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CHAPTER XX Continued
You remember that I was speaking
of tho remarkable success of a west-
ern man named Blake Well here is
a letter from him This is what he
writes
New Yorlr June 2
Dear Sir 1 am informed that you
hold an equity in ten thousand shares
of the L o railroad company I
have customers who are interested in
this property and represent them in
negotiations now pending It is pos
sible your interests may be conserv
ed by conferring with me on this
matter I shall be pleased to meet
you at your earliest convenience To
a gentleman of your experience an in
junction to secrecy is unnecessary
Awaiting the pleasure of a confer
ence in my office and trusting that it
may result to our mutual advantage
1 remain
Very truly yours
JAMES BLAKE
President James Blake Co
That is odd isnt it said Jessie
The generals face glowed with pleas
iire Bo you own ten thousand shares
of stock in a railroad papa
I own an equity in that amount of
slock in an alleged railroad he said
with a grim smile An equity is some
thing yoa think you own and hope to
realize on but do not expect to Do
not bother your head about it pet
From whom is your letter
From Mr Morris He wishes to
call some evening this week
Ah am m The general cleared
his throat and appeared to be concern
ed only indirectly Suppose you in
vite Mr Morris to take dinner with
lis Wednesday evening
I have no engagement for Wednes
day evening said Jessie carelessly
I will write and ask him to call at
that time
I have not told you of the change
in Mr Morriss affairs said General
S2ET SjlOXcTiVD
CHAPTER XXI
Breaking Old Ties
On the Thursday afternoon follow
ing his interview wih General Car
den Blake strolled into his favorite
club He was chatting with Kingsley
when Arthur Morris arrived and at
the first opportunity led Blake to a
secluded corner
Padon me old chap I dont often
talk business after hours apologized
Morris you will excuse me for men
tioning a little stock matter wont
you
Certainly Morris Whats up
Morris looked cautiously around
and dropped his voice to a whisper
Once in a while I get hold of a good
thing and Ive got one now he be
gan Theres going to be a boom in
L O
Yes What makes you think so
Morris
Cawnt go into explanations old
chap but you buy a little L O
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vanco you the money to exercise your
option on the condition that you do
so when it drops to 26 You will de
posit the stock with me and place it
in a pool to be handled at my discre
tion As an evidence of my good
faith I now offer you 35 for your stock
eight points more than the market
price After meeting the Morris
claim this will leave you a balance of
100000
General Carden looked into the
handsome face of the young man who
calmly made this proposition For
some moments he was silent but the
old hopes awoke and the courage of
youth came back
I will follow your advice Mr
Blake he sSid firmly My one am
bition is to insure the happiness of
my daughter You must be sure of
your ground and I am content to rely
on your judgment I therefore ac
cept your original offer Mr Blake
and will sign an agreement to that
effect
Blake called a legal subordinate
and in General Cardens presence dic
tated the terms of the contract
duplicate copies of which were signed
and witnessed
I should be pleased and honored
said General Carden as he arose to
go to have you accept the humble
hospitality of my temporary home
If you have no other engagement dine
with us on Thursday evening
I have none and shall do myself
that pleasure Until then adieu Gen
eral Carden
James Blake shook hands with the
general and turned and entered John
Burts private office
Its all right John he exclaimed
with the enthusiasm of a boy You
couldnt have managed it better your
self I have his option and a contract
which gives us absolute control Hes
a dignified and at times a crusty old
gentleman but he stood in proper
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Carden with some eagerness nor
Lave I mentioned my good fortune in
consequence of that change
And your good fortune is what
papa asked Jessie without lifting
3ier eyes
A much more important position
lias been awarded to me with a cor
responding increase in emolument
replied General Carden with more of
dignity than of pride Jessie threw
3ier arms around her fathers neck
and spoke tender words of congratula
tion
We will talk no more of money
and other gloomy things she de
clared with a laugh which brought the
roses to her cheeks I am going to
play for you
listen to this papa She ran her
fingers over the keys of the piano
The liquid notes swelled into the in
toxicating melody of a gypsy dance
and quivered with the trilling of birds
among the trees For half an hour
Jessie played Then she began a spir
ited recital of her exeriences abroad
She mimicked the staid old German
professors and the general laughed
until the tears coursed down his
cheeks
General Carden made an early ap
pointment witlr James Blake and was
promptly admitted to the private of
fice of the famous operator
If you have no objection general
said James Blake after the usual com
monplace remarks which preface busi
ness transactions explain the exact
status of this block of L O stock
There is no secret about it re
plied the former banker A number
of years ago I became convinced that
the L O railroad had a brilliant
future I purchased fifteen thousand
shares on speculation Then the panic
swept the country Not dreaming that
my bank would be involved I decided
to protect my L O stock and ac
cordingly bought it in at pay
ing thC sum of 3500000 in cash Then
the crash came and my bank wet
under with the others Randolph Mor
ris was my principal creditor Mr
Arthur Morris consented as a per
sonal favor to lend me two hundred
thousand dollars on the stock In
terest and other charges have since
accumulated until Mr Morris has now
a claim of 24S000 against the stock
At what price does Mr Morris pro
pose to sacrifice the stock asked
Blake
At twenty six
James Blake made a rapid calcula
tion on a writing pad
I have a proposition to make you
General Carden he said I will ad-
awe of the famous firm of James
Blake Company
Did General Carden say anything
about his daughter asked John
with anxious eagerness Has she re
turned from Europe
I think the fair Jessie is in New
York at this very moment said
Blake smiling as he noted the flash
of joy in the others eyes Im not
supposed to know that he has a
daughter and you cautioned me to
be very careful to say nothing which
might arouse his suspicions But he
invited me to dine with him at the
Bisnop residence on Thursday even
ing
Of course you accepted Jim
I should say I did laughed Blake
How would you like to take my
place John
Very much Jim There was a
wistful far away expression in the
deep gray eyes I must wait a time
yet not long I hope
Never mind old man said Blake
heartily I hope you may live to dine
with her a million times and that in
future years an old chap named Elake
may occasionally be permitted to
have a seat at the table and that he
may be surrounded by a new and in
creasing generation of sturdy young
John Burts and fair and radiant littie
Jessie Burts
Thank you Jim returned John
Burt his expressive face aglow with
pleasure When that happy day
comes you must bring Mrs Blake and
the children with you
a jump of eight or ten points Take
my word for itoldchap
Much obliged to you Morris
-Blake took out his memorandum book
and carefully made a note of tho prof
fered advice I imagine youve got
control of the stock You neednt tell
me old man Ill do my own guess
ing We Yankees are great on guess
ing
Blake ordered his coachman to
drive to the Bishop residence He
lay back on the cushioned seat and
laughed softly To think that such a
hound is engaged to Jessie Carden I
fear Miss Carden is too fond of
money Well moneys a good thing
but if I were a woman I wouldnt
marry Morris if he had a billion And
Johns got enough to buy and sell
him
The carriage drew up at the Bishop
residence General Carden greeted
Blake in the drawing room It was
restful to contemplate this abode to
breathe the air of domestic luxury
and to contrast it with the frigid ele
gance of the bachelor apartments
where his recent years had been
spent Blakes eyes wandered along
the walls until they rested on a por
trait that of Jessie Carden He paus
ed in the middle of a sentence his
eyes riveted on the canvas
A portrait of my daughter Jessie
one of Steinbachs best productions
exclaimed General Carden with fath
erly pride mistaking Blakes amaze
ment for polite admiration She
returned from abroad only a few days
ago Ah here she comes now
As he spoke Blake heard the faint
rustle of silk and the music of laugh-
ing voices The portieres parted and
Mrs Bishop entered with Jessie and
her cousin Edith Hancock With
old school dignity General Carden pre
sented James Blake
There is born in every mans brain
the imaga of an ideal woman the
ignis fatuus of fancy hovering above
the swamps of realism James
Blakes ideal was dethroned the mo
ment he looked into Jessie Cardens
eyes he felt the mysterious thrill of
her presence
After a delightful hour spent over
dinner during which Blake was in
lively humor the young ladies left
the general and his guest to the en
joyment of cigars For the first time
in his life Blake would willingly have
sacrificed the soothing delights of the
weed He was glad when his host
gave the signal and conducted him
to the drawing room where they found
Jessie and Edith awaiting them
At the generals request Jessie
played several of his favorite selec
tions Edith standing by her side and
deftly turning the music pages foi
her Then they sang a duet a Ger
man folk song Jessies voice was a
pure contralto tender rich and won
derfully expressive in its timbre
Blake was passionately fond of music
and though he had been given little
opportunity to cultivate his decided
natural talents was nevertheless an
excellent singer and a capable critic
That was grand he exclaimed
his handsome face aglow with ad
miration of the music I have never
heard Wanderers Nachtleid rendered
more exquisitely Please favor me
with Der Tannenbaum will you
Willingly said Jessie as Edith
smiled her assent But Der Tannen
baum is much more effective with a
tenor part You sing do you not Mr
Blake Something tells me you do
Im sure Mr Blake sings assert
ed Edith Come Mr Blake the gen
eral shall be our audience
I have been charged with singing
but never by such fair accusers
laughed Blake stepping forward I
trust the general will not mete out a
punishment to fit the crime Sing the
English translation and I will do my
best to carry a part
Blake acquitted himself famously
In San Francisco clubs and social
circles his clear strong voice had add
ed to his popularity but never did he
sing s6 well as on that night standing
by Jessie Cardens side
To be continued
Locating the Blame
An amateur actor who has a pro
found faith in the efficacy of advertis
ing was complaining after the enter
tainment to the chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements
Who got up the programmes
asked the young man
I did replied the chairman I
suppose you think that your part ol
the performance was not given suffi
cient prominence
I dont see that you ought to say
anything about the way in which we
called attention to you The audience
didnt seem to know you were there
On the contrary a number of my
friends told me I was first rate espe
cially when I sang that comic song
I didnt hear anybody laughing
Of course not And thats where
I say you are to blame How could
you expect them to laugh You didnt
state in the programme that it was a
comic song
The Limit Reached
Dr W H Tolman director of the
American Institute of Social Science
told the following story the other day
as an unconscious illustration of tks
prevailing sentiment in regard to the
race suicide problem
A family of my acquaintance has
a certain pewter cup which has been
the property of five children in suc
cession at the period when they first
begin to use cups The other day
one of the older children a small boy
was discussing the propriety of be
stowing the cup upon some poor
child His little sister remarked
Why no well keen it for the next
baby
Well said the brother I shd
think God would have sense enough
to know that five babies in one
When it drops below 26 it will take Hy was enough New York Times
IS A CLOSED DOOK
CANADAS ATTITUDE UNFAVOR
ABLE TO RECIPROCITY
Stringent Measures Adopted by the
Dominion Government for the Pur
pose of Restricting the Import of
Manufactures from the United
States
Canadas unwillingness to serve as
a dumping ground for the surplus
manufactures of the United States has
been repeatedly urged by the Ameri
can Economist as fatal to the hopes
and purposes of those who yearn for
free trade between the Dominion and
the Republic Time and again we
have endeavored to make clear the
futility of such a project because of
Canadas determination to build up
her own industries and not to insure
their destruction How accurately the
Canadian attitude toward reciprocity
in manufactured products has been
estimated by the Economist is now
demonstrated by an official notifica
tion to the effect that Canada will re
fuse to submit longer to the dump
ing process In the New York Jour
nal of Commerce of Juno 10 is printed
a dispatch from Ottawa in which it is
stated that the announcement by
Mr Fielding the Minister of Finance
in his budget speech of the intention
of the government to place a counter
vailing duty on goods sold in the
United States and incidentally other
countries for export has attracted
general discussion and enthusiasm in
industrial circles throughout the Do
minion Canadian industrial circles
have for years been complaining of
the competition they have been com
pelled to meet in the way of foreign
surplus goods for which Crfnada
has become a veritable dumping
ground The countervailing duties
are designed to end this by adding an
amount equal to the difference be
tween the invoiced price and the real
value of to 50 per cent of the duty
in general lines and 15 per cent in
the iron and steel items
The Canadian plan is to meet cut
prices by the imposition of additional
tariff duties Under this plan it will
be no longer possible for American
producers to sell in Canada cheaper
than they sell to American consumers
Plainly Minister Fielding avows the
stalwart protectionist doctrine that
control of the home market for the
home producer is of greater import
ance than cheapness Evidently he be
lieves that in the long run nothing is
cheap which is purchased abroad
when it might have been produced at
home Unequivocally he declares that
cheapness may and probably will
prove to be at best but temporary
while in the end it turns out to be
costly and injurious On this point
the Canadian finance minister said in
his budget speech
We find to day that the high tariff
countries have adopted that method
of trade which has now come to be
known as slaughtering or perhaps
the word more frequently known now
is dumping That is to say that the
trust or combine having obtained
command and control of its own mar
ket and finding that it will have a
surplus of goods gets out to obtain
command of the neighboring market
and for the purpose of obtaining con
trol of a neighboring market will put
with regard to the cost or fair price
aside all reasonable considerations
of the goods the only principle is that
the goods must be sold and the mar
ket obtained
If those trusts and combines in the
high tariff countries would come un
der obligations with sufficient bonds
to supply us with these goods at low
est prices for the next fifty years it
would probably be the part of wisdom
for us to close up some of our indus
tries and turn our people to other
branches But surely none of us im
agines that when these high tariff
trusts and combines send goods into
Canada at sacrifice prices they do so
for any benevolent purpose They
are not worrying about the good peo
ple of Canada They send the goods
here with the hope and the expecta
tion that they will crush out the na
tive Canadian industries and then
with the Canadian industry crushed
out what would happen The end of
cheapness would come and the begin
ning of dearness would be at hand
Artificial cheapness obtained to day
under such conditions at the expense
of dearness at a very near day is not
a system that we could approve or
that any of us on either side of the
House should encourage
Completer coincidence with the pro
tectionist claim that only through the
upbuilding of home industry can per
manent economy be secured com
pleter condemnation of the free trade
sophism that it pays best to buy in
the cheapest market could not be put
in words than has been done in this
practical statement of the value of
domestic competition Minister Field
ing is a protectionist from the ground
up from top to bottom
In this program there is no hint of
a disposition on the part of Canada
to invite a larger volume of manufac
tured imports On the contrary Can
ada proposes to take less and less of
such imports Canada intends to do
more of her own work American
Economist
Why They Wece Necessary
There is one thing regarding tlese
bond issues that Mr Cleveland does
not explain and that is why they were
made necessary He does indeed say
popular distrust was a perplexing
and dangerous element in the situa
tion but what had caused this popu
lar distrust A critical examination
of all the events that preceded Mr
Clevelands administration makes it
quite clear that the great event that
caused popular distrust was tho
election of Mr Cleveland himself Ho
went into office with tho avowed pur
pose of breaking down the protection
policy of the country All business
men knew this meant dealing a dead
ly blow at a large proportion of tho
manufacturing industries of the coun
try Business men distrusted one an
other and bankers distrusted them all
New enterprises were at onco stop
ped old ones curtailed and everybody
lan for shelter All this destroyed the
confidence of every one in every one
else and lastly it destroyed the con
fidence of the public in tho United
States treasury itself These are the
facts that led to the condition Mr
Cleveland described and made his
frequent bond issues necessary In
short the chief cause of the calamity
was the presence in the White House
of Mr Cleveland as the champion
of a dangerous economic policy Gun
tons Magazine
STAND PAT
How Mark Hanna Made Good Use of
the Famous Expression
The origin of the expression stand
pat is thus related by the Jackson
ville Times Unian the leading Demo
cratic newspaper of Florida
When Hanna tho stout hearted
was approached by a number of re
formers who all agreed that the tariff
must be reformed he waited till each
had spoken and then called for his
stenographer Now gentlemen said
he give us the items Thereupon
there was discord dire for no two
among them could agree on the sched
ule The Senator listened until the
futility of their arguments was fully
apparent and again spoke We cant
revise without cutting out somebody
and nobody consents to be cut I tell
you what I will do lets stand pat
Whether or not the incident Is ac
curately described in detail does not
matter much The fact remains that
the stout hearted Hanna the big
brained the level headed Hanna did
the Republican party and the country
a great service when he applied to
the question of tariff tinkering that
now celebrated phrase Brought face
to face with the practical proposition
Give us the items the reformers
weakened They could not give the
items No man living can give them
The late Thomas B Reed wittily re
marked that tariff making and tariff
revising are very easy things in
the mind Not so however when it
comes to framing and adopting tariff
schedules on the floor of Congress
Then and there it is that you must
give us the items Giving the items
in a tariff bill is no mere childs play
The reformers could not give the
items to Senator Hanna they could
only fuss and fret and find fault
That was why the big man said to
them Lets stand pat It was
good advice then It is good advice
now
Roosevelt and Fairbanks
The national conventions choice of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks is but the
formal record of the choice already
made by the rank and file of the Re
publican party
Theodore Roosevelt the faithful
heir of William McKinley stands for
national self respect peace and pros
perity He is of himself the type of
achieving American manhood His
nomination has been all but sure ever
since the Republicans of Illinois de
clared him their choice for 1904 He is
nominated not only for what he has
done as president but also for what
he is as an American man
Charles Warren Fairbanks was de
cisively indicated for the vice presiden
tial nomination by his character and
record and by the logic of the
iiliuui oiiuauuii irie nas wen deserv
ed the honor both as a vital Republi
can force in a pivotal state and be
cause of the confidence that he in
spires in men of business affairs
throughout the nation He strength
ens the president where the president
needs strength
With such candidates the Republi
can party has nothing to explain or
excuse in behalf of its chosen leaders
The personalities of both are well
known throughout the nation They
do not have to be interpreted br
others or be taken upon the assur
ances of any one They speak for
themselves and in no uncertain tone
With such leaders standing for
policies Republican and national in
eery respect the Republican party
deserves success It has earned it
Chicago Inter Ocean
Always Hostile to Protection
We have had since 1872 seven dif
ferent Democratic tariff policies The
party has been always at heart an
tagonistic to protection but never has
had save in 1892 the courage to de
nounce openly the protective policy of
the Republican party clearly and cat
egorically
We may look this year for a declara
tion of some kind hostile to the fiscal
policy which has made America pros
perous It may be couched in terms
of concern for the American work
man But the latter is not to be de
ceived by empty professions from the
enemies of the nations sound tariff
policy and of his own prosperity Un
der Republican protective policy the
average income ct the American
workmans family is 82719 of which
32690 is expended for food the av
erage size of the family being 531
persons The average annual income
or the British workman under a free
trade tariff is 250 of which less than
25 per cent goes for food
Let the d o p resolve and view
with alarm as it may at St Louis in
1904 the American masses will vcte
for a continuance of the policy which
has made this country the most pro
gressive and prosperous on earth
Louisville Herald
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Far Sighted
Know young Fillers the dentist
Hes going to elope with Mlas Tra
vers
The deuce When
In a few weeks
In a tew weeks Why doesnt ho
take her now
Well you see he is doing a little
expensive work on her teeth and he
wants to collect tho bill from her fa
ther first Kansas City Journal
Easy to Believe
He has seen better days
Nothing New to Her
Mrs Upjohn just back from foreign
tour But I was going to tell yen
about the scarabaeaus I got in Egypt
Mrs Gaswell Oh I used to be trou
bled with that when we lived in Penn
sylvania Quinine will knock it out
every time
Soft Answer Just in Time
Mrs F petulantly You never
kiss me now
Mr F The idea of a woman of
your ago wanting to be kissed One
would think you were a girl of 18
Mrs F What do you know about
girls of 18
Mr F Why my dear werent you
IS once yourself Stray Stories
Choice Selection
I learn that the Van Ruxtons allow
their chickens to diet on their neigh
bors flowers Do they keep it a se
cret
Well I should think not If you
dine with them the suave Mr Van
Ruxton will ask if you prefer violet fed
fowl or chicken de roses
Matrimonial Joys
Wife L met Mr Meeker this morn
ing You remember he was your rival
for my hand
Husband Yes I hate that man
Wife But you shouldnt hate him
just because he used to admire me
Husband Oh that isnt the reason
I hate him because he didnt marry
you
Another Fish Story
So you were out in St Louis said
the postmaster Did you see the big
pike
To be sure drawled the village
fabricator then after a pause but it
wasnt one inch bigger than the pike I
caught in Hurlys mill pond last sum
mer
The Flight of Time
The governss had been reading the
story of the discovery of America to
her 4 year old charge Closing the
book she said Just think Mabel all
this happened more than 400 vears
ago
Gwacious exclaimed the little
miss aintt it spwizin how time do
fly
Retaining the Valuables
A Is it true that your cashier has
eloped with your daughter and a large
sum of money
B It is quite true but he is an
honest fellow and means to repay me
He has already returned me my
daughter
Yea Verily
Many a man remarked the phil
osopher who travels on the right
rowl manages to reach the wrong
destination
Hows that queried thee man
They are headed the wrong way
explained the philosophy dispenser
Critical Judciment
jrjl
Was the pianist really good
Oh yes indeed His hair was
nearly a foot long
Proper Definition
Little Willie Say pa what is the
meaning of premonition
Pa Its something that ails peoplg
i who say 1 told you so my son