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JOHN W. GATES IN
MANY \ 111 YS TRUE
TY'PE OF AMERICAN
A FcVl of thc Striking Episodc3 in lhe Lifc of the Grent
Plunger Who Has Raked In Some of the Biggent Jack.
pots Known to the Wor1d of High Finance-Has Had
Many Year : ; of Unvarying Success.
Now York.-John W. Gates , the
meal IIIctllro5qll0 plulIer ! who ever
rose to fame fH1I1 fortllno In Wall
Btreot , haa Icased a grout hllntln ! ; pre.
Borvo In Prance , nnd Is wllllllng up the
bllslncss of his "Hollso ot 'rwolvo
Partnors. " 'lIo 113 thrOIlh [ with Wall
atred , wrltos I.'rank 11'nymnt In the
' 1'llIIca. WIHm 11. marl < ol operator ot
his lro ) lneaco qllits the slleclllntlvo
game In : mediately aHer n dl LBtrollB
panic In the llIurket It la bllt no.tural
for the grssills of the street to oa :
" 'l'l1oy'\'o , ol him at last. " Ever since
Oates began Hwlnglng big lines ot
stocle In hllll marlwts and runnlnr.
nfolll of mon of great power In Wall
atreot the 110nlzons of the street have
nhook their heads wlnoly ILnd said :
" ' 1'hoy'll got him lIome duy. " Durin ! ;
the panlcley da's of March , when the
rumor mongers were tolln ) ; ot the
11ugo losses 1111In [ ; up against wenlthy
operators , they were sure that the
"Honso of ' 1'wolvo Partnors" was In
lIeell walor. And now thnt the fnntous
houRo , that In big marlcots has carried
nt tlmen $126,000,000 worth ot stock
on mnrgln , Is going out ot business , !
the I'umor mongol's are aaylng : "I I
told ) 'oU so , "
Dut .John W. only smllcs and saYR :
"I wlah they were aU as comfortably
fixerl 118 I am. " Ills friends say that
ho began trimming hla salla last winter -
tor , when stocles were soiling nt 'sky
Ilrlcos , and that when the , storm broleo
in I\ arch ho had nil his roofa In.
'l'hoy say thl\t ho actlUllly bought
atocks lIming the panicky aya of
March , and that banks were cal'ryhll ;
millions of dollars of free' cRsh for
hlll1 whcl1 IJOIIIO "ory wealthy men
. were lying nwako nights wondorlng
how they woultI make tholr bal'k bal-
nnces good the next ay. lIis frlenda
thlnl , that he is worth nt least $25,000-
000 , and perhaps 1\ good deal more.
So John W. Isn't exactly broko.
Barbed Wire the Beginning.
It was in barbed wlro that Gates began -
gan to build his tortuno. Gates was
n poor farmor's hey out west. His
first business venture was ontractlng
to husk nolghbor's corn. From the
money ho saved out ot this work ho
made his first spoculatlon. Ho bought
n third interest In a threshing machine -
chino that came rattling a ross the
prD-lrlo after the harvcst. The old
, Jarmers shoole tholr heads at this , for
It was IJ. tral1lt1oy tho.t the threshing
machlno nllLll usually came to financial -
cialI'ler. / . Dut it was a year of bump.
er crops , and threshing proved so
vrofitnblo that before the wlntor came
Moa came to him that Ir the farmer
would Roll him the tlmbor rights ho
could fell the hard wood and cut It np
into fireweed to soli to the neighboring
villages. ' } 'ho hey went homo atter a
tallO mcaSIll'O , Impor and poncll , and
then lJUce ) to the woorls "tlmbor.loole.
Ing. " Oolng about the woods , solect-
lug Arnall arens , counting UIO hard.
wooda atlll measuring thelll , ho lot an
idea of the density ot the forest. 110
sat down on a stump , and by dint or
figuring ho made a rongh estlmato of
the number ot cords oC flrowootI an
acre would ylohl. 'rhen ho went to
the owner to make a bargain. 110
made an error for all the tlmbor ,
agroolnF ; to pay for It as money came
In from his sales of firewood.
"I haven't any money , " the boy told
the farmer , "but you can have my
threshing machine as sccurlty. "
"Go ahead , Johnny ; your word is ail !
gootI us a government bond. "
Gates as a Woodcutter.
.All through the win tor the lad was
out In the wood lot before daybreak ,
worltlng with a wOOllchoppor ho hlrod
to help him. 'rho grcat ftrees were
fol1od , sawed into short lengths , ancI
SIII1t Into firowood. Young Gates de.
livered two loads of wood a dllY by
sled to the 11clghborlng v1llagcs , Before -
fore the snow WIlS off the ground the
wood : ' ! had been cleared , the owner
had been paid in full , and the boy had
$1,000 in the bank , Ho took this
money and opened n hardware sh011
at the nolghborlng railway junction ,
110 [ 10111 the humors tholr implements
and machhwr } ' . Ono commodity that
had a largo sale wall the newly Invented -
vented barbed wire. The lIttio hardware -
ware shop at the junction prospered ,
but Gates wanted to do something big.
gel' . Ho saw Ulat there was money
In barbed wlro , and so he sold out his
business and went to see the man , in
an Illinois town , froDl whom ho had
been buying his wlr .
This was Col. Isaac Elwood , a pion-
eoI' In the buslnoss , 110 Tias 110t looking -
ing for partnera , but ho gave the
bright young country shopleoopor a
job as traveling man tor the can.
cern. Gates traveled back and forth
through the wheat belt soiling barbed
wire , and made 11. reputation as one ot
t110 best "d ummerB" on the road.
Dut ho wasn't content with his "drum.
mor's" commissions. Ho wanted to
dlvldo the manufacturing profits with
Col. Ellwood , TllO manufactUreI'
couldn't see It that war : , and so Gates. .
put up a barbed wire mill of his '
His ] mowledgo of the trade own'j
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to buyout his two partners. At one. .
Df the tarms where Ul0 lad had I
threshed whea.t he feU lu 101'6 with. . .
'farmer's rosy.cheeked d mghter.
This gave him an Incentive to & ; 0
ahead and make a tortune.
A farming community away from
the rallways docs not present many
golden opportunitIes to 111S.yoar.od \ ]
boy. Near the farm was a strip ot
woodland wHore Gates s11et partridges -
tridges aud squirrels. Tramping along
a Coot-path In the wood one day U10
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asset , and he soon became a dangerous -
ous rival of Col Ellwood. The colonel
brought an action tor Intringement at
patent rights and a blUer fight was
the rosult. But Gatea hung right on.
CoI. Enwood finaUy had to make pea co
with him. The two became buslneas
partners and ha1'o been closely aUBO'
clated In big enterprises ever since.
Other bnrbed wire mills bo an to
spring Ull , and Gates flaw that there
would be disastrous trade war it
the rivals were not corrallod. Ho wont
around the country buying thom up
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nn(1 formed a barhed wire trullL 'rhifl
wnll the nucleuR of tilO $ ! JOOOOOGi >
AmC'rlcn.n SteC'1 & Wire camp/my , now
n part of the Btool corpor:1tiou. 'rho
l1r5t hlg flotation englnoored by Gates
'ras the Fedeml Steel , n $100,000,000' '
corporation. ' 1'hnt was In Soptctmbcr , I
1898 , at the beglnulnf : oC the grent
IItC'Cl hoom tQllowing the Spanish.
Amerlc n war. lIe followed that with
the American Steel & Wire , with $90-
000,000 capital , fOllr months Intor. 'rhe
manner In which Gates and l lIwood
broulht ; out thl company is characterIstic -
Istic of the man. On n. tolopllono call
trom PJttsburg they jumped across
Penusylmnla and bought a wire mill
nt Sharou : then they went to Clevo.
land and bought 11. $5,000,000 rolling
mill , anti the next day they were back
In Now York to eloso a deal for the
purchase ot another mill.
The Steel Merger.
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They plclcod up every thing In sIght ,
hurrlod to Chicago , nnd , within a
weele after the opening of their campaign -
paign , UleY had the whole company
organized , This Is the way that Gates
IIltoS to do things. Gates and all his
followers cleaned up fortunes In this
flotation. The public appetite was
keen for industrial stocks , ospeclally
for steo ] stocks , and the conversion of
millions of dollars' worth of newly
manufactured stock certificates Into
the coin of the realm was accomplished -
plished In a short tlmo. Two years
later the big trust was termed in the
steel trade , and the Gates companies
were turned Into the merger. Gates
wo.nted to go on the steel board ,
but the chief promoter , Mr. Morgan ,
wouldn't have It. The banker said he
didn't think that Gates was a safe man
to have In n , ; reat corporation direc-
torate.
Mr. Morgan's coldness toward him
didn't seem to worry him at all. Not
many months later Gates began to
pungo heavily in LOlllsvlUe & Nash-
vilo. Ho told his friends that it WI1.8
a great property and that It ought to
go higher. He and his following In
New York and Chicago , which by that
tlmo Imd grown to largo proportions
because of the money he had m'ndo for
them In his steel sloces , put the stock
frol11 around par to above $150. ' 1.'he
street woke up ono morning to discover -
cover that Gates had "cornered" Lou-
IsvlUo. The Northern Pacific corner
panic was stili tresh In the mind at
\VaH street and there was a momentary -
tary searo. Dut Gates said ho didn't
waltl to hurt anybody. The road
looled good to him and he had bought
sOln c of the stock. In fact , ho had
bouuht the control. Gates didn't have
an1 special use tor a rl lroad with
3,3 mUes of track , and ho looked
around tor a purchaser. He went to
Mr. 'Morgan's office ono morning , and
said ; "Morgnn , I own the control of
the Louisville. It you , wnnt It or have
a 'b'.lyer tor It , you can take It err my
hau .is , " Mr. Morgan found a buyer
am ! Gates ceaned up n fortune ,
I. tes Is a born gambler. When ho
Wll\l a country shopeooper out In BU-
nolll ho BIIent many a night In a "box-
cat" on the siding , playing the "great
Al'LI6.rlcan game" by UIO 1Ieht of a
trainman's ] antorn. "Great financier , '
that man Gates , " exclaimed a railway. .
tlr.nan one day , as he saw by 1110
newapaper head1lne that Gates had
lD&de : n big coup in Wall street. "We
] m\'lw that before Wall street oer
hell.l'd of him , when he raked In the
jackpots out at Turner Junction , " waa
UIO engineer's reply. Gates bollevoa
tlut gambling Is what makes the
werld b'O. "Lite Is a gambe ] , " said WI
thI ether day. "Everything Is &
gl1.ll1ble. When Ule farmer plants h s
COl'n he is gambling. He bets that the
wonthor conditions wUl enabo ] him to
ral j , ) ' 1 coed crop. Sometimes he
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loso. , Somotlmes he wina. ver1'
man who rrOfJlJ Into buclness gambles.
Of conrlle , the element of judgment on.
teri ! In , but the element of chance cannot -
not be ruled out. Whenever a man
startJI out on it railway journey It's
a gamble whether ho ever reaches his
dcstlnatlon. All lICe is 11. gamble you
Bee. "
In active marketl ) It hns not been
unulSua ] for Gntes to carry 11. line of
$26,000,000 or $30,000,000 worth ot
ntocles on margin. Sarno of the older
men In the street hnve tried again
Bnd ngnln to tie him tip , hut they
have novoI' succeeded. Gules has
alwnys had his oyea open. Whcre ho
couldn't sce far en ugh with his own
oyeB , h paid somebody else to look
out for him. No operator in Wall
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Street ever organized a more elaborate -
ate system of getting advance Information -
mation or things that would atrect
Wall street. When the street was
waiting anxiously fol' the final decisIon -
Ion In the Northern SecurIties case ,
and the Union Pacific party believed
that it hOod defeated James J. Hill , Mr.
Gates one day sent word to Mr. Hili's
office that bo had something to toll
him. 'rho railroad president walked
down Nassau street and across Wall
street to the plunger's offico. There
ho ] earned from Gutes that the Supreme -
premo court decision would be against
the Union Pacific , Gates didn't tell
how he knew It , but he assured Mr.
Hill that he knew what he was talkIng -
Ing about. Northern Securities begnn
to seer that day , and never stopped
untn It had advanced $70 a share.
Some days later the Supreme court
decision was made public. It was just
what Gates said it would be.
Gates Is a born bun , Ho has never
taken any 'part In bear campaigns ,
because he's too much of an optimist
to bet on stocks going down. Every
time during the past six or seven
years when the market has had a bad
break , the story has gone around that
Gates was hurt. The bun market of
the fan at 1902 was almost entirely
Gates market. Gates and his following -
ing put St. Paul nearly to $200 , and
were loaded up with stocks when it
'Vus discovered that the Standard 011
crowd had been soutng stocks all the
way up , The market conapsed and
the Gates crowd toole heavy losses ,
It Is Gates' pocullar ( amo that he
owns , so tar as is known , tbo most
sln\1lar ; pleasure craft possessed by
a millionaire , It Is 0. sldewheel yacht
of uncertain ago , but steady as the
proverbial church , and fitted out In a
manner that puts to shame Its moro
pretentious rivals of th proponor
vnrlety. With his wife he has spent
much time on this distinctly family
seo. olng craft , which pleases him to
the point where he tolerates good-
naturodly the quips ot his friends on
Ita packngcase proportions.
.Bman wonder Is It tho.t his liking
for pictures hl\s taleen him Into t1e
achool caned "phot graphlc" by the
critics. HI.8 fnvorlte Is MesBonler and
of , the red and blue clad soldiers ,
courtiers and ladles who troop
through that artlst' canvasses he has
n goodly company In his Waldorf
rooms. And he finds unending delight -
light In the brtght colors and clear-
cut figures.
Of the hordes of newly oreated millionaires -
ionaires borne , . .to wan street on the
wave at Illduatrial c'omblno.tlons which
overwhelmed the couniT ) ' from 1898
to 1901 , Gates waa the most pictur-
esque. He has added to that dlstlno-
tlon the further honor of ] aBUng the
longest and of retiring not without
laurols. One may not wonder If It
might 110t bo said of him now what
he once sRld ot hhnset ] on anoUlor
question , that he Is "not broke , but
badly bent. "
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RUTH WINS
A KINSMAN
STOnY OF TilE PERIOD or TUE JUDGES
IN ISlIAEL
Dy tbe "Ulabway ADd Dyway" Preacher
CCO".tljhl,11IV7,1.o1 the AUlhol' , w.II'.d OIl. ,
Scrlptllre A IIthorItY-"Anll : Doa ? 8all1
unto Huth : It hath rull ' been IIhowl'l1
lI1e. all that tholl hl1st donu unto thy
mother-In-law 81nce the denth ot thlno
hllDband : ! lnd how tholl hast tort th ' tn-
ther antI th ' mother , nn the land or thy
natl\'lIy. anl1 nrt como unto a people
whh'h tholl ImawlIt not heretofore , " -
nuth 2:11j : rcatI nil the chlltltcr.
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SERMONETTE.
. . . "Whom . not having seen , ye i >
< love.-.hcse worda of Peter to .
Christians refer to the Christ , .
nd arc strikingly pertinent In t.
connection with this story of
the romance of Ruth and Boaz.
< ! This noble and hlgh.mlnded
man , Boaz , had heard of the ' ! >
1 celf'iierlflce and devotion of P >
Ruth , the MO :1bltlsh : wom :1n : , and r >
his appreciation of true goodne3s
1 and worth had arouacd In his F >
heart an admiration , yea , a love ,
. which could have had no other f >
Gequel than that which this beaut
. tlful love story unfolds.
It 10 a oplendld thing to have
a heart which Is sensitive to the
qU61I1t1es of real goodness. Our
perceptions of worthy qualities
oei In others are so modified and
tempered by the external and sue F >
perticlal conditions of wealth
oei and social position , that m61ny a
4 human flower of the rarest pureed -
oed Ity and grace and beauty Is born ! >
oei to blush unseen and unlmown In
the busy , occuplcd world about. !
< It Is easy to see the virtues of '
-cd those to whom we may look for
favors , but we have little thought
or time to spend upon the one t
< ! who In his humble , narrow
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sphere Is living nobly , herolcal.
Iy , sublimely. .
< ! To most of the people In
Bethlehem Noami and Ruth were p : .
but poor , needy unfortunates. To po.
. . . the former the surprised word ! >
of greeting on her return was ! >
. . . . spoken , and sympathy express.
. . ed , and then she was forgotten. '
oei For the latter there was the
curious , wondering gaze of the . .
. . neighbors and friends and townspeople -
people of Naomi , and the unspoken -
spoken query as to why she had
cj come and what nhe had hope of
gaining. ! >
But to one person at least In
Bethlehem there came an appre. :
elation of the purity and .
strength of c-haracter of Ruth.
He heard of Naomi's return , and .
. being a 1 < lnsman of her dead
: husband he might have felt an. .
noyed at the thought that here
was a poverty.strlcken relative
ci who would make drafts on his i >
bounty. He heard of the coming .
of he daughter-In.law , and he
. . . might have listened to the up-
< 1 < lndly criticism which must '
have been dropped as the
4 strange woman from a strange
. . land came Into their midst. Wha\ ! >
1 scheme had she In coming ?
What selfjsh purpose had she =
to serve ? Suspicion of her mo-
tlves and contempt for her na- .
tlonallty and her poverty might .
: have so prejudiced his mind as .
oei to blind him to t e rare womiin- .
Iy virtues which she possessed.
But his love for real goodness
was so keen and genuine , and
. . . his high-minded judgments so J o
free from bias and Impure mo-
tlves that he was able to under. p.
stand fully "all that Ruth had
done , " and though he had not
seen her , he loved her. His was
not a sentimental , supe rflclal
--4 love. It was such a love as only P' ,
a good , pure , strong heart can
--4 feel as It flndll those qualities In
another , for purity loves purity ; I
goodness loves goodness. :
V'V'V'V'V'V'V'V'T'V'V'V'V'V'V'V'V'V
THE STORY.
OAZ was absent from Bethlehem
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at the Ume of the return of Nnoml
nnd her daughter-In-law , Ruth , but ou
'his reaching home this bit of news
was among the flrst to reach his ears ,
for the townspeople had not yet censed
, to gossip concerning the event , In fact
he had scarcely gained the gate of his
"ilInge before ho was surrounded by a
group of neighbors who poured into
his 'Interested ear all the story of
, Naomi's me and misfortunes In the
land of Moab , and of her having lost
husband and sons there , and of her reo
turn In sorrow and poverty to the old
home she had left oyer ten years be-
fore.
, "Ellmolech might better have taken
your advice and stayed in Bethehem ] , "
ojacuated ] one , as the story was fin.
Ished.
"Yes , " responded Doaz , sndly ; "I ,
have often wished that ho had listened
to mc and been content to remain.
From what you tell me , ho could not
have tared worse had ho done so.
Ellmelech and his two sons dead and
only Naomi ] eft , " he repeated , halt to
hlmselt , meditatively. "And what ot
Naomi ? " ho added , after a tew min.
uteu' pause , as hlB thoughts turned
from the dead to the Hvlng. "You say
she hus brought II. l\Ioabltlsh woman
with her ? "
"Yea , her daughter.ln.aw ] , Ruth ,
wlte ot Mahlon. "And they do say she
is devoted to the old lady , but some
strange motlvo must have brought her
from her country and her [ leople , for
Naomi hath nothing to offer hor. In
fact it does seem that bel' comIng I
n1l\lees Naomi's lot the haraer , for' '
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there Is ' , n' moro mouth to teed.
Everyone Is talking about the mattor.
Was .It not tolly enough thal Naomi's
sons should have married contrary to
the law of 181'11.01 , : tnd now must wo
hn'\'o constant reminder of their sin by
the coming Into our midst of thl9
Monbltlsh woman 1"
"But ( Ud Naomi urge 1101' . to como ? "
ar.ked Doaz.
' No , " ndmltted the ether ; "It seems
that. hoth daughtors.1n.law started to
return with her , whrm she robulccd
them nnd bndo them return to tholr
homes and tholr ppople and their gods.
This , Orphu , the wlto or Chllion , dltI , I
but Uuth clung to her mother.in.law ,
declaring that whither she wenl she
would go. "
"But hnd she no ( rlends to go to
anIong her own people that she should
malto such cholco ? " ILSked Doaz. .
"Had she , not , I do not think that
Naomi would have . so urged her to re-
tUrn. "
"Did ahe not give other reason for
wanting to como ? "
"Yes , I bellovo I dtl hear some ono
sa ' that Naomi had told them that
Ruth had renounced the gods of her
people , sa 'lng that uho had como to
know thnt they werl ! no gods at all ,
unll that she could nClt return to serve
them. "
"And do os she believe in the Goll of ,
the HoIJIows : ? " ques\loned \ Doaz , who
was a devout Israelite anti served God
with loyal whole.heartedne3s.
"Yes , " the otber went on to ex-
plnln ; "this woman , Ruth , It Is snld ,
clung to Naomi , pleading that as she
had chason the Hebrew people as her
people and the Hebrew God as her
God , sbe be pormltted to return witlt
I her. "
"And slnco coming thither , 110W bath
she done ? " Boaz continued , persisting
in his questioning , for be Imd pOl'-
celved at the very 1Joglnnlng , when 1
they had begun to tell him or Naomi's
return , that there was a projudlce
against the Moabltlsh woman who 1md
come with her , and he was too fall'-
minded to condemn her hastily and
on too insufficient evidence.
"Her w ole thought has seemed to
bo for the comfort of Nnoml , and it
must be admitted that she has worked
unceaslngl ) ' to provide for their slm.
plo wants , " was the admission ,
"Yes , " spoke up lmother , "and when
the neighbors and friends of Naomi
would have provided for them , Ruth
declared that she had COple not to be
n burden but a help , and many is the
deetI of kindness which she hath found
time to do while yet busy with the ' --t. ,
tasks which would buy them aheUer
and rood. " '
' 1'he drift of the conversation having
been started In UlUt direction , ihere !
were ethers ready to tell of Incidents'
In which Ruth hatI displayed her
sweet , selt-sacrlficlng devotion to her
mother-In-law , and also of her faith
In the God or the Hebrews , so that
when Doaz had left the group and
gone on to his ownhomo he had much
to think about.
Naturally he felt special Interest .in
Naomi , because she was the widow
of his near relative , Ellmelech , but
wh } ' should ho trouble himueU about
this l\Ioabltish woman ? So he thought
as his mind ] eept recurring to Ruth.
During the busy da's which followed ,
for the barley and whe t har'\'ests
wore near at hand , and ho had much
to look arter , he could not rid himself
of the thought , and lIe went over and
over again In his mind all that be hall
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heard concerning Ruth ,
First of all , he settled in his own
mind that her motives for coming to
Bethlehem were purely unselfish , tor
the strange land and strange people
could not offer her the same certainty
of homo and friends which her own
land would have done , Then that she
was slncero In her desire to have the
Hebrew God as her God was manifest
from the dovotlon which she had
shown since her arrlva ] In Bethle-
hem.
So , as the days went by , th desire
grew up in his heart to aeo hor. Ho
had reached an ago when he felt he
was beyond sentiment , and for this
reason he could not quite define or un.
derstand the stlrrlngs within his own
breast. Ho knew ho grew Into the
habit of Hstenlng for some tidings of
Ruth , and moro than once ho ques.
tloned his neighbors and friends concerning -
cerning hor. In this way he became
familiar with every detail , almost , of
her me In Detillehem , and leamed
much of the story of her mo before
coming to Dethlehem , for pcople did
not seem to tlro of the gossip which
centered about Naomi and her Moab.
Itlsh dnughter-In.aw. ]
"She must bo a good woman , " Donz .
would say to hlmseU. "I am glad she ,
has come to Dethlohem , " and ho would
go on picturing to himself his homo
with such a woman 11 it , Then he
would laugh and shako off the "spell , "
as he would call ft. Dut Ruth on his
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lips came to be a sweet word , and ,
Ruth came Into his thought as though
. she had somehow always been thero.
i So It went until , during the midst ot
I the barey ] harvest , he came Into his
field one da } ' and , while talking with
the toroman of the reallers , his aUen
lion was attracted to a figure qUlotl } .
fonowing 111 the wake of tile men a ! !
the } ' cut and gathered and stacked the
grain.
'WhofJO damsel Is tbis 1" he asked.
anll wbl1e the words were being uttered -
tered , and before the servant could
rOIJly , there came the wblsperlng answer - I
swer 111 his henrt , "Ruth. "
An as ho looleed upon bel' , even .bo-
fore ho had alloken to her and sbe hall
mn\1o reply , ho know that his heart
had been conquorod.
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Swinburne Writing. . Tragedy.
Algornon Charles Swinburno , ' tilO
poet , is engaged In writing a new ,
u'uge y , the aubjelt : of which Is Ce. --t. : . .
su\'o Borgia. . ,
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