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COSTLY FLYSPECKS.
A MAN'S LIFE AND $2,000 WERE
AT STAKE, a
tha Ooctulon Was One of the Old Poker
Game* ti the Fierce Gambling Day*
of Frontleriam Examination of tbe
Card* Righted Hatters.
I once knew a couple of fly specks
to cost nearly $2,000, to say nothing
of a man's life, in a poker game," said
a New Orleans turfman, talking about
big gambling in the old days. "It was
In '69 or '70—I forget the exact date—
and the game was played in a club
room on Royal street. There were
four men at the table—a merchant, a
railroad superintendent, a St. Tam
many planter, and an ex-judge, all
pretty well to do, except possibly the
railroader.
"The Judge had three eights and
discarded an ace and a queen the
planter had four fives and drew one
card as a blind, and I forget what the
others held. The cards they were
playing with were 'indicators,' with
marks on the corners, and as there
were several spectators in the room,
the Judge held his hand very close to
gether, and looked only at the index
finger on the edge. He saw that he
had caught another eight in the draw,
making four. Then the betting be
gan in earnest, and pretty soon the
railroad man and the merchant drop
ped out
"In throwing down his hand," con
tinued the story teller, "one of the
men who passed out accidentally turn
ed over his cards, exposing a king
high straight. The Judge got a
glimpse of it, and, having discarded an
ace, he naturally concluded that his
four eights were invincible, straight
flushes not being played at the time.
"That at least was the way he told
us afterward he figured it and he was
on the point of laying down but there
was a possibility of a bluff, and final
ly he pulled out 9500 in currency and
called. On* of the onlookers was
standing right behind the Judge, and,
•s I said before, he never looked at
anything but the indicators In the
corners, keeping his hand bunched to
gether. 'I have you beat,' he said,
tossing the cards, face down, on the
table, 1 have four eights.' 'They're
good,' said the planter 'it serves me
right for being a fool and he began
to turn them over, one by one. 'What's
this!' he exclaimed suddenly, as he
uncovered the last card. There were
three eights, a trey and a four-spot.
"The Judge glared at the paste
boards with a face as black as thun
der. 'This won't do!' he shouted, at
the same time slapping his hand over
the money. 'I'll take my oath I had
four eights!' Meaning to imply what?'
•aid the planter, very quietly, but ris
ing from his chair. What might have
happened nobody can say, but the
-gcad horse sense of the railroad super
intendent rose to tha emergency.
'Gentlemen,' he said, 'we are not
swindlers or poker sharps. There has
been some mistake. Now let's keep
cool and find out what It was.'
"That calmed things down and an
examination of the cards showed
clearly how the blunder arose. One of
the register Barks In the earner of
the trey looked exactly like an eight,
owing to a couple of fly specks in the
open space of the figure 3."
One on Andrew Lan|
Bveo the shrewdest persons may at
timet be deceived. No matter how
nuch people may differ upon the
genius of Andrew Lang, they are
unanimous In regard to his quick in
telligence and his talent for playing
golf. Not long ago he was a guest at
a very distinguished dinner, which he
is said to have described as an extra
ordinary survival of savage mysteries.
The culinary part was faultless, but
Mr. Lane's enjoyment was utterly
ruined by having, as he put it, "a
budding funny man on the one hand
and a diabolically deaf socialist on the
other. I could not," added the famous
critic, "tell which of the two was the
more mournful companion." Two
weeks afterward It got out that the
socialist was not deaf that he had
eome to the banquet prepared to be
bored by lees learned guests that he
had been seated alongside "an idiotic
middle-aged gentleman who did noth
ing but talk of golf," and that, to pro
tect himself, he had simulated a deaf
ness which kept his neighbor bawling.
—Boston Journal.
Stevenson's Grave.
Admirers of Stevenson will be glad
to have the assurance that his grave in
Samoa will be tenderly respected under
the German flag. Count von Bulow,
on being informed that there was some
fear in Britain that political enmity
might threaten the sanctity of Steven
'lon's resting place, expressed himself
as follows: "There is no spot in Sa
moa which will be more treasured by
Germany than the grave of her (Mrs.
Stevenson's) noble and distinguished
husband. He was at times a stern
critic, but we always honored him and
we feel no shame to-day in admitting
that much that he wrote and said may
have been well deserved. The grave
ob Vaea shall ever be honored as would
be the resting place of one of Ger
many's most distinguished dead."
Poor, Dear Doggie.
A collie dog named Major was laid
in a hard wood casket covered with
heavy Mack cloth and lined with white
jfM* and buried with great pomp and
many symptoms of grief in tha new
osmstery tor dogs at Tarrytown. Tbe
animal belonged to Mrs. John
T.
New
York, *ho an
•mls1sfc*r*s bill of serenal hundred
flnMMi. aid Is now In deep mourning.
THE PA8TOR QUIT.
Texas Minister Saw a Bull FlfM asd
Was Forced Oat.
The Rev. W. Pope Pledger, pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal ehuroh (4
Beaumont, Texas, has resigned bin
charge becouse of a storm of
hostile
criticism which was brought abont
a recent act of his. Last sprinf, ft U
said, there was a cheap excursion
to
Monterey, Mexico, and the ml&Uter
and two deacons of bis churoh
took
advantage of the low rate*. The an
nual bull fights were taking plaoe at
the time. These exhibitions were given
on Sunday and were attended by the
preacher, the deacons and many of the
excursionists.
When the party returned to Beau
mont a storm of hostile criticism was
directed against Mr. Pledger. He de
clared he attended the fights to
broaden his fund of knowledge, and
not for the love of brutal sport But
many members of his parish demanded
that he acknowledge his error and re
pentance publicly, which he refused to
do. In his sermon of resignation last
Sunday he said:
"There Is a bold disposition on tbe
part of many ministers to dictate to»
their flocks what they shall eat, drink
and wear. They would narrow the life
down to reading the Bible and going
to preaching and Sunday sohool.
"It is this class of ministers that
have produced a narrow-minded an&
hide-bound church. If they had It In
their power, they would not allow the
Lord to save anybody except In con
formity with their notion of how such
a thing ought to be done.
"These are the people who have
criticised me for going into saloons
and trying to. win men for Christ.
They think a minister should carry
a great amount of dignity, wear a
clerical coat, a collar buttoned behind,
a vest that buttons somewhere in the
regions out of sight (whether on the
side or at the back), and that he should
have a certain manner and wear a
certain expression of the face—all of
which should go to say, 'I am the par
ish minister.' Such a minister may
serve the purpose of society functions,
but when it comes to reaching men and
leading souls to Christ, he is a dismal
failure. I would rather be a first-class
mule than be that kind of a preach
er."
NOT SUPERSTITION.
Miners Show Wisdom In Paying Heed to
Certain Phenomena.
"Well, that isn't superstition It's
reality," and Coal Mine Inspector Den
man didn't seem a bit pleased with the
suggestion that superstition might
sometimes be responsible for the ac
tions of miners, says the Denver Post
"Coal miners," he went on to say, "are
not superstitious. Hear noises? Of
course they do, but do people suppose
those noises are imaginary? It beats
all how little is known generally about
coal mining. Folks get it into their
heads," the inspector continued, "that
a man who will quit work in a certain
part of a mine because he sees the rats
deserting that section is superstitious,
when, as a matter of fact, he simply
displays sound judgment Very soon
after the rats quit sounds will ba
heard, and later on a slide follows.
What would have happened to the man
had he credited his fears to supersti
tion by disregarding the exodus of the
rats and the subsequent noises? Rats
are the first of a mine's inhabitants to
realize danger, and then comes the
mule. Man is the last So it is only
natural that he should take as posi
tive indications of trouble the actions
of the others, and he should not be
regarded as a superstitious creature on
that account After rats desert an en
try it is next to impossible to get a
mule into It, not beoause the rats left,
but because the mule realizes the dan-!
ger. Left to themselves rats or mules
would never be caught In slides In
mines, .but it is different with men,
who will not follow the lead of the oth
er two."
Specimens of HadrL
The Ethnological museum at Berlin
has Just secured one of the best, if not
the best, of the few specimens of
Maori carving now left in New Zea
land. Some exceedingly old carvings
were collected by Mr. C. B. Nelson of
Whakarewarewa, and months were
spent in putting them together and In
supplying the necessary additional
carvings to make a complete Maori
house as known in the cannibal days
of the aboriginals of this colony. When
the work was completed it was thought'
the government might be Induced to
become the purchaser so as to keep
such a rare sample of what is now al
most a lost art in the colony, but an
offer of |8,000 from the German Insti
tution above mentioned was sufficient
to induce the owner to sell out, and
this rare structure, known among ths
Maorles as "Rauru," will soon bs
shipped to Berlin.
Personality of Helen Gould.
Helen Miller Qould Is just at tha
threshold of her beautiful career. What
a promise is there in her life and work
for the coming century! 8he haa
pledged her fortune for a Hall of
Fame on the campus of the New Yoik
University, overlooking the Harlom
river. It will have tablets for tha
names of fifty distinguished Ameri
cans, and proud will be ths descend
ants of those whose names are inscrib
ed thereon, says Suooess. The human
heart is the tablet upon whloh tllii
Gould has Inscribed her name, and bat
"Hall of Fame" Is as broad and blgh
as ths republic Itself.
Joha Brown's Sis ten
Mrs. Davis, John Brown's only ate*
ter, the youngest of the family of sl»
teen children, Is now sixty-eight years
of age, and lives in St. Johns, Hloh.
0HE TORE THE HAT.
Mild-Tempered Woman Driven to Despe*
rate Measures.
The third time it was sent back
home and was still too small she be
gan to feel discouraged. A tight hat
is even more uncomfortable than tight
boots and too many headaches were
already due to this mistaken milli
nery purchase. When she had first
put the thing on she had realized it
was too small, but the milliner, had
of course, told her it was because
she was suffering from swelled head
or that she wore her hair the wrong
way, or anything but that there
could be something the matter with
the hat. The1 woman insisted on ex
pansion, however, so the hat, accord
ing to the milliner, was duly expand
ed. The woman wore it once, to re
tire with such a headache as she had
never known before. If there is morq
exquisite torture than a heavy hat
pressing upon the head in the wrong
spot it was known only to the Spanish
inquisition. The woman went to the
milliner and insisted upon further ex
pansion, and then, as the headache ex
perience was repeated, she went a
third time. Each time no change in
the hat beyond a slight alteration in
the trimming was noticeable, and
when the third attempt was followed
by a third headache the woman just
sat down and wrote the milliner a note
saying It was no use—the hat must be
made yet larger at any cost and what
ever the trouble. A few days later
the hat came back. Such a looking
piece of millinery as it was. There
may or may not have been some spite
about it, but every vestige of beauty
and smoothness had been removed,
while the sole attempt toward recti
fying the real wrong was a kind of bay
window in black velvet built out under
the brim over the face, and adding to
both the weight and the warmth of
the article. Being notoriously amiable
in disposition the woman viewed the
wreck of her once pretty but never
comfortable bat philosophically. She
even put It on and wore it She re
turned home, every nerve in her head
throbbing and temper to match. It
only needed a glance at the glass to
remind her how utterly without Btyle
and unbecoming the thing was. The
woman tok that hat and tore it up—
thoroughly, completely. She broke a
fingernail doing it, but no puppy with
his teeth could have accomplished
more in so short a space of time. Then
she had a good cry, felt better, went
downtown, and ordered another hat,
at another milliner's. The next day
she gathered together every scattered
thread of the one-time hat, and
carefully tissue-papering and box
ing them, rang for a messenger boy
and sent the whole off to the milliner.
"Yes, it's paid," she said, in recounting
the experience to another woman. "Of
course, I can't afford to go off on such
an expensive tear as that very often,
but once in a while It does you a lot
of good." The remarkable thing was
that the other woman, who is all that
is lamb-like, was not a bit shocked,
as you might have expected. "Do you
know," she said, thoughtfully, "I've
often wanted to tear things up that
way, but I never quite had the courage.
Now that you've confessed what
you've done I mean to try it for my
self some time, so I do."—New York
Sun.
DOCTOR OP LAWS.
Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod the First of
Her Sex Honored at Edinburgh.
Edinburgh university has long been
noted as one of the most conservative
as well as one of the best of the insti
tutions of learning in Europe. It was,
therefore, a surprise when the board
of managers recently conferred upon
Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod the honorary
degree of LL. D. The lady has a world
wide reputation as an entomologist,
having for the last twenty-three years
devoted great attention to the study of
various insect pests. She is the young
est daughter of the late George Orme
rod of Sadbury Park, Gloucestershire.
In 1853 she began to study entomology
from pure love of it, and fifteen years
later was awarded a silver medal of
the Royal Horticultural society for a
remarkable collection of drawings and
models illustrative of insect pests and
their depredations. Miss Ormerod's
scientific help has ever been available
to any applicant at home or abroad
without fee or reward. On an average
1,500 letters are received and replied to
annually. From every quarter of the
globe these letters come, and Miss Or
merod has an almost unique knowledge
of languages. She reads freely Latin,
French, German, Italian and Spanish,
and, with a dictionary at hand, also
Russian, Dutch and Norwegian. Miss
Ormerod is a member or corresponding
member of many scientific societies,and
she has been for years in constantly
recurring communication with the
heads of the entomological depart
ments of the British colonies and Am
erica.
Where Mosquitoes Are Thick.
"We have to fight mosquitoes all
night," said one of the Washington
night policemen at the white house.
"This is the worst place In town for
them. There is no opportunity to take
a nap around here. The big mosquitoes
would drive a hole in you before you
could get your eyes half closed. The
electric light on the front porch is the
main attraction that draws them to
the building. They swarm around the
light and occasionally fly in the front
door when it Is opened for some one to
enter. The residence portion of the
house Is thoroughly protected with ths
best fly screens, but despite these a
good many of ths pestiferous insects
get In to make trouble. Once In, the]
•hunt places to begin propagating."
The flame of war which has started
in the Chinese empire may develop a
conflagration which will threaten the
civilization of the world, If not en
compass its destruction. This danger
will not arise from the civilized na
tions becoming jealous of one another
and warring among themselves, but
from the stirring into life and action
the dormant strength of the yellow
race. An agitation like the one in
progress may bring the seething mass
es of the Mongolians to a knowledge
of their strength and power, and then
their inborn hatred of the white races
and their savage fanaticism might lead
them to make an invasion of Europe.
No one can tell what a talented and
artful commander might lead such
hosts to do. One who could Invest
himself in the eyes of his countrymen
with something of mysterious and su
pernatural power might repeat the
history of Attila, the Scourge of God.
Should Prince Tuan or some other un
known man of the people prove to be
a Napoleonic genius he might weld the
yellow race into a fighting power
which would sweep the people of the
white races from the face of Europe
and America as the wind sweeps the
chaff from a threshing floor. That the
possibility of such a movement Is be
ing considered by the statesmen of
the civilized powers and that efforts
are being made to prevent it, is shown
in the hesitancy to allow the Japanese
to gain complete control in China by
suppressing the present uprising.
Should Japan gain control in China
it is probable that all the branches
of the yellow race would soon become
assimilated and united—China re
awakened, reinvigorated and instruct
ed by Japan would be far different
from the China of to-day. Japan has
made wonderful advancement in civ
ilization during the past few years, but
her methods and ideals are widely dif
ferent from those of the Caucasian na
tions. She has no sympathy in com­
It is believed, from evidences now
seen in the sun, that a period of great
activity is in progress there, and that
the effects of this immeasurable force
will be seen during the next five years
in what Is known as "sun spots."
These sun spots are supposed to be
great solar volcanoes or other disturb
ances of the sun's surface in some vis
ible way. The spots can be seen easily
by observers during the years up to
1905, when the maximum will have
been reached. These supposed cavi
ties sometimes go to a width of about
20,000 miles and then break up Into
separate spots or cavities, sometimes
separating at the rate of 100 miles an
hour.
The energy sent out by the same
force that causes these sun spots must
be enormous. There are some reasons
for believing that before the
It may be that the sun spots are the
energy of which they are merely the
result work in some fashion that can
not be so easily traced. During the
past three years, when the sun's en
ergies have been at work, strange
things have happened in the world. It
is merely a coincidence? If so, it is at
least worth notice that coincidences of
this kind are not rare if one takes the
trouble to look up the story of the civ
ilized world in the few years preceding
each period of outbreak of sun spots,
say, in the past 50 years.
The Chinese nature IB not without
its excitable points. There is no mem
ber of the human body BO stuffed
with pride as the Chinese. They are an
old and from their standpoint an Intel
ligent people. They are taught and do
believe that the world Is flat and en
tirely occupied by China, and that the
other nations hang from the edges.
They claim to be the inventors of gun
powder, the compass and several other
things which modern civilization
claims were originated in the western
world. They hate foreigners, but their
contempt for them far exceeds their
hate. They have been taught to be
lieve that ths introduction of railways,
the' telegraph and other modern In
ventions means death and starvation
THE YELLOW RACES,
Threaten Civilization of
the World
THIS IS A SUN-SPOT TEAR.
Is There Any Relation htween That Pact
and Certain Others?
Bpots
themselves make their appearance to
the right the energy is at work and is
radiated from the sun to the planets
of this system. At all events, the sun
spot periods are usually notable on
the earth by peculiar manifestations
of electrical energy. The electric
storms that have been seen in New
England lately are due, in some de
gree, to the solar energy and the elec
tricity sent to the earth as a result.
Such, at least, Is a widely received
scientific theory.
STUFFED WITH PRIDE
The Chinaman Thinks That He Is
the Whole Thing.
mon with the civilized powers, and her
leaders are shrewd enough to know
that she has nothing to expect from
the white races. The Japanese are
Mongolians and they would naturally
be more inclined toward people of
their own race and color, like the
Chinese, than toward the whites. They
might fight among themselves, but in
a common cause against people of an
other race and color they would be
found shoulder to shoulder. Japan,
too, is ambitious, and she has a hatred
of the powers for their action in de
priving her of what she believed was
her fruits of victory in the war against
China. It is an open secret that the
leading statesmen of China and Japan
believe that the yellow race should
control the continent of Asia. Should
it ever attain this power then the
threatening moment will have ar
rived. Then the yellow race will be
arrayed against the white.
The power of a united yellow race Is
not fully realized, and the danger
which it would threaten is by no
means imaginary. It is real and its
reality is appalling. It would combine
more than one-third of the population
of the earth and could put 50,000,000
soldiers in the field. The measure of
these soldiers should not be taken by
the fighting qualities shown by the
Chinese during the Chinese-Japanese
war. The Chinese who took part In
that war formed a mere rabble. They
were not of the northern provinces,
where are found the real fighters of
China, nor were they of the better and
more intelligent classes of the south
ern provinces. The events of the past
few days prove this statement, for the
fanatical Boxers have not only fought
like demons, but have conducted their
movements with skill and have shown
their ability to handle modern weap
ons of war. With a united yellow
race the Chinese would have the ad
vantage of Japanese teaching, dash
and leadership.
To trace back the periods, reckoning
11 years as the cycle, the beginning of
sun spot outbreaks would be reckoned
in 1889, 1878, 1867, and 1856 in such a
count. These dates are not exact be
cause the period of duration is not ex
actly measurable in units of years.
Still it is surely worth some notice
that before the period of 1856 there
came the desperate outbreak of the
war in the Crimea that before the
period of 1867 the United States was
ravaged by civil war to an extent hard
ly ever recorded in the history of any
other country, and that the great trag
edy of Lincoln's death had been re
corded that preceding the sun spot
period of 1878 there came the harrow
ing experiences of France, culminating
in the communist riots, and the Rus
sian-Turkish war that before 1889
came the Roumelian revolution, the
Nihilist outbreak in Russian, and the
war with the Afghans, and that before
1900 came the war with Spain, the
Jameson raid, and the consequent war
between the Boers and the British.
It is also interesting to note how
financial movements of importance
have accompanied the manifestations
of sun spots in the past half-century.
Each period has been accompanied by
great business booms and the climax
and disappearance of the sun spots in
close proximity to a financial panic,
except in 1861,when the immense prep
arations for war in the United States
rather caused better business. Since
that date, however, the years 1873,
1884, and 1895 were years of wide
spread financial and industrial depres
sion. This coincidence is also strik
ing enough to be noted. Of course,
such coincidences do not prove that
the energy or the reaction in the sun
causes such results on the earth but
it is at least remarkable that the sun's
energy and the human energy on the
earth should have run In cycles so
closely alike.—Boston Advertiser.
to millions of them. The crops
manufactured products of China an
moved over canals and rivers by Junks
and over country paths by oxen. This
slow method of transportation gives
employment to millions of people. Sup
plant these, the anti-foreign leads
teach, by the locomotive, and what
will become of these millions? This
argument is not without force to ths
ignorant Chinaman, who, while he will
not do battle in behalf of his religion,
will In behalf of his stomach. Couple
with this the warning that tbe "for
eign devils" are gelng to
their empire and partition their ooun
try and it is not dlfflcult*to see why
Prince Titan's horde of butchers In
creased with the days.
Fright.
When a woman gets frightened at
night she ust pulls the bed clothes over
her head, says she is terrified out of
her wits, and goes to sleep. But, with
a man it Is different. He says he Is not
afraid, pushes the clothes down, anr^
lies trembling awake for two or three
hours, straining his ears at every
sound.—Pick-Me-Up.
Pretty nearly every church has had
or Is going to have a strawberry festi
val.
The tripping feet—the sparkling
eye—the graceful movement—be
long not alone to the budding maiden.
These graces are the right—aye
duly of every ivoman until the hair
whitens—and regal dignity replaces
them.
The mother who guards her
strength has so much more to de
vote to the care and education of
her dear ones. She should be a
comfort—a cheer—always.
Yet how many (eel that they
have the strength to properly bal
ance the home? The world is list
less, weary and morbid. Its blood
moves sluggishly and is full of im
purities. It needs a kindling, in
vigorating tonic to set it afire—it
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is a specific for catarrh in any organ
of
the body. Any congestion of a mucous
membrane simply means catarrh of the
organ affected. This is why Pe-ru-na
cures all sorts
of
troubles where other
remedies fail. If there is a catarrhal
atfection the matter with you anywhere
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