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■ w-C'-i. "•“ i ea jt n g comedian for
H ,en she produced A Jolly
■ fanny '.a The first two plays
■ Sjr ' u 're t liere are comedies. The
■ " '.Vesting dramatic work. Al-
| latl 1 .', 1 "pilar prices will prevail
B'" 0 "' , ugagement, something far
" . usually seen at 10. at and SO
H k ‘ U ■, .mised. The Toledo (O.) Daily
B c ' n ‘ 5 i- i h;js the f o n oW i n g to say of
of in. Old Madrid, which
Iwiii be as the opening play.
I FRANCIS JONES.
In Old M idrid was well received and
■ade the audience laugh long, heaithy
Blughs not laughs that one is ashamed of.
■he piece proved a distinct novelty, noth-
Iglike it ever having been seen in Toledo
Efpre. The costumes were very pretty;
Lvi the hit of Spanish interior shown upon
ib stage was appropriate and effective,
the lit:!- comedy itself, while farcial in
mure, is treated by the cast in a strictly
>gitimate way. It is as clean, as bright and
is fresh an entertainment as one would
are to witness. It is totally and abso
utely devoid of even the remotest sug
gestion of broadness and vulgarity, and
or that very particular, if for no other,
t should be praised. All the comedians
a the east are pleasing singers, and the
nusieal numbers offered last night were
thoroughly appreciated. Mr. Jones is a
very g, rial little chap, and his handsome,
nan'.y face and pleasing stage presence
were a great aid to the performance. If
In Old Madrid does not prove a success
throughout the country the reason will be
that it is too clean and too decent.
HB u ■ ! i a now play to Savannah
■t . Although Intensely sensa-
Hn '.i of the blood anil thunder
■< i .iranu with an interesting
■i a .'! au.l rationally developed
■or Tn.-r. is a vein of comedy intir
■v . .!,p story. In the part of
K Mr. ldttle has every op
a f..r the display of Ills talents as
■a r i tor. Among the scenes are
■tli “Hari of Naples,” the "Lunatic
■ Asyii.m." with its revolving walls and
ci. • • tfei ts and the great raft scene
Hr v. ili' >1 a I'aip sinks in midocean in full
Hi;-h Hi, audience, and as the waters
H< .i-e ov. r the ii.-fated vessel, the scene
■ <hang*s and the open sea is
v:-- with the three survivors of the
■ 'linking to a frail raft, which is
■ > --, | frii*,i Pillow to wave in a startling
■ ' auii' manner. A sail appears in tile
■''.- ai: , growing larger as it approaches
H' e wrecked ones, and the curtain falls on
I nal iz c ion of a storm and wreck at
■ sea,
■ " r c . Mrs. Oliver Byron closed their
■ ?aeemem at the theater last night with
■ '• o.d m- Indrama favorite. The Ups and
■ Downs of Life. At the matinee they play
■ < The Turn of the Tide. Each perform
■ *Me was up to the standard of Byron
■ t’rforriMm . s, which is equivalent to eay
■rS iyv re at the head of the class. It
■ ■ war ■,:> ~f remark that the supporting
■ oirrpan< of the stars this year is one of
Ife&k , m\
MRS. BYRON.
k°M 08 vi ,h^y have ever carried; and they
. i ~V ‘ arry c;ever people. The young
Misses Magill, Bcauman and Val
considered among the beautlea
it ” !. he 80uth ‘ Miss Beauman is an
of considerable power. Mias Val
dan - * * fP r ‘Shtly and graceful little
1 • lor 0,,, „ 1° 50 won^ere d at that so
ir,, l ,. r ' oUl ', n B,l<>w received so scant pa
t „ , n<,llll<l r of the three perform,
"as there a fairly good house.
’ ' ofThe e‘h ° b ® * lven unrf cr the aus
(l ~ V Cho, ' al Society win take place
ol,„: l ' U t? r °° m ° f thC Flrat Baptist
I; . ■ „ h| P,PWa square, to-morrow
■ win h'- OC f- clahornte pro
. will be rendered, including Mveral
,*'-7' wlll ' foil orchestra accont-
M,l rtl,., dnale chorus from
1.. ,; ;,, 111 y*™' Chair, with brilliant
•nr lifomTur fr ° m Faust ’ * r “" J
i t etc. Rosenfeld’a
slot, an o h ,f , bMn engaged for the oeea
1.. one of s * " afe to " ,y th,t 11 will
l: km,] n th< V 1 fl ninhed concerts of
T * com,fi V ? ? this season,
for th. r ,h * nr ‘ <f * "cries to be
San fund nt ih ,ri e lof th * mu ‘c and or
fund of the First Baptist church.
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Munyon's Medical Institution, 1,505 Arch
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of skilled specialists to dianose the cases
not only of people applying personally
for treatment, but those in all parts of
the country who send in personal letter's,
asking the best methods or being cured
of various diseases. Thousands of these
letters are received every week, and a
staff of from ten to fifteen doctors are
daily employed in dictating replies
through the medium of as many stenog
raphers. These letters are received in the
strictest confidence and promptly ans
wered with the best medical advice ob
tainable. No efto-t will be spared to see
that each case is thoroughly diagnosed
and the proper remedies to effect a cure
are prescribed. For these services no fee
is expected.
A separate cure for each disease. At all
druggists, mostly' 25 cents a vial.
Address Prof. Munyon, 1,505 Arch st.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Of the concert attractions that have
appeared during the present season few
will receive a heartier welcome than the
Remenyi Concert Company at the Guards
hall on Jan. 30. There is no other artist
who has so completely fascinated, en
chanted and held spell-bound by his
superb playing and great personal magne
tism all audiences as Remenyi, and his re
turn to America is an important event in
musical circles. His reception in every
country during his extended tour of the
globe was unparalleled in the record of
any musician, living or dead. It has just
ly been said of Remenyi; “There is no op
portunity for criticising such a player; he
sweeps criticism and every sort of objec
tion away.” The world is so familiar
with the name of Remenyi, the most no
ted living violinist, and the great artist's
work, that to say anything further here
would be superfluous repetition of the
plaudits accorded him everywhere. In the
selection of supporting talent to assist
Remenyi, the management has exercised
special care and is highly- satisfied with
the result, having happily secured an effi
cient and well-balanced auxiliary to the
great violinist's performance.
Charles A. Bigelow recently overheard a
conversation between a gilded but tempo
rarily impecunious youth, who was im
ploring a fascinating young woman in The
Girl from Palis chorus to be true to him
until the time came when he could call
her all his own. “I have no money my
self at present,” said he, “but my father
is rich and a widower.” “My boy,” re
turned the practical damsel eagerly,
“would you mind introducing me to him?”
James O’Neill thinks that the American
way of putting plays on the stage is all
wrong. “It would be more conducive to
success,” he remarks, "to adopt the sys
tem they have in Europe, which is to place
the play to be produced in the hands of
somebody who is not connected with the
company, or who will not think of shop
first. In I’aris especially, for all impor
tant productions in which absolute suc
cess is considered a necessity, there Is
formed a committee, consisting of the
stage director, the musical director and
an artist especially engaged for that par
ticular play. There are many artists in
Europe who give much attention to this
kind of work. All the spectacular plays
of the Chatelet, Porte St. Martin, Renais
sance, Francais and Odeon, in Paris, are
managed in this way, and it is this sys
tem which gives a special flavor to the
French productions. There is always an
artistic feeling in them.”
According to Fanny Davenport, who has
made extensive researches on the subject,
women first appeared in dramatic per
formances in 1640. Desdemona was played
by a woman on Dec. 6 of that year, but
it is not known whether the woman was
Anne Marshall or Margaret Hughes. Pepys
mentions other women in the cast of
"Beggar's Bush,” in the following year.
Their first appearance was received with
disfavor, and by writers of the time the
first actresses were styled unwomanish
and graceless, not meaning them to be
ungainly or unfeminine, but that play act
ing was below their dignity and unbecom
ing women born in an era of grace. “Glad
am I to say." remarked Thomas Brand,
speaking of these actresses, “that they
were hissed, hooted and pippin pelted
from the stage, so that I do not think
they will be soon ready to try the same
again.”
Eugenie Blair, the talented and beauti
ful wife of Robert Downing, is now star
ring the south and achieving the greatest
success in “East Lynne.” She has given
the play an admirable revival and every
where her artistic work and personal
charm have gained her enthusiastic greet
ings, as well as the most flattering press
notices. In Richmond the company broko
the matinee record of the season at the
Academy, while at Roanoke the audience
was the largest of the year.
William H. Crane has been playing char
acter parts, many of them American types,
during more than thirty years. It is a
curious fad that Mr. Crane, in all his ca
reer, has acted in only two roles for which
he did not deem It necessary to wear a
wig.
B’ebruary will be a gay month at the the
ater. Among the attractions are Cissy
Fitzgerald, Jane Young in Hamlet, La
Loie Fuller, Eddie Foy, Primrose &
West’s minstrels, Thomas Q. Seabrooke
in The Spectator and The Merry World.
Jessie Bartlett Davis shares with Lillian
Russell the honor of being the most pho
tographed beauty on the stage. Miss Davis
has faced the camera about 250 times.
When Leon Herrmann, the successor to
the late Alexander Herrmann, appeared at
Hoyt’s theater tn New York last week for
the benefit of the press, it was his first
performance in English, and the Intended
comedy of some of his performances was
very much hightened once or twice by an
unexpected choice of words. One of these
occasions which threw the audience into
an uproar was when the polite magician
smiled and said; “With the permission
from the ladies, for my next experiment,
! will roll up my chemise." That expres
sion was greeted with a shout, and the la
dies present, Instead of granting the re
quest, laughed long and merrily. Herr
mann, as much surprised as the audience,
exclaimed; “Ees not right, eh? I have It
not right?” Someone In the audience who
understood the mistake exclaimed: "It Is
shirt in English.” Several others called to
him that “cuffs" would be better. "Thank
you,” said Herrmann, bowing. “Cuffs; I
will remember. No more chemise. Havel
permission from the ladles, then, for my
cuffs?" And the performance continued.
While abroad two years ago Thomas W.
Keene wen Induced to make a visit to
Hamlet's grave. Ho accordingly proceed
ed to Marlelyst, In Denmark, a village sit
uated a mile and a half from the ancient
fortress of Helslnore, the Elsinore of
Shakespeare's tragedy. It Is directly on
the Baltic, and hut a few miles from Co
penhagen. In a small pine wood skirling
the village Mr. Keene came upon the ob
ject Of his quest—a truncated cone made
of rude stones, nine feet at the base and
four at the top, from which springs a msn
ollth of granite, on which Is rut In quaint
Danish old-time letters ''Hamlet's Grave."
The villager who noted as guide seemed to
have no knowledge of Hamlet, except that
THE .MORNING NEWS. SUNDAY, JANUAAY 17, 1597.
ho was a groat warrior. It was a wild,
weird spot, lonely and ghostly enough, as
the wind from off the Baltic howled over
the lonely mound. Just such a spot as
Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane would
have chosen for his final sleep. At the
grave Mr. Keene could not divest himself
of the tShakesperian sentiment which
seemed to pervade him. “Nothing could
have more powerfully illustrated the im
press which Shakespeare has left upon
the world,” said Mr. Keene, “than this
visit to Hamlet’s grave and the old castle
platform. Hamlet is rather a common
name In Denmark, and the grave under
the pines may or may not have been that
of the Hamlet of our Shakesperian love
and reverence. The belief thut it is really
so is certainly encouraged by very many
people of repute.”
A London critic, writing about Irving's
production of Richard 111, declares that
“Miss Julia Arthur, whom no one would
suspect of being an American, gave a tine
rendering of the grief-stricken Lady
Anne.”
A number ot Caro, Mich., ladies have or
ganized a club, the members of which are
ali pledged to remove their hats at ail
public entertainments they attend.
Sarah Bernhardt, in enumerating her
claims to fame, puts much emphasis on
the assertion that five months ago sue
refused an offer of 1,000,000 francs for a
short series of performances in Germany.
Women exclusively composed the cast of
a recent revival of Midsummer Night's
Dream in New York.
There were but nine large theater fires
during 1896. of which three occurred in
Russia, two in the United States, and one
each in Roumania, Scotland and Belgium.
The new Paris Opera Comique will cost
In the neighborhood of 3,500,000 francs. Its
completion is not looked for now much be
fore the exposition.
This was a telegram in a New York
paper: “Edna Wallace Hopper's pet dog,
Chiquita, died last week.”
GARDENS BADER THE SEA.
\\ under ill I Products of Nature Upon
the Bed of Old Ocean.
Prom the Popular Science News.
There is a wonderful country under the
sea, a country of hills and plains, of lofty
mountains and deep valleys, of rocks and
caves. Its wide-spreading meadows are
covered with strange animal flowers that
move themselves about in search of living
prey, and its forests consist of branching
corals and sea-weeds taller than the lofti
est trees. Tempests may rage fiercely
overhead, but a deep, unbroken silence
reigns always in this underworld, nor can
the wildest hurricane that drives vessels
to wreckage move the most delicate ten
dril of the sea plants in the depths below.
Fragile creatures that fall to pieces al
most at a touch spend their lives here in
quiet and security. The ocean depths,
which for mankind are regions of breath
lessness and death, are for billions of ani
mals the region of life and health; the
earth does not maintain nearly so many
living creatures as those' that swarm in
countless myriads beneath the waves of
the ocean. Here are great purple sea
fans and lovely sea lilies and sea ferns and
sea cucumbers and sea mice and sponges
displaying bright colors that are lost the
moment they are taken from the water;
and here the rare and beautiful corals are
silently builded into reefs and islands.
If it ever be your good fortune to go to
Florida and visit the keys at the southern
end of the state you may see a coral plan
tation, alive and growing. There is a fa
mous lighthouse, called Cary’s Fortlight,
off the coast there, from which such a
sight can be had. Cary’s Fortlight is
built tn the open sea, without a foot of
land about it. It is an iron framework of
columns, strengthened by a network of
braces and the rooms in which lives the
keeper are about half way up to the light,
out of the reach of the waves, forty or
fifty feet above the water.
A balcony runs about these rooms, and
as the lighthouse is built over one of the
most beautiful and extensive fields of
coral known on this or any other coast,
the sight presented on looking from this
balcony Into the ocean is more wonder
ful than can be well imagined by one who
has no; seen it. The coral field spreads
out around the lighthouse as far as the
eye can reach, and so transparent is the
water that the ocean bottom can be seen
as plainly as a garden lying beneath.
The coral field is largely made up of
what are called leaf corals, with large,
flat branches that grow one above anoth
er, chasing each other singly and in com
panies, darting about, winding in and
out the corals as if in a game of hide
and-go-seek, and hundreds of fish play
among their spreading branches.
Most of them are of very brilliant col
,.ors, some of bright blue, others partly
blue and partly black, others again black
blended with yellow, and still others of
a bright canary yellow beneath and rich
purple above. Now and then some large
fish a shark perhaps passes by and all
the small fry scatter, hiding among the
corals, and are seen no more till their
enemy is out of sight.
Besides the leaf coral, there are many
others even more beautiful to be seen.
Some are in the shape of huge vases,
some are like great globes, others branch
out as do the horns of the stag, and there
are more delicate branching kinds, called
finger-corals, and great numbers of sea
fans. The sea fans form the shrubbery
of the sea garden; they stand on the
ocean bottom on a sort of root. and. un
like the leaf and branching corals, which
are rigid and motionless, they rise lightly
in the water and wave In tno gentle un
dercurrents as If stirred by the wind.
They are of many colors and. mingled as
they are with a kind of vegetable coral
called eoraline, and with the bright red,
purple or orange colored sponges of the
Florida roast, you may well realize on
looking at them how surpassingly beau
tiful are the flower gardens of the sea.
How an Owl Saved a Train.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Albuquerque. N. M —Owls are by com
mon consent adjudged to be birds of 111-
omen, but Engineer Ned Barnett of the
Santa Fe says he happens to know that
they are anything but that, and tells the
following story to prove his assertions:
About eight months ago one morning
as tlie east-bound overland was pulling
through the mountains vyost of here, Bar
nett’s engine doing the work, a big horn
beaked owl dashed against the front win
dow of the cab with such force as to
break the window, the bird Itself drop
ping dead at the engineer’s feet. Though
Barnett is not generally speaking, a
superstitious man, this seemed so sin
gular an occurrence that he stopped the
train and sent a hrakeman ahead to see
If the way was clear. Strange to relate,
the brakeman soon returned, reporting
a landslide across the tracx in the moun
tain pass, about a hundred yards ahead.
Hands were sent at once to clear the
track, ami In removing the debris they
found another owl. no doubt mate to the
first, caught in the crotch of an unrooted
tree, crushed to death in the fall.
Barnett bad both owls stuffed and the
two now adorn his cab, always Insuring
him good luck, he says.
—Lilluokalonl, the dethroned Queen of
Hawaii, intends living in Austria, it Is
reported, and has bought some, ground
not far from Vienna. A palace Is to be
built on this ground, where her majesty
will live in regal states
to of mi i)
FlOl Of SOUL"
Is Due to a Great Extent to the
Functional Integrity of the
* Stomach.
Dyspepsia and Other Disorders
Arising From Indigestion De.
stroy
tjons, and Shatter the
Nerve Power.
The man or woman who suffers from
dyspepsia is one who is to be pitied and
who is in a better position than anyone
not likewise afflicted. How baffling to the
medical profession are the numerous ail
ments that arise from Indigestion. It is
generally kndvvn that from indigestion
result a multitude of human complaints
and every part of the human system, every
nerve and every faculty can be destroyed
by the inroads made by this disorder.
When the victim of indigestion is at
tracted by dyspepsia and the malady be
comes confirmed the nerves are destroyed,
irritability, anxiety and excitability take
the place of a cheerful disposition, and are
followed by apathy, drowsiness and loss
of all courage and energy, and other dis
agreeable symptoms until the life of the
dyspeptic is a dreary one. He becomes
dissatisfied with every one. He is at outs
with the whole world and oftentimes the
complaint .eads its victim by constant tits
of melancholia to the grave of a suicide.
Dyspepsia is the cause of a large propor
tion of the unhappiness existing by reas
on of the many excitable and irritable
tempers that it has occasioned. The fact
that the cure of dyspesia has seemingly
baffled the general practitioner of medi
cines whose time is largely occupied in
riding around the streets, does not neces
sarily show the cure of the complaint is
a hard task to those who have devoted
time to its study, and who has therefore
discovered the important agent that has
been lacking in its treatment. The spec
ialist, if he meets the confidence of the
public, wi.l have more cases of dyspepsia
to treat than will any twenty doctors, and
It is only natural that he will have at his
hand the latest and most approved rem
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tion, impoverished blood, imperfect assim
ilation and all diseases arising from faulty
nutrition. Abbo has expended much time
and money in scientific investigation of the
many disorders arising from indigestion
and he is to-day at a cost of thousands of
dollars in possession of the knowledge of
certain remedies which act with wonder
ful influence over these complaints. In
short, Alibo absolutely cures dyspepsia
and other complaints of the digestive or
gans, and hundreds of people in this city
who had been sufferers for years can tes
tify to the wonderful effect of Abbo’s
treatment.
Not only has Abbo demonstrated his
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but the other serious disorders of diges
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If you reside In some distant city send for
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Then you can return it with your symp
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This is absolutely free and should you
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SAVANNAH • ‘ Gfl,
A SENATE SEAT THE STAKE.
RESULTS THAT DEPEND UPON A
GAME OK POKER.
It AVa Played In Minnesota During
a Canvass For a United States
Scnntorshlp—And the Election Was
Settled by Four Kings Held
Against Four Queens.
From the New York Sun.
“Poker has often been called the national
game of America," said the gray-haired,
middle-aged man in the club smoking
room, “but I fancy there are few citizens
who fully appreciate how much influence
It has exerted on the destinies of the na
tion in one way and another. TVe hear
stories now and again of the winning and
losing of fortunes, and sometimes how
large estates and mining properties have
been staked on the chances lying between
two hands. And every lobbyist In the
country is familiar with the old device of
losing large sums in a friendly game with
a legislator whose vote, is desired on one
side or the other. Such things, naturally
enough, sway public interests as well us
private to no small extent, but I hove seen
a seat In the United States Senate lost on
four queens.”
“Of course, you are not talking seri
ously,” said one of the parly. .
"But I am,” was the answer, “seriously
and literally. It happened in Minnesota
soon after the war. Political conditions
In that part of the west were very differ
ent to what they are now, and in fact all
other conditions were, too. It jvas at
about the beginning of the real growth of
the northwest. The value of the wheat
Holds had been learned, but the Hwedlsh
and Norwegian Immigration was In its
Infancy, and the lumber Industry, that af
terward grew to such enormous propor
tions, was then making comparatively few
men rich. Minnea|K>lts was a small. town
on the south side of the river, ami gt.
Anthony waa a town of the same size on
the other side. Now It’s all one city, but
then nobody dreamed of Bt. Paul being
e lipaed in size or Importance.
“I was knocking about Into one summer
at that period, and had made many frlcnda
around Ht. Paul and Minneapolis, some of
whom were state ortlcials, and 1 had heard
Convincers.
lOur Winter CLOTHING, OVERCOATS and UN
DERWEAR for Men, Boys and Children MUST be
cleared out while the season is HERE. This is
™I a REASON for OUR LOW PRICES.
2 The superior quality of every garment here, from “thread
to finish," is generally known. NO BETTER goods are
offered or sold ANYWHERE. This is a REASON for
=■■■-- our IMMENSE PATRONAGE.
3 The immensity and diversity of our selections assures
satisfaction in style, material, pattern and fit. You
realize that failure to get suited HERE renders further
search useless. This is a REASON for LEVY’S POPU
LARITY.
' *
4 You have learned long ago that a lower price than Levy’s
elsewhere means a lower degree of quality; that vaunted
!| “bargains” are mostly “baits”--a “play” on your confi
dence. This is a REASON for your FAITH in LEVY’S.
5 EVERY DAY is “Bargain Day” at LEVY’S. Our REGU
LAR PRICES are ALWAYS as low or lower than any
“Excuse Sale” Ever Does Offer—or can offer—and as “old
birds can’t be caught with chaff.” neither will you believe
jj in “paper promises.” This is a REASON for sticking to
THE LEADERS.
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much talk of the struggle there Was to be
In the next legislature over the election
of a senator. Two men were In the race,
and as ihey were both popular the contest
was likely to be a close one. Party ques
tions did not enter in, for the, state was
strongly republican, and no democrat
stood a show. But which of the repub
licans would carry the legislature was a
matter of great doubt, and 'I saw bets
made on the Issue as early the first of
September. As the lime of election drew
near, it was evident that the choice for
senator was going to govern the nomina
tion of candidates for the legislature, and
as both the senatorial aspirants were long
of head as well as long of purse they were
using all the influence they had in the
county conventions which were to be held
early in October.
"Bight there was where the importance
of the lumber industry came in. The
money on which the lumbermen In the
upper counties lived came to them mostly
through Minneapolis and St. Anthony,
and the perfectly legitimate business re
lations between them and the business
men of those two cities natura.iy gave the
latter much influence among the former.
There was a rollicking, happy-go-lucky
man in Minneapolis whom everybody call
ed Doc’ Martin, for no reason that 1 could
discover except that he wasn’t a doctor.
He was part owner of a sawmill, and spent
the most of each winter fn the woods with
his men. He was credited with being as
influential as any one there was, among
voters, but he had a rival In another man
named Gilmartln, who was a logger him
self, but had for a dozen seasons been
foreman of one gang or another, Martin
was a rich man, but Gilmartln was sel
dom flush, excepting in the spring, when
he had drawn his winter’s pay. These two
men were known to be strong partisans,
one favoring one of the would-be senators,
and the other the othpr, and It was gen
erally thought that they would both go
electioneering when the county conven
tions were held.
"The week before that would happen I
was one of a party who drove from Min
neapolis to a road house on the Fort Spell
ing road, near the Minnehaha Falls, part
ly for the enjoyment of the moonlight and
partly for a game supper, such as the
house was famous for providing. Martin
was one of the party, and as there were
iwo or three other high rollers with us,
I had made up my mind that It would be
daybreak hefore we would get back.
"I was right, but before the night was
over we had more excitement than I had
expected. We had had the supper and an
abundance of good wines with It. and were
sitting around the table enjoying some
rarely good punch when somebody pro
posed poker. No one objected, and In a
few minutes there were two games in pro
gress. for there, were eleven in the party.
Six played at one table, and Martin and I
and three others were at the other. The
game was a fairly stiff one, *lO being the
limit, and the cards ran well enough to
build up some heavy pots. We had all In
dulged freely enough to give ourselves
thoroughly to the enjoyment of the hour,
though we had not been drinking heavily,
and there wasn’t a man there under the
influent*. Altogether It was a delightful
occasion. Suddenly the door opened, and
Gilmartln looked In.
" ’I don't want to "rough In,” boy*,' be
*uls, ’but I stopped here to get supper on
the way home, and the landlord told me
you were here, so I thought I’d ask you
to drink with me.'
"Ho was greeted heartily, for everybody
knew- and liked him, and a bumper of
punch was poured out for him forthwith,
his invitation being peremptorily laid on
the table. Then. a.< a matter of course, it
was suggested that he take a hand In th*
game, and he being more than willing, he
sat at our table.
“ ‘We re playing *lO limit, Gil,’
said one of the parly, who knew that
money was not always plentiful with the
big fellow. But lie laughed carelessly
and said: ’That’s all right,' as he pulled
out SSO and bought chip*.
"Marlin looked at him rather keenly, as
I thought, for an Instant, and then said:
" ‘Been out to St. Paul to-night, Gil?”
” ‘Yes, I have,’ said Gilmartln, and I
was sure that 1 saw a half laughing look
of defiance on his face as he answered.
It puzzled me at the moment, but I un
derstood the question and answer after
wards . Martin, It seemed, suspected that
Gilmartln had perfected his arrangements
to go electioneering, and that he had the
money In his pocket with which he was
expected to do his work. It was this that
he had asked by implication, and Gilmar
tin, understanding him perfectly, and
knowing that he could not keep hts secret
long from the other, had admitted It. As
it proved, he had 15,000 in greenbacks with
him.
“The game went on without any special
development for perhaps half an hour be
fore I noticed that Martin was playing
against Gilmartln as heavily as he could
and only trying to hold his own against
the rest of us. Gilmartln held his end
up fairly, and was not far from even when
Martin got his first good chance at him.
It was a pretty play, too, for Gilmartln
thought, as the rest of us did, that Mar
tin was bluffing when he stood pat, and
contented himself with coming in with
out a raise every time it came his bet, un
til the rest of us had dropped out. Then
he raised Gilmartln the limit. Gilmartln
had a Jack-high flush and was confident,
so they had It back and forth till Gilmar
tln called and gave up *4OO to an ace flush.
"That was the heaviest pot for a long
time, but presently the two got together
again and Gilmartln lost S2OO more. Then
he grew a little nervous and Martin grew
cooler. Then Gilmartln became angry,
though he controlled himself tolerably
well, and I was sure that Martin would
beat him. So It proved. It came my deal
soon after In a Jack pot, and Gilmartln
opened It. We all came In, standing Mar
tin’s raise. 1 had ace, but didn’t better
in the draw, so I laid down after one raise.
Martin drew three cards, as did each of
the others, excepting Gilmartln, who
drew two. He bet the limit, and the n±xt
man lay down. Martin raised it the lim
it, and another man and myself dropped
out. Gilmartln raised and the fourth man
threw down his cards. That left the two
alone again, and Martin raised back.
" ’Ten better than you,’ said Gilmartln
savagely, and then w!t|h a short laugh, he
added, ’You won’t get away with me this
time.'
" 'lf you think so,’ aid Martin quietly,
'what do you say to taking off the limit?’
" ‘That will suit me exactly,’ said Gii
martin, and Martin puahed up his la*t
blue chip and a hundred-doilar bill.
“ ‘l'll see. that and go you five hundred
better.’ said Gllmarlln eagerly, and he
skinned the bills off from a. big roll that
he drew from an Inside pocket.
•' ’Does my check go?' asked Martin. ‘X
haven't so much money with me,’
" 'lt's good for fifty thousand, and you
know it,' said Gilmartln.
" ‘I raise you a thousand.' said Martin.
” ‘And I'll go you a thousand better,' re
claimed the other. He was getitug exci
ted. but nobody dared to speak. It was a
serious matter to interfere in a. game ’ike
that.
" 'A thousand better,' was the response.
"Gilmartln hesitated. He looked at his
cards and thought for a moment. Then
he counted his money.
” Til have to call you,’ he said finally,
'for I’ve only got twelve hundred left.'
"Martin's face was perfectly Impassive.
He, too, hesitated a moment, and then he
Spoke.
" Til put up five thousand more, U you
want to play for It,' he said.
"'But how can I? I tell you 1 haven't
any more money,’ said Gilmartln, looking
puzzled.
“ 'lf you will give me your promise to
go as far south as St. Louis for sixty days
and tell nobody that you aro going, l'i|
take that as an equivalent for the five
thousand.' said Martin very slowly and
distinctly.
•'Gilmartln flushed. He knew that ev
erybody In the room understood tho pro
position. He was asked to sell out hts
honor, for going away in that fashion
meant betraying his employer and run
ning away with his money, aa well as
leaving him in the lurch. 1 expected to
hear an indignant outburst of invective
and abuse, and indeed the man was about
to apeak when another thought seemed to
strike him, and he grew deathly white.
The gambling fever had seized him, and
he looked at his cards again.
"While he was hesitating Martin spoke
again, and the devilish coolness of his
speech made me shudder.
" ‘I need not say anything to impress
on the minds of all the gentlemen pres
ent that this is a private party,* he
said, ‘and that nothing which happens
here can be told outside while It can
by any possibility work injury to any
one concerned.’
"Gilmartin looked around at every man
in the room, and seeing by our faces
that we all recognized the obligation, he
seemed nerved, as Martin had meant that
he should be, to take the risk.
'i'll take the bet,’ he said at length,
and he spoke desperately. "But God help
you, Martin, If you win It. I don't be
lieve you can, for I’ve got almost a sure
hand.'
“ "If you lose,’ said Martin, ’you have
no cause of quarrel with me. I am not
forcing you to play. But If you mean
enmity, all right. I’ll gamble your friend
ship, too, along with the rest, if you like.’
" 'So be It,' said Gilmartln. ‘lt's a call,
then. If you lose you pay me five thous
and. If I lose I leave.’
“ ‘Correct,’ said Martin, and the handa
were shown.
"Martin had drawn to kings and caught
the other two. Gilmartln had drawn to
three queens and drawn the other.
“His face as he left the room was eurh
a picture as I hope never to see again,
but he kept to his bargain. At least, I
imagine he did, for he was not seen again
In that part of the country Mrhile I was
there. I never spoke to Martin again,
but his friend was elected senator at the
next session of the legislature by a ma
jority 6t two votes. Both men are dead,
or I would not have told the story."
MIST MAM It V WIIHIS A YEAR.
Five Bachelors Bind Themselves by
Math to Become llaahnnds.
From the Chicago Tlmes-Herald.
Shelhyvillc, Ind.—Five bachelors of this
town have taken oath that they will be
marrted by Christmas day of 1897 or pay an
awful penalty.
They arc all well-to-do, good-looking and
healthy. They have formed themselves
into a club called "The Coming Bene
dicts” and have registered their oaths to
be husbands before a magistrate.
These gentlemen are Dr. Samuel Ken
nedy, a widely known physician; John
Messlek, a leading druggist of this city;
John D. Do Frey, assistant cashier of the
Shelby Bank; William Talbert, a promi
nent lumber man, and Kdward Swain, who
is likewise engaged ill the lumber trade.
The live gave themselves a Christmas
dinner at the HoUJ Ray, at which Messlek
announced that he has grown tired to
prodding himself trying to sew on but
tons anil gave notice to his friends that
he would soon be married. The others
scoffed at him, but Anally were brought
over to his view of life. A compact
was drawn up and signed and sworn to
by all.
All swear that they will be married by
Dec. 25, 1897, and will with their wives meet
at the Ray for their dinner on that day.
The one who falls hlsavord engages aim
self to bo present at tho dinner, bound
and gagged and in charge of the sheriff,
besides forfeiting SIOO to each of the others.
—A mad dog does not foam at the
mouth, as is commonly believed. The dis
charge from tho mouth. Is small In quan
tity, brownish In color, and hangs about
(he lipti like strips of gum.
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