Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07

| ana UdSneQ maQIy across the open Ntlut.
| Urging them on with kicks and noise came
| McNulty the pain in his foot growing with
| every step. Before them rose rugged
| kopje. and toward this he directed them,
| his disOrdered brain seeing in 1t some re-
/ semblance to the knobs of his beloved Mis-
souri,.
Behind that grim kopje stout burghers,
gray-bearded men and stolid youths looked
on in amazement and horror. This was not
war la MODE. 1t was contrary to all regu-
lations for cavalry to charge intrenched in
fantry, and up a crag, too, where no horse
could find footing! 1t was unfair, unjust;
| it was last years rules and contrary to all
the usages of correct war They held up
appealing hands to high heaven, and forth
with fled.
Meanwhile all this noise and confusion
had come to the notice of little white
haired man with piercing eyes, who had
but lately come upon the scene. From him
orders flowed in a white-hot stream and
galloping aids radated to all points of the
compass. Things began to happen.
Presently a thrill shot half round the
world. A little old lady with dropping eye
lids, who lived in most luxurious surround
ings received message over which she
shed few happy tears just like any other
| old lady. A certain very high official with
an orchid boutonniere damned his monocle
into his eye with fresh energy, and fell to
planning new things for his enemies. The
very high official had been helped out of a
| very deep hole by fate-and McNulty.
Then message quivered along the ooze
| and slime of the Atlantic. Some oilers read
ing bulletins Park row saw man crawl
| out on a balcony and write swiftly and
largely on a blackboard. More people
| stopped to look, and then more. New York
| spoke to Boston, and the crowd on Wash
| heard something and a telegraph editor tore
| his hair Chicago told the news to ST.
| Louis and ST. Louis flung 1t across the
! prairies to Denver. Denver shouted it over
n C.atn
| and San Francisco spread the tidings up
! and down the length and breadth of the Pa
| cific slope. Nations called to nations and
| the continents sent it ringing to the echoing
| isles of the sea.
.
! Hendricks sat in a New York brokers'
| office looking gloomhy at big blackboard
! About him sat twenty more impassive
men. talking and smoking. Above the low
| hum of conversation rose the droning, ex-
| pressioniess voice of the man at the ticker
| Atch' five-eighths, five hundred a half;
( Rock Island a half st. Paul seven-eighths;
! Brooklyn five-eighths half, four hundred
| at three-eighths; A. and A. forty five hun
| dred seven-eighths, five hundred a half
In spite of himself Hendricks groaned.
| The devil that lived in the ticker went off
! into paroxysm of chuckling, until the
| reiterated wordiess ''cluck- chuck cluck-
| cluck" began to get on his nerves
i Mr.. Hendricks said the bland mana ger
behind him, I'm afraid we shall have to
| call on you for more margin
| I'm busted said Hendricks dolefllly
IT'S no use trying. Where do you sell me
| out?'
The manager sucked his teeth in silence,
| then said:
| "Thirty-eght and a half"
| Hendricks faced round quickly ''Why.
| man., he cried, I'm margined deeper than
| that"
Sorry Mr.. Hendricks" the other said,
| smoothly, but have to protect our
| selves in market like this What in the
| world, If L may ask, made you sink all you
| had in the African and American Steamship
Company?'
'Oh, l thought it was a good thing, +"
| Hendricks said- impatiently. And so It
| would have been but for this cursed Boer
| war. I'd like to be one of ten men to hang
! that old Kruger
The manager permitted himself to smile
| gently. You wouldn't have to go far for
the other nine he said. THE street is
| putting up prayers In seven synagogues for
| Bobs success" Then he went back muir
| muring something about blame fools that
| mortgage their very shirts to buy when any
| child can see it's bear market"
The monotonouS voice at the ticker went
on:
| Mop three-eighths; Sugar a half;
| Brooklyn three-eighths, a quarter, three
elghths; A and A. three-eighths. a hundred
| more at quarter"
| In the inner office a stout man with an
| overworked gold watch chain was becom-
| Ing more Extensively triumphant with eyery
quotation that came over the tape
| "A. and A a quarter and no bottomv' he
sang out jeyously- Sell another hundred
! at the market"
Outside. Hendricks. in utter despair, was
| clutching the rungs of his chair, and with
head bowed was trying to pray to such
| gods as he elected to serve. The noise in
! the room came dmly to his ears
| brooklyn three-quarters Metropolitan a
half. A & A an eighth. 200 at 80"
With the grim humor that comes only
| when hope is gone. Hendricks smiled grim
" and murmured. I'VE who are about to
die salute you"
Wabash three-quarters, & A seven
| eighths." went on the relentless voice,
''B & o half, A & fve-eighths"
That's 4O&" exclaimed a man at the