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I , " ' "You beat ! You haven't
i ,5-- me the slight
est idea who the other shareholders are ;
. 1 11 . . i the company is thoroughly rotten in all 1
, ; . . "i s . its past . history . , and here you go plung
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ing into it up to your e 'es. And they
, ! t say j'ou're the most conservative banker
, ' I ! I DR the river. "
i - . "I guess you don't have to get me out
" . . . .1 of many scrapes , " said Porter.
' I + I "When's the annual meeting ? " asked
! f : . ' . . . . . Fenton.
" / r i "It's day : after to-morrow close call
1 I ' , , ' . Inn I'll ! make it all right. "
! ! I I " : \11' . Porter , I want you to remember
! I i : that I haven't given yon any advice at
I J- \ , ' , all in this matter. It's an extra hazard
, I ous thing that you're : doing. Now , I don't
IJ ! , _ . " know anything definitely about it , but
! , . . . . ( . . ; ; : . . I've got the impression that Margrave's
i' paralleling your lines in this business. "
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"Where'd you get that ?
"It's this way , " said Fenton , in his
quietest tones. "A Baltimore lawyer that
I I know wrote me a letter asking me .
i about Margrave's responsibility. If seems
: : that my friend has a client who owns
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i ' ' some of these shares. A good deal of
. ! that stock went to Baltimore and Phi'a-
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I delpliia , you may remember. I assume
i that Margrave is after it. "
i I "Wire your friend right away not to
sell I" ! shouted Porter , pounding the table )
with his fist.
"I did that this morning , and here's his
answer. I got it just before you : came
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! & in. 'Margrave evidently got anxious and
I wired them to send certificates with draft
) I through the Drovers' National. They're
( probably on the way no\ " . " lie passed
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the telegram across to Porter , who put
: on his glasses and read it.
"Now , " continued Fenton , "I don't
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. . know just what this means , but it looks
to me as if Margrave : was hot on the
' ) track of the trolley company himself ; and
Tim Margrave isn't a particularly pleas-
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S ant fellow to go into business with , is
he ? "
' "But the bondholders would still have
their chance , wouldn't they , even if he got
a majority of the stock ? "
, . , . "Well , you haven't any bonds , have
. . . -you ; ? First thing I know you'll be telling
nipthat you've got ; a few barrels of
them , " he added , jokingly. He could not
help laughing at Porter.
"My dear boy : I've got every blamed
I. t bond I" !
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: wonder. He walked around the table and
) put his hand on Porter's shoulder. . He
: was trying to keep from laughing , like a
' . _ ' ! parent who is about to rebuke a child
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i and yet laughs at the cause of its of-
f fense. Porter evidently thought that he
. . had ' done an extremely bright thing. '
"As I understand 'ou. you have bought
! all of the bonds and half of the stock. "
I i "About half. I'm a little-just a little
-short. "
' "Will you kindly tell me what you
i wanted'with ' the stock if you" : had the
bonds ? "
r "Well , I figured it this way , that the ]
franchise was worth the price I had to 1
' pay for the whole thing , and if I had the 1
stock control I'd save the fuss of foreclos- f
ing. ! You lawyers always make a lot of
rumpus about those things , and a receiv- (
. ership would prejudice the Eastern mar r
ket when I come to reorganize and sell (
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. Fenton lay back in his chair and ii
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laughed , while Porter looked at him a lit- ' u
tle defiantly , with his hat tipped over his iiw i
eyes. w
eyes."You'd better finish your : job and make tlm
sn1' c' ' I/ / ; your : niSrjuriry , " said Fenton. His tlst
rage was rising now and he did not urge st
Porter to remain when the. banker got std
up to do. He was not at all anxious to d
defend a franchise which the local courts , ne
always sensitive to public sentiment ,
might set aside. w
"I'll see you in the morning first fiim
thing , " saJd Porter at the door , which fiiy
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Fenton opened for him. "I want you to y
f go to the meeting with me and we'll need
. ' . a day to get ready. Tlit :
. . The lawyer watched his client walk lithe
' : , , ' toward the elevator. It occurred to him he
r ; ' that Porter's step was losing its elastic-
- . . . it " . While the banker ca
1 : ' - - ity. waited for the ele- cam
vator he leaned wearily against the wire m
I screen of the shaft. arm
1 . Fenton then sat down with a copy of m
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the charter of the Clarkson Traction W
t Company before him , and spent the re it *
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mainder of the day studying it. He had
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I ' . ways , and had labored to shatter the dan- ny
. gerous conceit which had gradually
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contempt for lawyers he sa ;
I , though leaned
: , ' > n Fenton more than he would admit. th
I ! Fenton , on the other hand , was constant- aid ;
ly fearful lest his client should undo himco
I , self by his secretive methods. He had th
i I difficulty in getting all tbe facts out of in
I I 1 I ' him even when they were imperatively re- th
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i " ) , office early and sent his boy at once to yoi
: -'J " ask Mr. Porter to come up. The boy re- been ,
t1 ' ported that Mr. Porter had not been at lub :
; ' the bank. Fenton went down himself at dw
1' , " 10 o'clock and found the president's desk bn
\ ' . closed. ha <
I I f "Where's the boss ? " he demanded. yoi
I I "Won't be down this morning , " said over
, r i . Wheaton. "Miss Porter telephoned that bu : :
r he wasn't feeling well , but he expected to hai
! { be down after luncheon. " . < <
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i .1 ; : . Porter's illness was proclaimed in the as
" . . ' - first editions of the afternoon papers , yoi :
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1 , # , gains force by publication , and when he grace
r . : . \ read , the- printed statement that the presi relj
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that Porter must really be very sick ; and
' he nstui-ally turned the fact over in his
miiid to see how this might affect him
The directors came in i and sat about with
their hats on , and Wingate , the starch :
manufacturer , who had seen Porter's doc ,
tor , pronounced the president a very sick
man and suggested that Thompson , the
invalid vice president , ought to be noti ,
fied. The others acquiesced , and they pre
pared a telegram .to Thompson at Phoe
nix , suggesting his immediate return , if i
possible.
Fenton spent the afternoon in court.
He intended to call at the Porters' on
his way home , and stopped at the bank
before going to his office ( , thinking that
the banker might be there ; but the presi -
dent's desk was closed.
"How sick is Mr. Porter ? " he asked
Wheaton.
"He's pretty sick , " said Wheaton.
"It's typhoid fever. I spoke to Miss Por
ter over the telephone a few minutes ago ,
and she did not seem to be alarmed about
her father. He's very strong , you know. "
But Fenton was not listening. "See
here. Wheaton , " he said , suddenly , "d o
you know anything about Porter's private
1affairs ? "
"Not very much , ' said Wheaton , guard
edly. . .
edly."I
"I guess you don't and I guess nobody
does , worse luckYou ! know how mor
bidly secretive he is , and how he shies
off from publicity suppose yon do " he
went on a little grimlyHe did not like
Wheaton particularly. . "Well he has
some Traction stock - the annual meeting
is held to-morrow and he's got to be rep
resented. "
"He never told me of it , ' said Whea
ton. truthfully.
. "His shares are probably in his insid
pocketor hid under the bed at home ; but
we've got to get them if he has any , and
get them quick. If he has his wits he'll 1
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probably try and send word to me. I
suppose I couldn't see him if I went up. " .
"Miss Porter telephoned me to come-
on some business matter , shp said , and no
doubt that's what it is. " .
"Then I won't go just now , but I'll see
you : here as soon as you get down town. I I
I'll be at my office right after dinner. "
He paused , deliberating. Feutou was a
careful man , , who rose to emergencies.
"I'll come directly back here , " said
Whe.iton. "No : doubt the papers- you
want are in one of Mr. Porter's private
boxes. "
"Can you get into it to-night ? "
"Yes ; it's . in the vault'where ' we keep
the account books ; : , and there's no time
lock. "
Late in the afternoon Wheaton had
been unusually busy with routine wor.v
and the directors had taken an hour of
his time. He had .turned away from
Fenton to answer a message from Mar
g rat ' e , then he went toward the Trans
continental office with a feeling of fore-
boding. As he crossed the threshold of
the private office , the sight of Margrave's
fat bulk squeezed into a chair that was
too small for him , impressed hi ; oi un
pleasantly ; he had come with mixed foci-
ings , not knowing whether his friendly
relations with the railroader were to be
further emphasized , or whether Margrave
was about to make some demand of him.
His doubts were quickly dispelled by
Margrave , who turned around fiercely as
the door closed.
"Sit down , Wheaton " , he said. He was
breathing in the difficult choked manner
of fat men in their rage. "Now " , I want
you to tell me something ; I want you to
answer up fair and square. I've got to
come right down to brass tacks with you
and I want you to tell me the truth. , How
much Traction has Billy Porter got ? "
"I don't know what right you've got
to ask me such a question , " Wheafon an-
swered , coldly.
"No right-no right ! " Margrave pant-
ed. "You miserable fool what do you
kuow or mean by right or wrong either ?
I can take my medicine as well as the
next man but when a friend does me up.
then : I throw up my hands. \Vliy .did you :
tell : me you : knew what Porter was doing
anil lead me to think- "
" : \Ir. Margrave , " said Wheaton , "I
didn't . come here to be abused by you. If
I've done you any injury , I'm not aware P
of ) it. " tl
"I guess that's right " said Margrave ,
ironically. "What I want to know is c
what you let me think Porter wasn't tak- b
ing hold of Traction for ? You knew I
was going into it. I told you that with
the fool idea that you were a friend of
mine. : You told me the old man Lad di
stopped buying - " difr :
"And when I did I betrayed a confi- frol
dence < , " said Wheaton. "I had no busi-
ol
ness tell you anything of the kind. "
"When you : told me that , " Margrave
went on in . bitter derision , shaking his a
in AVhcaton's " il
finger ( face - "when you told
me that you told me a lie , that's what
you did , Jim "Th aton. "
"You can't talk to me that way , " said
Wheatou. \ "When I told you that , I be yo
lieved it , " and he added , with a sc-cond'a
hesitation , "I still believe it. " ' er
"Don't lie any . more to me about it. I lu :
can take my medicine as well as the cR.tt
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man , but" - swaying his big head b-ick Pi
ind forth on his fat shoulders - "when a it.
man plays . ' . . . ; a trick on Tim Margrave : , I
tvant ! him : to know when Margrave : finds
out. I never thought it of you , Jim.
I've always treated you a $ white as I th :
new how ; I've been glad to see you in zi
J" ; house - "
"I don't know what you're driving at , ar
Ut I want you to stop abusing me , " ng
aid Wheaton , with more vigor of tone
ban he /had / yet manifested. "I never
id a word to you : about Mr. Porter in
tonnection : with Traction that I didn't sp
hink ; true. The only mistake I made was
saying anything to you : at all ; but I
bought < you were a friend of mine. If
.nybody's been deceived , I'm the one. "
"Let me ask you something. Haven't bo
u known all these weeks when I've
ieen seeing you every few days at the
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welt on the second clause as if the wo
reach of hospitality on Wheaton's part he's
d been the grievous offense - " : ven't
11 known that the old man was chasing off
ver the country in his carpet slippers
uying all that , stock he could lay his
ands on ? " ( I
"On my sacred honor , I have not. 1
7hen we talked of it I knew he had been in
uying some , but I thought he'd stopped.
I let you understand. I'm sorry if
I were misled by anything I said. " f
"Well , that's all ' over now , " said Mar- I
race , 'in a conciliatory tone. "I've been
dying on your information ; in fact , I've ]
I it in mind to make you treasurer of ow
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That ought ! to show you what a lot of
s confidence I've been putting in you all
. this time that you've been watching me
run into the soup clear up to my chin. : :
"I'm ) honestly sorry' ' - began Wheaton.
"I had no idea you were depending on
me. You ought to have known that I
couldn't betray Mr. Porter. "
"You ought to be sorry , " said Mar
. grave , dolefully. "But , look here , Jim ,
I don't believe you're going to do me ti p
on this. " Pt
"I'm not going ' to do anybody up ; but
I don't see what I can do to help 'ou. "
" ' Fell , I do. You gave me to under
stand that you were buying this stuff :
yourself. You still got what you had ?
Now , how many shares have you , Jim ? "
"Just what I bought in the beginning ;
one hundred shares. "
Margrave took a pad from his desk and
added one hundred to a short column of
figures. He made the footing and regard
ed the total with careless interest before
looking up.
. "How . much do 'ou want for that ,
Jim ? "
"To tell the truth , Mr. Margrave : , I
don't know that I want to sell it. "
"Now , Jim , you ain't going to hold
me up ' on this ? You've gt me into a
pretty mess , and I hope you're not going
to keep on pushing me in. "
"What I have wouldn't do you any
good. "
"But it might do me some harm ! Now ,
you don ' t want thess shares Jim. You're
entitled to a profit , and I'll pay you a
fair price. " -
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ter , " said Wheaton. IIe remembered just
how h the drawing -room at the Porter '
looked : , and the kindness and frankness
of Evelyn Porter's eyes.
"Yes but you've got a duty to me. .
You can bet your life that if it hadn't
I been for you , I'd never have been ! in this
I pickle. Come along now , Jim , I've got a
lot of our railroad people to go in on
this. They depend absolutely on my
judgment. I'm a ruined man if I fail to
show up at the meeting to-morrow with
a majority of these * shares. It won't make
any difference " to Billy Porter whether he
wius out or not. He's got plenty of irons
in the fire. I don't know as a matter of
fact that I need these shares ; but I want
'to ba on the safe side. How much shall
I make the check for. Jim ? ? "
"You can't make it for anything , Mr.
Margrave : : , and I want to say that I'm
verymuch disappointed in ! the way you've
tried to get it from me. I can't imagine
that thin few shares of stock I Hold can
be of real importance in deciding the
control of this company. I don't say I
won't give you these shares , but I can't
do it now. " '
Margrave's : face grew red and purple as
Wheatou walked ! : toward the door.
"Ml 'he- you think you can wring more
out of Porter than you can out of me.
But I'll tike : this out of you and out of
him , too , if I go broke doing it. : '
( To be continued. )
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. Poetry uml Patriotism.
Zakris Topelius , "the most popula.
of'L. ever known , " was
a lover of his native land above all
else. . Once , says Paul Waineman in
"A. Summer Tour in Finland , " he
wrote as follows to a little Finnish
boy ; who was at the time residing in
England for his schooling :
"You are in a great and rich coun
try , but never forget that you are only
an exile.
"If Quecn Victoria herself should
write and offer you a post in her king
dom , remember that you must answer ,
' 1 cannot , because I have a cottage
waiting for me when I am grown up.
It has a roof higher than the loftiest
iiall : ; in Windsor Castle. That roof is , :
the blue sky of my own land. ' " .
What lie Escaped.
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"I was mighty sorry : to learn tha\ :
your wife had left you , old fellow. " I
"Oh well , it might have been worse. " ;
"I am : glad you can find the philoso-
phy that enables you to look : .at it in :
that way. "
"Sure ; lia , ' en't you heard that the
coming ' < gowns for women will have 500 1
buttons ? " Exchange. :
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'l' lC Oldest of Profe.sNions. a.I
An eld friend of the family had
dropped in to see a young lawyer whose f !
fathor was still paying his office rent d
"So you are now practicing law , " the b
old friend said .
, genially. 01
"No , sir , " said the candid youth. " ] 01fc ! ,
appear ] to be , Taut I am really practio fccl
ing economy. " Youth's Companion. clSI Ii
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Trials of Foreign Travel.
"Did you do much sightseeing whel
rou went abroad ? " a
"No. " i * answered ! ' Mr. Cumrox. " ) Ioth - hi )
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and the girls did the sightseeing. 1
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lad to put in my time finding the
ilace. : : ; . where they cash letters of cred- P >
. " Washington Star.
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I Returned Willi Thanks. a1
Binncr - I was under the impression IIj
lmt the new editor of Blank's Maga- al
sine : was a young : man. =
Rhymer thought so , too ; but he
ippears to have reached his declin
; g years.
Did Not Match.
Ellen-Are you going abroad thiy
pring : ?
Ernest - No.
Ellen Why not ?
Ernest - My means are too narrow to
abroad.
Blnybe So.
Tommy - Say , pa , when a man'
rool-gathering , don't that mean thai
e's lnz'e ?
Pa - No. He may be gathering wool ]
the lambs in Wall street.
Mean of Minnie.
Claude - Oh , Minnie , I have an Ideal !
Minnie - Treat It kindly , Claude , it' .
a strange place. - Yale Record. .
Naturally.
She - Man springs from a monkey.
He : - And women from a mouse.
Every Jmiller ! draw the water to bll
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. . OMEN In Turkey Insist upon freedom as well as men , and
W under the changed conditions of government due to th1 ; . tri
umph of the Y.oung Turk party and the deposition of Sultan
Abdul Hamid II. will rapidly rise to the status of their sis
.m ters in other EuropeaTi lands , according to Reotif Ahnad Bey ,
- . . . ' " acting Consul General of Turkey in New York City and sec
retary of the Turkish legation in Washington. As quoted by
the New York Sunday World , he said about the recent changes and their
consequences :
"As the years go by the Mosletawomen will not feel bound by the con.
ventions that bind them now as part of the old order. They will adopt
the ideas of conventional association of men and women ; receptions and
social gatherings that are , with affairs :
you , everyday , lending useful recre-
ation to women and enlarging their knowledge , will soon be as common
In Turkey as they are in Western countries. The men of Turkey are at
heart as liberal in this regard as other men.
"It may be a quarter of a century beforo . Turkey achieves prominence
as an Industrial nation , but that ' Js only . a day in her long history. In the
next few years you will witness such activity in the fields that Turkey
will be supplying foreign markets with breadstuffs , and in five years from
now , I venture to predict , she will be among the first of the cotton-growing
countries. We can raise better cotton than Egypt , which now Is supposed to
raise the best , and we can raise .
infinitely more of it. The possibilities
of cotton growing In Mesopotamia are boundless , and the new govern
ment will encourage it in every way. A large company has been , formed in
Constantinople to colonize Mesopotamia for the purpose and the govern-
ment has issued $45,000,000 of bonds and employed an English engineer to
sestablish It
order.
"The Turkish people are progressive. Government oppression has not
diminished this spirit in them nor quieted their desire for liberty. That
the masses have made no advancement is not because they are less capable
of helping themselves than the masses of the people everywhere else , but
because they have had neither Incentive nor opportunity. The government
gave them nothing and took everything from them. All they could inaka
at their best was taken from them in taxes to enrich the personal retainers
of the Sultan. Until now Turkey has been a government for the betterment
of palace officials only.
"From top to bottom of the social scale all the people of Turkey , with
the few exceptions that it is not necessary for me to note , are in favor of
popular government , and , understanding the principles of it as they do ,
are ready for it. The franchise will be '
as free In Turkey as it is in the
United " States , and you will see that an intelligent use will be made of it.
"It is like an impression here and abroad that
the Turkish people con-
sider the Sultan a sacred being
something
more than human. You pos-
sibly have heard It said that ihe Turkish soldier fights desperately in the
conviction that he is fighting for a deity in
doing battle in the name of
the Sultan. The Turk has no such illusions. No lack of proof of this is to
be found " in the fact that seven Sultans before Abdul Hamid have been
deposed.
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SOME MAHSIED JISDITATIOKS.
By Clarence L Cullen.
Favorite feminine Bromldlon : "All
men are perfect boobies when they're
sick abed. "
The man who permits his wife to
designate ; a certain little spot In . the
house as the one place in which he
shall smoke deserves all that he gets ,
and he never fails to get it.
Slathers of married women get in
. bad by heeding the queer advice of
Lady Pensmiths ( mostly spinsters ) ,
whose dictum is that the proper way
to hold a husband is to hold him at
arm's length.
The highly exalted faithfulness of
women often is a matter of plain pol
icy. Plenty of careless men would
strictly toe the faithful mark if their
reward for so doing were to be agree- i
ably taken care of for life.
The man who knows the difference
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at : sight between a $25 embroidered
shirtwaist : ; and one of those cute lit-
Jle ruffle-front $1.48 shirtwaists usu-
ally is a finale person , whose opinion
ibn't [ worth valuing anyhow.
It is the woman who shrieks at
"Central" through the phone and calls
hter ? saucy hussy and such like who
wooers why it is that telephone girls
\ j"so much more polite and prompt
Jn ] responding to men's calls.
Familiar quotation : "Oh , I've got
plenty of leftover summer clothes ,
learle. All I'll need to eke out will
je a few little linen suits and seven
or eight more shirtwaists and three or
our summery hats and some tan and
5hampagne-colored shoes and a new
supply of silk stockings just a few
ittle odds and ends like those ! "
Did you . ever feel kind of onery
tnd things with yourself when , after
lowlng J $7.85 on a bunch of cheer-
ful workers , you went home and found
ler tacking some frizzled old sweet
peas on , a last year's hat frame ?
Extract from "The Dairy of a Neg-
ected Wife : . " " 'Tis now mid-summer ,
.nd my birthday is in December and
my husband hasn't said one word
.bout it yet , nor what he.is going to
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get me. Gracious power , give me the
strength to go on enduring. "
An Unofficial Visit.
One should always distinguish be '
tween the private and the official ,
ca
pacity of a person. : The way of the
policeman may thus be made hard be
cause he is forced to arrest his friends ,
sometimes his former comrades. Nev
ertheless , stern necessity demands that
the distinction should be kept. A
writer in the New York Times tells
how the Russian novelist , Tolstoi , is
wont to act when occasion demands.
Tolstoi abominates sneaks and spies
of all kinds. Melikoff
, a sneak and a
spy , he especially abominates.
One day Melikoff suspecting that a
good deal of
revolutionary work
was
going on at Tolstoi's estate , dropped in
unexpectedly. : : :
"Do you come , " said Tolstoi to him ,
" . i
"officially , or as a private person ? If
you come officially , . here are my keys.
Search. Exemanlne everything. You
are quite free to do so. "
"But , count , " said Melikoff , "believe
me , I come to
you as a private
per-
son. "
son.Tolstoi
Tolstoi looked at him in silence.
Then , calling two stalwart muzhiks ,
he said :
"Here , pitch this man out of the *
house ! "
More than She Could Bear.
Marion was a little American
girl
of six years. For three months her
mother and aunt had dragged her
through the museums and art gal-
leries of Europe.
She was made to look at the slip
pers of Marie :
Antoinette , the
prayer-
book ' of Catherine de Medici , hats of'
Napoleon and endless
numbers of
un-
interesting Madonnas. These , her
mother told her constantly she must
remember , for when she grew up she
would realize how 4
famous
they were.
At last Marlon : rebelled. She '
re
fused to go to
go a world-famed
mu-
seum. After much persuasion , she $
yielded upon one condition. I to <
"I'll go any place you like , " she to
said , "if you'll promise
. never again c <
to make me look at anything famous. " 5
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Only a rich man finds a $5 bill in to (
his pockets he didn't know he had.
to (
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i1CiAL :
CHICAGO.
The bank statements show the ag
resources nearer the $1,000-
gregate :
'
hither
000,000 mark than at : : any time
' condI-
otherwIse favorable
to , and the
reflecting
tion of the principal items
financial strength testify to distinct
progress in business genera 11 y. The
first half of the year is now virtually
the
with
completed. A comparison
same period of last year discloses
banks
gains ; in payments through the
cent in bank re
equal to 19 per , :
sources 12 per cent , jn deposits 12.o
per cent , in loans 13 per cent , in value
r and in
cent
77
of new buildings d per and.
value of business improvements 214
per cent. Commercial \ failures are
also notably reduced in numbers , an . ---s
in liabilities the amount is 33 per
cent under 1908 and 52 per cent under
1906.
"All the comparisons with the great
business-year of 1006 exhibit more
substantial gains except discounts ; at m
the banks , which appreciated 12.2 . per I
cent. The more recent _ .comparison
also includes recovery in values of va-
rious commodities and remarkably
high quotations in breadstuffs , live
stock and provisions.
"The current developments continue
along the line of sustained recovery.
The warm wave stimulated leading re-
tail lines to seasonable activity , sales
comparing favorably with previous
records in light-weight apparel , food
products and housewares. Advices
from the interior reflect a gratifying
reduction of store stocks and some
moderate replenishment. Wholesale
bookings for fall deliveries continue
rising in dry goods , footwear , clothing ,
men's furnishings , carpets and draper-
ies. Earnings of the Chicago steam
roads indicate sustained improvement
in the movements of heavy materials.
Bank clearings $250 , 60,473 , exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 20.6 per cent and compare
with $237,547,969 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 19 , against 26 las
week , 32 in 1908 and 20 in 1907. / \
Those with liabilities over $5,000 num- " -
ber 7 , against 9 last week ; 9 in 1908 ' ,
and 5 in 1907.-Dun's Weekly Review
of Trade.
.
NEW YORK.
Improvement is more manifest this
week , the mainspring of this being bet-
ter weather and crop reports and fur-
ther expansion in the volume of in-
dustrial operations. Retail reports
are still rather irregular , excessive
heat being credited with retarding dis-
tribution in some sections , but , on the
whole , sales of summer goods have
been benefited by more seasonable
temperatures. .
Jobbing trade reports are slightly J
better , pointing to an improvement in ' : , , -
re-order demand , but by far the best /
reports as to distributive trade still
come from wholesale lines , which rep-
resent crop reports stimulating the
placing of business for next fall and
spring delivery. The industries led
by iron and steel show expansion of
operation , larger output , some wage !
advances , and more confidence is ex i
pressed than at any preceding time ,
since : ; the depression began. The situ-
ation in leather
trades is
one of great ,
strength.
Business failures In the United
States : > for the week ending with June '
24 were 225 , against 213 last week ,
258 in the
like week of 1908 , 150 in
1907 , 146 in 1906 and 186 in 1905. .
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 30 , which compares with
28 : last week and 31 in the like week
of 1908. - Bradstreet'a .
OF
9 Tm
Chicago-Cattle , common to prime ,
4.00 to $7.35 ; hogs , prime
heavy
, $4 . 50
I ) $7.85 ; ; sheep , fair to choice , $4.25
D $6.00 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.45 to $1.50- ;
corn , No. ; 2 , 71c to 72c ; oats , standard
o3c to 54c ; rye , No. 2 84c '
. , to 85c : ' hay ,
timothy , $8.00 to $15.00 ; prairie , $8.00
) $14.00 ; butter choice
,
creamerY
<
creamery . . _ > c
) 25c ; eggs , fresh *
, 17c
to 21c ; pota-
toes , new , per bushel , 50c to 78c.
Indianapolis-Cattle _ , shipping $3.00
J $ < > . < > 0 ; hogs , good to
_ choIce .
3.oO to $8.00 ; sheep , good to choice heavy
. . .50 ,
to $6.15
< > wheat
; , No. 2
, $1 . 40 to
5l.oO ; corn , No. 2 white
, 75c
to 76c-
oats No. ;
, 2 white , 54c to 55c. '
St. Louis-Cattle
, $4.00
to $715- ;
ogs , $4.00 to . ,
$7.90
; .1
sheep , $3OOto .
o.oO ; wheat , No.2
, $1.49 to
$1.50
; ;
orn , No. 2
71c
, to 73c
_ ; oats , No . - ' )
2 , 5 _ c
I o3c ; rye , No. 2 , 84c to 86c.
Toledo - Wheat , No. 2
mixed
$1
$14G ;
'
. $ 1.48 ; corn , No. 2 mixed , 74c ' to t r
IC ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 56c
to 57crye '
.
o. I . . . , 88c to 89c ; rye
. . ; clover seed $6 . 60 "
Cincinnati-Cattle , $4.00 to
o $6 50-
hogs I $4.00 to ' ;
$8.10
; sheep $3.00't
: , $ . 0 to
$4.a ; wheat , \ , o. 2 , $1.48 to $1.S0
corn , No. 2 ;
mIxed .
, 741i
. ! to 75c.
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; Oats
) . 2 mixed , 56c to57c , ' . ' " . " , \
; 'M."e , No. 2 ' ,
o.
c to 9' .c. , , :
,
" i
" . !
New Y rk-Cattle. V
. S4.00
to
.
-
$665- 'i
logs. ' $3.50 to $8.00 ; ;
sheep , .
_ $3.00
to ,
$5.00 ; Whet , No 2
Whet0',2 red .
: , , $1.46 to $1.47
rn , No. 2 , 79c to 80c' ;
. _ ; oats , natural
white , 59c to 62c ; butter
' creamery , 1
to 26c ; eggs , , '
western
. , 17c to
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