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Show lions wont shrink in his hands, wan' you to know him, Blalta When Moms name a as mentioned Blake started aad gazed intently at the stolid face ar.d heavy figure in the With far corner of the smoking-room- . shame he recalled that he had made no inquiry concerning this man, whose death or existence meant so much tc John Burt. For a moment his nerves tingled, and he longed to walk across the room small blocks of the two railway stocks. and choke Morris for Johns sake, but The market was strong, and all offer- he reflected that this was folly. It ings were eagerly absorbed. In three was enough to know that Morris lived. days he had sold one hundred thou- John Burt was dead so far as Arthur1 sand shares of each stock, and the Morris was concerned and Blake, as. market was utationary. He wired the Johns reincarnation, threw himself fact to John Burt and received In- on guard, determined to profit to the structions. The following day he be- utmost by the incident. exgan the cash sale of the stocks and seGlad to see you, old man! When half of them were claimed Kingsley, rising to greet Mor-curities. sold the market began to weaken. I want you to know my friend,; ris. On Thursday morning he received Mr. Blake Mr. James Blake, of Sa a cipher telegram which, when trans- Francisco Mr. Arthur Morris. You lated, read as follows: certainly have heard "Sell remainder of securities at Pon my word this is unexpected market price, and then offer railroads luck! Arthur Morris thrust forward, A and B in five thousand lots. a soft hand and winced as Blake claspJ J. B. ed it with simulated heartiness. Beneath the weight of these offerDelighted to meet you, Mr. Blake! Been looking for ings the market trembled and then Morris exclaimed. broke sharply. Late in the afternoon you everywhere! Sent my card t came the news of the resignation of your apartments this evening. By powerful directors on railroads A and Jove, youre a corker, dont you know, B; the organization of a competing Mr. Blake! Waiter, a bottle of Perier' I want to drink your! line, and the passage of a resolution Gouet, '54. for enormous bond issues. health, Mr. Blake. When James Blake went to bed late Glad to meet you, Mr. Morris! Saturday night it was after fifty hours said Jame3 Blake, looking him full In! of work without sleep. He had prac- the eyes. Yve heard of your father,; tically concluded one of the most de- and the famous old firm, and learned, cisive campaigns ever waged on the only that youve succeeded him street. Before turning out the lights in business. he again read a telegram received a Two years spent by Arthur Moms few hours before, and his handsome in an apprenticeship to the trade of face flushed with pleasure as he read: money grasping and holding had' "Accept my congratulations on your seamed the puffed, round tace with superb handling of our campaign. Mr. hard lines. The once dull eyes glowHawkins joins In salutations and we ed with the newly-lightefires of) J. B." drink your health. avarice. The sensuous lips dropped Our campaign? said Blake, half at the corners with a cruel curve. The aloud. Thats the highest of com- former air of Indifference was re-- j pliments. John must have won placed by the alertness of defense and1 and Im a millionaire at last. aggressiveness. Wonder if I can sleep. Here goes. Close observers predicted a great caHe dropped Into a slumber deep and reer for Arthur Morris. His father untroubled as that of a child. was delighted with the transformation and did not hesitate to give to his James Blake found himself the Wall heir the keys which unlocked the Morstreet hero of the hour. He was ac- ris treasurer vaults. claimed the young financial giant from The hours glided by to the music of the Pacific slope a market Ivanhoe clinking glasses and the rising clatter And as James Blake of conversation. talked and listened and drank, his. aversion to Arthur Morris relaxed.. He loved John Burt and was eager t espouse his cause, but John had not commissioned him to quarrel withj Arthur Morris. Perhaps the affair of the years before was only a boyhood dispute? He glanced at the white expanse of Morris shirt front and wondered if the scar of Johns bullet showed over his heart. Morris lived, and the thought' came to Blake that the score was even between John and the young millionaire. The feud had made John rich why should John complain? And Arthur Morris did not seem to be such a bad sort of a fellow after all. Morris Thus reasoned Blake as took his arm and led him away from the noisy club men. Say we get out of this? said Morcase. ris, proffering a cigarette Blake! Youll he my guest Won't listen to a refusal, my dear fellow! Ive bachelor apartments, I and anything you ask is yours. who had driven his lance through the want to have a quiet chat with you. armor of famed knights and warriors. Let's make our excuses and stroll to He drank deep of the glorious nectar Delmonicos for a bite of supper. Then of victory, The day had dawned when we'll go to my rooms. he could accept honors fairly won. Blake accepted the invitation and While admitting that John Burt was after supper they drove to the Morris the master-minof the campaign, apartment. Blake knew that he had played no Im rather fond of these quarters, small part in its consummation. He dont you know, said Morris, as he had invested every dollar of his own. showed his guest through a suite He had carried his stock to the bot- worthy of a Lucullus. PicKed up some tom of the market and covered in time of this stuff abroad, and the governor to profit on the reaction. In a week contributed the rest of It. Rammohun, of furious conflict he had not made a serve us that 1809 brandy! mistake. The Indian servant bowed and New York threw open her gates as moved noiselessly away. Morris opento a victorious general, proud to be ed a writing-desand glanced at a looted in honor of his fame. She be- number of unopened letters. came the opulent and willing mistress (To be continued.) to his pleasures. She fanned his fevered brow and whispered soft words SHIRTS MUST HAVE SHRUNK. of praise into his ears. He banqueted with money kings in flsd Flannel Garment Wife Mistook staid old clubs; he met as an equal for Coral Necklace. Jim Sullivan tells of a friend, a the dashing young scions of wealth around the boards in fashionable sufferer from rheumatism, who, hear-cafes; he drifted through drawinging during the early part of the win- rooms brilliant in light, and looked in- ter that red flannel worn next to the; to the admiring faces of radiant body was a remedy for that comwomen; he mingled with the jeweled plaint, purchased several undershirts throng in playhouse and opera; he made of that material. The clerk asread his name and the story of his sured him that the goods were guarfame In the public prints and he for- anteed in every particular. Mr. About two weeks afterward got John Burt He spent an evening in a Fifth Ave- Sullivans friend revisited the shop nue Club the guest of a young bank- where he had bought the red flannel er and broker who had profited from shirts and registered a big kick! the coup. Blake was faultlessly against the perpetuation against him) a fearful! dressed, and his fine face was more of what he termed handsome than ever. He goodnatur-edl- y swindle. Whats the matter? asked the declined to discuss his triumphs Have the shirts faded! in California, but told with spirit, proprietor. frankness and humor the tales rf suc- or shrunk? Faded! Shrunk! bowled the man. cessive reverses and modestly attributed his recent run of success to What do you think my wife said to me when I came down to breakfast luck. of them on? Weil, You must transfer your activities yesterday with one to New York, advised young Kings- sir, she smiled sweetly and asked: are you wearing my pink ley, who had been willed several mil- coralWhy necklace around your throat,, lions and a banking business. San John? New York Times. Francisco is too small and provincial for you. Ah, here comes a fellow Russias Army. you must meet! It has been estimated that the to, A thick-se- t young man had entered tal war footing of the Russian army the room. He stood and listened with after calling out all the reserves a bored expression to a friend who amounts to 5,250,000 men, or morej was enthusiastic over some matter, than ten times that of Japan. The and persisted in repeatedly shaking soldiers are drawn from the ignorant hands. peasant class and the officers from' Thats Morris Arthur Morris, ex- the governing ranks of society. Should Russia call out all her troops Son of old Ranplained Kingsley. dolph Morris dont you know. Pore she will have 78,827, officers, 5,180,-- j 58 soldiers, 613,400 horses and 4,000 Morris retired from business t to weeks ago and turned everything over i cannon. Germany Is the only nation! Rustla In its military' to Arthur. He was a wild one, hes settled down. The Mcrrld mil ! c.7Ji4r:3t i CHAPTER XV. A Lullaby. Now the evening shadows fall On the mnssv garden wall. And the birdies, soft and wee. Sleep within the cheiry tree. i But th bee Is busy rt Where the leaves are dewy wet In the honeysuckle vine, ltaby darling, baby mine. And the west is ful! of dreams, Hoay glows and golden beams, Made for slumbers, calm and deejb By the lovely Lady Sleep. With the woolly lamb to hold And the bedtime story told. Sleep, for tosy dreams are near. Waiting for my baby dear. Brooklyn EaglS- Toy Made from Paper. Old newspapers may be utilized m making toys that will be unbreakable. That sounds like an exaggeration, but It is true that you may make tops, or bottles, or what you will, out of them. To do this you will need a little patience, but it will be worth your while lu the end. A solution of copper in strong ammonia has the property of dissolving To make the solut'ain. woody fiber. half fill a quart bottle with ammonia and thrust into it a hunch of copper f of their length wires, so that Is Immersed in the water, the other half above it in the bottle. The bottle must stand for several months, being shaken occasionally, and the cork removed from time to time to allow the entrance of more air, which is necessary to form the solution. Now get your old newspapers and cut them into discs of about one Inch in diameter, clipping the edges of each disc so that, when you begin your molding, they will more easily go Into form on curved surfaces. They are one-hal- Brilliant Campaign, james Blake yet longed for speculative laurels. His one ambition was to achieve some sweeping coup, and taste which they dropped through the travel, I frequently received similar the inward joy of triumph sweeter screen into the upturned mouth of the change. Many of the cakes showed far than the undeserved fame which captive. They kept up this charitable signs of having been in the washtub, had amassed half a million of dolfeeding until the robin was liberated, but that I discovered was not at all lars the temptation to risk It was too and even then they hovered around uncommon. Provided the stamp was (strong to be resisted. John Burt had like guardians. Wash- r.ot obliterated, the soap did not lose Just terminated a campaign which had ington Star. any value as currency. Occasionally petted him nearly a million in profit, a man would borrow a cake of a pnd John Hawkins had been equally friend, wash his hands and return it successful. Blake saw a chance and with thanks. I made use of my pieces took It. With nerve and skill he more than once in my bath, and subse- (forced a stock to a point where vicquently spent them. tory seemed certain; hut an unforeseen event ruined his chances at the Pictures in the Breath. (noment when the spell of Some curious experiments may be peemed broken. The market turned, made with the breath. On a pane of but by a series of moves, brilliant as glass or a mirror that has not been If Inspired by success instead of dispolished just beforehand, trace a fig- aster, Blake saved himself from a ure, or a letter, or a name, with your complete rout, and emerged with one-ha- finger; nothing will be visible. But When the brother of the landord of breathe on the glass and the tracing will at once appear. an inn near Wokingham, England, Now, on a freshly polished plate of went to bed at midnight he noticed the cat a brown and white pussy only metal or glass place a coin. After a nine months old, lying on a mat out- few moments remove the coin, and side a bedroom door. He had not nothing will be seen on the surface, been long asleep before he was awak- but breathe on it where the coin was ened by the cat patting his face and lying, and an image of it will appear If you polish the coin instead of the purring loudly. Stroking the animal, he turned on his side and went to metal or glass, the same effect will be breathe on the sleep again. By and by he was arous- produced when you surface. ed a second time by the cat scratching If you have a plate of glass that has his face and crying. Rousing himself, he found the room full of smoke and been against an engraving for several realized that the house was on fire. years, breathe on that side of It, and of the engraving will become Putting on a top coat, he dashed for the lines visible. This may fail sometimes, but the room where his brothers wife the only other Inmate of the inn lay, rarely. Does all this sound like magic? The and managed, with the utmost difficulone. On the ty, to rescue her in the midst of the explanation is a natural smoke and flames. He carried her down stairs, followed by the cat, and in a few minutes the house was a mass of fire and the roof fell In. How the cat contrived to get into ls room is a mystery, but. the door was probably ajar. In any case, pussy was the means of saving two persons from a dreadful fate. Queer Money. Here Is an amusing nccount of a traveler who went many years ago to Mexico, and found the natives using a strange kind of currency. Says he: "In one of the small towns I bought some limes, and gave the girl one dollar in payment. By way of change she returned me forty-ninpieces of soap the size of a small btscuit. .1 looked at her in astonishment, and she returned my look with equal surprise, when a police officer, who had witnessed the incident, hastened to inform me that for small sums soap was legal tender in many portions of the country. "I examined my change and found that each cake was stamped with the name of a town, and of a manufacture authorized by the government. The cakes of soap were worth three Afterwards, In my farthings each. lf of his capital A few days later he held an interview with John Burt an interview destined to mark an epoch in his career. "Can you arrange your affairs so s to go to New York for me, starting n Saturday?" asked John Burt. if necessary," "I can start replied Blake. "Saturday night will be better," said Burt. "Two important railroad stocks Will decline heavily next week. They are now bouyant, and the public is eager to buy them. I shall have disposed of my Interest in them before you reach New York. Two million dollars will be placed there to your Proceed at once, on your credit (arrival, to sell short one hundred thousand shares of each of these stocks. You should be able to do this in three days without seriously breaking the You hold in your name bemarket. tween five and six million dollars Worth of stocks and bonds,' which are ; e The Paper Toys. now ready to be partially dissolved In the solution, and will then adhere closely and form a mass as solid as wood. Of course, you will use some kind if a mold on which to form your article Take, for Instance, a thin glass bottle. Pour a little of the solution into a flat dish and partially dissolve It into some of the discs until They are then they feel slippery. ready to he molded over the bottle After one layer has been done put on another, constantly adding to the solution in the flat dish a little at a time from the bottle in which you keep It. You may put on as many layer of the discs as you wish, until the bottle Is of the desired thickness, when, by a sudden blow, the glass Inside will be broken, and when the fragments are removed you will have a wooden bottle. The paper will not he merely stuck together.like pastehoard, but will be solid, like wood, which may be proved by boiling It in water after it is dry. Rubber gloves, or rubber tips on the fingers, should be worn in doing the work to protect the hands from the strong ammonia. When you have practiced a little on simple articles, say shells gathered at the shore, or any ordinary and disused other may you objects, try articles. Wooden toys, for example, may be made by modeling over small disused ones, enlarging them thus. Or jmu mayofmake a bracket, forming your model pasteboard and covering it with the discs of paper, thu3 transforming the paper to wood. Some of the thin glass ornaments made to hang on Christmas trees may be covered in this way, the glass being broken afterward as in the flask. Even if the glass remains Inside the article it will not matter, for you will have wooden toys that will last Instead of fragile glass ones. China dolls may also be used as molds, making wooden dolls that will not break. Tracing on the Glass, surface of all solids a layer of gas, vapor and fine dust gathers. When you polish the object, the layer Is removed, or it Is altered by the contact of other solids. If the object is breathed upon the breath condenses more easily on some parts than it does on others, according to the condition or state of this layer, and therefore any marks made on it will become visible. ings out of shape, in such a manner that If they are viewed under certain conditions they will appear as if drawn In their proper proportions, is called making anamorphoses. This forms a very entertaining amusement, and may be done In several ways, two of which are here given. Divide the picture Into squares, as shown In the figure. Then on another piece of paper draw a horizontal line, ib, equal to the side ab of the square. DIvtde this line Into the same number of equal parts as ab of the square, and draw a line from each point of division to some point below, as f. Then draw the line fh, parallel with ab, and marking a point on it, g, draw a line from It fisted on the New York exchange. Express them to New York at once. I propose to convert them Into cash. When I wire you, throw them on the Imarket and sell more of the railroad .stocks. This is our Introduction to Well discuss Eastern market. (the formed, hut if you look at It from a (the details before you leave, and I point near the paper, above the pont (have absolute faith in your ability to f, you will see it In its original form. Conduct the campaign. It was a proud moment for Blake. (There was no shadow of envy or jealousy In his thoughts as he looked into !the face of the companion of his boyhood, and heard him speak calmly of millions and of launching them against the giants of Wall street. "I can do It! I will do It! he exf "I see your plan, and Its claimed. It (magnificent, John, magnificent! .will win win beyond a doubt. John was silent for a moment, and a look came to his eyes. (far-of- f "I have two Important personal he said. for you, Jim, (While In New York ascertain for me Find out jlf Arthur Morris Is alive. "what he is doing, and learn what you jean about him. The second task Is a more delicate one. It concerns Miss iCarden. I wish to know ' "I know exactly what you want, interrupted Jim Blake as John hesitaYou want to know where she ted. Is, how she is. If she loves you, to a. Where this line cuts each of the other lines draw horizontal lines through the points, parallel with ab. This will give figure 2 (abed), divided into the same number of parts as the original square. You must redraw in fig. 2 the picture of the head in fig. 1, putting in each section the part that Is in the corresponding section of the original The point at which you look at the square. The greater the number of picture varies according to the position of the points f and g, but it may easily be found by trial. Instead of drawing a head, you may draw animals, or leaves, or flowers, or any design you choose. Another, and perhaps easier, way of making anamorphoses, is to prick pinholes in the picture or the design, Charitable Sparrows. forming the outline and principal marks. Now hold this pricked design The sparrow has never been noted upright on a table before a candle for Its good works and kind deeds, but the following little story throws light, and place a piece of paper before a new light on these despised little it, so (hat the light, shining through the tiny holes, will mark the design on scrappers. the paper in points of light. Last spring a young robin was Trace over this illuminated design found floundering around a genwith a pencil, and afterward fill In the tleman's lawn. It was unable to fly detail. The picture will be seen to be and had evidently fallen from its nest. a distorted one. If you now place It Fearing that the cats might devour It in the night, this gentleman took the exactly where it was on the table and remove the original picture and the bird to the rear of his yard and placed it In an enclosure covered with a wire candle and put your eye exactly where screen. While dressing the next mornthe candie flame was you will see the distorted picture as if drawn in the ing he looked out of his window and was amazed at the action of a couple proportions of the original in proper of sparrows who were carrying worms squares Into which you divide the orig- shape. to the young robin In the enclosure inal square, the easier will this be to By following the Illustrations you They would fly away only to return do. will not make any mistakes, and yout a few moments later with worms. You now have your picture trans success j Jo more than amusing. d tor-tune- t, The Twisted Drawing To make twisted drawings, or draw- to-da- y I com-(missio- jand " attempt the latter task, said John rather shortly. You are likely to undertake too much. For the present I do not care to acquaint Miss Carden, or any one In the East, ; You need not or even with Be careful In this matter, Jim. Of course you will go to Hingham and visit your Xinsfolk. You can easily learn all I icare to know from the Bishops, or perhaps from Sam Rounds. If not, go to Boston; but get the facts without calling on Miss Carden. You understand, dont you, Jim? ( said Certainly I do, old fellow, "Ill be as cautious as a (Jim heartily. dime-novsleuth. After repeated conferences every detail of the Wall street campaign was agreed upon, and James Blake set his taoe towards the East. He arrived in New York on Friday evening. Early the following morning he appeared in Wall street and presented letters of Introduction to the banks and brokers who had been selected by John Burt as agents In the pending operations. On Monday morning he opened accounts with brokers and began selling with my whereabouts, the fact of my existence. d k tt jtl't |