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A WOMAN THE STAKE.
SHE WAS PLAYED AGAINST 550.0 0 IN
A GAME OF ECARTE.
Though the Kentuckian Won at the Gam.,
He Wan Beaten In Another Way-Strange
Story of a» o,d « Grewaome Looking
Bonne In Francisco.
In 1867 there stood an old fashioned
ghanty east of the locality now occupied
by the Presentation convent, in front of
the graveyard, and the people in the
neighborhood used to tell strange stories
übout this grewsome looking dwelling.
For several years its occupancy was ap
parently confined to a decrepit old man,
who used to crawl in and out about once
a day, his arms filled with packages
from the market
He was known in the neighborhood as
the old dago,, though in reality he was
a native of Alsace. For several years he
lived a hermit’s life, and the neighbors
got so accustomed to his comings and
goings that even the small boys forgot
to molest him. But one morning all the
gossips found food for conversation by
the appearance of a remarkably lovely
young woman who went out to and re
turned from the butcher’s stall and the
grocer’s. She spoke English imperfectly
and with a very pronounced French
accent. This little cabin was destined
to be the scene of a very dramatic inci
dent in the history of California gam
bling.
It was natural that a girl as pretty as
Irene should not be long without ad
mirers, so it came to pass that the win
dows of the old house were lighted up
every evening, and the Frenchman de
veloped the natural hospitality of his
race and gaye little dinners and suppers
to his exiled countrymen. But among
those, as was only natural, there were
some who existed not by honest indus
try, but by the gaming table. Among
them was a young man of striking ap
pearance who had served in France as
sous ofHcier in a hussar regiment, had
gone the pace, ruined himself, and final
ly drifted out to San Francisco, where
he became the hange’ on of the gambling
table.
Louis Le Marronais was a strikingly
handsome specimen of the Parisian of
his class. It did not take him very long
to gain the confidence of the old French- -
man, and to him he confided the story
of his life. It was not a very eventful
one. He was a member of an old French
family and could use if he pleased a
title which dated back to .Charles the
Bold. He had been ruined by the ex
travagance of his younger brother and
was then living on the income of a lit
tle property in Brittany, which he had
saved from the wreck. Irene was his
only child, and he idolized her. For her
sake alone he wanted to be rich. He
wanted to take her back to France and
reinstate her in the position to which
her rank entitled her.
The ex-hussar won the old man into
the belief that his only chance of getting
rich was through gambltag. So night
after night old Lescant was found at.
the El Dorado or some other gaming
hell losing his money under the direc
tion of the arch mentor. One night Irene
followed him there to bring him back, .
and her first visit was a fateful one.
Tom Monroe, a Kentuckian, one of the
wildest and most reckless characters of
that period, saw her, admired her and
swore that she should become his prop
erty.
It is not necessary to recite the inci
dents that led up to the scene, which
were related to me by an eyewitness. It
is sufficient to say that Le Marronais
had convinced the old Frenchman that
Monroe would stake $50,000 against
the hand of Irene. If he won, she was
to become his wife, but if he lost the
money was to become the Frenchman’s
property and Irene was free to bestow
her affections wherever she pleased.
Irene was informed of this proposition,
and she looked resigned and rather
■ amused at the transaction.
The eventful night arrived. Monroe,
the old man, Louis, Irene and a friend
and countryman of the host were «the
only inmates of the little room. The
game was ecarte, and the cards, which
Louis had marked, lay upon the table.
The old man got the deal. Monroe’s cer
tified check for $50,000 was placed in
the custody of the hussar. The old man
marked the king in the first deal, and
when the pack changed hands he had
the best of the game. The play went on,
and in the last hand Monroe scored every
point.
“Irene is mine!” shouted the Ken
tuckian, reaching for his check.
At this moment the lights were dashed
out, and Monroe fell io the floor from
the stroke of some heavy instrument.
The only disinterested spectator of the
scene fled from the room. The next
morning there was no sign of life in the
old house, and in the evening when the
milkman knocked he heard a groaning
from the inside. He forced his way into
the house and discovered the wretched
Kentuckian bound hand and foot. Mon
roe, avowing murder, rushed the next
morning to the banking house. The
check had been cashed by an individual
who answered Jhe description of the
hussar. The other actors in this star
tling scene were never heard of. Nothing
in the house was disturbed, not even
the girl’s wearing, apparel, and the inci
dent became a portion of this strange
history of old time gambling in San
Francisco.—San Francisco News Letter.
One More Idiot.
' Tobacconist—ls you’ll keep quiet
about it, I’ll tell you how I manage to
make money out of cigarsr When a man
comes in and asks me for a good cigar,
I invariably recommend that brand that
costs me the least. It is a great scheme.
‘ Customer—That’s so. What idiots
they must all be I By*, the way, I want
you to recommend a good cigar to me.
Tobacconist—Well, confidentially I
sdvise you to take one of these. (Cus
tomer goes out.) Only one more idiot;
that’s alL— Boston Transcript.
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A PRIVATE AMBULANCE.
Beaaintocenoea of the Civil War Related
by an Old Soldier.
“Among the men wounded in my
regiment at a battle in Virginia,” said
the old soldier, “was a man in my com
pany who was shot through the body
and taken to the rear. Our troops fell
back after the fight,.wftll we had mon
wounded than we had transportation
for, but two men ent of his .own tent
mm out to carry this man wherever w<
were going, which was presumably
the camp behind intrenchmeuts that
we’d left in the morning..
“They took turns at backing him fa
half a mile or so until they came to a
farmhouse that had a grassy yard in
front. They laid him down on the grass
and took a little look around the house
to see what they could see. In a build
ing at the roar they came across some
thing that made ’em stand still and
look at each other and laugh. It was a
hand cart. What use the folks here had
made of it they couldn’t guess, but they
knew what use they were going to make
of it. They got it out of the building
and rolled it around the gidfe of the
house alongside the wounded man aftd
dropped the handle on the grass. He
laughed, too, when ho saw it. He was
going the rest of the way in a private
ambulance.
“The two men took their blankets off
their shoulders and untied them and
spread their rubbers down on the bot
tom of the hand cart and spread theii
woolen blankets down on them, and
then they ran the hand cart up and rest
ed the handle on the front steps of the
house and lifted in the wounded man
and laid their guns in beside him. Then
they turned the cart around again, and
one man got inside the shafts, with the
crosspiece aganst his waist belt, and
the other man got behind to push. They
all smiled again when they started,
wounded man and all.
“It beat backipg him out of sight. It
was dry weather, and the roads were
sandy, and. up hill and on the level the
wheeling was hard. But there was
more dowji hill than there was up,
places where they had to hold back,
and it was all immensely more com
fortable for the wounded man, and so
they got him back to camp and to the
surgeon again. But he died after all. ”
—New York Sun.
. FORTUNE® FROM GARBAGE.
Science Converts the Refuse of Cities Into
Steam, Fertilizers, Soap, Etc.
William George Jordan, writing on
“Wonders of the World’s Waste,” in
The Ladies Home Journal, says: “The
garbage of a great city is worth a for
tune every year if properly utilized. In
St. Louis the refuse is placed in enor
mous vertical cylinders, surrounded by
steam jackets, which evaporate the 75
to 80 per cent of water in the garbage.
The fatty substances are dissolved, and
as the result of ~a number of processes a
fertilizer is produced which is worth
from $9 to sl'2 per ton, the demand ex
ceeding the supply. One of the purest
and best soaps of the country was made
of garbage grease before cottonseed oil
entered the field. It is now proposed to
light London by electricity for nothing.
It now costs that city SI.OB (4s. Bd.) to
get rid of a ton of garbage. A combina
tion of rollers and other apparatus has
been devised that can bum the garbage
at 24 cents (1 shilling) per ton and gen
erate steam sufficient to run enough dy
namos to light the entire city. London
can thus save 3s. Bd.on each ton and
in addition illuminate its city without
cost Garbage, by a machine called the
dust destructor, is converted into clink--
ers, which can be used for roadways, as
artificial stone for sidewalks and as
sand for mortar and cement. In Paris
the invisible particles of iron, worn
from wheels and from the shoes of
horses, are rescued by passing powerful
magnets through the sweepings. ’ ’
A Vizion of the Future.
Clarence King, formerly chief of the
United States geological survey, says:
“The time is not far distant when
a man can start out of Denver and
travel to Klondike, stopping every night
at a mining camp. Already two Ameri
can stamp mills are pounding away on
the borders of the strait of Magellan,
and the day is approaching when a
chain of mining camps will extend from
Cape Horn to St. Michael’s. I believe
we are about to enter upon a century
which will open up vast resources and
will be the grandest the earth has ever
known. Before the end of the twentieth
century the traveler will enter a sleep
ing car at Chicago bound via Bering
strait for St. Petersburg, and the
dream of Governor Gilpin will be real
ized. ”
Slang.
The difference between ancient and
modem slang was amusingly Illustrated
in a recent incident at the Chautauqua
assembly, when the teacher of English
literature asked, “What is the mean
ing of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Go
to?’ ” and a member of the class replied,
“Uh, that is only the sixteenth century
expression of the modern term ‘Come
off. ’’ ’ The two phrases, while appar
ently opposite, do, in fact, substantially
mean the same thing.—Chicago Chron
icle. - . ’
A Natural Inference.
“Did you hear what Whimpton’s lit
tle boy said when they showed him the
twins?” .
“No; what was it?”
“He said, ‘There, mamma’s been get
ting bargains again.’” Collier’s
Weekly.
It is an extraordinary fact that only
two presidents were bom between April
and October. The record by months is
as follows: January, 3; February, 8;
March, 4; April, 1; July, 1; August, 1;
October, 3; November, 4; December, 2.
In Russia women householders vote
for all elective officers and on all local
matters.
SCHOOLS ANO POLITICS.
A Scheme With Real Estate Trimmings ,
That Won lu Oregon. • '
“Speaking of schools in relation to ,
politics, ” said the ex-boomer from Ore- (
gon, “always reminds me of a campaign
in which I was interested some yean
ago. The Douglas county representative
in the Oregon state legislature, realis
ing that his popularity was not exceed
ingly great, had been talking at build
ing a new state normal school, presum
ably at Roseburg, the county seat and
his own home. This caused great con
sternation among the 850 inhabitants
of the little city of Drain, who had been
profiting by the courtesy title of ‘Drain
Academy and Oregon State Normal
school, * under which the school there
had been run since 1885. The postmas
ter, who kept a drug store and sold
school supplies, took counsel with his
sister-in-law, who dealt in millinery
and ran a boarding house for students,
and she sought the mayor, at whose
general merchandise emporium she was
the principal customer.
“The mayor was a man who thought
slowly, but to a purpose, and, having
set himself the task of devising some
way of circumventing the member
fr?m Roseburg, he passed the next three
days in profound cogitation. He con
ceived a scheme whose various elabora
tions and ramifications were too diver
sified for him to handle alone, and he
came to me for help I had just gained
considerable influence in the county
i through backing a projected railroad to
the coast, and also as a real estate deal
er and sawmill owner. With my busi
ness methods and the mayor’s knowl
edge of the conditions confronting us
our plans were soon put into operation.
: First, we suggested the candidacy of an
I ambitious young Drainite, a dealer in
leather goods and hardware, for mem
ber of the legislature, taking all the
wind out of his opponent’s sails by
heartily indorsing the talk in favor of a
i new normal school. Meantime we had
i a lapge grain field of the mayor’s, which
, had begun to lose its fertility on ac
count of overcultivation, surveyed into
city 16ts, and as soon as our candidate
had received the regular party nornina
i tion we put the town site of East Drain,
i with its streets named after conspicuous
1 men of the state, on the market and
gave one of its centrally located blocks
for the new normal school.
“Well, everything came to pass ex
actly as we had planned. Our candidate
» was elected, and the building of the new
normal school on the site we gave was
i authorized. We sold a sufficient num
i ber of East Drain lots to more than pay
> for the land and all expenses. The con
. tractors on the new school were men
i who had aided the legislation authoriz
ing it, and they got their -supplies from
> the mayor, their hardware from the
i member and their lumber from me. My
mill also supplied lumber for other
I buildings in East Drain, including a
i new boarding house for the milliner,
i- who has prospered ever since. The post
. master’s increased business soomWar-
I ranted his moving into one of the two
3 brick buildings in the city of Drain, and
I the former dealer in leather goods and
) hardware is still member of the Oregon
legislature. ” —New York Sun.
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Duration of Human Life.
> That the humfm being was intended
) for greater length of life than is usually
* attained in our artifioial existence is
■ probable from the fact that he does not
i reach his full and complete development
I until his twenty-fifth year. The life of
I most of the low animals is reckoned to
i be about five times their maturity in a
- natural condition, and, although dis
i turbing causes interfere with human
s life in the present day, yet within cer
i tain limits man is subject to the same
i laws as every other type of existence in
I either the animal or the vegetable king-
I dom.
Nature has assigned to him a certain
period during which he should attain to
a sound physical and mental maturity,
j and any attempt to curtail that period
by early forcing is and must be neces
i sarily productive of lamentable results.
I The boy or girl may be developed under
I a system of steady “cramming” into a
highly accomplished man or woman,
i long before full age has been reached,
( but it may be accepted as an axiom in
i almost all instances that the earlier the
i development the earlier the decay. The
> lesson to be learned from the records of
t those who have lived to advanced years
I is that moderation in all things, whether
t physical or intellectual, is the secret of
i long life, and that it is easy by system
atically violating this rule to produce an
j artificial old age.—Nineteenth Century.
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A Friendly Bar Examination. '•.
A Georgia correspondent sends us this
account of a young man’s oral examina
tion for the bar by a local committee
1 before an old judge, who was also an
I old acquaintance of the candidate. • Be
i ing asked, ‘ ‘ What is arson?’ ’he scratoh-
> ed his head and finally said, “I believe
- that’s ptzon, ain’t it?"
J On this the old judge, to help him
< out, says: “Tut, tut, Jinn Suppose I
f were to set fire to your house and burn
3 it down, what would that be?”
With quick and emphatic reply Jim
r says, “I think it would be a dad dratted
mean trick. ”
But although this answer was not
technically accurate Jim was in the
hands of his friends and was honorably
' admitted. —Case and Comment.
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Walked Right Over Them.
“So your wife won that suit abdm
‘ her real estate?”
“Os cornea. You didn’t suppose that
such little obstacles as a judge, 8 law
yers and 12 jurymen could throw her
. off the track, did you?”—Detroit Free
1 Press.
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Physiological.
! Instructor—What is it that gives to
the blood *its bright red color?
Little Miss Thavnoo—l know. It’s
j the corpuscles. But ours ain’t red.
I They’re blue Mamma says sa—Chi
cago Tribune.
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Th. Maniac.
During bnu cf bls visits to Parle Hum
boldt express xl to bls friend, Dr. Blanche,
the dlstingu shed authority In matters
concerning Insanity, a desire to meet one
of his patients.
“Nothing easier,** said the doctor,
“(tome and take dinner with me tomor
row.” *
The next day Humboldt found himself
seated at the dinner table of tbe,famous
doctor in company with two guests to
whom he had not boon introduced. One
of them was dressed in black, with a whits
cravat and gold rimmed spectacles. He
had a smooth face, a very bald bead, and
mt with great gravity through the en>ire
dinner. He was a gentleman, of undoubt
ed manners, btrt exceedingly taciturn. He
bowed, ate and said not a word.
The other guest, on the contrary, wore
a great shock of hair, brushed wildly, his
shabby blue coat was buttoned askew, his
collar was rumpled, and the ends of his
cravat floated over his shoulders. Ho
helped himself, jUc and talked at the same
time. Story after story did this incoherent
person tell. He mixed the past with the
present, flew from Swedenborg to Fourier,
from Cleopatra to Jenny Lind, from
Archimedes to Lamartine, and talked pol
itics and literature In the same breath.
At the dessert Humboldt managed to
say quietly to his host, glancing at the
fantastic personage, wbowas still talking:
“I am very much obliged to you. Your
maniac amuses mo immensely.” The doc
tor looked startled.
“ You made a great mistake about the
maniac,” he said at the earliest moment
when they were alone together. “The
brilliant talker wasn’t the lunatic. The
. silent one is my patient. The talker ft
the famous Balzac, the novelist.’’—Golden
Penny. ■
The Turks as Fighters,
A German military bpron writes a re
view of the strategy of the Turks in Greece
nearly as long as the Koran, a part of
which is published in The Army and Navy
Journal. It recognizes the unsurpassed
fighting qualities of the Turk, who is, so
‘ to speak, born with a gun in bis hand and
stuck round with daggers and soimlters
from his childhood. His life is a constant
training in the use of both. He fights like
a lion, but is not led according to strict
European methods. The Infantry march
with an indifferent advance and rear
guard. In action the whole body is apt
-to rush upon the foe with the Moslem war
cry of “Allah!” the shield and buckler of
the faithful, believed in as Its infallible
watchword oFYUjtory, and it does not con
sider it indispensable always to retain a
reserve. In attack he is Impetuous and
full of courage. In defense he is tena
cious, beginning to shoot at long range
and using up a tremendous quantity of
ammunition.
The field artillery is defective in its
horse equipment, but is altogether the beet
drilled arm of the service. The cavalry is
enterprising and gives a good account of
Itself, and the critic’s conclusions are that,
used as an instrument by the European
powers, or any single one or group of
them, the Turkish army is a formidable
fighting machine, capable of being made
more so when there is occasion for it, but
that any first class European power could
knock it out of time in a single swift cam
paign. There is no reason to impugn this
critical decision, which is without doubt a
correct one, giving the military establish
ment of the Turk all the credit that is due
to it, at the same time pointing out the
limitations in its efficiency and power.
Typical of Grant.
A story is told of General Grant which
is illustrative of his tender and gentle na
ture. On the day of a great review he
turned, with eyes dim with tears, from
the sight of his old troops, saying: “I
don’t believe I can stand it I don’t be
lieve I can stand it ” In the same spirit
is the following souvenir from “A Child’s
Recollections of Grant” in Current Liter
ature:
The parade of the Grand Army which
was part of the Centennial celebration
was an occasion of wild excitement to us.
We were not far from the baloony where
General Grant reviewed the troops, and
therefore saw all that could be seen—a
seemingly endless procession of soldiers,
cannon and brass bands.
And how the people cheered! But it
puzzled us why the cheers were loudest
and longest for the most forlorn, stained
and tattered old flags until we understood
that the flags, too, were veterans.
By and by the great show was over and
General Grant was going away. He did
not seem at all gay. I wondered why.
“Didn’t you enjoy it? Wasn’t it nice to
see all your old soldiers there again?” I
asked.
“But they were not all there,” he an
swered gravely.
I realized what it had meant to him to
review his old army. Those tattered flags
had been carried by men who went to
death at his command. Those dark stains
had been the red lifeblood of men who
died obeying him. To others it had been
a day of jubilee, while his great heart had
ached as he thought of the price of his vic
tories.
Trick Photography.
The writer of this article has been amus
ing himself with photographed ghosts.
The first thing attempted was a picture of
a man holding a conversation with him
self. The subject was posed .before the
camera as if holding an animated conver
sation and placed so as to be taken at one
end of the plate. A black screen shielded
the other end and prevented any Image
from being formed there. After the ex
posure the screen was shifted and the sub
ject was made to occupy a position where
his image would be thrown on the newly
exposed surface. The result was surpris
ing, but slight differences in light and in
accuracies in moving the screen produced
a line of demarcation, which showed that
some trick Ijad been resorted to and re
vealed the method of operation to any one
familiar with photographic processes.
Two figures photographed separately,
cutout and pasted on a background to
form a picture which was repbotegraphed
make a much more satisfactory Ulusion,
but even with the most careful retouch
ing they often fail to give a natural effect
and the figures do not seem to fit into
their surroundings.—Angelas Magazine.
Drain the Cellar.
Wet or damp cellars mean foul air and
consequently diphtheria, malaria, rheu
matism and bronchial affection* Before
the fall rains come have draiptlling laid
outside and a foot below the base of the
foundation, and run it diagonally across
the cellar, connecting it with the outside
and street drains. , This drain must havo
no connection with sewage, kitchen slops
or surface water and ought to be well be
low the frost line. The cellar floor and
walls should be cemented, and if bricks
are used for the foundation walls it is weU
to have layers of oement between. Have
the drain laid at some distance from the
well.—Exchange.
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