Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 773) (1920 07 23)

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025 JULY .23, 1920. No. 773. be 7 Cents afisk eBoy Bao ==Workine theW, STORIES AND f OTHE “T hate that man!” roared : runken broker, pointing at the oil painting. He clambered upon the table, drew his pocket-knife, and slashed the canvas. Then he tore @ piece out of the picture. Will made a rush for him

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E FAME A Issued W —Subscription pric: est 238d Street, New Ost-Oiuce av aver avuem, av. ae 3 “Wo v7. HAROLD G. LORANG, P. O. BOX 96, DARIEN CENTER, NEW YORK, JULY 23, 1920. WEEKLY B. Wolff, Publisher, 166 191i, at - Lt N. Y. ‘atter, October. 4, senerensti slain ot Maren 8; 18TH ‘ Frank Fisk, the Boy Broker .. Or, WORKING THE WALL ST. STOCK MARKET ee BY A SELF-MADE MAN a. — CHAPTER I—The Boy Broker. “Sometimes. Usually I sell them on commis- A sion.” 3 “So you've stepped into your late uncle’s shoes : are going to run his business?” said Will a 4 er, as he took a chair alongside his friend A Fisk’s desk, and shoved his hat on the back at head. 4 _ &Phaven’t stepped into anybody’s shoes,” re- plied Fisk. “I have simply bought the furniture and other thi of my aunt, and assumed the Ps of this till the first of next May.” - ~+*But your uncle’s business goes with it.’ eee ryPancle had no business. The panic in the ~ stock market six months ago sent him to the " “He was so heavily inyolved that everything, 5 - inciuding his seat in the Exchange, went to his — fereditors. From that.time until his death, two weeks ago, he devoted his attention wholly to pri- vate ation, with indifferent success.” Then as your aunt had no use for this office _ you concluded to quit Dudley Black and take it - off her hands?” _- That’s it exactly.” ; : __. “And now you’re. going to try and build a busi- Mess up for yourself?” « “Yes,” “Have you got capital enough to pull through?” ~ T hope so.” : 2 “You won’t find it easy to get customers at the ” _ start. “No, I don’t expect I will.” ; _ . While you’re waiting for them to come along ~ how are you going to keep the ball rolling?” _ » “Pil find a way somehow.” 5 - _ “€onfidence in one’s self is a good thing to have.” : - “They say it’s half of the battle.” “What's the other half?” : “The results that confidence brings about.” — “Well, I hope you'll get on,” said Will, getting ‘up. “I must get on my way now, or my boss will ronder what I’ve been doing with myself.” - “Drop in again, Glad to see you at any time,” hen Will Wagner took his leave. Frank took ‘a Wall Street paper and began reading the st Wall Street news. Half an hour elapsed, hen the door opened and a well-dressed, smooth- z. + i an “T’m going out of town in an hour or two, so I won’t be able to wait. I want to sell the bonds, or a part of them, offhand.” “What bonds have you got? If they are regis- tered ones it will not be possible for you to sell them at once,” said Frank. “They are coupon bonds—Government three’s.” “Let me see them.” The man took a package out of-his poet and handed it to the boy. Frank opened it and saw that it contained ten $500 bonds with the coupons that were yet due attached. “When and where did you buy these bonds?” “In Chicago a few months ago. Here is the broker’s memorandum of the transaction.” “Your name is Frederick Ford?” bor = a “Well, Mr. Ford, I could accommodate ta the extent of taking half of the bonds of your hands, but that is the best I can do.” “That will answer. I can dispose of the others in Boston, where I am going.” Will looked up the latest quotation of the bonds, calculated the interest due to date on five of them, and mentioned the amount, less his com- mission. That was satisfactory to his caller. The boy drew out a receipt for the money, which showed the number and character of bonds, and asked Ford to sign it. While the man ws doing it Frank went to his safe and got. the money. The deal was then concluded and his visi- tor departed. “Ford. I must put a ring around that name, for he’s my first customer, and years hence I may like to remember the fact,” said Frank. As events turned out, there would be no danger that he would ever forget the name of his first — customer. Frank couldn’t afford to keep some- thing over $2,500 locked up in bonds, as his ca tal was limited, so when he went to lunch ES carried the securities out with him and sold them -to a broker with whom’ he was on friendly, terms. He next went for his lunch, after which he started back for his office, and as he approached the elevator he heard a girl’s voice in a remon- _ strating tone: ; “If you are a gentleman, sir, you will leave me alone.” ° “Gentleman, of course I’m a gentleman,” re- turned the man in thick tones. “And I know a pretty girl when I see one. Come, give me a kiss and no one will be the wiser_of it. j + “How dare you!” cried the indignantly. _— . = £

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2 FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER Then Frank heard a scuffle and a smothered scream. He rushed around the corner and found a lovely looking girl struggling in the arms of a broker by the name of Drake, who had been drinking. The sight fired Frank’s blood, and with- out calculating the consequences he smashed the man under the left ear. The blow was a straight-from-the-shoulder one, and the broker, big as he was, staggered and fell prostrate on the floor. At that moment a down elevator stopped, and Frank, taking the young lady by the arm, hurried her into ft and * followed. The cage went down quickly, and the girl found herself standing in the main corridor and Frank lifting his hat to her. CHAPTER II.—The Big Robbery. “Thank you. It was very kind of you to save me from that man,” she said in an embarrassed way. “Don’t mention it, miss. I guess I didn’t do any more than I ought to have done. That was Broker Anthony Drake, and he was intoxicated,” replied Frank. Well, he is no gentleman. He followed me out of an office where I had applied for work, and } tried to avoid him, but it was impossible.” “You are looking for a position, then?” “Yes, | am very anxious to get to work again. My former employer, who was agent for a rail- road car-wheel works at 31 Nassau street, went out of business recently, and that threw me out of a position. As my mother and I are d d- ent on my own exertions, I cannot afford be “You are a stenographer, I suppose?” “Yes, and bookkeeper.” “What wages do you expect?” “I was receiving $15, but I'd be willing to work for $12 to begin with. : “Yd you myself if I had anything for you to do, but I am only just starting out for my- self. I know a couple of men in the building who have no stenographer, and are sending their work yout. I suppose they haven’t enough business to hire a girl steadily. Now it might not be a bad idea if you hired out to both of them—giving the morning to one and the afternoon to the other.” The girl seemed to think that was not a bad idea if the arrangement could be made. - “Well, if you don’t mind, step up to my office with me and stay there till I see the gentlemen and have a talk with them on the subject.” “Thank you. I am sure it is very kind of you to interest yourself in me,” she said, flashing an appreciative look at him. “Not at all. I am very glad of the chance to put work in your way. Will you oblige me with your name?” “Miss Clyde.” . “Thank you. My name is Frank Fisk.” The boy broker showed her into an elevator, and they went upstairs together. In the mean- time Will was amusing himself by flirting with a street. Sudd the door was to Will, who Salen aie his feet. R 3 Then Drake saw that he was not addressing Fisk, and he stopped. “Where is that boy broker? him,” he roared. “Do you mean Frank Fisk?” “Yes, that’s who I mean. Where is he?” “He just stepped out. I expect him back at any moment.” “Huh!” growled Drake. “So this is his office, Hang his impertinence. The idea of a kid of Hig © years putting his name on the door of a room in — this or any other building in Wall Street, and penne to be a broker. Well, he won’t last ong, that’s certain. I’ll have him run out of the Street.” Drake spoke half to Will and half to ge ? I want to see As his gaze roved around it rested on the oj painting of George Kane, the previous ten and Frank’s deceased uncle. He glared ati then uttered a snort of anger. Bre era “T hated that man,’ roared the drunken bro- ker, pointing at the oil painting. aoe * ; He clambered upon the table, drew his pocket knife, and slashed the canvas. Then he tore g piece out of the picture. Will made a rush at him. At that moment Frank and Miss Clyde en, ~ tered the office. : + = - my ee

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FRANK FISK, THE BOY the sidewalk. Leaving him standing there, the janitor went about his business. When Frank returned to his office he found Will talking to Miss Clyde. He introduced them to each other and went to call on the two gentle- “-men.* His mission was quite successful, and he _ came back and took the young lady into the of- fice of one of the men and introduced her. It was agreed that she should work for him five _. mornings from nine till twelve, and two. hours on Saturday, for $6 a week. Frank then took her to - the other man, where it was arranged that she should work for him from one till four, and two hours on Saturday morning. She was to begin -. next day for both. : _ .. “Now, Miss Clyde, if you want to bring your , down, instead of going out to it, and eat ft ‘Sin thy office, I’ll give you $2—that will make $14 ee ,” said Frank. _ “That-would suit me very nicely,”.she said, and it was so ».. She expressed titude to Frank for secur- ~ hing her work, and then went home. It was five “that “when Frank and Will left the office. <a e shouting “Extra! Full account of the . big robbery,” rushed up t6 them. The boys each ~ ought a paper and looked at the scare heads on ~ the first . This is what they saw: - » “Gteat * Robbery. Millionaire Banker *-Ford’s Residence Entered at Midnight and His - Private Safe Cleaned Out. Government Bonds and Other Securities Taken. The Loss in Dia- “*monds and Other Jewels Estimated at $60,000, while the Securities Foot 4 $30,000 More: The xperts.” = - “Those crooks made a ‘big haul. eS boys read the story that followed, which Ov ir entrance cee . a $500 brought up a vision in Frank’s mind of his first 2 who had brought ten of the same kind ‘of bonds to him that morning and whose name . “Great Scott!” he exclaimed. : & _ What's the matter?” asked Will. “7 just thought of something, that’s all,” re- ’ -— ught of was that the name his cus- as shown by the Chicago Ford, and that ) fe BROKER z Frank reflected on the matter of the bonds he had purchased that morning, and afterwards sold to a Broad street broker, the more satisfied he became that he had been face to face either with one of the burglars of the Ford residence or their rep- resentative. “That means I may have to make good what : got i oe Sands, $2500 and the interest tc ate, an at will cripple my working capital badly,” he thought. xy : roe CHAPTER III.—Broker Drake Comes to Time. Next morning he called on the broker to whom he had sold the five bonds. - “Hello, Fisk, how are things with you?” asked Broker Gage. “Rotten.” mS acid Sperone nough to make me feel like kickin around the block.” a “Get caught in a deal?” : “No,” “What’s the trouble then?” “You remember those five Government threes I sold you yesterday?” . “Vea? “Have you sold them?” “No. hayen’t had any call for them.” “Well, I bought them from a man who showed me the receipt of the Chicago broker, which I showed you and have in my safe now.” thay That eg mas a evidence that ha was the owner o e bonds. Have -you since found out that he isn’t?” 2 - “Tt looks that way. You read about the ro! bere at Banker Ford’s house?” +2 “ es.” 2 “Besides a ‘fortune in jewels, the burglars got away with a bunch of securities. Among them were ten $500 Government threes. The chap who sold me the’ five bonds had ten of the same kind. I would have bought the whole lot on the strength of the evidence but for the fact that I didn’t have money enough to pay for them. Now I’m afraid those bonds are a part of the loot. E The broker whistled. “I cut this paragraph out of the paper. It gives the numbers of all the securities stolen. There are the numbers of the ten Government threes. Get those bonds I sold you and see if five of those numbers agree with those on the bonds. If they do I’ll have to buy them back from you and turn them over to the banker.” “I’m not so sure that you will_have to make wer for you can show the memorandum from e Chicago broker as evidence that you pur chased them in good faith. If we brokers had to do we home. He used to live at the Tenderloin district his aunt. dway, but since his. man furnished you with that, and in my. opinion you camunot be held responsible for the deal. “Examine the bonds and see if they are indi- that he was the rightful owner .

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4 FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER cated among those that were said Frank. Broker Gage went outside to the safe where the bonds were, looked at the numbers, and saw that they were a part of the stolen securities, He re- turned and told Frank that his suspicions were “correct. “Then it’s my duty to call on Banker Ford and notify him that those five"have turned up, and explain how they came into my possession,” said the boy broker.. {| suppose you -had better, but don’t be too ready to admit any responsibility in the matter: - As the case stands the bonds are out of your hands, They belong to me. Until I am legally called on to give them up, you are out of it,” said Gage. r Frank took his leave and went around to Bau- ker Ford’s office. He sent his name in and was admitted, x ? “I ca on you, Mr. Ford, to tell you that ape vest-ray viornmng 2 man called at my office with ten Government threes which were stolen from your house among other securities.” “Ts that a fact?” exclaimed the banker, with a look of interest. “Yes, sir,” * “Are you in the brokerage business?” “T am just starting.” “Indeed. You look young to be in business for yourself, Well, did you purchase them?” “J bought five of them, and later sold them to : another broker.” fn . “When did you learn they were the ones stolen eee from my house?” ; “T suspected they were when I read the ac- count of the robbery in last evening’s paper, and saw that ten of the bonds were Government $500 ‘threes. I wasn’t certain until I called on the broker to whom I sold them, and had him com- pare the numbers with the advertised list.” “You shouldn’t have bought the bonds without p reasonable assurance that the man who offered them fer sale was the person to whom they right- | fully belonged.” ; “J had a reasonable assurance.” “What was it?” “The man introduced himself as Frederick Ford, and produced the memarandum of the Chi- cago broker who seld them to age replied Frank. = “Did you retain that paper?” . gee *T did.” ; 4 ‘ “Then L guess yeu are pretected, Describe the “man to me.” Frank did se, “Have you ene of your business eards with you?” ‘ : . The boy breker handed him one. stolen,” Tl a Sar .d-to his identifieation and arrest, and lead ul- and the recovery of “J hope “T haye offs after Miss Clyde had gone “A detective will probably call en you te-day. emné “Your. description of the man may | cent.” 4 - witness to it. You-gried to kiss her against her > a “T’ll be satisfied if I don’t have to make good the value of the bonds. It would handicap me ba¢ly, for I haven’t a whole lot of capital.” ‘Don’t worry, young man. You acted in good faith and prove it. That is all that can be ex- pected of a broker.” : } Frank then took his lease in much better © spirits. At twelve o’clock. Miss, Clyde, whose other name Frank discovered was Kittie, appeared to take charge of his office for an hour, and eat her 4 lunch there. " “Tf any one calls, Miss Clyde, tell them I'll re- — turn inside of an hour.” : ; “ft will,” revlied the girl. = Frank took $3,000 out of his safe, and, calling on his friend, Broker Gage, gave him an order to buy 300 shares of L. & N. at 90. It was a good | stock and he had noticed that it was going up. Then he’ went to lunch and was back in his offies at five minutes of one. Shortly after Miss Clyae went to her afternoon employer a detective came in-to. interview the boy broker. Frank told him all he knew about the man who had sold him the five bonds and he went away. About four Misa Clyde returned and said she would willingly stay — with him till five every day if she could be of any service in his business. 4 “I appreciate your offer, Miss Clyde, but I have really nothing for you to do, at least to-day,” re~ lied Frank. “It is po: ible I may occa ly ve need of your services, If I do I will ¢a on you.” ee They conversed on different subjects for about half an hour, during which Frank told her that he had called on a lawyer and instructed = write peakes oe let*er genes ee ages for spoiling his uncle’s portrait. ortly — home Broker Drake stalked in with another trader. He was quite sober, but in a bad humor. oe op “Look here, young man, what does this mean?” he demanded, tossing on Frank’s desk the letter — he had received from the lawyer, “What in thun- der is the matter with ? Do you think 1 pm A going to be blackmailed?” pas “It means reparation for the havoc you S in my uncle’s picture when you came in here half — drunk yesterday afternoon and made a show ¢ yourself, Look at the picture, You've ruined i replied Frank, ene ws “Rah! ‘Ten dollars will fix that up. I. know what I was doing. Considering the ef stances, I'll give you $25 to have it air said Drake, ; ‘eS pana oe “No, you won't, Mr, Drake, You'll write. : check for $500 or take the consequences,”” Frank. Past _“What’s that?” roared the broker. ar ee Frank made no reply, qh iets “Do you take me for a fool?” reared Drake, _— “You'll be foolish if you don’t take the I offer you.” J ee “Confound your impudence! I won’t pay a Se Ala eonie “Look here, Mr, Drake, if you don’t settle 1 : claim you'll find yourself in a bad hale them, in fact. You insulted a young lady in the elevator corridor of the second floor, and lL was q <

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ae ‘FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER eae. She might have you arrested on that count. : t will two charges against you, and the : E pared lady’s is likely to be the more serious of two. I’ve got two witnesses against you on | So by settling with me you'll get off ” nx oe This is blackmail,” cried the broker. All right. I have nothing more to say. If “you think you can get out of the predicament _ you are in, why go ahead and try.” ~ Drake was furious, but when Frank quictly —e ined the‘ situation to his companion, and the ‘gentleman saw that if the girl prosecuted Drake he would be in a very bad box, he advised the broker to settle, and he did, very much against his ‘will. But he swore he would get square with Frank, and with that menace he and his friend - CHAPTER IV.—On the Trail of the Burglars. After supper his aunt sent Frank with a mes- "age to a friend, who lived several blocks away. ‘his way back a shower of rain came on and she took refuge in the end house of a row of build- that was under construction. Hardly was ‘under cover when two men entered the place 3 run, They stopped close to the doorway -and uttered imprecations on the weather. “It was blamed unfortunate that Newman hurt leg hidin’ the sway in the quarry,” said one. ily for that we’d have been on our way west by his time.” ; _ Frank, who was within easy. earshot of them, ricked up his ears at the word “swag,” which in : s’ vocabulary meant stolen property. : -- f should say so,” replied the other. “This Ho aS liable to make things strenuous for us.” “He won’t be able to get on his pins for a week from the look of his foot, and before that cops may get a clue that’ll make things un- pleasant for us.” ba é _-. *I don’t know where they’re goin to get it > fri ” => “Well, they've got a bunch of detectives on the job. I see by to-night’s paper that the boy broker wi cae sold those bonds to has furnished the police “your description, and, of course, they’re in’ for you.” Vhat’s the use of talkin’ about it? I’m not Newman is up against.” © at do you mean, Kirby?” ; “We ought to make. Newman tell us where he’s hidden the stuff in the quarry, divide it in three and then you and me can take ours and out.” uld be leavin’ a pal in the lurch,” . at a smart pace, without the least sus- picion that their talk had been overheard by a third person, and ene who was likely to prove very dangerous to their interests. Frank lost ne time in following them. As they neared each cross street he found it necessary to creep closer to tnem to see whether they turned off or not. in this way he trailed them for a good mile out into a deserted part of the upper Bronx, where it. would have gone mighty hard with the boy had they discovered he was shadowing them. At last they came to a hut on the edge of an abandoned quarry, and entered the place. A dim light shone from the only window the shack boasted of: Up to this the boy broker crept and looked in. Seated in a chair, with one foot swathed in cloths, was the man they had referred to as Newman. He had a hard-looking counte- nance, which was not improved by a four-days’ growth of bristly, reddish beard. He looked like a very tough customer as he sat on an empty box with his back against the wall and his game leg stretched out and sup- ported by another box. Lucas and Kirby had put down a bundle each of eatables on a third box on which stood a candle in the neck of a bottle. This was within easy reach of Newman, and he reached out one hand with a hungry look toward one of the packages. : “You’ve been away some time,” he growled. “We were taking notes of how the land lies,” said Lucas. “There’s an evenin’ paper. You can’ look over it as soon as you’ve had a feed.” “What’s new on the case?” asked Newman, as he opened up one of the bundles and exposed a guarter’s worth of sliced cooked ham and a loaf of bread cut in slices. He grabbed two pieces of the bread, made a sandwich with the ham, and began to eat like a half-starved man. ‘ “The boy I sold the bonds to has been talkin’ to the police,” said Lucas. ¢ “T expected he would,” mumbled Newman. “It’s a good thing you provided yourself with that beard.” . “Tt disguises me pretty well, doesn’t it? And these clothes don’t look nothin’ like the swell rig I had on when I visited Wall Street.” “T hope the sleuths won’t discover our roost here,” said Kirby. “Suppose they did, what can they do? They won’t find any evidence to incriminate us,” said Newman. “Beeause you hid it in the quarry, eh?” Newman nodded. ~ “Whereaboutz?” “That’s for me to know,” said Newman with’an artful look. - Tes “But we ought to know too. Lucas and me are — as much interested in it as you are.” z “T gin’t sayin’ you ain’t,” responded Newman, “Then why are you makin’ a secret of it?” “You'll have to wait till the mornin’, anyway. You couldn’t go huntin’ for the place in the dark.” ~ “Well, you tell us now, and we'll go there the first thing in the mornin’.” ; “It’s kind of a difficult matter to tell you just 3 3 _where I put the “You marked it, didn’t you?” swag,” said Newman slowly. = “With three stones in a row.” hae

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ag ee ~ the boy broker that . went toward the edge of the quarry. 6 FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER “About a yard or so under the hole in the wall of rock where I shoved it, and then plugged the bole up with a large stone. That’s about-all tie directions I can give you. I could walk right there and put my hand on it, but you’ll have to look for it.” “You ain’t said which side of the quarry. It’s got four,” said Kirby. “Tt’s the side towards the shanty.” “Very good. We'll find it,” and Kirby looked significantly at Lucas. CHAPTER V.—Frank Turns the Trick. ¥rank had heard every word that passed be- tween the men, for there was a hole in one of the panes of the window beside which he stood. He had listened eagerly to learn, if -he could, where Newman had hidden the plunder, and now he had the same line on it that Kirby and Lucas had. He believed he could find it in broad day- light, but no such chance would be afforded him, for Lucas and Kirby intended to go there first thing in the morning, probably at daylight, be- fore anybody in the neighborhood was stirring. After talking together a few moments the two men walked out at the door, and Frank crouched down in the dark to avoid discovery. c “Lucas,” said Kirby, “do you think the swag is where Newton said it was?” “Why not? He gave us the directions as well as he could.” “T doubt it. I watched him closely during the ‘whole interview. If he intended to act square in the matter, why did he try his best to wriggle out of tellin’ us? It was only when I pushed him ward that he told us. I feel pretty sure he lied.” “If we don’t find it at the place he directed us to I’ll believe you’re right; but we’ve got to take his word until we find he has fooled us.” “There’s a lantern under the shack. Let’s light it and go down into the quarry.” Kirby started te hunt for the lantern under the hut, and while he was doing it Frank rose up and looked inside to see what Newman was doing. He was smoking and Jaughing to himself. It struck e rascal felt that his com- ~anions had gone to look up the swag, and. that - ~ he counted’ on their failure to find it. Kirby fished out the lantern, lighted it, and then he and Lucas Frank was undecided whether to follow them or not. When his knot-hole at the moving a tinctly showed him the. "eenk wondered what in rise / “4 . of the achievement, floated across his fancy. | tneds z . start of surprise. After admiring the necklace for some moments, Newman replaced it in the box, closed it, and took out another. This proved to contain a dozen valuable rings, worn only by a lady. Most of them had one or more diamonds of size in the setting. One had a large and hand- some ruby as the principal stone. Newman looked at each ring in turn, as if esti- mating its value, and then returned all to the box. He pulled a third box out of the bag. ‘This held a diamond incrusted watch, lady’s size, with a long gold chain. A fourth box contained a small tiara of diamonds of all sizes, which shone like a miniature sun. Frank knew it must Be worth thousands of dollars. A dozen boxes of gems all told were taken from the bag and exam- ined in turn with great satisfaction by Newman. Then he shuffled over to the wall and looked » through the knot-hole again. He returned to the * bag and brought out other articles of value. “The rascal!” muttered Frank. “He didn’t hide the stuff in the quarry at all, but had-it eon- —_. cealed in that hole in the flooring. He’s been — fooling his pals all the time. They'll have their trouble for their pains and will come back empty- handed. Then there'll be a flare-up, but evidently he doesn’t care for that even if he is at the merey > of his companions.” ? As the boy broker watched him he was figuring” how he could get the bag of plunder away from — the crook without making too much of a rumpus’ = He was nerving himself for the effort when New- man made another move toward the wall. That~ was the opportunity the boy broker felt he must not miss, for he might not get it again. He dartéd to the door, pulled it open softly, and sprang into — the hut. Newman turned with a guilty start and®-~ saw him. He was relieved to find that it- was not4,. his pals playing a march on him, as he had @ feared. ie “What do you want in here?” he demanded. .. - “This,” cried Frank, seizing the bag and ree" treating toward the door. . = ‘Drop that,” roared Newman, putting his hand — to his hip. Frank saw the glint of a revolver, and he got a hustle on. As he darted through the door there was a flash and a report. The bullet — splintered the wood within an inch of the boy’s © head. In another moment he was outside, wigh the bag on his shoulder making for the road. A second shot was fired through the knot-hole, evi- — dently for the purpose of attracting the attention of Lucas and Kirby. Frank glanced over his shoulder in the direction of the quarry, and saw =~ the lantern coming up the rocky wall. He = he had not a moment to lose, and he raced ahead as fast as he could go with such a weight as he had to carry. re : ‘ 7 ty CHAPTER VI.—Frank Gets His Reward. Frank felt it was important to get as long a

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2 f __ “They'll soon know what’s happpened and will be after me hot foot,” he muttered. “If they - eatch me they’ll do better than I think they will.” Presently he reached a cross-road and remem- bered that he had followed the two men down it. He turned up it after pausing a moment fo change the bag to his other shoulder. And so he proceeded many blocks without resting, and with- out hearing or seeing any indication of pursuit. At last he felt it was safe to sit down and take @ rest. Fifteen minutes later he resumed hts way, and he found himself in a more settled ghborhood. In the course of an hour he Yeached his aunt’s house and let himself in with en, At last he felt that he and the of valuable plunder were safe, and he ut- ee a sigh of satisfaction. He carried the big ~ to his room and shoved it under his bed. Then he looked at his watch and found it was neazly one o’clock. “Tt’s high time for me to turn in,” he said, and so. e came down in the morninng his aunt ae oat kept - ot so a. He ee story, er eyes fairly ope with aston- ’ Frank ate his breakfast with a hearty then taking the box containing the he judged was by far the most val- downtown office first and remained there until a watching the ticker for any developments “that might show in L. & N., and reading a Wall " Street journal for which he had subscribed. Then taking the tiara with him, he started for Banker _ Ford’s establishment. As soon as he sent his mame in he was admitted. _ = “Good-morning, Fisk,” said the banker. a: 3 7 "— “Indeed. The man who sold you the bonds has F = arrested, I suppose?” -“l’m afraid not, sir, though that would have hap last night had I been in touch with a “Ah, you saw the fellow then?” said the bank- er in a tone of interest. Sen saw the three men who committed the bur- the police, I suppose?” ears. ly lock pare, pag Se it was one 0’c' when ac] my Ae doabt if they would have been 1d there when the police got there.” probably have been able rascals “Well, if you'll listen to m story I think you'll » Sati d with what I did,” ahead.” then began at the beginning and told the shower of rain obliged him to said the boy broker. » take ref- FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER 7 uge in the unfinished building, and how the same shower brought the two burglars there also. He repeated their conversation as well as he coufd recall it, and then told the banker how He fol- lowed the men to the hut when the rain let up. He then described all he had seen and heard there, to which Mr. Ford listened with great in- terest. Finally he told how Lucas and Kirby went down into the quarry to search for the place where Newman told them he had hidden the plunder. Then he surprised the banker with the disclosure that the stolen property was not in the quarry at all, but hidden in the shack, and how he had seen Newman take the bag containing it out of a hole in the floor. “Well?” asked the banker eagerly. Frank then told him how he had watched the burglar examine the stolen jewelry and other ar- ticles in turn, and how, taking advantage of his ag ae he had rushed into the hut and captured e bag. “Do you mean to say that you recovered my property?” cried Mr. Ford. “Yes, sir, though I barely escaped getting a bul- let in my head. I managed to get away in the darkness, and was fortunate enough to carry. the bag to my house without further adventure.” “Then all the stolen property is now at your house?” “Yes, sir, with the exception of the tiara.” “You had to leave that behind?” said the banker, with a look of disappointment, for it was 7 more than all the jewelry combined. “Too a F “No, sir. I carried that off with me, too.” “And what became of it?” “T’ve got it with me. I brought it downtown with me to hand over to you, as I judge it was the most valuable thing the burglars got away with. Here it is,” and the boy broker laid the package on the banker’s desk. Mr. Ford tore the paper off and recognized the box at once. He opened it to,make sure that the expensive tiara was in it, and his relief was great when he saw that it was. “And the rest of my property is at your home?” he said. “Yes, sir.” “Allow me to express my appreciation of the service you have rendered me.” “You are welcome, sir.” “You have won the reward of $10,000 I offered for the capture of the thieves and the recovery of my property.” y “J did not capture the thieves.” “No matter. The police will attend to that. The important thing to me is that this tiara arfd my wife’s jewelry. have been recovered, together with the securities. They were in the bag, too, I suppose?” ’ “Yes, sir, with the exception of the ten Gov- ernment bonds, of which I purchased five, you know.” ; “That is a small matter in connection with the rest. I value the things the burglars took from my house at about $90,000. It appears that you have got back all but the $5,000 three per cent. _ bonds. This tiara alone cost me $20,000, and my wife regards it as the best of her possessions, and ~~ well she may. If you will’ give me your aunt's # 3 +

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R=, FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER address I will send a trusted servant there for the rest of my property. ~You had better write an order authorizing her to deliver it to my messen- ger. In the meantime I will pay you the reward.” Mr. Ford pulled his check-book out of a drawer in his desk and wrote a check for $10,000, on a leading Wall Street bank, pare: to Frank’s or- der, and handed it to the boy broker. “I am very much obliged to you, sir,’ said Frank, “but I think I ought to make good the value of those five bonds out of this.” “Not at all. We'll let them go. The loss is a small matter to me,” said the wealthy banker. That afternoon’s papers had a full account of the recovery of Banker Ford’s property by Frank Fisk, who was represented as the boy broker of Wall Street. Naturally the story brought Frank into the limelight, and made him the talk of the financial district. The result was the young trader became, for the time being, an object of t interest to most of the brokers in Wall t. “CHAPTER VII.—The Bag of Gold. e Frank went down to his office at eleven next morning. He took a look at the ticker to see how the maerket) and particularly L. & M., was going. The latter had fe Si a@ point above what he d for it. came and with it young man ever met, and he had the idea that the fair stenographer was the - finest girl in Wall Street. a “TI saw by yesterday om 8 papers that = ae - ees ve yaenett in that burglary case,” a “at —_ Fallow distinguishes himself when “T suppose a nguishes "he does something out of the common,” answered AE a mata age ag Sage om laggy three burglars and take their spoils from them right under —— narrowly escaped “That is correct. It was the only strenuous moment I had.” Fy gee were fortunate to escape as well as you “Yes, I Iwas, Well, I must go to lunch.” He ed for his hat and went out. He went up to B way to a restaurant he sometimés patronized on As he neared the cor- filled with ee who some- but he got close to into Broadway. Pca seg for nerve and A dozen people besides Frank saw the bold robbery, and fully a dezen others knew that some- thing unusual was going on. Frank’s first thought was to grab the man who had quickly released Will, and was trying to lose himself in the pass- ing ‘throng. He could have done it and secured his arrest, but he thought it wiser to follow the cab and try to keep it in sight. With this idea he jumped on a street car going in the same di- rection, and ran through it to the front platform. The cab was not able to go very fast owing to the rush of traffic, and the car had to proceed at a moderate speed for the same reason. “See the cab yonder,” he said to the driver. “Yes,” was the reply. oT — you could gain on it.” “Why “Because there’s a thief in it who snatched a bag of money from a messenger at the corner of ~ Wall Street, and is trying to get away with it. If I can overtake the vehicle I'l] stop it and = 4 the rascal arrested.” “T can’t go any faster than this, and 1. may ; have to stop at any moment. Your best plan is ie == chase it on foot.” : “But the driver, who is in with the thief, will ~ notice me and whip up at all risks.” Just then the conductor pulled the bell to Ps and the motorman had to put on the brake. At by the same moment the cab turned into Cortlandt ; street. That settled the question of any further — chase by the car. The boy broker sprang off and followed the cab as fast as he wa g The driver . had whipped up and was half a block ahead when ~ some vehicles obstructed him again. Frank got a hustle on and tried to catch up before he could extricate himself. He only partially succeeded. The cab got t clear and the driver whipped up ve As the Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry was the foot of the street there was nothing odd in his rush. A policeman would have supposed he was ng to catch a train boat. Frank, as he ~ hurried on, wondered if he was aiming for the ferry. That ed to be his destination, and he drove right in aboard the boat. The boy broker — rushed to the ferry ticket window, slammed down three cents and caught the boat. The next thing was to catch the man who had the stolen bag of gold. He doubted if he could accomplish this alone, and the question was could he secure help ~ on his bare statement, meh both the man and the driver would deny. He tackled a deckhand | and told him the story. ‘ “See the couabe _ ‘He's in the pilot house,” said the man. = “ The boat was already" in the middle of the . river and there wasn’t a wipe lot’of time to lose. — He saw the cab right ahead, for it was the last vehicle to come aboard. The thief had got out and was talking to the aires Frank edged up on the opposite side and stuck his head'in at the ; open. ido He saw the end of the stolen bag ~ peeping ae from under the seat. - a a "He softly : termi to get possession” of i opened the cab door, d the bag and drew it out. His yaovements had» not been observed. — Thrusting the bag under’ his jacket, he Reape oa : away with it, and entered the men’ mee 5 forward to the deck and standing sa Sig sea Nae

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~ boat reached her slip, when he hurried ashore with the first of the passengers, . CHAPTER VIII—Frank Catches a Good Customer. Frank rushed into the ferry-house and bought a return ticket for New York, and stayed there till it was almost time for the boat to start back, then he boarded her and duly reached the Cort- landt street slip. With the bag of money under his arm he made for Will’s office in Wall Street. - The account of the robbery had already got ~ around Wall Street, and several newspaper men ~ had ’phoned the story to their offices. Will was I lost a bag containing ill gloomily. _ I thought it was a million from "the look of your face.” : ox “Ys that all? It’s enow: L ain’t sure ‘wheth- ~~ er I'll be fired or not. e@ boss is as mad as a © hornet, and gave me Hail Columbia.” to say about it?” hap to have it here un- ; ont Fenske threw his coat = 7 ill rushed into his employer’s room. e of money has been recovered,” he _ ¢eried. ont friend Fisk here brought it back.” _. Broker Drew looked up. = aa paid re ae. tat the bag on the broker’s desk. _ “How did you get possession of it?” asked the er. Then Frank told his story, and Will’s eyes 4 Opened very wide as he ned. ne “You’re a mi rae boy,” said Drew. “I Te ~ Ais- + from - worth while for to offer me anything for my _ services in behalf of my friend Will and your- ”” said Frank. : F a why, are the who saved the _ “Why, ys you boy a Fae j securities?” ex — ‘FRANK FISK, THE BOY. BROKER : 9 “Tm the boy.” “Upon my word, you’re a most unusual young man. Accept my thanks for getting that bag of money away from the wwho carried it off.” “You’re welcome, sir. Will wasn’t to blame, I assure you. I was right behind him when the job was pulled off, and he hadn’t the ghost a chance to save the money.” “By George, Frank, you’re a corker!” said Will. “It isn’t at all certain that Drew wouldn’t have discharged me for losing that bag of money. Now that you brought it back I’m safe.” “Glad to hear it. Happy to be of service to you, Will.” Frank then said he must go to lunch. “T was on my way to a restaurant when that incident happened, and I am away behind time. Before I go I'll take a look at the ticker.” He found that L. & N. had gone up another point. Then telline Will to drop around to his office when he got off for the day, he went off. The story of the theft of the bag of gold was in the afternoon papers, but the recovery of it by Frank was not known in the newspaper offices till later on. His connection with the case was noticed in the latest editions, and was published in full in the morning papers. All Wall Street read about it, of course, and he got another boost in the esti- mation of the Street. : On the following day Broker Drew sent him a valuable pair of gold cuff buttons in consideration of his services. Several days passed, during which L. & N. continued to go up. When the ‘price reached par he sold out and made a profit _ $8,000. When Broker Gage settled with him he handed the broker the money back and $7,000 in addition, and told him to buy 1,000 shares of O. & C. on margin. Gage got it for 85, and noti- fied him to that effect. Frank was sitting in his office when a white-haired old gentleman of ge- nial aspect came in. ie you Frank Fisk, the boy broker?” he ask : “Yes, sir, that’s.my name, and I’m a boy bro- : ker without doubt, for I’m not nineteen = old yet. Take a seat, Mr——’ j “Edwards is my name.” Se “What can I do for you, Mr. Edwards?” “You are the boy who recovered the property stolen from Banker Ford’s house?” “Yes, sir.” “And you also got that bag of money awa) from the thief who robbed the messenger boy the corner of B y and Wall Street?” “T plead guilty to that count, too.” “You are a remarkable boy,” said the old < gentleman, regarding him with much interest. = I’m beginning to think I must be, so many pom have lately been informing me of ‘the fact. - hope you didn’t come here to add your testimony, for it’s getting to be som t monoto- nous.” ~ * : ~ “No, I had a curiosity to see’ you after what _ the papers printed about you.” Se “Well, I hope I come up to the estimate you yw: of ose , ah: - roker is rather an unusual phenome- non in Wall Street.” =

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~— 10 “J hope not an unwelcome one.” “Not if they prove as smart as you have.” “Thank you for the compliment. I hope to de- gerve all the nice things I have heard about my- self since I got into the limelight.” “Well, young man, how would you like to do a little business for me?” : “J have not the slightest objection. I have only had one customer so far, and he proved to be an undesirable one. I should like to have a respectable one for a change.” “[’m an operator on the market and have de- cided to make a change in my brokers. I’m going to give you a chance, and if you make good there fs no reason why you should not. continue to handle my business.” “P11 do my best to suit you, Mr. Edwards.” “Very well. I am about to purchase 0. & O. I want you to buy any part o 5,000 sharee for me, and have the stock delivered C. 0. D. at the Manhattan National.” “Yes, sir,” said Frank, delighted at receiving such a large order, the commission on which was likely to amount to over $600. “Buy as close to the market as you can, but J authorize vou to give 86 if necessary to com- the order,” said Mr. Edwards. _— Frank wrote out the order and asked his visi- ~~ tor to sign it, which he did. “You haven't told me where your office is, sir,” he said. Mr. Edwards handed him his business card. “You must lose no time in filling the order, for others are after it, toe, and the p ce will go up,” “TH on the job at once.” “Asy ah as ps have filled the order, whol! in part, notify me, account,” said Mr. ech | “Alb right, sir. I hope to within 86, and will do my best to get it as near 85 as possible.” ots ar apices aon said et aegis aver. ~*. and Frank, pu on his hat, went ou 2 soentine the stock. He met Broker Scott on the street. += “Got ‘any 0. & C., Mr. Scott?” he said, after ’ had shaken hands. es, I’ve got a couple of thousand. Want rd the: he saw Bi to see hearty welcome. After —_ had : ooking » FRANK . FISK, THE BOY BROKER “Yl give you 85 1-8.” Standish shook his head, so the boy broker closed with him at his figure, and directed him where to send them C. O. D. “Do you know where I can get a few more?’ asked Frank. “Go and see Peters. He’s on this floer. He may have some,” said Standish. So Frank paid Broker Peters a visit. He out, but the cashier said he could let him have 1,000 shares of O. & C. at 851-2. is take you,” said the boy, and the deal was made. Frank said he needed another 1,000 to lete his order, and the cashier referred him to ker Hahn across the corridor. The boy broker visited Hahn, and found him in. “You want O. & C. you say?” said Broker Hahn. : “Yes, sir.” “How many shares?” “One thousand.” “T have just that number, and you can have them fer 86.” Frank looked at the tape to find the latest quo- tation, and found that it was 851-8. “Tl. give you 85 3-8.” “Yl} make it three-quarters,” said Hahn. Frank shook his head and started to get up. “J’ll let you have them for 85 5-8,” said H “Fighty-five and one-half is my limit.” x Hahn, after some hesitation, made the deal, That wound un Frank’s order, and on his cway : back to the office he found that his commission would amount to $625. He wrote a letter to Mr. — Edwards, enclosed his statement of account, and mailed it to the operator. ternoon Edwards sent him a check for his com-_ mission, and complimented him on filling the or- der so soon, and at so satisfactory a price. .. - beginning to do real business,” Prag! told himself as he put the check im the safe, as ff was too late to collect it that day. * os <3 : % CHAPTER IX.—The Clerk Who Tried to Be- Funny. ~ When Will dropped in Frank told him that he had captured a first-class customer. “T’ve just made $625 commission out of him on one order,” he said. Be “You’re doing well. How did you catch him?” “He called on me of his own accord.” % “He must have money to give you such a large order.” ~e “Yes, for the value of the stock I bought for him is $427.50, and “he has paid for it.” “Who is he, anyway?” $ “His name is Edwards.” ~ “You don’t mean Lucian Edwards?” “That’s his name.” “Why, he is one of our most important cus- tomers.” ; “He told me he was going to change his broker, and had decided to give me a trial. He said if t proved satisfactory there was no reason why I shouldn’t handle all his business.” - “Did he tell you that?” j On the following af-— -

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FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER “ay did, but you needn’t repeat it to your ‘ ss.” “Well, you’ve made a ten-strike if you hold him on your books.” | “JT shall do my best to please him.” “He must have had some misunderstanding - with Drew.” : ‘That i8 quite probable, or he would not have concluded to make a change.” * “Tt’s funny he would come to you. Some people don’t patronize inexperienced brokers. And you’re only a boy at that.” _. “J¢ T-am then there is no reason why lie _ Shouldn’t give me a trial.” “His custom will give you a good boost. You oucnt to have an office boy to look after any - customers who might come here when you are ~. out,” - {ve ba4en thinking of that. Miss Clyde is the only person I have at present, and she can only = thet me out between twelve and one.” ~~... “She’s a pretty girl.” P ‘ “Yes, and as nice as she’s pretty. I wish I could afford to keep her here all the time, but I haven’t. anything for her to do.” ~-) Get a boy, at any rate. Mr. Edwards is liable ‘to drop in any time, and if he finds your office shut up two or three times he might shake you.” “Pll advertise for one right away.” '- “At that point the door opened and two clerks from ‘the adjoining office walked in. They looked at both of the boys, but as Frank was at his desk si picked him out as the tenant of the room. “Mr, Fisk, I believe,” said the one in advance _. with emphasis on the Mr. Yes, sir,” replied the boy broker. » ~ ®¥ou deal in stocks and bonds?” _2~ “That is what my sign says.” "~*~ -*What commission do you charge?” _ ®The customary one—one-eighth of one per ‘cent. for buying, and ditto for He 2 -- -*¥ should like you to buy me 100 shares of the . Siberian & Kamchatka. Railway.” eS s object. “Sorry, but I don’t like to encourage boys to ~ te,” he replied calmly. se _ “Are you referring to me?” asked the visitor, >. assuming a dignified air. “I am. You appear to be extremely boyish.” As the caller sported a mustache and was twenty-two years of age, he viewed Frank’s re- mark in the Hght of an insult.” “How dare you address me that way?” angrily. * ; __“] address you as I think you deserve, replied frank coolly. ~ “Do you know’who I am?” ee 5 Ma not, but I imagine you don’t amount to a . 5 5 Pra ; a great mind to chastise you for your _ insulting words,” cried the visitor, growing very _. » “¥ wouldn’t, if I were you. The exertion might ng ‘on heart failure.” Te : puppy.” “Thank you. ae he said is ithe: fhteresting- T should is 4 est é on; 0 = how far you can carry it.” = ™ + —? . re ~ That was enough for Frank to size up their ' “found at least 100 letters awaiting him. He car = _spent more of his time outside, talking to bro-— Re you are makin of Go ° 11 “Bah! The idea of you thinking you’re a bro- ker! I wouldn’t hire you for an office boy.” “T have graduated from that: position, thank you; when do you expect to do the same?” 1 suppose you think you’re funny,” sneered the clerk. “I couldn’t be as funny as you tried to be when you first came in.” “Confound you! of the building.” _*“Run along, sonny. I don’t care to waste my time on brainless kids.” That was more than the clerk could stand. He made a rush at Frank. The boy broker put up You ought to be thrown out -his bent knee and caught the visitor in the stomach. The shock staggered him and took his breath away. Before he had time to recover, Frank jumped from his chair, grabbed the in- seas it 3 Epa and = oT of his trousers, an in i open the door, rushed hi se. fe p eked Bit “Now, what can I do for you?” other caller. - ee - “Nothing. I only came in with Thompson,” he said in a subdued way. . “All right. The way is clear to follow him. If he ever comes in here again I’ll drop him down the back stairs,” said Frank. 4, The clerk’s companion passed oat. “You gave that chap the razoo in fine shape,” laughed Will. : K Pras “JT didn’t give him half as much as he deserved. He and his friend came in here to make game of me. Such fresh chaps ought to be handled with- ; out gloves,” said the boy broker. : 2" “That’s right,” nodded Will. Then the door spened and Miss Clyde came in, as she did every day before going home. — I do anything for you, Mr. Fisk?” she “Nothing this afternoon, thank you, Miss ‘ . Clyde,” replied Frank. S ~ “Then I home,” she said with a smile, E The bo wed and she went off. That af- i ternoon Frank advertised for an office boy, and z knowing that a mob was sure to besiegethis of- 4g fice, he avoided such an unpleasant state of af- fairs by stating that applicants must apply by mail in their own handwriting, and address their communications to a box at the newspaper office. When he came down in the morning about half. past nine he stopped at‘the newspaper office and ‘pa ried them to his office and went over them, sifting = out of a few of the most promising. These he re- plied to, asking the boys to call at different hours. Next. day he saw the boys, and picked out one of them. His name was Billy Smith, and : he had heen a telegraph messenger. He was to begin.on $5 a week. — a Poe _ By this time O. & C. had gone up to 90. Frank kers and, watching the course of the are ket. in their offices. The impression yore prevail that 0, & C. would go to 95, at any ra¥e, and so Frank held on to it. One morning when it was png Poh 911-2, Frank heard a hurried con-— versation between two traders concerning it that _ induced him to call on Broker Gage and order his — 1,000 shares sold. An hour later he had reason aes Ex =.

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by * 12 congratulate himself on having got out of it, for the stock dropped to 86 with considerable rapid- ity.. Next day he collected something over $6,000 profit coming to him on the deal. His capital now amounted to $25,000, and he felt that his stand- — ing in Wall Street was fairly well assured. CHAPTER X—The Boy Broker Makes a Big | aul, One morning when Frank reached nis office he found an envelope on his desk in a female hand- writing. “Miss Clyde left that for you,” said Billy Smith, the office boy. : “All right,” replied Frank, tearing it open and looking at it. It ran as follows: “Near Mr. Fisk: I met a young lady I am very well acquainted with this morning on the train down. I have spoken to her about you, and how kind you were to put me in the way of getting steady work when I needed it so badly. She told me she would give me the chance to return the favor. She is the confidential stenographer for Busby & Co., the big brokers. She said that a syndicate had been formed in Busby’s office to cor- _ner and boom Southern Railway shares, and: that ~. On his way to lunch Frank met Will on Broad “der for him for t the firm has started in buying the stock on the quiet. She pointed out that this would be a good chance for you to make a big haul if you had money enough to put into it. She said you had better lose no. time, but buy as many shares of ‘Southern Railway as you could afford. It’s going at 120, and she heard her employer, Mr. Busby, say that it is sure to rise to 140, or higher, inside of ten days. I hope you will take neeitese this, for the young lady is in a position to Ww all the facts. Yours, ; Kittie Clyde.” Frank read the letter over twice, then he went to the office where Kittie was employed fore- noons and had a talk with her. She assured him that the tip could be relied on as the real goods “All right, then I'll tackle it,” said Frank, “If I win out I'll see that you get a rake-off.” * - “But I don’t want a rake-off,” protested Kittie. a am doing this to repay you for your kindness me. “Tt wasn’t necessary for you to worry about ' repaying me. I was only too glad to do you a service. If I win you must accept a small rake- off at any rate, if only to oblige me,” said Frank. He went back to his office, took $20,000 of his funds, and calling on Broker Gage, left an or- he purchase of 2,000 shares of Southern Railway at or as close to the market as he could get it. Gage had no trouble getting it for 120, and he sent Frank word to thai effect. > “I wouldn’t deliver the stock without it.” FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER “ a re you sure the pointer is a good one?” asked lil. “It’s good enough for me to risk $20,000 on.” “Then I'll buy ten shares of it,’ said Will, and they parted. Next morning Frank paid a visit to the gal- lery of the Stock Exchange. From that point of vantage he saw Broker Busby, whom he knew by~ sight, buying every share of Southern Railway that was offered. If he had any doubts about the tip that fact assured him it was all right. During the afternoon the stock began to advance, and went up two points. Before three, however, it dropped back again a point and a quarter. It elosed at 121 1-2. Even that slight advance put Frank $3,000 ahead, and he so informed Kittie when she came in that afternoon. A messenger hey efme in and handed him a note. It was from Mr. Edwards, the operator, and requested Frank to call‘on him. The boy broker lost no time in doing so. “T’ve got another commission for you,” said the operator. 5d “Glad to hear it, sir.” 2 “You executed the Jast one in such good style that I have no doubt you will be able to put this one through. I want 10,000*shares of K. & P. There is not a great deal of it on the market just at present, but I have learned that Broker Drake has 5,000 shares of it. Call on him and make the best terms you can.” “T wish it was some other broker,” said Frank, “Why so??? “Because I’m not on good terms with Mr, Drake.” j : a “That’s too bad. You had better get some broker friend of yours to call on him, then, and pet 2 oes with him.” if “Oh, -I don’t mind calling on him on business. I don’t apprehend that he will kick me out.” —- “Well, de as you choose, only get me those 1,000 shares as soon as you can. Have them de livered as before at the Manhattan National.” “AN right, sir,” and Frank took his leave. He went right around to Drake’s office, but that broker had gone home for the day, ana he- made a few other calls and secured 1,000 shures_ of K. & P. Next morning at ‘half-past nine he called again at_Drake’s office and sent in his — name. He wasn’t sure that the broker would see him, but he did. as “What do you want?” scowled Drake. “I am looking for K. & P. stock, and hearing you had some, I called to see what you would take — for = ands pet ; “How much do you want?” growled Drak o never let personal enmity interfere with ‘beck | ness, te “How many shares have you got?” 43 ‘“More than you'll ever able to buy on the longest day of your life.” == “Y’m buying for a customer,” said Frank, “A customer? When did you acquire one?” “Miracles happen sometimes, Mr. Drake,” said Frank pleasantly. - Saree “Huh! I can’t sell you less than 100. shares.™ “JT want more than a thousand.” regi a “You do. Where’s the money to pay for them?” “You'll get your money all right on delivery” —

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FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER . *T want to get 5,000 shares.” “What! Five thousand!” and Drake sat back and stared at Frank. “Yes, sir. Have you got that many?” —“{ have.” “What do you want for them?” “Say, is this bona fide business?” “Yes, sir.” _- “Weil, I want 102.” °“That’s too much. Make it 101 1-2 and Vill go ? “. “Say, who are you buying so much high-priced stock for?” __. “A customer.” ~~ “Do you mean to tell me you have a customer who has given you an order for half a milifon dollars’ worth of stock? It’s preposterous!” Frank might have told him that the order he had received was for a full million, but he didn’t. -_ *Tf you close with me you'll find out that there. is nothing preposterous about it.” < “Show up a certified check for the money.’ = “I can’t do that.” -*T thought not,” sneered Drake. “I ean give you an_order on the Manhattan lational for the money on delivery of the shares. ought to satisfy you.” '- “Pll take it at 101 3-4.” _ “Make it 5-8ths.” | _ “No, I won’t. Three-quarters or nothing.” ~ saw he was in earnest, so he agreed to ‘pay that. Drake made the deal, and Frank wrote the order. The broker looked-it over. ” “J¢ this turns out to be a fake I’ll break every bone in your body,” he said menacingly. “All right, sir. It’s a safe risk for me to run.” | He took his leave and spent several hours hunt- - {ng up the balance of his order. By two o’clock ‘he ~ had purchased the 10,000 shares, and he sent word to Mr. Edwards by his office boy» His ~ Sommission on this transaction footed up $1,250. ae ing sufficient time for the shares to be sent a erred to the bank, Frank made out his — a sent Aa re rapt Berens: - days passed, oe e got a check for the commission from Mr. Edwards, and then K. & P. took on an unexpected boom and went up ten a The Street was taken by surprise, and “no broker more so than Drake, He was mad, tog to know that he had lost $50,000 by the deal. And was twice as mad to think the deal had been ‘He couldn’t do anything, but it that it was time to try and get even with the boy broker for past tei Bom He thus brokers at s. Drak 5,000 shares of Southern Railway. got 2,000 shares of ‘Southern Railway 13. which you can have at 1361-2, Mr. Drake,” said ‘Frank. “Got another customer, I suppose,” sneered the broker. “No, sir. This is my own stock.” “Do you mean to tell me that you own stock worth $275,000?” “No, sir. I bought it on margin. I have a ter per cent. interest in it.” “Who’s holding it for you?” “William Gage, No. — Broad street.” “Give me an order on him and Ill take you.” _ Frank handed him the order, they exchanged memorandums, and then Drake rushed off to get his check certified and take it to Gage. In a short time he reached Gage’s office, and, showing Frank’s order, bought the shares and passed over his check. Then he went to look for some more at the Exchange. Before he got there a bear at- tack on Southern Railway upset the market and put the stock on the run. A sort of panic set in, and when Drake rushed on the floor he found things going to the bowwows. He made a des- rate effort to sell out, and finally succeeded, ut he lost nearly $20,000 through his purchase of the stock. : Frank, on the contrary, having sold at the top of the market, cleared a profit of $33,000. After figuring it up the boy broker decided that the least he could give Kittie for the tip was five per cent. of his winnings, or $1,500. When she came in- that afternoon he told her how successful he had been with her pointer, and she was aston- ished to learn that he-had made so much out of it. In her eyes that was a fortune. “And now, Miss Clyde, I shall present you with a rake-off of $1,500,” he said. y “My gracious!” she exclaimed. “You don’t mean to give me as much as that?” “J certainly No mean it,” he said. “In fact, I think I ought to give you twice as much as that.” She protested that she had no right to any- thing at all, but he said he would not have made his big profit if she hadn’t given him the tip. “1 think your friend who furnished the tip ought to be considered in the case, too, so after I col- lect the money you can take her $1,500 also, with my compliments,” he said. Broker Gage sent him his check next day, and then Frank handed Kitty $3,000 in tash, half of. which was for her young ady friend. The $1,500 was a most welcome windfall for Kittie and her mother, who were struggling to make ends meet. Mrs. Clyde took charge of it and deposited the bulk of it in a saving bank, They were now re- lieved of all financial anxiety in the immediate . future. Will Wagner might have made $160, but unfortunately he did not sell until after the slump, and the result was he was lucky to get out with $50 to the good. ; _ CHAPTHR XI.—Frank’s Second Customer. Drake was as as a whole nest of hornets when he up loss. What he didn’t feel like doing to ne boy broker ig hardly worth mentioning. Yet he felt that he nad no resource — but to arin and bear it. The boy made a big i:

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u profit at his expense, and the only thing he could do was to try and rope Frank into some deal and do him up. As he was not on good terms with the boy, this was going to be a difficult matter to accom- plish. Somehow or another one of the Wall Street newspaper men heard that the boy broker had made a good thing out of the boom in South- ern Railway, and called on him for confirmation. “Who told you I had made money out of South- erm Railway?” asked Frank after the. reporter had stated his mission. “No one in-particular. I heard a bunch of trad- ers talking about your success, so I thought I’d call around and see if it was so.” “What object have you in finding out?” The visitor admitted that he was a newspaper man, and that he would write it up if Frank admitted the truth of the rumor. “I’m a space writer, and I’ll make $2 or $3 out of it,” he said. “It won’t do any harm; in fact, it ought to give you a boost, and will help me make my bread and butter.” “All right,” said the boy broker. “Go ahead. I did make some money out of the boom.” “How much?” “T must decline to state what I actually made. I am not confiding my business to the public.” The reporter went away, and next morning the result of his efforts was a story which credited the boy broker of Wall Street with a coup in Southern Railway out of which he had cleared $50,000. Frank chuckled when he read it. Most of the brokers read it, too, and commented on it. Scott and Standish called on Frank and asked him if he had really made that amount out of Southern Railway. “To tell the honest truth, I didn’t, though admit I made something,” replied Frank. didn’t have enough shares to make so much.” “How many shares did you have?” “Two thousand.” “Then I guess you must have made $20,000 at any rate,” said Scott. “I'm not giving out what I made. I think it’s I ss¥ a wise thing to keep one’s. business to one’s self. What do you think?” “You’ve ’s only total of amounted to $1,500 at each other. nally. She——” worth $50,000.” FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER “He’s a pretty big speculator. How did you hook him?” said Scott. : “He walked into my parlor of his own accord. He said he read about me in the papers, and ¥ “And yet you just said you had made nothing out of the papers.” “Well, I forgot about my customer.” “T guess you have no kick coming against the newspapers, after all.” “T can’t say that I have.” Frank then told them how he had unloaded his Southern Railway on Drake just before the slump. “T’ll bet he’s sore on you,” said Scott. “He always has been. It’s a whole lot of sat- isfaction to me to get in on Mr. Drake. Kind of evens up the mean treatment he handed out to my — uncle.” The brokers admitted that it did, and then they said they’d have to get back to their offices,~ Shortly after they went away a lady came in and™ introduced herself as Mrs. Wilkins, said she had some Atlas mining shares she wanted to sell. “Did you bring the certificates with you, mad- am?” asked Frank. : “No, I wanted to find out what I could get for them before I brought them down.” Frank looked up the mining report and told her that Atlas was only a prospect, and had little standing in the market. “It is quoted at ten ‘cents, but I doubt if buyers are yery numerous. It is only occasionally dealt in on the “Why is that?” she asked, “Because there is little call for it. How many shares have you got?” “T really couldn’t say, but I know I have quite a bunch of certificates.” “Well, bring them down and I will try to sell _ them for you.” Then Will came in and Frank asked him how = he came out on Southern Railway. “Nothing extra,” replied Will. was $165 ahead, but the slump nipped me out of more than a hundred of it.” f “I’d have been caught myself if I hadn't been tipped off to sell at once,” said the boy broker. ~ “Who tipped you?” “The person who sent me the pointer origi- “She! Was it a ear: “{ didn’t mean to let it out, but it was a girl.” “She must be a good friend of yours.” “On the contrary, I haven’t the honor of her acquaintance,” ~ “And yet she sent you a tip on the market that Was a winner?” . “She did it as a favor to a young lady I de know.” “Oh, I. see, You ought to make them both a handsome present.” “Pye given them eaeh five per cent. of my wine ~ nings.” “That’s fair enough. How much did you make out of the deal?” “T made, in round numbers, $33, the aoe $3,000 of that between “Gee! You’re getting rich fast. little over.” “I am, and a Curb.” x “At one time I~ ye <= “You must be

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FRANK FISK, THE ‘BOY BROKER “You're working the Wall Street steck market - pretty good.” “I’m pretty lucky.” “If you could only get a bunch of custamers you'd be all right.” eg fe come in time. There was a lady in here a little while ago who has some Atlas mining Shares she wants to sell. She’s going to bring the certificates down to-morrow. It’s a rather slow Se cecaghe though.” 7 ttie rat in at a — nt ng got wi er on jects quite foreign e - Wall Street stocks. About eleven next morning 8. Wilkins appeared with a package and handed Frank with the remark that it contained the Atlas certificates. The broker opened it and 100-share certificates. He made out an for the sale of the stock at a figure as near n as he could get, and asked the lady to ‘sign it. -. “When shall I call again?” she asked. “In three or four days. Just putedown your : after your name.” ‘The lady did so and then took her leave. Short- A ‘afterward Frank went down to the Curb to Fea could sell the stock. There was no call — for it he couldn’t get an offer. Then he went over to Jersey City and tried there, with no bet- ‘ter result. He returned to his office and»put the seemed to be very small of Atlas stock. The would be disa ted, and he feared she d think that he did not amount to much as a f Finally he decided to buy it himself - for nine cents. It would cost him $450, which =. Bhe needed the rapaiey Frank rged her a commission of $25, and handed her $425 in cash. She went away perfectly satisfied. Such was the _ ‘Mate customer. eh be -- ° CHAPTER KIL—A Coup in Copper. ~# __. Not many days later a broker who was an en- tire stranger to Frank came to see him. _ _'“J’ve heard a lot about you, Fisk,” said the - ¥isitor, who had introduced himself as Henry xh the newspapers, I suppose?” replied ‘Not alte . The brokers often talk about d they all seem to think you a mighty ” said Hicks. " ; much obliged to them for their good opin- ; ms 9 guess deserve it, for you look smart to me, 1 : made a haul out of the South- ¥ 3 e a few dollars.” Eat ¢ es pee Tet ss es a ST SE ne ee A, PE + 15 “Only a few dollars! Why, I heard you soaked Broker Drake for $20,000.” “I don’t see how you could have heard that, for I never told anybody how much I made seil- ing him the 2,000 shares he took off my hands.” He lost nearly $20,000 by buying it, so the inference was you made about that.” “T sold him the stock at 1861-2. I might have bought it for 135, which would only have put $3,- 000 in my pocket.” “I guess you bought it considerably cheaper than 135.” “Maybe I did.” “Well, I didn’t come here to talk about that, but to invite you to go in on a copper syndicate we are forming.” “What do you mean by we?” “Oh, there’s a bunch of us—Riley, Harkins, Benson,” and he rattled off a dozen other names of Wall Street traders of no t prominence. Frank didn’t know any of 5 ig “I’m much obliged to you, Mr. Hicks, but i don’t care to go into the syndicate business,” re- plied Frank. ’ t as- “Not go in!” cried Hicks, with ap tonishment, “Why, you couldn’t a better o -chance to make sure money.” ; “T have no knowledge whatever of syndicates, and for that reason I don’t want to get mixed up in anything I am not acquainted with.” “A syndicate is merely a combination of capi- talists who a together to push through a scheme that would too big for one of them alone to handle.” “T know that much. Are the gentlemen you mentioned capitalists ?” “Well, no, not exactly.. They all have a cer- tain amount of dough, but not enough to go it alone. Hence the combining of their capital with the view of concerning and Rosteing a certain cop- per stock, the name of which you will learn if you go in with us.” “But suppose this syndicate fails to corner the stock?” “No danger,” sald Hicks confidently. “Why not?” . “Because we know just what is before us and how to pull the wires to make a sure thing of it.” “There is nothing that may be called sure in Wall Street. Take the Southern Railway boom, for instance. There was a syndicate behind that, yet it went to the wall just as the members were about to realize.” ; “How do you know there was a syndic hind that?” : : a “T had it from good authority.” “Oh, Southern Railway was an altogether dif- ferent proposition from our copper scheme. A stock that sells as high as 120 takes millions to - swing, and such risks are always dangerous. The x copper stock we are going to handle is cheap, and it will not take a raft of money to work it. Pas We are each putting {n $50,000, and we - to raw out double that in profit,” said = = glibly. < “Well, you'll have to count me out,” said the ue Faget Why, this is the chance of your life,” sald Hicks.’ , ee . : : . va z ii : fac 5 ~ Be r

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16 “Oh, I guess I’ll have otherchances. I’m young - et.” ” “But you won’t meet with another opportunity like this in a hurry.” ; “J can’t help that. I’d rather not go in.” “And miss this cinch I’m offering you?” “You never met me before, Mr. Hicks. Why are you so eager to put a good thing in my way? It isn’t the custom of Wali Street people.” “We want one more person to complete the combine. Your name was mentioned, and i was told to call on you.” “Well, I prefer not to invest my money where I can’t have control of it.” “What difference does that make? All you'll have to do is to put in $50,000 to help——” "4 “How de you know I’m worth $50,000?” ? “We have an idea you are worth more than that, otherwise I wouldn’t have been deputed to approach you.” BS, “T won’t say whether I’m worth that amount “3 or not. If I am I need it in my business.” ‘s “You don’t seem to be doing any business.” « “Everything doesn’t appear on the surface.” aoe “You've only been out for yourself a couple of 3 months; and you could hardly have got hold of . - many customers in that time.” “We won’t discuss that. When a person goes into a combine he has got to be governed by the ._-will.of the majority. I’d rather not be governed ’ by anybody’s will but my own.” “You appear to have a lot of confidence in your own judgment.” = “Pm giving you a sample of it now. In my — it is for me to stay out of com- ines and paddle my own canoe.” “J disagree with you. If all money men acted on that principle there would be no syndicates, and consequently no stupendous deals pulled off.” “The men who go into Syndicates understand the situation much better than I do the one you are representing. What is the copper stock you're going to handle?” : “Qh, come now; you wouldn’t expect me to dis- an outsider.” “Don’t know that very powerful interests are behind the copper situation Suppose these interests objected to the booming of the mine you have in view, how long would your syndicate last against a bear raid?” | - : understand all that and will provide against it.” : _. “T trust you will, but wouldn’t take the -~ chances your syndicate might have to face. Re- member that the best laid schemes often end in a ; blow-up.” “7 % “Then you won’t go jn with us?” : =a “No, ite. I am very much obliged for the in- -Vitation to join you, but I feel I am too young and | for such things. A young sheep, Saag ate has to be particularly careful of its , or it might wake up some morning and find z E—- dag pt ta the Bee, ike pe aoe iene Baal is coming on, and I am n erin = ter a diet of snowballs.” | . _ “You talk as if you “To * as if you, distrusted our project.” © say the truth, I do, though I do not insin- 3 { % - ~ close that, It’s a secret, not to be imparted to. FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER uate that you gentlemen have any sinister motives toward me personally.” “Quite the contrary. We’d like to see you bene- fit with the rest of us.” “I will give you credit for the sentiment, any- way.” “Well, you'll see a certain copper stock boom in a few days, and then you’ll feel sorry that you are not on the inside.” : Thus speaking, Hicks got up and wished the boy broker good-day. As soon as Hieks left, Frank put on his hat and went out, too, _He reached the ground floor in time to see his visitor going out at the front entrance. He kept him in sight and saw him meet a certain Curb broker near Exchange Place. Frank took refuge in a nearby doorway and watched them. They were presently joined by another Curb trader. Frank made a note of the faces of both of these men, and felt sure he would know them if he- saw them in. After a time the three walked off and lost themselves in the crowd around the Curb Exchange. Frank then went to Gage’s office and told that gentleman about the offer he had _ turned down. : “You did right. It is probably only a small syndicate that is finding it hard to raise enough money to carry out its plans, otherwise you; wouldn’t be invited to come in. This syndicate business is very risky, even when there is a barrel of money in sight. If you had $50,000 to put in it, and invested it, you might never get a dollar back. Even if it was successful these men might _ hatch up some way of doing you out of a part of your profits. A man ought to be a millionaire before he dreams of taking part in any syndicate, and then he wants to know all about his asso- ciates weere we aoe se chances of suc- | cess. 10 go into a blind pool, such as you were invited to take part in, is a fool trick,” said Gage. Every day after that found Frank hovering around the Curb market watching what was going. on, and he kept his eyes on one or both of the men he had seen with Hicks whenever they hap- regres be ein a while he found out ey were buying Dakota Copper. It w: ruling around $5 a eae’ 330 = After watching them for the better part of a day, he called on Broker Scott and gave him an order to buy 10,000 shares of the stock for him. This was no deal, for he intended to buy the stock outright. He didn’t expect to lose a ie deal if his plans went astray, for Dakota — opper was pretty solid at $5. Scott bought the - 10,000 shares in small lots, wherever he could get Sen. and about half of them he got at the — rb. Continuous purchase of Dakota Copper at- tracted attention and it began to rise. Many bro- — kers took a hand and it went up to $7 that There was n particularly : this, as the stock often went up from one to four or five points when heavily dealt in for one rea- son or another. Next day continued : sent it to $9 by noon. Frank had an idea that this. rise blocked the plans of the syndi unless the of it had more money than he believed th When he went into the deal he had not } for such

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FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER an advance in the price for several days, and he began to wonder if he hadn’t better sell out be- fore it dropped, then if he found Hicks’s asso- ciates still buying, he could go into it again and make a double profit. While he was considering the stock went to $10. He saw Scott at the rope and he told him to sell 1,000 shares, The broker — so, and Frank saw one of Hicks’s friends took it. ; “Offer another 1,000,” said the boy broker, Scott offered it at 101-8, and it went to the same man. -“Feed him another block,” said Frank to Scott. * Tt went at 101-4. Seeing that the market-Continued to rise, Frank held off till it reached 11. Pad out rity in Maes g sre —— t $11 for it. e brokers were now Ses Rati t in the copper rise, which they couldn’t ~ account for. At two o'clock it was up to $12. ee was afraid to hold on “ee longer. ‘s “Dump out the rest,” he said to Scott. _ He found buyers in plenty, and easily got rid of it. He then showed k his bunch of memo- _ Yandums, and they out that the boy bre- ker had cleared $62; on his copper deal. At that point several brokers appeared and began to ‘sell copper in big blocks. action upset the and the price began to topple. Inside of ten minutes copper was on the run, and who had it tried to get somebody else to take it off ' their hands. A small ¢ ensued, and when the _smoke of battle cleared away Dakota Copper was down to $6. : - ‘The syndicate Frank had been invited to enter did not go to the wall, but the members lost about $80,000 each, and this would have been the boy broker’s fate if he had gone into it. It place of __ which, by working on his own hook, after he found that the syndicate was actually ‘buying, he made twice as much as the individual members of the combine lost. Of course, luck played large- ly in his favor, just as luck helped the syndi- _eate at the start, but Frank’s success came getting out before the brokers of the big copper men got busy. He was now worth $118,- 000, and you may well believe he felt pretty good. —— ss CHAPTER XIII.—The Stolen Stock. ¥ Frank had been keeping in his of- _ fice safe right along, he felt that he was taking something of a risk his mone a a as a ary - ict since he had been connected with it, might occur, and he could not tell how afe w stand a | one. All modern were , it is true, but sometimes heat the contents the big pile of bills that repre- Oh anal was it oe He money = f_. ‘ > OES Le Pet es 17 hand on it and made a bee-line for the Wash- ington Safe Deposit Vaults a few doors away. He rented a $10 box, put the bills in it, and went away feeling that the money was absolutely safe as long as it remained there.“ About half- orl four that day, as he was about to escort ittie to the Hanover are elevated station, 4 stranger came in and said he wanted to see about buying -a block of Black Diamond mining stock As he would probably be detained a quarter of an hour, Frank told the stenographer that she had better not wait for him, so she went off alone The stranger asked a number of questions about. the mine, and in order to answer some of them had to go over the back numbers of a min- ing circular he received regularly every week from a Goldfield broxerage firm. While he was thus engaged a second man came {n and stopped near the door. When the boy bro- ker looked up to see who his other visitor was he was confronted by a revolver in the hand of his first visitor. “Now, Meter fellow, if you make any outcry to attract attention ril blow your roof off, and take the chances of getting away,” said the man, as the other turned the key in the door and put his back against it. ; “What’s your game?” asked Frank, looking him in the eye. “Our game is a simple matter—we want you te open your safe.” “You won’t find much in it.” “We'll take our chances of that. You're only a boy, and you can’t deposit your funds in a bank check it like brokers generally. Un- der those circumstances you have to run your business on e cash basis. We read a story in the newspaper a while ago that you had made $50,00€ in some stock, so you must be worth money, We intended to visit you before, but there were rea- sons why we couldn’t, so you escaped until now. I'dare say you have quite a tidy sum in yonder | — so just get up and open it, and do it quick- y . he a made oA gree repee. I don’t keep my funds in my s ut in my safe depos’ box,” replied Frank. _ : = “All of it?” “All but a few dollars.” “Well, you open the safe and we'll see what ths few dollars amount to,” said the man. “That would alarm the building and you'd be - caught. It isn’t five o'clock yet, and there ars fifty clerks on this floor. A shot would bring them out of their offices before you could reach the elevator.” “That wouldn’t do you an . You'd dead.” — a “We've all got to die some time. You'd see your finish in Sing Sing. People don’t usually commit @ murder unless they expect to gain something by it, even if it is only revenge.” the ee lose what money he had in the safe. While a figuring on it his telephone bell pian. eS + - $5 ed t ae ‘A <a.

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he reached out his hand to draw the instrument to him. “None of that,” cried the fellow, jumping up and pushing the ’phone away. In doing that the receiver fell off, and that es- tablished connections between the office and the party at the other end of the wire. Frank sprang up, too, and suddenly smashed the fellow in the face, knocking him backward. Grabbing the re- volyer, before the other man could interfere, the boy broker pulled it out of the visitor’s fingers and cevered him with his own weapon. ae I think the beot is on the other leg,” he sai The other chap, seeing how matters were going, : started to unlock the door. Frank fired at his hand, more for the purpose of bringing help than ~ to hit him. It happened that his aim was true, 3 and the ball tore its way through the rascal’s finger. The fellow uttered a cry of pain and took 5 his bleeding hand from the knob. A moment later an excited crowd of clerks rushed into the corri- , or. 7 “Step away from that door,” Frank cried to the wounded man, Fearing another shot, the man. quickly obeyed. The boy broker jumped for the door, unlocked it and threw it open. His appearance, revolver in hand, drew the excited clerks over. “What’s the matter?” said one of them. “Did ~»—. you fire that shot?” ; “I did. Two crooks came into my office and = held ‘me up, but I turned the tables on them, and re they'll have the pleasure now of going to the Tombs. Will one of you gentlemen kindly tele- phone for the police?” said Frank. The clerks crowded around the door and looked at the discomfited rascals. Then one of them re- _turned to his office and eommunicated with the po- lice. Frank explained matters to the crowd, afid - most of them regarded him with admiration for _ the nerve he had displayed. In due time two po- __ lieemen appeared, Frank laid the situation before _ them, and told them to arrest the men and take » them away. ; The raseals were handcuffed together and =a marched off. Many of the clerks lingered about _ till Frank locked up his office, and then accom- panied him downstairs. Frank wondered who had _ telephoned him, but he didn’t find out till the fol- lowing day. It was Kittie. She had left her pocketbook on the ticker. and she wanted Frank to lock it up in his desk. _ As she wasn’t able to get into communication with him, the pocketbook remained where she laid t. and she found it there all right next morning _ when she reached the office previous to going to her early employer. 4 Prank appeared against the two rascals at the ‘omb’s Police Court, and they were remanded back to jail by the magistrate. Eventually they were brought to trial, convicted of attempted ery, and sent to the State prison for three ‘The{ afternoon a lady dressed in black called yp hee She said she had seen a’story about newspapers which said he was a for- epeer."and as she believed in deal- people, she had called to get him FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER to sell ten shares of Northern Traction. stock for her. She gave her name as Mrs. Taylor, and said she was a widow. Northern Traction was then ruling at 150, and there was a steady demand for it, so the boy broker knew he would have no ~ trouble in selling it. He made out au order and handed it with a pen for the lady to sign, She declined the pen and used her own stylographic pen, with which she put down her name and ad- ress. “I'll call in a couple of days,”” she said, rising. “All right, madam. I'll sell your stock at the market when I go out,” said Frank. Half an hour afterward Frank called on Bro- ker Scott, and handing him the ten-share certi- ficate that Mrs. Taylor left with him to sell for her, toid him to dispose of it at the Maebenes when next he went there, The stock was y sold and sent to the company’s office in the Bowl- ing Green Building to be transferred. The com- pany retained it and notified Scott that the certi- _ ficate had been stolen with other things from the residence of a Mr. Brown, a wholesale jeweler. Scott sent for Frank to come to his office. “Who left that 10-share certificate of Northern Traction with you to sell?” asked the broker when Frank arrived. “A widow lady by the name of Taylor. Why?” “The company has just notified me that it was stolen from Mr. Russell Brown, of Brown & {n- golby, Maiden Lane.” “Stolen!” exclaimed Frank. “Yes. Didn’t you notice that the name of Rus- sell Brown was on the certificate?” “T did, and called the lady’s attention to the fact. She explained that Mr. Brown was her brother-in-law, and had presented her with the certificate.” “What address did she give you?” “Tt’s_on the order she signed in one of the pigeon-holes of my desk.” : “Look it up. Mr. Brown probably has a de- tective on the case, and it may furnish him with a clue to the thief.” Frank returned to his office, pulled the order out of his desk and looked at it. To his aston- — ishment both the name and address of his lady” ‘ customer, which he had seen her -write on the _ space immediately below the order, had disap- preset tn : jnet macteunieble manner. 5 ell, i at doesn’t get m: at,” cried the. boy broker, staring at the eben “ CHAPTER XIV.—The Vanished Handwriting, “There's something mighty funny in this,” : thought Frank. “She certainly put her name and address down there with her stylographic pen, Sone I saw it ve a — me away when { pu e paper in the pigeon-hole. and see Scott about it.” He put on his hat and went to Scott’s office. — The broker was in and he ns admitted. == ite “There is the order that the lady signed, Mr. Scott; but both her name and address has van- _ ished in a very ofd way,” said Frank, I guess I’ll go = 3

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Bee: sy FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER _ “But if she signed it her name and address would be there.” “It ought to be there, but it is quite clear that it isn’t.” “And you can’t explain the matter?” “No.” “Well, that paper doesn’t look to me as if it “had ever been written on under your handwrit- ing. You go back to your office and see if you can’t find another piece of paper about that size with the missing writing on it.” “I’m sure I won't find such a thing.” : “Oh, come now, Fisk, the best of us make mis- takes once in a while. There is nothing abso- lutely sure in this world except death.” ? _ “Well, fll take a look, if only to convince ~ Myself that I am right. There is no use of me calling on Mr. Brown without the lady’s address.” __ “But you expect the lady to call at your office _ for the value of the bonds, don’t you?” ; “She said she would call in a couple of days.” “Then she ought to show up to-morrow. What ave you going to say to her?” : _ “I shall ask her where she got the certificate, and tell her that it was stolen from the rightful owner.” r “You’d better communicate the facts to Mr. - Brown, and tell him you expect the lady to call &t your office to-morrow. It is likely that a de- tective will be on hand to meet her. ‘Frank thought Scott’s suggestion was the right _- thing to follow, so when he got back to the office ** he called up the store of Brown & Ingolby on the - *pi one and asked if Mr. Brown was in. In a few _ moments he had that gentleman on the wire. _- _-“T understand, Mr. Brown, that you were late- ly robbed of ten shares of Northern Traction Stock?” asked Frank. “ft was. May I ask who is asking the ques- _ tion?” * ‘“Frank Fisk, broker, of No. — Wall Street.” “Oh! Has anybody presented the stock at your fice for sale?” ; “Yes, sir; a lady who gave her name as Mrs, Taylor She represented herself a8 the sister-in- _ law of Russell Brown, yourself, whose name was _ 0n the stock. I took her word for it and sold the stock, and did not learn that it had been stolen - until it was sent to the company’s office to be The certificate is now at the secre- tary’s office, and you will doubtless receive a no- that tice to effect from the secretary.” “Did the lady’s address?” SF iid ‘bos tt seems ts have disa in a However, she she would 4 sg Phe ay neta’ possible she will “somebody here to meet her if she calls.” : Sag at tt : earn handwriting appeared in its prope: P mr P = 19 “That’s my name,” said the boy broker. a@ Seat, sir.” “lam from Mr, Russell Brown.” “Oh, yes; ne told me over the wire yesterday that he wouid send somebody down to meet the lady who breught the ten-share certificate of Northern Traction to this office for sale.” “Exactly. Iam the detective on the case. My name is Doyie. The lady’s name is Taylor, I be- lieve?” he said, looking at his cuff, where he had ~ noted it down. “That’s the name she gave me.” “You didn’t ask her for her address?” “Yes, I did. We always require our customers to sign their names and addresses to the order.” “You have that order, I suppose?” “Yes, but the funny thing about it is that though I saw her affix her name and address to it, it is not there now.” F Frank produced the slip of paper and showed it to the deteciive. The detective put up much the same argument that Broker Scott did to account for the absence of the lady’s hand-writing, but Frank insisted that he had seen her write it down on that very piece of paper. “You handed her your pen, or a similar one. with ink on it, I presume?” “I did, but she took out her own stylographic pen and used that.” “Hum!” -said the sleuth, examining the paper carefully. “The ink in her pen was black I sup- pose?” “Tt had a light, greenish tint, fluid.” The detective reached over to the electric blub that hung above Frank’s desk ‘and turned it on. After letting it burn for a minute he laid the paper on it and held it with his hand. , “There isn’t a lot of heat from these electric Nights,” he said; “but what there is may answer.” “What are you trying to do?” asked the boy broker. if “I’m trying to bring back the lady’s handwrit- ing. Since you are so positive that you saw her place her name and address there, it stands to reason it must be there in some shape. The only ink that fades in such a short time, and leaves no indications of its presence behind, is sympa- thetic ink, a chemical compound sold*b many ———- under the general name of invisible See’ gracious! I never thought of that,” cried. “If the ink is fresh a gentle heat will make it visible,” said the sleuth. “Now w take ‘ look at it,” aBhiefe. He turned off the electricity and removed the | paper. There you are,” he said, laying down the paper. Sy “Take “* like writing “Mrs, A. Taylor, No. — East Seventy. nty-f hk : street,” : is = YP mn A eho pan tees A

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20 CHAPTER XV.—Conclusion. “With your permission I'll take charge of this - paper, though I doubt if that is the lady’s real few.we and address, Describe her to me,” said tne detective. é Frank did so, as well as he could remember. “=; will be around this building most of the _.day, and will doubtless drop in a number of ~~~ times.” ; “All right, Mr. Doyle. I’m going out now. You could sit at my desk if you care to do so.” “When Frank returned to his office the detec- tive was not there, but a rough looking stranger was. “You're Frank Fisk, the boy broker, aren’t you?” he said. “Yes, sir,” replied Frank, wondering what his errand was. - 4“J’ve come all the way from Goldfield to see ou.” “What do you want me to do for you?” “Take a half interest in the Red Clover mine.” z “A half interest! y, I never heard of it be-- -_-_Ing worth its salt. A lot of the stock was sold - Bast here when it was first put on the market. “The promoters put up the usual bluff to get funds to develop it. It was noticed in the mining papers for a while, and then it dropped out of sight and T never heard anything more about it.” ~~ “Just so. You have got it pat.” -.. “And you want me to take a half interest in that thing?” abandoned. One day I took a notion > Gnyestigatin _ Worth a million.” _. “Worth a million!” exclaimed Frank. » “Just so. Every dollar of it. The question was how I to buy that mine before the option ex- et = gred on may be all right, but your ‘of itself,” said Prank. his grip and took out sev- FRANK FISK, THE BOY BROKER GOLD.” ; , See eat \ "> to return next day for the boy’s answer, Frank was greatly impressed by what he had heara. Hardiy had the man, who said his name was George Spooner, departed, when Mrs. Taylor walked into the office, “Did you sell that stock, Mr. Fisk?” asked the lady. i did, but when it was sent to the company’s office to be transferred the secretary said it had been stolen from the rightful owner and——” “Stolen!” gasped the lady. “yes. And will you tell me, madam, why you signed my order in invisible ink?” She looked as if she was going to faint. Then the detective stepped forward and told her he had a warrant for her arrest for trying to sell a certi- ficate of stock that did not belong to her. Then she fainted in earnest. “Get a cab and I’ll take her away before she recovers,” said the officer. As his boy was out on an errand, Frank tele- phoned to Scott and asked him to send his boy for one and bring it around to his building. Inside of fifteen minutes the lady was carried down to it and driven with the detective to the Tombs. Soon after the detective took her away, Billy Smith, Frank’s office boy, came in. “{ just heard something that you ought to know, Mr. Fisk,” he said. ; y “What is it?” asked the boy broker. “T saw that man with the cowboy hat that was in here chinning you about some mine out West _ talking to Mr. Drake.” “You did!” exclaimed Frank, with sudden sus- picion, : “Yes, sir. And I heard him say, ‘Do you think | he'll bite, Fitz?’. ‘Sure as you live,’ replied the other chap. ‘I hope it’s well salted,’ said Drake. ‘There’s ore enough in sight to make his eyes bulge, and I left Parker puttin’ in more.’ That's all I heard, but I guess it’s all you want to know.” When the man who said his name was George Spooner called on Frank next day, the boy broker told him that he guessed he didn’t want to invest in mining propositions, particularly when they were salted. Then Frank told him that he had received information from a confidential source that he and Broker Drake were in cahoots to do — him up on a Salted mine. Spooner made a vigorous denial, but Frank said his information was to be relied on, and that it~ was useless for his visitor to waste any more time or talk on the subject. : “T am satisfied that it’s 4 skin, and as you were seen in Drake’s company yesterday afternoon af- ter you left here, and Drake is no friend of mine, I want nothing more to do with elther you or your proposition.” That was plain English, and Spooner had no alternative than to take his departure. To-da Frank Fisk, still a young man, is doing fineasa for this broker. He has a new stenographer. she spring he married Kittie Clyde, and she is mis: tress of a fine home in the Bronx. Pe = ‘Next week’s issue will contain “PLAYING A a LONE HAND; OR, THE BOY WHO GOT THE

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3 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 2 ae CURRENT NEWS KILLS 51 COYOTES IN MONTH Sam Marple, trapper, of Yuba County, Cali- fornia, during the month of May caught and killed 51 coyotes, for which there is a bounty of $5 offered by the county, according to his claim filed with the Yuba Board of Supervisors. There is seldom a month that Marple does not kill from _ twenty to forty coyotes. é ONIONS IN POOR DEMAND - Onions have become a drug on the market for the first time in years, the Department of Agri- culture reported recently. On the other hand, potatoes are two or three times as high as a year _ ago and comparatively scarce. Because of the slight demand for onions, due, the department’s review says, to an oversupply and to refusal of retailers to lower prices as _ wholesale prices decline. California onion grow- ers are ploughing under their crops because the -onions are not worth the cost of marketing. 5 HUNT SARDINES BY PLANE - + California promises to be the greatest sardine ‘canning center of the world as the result of the “use of seaplanes in the industry on the Pacific -. €oast. Since the first of the year naval sea- "planes have been fiying out from the sea coast, _. Sighting schools of fish and sending a wireless . back to the naval station giving the direct loca- _ tion. The naval station then telephones the in- formation to the San Diego office of the fish and a commission. Fishing fleets are immediate- _ ly directed exactly where to seek their are consequently assured of a big catch. SPEED BOAT COVERS MILE IN 45 SECONDS Miss America, the smallest of the three speed- boats that will represent '. worth trophy races at Isle of Wight, England, al- — _ ready has won its spurs as the fastest piece of. water racing machinery ever floated in this coun- ia! ae _ The craft, which was launched at the same time “as the Miss Detroit V. at Algonac June 6, had her trial spins on the St. Clair River recently and turned up a mile over the measured course in 45 seconds or at the rate of eighty miles an hovr. This is the greatest speed a hydroplane or any other craft riding the water has ever made. =< pice Oe GOES TO BANK “e ee: 'S appearance at a ban ying teller’s ' window seeking payment of his vents savings ‘winning fox terrier of Dr. J. H. Hagenbuch, of America in the Harms- - fund check is a new wrinkle. ‘Kiddo, the prize . been indorsed “Kiddo Hagenbuch, in care of his ‘pa. Opposite the signature appeared a mark of the dog's paw, the cashier having pushed an ink pad against it. The money was_ promptly paid, and the dog pranced away w his en- velope carrying the amount. CAT SAVES OWNER’S LIFE After Saving the life of its owner, Celeste Mar- razza’s cat ducked into the cellar of the house at No. 94 Pleasant street and expired in a fire that damaged the house and contents to the ex- tent of $2,000. Marrazza would probably have ae in the flames but for his faithful pet. arrazza was sleeping when the cat jum upon the bed. Half awake he swept the cat rg the bed, only to have the feline make another ison upon aoe Thoroughly aroused at last, he sat up in bed to discover smoke ing through the house from the cellar. ik stale’ The cat. having awakened its master, dashed down the stairs and into the cellar, where it per- ished in the flames. By the time Marrazza had got into some clothes the flames had reached the second floor. Prompt arrival of the Fire De- partment saved the house from total destruction — He is — that the fire started from spon io aneous combustion among some sy rags i a the cellar, where the cat a aeising. “k PROTECTING GAME ae The largest game preserve in the world is the continent of Africa—extending from the twen- tieth degree of north latitude down to the north- __ ern borders of Cape Colony and Natal. This great scheme was made possible by a treaty co-opera- tion of England, Germany, France, Belgium, Pors ‘tugal, Italy and Spain, by which jt is provided that the hunting and destruction of vultures, sec- retary birds, owls, giraffes, gorillas, chimpanzeea mountain zebras, wild asses, white-tailed elands and the little Liberian hippopotami are absolutely prohibited. Similar protection is given _ the young of certain animals, including the ele- phant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, antelope e ibex and chevrotain, and to the adults of these species when accompanied by their young, Partie cular stress is Jai¢@ on the protection of young _ elephants, and elephant tusks weighing less than _ twenty pounds will be confiscated. The eggs of the ostrich and of many other birds are p oar but those of the crocodile, nm and poisonous snakes are to be destroyed. lions, leopards, hyenas, harmful monkeys and large birds of prey may not be slaughtered at the hunter’s will. Hum ~ ters are required to. take out licenses, and the number of animals each may kill is limited. The _ use of nets and pitfalls is forbidden, nor may explosions be used for killing fish. The main ob ject of this vast protective enterprise is economig to encourage the domestication of the é ant, zebra and. ostrich, and to husband the tx wis mace predees which were threa é rapacity of market hun 3 sportsmen. = + Sry Seiten Lis. ©

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Lost On Mt. krebus Sa A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GAs!'ON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER VIII (continued) Just before the first of them reached the hole they saw Joe suddenly disappear. Apparently the crust had broken off under him. The frantic struggles of the heavy chief mate, added to Haw- ley’s weight, were too great for the treacherous strength of the ice. ' “He is gone!” screamed the girl, and she ‘would undoubtedly have plunged after him, but for the detaining hand of Dr. Carr. : “Compose yourself,” he adjured her. “That is not the way to help our friends in this fearful region. What we do we must do together.” “Catch hold of me, doctor,” she said, throwing herself at full length. “I must look.” Barclay was practically in man’s attire. “No other was suitable for the ordeals of so ex- treme a journey into the farthest south. ; i what she intended, he too prostrated himself, seized her ankles, and was himself seized in like manner by Joy. . A rope was quickly passed to these by Shouse. who fastened the other end round one of the Madge, looking down, saw that the motor sled ‘was gone. out of sight in the unknown depth of that crevasse. Ten feet below, Joe’s long staff » had caught in the fissure, and Hawley was stru -gling to reach an ice shelf that still held one end. 3 he other end was wedged into an opposite crev- - jee, on which Rucker was. clinging. “Why don’t you help him?” screamed the eirl, pa down the rope. “Ah, you coward! ‘ go! Joe come first.’”” ; But Rucker, oblivious to all but his own safety, ~ had seized and kept hold of the rope that Madge } » ‘was passing down to Joe. To her it looked as if “e a position was much safer than Haw- “See : _ For the middy was holding by his hands only “a _to the staff which might give way at any in- oe 1 called Joe weakly. “He won't me for me as fast as you can.” 3a ving, Ben came out =: But as he went, he hissed down t Wad FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY And so on, until the ready rope was passed down to him at last. But poor Hawley was so weakened by the long wait that Madge saw he was hardly able to pass his head and shoulders through the noose. . “Wait,” she cried, and gave him more ropa while speaking. “Let the rope pass on until you can put one foot in the noose—there!” She saw that Hawley had managed to accom- plish this, and waving her hand backward, the daring girl bent her own strength to the task of raising Joe from his peril below. As his head came up she saw how strained and pale his face looked. Throwing herself down again, she laid hold of his arms, and when the rope came up, pulled by the others behind, she drew him over the edge. Both lay there pant- ing for a moment. He was so usted as to be hardly able to realize what he had narrowly es- caped. Madge herself had utterly given out, but she struggled against the hysteria that for a mo- ee Guddent iaviey and bend uu y Hawley, arose, ing over he «hispered: a “ : “T know to whom I owe my life. It is you, Madge. If I ever forget it, or you—may I—may “May you rest right now,” she interrupted, getting to her feet and resisting his desire to lift er up. “There! I’m all right, folks.” > The others had run up and offered congratula- tions. Only Rucker stood back, watching nar- rowly, and in his eyes a strange gleam, Es “Why make such a bother? I knew Hawley was all right.” hd Both Madge and Joe paid no heed to did the others. oer But it was afterwards evident i the te aga ey aversion for this g ‘ man, who apparen cared for Be one but himself. = ad CHAPTER IX.—“We Are Lost on Mount Erebus!” arr. In making for the interior of what they now to be a vast, unknown Antarctic continent, observations continued to be taken from time getting higher In conseque’ al of Sin coainaenhaltcol Finally the entire summit of a high

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= FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. THE FED APRICOTS TO HOGS Apricet ham is the latest novelty in this com- munity. C. C. Francis, who has a ranch near Pomona, Cal., is the produce. Last summer his apricot crop was going to waste because the mar- ee was glutted, so he fed the apricots to his 0; ex He butchered two shoats the other day. They @ach tipped the beam at 245 pounds. He got fifteen gallons of. lard, seven pounds of sausage, four splendid hams, some spareribs, a quantity of side meat, eight pigs’ feet and 100 pounds of Soap out of the kill. 2 e hogs were carried through the summer and fall on waste fruit, and this winter they were finished on oranges and cornmeal slop. Mr. Fran- cis declares that the high cost of living won't worry him for a while at least. TRY TO OPEN SAFE WITH TORCII; 1 DEAD. Charles R. Hulley, of Woodhaven, L. I., and Richard Kinard, of Atlantic Highlands, N. J., at- tempted the other night to open a second-handed ‘safe with an oxy-acetylene torch in the ware- house of the Auto Service Company, 22 Orange _ street, Newark. There was an explosion, and both doors crashed open. Hulley was thrown thirty- five feet and instantly killed. Kinard was so se- riously injured that doctors at St Michael’s Hos- pital do not expect him to live. ; _ Hulley was treasurer of the Auto Service Com- y, where Kinard was employed as a mechanic. e safe was the property of Robert M. Hertig, a dealer in second-hand safes in East Orange. It was purchased by Hertig, and he asked Hulley to - open it. The police believe an accumulation of _ gas inside the safe blew open the doors. - WHY WILL wa cece OFF A DUCK’S _ The reason that water runs off a duck’s back is that the feathers of ducks are oily, and as _ water and oil will not mix, the water runs off _ instead of soaking in. The feathers on a duck are so thick on the body of the duck, top and bottom, that even if it were not for the oil which is on the feathers the water would have some _ difficulty in soaking through the feathers. But _ the main reason why the feathers on the duck’s ~ back cause water striking them to run off is that the duck has an oil gland which is constantly pro- se grease or oil and which the duck uses in _ giving his feathers a thin coating of oil to make them slick with oil and when any water strikes - the duck it runs off. Other birds which live in the water a great deal have this oil gland for the "same reason.— The Book of Wonders. SELF-OWNED TREES IN TWO STATES ‘There are two trees in the United States that own themselves and the ground on which they stand. One of these ee ek se AOS tae the other a sycamore at Coney ; . > stood on the land of Col. W. H. Jackson, old age recorded a deed as follows: oncagase - piling facing the ocean or salt water. “I, W. H. Jackson, of the County of Clarke, State of Georgia, of the one part, and this oak tree—(giving the location)—of the County of Clarke, of the other part, witness, that the said W. H. Jackson, for and in consideration of the great affection which he bears said tree and his desire to see it protected, has conveyed unto the said tree entire possession of itself, and the land within eight feet of it on all sides.” The sycamore at Coney Creek owns itself and 36 square feet of ground by virtue of a deed from Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, duly recorded in Knott County, Kentucky, which contains the fol- lowing paragraph: “The said tree is conveyed, in consideration of the value of itself, as a resting place for the Weary under the shade of said tree, and the said tree and the said terra firma, are to belong themselves absolutely and to each other for the purpose for which Nature and God intended them, among which jis the purpose of the soil to nurture and feed the tree, and that of the tree rk shade, grace and beautify the said tera rma.” SALMON CAUGHT IN TRAPS There are several varieties of salmon, the choicest being the “Sockeye.” The best fish weighs. =~ about eight pounds, is fifteen inches long and has an oval-shaped body with very few scales. The fish is a most delicate pink. ; The home of the “Sockeye” is in salt water, in Puget Sound, in the Columbia River and north along the coast of British Columbia and Alaska, says the St. Louis Republic. Here the salmon play in countless numbers, but as they make their way toward the fresh waters they are journeying to their death. Few of them escape the fishermen. And even though they do, they seldom live more than four years. A “Sock- eyo’s” age is told by the number of rings on his scales, Early in April the fishermen begin to get ready to make their catch each year. For months trap builders work jn their rainsuits, driving piles across some pass of the river, where the salmon will travel, Wire netting is stretched across the -Fish coming from the ocean Strike the wire netting and follow it along, hoping to find some — way of getting past it. But after following it for _ a half-mile the fish usually finds that he isina «. trap, The trap consists of piling, forming a ~ square fifteen or twenty feet long, faced with wire net, the four corners of which are fastened to a boom arm, 2 At each trap is a platform built m pili like a lighthouse. Here a hoist chats a - si stalled, which raises the fish in the trap and : them into a boat known as a scow. This is towed ~ through the ocean to the salmon cai . rs Sometimes one scowload is estimated te con- _ tain fifty thousand fish, and on some days four x E loads are taken care of at one cannery.

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ee ae ik THE NIHILIST’S DOOM. By Kit Clyde. Six years ago I was living at Darnowsky, in the Province of Rublin, in the southern part of the greatest of European empires, a young man, happy as circumstances would allow, and at the time of which I write, doubly happy and content- ed in my little school; for I was a er, and I had just made the sweetest and the prettiest girl in the village my wife. Marie Carloff was ee from a score of suitors by love alone, for I had little money and I was content, Chief among the disconsolate ones was the son of an ex-army officer, Louis Lodiski by name, a handsome but unprincipled fellow, who for years had been infatuated with Marie. However, when our coming -wedding was announced, Louis left the village, and I was his scowl and mut- tered threats, and soon forgot him in the joy of home life. ; For three years I was at rest. Then came the cloud that to-day over- hangs my native land, and its dark shadow fell across even my humble threshold. I had been a St. Petersburg student, and when ” the strange monomania of communism, silent and deadly, crept through the nation, it found me an easy prey, and I became a Nihilist, swore the ter- rible oaths, and linked myself body and soul to their unknown and horrible purposes. There was a circle formed in our town, and two months after I had joined it, there appeared one night amongst us, commissioned from the Grand Circle at Moscow, as our chief, Louis Lodiski. “tT bowed before him, but when I saw the fierce light of baffled on and ona revenge gleam in his hated eyes, brightly as when I had met him, then the rejected suitor of my wife, I knew and felt for the first time into what a horrible pit I had fallen; for, free as I was before world, in secret I was bound by my vows, the serf and slave of my bitter ceng S For a time there was little work for our society, had the troops become settled when a patch was received by Lodiski from the Grand Circle of Moscow, containing the death warrant of the colonel; and in drawing lots for one to act as executioner, the same -devil’s which had first dragged me into this con- , oF some treachery on my chief, cast the duty upon me. 4 of the Grand Circle, with a perfec- ‘ ted the slave doomed to exe- cal commands three days’ mercy. end of that time the condemned m ceased to live, or the slave would become the e first twenty-four hours I was crazy. day found me cool and helpless. rill . The ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY I made my plans. For five hours I debated where to do the deed; then, still uncertain, walked in the verge of the ites and as I walked someone joined me—Lo- ski. We stood a space in silence; then the man came eloser and placed his hand upon my shoulder. “Listen! It jis hard, it is dangerous. means death. Here is money. You must flee instantly the work is done.” In a single breath my brain cleared, the dread cloud that for two days had shadowed it passed, and I knew the hand that had worked my ruin. I was to become an outlaw in order that my wife might be the spoil of this monster. “The deed must be to-morrow,” continued Lod- ski, “and the only place where you can find Jeli- koff alone is in the bell tower. Thither he goes each evening before’ the curfew rings, to watch the change of guards upon the opposite river bank. You can conceal yourself there and strike him down. It will be hours before he is missed, and _ will have time for flight.” I bowed my head. I dared not trust my tongue. It might be that I should strike too soon. Deep within my heart the determination to kill was well fixed; but, unknown to my chief, the vie- tim had been changed. “J will join you at the foot of the tower after it is after—the end!” My blood leaped. = “It is well,” I replied, and he left me. That night I told my wife all, and her love stood the test. Ere morning dawned, under the escort of a faithful servant, she was at the Volga Dernstam —a landing ten miles away; and when the eariy sun kissed the reaches of level land about our town, it found her upon the deck of a steamer, bound for Astrachan. All day long I gathered my little store of goods, and late in the afternoon sold them for gold to a friend—a Nihilist like myself—who secretly conveyed them to his home. Then as the light waned and it drew towards ms thoroughly disguised, and armed with a r of pistols and my dagger. I skirted the town, and came at last to tlie lonely watch tower where hung the great bell that rang the curfew, Ere the ringer had entered the tower from his \ supper, I was secreted in the loft near the win- dow. It was not my intent to kill Jelikoff, If he came I could confess all, then descend my vengeance upon Lodiski below, and and flee the country; or if he came not, the end — would be the same. . Still bound by my oath, and environed by a thousand spies, I dared not flee until night. And Lodiski must die! Alone in the grim tower I waited, and the bats about, me squeaked, and the damp wind of the ust severe swept mournfully in and ki eek, The moments passed! ——— a nameless dread fell upon me. vely I felt the presence of some new Capture - ssed my hot

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : 25 and near danger, and a sense of doom overcame me, as if I listened to the words of the judge who recited the condemning proofs of my falseness to our order. If I did not kill Jelikoff, and failed to find _ Lodiski, I must die. _Quivering with this new terror, I glanced sus- Piciously about me—into the deep shadow of the corners, behind the great beams, aloft among the bat nests, and at last beneath the mighty bell hanging at my side. And there, lying proné upon a crossbeam di- rectly under the great iron dome, so close that ~ the ponderous metal would crush him, lay Lodiski, his evil eyes fastened upon me. Even as I saw him, I heard the step of the colonel on the stair, and his word to the waiting -bellman below. “Carl, I will detain you but a moment. When I descend you may ring.” : Jelikoff ‘ascended the stairs, lantern in hand. I stood at his back. ~ ~ “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! It was the village clock. Jelikoff turned to descend. Shadow behind him. Jelikoff went down the stair. aS “Fool! coward!” hissed my chief, half rising - upon his hands and knees. “You die!” There came a creaking sound, the great wooden wheel above turned upon its axis, the bats flew snarling about, and then the mighty bell, swing- ing slowly, gained in momentum, and swept in a g are upwards. _ Lodiski uttered a single ery as the tremendous “mass poised above him, and would have dragged himself out of its reach, but with a sudden fury I stretched my arm like a bar of steel, caught his hair, and forced him back upon the beam, and _ then the great bell fell as falls the knife of the guillotine, crushing into a hideous mass the body of the spyy while its heavy knell rang with a "gurgling shiver far out across the barren land, and a little stream of blood, warm and red, er slowly Gore the beam a dyed se ae an _ tongue of the iron monster as he ; The curfew was ing, and I was saved! I shrank into the fled. Lodiski’s death was un- was known I “4 the money back to Huck and Tom, can ‘their elation? n you know how happy are Albert John y, dr., seven years old, of I street and kinsburg, and William A. e avenue, Wi & in the ‘silence of the night, Donahey, Jr., nize years, of 422 Ross avenue, © since they won their suit against the First Na- tional Bank-of Wilkinsburg, Pa.; which claimed $5,350 the boys found hidden under a lumber pile of the Mitchell Lumber Company on Oct. 4, i919. “Jack Bradley and I were playing pirates when I stooped down behind a lumber pile to grab a stick and ran my hand into a whole pile of money, fat rolls of $50 and $100 bills, wrapped in a newspaper,” said Billy, telling of his find. “I was so surprised [ couldn’t believe it was real money.” Chief of Police Wallace R. Bishop thought the money was a part of $30,000 stolen from the Wilkinsburg Bank on May 10, 1919, and caused it to be returned to the bank. Albert John Brad- ley, a machinist, and William Donahey, a clerk, the parents of the boys, began a suit on behalf of their sons against the bank for the recovery of the money. The jury decided the bank had failed to prove ownership and a verdict of $5,564, including interest to date, was returned in favor of the lads. The boys will not receive more than $2,000 each, as the remainder has gone for attorney fees and other costs, according to Mrs. Donahey, who asserted that Billy’s money would be placed in trust until he is twenty-one, and will furnish a college education for him. “At first I was going to spend the money to buy candy for my girl and take her to the movies often,” said Billy, “but now I think I'll save it all until I growup and study to become a lawyer or doctor. I’d rather be a doctor, because there’s more money in that, and I want to be whatever makes the most money.” He said Jane was the young lady upon whom part of the money was to have been spent, but he refused to tell her last name. Young Bradley seems dazed by his rise to for- tune and is unable to say what he will do with the money. He was tempted to buy a “great big seven passenger automobile with a chanffeur.” His sister, Virginia, six years old and with fem- = visions of home-making already in mind, Sald: ; ‘ “Jack is going to buy a house with the money.” The treasure finder denied this, saying: “No. tf won't -give or brother Billy a cent. I'll keep it all myself and when I up I won’t be> anything but just a millionaire.” : ‘ SEEK BURIED CASKS OF RUM, MELLOW- ING FOR 150 YEARS been there for the past century and a half. Thich was brought into the North some mysterious power had made the they had hidden the apt oes had been in- e subject of sear = oe =En3 may not have aged to the same advantage as t > ; 3 . me « — woe = 7s

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© Basten, How : SS: “a he is suffering from is a muddy face.” ee Bo buoyant ot Fagen both arms to the elbow entirely 26 : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JULY 23, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Bingle Copies...........-.++ Postage Free.... .07 Cents One Copy Three Months... s tigen -90 Cents One Copy Six Months...... - ry Pres ) ort) One Copy One Year....... 2 ‘ 8.50 HOW TO SEND ®#WONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Pawne* Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the enyelope. Write your name and address plainly. Ad- dress letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher 166 West 23d St., New York ———————————————————— ITEMS OF INTEREST SLEPT WITH HIS WHISKY lars ransacked the cellar at the A. Van Pras home in an exclusive residential district of Sacramento, Cal., June 13, and stole a large quantity of liquor, but a barrel of whisky es- caped, as Phinney had placed it in his bedroom for safe keeping. BIGGEST CIRCULAR SAWS The largest circular saws in the world have lust been made to fill a special order from a acific Coast lumber mill. Each saw is 108 inches in diameter, weighs approximately 795 pounds and includes 190 teeth. The latter are inserted in the rim, and can be replaced if bro- ken. Two. steel ingots, each weighing 1,140 pounds, were the raw materials from which the at disks were made, The saws will be used or cutting big logs into lengths suitable for the production of shingles. FALLS INTO WELL 5 : George Lauch, nineteen months old, is going to be a high diver when he grows up if he fol- lows the career he commenced auspiciously when he tumbled into a 100-foot well at his father’s home in Herricks, L. I., and was rescued without a scratch. The well contained mud and slime _ sufficient to break the child’s fall. Young George arose and let out a roar that was heard a block away, where Peter J. Herman Herman gazed into the well and pate ee. A gang of linemen was at work near by for the Nassau Light and Power Com- . One of them was lowered into the well on ge His companion pulled him ovt with the ABOUT GREAT SALT LAKE ‘The water of the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, is t a man may lie on his back in Jit with his head and neck, his FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY out of the water. On assuming a sitting posi- tion, with the arms extended, his shoulders will rise above the water. On account of the extreme buoyancy of the water, swimming is laborious, from the tendency of the lower extremities to rise about the surface. The lake is 75 miles long and 80 broad. The first to navigate its waters was General Fremont, in 1843. In saltiness the Utah lake is not to be compared with a Siberian lake in Obdorsk, which for a long time has been entirelv roofed with a deposit of salt. It is 9 miles wide and 17 in length. Originally evap- oration played the most prominent part in coat- ing the lake over with salt, but at the present time the salt springs which surround it are add- ing fast to the thickness of the crust. In the long-ago period exaporation of the lake’s waters left great salt crystals on the surface. In course of time these caked together. Thus the waters were finally entirely covered. In 1878 the lake found an underground outlet into the River Obi, which lowered its surface about three feet. The salt crust was so thick, however, that it retained its old level, and now presents the curious spec- tacle of a salt-roofed lake. The salt coat in- creases six inches in thickness ev ear. many little islands with which the lake is stud- ded are said to act as braces and to help keep the arched salt crust in position. LAUGHS “Did you ever see any water with crutches?” “No, where does it come from?” “Cripple Creek.” Mother—Come, Willie, it’s past time to get up. Willie (lazily)—Then Ill lie abed, ma, till it comes ’round again. Mr. Henpeck—Are you the man who gave my wife a lot of impudence? Mr. Scraper—J reckon Iam. Mr. Henpeck—Shake! You’re a hero. “Doctor, I wish you had not prescribed rock and rye for John’s influenza.” “Did it not cure him?” “Yes, but he has had one relapse after another ever since.” : Guest—What are your rates? Hotel Clerk— Ten dollars a day for a room with bath. Eight dollars for a room without bath. Guest—wWell, then, here’s two dollars, give me the bath. oe says his European trip was completely spoiled.” “As to how?” “Seems a careless porter lost’ a label off his suit-case.” - He—I am not taking part in the theatricals. I always think I am making such a fool of myself. She—Oh, every one thinks that! ; Teacher—What is it that binds us together and makes us better than we are by nature? “Cor- sets, sir,” piped a wise little girl of eight. “Your iodigont complain that you read their letters.” ell, I can’t ask questions about their private affairs. That would be very indiscreet,”

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‘ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 8 A FEW GOOD ITEMS' STAMPS FOR SMALL CHANGE Nickel and copper coins are becoming almost 4S rare as gold in some Italian cities. All Tus- cany, and especially Florence, is suffering even More than Rome and the south. As the current prices of nickel and copper are far higher than the face value of the coins, these are being secretly collected by restaurant waiters, Btreet-car conductors, railway-depot ape and sold at a profit to manufacturers 0 nickel and copper articles. ; The result is that change for x bills has to be given in postage stamps; but as not all Storekeepers will accept them, the shortage gives Tise to all kinds of quarrels and arguments, which “om serve to heat people more than the unu high temperature is doing. CAN’T FIND IDEAL MAN An ideal man is impossible, but a man’s looks not count, according to Miss Elizabeth Stroh, who spoke before the student body of Carroll Col- lege on “An Ideal Man.” “Girls want a man whose faults are reduced to -& minimum,” said Miss Stroh. “An ideal man must be kind, sympathetic and possess a sense of humor. Girls often set a high standard for the kind of a man they want, and then have to give up the ideal because they cannot find a man with such qualifications.” Miss Elizabeth Weid was the second speaker on the subject, and she gave it as her opinion that an ideal man “need not be young but must ‘be growing.’” “An ideal man must be one who does not swallow everything and one who can render sober judgment,” she said. It th pie = ga use of buried pears tha’ recovery an = For hundreds of years has been vv! coord of black bog oak, a ah ae 9 that the skins of frogs and toads can be tanned and turned to account for card-cases and other fancy articles. The government Fisheries Bureau says that the skin of the codfish furnishes an excellent leather, tough as ent and yery durable. The same is true of salmon skin, which the Indians along the Yukon River, in Alaska, have long utilized for ~ clothing. Eelskins are employed in Europe for binding books, and in Egypt shoesoles are made from the skins of certain fishes caught in the Red Sea. Sturgeon skin affords a handseme ornamental ‘leather, and the hide of the armored starfish is much valued in Europe, being covered with horny plates that can be polished to an ivory-like finish. The skin of the wolf-fish—a ferocious little creature that often attacks persons who venture in wading along the rocky seashore of New Eng- land—is now being used for card-eases and shop- ping-bags. The green leather called “shagreen,” remark- able for its wearing quality and imperviousness to ~ water, is made from the hide of the “angel shark” of the Mediterranean. In Tartary dried and oiled fish-skins serve as a substitute for glass in windows, being sufficiently translucent for the purpose. NS “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING PICc- TURE ACTRESS” is in “Moving Picture Stories,” No. 326. Get a copy. 7 cents; postage free. HARRY E. WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St., N. ¥. “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” SEMI-MONTHLY — LATEsT IssvEs — 56 THE SECRET OF THE SEALED BOOK, by Ethel Rosemon. 4&7 THE CLUE OF STEEL, by Willis Lathrop, 68 ALIAS LOUIS VARDON. by, William Hamiiten Osborne. 69 MIgEERT OF THE OLD TIME CLUB, by Caroling n 60 CAUG 61 A LITTLE GOLD SPIDER, by Cecil B 62 THE VELVE! TOUCH, by Julian ey aS 63 THE CLUE OF THE RED LAMP, by Charies Ful- rsler, 64 THE SCHEMP OF SOLOMON SNAR cami Gebers E, by William The Famous Detective Story Out To-day in No. 63 is __ “QUICKER THAN THE EYE,” By Ralph Cummins. a "FRANK TOUSEY, Pub. 168 W. 23d St, N.Y. ee a A RE “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY + ae number contains <i of the — Filme Plays—In gz Articles About yromisest: Peeste in Studios and $n Scenario Writing: 10 CENTS A COPY WITH THE EVIDENCE, by Ethel Rose. ee HARRY E, WOLFF, Pub. 166 W. 23d St, Ne Ye"

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING STATE BUYS CONVICT A LEG Joseph Delucci, recently admitted to Sing Sing, ame a guest of the state just in time to en- able him to get a new leg at the expense of the taxpayers. : Delucci’s left leg was amputated shortly be- fore he was sentenced. Recently he was trans- ferred from Sing Sing to Great Meadows prison at Comstock, where he wilt be fitted with an ificial limb before he can work for his keep. Deluce’'s new leg will cost the prison department about $200. ‘CONVICTS ESCAPE ON WILD COAL CAR One prisoner was at liberty to-day and two others serving life sentences were back within the Missouri State Prison walls after a thrilling attempt to escape in which the three climbed on a coal car and sent it crashing down an incline through the prison gate. - Thee car eataenee outside the wall, and John Snead, sentenced to life imprisonment for mur- der, was captured immediately. Ora Lewis, sen- tenced to life imprisonment for murder and rob- doned the car just before it hit the was returned to his ell William Sten- : , serving ten years for robbery, got away. ine men had aie keys for their cell doors and escaped from the inner confines after choking the ‘cell guard into unconsciousness. ~ eat - EGGS WITH A KICK James Fagan,*a South Greenburg, Pa., coal n , garden expert and poultryman on a moder- ate scale, declares that by pure accident he has discovered the secret of producing eggs that ex- _ hilarate as well as nourish. . ; _ + Recently a dozen-of Fagan’s hens got their St feed of raisin mash, and the next day they - did “pickhandle” eggs, their owner declares. A _ ¥¥iend of Fagan used a few pounds of raisins to make a little “medicine” for “his stomach’s sake.” - After the raisins fermented he ran off the liquid ~ for final treatment and threw the raisins into an alley, where Fagan’s hens feasted on them, _ _. The new poultry food worked wonders, it is - aid. Birds that had been contemplating the _— isure of hatching instead of egg-laying changed their tactics, o— op tent. ag Fag and re- “sumed. laying. ile none of the hens lay more - thar “an egg a day, almost every bird in the _ flock produces an egg containing 4 per cent. al- cohol, says Fagan. ? : : 2 See : OLD VIOLIN SOLD TO BUY FOOD _ A fine old Rugieri violin on which Johann _ Strauss, the “waltz king,” played in Vienna, when ‘that city was the gayest in Europe, was sold in “Chicago, Ill., recently to provide food for the pulation there. Vienna now is a city of want S ‘Andres: Proudfoot, daughter of a Chicago , heard of the great need in the capital — “= L court orchestra at times, using the where she had spent most of her childhood and parted with the dainty Italian model. The pro- ceeds of the sale were turned over to the Vienna Relief Committee. The Rugieri was brought to Austria from Italy more than a century ago and came into the possession of Franz Wendlik, concert master in the court of Prince Lichtenstein, in Vienna. It Was in the extravagant and pleasure loving period following Napoleon’s regime, and Lichtenstein’s was the gayest court in Europe. The courtiers ~ danced to the music of Johann Strauss’s new waltzes, and Strauss himself played with the Rugieri violin. The violin eventually came into the possession of Wendlik’s grandson, a Vienna banker, also named Franz Wendlik. Miss Proudfoot’s mother had brought her to Europe to educate her. One day the banker heard the girl play in her moth- - er’s villa in the Carpathian foothills overlooking Vienna. -He declared that the child had great ability and let her have his old violin to use. Shortly after the war broke out he died. Miss Proudfoot brought the instrument to America. She will resume her studies, interrupted by the war, this fall when she will return to Vienna. She will play on a Guarneyius violin. LIGHTNING CALCULATING - Multiply 45,989 by 864,726. How would you like to have somebody pop that at you in arith- metic on some-evening while at your little desk in your room, when you are trying to find out how much sugar you could buy for $3.80 when the price is 53-4 cents a pound? : Well, the larger problem mentioned above would not flabbergast S. Ramanujan, a young Hindu, who last year left India and entered Cambrid University in England. It would take him only a few seconds to multiply 45,989 by 864,726, says Boys’ Life. In less time than that he could add 8,596,497,713,826 and 96,268,593. In the time it would take the average schoolboy to divide 31,021 by 13, Rumanujan could find the fifth root of 69,843,957, or give the correct answer to the prob- lem:.. What weight-of water is there in a room flooded 2 feet deep, the room being 18 feet 9 inches by'13 feet 4 inchés, and a cubic foot of water weighing 621-2 pounds. . The professors at Cambridge have found Rama- nujan a mystery, because he is quite untaught and appears. to have discovered for himself many of the deepest mathematical principles. America has produced three wonderful boy cal- culators. “Marvelous Griffith,” as he was called, -eould raise a-number to the sixth power in eleven - seconds. Truman Safford at the age of 10 could multiply one row of fifteen figures by another of — Be le in a minute, or less. i 1 : ; The third was liam James Sidis, who at 14 went to Harvard and astounded. all of his instructors by his pro- found grasp of mathematical principles.

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SCIENTIST WARNS OF - FAKE MEDIUMS FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : —— | —— LATEST ISSUES —— - | ; ; Convinced that death makes no sud- ' 150 ties pee Sor The Bort fero of the Mill soos « den change, Sir Oliver Lodge began a TA Be enokes Dick; or, The Boy Who Broke the Wall Street lecture tour of this country and Can- 752 On the Job; or, Tom Taylor's Lucky Venture. ada to explain his beliefs in communi-| 753 The Lucky Seven; or, The Bo , “ pat: 2 ys Who Won the Money. cation between the dead and living. | 754 Will, the Wait; or, From Bootblack to Merchant. He arrived on the Lapland recently,| 755 Prince of the Curb; or. A College Boy in Wall Street. and it is his first visit since 1884. A/| aoe Mtetkes in tbe Guit ; or, The Gold othe Old Buccaneers. J ; . eb val Boy Brokers; or, Out for Eyery Deal in Sight. tall, gray ag — aie 758 Under the Big Tent; or, From Acrobat to Manager. : Din a Sab oid and sp 759 A Pair of Jacks; or, The Smartest Messengers in Wail Street. 760 Brave Billy Bland; or, Hustling Up a Business. . ‘ : : 761 Taking a Big Risk; or, The Dime That Led To Rich “+3 He said his son, killed in the ne 762 Clear Grit; or, The Office Boy Who Made Good. —— a was pleased recently to learn his 763 Dealing in Stocks; or, Saved by a Wall Street Ticker. father was coming to America, and 764 The Sailor's Secret; or, The Treasure ef Dead Man’s Rock. felt he might do good here. Sir Oli- | 765 Capturing the Coin; or, The Deals of a Boy Broker. 2 : “ 5 | 766 On His Own Hook; or, Making a Losing B = ver comes to say that “the survival of | 761 Lucky Jim; or, $160,000 ene aor ng Business Pay man can be proved and that percep-| 76s “Millions In It”; or, A Boy With Ideas. tion will strengthen the hands of | 769 he Mestery of a Mining Chart; and, The Wall Street Boy Who true religion.” Ari Geasting : tasping His Chance; or, The Boy Merchant of Melrose. He believes the next world may not! 771 W inning By Pluck; or, The Deais That Made the Dollars. Z be different from this one, and tells; 772 The Crimson Mask; or, The Treasure of San Pedro. of departed friends who have talked) For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address on to him of trees, flowers and animals receipt of price, 7 cents per copy, in money or postage stamps, by they observe, but thinks they may be _ HARNEY E. WOLFF, Pub., 166 West 23d St.. New York. ' deseribing “this side a ork pe - sm other point of view,” rather than “an- other world.” : He explains the mech- OUR TEN-CENT -HAND BOOKS ; anism of survival: | No, 1, NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM AN DREAM 6OOK.—Contain- “Our bodies are composed of matter \ing the great oracle of human destiny; also the true meaning af . ; = falmost any Kind of dreams, together with charms, cer and ether. The material part See eaken oe eae, ceremouies, and > out after seventy-odd years, but the | ‘yo. 2. “How TO DO TRICKS.—The great book of 1. ‘No. 2. . ma. ethereal part does not wear out and |iricks, containing full instruction on all the leadiug pen ao s that ti ” : the day, also the most popular magical illusions as performe at contmues. str ina * 4 d by our nS PRE Maedtl gaa “TJ have no s athy with denial For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to of the sediiniah qeiversé, though I) receipt of price, 10c. per copy, or 3 for 25c., in money = =n admit that the spiritual universe is so | *t#™?* by __- much more important that a little| ‘ ¥RANK TOUSEY, Pub. 168 West 28d st. New York. ra over-emphasis on that side may be t ~ pardoned. I want people to accept -- the totality of things and not to neg- lect one side in order to emphasize the other. Let us see life sanely, and “see it whole.” i He was asked how to tell a true Medium from a false one. “You must judge them by their _ fruits,” Sir Oliver answered. “I have - not come across any fraudulent me- diums, but Iam told there are some, I believe all who take up Sviritualism in a professional way have some t HOW TO SCENARIOS. weirs tHem By JAMES P. COGAN Price 35 Cents Per Copy This book contains all the most recent_ehangeS in the method of construction and submission of scenarios. Sixty Lessons, covering every phase of scenario writing, from the most ele- mental to the most advanced principles. This treatise covers everything a person must know in order to make money as successful scenario writer. For sale by all News-dealers an Book-Stores. If you cannot procure a copy, send us the price. }- 35 cents, in ey? oy postage stamps, and we will mail you one, Postage free. A artes = L, SENARENS, 219 Seventh Ave., New York, N. ¥. / ~ ae eta, i