THE DELUGE By DAVID GfiAHAM PifflUFS, Author of “TBFCQfZ&c outside office. I kept on toward n inner of-, nee. saying over my shoulder—to tee stenographer: "Don’t let anybody in terrupt me." Behind the closed and loyked door my body ventured to come to :ife again and my face to reflect as much as it could of the chaos that was heaving in me Like ten thousand - warring devils 4 Three =vonths before, in the same situation, _»y gambler s instinct would probably have helped me out. For 1 had not been gambling in the great American Monte Carlo all those years without getting used to the downs as well as tr> the ups. I had not—and nave no:—anything of the business man in my composition. To me. it was wholly finance, wholly a game, with excitement the chief factor ani the sure winning whether the little ball rolled my way or not. I was the financier, the gambler and adven turer ; and that had been my principal asset. For. the man who wins in the long run at any of the great frames of life—and they are all alike—is the man with the coo! head: and the only man whose head is cool is he who plays for the game's sake, not earing greatly whether he wins or loses on any one play, because he feels that if he wins to-day. he will lose to-mor row But now a new factor bad come into the game. I spread out the paper and stared at the headlines: "Black Matt To Wed Society Belle—The Bucket-Shop King Will Lead Anita Ki lersly To The Altar.” I tried to read the vulgar article under whose vulgar iines. but I could not. I was sick, sick in body and in mind My "nerve” was gone. I was no longer the free lance; I had responsibilities. That thought dragged another in its train, an ugly, grinning imp that leered a- me and sneered: "fit.: she won't have you now' “She will! She must:" I cried that ever wandered into Wall street: A dead one, no doubt; but IT. see to it that they don't enjoy my funeral." XVI. A GENTEEL “HOLD-UP.” In my childhood at home, my father i was often away for a week or longer. ■ working or looking for work. My mother had a notion that ;a boy should be punished only by his father; so. whenever she caught me in what she regarded as a serious transgression, she used to say: "Yon will get a good whipping for this, when your father comes home." At first I used to wait passively, suffering the torments oi ten thrashings before the "good whip ping" came to pass. Bnt soon my mind began to employ the Interval more profitably. I would scheme to escape* execution of sentence; and. though my mother was a determined • woman, many's the time I contrived to change her mind. I am not ecorn mending to parents the system of de lay in execution of sentence: but 1 must say tha* in my case it was re sponsible for an invaluable discite line. For example, the textile tangle. I knew I was in all human proba bility- doomed to go down before the stocs exchange had been open an hour the next morning. All textile stocks must start many points higher than they had been at the close, must go steadily and swiftly up. Entangled as my reserve resources were in the eoa! deal. 1 should have no chance to cover my shorts on any terms less than the loss of all I had. At most. I could hope only to save myselt from criminal bankruptcy. There was no signal of distress in my voice as I telephoned Corey, presi dent of the Interstate Trust company, to stay at his office until I came: there was no sisma! of distress in my man ner as I sallied forth anc! went down to the Power Trust building: nor did I show or suggest that I had heard the • shot-at-aunrise' sentence, as 1 strode into Roebuck's presence and greeted him. I was assuming, by way of precaution, tha- same rumor about “HE GREW WHITE, aloud, starting up. And then the storm burs:—I raged up and down the floor, shaking my clenched fists, gnashing my teeth, muttering all kinds of furious commands and threats—a truly ridiculous exhibition of impotent rage For through it all i saw clearly enough that she wouldn't have me. that all these people I'd been trying to climb up amonc wnuid kick loose my clinging hands and laugh as they watched me disappear. They who were none too gentle and slow in disengaging themselves from those of their own lifelong associates who had reverses of fortune—what consid eration couid "Black Mat*' expect from them'.’ And sht—the necessity and the ability to deceive myseif had gone now that I could not pay the purchase price for her. The full nid eousness of my bargain for her dropped its veil and stood naked be fore me. At iasi. disgusted and exhausted. 1 flung myself down again, and d imbly and helplessly inspected the ruins ot my projects—or, rather, the ruin ot the one project upon which t had my heart set. I had known 1 eared tor her, but it had seemed tc m* slit was simply on*- more, the latest, of the objects on which I was in the habit o? fixing my will from time to time to make the game more deeply interest ing. I dow saw that never bsfor-e had I really been in earnest altout. any thing, that on winning her 1 had staked myself, and that my seif was a wholly different jierson from what 1 had been imagining. In a word. I sat face to face with that unfathomable mystery of sex-affinity that every man laughs at and mocks another man for believing in. until he has himself felt it drawing him against will, against reason, and sense, and interest, over th* brink of destruction yawning be fore his eyes—drawing him as the magnet-mountain drew Sindbad and his ship. But—it is not in me to despair. There never yet was an impenetrable siege line; to escape, it is only neces sary by craft or by chance to hit upon the moment and the spot for tie sor tie. "Ruined!" I said aloud. "Trapped and trimmed like the stupidest itucker A SICKLY WHITE.” me either had reached him or would soon reach him. I knew he had an eye in every secret of finance and in dustry. and. while 1 believed my secret was wholly my own. I had too much at stake with him to bank on that, when I could, as I thought, so easily reassure him. 'T've come to suggest. Mr. Roe buck." said I. "that you ler my house —Blackloek and company—announce the coal reorganization plan It would give me a great lift, and Melville and his bank don't need prestige. My daily letters to the public on investments have, as you know, got me a big fol lowing that would help me make the flotation an even bigger success that: it's bcmri to be. no matter who an nounces it and invites subscriptions.” As I thus proposed that I be in a jiffy caught up from the extremely humble level of reputed bucket-shop dealer into the highest heaven of high finance, that I be made the official spokesman of the financial gods, his expression was so ludicrous that i al most lost my gravity. I suspect, for a moment he thought I had gone mad. His manner, when he recovered him 1 self sufficiently to speak, was cer tainly not unlike what it would have ^een had he found himself alone be fore a dangerous lunatic who was armed with a bomb. " You know how anxious I am to help you. to further your interests. Matthew.' said he wheedlingly. “1 know- no man who has a brighter fu ture. But—not so fast, not so fast, young man. Of course, you w-ill ap pear as one of the reorganizing com mittee-1—but we could not afford to have the announcement come tnrough any less strong and old established house than the National Industrial bank." • "At least, von can make me joint . announcer with them." I urged. "Perhaps — yes — possibly — well j see." said he soothingly. "There is plenty of time." "Plenty of time." I assented, as if quite content. "I only wanted to put the matter before you." And 1 arose to go. "Have you heard the news of textile common?" he asked. “Yes." said I carelessly. Then, all in an instant, a plan 'took shape in my mind "I own a good deal of the stock, and I must say. I don t lit* this raise." "Why?" he inquired. "Because I’m sure it's a stock-job bing scheme." replied 1 boldly. "1 know the dividend wasn’t earned. I don’t like that son of thing. Mr. Roe buck. Not because it’s unlawful—the laws are so clumsy that a practical man often must disregard them. But because it is tampering with the repu tation and the stability of a great en terprise for the sake of a few millions of dishonest profit. I'm surprised at Langdon.” "I hope you're wrong. Matthew. ’ was Roebuck's only comment. He questioned me no further, and I went away, confident that, when the crash came in the morning, if comes it must, there would be no more astonished man in Wall street than Henry J. Roe buck. How he must have laughed: or. rather, would have laughed, if his sort of human hyena expressed its emo tions in the human way. From him. straight to my lawyers. Whitehouse ez Fisher, in the Mills building. ”1 want you to send for the news pape- reporters at once.” said I to Fisher, "and tell them that in my be half you are going to apply for an in junction against the textile trust, for bidding them to take any further steps toward that increase of divi dend. Tel! them I. as a large stock holder. and representing a group of large stockholders, purpose to stop the paying of unearned dividends ” Fisher knew how closely connected ! mv house and the textile trust had been: bnt he showed, and probaoly felt no astonishment. He was too ex ■ perieneed in the ways of finance and financiers. It was a matter of in difference to him whether I was trying to assassinate my friend and ally, or was feinting at Langdon, to lure the public within reach so that we might, together, fall upon it and max# a battue. Not without some regret did I thus arrange to attack m;> friend in his ab | sence. "till," I reasoned, "his blun der in trusting some leaky person with his secret is the cause of my peril—ar.d I’ll not have to justify my self to him for Irvine to save myself.'’ What effect my injunction would have I couic nor foresee. Certainly it could not save me from the loss of my for tune: but. possibly, it might check the upward course of the stock long enough to enable me to snatch myself from ruin and to cling to firm ground until the coal deal drew me up to safety. My next call was at the Interstate Trust company. 1 found Corey wait ing for me in a most uneasy state of mind. "is there any truth in this story about you?" was the question he plumped at me i "What story?" said I. and a hard fight I had to keep my confusion and alarm from the surface. For. appar ently. my secret was out. "That you’re on the wrong side of the textile." So it was out! "Some truth." 1 ad mitted. since denial wouid have been useless here. ' And I’ve come to you for the money to tide me over." He grew white, a sickiy white, and into his eyes came a horrible, drown ing look. 'To be Continued.i -~n—nnmrrrn-Mji-Hj Believe or Noi Anyway, the Man Who Wrote the Story Says He Saw the Eggs. Colonel Adoniram Van Rensselaer. Mrs. Colonel Adoniram Van Rens sniaer and daughters:. Miss Angelina Clementina and Miss Dorothea Dul cinea o: Mocking Bird ranch. Screech Owl township, came to town in the cool of the morning in their forty horse power auto to do a little trad ing. the colonel and the Mrs. Colonel calling to see us. as everybody does. It seems that Miss Angelina Clemen tina's French maid has a g-ea' liking for poultry, and to piease her fancy the colonel imported a setting of high-priced French eggs In the poultry yard is a iov.. swamp? spot that seems to be the home of the firefly, or lightning bug. and one par ticular helpful hen stays out late of evenings to catch them. She gorges , herself on fireflies every evening, be j fore going to roost, and it was dis covered a few weeks ago that the eggs laid by this helpful hen are noc tnmally luminous, that each egg is of the brightness of an electric bulb of a thousand international ohms, or electro-magnetic units, and that by i coating them with as impervious preparation they retain their bril liancy for an indefinite period. So Miss Angelina and Miss Dorothea \9 As You Will i painted the eggs with all the colors ; of the rainbow—blue lights for the blue rooms, red for the red rooms. , white lights for the rooms done in ! white, green lights for the hay mow, i always observing the proper effects. The seventeen rooms of the home the barn and outbuildings are all bril iiantly lighted with these eggs, so the buildings, which occup.’ a prom inent tree-embowered and vine-en tangled bill, can be seen for miles We accompanied Colonel Van Rens '.eiaer to the city garage, where his forty-horse power auto was Each headlight of the machine carried an egs instead of a lamp. Taking one of the eggs into a dark room, the light thrown off from it was of the bright ness of the sun. and we were at once convinced of the truthfulness of the story .—T. B. Mnrdoek. Comparatively few people know that ringing a bell ruins it. That is. a beii has a definite length of life, and after so many blows w-ill break. A 900 pound bell, struck blows of 17* foot pounds of force, broke after 11, 0O0 blows A 4,000 pound bell brake after 18.000 blows of 350 foot pounds force A steel composition bell weighing 1,000 pounds broke after 24 j blows of 150 fwot pounds, but its maker said it was calculated for a [ tighter blow-. * j CALLS MEDICINE PODN SC!ENVL Prof. Schweninger, of Germany, At tacks Present Methods. Berlin.—Prof. Schweninger's new book entitled "The Doctor" will cre ate a tremendous sensation in medical circles. It is his revenge for 20 years 3f ostracisA by the faculty, which never has forgiven his intimacy with j Bismarck. The book embraces the entire duty | ~>i a physician to humanity, more es | pecially his patient. It is a terrible indictment of conventional method?. Schweninger scoffs at medical science, its empiricism, its working in the iark. its claim to the name of a ! science. The medical science of the l present will be ridiculed a hundred years hence, just as the science of the sighteenth century is ridiculed to-day. he says. The work of the physician, he holds is not science so much as art. Science is obscure, deceptive: art is reliable, naked, serene, true. The physicians of to-day make the transit of the pa tient from sickness to health bitter by their raw ignorance, their lack of tact, of art. They cloud over the transit from life to death. Schweninger attacks the system of giving medical men a university edu cation. They load themselves in uni versities with ballast of no earthly use. he asserts. They grow selfish, pragmatical and frigid. They think only of gain and learn where and how they can turn their so-called science to their own advantage or fame. BEER IN PLUGS HIS INVENTION. Kansas Man Discovers Way to Evade Prohibition Law. Topeka. Kan —Here is the real dope, fresh out of the dreambook The fondest hopes of the man who loves his pretzels and beer are being real ized. A Topeka man has discovered how to make and sell beer without coming into conflict with the prohibitory law. and also without having to pay a share of the profits to Uncle Sam's in I ternal revenue collectors This is the age of concentration and putting things into small packages. One can purchase a tin of beef broth for 15 cents that will feed a whole family for a week. But this extract of beer is the real thing. It is put up in plugs about the size of a dime's worth of chewing to bacco. It has a strong resemblance in looks to the aforesaid plug. One plug will make from four to six gallons of the finest beer ever turned out of a brewery. It can all be done at home—no middleman's profits, no trouble, no revenue stamps, no danger of having an ouster suit filed against your mayor. One gets as much refreshment as one pleases, and all in the home. No need to go to a "joint.” or drug store, or club, or to an express office. Just buy a package of concentrated extract of hops and malt, take it home, and make your own beer, five gallons of it —a whole keg of beer in one bunch as big as a cake of soap. LONG TRIP ON HORSEBACK. Man Wagers He Can Visit All State Capitals in Four Years. Washington.—William K. McBeth. who started from Scottdale. Pa., to ; visit all o! the state capitals of the United States on horseback, arrived in Washington the other day. His trip is the resni: of a wager of $20,000. McBeth is not allowed to buy or beg anything for the suste nance of himself or his mount, but mus- depend eutireiy for funds and , shelter upon the presentation of souve nir post cards which bear his picture and information concerning his trip. He is not allowed to offer them for sale, but may present them and re ceive in compensation whatever peo ple may care to give him. His average ride must be 28 miles each da3’. and should he for any rea : son fail to cover this distance, he must make it up the following day. as he has only four years in which to complete his trip. No consideration will be made for delays of any kind. Even should his horse become disabled or die McBeth must endeavor to fulfill his wager to the best of his ability, as no allowance whatever wili be made for him. When he called at the White House McBeth was dressed in a corduroy suit, trimmed with maroon applique, and was thought at first to be one of the president's many western friends. “Sock Shower" Shocks Benedict. St. Louis.—After friends had an nounced that a “sock shower’" was to he given in his honor as a testimonial to his marriage. C. J. Leach found the shower to be one pair of socks, worth about ten cents, and on which charges of one dollar were imposed. The result has been the immediate or ganization of a bachelors' clnb. The penalty for deserting this organiza tion will be a dinner, at which the de serter is to be the host. Clock Chases Burglar Away. Norristown, Pa.—An old fashioned hall clock at the residence of Frank Willis, in Norristown, prevented a rob bery. A burglar had gained an en trance to the house, and in the dark ness the man had accidentally stum bled against the clock, which fell to the floor with a loud crash. The noise awakened Mr. W illis. who made an in vestigation. He found that a burglar had gained an entrance by forcing open a window. A quantity of silver ware had been taken off the sideboard and had been placed in a bag ready to be carried away, but the thief fled when the clock fell down. Liturgical Irony. An old resident of Concord, Mass., twitted a physician of her acquaint ance on his limited practice. This spurred the doctor up a little and brought this reply: “The druggists think differently, for 1 send so many prescriptions that "the glorious company of me apothecaries' praise me.” “Ah.” answered the lady, “but what say the noble aimy of martyrs, your patients T* View Inside a Snbnarine. Overhead is the commanding officer's platform, and tne steering-wneel. To the rignt is the inside tilierwheei and below it tne driving-wneel to deflect the rudders. In the middle background is the flywheel, and behind it are tne submarine’s engines. On the left is the indicator which shows the depth beneath tne surface and the vessel’s deflection from the horizontal. The ques tion of escaoe from sunken submarines is seriously engaging the attention of engineers, and also that of communication with the surface. The presence of a disabled boat can be revealed by the detachable buoy connected with the vessei by a reel of wire. It also establishes telephone connection. This ap paratus is new being fitted to the U. S. submarine plunger. FIRST IN ART OF OLD. CHICAGO LEADS WORLD IN MAK ING OF ART GLASS. Stained Glass Windows Made There Decorate Churches in Every Land on Earth—Baffling Problem Solved by Workmen. Chicago.—Chicago has robbed Eu ; rope of a distinction of which it was proud. Italy. France, and Austria have been outdone in an art in which they have for centuries been supreme. Chicago now leads the world in the designing and making of art glass and I stained windows. The city may be scorned as inartistic and commercial, but the workers in coloring and lead ed glass have advanced far beyond their fellow craftsmen in other coun tries. and particularly is this true of the men who design stained glass win dows. More than a score of firms here are engaged in the manufacture of art glass, and their product is now mode widely known that that of any I other city or country. There are hundreds of permanent proofs of Chicago's artistic supremacy ! in the making of stained-glass win dows. There are manufacturers here who can point to their office walls hung with photographs of buildings in far off countries, the windows for each one of which were designed and made in this city. It is indeed an un civilized snot, one not blessed with churches, where Chicago windows are net prominent. South Africa has Chi cago windows in a Capettown church; Melbourne, Australia has several, j there are two in the City of Mexico, and a number are scattered through Japan. In Russia Vladivostok a great theater has Chicago windows of bril I liant colors and intricate design, and | Quite recently came an order from Germany for a large number of leaded panels to be used in the palace of the emneror. Italy and Rome itself have examples of this city's art. and many of the old world cathedrals, as re pairs become necessary, order copies ! of the original windows from Chicago. An order just given to a Chicago company adds one more proof to the city's supremacy in glass work It calls tor three immense triple win dows. representing religious subjects, to be placed in the Central Methodist Episcopal church of the Philippine islands, at Manila. Rev. Homer C. Stuntz. D D.. superintendent of the Philippine islands mission conference, who brought the order to this city, will have some original ideas em bodied in the designs, for. while neither the subjects nor their tech nical handling will be different from other ecclesiastical windows, the color scheme is unique. As a general thing church windows are made of colors that add warmth to the interior. Red and yellow tones predominate, and are softened with broken browns and greens. w*hile ev ery cold color is eliminated. For Ma nila the idea is entirely different There the tropical sunligh- is dazzi ing: its brilliance pains the eyes and wearies the brain. To offset the pain fully brilliant colors of the landscape and to give the interior of the new church an appearance of cool restful ness. the windows recently ordered will be done in thick, dark opalescent glass that will shut out the glaring sunlight and. with cold greens and blues and purples, give relief and rest to the senses But Chicago's supremacy in window making does not depend on widely scattered orders from foreign cities: it is firmly fixed by the originality and skill of the a’-tisans. A Chicago man first conceived the idea of lead ing together beveled plate glass and of using it combined with the stained glass. And it was a Chicago factory that solved the problem that has baf fled glass workers for more than five centuries, the problem of finding a method to join pieces of glass with hard metals, such as brass, copper and zinc, in place of the soft lead that has been used so long and which is so flexible that the patterns must be marred by heavy rods to stiffen the windows and prevent bending. INDIANS ARE DYING OF GRIEF. Creeks Cannot Adapt Themselves to New Government. Kansas City, Mo.—Pleasant Porter, chief of the Creeks, states that many of his people died during the last year, and that a great many of these deaths are due to discouragement on account of a change of government, change of conditions and environment to which the Creeks cannot become adapted. This remarkable statement i is contained in the annual message of the Creek chief to the council, which is in session here. The words of the ! chief are: “I regret to state that a large num ber of our people have died during the last year. From my observation, the cause of many deaths has been discouragement. They had lived their entire lives under a different system of government, and had had the use of their lands in common. The change has had a decided effect upon the older people, and the change of methods under which they have been accustomed to live seemed to be a source of discouragement and was a potent factor in causing their deaths. "The younger class of our people seem to be more in harmony with present conditions, and the change has had a great efTect in deciding their higher aspirations, thus better ing their condition, especially those of our people who have been to school. I notice that the children of our younger women who have been to school are doing better in meeting the new conditions than others of onr people." Monkeys an Aid to Science. Discovery Made That Temblekan la Antidote ‘-or Strychnine. Amsterdam.—"The Dutch colonial pa pers report a remarkable case of ani mal instinct. The people of the ril , ;agc- of Negowo. in the Javanese prov ince of Salatiga. suffered by the rav ages of an immense horde of gray monkeys which destroyed the planta 1 tkms. The Dutch subgovernor recom mended that they try strychnine, and , the favorite fruits of the monkeys ac cordingly were collected in qnanti ties. heavily dosed with strychnine, and deposited in a wood. The monkeys ate freely and many I were violently ill, but none died. It was then discovered that the monkeys, when they felt the effects of the poi son. went in search of and ate tem blekan leaves, a certain weed which grows profusely in the archipelago It was also found that the animals too 111 to seek the weed themselves had it brought to them by their leas ; suffering fellows. The Batavian authorities now are conducting a series of experiments : with the view of asce-taining the true curative qualities of tembiekan. A Turkey Shoemaker. “Well." remarked Archie, as he came in from the farmyard, "you folks i won’t have to eat imrefq|t turkeys | this year." “What do you mean?" asked his mother. The budding humorist grinned gen erousiy. “I just jhoo'd them." he replied.— Judge. Four Better. “My mother wears a No. 2 shoe." said the first little girl, proudly. •Pooh’" rejoined the other littl* I girl, in a tone redolent with contempt. "That’s nothing. My mother wear* a No.