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STARTLING STATISTICS.
.VIII t__e I). *c«-ii«li._t_ of Iho Pilgrim
___________ CeaflM lo K\l_l_
A races! nunbei of the Medical I:
gives some carefully eoaapiJai statistics
whi'h show that the Anglo-Saxon race -A in
habitants cf the New England States v. ill
placed by ano'her. The birth
rate per ttoooaaa I
What the people of New England used ii ]
________ which will give them the rugg-.d
[th th'ir ancestors bad. That aomethlag
Ik Ba 'ham's Pills, the famous vegetable
r ■!;. , whi.-h has saved the lives of thou
sands.
jin '.-, PUla <ure all B£___i and ________
.lck IPad:. -il n, Weak
■id Female Ailmm-s. They are j
_______ They strength- j
'he long io.-it j
xion. bring back the keen edge of ap- ]
and _r.,ij.<- into action the whoi
: the human fr;.
I .Ms CM and are
merit a guinea a box. Thiy give health,
:.-:s and long life to those who use
_E_l.l_ ISIIPRM_
STBPa ni_:\ to rnKVKvr &____&.
HAS in-; Tt i.i vi iti. on HEAT
i\si'i:< TION
KAISERS CHANGED PLANS
. on.i t\ tint nf a S«iiMHli..[. (rented
in Hi rlin I'olilU-Hl ( Ir. I._ Us, _.__
noun. <-ru. ill of l.i_i|». rnr Will
l«m*M Mew Itinerary Trial ot a
Sp> fi.r lieli-u.i in X Important Mil
itary lee rota to Frmaee.
BERLIN, Nov. in. -Emperor Wil
li.mi's sudden abandonment of bis in
tention to vi.-it one or more Spanish
ports on bla return to Germany by sea
and his determination to go home by
way of the Adriatic sea, landing at
l'"\< on. i taking the train tht re for
Potsdam via Innsbruck, has given ris*
Dnslderable .peculation as to tha
real motlvi of his change of pro.
gramme.
The official i n giving tiie
b of the empi _sa ;is | i.
*"ii for hia majesty's rapid return, is
only partially ai oepted here. The Im
pre salon among leading politicians is
that the state "f home politics antl the
Inappropriateness of his proposed visit
to Bpala al tht tnncture main
ly influent ed the ■ - decision.
The Imperial chancellor, Prince li>>
henloha, represented to his majesty
the neceMslty for an early opening of
the relcbstag, In view of the mass <-f
work that body has to i?r-t through, and
suggested Nov. 29 or Dec. l for the
opening ceremonies Emperor wmiain,
who intends t" open th»> session In per
son, thereupon .1. . Idt d to return Imme
diately. The ministers have all return
tkddenly to Berlin and the hi
activity is observable in political . ir
cli-s.
The 'i of the . >.\ ernmt nt'a
anti-strike measure promises to maks
the sessions of the relchstag extreme
ly lively.
EtOUTE KEPT BEORET.
it is suggested In some quarters that
Emperor William's rotmd-about <ie
i..tir from Pols to Potsdam, l>y '-
Innsbruck, capital ..r the Austrian
„ WQB dl a plan which,
since t h it ion of the Empress
ol A ' I ffle d of the
plot againsl the emperor's life al Alex
andtia, Egypt, has I his maj
_ m<.\ ementa nam* 1 1 . complete
ecy us to the time of his departure
from an) place and the exact routs to
be kepi until the last mon
The ibsorbing topic in the German
the past week has been
the Uppe-Detmold case. The verbatim
publication of the documents which
ipi . art •! in a Vienna paper, and
\\ lii.ii were afterwards copied by ths
entire l lei nan press. In th
i lettt r of
(••■ti. plaint is shown to have been
bed 'ii \- t . rt apt ctful, calm lan
d ih.r. apparently the em
had no - reply |o the
curt, Insultine dding the
-
niMicor again.
The < Ircular .< by tht
genl t-« tht r. Ignlng pi Inceg aU
forth hla grounds for complaint in a
very dignified manner. None v t the
- ■ •! to ;lio circular letter
!> ; >\ • bt •:, dlvulgt .1. bul it is
iti tliplomatii elrclt i thai t
■ bj the :
latory and sympathetl
ne from the prince regent of
irla, while the replica of the kini;
l and the grand .ink. of Ba
lelled more im. .l. •ration \\ \ s
understood that all th-> replica of the !
prlw n will be pu
\ \ *_TIONAL BCANDAJ
v • -\ ho
• mperor, h -
ha> ' ' „,; > : aion of the
wb °l greta trt
the t, genl of Upj - i .. t ra
allowinß the
■ ir as ll haa and be -omtng .
v .1..X l
|»«wev< r, to atop the matter, and the
th will ta
,xv " I'olnti rent's i. .ma!
and
' the .-m .
Adolph of Schaun
Lippt the dl. :
iVa 'awful ntitled to
• the throne of Lippe This
. .
un - f
5 the kin*
i thai the Schaum
ne i_ only third In the
Prince A
- hanm ':...•-. has
-
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trent of ;
SPY ON Ti;
• b spy, EaMor i^e.
aying Importaot n
was opened i»efore
s
.
. The
v the
i the
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I
anient,
Hamburg
I
- ■• be drs
•d. They were ail dead.
1 MSN&S OF THS SEA. f
] Mad Search for Sunken Treasures— Some Famous Rainbow Chasers of Latter Days Who |
| Have Sown Golden Dreams and Reaped a Harvest of Disappointment.
From the New York Herald.
There has ever been something Ir
resistibly alluring in the search for hid
den treasures. The fever has gotten
into the blood of Sir George Newnes, a
wealthy London baronet, who has come,
under the spe_l of one Louis de Rouge- 1
mon t, who is being acclaimed the mod
ern Robinson Crusoe. Sir Georg=
Newnes is the publisher of several
periodicals in London, in one of which
is running a startling yarn purporting
to be the actual experiences of Di
Rougemont.
The stories have been widely quoted
and commented upon. In the Herald,
a few Sundays ago. appeared an article,
dealing with this glib-tongued adven
turer, who mlgrhi have stepped from the
- of one of Robert Louis Steven
remarkable tales. He appeared In
London, penniless a_d unknown. Bill
h*- told a story wild<-r than the wildest
- of fiction. Sir George Newnes
listened. From listening he grew en
thusiastic. He engaged De Rougemont
to write his story for 'nic of his mag
azines.
But that wasn't enough. The bar
onet's dreams were disturbed by visions
of fabulous treasures -treasures spoken
of lightly by his new-found protege.
On the desert island, vaguely located aa
"off the northwest coasl of Australia,**
De Rougemont had been cast
away after tbe wreck of the pearl fish
insr vessel on which he had shipped.
were treasures of untold worth. De
Hougemont was the sole survivor, and
when he finally escaped from his isl>
and he didn't think it worth while to
take his treasures with him.
There are pearls — black pearls, each
w..rth a king's ransom; white pearl*
such aa no man ever saw l>efore, and
pink pearls of gr-at value. And Sir
G_ oige Newnes is tilting out an expedi
tion to po and fetch them to London,
Many persons there be who do not hesi
tate to say openly that De Rougemont
Is a picturesque disciple of Ananias
He has been hailed as the modern Rob
ins m Crasoe, but there are Some whs
say be ls a fin de Blecle Munchausen
De Rougemont says he is willing to
go with the expedition, and that is re
gard, -i as something In his favor. But
there have been other De Rougemonts
not as widely exploited perhaps an this
one, but De Rougemonts just the same.
Who have gone Oil other expeditions. I
have one In mind now. a fellow named
Follingsby. who cast his spell over
Jacob Lorillard several yeara ago and
cost that gentleman a pretty penny be
fore he Rot through. W have.
to go to London for our De Rouge.
monts, or our Sir George Newi
either. We have had them at b
pl.nty of them.
Which bring.- no i. ;.-k to the some
what trite Observation that there has
. ver been something irresistibly allur
ing in th.- search for hidden treasure.
\\ ho, as a child, has not gazed longing
ly at the rainbow, knowing that at its
end was a not of goid _ Ah. if we could
only get there before lt faded away!
And how we have run panting through
TWO PR..TTY KMiAtJEMEXT HIMiS.
TIIE NEW EN.I A OK. MENT KINO. 1898.
Quite the most notable change In Jewelry
this coming season is the revolution ln wed
ding rings. The large broad style ls uo
1 ngei la TOgse. The nairow Engli.h band
nf the deeply colored California goid has
made Pa appearance. The up-to-date bride
will accept of n. me otlie r than th« thin, fine
..lin.-K' axaetl] the same aa her great
graiidniother wore s!\ty years ago one ring,
■bows lure, has inset :t>. d ln small black !•.
ttrs. "What Ood has Joined together let net
man put asuuder;" a second, ln imitation of
the wet p ras. of the tlebis. only to see
our hopes grow dimmer and dimmer
and dually fade away into nothing
are bu. children of a larger
growth." We rftill have our rainbow
chasers.
Capt. Ki.id. thi- pirate, has furnished
inspiration for more disillusioned for
tune seekers than can well be enumer-
Botne "f the rainbow chasers who
have be»n victimised by smooth
tongued De H . ■ are men who
i laugh at rapt Kidd's hidden
wealth. They have sought for more
tangible sources and have been in sight
of them -aa ths child fancies he ts in
sipht of the rainbow's .ml. Wildly the>
used over the wet fields ..f the
world, only to see their rainbows fad
i in_ away before their eyes.
»b Lorillard would not naturally
Impn I ■ rainbow chaser, and
pen he, bard-headed man of the
world as he is. has had the experience.
worth of S
ish treasure, which w. . | down with
Spanish galleon San Pedro when
she sank in the Margarita chanm
1812. The late Dr. Setfa Pai
idelphla, fitted out an expedition
■ the 81,800.000, which was
sunk with the British sloop-of-war De
■he went to Davy J
hcker off the 1>...iw.-.' ,a-
Numerous efforts have been mad
In | M which was
buried beneath the waves off Port > 1 ■:•
--_ hen the Brttisb frigate Hussar
*-unk, on No. - _c ars
a few.
Think of the was :!. It has
I th it 81,000 000 has
__ I . i . • o\ er
the treasure popular!] d to
los. With the Hussar
it subsequently developed that tlv
had been safelj remo
* > i set . ank.
'' '■'• was a thirty-two _un
upland's fifth
sete - unded by
-
to popolai | Ued rrom
mpany with th-- Br
■ ry. load* . 4d with which
ty off the British army and navy,
•
• c years. Tne
- Id, and on
ry was ai
\
-
' r.ury was. by p i>
ular belief. transferred to thr 17.
'
<~>n her way up tbe Fast river
- >und she -
treml t .dan's is!
IAR WENT DOWN.
N • r mju. y conid not
r she
ay But she wa< taking
■ ■
. ff. rt was msde to land
iptdly
• c she sank tn . •.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1893
of water, carrying down nearly all of
her crew.
The first effort to raise her was in
1794, fourteen years later. The British
government made the attempt, but be
fore any results had been attained
Uncle Sam interfered and sent the
Britons off about their business. In
all the yearn since then a great many
companies have l>~ea organized to re
cover the treasure, but the finds have
coexisted of a few golden sovereigns
and several war relics.
In the last eight years there have
been several companies of rainbow
seekers at work on the Hussar. In
August. 1892. the Little Giant Wreck
ing company, composed of citizens ol
Leominster, Mass., started to work, the
operations being in charge of Capt.
BimondSL The stock went away tip
and then came down with a crash.
The Hackett Wrecking company
with offices in South street, made an
effort to get at the sunken Hussar ir.
November of the same year, but work
was abandoned ln a few weeks.
Francis M. Eppley rather dashed an>
further hopes on the part of the gold
hunters in 1894. Mr. Eppley was him
self a rainbow chaser, but he was a
logical one, if the paradox may be par
doned. He was a New York lawyer,
who lived out in the Oranges. He ob
tained a contract from the secretary
of the treasury to make a systematic
search for the buried treasure, and by
the terms of the agreement he was to
turn over to the government all the
war relics and 10 per cent of the treas
ure trove.
But Mr. E>ppley first decided to pro
cure all the documentary evidence pos
sible a_ a means of help in locating the
gold. He daunted the libraries, pored
over dusty tomes and piaced himself
in correspondence with antiquarians in
England. He convinced himself that
the Hussar's reputed wealth was large
ly a myth. There was a sum amount
ing to £20.000 on board, but on the very
:n..rning of the fateful day the money
was landed and delivered Into the cus
body of Commissioner General Delaney.
A Baltimore syndicate had previously
Et nt out an expedition in search of the
San Pedro, and it was even said that
of th- gold had been recovered.
But the Venezuelan government put
a stop to it. and after disposing of the
Baltimore expedition, which had been
mi st elaborately fitted out at great ex
pense, work was resumed by the Ven
ezuelan authorities. They lacked both
brains and tho necessary appliances,
and their efforts came to naught.
'I BE PETER MITCHELL'S MISSION.
Ib LorlHard knew of this, and he
ft .1 an easy prey to the wiles of Fol
y. On r> - 28. iBT_, the schooner
Mitchell cleared Sandy Hook,
bound for the end of the rainbow.
• "apt. Bereno T. I>ayt.>n was in com
■!. and Follingsby went along. The
expedition was fltUd out by Mr. Lorll
iard.
• apt. Da> ton's log Is now in the pos
session of Capt. Howard Patterson, of
this city, and is a decidedly interesting
n_BCR DE LIS ENGAIIKMEN'T KINO.
old Enstlish style, was engraved with "Let
likinge laste," while in a third waa seen
"Thou hast uiy pledge ot love."
In betrothal rings this season there Is the
_.ur-de-lle. which ls studded with emeralds
and three diamonds directly across the ring.
Thi* design is so arranged that it can be re
moved and used as a lace pin if dealred.
A :,ov(lty in twciitj -two-carat gold is shown.
Stt ln clnws a. roes t'::e ring i_ a diamond
to typify faith, next an emerald for hope acd
a ruby for love.
record of the expedition. After reach
ing Margarita channel, Capt. Dayton
wrote under date of Feb. 2, 1878:
"Anchor of. the island of Coche. I
I roposed that Follingsby get a boat
and locate the wreck while we were
I'Ulldtng the scow. He procured a boat
and several men and started. He was
gone about one and one-half hours;
oanie back and reported that he had
successful, but. Instead of find
ing wreck and placing a buoy on it.
he merely threw the buoy overboard
and allowed lt to drift away to cover
up his ignorance. He ts an inveterate
liar, as every one on board found out
to hie sorrow after leaving New York.
In beating up to Coche. I told him if
li.- would give the ranges I would place
BOjrs. He pave me a kind of Vow
and haystack range.' but the cow had
eaten the hay and shifted Its berth
the respective berths were taken,
so that the value of the ranges may be
inferred "
CAPT. DAYToN'S I_OGBOO__
How matters progressed and how the
rainbow finally faded away, may be
jcMged from the foil-wing extracts
from Capt. Dayton's log:
"Feb. ii, u;s. Follingsby knows no
more about the wreck than a Coche
goat. We searched all day and at
night came to anchor under the lee of
be.
"Feb. 21. 1878.— Have swept, dredged
and grappled, and found nothing but
ti p.mi of iron,
r or a piece of timber, or any
part* supposed tv belong to a wreck
--in fact, nothing to convince u_ that
ire on the ground. But Follingsby
____________ that If we work the large
dredge ho will ! ring up the dollars be
next Saturday night, it If
■r. lhat for Mr. L_r___a____ in.er
. had better give it up. FVkOtngS
by was very angry when same was
■ -t.d to :-.i:n."
"March 7. 1878 now fully .sat
isfied beyond the possibility of a doubt
that the expedition is a failure, and
that Follingsby is a fraud. an_ that
he mlsrepresen . ;h;ng in
Tork and told the pross <_. fal, eh i
aiso being i . we have
led to bid adieu to the o'd Saa
P.dro, wherever she Des. May her old
bone*? ie_ t in peace."
Efc the golden hued rainbow of the
San Pedro faded away. The Peter
•-11 came back to New T< rk. and
. wa.- a wiser man.
DR. PAN - E__J__BOW.
Dr. s experience In rainl ov.
og na. In conn ction with the
De _______ In ihe social life of Phili
a the eood doctor— he is dead
wr..- :• _ar_
a man of eccentric *. as holar
..tiernan. >l else h?
" ~ ■ ' ■ - ■ ould
_t ao much .>f his ra
ar.d incidentally th r it- nds. iti
such wik! .s that of :e
--ir._ fabulous millions from the wr ck
of the De Braak.
ln the churchyard of _ld Si. Peter's,
\
in what was yeaie ago the aristocrat.
GSlh? iladeli is a^n'nfen .
, oeanng this inscription-
Drew^JT' the remair^ °f Capt. John
V^. .tvX Icom1 comm anded His Britannic
_f__!S. tys sloop- ( >f-war De Braak. in
SS* .* . hls life "*_■ she found"
loth . 7.V he Capes of Delaware the
loied for U w ' ta\ D - 179S - He was b *"
loved for his virtues and admired for
£_*__?«__, HiS affertion^e relict has
__Tm«__2_ " monument t0 Perpetuate
__t"__ y prett r ai *« romantic, but tomb
the trofh 1^ I '^"^ often J"« le "" th
tne truth. Capt. Drew at the time of
w_, Qe _ lh , <*'<! not command a VtSJ-of.
«J. V»t __i as on a Privateering ex
pedition was in reality little re
____Us ° m . a f tua! P ira^-- England
w_?_. P,D _ !__* Xa P"'eon on land and
___.?£ a ?x d George ln - neede d money
badly. Hence he grant _d letters of
marque and reprisal to all who asked.
THE DE ____________ HISTORY.
James Drew, who belonged to a dar
frg family Q f Irish sailors scured such
papers in January, 1798. and promptly
sailed for the Spanish main in the De
Braak, which was equipped with a
dozen brass cannon, and was manned
by a dar.devi! crew consisting of
thirty-e:ght officers and men.
Un May 25 ehe appeared off the Dela
ware Capes, having in tow the Span
ish galleon Da Plata. She was bound
for Halifax, but was obliged to put in
for water. Pilot Andrew Allen board
ed her, and there was considerable
C£ rousing. Nearly all w?nt to the bot
tom in a gale, along with lifteen Span
ish prisoners.
Here is where the rainbow began.
Those who escaped bemoaned the loss
of c.untless treasures which went down
with the De Braak. They said th^y
had taken two Spanish galleons laden
with gold and precious stones bound
from Mexico and Peru, and in order
to lend color to th.lr story th^v paid
their bills with Spanish doubloons.
They said the hold <>f the De Braak
was filled with caskets laden with glit
tering yellow boys.
The efforts to innate and remove the
De Kraak's treasures have been many.
During our second war with Great
Britain an English frigate and a sloop
came and tried to raise her. but al
though they located the wreck they
were unable to do more with thei;
primitive apparatus.
In 1805 it is record, d that Gilbert M. -
Cracken. a chum of Pilot Allen, in com
pany with his s ,n Henry, set the bear
ings of the wreck for future reference.
The hearings were faithfully recorded,
and the old residents of Lew.-s, Del.,
will tell you that the documents are
still in the possession of the old pilot's
descendants.
A SANGUINE SEARCHER.
Of all the attempts to recover the D_.
T .aak's treasure the most determined
was that Instituted by Dr. Panooast.
He <_______fed the International Subma
rine company, but lt was an open se
cret that he held the bulk of the stock
himself. In July, 1.77. the schooner Orr
was sent t<> the breakwater from Phil
adelphia with a working force of ten
men, under the personal direction of
Dr. Pahcoast. with divers and pumpin .
apparatus complete.
For two months there was a system
atic search. Day after day the old doc
tor labored on th* deck of the schoon.
er, carefully examining every bit ot
sand pumped from the bottom. Th«
Orr w_s equipped with a large steam
crane, designed t.. remove the lron
b.mnd oaken boxes which contained the
Spanish tieasure.
He said he expected to secure from
$. ,000,«00 to 17.000.0' M) by the operation.
V. t," the doctor once said in an in
terview, "the amount depends upon the
number of galleons captured by the Do
Hraak. A galleon usually contained
some $3,000,000, and I estimate that dur,
big the last years of the last century
Spanish- America sent home not less
than $1, 800,000.000. "
What a big pot of gold at the end
of such an ephemeral rainbow! In Sep.
tember the search was "temporarily
abandoned." While it was not resumed,
the old doctor never quite realized
that the rainbow had entirely disap
peared from his sky. He died flrmlv
• evinced that the pot of gold was at
the end. but that he had fallen by the
wayside.
OTHER FAMOUS FORTUNE SEEK
ERS.
Another famous old rainbow chaser
was Jacob Blancke. the treasure hunt
er of the Highlands, who died in 1890.
There is scarcely a spot in the Hudson
valley, from the Skinnemunk moun
tains to Storm King, that he has not
tested with his magic "bl< >mb-bob." He
was never without it. The buried
treasure of Capt. Kldd was the source
of his inspiration, but if he ever found
any he kept it to himself.
He boasted that with the air of his
"bob" he had located two rare ftndd, in
one of which was £86,000, buried dur
ing the Revolution. In one case the
owner of the land wanted h«_lf which
Jacob regarded as a preposterous prop
osition, and one to be totally Ignored.
In the other lnstanoe the find was lo
cated on government land at West
r<int. and permission to dig for the
treasure was withheld.
< .ijit. Veder Fox, known as "the An
oi. Nt Mariner of Staten Island." was
another famous treasure seeker. Among
other secrets, he claimed to know the
exa__ location of the De Braak. It
came to him from Capt. John SaJiders
a nephew of Pilot Allen. Sanders was
_ a party which located her, but
with the limited apparatus of that day
c>u!d not rai&e her. He said that ln
1.41 the British government offered
KSO.OM for information that would lead
to the discover? of the sunken vessel.
Away back in 183. Capt. Allen was
chasing rainbows up in the Dake
Champlain country. He was looking
for five cannon filled with gold dollars
and sunk by Gen. Burgojme when he
was closely pursued near the mouth of
Mud creek. They had no dlwr's suits
in those days, but lie went to the bot
tom in bells. The five cannon are still
there.
Maiuhi- .it < hii.-iI.
The Manchester ship canal wag _«__ijj_f_l
for ships of net over 3.060 tons and draw. a*
* w ent;. The steady lr
crease in the rapacity and draft of ocean
steamers is now R!»i!_g trouble for the canal
owners, as the preaent channel will not ac
commodate even r*<? latter class of oce_n
tramps. .__. a di_p.t trade in .jtion wtt._
American ports was one of tbe chl.f objects
of the original pr^maters of th« canal the
deficient depth of channel presents a grave
problem for solution. _Wre docks and ware
houses are also need*-d for handling and stor
ing the cotton, ard the want of these, taken
with the compartively shallow channel, are
himi. ring tlie growth <_! the canal bu
1d the first half norease in canal
revenue was abc ts compared with
an Ir. in the corresponding
half of 1897 snd $_ i t t*\> In 1896.
RetrothaN tn Spain.
A e____M custom obtains _ . some portions
of Spain io regard to betrothals. A young
man who looks wlfft f«t*>r upon a handsome
senorita and withes to gain her hand calls
en the parents for ihn-'e successive d.. ys at
the same hour of the day. At the last call
he leaves Irs walking stock, and If he is to
he cane is handed to
h'.ni wh.n he calls again. But if he is :.
: with favor the csne ls thrown into
rd in thir way the young man is
made to understand that further calls will be
I't-ct of thr * -me!.
__-.el's feot Is ft soft cushion, peculiar
ted to rlif ground on which it is
:ing _ single journey
art horses have worn
•s. \. _iie the camels ,
feet are not ev__a _or«.
#V^ ——**■—••—«— »!>••••_»_-»__»_. _»e«3O
# FOr J> HERE ARE _.
| These JL MONEY SPENDING OPPORTUNITIES S
i I Airti ht^ h, t eh Should Not Be Overlooked. •
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DOG'S POKER MILS
THE CODE BY WHICH HE
HELPED HIS MASTER TO
WIN
ONCE GAVE A FALSE TIP
Out of Revenge the F.dncated Ca
nine <iave a wrong- Cne to the
Hand Around the lloard Kind
ness and lf«_t Cruelty Hit. Treat
ment After That Time One
More Who < aught on.
From the New Tork Sun.
"For a fox terrier, that dog don't
s. em to know a whole lot," said one
of the men in the back room of an up
town cafe.
The old fox terrier was burying his
gray muzzle in the lap of his master
and wagging his stump of a tail fool
ishly. His master was a squat, thin
faced man of the all -aged class; that
Is, he might have l_?en anywhere from
thirty to fifty-five years of age. Run
ning away from the corners of his
shrewd eyes were many tiny wrinkles.
In his get-up he looked like ready
money. He lapped the dog's clipped
ears one over the other and looked
reminiscent.
"Well," said he, replying to the
other man's remark, "I can't cay that
he does look dead wise and smooth
to the naked eye. He's not one of
these here fresh, sooner dogs that want
to put you next to all he knows the
first clatter «>ut o" the box. He's no
trick mutt, anyhow. I raised him
from a pup, and I never taught him
any of the jay tricks that these pll
i"w raised, dog-cracker mutts go
through. What he don't know about
standing up in a corner and hopping
over a cane and speaking for grub and
waltzing on his front feet and playing
Poaaunu, and all that kind o' dinky
w.rk. would fill a book. But if any
of you people think you can give him
any points on the value of hands in
a game of poker, then you need a new
dope book, and that's which."
"Poker?" said another of the party,
incredulously. "Say, shoot it in light.
Your yen-hock's overworked."
'That's what I said— poker," replied
the fox terrier's owner firmly. "I'm
putting you next now, because I don't
make it a business to do pals in a
poker game. He's the best poker dog
on the American continent, that mutt.
Can't begin to figure on how many
times he's won me out, and for how
much. He's sulked on me two or three
times at critical Junctures ln games of
draw and given me wrong tips, just to
get square with me fur something or
other, but that was when he was
young and sassy and disposed to work
his edge on me. He's been, tipping
me off right now for seven straight
years, and— well. I've got a dollar or
two scattered around," and the owner
of the dog slowly pulled
TINFOIL OFF A 25-CENT CIGAR.
"Didn't hay . a bit o' trouble teach
ing him the game, I suppose?" asked
one of the mem at the table.
"Well," replied the fox terrier's own
er, striking a match on his diamond
iircrusted match safe, "I can't say that
teaching him the hands was altogether
a gnap. At first he used to get the
kir.gs and the Jacks mixed once in a
while, and then he had a habit, when
he was learning the game, of getting
the eights and tens twisted, too. But
I broke him of those defects after a
while. It wasn't so much trouble teach
ing him the value of the hands ln
poker as lt was to fix up a sign manual
by which he could express himself and
tip me off on the hands held by ths
other fellows. But patience was my
long suit in teaching that dog the game
_- r, and in less than a year after
I showed him the first pack of cards
he ever saw he was able to put me
onto the worth ofevery hand around
a table without any of the marks fall
ing to the scheme. His method of
o< mmunicating such information to me
during the progress of a game is a bit
involved and Intricate, and we've got
a lot of llttle ccd-e signs that would
require too much elaboration in the ex
plaining, but I'll give you a little idea
of th^> way the thing works.
'Suppose I'm sitting in a four-hand
ed game. The dog is nosing around
the room, not in any ostentatious kind
of way and not getting himself no
ticed at ail by the other three in the
game. A hand is dished out. The dog
noiselessly rubbernecks behind the
chair of the first player on his route.
The first player, we'll say. has got a
pair of sevens, and I've got my eye on
the dog. The dog quietly gapes twice,
t.i Indicate that player No. 1 has a
pair, and then blinks both of his eyes
s^-ven times in rapid succession. See?
Of course I know then that No. 1 has
only cot a rair of bum sevens. I pre
tend to scan my hand, while the d>sg
quietly gf-ts behind the chair of player
No 7. We'll say No. 2 has three
queens. The dog passes his right paw
over his right eye three times. If it's
three kings, left paw over his lef'
::mes.
IF ITS THREE BULLETS
he puts his left paw at his nose and
it there for a second, and, if thr-e
jacks, his right paw at his nose. Sav
vy? And so on. He's got the whole
manual and code worked out to a
•stretch finish. If No. 3 has got a pat
he closes his left eye and keeps
it closed until he sees I'm no-
ticing him. If No. 3 has got a pat full
house, he shuts up his right eye in
the same way.
"This, or course, is only preliminary
and lt only puts me next to what the
marks around the table have got in
their hands before the draw, of course
I drop out of it there and then. But,
if I've got a pretty good fist full my
self tvnd am as good aa any of 'em be
fore the draw, why, of course. I draw
to my hand. Just as quick as all the
fellows that stay in pick up the cards
they've drawn, the dog does his little
act all over again and tips me off on
those that have filled their hands.
Makes the game dead easy, don't it?
If I wanted to play the scheme to its
limit, which would be a fool trick and
probably result in 'that dog getting
himself stuffed and mounted by some
loser getting next to hia gag, I'*d have
too much money. But I never went
Into lt too heavy. One day that dog
tore one of my hats all to piaees
—fox terriers are worse than
GOATS FOR CHEWING THINGS UP
—and I'd given him three or four good
raps over the side of the head. He
didn't like this a little bit— l could see
that. He wouldn't have much to do
with me for the remainder of the af
ternoon and I couldn't con him into
becoming friendly again, either. He
just looked at me out of the tall of his
i ye, ha much as to say. Vm going to
throw you the first chance I get,' but
of course I couldn't figure that he'd
carry his sulkiness into the game of
draw that night, when I Intended to
begin on my throe good things and
crimp up their wallets.
"That nii_rht T to. k the mutt with me,
as usual, to the house of one of the
good things, where we played l
couldn't get the dog to be very chum
my, 'even after spending a large pan
of the r.fternoori" trying to soft soap
him. The licking I had given him still
rankled with him. but I figured that
he would forget all about it in the ex
citement of the game after we got
along. I was more than ever confi
dent that he was all right when he
tipped me off right on the first dozen
rounds of hands, during which I nick
ed out most of the winnings.
I dealt the thirteenth mess myself
and when the two beyond the ante
man declined to stay I made it a
jackpot, having the buck. I caught
three aces and the pot looked nice for
me, even without the mutt to Joggle
me along. The man ai'ter the dealer
opened it, the Jay next to him stayed
find so did I, of course. The dealer
stayed with a rush and it looked like
a ne>at Jack to win— for ir. was a $100
limit game and all of the time good
things thought they knew how ...
play poker. The dog tipped me off
tnat the man who opened the pot had
three fours, the chap next to him
tuo pairs rind the dealer a pair of
kings. I drew to my hand, of course,
I and when the guy that opened .the pot
stcod pat I said to myself. 'That's a
I pretty old bluff that duck's making,
j standing pat on his three four. .' The
i mutt's tipa told me, of cut so, that
; I had 'em all topped and I just lay
I ba^k and listened to their bets, knock
ing heaps off my chip piles and rais
ing 'em right along with all the con
fidence in the world.
"I commenced to admire that pot
opener with the three fours who had
stood pat for a bluff when he kept
raising it the limit. Botwt*.. us we
raised the other two out after it had
J gone around a number of times, and '
! then that geezer with the thr^e fours ;
I sat back to bluff me out, as I thought.
I wasn't a bit worried by the cool,
___________ look on his mug, for I kn_v
I that mutt of mine never made any |
; mistakes, and I knew that I had him j
, beat. When there was $'5.500 in the !
i pot I got to the end of my chips, and,
, as it was table stakes and we had
arranged that no more chips could be
! bought during the playing of a hand,
I I called the pot opener, at the same
| time chucking down my three bullets, j
, and wa_ fixing to haul tn the pot.
" 'Hold on thero a minute,' ___d
j the man with the three fours — as I '
! thought — when he saw me reaching
I for the pot, 'I've got a r.ice pat
straight, from one to five,' and he
1 showed the cards up in their order on
j the table.
" That dust is yours,' said I. choking
hack a lot of cuss words, and just then j
I looked behind the chair of the winner j
and caught the triumph in his
' damme! He looked square back at m._ I
fof ten straight seconds, as much as j
' to say, 'You didn't think I'd dish y >i
,' ir the game, did you?' and then he
! walked over in front of the fire;
' plunked himself down, and that was j
the finish of that four-handed game. I j
knew that I couldn't get any >
I good out of that dog for the
} rest of that night, and I did a !
I sudden watch-studying act. told the
Jajra of a forgotten engagement, and
got out. I had expected to clean up j
• $10,000 out of those three jays.
i and durned if I didn't quit more 'n '
>_,'-00 loser on account of that dos. for j
I had only begun to win back what I
I had let them take away from me when
' the mutt turned me down. Th.- mutt
followed me back to the hotel with a i
enlky eye, as If he expected to be
clubbed f-_r his llttle game of crooked j
steering, but you ca>n gamble that 1 j
cut out th" clubbing co far as he was
_____ for good. I had won him j
back inside of a week or so, and he
never did me dirt on calling the turn
after that.
M- and the dog were covering Kan- j
sas City, St. tymis, Memphis ar.d that |
circuit about three years ago, taking j
it off easy ones In comfortable chunks, \
when I slacked up agalnal a pretty j
wise one. It was :•
I had got together a playing squad of '
three young on-r^s that I
plucking. I got in: ty fairly j
after a week's work, and
was in great form. One of the good j
things— the one that I g>t into th
hole worse than any of tb° others
seemed to be taking p great Interest ►»
the mini after he ha<? I>een st»--' '
a bad loser, agains i •"
days or so, h"
of so**.
.. tna' poodle
... , said he to me, and
.. Binning to fear he was get
""' I; 7^- I'Ut he kept on looking as
rooon-f«__J and easy as usual and
/' 7"- tehl along, though I couldn't
help voicing how carefully he watOh
ed the m.y< s of the mutt.
"The next night, when we again
sat clown at the game, I again noticed
that tlie young gee rer had lis eye on
the dog's moves behind the chain
I also noticed that he generally stayed
when 1 fell ou. after the draw, and
that when he did _tav, with me out
he very often took big .hunks out of
the other two young fellows, l . >___n'i
quite get next to this, the duck look
ed such a Rube. Finally a big jack
came around, and 1, only having eight
high, kipt out of it. One of the other
y. ung fill.. wis opened the pot, the man
next t<> him Btayed, and th moon-fac
i Rube, who had b em . .-.. | ing my
dog so carefully, raised the both of
'em before the draw, it was a good,
stlfl raise he gave 'em at that. They
stood it and stayed in. They bet
ground for fifteen minutes, and' then
tl" sk_b i'l] i had been studying the
mutt was tailed by both of them, and
beal them both ond with his Queen
lull ou sixes. I thought that wa.
kind „' queer, <_iK.-ially in view of
li 1 - ..mast study oi my poodle, and
so I got c .id feet in order to have
a chance to think the thing over. Odd
l\ enough, the moon-faced-looklng dub
OOld feet at the same time, and
wan on t!v street with me a little while
later. We had walked a block or ro,
chinning, when he gives me a dig
in tlie slats, and ways _c, grinning:
" 'Great dog. that. <-f yours.'
"I turned around and sized him
up.
" 'Pretty fair mutt,' said I
" 'Only thing about him !_.,' went
on this soft-looking guy thai you
wouldn't think knew the dlfferenc •
between sand and slag, Tie wants to
charge his oode. It took me a week
to got next to tt, but I had it safe
t. night, all right I'm only $2,000
ahead on the night's play, w hi. h
makes me $500 more than even. You
want to teach the mutt new business
b fors some other duck that k_ N
much like a dead one as 1 do comes
along, tumbles to the dog's wig-war
system, and does \<>u out of a good
bundle. Hy the way,' he wound up,
'what kennel did that one come from?
Where's the rest of the litter? I'd I _ ■
to hay.- a tn >iher of him.' Queer how
he got onto the K.'tni.-., wasn't it."
j , very," replied the man wh i
had doubted the fox terrier's posses
sion of any intelligence.
tfeifYOea S|>e:__: <•«•_ num.
There Is a Herman Scan colony in _£nn
ivlvanla who speak nothing but German.
The plaoi In is Lebanon county, and tbe
- went th. • thirty and tort.
I years ago and settled among t!'" quiet I'
sylvHniu Qermaa tarmen et the Blu*- m inn
tain districts. The col. red children grew up
un Ui*- farm . where they worked u-.id beard
nothing but German spoken. Th.
got nearly all tlie English thoy knew, ar.d "
now they rarely speak anything hut Ger
ms*. Their children go to English coantry
schools in winter, but as quickly as they ara
out of -sight of their teachers tliey begin
to talk the German dialect and nothing else.
-.Philadelphia K> corf.
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_sich., in speaking of the Pyramid Pile
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year ago I calied on my dru_.
Frank Smith, and got a box of
Pyramid PI _____ i t_S box use!
ilrections was, in my
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without any symptoms of th
avinced me." "
A. though a comparatively ,-.•
edy, its popularity Is such that all
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hasn't it in .took, he will ..et it for you
if you ask him at 50 cents and $1.00
.
ibh_g the c <
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