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|Biiiin#mnt??ii>>iiin< A Trick With l><0'ttdviil 0? By HOWARD FIELDING. A1LEY HARROW was a speclal 1st. His employer, John Farns 1 -J worth, had accounts In half a dozen hanks and notes falling due in tweuty others: Like the leaves In Vallombrosa fell John Farnsworth's notes and were caught at the last pos \ sible second?or even later?by the whirlwind of finance which kept them from touching the ground. Bailey Har- j row rode upon the whirlwind and de lighted to guide it in the inteVests of John Farnsworth. Bailey may have been about twenty seven, and he looked like an*actlve lit tle old man, his face deeply lined by wary thinking. On a certain forenoon Bailey came into Farnsworth's private room. ' "Everything's quiet at the Corn." said Bailey, laying a bank book on the desk. "The Corn" was the abbreviation for the name of a national bank. The telephone bell rang, and Fnrns ?worth rose hastily from his chair and "WELL," SAID HE AT LAST, "HERE'S THE JOKER." made a gesture toward the instrument which was on the leaf of his desk. Bailey sat down and after exchanging the customary salutation covered the transmitter with his hand. "It's Hartzell." said he in a low voice "Are you here?" "I'll bet I am." responded Farns worth and changed places with llailey. "Hello, Hartzell! How about it?" He listeued for some seconds, and his face revealed that the communica tion was important and surprising. 'You sent the check? When? Mon iy? You must be dreaming. For how much? The full amount? Great Feter! Well, it hasn't shown up. If you really mailed it, it's lost. Stop it at your bank, and for the love of Moses send me another righc away. Send it by a boy. Hold ou a minute. I'll have Bailey go right down to your place." Farnsworth hung up the receiver and turned to Bailey. "You know Hartzell," said he. "He's a slippery proposition, but he can't fool you. He says he scut me a check for ?4.7C0 Monday, and hcra it is Friday! If this is a fairy story, what's it abou-? I don't see through It. He can't get out of paying the money. You know what it's for. It's my share of that rakeoff on the Gorham transaction." "Never heard of it," said Bailey. "Well, you hear of it now," respond ed Farnsworth. "and I need the money. You come back with his check, certi fied. Understand?" , "Sure!" said Bailey aud departed. Farnsworth opened the door of an ad joining room and called to his stenog rapher, a pretty girl, blue eyed and fair haired, with the look of a thorough bred, altogether a very superior crea? ture. As for Farnsworth, he was a crude product to begin with, and his individual life had not improved the stuff of which he was made. The con trast affected him unpleasantly in Miss Clarendon's presence. "Well. Gertie." said he, "Cid you hear from Bob this morning?-' She made a scarcely perceptible ges ture of negation. "I hope you never will," said Farns worth. "That boy is strictly no good." Miss Clarendon made no reply. The young man referred to as Bob was Farnsworth's nephew and no fa vorite of his. Bob had been In the west and had not succeeded there. Eventually he bad drifted back to Bos ton and had been employed for some months by Farnsworth. when they had parted, with no good will. Undoubtedly an elemeut of Farns worth's dislike of his nephew was the young man's obvious interest in Miss Clarendon, yet the disfavor rested upon other grounds, as Bob bad been plainly informed. * "If you were the right sort," Farns worth had said to him, "I wouldn't stand in your way. I'd help you and be mighty glad to have Gertie in the fatally. But you're not good enough. You're a loafer. You're too nice to work, and I've got no use for you." "I'm too nice to do the kind of work that's done in this office," Bob bad re plied, and the remark slew ?vhat was left oi' amity between them Farnsworth knew that bis nephew had gone to Plttsfield, and that was all. Dictation was In progress when there came a quick, light rap at the doer, and Bailey Harrow entered, his visage DeWitt's Little Early Risers, safe, easy, pleasant, sure, little liver pills. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D., A. C. Doyle & Co. The fat man doesn't mind it if you call him portly. There are many initiations of De Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve hut just one original. Nothing else is just as good. Insist en DeWitt's. It is cleansing, cooiinj: and soothing. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D.. A. C. Doyle & Co. puckered with perplexity as Farns worth had never before seen it "Hartzell's outside." he said. "HVs got that check. It's been through the bank." "You mean to say it was cashed?" "Yes. sir. it was." said Bailey. "It was cashed at the Com and was set tied throngh tue clearing house by Hartzell's bank." "How was it drawn?to my order?" "Yes. sir. and it's got your name on the back of it" "Forge ry!" "Sure."'said Bailey. Farnsworth paced a turn or two and then addressed Bailey. "Go out and hold Hartzell a couple of minutes before you let him in. Then go over to Kneelanu's detective agency and have him send a good man over." Bailey vanished, and Farnsworth turned to Miss Clarendon. "Was Bob in Boston Tuesday?" She flushed aud hesitated, then an swered steadily, "Yes." "In this office?" "Yes." "Came early, before I got here?" "Yes." \ "Bob knew that that check was cora | Ing from Hartzell. He may have ! known that it would be mailed on the 15th. Walt!" He opeued the door and looked into the outer office. "Mr. Hartzell!" be called. "Come In." A slender, keen eyed man of forty entered. "When my. nephew called on you a month ago about the Gorham deal, did you mention any date when you would probably settle?" Hartzell stroked his chin. "I may *ave mentioned the 15th," said he. "I told' you over the phone." "You told me the 2(Jth." said Farns worth. "unless I've forgotten. But what did you tell him? That's the poiut" "I think I said .that Gorham would probably pay ou the 15th." "Very good. Did you call at the Corn on your way up here?" "Yes: they're looking the matter up." Farnsworth sat down to the tele phone 'and called up the Corn. There was a brief conversation, at the close of which 'Farnsworth pulled open a tall drawer In his desk and took out a check book. "Well," said he at last, "here's the joker. A leaf containing three checks signed in blank has been cut from this book, and I didn't notice It Shrewd work. Hartzell. You see, that check of yours was too big to be safely han dled at your bank.' so the rascal de posited It iu mine. That gave me a balance of $4,700 more than I knew about, so of course I wouldn't draw against it Then our thief tilled out my blanks to bearer and cashed them at my bank. The way I play this game, Hartzell. any smooth fellow can cash a bearer check of mine at the Corn for a couple of thousand without ever beiug asked to indorse it. I pre fer to make some of my payments that way. and the bank knows it" "Indeed!" said Hartzell, and he stroked his chin again. "I'm afraid you're stuck, Farnsworth." He turned to go, and Farnsworth did not detain him. As he passed out James Kneeland, the detective, entered, and he gave the departing form a half glance. "Do yon know Hartzell?" said Farnsworth. "I met him pome years ago," re sponded the detective thoughtfully. "Has Bailey told you about this game that's been played on me?" Kneeland nodded and winked his eyes behind his big round spectacles. "Now, the point, of it," said Farns worth, "is that Hartzell's letter, with the cheek, was intercepted and opened in this office." x"If it ever came here," said Knee land. s "I tell you* the thing was done herp. Checks have been' taken from my book. Who could have done that ex cept some one who knows the ropes [ here?" "I could have done it," said Knee laud complacently. "A good many peo ple know where you keep that book." "But the forged indorsement?how do you account for that?" "Probably traced. You haven't the check, of course?" "Yes. Hartzell brought it up from his bank. Here it is." "Hartzell left it here," said the de tective. "Well, that's good evidence." "iivideuce?" "That he didn't do the trick himself." "I'll tell you who did do it," said Farnsworth. "My nephew did it. It's no trouble for him to forge my name. Ask this young lady here. Is Bob's writing like mine?" , "Remarkably so," said Miss Claren don calmly. "Important coincidence," said Knee land. "Have you got a specimen of his hand? I am tolerably familiar with yours." "There's a letter from him some where here," said Farnsworth. Miss Clarendon went into the next room and returned immediately with an opeu letter. "Here Is a sample of Mr. Robert Farnsworth's writing," said she and gave a page to'the detective, who read as follows, Farnsworth leading over his shoulder: "You know he lent me $200 to settle some matters in the west, and I was paying it back at the rate of $10 every Tuesday. I've kept it up since I've been here, and a fierce strain it has been, for I'm getting only eighteen. The most annoyiug part of it is that my pay day is Tuesday, and I get my money about 2 o'clock. So in order to keep my word to him I have to tele graph the money, and the expense I comes right out of my dinner. I have written to him suggesting that I send ! the amount by mail, but the old mud turtle hasn't opened his shell. So I The Dest Pills Ever Sold. "After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion, and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much good as Dr. King's New Life Pills. I consider them the best pills ever sold:" writes B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside,' X. O. Sold under guarantee at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker, Mfg. Co., drug store. 2.r.c. This is a wide world, btil a lor of*"people in it live on a narrow keep at it I wouldn't fall if starvation j were twice as inconvenient, for he '?. taunted me with that loan when we ? parted"? "Telegraphs you money every Tues day, eh''" said Kneeland. glancing up. "Do you collect it yourself?" Farnsworth reddened "Yes." >::t:U he. "Mr. Hubert Furnswortb was here Tuesday morning." said Miss Claren don, "on an errand for his employers, but he returned in time to get his wages and send the usual remittance to bis uncle." Kneeland was looking dreamily at Hartzell's check, which was unusually large aud of a pale greenish hue. "(Jive me your signature." said he suddenly, and Farnswor;h wrote it on a bit of paper, using a gold mounted stylographie pen which he always car ried in bis waistcoat pocket. Kneeland compared the signature and the in dorsement on the check. "This Is no forgery." said he. "You wrote it yourself, and you did it with that pen Hold on." he added, silenc ing Farnsworth with a gesture. "1 have an idea." He put the check In his pocket and left the office without another word. Presently a messenger came up from the Corn with Farnsworth's used checks. There were among them three to bearer, drawn In a hand un familiar to Farnsworth, but signed by him. The numbers showed that these were the three that were taken from the book, signed In blank. The aggre gate of the amounts was $4.fiS0. It was nearly 3 o'clock when Knee land returned. Miss Clarendon was taking dictation. "I've got your man," said the detec tive. *? u here Is he?" "Outside." responded Kneeland. "Bring him iu!" The detective went out and returned with Bailey Harrow. He was pale", but steady. "Mr. Farnsworth." said be. "I did this, but I'm no thief. You'd never lose a ceut through me. I needed the money for a few days, but I can make It good. It was a borrow, that's what It was. the same as you did with Hart zell's check i^ April, the one that was to go to Jordan & Co.. and we put it through the bank on our own account and told Jordan we hadn't got iL And there was the Thompson matter"? "We won't gc into that," said Farns worth hastily. "How was this game worked V" "Bailey has been in a- little deal in mining shares." said Kneeland, "quite In the line of high finance, too, and he thinks it will turn out well. "He had a partner who is a clerk in the telegraph office?in fact, the very same man who has paid you the re mittances from your nephew. Bailey is familfar with the machinery of re ceiving money by telegraph, and it happened to strike him that the green slip which you have to sign aud in dorse looked just liKe one of Jacob Hartzell's checks. I happened to think of that while I was sitting here look ing at Hartzell's check and hearing about money by telegraph. So I went straight down to the ofiice. found out which of the clerks Bailey was chum my with and'frightened the fellow till his complexion resembled the pale sea green paper that has been mentioned. One of my men is with him now, and he gave up a good bit of the money. "Bailey took Hartzell's ? heck out of the envelope Tuesday morning, a big envelope that will carry the check without folding, ne gave the check to the telegraph clerk, aud you. Mr. Farusworth. indorsed it when you thought you were putting your name on the back of that telegraph blank. Ba?ey stole your checks out of the book. The clerk Oiled them in aud KST MAN. j cashed them, lie also deposited Hart zell's .$4.7ti0 to your order. Now, what shall we do with the men?" "No arrests, no arrests:" said Farus worth. And then, "Bailey, how could you do this thing to me7" Bailey hung his head. "I'll answer that question," said Miss Clarendon. "For ten years you have ' trained this young man in dishonesty. ; You have done to him what the big j tricksters of finance have done to j'ou ' and to ten thousand other men like you ! till the whole country is poisoned with it. You have made this boy a thief, j You tried to make your nephew an other, and you couldn't. I have seen this going on. and my soul has sicken ed at it. Now I am done with it." "Hold on!" cried Farnsworth. "Where are you going?" "I have an offer of marriage from an honest man." said she. "Singularly enough, his name is Farusworth. He earns $18 a week, and 1 can do a little better than that, so I (hink we shall get along nicely. I am going to Pitts fWd." Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not. beyond the reach of medi cine. No medicine can do more. Dr. A. C. Dukes. Low man Drug Co. Wise is the man who knows what to say?and tnen doesn't say it. j Heavy, impure blood makes a I muddy, pimply complexion, head ! aches, nausea. indigestion. Thin ! b'ood makes you weak, pale, sickly. Burdock Blood Bitters makes the blood rich. red. pure?restores per j feet health. Every Citizen May Become a Lo cal Publicity Bureau. PROMOTE FACTOR/ SITES. _. ! Merchants Particularly Concerned In Having Such Establishments Locate. Some Hints as to How a Prosperity Campaign May Be Made. The city publicity bureau is becom- [ lug a fixed institution in this country. Many cities, particularly in the north-' west, maintain regular bureaus for the propagation of publicity concerning their attractions and advantages. Even Boston, the "hub of the uni verse." fifth in population In the Unit ! ed States. Is engaged in such a cam paign for city booming. It is perhaps unreasonable to expect a small town to maintain a paid pub licity agent, yet there are some of the smaller cities which seem to find it profitable. The average town must be boomed by. volunteers. Every citizen may constitute himself a publicity agent and proceed to make his town better known to outsiders. The big city bureaus take up such matters as factory sites and opportuni ties, local trade advantages and the like. The small town resident can do likewise with a reasonable promise of accomplishing something for the good of his community. In these days of overcrowding in large cities, with high cost of living, high rents for floor space and other unfavorable conditions many manufacturt-rs are on the look out for available oouutry towns in Which fo locate their plants or to es tablish branch plants. The advantages of a location in a smaller town are obvious. In nearly every town of a few thousand people there are many young pprsons unem ployed who would welcome heartily a chance to get a job with some manu facturing concern. Both boys and girls, young men and young women, are available In the average town for fac tory work. In the absence of such op portunities they are Inclined to leave home and seek work In the cities, where at best the chances for success and happiness are but meager. With many parents in the smaller towns there Is constantly present the pathetic dread of parting from their children, because the latter, approach ing maturity, are ambitious to get into the big world outside and earn more than they can earn at home. With a manufacturing concern located In your town you can keep your children at home, where the conditions of living are vastly superior to the city condi tions. The town merchant is particularly concerned in this matter. A branch shoe factory, for instance, not only will give employment to the unem ployed at home, enabling them to earn money for .spending at home stores, but It will bring new families to town A monthly payroll of several thou sand dollars means just that tuiirh more money in local circulation The merchant gets the benefit of the in creased demand for all the necessaries of life and for some of the luxuries. Almost any town possesses a suita ble site for some sort of manufactur ing establishment. In good agricul tural communities a canning factory works in every direction to benefit the people. It supplies a home market for the farmer's and gardener's produce It-gives employment to home people. It brings more money for borne circu lation. if there is no fund in sight for the employment of an agent to push things in this line, the local busiuess people might get together aud do much toward making the advantages of the town known to manufacturers in search of locations outside the big cities. One excellent plan suggested by an expert in these matters is to have a tasty booklet or circular print ed at the local prlntery, setting forth the merits of the town and surround ing country, giving population figures, transportation advantages, prices of available factory sites and such other information as the occasion may indi cate. This booklet should be kept on hand by the merchants and other busi ness people in quantities sufficient to enable them to inclose copies in every letter written to outsiders. Another plan that has worked well in ome towns is for the business men to ? !ub together and buy some regular ?<'? ort Ising space in the home newspa p<t . where interesting information cou rerning the town may be kept stand* ing. As a matter of fact, only the ' type will be kept standing. The infor : ination thus expressed will travel widely. It can be made to travel still ?nore widely If the citizens will secure p.Ira copies and mail them where they will do the most good. A town in which every responsible citizen is a walking, talking, writing, fighting publicity bureau and town boomer is not calculated to remain very long an unknown quantity. The outside world will discover that that town is on the map and will not have to stick a pin in the atlas at that poiut to remember the fact The writer once knew a man In a Missouri town who was regarded by bis friends as a benevolent lunatic be cause be went around talking up his own town as the best burg on the map of the United States. He visited many other towns and cities, always blow ing the horn of bis home town That man no longer is regarded as a crank. His talk has built up his town, and last year the grateful citizens contrib uted from the money be had enabled them to make and bought him an au tomobile. The Iii tie attacks of stomach trouble and stomach disorders will undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspep sia unless you take something for a sufficient time to strengthen the stomach and give it. a chnace to get well. If you take Kodol in the be ginning the bad attacks of Dyspep I sia will be avoided, t ut if yon allow these little attacks to go unheeded jit will take Kodol :i longer time to put your stomach in good condition I auain. Gel a bottle of Kodol today. j Sohl by I A. C. Dukes, M. !>.. A. C. Doyle & Co. MUNICIPAL TAX NOTICE! Office of City Clerk and Treasurer, Orangeburg, S. C, Aug. 1, 1908. In pursuance of the provisions of the following ordinance and other o-dinances of the City of Orangeburg relating to the assessment' and col lection of taxes therein, notice is hereby given that the City Treasur er's office will be open on the first day of September, 1908, and contiuue cpen every day during said month (Sundays excepted) from 9 o'clock in the forenoon till 2 o'clock in the afternoon for the receipt of city tax es, without penalty for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 1908, and ending March 31, 1909. The total levy as fixed by the attached ordinance is 15% mills on each and every dollar of the assessed value of all real and personal property in tne City of Or-| angeburg, as follows: Ordinary, expenses. ... 7 mills Interest & Sinking Fund R. R. Bonds. 1^ mills nterest & Sinking Fund W. & L. Bonds. 1% mills | ?terest & Sinking Fund Sewer Bonds. 2^mills * Street Paving. 2J/Amills All persons interested will take no tice and govern themselves accord ingly. By order of City Council, L. H. WANNAMAKER, Clerk and Treasurer. An Ordinance. To Raise Supplies and .Make Appro priations to Meet the Liabilities of | the City of urangeburg for the Fiscal Year Beginning April 1. 1908, and Ending March 31, 1009. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen orthe City of, Orangeburg in City Council Assembled, and by authority of the same: Section t. That for the purpose of raising Supplies and meeting the ordinary expenses of the City of Or nngeburg forr the fiscal year begin ning April r, 1908 and ending March 31, 1909, a tax of seven yi) mills be and the same is herebby levied on each dollar of the assessed value of ai. real and personal property in the said City of Orangeburg (except such property as is exempt by the laws and, constitution of the State from taxtation.) Section 2. That for the purpose of paying the annual interest upon the Railroad bonds issued by the said City of Orangeburg under and by the authority of the General- As sembly of the:State of South Caroli na, approved the 22nd, day of Dec ember, 1891, and for the purpose of creating a sinking fund for the re demption of said bonds, a tax of one and one-half (1%) mills be and the same is hereby levied upon each dol lar of the assessed value of dll real and personal property within tne City of Orangeburg not exempt from tax ation. Section 3. That for the purpose of paying the semi-annual interest upon the water and electric light bonds issued by the said City in ac cordance with the. Act of the General Assembly of the State, approved the 2nd, day of March, 1908,, and the Acts amendatory, and for the pur pose of creating a sinking fund for Ire redemption of the said bonds, a ta-x of one and three-fourth s (1% ) mills be and the same is hereby levi ed upon each dollar of the assessed value of all the real and'personal property within tlie said city of Or ungeburg. except such property as extinpt iron taxation. Section 4. That for the purpose of paying the semi-annual interest upon the sewerage bonds issued by the said City in accordance with law, and for the purpose of creating a sinking fund from the redemption of said sewerage bonds, a tax of two and one-fourth (2%) mills be and the same is hereby levied upon e;|?h dollar of the assessed value of all real and personal property within the City of Orangeburg except such pro perty as is exempt from taxation. Section 5. That for the purpose of improving and paving the streets and sidewalks of the city of Orange burg, a further tax of two and one half (2%) mills be and the same is hereby levied upon each dollar of the assessed value of all real and personal property within the City of Orangeburg, except such property as .is exempt from taxation. Section ?. That all fire and life insurance companies, telegraph and telephone companies, express or other like companies, shall pay into the City treasurer of tue City of Or angeburg, on each dollar of the gross receipts collected or received by them or their agents, from business done within the Cily of Orangeburg during the year 1 907, the taxes levied and provided for in sections one (1 ?. two (2), three (3), four (4) and live (")) of this ordinance, or upon so much thereof as is not exempt from said taxes. Section 7. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the forgoing sections of this ordin ance, the City Clerk and Treasurer is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to take alt such steps and do all such things as may be necessary thereto as is provided by law and the ordinance of said City. Done and ratified in City council, by the City Council of Orangeburg, at Orangeburg, South Carolina, this the Teifh (10) day of July, Anno Domi"'? one thousand nine hundred and .-,t (1 908). Seal Attest: J. W. H. Dukes. Mayor of the City of Orange burg. P C. L. 11 Wannamaker, Cii Clerk and Treasurer. Altr:?f?on, Asthma Suffers! ( Foley': loney and Tar will give immedia- relief to asthma suffer ers and ' : cured many cases that had refi ''to yield to the othertreat Iraent. V vs Hoirey and Tar is the Ibost re?* dv for roughs, colds and all throi ? ?jnd lung trouble. Con tains no ' nnful drugs. Dr. A. C. Dukes. ..' nan Drug Co. For Sale. Several "ne Jersey Cows with voting calves. 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