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Show ""I I Oemoi, ScaSS-tsZBS- )etroyej " XV. Bun own VaATi i 4 jnjyn) GRAHAM PHHUP3, Author of '477tFCQSTcc ' , (pyy&Gffr ISOS' ty to CGHfrWyj ' AND TRIMMED. two kinds of dangerous rpAppED , ini. are Z All right," said I, and with th paper In my hand, went to my ontsidf office. I kept on toward n.y h.m . of flee, saying over my shoulder- 0 the stenographer: Don't let in cloLd me. terrupt Behind the that tempt us, and Those that don L, fae notion of our resisting and ado make us easy victims locked door my body ventured to , win,. r..j I knew my. to life I 'Pt through thought again and my face to others. and I believed as much as it could of the chaosreneci sld Wedne tty thoroughly, that men and nothing that could tempt was heaving in me like ten thousand 1th this warring devils. business. 1.000.000, neglect my Three months before, In the same RPer auj kon of my strength firmly In 1 oM wa-th- don't. O 1 , V ! ivere oil Hied by k me froB e south or rth i of utheast thn 1'ork, from1 through Thaim Glenn i d- - reatest pro; eel tanka idred der; and tanka i ?. the can; company of Kiefer, field, anti Hod Fork north Hu: cenes of 5 . a tempta- to my- said i business, i neglect business To go up town during to spend the (0r long lunches, selecting flowers and preslike look things her-t;or , 0f business, and would be so bu Anita became hese Rot ae men. j do 1 couldnt neglect them because my well ordered absence now and so of (rind af- - that a few then make, send me back ably jerence-prob- clearer." left the office at half past fateful Wednesday In (00 that I en . was never in better had dropped common Textile In two days at md a quarter on Its way ,,j. lt vas at last I could down toward where As for oeif and take profits. enterprise nothing could to disturb lt; I was nil announce-Ufor the first of July boom. Never did I have a heart than when I Joined Anita It seemed Ier friends at Sherry's. , friendliness was less per-irless a matter of appearances. B. business , situation, my gambler's Instinct would probably have helped me out. For 1 had not been gambling in the great American Monte Carlo all those years without getting used to the downs as well as to the ups. I had not-- and Lave not anything of the business pan In my composition. To me, It was wholly finance, wholly a game, with excitement the chief factor and the sure winning, whether the little ball rolled my way or not I was tho financier, the gambler and adven- turer; and that had been my principal asset For, the man who wins In the long run at any- - of the great games of Ufa and they are all alike Is the man with the cool head; and the only man whose head is cool is he who plays for the games sake, not caring fnd8h!l?e1t,d0.wn awIn and durab,y Inspected the ruins ot niy projects-- or, rather, the ruin of the one project upon which I had set. I had known I cared my for but It had seemed to me she was mply one more, the latest, of the objects on which 1 was In the habit of thing my will from time to time to niake the game more Interestdeeply ing. 1 now saw that never before had J really been in earnest about anything, that, on winning her 1 had staked ntjself, and that myself was a wholly dlnerent person from what 1 had been Imagining. In a word, 1 sat face to face with that unfathomable mystery of that every man laughs at and mocks another man for believing In, until he has hluiself felt It drawing him against will, against reason, and sense, and Interest, over the brink of destruction before his eyes drawing yawning him as the magnet-mountaidrew Sindbad and his ship. Rut It Is not In me to despair. There never yet was an impenetrable siege line; to escaiie, it Is only necessary by craft or by chance to hit upon the moment and the spot for the sortie. "Ruined! I said aloud. "Trapped and trimmed like the stupidest sucker that ever wandered Into Wall street! A dead one, no doubt; but 1 11 see to it that they dont enjoy my funeral." n XVI. GENTEEL "HOLD-UP- . In my childhood at home, my father was often away for a week or longer, working or looking for work. My mother had a notion that a boy should be punished only by bis father; so, whenever she caught me In what she regarded as a serious transgression, she used to say: "You will get a good whipping for this, when your father comes home. At first I used to wait passively, suffering the torments of ten thrashings before the "good whipping came to pass. But soon A n d iarge prep o Injured lolished reek I; and Iddled. were ' $ In unnx was bright, the air dell-It took all health perfect. Irength of all the straps Monson :te iun foundation RAINING. natural spirits to keep exuberant, id finally Intended to be back at ex-j- e See half an hour before the closed this In addition to the precaution of leaving orders d were to telephone me If occur about which they But so comfort-i- d :e feast doubt. I my vanity make me that to look at my watch until a it to three. I had a momentary then, reassured, I asked Anita Before we ke I walk with me. at I telephoned my right-hanul partner, Ball. As I had on my iit Will Do Brown s Rev. y M Hear-ir- y of the d on union, it Thursday He has been the Oner station!. the Japan lat Amric ilnst unde? th. Ing army "and their rmance ol hey go at n ss. Every e put thre and the re soldier as the as. any-shoul- d o p m being E:;1 was quiet; the rood 1 1 e Japinese of d was Impression. entered my offices, I, from habit, mechanically went dl-- ) ticker and dropped all In slant from the pinnacle of the boiling inferno. For the just spelling out these "Mowbray Langdon, president Textile association, Balled on the Kaiser Wilhelm at A t per cent raise of the dlvl-- t of textile common, from wnt 4 per cent to 6 has been into a . was un-edl- y -- ined upon. 1 had ntaked limit of my fell! wan up to, perhaps be safety that textile watching narrowly for the news was as bad But it cost me no effort ''m that 'eared. i "4 s SICKLY WHITE." mind began to employ the Interval more profitably. I would scheme to escupe execution of sentonce; and, though my mother was a determined woman, manys the time I contrived to change her mind. I am not .ecom demending to parents the system of I but of sentence; execution In lay rewas case tt In my must say that sponsible for an invaluable discipline. For example, the textile tangle. I knew I was in all human probability doomed to go down before the stock exchange had been open an hour the next morning. All textile stocks must start many points higher than must go they had been at the close, as Entangled up. and swiftly steadily In the my reserve resources were coal deal, I should have no chance to cover my shorts on any terms less 1 than the loss of all I had. At most, from save to myself could hope only criminal bankruptcy There was no signal of distress In my voice as I telephoned Corey, presl dent of the Interstate Trust company, to stay at his office until 1 came; there was no signal of distress in my nun uer ns 1 sallied forth snd went down to tho Bower Trust building; nor did 1 had heard I show or suggest that ; sentence, as 1 the strode into Roebuck's presence snd greeted him. I was assuming, by way of preenut Ion, that some rumor about mo either had reached him or would soon reuch him. I knew he had an loTtnaMlM J eye In every secret of finance and said I. I could not pay fou H..en the afternoon pa-.and. while I believed my secret gone, now that much As he held It out to purchase price for was wholly my own, I had too for her with him to bnnk on that, fH"Kht bite textile head-stake at j "ashed to 5?iSJed Its veil snd stood naked when I could, as I thought, so sasily some others Iwut him. exhausted. I reassure If. disgusted and "HE GREW WHITE, he wins or loses on whether greatly It any one play, because he feels that he will lose he wins Hut now a new factor had come into the game. I spread out the paper and stared at the headlines: "Black The Matt To Wed Society Ilelle Anita Lead Will Bucket-ShoKing To The Altar." I tried to read vulgar the vulgar article under whose I was sick, lines, but I could not. ''Dev sick In body and In mind. free was gone. I was n- - longer the responsibilities. I had lance; In Its That thought dragged another that Imp grinning an ugly, train, But sne leered at mo and sneered: wont have you now! I cried She will! She must!" And up. aloud, starting j! storm burst I raged up aad . clenched my floor, shaking teeth, gnashing my kinds of furious commands exhibition threuts a truly ridiculous tbrotiBto It of impotent rage. For u s,1 saw clearly enough that b I the textile trust. "He's have me, that all these pwd J "ld J' P because climb up to the news got out trying nd ,au tWon nml he were the only loose my clinging namls I hey me disappear. knew, so he watched supKeed says they low avid nontle too wasn't to have who were none tlme from fur a month not till Lang-li- In disengaging themselves who assoc has had to confirm of their own lifelong e- l Jatea That was the only way to had reverses of fortuncrowd fmm oration Co, ,11 suspicion of the niurket." that be had Just before t struck him. didnt you tell me thlq, said 1, "when I had you on the My tone was quiet enough, very question ought to have Urn that m.v brain was like a "v In a cyclone. tord It just after you rang his reply. "Weve been try-Se- t you ever since. Ive gone here after textile stock. Very ell, or even lend, and they best price was ,ten points 'days closing. A strong tips textiles are to he rocketed. MnU up already on the mere Already ten dollars to pav on we I was short and 1 short kan two hundred thousand! I tlsw of the fiend Ruin sink avsh of my shoulders. Ball flow hoW I'm fixed, I rcmein-"(flit- , "and he mustnt know. ir with a hand and w Jo,, nm steady wor(ls W to see Jenkins at once. he Jonklns us then first vice-o- f face T 11 1 A to-da- J" jj e In-fi- ' d1" "shot-at-sunrls- NEWS SUMMARY t i A number of deaths from heat are mine at Newhouse, Utah, allows 41 reported from Pittsburg. Tbe Wisconsin senate . has killed per cent copper and 250 ounces ot silver to the ton. the , railway fare bill. Hoke Smith was Inaugurated goverThe Gold Mountain section of Utah is Just now receiving the attention of nor of Georgia on Saturday. . The schooner Vlolotte with ninenjnuy mining Investors, being regard-cA as one ot the future rich producing teen hands has stink off the coast of districts of tho Btato. Iceland. Two carloads of machinery for the A balloon fell Into the sea near 100-toconcentrating mill to be erectNiewport, Belgium, and the aeronaut ed at once at the Muldoon Mining was drowned. Mining company's property, have been The Indiana supremo court holds received at the Bellevue, Idaho, depot. that the state has the right to regulate The directors of the Tonopah Min- traffic In liquor. ing company have declared the regular Jty the explosion of an Infernal dividend of 25 cents a share. The exa prison wall at Sebastopol was tra dividend of 10 cents, which fans shattered and twenty pilsoners esbeen declared for the last few per- caped. iods, was not ordered. Robbers entered the residence of In Beaver and Deer creek canyons, Prince Charvodeze at Tlflis, Russia,, tn the Mt. Baldy mining section of killed the the prince and plundered Utah, a number of prospects and Borne house. propositions of a more serious characMrs. Katherine F. Flake, aged 104, ter are being given attention, and died at Grand Island, Neb., last week. some of them are coming out with She was the oldest person In Negood showings. braska. at Pioche, of The Gus Beckman was killed and John God-b- e the and which Samuel Newhouse Field and Harry Larsen were seriously of Salt Lake City are the chief In a premature blast at Hell Injured owners, Is preparing to ship their ore Mont. Gate, to Salt Lake from Bulllonville until Three men now under arreBt at Dilthe reduction works are erected at lon, Mont., robbed the Oregon Short the latter place. section house at Feeleye station, Line Unless present Indications prove de100. securing to ceitful, Cedar City, Utah, Is likely General Lono, minister of war of experience quite a mining boom in Spain, died on Sunday. General Lono disa of the near future, as a result received his portfolio from Premier covery recently made by J. II. Arthur, Maura last January. and surveyor. a local land attorney The Incendiary movement among The returns show flCO to the ton In Russian peasants In revenge for the gold. dissolution of parliament has asthe The Birch Creek Mining company, serious proportions. sumed made up chiefly of Idaho Falls men, dressed as an officer revolutionist A dehas a promising mine, considerably drew 330,000 frontier of the guards, from and tunnels shafts, by veloped Russo-Chlnes-e at Harhank from the been ore have of carloads 16 which and check on a decamped. ran bin, forged shipped from Dubois station that The assembly of Wisconsin by a 72 per cent lead and 18 ounces sliver. The mine Is In the western part of vote ot G9 to 3, passed the senate resolution favoring the election ot Fremont county, Idaho. United States senators by direct vote. officers On June 29 the Goldfield James E. Brown was shot and killed seized a ton of stolen ore which Is worth 350,000, some of lt assaying as by R. E. Daniels, a saloonkeeper of high as (40 per pound. Most of the Globe, Arizona. An Insult to Daniels ore was taken from the Smith Assay sister was the motive, according to Some was Daniels. and Reduction works. found In the house of a deputy sheriff Immigration officials at San Antonio, and Jailer. Several other auspecta Texas, have received Information that are also under arrest there are 4,000 Japanese In Mexico A Halley miner, W. S. Pierce, who awaiting a chance U slip Into the has Just sold the famous old Ontario United States. The strike troubles In the province mine near Ketchum to Boston parties, "wildcat the corporation of that Aerrera, Italy, are becoming worse. says The troops have been forced to bill passed by the last Idaho legislaMany persons ture has done wonders In restoring protect the workers. the credit of Idaho as a mining state. have been Injured. He aaye that Investors look on this as An edict Issued from Pekin orders an honest law. all officials to carry out the W. J. McConnell, the first gover- edict and commands an investigation nor of Idaho under statehood, manager Into the quantity of land at nreseut and a large owner In the Idabo Lead, devoted to the cultivation of opium. Silver and Zinc company. In the lead In a sensational advance caused by mining district, eighteen mllesi from the covering of shorts the price of Argo, Is In correspondence now with wheat on the Chicago exchange on tho parties In Europe, with a view of 27th shot past the dollar mark, the shipping his zinc ore either to Wales December delivery selling at 31.0314. or Belgium. Six men fell over fifty feet from a It may surprise the old prospectors collapsing scaffold on a building In to learn that an entirely new mineral course of construction In San Francisbelt baa been discovered on the bor- co. All were badly Injured, one dying ders of Custer and Lemhi counties, on his way to the Receiving hospital and "almost In sight of town," as Prince Egbir Mtrza, the eon of forsome one expressed It, says the Chaimer Governor Zull Sultan, killed hts ns Messenger. Nevertheless, such is mother at Ispahon, Persia, shooting the fact, as can be verified by actual her three times because she refused observation if any person doubts 1L to furnish htm money to continue his David Keith, president of the Sliver dissipation. A tornado swept Tucuracarl, N. M., King Coalition Mines company, Which recently absorbed the Silver King demolishing numerous buildings. Mrs. and other Park City mlues, announces Ed Miller and daughter, whose home, that quarterly dividends will be six miles from town, was badly wreckon the 10th of July. Tho ed, were Injured. A heavy hallstortn company will start off on a 12 per cent followed the wind. basis which, on its capital of 36.250,-00A tornado struck Recreation park will call for the disbursement of at Kalamazoo, Mich., and wrecked a 3187,000 per quarter or 750,oo0 per row of horse stalls, killing three valr, year. uable race horses. William In President Joseph 8. Giroux, of thd killed was coming 39, by Giroux Consolidated, who is now In contact with a live wire. bewill Giroux the east, says that the The political situation at Lisbon gin production at Ely within a month. Is much Improved. Opposition to the concentrator will be rapThe 600-toministry Is dying out, the politicians idly Increased when the shafts are apparently realizing that this would With this equipment, toenlarged. only lead to disturbances, discrediting gether with shipments of the two them snd strengthening the ministry. other smelters, he says the Giroux China is on the eve of an upheaval can earn 32.000.0U0 net for the coming will be much worse than tho that copper. year on rebellion, according to CapoccasionTaping been has excltemeut Much A! tain Smith, master of a steumer ed In the mining circles of Dutto by of the Klang, who aritvod st Yangtso streak a of the discovery week by the steamB. last C., Victoria, In ore of veiy rich peacock' ctfpper the Greenlenf mine of the Amalga- er Shtnauo Muru. James V. Barnes, forirAr president mated Copper company, two miles east of Butte, demonatrating. In the ot the Title Insurance Trust company, boeu opinion of mining engineers, that the of Minneapolis, now defunct, has copper veins of the famous Butte arrested on a bench warrant charging There is a Hill extend east of Butte to tbe main him with embezzlement. divide ot tho Rocky mountains, sever- shortage of over $150,000 on the companys books. al miles beyond Butte. Causes of wrecks on tho Union PaSenator W. A. Clark, who some time are to be officially announced to mine cific on bond the May Day ago took a at Bristol, Nevada, for 3250,0011, bus tho public hereafter by the board of made the first payment of 25,0OO. Inquiry, and the board, which conducts The May Day Is a great copper propo- the investigation Is to Include one 8enator Clark has a large or more leading citizens of the comsition. force of men at work prosecuting de- munity In which the accident occurred. velopment work. Tbe Bristol Consolidated people at County Treasurer J. C. Randolph Bristol, Nevada, who have been block- Btabbed County Commissioner Andr-BuBurleson to death with a pocket ing out ore which they propose to The haul to Bulllonville In wagons, have knife near Bakersvtlle, N. C. let a contract for handling 2,000 tons kilting followed a dispute over tax reto the smelter town for shipment over turns. Randolph was afterward badly the new roud. as soon as tbe steel Is lieaten by brothers of Burleson, ono of whom Is a state senator. laid to that point. Tho night operator of the Southern of the Wyoming The operators mine lease, near Ameilcan Fork, Utah, Pacific at Guadeloupe, Cal., was held during the winter past have mined and up by two masked highwaymen about sacked ore which will bring returns 1 a. in., and arter a thrilling pistol This ore Is duel in which ton shot were exIn excess of 3250.000. now commencing to be shipped, and changed, succeeded In driving them off will be continually added to during and frustrating their attempt to rob the company's safe. the summer montha. As a result of the belief that the Milford. Utah, Is the scene of grent of Maine., both activity In ore shipment. Not a day state legislature, s controlled h are one of which to two branches from that but passes of ore leaves for the valley Prohibitionists, will pass a prohibition smelters, and these shipments would measure, two of the lurgest potteries he greatly Increased If there was !n the state, whose product was conteam transportation for ore from the fined almost exclusively of Jusa for th tlzisr (milit liflkM rltiHUtl. mines to the inllrond iVpot. A samplo of ore taken from the Cao-tu- s n nia-rhiu- e, Ohlo-Kentuck-y . go. "Have you heard the news of textile common?" he asked. 'Yes, said I carelessly. Then, all In an instant, a plan took shape In my mind. "I own a good deal ot the stock, and I must say, I dont like this raise. . "Why? he Inquired. "Because Pm sure lta a stock-job- . blng scheme, replied I boldly. "I know the dividend washt earned. I dont like that sort ot thing, Mr. Roe buck. Not because Its unlawful the laws are so clumsy that a practical man often must disregard them. But because it Is tampering with the repu tatlon and the stability of a great en terprlse for the take of a few millloni of dishonest profit Pm surprised. at Langdon. "I hope you're wrong, Matthew," was Roebuck' only comment. He questioned me no further, and I went away, confident that, when the crash came in the morning, If comes It must; there would be no more astonished man in Wall street than Henry J. Roebuck. How he must have laughed; or, rather, would have laughed. If bis sort of human hyena expressed its emotions In the human way. From him, straight to my lawyers, Wbltehouse & Fisher, In the Mills building. "I want yon to send for the newspaper reporters at once," said I to Fisher, "and tell them that In my behalf you are going to apply for an Injunction against the textile trust, forbidding them to take any further steps toward that Increase of dividend. Tell them I, as a large stockholder, and representing a group of large stockholders; purpose to stop the paying of unearned dividends. Fisher knew how closely connected my house and the textile truBt had been; but he showed, and probably felt no astonishment He was too experienced In the ways of finance and financiers. It was a matter of Indifference to him whether I was trying to assassinate my friend and ally, or was feinting at Langdon, to lure the public within reach so that we might together, fall upon It and make battue. Not without some regret did I thus arrange to attack my friend In his absence. "till," I reasoned, "his blun-deIn trusting some leaky person with his secret Is the cause ot my lerll and Ill not have to justify myself to him for trying to save myself What effect my Injunction would have I could not foresee. Certainly It could not save me from the Iorb of my fortune; but, possibly, It might check the upward course of the stock tong enough to enable mo to snatch myself rrom ruin, and to cling to firm ground until the coal deal drew me up to safety. My next call was at the Interstate Trust company. I found Corey waiting for me In a most uneasy state of r face expressionless; I who has been killed bv and lies dead with the look my man to MINES ANI) MINING ( closing with textile slug-inAnita and down a quarter. a car to the park, talked for an hour, talking with nnstraint and more friendliness rer before, and when I left her the drat time, felt that 1 had No w. itempt" everything ht, inge Tve pffis to s'lggcRt, Mt. Ho buck," said j, "that you let, my bous Blacklock and company aauonnc the coal reorganization plun. It would give me a great lift, and Melville and his bank don't need prestige. My dally letters to tho public on Investments have, as you know, got me a big following that would help me make the flotation an even bigger success than It's bound to be, no matter who announces tt and Invites subscriptions. As I thus proposed that I be in a jiffy cauirht up from the extremely humble level of reputed bucket-shodeab-- r Into the highest heaven of high finance, that t be made the official spokcHmun of the financial gls, his expression was so ludicrous that I almost lost my gravity. I suspect, for a moment he thought I had gone mad. His manner, when he recovered himself sufficiently to speak, was certainly not unlike what lt world have been had he found himself alone before a dangerous lunatic who was armed with a bomb. You know how anxious I am to help you, to further your interests, Matthew, said he wheedllngly. "t know no man who has a brighter future. But not bo fust, not so fast, young man. Of course, yon will appear as one of the reorganizing committee but we could not afford to have the announcement come through any less strong and old established house than the National Industrial bank. "At least, you can make me Joint announcer with them," I urged. well "Perhaps yes possibly see , said he soothingly. "There la plenty of time. "Plenty of time, I assented, as If quite content. T only wanted to put And I arose the matter before you. mind. "Is there any truth In this story was tho question he about you? plumped at me. "What story? said I, and a bard fight I had to keep my confusion and alarm from the surface. For, apparently. my secret was out "That you're on the wrong side of the textile." Bo It was out! "Some truth, I ad mlttcd, alnce dental would have been useless here. "And I've come to you for the money to tldo me over." He grew white, a sickly white, and Into his eyes came a horrible, drowning look. (To be Continued.) The Life of Balia. Comparatively few people know that ringing a bell ruins It. That Is. a bell has a definite length of life, and after so many blows will break A 600 pound bell, struck blows of ITS foot pounds of force, broke after 11 000 blow. A 4,000 pound bell broke after IS, 000 blows of 350 foot pounds bell A steel composition force. weighing 1.000 pounds broke after 24 blows ot 150 foot pounds, but Its maker said tt was calculated for a fabler blow,. anti-opiu- Wide-maye- n 15-ce- ten-inc- h n car-load- |