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THE GAMING PASSION
Incidents In Actual Life That
Outstrip Fiction.
A COLD BLOODED MONARCH.
Louis XV. and the Dead Man at the
Card Table—A Woman Who Gam
bled on Her Deathbed—Lord Deni
son’s Play While His Bride Waited
at the Altar.
If the full story of the card table
could l>e written It would surely be
the most .startling revelation of human
cupidity ever published, and almost
every i*age of Jt would Is* marked by
ftotne incident which would outstrip
Action.
When Louis XV. was at Ihe card
tHble the fascination of the game made
•dm nlmolutely dead to all externals
and even to decency and humanity.
On one occasion when lie was playing
for heavy slakes one of his opponents
overcome by excitement, collapsed hi
Ids chair In a HI of apoplexy. Ills
on Jonty affected to Ignore the Incident
until someone exclaimed, “M. do Chftii
velin Is 111!" ‘Til?" retorted the king,
casting a careless glance at the strick
en man; “he Is dead. Take Idm away.
Hpadcs are trumps, gentlemen!”
14<pinlly weird Is a story Goldsmith
tells. When the clergyman arrived to
prepare a Indy parishioner who had a
passion for gambling for her approach
Jug duath the lady after listening for a
short time to his exhortation exclaim
ed: “That 1 * enough! Now let us have
tt gains of cards." To humor her the
parson osnsented to play. The dying
woman won till Ids money and had
just suggested playing for tier funeral
fee when she fell back ami expired.
In the early years of last century a
whist, club composed largely of clergy
men used to meet In the back room of
n barber's shop in a Somersetshire
town. On one occasion, so the story
runs, when four of the club members
were acting ns pallbearers at the fu
neral of a reverend brother, some delay
occurred, and the coffin was set down
in (lie chancel. One of them produced
n puck of cards and suggested a rub
ber. The coffin Bcrvcd the purpose of
n table, and the players were deeply
Immersed In the game when the sex
ton arrived to announce that every
thing was at last ready.
Mnznrln’s passion for gambling was
so strong even lu death that he played
cards to Ihe very end, when lie was so
weak that they had (o be held for
lilm, and the “merry monarch" spent
Ids last Sunday on earth playing at
basset round a large table with his
groat courtiers and other dissolute
persons and with a bank of at least
£2,000 before him.
The curious fascination cards possess
for their devotees Is Illustrated by the
following story of Lord Granville, at
the time ambassador to France. One
afternoon when he was about to re
turn to Purls ho repaired to Graham’s
to have farewell game of whist, or
dering Ids carriage to bent the door at
4. When it arrived ho was much too
deep In the game to be disturbed. At
10 o’clock be sent out to say (but ho
was not ready and that the horses had
better be changed. Six hours later the
same message was sent out. and twice
more the waiting horses were changed
before he consented to leave the table
after losing £IO,OOO.
An equally remarkable story Is told
of George Pnyue, the great turf plun
ger of seventy years ago. On one occa
sion he sat down nt Llmmer’s hotel to
play enrds with Lord Albert Denison,
later the first Lord Londesborough.
Hour after hour passed. The game
proceeded all through the night and
long after day dawued, and It was not
u7tH an urgent message came to tell
Lord Albert that his bride was waiting
for Idtu at the altar of St. George's.
Hanover square, that the cards were
at last flung down. It was Lord Al
bert’s wold lug day. and be met his
bride £30.000 poorer than when be left
her on the previous day.
One of the most romantic of gam
bling stories ts told by Mr. Thlseltou-
Dycr of a plainly dressed stranger who
once took his scat at a faro table and
after an extraordinary run of luck
succeeded In breaking the bank
“Heavens,” exclaimed an old. Infirm
Austrian officer who had sat next to
the stranger, “the twentieth part of
your gains would make me the happi
est mail in the world!” “You shall
have it. then,” answered (he stranger
as he left the room.
A servant speedily returned and pre
sented the officer with the twentieth
part of the bank, adding. “My master,
sir. requires no answer.” The success
ful stranger was soon discovered to be
the king of Prussia in disguise.
Tire most costly game of cards ou
record was probably that iu which the
late George McCulloch, chairman of
the Broken 11111 Proprietary company,
once took part. A syndicate of seven
had been farmed to finance the fa
mous Broken Hill silver mine, and Mr.
McCulloch was one of the seven. One
day, while sitting in a shanty at the
fourloenth share In the ml life to a
young man named Cox for £2OO.
Cox would only offer £l2O, and after
much haggling It was decided to set
tle the dispute by a game of euchre.
If Cox proved the winner he was to
have the share for £l2O. If be lost he
was to pay £IHO for It. He won and
for the absurd sum of £l2O became
owner of the share which a few years
later wag valued at £l.2so,o*Ml.—Lon
don Tit Bits.
The beginning of excellence Is to bo
free from error.—Quintilian.
SERVICE IN THE CABINET.
Th* Cuitom of Our Presidents In the
Republic’s Early Days.
If President John Adams had been a
man of different temperament the cus
tom might have been established in
the early yeura of the government of
the United States of retaining the cab
inet of one administration for service
with its successor where that succes
sor succeeded to the political ideas of
Its predecessor. President Adams
sought at first to retain through his
administration the members of the
cabinet of President Washington. In
deed, at that early period the status
of a cabinet officer was not exactly
that of the present time, and In the
course of President Adams’ rows with
the members of Ills otflclnl household
he resorted to the strange step of re
moving his secretary of state, Timo
thy Pickering, and James M< Henry,
his secretary of war.
President Jefferson of course took a
new cabinet. President Madison con
tinued iu his administration a number
of the cabinet officers of President
Jefferson, nnd I’mtideut Monroe held
some of his predecessor's. John Quincy
Adnms also continued to meet about
his council board some of the advisers
of Jnmes Monroe, but Andrew Jackson
began his administration with an en
tirely new set of official counselors,
lie maintained also another set of ad
visors, unofficial, who became known
as the “kitchen cabinet.”
For some time the gentlemen who
had acted respectively as secretary of
the treasury, secretary of war, secre
tary of the navy, postmaster general
and attorney general in the cabinet of
President Jackson retained their seats
under President Van Huron, but
changes only awaited the passage of
time.
President William nenry Harrison’s
cabinet was brand new, and John Ty
ler sought to keep It together after
Harrison's death, but in less than six
months all had resigned except Dan
iel Webster, the secretary of state.
Presidents Polk, Taylor, Fillmore,
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln each
formed a new* cabinet.
President Johnson's difficulties with
certain members of (he cabinet that
existed at the death of President Lin
coln are well known. Since that pe
riod. when for the second time in Amer
ican history the question of a cabinet
officer's right to retain a seat which
the president wishes to have vacated
came up for angry controversy, cabi
nets by mutual but tacit understand
ing end with the administrations.—
Boston Globe.
COMEDY IN CRIME.
The London Urchin With the Bun
Down His Back.
v It has been a matter so customary to
look upon crime as tragedy and crimi
nals as tragedians that *o aver that
comedy Is more frequently to be found
In crime than tragedy seems at first
view paradoxical. Yet such Is ihe case.
A little London urchin ran Into a
baker’s shop and, placing a halfpenny
on the counter, asked nervously and
timorously, “Mister, ’avc you n ’alf
pouny buster (bun)?"
“Yes, my little man. Here Is one
quite hot.”
“Thanks, mister. Would you mind
n-shovlu’ It down my back?”
“Down your back, my little man!
Why down your back?’
“Cos, sir. I’m only a little un, and
if those ehapa outside know I’ve a
buster they’ll take it, and I am so ’un
gry. I am.*’
“Dear me, how wrong of them!
Come round here, my little chap. There
—there, it Is down your back.”
The boy ran off. In an Instant an
other entered—a bigger boy.
“I say, mister, ’as a little boy just
been In ’ere?"
“Yes.”
“And did ’e buy a ’nlfpenny buster?”
“Yes.”
“And did ’e ar.sk you to shove It
down ’is back, as us big fellows would
take it?"
“Yes.”
“Yah! Where’s your watch and
chain? ’E’s got ’em. ’E’s just round
the corner.”
Out rushed the baker. In a trice the
big boy collared the till and bolted.
The shopman never saw the comic
side of it all.—London Strand Maga
zine.
Waiting.
“Where are you lunching now?”
“Over here at one of those places
where you wait on yourself. W here
arc you eating?’’
“Oh, I’m still over there where you
watt on the waiter."—St. Louis Tost-
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j W. E. YOUNG, The Shingle Man,
Dealer in
{Lumber, Lime, Shingles, Brick, Hardware. Cabinet Mantels,!
iDoors, Sash, etc. Agent for the Celebrated Rubberette Roof-!
ling Warehouse on Candler St reet.
I O J
Special Sale.
1 will sell my entire stock of
CUT GLASS
at wholesale cost. Will also sell at
greatly reduced prices, my
Sterling and Plated Silverware.
Now is the time to get your Christmas Presents.
Come and see the great bargains I offer.
Next Door to Postoffice.
Yours to serve,
G. W. GORDON,
THE JEWELER. WINDER , GA.
P. S. —REPAIR WORK A SPETIALTY.
for Sale.
Three nuik'S, from •"> to 7 years old;
new surrey, double harness. 2-horse
wagon, farming tools, corn and fod
der. Also pea huller, and would
sell land —üboui 100 acres. June
H. Wood, K. F. I>. 22, Winder, Cia.
WANTED.
One Thousand Pairs Second
Hand Shoes in the next 60
Days.
F. Hofmcister.
WINDER. GA.
Winder Train Schedules
GOOD INFORMATION.
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Eastern Time.
Effective September 13, 1908.
SEABOARD AIR LINK
RAILWAY.
FROM WINDER, <L\., NORTH VXD FAST
No. 52, - • 10:08' t m,
No. 38, - - 10:28 p tils
SOUTH AND WEST.
No. 41. * - 5:29 a ml
No. 53, - * 0:58 p m
Attention is called to the fact,
that No. 82, which leaves Atlanta
12:20, Athens 2:18 p in, has a
great, cut in time to the east.
This train now arrives Norfolk
8:10am, Richmond 5:40. am,
Washington 8:50 am, New York
2:45 pm. Complete dining car
service to New- York with through
sleeper.
No. 33 leaving Atlanta 4:45 p
m. carries through sleeper to Bir
rnii ghom and Memphis, and all
trains make good connection at
Atlanta, Birmingham and Mem
oh is for the west
Gainesville Midland Railway
SOUTH BOUND
No. 11 —Lv 8:40 a. m.
No, 13 —Lv. 3:25 p. rn.
No. 15 —Lv. 10:35 am; Sunday
only.
NORTH BOUND
No. 12— At. 11:30 m.
No. 1-j—Ai. 0:20 p m.
No. 10—A.. 5:23 p m: Sun.onlv.
No. 12 will run to Belmont re
gardless of No. 13.
Yard limits at Winder are ex
tended “south’’ to Seaboard Air
Line junction-
All trains going through Winder
vard must be under full control.
Notice To Debtors And
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given all credit
ors of the estate of 1.. L. Saunders,
late of Jackson county, deceased,
to render in an account of their de
mands properly authenticated. And
all persons indebted to said deceased
are requested to make immediate
payment. This October 12, 1908.
J. M. SAUNDERS. 4
Administrator. *