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Phl's Up and Down Carecer—Two Re
mirkable Gamblers Portrayed.
Such a frail looking boy' Riley Gran
nas, the new plunger at horse racing, has
not yet rcached his twenty-fourth year,
His small dark eyes seem to laugh at the
awful thinness and anxiety of his face.
Although he is about 5 fees 814 inches in
height, he cannot weigh more than 1926
pounds.
As he lifts his hat for & moment. he
shows a fairly well baianced head, but
neither his forehead nor his features gen-
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| RILEY GRANNAN,
erallyindicate that ruggedness of charac:
- ter which one would look for in a man
" who duld carve success out of such a busi
ness @ bookmaking.
- Onl§ fiva years ago this boy was run
ning 81 glevator in a Louisville hotel.
Startigy ‘ont with a capital of §5, he is
now n%xstm{of a bank account tuat could
not be pought for $250,000.
- M:m? of \the old ‘‘hookies’ say it’s all
E ‘“luck,{/but pluck and good judzment
" have réally carried this young feilow to
the tophif the sambling laddor. ¥
“I’vatold my story so often,’’ he Ffli(i to
a reportr the other day, ' that it's thread
bare. There’s nothing lefs to tell. You
know this business. Today you ave pp
Tomorrdw vou are down- [ have won
/¢ lands on a race, on an idea, serfti
| Ili}ing for a horse’'s performancelor
, Mver you }ike tocali it Again, I have
Jowsands on what is called ‘inside in
i dplon.” . Judgment doesn't go far, as
4 in horse racing, yet without its ex
| gbettors ‘go broke.' There you are—
tipoints, sentiment, knowledge and
. ilent, and in my case the greatest of
" | thas been sentiment.’’
Yi then the race was started, and
l { (hn quietly secized a pair of field:
giasses and seemed to watch egsh horse
every foot of the way.
‘‘Here’s where he gets his best peints,”’
said one of his friends. ‘'He caught $30,-
000 in a single race in Morris park this
‘spring from a previous day’s watching
He caught $12,000 at one coup at Graves:
end in the same way. Here he has cashed
tickets outside of his book winnings for
$60,000."’
Grannan first sprang into prominence
two years ago in the west;, where he man
aged to run a shoestring into $50,000.
This was the beginning of his sensational
turf operations, for he at once proceetded
¢to electrify the ring by his wild wagers
and managed to part with his carnings
in about as short time as it took him to
gain them.
Last spring he appeared on the block at
Sheepshead Bay, and at that time he was
) reputed to have $lOO,OOO behind his game.
He quickly becair.e notorious by reason of
what his fellow bookmalkers called his
rashness at laying odds. But he prosper
e¢d, and because of the advantageous fig
ures he chalked up he won a big play.
' Girannan had heard mnch of the plung
ag of M. F. Dwyer and yearned for his
v play. He said many things about the turf
magnate calculated to provoke him into
a betting duel. The first round resulted
~in a victory for the Kentucky youth, and
. he fattened his roll with $5,000 of Mgp.
§ Dwyer’s money.
\ A rapid interchange of courtesies {ol
!_ lowed, with varying success to each par
[ ¢ieipant, but one day Dwyer laid $30,000
! in Grannan’s buok on Stonenclle, and Ri
¢ ley was temporarily swamped. In a few
| days Grannan was back on the block as
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' PITTSBURG PHiL.
r as ever before, and since the epl
nentioned he has never been known
ve been within hailing distance of
ners
@raloga LTSNNAI's SUCCESS a 8 Deep
l!msly marveicns. Hi§ winnings in-a
single day have been known to have ex
ceeded $60,000 Fiction does not record
so wonderful a career.
The recent unsuccessful attempt of Pres
ident Walbaum to run Grannan off the
Saratoga track is well known.
What the young plunger will do in tha
future is purely problematical, but tha
iong heads on the turf predict that he will
zm&g to grief.
: Modest Pittsburg Phil.
Pittsburg Phil is a modest young man
and objects to the notoriety he has gained
by reason of his success.
**Why should I be picked out for a mark
and my actions so faithfully chroniecled?’”
this young man has frequently asked.
Phil came from good old Revolutionary
stock, one of his ancestors having owned a
bull that was captured by General Wash
ington at Valley lorge. His ambition
broke throuch the restraints of factory
drudgery, and he nibbled at the golden
bait hung out by the poolrooms of the
Smoky City.
Fortune or good judgment favored tho
young speculator from the start of his
meteoric carcer, and the luck—as it i 3
called—that pursued him soon gave him a
local reputation that was greatly ennanced
when the poolroom owners, having learned
to respect his money, decided to bar him
from their resorts.
Cast out in the world, with ncthing to
spend but money, Phil went to Chicago,
and again he duplicated his phenomenal
success and brought down on his young
head the wrath of the Windy City pencil
ers. Phil was too big for Chicago and
came to New York.
The Pittsburg Phil or George E. Smith
of today is a clean cut young man, always
well but not extravagantly dressed, affable
with friends, but not at all forward. In
the evenings he frequently drops into the
cafe of the Sturtevant House and studies
the entry card for the morrow's races
At such times he is surrounded by sev:
eral friends, who carefully treasure the
suggestions the young plunger makes and
invariably follow his advice. Phil will
sip seltzer or light beer at these informai
conferences, but he is not a man to drop
into dissipation.
On the race track Phil flocks by him
self, as the saying goes, and depends upon
his own reasoning to draw conclusions.
He is a frequenter ¢f the paddock and an
excellent judge of form. If he has one
weakness, it is the control sentiment ex
ercises over his reasoning faculities. This
has cropped out recently in the determina
tion he has shown to make a winning
jockey out of the imported article known
as Swash His vain pursuit of gain
through Derfargilla may have been the re
sult of sentiment, or maybe it was a series
of errors in judgment.
Phil has prospered finely and now owns
a nice home in Harlem. At the close of
the racing season of 1892 he was reputed
to be worth $500,000. His rapid climb to
the realms wherein millionaires swar
was checked when he became the owner
of a vacing stable. It appeared that the
possession of bang tails had a bad influ
ence on his reasoning powers, and the re
sult was that during the last season heo
was gencrally credited with having los:
about $200,000. This may or may not be
true.
PAINTED AND DYED.
Such Are the Arab Girls Before They En
ter the Harem.
Arab girls before they enter the harem
and take the veil are acurious sight to
behold. Their bodies and faces are dyed
a bright yellow with turmeric. On this
ground they paint black lines with an
timony over their eyes. The fashiona
ble color for the nose is red. Green
spots adorn the cheeks, and the general
aspect is grotesque beyond description.
My wife tells me that the belles in
the sultan’s harem are also painted in
this fashion, and that they also paint
gloves on their hands andshoes on their
feet, and thus bedizened hope to secure
the afections of their lords. At Shief
the men would not allow my wife to ap
proach or hold any intercourse with the
Arab women, using opprobrious epithets
when she tried to make friendly over
tures, with the quaint result that when
ever Mrs. Bent advanced toward a group
of gazing females they fled precipitate
ly, like a flock of sheep before a collie
dog. These wowmen wear their dresses
high in front, showing their yellow
legs above the knee, and long behind.
Tloy are of deep blue cotton, decorated
with fine embroidery and patches of
yellow and red sewed on in pattern.
It is the universal female dress in
Hadramus and looks as if the fashion
had not changed since the days when
Hazarmaveth, the patriarch, settled in
this valley and gave it its name (Gene
sisx, 28). The tall, tapering straw hat
worn by these women when in the fields
contributes, with the mask, to make the
Hadrami females as externally repulsive
as the most jealous of husbands could
desire.—Nineteenth Century.
Not Permanent.
“Timmins says he is wedded to his
art.”’
“Youdon’tsay! It isa wonder to me
that he doesn’t sue for divorce on the
ground of nonsupport.’’—Cincinnati
Tribune.
Popcorn pops because the essential
oil in the corn is converted into gas by
heat, and thus an explosion occurs which
tears the kernel open and causes a sin
gular inversion of its contents.
The'outer layers of the alligator’s skin
are said to contain a large percentage of
gilica; hence the hardness of the ani
mal’s hide.
Many stubborn and aggravating cases
of rheumaiism that were believed to be
incurable and accepted as life legacies,
bave yielded to Chamberlain’s Pain Balm,
much to the surprise and gratification
of the sufierers. One application will
relieve the pain and suffering and its
continued use insures an effectual cure.
For sale by Farrar & Farrar., ‘
A HOUSE WITH A ROMANCE.
First the Home of a Quaint Quaker and
Then of a Lottery King.
On a tongue of wooded land formed
by the Glebe and (ioldsborough creeks
in Talbot county there is a house with
a romantic story. When, in 1661, Wen
lock Christison, the Quaker, was seized
by a Puritan mob headed by the Rev.
Seaborn Cotton, tried and condemned
by Governor Endicott to die, pardoned
by the king and let off with a flogging
at the cart’s tail on the highway, he
feund sanctuary in Maryland, where
Lord Baltimore granted him asylum on
the tongue of land that cools itself in
the pleasant waters of St. Michael’s
river—Miles they call it now. Here the
indomitable Quaker abode and prosper
ed, wearing his hat in the presence of
governors and magistrates and testify
ing for ‘‘the truth and the light’”’ with
out fear of clubs or cart tails. Those
easy going eastern shoremen actually
made him a burgess, and he and his de
scendants long dwelt in peace in the old
brick manor house, of which a frag
ment still survives.
In time by lapse of heirs the place
fell to the possession of Richard France,
the famous ‘‘lottery king’’ of Maryland,
who built the turreted villa there and
adorned the ground with fountains and
winding walks, cdnservatories and gar
den gods, to the effusive wonder and
admiration of the natives. But Mary
land, taking up scruples, set her face
against lotteries, and France for a time
coquetted with Delaware until Dela
ware in like manner turned prudish,
and the last we hear of the ‘‘lottery
king’’ is that he had died in a debtor’s
prison. ~
Then the garden gods fell on their
faces, and thorns sprang up and choked
them, and all was desolation and respect
ability. Again the villa waited not in
vain, for one day the windows were
opened, exposing all the ghastly gaps
in their panes, and a strange man, un
tidy and shock headed, pottered about
in the weedy, seedy garden, a grim and
churlish recluse. But negro curiosity,
once sharply piqued, is persistent and
penetrating, and forthwith Ethiopia be
gan to gossip about the strange man,
how that he was a blacksmith from
Connecticut and an oracle in local
political circles, one to whom ‘‘Big Six”’
was a spell to conjure with. And pres
ently the disheveled interloper was
joined by a bearded and venerable com
panion, with a head like a pear, who
lurked and waited behind the close
gates and the screen of shrubbery. Then
a furtive yacht at night in St. Michael’s
river took the bearded mystery aboard
and was off to the bay and the sea, and
the police, who went poking about the
place a day or two later, looked foolish
and asked one another inane conun
drums about the cunning flitting of
Boss Tweed.—*‘Old Maryland Homes
and Ways’’ in Century.
Not a Target.
In a New England courtroom one aft
ernoon an energetic counsel was setting
forth in no measured terms his opinion
of certain testimony which had been
given by one of the witnesses. As he
talked he gesticulated freely and was
particularly lavish in the use of the
forefinger of his right hand, which as
sumed a decidedly threatening aspect
as he progressed in his speech.
Suddenly a tall, lank countryman,
who was directly in a line with this
warning forefinger, rose from his seat
among the jurymen. ;
“I jest tell ye what ’tis,”’ said he.
“I ain’t done nothin I’'m ashamed of. I
ain’t done nothin no way of no kind, so
fur’'s I know, an I ain’t a-goin to set
here an be abused. Ef you say another
word, I'll jest light out fer home.”’
““My dear sir,’’ stammered the coun
sel, ‘‘my remarks were not intended for
any member of the jury. They referred
entirely to the witness.’’
““Well, then, you jest quit a-p’intin
your finger at me when you're talkin
like that,’’ said the lank juryman with
out appearing to be much mollified by
this statement. ‘‘lf you do it agin, I'll
break up bhis ’ere court, or my name
ain’t Joshuy Bowker.”’
And with a determined mien and fire
in his eye Joshua Bowker at last subsid
ed, and the counsel continued his ha
rangue without further interruption.—
Youth’s Companion.
Economical Mr. Staybolt.
““The most economical man I know
of,’’ said Mr Gratebar, ‘‘is my friend
and neighbor, Mr. Staybolt. When he
smokes a cigar, he lights it carefully
and completely, so that it will burn
perfectly and without waste, and hav
ing so lighted it he blows out the match.
Of course he knows that a match once
ignited is of no further use, but his
habit of mind is such that he hates to
see any waste of material whatever.
Some men blow out a lighted match be
fore throwing it away, so that no harm
can come from it. Mr. Staybolt may
have that in mind, too, but his actuat
ing impulse no doubt sprimgs from his
spirit of economy.’’—New York Sun.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors
GEORGIA— [errell County.
| All persons having demands against
the estate of John A. Hiers, lute of
‘Terrell county, deceased, are hereby
‘notified to render in their demands
.0 the undersigned according to law,
and all persons indebted to said estate
are required to make immediate pay
‘ment., This Dec. 4th, 1894.
| L. C. BOYL, J=.,
- Adm'r John A. Hiers, deceased.
For «dministration.
GEORGIA-=Terrell County.
Ordinary’s Office, Dec. 3ed, 1894,
—lt has been roprerented to me that
the estate of John Seay, late of said
county, deceased, is uvrepresented
and that there is a necessity for ad
ministration on said estate. This is,
there'are, to notity all concerned
that if no o'jectiors are filed in my
office on or before the first Monday in
January, 1895, let ers will be grante
ed to the clerk ot the superior court
o' sa 1 county, or some other fit and
[T Op r person.
J. W. RORERTS, Ordinary,
For Dismission.
GEORGIA—Terrell County.
John Cannon, administrator of the
estate of Isham W. Mann, deceased, bhav
ing represenied to this court that he has
fully discharged the duties of said trust
and now ask for letters of dismission.
This is, therefore, to notify all parties
concerned to file objections, if any they
have, on or before the first Monday in
March next or letters of dismission will
then be asked for as granted. This Nov.
10th. 1894,
J. N. ROBERTS, Qrdinary.
For Dismission.
GEORGIA —Terrell County.
Wm, M. Hasty executor of the estate
of O. O. Hasty, deceased, having repre
sented to this courtthat he has fully dis
charged the duties of said trust pnow
asks for letters of dismission. This is,
therefore, to notify all persons concerned
to file their objections, if any they have,
on or before the first Mondey in March
next, cr letters of dismission will then be
granted as asked for. This Nov. 10th,
1894.
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
For Dismdission-
GEORGJA-—Terrell County.
Ordinary’s Office, Oct. 1, 1894.—J. L.
Brightwell, as administrator of Wm.
Brightwell, deceased, represents that he
has fully discharged the duties of his
said trust and prays for letters of dis
mission. This is, therefore, to notify all
persons concerned to show cause, if any
they can, on or before the first Monday
in January nex. why said administrator
should not be discharged from said ad
ministration. 3m
J. W. ROERTS, Ordinary.
- For Guardianskip.
GEORGIA—Terrell County.
Ordinary’s Office, Dec. 9, 1894.—R. L.
Saville has applied to me for letters of
guardianship of the property of Lizzie
Baldwin and Mozell Baldwin, minors of
said county. This is, therefore, to noti
fy all concerned to file their objections,
if any they have, on or before the first
Monday in January next else letters will
then be graoted to said applicant as
applied for. J. W. ROBERTS,
Ordinary.
For Administration.
GEORGIA—Terrell County.
Ordinary’s Office, December 1, 1894.
H. C. Daniel has applied to me for letters
of administration on the estate of Louisa
I. Daniel, deceased. This is, therefore,
to notify all concerned to file their objec
tion, if any they have, on or before the
first Monday in January next else said
let*ers will then be granted said appli
cant as applied for.
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
. Dissolution Notice.
The firm of Smith & Alexander is this
day dissolved by mutual consent. W. B.
Smith will continue the business and
collect all debts due the firm and assume
all debts due by us.
W. B. SMITH.
J. M. ALEXANDER,
Dec. Tth, 1894.
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J. L. JANES
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LAWSON, GA.
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