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.1 V i fern Chapter 1. "Friday, the- l:itn; I thought as tnu. '.i. If l!ob liai) utaitd, there will be h'-ll, but I T.vill sr.e what I can do." Tim -80111111 of my voire as I drop i,ii llif ntcivor Kcfiind to part the mists of five. ye:irs and u.;h?r me into the world of Thru aa though it had novpr asvrd on. I had been Hltling In rny office, lot tin? the tape slide through my fingers while lis every yard spelled "panic" in a constantly rising voice, when thry told me that Hrownley on the floor of the exchange wanted me at the 'phone, ami "quick." Hrownley was our junior partner and floor man. Me talked with a rush. Stock exchange floor men In panics never let their speech hobble. "Mr. Randolph, It's sizzling over here, and it's getting hotter every sec ond. It's Hob that is evident to all. If he keeps up this pace for 20 min utes logger, the sulphur will overflow 'the street' and get into the banks and Into the country, and no man can tell how much territory will be burned over by tomorrow. The boys have begged me to ask you to throw your aelf Into the breach and stay him. They agree you are the only hope now." " "Are you sure, Fred, jhat this Is Bob's work?" 1 asked. "Have you seen him?" "Yea, I have just come from his Randolph, they cannot tane mucn more of anything in here, and If I' ' begin to throw stocks over. It will : bring the gavel inside of ten minutes, j and that will be to announce a dozen ! failures. It's yet 20 minutes to one. and God only knows what will hap pen before three. It's up to you, Mr. Randolph, to do something, and un-, less I am on a bad slant, you haven't many minutes to lose." It was then I dropped the receiver with "I thought us much!" As I had been fingerln? the tape, watching five and ten millions crumbling from price values every "ew minutes, I was sure this was the work of Bob Hrown ley. No one else in Wall street had the power, the nerve, and the devil ish cruelty to rip things as they had been ripped during the last 20 min utes. The night before I had pass ed I!ob in the theater lobby. I gave him close scrutiny and saw the look of ' which I of all men best knew the meaning. The big brown eyes were set on space; the outer corners of 'the handsome mouth were drawn hard, and tense as though weighted. Aa I had my wife with me It was Impossible to follow him, but when I, got home I .called up his house and his clubs, Intending to ask him to run up and smoke a cigar with me, but could locate him nowhere. I tried II . II "Mr. Randolph, It's Sizzling Over Ha office, and glad I was to get out. He's on the war-path, Mr. Randolph uglier than I ever saw him. The last time he broke loose was child's play to his mood to-day. Mother sent sue word this morning that she saw last night the spell was coming. He had been up to see her and sisters, and mother thought from his tone he was about to disappear again. When she told me- of his mood, and I re membered the day, I was afraid he might seek his vent here. Also I beard of his being about town till long after midnight. The minute I opened his office door he flew at me Ilk a panther. I told him I bad only dropped In on ray rounds for an or-' der, as they were running ofT right mart, aid I didn't know but he.mlght' like te pick up some bargains. 'Bar rains!' he roared, 'don't you know the day? Don't you know It Is Friday, the 13ta? Go back to that hell-pit and sell, sell.' 'Sell what aad how mucbT I asked. 'Anything, every-t thing. Give the thieves every share they will take, and when they won't .take any more, ram as mueh again' down their crops until they spit. up all they have been buying for the last three months!' Going out I met Has Holllday and Frank Swan rush lag la. They are evidently executing Bob's orders, aad hare been peurlng Anti-People's out for an hour. They will be on the floor again In a few minutes, so I thought it safer te, call i before 1 started to sell. Sir.; re and Getting Hotter Every Second." again In the mornfng without success, but when Just before noon the tape began to jump and flash and snarl, I remembered Bob s ugly mood, and all It portended. I Fred Hrownley was Bob's youngest ' brother, 12 years his junior. He had jbeen with Randolph & Randolph from j the day he left college, and for over ;a year had been our . r.i -t trusted i Stork pyphnnpn man ' t o " . " " j uiunu' I ley, when himself, wtv, fond of his baby brother," '. ; i ailed him, as his beautiful so;;;, .n mother was of both; but when tlie devil had posses sion of Bob and his option during the past Dve years had been exercised many a time mother and brother had to take their place with all the rest; of the world, for then Bob knew no kindred, no friends. All the wide world was to him during those pe riods a lunele neonleri with ruvre-a animals and reptiles to hunt and fight and tear and kill It is hardly necessarr for mm tn explain who Randolph & Randolph are. cor more than 60 years the name has spoken for Itself in every part of the world where dollar-making ma chines are installed. No railroad is financed, no treat "industrial" nm. Jeeted, without by force of habit, hat- ra-nanaing a by-your-leave of Ran dolph & Randolph, and every nation when enterinr the marVnt far iium knows that the favor of the foremost American bankers is something which mutre pe recapped with. I pride my Self that at 42,,. at the end of test years I have had the helm, of Ran dolph 4k Randolph, I bar don noth ing to mar the great name my fa ther and uncle created, but something to add to ita sterling reputation for honest dealing, fearless, old-faahloned methods, and all-round integrity. Bradst root's and other mercantile agencies say in reporting Randolph & Randolph: "Worth fifty millions and upward, credit unlimited." I can take but small praise for this, for the report was about the same the day I left college and came to the office to "learn the business." But, as the survivor of my great father and uncle, I can say, my Maker aa my witness, that Randolph & Randolph have never loaned a dollar of their millions at over legal rates, six per cent, per annum; have never added to their hoard by any but fair, square business methods; and that blight of blights, frenzied finance, has yet to find a lodging place beneath the old black-and-gold sign that father and uncle nailed up with their own hands' over the entrance. Nineteen years ago I was graduated; from Harvard. My classmate and ; chum. Bob Brownley, of Richmond, Va., was graduated with me. He was class poet, I, yard marshal: We bad been four years together at St. Paul's previous to entering Harvard. . No girl and lover were fonder than we of each other. My people had money and to spare, . and with it a hard-beaded, northern horse sense. The Brownleys were poor as church mice, but they had the brilliant, virile blood of the old' southern oligarchy and the romantic,: "salaam-to-no-one" Dixie-land pride of before-the-war days, when southern, prodigality and hospitality were found, wherever women were fair and men's' mirrors in the bottom of their Julep Bob's father, one of the big, white' pillars of southern aristocracy, hadi gone through congress and the senate of his country to the tune 6t "Spend1 and Not Spare,' which left his Widow and three ' younger daughters and a small son dependent upon Bob, his eldest. Many a warm summer afternoon. as Bob and I paddled down the Charles, and often on a cold, crispy night aa we sat In my -shooting-box on the Cape Cod shore, had we matched up for our future. I 'was to have the Inside run of the great banking busl nses of Randolph &' Randolph, and. Bob was eventually to represent my. father's firm on the floor of the stock exchange. "I'd die ln'an office," Bab used to say, "and the floor of the stock exchange is Just the chimney place to roast my hde-cake in." So when our college days were over my able old father stood us up against the wall In bis office, and tried us by his tests, and proud we both were when dad said: "Jim, you 'and Bob have chosen well. You, Jim, are just the chap to step Into my shoes, and Bob is cut to a thirty-second and sixty-fourth for the floor." Proud we were, not so much because of what my father's decision meant for our future, for we knew we should get into the busi ness all right, but because our judg ment was indorsed by one we both thought as near infallible as man could be in anything pertaining to business affairs. Bob was then 22 and I a year old er I one of your raw-boned New Eng land lads, not much .for prettiness, but willing to weigh In race-day with any of them for steadiness and stay ing qualities; Bob as handsome as they made them, six feet tall in his gym sandals straight as an arrow, with the form of an Indian, and one of those clean,' brave, all-for-heart-noth-ing-for-policy, smiling faces to which men yield willing friendliness, and, women. Idolatry. Bob's eyes were as' big and round and purple-brown as an English bulldog's, unfathomable, at once mild and stern, with a childish come-and-go perplexity; his nose as straight as though chiseled by a mas ter for a Greek medallion, with thin curved lips to correspond, and a high, broad forehead, whose whiteness was set 'off by. a luxuriance of hair that seemed Jet-black, but was of the same rare purple-brown as his eyes. But it was the poise of Bob's head that. gave his good looks their crown. Who ever has seen a bunch of two-year-old colts in a long-grass Kentucky pad dock, when the darky boy lets loose; his shrill whistle at "taking-up time," la sure to remember one that threw up its head and kept it poised to make sure. It had caught the call., Grace, strhgth and unharnessed way ward leadership are there personified. Some such suggestion was ever in the carriage of Bob's shapely head and vigorous figure, and dull indeed would be the man or woman who failed to recognize the man's rare distinction and masterfulness Con tin ucd next week. Wi C. T. U. COLUMN. W. B. A. McNUTT, M. D. Offloe over Wood'i Drat BtoreJ Bwtldsnee fhon2. . J R B KIDD, AUCTIONEER. MONROE CITY, MO. 'Will conduct safes anywhere on reasonable terms. Satisfac tion guaranteed. x Through the courtesy of the Democrat this space is preserv ed for the W. C. T. U. It is edited by Ella L. Shearman, District Press Superintendent of the W. C. T. U., who is re sponsible for all statements which appear in this column. Our Watchwords; Organize, Educate, Agitate. OUR PRINCIPLES. Total abstinence, Prohibition of the liquor traffic, One stand ard of morals for men and wom en. The education of public sentiment for right. Let every member of the.W. C. T. 17. .meet promptly next Saturday at 3p- m. in the home of Mrs. J. G. Fuqua to arrange flowers to send on their mission of love. A few blossoms con tribute! by anyone desiring to help, will be appreciated and thankfully rect ived. ' : The Loyal Temperance Le gion will meet next Sunday m the Methodist church at the usual hour. The boy or girl having won the greatest num ber of rew members will at that time .receive the proposed rec ompense. Life insurance companies con tinue to discover the difference between drinkers and abstainers as risbs and official report showed a large per cent in favor of total abstinence policies. The various -fraternal orders are al so becoming anti-drink societies largely because ot the heavy in surance risks now known to be held in the moderate drinker Barring from their ranks drink ers and men connected with the liquor business in any way. The present Judge ot Indiana, in bis opinion upholding the mo tion to dismiss application for saloon licence on the ground that such license is unconstitu tioual gave this tribute to sci entitle temperance instruction "The legislature of the state of Indiana has recognized the evils, dangers and expense to the state that attends the use of intoxicat ing liquor and-has passed an net requiring 6cbool teachers of t he state to be prepared to teach the effect of intoxicating liquors upon the bumau. system, and they are paid at public expense to do so." "The State is rec. ognizing the. dangers and evils resulting from the liquor bust ness, or they would not pay men to teach the effects of its use.' Miss Lilly Meyer, of Quinty, spent Thursday in the city with her friends. Mr and Mr. C L Drencher. For a first class hair cut go toStrcan & Fisher's. . Mr. John Cherry and Miss Liaua Baskett were married at the home of the groom's sister at Jacksonville. III., last Tburs day at noon, Rev. Cressy. pas tor of the Presbyterian Church officiating. Paris (Mo.) Mercu ry. No doubt the next official an nouncement will be that a Bask ett of green Cherries have been received by the happy couple St. Joseph Observer. , ' ' Nail In Foot Frfday while at ,w.ork. in ttfi ouck room -at-Bricker & Spik r'ti, J. E. Spiken stepped upon i nail aud it punctured his foot deep enough to give him con iderab!e pain and trtuhle. Meriwether & Meriwether, Attorneys at Law Will practice In all courts. No tary Pubu in offloe. Dr. C. A. NOLAND, dentist. Monroe City, Missouri. Office over Turner Drug Store. Telephone 138, W. T. Rutledge, Dentist The saving of teeth aspeclalty. Office In Redman block, over Variety Store. Telephone 66. DR. U.S.SMITH. 109 S. Alain Hannibal, Ho. Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat R. S. IffcCLINTIO LAWYER Office over Monroe City Bank Monroe City Mo. DR J. L. SWEENEY Physician and Surgeon Office over Variety Store. Office phone, Buffum No. 220. Residence- phone, P. & M. No. 203. Dr. J. D. SCOBEE Osteopathic ' Physiciam Graduate of American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo All Acute and Chronic Diseases Treated Office in Proctor Building Phonss Office Buffum 141; Residence P & M 148 Consultation and examination free. Farmers and Merchants Bant Monroe City Mo Capital $25,000. Surplus $25,000. Officers: Wm R Yates, Pres H W Eiy, Vica-Pres TIT V T" T .1 . . I Directors: W R Yates W Ely F II Hagan W R P Jaokson John Shearman A Boulware R A Jackson W E Jones W W Longraire Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold. New business desired and unex celled Facilities offered. Drs. Hull & Ely PrsuitlftA limitari t.n nffinn nrintlra pnn. situation, acoiuent cases aud general, surgery. Oillce at Monroe Hospital. Both Phones Monroe City Missouri 7 N A & H C Drescher MONROE CITY, MO. LAND and IMMIGRATION AGENTS Merchandise, (JHy Property Improved and Unimproved Lands in Illinois, 'Iowa, Missouri and Texas Offloe over Boulsvare's Sboe Store Exchanges a Specialty W. T. YOUEI I Licensed Auctioneer MONROE CITY.MO Satisfaction Guaranteed, Head quarter at tho Democrat office.