. 79. HOW TO BECOME AN —Containing complete instructions make up for various characters on the together with the duties of the ager, Prompter, Scenic Artist aud “Man No. 80. GUS WILLIAMS’ JOxE Containing the latest a, anecé funny — se can -Trene 4. man comedian. xty-four pages; colored cover, contalaiugr a half-tone of the author. No. 81, HOW TO MESMERIZE. ing he meee apeuered method of a sm; an magnetism, or, magne ing. By Prot, Leo Hugo Koch aS thor of “How to Hypnotize,” ete No. 82. HOW TO DO PALMISTRY/? taining the most apreoved methods of ing the lines on tht hand, together © explanation of their meaning. Al Plaining phrenology, and the key of characters by the bumps on the hea och, A.C) Fully il No. 88. HOW TO HYPNOTIZE. ing valuable and instructive informat garding the science of hypnotism. plaining the most approved methods are employed by the leading hypn the world. By Hugo Koch, A.C.S. No. 84. 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