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eating the J r S-J Br JOHN IRVING DAY /n the "Kealm of High and Letter m £\;f,j ' ̂ ft- »V'l >#*: j V. a#'.*. • .; itell you, Danny, it's hard ly worth the candle. The police are keeping a close watch on pool rooms and are liable to nab the whole bunch before you could turn a trick." Doc Floyd, master mind of the High Rollers' club, was uttering words of wisdom to Danny Roberts, player of juvenile roles in the e drama enacted by the members f--:0 the club. "But, old mac., I've Just to sell tfco j|rofe8sor a package, and there's notb- • '-%g that would be so easy. He's bugs the races. I've met him and got his Confidence, and he doesn't know ihat ^JPv© got it in for him so hard that I'm «otng to make him take the high V," „ V" ;fc ^ "But why have yoa got to resort to tie old 'wire game' to land him?" ques-oned Floyd. "And you haven't toMt , iie what gave you your grouch against him. Tell me about it." "Well, if you only knew him, yon Wouldn't need to ask why anyone wouldn't want to hand hip a Mplied Danny. : Could Herr Oberman, teacher dw •ocal music, by any occult power have overheard and comprehended the con­ versation that was going on between Danny Roberts and Doc Floyd he would flave locked his questionably acquired fortune in the strong box of some safe , deposit oompany and thrown the key #way. Herr Oberman, graduate from the ranks of rathskeller musicians, had Opened what he was pleased to term a conservatory of music in a Michigan , llvenue building habited by others of Itis kind. There, in a period of a few short years, he had waxed fat in purse Mnd person, luring into his net, by at­ tractive advertisements, young women 111th ambitions to outshine the Melbas ajnd Mary Gardens of grand opera. To all of these he promised great thing*, • tot no prima donna ever had gradu- ', '*ed from the school of Oberman. He Was only one of many who preyed on the vanity of women who believed themselves possessed of divine voices. _ • » • ^ It was a smiling, cheerful Danny . Roberts that greeted the professor in the dingy pool room the day after his . conversation with Doc Floyd. 1,So another good dip, we have," was le gleeful remark of Herr ProfeBSdr jfhen he had read the message which ivised a good bet on Cheese Cake, fe'll make dose boolroom fellers sick, - #to?" f •/.. "That's it," replied Danny. "I've al* % *eady got my bet down. You'd better hurry up before they cut the price, ni see you later. I've got to get dowfc We street to meet a party." , Danny did not wait to see the frantic #ok and hear the swear words in Ger- * man which were emitted by the pro­ fessor when Cheese Cake failed to be heard from in the race. He hadn't lost %oent of his own money, but had faked ft telegram for the express purpose of laving Oberman lose. The next day Oberman was waiting anxiously in the pool room when Dan­ ny appeared. Before the excited Ger­ man could start to tell of his hard luck and how he had lost a whole hundred dollars, Danny produced another tele­ gram explaining that Cheese Cake had been kicked and crippled at the post, Which accounted for his poor race. The second message also advised that Danny get down good on Rarebit. This time Danny waited with, Oberman to hear the running of the race called oft a* its description was ticked oat over the telegraph instrument. "They're off! Rarebit in the lead, Handy Bill second; the others hunched," and Danny shivered at the announcer's words, for he had not ex­ pected Rarebit to be heard from any .more than Cheese Cake had on the pre* qgous day. v ""Cashbox wins!" and Danny gave a ' Sigh of relief which Oberman took to he one of pain accompanying his own moan of anguish. "Dandy Boy sec- end," oontinued the announcer. "Nar­ cissus is third." "Now what do yon think of that for hard luck?" was the mock moan of Danny to the professor. "There we were leading all the way and then our horse drops out of sight. I'm going to quit this game. It's impossible to beat even with what is supposed to be the ftry best of information." Professor was too grieved to listen it# Danny. He had troubles of his own. It was a cheaper drink than wine the two took when they adjourned to the bar room under the pool room. As they took their drink Danny once more said that he was going to quit trying to beat the pool room until he found a surer ' way of beating it. He hinted mysteri­ ously that he had some such way in mind and told Herr Oberman inas­ much as he had caused him to lose by allowing him to bet pn his tips he might be able to let him in on a good thing where they could do better than get even in a day or two. As he said good-by Danny told the professor not to do any more Jbetting until he had heard from him, which might be on .tf. the morrow. V • • • ^.^Herr Oberman was Just bowing his - WSt pupil of the day out of the Ober- school of vocal culture. It was but three o'clock in the afternoon, but Herr Oberman had arrived at the time when he could make his choice of hours for his pupils. It was none too cordial a greeting he gave Danny Rob- berts, who rushed in excitedly right at his closing hour. "I've got it!" whispered Danny, ex­ citedly. "Is there anyone here that can hear us?" "No. What Is It?" Inquired the pro­ fessor, becoming interested. "Don't ask me now. I haven't got time to explain. Get your hat a&d come with me. We must hurry." The excitement of Danny was con­ tagious, and before he knew It Herr Professor was in the elevator and speeding towards the street. Otee on the sidewalk, Dauny rushed his fat friend down Michigan and over across Jackson boulevard to the Western Union building. There he almost >3^.; V . big play from the board of trade men and other big bugs. They never turn an eyelash at a $5,000 bet. There^ a telephone booth right here in the saloon where our friend Brown can call me up. We are just in time for the fifth race at Los Angeles. My friend Brown is going to call me up here as soon as he gets the result from there and then we'll hurry up-statrs and get a bet down. "Just so we'll be certain everything will go through all right, we'll only make a hundred dollar bet to-day, and then if it is O. K. we can pick out a race to-morrow to make our killing in. After that, there's nothing to hinder us from taking in some of the other rooms and we ought to be able to clean up a hundred thousand dollars apiece with­ out anyone getting on to our game." No such thing as a conscientious scruple occurred to Herr Oberman as GENEROUS. Doc Floyd and Jack Clelana, when Herr Oberman, puffing from the exer­ tion of a brisk walk, arrived ha due time at the rendezvous. "There, you answer the phone t?its time, and be sure you get the reeu!u right," said Danny when the telephone bell jingled. Still trembling with excitement, Herr Oberman grasped the receiver and was informed that Mr, Brown was talking He wrote dewn the names of three horses: Wild Cat, first; Sweat.Alice, second, and Roineo, third. "All right, you bet your $2,000 on Wild Cat, and I'll play Sweet Alice for a place," instructed Danny, when the professor had showed the names he had carefully penciled oh the back of an envelope. Why prolong the agony? A moment after the wagers had been recorded the telegraph sounder began a business-like clicking. The operator announced in low tones that the race was off. The bettors crowded ilose to hear the calling of the description of the race. The three horses as given Herr Oberman were all prominent In, the running throughout. And then--"Romeo wini!" "What!" shrieked the professor. "Wild Cat. second--' "Hell!" shouted Daniiy. "Sweet Alice, third," continued the operator in low, sing-song tones. "Whipsawed, or I'm a goat," mut­ tered Danny, as he pulled the almost fainting Herr Oberman to one side; k 9 shoved the astonished German Into an­ other elevator. At the second floor of the building a man in shirt sleeves, with pencil resting behind his ear in business fashion, got into the same car. The shirt-sleeved and hatless per­ son got off the car at a top floor, where Danny and the professor also left it. With a warning gesture, the ahirt- sleeved and hatless one motioned the other two to a distant corner of the hall. There he was introduced to the professor by Danny as an old friend who had charge of the racing wires over which the odds and results on all races were transmitted to the pool­ rooms throughout the middle west. "Is it all right?" whispered the breathless Danny. "As right as a compass. Does your friend understand that I'm to get half of the winnings?" "No, I haven't had time to explain to him yet .1 know he's all right, though." The flattered professor beamed at Danny's enthusiastic words of indorse­ ment, and then it was explained to him that Mr. Brown, the Western Union race wire manager, could jwith- hold the result of each race after it came in until he had telephoned Danny and given him time to get down a good bet in the pool room before they knew that the race was off. Danny promised to explain matters more fully to the be­ fuddled professor on their way to the pool room. As soon as they had taken leave of the fictitious Manager Brown, the latter walked down-stairs to the second floor, where he had left a boy holding his hat and coat, and donning these he was out and away from the building five minutes behind Danny and the professor. "And now," said Danny to the by this time thoroughly bewildered Herr Oberman, when they had reached a quiet little saloon on a side street, "I'll show you how we are going to get even with the bookmakers. We want to make a good thorough test of the scheme before we make any big beta There's a pool room over this Baloon where they don't have anything but *1 TH>NT, I TIDNT," MOANE D OBERMAN. "I'M RUIN EDI" he glowed all over in anticipation of such wealth easily acquired from the pool ro6m men. He thought this about the cleverest scheme he had ever heard of and so expressed himself with much show of enthusiasm. The two conspirators had just finished a drink when the telephone beli rang and, ex­ plaining to the bartender that he was expecting a call, Danny rushed into the booth before anyone else could beat him to it "Hello! Yes; thiB Is me. You say it^'s M. M. All right,, everything's O. IL here." Danny hung up the reeciver and, mo­ tioning for the professor, he mounted one flight of stairs and was admitted to a carefully guarded room in the rfear of the rickety old-time building. Herr Oberman saw that the place was fre­ quented by a much smaller though a more seiect crowd of patrons than the ordinary pool room. Danny whispered to him that Military Man was the horse in the fifth race, but that the odds were only even money. He tendered a hundred dollar bill to a prosperous- looking person to bet on the horse in the fifth race at Los Angeles. The operator called off the descrip­ tion of the running of the race from start to finish, and Military Man was not heard from until the stretch was reached; then he was making one of his famous home-stretch runs, and as was expected by Danny and the pro­ fessor, Military Man was announced as the winner. That night Danny Roberts reported still further progress to Doc Floyd and Jack Cleland. He had parted with Herr Oberman with the understanding that they were to meet at the lunch hour on the morrow and pick out a race that gave promise of paying big odds for the winner. Accordingly the appointment was kept and the fourth race on the Los Angeles track was selected as the one giving greatest promises to the conspirators. • • • • Danny was waiting outside^ the little saloon on the side street, over which was the fake pool room fitted out by "You must have gotten those names la the wrong order." "I tidn't, I tidn't," moaned Oberman. "I'm ruined!" Herr Oberman wiped his perspiring brow and fat neck, too dazed to speak. He did, however, hear what Danny said, and took a bit of fresh courage. The two waited for ten minutes, after which time the operator announced that the finish of the fourth race at Los Angeles was O. K., and Danny dragged the professor down-stairs and to the bar. Before they bad taken their drink Jack Cleland, alias Brown of the Western Union, hurriedly en­ tered the bar. "Give me my part of the money, quick!" he demanded. "My heavens, man, what have you done?" exploded Danny. "The horses didn't finish as you gave them to the professor!" And then he explained that the horse they had played to win had run second. "Why, you fat-headed Dutchman, I ought to break your head!" was the in­ dignant response of Cleland as he glowered at the still dazed Oberman. "Serves me right for doing business with a fat-headed Dutch fiddler." "But," broke in Danny, "Let's buck up. We'll have another chance at It to-morrow and I'D take down the names, bo there won't be such a mis­ take. Don't be too hard on our friend. He was probably excited." • "To-morrow, hell!" growled the pBeudo Western Union man. "The peo­ ple in the office heard me telephoning you and got on to me holding back the returns and I've Just been fired. I'll never be able to get another Western Union job." "Mine Gott!" groaned the professor, as he sunk into a chair beside a beer- stained table. And there Danny Roberts and Jack Cleland left him alone in his grief. By this time there was not a soul left In the supposed pool room. Bven the fake wires had been torn out and the place was deserted. (Copyright.' 1909, by W. G. Chapman.) (Copyright In Great Britain.) Birth of the German Navy Few Facts Showing the Wonderful P r o g r e s s M a d e I n B u i l d i n g M m ' - a Marine Powsr. > I;*:'. :: ' " '.. i- . Some idea of the wonderful progress Of the German navy is gained when OBe realises that Vice-Admiral Rein- hold von Werner, whose death is an­ nounced at the age of 84, saw prac­ tically the birth of that navy as we aow know it. When the German fleet was sold by auction tn 1S52 Werner secured a commission in the new Prus­ sian navy, and during the war with Denmark he commanded one of the three steam frigates, then the prin­ cipal ships of the Prussian navy. At the date of the formation of the feder­ al navy Werner was director of dock­ yards at Danzig. In 1869, however, the deceased vice-admiral returned to active service, and at the time of his retirement in 1878 he held the com­ mand of the Baltic station. He de­ voted the last 30 years of his life to the patriotic task of popularizing the idea of that sea power which he had seen grow from insignificant propor­ tions to a strength which has done so much to stimulate the shipbuilding of other nations. He was a prolific writ­ er, and his authorship extended over a long period. Even at the time of the Battle of Jasmund he attracted at­ tention by a work on the Prussian navy, its present and its future. How to Shake Hands. Lady Violet Grevllle Is trying to make a warm handclasp and hearty handshake popular. She is very glad, she says, that the "elbow shake" is going out of fashion. Who invented the elbow shake, she says, she does not know, but it is senseless, devoid of grace, with no charm or meaning. It used to be part of a boy's sr girl's education to learn the graceful curve of the elbow that W4SJR^#pj when hands were shaken. , ;•*; ^ • •" '4 1' OKLAHOMA MOB MAKES QUICK ,, JKSPft, OF OFFICIAL'S , SLAVERS. ATTORNEY PLEADS Lynchers Include Best tiie County--Victim Crowd and Urge* It to Hurry. Citizens Defies Ada, Okla.--Urging the 200 citizens who stood about him, rope ready and pistols poised, to hurry up with their grim purpose, refusing coldly to give them information as to the crime that he and his companions had committed, laughingly boasting that the affair would not be bloodless were he armed, and distributing the diamonds he wore as mementoes of the occa­ sion, Jesse West, ranchman and bad man, calmly awaited the fixing of the rope that was to swing him and his three friends tato eternity Monday morning. J. B. Miller of Fort Worth, slayer of from six to thirty persons; B. B. Burrell of Duncan, Okla., and Joe Al­ len of Canadian, Okla., were the other victims of the lynching. Two hundred citizens of Ada, prac­ tically all of them of the better class, who were thoroughly disgusted with the kind of "justice" meted out to criminals in the smaller towns of Ok­ lahoma, took the law into their own bands and hanged the four men for the murder of Deputy United Stated Marshal A. L. Bobbitt County Attorney Robert Wimbish, who had received word that the mob was forming, appealed in vain to the men to let the law take its conrse. At the jail only Guard McCarthy was on duty. "McCarthy," said the leader, 'open this door at once. We mean business. Hurry; it's near daylight." "You might as well go home, boys," responded the officer. "This door will never open from this side." Then three of the mob threw them­ selves acainst the frail door and the mob rushed in. Guard McCarthy was struck with a revolver and rendered unconscious. The four prisoners were quickly secured. West fought des­ perately. The others made no resist­ ance. "If you are going to hang me, do It quick," said Miller. The mob led the four men to a barn a few hundred feet away and stoodL them in a straight line. "Tell us what you devils know about Bobbitt's murder," shouted the mob' leader. West answered for the four. He said: "We dcin't know who you men are, and we don't care. For myself, I know if I had a six shooter a few of you would 'bite the dust,' but that's talk as long as my 'shooting iron' is in Texas. You boys appear to have' a Job to do. Why don't you do it? We won't tell anything, and you--" "The ropes," the leader broke In, and the four unfortunate men were carried to a beam ftnd strung up. Just before the rope was placed about his neck Miller calmly removed a diamond from his shirt front and requested that It be sent to his wife in Fort Worthy From his necktie he drew out a dia­ mond scarf pin, with the request that It be given to Guard McCarthy for his kindness to him. The mob then dis­ appeared. The coroner's Jury met and returned the following verdict: "We find that Jim Miller, B. B. Burrell, Joe Allen and Jesse West met their death by being hung by a rope, and that the death of each was caused by strangulation produced by the ropes placed about their necks by parties whose names are to the Jury unknown." FORCE SULTAN TO QUIT. Turkish Ruler Frightened by Advanoe of Troops on Capital May Give Up Throne. Constantinople.--The report that Sultan. Abdul Hamid had abdicated caused the greatest excitement in the lobbies of parliament and spread with lightning-like rapidity throughout the city Monday. A rumor of the flight of the sultan on a warship followed closely on that of his abdication, but neither could be confirmed. The palace is under strong guard and even high officials are not permitted to enter it. The advance of the constitutional forces began Sunday afternoon. Small parties were sent out to reconnoiter and at seven o'clock In the evening they were within sight of the gates of Constantinople. They encountered no resistance, nor does any resistance seem likely, unless it is at the palace. The headquarters of the constitution­ alists' army is at Dedeagatch and Gen. Husni Pasha's forces, which now num­ ber between 20,000 and 30,000 occupy a range of bills about twenty miles from the capital. Every hour rein­ forcements added to their number. Shylock Is Outdone. Pittsburg, Pa.--Alleged to have out­ done Shylock in having actually cut portions of flesh from the breast of Joseph Gugliotto, who refused them money, Salvator Roberto and Nicolo Digliotti were held for court without bail at Braddock Monday. Heart Breaks at Brother's Collin. Chicago.--Her heart literally broken, Miss Rose Fremer fell dead while standing at the bier of her brother Bohumil, who had been her child­ hood playmate and companion. Bodies Washed Out of Grave®. 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