Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 782) (1920 09 24)
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Issued W 5 SY ge price, $3.50 per’ year; CHAPTER I—On the Tramp. : “Hello, sonn Tom True ie stopped and looked at the speaker. He was a youngish-looking man, smoothly shaven, with a rather hard and reckless air. He a companion, not much older, fairly well dressed, were bending over the embers of a small fire which had oes kindled under a spreading oak by the side of a country road. As* it was 2 comparetively warm evening, the fire had clearly been built for some other purpose than to furnish heat. Under the glowing embers, .con- cealed from Tom's eyes, half a dozen povatoes "were baking, and the men were impatiently wait- ing for them to get done. A foot or two away, a “newspaper was spread out and lying upon it were’ a bunch of ham sandwiches and a whole pie. ““Hello, yourself!” replied Tom,*who was a - bright-faced boy of eighteen, With a wistful look at the provender: £ A . other a good-sized bundle, “Where are you bound, sonny?” asked the -.. young man, ~~ *Roekland,” replied suis . “What, on foot?” “ *Yes, on foot.” Z “And yor" re tramping it with a suitcase and a > bundle? 5 "Yes, a. > “Running Seats, from ‘home Ss speaker. "Not exactly.” Pi Ae out of the house?” chuekled the young “Yes: I was fired, all right” “Have a pag with your father?” - “Haven’t got a father.” -.--*No? © Didn't get the razoo from your mother, aia you?” B's “Thaven’t a mother, either.” “Been diving with a relative and he got tired ng you?” ve been living with my uncle, but he didn’t boi I worked for him and earned more ‘i. Ss Bot, ” said Tom bitterly. ; “What he fire you for, then?” : “A man paid him a considerabie sum of money - and he locked it in his burea soe. late to take it-to th me of sro a ee: . ee the FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry. BE. Wolff, Publisher, 168 Street, New York, Entered as Second-Class Mutter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Marchg3, 1879. ae NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920, Brice 7 Cents - to have your company.” OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS Or, STARTING A BUSINESS ON HIS NERVE BY A SELF-MADE MAN . “No, I didn’t. What do you think I am—a thief?” asked Tom indignantly. “Don’t get mad. I only thought maybe that was the reason why you’re on your uppers. Go- _ “That's all. Good-by!” said Tom, starting to resume his way. Ss “Hold on, sonny! Don’t go off that way. ~ = didn’t mean to accuse yéu oF stealing your un= - cle’s money. Come and have a bite with us. We're in hard luck ourselves, and that’s why we're eating by the roadside instead of going to & public house, which we can’t afford: As you is Seem to be as bad off as we are, why not share_ na our grub? You’re welcome to it.” 4 The man spoke in a frieridly and conciliato way and the boy hesitated. The man who h addressed him noticed his indecision and said: “Come on, sonny, don’t be bashful. We're glad “The spuds are done, L guess,” said the other = ‘In ofe hand he ecarried-a suitcase and in the “man, poking among the hot ashes with a stick. “Take them out, then, Darney, an supper.” no opr to accept the invitation, Much o! el to you both,” he said, pone down his bundle and Suitcase. “I admit Una hun- ~ gry, for i left-the house before. Supper.. After the trouble with my uncle, and his. unjust accus ~ ~~ sation, I didn’t‘ feel that I could take another ~ and we'll have = - > 3 i 3 meal under his roof.” s “Did he aceuse you of taking sone of his money out of his drawer?” “He said there was a dollar missing.” “What! only a dollar?” ; “A dollar looks as So a house to my uncle.” “Sit down here and help yourself to a anda couple of sandwiches. "There is alt. oe on y ae a pepper in those little papers.” Tom sat down and: helped ‘himself. “Your uncle is a farmer, I ss ppoze? ee Ge} 23 “What's ‘his name?” ; xe ee “Peter White,” : : a pice 5 “Your name is White, too?” : = 0, my name is Truesdale—Tom Trnesdale.”: 2 lad to know you by name. Mie is Jack Nip- per, ao my friend here is Barney Galvin. 5 se re far you heen walking?” = “About six miles.” : “Then | es uncle’s farm ie six Giles from here?” far.” Wit SSPE ante ~
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2 OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS SS say he’s ae : she kept it in.one of he banks. would i “se -* . - “And Tom, never dreaming that Nipper was pump- eae aie for a purpose, told him what he wanted 0 yer ve been helping your uncle on the farm?” faid Nipper, when he had found out all he wanted to know about the White farm. : “Yes,” said Tom. “What did he pay you?” ? “He Promised to pay me $10 a week and my “What did you get?” “Fifty cents eve Saturday night.” “How about the alance? “He owes it to me.” “How much does he owe you?” “About $200. ~ “Why don’t you get 2 lawyer to sue him?” “Tf he’s mean enough to meee it from me, I’m not going to force him to settle. one else, the case would be different.” “You're foolish to play into his hands. Go back, put up a front and demand your money. t a bunch of it in the, house. ell him wie s sue him if he doesn’t come to Tom shook his head. “He’d only have a fit and go on like a wild man,” he said. Pa vapsee he did, what need you care? He Owes you the money, doesn’t he?” *I ean get along without it.” “Where did you live when your mother was alive?” : nm Rockjand.” “In eee she leave anything to you when she ything. came to Rockland and took charge of ee Nesage the day after the funeral he asked me what er did with her money, for he said he she was well off. I told him I sup- He said look it up in my interest. In a few ys he told me that he had found out that before her death my mothér had put her oe ge the stock of a worthless com Seaeaak St Was ap g6od.on Wek, He sol the re of the house we lived in, took me home pete = a work on the farm, and when a See git him about the stock my mother bought he ia me the company had failed sclaee thet Che: stopk wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on. . ou took his word for it?” aS to. Inf any case, I believe he told me the truth.” “ “How-far_ do expect to walk to-night? = a village Pivot seven or eight es a. . A prppess yor put up there,” said Nip- . was aiming for it when se 1] take me over two hours to Toad I have to pote | = pe ‘Tom. the sound of the direction the “shortly If it was any - “J hope he will, and that he’s going as far as the village,” said Tom. He walked out into the road and waited for the vehicle to come up. It proved to be an empty, light wagon, driven by a boy. Tom asked the lad when he reined in if he would give him a ride as far as he was going, as he was handi- capped by the suitcase and a “Sure! Jump up!” said the boy. Tom went back for his baggage, bade the twe young men good-by, after thanking them for sharing thei” food ‘with hith, and tossing the bundle and the suitcase into the wagon, got up on the seat beside the boy driver. CHAPTER II.—Tom Reaches Rockland. “How far are you going?” exkes the young driver, starting up his horse. “I’m bound for Rockland,” eilied Lage “Are you? That’s where I’m goin “You don’t say! I’m in luck, I'm ‘willing to y you a quarter for taking me there.” Thanks! [ never turn down mney “You live in Rockland?” “Yes.” “What's your name?” “Bob Bradley. What’s yours?” “Tom Truesdale. What brought you cut this way?” : “I work for a man who. sells agricultural im- plements. He sold a farmer out this way a new plow and a lot of other tools and I’ve just de- livereéd them.” ? “T see. Who was the farmer? Maybe I know im. “Oliver Hobbs.” f “His farm is next to my uncle’s.” ' “You've been living on a farm, then?” “Yes, for two years and a half.” . “Got tired of it, I supfose, and are going to Rockland for a change. » “T had trouble with my uncle this afternoon, and the change was not my own seeking.” » “Where are you going to put up at. oman when you get there?” “I was going to a cheap hotel.” “Suppose you come to my house? My mother. has a room she’d like to rent. You céuld have it for $1 a week. If you want to board with us, too, I guess I can fix-it.” . “Where do you live?” “On Prospect. street, near Pequoit avenue. It isn’t far from the business section.” “I’m much obliged to -you for the offer and I'll take you up. I can’t promise to be a stead boarder, for if I can’t —— in Rockland Til and the village of of, Wakefeld on, thle hale yond, “Say, who were those cha you hailed me Miley “7 and asked f oe 3
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— eal me where I was bound. [ told him. Then after a few more questions he invited me to share their grub. As I was yery hungry, I ac- cepted the invitation and remained with them about an hour. I was just about to resume my tramp when you came along,” replied Tom. “Were they tramps?” = “I don’t know. I never thought to ask them.” “J suppose they were temporarily busted and “hoofing it between Rockland and Waterford. Maybe they were actors. They had smooth faces, as well as I could see in the darkness.” ~ “Well, those fellows didn’t say what their business was, if they had any. I can’t say that I fancied them a whole lot, but it was kind in them to share their food with me, so I won’t say a word against them.” The seven miles between Wakefield and-Rock- land were covered in about an hour, and Bob “drove his team to a stable where it was kept. “Come on, Truesdale,” he said, jumping down, “we'll go home now. I'll help you carry your suitcase.” Each carried the suitcase by turns, and in a short time arrived at the cottage where Bob Bradley lived. The clock pointed to the hour of ten when they walked into the house. “Mrs. Brad- ley was sewing in the sitting room expecting her son to appear at any moment. She had some supper waiting for him in the oven, but Bob wasn’t hungry, as he had had a good supper at “»«RBarmer Hobbs’ house before setting out on his _ a a __ return. - _“} have kept your supper ~ his_mother. sted -*Mother, this is Tom Truesdale.” ‘Tom bowed and said he was glad to make her acquaintance. - “I’ve rented him our spare room for a week, and he would like to board with us, if you are willing,” went on Bob. “He will keep the room right along if he gets work in town. He used to live here two or three years ago when his mother was alive. When she died he went to live with -vhis uncle, Peter White, who has a farm twenty miles out of town on the road to Waterford. Now he’s back here again, eager to try his luck at somethine else. Now, mother, what'll you charge him? Make it as easy as you can afford, for he hasn’t much money. His uncle owes him over $200, but refused to let him have any of it when he left, and so all the money he’s got is $10 he saved up.” * Mes. Bradley said she’d let Tom have the room and board for $3.50 a2 week. Tom Said that was satisfactory, for he couldn’t expect to get accom- motiation. anywhere else for less money. He handed Mrs, Bradley the exact amount and the Toom was his, with board, for a week. for you, Bob,” said -“T guess t is enough for both of you.” : : want any, mother. Let Tom have it. I had = bang-up supper at the farmhouse where I : ngs,” said Bob. the roadside had d with his uncle, whic re from the farm, Tom gave him the full OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS 4 “x particulars, to which he added a brief retrospect of his life on the White farm, which did not speak weil for his uncle’s treatment of him dut- ing the time he was there. It was after eleven b: that time, and as Tom was very tired, Bob took him up to a small back room on the second floor and bade him good-night. CHAPTER IIIl—Tom Demonstrates an Axiom, Tom put in a good night’s rest and tumbled out of bed when Bob knocked on his door. The boys ate breakfast together, and then Tom ac- companied his new friend as far as the store where he worked. “There might be an advertisement or two in the paper that would just suit you, Tom,” said no ~ Bob, after he had opened up the store. “There’s a newspaper stand on the corner. Get the Rec- ord. That carries the most want advertise- ments.” : So Tom went and bought a copy of the Rock- land Morning Record and leoked over ‘the want advertisements. Several boys were wanted, and he started out to try and catch on at one of the places. Luck was against him,, and when he came out of the last place on his list, a_shiv chandlery~shop on the water front, he was no better off than when he started in.- He then strolled out on one of the wharves to watch a Jarge schooner loading with a cargo of shingles. ~ | “Hello, sonny!” said a man, coming up to him. < “Do you want a few hours’ job?” ie “Yes,” replied Tom eagerly. : z “Come with me, then. I want you to keep Sw tally of these bundles of shingles as they are ~ hoisted aboard the schooner. There should be * ten bundles in each sling—understand?” “Yes, sir.” : “Count them as they come over the side and see that ten go into -hold each time. Ti.2n make a mark on the paper that.the man who is keeping count now will turn over to you. Every fifth mark is drawn diagonally across the other four and shows fifty. If a sling should bring only — eight bundies. aboard don’t let % go down inte the hold. Send it back for the other two.” : K Tom liked the novelty of his job and having a . sharp eye, he easily kept count of the bundles of A shingles in” each sling. Invariably there wera . <% ten, which showed that the men on the wharf os were making no mistakes; at least so fax. Two ae hours saned and over half of the shingles were . in the Nold. Then the neon whistle sounded just. as a slingful of shingles eame over the side. °Tom marked it down and the engineer lowered it into the hold as all hands stopped work -for dinner. The boy looked around for the mate who had put him to work. He was not in sight at the mo- ment. watts “How: long before work begins again?” he asked one of the men who had seated himself on the stringer of the wharf to cat his dinner, as “Qne o'clock,” replied the man. “Go and get your own peck. There’s a restaurant across the 1a S . . + om; however, felt that he ought ee mate before he left the schooner. As he ee forward to inquire about him of one of the sailors, = bil, a -
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somebody shouted: “Boy!” Tom turned around and saw. the mate standing aft, looking at him. - The man motioned him to approach. He did so. “Put that paper in your pocket, young man, and follow me, You’ll eat with us in the cabin,” he said. He led Tom down a brass-bound short flight of Stairs, into an oblong room in the center of which Was a table covered with dishes. “Take that yacant seat and the steward will Wait on you,” said the mate. : Tom thought the dinner served to the captain, the mate and himself was first-class, and he en- joyed it very much. When the meal was over he went on deck/to lounge around until the whistle blew for the resumption of work. Finally he extended his walk up the dock to lock at a big sloop that was being warped into her berth. While looking at her, a man dressed in a tweed Buit, with a soft sleuch hat, came up to him. “How de do, young man?” he said, twirling his thustache with one hand. : “How do you do, sir,” replied Tom, taking him in and wondering’ who he was. “You’re employed on board the schooner, I be- lieve?” “Yes,” answered Tom, surprised at the ques- th. Z - “Tally-clerk, eh?” “Yes.” e “Just for the job?” H¥ee.” «2 “Tt deesn’t pay much, does it?” “I'm satisfied with what I’ve been promised.” “You'd be better satisfied if you got $5 more, —~ wouldn’t you?” “I den’t understand what you are getting at.” _ “Have you got the tally-sheet with you?” “[have. Why?” “Did the mate look at it when the men knocked off work?” = “No, he did not.” ' _ “Will you let me look at it?” : “Why should [? You have nothing to do with the schooner.” ___ “No, but I am interested in the shingles that are going on board. Id like to know how many you’ve got in the hold so far.” - _ “Five thousand six hundred and eighty bun- dies.” replied Tom, who remembered the number. “Sure of that, are you?” Da a : Fs e Be ery good! Do you wan eam easily? “How?” asked Tom. ‘ “Alter two marks to your list asit stands, mak- ing it 5,700, and I'll hand you $5,” said the man. ~ . “Why should I do that? The mate told me to be car to keep exact coynt of the bundles, @s the owner of the schooner is responsible fot : ‘mistake I might make,” said Tom. “I don’t e_bribes.” - : Then you won’t make the deal?” _ “No, T won't.” _ s be * “Don’t then.” 7 Coys . _ With those words the man walked off, clearly ay re aperaage oiita his failure to work Tom ‘or the twenty bundles of shingles. Shortly af- i-work af the hatchway of the schooner. fw work at | of. ooner. 0 ours the last of the shingles were on ed. Tom turned his tally sheet over to the 4 OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS mate and received his pay. Tom thanked him and went away, much pleased with the resuits of the day. He reaclted Bob’s store about the time his friend was knocking off for the day, and they went home together. CHAPTER IV.—Looking for Work. * “Hello!” exclaimed Bob, who was reading the afternoon paper while eating his supper, “here’s something that will interest. you.” “What is it?” asked Tom, whom he addressed. “Your Uncle Peter White was robbed last night of a considerable sum of money which he had in his bureau drawer by two young men who en- tered the house about midnight and bound and gagged him beforehand. The old man says that they seemed to know just where he kept the money, for they lost no time in looking around the room, but went directly to the bureau, broke open the drawer, took the money and some old- fashioned pieces of jewelry, including Mr. White’s gold watch, which he only wore on Sunday or when he went out of an evening.” “You say he was robbed by two young men!” said Tom. “Is their description in the paper?” “No. Mr. White says that the greater part of ' their faces were concealed by their handker- chiefs.” “TJ wonder if the thieves were the two young men J ate the roadside supper with? I remem- ber now_that the chap by the name of Nipper asked me a good many questions about my uncle’s farmhouse. I didn’t think at the time that he was pumping me, but it strikes me now that he was,” said Tom. : “IT wouldn’t be surprised but they were the birds,” said Bob. , : “I suppose the rascals got away with the rooney and left no clue to trace them by,” said % ~ om. “That’s right. The Waterford police are watch- ing for them, and the police of this town have been asked to keen on the lookout for them. But I don’t see how they can be detected without a description.” ; “Even if they are caught, unless they have | something about them that will connect them with the robbery they can’t be held unless my uncle is able to positively identify them.” After supper Tom decided that it was his duty to go to the Rockland police and give them a description of the two men he hobnobbed with on the road. The police could then use the in- formation or* not, as they chose. Bob accom- panied him to the station-house. The man at the desk listened to Bob’s story,:asked him sev- eral questions, and then said that he would sub- mit the matter to his superior and let him decide if there was any connection between the two men and the pair who rebbed his uncle. On the fol- lowing morning Tom answered several more want advertisements in person, but he was no more” successful than on the preceding day. Several” days passed, and though Tom picked up odd j which panned out enough to pay his expenses, he ; couldn’t get hold of anything that wag steady. — It looked as if he would’ have to pull up stakes and travel. to some other town. Tom regretted — Fae ie
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¥ a aT, **” OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS ; 5 that he had not learned a trade instead of put- ting in two years and a half on his uncle’s farm. However, there was no use in crying over spilt milk. He was not too old yet to learn a trade, but he did not know what trade would interest him. Unless he tackled the trade for which he was specially fitted he would practically. waste more time. Then it was quite possible that he : was not fitted for any trade, but that his bent of < mind ran in some other direction. On the fol- - lowing day Tom called at a large grocery store on the main street in answer to an advertisement for a smart boy. To his great disgust he found that the job had been captured five minutes’ be- fore he arrived. : “I'm sorry, young man,” said the manager, looking him over in a favorable way. “I like your a and I certainly would have hired you had you come first. Give me your name and ad- dress, andif the new boy doesn’t measure up to our standard I’ll send for you.” Tom gave him the information. ; “By the way,” said the manager, as if*struck _ with an idea, “how would you like to go around fe and take orders for us? If you can make good at that, you'll earn a good deal more than as a store boy. You looksuncommonly smart and bright to me, and you have rather a taking man- ner about you. I’ll map out a route for you in a new quarter of the town that is building up ou ean try your luck for a week or two. Weill allow you a varying commission on all orders you take. Suppose you tackle it?” ' Tom considered the matter a few minutes. The idea rather appealed to him. He was a natural hustler, and the ge suddenly occurred to ¢ him that here was-a chance that might be right : in his line. At any rate, it seemed worth under- taking. Then he would be his own boss, and that was a pleasant idea. . “Would I have to confine myself to the route you mapped out for me?” he asked. “Tt would be to your advantage to do so. Your object should be to build up a regular trade for yourself. As soon as you became known as our ‘representative, you would find your work easier, = and your daily orders would soon earn you a : good weekly commission, which you could in- - erease by energy and push.” SR .: “But | know a num of people in different 48 parts of the town. should like to strike them P at the start, as I think I would be more likely to orders from them than from strangers. I ive to make a showing of some kind or I'll be on my uppers, for I haven’t much money to live on, and when that’s gone I’ll-be up against it ~ hard. '“Well,-I appreciate the difficulty you have to contend with. I'll furnish you with our private ist, and you can start out right away and so go to your credit. Your commissions will be ned to Friday night, and you will nee 4s coming to you_on Saturday after- rill try se, 7 a my hand and see what _ ‘se you can do to-day with the people you know. In the morning rl furnish you with a’ - regular route to work up which you must stick but any orders you get outside of that will to tell him about the business he had gone inte on trial, ; “You stand to make good money, Tom, if you. are adapted to selling goods,” said Bob. “Later on, when you have accumulated enough capital, you might find it to your advantage to open a , store.” : Provided with his price-list and a padded bunch of order blanks, Tom went off to call on people . he used to know in the neighborhood where he : lived when his mother was alive. He was full of confidence in himself and his ability to get orders, but he found ere long that all is not gold that glitters. About half the people he had known either intimately or in a general way had / moved to other locations, and the others did not remember him until he introduced himself all - over again. The locality was the oldest part of. the town, and there was a grocery store to every block almost, and he found that people didn’t eare to deal with anybody else than the storekeeper they were trading with. The best he could do. was to secure a few orders for tea and coffes from those who were somewhat dissatisfied with the brand they were getting. He was a bit dis- couraged with his start, and*when he stopped to - eat at a small restaurant about twa o’clock he had earned but little so far. When he paid his check he tried to get an order from the restaurant for tea and coffee, but there was nothing doin ; for him. The man got talking with him an on found out what he was driving at, and what poor ; luck he had had so far in that section. - : “Tf I was you I’d quit looking for orders on (= this side of town,” said the restaurant man. “Get | — over on the other side and hustle there. I walk- ed through there last Sunday and I noticed it was growing rapidly. The grocery stores are as yet few and new, and their patrons are not wed- x ded to them. Get over there and build up a ~ trade for yourself, The first in the field are the chaps who have the best show of getting a firm grip. Take it from me, you will never do much : on this side.” ag _ “I think you're right,” replied Tom. “I'll get 2 into the new section and see how things will pan out,” ‘He ‘bade the man good-by and started at once for the north end of town, CHAPTER V.—Tom Has a Nervy Plan. 4
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--the following week was for him to put in his Taornings and evenings at the store, and his after- noons as a trade canyasser. He picked up trade at the start, and every evening turned in quite a Hist of orders, which it was his duty to fill himself 89 that they could be delivered early next mg by the wagon that was put on that route. The driv- er of the wagon was not expected to do any can- vassing, but was instructed to take any orders given him by the parties to whom he delivered the goods on Tom’s orders, and these were cred- ited to Tom, and he drew a commission on them. At the end of the third week Tom’s connection @s a salesman at the store under wages ceased, as the clerk who had been ill came back to duty, and his earnings depended on his success as a canvassing salesman. averaged about $12 on commission and wages, ‘which was $2 more than his friend Bob was get- ting. His first week on commission alone netted him $16,-and: he was as happy as a lord. His second week, however, dropped to $9 and the Manager asked him what was the trouble. _ “& new store has opened up in the neighbor- . hood where there was a pressing need for it and it has hurt me,” replied Tom. “I’ve done some tall thinking about it, and I’d like to make you a proposition.” : What is your proposition?” “Ts rather a nervy one, but I think it will pay you. Rent a store in the same block, stock it, ard put me in charge. Ill make it pay.” * The manager shook his head, “No, we couldn’t do t. We can only use you @s a canvasser. Get a hustle on and see if you ean't keep the trade you have worked up and -. -inerease it.” : _ give him a same _ done by his store, _ground than he gained, He talked the matter ever with Bob. _ “If I only had the capital, I’d open a store on my hook,” he said. : __ “How about ri Bad get that $200 your uncle u?” said B ; chance as I have of flying.” ‘ ‘a lawyer about it?” ie e time just now.” “It will be some time before you get capital 2 grocery store. I have, and the old Up to that point he had. OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS “Well. you have my sympathy,” said Bob. “If I could help you, I’d do it in a minute.” : “J hate to give up a good thing. I feel like fighting to hold every inch of ground I have gained. “That’s right, stand out for your rights.” “Do you know what I’ve a great mind to do?” “What?” “Go down to one of the two wholesale groce: houses on First street, see the head boss and: as him to stake me in a store.” “Gee! That would be pretty nervy. I’m afraid “‘he’d throw you out as a lunatic. The idea of asking a man to whom you are a stranger to fur- nish you with the capital to start in business.” “If I succeeded, I guess J wouldn’t be the first who started a business on his nerve. a long way sometimes.” “It might with a man, but you're onty a boy.” “I’m -as smart as many men, and don’t you make any mistake about it.” “I guess you are, but. you aren’t smart-enough to carry out such a plan as you. have mentioned.” “What will you bet on it?” “Do you mean to say that you think you can do it?” * “Do you dare me to try?” “I do. I’ve got a $5 bill that. says you won’t come within a mile of doing it.” “J won’t bet you, for $5 bills are too scarce with me to risk on a desperate scheme, but I'll see your dare and make the attempt to-morrow morning.” 1 “Better order an ambulance to be on hand. in front of the wholesale house to take you to the hospital,” grinned Bob. : “Don’t you worry about my needing an ambu- lance. I considerit a fair business proposition T intend to submit.” “A business proposition with the advantage’ all on your side.” F “T consider that my ability to run a store suc- cessfully with the trade IT have and what I ex- pect to get is a sufficient offset to the amount of ' stock I shall ask the wholesaler to advance,” the meanwhile other “ “I never heard of a wholesaler supplying a. stock of goods on such security. How are you going to convince the wholesaler of your ability ?” “By talking straight from the shoulder.” “But talk isn’t evidence.” “T can refer him to the firm I’m with.” ‘ “But the firm you’re with might not want to ose back you up. ‘ “Why, the fact that the firm has employed me for some weeks soliciting orders is evidence that I must be doing something. If I was a failure, I wouldn’t-be kept.” “That’s-right enough, but it doesn’t prove that you’re better than the average salesman.” “Well, there is no use of us. arguing the mat- ter. I'll let you know to-morrow night how I have made out.” “All right. I hope you'll win out,” said Bob. © Z a . 72 y . — ‘ +. 9F 4 +f * on ¥ ~ = ~ a Foes. - . ~~ hy ae ie oS Nerve goes | you, in which case the manager might not : _ After turning in his orders next morning at ‘the store, Tom® instead of ‘starting on his route, CHAPTER Vi— Starting a Business on Nerve. By a SRM boi. JR |
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: _.~ by the trade I now control, I can assure you that ha = sa ing pi = slit \ OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS 7 walked down to First Street. The two whole- sale grocery houses were in the same block and on the same side of the street. Tom had learned that a hot rivalry for trade was going on be- tween them, and it was this fact that largely influenced him in seeking an interview with the head of one of them and submitting his nervy plan. If he failed, he intended to bring his prop- Osition to the attention of the other wholesaler. He knew that one of the houses was selling to most of the retailers in the new district, so he intended to interview the other and suggest that it would be much to his advantage to back him in’ an enterprise that would enable him to place his goods in the field now practically controlled by his rival. William B. Day was the whole- saler he sent his name in to. The other estab- lishment was owned by Timothy Martin. “Well, what can I do for you, young man?” asked Mr. Day, when Tom was admitted to ‘his private office at the back of the counting-room. “I’ve a proposition I’d like to submit to you, Mr. Day,” said Tom, in his usually attractive way. “Til listen to you,” said Day, who was favo- rably impressed by his young visitor. “Tt’s rather a nervy one, sir, but it’s full, of : business,” smiled Tom. The gentleman nodded encouragingly. “T have been working as a special salesman for Brown, Jones & Co., on Main street, for some weeks, canvassing the new district’ at the north- ern end of the town. I found it a fine field for _ enterprise, and I have done well up to this point. Now I have run against a snag. A new store, stocked by Timothy Martin, has opened up in the of my trade, and as Brown, Jones & Co., being downtown, cannot deliver orders on the Same day that I take them, my customers are beginning to give a part of their trade at least to the new store. I foresee that the ultimate result Will be that’ I shall lose my grip, and as a matter of course, my firm will lose the trade.” ; Tom paused and Mr. Day looked at him inquir- ingly, as if wondering what his talk was leading up to. A “T decided that the only solution of the diffi- culty was for Brown, Jones & Co. to stock a store in the district and let me run it. I brought the matter to the manager’s attention and the suggestion was turned down. Well, if Brown, Jones & Co. can afford to lose what I have gained for them I can’t afford to lose the trade, for my living depends on the commission I make out of But I’m bound to lose it if I can’t make a e in comin My a es on you is to propose that you stock a store for me wholly on credit, for I have no capital to make an advance payment, as is customary. If you will take a e@ on my business ability, backed you will be the gainer by it.” Tom i again, but as Mr. Day made no reply, he went on: : ‘Timothy Martin, your business rival, is lay- to supply all the stores that start in new section. I believe he is offering excep- _ tionally easy terms.. Now if you will stand in h me [ will push goods in a: that ne the Timothy Martin Spells took ‘fike hand-organ beside a brass band. As Brown, get their general stock from you it — ~ tan; is your eoods that I have been selling, and I as to keep on selling them, for my customers re well satisfied with them, but if they can’t get them on time, of course they are going to fiop over to people who can deliver on time. If [ had a good stock ef your goods, particularly your specials, which I regard as superior in many ways to the specials of Timothy Martin, in a store right on the ground, [I’d make the fur fly in the northern district. I’d put a stop on any more stores starting there for a while, and I’d put the new one out of business, or at least prevent the spread of Timothy Martin’s specials. Of course, I’d expect to have a fight on my hands with Martin, but that would only make me hustle the harder, I want to beat him out the worst way. That’s my proposition. Size me up, Mr. Day. Make inquiries about me of Brown, Jones & Co. Take any means you choose to satisfy yourself that I’ll be on the job with both feet, and then give me your answer; but let it be quick, for time is precious. I can’t afford to let the grass grow under my feet.” “You say you have no money, young man?” “Not a red, but I have unlimited energy and ambition, and that will make the money for “me, whether you give me the start or not.” _ The wholesaler was much impressed by his young visiter, but he was a cautious business man and did nothing without reflection. Tom’s plan for pushing his goods favorably impressed him. In fact, he had become aware that his business rival was advertising for good grocers with -a sniall capital to come to Rockland and start in business under his wing. He saw that Timothy Martin was aiming to do the lion’s share of tha wholesale business in Rockland, and he was at his wits’ end to find a way to block him. Tom appeared with his plan at a fortunate moment, and Mr. Day decided then and there to take it into immediate consideration. It was not busi- ness to stock a dealer on credit entirely. Tim- othy Martin would do it, he was satisfied, but: if this boy could make good the risk would be off- set by the gain he would makesfrom a largely increased sale not only of his standard stock, which Martin sold as well, but particularly in his specials, the sale of which Martin had already hurt considerably. “Do you live with your parents?” asked the wholesaler. “No, sir. I have no parents. I am out for my- self in the world.” “How long have you been working for Brown, Jones & Co.?” Tom told him,” “You started in without a customer?” “Yes, sir” “And) what volume of business are you doing now ?” 5 - Tom mentioned his best average. “Not bad,” said Mr. Day. “Not bad.” “But I could double it with a store on the spot.”
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8 which I you some idea, and which the books of Br ee Jones & Co. will confirm. You are taking an unusual risk with me, but it is ing to pay you in the end. You need a person Eke op me to Ree off. Timothy Martin. Now is the a time to —o> the newcomers of the northern : district who have been using the Martin specials elsewhere up to rs own standard. If the chance is missed ic will be hard to recover it—perhaps next door to paeniney. I want to go right for are moving in aie are going up. that trade. New eve _ “week into the buil Shall they buy the Martin ve he or the Day spe- cials? “Phat’s the question I want to solve to the advantage of the latter. I see a future for my- self. Every one has the right to sueceed and make money, and I] am out for my rights. In helping myself I will be helpivg you in pushing your goods.” “Young man, your proposition is certainly nervy, but if has elements in it that appeal to me. 1 will take it under consideration. Call at this time to-morrow morning and you shal) have my answer.” “All right, sir,” said Tom, rising. ed rame is Thomas Truesdale?” 2, sir. Aad you live at “182 ares ““Very well. That is all at present.” Tor bowed himself out and took a car for his oe On the following morning he called on he Day again, He felt that it was the most Sa portant moment in his life. On this occasion ea eo wes a bit nervous, 2 80 much depended on ee gentleman’s decision in the matter. He knew = he would be awfully disappointed if he got the ~~ turndown. Mr. Day’s. face looked pleasant and (© twas cncouraginn to Mm sien with ee e we our prop on y wi ony ieee some inquiries with respect to vourself,” said the wholesaler, tne due deliberation { have de- eided that 1 will necede ¢ to your proposition. “Thank you, sir,” said Tom, delighted a measure — course, Tom agreed to whatever terms Mr. rai, Day proposed, and the documents were to be Se Ep ener for te = dageiane ag gene Tg had put in —S order for goods he required to open up time_ time in the p OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS mate from another carpenter. He found that the lowest figure at which he could fit his store out for was $250 cash, and he had only $25. He went to a stable, hired a saddle-horse and started for his uncle’s farm. He found the old gentlemen in the yard. “Uncle, | have come for the $235 you owe me. As I need it right away, I shall trouble you to eash up at once,” said Tom, without any unnec- sary introduction. Peter White stood and glared at him, speech- less at his nerve. “Get off this farm, and if you ever come back again I'll set the dog on you!” cried White, as soon as he got his tongue in working order. 2 “All right, uncle. I have made my demand and you have refuscil me. I shall see a lawyer at once and sue you for my wages. You'll have the cost of the suit to ge for you’re bound to lose, and the sheriff will on your place, taking session of enou ote your stock to satisfy the judgment. Remember, that when a farmhand ob- ains a judgment for w: ages, no property owned by his employer is exempt from execution, except |= a few necessary articles of household furniture specified by law.” Tom started to go, and his uncle began to iave like a wild man... Finally he called the boy back. “Do you know-that I was robbed of $1,000 the night you left?” he said. “I read about it in the Rockland paper. f sup-) pose that was the money you scrapped with me about, and said I took a dollar of.” “T found the dollar on the floor.” “T'm ey to hear it.” “But t’s my opinion you sent those men to rob oy did? You seem to have a fine opinion of me. sia oe did they know I had the money in the | “How should I know?” “You do know. A. Rockland detective calif on me and told me that you met two men on road that Ma and you gave their description to the “That's Pe ht, I met the men, and when I seat about the robbery I thought they might have been. connected. with and I went to the police and told them about the appearance of the men. That was a friendly act toward you, wasn’t it?” ; “You didn’t tell the po all you.knew about — them, I guess,” growled the old man. “I wouldn't surprised but you got a commission out that bery.” i a stores | yo have got ie into Your head thet 1 sent the robbers to to your house. re is no use reason- with oe 5 mp ° 2 store in ing xee ney you owe me, 2. Ne 1 soe: Beane TS Faerie to it. rm ae T’'m going to have you conte ate give con tome. me wi sue for it at o my While I’m about it, I may as ne ” es look into. that stock 3 sald ter
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f OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS , If there is anything coming to me from that quarter I’m going to have that, too.” The mention of the stock and Tom’s threat to have a lawyer look into it, threw Peter White into \@ panic, - ; : ‘Tl give you the money if you promise not to go to a lawyer,” he said nervously. “All right. Hand it over,” said Tom. “Come into the house and sign a receipt for it.” Tom followed him in and his unele got the = Money for him. “You ain’t got no reason to see a lawyer now,” said the old man, who seemed quite anxious on that point.” “Not about the money you paid me. Square on that head.” “You ain’t got no other reason to see one. I don’t owe you nothing more.” “You've got that stock you told me my mother bought before she died. That belongs to me. I think you’d better hand it over to me.” “jt ain’t no 2 “If it isn’t, what do you want to keep it for?” “] don’t want to keep it, but I’ve mislaid it . and ean’t give it to you now. As soon as I find ~ it. T'H let you know.” “Look here, uncle, are you sure that it wasn’t Money instead of stock tRat my mother left?” “What put that idea in your head?” asked Mr. White nervously. _._ *Beeause I never heard her say that she bought ~~ any_Stock.”’ * “it aim’t likely she would tell.a boy like you ‘Were at the time what she done.” 3 “How do. you know it isn’t? I think it is “quite likely she would have confided the fact to me. At any rate, you never have been asked to give an accounting of what you took charge of afier her death. You sold all the personal prop- erty and had no right to do that.” =; dida’t amount to much. I spent the money “on. you,” We are os = “Flow did you?” _ *{ bought’ you a suit of store clothes and _. other things.” -* *Well, I’ve no time to argue the matter with - you. You hunt up that stock and send it to me. My address is 182 Prospect street. If I don’t __ hear from you in a reasonable time, you’ll hear -_ from me.”. - : Thus speaking, Tom mounted his horse and rode back to town. He was late for his supper, but Mrs. Bradley kept it in the oven for him, the same as she did for her son when he was de- ~ tained by business’ Bob was reading the eve- ange * tees how about that business of yours?” he 2. Seer “Sie ettl ” . , Bab. : settled, replied Tom, and he then told As Tom was now tired, he went to bed. fee ‘CHAPTER VUL—Tom Meets Nipper and Barney. fom put the carpenter at work in the mornin g, and then he started around~on his route to take - orders for Brown, Jones & Co., as.usual. It was Sheccnary for him to do that in order to keep 4 —, kept the money you got for it. You in touch with his customers. He didn’t look for any new customers, but he got a couple by acci- dent. He told all his people that he was to open a store on the corner of Union avenue and Taylor street, and by the first of next weelr would make his. deliveries on the day he the orders. He got downtown by five o'clock left an order for printing with the printer next to Bob’s store. Then he reported at the store and turned in his orders for the day. Afterward he arranged with a painter to put his name and business on his store windows and paint a wood- en sign to gO over the door. Finally he adver- tised in the Record for a smart girl of seventeen or eighteen, familiar with the grocery business, answers to be sent to “T. T.,” care of the paper. When he got home Bob had news for him. “J met a man to-day who has a horse and wagon’ that he wants to rent out for three or four months,” he said. “It will just suit you. I promised to bring you around to-night to see him about taking the team.” “All right, I’m on,” said Tom, as they sat up to supper. : ' After the meal, Tom and Bob visited the man, and he took them to his stable, a small one in his own yard, and showed the horse. The wago which had a cover, stood ina shed. Tom arran to hire the team and also to keep it and look after it at the owner’s stable. That relieved Tom of one anxiety that had greatly bothered him. He paid the first month’s hire in advance and got the use of the rig right away. He used it: next morning to get around among his customers, and as he saved a lot of time he was able to hustle for some. new trade... The carpenter had the shelving all up by Friday night, and as the counters were delivered in the meanwhile, he placed them securely in/ position. He made a sort of school desk for Tom on top of the end of the last.counter and supplied it. with a lock. Tom bought a second-hand ice chest that had been in use in some grocery store and had it put in at the back of store! He managed to get it partly on credit, as he couldn’t pay the full amount. Then he gaat. pt with the ice com- pany to supply him arly with ice, Friday morning he sent ina partial list of goods he wanted to the wholesale house of Wm. B. Da: 2 and ‘said that the house d. make any ad tions to the list that he had omitted: He ordered - ev ing to be delivered Saturday aftern : as he Bob were going to dress the store get a in shape that night if they had to sta up till the small hours of the morning to fini up. Tom received a number of answers to his advertisement, and picking out two or three, he wrote to the applicants to call at the B Ms cottage Friday evening, where he intervie them, and finally picked out a particularly nice’ girl of seventeen years who wo. two years for her uncle until his death recently put her out of business. She was thoroughly familiar with the business, and Tom regarded him- self as very lucky to get her. She was told to report at the store on Monday niorning at half-past seven. At four o’clock om” Saturday afternoon a heavy truck stopped in — front of the store with the goods from the whole- sale house. They were unloaded on idewa! * ae am Mu CoP aa the sidewall
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Tom, who had just returned with a stack of or- ders, hired a es of boys to rush the boxes into-the store, which had already been swept and scrubbed by a woman he had hired for the pur- ose. AS soon as the goods were inside, he ocked up and drove to the store of Brown, Jones & Co. to get his orders filled at once so he could deliver them right away. He piled in and helped = to fill the orders, promising to send in the money on Monday some time. The manager wished him success in his new venture, told him the store would help him out whenever he ran short and couldn’t reach the wholesaler’s. Tom had to hustle like fun to deliver and niake his collections ‘that evening. He left Bob at work in the store opening the boxes and getting their contents geady to go on the shelves. He got back to the gtore at ten o’clock, after putting up his rig, d then taking off his coat he sailed in, like a afire. The s worked till three in the orning, by which time they had the bulk of the goods in place. Then they went home and ned in. Aiter a late breakfast they were at stere again te finish the job. By two o’clock everything was shipshape, the boxes and debris iled in the cellar and the store swept clean as a 4yhistle. After dinner the boys made out the re- price list for the girl’s guidance in the mern- ing, and after supper Tom got his rig and he ; = Bob drove’ out te a farm a few miles from kland and arranged with the farmer to buy a eggs aud sundry vegetables from him reg- y: “Well, old man, I’ve just skinned through,” said =" om, as they drove back to tewn. “The eit mon- _ @y Y’ve left is what I’ve collected for Brown, | genes & Co. on the last orders they will get _ threngh me. There is 2 commission coming to ‘ma out of that, however. It has been a narrow ‘Bqueeze, I've got to make money from the held my head abeve water. a great hel te me, Bob, and I am very teful to you for it. A friend in need is a iend indeed, they say.” . -“And I’m ready to help you right along, Tom, iA og long as you need my services,” replied Bob, ~ “Gn a hearty tone. “I know you are, and I won’t forget your kind- ness.” ve ¢ At that. moment two men stepped out of the _ _-ghrubbery and one ef them grabbed the horse by _. he pridie and stopped him. 2 What do you mean b stopping my "+ “Oh, ii’s you, Mr. Nipper, is it?” said’ Tom, Recognizing him. “Hello! So we meet Seen, young man,” said ea ‘Nipper, now id om. = go friend of ours,” said, : bo gave forth + Soins Saal and. put it in the wagon. Then rj ’ emselves You have- OUT FOR HIS RIGUTS “What are you doing with this rig, sonny?” asked Nipper. “My friend and I are returning from a little jaunt in the country.” “How have you been making out since we saw you last?” : “All right.” “Folding down a job, I suppose?” “Yes, I have been.” “Where are you hanging out?” “l'’m boarding at a cottage on Prospect street. What have you got in that bag?” ek sonny, that we’re taking to town to sell. Tom had his suspicions that the contents of the bag was more yaluable than junk. He believed it-was plunder from some farmhouse the men had robbed, for he was pretty well convinced that they were really crooks and had rebbed his unele of the $1,000. : “Are you in the junk business?” he asked. “No, sonny, but as we’re hard up we're glad to make a raise any way we can.” “Still hard up, eh? Can’t you find any work to do? By the way, what is your business ?” “We're sleight-of-hand artists,” chuckled Nip- r. “You mean you perf@rm on the stage?” said Tom, not taking much stock in the man’s reply. “Do we perform on the stage, Barney?” grin- ned Nipper. Fie ta you we do!” replied Barney. “Where did you perform last?” asked Tom. “We gave a private exhibition of our dexterity at a farmhouse last night,” said Nipper. Tom thought he understood. the real meaning ef the man’s reply, but-he did not deem it pru- dent to let on that 7: did. I suppose most of your performances are pri- vate?” + intl dryly. see : _ “Yes, spk Barney and me trave! around the country displaying our versatility whenever the oppertunity offers, but the business doesn’t pay as well as it used to, that’s why we're on the ragged edge.” ; “You don’t look as if you had suffered much “We're art- “since I saw you last.” “You can’t tell by appearances, sonny. ee a book by its cover.” ey had entered town by this time and Tom Never looked around to see if there was a policeman in, sight, but there wasn’t. “I guyess we'll get down here, sonny. We're much obliged for the ride. We'll do the same for you some time if we get the chance,” said Nip- 1 Tom reined in and the men got out with their bag and walked down a dark street toward the water front. “Were those the fellows you were with when I first met you“aleng the road?” asked Bob. ’ “Those are the chaps. I'll bet they have rob- bed some farmhouse and have the plunder in that bag. It jingled like silverware.” ; “You ought to notify the police of your suspi- cions. ; ; . “{ intend to. I’m going right to the station- house.” > é. Ten minutes later they stopped in front of police 1 -Tom went in and told the
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© etre) ~ door, and his first sale was a quart of ate a dozen eggs. A dozen people had é Jones & Co., had OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS officer at the desk about the men and the bag he had taken up on the road and brought to town. “J suspect those are the men who robbed my uncle, Peter White, whose farm is on the Water- ford road, a couple of months ago. The night of the robbery [ met them on the road, three or four miles from the farm, which I had just left. it is my opinion they are crooks and that-they have robbed some farmhouse not far out of town.” : Tom teld the officer the direction they went after ‘parting from the wagon, and _ the officer made a note of the fact. He took down Tom’s “. name and address and then the boy rejoined Bob, drove to the stable and put up the rig. Then they went home and went to bed early. CHAPTER IX.—A Hot Rivalry. - Tom was up at half-past five next morning and Was out of the house at six, leaving Bob and his _ mother still in bed. He took a hasty breakfast ~ of coffee and then started rolls at a near-by restaurant and for stable to get his rig. He spent half an hour attending to the horse and —o his store at moe ge a nag age He hardly got open up when Miss Jennie Jarvis, his clerk, appeared ready to start in. Tom handed her his price list so she could familiarize ~~ herself with the selling figure of his goods, which was not much different in most respects to what _her late uncle had char in his store on the other side of.town. The Day specialties em- braced tea, coffee, certain brands of canned goods and yarious other articles all bearing the Day label. The Timothy Martin specialties were very much the same. Each wholesaler kept a standing advertisement in the Rockland papers calling at- -tention to the superior excellence of his own hee fi f hi _. The Day products found most favor among the better class of people, while the Martin goods circulated more among the average and poorer classes. Tom, as the representative for Brown, combined his efforts to the me- dium class. Brown, Jones & Co. catered chiefly _to the best people in Rockland and served them manager had hired Tom with the a middle-class trade, but the direct, eir receipt. Tom had calling attention to his but- things, and some. of these he x with the signs furnished him sy the wholesaler to advertise his specialties. She w . the farmer, mits monn Mg ae y eggs vegeta rec ssepped at his store soon after it opened on its way downtown to the market and unloaded what “ne boy had ordered the evening before. Tom teuickly figured out the retail prices and told the iv! what they were. His first customer came one of tenants of the buil mest er eS’ Sa ae 11 with him before he was ready to start out on his rounds. He hired a boy to circulate hand bills announcing that he had opened up a family gro- cery on the corner of Union ayenue and Taylor street. These bills announced two or three low- priced articles as leaders to draw custom to the store. Tom called on all his regular customers that morning, and on the promise of an- after- noon delivery recovered that portion of their trade that he had lost. He also canvassed a num- ber of new people and caught several of them. He got back to the store about noon and found that Jessie Jarvis had done considerable business during his absence. She had brought her lunch with her, as she could not very well go home and. return, and she ate it while Tom was employ- ed in filling his orders and in waiting on an oc- easional customer. When she had taken her half hour he started her on his orders and went to dinner himself at a restaurant in the neighborhood. As soon as his orders had been made up and checked off he load- ed them cn his wagon and started out to make his deliveries. He finished up about five, can- vassed some more new people, and reached the store at six. He merely looked in to see how things had been going during the afternoon. Miss Jarvis’ report was satisfactory and he left for home. He put up his rig on the way and reached the cottage a little before seven. Bob and his mother were eating their supper. “Well, “You're just in time, Tom,” said Bob. how did things go to-day?” _ “First-class,” replied Tom enthusiastically, “It is a great thing to have a line of customers, like I have, to open up with. It starts the ball rolling right off the reel. People have been dropping in off and on all day, attracted hy my circulars and the fact that my store is nearer to them than my own rival in the neighborhood. The bulk of my business, however, comes from the customers I drummed up for Brown, Jones & Co. It took me the best part of the afternoon to deliver my, orders, and everybody paid up.” After supper Tom took Bob to the store with him, and as it was close on to eight, the girl put on hey things and went home. Bob suggested that Tom put in a small of tobacco and ci- gars, as the nearest cigar store was three blocks away. Tom agreed that it would be a good idea, and he said he would adopt it. At half-past nine . Tom closed up for the night he and Bob went home. He was tly pl ‘with the result of his first day’s business, and he expected to be doing considerably better by the end of the week, He was not disappointed in this, for his hustling tactics captured many new customers that week, one his prompt delivery satisfied his regular peo- pie. : send an order to Mr. Day for a fresh supply of certain goods. There was no doubt that his store Was a t success, and that he had quite overshadowed his business rival a block away. He blocked the man’s efforts to extend his trade te any great extent. The groceryman, Gubbins by name, who had been drawn to Rockland by Timothy Martin’s advertisement and who had éx- pected to have the whole field to himse!f for a while to come, called on his wholesaler and regis- tered a kick. Of course he couldn’t Tom Truesdale or anybody else had \ So the week passed and Tom was obliged to == Fas the night { UNAS a tA lag \
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3 Pgs Mise ti) Pe ie EA Ren pages a leader and sell it at cost. That ought 12 epen up a grocery in the district if he chose, but he couldn’t understand how Tom had started off with so much custom, and he was mad because the boy had already cut into the trade he had age up himself. He thought that Martin, hav- induced him to come to Rockland, ought to help him out. Martin was ready to do that if he could, for he suspected that Wm. _B. Day, his business rival, had started in to imitate his tactics of establish- ing stores to push his specialties. He believed that Tom was being backed by Day in the same way that he was backing half a dozen stores in Rockland. The first thing he did was to send a representative up to leok at Tom’s establishment, and see how much business he was doing. The man called on Saturday rnoon and finding Tom out, tried to pump Miss Jarvis. He learned a few things, but a3 that would in any way put him onto the boy’s methods. He reported the results of his mission to Martin. The wholesaler Was not greatly enlightened, but he decided that something must be done to drive the boy out ef business. He sent another man up to the neighborhood to canvass for Gubbins and _ inci- dentally to give Tom’s store a black eye. This man began his exertions on Monday, and on Tuesday Tom learned about him and what he was doing. Apparently the man was sent out by Gubbins, his rival. He offered special induce- ents to Tom’s customers to come over to Gub- Bins ’ store and trade, by cutting the prices on Martin’s specialties. Tom hurried down to First street and had an interview with Mr. Day. He told that gentleman that his rival was offering the Martin at a price that was going. to hurt him unless he could meet them. Day lis- to him, asked him how he was doing so far, and | that he was getting on fine, he ‘told Tom to meet all cuts and a bit lower if Sg ae ena ms Ae he would back up. : + “Martin is at the back of that cut,” he said, “otherwise the new man could not afford to make h reckless reductions. As Martin has taken a in the imterest of his man, it is only fair, “Thank you, sir. With a little help from you, Iam not afraid but I can hold my own and push - ghead,” said Tom. 2 ; He stopped at the printer’s and ordered a new hand-bill to be printed on the rush. He hired a boy as zoon as they were delivered and flooded the district with them, going Gubbins one bet- ter. He had lost some customers, but he got them back again and several of Gubbins’ to boot. ’ Gubbins, who had#een encouraged by the back- De he gt from Martin, saw one of the circulars a fit. He decided to make a cut on bring in customers. He painted a sign on _ brown paper and stuck it on a board outside of door, the cut. The kid who had delivered the bills t Tom. saw it and told him | about it. The boy grocer immediately got out a OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS sign himself and put his price a cent lower than Gubbins. He also reduced the price of eggs two cents. People who bought butter of Gubbins told others about the reduction, only to learn that they could have got it still cheaper at the Trues- dale store. The result was Gubbins’ cut proved a boomerang, and he lost more than he had expect- ed to gain by it. People who liked the boy grocer better, personally, because he jollied them up on his rounds and acted just like a friend, retailing the latest news to them, rushed to Tom’s store instead of Gubbins’, and the Martin man tore his hair when he heard about it. He was forced to reduce the price of his eggs to meet Tom’s cut, but he wouldn’t go lower. Although both parties to the rivalry were practically losing money on many of their more important articles, Tom had . by far the better of the fight, as he had twice the trade Gubbins had, and he was making his usual profit on the majority of the standard goods he sold, the prices of which were not cut by either rival. The volume of his profit being larger, he was doing well on the average, while Gubbins was not. His hustling methods were hurting Gubbins like fun. If Gubbins had gone out him- self and canvassed for business, he would have had a greater chance of equalizing the fight for the control of the district. But he was essen- tially an inside man. He had been accustomed to depend on printer’s ink alone, and had learned the business in a store at Portland, where the boss never went out looking for custom. He didn’t seem to understand that conditions in a new district, where stores were scarce, were different from a district where stores were memereae age ang mi was er ge a in a stere- otyped way. en he was not bucking against dyed- ee Aims of cl own kind, but against a boy who was wo g along original and i et lines, untrammeled by lar methods in yogue among ordinary grocers. Tom’s tactics ee ae at petra with the usual grocery m Ss. ey nm very well with that particular district, though they might have failed in a con neighborhood, Tom was entirely an outside hustler—a born salesman. He could have sold anything to the right parties. His attractive and cheerful ways made him ular with his customers as Fast as he got them, In dealing ‘with him they felt as if they were po 5 Aer — which they had a cer- in interes n e le 1 5 bag ra store knew what be locked fan ced e hada uch on all the time over Tom’s suc- cess, he dla net produce a favorable impression on his customers. Tom had a way of. taking people into his confidence that attracted them. They liked to be invited to give their opinion on this and that. In fact, two-thirds of Tom’s cus- tomers looked forward to his daily visit as a feature of the day. He lost little time with them, as he had the knack of suddenly excusing himself as soon as he had registered their order, — he looked like, and as’ and at the same, time giving them the impression _ that he was sorry to part from them. In a word, Tom had the Indian sign on Gubbins se fast that unless something out of the ordinary : finish at happened in the groceryman’s favor his was merely a matter of time. and not so long
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OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS : 18 : of mine. I had the inner track till this boy came t CHAPTER X.—An Alluring Proposition. on the field.” rs “That’s a nice way to talk. You've got $500 At the end of the third week of Tom’s career of my capital. You ought to help me out.” in-his own business he was getting on swimming- “I’m ready to help you all I can, but the bur- = He had been: compelled to hire a boy to de- den is on you.” ver hurry orders close by. Miss Jarvis, in place “Can’t we do that boy up some way?” asked of being a mere clerk, had practically become its Gubbins. “You are a man of importance in town. Manager. Customers calling at the store, except You're acquainted with politicians. Put up a job in the evening, rarely saw Tom, who was out all on him.” : the time. The girl was cashier as well as sales- “Look here, Gubbins, I have a reputation, and woman, and had full swing with the cash drawer, I can’t afford to take chances with it. If you = but Tom had the utmost confidence in her hon- want to try underhand tricks, do them yourself. esty and loyalty to his interests, and therefore But it seems to me that you don’t amount to trusted her fully. She proved herself the one much if you can’t buck against a live boy.” girl fitted to help him through the troubled wa- On the whole, Gubbins’ interview with Martin’ ters of his start. If he had had an assistant was unsatisfactory to him. The wholesaler cared j made especially to his order, he could not have nothing for Tom except as a pawn in his rivalry improved on Jessie Jarvis, who was a little busi- with Mr. Day, nor for Gubbins except as an in- Ness woman from the ground floor up. She liked strument to advance his own interests. If he the responsibility that lay on her young shoul- had not been interested in the game he would ders, and was proud of the confidence he reposed have admired the young fellow’s methods, which in her. : jibed with his own. He was willing to strain a ~“You’re a jewel, Jennie,” Tom told her one day, Point to help Gubbins out, but he did not choose “and I’m not paying you half what you are worth, to let the a ere ene think that he would adopt but I can’t afford to give you more at this stage ny methods that were not strictly regular. Tim- of the game. [’ll._make it up to you by and by othy Martin was a shrewd business Rye he: he if you will trust to my honor. I started this ever took any desperate chances, but still he did “business on my nerve and consequently have more things that Mr. Day would scorn to be guilty of. to buck against, but I’m going to win out. You , “That young groceryman is certainly m and my friend Bob are standing by me like ma- . things hot for Gubbins,” he said to himself, after jors, and I appreciate it more than I can tell | the departure of his customer. “I'll have to take - you” ; set os ee eee . . wader enough to blow 10. € a The way he spoke won the girl closer to his isappointment to me. Too bad I didn’t get hold Byes. Te with. Lodhi Sag ee ma Fs of Truesdale myself. I could have done wonders good-looking fellow, but his fascinating way and — en Se nee conversation had captured her ies gts © SRG toe ynake ta to anon my manager to sound the boy what she wasn’t willing to do for him is hardly «and see if I can’t win him over from Day. If I Worth mentioning, from which fact the reader * (4, qo that, he’ll make a raft of money for him- will see that Tom had the Indian sign on her, as self and me, too. To capture him would be to he had on his rival and on his customers as well. ; r : give Day a blow in the solar-plexis, so to speak, Gubbins had gained nothing from the help Mar- In that case,-Gabbing ean go-to blazes. I'll re. . tin gave him and in a rage at the state of affairs farn hi ; : " ‘ m his. $500 and let him hunt cover. That he made another call on his wholesaler. boy could run sO steees Sast -as-seell ap bkicand . “That boy is doing me up,” he said. a third, for that matter, to. keep any other comer “Pooh!” retorted Martin, who, being'a fighter from butting in. The northern section is my : e elf, expected Gubbins to show a good front, meat, and I’m going to control it or know the too. “Are you going to let a boy run you out?” yeason why not.” a - “But he is carrying everything before him. He —_ He sent for his manager and had a confidential has canvassed the neighborhood for blocks around talk with him. and has the people tied to him like a lot of fools. — «Ping out where the boy lives and call on him = Hf I reduce the price on anything, he goes me gunday,” Mr. Black. “Make him the proposition 7 one better, and the people give me the laugh. My J outlined to you, but be careful to feel your way = errand boy says everybody is stuck on Truesdale, fpct. I don’t want him to go to Day and tell him though what they see about him I can’t make out. y 3m trying to buy him off. We must have a S Something has got to be done or I'll go out of jittie honor in trade, even if we are cutting each ; i business. other’s prices.” s 4 : 7 - \ “You’re selling my specialties at rock-bottom “1’ll be cautious, Mr. Martin,” said the man- 4 —_ and I’m not making a cent on them, yet - mine & — Gra mighty slow,” said didn’t set out f£ you don’t, I'll look for xt block. Day spec get ahead
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14 3 the boy since he opened up his grocery store, and he was satisfied he was the lad for his money. His object was to establish a chain of groceries in the northern section, and he wanted a wide- awake hustler to take charge’of the bunch as manager, with a partnership interest. He said F- that as a beginning he proposed to buy out Gub- = bins and turn the store over to Tom to run. La- *— ter on he would furnish the capital to start a third store, and so on. ~~ “It’s quite a scheme, sir, but I’m not sure that I care to go in with you. I’m doing very well . as things are and the trust business is not wholly . to my liking. I like to be my own boss, account- able to no one for my methods and actions. I _ ean do beiter under those conditions.” - t- “I see you are deating entirely in the Day spe- ~... ejaities. Is that gentleman a om you?” asked the visitor. “No, sir. of credit.” “T should think you would have done better to have Rone inte the Martin goods. They go bet- ei h the class of customers you are catering He simply has given me easy terms “t think the Day specialties are the best—the fact thai the best people in town prefer them is some evidence of that fact—and I am educating -. . My customers in the Day lines, and they are tak- -. _ dig to thers like ducks to water.” 43 ‘Mr. Black frowned. “But you would make more money out of the Martin goods,” said the visitor. * *Then should you try to establish a chain of . stores in the northern district of this town, you Would deal in the Martin specialties instead of _ the Pay suecialties "> : : eis | t that sueh would be my idea.” = “Have pene Se eer iew with Mr. Martin the. subjegt Ro See Fo, “ts see him about it.” AL eontess shat I aid Ss ur is in favor of your project?” = See it is to his interest.” t d he. ( ito me. Soe . “Your name was tioned as a new grocer in Es oe = bee soe aaek 3 -doesn’t regard” me mu suppose: tM -. favor seeing as 1 am ; the goods of his he thinks you aré particu- Sat na AE Wes. OURET™ ein abot , my business rival? 3 » jes. of Jong’ experience in the T’m only a boy with much nd You think Team do that?” {oreonsider my proposition. ‘he ~ district. you've been doing something ae OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS condition is that you turn down the Day goods and take up with the Martin stock. If you con- sent, in one week Gubbins will no longer be your rival. His store will be under your control. “As the district fills up I will supply the backing for you to start a third store, and so on until the entire district is covered by the Truesdale stores.” - “The Truesdale stores!” exclaimed Tom. “Exactly. You will have a half interest in the whole business, and I will remain in the back- ground—the silent partner of the trust.” “It ought to be called the Martin trust, for, according to your plan, his goods will dominate _ oe part of town. The Day specialties’ will not ein it.” “What do you care? Day, you say, is nothing to you. Neither is Martin, for that matter, but by running a string of stores you'll be ‘able to make extra good terms with Martin—better than you could do with Day?” “How do you know that if it came to a show- down that Mr. Day wouldn’t sell as cheap as Mar- a “T don’t know for a certainty, but the Martin goods are going to be the whole thing in a year from now.” : “T doubt it. You say you'll give me a week te think your proposition over?” Mr. Black nodded. = ©“Well, I don’t want a week, nor an hour. .] have given my word to sell the Day specialties at my store for one year, if, I last-that long. I can’t go back on that. By that time the people will be so accustomed to” the Day products that they won’t care to change to the Martin goods. If you want to change front and back me up as. a dispenser of Day imstead of Martin, I'll talk the matter over with you; otherwise it is quite: useless r you to waste your time with me.”» | “You're foolish, young man. - Suppose I get somebody else to e charge of any project? ¥ have plenty of capital, and I bé sure to - Swamp you.” Fad “All right, sir. There is nothing to prevent you from trying if you want to. is is a free country, and you have the right to start as grocery stores in the norther district as u, or you-can afford to. Remember one thing, ever, I am out for my rights and I’m going to have them. I came in after Gubbins and I’ve : got him on the run. I ss you could buy him — out cheap, from what I hear. Start in with his — store as your opening wedge and see if you can run me and the Day goods out of the northern t I should like to see do. it, for f thrive on opposition. Gubbins t fds ¥. half a fight. Put your man in and let’s h 4 4 rattling good scrap to the finish.” af ee “You seem confident of winning.” ; ae you'll know “I'm confident that if you, win, understand that you turn down my many, suits {} offer?” “Yes, unless you flop over to the Day side.” ce oe poe were a partner of the Day 4 ; $ ss a =
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them up and stuck to them just as I am sticking to his rival’s, 2s long-as he gave me a fair deal.” “Well, I see there is no use talking further on “the subject,” said the visitor, rising. “I am sorry ‘I can’t do business with you. Perhaps you will see that you have made a mistake in refusing my propositicn. If then you desire to change your mind, a letter sent to°that address will reach me. Good afternoon!” “Good-afternoon!” said Tom, showing him out. He watched his visitor walk up the street. “ “T'll bet nine dollars to a doughnut that Martin _= _ Sent him to me to buy me off. Martin is a wise ge and Gubbins has told him that I am running is out of the new district. He sees that Gubbins is -a failure when up against me. He offers me a glowing inducement to come into his amp and push his goods in place of Day’s. Well, he hasn’t got money enough in his bank to buy me, though I’m a mile from being on Easy Street. My word is passed to Mr. Day, and for one year at least I shall sink or swim in his service.” CHAPTER XL—An Attempt at Robbery. 2 Pretty well convinced that he had a fight on his hands with Martin, Tom got “a renewed hustle on the following week and he got a dozen of -. Gubbins’ customers away from him before Sat- =e In the meanwhile several things hap- The first was an attempt to lure Jessie _Jarvis away from the store. She was offered a better job at higher wage if she would leave Tom at short notice. The tempter didn’t know how loyal end true the girl was to her young employer or he wouldn’t have made her the offer. ' He found out, however, and went away pr & pointed. On Wednesday a gang of rowdies gath- _ ered about the store and m things unpleas- =s aoa Miss Jarvis and any customer who en- . In the midst of the trouble Tom drove up. The boys didn’t know him, and as there was no ’ ‘Sign on the wagon they didn’t suppose that it had any connection with the store. They woke up to trouble when Tom jumped out and grabbing two of thém by the arms bumped their heads together and hauled them bodily into the store. Holding them tight prisoners, Tom heard Jessie’s story of the annoyance which, she said, had been going on _ for half an hour. : _.._ “Now, you young rascals,” said Tom, “who sent 7 vee here to annoy me?” ,. Aw, who's annoyin’ yer?” snarled one of the He Ae ui! - “Are you going to answer me?” _ “Nobody sent ‘us.” ~ ~~““AH right, then, Pa) will go to jail for creating Sa ys kicked and. struggled, but they could - mot break Tom’s strong hold. Then they wilted ~ and said that a man had sent them. — “Who was the man?” RS OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS aie aah 15 Billy brought the line and the two boys were 2 bound together and pushed into a corner. “Keep your eyes on them, Billy,” said Tom. | The rest of the gang had retreated to the op- - a posite side of the way. When Tom came to the .~ ~ door to see where they had gone, they flung cate. calls and bad language at him and one, more “=. daring than the“rest, launched a storie at one of. his windows. Tom caught it on the fiy and start- ed for them. The bunch took to their heels. Tom threw the stone into their midst and hit one of them on the leg. He fell, and before he could get up Tom was on top of him. Yanking him to, his feet, the young ge honey 3 cuffed him till he yelled for mercy. Then Tom dragged him into the store and tied him up, too. When the po- | liceman came, Tom told him the story of the out- rage and ordered him to arrest the boys. “We'll dump them into my wagon and take them to the police station,” he said, “and I'll make the charge against them.” © This was done and the three boys were locked up and Tom promised to appear inst them next day. At the appointed time Tom left the store in charge of Billy and took Jessie to court with him. The boys’ parents were in the court to try and get them off. Tom told the magistrate that the boys had been jncited by some party un- known to annoy-him and hurt his business. Jes= ~— sie testified to the trouble, saying that the crowd had refused to leave when she ordered them to. The boys, in their own defense, stated that they had been hired by’a stranger to act as they had done. They didn’t know who the man was. They were sentenced to thirty days in the house of correction and their folks set up a howl, but it didn’t do any good. Tom and Jessie returned to = sare a : : s the mornings grew longer, Tom had to get to his store at = o’clock in order te meet the farm wagon. When Jessie came at half-past seven he went home to breakfast and on his way back got his rig from the stable. On Saturday morning of that week he woke an hour earlier than usual without knowing it and reached the store at five instead of six. As he came up Tay- lor street he saw the head of a horse ing in 3 front of his store. He knew it could not be the ay farm wagon that was there, for there was onlya > single horse and the animal was headed in the wrong direction. It struck him that somethin, wa Witlly: S63 eee the corner with * some caution. g around the corner, he ~ saw a man up in the wagon. Looki . cena the side ee he saw that the door 3 0 e store was 0 a man was carrying a bundle over one ler and ne another to the door. Leaving the latter at the door, the - man started for the wagon with the other. “Here! What _you to?” cried Tom, suddenly springing out from shelter of the corner and pouncing on the fellow who was — carrying the bag of plunder, floored him with a heavy blow. The man in the wagon snatehed up: a stick-and aimed a blow at Tom. it fell short of reaching him, aud the Stick, slipping eut of -— his hand, hit the curb with a rattling sound. Tom - t
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@led his companion he reconsidered the matter. Tom dragged the fallen man to the door of the store and told him if he did not lie quiet he would treat him to another crack on the nut. i ae are you going to de with me?” he asked y: “Turn you over to the police as a thief.” “T’m not a thief.” ps “No? And you have carried two bagfuls of my property out of the store, intending to carry it away on that wagon. What kind of business @o you call that?” “We were paid io do it.” “Oh, come now, don’t give me such a song and dance as that!” “It’s the truth. We were paid to rob your store of some of.your stock so as to put you in a hole,” said the man. 2 “Who hired you to dé, that? Identify him and PH let you go.” The prisoner didn’t know who the man was,-but he described him, and the likeness was identical with that given by the boys who had been sent to the house of correetion. 'Tom began to believe the story the man told him. story,” said Tom, “but that doesn’t let you out of the pele eee FF ourself into. . Sa companion iven ese “you, leav- ~ ing you to-go to jail with ae charge of bur- os lary hanging over your head,” . — Elke you ‘going to have me arrested?” asked Se ada care: ak you lig oe sea? = “As sure as you lie ¢: os ' “Pye a wife pea ebildren who will starve ff I go to jail.” easy “You should have considered the chances ou were taking before-you went inte your crooked eet.” ae “_. “J needed money.” =) > ~ _ “That's no excuse. You eould get honest work, necessary. — = “Was reall pg ort Day arnt lage ier oe z Only for Tom's aggressive tac~ -
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ties and attractive personality the Day goods ~ ‘would not have had a show, and Mr. Day had _ Woke up to that fact. e Martin, disgusted with Gubbins, had started ~ another man in business on the other side of _ Tom's store, that is, in the block above. This new -. Storekeeper, coached by Martin, was making a _. g0od bid for trade, but he found it hard to buck “against the boy. The nee of prices between Tom and Gubbins had ceased to a great extent, for the boy had such a grip on his customers that _ a cut did Gubbins no good. If he scaled down on _ butter, or sugar, or eggs, Tom let him do it. People rushed to Gubbins’ store and bought those _ articles, but nothing else. Ina day or two Gubbins had to go back to the regular price, and then the people honght those ; things off Tom, for they knew they could always depend on the quality of his goods, whereas some of had been clearly of ~~ ®Can I have a private talk with you, Trues- ~ “dale?” asked his first rival. Pe weet Mr. a : Come this way. Bob, ‘ after things, will you Tor and Gubbins walked to the end of the store. -~ . “Truesdale, I’m to sell out if I can You’re the smartest I've done my best to beat I could get from Martin, capital of $1,000. He went_as cap. the place. I .OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS 17 were up against a live boy, however, and as soon as I got on to your methods I saw your finish,” said Tom. “fd like to get square with Martin if I could,” said Gubbins. “He is waiting for me to go up, and then he intends to put another man nm my store and push the fight against you. He figures that he will have you between’ two fires, If he hadn’t soured on me, you’d see me advertising his specialties and other things at the same figure the new man in the block above is doing. I don’t know whether he’s hurting you mxuch or not, but with two of us on the job, we might. As soon as I get out, there will be two on the job unless you take up with my offer.” “What’s your offer?” asked Tom. “Buy me out. J’ll sell cheap. Run my store yourself and that will block Martin’s scheme of putting what he calls a live man in my place. "ll admit that he has made me an offer to get out. He has offered me $500. I'd sooner take. $400 from you than oblige him. He has insulted me several times and it would be worth $100, or even more, to me to get back at him. What do you say—will give me $350 cash?” “Do you ly want to quit?” “I’ve got to whether I want io'or not.” “Look here, Gubbins, if you want to get back at Martin, and at the same time help yourself, I can point out a better way than your offer.” “What is it?” — “Come over on my side of the fence and fight — Bs Martin. I don’t want your store, but I'll take it sooner than let it fall into Martin’s hands. if I close with you at your price I'll be down and out. Now suppose you agree to throw out Mar- tin’s specialties and push Day’s Bate in place of them. I'll get Mr. Day to m good terms with you till you can get on your feet. I’li- to quit calling on all the customers I have below President street in P ished neighborhood, [I'll give you their names and you can go around and can- vass them. They won’t want to inue with me if I notify them that I can’t deliver below President street after the end of the month, and when you tell them that you are selling the same goods [am at the same | sar you'll get them as _ customers. I'll do this for you with the under- stan that you will do the low President street. me free to ca tory. How does the strike you?” saiheg More! Payee § e you up. ell. togeth against Martin,” he said, ru his > aad ote t you get pushed, [’ll help you out. Martin told me that you’re as smart as a steel trap. I heard him say that if he had you ‘he'd control two- thirds of the town within a year Sai Naas Day me ‘Tt will give me a chance to establish myself, and you "t be afraid that I will prove ungrate- Tal. I always stand by a friend. If Martin had would still be in the fight treated me I against you. As he had ee eee thrown me over, I am - “AID right, = ss 6 le ty Gubbins. I'll take you down to see
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Mr. Day to-morrow after dinner. As soon as you make arrangemcnis with him, get your re- mains of the Martin stuff out in front of your store and offer it at any price to get rid of it. Send hand-bills out all around your district be- low President street headed, ‘Selling Out Below Cost. You will mean the Martin specialties, which you will announce only on your bills, but the people will think you’re going out of busi- ness and will flock to your store. Then you can tell them that hereafter you intend to deal in the Day specialties at the same price I offer them. That will be low as long as the fight with Mar- ‘tin’s man goes on. When we haye beaten him then we raise the prices to the regular standard.” Gubbins returned to his store tickled to death. To get in with his smart young rival meant a whole lot to him, and to get even with Martin was joy to his soul. Next day, Tom took him to see Mr, Day. Tom explained the new situa- _- tion and asked the wholesaler to give Gubbins a ‘chance. “With Gubbins pushing your goods below Pres- ident street, and me carrying on the fight against Martin’s new man, in a short time Martin will be out of it,” said Tom. “Will you sign a year’s agreement to handle = only my goods, Mr. Gubbins?” asked Day of the ve: groceryman. “y “Tll sign anything you want, and I'll agree to vt | = help: Tru _ too, if he wants any help,” said pen Gubbins. “He is treating me white, and I appre- eee eee OE =a So the ment was made and another : spoke was put in Martin’s wheel. CHAPTER XIIl.—Martin Gets in Both Feet. Timothy Martin had no suspicion that Gub- + bins had flopped over to his rival. Jake Gruber, : his new yi got hold of one of Gubbins’ “Sell- 4ing Out-Below-Cost” hand-bills and sent it to ~ shim, with the remark that he guessed Gubbins _- he got it, and proceeded to communicate with an- other : ins w up the lease of his store he intended to take it for the new party. He sent word to Gruber to keep tab on Gub- bins and let him know when the'latter was put- ing his shutters. for y on the job. In the meantime. Tom Peter White, with respect to the stock alleged ¢ m purchased by his mother before her : came he rode out. with on the subject. The ‘to see him. He : _able to find the and I want it. ’m is part of them. If of twenty-four ofa law- addition to is ; OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS © good. Gruber put his. recollected that he had not heard from his uncle, eae whether it’s. & Farmer White, for reasons of his own, Showed considerable trepidation. - “I don’t want no lawyer to come bothering me,” he whined, : “Then come up with the stock,” said Tom. “But I can’t come up with it. It’s lost.” “Ts it? Then J’ll put a lawyer on the job to- morrow and he will make you tell him all the particulars. I have reached my limit with you, Uncle Peter. You turned me down cold about four months ago, thinking you could skin me out of my wages. You did not skin. me worth a cent. Now, you won’t skin me out of that ‘stock. I’m in business and doing well, and so I’m able to make you toe the mark. You will hear from my. lawyer in a day or two.” As Tora got up to go, the old man wilted. He confessed that Tom’s mother had not left any worthlessystock, but $1,500 in money, which he had used"to buy an addition to his farm. If Tom would give him time he would pay him the money in instalments. ; 3 “Upon my word, you’re a nice uncle, you are,” - said Tom, in a tone of disgust. “J needed the money, nephew, and I meant to return it to you some day.” “How much can you pay on account: right away?” > 3 After hemming and hawing, Mr. White “said he could pay $500. “Very good. Bring it to me at my store to-- morrow, with your note at six months for the balance.* Here is my business card,” said Tom. “Are you in the grocery business?” ‘said the farmer, in surprise. “What did you think'I was in?” “I had no idea -you were in anything.” 2 “Well, you see I am. Now don’t forget. If you. aren't there before dark I'll start a lawyer after ou. : : “T’ll be there, nephew.” “Never. heard from that money you lost, I suppose?” — ; , : “No,” said the farmer. “That was a terrible oss. = “And you had the nerve to say that I put the burglars on to you.” ; “J didn’t mieant it. How did you get the to go into’the grocery business?” * “J went in on my nerve and the $235 me that Sunday.” money you paid “You must have had more’n that. It Would of take at jour $1,000 to go into any business.” : “That's a you know about it. Yon’re. fara and you don’t und d what backed by hustle. nd Sars, oth; Yer do for a person in a town or } a great favor by bouncing me off” aft, “taut. you didn’t mean to do it, so ’m under no obliga- ~~ tion to E te Well, good-by! Show up to-morrow, ~ or you'll hear from me.” es With that, Tom took his leave. eg ees “Say, Bob,” said Tom, as th peer “what do you think? My uncle to me about — that stock. When I pinned him down to a it over he admitted that my mother left $1,500 in money instead of worthless stock.” “Is that so?” said Bob in surprise.
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-. “Geet What a nerve! Used your money with- _ out*your permission and intended to keep it, I = Suppose.” ; Apparently that was his plan, but I spoiled it ~ by threatening to hire a lawyer to get my right - for me. He's going to pay me $500 to-morrow, and the balance of it in six months.” “That will be quite a lift for you in your busi- “Bet your life it will! It couldn’t come at a _" better time.” : a The conversation then changed to another topic. _ Next morning he read in the paper that two crooks, named Jack Nipper and Barney Galvin, had been caught burgiarizing a house in the _. suburbs of Rockland. ‘ ; Mr. White-brought the $500 next day and his mote for the balance due Tom. He was ,aston- » ished to see what a fine business Tom had. _.“¥ou must be pretty smart, nephew,” he said. “tt’s about time you-found that out, Uncle "- Peter. If you want to buy any groceries to take [> back with you I'll let you have them at a dis- - count, though you don’t deserve such considera- tion from me,” said Tom. Mr. White bought about $5 worth and Tom knocked off his retail profit. y= “Pll come in again w en I need more, nephew,” _ Said the farmer, tickled at the idea of getting his =) Broceries ves = Mr. Whi ally drove off, saying he would call at the station-house and see if he could | identify the men; if he could he would prosecute » aes Gubbins’ “Selling Out-at-Cost”. sale y remained i : 2 fi F © i equneas é 1 ee es, and when they arrived he ‘up.a bj epi emee that hereafter mi se s as cheap as any grocer eee ge Gruber’s boy saw the sign the fact to his boss> Gruber~was walked down to Gubbin’s store Ene 4 B 3 [ 38 = thought you were going out of business, } “Well, you’ve got another think coming. I’m | Being to stay right here as long as I please,” back on Martin?” said Gru- OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS 19 “Yes, one three doors away.” “Good! [Ti take it, put a man in and run the scoundrel out -of business.” 7 Martin called his manager into his room and had a talk with him, during which he roundly denounced Gubbins. Shortly afterward the man- ager went to the northern district and rented the store near Gubbins’ place. A ‘few days later advertising Martin’s s alties and a full assort- ment of fs over to Tom’s store that evening what was on the tapis. ae “My!” cried Tom, “if matters get much hotter the people will be able to buy their groceries for next to nothing.” . “ll have to cut my prices still lower to mect this opposition,” said Gubbins. “If I don’t I won't have any trade at all. Martin’s man has floeded- the neighborhood with hand-bills advertising his low prices. Martin put him there to run me out because I flopped over to Day, and he’ll keep him there until he does me up. I can’t buck against a@ wealthy man like him.” me a, Mr. Day,” said Tom. “This kind of business is ruinous to all hands. The people from the south side will come over to buy their groceries as soon as they et wind of the state of affairs. That will hw local dealers there. We'll be called sha pirates and what not. I’m afraid it -will be tough on you particularly, Gub- bins, for your trade is so small. As for me, I'll give’ Martin all the fight he wants. I’ve got the trade and I’m going to hold on to it fi have to give my stuff away until Martin gets tired of the game.” “Sure he will, for the t is practically be- tween him and Martin. He'll see us through, and tain, Martin can’t interfere with his high-toned trade. Martin is simply out for’this new dis- trict. He’s determined to it if he can, and the only way he can do it is to get you and me out. I hadn’t butted in in the first place he'd have had it, for Day was making no bid for it. I have interested: Day _and thereby drawn him into the fight. He is gritty enough to stick it afford to. make such extensive cuts, I can. This latest action on his part is directed solely Gubbins because he took up with my goods. He probably. does not propose to extend it to his ' other store above you. Tom stopped in at Gubbins on his way back and told him that Day would do all he could to help him out. ® CHAPTER XIV —Conclusion. “The people of the northern section could read — with some complacency in the pape high cost of a3 long as they buy er oer about the a -
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\ 2 their groceries at the prices asked at the four rival stores. Tom met the new Martin rates and, ef course, Gruber was obliged to follow suit. In the course of two weeks Martin realized that he wasn’t making much headway in his revenge on Gubbins, and none at, all against Tom. That made him madder than ever. There could be no doubt in his mind now that Day was going to see doth Gubbins and Truesdale through at any cost. He cudgeled his brains for some other plan, and finally called on the political leader of the north- ern district, with whom he was on friendly terms, and placed the case before him. “Very well.~ I’ll speak to my war captains and if they think they can do anything to help you Vll heave them do it, but it’s rather a delicate matter. The party voters are about evenly di- vided in my district, and I can’t do anything at . all with the oppdsition,” said the leader. ~ A week after this conversation Tom learned from many of his customers that they had been gpproached by the ward captains and the sug- stion thrown out that they would find it to ee interest to trade with Gruber instead of Wruesdale. That made Tom angry. Martin had resorted to politics to help him out. So he called at the Martin wholesale house and sent in his mame. Martin was somewhat surprised, and won-_ dered whether the boy was weakening. Tom walked in and lost no time in stating the object of his visit. He asked Martin what he -meant by resorting to underhand tactics. “Don’t imagine that I’m afraid of you, Mr. in, because I’m not,” said Tom, aggressive- . “J know the respect that is due a gentleman | eed years and standing in the community, when you resort to such methods as politics ' to do me up you are lowing yourself in the esti- mation of the public.” “How dare you come here and chastise me, young man?” roared Martin. “Boy,” he said, hoarsely, “there isn’t a man in town that would dare come here and talk to me Bs you have just done. It is clear to me that you are utterly fearless. Look here. I'll make “you a proposition. I'll give you $5,000 cash to tome in*with me, and I'll give you a half in- terest in all the stores I start in the northern sisizietk”' —-. *=.- ou couldn’t buy me for a million, Mr. Mar- ‘tin. If you want to do a sensible thing you will call the fight off all around. You'll close ; & zeae new store close to Gubbins and direct to restore prices on your goods to the . lL will do the same, and so will Gubbins. You might as well understand now that you never ‘ean control the northern section. At present I - ontro! it. I’ve got the majority of the families ‘with me. I’ve won them through sheer hustle, and I mean to keep them by giving them honest : goods at an honest price. I don’t believe in price You've lost money since you started in nr’ Gubbins and you are losing more trying do him up. You've also caused Mr. Day to ‘in proportion, but I haven’t lost to any eA ie Pxten ss C _ was » them OUT FOR HIS RIGHTS me to take the bull by the horns and let the bull know that he was treading on dangerous ground. I am glad to know that no one political arty controls this town, and that if there is a eaning in any direction it is not toward the party you are connected with. That gives me a fighting chance against your latest maneuver, and so if you go too far I may find an opening to haul you into court, which I assure you I will do if you force me to it. I have been out for my ~ rights from the start, and it strikes me that lll come pretty close to getting what’s coming to me. I’d rather be on friendly terms with you and all men than otherwise, but the man who tries to sit on my neck has his work cut out.” Martin sat back in his chair during Tom’s speech and glared at the boy. The aggressive wholesaler had met his match in the young store- keeper. Tom had finished his speech standing, with his hand on the knob of the door, ready to~ make his exit. As the last word left his lips a woman’s scream yang through the building. Tom forgot Martin a moment, pulled open the door and looked out, while the wholesaler sprang to his feet. Just outside the door was the big freight elevator coming down slowly loaded with goods from an upper story. _Some one had neg- lected to properly close the iron latticed gate that cut the space off from the store proper. It had parted in the middle to the extent of two. feet and through this opening in some unaceount-. able manner a pretty, handsomely dressed girl of sixteen had slipped. As Tom sprang to the ~ irl’s aid, Timothy Martin filled the doorway “of is private room. He staggered back with horror and consternation, for the imperiled one was his only daughter, Norah. Tom grabbed the girl | under the armpits and lifted her out of the pit — with a mighty effort of his strong, muscular . arms, her skirt giving away like a piece of gauze, | As her boots cleared the edge of the hole the ~ huge elevator came flush with the floor and stopped. in, sweating blood almost, and holding on to the door to sustain his swaying figure, stared at the boy, who was holding his — fainting daughter in his arms, while clerks wera. , rushing up from half a dozen points. Then with a howl like a wounded bull he staggered for- = ward and seized his child in his arms. Martin © carried his daughter into his room where she soon revived, When he found she had escaped scot — free he was wild with joy. « ee He knew that his aggressive young visitor had ~ saved the girl’s life; and he rushed out to tade him and express hic gratitude, but Tonx*had gone away. He sent a messenger at once't,to Tom's store to call him back. Tom, however, wid not stop at his store, but went straight out amonz customers, whom he had neglected that.morning. © That evening Martin walked in upon him. : “Truesdale,” he said, grasping his hand, “you = my Said ana I a eee exe, : ress my gra le sufficiently. From thi: mo- — ment I am your best, friend, and the fight I've — made against you is aver.” You have won out.” And so we end the story of the boy who was out for his rights, and got them. -
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te te BURGLARS USE CHLORINE GAS % oz least after result of the war is the - ~ eae crime in nearly all the beligerent countries, but a group of French burglars have - Supplied the climax by using army poison gas - projectors in order to silence watchdogs at iso- lated teaux. é c = At me burglars left an empty chlorine tank and two gas masks after ransacking a farm house ~ while the occupants slept in peaceful confidence. ~ Two strangled hounds completed the picture, _ but there is little clue to the identity of the 3 i urglars. . os, of this the French army has re- ~ ceived orders to make an inventory of all gas eens on hand and to take strictest meas- ures to preyent the disappearance of any of it. =: 7 —_axreisi USED IN STREET CLEANING In one of the towns of Oregon the familiar ‘eatfish figures as a hardy pioneer, and a valued adjunct to the street department, all because the terra cotta sewers and drains, especially those in the lower part of the town, frequently get choked. _ Ifthe sewer is not broken it can be cleaned by passing a rope through it to be pulled backward and forward until the obstruction is loosened and "removed. The deputy superintendent of streets had a great deal of such work to look after, but at last he discovered a quick, sure and easy a goes to the river, eatehes a catfish, ties alla its tail, drops it down a manhole into he sewer, and it at once starts for the river nd .¢ its way through any obstruction not as solid ae f j as brick, dragging the string after it. m the deputy goes as far down the sewer as deems necessary and picks up the string, ‘uses to draw a wire through the sewer, this a rope is pulled through and the soon cleared. hich he Bee p) Ss LEDO SWORD FACTORY ; i oan sword factory at Toledo, in absolute secrecy surrounds some of the sesses employed in the making of these cele- ed blades, although under certain conditions ors are allowed to go through tlie factory. ‘one, however, is permited to look upon the ‘secrets of tempering. ~ 5 the first room there may be seen a curious nd shield fastened fe wor the wall, last test of a finis sword is made. ; inst this target as an arrow 1s If its point is perfect, well t turn a fraction of the finest the blade makes an esca the unpractised eye, FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS another table is an artisan pounding with a tiny sha edged sort of hammer, working out a handle pattern, There are several hundred em- ployees in this sword factory, and a great many¥ of them are boys under twenty, but the most trusted workers jare not often young. PET MONKEY CONVICTS COUPLE * OF MURDER Often a mute witness has given the most con vincing evidence in a suit or trial at law. For example, many a dog, by displaying naturally his affection for his master, has confounded the pretenses of the man claiming to own him. I¢ remained for a monkey, the only witness of the crime, to convict two persons of murder, The Ackermann cireus was giving perform- ances in Constantinople not long ago. Its man- ager was found dead in front of a cage containing an Indian monkey, to which, because of his af- fectionate playfulness, had been given the name ‘ Seamp. It was shown easily that the manager had been stabbed to death at the moment he was feeding Scamp, of which he was very fond. By the man’s body lay a tin dish and remnants: of the meal he had been giving the monkey. Two members of the circus troupe, a married couple named Starr, were suspected of the crime, for thev had quarrelled with the other perform- ers, But the Starrs protested their innocence vigorously and no eriminating evidence against them could be found. a So the Judge determined. to reconstruct murder; a plan adopted not infrequently and de- rived, probably, from the ancient trial ordeal At the hour at which Scamp had been fed. the circus tent was deserted by all employees. Then the Starrs were ordered to 's cage, which they did rather hesitatingly. instant the monkey saw them he flew into a paroxysm of rage. Never before had he exhib- ited such violent anger, for, as has been said, he is of an amiable and lev disposition. Chat- tering fiercely, Scamp hurled himself against the bars of the cage, making frantic attempts to seize the Starrs. Suddenly fear succeeded ra and Scamp cowed in a corner, shivering an _ whimpering. The Judge and police were deeply impressed chrank frem them, straining at his chain to es cape from their presence. No spoken eidence could have been half so elo. P Despite their emphatic and i Starr and his wife x dged , “ - — Ra” & - 2 > "1 aii - -_ - ~—e ‘ ,
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a2 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Lost On Mt. Erebus = OR A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GAs!tON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XIV.—A Voice From the Past. As if to mark time on his questioning, there came sundry sudden distant detonations, not un- like mine explosions. Yet the deep, shaking re- verberations were far more terrible, though hardly louder: ti the far-off roar of artillery. Drawn from the terrors threatening to un- dermine them, they both gazed fascinated at the dread sight above, until Hawley saw a slow, dull, reddish stream burst from the — outlet that had given them so warm a place to sleep, and pour itself upon the glacier ice. Vast volumes of steam rose up, obscuring the further view up there. This continually in- creased as the vast ice surface was_met and melted before the stream of living fire. “That accounts for this underground water, Madge. For vears this ice has packed and packed as the. glacier moved downward. But now the untisual force of the internal fires has burst all bounds. If I mistake not, this whole ice field = — and crumble away.” oud grinding up and down the ice pack r out the Sictant reports from the sum- mit of Excbus, the opposite wall of the crevasse caved away, like the crumbling down of an earth bank being under- mined by water. “Still their own side, beyond some shallow caving id not give way. Madge, look eae asped Joe’s arm an é caving in had exposed ESt ice but of ice-lined rock yee nk tele of this lay what looked a human form, its back was toward them, ee could see an extended arm with a rs ee toward the d not speak, He d and ce rer , reasoning out Teosee amazing revela- — he tr Madge a pencering hug. bas have it at last,” he shouted. “We may es- seape yet” “Have what? How can we escape? Oh, Joe! I wish we—we were somewhere else.” . But we will get somewhere else, it ae that at I understand it may not be ‘go hard after all.” “s0**For. ole sake, dear Joe, do explain what oer or under ice stream has king and growing for days as the vol- =e ORS" Su on ee “J don’t know that-it does. But it explains why, when the eruption finally took place, that this ice cap began to cave. For ali that this crust of snow and ice are everywhere on top, we know that inside of this mountain are fires, seeth- ing with a glowing heat. Finally the inevitable caving in began. This happened at the right time bP eras you and me to get across on the safe side. “What do you mean?” “That upper side is all ice—or water—while we here seem to be stranded on the solid earth and rock of the mountain itself. Of course, there is a sheathing of ice over it, where everything nai been frozen up for ness knows how te) ? “Put when that sheathing melts, won’t we go with it?” “T hardly think so. On this side we seem to have struck lees to solid earth, Perhaps our tumbie in here is a good thing after all.” heh sure I hope so. But how can I help look- own, just as it first beckoned us to fall in ro What? Are you going up to it? Please don’t.” Hawley not only was making his way cautious- ly in that datethin, but drawing M after him. holding her with one hand firmly, but ever so yently. The girl did not really want to stay back. In- deed, nothing would have induced her to sepa- rate "herself from Joe in such a Pp . But she did think for a moment that Hawley was taking - a needless \ risk. F Though the body was partially leaning over the chasm, Joe soon saw that its lower paris were imbedded in a block of ice that was still in- tact, though jarred from its connection with the solid masses that were not yet shaken loose by the melting influences below. | “There are others here,” exclaimed Joe, draw- — closer. “Is this another polar mystery?” 5 adge, peering from behind, uttered a terrified littie seream, then braced up as bevter became a girl of real nerve, ; e Behind the fallen figure were three others, crouching in unnatural attitudes, but mostiy like | men overcome by Lavoe 8 or stupor. A few dead their midst denoted that here had once been some kind of fire. So real and natural were these forms and their caverned surroundings that Hawley invo!- untarily put out a hand to touch a protrudin; foct of the sprawled figure which had first caught his eye. His S eeerss fingers struck solid ice, clear as sta Hurriedly he felt of one of the others nearest. Bf Ter re all sheathed in ice. Good heavens, These r men are dead, frozen for goodness knows how long =e the heart of this. acier.’” . oe eee ree Oe os cake touch, or ceiniareting low, now caused that b of ice to give way. ~ (To be continued) : Poe
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= ‘ — j ) LIGHTNING BURNS SHOES, SOCKS a a recent thunder storm, Grantsburg, “Wis., Clarence Westlund had an experience which he will not soon forget. While sitting with his - feet on the stove hearth Westlund was struck by a currrent of lightning, which hit his feet, burned the soles off his shoes, also his stockings, and badly burned the soles of his feet. The current then passed up his leg, around the body and back to one of his shoulders. Except for blis- tering, he is uninjured. Pane m7 GARDEN 6,930 FEET HIGH of the most extraordinary botanical gar- world is that laid out, at an altitude of 6,930 feet, on the “Little St. Bernard,” near valley of Aosta, Italy. - ee garden, established by the late rector of hospice, M. Chanoux, comprises Specimens of tieail all mountain flora, whether it. grows e ‘Al the Balkans, the Carpathians, the - Caucasus, Pyrenees, the Himalayas or among fis mountains of America; Japan and New. Zea- Saat it was begun in 1892, but was not. actually for inspection until 1897, when the rector hospice intrusted it to the care of Prof. > ¥ S : eo - SOAP FROM CLAY is the promise made by a who have been working ticles in a . a leading British au on.colloidal chem- who has been in touch with their experi- of all technical verbiage what this is a method of making use nd 3 ~? 4 i = ss eae $8, te BE & *. Bae g Boo | m8 foes .2 : i i 5 2g FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY y. THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. paper suits have to Le other clays in the United States that are equally suitable, The process by which the clay is prepared is simplicity itself. After mining it is pee a combined washing and chemical process the resultant finely divided clay after being run into a settling tank is dried Gnd is ready for use. It is a soft soapy su without a trace of grit. The purified clay has also been used in Eng- land in the manvfacture of printing inks, for color striking, and a substitute for much :.ore gen ia chemicals in the vulcanization of rub- r. >= GERMAN PAPER SUITS UNFIT FOR WEAR HERE Walter H. Burtdh; a Chicago woolen merchant, who returned from Europe recently, says that the paper suits made in Germany, which were apparently being boosted by certain officials’ of the Administration in Washington, wou!d be of ne use in this country on acedunt of fhe heat. “During the long war,” Mr. Burtom continued, “the Germans had to fall back upon ‘a’! kinds of materials to make clothing out of, as they had no wool or cotton to make cloth. Their manufacturers did wonders with paper. They made shirts, underwear of all descriptions, col- lars, caps, sheets, towels and coverings. The tablecloths in the hotels when I was in Ger- many three weeks ago were nearly all made of paper except at the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg, which is owned by the Ham -Ameriean Line;~ and has been furnished from the supplies that were intended for the ships. } “The paper suits and underwear are all. right to keep people warm in cold weather, but they are very trying in the summer, even in Ger- many, where the temperature is much, lower in New York and there is. less humidity. “The underwear and the shirts stick to one when they become soaked through with pers- Piration and have to be removed in pieces. The suits look O. K. until the rain comes, and then good-by clothes. They shrink up are likely to fall apart suddenly in a manner that causes confusion to the wearer. People who wear these take to shelter directly a shower comes on and wait until it is oyer, whith might mean several hours.” r Mr. Burton said he saw serviceable suits sold retail in London in stores of Mallaby Deely, a member of Parliament, and other tailor- was about 35 per cent., so that allowing for. duty, imported alteration would be quite presentable wear well for , oat | wr ee .
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WILD BOAR HUNTING By Paul Braddon. ost of early life was spent on the plains ‘ in this adidienueeset and fastnesses of the mountains. A portion of my time was spent in the service of the Govecmneens Bene as guide various exploring and surveying parties. baa was in the. summer of 1854 that General D—— came to me to know if I would take charge of and act as guide for a party of distinguished foreigners who wished to do some shootirig on the plains. I consented, providing they would permit me to accompany them as one of the party. Well, they accepted my conditions. The party were mostly Germans and Austrians, the 1g: hest in rank amone them being a prince of the royal blood—Prince Carl. I soon found that they were jolly good fellows in spite of their titles. When we went into camp, as we did every night, Prince Carl always took bis turn in bringing wood and water. Prince Carl (1 always called him plain “Carl”) was broiling a steak taken from the rump of the first buffalo we had shot. His face was ail aglow with Se reanercy for he had enjoyed the exciting chase “immensely, ; : “It was excellent sport!” he ejaculated. ‘ “Buffalo hunting is the choice of all hunting << om the face of the earth in my opinion,” I re- turned, American-like, wishing to feel that America was ahead in everything. , “Well,” he said, “St. John, — not dispute oint; it’s purely a matter of opinion, any- bn Mag But tiger hunting in the jungles of India is, to my mind, a little more exciting.” “Not as good as buffalo,” I persisted. “And then there’s boar hunting, our national sport, so to speak. The chasing of a boar will make the blood of every true sportsman run h.” aan ss “Pooh! A boar’s a wild hog, ain't it?” “Yes,” = “And squeals the minute he’s covered, of eourse.” i ee. : ; “Does he!” with a smile, and the prince lighted ~ .hhis pipe with a brand from the fire. | “St. John, ‘do you ever expect to go to Europe? = “J don’t know. Perhaps. ; =e “I? you.do, I promise you that you will change a i after I’ve treated you to a boar mn unt, as I should undoubtedly do if you came.” 73 This was all that was said about the matter at, were together for several ; er of his ation to pay him a visit in case of my making a i the old world... “If I ever like for wild hogs” Batis = ike to hunt 2 - It was about five years after this that I went _ to. Europe. "I wrote to Prince Carl. He replied immediate- dan receiving my leter * iis reply showed _ go to Europe you'll see me of a certainty,” I re- Toeted us we ahook FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ‘Three weeks after landing in Liverpool I reached the house of Prince Carl, and barzing the confounded scraping and bowing, it was Very pleasant to be an inmate of his’ house. The prince and a few friends had been out only a couple of days before, and there was still some of the boar meat left in the house—con- found it! I should say castle. , A boar hunt had been arranged to take place the second day after my arrival, and of course I was made one of the party. A finer day for the boar chase could not have been selected. At last we were all in readiness and it struck me that they made a great many preparations, if boar hunting was what I call “pig-sticking.” Never before had I seen such a vicious-looking lot of dogs. A ride of an hour brought us to the edge of an open woods, in which Carl said he hoped we might start a boar, as the horses could more easily pursue him here than where the growth was heavier. : Two of the wild boars broke from a nearby covert, where they had been feeding. Like a flash they crossed our line of vision and dis- appeared, separating and following gradually di- versing lines. Carl glanced at me. I nodded and away we went as fast as the powerful horses could carry us, following in the direction of the hounds. Faster—faster! The excitement of the chase was beginning to grow on me. 3 How we flew! I never stopped to refiect that I was new to boar hunting. I was drawing up on the hounds. I knew that, though I could not see them, for their cries were closer. Such speed was more than reckless—it w. madness—it was insanity. ; Carl called to me to pause. I was vaguely conscious that he did so, hut it made no difference to me then. - What I wanted was to get on faster and toward that object I devoted every feeling. : Now. I was pulling sharply on this rein, now on\the other, to avoid collision with some giant tree. which obstructed a straight course; and every few seconds I was obliged to dodge to save myself from being swept from the saddle by some low, branching limb. Suddenly the. hounds. gave cry in a different tongue. : My well-trained horse tnderstood it, though I did not, and the movements he made called my attention to him, which was hardly dene when I was nearly lifted from the saddle, the reins — wrenched from my hands; I went over my as "5 yump ee ante the es a sit- ng posture. It st me an ve every bit of breath from my body. me on a few feet further and short, much to my surprise. eontempt for t “the
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| ye ry Lae e , me and as I saw od oe eager glaring eyes fast- d ‘ened cn me | w have given a.thousand dol- lars to have been in the Reckies facing a grizzly. And such a sound as came from his throat! I know of nothing to liken it to. It was not a ov, nor a yell, nor a shriek, but it was a blood- ‘curdling combination of them all, with a grunt ‘under it. His first charge was on the dogs. _ They scattered like chaff before a gale, yet ing eare—exhibiting a remarkable intelligence —to keep him hemmed in. -Snazrling, snapping they closed in on the boar. Sie. T saw the manner in which he made use “of the long, backward. curving tusks that pro- jected from his lower jaw. A dog had impu- = y approached tco close. The hog made a : his head wes swiftly lowered and was then yanked upward with ali the immense strength has vesided in the muscles of his short, thick neck. The point of the tusk nearest the dog caught ‘him under the belly, and when the boar’s head Tr so sWiftly raised the sharp tusk’ cut like a Enife ani sashed him’ and laid him open to the “Yery backbone. ; - The boar now charged on the steed I had rid- The horse was an old boar hunter and rap- ¥y wheeled about on his hind legs, presenting ‘broadside to the animal. just so that a man m his ba*k could have delivered the boar a ~t& and deathly blow. But 1, his rider, was not in my saddle to give him that thrust. _. Heavens! What a scream was uttered by the e:the next minute. The boar’s sharp tusk, ilveady reddened by the dog’s blood, had laid —the flesh on one of the horse’s hind legs, ine to the bone and severing every tendon t encountered. Leaving the horse, the boar now me at me with his hideous and immense mouth ad said at the time. ler over the situation; it was fight or run. ht or run? [ remem my bet, and ough I had not regained my breath. I drew unting-knife, and the boar lowered his head, rush, pened up his head—I struck—then with ‘point of his FAME A™D FOR TUNE WEEKLY 25 The dogs were snapping and snarling about him, but as long as he did not feel their teeth he paid no attention to them. “Sie him—sic him!” I gasped, hoping to avouse the dogs into attacking him, and drawing his aiiention from me. Ym yain. In just one second that tusk would be ripping me open as it had the dog. I vaiséd my knife, prepared for at least one last grand effort, anc-—— ’ Crack! The rifie of Hans, an old hunter, sud- dently spoke, and the boar stopped short in his wild enset, Like a flash he suddenly turned and darted to one side, and following him with my eyes I saw him making toward Hans. Half way between us the boar staggered, then planted his fore hocfs at wide angles, and tossed his head, and swiftly flashed his. eyes around on the dogs, who leaped and growled and dashed and snapped at him. - Hans flung himself-from his herse, who stood stock still just where he was left. Keeping’ un- der cover, Hans quickly placed himself in the rear of the boar. Then he bounded swiftly forward, the dogs cleaving the way. for him, and the next instant Hans was beside the boar, grasping an ear im ene hand, his two-edged dagger in the other, pre- paring to strike. Quick as lightning the dogs, no longer showing fear, sprang on the boar and were in at the death. 3 , : Hans siruck, the dogs fastened their fangs in~ the boar, and the animal fell, bleeding in my dred_ places. “Well done!” So Carl exclaimed, and those. with him ap- plauded as well the splendid exhibition of skill shown by Hans in dispatching the boar. “TI never turn tail!” I gasped, and then I must haye fainted from_loss of blood, for the next I recollect was when I awoke and found myself in bed, suffering exceeding pain from my wo That was my first, last and only boar hunt, I . did not care for any more. I had. not been edu- cated up to that kind of sport perhaps, and preferred the hug of a grizzly to the sharp tusks and sudden, swift-assaults of a boar. Carl paid the wine when I was able to get out of bed ten days later. : The other boar had been easily captured. I must confess that I enjoyed the dainty tid- bits of boar meat which they brought me while I was confined to bed, and yet—perhaps it’s be- cause I am still a regular backwoods, up-and-— down Yankee Doodle American—I don’t know but what I relish bear or Buffalo meat as well, if not a little better, than ‘that of “wild hogs.” - - “Yes,” I admitted, as I bade my host good-by, “it is exciting hunting. I'll not say another slighting word about boars, for there’s no deny- ing that they can fight.” ~ Tm at Eh v
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wife of 26 * FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Bingle Cvepies...........-6++ Postage Free.... 07 Cents One Cepy Three Months... = Me 20 Cents One Copy Six Months...... < oN ewe = See One Copy One Year....... og ene ie = HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a sepurate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly. Ad- dress letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher i806 West 23d St., New York a ITEMS OF INTEREST NO. BOTTOM A miner lowered into a subterranean cavern med by a miner’s blast at Volcano, Nev., some e ago, was unable to discover the ends of the fissure. Stones dropped through the opening could be heard bounding from wall to wall, but there was no sound indicating that they had reached the bottom. Sparkling stalactite on the sides of the cavern were revealed by lights low- ered through the opening. * BOY BEATS GIRLS BAKING Wesley Sheldon, a fourteen-year-old boy of Ashburnham, Mass., was declared the winner of the Worcester County Farm Bureau breadmaking contests, in which many we aes from city and town in the county. uring a sania a three months. he made fifty-eight arcs of bread in nineteen bakings, performed seventy-six hours of housework, and used forty- eight hours in doing errands for his mother. KILLED WITH SCRUB BROOM _. large hawk was killed recently by the wis Hall, who lives on Route 2, Bladen, N. C., with a commen house scrub broom. The woman was in her house using the broom when her attention was directed to a commotion amon her chickens in the yard, when she ran out wit broom in hand and found a large hawk busy try- ing to capture a fowl. She used the broom and killed the hawk at the first lick. Other than the A ve’ excitement, the chickens were unharmed. BEAR VISITS BARNYARD =v big black bear, which thrives on little pigs ‘and fat ducks, is the latest vagabond to worry residents of the Forty-ninth avenue sellin’ gold bricks a’ready or buyin’ ’em yet? = REMAKING NEW ZEALAND More rapid changes jn animal and vegetable life are taking place in New Zealand than almost anywhere else in the world. The native Poly- nesian race is disappearing before the European; the native wild animals amount to little in con- test with the imported species, many of which now run wild; the streams are full of American and European trout, which attain an enormous size, and even the forests are being replaced by the planting of foreign trees as the native ones disappear. Eleven million larches, oaks, spruces, Douglas firs and eucalyptus have already been planted and vast numbers of seedlings are coming in all the time. The reason for replacing the native trees with species from the United States, Europe and Australia is that those of New Zealand are too slow of growth, although some of them produce sence timber. The implantations thrive every- where. LAUGHS “In Japan you can buy a wife for a few old sardine cans and some beads.” “Well, a good wife is worth that.” ~ “He always was a bad egg, but nobody seemed to notice it while he was rich.” “Yes, he was all right until he was broke.” Elocutionist—Strike for your altars and your ! fires! Strike! Till the last armed foe— Fan— Dat’s two strikes, mister! One more an’ yer out. “My husband has a terrible attack of grip.” “What are you doing for him?” “Nothing. He has his life insured for sixty thousand dollars.” — t RMSE ISG © easy . “T understand that after waitine twenty years _ she married a struggling man?’ “Yes, poor chap! — He struggled the best he knew how, but landed him.” Weary Clerk—Have you any fountain pens that won’t blot when they are nearly empty? — Dealer—Why, sir,-I have fountain pens that won’t blot when they are entirely empty. Crabshaw—If you insist on this new gown PI have to get it on credit. Mrs. Crabshaw—As long as it’s going to be charged, dear, I may ag j well get a more expensive one. First Boarder—Smith must be behind in = board. Second Boarder—What makes you think that? First Boarder—I notice he’s had the neck Rube—Where’s yer boy naow? Josh—He’s in New York. Rube—Which side’s he on by this” time? Josh—What d’yer mean? Rube—Is he “Mrs. Caswell,/ while were in Venice. did
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THE U. S. NAVY’S SWIFTEST VESSEL Steaming at the rate of 38,257 knots, the U. “Satterlee” in her recent official trials broke American speed records. The best previous scord made by an American -war vessel was 04 knots. The “Satterlee” is driven by two 0-horse-power Westinghouse compound tur- which developed 31,223 horse-power and all records for vessels of this, the de- - PORCELAIN COIN IN GERMANY “The first German porcelain money is being nufactured in Meissen, Saxony, and will con- ist of 300,000 twenty pfennig pieees for use on e Hamburg elevated railway. _ The city of Meissen,-as well as several other owns, has ordered porcelain coins for local use, wv a view of solving the present unclean and tearable paper currency. The German Re- is said to be aboit to_introauce porcelain ‘ranging from 10 pfennigs to five marks. CHOW’S. BELT A DREAM one-pound cans of, opium, alleged to have smuggled, were taken from Chow Sing, sev- > of No. 42 Sands street, Brooklyn, N. Y., ‘was leaving the pier at the foot of 56th that borough, the other day. Z Chow, who is employed on a steamship, through the gate to the street, Patrick y of the customs service noticed that his me seemed inflated. A search revealed the ‘attached to a belt worn inside his clothing. prisoner was taken before United States ssioner Hennessy and was held in $1,000 ~ hess County, N. Y., has the prize fighting A half-grown cat owned by residents in utskirts of this city fought a life and death with a black ¢, and not only wo snake, but. snake, of. the black variety, had been asking in the sun when the kitten pounced upon it. The snake immediately started to coil about young cat, but the latter was too wary to mto the trap and rushed about with open and outspread claws, slashing at the snake ors de combat. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY A FEW GOOD iTEMS - SEMI-MONTHLY gested over it and played with © battle kept up for nearly 20 minutes, the 27 $1,000 FROM ONE COW A thousand dollars a year on one cow. This is the remarkable record just established by Maj. E. S. Person, a widely known eattle breeder of Minot, N. D. A Guernsey heifer on his farm near here, besides producing nearly $500. worth of milk in the last’ year, had a calf which sold for approximately this amount. The office of the State Dairy Commissioner is sending out field workers to interest farmers in keeping fine dairy cattle. The farmers are being encouraged to form organizations which under the provisions of a bill enacted by the last Legis- lature may obtain State aid for the purchase of purebreds, — _ The growth of the dairy industry is reflected in the official reports of the Dairy Commission- er’s office. Fifty thousand dollkrs was the re- ‘turn to producers last year, more than. three- fourths of this amount being in marketed butter- fat, aceording to the reports. While North Dakota is still considered a ban- ner spring wheat State, J. J. Osterhaus, one of the Dairy Commissioners, believes that within a few years the dairy products will carry -a valve greater than that of the grain produced. “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING pre. TURE ACTRESS” is in “Moving Picture Stories.” No. 326. Get a copy. Price 7 cents: postage free. HARRY E. WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St., N. Y. ——=—oaaesesS=E_asss=soo SS! “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” 10 CENTS A COPY —— LATEST ISSUES —— > 60 CAUGHT WITH THE aie mon, EVIDENCE, by Ethel Rose A LITTLE GOLD SPIDER, by. Cect THE VELVET TOUCH, by Julian Darrow, THE bg oat THE RED LAMP, by Charies Ful- THE SCHEME OF SOLOMON SNARB, by William Quickik THAN THE EYE, by Ralph C 2 : rE, br ec THE CLUE IN THE DARK Room. by autos : -raigie. iN z (7 THE. TONGUE OF OSIRIS. $8 DETECTIVE WADE'S BIG mon. The Famous Detective Story Out To-day in No. 69 Is THE SPIRIT BELL, By Charles Fulton Onrsler FRANK TOUSEY, Pub. 168 W. 23d St, N. Y, “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” 2 B32 2h .Mare Edmund Jo EB, by Ethel Rose & “a Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoptays and Players “PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY <6 Each number contains Fonr-Stories of the Best 3 3 the Sereens—E Half-tone Seenes from | *! “in . About Prominent ee be
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ha 23 FAME \AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING TARANTULA ON SHOULDER After setting down a crate containing a bunch of bananas that he carried — the store on his back, John Lunak, an employee in a grocery store ry Devil's Lake, N. D., felt somethin crawling on his shoulder, and putting up his hand, came in contact with the largest tarantula ever seen in the city. A bite from the creature would have meant almost certain death. DOG BEATS BADGER — The old theory that a badger can whip any dog that ever walked on four has sustained a rude jojlt. Dan and Ray er, Junction City, Ky., while crossing a field spied what they be- liev bea raccoon hole. . Securing shovels, they began to dig, and they found their quarry to be a mature badger. A husky bulldog owned by the boys di the fact about the same time. He hesitated not, however, and the battle was on. Towser won, “acé high.” RABBIT FUR VALUABLE | Millions of rabbits are killed annually in the British islands and in Australia for their skins, or, rather for their fur, which is used in making felt hats. Great quantities of the English rab- bit-skins are. sent to the hat manufacturers in the United States, but first they go to the con- tinent of Europe to have the long, useless hairs i ed out by cheap hand labor. Satis- achines to do this work are said to be After the skins reach America the close hair, or fur, is shaved off to be made into felt. ere - stri — feathers. There was ay one chicken coop left, wagons in the large tank on the second floor was carried several hundred feet.. Clothing was blown iam the third floor of the house and lodged in trees undred feet away. the told the detective without - The operative took the next train for Pittsburg - road. He was then away in the West, but ‘a e 000 people, 97 per cent, of whom are either na- tives oF voluntary’immigrants, and all living bet- ter and enjoying more political and religious lib- erty than-people in European Russia have. Where he traveled it was like Minnesota, where wheat, rye and vegetables and strawberries, raspberries and currants grow, and sheep and horses graze unsheltered the year round. - TRACING A COUNTERFTIT BILL The tracing of counterfeit bills back to the person responsible for their issue is a curious and exciting employment. The experts assigned by the Government to this work are among the most skilful members of the Secret Service, The protection of the currency depends in large measure upon their efficiency, and the pains they take are almost infinite. A strange story teld by one of these operatives illustrates the diffi- culties "which ose & meet and overcome. : One day a bank clerk-in Cincinnati detected a counterfeit. $20 bill in the deposit of a small retail grocer. The operative was sent for and undertook the case. He found that the grocer received the bill from a shoe dealer, who had it from a dentist, who had it from somebody else,, and so on, until finally the Secret Service man traced it to an invalid woman who had, used it to pay her physician. When questioned, she said the money had been” oe to her by her brother, who lived in New eans. confederate of pocket, but he was_a litile premature. The man proved~to the -detective’s complete’ satisfaction that he had received the money ai rent for a small house he owned in Pittsburg. The tenant of the house proved to be a travel-} ling oculist, who spent most of his timie on operative saw him on his return and he at once} recognized the bill.. It had been given him“by a, patient in Cincinnati, the very point from whic the operative had started. The patient was a boss carpenter. The &§ Service man got his address from the ocu and made a beeline for the city. He had ap onition that something was going to ha and he wasn’t disappointed, The carpenter was an honest old fellow, andy i hesitation that he h: from Mr. Smith for rep
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