Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 765) (1920 05 28)

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MAY 28, 1920. BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. CAP’ , vets gas hl Hit be. M fm | As Will left the building with the satchel, a smooth-faced man standing near put out his foot _ and the boy tripped and fell, the satchel flying from his hand. Hal, sus- pecting the fellow's motive, rushed out and seized him.

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FAME AND FORTUNE Entered as Second-Class Matter, WEEKLY October 4, 1911, at Issued Seg gong price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry EB. Wolff, Publisher, 166 Street, New York, N. Y. the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., No. 7 NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1920. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price 7 Cents CAPTURING THE COIN Or, THE DEALS OF A BOY BROKER BY A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—Home From Wall Street. “Hello, dad, I’m back again, like a bad penny,” exclaimed Harry Hall, clasping the extended hand of a sunburned, agricultural-looking man of fifty years, who stood on the platform of the small railroad station at Mayville, Pa. “You're looking fine, son,” said the senior Hall, giving the boy a hug and a kiss. “I hardly knew you when you stepped off the train.” “Have I changed so much as that, dad?” laughed Hal. “Yes, you’ve changed a whole lot during the two years you’ve been away. New York seems to have done you a powerful lot of good. Your mother and sisters are just crazy to see you, which is natural, and they’ll be tickled to death "with your appearance. Is that your trunk yonder and grip?” “Yes, dad.” “Then you intend to stay a few weeks with us?” said his father in a tone of satisfaction. . “T expect to unless something turns up to change my arrangements.” “Here comes Benton, the station agent. You remember Benton, don’t you?” “Sure I do,” said Hal. “Hello, Josh?” -The agent stopped and looked hard at Hal. “Why, if it ain’t Harry Hall,” he suddenly ex- elaimed, holding out his hand with a broad grin. '' “Blamed if I know’d you at first. You've got to be a regular dood. -“J hear you are down in the financial district of New York now. Do you know a fellow by the _ mame of Burt Harris. He was:here last summer. ” ’ . % He said he was the smartest messenger in Wall Street, and put up a big bluff with the girls here. said he didn’t know you.” - Will you drag my trunk over to the wagon, Josh?” rabbing the atform while “Well, I know him and he knows me, all right. _. “Certainly,” said the agent, handle and lugging it across the Hal followed with his suit-case. | ~ Farmer Hall helped him lift it into. the light “wagon, Hal threw his suit-case in under the seat, nd then sprang up and took his place. ~ “Good-by, Josh, I'll see you later,” cried the boy, as the rig rolled off up the country road, away from the direction where the villave lay. Although Hal had been absent from Mayville es x and vicinity for two years, everything looked _ familiar to him. s - *] cduld almost fancy I had never been awa m here, dad,” said Hal, as he gazed aroun the same feeling that one experiences when he meets with a very old friend he hasn’t seen for years. “Things look familiar, do they, son?” smiled Hall, senior. SS et ad i er different from the city, eh?” “I should say so. I don’t see why you never came on to visit me. The big skyscrapers of lower Manhattan would have made your eyes bulge.” “I was always thinking of making the trip, but somehow I never could get to the point of start- ing. There is so much to be done on the farm, and help is scarce and not always reliable. Then your mother and sisters felt nervous about being left alone, particularly after our next neighbors place was robbed by tramps when he was aveg They tied his wife and little girl up in the - room, ahd cleaned out onergiine of value they could take away.” , “When did that happen?” — “Early last fall. And ‘the’ preceding spring Mr. Taylor’s place was raided by several rascals who set fire to the barn before they were beaten off. Those kind of things are ‘enough to make the women foik nervous. Nothing might have happened if Pd gone to New York, but I was afraid to take the chances, long as we knew you Were well, and heard from you regularly, we judged you were all right; and we felt sure you'd come home and see us when you got the chance.” “I might have come before, dad—made a flying trip when I got my annual vacation—but'the first time I was invited to go to the seashore by the boss, and I couldn’t very well refuse, and the sec- ond chance I had a friend of mine persuaded me to go to the Catskills with him. I couldn’t resist the temptation of visiting the mountains, and there you are.” : “Tt’s all right, son, since you’ve come at last. How much of a vacation have you got this time?” “As long as I want.” 2 cs “As long as you want!” exclaimed his father. “Yes, I’m out of a job.” cae “How came you to lose your position?” “The boss was caught ina slump and went to the wall. He was so deeply involved that he com- mitted suicide, and the business is being wi up by a receiver. The receiver and I a scrap day before yesterday, and I quit then and there. I only anticipated my finish by a month or less, ~ for nobody was left but the head book. and one of the junior clerks.” = “What do you intend doing now?”

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es “J haven’t quite decided, but I have an idea of starting out for myself.” “What, as a broker?” “Yes.” “But that'll take money, won’t it?” : _“Yes; but not a whole lot to start with in a modest way. I’ve made a few hundred dollars , through deals in the stock market; but as it'll cost something to rent an office in a modern build- ing, and furnish it up, I'll need more than I have got. I thought maybe you’d stake me.” : “J dunno, son. I ain’t very flush. Cro ‘ ~ ~ oo CHAPTER I—The Midnight Visit. 4“y, as a brother might be ex- che . : é E race comer, who certainly ¢ 5 ed appearance, and then he was int peetathas ik athens Suites was an uncommonly fine gir Dl as e, and as unassuming as she was lovely Ww. ‘tremendously impressed by her, and h her mother, too. He held a kind of levee fox md age ty eee minutes before coe £0 to his room to remove uced farm-houses,” said Hal. “It is generally the poor © ter Jessie. Jessie “a noise and saw on the wall the silhouette of a By the time 2 CAPTURING THE COIN- he had freshened himself up the bell rang for supper, and he joined his people and the two boarders at the table, where a seat was reserved for him beside his mother, who proudly viewed her manly-looking boy. It was the liveliest supper the old farmhouse had witnessed in many a day. Hal wasn’t the © kind of boy to let things lag when he was the center of interest. A two-years’ boarding-house experience had taught him how to make himself agreeable to all kinds of people under all circum- stances. Jessie Milton, who was accustomed to the best society, was favorably taken with him. First impressions go a long way, and he could” easily have killed nimself with her during the first hour of their acquaintance, for without nice manners his stylish appearance and good looks would have cut no ice with her. Her mother also took 2, decided liking to him, and when she put her stamp of approval on a person ft counted a — great deal in that person’s favor. Hal was the .— whole thing that evening, and he accepted the situation with due modesty and a whole lot of — inward satisfaction. 4 “How long are you going to stay with us, Harry?” asked annie. “Till you get tired of me,” he laughed. “That will be never, brother, dear.” “Well, I may stay the rest of the summer.” “That will be just lovely,” said Hattie. 3 “IT suppose business is dull in Wall Street at this season?” said Fannie. “It is rather flat. Most of the brokers are out of town with their families at the seashore Or _ mountains.” : “So there was little for you to do, and to that fortunate circumstance we owe the pleasure of having you with us,” said Hattie. 7 “That’s about the size of it, Hat, but the chief reason is because my employer's failure and tragic death put me out of business,” he said. $s answer caused considerable surprise and, of course, Hal had to explain the catastrophe more fully. Hal then began talking about the farm, and for a while the financial district of New York was relegated to the backrround. It was like old times to turn into the bed he hadn’t slept in for two years, and that fact, together with the quietude of the country, aside from the usual nocturnal noises of the night, kept Hal awake for some time. : At last he fell asleep. While he slept the moon _ rose and flooded the landscape with its silvery ~— light. It shone in through Hal’s window, paint- ~~ ing a reproduction of the window in outline_ against the wall opposite the foot of the boy’s _ bed. Suddenly Hal awoke, something unusual — with him. As he raised himself on his elbow his _ eyes rested on ‘the reflection on the were = “Ah, the moon is up!” he said to himself. “I~ wonder what time it is?” 2 He was not greatly curious on the subject, not | enough to get up, strike a match and | at his — watch. He was about to turn over when he heard — head rise on the outside of the window. In an — instant he knew that a was there, and that — man could not have got there without the aid of _ a ladder. It was probably the placing of ladder that had- fh) h ph his Sed: t didn't take Hel. mere: than @ settpd to xealiz> thet. = = a ——

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CAPTURING he had an intruder to deal with, and as midnight prowlers of this kind generally traveled in pairs, there were doubtless two of them on the ladder. Hal was naturally a quick-witted boy, and his Wall Street experience had developed that faculty. . Glaneing toward the window, he saw a head thrust into the room. He remained as still as a mouse. As the man turned his face in his diree- tion the moonlight gave him a partial view of his features, He was a hard-looking character, with a two-weeks’ growth of stubby beard that height- ened his gaunt and hungry look. Not the kind of person that one would care to tackle under any circumstances. The fellow evidently made out the boy’s figure in the bed, for he looked at it intently.’ Satisfied in his mind that the occupant of the room was asleep he withdrew his head to Say something to his companion below him on the ladder. Hal was out of bed in an instant. He grabbed his water-pitcher and discharged its con- tents squarely at the intruder as he rose a step higher on the ladder. e water itself ie a bet the shock of its unex con s e e fellow so much that he started back, lost his hold and balance and fell, with a cry. His pal had no chance to avoid his descending body, and the re- sult was he was swept from his place, as though struck by a club, 4nd both rascals tumbled in a heap to the ground. Hal looked out and down- ward. He saw the half-stunned pair rolling at _ the bottom of the ladder. He flung the pitcher ~ down at them. It barely missed the head of one of them and went to pieces with a crash that awoke the echoes of the night. It also awoke the hired man who slept in the next room over the kitchen. He jumped out of bed and stuck his head out of the w to see what had caused the noise. He saw the two men picking them- selves up. speed ak the fellow who ed more to their retrea’ e fellow who 1 into Hal’s ‘room partly turned and shook his fist with an imprecation at the win- dow. In another minute they were over the fence and making for a nearby patch of woods. CHAPTER II.—Hal Makes a Capture. “Ts that you, Sherman?” asked Hal, seeing the - figure of the hired man at the window. icy replied Sherman. “Who were those two | men “Thieves. They were about to enter my room % ye ete seatinne Stating Zor THE COIN 8 “Some people are more lucky than they deserve to be,” replied Hal. “How came that ladder to be around the house to tempt such rascals to try an easy mode of entrance to the house?” “There was no ladder around the house. They must have found it under the barn, where it is kept, and brought it here for the’ purpose they used it for.” “Well, they’re gone, so we might as well turn in. The ladder can lie where it is, for it is hard- ly likely that those fellows will come back after the experience they have had. Too bad we have- n’t a telephone connection with the village so that we could put the constable on their trgck with- out delay. it is likely they will be miles away in the morning,” said Hal. The men were by this time out of sight, so Hal partly closed his window and returned ‘to bed. It took him a full -half hour to get to sleep, again, and then he slept serenely until morning. Farmer Hall was up with the sun, and he found his hired man in the yard, lugging the ladder to the barn. He was astonished to see the ground littered with broken crockery. Sherman told him what had happened during the night, and the farmer was not a little amazed at the effective way in which his son had handled and defeated the midnight ruffians. Hal did not show himself “until the breakfast bell rang, and then he took his seat at the table without saying a word about his night’s experience. ' “Son,” said Hall, senior, “Sherman told me this morning that a couple of men tried to enter your room last night with the aid of one of our lad- ders, which are kept under the barn, and that you woke up in time to put them to flight.” His remarks teok everybody at the table, ex- cept Hal, by surprise. After the meal Hal en- yed a conversation on the veranda with Jessie iton and her mother, which beeame a tete-a- tete Pag the young a Sas gaa went up er room. Finally ed her if she would like to take a walk. . “It’s two years since I have been in this neigh- borhood, but I guess things have not altered so much but I can find myself around,” he said, laughingly. Jessie said she would be delighted to take a stroll with him and ran upstairs to get her hat. So off they went ther, down -¥ the door. In a few minutes rn ge Some caution and prank a: ° young from behind. The cracking of a dry coy men’s feet caused Hal to look jumped i | ' i ‘ f

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4 CAPTURING THE COIN quieted him effectually for the time being. The fellow then took his watch and a five-dollar bill, while his companion was olicving irl of her chatelaine with its pendant watch. ey bound Jessie’s hands behind her, gagged her with a handkerchief and dragged both of their victims into the shanty, where they left them, closing the door on them. A few minutes afterward Hal re- gained his senses. The men had not taken the trouble to bind him, as they supposed he would remain dead to the world for some time to come. When he staggered to his feet he saw the predica- ment his companion was in and he peony. re- lieved her of the Eee and her bonds. Jessie was pale and-frighten: “Those were the rascals who tried to enter the house last night,” said Hal. “I recognized one of them. How long have we been here?” “Only a few minutes.” “Then they’ve only been gone a short time?” he said. “About five minutes.” “They’ve robbed me of my watch and a five- dollar bill. Did they take anything from you?” “They took my gold watch.” “I must chase the rascals. Do you fear to re- main here while I look around for them?” “No, I will stay here till you come back, but be careful of yourself> You can hardly ex- pect to do much against two men.” “Don’t worry about me. I can’t let those ras- cals get away with your property, nor mine, either, for that matter.” Hal stepped outside of the shanty and looked around on the for signs of footsteps. These were not easy to be seen as the ground was not soft enough. However, he saw where- the grass had been pressed down, and taking that sign as a starter he found the light im- prints of a boot here and there. That furnished the clue to the direction the men had taken. He started off on their trail, though it was not at all certain that they had not branched off to the left or the right after they had gons a short distance. He soon struck a path that led - down into a dell through which ran a brook. The path crossed the brook and went on to the fence that divided the Hall farm from the next one. The wood was pretty close down there, and Ayseeed Hal heard the sound of voices that e judged.must be the men’s. He advanced with due caution, gripping the stout stick he had aig up along the way.. Parting the leaves e and there he at length saw the two rascals sitting on the ground near the brook, examin- ing the two watches. They were estimating what ‘they could get for them. ~- _ “We can get rid of them in Dover,” said one of them, “They to fetch $20,” said the other man. é “One of them is worth more than that,” said “I know it, but we can’t expect to get even _ half of what they are worth. “Let's make a start. It isn’t safe for us to _boy recovers his senses he'll put the con- fom tame”. Fo 3 foe some time,” said the other, as he started to get up. Before he could straighten up, Hal stepped out of the bushes, swung his stick and the fellow went flat on his face. The boy then sprang at the other and smashed him, and he went down, half-stunned, too. Hal pulled the handkerchief out of one of the men’s pocket and botnd his hands behind his back. He served the other robber in the same way. Then with a piece of cord he found in one of their pockets, when searching for the watches and his money, he tied the right ankle of one to the left of the other. “I guess they’ll stay there till the constable comes after them,” he said, in a tone of satis- faction, as he replaced his wateh and chain in his vest, and pockered Jessie’s watch and his own five-dollar bill, _ The two rascals were fully conscious by this time and es Page at the boy and swore to get Square with . Hal paid no attention to them. Leaving them where they lay he started back for the shanty. He found Jessie standing out- side, watching for his return. “Here’s your watch, Miss Milton,” he said. “Oh, thank you, Mr. Hal. How did you recover . it? And I see you have your own chain on, too. How could you force those men to give up what er § ne eave us?” “A stout stick is a pretty good argument, es- pecially when you take the enemy off their guard,” replied Hal, who then told her how he knocked the men out and tied them so they could not get away. “You intend to notify the constable of the village and have them taken to jail,” said the young lady. “Of course. As there.is no time to be lost over it we had better return to the house right away. They made their way to the farmhouse by a short cut across the fields. Jessie hastened to tell her mother about the unpleasant adventare she and Hal had had during their walk, together with its sequel, while the boy went to the meadow, caught the saddle-horse and presently started for the village. ; : ieee Ss SS ¢ i = CHAPTER aes of Spade Guineas. The constable was not at home. He had gone off with a deputy in search of the two rascals Hal had caught. The boy left word that the men been caught and would be held at the Hall farm till the officer came after them. Hal reached home. about dinner-time. His father and the hired man were in the yard washing up. “Where have you been, son?” asked Hal, senior. ee the village after the constable,” replied Hal told all about the encounter he and Jessie we ee the “ intend that they should get off with our property if I could help it,” beset “so I started after them, leaving Miss Milton at the . shanty.” Then Hal described how he surprised the men and put them out of business. “Upon my word, son, you are sure some thief~ -

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CAPTURING catcher,” said Hall, senior, in a tone of admira- tion. “Go with him, Sherman, and help bring those fellows here. [I'll see that they are taken care of until] Brown calls for them.” The robbers had been unable to escape from the condition the boy had left them in, for though they had tried hard to extricate them- selves from their fix, they were unable to do so. Their ankles were freed and they were ordered to up and start for the farm. Fifteen minutes ter they were landed in the yard, where Farmer Hall saw that they were put in a secure place. Hal then went in to dinner, which was partly over. “That’s right, mother. You don’t want to put yourself out on my account.” : That afternoon he took Mrs. Milton and Jessie out driving, and when they got back he learned that Constable Brown had called for the prison- ers and taken them away. : “He left word that you and Miss Milton will be expected to appear at the office of Justice Smith, at ten in the ee to testify against those ‘annie. ' men,” said his sister Hal and Jessie were on hand at the appointed time, and so was a crowd of the village people. re was no doubt about the prisoners’ guilt, so the justice committed them to the county jail at Dover for trial, and they were taken there that afternoon by the constable and a deputy. They were tried at the next term of the court, con- victed and sent to prison. . During the next six weeks Hal took on a pretty good coating of tan. He was of consi fe assistance to his father in the field, though he did not work regularly. ber came around, Hal t was time for him to ré- city. The novelty attaching to his ? the back to Wall Street. His father had ; agp to the farm had worn off and he was cager ; Promised to let him have a couple of hundred exe Es q d : him make his start as a broker with the he had in bank he determined re desk-room in some office and speculate he had captured enough coin to warrant his io oe ees a If luck went him, well, he would hunt up another job messenger. As Hall, senior, did not feel that ld advance the money till he had collected would probably take another H to return to the city anyway his luck with his $500. ng ‘announced to his mother and sisters, as Jessie, that the call of Wall Street was strong for him to resist, he arranged to leave Mayville on the following Monday. On Sunday afternoon he started out to bid l his village friends. He made his as quick as he could, as he ‘wanted to get home to supper and pass his last bn on the veranda with his folks and the ze fl which ecided 3 5 i og g@ Jessie. He had already received an in-' Vitation from Mrs, Milton to-visit them at their home in New York, after they got back, which expected would be in the early part “df , so he anticipated continuing his friend- ship with the lovely girl in the city. He got back a supper was ready, and then it was that ie remembered he had not said good-by to his = old friend, Will Watson, the son of a neighbor- ' farmer. AS soon as supper was over he ( to rectify the omission. ae Joe eh THE COIN 5 He took a short cut through the woods and made it still shorter by leaving the path at a certain point and pushing through a patch of shrubbery. Suddenlv he heard a commotion in the thicket and following the sound to see what caused it, discovered a large rabbit entangled by a noose, which had caught one of its hind legs. The animal made more strenuous efforts to escape as Hal approached, but it was caught fast and couldn’t get away. Hal stooped and looked at it. It had given up the unavailable struggle and crouched down in abject fear of its finish. Hal caught hold of the stout string which held it and followed it to its source, intending to detach it and give the rabbit its liberty. He found that the string was connected with a kind of canvas ~cover surrounding some object buried in the ground, which the rains of years had uncovered. Hal’s curiosity was aroused. Pulling out his knife he cut the string and let the rabbit escape then he dug away some of the loose ‘earth around the object and discovered that it was a crock. The cover of the crock was tightly closed with can- vas, Apparently, something of importance must be in the crock, or why such care in sealing it up so tightly? Forgetting the errand he was bound on, Hal began to dig the soil from around the vessel. In the course of fifteen minutes he was able to free the crock so as to enable him to land it on the surface, which required something of an effort, as it was very heavy. He examined the crock in the falling light of dusk. He had never seen such a vessel before. The canvas cover was in rags, and when he pulled what was left of it away he saw that the lid was secured by a piece of skin held tight by several rounds of catgut. It was easy now to remove the stone cover, He was not prepared for the surprise that was his when he caught sight of the contents of the vessel. The creck was full to the brim with old-fashioned spade guineas—English gold-pieces, of the value of twenty-one sh.llings, the coinage of which had long since been discon- tinued. Hal gave an exclamation of astoniShment | and stared at the money. - CHAPTER V.—Five Thousand Dollars. ~ “My_ gracious!” the astonished boy ejaculated. —s real money, without a doubt. y! what a fin He pulled out several of the coins and looked at them as well as the waning light would permit. The profile of George ITI was stamped on one side of them, surrounded by the letters, “Rex Georgius Ill.” They all bore the same date—1775. “If this is full of these coins, which seems prob- able, there must be several thousands of dollars’ worth of them. Talk about luck, I’m right in it with both feet.” ~ The discovery of the crock of guineas changed He decided to postpone his depar- Hal’s plans. So instead of going on to ture for a day or two. bid his friend, Will Watson, good-by, he shoul- ~~ dered the crock and started back for home. crock appeared to grow heavier as he and he was forced to make half a dozen ys On the way. Finally he reached the farmhouse. F “ ing the kitchen door locked, he walked ; front, where the family and the two. boarders Pegs ees were seated, enjoying the evening breeze. The

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6 CAPTURING appearance of Hal, with an earthen crock cn his shoulder, naturally called for some explanation. “What have you got there, Harry?” asked Hai- ie. “What does it look like?” he aSked, as he dropped it on the veranda, “A crock of some kind. What’s in it? It ap- pears to be heavy.” “Tf you guess what’s in it you can have it,” said Hal, feeling that the offer was a safe one, “What are you going to do with it?” Hattie int make a guess, but said: “Take it to my room.” Hal picked up the crock and entered the house with it. He stowed it in his closet and came back to the veranda. Then he surprised everybody by saying that he was not going away in the morning. “I’m going to stay over till Tuesday or Wednes- day,” he said. : . “Isn’t that nice!” cried Hattie. Fanny and their mother concurred with her and said so. Jessie was also pleased to hear that Hal was going to prolong his stay for ee e soon followed, and shortly after they went Mrs. Milton went to her room, leaving Jessie and Hal ' together, the last of the bunch. They stayed up tili a little after ten and then went to their rooms. Hal lighted his lamp. He didn’t feel a bit. sleepy. ao could he. in he, with a crock of golden ion? showed they had never been in gencral ci THE COIN made svitable-sized packages of the gold, putting 200 of the coins in each. These he stowed away at the bottom of his trunk. Late in the afternoon he visited his friend, Watson. “So you’re going in the morning?” said Will. “Yes.” “I wish I were going with you.” “I wish you were, too.” 3 “I'd like to work in Wall Street. I’m tired. of f E “T don’t blame you. Farming is mighty hard work. You’d only have to work about seven a a day in Wall Street—from nine till about our.” “That would be a regular cinch,” “You'd find you’d have to hustle during the seven hours. Nobody goes to sleep in Wall Street.” : “T have to hustle on the farm from morning till night, except in the winter. Even then my father always finds something for me to do, if it’s only mending an old piece of harness, or making all kinds of repairs.” “If I see a chance to get you a job in Wall Street I'll let you know, and then you can put it up to your father to let you come.” “All right. You let me know and I'll try and — my father into. letting me come on,” With that understanding the boys parted, and next morning Hal bade the farm good-by for another spell. CHAPTER VI.—Hal Puts It Over a Smart Clerk. As, scon as Hal reached New York he went direet to his former boarding-house to see whether he could get back there. He found that his room, which had been rented while he was eway, had just been vacated, and the 1 was glad to have him reeccupy it. Hal felt he was lucky, for he preferred not to go to a strange h delivered He apse of the guineas for about $5,000. Then he looked around for a office in one of the Wall Street buildings. He found a single room on the sixth floor of the Bancroft ewe and hired it until the ensuing first of May, wi tke privilege of renewal. He had it furnished in 2 suitable manner and secured-a ticker. All furniture was seco , but in prime condition. His rug was new, and so were the few pictures he Te on

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CAPTURING THE COIN 7 = “} wonder who the new guy is?” said one. “He must be a cheap skate to have only one room, and a@ small one at that. He is probably some out-of- town jay trying to get a footing in Wall Street. . He won't last.” “Are you the new broker’s office boy?” asked the other of Hal. ‘ “T am not. I’m the tenant of this room,” re- plied Hal, in a dignified way. “You are?” exclaimed the first speaker, look- ing Hal over in a supercilious way. “Why, you’re only a kid.” -“Judging from your manners, you’re not much better than a kid yourself,” replied Hal. “What’s that?” cried the clerk, aggressively. “You heard what I said, unless you’re deaf.” “You’re an impertinent young jackanapes!” re- plied the clerk, angrily. “For two cents I'd take you across my. and give you a spanking.” ; “Would you? I'll take you up. Here are the two cents,” and Hal hauled thé coppers out of his pocket. “Now start.in, please, and see if you can make good. ~The clerk was taken aback by the boy’s resolute demeanor, and he began to water. “You're smart, aren’t you?” he said, sneer- has nothing to do with the question at issue. You said that for two cents you'd take _ -‘™me across your knee and me. I’m inter- ested in finding out if you’ve try it. If you can do it it will _. ing performance for your friend to witness.” At that point the head bookkeeper and the oy came out and they paused to see going on. 3 : *. !” said the clerk, loftily. “Come on, Jen- kins, let us go.” z “Hold on!” said Hal. “You can’t sneak out of _ the responsibility that way. I have dared you to make good. If you don’t do it I shall pull your - nose for you.” = 35 “How dare you, you impertinent monkey!” cried _ the clerk, turning very red. : gE aaghpy cote ep M emeretand? to see it or apologize. n pie: Me anologize! The idea!” exclaimed Clark. * ow = y a sarees i ive. He suped “al ae caught ar y the nose and gave it a ™ hard ‘tweak, _.. “Now you can go, you puppy!” he said. A pretty pher came out of the office at the boy, but b over with the behind the clerk, grabbed _of his trousers and i ' e : Hl vt ception of Clark and Jenkins, got in and the cage went down. . CHAPTER VII.—Hal Meets Burt Harris Nohcdy in the elevator knew Hal, nor had they any idea of the cause of the disturbance on the sixth floor. As far as appearances went, he ap- peared to be a young gentleman of attractive per- sonality, between eighteen and nineteen years. The stenographer glanced furtively at him, and though he had just done up one of the clerks in = to be served he became interested in a conversa- tion going on in the booth. . “I don’t know where Aap got sorbed by Py | when that gets to be , with w hie the will take a eRe

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8 , CAPTURING THE COIN “IT am, and I advise i to do the same.” “You may be right, but I know there are lots of the traders who are selling short because it is confidently believed in the Street that the road is bankrupt and will default on the interest of their first mort, bonds next week.” “J know there are, and those chaps are going to get caught in the shuffle. You will see the big- gest rush to cover in a coon’s age, and it’s going to cost them money to get out: When that stock starts to jump it will jump with both feet, and it will have wings on to boot.” “How much have you bought?” ; “Quite a block, and I’m goin’ to keep on buying as long as I can raise the coin to pay for it.” Sit seems to me you are taking rather reckless nees. “J don’t think so. I’m willing to back X. & Y. last cent.” with = “Well, I'll consider what you’ve told me.” “You haven’t much time to consider it. The news is liable to out and be confirmed at any moment. Then it will boom so quick that you won’t have time to make a whole lot out of it.” -out for oe age in he wrote his father. it, dad? Give my love to mother and girls, and my best rds to Mrs. Milton her a. Tell was Foe te waite pnd det : sg ip a pee apr i bao add a few words, if it be y a postscript.” bet bes eX he He took the letter out to post it and- ran against Burt Harris. “Hello, Harris!” “Hello, yourself!. How are things coming?” “My way at present. Look here, Harris, why didn’t you tell me that you were out to Mayville a year ago on your annual vacation?” “T did tell you,” said Harris. “No, you didn’t.” * “I thought I did. What’s the difference if I forgot?” “Not a whole lot, but I’d like to know why you pretended not to know me when John Benton, the station agent, asked you if you were acquainted with me.” 2 “Why should I pretend not to know you? That hayseed must have been dreaming if he told you such a thing as that.” “Benton isn’t one of the dreaming kind. He told me that you put up a big bluff about yourself. You told some of the village girls you ac- quainted with that you made money hand-over- fist in the market, and that you expected to be taken into the firm of Duprez & Co. when you got back. Well, are you the junior partner?” “Of course I’m not. I was just jollying the girls.” - “Wanted to make yourself the big I am, eh?” ~ - “What of it?. Were you out there this sum- mer?” “I was. My father has a farm three miles out of ae village. You found that out, didn’t you?” “Yes. I stopped at the White farm. The old — man told me that his neighbor, Farmer Hall, had. you.” “I think you’re the limit, Harris.” Harris grinned. : “What are you doing now?” he asked. ing for a new boss?” “No, ’m working for myself.” “At what?” “A business you’ll never make a success at.” “What kind of business is that?” “Capturing the coin.” ’ “What do you mean by that?” “Making money, if that’s plainer to your com- prehension.” “How are you making it?” oan cee: ae be — ‘ ay, don’t try so funny. y don’t bet oe what youre aavtae at?” = “Well, ’'m speculating in the market, if yale ip eee = Ing d your father mo farm to stake you?” = ; m a son in Wall Street, and I knew he referred to “Work- “He did not.” “Then where did you get the money to specu- late with?” . ig 4 2 1 se you meas a wh aaa “If you guess long en 8, you may come within a mile or two of the truth.” the “Ig that so? Smart, aren’t you?” With a snort of disgust, Hasris turned on = wal fg are Hal —- toe office, c uckling a ving handed i a ‘ he didn’t like. eS < ® - he ee

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CAPTURING CHAPTER VIII.—Hal Ca~tures Coin. } back to his office he found the Pca age am ad ef his neighbors—Skinner & Townsend—knocking at the door. ~ “Hello, sonny!” said Hal. “Do you want to see o” . “Yes, I wanted to hand you a tip. You remem- ber the chap you made walk Spanish to the elevator last Saturday?” 2 5 “Yes. He’s a clerk in your office, I believe. “He’s the margin-clerk. His name is Frank He’s dead sore on you for the showing- up you gave him.” 7 aie a “J’m sorry, but it was his fau’ : “He’s going to try and get square with you.” “Is he? “Yes. [ heard him talking it over with Jenkins, bookkeeper.” t does he expect to do?” > < sport and amateur slugger up- gger will a visit. Clark will demand te you an ace Whee fo Retin’ Sor S- sulting him. If refuse the slugger will be . -expected to mix up for you, TE ee wh a nary It is a silly trick,”. rested for butting in, and afterward jae for Clack eon! sanke him walk Spanish again,” _ grinned the boy. . “I’m much ob i ‘S likes him — ee ae a let of =~ i ft on the typewriter ers me arou tt ng one of the bosses. You took him ri ve? peur dl a ate a } rd : ; i ; : : 5 3 » Fd = ff if : Hi g 8 F i Z 2. & é & THE COIN 9 paper devoted entirely to mining interests. He was reading this when the door opened and a sharp-featured, well-dressed man walked in. “You are Harry Hall, the new tenant, I be- lieve?” he said. “Yes, sir,” replied Hal. .“My name is Skinner, of Skinner & Townsend, next door.” “Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Skin- ner. Take a seat.” “Are you a newcomer to the city?” asked Skin- ner. “No, sir. I’ve been here something over two years.” “You’ve been working for some broker, I pre- sume ?” “T have.” “And you have just started out on your own hook?” “That’s right.” aa ne De “y expect to get along until business warrants my taking larger quarters.” ‘ar. . “How would like to take a flyer in the Two Orphans ye : af “Never heard of the mine.” “Tt is listed on the Western exchanges, also at ’ Jersey City, and is dealt in on the Curb occasion- ally. I’ve got 10,000 shares I could let yeu have.” “Thanks for the offer. but | doa’t care to buy any of it,” . ee a Ree Age Heard of that, haven’t — uu?” : oe “Yes, but I guess it doesn’t amount to maeh. It is quoted at only three cents.” “It’s liable to go up any time. I'll sell you 20,000 shares at two and a half to get rid of it, for it’s rather small potatoes for us to hold for a rise. You could do it and make some money out of it.” Hal shook his head. “How would you like to tackle a copper stock? Copper is strong these days. I have 10,000 Alpha — & Omega. It’s gee at 55 cents, but if you will =. the block I say?’ “Don’t care for it,” replied Hal. “Then I can’t do any business with you?” “No, sir, not in the propositions you have a i” } , “Well, if you buy any of the railread stecks i Should consider it friendly on your part if you. favor our firm with . We'll carry aa, stock on the list for you on the usual ten per cent, margin, and treat you white,” said Skinne , ‘rising, . “All right, sir.~ see you later.” take 1 make it an even 50. What do you . shi oT we a . ib Wwe B07 PMO or HL soe ag ey a ae 7 + Nahe “Do so, and I will intreduce you to Mr. Towns: end. Good-day.

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10 CAPTURING office, took $10,000 out of his safe and, going around to the little bank, put it up as marginal security on 1,000 shares of the stock, which was then ruling at 85. As he walked away from the window he spied Burt Harris in the line of people who had come up to give in orders for the pur- chase or sale of stock. “Hello, Harris!” he said. “Does your firm know you're wasting their time in here?” “Don’t you worry about my firm,” growled Harris. “Oh, ’'m not worrying about your bosses, but as I saw Mr. Duprez come in here a moment or two ago and walk into the cashier’s room, I thought I’d tip you off.” ; “Great Caesar!” exclaimed Harris, with a scared look, leaving his place in the line and making a break for the door, through which he disap in short order. = Mel jaschad and sat down to watch the quota- tions on the blackboard. Forty-eight hours later L. & M. went up to 98, and there was a scramble for the stock my many of the speculative brok- ers. The traders employed by the syndicate took advantage of the excitement to bid the price still higher, and it quickly went to 96. ing a lull in operations it fell back to 94 1-2. Later it jumped to 97, and there was another spasm of excitement. Hal believed it would go higher and held on. His judgment proved correct, the price going up to 105 3-8 on the following day. Hal concluded that he would be foolish to look for the last dollar that might be squeezed out of the deal, so he ordered the little bank to sell him out. This was done in fifteen minutes, and he that-his profit would pan out $20,000, which proved to be the case when the bank set- - tled with him. He immediately wrote his father a letter telling him about his latest streak of = good fortune. <— “There is nothing slow about me, dad. I am Now worth $35,000, six-sevenths of which I’ve ; made since I got back here from the farm. If I -. hadn’t found that’ crock of guineas I wouldn’t have been able to have made a tenth of what I’ve captured in the short time I’ve been out for myself, That proves that money makes money a properly manipulated. With my present enlarged capital I am in line to do even better unless J run up against hard luck,” he wrote. _. He had sealed and addressed the envelope when the deor opened and in walked Clark, Jenkins and a tough-looking stranger. Hal didn’t need to be told the nature of their errand. However, he was prepared to deal with them. “Take a seat, gentlemen,” he said, politely, be- fore Clark could open the proceedings, “I will be - @t your service in a moment.” -._-__He drew his desk telephone toward him and put _ the receiver to his ear. He asked for a certain number, and when he got it he said: -_- “This is the Oak street police station, I be- _ Heve?” _ “Yes,” came back the reply. = rake = Soe up ie Room 623, Bancroft _ Building, — treet, right away.” . _ *All right,” was the reply, and Hal rang off. “Now, gentlemen, I am at your service,” he ‘Cee ee ‘The blustering look on Clark's fa is-. - Bppeared | ‘he ooked ‘ous. He seemed Tex é * ‘Hal then locked up and went off, too. < "ae at friend was going to find him a job in” THE COIN a loss how to proceed. Hal’s request for a police- man had rattled him, though he did not connect it with the visit of himself and his companions. The fact that an officer would presently be on hand balked the plan he had in view, and had taken the wind completely out of his sails. How- ever, he had to make some excuse for calling. “You remember me, I suppose?” he said, sourly. “I think I have seen you before,” said Hal, pleasantly. “Your name is Clark, and you work in the next office.” “Yes. J came in here to ask you to apologize for insulting me last Saturday,” said Clark. He had intended to use the word “demand” ne are “ask,” but he thought he had better no “Indeed!” exclaimed Hal, in pretended surprise. “Now if I recollect the case rightly, I think it is you who owe me an apology. I shall be happy to accept it from you if you care to make it.” _ Clark was staggered by what he considered the boy’s nerve. e “T think you have a great gall to insinuate that I owe you an apology when the insult was all on your side. You took advantage of me in an un- guarded moment and rushed me to the elevator . in a way that lowered me in the opinion of those who saw what you did. I desire that you will apologize for doing so.” “If I believed I was in the wrong I should apologize to you, willingly, for I am always will- ing to own up my shortcomings, but as the act was simply a retaliation on my part for the lan- guage you addressed to me, and the ere you made to strike me, I do not hold myself to blame, consequently I must decline to apologize.” “You refuse to do it?” “T do, most decidedly.” : That was the tough sport’s cue to butt in, but he didn’t make a move. He had heard Hal’s re- quest for a policeman, and he didn’t care to make himself prominent under such circumstances. “Very well,” said Clark, loftily: “You will hear from me again.” ; He nodded at his companions, who rose without a word and followed him out of the office. Hal chuckled as the door closed behind them. “J thought that policeman call would frighten them off,” he said. Five minutes later the officer appeared. “The necessity for your presence has passed, officer,” said Hal. “Here is a bill to pay you for calling. You can report that the party who was on the verge of becoming obnoxious and danger- ous, hauled in his horns as soon as he heard me call for a policeman.” “All right,” said the officer. “Much obliged for __ So ze = n’t mention it,” smiled Hal. “Th nothing too good for the Finest,” ae 3 The policeman grinned and took his departure, CHAPTER IX.—Hal’s First Customer, — ee It was about this time that Will Watson wrote. Hal a letter. He wanted to know when

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- F « CAPTURING Street.. Hal wrote back that he hadn’t discov- ered an opening for him yet, but as he wanted somebody to look after his office while he was out, he offered Will $6 a week if he could come on and take the job. “Jt will be a sinecure, for I have nothing for you to do except sit in the office and attend to’ any callers I may have,” said Hal. “if, after a trial, you don’t like it, you will be in a posi- tion to make a change at short notice. At.any rate, it will afford you an excellent chance to get acquainted with the city, which is necessary in order to hold a job in New York. Write and let me know if you will come on, and when. There is a hall room vacant at my boarding house, which I can secure for you if you mean te come, but if you want it it will be necessary for you to speak = Two days later Hal received a telegram from Will, informing him that he was coming on, so the young broker hired the hall room for him. Next day, Hal went to Jersey City to meet the train Will had announced he was coming on, It rolled-into the depot about four o’clock and Will out of one of the cars, grip in hand. a trunk?” asked Hal, after they had, greetings. : the two boys started across the Hudson River in a ferryboat. This was Will’s first visit to New York, consequently he was greatly interested in _ all the sights around him, like any boy would be who was fresh from a farm. e ride up- town on the elevated train was a novel experi- ence for him, and he enjoyed it hugely. ey went straight to the boarding house, where’ he was introduced to the landlady and his room. As Will was accustomed to a fair-sized room, the ee cee oe ee ee eet small “When I get my trunk in here there won’t be much room left for me,” he said. u’ll be able to make out, all will _ dinner found that the landlady provided a good for and ‘ THE COIN 11 morning perusal of the Wall Street and other papers that had been delivered at his office, At half-past ten Hal said he was going out. “There’s a couple of story-books I bought to fill in your idle moments with,” he said to Will. “If anybody should come in, tell them I’m out and won’t be back probably before noon. Find out their names and what they want to see me about.” “All right,” said Will. Hal spent an hour or more at the little bank, but there was nothing put up on the blackboard that aroused any particular interest in his mind. Then he went down to the Curb to see what was going on there. He found that interest cen- tered around -Montana Copper. It was goin? up and had risen from 8 to 9 since the Exchange opened. Returning to the office, Will told him that nobody had been in. Hal took $18,000 out of his safe and, taking Will with him this time, he stopped at a mining broker’s office and or- dered 2,000 shares bought outright for him. “You seem to have money, Hal,” said Will, when he saw his friend plank down the eighteen big bills. “I couldn’t do much in Wall Street without money,” replied Hal. ore do you expect to make out of that s ? “l’m buying for a rise. If it continues to go up I shall make a prolt. If it doesn’t, or drops back, I shall lose.” ven: is what you call speculating in stocks?” “ es.” “What else do you do?” “That’s all I’m doing at present.” “I suppose a great many people are doing the Same thing?” “The woods down here are full of all grades of speculators. Most of them buy on a ten per cent. marein when the price of the shares is too high for them to purchase outright.” On their way to lunch Hal explained the theory of steck speculation to Will, and he was much interested in_ it. ; After lunch they hung around “the Curb Er- change Some titne, watching the brokers, and during that time Montana Copper went up half a point. ; “Since we’ve been standing here my stock, which I have not received yet, has gone up fifty case a-share, putting me $1,000 ahead,” said “Do you mean to say you’ve made $1,000 since you bought it?” “Yes, less the broker’s commission.” “And how much is that?” : “Two hundred and fifty dollars.” “Then if you sold it now you’d make $750?” “No. It would cost me another $250 com- mission on the sale.” - “It would? Why, the broker would make as — much as you, without any risk.” es Se “But he wouldn’t make any more than $500 f it the price of the stock doubled, or went even “Oh, I see,” said Will, as walked back =~ to the office. ae ee Pa While they were es

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12 in a suit of ready-made clothes that didn’t fit him any too well, entered. “Is Mr. Hall in?” he asked, looking around. ae “Yes, sir. Take a seat. My name is Hall.” “Ts that your name on the door?” “Yes, sir.” “Are you a broker in stocks?” _ “That’s my business.” “You look mighty young. You can’t have had a great dea] of experience.” “Ill haye more and by. name, and how can I serve you?” “My name is Garrison. I’m looking for a broker to do some business for me. I don’t eare, for reasons, to employ any well-known firm, but I must have one who can buy a lot of mining shares for me and buy them quick.” “I can do that. What is the stock?” “Tt is called Red Sox, and is selling low at present.” “Yes, I know—around three cents, but I don’t think there is much doing in it.” “Do you think you can buy all there is in sight?” : “T know where I can get 20,000 shares right. - off the reel.” > “Do you now? Then I’ll give you my order. Get that block and as much more as you can find. T'll give you my check for $1,000 on ac- count. When you deliver the 20,000 shares to me at the Astor House I’ll advance you more money toward further purchases,” said Gar- What is your 5 Hal made out an order for the purchase of | q an indefinite number of shares, and asked his = first customer to sign it. His visitor did so and * then wrote his check for the sum mentioned. car “Give me your business card,” he said. ; Hal him one of his pasteboards. eed on you in the morning some time and see how you’re making out,” said Garrison. “Very well,” said Hal. “I'll buy that 20,000 block right away.” The man then took his leave. “Congratulate me, Will,” said Hal, with some enthusiasm. “I’ve struck a customer at last.” CHAPTER X.—Hal Officiates as a Broker. Hal put on his hat and walked into Skinner _ & Townsend’s office, next door. “Hello!” said Jimmy Dunn, coming forward. “Want to see one of the bosses?” “Ts Mr. Skinner in?” ‘ He was admitted at once. “Take a séat, Hall,” said Skinner. “What can I do for you?” “TF have CAPTURING THE COIN “All right. It’s worth three cents, but Ill stand by my offer. At the price the block will cost you $500. Bring the money?” “Here it is. Make out your memorandum.” Skinner did so and handed it to Hal. “[’ll deliver the shares as soon as I’ve had them transferred to you.” “Have the new certificates made out in the name of George Garrison.” “George Garrison! Then you are not buying the stock for yourself?” “Garrison is advancing the money to pay for it.” “All right,” said Skinner, who.was glad to get rid of the stock, for though it was quoted at three cents there was little if any demand in the - East for it, and he had found it impossible to dispose of the block, on which the firm had loaned $300 and then foreclosed, owing to the failure of the borrower to repay the loan when called upon to do so. The deal being concluded, Hal took his leave. Then he went down on Broad Street, looking for more of the stock. He came across a broker who had 5,000 shares of it, and Hal got it for 2 1-2 cents, and without having to pay any com- mission. Later he secured 5,000 more in two lots at the same rate. Then he learned that the firm of Litchenstein & Mandelbaum had a con- siderable quantity of it, and he called on them. “Who are you buying this for?” asked Man- delbaum, who received “A customer.” “T can let you have all you want for 3 1-2.” “Is that what you’re asking for it?” “Yes,” “Then I don’t want it.” “Why not?” “You want too much.” “How many shares do you want?” “How many have you got?” “Tf you’ll take all we have you can have it for three cents.” “T’d like to know how much. you are offering.” “Thirty thousand shares.” “Whew! You have a bunch. I ean’t give over 2 1-2 for so much.” “Will you take it all if I make it 2 3-4?” ~ “No. My instructions are to give only 2 1-2.” “T can’t let it go at that.” “Very well. You are the doctor. The only thing I can do is to see my customer. If he’ll give the extra quarter I’ll make the deal. I can’t pay more than half the regular commis- sion, you understand, for I’ve got to make some- thing.” “At that rate I ought to charge you three cents.” “Then you wouldn’t make the deal.” “Well, if your customer will pay 2 3-4 cents you can have the stock at half commission, pro- vided you take it all.” “All right,” said Hal, taking his leave. He went back to the office and sat down. His instructions from Garrison was to pay three cents for all he got, so he didn’t make any ~ attempt to communicate with his customer. _ He intended to make Mr. Mandelbaum wait,

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CAPTURING for he guessed that gentleman wouldn’t have another offer on his block of stock. Half-past three came and then his telephone rang. . “Hello!” he said, putting the receiver to his éar. “Is this Harry Hall?” said a voice he recog- nized as Mandelbaumn’s. "Yes" “This is Mandelbaum. What about that order for Red Sox?” “IT guess I’ll have to turn it down,” said Hal. There was a pause. “Say, if you’ll ake it right away and send the cash for it I’ll let you have it, for 2 1-2.” “And split the commission ?” of course.” “All right. Send your boy around with your memorandum and a receipt for the money and Vil pay for it, then you can deliver the stock when you’ve had it transferred.” “All right,” said Mandelbaum, ringing off. In fifteen minutes the boy appeared and Hal paid him the money, taking the memorandum and the receipt. Next morning, about half-past ten, Garrison appeared. “Did you get those 20,000 shares?” he asked. “I did, and 40,000 more,” replied Hal. “Good! good!”, cried the man, in a tone of sat- isfaction. “That’s $800 I owe you in addition to the $1,000 i advanced yesterday, besides your No ar ¥. ly $500. I bought “No, sir. ou only owe me the stock for 2 1-2.” a You’re smart. Did you get it all -.* -at-that rate?” _ “Yes,” and Hal told him how he had worked : - Litchenstein &/Mandelbaum and got the 30,000 for a cent below what the firm originally asked. S “I had to pay Mandelbaum half of the commis- -sion, though. He’s the only one who stood out for it.” ki; = “You're all ri t young man, You shall have z that half-cent, $s your commission. x _have earned it, and I can afford to pay it,” said Garrison. - Hal made no objection, for it was $300 in his _ pocket, and he was an to sini all the coin he _ could, honest] stly. .. “Phere isn’t a ite lot more of it in the Fast,” said his customer, “so I'll settle with you now. - As soon as have delivered the stock I'll re- fara West. I won’t forget you, and if I can throw I in your way I'll do 5 od — © Ph: you, Mr. nee “Don't mention it. - = run across any more Red Sox.I advise you buy it for your own acount soo hold it for the rise that is sure to ? *PYou have inside information about that mine, ; then?” ~- “JT have. It’s a sure winner,” — - Hal’s commission on his first customer amount- a ed to $750, less $187.50’ he paid Litchenstein & © SB aum, which was more than covered by ees the $300, of the difference between 2 1-2 and 38 cents in the price of the ‘stock, which Garvison * -presented himn with, so that his total gain amount- d to $862.50. A. day or two afterward he bought D100 Red Sox for 2 3-4 cents fox. die page ‘and on iext day picked up 2: -idéa that anything was behind the deal.” - morrow and then our. loss will be over-$0,000.”— —~ : peer THE COIN same price. Then he went over to Jersey City re, eae. 10,000 shares there, which he got for s 1-2. ates That was all he could find. On the day after the stock was delivered to him the news came out in a Wall Street paper that a rich strike had . been made in the mine. The news was confirmed and the Curb brokers began asking. for it, of- fering 10 cents a share. Those traders who had sold their holdings to Hal were sorry they had done so, but none more so than Litchenstein & _ Mandelbaum. Mandelbaum was simply furious to think he had let such a block of it escape, and he rushed around to Hal’s office. isi “How do you do, Mr. Mandelbaum?’ said Hal, .: pleasantly. The broker looked sour. “Who was that man you bought that Red Sox of me for?” he began. 2 “George Garrison.” : “- “T know that, but who is he?” 3 “T know nothing about him, except that he came here from Goldfield.” : “It is eviderit he came East to gather in all the stock he could get, having inside informa- tion about the mine. How came he to call on you? Yecu’re not a regular broker.” “I couldn’t tell you. Accident, I guess.” “No, he picked you out because he didn’t want to deal with any recognized firm for fear he’d Sone to pay more than the quoted price. How much more did you buy than what you got from us ?” “I’m afraid I can’t disclose that information. It is a private matter between my customer and — myself,” replied Hal. “Till bet you got about all there was on the market. That fellow has cleaned us out of it, | el those who want it will have to send to Gold- “I suppose you’re mad over the sale you nme with me, but you'needn’t blame me, for I had no “If you were smart you would have suspected — when he gave you such a large order.” ~ “Why didn’t you suspect, then,. when I offered — to buy all you had?” Mandelbaum made no reply to that. mn part-— ner head already pulled him over the coals for =, getting on to the real object of the deal. fact was, the firm had had the shares so. i in their possession that Mandelbaum was g of the chance to get rid of them, that’s why he sold the stock without giving the matter ir thought. ~ “That stock is worth 10 cents a share. eo ‘ and we’re out over $2,000,” growled. Mandel-. baum. “It’s liable to go to a ee by _to- “You shouldn’t mind = a thing like that, Mr. Mandelbaum,” said H “You will: “prob “ably make that up this idl < The breker snorted. No matter how much bi firm might make. that week the loss on Re Sox would be a thorn in his. side. He had out nothing-by calling on the boy trader,» got-up ard teck “his departure. %. Hal. en the-

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14 his safe which had cost him $387, and he could a have sold it that moment for $1,500. But he aig wasn’t offering it yet, for he looked to see it go much higher. CHAPTER XI.—Hal’s Second Customer. Hardly had Mandelbaum gone off when Skin- “ ner, from next door, came in. He was off his perch, too, over the Red Sox trade he had made with the boy trader. The stock had been in the ‘dumps so long that he didn’t believe that it would ever amount to shueks. When he made the sale he was glad to get rid of the 20,000 shares, now his feelings had undergone a change. He had sold it for $500, and it was now worth $2,000, with every prospect of pre higher. “Well, young man,” he grouchily, “it appears you got the best of me with a ven- geance in that Red Sox deal.” “I didn’t gain anything but my commission, Mr. Skinner. George Garrison is the lucky owner of the shares.” “Who-is this Garrison?. I understood you to say that he advanced you the money to pay for > the stock.” 4 “That’s right. He advanced the money, for : the stock was for himself.” “Tf I'd have known that I would have charged ped three cents and half the commission. | hought the stock was for you, and that Garri- " son was paying for it for you and taking it in _-« his name till vou were able to repay him.” “No, it was )a regular deal. Garrison was “= simply a customer.” — “{ didn’t know/ that you had any.” -“T catch one once is a while,” smiled Hal. “Well, we’re $1,500 out on that deal. I hope you'll ‘do the right thing by putting some of your business in our» way.” “T will, Mr. Skinner, if you will make a ang isfactory arrangement with me.” “What arrangement do you mean?” “I want you to allow me half the commission on all orders I leave with you. I think that’s _ fair, otherwise I won’t be able to make anything on my customers.” “¢ “All right. Pll agree to that if you'll throw i your our way.” ee “If you handle my own deals on the same a basis I’ll give you all my business as’ long as -—--you treat me right.” “That's a bargain. I'll allow you half of the Sor eon m on everything you bring into the ‘0 ce.” 4 - ~ Having secured the boy’s custom, which he had no doubt would grow, for he sized Hal up as a smart young slo Skinner took his pe tre _. ure in a much better humor than he had entered the office. In the meantime Montana Copper — to go up steadily, an eighth at a time, ae continually sen i. oo on verrands to one es Plead a or an- ¢ CAPTURING THE COIN _ other, which Will faithfully executed, as it was for his own interest. Hal had an advertisement running in one of the Wall Street dailies in expectation that it would lead to business. He got one or more let- ters every day from some country party who wanted to find out about Wall Street affairs, and Hal answered all of them to the best of his ability. No business came from them, how- ever, through the mail, and Hal began to think his advertisement was not panning out very - well. One morning, soon after the sudden rise in Red Sox, a typical hayseed, carrying a lady’s hand-bag, walked into -his office. “T reckon this is Mr. Harry Hall’s office,” he said, looking around. “Yes, sir. Take a seat. What can I do for you. ” “T dumno as you kin do anythin’ for me, sonny. I called to see Mr. — ¥ “T am Mr. Hall.” : The farmer stared hard at Hal. “You are Mr. Harry Hall, stockbroker! Gosh! I didn’t know there was boy brokers in Wall Street.” “Perhaps I’m older than I look,” smiled Hal. “well, now, mebbe “you are. ‘When a man is clean-shaved I'll allow he looks a sight younger than ord’nary. There’s are skuleteacher. I took him for a boy when he ap be- fore the selectmen of our viliage, and I allowed he wouldn’t do at all to take charge, but he showed that he was close on to thirty years of age, and so we engaged him, and he’s turned out the best teacher we ever had. Mebbe that’s the way with you. You miay be the smartest broker in the city for all I know.” eae came you to vakice in at my office, r “My name is Silas Parker, and I’m from. Pumpkin Hollow, down in® Jersey. I seen your advertisement in the paper, and as I wanted to ~ git some Montana Copper stock I thought I'd call on you.” “It will cost you $12 a share, but I think it’s a good investment. I have 2,000 shares in the safe now that I am telding for a higher price. “You must be ort, money. I can’t afford to buy more’n a hundred shares.” “You have to be worth money to do business in Wall Street.” “I on yews right, Mr. Hall. Gosh! I was goin’ you sonny but I ketched myself in time, haw! haw! ere “Well, I wouldn’t have blamed you. I ad- mit 1 do look young. Have a cigar?” Hal opened a drawer, and offered a box of . reina perfectos to his visitor, “T will take a smoke, seein’ you ask me to. Them cigars look like the real aie. How much might they be worth?” “Two for a quarter at retail.” “Gosh! as much as that? Them cigars White sells at his general store taste to me like cab-— bage leaves. He sells em two for a nickel.” “Take a couple more and put them in your pocket, Mr. Parker.” “Gosh!, I don’t want to rob you.” *

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CAPTURING “You’re not robbing me. Help yourself. There’s more where they came from.” The farmer took two more and placed them carefully in his vest-pocket, as if they were too precious to be handled roughly. Hal struck a match and held it for him to light the weed in . his mouth. “Don’t you smoke, Mr. Hail?’’ “No, sir. I may acquire the habit some day.” “Tt’s rather an expensive one at two for a quarter.’ “Some Wall Street men smoke two for a dollar.” “You don’t say? They must be made of money.” “They have a few millions, more or less.” “Gosh! well, now we'll talk business, What are you goin’ to charge to buy me 100 shares of Montana Copper?” “You mean my commission? That will be $12.50 for buying the stock. It will cost you the same amount for selling later on.” “That’s $25?” “Yes, sir.” “Nothin’ more?” “Not if you buy the shares outright.” “How else can I buy them?” “Qn a five per cent. margin, That is by pay- ing $500 on account you can buy 100 shares, but you won’t own it till you pay the remaining _ $700. As you live out of town, where it might be difficult to reach you in a hurry, I would not advise you to buy that way, for if the price were suddenly to drop five points you’d be wiped out unless you put up additional margin. If eo _. buy-the shares for their market value cg! Be come absolutely yours, and if the price shoul __~ drop way down you could hold on, without = till it went up again.’ “Tl buy ’em that way. You kin take my or- der and here is the money. I suppose you don’t object to gold, do you?” ? “Not in the least, Mr. Parker.” The deal was made and the farmer counted out ~ $1,200 in “double eagles. He then handed Hal of, though the young broker said he need not ‘pay till the stock was ready for delivery. “Now, give me your address, Mr. Parker. = ‘Shall I send the shares to you or will you call _ for them? Here's the receipt for your money.’ = _ “S’pose you keep ’em in your ‘safe till the = ice goes up, then | kin send you word to sell Sig Toes when I get ready, and it’ll save time.” - “Very well. As- soon as I get the shares, - which will be made out in your name, I’ll send -you a receipt for them. When you want to sell them send me the receipt with a written order _ directing me to sell and I will do so.” _. The farmer nodded, and said he guessed he’d home by an early. afternoon train after he’d ~ oked around town a bit and taken in the sights. ~ Hal shook hands with him and wished him good- a. Re “Here, Will, count this gold, put it in ‘that and take it around to the money- bills f ee — kind. Tell him to give you or ~ another gold-pieee to take his commission out- _ officer walked efter him to see that THE COIN 15 “Tm going next door to leave my customer’s order. Wait for me and we'll go out together.” Ha] took the order into Skinner & Townsend’s. Neither of the partners was in so he went to the cashier’s window and told him about his ~ a i with the firm and handed him the order. “Take it to the margin-clerk’s window and he’ll fix it up for you,” said the cashier. Clark came to his window and scowled when he saw Hal. Hal took no notice, but stated his business. Clark, without a word, registered the deal and handed Hal the memorandum. Then the boy rejoined Will at the elevator. At the entrance of the building Hal stopped to talk to a broker he knew and Will went on. As Will left the building with the satchel a smooth-faced man s‘andine near put out his foot and the boy tripped and fell, the satchel flying from his hand. Hal, suspecting the fellow’s motive, rushed out and seized him. CHAPTER XII.—Hal Makes a Haul in Copper. The man partly wriggled out of Hal’s grasp, drew back his arm and struck at young broker’s face. Hal saw his action in time” to avoid the blow by throwing his head behind the fellow. A policeman, who happened to be a few pon Ppa ran up to collar the iis oe e had seen trip Will. A passing broker step forward and recovered the coins that had slipped out of the hand-bag, as Will scrambled on his ~ feet and looked around for it. The whole inci- 3 dent had taken place in a brief space of time, a and did not attract general attention, though a J few passersby stopped to look, as the policeman 2 grabbed the man who was struggling in Hal’s =f arms. ares » “Well, my fine fellow, why did you trip that = boy 2” asked the officer. aR “T didn’t trip him. He fell over my foot,” x plied the man. ee “T saw you put out your foot,” said the police- " man. 15 saa “That’s what he did. I was only a few feet away and saw him do it,” said Hal. “I believe : = intended to try and get away with that — — ag.” “What! me try to steal a bag in broad day- ae light on Wall Street?” cried the man. “Do you ~~~ think I’m a fool?” <4 “No, but I think you’re a crook,” said Hal. “Do you, want to make a charge against man for tfipping you?” the officer asked Will, “Shall I. Hal?” he asked “his friend. 2 “No, I don’t belieye there is evidence enough | egainst this chap to warrant his arrest on any charge but malicious mischief, and it isn’t wo! while to push that against him,” said Hal. “Well, my man,~you’re Iucky to get. off so easily. I have a great mind to run you in, any way, as 2 suspicious character. . Come now, ~~ move off. Tf I meet you agai in this neighbor- hood I'll take you to the station-house,” said. cop. With a scowl at the two boys the m started down toward William street, | Ke Joiter, Hal a WL SR eee

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the co 16 CAPTURING street together, then the former crossed over and went down Broad, while Will went on to the money broker’s. That day Montana Copper went up to 14, which added $4,000 more to Hal’s prospective profits. Fifteen cents was offered on the Curb for Red Sox, but no sales were registered. Hal had no intention of selling any part of his 15,- 000 shares even at that price. On Saturday, Montana Copper closed at 16—a rise of eight points for the week, and a tremendous amount of business was done in it. If it went up 4 1-4 points more during the next week, Hal stood to double his investment, clear of all expense. Hal wrote Farmer Parker that he was $400 ahead of the game, and advised him not to hold on too long, as the price might take a tumble zny time. The farmer got his. letter on Monday morning and returned the receipt for the shares which Hal had inclosed, with an order to sell, telling him to use his own judgment. Hal got his letter on Tuesday morning, by which time pper stock was up to 18. The boy broker studied the situation as carefully as he could from the Wall Street papers, and from what “he heard around the Curb market, and decided that it might be safe to risk the farmer’s deal, as well as his own, a little longer. In order to keep his eye on things, he remained around the Curb during the time the market was in ses- sion, not going to Junch until three o’clock. The steck closed at 19 1-2. “T guess I won’t run any further chances,” he thought. Accordingly, after taking a light repast, he dropped in at Skinner & Townsend’s and saw ity. Skinner. . “Sell those 100 shares of Parker’s first thing in the morning,’ he said. “All right,” said the broker. “Here are 2,000 shares I own myself. Sell ‘them at the same time for my own account,” went on the boy. = Skinner nodded. j “What did you pay for your copper shares?” he asked. “Nine dollars.” “And they’re now ruling at 20 1-2—a net gain of $22,000 for you. You’re a lucky young man. Now, if you only had some Red Sox I could get you 30.” Hal smiled, but said nothing. At 30 cents _ there was a profit of $4,000 in round numbers in THE COIN office he saw the sign on Hal’s door. He stopped and stared at it. “That can’t be the: Harry Hall I know,” he thought. “If it is he’s got an awful nerve to advertise himself as a trader. I'll see if I can find out.” He carried his message in to Broker Skinner, and when he came out he ventured to open the door of Hal’s office and look inside. Hal was at his desk and looked up. He saw Harris’ not over-handsome countenance framed in the door. “Well, Harris, what do you want?” he asked. “So you’ve got on office,” said Harris. “Do you pretend to be a broker?” “No, I’m not pretending to be one. I am “A healthy trader you are!” sneered Harris. “Yes, I’m pretty healthy. I haven’t been sick for a long time.” “Aw, rats! How long have you had this joint?” : “Ever since I rented the room and furnished it up” “Ts that so?” growled Harris. “I suppose you expect to make a fortune here?” -“T hope to make a few million.” “A few million, eh? I’m bound ta say if nerve will do it you might win out. You cer- tainly have a huge gall to rent an’ office put your name on the door.” “T suppose you’re jealous, for you know that you'll never have an office of your own if you live to be as old as Methuselah.” “Me jealous of you! I guess not. If I wanted to hire an office and put my name on the door T could do it as well as you. Maybe you think I haven’t got money enough to do it? I might have more than you’ve got yourself. You're only putting up a bluff, anyway,” sneered Harris. “All right, we won’t argue the matter. If you came in just to scrap with me you'd better go, for I can’t afford to waste my time to no _ purpose,” “Ho! you talk as big as if you were a real ~ broker instead of a fake.” “Look here, Harris, I don’t want to be obliged to put you out, but you are not behaving your- self in a gentlemanly way as you ought to do when you visit a person you. are acquainted with.” “ “Bah! you make me tired,” said Harris, get- ting up, for he recollected that he was losing time that he might be called to account for. “['ll come up next week to see if you're still here. It won’t take long to see your finish.” He walked to the door and took his leave, much to Hal’s satisfaction. Will was out at the time and when he came in Hal told him about Harris’ visit. “He’s the chap who was down to Mayville two summers ago and spread himself around the vil- lage, as if he was a person of some importance,” said Hal. si “J saw him once or twice riding around in. . White’s light wagon with Tom White. Tom didn’t take much stock in him. Some of the girls, however, lost their heads over him and

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poe ie CAPTURING one of them gave him a lock of her hair when he went away.” Hal laughed and then turned to his desk. That afternoon Hal got his third customer. He was a little old whizened chap named Golding, end he wanted to dispose of a block of 5,000 shares of traction stock. The stock was part of a 100,000 issue at $10 a share, par value, of a small street car line, running the distance of four miles, between two large vi The : stockholders had only paid $1 a share for their - holdings, ting that some day it would in- . erease co) ly in value. The backers of the enterprise had an idea that ‘capitalists would eventually build a line from the Harlem River to the nearest of the two villages . and buy out the franchise and stock of the little * road ‘at a good price. No such thing happened, s so the road continued in operation at a loss to the stockhol ders. To reduce expenses the com-, pany ran a car from each end once an hour. the cars were what was once Khown as the “bob- tailed” variety, having no conductor. The driv- er looked after the collection of the fares, and ~ the amount of money he turned in at the end of each trip did not give the girl who kept the company’s accounts much trouble to total up. The stock was not listed at the Stock Ex- change, and few brokers knew anything about it. _ There was a small chance of selling it to any- _ body, even at a pS age for nobody wanted % such a secufity. lding had tried to sell it to + people he knew in the neighborhood of the line, 3 offering to part with it for 20 cents, or $1,000 al er. He couldn’t get anybody to take it : at a Noticing Hal’s advertisement in the Wall Street paper one day, he thought he’d eall on him and see if he could dispose of it. “I’ve got some stock that I’d like to sell,” said Golding, after he had introduced himself. ‘ ty 5 “3 is it?” asked Hal. knew = nothing t the road itself. As he never let a chance slip by to learn all he whether it to be of immediate benefit or not, he ing to give him such as he ith. Golding knew all about the little traction line, and.so H long-felt want—which it did— expenses and a little over por came along and took THE COIN 17 it over in connection with a long: Ie they would build to it from New York and beyond to one of the big towns in Westchester. : Hal listened to all Golding said, took down his address, and told him he’d let him know, say, in the course of a week, what he could do with the shares. The traction stockholder took his leave and Hal, after entering the matter in his book, asus 5 stock in his safe and went out to make es. CHAPTER XIII—No Market for Hal’s Stock. F “As I haven’t anything on hand, we'll trip ay.” They got an early lunch and then York Central train as far as Pleasantville where they found a bus which carried Pleasantville, This village was one of minals of the A. & B. traction road. They on a Golding at his house and received a cordial welcome. plied Golding. “I’ve got an idea. If it will work you be able to sell your stock mething more than - AL Bee 4 Bg eo : : ers Ze 2 & s 3 3 Fd 3 E a5 f I 8 : Ff rf i ites

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18 over the line to Lakeport village, the other ter- minal. They were the only passengers most of : the way on that trip, and they amused them- = selves asking the driver a host of questions about - the road. They tried to give the man an idea that they had an object in learning inside facts about 2 ’ the road. They returned to Pleasantville in time = to catch a train for New York. Three days later Ks Hal received the list of names from Golding, 2 with a lot of pointers. In the meantime he told a number of brokers that he had heard that a syndicate had been formed to buy up the A. & B. traction. . When pressed for evidence, he admitted that he had not been able to learn more than the bare ; fact. He mentioned the names of several big —— operators who he said were reported to be in r e deal. Those he spoke to on the subject did 9 not take much stock in it. Finally he made the acquaintance of the sub-editor of one of the Wall Street papers, and in the course of their conver- sation mentioned what he alleged he had learned about the syndicate that was going to buy up the _ A. & B, traction on the quiet. ‘the resuit was that a paragraph came out in the paper next day giving the news for what it was worth, the editor being careful to state that it lacked confirma- tion. Hal bought half a dozen papers and mailed them to the big stockholders of the road. Three days afterward, Hal and Will paid a second visit ; to Pleasantville and separately called on a num- Bet ber of the big stockholders. In a diplomatic way they approached the subject of buying theis stock. a ‘They found the people very much on their guard, and their offers of thirty, forty and fifty cents a share for the stock flatly refused. Hal, who saw a5 the president, made a provisional offer of 75 == cents to him for all the stock he could turn over. Ps The president assured him that very little of the = stock could be bought under a dollar. + “It _isn’t worth that,” said Hal. “In fact, ____ there is absolutely no market for it in New York.” - . *Then why are you willing to pay 75 cents?” - “We understand that a number of your stock- holders are anxious to sell out at any price. We know that a man named Golding has sent his block of 5,000 shares to a New York broker with _ instructions to sell at any figure above 25 cents. _ We have the names and addresses of others~who we believe are equally as eager to sell. We will S get: to suit our purpose, even though we oe fave" to bid high for the last lot,” said the boy ‘None of the men Hal and Will called on would - * sell their stock under a dollar. Apparently they = _ held a consultation and agreed to hold out. _ Two he mL days afterward Golding notified Hal that roached with an offer of 25 cents CAPTURING THE COIN. twice as much for your stock as you wanted, owing to my ingenious scheme. That ourvht to be worth something,” said Hal. “What is your commission?” “My commission on stock sold between 25 cents and under 50 cents is $5 a thousand. That will make $25 in your case. To this I must add the expenses I have been under, say $15. Then there is my time and that of my assistant. I will call it panne for $100.” ; “Very well, and I will voluntarily add $150 ex- tra, as I am making $1,000 more than I expected to get. I will send you the sum of $250 as soon as I turn the stock over and complete the deal. Write a note for that sum and [ will sign it. I am good for the money,” said Golding. : On the second day thereafter Hal received a draft on a New York bank for $250, made out by the Pleasantville National Bank, and a letter in which Golding said the sate had been duly com- pleted. He showed it to Will and. they both laughed. “Some people will bite at anything,” said Hal. Just then the letter-carrier left a letter in a lady’s hand for Hal. Opening it, the young brok- er found that it was an invitation from Jessie Milton, requesting the pleasure of a visit from him at an early date. “We will be at home Wednesday evenings, but if another evening would accommodate you better please advise us by letter so that we will know when to expect you,” she wrote. As Wednesday suited Hal, as et as any other evening, he wrote a note to the young lady, tell- ing her that he would call on the followin Wednesday evening, at eight o’clock. He call on the night in question and received a warm welcome from mother and daughter. He passed a very pleasant time with them and was invited x at his visit soon again, which he promised 0. CHAPTER XIV.—Running off with a Hand-Car. Red Sox was now selling at 60 cents on the Goldfield market, but nothing was doing in it Hast. Hal’s 15,000 shares, which had cost him a little less than $400, were now worth $9,000, and he was easily worth $65,000. One morning the young broker received a letter from George Gar- rison. The writer stated that the company was going to make a change in its Eastern represen- tative, and if Hal wished to accept the Wall Street agency of the company he, Garrison, would see that he got it. He was to put the name of the company on his door, offer a certain quantity of the stock for sale at the Goldfield market rate, ap “take charge of the transfer books for the “It ought to make business for you,” wrote Garrison, “so I don’t imagine you will turn this pares down.” : wasn’t turning anything down that gave him a chance of capturing the coin, so he wrote right back and accepted the agency. On the following week he received his appointment through the president, and duplicate transfer books, blank certificates bearing the signatares of the officers and the seal of the company, and other matter, reached him by express, He sent Will out for a sign painter and the “Red.Sox M. & M,

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CAPTURING Co.” was added to his sign, and also placed under his name on the directory downstairs. He had a circular letter printed, stating that the Red Sox ‘ transfer office was removed to Room 623, Ban- croft Building, and this he sent to all the brokers -. in Wall Street. . Then he called on Mr. Skinner and told him to offer for sale on the Curb any part of 10,000 shares of Red Sox at the market price. The shares went like hotcakes. A second bateh of 20,000 were put out, and then a third one of 30,000. Thus the exact amount of stock he had bought in for Mr. Garrison, and for which the company paid three cents, was resold by Hal for from 60 to 65 cents, bringing the company @ hea of over $30,000. Hal and Skinner & ownsend divided the commission of $4,500 be- tween them. The young broker did not offer his own shares for sale, as he felt confident that th price would hold. In fact, Garrison advised him to keep the shares; as he said there would ul- timately be declared a dividend which would more than pay him for the little money he had in- vested in them. . It was about this time that Erie began to take : a boom on, due to mani tion of large moneyed = interests. Hal bought 3,000 shares through Skin- ner & Townsend, at 33 1-2, on margin. Then he got a letter from Silas Parker, of Pumpkin Hol- w, inelosing a draft for $1,000 and an order for 100 Erie, on margin. Hal sent it in to Mr. Skin- ner. He also got a sort of syndicate order from Golding, of Pleasantville, for 500 shares, he and several friends being mterested hase age Led the deal, which was to go through under Golding’s name. Erie went to 46, but Hal sold his own shares. at 43 7-8, clearing $30,000. After communicating 3 with his two customers, he sold their stock at 45. As Hal’s Red Sox shares were worth about $11,000 now, he wrote his father that his late Successes made him worth an even $100,000, And the old gentleman wrote back, “Son, you’re a wonder!” Christmas was close at hand, and Hal and Will decided to spend it with their people. As it fell on Friday, Hal put up a notice on his _ door that the office would not be open until the following Monday noon. As they could not leave + the office in time to take an early afternoon ex- press, which would drop them at Dover, the near- ; est point to Mayville the train sto; at, in time a te connect with the local that would stop on re- quest at their destination, Hal telegraphed his _ - father to meet the westbound night express at ‘Dover in his light wagon. =e Dover was twelve miles by road from the farm ¥- ‘and fifteen miles from Mayville by rail. To go _. there meant a 24-mile round trip for the wagon, 3 and Farmer Hall did not fancy it.much, particu- _ Tarly as half of it had to be done in the dark. He telegraphed back that Hal and his friend had _ better stay in Dover overnight and come on by the early , Which stopped at Dover at seven. The boys didn’t like that, and on the way ex- plained their dilemma to the conductor. - “J know you don’t stop at Mayville even on _ Fequest,” said Hal, “but considering that it’s : i couldn’t you strain a point and slow off with our grips?” down so that we eo : “You should have taken and then could have made your connections - two o’clock express | THE COIN , 19 “T know it, but we couldn’t get away from our office in Wall Street in time. I telegraphed my father to meet us at Dover in a wagon, but he sent word back that he couldn’t do it. We'd rather get home on Christmas Eve than spend it in Dover, particularly as we have to be back in Wall Street on Monday morning.” , The conductor said it was decidedly against orders to stop between Dover and Lansing. a run of forty miles, and that the engineer would prob- ably kick if he suggested such a thing. _ “We pass Mayville at the rate of fifty miles an _ hour, and to slow down to let you off would. cause the loss of several minutes,” he said. The conductor told him that they might go through to Mayville on the freight which left Dover shortly after the express. It didn’t stop at the village station, but would do so if the con- ductor agreed to take them as a favor. Accord- ingly, when the boys got off at Dover they hunt- ed up the freight train in the yard and located the conductor. Much ‘to their disappointment he wouldn’t take them under “any circumstances. “We'll have to stay here till morning,” said Will, as they watched the freight pull out. “It certainly seems to be our luck,” replied Hal. As they were crossing the tracks to get out of the yard they saw a hand-car standing on the last track: “If we only dared pinch’ that and make the run to Mayville on it,” said Will. “Are you game to try it?” asked Hal. : “Suppose we’re caught at it we'll be arrested, and then we may pass Christmas in jail.” “There’s no one around so far as I can see. ‘Let’s do it.” “But how are we to get the car on the down track? The switch is locked.” : “We'll run her down to the switch and see,” said Hal, who was ripe for any kind of risky en- terprise. / He handed his grip to Will, jumped on the car and began to work the handle, after they had given her a start. The car reached the switch in a few moments. Hal found it had been so care- lessly locked that all he had to do was to give the lock a jerk to free it. Then he connected the rails with the main and they pushed the - — car onto it. Hal fixed the branch track as it was | before, threw their grips on the car and giving her a good start they got on board and started off into the darkness, gradually increasing 3 speed till the hand-car was whirling along ata merry clip. * “We ought to reach the station in about an hour at this rate,” said Will. . . “Hardly, We might do it in an hour and a quarter if we could keep this speed up, but it’s we won't be able to work as fast as this way,” said Hal. my opinion it will take us an hour and a half, for aie all the — y. an old culvert. The swift had jarred it considerably.

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= ae weap 2 jag in the ere, Willi?” Hal asked, seeing his - THE CCIN Avtiving t.ere, he opened the shanty up and unlocked his little box of an office. Then he started to call up Dover. He got an immediate reply, and told the operator all the facts as re- lated by Hal.. He was informed that the matter - would be looked after at once. Everybody at the Hall farm had retired hours before when Hal reached the house and began banging for admit- tance on the back door under the hired man’s win- dow. Sherman was awakened by the racket and stuck his head out. “Hello! Who’s there, and what do you want?” he asked, gruffly. E “Harry Hall is here and wants to get in. down and open the door.” A They went upstairs together and sought their respective rooms. When Farmer Hall came down in the morning he founc Sherman milking the cows as usual. The hired man then told him of Hal’s arrival. He went to his son’s room and found Hal asleep. He didn’t awaken him, but returned to the yard. Hal's mother and sisters were in the kitchen, preparing break- fast when the young broker walked in. “Why, Harry!” cried the girls, in chorus, rush- ing at him, “how did you get here so early? The train isn’t due till 7.22, and it is just about that now.” . After greeting his family he made a_ full explanation, and they were surprised to learn that he had been in the house since midnight. At the breakfast table he told -*o-* the break he and Will had run into at the culvert. Hal spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the 1arm, and enjoyed every moment of the trief holiday. 3 - Hal and. Will were driven over to Dover at an early hour on Monday morning by Sherman so they could make the ind express. They reached Wall Street a little after eleven and took ap Dorinece of the office where they dropped it rsday afternoon. Hal became better known in Wall Street every day, owing to his connection with the Red So: i compan The price of the stock went wm. to $1.25, where it practically anchored till another discovery of ore was , when it went to $2. That made his 15,000 shares worth $30,000, a mighty big profit on an investment of only $387.00. Having in the meanwhile made ano lucky haul in the market, his capital was now up. to over $150. He called regularly on Jessie Milton, and Mrs. Milton soon saw that they were eer iy = | attached to each other. On the first of , Hal Come moved into larger quarters—a suite of two rooms, _ . which gave him a private office to himself. — Will, who had been taking - les- sons all winter at a business college, ed after the outer office. Hal also employed a regular office boy and messenger, the young son of his landlady. Eventually he determined to join the Curb Exchange, as most of his business was — transacted there. He didn’t visit the farm again ~ till the succeeding August, when he was worth a matter of $200,000, all made ane the first. year he had been-out for himself. Jessie and her mother re the summer at the farm again, and before Hal left he and the young lady were ~ - engaged, with her mother’s full approbation. . ~ Next week’s issue will contain “ON HIS OWN _ HOOK; OR, MAKING A LOSING BUSINESS 2S RR ee aS eX eee

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FAME AND FCRTUNE WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS a 20,090 FILMS A SECOND > Messrs. H. Abraham, E. Bloch and L. Bloch re- rt to the French Academy of Sciences that they ve develoved a machine that takes moving Fa tures at a speed of more than 20,000 a second. CLOCK DIAL IS A SHADOW x A sickroom clock invented in Switzerland has an electric lamp behind a translucent dial, so that when an invalid in bed presses a button the dial throws the shadow of the hours and hands magni- _ fied upon the ceiling. : TOM CAT AS SECURITY A mortgage filed with the Register of Deeds at _* Stockton, Mo., to secure a debt of $46 includes _. @8 security one black tomcat, with white feet, _ Named Tom. As no descriptions ‘were listed with ~ the other articles pledged, it is evident the cat Was considered the most valuable part of the security by the mortgagee. BARBER PROPOSES TO LEAP NIAGARA ; FALLS IN BARREL A Bristol, England, barber, with a home-made barrel, will sail for America next month, and, some time durine the summer, proposes to “leap” Niagara Falls. His name is Charles Georg: _ Stephens. and when not at work in his hair-dress- -_ ing-establishment, his special habby is spectacular . stunts. -Among his recent sensational feats are: Kossing a lion in its den. Shaving customers in a lion’s den. _- Parachute descents in balloons, ; = This modern Daniel, who will dare Niagara, has invented a special barrel into which he will be : , and which is fitted with special appli- -anees to erable him to make the dangerous de- scent over the Falls. The barrel is six feet, two “inches high; it diameter at top and bottom is 26 _ inches, and in the middle, 32 inches. A 100 = on weight fixed in the bottom is expected to . - > 1 it upright in the water. HUNGRY RABBITS, KILL TREES WORT 00, ’ ‘Hungry hordes of rabbits, believed to be de- scendants of fugitives from <he game preserve of “Charles F. Dietrich of New York, have gnawed = the bark from and-killed 5,000 fruit, trees in Dutchess County. The damage is estimated at eed my ag) esa = bark beginning at snow leve a peeline it off as high as they could reach. They “girdled” the trees, as the technical expres- sion has it. to BLUE AND PINK SEALS URGED FOR BANK . ES a A possibility of the near future is a standard- ization by the government of all United States currency for the purpose of facilitating quick change without the danger of short change. The Treasury Department at Washington is now working on a proposition to mark bills of various denominations with a standardized color seal, so that any one can recognize notes of different denominations at a glance. The plan, suggested by R. Frank Beauchant, of Philadelphia, is the outcome of an experience -s had recently when he mistook a $2 bill for a ve. The- proposition, which he has submitted to t™ officials of the Treasury Department at Washington, and which is being considered along with others, provides for stamping the bills with a likeness of national figures, such as Washing- ton, Lincoln, McKinley, ete. As a further mark of identification it is proposed to have a colored seal in one corner of the bill, such as a green seal for a one, a pink for a two, blue for a five, ete. Mr. Beauchant has received a reply from John Burke, United States Treasurer, assuring him that such changes as he indicates are already un- der consideration by the government and that his plan is one of those being studied by a special committee appointed for the purpose, Their consideration of the subject thus far has virtually resulted in the elimination of “col- - ored bills” from the list of feasible proposals, it was said, and it is probable when the new de- signs are adopted portraits and corner designs, possibly vari-colored seals, will be employed as a means of ready identification rather than other systems of marking. Treasury officials dishx. the idea of using dif- _ ferent dyes for the various denominations o/ bills. They offer as one objection that colored currency | _ “wouldn’t look like money”; as another that dyes —even the best—are not uniform and frequently fade or change when the money has been in circu- lation for a short time, and a third that the spe- cial grade of paper used in engraving money “takes” the dyes and inks now in use better than any other. Carter Glass was the first Seeretary of the Treasury to adopt the suggestion of uniformity in bills of the same denomination. : Pe Acting on his predecessor’s recommendation, | Secretary Houston, when he took over the Treas- ; ury portfolio, appointed a committee of experts __ including W. H. Moran, chief of the secret sery- ice, and probably the foremost authority in the United States on currency designs and counter- feits, and William S. Broughton, commissioner of — the public debt, to work out a schedule of gees ard designs. This committee has work rs probably will be engaged on it = eral months. The pubiic is warned by 1 accept at any bills liar design.—.

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Bids 22 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Lost On Mt. Erebus - OR = A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GASTON GARNE (A Serial , Story) CHAPTER IV.—(Continued) It was a long wait until morning; but the weather cleared -at last. Finally the reddish haze marking the course of the sun around the horizon gave them some cheer. ; “Look, Madge,” said the young middy, pointing to the reck whereon the end of the broken main- mast reacheed. “I see some one that looks like your father.” Among other huddling forms was one that as- -sembled the captain, and another looked like Ord, and another still looked like Dr. Carr, the ship’s surgeon and scientist. “Oh, I do hope you are not mistaken, Joe!” - murmured Madge. “But how will we ever reach them or they us?” ae “The tide is going down and the wind is much lower. Do you think you can remain here, while I return to the vessel for means to help = “T will do anything you really think necessary. Bde dg you propose to do, and how will you get ere?” . “I will return the way we came out here. But you must not attempt anything while I am gone. “Tl promi _ C asthiang But d : promise most anything. But do you prom- {se me not to be rash. With father gone, or per- - haps off yonder, I have no one but you.” - "To sav that Joe felt delighted at hearing from Mage how much she valued his safety was more evident than the blush with which she made this confession. “Don’t fear. -I will be careful. I’m going to see if the dogs and ponies are safe.” “True enough. We may need them, and lots of 7) vere . Tie: ty ty ls ee ey f , v4, ae a os help.” y “You are always right, Joe. Good-by. Don’t be rash with yourself, as I said a moment ago. to her refuge on the rocks she saw Hawley crawl nimbly k into the bow, then the deck, and down into the waist. ~ noise of the receding waves, and the thunder of breaking ice prevented either party being heard by the other party in that wild turmoil. Presently Madge saw the party on the other rock begin to disappear. They had found some way of descending on the landward side. She was still watching anxiously, beth the ship and the place where her father was, when a heavy hand was placed on her shoulder. “Well, my pretty girl,” began a rough voice in her ear, “ain’t you glad to have a strong man to help you out of this, instead of a fool boy who don’t know enough to quit the ship?” It was Ben Rucker, his forbidding face still bleeding from recent bruises received in his es- cape from the wreck, and his eyes gleaming with an assured light, the light of present possession. “Where did you come from?” the girl gasped, shrinking from his touch. “Keep your hands off.” “That is your talk, is it? Well, I crawled up from the lee side of this rock. J was thrown overboard when the mainmast hit the bridge.” Here they saw Hawley appear again, leading and pushing one of the ponies over the side. Then he returned to the pens, and as he worked, Madge felt Rucker’s hands hdlding her to the rock. She struck loose his second attempt. “If you were half the man you pretend to be,” she said, “you would be back on board helping to save the animals and other things we may need to preserve our lives in this desolate land.” “I believe you are right. I'll go and help Haw- ley, but you must give me a kiss first. Just for luck. We may not live to come back.” ¥ “Go on. You make me hate the sight of you, on. But he seized her in so strong a grip that she shrieked aloud. Hawley, hearing, started back at once, shouting defiance as he came. On the rock these things were noted. They had pres Captain Barclay down on the laninel si “Rucker acts mighty strange,” remarked Ord to Dr. Carr, who, ugh still crippled from his fall, was doing his part nobly among the few still alive and trying to get to land. “I think he has designs on Miss Barclay—ma- —— designs.” This from the surgeon grim- y- ; “It is a poor time to show off in that line now,” was Ord’s reply. After that they succeeded in getting off the iS oe ? = _“Mr. Rucker,” said Madge, plucking from her —_— af er ae oe +e leave me alone and go!¥ she poin the ship with her other hand, “I'll blow your impudent head off.” Rucker backed away, then smiled grimly. “Come!” said he. “Hanged if I don’t like your spirit. I’m going. If only one of us comes back, and it happens to be me, you'll kiss me then, eh?” He crawled nimbly to the ; thence | the ship. Madge, doubly wate oa = pe Pi menace his words betrayed, called out: ; “Don’t you dare to do any act of treachery toward him. If come back al rm Iwill Twill? pee ner er

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THE NEWS IN hah GERMAN WARSHIPS GIVEN TO ALLIES Particulars of the distribution of enemy war- ships among the Allies were recently published in Paris, according to an Associated Press dispatch _ dated April 6, from that city. France’s share, - which, it is stated, is ten per cent. of the total -. tonnage of all captured enemy ships, with the ex- ception of submarines, represents 92,000 tons, half of which are German ships and the remainder _ Austrian vessels. France receives five cruisers and ten destroyers and the same number is given - to Italy. Each of these powers will also receive a light cruiser and three destroyers, which may be used for one year for experimental purposes, but must be destroyed when that time elapses. France also receives the cruiser Emden, as well as forty - submarines now in French ports. Ten of these may be placed in service. France, the dispatch states, is the only power to which the privilege of using eaptured submarines has been granted. PE eee OE He |) REM ae Ee pe 101) nea neES a, 4 he Bates ABOUT BREEDING QUAIL _ An interesting incident in reference to the breeding of quail was told recently by a gentle- man living in the vicinity of Cypress, Texas, He says that an old quail hen nested in his yard, and young birds were raised. The party mentioned ~ watched the old bird during the breding season, - and was careful that nothing molested her or her eggs. Early in the summer the first covey came _ off with twenty birds, all of which were raised. Then another covey of sixteen was raised, and finally, late in the summer, another hatch of eigh- teen birds was brought off. That makes a total of fifty-four birds raised by one hen this season. = “The incident offers several interesting suggestions oe = el . . = bird is Mont correct to cover the entire breeding zeason. It also shows that the killing of quail in September and October is nothing short of mur- ~ der, as the old birds are too poor from caring for - their young, and the young birds too young to be of any value for eating. his tacular flight establishin altitude ported of the new ¢ ; ; Si the geography of the air, stimulated y aerial travel, according to a bulletin of the tational Geographic Society. — ‘While the air is” practically unknown,” say Alexander | aaa a Gearnahcaticht to the society. “We are aware that there are well marked ‘ x ‘and levels in this inverted bowl, and, wn we may not see them, there are mighty : i of the rivers of the far surpassing an h th nm 12 I i f les S"fowing vertically as well as horizontal- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY SHORT ARTICLES. that during the year three separate coveys of - = that the present closed season on the. ly, There are vast calm areas and stagnant pools; also ch-ppy seas and regions of great turbu- lence, “We are learning to-day that there are various layers in the air, which must be explored and studied before airships can travel in safety. In flying men will use only the lower strata, the cloud levels. Above all clouds are far-stretching- heights, which, too, must be explored, not by plane and dirigible, but by the sounding balloons of the aerographer. One might say offhand that there could be no geography of the air, for there are no continents, oceans or visible geographical features in this ‘inverted bowl’ which we call the sky. Do we not look clear through the atmosphere un into the heavens and, except for passing - clouds, do we not know that there is nothing to be seen? . r “If the density of the atmosphere remained - constant it could all be compressed into a layer about five miles thick, In that case the highest mountain veaks would stand out in space piercing the so-callc1 homogeneous atmosphere. But the density decreases with elevation, and when the aviator reaches an elevation of 10,000 meters he is in a medium whith is only about one-third as dense as at the ground. There are no clouds above this level. ‘ “The: greatest discovery yet made in exploring — the air is that the atmosphere consists of two . great layers, the lower extending from sea level up to 10,000 meters, in which there is a steady. fall of temperature and elevation. This is called _ the troposphere. Above this there is no fall and __ up to 20,000 meters a slight rise. The upper — layer is known as the stratosphere. pizae “It is actually possible to-day for an airplane to rise from the ground to the bottom of the — stratosphere,.say about six miles, jn one hour. If we want to explore somewhat higher, say twenty miles, we install light instruments on a_ sounding balloon. “The intrepid aviator who tries to force his — way at high speed against an adverse wind meets _ only with increasing resistance. But when the wind favors, then the winged airman the “These. are not extreme values. In a stiff. northwester, which the writer experienced some years back, the wind blew for seventy-twa secutive hours 7,565,000 meters, whic thirtv meters per second. This is ing 4,700 miles in three days, or ’ ice from Labrador to Ireland. speed of the wind for any single h 000° re a ee ‘or a pe

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ADVENTURE WITH AN ELEPHANT By Alexander Armstrong . ——| Upon the northeastern confines of the great table-land, within the territory of the Shaggas tribes, there were some very fine gold mines, and I hoped to make a very good thing among the natives there. Towards the close of an intensely hot day, _ which we had spent upon the desert, we came to a broad belt of mountain-forest near the Mombaza. _ Quite a stream ran along the foot of the hills, and the foliage was green and rank. It was a pleasant place, and we considered ourselves fortunate in having reached it. We had some four or five hours of daylight left, but both we and our horses needed: rest, and we concluded to take it. : We had found good grazing spots for the ani- mals, and kindled,a fire for cooking some birds we had shot in the morning, and were just bring- ing some water from the stream, when he were startled By a loud noise from the desert. I started to my feet and seized my rifle, and rushed to the edge of the wood, where a scene opened to my gaze that affected me in several different ways at the same time. I was awe-stricken, fearful, delighted, and amazed all in a monient. A herd of elephants came rushizg over the _ sandy plain, with their huge trunks thrown aloft, ~ and loud cries issuing’ from their throats, while the moe desert quaked beneath the shock of their trea . ‘ _ They were coming directly towards the spot where I stood; and as soon as I could collect my _ thoughts, I understood why they had taken that _-geurse, - The place we had selected for our camp was the only opening of any consequence to be seen from the plain. . _ As we approached the wood it seemed to form a solid barrier of trees upon the river’s bank, _ save the single break wherein we had pitched our _ little tent. - as Of course the elephants had seen and were making for the same passage. _* . Imerely long enough to see that there were at least a dozen elephants, and then turned _ and followed my companion on a run. _ At a short distance I saw a tree up which I knew I could easily make my way. | : “Not there! not there!” cried one of my com- _ parions, as he rushed past me. But I did not understand him, and if I had I _ should have y kept on, for I had no time The elephants were withi oO pipe: dik wea tage : fo ag oli a? only looked to see that it was tall enough | stout. enough to carry me beyond reach, and a particular size of the tree beyo! ‘ptf enging"mo" Ser he eb Dae del ee a hy ent y i) vy * strength. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY upon which I sat, so as to balance myself, when the foremost elephant passed directly beneath me. I felt easier. If he passed, the rest would, I thought. But not quite. : Directly two more passed; and then came the fourth. He reached the tree—he stopped—he uttered a loud snort, and then raised his trun’ toward me. “Aha!” thought I. “Old chap, you can’t quite come it!” The fellow seemed to know what I said; for no sooner were the words out of my mouth than he threw his trunk ‘about the body of the tree and gave a vigorous pull. This animal was the largest of the herd— larger, I think, than the foremost one. At all events, he was a monster, and I was not long in gaining an exhibition of his strength. The first pull he gave the tree swayed it con- siderably; but that was nothing. It seemed to be only a trial of the wood, to see how great was its power of resistance, In a moment more he began to put forth his « Tha first pull he gave the tree swayed it’ con- siderably; but that was nothing. Tt seemed to be only a trial of the wood, to see how great was its: power of resistance. In a moment more he began to put forth his strength, : His long trunk was wound around the body of the tree some twelve feet from the ground, and 4 not far from eight feet below where I sat, and thus he plied his strength. ' The lithe tree shook and bent like a reed. e oe the fourth or fifth sway I dropped my | rifle. 2 I found I must either let it go or myself. : I had hoped that I might be able joes “3 ball . into his eye; but the hope was gone. In less than half a minute I knew I must go. The infuriated beast shook the tree as though a were at work — it. = y was growing weak, my whole ached, my head was swimming, and my Tew ~ — my me ; tt moment, when I knew IT m of those thoughts came to me which othe Wack upon a man when death stares him in the face. If I were shaken off I should surely fall: and if I fell, of course I could exercise no control over the direction I might take. . As this thought flashed through my mind, I from the gave it a fling at me, but without effect = He tried four separate times without hitting me. ‘Twice he struck sideways, the blows f. behind me; and twice he threw his trunk oven me Fes head, the blows falling short. : = I had, by the merest accident, gained the very point which the fellow could i oe not reach with: any end of his enon

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: : we s = aoe j 4 * FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : 25 jure me; or, if I am mistaken in this, as some pretend to say I must be, he must have been so blinded by passion that he could not aim straight. But I am of the opinion that there is a point over the shoulders which he cannot reach with a powerful blow. As soon as the anima] found that he failed in that, he gave a tremendous snort, and started at full speed. : The rest of the elephants were out of sight. Which way they had gone I could not tell. I could see nothing of them, nor could I hear anyhing. I began to find that I had caught a Tartar. I had him fast enough, and he had me full as fast. He struck off into an open path—a sort of sandy road in the wood—where a stream of water seemed to have run at some time. _ He went at a furious rate, snorting and, bel- lowing, and ever and anon tossing his head in anger. we In a very few moments the water of the stream flashed in the light of the descending sun. The monster made for it and dashed In. It was only a narrow river, and in a very few seconds he was across. The opposite bank was low and sandy, and the edge of the wide field of sand between it and the water. The monster leaped up the bank, and bounded for the wood. = 2 ; I now saw the tracks of his companions; they were plain enough upon the soft sand. At this moment my heart sank. When the elephant should gain that wood I must go; there was no help for it. The trees were thick, and I should be swept off by the branches the first thing. I strained my eyes; I followed the course of the tracks ahead 38 me, Pig I saw that there Was no opening in the w The depmatis could ctash along through the dense wood by tearing aside the stout limbs, but the first one could not help casting me off like a _ feather before a whirlwind. my seat; but on the instant I saw that that would only be sure death, l y bent on revenge; and from the manner in which he rushed for the wood, and from his short, vengeful snorts, I believed he was planning to dislodge me by running me against the inter- vening branches. I think there was no mistake about that. Half a minute had elapsed since the animal had left the stream. large space was already cleared. We were approaching the fatal branches at a ers in India sometimes kill their animals when they become crazy with rage. Why could not I do it? I had my knife—a stout, sharp, keen, long- bladed weapon, almost like a cutlass. I drew it, and grasped it firmly. Then I tried to caleulate where was the spot beneath which lay the most vital part of the) spinal cord. I pondered a moment, and my slight knowledge of the anatomy of the brute creation guided me. I placed the keen, glistening point of the knife upon the spot, just forward of the shoulders—I - hesitated a moment to assure myself that I was as near right as I could judge—and then I gath- ered myself for the effort. _ All my power—all I could spare—was thrown into my arms and shoulders. I clapped both hands upon the heavy haft, and then bore down. The point penetrated the thick, swart skin; it sank—sank—sank. I bore down with one mighty effort, for the knife. gave me a holdfast now, and the bright blade entered to the hilt. : The huge monster stopped and gave a sharp, nasal cry of pain; he shook like a quaking mountain, and then, without even so much as an effort to the contrary, he settled upon the sand just as an ox settles beneath the blow of the butcher’s axe. I watched his fall, and as he came down I leaped in safety to the ground. I turned and gazed upon my fallen foe. For a full minute he lay as motionless as a stone. Then the great body began to quiver, his‘legs were drawn-up, his head was raised, his heavy trunk lashed the sand; one more raising of the head, and then the eyes closed, and the gigantic form was still and dead! I started back and swam the river, and met my companions just coming from the wood in search for me. They had their axes, and when I told them what I had done, they proposed that we should © go.and get the elephant’s tusks, if we could. Ps agreed to the venture, and we went. _ But it was no slight task to remove the mass- ac ivories. =e re Bs _ However, by dint of chopping and smashins into the ponderous jaws and skull we at fength Succeeded in getting them. : We got them over the stream by means of a rope, as we could not, of course, swim such a’ burden. I came safely out from that adventure, and I ‘felt determined to tempt fortune no further, if I could avoid it. I reached the gold-mines in safety, and made. quite a speculation there. | ; ee At any rate, I gained more than enough to pay all the expenses of my trip, and leave me some- the latter place safe and sound. ares Three months after that I seld my vessel and started for home. ee oe P 3 wg el a <td

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~ 26. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single Copies... <isc-s. 3 tess Postage Free.... 07 Cents ' One Copy Three Months... rights .90. Cents C@ne Copy Six Months...... » pee en, |. Y; One Copy One Year....... ad Maer HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P, O, Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly. <Ad- aress letters to _ HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher. 166 West 28d St., New York 3 ITEMS OF INTEREST , NOVEL LENS CLEANER Almost any ordinary medium that can be used is likely to smear and even scratch a lens in the cleaning. A very perfect lens cleaner can be made by using the medulla or pith of such plants as sun-flower rush, or elder. Strips of the dry pith are cut and these are fastened with an ad- hesive cement to a piece of cork. The pith may be arranged in rows with small spaces in between. The lens is rubbed gently with the novel cleaner and all marks disappear. ‘ LAND 75-POUND ROCKFISH - €aptain Holmes and James McCooley went fishing off the Green Creek clam beds at Cape -beds Holmes hooked what he thought was a black drum, but to the surprise of these veterans of the bay, when the fish was landed it was a rockfish and tipped the scales at seventy-five ‘pounds. ‘ : This is the largest rockfish ever caught in Delaware Bay. ‘Fishermen say that flounders, croakers and weakfish will be plentiful in_ the - Lower Delaware Bay and River this year. Capt. - Holmes has caught several. heavy weakfish in his pond at Green Creek in the last week. ~ _ §TATE HOUSE CEILING FOUND TO BE ‘ GLASS - “Tf at times in the last sixty years the delibera- ~ tions of the Ohio legislators seemed to indicate _ the presence of brain cobwebs, there was reason - for it and all may be forgiven now. ~ When the State House custodian ordered a “thorough cleaning of the Senate chamber, work- men found the ceiling to be made largely of glass, but so thick was the coating of dust and s that the present generation had supposed -$& to be of solid wood. The ceiling had not been ¢eleaned since 1858. Four truck loads of dirt were removed from the ceiling. : One of the consequences of the cleaning will be to reduce Ohio’s electric light bill, sinee light will: now penetrate into the chamber, if not into . debates, during day sessions. : May, N. J.. April 26. While drifting over the ~ tion of $1,475 in ten years; $7.50 a month will show $1,106; $6 a month will show $885; $5 a month will show $737; $4.50 a month will show $633; $4 a month will show $589; $3 a month will show $442 and $2.50 a menth will show $368, says the Thrift Magazine. Any sum saved and invested at 4 per cent. compound interest will more than double itself in twenty years. Save $10. At the end of the first year you will have $10.40; in five years you will have $12.70. At the end of the tenth year your interest will have grown to $6.20, and at the end of the twentieth year your interest will be $10.70, or more than double your original sum. Carried along on the same basis $100 will become $207 and $1,000 will grow to $2,070. Save 10 cents a day and in ten years your daily savings will be $365, in additivn to $80.30 compound interest, making a total of $445.30. If you save 15 cents a day for ten years with interest compounded at 4 per cent., you will have $668.18; 29 cents a day will net $890.99; 50 cents a day will mean $2,227.73, and $1 a day will give you a total of $4,445.74. LAUGHS “Do you find married life ‘one grand, sweet song?” “Yes: A ‘symphony in A Flat.’” Alice—What makes you think your new pho- torraphs are so horrid? Gladys—All my girl friends ask for one, but my male friends don’t. “You look just the same as ever,” said the Dime Savings Bank. “Well,” replied the boy as he shook the bank, “there appears to be no change in you.” 3 “That boy of mine won’t doa stroke of work. He just sits around all day and uses lan-. guage to every one who speaks to him.” “Why not get him a job as janitor?” - “Did youse git anything?” whispered the bur- glar on guard, as his pal emerged from the win- dow. “No, de bloke wot lives here is a lawyer,” replied the other in disgust.- “Dat’s hard luck,” “T doubt if Henpeck ever draws a sober breath any more.’ “He doesn’t, and his wife has no one to blarne for it but herself. The first time he fell from grace his ‘wife told him she didn’t think it worth while to talk to him while he was in that condition.” “Did you hear how Murphy spoiled his chance of getting an engine?” inquired one railroad’ man of another. “No,’ was the reply. “How did it happen?” “Why, they were testing Mur- phy’s eyes to see if he would be all right in col- ors. Everything went along smoothly until they put out an orange colored card. When the smoke cleared away, instead of having an engine Mur- phy was in jail on seven different charges, rang- ing from assault with intent to kill to wilful de- struction of property.” oe

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Ss ORIGIN. OF “UNCLE SAM” 3 _ The origin of “Uncle Sam” as the personifica- oS tion of the United States was as follows: “Sam- ¢ uel Wilson, commonly called ‘Uncle Sam,’ was an : inspector at Troy, New York, of beef and pork, purchased for the government, after the declara- tion of war against Great Britain, in 1812. A contractor named Elbert Anderson bought a quantity of provisions, and the barrels were * marked ‘E. A.,’ the imitials ‘of his name, and U. S.,’ for United States. The latter initials puzzled Wilson’s workmen, who inquired what they meant. A wag answered: “I don’t know, unless they mean “Uncle Sam.”’ A large amount ef goods afterward passed throu Wilson’s hands marked in the same way, he was ral- lied on the. extent of his possessions. The joke spread, and soon the initials of the United States were taken to mean ‘Uncle Sam.’” _ ABOUT OUR STOMACHS How insulting we can be to our stomachs and get away with it is well illustrated in a report made to Science by Ralph C. Holder, Clarence A. Smith and Philip B. Hawk on some experiments anata at Jefferson Medical College, Phila- elphia. ss t has been said by one of our leading physio- 2 logists that “what a man likes best ms digests : best,” but these experimenters proved that so far as actual digestion was concerned an unpalatable meal eaten in untidy zetrountiage was almost as well + han mae as a palatable meal in pleasant sur- roundings. Some students were fed for a week on savory _ food, carefully weighed. in an attractive room and all their excretions were weighed, Then for two days the same kinds of food’ were made disgust- a ing by mixing together meat, biscuits, jelly, corn- ___ starch, oleomargarine, pudding, &c., in a porce- __ lain dish smeared with charcoal. This they ate __—— upon a dirty table strewn with dirty dishes, while, ‘to make the meal repulsive to the nostrils, some ___indol was sprinkled under the table. One of the students could not eat it but the other, who man- aged to get the unsavory mess into his stomach, digested within one per cent. as much of his meals as he had when daintily fed. : ~All of which proves that it is easy to insult the stomach without arousing it to hit back, but it ‘does not throw any real doubt upon the statement that what we like best we digest best, for the stomach, long-suffering as it is, has its limit of tolerance. ~*~ 2 onions - -HANGING IS FUN FOR “FARMER” BURNS “Farmer” Burns, the great old-time wrestling ampion who discovered Frank Gotch and taught em >, —_ Sordine t knot urn’s ear accor © cus- 7 oe >- ™ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : | A FEW GOOD ITEMS \ mand for $50 and $100 bon The wrestler’s 160 pounds brought up with a jerk that made the rope hum like a fiddle string i and he hung suspended by the neck for nearly : three minutes. Throughout that time he carried i on a conversation with the bystanders, joking and kidding his “executioners.” He was cut down none the worse for wear. . How did he do it? He had exercised anc strengthened his neck muscles through long years of training so that they were strong enough tc prevent the constriction of his wind-pipe even from the pull of the hangman’s noose. In thos=. days, the strangle hold was not barred and Burns had trained himself so that wnen Strangler Lewis or any of the other strong armed grap- plers secured and applied that hold the Farme> ~. could work his head free from the dangerous grasp. : ‘ You do not have to flop to the wrestling mat to have the strangle hold applied to you nowa- days. Hard luck or hard times or itiness or dis- aster or old age may shut your fin wind off at any time and gradually force your shoul- ders closer to padded canvas until the sla» of the referee’s hand on your opponent’s back — declares you the, loser of the struggle. WE But you can strengthen your neck, just as — Farmer Burns did. Constant and regular exer- cise in saving will do it, the putting aside of a certain definite amount of the envelope each pay day. Burns used weights to exercise his neck muscles. War-Savings Stamps, Treasury Sav- ings Certificates and Liberty Bonds are the bes’ apparatus for financial exercise. They can ‘be adjusted to the financial strength of any meck, — rich or poor. _ : : If you have exercised with them, then when you bring up with a jerk at the end of your financial. rope you can hold out until the pressure is removed. t -—- oe PEOPLE INCLINING TOWARDS’ THRIFT 3 “5 Indication that the public has ceased rg spendthrift and*is again inclining toward if: and sound investment is seen in the h in- quiries for small denomination Liberty onds = at berks and brekers throughout the country. ae The demand has reached the Treasury Depart- : ment, many dealers having exhausted their avail- able supply of the “popular” sizes of these s curities, it was announced by the Savings sion of the Treasury Department. ; To supply the large “over the counter” | r ds at present - favor- able market prices, the Treasury tme. d instructions to the Federal Reserve issue Bamis «= hich will expedite exchange of bonds of larger — denominations for the small units. © Bat , ama

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NEW FOOD IN PARIS Since the price of a cutlet) has risen to that of the pre-war leg of lamb, Paris has taken to ex- perimenting in strange foods, Some weeks ago lion steaks were served at a luncheon party in a famous restau- rant.. Now humps of camel are being offered for sale in the Mont- martre. Where the camel came from is some- thing of a mys- tery, but the keeper of a pri- vate zoo, hit by the high cost of living, is suspect- ed of having made the sac- rifice. When dressed the ani- mal provided more than 700 pounds of good meat. The first difi- culty arose when it had to be elas- Sified by customs officers at.the city gates, who levy a small tol] on all foodstuffs. After lenz discussion they came to the conclusion thus it Was game, and charged for it ac- cordingly. Like goat and venison, il has been decided that camel will per- haps improve with keeping, and a sale is an- nounced to take place. For the eneapest parts 3 franes a pound is to be charged. -The hump will go for 5 francs, and filet 8 francs. With its legs sticking pitifully into the air out- GET THIN REDUCE WEIGHT EASILY iNo more worry about your over-stoutness. Take Oil of Korein, follow the simple, health-improving Korein system and it is positively guaranteed you will lese 10 to 60 pounds or even more—whatever amount of superfluous fat you necd to be rid of—or this self treatment will cost you nothing. We offer $100.60 Cash Guarantee! It is in every box. Measure and weigh yourself now; watch the delightful steady reduction. Become healthier, younger in appearance, more active and attractive; gain real beauty. This method is also guaranteed to be perfectly harmless. Oil of Korein is not a laxative; contains no thyroid—but is a vege- talized oil containing genuine fueus vesiculosus, an ingredient obtained from certain seaweeds. Those who follow Korein system are astonished at the reduction —after al! else fails. Recommended by physicians. Oikot Korein A prominent Philadelphian, George Reynolds, Walton Av- enue, lost 20 Ibs. the first month and continued using Oil of Korein, massaging himself daily, until he reduced 64 Ibs. Mrs. J. B. Hansen, Plattsville, reduced 20 Ibs. in Jess than 2 months, Mrs. L. C. Patrick, Niland, wanted to reduce 8 lbs. and did so in two weeks. Miss Ray lost 69 lbs. An Albany business man, F. G. Drew, lost 56 Ibs. in 3 months. Many say ‘‘fat seems to melt away,”’ or ‘‘ measurements decrease like magic,’’ etc. Legions of voluntary testimonials. Don’t carry the tedious burden of unhealthy fat. Become slender and attractive by this superior easy method. Amaze yourself and friends. Increase your efficiency! Oil of Korein comes in capsules, easy to take. Buy a small box at any busy pharmacy; or the druggist will get it for you. Or, write us and we will mail you a box in plain wrapper, which you may pay for when it comes to you: : Begin reducing now! Become thin and stay so! New Book “Reduce Weight Happily” gives helpful informa- tion. Will be mailed free on request. Cut this advertisement out and keep it. Sat friends, Do not lose this chance ef a lifetime to improve yourself marvelously. Address: > ‘S KOREIN CO., NL-103, Sta. F., New York HOWTOMAKELOVE; < Bs \ Fos bode love you; what the wedding, Tells Lovers for dime, No CLAXO TRICK CO., Dept.S New Haren, DRINK foo. daw ent inks whisky, w h o dr id beer, gin or any to his injury, you may obtain FREE, a very hel ing to Edw. J. Woods, 1 book by writ- New York, N. Y. It shows how to conquer — drink habit. 5. ay Superior quality blue, black, or green. powder in- water makes 1 cust orth retail price. 1 powder, 25 cents; 6 opportunity for agents. Shelton Chemical 4-103, Station F,

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Gained 25 ss SIN ~~ left, learned of my book “While addicted to the tobacco habit every muscle and joint ached, and I had almost given up business. I was poor in health, weighing about 130 pounds. Now 1 am well, weigh 165 pounds, and can work every day. i have never wanted to chew or smoke since following the Woods method.”—A. F. Shelton. (Full address on application.) “I have no craving for tobacco; this I consider won- derful after having used a pipe for 35 years. I have gained 12 pounds in two months, which is very good at the age of 59 years. To say that the benefits far exceed my expectations is putting it mildly. Anyone in doubt can refer to me.’”’—John Brodie. (Full address on application.) “| had weighed as low as 128 pounds, never got over °135 while I used. tobacco. Now |! weigh 156 pounds. Everyone wants to know why I got so fleshy; I tell them to follow Edward J. Woods’ method for overcom- ing tobacco and find out.”’—W. S. Morgan. (Full ad- dress on application.) QUIT TOBACCO Why continue to commit slow suicide, when you can live a really contented life, if you only get your body : attempt to rid oneself of tobaceo by suddenly stopping with ‘‘ will power’’—don’t do it. STOP RUINING YOUR LIFE Lbs. in 2 Months CE QUITTENG e-~ TOBACCO HABIT HJALMAR NELSON (address on application), whose photo appears at the and other information being given FREE, explaining how Tobacco Habit can be conquered by oneself, safely, speedily and completely. He obtained the information and reported a gain of 25 pounds, as well as OVER SLAVERY TO TOBACCO HABIT — God bless you. I am feeling finer every day of my life—not like the same person, My appetite is better, and my stomach is all right. 1! can hold out In walking better, my voice is better and my heart is stronger.’’—Mrs. Mattie E. Stevenson. (Full address on application.) “Have used tobacco in all forms (mostly chewing) for 15 years, using about a plug of tobacco a day. 1! began following your Method on a Friday noon and after that day the craving for tobacco was gone. I am always ready to praise you and the good work you are doing. I can also say that I have gained nine pounds in seven weeks, and feel like a new man,’’—Robert S. Brown. (Full address on application.) “My husband hasn’t smoked a single cigarette, and has no desire to smoke since following your method of quitting. He looks like a new man-—the best I ever saw him. He gained seventeen pounds, and is feeling fine.”"—C. C. Rogers. (Full address on application.) EASILY NOW and nerves right? It is unsafe and torturing to The correct way is to eliminate nicotine poison from the system and genuinely overcome the craving. Tobacco is poisonous and seriously injures the health in several ways, gnawing or other uncomfortable weak eyes, loss of vigor, red bronchitis, heart failure, heartburn, torpid liver, teeth, foul breath, lassitude, lack of ambition, weak- ? falling out of hair and many other disorders. ; Overcome that peculiar nervousness and craving for cigarettes, cigars, dyspepsia, sleeplessness, gas belching, sensation in stomach, constipation, headache, spots on skin, throat irritation, catarrh, asthma, melancholy, lung trouble, impure (poisoned) blood, loss of appetite, bad ening an pipe, chewing tobacco or snuff. ; Here is an ty to receive FREE a 3" reliable treatise on the subject, containing inter- esting and valuable information that you should be glad to have. This book tells all about the renowned Three Days’ Method by which Mr, Nelson, a and thousands an : tobacco habit. } mailed FREE TO YOU in plain wrapper, postpaid. Edward J. Woods, Station F, New York, N. -Y.: Mail me, FREE, your Book on How to Conquer Tobacco Habit in Three Days. Name... Address a pyc iano mengoay-siaban ener eromh % ROS SE Tas) paper ies | aseesecenenarteesssacegrngerentanmenneshesugentenaanees “thousands of others, saved themselves from the life- The book on tobacco and snuff habit will be ~ causing such disorders as nervous a) ol fa FREE All you need do is merely REQUEST IT by using this coupon or writing a letter or osteard to the ad- ress below: sleep well and have no more restless or nervous feeling. I am past seventy-cight years of age, and feel fine since adopting the Woods Method.”—John P. Monter. EDWARD J. WOODS , TA-103, Station F, New York, N. Y.

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SUGAR FROM SAWDUST High grade su- gar can be made out of ordinary sawdust at a cost of about 3 cents a pound, according to Robert Hyde, a University of Manchester grad- uate and a chem- ist of Colwell Street, Pitts- burgh, who says he has invented a process for ef- fecting this won- derful. transmu- tation. One pound of sawdust will make three- quarters of a - pound of sugar. The chemist dis- played a sample of sugar which he said had been extracted from sawdust. In dis- cussing his in- vention, Hyde said: “While I was studying chemis- try in Germany an old professor made a statement one day about the properties of su- gar that leit a lasting impres- sion on me. I set out to apply his statement to the extraction of su- gar from wood. Experiment af- ter experiment failed. After eight years’ re- search, quite by aecident one day in my laboratory I upset a flask containing 2 cer- tain liquid on some excelsior. The effect was peculiar and I in- vestigated. The result was _ the realization of my dream. ~ If made by hand the sug- “ar will cost ap- proximately 3 1-2 cents a pound, while if made by machinery would cost. about 2 cents a pound. Hair Growth BALDNESS y New _ After. HAIR GROWN INDIANS’ My head at the top and back was absolutely bald. The scalp was shiay. An expert said that he thought the hair roots were extinct, and there was no hope of my ever having a new hair growth, Yet now, at an age over 66, I have a luxuriant growth of soft, strong, lustrous hair! No trace of baldness. The pictures shown here are from my photographs. INDIANS’ SECRET OF HAIR GROWTH At a time when I had become discouraged at trying various hair lotions, tonics, specialists’ treatments, etc., I came across, in my travels, a Cherokee Indian ‘*medicine man’’ who had an elixir that he asseverated would grow my hair. Although I had but little faith, I gave it a trial. To my amazement a light fuzz soon appeared. ON MR. BRITTAIN’S BALD HEAD MYSTERIOUS HAIR GROWER From recent photo, ; ; It developed, day by day, into a healthy growth, and ere long my hair was as prolific as in my youthful days. That I was astonished and happy is expressing my state of mind mildly. Obviously, the hair roots had not been dead, but were dormant in the scalp, awaiting the fertilizing potency of the mysterious pomade, I negotiated for and came into possession of the principle for preparing this mysteriéus elixir, now called Kotalko, and later had the recipe put into practical form by a chemist. That my own hair growth was permanent has been amply proved. Many men and women, also childran, have reported satisfactory results from Kotalko. How YOU May Grow YOUR Hair My honest belief is that hair roots rarely die even when the hair falls out through dandruff, fever, excessive dryness or other dis- orders. I have been told by experts that often - RECIPE Photo when bald. when hair falls out the roots become imbedded within the scalp, covered by hard skin, so that they remain for a time like bulbs or seeds in a bottle which will grow when fertilized. Shampoos (which contain alkalis) and hair lotions which contain alcohol are enemies to the hair, as they dry it, making it brittle. Kotalko contains those elements of nature which give new vitality to the scalp and hair. To prove the GENUINENESS of Kotalko, I will send the recipe FREE on request. will mail s testing box of Kotalko with the recipe for 10 cents, silver or stamps, if you mention this publication, Satisfy yourself. You want to stop falling hair, eliminate dandruff or cover that bald spot with healthy hair. Get the dime testing box NOW, apply once or twice daily—watch in your mirror! Address: For women’s hair, JOHN HART BRITTAIN, BN-103, Station F, New York, N. Y. ‘$500.00 a Month BOILS OR PIMPLES ce: 14 ns =. Nota Salveor oacermammnares | |< Indiamain. sien Garrison 60 none day: wae ; R o . **60. eday,”” wri - = ee poe of meena A Maine Indian Remedy Which, hale ened aes aa BANISHES THEM FOREVER _ in every way, Ihe biczest money making ober Stuart, Nebraska, Jan. 9, 1920, ever given, "Write at cace. Raincoat Yes, we will Splsudid grey worsted mee W Greely. Portiand, Maine. For Eight _— aye with pim! les card my face. I cons ree spec sums of money on medicines and lo FRE water- top coa’ latest without results. nk 5 + style—of fine A Bah smart : “INDIAMAIN” has done for me in three i ta belt — roomy patch ritein | | weeks what everything else failed to do. E cost free batdon't ! My face is clear of pimples for the first time fA open for a Linited in eight years, thanks to you and “Indiamaip.” ; . : Sincerely. Magdalen Bernt. EOODYEAR MFE. CO. | » At Dealers $100, or sent postpaid on receipt Goodyear Building, Kansas City, Mo. | | of price. A Trial Sample sent for 12c. to cover = cost of ad and msiling. , ‘Portland, Maine Es W. S FREE. James W. GREELY. ELESCOPE | tries lenses, scientifically Nearly arenas eye TEs BINGO COMPANY DEPT CINGHAMTON. N.Y. |S

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