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wealth. You who are turning over in
your minds the consideration that your
great body can make new rules to
render my discovery imperative, are
dealing with a shadow. There is no
rule or device that can prevent it's
working. There are 1000 seats in the
New York stock exchange. They are
worth to-day $4,000 apiece, or $685.
100000 in all. Their value is due to
the fact that this exchange deals in
between one and three million shares
day. Were any attempt made to
prevent the operation of my invention,
transactions would because of such
attempt drop to five or ten thousand
shares per day, or to such transactions
as represented stock that will be actu,
ally delivered and actually paid for.
10 make my invention useless it must
be made impossible to buy or sell the
same share of stock more than once
at one session, and short selling, which
IS now, as you know, the foundation of
the modern Safeguarding structure,
must likewise be made impossible. If
this could be done the $95,OOO,O 900
worth of seats in the exchange would
be worth less than five millions, and,
what is of far greater import to all
the people, the financial world would
be revolutionized. Men of Wall street,
do not fool yourselves. My invention
is a sure destroyer of the greatest
curse in the world, Safeguarding"
A sullen growl rose from the gam
blers. Robert BROMLEY glared down
his defiance. @a
Let me show you the impossibility
OF preventing i'm the future anyone's
doing what I have done to you so
many times during the past five years.
All the capital required to work my
invention is nerve and desperation, or
nerve without desperation. It is well
known to you that there are at all
I times exchange members who will
commit any crime, barring, perhaps,
murder, to gain millions. Your mem
bers have from time to time shown
nerve or desperation enough to embez.
zle, raise certificates, give bogus
checks, counterfeit stocks and bonds.
and this for gain of less than millions.
and when detection was probable. All
| these are criminal otfenses and their
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gongs. and as We shot by the World
building, saw ahead of us two plung-i
ing automobiles filled with men, Twas
from them the gong clamor sounded.
AS We drew nearer I saw that these
were the cars of the fire chiefs answer
Ing call. I thanked God again and
again as l yelled into Bob's ear, "For,
Beulah's sake, Bob, don't pass; if you
DO, We'll run into blockade. If we
keep in the rear they'll clear our way.
and we may get to her alive" I do
not know whether he heard, but he
held the machine in the rear of the
otner cars and did not try to pass.
Away we went on our mad rush
through crowded Broadway. At Union
Square we lost our way-clearers. AS
our automobile jumped across Four
teenth street into Fourth avenue, Bob.
must have opened her up to the last.
notch, for she seemed to leap through,
the air. We sent two wagons crash
ing across the sidewalks into the build
lngs. Cries of rage arose above the;
din OF the machine, and seemed to fol-,
~ 49, OuA "ohO. DOU Was u6dO TO all
we passed. His entire being seemed
set on what was ahead. I knew he,
was an expert in the handling of the:
automobile, for since his misfortune,
automobiling with Beulah Sands had,
been his favorite pastime, but who
could expect to carry that plunging,
sWaying car to Forty-second street!
Bob seemed to be performing the won-
drous task. We shot from curb to!
curb and around and in front of vehi-:
cles and foot passengers as though;
the drivers eyes and hands were in
spired.
Across the square at last and on I'D
Fourth avenue to Twenty-sixth street.
Then dizzying whirl into Madison.
Was he going to keep to it until he got
to Forty-second street and try to make
Fifth avenue along that congested
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when, o God! that sound! For five
long years I had been trying to get 1t
out OF my ears, but now more cultural,
more agonized than before, it broke
upon my tortured senses. / did not
need to seek it's direction. With a
bound was at the threshold of Beulah'
Sands-Brownley's Office. In that brief
time the groans had stilled. For one
instant I closed my eyes, for the very
atmosphere of that hall moaned and
groaned death. I opened them. Yes,
| knew it. There at the desk was the
beautiful gray-clad figure of five years
ago. There the two arms resting on,
the desk. There the two beautiful
hands holding the open paper, but the
eyes, those marvellous gray-blue doors.
to an immortal soul-they were closed
forever. The exquisitely beautiful
face was cold and white and peaceful.
Beulah Sands was dead. The hell
hounds of the System" had overtaken
it's manned and hunted victim; it had
added her beautiful heart to the bags
and barrels and hogsheads stored away
in it's big Observation-Disclosures safe
deposit vaults. My eyes in sick pity
sought the form of my old schoolmate,
my college chum, my partner, my
friend, the man I loved. He was on
his knees. His agonized face was
turned to his wife. His clasped hands
had been raised in an awful, heart
crushing prayer as his Maker touched
the bell. Bob Brownley's great brown
eyes were closed, his clasped hands
had dropped against his wife's head,
and in dropping had Embossed the
glorious golden. brown waves until in
fond abandon they had cofled around
his arms and brow as though she for
whom he had sacrificed all was shield
ing his beloved head from the chills
and dark mists of the black river that
laps the brink of the eternal rest. The
System" had skewered Robert Brown
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bling, because they, the people, having
no surplus to gamble with, never come
into Wall street And yet, knowing
all this, you never thought, with all
your wisdom and cynicism, that right
here in this institution, which you own
and CONTROL was the open sesame for
each or all of you, to those great
chests of gold that your clients, the
SYSTEM have filled to bursting from
the stores Of the people. What, ask,
do you wise men think of the situation
as you now see it?'' -
There was an oppressive stiffness
on the floor. The great crowd, which
now contained nearly all the members
OF the exchange, listened with bullying
eyes and open mouths to the revela-
lions Of their fellow member. From
time to time, as Bob BROMLEY poured
forth his shot and shell of deadly logic,
from the vast mob that now surround
ed the exchange rose a hoarse below
OF Impotence, for few in that dense
throng outside could understand the
silence of the gigantic human crusher,
which between the hours of ten and
three was never before known to miss
a revolution except while it's victims
hearts and souls were being removed
from its gears and meshes.
+ Bob BROMLEY paused and looked
down into the faces of the breathless
gamblers with contempt that was
superb. He went on:
Men of Wall street, it is writ in the
books of the ancients that every evil
contains within itself a cure or a de-
stroyer. do not pretend that what I
am revealing to you is to you cure
for this hideous evil, but do say that
what. I am giving you is a destroyer
for it, and that while it will be to the
world cure, it may leave you in a
more fiery hell than the one of which
you now feel the flames I do not care
if it does. When am through, any
member of the New York stock ex-
change who feels the iron in his soul
can get instant revenge and unlimited
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antiquity Of Proverbs.

Proverbs existed long before books.
In the earliest times they served as
the unwritten language of morality
and have been passed down through
the generations. In Africa there are
numerous quaint proverbs. Among
them are: "He who dives on dry land
will scarify his face" 1.-TWO people
cannot sit down upon the point Of the
same thorn lat the same time" In the
Transvaal the proverb, Beware of
silent man; ne has brass band in his
mouth" is often heard.
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sold him. Then he was compelled Ia
turn about and sell what he had
bought from me, and when. I had re-.
bought it for ten millions less than r
mad sold it for, the trick had been.
turned. I had sold him 100, 900 shares
say at 22O. He had sold them back
TO me say at 100, and he stood where
ne had stood at the beginning. He
mad none of the 100000 shares. Both
OF us stood, so far as stock was con-
cerned, where we had stood at the be-.
ginning, but as to profits and lossesi
there was this difference:, 4 had ten
millions of dollars profits, while Barry
Conant's clients, the System were
ten millions losers land all by a trick.
Inc trick did not differ in principle
from the one in constant practice by
the System When the System
after manufacturing Sugar stock, sell
100000 shares to the people for $10,-
oo0,O0O, they so manipulate the market
by the use of the $10,00O,OO0 that they
nave taken from the people as to scare
them into selling the 100000 shares
back to them for $5,00O,O0O. After
they have bought they again manipu-
late the market until the people buy
back for $1O,o0o,0OO what they sold for
$5,OOO,000. The System commits no
legal crime. I committed no legal
crime, I had not even infringed any
rule of the exchange. any more than
had the System when they performed
their trick. Since my experimental
panic have repeatedly put the trick
In operation, and each time I have
taken millions, until to-day I have in
my control, as absolutely as though 1
had honestly earned them, as the la
borer earns his weeks wages, or the
farmer the price of his crops, over
$1,000, 100000, or sufficient to keep en-
shaved the rest Of their lives million
people. ..
What do you Intelligent men think
OF this situation? You know, because
you know the Safeguarding game.
that the American people, with their
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boosted brains and courage, come year
after year with their bags of gold, the
result of their prosperous labors, and
dump them, hundreds of millions, into
this gambling inferno of yours. You
know that they are fools, these silly
millions OF people whom you term
lambs and suckers. You chuckle as,
year after year, having been sent away
shorn, they return for new shearing.
You marvel that the merchants, manu-
facturers, miners, lawyers, farmers,
who have sufficient intelligence to
gather such surplus legitimately, would
bring it to our gambling hell, where
upon all sides is plain proof that we
who conduct the gambling, and who
produce nothing, are obliged to take
from those who do produce, hundreds
OF millions each year for expenses,
and hundreds of millions each year for
profits you know that we have
nothing to give them in return for
what they bring to us. You know that
every dollar of the billions lost in Wall
street means higher prices for steel
rails, for lumber and cars, and that
this means higher passenger and
freight rates to the people. You know
that when the manufacturer brings his
wealth to Wall street and is robbed of
it, he. will add something to the price
OF boots and shoes, cotton and wooden
clothes, and other necessities that he
makes and that he sells to the people.
You know that when the copper, lead,
tin, and iron miners part with their
surplus to the SYSTEM it means
higher prices to the people for their
copper pots and cutters, for the water
that comes through lead pipes, for
their tin dippers and wash boilers, and
Tor their rents, and all those. neces-
sites into which machinery, lumber,
and other raw and finished material
enters. You know that every hundred
millions dropped by real producers ia
the brigands Of our world means lowe,
wages or less of the necessities and
luSuries for all the people, and espe
cially for the farmer You know that
it is habit with us of Wall street tc
gloat over the doctrine of the System.
which the people parrot among them
selves, the doctrine that the neonle
at large are not affected by our gam
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with INST clenched, as though about to
deal blow.
Men of Wall street. his voice was
now deep and solemn to show that
Robert BROMLEY knew what was TT
ting for the last day of his career, he
has revealed to you the trick-an
more.
Many of you are desperate Many
of you by tomorrow will be ruined.
The time of all times for such to- put
my trick in practice is now. The VIC
tim of victims is ready for the expert
ment. I am he. have billion dol
lars. With this billion dollars I am
able to buy 100000 shares of the
leading stocks and to pay for them,
even though after have bought they
fall hundred dollars a share. Here
is your chance to prevent your ruin,
your chance to retrieve your fortune,
your chance. to secure revenge upon
me, the one who has robbed YOU"
He paused only long enough for his
astounding advice to connect with his
listeners now keenly sensitive nerve
centers; then deep and clear rang out,
Barry Conant." The wiry form OF
Bob's old antagonist leaped to the ros.
trum.
Il authorize you to buy any part OF
1O,OOO,OOO shares of the leading stocks
at any price up to SO points above the
present market. There is my check
book signed in blank, and I authorize
you to use it up to billion dollars,
and 1 agree to have in bank tomorrow
sufficient funds to meet any checks
you draw. You have failed today for
seven millions, and, therefore, cannot
trade, but I herewith announce that I
will pay all the Indebtedness of Barry
Conant and his house. Therefore he
is now in good standing" Bob had
kept his eye on the great clock; as the
last word passed his lips, the presi-
dents gavel descended.
With a mighty rush the gamblers
lcaped for the different poles. Barry
Conant with lightning rapidity gave
his orders to 20 of his assistants, who,
when Bob BROMLEY called for Conant,
had gathered around their chief. In
less than a minute the dollar-battle
of the age was on, battle such as no
man had ever seen before. It required
no supernatural wisdom for any man
on the floor to see that Bob Brownley's
seed had fallen in superheated soil,
that his until now secret hellite was,
about to be tested. It needed no ex-
pert in the mystic art of deciphering
the wall hieroglyphics Of Old Hag Fate
to see that the hands on the clock of
the System" were approaching IL. 1t
needed no ear trained to hear human
heart and soul beats to detect the ap-
preaching sound of onrushing doom to
the Safeguarding structure The
deafening roar of the brokers that had
broken the stiffness following Robert
Brownley's Hateful speech had awak-
ened echoes that threatened to shake
down the exchange walls The surg
ing mob on. the outside was. roaring
like million hungry lions in an Ar
bestan run at slaughter time. -
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BeuIah Sands Was Dead,

block with it's crush of Grand Central
passengers and lines upon lines of
hacks and teams? No. His head must
be clear. Again he threw the great
machine around the corner and into
Fortieth street. For part of the
block our wheels rode the sidewalk
and I awaited the crash. It did not
come. Surely the new world Bob was
speeding to must be kind one, else
why should Hag Fate, who had been
at the steering wheel of his life-car
during the last five years, carry him
safely through what looked a dozen
sure deaths? Without stacking speed
jot we swung around the corner of
Fortieth into Fifth avenue. The ROAD
was clear to Forty-second; there a
dense jam of cars, teams and carriages
blocked the crossing. Bob must have
seen the solid wall for I heard his
Indicate that we were blocked with his
goal in sight. He never touched the
speed controller, but took the two
blocks as though shot from a catapult.
The two? No, one, and three-quarters
of the next, for when within score of
yards of the black wall he damned
down the brakes, and the iron mass
ground and shook as though it would
rend itself to atoms, but it stopped
with it's dasher and front wheels
wedged in between car and dray.
It had not stopped when Bob was off
and up the avenue like hound on the
end-in-sight trail. I was after him
while the astonished bystanders stared
in wonder. AS we neared Bob's house
I could see people on the stoop. l
heard Bob's secretary shout, THANK
God, Mr. BROMLEY, you have come.
She is in the office. found her there,
quiet and recovered. She did not ask
question. She said, Tell Mr.. Brown
ley when he comes that should like
to see him. Then she ordered me to
get the afternoon paper. I handed it
to her an hour ago. I think she be-
lieyes herself in her old office. l shut
of the floor as you instructed. I did
not dare 20 to her for fear she would
ask questions. I haye"-but Bob was
up the stairs two and three steps at a
time.
MY breath was almost gone and it
took me minutes to get to the second
floor NY feet touched the top staif,
. i +.
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CHAPTER x.

The instant after the gong sounded
Bob BROMLEY was alone on the floor
at the foot of the presidents desk
His form was swaying like reed on
the edge of the cyclones path. |
jumped to his side. His brother, who
had during Bob's harangue been vain.
" endeavoring to beat his way
through the crowd, was there first.
For Gods sake, Bob, hear me. Word
came from your house half an hour
ago of the miracle: Beulah has awak-
ened to her past. Her mind is clear;
the nurses are frantic for you to come
to her.
He got no further. With a mad bel
low and bound, like tortured bull
that sees the arena walls go down, Bob
rushed out through the nearest door,
which, thanked God, was a side one
leading to the street where the crowd
was thinnest. He cast a wild look
around. His eyes lighted on an empty
automobile whose chauffeur had de-
serted to the crowd. 1t was the work
of a second to crank it; of another to
jump into the front seat Quick as
had been his movement, I was behind
him in the rear seat. With a bound
the great machine leaped through the
crowd.
I'm the name of Christ, Bob, be care
full yelled, as he hurled the iron
monster through the throng, scatter
ing it to the right and left as the
mower scatters the sheaves in the
wheat fields. Some were crushed be-
meath it's wheels. Bob BROMLEY heard
not their screams, heard not the
curses of those who escaped. He was
on his feet, his body crouched low
over the steering wheel, which he
grasped in his vice-like hands His
hatless head was thrust far out, as
though it strove to get to Beulah
Sands ahead of his body. His teeth
were set, and as I had jumped into
the machine had noted that his eyes
were those of maniac, who saw
sanity just ahead If he could but get
to it in time. His ears were deaf not
only to the howl of the terrified throng
and the curses of the transfers who
frantically pulled their horses to the
curb, but to my warnings as well. He
swung the machine around the corner
at New street and into Wall as though
it had been the broadcast boulevard in
the park. He took Wall street at a
bound I was sure would land us
through the fence into Trinity's
churchyard. But no. Again he turned
the corner, throwing the Juggernaut
on it's outside wheels from Wall street
into Broadway as the crowds on the
sidewalk held their breath in horror.
I, too, was on my feet, but crouching
as I hung to the sides. Thank God.
that usually crowded thoroughfare was
free from vehicles as far up as could
see, on beyond the Aston house. What
could it mean? Was that divinity
| which, it's said protects the drunkard
and the idiot about to aid the mad
rush of this love-frenzied creature to
his long-lost but newly returned dear
: one? I heard the frantic. clang 81
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Holmes on Shelley.

Shelley yaporized everything in his
glowing crucible, but there was gold at
the bottom of it. When look at him
spreading the starry wings of his fancy
over his chaotic philosophy he seems
like seraph lowering over the I'M
fathomable chasm, whose blackness is
the abode Of demons. Of the
Breakfast Table"
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Her Reasoning.

Wife (at the costumer's)-Which
shall have-this coat at 40 marks or
that one at 70? Husband-1 have only
40 marks with me- Wife-Oh, well,
then, Well buy the seventy mark coat
on credit, and then you can buy me
hat with the 40 marks. -Lustige Blat-
ter
in1lkFs.-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-18
Ely. Ne1, January

ELY, New. January 81, 1907.
You are hereby notified that we, D.
?. CURTo and w. N. CURTo, both of
Ely, New, have expended, during the
year 1906, the sum of one hundred
(S100.00) dollars in labor and improve
ments upon the JAMES McDoUGALL
lode mining claim, situated in Robinson
Mining District, in White Pine County,
State of Nevada, the location certif-
cate of which is found of record in
Book 6, page APP, Mining Location
Records, in the Office of the Recorder
of said county, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States and the amendment
thereto approved January q; 1880,
concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required to
hold said lode for the period ending the
3lst day of Decemer, 1906.
And if, within ninety (90) days after
the first publication hereof, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure as co-owner,e which
amounts to thirtythree and thirty-ihree
-hundredths 1888. 33) dollars, your
interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners, who have made the required
expenditures according to the terms of
said section and the amendment thereto.
D. P. CURTo,
w. N. CURTo.
First publication, Jan. q, 1908 mo.
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Lindsey, the builder, isnow prepared
to build houses on the installment plan.
Nov. 30, t f
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Notice of apple alton for Pc
mission to Appropriate the
Public Waters of the
State OF Nevada

Notlce1s hereby given that on the 9th day OF
january. 1906, in accordance with Section o
Chapter NLNl of the Statutes of 1905, one
The White Pine Gold Mining aud Milling Com
pany Of Salt Lake City, County of Salt Lake and
Engineer Of Nevada for permission to appro-
pirate the public waters oil the State of Nevada
Such appropriation is to be made from III rec
springs in Gold Canyon, ~. miles west of
Warm Springs, station ON Nevada Northern
RR. ut points just below lower spring by means
ol dam ana one cubic foot per second is To be
conveyed To points 4 ri a mile east to IN i'll
by means OF II PIPE line, and there used for
mining, milling, smelling power aud domestic
purposes, The construction of said works shall
BEGIN b fore June l. l9p7 and shall be com
lieted on OF before June l, l9es The water
shall be actually applied to a beneficial use
on OF before lime / ip0a
Signed HENRY THuwrEII,
State Engia ecr.
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Notice to Creditors.

Notice is hereby given, that the un-
dersigned has been duly appointed and
qualified by the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Court of the State of Nevada, in
and for the county of White Pine, as
administrator, Of the estate of p. c.
Weber, late of said county, deceased.
All creditors having claims against
said estate are required to file the same,
with proper VOUCHERS attached, with
the Clerk of said Court within three
months of the first publication Of this
notice.
Dated this 23rd day of January, 1907
JOHN WEBER,
Administrator of said Estate.
Chandler & Quayle,
Attorneys for Administrator
First publication, January 23rd, 1907.
Jan. 23-1m
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Recording Certificates
If you need certificates of location
FOR recording call at the WHITE PINE
NEWS Office.