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my brother William Craig made use of
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results.”—Stephen Craig, 83?. Charlotte
'St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Night Bell at Office.
Fall Announcement
I HAVE JUST SECURED TH).
LATEST lMPUHTATltilS
Fall and Winter Su‘itings.
Which I will make up at the lowest cash
price.
F . K O G O 'U' R .
Custom Tailor
1? North Main Street. South Norwelk.
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Mrs. . nwcc
Has moved her stock of
MILLINERY
To the store formerly occupied
by hotel
3 Water Street,
NORWALK.
Leghorn Hats from 50c up.
One lot of Hats and Bonnets at
20c each.
Hat Frames 15c, 20c. 25c each.
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Used and endorsed by.
the New York Board of
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The Human Electrical Forcest
How They Control the Organs
of the Body.
The electrical force of the human body. as
the nerve fluid may be termed, is an espe-
cially attractive department of science. as it
sxerts so marked an influence on the health
at the or ans of the body. Nerve force is
produced y the brain and conveyed by
means of the nerves to the various organs or
the body, thus supplying the latter with the
Vitalit necessary to in- _.
sure 1: eir health. The v ~
pneumogastric nerve, as
showu here, may be said
to be the most important
of the entire nerve sys-
trem, as it supplies the
heart. lungs, stomach,
cowels, etc., with the
nerve force necessary to
keep them active and
hea thy. As will be seen
by the cut the long nerve
descending from t 9
base of the brain and, ,
terminating in the bow-
trility. When the rain ,.
becomesin any we .dis- =
ordered by irrita ility .
or exhaustion, the nerve .
forcetwhich it supplies
‘Zs lessened, and the or- ~’
gans receiving the di-
minishedsupp Iyarecon- , ,/
seguently wea ened. ‘ V” '
hySiCians generally fail to recognize.
the importance of this fact, but treat the
organ itself instead of the cause of the trouble
The noted speCialist, Franklin Miles, M. D.,
LL. B., has given the reater part of his life
to the study of this su ject, and the principal
discoveries concerning it are due to his eit‘orte.
Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine, the unri-
valed. brain and nerve food, is prepared on the
sinner le‘that all nervous and many other
iiiicu ties ori inate from disorders of the
nerve centers. ts wonderful success in curing
these disorders is testified to by thousands in
every part0! the land.
Restorative Nervine cures sleeplessness,
nervous prostration, dizziness, h steriu, sex-
ual debility, St. Vitus dance, epi epsy. etc. It
is free from opiates or dangerous drugs. It
is sold on a positive guarantee by all drug.
gists. or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical
Co, Eikhart, Ind., on receipt of price. 31 per
Eu ttle, Six bottles to: 85 express prepai .
Sold by H. n. Hale. Norwalk, and
Ger! 0; Stillson, South Norwalk.
I
WEE K L Y 4 N on w ALK' ,qu E T-T E.
”THE 111%]le STthY.
Stealing Ideas. -
It must be surprising to the uninitiated
to see how soon fashions become general-
ized in Paris. A “creation,” anew fash-
ion, is hardly out of an exclusive house
oftheRuede 1aPaix—hardly outofthe
Workrooms, it might be said—when you
see it copied in the show windows of the
Louvre and the Bon Mamba, where it
can bebought for less than oneofourth
of the price asked by the great couturiers.
At first the rulers of dress thought that
some of their workpeople were bribed to
give points, but they soon discovered that
the pilfening of ideas took. place in the
showrooms instead of the workrooms.
The Louvre and the Bon Marche engaged
handsome, distinguished looking young
women, dressedthem as if they had $20,-
000 a year and were accustomed from
infancy to having and wearing the best,
gave them a private carriage and
them go to the great costumers to order
garments ‘tjust come out.”
These afterward served as the models
of things which the week after you
might buy by the dozens: The large
shops resort to this means to obtain. nov-
cities not only in the. beginning of the
season, but all the year round, and the
couturiers have no way of avoiding the
sales, for their showrooms are ,open to
all who wish to purchase and" give or-
ders. To be sure these couturiers make
most of their creations for authentic
princesses and duchesses, but here also
the shops get the best of thorn—Cor.
New York Tribune.
An Eccentric Washington Woman.
There is a woman in Washington so-
ciety whose eccentricities in certain lines
are so well known as to pass without
comment. Her position as a. matron of
literary proclivities is the motive for sun-
dry gatherings at her house during the
season. On one occasion the guests bid-
den to the literary feast were informed
upon arrival that they must enter by a
side door, as the morning being rainy
they would otherwise track mud over the
hall carpet. That the hostess is not so
much a. respecter of persons as of things
is further evidenced by her conduct at
an afternoon reception.
Those of her guests whose garments
were ornamented with jet were asked
during their stay to remain in the second
parlor, where the furniture was of ma-
hogany. This sorting out process was
explained by the frank announcement
that if people would wear sharp orna-
ments on their clothes she must protect
her own property by excluding them
from the sacred precincts of the first par-
lor so that the rosewood furniture could
not be scratched—Kate Field’s Wash-
ington.
How to Keep a Chameleon.
The Florida chameleon, which also is
frequently brought home by the tourist,
is a. bright and intelligent creature. He
requires almost unlimited sunshine to
bask in, and flies, which he catches on
the end of his long tongue, to eat. A
fernery is a comfortable, place for him.
This fellow, it is said, has a temper, and
if not well treated or if teased he will
show fight, though he can hardly do
much harm. The genuine chameleon,
after whom the Florida lizard is named,
is one of the quaintest and oddest of
pets, 'but he is a native of the old world
and rarely seen in our country.
Another American of thefamily, often
sent from the west and south to pet
lovers, is called the horned toad, though
he is no toad, buta lizard. Heissaidto
be an interesting pet and capable of be-
ing.taught. All the small members of
this race live on insects and need to be
kept in very warm quarters—Olive
Thorne Miller in Harper’s Bazar.
The Boomerang Is Not New.
The boomerang, the Australian native’s
weapon of offense and defense, referred
to in all reference works as an instru-
ment unknown until after the discovery
of Australia, was doubtless known be-
fore tho time of Christ. Pliny the elder,
a contemporary of our Saviour, writes
as follows in his “Natural History” re-
specting an instrument made of the wood
of the aquifolia:
“If a staff made of this wood, when
thrown at an animal, from want of
strength in the person throwing, falls
short of the mark, it will come back to-
ward the thrower of its own accord, so
remarkable are the properties of that
tree.”
It is altogether probable that the
learned Pliny did not consider, the shape
of the “staff” and referred its peculiari-
ties to the nature of the wood of which
it was made—St. Louis Republic.
Blunder Worse Than Guilt.
There are some penalties on innocent
acts essential to human safety, and the
signaler whose failure has destroyed a
train must be punished, even though,
when he pleads that he was in a “dwam,”
he is to his own mind telling the simple
and sufficient truth. Nature is even
harder on blunder than on guilt, and
though man has no right to be as stern
as nature, which, for example, executed
a. dynamiter at Madrid—not for his in-
tention to murder, but for his careless-
ness in dropping his bomb—still, there
are points upon which he must be nearly
as hard—London Spectator. '
Colonel North’s Strong Boom.
Colonel North is said to have at Eltham
one of the strongest of strong rooms prob-
Ibly in the world. Not only is his gold
ind silverware stored here, but ladyvis-
itors to Eltham are. provided for, special
arrangements being made for “taking
care” of their jewels during the night.
The “room” is floored with cement and
walled all round with weighty granite.
To get into its interior you must pass
through many gates, all fitted up with
burglar alarms. The t‘reasures are kept
in iron cages, and the ‘room” is 30 feet
under ground—London Tit-Bits.
The Difference.
Two soldiers lay under their blankets
looking up at the stars. Says Jdck,
"What made you go into the army,
l‘o‘m?” “Well,” replied Tom, “I had no
wife and I loved war, Jack, so I went.
What made you go?: “Well," returned
lack, “I had}; wife and I loved peace.
Tom, 30 I went.”—-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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man, Uuion Avenue. north of Unit!
Cemetery. Norwalk, Conn. Dealer in Green
House and Hot‘House and Bedding and Vega-
table Plants. Fruit and Ornamental 'lrees.
Shrubbery. Vines, Cut Flowers. always on
hand. and all sorts of desrgns in flowers ar-
ranged order. .
WGrading and refilling cemetery plots
attended to.
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NEW YORK.NEW HAVEN .ir HARTFORD
RAILROAD.
—NEW YORK DIVISION
June 11. 1893.
Trains leave South Norwalk asfozlows;
FOR NEW YORK—Accommodation trains at
9-36 a. m.. 1.11. 2.54. 4.07. 5.25. 5.45. 6.50. 7 55 10.93
p. 111. Express trains at 5.20. 5.26. 6.15 (local).
6,55 local). 7.17 (local), 7.55 (local). 8.24 (local),
8.30. local. 9.03(local).10.11,10.45.11.37 (local) ani
12.52 2.25.4,20.5.18.6.20 p.m. .For Washington Via
Harlem River 1.13 a.m. (daily. '
Simona—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.. 6.14
local express). 7.23. 9.28 p. in. Express 5.20 5.26
a. m.
Fon NEWHAVEN AND THE Elisa—Accommo-
dation trains at 6.10. 7.38. S 48 and 11.44 a. m:
1.44. 3.48, 4.32, 5.30. 6.27. 7.23 (to_ Bridgeport).
8.41 9.41 and 11.15p.m. Express trains at 9.111039
11.07 a. m.12.08. 1.10. 3.06. 5.08 (Naugatuck Ex-
press)7.15 p. in. (Springfield Local). 1.01 a. in
(Boston Express), 1.22 a. in.
SUNDAYs.—Accommodation 7.38. 9.12 a. m. and
7.15 p.m. Express 1.01 and 1.22 a. m.
:C- ' . HEMI’STEAD. Gen. Pass. Ant
Wm. Lockwood,
Real Estate. Insurance and Investnicn
Securities.
—MONEY TO LOANr—
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies.
Office—Comer Main &: Wall :Sts..' Norwalk
Real EstateiFor Sale.
BY ORDER of .the Court of Probate for the
. District of Norwaik. the subscriber
otlers ior‘sale the former homestead of R.
Lorenzo Eils. deceased. Situated at the head
of Main street. in the Borough of horwalk.
consrstiiig of dwelling house. small barn and
about one acre of land; public water on the
premises. Also an undiVided one-half part of
about one acre ofIIand containing a small
iifivvfzeillingf house), Situated ner? tlgroad River
r1 ge. ormer y a or ion 0' e esate of
Robert Ella. deceased). |
21tt CHAS. OLMSTEAD, Administr
, Why Is It?
Why is it that a woman can struggle
until she is red in the face and worn out
both in temper and body bya window in
a railroadtrain in her vain endeavors to
close or open it when all that a. man has
to do is to walk up and go over exactly
thesarne line of action that she has al-
ready exhausted, and down comes the re-
fractory window in a jiffy? It is a. most
humiliating fact, but a very true one
nevertheless, that not five women out of
a dozen ever succeed in arranging awin-
dow to their satisfaction. They pull and
tug until they are embarrassed, and
finally, in a pleading manner, look around
at some slip of a man, who, without any
nonsense, brings about the desired effect,
while the woman looks on in silent won-
demt his marvelous skill and dexterity.
——Philadelphia Times. ‘
Birds Enjoy 3 Shower Bath.
A friend reports a pretty incident;
During the hot, dry weather the birds
about her house Were apparently much
in need .of bathing places, and the lady
discovered that every day when she
went out to water her flowers a little
bird hovered about as if he wanted
something. Presently he revealed what
he did want by getting under the sprink-
ling cf the water pot or beneath the
dripping plants, andfiufling his feathers
in this shower bath' just as he would in
a poolkand plainly enjoying it in the
highest degree. He began to we h for
the daily coming of tile lady towater
her plants and gave himself up to his
bath with gay abandon—Boston Tran-
script. '
‘coLoNi-zi. PHlLElPS’ SPEOTACLBS.’ V l ,
Story of Their Use as Related by the BI.
Hairy Man From the Pm
, “The way you Chicago people look at
things reminds me of my old friend.
Colonel John Phillips.”
The speaker was a large, hairy man,
with a big slouch hat . and avoiceevi-
dently better adapted to the acoustic
properties of the prairie than the smok-
ing room. He appeared to-realize this
as he glanced around and saw-everyman
in the room looking toward him, some
smiling, some. scowling.
“Tell us about your friend, the colo-
nel,” suggested a real estate agent who
had the hairy giant on the string for a
big cash trade.
“Why,” continued the big manwith
the prairie voice, “Phillips saw every-
thing that belonged to him big and ev-
erything belonging to me small” ’
“That’s human nature——” the agent
was suggesting, but the prairie man in-
terrupted with:
“No, ’twan‘t no human nature. ’Twas
spectacles! He got ’em made in this
town. I believe you people all wear ’ein
too.”
“What peculiar properties did your
friend’s spectacles‘possess?” asked a eu-
rious listener.
“Just as I’ve said. They made his
property loom up in regular Chicago
World’s fair fashion, but squashed other
people’s stuff worse’n a Zimri Dwiggins
bank”—
“How could he do this?”
“,Why, the blamed lenses worked on
an axis and showed things telescope fash-
ion, you know. S’pose there was a horse
trade up; he’d let you look at your own
horse through the ordinary little end of
his glasses, but when you came to look
at his he’d get at his specks again under
some pretext—just flipping ’em over the
magnifying way—and you’d see a mag-
nificent animal. It was the same way
with houses, tracts of land, wheatfields,
changing money—anything. Once you
looked through his glasses at anything,
you were his victim, for you felt as if
you couldn’t live until you’d traded just
as Phillips wanted you to. But he met
his reward. He tried a bluff game on
big Bufialo Jones of Arizona, to whom
he had by that spectacled jugglery sold
100 .jackass rabbits for burrows, and
looked at big Jones’ six gun through the
little end of his glasses, trying to put
him down small, you know. But, alas,
it didn’t work!”
"What happened?” asked the agent.
“Big Jones’ gun went off repeatedly
just as Colonel Phillips was adjusting
his glasses. It was as well perhaps,”
continued the prairie man, dropping his
voice so low that the bellowing of tugs
in the river and lake could again be
heard, “for my friend had acquired
such a habit of tryingto talk up to the
magnifying side of these glasses that his
long enjoyed reputation for veracity
was entirely spilled. We buried him at
Big Jones’ expense, and to prevent a re-.
currence of such a tragedy I took pos-
session of the spectacles, and”—
“Whatever became of them?” asked a
hungry looking man who had gone broke
on 3 World’s fair hotelscheme.
“I now wear ’em myself,” said the
big, hairy prairie man—Chicago Trib-
une.
Thb Frog Weighed av'l‘on.
The labyrinthodon, ahuge creature re-
sembling a toad or a frog, and which
lived in the earlier periods ofour planet’s
history, has been found in .asurprising
state of preservation in the marl beds of
Huezelweitz, Hungary. All species of
this gigantic frog'are now extinct and
are known to the naturalists. only through
the investigations of the geologists, who
have often "found parts or entire fossils
of the monster in strata of the-triassic
‘ portion of the mesozoic period. South-
wick mentions it in a three line entry in
his “Quizzism and Key,” under thehead
“A Frog as Large as an Ox,” and in
Barnett’s “Geological Epochs” it is con-
sidered in a chapter on "Huge Froglike
Creatures of the Mesozoic Age.”
The specimen unearthed in the Hun-
garian marl bed is entire withthe excep-
tion of the left forearm and the lower
jaw. The skull measures 18 indie be-
tween the eye sockets and weighs, ex.-
clusive of the missing underjaw, 312
pounds. The bones which have been dis-
covered up to date (and there is still
hopes of finding the missing parts), with
the ad boring matrix, weigh 1,860 pounds,
almost a ton—St. Louis Republic.
The J ury Suited the Lawyer.
A Chicago attorney, somewhat noted
for his sharp practice, sent his clientone
day to watch the case. Word came to
him that his case was next on thedocket,
and he hurried over to find the opposing
counsel already beginning. In vain he
looked for his client. He was nowhere
to be seen. In vain he asked for delay.
but the court told him that the careless-
ness of a client would not allow such a
thing. At last he glanced into the jury
box and saw his client there.
The stupid man had thought he heard
his name called and had marched in
with the rest. The opposing counsel Was
so anxious to hurry the case along that
be neglected to examine the jury. See-
ing the thing was in his own hands, the
Chicago attorney turned to the court.
“I withdraw all objection,” he said. “I
have my client where I want him."—
Green Bag.
No Bogus Italian Counts.
American heiresses need have little
fear of bogus Italian counts for. the same
reason that there is no imitation Italian
wine—the real articleis too cheap. The
possession of. a title ,in' Palermo gives
110th great of itself, but its indispen—
gable accompaniment as carriage, helices
and driver in livery. To maintain these
enan income of next to-nothing-a year
it is ofteii'necessary to eat mom
and .thick soup for a “regular diet, do a
great part of one’shousiework in gloomy,
faded apartments and sit about in old
clothes all day long to await the-magic
hour of 3 p. m. Thenmother anddangh-
ter don their finery, .thoCarriage is'driy-
en to the door and- it beginse-the‘long,
ceremonious drive to La Favorite and
the ,Giardino Inglese.——Stirling Heflig‘s
——-’ —-_.-..¢ --
I Advertise in the Gamma
It Is Gradually Working Into Rather
Tangible Shape.
RA VING LESS FREQUENTLY.
It Is Alleged That the Accused Woman’s
Conduct Depends Largely Upon Wheth-
er- or Not She Is Alone—Her Confl-
dence In Hotel Clerk Kinney.
MONTICELLO, N. Y.; Sept. ‘14.—Sane 0i
insane, Lizzie Halliday, the triple mur-
deress, has a story to tell which, she evi‘
dently believes, will relieve her from re
sponsibility for the crimes committed in
her house. She is telling this story piece-
meal, mixing it up with real or pretended
insane ravings, but never once forgetting
the text.
Beginning three days ago with the bare
words, “There were two men, Nancy, two
men,” she has added daily to the tale un-
til now it contains two women as well, an
Irishman who lives in a white house with
green blinds and an allegation that old
Paul Halliday murdered his half Witted
son, the youth whom she is credited with
burning alive. By the very few friends the
woman has, the unrolling of the story is
being awaited with interest second only to
the interest excited, by the finding of the
bodies of Mrs. McQuillan and her daugh«
ter and of old Paul Halliday.
The unrolling of the story is being watch-
ed, too, by the population not counted her
friends, but with a. different sort of interest
——a mere curiosity to know what kind of a
tale silie is capable of weaving and whether
it wi_l be good enough to create a doubt
that the general belief in the woman’s guilt
is justifiable.
Her Changed Demeanor.
The woman in Monticello jail is as dif-
ferent from the woman who was held pris-
oner for five days in Constable Scott’s
house in Burlingham as night is from day.
There she was raving night and day. No
word was got from her that by a stretch of
imagination could be construed as intelli-
gent. She kept up an almost constant
struggle with her guards. Here she has
no guards. She sits alone in a little cell
on the second corridor of the jail. She
raves now only when watched and then
more like a person whose mind has been
wandering and whose senses are just re-
turning than a person violently insane.
She is consistent in this—that she always
raves when she believes any one is near
her to hear, while when she feels that no
one is about she is as silent as a mouse.
Her cell opens on the hall of the house in
which the jail is situated. Persons have
gone to this door quietly and listened time
and time again. They have heard nothing
until they placed their hands on the knob,
and then the raving would begin. The wo-
man has defied every effort made to see her
when she is quiet. The first thing she did
when shewas left alone in her cell was to
lift the bed around in such a position that
she could sit on it and not be seen from the
door. To the right of this cell, facing the
cot as it stands, is a grated window open—
ing on the corridor of the jail.
A final effort was made to catch her
quiet by Sheriff Beecher. Early in the
morning a ladder was placed against the
wall beneath this window. After listening
at her door for 15 minutes, during which
not a sound was heard, a reporter, with the
sheriff’s permission, tried to ascend the lad-
der and peep through the window. His
progress to the top rung was noiseless. On
the top rung he scraped his foot accidental-
ly. Immediame there was the noise of the
woman raving in the cell. She was heard
to sit down on the cot, and then she began
‘talking.
Hotel Clerk Kinney.
Clerk Kinney of .the Rockwell House,
who has been chosen by Mrs. Halliday as
the medium through which to unfold her
story, is a fine looking young man with a
sympathetic manner. He is the only per-
son to whom she will talk. He paid his
fourth visit to her, accompanied by two re-
porters, the sheriif and three or four men
who begged the privilege of a look at the
woman. Kinney brought with him a bag
of peaches and pears. She greeted him with
“Hullo, Nancy! I’m so glad you have
come. Oh, Nancy, I must tell you!”
Kinney opened the bag and took out a
peach. She declared it was a pumpkin and
ate it from his hand. She called a pear a
chipmunk and ate that from his hand, and
then she began on her story.
She repeated things over and over. She
avoided every direct question. There were
two men, she said. One of them was an
Irishman. They came to her house. Her
husband brought two women there. He
pulled her out of bed and put one of the
women in her place. -
The Irishman pushed her on another bed.
She fought him. Then the men fought
with sticks. Her husband hit her on the
head with a shoe and drove her out into
the darkness. One of the men told her she
must obey him and gave ii black bag to
her, telling her she must throw the things
away. Her husband had three fires. He
gave his nice little boy some awful stuff
and put him in an awful place, and then he
had three fires. He said he would wipe out
the whole family. The Irishman who lived
in the white house with green blinds threw
something in her face.
This was her story in brief. She took
half an hour to tell it, and every few.sec-
onds she would say: “I will tell Nancy; I
will tell Nancy. You can’t stop me. They
fought like raging lions.” She was also
worried by an imaginary face in a corner of
the cell. It was a colored woman, she said.
When Kinney left, she called, “Be sure and
tell this to grandma.” Kinney will call on
her dam' until he has her whole story;
Largest Gas Well In the World.
FINDLAY, 0., Sept. 14.——All previous rec-
ords in gas wells have been broken. Yes-
terday D. T. Davis completed a well on the
Ross farm in Cass township which is good
for 50,000,000 cubic feet per day, making it
the largest well over struck in this world.
The well is but 60 feet from the city’s 18,000,-
000 gusher struck two months ago, and the
greatest excitement prevails.
An Alleged Robber Arrested.
PERU, Ind., Sept. 14.—A man giving the
name of C. A. Bulden of Pocahontas, Ida.,
of the Lake Shore train robbers. He came
in during the night on the freight train,
and the police are confident they have one
of the men or a decoy sent this way by the
robbers.
Home Seekers Registering.
GUTHRIE, O. T., Sept. 14.—-Three thou-
sand persons registered at the Hennessy
booth yesterday, and there are now 7,000
in line by actual count waiting their op-
portunity to register. Nearly 10,000 regis-
tered at the nine booths today.
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MEN WHO HAD LUCK?
STORIES amount-rap lmaeaoup or:
TACOMA mspoars.’
no» of Them Were Told by Professional
Gamblers and May or May Not Be True,
but an Affidavit Is Reqn trod For the Yarn
About the Gold Seeker.
“Well, that was luck.”
The speaker was one of a groupcf half
I dozen men who were standing on Pa-
cific avenue pufing away at Hay-anus and
talking just to pass time away and to
clear their throats. TheoOnversation had
been about the livery stable man, Mar-
tin, of this city, who had fallen heir to
5350,“ three years ago and didn’t find
it out until a. few days ago.
“Talk about luck,” said one of the
group, who was a gambler, “we see plenty
of- it. Do you know that one day last
week a man entered one of our gambling
houses with a nickel and won out $400 in
three hours? He had gone clean busted
the night before and found the nickel in
an out of the way corner in his room the
next morning. .
“That blokie went to the gambling
house with the intention of placing his
5 cent piece on the number 5. He got
into the room when the roulette ball was
whizzing around on its tour of numbers.
Ho rushed to the table and got down his
nickel on the five just as the game run-
ner shouted ‘Al-l down 1’ In a few sec»
ends the ball started on its ‘rear end’
bouncing, and in a few. seconds more the '
man shouted ‘Fivel’ That gave the. man
with the nickel $1.75 for his 5 cents.
Then he put 81 on N o. 17, and thatnum—
ber came up, giving him $35 more. He
continued to play with varying luck
until in three hours he had won $400.
And the next day he was broke again.
He borrowed a. nickel and tried the game
again, but it didn’t go.”
“I can tell a story of a man who was
lucky,” said a business man. “In the
early days of the gold excitement in Cali—
fornia, there came into San Diego a man
who was ragged and sick almost to death.
He was taken in hand and fed and fixed
up. Then he told a story of a wonder-
ful find of gold he had made. It was
only a few days ofi, he said, and he would
take a party to the place if they would
outfit. ‘
“Several men who heard the story of
tte greatgold in the mountains that was
t eirs to go after got up a party of 50.
The start was made with that man as
leader. After a few days’ travel it be-
came evident that the man had forgotten
the way. They traveled on, trusting to
luck, however. Indians were hostile at
the time, and they started in tomow the
gold hunters. They picked off one after
another with their bullets. A score were
thus taken off. Then a fever struck the
party, and 11 more went the way of
death.
“By this time the 19 survivors were
crazy with rage. They had been 14 days
out and were traveling in the most arid
country. Food was growing less and
less, and death faced everybody. On the
afternoon of the fourteenth day the lead-
er, who had caused so much misery, was
given three days more to find his gold
‘find.’ If he was not successful "by that
time, he was to hang.
“W ell, the three days had almost
passed, and still there was no sign of the
find. The last hour was almost up. It
seemed that the man must hang. There
were only five minutes more, now two
minutes, now one minute, now a half
minute—then came his luck. Just as the
time was up for the hanging that man
dropped dead.”
“I don’t see how he was lucky,” put in
the gambler who had told the first story.
"Why,” said the business man, “he
was lucky because if he hadn’t died he
would have been hanged.”
Another gambler told how a few days
ago a green Swede who knew nothing
about the game, but determined to try
his luck, had won nearly $1,000. He
had been an onlooker once or twice and
seen big winnings. He went to the rou-
lette wheel with $20, and in a few hours
he had won out $800. It seemed that no
matter what number he put chips on—
and he played recklessly, as all new play-
ers do—it came up every time. That
was pure luck. The man played no com-
binations or “arrangements,” because he
was as green as grass and knew nothing
about the game. '
“I have a friend,” spoke up one of the
group, who is connected with the city
government, “who by the merest luck
made a" discovery‘that is netting him mil-
lions. His name is Perkins, and a few
years ago back in Minnesota hemade his
discovery. He was a traveling man for
a grocery firm, and while walking to a
train to go from one country town to an-
other one day he whittled a stick.
“He had whittled the stick in a triana
shape. On the train the idea strqu
him that the shape would be just what
Was wanted for railroad spikes. The
square spikes in vogue were not the right
thing because they split the grain of the
green ties when driven into them, and
when dry the wood shrank away frcm
them. The triangle shaped spike would
not split the grain, and subsequéht
shrinkage would be done away with.
Perkins submitted his discovery to Pull-
man, and now the spikes are being made
by millions at Pullman, Ills., making
millions for Perkins and Pullman.”
Another gambler‘here chimed in with
the statement that during the past week
a gambler from Seattle had won $2,300
at fare in Tacoma rooms in two sittings.
Both sittms occupied 13 hours, and the
first sitting resulted in the winning of
$1,300 and the second $1,000. During
the latter game the man was out nearly
the whole $1,300 he had won at sitting
No. 1, but he picked up and won 'big
money. “I suppose he has gone back to
Seattle with his dough,” said the gain-
bler, “as I have not seen him for some
days.”——Ta.coma News.
Kind Indeed.
Collector (angrily)—Do you intend to
pay this bill next week or never, sir?
Trotter—Well, since you ode); ”me ,9
choice, I say never. Really very kind of
you. Good- day.—Truth. -
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