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r ISSUED SBXX-WtBKL^ l. m. orist'S sons, Pnbu?her?. [ 31 ^familj Jleirspajjer: Jfor the promotion off the political, Social, agricultural and Commercial Interests of the people. {T8rao?'cSA.I !i?J?Allc*' established 1855. YORK VILLE, S. C. ~ F RI DAY, M AY 31, 1907. NO. 44. _ Cvmc*r/s<!7ar0MStfw*ffi C ft SYNOPSIS. 1 Chapter I?Bob Brownley creates a panic in Wall street. He is a friend ol Jim Randolph of Randolph & Randolph, bankers and brokers. Brownley and Randolph had gone to college together and entered the employ of Randolph's father at the close of college days. Brownley is a Virginian by birth. Beulah Sands, daughter of an old Virginia house, calls on Brownley and tells him her father has been practically ruined by the stock operations of Reinhart. She hopes to utilize her own money in Wall street In retrieving her father's fortunes before his condition becomes known, and asks for employment in the office that she may have an opportunity to better understand how her money is invested. She does not want it used In a purely Wall street gamble, but in the buying and selling of legitimate securities. Brownley agrees to help her, and falls In love with her. Chapter II?Brownley plunges in sugar stock. He uses the money of Miss Sands, his own and in addition Is backed heavily by the Randolph millions. His coup seems successful, and he tells Miss Sands that she has cleared SI.800,000. But the market had not closed, r.hantar 111?Rnrrv ftonant. head broker for Standard Oil and sugar Interests, suddenly begins to sell "sugar." In the midst of a panic he breaks the market and with Its fall carries away the earnings and much of the capital of both Miss Sands and himself. A pretty love scene occurs between the two at the office when Bob attempts to tell her the terrible truth of their fall. Brownley takes a trip to Virginia. Chapter IV?Beulah Sands and Bob become engaged. Randolph wants to loan her father the money to meet his obligations. Sbe refuses. Bob figures on how to beat Wall street at its own game. Sugar takes another sensational spurt upward, but Brownley keeps out. Chapter V.?The "bulls" toss sugar to record breaking point, and the "street" goes wild. Barry Conant, for the "system," pushes prices up and up, ? and a wonderful ciean-up is promised when the exchange closes, Thursday, November 12. Sugar opens higher Friday morning, November 13. When the price had passed all bounds Brownley steps into the pit and begins to sell. He sells every share "the system's" brokers will take, and pounds the price down and down until failures are of momentary occurence, and "the system' has lost millions. He has made millions for Beulah Sands and her father. Chapter VI?Beulah Sands Insists upon being assured that there Is ilo dishonor connected with the money he has made for her, and he cannot honestly answer "no." He leaves her to think It out When he returns he finds her staring at the glaring headlines of a newspaper extra announcing that her father, while temporarily insane. had killed his wife, his daughter and himself, and Beulah Sands had gone crazy. Chapter VII?Bob Brownley marries beautiful, Insane Beulah Sands, and takes her to Virginia. The sight of the old home does not restore her reason. and he returns with her to New York and builds a palace for his bride, one floor o( which is designed especially for her He begins plunging on the "street" and adds millions to his now great fortune. He always opposes the "system." His every appearance on the floor of the exchange meens panicky conditions. Time after time he has "the street" seemingly at his mercy, but relents before the great crash comes. Chapter VIII ?Brownley proposes to breaw Wall street. In the midst of a panic he has created Randolph threatens to commit suicide if he does not stop. He stops, but assures his friend that it is the last time he will stop, that the next time he will complete the Job when he begins it. Brownley "bears" Anti-Peoples' Trust stock. He pounds "the system's" prices down, down, down. CHAPTER XIV?Continued. For once at least the much-abused phrase, "He looked the part," could be used in all truthfulness. As Robert Brownley threw back his head and shoulders and faced that crowd of men, some of whom he had hurt, many of whom he had beggared, and all of whom he had tortured, he presented a picture such as a royal lion recently from the jungles and Just freed from his cage might have made! Defiance, deference, contempt, and pity all blended in his mien, but over all was an I-am-the-one-you-are-the-many atmosphere of confidence that turned my spinal column into a mercury tube. He began to speak: "Men of Wall street: "You have just witnessed a recordbreaking slaughter. I have asked permission to talk to you for the purpose of showing you how any memh*?r of a erreat stock exchange may at any time do what I have done today. Weigh well what I am about to say to you. During the last quarter of a century there has grown up in this free and fair land of ours a system by which the few take from the many the results of their labors. The men who take have no more license, from God or man, to take, than have those from whom they filch. They are nol endowed by God with superior wisdom, nor have they performed foi their fellow-men any labor or given tc them anything of value that entitles them to what they take. Their only license to plunder is their knowledge of the system of trickery and fraud that they themselves have created No man can gainsay this, for on every side is the evidence. Men come intc Wall street at sunrise without dollars; before that same sun sets they depar! with millions. So all-powerful has grown the system of oppression thai single men take in a single lifetime al the savings of a million of their fellows. Today the people 80.000.00( strong, are slaving for the few, anc their pay is their board and keep, saw this robbery. I felt the robbers scourge. I sought the secret. I foun< it here, here in this gambling-hell, found that the stocks we bought anc sold were mere gambling chips; tha the man who had the biggest stacl could beat his opponent off the board that his opponent was the world, be cause all men directly or indirectly played the stock-gambling game. T< yvin, It was but necessary to have un limited chips. If chips were bough and sold, on equal terms, by all, n< one could buy more than he coult pay for, and the game, although still i gambling one, would be fair. A fev &sm ' master tricksters, dollar magicians, k long ago seeing this condition, inventf ed the system by which the people are ruthlessly plundered. The system ' they invented was simple, so simple ' that for a quarter of a century it has > remained undiscovered by the world at ' large?and even by you, who profess } to be experts. No man thought that i a free people who had intei ded to allow all the equal use of every avenue for the attainment of walth, and ( who intended to provide for the safe1 guarding of wealth after it was se> cured could be such dolts as to allow themselves to be robbed of all their accumulated wealth by a device i as simple as that by which children play at blindman's buff. The process was no more complex than that employed by the robber of old, who took the pebbles from the beach, marked them money, and with the money bought the labor of his fellows, and by the manipulation of that labor and bv turninsr pebbles into money he took away from the laborer the money which he had paid them for the labor until all in the land were slaves of the moneymaker. These few tricksters said: We will arbitrarily c^jf "I saw this robbery. I 1 manufacture these chips?stocks. After we have manufactured them, we will sell the world what the world can pay for. and then by the use of the unlimited supply we still have we will win away from the world what it has bought, and repeat the operation, until we have all the wealth, and the people are enslaved. To do this there was one thing besides the manufac turing ot the chips?stocks?that was absolutely necessary?a gambling-hell, the working of whose machinery would place a selling value upon such chips; a hell where, after selling the chips, they could be won back. I saw that if these tricksters were to be routed and their 'System* was to be destroyed. it must be through the machinery of this stock exchange. I studied the machinery, and presently I marvelled that men could for so long have been asses. "From the very nature of stockgambling it is necessary,' absolutely necessary, that it be conducted under certain rules, unchangeable, unbreak: able rules, to attempt to change or , break which would destroy stock gambling. The foundation rule, the , rule absolutely necessary for the exi istence of stock-gambling is: Any ' member of the stock exchange can ' buy, or sell, between the opening and i closing of the exchange as many i shares of stock as he cares to. With ! this rule in force his buying and sell ing cannot De resiricieu to uie cuuuum he can take and pay for, or deliver and receive pay for, because there is not money enough in the world to pay for what under this same rule can be bought and sold in a single session. This is because there have been arbitrarily created by these few tricksters many times more stocks than there is money in existence. The amount of stock that any man can sell in one session of the exchange is limited only by the amount that he can offer for sale, and he can offer any amount his tongue can utter; and he is not compelled and cannot be compelled to show his ability to deliver what he has offered for sale until after he has finished selling, which Is the following day. You will ask as I did: Can this be possible? you will find the answer I found. It is so, and must continue to be so, or there will be no stock-gambling. Mark me, for this statement is weighted with the greatest import to you all. A member of this exchange can sell as many shares of stock at one session as he cares to offer. If any attempt is made at the session he sells at to compel him either before or after he offers to sell to show his ability to deliver, away goes the stockgambling structure I because from the very nature of the ij whole structure of stock-gambling tne /jsame shares are sold and resold many times In each session and the sell* cannot know, much less show, that 1 can deliver until he first adjusts wil the buyer and the buyer cannot adjui until after he has become such t buying1. If a rule were made con pelting a seller to show his respons bility before selling, every memb< would have every other member t his mercy and there could be no stocli gambling. When I had worked th! out, I saw that while the few trick sters of the 'System' had a perfect d? vice for taking from the people thel weaitn. 1 naa aiscoverea as peneci means of taking away from the fe1 the wealth they had secured from th many. With this knowledge came conviction that my way was as honet as the 'System's,' In fact, more honet than theirs. They took from the Inno cent, I took from the guilty what ha already been dishonestly secured, determined to put my discovery lnt practice. "I might never have done so but to that Sugar panic In which 1 wa robbed of millions by the 'Systeir through Barry Conant. In that panl the 'System,' with Its unlimited re sources, filched from the people b the arbitrary manufacture of stockf and by their manipulation did to m what I afterward discovered I coul do to them, without any resource other than my right to do business 01 the floor of this exchange. You sa\ the outcome, In the second Suga panic, of my first experiment. In i few minutes I cleared a profit of $10, 000,000. I could have made It flft: millions, or one hundred and fifty, bu I was not then on familiar term with my new robber-robbing device and I had yet a heart. To mak this ten millions of money, all tha was necessary for tme to do was t< sell more Sugar than Barry Conan could buy. This was easy, becausi relt the robbers scourge." Barry Conant, not knowing of mj newly invented trick, could buy onl] what he could pay for on the morrow or, at least, what he believed hi: clients could pay for; while I, not in tending to deliver what I sold?unles: by smashing the price to a point when I could compel those who had bough to resell to me at millions less than sold at?could sell unlimited amount ?literally unlimited amounts. Whei Barry Conant had bought all that hi thought he could pay for, he wai obliged to beat a retreat in front o my offerings, and I .was able to smash and smash, until the price was so lov that he could not by the use of wha he had bought, as collateral, borrov sufficient to pay me for what I hat sold him. Then he was compelled t< turn about and sell what he ha^ bought from me, and when I had re bought it for ten millions less than had sold it for, the trick had beei turned. I had sold him 100,000 share say at 220. He had sold them back t me say at 120, and he stood where h had stood at the beginning. He ha< none of the 100,000 shares. Both o 3 woo nnn US StOUU, SU mi US OIUVA nua vv?? cerned, where we had stood at the be pinning, but as to profits and losse there was this difference: I had tei millions of dollars profits, while Barr; Conant's clients, the 'System,' wer ten millions losers?and all by a trlch The trick did not differ in principl from the one in constant practice b; the 'System.' When the 'System,' af ter manufacturing Sugar stock, sel 100,000 shares to the people for $10, 000,000. they so manipulate the marke by the use of the $10,000,000 that the; have taken from the people as to scar them into selling the 100,000 share back to them for $5,000,000. Afte they have bought they again manlpu late the market until the people bu back for $10,000,000 what they sold fo $5,000,000. The 'System' commits n legal crime. I committed no legs crime. I had not even infringed an rule of the exchange, any more tha had the 'System' when they performe their trick. Since my experiments panic I have repeatedly put the trie in operation, and each time I hav taken millions, until today I have 1 my control, as absolutely as though had honestly earned them, as the la borer earns his week's wages, or th farmer the price of his crops, ove $1,000,000,000. or sufficient to Keep en slaved the rest of their lives a mlllio people. "What do you intelligent men thin of this situation? You know, becaus you know the stock-gambling garni that the American people, with the! boasted brains and courage, come yea after year with their bags of gold, th result of their prosperous labors, an dump them, hundreds of millions, int ir this gambling inferno of yours. You le know that they are fools, these silly :h millions of people whom. you term Bt lambs and suckers. You chuckle as, iy year after year, having been sent away i- shorn, they return for new shearing. 1- You marvel that the merchants, manir ufacturers, miners, lawyers, farmers, Lt who have sufficient Intelligence to i- gather such surplus legitimately, would is bring lt to our gambling hell, where upon all sides is plan proof that we >- who conduct the gambling, and who lr produce nothing, are obliged to take a from those who do produce, hundreds iv of millions each year for expenses, ie and hundreds of millions each year for a profits?for you know that we have it nothing to give them In return for it what they bring to us. You know that i- every dollar of the billions lost In Wall d street means higher prices for steel I rails, for lumber and cars, and that o this means higher passenger and freight rates to the people. You know r that when the manufacturer brings his s wealth to Wall street and is robbed of ?' it, he will add something to the price c of boots and shoes, cotton and woolen - clothes, and other necessities that he y makes and that he sells to the people, s, You know that when the copper, lead, e tin, and iron miners part with their d surplus to the 'System,' It means s higher prices to the people for their n copper pots and gutters, for the water v that comes through lead pipes, for r their tin dippers and wash boilers, and a for their rents, and all those neces sitles Into which machinery, lumber, y and other raw and finished material t enters. You know that every hundred s millions dropped by real producers to >, the brigands of our world means lower e wages or less of the necessities and t luxuries for all. the people, and espeo cially for the farmer. You know that t it is habit with us of Wall street to 0 gloat over the doctrine of the 'System,' - which the people parrot among themselves, the doctrine that the people 1 at large are not affected by our gambling. because they, the people, having no surplus to gamble with, never come Into Wall street. And yet, knowing all this, you never thought, with all your wisdom and cynicism, that right here In this institution, which you own and control, was the open sesame for each or all of you, to those great chests of gold that your clients, the 'System,' have filled to bursting from the stores of the people. What, I ask, do you wise men think of the situation as you now see it?"There was an oppressive stillness on the floor. The great crowd, which now contained nearly all the members of the exchange, listened with bulging eyes and open mouths to the revelations of their fellow member. From time to time, as Bob Brownley poured forth his shot and shell of. deadly logic, from the vast mob that now surrounded the exchange rose a hoarse bellow of Impatience, for few In that dense throng outside could understand the silence of the gigantic human crusher, which between the hours of ten and three was never before known to miss a revolution except while Its victims' hearts and souls were being removed from its gears and meshes. Bob Brownley paused and looked down Into the faces of the breathless gamblers with a contempt that was superb. He went on: "Men of Wall street, It is writ In the books of the ancient that every evil contains within Itself a cure or a destroyer. I do not pretend that what I am revealing to you is to you a cure for this hideous evil, but I do say that what I am giving you is a destroyer for it, and that while it will be to the world a cure, .it may leave you in a more fiery hell than the one of which you now feel the flames. I do not care if it does. When I am through, any member of the New York stock exchange who feels the iron in his soul can get instant revenge [ and unlimited wealth. You who are r turning over in your minds the con' sideratlon that your great body can 3 make new rules to render my discovery inoperative, are dealing with a 3 shadow. There is no rule or device that can prevent its working. There | are 1,000 seats in the New York stock exchange. They are worth today 595,3 000 apiece, or 595,000,000 in all. Their 1 value is due to the fact that this exchange deals in between one and three 3 million shares a day. Were any attempt made to prevent the operation ' of my invention, transactions would because of such .attempt drop to five or ten thousand shares per day, or to such transactions as represented stock that will be actually delivered and actually paid for. To make my invention useless it must be made impossi~ ble to buy or sell the same share of stock more than once at one session, and short selling, which is now, as you know, the foundation of the modern stock-gambling structure, must likewise be made impossible. If this "Ou?u be done the 595,000,000 worth of 1 seats in the exchange would be worth less than five millions, and, what is of far greater import to all the people, s _ . . . . ... the financial world would De revolutionized. Men of Wall street, do not y fool yourselves. My Invention Is a sure destroyer of the greatest curse * In the world, stock-gambling." y To Be Continued. 11 Gi'npowdkr a-vd Hailsto.vhs.?An other popular superstition has failed to t stand the test of scientific investlgay tlon, says the Vienna correspondent of e the Pall Mall Gazette. For years past s the peasants in Styria have been fightr ing hailstorms with gunpowder, tena ciously maintaining that their efforts y were successful In dispersing Impendr ing storms. Recently the ministry of 0 agriculture granted a subvention for ul proper scientific experiments, and y these have proved conclusively that n gunpowder explosions have absolutely d no effect against hailstorms. Indeed, il in one case the firing was followed by k an unusually violent storm when halle stones as big as hens' eggs covered ttie n ground. , 1 The meteorological department has ,- Joined with the ministry In declaring ie that such attempts are absolutely valsr ueless, and no more money will be i- spent in experiments. Popular supern stltions die hard, and the peasants In the neighborhood are exceedingly angry at the conclusions reached by the ,e scientists, and are doing their utmost B> to prevent the official results from be|r coming generally known. ,r e i^'It occasionally occurs to a man oil Vin crnta for rlnlnc n thlnC well Iis to see a lot of encouragement given I his Imitators.?Atchison Globe. I ^ftiscfllancous JSfadiitfl. WAREHOUSES FOR COTTON. Southern Cotton Association's Scheme In Detail. Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina Branch Southern Cotton association, has the following to say with reference to the association's plan of warehousing: "Recognizing the fact that the commercial prospect depends upon the maintenance of our organization on a permanent Dasis, ana in view 01 tne fact that we must have surplus capital Invested, where It can be available for retiring this cotton, I hope the plan given below will be taken up by the several counties in the state anil reports made promptly. "We will begin an active campaign from county to county about the 1st of July. In a few days we will publish our schedule of appointments, and hope that all parties Interested will see that at our several places of meeting there will be as large an attendance as possible." Plan of Warehousing. Every fall thousands of bales of cotton are forced on the market regardless of the price, .because the producers and owners have Incurred debts In making their crops, and have no other means of meeting their obligations other than by selling their cotton. It Is this very condition that has caused every year unsatisfactory prices to be obtained for the product. It Is useless to tell a farmer or owner of cotton what It is really worth without giving him a means by which he can realize Its worth. The people are demanding a practical, simple, uniform plan of co-operation by which cotton can be stored and money borrowed and the floating cotton purchased and retired from the market, so that the price can be fixed and maintained Immediately. It Is, therefore, evident that In order to maintain a fair price for our cotton there must be concerted action, looking to the carrying of cotton at a minimum cost, and the removal of any distressed or surplus cotton from the market, and preventing Its coming Into competition with that cotton for which there Is a natural and healthy demand. In accordance with a resolution passed at a meeting of the national executive committee In Birmingham, Ala., in January, i?U7, tne ronowing plan In detail la given as the policy of the association for organizing the warehousing and holding companies for maintaining a profitable price for cotton: Each county association is to meet and appoint a committee to solicit subscriptions to a capital stock of as much as 15 per bale for the cotton grown in that county. This money is to be used as a basis of credit for building, buying and leasing warehouses, for borrowing money, for lending money on cotton, and to carry on any and all matters necessary, controlling the storage and sale of cotton in that county. This commitee is to appoint soliciting agents to obtain subscriptions to the capital stock from all persons, regardless of profession or vocation. Upon the subscription in a county of the capital stock to warrant it, there shall be a meeting of the stockholders to elect a business manager and board of directors. The board of directors and manager shall obtain a charter to buy, sell and warehouse cotton: the managers of the several warehousing and holding companies in each state shall in conjunction with the state presidents fix the carrying charges necessary to cover all expenses for carrying on the business of the corporations in that state. The body shall elect from among its members, representatives to meet with the executive committee of the Southern Cotton association and they shall fix the price of cotton and the carrying charges necessary to meet the expenses of storing, insuring cotton, paying Interest on money and salary of officers. Each county organization shall have control of all of its own cotton and capital and shall have all the profits derived from its investments. Every stockholder and member of the Southern Cotton association shall be entitled to all of the benefits and privileges arising from this organ!zntion. Each member upon the payment of annual dues shall be issued a membership certificate, which certificate shall set forth the name and postofflce of the member and the fact that the holder shall be entitled to an tne privileges and benefits under the organization. When cotton under the control of these several companies shall be sold, it shall be sold at such a price as shall represent the minimum as fixed by the association, plus the carrying charges, so that the owners of cotton belonging to our association shall receive a minimum net, and the purchaser made to pay all expenses Incurred in storing, insuring and warehousing. The business manager shall be bonded in a sufficient sum to guarantee against any losses and shall negotiate all loans, see to the location, building, buying and leasing of all warehouses, and shall be responsible for the sale of all cotton under his charge. A member of the association bringing his cotton to an association warehouse shall be entitled to receive a loan upon his cotton, to have It weighed and graded, and to have a certificate of ownership, which certificate shall set forth the weight and grade, marks and numbers, and the amount per bale borrowed. The owner shall be required to execute to the business manager a power of attorney to borrow money on, and to sell his cotton, provided it shall not be sold under the price agreed upon by the national association. The business manager shall be empowered to buy any and all cotton offered for sale in his county when the price at which It is offered Is less than that fixed by the association. and he shall be empowered to hypothecate these purchases, or the ? a a a hflslq of loan | fUimil OU U<'Hhni, UU ? ? _ to buy other cotton. To illustrate, say the capital stock of a given county Is $100,000. With this amount 10,000 bales can be bought by borrowing on the bale the amount necessary to buy it. less $10. That is if the cotton should he nine cents a pound the manager gives $45 for a bale. This bale is warehoused and the receipt is hypothecated for a loan of $35 on the bale it represents, and by adding $10 of the capital stock, another bale can be | bought. Thus placing the bale of cot ton, and $10 as collateral security, 10,000 bales can be controlled by a capital of $10,000. The difference between at what sum cotton is bought at and the price at which It Is sold will be one means of revenue to the corporation. Each county, warehouse and holding company shall give a bond to the state division for the faithful keeping of its contract with the other states. As soon as 10 per cent of the cotton-growing counties shall have been organized, each county as organized shall be required to call for what ever per ceni ui no suunun^nuu J the capital stock Its board of directors shall deem necessary with which to begin business. NAVY NEEDS MEN BADLY. Several New Battle Shipa Are 8hort of Strength. Failure to secure enough enlistments to properly man the ships now In commission by the United States government, says a Washington dispatch. Is causing more than ordinary embarrassment to the navy department, and as a result of which legislation will undoubtedly be had at the next session of congress entirely changing the present manner of securing men for the service and making a thorough reorganization of the entire system. So serious has the lack of a requisite number of enlisted men In the naval service become that some of the larger ships recently placed In commission have not nearly the quota of men they should carry, this being noticeably the case with the Louisiana, Brooklyn, Virginia and Georgia, all of which, when carrying their full strength are recruited to the number of 700 or 800 me i each. Desertions, while flguilng largely In the question, do not constitute the only reason for the present lack of men. Poor pay, hard life, miserable accommodations, and in some cases ill and brutal treatment are all largely responsible for present conditions. The present enlisted force of the naval service amounts to between 31,000 and 32,000 men, while It should be neare.* 35,000 since the placing In -ommlsslon of the Georgia, Louisiana, Connecticut, Virginia, Kansas, and others. Where the extra men are to be secured the navy department does not know. Every device known to modern times has been resorted to to secure men for the service, and there are now said to be more recruiting- stations In use throughout the United States than ever before. Many of these are located In the rural districts, as It has been long recognized that some of the best men taken Into the service were gotten from the farms and email towns of the south and the west. It has been pointed out that the government will never be able to secure the complement of men required for the manning of Its ships until congress takes hold and by legislation not only Increases the compensation of, the men, but provides for their well-being and treatment as men are treated in other walks of life. The 31,000 men now In the service being divided between chief petty officers of three classes, seamen (ordinary sailors,) those In the commissary and messmen's branches, and those In the marine corps, are paid at a rating beginning with $13 a month for first enlistment as a minimum and $44 as a maximum. These run to $50 and $85 respectively, In addition to which there are other small allowances for extra good conduct, work, etc. This wage, It is said, Is so small that men of worth and good physique are unwilling to undergo the hardships when there are other lines of business everywhere calling them and offering good Inducements with good pay. It Is impossible to indicate now what measures congress will take to remedy the present defective conditions, but | It Is the belief of many naval officers that some radical changes will un-1 doubtedly be enacted Into law. BELIEVES IN STICKING. A. D. Parker Got Rich by Applying His Principle to Prospecting. A. D. Parker, vice president of the Colorado and Southern railroad, is soon to be advanced to the presidency of the company. It Is said. Mr. Parker Is rich, says an Austin, Texas dispatch to the New York Sun. He believes In sticking to a proposition \yhether it looks good or bad. It will come out all right In the end if you stay with it long enough. Is his theory. It was through this theory that he gained his wealth. In 1883 he was working as a section hand on the Denver and Rio Grande. His pay was $1.25 a day. Working Alongside of him was a laborer who had visions of getting rich through the discovery of a gold mine. He offered to go prospecting if Parker would grubstake him to the amount of 75 cents a day. That would leave him only 50 cents a day to live on. He thought he could manage it and entered into a verbal agreement with the man upon the terms proposed. The man threw down his shovel and went into the mountains of Colorado. He roamed over the west for eighteen years, and never a week did Parker fail to remit the $5.25 as his share of the expense. Most men would have thrown up the contract, but so long as the gold hunter was willing to endure the exposure and hardships of the mountains Parker was willing to live up to the agreement. Mr. Parker was advanced from section laborer to a place in the machine shops of the road, then to the auditor's office. He never lost sight of his friend, the prospector. In 1901 the prospector found himself In Nevada still hunting for gold. Then came the fortunate day, and Parker received a telegram telling him that his partner was at Tonopah, and had at last discovered a paying claim. It made them rich. Mr. Parker told this story of his rise to wealth when In Texas recently. X'T Prof. Brander Matthews, the essayist, enlivened with an anecdote a Shakespeare-Bacon discussion at the Players' club in New York: "A literary woman," said Prof. Matthews, "said one night to her husband: " 'When I get to heaven I am going to ask Shakespeare whether or not he wrote those plays.' "The husband chuckled. " '.Maybe he won't be there,'hesald. " 'Then you ask him,' said the lady." DREAD PNEUMONIA. Information About a Disease For Which There Is no Cura. Next to tuberculosis of the lungs, pneumonia, another lung malady, Is the most deadly disease now prevalent In the United States. During the year 1904, when the last Federal mortality statistics were gathered, it killed 45,000 Americans and sowed the seeds of consumption in probably 10,000 more. Since then the death rate has decreased little, if at all. There are no tried and tested remedies for pneumonia. The patient, it would seem, gets well through nature's efTorts .or he never gets well at all. Inasmuch as Just about 75 per cent of those who have pneumonia recover, it may be seen from.the foregoing figures that there are about 180,000 cases of the disease in the United States each year. Those who get well, unluckily for them, are ever thereafter disposed to have further attacks. A man who has had smallpox or yellow fever once never takes the disease again, for the reason that both of these maladies leave Immunity against themselves behind them. But pneumonia, instead of leaving its victim Immune, makes him even more liable than he was in the first place. Thus it happens that persons who have had pneumonia early in life often contract it again later on. The ancient Greeks were familiar with pneumonia and old Hippocrates lescribed it very accurately. He even differentiated between pneumonia and the early stages of consumption?a thing which modern doctors sometimes fall to do. Aretoous, another physician antiquity, wrote a very excellent treatise on pneumonia, but it was not until 1810 that there was any truly icientlflc Investigation of the disease. Today we know a great deal,about it and have learned how to prevent it, but so far no very efficient means of lldlng nature to cure it have been devised. although experiments with an anti-toxin are giving promising re wits. Pneumonia, to put It briefly, Is a malignant Inflammation of the lungs due to the presence of minute organIsms or germs. These germs corrode and blockade the air passages through the lungs and cut off a large portion of the patient's customary supply of air. In addition, they weaken his heart by putting on it the extra hard work of pumping blood through narrowed and clogged channels. Finally, they secrete poisons which are spread through the blood to all parts of the body and disable many of the vital organs. It Is seldom that a pneumonia patient dies of suffocation. Far more often his heart gives out or the germ poisons kill him by invading his brain. Ordinarily, the blood .of a healthy man Is vigorous enough to tackle and kill these germs as soon as they get Into the lungs, but when a man's power of resistance Is lowered, for any one of a hundred reasons, the blood does Its work badly and the g* *ms get a foothold. Then follows an attack of pneumonia, which Is merely a battle between blood and germs on a large scale. If the blood wins the patient gets well. If the germs win he dies. Three times out of four the victory goes to the blood. A man's power of resistance may De lowered by a sudden chill, such as that following an unexpected plunge' into icy water in midwinter. Again, it may be lowered by the gradual chill following the wearing of wet shoes. Yet again, it may be decreased by lack of sleep, by overwork, by too violent exercise, by overeating, and particularly by indulgence in alcohol. The man .vho drinks is always a more shining mark for pneumonia than the total abstainer. Common experience indicates this and scientific experiment confirms it. There are many forms of pneumonia, and it may be caused by any one of a dozen different germs, but the most common type is that caused by a little organism called Fraenkle's nneumococcus, after the German savant who discovered it. The pneumococcus under the microscope appears as a tiny dark speck surrounded by a transparent capsule. It is a germ of the very lowest order, and despite the fact that it seems to be alive and manages to get about, it is a plant and not an animal. When this minute organism invades the lungs it takes up its home in the walls of the air cells and causes them to grow congested and red. After that It begins to fill the cells themselves with a sticky, fibrinous fluid, in which there are a lot of blood corpuscles. During the third stage this fluid grows thinner and part of it is absorbed by the lung tissues and carried away. The rest is expelled by expectoration? and the patient Is convalescent. All of this may take place in one lung or In both. The less widespread the Infection, of course, the greater the patient's chances of recovery. When both lungs are involved we have what Is commonly called double pneumonia. The principal types of the disease are as follows: 1. The common lobar pneumonia. This is the type which ordinarily attacks the previously healthy subject. 2. Terminal pneumonia. This Is a type of the disease which often appears In the last stages of gout, diabetes, Bright's disease, etc., when the whole bodily organism is much debilitated and the lungs are open to the invasion of all sorts of germs. In Bright's disease the actual and Immediate cause of death is usually pneumonia. 3. Secondary pneumonia. This type frequently follows the administration of ether and Is also a common sequel of typhoid fever, rheumatism and influenza. 4. There is also a type of pneumonia which follows physical injuries to the uir passages. These injuries become ;>eats of infection, much as a scratch on the hand, when it festers, becomes a seat of infection for the mi#>fohoa which thronir uDon the skin and in the air. 5. Finally, there are types of pneumonia due to germs other than pneumococcus. Now and then the typhoid bacillus, the diphtheria germ or the minute microbe of some other disease invades the lung tissues and sets up a true pneumonia, though it is different In character, of course, from ordinary pneumonia. Pneumonia is commonly associated with cold weather, and in point of fact It 18 usually most prevalent in winter, but it is a disease of all ?easons and all climates. Wherever there are civilized human beings you will Ind pneumonia. It Is at Its worst. In the United States, In January, and Is least met with In July and August But a sudden chill In midsummer Is just as apt to end In pneumonia, as a sudden chill at Christmas. At the start the symptoms of the disease are much like those of a severe cold or of Influenza. The patient ha3 a sharp chill, which Is commonly followed by a high fever. Then come sharp pains In the chest, a dry cough, with blood-stained sputum, and shortness of breath. Pneumonia is a self-limiting disease and nothlnir ran be done to make an attack shorter. The patient should be placed in a bright, airy room, with plenty of ventilation, and should be given plenty of water and lemonade and plenty of easily digested food, such as milk, eggs, rice and broth. Modern physicians employ Icepacks on the chest and head to reduce the fever and various devices for relieving pain and making the cough less racking. Against the pneumococcus itself nature must still wage her war unaided, but it is often possible to lend a helping hand to the overburdened and laboring heart. Once upon a time whisky was extensively used as a stimulant, but the most progressive physicians now hold that its employment is dangerous, and various other things are used in its place. Fresh air and plenty of it is the thing most needed. In certain New Tork hospitals pneumonia patients are housed in tents on the roof and treated much as consumptives are. now treated at scientific sanltorla. Pneumonia runs a regular course, I and as has been stated nothing can be Idone to hurry or hinder tills progress. In from three to seven days after the beginning of an attack the lungs begin to clear. This is called the stage of resolution. If it progresses without mishap the patient is soon out of danger, though he may have a bad cough and remain very weak for a good while. In the old days pneumonia patients were imprisoned in hot, close rooms, and all sorts of powerful drugs were employed against the disease. Today good nursing is known to be of more value than drugs. The patient should be kept bright, cheerful and clean. His face and mouth should be washed frequently and care should be taken that the mucous he expectorates is burned, for pneumonia Is a decidedly infectious malady, and it is perfectly possible for one patient to Infect a whole household. Experiments are now being made with a new pneumonia anti-toxin, but Its value is still in doubt. There are, Indeed, vast technical difficulties in the way of producing an antl-toxln for the disease as certain in its effects as that now used so successfully against diphtheria. The best' way to protect oneself against pneumonia Is to avoid exposure and excesses and seek to maintain the body in good condition by taking regular and sufficient sleep and eating wholesome food. The man who hardens himself by cold baths in the morning and by wearing rational clothes is far less apt to fall a victim to pneumonia than the man who bathes only in hot water and wears absurdly heavy underclothes. Sailors, who are accustomed to a rough life, seldom have pneumonia Clerks, who get very little fresh air, fall before it often. Furthermore, it is well to avoid entering the sickrooms of pneumonia patients, and when an epidemic prevails it is the better part of valor to eschew alcoholic exhilaration. A man with half a pint of whisky in his stomach feels snug and warm, but in reality his bodily temperature is considerably below normal and the germ-killing corpuscles in his blood are . weak and ofiinnnrl Whenever the temperature of the body declines, whether it be from sudden exposure to great cold or a result of alcoholic excesses, the national powers of resistance almost disappear. The common barnyard fowl, for example, Is ordinarily not susceptible to pneumonia, and a large number of pneumococci jnay be injected into a hen's vein without damage. But if this same hen is forced to stand in cold water for half an hour and then inoculated she will develop all the customary symptoms of the disease.?Ellery M. Sedgewick in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Dog Wasn't Mad. Nobody had ever seen a dog act like that on Broadway. He was a brown and yellow curly-haired one, with feet slightly out of drawing, which indicated that he was Just getting over being a pup. He chased a woman up two little steps of one of the closed entrances of the Criterion theatre, says the New York Herald recently, and there he stood at the bottom of the flight with his long nose at such an angle that a dotted line from it would have touched the stuffed pheasant on her mink hat. His eyes had a glassy set to them and his right foreleg had been lifted off the sidewalk in a kind of high-stepping attitude. "Mad dog!" cried she on the step3, at the top of her voice. "Won't anybody save me? Police! police! Where's a policeman?" She backed nearly to the door. The dog at the same time shifted his position and again relapsed Into his three legged pose and glassy stare. From her muff the Imprisoned woman took a box of confectionery and threw him bon-bon after bon-bon. The animal was Interested for two or three times, and then again he resumed a Joyful sniffing In the direction of the gaudy pheasant wings. About the group congregated a large throng, which kept at a safe distance. The cry of "Mad dog!" was sounded through Long Acre square. Persons I on the way to the theatres went around the block. The woman on the steps was by this time in hysterics, and alternately sobbing and crying "Ma4 dog!" and "Good doggie, have some candy?" The dog stood still as a statue. Edging his way through the throng, a policeman reached for his revolver. "He's going to shoot the mad dog," said a hundred voices. "I wouldn't," said a lank man who lounged up. "It ain't a crime for a Gordon setter pup to point at a pheasant either In Canandaigua or New York. I won't stand for him being shot. Here, constable., you take that animal to the pound and I'll pay for his keep. He's a good one."