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L.1 .i-a iLk VV -. My,--e"t ' &';' ' jC-.;- STv-v1)i.j-y ,,-i-jj s rtr Vt'---JriL-ty -' sSt r:-"fiii- Ar" rv - V'P'TO? -VK..V$gl4j f jtJJ& $ &ryj ?" - ?r' .'V- 1 10' a r, i i i! in I t I Columbus Journal R. a TWOTHER, Utter. P. K. sTrftOTHER, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. Accordiag to Immemorial usage, Ea Tapcaa servaats are eatitned to tips aa aa assared part of their income. At fke hotels the theory fa that the landlord famishes a guest a private rooai aad the aae of the public rooms, heat aad light, food and dishes, bat aot mealal service. For convenience he keeps at hand a corps of servants who will respond to the guest's sum mons, but at his expense. In old times, says Travel Magazine, travelers were attended by their own servants to wait oa them. The modern custom echoes the ancient The traveler nc longer carries with him a retinue of servants, because he can hire tempor arily those of the landlord. The ens ternary fees are the payment To avoid feeing is really to cheat the ser vants, who need all they can get, heaven knows. A chambermaid at the .best hotels receives as wages oaly about two dollars a month. Tipping servants in America is a regrettable imitation of the European custom, without its resting on the reasonable ibasls of the foreign institutions. American Chivalry. Toward women the American man's attitude is fine. She is neither his deity nor his doll. He simply treats her with deference. His chivalry has as little to do with saccharine utter ances, scraping feet and bended knees, as has his patriotism with hys terical shriekings and the waving of ensanguined flags. He is stronger in his silence and apparent submission to the ladies of his household than the most blatant vulgarian who prates of domestic domination. Place aux Dames is more than a phrase to the American man. His inborn respect for her "rights" often causes him to sacrifice his own God-given privileges. Upon the face of the earth or upon the waters thereon, says Minna Thomas Antrim in Lippincott's, exists bo more chivalrous being than the American gentleman. Again comes a statement going to show the great access of prosperity that has come to the farmers of the, country, notably in the west, from a succession of big crops. The receipts, from this source have enabled the farmers to pay off an enormous; amount of mortgages and to put great sums of money in the banks, which? explains the abundance of funds in some western quarters and the lack f need of drawing on the east for a supply. The latest movement by the farmers is toward forming a combina tion, or trust for maintaining and regulating prices. Is it possible that the lair of the octopus is to be re moved from Wall street and other re-. sorts of high finance and located on the boundless prairie? : The burning of the art treasures ia 'John Waaamaker's home, of manu script Lincoln and Washington letters, of rare books and pictures impossible to replace, is a public as well as a private loss. Of such objects no man can be more than a trustee for poster ity, remarks the New York World. The loss of the manuscript letters re calls the burning of Major Lambert's collection of similar treasures in Philadelphia only a short time ago Mr. Waaamaker had reason to sup pose that he had protected the greater part of his collections by a fire-wall catting of the art galleries from the rest of his house, but the galleries weat with the rest when the blazing wall of the house crashed through their roof. The amazing thing in connection with the endless chain system of prayers, begging letters, etc., which cause so much annoyance to their re cipients and to postal authorities is that anyone can be influenced by the dread of ill fortune befalling him If he fails to obey the injunction to con tinue the chain by writing nine other letters. The simple and effective way of stopping the nuisance is for the recipient to drop all such mail into the waste basket and then to forget it Consul M. K. Moorhead, reporting from Belgrade, says that minister of agriculture has presented to the Sknpshttna, or national assembly, for ratification a concession to be granted to aa Eaglish company for building a packtag plant at Paratchin, about 199 miles south of Belgrade, on the rail road to Constantinople. There is ia Pitsbarg a magistrate who thinks mince pie Is likely to make people commit crimes. Why Joes he overlook the crime-breeding properties of the Welsh rarebit? The tailors have decreed that eve aiag clothes mast be either blue or Oxford gray. Hat shoes and linen should 'conform, of course. Ia order aot to lose sight of your object, ia life, It may be well to have oae that is aot too far away. A western .preacher advises young people to take a book with them wherever they .go.: Oae they will find a good deal of ase for is the pocket book. A Toledo physician announces that air aad water are all the food we need. So an that trouble about the pare-food law was for aotatag. Newspaper advertisiag begaa 1SSZ. Bat with some people it aot Magna yet fa vaY" ir Rhsi rf- 'm7' vRaaaaaaaaaaaav V -aaaaaaaaatt SBamBvBBaaaaaV wb ' bbbbbbbbk BaaBBBiWr aawaaaaaaaaaV ajr -" iHHT n bbbbbbbbbbbw THE DELUGE (CQ&SXSffT JSQF && CHAPTER XXVIII. Continued. I braced myself for the worst "She is about to tell me that she is leav ing," thought L But I managed to say: "I'm glad to hear of your luck," though I fear my tone was not espe ciailj joyous. "So," she went on, "I am In a posi tion to pay back to you, I think, what my father and Sam took from you. It won't be enough, I'm afraid, to pay what.you lost indirectly. But I have told the lawyers to make it all over to you." I could have laughed aloud. It was too ridiculous, this situation into which I had got myself. I did not know what to say. I couw nanny keep out of my face how foolish this collapse of my crafty conspiracy made me feel. And then the futy meaning of what she was doing came over me the revelation of her character. I trusted myself to steal a glance at her; and for the firsj time I didn't see the thrilling azure sheen over her smooth white skin, though all her beauty was before me, as dazzling as when it compelled me to resolve to win her. No; I saw her, herself the woman within. I had known from the outset that there was an altar of love within my temple of passion. I think that was my first real visit to it "Anita!" I said, unsteadily. "Anita!" The color, flamed in her cheeks; we were silent for a long time. "You your people owe me noth ing," 1 at length found voice to say. "Even if they did. I couldn't and wouldn't take your money. But be lieve me. they owe me nothing." "You cannot mislead me." she an swered. "When they asked me to be come engaged to you, they told me about it" I had forgotten. The whole repul sive, rotten business came back to me. And, changed man that I had become in the last six months, I saw myself as I had been. I felt that she was looking at me, was reading the de grading confession in my telltale features. "I will tell you the whole truth," said I. "I did use your father's and your brother's debts to me as a means of getting to you. But, before God, Anita. I swear I was honest with you when I said to you I never hoped or wished to win you in thai way!" "I believe you," she replied, and her tone and expression made my -heart leap with indescribable joy. Love is sometimes most unwise in his use of the reins he puts on pas sion. Instead of acting as impulse commanded, I said clumsily: "And 1 am very different to-day from what I was last spring." It never occurred to me bow she might interpret those words. "I know," she replied. She waited several seconds before adding: "I, too, have changed. I see that I was far more guilty than you. There is no excuse for me. I was badly brought up, as you used to say, but " "No no " I began to protest She cut me short with a sad: "You need not be polite and spare my feel ings. Let's not talk of it Let us go back to the object I had in coming for you to-day." "You owe me nothing," I repeated. "Your brother and your father set tled long ago. I lost nothing through them. And I've learned that if I had never known you. Roebuck and Lang don would -still have attacked me." "What my uncle gave me has been transferred to you." said she. woman fashion, not hearing what she did not care to heed. "I can't make you ac cept it; but there it is. and there it stays." "I cannot take it," said I. "If you insist on leaving it in my name, I sball simply return it to your uncle." "I wrote him what I had done," she rejoined. "His answer came yester day. He approves it" "Approves it!" I exclaimed. "You do not know how eccentric he Is," she explained, naturally misun derstanding my astonishment She took a letter from her bosom and handed it to me. I read: "Dear Madam: It was yours to do with as you pleased. If you ever find yourself In the mood to visit. Gull "WAS ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT FROM THE ICE-LOCKED ANITA OF A SHORT TIME BEFORE." House is open to you. provided you bring no maid. I will not have female servants about Yours truly, "HOWARD FORRESTER." "You will consent bow. will you aot?" she asked, as I lifted my eyes from this characteristic Bote. ' " l " that her peace of mind was at stake. "Yes I consent" She gave a great sigh as at the lay- ixEBXizoamtNX ing down of a heavy burden. "Thank you," was all she said, but she pat a world of meaning into the words. She took the first homeward turaiag. We were' nearly at the house before I found words that would pave the way toward expressing my thoughts my longings and hopes. "You say you have forgiven me," said L "Then we can be friends?" She was silent and I took her som ber expression to mean that she feared I was aiding some subtlety. "I mean just what I say, Anita," I hastened to explain. "Friends sim ply friends." And my manner 'fitted my words. She looked strangely at me. "You would be content with that?" she asked. I answered what I thought would please her. "Let us make the best of our bad bargain," said I. "You can trust me now, don't you think you can?" She nodded without speaking; we were at the door, and the servants were hastening out to receive us. Always the servants between us. Servants indoors, servants outdoors; morning, noon and night, from waking to sleeping, these servants to whom we are slaves. As those interrupting servants sent us each a separate way, her to her maid, me to my valet I was depressed with the chill that the op portunity that has not been seen leaves behind it as it departs. "Well," said I to myself by way of consolation, as I was dressing for dinner, "she is certainly softening to ward you. and when she sees the new house you will be still better friends." But, when the great day came, I was not so sure. Alva went for a "private view" with young Thornley; out of her enthusiasm she telephoned me from the very midst of the surround ings she found 'so wonderful aad so beautiful" thus she assured me, aad her voice made it impossible to doubt And, the evening before the great day, I going for a final look round, could find no flaw serious enough to justify, the sinking feeling that came over me every time I thought of what Anita would think when she saw my efforts to realize her dream. I set out for "home" half a dozen times at least that afternoon, before I pulled myself together, called myself an ass, and. with a pause at Delmonico's for a drink, which I ordered and then re jected, finally pushed myself in at the door. What a state my nerves were in! Alva had departed; Anita was wait ing for me ia her; sitting-room. When she heard me in the hall, just outside, she stood in the doorway. "Come in." she said to me, who did not dare so much as glance at her. I entered. I must have looked as I felt like a boy, summoned before the teacher to be whipped In presence of the entire school. Then I was con scious that she had my hand how she had got it I don't know and that she was murmuring, with tears of happiness in her voice: "Oh, I can't say It!" "Glad you like your own taste." said I awkwardly. "You know, Alva told me." "But it's one thing to dream, and a very different thing to do." she an swered. Then, with smiling reproach: "And I've been thinking all sunnier that you were ruined! I've been ex pecting to hear every day that you had had to give up the fight" "Oh that passed long ago," said I. "But you never told me," she re minded me. "And I'm glad you didn't," she added. "Not knowing saved me from doing something very foolish." She reddened a little, smiled a great deal, dazzlingly, was altogether dif ferent from the ice-locked Anita of a short time before, different as June from January. And her hand so in tensely alive seemed extremely com fortable in mine. Even as my blood responded to that touch, I had a twinge of cynical bitterness. Yes, apparently I was at last getting what I had so long, so vainly, and, latterly, so hopelessly craved. But why was she giving it? Why had she withheld herself until this moment of material happiness? "I have to pay the rich man's price," thought I, with a sigh. It was in reaching out for some sweetness to take away this bitter taste in my honey that I said to her, "When you gave me that money from your uncle, you did it to help me out?" She colored deeply. "How silly you must have thought me!" she an swered. I took her other hand. As I was drawing her toward me, the sudden pallor of her face and chill of her hands halted me ouce more, brought sickeningly before me the early days of my courtship when she had infuri ated my pride by trying to be "sub missive." I looked round the room that room into which I had put so much thought and money. Money! "The rich man's price!" those deli cately brocaded ' walls shimmered mockingly at me. "Anita," said I, "do you care for me?" She murmured inaudibly. Evasion! thought I, and suspicion sprang on guard, bristling. "Anita." I repeated sternly, "do you care for me?" "I am you wife," she replied, her heat drooping still lower. And hesi tatingly she drew away from me. That seemed confirmation of my doubt aad I said to her satirically, "You are will ing to be my wife out of gratitude, to put it politely?" She looked straight into my eyes aad answered, "I can oaly say there is ao oae I like so well, and I will give you all I have to give." "Like!" I exclaimed 'contemptuous- fly, my nerves giviag way altogether. Aad yoa would be my wife! Do you waat me to despise .yoa?" I strack dead my poor, feeble hope that had beea all bat still-bora. I rushed from the room, cloaiag the door violeatiy Sack was our hoasewarmlBg. XXIX. BLACKLOCK OPENS FIRE. For what I proceeded to do, all aorta of motives, from the highest to the basest, have beea attributed to me. Here is the truth: I had already pushed the medicine of hard work to Its limit It was as powerless against this new development as water agaiast a drunkard's thirst I must flad some new, some compelling drug some frenzy of activity that would swallow up myself as the battle makes the soldier forget his toothache. This confession may chagrin many who have believed In me. My enemies will hasten to say: "Aba. his motive was even more selfish and petty than was alleged." But those who look at human nature honestly, and from the Inside, will understand how I can con cede that a selfish reason moved me to draw my sword, and still can claim a higher motive. In such straits as were suae, some men of my all-or-none temperament debauch them selves; others thresh about blindly, reckless whether they strike innocent or guilty. I did neither. Probably many will recall that long before the "securities" of the reorgan ized coal combine were Issued, I bad In my daily letter to investors been preparing the public to give them a fitting reception. A few days after my whole being burst into flames or resentment against Anita, out came the new array of new stocks and bonds. Roebuck and Langdon ar- ranged with the underwriters for a li -v--" 'Mut I PUSHED THROUGH THEM." "fake" four times over-subscription, indorsed by the two greatest banking houses in the Street Despite this oftentried and always-good trick, the public refused to buy. I felt I had not been overestimating my power. But I made no move until the "securities" began to go up, and the financial re porters under the influence where not actually in the pay of the Roebuck-Langdon clique shouted that, "in spite of the malicious attacks from the gambling element the new securities are being absorbed by the public at prices approximating their value." Then But I sball quote my investors' letter the following morn ing: "At half-past nine yesterday nine- twenty-eight to be exact President Melville, of the National Industrial Bank, loaned six hundred thousand dollars. He loaned it to Bill Van Nest aa ex-gambler and proprietor of pool looms, now silent partner in Hoe ft Wlttekind,' brokers, on the New York Stock Exchange, and also ia Fil bert ft Jonas, curb brokers. He loaned It to Van Nest without security. "Van Nest used the money yester day to push up the price of the new coal securities by 'wash sales' which means, by making false purchases and sales of the stock in order to give the public the impression of eager buying. Van Nest sold to himself and bought from himself 347,060 of the 352.681 shares traded in. "Melville, In addition to being pres ident of one of the largest banks in the world, is a director in no less than seventy-three great industrial en terprises, including railways, telegraph companies, savings banks and life in- mmmmmmtm ommmmaeomam Germs on, Ten The Bight officer found the old farmer sitting on the steps of a vacant house contentedly shewing a straw. "Waiting for anyone?" asked the of ficer, suspiciously. "Yep." responded the old man la confidence. "I am waitin for the scientist to get back." "What scleatistr "Why, the one with my ten dollar bill. He slapped ,me on the back and told me that thar be 17- different saraace compaale. Bill Vaa Nest doae Urn fa the Nevada State Peat teattary for horse-stealing " That was all Aad ft was eawagh- quite eaough. I was a aatloaa: figure. as much so as if I had tried to slaate the president Indeed. I exploded a bomb under a greater taaa the president under the chiefs of the real government of the United States, the government that levied dally upon every citizen, and that had state aad national aad the principal municipal goverameats in its strong box. I confess I was as much astounded at the effect of my bomb as old Mel ville must have been. I felt that I had been obscure, as I looked at the newspapers, with Matthew Blacklock appropriating almost the entire front page of each. I was the isolated, the conspicuous figure, standing alone upon the steps of the temple of Mam mon, where mankind daily and de voutly comes to offer worship. Not that the newspapers praised me. I recall none that spoke well of me.. The nearest approach to praise was the "Blacklock squeals on the Wall Street gang" in one of the sen sational penny sheets that strengthen the plutocracy by lying about it Some of the papers insinuated that I had gone mad; others that I had been bought up by a rival gang to the Roebuck-Langdon clique; still others thought I was simply hunting noto riety. All were Inclined to accept as a sufficient denial of my charges Melville's dignified refusal "to notice any attack from a quarter so dis credited." As my electric whirled into Wall Street. I saw the crowd in front of the Textile building, a dozen police men keeping it in order. I descended amid cheers, and entered my offices J through a mob struggling to shake . 41 hands with me and. iu my ignorance of mob mind. I was 'delighted and inspired! Just why a man who knows men. knows how wisby-wishy they are as Individuals, should be influenced by a demonstration from a mass of them, is hard to understand. But the fact is indisputable. They fooled me then; they could fool me again. In spite of all I have been through. There probably wasn't one in that mob for whose opinion I would have had the slightest respect bad he come to me alone; yet as I listened to those shallow cheers and those worthless assurances of "the people are behind you. Blacklock." I felt that I was a man with a mission! Our main office was full, literally full, of newspaper men reporters from morning papers, from afternoon papers, from out-of-town and foreign papers. I pushed through them, say ing as I went: "My letter speaks for me, gentlemen, and will continue to speak for me. I have nothing to say except through it." . . "But the public " urged one. "It doesn't interest me," said I. on my guard against the temptation to cant "I am a banker and investment broker. I am interested only in1 my customers." And I shut myself in. giving strict orders to Joe that there was to be no talking about me or my campaign. 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