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No. 750. FEBRUARY 13, 1920. Las OF BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. WAnbane, JA IF FORTUR : | A SELF I 1a0E STAN. | . OTHER STORIES Ce Fe ~) _ : a ‘i ; i) : a S Sil A Hy Joe hurled one of the rascals to the ground, and turning upon the other, gave him a left handed blow that sent him reeling. The two girls saw that their plucky young champion was well able to handle the pair.

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. wf FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY _) 8 “Lee oe iN ia Issued Weekly—Subscripiion price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street, New York, N.Y. Entered as Second Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. No. 750. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1920. Price 7 Cents WINNING A FORTUNE THE BOY HERO OF THE MILL ; By A SELF-MADE MAN a * CHAPTER IL, THE BOSS OF THE MILL. “What's the matter, girls?) What are you hanging around the door here instead of making a bee-line for your homes? Almost everybody has left the mill,” said Joe Garland, a sta , fine-looking boy of eighteen, who was the most popular worker in the Hillsdale Cotton Mill, which was situated in the suburbs of that wide-awake town. “We're afraid to go home,” replied Nellie Marchant, the elder and the prettiest of the pair-of girl operatives. F “Afraid to go home!” exclaimed Joe, in surprise. “What er? - “Hen Parker and Brice Beckley are waiting out in the yard for us. We don’t want anything to do with them, but they insist on going home with us. 1 wish you’d see us part of the way along the road,” said Nellie. “So those chaps are bothering you again, eh? I told them to cut it out or they’d hear from me.” “I heard them say that they were not afraid of you,” said Edna Dale. / . “That so?” replied Joe, with a snap of his teeth. “Yes. They said you might think that you bossed the mill, but you couldn’t boss them. They intended to take - you down a peg or two and show you up as a bluffer.” AL as The of the employees’ entrance and took their way toward the 3 + “All right. We'll see. They’re outside now, you say, Nellie? You two girls just start for the gate at once, and if those fellows interfere with you I’ll be down on them in ‘two ces of a lamb’s tail, and we’ll see whether I’m boss of the mill or not,” said Joe, in a tone that showed he meant business. \ ; - two girls, with a return of confidence, walked out e Immediately two well-dressed boys, who had evidently watching for them to appear, came from the ecrner the building and started to cut them off. : Joe, from the shelter of the doorway, saw them advanc- , and without more ado he followed after the girls. Ah, there, girlies! © You can’t get away from us,” said Beckley, gliding up beside Nellie Marchant. hat’s what!” said Hen Parker, ranging alongside of rg with some spirit. , “the mill ™ Sok Beg Boies, Yonsrtiewe “ceen eax other mn’ ig Baked Brice, Man Unplegsan a sat caret your society. We wish you'd leave us d think you girls would be proud to be seen walk- A> in fact. it, understand?” t the reputation of being the boss of the mill that you irls stopped. a ee, foes us. don’t want anything to do with either of vou,” said | Hen?” ‘is going to get my father to fire *Look out tha “Well, we're not.” “Don’t you know that my father is president of the mill company?” said Brice, puffing out his chest. “And my father is superintendent,” chipped in Ben, “We are office employees and not common mill hands,” said Brice. ; st “That’s right; we’re considerably above the persons in the workrooms,” said Hen, “Then why do you lower yourselves by talking to us, two mill girls?” replied Nellie sarcastically. > ER “Because you are the two prettiest girls in the mill, and that fact raises you to our level, to a certain extent,” said Brice, with a smirk, ; “We'd rather stay on our own level, Brice Beckley.” said © Nellie, in a freezing way. “At any rate, we don’t care for your society, so kindly let us go our way and you and your ~ friend go yours.” - “You can’t shake us like that. you, aren’t we, Hen?” : “Nothing surer!” grinned Hen. . “You’re not going home with us,” answered Nellie, with a flash in her pretty eyes. nap “We generally do what suits us,” said Brice, grabbing — the girl by the arm. “Come along and we'll treat you both © to candy on the way.” . - Mew wt Hen caught Edna by the arm and the boys tried to force the girls toward the gate. \ fs Then Joe, who had paused within earshot of the group, thought it time to interfere. ; (Siam “Leave those girls alone,” he said, striding forward. =~ Ee ag- We are going home with Brice and Hen let go their grasp and turned around, gressively, for they recognized Joe’s voice: ~ cy Individually they hardly felt that they were a match for the muscular mill boy, but, collectively, they believed ‘oer could down him. i: They decided to test the matter at the first oppo i “What are you butting in for, Joe Garland?” — rice. “Yes, who asked you to chip in?” said Hen. Me “You’ve been annoying those girls long enough—too I told you yesterday to quit it. I want you * ) + “Ts that so?” sneered Brice. “ You think because you ell, you can’t boss us for sour apples, can en?” pert “I should say not,” said Hen. “No common mill aad on our necks. If he doesn’t look 0 9 i

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ars ' ; WINNING A FORTUNE. eae - . : “He’s crazy,” said Hen. As soon as possible she put her sor and daughter at work “Are you fellows going to leave those girls alone?” —the former at the cotton mill and the latter at the millinery “None of your business what we’re going to do,” retorted trade. Brice, aggressively. t That happened three years before our story opens, and “He’s got a nerve to talk to|you that way,” said Hen/during that time Joe had risen to fair wages in the big, “Why don’t you soak him, Brice?” - loom room, while Kittie Garland had become an expert hat “Come along, girls, I'll see you home,” said Joe. trimmer, and was practically in charge of the shop where “We'll grab him and trip him us, then we'll both soak/ she was employed. : é . him good,” said Brice, in a low tone to his companion. The little widow also took one boarder, who roomed with Both boys made a sudden rush at Joe, intending to take | Joe—an orphan lad who worked at the mill and was Joe’s -him by surprise. . particular friend. ; Then something happened. ; His name was Bob Swift. Joe hurled one of the rascals to the’ ground and’turning} Joe and Bob usually went home together, but on the upon the other gave him a left-handed blow that sent him | afternoon our story opens the former had’ been detained by reeling. the foreman of the room to help him make some repairs to _ The two girls saw that their plucky young champion was | a machine which had broken down. well able to handle the pair. : Bob was sitting at the kitchen door waiting for supper to “Come, girls,” said Joe, “we'll get along. be put on the table when Joe reached home. — - i Brice and Hen had got al! they wanted and théir not} Kittie was home from her work and was helping her _ over-good-looking faces reflected a very frogey look. nidther. They made no offer of retaliation for the handling they had| “Well; you got him at last, Joe,” said Bob. | ache ima the boss of the mill, but let Joe go off with the $ oh I'd pare bees here e pe sooner only for Brice _ bwo giris. eckley an e arker,” replied Joe. . ere Mr think they’ll let you alone after this,” said Joe, quietly. ots me: eas stop you?” ¥ we bf Fees sir Epis boy to down both of them at once ? Joe explained what happened in the mill yard. "You're just too brave for anything,” said Edus; Pi poe ware mae fas ees ent mee Peabo oe ex J wR ° % 3 s ° Ee ® 8 ° S 2. —] a: = =| & ‘ormance of the preceding rnoon in behalf of Nellie Brice from doing it. You've seen the Squire | Marchant and Edna Dale. © : ‘enough to know how pompous and self-important he Sobody. Wee Brice or Hen, who had made themsélves un- "He would object in a decided way ee son placing | popular by the frills they put on, and their overthrow was élf on the same level with the mill hands. He regards | received ‘with sreneral satisfaction. lf as one of the favored few, and has no use at all| Joe was complimented by many of the men, some of whom > wor e pecples except in their capacity as employees, daughtefs of their own at work in one of the rooms, 5 Suite, Se n't worry about me having a run-in with | while the girls generally, among who. Wi said Joe. mead tHe Meh. Desiel on toe sethie had o¢ the, 20th ; " sp e news, beamed on the young boss of the mi w the girls as far as Nellie’s home, and as Edna : two blocks further on, up the street, Ithough Nellie was one of most popular girl the — chose seat he | mill the attention ‘Joe constantly ‘owed her made Many them and kept on toward the little | of the girls jealous, for most of them would have only been | ~ noon . z » he an t d his widowed mother and a sister lived. | too happy if they could have captured the hoy for themsélves, *e ’ ABODE teh o’clock the office boy came into the operating- pe tka, m where Joe was employed and spoke to the foreman. CHAPTER 1. The foreman went over to Joe, and told him that the NE ee yi ege hm kp ; ar ts at means as complai to hi So “A the boss of the mill, Rtg GA or. i ‘cottage was 4 very modest-looking habitati “of moderate income and humb Peal aC been 1 a c —e ‘ stead : habi shaper Re dag ger r agliaamaaen y and thrift he managed to buy an acre of the cottage, which at first was mortgaged 4 On his ‘way to answer the summons he stopped at the looms run by Nellie and Edna and told them that he ed) yard aid hbk he Wiehe asad for That to. Sbheat” kaa ig ng T=" aaa taatae ni Mr. Parker, the superintendent of the Hillsdale Cotton *~~ | Mill, was a tall, angular-looking man, with rather a sour — ,| look, which indicated that his disposition was not the sv 7 a|est inthe world. ea ae ee aes "4 He sat at_his desk in his small office off the room, when Joe ee « x

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ea Dae eee WINNING A FORTUNE. “Now we'll see who’s boss of the mill,” whispered Hen to his chony. , , “I hope he gets fired,” returned Brice, spitefully. Joe knocked at the superintendent’s door and was told to walk in. This was the first time Garland had ever been summoned to the office, but he was not particularly apprehensive as -to the outcome. , “You sent for me, Mr. Parker,” he said. “T did,” replied the superintendent, looking 2 pleasant way, but then he hardly ever looked otherwise. en Met ard B fe "Be kley with my ‘son rice Cc x aly ad of me brute strength, you struck both of them to the aiid What have you to say about it?” Joe, said he had considerable to say. f He *told how and Brice had been persistently annoy- ing Nellie Marchant and Edna Dale, two of the operatives, with their undesirable attentions. “The young ladies have tried to avoid coming in contact “a alone,” weat-on Joe. “I was detained in the . ing-time yesterday, helping the foreman repair one of the machines in our room. When I started for home I found the two gitls inside the exit door, and I asked them why they not gone home.- They told mie they were afraid to out, as Henry and Brice were waiting for them, hav- ing told them they imtended to see them home. The-.girls had no desire for ir society and appealed to me to protect them. I told them to go ahead and I would see that the ' boys did not molest them, and they started.” ; Joe then described what followed. : “My son and Brice have given me a somewhat different version of the pagel said the superintendent,-sourly. “ re. ” » Hen and Brice were side of the question. They did so without hesitation, and needless to say they made Joe’s aggression dut in the blackest of colors. Joe said that they handled the truth very carelessly. “Do you mean to say that my son is a liar?” snorted the that néither he\nor Brice has made a _As it seems to be a question of veracity est that you send for the e story.” it is necessary, You went home with the ‘no doubt you cooked up a story to suit will feel bound to bear you out, as always stand by another. I am satisfied Brice have told the truth. Their stories every particular. It is ridiculous that either of lower themselves to make friends with mill girls. aen and know their place. The mill have shown a disposition of late to find fault with regulations recently put in force, and it is, taught a lesson. ‘You seem to be a sort of informed that you eall yourself the boss of unjustifiable assault you made on my son, and ‘ /of this company shows that you tactics to them. , It is up with a round turn. I therefore order you to collect what ’s all. You can go.” “T mean to say uf F a i a a : BEE! i your were brought from our employ and you get out at once. with indignation, whil of intense giving me a square deal, Mr. Parker,” said mandate? ? How dare you question my T.won’t ; bo in t ill. s here. SE agua hes 22 er Phe well gg pelts 5 SRR a _Joe. a et oe se Oa SAN Y Bevo Yon threwn De an 7 en I shall appeal from unfai So ‘ef the mill, resolately. , but turned to the work on his ~ \ e ’ "Ln, ; ’ é ‘ On the whole, he was rather glad of an excuse to strike the first blow, and he had an idea that it would bring the dissatisfied operatives to terms. , ‘ Joe went upstairs and announced to the foreman of his room that he had been discharged for laying out Brice and Hen the afternoon before while def Nellie and Edna from their unwished-for attentions. ‘ ; The foreman was staggered. . < He had heard about the affair and, in common with all © the hands, considered that the boy hadn’t treated the two — young rascals any worse than they deserved. Joe put on his\coat, and on his way to the door paused- long enough beside Nellie’s loom to explain the situation, — The girl was in indignant. She stopped her loom and went over to the foreman. sy =f “I want to go downstairs with Edna Dale and tell the ‘superintendent our side of the story,” she said. “It’s an — outrage that Joe, should be discharged for defending us — against those impertinent boys.” ; ee “You can go,” said the foreman, “and super straight from the shoulder. If he’s a -way genile- — man he'll listen to you’girls. Tell Joe to wait result.” The two girls marched down to the office and asked one «of the bookkeepers to tell the superintendent they wanted to see him in his office. : es .e “What are your names?” : f ‘ —Nellie Marchant and Edna Dale.” The bookkeeper carried their names In a moment or two he came back Parker declined ‘to see then. : “Did he tell you that?” said Nellie, with flashing eyes. “He did; miss.” ” ict ai ou Fey “We shall see him, anyway. Come on, Edna.” The clerk did not attempt to stop them, so the gir walked straight to the door of. the superintendent’s room and entered, Nellie in the lead. ee ft Mr. Parker looked up, and an angry frown came over iaiye, it to the ay in me with word that Mr. ae - Return to your work.” “We insist on tellin ¢ 1 Mr.

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4 WINNING A FORTUNE. If we allow you to establish such an unjust precedent the entire force will be at your mercy. Well, we prefer to stand or fall together. That’s all, sir.” The committee waited to see if their determined attitude would have any effect on the superintendent, It did, but not what they hoped for. : He sprang up and ordered them out of his office in terms that were far from gentlemanly. y : He said that he did not: propose to be dictated to by a lot of men who ought to be thankful they had good steady jobs under a liberal management. If they wanted to leave they could go. “There are hundreds of operators who will be glad to take your places. I can get all the people I want at short notice. Go, if you want to, but remember, ‘every man or girl who quits work to-day will stay away for good. I won't take one of you back, do you understand? Not one of you, under any circumstances.” . The committee were justly indignant over the insulting epithets applied to the body of workers, of which they were a part, and they retired without making any reply. The entire operating force were awaiting their return in anxious suspense, few believing that the mission would be successful. They had voted to stand by Joe Garland, the young boss of the mill, for a principle was at stake—the right to a square deal—and not a man nor a girl showed the white feather, though their ultimatum to quit work was a serious matter, The committee filed in front of them, and the spokesman told them not only the result, but the language that had been ~ applied to them as a whole. “So he called us down, eh?” roared a red-headed man, named Jimmy Brady, who was noted for his quick temper and aggressive disposition. “Are we going to stand that?” he shouted. S A chorus of dissent followed. “Aud we ought to be thankful for being permitted to work under such liberal management,” continued Brady, with angry sarcasm. “He said that, too. It’s a wonder he didn’t say that we ought to be thankful that we're alive, He’ll regret that speech, or my name’s not Jim Brady, Come on, let’s get.” - Brady started for the door and the stairs, and the others followed him. The doorkeeper was surprised to note that the whole force were going home to their dinners after a fifteen minute’s loss of time. : It was such a singular circumstances all around that he - questioned several as they passed out, but received no satis- faction. ; : When the last had walked out he rushed into the office ~ with his time-roll. “What in thunder can be up?” he said. “All hands are - going home to-day.” . $ “It means that the hands have struek because Joe Garland was discharged,” replied the head bookkeeper. “Go on, then,” he growled, “and make it short.” Nellie did go on and told the facts exactly as they were. Edna corroborated her. The truth of their story was evident in their manner and €arnestness, and the superintendent believed them, but he could not afford to go back on his ruling. He felt that his dignity would suffer. Besides, he wanted to make an example of a workman, anyway, for he was sour on the whole force. Well,” he said, grudgingly, “I will accept your story . as the true statement: of the circumstances, and I will lecture those young gentlemen and see that they do not annoy you in the dl “And you will reinstate Joe Garland,” said Nellie, eagerly. “No. I did not discharge him because he took your part, but because he acted like a bully in striking my son and the son of the president. He could have seen you girls home without taking the law into his hands.” . “But they started to attack him before he struck a blow,” _ eried Nellie, “He only knocked them down in self-defense.” “He could have avoided a row had he seen fit. A boy who calls himself the boss of the mill shows that he is of @ quarrelsome disposition, and I won’t have such a boy in the mill. That’s all, young ladies. You can go back to ein fase tod Joe G ince you refuse to do justice-to Joe Garland I shall not return to work. I shall quit the mill at once. Come, Edna,” and the beauty walked out of the office, followed by her anion. ° ip ths farcroag that thei tision tod Tailco sad tiny tal m that their mission ha i d _ decided to leave the mill. rtd dba While they were away the news of Joe’s discharge had _ gone through the building, like wildfire, and had produced i ng of a sensation. ie ack - was no rush on this occasion, and the doorkeeper n some wonder for the mob to pass out so he could He could. most do that ip. eyes shut, for he knew we ome. 3 their appearance, and his surprise. CHAPTER IV. JOR IS SURPRISED. yp *. Not a wheel nor @ spool turned in the Hillsdale Cotton Mill that afternoon. +58 os. All the operating rooms were deserted, not a single worker remaining to show allegiance to the company. The only ‘peovle St work wete thé. yard ment and: the peek: oor, in department on the to judge from the talk and attitude of these men it was Seubert rning ill, and that the boy was out for good. that. our final answer, sir?” asked the spokesman of t there was trouble at the mill was when a note, written v4 rintenden ud horized to tell you that afternoon unl: page pee SF api Lae work ; Rascaets 29

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Sp eae Se en. ee ee ee ee ee ee Te ee Paes SS om ware | > i ‘a . _ . i S : 7 WINNING A FORTUNE. 5 mr ae particulars for both the afternoon and morning “man from each paper went to the mill to get the management side of the trouble, while the others scurried around to interview the operators and learn what their grievance was. _ . During the afternoon the following bulletin was displayed in the window of one of the newspaper offices: “Strike at the Hillsdale Cotton Mill—AII of the Operatives Out—Full Particulars in the Early Edition, Just Out.” “Joe surprised his mother by coming into the house a little after eleven’ o’clock. He surprised her still more by telling her that he had | ' been discharged from the mill. He told her the particulars of his interview with Superin- _ tendent Parker, and she agreed that he had been most un- - fairly treated. - “What are you going to do now?” she asked him. 3 “I haven’t considered yet, mother, beyond my purpose to © call on Squire Beckley and put the case up to him. A man who allows his prejudices to sway his judgment, like Mr. r does, is not a capable superintendent. I dare say it is the stock he holds in the company that enables him to retain his job,” said Joe. “There is no other mill nearer, than Cloverdale, fifteen miles from here, where you could get work at your trade,” Said his mother. “If you went there you couldn’t come home oftener than once a week. 1 shouldn’t like to have you away a whole week ata time. Perhaps this trouble can be patched up.” ee | hope Se. I don’t want to go to Cloverdale.” a ies ee some further’ talk Joe went to his room to think a e arguments he proposed to submit to Squire Beckley ines be ie called on the pompous gentleman. ‘The Squire was not exactly a desirable person for one of ‘the common people to approach, and Joe realized that deli- cate fact. . Still, bein a lawyer, the boss of the mill had an idea he ; 4 ] Joe uttered a gasp of astonishment. “What brought the strike about?” “You.” “Me!” “Your discharge. The hands decided that you had not been fairly treated, so when the whistle blew a committee Was sent to the super to ask him to reinstate you. He not only wouldn’t, but insulted the committee for making such a request.' He said he wouldn’t be dictated to by a lot of cattle, meaning the operators.” “He was mighty complimentary to the people whose labor earns him the dividend on his stock.” “The committee then told him that if you were not put back on your job that the hands would not go to work this afternoon. He didn’t seem to care. He said he could get all the hands he wanted, and told the committee that every operator who failed to come to work this afternoon would stay away for good, for he wouldn’t take-one of them back,” said Bob “He said that?” “Yes, but it didn’t frighten the hands worth a cent. They quit, then and there. So we’re all out at present.” “Well, this is a big surprise to me,” said Joe. “It is a surprise to me, too. for I didn’t expect anything like that to happen,” said Bob. “In fact, it is a surprise all around. The idea of you, one of the best hands in the mill, being fired for defending two of the girls against the rascally conduct of Hen Parker and Brice Beckléy was the last thing I expected. We ought to to lay for those chaps and give them the licking of their lives.” “They deserve it, but it wouldn’t do to touch them with- ‘out they started the rumpus. You ought to have heard the way they lied to. Mr. Parker about the part they played ¥ e! in yesterday aiteteonts business. They claim to be young - gentlemen, superior in every way to common working people like us, but my! they’re so far from that their gentility is out of sight. No decent fellow would ‘be guilty of what they seem to be capable of doing.” “I should say not, and yet I suppose their parents think the sun. moon and stars circle around their heads,” said ‘would ‘weig! the evidence submitted to him on the scales | Joe, with a look of disgust. Bo: “T suppose that string of new rules framed by Mr. Parker mt ie ataee ane the fact at tie eoivets erento rose had something to do with ee the bbe -said Joe. 2 “There was a meeting arran or to-nig’ ane eee ys Ne as as the next person. could be done about having the most obnoxious called a5 . Squire Beckley had 1 no very exalted opinion of the average workman. If a workman brought a case to him professionally he ‘would take it, even on a contingent fee, and would do his best to win it, not because he sympathized with the work- ™man, but because that was ‘his business, and it was to his interest to-win. Such a client he always treated, as he invariably treated persons of inferior social grade, in a patronizing way. as wes really doing them a great favor to talk to them. half-past twelve Joe’s mother called him to din- went down to it. / end chewing the rag without some purpose. The place to do I suppose the meeting with take place, just the same, and the more serious phase of the situation, will be discussed?” “Yes, the meeting will be held, for I heard the’ spokes- man of the committee which waited on the super tell all- hands to be present. You must go, Joe.” “Of course, I'll be there.” “What shall we do this afternoon? We might go to the mill and see if any | of the hands are gathered there—on the outside, 1 mean.” “What’s the use? I don’t see any use of standing around | the talking that counts wll be at a meeting where all are He and Rob Swift were not in the habit of com‘ng home | present. No amount of talking will alter the fact that t ore * in the middle of the day, consequently Bob was not expected tier ; wile Swhat hrings you home? You won't be able -_to,sat he said. acces replied Bob, hauling up ee sents bustled around to get a plate going hack!” Meg re Joe. in surprise. “Why not?” ‘are reasons. You know, I suppose, that Nellie it and Dale quit" because the super wouldn’t pe ae they, really 2” ra Throwing up their, jobs 1 Have se them an et th ape rg Set to «Sandie hea Joe taken his seat at the table when Bob | is a strike on, and some kind of organization will be n sarv to fight the issue out successfully. I was going to call on Sauire Beckley, and ask him to review my case, but I’m afraid after what has happened that I might as well ie up. He will look upon me as the cause of the strike, and wonldn’t listen'to me,” said Joe. : “Jf the super keeps his word none of us will ever get. back to work at the mill,” said Bob. “That will be mighty hard on most of the hands. But what does he care when . he considers us like so much cattle? He’ll send to Clover- dale and elsewhere for new operators. and the whole bunch ~ of us will be out in the cold, I don't care, for I’d inst as — soon work at py ee else. but the old hands, who have families on their hands, will find thines pretty serious.” The boys, having finished their dinner, wot up and stroed "| tern ‘uncertain how they would put iin their hace) Mey 9 afternoon. ie CHAPTER V. JOE SAVES THE SQUIRE,

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As they approached a saloon within sight_of the mill they saw a bunch of men standing outside. They proved to be 2 gang of loafers of who some occasion- ally took an odd job in the mill: : Of course, the subject that engrossed them was the walk- : out, and they were planning some scheme for bringing the mill people to terms. ’ Jim Brady was the leading spirit of this crowd, and be- tween the liquor they had drank, and his fiery language and hot-headed suggestions, they were in an ugly mood. Brady was inside, more than half drunk, and when he was in’that state he was a dangerous man. : “T gucss we’d better steer clear of that erowd,” said Joe. Bob agreed with him and they crossed to the other side of the way. At that moment Brady came to-the door with several | other men, said something to the bunch,on the sidewalk, a immediately the crowd started up the street toward the mi “T wonder what they are up to now?” said Bob. Joe hadn’t the least idea, but he was rather suspicious of . the men’s actions. They were noisy and disorderly, and seemed to have some object in view. ., The boys followed on the other side of the street. “They stem to be bound for the mill,” said Bob. .“They look to“be in a fit shape to make trouble. If they start to do any damage they’ll soon land in jail and give the rest of the workers a black eye in the opinion of the public. Strikes are never won by violence,” said Joe. and stopped. < The boys hung back and watched them. ' They could see Brady arguing about something. Finally two men stepped out and joined the fiery leader. , The three then started alomg the fence, leaving the others d. / ; The boys circled around to keep Brady and his two com- panions in sight. é They went straight to the door of the office and entered the building. gone to have another argument with Mr. Parker, i throw them don’t work here regularly,” said Bob. ; \ “Brady is no man to interview Mr. Parker,” said Joe. _“He’s too hot-h even when perfectly sober. In his present condition he is likely to queer everything. Cool and -sensible heads are néeded to engineer this diffeulty. I’m dead sorry the hands decided to go out. I think it was a/| back. - big mistake.” wv “That's my opinion, too. There is no doubt that the, new rules have stirred the force up, but it was your discharge, followed by. Nellie t and Edna Dale throwing up their jobs, that i bs, matters to a climax. Hen and Brice are the ones who to have been discharged, or at least called down, for to the girls, but on account of being the sons of the superintendent and the president nothing was said to injustice of the thing is what has angered the operatives, and then when the super insulted all it was more than they could stand,” top of it is . Hello there’ something do- - Joe. and fighting desperately, but argument. up near thé closed door of~the mill yard | WINNING A FORTUNE. They made only a slight resistance, and then stood looking at Brady as the door was slammed behind them. “Brady got it in the neck that time,” grinned Bob. “I dare say he got abusive, and wouldn’t go out when ordered to do so, so he was thrown out. I can’t say that I sympathize with him. He had no business to call on the superintendent, especially in his drunken condition. When Jones, who is the man at the head of the Anti-rules Com- mittee, and who will doubtless take charge of this strike, hears about Brady’s call here, Jim will get a mighty big eall-down,” said Joe. “There come the rest of the fellows,” said Bob. The balance of the crowd were coming up, having got tired of waiting around the corner of the fence. They had not seen the expulsion of Brady and his two companions from the building, but they judged that some- thing was wrong when they saw Brady’s actions. He was shaking his first at the windows of the office and making the air sizzle with his remarks. When al! of them came together, Brady began to harangue them in a vigorous fashion, pointing at the office and thump- ing his fists together in a way which indicated how mad he was. At this juncture a large buggy, drawn by a handsome pair of horses and driven by a colored man, dashed up the street and alongside of the curb in front of the mill office. A stout, pompus-looking gentleman sat in the back seat. “There’s Squire Beckley,” said Joe. : “He looks as if he owned the town, doesn’t he?” said Bob. “{ dare say he thinks if he moved away and took the mill somewhere else the place would go out of business.” Brady saw the carriage drive up and recognized+the big mogul of the mill. . He and his bunch immediately started for it. The boys saw him start to address the Squire. That pompus personage got up to alight and ordered the crowd out of the way. This made Brady furious; and he shook his fist at the president of the mill, at the same time hurling an insulting epithet at him. : ee The Squire snatched the whip out of its socket and slashed * Brady in the face with the short lash. Then he laid it about on the heads and shoulders of the « ays rest. With a scream of rage, Brady sprang up, Seized © Squire by the arm and pulled him out of the buggy. ‘ The gentleman fell on the sidewalk. the whole jumped on hiin. , y '- , “Gee whiz!” cried Joe. “We m him,” He rushed across the st ; The darky driver spran but two: of the loafers t Out of the office ea the rescue. aah business, and picking up stones they back, stretching the superintendent i" Js, Hye P Pe Sait ‘was being badly handled. cut with a blow from Brady’s fist,” » while he received i i ; The loafers were in a 1 they not been have done him up altogether. ire Beckley ted for help and tried in vain to de- fend himself. :a ing the men aside wi! ; and knocking Brady on his. back with a well-directed right- hander. , ; anWhat in thunder is the matter with chaps ?” he cried, standing over the oralized Squire eyes. — “You a single — t to be ashamed of yourselves to att man in this way. Stand back!” “It’s Joe Garland!” excianon z gee he seoomniond “

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; be, hands in the nick of time, and. ene patieonee rewentios.” “Take him away before the police come and run in the whole bunch of yeu,” said Joe to the others, who He Ne held off because they recognized the boy as a friend. “Why did you butt in to save that man?” asked one of them. “Don’t you know he’s the president of this mill?” “Yes, I know it. You were fools to attack him, as. you are likely to find out if he has recognized any of you. You'd | better hurry away from here if you know when you're well $i for somebody im the office has doubtless telephoned for | the police, and they are liable to be here at any moment,” said Joe, turning his back on them and helping Bob to get the on his feet. The president of the mill was pon of a wreck after the rough-house he had been treated to. .His face was cut in two places, one of his eyes was swollen, while his legs and body were sore from bruises. His silk hat lay under the carriage, from which spot Bob rescued it. . The colored man had gone to the horses’ heads and was holding the animals, for they were nervous and frightened after the racket. - _ It was clear that Squire Beckley did not recognize the bors 2° a cogs of f his late employees. ey were both dressed neatly in their best clothes, which they had put on before starting out, and did not look like wa workers at 3, PY. young friends,” he ead. saved my life by fine. iP ye 4 = a meant to kill me. ce I shall be greatly opbieed you have done for me, I assure xe “T believe you have Those men, I dare > you. I won’t forget what ; particularly you, young | 1 knocked + man down man,” he said,. Shae You shall ling to Joe ytold Bob to ge pad » eae Rae of the ge 5: dtowd moved off adie he ted to go back Bi a, and Mee, Wh had been oven ¢ into the building by the fusillade of stones, came out and, lifting the senseless | superintendent, Sen him into the coutnting-room and) thence to ws lowed with ro limping president. _ doe * They orbets Nee r ~ aot and services were Roche ne wee eg Beckley, who was too much of a coward. to face mah gd men when they J punted on his father. . else for nih Squire Beckley?” asked he oe ae they had plaeed_ the Squire’s other arm | iy struggling in their ) 0é up. the book- ~ag pivot chair. fos a doctor. | : ppatk the mill. | ‘saw Brie at thie door. y nts a doctor at once. Send for one Ly E Bon lose say. tinte ia calls n’f lose any time in calling up the i to the telephone, and found that a doctor sent for on account of Mr. Parker, who oe told silane Squire that his ee Wad Rone to the telephone want hes tell me] ot who Ms tlle” ner Pon he | a ear 5 with the names nor atitity | ént dream | cannes ide ‘and 00 Geehk APU’ It may = aa Morte wha | well, ae Ret y aiiy fie to | sot for 8 eb sa bp ithe bad, ant Mor wanted Py” Pig! fe | at ee you spoke about. ds wé ave both well hich, event no, notice Joe. hay eir own to learn I have been emvloved in this mill fer ' Mr. WINNING A FORTUNE. 7 a matter of tlrree years, while Bob Swift has been working here for a year.’ “What!” exclaimed the Squire, staring at him. been employed in this mill for three years? capacity, may I ask?” “In. various capacities, for the last year and a half in the big loom-room,” replied Joe. “Do you mean to/say you are one of my workingmen?” “Yes, sir, I was tp to eleven o’clock to-day, when I was discharged by yaur superintendent, Mr. Parker, in what I consider an unjustifiable way.” The Squire seemed quite staggered. “You have In what CHAPTER VI. JOE SCORES A VICTORY. “You don’t look like a working boy,” he said, after a pause, during which he sized Joe up from head to foot. “Maybe not, siv; for I haven’t got.my working clothes on now,” replied Joe. “And you say you were discharged, and without what you consider cause?” “Yes, sir.” “You shall be reinstated—reinstated, do you understand? am under ¢reat obligations to you, and to your friend as well. You shall be not only reinstated, but rewarded as x “dao wish any reward, sir.. If you will hand me an ont reinstating meé, that is all J ask That will probably end the strike that téok place = noon to-day and is on at this pena ac "Strike! I had forgotten aboat it,” said the Squire, with a tia Mbia the operatives strike on your account?” »*Pattiilly so, and partially on aecount of the new rules introduced by Mr. Parker, which, in our estimation, are not just what we like. I think, sir, if yeu will look into the me 8 ter you will agree that some modification ought to be ma in them.’ But it ifn’¢ for me to make any suggestions.” “So the operatives quit work at noon to-day on your ac- count, or partially so,” sai Squire Beckley. “Under such circumstances, had you not rendéred me @ great service. I should refuse to take you _baek, but you have redeemed yourself in my Gstimation. If you receive from me an order of reinstatement you think that will end this strike, eh?” “J think I ean promise that, sir. I will show your order at the meeting which has been called for this evening, and if you will also proniise to look into the matter of the objec- | fionable new rules I am satisfied that all hands will réport n the morning as if nothing had happenédd,” said Joe. ” «Very well; as a reward to you I will yield all the points you ask. This is a concession I am not accustomed to grant working people in my employ; but Tam @oing this i you and not for the operatives, who, I think; ought to be paibted for interrupting the husiness of this company, However, we will let that pess. I am dealing with yon, and you seem to be the boss of the mill just now. . Hereafter if operatives have any complaints to make let them ae through you. I will listen to you, but nevody else. won’t have any committees calling on me, or on the superin- tendent . Do you understand ? ; mes sir.” he Squire,.who was fecling somewhat recovered, took, a en of paper beating the company’s imprint and wrote an order reinstating see in the mill and promising to. consider | the question of the new rules. ift. ” This he signed with his. official signeture and handed it to Joe. “Thank you; sir; I'm yery much obliged to you. Shall I brag “ s to ‘the superintendtnt to-morrow 7” said Joe. be necessary, 2s I speak to him about you. the paper to show operatives thi ou arecautherized to aces rt in the morning at the usual ce will be taken of the half ve accord,” said the Squire, see report, sir,” replied Joe. Pe Brice at the doorway and said Be see 1 intr el rod sad was tea MY

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“4What's the matter with Mr. Parker?” asked the Squire, in| threw up her job when the superintendent refused to do some surprise. “He was struck senseless by a stone when he rushed out to help you.” ; “Indeed! This has been a serious affair,” said the Squire. “Send one of the officers in.” - Joe said he and Bob would now take their leave. “One moment,” said the president. “Did you recognize the men who attacked me as people connected with the mill?” “I must admit that they work here occasionally, but beyond that I hope you won’t press me for information. The men were excited and did not realize what they were doing.” The Squire looked a bit displeased. A; : “J see no reason why you should shield their identity. But for you they might have killed me, at least that big ruffian you knocked down would. I think it is your duty to tell me who they were.” “There was no excuse for his attack on you, nor did he have any authority for calling at the office in behalf of the operatives. His actions were calculated to give the strike a black eye, and when the facts reach the attention of your working people his conduct will be repudiated. “His name is Jimmy Brady,” said Brice. “I recognized him, ” “The Squire wrote it down. - He was satisfied to have the ringleader’s name. as he had ~ no doubt that provided with this information the police - would be able to°round most of the others up, and the Squire intended te make them all pay dearly for the attack they made upon him, and the superintendent. Joe and Bob then left the office of the mill, glad they did not have to give away any of their friends. “That was a ten- By . “That paper you got will . satisfy the hands to-night, and everybody, excepting Brady, and probably some of his cronies will go back to work in the morning. You are certainly the boss of the mill, for you are now able to call off the strike.” “It was a fortunate occurrence for me and the operatives, though decidedly the opposite for Squire Beckley and Mr. Parker,” replied Joe. “I am glad that the matter is in line for an amicable settlement. The people will have no excuse for the president is the real boss of the mill,” said Bob. “He won’t be able to block the arrangement, for I have the paper in the Squire’s own handwriting and that binds the company,” said Joe, in a tone of satisfaction. ¢ “The operatives ought to vote you a gold medal, Joe, in of your services to them. They'll only lose half now, whereas had the strike gone on they would doing my duty. The me, why shouldn’t I return the favor?” account big howl against inside track dent is willing to WINNING A FORTUNE. 1 justice to him. Edna Dale always followed Nellie’s leady for the two girls were chums. Bob had been trying for some time to make himself solid with Edna, but had only partially succeeded. However, she liked him better than any other boy: sh knew, unless it was Joe, who was every girl’s favorite, Bob hoped to get there in time. fhen the boys reached Nellie’s house they found har and - Edna together, each engaged in some kind of fancy work. Mrs. Marchant admitted the visitors. “Hello, girls!” said Joe, in his cheery. tones. you up to?” “Up to our eyes in business,” replied Nellie, laughingly. “Lm glad to see that you are trying to keep out of mis- “What are Nel the idea! I don’t call that complimentary,” said ellie. “You mustn’t mind what I say,” replied Joe. “We have called to give you good news. Of course, you know that all the operatives struck work this aftenoon?” “Yes, Ada Smith came in and told me. I’m afraid fie workers will find that they can’t coerce the superin' I He is a very disagreeable man to deal with. At least that is my opinion and Edna’s. He was barely civil to us when we forced him to listen to us, after he first refused to see us. He accepted our story as the truth, but under no cir-~ cumstances would he take you back. His attitude was so unfair toward you that, realizing that we were the cause Ba to your discharge, we decided to quit work at the mill. Pmt quitting didn’t do me any good, but something else “Do you mean that the strike induced Mr. Parker to ta’ water?” I haven’t talked to the superintendent since I was fired, but I had an interview with Squire Beckley, and I’ve been reinstated by him. Not only that, but I got him to promise to go into the matter of the new rules, with a view to having their objectionable features cut out, or at least modified.” “Why, how did you work this miracle?” asked Nellie, much surprised, Then Joe explained about. the attack made on the Squire by Jim Brady and his crowd of outsiders, and how he and Bob happened to be on-hand and had jumped in and saved im from being badly done up. “The Squire was grateful for the service I rendered him, and I made the most out of it for the benefit of the opera- tives. I am authorized to direct them to report as usual in the morning, I shall do so at the meeting this eve- ning, which, I judge, will be attended by all hands,” said Joe. “Shall I call for you, Nellie ” i “You may.” ’ “Will you permit me to call.for you, Edna?” asked Bob. “Yes, if you want to.” Sins ; : Joe showed the paper in the Squire’s handwriting to the girls, and soon afterward they took their leave. CHAPTER VII. THE END OF THE STRIKE, Mrs. Garland was pleased when Joe told her that he had been reinstated at mill, and that the strike might considered as ended. Her son told her how this satisfactory state of things had i ye seat and she expressed her sympathy for the re. “He’s not so bad as he’s been Joe. “At any rate, he’s a whole lot toward hi Mr.

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—_—_— — _. , “The trouble with them is that they feel too self-important ° for their shoes,” said Joe. “Boys who have well-to-do rich i oe often show that tendency, and it gets them dis- % Shortly after supper the two boys started out to go to the ' homes of the girls they had offered to escort to the meeting. | An Senr later they turned up with their partners at the | small nar which the committee of the mill operatives had rented for the evening. ~ her found the major part of the employees already on Dad The girls were inside, but half of the men and boys were on the sidewalk, talking about the future of the strike. Probably a third of those present privately regretted the . pasty ste, and felt rather down in the mouth over probable results. The superintendent’s threat that he would take nobody back who left that afternoon had a depressing effect on those who felt that they could not afford to remain idle long. majority had some spare funds put away for a rainy day, but a succession of rainy days would soon dissipate it; _* and then things would go hard with them. All hands realized now in earnest that a strike was a Serious thing, no matter how just the cause was at the back of it, and that the advantage was all with the company. It would not be a difficult matter for the superintendent » to replace all of.the striking operatives, and then how would _ they come out? , And yet not one of them but rebelled at having been al- luded to in such a contemptuous way by Mr. Parker. And they resented many of the new rules that had been eo these rules th - ese es they considered arbitrary and unnecessary, and adopted by the superintendent to humiliate them. At that moment Mr. Parker was probably the most disliked man in Hillsdale. . . Nobody appeared to feel sore at Joe Garland because he had aboebetly been the moving cause of the walkout. _. Men who had daughters employed in the mill up to noon that day shook him by the hand and praised him for the bold front he had put up in defense of Nellie Marchant and Edna Dale. aeey felt he would have acted the same way in behalf - of their daughters had there been need of it. _ Soon after the arrival of Joe’ and Bob, with their girls, _ the men and boys outside piled into the hall-and the spokes- " _ of the committee, George Jones, called the meeting to ier. " E The first thing he did was to ask those present whether they intended to stick together. ; ' There was an unanimous response. Nobody would publicly admit that he felt faint-hearted. Jones then made a spgech in which he said that it was the intention of the committee to call on Squire Beckley _ next morning and try to effect an amicable settlement. He expressed an optimistic opinion in order to encourage the workers and all hands looked more cheerful. . Then a damper was thrown upon the meeting when an 2 named Watkins got up and informed the crowd he was jd Jim Brady had queered them altogether. “How it that?” asked Jones from the platform. Watkins said he had heard from a couple of outsiders Brady and a crowd of his chums had called at the sill that afternoon and assaulted both the presiden: and the it and smashed all the’ windows in the office. If a bomb had exploded in the hall at that moment it could hardly have caused greater consternation. Tf it was true it probably sounded the knell co all their is “the who d, his S$ le . drunken off he might haye epee Darloe web ange Hine! tor gemma ‘mur of consternation went around the room, > by rascal!” roared @ worker, who in, Me ' tie 4 WINNING A FORTUNE. ae that the strike was going to play the mischief with himself and his family. “This is certainly very serious,” said Jones. “We will have to publicly repudiate the conduct of Brady and his | friends. They ain’t regular mill hands.” “But it will kill our chances with the company,” said a ' man in the crowd, and the majority agreed with him. a yer started to talk, and considerable confusion en- sued. Joe took advantage of the chance to work his way up to the platform. “I want to address the meeting, Mr. Jones,” he said. “I re or news to tell all hands, and‘this is the time to tell it. 3 “Come right up, Joe,” said Jones. “The operatives will listen to you for you are the most popular workman present.” Jones then announced that Joe Garland had something of importance to say to the meeting. Joe stepped to the edge of the platform. “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow-workers, I have come for- ward to say something which I think will relieve all the anxiety called up by the statement, corroborated by me, that Jim Brady made a most cowardly and unjustifiable. attack upon the president and superintendent of the Hills- dale Cotton Mill, this afternoon. I stated on the floor that Bob Swift and myself went to the assistance of Squire Beck- ley. We succeeded in extricating him from the half-drunken bunch, and then: we led him into his private office. As I had knocked Brady down twice, the Squire seemed to recog- nize me as the chief factor of his rescue, and he expressed his gratitude in a way that showed he meant it. At the same time he did not identify either Bob or me as mill hands. We had on our Sunday suits, as we have now, and he took us for boys on a par with his son, for ha asked me if I was ac- quainted with Brice. I admitted that I was, and then I came out with the truth—that I had been employed in the mill for three years and had been discharged by Mr. Parker this morning, unfairly. The statement that-I was a mil! hand seemed to stagger him considerably. However, he drew a fresh breath and said that I should be reinstated at once, and also rewarded, I didn’t want any reward, but I did want to end the strike satisfactorily all around. So I told the Squire as my discharge had considerable to do with the people quit- ting work, that I guessed my reinstatement would end the- strike, particularly if he consented to look into the objec- tionable new rules. Well, to cut it short, I have a paper in my pocket officially reinstating me, and also promising to consider the question of the rules. This paper was written © and signed by the Squire in the presence of Bob Swift and myself. In conclusion, I will say that Squire Beckley author- ized me to inform you here this evening that you al! can report at the usual time in the morning and go to work, just as if you had not taken a half holiday without permission of the company.” As Joe uttered those words a tumultuous cheer that shook ie hall went up from the throats of the assembled opera- | tives. ? | For some moments the majority acted like half-crazy peo- | ple, so pleased were they to get a | been facing them. ; t of the trouble which had ——~ | “Three cheers for Joe Garland, the boss of the mill!” 24 sided. . | The cheers were given with a .will, and >the girls and ‘women waved their handkerchiefs like a forrest of white — plumes ‘swayed by a high wind. gf Joe held.up his hand for silence. ~ a Gog “In doing a great favor for the president of the mill I seem to have got into his good graces to a considerable’ ex- tent. At any rate, he desires me to tell you that if you have. . any grievance in the future he insists that you shall not bihehps me to act as your emissary. He won't see anybody ' else.” Fe hae vane “You are boss. “Don’t get anes Watkins, as soon as the excitement had partially sub-__ ; She. any more committees either to him or the superintendent but

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10 There was a general laugh at his remark, and one of the girls cried out, “You are all right, Joe!” “T hope I am,” he said, “and I mean to continue to be. I cannot conclude my remarks without thanking you, indi- vidually and collectively, for standing by me wh® as dis- charged without any real reason. It shows a loyalu%on your part that I fully appreciate. At the same time I felt very | sorry when I heard that you had all quit work as an ex- pression of your resentment, not only for my discharge, but | because the superintendent alluded to you insultingly. While that was an insult, you should rather have received it with contempt for 2 man who showed himself to be se little of the | accident. gentleman as to apply such a false and undeserved epithet to os a body of honest and skilled workers in his employ, because he h id the power to get I back at you, and in such a case it is not wise to knock one’s head against a stone wall. You un- derstand what I mean. However, all’s well that ends well. It was a fortunate circumstance that I was unexpectedly placed in the position where I could take advantage of the chance to bring this brief strike to a satisfactory conlusion. So now all you have to do is to go home, turn in and get up in the morning with the knowledge that you haven't lost your jobs. That’s all.” Joe bowed. amid hearty applause, and went to Jones to show hita the paper whieh proved he was reinstated, ‘and that the Rceident had agreed to consider the question of an adjustment of the new rules. A noesioe of the workers went home right away, but the | remained until Jones confirmed everything by holding. up, the paper Squire Beckley had given Joe in con- sideration of his services in his behalf. When Joe stepped on the floor he was surrounded by a crowd that could not half express their warm sentiments towards him. They declared that he was not only the boss of the mill. but the boss bay in Hillsdale, and that medal for ending the strike at its outset. ; The meeting which had threatened to be something like a funeral wound up in hilarity and good feeling. Jim Brady and his companions had stayed away, for after their outbreak they thought it best to go in hiding. If they had shown up they would have been arrested, for several officers appeared at the hall with warrants for Brady and half a dozen others, whose identity not being known were mentioned under the legal fiction John Doe On the whole, it was a great night for Joe Garland. : Henceforth he would be more than ever recognized as the _ ‘boss of the mill. = CHAPTER VIII. THE INFERNAL MACHINE. » Hillsdale dailies next morning reported that the had ended with satisfaction to all partiés con- ; “2 So printed at some length the story of the attack 3 Ee not’ connected with the mill force. the president of the mill from, the hands of the re oe of the rascals had been arvested up to the’time the ag andi to press, but it was considered only a question. of a short time when they would be rounded up by the police 9 were looking for them. fhe mill presented its customary busy aspect that day. - y was’ happy, except perhaps the superintendent, dgingly conformed to “dig not Bae at all eral to, Joe for tind donee e h Mis ¢ father , gnicht for own welfare, PF denget, ‘WINNING A FORTUNE. | coheed 2s St hme is Sa ae [ft oe f Fall is so Retype f + said to Hen, as he was checking off a number of invoices his friend had made out. “Me, too,” replied Hen. “My father is as mad as a hatter over it. I heard him tell my mother that it made a farce of his authority in the mill. He said he had a Breat mind to re- Sign as superintendent.” “My father seems to think that Joe Garland is. something above the common, even if he is a mill hand. He told my . mother that it was a most astonishing performanee the way he bowled that“drunken Jim Brady over—-a man who seemed strong and burly enough to eat him. Of course, it was an You can’t tell me that he can whip a man. The was, Brady was too drunk to defend himself, or he never have got away with him as he did. You can take my ward for it that it was a fluke.” “Brady will polish him off when he meets him, I'll bet,? ¢ said Hen. “No fear of that, for Brady will be arrested on sight.” “Pd ‘like to hear of him doing up Garland before he’s pinched,” “You won't hear of it, for that duffer will not get, in his way. “Never mind themi, let’s talk about something else. ‘To- morrow is Saturday. We'must get off early and take a sail down the bay in your boat,” said Hen. “All right, Hen, you’re on. T’ll speak to the head book- keeper and tell him that the dogtor told us we must not work too hard, but get all the open air we can. He’ll : ane Brice gathered up the invoices, O. K.’d bens and took them ; out to the shipping clerk in the next roo ie. Upstairs in the-hig loom room Joe "Gatiand, who had ti veloped into quite a machinist, was fixing up something had gone wrong jn Nellie Marchant’s loom. He ran a loom himself at one end of the room when not’ |hint and let us go around town.” he deserved a gold otherwise employed, but not half of his time was spent at it. Nellie was talking to him while she was waiting. She had to bend down over him to make herself heard above the hum of the bobbins and the jar of the machinery. ” “How are you getting on, Joe?” she asked. “The superin- tendent has come up and is looking around the room. I don’t want him to see me standing here doing nothing.” “Tt isn’t your fault. You can’t get busy till T've fixed this part of the machine so it will run,” replied Joe, working away with his wrench. “Well, you know what he is. And I guess he’s unusually grouchy. this morning., He looks as if he ate something for breakfast that has disagreed with him,” and she laughed softly. t “I dare say he’s sore to think that all the old hands, inclad- — ing myself, are back on the job,” routed Joe. “Several of the men are not back this morning,” she said. “You mean Brady and or four of his friends who were concerned in yesterday’s out . They're out tor gape, and mighty lucky they are that there not in jail,” Joe. “I think a d man is a terrible thing to\face when iiss Smeets up. I m’t_ see how you ever did it, 1067-2248 “It was my duty to try and saye the Squire if I could. I would have fone as + Fans for Mr. Parker he been in that lent, though he did hounce mein an fix instead of unpleasant ver” “You’re a nice boy, Joe. I don’t wonder all the girls are ; sweet on you.” “They don’t irene me. apere's paly one girl I care for, — 4 and you aught f° who Perhaps Nellie aa Yor she blushed and remained silent. Joe got up and the A moment later He watched it run for p ay mae and then said: “Tt’s all right now, Ni “er ahead.” He picked ap his Lote and walked off, followed by the ad- miring eyes of most o girls as he passed along. , if Hace came and the mill shut pea for the usual din- — ner hour, a ae tf Sl a at a Ae 5 | mia? Ste rod open. a the timekoner hed Te i a rasa secon ineieiieia

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WINNING A FORTUNE. 11 He had very bright eyes, however, and these seemed to take in everything in sight. No one took any notice of him, and after a few moments he ventured into the yard and hobbled in a slow and unsteady Way over to the door of the engine-room, which was a one- story brick structure on one side of! the mill proper. _ engineer had gone home to dinner, leaying his fire- , Man on duty, and that individual was seated on a stool, un- der the windew opposite the door, eating his dinner out of his pail and absorbed in the columns of the Hillsdale Morn- ing Globe. ; “| wonder who that old guy is and what he wants in here ?” Said Bob. “I couldn’t tell you.; Maybe he’s a friend of the engineer or the fireman,” said Joe, who did not take any particular interest in the ancient visitor, : ’ “He looks the very picture of Rip: Van Winkle after his sleep of twenty years in the mountains,” grinned Bob. “There he goes into the engine-réom.” : The white-haired-old man entered the place so lightly that the fireman did fot-hear him and consequently did not look . Up from: his paper. ° : With a stealthy movement the old fellow made his way to the back of the ong and stooping lower took something out of his pocket and after fingering it a few moments placed it under the heavy steel driving-arm of the engine, now, at rest just off the dead center. : _ Then he straightened up and glided to the door with re- markable celerity for one of his apparent years, and utterly at variance with his former slow and labored gait. Stepping outside; he resumed his former attitude, but his Walk was a bit faster than when he came into the yard. He soon Feeges the entrance, walked out and disappeared the sight?of the boys. ‘ i stay long,” said Bob. ~ “No, I guess he wanted to seé the engineer, but Brown has - one home: to dinner,” said Joe, getting up and stretching himself. “I’m going to get a drink, Bob,” he added, starting * for the See es where there ‘vas a cooley. Bob ded, drew his hat over his eyes and yawned in a way. é yee entered the engine-room., , . Bhe fireman looked up and recognized him. '“Hello, Joe!” he said. “I was just reading about! your &trentious encounter with Jim Brady and-his friends yester- day. You ae eprteinly a lad wi gan I don’t, see how 3 ever away wi y. é’s a tough nut at an time, but never moté so than when he's cot a load on.” . “I didn’t give him a chancé to do anything. I know how to handle my fists, while he doesn’t appear to be blessed - a much knowledge in that direction. Wio Was your vis- r? ; “What visitor?” asked the fireman. “The old white-headed chap who stepped in here a few ago. “T nig see pe cee Se You must be mistaken.” ‘ *No, I R Fao en. ob and I saw him come in here.” fe’s gone. He didn’t stay more than three or four min- “Well, I didn’t see him. Maybe he was lookine for Brown.” SPehably. Ins oing to take a danic” Ses gitelp yourself.” de} which stood on a shelf behind a. ticking close by listened as he drank a e low brick trough in which the driving- ; over a step or two and his eyes following the he saw a small metallic square Sarnates standing in é -is this thing?” he asked, atthe aremsne “Come here and look at it.” The fireman came over. “Where did you find that?” “Down there under the driving arm.” “What makes that noise? It’s ticking like a clock.” ayy you know anything about it?” “ oe? >» “Why should such a thing be under the driving arm?” “Tt shouldn’t be.” “Well that’s where it was. By George! could that old man have placed it there? If he did it was for a purpose. at if it should be an infernal machine intended to blow the en- gine-room up. The first revolution of the driving-wheel would have brought the arm down with erushing force on it and then 4 5 : ) “Good gracious! throw it out!” gasped the fireman, in a panic. “It might go off in your hands and blow both of us to _kingdom-come, with the engine-room.” Joe said not another word, but darting to the open win- | dow threw the canister toward a heap of ashes, instead of striking the ashes it went over the pile and struck an iron barrow which lay against the heap. There was a bright flash of light and a stunning report, The engine-room shook from the concussion, ‘ _ The pile of ashes disappeared in a cloud.of smoke, while the fence at that side was blown outward, like it were made ~ of cardboard. As for the barrow, it was shattered into a thousand splint- ers. The mill itself swayed as if from a shock of earthquake, and the greatest consternation took place both inside and out of the building. -ooeoo CHAPTER IX. AFTER THE EXPLOSION. Joe and the fireman were sent staggering around for a moment or two before they recovered their balance, and found themselves covered with fine particles of the glass blown out of the back engine-room window. “My gracious!” exclaimed Joe. “What an estape!” The fireman’s face was white, and he shivered as from tha ague. .* He couldn't*utter a word so upset was he. : The shock had startled the half-asleep Bob into broad wakefulness and sent him to his feet. t The puff of white smoke rising from the year of the en- gine-room brought the workmen, who had rughed out of the building, in that direction. ; People for blocks around the neighborhod came running to- ward ‘the mill, wondering what had happened. The general impression was that the boiler in the engine- reony had blown up. - : She superintendent and the office force had run out of the counting-reom on to the sidewalk, in fear of their lives, but finding that nothing more followed they hastened into the yard. Joe and the fireman had gone out of the engine-room by the back door, and were looking at the results of the ex- plosion—the dismantled fence, the scattered ashes and a hole in the ground. “The ash. pile saved the enginc-room from the worst of the shock, I guess,” said Joe, “otherwise the side of the would have been driven in ju&t as the wooden fence was bl out.” f you hadn’t come into the engine-room for a and aan “« the cup on the shelf he noticed that the | noticed the ticking inside that bomb, picked it up threw it out of the window in time the engine, boiler and house would have been blown to pieces, and then where would I be now? Yon sayed my life, Joe, as well as the com- pany’s property, and J shan’t forget it,” said the fireman, At that moment Bob came on.,the scene. “What exploded, Joe?” he asked. “I thought it was the bel & aye but when I saw nothing wrong with the en- | gine-house ew that something else must have caused it.” “A bomb ae “A bomb!” exclaimed the astonished Bob. “Exactly. bows . “How do you that out?” he asked, as a score or more: of the men em appeared around the engine-house.

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12 From the open windows above probably a dozen girls were now looking down, after recovering from the panic the ex- plosion had thrown them into. The greater part of the girls had not yet come back from .their homes. 9 : Joe explained all that had taken place in the engine-room when he went in there for a’ drink, and the crowd listened in astonishment. Most of them regarded Joe with wonder to think he had held that terrible canister in his hands for as. good “as three or four minutes, listening to its fateful ticking, and still sur- vived to tell the tale. Hardly had he finished his story when the superintendent made his appearance. He looked at the hole, and the fence, and then around the : place. 4 ‘ Ea caused that explosion?” he demanded, sourly, of a : an a “Joe Garland can tell you all about it, sir,” replied the man. : The workers fell back as Mr. Parker walked up to Joe. : “Well, what do you know about this matter?” he said to ae boss of the mill in a tone that was the reverse of pleas- “I know about all there is to tell, sir.” “Then out with it, What caused the explosion?” “A bomb! Impossible!” exclaimed Mr. Parker. “What would bring a bomb here?” “A man, disguised with a white wig and long white beard, , brought it here, I should judge, for such a person entered _. the engine-room just before I went in there to get a drink t of water at the cooler, and went away inside of five min- utes later,” replied Joe. “What kind of a yarn are perintendent, angrily. ’ “No yarn, sir. I saw the man I mentioned go in there, and so did Bob Swift, but, of course, as we were outside we did not’see him plant the bomb where I saw it, under the , big driving-arm of the engine.” “e ~“How do you know it was a bomb?” “TJ only guessed at it, but I think it has left evidence enough to prove its character. Nothing else could have done the damage you see.” “Tell me the whole story.” Joe did so, and Mr.”Parker became convinced that an at- tempt had been made by some unknown enemy to blow the engize-room up. Although it was quite clear that Joe had saved the engine- ‘house, as well ‘as the fireman’s life, Mr. Parker did not take the trouble to thank, or even commend him. He walked around, examining the mischief made by the ex- ‘ plosive, and then hastened to his office, where he got into rau communication with the police over the ’phone. ae Brice and Hen, together with the rest of the office force, 3 ‘came around to investigate out of curiosity. ; ‘They learned all the particulars from the workers. ‘They, too, were astonished to hear that Joe had had the - bomb in his hands inside of half a minute before it went off. - “Tf he’d known what it was you can bet he wouldn’t have picked it up,” said Brice, who hated to think that all the credit for saving the company’s property rested with the boy he disliked. _ _ If the bomb had blown Joe into little bits he wouldn’t have er a great deal, and the same sentiment was My, 9 ed by Hen. > They tried to create the impression that Joe hadn’t done _ such a big thing as the others believed he had, but nobody ‘paid any attention to their remarks. The engineer had come back from his dinner and was lis- to the explanation the fireman was giving him. He had heard the explosion, but at the time did not econ- nect it with the mill, though the sound came from that direc- A big crowd of the shattered you telling me?” asked the su- WINNING A FORTUNE. which they had heard, and which many feared had happened at the mill. They soon learned that a bomb had created considerable havoe at the rear of the engine-house, and half of them-went around there to see for themselves. | The rest went upstairs and crowded the windows overlook- | , ing the scene. Joe’s name was on every lip, and his narrow escape from . oe death, with the fireman, was talked of on every ~ and. When Nellie Marchant heard the facts she turned almost white, for she was more interested in the boss of the mill than she cared to admit. , In the midst of the excitement the whistle blew and work — was resumed throughout the building, just as if nothing had happened. fae Mr. Parker communicated with Squire Beckley over the — wire—the president being confined to his house by the in- = juries he had sustained at the hands of Jim Brady and his _ crowd—and told him all the facts of the outrage. He mentioned Joe’s connection with the incident, but did not give him any particular credit. 4 Still his statement showed that the boy had saved the en- gine-house and all that was in it from annihilation, and Squire Beckley, who seemed to have taken a most, unusual fancy for Joe, sent word that he be directed to report at once at his (the Squire’s) residence. rae Mr. Parker sent Brice upstairs to notify Joe to go imme- ~ diately to the Squire’s house, and the boy was soon on his way. : On his arrival he was shown into the library where he found the Squire reading a long legal document connected with an important case he had taken. Pointing to a chair the pompous gentleman, who unbent — somewhat before Joe, said he had sent for him to learn all the facts connected with the explosion, Joe went into the deizils and described the white-headed and bearded old man as accurately as he could. “It is my opinion he was disguised,” said the boy, “but who he could be I’ve not the least idea.” : “Tt must have been one of those ruffians who attacked me yesterday,” said the Squire. “Who else would have! any . ject in doing an injury to the mill?” : Joe agreed with him, for he couldn’t think of anybody else. who would be guilty of such a crime. In fact there was only one man of those who’ had’ not showed up for work that morning that he would have sus- pected, and that was Jim Brady. He told Squire Beckley so. . “Tf jit was he, he must be a daring scoundrel to venture _ near the mill in broad see Hh knowing that the folice of this town are looking for him,” said the Squire. © = “He had a good disguise and counted on that to pass un- recognized, supposing, of course, that he was the man who planted the bomb,” replied Joe. “Well, you saved several thousand dollars’ worth of the company’s property, and prevented the mill from shutting down, which it would have been obliged to do for lack of power to drive the machinery had the engine-house been de- stroyed. I shall see that you are suitably rewarded for the risk you ran, and the service you performed in this matter. I am more than ever convinced that you are an unusual kind of boy, several pegs above the position in life you now oc- — cupy. The company wants just such people as you in the _ higher branches of the business, and I think you can rest- — assured that you will be advanced in our employ. At any — rate, F have taken an interest in you and you will find that — an advantage to you.” The Squire said that was all, and so Joe took his leave and went back to the mill. eo a ee > ee, See ee —_—_—_— { cure IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES. x Of course, the evening papers had a graphic account i ont the explosion tthe milk nd the thine part Joe ented : Pe The reporters had interviewed him soon after he returned ae PoE ee eee f

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"eek Sate a | “=~ | 2: ae”) ho oe ee eee tC a’ eS hy en ae ee ee, Ae ee One Be , ; : etd 2 as 2 WINNING A FORTUNE. 18 gree ees © oR ee ne ae ae SS ee er a he A NS ; _ with such additions as they picked up from the fire- The two boys headed for the mouth of the bay, intending Fe et tyne 4 | to around the island and come back, unless they had time te It proved a big sensation for the people of Hillsdale, who | fo out a short distance on the ocean. were not accustomed to sensations of that kind, ; _.| There were a number of craft on the bay, some of them The morning papers printed the story over again, with | small sailboats like the one they were sailing themselves, and added facts. other coasting craft, coming in or going out. 3 A crowd of curious idlers were on the scene early, looking| Among the former they recognized the small pleasure over the damage done by the bomb and passing their opin- sloop-yacht owned by Brice Beckley, in which he and his ions thereon. friends often went out. Several carpenters were hived to repair the fence, and be-| She was a dandy little craft, about thirty feet long, and a fore noon all. evidence of the explosion had been removed, | fast sailer. ; but though the police were busy trying to find the rascal; Brice was quite an expert boatman and could manage his who planted the canister, they did not succeed in locating | boat under most conditions that prevailed during the sum- F ; him, nor did they find any traces of Jim Brady and the three | mer and fall. i ; men who clung to him. ‘ “I see that Brice is out in his boat this afternoon, and I The balance of the bunch concerned ‘in the attack on Presi- | guess that is Hen who is with him,” said Bob. hs - dent Beckley ventured to return to work. | “You can depend on that, for they are always together,” '., They were summoned before the superintendent and | replied Joe. sharply questioned, but denied all connection with the out- “Birds of a feather,” grinned Bob. fa are we, only our feathers are different.” ‘ > C : “Brice has a fine boat. That’s one of the advantages o ; the preceding day was because they were eork and had not | heing born with a rich father. She’s going some, I guess learned that the strike was over until late in the day before. | there’s nothing in the way of a sailboat of her class in this _ abe sel 5 2 not consider Mies excuse Pipes: shar ag a3 neighborhood that can overhaul her.” : e iev ey were part 0 e crowd which had made “A : a a : .. the cowardly attack on the Squire and himself and he had | him ind Brice knows how to sail her, too, I'll say that. for them arrested and taken to jail. : ye Wthy , He hoped that at their examination they would admit their desist: floor uo by an pan a bs s been coached from the és : They declared that the reason they had not come to work . guilt and give a clue that would lead to the arrest of the | “ “They'll reach the mouth of the bay long before well get four missing rascals. : __ | there, for they’ve got half a mile start and could beat us, 2 This plan failed, however, as they all stoutly denied their | anyway, on even terms. We may meet them coming back guilt before the magistrate and as neither Squire Beckley, | when we get out there.” a Mr. Parker, Joe, nor the head bookkeeper were able to} “I’m not.stuck on meeting them. They’re not my style.” s identify them as part of the crowd, they were discharged} The catboat slipped along like a gull skimming the water, - from «.\ and they began talking about something more interesting Since the first of the month the mill shut down at four on} than Brice and Hen. Ay . Saturday, two hours earlier than on other week days, but} The yacht had reached the island, scooted along close to : — Saturday the engineer wanted to make some repairs to | the shore and then disappeared around the seaward end. s @ engine, and he notified the superintendent to that effect.| In the course of half an hour the catboat reached the end. ~» As a consequence the mill was shut down at half-past two, | of the island, but they saw nothing of the yacht ahead. te » and the hands were paid off and dismissed for the week. “I guess they’ve gone around the island,” said Bob. fe 2 Joe and Bob reached home at about three, and having} “We'd have seen them coming back if they had done so,” —— ~ Nothing on hand, Bob suggested that they hire a sailboat |.revlied Joe. “I have an idea that they have landed some- 9 and go down the bay. : where.” at Both boys were fair boatmen, being accustomed to spend “What for—to gather wildflowers?” grinned Bab. hae much of their spare time on the water, for they greatly rel- “Hardly. They would have other reasons for lahding.” é ished aquatic recreation. “Shall we go outside or around the island?” asked Bob. They lost no time in hiking to a small wharf on the water| Joe pulled out his silver watch to see what time it was _ front, where boats of all kinds were let out at so much an | when a cry, as from a person in distress, was wafted to their — ~ hour. ’ 4 ears from the center of the island. 7 va it was early in the summer and the weather was just right | “Hello! What was that?” cried Joe. for a sail on the bay. upon the shores of which the town of island,” said Bob. - Hillsdale was situated. : They listened and in a few moments the cry was repeated. J 4 H. . . f. avying a water outlet, as well as rail connection was o “Gonitis Wes a-boy's volna.” anid Joe: “Masta Bucs tia Hen have landed and got into trouble.” Sreat advantage to the town and had helped to build it up. “What trouble could they get into on the/island? There _ 7 Sete bay was a fine veer of water, sre ott wt co eae entrance was a large -\o sland, : =: ig gerne during Lg ema a garni and sdelety ‘ichies. ne nar arate places that I know of and I’ve been all over = le 3 <<) Ted Again came the cry, and this time the boys distinctly — heirs of an old family whose ancestors heard the word, “Help!” % had lived on it prior, and for many years subsequent, to the “ep ten gare of the old stone mansion which had once been| “That settles it. We must put in and see what's wrong,” - cy De mene ot ite ted gaiety was still to be seen near the cen- Semculty who was always ready to help friend or foe out of — ; ; As the boat shot toward the island they listened for the cry again, but they heard it no more, re ieee In a few minutes they ran the catboat into a little creek and Bob sprang ashore with the mooring line in his hands. He made the boat fast to a convenient tree, oe caeaans ; two started for the center of the island whence the come. ; Yate % There were so many trees, and the shrubbery was so dense that they had to pick their way along, and this delayed th progress some. itr ' _Presently they noticed quite a smoke ascending air, and blowing away seaward, _ WEE AE LT “Tf Brice and Hen are here they’ve built a fire.” “T don’t see any sense of that on a warm after and Soe Se Co ecenregneh i 2S © of had tried to buy the island, with summer residences there, ied to acquire it, but the two refused to part with it, for HE - g : Ee #.

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14 Th which a bright fir was burning. Above the fire, suspended by a chain, secured to the crotch of three stout poles, in gipsy fashion, was a pot-bellied ket- | tle, which exhaled the odor of tar. Z Along one side of the clearing a rude shed had been built with a counter, evidently erected to furnish liquid refresh- ments for picnickers. The shed was apparently not finished for a roll of roofing cloth was lying on the counter. £ It was not the fire, nor the shed that attracted the sur- prised attention of Joe and his companion, but the animated picture before them. Four men, with handkerchiefs tied across their faces un- der their eyes, were in the clearing, three of them standing " at the kettle, one of whom was stirring the contents of the vessel with a stick. The fourth man was shaking his fist at two boys who were tied to a tree, back to back. Joe and Bob recognized the boys as Brice and Hen. * Both of them looked the picture of hopeless misery. ' They were not only tied, but gagzed as well. In spite of his handkerchief disguise, Joe recognized the man before them as Jim Brady. And the others were evidently the three factory workers Fa had Le age wise to accompany him into hiding from e police. That the men had captured the two boys was evident, and that they intended to do something unpleasant to them was ear. t something was suggested by the bolster in Brady’s hand and the kettle of boiling tar. ™ Brice and Hen were in a strenuous predicament. atm PO Fog OL SE © ry CHAPTER XI. \ ; F ; b 5 > Se is ; ES +f - The foyr ruffians were so intent on the business in Rand haya et Boane notice of the peeetonh of Joe and Bob. 0 mi S were so surprised at the spectacle pre- ted to their gaze that they stopped in the shadow of the upon the four active and two passive actors tragedy that was on the tapis. fix you two young skunks,” roared Brady. “You put a lot of airs at the mill ’cause your dads are the bosses Welk, we gare them a dose of medicine, and your turn. You : igger Indians, and it will take a lot of scrubbin’ to put you ght again. _“That’s Jim Brady!” whispered Bob to Joe. “I know it,” returned the boss of the mill. “Those chaps are going to tar and feather Bri¢e and Hen.” eed Ba tae a : Os, ia can we do agai ye rr against four “We must try, at any rate. It would be cowardly for to hang back and let those rnuffians torture Brice TT bee _ The fire blazed under the tar kettle and the preparations co eery A agcerg be supposed to tak y su an in the prisoners’ fate, ‘. pies fogs ade noes ee ne ae a We're setting close to the place whence the smoke comes | ‘The grass was so thick ‘that their feet made hardly any | ey soon reached the edge of a clearing, in the center of | | lambs. ; them.” go home lookin’ like a couple of |. ; on ee WINNING A FORTUNE. eee Nee . theiy backs. It would take all the skin off ’em,” said the man who was stirring the compound. “What do we care? It ain’t our skin,” retorted Brady. “I’m afraid there’ll be the dickens to pay over it.” “Tf we’re caught we might as well be hung for sheep as Tt will be a lot of satisfaction to me to get back at The speaker came forward and looked into the kettle. _ “It will do,” he said. “Take it off the fire and we'll let it cool a bit, then we'll smear it over their clothes and on their hands, and give them a coat of feathers. I wish I could see the sensation they'll create when they get back to town lookin’ like a pair of half-plucked fowl.” : Brady laughed at the picture his words presented to his mind’s éye, and the other men grinned. The kettle was remoyed from the fire and the blaze allowed to burn itself out. “Say, Downey, vou stay here and watch those roosters while we go over to the house and take a drink. We'll give you a chance when we come back,” said Brady. Joe’s heart began to beat with satisfaction. : Tf three of them were going off for a few minutes, he and Bob could take advantage of their absence to down the watcher and free the prisoners. Gripping Bob by the arm he pulled his companion back pga the trees, that their presence might not be discov- ered, 4 ~¢ “As soon as Brady and the pair who are going off with | him for a dtink have gone a few minutes we'll take the watcher by surprise and release Brice and Hen,” said Joe. “All right,” replied Bob. “I’m. with you. We can easily handle one man, but we mustn’t let him yell out, or the others will come running back to see what the trouble is.” By this time Brady and his companions had started off and were soon out of sight. Brice and Hen were very much frightened at the prospect before them, and fairly shivered in their shoes. Joe allowed about five minutes to elapse and then he thought it would be safe to jump ‘on the watcher. . “Come on, Bob, we’ll move around and approach him from ~ behind,” he said. : This brought them facing Brice, who saw them issue cau- tiously from the shelter of the trees. Instead of remaining quiet he almost spoilt the surprise by doa Cbgzeme efforts to apneal to the newcomers to save im. The watcher, however, did not suspect the t his actions, but thought he was trying to free “Be quiet,” he growled. The next moment Joe caught him around-the neck with a strangle hold, while Bob tripped him up. He-fell heavily on the ground and the two boys jumped on him and held him down, “Now gag him,” said Joe. ; Bob undid the handkerchief disguise and tied it tightly across his mouth, “Hold him down while I free Brice and Hen,” said Joe. He pulled out his jack-knife and soon had the two prison- ers free. . : “We're much obliged to you, Joe Garland,” said Brice, who *— felt very humble at that moment. “You’ve saved us from being tarred and feathered by those four rascals. My father will fix them when he hears about how they us.” ~ “You’re welcome, Brice. Now we'll tie this chap to the | ie. and leave him for his friends to release. Whereis your “Over yonder,” replied Brice. “You’d better lose no time in returning to her and putting off as soon as we have triced this fellow up,” Joe. . The man, whom all recognized as a loafer nam Downey, was soon made a prisoner to the tree in spite his struggles, and there they left him. The four boys went part of the way to the shore together. “You fellows have d 3g us a good turn,” said Brice, “and we won’t forget it, we, Hen?” “No,” replied his crony. ; e reason for imself, re) Pee Od hs oF Py Pa but he had his doubts. well, Garl

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WINNING A FORTUNE. 15 The boys parted company, and Joe and Bob were soon| “Well, I’m not kicking because they are,” laughed the boss” pushing out into the bay. of the mill, _ They presently caught sight of Brice’s yacht shooting out} On the following afternoon a meeting of the Board of Di- of a little cove. rectors of the Hillsdale Cotton Mill Co. was held, and Squire Beckley laid before them the matter of the bomb explosion. He said that Joe Garland, one of their smartest employees, hdd saved the engine-house from destruction and he thought. “ CHAPTER XII. he was entitled to a reward in recognition of the service. * ‘ The directors agreed with him, and the sum of $250 was. OFF SHORE. voted to be presented to the boy. a ; Accordingly, a check to his order was made.out for that sum, signed by “the president and the tre: d sent to Somewhat to Joe’s surprise Brice behaved pretty decent Soe tigi h letkoe cianenahic tae comaner te > when he met him next-day on the street. Of course, Joe was greatly pleased with ¢@ Ww piece of Brice gered him and said his father had been very PET good fortune. Sag % o ae gay or bam ene to which he and He had managed to gave £109 Auring his three years’ ee aH ified. the police at once that Jim Brady and the |§35 oa in the mill, and this additio sum nine m wo er three mill hands co ound on the is a t __ boat with several officers went down there to arrest them. I + seared fora: tee od Petes aoe Joe Rhos fine. mats oot’ haven't heard yet if the fellows are in jail, but they are/" Saturday afternoon came around again and he and Bob ‘de- , al i to he Pies and then they'll get all that’s coming to | cided to take another trip on the bay. eth ape ee They were not able to start this time until five o’clock, so uaney deserve it,” replied Joe. as they could not very. well get-hack in time for supper they , It’s a wonder you fellows would take the trouble and the | took a lunch with them—some meat sandwiches and half of -Yisk of doing anything for us; as we’ve not been good| an apple pie. friends,” said Brice. “Some chaps would haye been delighted Ii cantare tha Gye for vis, mother” akik teae ee to have seen us in a hobble, and would have enjoyed the pro-| 5, ~ ” Re tenes ae oe cold ns tee te in eet ok. abe Ane: hee Mine whe vonder, in the sky? » Joe was then officially declared the head of Room B. “Those are called mare’s tails by the boatmen. They prog- advancement was well received by the employees of | nosticate wind and plenty of it. They nearly always show the room, particularly by the girls, and he started right m | yp that way right before q heavy blow.” . to show that he ig aes to fill the bill. “You seem to know cmudereble ‘about the weather signs,” ' __The eapture of Brice and Hen on the island on Saturday | said Bob. 32 . dnd their narrow escape from tarring and feather- | “““jrye picked up these things from the boatmen, and Pve ea bootie of Lege tiie and bia 4 three cmpuiiens in | never known them to fail.” : exile, was lished morning’s Times, an course,| ‘Th 1 tly ie was read | by many of the workers of the mili who took that | magihieh antalgtion 9 he mete oe ee There was no apparent cause for this wndolation: but Joe t that Joe and Bob played in the rescue of the sons | said it was produced maybe a hundred miles away by big Ree ident and the superintendent of the mill was duly | tion of the waves under a high wind. « and eecasioned considerable talk among the oper-| * “That wind is coming this way now at a high welserte: but. te empires! badly Brice and Hen had treated Joe. | I judge it will be fully an hour, perhaps Jomeohe before we | oP Ans bee sig ey me Rake oe from work he found aj feel it. By that time we may be a counle of miles ea package which ha out. When it comes we'll have to run before it and try soceiie be £0 he oan a letien ond a a small box bearing the vas the Wey. If we ee. ioe enough to do oan rem going ashore on the is we may escape : letter was » trom ees a to aecept | nothing more serious than a wetting.” i evidence of | Bob didn’t like the outlook as indicated by vee, 1. the hands of | said so. nm Bg mene eee with. it, and he showed it to his mother, | coi ‘put ‘the ‘ aw t to i

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Be. 16 the best thing we can do is to eat our lunch, and after that take a couple of reefs in the mainsail, so as to be ready when the time comes. The coast will be a leeshore to-night, and the coast guard will have no cinch patrolling the beaches.” The lunch-basket was brought out of the cabin and the boys made short work of the sandwiches and pie. By that time it was dusk, and they set to work on the The black cloud now covered about a third of the sky, blotting out the faint light of the stars as it advanced. They sat and watched the cloud spread over the heavens and noted the flashes of lightning and the distant rumble of thunder. At last puffs of wind struck the sail and the boat worked her head around until her bows pointed,dead for the mouth of the bay. Finally, with a hoarse roar, the storm hit them. rain came down in sheets at a sharp angle and away dashed the catboat, like a frightened bird. CHAPTER XIII. THE BURGLARY. Inside of a couple of minutes the boys were ‘drenched through to the skin Dense darkness reigned all around them except when the seascape was lit Pag frequent flashes of lightning. These flashes wed them the coast and the entrance to Yr. harbor. _. “We’re lucky!” shouted Joe. “We are driving straight in.” d He kept the boat’s head just right, and almost before Bob knew they were so close in the boat was shooting through 2 the mouth of the harbor. « Joe worked the rudder, little by little, to avoid the new peril that threatened them, but his experience was not equal to the emergency. ¢ He dared not bring her around to a safe course, for the boat would have capsized in a moment. He had to let her go' the best way she would run, and that meant that to go ashore at some point. | my They were inshore when a brilliant flash of lightning _ showed a creek straight ahead. In another minute they shot into it and glided on up till _ the boat grounded on shore with no great shock. “Saved!” _ with a run. aS Pe A A A There was no need of mooring the craft, for she had taken j et pout to held her till the flood tide came in some ; r. The boys.took shelter in the eke and started a fire in the was set into the bows for cooking pur- off their clothes and, after wringing out up near the stove in which they kept.a the storm roared in from the sea, time is it, Joe?” asked Bob. replied Joe, after looking at his silver carried his new gold one when he wore his WINNING A FORTUNE. cried Bob, as Joe let the reefed mainsail down|. made the little cabin very stuffy, and Joe was accustomed to a well-ventilated room. At any vate, he woke up and for a moment or two seemed to be puzzled by his surroundings. The howl of the storm was no longer in the air. : There wasn’t a sound but the lap of the water alongside. Joe got up and felt of his clothes. : They were perfectly dry and he put on his undershirt. Then with the blanket around him he went to the sliding door, pushed it half-way open and looked out. . The night was intensely dark, and the air seemed quite still after the recent elemental uproar. ‘ He was. about to return to bed when he heard voices of men close by. r They were standing on the other side of the bushes which sereened the boat. He recognized the voice of Jim Brady as one. Wondering what the rascals were up-to at that hour in the morning, Joe listened intently. “The house is only a few steps from here,” he heard Brady say. “We'll break in through one of the cellar windows. The old maids sleep on the second floor and the two sérvants at the top of the house. The plate is kept in a sandalwood chest in the old maids’ bedroom. We won't be able to get into it without wakin’ them up, but we'll gag and bind them in bed and then we can do as we please. After we get hold of ir stuff we’ll make tracks out of this neighborhood for good. / There was some further talk about the project the rascals had on hand for the night, then they moved away, and their receding voices told Joe the direction they were going. “I must queer their game,” he muttered. é : He hurried into his clothes, and leaving Bob sleeping like a top he sprang on shore and followed the direction he judged the men had taken. : Inside of five minutes he saw a dark object before him, which soon shaped itself into a substantial three-story frame house, surrounded by an extensive ground that sloped down to the creek. Close by was a carriage-house, and near that a big barn. There were also two or three small outbuildings, Jce walked eautiously up to the house, but sdw no signs of the men. He soon found a window which had been tampered with. The iron bars, supposed to protect it, had been removed by forcing the bottom stone out of place. It was an old house and the crumbling state of the mortar h&d enabled the burglars to make easy work of the job. i oe window had then been forced, breaking the catch that eld it. It was now open, and the men had clearly got in that way. Joe debated with himself what he should do. He finally decided to enter the house himself and put the ena to flight, if he could do so without getting caught mself, So he crawled in through the window and felt his way to the cellar stairs. ; _The door at the head of the flight stood open, and admitted him into a small entry adjoining the kitchen. He listened for some sound that would tell him where the rascals were, but he heard nothing. They were either in the front of the house on that floor or upstairs, : : dark around him and he hardly knew which way All was to turn. At a venture he opened the first door he felt in the gloom. That let him into a large room, - - bod pulled out a small match-safe he carried and struck a r4 Then he saw that he was\in the kitchen of the house—a spacious, low-ceilinged apartment, as large as four ordinary modern kitchens. Joe took a candle off a shelf and lit it. Then he looked around for something that would the purpose he had in view. Finally he found hickory club in one of the closets. oi

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WINNING A FORTUNE. TE. HERE’S THE SECRET! THE GREAT LITTLE FAN MAGAZINE “Moving Picture Stories’ No. 37¢2 IS OUT TO-DAY Be sure to get a copy. It eontains the nist remarkable comedy story ever written, entitled “MARY’S ANKLE” — It is a novelization of the Thomas H. Ince Production, by May Tully, adapted for the screen by Luther B. Reed, was directed by Lloyd Ingraham, and is a Paramount-Arteraft Picture. AS A STAGE PLAY IT HAS MADE A BIG HGHiT And it had a long run on Broadway, New York. Now it has been fictionized by Rita Rockwell for “Moving Picture Stories.” DO You cannot get it in story form in any other magazine. NOT FAIL TO BUY A COPY FROM YOUR —, Everybody is crazy about it From the kitchen he made his way to the dark and de- serted. dining- -room, also low-ceilinged and finished in solid woodwork, Thence into the main hall, where he found a wide, carpeted stairway leading to the second floor. . The sitting-room lay between the dining-room and the front of the house, but Joe didn’t go in there. On the other side of the hall was the reception parlor, * seldom used, and into this room Joe merely looked to make sure the rascals were not there. _~ Then with the club clutched tightly i in his right hand, ready - for business, he took his way upstairs, the thick carpet dead- _ ening his footfalls. "He stopped to listen at the head of the.stairs, and at first heard no sound that would show the presence of the intrud- ers. 55 v®Maybe they’re not in the house, after all,” he thought. “Still they must be, for the forced cellar window shows that they have made an’ entrance.” At that moment he heard a crash which came from the direction of the front room, “Ah! they’re in there, breaking open the plate chest, just _ as I supposed they would be doing,” he muttered. | He glided to the door of the room and opened it softly. _ It was the bedroom of the two old maiden sisters. No bed was in sight, however, but a curtained alcove indi-. cated where it was. = room was well furnished in old- fashioned style. e plate chest was in the corner opposite the alcove, and working at it Joe saw Jim Brady and his three pals. CHAPTER XIV. JOE MAKES A BOLD CAPTURE. sas had a small crowbar in his hands, and, he had part of the cover of the chest in his efforts to pry Hie was in the act of finishing t the job when Joe looked into ‘The two female servants slept in the eye part of the floor the sleoing ae poem they made brought their rascally scheme to naught. But it is the unexpected that always happens—and Joe, the boss of the mill, was the unexpected factor which As he looked at the men, entirely off their guard, it struck him that a sudden dash upon them, taking them bv surprise, and a skilful wielding of the club before they could pull them- selves together to offer a suitable defense, would spoil their game and save the old maids from being robbed of their precious plate. As this plan occurred to Joe, Brady forced the rest of the cover open. Dropping the crowbar, the men stood for a moment gazing oe at the solid silverware that lay in neat order in the ; ches “This will set us on our feet.” said Brady. “It must be is worth several thousand dollars, for every piece is solid silver, J and there are more’n a hundred pieces in this box. I call “4 this prime luck.” ri - As he spoke, Joe, who had decided to creep upon them in- © stead of making a rush, was approaching them from behind. ~_ The first intimation they had that anything was wrong was when Joe swung his club and Brady went down, like a stricken ox across the chest, and lay there quite motionless. — it With exclamations of consternation the others turned to ' find the boy menacing them with his club in one hand and 4 the_crowbar, which he had picked up, in the other. - “Tt’s Joe Garland!” exclaimed Downey. ~ “Yes, it’s Joe Garland, and you’re all pinched!” said Ae Ps. boss of the mill. “Pinched!” gasped the siti: “Yes. The police will be upstairs in a minute,” bluffed Joe. At that moment he caught sight of the butt ‘of a revolver sticking out of Brady’s hip-pocket. This was the only weapon the bunch had, and Brady had used it to intimidate the maiden sisters. Joe dropped the crowbar and pulled the weapon out of the rascal’s pocket, “Now, then,” he said, covering them with the gun, “you better give up without any further, trouble,” ate “Give us a Joe. oe ee “You’re not entitled to any, Here you are burg house in the hours of the morning, and because yo caught with the a ap sata ok, Bea, ee ? and let you sneak. No, sir; the le ager: been

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18 : WINNING A FORTUNE, saw the two women lying gagged in the bed, watching him. with staring eyes. His object was to free ene of them, at any rate, so she could arouse the help on the floor above. : Reaching the alcove, he shifted the revolver to his left hand and backing against the bed pulled the gags from the mouths of both the old maids. “Save us! oh, save us and our property!” cried the old la- dies, in a breath. “That's what I’m doing, ladies,” replied Joe. “I suppose your arms are-tied under the bedclothes?” he added, 7¥es,” replied the younger of the’ two sisters. “Be patient a moment and I'll cut you loose,” replied Joe, watching. the three men elosely, for they were consulting together, wigh their arms up, and the boy suspected that they were figuring on making a dash for the door of the room in an effort to escape. a He pulled out his jack-knife and opened the big blade with is teeth. As he started to feel for the cord that bound the nearest old maid’s hands the rascals sprang forward, with one ae- cord, and made for the door. : , Dropping the knife, Joe switched the revolver into his right hand and fired at the legs of the foremost rascal. The bullet struck him in the thigh and he fell to the floor. > other two fell over him and went sprawling. Before they could recover, Joe was on them and ordered the two unwounded men back to the- wall, in tones so reso- lute that they sullenly obeyed. . The renort awoke the servants at the top of the house and they rushed out into the unper landing. ace) meen Pe sed men to them to come down. id so r some hesitation, for they did not - nize the boy’s tones. : m ita? Joe stood at the open door, watching the prisoners. The two servants held back yntil he reassured them, in a Pond ome in here and help your mistresses.” said Joe. The women advanced till they saw the wounded man groaning on the floorsand the other two standing against the wall. then they stopped, with an exclamation of fear. Don’t be afraid,” said Joe. “Vil protect you. Your mis- sae pans in their bed. Go into the alcove and re- m. The servants obeyed his directions, and soon teleased the old maids, who flutteringly explained the situation enough mg servants to understand. e cook w i to put on a wrapper arouse the Pie, Ea and the boy. eat x i The other woman, who was a eral maid, closed the eur- tems of the alcove and assis r mistresses to dress so y could meet their young protector. CHAPTER Xy. CONCLUSION, The youngest of the maiden sisters, whose aS , made her appearance first came Rar om . to thank for coming to their assistance, and whose pluck she praised foy captiring the four 5. Joe told the lady, whose name was Mary Peabody, the scoundrels were, and introduced himself, Miss Peabody immediately remembered seeing his in s in connection with the strike at the mill, ; the explosion, and as he had been highthy pie a4 by press for pluck and presence of mind, the maiden lady t that his presence in the house was as good as if the po- and the boy now came to the room, brought their help the prisoners were ote? Id not i away. ‘ Pa e tewn on horseback ; ode ok Oe cance genied oe ght, afte ice had ived thas Sas eek tie eee NSS pa “He found Bob still sleeping Blacily. whally ignorant ge the sore de % 4 __ Joe did not « i, as it was early ye lay dow ut Bob woke up about seven, and thinking Joe had slept all night, like himself, aroused him 3 “Get a move on, old man,” he said. “The tide is up and we must’ get the boat afloat and hike to town to relieve the anxiety of your people.” It was not till they were sailing down the creek and out into the bay and Joe began telling his companion about the stirring events of the early morning, Re - To say that Bob was astonished would scarcely describe his feelings. The boys found Mrs. Garland and Kittie in a great'stew over their all-night absence, for they had feared something had happened to them during the storm. Joe d the incidents of their trip, admitting that they bo lucky to come out as well as they did, not even losing ix boat. ‘ he told how he had saved the home of the Misses Peabody from being robbed, and captured the four burglars himself, without help. They were surprised to learn that the rascals were the four loafers so badly wanted by the police. A policeman called for ping at ten o’clock to attend the - magistrate’s court where Brady and his pals were to be ex- amine Squire Beckley and Mr. Parker were in) court to press the charges of assault and malicious mischief, and also to try and fasten the guilt of the bomb explosion on Jim Brady. ‘The two old maids were present, also, to charge the men with attempted burglary. ; Joe was the star witness on all the charges, and the spec- tators were much interested in his story. The prisoners were held for regular trial by the magis- trate. Ultimately, Downey was allowed to turn State’s evidence in order to convict Brady of the bomb explosion. Brady got twenty years, and the others, except Downey, ten years. ; Downey got three, and then sentence was suspended in his ease, and he was let go free, with a warning that if he was arrested and convicted of another crime within that time he would have to serve two! sentences, The old Misses Peabody invited Joe to’call on them the following Sunday and take dinner. He accepted the invitation. “Mr. Garland,” said Miss Mary, after dinner. “we are go- ing to present you with an evidence of our appreciation of your valuable services. It is the deed, made out in your mother’s name as trustee for you till you are of age, of the island in the bay. We consider that will prove a fortune to you if you use it right, and you have ‘certainly won it by your remarkable pluck which you exerted in our.behalf. We are getting old and will never be able to make any use of it. The two nieces who are our heirs will find this property on which we live ample to satisfy their wishes, so we are not robbing them by presenting the island to you.” With those words, Miss, Peabody handed Joe the deed of the island which so ed ople had cast a longing eye upon. Joe proved himself a capable foreman ef Room B, and when the head of Room A left he was transferred to that, which was a much more important position. Two years later, Joe, who had ‘been holding down the posi- tion of assistant to the superintendent for six months, was suddenly promoted to the post of superintendent upon the sudden death of Adam Parker. Squire Beckley regarded him as the most capable person to be got at-short, notice. and Joe soon proved that he could boss the mill in a way to give satisfaction to the company as well as to the emplovees. s he had $1,000 in bank, he bought ten shares of the ill company’s stock and thereby becarhe a regular stock- holder in the concern, which was an advantage to him. There was now a big summer hotel on the island, as Mrs. Garland, as trustee, had leased the property to a hotel pany for a tter of ten years, at it was optional J e lease at ¢ ang renew or to purchase the hotel ms lease the whole body who offered a sati bid, dué course, Joe and Nellie’ Marchant were married. W. may add that Bob married Edna Dale, and settled down ‘n'a banet life ne oretiet Dibkoie att teehee lowe toes Next ontain “STOCK BROKER DICK on, THe BOY WHO BROKE THE WALL STREET MATE ‘ vp

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | FROM ALL POINTS 19 CALF MISTOOK AN AIRPLANE FOR A CHICK- EN HAWK Thomas Gerloch, farmyy, near Redding, Cal., is grieving over the death of what he asserts was the most valuable calf in Oalifornia>, The calf was per- mitted to roam at will over the farm because it pro- - tected the chickens against hawks, says Gerloch. Every time a hawk would flash down from the sky to grab off a chicken, the ealf was on the job, ready to fight off the hawk. , _ One day lately Lieut. Goodrich, from San Francis- ‘co, was flying over the farm in an airplane when his engine went dead, and he was forced to land. The calf, had been watching the great plane, apparently ged it some new sort of hawk, bent on a hen raid. As the plane landed the calf dashed up. The pro- Peller still was spinning. Before Lieut. Goodrich could leap to the ground and chase the animal away, the calf had butted the machine in the nose. HIS PITCHER BANK CRACKED FOR $2,000 _ When George Mamayie, forty years old, was aroused by a noise in his furnished room at No. 58 Little Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., the other day, he thought of the $2,000 he had concealed in a water pitcher under the bed and let out a yell. A blow on the head stunned him, _ His ery aroused other roomers in the house and they chased to the street two men who had been in Mamayie’s room, but lost track of them. Detective Brickley of the Poplar Street Station a short time later met a man in his stocking feet at Washington and Sands Streets and aryested ifm. He proved to be Joseph Unavich, twenty-three, Mamayie’s room- Mate, but he didn’t have the $2,000, which Mamayie had discovered was j _ Mamayie, after g treated at the Brooklyn hos- Pital, was return home. He and Unavich oyed at the Arbuckle refinery. He said ed his $2,000 savings in a bag around his v in the daytime and always kept it in the old pitcher under the bed at night. a _ BOOZE WATCHED BY 6 ARMED GUARDS - Guards armed with automatic rifles are keeping ge constant watch over wine cellars in the homes of wealthy residents of Nassau County, New York. It They work in pairs on eight-hour shifts and get $75 a month and their board. Two women have been in- stalled in theservants’ quarters to cook for them. Another residence is equipped with a new cellar of reinforced concrete. Entrance is possible only through a 3-inch steel door. There are fourteen bar- rels in this cellar, and the walls are lined with hot- tles. Four armed men guard it day and night, al- though it would take a cracksman some time to break in even if undisturbed. ; Positive knowledge is had of where more than, $500,000 worth of liquid cheer is stored in and near Oyster Bay. Estimates are that the alcoholic bev- erages in cellars thereabouts far exceed that sum. One man who has a cellar that cost him upward of $150,000 to stock said yesterday that he would carry two flasks—one of Scotch and one of rye—so that he and his friends woulg not be entirely parched during necessary separations from their cellars. ’ CANADA’IS NOW MINING EPSOM SALTS A new industry has been started in Canada, that of mining Epsof salts, writes Felix S. S. Johnson, United States Consul at Kingston, Ontario. The discovery of large deposits of these salts was made a few years ago in British Columbia, but it is only now that they are being marketed to any extent in Canada. The deposits are located in a chain of five lakes near Basque, British Columbia . The formation of ‘these deposits 1s particularly interesting. The surface of the salt lake is a mass of hard, white crystal, Slabs of salt are eut out by saws similar to those.used in ice harvesting. Un-* derneath this hard crystal is a liquid of the same chemical nature, which, when it,oozes up and comes, in contact with the sun and air, becomes hard and can be cut into slabs just the same as the top sure face. The investigation shows that the deposits are at least forty feet deep, and an analysis by a Gov- ernment chemist shows that the salts are practically 100 per cent. pure magnesium sulphate. : The lakes are of the basin variety and are in the dry belt, where the cdmbined rain og se fall. «J does not exceed five inches annually. e deposits are covered with water from six inches to one ies from the last of March mntil June or July. The 9) hot, dry summer winds evaporate the water very — rapidly, and during most of the year the magnesium sulphate may be removed easily. The salts occur — in solidified masses of varying shapes and sizes, sur- rounded by mud rings. | cutee viemeaph And Consul Jesse H. Johnson writes : Regins sight. , iy ef a! Mee : a 5 ee Fone 3 Rae Big

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Dan, the Deliery Boy : ——OR—— The Mysterious House on the Hill By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XIV (continued) : “Aw rats! Since dis ting began you seem to have got de biggest kind of a swelled head. Hain’t I yer os friend—say ¢? ' *T think you are my friend, Tom.” j “Don’t yer know I am? Yer might well say yer tink so if you only knowed what I’ve went troo wit on your account since youse has been gone and, say, dat’s no dream.” * What do you mean?” “Now dat’s all right.” mout, den so kin I.” -Dan dropped it. ; : He felt that Tom was just “stringing” him. i This did not suit the driver of 88 at all and he returned to the charge after a few minutes. “Looker here, Dan, hain’t you going to tell a feller nothing?” If you can keep a close to, so please leave me alone.” ‘ “Now dat’s all right.. I know now for once dat dere’s a goil ifto it. I seen her troo de door, _. stunnin’ blonde: I adniire your taste, but say, when a feller comes almighty near croakin’ on his friend’s account it comes hard for his friend to throw him ‘a. de way you’ve turned me down—dat I will = z+ 1 Say.” 7 - “Now what on earth do you mean, Kane?”. ° - €Qh, dat’s all right. As I said before, if you kin _ keep a tight mout, den so kin I.” _ #T’ve just got to,” replied Dan. “You can do as with it that day. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. “Tom I just can’t. I have given my prontise not | A} be Tae He was half sorry right away after he had done it, but we must say we think he did the right thing under the circumstances. Tom listened with intense interests, of course. But for what had happened to himself it is safe to say that he never would have believed Dan’s ~ story. As it was he could not doubt. “An’ so you got de same dope!” he cried. “It’s wonderful, but what do you ’spose dey ever took you to dem -places for, Dan?” “I’m sure I’ll never tell you, Tom,” was the re- ‘ply, “but one thing is also sure; this Professor those ‘two fellows talked about must be the man I saw up there who wears the mask.” | “TI -believe it. Dey mean to do him, Dan, dose | two guys what tried to do me.” “And they will succeed. I’m afraid he keeps touched up all the time, poor man. Something ought to be done.” | “Sure dere ought, but who’s to do it unless it’s /you and me? Shall we go to de police?” “I don’t believe it would be the slightest use—do iyou?” | “No, I don’t. Dey wouldn’t never believe us.” “Then what can we do? Go to that house?” ¢ “It looks to me like dat. You know I was told dat Professor Stevenson lived into it.. He must be ‘de man dey talked about. He ought to be warned.” | “He certainly ought.” “We might write him a letter.” | J don’t like that. Suppose I go to the other house ‘and try to see Mrs. Billup and Jean?” “Dat would be all right if dey live dere.” | “And Iam sure I don’t know whether they do or ‘not. All the same I’m going to try it.” | «Don’t go alone, Dan.” | “But I don’t know whether they would like to have ‘me bring you along, Tom.”. : “Let’s stick togedder. Two of us is less liable to get into trouble dan one.”, | They continued the discussion curing the entire day, these boys. Nothing could be done till night, however, for they _ could not desert the delivery wagon and as it hap- pened their route lay in another direction that day. The final decision was that they should go together after the day’s work was over and see what could — ‘be done to get at Dan’s mysterious friends. ; - So about eight o’clock the two boys presented themselves at the old house at the edge of the hollow. Here all was dark and the ringing of the bell many — times repeated brought no response.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 21 “We may as well make a try for it, Tom,” said Dan. “It’s now or never. I’m going to ring the bell.” “All right, but we esas look out for ourselves if one of them fellers come to de door. _. “Should you know them again?” z. “ Sure I should! Do you t’ink I'd ever foget ’em| after what dey done to me?” They ascended the step It sounded very loud but i and Dan pulled the bell. it brought no response. Dan tried it again and this time the window be-' ’ hind which the light burned was raised and a man, looked out. ~ ~ “Dat’s Bart!” breathed Tom, looking up. ‘de blame mut, surest t’ing.” “Hello, down there! a iit do you fellows want?” . Bart called. Fs “To see Professor Sibeineca is he in?” replied an. “What do you want to see him about?” “Private business.” “He isn’t home. Beat it!” Slam went the window and the shade was hastily drawn down. * “Dat’s de time we don’t get nowhere,” remarked om. “Do you think he knew you?” question Dan. _. “How can I tell whether he did or not? What - ought we to do? Dey may be doing de old guy up now.” + It was certainly a problem. _ Dan said something about sneaking in by way of the iron. door. . “Dat would be crazy,” declared Tom. “If dem two muts once got hold of us, dey’d dope us to det ‘surest t’ing you know. I irs we better go to de stationhouse.” “Qh, they would never datct to us, Tom. Like enough they would lock us up into the bargain. 0 - Tom was much of the same opinion. Now while this was going on the boys had re- : mained standing on ‘the steps. - Perhaps they were watched; at all events the door Ne om now suddenly thrown open and a man darted “Dat’s it was Bart. “What!- Still here! Didn’t I tell you es beat it?” . he cried. And as he ewan he ‘drew a revolver and waved in the air, ‘It is not ‘probeble that he Sein meant to shoot, t Dan and Tom were taking no chances. took to their heels-and ran for their lives. t was not until they reached the: avenue that the 's checked their speed. ; Hold Sed panted Dan, hi “He isn’t follow- We are only making fools of ourselves.” don’t know,” replied Tom. “If you had ai a Pe | oh onehint sear ihe neeptesinheas! “This is : “T’ll be blest if I know, Tom.” J “Mebbe Mrs. Biilup doesn’t live in that sivas She might be in the directory somewhere else. Sup- pose we get over onto Broadway and see of we can’t find a directory.” This suggestion sounded good to Tom and they started to carry it out. After some trouble, a directory was diseovered and the search was made, The name was such an uncommon one that Dan did not anticipate any difficulty in picking out the particular Mrs. Billup for he happened to have been told that her first name was Susan. And so it proved. The directory furnished the information that Bill- up, Susan, widow, lived at the address of the old |house at the head of the hollow. It was a case of swinging around the circle. Here the boys were just where they started out. “Tf she does live there then she must be home some time,” declared Dan. ‘Perhaps she was out when we were there before, Tom, and she may be in now. Let’s try it again for luck.” Tom had no objection to offer, for, aside from helping Dan to sound the warning in the case of the mysterious professor, he had his own private grudge to satisfy against Billy and Bart. So back to the old house they went and this time it looked more like success, for where all had been dark before, a light now burned in the upper win- dows. | But when Dan pulled the bell no answer was re- turned. “Hold on!” cried Tom, “I'll give her de holler.” Putting his hand to his mouth he yelled: *Billup! Delivery boy! Mammoth store!” CHAPTER XV. Mrs. Billup Takes a Hand In the Game. Tom Kane had a voice like a fog horn. His shout might have been heard half the length of the block. © And as he gave it Dan rang the bell again. This time it was success. ] In a minute a light appeared in the hall and pres- ently the door was opened on a chain. , Jean, wearing a blue kimono with her yellow hair done up in curl papers, looked out. “Ts it really you, Dan, making all that noise?” § demanded, pettishly. You do very wrong to disturb us so.” “Wait,” said Dan. “Something has happened. | must see your mother at once,” beh “She’s in bed,” replied Jean, “and she is su) to be asleep, though, I doubt if Weg ech noise you have been making.” br “Don’t be cross, Jean,” said Dan, “And who is this with you? Rag Py . ee wT oes

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eS i FAME AND FORTUNE i > WEEKLY. : OPAL FEAR VANISHES > The superstition associating the opal with bad _ luck is rapidly disappearing, according to dealers, and this beautiful gem is now in the high tide of popularity. : Few people realize the tremendous demand ap- _ “pearing for Australian opals. The world has never seen more gorgeous gems than the fire opals mined in the Lightning Ridge district of New South Wales which flush with fire in all the colors of the rain- bow. For years the finest opals in these fields were gobbled by representatives of London and their Eu- pean agents in the field. Competition is so spirited that it has placed gem opals in the same class as most precious stones as far as price is concerned. They bring form $200 * - to $2,000 apiece and are bought up so rapidly that 4 __ the supply is not equal to the demand. ~ BAKING BY ELECTRICITY _. The ordinary rise in the prices of fuel caused by the war has considerably furthered baking by elec- tricity, although a great many electric bake ovens existed in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland before the outbreak of hostilities. The cheapness of coal at that time was not conducive to the bakeries tak- ing up electric baking, in spite of the fact that in _ those countries which possess water power, baking by electricity is of considerable economic import- _ ance, as the employment of electric ovens permits the utilization of superfluous electric energy which is: usually cannot be made use of during the night. The|’ _ night energy can be supplied by hydroelectric power ; s stations at such cheap rates as to make the use of _ electric ovens much more economical than those ented by coal or steam. ‘ ‘FIREPROOF TIMBER PROCESS PATENTED A process has been made public in England by which timber is made fireproof. A company has “been formed, known as the Timber Fireproofing Company, which claims that the use of the process | tend to avoid the risk of. fire in houses built process known as the oxylene fireproofing ; consists of submitting the wood in a closed er to a steaming and vacuum treatment, which ves the air moisture inthe pores of the wood vaporizes the sap water. The wood is then nated under hydraulic pressure with a solu- fitereaisting chemicals, which replace the A FEW GOOD driven out by the preliminary treatment.| the circumstances it is not surprising to learn that — 2 water of the solution is dried off, and| new stations for the treatment of these sea prod-— Q See een ee a n/n Uniied. int, woes oan ot eae ITEMS that on the application of heat the crystals expand and form a glossy coating, which excludes the oxygen of the air and prevents its combination with wood, , thus rendering flame an impossibility. The higher the temperature, the more the crystals expand, and though in time ‘the chemical action of each crystal becomes exhausted and the wood becomes charred fresh crystals, come into play, and though the wood may eventually be charred completely through, no flame will be generated. Wood treated this way does not differ in appear- ance from wood that has not bedn treated, and it is claimed that it does not deteriorate, and is not af- fected by atmospheric conditions. SEA LEATHER WILL CUT THE COST OF FOOTWEAR Everybody is painfully aware of the scarcity and high price of leather. The war, of course, took a heavy direct toll of. the leather production of the world and in addition indirectly reduced the supplies ~ by the steady diminution of the world’s flocks and herds from which our leather usually comes. The sea, however, said a British writer, holds an almost inexhaustible source of Jeather in the larger aquatic creatures—whales, sharks, porpoises, dog- fish, the ray or devil-fish, the saw-fish, and some oth- _ ers. We are already in this country aequainted with certain forms of whaleand porpoise leather, The well-known “Belgua” belting is obtained from the white whale, an animal which attains a length of over 18 feet, with a girth of as much as 12 feet. There have, however, been difficulties in the way of utilizing these sources on any large scale, for the production of leather suitable for general purposes. The shagreen or outer coating of the skin of the shark, for example as wellas those of the ray gnd ~ of the dog-fish, is a horny structure frequently so hard that it is difficul€ to grind it off, while giffiding, if carried far enough to remove it entirely, results in partial destruction of the skin proper. , > Necessity, however, has again proved the mother of invention and chemical means have been devised by ‘which this horny material may be successfully. _ removed; while improvements in lining now permit that part of the process of tanning to be carried through without injury to the skin. A further step _ has succeeded in removing the fishy odor which © would otherwise remain in the finished product. In_ ¥ 4 ‘ shores of the United States, where ieee of She: tures named po A ~~

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. = INTERESTING ARTICLES HONOLULU TO HAVE $1,000,000 BUILDING A’ $1,000,000 contract for the construction of a Federal building here has been secured by Robert Atkinson, president of the Hawaiian Contracting Company. Mr. Atkinson recently returned from Washington, D: C., where he secured the contract, outbidding the Salt Lake Construction Company. Hawaii has been waiting ten years forthe Federal building, which will house the Federal courts, post office, internal revenue and customs départments of the Government here. It was announced that work would commence at ‘once on the exéavation for the foundation of the building, to be ‘located directly opposite the Iolani Palace of the Kamehaneka dynasty of Hawaiian Kings, now used as the Territorial Government build- ing or capitol. . TOURING ON BOILING LAKE One of the unusual experiences provided by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau for visi- tors to New Zealand is a launch ride across one of _the larger boiling lakes in the thermal region of the North Islands. This lake is called Rotomakana, which is the native Maori name for “warm lake,” As the launch glides across the surface huge clouds of steam rise in the wake of the boat and because of the peculiar opaque green color of the water makes --a most weird effect. For a hundred feet or more from, the shore, the water is extremely hot, but in the centre the lake is only lukewarm because of the great depth of the water, Wild ducks frequent the centre of the lake _ but always seem to know just where to alight with eomfort. . BILLY SUNDAY SPEEDS BARLEYCORN TO GRAVE “Billy” Sunday preached a John Barleycorn funer- ya service in Norfolk, Va., before an audience of * more ‘than 10,000 persons which attended mock ob- eeauies, The ceremony began at the railroad station e where the “corpse” in a coffin twenty feet long ar- rived on “a special train from Milwaukee.” Twen- _ty pall bearers placed the coffin on a carriage and 2 marched beside it through the streets to Sunday’s tabernacle, while His Satanic Maieehy trailed be- hind in deep mourning and anguish. aes At the tabernacle door Sunday met the cortege ~ with a delighted grin. The Devil, wearing a mask d simulating a state of deep dejection, sat with ie Mourners. d-by, John” said the evangelist at sermon. “You were God’s worst en e end hate you.” ; you} and | 's best friend. I hate you with a gost Rico. The Pearl Islands off the coast of F 25 FIRES SET BY BOY GANG Three boys in their teens, arrested -recently during a fire at No. 462/ Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., confessed setting twenty-five fires in different parts of Brooklyn in the last three months for the purpose of robbery. The police say they can fix fifty Brooklyn fires in the same period on the trio. The boys confessed they worked Saturday and Sunday nights, usually at dinner hour, in tenement houses, because there was likely to be plenty of money around at those times. They saturated stuff in the cellar with oil, set fire to it, and when the tenants rushed from the house the boys ran upstairs and grabbed all the nroney and jewelry lying loose. They told of getting $33 in one house, $5 in another and various pieces of jewelry. They spent the money on movies, candy. and cigarettes. PEARL SHORTAGE Since large pearls are no longer found in the semi-exhausted fisheries of the Orient and the world is confronted with a shortage of one of its most ancient and highly prized gems, dealers in the Amer- ican market are looking hopefully to the develop- ~ ment of the pearl fishing industry in Lower Cali- fornia and on the Venezuelan coast. The Venezuelan government has begun a close supervision over its pear! fisheries and a conserva- tion of their output. The pearl oyster beds are lo- cated at Margarita Island, Cubagua, E) Tirano, Pear- lamar, Maracapana, Macanao and Golfo de las per- las. When Columbus discovered the mainland of South America in 1498, he found the Indians working these beds in the hands of the Spaniards, the pearl — coast became famous for its wealth in these gems off the sea. When L’Ollonois, Roc Braziliano and — Sir Henry Morgan were sweeping the Spanish Main — with the piratical jolly rover at their masthead, the pearl fisheries were frequently plundered. ed In the pearling season to-day, 499 vessels and — 2,000 divers work along the coast and among the — islands. The annual product of Marguarita Island q alone is valued at $600,000. An immense pearl with an estimated value ‘of $100,000 was found at Marga- ‘7 rita in 1579 and presented to King Philip of Spain. » The Venezuelan pearls are of good orient and color _ and are noted for mes number of baroques or ee am gu sha ped h oe Bie Fiche Liber pearl fisheries in America along. ae west coast of the Gulf of California from La Paz to the Island of Loreto and around ‘Tiburon | across the gulf on the Mexican coast. . Pearl also found in some abundance on both.the ez western coasts of Mexico, Ni and See ee fe ile Yee Ce ee

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. WAR AGAINST WILD HORSES By Paul Braddon. Wild horses have become so numerous on the plains that some of the stockmen in the vicinity of Cheyenne have organized a hunting party whose ob- ject will be to thin them out. The hunters are pro- vided with long-range rifles, fleet ponies, and sup- plies and forage enough to last all winter, and they will endeavor to make a clean job of it. These | ‘ I horses have existed on the plains for many years, ground, but their manes are like those of other gether as old buffalo bulls were in the habit of doing. | From the horse ranch of M. E. Post, about fifteén ;miles north of this city, nearly two hundred mares i have wandered away, and it is believed that at least one-half of them have joined the wild horses. The wildest horses are compact little animals, weighing from 500 to 1,100 pounds. The majority of them weigh about 800 pounds and stand about fourteen hands high. In color they are usually brown, sorrel, or bay. A gray is seldom seen, unless it is a horse that has strayed away from civilization. Their tails grow long, frequently dragging the but of late they have been increasing very fast. horses, and not flowing to the knees as they are They are quick to scent the approach of foes, fleet as the antelope that may often be seen browsing in security at their side, and as unmanageable as the wind. Native animals’ when turned loose on the prairie soon become wild; and if allowed to run without being disturbed breed very rapidly. Horses continually break away from their owners and join the wild horses, and this is the reason why stock- men are aroused over the subject. Men who crossed _. the plains in 1849 encountered many wild horses, and for years afterward they must have increased _ rather than diminished: Horses stand the winter ‘much better than cattle, and unless the weather is unusually severe will come out fat in the spring. Every year large numbers of domestic horses es- cape from the settlers. Some of them are found, but when mares escape they are never reclaimed. In wandering over the plains they encounter the wild bands, and from that time forward are as wild _as the others. The wild stallions are the guardians of the bands. Always on sentinel duty, they give _ the alarm when any enemy approaches. ‘ In a mo- ment the stragglers are rounded in, a fleet-footed stallion leads the van, and with others at the flanks away they go in a thundering charge. Nobody has yet been able to overtake them. Sometimes they _ them off in a race is out of the question. represented in some books. The eye, probably from being constantly on the watch, is larger than the eye of the domestic horse, and even when tamed ~ the eye remains a distinctive mark of the horse’s origin. Wild horses, when captyred and trained, are superior to any other horse of the same size. Many of them are used by the cowboys, and others are broken to harness and driven as carriage horses, being entirely trustworthy. Several men living in Sidney make a living by ‘catching wild horses. Until five or six years ago no one knew how to do it, and very few outsiders now understand the methods adopted. Mr. Living- ston, of that town, describes the process as follows: “Two men always work together. Let them start out from Sidney, either north or south, and they are almost certain to find a bunch within fifteen miles. The plan is then to pitch a tent and make a camp, and one of the men, mounted on his best horse, carrying with him a few cold biscuits or something else convenient to eat, starts after the bunch. He does not ride very fast, and at, first does not at- tempt to,get near them, but is content to keep the bunch moving, not allowing them to stop and eat. The horses may go only ten or a dozen miles, or they may go fifty or sixty, but no matter how far - are lassoed or shot, but. such a thing as heading|they run, they will turn back and scent the range where they started. If they go far, the mettle of bx ~The range of the wild horses at present extends the rider and his horse will be tried to the utmost. On the Republican river, on the divide between the 7 ey ought battles with his rivals. One bunch of | es recently seen near Sidney was entirely stallions, but this is explained on the} probably driven out of vari- and See ¢ erded to- e. _ from Texas to the southern Dakota line, They are The bunch must be kept moving, and there is no _ more numerous in northern Colorado, Wyoming, and| chance to change saddle horses until they turn, of western Nebraska than anywhere else on the plains. | their own accord, and pass near the camp. “Tf the weather be clear and the nights not stormy - South Platte and the Lodge Pole and the North|the rider will continue after the animals, sometimes _ Platte, and as far east as the heads of the Loup and} half a mile behind and sometimes within a hundred the Dismal rivers, the horses range at will. Five or| yards. It makes no difference whether it be dark — six years ago they could be found on the divide or light, the horse that is ridden and that is trained — en Sidney and Sterling in bunches of fifty or|to the business, follows after the herd. When the e ty-five, but now a bunch of twenty-five is con-) first rider succeeds in turning the bunch and bring- large. Sometimes there is more than one|ing them back to the camp, he is relieved by the on in a band, but one of them is always acknowl-| second, who, with a fresh horse, starts after th as chief, winning this distinction by many) while his companion turns in and takes a m needed rest. This time they will not probably go so far. After a while they become tamer, and the hunter can turn them at pleasure. This may 1 quire a week, or it may be done in a couple of d If the horses do not become scared they will 1 " ~ ede rie. a 4 eB m. my ce oy

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 . 2 naturalist has succeeded in taming a few individuals i but only by the expenditure of much patience and Formerly corrals were erected | perseverance. A spider h4s no idea of the value of so far and are more easily managed. When the bunch becomes worried and starved out it is driven toward the nearest corral. , especially for the purpose, but now ranches are so!time, and the person who would secure their confi- | -humerous that they are not needed any more. dence must possess an almost unlimited stock of 4 | 4 “Once inside, the wildest of the band are caught, | patience, otherwise it is simply waste of time to at- and chains are fastened to their legs. _Men walk | tempt the task. * It is true that hunger may compel among them and treat them kindly, and they soon |them to become tame (i. e. to accept insects that learn that there is nothing to be feared. They are! are offered them), if they are shut up without any turned loose in any ordinary pasture, and when they | natural supply of food, but when one leaves them are wanted they are driven to the corral and roped. | free and only supplements their ordinary diet it takes If two men can gather a bunch of ten or a dozen|a long time before they lose their suspiciousness. horses in a week, they of course, make a good sum |One naturalist tells of one occasion when sitting mo- of money out of the transaction, as the animals will | tionless for nearly three hours, holding a fly within sell at from $30 to $50 each; but misfortune some-| tempting reach of a house spider, it was well nigh times overtakes them when in pursuit. A bunch| impossible to tempt the spider.- The fly was almost . ~ may run away from their pursuers entirely, and not touching her, but she was too wary a creature to be found for several days, or a storm coming up in the night may prevent his following them, and com- pel him to give up the chase, or possibly he will overestimate the strength of his horse, and ride the faithful animal until he drops. “The present movement of the stock-raisers threatens to put a stop to this business. Mounted upon their grain-fed horses the hunters will pursue the wild bands when they are somewhat weakened by the rigors of winter. Riding as close as possible - the men will shoot the stallions from time to time. It is hoped that by spring nearly all the stallions will have been killed and that the capture of the ‘mares by the wholesale will then be made possible.” —_—— 4a © ee — 0 ie ABOUT SPIDERS Spiders are far more numerous than the average person would suppose; in this country alone, it is said, we possess about 550 species. Yet of these _ only two are really familiar objects to every one— the house spider, which is responsible for the thick _ sheetlike webs that fill up neglected corners of our houses, and the garden spider, whose wheel-like ~ snare, dewladen in the early morning, is one of the two, four, six, or eight in number. We do not know _ much about the senses of spiders, but with regard to their eyesight certain broad statements may be safely made. In the hunting and jumping spiders, _ which make no web, but either run their prey to _ earth in open chase or else stalk it cautiously before _ sprin , the sense of sight is well developed ; their es are often large and brilliant and sometimes placed on little turrets or tubercles raised above the level of the cephalothorax, which gives.them a wider : » of vision. Sight is not highly developed in e sedentary, creatures who rely on their snares prey, and their eyes frequen -by smell he had no means of telling. : i @ . seize a fly whose wings were held in a pair of pin- a cers. Eventually the frantic kicks of the fly proved ; too much for her, and she gripped it fiercely in a ; death embrace, i The naturalist finally got her so tame that she would run out from her nest and take flies directly he dropped them into her web, or even accept them from the pincers. Nor would she trouble to retreat to her nest when, having sucked a fly dry, the natu- ralist removed its shriveled body from the snare, so zy little was she frightened. As the autumn advanced ». and: flies became scarce the naturalist thought he would try to feed on raw meat and thus save him- | self time and trouble. He took a piece of meat about the size of a fly’s body and attached to it the- legs, wings and head of a fly that he had previously killed and cut up for this purpose. The experimenter was rather pleased with the effect of his sham insect, and dropped it on to the web with considerable confidence, he felt so sure of the success of his experiment. The spider, accus- tomed to true flies being offered her, ran out of her retreat at once, but stopped short at a distance of about an inch from the sham fly, wavered for one | instant, and then returned to her nest, For three 44 successive days the man continued to drop into her snare at frequent intervals these pieces of dressed up meat, but she was never again deceived into ~~ leaving her nest to investigate them at closer quar- ters. Whether she detected the fraud by sight or Experiment was made in the same manner with _ two other spiders of the same species, but they proved equally difficult to deceive, and, unfortu- nately, the naturalist continued these experiments for so long, hoping that in time they would make _ up their minds to taste this new kind of prey, that — they completely lost their trust in him, and would not afterward take the real flies he offered: * aut 7 didn’t | eo

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26 .FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | A FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | man appears in the Medical Times for October, 1919. The writers obtained postage stamps from fifty dif- NEW YORK, FEBRU ARY te 1920. ferent places, note, being made in each case whether $$ _______________jthe stamps’ were kept exposed‘on the desk or held for sale in a drawer or cash register. Laboratory tests showed that no stamp was free from germs. Twenty of them contained colonies too numerous to count. Among the germs were colon bacilli, staphy- lococci, streptococci, pneumocacci and diptheroid bacilli. Apparently there was little difference in bac- ‘erial content between the stamps exposed on the desk and those kept in drawers. The amount of danger presented by these organisms cannot be stat- ed, as unfortunately, no tests were made to deter- mine the virulence of the germs. In comnienting on these results, American Medicine, while not en- se the common practice of moistening stamps TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS NGMOINOS. “Ls 5a dan co oy Sicph ¢doncedasancsie totuiat 7 Cents ORe CPP CPRIes MOUS. . 0b. cess ec eccecesccsce 90 Cents One Copy’ Six Mouths. .3 213 io. .8. jg iceusscdcces eres $1.95 ee SaOS . Otis NOM, wos. «leks cc ecto cncpendck cud 3.50 Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. POSTAGE FREE HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order. Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other Way ure at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the same as = case. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a séparate piece ote to avoid eutting the envelope. Write your name and fess plainly. Address letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York with the tongue, points out that if stamps were a , grave source of infection a very large percentage : . F : of the population would undoubtedly be suffering GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES most oral cavities will reveal the presence of some Wildcats have killed six large buck deer in Kaul|or all of the organisms above mentioned whether Park, at Trout Run, near St. Mary’s, Pa. The car-! stamps have been licked or not. casses of the deer have been found on the preserve ' yi and from indications it is believed many more of the animals have met the same fate, Kaul Park, GRINS AND CHUCKLES from infections due to this cause. The fact is that . Si, which is one of the finest game preserves in the “What's the new cook so amused ovet?” “She’s — State, is now the scene of a big hunt for the cats. | jooin : : <) 9? = g at the diploma I got at the cooking school, Two have been shot but many others have beem able faltered the bride. “I hung it in the kitchen.” . to escape the hunters. pom used to-trail them have been killed. 5g TE IE J —_——_——- “Hello, old man. I hear you are going to marry _ John Bridgewater of the high school football team | Miss Swift. I congratulate you on your good taste.” Beaver City, Nebraska, after a game the other day “Oh, that’s all off. Not going to marr y at all.” “Con- felt a sharp pain in his right knee. He could not! gratulate you on your good Sense.’ ‘determine the Cause, but as the hours passed and the pain grew worse he went to a physician. An - water then recalled that he had been stabbed by a X-ray sh ; dgc-| Mrs. Jones—Oh, dear, I have just broken my = Berean eniicacuan ia the kaeo Bdge smelling bottle! Mr. Jonés--It is like you! All catfish when swimming last summer. Until a. bélongings are either broken or shattered. rs the game he had not been bothered. The physician Jonés—Quite trie, John! Even you are a bit r removed the horn of the fish. cracked! In Sehusibings with the efforts being made by| “There's a fasting man who has. been living for Ba China, it is worth while to note the success attained | father lived. for twenty years on water.” “Go we: the large department stores in Canton and Shang-| “Yes; he was a sea see atest establishments have introduced the fixed- “aendiexe manufacturers to incréase theit sales in| forty-five days on water.” “That’s nothing. ne _ price system ge gormian tenga with exeellent re-) §,0 1m going to vive you back our engagement : a s, and their large trade in foreign goods has in- ting. I love ahother. He-—Give me his name and a eat ce at of the ser native tre to carry im- diess. She—Horrors! Do you igri dss! ed lines. A chain of U. S. department stores’ jim? He—No, I want to sell him the ring idle principal cities of China would be of incalet- benefit to American trade generally. They) — ; Se RT display an unlimited number of different lines,! Bacon-——What are these “oil gushers” we read ly. ben ag and the advantage of goods much about in the newspapers nowadays? E market could be explained. —S- Didn’t_ you ever see one? “Why, no. “Sure! If you’d been’ - ten minutes” ago e would have seen one, too. | tat Seen t i ies arain cdipeapo aay

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‘ “4 and a trunk which bore the name of a distinguished pieces of baggage were placed on board the Man- - churia at Kobe, Japan, by Emilio Spatolio, who ae : It was after this shrewd accomplished tha} the secret service division learned _ the details of the.scheme. gage were traced to a house in the outskirts of Man- 4 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘ - 27 a ITEMS OF. GENERAL INTEREST SMUGGLING DOPE About two years ago it was found that great quantities-of prepared opium were being smuggled into the Philippines, where it found a ready sale at big prices. Aside from the violation of the revenue laws, the natives, like those of China, were becoming addicted to the use of the drug and the Government determined to break up the business. Accordingly all vessels coming into the islands were subjected to a most rigid scrutiny. ° By one of these unexpected twists of fate, better known as chance, the skillfully laid plot of the smug- glers was exposed at the time Francis Burton Har- rison went to assume his duties as the Governor- General of the Philippines. Two trunks filled with opium were found among the luggage of his party. Lest the reader fear that the distinguished Gover- nor of the archipelago had become a lawbreaker, it ‘may be said at once that! Mr. Harrison had been made the unwitting accomplice of a gang of smug- glers who took advantage of the fact that he would be extended. the ‘courtesies of the port. This is an- other way of saying that because of his high official position his luggage was exempt from the usual ‘customs inspection. There were 440 tins of the opium and it was val- ued at $20,000. The drug was in a Gladstone bag member of Gov. Harrison’s suite. It seems that two succeeded in passing himself as a servant of the in- coming Governor-General. The Gladstone bag and the trunk were actually passed with the other bag- bit of smuggling had been - The two pieces of bag- la. Chief Green and two of his assistants hastened here and peering in the open window found Spatilio d a confederate taking the tins of opium from the They burst. into the house: with’ pointed pistols d demanded the opium in the name of the law. ee . ‘are ‘occasional instances now and then, but} WHY THE SEA HAS DIFFERENT COLORS “The déep blue sea!” sings the poet. “Tommyrot!” exclaims the traveller.. “It is as green as an emerald. I’ve seen it.” “So have I,” hotly declares the poet. “It is blue.” The poet and the traveller are in about the same position as the blind men and the elephant. One felt the trunk, the other the tail, and then they quarrelled about it, although both were right—as far as they went. The sea is both green and blue. In some places it is nearly always blue, in others it is nearly always green. Scientists declare that the quantity of salt,” in the water has a great dea! to do with this. They point out that the more rapid the evaporation of the water from the heat of the sun, the greater . amount of salt there is in the water, and that the water that is extremely salt is always blue, while the water that does not contain/such a large quan- tity of salt is green. This, then, would make the color of the sea a mat- ter of geography, or temperature, which is the same, as temperature is a matter of geography. .One proof of this claim is held to be the Great Gulf Stream, which flows like a river out of the hot Caribbean Sea and up through the Atlantic to the northwest, a stream greater in volume than a hundred Missis- sippis. Thig stream of water is as blue as the sky on a fair day, while as it proceeds northward the waters of the Atlantic on either side are quite green. The temperature of the Gulf Stream is about 74 degrees, Fahrenheit, while the Atlantic through which it flows is about 50 degrees. As this stream flows northwest it widens, and at the same time grows shallower. From a width of almost forty miles off Florida, it stretches out toa width of about eighty miles off Cape Hatteras. But it retains its blue tints. Up off Newfoundland this d water breaks also, the water is always green. equa- the water is ‘blue. The Mediterranean Sea is blue because its _ io stream of yellow Ww - - va wor} i Sa ee . (

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ne FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY LATEST ISSUES—— 728 $50,000 From a Nickel; or, The Boy Who Was Lucky Im Stocks. bogs The B Who Fooled the Wall 729 Born Lucky; or, From Miner to Millionaire. 710 Happy Go Lucky Jack; or, The Boy Who Fooled the 730 Hal Halman’s Tip; or, Scooping the Wall Street Market. Street Brokers. 731 A Boy of Business; or, Hustling for the Dollars. 711 Learning a Trade; or; On the Road to Fortune. 732 Smart As They Come; or, The Boss of the Wall Street Mes- 712 Burying on Margin; or, The Boy Who Won the Money. — sengers. 713 Joe Darcy’s Treasure Hunt; or, The Secret of the Island Cave. 734 Johnny Jones & Co.; or, The Firm Vhat_Kept the Broker 714 A “Live” Boy; or, Quick to Get the Dollars. Guessing. 7i5 A Barrel of Coin; or, The Luck of a Boy Trader. 735 Adrift in the City; or. The Fate of a Waif. 716 Driven to the Wall; or, The Nerve of a Wall Street Boy. Hn SS Stock mes: or, The Boy oe money, ye Burn, 717 t : r Who Saved the Firm. sland No. 10; or, The Seeret of the Sunken Gold Ship. . Be 1 ten gi Sp Sor Ered pie. fine ang itd Money. A WallStreet Errand Boy, and How He Made Money in Stocks. re! 739 Newsboy Partners; or, The Little Money Makers of the Battery. 9 Up to Him; or, Runhing His Father's Business. = 740 A Box of Coin; or, The Old Broker's Secret. 720 Bs ot aha Bixby”; ‘or, The Boy Who Was Up-to-the- 741 Ralpb, the Runaway; or, medi’ Farm to Fortune. 721 A Young Barnum; or, Striking It Rich In the Show Business. 143 An Orphas Boy's Pluck; or, Winning avalnat Odds. 722 The Brotherhood of Gold; or, A Daring Wall Street Game, 744 Long & Co., Boy Brokers; or, A Lucky Wall Street Firm. 72% Ed, the Express Boy; or, His Own Route to Fortune. 745 In the Diamond Fields; or, The Boy Who Made a Great Find. 724 The Stolen Bonds; or, How Wall Street Will Made His Mark, 746 A Boy With Ginger; or, The Lad Who Won the Dollars. 725 A Favorite of Fate; or, After the Head Hunters’ Treasure. 747 Dick and His Chum; or, Making a Fortune For His Firm. 723 Master of the Market; or, The Boy Who Cornered the Stock. 8 Out To Win; or, The Mystery of Safe Deposit Box No. 666. 74 727 Landing On His Feet: or, The Pluckiest Boy In the World. 749 A Wall Street Hero; or, A Winning Tip on the Market. For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 7 cents per copy, in money or postage stamps, by HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, - IF YOU WANT ANY BACK of these weeklies and cannot proeure them from newsdealers, they can and fill in your Order and send it with the price of the weeklies mail. POSTAGE STAMPS .T. - - - « - 166 West 23d St., New York, NUMBERS be obtained from the publishers direct. Write out want, and the weeklies will be sent to you by return THE SAME AS MONEY. fj QUR TEN-CENT HAND BOOKS No. 1. NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM AND DREAM BOOK.—Conteining the great oracle of human destiny; also the true meaning of almost any kind of dreams, together with charms, ceremonies, and curious games of cards, No. 2. HOW TO DO TRICKS.—The great book of magic and card tricks, containing e leading card tricks hie . on SE nest popular magical illusions Peceched our leading magi- clans; -e% shou obtain a copy of book, 2. HOW TO FLIRT.—The arts and wiles of firtation are fully explained by this little book. Besides the various methods of handkerchief, love, parasol, window and hat flirtation, it contains a full list of 14 sentiment of flowers. ances, wuare* HOW TO MAKE LOVE.—A com- plete guide to love, courtship and marriage, ving sensible advice, rules and etiquette to observed, with many curious and interest- ing things not generally known. No, 6. HOW TO BECOME AN ATHLETE, —Giving full instruction for the use of dumbbells, Indian clubs, parallel bars, hori- zontal bars and various other methods of developing a good, healthy muscle; eontain- ing over sixty jllustrations, TO KEEP BIRDS.—Hand- pi... Noeue and containing full in- structions for the management and training of the canary, mockingbird, bobolink, black- this book of instructions gent ror ae and amount of fun for himself and friends. It is the No 10. HOW TO BOX.—The art of self- detente made easy. Containing over thirty illustrations of guards, blows, and the nig so ent tion a a good boxer. Every boy 8! obtain one of these useful and in- raged books, as it ba teach you how to box without an instructor. x WRITE LOVE-LET- No. ¥ HOW TO Neo és meigieter a ain 2s 2 2s about. "sg For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any ad¢ ress on receipt of price, 10c. per cop No. 4. HOW TO MAKE CANDY.—A com- plete hand-book for making all kinds of candy, ice-cream, syrups, essences, etc., etc. No. 18, HOW TO BECOME BEAUTIFUL, --One of the brightest and mos valuable little books ever given to the world. Every- body wishes to know how to become beauti- ful, both male and female. The secret is simple, and almost costiess. No. 20, HOW TO’ ENTERTAIN AN EVE- NING PARTY.—-A complete compendium of games, sports, ecard diversions, comie recita- tions, ete., suitable for parlor or drawing- room entertainment. It contains more for the money than any book published. No. 21, HOW TO HUNT AND FISH.—The most complete hunting and fishing guide ever published. It contains full instrnctions about guns, hunting dogs, traps, trappin and fishin ya wosethor with description o game and % ‘ No, 22. HOW TO DO SECOND SIGHT.— Heller's second sight explained by his for- mer assistant, Fred Hunt, Jr. xplaining how the secret dialogues were carried on be- tween the magician and the boy on the stage; also giving all the codes and signals. o. 23. HOW TO EXPLAIN DREAMS.— This little book gives the explanation to all kinds of dreams, together with lucky and unlucky days. No, 24, HOW TO WRITE LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN.—Containing full instructions for Weise te gentlemen on all sub, s. No, 25. OW TO BECOME A GYMNAST. —Containing full instructions for all kinds of mnastic sports and athletic exercises. Embracing thirty-five illustrations. By Pro- fessor W. Macdonald. No. 2%. HOW TO ROW, SAIL AND BUILD A BOAT.—Fully illustrated. Full tions are given in this little book, to- r with instructions on swimming and Tiding, companion sports to boating. No. 27. HOW TO RECITE AND BOOK OF RECITATIONS,—Containirg the most Reopeler. selections in use, comprising Dutch ect, French dialect, Yankee and Irish dia- lect pi together with many standard readings. No. 28. HOW TO TELL FORTUNES.— ‘Everyone is desirous of knowing what his future life will bring forth, whether happi- ness or misery, wealth or ag tol . You can tell by a glance at this litt bodkk. Buy one and be convinced. — Te tere ear a 3 f ‘magnetism, ies, pneumatics. mechanics, c. " No. 36, HOW TO COOK.—One of .ne most instructive books on ever published. ss iar aoe Tt cortains ing meats. fish, Gee Ree ae ott oe - of recipes- aps — No, 31. HOW TO BECOME A SPEAK- ER.—Containing fourteen illustrations, giv- ing the different positions requisite to be- come a good speaker, reader and elocutionist, Also containing gems,from all the popular authors of prose and poetry. No, 32. HOW TO RIDE A BICYCLE,— Containing instructions for beginners, choice of a machine, hints on training, ete. <A ne book. Full of practical illustra- ons. No. 35. HOW TO PLAY GAMES.—A com- plete and useful little book, containing the rules and regulations of billiards, bagatelle, backgammon, croquet, dominoes, ete, No. 36. HOW TO SOLVE CONUNDRUMS, ~—Containing all the leading conundrums of the day, amusing riddles, curious catches and witty sayings. No, 38. HOW TO BECOME YOUR OWN DOCTOR,—A wonderful book, containing useful ane practical informatfén in the treat- ment of ordinary diseases and ailments Com- mon to every family. Abounding in nsefal and effective recipes for general complaints. No, 39, HOW TO RAISE DOGS, POUL- TRY, PIGEONS AND RB. S.—A_ useful no i instructive book. Handsomely illustrat- ed. No. 40. HOW TO MAKE AND. SET TRAPS.—Including hints on how to cateh moles, weasels, otter, rats. squirrels and birds. Also how to cure skins. Copiously illustrated. No. 41. THE BOYS OF NEW YORK END MEN'S JOKE BOOK.Containing a great variety of the latest jokes used by the most famous end men, No amateur minstrels is complete without this wonderful little book. No, 42. THE BOYS OF NEW YORE STUMP SPEAKER.—Containing a yaried as< sortment of stump speeches, Negro, Dutch and Irish. Also end men's jokes. Just thé a) for home amusement and amateut shows, No. 43. HOW TO BECOME A MAGICIAN, --Containing the grandest assortment of magical illusions ever placed before, the public. Also tricks with cards, incantations etc, ‘ No, 44. HOW TO WRITE IN AN AE BUM.—A grand collection of Album Verse suitable for any time and occasion, embra. ing Lines of Love, Affection. Sentiment, Hu- mor, Res and Condolence, also Verses Suitable for Valentines and Weddings. No. 45. THE BOYS OF NEW YORK MIN- STREL GUIDE AND JOKE BOOK.—Some- thing new and very instructive. Every should obtain this book, as it contains instructions for organizing an amateur strel troupe. . y, or 3 for 25c., in money or postage stamps, by 168 West 23d St., New York