Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 794) (1920 12 17)

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DECEMBER 17, 192U. 7 Cents Boys THAT MAKE MONEY. “AB BRIG |HT BOY BROKER. (OR SHEARING JHE WALL STREET "LAMBS ” ; iy Ye A. Self-Made Man | Ze | | qh My Ail | Im the struggle Bob and the thief fell to the floor, the latter a the tae to defend himself The dapper young man, who had held aloof, saw his chance, and reached for the bag, intending to make off with it.

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a ipeae e a pe i “FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY: Issued nag UG Oe oe ee price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 Street, New York, N. Y. the Post-Office at New York, N. No. 794 NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17, 1920. Entered 2s. Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at Ty iS under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price 7 Cents & Gade Boy Broker Or, SHEARING THE WALL STREET ‘ BY A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—The Stolen Wallet. “Hello, Bob Morris, I hear you’ve opened an of- fice and gone into the brokerage business,” said a trader of the Stock Exchange, named Sargent, to a bright-looking, well-dressed boy of eighteen, on Broad street one morning. “Yes,-sir. Who told you? I didn’t know that the news had got around,” replied the boy. “Mr. Hague; you know him, I believe.” “In a general way, as I know many brokers I called on with messages while working for Day & Carter.” : » “His office boy told him.” - _ “Oh, Tad Foster! I wonder how he found out? I’ve only just opened up.” “Where is your office?” “In the Coleman Building, around the corner from Wall, in William street. On the fourth floor. Room No. 425.” “Do you expect to make it pay?” - *] wouldn’t have invested several hundred dol- lars in rent and furniture if I didn’t expect to do something.” “I admire your grit even if I have my doubts about your success.” “Pm not worrying about my success., I’ve de- , and I thin k that will help “Any one who patronizes me will get a square deal, nd that’s more than he’ll get from one or _ two traders I might mention, but I won’t.” in _ grant it, I will.” _ “Yes, there are some foxy people in the bro- kerage business, but they’ve Sted be pretty if they belong to the Ex ge. We have ehoerd of governors bi sab arg complaints members, and crooked work is not r you. I can be of any service to you, don’t be afraid to drop in and ask your favor. If I can “You're welcome. Good-by!” The broker crossed the street and entered the Exchange, while Bob continued on his way. At the corner of Exchange place he ran against Tad Foster. Bob and Tad were not the best of friends, and didn’t often speak. On this occasion Tad stopped and said: = “I hear you've, got to be a broker.” “Where did you get your information?” “I was in the Coleman Building a while ago, and I saw your name, with ‘Stocks and Bonds’ under it, on the door of one of the offices. I did not believe it was you, but as I was curious to See who the party was, I looked in through the keyhole? I saw you reading a paper at a desk just as if you were a real boss. I’ll admit that [ was surprised, for you were a messenger only the other day.” “I suppose you were delighted to learn that I oat started out for myself?” said Bob sarcasti- y. ss “Where did you get the money to rent an of- ce? “Where did you get the money to pay for that cigarette you’re smoking 2?” fetorted Bob. she earned it, of course’ Did you think I stole it? “Well, I earned the money I’ve got in my business,” . “Tt can’t be a whole lot, then,” sneered Tad. “You want to make another guess and perhaps you'll come within a thousand miles of the truth.” “Smart, aren’t you?” “Tm smart enough to try and-be somethihg better than a broker’s messenger.” “Got any customers yet?” asked Tad, with an unpleasant grin. ' “Are you interested in my business?” “Sure. I’m coming up to see you. Maybe I'll give you an order to buy mie some stock. I was thinking of buying 1,000 shares-of Getupandget Preferred.”; es = “I don’t do business with boys.” “Is that so? What do you call yourself?” ““T call myself Bob. Run along now. I’ve got some business to attend to.” : i Thus s ing, the boy broker walked away, leaving Tad Foster looking after him with an unpleasant frown on his face. Bob Morris went on.his way without giving T#d another - He was a particularly bright boy, and he look all over. He lived with his widowed mother in the little town of Clinton, some eighteen miles out in New Jersey, on the line of the t. it ene ay New Jersey road. He commuted to New York hme

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2 . A BRIGHT BOY BROKER every day except Sunday, and had done so for three years past, during the most of which time he had been employed by Day & Carter, as their messenger and office boy. One day, a year ago, he found $100 in bills on the street, rolled together and coyered with dirt. A thousand men and boys had“passed the spot where the money had lain for hours, and not one had paid enough attention to it to pick it up. Then Bob came along and it lay there no longer. That $100 was the basis of good fortune for him. He had just learned that a syndicate had been “formed to corner and boom A. & B. and he had been wishing he had a few dellars saved up so that he d take advantage of the chance to double it. His wish being suddenly realized, he lost no time in making a line for a little banking and brokerage house on Nassau street. that accommo- dated small investors. He bought ten shares of A. & B. on in, and a week later, when the boom was at its height he sold out at a profit of $200. That gave him a capital of $300, and he used the money so well during the year that a week since he resigned his position with Day & Carter, with $6,500 in his pocket, and with that little capital he started out as a broker ‘on his own hook. He had unlimited confidence in him- self, and did not believe that the word “Fail” had any connection with him. . When Bob reached Beaver street he-saw an old gentleman stuffing a wallet in his hip pocket and start to cross the street. A couple of loaded trucks coming along caused him to beat a quick retreat to the sidewalk in, and he fell back- ward into the arms of a da young man who had started after him. With professional rapid- : ity the dapper young man lifted the old gentle- “es man’s coat-tail, pulled the wallet out of his k- et and started rapidly down the street. All this Bob saw, and he decided that it was his duty to - pursue the thief and make him give up his plun- 4 der. He got a hustle on and overtook the dapper young man halfway down the block. ~ “T'l] trouble you for that wallet you pinched from the old gentleman,” he said, laying his hand man. ~ “No bluffs,” replied Bob. “I saw you steal the ; ketbook, and if you don’t come up with it Xt ~ Fu hand you: over to the cop I see coming this way. oo That was only a bluff of Bob’s, but he thought it might work. It did, but not the wa the bo _. wanted it to. The crook gave him a sudden pu and dar‘ved down into a near-by wine cellar. When Bob regained his balance he followed the rascal. The cellar was dark and the man had. disap- PetHe’s hiding behind one of the casks,” figured Bob, who waited a few moments till his eyes grew aceustomed.to the gloom, and then began a elose search of the place. - = He came upon the rascal, crouching in a dark “Come out of that, Mister Man, and cough up i! Rae 7 “Hang you, take that!” hissed the fellow. He accompanied the words with.a lunge of his fist. Bob ducked and the crook’s arm shot over his shoulder. Then the two grappled. Bob was a husky lad, and he soon succeeded in pushing the thief over on his back across a whisky bar- rel. Holding the man down with one arm, he shoved the other hand into the outside pocket where he believed the wallet was. He was not wrong. The wallet was there, and he took pos- session of it. Releasing the thief, he da up the steps onto the sidewalk and hurried back to the corner of Broad street, hoping to overtake the - old gentleman. The ‘owner of the wallet, how- ever, had disappeared. CHAPTER II.—May Mason. Bob crossed the street and hurried up toward -- Broadway, keeping a sharp lookout’ for the old gentleman. He failed to find him, and after go- ing as far as he thought worth while he went on about his own business; unaware that the dapper man was keeping him in view. He entered a certain building and the crook waited till he came out, and then shadowed him back to his office in the Coleman’ Building, or at least as far as the ~ elevator. He pointed the boy out to the man in charge of the elevators and asked if he worked in that building. “He’s got an office on the fourth floor, Room . 425,” said the man. ° : “What’s his name?” he asked, “Morris.” : The dapper young man took the next elevator and went up to the fourth floor. He examined the doors till he came to 425, and saw that it bore the sign: ROBERT MORRIS, Stocks and Bonds. Mining Shares Bought and Sold on Commission. He looked through the keyhole and saw Bob just opening his desk. Then he saw the boy take the wallet out of his pocket and examine its con- tents. He saw, with wrath, that one of the first things Bob took out was a fat wad of bills. “And I would have had that but for him,” said the crook to himself. “I'll get even with him. He’s more than a match for me, or I'd go in and fight him for it. Never mind, if he’s a broker he » probably hus money in that safe, and I'll see if me and my pal Grimes can’t get @ look at the inside of it.” E With those words the dapper young man went away. Bob, in his office, looked carefully over the wallet to find some clue to the old gentl : owner. Besides the money, witich he counted found to amount to $500, the boy broker discov- ered numerous clippings from papers and several memorandum bills. The latter were made out to Nathaniel Frost, No. — Madison avente.. boy put the pocketbook in his safe and then sat down to read a Western newspaper which had come io him that morning in the mail. In the midst of his reading the door opened and a neatly dressed, rather Reity girl entered. Bob looked up, and ‘seeing his visitor hesitating near the door, asked her to come forward and sit down. * ~

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*T am looking for work,” she said timidty. “Are you a stenographer and typewriter?” “Yes.” “Where did you work last?” ; “With Bisner, Goldberg & Co., shirt waist house on Broadway.” “How came you to quit?” : a was taken sick and they put a relative in my place.” “TJ wish I had a chance for you, but I have only just begun business and am doing nothing requires the services of one like yourself.” ' *Then I won’t take up your time,” she said, ‘with a weak smile. > “Wait a ent. You seem like a nice girl, and I would like to help you. Let me have your address and [ will look around and see if I can find a broker in need of a stenographer.” “You are very kind,” she said gratefully. She gave him her address, on a side street off Third avenue, where she said she lived with her : mother and a broker who worked in a printing office. Then she went away. Bob locked up and wert to lunch at one o’clock. When he came ‘back he heard two men talking in the elevator, one of them complaining to the other that he had ro deal of trouble in getting his dictation typewriting done right, as he could not ém- ploy a girl steadily. The gentlemen got out on the fourth floor and Bob followed them to the _ first corridor, where they separated. The one _- Who was bothered with his stenographer walked into an office, the sign of which read: “George Moss, Patent Agent.” - Bob followed him in. _ . “May I speak to you a moment?” he said. oe inly,” replied the gentleman. “Follow Mme into my private room.” ra eae t _ just large enough to hold a desk and three chairs. = adgomad you are Mr. Moss?” said Bob. : "s my name,” answered the man, looking _ curiously at the boy. .., “My name is Robert Morris. in this corridor. Here is my card.” : + “Oh, you are the new tenant, eh? Well, what ; ‘can I do for you?” “fT overheard you talking about the difficulty _* you have in getting your work done by a stenog- _ rapher,” said Bob. “Now, there was a girl in to _ Ses me a while ago who is a first-class stenog- “a panes apd bookkeeper. She is looking for a po- ~~ sition. ~ *] eouldn’t hire a girl right along. i work nor room for her.” I have an office I have “if I gave her desk room in my office she could do your work an arran ent. with you, end at the-sdme time look after my office. I us do you think?” think well of it. If you can make such an ent with her, send her in to me. I will $6, and if she’s willing to work for $10 o Id make up. other $4,” said Mr. Moss. “Very well. I send her word to come I guess I will as A BRIGHT BOY BROKER N The private room was merely a boxed-off space ° 3 office station, put a ten-cent special delivery stamp on it, and mailed it. At ten o’clock next morning Miss Mason appeared. “You have heard of a position for me?” she said, with a smile. “I am very grateful indeed to you for the interest you have taken in me.” “Tt isn’t a position, but a chance for you to make $10 a week, if you are willing to work for that,” replied Bob. “I will, gladly,” she said. The young broker then explained the matter. “T will ais you $4 and desk room in my office for you to come here. The gentleman in Room 442 will pay you $6 a week to take dictation twice a day and typewrite it for him. I will take you in and introduce you to him.” “But I have no machine,” she said. “Tl get one for you on the rental plan. It will cost you $3 a month. The typewriter firm will supply you with ribbons and keep the machine in order. I will be responsible for the machine.” “You are very * she said. He took Miss Mason in to Moss’s office and introduced*her to the patent agent. She returned in fifteen minutes with word that she had ar- ranged te go to work for the tleman next day. “All right,” said Bob. “ see that the ma- chine is here ready for you.” She thanked him and took her leave, promising to be on hand at half-past nine next morning. CHAPTER III.—A Plucky Girl. That afternoon Bob took an elevated train from Hanover Square, uptown, and got off at the sta- tion nearest to the old gentleman’s address. He found the house without trouble. It was one of a row of similar buildings, and indicated that the owner was well fixed financially. He rang the bell, and when a girl came to the door he asked if Mr. Nathaniel Frost was at home.~ “He is. Are you acquainted with him?” “No; but I wish to see him on important busi- © ness. Take my card to him,” said the young broker. ~ es : He was shown into the parlor and the: girl went off down the hall. Presently she retu and asked Bob to follow. She led him into Mhe small library at the back of the parlors. The old air aE — he oe recognized was In a large armchair, reading a Bob bowed. 5a ere ere you not robbed yesterday of a wallét asked the boy trader. z 4 The old gentleman looked at him in some sur- prise. “Robbed!” he exclaimed. “I lost a pocketbook containing $500 in money end a lot of clippings and bills. I was not aware I was robbed,” ‘ “You were robbed at the corner of Broad and | Beaver streets when you started to cross, over and had to jump back to avoid a couple of teams. You fell against a young man, I saw him take your wallet.” : _ “Indeed! You came here to give me a descrip- a him, I suppose, so that I can notify the po! “I came to return you your pocketbook.” jar did! How did you get it/away from the t ms ES ote pe ee eae ey” ee > 4 mL

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4. Bob told him all the facts of the incident. ; “You are certainly a smart young man, and I am very much obliged to you,” said Mr. Frost, _ taking his property, opening it, and removing the bills. “Will you allow me to reward you?” he added, offering thé boy a $100 bill. “No, sir. There is no need for you to reward me. I considered it to be my duty to return you the wallet as soon as I was satisfied it belonged to a person by the name of Frost, whose address was attached to the bills. I will now take my leave.” “Don’t be in a hurry. Pray sit down. It would please me to have a talk with you if you can spare the time. You live in the city, I sup- pose?” “No, sir; I live in Clinton, New Jersey.” “You aré in business. for yourself, I see,” said the old gentleman,’ glancing at the card. . “Yes, sir, though [ have only just started.” “Well, you are young and you have plenty of time before you. I doubt not but one so bright and honest will succeed.” ~ He drew out from the boy the history of his Wall Street experience, and seemed to take a great interest in him. : At the end of an hour Bob took his leave and ~~ -went home. Next morning the typewriter ma- chine and the young lady arrived about the same - . time at Bob’s office. The boy broker had provid- Peepers. ens “O. & H. looks good to me,” thought the boy ; broker. “It’s going up and is likely to advance eras three or four points. I think I’ll buy 300 shares -.- ~ and see how I come out.” : ~ When Miss Mason returned, he put on his hat and went out with $3,000 in his pocket. He took the mo to the little bank on Nassau street and bought the stock on the usual margin. It was the first deal he had made since he hired the * office. He remained at the little bank a while, “then walked around to the Curb Exchange to see what was doing there. There was nothing star- » tling on the table, so he returned to his office. j nm the Exchange closed at three o’clock 0. & ; up a*point, to Bob’s great satisfaction. morning Bob carried $2,000 to Sargent d him to buy him 200 shares at the mar- , then 91. Sargent bought the stock when he ent to the Exchange, and notified Bob by mes- ger. During the ten days that followed, Bob watched the ticker closely and noted that O. & H. _ advanced eae f On the tenth day it reached par and Bob orderéd his shares sold. Altogeth- > er he cleared $4,800 on the deal. That gave his finances quite a lift. On the following day he the market value of which was _ regarded it as quite an order. customer, Mr. Frost, and I “ E Bob A BRIGHT BOY BROKER ‘ten certificates of Little Miami, of , shall always remember that fact. This is a red- letter day in my calendar. I am very much oblig- — ed to you.” “I am glad to put something in your way. As soon as you get the bonds bring them up to my house,” said the old gentleman. Bob promised to do so, and soon afterward Mr. Frost went away, Fifteen minutes later, Bob, with the stock in a hand-bag, started for Broker Sargent’s office. : CHAPTER IV.—Bob and the Clipper Stock. Broker Sargent sold the Littl®Miami stock for Bob and bought the tobacco company’s bonds. Bob carried them up to the old gentleman’s house with his statement, and received the commission _ due him, which he afterward divided with the ~ broker. A few days afterward Bob noticed that J. & S. was pretty active, and he bought 500 shares of it through Sargent, at 78. When he got back to his office he found a well-dressed lady waiting for him, She said her name was Mrs. Alene, and that Mr. Frost had sent her to his office. 3 “I want to buy 100 shares of L. & D..on mar- gin,” she said. “Yes, ma’am. I can get it for you. It will be necessary for you to advance $1,000 as security on the deal,” said Bob. ; She understood that, as she had dealt in the market before. She had the money with her in cash and handed it to the boy. He gave her the usual memorandum slip, and as soon as she“went — away he took the money to Sargent’s office and ~ gave in the order, pe J. & S. didn’t go much higher than 80, so Bob _ t | when he found that two points was about , limit of the profit he was likely to make, orderes the stock sold. He made $1,000, and was fectly satisfied with that. In the meanwhile, Bob, had, as an experiment, put an advertisement_in a couple of financial papers. In a few days he began pores A inquiries through the mail. One day he got a letter from Sargent by messenger. The broker told him to be on his guard against a trader named Brooks, whom he described. “T heard Brooks tell a friend of his that he was going to call on igor and ay and stick you on_ some mining stock that he has been unable to sell, so look out for him,” wrote Sargent: “Sure Tl look out for him,” thought Bok ~ “If he sticks me on any mining shares, he'll do well.” ‘: That afternoon he read in a Western mining — paper that the Clipper mine, which had long been —~ a dead.one, had been taken over by a-new com- . pany and that a lode of excellent ore had been found in one of the abandoned tunnels. eS Next morning he asked several Curb brokers - about it. They told him that if any such thing had happened, the news hadn’t reached Wall . Street, therefore there could hardly be any truth — in it. Bob agreed with them and didn’t think any more about: the mine. « Next day, Trader — Brooks called, introduced hintself, and after a short chat offered the boy what he called a bar- _ gain—20,000 shares of Clipper mining stock at — 10 cents. Bob said he didn't care to buy it him-

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gelf, and he didn’t know of any one who wanted it. So Brooks went away disappointed. Bob was down at the Curb that afternoon when _ the story about the Clipper mine was confirmed, and a bunch of the traders began offering 25 ~ cents for the stock. The boy broker felt like kick- a now because he had lost a good thing ich he might have had. Suddenly it occurred to him that there was a possibility that Broker Brooks might not have heard the news about the “ mine. He decided to run around to the trader's office and see if he could get the stock at the price Brooks had offered it to him. Acting on the idea, he soon presented himself at Brooks’ -. office and asked to see him. He was admitted Tight away to the private room. “T came around to see you about that Clipper stock,” said Bob. “Want to buy it now?” asked Brooks. if you are still selling it at 10 cents,” b. m 3 Bol a > Hand me $2,000 and the stock is yours.” ~ Bob produced the money and Brooks gave him _. a Memorandum of the deal and promised to send the new certificates to him on the following day. _ The boy went away delighted. Inside of an hour Brooks learned about the news from the mine is that the price had gone up to 25 cents. If - there was a Mad man at that moment in Wall Ss it was Brooks, for he knew he could not © back on his deal with Bob. When Bob got shares the price had gone up to 30 cents. held on to it for a week and finally sold at its, making a profit of $5,000. Hardly had he syndicate, and advised him to buy some. of stock on his own account. In a few days & M. to rise again. The fact did not ‘a attention until it passed its usual ting and then buying became The syndicate had already hold of ‘of the stock and the boom was allowed to d. Ina week the stock was going at 105. now the storm center of the Exchange, was a lot of excitement every day re pole of the stock. Bob held on till » advanced to 107 and a fraction and then rgent to sell. The broker did so, and: Bob $15,000 to his little capital, making him worth $32,000. He felt now that he could af- ; give Miss Mason $2 a week more, though not have a whole lot for her to do. which was also used a A BRIGHT BOY BROKER 5 This correspondent had seen the boy’s advertise- ment in a Wall Street paper he had sent for, and had picked out a score or more of other bro- ker’s advertisements by chance. He said he own- ed 10,000 shares of a mining stock called the Neptune. He had bought the shares when Gold- field and neighboring mining camps first came into prominence, but he said he had heard noth-_ ing about the mine for several years, and he was afraid it amounted to nothing. He wished Bob would look it up, and was willing to pay him a reasonable price for his trouble. He was getting old, he said, and if the stock was worth anything at all he would like to sell it. Bob looked up the Neptune Mining Co. on the Goldfield mar- ket report and found it was still listed and was quoted at 10 cents a share. He then began making inquiries of mining bro- kers about the mine, and was referred to a cer- tain brokerage house which acted as a transfer office for Neptune and a score or more of other small Western. propositions. Bob called there and secured all the information obtainable from a big scrap-book in which a record was kept of all the Nevada mines. Bob dictated all the facts in a letter addressed to his correspondent. whose name was Ed Nash. He said there would be no charge for the information. In a few days he. received a reply from Nasi. The writer said he - was not surprised to find that the mine amounted to very little. He had paid £0 cents for his shares. He would be glad to dispose of them for 5 cents, or even less, if Bob thought he csu!d get that for the stock. Bob, on receipt of his letter, » went down to the Curb 2nd inquired if*any bro- ker would buy 10,000 shares of N ne for 5 cents. None of them would do s fact, sev- eral said they had small blocks o stock that they would gladly sell for 5 cen might even take 4 cents for. Bob wrote N that he could not find a buyer at 5, or even at 4, at least not for so many He told the man that he would write to Goldfield and see what additional infor- mation he could find: about the stock.- In the course of ei West that if the stock wus course of time for 5 or 6 cents. That was about what it was actually worth. Bob got the letter Saturday morning and heconcluded to ride out to the town of Richmond, where Nash lived, and . see his correspondent. It would be a sort of recreation for him, The town was on the line of the Central New Jersey time-table, he saw he home and get a light lunch. was back at the station, where he bought a ticket for Richmond. Reaching that place, he inquired | - his way to the street where Nash lived, and found: . that his home was on the suburbs of the town) Ringing the bell, a woman came to the door. a r. Edward Nash lives here, I believe?” Bob. oe , ) “He does,” was the reply. ; i “Is he at home?” . NAD seen: ton teats tana plan ailing tela: =a : woman. into a plain sil as © * eight days he received word from the — out there on sale it might be sold in small parcels in the

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“Father, here is a young man who wants to see you,” said the woman. “How do you do, sir? Take a seat,” said Nash, - who was gray haired and looked to be all of 65 years. = as : ; “My name is Robert Morris, sir. I am the broker whom you have recently corresponded with, As Saturday is an off day in Wall Street, : I thought I'd ride out here and see you. It was ; ’ a good way to put in the afternoon,” said Bob. at “I’m glad to’ see you, Mr. Morris,” said Nash, ‘ who was somewhat surprised at the broker’s 7 = appearance. “It was kind of you to “TI got a letter from Goldfield this morning with reference to the Neptune stock,” said Bob. “You may read it,” and he handed it to the man. “Not very encouraging,” said Nash, after read- ing it. “The broker doesn’t say how long it will take for him to sell the shares. It might take him weeks before he got nid of all of it. What would you advise me to do?” z “You have 10,000 shares, you say?” i “¥éa” : = _ “As you are anxious to get rid of it, I’ll take it off your hands at 4 cents. I will hold it on voices,on the other side of a thick bit y. He paid no attention to them and he eame out close to the speakers, sitting on a rustic seat, and sprang ‘had got halfway aeross the grounds when ~ ~ =" ° Y . =. 6 . _. A BRIGHT BOY BROKER tp -vhen they saw him. Bob stopped short, for le vecognized the men as two crooks he encoun- - tered outside his office one day and had tried to snatch a satchel containing stock certificates out of his hands, but were unsuccessful. And they knew him, too. The surprise was mutual on both - sides. Bob, however, having no wish to remain in such questionable company, started on again. The stout rascal, named Grimes, after a whis- pered remark to his companion, picked up a stone and threw it at the young broker. It- caught Bob in front of the ear and he staggered against a tiee. Before he recovered his faculties the crooks jumped upon him and bore him te © »~ ground. CHAPTER VI—A Dandy Tip. “Tie his hands behind his back while 1 i.-.4 him,” said Grimes to his pal. : The dapper young man whip Bob’s hand- kerchief out of his pocket and performed the operation with great celerity. Then he gagged the boy with a rag he took from his pocket “Now, then, b him by the heels and we'll carry him to that vacant outhouse we ‘passed crossing this place,” said Grimes. i The building in question was a tumble-down _ shanty, long out of use, standing among the trees. In size it was only about six feet by — four. It was littered. with old boards that had ~ been thrown in there. _The door was held closed by an iron hasp and a wooden staple. The men shoved Bob into the place, shut the door on him and went off. Bob had put up no struggle against the rascals, as he could do nothing with his hands tied. As soon as he was left alone, he applied himself to the task of freeing himself if he could. And while doing it he wondered what ill wind had blown the rascals down to that neighbor- hood.. He judged they must have some object in view, and the only object he could connect them with was robbery. They lived on the fruits of sueh crooked work as they were-able to/pull off. _ Bob found that the dapper young man had ti a hard knot in the handkerchief and this prevent- ed the article from giving enough to allow him to pull one of his hands out. While considering the situation, he saw an old axe standing in a corner. ie gave him an idea. If he could work the handkerchief across the edge of it, he might cut it sufficient to enable him to tear it apart. The question was to steady the axe-blade enough to Mingle, git Ye object. As it was getting dark he no time to lose. Bob shoved aside with his feet the pieces of wood that were in the = and sitting aoe on the dirty floor worked bine self backward up to the axe. When he began business he found it a slow and tedious job, par- ticularly as the blade was not very sharp. Half an hour passed without results. It was now dark _and a dreary silence hung around the vicinity. At this juncture he heard voices approaching, apparentiy proceeding from two men in conver- sation. They stop at the corner of the hut where Bob sat, and the boy would have shouted to them had he not been He wondered — why the men had stopped , for it~was a. lonesome spot. Bob didn’t know, however, that — there was an old-fashioned mansion within three _ : ae a a oe en

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hundred feet of the edge of the trees where the “shanty was. The owner of the extensive piece - of property lived there and commuted daily to and - from New York. The conversation of the two men reached Bob’s ears very distinctly. -_ “¥You’d better go in with us, Daily,” said one of the men. “I'll guarantee if you put up the - $100,000 each of us are pledged to subscribe that you will double your money. We only need one ~ more member, and I am giving you the chance to - get in on a good thing.” : “But I don’t fancy going into a blind pool,” _ Yeplied the other. -_ At those words, which suggested a stock deal, Bob forgot his peculiar situation and listened _ @agerly to hear more. - *[Pll make everything clear to you once you “pass your word to go in,” said the other. -“Tf I knew the name of the stock you propose ) corner, I might not hesitate.” _ “Tt wouldn’t do for me to tell you that before- hand. [ll guarantee that it is one you wiil be ‘satisfied with.” ; a * hundred thousand dollars. is a lot of *Yes, but I believe you are worth half a mil- m, and can afford to take a certain risk for a “ophat’s all right, but a good part of my wealth 1S in this property.” ; “It’s a fine piece of land. I wish I owned it.” tee been in the family over 100 years.” : long as that, eh? 2 “Yes. That house yonder was built sixty years It must have been a fine one Why don’t you tear it down and ern mansion? It would add greatly my offer—will you go in? res,’ Dll tell you the name “Well, I'll go in.” : a ; “Good! There isn’t any doubt in my mind that bu will more than double your money. I expect ‘make $125,000 myself, and your share will be as mine.” ‘ ‘Now what is the name of the stock?” ‘D. & R. It’s ruling at 75, which is low for it. dicate plans to send it above 90.” — are the other members of the combine ?” ion ran rapidly over a list of, prom- nt Wall Street financiers. “All solid men,” he said. Vell, Jessup, now that the matter is settled the house, My wife is keeping us so put up the r his voice growing less distinct as the A BRIGHT BOY BROKER 7 feet and dusted his clothes as well as he could in that confined space: Then he tried the door, though he knew te rascals had fastened him, in. Then he struck a match, and looking around the shanty, he saw a thin piece of iron. This he in- serted in the crack of the door and pried it out- ward as far as he could, and jammed a piece of wood in the opening to hold it. He was now able to’ reach the stable, and a couple of good, upward blows knocked it out. The door flew open and he was free. He continued on his way in the direction he believed was right and presently saw the old- time mansion ead of him,-with the laid-out grounds. He walked toward the front of the house and let himself out on the street through an iron gate in the hedge. Walking a block far- ther, he met a man and inquired the way to the police station. He was directed how to find it, He had to ask another townsman farther on to make sure he was headed right. The police station was on a street near the main business thoroughfare, and he got there at last. He told the man at the desk about his meeting with the two New York erooks, who were ee in Manhattan, and how they had treated im. - “They probably intended to rob some house here if they can,” he said, “so I would advise you to send a man or two out to look for them. If Me capture them, notify the New York authori- ies. He furnished a good description of the ras- cals, and then started for the railroad station. On reaching it, he found that it would be an hour before the next train for Jersey City stop- ped there. That gave him time to go to a res- taurant and his dinner. When the train came in he boarded it and started for home. 7 ‘CHAPTER VII.—Bob Realizes on His Tip. ‘Bob ocerfpied the greater part of the trip- thinking over the tip he had picked up at the shanty. His mother had looked,for him to re- turn in time for supper,.but when he didn’t show up as soon as she expected ske concluded that the business which took him to Richmond had - detained him, or he had missed the train he had _ figured on returning by. At any rate, she didn’t feel that she need worry over his non-appear-. ance, It was close on to ten o’clock when did get home, and he told his mother that he had eaten in Richmond, as circumstances, which he did not mention, prevented him from taking the train he had intended to take. After a short talk with his mother, he went to his room and turned in. When he reached his office-on Mon- day morning he looked D. & R. and found it was ruling at 75, as Tite had said. The young broker was in no rush to buy yet, for it was not/improbable that the syndicate would be- gin operations by forcing the price lower, if pos- sible. All that day he wa the stock, but — first meeting to-morrow,” he th _ ing that. Jessup said a meeting would be held is at Hatch’s office on Tuesday afternoon ‘ = re ae at four, eS 7 ought, remember.

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J 8. when the first instalment of money would be i ealled for. He was not surprised then when D. & R. moved only an eighth next day. On Wednesday the stock dropped to 74, and on Thursday to 73 1-2. On Friday it went back to 74. Then Bob de- cided to buy. He-gave Sargent an order to pur- chase 1,000 shares for his account, and he gave the little bank a similar order. The stock was bought at the Exchange for’ 74. On the follow- ing Monday the price was up to.75, and Bob ° told Sargent to buy him another 1,000. The bro- ker bought the stock in three lots, and put it up at his bank as security for a part of the money he would be called of to pay for the shares. Next day D. & R. advanced another point. In the af- ternoon mail Bob got a letter from Ed Nash, tell- ; ‘ ing him that he was prepared to take $400 for the 10,000 shares of Neptune. Bob wrote him to send on the certificates by express and he would send him a bank draft for the mgney. Two days later the certificate ar- 2 rived and Bob sent the money. By that time D. & R. was up to 78. Next day there was a reac- tion to 76 5-8. Sargent, meeting Bob on the street, called his attention to it. “Oh, that’s nothing, sir. It will be up to 80 by the end of the week,” replied the young broker. : He proved be a good prophet, for when the ; Exchange cl on Saturday noon D. & R. stood =e at 80 38-8. ‘obody thought it strange that the c stock should rise to that figure, as it was a fair price for it, but when it jumped to-82 on Mon- day morning there was a rush to buy it. Bob made another effort to see what Neptune would as bring on the Curb, but he was told it might be : offered for a month without finding a buyer. - “T’ve got 5,000 shares that I’d like to sell for : 5 cents,” said a trader. “Yes, I’ll take 4 for it.” ““Why don’t you send it out to Goldfield. It’s supposed to be going around 10 there,” said Bob. “It’s only a position. I’ve communicated arith tay mocemibelee abs acl {Wee told that a sale is made only once in a coon’s age—that is, a bona fide sale.” ' *A stock that doesn’t sell often isn’t worth its quoted price.” “There’s a bunch of other mining stock in the = boat, oe Sen peers Of course, eptune is a mine, where operations are go- ing on right along, but it’s a mighty pdor one. When there is no of a mine paying divi- dends, people fight shy of its stock, and I don’t blame them. Nobody wants to tie his money up in an unproductive proposition.” “That’s right,” nodded Bob, who then walked away. : Whether he’d ever be able*to get his $400 back _ out of Neptune he couldn’t say, but he did not regret beches & the’ i, Adr, like the Clip _ mine, some day it might turn up trumps. . morning after his interviews with various Curb _ brokers on the subject of Neptune mine, D. _ &R. went to 85. Next day the syndicate pushed __ things, and da ere erereee ; oy L en ped. een weold go higher, but that was as high as he cared to risk hi ls, even on a i sure thing. After stich a rise, it seemed that the syndicate would start to unload. 1 $5 000 profit within his grasp, Bob or- A BRIGHT BOY BROKER dered the little bank to sell the 1,000. shares, and then he called on Sargent and told him to dis- pose of his 1,000. - o The broker was glad to get his order, for h was fearing that the bright boy was holding on too long, and he knew how hard it would be to sell if a real slump set in. He went to the Ex- change and offered Bob’s stock in small lots, and soon got it all off his hands. He got an average price of 91 3-8, as the stock started to go up again. D. & R. closed at 93 that day, after thou- sands of shares had changed hands, but Bob didn’t regret having sold out at a lower price, for he was $50,000 ahead of the game, and that was mney enough to clear on one deal. He was now worth over $80,000, and considered himself on Easy street. CHAPTER VIII—Bob Gets an Important Order. Bob had watched ,the newspapers of Jersey City for some indication that the two crooks had either been caught or had pulled off a robbery’ in Richmond. Nothing appeared in print bear- ing on either point. Finally he wrote to the chief of police on the subject, inclosing a stamped and addressed envelope for a reply. The reply came. It stated that the men had not been caught. It also said that a store had been bro- ken into that night, toward morning, and a small amount of money and some other things taken, the thieves Cie away. Thé chief judged they ne immediately left the town with their plun- er. “Those chaps seem to be lucky in ay ar-- ome rest,” thought Bob, after reading the letter. “ day, however, they are sure to get the around their wrists and then they’ll go to the State prison, where they belong.# The reader will remember that Bob had re- ceived an order to buy 100 shares of a certain stock for a Mrs. Alexander, who was sent to him by old Mr. Frost. The deal went on for . some three weeks, during which the stock went up about five points, when the lady called and told the boy to sell it. He did so, and the lady made a profit of $500 by the transaction. On ee day he got the letter from the thief of the d police, he received another visit from~ Mrs, Alexander. “Glad to see you again, Mrs. Alexander,” said Bob politely. “Are you thinking of trying the market again?” . “That is what I came she laughed. “Then I hope you will pick a winner as you did before.” “T have already picked the stock, and I hope it will prove a\winner.” She handed him $1,000 and told him to buy 100 shares of M. & C. Bob entered the order in his book, and after a short chat the lady went away. The postman came in with a batch of letters from — out-of-town correspondents, and several of them 3 contained money orders, with directions how the ‘Amounts were to:be invested. Bob took all his orders down to Sargent and handed them to the cashier, as the broker was over at the Tt was about this time that Boh was surprised andeuffs © down to Wall Street for,” eS ee ee be

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‘senior partner of the firm of Day & Carter. _ . “Glad to see you, Mr, Day,” said the boy bro- ~ _ ker, jumping up and taking the hand the broker _ extended to him ~~ “f judge you must be doing well, Bob, from __. What T have heard about you,” said Day, in a - * . friendly way. *\~ _ _“T am doing first-rate, all things considered, sir,” replied Bob. : - “T am glad to hear it. You were a good mes- __ Senger, and we were sorry to lose you. You are “Tye made a deal more than a living with _. the help of su speculations which have turn- - ed out in my favor. I have plenty of capital now iets ous this business. What I need is more good +>». Customers. Most of those I’ve got are parties I have caught in the out-of-town districts through my advertisement.” ‘ .“Well, I’ve come around to give you a commis- ‘Sion. It’s one that the firm cannot well execute _ except through a third person, and the less known _ that person is as_a broker, the better,” said Bro- Day. : ; “TH be glad to serve you in any way, Mr. y- 2 ha 1 Ob stock held by a jwealthy old man named the control of the road. The market value of * ‘the stock is 38, and our man is willing to give 40 for it. Roberts holds 5,000 shares, and has own- = ever since the road was built. He has will prevent er, and you must that you are acting for 3 E F B 5 a and then skipped out to parts unknown,” said y- ‘ TL call him and try to get an option on “y cent. deposit, which ‘will so m i f .A BRIGHT BOY BROKER _ €t receiving a visit from his late boss, Mr. Day, will have no trouble in satisfying himself that Frost is a retired old capitalist,” said Bob. “That will be just the thing,” said Day. “I will send you a certified check for $20,000, ourself, and he can give you his _.. “All right, sir just as well myself. “Have you $20,000 in your business?” asked Day, in surprise. “Have 1?” smiled Bob. a though I can advance the money. “I have four times “Surely you are joking, Bob.” I can take you around to my safe- ou the money in bills. it speculating since I left deposit box and show - have made nearly all-o your employ.” “You amaze me.” “Tt does seem too good to be true; but it’s ust the same.” — : 1 you could have nrade so much in so short a time. “I made it because I’ve been uncommonly lucky. I had $30,000 when D. & R. began to boom. put all of it into the stock at bedrock figures. closed out near the top at a profit of $50,000. That will give you an idea of how I made my “Well, upon m able young man “You mean I have been most remarkably for- y word, you are a most-remark- ” “You certainly have. Mr. Carter will Hardly ~ believe me when [tell him.” Bob laughed and then fold Mr. Day to im an order for the The broker did so, and then told Bob he would send him a certified check for $20,- 000, which hé could indorse and turn over to his friend and customer for his check, which the boy , could then have certified at the old gentleman’s bank. Bob promised to attend to the business at once, and Broker Day took his leave. : hour Day & Carter’s messenger brought Bob the - certified check for the money, and soon afterward left his office and went upto old gentleman, Mr. Frost was at home and ~ received Bob with every demonstration of’ pleas- He had taken a decided fancy to the bright boy broker, and every time he met the lad he better, for Bob had a magn about him that attracted people to him. The old young people, anyway; indeed, r society, as a rule, if they were nice, to those of more mature age. He often d- clared that it made him feel young Bob stated the object of his i to Mr. Frost the commission. he ved to execute for his old bosses, the suc- cess of which depended on the tact with which he approached the owner of the Candia stock. “I want to make owt that you are the person who wishes to buy the shares,” said Bob. thing that smacks of a broker in this mission is jbound to queer it. I'll never be taken for one youth. You are cer- “never haye been one. a — ee gentleman liked he preferred thei myself, on account. tainly not a broker, There is nothi i for a particular inves

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a1) by dealing direct with thé owner of the stock it will produce a favorable impression on this Mr. Roberts.” The old gentleman said he would be glad to help Bob carry out his commission, and had no objection whatever to exchange his check for Day & Carter’s. He wrote out a check for $20,000 payable to the order of Joseph Roberts, and then Bob indorsed Day & Carter’s check and handed it to him. | On the following afternoon, after attending to all his regular business, Bob went to the Grand Central Station and took a shore line train for the town nearest to Greenwich Cove, a couple of miles west of Stamford. Mr. Roberts’ residence was about a mile from the station. Bob hired a saddle horse and rode to-the place. It was quite an estate, a high wall with a large and a small gate separating it from the road. The house, a cS arge, old-fashioned one, dating back many years, was partially hidden by trees that covered the lawn. Bob had to ring for admittance, and a man, who was the gardener, came out of the lodge, a small, two-story stone building close to the gates. ; “T called to see Mr,-Roberts,” said the young broker. “He is at home, I suppose?” _ The man nodded, and opened the large gate, connecting with the carriage drive, for the visitor to ride in. Bob proceeded on to the house, dis- + mounted, tied his horse to a post with a ring in : the top for that purpose, mounted the veranda, and rang the bell. A man servant opened the 2 . door and Bob said he wished to see Mr. Roberts — on business, eer 2 _ “Ts he acquainted with you?” asked the serv- ant. : “No, he is not. Take my. name,.Robert Morris, . to him, and tel] him I have come from New York : expressly to see him.” ast. The servant admitted Bob ‘and asked him to rots take a seat in the wide hall. Then he went off ip a wide stairway that had a landing in the middle of it and two turnings off it. After a apse of ten minutes the man returned and told ~ Bob to follow him. He piloted the boy to a cozy, well-furnished room on the second floor. Here, before a grate fire, sat Joseph Roberts, a man of rather severe aspect, with white hair and a florid- complexion. 3 ““Be seated,’ young man,” said the master of the house, pointing to a chair. “You have come from New York to see me? On what business?” “As the representative of Nathaniel Frost, of No. — Madison avenue, who sent me to find out if you would part with your stock in the Candia Railway,” replied Bob. ~ : __ Roberts’ eyes twinkled in a curious way. The __ look that crossed his face was not pleasant. He ‘Said nothing for a minute, and then remarked, in _ a cold tone: © 5 _~ “My, Frost is a broker, I presume?” ~~ “No, sir, He is a retired capitalist. A gen- ~ tleman of about your age. He has been out of ‘business many years, and is very well off.” Mr, Roberts’ facé relaxed a little. iS ‘How came he to know that I own stock in_ _ the -Candia Railway?” Bs “1 believe he learned the fact in an indirect af m somebody connected with Wall Street.” oe ae Ft the deal was finally concluded at that figure. A BRIGHT BOY BROKER “Why 4s he particularly interested in Candia stock ?” “I really couldn’t tell you, Mr. Roberts. He heard you had 5,000 shares, and he thought may- be he might be able to induce you to part with the stock if he offered you a point or two above the market price.” “Why n he do that? Can’t he buy the stock * of anybody else—a broker, for instance?” “He is not particularly in love with brokers. He would prefer to deal direct with the person having the stock.” “Indeed! So he doesn’t like brokers? He has my sympathy. I don’t like them, either. They’re too smart altogether for honest men to have dealing with. So Mr. Frost wishes to buy my stock? .I might say he isn’t the only one who has made me an offer for it, but as these offers all came through brokers, I would not entertain them, though it is true I have been thinking of selling the stock for some time. Now if I were _ sure that Mr. Frost is not a broker. re “You have my word, sir; but if you want bet- ter evidence, you could communicate with the secretary of the American Club, of which Mr. Frost is a member, and learn whatever fa@ts you want to know,” said Bob. “I will do So! I have a telephone in the house 7 by which I can get long-distancesservice. I dare say I will be able to reach the secretary of the American Club, or his representative. In the you the hospitality You came here from the village, T bd meanwhile, allow me to offer of my home. suppose ?” “Yes, sir.” “By a hired conveyance?” ° “On horseback. I hired the animal at a public stable,” } , : “T_ will give orders that the horse be taken to my. stable and looked after till you are ready to return. Our business will take a little time, so you will do me the pleasure of dining with me.” With those words, Mr. Roberts rang a bell, and when a servant came, he gave him orders about the horse. : “Now make yourself at home, young man. I am going into my library to telephone.” - He walked out of the room, leaving Bob to — congratulate himself on his success thus far. f . CHAPTER IX.—The Burglars. ¥ Mr. Roberts called up the village central office — and asked for a connection with the American 3 Club of New York. He was told that it might — take half an hour to give him the connection. The— operator said she would call him up when she | got the number in New York. The old man then — returned to entertain his young visitor. Nearly | an hour passed before the village operator got the — American Club on the wire; then she called up © Mr. Roberts. The old man went to the phone, — got the secretary, and had a talk with him about athaniel Frost. What he learned satisfied him — that Frost was very far from toing broker, and hé returned to Bob an told him that he was ready to talk business. Bob first offered him 39 for the stock, but. Robe e berts wanted 40, and SBAy

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The sum involved was $200,000 and Bob hand- ed Mr. Roberts Mr. Frost’s check, which he had had certified, for $20,000 as a deposit. Mr. - Roberts said he would bring the certificates to New York on any specified day and call at Mr. ; them and turn them over for date. Bob, delighted with the success of his mission, the mien receipt in his pocket and en went downstairs to dine with the old man. Tt had been cloudy all day, and while Bob was coming to terms with Mr. Roberts the weather - wh threatening. Dinner had not advanc- _ ed far before the wind rose and brought with it a downpour of rain. With the coming of * early eae the prospect without grew instead of better, and things leoked so ising after dinner that Mr. Roberts in- to remain all night, pinenising to see got to the station in time for the 8 o’clock - Bob was loath to stay, as he feared his mother ‘Would be worried over his failure to return home ‘that night, but the outlook was so bad that he Sikictoset ce viises sable ‘std told the pro- on e village s an pro- Prietor that the horse would be returned in the - Morning. Bob passed a pleasant evening with the old man, and at ten o’clock was shown to the ms r he was to occupy for the night. By that _ time the rain had stopped and the storm clouds @ppeared to be breaking up, the indications be- ing that by morning the sky would be clear. About three o’clock in the morning Bob was aroused by the flash of a lantern in his face. As __ he started up he was seized and forced back on cae ® pillow. He saw that three men were in the _ Yoom and that one of them carried a dark lan- Sa It seemed clear that they could not belong ; the house, therefore they must be burglars. _ Bob was wide awake in a moment, but he saw he Could do nothing, for the three men Were close 0 his and one of them held his hand over mouth, while the second one held him power- less on the bed. The man with the lantern placed it on the bed and drawing a cord from his pocket Proceeded to bind the boy’s arms to his body. q he tied a towel around the lower part of face. With another 1 of cord he tied *s ankles together, en to the bedpost. ppare satisfied that was secure, he his companions to -follow him. and the room, closing door after them. is is a nice predicament to be placed in,” broker. “Of course _ is, Given time enough, an expert A BRIGHT BOY BROKER oe : 4 o> ae -~ . ll cracksman will open any ordinary safe as well as many difficult ones. One of them carried a bag: presumably full of burglar tools. My! if I could only get free, I’d try to put a spoke in their wheel somehow; but from the way I’m spliced up I guess I’m tied to remain so.” Recollecting how he had freed himself in the old shanty on the Daly place at Richmond, Bob didn’t give up hope of repeating the performance on this occasion. Accordingly, he proceeded to twist and turn and wfench his arms one way and the other, and he found that the strain he put on the cord loosened it somewhat. Four times the cord encircled his body, with the knot behind, and in a short ‘time he got one hand out of the lowest round and that enabled him to twist his other hand out. This first success practically did the work, for it loosened the cord still more so that a little twisting and wrenching sufficed to free him from the second round. Naturally, that still further eased up the cord and the third cir- cle was. even easier, It was no trouble, then, for him to finish the job. Then he removed the gag and speedily re- leased his ankles from the cord which bound them to the bedpost. Free at last, he jumped out of the bed and hurried into his clothes. He went to the door, half expecting that the men had locked him in, but they had not taken that trouble, for the key was still on the inside. Hof opened the door and looked out. There was a dim light from a lamp hung at the front end of. the wide hall. The room assigned to him was on the second floor,-at the back, and some distance _ from the chamber of the master of the house. He —_ — didn’t hear a sound in the house. It struck him - —_ - that the burglars were at work in the library, where he had seen the safe. ap He decided to go in that direction. The sitting room, where he spent the evening with the own- er, was at the end where the light was, and to that he proceeded. Opening the door, he looked inside. The room was dark, but he saw a light streaming from under the door of the library. “That’s where they are,” he thought; “doubt- - less at work on the safe.” Of course, he could not think of going in there and tackling the-three men. « Had he possessed a revolver, he might have risked it, but even at that the odds would have been greatly against him, for it was pretty certain that the men were arm- ed, too, and would not hesitate to use their wea- pons when they found themselves in a tight p = am He tiptoed to the door arid looked through the= keyhole. e hanging lamp in the room had been lighted,-or turned up if kept lit all night, and he saw one of the men, with a mask across his eyes, seated in front of an open door which communicated with another room.. It struck Bob right away that the room beyond was the old man’s chamber, and that the masked feilow was on guard there. The safe stood in a corner out of sight, and as he couldn’t see the other two men, he judged they were at work on it. Bob’s intention had been to find Mr. Roberts’ room and arouse him, but that was out of the question if his chamber was the one which epen- ed into the library, a fact which seemed likely. What should he do, then? The servants were all women, and»it would be no use to wake them up. No, there was the man who acted as butler — -

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12 and general factotum. He, of course, occupied a room on the floor above where the other serv- ants were. The question was to locate his room. In trying to do so, he was more than likely to arouse’ one or more of the women. Then he thought of the gardener who lived with his fam- ily in the small lodge at the gate. He judged that would be the best person to communicate with. % “The men must have reached my room with a ladder,” thought Bob. “I'll return there and see.” He hurried back to the room and looked out of the window. A ladder was standing there, a3 he had sin pi He got out and slipped down to the yard, then ran down to the lodge and pull- ed the bell at the door. After repeating the ri a couple of times a window above was open and the gardener stuck his head out. “What's wanted?” he asked. “Dress yourself and come down quick—there are three ee a in the house!” replied Bob. “Burglars!” exclaimed the gardener, in a star- tled ‘tone. “Who are you? I don’t recognize Pr, ou.” : : “lm the young man you let in this afternoon on ho: I called to see Mr. Roberts, you remember, and on account of the rainstorm was err invited to remain all night.” ; _. = “Oh,” said the man. “What makes ou “think _.. there are burglars in the house? Such a thing re a has never happened in the fifteen years I’ve been here ” “They came in at my window and woke me up. Sion tes, boas taal -cogued ww: and taf the room. I freed myself, went looking for them, -and discovered that they were in the library Does Mr. Roberts’. room . 2 does.” : et “J thought so, for I saw door between the fooms open-and one of the men on guard there, wi from which fact I judge that they have bound Ba and gagged the old gentleman like they did me.” ‘ The gardener was now convinced that the young Pag was telling nothing more than the true acts. es “How long have the burglars been in the 5 house?” Bias “Nearl 4] have.” “Get into your clothes and bring it with you, and something for me to use if yow have anything gifectivi in the way of a wea __ CHAPTER X.—Capture of the Crooks. “When he came out he had a revolver in his - pocket and a club in his hand. ‘said. : *Have you nerve enough to face three stout and shoot quick if necessary?” asked 2s se ceaaion, to shest at any one,” A BRIGHT BOY BROKER “This is the best thing I can offer you,” he. “Then you'd better let me have the shooter and ~ keep the club yourself. I’ve been up against crooks before in the city and in New Jersey, and I know what to expect from them, and at to hand out. My nerve is as solid as a rock in an © emergency. If one of these chaps made a mo- tion to draw a gun on’me, he’d regret it.” Bob spoke with a resolution that impressed the gardener, who was not a particularly braye man. “You'd better take the revolver, then,” said the man, offering it to him. “Come on,” said Bob, holding it in his hand. “How did you leave the house?~ By the front — door, or the back ohe?” ji “By a ladder thatthe burglars used and which — stands under my window. They probably expect to retreat-that way, but I hope we will be able to prevent them from getting away. By the way, do you know where the butler sleeps ?” . “In the servants’ quarters on the top floor.” z “So I supposed. ell, as soon as we get in the house, you must go up and arouse him. Then there will be three of us, and we ought to be strong’ enough to capture the rascals,” said Bob. They walked over the wet grounds to.the lad- — der. The sky was still overcast, but the clouds were fast breaking up. From a window of the house their figures would have appeared as mere shadows. Bob started up the ladder first and the gardener followed him. To say the truth, the latter did not like the idea of facing a trio of crooks who were probably armed and might shoot without any notice. On the contrary, Bob, who — was built of different stuff, would have faced the three alone if he had to now that he had a revolver. Entering his room, Bob crossed to the door and looked into the corridor. pam was quiet as when he left the house. He wai for the gardener to join him. “Now, then, get upstairs and wake up the but- ler, but don’t make any more noise about it than you can help. Tell him the facts of the and get him down here as soon as possible. i suppose he has a gun?” he said. “Yes. He keeps a revolver under his pillow,” replied the gardener. : “Good! We'll get these chaps on the hip if — we’re spry about it. Now hustle!” ; The gardener started up the rear stairway and Bob slipped down to the sitting room and enter- ed. The light came under the library door as — before. Bob walked over and tried the keyhole again. There was no change in the situation in- — side. He heard the whirling sound of the drill — on the safe door. As he was turning away he - heard one of the men say: 3 : “One more tumbler, Bill, and we'll have the door open.” ey Evidently no time was to be lost if they were going to interfere between the crooks and their” anticipated booty. Bob withdrew from the room and -returned to the door of his own room to await the appearance of the butler and gardener. After what seemed to be a long time, the men came down, ase ae - “Come in here,” said Bob, in a low tone. “The paces has explained matters?” he said to the er. : : “He says there are three burglars in the: li- sag? 8 said that individual. ae “That’s right. 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A BRIGHT BOY BROKER 13 and haye nearly got into it. I was at the li- brary door a moment ago and heard one of them ‘Say that he had only one more tumbler to over- come.” What shall we do?” our revolver?” butler displayed it. pete your nerve? Are you ready to shoot, *T am,” said the man firmly. : We'll take them by surprise and Tll look after the two at the safe, hold the chap sitting at the door of Mr. : The gardener must secure them, y one, You'd better hu chen and get a clothes line an ith,” he added to the gardener. time. We'll wait here till you return.” _ cover them. down to the a knife to cut y entered the sitting room. : e the light under the library door?” whis- — y saw it’ plainly enough. through the keyhole,” the boy told the - man did, and saw the rascal who was on we'll bounce in on them,” said Bob. butler was ready, but the gardener would have been excused. Flinging open the or, they entered the library. Throw up your hands!” cried Bob, covering butler pointed his weapon at the other. rascals were taken completely by surprise. chap who was holding: the dark ive his pal plenty of light, flashed glare partially blinded the boy a great disadvan nce of mind did not desert him, ed straight at the bull’s-eye. There was a ih of glass-and a howl from the crook. The ; lar had dropped his drill and was pull- when Bob cried out that he would up ‘his hands. The , up with yours!” said Bob to the other, ‘hand was bleeding where the bullet torn a furrow. With an imprecation, the also obeyed. The gardener had made no ation, but stood in the doorway with his one hand and the clothes line in the other. w, then, butler,” said Bob, without taking es off the two men at the safe, “you’ve got in, I suppose. Tell the gardener to tie the chair. Then we'll attend to these rdener advanced and tied the crook by ° if he didn’t throw e s- orders. With one of the rascals out “You here, young man!” exclaimed the master of the house, in an unsteady voice on recognizing his young visitor. “Yes, sir. I’m right on the job. We've captur- ed the rascals.” : “Who is with you?” “Your butler and gardener.” “One of the men fired at you?” “No; I fired at one of them and hit his hand. I had to, for he nearly blinded me with his bull’s-eye light. If the room hadn’t been light- ed_up, they would have got the better of us.” Bob hurriedly explained all that had happened, as far as he was concerned, to the astonished old man, who wondered at the boy’s pluck and activ- ity in thwarting the work of the burglars. He declared that he was under the strongest of ob- ligations to his young visitor and could not thank him enough. “You're welcome, Mr. Roberts,” replied the boy. “T only did my duty.” “It was more than could be expected of you, for we are comparative strangers to each other,” said Mr. Roberts. “As a visitor, just stopping overnight, it was hardly your duty to risk your life in the defence of my property. I assure you that I fully appreciate your conduct, and will not forget you.” “That's all right, sir. Come out into the li- brary and see how we've got the rascals fixed.” The old man put on a wrapper and followed Bob. The butler and gardener, the latter brave enough now, were standing == over the bound rascals. After looking at them and. then at his ruined safe, Mr. Roberts telephoned to the vil- lage for the officers of the law to come out to his place and take charge of the burglars. An hour passed before the constable arrived in a wagon. They listened to the story of the at- tempted burglary, and of the capture of the croo They examined the safe and found that. five minutes’ more undisturbed work would have enabled the rascals to have opened the door, for_ all but one of the tumblers of the combination had been knocked out of place. The crooks were carried to the lock-up, to removed next morn- ing to Stamford, and the officers: said that all hands must. appear before the strate in the morning to testify against them. at would in- terfere with Bob’s early return to New York, but it couldn’t be helped. It was nearly five when ~ he returned to bed, and at eiglit he was called to come to breakfast. After the meal Mr. Roberts ordered his carriage to the door and set' off for the village, with Bob riding behind and the but- ler and the gardener following. The crooks were brought before the magistrate, who, after hear- ing the testimony, remanded the prisoners to Stamford jail. Bob then bade his host good-by, _and took a train for New York. ' CHAPTER XI.—Mrs. Green. “On reaching Wall” street, Bob. first went. his office, attended to his mail and othe ip F5e -and then went around to Day & Carter’s office. _ He was admitted to Mr. Day's private room. Ss ee Dearaen D you visited Mx, -

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= i a ad 14 “Yes, sir. I went there yesterday afternoon and returned about an hour ago.” “Did the gentleman invite you to stay all night?” said Mr. Day. “Yes, sir. The weather turned out stormy af- ter dinner, to which he invited me, and so he asked me to remain till the morning, an invita- tion I was glad to accept under the circumstances, and, as event proved, it was fortunate for him that I stayed.” : “How is that?” Bob gave him the particulars of the attempted burglary and the capture of the three crooks. “Upon my word, Bob, you’re a corker. You have placed the old man under a debt of gratitude to you. But how about the business-in hand?” “Tt’s all right, sir. I put it through before we went to dinner.” ; “You did?” “Yes, sir. I bought the 5,000 shares for 40, and paid the $20,000 on account.” “You have done well. Much better than I ex- pected. I hardly believed that the old man could be induced to sell,” ; “Oh, he has been desirous of selling the stock at a good price for some time, so he admitted to me, but he would have nothing to do with bro- kers, or any one se gts | a broker.” 2 spapoet you used your friend, Mr. Frost, as the alleged purchaser?” “Yes, sir. Mr. Robérts investigated him over the long-distance phone before would talk business at all. When he found he was a retired capitalist he agreed to let the fo Aen go at the figure stated. He is going to bfimg the certifi- cates to Mr. Frost’s house whenever that gentle- man notifies him that he is prepared to close the deal in full.” ~ “The matter had better be settled right away. I will give you a certified check for $180,000 as soon as you are ready for it,,and you can turn it over to Mr. Frost.” ; “All right, sir. Ill see Mr. Frost this after- ’. noon and have him write at once to Mr. Roberts return home the#previous night, though Bob had taken the precaution to notify her by tel Ee where he was going. ~- He had quite a story to tell her when he did ; home, and went straight to bed, pie afterward the Candia matter was settled at Yr. after telling it at the supper-table _ lived and the boy told him. Bob received a warm invitation from him to revisit his place and spend the week-end with him. kK The young broker prom- do so at no distant time. Next morning ‘. as he felt tired. Two ’ Roberts, as testimony of A BRIGHT BOY BROKER Bob delivered the Candia certificates to Mr. Day at his office, and was directed to send in his state- ment of account. This he did that afternoon and got his commission. When Bob got home on the following afternoon he found a package address- ed to him which had been delivered by registered mail. The package contained a box from a prom- inent New York jeweler, and in the box was an expensive diamond scarf pin sent to him by Mr. is appreciation of the boy’s services in saving hira from being ro hed. Bob was reading at his desk next morning when. a handsomely dressed lady walked in and asked for Mr. Morris. . Vinca my name, madam. Take a sea‘,” said ob. » “A gentleman by the name of Risdon, whom I met a few days ago, spoke about you in such complimentary terms that, having since got a tip to buy a certain stock, I determined to do my business this time with you,” said the visitor, who introduced herself as Mrs, Green. : “Ym much obliged to Mr, Risdon, but I don’t recall the gentleman as a with,” said Bob.- “He spoke as if he knew you,” she answered. “I guess he has only heard about me from some broker.” “Well, he said you were the smartest person for your age in Wall Street.” “That is rather a strong statement for him to make,” laughed Bob. Then she got down’ to business and told Bob that she wanted him to buy for her account 100 ~ shares of P. & D. on margin. ; “Yes, ma’am, I can do that for The deposit will be $1,000.” She produced the money and soon after went away. The stock went up three points during the week. and then Mrs, Green called again and * ordered the stock sold. Two days later she call- ed for her statement and the money and got both: Bob’s commission on the transaction was $25 plus interest charges on $6,800, which he had advanced for the purchase of the stock. This. was the first operation he had wholly conducted himself without any help from Sargent. As he had a ie, er of $80,000 in his business, he didn’t eg help for it, so he made th pay for it, so he m the interest charges himself. Some days later the lady reappeared with a ten-share certificate of Southern Railway, which she said a relative down South had sent her for a birthday present. : “I don’t want to keep the stock so you had bet- ter sell it for me,” she said. “All right. Ill do.it,” said Bob. : “T will call in a few days for the money.” “Very well, ma’am. I'll have it ready for you.” Southern Railway was quoted at 116, and the ten shares were consequently worth $1,116. Bob took the stock to Sargent and asked him to dis- pose of it ‘in the Exchange. Sargent, who had been handling the stock to some extent lately, — “ looked the certificate over and was struck by some dissimilarity in the signature of the presi-— dent to that in other certifi he had seen. “Where did you get this, Morris?” he asked. “A lady customer brought it to me to sell for - er. » 2 4 . — 4 ee ypothecate the stock to raise any funds - person I am acquainted ~ you all right, & : “Did she say where she got it?” Sc aay

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“Yes. She told me that a relative in the South “Sent it to her for a birthday present.” ~ “Well, it doesn’t look just right to me. Take it down to Taylor & Co. That firm is the clear- ing house for Southern Railway. Ask them if 7s all right.” - “Do you think there is something wrong about Qn 2 “To tell you the truth, I do.” “Fi minutes later Bob presented the cer- tificate to a clerk at Taylor & Co., and asked him _if it was a genuine certificate. The clerk looked over carefully. : Who are you from?” he asked. “Nobody. I’m in business for myself. There card.” ere did you get this certificate?” a lady customer.” Wait a moment.” ; ; e elerk took the certificate into a private In a few moments he returned. “Mr. Taylor would like to see you.” showed Bob into the inner room. The boy d himself in the presence ofa tall, well- man_at a desk. Mr. Taylor pointed to a near him. — . Your name is Robert Morris, eh?” he said, the boy’s card in his fingers. es, sir. ow long = 9 - have you been in the brokerage nr About four months.” 5 “You were employed in the Street before that, 7 ose: “With whom?” “Day & Carter.” ous certificates of Southern Railway on the eb?” i didn’t know, until Broker Sargent, with I have business relations, told me. He d me to bring that certificate to you for tion, as he had some doubts himself about president’s signature. : gat a This certificate is worthless. esident’s name has been forged. You got -a lady customer, I understand?” d. She left it with me to sell.” - 2 you well acquainted with her?” __ -$ir. I have only done business with her efore—a week or so ago.” u know her a of course? ve got it at office. 5 iit to me. I must retain this certificate. bee's ring her down here.” * tg ,” replied Bob. F z closed the interview. He gt his receipt certificate and returned to Sargent’s office, X broker gone over to the Exchange, see ‘ER -XIL—A Rise in Copper. A BRIGHT BOY BROKER : suppose you don’t know that there are some will give you a receipt for it. If the i yes — : Jdin the facts to her, and _ and that induced her to call on me. Now I haven’t — - was no good and tried to work it off - more 15 investigate the case. Their object, doubtless, was to get the name and address of the relative who had sent the certificate to the lady. Then the certificate could be traced to the person who sold it to the relative. Later on Bob saw Sargent and told him that the certificate was no good. “I had an idea that such was the case,” said the broker. “The lady ‘will not be pleased: to learn that she is-out over $1,100.” “Neither would you be, under the same cir- cumstances.” “She can console herself with the fact that the stock didn’t cost her anything. She will prob- ably have something to say on the subject to her relative.” eee “My. Taylor. asked me for her address and 1 sent it to him, so she is likely to hear about the pene before she calls on me again,” said “Quite likely,” nodded. Sargent. : On the following morning, while Bob was at his desk, his telephone rang. ~ “Hello!” he replied, putting the receiver to his ear. ; “Is this Robert Morris, broker?” Sine “Yes.” Y “I'm Mr. Taylor. I sent a clerk up to the ad- dress. you gave me of Mrs. Green, but she does not live at the number, which is am apartment house, nor does she appear to be known in the immediate neighborhood. Just see whether you gave me the correct address or not.” : “Hold the wire and I'll look, but I’m sure I gave it to you right,” said Bob. : He referred again to Mrs. Green’s address, which was in his book, and repeated it over the wi « re, “That’s the address you gave me. You either | took it down wrong from the lady, or she didn’t give you her right address,” said Mr. Taylor. “Her initial is H.?” “Yes = “Tll see if I can find it in the city directory. I suppose you don’t know whether she has a hus- bank: or is a widow?” “No, sir. She doesn’t look like a widow. There is nothing somber about her.” \ ‘ * “She might be a grass-widow,” laughed Taylor. “Or a divorced woman living on a substantial alimony. You say she dresses fine?” “Away up in G. She has money or she could o: not put on such a front.” z “That is all. You will hear from me later about this matter. Good-by.” » Bob scratched his ear as he hung up the re- ceiver. oe - “She must have given me a fictitious address,” he thought, “for I am very careful about getting my customers’ addresses right. If she gave me a false one, it looks kind of bad in the light of the bogus certificate. She told me that a Mr. ~~ Risdon mentioned me in flattering terms to her, — - the slightest acquaintance with any man by that —— name. Never even heard of him. If there is — such a person, he heard of me through some _ broker. I wonder if the lady knew the certificate me use I was young and might traders? It is quite

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16 S all kinds of games in this world to make money at some one else’s expense. She was a very fas- cinating party, I must admit, and those are the kind of ladies who can pul} the wool over the eyes of the male sex. Well, I haven’t been caught; that’s some satisfaction.” \ Bob loeked for the lady to appear next day for the value of the ten shares of the Southern Rail- way stock, but she did not show up. He commu- niezted by phone with Taylor & Co., and asked if they had got a line on Mrs. Green, but they had not been able to locate her. Later in the day a man in a smart business suit, who looked as if he might bea high-grade clerk, called and asked Bob for an exact desoyiption of Mrs. Green. He presented a letter signed by Taylor & Co., requesting the information. Bob gave it and the man went away. He was a detective from the “Wall Street agency, but Bob didn’t know that. Next-morning Bob read in the papers that owing to a shortage in the copper output, the reserve supply was not keeping pace with the demand -and, as a result, the price was certain to be put up. : : In.a Wall Street paper he read that the -cop- --——s«éer situation was remarkably strong and that . cope? stocks were likely to advance somewhat > in value. The editor said that now was a good ; time to buy -eopper shares, and he mentioned a number of mines that ought to pay an immediate _ <i - investor. Bob dropped in on Sargent and asked ee, him what he thought about copper. . , “Pm thinking of buying some copper stock,” said the young broker. “What do you think about it?” “Good idea, if you have no better use for your money. Buy the shares outright and hold them for a ortbable advance. You might as well put your money out at something that will be likely to pay you a big interest than keep it lying idle _ in your safe-deposit box,” said Sargent.- ~ “That’s my idea exactly,” replied Bob. ithe paragraph in the. Wall Sie gt Erer in- e : et paper, an asked the broker which he thought was the best to go in. ~ + a 2 gk Seg ia : ae Asobe. ae at it, at $5. It is not likely any er, and may advance a dollar inside of a bsg gs oe shares and see how you come out,” said Sargen : Bob concluded to do it, and he gave Sargent an order to gét him the shares. -. “fl fetch the money to you in the course of _‘ an hour,” he said. noe 5 “All right,” replied the broker. é Two days later the certificates were delivered Bob, and he put them in his safe-deposit box. the meanwhile nothing had been seen of Mrs. On the following week there was a , and all the copper stocks | Alpha went up to $8 in three days. Bob bought 5,000 more at $6 and oted his attention to the Curb. Ten days later $10. Everybody was hot on the and thousands of shares of the 7 .. A BRIGHT BOY BROKER ‘ pha reached $12 Bob told Sargent that he guessed he would sell out, “The market is strong and the price is likely to hold for a while, but I think it won’t go a . whole, lot higher. I mean Alpha particularly. It never has been higher than $9,” he said. Sargent agreed that he would do well by get- ting out before the reaction set in, for no one could tell when that would happen. So Bob put in his order and Sargent sold his 10,000 shares: at a profit of $65,000 to the boy broker. Three _ days afterward the boom went to pieces and Al- pha dropped to $8, and then to $6. Bob there- fore had reason to congratulate himself in get- ting out in time. CHAPTER XHI.—The Encounter at the Cove. The bright young broker was now worth $135,- 000, and he felt that his success in Wall Street was already assured, though he got customers very slowly, and most of them were people he had never seen, as they lived out of the city. Miss Mason was a great help to him, and would be a greater one if she remained with him. Pri- vately, she thought her youthful employer the finest young man in the city. Only for him, she wouldn’t have got the pleasant situation she had, and she rather preferred the work she was now doing to the heavier duties she had been called - on to perform at the shirt-waist house. There was nothing she wasn’t willing to do for Bob, though he had no occasion to work her very hard at_ present. daily market report he dictated to her and which she typewrote in manifold to the extent of about three dozen copies. One of these went out in every letter Bob sent away, and he seldom had more than thirty-five letters a day to answer. Bob had leased a small adjoining office for a private room, and he would get possession of it on the first of Mays which was only two weeks away. That would give his office more of a solid look, for a broker without a private room could hardly be regarded as doing a ‘whole lot of busi- ness, and appearances go for a great deal in this world. In fact, a good bluff often discounts the real article if it looks behind the times. It was about this time that Bob received a notification — cater ws that his Lar woulk requi in court to appear against three burglars who had made the attempt to rob Mr. Roberts. .In the same mail he got a letter from the old man. “As you will have*to appear in Stamford on next Monday,” wrote Mr. Roberts, “I think you had better come out to my house on Saturday afternoon and remain with me till the case is set- tled. You will be able to return on Monday The heaviest job she had was the - afternoon, if your business requires you to be ea back in the city so soon. At any rate, I shall be very much pleased to have you spend a couple of days or longer with me.” . : e old man said in his letter that if Bob men- oe Prudent seedy in Bein bee is carriage ai station d i im to the house.. Bob decided to accept he would have~_

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A BRIGHT BOY BROKER 17 -his mother Friday evening that he would not re- ably become a millionaire one of these days,” he turn home next day, nor, in fact, before Monday said. “How old are you now?” “Night, as ‘he was going out to Mr. Roberts’ place. “Nineteen,” replied Bob. . Before he went to lunch next day he gave Miss “The world is all before you, while it is -all — ‘Mason directions to open all his ts. on Mon- behind me. _ However, I’ve had my day, and ¢an- “ y morning, enter the orders in his book and not complain.” ; : i them, with the money, to Broker Sargent. At that moment dinner was announced and He told her if he got back in time he would dic- they went down to the dining room. The fotow- his market letter to her, and asked her to “ing day was pleasant, end Mr. Roberts got his Wait for him till five o’clock. eri oe ~—_ he and Hob. went ee long - After tarte d Central tive aroun e country. ter dinner Bo Station. saved is gt we Bp Bed — ae wag Walked out at the gate and teok his way to the landed at the village station, where he found the Shore of the big'cove. He followed it for about waiting for him, in charge of the gar- 2 Mile in the direction of the Sound when, twi- ag = was the acting coachman, too. He light falling, he started back. Suddenly two men Teceived a hearty welcome from Mr. Roberts, — Rie inns the shelter of the bushes and - who ; ‘ confron im. ‘ eres eee ee Preporsy- ang then took Fee Robert Morris, I'm thinking,” said one : 4 : son o e men. _, What business are you in, Morris?” asked the As Bob had never seen the men before, he was . : : ; surprised that they should know him, and he re- _ That question struck Bob all in a heap. It garded them with keen attention. eant that he would have to make a confession “Perhaps I am,” he answered. “What of it? the trick he had employed to induce his host What do you want?” part with the Candia stock,*and he feared that “We want to talk with you,” said the man: old man would be a bit angry and put out “About what?” consequence. However, he was up mst it, “The case in which you are a witness. It comes d the only manly way out was to tell the whole on to-morrow at the Stamford court, that’s why ith and trust to Mr. Roberts’ good opinion. you are down in this locality.” am in business for myself, and it is a busi- “What has that case got te do with yon?” asked ss I’m afraid you won't like. Here is my card,” Bob, regarding them with suspicion. d Bob banded it to him. “The prisoners are friends of ours.” it, frown then “Oh, they are? I shouldn't think you would ~ . : ald man looked’ at it, f oe be proud out pagotne that al 4 : : pes “Why not? riends are friends, ard it’s our ~ So you are a Wall ay or ea ed ba place to stand by them when they’re in trouble.” ernity Par long rm ~e T plaes 4 t oe ogy 0 — that -they’re in trouble?” since them, a. sere “Tt’s your fault. — : wd we of Ri «aan ete ee peeimed Bob. “You’ve got a nerve . Well, I have to mak rath farts say that. of your case, since I ———. a a “According to the testimony you gave before 5 you. So. warn x ee paeet,.of out the magistrate ef the village, who committed ng toward brokers, and when eee did not them, you were the chief cause of their capture. to get mes Baran a tiaicbe ig I did not If ee hadn’t butted in, they wouldn’t have been » me that MS i How £2 ie 4 ect the fact on account of your youth. How = : s ec! : : : ourself ?” “Then you think I ought not to have prevent- have you aries business for y ed them a: Soot robbing Mr. a said Bob arcastically. “I ought to have allowed them. not a full-fledged broker § - i : y t in your favor. On full swing so they could have made off with their ence, “You were only a visitor at the house, and it would have made no difference to you what Reb- erts lost. He’s reputed to be a rich old duck, and he did not volunteer ‘ : corel so he ia Railway busi- fated well afford to lose a»fewethousand dol Mr. ‘ox “T don’t agree with your line of argument, and ‘ I don’t care to discuss the matter further with you, so I'll bid yeu good evening.” ; old on, we're not through with you yet.” “Well, I’m through with you.” : “You don’t leave here till you listen to me.” _ “This'is a hold-up, I suppose? You mean to rob me.” - . guess- ay ) ; Mr. berts ~ he ek? whice had attended the boy's purpose

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se) Ss = “Sorry I can’t oblige you.” “Don’t be a fool. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money.” -“T'd be a fool if I refused to obey the subpoena at was served on me. I'd probably find myself in jail for contempt.” : 2 “Don’t you believe it. This is Connecticut. They can’t make you come into this State unless you want to.” ; “T guess you don’t know a whole lot about such things. However, I’m not going to argue with you. Your offer is declined.” <9 “You refuse to accept our proposition?” “I certainly do.” : : “Then we'll have to prevent you appearing in court to-morrow and see Roberts. ourselves.” “How are you going to prevent me?” “By making a prisoner of you.” “Not if I can help it, you won’t.” Bob made a sudden dash into the bushes be- fore they could lay hands on him, and after run- ning a few yards, got out on the shore again, where sprinting was better, and put out like a hare up the cove. The men gave instant chase, but they were no match for the’active ex-messen- ger, and he soon outstripped them, and lost them in the falling gloom, reaching the Roberts place out of breath. He stopped at the lodge to tell the gardener about his encounter on the shore of the cove, and to warn him against the men, whom he described. Entering the house, he told his story to the old man, and Mr. Roberts called up the head constable ae Sagrcciene poe eife story to him, suggesting t the chaps ought to be locked up and arrested on the charge of trying ~ to bribe a witness. %, The constable said he’d attend to the matter, _ but if he did anything, no one heard about it. ; Next day the three burglars were tried for their _ erime, and the jury, regarding the testimony = — them as conclusive, brought in a verdict , gay. They were sentenced to ten years each ies State prison, and were taken, away at once ae to begin their time. Bob reached his office at ~ half. four, and he and Miss Mason stayed till ’ nearly six to get out the market letter, a. CHAPTER XIV.—Bob Loads Up on Neptune. Next morning Bob saw in one of his Western papers that a new vein of ore of good quality had recently been discovered in the Neptune mine that when it had Mc haeyeh uncovered mes up it was expected that mine’s pros) roe much improved. On the stre of t hi down to the Curb to see what was or the stock. He struck the trader him he had a block of 5,000 Bob asked him what asking for his stock now, expecting him 10 cents or thereabouts. é es Det asking for any bids on it. Do you it? : might take it if you let it go cheap enough.” “Give me 3 cents for the block and you can ‘Il go you. If Neptune isn’t worth 8 cents, it iit told ‘d ft 24 E z : 5 s ¥ af eS _ ~ ~ Pow are . - A BRIGHT BOY BROKER “It is worth twice 3 cents, I dare say,” said the broker, “but it’s too slow a mover for me. I’ve had that stock nearly a year. I wish you luck with it. Send me $50 on account, and [’il deliver the certificates C. 0. D. to you to-morrow.” Bob picked up 6,000 more shares from another trader, at 3 cents. Later in the day he went over to Jersey City and found’15,000 shares among the brokers there, which he got for 4 cents. The next day all the certificates were delivered and he paid for them. He now had 40,000 shares in his safe, which had cost him $1,450. That day he telegraphed to Goldfield, asking how the market was for is Nw He got word back that there Was some and for it at from 5 to 6 cents. On the following day he went around among the officers of the Curb brokers, looking for more of the stock, and picked up 20,000 shares alto- pater from different parties, at 4 cents. Then e inserted an advertisement in an evening pa- per, which had a considerable country subserip- tion list, offering 4 cents for Neptune stock. In the course of two weeks he got numerous letters from farmers and others ne had bought 1,000 or more shares at 15 cents, and who felt that they had been stuck on the stock. Most of them wanted 5 cents or more, but he sent them word he would pay only 4 cents. He got 20,000 shares this way. Several city holders of the stock call« ed on him and sold him 20,000 lots at his price. That was all 100,000 shares altogether, Next day’s reports from he could find— which cost him $3,950. Goldfield showed that shares in small several thousand shares of Neptune had been - sold at 8 cents, and that lots of people were ask- ing 10 cents for it. Several days afterward Bro- ker Hoskins met Bob on the Curb. “You bought that stock of me for a Goldfield man, didn’t you?” he asked. _“No, sir. I bought it for myself.” . “Well, there’s a man from Goldfield looking for Neptune, sol Figs what I had about three weeks ago. He a me for your address, and I gave it to im.” “What did he offer you for Neptune?” weg didn’t make any. offer, for I had none for e. “If he offers me less than 10 cents, I won't consider it.” “Ten cents! And you bought it from me for three.” “Sure. I’m looking to make a profit. That’s pvt I expect to become a millionaire one of these jays.” “Did you buy trader curiously. “Yes, I bought 10,000 more at that price.” “There’s no demand but y: get twice that price in Goldfield for it to-day, according to reports from there.” any more at 3 cents?” asked the “I’m not anxious to sell, for I heard the mine has turned«ap new ore of a better quality.” “The fact has been circulated in the Western papers, but no official report has as yet been given out by the: management, so that it is a matter of for it here, but you could I told him, half an hour ago, that I - oubt what -effeet the developments. will have on the mine. 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nes « ing public that Neptune is worth taking a chance n ss on.” ; “J’ve taken a chance on it. If I had waited till ‘the news was confirmed, could I have picked up the stock at 3 and 4 cents?” a “Hardly.” =: = X *That’s just it. You can’t win without taking arisk. If a Goldfield man is on here looking for Neptune stock it’s a sign it is worth something tore than it was.” — “He ought to be able to pick up several thou- sand shares in Jersey City.” “Tf he can find them there.” “Oh, he'll find them. I know one_or two firms over there who have it.” a Bob did not say that he had collared all-he ' could find in Jersey City. Nor that he had bought 40,000 shares through his advertisement. _ He was pretty well satisfied that he had cornered - the Eastern supply of Neptune and that the ™man from Goldfitid would have to deal with him if he wanted any of it. It was an hour before _ he returned to his office, and then Miss Mason - had called and wanted to see him. _ “He-said he would be back later,” she. said. ~. “All right,” lied Bob, taking up a paper and _ Starting to read it. rs ; He went to lunch at one o'clock and was back a few minutes before two. He had hardly set- tled himself in his chair before the door opened ; eee man with a free-and-easy air came in. _ “his is the man from Goldfield,” thought the e broker. re you Robert Morris?” asked the visitor. Yes, sir. Take a seat.” “My name is William Burbank. I am looking or some Neptune mining stock. A or name of Hoskins told me he sold you a bl 5,000 shares about three weeks ago.” - “That’s right,” nodded Bob, . “You also bought 4,000 from another broker.” ‘Quite correct.” You ed the shares for a customer, I must decline to answer that question. You you are looking for Neptune mining stock?” r ” roe ‘are a on spares ee give you 6 cents for all you can get me, Sse ie coling at 3 Gold Ss Di y-ru a in - ” said Bob. gher than to-day “You'll have to bid hi Pb hope to get any from m haven say it is sting. 8, ay pay = that,” haven’t any for sale at 8.” t+ do you want for what.you have?” the present moment the stock is not for Not for sale?” Vhy not? It was going begging a couple of Curb arb brokers.” 2 fifteen or more and only found and they had B ~ A BRIGHT BOY BROKER ““teld him that a man by the name of- Burbank _ e.” ; ’*t seen to-day’s Goldfield market report. . Burbank. “I see there is no use of me “Well, why don’t you call on the others? You may have better luck.” . “Vl have to if you won’t sell me any.” “Ym holding on to them on the chance that the price might go to a quarter.” “It nev:y will go as high as that.” “Why net? There has been new ore found in the mine that ought to improve its prospects.” “That statement has been exaggerated by the newspapers.” “But new ore has been found, hasn’t it? You are from Goldfield, I believe, and ought to know something about it.” : “Yes, new ore has been found,” admitted the Visitor; “that is why the stock has become active again on the Goldfield market, but the price will searcely rise above 10 or 12 cents. [ll give you 10 cents for all you have, spot cash.” “No, sir. I am not in a hurry to sell. I can afford to hold on as long as | choose, for I haven’t got much money invested in the stock I haye an idea that it will pay me to wait a while and see how the eat jumps.” “Then I can’t do any business with you?” said Burbank, in a disappointed tone. “Not at this moment you can’t. I can’t say what my views of Neptune will be in a day or two. After you have tried other brokers~ here and in Jersey City, and haven’t secured all you —ape “you can call in and see me aga‘n,” said “Very well,” said Burbank. “I may call afain_ in a day or two.” He got up and took his leave. . CHAPTER XV.—Conclusion. After Burbank had departed, Bob telegraphed to a friend of Sargent’s in Goldfield for the best information obtainable about the Neptune mine. “He could not expect an answer for several days, for it would have.to come by mail. On the fol- lowing afternoon Burbank again appeared. “Look here, Morris, you appear to have bought | up every share of Neptune in sight,” he said. “I have run across: a score of brokers who sold you from 1,000 shares up to 5,000, and most of the other ers remember you applyin for.the . Which they didn’t have. How much of this stock have you got, and why have you> bought so much of it?” ; : “1 decline to tell you how much I have, as that is nobody’s business but my own. I bought the stock because I found I could get it cheap in spite of the report that new ore had been found in _ ee that ae poe to improve its pros- pects. It was a small risk, anyway, that I took on the chance of making a good profit if the pricé of the stock really went up and there arose a genet for it. If it takes a real jump on the Goldfield market, brokers here will be looking for it. As I believe I have nearly all that was on the Eastern market, why, whoever “wants it will have to call on me,” said Bob. “You're a pretty smart young fellow,” -said buy any from you, as I couldn’ cents for it a : bietidiee a a a give twelve, would you?” _ so __ “And it’s practically selling for 1 then es sold it to you,” in Goldfield, where you came f el Penge 2 to them _ 19 pba Bee

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20 “Tt will be twelve there to-morrow. I may as well admit that I came East on purpose to buy in all the stock of Neptune I could find. I expected to get it for 4 cents, or 5 at the outside. I ad- - mit all this, for I can see you mean to hold on to the stock for the developments you expect will come. T will also admit that I am the vice-pres- ident of the-company, and that I came on in the interest of other officers as well as myself. We are the chief owners. I suspect you hold enough of the stock to make you a large owner, too. This fact will come out as soon as you send on the certificates. to be transferred to your name. Now, I have a proposition to make you.” “What is it?” “We have no Wall Street representative. and we should like to get somebody or a firm to act for us and keep the Eastern transfer books. Will you accept the appointment? I promise ay you it will be worth while.” : “I will, if it is officially offered to me.” : *“T am offering it officially. I will report your ‘acceptance to the president, and he will forward you the official appointment, signed by himself. The price of Neptune will probably go to 25 cents within a week. It may be some time be- ae fore it will go higher. Within a year the com- 2 pany expects to be able to declare its first divi- : dend. I should advise you to hold on to the bulk of your steck if you do not need the money in your. business.” - ~Bob held an hour’s interview with the man from Goldfield, who said he was going to take one of the evening expresses for the West, a3 ' there waS no further need for his presence in ‘New York. Next day the Goldfield market re- $e port showed that Neptune was ruling at 12 cents, and by the end of the week it had reached 20. _. Bight days after the departure of Burbank from the city, Bob. received his official appointment as _ Eastern representative of the Neptune Gold & _ Silver Mining Co., of Bullfrog, Nevada, The _ stock was then selling for 2 cents on the Gold- _ field Exchange, and considerable of it exchanged - Bob immediately had the company’s name painted on the outer door, and issued.a circular of notification to the mining brokers. -.the ‘same time he offered 25,000 shares of the ‘stock for sale in small lots, at 25 cents, anl = found ready purchasers for it. That gave him a ~. preit of $2,300 on his whole purchase, and he ~~ still had left 75,000 shares, worth nearly $20,000, Altogether, he had done well by going into Nep- - tune. He was getting to be well known in the . Street now. One day his friend, Nathaniel Frost “came to the office and gave him an order to buy 5,000 shares of Erie, on margin, for his account. “As soon as you get it,” said the old gentle- man, “you’d better buy 5,000 shares for yourself, T've got the tip that Erie will go from 38 to 45 He got it th Sargent, as usual. When ‘Sargent noticed that Bob was buying a similar ount of the same pai ae his. customer, he At about. ing to happenin the Erie— ers, which ought to tell FAMOUS 4 A BRIGHT BOY BROKER ~ you that Mr. Frost and myself are expecting a rise,” replied Bob. “Naturally; but what gives you both the idea that a rise is coming?” “Mr. Frost told me to buy, and I guess he knows what’s coming off. Somebody in the swim has probably tipped him off. I don’t think you'd lose anything yourself if you got on the band- wagon with us.” Sargent took the hint and bought as much Erie as he could afford. All hands got the stock at 38, but an hour afterward it was up to 39. Bob was going down Broad street when he no- ticed a man on the corner of Exchange Place who looked familiar to him, yet when he got a look at his face he could not place him. The stranger saw Bob staring at him and, turning away, started across the street at a rapid rate. His walk betrayed his identity to the boy. “That’s the dapper young crook who robbed Mr: Frost and afterward tried to rob me with the help of his pal. I must catch him, for his presence’ down here doesn’t mean any. good,” thought Bob: : He started right after the fellow and grabbed him atthe other corner, : : “Here, what do you mean?” demanded the - stranger, trying to shake him off. “T think it’s time you were pulled in. Crooks are not supposed to come below the dead line. I see you don’t mind taking the risk,” said Bob. Just then Bob saw a Wall Street detective ap- proaching, with whom he was acquainted. ; “Here, Mr. Brady, take charge of this man. — He’s a crook in disguise,” he said. Conscious that he was in a tight place, the dapper young man swung himself free from Bob - and started on a run up Exchange place. The boy and the detective were hot on his heels. They caught him» before he got as far as New street, and Bob pulled the beard off his face, exposing his smooth face. The young broker told the de- — tective that the fellow was guilty of stealing a pocketbook with $500 in it, which he recovered from him, and that. he and another man had tried to rob him of a bag containing about $50,- 000 worth of stock, in front of his office. The crook was marched to the station and locked up. Next day Mr. Frost and Bob appeared inst him in the Tombs police court, and the magistrate held him for the action of the grand jury. In the course of a month an indictment ~ was found against him, on which he was subse- quently tried, convicted and sent to State prison. A few days after the capture of the dapper — young man, Erie boomed to 46, and Bob and Mr. Frost each made $40,000. Counting his Neptune __ stock, now worth-27 cents a share, the bright ~~ boy broker was. worth $200,000. As he was at last on the high ‘road to success, with an in- — creasing list of customers, we need not follow his further career in Wall Street: Suffice it to — say that to-day ne of the shining e is generally regarded as one ights of Wall Street—a broker with a ier number of customers on his books, _ and the lady who presides over his fine West : avenue residence was once May Mason, to whom ‘he gave a helping hand in her hour of need. Next week’s issue will contain “TELEGRAPH TOM: or, THE MESSAGE THAT MADE HIM 2 <

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~ ‘ SMITHY FINDS 81 TOO YOUNG TO QUIT A. M. Arthurs, 81 years old, thought he had worked long enough a year ago, so he retired. But Arthurs found after a year of “loafing” here that Jeading an inactive life was the hardest work he had ever done. So he purchased his former property. near this city and will soon be pounding his old anvil again. — Arthurs has been a blacksmith since he was 16 years old and is still hale and hearty. RIVER OF HONEY When a honey bee a around holding his head and staring despondently into space he may be suffering from influenza, dementia precox or any one of a dozen other physical or mental dis- s eles: At any rate he needs quick medical at- -~ tention and is getting it in the honey producing = i of this province. : Sher experts say that Manitoba will pour a river of honey on thg world’s pancakes this year and that the big production is due almost entire- ___1y to the elimination of bee diseases. Last year’s average of approximately 65 pounds to the hive - 4s expected to be materially increased by the hun- dreds of large apiaries scattered throughout the _ province. 2 Beekeeping is not a new industry in Canada, but it has grown in late years throughout the districts where the remaining lands of the Hud- son’s Bay Company are being closed out to farm settlers. ¢ _ INVENTOR, “HOMESICK,” RETURNS TO a PRISON - Enter the “homesick” former convict, who ‘robbed the State prison at Waupun, Wis., to get “Don't shoot! I’m coming down,” cried a shadowy figure on the wall of the prison when one of the guards discovered it shortly before mid- , ae to be William Chowski, 55 years old, e famous oF a Sag moticn inventor” of Ju- u, Wis., who had to be literally “thrown out” the prison when he had completed a long sen- lary on September 8. I’m looking ‘or bi peeing that I can install a etual mo- ce then and the FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS REMOVING TATTOO MARKS Tattooing is the mechanical introducti pigments under the skin and a very well tea process. The pigments employed are carbon cin- nabar, carmine and indigo. Most methods employed to remove these marks says Science and Invention, are by a reactive and a destructive inflammation which will result in the formation of a crust, later cast off together with the tattooed markings. One method is to retattoo the marks with a solution of 20 parts of zine chloride and 40 parts of water. A mild in- flammation will result; a crust forms and about a week later this falls off, leaving a sear which aces! cegga ye Paar of this may e necessary. is ma e done b y is sional tattaoer. ss aa The second method is to tattoo again, maki the punctures close together after ties degen been drawn over with a concentrated solution of tannin. A stick of silver nitrate is then firmly drawn over the surface and after a period of sey- eral minutes it is then wiped off. This is far more effective than the first and less scar forms. Two other substances, perhaps more efficient than either of the above, and applied in the same menner as the first, are caroid and glycerole of — papoid.’ »* LIGHT PAPER TORCHES TO AID FIGHT esse Thirty thousand men, women and chi * crowded the bull ring at Mexico City, Noy. roa witness the return of Rodolfo Gaona, Mexico’s king ‘of bullfighters. The immense crowd gath- ered from early morning, and the police force, armed with rifles, were compelled to fire over the heads of the people, who tried to break down the Sores. hours before she. ce One of the greatest crowds ever seen at the bull ri th the floor of the building. Ee ee eee Gaona gave a wonderful exhibition and four ears and one tail of the bulls killed by hie After the fight Gaoga was carried through the streets on the shoulders of his admirers, thou- Land charg S shouting and cheering the fighter, es ife as a tblack in the city. of Gaona is reputed to be worth 3,000,000 pesos, _ earned through bullfighting. ere Seen The killing of the last bull at recent figh the Plaza del Toro, witnessed by the Sarees : crowd in the history of the Mexican bull ring, was. spectacular. Threatening clouds made the arena so dark as Juan de la Rosa was perform- ing in the final event that thousands of specta- tors lighted newspaper torches to guide the ma- <- tador. yim De la Rosa found his bull Kard to kill, an ee crowd, becoming, mre ran out 0 ed out to clear ee ie

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y —™ = to rise again. “I won’t be throttled and treated in this way. - That girl is crazy—crazy! Do_you "Notwithstanding his great strength, Lost On Mt. Erebus =0R = A Boy Explerer At the South Pole By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XXI.—(Continued) Of course Hawley held on like grim death, though with numbing fingers, for the air was way below zero, and his own bag had vanished, as we have described. Presently others laid hold of the bag Hawley was clinging to, and he was drawn from that awful fissure; saved at the last instant, and by _ the girl he was learning to like better than-any one or anything else. The first strong hand to reach him was Ruck- er’s. Madge saw the mate help to draw Hawley rp; but when Rucker would have let his own bag iollow Hawley’s, the girl pushed him back. She thrust herself -between Joe and Rucker, seizing the mate’s bag, and giving it to Dr. Carr. “Look inside, doctor,” she panted. “Don’t stop. -{vok inside. 1 saw him push Joe just as the hut fell in on us, and I jumped for Rucker’s bag. Joe had grabbed it. I knew he would. Look inside, and tell us what you find there.” : Dazed, surprised, Carr, who had been feeling inside Ruckez’s bag, drew forth a chunk of frozen pemmican, bitten into by human teeth. Rucker, on his back in the snow, saw that he was in a way to be exposed. 4 “What did I tell you?” cried Madge. “You would trust him; I wouldn’t. He has been rob- bing our sled of precious food, in excess of his share. He was murdering Joe. That’s the way he comes to be so strong. Oh, you villain! You villain!” Appalled, puzzled, yet loath to think so badly of another, Carr turned on Rucker saying: : “You might steal our grub, but you know when you destroyed Joe that we couldn’t reach the “Owl’s Head cache=—” ~~ “Don’t you believe it, doctor!” asserted Madge. “Men—search him—search him now! [ll bet my head he’s got“Joe’s reckoning somewhere about him. Don’t let him go. Wake up, Joe. Can’t you see, he’s got your precious latitude?” While Madge was thus forcefully denounciyg Rucker, the sight of that stolen bit of pemmican _ more to reinforce her demands than aught se, : “I believe you are right, Madge,” shouted Haw- ley, feeling at last his anger boiling over. “Lie still, you scoundrel. We want to see what you’ve got°on your person.” “Hands off, , men!” screamed Rucker, striving the chief FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY mate was overpowered by Carr, Hawley and Joy. Even Madge assisted. With Carr and Joy holding his arms, and the girl seated on his legs, Hawley ran his hands rapidly through the man’s pockets. Nothing was found there of a suspicious nature but a stolen biscuit, which the lad held up. “It’s part of my ration,” panted Rucker. “You lie,” snapped Joe. “Your ration was eaten up when the rest of us ate ours. I¢ always is eaten up, for we are all hungry alike. But you have been filling up on stolen goods.” “J thought I missed grub which ought to be there,” said Joy. “The last time we divided, too. It’s a low-down, trick, Mr. Rucker, although a bosun tells it to you as was his official superior. “[Tll get you yet, Joy,’ retorted Rucker be- tween his teeth. 2 “If you got what you ought to get, you would go down that crevasse where you tried to put Joe.” ; = This from Madge, who had taken up Rucker’s cap, which had fallen off in the struggle. fur hood attached to his coat was already lay- ing mashed underneath in_the melee. “Give me my cap, I’m cold,” the mate de- manded, Madge was about to comply, for she was mer- eiful, though her words were biting enough. Something in Rucker’s look drew Hawley’s at- tention. So far his search had been fruitless, ex- cept for the stolen biscuit. “Let me see that sap, Madge,” interposed Joe, taking. it and beginning to search the lining. His - “Give me—my—cap——” gasped Rucker, tug- —~ ging so furiously against his captors that Madge was/ nearly unseated. She grasped both knees of the struggling mate, — exclaiming: “No, you don’t. T’'ll hold you. Search the cap lining, Joe. He’s not so anxious for nothing.” After assisting the others to subdue the furi- ous man, Joe picked up the cap again and ran his ungloved finger around the inside sweat band, striking at last’ something which he instantly | drew forth. “J believe I’ve got it at last,” he said. “Take this, Madge, then get up and strike a match, if you have one in your pouch.” - He handed the girl a slip of paper, and when she got up, Hawley devoted his entire strength in aiding Carr and Joy to hold Rucker, who was making a final effort to throw off his captors. Madge succeeded jn lighting the second match. Her fingers shook, as much with excitement as cold when she read aloud for the others to hear: “‘Tocation — Owl’s Head cache — latitude eighty-two’—I think. ‘Longitude one hundred— seventy——’ ” : Here a furious kick on the part of the mad- dened mate knocked both match and paper from the girl’s hands. At the ‘same instant Shouse rushed forward, doubtless to aid his friend, the struggling Rucker, “It’s gone down the ice fissure!” cried the girl. (To be continued) — a irik is a Bt MePenyew | vie le

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‘LARGE BUTTER BEANS. Mrs. E. D. Fay of Topeka, Kan., declares she _ has the largest butter beans in this vicinity. One of two beans on Mrs. Fay’s vines measures » twenty-six inches long and fifteen inches in cir- _ umference. The other one is thirty inches long _ and fourteen inches in circumference. The vine _ is very large. The seed is a special variety which _ Mrs. Fay ordered from a Kansas seedsman. To ‘See these beans makes one think of a cucumber. ae TWO BOYS KILL BEAR _ __. Women and children and not a few of the male residents in the vicinity of Johnsonburg, N. J., Sighed in relief the other night when they learn- ed that a big black bear which had spread terror for ten days, had been captured by two young men. So proud were these young men of their exploit that-they placed the carcass on exhibition. Raymond Kispaugh, eighteen, and his brother, , Sixteen, heard that the bear had taken Yefuge in a cave on their uncle’s farm. They t a fire at the mouth of the cave. Each was ned with a shotgun. _ They waited fifteen’ minutes before the bear s reloaded and took another shot to make cer- he was dead. _.. MUST COVER THEIR KNEES Girl students at the Randolph-Mason Institute, nville, Va., part of the great Southern Metho- Institution, have been told in blunt terms hey must wear their stockings as their mothers taught them and not in conformity with fash- on’s latest edict, which provides for the rolling rocess and knee lengths, sources of unquestioned authority comes that within the past few days the faculty ers were called together and served what little short of an ultimatum to the student SE aeee to comply will be met with severe Word is alleged, and not contradicted, that certain & sopomores who cling to college traditions ave been “rolling their own” with ruthless dis- d to feet and metres. The students have ted the order with philosophy. . TING IN GUIANA WITH BOW AND 5 ARROW ‘ad of using nets or the conventional hook e, the natives of Guiana shoot the fish jow and arrows. The arrow sore = “F especially for this purpose, and is about 5 ength, with no feathers. The head, which ed, is made from sheet iron and is pro- with a socket which is shipped over the end shaft by a light, strong line about 10 fect’ € fch ie struck and the barbed point moat oak ee ee St ee ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. _ Studios and Lessons in Scenario Writing. Te is OF Ag and, resting upon the surface of the water, serves as a buoy to mark the catch, which is hauled in by means of the line attached to the head. Fish weighing from 10 to 100 pounds are caught in this manner, says the Popular Science Monthly. When there are no fish visible, or when they_are too far beneath the surface to shoot with certainty, the natives resort to “calling” the fish. This is accomplished by uttering a low whistling sound and waving the finger tips in a peculiar manner. Surprising as it may seem, the fish often approach the hunter within bowshot when thus called. But one does not need to go to faraway Guiana to see fish killed by the bow and arrow. Our own native American Indians are past masters of the trick, and a sojourn with them in one of the Western reservations will convince the visitor that shooting fish is one of the Indian’s favorite pas- times. An arrow niuch shorter than that used by the natives of Guiana is used, and no line is : #it-ched to the head of the arrow. “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING PIc. 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. ae “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY LATEST ISSUES ; 62 THE VELVET TOUCH, by Julian Darrow. 638 THE CLUE OF THE RED LAMP, by Charles Ful- - ton Oursler. ‘ 64 THE SCHEME OF SOLOMON SNARE, by William Hamiiton Osborne. 65 QUICKER THAN THE EYE, by Ralph Cummiins. 66 Rus CLUE IN THE DARK ROOM, by Hawiilton Craigie. 7 THE TONGUE OF OSIRIS, by Mare Edmutd Jones. os DETECTIVE WADE'S BIG CASE, by Ethe! Rose- mon. Z “. : THE SPIRIT BELL, by Charles Fulton Oursier. %0 THE HOUSE BEHIND THE WALL, by Julian Darrow. 71 THE ADMIRAL’S SPOONS, by William Ham!lton- Osborne. 4 72 THE CANINE CLUB, by Thos. J, Lally. The Famous Detective Story Qut To-Day in No, 73 Ig THE PSYCHIC ENEMY By ARTHUR WILLIAM ANDREEN FRANK TOUSEY, Pub., 168 W. 23d St. N.Y. “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Piotepiays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Four Sterivs of the Best Films. on the Screens—Elegant Fisif-tone Scenes from } the : Plays—Interesting Articies About Prominent People in = the Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses in HARRY E. WOLFF, Pub. W6 W. 23d St, N. Rox? 7 7 iy

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- ae io <a i e 24 HOW HE ROBBED A BURGLAR By Kit Clyde. Fred Grover sat in his attic uptown. A few short months before, Fred had left his home in Massachusetts, to study medicine in New York. Z His father had given him some advice, and (what Fred thought a good deal more valuable) five hundred dollars to pay his board bills and other necessary expenses. His mother had given him a new set of shirts, some flannel jacket a kiss, a fifty-dollar bill— which she had saved from her housekeeping ex- penses—made him promisé to be a good boy— “which Fred very readily did, for he intended to be, if he could—and off he started. When Fred arrived.in New York, he set to work manfully, having determined to rival Mott or Carnochan in a very short time, or ignomini- ously retire from the profession. New York is very seductive, and—I am sorry _to say it—Fred Grover was very fond of pleas- ure. Consequently, he soon became an accomplished "ead at billiads, and quickly discovered the ouses where the best drinks and dinners could be obtained. When young men indulge freely in good din- ners, cigars, etc., they observe with surprise how quickly their money disappears. It was so with Fred, for having occasion, one day, to draw twenty dollars out of the bank where he had de- Osited his money, he was somewhat disconcerted sdaetheings told there was only two dollars and some odd cents to his credit. Fred went home feeling pretty badly. What to do he didn’t know. Having been in New York only three months, and spending five hundred and fifty dollars, he ‘couldn’t write home for more; no, i possible, so he made’ up his mind to attend lec- tures regularly, and study hard. ; Poor Fred! , . So things went on for four or five weeks. . Fred had visited a pawnbroker several times, and had left that gentleman, who so kindly lends money to those who are in want of it, his watch a dozen of shirts, one or two coats, and severa “pairs of trousers. -Fred’s landlady had received no money for some time, so she began to importune him for payment, and had hinted mildly that if some was not forth- i shortly, Fred would have to find a Well, as I have said before, Fred Grover sat in __.. his attic, pondering over his ill-luck—as he called: __ it, but correctly Spoon: —and cursing the hour over his improvidence York. How seidom we think of blaming our own im- nee! ~~ We generally manage to find an excuse for our - little wea “Tf,” mused Fred, “I were to write to mother, she’s send on the money; but I can’t do Tl starve first.‘ 1 wonder if—come that was im-° at brought him to New~ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY The last two words were shouted in a tone much louder than there was any occasion for, but i‘red had been interrupted’ in his thoughts by a es at the door, and it had somewhat startled im. The door slowly opened, and in stalked a ma- tronly-looking woman, with rather a red face, and ies had three small curls on each side of her ‘ace. Fred turned all manner of colors. “Mr. Grover,” said the lady, “would you let me have some money, if you please?” “J haven’t any to-day, Mrs. Jackson, but— but——” “But what, sir?” and the matronly-looking woman frowned at poor Fred. “I was going to say I expect a remittance from: home in a day or two, and then I'll give you some.” : Mrs. Jackson’s face twitched about all manner of ways; finally she said: : “If you cannot let me have some money to- morrow, Mr. Grover, I shall fee! obliged if you will get another boarding-house.” Fred réadily promised to let her have some money the following day, though where he was going to get it from he hadn’t the wildest idea. However, it_ was a respite, and he shouldn’t have to face Mrs. Jackson till the following day. When we owe money, and promise to pay to# morrow, what a long way off that morrow ap- pears. ~ ; When Mrs. Jackson had left the room, Fred put his hands to the bottom of his trousers’ pock- ets, and began to walk about the room with rapid strides, “What the deuce is to be done? I don’t know. Let me see—oh, that’s no use; I’ve pawned every- ~ thing that’s pawnable.” - : : Fred threw himself upon his bed to try and calm himself. He counted all the flies upon the ceiling, and longed to be a fly, because they didn’t have to eer bills. ets es ‘By Jove, a good idea!” sai » starting up. “I’ll try and borrow it; very likely‘Jim can lend it to me. He seized his hat and hurried from the house. Attached to the house that Fred has just left — is a yard, but called by the landlady a garden; behind that garden is a smal] lane leading to no- where in particular, and having its entrance in a street chiefly devpted to tenement houses, dirt and squalling children. ; = About eleven o’clock that evening, a man very _ carefully looked over the fence that separated the aforesaid garden from the above mentioned lane. Looking carefully around, he drew from his pocket a pair of pincers, and commenuced break- ing off short a few of the spikes that were on ‘the top of the fence, and had been put there, I presume, for the express purpose of annoying the neighboring cats. Ss After counting the number he had broken off, by feeling them with his hand, he carefully climb- __ ed to the top of the fence, and then lowered him-~ self into the garden. = “Curse the things!” he muttered, having fects == ed in the middie of a lilac bush, which slightly scratched him, “there’s always something to in- terfere with a low’s business.” _ : - »

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Having extricated himself fecm the push, he crept stealthily toward the yard door, applied his ear to the keyhole, and listened attentively. “Hump! all quiet. So far so good. Now to businss.” He produced an auger from one of the numerous pockets in his coat, and began to bore a hole—so quietly that you votld hardly hear it— in the yard door. ; - When he had finished, he put his arm through the orifice, quietly withdrew the bolts, and en- tered the house. When he was inside, by the aid of a dark lan- _tern, he groped his way to the bottom of the base- ment stairs, and began ascending them, glancing ~ *with keen and penetrating eyes at every object -around him. On a dumb-waiter near the dining room door a . fork had been left, no doubt by the carelessness of one of the servants. His eyes rested upon it; so he went up to it and examined it carefully. - “Plated!” he exclaimed, in a tone of deep cis- gust, and put it down again. ae “Quietly, and as cautiously as before, he ascend- _ ed the next flight of stairs; tries the handle 6f a door; it yields to him; he pushes it slowly and » noiselessly open; puts his head in; finds it is only the bathroom, so closes the door, and ascends the next flight eS te __ He hears a key placed in the lock of the hall ~ door; he holds his breath and listens attentively. = Whoever it is closes the hall door behind him, and begins to climb the hall stairs—he does the same. __ At last the top of the house is reached; the ~ footsteps are coming nearer, and at last actually Las to ascend the last flight, at the head of ich he’ is. we pushed open a door, glances hurriedly around the room, finds it is vacant, rushes to the d, and crawts underneath it. eT) iG MA TA Oy ee At a late hour at night Fred Grover returns to s boarding-house, tired and disconsolate. He had been unable to raise any money, conse- uently in the orang he would have to seek other quarters to live in. : ; age entered his room he threw himself into a chair, lighted his pipe, and puffed “out ick volumes of smoke, musing as he did so. _ “What a fool I’ve been; spent all my money, and must either beg, borrow or cheat during the six months to live. By Jove, I must quit this ng! It’s unfair to my father to spend his 1 the way I have been doing.” d started up, and placed his forehead + the window-pane, and looked out upon-the lark night. know. Let me see—na, I have noth- topheles is not going round now who want to sell them- “FAME AND. FORTUNE pt myself. What a pity — WEEKLY . 25 “Wat's that? Te sounded confounded! like a sneeze. Ha!” and Fred rushed to a corner of the room, scized a sword-cane, drew it, arid locked cautiously under the bed: The first thing that met his faze was the gen- tleman who, a short time previously, had climbed over the garden fence. “What do you want? Come out from there.” The man-eame out from under the bed, stood upright, and glared sullenly at Fred. “Now, my good fellow, what were you doing there?” asked Fred. “What's the good of talking? You know as well as I do what I was doing there,” said the man. : “You wanted to rob the house, I suppose?” “This ain’t a police court, is it? Take me to one if you're going to, and then I'l! tell you what I wanted to do—perhaps.” “Suppose if I were to let you go, what would you do?” “Make tracks as fast as I could.” “mph! Have you any mency about you?” “No.” ; “Ah, then, I can’t let you go.« I must wake up the house and get a policeman.” “Hold on. I think I havea little.” “Will you lend mie some?” “How much do you want?” f . “Fifty dollars, and I assure you on my word of honor I'l) return it to you as soon as I get a re ~ amittanee from home.” The man offered him twenty, but Fred insisted upon having fifty or none at all. So, after a deal of talking, the man reluctant- . ly drew a roll of bilis from his pocket, counted out fifty dollars, and handed them to Fred, who scrutinized them carefully. “Umph! they seem good. Now you may go, - and don’t let-me catch you here again. When I’m ready to return it I'll put an advertisement in some paper to that effect.” /The man sulkily left the room. Fred politely lighted him downstairs, closed ~ the hall door after him, and went to bed. In the morning he settled Mrs. Jacksen’s claim, and commenced studying in good earnest, He has now one of the best practices in New York. Fred put the promised advertisement in the paper several times, but as no one came forward to claim the borrowed money, handed. it over to a charitable society in the city. Pua!

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=> 26 FAME, AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Bingle Coples............... Postage Free.... ° .07 Cents ens Cone Six Aonther cc, = - iS ecan $35 Cents ovens . One Copy One Year.....-. « Wass 3.50 HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P, 9 Mouey Order, Check or Registered Letter: remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stumps the same as cash, When sendiug silver wrap the ‘Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting th envelope. Write your name and address plainly. «ress letters to- HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher 166 West 23d St.. New York e Ad- ITEMS OF INTEREST EAGLE SEIZES BOY OF 8 It took the combined efforts of the Spaulding Zamily recently to save eight-year-old Walter Spaulding from béing carried away by a giant eagle at their ranch near Glendo, Wyo. When the huge bird attacked Walter in the ranch yard he grasped it by the neck and scream- ed for help. John, his aren gees old brother, came to the rescue, and a third boy ran for help. Mrs. Spaulding beat off the bird with a stick, and the eagle attacked her. She was saved when Mr. Spaulding came with a shotgun and killed the bird. It had a spread of eight feet. EXPLOSIVES HIDDEN IN COAL That the German miners of the Ruhr Valley fre hiding explosives in the coal delivered to : France under the provisions of the Treaty of ~_. Versailles is charged by the French Ministry of Public Works. “ _ rE Several serious explosions have occurred re- cently in coal from the Ruhr mines. The last © a ed the other day in a factory at Petit- 2 Moe. near Lille. The Ministry of Public Works <i has ordered that the Ruhr coal be sifted and -.. analyzed, for its officials believe the explosions + result from a deliberate attempt to revenge Ger- many’s defeat. : “FINDERS ARE KEEPERS.” Ownership of $1,300 in gold found buried on a near ro six months ago by Levi “say, my boy, FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY LUXURIOUS SLEEPER The English and Americans are the most lux- urious races in the world as regards sleeping comforts, and after them the French, Profes- sional afte | -é ee —— who ity take casion enetrate in ure nera their beds eri them. The end cy Bmer complain that our mattresses are too soft for comfort. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elaborately carved, and supporting only mats, while the Japanese use a matting couch and a wooden neck rest instead of a pillow. A peculiarity of the German bed is its short- ness; besides that, it frequently consists in part of a large down pillow or upper mattress, which spreads over the sleeper and usually answers the purpose of aJl the other ordinary bed clothing. The Italian bed is much bigger than ours, espe- cially in the north of Italy. But millions of peo- ple in Europe, especially in Russia, have never slept in a bed in their lives, being content with 2 mat or rug on the floor. LAUGHS Mrs. Hardup (pausing in her writing)—What is that word for people-who come after us? Hardup—Bill collectors, my dear. 2 Obliging Shopman (to lady who has purchased a pound of butter)—Shall I send it for you, madam? Lady—No, thank you. It won’t be too heavy for me. Obliging Shopman—Oh, no, ma- dam. I'll make it as light as I possibly can. The New Curate: And what are your leanings, © Mrs. Abercrombie, high church or low? Mrs. Abercrombie: Dear me, high to be sure; I never could abide anything common or vulgar. A conjurer was performing the old trick of roducing eggs from a pocket handkerchief, when e remarked to a little boy in the audience: “I hens, can she “Yes, she can,” replied the boy. “Why. how is that?” replied the conjurer. “She keeps ducks!” replied the boy, amid roars of laughter. Margery was playing school with her dolls, The class in physiology was reciting. “Now, chil- dren,” she said, “what are your hands for?” “To keep clean,” was the prompt reply. “Yes,” re- — “3 ‘i _ Todd, fifteen years old, was settled in the Circuit ,peated the little teacher, “hands were given us so wore Newcastle, Ind., Nov. 15, by Judge Gause ‘deciding “finders are keepers.” : -.Mrs. Clara Freeman Vickery of this city _ @laimed the money was part of her mother’s es- tate, and John Hardin, present owner of the farm, sought an interest as owner of the land. - The Judge gave the money to its youthful - finder, holding the evidence was insufficient to _ show Mrs. Vickery’s mother had buried it, and that Mr. Hardin’s ownership of the land did not r | ownership of the money be¢ause he we could keep them clean, and ’member, too,” she -— added, “we must keep our feet clean, ‘cause there ~ might be an accident.” ; She =r from Boston; he from _Okizhoma, your mother can’t get eggs without — . & “You have traveled a great deal in the West, have you not, Miss Bacon?” “Oh, yes, indeed—in li- fornia and Arizo oe ma, and even in New Mexico.” “And did you’ ever see the Cherokee gin BH ag There was a painful silence, but finally she looked — over her glasses at him and said: your question exceedingly rude.” en eed “Sir, I deem

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\ QMALLEST REPUBLIC The smallest republic in the world is San Marino, in Central taly. Its origin is ascribed to _ St. Marinus, a hermit, who is said to have resid- ed there in the fifth century. Its independence --was lost for a short time to Cesar Borgia, about 1503, but was restored in 1817. A convention with Italy, March 27, 1872, secured its perma- nent freedom. .San Marino has a population of 8,009 or 10,000, and an area of 33 square miles. The little republic is governed by a “Great Coun- — cil” of 60 members, 20 members each from the - nobles, burgesses, and-rural landowners. The : _ principal industries are farming and stock ~ais- ~~ ing. = DEER ANSWERS CALL. A two-pronged buck deer answers the calls of _ Jerry Shine, employed by the municipal water district at Alpine dam, near San Raphael, Cal. Long ago Shine one day came upon a dead doe in the trail of the forest, and standing beside the mother’ was a fawn. It was miles to Shine’s - eabin, but he carried the fawn home with him, _ fed it and gave it the name of Billy, After a time _ Shine left the district. He returned several days ago and asked his fellow workers the whereabouts of his deer. They laughed at him; the deer had gone back to nature, they said. Shine mounted the parapet of thé dam and called for Billy. The deer, Row the proud pos- _ 4sessor of two-pronged horns, bounded out of the forest. A photograph was taken of the man and animal, as the latter rested his forepaws on the shoulders of Shine. 5 ~ EATS TABLE CUTLERY _ tress and a niece of De Wolf Hopper, died in the Hudson River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, a result of eating knives and spoons. Miss Shayne had been seein to the hospital for three years. “Her death followed an operation 7 the removal of the articles. Recently she was taken seriously ill and her case was diag- ae as‘peritonitis, but when the operation was vformed the silverware was found. The ysicians said they had been swallowed about y months ago. . © nine-inch knives and three spoons, all ng the Hudson River State Hospital mark, ere found in her stomach. The operation was cessful, but in cases of insanity it was stated ‘patients are more-apt to have a serious re- etion than’ sane persons and that such a reac- on was the cause of death. : ; Miss Shayne, who was a promising young ac- ess, broke down from oyerwork. She once ap- d in “The Lion and the Mouse.” res LUCKY DAYS Rite ees ‘and-bad days. A small per- population of the world is 7 - Miss Margaret Shayne, twenty-seven, an ac- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Be ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST : from the worries surrounding this superstition, Qur greatest statesmen, thinkers, business men and literary men are not immune, A great American orator refuses to make a speech on a certain day, for fear that he will not make the proper impression, _ If a certain day is lucky for a person three times in succession, he may regard that day as his lucky period, and conversely. The last day in December is considered un- lucky for many folks for the transaction of ser- ious business. This superstition originated from the fact that Jesus was betrayed on that day. Friday, generally speaking, is considered a very unlucky day, because the Saviour was crucified on that day. However, a great English scient- ist—John Gibbons—ran the ganitlet of Friday, the 13th, for he was born on Friday, christened on Friday, married on Friday, the 13th, and was - a very successful man. To move on Friday is considered an unfor- tunate step. It is said that the person who is bern on Feb. 29, which is Leap Year, will be lucky ever after. Astrologers regard six days of the year as-be- ing very unlucky to sick persons. They are Jan. 3, Fay. 1, Oct. 6,- April 30, Aug. 1 and Decem- — r 31. ~ BEAVERS IN MONTANA. The beaver is not shy where he is not hunted and acquires confidence in a friendly watcher — sooner than any other animal I know. Strangers or unusual clothes on a person to whom they have become accustomed alarm. them, thouga, like dogs, they can apparently identify an ac- quaintance by scent. : The beaver’s sense of smell is very acute, fod he “is able to scent a man two hundred yards away, and his eyesight is also most keen, but ht seems to be dull of hearing when at work, and I have often walked to within a few feet of one while he was cutting wood. Their method of warning each other of danger is by slapping or “smothering” the water with the long, fiat tail which is so characteristic a feature of the ‘animal and which not only helps him in swim- ming, but is used for carrying mud. If a large animal appears at a place where beavers want to work or feed the latter will often “smother” the water continually, one after another joining in, till the intruder is scared away. I have had a thorough wetting at night while watching a pond through the splashing made by this trick. I saw my first beavers in the Musselshepp river in Montana. At first they dived whenever they became aware of my iene st after about three months they paid ne attention when they scented me, and in six months they would swim around or cut bushes within a few feet of me. _ In fact, they repeatedly stole my fishing poles cut from green willows until i learned to use dry _ ones. < t 7 +

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES PARTRIDGE PLAYS POSSUM. F red Zavatkay of Winsted, Conn., shot at a Partridge, which dropped in underbrush. <A young dog he was breaking in found the bird and brought it out into the open. Zayatkay put the partridge in the large inside pocket of his hunt- ing coat and continued to hunt. He was climb- _ ing a small ledge when he was startled by the’ » supposedly lifeless bird flying out of his pocket. Before he had time to shoot the partridge was out of sight. Zavatkay will have flaps sewed to the mouth of the pocket before starting on another quest for game birds. 2 CARRIED SICK WOMAN MILES. Z Inconvenience and oftentimes suffering caused __ by the lack of roads in the northwestern part of : Lane County, Oregon, is illustrated in the fact that one day four men were compelled to carry $ Miss Emily Stevens, resident of the Ten=Mile ; “section, many miles on a stretcher over moun- S tain trails to reach a train so she could be sent ; to Portland for treatment. Miss Stevens was taken ill and it was believed that immediate attention was necessary. Men of the neighborhood improvised a stretcher and four started with her over the mountains for In- dian Creek. in fell all day and the -men, ~ soaked to the skin, were nearly exhausted when Sis they reached their destination. 3 Sey . LOST TOOLS RAISED. ; —e An incident never before heard of in the his- tory of oil well drilling in Wyoming occurred at ~ the Harrison & Cooper Well No. 2 in the Rock * Creek oil field. ‘The tools had beon lost in the well and the _ Superintendents and drillers had tried to recover “them unsuccessfully. They had lodged against a rubber swab in the well so as to become” fixed. Another swab was lost on top of the tools, which prevented the grappling irons from~getting a ; hold, and the owners of the well had about given ae, _gp hope of ever recovering them. _. 1 A few days ago the tools and the swabs were found at the top of the well, the gas under. the rubber bulbs having been powerful enough to force the tools to the surface, and work has been resumed on the well. FAT TEDDY BEAR WAS FULL OF BOOZE. Search for contraband liquor on the incomin steamships from foreign ports has stimulat ~ members of. crews to find new hiding places for ~~ booze. When Inspectors Jerry Rothschild, Chris- tian Schmidt, and Alfred 0. Hokensen brought their haul to the United States Barge Office, brought with them contain- One Peas ee big bce stomach appeared abnorma e searching the Ward liner Moro . : ‘ * 4. The sailor owner of the for his “kid,” but when oe eae ee a AS ae ET sg Rothschild had taken four pint bottles of whiskey from its interior, the owner had disappeared. He next found fourteen bottles of whiskey beneath the floor in the crew’s. lavatory. A swollen hot water bag in the ship’s forecastle gave up two bottles of gin, 2,400,000 CHINESE PIGTAILS MADE INTO FILTERING CLOTH. Establishment of a carload rate on Chinese pigtails pressed into cloth from Houston, Texas, to various parts of the country, was asked of the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Oriental Manufacturing Company of Houston. Clifford Thorne of .Chicago, representing the applicant, told the commission that the pigtails pressed into cloth were used for filtration, strain- ing soups and similar purposes. Prior to the war European supplies of goat and camel hair were drawn on, he said, for filter purposes, but when this source was cut off the industry he repre- sented turned to China, where the fall of the Manchu dynasty was followed by abolishment of ~ the edict directing Chinese subjects to wear queues. ; The Houston company has 800,000 pounds of Chinese hair, the equivalent of the former pig- tails of 2,400,000 Chinese. Nineteen carloads al- ready have been ordered, and the prespects are for sixty more to. move during next year. AMAZING INVENTION IN WATCH INDUSTRY. A discovery that is reported by the press as being capable of revolutionizing the watchmak- ing industry has just been announced by C€. E, Guillaume, director cf the International Bureau * of Weights and Measures. A successful method of _ regulation, remedying the variations in time of a watch due to the expansion and contraction of its parts caused by variations of temperature is the result of Mr. Guillaume’s invention. This so- — called “secondary error” has aways been one of the great obstacles inthe attainment of perfec- tion and precision in the watchmaking industry, and when this difficulty is overcome the watch- making industry should receive very considerable ‘ impetus, owing principally to the simplifying of “the process of regulation. The chief feature of Mr. Guillaume’s new proe- ess is a change in the alloy used in the com- — - pensating parts; The minimum expansion of : -nickeled steel was found to be increased by the addition of 12 per go of chrome as well asa very small quantity of tungsten; manganese, or carbon. By mounting a spiral of this steel-n‘ckel chrome aloy in the a SEE een Guil- laume’s announcement, pro’ compen-— t ciasnk pyar ge rorgags the “secondary error” - removed. _ : SPs € ff ses «ig & - = =

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a A de 0 — 3 a mae S35 Y WHAT ARE THE SOUNDS WE HEAR IN SHELL? The sounds we hear in the sea shell are really air waves or sounds made by air waves, be- cause all. sounds are produced. by air waves. The reason you can hear these sounds in-a sea shell is because the shell is so constructed that it forms a natu- ral sounding box. The wooden part of a guitar, zith- er or violin is a sounding box. They have , the faculty of pick- ing up the sounds and making them stronger. We call them “resona- tors,’’ because they make sounds resound. The construction of a sea shell makes an almost perfect resonator. A per- fect resonator will pick up sounds which the human ear can- not hear at all and magnify them so that if| _ you hold a reson- ator to the ear you can hear sounds you could not otherwise hear. Ear trum- pets are built up- on this principle. S ometimes when you, with your ear alone, _ think ‘somethiag is absolutely quiet, you can c pick up a sea shell and hear’ ~ sounds in it. 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THE SMALL- EST OF SCREWS The _ smallest screws in the world — those turned out in a watch factory— are cut from steel wire by a ma- chine, but as the chips fall from the knife it looks as if the operator were simply cut- ting up the wire to amuse himeelf. No screws can be seen, and yet a serew is made every third oper- ation. These tiny screws are four one - thousandths of an inch m diameter, and the heads are double, in size. Jt is es- timated that an ordinary thimble would hold 100,- 000 of them. About 1,090,000 are made in a month, but no at- tempt is ever made to count them. In determining the number of them ‘are placed in a very delicate balance, and. the number of the whole amount is calcu- lated from the weight .of this. All the small parts of the watch are count- ed in this way, probably 50, out of the 120. - The serews are then hardened and put in frames, about 190 to the frame, heads up. 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It is esti- mated that there are 30,000 earth- quakes a year which are large enough to be per- ceived by the senses, and an al- most innumerable number of lesser tremors which are too small to be perceived. Most of — our earthquakes are due to the cool- ing of the earth and -the shrink- age of its strata from. cool- ing. The result is the breaking, folding and _slip- Ping of the strata upon each other. A slip of but a -short dis- tance will pro- duce a large ef- fect upon build- ings and the earth’s surface. A motion of a fifth of an inch, }it is said, will | throw chimneys down. ~

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~ PARTY.—A complete compendium of OUR TEN-CENT HAND EBOOKS Useful, Instructive, and Amusing. They Contain Valuable information on Almost Every Subject No 1. NAPOLEON'S GRACULUM AND DREAM BOCK.—Containing the great oracie of human des- tiny; also the true meaning of almost any kind of dreams, together With charms, ceremonies, and curious games of cards. ‘ i No, 2. HOW TO DO TRICKS.—The great book of maic and card tricks, containing fuli instruction ou ait the icading card tricks of the day, also the most popular magica! Liusions as perfermed by our leading magi- viaus;_every boy slieuid Cbtain a copy of this book. Nel 3. HOW TO PLIRT.—The arts aud Wiles of flirtaticn are fully explained by this iittle lock Be- Sides the yurious methods of handkerchief, fau. grove, pavtasol, window and hat flirtation, it contains a full list of the language and sentiment of flowers. No. 4. HOW,Tt) DANCE is the title of this little book. It contains full iistructions in the art of dancing, etiquette in the ballroom and at parties, how to dress, and full directions for calling off in all popular square dances. No. 5. HOW TO MAKE LOVE.—A complete guide to love, courtship and marriage, giving seusibic advice, rules and etiquette to be observed, with many’ curious and interesting things not generally known, Ne. 6. HOW TO BECOME AN ATHLETS#.—Giving fuli instructions for the use of dumbbells, Indian clubs, parallel bars. horizontal bars and various otber methods of developiug a good. healthy muscle; conttining over sixty ilvustrations. No. 7. HOW TO KEEP BIRDS.—Uandsomely iius- trated and contatniug full instructions for the panage- went and truininy of the canary, mockingbird, bebolixk, Diackbird, paroquet, parrot, etc, No. 9% HOW TO BECOME A By Harry Kennedy. Every intelligent boy rea@iag this book of instructious can master the art. and create auy amount of fun for himself und friends. It is the great- est buok, ever published. : No. 10. HOW TO BOX.—The art of self-defense made easy. Containing over thirty illustrations of guards, Lyows, and the different positions of a good cer. bye Soleractive bobks, as it will teach you how to box waith- out an instructor, > Xo... “EE uy TO WRITE LOVE-LETTERS,—A most enue little book, containing full directions for Wiit.ug jove-ietters, and when to use them, giving speci- juen ictters for young and old. : No kk. HOW TO WHITE LETTERS TO LADIES.— Giving complete instruction for writing letters to ladies on all subjects; also letters of introduction, notes aud -recaests: z No. i3. HOW TCO bLO IT; OR, BOCK GF ETI- QUETTr.—it is a great life secret, and one that every JoULZ Lu ueeires to Know all about. There S_happi- Bess in il. : “No, 14. HOW TO MAKE CANDY.—A complete hand- bock fer twusing all kinds o2 candy, ice-creain, syrups, essences, etc., etc. No. 18. HOW TO BECOME BEAUTIFUL—One of _-'the biigbtest and most vaiuable little books ever, given » the world. Everyfody wishes to know how te be- pF beautiful, both male and female. The secret is Simple, and aimost costless. No. 20. HOW TO ENTERTAIN AN EVENING : ames, sports; . eard diversions, comic recitations, ete., suitable for par- jor or drawing-room entertainment. It contains more for the money than any book published. No. 21. HOW TO HUNT AND FISH.—The most com- jete hunting and fisit guide ever published. It con- ‘tains full instructions about guns, hunting dogs, traps, Seapets and fishing, together with description of game and dish. Ne. 22, HOW TO DO SECOND SIGHT.—Heller’s sec- ond sight explained by bis former assistant, 'red Hunt, Jr. Expjaining how the secret dialogues were carried on between the magician and the boy on the stage; also giving all the es and signals. - No. 23. HOW TO EXPLAIN DREAMS,—This little book gives the explanation to all kinds of dreams, to- gether with lucky and unlucky days. _ For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to : address on receipt of price, 10c. Per copy, in .money or stamps, by | any A VENTRILOGUIET— v¥ boy should obtain one of these useful and - ? Fame and Fortune Weekly —— LATEST ISSUES — / Stockbroker Dick; or, The Boy Who Broke the Wall Street Market. On the Job; or, Tom Taylor’s Lucky Venture. The Lucky Seven; ‘or, The Boys Who Won the Money. Will, the’ Waif; or, From Bootbiack to Merchant. 55 Prince of the Curb; ox, A College Boy in Wall St. Wrecked in the Gulf; or, The Gold of the Old Bue- caneers, nes The Rival Loy Brokers; or, Out for Every Deal in Sight. : 58 Cnder the Big Top; or, From Acrobat to Manager. 59 A Pair of Jacks; or, The Smartest Messengers in Wall St. Brave Billy Bland; or, Hustling Up a Business. Taking a Big Risk; or, The Dime That Led’ to Riches. Clear Grit; or, The Office Boy Who Made Good, Dealing in Stocks; or, Saved by a Wall St. ‘Ticker. li hs Seeret; or, The Treasure of Dead Man's ock. Capturing the Coin; or, The Deals of a Boy Broker. sit His Own Hook; or, Making a Losing Business ay. Lucky Jim; or, $100,000 From Stocks. “Millions In It”; or, A Boy Witn Ideas, The Mystery of a Mining Chart; and, The Wall St. Boy Who Solved It. Grasping His Chance; or, The Boy Merchant of Mel- rose. 771 Winning by Pluek; or, The Deals fhat Made the Dollars. 2 The Crimson Mask; or, The Treasure of San Pedro. Frank Fisk, the Boy Broker; or, Working the Wall St. Stock Market. sid a Lone Hand; or, The Boy Who Got the ° 5 Will Fox of Wall St.; Broker, A Lad of Iron Nerve; or, Little Joe's Big Bonanza. aes woes to Lose; or, A Boy With a Winning Streak. The Stolen Chart; or, The Treasure cf the Cataract. ~ 779 A Game Young Speculator; or, Taking a Chance on | the Ma -ket. 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