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Hd toward the boy.
^rOdbless you, Pun),’ he said and
then he slept.
When he awoke he was better, and
was soon able to talk to Paul without
injury to hiuse/f.
‘How long have I been sick 1 ’ he
asked.
‘Si* weeks. I came in the same
day that yen gave me the dollar to
teJl you how happy Mrs. Lee and
Bessie were when I gave them your
offering, and I found you upon the
loor, I thought you were dead. I ran
for the doctor, aud we got you upon
the bod, and in ^ little while you show¬
ed sigus of life. I took care of you.
and done just as the doctor told me
to. .j- „ r.
‘And how is Mrs. Lee and Bessie*’
* f
‘Bessie is bettor, but Mrs, Lee’s arm
*
enough , .. ^ that she
has not got well so
can work yet,* Paul answered.
‘Who takes care of them.’ was the
next inquiry.
*1 told some kind ladies about them
and they go two or three times a week
to carry them food and help them in
other ways-’
‘I want you to earty some money
right down to .Mrs Lae aud tell her
that old miser Michell scut it to her.
i'll not be called by H»at name again
after to-day however,’ and the old
man reached ft»r his pocket-book.
‘/fere is a t«n-.iol)ar bill for Mrs. Lee
and tell he she shall not suffei anymore,
and the old man lay back en his pi
ow again.
It will be a Christmas present for
her,’ said Paul joyf’ Uy. if is Christ¬
mas | to mor*Hiw.’
'i had forgotten it,* .said the sick
man.
When Paui returned after be hai
carried the money to .Mrs* Lee. ho found
another ten dollar bill upon the stand
by the misers l ed. ‘It is to buy you
a near suit of clothes for a Christmas
preheat,’ the old man said.
‘-Vow I’ve got iuoim mony to go with
the one dollar that I first gave away,’
be said to hiinss/f. ‘Soon I’ll have as
largs a heap of dollars as I saw in my
dream. And this money will uever
Wr .
i i i f with
WT-l iviio needed
Chrisiin hs came
for all who need
vw. Ji, Holt in Baptist
A GAME OF POKER ON THE
, MISSISSIPPI
Written for the Jasper News, by
W. M. J.
Thirty years ago, when there was
considerable more traveling than now,
on the Mississippi, the steatuere flying
up and down the river, were a great
resort for gamblers, and men who live
by their wits. Colonel Marton and a
professional friend of his bought, the
neat little steamer “Maid of Orleans.”
This friend of the Colonel's was an ex¬
pert gambler, and had the reputation
of being oue of the most successful
poker playeia that traveled the river at
that date.
One beautiful day in May, when
their beat sloped at a small landing
(I forgit the tiapi^ of the a niSu
of apparently thirty hive years plain¬
ly drcsied, having in his hi«n*l a car
pet-fiuek. and withal a rustic looking
personage, stepped on beard tlrn
steatmr. we had traveled perhaps a mile
or less, wood the professional part of
the ownership of the steamer, Frank
Osborn v by name, proposed a social
game of cards with myself and the 'rus¬
tic.’ Well, we played for some time.
Mr. Osborn suggested that \ve would
all play for a small sum, just to make
the game interesting. Well as I had a
particula use tor what money I had,
I deotiued the idea. After a few com¬
mon place remarks, O.born and the
“rustis” sat down to a game of draw
poker. The bettiug was light at first
but gradually grew, and 1 could see
by the twinkle of Osboras’s eyes that
he considered be had a soft snap in
the “fustic.” they played for an
hour or iu ire, wheu the strauger de¬
clared bimseli “ broke.” I had noticed
that Osborn seemed to win with out
trouble. The two sat there for a few
minutes, the ' rustic” seeming to feel
his loss very much. He had last, I
think: fifteen hundred dollars since vtay
had commenced playing. Alter a
little l hoard the '‘rustic” tell Orsboru
that he had $5,^YT i.« his carpet sack
chat had been intrusted to him by
fr.cud to be deposited in a bank at
New Orleans and that $1,000 of
'nem'y he lud lo.it, belonged to the
.
friend aiso Osborn in the hopes of
w oiling the $.’>,000 kept insisting •*<
the other to play, sowing that lie would
have a change to rega’n tie money,
which he had lost. After some pci -
suasion, they rr-r lined illying, and J
noticed tlmfc luck indeed had changed.
Osborn was losing heavily. The stran¬
ger sat there, showing ue signs of his
feelings by iiis face of the pleasure he
must have felt. When Osbon had
played the $2,500 >bu\k, with $3,000
besides. Osborn being broke, called
on the colonel for a Joan- After get¬
ting it, he seated himself iu the chair
with a look of confidence, and and the
play commenced again. 1/ was pretty
much as before. The stranger win¬
ning very often with ca*e. and Osborn
just winning enough to keep, him en¬
couraged. The uioney borrowed by
Osborn soon passed into t..e hands of
the stranger, but Osborn seemed re¬
luctant to give it up, he having great
confidence in himself as a player. lie
then proposed to play the stranger his
interest in the steamer, this being agree
ded. they reunited the play again,
and when the boat landed at New Or¬
leans, /lie play closed, Osborn being
just $13,000 worst off besides his inter
est in the steadier.. The stranger sold
if ! n u 5 *° ^ lo,,e<
,
I afterwards found that the
rustic as we supposed was not the snek
i r he looked to be, but was the noto¬
rious Harry De Aut’gnae, the greatest
gambler that ever visited America, ami
being at the time the owner of the
finest estate in England, and having
won two million dollars in one night in
Paris a few years before coming to this
country. Like many others who live
by gambling died a poor drunkard in
California, a few years ago, the coun*y
authorities having to bury him.
A Stepfather’s Terrible
Brutality.
Dickson. Tenn., Feb. 15.—
Bill Beard, living near this place
becoming enraged at Ins four
year old stepson, pulled his hair
out by the roots, gouged out his
eyes, threw them away, gnaw¬
ed his ears off and then threw
the bleeding trunk into the fire*
which wits burned to a crisp.
After serbusly beating his wife
and father-in-law the inhum an
.
fiend was fiimdly arrestod am
in jail.
ISAAC GRANT,/
Attoriwj at l>a^r,
/aapcr, ^ . Gec(|kj
Practices m ,*tf Ike court*. Lc«rt
business soliairferf a*<2 frnMfc.;**K attend
o d to.
OB™ in ecu *1 ffoiMe.
W
MOULTRIE SESSIONS^
ATTORNEY A LAW.
ELLIJAY, : . . . CtJt.
Will practice in a’I tho c-> lnfciei n(
the Blue Ridge Circuit. Promptum
is his motto.
i
JOHN W.HENLEY
ATTORNEY aT LAW,
J H»per, Gu.
W. T. DAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Jasper, (»?R
Practices in the Blue Ridge CiretJt*
audi in the U. $• Circuit and Disk
court for the NvrtLcrn l)ia(. (if Ga.
<1 D mAddjjl
ATTORNS? AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA
Refers, by permission to John Sit
vey and Co.,J.R. wylie and Gramlirj*
Spaulding i > , all of Atlanta Ga.,
the Simpson & Galt Manufacturing
co.Ci neinnati, Ohio.
r. P. PuPIlEE, :
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Blue Ridge
circuit and in Cherokee county. Offiw
Court House with Ordinary.
Administrations on estates. ,
ZJ~ collections a specialty
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