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development of the property and for
the handling of the ore Fifty per
cent of the net profits will revert to
you until the money paid to Blake is
refunded In consideration of the
capital thus advanced your interest
in the property Avill amount to forty
per cent and mine to sixty per cent
I wont do it thundered John
Hawkins slamming down the cover
of his desk I must have control
when I invest Make my interest fifty-one
per cent and I will talk to you
Fifty one per cent or nothing
Very well said John Burt rising
it is impossible for us to agree and
well we should know it in advance
Good day Mr Hawkins I am stop
ping at the Palace Hotel and letters
sent there will be forwarded when I
leave the city Good day sir
Two days later John Burt received
a message from David Parker asking
him to call at his office Scientific
tests had shown a much higher per
centage of gold than those indicated
by the crude experiments made in the
cabin by John Burt
I had an interview with Mr Haw
kins this morning said David Park
er after greeting his visitor Mr
Hawkins is a very peculiar man very
peculiar as I have told you He
says you are the hardest man to deal
with he ever saw a great compliment
for you Mr Burton I assure you He
has had his lawyer draw up a provis
ional agreement in conformity to your
terms as he understood them and
instructs me to say to you that we are
invited to dine with him at his club
this afternoon when the matter may
be finally arranged If so I am to ac
company you to the mines to-morrow
John thanked Parker and arranged
to meet him with Mr Hawkins at a
later hour He then called on an at
torney and submitted the agreement
to his inspection After making a
few minor alterations the lawyer as
sured John that the agreement fully
protected his interests
Over a dinner such as is possible
only in San Francisco the agreement
was ratified
CHAPTER XIV
Success and Failure
David Parkers report on the Sailor
Mine was submitted to Mr Hawkins
ten days later and it more than con
firmed the statements made by John
Burt Upon receipt cf it the mag
nate proceeded to the mine with Burt
and Parker taking several miners In
whom he had absolute confidence
New claims were located on the
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CHAPTER XIII Continued
At the sight of the ore and of the
chill gloss of the nugget a wonderful
transformation took place In John
Hawkins Ho gazed at the ore with
the rapt look of an enthusiast The
weight of the nugget told Its own
story
Go ahead and tell me ahout this
ne said abruptly You look like an
honest man and Its a waste of time
- to Ho to me What have you cot
and how did you get It
In a matter of fact way John Burt
related the story of the discovery and
development of the Sailor Mine
This may be worth looking into
said the capitalist Ill send an ex
pert to Investigate it and make a re
poit He rang a bell and a boy re
sponded Go and tell David Parker
I want him he ordered
Until we have arrived at some ten
tative agreement or understanding I
dont care to have your expert exam
ine this property said John Burt
when the boy had closed the door
Your expert will find one of two
things either that my estimate of
those claims is accurate or that it is
not In the latter event you would
drop the matter If on the contrary
your expert confirms my estimate as
ho will it then becomes necessary to
act under a definite understanding In
brief the question is this What
agreement will you make assuming
that your expert confirms my state
ments
That sounds like business roared
John Hawkins a gleam of admiration
for an opponent worthy of his atten
tion showing in his eyes Make
your proposition Youre selling Im
buying Whats your terms
You will assume the payments on
the Blake option which amount to
three hundred thousand dollars said
John In addition to that you will
advance the money necessary for the
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tain side and In the valley below in
anticipation of possible placer de
posits
Jim Blake was delighted when in
formed of Johns progress Hope
you make millions and am betting
you will said Jim as they shook
hands and separated
Mr Hawkins David Parker and
John Burt spent three nights in the
cramped quarters of the log cabin
and thoroughly enjoyed themselves
On their return to San Francisco a
formal agreement was signed and
John Burt and John Hawkins became
partners in the Sailor Mine and in
the scores of claims surrounding it
For eighteen months John directed
the efforts of an army of men swarm
ing like ants on the mountain side A
village sprang up in the valley and
clustered about the stamp mills of
Hawkins Company Churches
gambling houses stores and saloons
contended for patronage Thousands
of claims were staked out but nature
had ceased from her gold sowing
when she finished the broad layers of
the Sailor Mine and its outcroppings
The mines produced eight hundred
thousand dollars in gold the first year
After deducting Blakes price Johns
share in the profits was more than a
hundred thousand His dividends in
the following six months were three
hundred thousand Following Mr
Hawkins advice he so Invested his
profits as to become a millionaire be
fore he had been in California two
years
Having placed the mining property
on a permanent footing and in charge
of competent managers and superin
tendents he transferred his head
quarters to San Francisco He still
made periodical visits to the mines
where he had an office in the old log
cabin orders having been issued not
to destroy it under any circumstances
When Jim Blake received his first
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instalment of a hundred thousand dol
lars he gave a dinner in John Burts
honor in the Occidental Hotel Twen
ty guests were present This social
function cost Blake a thousand dol
lars and ten days after the feast he
was without a dollar
Mining stocks he explained to
John Burt I plunged on Robert Em
met and they trimmed me
John advanced Jim ten thousand
dollars and gave him advice which
was worth more than the money
Blake followed the advice for a
month When his second instalment
was due he had drawn so heavily
against John that he had a balance of
only forty five thousand Two months
after he had received a check for the
final payment which terminated his
original property rights in the mines
he admitted to John Burt that his to
tal assets did not exceed five thou
sand dollars
I have a plan said John one
which will give full scope for your
talents Ive been thinking for some
time Jim of making a proposition to
you I recently purchased seats on
the mining and stock exchanges and
wish to become a silent partner in an
investing and brokerage firm I will
furnish most of the capital but for
reasons that you will appreciate I
prefer to remain in the background
How would you like to become the
nominal head of such a concern un
der the title we will say of James
Blake Company In order that
you may have a substantial interest in
the firm I will advance you a hun
dred thousand dollars on your future
profits from the Sailor Mine and in
vest with the firm four hundred thou
sand of my own money What do you
think of my proposition
Nothing would suit me better but
Im afraid Im not qualified for such
a position said Blake delighted be
yond measure Once more the path
to wealth opened out before him
I know your qualifications said
John You will become the most
popular and capable broker in San
Francisco
Announcement of the establishment
of the new firm was made the follow
ing week Mr Hawkins refused to
confirm or deny the popular rumor
that he was the banker of the con
cern and no one suspected that John
Burt had any financial interest
in It
Blake Company first attracted
speculative attention by its masterly
handling of the corner in the stock of
Don Pedro Smelting and Mining Com
pany The profits of the firm were
estimated at a million and a half
John Hawkins was Dubllcly nameTas
the manipulator and principal winner
but James Blake was hailed as the
daring operator whose brilliant gen
eralship had crowned the success of
the deal In the speculative firma
ment he suddenly blazed forth as a
star of the first magnitude
Jame3 Blake suddenly developed
traits which bewildered his friends
and surprised himself Under the
guidance of John Burt he mastered
the details of the business displaying
ability In dealing with the intricacies
which formed the daily routine In
capable of acting for himself he could
follow a chartered course with the
precision of a pilot
Nature had denied to James Blake
that spark of genius which inspires
the leader but he possessed in a high
degree those traits which leadership
attracts and invests with power He
grasped Burts plans of campaign with
the intuition of a Bernadotte and ex
ecuted them with the dash and skill
of a Murat In the two years which
followed wealth poured into the cof
fers of James Blake Company
Blakes name figured in great finan
cial transactions and his opinion was
eagerly sought in matters of commer
cial moment Handsome as Apollo
and the reputed possessor of a large
fortune he became a society lion a
popular club man and the target fo
matrimonial archers
Blake accepted his honors with dig
nity and modesty He was willing
and proud to shine in the reflected
light of John Burt He would have
endured unmerited disgrace as se
renely as he wore unwon honors
From the moment when Peter Burt
stood with uplifted arms in the light
nings glare and gave him a blessing
John Burt had no doubt of his finan
cial future With his eyes fixed un
waveringly on an immediate purpose
he had boldly commanded fortune to
do his bidding
A profile portrait of Jessie Carden
rested on an easel which stood near
the desk in his library It was the
work of an artist of local fame drawn
from a tintype photograph his sole
memento of the women he loved The
pink paper frame with a design in
hearts and roses which surrounded
the photograph was frayed and torn
but Jessies sweet face was revealed
on the glossy surface of the metal
the face which had looked into his one
summer day when they rode to Hing
ham and Jessie proposed they should
have their tintypes taken
Jessie was in her sixteenth year
when the picture was taken but the
long riding habit and the queenly pose
of her head against the plain back
ground added dignity to the nascent
charms of face and figure John
would sit for hours during the long
evenings and gaze at this portrait It
was the one visible connecting link
between the past and the present the
ocular inspiration for his future
Again and again he attempted to pic
ture the Jessie Carden of the pres
ent With his eyes fixed on the por
trait and his mind centered on its
original he struggled to span the void
of miles and years which parted them
and to hold communion with her At
times he imagined the message was
received and that a loving answer
came bidding him to have faith and
to persevere Surely such correspon
dence was not in violation of his
promise to Peter Burt Then he
would turn to his books and with a
light heart toil far into the night In
this room he mastered the secrets of
finance and of commerce With him
self as tutor he took a postgraduate
course in business No detail was
too slight no problem too intricate to
escape his attention The world was
the chessboard of his future opera
tions and he explored its past and
studied its present with zeal unflag
ging and faith unbounded
But when slumber fell upon him
and his soul wandered into unknown
regions he dreamed dreamed not of
millions nor of triumphs over master
minds He dreamed of Jessie Car
den
To be continued
UMBRELLAS OLD AS MAN
Though Rain Shields Are 10000
Years Old They Need Improving
How rich Id be said an umbrella
salesman if I had patented the um
brella
The floorwalker smiled
You might as well talk said he
of a patent on swimming or cooking
Umbrellas appear to have existed
always Wherever we excavate
Babylon Ninevah Nippur traces of
the umbrella are found This instru
ment is coeval with mankind
It is of oriental origin The Eng
lish didnt begin to use it until 1700
Shakespeare with all his genius had
no umbrella to protect him from the
rain Jonas Hanway was the first
English umbrella maker
The floorwalker paused to brush a
white thread from his long black coat
Then he resumed
Now what you might do would be
to patent some new sort of umbrella
some rain shield built on better lines
We have proof that the umbrella has
existed for 10000 years and yet in all
that time it has not once been improv
ed Consider it It is by no means
perfect It turns inside out readily
and it only protects the head and
shoulders from the rain Change all
that Give us an umbrella that is a
complete rain shield Then you will
become a millionaire
Paradoxical Doc
Doctor you are the most Jovial
even tempered man I ever met do
you never get out of temper
One has to get out of patience to
lose ones temper and as I am never
out of patients I am never out of pa
tience
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Power of a Drop of Water
You have probably heard that the
constant falling of a drop of water
will wear away the hardest stone
Here is an easy way to test the
force of a single water drop which
we will take as a unit for all the bil
lions of water drops it takes to wear
away the stone and then perhaps you
may get a slight idea of the stupen
ious force all those water drops
would exert if they were combined
nto one mammoth water drop and
t dropped You wouldnt care to be
under it
Cut a notch in the center of a
match then bend so as to form an
acute angle Lay it across the mouth
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Match Coin and Water Drop
of a bottle and place a penny on the
match You are now ready to demon
strate the force of the water drop
and also ready to do a neat little
trick to surprise some onlooking
friend
Ask your friend to get the coin into
the bottle without touching either the
match or the bottle After he has puz
zled over it for a while dip your finger
in a glass of water hold it above the
place where the match is notched and
let a drop fall on the point The pow
er of the water as it strikes the match
is strongenough to force the sides of
the angle to spring apart thus making
the opening large enough for the pen
ny to fall into the bottle
Your trick is performed while the
water drops power is illustrated at
the same time
Some Riddlesand Answers
The first lady of the land in three
letters Eve
Relating to civil life in five letters
Civic
A legal document in four letters
Deed
What baby says about candy in four
letters Dood
Something the most stupid person
can see through in three letters Eye
A gentle domestic animal in three
letters Ewe
One of the famous pair of giants in
three letters Gog
Something used by burglars in
three letters Gag
Part of the verb to do in three let
ters Did
A small vehicle in three letters
Gig
The condition of the grass in the
morning in five letters Dewed
The cry of a bird or a chick in four
letters Peep
Twilight time in three letters Eve
Giving Sheep Their Dew
Three hundred years ago one ques
tion used to bother the English farm
ers There were more sheep in Eng
land than in any other country in the
world it isnt so now but that is an
other story and yet the silly crea
tures were seldom seen to drink To
such an extent was this abstinence
observed that when a sheep was no
ticed drinking it was thought so an
old writer declared a prodigious
thing that sheep should drinke
There was he said a cause for their
never suffering much thirst There
is so much dew on the grasse that
they need no other water Ancient
authors like Aristotle were quite mis
taken in thinking that the northern
sheep had more neede of water than
the southern In Spaine those sheep
bear the best fleeces of wool that
drinke least But if the animals can
not get dew they must have water
In the seasons of great draught that
sometimes afflict the Austmlian sheep
farmers the flocks perish by the thou
sand
Game of Bouquet
This is a jolly game for a number
of children to play Sit down in a cir
cle around your leader Let the lead
er give each one a flower for his name
violet daisy sweet William black
eyed susan etc Then let her tell you
a story made up out of her own
head in which she brings in every
one of the flower names
Whenever a child hears his flower
name mentioned he must get up turn
around and sit down
Whenever the leader uses the word
bouquet all the children must jump
up and change places at which time
the leader tries to capture a seat
Whoever gets left must then be
come leader
Loan Wa3 Costly
In 1812 a loan was made by the
state of Connecticut from its school
fund to Samuel Perkins The amount
was 173334 and it was secured by a line
mortgage on real estate situated In it out
Windham Conn A year later the
principal was reduced by the payment
of 500 Since then the heirs have
paid interest on the balance amount
ing to 040111 The whole has just
been settled and proceedings entered
to clear the title
Spider Web
Fatten to the hall chandelier as
many lengths of red yellow green
blue and white twine as there are boy
and girl players
Tell each child to take a length of
twine and follow it through the dif
ferent rooms until he finds the other
end winding the twine into a ball as
he goes
It will lead him up stairs and down
around table legs through cracks in
doors in and out through the banis
ters and so on
At the end you should previously
have fastened some pleasant surprise
like a tiny box of bon bons or an or
ange
Korean Mercy Box
When the king of Korea goes into
the streets he is preceded by a secre
tary of state who carries a mercy
box Into this box are placed all the
papers upon which the Koreans have
indited their petitions or grievances
and which are thrown from over
walls or hung on strings from win
dows The king himself reads every
paper
How to Make a Flute
A little flute from which a good
deal of amusement can be derived can
be made by wrapping a piece of paper
around a pencil to make a tube Paste
the edge flat and to one end of the
tube fasten a triangular piece of pa
per somewhat larger than the open
ing
To play the flute draw in your
breath through the open end of tho
tube the difference in pitch will de
pend upon how hard you breathe
Loliday Magazine
Partridges Eat Apple Buds
A Maine man who sought to pro
tect his apple trees shot a partridge
as it was preparing to leave its work
and opening the crop took out 2S4
fresh buds This he says constituted
its meal and if this was the daily ra
tion it would mean the destruction of
almost 2000 buds weekly
Circle Puzzle
Vgi
Draw three equal squares inside the
large circle each square to contain
five of the smaller circles and leav
ing three spaces outside each contain
ing five of the smaller circles
A Soapsuds Surprise
Here is an experiment with soap
suds in which there is no blowing of
bubbles Fasten two knitting needles
or other small rods together with
threads of equal length so as to form
a rectangular frame A third thread
attached to the upper rod enables you
to hold up the frame without touching
it
Plunge the frame into strong soap
suds and lift it out slowly by this
third thread You find the frame filled
by a transparent liquid film like a
pane of glass
Break this film and attach to the
vertical threads about one third of
their length from the bottom the ends
of another thread which is no longer
than the knitting needle so tnat it
hangs down in a curve and to the
middle of this thread fasten still an
other thread by one end leaving the
other end hanging down
Now dip the frame again in the
There are many ways of makicg
five pointed stars For the method
here described you will need a pair of
compasses With these draw a circle
of any size Draw a line across the
circle going through the center Draw
another line from the center to the
top of the circle Find the middle
point of the right half of the first
The hand in the picture points
Use that point for one end of
soapsuds and lift it out The last two
threads will appear as irregular lines
embedded in tho film of liquid Break
the lower part of the film and you
will see the upper part contract draw
ing the loose thread up with it iuto
tho form of a circular arch
Now tako hold of tho freo hanging
thread below tho lower rod and pull
downward Tho single arch becomes
a double arch but resumes its former
shapeas soou as you relcaso tho hang
ing thread
Theso experiments which might bo
y
Frame for the Films
varied in many ways show that tho
liquid film is like a stretched elastic
membrane or sheet of india rubber It
always makes itself as small as pos
sible as tho last experiment proves
and if stretched out by force it con
tracts again as soon as the force
ceases to act
It affords therefore an interesting
example of the surface tension pos
sessed by liquids
The film has two parallel surfaces
and their tensions act together
Domino Fortune Telling
Lay them on their faces on tho tabic
and shuffle them then draw one and
see the number which has its mean
ing as follows
- Double six receiving a handsome
sum money
Six five going to a place of amuse
ment
Six four lawsuits and trouble which
can only be avoided by great care
Six three a ride in a carriage
Six two a present of clothing
Six one you will soon perform a
friendly action
Six blank guard against scandal or
you will suffer by your inattention
Double five a new abode to your
advantage
Five four a fortunate speculation in
business
Five three a visit from a superior
Five two a pleasant excursion on
the water
Five one love intrigue
Five blank a funeral but not a rela
tive
Double four drinking liquor at a
distance
Four three a false alarm of fire
Four two beware of thieves and
swindlers
Four one expect trouble from cred
itors
Four blank you will receive a letter
from an angry friend
The Number Nine
It is a curious thing which every
one does not know that you cannot
destroy the integrity of the figure 9
by multiplication
To make plain 9x981 Add 8 and
1 the product and you have 9 Take
any other number say 122 123 times
9 equals 1107 Add the figures of the
product again and they equal 9 Again
times 33 equals 297 which added
gives us two 9s by adding 7 and 2 or
the three figures added equal 18 or
2x9 Whether the number is small or
large the sum of the figures of the
product will always be divisible by 9
A FIVE POINTED STAR
The Finished Star and Diagram of its Construction
j the compass Place the pencil end ai
the top of the circle and draw a curve
downward until it touches the line
running across the circle The dis
tance between the crossing point and
the top of the is the exact dis
tance between the points of a five
pointed star drawn in that circle
A star drawn on stiff paper may b
cut out and used as a pattern in mak
ing flags or ornaments