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Synopsis of Procoding Chapters.
Chapter I?Judith Bartelmy, society
woman, goes to the office of the Daily
Advance to protest against a story
which had severely criticised her father,
a Judge of the United States court.
She discovers that the author of the
article was Wheeler Brand, a brilliant
young writer whom she had promised
to marry. He refuses to cease attacking
her father. II?Judith discards her
engagement ring. Dupuy, a lawyer,
representing big advertisers, calls and
demands Brand's discharge, as his clients
are friends of Judge Bartelmy.
Ill?Brand is discharged by the managing
editor, for the paper, long owned
by an Insurance company, had been
friendly to corporations. Michael Nolan,
who buys the paper, comes in the
office and finds Dupuy to be an old
enemy of his. IV?Nolan calls for
Brand and makes him managing editor.
V?Brand tells Nolan and his socially
ambitious family that the dishonest
Judge, Bartelmy, and his unsuspecting
J. tin
uaufiiici nave la&cu uiciu uy owicuij
86 as to try to induce Nolan not to attack
the judge in his newspaper. VI?
Dupuy aids Bartelmy in endeavoring
to have Brand and the Advance avoid
attacking the judge regarding a tricky
opinion he has rendered in the Lansing
Iron case. "Every man has his price,
even Brand," says Dupuy. VII?Nolan
says if Brand will trap Bartelmy in the
act of offering him a bribe to keep silent
that the Advance will print the
story in full. VIII?Bartelmy agrees
to pay Brand $10,000 to keep quiet
about the Lansing Iron case. IX.?
Brand lays the trap for Bartelmy.
X?Bartelmy arrives at the Advance
office to pay Brand the $10,000.
CHAPTER XI.
Bartelmy, now that he had taken the
final and extremely distasteful plunge
and had come to the office of the Advance,
waited for Brand to make the
opening remarks about the particular
object of his visit.
Brand was waiting for the judge to
do the same. It was the newspaper
man who spoke first, after the two had
seated themselves. He was anxious
to get the matter over witn as quickly
as possible, for he well knew tnat, in
spite of all his precautions, affairs in a
newspaper office are so. uncertain that
an interruption of an unexpected nature
might occur to ruin the entire
plan.
"Mr. Dupuy was here a short time
ago," he ventured.
Judge Bartelmy proceeded to explain
the appearance of the lawyer lobbyist
in the affair. While it was plain to
Brand that the judge had sent Dupuy
as a go-between so that it would be
impossible to connect Bartelmy with
the payment of any money as a bribe,
the jurist did not propose to acknowledge
that such had been his laudable
purpose. He gave an entirely different
reason.
"Yes, I know," he said. "He found
me at the opera with my daughter. I
hoped, Mr. Brand, that by allowing me
to act through him you would spare
me this last humiliation."
"Would It not be safer for you if no
third party knew of your transaction
with me?" suggested Brand.
The judge pitied the colossal ignorance
of this ameteur in trickery. Did
not he know that in the superior
spheres of crooked practices it became
necessary to employ third persons on
many occasions to put through matters
of this sort? And he was a newspaper
man of years of experience too.
No, this peculiar young man would
never finish supplying the judge with
surprises; of that Bartelmy was positive.
Perhaps it might be in order to
observe at this point that, while Brand
of course could not know that these
thoughts were passing through his
visitor's mind, he at the same time
would have been ready to confess that
he was going to provide several more
surprises for the jurist. But there are
different varieties of surprises.
"Dupuy is in my confidence," the
judge pronounced with an air of finality.
"Hs's not in mine," responded the
managing editor.
"You're mistaken in him. I know
him intimately."
"Oh, the pity of it," exclaimed Brand,
"that you should be intimately acquainted
with such a man as Dupuy!"
Bartelmy could not restrain a sarcastic
smile at the editor's sneer at Dupuy.
"Mr. Brand," he said quickly, "your
moral reflections at this juncture impart
a certain quaint humor to the situation."
"I am afraid that is the trouble with
me. My humor is nearly always unintentional."
Brand sighed as though
sorry for himself.
The Judge began to show signs of
nervousness.
"Well, shall we get on with it?" the
editor asked him.
"Yes. I must rejoin my daughter.
She's waiting for me at the opera. She
was very anxious that I should not
come here tonight. It was curious?
her persistency in the matter."
Brand drew his chair closer to the
desk?closer to the telephone.
"Let us get to business," he said.
The judge went on talking about his
daughter.
"She displays an unusual. I should
say an extraordinary, curiosity as to
my mission here." he said. "My daughter
would have made a great cross examiner
if she had been a man."
"We're wasting time. Judge." Now
it was Brand who was becoming impatient.
i
"Am I to understand that the payment
of this sum"?Bartelmy began.
Brand raised his voice to a high
pitch.
"Ten thousand dollars!" he said.
"Yea," agreed Bartelmy cautiously.
"Am I to understand that it?ah?
wipes out of your recollection not only
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the Incident of which you were apeakin*,
but also as to"? He paused.
Brand helped the would be briber to
complete his sentence.
"You mean your secret Interview last
night with Dupuy and the attorney for
the Lansing"?
"The visitor raised his hand warningly
at Brand's loud tones, as though
to counsel caution.
"Yes, yes."
"Lansing Iron corporation " continued
Brand, bending close to the telephone.
"Yes. Will this sum. paid in hand,
induce you to forget?ah?not only that
incident, but also various other matters
to which the Advance seems to have
taken exception in the past "
[ Brand sank back in his chair.
"You mean you want us to let up on
you all around?"
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"Precisely."
"Then that's understood."
"You will make a memorandum for
me in writing to that effect?a receipt,
so to speak?"
He pushed a pad toward the managing
editor.
"All right?certainly," agreed Brand,
taking up a pen.
The Judge began to congratulate
himself on the ease with which he waff
handling the young man.
"This is?ah?more businesslike," he
said.
But Brand gave him another shock
when he said:
"Yes: I'll draw it up in duplicate.
Each of us will keep a copy?signed."
"Ah?ha?ha!" The Jurist leaned
back and laughed. "You're a clever
lad, Brand. Well, well; youth will be
served!" He pushed the pad away.
Brand glanced at the clock fixed i?
the wall opposite him.
"It's getting late, judge," he warned.
Bartelmy reached Into the inside
pocket of his evening dress coat and
extracted an oblong package. Slipping
off a rubber band that encircled it, he
unwrapped the yellow paper and laid
before him on the managing editor's
desk a neat stack of crisp new bank
bills, all of the $500 denomination.
Bartelmy started to count the money,
but he desisted and pushed the bills
over toward Brand.
"Count it," he said.
"You count it."
The judge leaned forward and began
the task. His head was within four
or five inches of the mouthpiece of the
telephone. He picked up the bills, one
at a time, and as he counted them he
laid them In another pile.
"Five hundred," he said?"one thousand,
fifteen?two thousand, twentyfive?three
thousand, thirty-five?four
thousand, forty-five?five thousand.
There is half or it," he remarked.
"Yes; that's $5,000," assented Brand.
"Six thousand," said the judge, continuing
with his task?"seven thousaid.
seventy-five?eight thousand."
"Eight thousand dollars," agreed
Brand.
"Nine thousand." counted the judge.
"Nine thousand dollars," said Brand.
mon thousand dollars." the iudire
counted.
"Is that correct" he queried of the
editor.
"Ten thousand dollars, correct," was
the reply. "That will wipe the slate
clean between us."
Brand held out his hand to take the
money.
The judge picked up the pile of bills,
compressed them with his hands and
extended the money across the desk.
"Take it. Brand," he said.
As the false judge said these words
and stood with the money in his hands
and held it out to the editor a loud ex
plosion thrilled every nerve fiber in
his body. A blinding glare of light
filled the room, and the air was filled
with the choking gaseous fumes of the
smoke of the powder used by photographers
in making flashlights.
A pang of terror shot through the
craven heart of the would be briber. .
He started back in his alarm, his eyes
almost blinded by the unexpected flood |
of light that had subsided as quickly {
as it had come.
"My God! What is that?" he cried,
rubbing the back of one of his hands t
across his eyes.
Wheeler Brand, who had risen in his
place at his desk when the judge had
finished counting the money, set his
face into hard, unyielding lines as tne
judge besought him to speak, to ex- .
plain. He had won. He had completely
at his mercy this cold, crafty
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STRIPES, JUDGE BARTELMY." r
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betrayer of the public trust he had *
sworn to hold sacred. And it was with
unmistakable triumph in his voice that c
he gave the reply that was to be im- *
printed on the brain of the false judge s
as long as he was to live?a reply that
would haunt him while awake and
awake him when he slept:
"It is a picture of you in stripes, *
Judge Bartelmy," he announced. '
The judge, realizing that he had
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been tricked?that he had been pnoto- graphed
in the very act of handling ?
bribe money to the managing editor of *
the Advance?displayed rare presence 1
of mind for a man whose complete e
social and professional ruin had be- *
come suddenly imminent. He rushed v
across the room at the point where 1
the flash occurred, hoping to obtain 1
hold of the camera and destroy the 8
plate. Owing to the pall of smoke he 9
had been unable to see Just in what *
manner the camera had been arranged. r
But when he reached the side of the *
room there was no camera to be seen, *
only a round hole extended through
the partition into the next room and *
from which the camera had been re- *
r
"You count the money. .fudge."
moved. He stood and gazed In dismay.
He knew now that he was at
the mercy of Brand and the Advance
to a degree that he hardly dared to
estimate.
He turned around and walked back
to the desk. Brand was still standing
in his place, looking fixedly at the
judge.
Barteliny was not beaten yet. He
knew that he would not be beaten until
the Advance appeared in the streets
spreading forth to all the world the
story of his shame.
Shaking from head to foot in his
rage, he pounded the desk and cried
out:
"You have gone to all your trouble
for nothing. I am going direct to Mr.
Nolan's house, and in less than an
hour you will receive orders to kill
that story?that dastardly pack of lies
you want to print!"
Brand smiled calmly. He gathered
the $10,000 in bills, which lay scattered
on the desk where Bartelmy had
thrown them when he dashed for the
camera.
"I'll keep these as evidence," he said.
"When they have served their purpose
we will return them to you, or maybe
we will send them to the minority
stockholders in the Lansing Iron company.
That's who the money probably
belongs to."
Bartelmy accepted the situation with
stoical composure for the time. He
saw that he would have no chance In
a hand to hand struggle with the
young athletic editor for possession Of
the money. Beside, he must see Nolan?must
see him at once. That was
the most Important matter to which
he should now attend.
He walked deliberately to the clodet
and secured his hat and coat
turned the key and went out of the
door leading to the outer hall.
As the Judge disappeared Wheeler
Brand sank heavily into his chair. He
spread his arms on his desk and .bowed
his head between them until his
cheek rested on the cool polished surface.
"Judith, Judith!" he sobbed, and his
body shook uncontrolledly as he wept
for the girl he loved.
To be Continued.
BLACKBURN 8TORIE8.
Two Good Ones Incorporated In the
Stevenson Reminiscences.
Adlal Stevenson, in his recent book,
rives these two anecdotes of J. 8. C.
Blackburn, the honey tongued orator
)f Kentucky:
Upon the occasion of the retirenent
of the Rev. Dr. Butler from
:he chaplaincy of the senate?a posi:ion
he had filled most acceptably for
many years?many of the senators
ipoke regretfully of his retirement.
The speech of Mr. Blackburn, for
jeauty of expression and pathetic eloluence,
was unrivaled. He spoke
most tenderly of the faithfulness of
:he venerable man of God; how for
ong years he had gone in and out
jefore us; of his daily walk and conversation;
how, like the Blessed Maa:er,
his only thought was of doing
food; of how he had often Invoked
he divine blessing upon us and our
oved ones, and lifted us, as it were,
n his arms up to the very throne
>f grace. The orator seemed Inspired,
is though his lips were indeed touch'
>d with a live coal from the altar.
The counterpart of the scene that
'ollowed his closing words had never
>een witnessed in legislative assem-i
>ly. All were in tears. It was evev*
laid that venerable senators, who had
tever shed a tear since the rattficalon
of the treaty of Ghent, actually
lobbed aloud and refused to be comorted.
At length, amid silence that
:ould be felt, an adjournment was
iflfected and the senators passed sady
out to their homes. As he passed
he chair, Senator Vest, in an underone,
remarked to the vice president,
'Jo never saw him!"
The next day in the absence of his
iuccessor, "the blind chaplain," Docor
Butler again and for the last
ime officiated, simply repeating in a
nanner most solemn and impressive
he Lord's Prayer. At its conclusion,
Senator Blackburn, who had been a
nost attentive listener, came forward
o the desk and remarked to Vice
'resident Stevenson:
"I tell you, sir, I like that new
ihaplain of ours. What a splendid
>rayer! There is something original
ibout that man."
Thirty years and more ago, when
Irst a candidate for congress, Mr.
Blackburn attended a public execulon,
in common parlance "a hangng,"
in one of the counties of his
listrict. Being a gentleman of great
listincuon ana a candidate ior congress,
he was appropriately invited
>y the sheriff to occupy a seat with
he prisoner and his spiritual advisr
upon the gallows. At the near ap>roach
of the fatal hour the sheriff
dth watch in hand, amid the sea of
tpturned faces, stated to the prisoner
hat he had yet five minutes to live,
ind it was his privilege, if he so delred,
to address the audience. The
>rlsoner meekly replied that he did
lot wish to speak. Whereupon Mr.
JIackburn, stepping promptly to the
ront of the scaffold, said:
"As the gentleman does not wish
o speak, if he will kindly yield me
lis time, I will take this occasion to
emark that I am a candidate for
ongress, regularly nominated by the
)emocratic convention," etc.
This incident being told in the
iresence of Mr. Marshall, the opposng
candidate, the latter remarked
hat he remembered it well and
ould vouch for its truth. He then
dded that when Mr. Blackburn prolosed
to speak out the prisoner's
ime the latter turned to the sheriff
.nd inquired who that was. To which
he officer replied, "Captain Blackiurn."
At this the prisoner, who had
.mid all the exciting scenes of his
irrest and trial and even up to the
iresent moment, with his coffin beilde
him, displayed marvelous foritude,
suddenly exhibiting deep emoion,
piteously exclaimed: "Please
lang me first and let him speak aferward."
Hardness of Icebergs.
The hardness and strength of ice
ncreases with the degrees of cold, and
is icebergs come from the region or
erpetual cold of an intensity difficult
0 realize it is readily seen how they
an become "demons of destruction."
?he hardness of icebergs is something
vonderful, even surpassing that of the
'land ice" reported from St. Peters>urg
in 1740, wherein it is declared
hat "in the severe winter of that year
1 house was built of ice taken from
ho river Neva which was fifty feet
ong, sixteen feet wide and twenty
eet high, and the walls supported the
oof, which was also of ice. Before it
tood two ice mortars and six Ice canions
made on a turning lathe, with
carriages and wheels also of ice. The
:annon were of the caliber of six
jounders, but they were loaded only
vith one-quarter pound of powder
md with hempballs?on one occasion
vith iron. The thickness of the ice
vas only four inches, and yet it reisted
the explosion." Ice palaces have
ilso been built in late years in this
ountry and in Canada which have
tood for weeks, so, then, how strong
nust be the ice in masses hundreds of
eet in thickness!?Pittsburg Press,
nadeam id
piswltontous grading.
J08EPH a CANNON.
8tory of the Big Man Who Presidei
Over Houee of Repreaentativee.
This Is the beet abused public mar
since the entire Republican party and
90 per cent of the Democratic party
maligned, slandered, reviled Grovei
Cleveland for protecting the public
credit from dishonor. Grover Cleveland
was elected president in 1892 because
the Republican fifty-first congress
was afraid to trust Ben Harrison
with a free coinage law. The Sherman
silver law, enacted by a congress
Republican in both houses, and approved
by a Republican president, was
an assault on the public credit, and
put the country on a silver basis, and
it would have put the treasury on the
silver bksis if anybody but Cleveland
had been president
But Cleveland preserved the public
credit and got more abuse for it than
any other president in our history,
for he was assailed by both partlea
Cannon is speaker of the house, and
all he has done is to enforce the Reed
rules. He has done nothing that Reed
and Henderson did not do, and it is
the system, and not the man, that the
insurgents ought to assail.
Nobody has dared ) say that old
Joe is corrupt He has saved the
American people too many millions for
that. I venture to say that Joseph G.
Cannon has saved to the treasury more
than Ellhu B. Washburn, William S.
Holman and Samuel J. Randall combined.
He has always stood for economy,
and those who saw how he
fought to keep down expenditures have
always wondered how It happened that
the Flfty-flrst was a billion-dollar congress.
Cannon first took his seat In congress
In 1873, and except the term
1891-93 he has been a member of the
national library, whereat and whereever
since, a record that beats all others
in our national history. Blaine
was the speaker, Pig Iron Kelly the
titular leader on the floor, though Garfield
was the actual leader. Ben Butler
was there with his force bill, and
It was that congress John Young
Brown, hurled at Ben Butler that terrific
philippic that pierced even his
rhinoceroclan hide.
The bloody shirt was a-waving. The
G. O. P. hated everything southern but
the negro, and at that time the south
was not yet emerged from carpetbag
rule. Negroes were In congress with
scalawags and carpetbaggers. Mr.
Cannon was a bloody-shlrter of the
most scarlet hue. Julius Caesar Burrows
was another bloody-shlrter of a
little more ornate speech. William I.
Wilson used to say that Burrows kept
his speeches under glass like waxwork
to be brought out now and then
for an airing.
?
The morning of the November election
in 1874 the country woke up astounded.
The election had gone Democratic
by overwhelming majorities.
Samuel J. Tilden was chosen governor
of New York and the new congress
had more than three score Democratic
majority, the first Democratic congress
to sit in Washington since March 4,
1859. Above all old Beast Butler was
beaten for re-election in Massachuetts.
And then It was that the G. O. P.
proposed to make it Illegal to elect a
Democratic congress, and so Ben Butler,
at the last session of the Fortythird
congress, pressed his force bill.
Randall of Pennsylvania, Beck of Kentucky,
and Lamar of Mississippi led
the filibuster and it was one of the
hottest and longest parliamentary battles
In our political history. When
they supposed they were beaten, a hint
from Blaine, the speaker, taught them
how to renew the fight and keep It up
until March 4 and then old Butler
abandoned the bill with a Parthian
shot at Blaine that went true to the
mark. Now Blaine did not care a rap
for the south; but he knew that with
that force bill the law, Grant would be
absolute master of the Republican party,
and he further knew that Grant
would never allow the nomination of
James G. Blaine to succeed him In the
White House. Had Grant been his
friend, Blaine would have secured the
passage of that force bill.
But what a piece of folly It would
have been. Every southern state that
had been a party to the Confederacy
would have held a convention and proclaimed
that they preferred bayonet
rule to negro rule, carpetbag and scalawag
rule, and the bayonet would
have been authorized. The business
north would have stood for that about
fifteen minutes, and in the succeeding
congress there would not have been
enough Republican members to demand
the yeas and nays.
* *
During that entire period Uncle
Cannon was a bloody-shirter of the J
fiercest sect, and even as late as 1890,
he supported with all his might the
force bill of Henry Cabot Lodge that
was designed to make Mississippi a
Republican state. In those days he
not only thought It possible to subject
the whites of the south to negro rule,
but he held it desirable to accomplish
this.
In this connection I shall call attention
to the latest rebel outrage. It
seems that the song "Dixie" has been
pronounced the most popular In the
Union by the song bureau of the national
library, whereat and whereupon
sundry grand army posts at the north
have taken action and denounced this
obsession of the public taste as altogether
treasonable In every particular.
*
The Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth congresses were Democratic,
but by the narrowest of majorities
the Forty-seventh was Republican.
There were numerous candidates
for speaker, Frank Hitchcock being
the logical one. Reed was a candidate,
Burrows was a candidate, and some
votes were cast for Uncle Joe Canon,
though he was not a candidate in a
serious sense. Mr. Keifer of Ohio was
elected, mainly through the efforts of
Page of California, and Hazelton of
Wisconsin. By this time Uncle Joe
had proved himself a valuable member
of the house. Then as now ne was no
orator, but he is endowed with an
abundance of strong, sterling common
sense, a will of iron and a courage,
moral and physical, to face the devil.
Add to these a sturdy honesty and a J
determination to appropriate no mon- I
ey except for public purposes only;
that was Joe Canon In the Forty-sev.
enth congress, and that Is the Joe
Cannon of today. The Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses
were Democratic. You see In those
1 days the Democratic party was Democratic,
and had the art of gaining
' victories, an art it lost whem it ceased
to be a Democrat In 1894. But the
Fifty-first congress was Republican by
three or four majority. Reed and McKlnley
were the leading candidates for
speaker. Reed beat McKlnley because
ho wo a an Inflnftalv a hi nr man HnH
I McKinley been, Speaker Reed would I
have been chairman of ways and
means. He would have made the tariff
and he would have been elected
president in 1896. There would have
been no Spanish war and no acquisition
of the Philippines. McKinley
was bullied in to the war with Spain.
It was Impossible to bully Reed. In
this connection I want to say as a
Democrat that the course of the Democrats
in both houses of congress just
before the declaration of war with
Spain was the s'ublimest piece of idiocy
in all the annals of asshood. They
forced that inglorious war, and established
the Republican party in power
indefinitely.
*
Reed appointed Uncle Joe chairman
or appropriations, ana men rurnea
enough Democrats out of congress to
give him a working majority under his
rule to count a quorum. At the succeeding
election in 1890 the Democrats <
gained the greatest and completest victory
ever obtained in our history. The
Democratic majority in the house was
more than twice the entire Republican <
membership of eighty-eight, and for
the only time in thirty-eight years
Uncle Cannon was elected to stay at
home.
Thus the Democratic party had the
world in a basket, and in 1892 they
swept the country and put Grover i
Cleveland in the White House. All
they had to do to retain their power
indefinitely was to follow their leader, I
but that they would not do. They revolted,
set up Bland and Bryan, and <
when they led the party into the pit, <
90 per cent of the Democrats cussed i
Cleveland for their misfortunes. Had <
they followed the counsel of Cleveland I
and beem overtaken by disaster there '
would have been some sense In abus- i
ing the Democratic president.
However, it is all right now, Mr. 1
Bryan denounced Mr. Cleveland as a ]
bunko-steerer, and yet the convention 1
that nominated Mr. Bryan in 1908 was i
reduced to the necessity of eulogizing >
Grover Cleveland. Sometimes it is a I
good thing to set a dish of leeks before ]
a great man. It disciplines his appe- i
tite.
* * ]
Thomas B. Reed was as proud as 1
Lucifer. He was conscious of his im- 1
mense superiority, mentally and mor- <
ally, to McKinley and he was wound- <
ed to the vitals when the party pre- j
ferred McKinley to him. Later he opposed
the Spanish war and the acqui- i
sition of the Philippines, and when t
he saw his party was determined on <
the policy of expansion, he resigned t
from congress. In my little way I t
urged the Democrats to nominate Tom i
Reed for president in 1900, and if they <
had discovered the sagacity to do so, t
he would have been elected. ^
When Reed left congress there were i
several candidates for his shoes. Dave l
Henderson, the poorest equipped man
for the place who ever held it, got it. i
He got it because Uncle Joe Cannon ?
had opposed the oleomargarine bill, j
next to the ship subsidy the most in- ]
famous bill of an economic nature that i
congress ever considered. A Mr. Hop- ?
kins, now happily a statesman out of c
a Job, represented the Elgin, 111., dis- t
trict, and he became a candidate not
for speaker, exactly, but to beat Uncle l
Joe, and he did. '
But when Henderson retired from t
congress, all eyes turned to Uncle Joe \
and he is now serving his fourth con- t
secutive term, an honor that came to j
but one other, Mr. Stevenson of Vir- t
grinia, who resigned during his'fourth
* ? ? Krt mlnlatar f A TJ!n IT. .
lerin txo opcaivci iu uc muuoioi w U..D
land. Henry Clay served longer than
any other speaker, but not continuously.
As was the case with Cleveland the
wave of personal abuse that threatens
to engulf Uncle Joe will recede, and
his popularity will be greater than
ever. He is honest. That is universally
admitted. He Is an exceptionally
strong personality. He is brave and
a fighter, and has rendered the state
some service.
As for the insurgents, why don't
they insurge? Horace Greelley insurged;
so did Carl Schurz.?Lawyer's.
SPAIN'S RICH CITY.
Few In America Realize the Industrial
Wealth of Barcelona.
It is not surprising that, if Spain,
always more or less agitated by internal
dl'-mtio"-, should have serious
troubles, they should centre in Barcelona,
says a writer in Lesslie's. The
chief seaport of the nation is here,
the greatest industries are here, and
here congregate in great numbers
those grades of society which ara gen
erally opposed to any organized government.
Here one finds the richest c
and the poorest?both disturbing ele- \
ments, but for different reasons?one r
complaining of unequal taxation and r
the other of the restraints which the q
government places upon license. ^
Few people In America realize the j
industrial wealth of Barcelona or how f
much she patronizes us for raw ma- a
terlal. Over 125,000 people are em- t
ployed there In the cotton industry i
alone, and the exports of this work
amount to at least $75,000,000 annual- t
ly. A large amount of the raw cotton d
used is purchased in the United States "
and shipped from Galveston, Tex. So, r
after all, America Is more or less In- v
terested in this section of Spain. Liv- g
ing Is cheaper there than In any other
city in Spain. Rents are marvelously
low, and I saw a flat of fifteen rooms, a
with all modern appliances, on the e
Fifth avenue of the city, for which, c
the occupant paid $45 per month. Indeed,
a very excellent apartment of c
ten rooms can be obtained for $25. r
Labor, however, is correspondingly c
low, and the working class enjoys few r
luxuries. The Catalan works with an
unceasing energy which rather startles c
the laborer of other parts of Alfonso's s
country. Although he listens to agi- v
tators, ne is orten quicK 10 ininK ior .
himself, and he fights for what he considers
his rights with the same energy, a
and the government at Madrid will do t
wall to heed the cry of this restless
hild before It Is too late, for that cry
Is already finding an echo in northern "
Spain. t
WHERE COTTON 18 KING. o
v
Methods of Trading on tho Now p
Orleans Exchange. e
For many generations New Orleans,
both as a port and as a factor In de- f
terminlng prices, has been more close- p
ly identified with cotton growing than C
any other city In the world.
If In later years the development of p
railroad systems has drawn away from li
this port a portion of the cotton trade c
which In the era of river traffic was li
the city's natural right. New Orleans is g
nevertheless a dominant factor in cot- s
ton trading, says Moody's Magazine, A
ttliu 1 to lllipui UUlte ID UUC U1IICI1J W HO ?
cotton exchange and to certain unique e
features in its methods. a
In the year 1871, when the south was f
lifting itself out of the wreck of war h
and reconstruction, the value of an or- a
ganizatlon for their mutual protection c
and benefit became apparent to some
of the leading merchants, and on June s
17, 1871, a meeting of thirty-six cotton k
firms was called to consider the needs 1
of the situation. h
On July 24 of that year these men t(
adopted a constitution and were duly e
chartered under the name of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange. The pres- c
ent building was erected in the year tl
1883 at a cost of $350,000 to its mem- a
bers. It is situated in Carondelet e
street, the Wall street of New Orleans, n
Membership at the present day is c
constituted chiefly 'of several more or f<
less well defined classes of cotton mer- o
chants; namely, the factors, buyers, y
f. o. b. sellers, exporters and future fi
brokers, besides a number of freight o
agents and cottonseed oil merchants,
and some rarmerg and mill owners. o
The exporters form the largest class t<
of spot cotton merchants. They oc- ri
caslonally buy on direct orders from lx
the European mills, but as a rule their e;
business is done by cable offers from tl
the mills or their agents, which orders w
are usually good for the day. a
Offers from the mills are accepted by fi
the exporters when they are able to a
buy the cotton at prices which will net it
them a fair commission, after the ad- tl
dltion of all expenses necessary to tl
complete the shipment. When the
mills do not appear anxious to buy, the it
exporter takes the Initiative by mak- g
Ing firm offers to the other side, reg- d
ulatlng his price on market quotations t<
as explained. a
The contract of the f. o. b. trader is si
to deliver the cotton free on board at
Mew Orleans alongside the outgoing tl
vessel. The consideration is usually 01
hxed at so many points "off" or "on" b
(that is, "more than" or "less than"), tl
the price of some future month; this lc
permits the buyer to protect himself by tl
a "hedge." p<
The f. o. b. merchant is coming n
more into prominence as that method of
trading gains favor, for it avoids ware- w
house and other charges incident to d<
consignment sales and give the pur- p]
chasers a better opportunity of acqulr- vi
Ing large lots of even running grades, w
-The factor is in reality a commission a
merchant who receives cotton on con- Is
fignment for the producer and small b<
country merchant, to be disposed of at ai
stated or current prices. He acts to pi
some extent in a banking capacity, tr
making advances to his constituents tl
>f the capital needed to bring the crop sc
:o maturity, being usually secured by ir
l "crop lien;" in this capacity he is be- w
ng superseded by the country store- ai
ceeper and interior banks. 11]
It may be noted here as a matter of
nterest that every bale of cotton which
inters the port of New Orleans comes
mmedlately under the supervision and p
protection of the cotton exchange and
-emains under its oonstant espionage
intil finally delivered to the steamship
>r railroad companies for export or ^
ransportation to domestic mllla te
The committee of the exchange which ln
ias charge of this is known as the
'committee on supervision and inspec- la
ion." It employs a small army of depitles,
whose duties are to prevent the **
jtealing of the bales of cotton or the I*
filtering of samples, "bleeding" of the or
>ale, as it is called. tr
Before the institution of this committee
it was considered customary for P<
i bale to lose from ten to twenty *a
pounds while in presses or warehouses, Li
tor from the nature of its packing the *r
iotton bale Is easily susceptible of P1
laving this amount extracted without
iltering its outward appearance, vs
3ome samplers and classers ln those M
lays gained a lucrative if dishonest
Ivelihood by removing unreasonably th
arge samples under the pretence of ex- di
imination, and accumulating them ln
1 I. - ? \Ta.. eVt A (M_ PI
iit'ir unices. nuw, uuncvct, mv iu- - ?
ipectors do not allow a sampler to have bJ
nore than six ounces, thus protecting sp
he Interest of the owner.
The contract of future delivery as Ei
raded In on the New Orleans Cotton P<
exchange Is an agreement on the part 1?
?f the seller to deliver and of the buyer tr
o receive at some future date, usually
n some distant month 60,000 pounds of *y
:otton, basis middling, in about 100 be
iquare bales, the purchase price being ca
ixed at the time that the contract is ax
ntered into. It is an "option" only in bl
he sense that the seller has the prlv- M
lege of delivering the cotton on any 8'i
lay that he chooses during the month
n which delivery must be made.
This does not mean that in every te
:ase physical delivery is required. As n*'
vith executory contracts In general,
ights and liabilities arising from them
nay be assigned, and they are fre- Je
il.. 1 T# U <a r?s\v\ .
Llienuy SO USSIgllCU. 11 It la iuuie ?,vurenlent
for the seller In a contract to se
>ay In cash the difference accruing w<
rom an advance In values, thereby en- ?P
ibling the buyer to purchase his cot- ha
on, it would be a useless act to com- co
>el actual delivery.
It Is termed a "basis contract," for ar
he reason that, though any of nine Al
IllTerent grades may be delivered, bt
fair" being the best and "good ordl- 'n
lary" the lowest, yet the basis upon J?
vhlch the price is fixed is the middling sa
;rade. This grade Is about equldist- UI
int from very good to very poor. If
seller deliver middling he Is paid the
xact price per pound named in the en
ontract; but if he deliverer, say, fair ou
otton he is entitled to receive as much by
nore per pound as the price of fair m'
otton, he is entitled to receive as much m'
nore per pound as the yrice of fair be
otton Is above middling cotton'on the
Ixth day prior to delivery, and like- a
vise if he tender good ordinary the te
uyer deducts from the purchase price wl
is much per pound as good ordinary is
telow middling on that day. ,f
These variations in the value of
rrades, or "differences," as they are iy
ermed, are determined by a committee <jc
if the exchange in accordance with
/hat they And to be the ruling market
trices on the sixth day prior to dellvry.
The method of determining the diferences
in grades according to market
trices is peculiar to the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange end is termed the
commercial difference" system, as optosed
to the "fixed difference" system
a vogue on the New York Cotton Exhange,
under the rules of which latter
nsitltution the prices for the several
Tades are established for the whole
eason at stated intervals twice a year,
advocates of the commercial difference
ystem contend that it is the more
n..U?klA Im 4k?4 sa Aa.J. 4a - - -- -
4uiiauic ?xt umi it iciiui iu prvwBrve
parity or equivalent value between
uturee and spot cotton, and in so doiK
increases the usefulness of futures
s a hedge and prevents their use for
ertaln manipulative purposes.
The exchange provides "types" or
tandards for the grades, which are
ept in the custody of the "classers."
'hese are experts in its employ who
ave no interest in cotton other than
o judge and decide upon the grade of
very bale delivered on a contract.
A method has been devised for fallitating
deliveries by "certification" of
be bales. Thus, if a merchant has,
ay, 100 bales of cotton which he wisbs
to deliver on a future contract he'
lay request the exchange, through Its
lassers, to pass upon the grades bears
the actual delivery. The certlflate
which he receives is good for one
ear and carries with H a. guaranty
rom the exchange that the cotton is
f the grade mentioned.
When the day for delivery arrives the
wner merely tenders this certificate,
agether with his warehouse or press
Bceipts, additions and deductions beig
made on the then existing differnces,
a~1 the delivery. Is oomplete, but
tie cotton must be turned out and
elghed unless the parties agree on
'eights and waive the manual transjr.
A buyer who thus comes Into posbsalon
of a certificate may redeliver
: to the party to whom he has sold
ie cotton, and so on during the life of
tie certificate.
The future contract has a historj of
s own so closely identified with the
rowth of the New Orleans Cotton Exlan^e
end the development of the cot>n
buelneee that Its origin and effects
uinot fail to prove of interest to the
tudent of economic history.
Before the days of the Atlantic cable
le consumers, who were then almost
nly the English and Continental mills,
ought their cotton as they ndeded It
irough their correspondents or sgents ,
cated at central points throughout
ie cotton belt, or else they were com- I
Blled to accumulate a large stock of '
iw cotton and manufactured goods.
In this latter case immense capital |vas
needed, and they were assuming
eclded risks, for the value of the stale
was as variable then. If not more
triable than at the present time. But
1th quickened facilities of communlitlon
there arose the desire to formuite
some means by which they could
s assured of acquiring their supplies
i they needed them, at determined
rices, thereby allowing them to conact
for delivery of the finished arcle
months In advance and at the
ime time fixing a certain and legitllate
margin of profit To fill this
ant the future contract was devised,
id In the course of time has crystalled
Into the form now In use.
JEW8 REGAINING PALESTINE.
radical Progress of Zionists In Recent
Years.
Dispatches from Jerusalem, says a
indon letter to the New Tork Sun,
ll of remarkable strides made durg
the last few years In the repeopig
of Palestine with Jewa The procmatlon
of the constitution in Tur
sy tnrew open me noon ui mnuin
id led to an enormous Influx of Jew*
h colonists, who are already settled
1 some of the best lands of the couny.
In Jerusalem alone four-fifths of the
ipulatlon now belongs to the Jewish
Jth. Large tracts of land around
ike Tiberias have been bought up
om poor natives and converted Into
'osperous farms. The Plain of Shall,
between Jaffa and Lydda, Is one
Lst garden owned and tended by Jewh
skill and labor. The Hauran, one
' the most fertile wheat districts in
ie world, is being sold to Jewish syncs
tea.
Almost the whole of the extensive
lain of Esdraelon has been bought up
r Jews. Their prosperous colonies
read from Dan to Beersheba, and
ren further south to the outskirts of
gypt. Thousands are escaping from
ersla to find shelter and protection
the Holy Land, while every ship
om Odessa carries some of them.'
The Jordan Valley, once the properof
the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamld, is
ing eagerly sought after by Jewish
.pltalists. The Zionists, whose agents
e distributed all over the land, are
tying up the rich properties of the
ohammedan effendis, whose Incomes
ace the revolution have lessened.
At Jaffa, Tiberias, Safed and Haifa
dount Carmel) Jews are reckoned by
ns of thousands. Towns like Raoth-Gilead,
Bethlehem, Nazareth and
iza, where a few years ago no Jew
red show his face, have now their
wish quarters and synagogues.
The whole city of Jerusalem is esntially
a Jewish town. Banking as
>11 as trade and commerce is mon>ollzed
by Jews. The government
is found It necessary to organise a
mpany of Jewish gendarmes.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds
e annually sent from Europe and
nerlca to enable the colonists to
itld homes, hospitals, schools and
valid homes. Over one hundred
wish schools already exist in Jerulem
alone. Synagogues are rising
> everywhere.
The value of the land has risen fourId.
The Ignorant and poverty strickfellaheen
(peasants) are being
isted from their homes and villages
' the European Jew settler, whose
odern agricultural implements and
ethods have made the land produce
irvests never dreamed of by the naree.
The Anglo-Palestine company,
7<An(af Konlrinir onH P^mmnrplal An
rprlse, Is pushing the cause of Israel
Ith energy.
y For maintaining and cleansing
tndon public roads for a year, nearseven
million five hundred thousand
liars are spent