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ATTIIEW ELDER, editor of
I llvl the Inner Circle, had gone out
for half an hour to synchronize
bis watch, and his assistant, J. Graham
Ohampnles, reigned temporarily In his
stead. On every occasion when Elder
was absent, whether he had gone out
to get his hair cut (at a restaurant op
poslte), or was away on a two-months'
holiday, or had taken a week off be
cause he felt far from well, J. Graham
Champnles reigned In his stead, en
dowed with plenary powers. He was
ambitious, and Intelligent, and hnrd-
worklng, and trustworthy; Matthew
Elder, brilliant and lazy, had long since
recognized that. Elder thought of
things to do Champnles did them.
A clerk had Just laid on Champnles'
desk the form which a visitor had filled
up:
NAME. Miss Cynthia Page.
TO SEE. The Editor.
BUSINESS. Private.
DATE. 3.5.09.
"Well, I'll see her," said Champnles
He had seen the name Cynthia Page In
good magazines, appended to curious
and Interesting stories.
He was not Ill-pleased, when the
clerk showed her In, to find that she
inaa youtn anil beauty on pale and mys
tical lines. Her long, raised lashes,
and the lingering glance of her gray
t MISS PAGE WAS A LITTLE DOUBTFUL.
eyes, seemed to say: "You do interest
me." J. Graham Champnles found him
self hoping that Matthew Elder, after
synchronizing his watch, would find it
necessary to go and see a man about a
dog or, at any rate, would delay his
return. In the meanwhile he was anx
ious to know what he could do for Miss
Page.
"I am speaking to the editor?" said
Miss Page, a little doubtfully.
"The actual editor, Mr. Elder, Is not
in at present, but I have full powers to
aet for him."
"I see." She was still In douht.
"Pray be assured of It. I can make
contracts with you, accept stories from
you, sign checks for you, so If you have
nnytuing to propose "
"Oh, it's not that! In fact, I came In
consequence of a proposition which he
had already made to me."
"Well, I shall be very glad to carry
on anytinug tnat he has begun. As
rule he mentions these things to me,
but this time I am In the dark."
hue smiled mysteriously. "But you
can't be sure that you would wish to
carry on what he has bezun ."
"As Mr. Elder Is the supreme author
ity Here, I should have no choice. But,
even if I had, what you suggest Is ex
treraely unlikely."
"Why unlikely? No two men can have
minds exactly alike. It's such a funny
urrangeinem you nave nere."
"it works well enough In practice.
we uotu lniow the character of our pa
yci, uu iviuii our iiuuuc wants, i say
it is unimeiy mat 1 siioum be unwilling
to carry on whatever Mr. Elder has
begun, for this reason and also because
I know and admire your work."
t "Oh, do you think it's any good?"
"Of course I do."
' "Speaking frankly?"
- "Speaking frankly, It's full enough
or rauits; some of it seems to have run
away with you and got all over the
place. But It's horribly Interesting all
tne same, you see, it's original."
"Ob, yes!" she assented. "I am oris-
jnnl. If I were not, I shouldn't be here."
"That sounds cryptic," ho said. "Pos
sibly, I shall understand It when 1
know the nature of Mr. Elder's pro
posai. uo wants some stories from
you?"
. "No, no."
"Then what Is It?"
' "Do you know that I'm afraid I can't
tell you."
"Very well, then; there's nothing
more to be said. Mr. Elder is out at
present. You'd better call again. I
suppose you think It would make some
difference whether Mr. Elder went on
with his busiuess, or I did?"
"I'm sure it would the greatest difference."
"You think I shouldn't do as well?"
"Not ns well. You'd do better lulln
Itely better. Oh, I must go," she blush
ed, rose, good-bred, and faded out of
the oillce.
Ten minutes later Matthew Elder,
middle-aged, bald nud cheerful, saun
tered Into the room with his hands In
his pockets.
"Well, Bill!. Everything all right?"
Mr. Elder had not found In the as
sortment of names provided for
Champnles by the accident of his birth
and the guesswork of his christening
anything which took his fancy.
No," said Champnles shortly, still
irritated by his interview with Cynthia
i'nge. "Quart Into a tin not. Plugged
up with ads, nud Bowse has Just sent
up that he'll want another half-page.
We shall have to leave over everything
tnaril wait, nud some things that
won't."
Ah! you don't keep a tight enough
hand on Bowse."
Step In and tackle him yourself.
nere, this woman called to see you
wouldn't tell me her business."
Matthew Elder took tnls paper slip
and sank down In a chair.
"BUI, this Is rather bad. I ought to
have been In. What with my unfortu
nate enthusiasms, and . my wretched
memory, I shall get myself Into trouble.
Listen. I met this srlrl two or three
times a year ago; never gave her an
other thought till I came on a story by
her that was perfectly magnificent 6.
horribly good! probably the best story
that has been written In this century.
I dashed off a letter to her at once, and
so worked up myself about It that I
said, to show my sincerity, that If she
liked I'd marry her, and she could call
at the office this morning with her an
swer. She'd have refused me. of course.
as they all do, and perhaps I'm better
single; but, none the less, it would have
been more civil not to have forgotten
the appointment."
Really," said Champnles, "you must
be a little mad."
"Undoubtedly," answered Elder.
cheerfully. "It's the price one nays
for being so excessively intelligent."
Champnles stared blankly at the
desk, trying to recall the exact words
of his conversation with Cynthia Page.
"Look bere, Bill," said Elder, "write
and say you want to see her about a
story; then when she comes do the ex
plaining for me. Say I was called awav
by telegram. Say It was from motives
of delicacy. Say anything."
The following Is from a subsequent
issue of tbe Tea Cup; a Journal con
ducted by ladles for ladles:
"One of the most brilliant of our lady
writers, Miss Cynthia Page, is, It is
whispered, shortly to be led to the hy
meneal altar. The fortunate partner of
her future Joys and sorrows Is J. Gra
ham Champnles, a young Journalist of
great promise. Our heartiest fellclta
tions. Speaking of weddings, hnve you
seen the really beautiful designs In
pearlettes Indistinguishable from real
pear.s now being shown in the win
dows of ?" Black and White.
A STARTLING
object lesson. UK IS IMCII, YET P00J1
llown Mcxlenn AlcnMo Learned Foin
of the Dlfllcultlo of KiillromllilU.
Tho old Southwestern engineer was
telling tales of by-gone days down In
Mexico and dwelling upon tlio Mexi
can's Ignorance of railroading.
"Once, near Victoria," said he, "wo
were loaded heavily with Iron, and wo
hit the usual drunken Mexican asleep
on the track. Them folks used to think
a roadbed bettcr'u a wool mattress. It
was down grade and around a curve,
and we were going at a fair clip, and,
though we had air brakes, we couldn't
hold up In time. We ground him up.
and at Victoria, ten miles further on,
we didn't have any better sense than to
report It. Of course, the train was side
tracked and we were put In Jail. Next
day we were hauled up uefor.' tli nhal
de. He was a little, dried up man. with
mahogany skin nud snow-whlto mus
tache. It bristled fiercely, but I noth-ed
Unit his eye twinkled a good deal and
I sorter cottoned to him right away.
We told him that we couldn't stop tho
train In the time allowed us. and It was
the truth. He said, through au Inter
preter, of course:
'I've heard all this before. Klve of
my people have been killed by trains In
six mouths and I have let the train
crews go. They said they couldn't stop.
I'm going to see about this. Your train
Is on the sidetrack, coupled and loaded.
We'll lire up and go kick to the place
where you killed Vicente. We'll run
down nt the same speed. When you
come near to the curve you must try
hard to stop. I will go In the cab with
you.'
"Well, we fired up and went back
three miles beyond the death spot.
Then wo started forward again. Of
course It was not my business to run
too slowly. I wanted to show tho
alcalde that stopping In the space de
scribed was an Impossibility. Old 1)3
was a quick engine, and Inside of two
miles, It being a down grade, we were
dolug a two-nilnute clip. We struck
tho curve nt forty miles an hour. The
alcalde bad never In his life been on a
train, nud he was leaning out of the cab
window, waving his big straw hat and
shouting 'Viva! Viva! As we sighted
the spot where Vicente had been pul
verized the airbrakes went on like tho
clamp of death. I was thrown to tho
floor of the cab myself. As for Uie
alcalde, he shot through the window
like a rocket, turned six somersaults
and lit on his back in the sand thirty
feet away. The train ground to a
standstill, yards beyond tho blood
stained ties. He came limping up,
brushing the sand out of his white hair.
I remember that his mustache was all
bent down on one side. He looked up
nt me and said simply, 'Valga me DIos!'
which Is about equivalent to 'Dern my
buttons!' We went back to town; ho
discharged us all and invited us to din
ner with him. We stayed and pulled
out that evening. Everybody ran pret
ty much on his own schedule In them
times."
JAMES HEALEY, THE CATTLE
KINQ OF NEW rvitAiw.
J. Worll. $1,000,000. ...id H... $100,-
000 l Yeurlr Incomr, el no nivtm
k-t I ... .. 1 it till Artliioll Llfo "f
1110 P1MM
Mcxicuii Cattle Harder.
A man who doesn't know what to do
..tt. 1.1a titjilltlt ih somewhat of an
Will. Ilio in""' - ...
l.. i.nt James Ilea ley, of New
' ' Mexico, who Is
worth $1,000,000
Mini whose iiniiiml
In. ome Is $100,000,
Is HtH'li u person.
Il.-aley Is mi extra
ordinary mail,
whose counterpart
ran scarcely bo
found anywhere.
II.- possesses laud,
mule and copper
p r o p e r 1 Un well
worth far above a
million tiny day In
.. i i...
jamka IIkai kv, me wecii. ji-i ii.
llvi'S III a rude twnrd shanty that could
bo duplicated for $m. Out of his an
nual Income of $Ioo.WK) he spends less
than $i:t)0 of It on himself. He owns
thousands of acres of land In the fertile
spots of New Mexico, and still he lives
no better not even so well-than a
good part of the Ignorant Mexicans he
employ to help herd his cattle.
James Henley went to New Mexico
from Texas. He was born In Seilalln.'
Mo.. In 1838. and with his parents went
to Austin. Texas., In ltd). He has ai
rways lived on the plains nnd has no
.knowledge of any other life. He never
Twenty years ago whTl
l'nno, Texas, win, "L
met an old coiup,, , f , uiin
tH Texas border. -n,.i ' J0,,'o
turned prospect...- ( ' rlt''i'l h
the Dragoon tnoniiim,,. ,. '.'.""not
Arlxonn. Aiiiiiiil. ,i " "
"''Him,
tit ho tinil locat, ,l . ,. ni I'tym
the Hunger by nam.. ii,,1
touched (tyiho nciii,,,. .., ""Ujh
Al.lp. but this Hi frl J " nm
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wns persuaded i. put &m
more to hold IiIm i ".. 1
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mi p.
Willi In.
II lMltl..i
i in nil.
illuming until win.
When copper rose in
In ISO" Henley got .,. $, 0K)
friini tin, l-.mi'iii. i i
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r Kim lit 1H unit l.i . . '"Mi
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I w i win x:i ihhi mtii cm . w
fromlL wmm
His vnqueroM say n.j )(,
millionaire must I,., u, ,. of , l
has been a physlol,,. , M(.nfa '
for ovwUilriy.il v,.
known no rest, lie ,;,lmiiy ,,' ,
thnii live out of tin. u. u fni,i.
and Is often In tho HaMi.. r iu
ral for two days and ..ici,, nt .. "'
lit these Inter years, u(. i,t,
come ho rich, he lias si-vornl vn..
hImmU him nl ways at ntgi,, i ll)B,
mountains, where It u.ml.1 no trl.-k
all for bandits to pcrp -irm,. notnerrim
IniU design upon .,. w..nltlir ,!..'
rciUOIllly tl... old (iinn trills,
III a lvlnuket aloiigNl.lo ii,,. i-aiiipiiffJ
the range for the nlglu. nml ltlui05.
per on crnckers and eh.-ese or bolH
beiiim will go to slei-p until the MrlU,
streakH of daylight, when by will m
up nnd go to work again.
King of (Stoivnwnyg.
The steamship Lackawanna brought
into rnnaueipnia recently a boy who
Is probably the most famous stowaway
on the Atlantic. The fact that the cap
tain or tne Lackawanna had Involun
tarily carried him thrice across the sea
is a fair test of his ability to secrete
himself, as on each occasion the vessel
has been thorough searched before
leaving Liverpool. Edward Murnhv Is
omy i& years old. He hails from Birk
enhead, England, and has never had a
home other than tbe gutters of tho
world's largest city can afford. He be
gan the stowaway business some years
ago, when less than 10, and has made
a great success of It. He has islted
most of the shipping ports of the At
lantic, nnd many South American and
African countries besides. Durintr tho
past year he has traveled from Liver
pool to New York, to Santos, to Ito
sario, to Argentine Republic, to tho
Barbadoes, to Southampton, to Liver
pool, to Philadelphia. He Is known to
every skipper who sails from London.
and as a rulo is a favorite with officers
and men. Captain Wytte, of the Lack
awanna, thinks s'o much of him that
no lias offered to adopt him, but Mur-
phy cannot give up his roving life. If
ho can escape from tho Lackawanna1
on board which ship, in accordance
with tho law which requires every sea'
captain to pay a fine for foreleners
brought to America without money, ho
is closely confined ho will probably,
beat his way across America nn.ii
ship" on some Taclfic collier, as hoi
mm l
nas always expressed a deslra to cro to
the Klondike.
Wlicnoo Gutta I'crotm Comes.
The tree from which gutta percha Is
obtained grows In Borneo, and In oth
er Islands of the Indian Archlnelairo.
says the Philadelphia Times. It Is very
large, but Uie wood is spongy, and of
little use us timber. The lenves grow
on long stalks, and are green above
nd of a bright yellow beneath. Tho
Mowers are smnll nnd grow In pretty
turts in tlio axils of the leaves, each
on a separate stalk or stem.
To obtain the gutta percha of coin
merce, the finest trees nro cut down
and Incisions are made in the bark
a milky Juice exudes from the Incis
ions, and Is reserved by little troughs
made for that purpose. When the
Juice has hardened to a certain extent
it is kneaded Into cakes and exported.
The cakes are of a reddish brown col
or and are full of Irregular nores.
ucrore, However, tho cakes are readv
for use they have to undergo some
preparation. They are first sliced into
very thin shavings nnd then placed
... llil....l . . .
iu u. ii-uruiK iiiucuine, wnicli re
volves in a trough of hot water. Tho
macnines tears tho shavings into
small pieces, and tho hot water washes
tnem thoroughly. These pieces aro
men made into cakes and the enkoa
aro rolled several times between heat
ed cylinders to free them from any air
or water tnat tiiey may contain, and
to mnue tnem uniform In texturo.
Again they nro rolled between hontPii
rollers nnd thus made Into sheets of
various tlilcknesscs for use. or forinmi
Into rods, water pipes or any other
shapes which may be desired.
MILLIONAIlti: H HA LEV'S S I'M. MICH HUM 1-2.
went to school but three years and that
was on the plains of Texas. Hut he
was born with rare sagacity, a peculiar
border shrewdness that reads men nt a
glance nnd knows a schemer Instinct
ively. His chief stock In trade Is an
Iron constitution nnd n bravado nerve
that made him well known on the fron
tier before he was "0. He became n
vaquero In Texas when he was 17 years
old. His as.wcl.-UoH have been Mexican
vaqueros, American cowlwys, hardened
characters on tho bonier nnd half
breed Indians.
Wtinlo In Shrimp Not.
A smnll bottle-nosed whale n t
long and 0 feet In circumference has
been captured off tho Essex
Is now to bo seen on tho beach at
Southend. It was surprised near tho
shore by somo local fishermen, who
managed to take It by tniuillmr It ,ln
In an old shrimp not.
Its vitality was so great that It ii,i
for fifty hours after capture. The idea
of tackling a ton of lively whalo wih
a shrimp net does not In tho least im
press Its captors, who, says our corre
spondent, "would go for a sea serpent
with a half Inch rope."
World's Conl Fields.
Tho total area of tho coal nni,i. in
the world Is estimated at 47i.finr .n,,o
miles.
Ktnrt of tlio Henley I-'orliuic.
When tho Xavajocs were moved by
the government to Southern New Mex
ico In the latter 'Ms, Jim Henley and
other vaqueros went northwnrd with
little bands of cattle and settled on
tracts of land close to the Arizona tor
rltorial line. That was tho beglnulng
of tho Henley fortune. In a few years
ho had several hundred head of steers.
Then he had several thousand. He
spoke the Spanish tongue as well as his
own, nnd no American knew the border
nnd lt rude ways so well as Jim Ilea
ley did. With further sales of cattle he
bought more land. So he has kept on
buying land, trading for cattle and
water rights, occasionally dabbling In
sheep nnd wool until ho has become
more Uian a millionaire.
Up to twenty-five years ago Healey's
soio unnecessary expense was cam
bllng. There are still tales In ancient
Santa Ie of the times when Jim Henlev
returning from a cattle drive to Trlnl-
dad and Fort Dodge, used to sit In a
faro gamo for forty-eight hours nt a
strotch nnd lose or win S7.000 or S8.000
' suung. une nignt bo saw the faro
dealer give a significant wink to a pro-
lunaiuiiui pmyer nioiigsiiio Henley and
from that moment ho quit tho tables.
Ho has had his tips nnd down., i,.
.1. .: . - vnv
ue, me same as all other cattlemen In
tho groat freezo of 1878 ho lnt' i.
greater part oi a nerd that represented
somo $125,000. At another tl.,, i. inaf
uylt sw.uuu wortn of cattlo by reason
of a lung plaguo and tho Texas cattle
ll-HTi
Tho fearful depreciation
ranges, which set In ni
culminated In 1800, ruined many a cat
tleninn but Henley not only hung to
his herds nnd sold his cattlo f m,. n
vtr 8lX, or 8evo successive
years, but ho added to !,i ,
purchase of land from discouraged men
whe abandoned tho Industry. X three
years ho has been m,,,. .
'f - nnd ho Is Tho ore
most cattleman in Now Mexico.
lcli In Copper Property
-tho present mnrvnim la linn... I..
Per has also added nsrS:
Ho Is by no iiusiiir a miser, forhekii
several Una's made gifts of $1.0u0i!
$-,000 to his vaqueros. whom lie llkn
Last Christina he deeded to a man m
his range a bunch of prime A-year-cU
steers that were worth $1,S00, anJ U
gave till In his employ a ten or t
twenty-dollar gold piece. Ho makM b!i
headquarters and home In a plneibia
ty on the southern end of bis great
range, about thlrty-llvo tulles north-
west front Cerlllos station, on the Sinn
I'e route. There ho Klccpt In a rud?
bunk built against the wall nml store
are two other bunk. where a friend or
u trusted vaquero sleeps occulonsll;..
I'r.iKiil lit 1(1 I xpciul turct.
Henley cooks his own food, but ion
tliniw he luts a cowboy help blm it
cooking. A lot of burned black kcttH
a burned skillet, nnd a grimy old coffe
pot and a few battered pans, cblppw
dishes, nud decrepit knives ami forts
on n greasy table near the stove all tell
What wort of meals this unusual mil
lionaire imrtakes of.
He has never seen a drama, heard
concert, or anything Uieatrlcnl oroper.
aUc since 1870, nnd then In III raw
About onco a month, when there It n
work Jim Henley cun busy himself at,
nnd ho feels lit the mood, then lliccaH
tie king will get out a three gallon Jof
of claret (which he buys from the half-1
breed Indians) nnd produco several J
low paper packagcH of cheap tobneco
and he nnd several associates will "
and tell stories either nbout a cnninr
or In the cabin for a few hours. Pot
that's tho end of tho cattleman's dissi
pation. No one can Induce him to hare
another tnslo of it In less than three or
four weeks.
IIoIiiion Humor.
The Into John Ilo'.mes, whose rcpu
tntlon for wit wns not ns wide ns that
of his celebrated elder brother, Pr. 01H
ver Wendell Holmes, wns yet knoffj
nmong his Intimates iih a man of ready)
roparteo and characteristic humor.
Mr. Holmes never married, but 1"W
by himself In a little house In Cam
bridge, nnd onco a friend rallied him
on his lonely life.
"You ought to mnrry, John," said W,
"nnd have n larger house."
"Why, yes," replied Mr. noi.
with a quiet smile, "If I should taw-,
better half I would liavo, to Improve
my quarters."
Its Nnmo A'xnliiNt It.
'That now ladles' magazlno proved a
complete failure."
"Did It? What was- tho cause i
Hod 'The Ago 0l
that's Bonici
'thing tho women don't want to cow.
out"-llilludelplila Bulletin.