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COXTXXTMENT U one of the rarest
gifts bestowed upon man. There Is
less of It In the United States than
In any other part of the world. Chere Is
leas of It In Wall Street than In any
other past of the United States. That
may explain why Orlggs A Ortmee. rich.
prosperous. Influential, healthy and sane
determined to quit.
They had been In the street where the
money grows all their Htm. When they
were op town they weer as broad and
liberal men as you would find In a day's
w!k. But down town they were etrlct
ly business. Once they rot within the
shadow of Trinity the money hunger
took possession of them and they
thought only In eighths and quarters.
The ticker was everything.
Mr. Greggs looked after the office
management. Mr. Orlmes was the board
man. Each was excellent In his own
particular sphere. No house In Wall
Street served Its patrons better. There
was no effort made to get general
patronage. The partners were satisfied
with the custom that had come to the
house through Its long and busy years.
One of the most Influential directors of
Amalgamated Copper conducted all his
operations through Mr. Grimes. Mr.
Griggs oontrolled the conscience of a
gentleman high In the Steel Trust. A
director of the Sugar Trust was a dum
my for both Grig ic and Grimes. No
gentleman oould engineer a raid or put
prices on stilts with more Intelligence
and subtlety than Mr. Grimes. He cov
ered his tracks like an Indian. Us was
unsophisticated, lust the same as a fox.
So was Mr. Urlgga Some persons would
lave thought them coldly, brutally sel
fish. Tr.ey used their wits to the very
best advantage, and the more profit
tbey made the more they desired. Each
wss nervous, high strung. Impatient
and a bit Iconoclastic
Outside of Wall Street these partners
were delightful and human. Their
home lire was charming. Mrs. Orlggs'
one complaint wss that her husband
worked so hard. She was a bit spoiled,
perhaps. She had been abroad Just
enough to get the tdeathat Europe was
a far more charming place to live In
than America. The old cathedral towns
had a fascination for her. Her Ideal
lue would be one or. travel. She did
cot think men should waste their time
on earth money-grubbing. As she
looked at the gray hair of Mr. Orlggs
she sighed. As she noted the lines that
began to show about his eyes she had
a twinge In her heart. He was a slave
of the money god. and was wearing
out his life In Its service. She had
ta.ked with her husband about the
time when he should retire and they
should begin to enjoy life real life, the
life of travel, observation, leisure. He
had promised that soma day. when
things were Just right, ha would retire
and go abroad with her and stay as
many years as she wished. But there
The New Fable of the
Through Train, the
Two Passengers and
Nothing' Doing' in the
Way of Transfers.
TWO High School Heliotropes named
I. lb and Angle were vary Thick.
Thay had themselves photographed
with tBelr Heads together and used to
Tab thrmselvaa with the same Piece of
Chamois
Whenever Lib got a new patch for
her Slik Craxy Quilt aha would divide
with Angle on a 10-69 Basis. And when
ever Angle got ready to sleep on a
Piece of Wedding Cake sha would
pinch out a good sizable Hunk tor
Lib.
Each Girl kept a Nightie at the
Other Girl's House and. long after they
bad retired, the Inmates would bear
smothered Glgg'.es. Interspersed with
Fragments of whit he said, to Her and
what Phe said to film.
ie Period of their Adolescence was
about 10 years ago, when Romance was
still alive and Knighthood was la
Flower around every Lancing; Acad
emy West of rtttaburg.
The two Chums had mads a Fact.
They were to be Friends forever and
ever and ever an t neither was to hold
out anything from the other.
Each carried In a Locket a Four
Leaf Clover presented by Ona to whom
. she had hared her Seul.
After supplementing the Graded
Schoole with a full course of Mrs.
eouthworth and learning to play "The
Malden'e " Prayer" on the Melodeon.
naught remained for iham In the way
of pas.i!onate Inversion except to go
anead and get Married.
They waited three years for the Fairy
Prince et their Dreams to coma clatter
ing dswa Mala street In his Coach all
VUt aod tiold, and t&ea began ta
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waa nothing definite said about when
this was to be.
When the partnership of Orlggs A
Tlrlmes was formed It was for 10 years.
It had proved so successful that when
It was continued It was without time
limit. In the Mg boom after the Spanish-American
War the firm did a tre
mendous business. Mr. Orlggs super
vised all details. He never thought
things were right until he had mad.
sure by Inspecting the work oi eacn
and every clerk.
People said he had a bug on detail,
lie rather gloried In this reputation.
He also gloried in the belief J hat he
could do twice as much work as any
of his men. But ss he grpw older and
as the business of the house Increased,
he made the unpleasant discovery that
his work was becoming burdensome.
What he formerly handled without an
effort he began to have difficulty In
getting through with. That -roubled
him until he found that he needed
glasses: that he was suffering from
eye strain and that the headaches which
had begun to annoy him came from
overtaxed eyes. For a few months af
ter he got the glasses ha worked as he
formerly did and waa happy. Then
suddenly ha went stale again and ones
more he had headaches. He fought
against them and tried by sheer will to
wear them out. but Is was no use. One
day ha gave In and consulted his phy
sician. The man of medicine told him
his condition was serious thtt he had
overworked so many years that he was
In danger of a breakdown and that he
should have absolute rest without the
slightest thought of business.
Just at this time Mr. Grimes, too,
found the strain was telling on him.
Within a month he made two mistakes
In the execution of orders. Ona of them
entailed a heavy Joss to the firm. He
hid been noted for his accuracy, and
these errors preyed upon his mind. He
could not sleep and went to sea his
doctor. The physician said flatly that
he had been at the game too long 15
years on the Stock Exchange had told
Its tale. The medico Aid not say so
directly, but led him to Infer that If be
did not take a rest ha would take a
longer one than he bargained for.
Mrs. Griggs, alarmed over the re
port of the doctor regarding her hus
band, urged him to retire then and
there. To continue In Wall street
would be suicide. They could go
abroad and live to a glorious old age In
those beautiful Old World cities. They
could travel when and where they
pleased. In ber enthusiasm she painted
a picture that made a strong appeal
to Mm and ha decided that life wag
mora precious than millions of dollars.
About the time Mrs. Orlggs was
pleading with Mr. Griggs, Mrs. Grimes
was pleading with her lord and master.
She beeped him to retire, but she
didn't beg him to go abroad. Not much.
Mrs. Grimes could not be Induced to go
across the Atlantlo Ooean If King
George. Kaiser Wllhclm. King Alfonso
mistrust the Schedule. So they effected
the usual Compromise, tolling grace
fully Into the awkward Embraces of
two corn fed Lizards named Otis and
Wilbur.
la the Shake-off It befell that Angle
got Wilbur and Lib drew Otis. The
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and his majesty the Czar all got down
npon their knee and pleaded with her
to visit them. 8he bad a holy horror
of th water. She bad been seasick
once crossing the Erie Canal. Fha was
born In the country and never had
qult outgrown her love for rural life.
New York was too big, too noisy for
her. It was appalling. She feared It
especially on account of her children.
Eh did cot think It was the proper
plaoa In which to raise thorn. She
thought the country was th place for
children to develop and srrow strong.
In arguing with her hurand that he
should get out of Wall street and out
of New York she told him It was fo
his sake and for the children, but at
the same time she really was voicing
only her own yearning. Sha was a
good wife, a mighty good wife, and
Grimes bad a superabundance of affeo
tlon for her. Ho, too, had a fanoy for
nature. A lot of Wall street man have,
and ha having bad a large else scare
thrown Into blm by the doctor listened
to Mrs. Grimes' pleadings with more
pattonce than ha ever had before.
The partner held conferences, sym
pathised with each other, felt properly
dismal and then having no alternative
took steps to wind np their affairs.
It takes a lot of resolution for a man
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two Brides wera somewhat envied, aa
Wilbur was a Good-Looker with raven
Pompadour and large snappy Eyes,
while Otis was supposed to possess the
Faculty of copping the Mazuma.
However, the purpose of this Fabla
1 Is to lndloate that each Gal found out
WITH THEIR HEADS TO.
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to give up a business that has become
part of bis life, but Griggs and Grimes
once they had como to a decision had
ample assurance they had made, no mis
take. Friends came to congratulate
them on their good sense and gave fer
vent expression to their wishes that
.they, too, could quit the game. Nei
ther Griggs nor Grimes appreciated the
heavy load they had been carrying un
til their business was closed up and
they were free of all worries. Then
therv breathed easier.
Within a few days of th,e windip of
the house of Griggs & Grimes as happy
a couple as ever left the shores - of
America sailed on the Lusltania. Er
nest Griggs told the host of friends
who saw him off that he and his wife
did not know whether they would be
gone one year, five years or 10, and
they did not care. They would be
creatures of circumstance. They were
going to begin to enjoy life. Every
city was going to be their home and no
plaoa their habitation. They were go
ing to roam the world or loaf Just as
fancy dictated.
Wall street talked about Griggs and
Grimes for almost 15 minutes one dull
morning and then forgot them. There
were a few lines In most of the papers
and a paragraph or two in some of the
too late that she bad Dutched her Book
and baoked Into the wrong Paddock.
Fata separated the Toung Couples
and many a Full' Moon deflated" Itself
before Lib and Angle bad another
chance to get away by themselves and
fill up on Oolong and cautiously exhibit
their Wounds.
Wilbur was a Hustler who lacked
Terminal Facilities. He was full of St.
Vitus Activity and was always trans
ferring a lot of Papers from one Pocket
to another and getting ready to Inter
est Capital In some Megatherlan h-nter-prise
paying 20 per cent per Annum,
but somehow he never Arrived.
While negotiating for a Rubber Plan
tation in Yucatan he would bear about
Two Million Acres waiting to be Irri
gated In Colorado, but before ha could
turn on- the Water he would be lured
away by the Prospect of developing
some Monte Crlsto Proposition upon the
Mesaba Range.
InHhe meantime he wore Celluloid
Collars and owed for every Round
Pteak that he had carried home during
the preceding Five-Tears.
Otis, on the Other Hand, played noth
ing but Cinches. He was out for the
Pastry. It was not his Fault if the
Widows and Orphans who Invested on
his Tips all wound up as Department
Store Employes.
He double-crossed his Partners and
whipsawed his Customers and bluffed
the Courts and bulled his way into tha
Strongholds of Finance.
While thetl. S. Grand Jury would ba
In Session, trying to get him with tha
Goods.l be would ba motoring In Nor
mandy and tossing Showers of Silver
to the Peasantry.
Do not mistrust the Tale, for every
Buocaneer from Broad Street, -N.
to tha St. Francis Bar at the Golden
Gate, was once a Poor Boy with Store
Clothes on his Back and Grand Lar
ceny in bis Heart.
When Angle went to visit Lib, after
tha Lapse of Many Years, you can
Gamble that they had Soma Talk to
unload.
Angle carried a Wicker Suit-Case
costing $1.98 and ber General Get-Up
waa that of the Honest Creature who
may be found In any Hotel Corridor at
2 A. M. massaging the Mosaic Floor
with a Hot Cloth..
"Get me!" said Wilbur's wife, drop
ping wearily to a Divan In the Style of
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commercial publications about their
long and honorable career and about
how highly they were considered in
the street. BIr. Griggs and Mr. Grimes
read this the morning the Lusltania
sailed. They felt they had read their
own obituaries and were blotted off the
business map. They did not care. Mr.
and Mrs. Orlggs felt like honeymoon
ers. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes and the four
little Grimeses were almost as happy,
for they were going" to an earthly par
adise in the land of the Western pines.
For nearly 14 days after he arrived
In Europe Mr.. Ernest Griggs had a
large time. He took a hurried' vleiw of
London, spent almost a day In Paris,
broke the speed laws of Switzerland,
made a running Jump through Geneva,
gondolaed in Venice, viewed the seven
hills of Rome, ran up to Vienna for a
schnitzel, stopped In Munchen and be
moaned the fact that the beer there
was not as good as in certain portions
of Fourteenth street. In Dresden he
discovered that china cost more than
it does in Sixth avenue, and he found
a Budapest goulash was nob to be com
pared with the Irish stew of com
merce. Ha had left bis wife In London to
visit her sister, who had married a
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a 1906 Model and the Aigrette is made
of Broom Straw. Take a Peek at the
shine Tailor-Made and the Paper Shoes.
Ever since they wished that False
Alarm onto me I have been giving a
correct Imitation of Lizzie the Honest
Working Girl. Each Evening he comes
home to give me a Sweet Kiss and
THIO WIFBOJT OTIS ITHRiLCYTED
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title. Not liking his English relative,
he had taken a Jaunt on the Continent
preparatory to a tour of the cathedral
towns his wife had set her heart upon.
When he got back to London he re
ported to his helpmeet that he was a
bit disappointed that be did not find
Europe came up to the specifications.
She was sorry but assured him he
would be more than compensated by
what he saw in England. They set
out for the cathedral towns in high
spirits. Griggs found that cathedral
towns are best In pictures. For visi
tors they are rude awakenings. There
Is hardly a cathedral town in England
that tas a hotel fit for a wbite man
to put up at; Most of the cathedrals
are drafty, rheumatlz-breedlng, and
with more attendants with their hands
out than can be found In any other
place on earth. Railroad travel Is exe
crable, and some of the landlords are
closely related, to the late lamented
Captain Kidd.
It was in one of the cathedral towns
that Mr. Griggs began to wonder what
the deuce Steel was doing. He could
not get Steel out of his head. He had
not looked at an American paper since
he had said good-bye to Manhattan
Island. When be got back, to the ho
tel that evening- he telegraphed to Lon
don for a quotation on Little Steel. It
did not Increase his peace of mind to
learn that Steel had advanced Ave
points within a few weeks. When be
left New Tork he thought Bteel was
due for a rise.
It took Mrs. Griggs a month to tour
the cathedral towns of Old England.
Then they set out for France. It was
balmier In France. The cathedrals
were not so horribly musty, but the
hotels were not a particle better.
Mrs. Griggs was enthusiastic They
went Into the chateau country and
found the simple country people of
France delightful robbers. After
France they tried the Valley of the
Rhine and looked at the castles. Next
they visited Spain and found beggars
everywhere thay went morning, noon
and night. "
They had been gone four months and
six days when Mr. Griggs, who had
been showing signs of restliveness, sud
denly asked his wife one day how long
this confounded European trip was go
ing to last. He was tired of it, he said.
To his amazement, Mrs. Griggs con
fessed that she, too, longed to return.
She had been deceived by his studied
amiability into believing he was en
Joying himself.
That very night they started for
Havre. The first ship for America had
them on board. Old Manhattan Isl
and looked very good to them when
the French ship steamed up to her
promises me a Trip to Europe and a
Set of Gray Squirrels, and next Morn
ing, when I tet up to remove the Oat
meal from the Flreless Cooker, I find
on the Back Porch a large Kougn-
nack In a Sweater who has come to
shut off the Gas or take away the Par
lor Furniture. Then. I think of You,
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berth. The hotel they went to seemed
a palace . compared to anything they
had seen 'on the other side of the At
lantic The theaters seemed better1
the whole world seemed better to them.
They had determined on their way
across the ocean to reopen their old
home, and as quickly as she oould do
so Mrs. Orlggs turned her attention in
that direction. That left Griggs foot
loose. Naturally he wandered down
town. Everybody was delighted to see
him, and told him he was 80 years
younger. The lines had disappeared
from his face. There was a spring to
his step that he had not known since
his boyhood days. Th're was color in
his cheeks, sparkle la his eye. The
European trip may have soured him on
Europe, but It certainly did wonders
for him In a physical way.
The second time he went down town
he met Grimes. He was as surprised to
see Grimes as Grimes was to see him.
They had a Joyous greetlng.1 a lunch
eon that was a delight, and nothing
would do but Grimes had to be his
guest that night. Grirjes, it-seemed,
had cdme on from the West on a short
trip. He had bought a magnificent es
tate In Minnesota" and It would take
years to develop it. The former part
ners chatted late into the night, dis
cussed their plans for enjoying life to
the fullest, and the next day, when
Grimes started West, Griggs saw him
off.
Three weeks later Grigg3 met Grimes
In Wall. street again. Grimes blushed,
or came as near it as he could, when.
Griggs shook hands with him. He ex
plained that a little business he had not
closed out upon his retirement had
called him East suddenly. A day or
two later Griggs thought he saw hia
old friend a bit ahead of him In Broad
street. It was not long after that un
til he was sure of It. He followed
Grimes down through Broad street one
day, saw him turn Into SouLh William,
climb a few steps, put a key in the
lock and open one of those old-fashioned
offices in one of those old-fashioned
buildings that you may And
within 500 feet of the Stock Exchange,
the same today aa they were a hun
dred years ago.
As Grimes opened the door Griggs
tepped up and greeted him. Grimes
acted like a culprit.
"What does this mean. Grimes?"
asked Griggs.
Grimes hemmed and hawed. Ordi
narily he was self-possesed, but de
ceit had robbed him of- his self-possession!
He uttered a cuss word to re
lieve his feelings and then he made a
clean breast of the whole matter.
"Ernest," he said, "I am ashamed of.
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with your Closets hanging full oi
fluffy Frocks and your Fingers crowd
ed with Jewels and your Man rushing
in every few Minutes to slap you In the
Face with a Hundred Dollar Bill. You
can take It from me. Dearie, I would
Jump the whole Game, were It not for.
the Children. I have put in my whole
Life trying to realize something on a
Promissory Note that was a Bloomer
to begin with. He has kidded me
along ever since the World's Fair aB
Chicago, feeding me on Canned Stuff
and showing me pictures of Electrio
Runabouts and Country Places on Long
Island. In the Meantime I am playing1
In Great Luck If I can get a Trolley
Car to stop for me."
At this point the Wife of Otis arose
and, pulling the rose-colored Sills
Wrapper more closely about her made-.to-order
Form, Interrupted with an
Imperious Gesture.
"Back tip. Angle!" she exclaimed.
"You should be a Happy Woman. You
have your Husband's Love and you
have your Children, both of which are
denied a Woman in my Assured Posi
tion In the Two Minute . Class of the
Terrible Spenders. Talk about Hard
ships! Do you know what it Is to lead
the Grand March, surrounded by 800
Cannibal Queens, who are pointing you
out as the Wife of the Malefactor who
Is about to be Tried in the Federal;
Courts? Did you ever Stagger around
all Evening with JlOtHuOO worth of Tif
fany Merchandise fastened on to you
expecting every Minute to be hit In the
Coiffure by some Raffles? Did you
ever, during a Formal Dinner, hear the
Door Bell tinkle and find In the Hall
ara v a T?ATortfi- from a. Moraine Pftoec
who wishes to ask your Husti&nd if hev
denies his Guilt or can give any Rea
son why Sentence of Death should not
be passed upon him? Are you Wise to
the Fact that the Wife oi-a Successful
Business Man now occupies a Niche in
the Hall of Fame right, next to the.
Sister of Jesse James? You are lnr.
Great Luck. No one takes a Shot at a,'.
Failure." ,
Having arrived at this cordial Un
derstanding, each leaned agrfinst the
other. and had a Good Cry, after which
they chirked up and paid a lot of at
tention, to a well-preserved Bachelotl
who dropped In to get warm and take
a slight Fall out of the Side-Board.
MORAL: when Wealth walks In at
the Door, the Press Agent comes In
through the Window.
.Gopyrlshted. 1912. . by. George Adj .