The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1907, Page 15

pbc The Evening. World's Daily Magazine A Wall Street Romance | THOMAS W. LA By the Author of > “Frenzied Finance. _ {(Copyright, 1906, 1907, by the Ridgeway Company.) (Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday. Page & Co. Published_Feb.. 1907. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. Bob » and Jim Randolph, two Wall street men, are chums. Townley, Vineinin girl, tells Drownley that her father, Judge Sanda, has Bands, a beauyy the “Systen" out of his fortune aba mbout $1,600.00 In truat Kosten 0 the Judge's honor and Frcoup the Joat funds, Bands and ® quiet accumulation cf the stock. And the man who first_knows when Washington begips to wke on Sugar ts the mtn who should Joad up quick and rush {t up toa high level. If he does ft quickly, the stockholders, who now have it, will get a julcy slice of the ripening melon, 4 slice that other- wise would go to those greedy hypocrites at Washington, who are always gone over the deal with Bevlah sands, and we have decided to plunge, Shé publicly proclaiming that they are there to seve their fellow-countrymen, ‘has a balance of about four hundred thousand dollars, and I'm going to Ddut who never tiro of expressing themselves to thelr brokers as not being {n| spread {t thin. I am going to buy her 20,000 shares and to take on 10,000 turn_for the stockholders..who-are_nbout- tobe, tor the-bundredth-tims, pled_out_of profit rightfully theirs. - a “Well, Jim, I know the Washington buying has begun, Al! I know I naye dug out for mypelf and- am freo to use It any way I choose. g have Beulah funda, In order to save Ue". q0.00 which they have agreed that the latter shail! politica for ther health." for myself. If you went in for 20,000 moro, {t would give mo a wide sea to ah havo scraped togethes $0.04 min, the ‘necessary ! \ z ring to Now York and. by judicious tye at emntha. Brownley, @reatyat-| “So far, good ‘easoning,"” 1 continued. | patt in. 1 know you never speoninte, Jim, for the house, but 1 thought po ee aan promises” to-aid her inthe me beconies..o_atenog~ “Jim, the man who first knows when the Senators and Congressmen | you might In this case.go in personally.” ragted Dy Treuints prove where she can watoh the stock’ market, and chooze 5 t [yoarmlet iS _ raphe at Tandolnn t Oinveatment a. and members of the Cabinet begin to buy Sugar is the-man who can kill Don't-say “anything-more, Bob,’ -I-repiied:~-“This- tte: the -rule-Roes proper mome: - 5 tour birds with one stono: “Win back a part of Judge Sands's stolen for- tine; increase his own pile against the first of January, when, ff the little Virginia Indy 1s short a few hundred thousdnd of the necessary amount, ‘{ he could, 1f he found a way to induce her to accept It, supply the deficiency, fatten up a good friend's bank account a million or ao, and do a right good by the board, But I will do’ better: I'!] put up a. million and you can gO as high as 70,000 for me, That will give: you a buying power of 100,000, and I want you to uso my Jast 60,000 shares as a liftor,” 6 Next: day: Sugar. was Ively on the Exchange. Hob bought all {n sight and handled the buying in a mastorly way. When tho closing song struck a CHAPTER IL. a ee Love and Finance. saw Miss Sans, of Virginia, private secretary ta ph & Randoiyh, established In a little office be- 0" hero a day before wo know {ne and Bob's, She had not been t! ; ie pean She spent the hours going over reports and ee reniprag: “qnancial statenents, showing sagacity—eztraordinary- in 60 snalyzing Aneitehe explained her knowledge ot fures by the hard work ae tt all of Whose accounts she hnd kept ¥ip following ee 1k the head of Randol SIKIOCLOCK' HUSTLE UP, MADE THIS had done for the judge, = “KID T SHOULD A me phe From the day she cainé to occupy her desk ced oe me TEN MINUTES HAVE PASSED Fee SHR vhether for better or for worse neither nor I could) TO CATCH THE HERP Fi Bhanged ; elasticity was’ gone, and with ft hip rollicking EB EIGuT CATCH THE TROLLEY . His old bounding d tack He was now a man wheré before he had been a boy, a man with a purden. Even if I had not heard Beulah Sands’s story 1 should have guessed that Bob was staggering under A strangs lead, % Three qionths of the—sixhad-—papsed,- and_-with_each day I~ thought -1 cipoted an increasing anxlety in Bob, Hb had opened a special account for Miss Sanils on the books of ‘the house in his name, aa agent, with a eredit_of_aixty thousand dollars, and we both watched {t with a painful SECONDS ON THE OTHER SDE! WSON’S STORY OF AGREAT AND PAS FRIDAY, the ssi By George McManus 1907._ a NATE LOVE. as Boulah, Sands-had-20,000- shares,-which -xveraged-her 115; Bob and 40,000 at an average of 125, andthe stock had closed 132-bld-and-in-big-@ mand. Miss Sands's 20,000 showed $340,000 profit, while our 20,000 # $210,000 at the closing price. All the houses with Washington wires Wildly scrambling for Sugar as soon as {t began to jump. Amd it looked as though the shares were godd for the fie 175, at which price the Sandses' profits would be $1,200,000. Bob was be- pic himsett with joy. He dined with Kate and me, After dinner, aa # Pht In the library. diver our coffed,. he. leanod overto my-.wife and salge “Jim, Kate, I cannot go into to-morrow, without telling you something» that neither of you suspect. I njust tell some one, How that’ everything is) coming out right and that Beulah Is to be saved; and whom can I tell but - You, who have boon ovorything-to-me?—I love Beutsh-Sands, mrely; deeph with every bit of me. 1 worslitp her, I tell sou, and to-morrow, Tow, {t this dert comes out as ft thust come, and I cai’ put $1,500,000 inte Mee hands and ‘send her home to.her father, then, then, I will tell hér'l Tove her, and Jim, Kate, if she'll marry me, good-by, good-by to this bell o& doilar-hunting, good-by to such misery as 1 have been in for three montihia, ” and home, a Virginia home, for Beulah and,me." He sank into a chair asd. poor Hob, strong as a lion in adveraity,. ji iy = may RENE: a The next day Sugar eponed witha wild rush: “25,000 shares—frostr-4 to 162." After the first lull, he gong, thore were officially transactions aggresating 25,000 shares and at prices varying r I was over oi the floor to sée the’ mble, . Suddenly, as I watched the bcene, there rang through the great all, the first sharp stroke of the gong. Th Were no echoes heard that morning, The metallic voles wes yet shaping its command to “at 'em, you ca when from threb hundred throafs burst the wild sound of the. Stock Ime = change yell. I picked Bob's magnificently resonant voice from the make + “40 for any part of 10,000 Sugay.” It was this daring bid that struck'tee ror-to-the bears and-filed-the-bylis-with-n-frenzy-of encouragement it rang out--"45 for any part of 25,000;" anda third tlme—"50 for aby part of 60,000," ‘ ‘ I could see by the few entries Ho! “sompa! ; b was making: on hig pad that he had 4 tenseness of scrutiny., It had grown by uneven jerks, until the balance on Oct. 1 was almost four hundred thousand dollars. f Shortly after- Oct. 1 -#tateinents had -been _sent_out, Bob_ dropped in on Kato and mo one night, After she bad fetired and we thad lit our rs in the brary he sald: ass I want some of that old-fashi gelling 2t-139, and {t-1s-worth {t; im fact it-t ~ tributed among investors, not mmch of “good, big buying movement, well bandied, dt there. Am I sound?” { ITagreed with him. “All right. Now, what reason {8 there for a good, big, stiff uplift? If It goes through, Sugar will be joned advice of yours. Gugar is s.cheap,. The stock te well dir floating round ‘the Street.’ A ould jump it to-175-and keep BOAT MUST HAVE NINE SECONDS LATE! HOPE 1 DONT MISS THAT 7:15 FERRY BACK: TO.NEW YORK! \ \ What tariff bill {2 up at Washington. \ -pheaper at 175 than at, 110." Again-t agreed. “Standard Oil’ and the Sugar people know whether It ia going through, for they control the Senate and the House and can Induce the President to) be good. 3 z ‘When No. 26 Broadway (No, 26 Broadway ie the Wall street figura of Bpeech for Standard Oil, which bas its home there) gives the setret order to the Washington boss and he passes it out to the grafters, there will be _. “The Mills Of the Gods’’ A Hard— Grind. At the Astor Theatre last night, when Mr. George Broadhurat's second ITS10%t0 GOT TO Ger THAT FERRY GER! VE 4OT lay of the season tried very hard to make » hero out of @ cowani rok T TLEY” Robect Drouet—he haa auch a bard time erying to be & hero! Ftret he ERED Y 5 O HUSTLE! ‘took “The Measure-cf a Man” when joy fed flown from Weber's; than he RSEY } IF 1D CAUGHT THAT 10:30 FERRY AND THE 10:50 TROLLEY 'COULD HAVE BEEN HOME. Gods.“ Tt was a Dart grind, ant for tis wake, as wall as for My. Broadhurst’s, At ts to Q& hoped he may be able to mais something of this hero business. Mr. ~ Drouat 1#' peculiarly suited to heroes, for, as Lady Cecily Terry would say, ‘ho has Buch a nice facel”—and he smokes @ cigar better than any other actor on cthe stage, tn _spito of the fact that he ww not on gMandly tarma with tobacco. | Whis 43 only another proof of his heroic qualities. And yet Mr. Drouct got five years in the fret Act test night and deserved at Teast six montha in ench/of the three sueceéding ones for ecting like a Sunday- fchool superintendent For his sare in the matter, Mr, Broadhurst should be Behtenced to write musical comedy for the rest of his naturel life, At the same See -a-only_falr-to-eay-that“his-play Treats much better than tt was anted | t night z wi ivnae neon mee ~The only part of the play that hung together waa tho first act. ‘To the mudl- th ita mind full of the Thaw trial, this was almost as good ae & “special extra.” Tho actne was bh court-room, andwhen the rojl.of jurore- waa: called: ons “ot namea sounded Uke “George Henry Thaw." As the court reporter would: . way, murmur ran @irough the crowd." For good measine there: were two =ss=-Prisonera in the dock. Ont was Jamés Clarke, whose white, drawn face pro- : claimed him the hero; the other Frederick Payton, whe wus tnclint to take | —— = = T eourt ite more cally, —-— & : ¥ ze 4 ~The prisoners «were charged with embextlemem and a few dUbar things theo Sas = oy ona oe rare en weeetnen | Margaret Hubbard Ayer’s Health and Beauty Hints. Tonic for Falling Hair. | members of which served as “comto relfef" when the counsel for the Sw gadgered them tite adinitting tit they dida't know @ thing. Mr, Frank Sheri- Gan, a2 the attorney Mh tho case, had the legal manner of an expeteniced praoc- fttoner and scored a good-atred hit. But Just jis hb had meade the wétnesses look Nke amateur allenists and put the asststant Dietrot-Attorney tn & Jerome #imte of mind, a messenger boy ¢amain with a telegram end-trought-the-trie! Clarke read the message he broke his volee m1 two and an- pounced that he wished to change his plea to_sutlty. 16 mado-« tong speects—tn Wiioh“he-explatned-that-he had stolen from his employers tm order to get.money- ‘with ‘which to send his consumptive alster to Arttdna. His fdllow-elerk, Payton, Jiad_fownd him _out_and driven..bim %o..farther .thetth -en- tweak ot sxposurs. ‘or_the sake of his alaler Clarke tnd. pitadéed “not gutity. the em told Bim that ois had learned of his guilt and that the bi! Waited ler, ew that he had lost the only thing he loved in the wor! penalty of bis orfme an quickly es possible. All +L but Mr. Drouet got It over the footlighta wi and again mix well and atir, A few Gropa of exsenbs of mUsK Or Other per- fume can be added. + Dark Gircits Under Eyes. Un, 8 ounces; white vareling, % ounces; good cold cream, 1 ounce, Mix. The only bleach I’ know of for halr on the jip-ta-equal-parteperoxida: and ammonia. This, unfortunatety, merely hisaches,and..does ngt.erndicats. the superfuous hair, £yelash- Grower, VV% whi A. Tiere is the prop @ration for eyebrows and eye jashes; Red yaseline, two ounces; tincture eantharides, ofe-cighth ounce; oll of lavender, oll of rosemary, 15 dropa each. Apply SE PRE ET tiny toophbrush once a day. until Jy etimulated; then er henee cheeremeuioet leas often. for tie syelasnes also, In” thin cawe ould be very caretully applied. It ‘uf faname. thieves, aa any oll will, if it gets into them. G2 By F. G Long tw aometimen effective temporarily, but cannot bs permanent while the cause exists, Bathe frequently with cold water and use-friction.—A Ittla turpe: tine Natment or weak ammonia, one In my Part. of luted ammonia te four of = J opinion, poms —tnternal causa! Water, may be rubbed tnto the skin :for thd Olkok circles tinder the | ally (once), but great caro must be S700) The tendendy tg sometimes heredi. | teken thet tt oem not reach “the ert tary, but Gack Mites ere veunily ans-to | some congedtion ¢@f thé veins of the / part, and-are yurely, 1f ever, founa ex. | SKIN Food, Cepting andet dne er more of the follow- BGGY.—Try this treatment for hol- ing ciroumsstanoes; Wheh the subjeo: low cheeks, Massage the cheeks ‘ansemis —and—thete—ts— ith an pward—outWwEnt HidVe= ment ‘of tte chemical constitution’ ment every night, ribbing In this skin food, which should be scrubbed off in of the blood; or when the syatem fs be-- Aram of-enoh; tinotuwe—of cantharidéa, ing drained, aa it ‘ein protonged the morning with A complexion brush 1 ounce, Briskly agitate for ten mfn-) study, lack of sleep or dissipation of ant some pure soap. This will also utes, then add camphor Julep, 1-2 pint, | any description. ‘The external tredtment fil out the hollows In the neck. Lano- 'A Few More Lemons at a Cent Apiece. &2 DE ERNE Oy ly cur, Se BUYS A Mino FINOS JT Cutk OM Ine, 1 ounce; ofa de cologne, i4 pint; liquid ems _ Seach of the prisoners five years, ts % ‘The play then took a jump of elght years, By this time Clarke had managed to escape and F6t himself a £10,000 job as the brains of-» eut-giahe thetary- in a ttle town. Ho refused $90,00 @ year to go to Pittsburg—andi we aiin't blame + him, He told the Henevolent trust gentleman who mae the offer that he Dre- | = ferred the aimple life, He seemed to be having ® very pleaiart ithne hss he was. His office duties, apparently, consisted in making love to Cathérine Gordon and listening to the prattle of a ltue-in who chaperoned! hat, Fila work was y Over, 20 tar as the second act was concerned, when he took Miss Gordon in hia » asms, Klased her under the right ear and breathed “Kathryn,” | But ¢rouble came with Payton, who had served his term and ptatted Hre _ fnew as @ poor but dishonest gambler, Clarke now called himesif Richard dianper, but ayton called him ‘Jim’ and used him as his tratmp eard. Teh the inevitable happened. By the inevitable, I mean the midnight meeting, When “TCath. yn” learned that her brother waa gambling and that the cutlass hero had ij hothed him out of one scrape, whe couldn't watt till morning, but rani right in At midnight to talk I over with "Richard." Payton, of course, discovered ner y) (Sere. This pleaned him greatly, He announced he would force the cut-glass hero "to go to Pittsburg ahd Mvids tho thirty thou’ with him, for now he bad! both dim and “Kuthryn" tn hé power, That settled it, Jim's blood Was tp. Me knocked over & obalr, pulled Up hie sleeves and at great length explaiiidt to the Clilage Canflelé that he fra kolng to kill him, Before ho could get down to| 7 «/ Wusiners he had to eet Mr. Broadhury: ERICA =MAKING Tics on RECORD OF 4000000/ ———— ae THAW oo “throat and: spoil the evening tor him. Just sa Payton was @Wwallowing his tast’ Uno Clarke's assistant, a large and muscular’ rustic, acted With Brent wtrength land considerable ense by Mfr. Harrison Armstroi roke throug’ a door and stopped the play ¢rom becoming a tragedy- Between the two, poor Mr, Selwyn had & rough timo of tt, Mr, Droudt threw him at Mr, Armotron abd Mb, Al ) Stfons, Nving upto hin pame, slammed htm on the floor. Dhih Was aven more Thint Avene tan some of the other parts of the pinay. fing by*me, fairly hissed: back and we sat down again, ing smoothly, that he was driving the market up by merely bidding, and > > that he had the greater part of ury 60,000 yet unbought, which in turn meant-he could continie to push up the price, or It the event of his oppo- nents’ attempting to run it down he would be under the market with big Supporting orders. zs Suddenly: the lull was broken. Bob's voice rang out again—"158 for any part of 10,000 Sugar.” Again the gamblers closed in and for another tive minutes the opening scone was-duploated,-with only-e- shade less-flerce< ness. After ten minutes’ mad trading a mighty burst of sound told that tas is-bid— Then Bob worked nis way oul of the crowd ap “By heayen, Jim, I've got them cinched!” I went back to the office. In a few minutes Dob without a word strode through my office and into the little room oecupled by Beulah Sands, He closed the door behind him, n thing that he had noyer done befora fe was only a minute till he opened {t and called to me. ¥ “Jim, Miss Sands and I thought {t best that we should have a little a match up at this stage of our deal," Bob began, “I want to know ff both-agree-with me onudhering to tht UrigMmal plans to close out at 176, never felt surer of my ground than In this deal. The stock is 163 on the: tape right now.” He glanced at the white paper ribbon, whose syery fous on certain days spolln heaven or hell to countless mortais, aa ft rolled out of the ticker in the corner of the office. “Yes, there she ges again—_ 8 3-4, 4, 4 1-4, and 1,200 at a half. There is a tremendous demand from. quarters. “Washington's buying is unlimited; the commisston-houses are. tumbling over one another to get aboard and the shorts are scared to & paralyzed muteness, They don't know whether to jump in and cover or-te-—— stand their present hands, but they have no pluck to fight the rise, that Is ; certain. I've been obliged to take on only 18,000 of your 60,000, and et present prices there {a over two hundred thousand profit In them. I could go back there and In thirty minutes have {t to 180, Th rested on {it until about one o'clock and threw myself at it for works up to the close, I could, under cover of them, lt slip about ; , wd to-niorrow open her with a whirl and let go the If I’m tn luck TH-avernge 186—185 for the whole bunch, but I'll be sal z 1f T get an average of 175, which would allow me to sell {t on a dropping #cale-to-169,"' aa < z FAITE Bob sent _back-to the Exchange and-t into-my-office;—In-ten—minntea—— the tape began to scream Sugur. WIth enormous transactions {t FAN wp i ftteen minutes: to 188, in throes more {t dropped to I31, and then etesdiiy 97 mounted to 185 1-2, dulled up. ang was healthy steady, Presently Boh was “T'vé BougKt 20,000 more for you, JIm, on that bulge. T've 38,000 in alt 9! of the Inst 50,000, which leaves ma 12,000 reserve, The avernge ts under 75, and there must be $400,000 for you in it now and strong $1,400,- 900 in Miss Sands‘s 20,000 and $1,800,000 !n our 30,000. They say it's baad bosiness to count chickens-tn the stictl, but ours are tipping so hard to get out I can’t help doing it this once.—I'm-golng.to.keap away-trom-the-floor- tor an hour or so; then I will go oycr and wind Jt up.and—good God, Beu- lah—Miss Sands—are yow 111?" “The girl's face—was- as breath. She turned her biz oyes full upon Bob, filled with a ght sneh ag ean come only to a woman's eyos, only to a woman before whom, es she stamis——— on the brink of hell, suddenly looms her heaven. Sharp ami shrill rang Bob’s.Exchange telephone. The ring seemed ; shriter;-it-certainiy was_longerthan asttl-—Bob-jumped-_tor the recetver, = {To be continued.) 5 iz A-gray_and she reemed-to be Rasping fer “Hreveater’s Millions,” n splendid, up-to-date New. York romance | by George Darr McCatcheon, wilt berth serial publication fn’ me! Saturday's Evening World, March 0, May Manton’s Daily Fash T “UI in gerte | blows appears to grow in pop- ularity from month to month with tho yewult- thet new “and fresh designs are constantly appear ing, -Here--ts one-of the “prettiest ana Geintiest that ta ab- wolutely —simp}s st the eame time In the illustration It {s made of tinen lawn with the trimming of German ~ Valen- clennes lace, and ts consequently exceed- tasty durable, But tt is eppropriate for all the pretty cot- ton fabrics and the thin silks thet aro \/& made in lingerie | style, as well ax linen, ‘hile ¢nm- ming can be either Jace or embroidery as iked. Valent elennes and Cluny lace doth are being greatly used,» and oth malo excced- Ingly dainty and charming effects, The quantity of material required tor the medium size ts 884 yards 2, 31-4 yarés ST or 17-8 Yards 4 Inches wide, with 9 yards of In- portion. Pattern 6614 ts-out In sizes for a ions. Tucked Blouse—Pattern No, 8614, 44, 08, 38 dtd, 40-Inch Dust measuny 4 2, {Miss Florence Rockwell gave tho heroine a hallow, mel atic and atta Loulse Classer made nx New York stehographer tafk, act dgd Ofeas Tikark Jay. _Mr. Joseph Tuohy wan very good as the bad brother, and Selwyn took the Part of the villsin—and bis fall—gracefully. Mr, Broadhurst took @ curtain gall Mithout accident, Seat CHARLES DARNTON; Tall or #end by mall sh THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANs, . TON FASHION BUREAY, No, 2 West Tweaty-third atreet, Now Obtain York, Bend ten cents in coin or atampa for each pattern drdered, chen? IMPORTANT—White your name and addréss plainly, and al ways mpecity size wanted,