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Show ill ft was in two idxs. He dropped them, one at a time, into the waste basket, then smiled henevolen'lv at You are right," he said. me. Yon shall "have what you want. You have seemed such a mere hoy to me that, la spite of jonr giving again and again proof of what you are, I have will talk the been putting yon off. matter over with Langdon and Melville. Rest assured, my boy, that You will be satisfied. He go ip, put hia arm affectionately rounn mv shoulders. "We all like you. f nave a feeling toward you as if you were my own I am getting old. and 1 like to son see young men about me, growing up to assume the responsibilities of the Lord's woik whenever He shall call 1 Dl4VH GRAHAM ECU' VtmiIP5,Av&ar of HUr CQSZc'c' (cxyyzfsiT jsosi. BLACKLOCK. When Npoleoo was about - scsbs-izebeiz- z MR. to crow-- liimself so I have somewhere read they submitted to him the royal genealogy they had laked up for him. He crumpled the parchment and flung it In the face of the chief herald, or whoever it was. My said he, line, -'dates Montenotte. And o d say, mj line dates from the campaign that cc npleted and established my tame ham Wild Week. I shall not pause to recite the details of the obscurity from which I It would be an interesting, emerged. a romantic story; but it Is a familiar story, also, in this land which Lincoln so finely and so fully described when he said: The republio is oppor tunity." One fact only: I did not take the name Blacklock. I was born Blacklock, and christened Matthew; and my hair's being very black and growing so that a lock of it often falls down the middle of The my forehead is a coincidence. malicious and insinuating story that 1 used to go under another name arose, no doubt, from my having been a bootblack in my early days, and having let my customers shorten my name into Matt Black. But, as soon as I graduated from manual labor, 1 resumed my rightful name and have borne it 1 think I may say without vanity in honor to honor. Wild Week! Its cyclones, rising fury on fury to that historic climax of chaos, sing their mad song In uiy ears again as I write. But I shall by no means confine my narrative to business and finance. Take a of life anywhere, and you have a tangled interweaving of the action and reaction of men upon men, of women upon women, of men and women upon one another. And this shall be a cross-sectioout of the very heart of our life with its big and bold energies and passions the swiftest and, intensest life ever lived by the hunrftn race. To begin: m cross-sectio- n II. THOSE DAYS AROSE KINGS. Imagine yourself back two years and a half before Wild Week, back at the time when the kings of finance had just completed their apparently final conquest of the industries of the country, when they were seating themselves upon thrones encircled by vast armies of capita) and brains, when all the governments of the nation national, state and city were prostrate under their iron heels. You may remember that I was a not inconspicuous figure then. Of all their financial agents, I was the the .fnost trusted by them, the I most believed in by the people. had a magnificent suite of offices in the building that dominates 'Wall and IN 1 Broad streets. Boston claimed me also, and;. Chicago; and in PhiladelSan phia, New Orleans, St. Louis, Francisco, In the towns and rural dis trictB tributary to the cities, thou sands spoke of Blacklock as theii trusted adviser in matters of finance My enemies and I had them, nutner ous and venomous enough to prove me a man worth while my enemies spoke of me as the "biggest bucket-shogambler in the world. Gambler I was like all the other manipulators of the markets. But "bucket-shoI never kept. As the kings of finance were the representatives of the great merchants, manup p facturers and investors, so was I the representative of the masses, of those who wished their small savings properly invested. The power of the big fellows was founded upon wealth and the brains wealth buys or bullies or seduces into its service; my power was founded upon the hearts and homes of the people, upon faith In my frank honesty. How had I built up my ower? By recognizing the possibilities of publicity, the chance which the broadcast sowing of newspapers and magazines put within, the reach of the individual man to impiess himself upon the whole country, upon the whole civilized world.- The kings of finance relied upon the assiduity and dexterity of sundry paid agents, operating through the stealthy, clumsy, channels for the exercise of power. I relied only upon myself; I had to trust to no fallible, perhaps through understrappers; traitorous, the megaphone of the press I spoke directly to the people. My enemies charge that I always have been unscrupulous and dishonest. So? Then how have I lived and thrived all these years in the glare and blare of publicity? three o'clock on a It is half-pas- t a dismal, dreary rain afternoon: May is being whirled through the street out by as nasty a wind as ever blew of the east. You are in the private office of that kings of kings, Henry eminent J. Roebuck, philanthropist, churchman, leading citizen and in business as corrupt a creature as ever used the domino of respectability. That office is on the twelfth floor and the of the Power Trust building - cvn&vy3 Ptiwer 'Trust is Roebuck, and Roebuck is the 'Power Trust, lie is seated at his desk and, thinking I do not see him. Is looking at me with an expression of benevolent and melancholy pity the look with which he always regarded any one whom the Roebuck God had commanded Roebuck to destroy. He and his God were in corn stunt communication ; his God never did anything except for his benefit, he never did anything except on the direct counsel or command of his God. Just new his God is commanding him to destroy me, his confidential agent in shaping many a vast industrial enterprise and in inducing the public to buy by the million its bonds and stocks. I invited the angry frown of the Roebuck God by saying: "And I bought in the Manasquale mines on my own account." On your own account! said Roebuck. Then he hastily effaced his air of the engineer startled by sight of an unexpected red light. Yes, replied I. as calm as if I were not realizing the tremendous signifiI cance of what I had announced. look to you to let me participate on equal terms. That is, I had decided that the time had come for me to take my place had among the kings of finance. decided to promote myself from agent to principal, from prime minister to king I must, myself, promote myself, fer in this world all promotion that coast n the bucket-shops- had shown him game Is played cards, and that ning is to get , though 1 always with marked the only hope of winthe confidence of the unless you are big enough to become a card marker yourself. As soon as be got the money from my teller that day, he was rushing away. I followed him to the door that part of my suite opened out on the sidewalk, for flie convenience of my crowds of customers. "I'm just Come with going to lunch," said I. me. He looked uneasily toward a smart little brougham at the curb I've Sorry but I can't," said he. my sister with me. She brought me DRUMHEAD Of Bf C0URTMART1AL Delivers a Characteristic Address Before Society of the Army of the Potomac. her trap." Thats all right, down in 1 III." CAME A WOMAN. In my suite in the Textile building, just off the big main room with its blackboards and tickers, I bad a small office in which I spent a. good deal of time during stock exchange hours, It was there that Sam Ellersly found said I; bring her along. We'll go to the Savarin." And I locked his arm in mine and started toward the brougham. He was turning all kinds of colors and was acting In a way that puzzled me then. Despite all my years in New York I was ignorant of the elab orate social distinctions that had grown up in its Fifth avenue quarter I knew, of eotr-se- , that there was a fashionable society and that some of the most conspicuous of those in it seemed unable to get used to thp idea of being rich and were in a state ol great agitation over their own im portanee. Important they might be, but not to me. I knew nothing of their careful gradations of snobbism the people to know socially, the people to know in a business way, the people to know in ways religious and philanthropic, the people to know fot the fun to be got out of them, the people to pride oneself on not knowing at all; the nervousness, the hys teria about preserving these disgustAll this, I say, was ing gradations. an undreamed-o- f mystery to me, who gave and took liking in the sensible, American fashion. So I didn't understand why Sam, as I almost dragged him along, was stam-Thank you but I site mering: the fact is, we really must get up- me the next day but one after- - nty talk with Roebuck. I want you to sell that Steel Common, Matt, said he.' "it'll go several points higher-- , said town. ' I. Better let me hold it and use my By Ibis finte I was where I could judgment on selling. look into the brougham. A glance I can see much at a glance, as can any man who spends every day of every year in an fight for his purse and his life, with the blows coming from all sides. I can see much at a glance; I often have seen much; InI never saw more than just then. stantly, 1 made up my miud that the Kllersiys would .lunch with me. You've got to eat somewhere, said I, in a tone that put an end to his atTil tempts to mamifaetuie excuses. he delighted to have you. Don't make up any more jams. He slowly opened the door. Anita, said he, "Mr. Blacklock. lies invited us to lunch. I lifted my hat, and bowed. I kept my eyes straight upon hers. And it gave me mote pleasure to look into them than I had ever befoie got out of looking into anv body's. I am passionately fond of flowers, and of children; and her face reminded me of both. Or, rather, it seemed to me that what I had seen, with delight and longing, incomplete in their freshness and beauty and charm, was now before me in the fullness. I felt like I have heard of you saying to her; often. The children and the flowers have told me you were coming. Perhaps nty eyes did say it. At any rate, she looked as straight at me as I at her, and I noticed that she paled a little and shrank yet continued to look, as if I were compelling her. But her voice, beautifully clear, and lingering in the ears like the resonance of the violin after the bow has swept its strings and lifted, was perfectly as she said to her brother: That will be delightful if you think we have time. I saw that she, uncertain whether he wished to accept, was giving him a chance to take either course. He has time nothing but time, said I. His engagements are always with people who want to get something out of him. And they can wait. I pretended to think he was expecting me SHE LOOKED AS STRAIGHT AT ME AS I AT HER. to enter the trap; I got in, seated myI need money right away, was self beside her, said to Sam: is solid conies from within. And in Tve furtherance of my object I had bought his answer. saved the little seat for you. Tell this group of mines, control of which Thats all right, said I. Let me your man to take us to the Equitable was vital to the give you an order for what you need. building Nassau street entrance. Thank you. thank you, said he, combine for a monopoly of 1 talked a good deal during the first so promptly that I knew I had done half of the the coal of the country. nearly two hours we were Did not Mr. Langdon commission what he had been hoping for, probably together partly because both Sam you to buy them for him and his counting on. and his sister seemed under some sort I give this incident to show what of friends? inquired Roebuck, in that strain, chiefly because I was deterour was a were. relations He young mined to make a good impression. I slow, placid tone which yet, for the t'o whom I had told attentive ear, had a note in it like the fellow of good family, her about myself, my horses, my scream of a jaguar that comes home taken a liking. ' He was a lazy' dog, house in the country, my yacht. 1 and as out of place in business as a tried to show her I wasnt an and finds' its cubs gone. ignorBut I couldn't get them for him, cat in a choir. I had been keeping amus, as to books and art, even if I I explained. The owners wouldnt him going for four years at that time, hadn't been to college, rfhe listened, sell until I engaged that the National by giving him tips on stocks and pro- while Sam' sat embarrassed. You Coal and Railway company was not to tecting him against loss. This purely must brins sister down to visit jour out of good nature and liking; for I me, I said, finally, i'il see that have them. jou the remotest idea he could ever both 'have the time of Oh, I see, said Roebuck, sinking hadnt your lives. of use to me beyond helping to be Make up a party of your'frknds, Sam, back relieved. We must get Browne to draw up some sort of perpetual, liven things up at. a dinner or late and come down when shall we say? irrevocable power of attorney to us supper, or down In the country, or on Next Sunday? You know yon were the yacht. In fact, his principal use coming anyhow. I can for you to sign. change the to me was that he knew how to beat rest of the party. But I won't sign it, said I. the box well enough to shake fairly Sam grew as red as if he were goRoebuck took up a sheet of paper good music out of it and T am so and began to fold it upon itself with fond of music that 1 can fili in with ing into apoplexy. 1 thought then he great care to get the edges straight. my Imagination when the performer was afrajd I'd blurt out something about who were in the party I was He had grasped my meaning; he was isn't too bad. proposing to change, i was soon to deliberating. I that deliberatehave charged They For four years now, I went on, ly ruined him. Ruined! The first know better. have been Thank jou, Mr. Blacklock," said you. people promising to time I gave him a tip and that was take me in as a principal in some one the second or third time I ever saw his sister. But I have an engage-- j of your deals to give me recognition him he burst into tears and said: ment next Sunday. I have a great by making me president, or chairman W'ith- Y'ou've saved my life, Blacklock. I'll many engagements just now. of an executive or finance committee. never tell yon how much this windfall out looking at my book I couldnt 1 am an impatient man, Mr. Roebuck. mean's to me now. Nor did I with say when I can go. This easily and Life is short, and I have much to do. deep and dark design keep him along naturally. In her set they certainly So I have bought the Manasquale on the ragged edge. He kept himsell do learn thoroughly that bianth of mines and I shall hold them. there. How could I build up such a tact which plain people call lying Roebuck continued to fold the paper man with his hundred ways of wastSam gave her a grateful look, which upon itself until he had reduced It to ing money, including throwing it he thought didn't see, and which I a short, thick strip. This he slowly away on his own opinions of stocks didn't rightly intPipret then. twisted between his cruel fingers un- - for he would gamble on his own ac- (To be Continued) ' all-da- y Roebuek-Langdon-Melvill- e 1 T Brought to Trial, Are Acquitted and Over a Thousand Vast Number Only Seventy-on- e Executed. statisSt. Petersburg.--Newspape- r tics give the number of sentences Iml posed under the drumhead law which expiied Friday. Freni these figmes it appears that 1.1 14 pel sons were executed, 79 were ent to the mines for life. 710 were condemned to minor terms of court-martia- one-hors- e 1 I TO DEATH card-marker- me to my reward. It will seem incredible that a man of mv shrewdness and experience could be taken in by such slimy stuff who knew Roebuck as only at that a few insiders knew him. I who had seen him at work, as devoid of heart as any empty spider in an empty wel). Yet I was taken in to the extent that I thought he really purposed to recognize my services, to yield to the only persuasion that Could affect him force. I fancied he . was actually about to put me where I could be of the highest usefulness to him and his associates, as well as to myself. It was with tears in my eyes that I shook bands with him, .thanking him high chin emotionally. I: was with-and "a ptoud heat that I went hack to my offices. There wasn't ,a doubt was about to get in my mind that my deserts, was about th enter the charmed circle of high finance. 1 SENTENCED that the Wall street Seek the Peace Granted to Him Whe Will Wrong No Man, and Will Not Submit to Wrong in Return," Says President Roosevelt. -- imprisonment and 71 were acquitted. in spite of Premier Stoiypins order President Roosevelt Washington. tile activity of the law aftsuspending the of at the an address in unveiling of parliament, exer convocation the statue of General George B. McClel in cases, thirtj-ninthe gravest cept lan by the Society of the Army of the since Potomac on Thursday, characterizec persons have been executed num5. March The monthly highest as weakness the desire for peace un wa- - 2111, iu November-last- . of ber sentences on the right less it could be obtained terms. He would have none of the Three hundred ami twenty-siperpeace if it were merely an sons weie executed in the Baltic provfoi for name other inces, 212 in Boland, 195 in the Causloth, for timiditj, for the avoidance casus and 103 iu other provinces. of duty. are inThese however The man who would do the best foi complete statistics, as the sentences were subthe country in peace, the president ject to the confirmation of the only, w her do not make, declared, is the man who at neec anv returns to St. Petersburg. will do well in war. The bill introduced in (lie lower Seek the peace that conies to the house of parliament providing for the Mr. said man Roosevelt abolition of l drumhead armed, just will be discussed in the upper who will dare to defend Ills right! If the need should arise. Seek the house May 15. who him to will wronf NO THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT peace granted no man and will not submit to wronj In return. Seek the peace that comes Will Issue Statement Declining to Acto ns as the peace of righteousness cept Nomination Under Any the peace of justice. Ask pence bj Condition, j'ottr deeds and your powers warrant A dispute h to the Tribune rhicago you in asking it, and do not put your from I) 0., says: Washington. self in the position to crave it af lias decided to President something to be granted or withhelc at the whim of another." set at lest all talk that lie will be a candidate for the Republican nominMINISTER ELOPES WITH WARD ation for the presidency next year. was learned It Friday upon the Causet of Pastor Fashionable Church highest authoiity that at the proper Sensation by His Actions. will issue a New York. Members of the fash moment the statement to the Amoiioan people aniouable St. George's Episcopal church nouncing hat in- vvi not accept at Hempstead, L. I , were astonished tinder any o millions, and callThursday when they learned that ing attention to the dccTtraiion ue was elected iu the Rev. Jero K. Cooke made on the uig.itas ticbillows: their r, Novembei, 1904, had departed, and that Miss Floixuta The wise eu tom which limits the Whaley aluo had left her home and president to two trims regards the had written letters saying she would substance and not tin fc rtn. Under 1 not return. The Rev. Mr. Cooke has no circumstances will be a candidate for or accept another nomination." Miss five for been married years. WAITING FOR TRANSLATION. Whaley is an orphan, 17 years of age, whose father just before his death Montana Man Confident That World gave her into the special charge ot Is Corr ing to an End in Few Days. Mr. Cooke. Miss Whaley lias a fortune raid to amount to $125,000, which Great Falls, Mont. Believing that came to her from her fathers estate. the end of the wmld will come within A large number of the minister's friends believe that lie has lost his ten days, and that lie with a handmind. Three years ago, with Mrs ful cf folioweis will be straightway Cooke and a party of Sunday school translated to heaven, A. VV. Stanton, children, he was in a trolley car colli a prominent stockman of this city, sion, and has been a nervous wreck has disposed of all his property, valever since. ued at several thousuid dollars, to the fits! b'.lder for $150, and taking URGE TARIFF ADJUSTMENT. up bis icsiilencc in a rented bouse in New York Chamber of Commerce the most elevated part of tno city, is calmly awaiting the end. StaritonB Asks for New Treaty with France. folioweis, eight in number, disposed in a similar manNew Y'orU. A resolution urging of their posses-ion- s with him. President Roosevelt and the state de- ner and arewas Stanton wealthy, but has dispartment to negotiate a treaty with posed of his belongings in order to bo France which will adjust the com unencumbered when called from the mercial relations between both conn earth. tries on a mutually advantageous ba MAGAZINE EXPLODED. sis, was adopted at the annual meet Ing of the New York chamber of Great Destruction of Life and Propcommerce on Thursday. The chain erty, at Canton, China. her also adopted a resolution urging Very great destruction Hongkong. neof stae the upon the secretary cessity of providing an adequate force of life and property was caused at of experts for the examination of Canton Friday evening by the exploforeign tariffs and foreign tariff reg- sion of a gunpowder magazine. Twenty-ulations. one bodies have already been reUp to the present time this work has been In the hands of one expert covered from the ruins. Hundreds of and one assistant at a total actual persons were injured. cost of $3,500 per year. For the Fifteen buildings were razed to the fiscal year congress has Increased the ground and over 100 were serappropriation to $5,500. iously wrecked. A section of 200 feet long from the massive city hall was Would Kill Those Who Convicted Him thrown down. The historical nine-stopagoda escaped with slight inI'll kill every San Francisco. juries. who testified again'st me, if I The officer In charge of the magahave to swing for it. This was zine was among those killed, and when Frank Morgan's parting remark to bis body was recovered a pipe was found clutched in ills hand, which sugDeputy Marshal Towle when he wis gests the possible cause of the explo-s.lrplaced in a ceil in the Federal building on Thursday, after a jury in the The financial losses are enormous. United States court had adiu'lged him guilty of stealing a special ibdlv-erAN AUDACIOUS HOLD-UP- . r letter. Morgan stole a bill from, the letter and will serve five Robbers Enter Saloon in Heart of jears for it. City and Rob Patrons. Frisco. to are Returning Refugees Salt Lake City. An audacious robUnion be ry was perpetrated .in the holding Omaha, Neb. Westbound Fad fie trains are crowded at this up of 1 lie Onyx Bank saloon, in tin time with people who fled from San heart of the city, Thursday evening. Francisco after the earthquake a year Three masked men entered the at a time when the streets were ago. There is a strong magnet in the with people. neld up James high wages now being offered, which his baris gradually bating the effect of assistMcTernay. the proprietor; Thomas Needham; James ing the refugees to get over their tender, Maier and James Burke, rifled a cash scare, and many of them are concludhome, register and looted the sate, getting ing that there is no place-lik- e especially when the chance to make away with something Lite $1,0)0 in cash and jewelry. money is as blight, as at pre ent. e x court-martia- Roo.-evt-- lt pre-idc- reiiom-inatiu- pa-to- ry wit-hes- s one-dolla- - Baroness Guilty of Manslaughter. Y'oik. Anisia Baroness New Louise De Massy, a pattern designer, tried for ihe killing of Gustav Simon a shirt waist manufacturer, was convicted cf manslaughter in the first degree with recommendation of mercy. v Simon, a shirt waist manufacturer. was shot in liis office on November li), and died a few hours Found Whole Family Dead. New York. William Cross, his wife and their two sons were found dead from inhaling illuminating gas in their home in Jersey City. The family lived upon the top floor of a three-storhouse. Cross was employed as a st engineer, and when he did not report for duty a messenger was sent to Lis home. Tne messenger got no response to repeated rappings upon Mme. Be Ma-rwho wca the door, and as there was a strong ein) loye-- by Simon, acknowledg'd she odor of gas in the hall he calk'd for had had a disagree n'nt with Simon assistance and forced an enhance, over a question of wag-- s finding the whole family dead. Cu-ta- y, 4 |