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Show y Hi fteofl-n- tide, 'r jj -- il i '(night 'Ith be , Uay, aHt tO OCOrd. Uit A 11. OBJc ! m ni i nYID GRAHAM PHILLIPS, Author tfSijn (OW&Gffr J9QT (Sited t CHAPTER take .rKLOCK Adi Continued. GOES INTO TRAIN hot uierj Ad u , he Plicatt Henbei the wai he e a o In U r Cue of t be h. le. I cool-I- THECQSfttt the mys Thats harder, said I, Im a man who has always minded my own business, and cared for nothing else. 3 Pro- - What could I talk about, except myteg self? Tvo a,- "Blest If I know," replied he. er the B,able "Where you want to go, the last thing w2fpa7or L" J of the8erigllt away-- "hat people mind 1b their own business In clothes?" d.f.oulh,nk talk, at least. But youll get on all right If you dont worry too much about It. Youve got natural Independence, and an original way of putting things, and common sense. Don't be afraid. Afraid!" said I. I never knew what it was to be afraid. "Your nervell carry you through," he assured me. Nervell take a man anywhere." You never said a truer thing in your life, said I. Itll take him wherever he wants, and, after hes there, itll get him whatever he wants. , And with that, I, thinking of my plans and of how sure I was of sue- - f forget the smallest --It was a purely never aifot of CW&4VK months. ING. OO--i to it &CW3-I2ZZJ2- VII. and, tenth! tott timed ly a ners? Not so bad, said he. "Not rotten bud. Hut when youre polite, you re a little too xlite; when youre hot polite, you " wl,ere I came from too plainly. said I. "Speak right out hit good and hard. Am 1 too frank for good form?" You neednt bother about that, he assured me. "Say whatever comes into your head only, be sure the right sort of thing comes into your head. Dont talk too much about your-s- c f, for instance. It's good form to think about yourself all the it's bad form to let people see ittime; in your talk. Say as little as possible about your business and about what youve got. Dont be lavish with the Is and that dinner S S' the look as of impending :pi!?o 'uiwri the faces of the old I can see Mrs. Ellersly try- to be gracious, to condescend j treating me as 1! I were some sort museum freak or menagerie exhibit. see Anita. She was like a statue a word; If she now; she spoke not failed to note It. And ei her eyes, I I with my collar 8 1 was leaving nervous staaln Bed from the fierce, Mrs. EllerBly, in enduring udbecn Into which I dont it voice of hers neve any shade of a real human You said: lotion ever penetrated, at come to see us, Mr. Blacklock. tarn always at home aftec five." She was looked at Miss Ellersly. and the span- jte to the lips now, on her white dress seemed bits She said noth-bu- t loo guttering there. I knew she felt my look, and tee the more closely it It froze the Thank you," I around her heart I give you a tree hand, you say- 8 out of 111 y m.b ho m - I ittered. ! almost fell I stopped at t first bar and took three drinks in I went on down ick auccession. avenue, breathing like an exhaust-iwimme"Ill give, her up! 1 ed aloud, so upset was I. am s man of Impulse; but I have t:ued myself not to be a creature of pulse, at least not In matters of Without that patient and laful schooling, I shouldnt have got iere I now am ; probably Id still bo sheet-writinfor icking boots, or me bookmaker, or clerking it for me broker. Before 1 got my rooms, t night air and my habit of the had cooled me ber second thought Jt to rationality. I want her, I need her, I was say-- ! to myself. I am worthier of her in are those mincing manikins she s been bred to regard as men. She for me she belongs ,to me. Ill aadoa her to no smirking puppet io'd wear her as a donkey would a mond. Why should I do myself i her an injury simply because she s been too badly brought up to stumbled In the ball; the broad steps. to wn lefo: I U De: r. IP i dir s tie j Jail dure h ie e o(3 wh, men. Bint- - In enurt Du:: ECTO Da TV, jei te i 5prfcf ontt to;, my in b d wiry Jed Ml- - ire de urns' t km in t tine erne this was clear to me I sent trainer. He was one of those Englishmen, with skin like hide brown ex-- t where the bones seem about to h their sharp angles through, and re a frosty, winter apple red. He ssed like a ltcadwood gambler, he $ like a stable boy; but for all t, you couldn't fail to see ho was pentleman born and bred. Yes, he a a gentleman, though he mixwl fanity into his ordinary flow of irersation more liberally than did are, o! interest?" her own w ''.'hen ider i g and painted nit iat i dllia 0 iff bei'i ldl9( threw my my back, thrust my thumbs into isers pockets and slowly turned ut like a ready-mad- e tailor's dniu-Monso- He "so what do you said I, ik of me?" looked me over as he was about to if I were a Sound. liny. Good !is his verdict. uncommon pood wind. "A goer. 1 slaver. Not a lump. Not a hair ' of TO ENTER ME FOR SAY TIIE SOCIETY place. He laughed. Action; ...CPPPOSE YOU WANTED H WIIAT THEN? SWEEPSTAKES high perhaps for the track. But "ind r.Meli," j can feel cess, began to march up and down know all that, said I. You miss dead nil by itself. 1eaple you. the office with my chest thrown out hear Nnt Suppose you wanted to you coming before they and see all until I caught myself at It. That feel aud hear "f me for say, the Society Sweep- - When they me, set me off in a laugh at in baud stopped brusa a 'teg what tlipti?" together it's like . own "cvra-riMtexpense, he Joining In with a my im muttered reflectively, scarlet uniform, with a I did not like, ay." 4 , 'eii'-il- v olir t et owt ie 1?' las m v atnr is J ito-u- in," If e P an drum major. If your natr black so wasn't look sort of new as if and sharp and ou teeth Tilsit was still sticky and might steel-blu"offnn the ladles' dresses and on big and strong and whito, and your Bn furniture?" jaw such a such a jaw I did. Ohthat said he dubiously. But "I see the polut," said I. And ute tell to need lse kinds t,f things are matter Youll find uu won't a busy aste." Ive got twice. many things 11 to ''t with it!" commanded. Dont day before me here; so we have cotue to dine lraid. Pi, i not one of those damn until you this suspend rooms. I Inst ask for criticism when they with me at right at my well. Go 't only time the in to to put want flattery, as you ought you w by this time. I'm aware of my to my house in the country and then Wi's, know how good they are un to my apartment; take my valets all mybeloug-lugthan anybody else In the world. wUh you; look through roU8tr8' I socks, ties, a! weak shirts, my points kind. did. i've of every clothes got on chiefly because waistcoats, t docsn think !? tell me to my fuee what Throw out every rag you he. Hows 4 rather to want I what with have grinned over lit In bat k my grammar?" "bat's your been taking Monson. asked game?" I was proud of it, I had a the with uy mode dark, less pains or more ! Rather tell you, Monson. I hired years. dozen for a yod of bethorses, Now I want to hire too said he. "Hut that w train aren t me, tm. As Its double ter than making the breaks that 11 double pay e regarded a good form. y on" said he, "and any it c,a'mod. TbdJ Good form!" I N what I want! That It! nt to 1 J marry," explained. gwd form mean? ttl) tha offerings before v. You H. i.usw. ai.e to trnln me so that -i w among the herds thnt'd shy D'1 tt I wasnt on to their lit- tt's different." Don't sky-blu- I e anJj',r , e kind of heartiness though I did not venture to check him. So ended the first lesson the first of a long aeries. - tea f ne opt U erer' ,VfC" ll1 ir Ill'll be-m- y P ct Sd." ,0 fir'icf ( ait 31 ,rC ' flfti n. 1th is j( h. ibed thv. ,'18 Amm-ica- "An w HiiHpiclounly It, t."), at me, Bew humor." AMured him. aud ualn hard. f dould- - MINES AND MINING was beyond cure. As "int afraid you might 4 easier succeed lu reducing my chest measure. But we worked away at it. aud perhaps my 'readers may discover even in this narrative) though it is necessarily egotistic, evidence ot at least au honest effort not to be baldly boastful. Monson would have liked to make of me a sort of person such as he himself, with the result that the other fellow always got the prize and he got left. But I would have none of it. All this time I was giving myself or thought 1 was giving mysejf chiefly to my business, as usual. I know now that the new interest had In fact crowded the things down town far into the background, had Impaired my judgment, had suspended my common sense; but I had no Inkling of this then. The most Important matter that was occupying me down town was pushing textile up toward par., Langdon's doubts, little though they Influenced me, still made enough ot an Impression to cause me to test the market. I sold for him at ninety, as he had directed; I sold in quantity every day. But no matter how much I Unloaded, the price showed no tendency to break. "This, said I to myself, "is a testimonial to the skill with which I prepared for my bull campaign." And that seemed to me all unsuspicious as I then was a sufficient explanation of the steadiness of the stock which I had worked to establish in the public todoSiw between a cultivated JUou and a wild one." Like the difference I'm and me. t I've bray Langdou CS VIII. ON THE TRAIL OF LANGDON. I had Monson with me twice each week-daearly in the morning and again after business hours until bed time. Also he spent the whole of me. every Saturday and Sunday with lie developed astonishing dexterity as a teacher, and as soon as he realized that I had no false pride and was me thoroughly in earnest, he handled teacher a like boxing without gloves who finds that his pupil has the grit of a professional. It was easy enough new for me to grasp the theory of my business it was nothing more than But the rub came In Be natural. naturally of the right myself making 1 suppose every man ns I had sort of intelligence and decent instincts and bas a disposition to he friendly nawas manner by simple. Hut my cal! abrupt My might what you ture not very easy tusk was to learn the subtle difference between the abrupt social Inter that injects a tonic into the course, snd the abrupt that makes of a feeding with shut up other person having been insulted. of good Then, there was tho matter found, Monson conversation. taste in as 1 oon saw. that my everlasting y There aixi five great gold mines In the Transvaal, which are earning from 38 to f5 per cent In profits on ore that averages from $8 to $14.10 per ton. The Ogden Buekhorn people, who have . encountered high grade copper Ores in good quantities in Coldwater canyon, a tributary of Ogdon canyon, are building a good wagon jxiad up to the mine. The Rabbit Foot group of four claims, at Rosebud,4 Nevada, changed hands last week. This group has always been held at $90,000, but the price it sold for has not been given ; to the public. a been It has popular belief that iron was little known to the ancients, but Lepslus believes that the Egyptians used it for hand Instruments, and that it was prepared in smelting furnaces 3000 B. C. The Lemhi Telephone company is now building a line from Salmon City down through the Gilmore and the (Birch Creek country past the Welmer mines and on to Medicine Lodge, nine miles west of Dubois, Idaho, The Eureka mine, at Bullion, above Hailey, Idaho, is showing from six inches to two feet of solid galena, on the fifth or' lowest level. This is at a vertical depth of 400 feeL Besides the galena there la some concentrating ore. In Nevada twenty year ago there was but one method employed in providing funds for operating a mine that waa not individually owned or and held in simple that was by assessing the holders of . confidence. I felt that, It my matrimonial plans should turn out as I confidently expected, I should need a much larger fortune than I had for I was detei mined that my wife should have an establishment second to none. Accordingly, I enlarged my original plan. I had intended to keep close to Langdon in that plunge; I believed I controlled the market, but I hadn't been In Wall street twenty years without learning that the worst thunderbolts fall from cloudless skies. Without being In the least suspicious of Langdon, and simply a ting on the general principle that surprise and treachery are part of the code of high finance, I had prepared to guard, first, against being taken in the rear by a secret change of plan on Langdona part, and second, against being involved and overwhelmed by a sudden secret attack on him from some associate of bis who might think he had laid himself open to successful raiding. The market is especially dangerous toward Christmas and In the spring toward Christmas the big fellows often juggle the stocks to get the money for their big Christmas gifts and alms; toward spring the motive is, of course, the extra summer expenses of their families and the commencement gifts to colleges. It was now late In the spring. , I say, I had intended to be fcautious. i I abandoned caution and rushed in boldly, feeling that the market was, in general, safe and that textile was under my control and that I was one of the kings of high finance, with my lucky star in the zenith. I decided to continue my bull campaign on my own account for two weeks after I had unloaded for Langdon, to continue it until the stock was at par. I had no difficulty in pushing it to ninety-seveand I was nofalarmed when 1 found myself loaded, up with it, quoted at ninety-eigh- t for the preferred and thirty for the common. I assumed that I was practically Its only supporter and that it would slowly settle back as I slowly withdrew my sup- port 'hen In a ragp. stood up before him. I said to him: To my surprise, the stock did not yield immediately under my efforts to depress It I sold more heavily; textile continued to show a tendency to rise. I sold still more heavily; It broke a point or two, then steadied and rose again. Instead of sending out along my secret lines for Inside information, as I should have done, and would have done had I not been in a state of hypnotized Judgment I went to Langdon! I who had been studying those scoundrels for twenty-odyears, and dealing directly with and for them for ten years! He wasnt at his office; they told mo there that they didnt know his town bouse or whether he was-a- t at hts place in the country "probably in the country," said his down town secretary, with elaborate care lessness. "He wouldn't be likely to stay away front the office or .not to send for me, if he were in town, would he?" It takes an uncommon good liar to He to mo when I'm on tho alert As I was determined to see Langdon, I was in so far on tho elert. And I felt the fellow was lying. "That's reasonable," said I. "Call me up, if you hear from him. I want to see him Important but not immediate." And I went away, having left the impression that I would make no further effort I went up to his house, fou, no doubt have often seen and often admired its beautiful facade, so simple that It hides its own magnificence from all but experienced eyes, ao perfect in its proportions that it hides the vastness of tho palace of which it Is tho face. I have heard men say: I'd like to have a house a moderate-sizehouse one about the size of Mowbray Langdons though perhaps a little more elegant, not so plain." Mr. Langdon Isnt at home, said the servant. (To be eonMuued.) d d Women Lesa Than Cattle. The Kaffirs think loss of their wives than they do of their cattle, They do not allow the women to go near the kraal where they keep their animals, and if a cow dies they grieve mor than they do when a woman die. interests. Last year the Transvaal contribot the world's uted nearly 6,786,617 fine that Is, gold supply, one-thir- d ounces, valued at $119,458,737, second place being held by the United States with approximately 4,649,313 ounces, $96,101,400. The Gibraltar Mines Syndicate has sent another car of ore to the Salt Lake ore market. This la the second shipment of ore from the Gibraltar since the railroad has reached , the camp of Rhyolite, the first going $351 to the ton. The Washoe smelter of the Amalgamated Copper company turned out In excess of 17,000,000 pounds of copper In April. The output of the Great Falls smelter of the Amalgamated is between seven and eight million pounds monthly. United StateB Senator George S. Nixon and George Wingfield have purmine at chased the Pittsburg-LibertMasonic, Nevada, for $500,000. The deal waa closed after two days deMasonic Is eighty miles liberation. south of Carson City. Um Rus, the ancient gold mine in Egypt, that was reopened by an English company, has been closed down, and the company has gone into liquidation. The first ore produced averaged an ounce of gold, but deeper development has proved disappointing. It is stated on good authority that a strike of great Importance has been made in the long tunnel being run by the Gold Coin Mining company on their property in the Black Lake mining district ic the Seven Devils district, Idaho, a vein of ore that will run $60 to $70 per ton having been uncovered. the A third vein has been cut in main tunnel of the Revenue mine, lu Beaver county, Utah. Tho discovery was wholly unexpected, but a welcome The new vein is surprise. three feet wide and was encountered at a dopth of 175 feet. . Assays on the rock show It to be an excellent grade of milling stuff. Every mino in Rock Springs is clored and business is paralyzed as a result of the labor troubles. Union meetings are being held every after-mai- n and evening. , Nearly every miner in the camp is now a member of the union, and the majority of the other laborers, the organization Beit'S about 1,400 strong. Rosebud, Nev., Is all wrought up over an oil discovery within sight of camp. Three men, while prospecting about eight miles southeast of camp, stumbled upon a strip of territory, approximately eight mile wide and twelve long, which has every appearance of being the cover or lid of a great reservoir of petroleum. The report of the Anaconda Copper company for the year ended December 31, 1906, bears out the contention interests of Amalgamated Copper that the production of their mines last year showed little If any decrease, notwithstanding the extraordinary demand for the metal lu this country aa well as abroad. Harry S, Joseph, secretary of the Tintlo Mine Owners association, announced last week, that tho association had decided to make a voluntary raise In the wages ot alt muckers, car runners snd trammers employed la tho Tintlo district. Announcement was officiary made last week that Helena men have taken over tho Monitor mine in the Coeur dAlene district, and propose ts operatic a on a large scale. Now machinery hna been ordered to augment both development and output y NEWS SUM5IAUY ' , . The Russian parliament has appropriated $8,750,000 for famine relief. fare bill is now up to The two-ceNew Yorks governor for his signature. . General Mariano Serano has beer of the Guate elected ' malan republic. Three men were run down and' killed by a fast train at Morristown, Ind., on Sunday. The seamen's strike at Hamburg has not yet had any effect upon the movement of shipping. The street ear strike at Evans-villeInd., has been settled. Both sides made concessions. The announcement Is made of the marriage of May Irwin, the actress to Kurt Elsfeldt, her manager. During a riotous mass meeting Sunday at Zion City, Voliva was reof Shiloh members pudiated by church. Erie railroad officials announce that 200 meu have been engaged to go te work to take the places of striking , machinists, Dr. Maurice E. Egan of Washington has accepted the post of minlstei to Denmark, offered to him by President Roosevelt. ' , , Bertha Toombs, a telephone oper ator of Burnside, Ky., met death in a fire which destroyed the building tv which she was working. Judge Frank II. Kerrigan of th district court of appeals , waa rue down and seriously injured by an automobile in San Francisco. One man was killed, seven fatally Injured and fourteen others received minor hurts in a wreck upon ths at Holliday's railroad Cove, W. Va. Walter Foster, Carl Wash and a woman, while automoblllng near Paa sdena. Cal., were struck by a passenger train and all three probably fatally Injured. The Turkish garrison at Uskub consisting of 1,000 men, bas deserted. The soldiers claimed that they were condl-tlou- s given bad food and that other were unendurable, Joseph Dwyer was shot and fatally wounded at Terre Haute, Ind., by his wife, Arabel Dwyer, while he was trying to force his way Into her room. They bad been separated. Rev, Father Francis Nugent of St. Louis, head of the mission work of the Vicentian Fathers, was struck and probably fatally Injured by an electric train at Austin, a suburb of Chicago. Manuel Bonilla, former president of the Republic of Honduras, sailed last week from New Orleans for Belize, Bonilla says be British Honduras. will 'devote himself entirely to his plantation. War Minister Picquart ha9 Intro duced a bill lu the Iteuch chambei of deputies to reinstate Captain Reinach, who waa dismissed from the army for connocil'B with the Drey us case. The Red Cross has announced that it will no longer receive contribution!' of mousy or provisions for the relief 3f the Chinese famine sufferers, the famine having been broken by the spring crops. A general strike for an eight-hou- r day, Instigated by the longshoremen and supported by workmen upon the electric railway, new waterworks, Cuban railroad and mauy smaller concerns, has been declared at Santiago, Cuba. Walter O'Neil, 11 years old, was found dead In a Northern Pacific box car at Superior, Wis. One side of his head was smashed and the police The believe it is a ra-- e of murder. boy bas been missing since he start ed for school. Mrs. Isabella E. Case, who attracted some attention aa The woman in blue," who tried to see t.io president at Oyster Hay last summer, and who has since sought to see the president has been taken into custody In Washington on a charge of Insanity. Darrlonded in a box car in the Outskirts of Muncle, Ind., Tony Miller, who shot aud kited his wife, ex changed shots with tils pursuers until Millet Shota were exchanged had emptied hi revolver. He received a bullet in his leg and wat Pan-Hand- . captured. Mrs. Mary Lustig is dead at a result of a terrible beating given her by two robbers, who attacked her In bet homo in New York City. They se cured $1,300, which she carried in tho bosom of her dress, Another roll ot bills containing $300, was found lu her stocking. denied the pub 11. C. Frick ha llahed report that he was to erect at Pittsburg, at a coat of $3,0u0,000, a building to be known as the Pittsburg Academy of Fine Arts. Of the It I absurd. story Mr. Frick said: 1 am not going to give Pittsburg au art instil uto." Edward Manning, aged CO years, proprietor of a restaurant at Iort-lanMich., was murdered at night while on his way home. He was shot In the back. Robbery was evidently Ibe motive of the crime, aa a large d sack of silver which he usually cars rled 1 missing. |