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Hr lIOLDISH & WILLIAMSON.
VOL. XVIII.
HOT WEATHER
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THE JACKSON HERALD.
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and Scientist, Will Send Free, to the
Afflicted, Three Bottles of liis
Newly Discovered Remedies
to Cure Consumption
and All LuDg Trou
bles.
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anthropic or carry more joy to the af
flicted, than the offer of T. A. Sl-.cuni,
M. C., of 183 Pearl street, New Ytak
City.
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all pulmonary complaints, and to make
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reader of The Jackson Hekai.d who
is sufferirg from chest, bronchi?!,
throat and lung troubles or consump
tion.
Already this “new scientific course
of medicine” has permanently cured
thousands of apparently hopolese
cases.
The Doctor considers it his rel'g
ious duty —a duty which he owes tr
humanity—to denote Lia infalliabh
cure.
Offered freely, is enough to com
mend it, and more so is the perfect
confidence of the great chemist mak
ing the proposition.
He has proved the dreaded con
sumption to be a curable disease ba
yond any doubt.
lhere will ba no mistake in sending
—the mistake will be in overlooking
the generous invitation. He has on
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laboratories testimonials of experience
from those cored, in all parts cf the
world.
Don’t delay until it is too late. Ad
dress T. A. Slocum, M. C. 98 Pin*
street, New Ycik, and when writing
the doctor, pleese give express and
postoffice address, and mention read
ing this article in The Jackson Her
ald.
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY.
An American Boy Who Became Lofd
Chancellor of llnfflaod.
“What delicious coloring—worthy
of Titian himself!” exclaimed Ben
jamin West, president of the Royal
academy, on receiving a portrait,
unaccompanied by name or letter,
of a beautiful boy with a squirrel in
his hand. All be could say was chat
the painter must be an American,
for the wood on which the canvas
was stretched was American pine,
and the squirrel was such as is found
only in American forests.
W T est’e powers of deduction were
not at fault. The artist proved to
be John Singleton Copley, a Boston
boy who, without instruction, with
out even, as he himself avers, hav
ing seen a decent picture till he left
America, had produced a piece of
work that, contrary to all rules and
precedents, was at once given an
honored place in the academy exhi
bition.
Encouraged by West, Copley set
tled in London. He intended that
his son, who bore the same name,
should also be a painter, but the boy
had other ambition. He would not
be known as the son of “Copley, the
painter.” The world should rather
speak of “Copley, the father of the
lord chancellor.”
The way to that eminence lay
through the law, but success tarried.
At last came to the young barrister
a case of great importance, relating
to a spinning jenny. Finding that
he could not, from a mere descrip
tion, fully understand the points of
the case, Copley went to Notting
ham. His client explained the prin
ciple of the machine till at length,
impatient at his listener’s apparent
indifference, he exclaimed:
“What is the use of talking to
you? I have been trying this half
hour to make yon understand, and
you pay me no attention!”
In reply Copley went into the
whole question, showing such a
mastery of it in every detail that his
client was astonished. Finally, seat
ing himself at the machine, the at
torney turned out an unexception
able example of bobbin net lace.
Subsequently, in court, his explana
tions were illustrated by the actual
working of the model in such a man
ner as to carry judge and jury with
him.
Fees now poured in upon him; he
took rank as the leader of his circuit
and was recognized as a man mark
ed tor distinction, to which he ulti
mately rose as three times lord chan
cellor of England.
He did not forget that he was an
American by birth. Scupulotisly
careful of the feelings of others, ho
was keenly alive to any lack of cour
tesy toward himself. On one occa
sion, having expressed some opinion
not quite palatable to the king, Wil
liqm IV, his majesty inquired:
“Pray, my lord, when did you
leave America?”
“Please your majesty,” returned
Copley, then Lord Lyndhurst, “I
crossed the Atlantic in the last ship
that sailed from Boston under the
British flag before the Declaration
of Independence.’’—Youth’s Com
panion.
New York’s MilUoaniredom,
When you get up beside the park
and Fifth avenue, beyond the region
of superb hotels, you begin to come
into millionairedom. Everybody
seems to be some sort of a million
aire there. There are sugar kings
and railway kings, Wall street mag
nates and mining princes. In com
pany with a competent cicerone the
conversation is a series of names
great in the business and social
world. Here is the house of the
steel and iron millionaire, over there
is the house of the baking powder
one. There live the multimillion
aire pork packers who emigrated
from somewhere in the west ten
years ago and do not know anybody
yet. Over against them is the palace
of the great railway king.
Some of these have names to con
jure with in that mighty world of
fashion which in New York is so
large and so sericus a part of the life
of the idle rich. Others are names
known only in the business world
through the simple articles they
have made their fortunes out of. But
the agglomeration of wealth is stupe
fying, almost terrible. These sol
emn palaces, brooding in bulky maj
esty in an endless vista suggest all
those fearful questions which must
seethe in the minds of the unfortu
nates who live across town, herded
in the misery of huge tenements.—
New York Letter in San Francisco
Argonaut.
The Velocity of Light.
It requires four years and four
months for a ray of light to reach
us from the nearest star, and yet
light travels at the rate of 186,330
miles in a second. At this rate a
first class express train running at
the speed of 3? miles an hour would
require a continuous run of 75,000,-
000 of years to reach Alpha Cen
tauri. It would take 250,000,000 of
years for a cannon ball traveling at
the usual speed of such projectiles
to reach this same point, which is
our nearest star neighbor.—New
York Ledger.
Clarified Apples.
Pare and core the desired quantity
of small, rather sweet apples; weigh
and to each pound allow a pound of
sugar. Put the sugar, with just a
little water, over the fire; boil and
skim; add the grated yellow rind of
a lemon and a tablespoonful of lemon
juice to each 2 pounds of sugar. Put
the apples into the hot sirup; allow
them to stand over the back part of
the stove until they are perfectly
tender and transparent. Drain, dust
with granulated sugar and dry ei
ther in the oven or sun. —Ladies’
Home Journal.
DEVOTED TO JACKSON COUNTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.1898.
KUYAL PKtAUHEKS.
Men of k'ot. Wi n Have Tnated of Expe
rience In the Hanks of the Mimioner,
Prince Max of Saxony is not the
first, even in modern days, of princes
who have taken to the ministry of
the church as their life work.
Prince Max of Saxony comes from
an old Catholic family and came to
Work among the large band of Ger
man Catholics in the Whitechapel
district. Speaking both German and
English fluently, he has been of
great service to stranded foreigners
in that overcrowded part of London.
His sermons are of an average
length, extempore, of course, per
suasive and indicative of much
thought.
There is an example of an Euglish
prince becoming a clergyman. Car
dinal Yorke, the eminent Roman
Catholic prelate, who died in 1809,
was the son of the old pretender,
James Edward Stuart, and hence
the grandson of our James 11. He
was the last prince, direct and legit
imate, of the Stuart family, but gave
; up his political life and ambitions
to work for the Catholic church as
a priest and finally became a cardi
! nal.
One of the most effective royal
preachers of today is Prince Oscar,
the nephew of the king of Sweden,
who has joined the Salvation Army
division in that country. Both he
and lifts wife, the princess, conduct
meetings in the open air in Stock
holm and elsewhere, which, of
course, draw immense crowds.
Prince Oscar preaches and prays at
these meetings, while the princess
leads the singing. He is said to have
a capital voice, a very fluent deliv
ery and to be especially keen upon
putting his points before his audi
ence in the clearest possible man
ner. It may be fresh in the memory
of our readers that some few years
ago the priuce attended the jubilee
of the Young Men’s Christian asso
ciation in London and addressed a
meeting there.
That famous man of many parts,
the German kaiser, is said to have
more than once “preached” to his
own private family, though there is
no record of his having done so pub
licly from the pulpit. But it is well
known that h*has on several occa
sions given thVcourt chaplains both
subjects and directions for their ser
mone.
Of English peers there are several
well known members, the heads of
famous families, who are either
clergymen or who frequently ad
dress religious meetings.
One of the best known and most
widely respected of these is the ven
erable Earl of Devon, who is the
rector of Powderham, near Exeter.
His lordship had been a clergyman
for some years before, and by the
death of the last earl he became pos
sessor of his present titlo. Like most
younger relatives of a peer’s family,
he had entered holy orders as bis
profession, and in due course been
inducted into one of the family liv
ings.
The Marquis of Normanby of
Mulgrave castle, Whitby, is not only
a clergyman who preaches elo
quently, but is a private schoolmas
ter of high repute in the north.
Probably bis addresses to youths of
good position have laid the founda
tion of his effective sermons to older
people. At any rate, few aristocratic
preachers have equal renown in
northern England.
Lord Radstock has long been
known for bis deep interest in all
kinds of evangelistic work. He has
had a wide experience of mission
work in large towns and in slum
districts in many parts of the coun
try, and there are few preachers of
the aristocracy who are listened to
with more respect and attention.
His sermons are marked by thought
ful treatment, by their clear lucidi
ty and by their intense earnestness
in setting forth gospel truths.
Lord Overtoun’s name is well
known in Scotland and no Scottish
peer has more practical experience
of preaching than his lordship.-
London Tit-Bits.
Birds That Have >'o Wings.
When one is a child and sees a
bird, the usual thing told him is,
“Get a little salt and put it on the
tail of the bird, and you can catch
him.” Of course the child and the
others look at each other and think
it a huge joke. Although this may
be the case in most parts of the
earth it is not a joke at Laysan is
land.
Layean island, situated as it is—
longitude 171 degrees west, latitude
25 degrees and 47 minutes north—is
a low, long island, 2 miles by 2J4 in
width, with the highest altitude 29
feet above the sea. On first ajiproach
one sees largo flocks of birds, which
make a black streak in the air, above
the island. This is surrounded by
reefs. The harbor is on the south
west side. The island itself is only
a large bank of sand, with a lagoon
in the center. This is some three
miles in circumference. There are
ten buildings upon it, including a
lighthouse. There is also a railroad
a mile and a quarter lung, which is
used for carrying guano to the ware
house.
Among the many things of inter
est which may he mentioned are,
first, the birds, of which there are
millions. Among the sea birds found
there are the goonie (white and
black), the booby, the man-of-war
hawk, the tropic bird, the petrel,
five or six species of the mutton
bird, the coylio and other varieties.
Among the strange things that
may be told of on this little spot are
the land birds, found in no place on
earth except on Laysan island. They
are the wingless or walking birds,
such as the Laysan canary, miller
bird, redbird, love bird and the Lay
san duck.—Pacific Commercial Ad
vertiser.
ABOUT SLEEPWALKERS.
Some Narrow Escapes ami Some Care* That
Proved Effective.
The mention of a sleepwalker
etanding upon the street railway
track the other night and barely
escaping being run down has
brought to the minds of many peo
ple incidents in this line that have
come under their observation, and it
is simply astonishing bow general
is this habit.
One person mentio §, the case of a
member of the household who was
found wandering about on the house
top, all unmindful of his danger,
while the observer was at his wits’
end to know how to get him in be
fore be should make a misstep ami
fall to the ground. Usually the eyes
of the somnambulist are wide open,
and now and then a story indicates
that the vision must be fairly good
at times.
For instance, a gentleman remem
bers that when he was a young man
an acquaintance was badly given to
the habit, and he would often go
out into the yard and wander about.
One night a number of them lay in
ambush for him just to watch his
operations. By and by the door
opened in a businessliko way and
out came man. He went
straightway across the street into a
lot where there was a nut tree and
proceeded to pick up nuts and put
them in a pile. A few moments at
this task, then lie started toward the
house. In spanning the fence he
made a misstep and fell. This awak
ened him, and while he was in the
first act of collecting his thoughts
he saw in the darkness the young
men who were watching him. Just
at that timo their appearance so
startled him that he fled like a deer.
The circumstance was so impressed
upon bis mind that he never after
ward indulged in the habit.
A gentleman told an amusing in
cident that happened in his early
life. He was sure that £ie could not
have been more than u or 6 years
old etthetime. Hooften found him
self at the far end of the long, un
finished chamber where he slept,
and usually could not awake suffi
ciently to find his way to bed again,
so one or the other of his parents
would hear him crying and come to
his rescue. Naturally they got a
little tired of the bother, and no onta
should he blamed for what followed.
As stated, the chamber was an un
finished one, and in plaoe of the
guard rail at the danger end of the
stairway a number of barrels had
been placed. When the night’s som
nambulistic tour culminated that
left a .lasting impression on liis
mind as well as his body, he vva
near those barrels, and it seemed bad
been struggling to get through be
tween them, when he must surely
have been killed by falling down
the stairs. The noise aroused the
parents, and on this memorable oc
casion the father visited the cham
ber just in time to save the laf
from getting through. lie was on
his hands and knees pushing
through, and the opportunity for
administering the usual punishment
of those days could not have been
better arranged to order. “Talk
about spankings,” said the relator,
“why, that must liavobeen 40 years
and more ago, but I can feel the
sting as if it was last night! But it
cured me, you may be sure. ”—Hart
ford Coiurant.
All Iu the Name.
At a Boston restaurant the other
day a middle aged woman entered
the place, and taking a seat at the
counter carefully scrutinized the
bill of fare. She concluded to try an
order of ice cream pudding, at o
cents a plate. After it bad been
served she looked it over carefully
and calling the waitress back said:
“Do you call this ice cream pud
ding ?”
“Yessum, and it’s very nice too.”
“But where is the ice cream?”
“Oh, that’s only the name given
that peculiar make of pudding. We
are making a specialty of it. I’m
sure you’ll like it when you taste
it.”
“It seems to me that you ought to
give ice cream with it, as long as
you say it is ice cream pudding.”
“We don’t give cottages with cot
tage pudding,” quickly replied the
witty waitress. The retort threw
the middle aged woman into a con
vulsion of laughter and she ordered
a second plate.—Boston Herald.
Already Rewarded.
The last joke at the expense of the
French Society For the Protection
of Animals is to the following effect:
A country man, armed with an
immense club, presented himself be
fore the president of the society and
claimed the first prize. He was asked
to describe the act of humanity on
which he founded his claim.
“I have saved the life of a wolf,”
replied the country man. “I might
easily have killed him with this
bludgeon,” and he swung his weap
on in the air, to the intense discom
fort of the president.
“But where was this wolf 5” in
quired the latter. “What had he
done to you 5”
“He had just devoured my wife,”
was the reply.
The president reflected an instant,
and then said:
“My friend, lam of the opinion
that you have been sufficiently re
warded.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Cyclist’s Speed l'or an Hour.
Cyclist’s private opinion, 10 miles;
cyclist s opinion for his friends, 18
miles; police constable’s private
opinion, 12 miles; police constable’s
opinion for the magistrate, 24 miles;
cyclometer’s opinion, 30 miles; old
lady’s opinion, who was knocked
down, 40 miles; actual speed, 8
> miles. —Pick Me Up.
HISTORY OF ICEMAKING.
Singular Method* Followed by People Cou
turier Ago.
The most ancient method of mak
ing ice is practiced in India. Holes
are made in the ground, dry straw
is put at the bottom of these, and on
it at the close of the day are placed
pans of water, which are left until
the next morning, when the ice that
is found within the pans is collected.
This industry is carried on only in
districts where the ground is dry
and will readily absorb the vapor
given off from the water in the pans.
The freezing, of course, is due to the
gpeat amount of heat absorbed by
the vapor in passing from its liquid
to its gaseous form.
Another process was practiced in
the days of ancient Rome, when the
wealthy are said to have had their
wines oooled by having the bottles
placed in water into which saltpeter
was thrown, the bottles being the
while rotated.
Dr. Cullen in 1755 discovered that
the evaporation of water could be
facilitated by the removal of the
pressure of the atmosphere, and that
by doing this water could be frozen.
Nairn, in 1777, discovered that sul
phuric acid would absorb the vapor
of water if placed in a second vessel
■separate from that containing the
water, but connected with it. This
discovery he put to use in 1810 by
constructing an apparatus for ab
sorbing the vapor of the water that
it was desired to cool or freeze. This
apparatus greatly facilitated the
freezing operations of a vacuum
freezing machine.
Jacob Perkins was the father of
what is now known as the compres
sion system, having invented the
first machine of the kind in 1834,
and as these machines, improved,
are at the present day more in use
than any a description of
Perkins’ patent may be of interest.
His apparatus consisted of an insu
lated vessel, iu which was inclosed a
second vessel containing ether, a va
por pump, a worm and worm tub, a
tube between the second vessel and
the pump, another between the pump
and the worm, a third between the
worm and the bottom of the ether
vessel and the necessary valves.
As afterward constructed, the ap
paratus was made up of a jacketed
pan, within which was the water to
be cooled; an insulated box in which
was placed the pan, a pump to ex
tract the vapor from the jacket, a
worm in which the vapor was con
densed after it left the pump, a worm
tub containing cold water to cool
the worm and by means of the lat
ter the vapor within it, and pipes
connecting the top of the pan jacket
to the pump, the pump with the
S upper end of the worm, and the low
, er end of the worm with the under
| side of the pan jacket. The refrig
| erating agent used with this appa
, ratus was one derived from the de
structive distillation of caoutchouc.
James Harrison improved upon Ja
cob Perkins’ apparatus in 1856, and
it has been further improved by
many others since. —• Gassier s
Monthly.
The Two De Goncourts and Their Work.
They happened to belong to a fam
ily which was noble, though of re
cent nobility, and to have some
means, and this, added to their pre
ciosity, their horror of tho banal and
the commonplace, their contempt
for people who sacrificed a tittle of
their artistic conviction to money
or the vulgar approval of the multi
tude, caused literary workers for
whom fate had not prepared tho way
so agreeably and who were obliged
to take life more as they found it
to look upon them rather as elegant
dilettanti than as men of letters with
a mission. This was a bitter disap
pointment to the brothers, who toiled
at their work tables like galley
slaves day after day, only going out
for a walk at 11 o’clock at night,
and whose intense earnestness about
their art was, whatever other criti
cism may be made of them, unques
tionable from the start and splendid
in its integrity.
Convinced as they were that they
had a mission (which was to show,
among other things, that modern
life, with its increased complexities
and feverish intensity, needed to be
expressed in literature by a style
quite different from all those hither
to employed, a style that would bite
out the aspects of things ns with an
acid and make them live), their tri
umph in this direction is the thing
that they will be remembered by.—
Scribner’s Magazine.
Bolting Our Food.
There is undoubtedly a great deal
to be said in favor of the opinion
that a considerable portion of the
illness in this country is caused by
the unpleasant habit of eating too
rapidly. Of course we all know and
have at times a very painful experi
ence of the fact that this is a high
pressure age and all is done at ex
press speed, but this surely ought
hot to be the case with our meals.
It is interesting, but not pretty, to
watch the business inan when he
goes into a restaurant for his lunch
eon. It is with him looked upon in
the light of a duty and not a pleas
ure. He must eat, and he feels that
he has only a few minutes to devote
to the operation, so that he may be
back at his office with all possible
speed. He attacks his food savage
ly, gulps down his beer or wine, and
when the last sad rites are over.he
pays and bolts—in fact, it is a case
of bolting from beginning to end.
Every doctor will tell you that peo
ple should eat slowly and occupy
the time pleasantly with conversa
tion. In this way we shall live
longer and enjoy better health and
greater ability to cope with the
world.—New York Ledger.
WILD BIRDS' EGGS AS FOOD.
Many That Are Eaten In Europe and Re
garded as Delicacies.
In Germany and Holland crows’
eggs are considered a luxury among
the poorer classes, and on Prince
Bismarck's eighty-third birthday a
present of 100 of these was made to
Aim. The eggs of the rook are also
looked upon as delicate food by the
Germane and Hollanders. The Chi
nese are not only fond of swallows’
nest soup, but they eat the eggs of
this little bird with great relish.
Among the south sea islands the
natives depend largely upon this
kind of food, which the bird*? pre
pare for them iu nests, and 'so im
portant is the source of this food
considered that they will rarely de
stroy the birds. On the great rook
eries they have found the eggs sup
plied abundantly for them for ages,
and they gather them so easily that
there is no disposition to destroy
the birds. It is only when civilized
man comes, intent upon destroying
the birds for their feathers and
plumes, that these great island rook
eries have been depopulated.
In the markets of Holland—the
greatest center for wild birds’ eggs
—we find displayed for sale the eggs
of nearly all large wild birds, such
as the crow, rook, gull, plover, x>ee
wit, redshanks, guillemot, blue her
on, wild duck, sheldrake and many
others. The eggs are gathered for
these markets from the large col
onies along ttfie coast. The isle of
Texel supplies many of the wild
birds’ eggs for the Hollanders. This
island is given up largely to sheep
grazing, and the shepherds make a
little extra pocket money in gather
ing the wild fowls’ eggs from tha
rocks and broad heaths.
In Friesland the farmers have al
most tamed the sheldrakes like do
mesticated fowls. The sheldrakes
have laid their eggs iu countless
numbers on the heaths of the Dutch
Norfolk, and the farmers, instead of
killing the birds or friglitening them
away, cultivate their acquaintance
and build artificial burrows or nests
in the grass for them. In these nests
the sheldrakes go on laying their
eggs, despite the fact that they are
almost daily robbed of them. In
some instances the female birds will
even permit the farmers to handle
them to remove the eggs. Tn return
for all this the farmers protect the
birds, and after a certain season they
permit the birds to sit on their eggs
and hatch out young ones. The
young sheldrakes are protected just
as much as our young barnyard
chickens are.
Egg gathering has become a legit
imate vocation on the Irish and
Scottish coasts and on all the islands
along the shores. The men who en
gage in the hazardous work carry
their lives daily in their hands, foi
the sea birds build their nests among
the most inaccessible peaks and
crags of the mountains and on ledges
and rocks overlooking the sea, where
sure death awaits the one who makes
a false step. The men swing down
from the top of the cliffs by means
of ropes, and while dangling in this
insecure position between earth and
heaven they gather the eggs of the
ducks, vultures, golden eagles, cor
morants and similar birds. The egg
collector descends the face of the
cliff in his bare feet and provided
only with a stout stick and egg has
ket. A companion from above gen
erally helps him in his descent and
guides him in his perilous move
ments along the face of the moun
tain.
The chief eggs that are sold for
eating in Holland and other Euro
pean cities include those of the wild
ducks and fowls, gulls, plovers,
sheldrakes, meadow hens, guille
mots, pewits, redshanks, turn
stones, snipe, curlews, dunlins,
crows, rooks, cranes, herons, coots,
storks, pelicans, vultures, hawks,
owls and many of the smaller land
birds. These wild birds’ eggs are
cheaper in many countries than
hens’ eggs, and they constitute the
chief egg diet of both rich and poor.
-—Boston Transcript.
Humors of Clerical Life.
Some of the ideas held with re
gard to ecclesiastical matters are as
funny as they are extraordinary,
though they cause one to reflect on
the methods adopted by the church
and the various religious bodies. A
woman came to me one day to say
she wanted her daughter to be con
firmed. “Mr. ,” she said, “trom
the chapel over the way, ’as been
a-trying to convert ’er, but I pretty
soon told ’im what I thought ’bout
it Isesto im, ‘l’ll ’ave my gal con
firmed, but I won’t ’ave ’er convert
ed, so now you know I don’t b’lieve
in conversion.’ ” What the minister
said or thought of this truly mar
velous statement of doctrine I don’t
know.
The monograms I H Sand X P C,
which are so often to be seen in our
churches, sorely puzzle a portion of
the congregation—a larger propor
tion, I am inclined to think, than is
generally supposed. A certain vicar
soon after his arrival in the parish
placed anew cloth upon the altar,
upon the center of which was em
broidered a large cross. Such strong
opposition was raised to this symbol
of our Christianity that the vicar
gave way before the storm and had
the initials I H S substituted. A
parishioner who was not at all in fa
vor of the change on being asked the
meaning of the letters replied:
“Why, don’t you know what it
means? It means ‘I hope you’re sat
isfied. ’ ” —Cornhill Magazine.
Forests In Europe.
According to the Hon. F. Lawley.
Russia in Europe has 527,500,000 acres
of forests, Sweden coming next with
42,000,000. Germany has 34,000,000,
Austria slightly over 24,000,000 and the
British isles leas than 3,000,000.
Tbbms: SI.OO A Yiab.
MR. HALL’S GOOD BLUFF.
An Unknown Poker Player From Bad*.
Who Got the Better of Sharon.
The Palace hotel in the early days
of its existence was the arena of
some big poker games. Senator
Sharon was an enthusiastic lover of
the game, and when it happened
that Senators Stewart and Jones of
Nevada and Judge Dick Mesick “oc
curred” in the hotel at the same
time there was sure to be hot work.
It happened upon one of these occa
sions that a certain Mr. Hall from
Boston was at the hotel.
Mr. Hall was a smooth and affable
gentleman, and completely won Sen
ator Sharon's heart because of his
love for Byron and his excellent
memory, he being able to quote hun
dreds of lines of the poet’s verso
without a halt. Byron was Sharon's
favorite bard. He had made his
works his life's study, and any one
who appreciated liim had a call on
the senator’s friendship.
On a certain evening the three
senators and Judge Mesick met at
the bar. It was just before dinner
and an appetizer was in order. Even
while Ned Fay was mixing Mr. Hall
appeared. He was at once bidden to
the social glass by Mr. Sharon, who
introduced him to Ins friends. One
cocktail followed another until the
gentlemen concluded to dine togeth
er, and Mr. Hall was invited. They
dined in Sharon’s rooms, and of
course the wine was tine and abun
dant.
After dinner Mesick proposed a
little game of “draw.” No one said
nay, though Mr. Hall diffidently re
marked that they did not play much
.in. Boston, where he came from, but
tlia't still he was willing to stand in
and do his beat.
“Look out for Hall,” laughed
Sharon. “I never heard a man make
that remark yet who was not to be
watched.” He spoke in jest, but his
words were sooth.
The cards were produced and the
game at $1 ante was inaugurated.
There was no limit. Now, with such
veterans as Mesick, Jones and Stew
art the pot was not allowed to get
cold for lack of chipping. The men
played with varying euccess, and
things ran pretty even for an hour
or so. Mr. Hall was cautious, and
dribbled away his checks with in
difference. After one of his deals
Mr. Stewart hopped in with a S2O
bet. Jones, evidently pleased with
his hand, saw him and went SSO bet
ter. Mesick and Sharon were not
afraid and took some of the pie
themselves. Mr. Hall, the dealer,
scanned his hand carefully and con
cluded that there was something ia
it for him. All drew—Hall one card.
And then the fun began. Round and
round again went the “defi.” Stew
art and Jones dropped out. Mesick
stood a few more raises and then re
tired, leaving the tight to Sharon
and Hall. There was by this time
$20,000 in the pot.
“I’ll raise you SIO,OOO, Mr. Hall,”
said Sharon, his tliiu lips set and his
voice low and determined.
Hall’s answer was to ring the
bell, and when the waiter appeared
he asked him for a blank California
bank check.
“I presume, gentlemen, my check
is good as cash,’’ lie said politely.
“Certainly, sir,” replied Senator
Sharon. “You see our checks in the
pot already.”
Slowly and deliberately Hall filled
out the check, sigued it and spread
the blotter over it without a tremor.
Then he pushed it quietly to the
center of the table and said:
“I have seen your SIO,OOO, sen
ator, and go you $15,000 better.”
Sharon looked at him steadily for
some moments. Hall’s composure
was perfect. There was a half smile
of confidence on his face, but no in
dication of boastfulness or excite
ment.
“Mr. Hall,” said Sharon, “I feel
sure you hold the better hand, and
I do not cere to waste my money.
The pot is yours, sir.’’
Without any appearance of exul
tation Hall raked in the coin, bills
and checks, separating them, and
put them in his pockets. Meanwhile
his hand lay face down upon the
table.
“Mr. Hall,” said Sharon, “I will
give if you will show it
your harid.”
“Senator Sharon,” replied the
Bostonian, “it is not enough. Nor
would I show it to you now for sl,-
000. Still, to satisfy your curiosity,
I will put this hand in an envelope,
seal it up in your presence and put
it in the hotel Hafe, to be called for
by you ten days hence. But upon
this condition: That you will put
$250 in an envelope, to go into the
hotel safe and to be delivered to me
nine days hence.”
Sharon reflected for a few min*
utes. It was a struggle between curi
osity and coin. Finally curiosity
conquered, and both envelopes were
sealed and intrusted to the custody
of the clerk. When the ten daye
elapsed, Mr. Sharon called for hie
package and examined the hand.
Nothing but a pair of deuces and ten
high. He had been the victim of
colossal bluff.—San Francisco Newe
Letter
There’# the Rob.
“Pooh! I know a story that's just
as good as that,” exclaimed the
bore.
“Undoubtedly," they replied,
you could only tell it as weU."—
Chicago Post
The principal defense of the Dutch in
the war with Alra was found hi the
character of their country. Small bas
tions, long curtain walls and very wide
ditches filled with water were the char
acteristics of a Dutch fortification.
A wagon lead of mortar will fill about
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