Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 744) (1920 01 02)

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No. 744. JANUARY 2, 1920. 6 Cents. (BRO! Ke Rg : Dy bs SELF 0.,50' * PLETE ode: ISSUE loud of stifling smoke ooked moment and then threw up the cover. Ac > eee rose, fike a balloon, out of it. “Great Scott!” exclaimed Johnny. “What is this?” The others in the room started back aghast.

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y FAMEAND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY Issued Weekly—Subseription price, $3.00 per year; Canada, $8.50; Foreign, $4.00. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 Wess October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, 23d Street, New York, N.Y. Entered as Second Class Matter, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. No. 744. NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1920. Price 6 Cents. On account of more than 100 per increase the price of this publication THE PUBLISHER. TAKE NOTICE! additional printing and labor costs, we are reluctantly compelled to cent advance in the cost of paper, to 7 cents, beginning next week.— LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS A LUCKY WALL STREET FIRM By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I. \ SAFE AND ITS CONTENTS, “And now, gentlemen, I will take your bids on this fine steel safe and its contents,” said the auctioneer, looking at the crowd which was gathered in a semi-circle around him, several deep. “It is the last lot in the programme.” “Contents!” exclaimed a man in the front row, “What do you mean by that?” Pest “When I say contents I naturally mean whateyer is in it,” replied the auctioneer, suavely. ; i “Well, what’s in it? Gold dollars or old junk? The crowd laughed at this sally. Sapa “That’s a chance you bidders have to take. ae, 4 “Why, that’s bidding on a pig in a poke,” sat the man. “This wasn’t advertised as a sale of unclaimed property like the express companies hold once a year.” f “L am sorry, sir, but I am merely following my instruc- _ tions, which was to offer this safe and contents for sale as it stands,” explained the auctioneer. ; ag “I guess the contents don’t amount to a hill of beans,” said There was a momentary pause. been offered for this safe and.‘ts contents. El ole , bties ory tio! > re. I Ayes. mm every sei a apaiaieniciem dollars, and ms tle d There was no further bid,,though the auctioneer tried hara to raise the last offer another dollar. At this point a well-dressed gentleman, who had been standing behind him, stepped up and whispered something lin his ear. “Gentlemen,” said the auctioneer, “I have been instructed to tell you that the contents of this safe largely consists of ‘mining and industrial stock. The reason it is offered with |the safe and not in separate lots is because the deceased, whose property it was, left a request in writing that when his personal belongings in this office were sold that the safe be offered just as it stood at the moment of his untimely death. Now, gentlemen, I hope you will make a bid in keep- ing with the chances you have of drawing a prize, I'll guar- the safe to be worth a hundred dollars, The contents may be worth a_ hundred thousand for all I know. It is possible I am offering you a fortune in disguise. I have been offered forty dollars. Who will say seventy-five bi While the chances were that the certificates of stock, now admitted to form the contents of the safe, were of little, if — any,’ value, the element of uncertainty injected more than ever into the proceedings brought forth bids of forty-five to sixty-five dollars, and then stopped again. : “Sixty-five dollars, gentlemen, is a mere bagatelle to offer for the chance of ‘a small fortune,” said the auctioneer, in persuasive tones. “The safe is worth more than that, and you are taking no risk whatever on the contents, even if the shares of stock are not worth the paper they are written on. Come, gentlemen, do not let what may be a good thing get Do I hear seventy-five dollars?” tan, who had ale other office “Sixty-six, do I hear : looking around. At that moment

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ee 2 LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. tlemen, this is your last chance—your last opportunity for a} dred dollars, and the possibility of a fortune thrown in. Are possible fortune, Sixty-six. it you going to let a clever boy outhid you?” The auctioneer paused, as auctioneers do before knocking Evidently the crowd were, for nobody offered a fresh bid. alot down. “Very well, gentlemen, the loss is yours. One hundred dol- “Sixty-seven!” cried a clear boyish voice. lars once—twice—and for the third and last time.” The crowd turned and jooked at the new bidder. The auctioneer looked around, then brought his hands to- H® was a well-built, handsome lad, with a face full of en-| gether with a resounding smack as he said, “Sold!” erzy and resolution—a boy who would attract favorable ae “I wonder which is sold—the safe or the bidder,” said a tice anywhere. man, facetiously, _ His face was flushed, either from exercise or subdued ex: | Yl tell you,” said the boy, “the gentleman who let me citement, and his eyes sparkled with animation. bluft him out of his bid. I’ve got a bargain.” “Young man,” said the auctioneer, “did you say sixty-seven How do you know you have?” Soler for this safe and its unknown contents ?” Fania id = of my business secrets,” replied the boy, in a “Who ‘are you bidding. for?” “Step up and settle, young man,” said the auctioneer. “Myself.” The boy stepped up and handed in five $20 notes, and asked “The terms of this sale are spot cash, and the goods must | for at bill of sale. be removed before noon to- ~morrow.” Say, do you know who that chap is?” said the man who “All right. I said sixty-seven.” : had just come in and heard that the boy had bought the safg “Sixty- eight,” said the second-hand man. and its contents on the “go-it-blind” principle. “No, who is he?” asked the sarcastic man. “Si xty- ‘ id peer sine. Sid: the ber, “That’s Johnny Long, the late Mr. Jackson’s messenger. “Seventy,” said the dealer. * “Seventy-five,” said the boy. He and the deceased were quite thick, The ola man said The crowd was now much ‘interested in the rival bidders, | Long was the smartest messenger in the Street, and I guess particularly in the boy who had come it late. | he Bakes sight. 3 anybody wan & correct idea what is in Ben safe he has, and you can take my wo at he wo pe fie pct a pp geen dbs OE | bid on it if he didn’t know what he was doing. I’d be will- The gentleman behind the auctioneer, who had given the p : : boy a searching look, whi spered something Fo the auctioneer, | inf, to, Rive, yan fy atari his bargain, and run the risk of which caus 0 a ad. Fg “I am offered seventy-five dollars, but I am instructed to Bang: = 24 the crowd heard his words, and they began to 2 agg Shag oe dollars is offered it will be with-|" "7,6 auctioneer might have been right after all, when he That settled the second: hand man, and he started to leave remarked that there was a possible fortune in the safe. the place he had occupi “T’ll make it a io then,” said the Pag igi Lay ng Some man in the crowd suddenly is head CHAPTER II. that the boy knew something about the can, idea by the safe, and he offered $105. LONG AND COMPANY, BOY BROKERS. 1 ‘h “ , balls son mark,” he said, and he made a bluff of | After paying for the safe as it stood, and receiving the leaving his place. combination on a slip of paper so he could open it, and his The man then seemed to realize that the boy was merely a | bill vt roe Plc the Pgs eyes tae s a cacacaicy =e second-hand dealer, an r considerable haggling, bought pane: eHeper, employed to raise the bidding. ss high, as |from him at a reasonable advance price Neca thine he had “Gentlemen,” said the auctioneer, “I am offered one hun-, Purchased. dred and five——” 4 “Young man,” said the auctioneer, as the boy was starting “Hold on ier.” said the last bidder, “I'l withdraw roy £07 the door, “don’t forget that you must have this safe out tk Be ny Baad I haven’t the money to pay for the safe at of B ton by to-morrow noon.” ia ho says so?” replied Long. at eti looked di ed fee ae auctioneer leo teanpoin and said something a| vou ve had your ee You ‘hea fished vour ae bid of .* d p & usiness, and when you have receiv your co. or less. you. want oe oa oat. too.” be aed as itch ‘buen rendered you will be through, so it is unnecessary i right, sir Y'll stand by it.” for you to issue orders to me. [ don’t in +! ie move that sooner yu a nee feral PS Oc cal ge 7 « on 1v Wi e@ movi 8 a our Tis an - Da you rg that question of any other bidder?” replied penee? renked the auc auctibneer. y ex nie guveribtentest of the buildiag will, probab e superintenden e 1 the office is rented.” Wil erebahin-de: 8-98 «t do nok yee. know “ie it se antes fe to?” no is none ol my usiness.” Facts.” friend, young tips ge Be will tell you. The office is rented to the firm of @ general laugh at the auctioneer’s expense, exe pt AEP eater i : ay know if you are brepared | te PAY Maybe y gd would have Kae ta Got 3 bi of sale fro “I have the opto of few sta She Beem

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LONG & CO., Nearly all the crowd had left. A few of the more curious ones remained. They were mostly persons who Rad made bids on the safe. “Say, Young man,” said one, actng as spokesman for the others, “aren’t you going to open the safe and see whether you've struck luck?” “No,” repiied Johnny. “I mow about what’s in it without locking.” “Do you? Are those certificates of sto¢k worth much?” “T don't imagine I could buy a skys¢raper with them.” “I suppose you got a bargain, and we. people got left?” “Tf you got left it was your own fault. You had the same chance that I had to buy the safe and what was in it.” “That’s all right; but we didii’t have your inside knowledge Ns of the value of what was in it. You were taking no chances, : while we were.” : “Well, then, for your consolation, I will inform you that: the bundles of certificates of minim and industrial stock have no market value, as far as I know. If they had, Mr. Jackson probably would not have left instructions to include them in the sale of the safe. At any rate his executor would : not have complied with directions that were not profitable to the estate.” \ did you pay so much for the safe?”> “Because I need a good safe, and that one is easily worth _ a hundred dollars.” # _ “You could have done better by buying one of a dealer in second-hand safes.” * “Maybe I could, but I am satisfied with my purchase.” “What are you going to do with that thining and indus- trial stock?” “You'll have to excuse me answering that question.” e The spokesman took the hint, and he and the others walked out of the office. ; They were hardly gone when a good-looking boy of John- ny’s age came to the door and looked in. ; “Hello, Will,” said Johnny, “come in. The funeral is over and the mourners have departed. The remains have been disposed of, and we own most of them, all, in fact, that you see about you. Those two gentlemen at the desk yonder are the auctioneer and Mr. Bixby, the executor of the Jackson estate. As soon as they have finished ther business they will ” too. eeLmen We can open up right away,” said Will, whose other name was Waters. “Just as soon as a sign painter removes the letters now’ the doorjand substitutes the legend of Long & Co,, Stocks | at Mining and dustrial Shares Bought and Sold on Commission.” y “You got the safe and its contents, then?” said Will. “You can gamble on it I did.” ; + “T was afraid that maybe you’d be late in getting here.” ~ “I didn't have any time to spare. I knew it would be the _ last thing offered. It was on the point of passing into the _ hands of a second-hand dealer when I punctured his expecta- * tions with a higher bid.” “Punctured is good. One would think he was a tire.” “He looked tired wken I kept on bidding against him.” “Did he, and I gabase. i soon re-tired from the contest 2s you got the safe? = “You mean t did it cost you?” undred ¢asés.” j couldn’t have with the independent order Pe way, het ulfference be- @ country . S +. Se “That will be great. | my brain illustrated.” | *“Néver mind that now. What alterations do you think we should make in the furniture of th's room? As the head of the firm 1 shall’ have my desk by that window.” “All right. Suppose I plank the other desk at the back of yours. Then the head and tail of the firm would be in suit- able juxtaposition.” : | “Suitable what?” “Juxtayosition, You knew what that means, don’t you? | Nearness.” “Holy smokes, Will! Don’t jar me that way again. If you | are studying the unabridged dictionary don’t hurl any of it at me. Please remember that we are starting out in the brokerage business, with a small capital, and an unlimited ‘amount of nerve, and—st ck to business. 1 think youid bet- | ter go over to West Broadway, to that sign painter who has a loft near the elevated station, and bring a man over here to fix up the door. I’ll stay -hére and hold the fort.” “Whatever you say goes with me, Johnny. I’ll make tracks for the painter's.” Will turned on his heel and departed, and half- an hour | ata returned with a painter, who carried a satchel in his and, . By that tinie the auctioneer and the executor of the Jack- son estate had gone. |, Johnny handed the painter a slip with the matter he wanted ; put on the door, and the man began operations by taking off | the old sign of “Wilford Jackson, Broker.” The late Mr. Jackson had, for a year before his death, been conducting his business on a modest basis, owing to the fact that a certain speculation he engaged in turned out so dis- astrously that he was nearly sent to the wall. Johnny had been his faithful messenger an‘ junior clerk | all along, and the broker thought a great deal of the boy. | The day before he died he sent for Johnny and bade him |a last good-by, for the doctors had given him up. | He told the boy that he had prepared a. codicil to be at- | tached to his will which would give John 100 and all the .old stock certificates in his safe. “I’m not giving you much, my boy,” he said, “for the stock has no market, value, but if I were you I'd hold on to it, for /maybe out of the bunch one or two might some day turn up ja trump, At any rate that has been my anticipation, but it |can't be realize now, for I am going to that mysterious | hereafter where such things as stock have no place.” So when Broker Jackson died Johnny expected to receive the valuciess. certificates, but he didn’t get them just the same, nor the $100 either, for the codicil, for some unex- plained reason, was notattached to the will, nor did the ex- lecutor know anything about it. Johnny, hewever, determined to get them if he could and had a luminous idea with respect ' offered to buy them for a small price. | Dhe executor, however, to them and refused to sell them, though he felt they did not count as a marketable asset to the estate. “luminous idea” was to sell them in connection with e. This pian was carried out, as we have seen, but it did not ‘pan out the way the executor _ Johnny, before the sale, offered him $50 for the certificates, | By attending the sale the boy practically got them for ‘nothing, for the safe, which he also wanted in the business he new one. |. Johnny and Will stood outside ne I should like to see the product of » and watched the proceed- em. x | When the man had finished it, the glass presented as im- —__ j portant a front as any door on that floor, and the boys were very well satisfied. : | “Long & Co.” said Will. “Although I'm only the Co. I feel just as important as if my name was in let- | to be eee

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4 Accordingly the boys locked up and went off to attend to! those important details. CHAPTER III. THE WORTHLESS SECURITIES. Johnny Long lived with an’uncle and aunt in the Bronx, while Will Waters lived with his parents in Brooklyn. The mother of Johnny, some years after the death of the boy’s father had married again and was living in Boston, Her second husband’s name was Pendleton, and he was a bookkeeper in a large dry goods store. The reason why Johnny came to New York was because he didn’t get on with his new father. He found his father’s brother, Cyrus Long, very congenial to him, and as his aunt was as good to him as a mother, he got along very nicely in his new home. He also had the company of his cousin, Kitt'e Long, who was a vivacious and captivating young lady of about his own age. She and Johnny were as much alike as two peas in a pod, and sometimes the boy wished she waSn’t his cousin. Johnny appeared at the office at nine next morning, and soon afterward Will came in. “What shall we do fitst, Johnny?” asked Will. We'll go over those stock certificates and make a sched- ule of them,” was the reply. The safe was opened and the certificates brought forth and dumped on Johnny’s desk. Will wrote the names down, with the number of shares of each, as h's partner read them off and tied up each company in a age bundle. e they were thus employed a couple of brokers, who Johnny knew very well, walked in on them. “Hello, Johnny,” said Broker Howard, “this is a surprise.” Good morning, gentlemen. Glad to see you. Help your- selves to seats make yourselves at. home. Fine dav.” you hired Jackson’s office, but we hardly aro rant and I came up to see if the report was rue, “Yes, sir; all of them.” “You must have a lot of capital or else they can’t be worth uch, : “Mr. Jackson bought them for good money at various times » but when he needed money he couldn’t realize on them,” said much.” . that’s about all; but you for it would only raise a laugh in business just to furnish amuse- It is as serious a matter with us as up to ridicule. If we can help you of us. But I am not sure that th's part, Johnny. It costs money to oc- building, and if you don’t do enough expense, you'll cou out at the small “That's no fiction, Mr. Howard; but if we don’t keep on top not i we press strange ough| “That’s right,” laughed Howard, and then he and G LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. “What good would that do you?” ‘ “J couldn’t tell you now; but it would be something to say that we owned a mining proposition out West, even if there was nothing in it.” “Rather an empty honor. I would advise you not to waste any of your money on it.” “We couldn’t waste much, for the stock has no value. con- sequently, if we started to accumulate any more of it we wouldn’t pay much for it.” : “If you paid a cent a share every cent invested would be a dead loss.” " “You can’t tell what might happen in the future. I’ve heard of dead mines coming to life again in an unexpected way.” : 5 “True: but such things don’t happen once in a coon’s age with such propositions as the Little Giant. How many shares would vou have to buy to get control of the property? “Fifty thousand one hundred.” “Then you hold a third interest in it now?” “We do.” “1 youldn’t monkey with it. One of these days when you eet older and wiser you’ll use those certificates to figure on. That’s about all the use they’re good for. What else have you got there?” ; “Ten thousand shares of the Imperial Invisible Ink Co. Worth $10 a share at par. I believe Mr. Jackson paid 25 cents a shart for the block. He expected that the company would make a lot of money out of their patents.” “What is the company doing?” “Nothing that I know of.” “How about the plant?” “Tt occupies part of a small loft on Grand street, and the president and patentee is the only active worker. He sels the product around the streets on a push cart, and he barely pays his-expenses. The palatial palace he told Mr. Jackson he expected to build one day out of his share of the profits has contracted’to a small room in the Mills House No. 1. In- stead of dining at Delmonico’s he eats on the Bowery or Park Row. In fact, he lunched at my expense on Ann street the other day. If he hadn’t met me he told me that he wouldn't have eaten at all, for he’d only sold one bottle of ink that morning.” : “How much will you sell the Imperial for?” laughed Broker Grant. “T think a cent a share would be a fair valuation, banking on the future,” repl’ed Johnny. “The present prospects of the company do not warrant such a figure. If you found a purchaser willing to nam a tenth of a cent I’d advise you to work it off,” said the broker. “That would be $10 for that bunch of handsome-looking securities. What an appalling sacrifice! No, I’d rather pa- per my room with. them.” “T suppose the rest of your stock is on the same plane w th those you have mentioned?” said Howard. “Yes, I guess they are,” said Johnny. looking rather ne- gretfully at the piles of valueless certificates, which had once represented hopeful enterprise. “They are dead ones, but on the chance of one of the corpses coming back to a sphere of usefulness we intend to them,”* The two brokers smiled, “Why don’t vou frame one of each var’ety and hane them srt your ‘q@ie? They might be ornamental if not use- ‘ul. “T will consider your suggestion, Mr. Howard, and perhaps __ act on it. As most of them represent mining companies they might add an air of ‘mportance to the place that would im- rs,” chuckled Johnny. ; got up and said they would have to get to their “| Nebo “Here, Will, put these securities in the safe,” said Johnny. “Securit’es is good. They’ll be secure there even if they’re not worth anything,” replied Will, following directions. ; Johnny picked up a mining paper which had been deliv- ered that morn'‘ng and d over it. : The following paragraph struck his eye:

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LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. velopment purposes. The results were not encourag! ing | eno work, and so the operations were abandoned and the mine took its place among the hundreds of wildcat propositions which have contributed so much to weaken public confidence in the general mining industry. We are now informed that | the new people in charge have opened up an unsuspected | vein of ore, specimens of which assay at about $100 a ton. a This doesn’t suggest a bonanza, but it wears a hopeful look. | Whether the mine will ultimately realize the expectations | now being formed of it is a problem for the future to solve, | Co. but at least it will be good news for those people who hold | Some of the shares in the original company.” “The ign orgie muttered I ohnny. bunch of that stock.” He consulted the list made out by Will It showed that the firm owned 20,000 shares, “Say, Will,” called Johnny. “Hello,” replied the junior partner. “Fetch me that bunch of Henrietta certificates.” Will read it. : “Say. how much have we got of it?” said Will, eagerly. Johnny pointed to the list. “Gee, that’s fine!” exclaimed Will. “We may be right in | it with that stock.” “Tf ‘t pans out anything we Wall Street firm.” a ~ count ourselves a lucky CHAPTER IV. TWO MORE VISITORS, At that. moment there came a knock on the door, “Come in,” said Johnny. In walked a broker who was a neighbor of theirs. He had att the sale on the afternoon before and had seen Jolinny buy the safe and its unseen contents. He was curious to learn what she stock consisted of, and “he had a reason for wishing to know, too. “Good morning, young man,” he said to Johnny. “My name is Watt.” “I ge ve it up, sir. You ought to know better than me.” The visitor stared at the boy broker. “T don’t catch the drift of your remark,” be said. ered me what your name was, and I 7 id my name was Watt—W-A-double bd “On I beg your pardon. Glad to know you, Mr. Watt. Sit “ft em a broker on this floor and Shereiere a neighbor of | yours.” Johnny nodded. s “You ‘seem to have started in the brokerage business with a r. Bgtem to to have started! ‘Why, we have started. You iy eee te a ate vou man he partner ?” course. g re your Waten. GR gtan ‘ me to ee you acquainted with Mr. -~ Waters. is Broker “Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Watt,” said Will. | “I was present when you bought that safe with res nin eg if ot thee oo er dst uin-what kind of a hathein nght Will, w winking at Johnny. pad nad hudgens we “got a u Watt. sitions,” “Yes, it would,” replied the boy broker, slowly. “We would to warrant the original promoters continuing the | get twice our money back and still have the safe.” “Exactly,” said athe broker, briskly. “Shall I write you my check for $200 “Well, no. I jon" t thnk we care to sell Henrietta.” “Why not?” asked their visitor, looking disappointed. “Really, I prefer not to explain our reasons. If there is nything else on the list——” “No, there is nothing else,” replied Mr. Watt, impatiently. Bice There are 10,000 shares of Imperial Invisible Ink “Don’t want them,” snorted Mr. Waitt, who looked a little | mad. “There are 5,000 shares of the International Duplex Cor- “Why, we shave @ | yugated———” “T can only use the Henrietta stock,” interrupted Broker “How about the Red Sox mine?” “Nothing in it.” “What do vou know about the Hilltop Extension?” “Nothing,” said the broker, shortly. ‘The New Eldorado Mining and——” ae as a door nail. There’s nothing in your list worth __ Don't you think that the Little Giant will come to life etNo, 1 I don’t. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you $250 for those Henrietta shares.” “Make it $500 and I'll consider the offer.” “Look here, young man, do you take me for a fool?” roared Watt. “IT should hope not. The only fools in Wall Street seem to (be the lambkins.” “Then don’t suggest such a ridiculous price as two and a half cents a share. It isn’t worth what I offer you.’ “Then why do you make the offer?” pe told you. that a customer of mine wanted it.” “Oh, I see.” j oa wouldn’t touch it w'th a ten-foot pole myself.” But they say it’s coming to life.” “Who says so?” asked the broker, sharply. PA meat 'S a paragraph in this paper about it. Read it.” rot, “How can you say that until you have read the item?” “T read it a while ago. There is nothing in it.” “Your customer must think there is something in the mine or he wouldn’t ask you to buy 25,000 shares for him.” ae my customer’s business, not mine. So you won’t what you have?” “eNot at the present moment.” “Then I will wish you a good morning,” p and departed. “He went out mad,” grinned Will. *T can’t help that. He had no reason to get mad because and Mr. Watt got we wouldn’t sell pe Henrietta shares “You irritated him going over that | list of bonehead propo- laughed Will. Johnny chuckled and shoved the list into a piace “Here, you can return the Henrietta to the safe. Keen it anart from the rest. We may get a nickel a share for it yet,” | said the boy broker. “I think V’'ll go out and get a sun bath,” said Will, reach- ing for his hat. “Where are you going?” > “Up to the Hate eae to watch the blackboard.” at you see anything that looks good telephone me.” As Will started for the door be Giieiond and admitted Kittie 5 =. = ‘have. ‘s “alu? nai ‘hy, hello, Kittie, what brought you down to Wall. liste ave Just, made out,” said Johnny, street" ened, Johnny, Jumping up san Cerin Bis fair vis- eg re ears” ae “I came to ingpect oe office. ! a. ig ; ” laughed the bo broker. - ¥: ») ’ wil Waters: Will, mae wer me § : of

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“Nothing would give us greater pleasure if we had some- thing for you to do.” “Oh, that wouldn’t make any difference with me. I could ' sit here and ‘look pretty, and draw my wages on Saturday,” | she laughed. “Til bet you could do all those things to the queen’s taste. I suppose you’d like to chose your own office hours?” “Well, I wouldn’t want to come down before eleven, and I should like to go home whenever I felt like it.” “Say, Kitty, there’s nothing slow about you. When we) get. wealthy we’ll consider your application,” said Johriny. Pia Vl be married by that time,” laughed the girl, with’ j a of her boot. “Il hope that won’t be soon, for I don’t want to lose you,” said Johnny; < “1 thought you were tired. of me.” “Couldn't get tired of you to save my life. You spring a) new surprise on me every day.” “Do 1? Then my appearance here is to-day’ 5 surprise.” “Jt certanly is, but a most delightful one, I assure you.’ “Dear me, you said that very ni¢e. J believe I shall be able to make something of you afterall.” “You said that very nice yourself. So you think we have’ a nice office?” “Yes, indeed. You boys look like real men of business.” “Thanks. We flatter ourselves that we are.” “T thought you had a little room, just big enough to hold two desks and one small visitor like myself.” “Oh, you did? Well, you see*we amount to something more than that.” { “Tt must cost you something for this office.” “We don’t get the use of it for no building are rented by the square “foot,” “What do you mean by that?” “The company that owns the building figures out the rent accord ng to the number of square feet of availa le space on Offices in this fier pins till that. “Ti’s too early to talk about pees Pte eleven o'clock. | each floor.” “How many square feet have you?” “We haven’t measured it. All I can tell you jis that there | are ore feet resting on it.” ou mean our feet? Aren‘t you too witty for anything ?” “Say, Kitty, how long oe you going to stay? “Am I in the way? If I am——” “Not at all. Your presence is like a beam of sun, pe quae: Pet reason I asked is if you will remain long enou, enough 1 tak you out to lunch.” “How nice! Will you take me to Delmonico’s?” _ “Delmonico’s! Say, you’ve got a nerve, Kittie. a do a little business before striking us as oe lise "ll take you to a nice restaurant on Broadwa oR ve. promised to meet mother at a if aren at bag ; Sante. ‘You'll haye to excuse me iiucne ‘i a date te omar y | You. for lunch some time, and allow eS He your- $ erie Sgtinined ten minutes Jonger and then said she'd have to go. ge d to see her as far as a Broadway, car, and she p escort. — cae went off pgp and Johnny took up the mining Oh a eee: “His v. : DIDN'T WORK. iure look at Will, tapping the rug with the shapely tse|™ |you won't find a judge who will give a decision in RE, ; LONG & _CO., BOY BROKERS. ‘ -Another attempt was made by Broker Watt to buy their | Henvietta shares. He did not call on them again himself, but sent one of his clerks with an offer of two and a half cents a share. he offer was not supposed to come from him. The clerk was instructed to represent himself as a man who was looking for the stock, and the trader gave him $206 cash ; to pay for the certificates in case the boy traders were in a | mood to sell. ae happened, however, that. just before the= der: « calle ae stan” 7 “confirmed ‘the previous statement that ore had been *| hare on the property, and advised those persons who had _ shares in their possession to hold on to them, pending fur- | | ther developments. The clerk’s mission was, therefore, a failure, as Johnny told him the firm did not need money bad enough to be in a | rush to sell the Henrietta stock even at five cents a share, Bot was twice as much as their visitor was authorized to oer. That ‘same day, Bixby, the executor of the Jackson estate, ealled in. | He asked Johnny if ha didn’t find some shares of the Fen- r'etta mining stock among the certificates in the safe a bought. “Yes, sir,” “How many were there?” “Twenty thousand.” : “Just as I thought. I will have to ask you to turn them over to me.” “Turn them over to you! What for?” “They belong to the estate and should not have been in the safe at the time of the sale.” , “T can’t help that, sir. I bought the safe and its contents, and you wére present and concurred in the sale when , the auctioneer cked the lot down to me.” © “That’s all right, but the Henrietta shares were not in-, tended to be included in thé sale.” “Then you should have removed them from the safe before allowing it to be put up at auction.” “T confess it yes an oversight on my part, but I must get le a back, for I am cag 87, 1a to the estate for them.” “You can have them back at ten cents a share.” “I do not propose to pay for them,” said Bixby, jartly. ; “da you expect me to give them to you for nothing?” a 0.” xcuse me saying so, but I think you have a lot of nerve to make such a request.” = “Nerve or not I demand their return.” - “Your demand cuts no ice = this firm whetever, We. bought the stock and we’re foe ng to hold on to it for what- » ever we can get for it,” replied Johnny. 2 ghar refuse to turn those men ehan te over to me? ” ; oO” “Very well, young man. Tama Terry and will ==: im- mediate measures to compel you to give them up.” “All right. If you can force us to give —— as you're - -& good one. e know our rights in this matter gh we are not even budding lawyers, and we shall defend an acti on you may bring against us.” “You put on a a bola front, young man. “Ne nore thet Iohhve ® right to, T Tar desity to as tall — } } { r— favor.” “What do you thas about the law?” sneered the exéddtor: bf Gennes ‘it I know what justice is. Bch, hold possession

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hae ! 7 LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS.)€ = O follo See atas was full of eee looking Why, I nay just refused $250 TES, us.” be sold to furnish the working’ Johnny noticed that D, & O. stock prong soe eine sum 0 cote ‘bullish, and an advance all | ta: “Tf it’s worth $1,000 to him I guess it’s worth that much “Then we Seat sell, eh?” “Not at “It woul ‘almost, double our present capital, and it would be all clear profit.” “We may coghle our capital on D. & O. which I went into ed 100 shares at 82, and when I ing at now.” and announced that the last quotation was “It's going up steadily, so we ought to make a pretty good a out of it.” Say, Johnny, I have\an idea.” “Haye you? I’m glad to hear it. What is it?” “It’s about that Imperial Invisible Ink Co,” “What about it?” “As the case stands now the president, who you say is the picture of hard luck, is about the whole company.” Johnny nodded. “How many shares of stock did he sell when he promoted the company?” “I couldn’t tell you.” “What did you say his name was?” “Thomas Fenton.” 2 “He invented that particular ink, I believe?” “Yes. He got out the patent on it, and turned it into the company in return for the controlling interest. He formed the company in order to get money to buy a plant and put the ink on the market r it was manufactured under his sheertiwens u said that Mr. Jackson paid 25 $2,500 yr the 10,000 shares that now belong to us.” “That’s right,” “Did Fenton get that money?” “T suppose he did.” “The company was duly incorporated under the laws of this State with a capital placed at $1,000,000—100,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. Fenton evidently had expansive ideas about the Imperial. I believe it takes three or four | persons to incorporate a company at the start. I wonder if your late boss was one of them?” believe he was. He took a great deal of interest in the company at first. He was on the board of directors and was certifieates up. I guess he knows . elected vice-president.” “I suppose you have no idea who the other officers were?” “No; but they were doubtless friends of Fenton, or people _ hom ‘he succeeded in interesting in his project.” wewhatevar stock was sold~evidently went at a quarter a share, for that was the price you say Mr. Jackson paid, and we may assume he pai stockholder. Fenton retained, we will say, 51,008 himself—the controlling interest. That left 000 would have been realized. investment for a millon-doliar corporation.” _ a, Nee not," laughed Johnny. - ok we. have 10,000 paveninges to ee aheee ‘ * 1m Re cents a share, or. paid no more nor less than any other 49,000 shares to eapital needed to start the - Cala waae aie ceUhot Mh cine 6: eaten ¥ Not. a very); ~ “But. What are you. shares of th’s, ct

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8 LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. 7 Se ABI SA BSL ee AG on Grand street. If all the officers and shareholders have | “I thought you was the president?” dropped out, because the enterprise has proven a failure, and; “I was till the company stopped do‘n’ business.” left Fenton in possession of the business, which does not be-| “You seem to be selling some of its stock.” © long to him, but to the company, of which we are a part, “Yes.” wouldn’t it be a good idea for us to look into the business and| “And you’re using the company’s plant to make it, aren’t see if we can’t make something out of it?” you?” “What’s your idea—reorganize the company?” “There ain’t no more company, so the plant belongs to me.” “Yes, if we thought it would pay to do it. Let’s get Fen-| “What became of your stockholders?” ton down here and talk the matter over. As things stand “Dunno.” with him he’s hardly making a cheap living. He'll be glad; “My late esteemed boss, Mr. Jackson, had 10,000 shares if we can show him how to do better. If things are allowed | and was vice-president.” to go on, he may sell the plant for whatever it will bring,| Fenton nodded. put the money in his pocket and skip.” “That represented a tenth interest in the company’s. prop- “It’s a wonder he hasn’t done that, for the last time I saw/erty. I suppose that it did not occur to. you when you him he was on his last legs.” learned of Mr. Jackson’s death that the executor of h’‘s es- _“When did you see him last?” tate would want to know something about the Imperial In- “About a month ago.” visible Ink Co.” “He might have sold the plant since.” Fenton looked uneasy. “Rasily. There was nobody that I know of, to prevent) “Has he been asking you about it?” him.” |. “No, he hasn’t. He didn’t think the company was worth “Then if we're going to act in this matter we ought to do! investigating.” it right away.” | Fenton looked relieved. “We'll walk up to the plant this afternoon when I come ‘So he sold the stock, with other securities, to me and my back from the little bank, and if it is still there, and we can, Partner for a small sum.” get in, we'll see what Fenton’s invisible ink preparation) Fenten grinned. really amounts to. I imagine that the reason the company | “What did you buy it for? There ain’t nothin’ in it. I was a failure was because there is no paying market for the | ain’t hardly makin’ a livin’ out of the stuff. Nobody seems article.” | to want invisible ink. I sold ten of these bottles to-day. “You’ve got to advertise extensively to work up a market’ That’s a dollar. What’s that? I owe three months’ rent on for anything these days. I suppose the company’s limited the loft and expect to be dispossessed. I'll have to sell the capital, after deducting the money necessary to purchase the Plant to a junk man and take up with some other business.” plant and a quantity of the raw material needed for pro-| “You come with me to the office now, and maybe the firm : ducing a supply of the ink, did not warrant the outlay which “will help you out. We have a tenth interest in the plant, and _. advertising properly called for.” hes you sold it without our permission we could have you ar- © es “Very likely. Well, think out your scheme while I’m) rested and brought before a magistrate, so it wouldn’t be away, and if we find we can make anything out of it, we will safe for you to dispose of it on the quiet. Any other stock-. ~ tackle it,” said Johnny, starting for the door. |holder could proceed against you in the same way.’ The >, , When ‘the Exchange closed at three, D. & O. had advanced Plant doesn’t belong to you, but to the company, and the ar! to: SB company is still in existence, even if it’s henkrupt, whether - Johnny was well satisfied with the outlook, for the firm you think so or not.” = $400 ahead on the deal so far, erie He started back for the office. ; ur g on the corner of Nassau and Wall streets was a| . CHAPTER VII. 5 j shabby-looking man with a a, in front of him, resting on a portable three-legged stan INSPECTING THE INK COMPANY'S PLANT. Pog Se was spread re 9 small bottles containing a pale Pesiten looked bewildered. A printed sign ign hung from the front of the stand bearing | _,J°hnny spoke like a person who knew. what he was talking en ay Meat ‘ollowin about, and as his listener had very crude ideas on the sub-— 40 the . mort f ject, even though he was the head of the company in ques- “tmperial Invisible Ink. Price, 10 cents.” tion, he was all up in the air. Ee, : “Close up and come with me,” said Johnny. RS The sign caught Johnny’s eye and then he looked at the aN, can’t afford to miss the chance of a sale,” protested. Fen. : oe As he expected, that individual was ‘Thomas Fenton, . “Never mind that. I'll see that you don’t suffer. Come clio. 2 him along.” Ww ay roa Mle eng whee Bu now?” So Fenton, wondering what was in the wind, returned his we & Co. ‘ ‘ oters stock in trade to his grip, folded up his stand, and grabbing “the perspective, pagers, Sones and so on ad Taio] it under his left arm, accompanied Johnny to the Arlington - Johnny, brisky. ; ‘ > The boy broker led him into the levator, which presently ee Your-name is Tong. ain't it?” said Fenton. eore them out on the sixth floor, and in another minute surer, old man.” ey. entered the office of Long & you're workin’ for a relative of yours ?” this is iat Fenton, Sais of the rt gin prbaetr gs mae et aesgcee the boy. hs le Ink Co.,” said Johnny. “Take that ch i toe eer relative ? : nytt sc rgedcrohaes [ARs EP on th Boo Ry hens hadn't ee the — on the door particularly, a ies Sowa ade was | ‘Fer | ‘ ‘che: Imperial Invisible T nk C0.” s

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- LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. | $ “T should opine not. It’s a great surprise to me to see you | piloted the way to thé building where the defunct I. I. I. Co. way up in the world. If the company had been the suceess | had its plant on the top floor back. Y I anticipated I would have been rich myself; but it wasn’t, | There was no elevator in the building and of necessity more’s the pity,” and the speaker sighed. | they had to walk up, “Now, Fenton, let’s get down to business. How many) When they reached the top floor the door facing them bore, shares do you hold in the Imperial?” | @ tin sign marked: ‘ : “What’s the use of talkin’ about that? The stock ain’t Imperial Invisible Ink Co. No Admittance. worth the paper it’s writ on,” replied the man. | Fenton produced a key and admitted them to the room, “Will you kindly answer my question?” which was divided by a partition. “Fifty-one thousand. I kept the controlling interest in re-'| The manufacturing plant was in the larger of the two com- t rights.” partments. Thee left 79,000 Gigees to be sold,” went on Johnny. “Mr.| ‘The smaller one had the appearance of a rough office. _ Jackson bought 10,000. Who did you sell the rest to?” The boys looked the place over with critical eyes, while “Mr. Jackson sold them to friends of his—all but 9,000 Fenton explained how he made the ink. ” The three then adjourned to the smaller room. “Oh, he did. Where are the company’s books?” “Now, where are the books?” asked Johnny. “Up at the shop on Grand street.” Fenton produced them from a drawer in the desk. “Who were the other officers besides you and Mr. Jack- | The small one was a “Record.” son? The secretary and the treasurer, I mean?” | On the first page was a list of the stockholders, nine all , ery ee ayaa ith a mournful told, giving their business addresses, and the number of “Don't let's about him,” said! Renton, with & mo : shares (including the numbers of their certificates) each had “Who im?” purchased. “The Sait Reger an On the third and fourth pages were the “Minutes of the “Did one person fill both offices?” first meeting of the shareholders, detailing the election of a “He did, till he skipped.” board of directors. “Skipped!” cried Johnny, looking at his partner. Five of the nine stockholders were chosen. — : “Yes, That’s what busted the company. He run off with) The fifth page contained the brief proceedings of the di- the money on hand.” raat | rectors, consisting chiefly of the selection of the officers of “Who was he?” the company. . f ‘ “My brother-in-law.” _Fenton was elected president, Jackson, vice-president, and J : Simms, Fenton’s brother-in-law, secretary and treasurer. rother-in- ith the com-| There were no further entries in the book, Bt a b peimrlsw was connected, wi n The other book contained a record of the money paid in for “I gave him 5,000 of my shares so he could qualify for, Stock, the money paid out for the plant, and the running » Wee me toa aes oy =i Simms’ esegrlt a ~ 3 : . 5,000. | e book was anced in Jackson’s writing, and showe ae Se 5 pt agen Adres ag ene gota So he! the amount that should have been in the hank to the credit betrayed his trust and ran away with the company’s funds?” | of the company, but which had disappeared with Simms. Fenton nodded sadly. | “We'll take these books to our office,” said Johnny. _ “What did the minor'ty shareholders have to say to that?” | Fenton made no objection. ~ “We held a meetin’ and Mr. Jackson got out a warrant for, “The company is practically bankrupt,” went on the boy : act : broker. “There is nothing in the treasury but 9,000 shares “Was he arrested?” of unsold stock, and the only other asset is the plant, which “ * ar) is of little value except for the purpose it was bought for. No. The police couldn’t find him. blank if kh F my “The company couldn’t go on for lack of funds, I suppose?” What blank certificates of stoe Parte ty v0. — ; “Yes. We couldn’t raise no more money. The was! The man opened a drawer and pointed to a flat bundle. assessable, which was @ good thing for me, as I couldn't! , “We'll take them,” said Johnny. “Now. Fenton, the 5,000 ackson Shares of your own at you transferred your psa yone ee age gl tage So | brother-in-law must be considered a part of the company’s ree since,’ —— Beery 4 ye all ae yenerra sae ans a recover, 3 ? makes 14, ares unso in the treasury. leone ang im To prevent the plant from being dispossessed, Lone & Co. will L (agvanes vg gd Percent gue and $15 more ed mrtg’ ao “ry re z 1 * hope that you understand now that the plant isn’t Danced by us, and we W takes Wied om thie Ment: re security ? You have only a half interest in it and in your for the money. Make ut a paper to that effect, Will, and rights.”. : enton will sign it as president of the company.” fed"o Continue the business it would be’ ;qWVil complied and Venton sizned it, without having much Apter ty oR e Ss was in? to. buyin’, for it’s in good shape +9 be run.” My partner will call on the landlord to-morrow and fix up a ee ogre ry eg eal tn ; ' i . Buy a new of clothes, and whatever else you aie ee wis adr. He om gor mB hor mH deme of it to ney for a : ground. . Owns couple of wee an ng. ou,can pu your rents out upper floors in lofts.” time making me stock if have material on hand plan nt belive, only oeeupis a part of a loft?” ‘do it with.” up some pias ve on to ; : oor. |_ “Ave you going to start the company up again?” asked nf fell go up there and take a look at it. I also want to Fenton. | see company’s books.” : : ¥ “It will all depénd on eircumstances. At any rate you will “Pe. you think pt ae anythin’ with the plant?” / not need to worry for a couple of weeks. Before that time ly. It will depend on what arrangements we can exp‘res we will let you know what we have decided to do.” y Boa SEE a Ae Ps, That ended matters for that afternoon. 4 ive me a decent livin’. s a onen to any offer that'll nm Mr. Tacisum’s stock 1 Sere oie tite of blank certificates, and Fenton accompanied them as far as | rood | your half interest to you at the present mo-

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10 t LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. Half a dozen letters, delivered by the mail carrier, lay on; The ink man looked quite respectable now in a new suit of the floor. : | store clothes, with hat and shoes to match. Johnny gathered them up and took them to his desk. | He had come down to announce that he had used up all They proved to be from people out of town, who had seen’ his raw material, as well as his remaining supply of bottles, the advertisement of Long & Co. in the financial papers. _—| and thérefore could do nothing further in the manufacturing One enclosed a draft for $500 with instructions for the firm line. : to buy D. & O. stock with it. | “Well,” said Johnny, “we aré not ready yet to do anything The others wanted information on the stock market. | with the company, so I think the best thine you can do for Johnny turned the letters over to Will to look after. the time being is to get out on the street again and seli the “Call on Howard and give him the order to buy 50 shares stuff. Go up on Fourteenth street, and along Sixth avenue, that man wants. Howard will divide the commission with and then take in Twenty-third street. Keep an aecount of us,” said Johnny. “The other letters you will answer as your your sales and report to us every day by letter.” judgment dictates.” ; | “All right,” réplied Fenton. “I’ve wanted to try that part “Are you going over to the utile bank now?” asked Will.! of the city, but my clothes were so bad that I didn’t have “In a few minutes, after we have a talk about the Im- the nerve to go where I’d run against ladies. Now that I perial Invisible Ink Co.,” replied the senior partner. “You look decent I’m ready to tackle that section. Maybe I'll do brought over the blank certificates. Put the package in yout a good trade there.” desk. After lunch you can take the money up to Grand| “Yowu’ve got money enough to pay your expenses for an- street and settle the rent with the landlord. The balance of) other week, Haven’t you?” the money goes to Fenton. If we don’t do anything with! “Yés,” replied Fenton. ‘ the company we'll sell the plant for what it will bring, which} “All right. If we want to see you we will send you a let- probably won’t be $100.” ; | ter making an appointment.” “What do you think of doing with reference to the com-| Fenton departed and. soon afterward Johnny strolled down vy: to the Curb. “| intend to visit the shareholders and have a talk with; He had noticed a report in the papers to the effect that them. If they don’t want to help reorganize ‘the company I! North Dakota copper was looking up, and he wanted to see will make some arrangement with them for the purchase of | if there was a chance for the firm to make anything out of it. the stock on time at my own figure. If they refuse my offer; The copper stock was selling at $1 a share, and before the they are not likely to get anything at all.” | Exchange closed he bought 2,000 shares, to be delivered and “If we reorganize it ourselves, as it struck me that we! paid for on the following day at three. ; might be able to do in connection with Fenton, it would have; He found that several traders were willing to pay 8 cents _ to be on a small scale at first, for we have no money to spare|@ share for Henrietta stock, although it was not quoted on at present to finance anything,” said Will. , the Western exchanges yet, not having been relisted. - “Of course. My immediate purpose is to merely keep the| That gave the boy firm a chaiiée to realize $1,600 on their” company on its legs until I ean see if there’s a future in it.| 20,000 shares if they chose to sell, but such was. not their Then we must secure the control by offering to finance it. | intention, fer the reports from the mine continued very fa- It ean’t possibly go on without money, and we are about the | vorable. only ones likely to take interest enough in it to make the' The discovery of the ore ledge had been confirmed, but it necessary advances when we are able to afford it. If we can| appeared to be low grade, and the new promoters were pros- make the company even a moderate commercial success We’ll| pecting for a better showing. make money out of it.” nee wp Psoray the Henrietta oe bse! pac ge Rf 7 oe “In the present condition of things we ought to be able to | called, loo encouraging, and the boy brokers fe’ ighly/ take over ae whole company for eae” said Will. kart elated to think that they had a block of its stovk. oat» dene tatead ve Maan Beane Ne a et ne ee eT wa ee a if we treat hint fuirip. He ‘jis bor far pros rte ihe World “That’s what we would,” replied Johnny. “Our safe pur- /now that he’ll agree to anything.” chase has turned out a lucky speculation as it is. A sort of “My idea was for him to run the business under our su-| Sixteen to one winner. I'll bet some of the peonle who w pervisies.” | present at the sale would feel sore if they knew we were “That's it exactly. Well, T must get over to the little bank ahead $1,600 on the deal. The auctioneer told them that and keep iny eve on oar deal” | there might be a fortiine in the safe. Of course he dida’t Tt was after ten now. bélieve that himself or he would have got a friend to bid on r aig A leaving. fhe t office Jotinny glogked at the tape and an ents for him; but his words might turn out true after We are nearly $500 te ‘be pe hs he baid.. “Let us hope “They say many a true word is snoken in jest,” said Will. 4 we'll clear a thétsand. We need the money.” The oor opened and in came Broker Watt once more. ‘ oe ‘your life we do,” replied Will, sitting down at his i titan — Mr. Watt,” said Johnny, with his custom- | , a 4 _ Several days went and the market continued to ri “I have come to make you an offer of ten cents on your |° D. & O. ddvensing to 4 * m8°"! Henrietta stock,” said the visitor, sitting down. re = The boy brokers talked a deal about the plans they| “That's quite a raise from your original one of a éent.” |} had for making something out of the Imperial Invisible Ink, "ePlied Long. Is Co., but they made no fi move in the matter. ! “No matter about that. We all try to buy what we want ; ce, on his way uptown, Johnny visited the ink plant and, 2s cheap as we can get it,” said the trader, frankly. 2 making up a stock of the ink. “Got any North Dakota copper?” wed Johnny. Suri that ies, GEA Maden tc cod aria sie ae aE Te ae Aol age oh ees rs) e com-} “ r ght. S going at a ar. eliver us _ pany might become a success after all. oe Fone 5 wel sncek, e your commission, and yoy can It was clear that he believed Johnny and his partne | have the : : re te a “All richt,” agreed Watt. : a ; as: ee PE so out your i ges pes sg and mene) you deliver f = declared that he was willing to agree to any arrange- the copper stock we nd over the mining shares. j ati st . The deel was made in the usual form. and Watt went away. di : ) “T hone he’s satisfied now,” wata sola: ai ?: ‘it S i E : “I thought we were voing to hold on to Henrietta t amounted to something?” said Will.

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ical li LONG & CO,, ~ esi chance of that happening than of Henrietta going to cents. “But oe Dakota might drop to fifty cents, where it was two weeks a “It tents Sut that is the chance we have to take when we - speculate.” Will had nothing further to say, and soon afterward they closed up for the day. | CHAPTER IX. SETH HARKER, OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. On- the following afternoon the 2,000 shares of North Dakota copper Johnny bought on the Curb were at to the firm and paid for, and shortly afterward Watt sent oer 2,000 = ee sng turned over to his boy the of Henrie payment. The 27 ad stock had gone up to $1.10 that day, which made their two purchases worth $4,400. _ As the firm had $600 in cash on hand Johnny and Will Were now worth $5,000, “ This was quite a rise in their financial status, for they commenced business about a month since on a capital of $1,600. - “We are doing pretty well, : ‘don’t you think, Johnny?” said Will, when the senior partner came in a little later and at the copper shares. _ “First rate for beginners. By the way, I heard a man ae ten cents on the Curb for Henrietta.” “If fifty had been offered it wouldn’t do us any good ; “*No. io hope you aren’t worrying over it” ~*Not at all. I’m satisfied that you did the right thing in gi ; it for active copper it when we have made $400 on it in twenty- for ome” Pa door opened and a man with an agricultural look What can I do, for you?” asked e low age you do, sir. “Mr. Long in?” es, sir; that’s my name.” | “Are yew ithe broker whose name is on the door?” “Yes, sir.” ; blame me, but yer’re hardly more than a boy.” at don’t count in Wall Street. It’s brains.” ou dew eek Sind of spate Ny NaansrSel My a. is e ve up in Sullivan County, on a farm I’m e _ interested in Wall Street, though "my old woman rah sa den. of Lp daa Yar and bears. wade the: koore| the bulls are them chaps that boom prices, while the bears are the fellows who make their money when things are on aot’ i. straight, Mr. Harker,” nodded Johnny. ae BOY BROKERS. ll calls for 100 shares each,” said the farmer, handing Johnny an oblong envelope. The boy broker took the certificates out and found they were Henrietta. “I can congratulate you, Mr. Harker. When you beught that stock for a nickel a share you were certainly swindled, for it wasn’t worth more than a cent, if that. much. The unexpected, however, has happened since. The mine has lately come to life, and it is probable you can sell your shares for double what you paid for them.” “Yew don’t mean that, dew yew?” gasped the astonished farmer. “I. do. In fact, we will give you $100 for that stock our- selves, and take the chances of getting the money back.” “Well, this is a surprise, gosh blame me ef it isn’t. What : leugh: I'll have on the old woman. So yew’ll give me $iC0 or it?” “Yes, sir. We sold 20,000 shares of it yesterday that we got for pofnie. hy ten cents.a share, so I guess we are not taking much risk in buying your 1, 000. i “Twenty thankard! yew got. ’em for nothin’? must have made a good thine. “Two thousand dollars pr a profit is pretty good.” “So it is. Yew fellows must be rich. Yew’ve got a fine office here, and to think yew are only boys. Boys must be diff’rent kind of critters in York to what they are in the country. Naow, my son, Cyrus, he’s purty smart, but he daon’t look nothin’ like yew two, even when he’s got a b’iled shirt and his store clothes on. Yew two look slicker’n blazes ‘longside of him. He wanted to come daown to York with me, but his mother wouldn’t have it nohow. She wasn’t sure it was safe for mie to come. She said them bulls and bears might dew things: to me,” and the farmer haw-hawed. Johnny and Will joined in the laugh. Yew “Well, Mr. Harker, do you want to sell that stock for $100?” asked Joh hnny. “Dew | I? Yew cen’t hand aout the long green too quick for me.” “Very well. Will, get the money from the safe.” Johnny wrote out the order for the sale of the stock and _ asked the farmer to s‘gn it. He did so and also affixed his John Haneock to a receipt for the money. “I’m right glad I called on yew boys. I’d sooner dew business with smart chaps like yew than most folks. When I shake them bills under the old woman's nose she’ll have a fit. She won’t say nothin’ more to me abaout stocks ag’in. Do yew know I feel real perky after this here sale, just as ~3 Be go aout and paint the taown,” and the farmer chuckle “You'd better not, Mr. Barker. The chances are you’d : find yourself in the station house in the morning dead broke,” said Johnny, solemnly. “Why, don’t yew think I kin take care of myself? Ain’t I old enough?” “You are a stranger in the city, and you’d be a mark for 2 I have. I make it my business to keep posted.,the sharpers.” ‘Se sot Ep alla 2 pean pan tr othe yew abaout some stocks—minin’ shares—I bought. ‘summer boarder two years ago. He was a slick talker, : fellow was. ie bi any : He rie By at at os a vor, and I was enoug og IA al him five cents oS harassed aaa aa my good money aout o and’ han es se of it to thea one from m ‘ msn) he sold me me weeks afterward : ae ro rt a back that "tdi eer He said rig 3a apeanioee one. “Yew mean them fellers that come up to yew and say, ‘How dew yew dew, Mr. Smith. I’m right glad to see’ yew in taown. How aire all the folks up in Skowhegan?’” and the farmer chuckled knowingly. “I see you’re on to one of the traps; but that’s an old one. There are lots of ethers. Where are you stopping over | night ?” *The Astor House, up on Broadway. A gosh blamed big hotel, ain’t it?” “Oh, that’s small alongside the modern ones uptown.” “Ty that so? I should like to see one of them new ones. Ave they as tall as them skyscrapers daown here?” “Pretty near, and much wider.” “Well, well; I'll have to see one so I kin tell the old ped é =

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" you,” a ‘Ss Pointed out al way,” 12 “Yew don’t say!” “Neither my partner nor myself would care to escort you around on such a mission. And we would advise you, for your own interest, not to ask anybody else to undertake the job. Your visit to the city so far has been fortunate. You have sold some stock that you thought was worthless for double what you paid for it. You want to take that money back home with you and not run the chance of losing it. I think you’d better let us take you around to the branch post- | office, where you can buy two money orders, payable to your- self, for $50 each. That will only cost you 36 cents. Or you can put your money in one of our envelopes and direct it to yourself, and have the letter registered. That will cost you 12 cents, including the postage. In either case your money | will surely arrive at your country post-office and you'll Ret | it there. You might lose it, or it might be stolen from -you.’ “T’ll dew as yew say. It’s real kind of yew to suggest it.” “Very well. Will you send it by registered letter?” ; “Any way yew say.” Johnny took an envelope and wrote Mr. Seth Harker on it. “What’s your post-office address?” The farmer told him, and he completed the address. “Put your money in that and seal it up.” The farmer did so. : “Now come with us.” The boys took him to the nearby branch post-office and the letter was duly registered. “Now your $100 is safe, Mr. Harker,” said Johnny. “Glad to hear it. Dew yew boys drink?” “No, sir; we do not.” “P’raps yew smoke?” “We don’t smoke, either.” The farmer looked surprised and a bit disappointed, “T’d like to stand treat the worst way for yew hev done me a big favor.” “Tf you want to take a drink we'll go a glass of soda with said Johnny. e “will yew. Come on. Where’ll we find a tavern ’raound ere? “We'll go down on Broad street to the Empire Cafe.” “Caffay! Is that what they call taverns in York?” asked the farmer. ‘| { “It’s a sort of tony name for a saloon.” ; The te piloted Harker into the Empire. Ny em This here is a bang-up pines; ain’t it?” said Har- “What'll you have?” asked the barkeeper. The farmer scratched his chin whiskers. “I think I’d like one of them high balls I’ve heard abaout. Be it safe for me to take one?” he asked Johnny. “I guess you can stand one all right,” iaughed the boy “Mister, yew kin me a high ball.” The bar borkecper: senled and winked at the boys. _“Two plain sodas for us,” said Johnny. “When I tell my old woman I had a high ball in a caffay -geay coud _ /broker. she won’t know what I’m a-talkin’ abaout,” farmer. “I’m rayther iad Cyrus didn’ come wit might ¢ want a high ball, t ' farmer liked the high ball so well that 4g ordered an- other, and drank it with great relish. Then they walked out. “We'll see you as far as your hotel, as it's right jon our said Johnny. “Have you been to the Battery?” “No; where is that? Ive. heard tell of it.” “We'll hag period there: if you want to see it.” aN pet to, first edony 3 hapeeili . i te pointing: ‘to’ a: trian- ‘Wilar equate at the foot’ of E seg Vos coms ol books ‘of Bowlin’ Green, and short Is this satan com LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. ae Bl pape When I was a boy I had a) cent, and I’ll show yew araound the country. My old woman and ‘Cyrus will be right glad to see yer.” “We might. come, Mr. Harker, but we'll pay our board if we do,” said Johnny. “No yew won’t pay a blamed cent,” insisted the farmer. “By the way, kin I find my way to a theater to-night?” “Take the uptown car that passes this hotel. It will carry you right into the theater district. What show are you thinking of going to?” “I don’t know one from t’other; but I’d like to see one of them pieces that has a lot of purty gals in it with short | skirts,” and the farmer chuckled. “T guess you want to patronize a musical comedy. Ask the conductor to let you out at Wallack’s. There’s a good one on there.” “All right. I'll dew it.” “And when you come out of the theater be careful to get on a downtown car, You may get confused, so you’d better ask a policeman to put you on one. Now, good-by. Hope you have a good time and get home all right. “ And so the boys parted with Mr. Harker. CHAPTER X. LONG & CO.’S COUPS IN COPPER. Two days passed and then the firm received a letter from Seth Harker. The old farmer’s pothooks were not very intellig’ble, for he could handle a plow better than a pen, but Johnny who opened the letter, managed to translate the contents after some trouble.: The farmer’ said he had got home,all right and got his registered letter. if a showed “the old woman” the money and had the laugh — on her. She tock the surprise better than he had anticipated, con- r gratulated him in his good fortune, and then struck him for — half of the money to buy new “fixings” with. : He compromised the matter with $25, and then gave Cyrus ; $5 to blow in on himself, He said he went to hoapiickey Theater and was tickled clear - ¥ \down to his boots. ‘ He declared that “the gals were purtier than peaches, and — all-fired slick on their feet.” f He ended by inviting the boys once more to visit his farm © at any time. If they’d send him word when they were coming he prom: _ ised to meet them at the station with his light wagon. Johnny read the letter to his partner, and Will declaved§ that Farmer Harker was all to the , a sentiment which , the head of the firm shared with him. : That day North Dakota copper went up to $2.50, which — ewes the boys a prospective profit of $6,000 = their 4,000 Next. day a rumor that the Jux Brothers, th e copper kings { of Wall Street, were at the back of the rise, gave the stock _ another boost and it touched $3, It was said they had acquired the mine and proposed to push it in connection with their other copper properties. ¥ The rumor was not officially denied because neither of the™ brothers Jux were in the city. | Their representatives had nothing to say on the subject, and so the statement obtained some credence, and a further — boom to $3.50 resulted. For several days North Dakota copper was the chief stock traded in on the Curb, and the price went up to $6.25. ig es. Rraxers were jubilant, and wondered how high it ely to go. - They were already over $21,000 ahead, and such luck at age AE made their heads swim y in the Street believed the price of North Dakota Bate: go to $10 at least. Tf it did the boy brokers figured that they would make Jat one ofclock that day Johnny dropped into the Empire e for his lunch, _ : : "4

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LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. 13 While eating he overheard snatches of the talk that was | “What’s $50 to them? They’re all well off.” taking place in the booth close to him. | “Well, if they don’t want to sell I'll get Fenton to call a A = Pa of big brokers were there, and Johnny learned meeting with a view to raising funds. I'll bet they'll prefer that Nathan Jux had just returned from Montana and in-| to take $50 and get out than stay in and put up several | tended to send out that afternoon an official denial of his or times that to push a bankrupt proposition.” : his brother's connection with the North Dakota copper mine. “If we buy those men out for $300, that will be $400 we’re Johnny knew there would be a big drop in the price asin on the company. Then we'll have to finance it, and that soon as the statement reached the Curb. {may cost us. $1,000 more. Suppose, after all, we can’t get He gulped down’ the balance of his lunch and hastened out; a market for the ink, where will we land?” of the cafe. . “What are you kicking about now? You’re the one who Rushing up to a broker he knew inside the roped-off en-| ercpease to push this matter. Are you getting cold feet?” -elosure he gave him the order to sell his 4,000 shares of| “No, I was only thinking.” North Dakota at once. “You make a lot of noise about it. You don’t hear me When the broker offered the stock a rush was made for when I’m thinking, If we buy out these shareholders we'll him, and it was gobbled up in four lots of 1,000 shares in no, own 40,000 shares of the capital stock. If we finance the ime. |company we'll begin by buying the 14,000 shares in the “Thank goodness we’re out of it, and at the top of the! treasury at say ten cents a share. That will give us the market,” thought the boy as he sauntered back to his office. control and put $1,400 in the treasury. You can present your hic was out and Johnny sat down to peruse a mining father with 1,000 shares, and I’ll give my uncle the same. | Then there will be five shareholders. We'll call a meeting pape _ Nearly an hour passed and then Will came rushing in,' and I must be elected president, you secretary and treasurer, greatly excited. and Fenton, vice-president. Then we'll get busy and see “What’s the matter, Will?” asked the head of the firm,! what we can make of the concern,” said Johnny. coolly. “That will be first-rate.” “Matter!” cried Will. “North Dakota has gone to smash, “We'll put the name of the company on our door, and that and the Curb is in a panic. For heaven’s sake go out and) will give it some standing.” : sell those shares before we lose all of our profit!” “My/ idea exactly.” “What shares, dear boy?” replied Johnny, leaning back in} “By this programme we stand to lose $2,000 at. least; but is chair, unless we venture we might as well throw up the thi “What shares? Why, North Dakota, of course. What are/now. Fenton has had some success in peddling the s you starng at? Why don’t you get a move on?” uptown. That shows it isn’t absolutely without some merit. “Really, I’m too tired to go out again right away.” If we can get it on the market it may go, and if it goes “Will gasped. -|the company will make something, and if the company makes “Say, are you crazy?” he almost shouted. a steady profit over its operating expenses we'll get half of “T hope not. I feel about the same as usual.” it. If we des'red to take advantage of our grip and make H . why don’t you make a rush and get rid of the stock. Fenton give up some of his stock in consideration of putting Didn’t Ps hear me say that North Dakota has gone to, the company on its feet we could do it, but for my part I ) don’t care to imitate such methods of high finance. ‘I bel’eve = | Mould be deaf if I couldn’t hear you. Don’t shout that| giving the poor chap a square deal, even though the risk | way, or you'll Bai the neighbors i we are engaged in is on our shoulders. What do you think about it?” 3 a i fight.” “The same as you. Whatever you ay, goes with me.” “All right. Let’s quit and go hom “That'll ‘do. Don’t eye? Fa North Dakota. I sold the} That suited Wil!, so they locked up oad left the building. af shares an hour ago at $ We have made a profit of - ‘$2. se Now sit down Poe: recover your composure.” ef AA i te ED ae them? Ob, Lord, rete Me relief! ey ou say so at once and no me Me “0 - ‘crazy Indian?” *, og 4 CHAPTER XI. sake ee ye a giving such an excellent performance of a wild | : that I meres. to spoil the show,” grinned Johnny. THE MAN FROM THE WEST. sak Pent eeoctea Wil ve been funny to you, but it wasn’t to me,” = Aa On the following iuiininn when Johnny reached his office — pip baat it, my dear peg and shake hands with yourself. } ne wrote down the names and business addresses of the six _ We are now worth $23,500. shareholders of the Imperial Invisible Ink Co., whom he pro- a _“And we haven’t been in business two months. What will reese to interview. we be worth se we have been running two years?” ge were all brokers, and personal friends of the late a . We may be dead broke.” Mr. Jackson. ee _ “Broke! “Pook aise we a lucky Wall Street firm or aren’t; Johnny did not intend to call on the six shareh ah we?” ; | after three in the afternoon, as he knew they woul ae seg ian i an r to be lucky—uncommonly so. I to devote their time to what they would doubtless de the Hen-, 2_unprofitable matter, it from Pe solid ee sti wont a| He put the list in his pocket and then took up the cil Te’s vied $100 we have out on the ink ‘Bicnen + of the preceding day’s operations on the § $200 mo x re the, possibility of | another of those | Will came in soon sheen vand they had a Sykes eae up a winner,” said Will, ani-| et thngs in ite To-mortow | ae wr tune of |

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. é aS ) LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. . Sarg aoe a ego RR Re Ao SCPE MR = PW CART J NG EI SAE Spa BES AES i ERAN ee “Take a seat, sir, and tell me the name of the mine, also) “It was outrageous! But without money a man has no your name, I like to know who I’m talking to.” chance in the world.” : , a The stranger sat down. “What did you expect to do in New York? There is ro “My name is James Bunn. I am from the mining regions! market here for dead stock. You couldn’t pay a day’s board of Nevada. I am a prospector, and.have spent the best} in 2 hotel w'th your 101,000 shares of Little Giant.” years of my life studying the mining regions in different; “I came to New York to see a man named Howard Jack- parts of the country for indications of the presence of gold; son, a Wall Street broker.” | F : _ and silver ore. Three times I struck a fortune, only to have| “I’m afraid you won't see him. He died about three months Saas from me by unscrupulous mining men. Now I| ago. This was his office, and I worked for him before start- _ believe I am on the trail of a fourth.” . ing ont for myself.” “Well?” said Johnny. \ The caller did not seem to be surprised. ou “Some months ago I saved a man’s life—I pulled him out “I was told he was dead by the first broker I called on. of a gully where he was lying helpless with a broken leg.| When I called on Broker Watt, on this floor, and tried to __ He might have lain there for wecks and died from starvation} ‘nterest him, he said he was too busy to waste any time _ if I didn’t come along and see him. He was grateful, and| 0n dead propositions. He told me to call on you. He said learning I was a prespector he gave me the only thing he| you had a bunch of Little Giant shares which you bought had to give and that was a batch of certificates representing from the Jackson estate. Was he right?” _ 101,000 shares in an abandoned prospect called the Little} “Yes. . t.” Mr. Jackson, aceordingyto the company’s books, held at “The Little Giant!” exclaimed Johnny, with sudden inter-| one time 100,000 sharesy or a third interest in the mine. , ° Have you got the whole bleck, or only a part of it?” “We have the whole block,” replied Johnny. A look of satisfaction came over the Westerner’s face. “I am glad to hear it, for between us we control the mine,- and maybe you'll be willing to help me push its development further on the chance that it might pan out a winner.” “Long & Co. is open to the consideration of any proposi- tion that Jooks promising. What facts and figures have you to back up your application for capital to further develop the Little Giant?” “I will show youf but I must admit I have no convineing : idence to prove that, a.vein of paying ore runs through the roperty,” said Bunn. a “Never mind that, I like your honesty at any rate. Most aaa in he Riad ph cod they bey Positive : ‘ ry * : : H > owledge of a pay streak, even if they were unable to prove we BS oi etc the fact in the slightest way. Go ahead and let me have the mks “Yes. The shares represent a one-third interest in the - property. The par value of the stock is $10, but it never _ gold higher than 10 cents. Three hundred thousand shares were issued and sold by promoters for development purposes. _. A shaft was sunk with the money, and -tunnels run off in ' different directions, without result, until the funds gave out. _ The men at the back of it could do no more. They tried to -sell another issue of treasury stock, but no promoter would handle it, and so they had to throw up their hands.” _ *Evidently the mine was worthless.” a ors so, but I have my doubts,” <= Brie." On what ground?” asked Johnny, eagerly. : “Because all around the property—east, west, north and juth—are some of the best producers in that region.” elise : = truth about the Little Giant. Did you bring a map of the : th oan pepe tor 3 Zour Frarticel Knowledge. of yom ag district, wack shows the position of the prospect to the , : COUr , ‘| mines about ?? ‘ : Kcpigge 5 acing 2 Pd cata g hee stag Mon jing pet Poe replied Bunn, taking a bulky envelope from his - around it, and I believe the records will show that most of| P°C 7 oy Le - 5 - ; nd a diagram of the property, showing the location of veal garg mga Boe each powrie out in a way to the shaft and the run of the tunnels?” ; “Tl allow you are right; but I have an idea it’s different with the Little Giant,” said the visitor. } ‘Have you gone over the property yourself since you got: ' hold: of the stock?” . e AA ps 3: ij Yes.” “Any buildings and machinery?” “There’s a rough oblong shanty near the mouth of the shaft, which conta’ns a small donkey-engine used for hoisting be rad pao of the ae Ria Sage 2, Semana pase the A me re, eee = shaft, an e rope, buckets, picks, shovels, barrows and other ere you found any indications of ore that escaped the’ articles, including half a dozen hand drills, are stored in the original owners ? j - ; anit — is ig 2 Enhe wagon in a closed shed adjoin- Fee a 2 ar is = , i | ing the shanty, with a small quantity of lumber bought to ~ _ Then why do you think there is anything in the Settle shore up the roof and sides of the tunnels. There is nothing it? ; ' else of importance.” ; 2 “Because, in my opinion, none of the tunnels were pushed| ‘The prospector spread, out the map of the district first. “enough to reach the vein I believe runs through the The position of the Little Giant was marked in red ink nd.” hs Ea ee eg a on it. y Well, what was your object in coming to New York? To) All around the property, though at some little d’stance, y interest somebody in a project to push the tunnels) were producing mines well known in the mining wor!d. Most ? I should imagine that you would have done better, of them were being operated by, leasing companies. o ag field, or Tonopah, or some other mining center, ere} Bunn showed a booklet in which was printed statist’es con- are moneyed men always looking around for possibili-| corning those mines, and the figures were encouraging. oS : ; 4 He also exhibited a certified copy of the deed as recorded in “I want nothing to do with those people,” said Mr. Bunn,| the county records, and other documents connected with the ergetically. “They are the men who robbed me of three| prospect. fal If I demonstrated that there was ore in the Little! Then he showed the drawings of the proverty ‘tself, with ’ the positions of the shaft and the tunnels carefully outlined, SH their depth, length and other measurements, marked own. ‘ Bunn then described the general character of the country ‘around about, showing where it was particularly hilly, and au were comparatively level. ; : In fact, after a two hours’ interview, Johnny had as good .| an idea of the Little Giant mine and its surroundings as it he} was possible for one to get at second hand. pie te 2” he asked. “At brs 9G ets Vie t oe Z “TL m shout Sita

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a LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. 15 other points we would like to know you ¢an make them plain |that made me sore on Jackson. He got me into it to the to us. tune of 5,000 shares, for which I paid $1,250. The promoter The prospector nodded, and took his departure, apparently |was a man named Fenton, who assured us there was a for- well satisfied with the encouragement he had received, leav-|tune in h’s patent. We made him president, or rather he ing all the documents with Johnny so that he could fully ex- |made himself president, for he held the controlling interest. plain everything to his business associate. Then he put is brother-in-law in as treasurer. The fellow was a ras¢al, and ran away with all the funds of the com- pany.” “You mean the brother-in-law.” : CHAPTER XII. -“Of course. That put the kibosh on the corporation, and I’ve heard no more about it.” BUYING IN: THE IMPERIAL INVISIBLE INK CO.’S STOCK. “The plant, a small one, is situated in a top loft on Grand street.” shid Johnny. “Fenton has been trying to support When Will got back, after taking his lunch, Johnny aston- | himself by making the ink and peddling it on the street. He ished him with ‘the particulars of the visit of James Bunn, | was wh _ last legs when I met him, and advanced him $100 on the plant.” “Gracious!” exclaimed ae junfor partner. “Do you eat “You ativanced him $100?” there’s anything in the Little Giant mine?” | “The firm did.” “TI couldn’t tell you. Bunn Shihan really know himself, but | “What for?” f he firmly believes there is.” “Well, you see we’ve got hold of Mr. Jackson’s 10,000 “Lord! This ig the third of our boneheads to attract at- ishares in the company, and our idea was to protect it till tention. Say, I have an jdea there may be a future in the | we saw whether there was a future in the ink.” mine.” “What did you pay for the shares?” “What makes you think so?” ; “Practically nothing. I bought his safe with a lot of worth- oe we seem to be a lucky firm.” less tertificates of Stock in it, and those shares were amotig - re certainly lucky to make over $20,000 in two |the junk. inns, but that isn’t —— that our luck is going to con- Oh, I see; but I think you were a fool to advance $100 tinue. went money on suth a scaley pr®posit'on.” “Oh, I don’t know. I feel it in my bones that we will be| “Oh, I guess the plant is good for it, or most of it.” milliona'res “Well, why haye you come to see me about that fizzle?” yet.” I hope so, but millionaires don’t spring up in a night, as “J wanted to find out if you were willing to help put the a rule, Here, let me explain these diagrams and other docu- n.” company on its feét again. a ae you, and then you'll understand more about the ith BR 3y replied the broker, rather forcibly. “I’m through Johnny took about half an hour in putt'ng his partner in Fa ee are you goine to do with the stock, then? 1 on of all the facts. at cth I do With a,butich of waste paper? I threw it into that closét six months ago. I suppose it’s there 1. “What do you want for it?” “Do you want to buy it?” gigi ‘take it on a chance if you let it go cheap enough.” “Now I’m going to lunch. I'll leave you to pore over the and make yourself more familiar/ with the matter. told Bunn to call to-morrow after three, so you could meet and hear what more he has to say on the subject.” Then the senior partner on his hat and went out. “Make a b' He didn’t come back till three, and remained only long twenty-five” dollars.” to tell Will that he was going to visit one or — “Hand over the twenty-five and pick it out.” six stockholders of the Imperial Invisible Ink © | ite, the money. Now write me out a transfer to 3 of He went Nae vo the office of George Fuller, a Curb brvker, Long & sent in ees name, and was “Sav, Johnny, if this is the way you and vi ; your partner are knew Johnny as the late Mr. Jackson’s messenger | doing business wag oe) 5 re > pag Bek if you don’t see your finish,” and ‘or clerk, and had heard that the boy rae gone into; “Don’t you. ox ‘orry, Mr. Fuller. We'll be alive and kicking business in his late employer's office. h 1 ! a Sn nem fem aa a 168, and thought acthing when some other people are eating snowballs.” lo, ohnny,” he said, offering 3 “Sit down. Haven’t seen you since Mr. Jackson died. at are you Lae ae SN my catd, Mr. Fuller,” said the boy, handing him Co., stocks and bonds,” read the rales, with a PO ay you referring to me, you young rascal,” laughed the er. “Certainly not. Present company always excepted.” “There’s your tratsfer. May it do 4 some good twottty-five déllars’ worth, at any rate. Now go and fish” Your Property out of the diist. Tim glad to be rid t of it. It's a wonder I didn’t throw it dut.” “By not doing sé you arg $25 ahead.” in business for aporeeet t you | “That will pay for drinks and eigars for a week.” SS ee od Jackson’s orice, but I dian fake any “Better invest it in candy tar your “wite,”” “said Johnny, - % Took ” ieee the gag off a shelf, knocked off the dust, s, but 8 no evidence of bus'ness stiecess.” — Having finished his ® eices he bade Broker Fuller good e 6 out athermen and pe 6 hext right. aiwateh and with the pee ean fit him ice, and other things. Some rok okt Nevenson:. _ of the ‘en sweller front than their Lod y gent! and had no time to waste in coh i as Sotic yon auction, Twill gay are Long | versit on, 80 Hepa was bar stated why he bad called. Stevenson had no desire to continue his connection with: _ | more money ty two menths than. most people make in two | +. bankrupt ink company, and said so in no uncertain terms. — “Want to sell your stock?” * 2 don’t, say.! 2d to hear you, are so fortunate. How “Who wants it?” Pe : “Tl ¢ake it at bargain-counter rates.” (een “You can heve it for $100.” ‘ SS : “Too high. give you $25.” raid, something cre emphatic than polite an Be pa she: badhcs, deena “You then roared “No?” Mit ines tees Bean. let’s get we

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16 At ten next morning Will started for the little bank, leay- ing Johnny at his desk. i Fifteen minutes later there came 4 gentle knock on the oor. “Come in,” said Johnny, and in came a remarkable pretty and modest-looking girl. “Do you employ a stenographer?” asked the fair visitor. “Looking for a job?” asked the boy broker. “Yes. I am a good bookkeeper, too,” she said. “Sit down, ;Miss——” “My name is Miss. Grant.” “Where were you last employed?” asked Johnny. The young lady explained that she had been working for an insurance broker who had gone out of business. LONG & CO., BOY BROKERS. The young lady thanked Johnny for the interest he showed in her, and then went out to call on the gentlemen the boy broker had spoken to. She was back in half an hour with a bunch of work, and soon she was rattling the keys of her instrument in a merry way. Johnny and Will both went out and left her in charge of the office. Both partners went to the little bank and sat down with the crowd before the blackboard. “T see L. & M. is advancing,” said Johnny. “I think we might make a few dollars on it. What do you think.” “I think so, too.” The senior partner had brought. $10,000 in his clothes to “Well, Miss Grant, we—I am Mr. Long of this firm—!} have it on hand in case anything turned up, so he went to _ have noth: ng to offer you, but if you will leave me your ad- the margin arp window and bought a thousand shares of - dress I will write you if I hear of something in your line.” “Thank you, Mr, Long. That is very kind of you,” said the ‘ “Don’t mention it. - good -and typist. There are several persons on this floor who - haven’t enough work to employ a girl right along and are obliged to hire one by the hour from the outside. Now, suppose you were to take desk-room with us—we wouldn’t charge you anything, for you could take charge of the office for us when we were both out—and go around among By the way, why wouldn’t it be a people in the building who have no regular stenographer, J agree, for a certa’n price, to do whatever work they ‘wanted? Would you like that?” _ “T think I would, but unfortunately I cannot afford to buy a typewriter,” replied Miss Grant. “You can rent one for $3 a month. I'll agree to rent it ‘ig a month for you to give you a start, and’ you can use _ that table yonder. If things don’t pan out to suit you I'll up a job for you in some broker’s office. Or it is BF agi we may find use for your services ourselves, as we sted in putting a certain jae on its feet. hen “Will came in later on Schone: told him about Miss and the arrangement he had made with her. oe no objection to offer, and thought it was a good to have the young lady on hand, for it was not un- y ty would need her services themselves in the near iG ttn ced him ‘to ig 2 the Saverer appeared and e three then had a ‘vi and saviols ‘talk about the e Giant Se, ‘the — of which was that Bunn was to return to the mining trict and make some further ee ennnes the suit andthe Dove agreed to ey expenses of the experiment. tw ve se Wine fair trial, Mr. Bunn, and if noth- brain the lo ate be ours,” ‘said Johnny, , on the strike, you will advise us will) ¢j ge matte I take a trip out there. Then vena -look bright, we'll concider ‘what is the best Lad Sie eke AE property in a sys- Sg Sone prospector, and Fe | us the ee Aecided ay vote how ‘the. L. & M. at In the course of an hour ty went up to 92. It finally got up to 98 3 Johnny wouldn’t hold on aay longer, and gave in the order idea for you to act as an independent stenographer} for the sale. Then they went to lunch, conscious that they had made $3,000 that morning. When they got back to the office L. & M. was quoted on the tape at 91 5-8. “We were lucky to get out in time. If I had held on too vac we wouldn’t have made more than half as much,” said y. ay ta a stopped work, put on her hat and went out unch. While she was out the boys had some more talk on the subject of the Invisible Ink Co., which they were now pre- pared to push as soon as Johnny had called on the other four stockholders. “You go up and see Fenton this afternoon, Will. He’s making another supply of the ink. Tell him that matters are coming to a focus and that we expect to start in mak- ing the ink for the trade in a few days. Tell him to come down and see us Saturday noon,” said Johnny. _ “All right. I might as well go up now, as I have noth- else on hand.” Johnny called on the four stockholders that afternoon, and bought their shares for $59 each, sone left Stevenson the only one of the six in the com- bash & Co. now owned 85,000 shares of the stock. 4 John decided to call on Stevenson again and give him what he asked. He didn’t care to have the broker reap any benefit that might accrue at the expense of the other traders. He called on him next morning, which happened to be Saturday. This second visit excited Stevenson’s suspicions that there was something in the wind concerning the company, and he raised his price to $500. “T guess you'll have to keep the stock, sir,” said Johnny. Pili the present moment it isn’t worth the paper it’s writ- on.” “Tf it isn’t why are you willing to give $100 for it?” asked the trader. "Reegane my firm is trying to reorganize the company and finance it. Now you have refused to put up any more money, consequently I judge you have no interest in its reorganiza- tion. If you have no interest in it it’s your place to get out. I have bought out all the other gentlemen at something less than $50 apiece. I have concluded to come up to your ori- ginal off Sieh: NeainielE ahegian Sevag pes eaten If the company doesn’t go, why my firm,will be the loser, so you see it would be ridiculous to expect us to pay you a ese price foe: einer atvat ee re $250," id Stevenson. cost me ,” sai ~ “T know it did. e other gentlemen paid the same as you, and yet they are glad to wet out of the company and sive chance to see what we can make out of it. Jt you are aaah ag! sage is zon pak A : freer Se a ei fines ie!

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ae . and patent and buy it in. The company will then have no visible assets, We will lose the $225 we have paid for the stock, and you will be, out $100,” said Johnny, in a tone that showed he was in earnest. “What do I care for $100!” said the broker. “Not much, I guess. So much the more reason why you should get out of the company and give Fenton and our- selves the chance to see what we can do with it.” “What do you think you can do with it?” “We think that in time we may be able to build a busi- ness up.” “In time, eh?” said the broker, thumbing on. his desk. “Give me the $100 and you can take the stock.” The deal was made and Johnny went away satisfied. About noon Fenton turned up at the office, and Johnny outlined his plans to him. “You have no objection to our firm taking the contro] of the company, Fenton? You will still have 45,000 shares.” “Whatever you propose goes with me,” replied the man. “All right. You are still the president, and in that capacity I wish you to sign this typewritten notice for a meeting of the present stockholders, to take place at this office on Mon- day at five o’clock, p. m.” “All right,” said Featén, and he signed it. “We will reorganize with five stockholders, You, my part- ner, and I, my uncle and Mr. Waters, senior. This room will be the company’s executive office hereafter, and its name will appear on the door. The factory will remain where it is for the present, under your charge. Anything to suggest?” Then ink man shook his head. “ “That will be all then. Be on hand Monday afternoon at ve. On Monday afternoon the Imperial Invisible Ink Co. was duly reorganized. Johnny was elected president; Fenton, vice-president, and Will Waters, secretary and treasurer. Long & Co. bought the 14,000 unsold shares at ten cents a share, and deducted the $100 the firm had previously ad- vanced, so as to remove the lien from the plant. The com- pany then resumed business on a capital of $1,300. Fenton reported a supply of ink on hand, and Johnny instructed him to visit the wholesale stationery houses and make the best arrangements he could for putting the ink on the market. Will was directed to insert advertisements in the trade jour- nals identified with the stationery business, and to order whatever printing was necessary. Other matters were at- tended to and the meeting adjourned. Next day the name of the Imperial Invisible Ink Co. was painted on the door. Thus the reorganized corporation was started on its new career. LONG & CO., ‘ CHAPTER XIV. THE LITTLE GIANT PROVES A WINNER. few days later Johnny was told by a political friend in eeearen tare Telephone stock, as the Board of Aldermen grant the corporation certain new privileges ‘to send the stock up several points. Johnny and the next day visited the little bank and an order for 2 shares. At the next meeting of “aldermen the telephone question, which had been hang- Fi weeks, was settled in the company’s favor and at! once jumped up ten points. Johnny sold he saw that it was not likely to go much higher, BOY BROKERS. 17 reck, so they were unable to pass an opinion on it. office. Johnny opened it, and he and Will looked at the top specimens. They were no judges of ore from the looks of the “We'll send half of it around to the assay office,” said Johnny, letting the cover drop. “Go down and see if the janitor has a suitable kind of box to put it in.” Will went to the basement, got a box about the size he wanted, and brought it upstairs. He and Johnny filled it with ore from the big box. While they were doing it they noticed a black powdery substance in the large box and Will asked what it was. “Pll never tell you,” replied Johnny. of the dirt from the mine.” He shut the cover down and pushed the small box aside, to be later carried to the assay office up the street. Just then Broker Howard came in to see them. Johnny showed him some of the ore specimens, and told him they came from a mine out. West the firm was interested in. “Gone into the mining business, too, eh?” laughed Howard: “You boys are getting to be promoters as well as brokers.” “We are ready to take up with anything there is money in,” replied Will. | “What is this ink company, the name of which you have on your door?” Johnny started to tell him that it was a corporation the firm held a controlling interest in, when the broker suddenly stopped him. “There’s a strange odor in this room,” he said, sniffing the air. “Smells as if something of a disagreeable nature was burning.” “Y’ve noticed it for the last minute or two,” said Will. “That’s so,” admitted Johnny. “There is a strange smell about the office. I wonder where it comes from?” “It seems to come from that box,” spoke up Trixy,’ point- ing at the big one that had come from the West. Johnny looked at the box a moment, and then threw up the ra A cloud of stiffling smoke arose, like a balloon, out of i s “Great Scott!” exclaimed Johnny. “What is this?” The others in the room started back aghast. Trixy jumped from her chair and ran for the door, while Mr. Howard ducked like a person who thought something was going to fly at him. The bunch of smoke rose to the ceiling and spread itself out there. No more of it came out of the box, nor. could Johnny see any evidence of fire in it. The box ap- peared to be just as it was before the strange vapor gener- ated in it. : “That beats the Dutch!” said Johnny, looking down in a puzzled way. Will and Broker Howard ventured to draw near, while ixy recovered from her momentary alarm and returned to her work, The smell hung in and around the box, but boys noticed that the powdery substance they had seen among the ore had disappeared. After canvassing the mat- ter it was finally decided that the powdery stuff had some chemical substance that existed in the mine, and that. it was subject to spontaneous combustion under certain explained circumstances. The door and window were thrown open to air the office, and soon the peculiar incident was for- gotten. Shortly after Howard took his ae from the prospector was delivered at the office. It was very — brief and read as follows: git “Eureka. Letter on way. James Bunn.” a eee must mean he has found the ledge of ore,” said ohnny. : x. a jhe has, we are lucky for fair,” replied Will. “Shake on i ez And they shook hands in anticipation of their prospective — luck. While they were talking, Fenton came in to make his “T suppose it’s some

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18 LONG & ©O., BOY BROKERS. will do the bookkeeping. We have a young lady hére who| held 155,000 and Bunn 100,000 shares between them, which, néeds work, and we want to keep her employed.” of course, gave the three the complete control of the mine. Fenton said he’d keep things straight “and then went away. Two days later the letter from Bunn artived. This conveyed the news of the'strike, with all the details. “Our fortune is made,” he said. “Come out at once and let me show you the lode. How high the ore will assay I CHAPTER XV. can’t say, but from my experience in the mines I should say that we have as good ore as any of the big producers around CONCLUSION. us. As you boys are equal partners with me I deem it best : not to make a move till you come out here and we hnve| Johnny returned to New York as fast as a swift train . : could get him there. When he turned up at the office he a ode te nce had eh ae 5: Ft oe he found that Will had had the name of the Little Giant M:ning Brin money with you so that we can gather in whatever is| 24 Milling Co. painted on the door. f in Wall to be found out here. The company will have to be reorgan-| . The boy brokers now came into some prominence in Wa ized, of course, as the old officérs are all out of it. There| Street. It was soon known that they were largely interested are no big stockholders to be dickered with. The 100,009| im the Little Giant, for the Curb traders saw that Johnny was shares which are out are all held by small holders, and we| President of the company, a br Raa Pp Chris Fg x grret will have toradvertise for it in a quiet way. As soon as we| urer. Every one wondered how they had got hol tet have secured the bulk of it we will give out the news, and | mine. Broker Watt cleared the mystery up by, circulating then there will be a rush to buy stock.” the news concerning how they had acquired 100,000 shares mae Grad? Sata Pa 'the Jee 1 owned by the deceased Mr. Jackson. oo. tar Elgg a jit, Porshe ig Summer had come around, and one day Johnny suggested Wes certainly smiling on them.at a great rate. Long & Co. to Will that they visit Farmer Seth Harker over Sunday. was undoubtedly a lucky Wall Street firm. Will agreed and the farmer was informed by letter that they “¥ onl t, of dasa id Will were coming out to his place on the following Saturday after- ogare Evil % abatt acack se 2 ighacset y, that is. by to-mor-| 200. When they alighted from the train at Sayville, a small row morning. Now let us naka a tour of the Cath brokers’ He hts Gok sg eee eae hand in his light wagon, sai jand see if we can pick up any of the Little Giant When 1 Johnny me m Will reach ed the farm they found sev : . | eral city boarders there. 1ese people looked at them wi " fox the stock and they landed 55000 shares at something lorg| @uTOsity dnd respect, for the farmer and his wife had given than a cent & sharp... Next motniie at tok. Fonte Beaded a the boys a big reputation, and asserted that they were worth tac? exprent tar. tho Week, kid th ‘i ths i aes hed the: Wohl raft of money. Naturally, the boy brokers found them- pes we i a or . c ldfeld. Johnn ft 4 4 — diacams selves the “lions” of the oceasion. Mrs. Seth Harker declared ST ity Eni yee e which had sprane ap like manic in the| 82¢ Was proud-to entertain them, and she hoped they wouid at oth at pt i = gl apf 4 Ni Song oe an foe overlook gny shortcomings about the farm: Cyrus grinned pers led with fie decert ands xt He wal not és rised to find| U?,2 hyena when he was presented to them, and didn’t know Yt looking like » modern, up-to-date little city. for he’had| “eet t@, say, He hed on hia Sunday-go-to-mect'ag clothes, seen tetuibts of its buildin z and had read about its water nd he acted as if they felt sttange to him. The boys had a sy its sewer system its *eiilroad aystem with trains of| 20% UP time during their brief visit, and left for the city deepin: ae dail d its el A light and on the early Monday morning train. - Business was dull dur- 1) pcre eta. aily, ge weir: ¢ light an aes ing the hot months in Wall Street, but the weather did not. 4 ge ites dos te oes 4 Pat ‘a athgtle sircctl But materially interfere with the firm’s business enterprises. The 5 : ¢ : receipts of the ink company were largely put into adlvertis- the Little G'ant mine was some distance from Goldfield. It} ~° xy eras ‘Aitainted ih Paradise, mil i ace tha dimet, (Th ine. Nobody drew any money out of the concern but Fenton, ; who needed it to live on. It was marked up against him, to fasy to eet there nowadays by means of high-power auto-| he eventually deducted from his dividends. Work went on at nobile stages, from Goldfield, and after a brief stay at this/ the Little Giant mine in great shape, but no ore was shipped town, Johnny took passage for his destination. Telegraph! until the fall. Before that Will pa‘d a visit to Paradise and and iclephone wires connected Paradise with Goldfield and) saw the mine in busy operation. Bags of ore were stacked ~ #0 the boy broker was able to inform Prospector Bunn of his! np in tiers, like a military fortification, when he got there, coming, The mining man was on hand to meet him and give| and Bunn explained that this would all be shipped to the a royal welcome. Johnny registered at the best hotel and) smelter later. He returned to New York, well pleased with after dining with Bunn they drove out to the mine in the tig) pis trip to southwestern Nevada. : bw belonged bn 04 aM i a ing long he Trixy Grant was now bookkeeper as well as stenographer nes Sena tee i the tonnel of Arent mine, atid had the for the firm. She counted it a lucky day that she dropped in al St of inspecting a rich lode as 1d ove. f at the office looking for a positiori. Not only was she now SANees ig S i Bo a Wy receiving good wages, but she and Johnny were ping 2 ie If that vein runs the entite length of the claims which | company, and there was no doubt that some day in fu- hake up thig property the mine is worth 4 million as it) ture she would become the mistress of a fine house, as the ) Ts Wie trrited tak the diopild ba pocistiqtingd bal Wing ex Rises bute ged the snes were Be ree wan Jt Was company reorganized as| larly on e , and_the chances were the two wot also make a match of it. Both of the boy brakers were fine matrimonial catches, and the girls cons'dered themselves lucky in catching on. The Imperial Invisible Co. did an inereasing business all winter and spring, and at the regu- lar annual eo ede of the reorganized company a dividend ‘of two per cert. was declared on the capital stock. As Long & Co. held 5,000 shares, their shares amounted to $1,040. That left them still $600 behind in cash, but as they valued their interest at about $15,000, they were actually away ahead of the game. Fenton received get less $400 advanced to | him, while Johnny’s uncle and Will which was clear Rain, as their stock hadn’t cost them a cent. én summer came agai ular quarterly dividends of 2 1-2 per cent., or at the rate of 10 per cent, a year on its capital stock, and the boy brokers, ae Prospector, were making a good thing out. _— YOK rHi'boY WHO'WAnE 's GREAT HSS ¥ set 3 wa as aia 5 ters % 1 oa S> + 4 a

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ame AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 19 FROM ALL POINTS a HOTEL FLOATS TO WHERE FISH BITE. can destroy you with two fingers of his hand. ‘If Unable to purchase a convenient site on shore, a you remain with your comrades you are a Victo- - a Canadian operates a floating hotel on Great Cen- tral Lake, B. C., a body of water noted as a fishing ~ and hunting resort, and wins the approbation of pa- trons by moving the quarters to any spot that af- fords the best sport, says Popular Mechanics. There are ten guest rooms on board the big house boat, each capable of accommodating two persons, a large dining room and a kitchen. Around the structure.is a wide veranda, from which perch can be taken with a hook and line if ~ the craft is advantageously moored. Trout are fe ‘plentiful, but require a little more effort to capture. rious sea that swallows up the old world and brings on the new one. 6. Maintain discipline. 7. Do not forget that you are surrounded by ene- mies-within and without. March with strong feet, grip your weapons with strong hands, and the sword shall fall from the hands of your adversaries and national frontiers be swept away. : 4 8. Do not allow in your ranks any one who in- ; cites you to riot, for he is speaking the speech of the enemy. 9. Do not allow in your ranks any disturber of - Wild game abounds in the woods which surround the} order or provacateur. lake. - During the winter, when ice’covers the water, the qmergtor of the hotel becomes a fur trapper. : AIRPLANE CATCHES GEESE. ‘There may be nothing new under the sun, but _ there are new ways of doing things. The following amply bears out this statement: ~— John Pruess, who lives up in the Devil’s Nest country along the old Mizzou, was.in Bloomfield, Nebraska, recently and brought with him the news _ that hunting geese via the airplane method is the Bice thing up in that region. The aviators who have been pulling off this stunt-hail from across the Tine in South Dakota. _ They come swooping along in their machine, fire = a volley at any stray.flock of geese that may be Bs breasting the waters of the Big Muddy, and as the z Zeese rise into the air and start to make their get- away, the airplane swoops down upon them and e they are caught in a big net, which is a part of the _ machine’s equipment, . Whole flocks are pursued _ Until the last lone member “of the flock falls a vie- = tee. to birdmen. Syst COMMUNIST TEN COMMANDMENTS. ” ag Oe ves idols. Pee for Red” Hungary siehee, = Sona be as strong and perfect as possible. q the Republic of Soviess and follow its viets. is work- e 2p. ouean day when you $ reece’ you must foes ‘or i vu, aoe ‘aay ain was not one of t 10. Do not take away the righ man’s house, his ox, his land or his jewels; let this be the business of the council. Only thus can everything be yours | and your brethren’s—the inheritance of the work- 4 ing man and the agricultural poor. NO CHANGE IN CLIMATE. “Weather and climate have not changed from ie time of the Pilgrims down to the present day,” the closing words of an article by Prof. Robert ae C. Ward of Harvard University on “The Snowfall of the United States,” in Scientific Monthly. That this is so is.proved by a comparison of pres- ent day conditions with those so accurately re- corded by the early settlers of New England. “There are accounts of great cold; of deep snows; of violent winter storms. There are also many | descriptions of every mild and open winters. Thus, we read of December and January resembling May e and June; of flowers growing in the woods in mid- winter; of so little snowfall ‘as scarcely to give op- portunity for enjoying the music of the sleigh bells? __ = of ‘ green Christmases ;’ of ‘winter turned into sum- ‘mer ;’ of the ground bare for the most part;’ of little ae ice; of crocuses up, of wild violets in bloom, and Ceol lilacs ‘throwing out their leaves’ in January.” Seg It is interesting to note that Prof. Ward awards the prize for the heaviest recorded average snow; fall to Tamarack, Cal., with Summit, Cal., as a close — second. The average fall at the former, which is at an altitude of 8,000 feet, is 521.3 inches, and at the latter (7,027 feet), it is 419.6 inches. In the win- ter of 1910-11 757 inches fell at Tamarack, and in 1879-80, 783 inches fell at Summit. Seat 7 But in Mount Rainier, Wash., at Paradise at an elevation of and feet, . 24, 19 to June, 1917, TEAR Tock es

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os Get ee Dan, the Delivery Boy elie, ees The Mysterious House on the Hill By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER VII (Continued). “Tt looks all straight, miss. That’s sure their letter-head. All the same I don’t understand.” “There are lots of things we don’t understand in this life, Dan,” laughed Mrs. Billup. “You want to - Jearn to take life as it comes.” _ “Yes,” said Dan, “but where am I going? That’s _ what’s bothering me,” “To the White Mountains for a: week’s a arian ei : _ replied Mrs. Billup, “and I want you to understand y that if you behave yourself as well as you.did before you will have the time of your life.” “But do I hold my job? That’s what’s bothering me!” cried Dan. a “Of course you hold your job. Isn’t the letter enough? 2?” snapped Mrs. Billup. “Don’t be cross with Dan, ma,” said Jean. “Of course, it must all seem very strange to him. Now, Ent gil we go. to breakfast. I’m sure it must be CHAPTER VIII. | TOM BUTTS IN. his mind made up to solve the mystery of Dan’ Ss rance if he could. en there was also the mystery of that iron eaoush which he felt certain Dan must have short, the whole business had so oot upon Tom’s | that he could think of little else. 7 other words, Tom’s curiosity was fully aroused, was as persistent as he was curious. again for. Tom, Tend this time he resdlved | ‘om, e he resdlv. know cthing definite about it be-| re ; os the| ay ey FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘Sunday morning Tom ‘Kane again rose early,| '|new automobile.” eee | Mer. Stevenson’s house, to find Seemingly, it was the door of some old family burial vault, built in colonial times, when the rich families of upper New York buried their dead on their own grounds. On top of the bank, facing the other street, stood an old frame mansion. “Mebbe that house is mixed up into de business,” thought Tom. “I’ll sneak around the block and find out who lives there just for luck.” He did so, and coming up in front of the old man- ;sion found it as much of a sphinx as the house on the other side of the hollow. The windows were all concealed behind closed blinds, and the gronnds wore a neglected look. Tom did not venture into the yard, but hung around watching the passersby, waiting to see some- body come along of whom ke could inquire about the house. At last he picked out a boy of about his own age who looked as if he might live in the neighborhood, for he carried a fishing pole in his hand and was evidently bound for the river. “Who lives in dat house?” repeated the boy, as Tom put the question. “Why, Mr. Stevenson lives there when he’s home, which ain’t very often. Most of the time it is closed up like you see it now.” “Who’s Mr. Stevenson and what does he do?” asked Tom. , “T don’t know what he does,” was the reply. “They say he’s a professor or something.” “You live around here?” “Sure. ” , “Where do you work?” “Tiedemeyer’s grocery over on the avenue. 4 “Does that feller trade wit’ you?” “Sure. But, say, what’s de matter with you? What are you axing me all thése questions for?” “Oh, I want to see a feller what works in dat house,” said Tom. “He’s a chum of mine. I just wanted to know something about the folks he lives — wit’. Hi) “Well, dey’re a queer bunch, I tell ree ‘said the boy, “but all the same they’ve got the rocks.. Slath-- ers of money! You ought to ‘see Mr. Stevenson’ ‘Ss And with that the fisher-boy hurried away. - _ Tom began to wonder if after ail he had not been the “house at the head of the mistaken when he thought he saw Das £0 acne 134 that iron devr. a Pada he determined to perseveré even at tte risk f getting himself into trouble. _ ‘So he went into the yard and passed all aia 6 it closed on all sides, wore a neglected look.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | 21 ea AS ep Sc PSP 7 SS a SIA > eh OO AE $$$ $$ $$ “I only wish I could get de blame t’ing open. Mebbe| “Gee! I’m up against it now,” muttered the boy. I'd find out somet’ing then. I’m blame sure Dan is |; filled with liquids and solids. ; a Kt ones Yo caueht sounds which told Hint that| 1 looked to Tom like a drug store, “Actually, it re was a chemist’s laboratory, but as the boy had mer 3 eee was somebody on the other side of that door. been in such a place he did not understand. _ dhe on Be sounded as if somebody was stirring something} « ” “wh ui Explain if you ean, then,” said Bart. 2 in a dish; then somebody began to whistle a lively possible excuse had you for picking the lock of that evans latest thing ay iron door and sneaking up those stairs?” / Suddenly a pounding began and it was owing to| «1 was lookin’ for a feller,” faltered Tom. _ j this and the fact that Tom continued to listen that | “Looking for a feller?” sneered Bart. “That will he_ failed to what he otherwise must have | do for you. What fellow now?” ee ae “Me runnin’ mate on 88.” a 88 be: Come, come, speak up!” “Delivery wagon, Mammoth Store om. “He's Dan Dugan. ;

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | a ACFE GOOD ITEMS DESTROY HUGE MARINE TURTLE. The huge marine turtle commonly known. as the _ leather jacket, captured by E. J. Dean off Gay Head, ' Mass., did not take well to confinement, and it was found necessary to destroy it. Significant parts were retained for museum purposes. ‘This leather _ jacket turtle had only been exceeded by one taken in ~ a fish trap at Woods, Hole, Mass., about 1891, which _ weighed 1,400 pounds. - The leather jacket taken by Dean had become en- _ tangled in a line attached to a lobster pot. The _ length of the top shell was 5 feet and the total ' length was 7 feet 7 inches. The turtle measured in _ girth 7 feet lacking half an inch, the distance be- » tween the anterior limbs when spread was 7 feet 8 inches, and the estimated weight was 750 pounds, tf BARE-KNEED GIRLS BARRED. The girls of the Lakeview High School, Chicago, : ‘must cover their knees with their stockings, ac- ie cording to.the edict issued by B. Frank Brown, the Principal. - Six girls appeared the other day with their knees _ bare, stockings rolled down half way to the ankles, ‘all of which proceeding, according to the pupils of ‘the schoo! that fathered the idea of uniform dress uf ‘the daughters of millionaires and poor men, was cidedly beyond the boundary of good taste. > “Their bare knees were silly,” said the boys in 1e school, whose own knees were bound up securely ~ “It was scandalous,” said the Principal. “The girls i in this school disapprove of fancy dress. They orbid the use of rouge and they estracize any girl “who tries to ‘vamp.’» Bare knees: astonished and and aered the Class. The six have eees to be 3 or. ¢, yk saa It phat became incumbent the Register in Chancery to sell at public out- “the blazed-face, glass-eyed bay horse” in exe- g a decree of the court that said “blazed-faced, eyed horse” and the buggy and harness at- d to him were contraband within the meaning ees to he conderanation proceedings: filed State, one Jim Banks, a negro exhorter and younder of the Gospel, Dae te! outfit for the pur- ' sgh nig g “cawn” liquor along the high- 7S Jefferson Seu and it, was seized while > of the outfit and denicd “moonshine liquor” alleged to have been carried, and said that he used the horse and buggy only for his religious work in the rural communities. The court held that Banks probably used the horse and buggy “religiously,” but held also that the word was capable of meanings other than the spreading of the Gospel. The horse was sold for $23—prob- ably less than the value of the liquor he hauled, in these times of the high cost of liquor. FOX THAT DANCED The first fox that has ever danced the fox-trot made his debut at the Hotel St. Francis, San Fran- cisco, lately. His effort precipitated a near riot. The fox, which had.been sent to Chief Clerk Harry Boyle by Prof. Audrey Chatain of Chicago, a St. Francis guest who recently went to the Yose- mite, was left in the check room. When Boyle picked up the box to take the fox-home the bottom fell out.* The fox jumped a counter four feet high and dashed into the Borgia room among the dancers, who at the moment were swaying to the tune of “Take Your Girlie to the Movies.” Across the floor the fox scampered, brushing the ankles. of several female Terpsichores, who hold their partners in a deathlike grip and screamed. The music jazzed on. It was a half hour later be- fore the fox was cornered. ADRIFT FIVE DAYS. Edward Williams, who as the keeper of a Evit- ish lighthouse on the isolated coral ridge called Gan Key, on the western edge of the Great Bahama Bank, about sixty miles off Miami, might claim legitimately the title of Captain, arrived recently by the Mallory liner San Marcos, from Galveston, “Jan involuntary but mighty happy passenger. did not come from Galveston, but from the open saa, where, alone, he had been tossed about for five dreary days. food when the lookout on the bridge of the San Marcos sighted him, a mere speck on the horizon, waving something that on closér inspection proved to be a shirt. He He was pretty feeble through lack of He was taken aboard with the help of a line. He explained he was one of the keepers of the Gun Key lighthouse and was going from the mainland to ve- lieve his mate on October 18, when a storm came up. He kept the boat’s head to it for a time, but it was a much bigger blow than he had expected and he finally became weary and drifted 300 miles into - the open sea. He sighted vessels of many sorts in me five days he was adrift, but the San icike eam was the ot one iihoias eg him, - fs a

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- Charies Harris of Boston, Mass., FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY, INTERESTING ARTICLES NEW DIAMOND FIELD. Much excitement has been caused in the lower Rio Grande border region over the report that a dia- mond field has been discovered at Zapata, Tex. and associates have organized the Rancho de los Cristales Mining _ Company, with a capital stock of $200,000, for the purpose of making a thorough exploration of a 100-acre tract of land for diamonds. Sam T. Fos- ter of Brownsville, a well known mining engineer, is interested with Mr. Harris in the venture. It is noteworthy that no geological survey of the 150- mile strip of hills that border the lower course of the Rio Grande has ever been made. It is from | these hills that many rare and curious crystals have been found from time to time. ee - MUCH COAL IN COLOMBIA. Should the projected railroad from Cartagena _ to Ayapel, traversing the length of the Department of Boliver, became a reality, writes Vice Consul S. J. Fletcher from Cartagena, a direct means of transportation for the immense deposits of coal in the San Jorge River District would enable the fuel _to be sold at $5 a ton at this principal port of Col- ‘ombia. At ae a Rica the coal extends along the bank of _ the San Jorge River for eighteen miles and is so close to the surface that the veins can be clearly seen. The first shipment from this district was taken out by the steamer Magangue recently and ‘was made possible only by the extremely high wa- x ters and the use of dynamite in clearing the pas- sage. It is estimated that an expenditure of from $10,000 to $15,000 would place the stream in navi- . _ cine for river steamers. "BRITISH CAPTAIN'S GALLANTRY. ‘The German four-masted bark Paul, believed to |Mmenu, reductions ranging from 50 cents to 10. have foundered with all on board in mid-Atlantic, |@ portion. The regular table @hote luncheon - when calls for help either could not or would not be |Teduced from $1 to 75 cents.. answered by passing vessels, arrived recently, the | first German craft to enter Halifax, N. S., since the |dent and Manager of the La Salle, “is that outbreak of the war. She left Hamburg Oct. 18. _. She brought with her a tale of misery endured |cost of living. .We have had a good ee 5 tao that wag ended by the gallantry of the cap-|did year, and we are prepared now _to oper: g whose _ former vessel | hot ink by a Gorman sub-|so doing tide alle caseiite moral | rater ee “Tn 4 ge $<! ‘ n the |have also ition to pte g from $3 a roon of a British ste 2] torped % refused to take her in tow, and when the fate of her erew seemed to be sealed the British steamship Manchester Merchant came along, and Capt. Mus- grave sent otit wireless calls and gave other assis- tance. Capt. Krueger brought his disabled craft to port without proper charts and was ignorant of the coast. DEER SLAUGHTERED TO FURNISH PERFUME. . Musk, the basis of most strong perfumes, comes | from the interior of China and Thibet, whence about ;80, 000 ounces are exported every year. It is the se- cretion of a gland of the male musk deer, a small, sturdy, hornléss animal that is hunted in the ss tains at altitudes of more than 8,000 feet. From Tachienlu, the principal port of export) about 2,000 catties 6f musk are exported annually, averaging twenty-two pods to the catty. As each pod represents one deer, at least 44,000 male deer must have been killed to furnish this amount. But, as the deer are caught in traps, many does and fawns, which contain no musk, are killed uselessly. A writer in the North China Daily News, quoted by~ the Scientific American, estimates that the sane slaughter is really about 100,000 head. Each pod contains a piece of musk about the size of a walnut. It is worth ten times its weight in ~ silver, so buyers have to be on their guard mies the slightest adulteration. CHICAGO HOTEL CUTS RATES. Patrons of the Hotel La Salle, Chicago, Ill., were : elated when they learned that the management, order to offset the high cost of living, had subst tially cut the price of nearly every item on “The idea,” said Ernest J. Stevens,. Vice body had to start the job of bringing down the at cost for the next two or three mon rotest ; j

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. d | While he has no cannon, he has men enough to eat THEY WERE ALL READY FOR TH® PIRATES.| us up in case he can put them aboard.’ | “As for getting away from him, we had seen that By Kit Clyde he could easily outsail us; and, too, the wind was : | rapidly dying out. In half an hour more we were lying becalmed, and as night came down the fel- “I’ve. knocked. about a bit in my time,” said | low was within a mile and a half of us. Every one Charles Miller, a white-headed old Jack Tar, who|0f us knew enough about those native crafts to leaned heavily on a crutch, “and I’ve seen some know that this chap could be worked down to us things on land and sea which were too deep for my| by means of oars or sweeps, and there was no doubt grappling-irons. I went out to Australia in the six-| that he would come. We got the big guns over on ties as a foremast hand on a British ship. I shipped | the starboard side, placed the muskets and cut- for the voyage, but bad food and worse treatment) lasses handy, and the cook was ordered to keep a so disgusted me that when we arrived at Melbourne hot fire in the galley and give us all the hot water I took French leave, and for that matter the bulk) possible. We knew that most of the pirates would of the crew was ahead of me. After making two or be barefooted; and we hunted up all the old bottles three coast voyages, I brought up at Sydney and en-| aboard and took all the glassware from the pantry gaged for a trading voyage to the Northwest after and broke the articles on deck. The broken. glass sandalwood, spices, and the likes of that. I shipped would inflict savage wounds on their bare feet. on a small schooner called the Sparrow, the master | You see we did not mean to be taken without having of which was an Englishman named Pexidipa| done our best, and it was understood among us that, There were seven of us all told, and we were loaded sooner than have hands laid on us, we’d go over- with a trading cargo. We had axes, hoes, hatchets,) board to the sharks, Capture would mean death shovels, nails, wire, cloths, trinkets, whisky, shoes, | anyhow. muskets, powder and shot, clothing, and almost; “Well, when we’d done-all we could in the way everything else you can think of. We had two’ of preparation, and when each man thoroughly un- cannon mounted on deck, with a supply of small | derstood what was expected of him as the attack arms, and the captain made no secret of the fact! began, we had nothing to do but wait. He could that we might have use for them. You see 'we were! sweep down to us in the course of an hour, much to _ to round Cape York, which I calculate is the north’ our surprise, he did not appear when the hour was point of Australia, and there bear up for Borneo. up. The captain’s night glass had been broken by While the waters in that direction are a part of the accident, and we had no means of knowing what - Indian Ocean, you hear of the Java Sea, the Banda/ the fellow was about. The night was not over dark, _ Sea, the Arafura Sea, and several other seas, and! and we counted on having him in sight for four _ there are enough straits, islands, and channels to/or five minutes before he could Jay us aboard. A turn the head of the average captain. The Venture,’ second hour dragged away, and still no sign. Then as I understood jit, belonged to parties in Sydney, a third went, and the men began to be nervous. _ though I think the captain had a small financial) The mate suggested to the captain that we provi- interest. : sion the yawl and abandon the vessel; and if the ; “As we bore up we passed between the Timor idea had been backed by the crew I think it would *. Lant and the Aroo Islands and made the Banda Sea, ‘have been carried out. You see, the waiting had _ .and. then navigation became more difficult. The sea | upset the mate, though he was a brave man. I[ __is dotted with islands and reefs, and we had plenty | think the captain was a bit rattled, but he had made to do to keep clear of them. We sighted a few sail,| up his mind to save his schooner or go down with ~ but got no alarm until well into Banda waters. | her. Then, one afternoon, we made out a strange-looking} «A third hour passed, then a fourth, and thea we a craft to the north of us which had evidently come} pegan to believe that we had been fooled. The * out from some port or bay along the chain of isl-| stranger was a native trader, who meant us no -ands between us and the New Guinea coast. Though | harm, and the crowd of people’on his decks might she had the wind with her she was in no hurry to! pe islanders who were being transferred from one - Close in. The captain suspected her from the first, | island to another. The captain acknowledged that -and there wasn’t a man of us who'did not give his | he had been too quick in his conclusions, and as mid- romise to go down with the schooner rather than | night came the off watch turned in with many a all into the hands of the pirate. She came down on! joke on the way we had been fooled. I was on onal course to cut us off, and at sundown,| watch when daylight came. Naturally enough, we the captain went aloft with his glass for a look | had an eye out for the trader, and as the gray mists she was so near that he could. make out) lifted we got a surprise. In the quarter where we | io bring him down with face as white as a} had seen him the previous night, but not more than 2 i pt HERON les age of a mile away, there was a great heap of wreck stuff use to deceive ourselves,’ he said, as we|on the smooth surface of bl pn We Rape Bite) BEE meaty: . oe a ¥ a NGh Saree fay peron ae th his glass, and

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 aot when he had taken a look at the wreckage he an- | mother. He spent his hours in tireless study to nounced it to be the remains of the trader. Ajavoid going mad. Since entering the prison he has boat was lowered, and two of us pulled the mate!mastered seven languages and acquired a wide to the spot. There were spars, planks, timbers, | knowledge of law. fs Rha St eS Nw cordage, furniture and other articles mixed up in a, helter-skelter way. It might be compared to a house which had been blown down by a hurricane. Among the wreckage we found dead bodies, though the sharks took them before we had made a close inspection. The hull of the craft was not! there, but there were many bottom planks, a por-| tion of the rudder, and all her sails and cordage. “You will ask what had happened, but I can-| = not answer you with any satisfaction. |The trader oY pirate had been wrecked, but not on the rocks ‘hor by wind or explosion. We had heard no noise | from her. during the night. Planks and beams) were broken and shattered in a strange way, and none of us had the same theory about it. What do I think? Well, sir, I believe that the fellow was a pirate, and that he was working down to us when a whale rose under him. His craft was a light one, _ and the blow was enough to completely wreck it. _ If you have any better theory I shall be glad to ac- cept it.” ra _——oo— eee of JESSE POMEROY 48 YEARS IN PRISON. serving his forty-third year in the Charlestown | within the prison walls. He received several post- | cards and a birthday cake. — Warden Elmer E. Shattuck was the first person to offer congratulations. Pomeroy thanked the ka adding that he never had expected to live 80, _ long. The prisoner, decrepit and nearly blind, did his | usual day’s work, that consists principally of pick- -.. ing papers off the prison grass plots, but he spent ' most of the day poring over the Bible that has been his chief solace since the death of his mother, Mrs. _ Ruth Pomeroy, five years ago. Z he Pomeroy was seventeen when he entered Chasion: town prison, September 9, 1876. He had been a _eriminal since his eleventh year, and was a refor- eo inmate from 1872 to 1874. In the latter year a series of crimes against children terrorized - Bouth Boston -and Dorchester. Several school chil- dren were eh and finally two were murdered. sey cast in one of 1eroy’s eyes played the chiet a , part in fastening on him responsibility for the _ crimes, for numbers of little children had told of being frightened by “the big boy with the white os y confessed to the murders and was for a fiend incarn ; ures. liv ed in a tiny cell when tray Hat Ea ee feed icant He has made twelve attempts to escape, all fail- For the last, in December, 1912, he was “pun- ished” by being deprived of his books and was put on a bread and water diet for a short time. But with age he has lost his spirit of defiance. Things of the outside world no longer interest him. He prefers to read his Bible and his law books, and iis hard at work on Arabic, hoping to add this lan- guage to his repertory before his dimming eyes fail entirely. HOW SEA-LIONS HELPED TO WIN THE WAR. In the late months of the war some wild stories were published to the effect that the British naval authorities were training sea lions to catch German submarines. Of course this was ridiculous, but the story was based-upon a fact, and that fact has only just been revealed. It was at the recent meeting of the British Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, when Sir Charles Parsons, the President, delivered an address on Science in War and Peace. Im it he described the development of the binaural hydrophone, with Jesse Pomeroy, the Dorchester murderer, who is which submarines are located by the sound they ‘make. Early in the game it was discovered that the state prison, to-day observed his sixtieth birthday | | first forms of these instruments were useless when the vessel bearing them was in motion or when the sea was rough, because the noises made by the vessel’s motion and by the waves drowned the noise of the submarine. This is where the sea lions came — in, Sir Richard Paget, the eminent biologist, made © experiments to learn how far these interesting ani- mals could hear under water and at what speed their directional hearing ceased. These proved that the directional hearing of the lions was good up to six knots an hour. Dr. Arthur Keith informed the naval experi- menters that whales’ ears are too small to receive sound waves in the usual way, but that the animals — heard under water by the transmission of sound — waves through the bones of the head. Now, the whale’s organ of hearing resembles the + hydrophone. low bodies in the form of fish or porpoises, made of celluloid, varnished canvas or thin metal, filled with water and towed by the ship. The cb a sae fixed in the head, and the Sorhie eable carried insulated wire leads to the Ric ieiridon receivers. of f So the design of this was changed, ‘i and those used in the last year of the war were hol- | Pt 4 ous ced to be hanged. on account of his Alen, esa on board Le ves These were tov J - Price commuted th e telenos: escribing, | some distance behind the , thus ry most Of": r, | rigorous - 0) Se orang as eg eta eign: gst chur g mtr boorg ae punishment for ate.” | was found that they Ones SONNE

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a : 26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY - NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1920. TERMS TO‘ SUBSCRIBERS Single Copies One Copy Three Months One Copy Six Months One Copy One Year POSTAGE FREE HOW TO SEND moNw@y—At our risk send P. 0. Money Order. Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other Way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as ‘ ee. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece a ee to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and ress plainly. Address letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York ‘ . The largest coffin ever made in Iowa was turned | ‘out.cn a special order by a local coffin company in ~*Burlington, Ia. It was for, the corpse of a 600- pound woman, resident of Albia. The coffin weighed 700 pounds and was large enough to hold six aver- <1 880 ‘sized men. What i is said to be the first wildcat ever captured ie hey in Sussex County, New Jersey, is on exhibi- - tion in the window of a hardware store in Newton. Fred Benson, a hunter, came upon the cat while it) was swimming in a pool. ' He,threw a bag over it. The wildcat is asdarge as an ordinary dog. ©., heard a whimpering from his front porch. _ He went out to investigate, believing he.would find baby, for the whimpering was strangely like that : of an infant. On the porch was a basket and in the ‘basket carefully wrapped in woollens the “baby.” It was a baby Bengal tiger. No one knows where t came from, and Logan wonders what he is going dit £ for the fevecttion of the depth charge, that ed to be such an effective weapon at sea during : orld War, is given to Chester. T. Minkler, of Newport, torpedo station, in a letter from the y canopy pike Capt. ‘Martin E. Trench, U. S. nspector ordnance at the station, according dispatch om Newport to the Associated ig Vi reported as h: Mingle ad er all his invention to ma de somes other con- th char ernment . ‘1 leges followed popular boys? "These young leaders — were the manly boys whose hearts could be trusted. The boy who respects his mother has leadership in him. The boy who is careful of his sister is a knighi. The boy who will never violate his word, and: who will pledge his honor to his own hurt and change not, will have the confidence of his friends. The boy who will never hurt the feelings of any one will one day find himself possessing all sympathy. If you want to be.a popular boy, be too manly and generous and unselfish to seek to be popular; be the soul of honor; love others better than yourself, and people will give you their hearts and try to make you happy. This is what makes a boy popu lar. “What is it? Wr day gives us some idea of the power of a king and . PPS a is a gun like.a cat?” asked the conundrum _ GRINS AND CHUCKLES “J dunno,” replied the victim. “Because end, : Goor CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES | oie both go off.” “But there’s a difference.” “The cat comes back.” His Daughter’s Beau—-I—er—er want to ask you, sir, for your—er—er daughter’s hand, sir. Her Father—I'm not disposing of her in sections, but I’m willing to listen to any proposition involving all of her, sir. —-- School Teaecher—Now, children, our lessons to- . other potentates. Can any of you name a still great- ler power? Little Fred—Yes, ma’am; an ace is more | powerful than a king. ‘James, B. Logan, a traffic officer of Redwood City, o Good Minister—I am exceedingly gratified at the onderful increase in the attendance of men at our - Wedneday, Friday, and. Saturday evening prayer- meetings. For the past three weeks the church has been thronged with men. His Wife—It’s house- cleaning time. . “Well, Rastus, I -hear you are working again. What business are you engaged in?” “I’se done be ~ engaged in de mining business, sah.” “What kind of mining are you doing:~gold, silver, or diamond?” “T’se Reg, sah.” be “Did you get devin whispered the Sister on guard as his pal emerged from the window. “No, Pat, being o: : bat the s re of a man rd pinned it The bloke what lives here is a lawyer,” replied the other, in disgust. “Did you lose anything?” “That’s hard luck,” said the eat: bis hatidays, was one day s in Kido when he saw the fig- in:

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_ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 27 KINDNESS COSTLY. Kindness to animals has cost Jack Millis of Clarks Mills, Pa., a cool $175.. A short time ago he found a female ferret on his farm. It was so tame that - he took it to his home and cared for it. Several days later it presented him with a family of six little ferrets. A complaint was filed against him | by Game Warden Gruver, charging the keeping of ferrets contrary to the State law. He was fined $25 and costs for each ferret in his possession. In justifying his action Gruver declared that “it has been noted each rabbit season that hunters had in their possession great quantities of rabbits that _ defied all search for shot marks.” De ao. te 2, ee = ae ie ore “SUNDAY MOVING PICTURES OFFICIALLY APPROVED. Secretary of War Baker refused to discounte- nance the giving of moving picture and theatrical performances on Sundays, in a letter to Senator ‘Swanson of Virginia, who trasmitted resolutions of _ the Elizabeth City and County Ministerial Union protesting against Sunday performances in army ‘theatres at Fort Monroe. The Secretary said: “I _ do not believe that the entertainment should be dis- continued on Sundays because its discontinuance would in many cases cause officers and soldiers to seek means of recreation that would not be morally : > a to that eee within the army.” a NEW REINFORCED WATER PROOF PAPER. _ For years inventors have been trying to make un- tearable or reinforced paper, some patents dating _ back to 1875, but the manufacturing costs ‘were al- ; Ways too high. There was one, however, that looked _ vight and research proved it was. You can punch! holes in it, but, being reinforced with twine, the hole doesn’t travel. And. it was a neat turn to _ Make it waterproof. It is, in short, a cotton rein- Foot) jo Saad water-proofed, kraft paper. It can be made oe hard or creped and soft and thick or thin, pe: oe i -you please, On completion of the small fac- tests we were asked to manage the company ntinue ere do, says an American promi- to get ¢ < wrapp! ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST tire makers wind tires with two-inch strips of it for shipment and storage. A Western maker of buggies also uses strips for winding his shafts “to protect them’during shipment. We have made a soft and very warm vest for soldiers, and large quanti- | ties for wrapping surgical dressings for the Red Cross. Some further developments are full of | promise. PAINTED SOLES OUTWEAR UPPERS. Painting the soles of shoes will preserve the leath- er a long time. -F. W. Charles: of Seattle sends the Scientific American the following instructions as to doing it. He says they are the result of much ex- perimentation. “For a pair of shoes that have the shiny dressing worn off the soles, put on three coats of paint— ordinary hard finish black paint will do—allowing each coat to dry forty-eight hours before applying the next paint. That is all there is to it. “Tf the shoes are new, with the sole dressing in- tact so that the paint will not penetrate, doughen — the surface with fine sandpaper. The paint will | soon wear off the soles, but that which has pene- trated the leather will remain and continue to per- form its good offices. Repeat the process once each season and soles will cease to worry you; the life of your shoes will, be measured by that of the up- pers—and this will be greatly prolonged by the elimination of the half-soling process, with its great wear and tear on the edges of the soft leather. “In proof of all this, I can cite a pair of Oxfords — which I am now wearing for the third summer. The heels are slightly worn, but they were never painted. I may say, as further evidence of what this _ showing means, that I walk about for some four- teen or fifteen hours per day.” pon nee SCENARIOS — How to Write Them erica sana ome: 4 & i cipal na is rt take the place of burlap, dt lifficult 4 .

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I could not and jpraviice to learn to play. nger of an operation. sleep nights or walk without pain; my tf you can fem, talk or sing you and your friends can VE ENERGY AND hands were so sore and stiff I could not} pecome expert Song-o-Phone players right away. and play BE “A MAN Rann N ‘ po Tunes | bold a pen. But now I am again in active eaything from the good old song? to the most popular hits, Enervine strengthens every muscle and organ business and can walk with ease or write in the body, will give you Health, Vim & “ aay a scene Poe ars ed are menrised Song-o- Phones ¥ 4 e change. ou mig ust as well at- sone aS mang ee ee seane tempt te put out a fire with oil as try to are delighting for particulars. Hea scomitelite ve tating teeter seus: thousands cor ints vy akin eatmen su Le Enervine Co., R-1000 8. Grove, Oak Park, Ml. | oy io “Grlve Uric Acid sm) an won blood aa ; e body. It took Mr, Ashelman fifty years to| , Send right away for booklet snd find out the truth. 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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ——LATEST ISSUES—— O54 706 Dick, the Wall Street Waif; or, From Newsboy to Stock 8 Broker. 7% 7 Adrift on the Orinoco; or, The Treasure of the Desert. it 768 Sijent Sam of Wall Street; a * bacfe Se + ag hag 8 Luck. oe 709 Always on the Move; or, The Luck of Messenge Ns 5 pet: parse 10 Maury Go Lucky Jack; or, The Boy Who Fooled the Wall oo Born Lucky; 0 Serres Ergeers, 731 A Boy of Business; 711 Learning a Trade; or, On the Road to, Fortune. 732 G12 : gin; or. Lhe Boy Who Won the Money. sengers. 713 sure Hunt; or, The Secret of the Island Cave. 734 7i4 A “Live” Boy; or, Quick to Get the Dollars. Guessing. 715 A Barre! of Coin: or, The Luck of a Boy Trader. . aoe 716 Driven to the Wall; or, The Nerve of a Wall Street Boy. a 7 Johnny the Parcel Buy: or, The Lad Who Saved the Firm. 738 8 Gotng the Limit: or, A Big Risk for Big Money. 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