Show tk T m ij r rn Oro I The Story of o oan an American n Po P ce Promoter 1 SO o W Will 11 Comfort in x City Star Stal J manhood journeying from the fields to the town is a marvelous yet a precarious undertaking YOUIl Young Luther went ent to and from there foundered Rome with his en enlightenment enlightenment young Burna went to Dumfries and his hill genius young Whittington went to London and b became crne lord mayor young Garfield went to Cleveland and was brought there again for burial Ward and Wanless both 19 journeyed from their farms to the metropolis of their state and here Is 18 the story The two had bad high hopes but little capital so 0 they walked most of the oo mil miles and one night they waited for the da dawn wn and watched meanwhile with sleepless eyes the lights of the city An early spring body knows bows the moment when sparrows and milk mUk wagons control the was the advent of Ward and Wanless Wan 88 These two saw w for tOi the first flare Utne how nature looks when eel lared and creased and A city Is nothing more than manhandled outdoors During the years which Covered the united lives lhea of Ward and Wanless a 8 forest background and In fields had been their world white hIte fields In winter green creen and gold goldIn Sn In summer Ward had tolled e earnestly c contentedly nt on his bis fathers farm ju just t tout J out of Three Pines Wanless s on the farm adjacent had toll toiled erratically dreamily His hand had been at the plow while his mind and heart were ere In fn Inthe the midst ot of the metropolis Its schemes schemM and commerce and hl history tory Three PInes called the pair chums but the e tt mate was incorrect Ward Wald was the slave lave and Wanless the master Th This condition ot of affairs was one ot of the t Ing and aDd mysterious arrangements ot of babyhood Wards mental structure WItS was or of the slow enduring kind the mentality of t tWan Wan Wanless wu was meteoric The former bowed bowd hl his compact intelligence before the passing brilliance of the unfixed star The dreamer was waa a tall slender young man With gr gray eyes closely cropped red brown hair and straight sharply cut features the plodding Ward I Is merely a lay figure and hi his appearance may be Imagined In a word the material chances of these theae two boYS may be estimated The outlook of Ward pointed toward success in life Ufe the quiet honors of good the modest wealth which the years win winfor winfor for a hard bard working intelligent farm farmer r or me merchant bant On the contrary Wan Wane Wanless less e tI seemed emed destined to achieve a co colo colossal lo uJ failure like Blames Blaines who ho wanted the presidency and re received received a mortal dl disappointment a fail failure failure ure like Napoleons who wanted theu the u orld orid and got a rock In the midst of the sea seaWard seaWard Ward at strange ran to say MY was more for fortunat fortunate In ID obtaining a position He was Installed as elevator boy In the large and honorable wholesale dry goods firm of Broad Wells Co walked the streets his pride killing him by inches not because he Was responsible for three extra holes per dy day In Wards meal ticket but bat because WIe Ward had ob obtained a position before him At last an agent for a certain brand or of eDe ency came to the J CUe and said MId to WR Wanless Your cloU clothes are oft off color and you look hungry but you may have bave the vital spark rn Ill give Elve you JOU 19 10 f for r every set let you sell and you 00 wont oot keep me digging for e eagles les at that What kills book agents 18 ju t this not deep M in the beginning or be at t something else paled The agent plunged on They rig up a tittle superficial yarn i and give to everybody that I would take tak with one man In a thou thousand thousand sand U If they ever strike that man manI I hes bes either ther broke or closed to litera literature ture Youve got to be deep and natural and know your prey pre When you find a weakness s youve got to jab there and uppercut there and swing Its ita get out your order blanks One ot of our men took poison poi poison son day before yesterday He had bad a little that he shoved out outon outon on all occasions and he be find finda a twin soul The These words word Into the brain or of Wanless He left the omee as one in ina ina a trance All that day learning from door to door he built his story and perfected It At night he was too tired to sleep so he be planned dl digressions and I supplements and constructed revised ver versions tou for the variety of cases caMi The failures of the day returned to him with their faces and mannerisms and aad he of what he be would do and say it If he had another chance at these failures So days passed on He wt wished bed the city was lar larger er and Je learned nae with a thrill that he had a gift Kitt of expression He Be studied as no book agent t ever studied before and became formidable One mornIng he entered a house hoUBe at SIS and Rd staggered out at 11 1130 with an order and aDd a partial pay payment meat He bad strained every fiber In his brain and he wa was readY to shout from Joy and faint from fatigue With his first 18 10 he bought boucht a hat bat shoes hoes collars aad continued to ventilate Wards meal ticket The fourth week he sold IOkI three sets seu and aad purchased himself a hand handsome ome suit nit or of clothing Ward tea hours a day at his J elevator Without the grace of a knight errant but with the love Jove ot of a brother still cared for the incidental ex expenses nee such INch as bed d and board oord And now Wan Van Wanless less began belan to save ve money A year elapsed Well glance at the pall pair on a spring Sunday morning Traces of the farm 00 boy and Three Pines sun null lingered In the manner and upon the person of Ward but Wanless s was studiously ly or of the Immaculately dressed young ma man with a tre fresh h complexion com and clear eyes of stony gray grayeyes ey eyes that could be quite ta fascinating when tile the mInd so willed but In the presence of Ward the mind of Wan WanIce Ice l wu was elsewhere I 1 wish I were back In Three PI Pines this morning Ward said longingly That complacent bigoted eternally foolish burg Wanless Wanlee sneered Nitroglycerine blow me back there theft Pm going to church wont you come along Ward pleaded Every Sunday for a year e r this question ques Uon tion had been asked and aDd Ward had gone alone to church churda On this morn morning ing Wales glanced peculiarly at the theother theother other and replied that M he would uld go along Ward wu was overjoyed At this Ulia period the plodder was earn eara earning In ing W 12 a week and saving nag U Sf Broad Wells Well Co had bad boo boosted him from the elevator and placed him In one of the thed d departments Wanless was averaging 90 a week and saving ring 15 A word to explain this success TM The book agent had fared indifferently until l is mind seised the plan to work public school eb oI ng hopeful unmarried women en salary Winless s was wa young handsome om and compelling With con oon to dElIcaCy be appealed to the vanity of these ladles 8 and pointed out the Teat great values 9 in an educational ways He wu wen richly dressed d he was Impartially charmed by each and ev every r per among the army anny of teachers he f called he be called got or 01 ordera dera and payments At the church on OD this particular morning money was being raised to build an addition Ward ard wu was mortified that his companions first visit should prove so unfortunate ate but wu was not disappointed His ferUle fertile brain did not shut down en Sundays When Wards Ward gentle soul wu was prevailed upon 2 wortha WIdows mite In eed Wan lees lea aro arose e and In a modest way wb sub subscribed scribed eta 2 That was od meat ment meatHe mentHe He became a regular began to stay for the sea ston alon In a fe few months Res was victori victoriously guiding an class clas ot of youngsters he ba became super superintendent superIntendent of the SUnday school chool At Atthe the end of his first year in n this c capac capacity pae ity he be wu was with a 8 co costly gold watch l Inscribed To the super superIntendent super superintendent From the Affectionate Mem Members Members bers of the Sunday School On that first Sunday Wanless had bad reasoned that the school chool teachers could not last forever so 80 he began to clear new acre acreage age ace The enCYclopedias havinG served their purposes e were summarily dropped drop dropped ped He was now be bet between t tween n 1800 and 1000 and none of the bad habl habits l which hum harm physically and teat much He also possessed Md this cue case the Ideas were Father Times notes DOteR for a million He bought a small tract and obtained options on a large tract of land adjoining In an al portion of the city a portion logically adapted for tor refuse Thousands ot of dol dollars dollars lars had been spent pent by the city t tc for fortify fortify lt itself elt against this waste for the reason that invisible towers or of malaria ascended from it Upon bea heavy vy bond paper with statements il iI illuminated initials and beautifully col colored colored ored plats plate Wanless reclaimed this foul mar marsh h Then largely observed d yet without o ostentation he gave to the church for foreIgn missions and began a se as series ries of Thursday evening talks to young men He was now the arch and the Idol ot of the church sought after and talked about abouL There were sore hearts among the city teachers not because e ot of the still maturing payments on OD the sets but because of the compelling zeal ot of too the state statesman man and the shock of its sudden udden stoppage simultaneously with the order And there were eager hearts harts among the godly young women of the church No handsome young pastor ever wrought such heart beats Mothers made 1 him m a shining example for their sons fathers patted hIm on the bAck the daughters and sisters I here was the of night and Dd smiles of morning eyes eye of azure and heArts of were the offer offerings offerings ings ot of the daughters and sisters Here too Wanless 6 was master something to each nothing to aU all At the proper moment he inserted big ads in the religious papers and began to cut the more ripened edges of the crop Like the conViCt who has tun tunneled tunneled with Infinite patience for years he emerged at last into open air but buthe he tm had to r get t away The Industry and intelligence of Ward had borne fruit He Be wu was now head bead of one of the departments at Broad Wells Wella Co Ward wu was among the first to put his little aU alt In the 8 subdivision A young WIdow with a suffering and UN Inane sacs Mee wu was es tied upon departed tie the w had dried her ber eyes and was happy In the thought of a grand Investment ud and a lifelong com competency competency front frem Wanless real estate With th these gains he put a smile on certain corners rs of the subdivision and aDd added a few dreams In fn regard to Its future Then b be went after the big stanch churchman and financial pillars He worked fut fast night 1 and day the worked his past and his presence Worked I those with money already In worked I the mothers and the daughters worked I To Wanless WaDle a babe In arms anna wu was an opportunity The tiny fists which he I filled with confections returned to him himin i In dollars or of the relma realma thou thousand and I fold Block after aftel block On the bond bend paper subdivision was marked with the red stamp Sold S Id The church owned of the Wanless vl lOlL The remaining wu was seized by the members of other churches Into the smaller towns Wanless jour journeyed I to vl visit lt the Ole chief men In a re religious and financial W way He would grip the palm or of such a citizen smile into his hie ey eyes him brother mod modestly modestly estly show the gold gokl watch and the be beloved loved Inscription and say Your name my dear sir Is a ho hour oId word In the families of our church He would also put more red on the er subdivision vision and preceded b by hl his advertise advertisements e menu ments start for neW CO Long agO the book age agent t had bad said Youve got to be deep and natural and know your prey Wanless had not forgotten He also directed his can cannonade toward the weak spot pet and aDd so 10 pitiably often In hi man and nd woman did he find the weak The whole subdivision w was sold and before Wanless transferred his business from the church to the downtown por portion Uon tion of tb the city he did two Important things First he gave the 1000 for a big window to be known bunni as the elders gratefully suge suggested ted as The Window Nero Here was the deep secret of the mans man vanity Secondly he be married Miss Marion Harvey a sweet and beautiful young OU woman whom Ute the plodder Ward had bad gently and hopefully courted for Or five years There wu was no blow between the two Which was vas the more deadlY In Wards case The plodder could have bave happily given his right arm ann annor armor or his future not the woman he Wanless who might have had bad any anT woman for the asking In the year which followed Wanless floated cement and aDd telephone stock It so 80 high that the keels teel were warped warpe and his dream of a million was realized realised Then started In the reaction The WaDIs subdivision slumped back into a hew bew of sewerage and anel shot Its towers of malaria to high heaves heaveR and andIn andin In the Church gf the Beautiful Win dow dew doubts greW into and mutterings fell again to despair The feeling of the people finally reached the city efty and the day w i rated Crated a mn mIl now MW woul 4 Jia tie been bee enable ble to sell at ire 18 do de t ermine al New York Before Belore departing g he s IMp to Seek leek Ward WardIn In the pathetic and fragmentary nar narrative or of the lay figure Ward one worthy thing stands out 1 boldly When s called to say y goodby before leaving for New ew York Ward huskily told him to keep OR on going until he reached hen hell or words or s to that effect Then Ward Ii a lonely ed young man resumed his tOll ot of building anew I Hugo BUCO a genius for ma manipulation manipulation a for mathematical problems MO Ie a Belgian by bJ birth who had outgrown his native land a s plunger spendthrift promoter r and debating in his ponderous mind how bow he be might best approach a certain young westerner Meanwhile he was covering vast sheets ts of heavy paper with the finest t cle clearest rest work of art to look upon He Be crumpled a big hig page And tossed toMed It UpOn the feor eor among other works or 01 artall artal inscrutable His fountain pen rained more figures figura It was this way that tbt Nel th r pounds huddled forward upon the rose rosewood I wood desk his ma massive lve hairy head bead I within six Inches of the paper his sub subconscious conscious mind solving Intricate and I unavailing problems of calculus his active mental energy just now grap grappling pURl pling with the measurements of Wan Ie less His Hia was one of those remarkable brains which do two things at once each result being better for tor the occupation patton pation ot of the other At length math pocketed his pen and raised his head That was WAIl a face faed you would re I brown expansive and mul forehead black sparks for I eyes enveloped In the expanded glands Which come from food and drink and lead to gout and apoplexy The rest was waa he heavy vy black beard tinged with gray This was wa one of New human wonder 50 years of age unmarried without kin yet he spent a year and the amount was as necessary to his as bread Is to the laborer Decades Dec ades had made mad It so Moreover he worked as few men worked Two or three morl mornings QS later young Wanless who now looked older than his years but who had bad happily augmented his bis fortune In the pig I city was accosted by Hugo The latter ben began Ve |