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“WTHAPPY DAYS
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“They were together a good deal when
he was an errand boy for Meyer. I wonder
if it’s love or business between them? They
are both about the same age, apparently,
It didn’t look much like a
though, for she did not stay over three
minutes. He wrote down something she
said to him. I wonder if it was a tip?
fiees.* girls hear a great deal in some of-
He returned to his own office, and was
soon engaged with a customer who wanted
him to buy P, J. & D. shares for him,
“They are hard to get,” he said, “ winless
i uu pay a little above the quotations, ¢ as
nolders are not disposed to part with a ris-
ing sti
“ Goo one point higher and getit,” said the
custom
The shares were bought in the Stock Ex.
change, and the purchase caused the price
to go up several points within an hour,
Brokers were puzzled, as no one seemed to
have any idea why the stock had made
such rapid advance in Price. ay wanted
to buy simply because it was rising,
that it had gone up ten points inside of a
few days, the brokers began to scramble
for it. Of course that sent itt up still high-
ens and soon it was up to 80,
Barry called on Clayton in his little of-
“ “Got anything to sell to-day ?" he asked,
as he sat down,
“Yes—P. J. & D, stock.”
“ Ninet oe you ent for it?”
ine
“Oh, is That all!”
“Yes, that's all to-day.
“ OU do you ask 90 Ts it when its now
on
Mecause i will go to 90 to-morrow,”
was th Ys
“Ty don’ t think so.”
“Tdo,and I'm only a ‘lamb,’ too,
get that tos morrow,
“ Why do you think s
“e Because the fleece is “Ine and In great
demand.”
Meyer came in, apparently in a great
hurry, sayin
“Paul, L hear gh have some P, J, & D.
stock . it bru
Til
“T" lle give ‘you 8t for it.”
“T want 90, sir.”
“The deuce ol”
“ Yes, sir, Pe wi Wilt open at that to-mor-
row.
“low do you know it will?”
“ nPpcauce it’s making straight for it
very
Well, you don’ t expect to get 90 while
it’ 'sgoing at St, do yo
*'There’s no telling what ‘lambs’ will
do in Wall street.’
“*TLambsl Do you take me for a
‘lamb? ”
“No, You are a full grown ram;
rT.
but your strong, coarse fleece will mix
finely with that of the lambs.”
Barry Jaughed, and Meyer asked:
ou expect to get any of it?”
“yy ate not telling what I x epect, ” laugh-
ed Paul, ‘but I will admit that [havea
basket and w& ait of shears.
Meyer chuckled and went out. Ie was
known as one of the reatest hustlers in
Wall gtreet and now he was hustling for
P, J. & D, stock, Ie had taken no notice
tf it till he: saw it go up to as he was
engaged in getting upa corner in another
stoc Then he saw that somebody was
trying to force it up. to par. His effort to
gebit sent it up to 86, and it was at that
figure when the Exchange closed for that
shares on the market caused it to drop to
Quick as a flash Paul put up the money
on margin, and bought five thousand
shares. It checked the decline, and by
noon was going at At one o'clock it
was 93, and hesold at that figure—remain-
ing at ‘the bank to watch the reports as the
ticker told them off.
sai
iT guess that will do,” and went back
over to his Hittle office, where he sat down
to figure up what he had made,
Tle had a three thousand shares at
63, and sold them at 90, That was a profit
of twenty-seven ‘Gollars ashare—eighty-one
thousand dollars, out of which the bank's
commission was tocome. Then he bought
« thousand shares at 87 aud sold at 93,
mia haking six dollars a share—thirty thou-
sand dollars—one hundred and eleve
thousand dollars in all—over one hu
thousand dollars when all commissions
were
“ ‘That isn’t bad,” he said, as he leaned
back in his chair and Jooked at the figures,
“They think I am an innocent little
*lamb,’” and he smiled as he glanced up at
as
ove visit, | ma:
the sheep shearing scene in the
above his “Tam going
keep on thawing so. Bessie fot. that tip
for me, and i it’s a good a ot for her. Lola's
y be even a better Dll have a soft
thing of it it they don’ fall out with each
other, Girls will get jealous of each other
even in the most trivial matters. If I pay
one any special attention t the other pouts,
yet they both kno siness, Bessie
makes ten thousand dollars on this deal,
and Lola, must not know it if I can help ite
They are sweet, pretty aumbs "—both of
m—but can play the deuce with a
fellow When they try ton 1 's all right if I
keep "em on a business line,
is dead stuck on Lola, and
Pacgek on Bessie; and both want to put a
ead on me because they think the girls
are partial to me,” and hechuckled quietly
to himself as he looked at the photographs
of two pretty typewriter girls in the back
part of his roll-top desk. One, Lola Leslie,
beautiful runette, was Meyer's type-
writer, “The other, a blonde, was Barry’s
typewriter, one flightabove Meyer’ 's offices,
In a sense they were both in business wit!
Paul Clayton, for he paid both a percentage
of his winnings on tips they secured for
im.
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CHAPTER III.
“WHAT LUCK DID YOU HAVE, paunt—
THE DINNER AT DEL’S
PavL CLAYTON was seated in his little
office the next day after his successful deal
Je shares, when a pretty blonde
gitl entered. She was smiling only as
some pretty girls can smile, pet there was
an eager inquiry in her ‘Spark. ing blue eyes,
She made haste to as!
“What luck did sou, have Paul?”
“Splendid,” he said. “fere’s yours,”
and he gave *her a check for ten thousand
dollars, payable to Bessie Granger. She
glanced at the figures and gavea feminine
exclamation of astonishment in the single
word :
_ “My!”
“ Keep cool, ” he chuckled, ‘and mum,
too. Sots ord toas Let no one
know in the Can Parker is
out thee in | the ‘worridor waiting for you.”
rat b He wants. me to © BO tolunch
wit) hit n, You come wi
“e le'll get jealous if Id
“Tet him. Ie thinks bei is alady-killer,
but he isn’t.”
Paul laughed and asked if Parker had
asked her to lunch with him.
No, not to-day; but he acts as if I'd be
ever so glad to do so at any time. Won't
you come with me?”
“ Yes—and glad to do so,” and he gotup,
put on his hat, locked the door, and went
out with her. They passed Parker in the
corridor where brokers, clerks and errand
boys were coming and going continuously.
le was a_twenty-dollar a week clerk in
Barry’s office, good-looking, vee dressed,
and twenty-four years old, roke him
all up to see her go cff with Pant ho, but
a few weeks efore, Was an erran: fo:
Meyer & Co, In his rage he followed “fhem
out and gown to Broad street.
“ ples if he isn’t following us!” said
‘She laughed, but didn’tlook back. Girl-
like ghs > gloriad i in her attractiveness.
make him sick,” said Paul,
“ we
g
5
t's.
go to Del's and have aten dollar
=
“Oh, !” and she laughed again,
“That ‘ill break his heart,”
They ‘0 Delmonico’s and Parker
foliowed. erhey ook seats at one of the
tables which Parker didn’t do. Ile moved
n | about in the throng till he saw a@ sumptu-
ous lunch served to them, and then went
in}out to”a Broad Street restaurant for a
twenty five cent lun
* Dead for a aucat t chuckled Paul, as
he saw Parker slip
It was not the fest time Bessie had been
there. Young brokers often treat pretty
typewriter girls to expensive dinners,
‘There were a number in the room at that
time, and she was engaged in counting all
she knew there. She bowed to several.
One whom she knew well was with an old
broker whose hair was as white as the
napkin on knee, They exchanged
smiles and then proceeded to do justice to
the viands before the
Broker Barry came "by their table and
saw t!
“ ene he exclaimed, looking at Bes-
sie “Catching him while he is young,
el
Bessie blushed, put Paul promptly came
to her relief, by
“What gir would take mutton. when
she can get Flamb? You old fellows have
been clipped so often you look. ragged. T've
got ail my original fleece ye
* And some more besides, Tt guess, or
(rouldn't be here,” returned Barry, wit!
laugh,
“You are a wise old sheep,” said Paul.
“Tf thers wasn't a crowd re ask you to
2
Barry exploded and Bessie blushed in
spite of her Jaughter. A couple of brokers
at the next table heard the remarks and
Joined i in, the laugh on
want to crowd you, y boy,”
said an broker. “ It’s life’s young Sareamn
; Some day you'll awaken
wit! shiver—fleece gone and the cover
too,” and with that parting shot he passed
on to another tal
“I wonder if he: ‘thinks I'm dreaming ?”
Paul asked Bessic. “TT ai hope it will
long, long s As “tor osing my
fleece they can’ e ‘est it while I am asleep.
The first clip would wake me up.”
So they laughed and chatted all through
the meal: « Several brokers looked at them
and wondered if he had been lucky re-
cent!
=
e
at's 's pretty steep for a boy, eh?” said
Caldwell to Cohen. »
“T don't know, Ieison top of the heap
just now, and I guess he feels like setting
the pace for us.”
“* What did he do to get upon the heap?”
Caldwell Bs sked.
ought P. J. & D, at 63, and sold some-
where in the nineties.”
Caldwell whistled and asked:
“Do you know that?”
“ Yes—I gold jhim the shares,”
“Vow m
“ Phree housand, ”
The broker whistled again,
“ Bough ,» eh? Then he must have
had ~ tip before any body else got
ried to sell
that. wvas all he coul
will cost him some ten or twelve dollars.”
** Yes,” and Caldwell gazed at the youth
while mentally calculating how much he
could | get out of him in a deal,
thoug)
“ Tees 's good fleece for somebody, and
$ all ‘lambs’ are legitimate game. in Wall
Street, I'll sharpen my shears for
weal gave the waiter a bill with which
0 pay the score; and when the change
coe back, he passed a dollar to the waiter
asatip, The latter beamed and bow
if in the presence of a magnate.
they, hurried over to the
Bessie presented her check,
The cashier, seeing Paul with her, began
counting out the money.
one wishes to open an account with
you,” said Paul.
rl right—next window,” and he gave
ber a little slip on wbich be had dotted
down the amount of her deposit.
wi ene to the next window an
was soon arran:
nn the way out Lessie was beaming with
They
the matter
happiness Tm rich !" she exclaimed,
** Well, if you leteverybody know it you
will have fellows swarming around you
like flies after a lump of sugar.
keep that sweet mouth of yours shut,”
if you shut a girl's mouth she'll
die, " she Inthe
Tik , But girls can falls and
talc en ye tell noting er
‘on't tella thing,”
“ That’ s right. Keep
open, though, and we'll
some day.”
your oes and ears
in
She hurried up to her machine in p Barr's | c+ 8
o
office, while he returned to his own,
had been in about ten minutes, when Lola
Leslie, I Me er’s typewriter, entered,
you hed at Del's to-day ?” she
aid
“ Yes—who told you?”
“Mr. Baldwin said you_must have
struck it rich, as you had Barry’s type-
writer over there for Juneh,”
Right. i struck it on her tip, and it
was a £001
“You ne ver took me over there when
you struck it on » & 0.”
“No, That was. my first. We'll go. over
there to-morrow, Any danger of Snedeker
| committing suicide when he hears of it?”
“No. He asked me to go there with him
last week, but I
1 kne
couldn't afford it.
“Sensible. I can afford it, and so you
must not refuse ine to-m:
Lola was a bit jealous of Bessie, though
she knew that the latter was working tips
for him just as she was, Shehad always
liked Paul, ‘poonuse he was so polite to ber
at all times, when he was errand boy
for the same reason
eker, one of the clerks, hated him. Once
they had hot words, and after that they
he speak as they passed each other,
refused,
aldwin begins buying to-mor-
row,” she palt whispered,
“Let him begin. I've done bought,”
Paul otha,
“To ow much did you buy?” she asked
E
“e "Five thousand shares at 69,” he replied.
She then ran out and hurried back to
machine in Me: or ‘3 ion, and Paul fo her
back and gazec @ sheep shearing
on the wal ab. ‘Ten minutes of pro-
found silence passed, and then he said to
himself:
“yy hope those two girls wil keep their
heads, Business is busines:
When three o'clock fame >and 1 Paul was
about to leave his offic: e, Bessie
Granger hurried into the Sittle room with:
“Oh, Paul, please see me to the ferry, I
ar must | in
go shearing again
don’t care to go with Mr. Parker, He
made such sneering remarks about our go-
ing to Del’s to: 0-day. He’s waiting down at
the door for me,
“Allright,” he laughed, and they went
out together. On the stairs they met Lola,
She was trying to shake Snedeker, and her
isappointinent at seeing the two together
was_ plainly portrayed ff ane pretty face,
Paul understood it.. 1
“Say, Lola! Bessie “s aiid to go to
the ferry by herself, me with us and
we’ 1] have some ice cream.
es—do come with us,” added Bessie,
and $0 the three went on down the stairs .
together, At the street entrance they saw
both Parker and Snedeker—waiting. Both
Paul's arms—a sign that they
had an escort—and were about to pass
out, Ww: aman ran up the steps in great
haste, followed by a big Siberian blood:
ound, The was muzzled Securely,
but his enormous size frightened the tw
girls, They both uttered little panicky
”
an act that was sufficient invitation to the
dog. Ie sprang after them with a growl,
reared up, and put his paws on Bessie
Granger's shoulders, She uttered a piere-
ing scream and fell ina faint.
Paul sprang forward and clutched the
dog by the muzzle, jerked him around,
and gave him a treniendous kick in the
ribs. ‘The dog turned fiercely on him, The
muzzle prevented him from
fangs, and a battle royal ensued that
spread a panic throughout the lower corri-
dor of the great building.
[v0 BE CONTINUED.]
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**LUCKY DICK GOLDEN; OR, THE BOY
MINERS PLACER CREEK, "? BY FRANK
FORREST, BECINS NEXT WEEK.
<i
The Biggest Barrel in America.
Iris oak and weighs 40,000 pounds and
is the largest i in the world, with one excep-
tion. It is used for the storage of wine,
and contains, “when fa 11, 36,000 gallons,
It is twenty- one feet in length, and
twenty feet in diameter, and {rests on a
massive cradle, underneath which isa solid
stone foundation seven feet in thickness. ,
into: the ground, inst as strong founda-
are or large houses. The
top of the case a reached by a flight of
steps, twenty-nine in number, where there
sa platform for visitors to rest and view
the surrounding attractions, and also to
gaze into the top of thecask and see the
vast quantity of liquor thatis stored there-
‘The amount. of liquor that this cask
holds would last
after you
18,000 ga ae ons, you would have a balance
representing in value $54,000, In this way
et could drink your Tiqucr and apparent-
keep it, too, which isa paradox and op-
posed to all laws of econom, .
It is this power of adding t to the quality,
color and bouquet of liquor which makes
it worth while! to build such an enormous
vessel.
‘as $3,500, and the investment owas prob-
ably a remunerative one, cask is
owned by a firm of distillers in Toledo,
Ohio, where it is regarded by the citizens
other casks, varying in capacity fro!
to 36,000 gallons each, the total capactt
being thee enormous ‘amount of ale
lons, This woul a@ very neat Geos
for a person who is is ambitious to build up
a wine cellar. Thesecasks would contain
enough spirits to keep: him supplied for
about 300 years, with margin enough for
an occasional treat among his friends.
he only cask in the world larger than
the one mentioned here is the famous Heid-
elberg Tun, which, however, has not been
in use for over a hundred years, Its exac
imensions are not known, but itis s very
little larger than the one at Tole
ie proprietors occasionally tap the cask
in order to dra lass of wine for a
riend, a visitor, the faucet is 89 > delicately
adjusted that it can be made eld the
liquor in a gentle, cearcely novicesbia flow,
or when turned on full, to spout forth ata
rate that would | fill thousands of growlers
in no time,
The cask has other advantages besides
that of imparting a fine flavor to its con- -
tents, It saves a great deal of room. It
has been estimated that the same quantity
of wine contained in this tun, if distributed
among casks of the ordinary size of beer
kegs, would occupy more than three times
as much space,