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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. - & 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. j 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. J .... . , 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. ? ———————————————— 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. i ; 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. . •• '*•— 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. ■4 . . : SEE “■' ■ l ' ■w I : t l I r I THAT THE I | FAC _ SIMILE SIGNATURE slmilatirigtheToodandHegula- M g OF Promote s Digestion,Cheerful and Rest. Con tains neither B Opium, Morphine nor Mineral- B jg qjj TTTK NotNAhcotic. WRAPPER ' | SS'r or every ■ 1 ife I BOTTLE OF 7 | A perfect Remedy for Cons lipa- ■4b M H £1 Hon. 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