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f is j 11 VOL.' 54. Jaswbr, Indiana, Feid ay, OCTOBER 13, 1911. No. 1 ! ' GOLDEN NEEDLES. yfcey Were UmJ When Qallmntt In Franc Did Fancy Work. Doringihe old regime in France, about which so much glamour re mains to us, the very men who were living and making the history of the .empire of Louis passed their leisure time in a way mat ccems iu us 01 'todav utterly ridiculous. In all the fanev work on which ladie employ ed tHcmJKMes the men som to have taken ran. Poin.-niet in ono of Iiis comedies reprents young marquis enter inir e room wbero two fair damsels ro embroiderintr. One is workinc ä piece of dress trimming, tlie other a Slarly flounce. The beau examines (he embroidery with the ee of a connoisseur, points out hero and there the specially good touches and fa too polite to notice any defects. He takes a little gold tube out of the pocket of his richly decorated waistcoat and selects a dainty gold needle. Ho goes to the frame at vhich Cidalise is working and fin ishes the flower "which she had be- run. rrom ner ne moves to cne ""B . - 3 It. Mia ana, seizing one cuu oi me flounce, assists Iamone, to whom he pays -special attention, to complete her task. At this time it was the custom of' the ladies invariably to carry their yorkbags with them to the evening receptions, in which they had not only their embroidery materials, but the last novel, the popular songs, their patch boxes and rouge pots, (katlemca also carried deftly er taoiiered little bars Into compaxy, inch held "a whole arsenal of cut lery and ancy articles, such a koies of different shapes filled wit T kcengee, bonbons, snuff and scent At another period tho fashion of the day was to cut out dravinffs fm books and pamphlets and to ate them on screens, lamp shades, ie3 and vases. The skill in this wm to so arrange the drawings or paru oi different drawings aa to produce a curious or amusing ef fect. Then there came a season hen 'J the rage was for charades and riddles, which gave a peculiarly pod opportunity to eierdse the tght and rapid wit so conspicuous In the French. Every evening the drawing rooma were converted into impromptu charades. Some lady would suggest a word ör phrase, and forthwith it would bo converted iflto the mbject of a sprightly little play. JIaay of the word games now cur rent with us in America had their origin in the necessity the French adom were under in the last cen tury to divert themselves. In some of the salons the fashion of keep ing a daily chronicle of news, which as too often a mere chronicle of jcandal, was adopted. Mme, Don biet de Persan issued bulletins hich she called "nouvellc3 a la pain. ' In her apartments two reg isters were kept, one of tho authen tic news received here and there by her guests, the other of floating ru mors and on dits, and from these the budget of her chronicle was jMde up ami circulated throughout trance. Applcton's Ma-azine. rPtnmlr in Wo hnial t itul m-taMti: his nxra Good be tn bed already) IM Mete. s re ray et? -BEÜj, i xc-rets tor say ax J--Wof a 6 trouMww J Ef & 110 'c it rr. ger olaclc-LesUe'a Week. 0, Sarcasm. Shorry I'm Eho Ute, nr'ie&r," SJ J f joker. .topftdWw' rT1" Interrupted bja tta J take üie Wiok oat The Confessions of a West Baden Gambler. "Come easy, go easy." The Old weather-beaten phrase is still the rule among the easy raonev getters and will be as long as there arc 'chumps" "for the gamblers to get their money from. The gambler who saves much money is seldom found. Some few have done this, but they are in the minority. I have gambled in nearly all the lar ger cities in the United States, and have gambled in this valley for a number of years, and I think I know something of the "tricks of the trade," and how some of the "easy marks" are caused to loosen from their "cash." The game in this valley is not as strong as it was some years ago, and I am tired of the great amount of work it now requires to get "by." When you have to scheme with the officials and the courts and at the same time expend large sums of money in order to run, then it is that the game does not pay. Wherever and whenever gambling is going on to any extent vou can safely say that the officers are on the nay-roll, for gambling can no more exist where you nave officers who aie on the square than a man can argue with a stump on fire. It requires much more money to satisfy grafting officers than the fellow on the out-side knows any thing about Contrary to the general opinion, the men on the opposite side of the table, who deal the gambling games to the "chumps," are not happj with their winnings, and as a class are the most dis satisfied people in the world. The care and worry they have to put forth in a game to win makes them naturally suspicious of every one, and disgrunted, narrow-minded and pessi mistic. All novelty of the game has passed, and the work of winning is the hardest part of the play. All he thrills common to the novice and all the excite ment is gone, there being no chance of losing, and when they sit in a game they know they will win. It is only a question of how long the money of tha in nocent one will last, and the time it takes to play the game. All the pleasant features of the game are lost with the absolute knowledge of winning. There is no relaxation, no social pleasure and no uncertain ity of chance. The professional gambler enters in to the game with the same enthusiasm as he would in digging a ditch. I have made a considerable fort une in gambling, but have made up my mind to quit while I have enough in store for rainy day, for its only a matter of time when some honest men will slip into office in Orange County, and then you can make up your mind that the gambler will have to go and the game here will be on the blink. The net results of gambling are not worth the profits. To sum up the gambler's assets and liabilities, he forfeits the respect and companionship of all decent people and gradually loses his own self-respect, he is always in search of prey, he must stifle the finer senses of man-hood in order to smite at people and rob them at the same time, his ill-gotten money does not as a rule stick. Many happy homes and many promising young men have gone wrong as a result of the gambling table. The desire to replace the first money they have taken from their employer, with their winnings is so strong that before long they are in so bad there is no chance for them, and then this crowd of dis honest officials who have been fostering gambling get painfully busy right quick and cry aloud and spare not the fellow who lost the money of his em ployer at the gambling tables which has been receiv ing their hand. My experience has taught me that few gamblers are on the square, the desire to win being so strong and human nature so weak, consequently, there is always some one willing to take advantage of the other plavers. I am free to say that at least once in the life of every gambler, there is a desire to cheat, and if he does not yield it is for the sufficient reason that he does not know how. Persons who gamble will bear me out when I say every gambler has pass ed a time when he would give anything in the world to be able to tell the cards in his opponent's hands. Gambling is a crime breeder ana it inoculates the community in which it is carried on just as a conta gious disease communictes from one person to an other. The snooting affray at West Baden some time ago was the culmination of a gambling row. The officer who permits gambling to run and "Blind Tigers" to flourish in his bailiwick is a farce, and an accessory to crime. It is a misnomer to refer to gambling as a game of chance. It should be refer ed to as a game of cinch, as the sucker has no chance with the professional in the game, and the boob will lose and the cheater win. "Gambling is stealing." But we have men in all gambling communities who occupy High and Holy places,; mix and mingle with the gamblers and by their actione invite the continu atiuroithe crime. (Tt-enkfa.) THE OBJECTION TO JOKN-. It Wa Easily Removed When the Sit uation Wat Explained. The Gaylords and Kelsons have always hem neighbors and intimate friends. So. vrhen John Gaylord at ttrontjr-foar, as fine a felloe as ever vas, began to see what an altogeth er charming girl Molly Nelson traa there -was naturally no opposition. Indeed, as the "affair" became se- rious it was evident to nil, inclnd- mg John and Molly themselves, ear to ear, she pursued jefly, "la are euuatd, but to get an idea of that the parents concerned were de- ten feet." their distance, to localize them ha lighted. As yet there was no fom I "Yea' f space. But tut power is rather lim- al announcement, but every one1 "The nose is four feet six inches :itedr For distance exceeding some inew that it was "understood," and long." (hundreds of yards it utterly faib. evening after evening John talked) "Thai's right." ' The reason is that-the distance be- to Holly on the front porch, often1 "The mouth is three feet across." tween the eyes as compared with lingering after the other Nelsons "I believe so. Jus imagine it" 'the distance to bo evaluated be had retired. j "The waist thirty-five feet cornea too small. Instruments have The surprise of the twq,was con-1 around." r been devised by which the distance seqnently great when one evening "Y-yes. Why?" between the eyes is, ob it were, arti- ßhüfSing'step was heard in the hall, "Then will you kindly explain, ficially increased. With a good in end presently 3Fr. Xebon appeared sir," she continued, '"why you stated strnment of tliis sort distances of in slippers and dressing gown, can- ha the poem which you addressed to several miles may be cvalutited. For die in hand. Quite evidently hec that J reminded you of the God- still greater distances we may nn had gone to bed and then got up ätss of Liberty?" Ladies' Home agine each eje replaced by a photo for some parpose. Journal- ; graphic plate, Eventhis wduld be "Why, father, what is the mat- T ' qe sufficient for one of the heav ier y J street Lightino- ealy Ixxlies vis, for the moon. Holly's cheeks were burning, as a 0 t?Tv w"6 At one aad thc samc momc ct her father stood there hesitating 5fc hfhtc 111 97 tha h?ht?J a phoWsraph of the moon and the and ering John closely. John, lean" f 5f soir rs be taken both at ing a'gainst the doorpost, where he,l?m n ?,la strctched ütfrom the the Cape observatory and at the t.. lr,-r it." liZT&t.Zr ndow of every seventh house. observatory at Greenwich. felt Ur. xxuimu. 'uun a joyag decidedly uncomfortable under .TrrZZ'"1 F X"l.Wa ft, imuunuu u ciearlv sco tno moon ging in In fact, it was embarrassing all T?:' - ZJTZ and ma-V C7alUate 1X3 ?Tnrr Mr vriJ Ga3 3 0151 for 3 Ln7 2ffi tt'M in Boston in 1622. ft haS ijjr in n J L t t if 3Ir. Xelsoa couched slightly, hesi-tating-. "Jfs onlj that jmother and I would liko to get a little sleep." "Father," cried 3Iolly, quite in dignant, "we couldn't have been disturbing- any one! John has been talking very low" T don't doubt that, my dear.' Mr. Kelson was beginning to enjoj the situation. "It s not that, nor have I any objection to John's talk ing to you. In fact, I haren't an objection in the world to John nor to his conduct, except" Sir. Nelson is open to suspicion of having prolonged the matter unnec essarily at this point. "except in one thing. Mrs. Kel son and I do object seriously, my dear John, to the habit yon scenx to have formed this evening of leaning against the bell push. Our bed room is next to the kitchen, and this continuous bell ringing Js not conducive to repose." There la one thins I aever reallaea bb til I bepm to cast mj teMd wpea nVe water" -And that Is?' "How many people are t toe tfc lewfk." riilladclphla Fresa. , "Wiafi Im a. Stammt It bw, Kttie fM? Ihm XKtie Q4ri-Xw. Mxrrmf Yv M 'BkBBSW& important errand, but th blunder K ! 1 n wM x buss, when ' rro to get it. vai men- as it i A KJmmvr tiers where ..Nv. l.ua--. r'-ame scoVo of fteasens Fei Being Inrffsnant. There was something in the at mosphere which told hint that! things "Were not exactly the same. Silence followed soon after the usual greetings, but at length she spoke. "Are you aware, sir she began, 'that one hand of the Bar- j Che diätantv- of the individual stars, fholdi statue measures sateen feet, What is the cause o this state of five inches?" .thines? It i owing to the fact that "So I have heard," he nodded, happy to be addressed agaia. J "'The thickness of tho head from in that manner. -y aVcuitr Cornwall, England. Scrap Uoolo . t t , Speaking of the unreliability oi circumsiantial evidence, a lawyer sa$ , ,rT, , , for stereoscopic examination, as- "Sanders ilcBowell, a coal heaver rönomer3 hafe succeeded in over of Peebles, said angrüy to his wife coming $.e dilncultv for the sun. I OE"!Sht: T 1L . think we may say "that at present "Havers, Iispeth, hoo many KQ kno ita digtoncc to within a ümes am I to tell ye I wmna hae 1, part of" its amount the children hnngin up coal in my Rowing tlie sun's .distance, we get topt,tl t o . , .that of all the planeta by a well "Iloot, Sanders, mon, be rear existing between thc nable said Lispeth. x e ve spoilt pltmctary distanced, the shape o' the top hat wi yer fun-r But no. fop th(J ßars iiy head a ready, an, since ye re Uch mugt be hundredä jf thou heavin' coal all day, wot can a htUe Mnda o timcs farthcr roved than extra coal dust in the headpiece thc SBn Tljere evidently can be no mniii' question of any sufficient eve dis- " Woman, ye diaaa grasp raa ar- tflnct. on our carlh ireanWhile our gyment, said Sanders. 1 only wear Ucce with tllc am na3 prorided that top nat mtlwtvnn. an if ug a onc distance 24,000 I'm oot an' I takJ ifroL it iru.es a times grcator than anv possible e;e black Land around ia.: fmvwL' a; n t nnrtli "for What's tl r i W.i r V" cused or .ill t c' r r wi ma hat unl " . Democrat Strenuous FaUliiro. -. Old ?ibe Craer i.rc-J inc'tc.' England in the day ?f Ii.dum war fare. Ilowas a fatalist of a pro- t-. nounced tvpe. Nevorthelcss If cx k would not venture forth without h- blunderbwe. One dav he had j. one of hi f- mly luid taken it. Abe in quite otVptional cases that pho :.. I iVl it 4 bmaht togtapH - ' ir;e scale that is, sat down back. j "Bnt, i. 1 thought you were a fatalist .- ida iricnd. "So 1 5 -!," the old nan a- wered. Then blunder "Tou CTv hv Etiler about roar 8: tar'it-d the friaml. no ilaaTcr from the In- dians, sin vu i cnt possibly die coeded in this way in determining ff!" the l"'i.; r :nw than a hun- ' "e old man, "bot dred tar.- is!. Scicntrfic Araari - ; wet n Indian n. ' o:t c. It woufdn'l " t- h .re n r Wimler ftn ' MuiaW. , I" vüdrew was in a fratiter petiHr inood, aad in order - zrJri to restore lui cuslosM-'ry rood' hu- 'till your ti res,-.- suppose jjand his t cor ro ot- Tes.r 'm ttci':. with a mi -;-v i ic when I though. t -: !-t man in thc worlt. : !, r3'. d th.it nothing co' cer r- to love hi: " "Well," .er" frienti r-flied, "i oppose tu :nu!i ?o.mr.l to Üiese disenchant . .14 ixrwaeiK . We have only 10 ixvoTne wi mui a man to ditc iw that l.e k not the god we had irpogcd lum io Ik." "TVüf it n-nnt ltnmimr hiv 'quainted with him that destroyed my ideal. 1 am sure thai l coma still rtzink hint splendid if I had jwrer seta him In riding brcecha." DISTANCE OF THE STARS. Hgyt Astronomers Set About the Ta of Measuring It. With the execjrtion of a hundred etara at nvwt. we know nothing of . we have two ee that re are en abled not only to perceive the, di rection in wLiih external objects tance. i But for tho sun and the nearest Pots, our next neighbors in the 5mvors'c ater the mn, the difii- recommences. t ine reason is tnat any avaimme distance on the earth, taken as eve distance, is rather small for tha m . it i rii 1 liui pusv. iiuW f , v I , nLnrc hv Rrtitnt- - t fiTWi enromont we know the distance at which the earth travels in its orbit around the sun we can take tho diameter of its ,orVt as our eye distance. Photo T - ha taken at periods six months will represent the stellar -w seen from points the dis between which is alreaay best sod in the time it would take lieht to traverse it. The time would be r at sixteen minutes. .ever, even thi3 distancc,lm- s, tit on the whole, in- oDtaining a stereo- the 6tar3. It is only obtainoi aid of big tele- popes f stereoscopic ef- lect tn- ' ! : tin. Iiy arcurata trm jhtos ve may rjcV. it beyond vhat it 'r HBjplö stciooäcopic üuU a we faid n mo- . rz:3inrs Iisve not sac- znc? r" perlt-, f ' we eaa si' i imrnvtiaa; meat aao. mor his mother proaiced him some preserved strawbarries if ha would be a good boy. Calling a servant, ?e said: "Jennie, plcasc give 'Andw about four strawlierries." Jennie proceeded to fulmll tha wish of her mistrcs3 and catuited out thc Wrrics, . "Ona, two, three, wui. "I want five, protested the chtlcU "But your wother,ii four," tctd Jennie 'fararaa said 'aboat for" re- ohfl wVndraf, And' he s&ihe fftkKew 1Qrk Times. t U-C1Um ara-HrW: