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Jj 1 v -? ' f 4 . S' it. 4 '" ' . -1 3$ ,i' : , r r . t . ' in 1 J ' V , -x it r;u&Mtob .. , aau . ix , sag - j -- " jWie o7 Utie. It Jvefy nerv "following afternoon tlia letter showed Judge Sands in a 'very nervous, uneasy state, lie said h hkd been living a llfo ot dally ter ror, m some of bis friends, far whoso estates he was trustee, had been re-, calving anonymoils letCors, advlslng item to look Into the Judge's trust af falts; that the Relnharl crowd had been using Renewed pressure to make, kirn let go all his Seaboatd stock, Which they wanted to securo at tho loV prices to which thoy had de pressed It, In order that they might re organize and carry out the scheme t&ey had been so long planning. Judge tfpnds went on to say that the day he was compelled to sell his Seaboaid stock he would have to make public a announcement ot his condition, hk there could be no salo without Uio court's consent. His closing was: ,lWy dear daughter, no one knows better fhan I the utmost hopelessness of ipect nf any relief from your operations, lint (oThdpel hae I becomo ot late, to fmuch ani I tollant upon ou, my dear lehlld, und temal hope ho spring In nil of .Us when ionf routed with great iiclm- titles, that I have hoped and still liopa hat you r to lift the savior of joUr 'amity: that you, only a frail child, urn liroush Ood'ji mutvcllous working to bo li nim til uv lh honor of that riBinh Wt both Iova more tlii.ii life, thu one to keep the wolf of potty from that door (throosh which 10 far lint come nothliiK 'but the sunshine ot prosperity unci hap jplni the one, my dear Hclilah, who Is to save your old father from a dishonored crave. Dear child, forgive tne tor plat' flig upon your weuk shouldeis the uddl itlonsl burden of knowing 1 um now help 'less and compelled to rely absolutely jdponyou. After jou hae lead my letter, Ifjtheie Is no hope, I command ou to tell an so at once, for although I am now Anandally and utmost mentally helpless, ill Am still f. Sands, and there has iter yet been one of the name who shirked his duty, however stern and painful It might b. .-, When I handed the letter back to piles Sands, she said: , ' "Mr. Randolph, let me tell jou and JMr. Brownley u little about my father ana our nomc, mat jou may sen uur situation as It Is. My father Is one ot the noblest men that ever lived. I uni not the only one who says that If jou wire to ask the people ot our state to name the one man who had dono most for the stbie ab a state, most for her progressive betterment, most for her people high and low, wblto and blade, they would answer, 'Judge Lee Sand".' tie has beeu, and Is, the idol of our people. After be wus graduated from Harvard, ho entered the law olllce ot my giaudfather, Senator Uobeit Leo Bands. Heroic he was 30 he was In congress and was even then leptitcd (the greatest orator of our Htnto, wheio orators ate so plentiful. Tie mot l led my mother, his second cousin, Jtilta ILee, of Richmond, at 2E, and from then until the attack of that ruthless (money shark, led a llfo such ns a true miu would map out tor himself if tils MaKer granted him the privilege. You would have to visit at, our home to ap. preclfete my father's chaiuuter and to Understand how tcrilblo this sorrow is to him. Every morning ot his lite h spends an hour after breakfast with my dear mother, who Is a cripple fiom hlo disease. Ho takes her In hlu arms aud brings her down from hor mom to thi libiary as If ahe yere u child. Ho then reads to her and hb knows good books as well as he knows IiIb frlonds. After he takes mother back to her roonii he gives an hour tp our people, the blacks ot the plantation and his while tenants throughout the county. hVu a father to them all. Ho settles ail" their troubles, big and little. Then fOr hours he and 7 go over his business fairs. Every afternoon fiom four to ve he devotes to bis estates and tho nan and women for whom he acts ns trustees. He has often said to me: 'We have a clear million oi money atiu properly, and that Is all any utan Should have In America. It Is all hu Is entitled to under our form of gcv 'eframetit. Any more than that an llb&ist man should In oue way or am other return to tho, people from, whom he has taken It. I never want my fAmlly to uave more than a million 'dollars.' When he wont Into the Sea board affair, ho explained to me that lfwaB to assist the Wilsons thoy were dld.fi lends, and he acted as tlhilr solicitor for years Ip building up tho dlilh. Ho discussed with me tho 'right and advlsabllfty ot putting In tho ust funds. He said he considered It his duty to employ them as he did his eWfc In enterprises that would aid tho yrhoie peoplo or tne buutu, instead or ending them to tho north to be used (tLWall street as belting for tho Sys Um' grluder. These fortunes wero stjae In the south by men who loved (heir section of the country more than ihey. did wealth, and why should they oant.be employed to benefit that part '-' thefcountry which their makers and owners loved? I remember vividly Uiw perplexed he was when, ut tho be gluulng, the Wilsons would show him tbaVtbe Investments wero roturnlng Muauilly laigo piotlts. 'i.vf'll Is ot right, lioulah,' he said to v JL - -- - ' ' w - "-'.-' '- ' i I fciaBKivriiLsv1 r ffl3mmmTmmLmmLm IK III mtryy v mmtam a i '-.ji ' i ' ",M ooi aornlnk after, lecelylng a let '4rtroBi Baltimore to the effect tha( aboarsl stock- and bontu oau an Mtantn nls investment snowea r'M'FW cnt. profit, 'it li not tight ! iprif mX u money, Jtssitrifr saouio make over lfl it , falrprefltoa ty tf tym laveetaemtl wM ., ... ' a of capltaT pufo and sfntpte, paTtrcu? larly in a ti asportation compnnyJ whfre every dollar of profit comes from the people who putionlze the lines. I have worked it out on overy side, and It Is not right; It 'would not' be legal if tho people, who maka the laws for their own bottermeut, un derstood their Affairs as thoy should.' "Ho was always riling to the Wil sons to conduct the affairs of tho Sea yoard so that there would bo remain ing each day only piollts enough to keep the road up nnd the whaives in good condition and to pay the annual Interest and a fair dividend. Aud when the Wilsons catn6 to our house to lay befote him the offer of Reta hardt nnd his fellow plundcters to :ir.y enormous pioflts for tho control of tho seaboaid, he was Indignant nnd argued with thorn that the ofller wnc an Insult to honest men. It was he who adWsed the trusteeship control ot thu Schboaid stock to prevent Relnhart from securing control. I sat In the library whuu he talked to the elder Wilson aud the ill lectors "He appealed ill recti) to John Wil son to make an effort to stop tho growing tendency to Use thu people aB pawns to enslave themselves hud their children. Ie said uomo man of undoubted probity, standing, aud "wealth, some one Whom thu people ti listed, must start the tight against these New Yoik fiends, whose only thought Is to roll up wealth. And, he told John Wilson he was the man, since he had great wealth, honestly got by hla futhor and grandfather, no one would accuse hi m of being a "Mr. Randolph, I Could Not Tell My hypocrite, seeking notoriety, and his standing in tho financial world was so old uud solid that it would have to llHton to him. I remembon how emphatically father said: I tell' you, John, even the dlBcusBlon of such a proposition as that scouudicl Rein hurt makes Is upgrading to un Amer ican's honor.' He said It didn't make tho least difference If ncjnhnr.t count ed hla mllllQiUi by tho bcore, and was director In 30 or 40 great Institutions, and gavo a foitune o'jry, year for charity to the church thut ho was a. blackleg just tho same. Aitd so Is any man, ho said, who dares to say he will take the ijtock of u tiaus portatlon company, which icpresentH a certain amount of money luvestod and double or multiply It by five nnd ten, simply pecauso he can compel people to pay exorbitant fares und freight rates and so get profits on this fraudulently increased capital. "It was tho decision ai rived nt by father and the Wilsons ut this meet lug, a decision to refuse In any clr sumatunces to uljow our southern peo plo to be bled by the Wall street 'sys tem.' thut started Relnllart and hla dollur-nopda on the war-path, You cau seo from what I tell you of my father the ten (bio condition Jie Is lit now. At night, when 1 get to tblLklng of him, hoping ugutnst hope, with no one to help him, no Oue with whom he cau tulk over hU affairs, when I think ot h's nobleness in de voting his time to mother' und by sheer will-power concealing from her his awful Etiffeilng, it nearly dilves me mad." "Miss Hands, why will you not let me Jeud you the mouoy necessary to tjdo yotir father over for awhile?" I asked zxau.. r - im.m..v v- v. .. ui ,7'ii i"ii,iufi vv nv ws mmmm imvi or tne urioe." wnmii. Ban. aavac .. - . '..',' rmi"wr'KiM wjifr.sMrawr mMi.inn ibuh.i' ara ao aood " Mr. RAndolnh. I lusual. TJiey have baas ihilcaa out' afi.au. dak utbu ,ur,( Hut mrl star, I v- 1 --. --"T . . I we crowa was,at the Buaar feoUVhhtl nt.'t i-,rls.kLMJT'.,W;' 1 a .r ' .sk' . v., f ,v " l v " x' " mxTUL M-L1' V V.. ''rvO. klUlWl li V ntPHlSt ttToHiltot- MMWMMMM hill volt don't' unite undfri.mVmr fafher In spliefot'what I hk'fi said. Ild would not relieve his lufteling at the expense et another, not it It were a hundred tlrdes more aciite. You cannot understand vthe ottl-raihloiiea, deep-rooted pride ot the Batids." "Hut can you not, at least tempo rarily disguise from hint Just hdw you haVo arranged (ho rellett'' Her big bltlis ejtai stared at me In bewilderment. " "Mr Randolph, I could not deceive Ifather. I could not tell him -a lie 'oven to save ids life. It would e I In possible. My father abhbra a He1. He believes a man or woman who would He the lowest ot tho low thinks bv earth. When I go back to riiy fa ther ho will say: 'Tell me what you have done.' I can Juit see him now. 'standing between the big white pillars ut the end of the driveway. I can hear him saylrig calmly: 'Relilah, uiy daughter, welcome. Your mother Is waiting for ou in her room. Do not lose u moment getting to her.' After- watd hell take nie over the planta tion to show mo all tho familiar filings, and not oue word will be al low mo to say about our affairs until illnner Is oer, until tho neighbors )iavo left, for no Sands returns from Jong absence without n filling home iwelcome. When' I have said good ,nlght to mother and sister and he has 'dt awn up my rocker In front of. his blR chair In the library alcove and I've 'lighted his cigar for him, he will look ine lu the eye und saj : 'Daughter, tell me what you have done.' I would no more think of holding anything .back thai! I would of stabbing him to the heart. No, Mr. Randolph, there lis no possibility of tellcf except in fairly using that $30,000 and fairly twinning back what Wall street has stolen fiom father. Even that will cause both of us many twinges of conscience, ahd anything more is im possible. If this cannot be done, fa ther must, all of us must, pay the jieualty of Rcinhart's mthless act." Rob had listened, but made no com ment until she was through; then he said: "It looks to me as though the nmikct lb shaping up so that we may be ablo to do something Boon." It wus evident to both of us that lie had some pluu In mind. Later we learned that that night Father a Lie Even to Save Hie Life." Beulah wiote her father a long letter, telling him what she had dona; that she had made almost two millions pioflt from her operations; that they had been lost, and that the outlook was not reasstiilug. She begged htm ,to pit-pare himself for thtw final calam ity; promising that If theie were no chango for tho better by December 1, hIio would come home to be with him when the blow fell. She begged 'him to piepaio to meet it like a .Sands, and assure him that If worse cumo to worst "he would earn enough ito keep poverty away. Judge Sands twould receive this letter the second day follrvlng, Friday, tho 13tl day of November. My God! how well I know the date. It is seared Into my ',biain as though with a while hot Iron. After our talk with Ueulah Sands I begged Hob to dine with me and go over mutters at length to see If we could not llnd a way out -to relief, "No, Jim, I have work to do to night, work that -won't wait. That tariff bill wus buttoned up to day, and t has just been announced that tho Sugar directois have declared a big 'extta dividend. Things have come out (Just, about as I told you they would, and the stock Is climbing to day. They .say It will touch 200 to-mouow, uud ''the stieet' Is picdlcttng SCO for it ip ten days. Rarry Conaut has been a idteady buer all day and the nows bu reaus announced that Camemey er ami ithn 'Standard Oil' aie twenty millions wliuieis. They say the Washington ,gatnb)ers, the congressmen, senator land cabinet members with their heel' ,eis and lobbyists have ,made a kill ,tng. About every one seems to l(ae fattened up, Jim, hut you and me and Reulah Sands and the public. The I """- i .. . . - -i a r ' i I ittilll frr.lu thA tv hnlh utava - eaa f , , . , s . a- ' . - -y ,m--iummmimrr jf "-rai, -iwaii m , u . . wummm.tmmmriwm - . ' v i tt." " L' ' 'T f L''st " ' r,TT"TT..wi' rr w-' ' " ;..' jtgrf-- t i ;B 2 I JX1am ki A.iW. Ithelr.'.atM r..iud ,". jm Pa .kt- . 1 F. 1. fci-T-fc.1 .1.. ..71. ;.t " " "7- ir -7. ---- .- ,---, ror weir vietfar,. wan tneywouiaiii lhls,la'w a4!Mt'.beeufriafle for their; benelt., JlfcB.'itleeres.no dligulilB henefet. , Jllfa.'OM ihi facthirm, .AtaeHcah people ! ai helpless frVliniBV of these ihiifc. ot the 'y1Wafthbuih they lived lu the reel of .the sultan, where, a 4w cUtiaraat.tirlaanrii ere-lle'ehied'to frob nd'6pte:-to their' heift' bdri; Kent. Jn RiaH.h. you know this game 4t aiiaV' tti knorf hdw It U worked and. tie, wen who . work it. TelLrae IftliWeii" any consideration due Wall stfWreJid ill 1htarf.nd-ou,l butchers at.iat kahdi of honeii men." "I do dot liiOW wh4t you mean, Bob. What W.you dritln att" "Nevr mihwhat I am driving at. I ask you wkeWer, If an honest mah knew how tibial Wall street at its own game, he-ifaoilld heittate to beat It hesitate because ot anything con nected with "conscience or morale? You saw what Barry Conant was able to do to us that-day simply by stand ing on the fioor'jOf the stock exchange atfd outstaying, tne lu opening and closing his mb'illh. You saw he was able to sell Sugar to a point so low tbkt I was "obliged to let go ot our 160,000 sharefc at (8,000,000 to (10,000, 000 less thanvvr could have got for them It we cotijd, have held them un til today, riecause ot this trick his clients, theyayijeni,' Instead of us, make five to, seven millions." "I don't follow you, Rob. 1 know that IlarryCdhknt was able to do this because he .had .mors money behind him than yoUV'f' "You thlnViio, do you, Jim? Thai Ib the waylf?l6okH to )OU, but I tell you mdhey h"d-nothing to do with it. Nothing hadto'do with It but the fiendish systeniof fiaud and trickery Upon whlck'h-whole stock-gambling strnrthrela'rMred. Nothing entered into the tfdtf-bUBlness but (he tilck ciy of stdck-gambllhg as conducted to day. It wus,; only a ciuestloii, Jim, of a man's ownlfig. and closlbg his mouth and splttingout wordB. From the minute RarryJColiant came Into that crowd Until he.left and we were ruin fed, he Hho'wed no money, no anything that 1 did' n6t? show. Fiom the very nature of' th'e'huslness he could not. He simply Said: 'Sold' oftendr und longei tliknsttid 'Buy.' He may have had money back of him, or he may duly have hadVuerve. Ood Almighty Is tho only ono who can tell, for when Cotlant was through he was able io, buy back at 90 Hie 50,000 shaies he sold me at 176, the 60,000 that broke my back. Jim, it I bad known as much that day as I do now I would have stood in that crowd and bought all the stock he sold at 180, and I would have stood there buying until hell froze oVer or he quit; then I would have ihade him rebuy It ut S80 or 2,080, and t would have broken htm and all his Camemeyer and 'Standard Oil' backers; broken them ,to their last crime-cOveied dollar." ' "Rob, .whut are yoit talking about? It is all Chinese to. me. 1 cannot get head or tall ot what you are driving I" - , . . ."I know jou cant, Jim,- neither could Wall stieet If It were listening to me. Rut you will, and Wall Btreet will, too, befoie many days go by. Now I must be off. ( have work tti do." He put, on his htft and left me try ing to piuzle out Just what he meant. Next day the Sugar b,ulls bad thp center of the utobk exchange stage. All day long they tossed Sugar from oue to another, as though ouch thou sand Shares had been a wisp of hay Instead of $200,600 for soon after the opening It Boared'to 200., The "sys tem's" cohorts were1 In absolute con trol, with Hurry Conant never a min ute away fiom the Sugar-polo, always on the alert to steer the couise ot price when they, threatened to run away on the dp ok- the down side. It was evident to the expeit leaders of the tape that the "syBtem" was car rying lts,nteed for an exceptionally billllant tun. Ike Hfoomonstelu, the Avenger Fiend, who tor 40 years had kept close Hack of eVery movement on the flo'Br, and, who would bet any thing, from IiIb Flflh avenue mansion to his oveiripe boardroom straw hat, that all stocks and movements were as Btllctly subject to the law of aver ages as are tho tides to the moon aud sun, remarked to Joe Raines, the loan export: "'Cam' unt de Kerosenors aro pud ding up egstia dop rails .to dot wool pen deh hat ben plldlug sluce deh took Pop Piownlee and deh nantolpbs into gamp, Unless my lope'slieet goes pack op ine, for deh first dime In. 40 yeais dure vlll pe a record clip pefore a veek from to-tay." "I am with you there, Ike," an swered Joe. "It Rairy Conant's knife edged teeth ever spelt; a klllln', they do today, I just got orders from tfoiuewhcio to drop call money from fqjtr to two and a half yper cent., aud. thoy have given mo leu millions to drop it with and the order Is to fa vor Sugar as 'collat.' -Some one Is aiixlou? to make It easy for the bleat eia to get the coin" to, buy all the, Sugar they waut. Ike, you and I might luake turkey money for ThaiKsglvng( If we only ki.ew whether Rarry und his bunch were going to shoot her up, 30 or 40 points before they turned the bug upside dowu,,or whether they will bury theui from; 200 to 160. What, do you thlujt?" ' - "I gaut mako out, aldol hat vetch ed deni sharp all day. Dey certainly hat deji lambs lined, up right now for auy vey dey vont to twist Id. I neter see a petter, market for a del uge. For Bany'H movements all day I should nay dey vaufd kop hostln' he until apont nootv. tthworrow, ust, uai uou mignt iet Mr up to two-nriy m evei) to deh,to:jJy,)Pt 4erare rtTraW tftv Will be con- fi r imfKtei nlor ah LL f i re r-TjH atif ruff)oi;olt;i8ire leaf- r'eair bn deli tigar .vaien, dk,pliest vwrf Ttw , i -- " w w ' m m -- . L . A is 1 ' t .i '. t -i. L . .-- U i iort oi cnaiey nucaers aat;err game In, from deh supptlrhi. Charley pates ui If any vonhat'taplled'hls Vash- laltorfjlre1 er any utjVr' capital vl'te die veek ho vouid hat tought dere vas'A innate, house, nht kafalhet roll-gkll on, l)eh tocS say 'Cahi' villnefor led dat puhch oft grafters sltte otit mil real mddriey it he ikn help "Id' unt deh game Its ehdirely in hla hands." , ' "I kgree with yob, Ike. If I had the steering of thle kllljng, I don't think (I would tako(any chance of terapUac itaem to dump and grab the profits by carrying li ratich over 00, But you can't tell what 'Cam' and those four yed dentist at 26 Broadway will do." ' "Yes, put der lss anudder t'ing, Cho, dat makes me sit up unt pllnkr about her goln' ofer two hundred. To, 'inorrow'e Friday der t'lrteenth." "Ot course, Ike, that is something to he reckoned with, and every man! on the floor and In the street as wellj has bis. eye on it, Friday, the 13th j would break the best bull market ever "Under way. You and I know that, lkej ahd the dope shows It, too, but yci have got to stack this up against itj on this trip: No man on the flooo knows what Friday, the 13th, means better than Rarry Conant, He has jwbrked it to the queen's taste many a time. Why, Barry would not eat to .day fqr fear the food would getsluck Jn his wlndpjpe. He's never left the poto for a minute; but suppose, Ike, 'Barry had tipped oft 'Cam' that all the boys will let go their flleis, and most of them will take one on the short side oVer to night for a superstll tlous drop at the opening; and sup! pose 'Cam' has told him to take them all Into camp and give her a ratter-scraper at .the opening, where, 'Would old Friday, 13th, land on to morrow's dope Bheets? Bring up the average, wouldn't It, for Ave years to some? I toll you, Ike, she's too deen for me this run, and I'm goln' to let' her alono und pay for the turkey out of loan commissions or stick to plain work-day food." "Zame here, Clio. Say, Cho, haf you noticed Pop Prownleo to lay? Ho haa' frozen to deh, fringe off dat Sugar crowd ess t'ough some von hat nipped 'Is scarf-pin unt he vos laylu' for him as he game out. He hasn't made a "ToiMorrow'e Friday trade totay unt yot te Bticka like a ntiitiln.fnv T lion irnonlni- mv avpr nn stamp-tax. I ben keeping my eyes on him for I fought he 1iat someding up his sleeve dat might raise tust ven he tropt id. I dink Parry has hat deh sumo Hear, He never loses sight of him, yet Pop hasn't made a trade to tay, unl here Id lss 20 minutes ot der glose unt deie Is Fairy In deh center again whooping her up ofer two hun dred unt four." CHAPTER V. Thursday, November 12, was a memorable day In Wall Btreet. As thd gong peeled Its the game's-closed-till-another-day, the myriad of (01 lured souls that are supposed to haunt the treachetous bogs and qulcksauds of the great exchange, where lie their earthly hopes, must have prayed with renetyed earnestness for Its destruc tion befote the mouow. Never had tb? stock exchange folded its tents with .surer confidence of continuing lta vic'toi Jo'us march. Sugar advanced wlh lecoril-breuklug (otul sales to 20JVi und the final half-hour cairled the whoe list of stocks up with li, Iij that time 'some oflhe railroads Jump ed teu points. Sugar 'closed at the very top amid great excitement, wltli Barry Conant taking all offered. Dur ing the last 30 minutes itihad- becoQiu j pimowi iu mi iiiut viid uuaiu-iuviti tiaders and plungers, together with many of the senil-piofesalonal gam blers, who operated through commU slou houses, weio selling' out their stock aud going short over the open- lug pf the Wall stieet hoodoo-day, Fri day, the "th ot the month, i, But U .was also evident, with "the heavy Helling at the. close knit .atlffness i0Wl n'C z ' ,s d' HmBL- ..l! JLM ia&mm&mmm&mBissamm c v X. . -, . rS &. wavered, Je Mbpk .afttr; blflskwai thrown oh-the' Warket, thalsofeift pffW erftil interest welt had' taketl cog nUance of 'ihefact thl the rnbrroW was hood06-dayAt Olei-clejiffebil of llie sellers, had thef,bn granted another five minutes, 'wduld hivtJe purchased, even at a lose, what they had sold, for It 16oked as jthouih thejr ittu sold themselves' 'into,, trap. Their anxiety as itehaflea;Vyiki iiubllcallon, a few minuteCvJatir,Xol thlr, item: "harry Cott.nt In coming Irons, tml fiujar crowd attir the closi irMfiirkM to fellow broker. 'By three o'olsok ti- morrow, the lSlh. will iiave a tisw" msiii Ing to Wall stieet.' This was InttrtoreUel ns pointing to a terrific Jump ln"Huga to-morr6w." ,. .. , "The street" knew that thevnewe bureau that sent but this Item waa friendly to Rarry Conant and the "sya torn,'' and that it would print nothing displeasing to them. Therefore, thin jntist lie a foreword of tho coming harvest of tho bulls and the slaughter of the hears. Others than Ike Rloomcnsteln re marked ilpon the fact that HobRiown iey had hung close to tho Sugar-pole all day, but when the close had come and gone without his having anything to, do with the SUgar BKyrocKeis, ne dropped dlit ot his fellow-brokers minds. Wall stieet has no use for any hut tho "door." The poet and Ihe mobhof would be no more securo from luteuuptldn In the center of thp Sahara tlmn In Wull street be tween ten and three o'clock. Some sage has said that the human mind, tike the well-bucket, can carry only Ha flli. The Wall street mind always has Its fill of budding dolluis. In con sequence, there Is never room for those other Interests that enter the noimal mind. Friday, the 13th of November, drift ed over Manhattan Island In a drear diUzlo of marrow-chilling base, which Just missed being tain ono of those New York das that give a hesitating suicide renewed courage to .cut the nioi tal coll. Ry ten o'clock It had set tled down on tho stock exchange and Its surrounding Infernos with a clam miness that damped the spirits ot the moot rampant bulls. No class In the world Is so susceptible to atmospheric conditions as stock-gamblers. Many u stout-hearted one has been known to postpone the Inauguration of aldne- der T'lrteenth." ." "swa.ll'iflpfrpy-i .piunnTeTcouFineTely becau8rtne"alr Mmj lj ... .. . .' 7.. filled, hla blood with tho -dank chill of superstition. Because ot tho expected Sugar pyrotechnics, stock exchange membeis had gathered early; the brokeru 'offices weio overcrowded be fore ten; the morning papers, not only In ?Jew York but In Boston, Phil udolphla und other centers, werp fill ed, with stories ot the b!g,(se that wa's Jo tukq place Jn Siigar. The knowing ones saw the earmarks of t(ie '''system's" presbagent Jn" these, stories; and they knew that this In dustrious Institution had 'pot sut ui( the night before because of Insonjnla, All tho signs pointed to a killing, and and a terrific one polutnd so plainly that tho beuis afyl Sugar shorts fpund no- hotfe lu tho. atrnospheriJ or the date. ! Rob had not been,near (he office the fiflnrMiAsn &1fVU flYlfl Htt tilt llllll llfll ? '. DV five minutes to ton,' I de- elded tq go over to (he exchange und see Jt he were going to m)x up Ip tho baiting of the Sugar, beam. 1 hud no specific reasons for thinking ho wus interested except his lecent yueur actions, particularly hlq hanging to the HUgar.jlole, yet doing nothing, the day, beforo. But It Is one of the best estubllshed traditions of stock-gumbledom that when an op erator" his been bitten by n rabid stock he Is Invariably attracted to ll evc'iy "time aftewai.d that It shows ,,--- w -- ., - ' i "signs of frothing. More than ull, I .had'ono ot those stiong nowheie-borii-nowheieorudleti lutultlous cohmion to IhoHO living In the "stock-gambllnK .world, which made me feel Uie" creepy' shadow of 'coinliier nvontu v - . ,1 . km nn'a-l .In.. . .1.2 5i V "" V!i w",v va yw wis' oeiorf. i 'i . .' . i..-. Be Tf" rt rlt tnrttitntMrjrit-di UMrHr (Jms srimiitt- e.M.'fiafrf tfuited' l(eateals.i,biitV6 to'' do or 4-tiit" UWh-oa, jblit nol,'to1pHit,.up-fe;;or;:e;l meaepenae-iaeTeeiui'Mi who wtre,Hg of,t M dtitlnialskeVbril UlAfl ,.J4. li iWAJ.S iSQffitirtis HHmA Cl(ti lltiAskiMit-" Tkeremeaer of. H-J m IleuteMaU1 ttirMMU Uey wkrk fli to ae wld there ,tc do., Tkey akeMtti ouiionea cos, ana;sqwM that lhe iinsetAd latavl kid haul work, blit afc5ire4iUy;;: anticipated ao laitdltck.klftkup gong,peald aade'crowihl itiratit: nt nnviintik; hut hfl blood, not flesh, bone, heart 'aaditeWli' JUst blood. The first price ol'ltsfit was 211 for 3,000. akkrM.; eYoik sold 'It In a block. fcrrVfctfiftt bought it .It dld.iote4tiVr4a'ra eyes to see that the. seller, .wa4 oi ins lieutenants tnu tneesitW Is known as a "wak;' Sal4, UM buearrkhged In advaace bettMki brokers to esUbllsh tke hailaIlifaM trades that' are to f6H6w'--oa'e';lif iiiune iiiinur itbuub oi piocK-gMMUl, uy wmen tne pupiic u i the traderi and pluneri i bed with loaded dice, lu Is a device older th'an slobk ek'chkiliea themselves, and Is p'ut 'to ukeMelejh whero than on the floor. For, inslauc, four genuine buyers wiut a 'pirtUlihiir animal worth (200 at a horse ayciibk. Its owner's pal startsrilie bidHla;'it (400, and the four, not b'elhtjj.upl.ln hoise values, arejhtrfiby lndeeAjta iuul'ii iui it ai oeiweeH fiwuiifsw, Rut luimah nature, whetkerjaWi sales or at stockiamblln lore . "htnkeydlnked" as mhch as Ikermilh to play tag wllh the caridleaaieijln five minutes Sugar Wksselliugat 221, and tho -frknttc shorts, were' jgrt blng for It as though here iajtfr,vfBi to be another share put 'dn-saJe-.jWhjle Rarry Conant vand his iliiUeMa weio most lndtistrloualy ,pushlngil just beyond their reaching fttijftrtijt, either by buylfag it as fastWjtifie offered by genuine sellers, oTTby fak ing what their own pala threW'.nw&e air. . ":'v''" (TO BE OOilTIllthttib&Tr PLY ACROStJ THE A'tLAr-lTlCi-I 11 w t -a, Numerous American rslaKnik Tripe to the irltlih lelee., 4f "'M The occurrence ot AtnerlcajiMrdt In this country raises the thteHUtif question: How do they-.ofoMr-tkeJft lervenlng 2,000 mllesotjOceaiiTrtitiya mo .jjonaon uiooe. ,van,wAll a uira is capaoie oi suetaiaea'1 tor a sufficiently long perlol.to'vi push this? On the BUppbHlei'?ksifct this vellow fabank.can tlv. atltuirace of 150 miles an holif,";it twotiidaale' compiiBji tne distance ml4 aoua. And then It must be reraemberfk'tlut this bird, being a wador, would-; he ablo to rest from time r to time J on tho water. As regards the rale ' ot flight attained by birds in thelrlnl oratory Journeys soirio lntorslltt computations are to be found. In Kit tin's "Heligoland ns an Ornllholofleal Observatory." His figures are' 125 miles an hour for tho hooded ,'croVr, 0S ror the northern blue-throat akd 246 for tho Virginia plover. -A.-.W last rate the Atlantic could W'eroee ed In about eight and throequarlea hours. Some six other Amerjcaa birds, Including the red-crestod"snle and tho Eskimo cilrlew, are reeord fiom 81cRy Islands. , ' if; Other American blrda, lnclwUM) yellow-billed cuckoo, have been re corded in Ireland. Andln coaneeflen with thla crossing of the Atlwtlp by American birds It is Interesting to noto nn apparent attempt to croea la the opposlto direction. -In arltlsk' association report from 1887 wa r44: "At Ratnlla O'Blrna "CWeUa gal) Immense flocks of birds tar lings, thrushes and fieldfares paiaed west from December 18 to 93, J The nearest land $o the vest,of this rock Island is Amerloa, This Is not aa isolated occurrence. The westerly flight ot land blrdp at stations oft tho west coast pt Ireland has been no ticed! on oUjer occasions."' , It would be Interesting to knowjt nny of these enterprising migrants ever reached tho other iMo.. ii f , Cork Lege. From tle name universally given artificial limbs ope might suppose that they woie made of cofckbUt that, U not the case, They are aa called frok tho fact that when artificial limbs wore first piod.u,ced the. jnajorlty,'of factorles wore located in JOorlc street, London, and it becapie the custom" t speak of them ascork lege. Biace then manufactories ..have been estab lished In many countries, but the1nknas of coik sjtm cllilgs'to their waies. ; ., t RemalnJna Y9unu Unf." , One step In this twentieth century we uie malting In the ijght dlrecloa we are Fernalnlng young much-leafed, Our grandmothers took to -ea'as at 40 and became old womea' Mfart) they hud attained to middle ae.Nsw we ore frisky "at60 and ,ar7iMsg v our part in social life wellon latik severities, many even la the eigbjtlM, and some fortunate people wkemJevor (4 , LMlju. of Washlnaten'i Had;, ri. nv5ii ',-rr ;. f 8aader.,.ttn .aged tTf;o HW.WVllU". iUR MV uie ifiir jUfBe wi to jtert swwr OfaMMMUB J3 ' WBm ' matim mm ttns'zvcmm, U, M uEl K'eiiSS ". vm . M,wgm I mmm -y IV I IBP are kLdlS VtHh7iDiV.it Wmjlt' jm i:1 'mmr SEJVmyr ummmmi ' I 3X I it MsW.'isVk I I , 'J m m G M tf X V y NiZf - Val , i s&w 'A' i if. . 1" 1 -, t K 'ii " m ' ii' 'i ' "" i i i V i ii i 'iiTiliiiiilll if ''' ' ' ' ' '' i "' JlM