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7 w m y p f ^ c y i « ^ S J ^ *« ^ , " *' * . . v , * ' - . > - >- ,\ -,;< . '• . '•• V/'V vt .* • t * •, * y " * ) , r \ T ^ ^ % i « * .r^;7«*':7"v»;fla . *.?• < •tj*r "Vr£ivf(^': -\"-r* W.' •,*""»» »• «'v^ .H*w %w--y. < i W V v**• r®» .*»•"•£>"<". 'v;1fl^r, ' »t-'< < /-. - ,s k- i* •• ; ... »•.•-•,••!. • *» ••"• ." •-• •• •• -* • '•?."•>. THE SPENDERS A Tale of the Third Generation By HARRY LEON WILSON Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Coapuj. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHINOOK CAME TO WALL. STREET. The loss of much money is com­ monly a subject to be managed with brevity and aversion by one who sits down with the right reverence for sheets of clean paper. To bewail is painfuL To affect lightness, on the other hand, would, in this age, savor >t insincerity, if not of downright blasphemy. More than a bare recital of the wretched facts, therefore, is not seemly. ' \ The Bines fortune disappeared much ' M a heavy fall of snow melts under the Chinook wind. That phenomenon is not uninterest­ ing. We may picture a far-reaching waste of snow, wind-furrowed until it resemble# a billowy white sea frozen motionless. The wind blows half a gale and the air is full of fine ice crys­ tals that sting; the face viciously. " The *un, lying low on the southern horizon, seems a mere frozen globe, with lus­ trous pink crescents encircling it. ° .. One day the wind backs and shifts. £ change portends. Even the herds of -Half-frozen range cattle sense it by tome subtle beast knowledge. They are no longer afraid to lie down as they may have been for a week. The Hanger of freezing has passed. The temperature has been at 50 degrees below zero. Now, suddenly it begins to rise. The air is scarcely in mo­ tion* but occasionally it descends as »ut of a blast furnace from overhead. To the southeast is a mass fit cftill black clouds. Their face is unbroken. But the upper edges are ragged, torn by a wind not yet felt below. Two hours later its warmth comes. In ten minutes the mercury goes up .35 de­ grees. The wind comes at a 30-mile velocity. It Increases in strength and warmth, blowing with a mighty roar. Twelve hours afterward the snow, three feet deep on a level, has melted. There are bald, brown hills every­ where to the horizon, and the plains are flooded with water. The Chinook lias come and gone. In this manner suddenly went the Bines fortune. April 30, Consolidated Copper closed at 91. Two days later, May 2, the drop of 40 points. Roughly the decline meant the loss of $100,000,000 to the 16,000 shareholders. From every city •j same ill-fated stock closed at 51--a Of importance in the country came tales more or less tragic of holdings wiped out, of ruined families, of defal­ cations and suicides. The losses In New York city alone were said to be $50,000,000. A few large holders, re­ puted to enjoy inside information, were said to have put their stock aside . And 'Isold short" in the knowledge of what was coming. Such tales are al­ ways popular in the street. Others not less popular had to do .Wlin the reasons for the slump. Many were plausible. A deal with the Roths­ childs for control of the Spanish mines had fallen through. Or, again, the •Slaughter was due to the Shepler group of Federal Oil operators, who were bent on forcing some one to unload a great quantity of the stock so that they might absorb it. The immediate causes were less recondite. The Con­ solidated company, so far from con­ trolling the output, Vras suddenly shown to control actually less than 50 per cent of it. Its efforts to amend or repeal the hardy old law of Supply and Demand had simply met with the Indifferent success that has marked all such efforts since the first attempted corner in stone hatchets, or mastodon tusks, or whatever it may have been, in the language of one of its news­ paper critics, the "trust" had been "founded on misconception and prompted along lines of self-destruc­ tion. Its fundamental principles were the restriction of product, the in­ crease of price and the throttling of competition, a trinity that would wreck any combination, business, po­ litical or social." With this generalization we have no concern As to the copper situation, the comment was pat It had been suddenly disclosed, not onl^ that no combination could be made TO include the European mines, but that the Con­ solidated company had an unsold sur- . plus of 150,0u0,000 pounds of copper; that it was producing 20,000,000 pounds % month mork^han could be sold, and Afi&t It had made large secret sales /•broad at from two to three cents be­ low the market price. As if fearing that these adverse con­ ditions did not sufficiently insure the stock's downfall, the Shepler group of Federal Oil operators beat it down further with what was veritably a golden sledge. That is, they exported gold at a loss. At a time when obliga­ tions could have been met more cheap­ ly with bought bills they sent out many golden cargoes at an actual losa of $300 on the half million. As money was already dear, and thus became dearer, the temptation and the means to hold copper stock, in spite of all dis­ couragements, were removed from the paths of hundreds of the harried hold­ ers. Incidentally, Western Trolley had gone into the hands of a receiver, a failure involving another $100,000,000, and Union Cordage had fallen 35 points through sensational disclosures «s to its overcapitalization. Into this maelstrom of a panic mar- lest thd Bines fortune had been sucked with a swiftness so terrible that the family's chiefadvising member was left dazed and! mcredulous. 6 For two days h£\clung to the ticker $gpe as to a life line. He had com­ mitted the millions of the family as lightly as ever he had staked $100 on the turn of a card or left ten on the 'change-tray for his waiter. * Then he had seen his cunningly built foundations, rested upon with hopes so Ugh for three months, melt away like enow when the blistering Chinook comes. It has been thought wise to adopt two somewhat differing similes in the foregoing, in order that the direness of the tragedy may be sufficiently appre­ hended. The morning of the first of the two last awful days, he was called to the office , of Fouts & Hendricks by tele­ phone. "Something, going to happen In Con­ solidated to-day." He had hurried downtown, flushed with confidence. He knew there was but one thing could happen. He had reached the office at ten and heard the first vicious little click of the ticker --thtft beating heart of the stock ex­ change--as it began the unemotional story of what men bought and sold dvfer on the floor. Its inventor died In the poorhouse, but capital would fare badly without his machine. Consoli­ dated was down three points. The crowd about t0e ticker grew absorbed at onoe. Reports came in over the telephone. The bears had made a set for the stock. It began to slump rap­ idly. As the stock was goaded down, point by point, the crowd of traders waxed more excited. As the stock fell, the banks request­ ed the brokers to margin Up their loans, and the brokers, In turn, re­ quested Percival to margin up his trades. The shares he had bought out* right went to cover the shortage in those he had bought on a 20 per cent margin. Loans were called later, and marginal accounts wiped out with ap­ palling informality. Yet when Consolidated suddenly ral­ lied three points just at the close of the day's trading, he took much com­ fort in It as an omen of the morrow. That night, however, he took but little satisfaction in Uncle Peter's renewed assurances of trust in his acumen. Uncle Peter, he decided all at once, was a fatuous, doddering old man, unable to realize that the whole fortune was gravely endangered. And 1 with the gambler's inveterate hope that luck must change, he forebore to undeceive the old man. Uncle Peter went with him to the office next morning, serenely inters ested in the prospects. "You got your pa's way of taking hold of big propositions. That's all I need to know," he reassured the young man, cheerfully. Consolidated Copper opened that day at 78, and went by two o'clock to 51. Percival watched the decline with * conviction that he was dreaming. He laughed to think of his relief when he should awaken. The crowd surged iabout the ticker, and their voices came as from afar. Their acts all had the weird inconsequence, of the people we see in dreams. YeC presently it had gone too far to be amusing. He must arouse himself and turn over on his Side. In five minutes, according to the dream, he had lost $5,000,000 as near­ ly as he could calculate. Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting. Then upon the tape he read another chapter of disaster. Western Trolley had gone into the hands of a receiver --a fine, fat, promising stock ruined without a word of warning; and while he tried to master this news the hor­ rible clicking tning declared that Union Cordage "was selling down to 58--a drop of exactly 35 points since morning. Fouts, with a slip of paper in his hand, beckoned him from the door of . RUINED!" his private office. He went dazedly in to him--and was awakened from the dream that he had been losing a for­ tune in his sleep. Coming out after a few moments, he went up to Uncle Peter, who had been sitting, watchful but unconcerned, in one of the armchairs along the wall. The old man looked up inquiringly. "Come inside, Uncle Peter!" They went into the private office of Fouts. Percival shut the door and they were alone. , "Uncle Peter, Burman's been sus­ pended on the board of trade; Fouts just had this over his private , wire. Corn broke to-day." "That so? Oh, well, maybe it was worth a couple of million to find out Burman plays corn like he plays poker; 'twas if you couldn't get It fur any less." "Uncle Peter, we're wiped out." "How, wiped out? What do ym mean, son?" "We're done, I tell you. We needn't care a damn now where copper goes to. We're out of it--and--Uncle Peter, we're broke." p' "Out of copper? Broke? But you said--" He seemed to be making an effort to comprehend. His lack of grasp was pitiful. "Out of copper, but there's Western Trolley and that Cordage stock--" "Everything wiped out, I tell you-- Union Cordage gone down 35 points, somebody let out the Inside secrets-- and God only knows how far Western Trolley's gone "down." "Are you all in?" "Every dollar--you knew that. But say," he brightened out of his despair, "there's the One Girl--a good pro­ ducer--Shepler knows' the property-- Shepler's in this block--" and he was gone. J The old man strolled out into the trading-room again. A curious grim smile softened his square jaw for a moment. He resumed his comfortable chair and took up a newspaper, glanc­ ing incidentally at the crows of ex­ cited men about the tickers. He had about him that air of repose which comes to big men who have stayed much in big out-of-door solitudes. "Ain't he a nervy old guy?" said a crisp little money broker to Fouts. "They're wiped out, but you wouldn't think be cared any more about it than Mike, the porter, with his brass polish out there." The old man held his paper up, but did not read. Percival rushed in by him, beckon­ ing him to the inner room. "Shepler's all right about the One GirL He'll take a mortgage on it for two hundred thousand if you'll recom­ mend it--only he can't get the money before to-morrow. There's bound to be a rally In this stock, and we'll go right back for some of the hair of the --why--what's the matter--Uncle Pe­ ter!" The old man had reeled, and then weakly caught at the top of the desk with both hands for support "Ruined!" he cried, hoarsely, as if the extent of the calamity had just borne in upon him. "My God! Ruined, and at my time of life!" He seemed about to collapse. Percival quickly helped him into a chair, where he be­ came limp. "There, I'm all right. Oh, it's ter­ rible! and we all trusted you so. I thought you had your pa's brains. I'd 'a' trusted you Boon's I would Sh€p^ ler, and now look what you led us into --fortune gone--broke--and all your fault!" I • "Dont, Uncle JPeter--dont for God's sake--not when I'm down! I can't stand it!" "Gamble away your own money- no, that wasn't enough--take your poor ma's share and your sister's, and take what little I had to keep me in my old age--robbed us all--that's what comes of thinkin' a damned tea- drinkin' fop could have a thimbleful of brains!" "Don't please--not -just now--giro it to me good later--to-morrow--all you want to!" "And here I'm come to want in my last days when I'm too feeble to work. I'll die in bitter privation because I was an old fool, and trusted a young one." "Please don't, Uncle Peter!" "You led us in--robbed your poor ma and your sister. I told you I didn't know anything about it and you talked me into trusting you--I might 'a* known better." "Can't you stop awhile--jhst a mo­ ment?" "Of course I don't matter. Maybe I can hold a drill, or tram ore, or some­ thing, but I can't support your ma and Pishy like they ought to be, with my rheumatiz comin' on again, too. And your ma'll have to take in board­ ers, and do washin' like as not and think of poor Pishy--prob'ly she'll have to teach school or clerk in a store--poor Pish--she'll be lucky now if she can marry some common scrub American out in them hills--like as not one of them shoe-clerks in the Boston Cash Store at Montana City! And jest when I was lookin' forward to luxury and palaces in England, and everything so grand! How much you lost?" "That's right, no use whining! Nearly as I can get the round figures of it, about twelve million." "Awful--awful! By Crlpes! that man Blythe that done himself up the other night had the right of it. What's the use of living if you got to go to the poorhouse?" "Come, come!" said Percival, alarm over Uncle Peter crowding out his other emotions. "Be a game loser, just as you said pa would be. Sit up straight and make 'em bring on an­ other deck." He slapped the old man on the back with simulated cheerfulness; but the despairing one only cowered weakly under the biow. "We can't--we ain't got the stake for a new deck. Oh, dear! think of your ma and me not knowin' where to turn fur a meal of victuals at our time of life." Percival was being forced-to cheer* fulness in spite of himself. "Come, it isn't as bad as that Uncle Peter. . We've got' properties left and good ones, too." Uncle Peter weakly waved the hand of finished discouragement. "HuSh, don't speak of that Them properties need a manager to make 'em pay--a plain business man--a man to stay on4 the ground and watch 'em and develop 'em with his brains--a young man with his health! What good am I-- a poor, broken down old cuss, bent double with rheumatiz--almost--I'm ashamed of you fur suggesting such a thing!" "I'll do it myself--I never tbpught of asking you." Uncle Peter emitted a nasal gasp of disgust. "You--you--you'd make a purty manager of anything, wouldn't you! As if you could be trusted with any­ thing again that needs a schoolboy's intelligence. Even If you had the brains, you ain't got the taste nor tne sperrit in you. You're too lazy--too triflin'. You, -agoin' back there, de- velopin' mines, and gettin' out ties, and lumber, and breeding shorthorns, and improvin' some of the finest land God ever made--you beln' sober and industrious, and smart, line a business man has got to be out there nowadays. That ain't any bonanza country any more; now ain't like 1870; don't fig­ ure on that. You got to work the low grade ore now for a few dollars a ton, and you got to work^it with brains. No, sir, that country ain't what it used to be. There might 'a' been a time when you'd made your board and clothes out there when things come easier. Now it's full of men that hustle and keep their mind on their work, and ain't runnin' off to pink teas in New York. It takes a man with some of the brains your pa had to make the game pay now. But you--don't let me hear any more of that nonsense!" Percival had entered the room pale. He was now red. The old man's bit­ ter contempt had flushed him into momentary forgetfulness of the dis- (TO BE CONTINUED.) They Bun the Risk. Father Matthew--I tell you, sir, that no man can afford to get drunk before dinner. 8marte--But some fellows are so hor* ribly extravagant MUST PAY CASH FARES PUBLISHERS CANNOT EXCHANGE ADVERTISING FOR TICKETS. AN IMPORTANT RULING. Interstate Commerce Commission Holds Payment in Commodities Would Allow Discrimination by the Carriers. UR6ES UNION OF FARMERS ORGANIZATION PUT FORWARD ' AS PROPER PLAN. Washington.--Under a ruling of th? Interstate commerce commission, transportation over railroad lines no longer may be given to newspaper publishers or editors in exchange for advertising space in their newspa­ pers. • • A protest against this ruling has been received by the commission from the Massachusetts Press association, through William J. Hefferman, the secretary of the association. In Mr. Hefferman's communication, he says that the association unanimously voted jto "Enter its protest against the reported ruling in holding that the payment for railroad transportation at full rates in advertising shall be treated on any other basis than that of transportation paid for in cash.'!, Chairman Quotes the Law. In a letter to Secretary Hefferman, In response to the protest Chairman Knapp, of the commission, says in part, after -quoting the section of the law which prohibits the issuance of free transportation or transportation paid for in any other way than in cash: "You are, of course, aware that a*l tariffs filed in compliance with the regulating statute name rates in dol­ lars and cents, and do not in any case provide that transportation can be paid for with property. It seems plain to the commission that, the law above quoted, coupled with the fact stated, permits payment for services of interstate carriers only in money. , "A contrary rule would sanction un­ equal compensation by different per­ sons and involve ordinarily some de­ gree of discrimination in favor of those permitted to^exchange their commodities for the transportation they desire or secure. It is the aim of the law to prevent every sort of fa­ voritism and.secure absolute equality of treatment in all cases. Right of Private Contract. "This ruling of the commission in no way interferes with or abridges the rights of private contracts. News­ papers and their advertising space may be freely exchanged for any spe­ cies of property upon such terms as may be acceptable to the parties to the transaction, but the facilities of tlte public carrier are not private property, nor are they the subject ol bargain and sale like merchandise. The right to travel or have property carried by rail, like the right to the common highway is not a contract right but a political right, the very essence of which is equality. Ruling Follows the Law. "Conceding that the advertising ar­ rangements in question are ordinarily made and carried out in good faith, it seems plain to me that these ar­ rangements must, as a practical mat­ ter, involve some measures of dis­ crimination, and it is not easy for me to see how an honest newspaper can seriously object to a ruling of the commission which appears to be in obvious accord with the provisions and the purposes of the regulating statute." When Prices of Products Go Up They Tend to Make Agriculturists .. v Slick Together, ' * i \v; • -- " 'r •; • Bmrt st Louis, 111. -- The fea­ ture of the day's session of the first annual convention of the Ameri­ can Society of Equity, which is com­ posed of farmers, was the address of M. F. Sharp, of Narrows, Ky. He strongly urged the farmers to perfect an organization. "The trusts and combines, which are the agencies of the infernal re­ gions, call us jays, hayseeds, rubes and" moss backs, and say that even -it we do organise we Won't stick," he said. , * "I tell you that when organization raises the price of products it is the best sticking plaster in the world. I know the farmers will stick. Equity means a fair deal. All manufacturing industries fix the price of their prod­ ucts and know what price they are going to get for them. The farmer, the backbone of the nation and the world's greatest producer,, has been going on the theory thatihe will take whatever he can get for his products. Equity intends that the farmer shall take his place with the world's pro­ ducers and fix a profitable price for his products. That can only be dotae by a plan of marketing products to control and • regulate the market prices." East St. , Louis, 111. -- The fol­ lowing minimum price scale was adopted at Thursday's session of the American Society of Equity: Wheat, $1; corn, $5 cents, until January 1; 50 cents from January 1 to April 1; 55 cents April 1 until the next meeting of the society; oats, 40 cents; cotton, 12 cents based at New York; hogs, $6.50; cattle, $6; hay, $14. With the exception of cotton all prices are based on delivery at Chi- cago. ACCUSED OF STARVING BABES EIGHT-HOUR DAY IS UPHELD Government Wins First Case Against Contractors on Federal Work. Cincinnati.--The first test of the federal eight-hour day law ended in a victory for the government here Friday. After being out only 15 min utes the jury in the United States court found the Sheridan-Kirk Con tracting company guilty of violating the law in the constructipn of the big Ohio river dam at Fernbank, nine miles below this city. The determina tidh of the penalty will come later The law provides for a fine not ex ceeding $1,000. Wickes Will Is Upheld. , Chicago. -- The sensational con­ test of the will of Thomas H. Wickes, late Pullman car magnate, ended in Judge Honore's court Tues­ day when the will was sustained by verdict of a jury which declared Wickes sane when he cut off his own children and a grandchild and left the bulk of his estate to a nephew, Hugh P. Walden. A sealed verdict, which was reached after six hours' delibera­ tion, was read before a crowd that jammed the courtroom. The jury took •only four ballots in reaching its ver«* diet Bank Robbers .Secure $5,000. Odin, 111.--Holding fully 100 terri­ fied citizens at bay, a band of robbers "shot up the town" early Friday, de­ liberately dynamited®' the Odin bank, took $5,000 from the wrecked safe. Fire 8tops Cannon Banquet. Paris, 111.--Fire at the Paris hotel caused a hurried adjournment of a banquet at which Speaker Cannon was being entertained by local Repub­ lican politicians. Mr. Cannon later spoke at the courthouse. 8paln Holds Cruisers Ready. Madrid, Spain.--In view of the alarming reports from Morocco the Spanish government has decided to hold several cruisers ready for dis­ patch to the west coast to protect Spanish subjects. . -- - t Railway Reduces Its Fares. Indlanopolis, ind.--The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad company Thursday announced that beginning November 1 a straight fare of two and one-half cents wpuld be charged in Indiana. National Sunday School Union. - Topeka, Kan.--The National Sun­ day School union of the Methodist church commenced its 79th annua] ^meeting here Thursday with delegates present from nearly every state In the anion. Man and Woman Under Arrest for Death of Six Infanta. Pagosa Springs, Col.--G. C. Rose and Mrs. Minnie Wheeler, leaders of the Brotherhood of Light, who con­ duct a home for poor children on a farm near Arbeles, Col., were ar­ raigned before County Judge E. K. Caldwell here, Thursday, on charges of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of six babies on the place. They waived examination and were remanded to jail until they can fur­ nish bail. The charges were made by an agent of the state Humane society, who al­ leges that the children were fed al­ most exclusively on a vegetable diet and were practically starved to death. Seven children now at the home were made wards qf the county court until the court shall award them to the state home for dependent children or some other institution. CABINET CHANGES PUBLISHED Meteatf and 8traus to Be Added to President's Advisors. _ * Washington.--The following state­ ment regarding prospective changes in President Roosevelt's cabinet was made public at the White House Tuesday night: On the retirement of Secretary Shaw and Attorney General Moody from the cabinet the following changes will be made: Secretary of the treasury--Hon. George B. Cortelyou. Postmaster general--Hon. George Von L. Meyer. Attorney general--Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte. Secretary of the navy--Hon. Vlo- tor H. Metcalf. Secretary of commerce and laboi^-- Hon. Oscar S. Straus. Cranberry Trust; Prices Up. Appleton, Wis--Appleton grocers believe they have discovered a new combine. Price lists were received from three different cranberry job­ bers, all quoting precisely the same figure and all demanding from 8 to 10 cents more per quart than was asked a year ago. Cranberries, it is said, will reach as high as 18 cents. Utes Seek Allies. Sheridan, Wyo.--Word reaches here that the Utes are, now moving, and are headed northwest toward the northern Cheyennes, whose reserva­ tion lies about 50 miles east of Fort Custer, Mont. It is Baid that their purpsoe is to induce the northern Cheyennes to join them in some kind of a raid. Bank Robbers Are Caught. Minot, N. D. -- After a chase lasting 36 hours, the sheriff's posse succeeded Tuesday evening In capturing the five bandits who robbed the Sawyer, N. D., bank early Mon­ day morning when a battle ensued with citizens during which 300 shots ^ero fired, the robbers getting away with $4,600. Rob Missouri Bank of $2,700. • Jefferson City; Mo.--Information was received Friday that the Bank of Jamestown, in Moniteau county, 65 miles from here, had been entered by robbers, who blew open the safe and secured $2,700. Wisconsin Pioneer Dies. Oshkosh, Wis.--Samuel McClellan Hay, for 58 years identified with the business interests of Oshkosh, and a pioneer merchant and banker of wide reputation, died Friday, aged tl years. Canadian Engineer Dead. Lansing, Mich.--William T. Jen­ nings, aged 61, consulting engineer of the city of Toronto, died at the resi­ dence of Manager J. R. Elliott, of the Michigan United Railway* tai Lan­ sing, Wednesday. Iowa Mayor Dies. Cedar Rapids, la.--Amos H. Connor, mayor of Cedar Rapids, and one of the most prominent contractors in the middle west died suddenly Wednesday of heart failure. He wan 63 years old. 1 FOUNTAIN IN A BOTTLE. Pretty Experiments Which Can Be Tried oy Boy or Girl. A large glass bottle, or jar, with a rubber stopper having a hole in It, Is the simple foundation for your foun­ tain. You will need besides, a glass tube with a jet at one end, and a piece of rubber tubing about two Inchds long. When you have prepared yoijr ma­ terials, place the stopper in the jar, and insert in the hole the glass tube, with the jet inside the jar. To the end of the glass tube that is outside fit the rubber tubing. Now exhaust your lungs and, plac­ ing the other end of the rubber tub­ ing in your mouth, suckYout the air from the Jar. When you iiave taken a deep breath, pinch the rubber tube A NEW BOX KITE, How to Construct It aril Fly ft So* cessfully. Jars Used In the Experiments. so that no air will return to the jar, and again exhaust your lungs and re­ peat the process of drawing the air from the jar. Now, still pinching the rubber tube, or applying a pinchcock, turn the jar upside down and place the end of the rubber tube in a glass of water. When you release the tube the water will spurt up through the jet and your fountain will play In the jar. It is the outside pressure on the water in the glass that forces the spray into the vacuum of the bottle. Instead of exhausting the air from the jar, here is a way to produce the fountain outside of it, says People's Home Journal. Reverse the glass tube so that the jet will be outside and the other end near the bottom of the jar. Pour water into the jar until it is about two-thirds higher than the end of the tube in the jar. Fit the rubber tubing over the jet and blow into the jar, thus condensing the air. Pinch the tube while you again fill the lungs and blow again into the jar. Now quickly pull the tubing from the jet, and the water will spurt out, producing a fountain. This time it Is the pressure of the condensed air in side the jftr that forces the water out. In the same jar place a vaseline bot­ tle with a piece of thin rubbe- cloth stretched over the mouth, and tied in place. Now, instead of the long glass tube, use a smaller one, and if you will exhaust the air from the jar as you did in the first fountain experi­ ment the rubber will rise like a bal­ loon, because the air in the small bot­ tle will try to get out to fill the vacuum you have produced. Now, if you will blow into the rub­ ber tube, as you did in the other foun­ tain experiment, the rubber will bulge downward into the small bottle, con­ densing the air there. By fitting the vaseline bottle as you did the outer one, with a glass jet, and placing wa­ ter in it, and then exhausting the air from the outer jar, you will produce a miniature fountain in the jar from the smaller bottle. THE GARDEN PIRATES. A pirate's life Is the life for me! My mates are brave and bold: Seven, and st*. and live are we, Or eighteen years all told. Hard-a-lee with the Susan, boys! Up anchor! Hard-a-lee! A prize for the garden pirates, boys-7 A vessel In sight I see! Give chase o'er the deep, green garden, boys. We'll capture her safe and sound! But alack-a-day, and a-well-away. The Susan has gone aground! --Cincinnati Enquirer. A Desperate Girl With a gesture of despair she laid down her ice cream soda spoon. "I have decided," she said, in a hollow voice, "to renounce this vain and frivolous life forever. I am going out as a missionary to equatorial Africa." ~ "What has led you to this desperate resolve?" "Papa won't give* me an automobile for my birthday." Diabolic Throttle. Knickef--So the hero was gagged the critical moment? Bock'er--Yes; how could he call for help when he was eating corn on the cob?--N, Y. Sun. at Q»eof the very best fun-makers » < boy can have for the September day• is a box kite, and the chap who owaa one will always be popular among his playmates and never lack for com­ pany when he goes out to fly it Get an old umbrella, four seasoned hickory sticks, or sticks of some othe* tough wood three reet long and a half ihch thick. Rip the cover off the um­ brella, being careful not to tear th» material. Take eight of the ribs, th» short ones that run from the fram# to the stick, and lash their ends to­ gether with copper wire, making twtt squares. Now take four of the Ions ribs and break them each in half^ thus getting eight more pieces tho size of those you have just fixed. Lash, these eight new ones together in the> same way, making two squares each of four wires. Now lash one of your hickory stlclct by one end to the corner o| one of your two first wire squires and fastea the other end of the stick to a corner of its mate! Place the other thr^® sticks in position in the other corners of the two squares and fasten theft! firmly by lashing them to the cor­ ner of its mate. Place the other three sticks in position ia the other comers of the two squares and fasten them firmly by lashing them to the corner and sides of the square with fine cop­ per wire. Now for your second set of square# made from the more pliable ribs of the umbrella: These slip outside of the framework you have made and are placed one foot from either end so that there will also be a foot be­ tween them, providing you have made your sticks three feet long. When these are firmly vj^red in place you are ready for your kite covering, which lis the covering you have ripped from the old umbrella. This is placed around either end, as shown in the illustration, and firmly sewn in place along all four edges of each square. Be sure and use heavy linen thread in doing this, and it is all the better if your thread be waxed. Your kite is ready to fly as soon as you fasten * "tall" on it. Now make a "free" kite of it whk;h means a kite which will sail away without a string, explains the People's Home Journal. Get four more long umbrella wires and fasten them to the inner sides of your wire squares oa the framework as shown in the pic­ ture. These wires must have their free endi brought together and lashe€ . \r#-: v|"* Kite Fixed f o r "Free" Flyln#. fast, with a small Iron or brass ring at the extremity. In this ring yon may hang a lead weight, which must be varied according to the force of the wind blowing. This weight acts Just exactly like the drag of a kite string and will keep your kite steady and upright if you are careful to adjust the weight to the force of the wind. Your kite will not rise in the air, but will sail straight off before the wind for a longdistance. 8UCCE8S WHICH ENDURfS. Worse. ••Humidity is 'worse that beet," "Yes," answered the irritable per­ son. "Much worse. It tempts to many bores to try to show off their knowledge."--Washington Star. It Can Be Secured Only by the 8teHi«HI Quality of Strict Honesty. Some young men are reluctant^*® accept, as the most vital truth in life, | the most absolute honesty is the only | kind of honesty that succeeds in bust- S ness. It isn't a question of religion, or religious beliefs. Honesty does not ]• depend upon any religious creed, or dogma, that was ever conceived. It is | a question of a young man's own con- ^ science, says the New York Weekly. :| He knows what is right, and what is | wrong. And yet, simple as the matter ^ is, it is astonishing how difficult it ia 14 of understanding. An honest course in business seems too slow to the av- erage young man. "I can't afford to j* plod along. I must strike, and strike f quickly," is his sentiment. " J Ah, yes, my friend, but not dishon* j estly. No young man can afford to , even think of dishonesty. Success on, ^ honorable lines may sometimes seem | slower in coming, but when it does if come it exceeds in permanency all the so-called successes obtained by | other methods. To look at the methods _ of others is always a mistake. The successes of to-day are not gi1^ ^ en to the imitator, but to the orlg. inator. It makes no difference how ^ other men may succeed--their succesa ,j is theirs, and not yours. You cannot partake of it. Every inan Is a law unto himself. ~ The most absolute integrity is tso one--the only --sure foundation <*_ success. Such a success is lasting. Literary Chit-Chat ^ "What, Thomas? Reading? I thought '*^3 you were hard at work?" .' : And old Gobsa Golde looked at hl» , i burly porter with stern reproof. "I wuz readin* a little," the porteJP admitted. "It s a story about tlkft ^ Russian troubles." ' -v I . •The Russian troubles efe? wrote it?" - t • 'Wrote ** printed."' ~ Why Baby Cried. Mamma--Tommy, what is the baby crying for? , i Tommy--'Cause he doesn't know things. I had to take his* cake and " Show him how to pally News. ,V « Growth of Girl* and Boys. The growth of girls is greateat Ufc their fifteenth .JimiM la aeventeenth. .1 : . . . . * , .1 .... Si j #^1.* ... •a';.,. . . . , A 1