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“THAPPY DAYS
» 15
Al day long Billy had been busy answer-
ing questions.
Did ‘Terry & Bunce represent so-and-so
nae ce, or so-and-so of that? Yes,
but that was all, ‘thes “dia not
a fall business. They had no mut-
oy
ton “t
that. ‘day Tom Terry returned after a
ung absence. Fro: m to farm, shee
* racy to sheep Fane “Tom had traveled,
ul the result of hio labors was made
“lain ro Billy when he displayed contract
__ after contract, all agreeing that the ranch
ownerjand the farmer would sell sheep
only Me ferry & Bune
ys+ And how had ‘Tom. gained sueh con-
S erg sions
Simply by talking the sheep-growers
- into it.” Tom’s plan was to corner mutton,
. not for his own benefit, but for the benefit,
of the sheep raisers, All that Terry &
Bunce demanded was their commission
‘-and this was placed at so low a tigure that
the advantage of the scheme to the sheep
raiser was manifest on its face,
as ““\'ve got ’em, Billy. I’ve got’em at
. last P? declared Tom. ‘* We control sheep
ae enough to swamp the.-market. All we
want to do now is to buy up the city stock
sand then we'll spring the trap and let her
Bo.
“e Is it necessary todo that? It will take
en aw fal lot of mone ‘om.
“Not so much as you think, Remember
. we've actually got half a million capital;
that's jvhat the gold we took out of the
ve never touched
money I received out of
ola pian Grinder has been sufficient for all
“Hae 2 million won't do it.”
“Certainly not; but it will do all I want
it-to do, We'll bu: uy all the offerings to.
2 omerrow and. werk the price up. The
> swell let her
o twas a ea scheme—a mad scheme,
would have called it—but Talking
Foon new what he was about.
11, Next morning found Tom ¢ Joseted with
not ‘ane of the most noted brokers i in live stock
‘Ss. John J. Rifflare
+ Before. night “Terry & Bunce had a call
64 thé mutton of Chicazo; and that means
Kea
Not all, of course, but enough to turn
“the uarket upside down,
Mutton rose two cents a pound, All da
Jong the telephone in Terry & Bunce's office
was ringing and the door swinging.
Had Terry & Bunce anything to Sell, was
the -guestion F
bey ba had plenty now. The situa-
tion Nad ec
on was aS ede as a cucumber, and
fel-
desk
_ Still the rush continue d
Jud they more—more—more still! The
big slaghterers did not propose to be
cangh
: Tom: stood up to the battle like a Tro-
“Yane
wg fle ‘thd sheep to burn, 50 to Gpeak. Sheep
t+, tosellantil they couldn’t rest.
. He offered contracts for stated delivery
wie this big stock raiser, and with that,
contracts with raisers all over the country,
a + well known people who for months past
: ba tretused be treat with regular dealers
“7 cb D any te ter!
Shes result ‘was amazing. Before night
| erry & Bunce had worked off every con-
raet,
Wa are stating facts. Two boys actually
s did. bis thing, and the bold scheme was
LONG in the fertile brain of our hero,
Talking Tom,
~ At Jast four o “clock game and the busi-
nes of the day was 0
& Bunce closed “their doors and
Bi hy Went to work on the big boo!
“it's e, Tom, I’ve figured it all out,”
he “exelaimed, at hal past five, ‘How
uch do you suppose we've mai
Vion hundred thousand and o d.”
oo rong,
fim ri hte
w a wort,
“You're oft on the city stock. Our profit
3,963,”
*: Very good,” said Tom, “That's busi-
ness. I told Colonel Crockett I could do
it, and I've done it, that was needed
was to inspire confidence in the shee
raisers, and I did that. To be sure it took
me near a year to seatinplish it, but it has
ad know what every contract
and Ishould ey so!” cried Billy.
tt snooty said Tom, “Now, let's go
‘o dinner ‘and to-raorraw we'll begin on a
28 deal.”
: «Now I wonder who this fellow Terry is
who has been playing the deuce with mut-
on,” remarked Colonel Crockett, & wis
daughter. Carrie that ev
pe pelle that he is our old "Bien tane
pS HAPTER xVe
. OQUBLE FOR TO)
SPKaxina ‘Ot Colonel Crockett and Car-
rie reminds us that we have a few words
to say about
The colonel’ : interests lay principally in
eef, so he has t been particularly af-
fected by the Terry ee Bunce affair.
Business had been very good with the
colonel for a year past, and he had cleared
over a million in a beef gorner, and made
himself notorious in do
Particularly were the ‘Anarchists of Chi-
cago “down on him,” for the colonel had
sold his house at Jericho, and was living
in the Windy City n
Talking Tom had read” not a few reports
of Anarchist meetings where Colonel
Crockett’s name had comeup as a cornerer
of food products, and this interested him,
of course,
He had a taste of it himself before many
days, forthe next Sunday night the An-
archists held a big meeting and roundly
denounced Terry & Bunce for cornering
“it amused Tom, but did not scare him a
bit, and yet it was a more serious matter
than he ad reason to believe, as he was
soon to lear
In Board. of Trade circles the affair cre-
ated a great stir, Indeed, all Chicago was
talking about Talking Tom.
But that now notorious firm kept on the
even tenor of its way, dealing in nothing,
Tom was lying back for another spring, |
“Look here, Another bunch of letters,”
said Billy, as they entered the office one
le the door it looked as though
there had been a snow storm where the
postman had dropped the letters on the
floor,
It was so every morning. Terry & Bunce
pad some to have the biggest mail in the
i
Most ot the letters were from the stock
ralsers a and they were of the most flatter-
ingk
Their Sheep were moving freely at the
advanced prices which Tom had guaran-
teed them. One and all expressed them-
“Any time,” replied Tom, ‘I shall be
in and out the office all day to-morrow.”
“Til tell him,” replied Carrie, and Tom
waved his hand an jumped into the cab,
t was so dark that he could scarcely see,
but he supposed of course that the figure
in the corner was Billy, and he made some
trivial remark as the ob rolled away.
There was no an
“ Billy, what's the “inatter with you?”
ae Tom, peering at him.
e passed an electric
light which shown’ full on the figure in the
corner,
‘o Tom's amazement and horror it was
not willy &
The coat al man with corpse- like face,
white fand § till.
He was tar past middle age, with pinched
and hungry features; the eyes were half
stared fixedly at Tom, who
gaspe
“Great Heavens! Who is this?”
“It’s only me,” groaned the man, lurching
suddenly forw. ard and seizing ‘Tom by the
throat with his Jong, skinny hands, “* Ha!
a Hot. I want to speak to you? Ho!
oO oO
(10 BE CONTINUED.]
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“ON THE ROAD; OR, THE SUCCESS OF
A SMART SOY SALESMAN,” COM=
MENCES NEXT WEEK.
Answers to Correspondents.
To Correspondents.
jo not ask questions on the same sheet of pa-
ber with mail orders, as they will not be an-
‘or! respondents, in sending a number
of questions, will aid us greatly by writing on
one side of the © paper only. If this is not done,
questions wi iit be rewritten.
o send them. Novice i
dresses EDITOR OF ILAPr
36th Street, New York.”
selves well satisfied, an
Tom in the highesc terms.
Then there was another class of corres-
ondence, Letters from the big Stock
ards men had been coming all the wreelts
Some invited Tom to call on them.
ine with them, to visit their ‘Houses ana
clubs, others wanted him to fix a time
wen he could be seen privately at his
°
‘There were a dozen such this morning,
and one was from the great Palmer, ‘the
King of the Butchers,” he was called by
some, requesting Tom in the most urgent
manner to fix a time when he could call
“Are ou oing ?” asked Billy,
, ie !’ replied Tom. ‘Let him
come to me if he wants tosee me. I'll g
out of my track for no man, especially 2
millionaire skinflint like him.
The next letter opened proved to be of a
very different sort. It was from Carrie
Crocke
Tom’ 8 eyes sparkled as he read it.
“At last, Billy!” he exclaimed. “I
could have hunte: ber up, but I wouldn’ ite
She knows I'm the poor Jericho boy, who
saved her life, at last !”
The letter was as follows : 3
“DEAR MR. TERRY :—I have seen your name
inthe papers a good deal of late, but not until
to-da; aids *e, feel sure that you were © old
friend, we used to know in Jericho,
Vo are living in Chicago now, and 1 Papa. will
0 have you ‘call at a Come
uu can. Tsdith | Sarton is with
us, Bring } unce with you—we shall all be
glad to see him, too.
“CARRIE CROCKETT,
“Michigan Avenue,
“ Are you going, Tom 2” asked Billy.
“Ty most certainly,” replied hom,
“ Wel, I don’t know. ite a kind of a
back-handed invitation, I say,”
“Nonsense! That's all right. We'll go,”
declared Tom, and go they did, of course,
for Tom's word was law in the firm of Ter-
ry & Bun
If ever : Talking Tom talked in his life, it
was that nig!
Carrie ‘and Edith received the boys most
cordially. Colonel Crockett was not at
“and y
hot Vas difficult to rerfiy ah poor Talking
Tom, of Jericho, and Bi he butcher, in
the two faultlessly dressed oung gentle-
men who called at the Crockett mansion
that night.
But Carrie was too much of a lady to ex-
press the least surprise at Tom’s changed
situation, or to as questions, al-
though she was secretly. dying to know
how it had all come about.
**Call again soon,” she said, as the boys
said good-night, ond descended to their
cab waiting at t
Billy got in first, and as Tom was about
to: fol ow, Carrie calle
“Oh, When can father see you?
Ile wanted particularly to have me ask
you when it would be convenient to have
NOTICE.
Readers of Happy Days who send questions
be answered in this column should bear
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upon receiv ing. notice of i ne marriage of a
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who meets a gentleman friend who raises his
hat. to her, outof politeness you should raise
also—it makes no difference whethei
you ware o teiendly to him or not.
Tony. ~The area of the Philippine Islands is
wing no weddi
114,356 squart miles. Luzon, on which Manila,
the capital, ‘i. situa’ n area " yu
1,000 square miles. Mindanao, the most south-
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some time in ‘uture, but cannot set any
definite ue for their publication.
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wice a week avoiding the use of tobac
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+ Heuort inany form. 2 Writing below tho aver-
'UBAY ew and brilliant blacking for
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of bein; aca free, is thus descri!
fo ours 50 parts of powde' ered. gal
apples al 8 01 Ets logwood in 200
parts of water, Strain off while hot; add 200
parts of sym and 30 parts ‘Of iron sulphate in
der. the lagu until it begins to
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of alcohol.
Sorvenrn—There are two > ware of removing
superfluous dain from the k or hands, The
first is by the of depilatory paste or pow-
ders, which always contain poisonous or cot
sive in: edients. Some of these compounds
remove the hair and some fail, but one and all
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opher Colunibus
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Tne Firth of Forth Bridge, Scot-
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150 feet; heig t of piers, ect; to main
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te feet t long, and was built six md feet fron
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fhe address of teach ere of fencing in this col-
You can find their advertisements in
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ito to conte a *4ral Cadi
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b
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‘anada, taken in 1891, sae of the
Provin nce of Ontario was 2,
1 588,855 4 Nove, Scotia, 450,523, a
e
wick, 32
Sulatio ion was as fol 216,650;
roronto, 181, 2H Quebec, -.0005 “Hauwiton: 48,-
30; Ottawa, 44,15 tiny NT 31795 ital:
ifax, Ts 1 fon, pipes.
Manitoba, “25,612, and Ieingetons 19,;
ominion of Canada there are 47 ‘citlea,” 1
towns ane ny vise eB.
re is no special value to the new
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he present. ire stamps surcha:
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rare in time. a stamps are now
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presume Taat the other denominations will ap-
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ea
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Major-gencral......
Brij inden general
Colon
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M ajor.
Capt
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Regimental adjuta
First, lieutenant. mounted
Second Lieutentnty moun,
‘e dangerous to use, because they burn the
skin generally leaving an ugly scar, and some.
‘8a painful wound. For nh we
ever recone end depilatories. The. second
method i is by the use of the Pee needle.
yery fine nerdio is inserted the skin at the
hair: the wires ‘to which it is cone
nected are che rged froma u battery; the nee
pecomes wwhitennot. and the root of the hate ‘8
killed. or firey hairs are thus
at each sit d the operation fequires a
skilful practitioner, who charges very highly
5
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for his services, You will find such’a one in
any large cit, 7,
Chaplainees cee. ee
Quartermaster sergeant...
First sergeant.
Acting hospi
Private in hospital........665
(Several letters remain over to be answered
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