Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 923) (1923 06 08)
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JUNE 8, lyzs WEEMLY STORIES oF vS_ Mi OT TIS . : “ Sam, sitting astride the trunk, was helpless to speak or move. He saw the engine — out of the in. the tunnel; but it stopped, and the passengers and train crew alighted an : e with as rushed toward him. All Sam’s fears now left him. AQ
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Issued ener eabactiption price, $3.50 SAM, THE CHAPTER I.—Sam. ““There’s the station yonder and no sign of the = -ain yet. I told you I’d Jead you here well ahead ? time,” said a rustic looking lad named Bob - jcket to his companion on the seat. » “You've kept your word, Bob,” said Sam " reene, a young treveling salesman, slapping the ther on the back. “That nag of yours is a .spper. He made first-rate time on the road.” Tins am’s sample trunk was in the light wagon, *~ & he had come over from the small town of Hen, in a Western Siate, to catch a train on ~ unk line at a wayside station about a mile \ from Nagsby Village, which was hidden from sight Sat that point by a thick wood of tall trees, through which the road continued after crossing the tracks. The country round ahout was wild and rugged. The read over which Sam and his ‘companion had come passed through a break in a big mountain range. A short distance below the station was a long, dark tunnel into which the steel rails of the D. & G. railroad disappeared - eastward. Sam was going to take a west-bound ~ Yocal which followed the Kansas City and St. Jo - 2fternoon express. The latter did not stop at the - Yittle station, and the signals as set indicated a . *Jear track ahead for the flyer. Bob drove the _<vagon up to the platform of the station, and he ~ .nd Sam sprang out. Between them they lifted “out Sam’s trunk and carried it about where they ° gpeged the baggage car would stop. ; * “Sorry I can’t stay with you till the train comes, but dad told me to hurry back,” said Bob. _ *That’s all right. \I won’t have to wait long. _ ¥ dare say the agent is in his dep: I can pass _ ‘the time of day with him while I’m buying my et,” said Sam. 3 : _ “J hope I’ll see you again some time,” said Bob, holding out his hand. : 5 ee . “I hope so, too. You’re a very enteytaining hap,” said Sam, shaking him by the hand-and ; 4 good-by. ; ; into his wagon, started off at a ponigee soon, vanished from sight of Sam nd a turn.. The young salesman ed into tion té find the agent. There was no-one mall waiting-room, which was furnished ; stove, out of- commission at~ res "Are You Listening In? See RADIO, Page 24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, Inec., 16¢ Fi By A SELF-MADE MAN “Four men were working the handles as fast as’ West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. No. 923. NEW YORK, JUNE 8, 1923 Price 7 Cents : SALESMAN OR, THE BOY WITH THE SILVER TONGUE that season of the year, long wooden geats at- tached to the walls, a framed time-tajfe, and a couple of train notices. There was also a lamp with a reflector, high up in a corner, which il- luminated the room after dark. The front door overlooked the tracks, while the rear door faced upon the mountain range. The auto crossed the tracks and stopped. The ticket window was ‘closed, as it wanted eighteen , minutes yet of train time. As it was possible that the agent was inside attending to routine business, Sam rapped. on the window, but he got no response. He then tried the door and found it locked. Sam walked out on the platform anid looked toward a short siding on which steod. two freight cars. No one appeared to be in ther : vicinity. With the mountains on one side, the tall, thick wood on the other, and the tunnel near by, with not a human being in sight, it was a pretty lonesome spot. Sam took his seat on his trunk and waited for the agent to show up. The young traveling salesman was in the employ of a Chicago house and was doing the West. He e was doing it in a very satisfactory way, both as : regarding his employers and himself. This was his second trip on the read. His ability tu talk people into buying from him had earned for him the title of the boy with the silver tongue.» t He was good looking, engaging and full of per- ~ sonal magnetism. When at home in Chicago he lived with his mother and two sisters. hey missed him greatly when he was out on his busi- ness trips. If they could have had their way he - would have used his silver tongue on customers at the store of his employers in the Windy City. Sam preferred to travel and see the country, and his employers prefered to have him do so. he was now on a three months’ trip, a third of which-was over. X Sam thought a great deal of his mother and ~ sisters, as a_boy in his position ought, and while waiting for the train his thoughts went back to = them. Suddenly he heard the clank, clank of a hand-car approaching from the direction opposite the tunnel. The car presently came into view. . they could, and the rest cf the car was filled with sengilo ing men. Sam naturally took the: Yailroad hands. Up the read from
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2. SAM THE SALESMAN through the wood came a high-power auto- mobile. Hand-car and aute both slowed up as they drew near the station. Two hard-looking men were in it. The hand-car stopped not far from where Sam sat, and all the men except those at the handles piled off. One of the men in the auto - cried out: : “The express is due in eight minutes. Hurry up now and plant the torpedo at the other end of the tunnel. If you meet the track-walker you _ know what to do with him.” ae Off went the hand-car toward the mouth of the tunnel, and presently was lost to sight. , “Now, then,” said the man, “get at the track with your crowbars and raise the forward end of two rails. Then roll that big rock yonder into the center of the roadbed. That will make : good bumper in case the locomotive gets that far.” The men started in to follow directions, and Sam watched them, wondering what they were up ; to. He had heard the order given to plant the - torpedo at the other end of the tunnel. He knew that when urgent necessity rose to stop an on- coming train, generally to prevent it from run- ning into and wrecking a stalled train ahead, a torpedo was strapped to the rails far enough in - advance to enable the train to be brought to a full stop by the engineer. The torpedo was re- sorted to at some spot where there were no sig- nals to answer the same purpose, or on a foggy night when signals were uncertain. In the pfes- ‘ent instance it was a clear afternoon, and there ' ~ were.signals set for a clear track at each end __-of the station fifty feet or so beyond the plat- x form. Sam thought it would be easy for the presumed railroad men to change these signals to '- ‘warning ones, but they made no attempt to do so. __ While-he was watching the men at work on the track, the man who had done the talking got out _ of his car and approached the boy. sets “Waiting for the west-bound local?” he asked. _ “Yes,” replied Sam, “what’s the trouble on the line?” “Washout down the road.” : ~ “Oh! Then I suppose all trains will be held up -- for a while?” - “We're only interested in holding up the Kan- sas City Express.” “But the local is following after it.” “We'll get through before the local arrives. Here comes the agent, boys. Nab him!” The station-agent came piadd had up the village road. When he reached the tracks two men sprang “upon him and bore him to the ground. In a jiffy he was bound, gagged and shoved aside. That ‘was too much for Sam. His suspicions that all “was not right was at once aroused. _ “What did you treat the t that way for?” he said, jumping up an of the business. i : “What's that to you, young fellow? Sit down keep quiet or we’ll treat you the same way,” --* said the man, in a threatening tone. . d better not,” said Sam, with. some resolu- dressing the leader - “Get hold of his trunk and place it in front of the rock, a few feet in advance. Then come back and get this smart chap and tie him to the trunk, straddle fashion. You’d better gag him at the same time. When the engineer makes him out sitting in the middle of the track he’ll make extra exertions to stop short.” Sam was staggeyed by those orders. He was now satisfied that these men could not be in the employ of the road, and that they had some sinister purpose in view in holding up the express. That purpose he believed was to rob the express ear, and perhaps the’ passengers as well. In a word, these men were train robbers engaged in a holdup such as he had read about in the news- paper on more than one occasion. He objected strongly to being made a party to the crime, and he put up a desperate struggle to free himself. The rascal who had hold of him, | however, had muscles of steel, and though Sam was ordinarily no easy proposition to handle, he was like a child in the man’s hands. His re- . sistance amounted to nothing, and he was pres- ently bound to his own trunk, and gagged, and left in a very perilous position, indeed. If the — locomotive of the express wW&s not stopped before it got far out of the tunnel. Sam saw his finish, and as he was full of life, as well as aspirations for the future, this situation he was placed in was not a little terrifying to him. The men finished their work, and a moment or ~ -two later the hand-car returned with the men. * They laughed in a brutal way when they saw Sam tied on his trunk in front of the bumper. The leader ordered the hand-car derailed and transferred to the other track, and this was done in a couple of minutes. At that moment a long whistle sifted through the tunnel. It came from the engine of the express. Fe iendes “Out of sight, all of you,” cried the leader. The men made a rush for the bushes on both ~ sides of the tracks and got out of sight, after — taking the rifles that were handed to them out of the automobile, Sam, facing the mouth of the tunnel, awaited his fate in a state of great ap- — prehension. He heard the muffled report of the — torpedo in the distance, and the sharp whistles of “down brakes.” Within a moment or two the — locomotive would burst on his sight, and then— ~— what? —o CHAPTTER II.—Sam’s Silver Tongue Wins. i a ra a t a Sam, pibteng. astride the trunk, was-helpless to move or speak. He saw the engine come out of the tunnel; but it ho gat and the pa 3 and train crew alighted and rushed toward him. closed in around him, regarding. his peculiar pre- ag bers from the bushes. Three of them took 1 dicament with amazement, the sharp crack of their position in front of the locomotive and aim--~ iG s. All Sam’s fears now left him. As the crowd — revolver was heard, and cut rushed the train rob- ed their rifles at the crowd of railroad men 2 passengers, their intention being to hold them bay. Another. man sprang into the cab timidate the engineer and fireman. de for the express
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SAM THE ' Two of the “ors gs jumped into the car, push- ing him back, and ordered him, under pain of Imstant death, te open the safe, which contained ala sum of money, full knowledge of which a a seemed to have. The clerk hesitated _ wmtil he saw that his life would be sacrificed, and -. then he obeyed the order. The bandits went _ through the safe in a twinkling, shoving its con- - tents into a couple of sacks, after which, leaving the clerk bound in his chair, they sprang out of the car and joined their leadev.. Sam had been released in the meanwhile and told his story. He “pointed out the spot where the agent lay bound and gagged in the bushes, but when two of the _ ‘tram hands went to release the man they were = ‘ordered back by the robbers. = “Too bad we can’t get him into his office to tele- ‘es graph the state of ‘affairs here,” said the con- _ ductor. - =. “Fl do it for you, ” volunteered Sam. Bee “Are you an operator?” said the conductor. = “Ne, bat 1 picked up the practice of telegra- “You can send a message over the wire so it J wil be understood at the other end?? ~ _ “Oh, yes. I can easily do that.” =f i with me,” said the conductor, motion- ing to one of the train hands to accompany them. ae “How about the jecal that is following your train, sir?” said Sam. “It ought to be flagged or - it will run inte your rear car. The whole of "your train except the socomotive is in the tunnel, _ and as you have no light on the last car in the e there is sure io be a crash, for the en- : ineer of the local won’t see what is ahead until > late to s — -“T¥ forgot about the lccal. It’s a fortunate thing _ yeu reminded me. Say, Wood, go forward and tell these rascals to let you th-ough so you can annel,” sati the fonductor. ‘The man went ‘forward, holding up both hands. “What do you want?” asked one of the rascals _a rifle. The train hand told him. The fellow called the leader and the train hand was permitted to get.a torpedo out of the baggage car and take it back - te warn the local. Feesuctor, Sam, and a train hand hurried down track, sprang om the platform and entered the _ where. the train man busted open the door e agent’s room. They were seen and the notified. He understoad their object, but safe had been cleaned out by this time he care. All but the leader and two men piled m the handcar and started off through the tun- ] et a ne of minutes’ wait the other the eset which held the loot, and _relieved the tension of the situa- ‘him that train 65 was held the- tunnel near Station W. € stopped at . _ puta torpedo on the track at the entrance to the z Under cover of the crowd, the 5 SALESMAN (a3 ae The passengers got aboard and the enginee r ran up alongside the station. The conductor then told the agent, who appeared, te netify the dispatcher “that the train robbers had fled, the tracks fixed so trains could proceed, and that No. 45 was now pulling out, twenty minutes behind time. He thanked Sam for his services and offered te car ry him free to his destination, the next large town on the line, and the boy accepted and got abcard. The express then went on, leaving the belated local to make up its lost time if the engineer could do it. When the express reached the tewn at which it stopped, Sam alighted and his trunk was deposited on the platform. He picked out the _*bus connected with a third-class hotel, which was frequented by the ordinary commercial men ang cheap actors; and pointed out his trunk to the driver, who landed it on top of the “bus. Reach- ing the hotel, known as the Commercial House, he registered and was assigned a reom, to which his trunk was carried. The dining-room was ape:: and he went in to his supper. A second edition of the afternoon newspape- had been issued with some of the particulars re the hold-up on the railroad, and Sam read it after his meal. Thinking it’ might do him good to get his name in the paper, he went to the office of the morning daily and asked for the editor. He got an inter- view at once when he stated that he had been on the train that was held up, and had some partiéu- lar facts to communicate. He told his story) which was taken vn by a reporter, and he was then photograph Next morning a very grap- hic article appeared, with Sam’s photo and a drawing made of him sitting astride of the trunk, bound and gagged, with the locomctive issuing from the tunnel in front of him. Soon after breakfast Sam started out te canvass the town for orders. _He was carrying a line of hardware; specialties, and only visited wholesale houses and a few large retail ones that dealt direct with . the manufacturers. When he went to smal] places off the main Hine of his route he transacted baste with anybody that intended: to resell the goods. As he had a number of duplicates of his cama he sometimes sold one of them to a private party, charging the retail price, but he was not supposed to do this. Wherever Sam went that morning in quest of ‘orders he was recognized as the hero of the rail- _ ay road hold-up. Everybody in town had read the story, and as the wholesale houses had been m- — formed i in advance of the boy's coming, of course
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— re road incident it took him the best part of two days to finish up the town. He didn’t mind that, for he had done big business, securing three new houses, and virtually creating a monopoly for his employer’s goods in that town. i He was in the reading-room of the Commercial ~ House around four o’clock when a book agent came in whose acquaintance he had made the pre- ~ ceding evening. The agent. was a nice, gentle- d manly young chap who was out on his first trip, and he and Sam took quite a fancy to each other. ad His name was Dick Hazard. “Well, Hazard, what kind of a day have you had?” asked Sam. “Rotten. I only got one order, and it was like drawing teeth to get that,” replied Hazard. 2 “That’s too bad. I guess you didn’t strike the ~~ right kind of people.” “There’s no doubt about that, but how is a- fellow to tell the right kind? = -vhem as they come. I’ve got to take - lovers published. Even if there were you’d have to talk some of them deaf, dumb and blind to “get their names on-a contract. manager of my “I want to show you the finest standard dic- tionary in the market. It is something that a man.of your superior intelligence requires at his 7 elbow to refresh his memory at odd times, You I’m a salesman. I ‘have been represented to me as a gentleman of culture and refinement who is in the market for a real comprehensive unabridged dictionary, which not only fills the bill as a dictionary, but offers additional departments of instruction and general information that no up-to-date man can -afford to be without,” said Sam, in“his most en- ticing tones. “Hum!” ejaculated the old man. “There was a young fellow up here to-day with a dictionary he wanted to sell me, but I didn’t care for it.” “Allow me to show you sample pages of this dictionary, with samples of the three kinds of binding. will*recommend the full flexible — morocco style. It is the most expensive, but in the long run the cheapest,” said Sam, producing the sample book which contained perhaps — : pages of dictionary matter, a few pages of each of the departments, and samples of colored pic- tures and other engravings that went with the — “Why, that’s the same book the other chap showed me,” said Hapgood. = + x « Sam took no notice of his remark, but pro- — Ma aa A in ea s wrt phn) haters iy up the work in his smartest way. “It is almost superfluous for me to dwell on — the dictionary, which has 40,000 more words and definitions than the’—here Sam mentioned | Tease Th aie
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' institution of learning of any standing has taken one or more copies, and not a library in the . country would be without it. In addition to the -- dietionary you have a department of general Knowledge which gives you thousands of facts in a nutshell.’ For instance, this is the fifteenth of - July. What is most talked about in town? The - faet that it is St. Swithin’s Day. Who was St. Swithin? Let us consult this sample bock and see if it refers to that distinguished personage. _ sh, there it is—St. Swithin, confessor, bishop __ and patron of Winchester, England. He lived in the ninth century. Then follows the tradition - which explains why if rain falls on July 15th, dt any hour, it will rain for forty days thereafter. _ I met a score of persons to-day everyone of whom had something to say about St. Swithin’s Day, _ but not one could explain a word on the subject. Several had consulted their up-to-date encyclo- pews, -but couldn’t find what they wanted to knew. The same thing will happen on July 15th - who is successful. ~ ¢o binding, $26. .Two dollars down and $2 a ‘menth, or ten off for cash.” - “T’ll pay cash.” “Very good. Here is the cash order... Sign that, please. On receipt of the complete work, within two days, you will pay $23.40. Thank ~-you, sir. I won’t take up any more of your time,” said Sam, shoving Hapgood’s signed order in his pocket. “unless you care to look over this _ handsome, thirty-volume set of Shakespeare. I - am not asking you to buy it. I would like to show you its merits because you have taken the dic- tionary. Shakespeare, as you know, was the apes writer of his age—of any age, in fact. Phe publishers of this set have spread themselves ‘on this special limited edition. very set is num- ‘will {gtch a premium in the book market.” *- i was a profusely illustrated edition, with a isred frontispiece of -a noted actor or actress each volume, and was bound in silk cloth. The rice was $95. Five down and five a month for teen months. The illustrations took Hap- ud’s eye, and Sam, quick to take advantage of fact in the interest of his new friend Hazard, upon their beauty and the fact that they e all specially made for this.set, and were not be found anywhere else, Although Hapgood d had no intention of buying the set, Sam got mature to a contract, and promised that the ould be delivered at his home in a day or ed ber wore no whiskers, an = ~~ Lh _ bered. and when the 1,000 are disposed of they SAM THE SALESMAN 5 Hazard gazed at them. in a cazed way. “You’re a wonder!” he said, enthusiastically. “And the book business isn’t your line, either.” Sam laughed. 3 “T can sell anything from needles to ship's an- chors,” he laughed. “Hapgood must have been in good humor.” ; “He didn’t look it. I made him feel good, though, before I got through with him. He’s a grouch as a regular thing. I could see that in his face; but I ean handle a grouch as well as a Ske good-tempered individual. fied?’ “Satisfied! I should say so. You’ve put a big commission in my pocket, but I mean to halve it with you. “Halve nothing! I won’t take a cent from you. I just wanted to satisfy myself that I could sell Hapgood a dictionary.” “And a set of Shakespeare.” “No. . That was an afterthought. I hope you're satis- IT worked -him for that on the spur of the moment.” “Well, ’m much obliged to you. V’ll do as much for you if I ever get the chance,” said Hazard, . as they walked back to the hotel. “You’re welcome.- I suppose you'll remain in town a while?” “That was my intention.” : “Ym going to take the eight o’clock train for Dexter. That is one of the boss places on my route. said Sam. “You ought to do a land office business any- _ where,” said Hazard. - “T shall always.try to do my best.” : When they reached the hotel they went into~ the dining-room together and had supper. After the meal they repaired to the reading-room, where” Sam wrote a short letter to his mother and. mailed it. The *bus started for the station at - twenty minutes of eight, and Sam and his trunk were on it. It was growing dark then, and was — quite dark when the ‘rain rolled in and he got — aboard. Two well-dressed men were in the seat — I hope to do a land office business there,” — You’re entitled to it.” ta an i ahead of him. Their complexions were tanned brown by exposure ‘to the weather, and so were their hands. and he did not take any particular notice of them. — When the conductor came along Sam stopped reading the magazine he had purchased at the ach and get out his ticket. The men ahead eld u Then Sam caught sight of a peculiar rin little fingertof one of them. It was a b 3 ameled gold snake, coiled with its head poised ready to spring. In the flat head of the snak was embedded a large diamond, and its eyes were made of two smal! rubies. He had seen that ring, | or its mate, two days before on the little of the chief of the train robbers. It had : tracted his attention then, and it attracted now. He looked ee. at ied = ted ae man, which was covered with black whi . ‘ he began to have his suspicions. The train’ rob-_ no s, and could not have g days; but Their backs were toward the boy, — exe ue iM their tickets for the conductor to punch. the — = GF
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oe 6 cor2ceter punched his ticket and passed on. Sam had observed another thing—that the tickets of the two men ahead bore the same destination as his own, namely the city of Dexter. “I am more than half convinced those are two of the train robbers,” thought Sam. “I wish I : could make certain of it. If they are and I -_ eould land them in jail, it would be quite a feather in my cap. -It would help me along in my busi- ness. Anyway, the railroad company would be giad to. capture two of the robbers, for so far the detectives have made no progress in finding the rascals or the $100,000 they got from the express company’s safe.” Sam kept his eyes on the backs of the two heads before him. The men wore the latest thing in collars and ties, but the tan showed above the edge of the collars. The ring was to Sam the most convincing proof of its owner’s identity. Still it did not follow that the ring worn by the train robber was the only one of its kind in existence. It might have many duplicates. Not many people have rings especially designed for themselves. Sam had lost all interest in his * magazine. His attention was wholly cerftered on ' the two men ahead, particularly the one who sported the snake ring. So the moments passed and the train rushed on through the night, stop- ping only once during its run to Dexter, for it was an express.- After the stop the conductor came through again, not to look at the tickets, but to see if a passenger or two had got on. Sam followed the conductor out on the plat- : form, and after telling him that he was the young “fellow who figured in the trunk episode of the hold-up on the line at the mouth of the tunnel - near Station W, imparted his suspicions of the two men, dwelling especially on the ring, and his belief that their whiskers were false ones, assumed for the purpose of disguise. The con- ductor, knowing that both the railroad and the ‘express companies were using every effort to find the train robbers, was ain, agree by what the boy told him concerning the two passengers. “J couldn’t take the responsibility of detaining them on suspicion,” he are “Tf your surmise happened to be wrong, look at the trouble I’d get bf -into.” : “Couldn’t you stop at a station this side of - Dexter and telegraph word to the Division Super- jmtendent? That would put the responsibility up to him,” said Sam. “ ; é m “The train is several minutes behind time now. - “What difference does that make in so import- : Se aniag A ome es ae _- “Are you willing to swear that those two men are a Sass of the crowd that robbed the express car?” _ “No; on account of : can’t swear to this identity. I believe they are, though.” ; oO CBut they might not be.” Dexter. The speed gradually slowed down an! soon the cars stopped. The two dark-complexioned bewhiskered men started for the door. Sam, wit. checked to that station, and would be held in tka baggage-room till called for. The men singe! out a eab, gave the driver his directions, and gt in. Sam got a hold on behind, and the vehic!« started off up the street with the young salesman swinging back and forth, and maintaining h‘s position only by the skin of his teeth, so to speak. f course, his peculiar position was observed and attracted some attention from passers-by, but nobody considered it his business to cail-the driver’s attention to what was going on behind. Fortunately there was not a policeman in sight, and so Sam was not interfered with, and his pres- ence in the rear was not discovered by the driver. The cab kept away from the principal and weil- lighted streets, and was soon bowling along inthe —— residential section, where*the darkness was re- lieved only by the street lamps. Sam wondered where the men were gving, and whether this adventure of his would produce re- sults. The driver kept his horse at a fast clip, and the suburbs of the city were reached in that direction. Finally he stopped and got down to ask for further directions, Sam took advantage of the chance to step down and relieve the strain which had been put on his arms. He stood at the far corner of the vehicle ready to jump up again as soon as the driver resumed his seat. He heard an occasional word that passed be- tween one of the men inside and the driver, such as “quarry,” “two miles,” “road-house,” and so forth. The cab went on as fast as before. They were now on a dusty road, where there were many trees, a hedge on either side, cultivated fields, and few houses. The city of Dexte: had been left behind. Naturally, the landscape was very dark, for the sky was clouded. At last the cab began to reduce speed and soon drew up be- fore a well-lighted road-house. Sam-sprang down. The driver-remained on his seat. Out of the cab j the two men. Sam didn’t believe this — was their destination because he had seen no Sere the quarry yet. — men went into the road-house and lined © up at the bar. The cab remained standing in front of the door, the horse drinking at the trough. Out of the road-house came a shirt- sleeved young fellow with a foaming glass of lager which he handed up to the driver. He — waited for him to drink it, exchanging a few words with him. Sam heard the poo : : he was going on to a house close to the old ~ he road-house, — r pack to the pi _Presently the two men came out and cab. They were accompanied to a quarry, two miles from the waiter took the empty glass
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_the waiter, who watched the vehicle drive away. He saw the indistinct figure of a persen ~ hanging on behind, and shouted to the driver, but he man didn’t understand what he sid, and - went on. : _ <The two miles were quickly reeled off, and the lone house beside the quarry was reache:l at: last. Sam got down and backed away in the dazkness, ‘ satisfied that the two men were going no further for the present. One of the men handed the _ driver a bill, told him to keep the change, and then the cab swung around and started for the city, while the two men walked up to the door of _- the house, from the window of which a light -_ shone on the road, and knocked three times, with “a pause between eaeh, and then twice quickly. CHAPTER IV.—At the Old Quarry. Sam, from the shadows of the shrubbery op- ite the house, saw the door opened by a rough- citing and roughly-dressed man of perhaps _. forty. . The two visitors entered and the door ‘closed behind them, after the rough chap had looked up and down the road and noted that no one appeared to be insight. = _ “Now to find out, if I can, who — men are, _ said the young salesman to himself. ; He glided across the road and, taking up his tion by the window, looked into the room. As id so the light disappeared and nothing was to be seen inside. ; bar haye gone into the back of the house, - thought Sam. - Feeling his way carefully around the side of the building, Sam came suddenly upon the edge of the quarry. He just escaped going down Z ng in the dark, which would have marked “finish, for the quarry was all of fifty feet deep at that point. A ledge about three feet wide went along the back of the house. Sam found this out by going down on his hands and “knees and crawling along as far as a window through which he saw a light shining, Then he rose, grasped the window ledge and looked into ‘room. It was furnished as a kitchen and living-room combined. With the front room and entry it formed the ground floor of the build- ” front and another quarry. The house arters for ad it been ed roof and a window i the rear overlooking ar d been used as an office and living supe SAM THE SALESMAN . There was a half-story. above, with a peak- © ring, net only at the time of § afterward, It mp grape lip j= = : “Where have you hidden it?” said the man ad- dressed as Jim, and who wore the snake ring. “In the quarry.” “Good. The rest of the bunch will be here to-morrow night. Then we'll have it up and divide on the usual plan.” “Your disguise is a good one. I would hardly have known you or Bill had I met you on the street.” “The detectives are hot on our trail, and it was necessary to change our personal appearance to avoid trouble.” “That’s right,” nodded the other. “We mada a fine haul—$40,000—and it would be a shame to be tripped up. Such a snap might not come our way in a hurry again.” “Tt wouldn’t if we were nabbed. We'd ge: fifteen years, every mother’s son of us, and that would put a erimp in our business for a good while to come.” “It would for a fact. That boy we found on the ground and tied to his trunk would be the chief witness against us. The papers say he’s a traveling salesman. “A pretty smart look- ing chap, but we took the starch out of him for a few minutes.” “He was lucky to escape so well as he did. I expected the locomotive would do him up before — the engineer could stop the train. The express. was going at a fifty mile clip when it hit the torpedo, The air-brakes worked well to stop the train the length of the tunnel. Well, after to-morrow night we'll scatter and enjoy the - forty thousand.” “There are nine of us to share in the swag. Call it ten, for you get two parts as our cap- tain and leader. Eight thousand for you and $4,000 apiece for the rest of us. I’! gamble on- it ’ll have a good time out of my share.” ” Bae “Has any one been snooping around this = place?” asked the leader. - “Yes, Hen and I saw a couple of chaps yester- day we took for officers. They tried to get into this building; but finding it locked and appar- ently deserted; they gave up the attempt. They —_ then locked the quarry over, and éxamined the ~~ huts beiow, but did not gain much. The last we _ saw of them they were going into the weods.” wey: “They were detectives. I’m glad they satis- fied themselves that the persons they were look- — ing for were not around this vicinity. The ~— railroad sleuths and the officers in thé*employ ~~ of the expréss company are searching the moun- tains as the most likely place to find a clew to _ our retreat. I knew they would, that’s why I pitched on this spot as a rendezvous after the job was put eee It is ‘seventy miles from — the scene of the hold-up, and right in the heart — of a busy section. This ought to be the last place — where we would be suspected of coming,” — Ae nae “You have a great head, Jim. We made no mistake in choosing you as our leader. You. don’t make any mistakes.” Aas che Sam, standing outside of the window, tnd listening to all that passed inside, did not agree — ith the speaker. He thought the leader F a big mistake In weari oe bee s that cause rz a
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“Fetch out the bottle, Pete. Talking is dry work,” said the leader. i The bottle was produced and all hands drank. » “You say the money is concealed in the quarry, Pete?” t ; “Yes.” “Whereabouts?” “There is a hole in the rock directly below this house. To reach it you have to clamber over a lot of scrambled limestone and then make ag way up the face of the quarry about fifteen eet. found it by accident. It is easy to reach it when you know where it is.” “All right. We’ll not disturb the loot till the time comes. I’d rather take your word than go scrambling over and up the rocks with a lan- tern in the dark. If any stranger saw a lan- tern moving up and down the face of the quarry it might arouse his suspicions. We'll get the money to-morrow just before dark when we won’t need to use a lantern, and while we’re getting it we'll have the boys patrol the sides of the quarry and the back to see that no inquisitive people are about. We can’t be too careful under the circumstances.” “Bet your life we can’t.. Are you going back to Dexter to-night?” “No. I’ve dismissed the cab. Bill and me are ing to stop at the road-house two miles below here. The house is kept by an old friend of mine whom I can depend on. We stopped there a drink and I told him we were coming back.” At that moment there came a pounding on the front door. “Who in thunder can that be?” said Pete with a start. “We don’t expect anybody else here to-night. Besides, the person hasn’t the signal. Maybe we are up against a bunch of officers.” “Tf we are somebody is going to get hurt,” said the leader, drawing a revolver and laying it on the table. His companion, Bill, also pulled out his gun, as did the man called Hen. “Go and see who it is, Pete. If the visitors are not to your liking, pass the word in here at ence.” Pete went into the front room without a light and looked out of the window. He could get a side view of the space in front of the door _and detect any one standing there, thoug hnot _ ver early on such a dark night. He saw the outline of a youngish man, who pounded on the door again. Pete guessed he was not a detec- tive, but he did not know for certain. The fact any one knocking that way on the door seemed uspicious to him. The visitor kept on pounding a lusty way, as if he was sure somebody was the house. Finally he put his mouth to the yhole and shouted: © __ “Let me in. I’ve something to tell Jim Carsey. Tm from Lo Bs goo tne at oe _ Pete heard words. So also did Jim him- for the door leading into the entry was > * The hole is: not visible from below. I° the chap wants, Pete,” he called for Dis to gat out of gees: 8 SAM THE SALESMAN 4 “Jimmy Dolan! I work for Pat Mulligan at the road-house. I came to warn Carsey that he and Bill Knight were followed from the city by somebody that Pat said was a detective. I saw him hanging on behind the cab as it left the road-house, and shouted to the driver, but he paid no attention to me. Then I told Pat and he sent me here to tell Carsey that he wants to be on his guard against the party who came out from Dexter behind the cab. That’s all. I'm going back now.” ¢ “Hold on a minute,” said Pete.. “Wait till I tell Carsey. He may want to ask you some- thing.” “Ym here,” said Carsey, who had come into ~— the room to hear the message, and was at Pete’s elbow. Jim asked the messenger several questions, but all he learned was that the party behind the cab looked like a very young man, or a big boy. Sam had, in the meanwhile, come around to the front corner of the house where he stood and listened. He heard all that passed, and he wondered what the rascals in the house would do now that they had been warned of the prob- able presence of somebody inimicable to théir interests. The window was shut down and the messenger Started back the way he had come. Sam.waited to see if any of the train robbers would ccme out to look around, but no one did, ~ so he returned to his post at the window. The four men were in the back room. 3 trouble for us,” said Carsey. : 4 “Blame the luck!” growled Carsey. “Who'd — have thought a. man could have hung on behind © the cab all the way from the city?” “A detective on a scent will do anything to win out.” : “He might be hanging’ around this place now. I'd like to meet him. He wouldn’t do any more sleuthing, Tl bet. What’s to be done? It’s such a_dark night that it wouldn’t do any good to go. cut and hunt for him. He could easily hide in the bushes on the other side of the road and get away from us.” “After spotting this house hé might have gone back to the city and will return later with jhal? 2 dozen others,” said Bill. “We’d better get back to the road-house right away, while Pete and Hen had better rig the rope through the window there so that if a bunch of officers came Z prepared to break in they can escape down into _ the quarry, and come to the road-house by a roundabout rout and warn us. We needn’t worry about the money. The detectives won't know _ where it is hidden, 2nd so won’t know where to look for it.” aoe “If the detective is on the watch outside hell — see us leave, and will probably follow us to the _ road-house, and later we'll be pinched,” said Car- — sey. “We'll leave by way of the quary.” ates _ “I think so myself,” said Pete. “Hen and me’ll rig the rope out of the window. You 3 Cal ee down, Sign g over pei. rocks to the of the quarry, and work your way across~ field to the road-house.” ae eee Carsey thought Pete’s suggestion a good ‘ ’ it ‘- BO NT LINO bay eat eae eR To and as the = ae Sie <3 = :
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- * . | SAM THE thrown out of the window which he knew was a rope. Then the figure of a man followed and slid down into the quarry. A second figure is- sued from the window and went down. The win- dow was closed and the rope left hanging down in the darkness. The rope left hanging put an idea into Sam’s head. It might lead to the hiding place of the money. So he took a chance and slid down the face of the rock. About nalf way down he saw in the gloom what looked like a hole in the wall. Putting his hand in he felt something like a bag. Drawing it out, he perceived it was a money bag. It was quite weighty. Then with the aid of the rope he reached the floor of the quarry. He stumbled out of the quarry and resolved to make his way to the station house. If he could place the bag with the police and then shadow the thieves it was would be a feather in his hat. Arriving in Dexter, he met a polizeman, to whom he detailed his adventure and wanted to be directed to the police station. The officer was interested and went with him to the station. Sam told his story to the sergeant at the desk and presented the bag. The bag was opened and proved to contain the $40,000. A force of officers were de- spatched to arrest the four rascals. Sam, leav- ing his address as the Dexter House, was allowed to go there. where he left an order to be called at eight o’clock. hie CHAPTER V.—Bound to the Rail. The perter routed Sam up on time, and he went to breakfast. After the meal he went around to police headquarters to see _ what had been done. The result was not entirely satisfactory. The two men at the house on the edge of the quarry were arrested and locked up, but Garsey and his companion Bill were not found at the road-house, although the building was sur- . rounded to prevent their escape. The detectives _- searched the road-house from cellar to roof, but they did not find their men. An officer was - left on watch outside all night, and he was A = ss) - - men. Sam was afraid they wouldn’t show up relieved that morning. Three officers were to be despatched to the quarry house early that afternoon to watch for the coming of the other owing to the failure of the party the night be- fore to catch the chief and his pal. ‘Phe news of the recovery of the money and stolen articles and the capture of two of the train fe pak was sent to both ge company an e express company. e credi was piven to Sam. Everything connected with the case so far was printed in the afternoon papers, and Sam found himself in the limelight again. After leaving the station-house he re- turned to ‘the hotel, got his sample case and started out on his route. He did a good day’s business. He went to bed early that night, and next forenoon he appeared at the police court z the two train fobbers. They pleaded not SS car. them posi as two of the = up, though he said ce ca house, ~e i Se SALESMAN _ 9 and how he recovered the Icot owing to the clue given by Pete when telling the leader of the bunch where he had hidden the money and other stuff. Sam’s story was corroborated by the circumstantial evidence furnished by the finding of the bag and its valuable contents. The rail- read company produced the station agent and the conductor of the. express train, but they could not identify the men either. The express company had the man in charge of the express car in court. He could not swear to the men, either, as he said the fellows who held him up wore masks while in the car. The case, there- fore, was not very strong against the men, out- side of Sam’s testimony, and on the strength of that the magistrate held them until the police could secure additional evidence. _ Sam’s morning was lost on account of the court proceedings, but he got a hustle on that afternoon and pulled up some. Next day being Sunday, he put in his time writing letters, read- ing the papers and looking the town over. The police had not been successful in capturing the other train robbers because they did not appear at the quarry. That wasn’t any more than Bam expected. He guessed that the leader had con- nected with and warned the rascals. ager of that division of the express business had a talk with Sam and told him that he would recommend that the reward of $5,000 be paid to him for recovering the money and giving information that should have resulted in the capture of all the robbers. On Monday while Sam was finishing up the town there was a meeting of the directors, of the railroad in Kansas City, and they voted him the sum of $1,000 for his services in the case. He received the check at the next city he stop- pde at on his route, a manufacturing place called Chester. He cashed it and forwarded the money to his mother in Chicago, telling her to bank it in his name. We may as well say here that he received the $5,000 from the express company when he reached Kansas City, which was as far West as his route called for, and sent that to Chicago, too. With $6,000 in bank, and a con- siderable commission coming to him when he got back from his trip, he felt in very com- fortable financial circumstances. The authorities of Dexter tried hard to catch the train robbers who had escaped the trap Sam had set for them, but they were not successful. To make the matter worse, the evidence against Pete and Hen was not strong enough to result in an indictment against the men, who swore that the case against them was a “frame-up,” and they were finally allowed to go, but they were shadowed by a detective to see where they went, taking orders. After finishing with the Missouri city he crossed the river and did business in Kansas City. His route would take hip up ‘the river to Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, after which he would turn his face Chicagoward, taking in all the large towns. : He was glad that his trip was half over, for, though he liked the business he was engaged in, he wanted to see his mother and He did not dream that he was bebe ly The man- - By that time Sam was in Kansas City
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SAM THE 2m night to a show or for a stroll. Such, however, “a3 was the fact. This man was Carsey, the leader of the train robbers. He and his crowd were de- termined to get back at the young traveling salesman not only for his efforts to land them ‘ in prison, but because-he had deprived them of the fruits of the hold-up. The robbers had been : hiding in various places to avoid being caught i by the detectives who were determined to get 2 them. At present they were pretending to be ~ engaged in the river business on the Missouri, and their headquarters was an old weather- ‘beaten schooner lying at an out-of-the-way wharf = at Kansas City, Kan. Sam was taking orders -__—*im the city at this time, and expected to go on to Leavenworth in a day or two. - Carsey had discarded the snake ring after XS: reading in the papers that it was the cause of his identification by the boy salesmen. On _ the evening of the day Sam finished up Kansas City, 2 the robber chief was, hanging around his hotel = waiting to see if he was going out, and intend- ing to follow him if he did. On this occasion he was accompanied by his pal Bill. Sam left the hotel at half-past. seven bound for one of the theaters. The men followed him to the place. At that hour a cheap-looking cab was waiting ‘along the route that Sam would have to take to reach the hotel. At quarter past eleven Sam was on his way and behind him came Carsey. There was only one person, other than Sam ‘and the robber leader, in sight. on the block -where the cab stood in front of a house, appar- ently waiting there for. somebody to come out. When the young salesman was passing the ve- hiclé a man came out of a doorway and asked him for a match. He took out his match-safe and handed the man a match. At that moment he received a blow on the head. from behind and tumbled forward.. The man who had asked for =the match caught him in his arms. It was Car- ‘sey who had glided up behind and struck the boy. He and the other man, who was Bill, shoved - their victim into the cab.. Carsey followed the insensible Sam, Bill got up beside the driver, “and off went the cab down the street, turning the next corner and going toward the river. ‘The blow the young salesman received had been -a glancing one, and he recovered his senses in ut an hour. He found himself bound and _ gagged, lying on his back in some dark place. He --yeealled the blow on the head, but could not mderstood why he was a prisoner. He soon became conscious that the place he Fr ceeled over quite a bit y Mes = was at the wheel and— SALESMAN — duties, had seated themselves in easy attitudes along the weather side. The schooner, with her dark, patched mainsail outlined against the starry sky, was running down the river and fast leaving Kansas City behind., At a point two miles below the city the river swung around to the west. As the boat slipped around the turn Carsey went into the cabin and presently came out with a lighted lantern in his hand. He called to a couple of the men to lift the hatch and push it aside. A straight iron lad- cer led down into the hold. He descended by it and walked forward. Raising the lantern and holding it forward, he flashed the light upon the figure of Sam, lying helpless on some old sacks. He encountered the gaze of the prisoner. “So you’ve come to your senses, eh?” he said. “Rather surprising to find yourself in a strange situation, I’ll bet. Would say something if you could, eh? Well, I'll relieve you of the gag so you can use your tongue.” Carsey put down the lantern and, unloosening the handkerchief, tied over the young salesman’s mouth, pulled it away. The removal of the gag was something of a relief to Sam. At the same time he recognized the rascal who bent over him and realized that he was in the clutches of the © train robbers and some of his associates. “T guess you know me if I haven’t. got the ring . that you knew, me by on the train,” said Carsey, with an ugly grin. “Yes, I know you.” “We made a mistake by not putting you and the trunk closer to the mouth of the tunnel; but I had no idea what you were capable of doing. You ran us down and done us out of the money from the express car. What interest had you in the express company?” “T had no interest in the express company.. I considered it my duty to bring you and your men te justice,” replied Sam. “Duty be hanged. It was none of your busi- ness. The express people could have stood the loss. It’s a wealthy corporation. Did you get the reward offered?” “That needn’t worry you.” “T think the papers reported that you re- ceived $5,000 from the express people and $1,000 from the railroad company because you recovered the money. I guess it won’t do you any good. You won’t need any money when we get through with you.” : Sam said nothing. The train robber’s words were not encouraging. ~ And his manner was menacing enough to show that he had some vin- d to en _queered all What did you do it for?
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i SAM THE against our making a haul half so good. We've only hung around this neighborhood to catch you. ‘Now we’ve got you we'll dust out after we pickle yeu.” f “What are you going to do to me?” said Sam. “You'll find out long before morning. You made the mistake of your life by butting into our business. That’s all I’ve got to say to you.” Carsey started for the ladder and left the hold. An hour later the old schooner was run into the “bank of the river at a lonely spot and moored. It was then about half-past one in the morn- ing. Bill and Pete went into the hold, gagged Sam again and lifted him out on deck. ‘Then he was borne ashore by two other men. For ten miles or more westward from Kansas City. one of the railroads ran near the river. .The only trains passing in that neighborhood at that - hour were long freights. Several of them would pass in either direction before dawn. Carsey, Bill, Pete and Hen started for the railroad tracks the two latter carrying the young drummer. 2 Ina short time they reached the roadbed. = “The east-bound freight will be the first to bis pass this way,” said the leader. “It passes over by this track. Lay the boy on the outer rail lengthwise, then the engineer is not likely to see him till too late to stop the traim before run- ning over him. See that you tie him down ___ good and tight. It won’t do to make a mess of this job.” ‘ es Sam heard his words and was horror-struck at ‘ the fate intended for him. He struggled as well = as he could, but his efforts amounted to nothing. - He was laid along the rail and tied down so that __, he couldn’t move to saye his life. When the ‘job was accomplished to Carsey’s satisfaction he knelt down and hissed in the boy’s ear: = is is your finish, young fellow. Hew do you like it? The next freight train bound in for _ Kansas City will be along shortly, and it won’t pe leave enough of you to make a decent funeral” _ This is our revenge for what you done to us. Good-night and pleasant dreams to you. Come on, boys, now we'll be off. We must be well down the river by sunrise.” : The four men disappeared into the bushes near the tracks and hurried back to the schooner, leaving the young salesman to his fate. CHAPTER VI.—A Narrow Squeak. The spot had been well chosen by Carsey, for was lenesome and deserted. There wasn’t a house within a mile, and even in the daytime = Soden passed that way. A dozen telegraph vires high up on poles followed the tracks on the side that the boy lay bound to the off rail. A humming sound came from them, which mingled ‘with the sighing wind as it swept across the mel- “is landscape. There were many trees in cinity and the breeze—waved the upper to and fro. Far above the fated boy’s ds of bright stars shone down from 2 as a bell. .It was a terrible ae tee there seemed to be SALESMAN il from from the rail, but only exhausted himself in vain. The rascals had made a sure job of it, and his heart sank as the minutes flew by—minutes that measured his span of life. At last he heard a distant whistle. He couldn’t tell in which di- rection it sounded, but as Carsey had said that the freight bound in for Kansas City was the next one due to pass that point, and he was bound to that track, he felt his last hour had come. One more ineffectual struggle and he gave up with a groan. A minute passed, then his ear heard a tingling sound from the rail he was bound to. He knew what that was. The rumbling of the wheels of the heavy freight was telegraphed ahead along the steel track. Inside of a few minutes he would meet his end, and what a terrible end it would be! He thought of his mother and sisters far away in Chicago. Never more would they see him again. His fate Would probably not be known to them. , _ They would learn that he had disappeared one night in Kansas City, on the Kansas side of the : Missouri, and that would probably be all. He a would be so badly managled-by the freight that = while his death weuld be rcported in the news- apers his-identity would he involved in ptm 5 e groaned and squirmed upon his steel shroud, and the gag worked off his mouth. At that mo- ‘ment he heard the clank, clank of a hand-car coming from: the direction of Kansas City. It grew louder every instant. : os The sound of the oncoming freight also grew = louder. It sounded in his ears like subdued ; thunder in the distance. In desperation Sam 2 shouted for help. His cries resounded on the night air, The two or three men on the car _ heard it and stopped working, listening intently. . “Somebody is in trouble near here,” said one of them, picking up the red lantern and holding it above’ his head. “It comes from over there, close to the up track,” said one of his companions. “We must stop the car and look. Maybe some me tramp has fallen on the track.” *; “Then we have no time to lose, for the freight = is coming along that track. Jump off, Joe, with the lantern and take a_ look.” < tty The man sprang off the gliding hand-car and — rushed over to the other track, Sam’s cries guided him to the spot. a “Great Scott! A boy tied to the rail!” he cried as he flashed the light on the young salesman. “Who has done this act of villainy?” ae “For heaven’s sake, cut me free—quick!” cried : Sam, in feverish tones. . . = Seer “That I will,” replied the man, ; ; He placed the red lantern in the center of the track, whipped out his knife and got busy. At that moment the freight, running at ig oes on to twenty miles an hour, came into sight a ae the curve not far away. There was not a mq ment to be lost if the boy was to be rescued, ard the man hacked and slashed away at. the cords, which were pretty stout and seemed to resist the blade of the knife. The other two men running up. — : Ys
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The other speaker picked up the lantern and ran to meet the freight, waving the regular signal to stop. The engineer pulled his whistle for brakes, and shoved over the reverse. The jolting of the wheels and the grinding of the brakes sounded like thunder in the ears of the _ terrified Sam. = “Oh, heavens, hurry, or I'll be crushed!” he = ejaculated. =i The light of the locomotive headlight. flashed down upon the boy and his rescuer, who was ‘working with desperate haste and energy. The freight rolled nearer every moment though its speed was descreasing. The second man was aid- ing-in the good work, and at last, just as the heavy locomotive came to a stop fifty feet away, Sam was freed entirely from the rails. He was assisted on his feet, trembling as with an ague, a wide halo about him and his two rescuers. He saw the engineer and fireman leaning out of the ~ cab window looking at him while they listened * “to the short statement of the man with the ~ lantern. Then his legs gave way and he col- lapsed like a limp rag, and his senses left him. When Sam came to ten minutes later, he was _ lying on the floor of the caboose, with a con- e ductor and a train-hand bending over him. He coughed and sputtered, for, the whisky poured down his throat had met his breath and shook ~~ him into consciousness, _- sat up and looked around. - “Oh, heavens, am I alive?” he cried. ; “You're all right. Take a drink and that will put a little color into your face and strength into your limbs,” said the conductor. ‘The caboose was in motion, showing that the. freight. was on its way again. Five minutes later Sam was in condition to tell his story, and he told it. The conductor and trainmen ‘Gis ‘gered. You’ve had a mighty narrow escape, young man,” said the conductor. “Only that the hand- - ear came along and the men heard your cries, rou would be a mangled corpse now. So those frain-robbers did this to you out of revenge for 4) e part you played in the hold-up on the D. & _ + *They did,” said Sam. “They've gone dowh the river in a schooner, and I hope the police will be ~ able to catch the whole bunch this time.” ~ . . “The telegraph ought to cut them off. We'll ; - reach the yards inside of half an hour, and you ~ ean communicate with the police from there by aoe : sod. That crowd ought easily be scooped on the river. This job witon four of them a term, if there is any justice in the courts. i to murder me.” : tran 's. office where and white as death. The headlight shone like a~ In a few moments he~™ gone out ce hie bunineat ot : v had | SAM THE SALESMAN drels were sailing westward down the river on a sma!l schooner which, however, he was unable to describe. He furnished facts enough, however, to induce the authorities to get busy, and orders were sent ahead to hold up any small schooner seen on the river and arrest all on board of her. It was after three in the morning when Sam reached the hotel, a mighty thankful boy at his escape, and turned in. Whenever he thought ef the twenty minutes he passed tied to the rai’, his nerves would tingle at the recollection. He did not believe he would ever forget that terrib’e experience. The newspaper reporter did not ge= the facts in time for the morning papers, but every afternoon paper had the story. Sam was interviewed half a dozen times, and was photc- graphed twice. He was anxious to learn if the train-robbers had been caught, and he learned that they and the schooner had been overhauled and arreste*. That made him feel good, but later he learned that the leader and the man named Bill had made their escape during the fight with the police . who boarded the schooner, and had got away. The rest of the- bunch were brought to Kansas City. Sam charged Pete and Hen with being two of the men who had bound him to the rail, but they denied it. They were held by the magistrate on the ~ charge of murderous assault. The others were turned over to the detectives of the express com- pany which had been robbed, and taken by them to Dexter to stand trial. Efforts were made to find Carsey and Bill, but they eluded their pur- suers.. Sam went on his way, after promising to appear at the trial of Pete and Hen whenever he was notified to be present. : The boy drummer went to Leavenworth to see- what he could do in the way of business. He did quite ‘well at this place. Next day he left for Branchville: As he got cn the train a venerable looking old man boarded the train and sat down beside him in the car. In a little while the old man engaged Sam in conversation, asking him various questions, all »f which Sam answered as far as he saw fit, never suspecting but what his questioner was all right. When the train reached Branchville and Sam got off the old — man did the same, saying he was going to the same hotel Sam signified his intention to stop at. As soon as Sam and the old man arrived at the ~ Commercial House the old man slipped off by himself and sent-a telegram reading: ; ‘ “Come to Commerical House. Bring Hig and — an.” ; eae Hig and San meant Higgins and Sanderson. Then the old man retired to the room assigned — him, and any one looking into it, a little later — would have seen a man with a stron : he sup- blance to Jim Carsey~sitting there. — osed old man had given his name to S : Butler. That aft led at ti é > ernoon two men _ hotel to see Mr. Butler. 1 Sanderson disguised to visit the .
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SAM THE SALESMAN guised, left the hotel, leaving Butler disguised as an old gentleman, sitting on the hotel piazza, CHAPTER VII.—Dick Hazard Bobs Up Again. Jim Carsey did not meet Sam that evening, for the excellent reason that the boy did not re- turn to the hotel from: his afternoon business tour. He accepted an invitation from the buyer _* of one of the wholesale houses to go home with kim to dinner, and a rain-storm coming up uround ten o’clock he was éasily prevailed on to remain all night. The disguised rascal did not see the boy again until the following afternoon, = Saturday, when Sam returned to the hotel after _. finishing up his business in Branchville. In the meanwhile, Bill Butler and his companions had tound a tenantless dwelling in a lonesome spot > and notified Carsey about it. The leader went out to look at it Saturday morning and decided it would answer the scoundrelly purpose in view. as He had made up his mind to drug the boy, nail -- him up in a box which he and his associates in crime could readily put tegether with a few __ boards and a hammer and nails, and ship him - South by slow freight. They perfected their scheme in the vacant house after looking it over. cree: EE flappened, however, that a young man, with a . Jarge grip in his hand, had entered the yard of the place at the time to get a drink of water from a hand-well that stood there. After drink- _. ing he sat down on an empty box under a broken window. The conversation of the villains reach- ed him through the broken pane, and he was that his friend Sam started back into the town; then he followed and connected with the same street car they took, thus getting a good view of their per- ‘sons. The men separated near the business sec- tion, and the white-haired man who had joined them, went on to the Commercial House. -. Dick went to the desk and inquired if Greene ‘was -stopping there, and on being told that he red himself and soon afterward went in to dinner. Sam did not come to that ‘meal, as he took his dinner at a restaurant. Dick waited around in the main corridor for his friend He noticed that. the white-haired too. Sam turned 13. “Very fair. I'll come out on top one of these days, though I haven’t the gift of your silver tongue.” “T hope you will. we'll have a talk.” c “I've got something of great importance to tell # you,” said Dick, as soon as they were seated in Sam’s room. ; “Have you? Go ahead; I’m listening.” Come up to my room and “Did* you notice a yenerable-looking white= ~_ haired man in the corridor below as you came “a in?” i “No; but I know the party you refer to. I ; met him on the train which brought me over from Leavenworth two days ago. He’s a very re- spectable old party named James Butler. He’s A over at this town to hunt up a nephew he hasn’t seen for some years. If he’s downstairs now, I guess he failed to find his relative.. His room is next to mine that way,” said Sam. , tk “If his room is next to yours we’d better talk a low, for he might have followed us upstairs,” — : said Dick. _ ; “Oh, he couldn’t hear us. Besides, what dif- ference does it make?” beets “It makes all the difference in the world. That man is not so old as he appears to be.” : 2 “Oh, then you know him?” “ “No, I don’t. Listen; that old chap and three. « = other men have a deep grouch against you, so “e deep that they are scheming to do you up.” sao “How did you learn all that?” cried the aston- ~ .— ished Sam. x “T'll tell -you.” Dick proceeded to explain how he had stopped in the yard of a certain empty house on the suburbs to get a drink of water, and how, after” ~~ satisfying his thirst, he had sat down under one of the windows of the house. Then he told Sam —~ what he had overheard. Sam was impressed by — his story. He had no enemies that he knew of but the leader of the train-robbers and his par- ticular pal, who had escaped from the schooner when the police captured it and the rest of the crowd aboard. ; Recalling the manner -in which the old white haired chap had made his acquaintance and stuck by him since, he began to think he was the leader . Carsey in disguise, and that one of the others mentioned by Dick was his pal. They were work- ing a new scheme to get him in their power. Their — dogged perserverance in going after him showed how desperately in earnest they were to get square with him. How lucky for him that Dick should happen along at the right moment to — discover their purpose. Being thus forewarned he saw his way to not only defeat their efforts, but to capture the rascals. ~ ; 2 He told Dick all about his experience on the ~ 7 the street at Karisas City while returning- from 2 show “at eleven one night, taken about a dozen miles down the river on a schooner, and then -— carried to the railroad and tied down to the. _ rail, Although -all this had been extensively _ ‘) the ignorant of the nar- — re
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14 “All you have to do is to cause the arrest of Worry ss the disguised chap downstairs,” he said. “He is ___ evidently the leader. Get him in jail and you Ss will be “safe.” eS: “T guess you’re right. We'll go around to 2 Police headquarters and see what can be done.” “We must be cautious. The white-haired man might shadow us; not that I suppose he has any interest in me but in order to keep track of you. _ If he saw us go into the station-house, he’d sus- pect something at once, and he and his pals prob- ably would skip off and lay low at some other town on your route to catch you.” perso “Phat’s right. If that old fellow is Carsey in = disguise, he’s a slippery chap, and is always on : the watch for signs of danger. It behooves us to go carefully about the business of landing him and his three pals in jail.” = “Suppose I call on the police and tell my story. - Til explain that you are keeping tab on the dis- guised leader.” “You ean do that. The trouble is that if the leader is pinched the other three will get away, for you don’t know where they are hanging out. Get the police to advise you as to the best course we can.adopt to capture the bunch.. Tell them how important it is to capture the leader’s side partner as well as himself. If you see me with the old man when you get back, keep aloof till supper-time. If the old fellow goes into the dining-room with me, and sits at the same table, you'll have to hold off until after the meal. Then watch your chance to let me know what arrange- ment you made with the police.” “All right,” said Dick. The two boys then left the room and went downstairs. They looked around for the dis- - guised old man, but he wasn’t in sight. “T wonder where he’s gone?” said Sam. He looked in the reading-room, but the man - wasn’t there. He asked the clerk if he’d ‘seen es ey a _ “He went upstairs a while ago,” he replied. “He’s in his room. I handed him the key.” Sam nodded and returned to Dick. - “The old man is in his room, the clerk told me. -I guess it will be safe enough for us both to go to police headquarters,” he said. __- They left the hotel and went to the station- house. Dick told his story first, then Sam related 2 ves ' scarce. ld suggest. that, you have a detective shadow the white-haired man around. He will probably lead the officers to the =j where his friends are. I won’t feel quite e until the whole bunch are under lock and 2 eed that , ' couple of good shows in town, either of which _ understand why the white-headed rao gig SAM THE SALESMAN left the station-house themselves, walked around the block and entered the hotel a little while before supper. They expected to find the white- headed man downstairs by this time, but he was not in sight. Finally Sam approached the desk and asked the clerk again about the man. “The party paid his bill half an hour ago and started for the station to get the four-fifty for St. Jo.,” was the reply. ‘ CHAPTER VIII.—The Young Lady in Room 23. Whether he had actually left town or not, Sam never saw the white-haired man again, and therefore he had only Dick’s statement to the fact that the old fellow was not what he ap- peared to be on the surface. Satisfied that the book agent had teld the truth about what he had overheard at the vacant house on the sub- urbs, Sam deemed it the part of wisdom to be on his guard against any trick the enemy might try to play on him. He went into the dining-room with Dick, and the two boys stuck to each other until it was time to go to bed. In the morning they parted company, Sam going on to Shelby- ville, and Dick remaining at Branchville to can- vass that town. Sam reached the Shelby House. about noon, and was assigned to a room. Dinner was served from half-past twelve till two, and the young drummer was one of the first to enter the dining-room. He spent the afternoon leoking the town over, for the place, like all the others on his return route, was new to him. In the evening he wrote several letters, one of which was to his mother, with an en- closure, as usual, to each of his sisters, and after mailing them he read the magazines in the read- ing-room for a while and then went to bed. Next morning he was out looking for business. He had an up-hill job before him, just as he had : at Branchville, for the line of goods he was carrying had to be introduced to the dealers and talked up, and he found that the wholesale mer- S chants showed no great enthusiasm over them at first. Sam, however, thoroughly believed in the superiority of the articles he carried, and when his silver tongue got busy he almost al ways made an impression on his listener. ; As he was working a new territory, it was his business to secure customers, and he could do that as well as any one on'the road. He put in his best-efforts that day, and when he knocked off around five he had done pretty well for his firm. The desk clerk told him there were a would supply him with amusement that evening, however, was rather cautious about leaving _ the hotel after supper, for he suspected that the enemy’ was at his heels. He did not actually know that. the train-robbers had followed him to Shelbyville, but on the strength of Dick Hazard’, story. he thought it likely they had. He couldn’t ed from Branchviille after planning him 2 that place, unless it was because tena oF Ais arr pomenta for some reason ~<
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SAM THE _at large he did not feel safe, and he was of the opinion that it behooved him to be wary. An ounce of prevention is beiter than a pound of eure, and he always had before his mental vision his terrible experience while tied to the rail. He recognized that his life had been saved by acci- dent, and he argued that lightning does not usually strike the same spot twice. So he did not go to a show that evening, but remained in the ‘hotel reading-room where the enemy, if watching for him, could not very well reach him. Next day he cleaned uv the town and went on to Tinkertown by the early evening train. Tinker- town was a small place in comparison to the average run of places he had on his list and as his directions embraced only three business houses, he felt that he would not stay there very long. There were only two hotels, and as the —- yates were the same at both Sam got into the bus of the Howard House. ‘ aa He left his trunk at the station and took only his sample-case with him. The hotels faced each - other on the opposite sides of the street. He was shown to a room on the grotmd floor. His fan- light was open, and everything that passed in the corridor outside was easily heard by him as he ~ sat in his room reading a Chicago paper he had purchased at the station. He hadn’t been in his room many minutes before he heard the hotel bey coming along with a lady in tow. They stopped at the door of the room next to his. Then he heard the lady’s voice, and from its tones he judged she was young. There was a sad ring in _ her voice; and Sam heard the boy ejaculate, “Is _ that so? You needn’t tip me, miss. ~I don’t want to rob you.” 4 . “Take it,” eg heard the lady say. “I have _ no further use for money. : “What do you mean by that, miss?” asked the ~ boy? suspiciously. ~ -*¥oy -wouldn’t understand if I told you,” she almost wailed. _ *How’ do you know I wouldn’t?” 3, Pa! “I have suffered a great wrong and my heart is broken. I shall end it all to-night, here in this room.” ~ Sam heard something fall on the floor, The _ young lady had dropped her handbag. It snapped open, and the hotel boy saw the butt of a re- ~ volver. That. settled the snare with him. a stead of trying to secure the weapon, as he rht to Sere pee hé backed out of the room, intending to see the boss at once and tell him > ee ince stood in Room 28. As soon ashe ; the threshold, the young lady shut the or and bolted it. At that moment one of the came along the corridor on the way to her at the top of the house. ~ “What’s the matter, Jimmy?” she asked. “You scared.” © e “What be scared, too, if you knew what I do.” hat do you 2 - brought a youn lady to No, 23.” ‘that frighten you?” laughed the girl. \f course not. It was what she said and what he " »” 5 a 96 ‘an } id, curiously ‘me what she said and what you saw in ‘SALESMAN 15. cs ter as a tip. Said she had no more use for money. Somebody had done her a great wrong and-her heart was broken. She’s going to com- mit suicide in half an hour with a pistol she’s got in her bag.” The chambermaid uttered a suppressed scream. “You’re joking with me, Jimmy, aren’t you?” “I wish I was, but it ain’t no joke. I’m going to tell the boss right away.” - “Then you’d better hurry. It would ruin the name of this hotel if she shot and killed herself here. Mr. Love has all he can do now -to hold his own against the hotel over the-way. Run quick.” Jimmy flew down the stairs to the office, where - the proprietor was working on his-account, while . the chambermaid rushed upstairs to tell the “ other girls about the impending tragedy. Sam had heard enough to satisfy himself that there - was going to be trouble in Room 23. The fact that the new occupant was a young lady, possibly pretty, and in such great distress that she con- templated taking her own life as the only way of escaping her mental misery, impelled him to see what he could do. He opened his door and came out into the corridor. To knock on the ~~ young lady’s door and try to get into conversa- tion with her was a delicate matter for him— a complete stranger to her—to-undertake. ~ Still the case was too serious to admit of his standing on ceremony. He knocked. : “Who’s there?” asked a-sweet voice. ae “A guest of the house. My room adjoifts yours ~~ on the left.” . ; “What do you want?” & “T overheard some of your talk with the bell- boy, and you appear to be in great trouble. I~ thought I would see if I couldn’t do something’ — for you.” $ “You can’t do anything, sir. Go away, please.” © ~ “But you seem to be in a desperate frame of _ mind. I heard the boy say that you intend to , i shoot yourself.” No answer was returned. - : “Do you really mean to do anything like that?” Silence At that moment there was a sound of rapid footsteps on the stairs. The proprietor, looking exeited and upset, hove into’ sight, followed by the hotel boy. “Has she shot herself?” Sam outside the docr of No. 23. “No. I have been talking to her. determined on ‘her purpose.” “Oh, heavens. She mustn’t do it. It will put my hotel out of business. My rival, on the other side of the way, will have the laugh on __ me.’ We must break open the door.” ee: The young lady was evidently-listening on the he groaned, on seeing — She seems inside, for she called out: = “If you make any attempt to break open =e door I will shoot myself at once. I am Tholdine 2 apes rit ap oeriey my heart") ae n hearing her say that the hotel man almost _ “Wha: shall we do?” he quavered, ee ae Sam couldn’t tell him, for the occupant of the = : = —¥ « * aes oe ae RBS =
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16 man who had robbed her of her savings it would save her,” put in the bell-boy. “Did you say that?” asked Sam, wondering if he could borrow that sum from one of the busi- ness houses he would call on next morning. “Yes. It would save me,” replied the lady, plaintiyely. “I would repay it as soon as I won my suit.” 4 “Tf you'll hold off till to-morrow I'll try to get it for you,” said Sam. ~ “No, no; I couldn’t wait. The uncertainty I must have the money n I could sleep and feel would drive me crazy. now, in my hand. The that I have a chance yet.” “I’m a stranger in town. I couldn’t get it until to-morrow under any circumstances.” Then go away, all of you. Inside of five minutes all will be over.” “Don’t do it. Don’t do it,” cried the hotel man. “T'll loan you the money if you will promise not to shoot yourself.” “Put the money in over the transom, and I will promise.” “Will you pass out your revolver?” id Rt Re The proprietor ran downstairs to get the money. While he was away Sam/got the young lady to tell a part of her unhappy story. He - found that a faithless lover figured in it as well as a swindling guardian.- Both misfortunes coming upon her at the same time, had driven her frantic. The proprietor came hurrying back with the money—ten $10 notes. Sam brought _a chair from his room, and the hotel man stood on it. “Hand me up the revolver,” he said, inserting his .arm, ed over without any hesitation. Maybe she’s : ‘a IRE WES Be same or =~ ¥ oe ¥ hectvs Swep “Drop the money on the floor,” said the young’ - stopped and pushed the led horse against the “SAM THE SALESMAN her part to squeeze the landlord out of $190. T think I’ll go downstairs and have a talk with the proprietor.” ’ When he reached the office he found the hotel man with the revolver in his hand, staring at the cartridges he had withdrawn from the cham- ber. They were dummy cartridges and perfectly harmless. The bullet consisted of a rounded bit of hard soap, colored with black lead, and. the interior of the shells were innocent of the smallest grain of powder. “That woman is a cheat and a fraud!” he cried. “She bluffed ine out of that $100. She had no more idea of killing herself than I have, as these fake cartridges prove. Jimmy, call the porter. Ill go upstairs and break in the door if she refuses to return that money. Hold on, never mind the porter. Run to the station-house and fetch a policeman around here. I'll have her arrested. She shan’t have the satisfaction even of spending the night in my house.” Jimmy started off to get the officer. Sam look- * ed at the cartridges and laughed. “You were nicely taken in,” he said. “And I’d have been the victim if I’d had the money about me. I really sympathized with the poor girl. The story she told me had me going. And to think I’m supposed to be smart! This is one on me in spite of the fact that circumstances pre- vented me from being fleeced.” z When the policeman appeared all hands march- ed upstairs and the landlord knocked peremptor- ily on the door of No. 23. He received no reply, nor did a second pounding yield any response. The landlord grabbed the knob of the door to shake it when it opened. They entered and found \ the room vacant. The clever young lady had departed with her bag by the rear route, and the roprietor of the house was forced to pocket his oss, for he never saw her again. : CHAPTER IX.—In the Hands of the Enemy Again. Sam was up early and by noon had called on the three business houses on his list, doing busi- ness with all of them. Then he hired a horse and rode to a large nearby village where lie made several sales on terms satisfactory to the ple he interviewed. On his way back four orsémen suddenly rode out of a covert of tall bushes and surrounded him. He was taken com- _ pletely by surprise, and before he could do any- thing he was yanked off his horse, gagged and bound. He knew that he was again in the power of his persevering enemies, and the thought was far from ch Sam was bound ~ across his own horse and the party started off down a branch foad, one of the men leading the animal thatcarried their prisoner. They had gone about a mile when a farm wagon, driven — by a boy, came in sight. The party of rascals fence, the others gathering around to ; the driver of the wagon from seeing Sam’s figure. The wagon passed and the party. pro- Several times thev had to resort to the strata-_ — ts sak
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Dem of hiding the boy from sight when vehicles came into view. So the afternoon passed and five o’clock came. During the trip the men con- sulted as to the boy’s fate. It was to be death, ef course—that was understood, but they did not know the method they would take. They could -. €asily have taken him into the woods and hung 7 Rie shot him, but they did not.seem to want to do that. The leader suggested binding one of his = arms to his side, putting a noose loosely around : his neck and tying the other end to a stout bough which he would be told to grasp with ‘his free arm. There he was to be left to meet : his fate when his grip on the bough gave out, as it was bound to do in time. The objection ~ to this advanced by the rest was that someone > might come through the woods before his : strength gave out and save him. ; : 2 “He’s a lucky rooster, you know,” said Bill * Butler. “Something might turn up in his favor, and the police would have a clew to us again. As dusk began creeping over the landscape they came to a small deserted farm. : “We had- better a here,” said Bill. “Our ~ horses need water and I see a well yonder.” “Ride into the back yard,” said Carsey. The party did so. While the others were pull- ing up water in an old bucket, Carsey and But- ler were in consultation. a 2 ¥ “We'll put his feet in the bucket and tie him, x bound as he is, to the rope, after which we'll lower him into the well. The water probably isn’t deep enough to cut him off from a rescue. He'll stay there till he gives up the ghost, and when he’s found one of these day no one will be to guess how he came to be down there,” said Butle i e leader. ott S y thought the idea a good one, but insisted to come to the well y petered out and he - that some one was likel after a drink before the would be saved. PR “Well, have you any better idea?” asked Car- : impatiently. a Ypreak into t e house, and if it has a cellar tie him there. ere is less chance of any one finding him there than down the well.” _ “Never mind the cellar. garret and work the trick that I suggested in the woods. Tie the noose to the most con- venient beam and make him hold on to it. He'll be dead long before midnight.” ‘The proposition was submitted to the others, +33 it was agreed = See was —— sre ho and com) to enter the deserte Mg co we and car ope to the attic floor. A box \ ght and he was forced to stand on it. es SAM THE SALESMAN ‘tence. He isn’t as bad as the others, and should We'll take him up in, - satisfaction. “Tt won't have to walk after all, nor _‘Tinkertown. Things have panned out all ri 17 box from under him and left him hanging three feet from the floor. That threw his entire weight upon his right arm, dnd he knew that it wouldn’t be long before his muscles would give out, and then he would drop and be slowly stran- gled to death. From the point of physical suffering this, fate was worse than the one he faced on the railroad track. Had he not been rescued that time all would have been over with him in an instant. Now death would come slow as he struggled for breath which the tightened noose would shut off. 2 The gang stood around and watched him, specu- P lating on how long he could hold out, then Car- , sey started downstairs, followed by the others. At the last moment Sanderson weakened, “T’ll give you a chance for your life,” he whis- pered, “for I don’t want your blood on my head.” He seized the box and shoved it under Sam’s feet. Then he hurried after his companions. Sanderson didn’t think that he had practically relieved the boy. All the young salesman had to- do was to shove his free hand into his pocket, pull out his knife, open the big blade with his teeth, and cut himself loose. He did not do this at once, but waited for the men’s footsteps to die away below. From the elevated position he stood in he could sée a part of the road in front of the house through the window. When the train robbers rode out of the yard and started on their way, after freeing Sam’s horse, the ; boy caught sight of the two of them on the out- =~ side. That was enough. He waited no longer, and the bunch were hardly out of sight before he stepped off the box, leaving the noose sus- pended from the beam. “That fellow with the sandy hair saved my <= life,” he said to himself, as he walked down- : stairs. “When he’s captured, as he is bound to be, when the others are caught, Pll stand by him and get him off if I can, or at least a light sen- profit by it.” } It was nearly dark now. Sam knew he was a_ long way from Tinkertown, and when he got — outside he could ‘find no trace of his horse, is impression was that the rascals had carried the animal off with them. “T’ll have to walk along the road till I eome to a house,” he thought, “and ask for supper and a night’s lodging. My sample case has gone with my horse, and I’li have to buy a new one and stock it from my trunk when I get back to Tinkertown. Well, things might be a whole lot worse with me. “might have experienced all — the horrors of slow strangulation. I guess I must have been born under a lucky star to es-— cape a horrible death twice at the hands of those scoundrels.” et He started along the road in the gloom. The | night was net so dark, as the stars were out. After a ten minutes’ tramp he came upon his horse, nibbling grass by the roadside. His sample case was. tied-to the saddle behind as he had ~— fixed it. “2 “Here’s lpck,” he cried, in a tone of grez have to pay for the animal on my return t up aes a ‘S
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= 18 house and asked the farmer if he could. accom- modate him with supper. “YH pay you whatever you think is right,” he said. 2 “Come right in, young man,” said the farmer, ; in a hospitable way. “I dunno as I'll charge : you anything. Are you a traveling peddler?” BS “No. I’m a traveling salesman. I don’t sell = anything, only take orders for goods from the big dealers.” “Oh, that’s it. Brookland?” “No. Ive been down the road a bit as far as mom vacant farmhouse. I dare say you know the p Where you been—over to = Sie Sate I do. That’ s the Johnson farm. Ain’t had a tenant these two years. What took you there?” he added, curiously. “I went there because I couldn’t help. my- self.” “How was that?” asked the farmer, in sur- prise. - ~ “Tt’s something ofa story.” = “John, take this horse over to the stable and feed and water him. Come in, young man. What might be your name? Mine is Whipple.” “Sam Greene. I belong in Chicago, where I live with my mother and two sisters when I’m not on the road.” Sam was introduced to the farmer’s ‘wife and his son and daughter. Supper was on the table waiting for the men folks to come in and eat it. Sam was hungry and postponed his story until the meal was over, but between bites he enter- tained the family with anecdotes of life on the road. By the time supper was over he had made himself exceedingly popular with the family. Then he began his story, going back to the after- noon of the hold-up. The Whipples had read about the hold-up in the papers, and remembered . that a boy and a trunk figured in it. They were - astonished when Sam told them he was the boy, and that the trunk in question was at the How- ard House in Tinkertown. __ “Do you expect to go on there to-night?” asked the farmer. _. “I guess that is what I’ve got to do,” replied ‘Sam. “You can stay here all night and start out in the morning, if that will suit you.” -_ “hanks. It will suit me first rate.” _.. He then proceeded with his story. When he related how he was carried off down the river from Kansas City in the schooner by the train _ robbers, who tied him to the track expecting he s _ would be ram over and crushed by the freight - train, the Whipples were quite staggered. After Anis how he had miraculously escaped death through the coming of the three railroad men on _ the. handear, who reached him in the nick of __ time, he. brought his story down to that after- noon. _ robbers still at liberty had been following: him right: up, Sy had caught him on the road on ; return f m the village. He told how they d-earried him, bound on his horse, to the taken him to the he Os him to a beam there. He e box SAM THE SALESMAN e explained how the four remaining merits of one of his best sellers. Our price is rrating how one of the | push — Cen A Renamer hie under his feet; and that the act had saved im. “Upon my word, young man, you're as lucky as a cat in falling on your feet. Do you think you’ll-be able to ketch them men this time?” said the farmer. “T hope so. As long as they are out of jail they are a standing menace to me. I am really not safe. When they learn I’ve escaped with my life again, I’m afraid if they ever get another chance they'll make short work of me.” “Then you’d better make a strong effort to have them arrested.” . “T intend to.” As the farmer refused to take any pay from Sam for his supper, night’s lodging and break- fast, the boy opened his sample case and told him to help himself to anything he thought would prove useful to-him. The farmer accepted his offer, but would only take two articles. Some other things he wanted he insisted on paying for. Then Sam bade the family good-by, mounted his horse and started for Tinkertown. CHAPTER X.—A Hard Customer to Handle. On reaching Tinkertown, Sam communicated with the police at once and told his story, to- gether with all the facts leading up to it. He described the four train robbers, and mentioned the direction they went in. The head of the police telegraphed on to a number of places, in- cluding Shelbyville and Branchville. Sam left a memorandum of his route so he could be com- municated with, and then went on his way once more. His next stopping place was Elsworth, a good-sized manufacturing town. There were a dozen houses here that were on his list. He put up at the Darien House, and started out at once” to drum up trade. The first place he visited he was directed to the manager. The moment Sam looked at him he saw he was up against a grouch. “Mr. Gibson, I believe?” said the young sales- man, politely. “Allow me to hand you my card. sent——” “Good-day.” “T beg your pardon, sir. “I said _good-day. a “Yes, sir, it is a very fine day indeed. ‘I will show you my line of samples.” “T don’t want to see them.” ; “Eh?” said Sam, putting his hand to his ear_ as if he were hard of hearing. S “T said I don’t want to see them!” roared the- ~ ~ manager. “You want to see them? Of — about to show them to you,” and the bo ges case open in a jiffy. “Will you get out?” ; = “Certainly you can take ian out. Theta a very fine—” and Sam began to enumerate the _ “You'll make. : no mistake by bene, gross or two of these. —-” am mentioned the figure. = ore bes reed Fars i I repre-
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“Confound it!” howled the manager. “I don’t want any.” | ; “You don’t want so many, you say? Well, we'll make it one gross, then,” and Sam wrote in ir. ; “Can’t you hear what I tell you?” he shouted. “Hear! Of course I can. You said one gross and I put that down. Now I'll show you this— YS 4 it’s a corking good article and sells like hotcakes. A man in Branchville took six gross the moment he looked at it.” Sam glibly ran over the merits of that par- _ ticular article and then said. “How many gross will you take?” _ The manager fairly glared at him. Then he _ wrote something on a pad and shoved it under : ’s nose. It ran: don’t want any of your confounded goods. Leave my office.” Sam laughed. “You don’t mean -that, sir. Yf can see with half an eye that you’re taken with my line of goods. If I thought you meant it I wouldn’t take up another moment of your time. I’m not deaf. I was just playing on you to see how yyou’d take it. Now let me show you my line, and if you don’t admit I’ve got the best sellers on the market I’ll hand you that $10 bill. It’s only fair to me, now I am in here, to let me try to do business with you. In any case a rival of yours across the street, who has taken a great ne to my goods, told me I couldn’t sell you old iecenpeek- I want to prove to him that » doesn’t know you at all.” “That was Mason. Did he tell you that?” pace weextasnly did, and "5 lot Le ae you never took any stock in up-to-date hard- ware specialties, but stuck to the old things that Were going slower than molasses these days. He Says he’s got your number down pat.” “He said that, eh?” ? : “And he’s going to throw you into the shade ‘with a full line of my goods.” Vl show him I’m as up-to-date as he is himself. z eH see your samples.” ot a 3 had gained his point. He lost no time Pie-echibiting and itn ae the merits of his ‘Samples, and the orders followed one another on tis order sheet in rapid succession. In half an Gibson had bought a large bill of goods, d Sam got his signature down in black and e. Then he shook hands with the manager, him on the quiet that he had a more com- e and better line of staples than his rivals, ind took his leave. “Whew! that was the hardest pull I ever had gain a new customer,” he said, as he crossed street and entered Mason’s store. He asked for the proprietor and was shown his room. : = é t can I do for you, young man?” said in a business-like tone. . ; is my card, sir. I have a fine line of e specialities I want to show you. They the very latest things in the line, and who banger keep abreast “Throw me into the shade!” sputtered Gibson: SAM THE SALESMAN 19 Doubleday & Co., of St. Louis, for the last five years and I don’t care to make any change.” “That is what Mr. Gibson across the street said,” replied Sam. wouldn’t be able to do any business with you at all. He’s going to outshine you this fall, for he’s given me a large order for our best goods, which he said are superior in every way to any- thing that Doubleday & Co. ever put out.” “Going to outshine me, is he? I guess not. He’s an old fogy and a grouch.” “That doesn’t look like it, sir,” and Sam ex- hibited Gibson’s order. “When he gets those goods on his shelves and in his window he’s going to make you sit up and take notice. If you stick to the Doubleday line he is going to get some of your business away from you. Whether you believe it or not he is bound to do it with our line.” “Huh! Think yours are superior to Double- day & Co.’s. eh?” = “I know they are: I can also see that you are no fool. Mr. Mason. Just look over what I’ve got, and if you don’t agree with me I'll pay fer the best dinner in town and you and I will eat it together.” : “Tll look at your samples.” Sam_opened his case and got his silver tongue going in fine shape. As a result he sold Mason a considerable bill of goods. Then he went on to the next store in his line and talked an order over there. He practically owned the town in the hardware specialities line when he finished up on the third day and took a train for Blue- stone. At Bluestone he found a telegram await- ing him informing him that the four mail rob- bers had been nailed at a certain village and sent on to Kansas City, Mo., where the western headquarters of the express company was. That was good news and he went to work in high spirits. Just before supper that evening, while reading the Bluestone Evening News, he saw a long paragraph referring to the robbers. The article stated that on the train to Kansas City, Soren! 6 the leader, had got away from the officer who had him in charge and jumped from the train. of him he was rolling down a steep embankment like a ball. The train was stopped and two of the officers and several train hands rushed back to see whether he was killed or not. They could find no trace of him, and after some delay the train went on without him. This was not good news, for it indicated that the rascally leader had made his escape, and Sam was afraid he would hear from him before he got to-Chicago, for the fellow knew the route he was following. However, there was no use worrying over the matter. traveled on to Redwood. ; : % CHAPTER XI.—Conclusion. began visiting the trade. When supper he went into the read “He assured me that I ~ He was handcuffed, and the last seen . He finished Bluestone next day and —
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B= 20 ments of a ministerial cut. He wore blue +3 glasses, like a person whose eyes were weak. % He edged up to Sam and opened up a conversa- tion if = him. He said his name was Rev. Moses Sleak, and that he was a missionary. + “I have just returned from the burning sun of India,” he said. “My mission is to collect funds to extend our good work among the heathens,” he added in deep and sanctimonious tones. “Do you make your collections in churches, or do you canvass yourself?” asked Sam. “In churches and through the efforts of our = ' beloved brothers and sisters in the faith. I have come to Redwood to give a course of lectures Len “on India and its inhabitants. The first of these Sey lectures I shall deliver this evening in the base- : ment of the Church of All Souls. I shall be es delighted to have you accompany me and occupy a front seat. You will be greatly instructed. A aa screen has been pyt up on which moving picture - films of many important places will be thrown 5 for the edification of the audience and to illus- _ trate my lecture.” Ts “J dare say it will be very interesting,” said ; Sam. “The price of admission is fifty cents, but by ng with me you will be admitted free to the a seats, which are a quarter extra.” EP — . *} might go, but Pm not a grafter. I ready to pay my way.” “I may expect that you will go,. tien?” said the missionary. - *T guess so.” “*“Then I will meet you here after supper, or ‘shall we go to supper together?” “We will go together, if you wish.” ; A look of satisfaction shone over the‘ mis- *e ees face. “Shall we go now?” he said. : sg | promised to call on a customer this even- ‘ing at his home,” said Sam. “As I think I will take in your lecture I will call him up on the - *phone and let him know that I have another engagement.” ~ *Do so and I will wait for you here.” - Sam hied himself to the hotel booth and call- ed up, not the alleged customer, but the police - department. To say the truth, he was suspicious xf of the Rev. Moses Sleak. He had an idea that he had been talking to the escaped leader of the train robbers, Several little things he had _no- ced about the presumed missionary had given ie ng that idea. ite told the man at the desk din Carey was that he believed the escaped me was at the Glenwood House disguised clergyman-missionary. And he also felt ein “that if his surmise was right that the as figuring on doing him up if he could. He has invited me to attend a lecture to be y himself this evening in the basement Ay Chureh of All Souls, I wish you’d have ‘detective come to the hotel and follow me.” = this missionary is really the robber in dis on have: ‘the chance to arrest him. I shall am him, ot it is better - described in this publication. eee Sherry. of evolt tion, © SAM THE SALESMAN know how to shadow. He was told that a sleuth would be assigned to the job. Then Sam went back to the missionary and they went in to supper together. They left the hotel at -half-past:seven, but before going Sam inquired at the desk if anybody had asked to have him and the clerical individual pointed out to him. The clerk said Yes, and showed Sam the detective standing not far away. Sam and the Rev. Mr. Sleak proceeded on their way. The boy noticed that his companion led him up a lonesome block where there was a vacant lot. Suddenly the missionary drew a slungshot and aimed a blow at Sam’s head. The boy dodged and caught him by the wrist. Carsey, for it was indeed he, sprang on the boy and bore him to the ground. Sam put up a desperate struggle to save himself. He looked for the detective to come to his aid. For several minutes the contest between them continued, and then~ Carsey’s strength began to tell. Sam uttered a cry for help as a signal to the sleuth. The detective, who had lost track of them for the time being, heard his shout and ~ came running up. Then Carsey found himself between two fires. He fought like a wild animal at bay, and the boy and officer had the great- est trouble in subduing him. Finally the hand- cuffs were snapped on his wrists and that set- ~ tled him. Next morning he was on his"way to Kansas City in charge of an officer. Sam was almost back to Chicago when he received word to attend the trial of the train robbers. He went on to Dexter where the trial was to take place: He was the chief witness against the bunch and they were easily convicted. Sam then interviewed the district attorney to - secure clemency for Sanderson, who had saved his life... After some trouble he got the man’s | sentence ‘suspended, and Sanderson sought him — out at his hotel and expressed his gratitude. Sam was then .called to attend the special trial of Carsey, Pete, Bill and Ben for their attempt to — murder him on the railroad track. This came — off at Kansas City, and the_rascals got twenty years each. Sam laid off work till the time came for him to go out again. But here we must leave him as our space will not permit of us following — his subsequent successful career, and so we drop © the curtain on the boy with the silver tongue. ” ovis SO! Next week’s issue will contain “PLAYING IN PLUCK; or, A PLOTTER’S DANGEROUS ~ a DEAL.” f x5 : : = SS LISTEN IN! ag A cheap but wonderful radio receiver will soon \ A little ‘be who was very os bazled : ot trent
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= - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS BERLIN BURNS ITS DEAD It costs less to be burned than to be buried in _ Germany—hence 35 per cent. of the dead of Ber- _ lin are now being cremated. Already the bodies - of more than 200,000 Germans have been reduced to ashes in the various crematories, The bigger _ ¢rematories of Berlin to-day are working 24 hours _ daily in eight-hour shifts. LARGEST THERMOMETER . The largest thermometer in the world has been - erected on the boardwalk near Michigan avenue, ' Altantic City. It is fifty feet high, enabling promenaders a mile away to read the tempera- ture: The mercury in the tube is ten inches wide ' and is operated by a system of small thermom- eters with electrical relays. Lights on the board _ indicate the temperature accurately and auto- ~ matically. Leith FALCON FIGHTS A SEAMAN _- “When the Cunarder Albania, from London, was - in midocean dufing a fierce hiailstorm a big bird - sought refuge on the mainmast, Donald McDonald, able seaman and amateur ~ ornitMlogist, recognized the bird as an unusually large specimen of the peregrine falcon, known to some Americans as the duck hawk, and he went aloft after it. It is regarded as one of the swift- est and pluckiest of its breed, once much used in falconry, and it put up a gallant fight, clawing and pecking so badly that McDonald needed sur- gical attention after he brought the bird back to deck. He said it has a wing spread of four feet and a body twenty inches long. He will present it to the Bronx Zoo. WOLF BOUNTIES BOUGHT HIS FARM The world’s record as a wolf and coyote hunter is claimed by Adam Lesmeister of Harvey, Pierce county, North Dakota, who in the last twenty- five years has slain nearly 9,000 of these ani- mals in North and South Dakota. He has re- ceipts to show that during the twenty-five years- he has collected $24,612.50 in bounties in the two States, more than $21,000 coming from North Dakota. In addition he has been hired especially - to kill the predatory animals by numerous ranchers. Lesmeister is the owner of a splendid farm near Harvey which he built up from boun- ties collected on the wolves and coyotes, Oh, You Radiophans Listen! Do you like the radio articles in this num- ber? All right! If you do, show this weekly to your friends. Let them get in on it.. We’d like to have them read this publication. You know we want them for new ; customers. Show ’em your copy and tell ’em what dandy |. radio stuff it contains. From time to time we are going” to tell you how to make radios that won’t cost much. _. There’s a whole lot of fake radio hook-ups on the market. | Spend your good money trying to make them, and you ’ find they’re N. G.. The kind we give you are the genuine ones. Watch this page. Pretty scon we are going to | publish an explanation of how to make a crackerjack little receiver cheap as dirt.
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: Held Down By Poverty Re A POOR BOY’S STRUGGLE FOR SUCCESS 3 By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) « CHAPTER XXIV.—(Continued.) “And you're sure that Mr. Crossman will make ood?” “Pm sure that he will deny nothing to the boy who has rescued his only child,” was the confi- z dent answer. Be 2 “J guess that’s right, and I’ll do what you Se want.” - ‘ “Good,” said Harry, feeling a sensation of tri- ~ _ umph, and then he went to the desk and informed the man behind it that the prisoner was ready to . confess and to give away his accomplices. : + A notary was sent for and with an officer in at- ~ tendance was soon taking down Ginger Jake’s 5 testimony in a back room. Harry had the police summon a taxi to the door, and telling them that = he would return as soon as he had seen the girl safely home, he departed with Christine, who held BEL his hand in hers all the way to her father’s door. oa A telephone message from the police had in- 3 formed the commission merchant that his child was on her way home, and it had the effect of taking him out of bed, happy though tearful, and when the bell rang he opened the door himself and clasped Christine in his arms. Harry let them have their joyful cry out, and then briefly told what had been done, and also in- formed the merchant of the promise he had made to Ginger Jake in his name. Mr. Crossman at 3 once indorsed the scheme, and Harry said he ioe _ would return at once to the police station to help sr the officers in any way that he could. _ He was warmly thanked by the happy father, ~ * who had to shake hands with him again and again, and when Harry was going he held out his _ hand to Christine, but she put her arms around him in the sight of her smiling father and kissed him fairly on the lips. _ With his head in a whirl Harry ran out of the ~ house, and took the taxi back to the police station. There he found that Ginger Jake had made a full and complete confession which included the vari- ous members of the gang and also Griggs and Barrett and the dishonest truckman, Bill Strong. - hatred on the face of the book- read. to him, as- e : have kil to the. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY his crime, but to have it brought about and done in the sight of the boy who had defeated all his recent thieving schemes and also won the affec- tions of the pretty girl who had turned the head of the dishonest bookkeeper, added gall to the bitterness of the occasion. Harry returned to Mr. Crossman’s house for a delayed Supper, as he had promised to do, and it was a very happy meal that the three sat down to, with the pretty girl looking her admiration of her plucky rescuer, and her father saying over and over again that it was all wonderful, and that before long he would have a very youthful part- ner in his business. : The rest is soon made known. Secure in the promise made to him by the com- mission merchant, Ginger Jake no longer feared the vengeance of his former associates, and when the cases of all were tried he backed up his con- fession. Moreover, Barrett tried to gain clem- ency by confessing, although he failed to profit much by it, not getting much reduction in his sentence. si All were found guilty, and sentenced to various terms in state prison at hard labor, and there they are at the present time. Harry was at once raised in salary in a most generous manner, and then he gratified his long cherised wish and installed his good mother in a neat home and put an end to her hard work. Then he plunged into the details of the com- mission business, and in less than a year had so completely mastered them, and had shown such ability, that Mr. Crossman felt fully justified in taking him into partnership, much to the delight of Christine. Harry does not neglect his mother, but it must be admitted that he passes more evenings at the house of his senior partner than he does at home, but the boy who was held down by poverty and found a brave battle to success, has his mother’s promise that when he and Christine are married mn a year or two, that she will make the fourth member of a happy family circle. (The End.) COMING NEXT WEEK! A HIGHLY _INTERESTING STORY — — ENTITLED — Wrecked On The Desert So. SEs THE ADVENTURES OF TWO. BOY PROSPECTORS — By GASTON GARNE — aut East "es
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: FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY =a PET DOG FINDS LOST $450. The pet dog of Mrs. Snowden Maslin of 428 Highland avenue, Chester, Pa., brought back a ~ roll of bills worth $450, with which it had been playing for several days, quite unmindful of its '_ mistress’s frantic search for the money. Mrs. Maslin dropped the money last week while doing her housework. ANCIENT “SKULL” PROVES A STONE The supposed skull of the tertiary period found in Patagonia is simply a curiously shaped stone and of no scientific value, according to an an- - nouncement made by a committee of scientists of the Buenos Aires and La Plata museums of nat- - ural history, which has carefully examined it. The supposed skull was discovered some time hg Prof. J. G. Wolfe of La Plata University w ile in Patagonia. It was in the possession of a settler, who said he had found it near the sea and had taken it with him to the interior of Pat- -agonia. Professor Wolfe, accompanied by Dr. _ Elmer S. Riggs of the Field Museum, Chicago, a i oboe for Patagonia recently to re-examine the * object. . 3 3 2 : LIVED IN CHURCH TO SAVE - James M. King, who said he was a draughts- a man of Salt Lake City, explained to policemen at merle -Beach, Cal., that his action. was caused o> y “high rents.” 2 The police saw a light in a Methodist church at + a time of night when no light should have been ~_ there. Spe found King frying ham and eggs ~ over a small stove. __ At the police station, where King was taken for investigation, the police said they found a con- i sum of money on him and a bank book Est ng te, deposits of $1,500 in a Utah bank. Se *Weil,” ing is quoted, “it’s the way; rents are so high I decided to live in the church for a while. a slept there several nights and cooked my Meals in the church kitchen.” _ ae - -_. INDIAN GIRL MARRIES Miss Susie Meek belongs to the Sacand-Fox tribe and is a college graduate, and. was living in her home in Oklahoma when recently she mar- ried Philip Frazer, of the Sioux tribe, and they ll shortly make their home on the Sioux Reser- ‘in South Dakota. After graduation Mrs. specialized in work among Indian girls in ; HERE AND THERE ._. ? /,, on the Sereen -~ oS, - he 3 WORKERS GET BONUS FOR BABIES Ten dollars per baby, $20 for twins and a spe- cial bonus of $50 for triplets. _This is the standing offer of the Washburn Wire Company in East 118th street, New York, to its 700 employees. It is claimed the record of a bonus for babies, which was commenced in September, 1919, is better than that of the Mo- nongahela Power and Railway Company, which recently announced in the World that it would present $5 to each baby born to an employee dur- ing 1923, During this period 230 male employees of the Washburn Wire Company have successfully claimed the bonus on behalf of their wives.. The company employs only a few married women. Nine of these have received $10 each. There have been four sets of twins, but no triplets. A director of the company laughingly told the World that they would have to hold a special board meeting to consider the size of the bonus in the event of quadruplets or quintriplets. When the happy event takes place the mother receives ten new $1 bills. The Hospital and Welfare Committee vf the company delivers it to the wife at her home with a letter of congratula- tion from the President, Eugene R. Phillips. =—[—[—$—$—=OOOoooSEO es ‘ “Mystery Magazine” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY — LATEST ISSCEs —— SIX MONTHS TO LIVE, by Geo. Bronson-Howarid. SEALS OF WAX, by Jack _Bechdolt. wo Weer CROOKS CONSPIRE, by Harold F. Pod- as ~ : : THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE CAR, by Ham- ~ ilton Craigie. \ = THE DETECTIVE AND THE LAW, by-Frederick F, Shuey... THE HAND IN THE peu, THE TRAIL OF THE ROGUE, son-How: THE dolt. ; . E THE TIME DETECTIVE, by Fravk Bighton. The Famous Detective Story Out Today in 131 Is _ THE WHISPERING ROOM ‘By George Bron- - By BEULAH POYNTER 2S HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Ine. 166 West 23d Street, New York City — “Moving Picture Stories” ~ A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY 4 255, Each number contains Four Stories of the Best Films Half-tone Scenes from the — Aes About Prominent People resses in sting “Artic Penal Rash Wer Chas. F. Ourslers Howard. 3. a WOMAN FROM NOWHERE, by-Jack Beech- “See Taw ¥
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RADIO AND WEATHER ' Relation of weather conditions to radio audi- bility is a point of interest to the broadcasting stations and to thousands of radio listeners. As a result of work done by Nebraska Wes- _.. Jeyan University based on thunder storm reports oS furnished by the Weather Bureau, the investiga- ____ tors reached the conclusion that there is no re- lation between barometric pressure and audibility. High static audibility and a near-by thunder storm area, however, tend to reduce the audibility at the receiving station. TRANS-ATLANTIC BROADCASTING What is reported to be a successful attempt to bridge the Atlantic with a radiophone talk was: recently made by the WOR station of L. Bam- : berger & Sons of Newark, N. J. The person who spoke into the transmitter was Sir Thomas Lipton, who was in the United States at that time. The speech was sent out on the usual 400- meter wave length, since WOR is a Class B radio broadcaster. Considerably more power than us- ual was employed for this attempt. The speech of Sir Thomas Lipton, as well as a vocal selec- tion, were picked up and heard in the Selfridge store in London. Bay EA Sh “™ LIFEBOATS WITH RADIOS. - When the giant liner Leviathan is turned over , by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry _- Dock Co. to the United States Shipping Board the lifeboats will be unique among such boats the __ world over; for they will be completely equipped (\ ins) a wireless sending apparatus. The big ship eR eR EY wl oe has two lifeboats. The Leviathan carried thousands of our-sol- __ dier boys across the water during the World War '__ and there \were no disasters, but there might - have been. Now, if there should be, the radio would send its call to reach any vessel or port _ within a radius of 50 miles. Each boat is 35 feet long and is driven by a 75-horsepower motor. af AS TO AERIALS _ An inverted “L” type of aerial gives you much better results than the “T” type, but, of course, _ there are local conditions where it is impossible . to erect an “L” type of aerial. The value of the _ “T” type is that it receives equally well from all = ions. It does not matter if the aerial is not el. .In other words, it can be higher at one d than at the other without interfering with its e] _ With a crystal detector set any one ‘ asily add thr pairs” of telephones and r_certain cifct nces, be able to he correct manner to put them in Re with each other. They _ to the enters Rhy : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING RADIO NEWS ETHER VIBRATES WORDS Little do people realize that the air is con- tinually vibrating with words- traveling along through the homes of all at the speed of 186,000 miles a second. The naval communications serv- ice transmitted about 4,500,000 words during the first quarter of the fiscal year 1923. The navy’s art. of this number was 3,000,000. The next argest user was the Department of Agriculture with nearly 500,000 words. In the calendar year the navy handled a total of 15,768,308 words for the Government through its shore stations. Naval orders and dispatches took up 10,884,217 words and the balance of near- ly 5,000,000 words was for other departments. Sixteen different bureaus used the naval radio service, including the White House and the House of Representatives. RADIO PLUGS IN EACH ROOM In keeping with the rapid progress of. the radio movement, it will soon be possible to “lis- ten in” from rooms of a large hotel in Minneapo- lis, Minn., which has contraeted for the connect- ing of each of several] hundred rooms with radio plugs. The guests will not have to invest in a receiving set, as headphones may be rented for a small fee from the clerk’s office. According to the plan of engineers who have worked on the scheme for several weeks, a sive aerial and three power receiving stations will be equipped in one of the top floors of the hotel. Each room will have a radio plug connected to one of the three receiving sets. Feasibility of the plan was proved recently when more than 100 rooms listened in»on one concert. The guest who wishes radio entertainment may call the office and a set of phones will be sent to him. Ofice connected ‘n the plug, the set cannot be removed until released by a hotel employee, thus insuring against theft by any unscrupulous guest. A small fee is added to the hotel bill for the use of the receiving phones. : ~~ * A GOOD LIGHTNING ARRESTER A lightning arrester, approved by the Under- writers’ Laboratories, which will operate at a potential of 500 watts, is required, supplied with _ a proper ground of at least equal sized wire at- tached to a water pipe or connecting device buried in permanent moisture. A pipe driven down beside the building is not sufficient for a a The high connection 5 os fo e. Phe ligh arrester, if inatatleg on the outside of the boig ‘poi where the 1
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lightning arrester should be carried as nearly in a straight line to the ground as possible. The ernie arrester should be away from the pos- ilities of gas, coal deposits, curtain or other combustible material. Proper groundings may be secured by attachment to the steel frames of large buildings or other grounded metallic work. . The rules do not provide for installation of fuses or switches. If these are installed, they should be located on the lines between the lightning ar- rester and the receiving set, In no case should the ground wire be connected. to gas pipes. Dur- ing a lightning storm the set”shonld be grounded so the static will have a direct path to the ground. - INCREASING HEARING RANGE Radio amateurs who are unable to erect a sat- isfactory antenna, for any one of a score of rea- sons, may greatly improve the strength of their concerts or increase their hearing range by means _ of radio frequency amplification or a combination c of both. Im eases where the receiving station is near the transmitting station the energy received is arg sufficient to reproduce sounds without © amplification When the receiving station is more remote the signal must be built up, or _ amplified, before it passes through the, detector .and the stages’ of audio amplification. If radio amplification is not used audio frequency ampli- fication in these cases is frequently of little use. The radio frequency method of amplification increases the strength of the incoming antenna currents through successive stages until it be- comes of sufficient intensity to enable detection to take place. With the addition of one or two stages of audio frequency amplification a current of sufficient strength will be generated to actuate either telephone receivers or loud-speaking de- vices. In‘the circuit of the Radio Corporation of America there is introduced the corporation’s ‘radio frequency transformer, suitable for ampli- tion of signals of both long and short wave - Tt has not been possible in former attempts to obtain radio frequency amplification to get the best results on certain wave lengths without sac- With one model of the new. transformer a nge of from 200 to 5,000 metres is provided, hile on the other model a range of from 5,000 to 25,000 metres is obtained. In the circuit the antenna is turned to the wave length of the desired signal and this sig- is amplified through the primary of a stand- eceiying set connected to the plate circuit the last radio frequency amplifier tube. It is en transferred through the secondary circuit to 2 detector tube, in which regeneration may be complished and controlled as desired. : ecided. advantage of paenk ae ewe cillators in the d x tube circui' i their way back dheongh the radio fre- i to the antenna circuit. This | FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. from radiating energy, pre- 25 If a potentiometer is not used the filament rheos- tat should be placed in the positive leg of the fil- ament circuit instead of the nagative. A NEW RADIO ALPHABET ——~ Announcement was made recently by Major- General George O. Squire, chief signal officer of the army, of the invention of a new universal alphabet for use in radio, land lines and subma- rine cables. Attempt will be made to perfect the invention, General Squire said, and to have it considered and adopted at the next international conference of experts on the radio and telephone. This invention, which already has been tried out Es : the Signal Service, and a form of which actually has been transmitted over the cables by the British post-office, is 2.65 times faster than the international code perfected by Professor Morse more than eighty years ago. He ‘said that the increasing use of ether lanes has given rise to necessity for their conservation, and that the proposed improvement in the sending | of messages not only would make it possible to send messages faster, but also would help to clear the ether of disturbances which interfere with any form of radio receiver yet devised. The proposed new alphabet does not contem- plate an actual change at present in the Morse alphabet as regards-the combinations of dots, dashes and spaces assigned to each letter, but re- _ fers, General Squires said, “to the study of the correct method of sending these combinations in and circuit, whether radio, land lines or subma- rine cables: The —— ‘is the same in each of these three branches, but it is much more seri- ous in radio for the reason of the necessary broadcasting properties thereof.” . Instead of sending a broken current, cut up into the clicks that may now be heard over the telegraph, General Squire proposes to send an unbroken current through the wires and ether lanes and then proposes a means for interpreting this current into intelligible signals. The present state of experiment of this subject has justified his belief, General Squire says, that the new sys- tem will be universally adopted in time. 3 The manner in which the various signals sent in this unbroken current are distinguished is by varying the intensity of the individual sending elements. “That is,” said General Squire, “a dot, dash or space occupied equal time elements, but were of different intensities.” It has been found that what is known as a sinusoidal wave is transmitted through any form of electrical circuit without distortion of. kind, and it is with the varying intensities of- this wave that the invention deals. 2 General Squire also pointed out in the paper that his method of transmitting messages offers _ a plausible solution of the problem of interference _ and of static elimination, and also of multiplex-. ing a single radio frequency channel. = _ 3 ay “74
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Laon FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JUNE 8, 1923 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Oue Copy Three Month One Copy Six Months.. - One Copy One Year...... > Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. HOw TO SEND MONEY — At our risk send P. O, Mouey Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your yisk. We accept Postage a Stain the same as cash. hen sending siiver wrap - the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. rite your mame and address plainly. Address letters to ~ Marry E. Wolf, Pres. Charles EH. Nylander, k& FF. Wilsin, Treas. ITEMS OF INTEREST - REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE A bad toothache, says a chemists journal, may be relieved quickly by means of a mixture of equal parts of benzyl, aleohol and chloroform, A few drops of the mixture are placed on a piece of cotton wool, and the saturated material is in- serted into the tooth cavity. The action of the medicament is almost instantaneous and lasts for quite a long time, which is not the case with any other medicament, with the exception of cocaine. as, “WAR PAINT” FLOWER : One of our earliest flowers is the bloodroot or Indian paint. Break the stem of flower or root = and you discover the reason for the name, for =e there immediately flows from the wound a red- dish fluid which somewhat resembles blood and will stain whatever it comes into contact with, says Nature Magazine. It is said that this juice _ was once used by the Indians as a war paint and, mixed with sugar, by mothers as a cure for their _ children’s coughs and colds, Publisher, Inc., HARRY E. WOLFF, = 166 W. 28d St., N. ¥. ~ * _18° GAGGED CHILDREN~ SHIPPED IN = BOXES _ When marine police at Soochow, a canal port _. about sixty miles west of Shanghai, China, went - aboard a junk and opened two boxes believed to - contain dry goods, they found inside thirteen boys and girls, ranging in age from seven to twelve ; ae gagged and consigned to Shanghai. An aged woman in charge of the boxes was arrested. The discovery clears up numerous recent kid- _ mappings and discloses that an organized band ~ of abductors has been at work. The police were -_ ealled when a passing boatman heard the smoth- : — ery of a oe who had contrived to dislodge ‘TOWN IS TO BE Oe) REDDER .FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Sound pioneer, while tramping across the hills, happened upon a valley where the temperature was unusually warm, where berries were ripe and roses bloomed weeks in advance of other ad- jacent sections. He decreed there should be a town. He gained title to the peninsula, built a home, store and a dock, and named the place South Rorelade. For years the place was a prof- itable trading point and large quantities of mer- chandise were unloaded in exchange for the prod- ucts of the land and woeds. The founder passed on, but the town has since thrived. The title passed to Woodburn MacDonald, who installed electric lights, telephones, power plant, warehouses, a plant conservatory, radio, new roads, and a flower park. He now anriounces the town is for sale. LAUGHS “What is the price of a ha]f-pint bottle?” asked a prospective customer. “A nickel,” answered the druggist, handing the desired article across the counter. “But it costs you nothing if I put some- thing in it.” “Then put in a cork, please,” re- sponded the customer. An Irish contractor had the misfortune to run his car over an old man who had a bottle of bluing inside his coat. Jumping from his car and seeing the fluid rapidly staining the old fel- low’s breast, he cried to his friend: “Finnegan, it’ll go harrud wid us! We’ve killed wan o’ t blue-blooded Yankees!” Tailor—The postal service is in a wretched condition. Friend—Never noticed it. Tailor— well, I have. During last month I sent out one hundred and eighty statements of account, with requests for immediate payment, and, so far as I can learn, not more than two of my customers received their letters. f A traveler, whose train had stopped at a town famous for its buns, beckoned to a small boy on the platform, and, giving him ten cents, told the little fellow to bring him a bun and buy one for himself with the other nickel. The boy soon re- turned. Calmly eating a bun he handed five cents to the astonished traveler, remarking: “There was only one left, boss.” A traveling theatrical company was starting to” parade in a small New England town when a big gander from a farmyard near at hand waddled to the middle of the street and began to hiss, One of the double-in-brass actors turned toward _ the fowl and angrily exclaimed: “Don‘t be so quick to jump at conclusions. Wait till you see — the show.” 3 iG = 3: RADIO FANS! > A simple explanation ay to make a i of the w dettol ppolnsin: yil: seem appegts 25
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: TREADING ON LIONS : While pursuing guinea.fowl in the Orange River Colony a Britisher had a dangerous adven- ture with lions. He was stumbling along a rocky ridge when suddenly he trod on something soft and instinctively took a spring. Before he could look around a fearful growl- ing was heard and two lion cubs, about as large as spaniels, became visible, evidently in a fury at being so roughly disturbed. Next moment the Briton became aware of a lioness rapidly but cau- tiously making for him. There was no time to put bullets into the gun and he quickly decided to stand still till it be- came clear that the lioness-meant to seize him. Then, as a last chance, he would send a charge of shot at her head in the hope of blinding her at least. - * In a few moments the brute was within four yards or so of him, growling and showing her _ teeth. He wished himself anywhere but there, but forced himself to stand motionless. Luckily the cubs joined their dam and she _ halted to notice them a moment. She come on a _ few steps, looking ugly, but halted again, then _ turned slowly around and, followed by the cubs, _ made-for a huge boulder twenty yards distant _ and lay down behind it, as he could see by the tail tuft which protruded beyond the rock. __ Then the Britisher’s hunting blood was up. He _ loaded his gun, kicked off his shoes and climbed _ the great boulder. He was within three yards of _ the lioness, which ifistantly discovered him and _ trouched to charge. Taking careful aim at her breast, the man fired and killed her. The “boys” at the wagon heard the firing and _ ame up. The two cubs were soon caught, at the _ +€xpense of a few bites and scratches. They took _ the creatures to camp, where they were kept for _ several months. They were eventually sold to an _ American skipper. = CANADA BUILDING GOOD ROADS Highways are being flung across Canada. Vast Agricultural tracts that sprawl] out from Winni- Peg to the Rockies are becoming a network of aad that stretch like thin white ribbons to the n. ey incr WRI ree sane AR ales a ee coat ko bry Me Me believes that good roads are as es- ntial of rapid agricultural and industrial ex- ns! The Canadian government, according- has appropriated $20,000,000 to be used in = ion of main age and market roads. to cover operations for five years. ‘Under the terms provinces initiate and carry the*road building and the dominion govern- vent, on approval of the plans, contributes 40 per of the cost. This guarantees standardiza- on of roadways and places only 60 per cent. of nse on the provinces. Results are most "general ¢ ampaign includes international ile roads which cnn te © mee e s between the Unite awa to FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE “debate is not ended. ~ Sarnia, across the river to Port Huron, where the Victory highway cuts across Michigan, is being laid out by the Ontario Highway Association. This links up with the Lincoln highway, which crosses the Jefferson highway near Ames, Iowa. The Jefferson highway runs*from New Orleans to Winnipeg, “the trail from the pines to the palms.” WHERE DOES COLUMBUS REST? The dispute over the final resting place of the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus has - broken out with renewed vigor. Thirty years ago the Spanish Academy of His- tory after an investigation alleged to be exhaus- tiv® decided that the body of America’s discov- erer lay in the Catherdal of Seville. But this de- cision authoritative as was its source, did not quiet the dispute. , x Santo Domingo refused to accept it. The histo- rians of that island contended that the body of Christopher Columbus rests in the Santo Domin- go cathedral. With the launching of a project to. erect on-the island a Columbus monument in the form of a lofty artistically designed light- house the controversy become more spirited. Now comes another authority on Spanish his- tory, Enrique Deschamps, making the unquali- fied assertion that Santo Domingo is right and the Spanish Academy of History wrong. When, in 1795, Mr, Deschamps says, the Spaniards were driven from Santo Domingo by the French they took with them to Havana a-leaden casket sup- posed to contain the body of Columbus. But, in the opinion of Mr. Deschamps, this casket did not contain the body of Columbus but that of Col- umbus’s son Diego. The sepulchers of father and son were close together in the cathedral, and in making the transfer the son’s casket and not that of the father was taken°to Havana and from there to Spain. é In corroboration of this assertion Mr. Des- champs avers that when the flooring of the San- to Domingo cathedral was replaced recently a leaden casket was found bearing the inscription: “The Illustrious and Enlightened Don Christobal Colon.” The Seville cathedral casket bears no mark of identification, although the tomb has been inscribed by the Spanish authorities as that of Christopher Columbus. In the light of the Santo Domingo discovery Mr. Deschamps re- ests the Spanish Government to relabel the eville sepulcher by substituting the name Diego for that of Christopher. There the matter rests at present. But the Controversies of this kind never end. Poor old Christopher! It seems that his ghost is destined to be the Flying Dutchman of tempestuous seas of controversy for all time. So much the more reason for building a light- house monument to his memory. : : COMING SOON! is aM aN ag
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EIFFEL TOWER FOR LONDON London is going to get abreast of Paris on its new tower—which is toe be 600 feet high and built of concrete—at Wombly, the seat of the British Empire Exposition. It is not quite as high as the Woolworth Buildifg in New York, but the pro- posed structure will give visitors to the exposi- tion a panaramic view of the country for hun- dreds of square miles. It will be surmounted by a search light so powerful that it can be seen from the coast of France. ' Visitors will bé taken up the town in a giant cage, which will rotate around the exterior at the rate of 14 miles an hour. Engineers predict that they will be able to see the lights of Birmingham, 115 miles form London, from the top. »S . : QUEER “SWIMMERS” Southern Kansas has in the past suffered from drought, hot winds, cyclones, grasshoppers, buf- - falo gnats, and various things to torment hunters, ~ but the latest is found in Barbour County and is “neither fish, flesh, nor reptile, although a mix- ture. ' The report which comes says this thing is half _ fish, half reptile, and is ‘creating havoc in a pond on a farm near Medicine Ledge, as. the. pond-is ’ alive with them, and several cows have ‘died ..frdm being bitten by the creatures, which, some — : S55) =< “Say, are a species of salamander. They have heads 23 a shaped like those of mud catfish, but have four ~~. Jegs*and feet.. The tail is long and flat. The fish-reptile swims by use of its tail, but at the - bottom of the pond crawls on its legs. Just be- hind the head it has long feelers much heavier _ than those of a catfish. : . ie { “WHERE THE DAY CHANGES A zreat many people cannot see why when a man crosses the international date line in the acifie Ocean, if he goes toward the east he doses a day, and if toward the west he gains a FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES .,their country she became responsible for their _man whose life they have not saved over e 12° time by the « right, but would be a: day later than when he started. : So it can be readily seen that some meridian * on the earth’s surface must be picked out as the starting point of a new day, and the chosen one lies almost entirely in the Pacific Ocean. = Aiea a) "i ay Sa ’ ali THE CREES RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING The country around the lower stretch of the ~ ‘Nelson River was flat and insipid. It had long ago been stripped of timber, and except for a tiny — stretch around the settlement was muskeg, that is — to say, a quaking marsh. All the game too had long vanished, as had the very fish in the river; with winter a supply of caribou meat might be expected, but at this time all at the post were re- duced to canned food. 2! Outside the post, forea mile along the bank, ~ were dotted the wigwams of the Indians. These people were here for the summer only, selling — their furs, getting winter supplies, and would leave again for their distant trapping grounds — early.in the fall. Their women and children were _ now with them, and all, though shed with moc- casins, wore their European dress. These In- dians are Crees, and like the rest are wards of the Canadian Government. When Canada took — Wai arta, } ie ee ee eS aed a future. In particular, she pays each one yearly $5 in cash, and, in the words of the treaty, this” aa be paid- “while the sun shines and water ows.” * Re ee But how long for them will the sun shine? — They are dying out. They have not the “will to live.” In a certain district within recent times — there were thirty thousand Indians. To-day there — are-three thousand; and the tale is everywhere — the same. Our ways are not for them. Tt was _ an. evil summer when they. took to European clothes. Liquor would wipe them out like a prai- rie fire; but to the great credit of Canada there is no liquor at all here. But they drink tea to ex- cess. They smoke tobacco to excess. The women ~ and the little children smoke. Some are tuber. cular. And-they all keep dying.” Poor feckless devils! Our people treat them kindly, and_ their way they like and appreciate us, They even despise us! Where is the white who can hunt and trap and paddle and bear bur- dens tirelessly as they, Where is he who has such eyesight, who can tell the weather, or the sign of bird, beast and fish? Where is the w over again? They are honest and good na but their moral fiber has weakened. They ‘and slouch around the posts, and have the mer tality of emotional children, and their slelicate, weathered faces wili soon be but_a memory ae
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» DRUM . WIRELESS , IN AFRICA The natives of Darkest Africa— from the Cape to Cairo. and_ the Niger to the Nile —have had «an efficient wireless system of their own forcenturies. It is quite as effective as that which spans the Atlantic and has an additional ad- vantage “of not being bothered by the weather. A bark drum is the sending in- strument, and the African’s acutely attuned ear, the receiver, From village to village by @ series of drum beats, not unlike the dots and dashes of a code, the natives convey current News, announce- ment of battles, Warnings of ap- proaching ene- Mies or epidemics and other sub- jects of interest _ to jungle deni- Zens. “Kaffir drum Wireless,” as it is popularly known, is. operated al- Most . exclusively in the stillness of the night when a tap on a tightly ~ @rawn skin is heard for many Miles. The most detailed code has n worked out, » ‘and the speed + with which the Native _ wireless Works has often _ @mazed Euro- ~ peans, by At night vil- tages talk with _ ach other, ex- ; gossip, inquiries ART PHOTOS, studies beauty of the na- ture, postcards and large size, ‘great collec- tion. Sample splendid for $1.00 — $3.00 — $500. Editions at Neuilly-Plaisance (S&O) France. She Found A Pleasant Wa To Reduce Her Thousands of overfat eople have greatly re- Seas their weight and attained a normal fig- ure by following the advice of many others who use and recom- mend Marmola Prescription Tablets. These harm- less little fat reducers are prepared in tablet form from the same in- gredients that formerly comp the famous Marmola_ Prescription for fat redaction. you are too fat, you owe it to lf gnu no tees fat reducers a fair trial, All the better drug stores the world over sell ption Tablets at one dollar per ist for them or send Garfi o d'Art Useful a Entertain oe tel — (WEP ERRY & CO., 75 W. Van Buren, Dept. 2461, Chicago FEVER Treatment bod oy! on trial. Waal "Beate which in geo na eg cures send $1; it Pi hy ben Write today. Address W. K. STERLINE, Ohio Aves SIDNEY, O. Just introduced into ‘his ohracic ‘TNDICATOR™ xtraordinary wer of indi- aerlrg g Wess Dix id Finest bicycle ever ityles, See made in our new (Fi) factory. SAVE 610to #25. Cash or easy pays Cy ments. Delivered free 0: > seprove Trial, No No Dress fe Tires Hee np id. ane a Ties ent toda vest eis | st aoslity, es ices sory pricesand marve! Fy “iy ZN) Mead: D atpeicenies a0 i poe Fits the hand, cannot be , with it you can throw Big 8IG/ ‘ curves. Roys, get this Base Ball S curver and you can Fan ‘Hm as fast as they come te Bat. By mai! puneansal’ 3 for 25e with catalog of novel GRIVERSAL DISTRIBUTORS, Dept, 1023 Stamford. Com. GOITRE ‘a mestonos. DR, ROCK, Dept. 96 Box 737 Milwankes. TOBACCO Habit Cured or No Pay Coceaniged pre, compile reamnath aran ? mp. ™ i res. i SUPERBA CO. M21. Balt thine tt ie OLD MONEY WANTED $2 to $500 HACH paid for hundreds of Old Coins dated before 1895. ag d ALL old or odd money. Send 10 cts..for New II's Coin Value Book, 4x6. You may have valuable coins. Get Posted. We pay cash. CLARKE COIN CO. Ave. 13, Le Roy, N. ¥. Great Fan, Interesting, Entertaining, Fascinating to Young and Old. to equal it at at very low price. it and amuse pany nd . Send 85e with a thia marvelous 777 ter oa lot i is sold. f ; yt ee
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It contains'full instructions in the art of dancing, etiquette in the ballroom and at parties, how to @ and full directions for calling off in all popular square dances. Neo. 5. HOW TO MAKE LOVE. — A complete guide to love, courtship and marriage. giving sensible advice, rules and etiquette to be observed. with many cnrious and interesting things not generally known. Ne 6 HOW TO BECOME AN ATHLETE, — Giving full instructions for the use of dumbbells, Indian clubs, __ parallel bars, horizontal bars and various other methods — of developing a good, healthy muscle; containing over : sixty illustrations. No. 7. HOW TO KEEP BIRDS. — Handsomely illus- trated ard containing full instructions for the manage- —~ ment and training of the canary, mocking bird, bobolink,~ blackbird, paroque? parrot, ete. = A No. 8 HOW TO BECOME A VENTRILOQUIST. — By Harry Kennedy. Every intelligent boy reading this =< book of instructions can master the art, and create any “- amonnt of fun for himselfand friends. It is the great- 4 =x ag ag eg Yo. 10. H BOX. — The art of self-defense made easy. Containing over thirty illustrations of guards, blows, and the different ,positions of a <ood boxer. Every boy should obtain one of these nsefu! and instructive books, as it will teach you how to bex without an instructor. : No, 11.. HOW TO WRITE LOVE-LETTERs. — 4 most complete little book, containing full directions for he writing love-letters, and when to use them, giving spect- = men letters for by old. = No. 12. ow TO ITE LETTERSTO LADIEs.— — Giving complete instructions for writing letters. to ladies on all subjects; also letters of introduction, notes and requests. 2 No. 18. HOW TO DO IT; or, BOOK OF ETIQUETT — It is a great life secret, and one that poor pe» man desires to know all about. There’s happiness fn it. No. HOW TO MAKE CANDY.—A complete hand. _ book for making all kinds of candy. ice-creams, syrups, essences, etc., ete. No. 17. HOW 106 DO MECHANICAL TRICKS, — %. Containing complete instructions for 3 sixty mechanical tricks. Fully illustrated. == No. 18.. HOW TO BECOME BEAUTIFUL. — One of _ the brightest and most valuable little books ever given __ to the world. Everybody wishes to know, how to be- — come beautiful, both male and female. The secret ig simple, and almost costless, : “2 No. 20. HOW TO ENTERTAIN AN EVENING — PARTY. — A complete compendium of games, sports, card diversions, comtc recitals, ete., suitable for parlor or drawing-room entertainment. It contains more for — the money than any book publisher. ge No. 21. HOW TO HUNT AND FISH.—The most com- plete hunting and fishing guide ever published. It con- tains full instructions about guns, hunting dogs, traps __ trapping and fishing, together with description of game —~ performing over 2 and fish. ae No. 23. HOW TO EXPLAIN DREAMS.—This little book gives the expla’ n to all kinds of dreams, to- — gether with Juéky and unlucky days. ps No. 24. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS TO GENTLE- MEN. — Centaining fnll directions for writing to gen- tiemen on all subjects. ; a a Yer sale by ali newsdealers or will be sent to an: address on receipt of price, 10 cents per copy, or postage stomps, by ; :