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Show 1.: r fluug myself down azain, and dumbly I've coins to , eW.gost, Mr. ftoe and holpl i let my houst int otiod the rum ot ipick." said I, "tk-pt- . n. v prtijw oi uuuounc Hlucklock and wi-- i i i.uhtr, the rum or the one inojeit ti n wl.leh had niy t lit- - coal reorganlM'Jon p: m U v.u.ld In ait set ( ,oi Him an caied for Slit- me a great JUH, ami Melville mi In i I nt it had Allied to me kite wan I, Is hank dont nW'l pi. sHge ,M .lailv simply one ino'e, the la'ett ot the letteto the pulB oil inwstliunt ohjet's on which I wan in the halnt hate, as you kqP"1'. cot me a big foi of liuug tin will f o:a time to time to lowing that would belli me make the t ma .e the aame mo e c! q,i lnteretd tnicre-cthan Uotat'on an eve hi liu I now saw tlat never tn fore had its Imund to bS, lo natter who ati I hee'i in i in st about it and tartus snbsi i iptions tioiiut t ha on winning her I had As thus proPi il that I in- in a stal-i-tii'stii and that myself was a jifft taught up fr un Un evuemeh w In .1 ' difleient pc isoii fiom what I humbe level of fi tui'i-- luu Let shop had been u atr n n In a woid saf dealer Into the hide si beaten ot bigli face to face with (hat unfathomable finance, that made i be official of sexaffinty that every man apoki s man of tbs financial guts, bis niysten DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS, o "THFCQSZltc lauahs at and mocks another mail foi cxp.et.sion wash biditious that &I POS" by&M (CQfW2R3ffT believiun in, until he has himself felt most lost my jrafl't l suspect for a CUZvyy it drawing him against will, against moment he thought I bad gone mad X All right," said I, and with the reason, and sense, and Intel est. ovei His manner, whtn he tecoxeied him TRAPPED AND TRIMMED. paper in my hand, went to my outside the brink of dean union v awning be- - self sufficiently to WRS c,.r There are two kinds of dangerous othce. 1 kept on toward my inner of- - fore his ey es- -di awing him as the tainly not unliks what it wonld have and us. those hce, saying over my shoulder to the magnet-mountaitemptations thaHempt drew Stndbad and been had h found nun-e- lf alone be those that don t. Those that don. Don t let In- his ship fore a dangeross lunatic who was anybody give ua a false notion ot our te.sisting tenupt me" llelund the closed and armed Vith a bsnib Hut it Is uot in me to despair power, and so make u, easy victims locked dooi niv body ventured to come There never "You know how itmous I am to was an lmpenet i able yet to life again and niv face to reflect our lnteiests, to you, to flrthei it neces help is escape, only as much as it could of the chaos that siege line, said he whcedlingl) "I In chance to hit upon or Matthew, craft sary by was heaving In me like ten thousand know no roan vho has a luighter fu the moment and the sMt for the warring devils tie "Ruined" I said aloud "Trapped tore. But not so fast, not mi fast, tee months before, in the same an(j trimmed like the stupidest sucker young man. fl course, you will ap1 Kn,TbleJ'B lnBtinct "ould i UuL ever wandered inu, WaiTaireetl pear as one ofhe teoigauulng com ' bave helped me out. tor I v dead one, no doubt, hut I I. see to It mlttee but wt could not afford to To go up town during bus ness .J0.. not been gambling in the great aelf: have the announcement come through don t that th tiv ni fuueral hours for long lunches to spend the American Monte Carlo all those years any less strong and old established mornings selecting dowers and pres without getting used to the downs as house than tie National Industrial eats for her these tilings look like well as to the ups. I had not and bank." neglect of business, and would be so have not anything of the business "At leaBt, you ran make me joint I In some men Hut couldn't neglect man in my composition. To me, it was In my childhood at home, my father announcer will them, 1 urged business. 1 do them because my af wholly finance, wholly a game, with was often away for a week er longer, we II possibly "Perhaps yes fairs are so well ordered that a few excitement the chief factor and the working or looking for work. My see, said he soothingly. "There is hours of absence now and then make sure winning, whether the litt$g ball mother had a notion that a boy should plenty of time. po difference probably send me back rolled my way or not. I was the be punished only by his father; "so, assented, as if "Plenty of time," fresher and clearer financier, the gambler and adven- whenever she caught me in what she quite content "I only wanted to put When 1 left the office at half past turer; and that had been my principal regarded as a serious transgression, the matter before you. And I arose twelve on that fateful Wednesday in asset. For, the man who wins in the she used to say. "You will get a good to go. ' June, my business was never in better long run at any of the great games whipping for this, when your father "Have you heard the news of textile At first I used to wait common? he asked shape. Textile common had dropped of life and they are all alike is the comes home. man with the cool head; and the only passively, suffering the torments of a point and a quarter in two days Yes," said I carelessly. Then, all man on whose head is cool is he who ten thrashings before the "good whip- in an Instant, a plan took shape in my was its way at last it evidently I own a good deal of the slowly down toward where 1 could plays for the game's sake, not caring ping1 came to pass. But soon my mind. free myself and take profits. As for stock, and I must say, I don't like the coal enterprise nothing could posthis raise. sibly happen to disturb it; I was all Why? he inquired ready for the first of July announceBecause I'm sure its a stock job ment and boom Never did I have a 1 scheme replied I boldly. bing lighter heart than when I joined Anita know the dividefid wasnt earned. I and her friends at Sherry's, It seemed don't like that sort of thing, Mr Koe to me her friendliness was less perbuck. Not because its unlawful the functory, less a matter of appearances. laws are so clumsy that a practical And the sun was bright, the air deliman often must disregard them. But cious, my health perfect. It took all because it if tampering with the repu the strength of all the straps Monson tatlon and the stability of a great en liad put on my natural spirits to keep terprise for the sake of a few million! me from being exuberant. of dishonest profit. I'm surprised at I had finally intended lo be back at Langdon." f . my office half an hour before the ex-"I hope you're wrong, Matthew," change closed this in addition to the was Roebucks only comment. He - obvious precaution of leaving orders me no further, and I went questioned if me anythat they were to telephone away, confident that, when the crash thing should occur about which they came in ths morning, if comes it must, had the least doubt. But so comfortthere would be no more astonished I me that able did my vanity make man In Will street than Henry J. Roeforgot to look at my watch until a buck. Hot he must have laugheA; or. I a had momentary to three. quarter woild have laughed. If his sort rather, Anita I qualm; then, reassured, asked of human hyena expressed Its emowe to take a walk with me. Before tions in tte human way.- - . -- . - Bet out I telephoned my right-han- d Ji'jb.jptrmiRht to my lawyers, man and partner, Ball. As I had irtancr; WhiteftwijM thought, everythfng was quiet; the building textile with slugwas closing exchange 1 wint you to send for the newsgish and down a quarter. Anita and reporters at once, Said I to paper I took a car to the park. Fisher, "and tell them that In my bewith an for hour, W walked talking half ymt are going to apply for an Inless constraint and more friendliness junction against the textile trust, than ever before, and when I left her them to take any further I had that felt I, for the first time, toward that Increase of divisteps left a good impression. dend. Tell them I, as a large stockWhen I entered my offices, I, from holder, and representing a group of dlwent force of habit, mechanically large stockholders, purpose to stop rect to the ticker and dropped all in the paying of unearned dividends. of the from pinnacle an instant Fisher knew how closely connected heaven into a boiling inferno. For the house and the textile trust bad my ticker was just spelling out these beenj but he showed, and probably words: Mowbray Langdon, president felt so astonishment He was too ex' of the Textile association, sailed unperiesced in the ways of finance and expectedly on be Kaiser Wilhelm at financiers. It was a matter of Indiviof the noon. A 2 per cent raise difference to him whether I was trying dend rate of textile common, Trom to assassinate my friend and ally, or the present 4 per cent to 6 has been was feinting at Langdon, to lure the determined upon pubHc within reach so that we might, And I bad staked up to. perhaps be , together, fail upon it and make a textile that of safety yond my limit battue. would fall! Not without some regret did I thus Ball was watching narrowly for to attack my friend in hie abarrange .bad as was tome sign that the news sence. till, I reasoned, "his blunas he feared. But it cost me no effort der In trusting some leaky person I was to keep my face expressionless; with his secret is the cause of my like a man who has been killed by and Ill not have to Justify myperil lightning and lies dead with the look self to him for trying to save myself. GREW "HE A before SICKLT WHITE, had WHITE." just ,on his face that he What effect my Injunction would have greatly whether he wins or loses on mind began to employ the Interval eould not foresee. the bolt struck him. I Certainly it could one said because he it me feels tell this." more that to any play, profitably. I would scheme Why didn't you not save me from the loss of my forhe wins the he will lose escape execution of sentence; and, I to Ball, when I had you on But now a new factor had come though my mother was a determined tune; but, possibly, it might check the phone?" My tone was quiet enough, upward course of the stock long but the very question ought to have Into the game. 1 spread out the paper woman, manys the time I contrived to ciough to enable me to snatch myself Black change her mind. I am not . shown hint that nty brain was like a and stared at the headlines: flom ruin, and to cling to firm ground Matt To.. .Wed Society Belle The to parents the system of deschooner In a cyclone. til the coal deal drew me up to Rucket-ShoWill Lead Anita King We heard it just after you rang lay In execution of sentence; but psfety. To The Altar. I tried to read must say that in my case It was re We've been tryoff. was his reply. , My next call was at the Interstate. vulgar sponsible for an invaluable discip- Trust company. I found ing to get you ever since I've gone The vulgar article under whose Corey wait-&- g 1 I was could not sick, line. For example, the textile tangle everywhere after textile stock. Very lines, but a me most for in state of uneasy I knew I was in all human proba few will sell, or even lend, and they sick in body and in mind. My nerve" Bind. I was was no was free ten the gone. longer points billty doomed to go down before the ask the best price Is there any truth in this story stock exchange had been open un hour libout closing. A Btrong tips lance; I had responsibilities. above was the -- question he you? That thought dragged another in its the next morning. All textile stocks out that textiles are to be rocketed. me. at plumped on mere an the train, ugly, grinning imp that must start many points higher than I What Ten points np already story?" said I, and a hard But she they had been at the close, piust go rumor! Already ten dollars to pay on leered at me and sneered: fight I had io keep my confusion and I 1 as have won't now! short short and was you steadily and swiftly op. "Entangled every share alarm from the surface. For, appar"She will! She must! I cried my reserve resources were in the more than two hundred thousand! I ently, my secret was out. felt the claws of the fiend Ruin sink aloud, starting up. And then the coal deal, I should have no chance to That youre on the wrong side of Ball cover I less shoulders. storm burst my shorts on any terms Info the flesh of my raged up and down the the textile." doesn't know how I'm fixed, I remem- flopr, shaking my clenched fists, than the loss of all I had. At most, 1 So it was out! "Some truth, I admustnt know. could from "and he to save all hope only gnashing my teeth,- muttering ber I thought, myself since denial would have been mitted, and criminal kinds of furious commands and I lit a cigar with a steady hand bankruptcy. useless here. And come to you There was no signal of distress in for the money to tide Ive threats a truly ridiculous exhibition waited for Joe's next words. me over." he once.T at Jenkins see I For of I went to my voice as I telephoned Corey, presiImpotent rage. through it all He grew white, a sickly white, and saw clearly enough that she wouldn't dent of the Interstate Trust compand into his went on. Jenkins was then first eyes came a horrible, drownHes hive me, that all these people Id been to Stay" af his office until I came; therf of the textile trust. look. ing out news Was the no signal of distress In my ms got all cut up because trying to climb up among would hick (To be Continued.) says Langdon and he were the only loose my clinging hands and laugh as ner as I sallied forth and went dow to dH me so watched he the no supposed sayj they Power Trust building; The Life of Bells. ones who knew, disappear. They the announcement wasn't to have who were none too gentle and slow I show or suggest that I had heart Comparatively few people know been made for a month not till Lang- in disengaging themselves from those the sentence, as 1 that ringing a bell rains it That is, don returned He has had to confirm of their own lifelong associates who strode Into Roebucks presence ssd a bell has a definite length of life, and after so many blows' will break. It. though. That was the only way to had reverses of fortune what consid- greeted him. I was assuming, by free his crowd from suspicion of In- eration could Blacky Matt" expect of precaution, that some rumor about A 900 pound bell, struck Mows of 17S from them? And" she the necessity fine either had reached him dr would foot pounds of force, broke after tending to rig the market." and'The ability to deceive my'seif had soon reach him. I knew be had an A 4,000 pound bell broke Mows. "All right. said L "Have you seen the afternoon pa- gone, no that I could not pay the eye In every secret of finance and In- after 18,000 blows of 350 foot pounds to purchase price for her. The full hid- dustry, and. while I believed my secret force. A steel bell composition per?" he asked. As he held It out head-Bnes- , eousness of my bargain for her was wholly my own, I had too isuch weighing 1,000 pounds broke after 24 me, my eye caught big textile then flashed to some others dropped Its veil and stood naked be- at stake with him to hank on that, blows ot 150 foot pounds, but Its when I could, as I thought, so toly maker said It was calculated for a something about my going to marry fore me. At last, disgusted and exhausted, I reassure him. . Vise Ellersly, lighter blow. I JUNKS AND MINING .an 1 1 , . j i a atn-thin- i - 1 BELUGE f 1 r AuIjor 1 &Q&3S-3Z2C- 1 tor-biddi- tf -' to-da- eeorn-mendin- p - - 1 's - shot-at-sunri- 11,-00- 0 ( r- a' New - the Cac-- t tah shows 4t and 2'.u ounces of talvi n from - imUM- it i . r j -' t ; I i i.oi' i t i m.- II a. hi now liu i mini; ii - on. ton MonirPim mve-tuis- - I -- mu Hit- , - n cf I'tah attention of being regard-i- d tiittire rich produciug d. I'li - of tinlate j for the Ivu lai'oul' of l"iiiii i mi . minting null to be erect-- d nre at the Muldoon Mining ai Mining i ouipitto s property, have been in eu. d at the Hellex ue, Idaho, depot. I he dn eetors of the Tonopah Mining (oinpauv li.ne declared the regular a in idi nd of 25 eeuts a share. The which has dividend of lo in i n declared, for the last few per-- i nl- was not ordered in Iea-t-- r and Deer creek ranyona, in tin- Mt HaUly mining section of I tah. a number of prospects and some propositions of a more serious character are being given attention, and some of them are coming out with giid bhowings. at Ploche, of The whiih Samuel Newihouse and the God-Lc- h of Salt Lake City .are the. chief owners, is preparing to ship their fij to Sait Iaike from Bulllonvllle until the reduction works tip erected at the latter place. InicBs present indications prove deceitful, Cedar City. Itah, Is likely to experience quite a mining boom in the near future, as a result of a discovery recently made by J. H. Arthur, a local land attorney and surveyor. The returns show 60 to the ton In a- ..I tin- - - -- -- niai-.iltn-r- ex-ti- NEWS SUMMARY A number of deaths from Ijpat are reported from Pittsburg The Wiscon-isenate has killed' the 2 cent railway fare hill. Hoke Smith was inaugurated governor of Georgid on Saturday. The i hocner Violet te with nine-teoham!- -, has sunk off th COSSt of -n -- it elat.-- ' balloon fell into the sea nea-N- it port, Belgium, aud the auro&au; was drowtiMl A The Indu.'ia -- ttpretne court holds that the state has the right to regulate traffic in liquor. By file explosion of an infernal, machine. a priron wall at Sebastopol wai shattered and twenty prisoners ea-c- aj ed Robbers entered the residence of Prince Charvodeye at Tlflis, Russia, killed the prince and plundeted the tou-e- . Mrs. Katherine F. Fiske, aged 104, died at Gtand Island. Neb., last week. She was the oldest person in Nebraska. Gus Beckman was killed and John Field and Harry Larson were seriously injured in a premature blast at Hell Gate, Mont. Three men now under arrest at Dillon, Mont., robbed the Oregon Short Line section house at Feeley's station, securing $100. General Lono, minister of war of Spain, died on Sunday. General Lono, received his portfolio from Premier Maura last January. v . The incendiary movement among the Russian peasants in revenge for gold The Bitch Creek Mining company, the dissolution of parliament has asmade up chiefly of Idaho Falls men, sumed serious proportions, A revolutionist dressed as an officer has a promising mine, considerably developed by tunnels and shafts, from of the frontier guards, drew $30,000 e bank at Harwhich 16 carload of ore have been from the ran on a station that Dubois from bin, forged check and decamped. shipped 72 per ceut lead and 18 ounces silver. ' The assembly of Wisconsin by The mine is In the western part of vote of 69 to 3, passed the senate Fremont county, Idaho. resolution favoring the election . of officers United 8tates senators by direct vote. On June 29 the Goldfield seized a ton of stolen ore which is Jtmes E. Brown was shot and killed worth 850.000, some of it 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 8mith" 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 suspects Texas, have received Information that are also under arrest, there are 4,000 Japanese In Mexico A Hailey miner, W. S. Pierce, who awaiting a chance to slip into the has just sold the famous old .Ontario United States.. f mine near Ketchum to Boston parties, The strike troubles in the province says that the wildcat corporation of Aerrera, Italy, are becoming worse. bill passed by the last Idaho legislahave been forced pe troops ture has doue wondets tn restoring the workers. Many persona the credit of Idaho as a mining state. have been tnjnred. He says that Investors look on this as An edict issued from Pekin orders an honest law. ail 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 nresent and a large owner In the Idaho Lead, devoted to the cultivation of opium. Silver and Zinc company. In the lead In a sensational advance caused by mining district eighteen jmlles jrom the covering of shorts the price of -Argo is in correspondence now with wheat on the Chicago exchange on the writes la Europe,, with a view of lb dollar mark Uut . Shipping M wins ?re uUsr To Wt Dtsu-fae- r L.. i y ; or Belgium. , men tell over ' ' r .Blx It may surprise the old prospectors collapsing scaffold on a hunu.t.4 x to learn that an entirely new mineral course of construction La CLa rrsntfw belt has 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 Egblr Mirza, the son of forseme one expressed it, says the Chai- mer Governor Zull Sultan, killed his ns Messenger. Nevertheless, such Is mother st lapahon, Persia, shooting the fact, as can be verified by actual her three times because she refused, observation If any person doubts IL to furnish him money to continue his David Keith, president of the Silver dissipation. . . King Coalition Minea company, which A tornado swept Tucumcarl, N, M.. recently absorbed the Sliver , King demolishing numerous buildings. Mrs. and other Park City mines, announces Ed MIHer arid daughtert whose home, that quarterly divldeuds will Ue in- zix miles from town, was badly wreckaugurated on the 10th of July. The ed, were injured, A heavy hailstorm 7 company will start off on a 12 pef cent followed the wind. basis which, on Its capital of 6,250,-onA tornado struck Recreation park will call for the disbursement of at Kalamazoo, Mich.,4 and wrecked' $187,000 per quarter or 75n,ooi per row of horse stalls, killing three valyear. William Wide-maye- r, uable race horses. President Joseph S Giroux, of the 39, was killed by coming iu Giroux Consolidated, who is now in contact with live wire. the east, says that the Giroux will besituation at Lisbon The political month. a within gin production at Ely is Opposition to the much Improved. will be rapconcentrator The the politicians is out, dying idly increased when the shafts are ministry this would that realizing toapparently this With equipment, enlarged. to discrediting lead disturbances, two only gether with shipments of the the ministry, other smelters, he says the Giroux them and strengtaenlng sn upheaval eve of on Is the China the coming can earn 12,000,000 net for 111 lie much worse than I ha fhfif year on Decent copper. Taping reliellion, according to Cap- ( Mqch excitement has been occasiona steamer of master A. Smith, ed in the mining circles of Butte by tain streak of the Ysngtae Kiang, who arrived at the discovery of a steamof very rich peacock copper ore in Victoria, B. C., last week by the . mine of the Amalga- er Shinano Muru. James V. Barnes, forirgr president mated Copper company, two mlle- st company, east of Bulte. demonstrating, in the of the Title Insurance-Truhas beeu now the that defunct, of of Minneapolis, mining engineers, opinion copper veins of the famous Butte arrested on a bench warrant charging Hill extend east of Butte to the main him with embezzlement There is divide of tbeJRefky mountains, sever- shortage of over $150,000 on the comal miles beyond Butte. panys books. Causes of wrecks on. the Union PaSenator W. A. Clark, who some time mine cific on are to be officially announced to bond the May Day a took ago at Bristol, Nevada, for 8250.000, has the public hereafter by the board of -made the first payment- - of 125.000. inquiry, and the board. whfch conducts The May Day Is a great copper propo- the Investigation Is to include one sition. Senator Clark has a latge or more leading citizens of the comforce .of men at work prosecuting de- munity In which the t accident 6c-curred. velopment work. The Bristol Consolidated people at County Treasurer J. C, Randolph Bristol, Nevada, who have been block- stabbed County Commissioner Andering out ore which they propose to son Burleson to death with a pocket The haur to Bullionville In wagons, have knife near Bakersvllle, N. C. relet a contract for handling fe,000 tons killing followed a dispute over tax afterward wa over badly turns. for town Randolph shipment smelter to the Burleson, one the new road, as soon as the steel is beaten by brothers ofsenator. of whom Is a state laid to that point. The night operator of the Southern of the Wyoming The operators mine lease, near American Fork, Utah, Pacific at Ouadalonpe, Cal., was held about ; during the wfnteY past have mined and up by two masked highwaymen thrilling pistol sacked ote which will bring returns 1 a. m., and . after This ore is duel In which ten shots were ex-- i in excess of $250,000. now commencing to be shipped, and changed, succeeded In driving thenreoff will be continually added to during and frustrating their attempt to rob . -- - -the companys safe the ummer-monthp result of the belief that the As Milford. Utah, is the scene of great ' activity in ore shipment. Not a day state legislature, .of Maine, both car- branches of ahlch are controlled by passes but that from one to two the for valley leaves ore Prohibitionists, will pass a prohibition of loads smelters, and these shipments would measure, two of the largest potteries be greatly Increased if there was In the state, a hose product was conteam transportation for ore from the fined almost exclusively of jugs fur the ninui i,. riie railroad depot. Uqoor triMbbv have closed. Ohlo-Kenturk- -- Russo-Chtnes- I ct anti-opiu- , 500-to- , n ten-inc- h leaf ' |