Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 984) (1924 08 08)

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BOYS, READ THE RADIO ARTICLES IN THIS NUMBER No. 984 AUGUST 8, 1924 ~—_——~Prrice 8 Cents CNASING POINTERS; OR, [HE LUCKIEST HOYIN ier ata nee yoS ae Fi te lesartascoetes een ee ; 2 i; aru, Zhe scream came from the office of Colt & Co. Fred flung open the door, and saw a man in a silk hat pressing his hand over Daisy’s mouth, to stifie her cries. It was evident that there was foul play going on.

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— Are You A Radio Fan? West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. Entered CHASING , FAME AND FORTURE”W Issued weekly—Subscription price, $4.00 per year; Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.06 arti: " as Second-Class Matter ~ the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Ma NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, Read P ‘24 and 25 rc 1924 POINTE OR, THE LUCKIEST BOY IN WALL STREET By A SELF-MADE MAN ; CHAPTER I.—Honesty Is» the Best Policy. Two messenger boys, one tall and lanky, the other short and compact, popped out of one of the elevators when it came to a stop at the sixth floor of the Mills Building one morning at about ten o’clock, and made a simultaneous run down the empty corridor. The tall boy was known as Owen Murphy, the short lad as Fred Ticknor. Both were employed by neighboring brokers in a Wall Street office building—the former by ++ Spencer & Sysonby, the latter by Colt & Co. Both boys saw a flat, dark-brown object lying in their path, and each, recognizing that it was a pocketbook, made a quick grab for it. Tricknor got it and straightened up with a triumphant grin, ° “Halves!” «demanded Murphy, with a greedy, disappointed look. “Not on your life, Murphy,” replied Fred. “It’s t not ours to divide. Somebody lost his wallet, and “ if I can find out who it belongs to I’m going to - Yeturn it to him.” “How are you goin’ to do it when you don’t know who it belongs to?” “Here’s the owner’s name—Georgg Bates— stamped in gilt letters on the flap.” . “S’pose it is? How are you-goin’ to find him?” =. “Tll open it and see if I can find the owner’s address,” saidg Fred, suiting the. action to the word, much to his companion’s satisfactioh. = “Not a cent,” chuckled Murphy, as the main compartment of the wallet revealed merely a number of papers and newspaper clippings. “Did ‘2 you ever get left in your life? Ho, ho, ho!” - : Fred opeged up an inner pocket, however, there were displayed half a dozen $500 bills, to- _ gether with the business card of a broker on _ that floor of the building. _» “Did you ever get left yourself, Owen Mur- _ Phy?” laughed Fred, as he exhibited the bills and took out the card. _ Murphy stopped grinning and gazed hungrily the money. such a chump as to hunt up the owner of remonstrated Spencer & Sysonby’s enger. must be two or three thousand there. Give me two of them bills and I'l + come now, Fred Ticknor, you’re not goin’ . never say a word about you findin’ the wallet. All you’ve got to do is-to take out them bills and throw the book just as it is down the first sewer hole you come to on your way back to your office.” “Say, Murphy, what.do you take me for?”_ asked Fred, indignantly.’ are “I take you for a fool if you don’t do as I say the card of a broker on his floor. I mean to get the address of Mr. George Bates from him or turn the wallet over to him to be return to its owner.” “Do you mean that?” asked Murphy, with a look of disgust. “I do, and if you wait around here until I’ve delivered my message to Gage & Moran you'll see me do it,” replied Fred, decidedly, closing the wallet and putting it into his pocket. “You'll never get a chance like this again, Ticknor,” said Murphy discontentedly. “A feller that'll let a streak of luck like this get away from him don’t deserve nothin’. I don’t wonder that = and your folks is hard up. You ought to “Look here, Murphy, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk that way. You know that if I took this money, whether I divided it with you or not, it would be just the same as stealing it, when I’ve got a plain clue to find the owner.” “Oh, rats! A man that can afford to carry $500 bills around in his pocket can afford to lose 7em. We need ’em a blamed sight more than he does.” “You'd have kept the money, then, I suppose?” answered Fred. - “Td kept one of the bills, at any rate, for my rae Sas in trying to find the owner. It’s worth it. : “Run on and deliver your message,” said Fred, abruptly. him, answer ?” ' “Well, I’m not going to do as you say. Here's

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CHASING “Sure I can,” replied the boy. “Take a seat till I come back.” Fred Ticknor was the son of a poor widow. He had a twin sister named Bessie, who worked for Mandelbaum & Co., on the fourth floor of a big building on Broadway. The brother and sis- ter supported their mother, who made their humble home a little haven of comfort for them. Mrs. Ticknor, who had been brought up in com- fort and even luxury, had sacrificed her prospects and estranged herself from her family by marrs- ing a poor but talented artist. : After a ten years’ fight for recognition, het husband died suddenly on the eve of success, ana . since then the little widow had had a hard struggle to bring up her two children and make both ends meet. She managed to keep them at the public school until both graduated, and then Fred secured a position as a Wall Street messen- ger, while Bessie got work in a skirt factory, and their united wages made life somewhat easier for their mother. There was no answer to the note Fred brought to Gage & Moran. so he walked down the corridor to Alfred Byron’s office, which was the name on the card in the wallet. He asked for Mr. Byron and was admitted to the private office. “Well,” said the broker, wheeling around in his chair, what can I do for you?” “Do you know a man by the name of George Bates zm asked Fred. “ “Did he call on you this morning?” “He was here about half an hour ago. What is the purport of your questions, young man?” asked Mr. Byron, regarding his young visitor sharply. 3 “The fact of the matter is, 1 found——” Here he was interrupted by the sudden and unannounced entrance of a tall, good-looking man of perhaps forty years of age, who seemed to be much excited. “J beg your pardon, Mr. Byron, but I have lost my pocketbook. I thought perhaps I dropped it in your private room when I took out my handkerchief.” ; 2 “I have not seen it, Mr, Bates. You might look around on the carpet. By the way, here is a boy who has been inquiring about you.” “About me?” asked the visitor. regarding Fred _ inquiringly. Yes, sir, if your name is George Bates.” “That’s my name.” a “Then I guess this is your wallet, isn’t it?” asked the boy, taking the article from his pocket. “Why, yes,” replied the gentleman, in an im- mensely relieved tone. “Where did you find it?” “In the ocrridor not far from the elevators, about fifteen minutes ago.” Ger “And you came in here to return it, did you?” “Yes, sir. I opened it to see if I could find rr address, and I discovered Mr. Byron’s card. : Sor came in to find out if he knew you.” — *J am very much obliged to you, my lad. You = : = an honest boy, evidently, for you could not = Sa seeing that there were several five-hundred- ‘dollar bills in the wallet.” saw them, sir.” ld have appropriated pocketbook -2-$1 POINTERS thousand dollars.” You have done me a valuable service, and it will give me a great deal of pleasure to present you with one of. these five- hundred-dollar bills, You have fairly earned it,” -said Mr. Bates, holding the money out to him, : Fred looked at it with longing eyes, but made no effort to take it. ‘ “I did not bring your wallet back in expecta- tion of receiving a reward, sir,” he said. “Of course, if you choose to give me something I shall accept it with thanks; but five hundred dollars— I have no right to take as much as that from you. Mr. Bates seemed to be pleased with Fred's attitude in the matter. “You seem to be an uncommon boy,” he re- plied. “In my opinion you clearly deserve a re- ward commensurate with the value of the service you have rendered me. I beg you will accept the bill—I can easily afford to give it to you.” Fred took it with some hesitation. “Tam very much obliged to you, sir. liberality is unusual.” “I think the circumstances are sufficiently un- usual to warrant ity my lad. What do you think, Mr. Byron?” “I agree with you, Mr. Bates. I think you are uncommonly lucky to get your property back intact. I believe in encouraging honesty when you come across it, if only on account of ‘its rarity under the fire of temptation.” “What is your name, my boy?” asked Mr. Bates. “Fred Ticknor.” “You are employed in this neighborhood, I pre- sume?” 7 ; “T am working as office boy and messenger for Colt & Co., stock brokers, No. — Wall Street.” “Well, I rather think I should like to keep track of a boy of your caliber. Here is my card. Gall on me some time when you have leisure. I may be able to do something for you.” “Thank you, sir; I will.” : “Well,” he said to himself, as he walked alone. ~ ~ the corridor toward the elevators, “I think this is proof that honesty is the best policy, after all— at any rate, it’s my policy, and I mean never to go back on it.” Your CHAPTER II.—The Unexpected Liberality of Mr. Colt. “It took you a long time to deliver that note to Gage & Moran, Ticknor,” said Mr. Colt, when Fred returned to the office and told his employer that he had brought. back no answer. “Was there a fire in Broad Street? or perhaps you stopped to have a hair-cut and shampoo?” sarcastically. “No, ‘sir; nothing of that kind. I found a pocketbook in the Mills Building, and I lost a little time in handing it back to the owner.” “What was in the pocketbook?” asked Mr. Colt, sharply. 4 E “There were some papers, sir, and three thou- sand dollars in bills.” —-. “Three thousand dollars in bills?” gasped the — broker, looking at his office boy as if he was _ a new species of animal. “And you returned that _ pocketbook to the owner?” oe, ea did. That was right, sir, wasn’t it?" 9 =~ :

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‘ys - “Of course it was right, but He stopped and looked hard at the boy. “Who was the man that lost it?” he asked suddenly. “His names was George Bates. his card. Here it is.” “That's one of the biggest outside operators in the Street. Did he give you anything ”” “He gave mé five hundred dollars, sir.” “Well, I’m glad to find I have such an honest v in my employ,” said Mr. Colt, sardonieally. “TI thought you always considered me honest, sir,” replied Fred, feeling a bit depressed by his employer’s manner. d “Well, there are degrees of honesty, young s man. =. that is. I never would have suspected you guilty of theft without some good evidence. But when a boy of your age finds a pocketbook with money in it the temptation is usually irresistible to keep it and say nothing about it.” : “My mother taught me differently, sir. I don’t think it pays to keep what doesn’t belong to you unless you find it impossible to discover the owner.” “Humph! We won’t discuss the matter. You are rather out of the ordinary. I think I will Yruise your wages two dollars a week on. the strength of your being a kind of phenomenon,” grunted Mr. Colt. “Take these papers to Miss Dean for her to copy. On the way you can hand that to the cashier.” » _ “That” was an order to the cashier to raine Fred’s wages from six dollars to eight dollars. Fred thanked -him for the raise and left the private office. _“What’s this?” asked the cashier, glancing over Mr. Colt’s penciled memoranda. “A two-dollar Yaise, eh? . Did you have the nerve to beard him . zs his den for that in the condition he is in this - morning?” said the man in astonishment. He gave me “J didn’t ask him for it,” replied Fred. “He handed it out voluntarily.” “He did!” almost gasped the cashier. . “Well, _ Y’ve been with him six years, and I never knew ‘him to do that before.” -*“There’s always a first time with everything,” 3 grinned Fred, passing on to the stenographer’s ‘room. Miss Daisy Dean, who attended to Mr. Colt’s 3 correspondence and” such other matters as he had to do, was not exclusively employed by him, _ theugh her office opened out of his counting- room. There was another door to her office open- tie on to the corridor, and the glass part of it ore the legend, “Miss Dean, Public Steno- ; ppose I’m as welcome as the flowers in May,” ~ehutkled Fred, as he wal into Daisy’s room, “for I'vé brought a batch of work for You're always welcome, Fred,” replied the young lady, sweetly, “whether you bring work or not. - “You said that very nicely, Miss po grinned the boy. “This seems to be my lucky day.” ee: Have you been’ unusually fortunate bs I expected you were like the average run—> CHASING POINTERS 3 where I carried a note to the office of Gage & Moran.” Miss Dean looked interested. “T hadn’t more than stepped out of the elevater © on the sixth floor when I ran against a pocket- book.” “You picked it up, I suppose?”, “Well, say, I’m not passing such things by.” “Was there any money in it?” “Three thousand dollars.” “My goodness! And what did you do with it?” “Returned it to the owner, and he presented me with five hundred dollars for my trouble.” “Is it possible! You were lucky.” “When I told Mr. Colt about finding and re- turning the wallet he was'so surprised to think that any boy would return a pocketbook with money in it that he raised me two. dollars on the spot. He almost took my breath away, but I had enough left to thank him for his munificence.”- “Munificence is good, Fred. Been consulting-a dictionary lately ?” laughed Miss Dean. ‘ “No, but I think the word applies to. my case, for it was a big boost’for Mr. Colt to indulve in, especially when you consider the grouch he had on this morning. When the clerks hear of it they’ll have a-fit.” Daisy laughed heartilv at the comical way the young messenger put it, and then, one of her customers coming in at the moment, Fred left and returned to the counting-room, where he took his customary. seat, readv to attend to callers oe to go out on another errand, as the case night “Well,” said Murphy, suspiciously, when the boys met again that afternoon, “did you turn that pocketbook in to the owner, as you said you were going to do?” “I did.” And he told Murphy the circumstances, withholding the fact that he had received a five- hundred-dollar bill for his honesty, for he knew well enough the other would insist that he ought to divide the money between them, and he could not see what right Murphy had to any of it. “What did he give you?” “You mean the owner of the wallet?” “That’s who I mean.” “You'll have to ask him, for I'll never tell * you.” “Why don’t you?” demanded Murphy, aggres- sively. “Because I’m not telling eusiditaie: I know. It’s poor policy.” Bese turned his back on Fred and walked off. CHAPTER III.—Fred’s First Transaction On the Market. Before Mr. Colt left for home that afternoon. every clerk in the counting-room had heard about ; the messenger’s boy’s Paise of wages. - ; “You're the luckiest boy in Wall Street,” vad - Duncan, the margin clerk, to Fred, whom he h stopped on his way to the ‘washroom. hed “I was pretty lucky to-day, at any rate.” replied. £ the boy, with a-grin. : 2 At quarter past three he mace off f for the and before going home he asked

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CHASING envelope, sealed it and put his name on it, then asked the cashier to keep it-in the safe for him. The other hundred he put his pocket to surprise his mother with. “I made some extra money to-day, mother,” he said, at the suppertable. “How did you make it, Fred?” asked his sister. B 3 Then he told the story of the finding and re- storation of the pocketbook. “And you actually received five hundred dol- lars?” said his sister, opening her eyes in as- tonishment. : “Yes, and here is one hundred of it, mother, which I make you a present of; the balance is in an envelope in the office safe.” He tossed his mother the bill. “What, all this for me!” the little woman. ex- claimed, looking at the bill in a kind of wonder, for it had been many a long day since she had seen or handled a bill of so large a demomina- tien. = “Sure it’s for you. Who has a better right to it? You can buy yourself a new dress, and a new hat, and lots of other things that you need. Don’t be stingy with yourself, mother, for there’s more where that came from.” Next morning when Fred got to the office— which he always did ahead of the other em- ployees—he sat down in his chair and began to read the previous day’s quotations, together with other matters connected with the financial world. This morning he noticed a paragraph re- ferring to the upward spurt of a_ stock called J. & D., which had advanced four points since the previous Monday. The paper said there was a rumor afloat that a syndicate had been formed to boom these shares, but it could not be verified. When Duncan, the margin clerk, came in, Fred asked him what he thought was the cause of the rise in J. & D. shares. ~ “J couldn’t tell you,” replied Duncan. “It may be a real boom, or it may only be a temporary boost that will peter out to-day, or to-morrow, or 5 the next day. Only the persons on the inside have any accurate knowledge on the subject.” “The market is rather a dangerous thing for an outsider to monkey with, don’t you think, Mr. Duncan?” se “Dangerous! It’s as risky. as handling a dy- namite bomb. I usually advise friends of mine to keep out of it, unless they have a good pointer.” “A good pointer is hard to get, I guess.” “Well, rather. People are chasing them .up and down Wail Street every day, but they’re about as easy te lay hold of as a greased pig.” “Did you ever catch one?” grinned Fred. “Several. I made a small wad on two of them, but the third pointed to the poorheuse, for I - landed in the soup.” Duncan went to work, while Fred pondered ~ over the truthfulness of his remarks. Later on he heard a couple of Mr. Colt’s customers talking about the probabilitv of a boom in J. &D ~ By and by Fred was sent with a message to a -proker at the Exchange, and while passing in at the New Street entrance he overheard a bunch of 'D. T. messengers talking about the same stock. “A good many people seem to have J. & D. ‘their brain this morning.” he mused. “I’d like scoop in a teal Simon-pure pointer on the sub- Pn POINTERS ject, now that I have a few dollars in the office safe. I might be able to double my wad.” He looked at the tape when he got back to the office and found there had been quite a number of sales of J. &. D. shares, and that it had gone up another point. “It was 68 Saturday morning,” he said to him- self; “it is now 73. Somebody will make money : out of it.” ; When he went on an errand shortly afterward he met a messenger he knew, and they stopped to have a chat. . “T wish I had a hundred cases,” said his friend. “What for? asked Fred. 5 “Y’d put it upon J. & D. shares.” “How, do you know your tip is any good?” “IT heard my boss tell an old customer to buy . J. & D. He said it was good for a ten-point rise. He wouldn’t have ‘told him that unless he was pretty certain-of the matter. If I had a hundred dollars I’d risk it on the strength of that, and I’d be willing to bet fifty dollars more, if I had it, that I’d win a hundred dollars.” Fred, whose mind was now full of the pros- pects of J. & D., thought this pointer so good that he decided to take the risk of buying fifty shares. He got the envelope containing his money and, going around to a little bank in Nassau street that made a specialty of doing business on | the market for small investors, put up three hun- dred and sixty-five dollars on a ten per cent. margin at the market price of 73. It was his ~ first speculation, though he felt somewhat relieved when the market closed to find that J. & D. had advanced to 75. That evening he told his sister in the strictest confidence that he had risked the bulk of his four hundred dollars on fifty shares of J. & D. stock. : Next morning J. & D. shares were in greater demand than at any time since the boom started, and by noon the stock had advanced to 78. Frea was waiting for an answer to a note in a Broad- way office when he saw this quotation on the ticker, and it made him feel good. “I guess it will go to 80, all right,” he said to _ himself. “White’s pointer was a pretty good one.” Fred was fully determined to sell out when J. & D. reached 80, but he was kept so busy run- ning errands that afternoon he found no oppor- tunity to get around to the little Nassau street bank, and so the Exchange closed with the shares : at 85 5-8 before he realized that business was over for the day. ; : It was eleven o’clock the next day before Fred got the chance to run around to the bank to order the stock sold, and in the meantime there had_ - been a good deal of business done in the shares — and the price had gone up to 85 3-8, and that was the figure the boy realized. When he got his check and statement on the following day he found his profit amounted to a little over six hun- dred dollars. “Gee whiz!” he exclaimed. “I’m actually worth a thousand dollars. PEW hd 4 4 CHAPTER IV—Murphy Finds a Hundred-Dollar Bill, and What Comes of It. 7253 Before three o’clock that day Fred managed to get around to the bank in Nassau street. _— r ~~ =

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“TI got this check of yours through the mail this morning,” he said to the cashier. “I want to _ know if you will cash it and keep most of it here for me until I want to draw it out?” m. “Are you | Fred Ticknor?” ~* * “Yes sir.” ; “You'll have to get some one we know to iden- tify you.” “Your margin clerk ought to remember I _ bought fifty shares of J. & D. from him a few days ago, and that I came in here yesterday about eleven o’clock and ordered the shares sold. Here - is your statement of the transaction.” Well, step around with me to his desk, and if he will identify you I’ll fix the matter up?” The margin clerk recognized Fred as the party to the deal and the cashier was astisfied. te? - “As you are a minor we can’t open an account ~ with you, Ticknor,” said the gentleman, “but I can give you a certificate soft deposit for whatever "money you leave with | us.” “That will answer,” replied Fred. “Give me ~ two hundred dollars cash and a certificate for the rest.” _ -The mater was so arranged. Owen Murphy had been as good as his word and had not noticed Fred since the afternoon our hero had refused to _ tell him what he got for returning the wallet to _ Mr. Bates, or ante up even a five-dollar bill. Fred did not suffer any from the loss of Murphy’s - society, as he never liked him much. For two weeks the boys frequently passed each other in e corridor of the office building without any sign of recognition. _But one morning Fred was surprised to receive a triumphant wink from Murphy as they came together in the elevator. He looked at his former acquaintance narrowly, “without saying a word. ‘They both stepped out _ of the elevator together, and then Murphy could hold in no longer. ~ “Look here, Fred,” he said, “I want to tell you thin’.” 3 “Well, what is it? Got over your grouch ?” _ “Never mind that. I found somethin’ myself. yesterday,” he said, in a mysterious way. “Another pocketbook ?” grinned Fred. “Nope. A hundred-dollar bill.” _ “Where did you find it?” “That’s tellin’s,” grinned” Murphy. “What did you stop me for?” “IT wanted to let you know~-that you ain’t the y pebble at findin’ things,” replied Murphy, vith. a look of intense satisfaction. Ee T'see. aire maybe you’d make me cece it to Fred. ee a brand-new bill issued ‘by the National , and on the back of it was stamped name and eee address of some- who had the bill in possession. g to try and find the owner?” asked Fred. do you take me for? A chump?” minht Tepeppent: a serious loss to some- <p laias to have a wid Th rea you se a= CHASING POINTERS 5 ger, finding himself cornered, admitted the fact, - given to its rightful owner, who raid Murphy “Thanks,” gagement.” Murphy look disappointed, and soon afterward the boys separated. They met, however, again at a quick-lunch counter, and Murphy renewed to Z take Fred to a show, but without result. They SS both stepped to the cashier’s desk together, and ’ Murphy, pushing Fred’s fifteen cents back, told the proprietor to take the price of the two lunches out of the one-hundred-dollar bill. The man looked at the bill and then at Murphy. “Where did you get this?” he asked suspicious- replied Fred; “but I’ve got an en- y. “What's sthe matter with it?” asked Murphy, with an anxious look. “Isn't it good?” 3 “It’s good enough, but it’s a large bill for a : boy to have around loose. Haven’t you any smaller change?” “IT want to change that bill.” “I wouldn’t mind changing it if I thought you came honestly by the bill.” “Do you think I’m a thief?” demanded Murphy indignantly. “My name is Owen Murphy, and I work for Spencer & Sysonby.. Ask him tf I Ain’t all right, 2 and he pointed to Ered. ‘ A line of impatient people was, beginning to collect near the cash desk, so the proprietor re- fused to change the bill, and Murphy grumblingly _ paid in small change for his own lunch, as Fred _ Se insisted on settling his own check. The bill, however. was destined to get Murphy into trouble. The broker who had lost the bill advertised for it on the chance that it might have fallen into the hands of an honest person. Fred saw the advertisement and called Mur- phy’s attention to it. “That’s ain’t the bill I found,” said, Murphy, with a red face. : Fred let the matter drop, as he didn’t care to. expose Murphy. Another man who had received the bill in payment for a debt noticed the adver- tisement and communicated with the loser. An investigation followed and the money was traced back to’ Murphy. Spencer & Sysonby’s messen- and said he had found the bill in the Barnum Building. The broker said he had lost the money there, and demanded its return, less the twenty-five dol- lars he had offered as reward. As he had clearly : identified his property, ‘the salocn-keeper who se changed it sent for Murphv. gave him the bill and got one hundred dollars back. The bill was then the twenty-five dollars reward. Muzrshy then paid the saloon-keeper the twenty-five dollars to settle the amount of his original ‘debt. CHAPTER ¥i--How Fred Gets His Second Pointer. Fred told Daisy Dean about his good luck with the J. & D. shares, and she congratulated him on : his success, but at the same time warned him _ a putting*too much faith in the market. Among others, Miss Dean did work occasionally for a broker named boven He wan al Sea eye an office on the floor pg send o&

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ia ss... i — et a a ee BE a ’ * : Se ae re Se od ee ee ee 6 CHASING POINTERS _ dressed as swell as any man on the Street, but for all that the pretty stenographer didn’t like him much. As long as he brought her work and -paid for it on delivery she was satisfied to have him for a customer; but after a while he would find some excuse for lingering in her den, which interfered somewhat with her work, and then the young lady began to find him a rather undesir- able patron. The fact of the matter was that Barclay Caleutt was smitten with the young -* Jlady’s many charms, and he was trying to make @ e.. > 3 ay) 3 a i. = Re - 4 himself solid with her. He brought her a lot _of typewriting that he had no use for simply to get a chance to have a talk with her, and finally. one day he asked her if she had any money for which she had no immediate use. Daisy thought this a pretty cheeky question on his part,’ but before she could make a non- committal reply he went on to say that he had come down expressly to give her a tip on the market, if she could make any use of it. “T have made it a rule never to risk any money in stocks,” replied Daisy, hoping he would take himself off. “But this is a sure thing, Miss Dean. I have it on the best of authority that a pool of big oper- ators has been formed to boom L. & S. shares, which are now ruling at 89. F assure you, Miss Dean, they wilk surely go to 110, and perhaps higher. I am giving you this pointer because I have an eye to your interest, and it would give me great pleasure to put you in the way of mak- ing some extra money.” Mr. Calcutt tried to make it apparent that his motive was one of particular friendship for Miss Dean, and that she was the only one he would give such a tip to. Daisy thanked him and said she would think the matter over. Daisy was glad when he took his departure. for she felt greatly entbarragsed because he insisted on put- ting her under Spligations to him, as it were. She tried to think of some excuse for declining any further work from Mr. Caleutt, thereby de- priving him of any pretext for forcing his. pres- ence upon her in the future. While she was figuring out the matter; Fred entered with a batch of work from Mr. Colt, and, knowing that the young messenger was a friend on whom she could thoroughly depend, she laid the whole trouble before him and asked his ad- vice. “He told me that he knew positively that a pool of big operators had been formed to boom L, & S., and that the stock would surely go up in a -few days.” “Did he tell you how he got his information?” “He did not.” “He expected you to accept his word. Well, considering the interest he appears to take in you, I guess he wouldn’t be likely to hand you out anything that wasn’t the real thing, for if you invested any money on the strength of what he told you, and the deal went wrong, it would only queer him with you for good and all.” - so iad I don’t want his tip, and I wish he hadn’t it to me,” replied the girl, in a troubled “If the pointer is pealiy all that he claims * for ‘it, he will feel that he has put me under ob- tions to him, and will take advantage of the et to annoy me with his unwelcome attentions.” he isn’t wakeme here; if he persists in _news to Daisy. [f he’s a gentleman he’ll leave you alone when. bothering you, -then he’s no gentleman and ought to be shown it.” Daisy finally decided that she would tell Mr. Calcutt that she was too busy to do any more work for him, and see what effect that would have on the situation. Next morning Fred kept track of L. & S., and he noticed that twenty thousand shares were traded in by noon, at prices ranging from 89 to 90, “That looks like business,” he said to himself. “T guess I’ll buy fifty shares, at any rate.” So he went around to the bank in Nassau street and drew four hundred and fifty dollars against his certificate of deposit, and handed the cash to the margin clerk, with an order to buy fifty shares of L. & S. at 90 on margjn. By the time Fred got back to his office the shares were bought and held by the bank subject to his order. At three o’clock, when the Ex- change closed, L. & S. was ruling at 92. During the next two days the shares fluctuated between 90 and 94, closing on Saturday noon at the latter figure. That morning Daisy told Fred that Mr. Caleutt had called with some new work, but she had refused to accept it on the plea that she was too busy. “What did he say?” asked the boy. “He insisted on leaving it, saying he was in no hurry and that I éould do it when I would find time. He also asked me if I had taken advantage of his pointer. When I said I had not, he seemed disappointed, and advised me to do so before it was too late to reap any benefit from it.” “Well, if you’ve got any money to spare I'd advise you to buy a few shares with me. I bought fifty the other day at 90; the last quota- tion this morning was 4. If I had money enough Td buy fifty more at as near 94 Monday morn- ing as I could fet them. I’m satisfied the stock will go to par.” “Mr. Calcutt told me it would go to 110, and perhaps higher.” “Well, don’t say another word. but come in with me on another fifty. Ill take thirty and you twenty. It'll cost you one hundred and eighty- eight dollars. Can you raise that much?” “Yes. I'll bring it with me Monday.” “All right. I’m glad to have you for a partner in this deal,” said Fred, as Daisy covered up her machine, preparatory to Starting for home. CHAPTER VI.—In the Nick of Time. On Monday morning Miss. Dean brought down enough money to make good the margin on 20 — shares of L. & S. at 90. ’ Fred took it around to the bank in Nassau street, where he had more than enought to secure 30 additional shares of the stock. He bought the . 50 shares in his own name. L. & S. gradually — advanced to 96, and at intervals, when he hap- pened to be in, ‘the office, Fred carried the good Next day the excitement was more pronounced, and when L. & S. touched 102 the brokers began tumbling over one another in their efforts to get the stock. . 3 The general publi¢ came rushing into the Street. SS. to invest, and Mr. Colt having his share of the = business, Fred was kept unusually busy earrying = notes here, there and everywhere during —— As

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_ hours. Next Sabena L. & S. opened at 112, and _ Fred told Daisy that he wasn’t going to take any more chances. He carried out his intentions at Dean had no further personal interest in the do- ings of the market. When he got. back to his _ chair in the office he occupied the few minutes of leisure he had in figuring up how much he and the stenographer had made out of the deal. The ticker showed a sale of one hundred shares at 112 5-8, and he judged that was the figure their holdings had gone at. “On my fifty shares that I bought at 90 I make about eleven hundred dollars; on the thirty for which I gave 94 my profit is something like five hundred and fifty dollars. That’s a-total of six- teen hundred and fifty dollars. That isn’t so bad on a capital of eight hundred dollars. Miss Dean has collared three hundred and seventy-five dol- lars. Nothing like having a first-class pointer to operate with.” Fred walked into the stenographer’s den and showed the results of his calculation, which were verified next morning when he got a statement. of account and a check from the bank. a “Tf mother knew I was worth twenty-four hun- -. .. dred and fifty dollars she’d fall off her chair from ~ ~ astonishment,” said Fred, with a chuckle, to aisy. _“Aren’t’ you going to tell her?” the girl asked “Not yet a while. I shall tell my sister, how- ever. When I go to lunch I'll get your money, and you can take it home with you. I suppose : you'll be buying some swell clothes on the strength of it.” “What makes you think so?” laughed Daisy. = “That’s the first thing the girls think of when they have a wad in their pocketbook.” _.. “You seem to know all about it, Fred,” replied - the pretty stenographer. “Sure I do,” he chuckled. “Gee! my bell. I must leave you.” Fred drew one hundred and fifty dollars that _afternoon, leaving the balance on a new certificate of deposit, and took the bills home to his mother. “What, more money for me!” exclaimed the little mother as her son tossed her the bills across the mappa “Y6u must have found another pocketbook. : “No, Gy em but I made a little deal in stocks with the funds I had and came out a few hundred ahead. You heard me say the market has been booming lately. I got out jst in time, for things ent to pieces to-day, and a good many people have come out at the small end of the horn.” i “Fam glad = know that you are one of the for- _tunate ones,” smiled his mother. ; wines, Fm aut the luckiest boy in Wall eet. There are very 1 few messengers who have bank account like me.” Next day Barclay Caleutt met Daisy Dean in the corridor. He and some equally lucky friends Pergo treating ‘themselves to an unlimited _as_a consequence Mr. There goes ence to sell, and within half an hour he and Miss~ glimpse of his face. His eyes were oe . CHASING POINTERS ae At that morient Fred entered from the count- ing-room and told Daisy that Mr. Colt wanted her in his office. She grabbed her notebook and flew, leaving Barclay Calcutt and the boy to- gether. “Well, sir,” you?” The broker looked at him in a fishy way, for he was several degrees more unsteady than when he entered the room. : “You can get out,” he said thickly. for you at all. Understand ?” Fred walked over and threw open the door. “Miss Dean is very busy to-day, Mr. Calcutt. She can’t be bothered with visitors. You will oblige her very much by leaving.” Fortunately for the boy, Barclay Calcutta’s thoughts were diverted suddenly when he saw a friend out in the corridor, and he started for the door without another word. As soun as-he was outside Fred shut the door after him and returned to the reception-room. When Daisy came out-of Mr. Colt’s private office he told her how he had managed to get rid of Barclay Caleutt. “I’m ever so much obliged to you, Fred,” she replied ‘gratefully. “He seems to be intoxicated, and his conversation embarrassed me very much. I hope he won’t come back.” Daisy had-such a stack of work on hand that she decided to stay in her office until six o’clo¢ck. It was half-past three when Fred got back, and he was preparing to go home, when Mr. Colt called him into his sanctum and told him he wanted him to go to Brooklyn. “T want you to take this letter to the residence of Mr. John Lynch, on President street, and bring me back an answer. If you are detained, and I am not here when you ret back, you must bring the reply to my house.” “If Mr. Lynch is not at home shall I wait for him, sir?” F “You had better wait a reasonable time, and in case you leave without seeing him, and I am not here, call me up on the ’phone.” “All right, sir,“ replied the boy, starting off. When Fred reached the residence of Mr. Lynch he found the gentleman had not got home. He waited half an hour and then started back for the office. It wanted a quarter to six when he reached the office building and walked up to the second floor. As Fred approached the door of his office the superintendent of the building came along and the boy nodded to him. . At that moment the shrill cry of a woman echoed through the corridor and startled both - Fred and the- superintendent. The scream came — from the office of Colt & Co. Fred flung open the door and saw a man in a silk hat pressing | hand over Daisy’s mouth. It was evident ees was foul play going on. oS said Fred, “what ean I do. for “No use. CHAPTER VII.—Another Lucky Deal. With the superintendent at his back, Fred — Ticknor entered the reception-room, where the pretty stenographer was struggling with her as- sailant. Fred sprang at the man like a young tiger, and then it was- ieee he cau yo first t a

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evidently in a very ugly mood. Fred seized him he released Daisy and turned his attention to the boy, whom he caught by the _ throat, and, forcing him back against the ticker, seemed bent on choking the life out of him. The Superintendent had all he could do to drag the infuriated broker away from his victim. “For heaven’s sake, Mr. Calcutt,” he said, “are ES you aware what you are doing?” The broker glared at him for a moment and then seemed to recollect his position. The broker appeared to realize that he had placed himself in 'a bad hole, and the only excuse he could think of was that he was drunk and didn’t’ know what he was doing. 5 If Mr. Caleutt was drunk, it was a different kind of intoxication to what he had been laboring under a few hours previous. Daisy Dean was almost prostrated by the assault made upon her “by the broker, and could hardly make any state- i ment of the circumstances when asked by Fred ~~ to do so. ia Please take him away. I don’t want to see him any more,” she cried hysterically. . my mouth to prevent me from uttering another — sound. What he intended to do at the cabinet I ~ cannot guess, but he looked wicked enough to kill 2% me, and, terribly frightened, I struggled to get “ away from him.’ It was then you came into the - saved me. Oh, Fred, I am so thankful bg at hand to interfere at such a critical “e” a “I am mighty glad myself that I reached the ~ office at a moment when my presence was “What brought you back at this late hour?” Fred told her about his errand to Brooklyn. ae waited a reasonable time for Mr. Lynch to show up, and as he did not do so I came back - here to telephone the fact to Mr. Colt, according his directions. I must do so now, and thei l _ walk with you as far as the piege eae The moment + CHASING POINTERS —~ Daisy put on her hat and wrap while Fred was in the booth, and was ready to go when he came out. “I wonder what could have been Mr. Calcutt’s object in entering our office and monkeying with the papers in the cabinet?” said Fred, as they walked out into the outer office. “He will have to explain his actions to Mr. Colt to-morrow, | fancy.” “I haven’t the least idea what he was up to,” Daisy answered. “IT dare say he’ll claim he had a jag on and didn’t know what he was’ doing; but from the way he acted I think he knew what he was about all right.” “But how could he have got into the office, Fred? The door ought to have been locked.” “Kither it was not locked, through some over- a or Mr. Calcutt had a key that fitted the ock.” “You think, then, that Mr. Caleutt deliberately came in here for some bad purpose? . It seems increditable that a properous broker like him would do such a thing.” “How do you know he’s prosperous?” asked Fred. He told me this ge acs that he had made a barrel of money out of L. Ss.” “That sounds reasonable, Tu admit, as he must have worked the tip he gave you, and we have good evidence it was a corker. Well, it doesn’t make any difference how prosperous he is, his presence in this office under the circumstances in which you detectéd him looks pretty bad. I'll bet he’s trying to work some scheme against Mr. Colt, and it will be up to the boss to-morrow to sift the matter for himself.” “Did you say anything to him over the wire?’ “No. I thought it best for you to explain mat- ters in the morning. I'll give him the facts of the case as far as I know them, and the super- intendent will corroborate me. He will then call you into the office, and you can tell your story. Fred left Daisy at the station at the corner of Broadway and walked to his home in Cannoa Street. Mr. Colt was both angry and mystified over Mr. Calcutt’s conduct when he heard the news the next morning, and went upstairs is demand an explanation of that gentleman. How Caleutt squared himself neither Fred nor Daisy ever learned, but he ceased to bring the stenog- rapher any more work, or to notice her when he passed her after that, which was a great satis- faction to the young lady. About a week later Fred carried a note to Gage & Moran’s office in the Mills Building. He had to wait for some paper to be prepared for him to take back, and while sitting near the ticker two well-known brokers came in and aske-j to see Mr. Moran. The office boy took their names into the private office, and while waiting — for him to return the visitor began talking about a deal that was forming to control D. & G. shares. They stood so close to Fred that the boy could © not very well help hearing all they said. He did not know much about the stock tha: formed the subject of their conversation, but he did know the brokers well by sight and repu- tation. Fredknew there must be something in this thing, or they would not be so interested in the matter. He wondered how he could find out — souppphin more atnets it Thaes was nohady = ia

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“ 3 2s ; =A ogee : CHASING 3 _. dared question on the subject, so he began.to eh. watch the newspapers, thinking some hint about the deal might get into print. He also looked up ____ the recent record of D. & G. and compared prices 2 for weeks back, with the result that he found the 3 stock was selling below its normal figure. 5 “1 don’t think D. & G, will go any lower than ; it is now under present conditions. In fact, “it b - should go up two or three points before long, without reference to any deal that may be going ° on behind the curtain. I think I’ll buy three = shares, anyway, at the present price, 65, and if ss my pointer amounts to anything I’ll make a good = thing out of it. If it doesn’t pan out I .ought to wy make something, anyway, for the market seems - ripe for some kind of an Advance.” =f So next day’Fred put up nineteen hundred and * fifty dollars of his money as margin on three | handred shares, hoping his former luck would continue. He was not disappointed, for a very = _rapid rise followed his purchase. In two days 5 . & G. was in great demand at 71, and it kept right on upward.. Then Fred told Daisy about his new venture. Instead of scolding him, as he _ had half expected she would, she asked him if - he would buy fifty shares for her at the market *g ‘price. He said he would, and the next morning she brought enough money down to secure the sharés at 72, the price he had to pay for them. Next day the stock boomed to 78, and Fred and | Daisy shook hands with each other. That afternoon D. & G. closed at 81, and small _ outside speculators were bringing their little wads into the Street to go long on the shares. Next morning about eleven o’clock Fred over- heard two brokers say that they guessed D. & G. was vetting topheavy, and that they looked to see jt drop back into the lover seventies as soon as the bears got their work in. Fred knew that these two brokers were considered men of sound «judgment, so he decided that it was dangerous for him to take any further chances with the ee . It was then ruling at 87, with every ap- fs parent chance of going higher. ~ * “Enough is as good as a feast,” he said to him- self, starting for the bank in Nassau Street, a “though, on the whole, a profit of twenty-five dol- a share isn’t a bad banquet when you come to figure on it.” . He ordered his shares and Daisy’s to be closed out at once, and it was done inside of ten nfinutes. ‘When he got back to the office he reported, the - elose of the deal to Miss Dean. : _ “[ll élear something over seven hundred dol- “And how much are you ahead? ~You bought at 65, I think?” __- ~ “T am sixty-five hundred dollars to the good. CHAPTER VIII.—Laying a Trap. Ts r + ‘ 7 kf “ " i. ret ‘his sister. He wanted to give her a ‘flat of five.rooms at a reasonable rent. She Fred had kept his latest speculative venture a_ -dude in his attire, was smitten! on the la a POINTERS :. 9. “You didn’t know that I took another shy at the market about ten days ago, did you, Bess?” he grinned. “Why, no; you never told me a word about it. + Aren’t you mean?” “How much do you think I made this time?” “How should I be able to guess! How much?” — “Sixty-five hundred dollars.” } “Fred Ticknor, you don’t mean that!” she ex- claimed incredulously. “I certainly do mean it. You remember, I’ve been carrying a certificate of deposit on that little Nassau Street bank for twenty-three hundred dol- lars around with me for some weeks, don’t you?” “Oh, ves.” “Ten days ago I heard a couple of brokers speaking about some deal that fvas under way in & G. stock. Well, I bought three hundred — — shares on the chance that there was something good at the bottom of their talk. I bought at 65 and this morning I sold at 87. Profit, sixty- ere ege ten dollars. There you have it in a nut- shell.”. “My goodness! It sounds too good to be true.” “Well, I can guarantee it’s true. I'll show you a certificate of deposit to-morrow night for eighty-eight hundred dollars.” “Wall Street seems to be a regular gold mine for you, Fred.” : “That’s because luck and me are pulling to- gether in the same boat.” “You ought to give mother some of that money.” “Pm going to. Ill give her seven hundred ~ dollars and you one hundred dollars, and Ill treat you both to a bang-up dinner and the theater afterward.” a Pai “Aren’t you just the best brother in the world!” 2 exclaimed Bessie, running to Fred and giving him # a big hug and a kiss. t ‘Mrs. Ticknor could hardly believe the evi- — dence of her eyes when Fred handed out the seven" hundred dollars next evening, and told her it was part of a haul he had just made in the stock market. : eae - “I think we ought to move uptown, mother, into a better neighborhood. We can afford to do that now, since fortune has begun to smile on us.. I~ know flat hunting isn’t a pleasant pastime, but _ people have. to tackle it once in a while.” ; - “Where would you like to go, my son?” __¥F>-d mentioned several localities where he — thought a cozy five-room flat could be found. _ They had been living in three very inferior rooms for several years, and a change for the . better was ‘much to be desired. So in a day or “ two Mrs. Ticknor started uptown to select a nice — 4 * wid dives ¢' picked out several and left the final selection to — her son. He and Bessie visited them on the fol- lowing Sunday and deciding on one paid a de- _ posit to secure it. A week later they were set- — = | their new home, and were quite delighted with i ; . > Ree The clerks in Mr. Colt’s office had noticed that Fred was pretty solid with the stenographer, and _ sometimes they jollied him about the intimacy. 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. Sequences: as himself. a ruction in the office, - “All right,” 10 the office boy, in such a friendly way, while she practically ignored a person of such superior con- He lost no opportunity to pass remarks reflecting on Fred’s attentions to Miss Dean and frequently guyed the boy unmer- cifully. Fred stood it without saying a word. He judged if he called the clerk down it would lead to a row with the fellow, and he thought the easiest way was the best out of the difficulty. One morning James Elder, that was the name of this particular clerk, bought a bunch of violets from an Italian sidewalk vender. He placed it in his desk until he had occasion to take a state- ment inside to Daisy to copy on her typewriter for him, then he carried the nosegay with him and presented it to her with one of his best bows and prettiest speeches. She accepted it with a smile, and Elder, think- ing that at last he had produced an impression on the charming girl, returned to his desk feeling like a bird. After a time Fred had occasion to bring some work to her, whereupon she took the violets off her desk and pinned them on the lapel of his jacket. One of the junior clerks noticed the flowers and asked Fred why he didn’t present them to Miss Dean. “Why, she just gave them to me herself.” Another clerk, who had seen Elder carry the self-same flowers in to the stenographer, laughed and called the bookkeeper’s attention to Fred. “He’s wearing those violets you presented to Miss Dean. I guess ‘you aren’t in it with our office boy.”” Elder, recognizing his floral offering, was so incensed that he rushed up to Fred, tore the vio- lets from his buttonhole, and threw them into the waste basket. “What did you do that for?” asked the boy, indignantly. “None -of your business, you little monkey,” he answered in a rage, walking back to his desk. “Well, if I was half the monkey you are I’d hire myself cut to a dime museum,” replied Fred. - “What’s that?” cried Elder. “How dare you address such a remark to me, you impertinent whipper-snapper ?” ; “Thanks. You’re a gentleman, I don’t think,” answered Fred, sarcastically. “TJ shall report your insolence to oMr. 5 Colt,” said the clerk, loftily. “J would if I was you,” retorted the boy. “Then maybe you'll get what’s coming to you.” Later on Elder did report Fred to Mr. Colt and the boss called his messenger inside and asked him what was the trouble between him and the bookkeeper. Fred explained how Elder had treated the bunch of violets Miss Dean had given ‘him, and had called him a little monkey on, top of it. “If it hadn’t been that I didn’t want to raise I’d have pummeled him in the eye. The trouble with him is he’d dead gone on Miss Dean. She has no use for him, and he’s sore on me because she treats me as a friend.” replied Mr. Colt; “but don’t let me _ hear. of any trouble between vou and Elder inside - my office.” ej tat won't be my fault if there is any, sir,” said Fred. “I shall keep away from him as much ETS possible; but just the same I’m not going to” let him walk roughshod ees me,. because he’s -a si _RRITS Sih Bp ars pie " CHASING POINTERS “Well, I won’t have anv scrapping in my office, Ticknor—understand that,” said the broker, turn- ing to his desk. Elder was out of humor all day, for the other clerks roasted him in a quiet way about the vio- lets he had bought expressly for Miss Dean, and which she in turn had presented to Fred. He concentrated his resentment on the young mes- senger, who had been the involuntary cause of his take-down, and determined to get square with him. If he could manage somehow to get the boy discharged, and thus separate him from the stenographer for good, he thought he would then have a clear field to himself. A few days later, while Fred was out on an errand, a man who owed Mr. Colt ten dollars came into the office and handed him a bill in payment of his debt. The bill in question was noticeable from the fact that it had a red Maltese cross stamped on its back, and the broker saw it when his visitor placed the money ‘on his desk alongside two letters that were waiting to be delivered. Mr. Colt accompanied his caller into the corridor, leaving the bill where the man had placed it. Just as the man took his departure Mr. Spencer, of Spencer & Sysonby, whose offices were oppo- site, came up the stairs and seeing Mr. Colt asked him to step into his office with him. As the door closed behind them, Fred came dashing upstairs, and ran into his own office. He walked into his employer’s private room, for he had brought back an answer to a note he had just carried over to Gage & Moran. He saw the {wo letters and the ten-dollar bill on Mr. Colt’s desk as he placed the envelope down near them. Observing his employer’s hat on the-top of the desk he judged he had gone back to the counting-room, and he went to the window to wait for him to come back. At that moment Daisy entered the private of- fice, and went to a small filing cabinet that stood on a shelf alongside Mr. Colt’s safe, which par- tially hid her presence in the room. A minute or two later James Elder entered the boss’s sanc- tum, with a paper in his hand which he laid upon the desk. He, too, saw the ten-dollar bill and he also saw Fred looking out of the window. Immediately an idea occurred to his mind and a sardonic smile curled his thin lips. He picked up the bill, folded it, and slyly approaching the boy, ~vho was watching an altercation between a policeman and an Italian image vender, cau- tiously slipped it into his jacket pocket. Then with a grin of satisfaction he returned the desk, took up the paper he had brought and softly left the room, going to one of the recep- tion-room windows to look out himself, but keep- ing well on the alert. © Presently Fred left the private room and went back to the washroom just as Mr. Colt entered the office. Elder saw the broker come in, fol- lowed him into the private room and handed him the paper he had _ previously laid on the desk, Then he retired with a cheerful grin on his coun- tenance, for he thought he had fixed the office boy. “The boss saw him-come out of his room,” he chuckled. “If he will only search him when he misses that bill we’ll have a new office boy next wee The unprincipled clerk grinned and rubbed his hands one over the other in glee at the unhappy — =

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’ CHASING prospect that faced the young messenger whom he so cordially hated... — — CHAPTER IX.—The Game that Didn’t Work. -- When Mr. Colt sat down at the desk he recol- ‘lected the ten-dollar bill and reached for it, but it wasn’t there. He looked the desk over, felt in his pockets, glanced’about on the carpet and final- ly rang for Fred. The boy answered the sum- mons. “You were in here a moment ago, were you not, Ticknor?” he asked, watching the lad closely. ~ “Yes, sir; I brought that yellow envelope from » Mr. Moran and put it on your desk.” “Did you see a ten-dollar bill near those two letters? “Yes; sir.” ~“You didn’t pick it up by mistake, did you?” “Why, no sir,” answered the boy in surprise. _ “Hum!” said his employer. “Was there any one else in here beside you at the time?” _---—s “I: didn’t see any one. I was looking out of the + window until the moment I left the room.” ; “Well, Ticknor, that bill seems to have vanished : in a most mysterious way,” said Mr. Colt. “You = say you saw it when you left the room?” I saw it when I entered the room, sir.” “It’s all the same, since no one else has been - here. I saw you leave the room myself. 1 went directly to the desk and found the bill missing.” re “T hope you don’t suspect me to taking it, sir?” _ eried Fred. e- % “Well, it’s very si -. vanished to, Ti¢knor. to offer, have you?” : “No, sir; it was lying right here,” replied the ‘bey, much disturbed. , + “I know it was; but it isn’t there now, is it?” “No, sir.” : j At that moment Daisy came forward. “I beg your pardon, Mr. Colt, but I think I can tell you something about that bill,” she said. “I wish you would, if you know. I wasn’t aware - you were in the room. “T’ve been here about ten minutes, sir, and I saw that bill leave ry desk.” “Where did it go?” asked Mr. Colt, in some wonder. 2 “At this moment it happens to be in Fred’s _ right-hand jacket pocket.” “What!” gasped the boy, with a look of re- proach at the pretty stenographer. _ Fred was geapding close to the desk, so Mr. Coit reached over, put his hand into the pocket in _ question and drew out the bill with the Maltese = ®ross on it. « =. te Hum!” he said, severely. “This looks bad for you, man.” ; isos y gracious! How-could.it have got into my = gael exclaimed the thunderstruck messenger 3 eat dismay. : ‘ There seems to be only one way it could have got there—you must have put it there in a fit of absent-mindedness.” 4. “Never. sir!” answered Fred. earnesily. “Hum!” replied the broker, incredulously. _ + “J ean explain how it got there,” said Daisy. “I saw the whole thing.” : ~ § eo ae, eT. Tr. where is could have ou haven’t any suggestion POINTERS oe “Then you saw Ticknor’take it, eh?” rs “No, sir. Fred was standing by the wincow looking out:into the street at the time. Mr. Elder came in here with a paper in his hand which he placed on your desk. He started back, picked that bill up, folded it, walked over and dropped it into Fred’s pocket, and left the room. He had no idea I was in here watching his actions. . I think, sir it was.a contemptible trick to get Fred into trouble. If you will call Mr. Elder in here, I _ will repeat my statement before his face, and dare him to deny its truth.” Both Mr. Colt and Fred were astonished at the _ turn the case had taken. “This is a very serious charge you are making against Mr. Elder, Miss Dean,” said the broker, regarding the stenographer attentively. \ “I am not responsible for that gentleman‘s actions,” she said, firmly: “If he chose to lower himself by committing such an unworthy deed it is my place at least, as a witness of the occur- rence, to see that justice is done the innocent.” : “Hum!” said the broker. “Ticknor; will you tell Mr. Elder that I wish to see him.” ted walked into the counting-room and up to the bookkeeper’s desk. There was blood in his eye, but he controlled himself as well as he could. It would have given him a heap of satisfaction to have called the man a contemptible cur, and have smashed him in the face. “Never mind.” he breathed. “it'll keep.” Then out aloud he said: “Mr. Colt wishes to see you.” , =< Turning his back on the man, _he returned to the private office, followed by the bookkeeper, with a pen behind each ear. “Mr. Elder, were you in my office while I was «| out?” asked Mr. Colt, when the clerk entered the room. “No, sir,” replied Elder, unblushingly. “Did you see Ticknor in here during my tempe- rary absence?” “Yes, sir,” answered the bookkeeper, glibly. “That is, I saw him come out just before you came back.” “Did time?” “No, sir.” “Are you positive there was no one else in here other than Ticknor?” “Yes, sir.” “How do you know that?” ; “I was on the way to give you that paper new ~- lying on your desk, when I saw you Jeave the room. I went to the widow in the reception-room —__ to wait until you came back. While standing there I saw Ticknor comd in and go into your room. After a time he came out again and went on through to the counting-room. You came in at that moment, and I followed you in and handed you the paper. : ; “That was the only time you were in my private room within the last haJf hour?” “Yes, sir.” - f : “T left a ten-dollar bill on my desk when I went out with the gentleman who paid it to me. When I returned the bill was gone. I am trying to find out where it went.”= ~ Pica Se “Have you asked your office boy? He ought to | you see any one else in here about that

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12 know something about it as he was the only one -in a room.” ; “You are wrong on that point, Mr. Elder. There was another person in this room at the same time Ticknor was here.” “Another person?” almost the bookkeeper. “I = did not see——” “I am quite satisfied you did not see her,” said the broker, dryly. “Miss Dean, will you kindly repeat in Mr. Elder’s presence what occurred in this office while you were here?” Daisy told her story over again, and James Elder’s face was a study during her recital of his treacherous act. “Well, Mr. Elder, this is a serious accusation. What have you to say in your own defense?” “The young lady’s story is not true,” said the bookkeeper. desperately. “She is simply trying to shield Ticknor, whom she thinks a great deal of. They have been very thick for weeks past, and it is only natural that——” “Mr. Colt,” demanded the girl, with an indig- nant flush mantling her cheeks, “do you believe my story, which I assert to be the absolute truth, or do you believe that man’s denial of the facts? Look at his face. Is that the face of an honest ee Coward-like he is trying to give you a alse impression of my friendship for Fred Tick- nor. It is quite true that I like Fred very much indeed. He is the brightest and smartest boy in ~ Wall Street, and I am sure he is above a mean or dishonest action. I have no apology to make for liking a boy of his manly and generous nature.” Daisy spoke with much spirit, and Fred cast a grateful glance at her. She gave Elder such a scornful look that the bookkeeper fairly wilted under it. “Mr. Elder, I am sorry to say that_your denial is very lame,” said Mr. Colt. “The other day you - came in tome and made a complaint against Tick- nor, which shows that you are not on a friendly . footing with the boy. Do you still deny the truth- fulness of Miss Dean’s statement?” “You seem to be prejudiced against me, sir,” replied the bookkeeper, in a low tone. _ “J am bound to say that I am inclined to believe the evidence given by Miss Dean, for I have no refson to doubt her word. Ticknor flatly denies having touched the bill. How, then, did it get into his pocket? Miss Dean offers an explanation which incriminates you. In your denial your face and appearance contradicts your tongue. The preponderance of evidence is clearly against vou. Whether you admit your gilt or not, I shall take no action on the matter, though it is a very dis- 4 creditable affair for any man to be implicated in, | - for it was evidently not aimed at my interests, but Eyes pares by personal feeling on your part against . Ticknor. If you are really guilty it would be -_ youch more manly on your part to acknowledge _. $t and make an unreserved apology for your con- __. duct to Ticknor. That is all I have to Say.” -_ “J decline to make any further statement,” re- plied Elder, doggedly. : “Very well. You may return to your desk.” a prefer to resign my position in your offce, a sir. ; } “Very well, Mr. Elder. You may ask the cashier “to pay you up to the end of the week. Turn your work over to Edwards” * CHASING POINTERS James Elder walked out of the private room, got his money and left the office for good. "If he hadn’t left I should have waited in the corridor for him this afternoon and forced him to taking a picking or give me one,” said Fred, in a resolute tone to Daisy, later on. “He’s a dirty © cur, and deserves no consideration.” “I am glad he has gone, for I could have had no respect for him after this,” she answered. “It was a good thing for me that you were in Mr. Colt’s room and saw the- whole thing, other- wise I probably would have been in a bad box. I wish to thank you for the way you stood up for me, Miss Dean. It was generous of you, and I shan’t forget it. My mother and sister will feel grateful to you when I told them the story.” “I did no more than my duty, Fred, and deserve no thanks.” CHAPTER X.—The Deal in D. W. & P. The other clerks in the office were surprised at the sudden departure of the bookkkeper, and as they had an idea that Fred knew the reason of his exit they took the first chance to corner him and ask questions on the subiect. Fred, however, declined to injure his enemy’s reputation, and re- ferred his questioners to Mr. Colt. Of course it was absured to think any one of them would ap- proach the boss on the matter, and so their curi- osity remained ungratified. Three weeks after tnis affair Fred discovered that a combination had been formed to control D. W. & P., which was then ruling at 72. He immediately confided the news to Daisy and suggested that they combine their capi and buy all the shares they could afford. She con- grt the matter a while and finally consented o do it. “I’m afraid you’ve made a speculator of me in spite of all my good-resolutions,” she laughed. “Well, you have one advantage at any rate, - Miss Dean,” he said. “What is that?” .“You will be conneted with the luckiest boy in _ Wall Street,” he grinned. “Well, I suppose there is something in that. You do seem to be quite lucky in more ways than one. : “T certainly am. I was lucky to get out of that ten-dollar bill scrape.” Bese _ “You were indeed. If I hadn’t been a witness in your favor, Mr. Elder might have carried his point.” “That’s right,” agreed the young messenger. “How much money can you put into our pool, Miss Dean?” “Twelve hundred dollars.” , “And I’m going in for eight thousand dollars. “We ought to be able to get quite a little block of D. W. & P. at 72.” Ae *“Well, you bring down one thousand and eighty dollars tomorrow, that will make you good for one hundred and fifty shares. T’ll put in seven thousand two hundred dollars and collar one thou- sand for myself. I’ll buy one thousand one hun- dred and-fifty shares as the deal.” “Very well, Fred. I’ll have the money on hand,” phe replied.

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CHASING Next morning she handed her little roll to Fred and he made the purchase. Several days passed before there was any sign of a rise of more than one day the shares jumped unexpectedly to 77. : “PD. W. & P. is beginning to get a move on at - Jast,” Fred told her, when he came into her den with a bunch of work in his hand. —— “I am delighted to hear it.. I was. beginning to fear that pointer you got hold of was a poor one.” ; “You needn’t have any doubts about it, Miss _ Dean. I wouldn’t risk seventy-two hundred dol- ~~ Jars unless I felt pretty sure of my ground.” ; Next day, however, Fred got a pretty good scare. A heavy bear movement was launched against D. W. & P., and the shares tumbled down to 70, or two points below the price at which he had purchased the stock. He kept away from the - stenographer’s den, as he didn’t want to alarm ~ Daisy. “Tf it goes down another point or two we'll be - ealled on for additional margin, and I don’t see how we'll be able to raise even one = — begin to see how foolish it is to put up all of one’s capital on a single deal. It will be tough if we x our money. c ; — po aay wo hundred dollars, but Daisy—I don’t like to think of it, for I induced her to go __ into this thing.” - He was nervous for the rest of the day, though he became a bit reassured ,when the ‘stock recov- ered and went to 72 5-8 before the Exchange dosed. Then he had the courage to run in and tell the girl what happened. eae “Never mind, Fred. I ugh “sare Lire “s this ‘ wrong,” she said, laying her hand re- = ioaty on < arm. “You'll have your own _ troubles, know. It is no silly thing to lose seventy-two hundred dollars.” Next morning D. W. & P. opened at 73, noon had gone up to 75. - “That’s better,” Fred told Daisy. _ “Perhaps you ought to sell and let us make what we can out of it,” she said. : = “No,” replied the boy. “I'll sell your one hun- dred and fifty if you say so, but I’m going to see < is out, make or break.” ; “Then I won’t sell. I’m willing to bank ou your _ fuck, one way or the other.” ‘—. W. & P. fluctuated for several days, but to Fred’s satisfaction it invariably closed higher than the day previous. When business shut down on ~ Saturday the stock was ruling at 80. On Monday morning he tan into Murphy, who had been in the hospital with a bad leg. “Hello, Murphy,” he chuckled, “you’re like a “bad , aren't you?” = vewthat you =e by that?” asked Spencer _Sysonby’s messenger, suspiciously. “You're bound to turn up.” “You're awfully funny, ain’t you. If you had had my leg you’d have grinned on the- other side ' your face.” . ; Maybe I would. You had one satisfaction at rate. “ ate “What was that?” “You didn’t have to work for three months, ur wages went on just the same.” ‘ said my wages went on?” <= fat and by a point in the stock they had invested in, then, It’s bad enough for me to lose - - “I dunno as Iam. He kind a whole lot more than he is.” “That’s right— he does,” assented James a “He ought to , =o POINTERS 13 “I say so. Spencer & Sysonby wouldn’t dock you for being on the sick list.” “You seem to know all about it.” “Well, isn’t it a fact? ” E “What of it?” “Nothing, except as I remarked you got your pay for doing nothing while I had to hustle for mine.” “TJ thought you liked to hustle?” “So I do. By the way, you didn’t hear that I made sixty-five hundred dollars on D. & G. about the time that leg of yours gave out, did you?” “What are you givin’ me?” “Givin’ you nothing. I’m only telling you a bit of news.” “Well, don’t give me any such steer as that.” “Don’t you believe me?” : “I should say not. How could you make sixty- five hundred dollars on D. & G.?” 3 “By being on the right side of the market, of course,” : “Where would you get the money to put up on margin?” “You didn’t know-I carried a little dough-bag of my own, did you?” “No, I didn’t know it. You can’t jolly me the first day I’m out of the hospital. How’s things on the Street since I’ve been laid up?” : “We've slaughtered a few of the lambs and —_ fleece is hanging up in a number of the of- ces.” “It that all you know? That doesn’t interest me.” “That’s all, Murphy. Ta-ta, I’m going down Broad,” and Fred darted off like a winged Mér- cury. So “Well, he makes me tired about his winnin’ sixty-five hundred dollars on D. & G. What does he take me for, anyway? He’s a stuff, that’s what he is.” He spoke the last sentence aloud, and a yo man standing near by, who had seen him ast from Fred, caught the words, and he quickly stepped up to him. “Hello, Owen Murphy,” he said in a friendly way; “glad to see you back again. What’s been the matter with you?” : Murphy looked at the chap and recognized James. Elder. Elder had never noticed Murphy * before, though each knew the other by sight. Murphy was therefore surprised that the book- keeper should speak to him. He was also. sur- prised to see Elder on the street at that hour, looking like a, gentlemen of leisure, when he ought to be at work at his desk. = Ain’t you workin’ for Mr. Colt any more?” he asked in some surprise. “No. Left there some time ago, and all on ac- count of that lobster who just left you.” : _ “Do you mean Fred Ticknor?” “That’s just who I do mean.” . “What did he do to you?” ee “He did enough to make me down on him like a — cartload *o re, Now look here, Murphy, you’re -not_stuck on him a terrible lot, are you?”. : ind of thinks himself do you think?”

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CHASING “I think so, too,” agreed Murphy. —_. “What’s the matter with you and me doing it?” suggested the ex-bookkeeper. “How are we going to do it?” You leave that to me. Are you with me in + “That depends on what you want me to do. I don’t ‘want to get in no trouble. I’d like to get square with him for the way he refused to divvy when he found a pocketbook in the Mills Build- ing some time ago.” = “Wouldn’t he divvy with you?” “No. He went and hunted up the owner,’ and _ then he wouldn’t tell me whether he got anythin’ _ for handin’ it over. I'll bet he got a hundred _ ‘plunks. I ought to have got half of that,” said -- Murphy in an aggrieved tone. - “Of course you ought to have got half of the reward. But that’s just like him. I know him better than you do. Now you stand in with me - and we’ll get square with him together.” : “I'd like to know what you want to do to him first,” said Murphy, cautiously. _i “fT haven’t decided yet. I’ll meet you in a day - or two and let you know.” + “All right,” replied the messenger, starting to * le m ‘move off. . “Don’t let him know you met me or he’ll sus- pect something is in the wind. Do you under- stand?” < “I won’t say a word,” Murphy assured him, and then they separated. “Nothing like having a cat’s-paw to do your dirty work,” chuckled James Elder, rubbing his hands together as he walked up Nassau street. = CHAPTER XI.—A Dandy Scoop. After Fred returned to the office from his Broad street errand he had to hustle over to the Ex- change with an important note to a broker who attended to Mr. Colt’s business on the floor. When he arrived there he found that there was a good _ deal of excitement around the D. W. & P. stand- ard. Some announcement had been made -in reference to the road that had caused a rush on the part of many brokers to get some of the stock which suddenly appeared to be scarce, and as a Sih Sica Sa AM AROS bi as _ the. price booming. = As Fred stepped up to the rail and asked for _ the broker he wanted to deliver the note to, one - thousand shares of D. W. & P. exchanged hands at 88. Fred, when he saw the quotation posted on the board, felt like standing oh his head from .very joy, for it showed him to be something like eaeee thousand dollars ahead’ of the game. ~ “Daisy will be tickled to death when I tell her,” he said to himself. ‘ y . He was just as pleased to think the girl was making a haul as he was to make one himself. There was a sort of high jinks on the floor that morning. tended their lodges the preceding night and some w full of the Old Nick in spite of their ntérest.in the rise of D. W..& P. and other tocks. They showed in a variety of ways that were childlike and bland, but not quite so amus- fs to. their victims. = eae i : ; pet att necks a Ss mee a ns ee ee | ee, - ednsequence spirited bidding for the shares sent. A great many of the brokers had at-’ POINTERS = “They’re a gay lot,” mused Fred, as he watched some of the antics that occurred under his Ss - while he was waiting for an attendant to find his: man and bring him to the rail. “It would be worth as much as his life for an outsider to get in on the floor this morning. They wouldn’t do a thing to him.” At this point the broker came up and Fred delivered his note. “All right,” was the answer he got, and he left the howling scene behind. As soon as he got back to the office he rushed in to Daisy to tell her that D. W. & P. had reached 88 and was to all appearances bound to go much higher. “Isn’t that grand!” she exclaimed. “Your luck clings to you, I see.” “And you’re getting a slice of it. If I was only five years older I’ll bet you’d be setting your cap for me,” he grinned. “You ridiculous boy!” she cried, throwing a light ruler after him as he vanished through the doorway. ; D. W. & P. closed.at 90 that day and opened at 90 1-8 in the morning. Half the brokers\on the floor seemed to be making a play for the stock, and those who held it were not letting much , of it out. By noon D. W. & P.-was the center of a whirlwind of perspiring traders, and as -high as 98 was offered with few takers. Fred dropped in with a note about half-past twelve, and he could not remember-when he had ever seen such an. uproar outside of a panic. D. W. & P. had reached 100 3-8 and the excitement was terrific. The boy himself was thrilled not only by the scene but by the realization that if he cashed in at that moment he would win a matter of $28,000. He was fascinated by the scene before him. Even as he stood there, 500 shares of the stock were sold at 101. Z “My gracious! How high is it going? At the rate it is jumping it will be up to 110 or 112 by three o’clock. Will the stock stand it? - Suppose. a screw would-suddenly work loose? Suppose somebody should all at once begin dumping big blocks on the market, what would happen? If a panic choudae in Daisy and I would be swamped in the shuffle.” ~ ‘ A sale of eight hundred shares were just then recorded at 102. - “Why, I’m worth two thousand dollars more than when I came in here five minutes ago,” he breathed. “I can’t stand this: I’m making money too fast to be sure it’s real. I am going to sell right away and make sure of what is in sight.” | As soon as he delivered his message, which took _ time on account of the mix-up on the floor, he made for the door as fast ag he coud go, and dashed for Nassau street. {It seemed as if the couldn’t reach the little bank soon enough. “What is PD. W. & P. going at now?”-he asked’ the margin clerk. : ' * ie “Why don’t you look at the tape?” asked the : : ~ margin clerk. “I can’t get within a mile of the ticker. at that mob around it.” ’ “You own some shares, don’t you?” “Yes,” replied Fred. “Eleven-fifty.” “Well, it’s my opinion you’d better sell before something happens.” _ Look *. v

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“That’s what I came here for. Here’s my mem- erandum. Just close me out at the market price right away. If I hold on any longer I'll go clean daffy.” “They'll be sold inside of five minutes,” replied _ the clerk, going to the telephone to communicate - with the bank’s representative at the Exchange. _ When Fred reached the office the indicator there was ticking prices off like mad, and an excited throng was around it. ges little while one of the crowd would rush up to the margin clerk and order some stock sold, and then walk away with a look of relief on his face. “Pye sold out, Daisy,” cried Fred, rushing into the stenographer’s room. “I beg your pardon— Miss Dean, I mean,” the corrected himself with a red face. “Don’t apologize, Fred,” laughed the girl. “I have no objection to you calling me Daisy since we're partners, you know. What did you sell at?” “Blessed if-I1 know. I told the clerk to close us out at the market+figure. The last sale I heard of was eight hundred at 102.” “Why, that is thirty dollars a share over what we paid for it.” “That’s right. of money out of this rise : “And somebody else wi that profit good.” _ The statement that Fred received in the next - morning’s mail showed that his D. W. & P. shares had been sold at 102 3-8, thus gi¥ing him a profit of thirty thousand dollars. Daisy’s one hundred ~ and fifty shares netted her forty-five hundred dol- lars. -. “Are you satisfied, Miss Daisy?” he asked her, - after figuring up what was due the young lady. “Perfectly,” she replied. “I am quite a capital- ist now, being worth fifty-seven hundred dollars.” “Don’t let it get into the newspapers, or you'll be swamped with offers of marriage and proposi- - tions from promoters of all kinds of enterprises _ who would like to use your money in their busi- ness,” grinned Fred. : : Daisy laughed and resumed her work, which was a quiet hint to the boy to return to his duties in the reception-room. : : Some people will make a raft ” . llxhave to lose it to make CHAPTER XII.—Foul Play. ? “Well, Bess,” said Fred that night, when he and his sister were sitting by themselves in the cozy little dining-room. “I chased another pointer to cover the other day.” 2 _ “Did you?” she answered, growing interested at once. must have been a winner, judging by your happy face this evening.” * “Bet your life it was a winner. “Tell me all about it. How did you come to Fred informed her. ba § bought a thousand shares en the strength it. “My! That was a lot. How much did you have up?” pose? Ae ds : ; p TESS two hundred.” : CHASING POINTERS - -and soon after the boys had taken their seats 15 that money. Suppose the stock had gone down in- stead of up, you would have lost all your capital.” “That’s a chance you must take in Wall Street; — but I believed I had a pretty sure thing, and the result proved I was right. I sold out yesterday at thirty points and a fraction advance, con- sequently I’m thirty thousand dollars richer to- day than I was two weeks ago.” “Thirty thousand dollars!” exclaimed Bessie, thinking he was joking. “Yes, Bess. Here is a certificate of deposit showing my present financial standing at the bank,” and he showed thé paper which represented the bank’s obligation to pa; Fred Ticknor the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars’on demand. That Bessie was amazed goes without saying. “Why, if you keep on this way you'll be a millionaire some day,” she said. ‘ “T’ll be satisfied with less, but if it comes my way I’m not going to let it get by me,” grinned her brother. _ “Ar® you going to tell mother? She has no idea you’re worth more than a few hundred.” “I’m afraid it might give her an attack of heart failure,” chuckled Fred. “We might break the news to her gently,” laughed his sister. “Well, you can give her a hint that I’m making money in the market, and maybe after a while Y’ll let her know the real facts.” ; “T heard her telling Mrs. Smith, in the fiat across the hall, the other night, what a smart boy you are, and how she expected that some day you’d be a Wall Street broker yourself.” “Stranger things than that have happened. There are quite a number of successful traders downtown who once were poor messenger boys.” Next morning when Fred was crossing Wall Street toward Broad he saw Murphy on the-cor- ner talking to a man whom he recognized as James Elder. He saw the ex-bookkeeper pass Murphy something that looked like a pocketbook, but owing to the distance he couldn’t tell exactly. That afternoon when he started for lunch he found Murphy standing down at the door smoking a cigarette. S “Goin’ to lunch?” asked Murphy, carelessly. “Yes,” replied Fred. “Then I'll go with you.” Fred had no objection to his company,*as they often went together to the same quick-lunch house on lower Broad street. So they walked along to- gether, Murphy doing all the talking, and trying to interest Fred in his favorite topic. At last they reached the restaurant and entered. A heavi- _ ly rded man, who had been standing-for some time in front of the restaurant, followed them in- side and eezed himself inte a seat alongside of Fred. urphy took the stool on the other side of his companion. The place was pretty well ~ crowded. There were tables at the back for ladies, — Daisy Dean entered. *

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“his pocket next to the bearded man. She thought _ that-was a funny thing for Murphy to do, and at once suspec that he playing some joke on his companion. She decided to tell Fred as soon as she returned to the office. The boys finished their lunch and started for the pay counter. As they did so the bearded man jumped down from _his stool, put his hand into his pocket and started “after them. “Not so fast, young man,” hand on Fred’s shoulder. - . my pocketbook.” “Your pocketbook!” exclaimed Fred, in astonish- ment. “What do you mean?” » “Oh, you know what I mean well enough,” re- plied the man in a loud voice, which attracted im- mediate attention. “You’re a sneak thief, and V’m going to have you arested.” £You must be crazy, replied Fred, indignantly. ' “What’s the trouble?” asked the manager of the restaurant, forcing his wav through the crowd that was beginning to collect around the bearded man and the two boys. “This young raseal has stolen my pocketbook,” replied the accuser, vehemently. “I guess you’re off your perch,” retorted Fred, angrily. “How do you know he took your pocketbook, replied the manager, who knew Fred by sight as a regular customer. “How do I know it? He sat alongside of me, and as he got down off his stool I felt him brush against me. I put my hand in my pocket and - found my wallet gone, so I know he must have taken it. Call an officer and have him searched.” =¥ “What kind of a pocketbook was it?” asked the + manager. 2 “It was a red morocco one, with my name, - John Thomas, stamped upon the flap.” “You'd better turn your pockeis out-to ‘satisfy this man,” said the manager to Fred. = “J think this is an outrage,” objected the boy, his face blazing with indignation. “My name is Ticknor, and I work for Colt & Co., of No. — _ Wall Street. It is ridiculous to charge me with _ such a thing as stealing a pocketbook.” a “That’s right,” interposed Murvhy at this point. “T know him, and he wouldn’t steal nothin’.” Y “I believe you’re his pal,” roared the bearded man, “and are just as bad as he is.” “Tl prove you’re a liar,” said Murphy. “Here’s a broker outside Ir know. T’ll bring him in to _ prove who we are.” . Thus speaking, Murphy made his way out of the crowd and for the street. When he got there he made tracks for Wall Street, leaving __ Fred to his own resources. The bearded man in the meanwhile insisted that Fred be searched, he said, putting his “Vl trouble you for ‘manager undertook to do that himself, feeling ‘Satisfied that the whole thing was a mistake. y noticed a policeman outside.and called be aay: in just as the manager pulled the red moroeco wallet out of Fred’s 'That’s my pocketbook, and my name is on it. pen it, and you'll find a five-dollar bill and some The manager opened it and found phere ma ibed.. Fen uaa too oe enareceen and d “y= CHASING POINTERS and as the easiest way out of the trouble the . pocket. _ “What did I tell you? nese roared the bearded man. “What’s the matter here?” asked the officer, forcing his way through the mob. “Officer, that boy stole my pocketbook, and I —_ him arrested,” said the bearded man, insis- tently “What have you to say for yourself, young »” man?” asked the surprised manager. “How came this man’s wallet in your pocket?” —¢« “T have no idea how it got there,” replied Fred, flushed and confounded by the unfortunate cir- cumstance. “All I know is that I didn’t take it.” The crowd, none of whom knew the boy, were satisfied of his guilt the moment the pocketbook was produced and identified by its owner. “T’ll have to take you to the station, young fellow,” said the cop. make a chargé against him.” ~ “lll do it,” said the accuser, nodding his thead” vigorously. “Stand back there!” cried the [sthenradee- to the crowd, as he began to push Fred toward the door and the sidewalk. Everybody was jostled about, and a stout man; in an endeavor to get clear of the mob, accidently struck the boy’s accuser a sliding blow in the face with his big elbow. One of the buttons on his coat-sleeve caught in the man’s thick bear, and off came the false whiskers as clear as if a cyclone had shaved him. Fred, the officer and séveral of the people saw the acci- dent, and the boy recognized the disagreeable countenance of his enemy, James Elder. With an exclamation of surprise Fred made a grasp at the ex-bookkeeper. The fellow, however,.seeing that he was ex- posed, pushed his way through the doorway and dashed around the corner of Beaver street. Frei wrenched himself from the officer and started after him. The cop himself and some-.of the crowd followed after. Elder, however, man- aged to elude pursuit and escaped. “That was a put-up job on™ me, officer,” Fred, when the policeman reached his side. chap was formerly employed by Mr. Colt, my boss, and lost his situation through a dirty trick he tried to play on me. He thought he’d get me into trouble through this pocketbook scheme, and might have succeeded in putting me to a lot of shame and trouble only that his disguise came off. I’m going to put this thing into the hands of a detective and see if I can’t have him arrested and punished.” said CHAPTER XIIi.—Fred Buys Some Worthless Shares. He found Daisy in her room looking the picture of distress. She jumped up and ran to him as soon as she saw him. “Oh, Fred! peat was all the. trouble about at the restaurant. I heard people say that you were accused of stealing a pocketbook. Just as if you would do such a thing! = rehearsed the incident from beginning to en “So you see, Daisy, that rascal, James Elder, 4 wa# at the bottom of the whole thing.” “Did you say it was a red po¢ketbook, Fred?” “Yes, a red Morocco one.” = : tell you. — I’m satisfied it was your friend Mecote put that Well, Fred, I’ve got something to wallet in vente pocket.” “You must go along and “That - Ol Rg eR ey eR Ee et age ee ee

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oe GG Sr ae Murphy!” exclaimed Fred, in some astonish- “Yes. I was in the restaurant while you boys e there. I saw Murphy reach around your and drop what looked to me like a red poc- stbo ok into the right-hand pocket of your “That's the. pocket it was found in.” “Then I thought he tapped the bearded man ho sat alongside of you on the arm, but I am bt sure. I’m afraid Murphy is no friend of , = 7 “T believe you’re. right,” said Fred. ber now I saw “a ning on the corner of Broad street, and I saw der pass something into his hand which. he put nto his pocket. Well, that settles Murphy and me for keeps, and it’s not unlikely he hasn’t the end of the matter yet. I’m going to hire detective to catch Elder, and when he gets to Murphy may be called on to make an ex- ionr. ; waited for Murphy that afternoon. The tter seemed to be surprised to see Ticknor. t had been his impression that Fred was behind ne bars, : “Well, Murphy, what have you to say for yourself?” asked Fred, with a stern countenance. When I got into trouble about that pocketbook ou sneaked.” I started to get somebody to identify you,” ed Murphy, shamefacedly. ‘Oh, you did,” answered Ticknor, sareastic- ally Pe *“Sure I did. How did you get out of it?” “TI got out of it all right. Now how are you koing to square yourself?” hat do you mean?” asked Murphy with a lel look. ow much did you get from James Elder for ng that wallet in my pocket?” _ “He didn’t give me nothin’,” replied Murphy edl = i ae dais, our stenographer, was in the res- urant when we were there, and she distinctly aw you take a red pocketbook from your pocket put it into the gassed pocket of my jacket.” X “It’s a lie!” roared Murphy. : _, “All right. Just as soon as Elder is arrested T’m going to have you up in court, too. You’ve played a dirty trick on me and I’m/going to make you sweat for it.” Fred turned on his heel, leaving Murphy dazed and frightened. Next day Fred told Mr. Colt pocketbook affair, and the broker was incensed against his late bookkeeper. He tTickoor that he would get one of the Wall t detectives to look after James Elder, and d help put the rascal through. That same noon Fred heard Mr. Colt tell a big cus- r that if he wanted to make a safe deal he ald advise him to buy L. & M. shares, and hold m for a ten-point rise. That set the boy nking whether he hadn’t better buy some of the himself. At the first chance he got he n_ and had a talk.with Daisy about the ] of g use of the pointer. i € M. ruting at, Pred Jee , “T remem- © Murphy talking to Elder. this. CHASING POINTERS» | 17 “That’s my opinion. Are you with me in this?” Daisy made some calculations on a pad. “Till bring enough. money down for you te buy me three hundred shares. That will leave twenty-three hundred dollars leeway to make good any additional margin if the stock should go down a bit.” “All right. I’ll risk the purchase of two thou- sand shares.” He got the shares for himself and Daisy next day at 113. In two days the shares went up to 115. During the ensuing week L. & M. went up slowly by eighths until it roosted at 120. Then Fred told Daisy that he intended to sell at that figure. Accordingly Fred sold out next morning at 120 1-8. His profit on the deal amounted to thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, raisinghis capital to fifty-one thousand five hundred del- lars. He took the five hundred dollars home and presented it to his mother as a birthday gift. A few days afterward he met George Bates, the big operator, on the street. “Hello, Ticknor,” he said. “I’m glad to see you. Why haven’t you been around to my office? You™ promised to call, and it’s more than six months since I had the pleasure of making your ac- quaintance.” “T didn’t want to bother you, sir, as I under- stand you’re a busy man.” “Oh, nonsense! I’m busy, of course. I have large interests which take up a great deal of my attention, but still I have a few moments to give to my frien How are you getting along? You’re looking first-class.” “T’m getting on-all right, sir.” “Well, drop in and see me between three and four some day soon.” “All right, sir; I will.” x That evening after supper, while Fred was sit- ting in the dining-room reading thé sporting edi- tion of an afternoon paper, there came a knack on the door. Bessie answered the summons aud admitted a lady who lived on the floor below. She had a bundle in her hand done up in old news- - papers. “I hope I am not intruding,” said the lady. whose name was Parker. “Not at all,” replied Bessie. “Sit right down. Mother will be back in a few minutes. She step- ped across the hall to see Mrs. Smith.” “Very well, my dear. The purport of my visit is this. Your brother, I understand, is employed in a broker’s office in Wall Street. I have some shares of mining stock here that my husband took in satisfaction of a debt several years ago. I don’t know whether they’re worth anything or not. We haven’t looked at them for a long time. My husband tried to dispose of them when he got them first, but nobody would buy them at more than a few cents a share, and so we kept them. _ We are going to’ move to New Jersey soon and. as we need all the money we_can get, I thought I pot see if I can realize something on these shares.” “What are the shares, Mrs. persed: asked Fred, very politely. “You may look at them.”

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‘they were all agreed that the . about them in a day or two. "~~ Building i _ operator happened to be at leisure, and he cor- 18 -one thousand shares of the Paradise Gold and Silver Mining Company, of Tonopah, Nevada, par value fifty dollars per share. There were fifteen certificates in the bunch, each calling for one thousand shares. “This is Western mining stock, ma’am,” said Fred. “I have no idea what it is worth, but I will try and find out for you to-morrow.” “T shall consider it a great favor if you will,” replied the lady, gratefully. Fred made a note of the name: of the mine- and its location in his memorandum book and promised to attend to the matter. He then re- pespees the stock and handed the package back to her. “I hope it is worth something,” we need the money.’ Next day Fred asked Mr. Colt about the stock. “What did you say its name was?” asked the broker. “Paradise Gold and Silver Mining Company.” “I’ve got a block of ten thousand shares I’d be glad to sell for ten cents if I could get it,” said Mr. Colt. “It’s been in my safe these three years.” “You’ve no idea what it is actually worth, sir?” “It isn’t worth anything to speak about, as there is no market for it. It-was taken off the Western exchanges two years or more ago. How many shares does the lady own?” “She has fifteen-thousand shares. ed ‘ > ale ae y me ian) ee u my) \ee eX ad ‘A f BP oA.

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CHASING “Gee! I guess there isn’t any doubt now that 1 the luckiest boy in Wall Street.” ‘You certainly are.” Well, I know where there are ten thousand re shares of Paradise stock. Would you advise o try and buy them?” all means. You ought to be able to see m for a song. I’ve bought all I could find in @ city at less than five cents a share. I'll give a ten cents a share for that block you speak out if you get it, but it will pay you better to it yourself.” “Thank you, sir. I guess I can afford to hold it I am able to induce the owner to part with it.” lext day Fred told Mr. Colt that he thought € could find him a purchaser for his stock of Paradise stock if he was willing to let it go for cent a share. The broker shook his head. . “I'll accept two and a half cents a share for it, - nothing lower.” ‘ In a day or two Fred brought him two hundred id fifty dollars and took the stock. It was about Mis time that our hero got ori to the fact that Syndicate was being formed to boom D. & L. spent several days investigating the tip, tt he found out very little. ose on the inside ot giving away any of their plans to the , had his customary confabs with Daisy h pov ect, bat couldn’t make up his mind ther to go into a deal in the stock or not, Withstanding the apparent value of his pointer. He kept a close eye on D. & L. and in a short le it began to forge ahead. After it had imped from 89 to 95, Fred concluded to buy thousand shares, and Daisy went in it to ent of five hundred shares with him. That lay it rose to 98, and two days later it was ling at 105. . his looks like another lucky deal,” he told stenographer. — nodded her head and kept on with ‘her . for she was very busy that day, having cured several new customers. Fred went back © his chair in.the waitinig-room and began to wild air-castles about his future prospects. ‘Pm thirty thousand ahead so far on : em ecko may even double my capital the hundred thousand mark. If the ‘knew I had taken that amount out of the they'd have a fit and would begin putting on me to try and get it back cae I haven’t made the hundred thousand then a-couple of well-dressed men en- he office. One of them carried a small ‘leather hand-bag. . He, asked if Mr. sir,” repliéd Fred, looking hard at the _ for somehow or another he did not hike “We'd like to see him.” + 4 What’s your names and business?” s far as our names go, we are strangers to ; our business, however, is to dispose of a] States bonds.” —~ - , x . ~<a ~4 ag , ” S : ee | POINTERS 19 “Very well, sir; I will tell him.” —— Mr. Colt, not being busy, said he would. see the visitors, and so Fred showed them into the pri- vate office. Fred thought nothing more about them until he saw one of the men come out with a papér in his hand, which he carried over to the cashier’s window. “Mr. Colt has bought their bonds,” he thought... The cashier happened to be out at the moment, and the visitor had to wait until he returned to his den. The man seemed to be very nervous and impatient, and drummed with his fingers on the window ledge. Fred was standing near the ‘ticker, with the tape in his fingers, and the nerv- ous movements of the men attracted his notice. Finally the man put his hand to his hip pocket to draw out his handkerchief, and the boy saw the polished butt of a revolver sticking out. “Gree!” breathed Fred, “tWat chap is well heel- ed. If a cop saw what I did just now he’d run him in, and the magistrate would soak him ten dollars fine for carrying a concealed weapon.” A couple of customers came in and went di- rectly to the ticker, so Fred withdrew. The cashier now appeared, and the man with the concealed revolver pushed the paper through the window to him. -He looked at-it, laid it on his desk and went to the safe. Fred saw him count- ing out a big wad of bills. Just then the cashier called him over to the window. ; “Take this money in to Mr. Colt,” he said to Fred. ; “But I want that money,” objected the visitor at the window. “I handed You an order for it.” “I know you did, sir,” replied the cashier; “but as it is rather unusual-for us to pay out such a large amount in cash, I prefer to send it directly to Mr. Colt, who will, of course, pay it over to you himself.” “Very well,” replied the man, gruffly. to me and I will take it in to him.” “That is unnecessary,” replied the cashier. “The office boy will take it. It is part of his busi- ness.” ; As he passed the money through the window to Fred it looked for a moment as if the stranger intended to snatch it. Such was probably his first intention, but he reconsidered it and followed closely on Fred’s heels as the boy went toward the private office. Fred opened the door and en- tered the room. A startling tableau met his gaze and paralyzed him for the moment. The other caller, who had remained in the pri- vate room while his companion went to the ‘eashier’s window with the order for the money the lad held in his hand, was standing beside the broker’s desk with a reyolver pointed at his head. He uttered an oath when he saw Fred enter the room, and the boy was about to cry out, when the man behind him closed the door quickly and seized him, pressing one hand over his mouth. In the scuffle that ensued, deadened by the thick -rug on the floor, Fred dropped the money. Then the villain holding Fred exclaimed to his partner: ~ “Pick it up, and we'll be off as soon as I choke this kid into unconsciousness. Give your man a tap over the head with the butt of your gun.” Fred heard the words and felt the :man’s other “Give it hand creeping around to this throat. Fred: sank ~ } ne ie

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_* * - 20 his strong fingers into his captor’s throat. The fellow uttered a ery of pain and mechanically released the pressure on the boy’s mouth. “Crack the young imp on the head before he yelis out!” hissed the discomfited rascz?. Fred squirmed around the man to save’ him- self, and as he did so his hand came into contact * with the butt of the revolver sticking out of the chap’s hip pocket. It happened to be a self- cocker, and as Fred’s fingers slipped around the trigger as well as the butt, in pulling it out the hammer rose and fell under the pressure, and the unexpected explosion which followed nearly stun- ned the boy, whose head was within a few inches of the muzzle. The man himself uttered a cry and fell to the floor, for the bullet had entered his thigh, while Fred staggered to his knees with the _ smoking: pistol in his hand. CHAPTER XV.—Conclusion. : The report of the revolver, coupled with the man’s cry, startled the entire office, and even attracted notice in the corridor outside. The cashier and two of the clerks ran out of the counting-room and, followed by the customers in the waiting-room, made a line for Mr. Colt’s sanctum. Inside of two minutes an excited throng was crowding into Mr. Colt’s office, all agog with excitement and curiosity. . The cashier himself had recovered the money, and was speaking to Mr. Colt, while Fred, with the revolver still in his hand; was keeping the mob from crowding into the small room. Finally Fred succeeded in closing the door in their faces and putting his back against it, “Send for the police,” exclaimed the broker, in a tone that showed he had not quite recovered from the shock to which he had been subjected. As a matter of fact, an officer was even then trying to force his way through the crowd which blocked the approaches to the office. Fred opened ‘the door and let him enter the room. He had _ a pair of handcuffs in his pocket, and he soon put these on the uninjured rascal’s wrists. He then took up Mr. Colt’s desk ‘phone, connected with the station, and-called for the patrol wagon. By this time there were two reporters on the scene trying to collect the facts. Finally the excitement in the building subsided with the departure of the prisoners, but a stream of brokers filed in to call on Mr. Colt to learn the inside particulars of the trouble. As soon as the real facts got around Fred was regarded as the hero of the occasion. The afternoon edi- tions said a lot of nice things about him, and ~ tong before he got home the news had been car- ried to his mother by talkative neighbors. “You’re the bravest boy in Wall Street,” Daisy ~ told him, when he had modestly given her a full _ aceount of the affair. : “Pshaw! I only did my duty, Daisy.” : ~The market had closed for the day before he thought about his stock deal. Then he looked the tape over for the latest quotations of D, & L. It had gone up to 110, 2 Next day he had to go with Mr. Colt and the =— ! CHASING POINTERS . a cashier to the Tombs Police Court to give his ~ testimony at the examination. The rascals, only one of whom was able to appear, were held for the action of the grand jury. An indictment was in due time found against them; they were subse- quently tried and sent to Sing Sing for a term of years. On returning from the police court — a dropped into the little bank on Nassau street. The tape showed that D. & L. was then going © at 117, so Fred ordered the deal closed. out at ~ that figure. He cleared fifty thousand’ dollars — by the transaction, which placed his financial — standing with the bank at one hundred and one — thousand dollars. Daisy pocketed eight thousand dollars, which made her worth, all told, sixteen thousand dollars. Fred did not forget what Mr. Bates, the millionaire operator, had told him about the prospects of the Paradise Gold & Silver © Mining Company. Three months passed, however, and the mine had not showed any signs of coming to life again. £ 2 “I think I’ll drop in and see Mr. Bates again,” — he said, as he left the office a little before three with the day’s deposits that he was taking to the bank. : = . That gentlemen told Fred the mine would prove _ an El Dorado in another year’s time. = Mr. George Bates proved to be a good prophet, for within the year Paradise was selling for fifty- five cents a share. Fred is now cashier for Mr. Colt, and earning a good salary, but he is still making money for both himself and Daisy Dean, the stenographer, in the market. xe As he came of age this year, he is now able — to keep a regular account in one of the big Wall Street banks, and signs his name legally checks.. Moreover, he and Daisy Dean are gaged to be married. He still does his through the little bank in Nassau street, cashier of which maintains that he is the luckiest boy in Wall Street. = € Next week’s issue will contain “RISING S THE WORLD; or, FROM FACTORY BOY TO — MANAGER.” > MAN KILLING WHITE TIGER SLAIN BY _ INDIAN RAJAH ; _ Sportsmen all over India are greatly interested _ in the skin of a white tiger recently shot by — the Maharaja of Sirguja and which is now on dis- play at Calcutta. a é Except for a few darker stripings the pelt is almost pure white and measures nine feet eight — inches from nose to tail tip. The white tiger is extremely rare, but few specimens ever having been secured, and this one is reported to havo had a career of depredation that jncluded three — human victims and innumerable cattle. a According to reports from the district in which~ it was killed, the beast actually appeared to use its unusual coloration as an aid to hunting. 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COWS’ INTELLIGENCE _ Lil and Red, cows owned by Ezra Edgell of hfield, W. Va., saved their own lives when hing Creek rose to record flood stage. The s planted their front hoofs against the side bf their barn, keeping their noses out of the ; which would have drowned them had it r heads down. The horses and another cow the same barn were drowned. BULLET DROPS FROM SKY ppealing to Yonkers police for an investiga- , Donald Buchanan, twenty-seven, No. 107 er avenue, Yonkers, N. Y., reported recently had narrowly escaped death on Saw Mill er Road when a stray .45 galibte steel-jack- bullet went through the. fim of his straw ploughed its way down his back and lodged in his clothing. - Police believe a Yonkers sportsman, practicing < Handsome Colored Covers + “A TEST OF CONSCIENCE” a ; By J. B. WARRENTON interesting short stories: . ae the seven In addition there ed a Crook Gang.” | 5 - - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS = three inches more, as a haymow above held. Buy “Mystery Magazine” 1 No. 162 IS OUT TODAY, CONTAINING |. A Lively Detective Novelette, by GROVER KIDWELL, entitled 2 “THE INTRIGUERS” | : : & It has a splendid plot and is full of exciting adventures = DON’T MISS THE NEW TWO-PART SERIAL “LAWFULLY SWINDLED,” by Glenn A. Gravatt “Pp, O. P. TAKES A HAND,” by H. Belanger “LET THE GUILTY MAN SUFFER,” by Anne H. Hadley “4 GLASS OF WATER,” by Jack Bechdolt = “VERY NEARLY PERFECT,” by Noble W. Hunt : “THE GIRL IN THE RED MASK,” by David F. Galvin - “PROVERBS AND A CASH BOX,” by B. M. Goldenberger’ is an article by POLICE-CAPTAIN HOWARD “THE LAST OF THE GANGSTERS” Also a number of shorter items: * = 3 t,” “Recaptured Convicts,” “Alleged Fence Ar- rested,” “Control of Detective Agencies,” “Mystery in Mail Theft” and a Beautiful Woman FREE HANDWRITING READINGS - By LOUISE RICE . Send her a sample of your writing and she will tell your. ditcatten and advise Ss you about what you are best fitted for. THERE’S MORE MATERIAL IN THIS MAGAZINE THAN YOU GET IN ANY ese? ~ SIMILAR PUBLICATION ON THE NEWSSTANDS ‘A Woman Detective,” “Hunt a Dumpy Bandi 2 with a high-powered rifie, fired into the air and the bullet, in its descent, went through Buch- anan’s hat and down his back by sheer weight. DUCKS ARE BOMB VICTIMS Hundreds of ducks were victims of recent army practice in phosphorus bomb and grenade throw- ing at the proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. After the tests were made army officers were amazed to find large numbers of dead ducks in the neighboring waters of Chesapeake Bay. An investigation showed that the dead ducks had eaten fragments of unconsumed phosphorus which had fallen in the water of their feeding grounds. ; Now when tests are to be made, says Hygeia, the soldiers are using devices to frighten the birds away and the bombs are being exploded either over land or over deep water where ducks do not feed. Sixty-four Pages of Reading

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, 2g Rob and the Reporters i Oe x= Hustling for War News by Wireless By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER XI. Captured By Reporters. Rob, whose own wound was rapidly healing, went with Walter and saw him comfortably in- stalled. “Now then, Rob, don’t you think you’ve got to tie to me,” he said, when it came ie the parting. “If you geta chance to push on to the front just bust right ahead—see? The case is too important. We shall have to each look out for himself,” It was a relief to Rob to hear him say it, for he felt it his duty to use every means to obtain war . news for the Earth. His chance came that very afternoon, when Mons. Berge introduced him to a young Belgian officer, one Captain Champlain, who was starting by auto for the British front, then near Mons in Western Belgium. “T can take you along and shall be glad of-vour company,” declared the captain. “Of course we are liable to be captured by some straggling party of Germans, but as I know every inch of the coun- try you run less risk with me than you would with another.” Rob gratefully accepted. He now took leave of Louise, who had already paid him as agreed, the money having been shared with Walter. She informed Rob that the money in the chest amounted to over $50,000. There was no time to call again at the hosoital, as Captain Champlain was starting at once, it be- ing his intention to run on through the night. He hoped to reach General Taylor’s headquarters shortly after sunrise. Rob found the captain, who spoke perfect Eng- lish, a very clever fellow and excellent company. He had been in the mencevnt at Liege and ° gave Rob many particulars which he jotted down in shorthand for future use ‘in a detailed story of the siege which he proposed to write as soon as opportunity offered to send it to New York. Everything went well until after they left Ghent, which was shortly after midnight, when while passing through a forest, the car suddenly went out of business. Captain Champlain was acting as his own chauffeur, and upon making a hasty examination he informed Rob that the break was’ serious. “There is no help for it,” he said. “She'll have to be town to a garage. T’m afraid this is going to put us back a day. ve “Where is the nearest. garage?” asked Rob. . _ *Donay, five miles ahead,”~ was the reply. _ “There are no chances to r telephone; 20 there’s FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ‘ing a revolver, “you get out of that car and om - nothing for it but for me to walk there. Will” you stay here and look out for the car.” x “Surely. I want to be of what service I can,” Rob assured him, so having lit a cigar the captain’ started away. It was lonely. business. z The road was an‘unfrequented one, cea so chosen, No one passed during the first hour. Rob had all he could do to- keep awake. * At last he did drop off, to be suddenly awak- ened by hearinga car whizzing up behind him in~ which, as it came alongside, he saw certainly four young’ men who looked to be English. ‘. It stopped and the man at the wheel called to know if Rob had broken down. “As you see,” he replied. “Want any help?” the man asked, . “You can’t help me,” replied Rob, explaining the cause of the trouble and that the owner of the car had gone toa garage at Donay. : a “Y’'d offer you a tow, only we don’t happen tO be going that way,” said the man, adding: _ 3 “Say, you’re English, aren’t you,” s “Canadian,” replied Rob. “I’m from New- 4 foundland,” : “So? What brought you to Belgium ?” “Oh, I’m here on business.” “Of course it’s none of mine, but, say you don’t 4 happen to nidareunll wireless telegraphy, do you?” ee. “As it happens, I do. plied Rob. . : The man’s manner was cordial. He saw no rea- son why he should not speak the truth. = Instantly he regretted it. = The man whispered something to the one seate beside him, who sprang, out of the car, and ee = proaching the other auto, said: “You fellow, come with us and we will pay J well.” _ “Couldn’t think of | it,” replied Rob. do you want me for?’ i 9 matter, you'll Deis to go, that’s all there : to it.” zs “But I won’t go,” replied Rob decidedly. “Pye got my own business to attend to. Besides, I cans leave this car.” “Now look here,” said the man, suddenly draw- 7 That’s my trade,” 1 — = with us or I propose to shoot you—see?” : “So say we all!” cried the others, and Rob forte himself facing not only one reyolver, bu our. ae “Do you really mean it?” he gasped. ae “You have said it,” replied the spokesma “You’ve gotter come, young feller, and eae : there is to it.” “But would you murder me?” a ' “Sure, . We're on the hustle. We shall let noth ing stand in our way.” : There seemed to be no help for it. Reluctan ly Rob descended and crowded into the other ea feeling that these were probably just = cre and that he was going to be robbed. : Nothing of the sort happened. The car was driven ahead at great speed. __ Fe your name?” asked one of thon; nm (To be continued.) : ‘ ; awe SS ee ee

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Mat et. ee GREATEST MOUTH-ORGAN The world’s largest harmonica is 48 inches ng and is played by two midgets, Caroline arckerd, 32 inches tall, and Francis Parckerd, 0 inches tall. THE HAIRNET INDUS#RY The future commercial prosperity of Chefoo, China, a city of 100,000 population can be de- termined only when it is known whether Ameri- can women will continue to bob their hair or return to flowing and errant tresses. Chefoo’s thief industry is making hair nets and they sell 5,000,000 worth to this country each year, in ad- dition to exporting $3,060,000 worth to France and other countries. In China the price for the s runs from $1 to $2 a gross and for making hem factory workers are paid 7 cents a day. HUDSON TUNNELS FINISHED BY 1925 Work on the $29,000,000 vehicular tunnels un- der the Hudson River, between Jersey City and Manhattan, is progressing so rapidly that it is kpected the tunnels will be ready for use by 1925. Thus, much of the present heavy traffic on Hudson River ferryboats will be alleviated. Work was begun in October, 1920. - Two tunnels are being dug; the north, for Jer- Sey-bound traffic and the south for New York- ound traffic. The entrance on the New York id will be at Broome street between Hudson and Variek streets, Manhattan. The exit will be at al and Varick streets. In New Jersey, the en- ‘ance will be at Twelfth and Provost streets and exit at Fourteenth and Provost streets, Jersey It was said that the new tunnels when com- ted will be of great benefit to Brooklyn be- sause of the easy access to both the Williamsburg md “Manhattan Bridges. In this manner, it is hought that trade between Brooklyn and Jersey nufacturers will be promoted. 2 Phe tunnels will be 9250 feet long, twenty-nine and six inches in diameter with a twenty- ot roadway for two lines of traffic in both di- ons. The tunnels will be ninety-three feet th high water. The exterior surface of the nels will be constructed of castiron which will t rust. Inside the castiron surface will be a ll of concrete nineteen inches: thick. ‘The in- of the tunnels will be tiled. Electric lights special ventilating system will be installed. DFISH NOW. LISTED AS AUTOMOBILE 2 VICTIMS ee turalists receritly ascribed the extincticr vf entral Park squirrels in part to the automo- Recently a still more heinous charge is the door, as it were, of the motor vehicle. Said by the authorities of the New York rium that the motor car 1s exterminating goldfish of this city and vicinity. supply source from which the goldfish at the Aquarium are replenished is failing. once a weeck’s collecting in nearby waters net hundreds of the fish, an ordinary week will yield only eight or ten specimens, _ 23 ; : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : GOOD READING : “For years,” said Miss Ida M. Mellen, Secre- tary of the Aquarium, “we have gathered fresh fish from the waters of Manhattan. That means largely lakes and streams in the public parks. There have always been plenty of goldfish until now, in many varieties. We will get other fish from the local parks, but we have discovered a great scarcity of goldfish. They seem to be dy- ing out. The reason for that is the large number of automobiles that pass by the ponds where we collect. The oil that they drop on the roads washes into the little lakes, pollutes the water and kills much of the fish life. The goldfish in par- ticular have been unable to withstand it.” Experts shake their heads and sigh, but to no avail. They can look through the glass house of the goldfish-and tell if the inmates are marked for death, but they have not been able to check the onslaught of the destroyer. According to Miss Mellen; goldfish life in many parts of the country is threatened by an epidemic of black fungus. a ‘parasitic growth that fastens itself upon the tiny body and saps its vitality. To the goldfish this disease is as dread as the foot-and- mouth diséase to cattle, and as deadly. The infection wipes out whole schools of the little creatures. Often-the dealer who hatches them and the fan who purchases them are de- ceived by the appearance of the specimens. They fail to detect symptoms in advance. The sale is made all unwittingly; then the fish drop off one by one, or even two *by two, until the entire tank is depopulated. : “Mystery Magazine” Semi-Monthly 15 Cents a Copy 14 THR HOUSE ON THE ROCKS, by Jack Bechdolt. 155 -LATGHING DEATH'S TRAIL, by Nels LeRoy Jor- - gensen. THE MEDICINE DROPPER, br G, P. Wilson, 156 157 A QUESTION OF KKICK, by Engene Jones. 158 THE MYSTERY OF ROARING WATERS, by Harry Adler. THE RIVER PIRATES. by Hamilton Criizgie THE SHADOW OF A NOOSE, by Jack Bechdolt. 161 AT 2 A. M., by Beulah Poynter. THE INTRIGUERS By GROVER KIDWELL Out Today in Ne. 162 HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. 166 West 23d Street New York City SS “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Three Stories of the ‘Best Films on the Screen—Elegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plara —Interesting Articles About Prominent People in fhe Films—Doings of Actors and Aetresses in the S.udio and Lessons in Scenario Writing. HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisker, Inc. _ 166 West 23d Street. - New York City -

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= ~ 24 OIL IN CONDENSERS Never use oil on the bearings of a variable con- denser which depends on friction for the con- nection to the rotary plates. If the shaft does not turn easily there is something wrong with it. - The oil is likely to do more harm than good, as it is an excellent insulator and may spoil the electrical connection at the shaft. VENTILATE YOUR BATTERY Jf the storage’ A battery is kept in a wooden cabinet to hide it, be sure that some sort of ventilation is provided. The acid fumes are very powerful, and have been known to eat metal hinges and furnishings. CLEAN CRYSTALS ; If you have a erystal*detector, keep your fingers off the mineral. Handling it leaves a greasy surface and it is more apt to collect dust. It is best to keep your crystal covered and if you must handle it, do so with a pair of tweezers. LEARN TUNING FIRST To obtain the most out of a newly purchased set it is necessary to learn a few rudimentary principles of operation. What to ‘do and what not to do should bé memorized. The dealer will! give you instructions. , A 7 ————e . ". WATER FOR BATTERY Nothing but pure, distilled water should ever be poured into a. storage battery. Never add acid. If the battery does not charge properly bring it to a service station and have it ex- amined. Keep dry batteries in a cool place, or at least in a shaded one, during the hot Summer months. SHIELDING PANELS In the shielding of the panel in your new radio set remember that it is only necessary to place the shield back of the parts of the panel that house the tuning units, such as the variometers, variocoupler, or variable condensers. The de- tector and amplifier units do not need to be shielded. TO RECHARGE DRY CELLS -When your dry cells go dead bore two holes in the top of the cell, on opposite sides of the center connection each a quarter of an inch in diameter and three inches deep. Fill these holes with cider vinegar or a 20 per cent. solution of sulphurie acid and water, then plug up the holes with paraffin wax to prevent evaporation. A dry zell may be charged several times in this manner. TO MAKE RECEIVERS MORE SENSITIVE The efficiency of transmitting sets is relatively higher thaw that of the receiving sets because the former use heavy conductors and perfect in- sulation in the high frequeney circuits. The mly reason for using small wire for receiving sireuits is in the interest of economy and space and cost. : Jf reeeivers were wired with heavier leads, and. FAME AND FORTUNE ‘WEEKLY _ INTERESTING RADIO NEWS AND HINTS if the coils were wound with copper ribbon or — heavy wire instead of magnet wire, the appear-_ ance might suffer somewhat, but the efficiency would be greatly increased. Further improve- ment can be made by increasing the diameter of — the coils. ™ os HEROIC RADIO OPERATORS x 4 The United States Shipping Board has called the Bureau of Navigation’s attention to the yn-_ usual services performed by radio operators — Howard A. Moyer, Charles R. Stewart, and Alex- ander D. MacAlpin, aboard the “President Mon- roe” when the vessel encountered heavy weather in the North Atlantic during January. These cperators jeopardized their lives in assisting in erecting the ship’s antenna, which had washed — overboard, notwithstanding the fact that the officers of the ship refused to allow the mem of the desk force to assist the operators in haz-_ ardous work. Their faithfulness to their duty, however, inspired them to erect the needed an-_ tennae and thereby: maintain the radio ocr tion in operating. condition for an emergency. — , _NEW. RADIO CLIP : eats A novel clip designed to give high electrical — conductivity is the invention of Eugene Pons of Schenectady, N. Y. It is a double-grip clip for use in radio or battery work, and, has two con-— tinuous electrical paths unbroken by hinge joints or picot pins. The current therefore ace not. pass through and take the. temper from the spring. An absolutely tight connection is possi- — ble in five seconds with the Pons clip, it being only necessary to press one end, attach, and p the opposite end. In other words, the Pons is a double-headed proposition, with gripp teeth at both ends. This makes it applicz in many different ways. MEASURE B BATTERY 4 The only way to determine the condition of a — B battery is to use a voltmeter. An ammeter — must never be applied to the terminals. It will form a short circuit that will quickly rob the cells of their strength. ; ; Most B batteries are put up in blocks of f teen cells, and deliver 224% volts when new. T) voltage, however, will decrease slowly as the b teries are used. Even unused ones are bound drop off in time, due to the deterioration causes by the strong chemical action of ‘the cell com ponents. , , : _ A fifteen-cell block should read no less than volts when pevehesess and will give satisfact service until the figure drops to about 16 or. Even after then, some batteries are still good weeks of use.» The limiting factor will be amount of noise generated by the dying cells. , " “2 - WIRING THE SET | In wiring a radio set with bus bar, mos ple cut one piece of wire at a time and it in place immediately. This method ~~ Nie

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i ae ee Te is a very slow one, as the soldering iron is ing the intervals when the next length ing measured out. is much better to cut all the wires first and to solder them in position. It is surprising quickly this can be done. The individual es should be laid out on the table so that one not be confused with another. efu tin all the metal surfaces to which ends of the bus bars are to be fastened. This k takes only a minute and saves trouble in the actual soldering. following this line of action, the writer e completely wired in a half hour a two-stage fier with jacks, starting off with the uncut lengths of bus bar. The cutting of the latter about twenty minutes and the soldering the ining ten. eedless to say, a good hot iron which retained enough heat to allow mpletion of four or five joints at a time. = LOUD SPEAKERS n its present usage, the term loud speaker is pplied generally to devices employing some ns of distributing sounds over an area, It is ble to divide loud speakers into three sepa- and distinct classes, however: Those which make use of existing telephone ivers by means of rubber connections or to attach a pair of phones to a horn. The of speaker that uses a single tele- @ receiver equipped with a cap to permit its fastened to the small opening of a horn. ean be included the numerous loud s that incorporate a telephone of some in the base of the horn. E The loud speaker constructed on the solenoid iple, in which the currents. act on a coil ‘serious limitation to the first and second of loud speakers is that when high B bat- voltage, such as are common in most audio ney amplifiers, are used, a DC current through the windings of the phone and ex- a strong downward pull on the diaphragm. causes the metal diaphragm to be drawn f shape and will cause the loud speaker to a faltow or tinny sound. : is viabration of the metal diaphragm to- rd and away from the poles of the magnet unit will cause the air gap to vary. This m will cause the imp t resistance) of the loud speaker to vary as a great deal to do with the proper opera- on of the receiver set itself on weak or dis- mt singles. The impedence of the loud speaker: its function in the tuning and balancing of eceiver, and if it is fluctuating will have its in upsetting the accurate tuning of a re- i e of loud speaker the air gan geet of current through of the loud speaker does not change dence of the circuit. = m= ‘same time the third type of reproducer : rattle or “freeze” on extremely loud is, yet will give a greater amount of sound rremely weak or faint signals. gm, one of the most perfect sound reproduction, is used. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ce (alternating - opposite A mica mext set, re 25 a _ The- material of which the horn is composed is very important as regards the quality of mu- sie that will be received, and with the faithful- ness with which the sounds are reproduced. In general a hérn made of wood or papier-mache gives a purer tone than a metal one, which is liable to produce brassy overtones or vibrations me THE VARIABLE CONDENSER In most radio receiving sets a 23-plate con- denser (.0005 mfd.) is used to tune the secondary inductance, but many times the builder of the set finds that he has no instrument of this particular capacity on hand, Instead he will substitute a 43-plate condenser (.001 mfd.), and expect to get the same results. Now suppose you have the plates of your con- denser turned all the way out. By this is meant that the rotary plates are just as far from the stationary plates as it is possible to get them As these plates are brought into mesh, the capac ity of the condenser increases and in most cas¢ the wave length goes up. Suppose you had a 23-plate condenser in ac- tion. You will find that it is possible to receive WJZ. at 40 and WEAF at about 55 on the dial. These numbers do not necessarily correspond with your particular set, but are just given as ex- amples. Between these numbers, you have a_ total blank, or if your set is particularly good, you may be able to pick up a station or so in tween WJZ and WEAF. The stations are sepa- rated on the dial. Now suppose we put in a larger condenser, say a .001, or 43 plater. The stations will come in as before, but you will find that they are much closer together on the dial. This is because the capacity changes so much faster, with the result that the wavelength range also changes more quickly. You will find that down on the lower wave lengths, where the stations are close together, it will be next to impossible to separate them, for the simple reason that the least change in the condenser setting will make considerable change in the wave length. In short, your set will tune too sharply and will not be as selective as before. If the set ete to be one that tunes broadly, you will find that the interference from one station to another is increased even more with this large size condenser. : » It will also be apparent that the whole upper end of the scale is practically useless, for the simple reason that the condenser is too large and the upper end will give stations far above the band of broadcasters. In mounting the dial on any condenser, it is always a good plan to turn the plates all the way into mesh and then place the dial on the shaft in such a way that the 100 mark is at the top, or the mark on the panel where you will take readings. This as the plates are turnéd out, the readings will get less and less, as the wave length is.~educed and you will find the set much easier to calibrate. _ By bearing both of these suggestions in mind > you will possibly save a lot of trouble with your ‘4 /

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26 Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1924 ee) TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single” Copies. «......... ccc eee Postage Free 8 Cents One Copy Three Months...... ad ¥. $1.00 One Copy Six Months. Saks “n e 2.00 Une Copy One Yeap........... = 4.00 Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. HOW TO SEND MONEY — At our risk send P. O. Mouey Order, Check or Registered Letter; remitiances in any other Way are at your risk. We acee t Pustage Stamps the same as cas When sending silver w rap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cuiting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly, HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Ine., 166-W. 23d St., N. Y. Charles E. Nylander, Sec. jac E. Wolff, Pres. L. F. Wilzin, Treas. ITEMS OF INTEREST REAL SEA SERPENT Some of the crew of a Scottish fishing boat thought they had caught a sea serpent when they hauled aboard an eel which weighed 88 pounds and measured 7 feet in length and 26 inches in girth. It was caught in the North Sea about 20 miles from land. ’ Se ee STRANGE TREE FATALITY - Ored Malinax, twenty-one years old, rancher, was killed recently at Libby, Mont., by an un- usual accident. He felled a tree, which struck a second tree, which fell and hit a third. The third ' took down a fourth, which fell on the man, kill- ing him. The trees stood in a circle. EELS TRAVEL THREE YEARS After seventeen years of study and research it has been discovered that the fresh water eel creeds in salt water near the West Indias, many of them traveling thousands of miles to reach the oreeding places. A period of three years elapses between the time of the birth and the reappear- ance of the eels in their home waters. MAN-EATING SHARK CAUGHT A man-eating shark, nine feet four inches long and weighing more than .200 pounds, was landed the other day at Bayside Dock, Sheepshead Bay. The fish, the first of the man-eating variety caught caught in local waters this season, was captured by Captain Joseph Ecock. Ecock was fishing for porgies on Scallop Ledge when the shark took several fish off his lines. _ Ecock threw out his baited shark hook, attached _ by a steel chain to a buoy. The shark took it and started out to sea, towing the metal float. . -. Eeock chased it for two miles in his smack. The shark, exhausted, finally came to the surface near _ the at and was killed by an ax. .- ‘caught two such sharks off od Sandy, Hook sight” ship dast year, Sf FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY MILLIONS IN GOLD_WHaT. BECOMES OF a oo 4 What becomes of gold? It has many channels — of disappearance, according to experts. Figures show that more thaa half of the annual output — is employed in the fine arts and jewelry trade. Thousands of pounds also are used by dentists, according to Popular Mechanics, one estimate be- ing that over a ton is needed every year for the — filling of ‘teeth. Then money is worn away in handling; this loss being placed at $1,250,000 an- nually. Bank of England sovereigns are often tested and found to have lost much of the ‘original weight. Of the immense quantities of the ~ precious metal that have been buried away in ~ me the earth, it is believed comparatively little has ever been recovered. The priests of Peru are said to have buried approximately $10,000,000 — worth of treasure to preserve it from the clutches of their -persecutors. None of this has been found. The tombs of the old Kings of Egypt were treasure houses, immense quantities of gold ~ and jewels being interred with them. It has been — estimated by historians that Alexander the Great — became the master of great hoards of gold, all ~ of which, so far as is known, has vanished. = 3 LAUGHS “How can I ever keep this house quiet ?” “Shut — it up.” “Say, why did you give that beggar your watch?” “Oh, just to pass the time away.” 4 Jack (quoting Hamlet)—If thou wilt needs_ meee: marry a fool. Ethel—Oh, Jack, this is so sudden A carpenter is an unreasonable - fellow. He objects to plain board, and yet he don’t like a board until it is planed. : “I wish I was twins,” said ‘Willie. “Why Bd “Yd send the other half of me to school and this half would go fishing.” Little Dot—Oh, dear! I wish I wasn’t a girl Teacher—You do?- Why? Little Or ae Fs like to sit with the boys. Bjones—Don’t you’ think a talkative woman i more popular with the men than any other r kind ¢ oe Henpecke—What other kind is there?’ 7 te : Once vpabrient Py a a was a to tell 5 age. ” he said, “I am not quite as ung as my teeth, and just about as old as my a : “T call ’em the cutlery family.” “ “Well, the daughter spoons, the father eee the money and the mother knifes ther. guests. EF | you? Fa he a ie ‘

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GUNS AS WINDOW PROPS evolvers which once served to hold up men now being used in Wichita, Kan., to hold up idows. The city commission voted to destroy than 200 revolvers captured from under- “charactets by the police. A foundry was the weapons on condition they would melt They were moulded into window sash - POWER OF EAGLE’S GRIP» . Swatt Brothers of West Boothbay, Me., in a boat, picked up a white-headed eagle had been shot through one of its wings, saving it helpless in the water. They put the in the dory and he gripped the wood so tight- at they had to pry its talons open to make transfer from one boat to another. They a veterinary surgeon in an attempt to save 2 bird’s life: . 3 SARDINIA’S NEW LAKE The Island of Sardinia was recently visited by ie King of Italy, who went to attend the inau- tion of an enormous reservoir which it is ed will prevent the island from suffering in future from lack of water. .The reservoir, is considered one of the greatest public works attempted in Italy in modern times, s the waters of the River Tirso at the time the year when the flow is plentiful, and is ed to provide the entire island with water ghout the summer months. The Tirso reser- s the largest artificial lake in Europe. One d and sixty thousand workmen have been ed in its construction at a cost of 90,000,- half of which was provided by the State f by private capitalists. __ CHEWING-GUM MOSAICS Z - York’s chewing-gum mosaics are to ‘be : throughout the city,” remarked a visitor ‘When I was Sent a few S age uzzled by the curious design on many 0 walks mt the floors of your public build- t frequent intervals I discovered dark seattered without any apparent plan. red up best on the ype ag gs Sen ecially | rous material you use in Ne ork on rn ea staircases. On looking into , 1 found that the marks were made : chewi m. : ed rage about the same size. due to the fact that the portions of chew- "K on AD is dro on the floor or pavement it aig ickly hammered down by ad passing feet. It is ground into the face and becomes a part of it. In time orn away or scraped off, but the dark stain - hese millions of stains are steadily Sa FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY BRIEF BUT POINTED masticated are generally uniform. When x the marketing may be delayed four to six weeks and consequently a less favorable price may be obtained. This green condition gives the Satsuma orange grower more concern than,others. Satsumas-are raised in upper Florida, lower Alabama and lower Mississippi. Normally they are gathered about October 15th, but they can be harvested earlier when artificial processes of coloring are used to get away from the persistent greenness of skin. The United States Department of Agriculture has worked out a process for coloring oranges without harming the fruit. The process consists of enclosing the oranges in tight rooms and sub- jecting them to fumes of kerosene stoves or to gasoline engine exhaust. The fumes given off destroy the green chlorophyl so that the yellow of the orange shows up. It requires about four days to bring out the. yellow of the oranges by this process: This is better than waiting four to six weeks for the fruit to ripen on the trees, running the risk of frost or storm damage and facing the probability of a lower market when the oranges are ultimately harvested. WINDWARD ISLANDS CHARMING LANDS The Windward Islands colony, to which Lon- don is sending a new Governor and commander- in-chief, is one of the least known to American of British territories in the new world. - Windward Islands means different things on different maps, and to add to the confusion sev- eral other quite distant names are applied to the whole and to parts of the islands that sweep in a ‘great arc from Porto Rico to the top of South America, says a bulletin of the National Geo- eraphic Society. T e Windward Islands are well in the tropics, being in the latitude of Nicaragua, the Philip- pines and Southern India, and they are as charm- ing examples of tropical isles as can be found in any ocean. All are mountainous, and over the sharp peaks deep valleys and more gentle slopes of all is thrown an intensely green mantle of tropical trees, shrubs and grasses. All Were peo- pled by the warlike Carib Indians when Columbus and other Spanish navigators discovered them. But these were largely killed off or transported during the next few centuries by British and French settlers. Most of the inhabitants of the islands to-day are black and are traceable to the slave ships that brought over their African cargoes during the early. Colonial development. On St. Vincent, which was long left to thé natives, several slave ships were wrecked, and the survivors mingled- with the Caribs, so that on that island there“is-. a more.»ronounced Indian strain than elsewhere. On each of the islands is a small minority of white officials, land owners and business men. _ Each of the three larger islands has its own local government machinery under a British adminis- _ ig th and ore al is ae Soe in resides in t. rge’s, chief city of Grenada. le govern- ments are “Crown Colonies.” the official< being _ appointed from London. meee : .

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28 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ITEMS OF INTEREST CLOCK MADE OF COAL ~— A novel clock, the case of which is made of hard coal, is owned by M. A. Randall of Concord, N. H. It was given him by his son, Elmer S Randall, who resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mr. Randall also has stickpins and cuff buttons and Mrs. Randall bar-pins and a necklace set in sul- phur diamonds which came from the coal mines of Pennsylvania. : OLD MOVIES IN SHOES What becomes of the millions of miles of old “movie” films that have served their time in amusing the public? When it is junked it is cleaned by a chemical process which removes the coating. This coating is capable of yielding sil- ver at the rate of 112 ounces to the ton. The cleaned celluloid strips sometimes pass into the manufacture of patent leather. So you may at the present time be wearing on your feet a bit of the film which has once held the laughter-pro- voking feet of Charlie Chaplin. BANK ROBBERS MISS $8,000 Six youthful bandits, bent on making a large haul, raided the Prairie State Bank of Oak Park, . a suburb of Chicago, shortly before closing time the other day, terrorized eleven persons in the bank and’ escaped with about $300, overlooking between $7,000 and $8,000 lying on the table of one of the bank offcials. ~ The robbery was accomplished so quickly that the police, called by passers-by who saw the bandits enter the bank; had not arrived when the gang made their escape in an automobile which had been left in the rear of the institution. The money the bandits found was in a pigeon- hole of a teller’s desk. While three stood guard over the people in the bank, their companions make a systematic search of the cages but over- looked the money in plain view on a table. AMERICAN DIAMONDS The presence of fresh-water pearls in Ameri- can streams is a comparatively well-known fact. The discovery of diamonds in the United States has not been so widely advertised, largely, no doubt, because so few jewels of the latter kind have been found here. South Africa is now the largest producer in the world, and Brazil ranks next in’ present yield. India, Borneo and the Ura] Mour-tains of Russia have in the past sup- plied a great many diamonds, In nearly every zountry which supplies these:stones they are tak- - =n from the mineral in which they were once de- posited. South Africa affords a marked exception to the rule. Im that part of the world they are 2mbedded in “pans” or “pipes,” which are streaks of lava, that have invaded a black shaly rock. The “suspicion is now entertained that the intense heat a tncicanic action may have converted some of the carbon in the shale into jewels. One of the regions in the United States from which small diamonds have been obtained is the Piedmont Plateau, at the southeastern base of the - Appalachian chain, between- Southern Virginia ae * er 3 and Georgia. Neaily or quite a dozen, one reach- ing 23 carats in size, have been picked up there, under circumstances that suggest the probability of having been transported—rolled down hill per- haps—many miles from the place of their birth. _ Geological conditions like those existing at Kim-, - berley have been observed in Kentucky, but up to date no diamonds have yet been discovered in that — 1 State. A possible explanation of the failure is the lower proportion of carbon in the shale. _ A somewhat difficult problem is raised by find- ing seven diamonds, ranging in size from 4 to 21 carats, and a number of smaller ones, in the Great Lake region, under circumstances that in- dicate they were brought there by the great ice ~ sheet of the glacial veriod. Most of the stones were discovered in Wisconsin, but Michigan and Ohio have each reported one or two also. LOOK, BOYS! TRAPEZEE : The Acrobatic Wonder Toy ALMOST HUMAN IN ITS ACTIONS! _ It consists of a handsome parallel iron frame on which the little yellow et accurately performs like an ath- — ete. ° ; Five Different Stunts — THE FLYING TRAPEZE — Release the trigger-pin and the figure swings for- ward, gripping the brass trapeze-bar, “turns a somersault in the air and catches a cross-bar. by his heels. : THROUGH THE LOOP—A swift swing ]| and he goes through a wire loop, makes , a turn and, catching by his heels, swings head downward from a bar. a THE GIANT SWING — He goes forward with a rush, releases the trapeze, catches a horizontal-bar with his heels, makes} two swift. somersaults in the air and catches by his heels again. oe He performs two more horizontal-bar acts with the grace and agility of a cir- cus star, and many new ones can be in- vented. : The Most Wonderful Toy ix ; the World! : PRICE $1.50 =e _The collapsible stand and the litle nau- } kin are neatly packed in a handsome box. | Delivered anywhere in the United States on receipt of price. Address _ ~~ _ WOLFF NOVELTY CO, = ey 166 W. 23d St., New York City, N.Y. = a a 4

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