Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 183&

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HOW TO BEAT THE BANKS.

A SYSTEM OF SUCCESSFUL BETTING. Arithmetical Progression Th Scheme Looks Well Theoretically, Hut Not Like, ly to Frote of Much Practical Value to Gambier The Details. Some time ago Leonard Jerome, the father of the American jockey club, the patron eaint of Jerome park, the father of Lady Randolph Churchill, and the brother of the late lamented wit, "Liirry" Jerome, and the best known pentlemnn sportsman in the truest sen.se of the term learned from an old croupier iu Monto Carlo a eyetem whereby roulette could be beaten, eays the Utica Observer. It is Bimple and it is certain. It is based upon a system of arithmetical progression, but is applicable only to simple bets on whether the black or the red shall be the winners. It, of course, can be equally well applied to any other similar game of chance, such as the toss of a dollar. The presence of the 0 and 00 in roulette does not affect it. Although it is simplicity itself, yet it is somewhat difficult to explain. T?rit1v trll if rrhnsiata in a mnn a rrfo ?to make bets on a certain figure and then placing five of those figures in a row. When he loses he places the amount of his loss at the end of the row and in another row marked "losses," and then for the next bet adds together the first and last figures of the row." When he wins he places the amount in a row marked "winnings," and crosses off the first and last figures in the row and makes his next bet theaperepate of the two figures next to those thus crossed off. liy continuing this process, in time, no matter what the losses and winnings may be, all the fi eures in the row will ba crossed off, when the player will discover that he is inevitably a winner to the extent of five times his orieinal .bet. If his first waprer is for 5 he will find that he is $25 in pocket. Any one can test this system by the tossing of a coin and a calling of heads and tails. Some figures may make it more plain. A man determines to invest $2ö in five-dollar wagers on the calling of the color in roulette. In his mind, or upon a piece of raner, ho places the figure five in a row five times, thus: 5 5 5 5 5 The first time he loses, and he therefore places 5 at the end of his row and 5 in his column of losses, as inav be seen in the table below. Adding the first and last figures together, he next bets $10, and again losing, places the figure 10 at the end of his row and in the column of losses, lie now, in pursuance of the rule, bets $15, and, losing again, places 15 at the end of his row and in his column of losses. Twenty dollars is his next bet, but at this time he wins; he places the 20 in the column of winnings, and strikes o!F the first and last figures in his row, which are 5 and 15. Consequently, still pursuing the rule, his next bet is $13 the sum of 5 and 10 which he wins, and that figure goes into the winning column and the figures 5 and 10 are stricken from the row. Four figures row remain all of them fives and adding the first and last together the next bet is 210, which is lost, and the figure 10 goes at the end of the row and in the column of tosses. This makes the next bet $15, vhich is lost, and again 15 goes at the end of the row and among the losses. Now $20 is the wager and wins, and that amount having been placed in the proper column the figures 5 and 15 are stricken irom the row. This leaves $15 as the next Tet, which wins again, which places that fgure in the fortunate column and removes 10 and 3 from the row. Now but two figures remain, and each is a 5. The bet is $10 and it wins, and the row is wiped out, and the first experiment vith the system is at an end. The total of tosses is $55 and the aggregate of winnings U $S0, showing a difference in favor of the T layer of exactlv $25, or five times the criminal wager. No matter hrw often this nay be tried or how long fortune may jrolong it, the result will be the same. Jhis sum in gambling is demonstrated by the following figures. The letter "L" shows the losses, and the crosses below the f gures show how they are eliminated from the problem in its course: L L L L L 15 x o n o XXX iossfs 5 15 10 15 10 X 10 -20 x 15 15 x 10 20 XXX 1555. 15 10Kl "VVinningsIt will readily be seen that the solution cf the apparent mystery is contained in the fact that the player's winnings are bound to be in each individual bet larger than his losses, for upon each wager he adds each loss to its predecessor. The natural inquiry would suggest itself why, if all this is true, anyone cannot walk into a gilded bank of sin and clean out its coffers. As a matter of fact, he could if the gambling-house proprietors would permit him. But they won't, and therein lies the fallacy of anyone trying to conquer the great American tiger. A very well-known gentleman to whom Leonard Jerome explained the above system, but who himself never gambles, paid a friendly visit to John Daly s well-known temple of fortune at Long Branch. He knew the proprietor well, and as a matter of curiosity explained to him the marvelous method of the old Monte Carlo croupier. Daly experimentally twirled the marble and the wheel and put the system to a rigid test. With a sardonic smile he admitted its absolute accuracy. Said his friend : "A secret such as this is bound to leak out, and no bank can withstand it. What will you do if a man comes in here and plays this method against your game?" "Oh," said John Daly with a shrug of his shoulders, "this sort of thing won't worry us. In the first place, you must bear in mind that a man who thinks he has a sure thing, such as this appears to le, will play more than $5 at a time. He is apt to put down not less than $25 in the wager, and you can readily see that in the doublings up of this sum he would frequently have to bet more than $100 at one time. Even if he bet $10 at a time and had many successive losses, which is not unusual, he would be obliged, in order to win by this system, to make some one wager go beyond the century mark. Now we have a reserve rule, as have all other houses of this kind, for our own protection, and that permits us at an v time to make $100 the limit of all betting. The enforcement c that regulation would comfletely upset any system of this kind, ho scheme is new and wondr rfully ingenious, but, as you see, we gamblers know how to protect ourselves against a 'sure thing."' "But," said the visitor, "this protection you refer to would not applv to the man who indulges only five-dollar bets. To him the system certainly affords a certainty of winning successive sums of $25 each " "True," said Daly; "but we don't run this house for people of that kind. I don't hesitate to say openly and publicly that we conduct this establishment to make money, and were it not for that fact we would not opn our doors." Unauthentic Statutes. Lawrenc American. Mrs.Pfcker "A statistician has discovered that of all the men who commit suicide nineter.tht are single." Mr. P. "Who wrote that? A married man?" -Yes. I believe in." Then I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that his wife dictated ii to him,"

HALF-PAST FOUR. In an old manor-house, within a long day's ride from Naseby, there is a certain stately apartment known as the great hall, which is lighted by large windows to the south, and around three sides of which runs a gallery, reached from the southeast corner by a flight of a dozen steps. In

this gallery hangs the picture of a young and beautiful woman, attired in the costume of the .Stuart period. A gigantic clock, whose pendulum is inclosed in a huge wooden case, still stands below the west gallery ; and, in front of this clock. if the inquisitive visitor should chance to raise the carpet, he would see a dark stain upon the boards beneath, and he would be told that this 6tain is a stain of blood, and his informant, pointing to the picture, which hangs exactly opposite, would say that this picture is the portrait of Mistress Anne Fane, and would add, with lowered voice, that the blood stain and Mistress Anne were not remotely connected. How it came to pass that so lovely and gentle a lad)- became associated with a bloody deed is now my purpose to relate. On a June afternoon, in the year 1645, the great hall of Fane place was occupied by two persons. The windows were carefully fluttered, and only a small crack was left open to admit light. The door was closed. On the table were spread viands. and a gentleman, in the dress of a cavalier, was hastily partaking of refreshment. His companion a young woman of singularly prepossessing appearance ministered deftly to bis wants, laying her finger on her lips when he attempted to speak. "Hush!" she said softly. "Eat, Master Quivil. while thou canst. Who knows what may happen next? My brother Toby watches, and he may bring us news of pursuit at any moment. Eat." He ate and drank, therefore, at her command. I iit when he had satisfied hi3 hunger, Master Quivil rose and stood before her w ith longing words trembling on his lips. Ho was young not more, certainly, than five-and-twenty and handsome, with a winning emile and bright eyes, fcfhe was, perhaps, three years his iunior, and as beautiful as a morn in May. There wore, indeed, some that sighed that there was no court where Mistress Anne Fane might have displayed her charms and won the heart of some great noble by her beauty and her grace. But there was no court now, and the king was in sorrow, and Mistress Anne's Mechlin lace was sold, and her mother's jewels pawned, and she herself had donned a sad-colored robe and her countenance was careworn. Nevertheless, the fugitive from Naseby thought that she was the most exquisite sight that he had ever seen, and his eyes dwelt tenderly upon her face. "How can I thank thee enough?" he began. "I came here frie idless and thou lias succored me. I found thee alone thy father dead thy elder brother far away nobody to defend thee but a lad of fifteen and a dotard servant. And yet thou hast received me fed me entertained me " "Hush!" she interrupted. "Thou lightest in a good cause, and I would die for such. I did it for the king." "For the king only?" he said. "1 did it for the king," she repeated, blushing. "But do not tarry, Master Quivil. I pray thee go, for I can not conceal thee here. Even our lumber rooms are bare, and not the veriest mouse could shelter here in safety." The groat hall was, in truth, almost denuded of furniture. The pictures in the gallery had gone. The books had been taken from the shelves. .Scarce aught remained but a table and some chairs, a settee by the hearth, and the clock, whose enormous white face seemed to stare menacingly at the two young people, and whose sonorous ticking seemed to warn them that time sped away, and that even now the feet of the pursuer might be upon the threshold. Mistress Anne heard it and made a fresh effort to dispatch her guest. "Master Quivil, I pray theo to go," she said again. "'Tis beyond my power to conceal thee here." "I will, I will !" he cried. "But first, oh Mistress Anne, should I not wait till sundown? I cannot fly in open day. 'Tis little more than 4 by the clock." he followed his gaze to the clock's face and hesitated. "Mistress, I will depart at sundown. Until then my flight would command an easy capture. Harbor me for these fewhours, sweet mistress, and I will be gone. Thou knowest not what these few hours are to me. But hast thou forgotten our childish days? Hast thou forgotten when we played" together? That was a dear and precious time, when the summers seemed eternal, and peace seemed to le everywhere, and we little dreamed of coming care and future separation. I was but a lad, and thou a little maid, and yet, mistress, I called thee sweetheart. Dost thou recall?" She did recall, and her pale cheak was flushed with a bright pink spot as he spoke. But she did not reply. Instead, she averted her eyes, and after a moment, he continued ppoaking. "I gave thee once arose," he said. "Post remember? 'Twas June, a June so lon; ago that it seems like a dream. Wc walked together in the rose-garden. I mind me we had escaped from Henry Dowdeswell, and left him sulking. And I plucked a rose and said, 'Take it, Nan ; take it as a pledge from the unformed boy, that the gallant man shall return to woo thee.' And thou took'st it, sweetheart, with a tear glistening in thv pretty eyes, and thou didst promise to dry its petals and fold them among thy raiment, and keep them till I came back to prove my gallantry and to win thee. Alas, Nan, I have come "back. But my gallantry is unproved, for the day is lost, and I have fled, and how can I hope that thou wilt smile upon me now." He caught her hand and kissed it. "Ah, Master Quivil " "Wilt not call me Jack, sweet love? Dear heart, I come to thee scarred and luckless. I dare not offer thee my empty hand. But send me not away comfortless." "Dear Jack," she murmured, blushing, "thou hast ever been in my heart." He caught her to him. "And if happier days should come. Nan, sweet Nan, when my hands hold a triumphant sword, and when the king marches proudly to London, and when the gay court gathers again, gayer and statelier than before, say, Nan, wilt thou take my happy hand and suffer me to lead thee to that bright court, which thou wilt brighten ami adorn as a diamond brightens and adorns the crown?" "Oh, Jack, thou speakest too kindly," "Nav, mistress, I am thy humble servant, liut wouldst thou thus glorify my poor life ?" "Oh, Jack ; dear Jack." But even as he pressed her to his breast, something passing the window outside for a moment obscured the one ray of light which streamed through the shutter that had been left ajar. The girl 6tarted violently and withdrew from her lover's embrace. "What was that?" she whispered fearfully. "Nothing, my queen," he said reassuringly. "Nay, nay, Jack; some one passed. Didst not see the shadow ?" " Twas old Diggon, mayhap, or thy brother Toby." "No, no," ehe said in terror. "Diggon is in the field, and Toby watches from the

road. This is some one who has alighted at the postern gate, and who comes through the garden." "Then it is some one who knows the house well, dear lovo a friend, belike." "Nay. There is no one. Young Master Dowdeswell alone hath come hither, over and again. But he is a traitor, and hath come here spying the land. And oh, Jack, if he should come again, he comes as thy enemy. Was he at Naseby ?" "He was, Nau. I saw "the prick-eared , rogue." "It may be he. Oh, Jack, Jack !" Whether it was Master Dowdeswell or not, it was clear that it was some one who was acquainted with the ways of Fane place. For in another moment the sound was heard of a handle being turned, and then the heavy tread of one who crossed the outer vestibule and drew near to the door of the great hall. Anno clasped her lover's arm convulsively. . "My own love, thou mu?t escape," she sobled. "Through the window ? No, no ! He will have placed a watch. In the gallery ? Alas, not a mouse could shelter there!" She looked around wildly. The footsteps drew yet nearer. .Suddenly her eyes lighted on the clock's face. "The clock, the clock!" ehe cried in a stifled voice. Throwing open the case anil holding aside the pendulum, she motioned to Quivil to get within. He obeyed her instantly and without a word, "she closed the case upon hira, and, as she turned away, the door of the apartment opened and'a loud and stern voice demanded admittance. Before she had time either for welcome or denial the speaker entered. He was a tall and soldierly man, wanting yet several tears of thirty a man whose countenance had acquired the sour expression cultivated by the Roundheads, but who was not naturally ill-favored. He looked suspiciously round the room ns he came in and finally doffed his beaver to the lady. "Good-day, Mistress Anne," he said. "Good-day, Master Dowdeswell," she returned. "I come upon business," he announced. "I have a search-warrant to ransack thy house. I seek the body of Master John Quivil. He is supposed to be in hiding here or hereabouts, and 1 " He paused, but she did not speak. "I came this way," he went on, after a moment. "I thought, madam, it might be more agreeable that a friend should search thy house than a stranger." " 'Twas kindly done, Master Dowdeswell." "Nay, madam. Duty is rarely kind, and I have" strictly fulfilled'my duty and have cut off every "avenue of escape from this house by entering myself through the f)Ostern-gr.te while directing my men to ollow the public path. I am not kind. But I have been minded to make the search as little painful to thee as possible. Is the traitor John Quivil hidden here?" he demanded. "There is no traitor here," returned Anne quickly. Dowdeswell smiled grimly. "Mistress Anne, thou know'st what I mean," he said. "Thine is a willful misapprehension. I ask again: Doth the body of the traitor John Quivil lie here concealed?" "I conceal no traitors, Master Dowdeswell." "But dost thou conceal the body of John Quivil, madam?" For a moment she could not answer, and Dowdeswell smiled again. "I perceive that thou hast lately eaten," he said. Then, glancing at the clock: "Half-past four ! 'Tis marvellous strange that thou shouldstdine or sup at such an hour." "The times are strange, Master Dowdeswell, and we do strange things in strange times." "Aye, mistress. Even to the harboring of traitors. Who, I desire thee tell me, who hath broken bread in this place? But nay. Answer me not. Cover not thy malignancy with falsehood. Thou hast a traitor here and I will drag him forth." Then, striding to the door, he shouted to his underline, who had just reached the front entrance of the house. Bidding them search the mansion and the out

houses, he seated himself at the table, laying a pair of pistols upon it. Anne still stood, with her hands clasped, in front of the great clock, whose hands pointed to 4 :r0. It seemed to berthat she dared not move from this position. She fancied that Quivil's breathing was audible, and she feared least Dowdeswell should approach his hiding-place too near. "Wilt thou not be seated, mistress?" asked Dowdeswell presently, in a gentler tone. "I do not sit with the king's enemies," she replied haughtily. "Ah, mistress, reproach me not," he Frotested. "Time was when Henry )owdeswell could win a smile from fair Mistress Anne Fane." "That, sir, was when Master Henry Dowdeswell's heart beat true." "It hath beat ever true, Mistress Anne, and never truer than now. Did'st suppose that Henry Dowdeswell's heart could boat for anv mäid but Mistress Anne Fane?" "Master Dowdeswell !" "Listen, Mistress Anne. Dost forget all the days of youth all the games that we twain played together all ourintercourse, sweet and bitter by turns all the jealouies and rivalries between thy humble servant and Jack Quivil? I never liked the lad. But I forbore to cuff one upon whom my mistress smiled. Thou did'st not often smile upon me. Mistress Anne. Yet there were times when thou call'dst me Henry, and when thy hand would clasp mine as we crossed the rotten bridge returning from church, and when thy thanks came prettily if I brought thee a honeycomb or a dish of yellow plums." "Aye. I bear in mind the goodness of yore. But Master Henry Dowdeswell was then a loyal subject of the king. " "Charles Stuart, lady, was then a loyal king unto his subjects. ' "Tut, tut, sir! His most sacred majesty can do no wrong." "Mistress, we will not argue that. Speak not we of the king. Speak we only of ourselves. Mistress Anne, once thou wert little Nan to me." "Truly, Master Dowdeswell, thou hast a fine memory!" "Aye. I have never forgotten one moment of time, passed in thy fair presence." "Hush, Master Dowdeswell! I can not hear thee." "Because I serve not the king, madam?" "Aye. And because " "Not because thou lov'st another? Say not that!" "I must say it, Master Dowdeswell." He looked at her gravely. "Mistress, is it all foreot?" he said, chidingly. "I twined many a rosy garland for thee in the davs of my carelessness and my profligacy, and thou frown'dst not always then. Wilt not smile now, when in my new habit of grace I, an elect soul, ask thy favor and offer thee peace?" ''Thou wert ever kind, she said, trembling. "But I can not love twain." "And thou lovnt whom?" 'Tardon me, Master Dowdeswell. But what is that to thee?" Then there was silence for a space, and presently the trampling of men's feet sounded in the vestibule. Dowdeswell rose and went to the door. "We have searched, captain, but we have discovered none," said a harsh voice. "Only in the stable a worn-out nag roposeth, and there be blood upon his flanks and a slight wound, and methinks he hath been in the battle, and in the holster was

this kerchief, embroidered with the letters J. Q." "Good," returned Dowdeswell. "Await me without." Then ho shut the door and came back to his former position, fronting Anne, and with the clock that still pointed to halfpast four behind her. "Mistress Anne Fane," he began sententiously, "I like thee well, and 1 would fain make theo my wife and gradually" draw thee to higher delights and school thy mind to right thinking. To my sorrow, thou mislikest me, and I withdraw. But ere I quit thee, I conjure thee tell me a thou fearest God and as thou lovest virtuo and desirest the rewards of heaven dost thou conceal here in some secret chamber or in some hidden vault the person of the rebel whom I seek?" "No," said Anne. "As thou dreadest the fires of hell, mistress, I conjure thee to speak the truth." "I do speak the truth, sir." "Without quibbling, mistress, I bid thee inform me if one lie hid here in some secret chamber whom I account a rebel." "There is no secret chamber here, Master Dowdeswell." "Mistress Anne, is John Quivil here?" "Master Dowdeswell, thou hast sought throughout the house and thou hast not found him, and I tell thee there is no secret chamber here." "Then to whom appertaincth the wearied nag in the stable? "How can I say? Our stable door hath no key, and he who will may place his beast there." "Mistress, fear the Lord and speak the truth! To whom appertaineth the kerchief embroidered with the letters J. Q." "Master Dowdeswell, thou hurriest to conclusions. May no man own the initials J. Q. save one?" "Barley not with me, madam. I love thee. Mistress Anne, but my conscience condemns me even while I bandy words with thee. Tell me lest I drag thee to the seat of justice where hidest thou the person of John Quivil?" .She was almost at her wits' end. But she held firm. "How knowest thou that Master Quivil was at the ill-fated field of Naseby?" she asked. "How know I? Because I saw him, madam saw him in the rear company of the man Charles Stuart, whom thou callest king. I saw him, and I know that he fled in this direction. Madam, the evidence of his presence here is circumstantial. Here is his wearied steed and his kerchief. Yield him up." "Were it in my power, Master Dowdeswell, never would I yield him up! The king's loval servants are my true friends, and I deliver no faithful friend to a cruel foe." "Because thou lovest him, mistress?" "Not so. Because I love the king." Dowdeswell gave a short laugh. " Tis a woman's wile," he said. "The traitor is here, madam; thou hast as good as admitted bis presence. I must away with thee to the seat of judgment We will see if a more powerful hand than mine can force confession from thee." But he did not order her to prepare herself to depart. He stood looking at her w ith blazing eyes. "Vain and trifling woman!" he burst forth at length. "Thinkost thou to dissemble with me? Thinkest thou to deceive the Lord's elect? Know that I see thy wicked endeavor that I perceive thy bold purpose and that I despise thy shallow deceit. The man John Quivel is here. Madam, he is here, and I forbid thee to conceal him longer. Acquaint me, I command thee, where he is!" He paused for a moment; then proceeded more gently. "Woman, if thou hast a conscience, confess thy sin," he said. "Thou lovest; 'tis pity, for thou lovest an ill man. But let not thy love destroy thy conscience. 'Tis truth that I bid thee speak. Do thy duty and tell me this thing." "Master Dowdeswell, thou said'st but now that thou lovedst me," said Anne. "If thou hast ever loved me, ask no more, but depart in peace." "I said I loved thee!" he cried, impetuously. "Yes, and I do lovo thee! Kven as Jacob loved Rachel, love I thee ! Even as the hart desireth the water-brooks even so do I desire thee! My sole desire in lifo is to content thee, and if needful, I would shed my blood for thee. Dear Nan, wilt not return my love, and come into my arms, confessing thy great fault of today, and telling me where John Quivil lie's hid?" "No, Master Dowdeswell," said Anne, with dignity. "Take me away and immure me in the vilest dungeons. But, for my love's sake, I will reveal naught." ""But wilt not love me, Nan?" "No." He was deeply mortified. The perspiration stood upou his brow, and his heart was hot within him. He looked at her again. Then, with an unpremeditated gesture, he raised his eyes to the clockface above her head. Something in its aspect struck him strangely. "Ha'f-past four !" he exclaimed. "Halfrast four! It is always half-past four here, mistress?" "The clock hath stopped," faltered she. "Strange that it should stop even as I entered the chamber," said he. "Let me set it going for thee, madam." "Nay." she said quickly. "Why set it going for naught, since thou art going to take me to jail! Let the clock be." "That would be indeed an unkind measure." said be. "Even if thou be taken hence, should not the members of thy household know the time?" "I have no servants," said she. "None, madam? Beware. Dost thou dwell alone absolutely solitary?" "My brother Toby is here," she admitted. "But he never looks at the clock. And our old servant is half blind and cannot read the time." "Nevertheless, I will see the clock," ßaid Dowdeswell. And putting her aside, he flung the clock-case wide. "By St. George!" he exclaimed, "tis even as I suspected." Quivil stepped forth, his plumed hat in one hand and a pistol in the other. "Good-dav, Master Dowdeswell," he eaid. "We arc ill-met" "I arrest thee, "said Dowdeswell. "Sergeant Fairchild " He was about to raise his voice to call upon his subordinates to enter and to seize Quivil. But, quick as thought, Anne circumvented him. Snatching one of his pistols from the table, she darted up tho flight of steps into the gallerv; and leaning over the railing, she cried to Dowdeswell to s-ay his movements. "Hold!" she cried imperatively. "See here, Master Dowdeswell! I have my pistol. It is loaded. I hold it to my heart, liaise thy voice but by a syllable touch Master Quivil by but one finger and Ifire!--I fire, hark ye, and I am dead! And thou lovest me, Master Dowdeswell, thou lovest me! Nay stan l where thou art. Stir but an inch, and i die. See! the pistol is at my bosom! Listen! Make up thy mind to depart in peace and leave Jack Quivil unharmed, while I count ten. For if, when I come to ten, thou be still here, I fireand I die thy littlo Nans whom thou lovest, dies!" She began to count, leaning over the balustrade, with the pistol pressed against her breast and her finger on the trigger, and her eyes fixed upon the two men. They dared not stir. The ditermination in her even held them spellbound. "One,'' she began. "Stop, Nan, stop!" entreated Quivil. "Let me go with him ! I care naught. Stop, dear love, stop counti ig, and take

that pistol from thy breast. Come down, I adjure thee!" "Two," she proceeded slowly. "Three "Mistress Anne, I can not do the thin? I would. But, Oh, for the love of God, take that deadly instrument from the breast," implored Dowdeswell. "Four," she went on. "Five six " "Nan, thou art killing me. I care not a jot for imprisonment or death." "Seven" "Nan, my little Nan, think that man who loves owes duty, too. Have mercy on me, and come down." "Eight" "Nau, sweet soul, forbear!" "Nan, in God's name, cease!" "Nine " "For love's sake!" cried Quivil, pointing his pistol at bis own breast. "For conscience!" exclaimed Dowdeswell, seizing the pistol which still lav upon the table and thrusting it against his hand. Simultaneously the two men fired. "Ten!" It was a mechanical cry. Anne dropped the pistol from her hand and rushed down the steps, and as she reached the bottom, Dowdeswell's troopers hurried into the room. But the cavalier and the roundhead who had loved Mistress Anne so well lay dead, and above them stood the silent clock pointing to half-past four.

HE DID NOT ASK. An Indiana Circuit Rider's Experience With i Live Hoosier. (Arkansas Traveler.J A mcthodist circuit rider traveling through central Indiana on horseback came one dav to a swollen stream. While hesitating whether or not to venture into the raging waters he spied a native seated on a log on the opposte bank. Thinking to get some information he hailed him, and the followine dialogue ensued: "Hello, over there!" "Hello, yourself," was the answer. "Is this stream fordable?" "Sometimes it is, and sometimes it taint." "How is it to-day?" "Putty weil, I guess. I haven't heard it complainin' enny." "You don't understand me, my friend. I mean, can I ford it now?" "Kin if you want to; I hev no objections." "Well, is it safe?" "Is what safe?" "The water." "It's a thunderin' sight safer'n red liker." "Do vou think my horse could carry me over?"' "I 'low I could tell better after I've seed him try it." "My friend," said the traveler, a little out of patience at this sort of badgering, "you certainly ought to be able to tell mo what I want to know. Do you live along this stream?" "No, I don't, you goggle-eyed old tramp, you. Think I'm a shitepoke an' live in the crick, do you? If I had a rock I'd knock you offen that critter." "My friend," the minister hastened to explain, "I meant no offense. What I intended to ask was, do you live in this neighborhood ?" "Oh, that's anuther thing," answered the Hoosier. "Yes, I live 'bout a mile on van side o' the crick," pointinsr to the side on which his interlocutor stood. "Well, if I undertake to cross over will you lend me a hand if Iget into trouble?" "Don't see but what 1 would." "All right, then I'll try it." The minister urged his horse into the water, and a minute later had reached the opposite side safe and sound, but dripping wet. As his horse scrambled up the bank he paid to the Hoosier: "I should think you'd have a bridge over this stream here." "Well, I dunno," replied the fellow, coolly, "seein' as there's one only 'bout half a mile up stream from here an' a nuther'n less'n a quarter jess below us, it would be stickin' em in ruther thick, I'm thinkin'; 'sides we hain't got our new jail and court-house paid for yit." "What!" cried the water-soaked traveler, "do vou mean to say that by riding a quarter of a mile down the stream I could have found a good bridge?" "Yes, I 'low you'd found it there, for I crossed it myself 'lout an hour ago." "Why didn't you tell me that before I swam my horse over?" asked the now thoroughly disgusted minister. "Well,"" answered the native, "you seemed so durned anxious to find out whether vou could ford the crick or not that I didn't s'pose you'd go to the bridge if I did tell you; 'sides you didn't ask me nohow. Yer jess like lots o' fellers I've met afore, that kin ask more fool questions in or minute than a jest us of the peace could answer in a week. If I wuz you, stranger," he continued, " I'd kinderbe movin' ; it's two miles to the next house, but they'll probably take you in an' give you some drv clothes an' a good supper. As for me, Ifve got some mink traps sot up the crick here an' I'll have to be shovin' erlong. Nex' time vou come this way vou'd better take the bridge." rirnrgia Tried It. St Louis Republic Judge Underwood of Belleville, 111., was a pallant soldier in the Confederate army. lie was on the entertainment committee at the recent soldiers' reunion in that city, and discharged his duty so well that everybody took him for an old Ü. A. R. veteran. On the second day he was approached by a soldier, who asked: "What resiment was you in?" "The Thirty-seventh Georgia," replied the judge. "(ieorgia! Georeia!" mused the veteran; "didn't that Mate eo out of the Union?" "No, sir," was the prompt reply. The veteran looked puzzled for a moment and then moved off to headquarters. He soon returned with a triumphant expression of countenance, saving: "Why, colonel, you're mistaken; Georgia did go out of the Union." "No she didn't," replied the judge, "but she tried hard to do it." A Negro Turntujr AThlte. Atlanta Special. Green ITowell is a negro who owns a plantation and is well-to-do in life. He lives in the lower part of Burke county, near the house of Capt. A. L. Archer. He is highly respected by all who know him, both white and colored. UrePQ is fifty-two years old, and once he was black as a coal, but now he is getting white all over. Shortly after the close of the war two small white spots, about the size of a nickel, appeared on his wrist, apout two inches apart, and they remained for a short time and disappeared, and nothing more was thought of it till 1884, when they returned in the same place, and have been spreading since that time, and now he is spotted all over, and in a few years he will be white all over. He does not s ulier any pain from the spots and he says the only inconvenience he experiences is from the sun, which causes them to blister. As Uanal. N. Y. Sun. He had his baggage piled up 60 as to occupy the whole seat in the car, while two or three men who lacked moral courage M ere sitting on the arms of seats already full. By and by he turned to one of the men on the seat behind and queried: "Are you not a farmer?" "Yes, sir, I am," was the reply. "Well, farmers generally nit the weather pretty straight Do yon say it's going to be a cold winter?" "I, do sir. but I expect all the hogs will pull through without any extra suflering?" The other tried to say something further and to preserve the placid look: on his countenance, but the result was a flat failure, and be whirled around and resumed his reading. Didn't Want to be Laughed At. Linton Call. It is very strange that the Indianapolis Journal did not raise the cry of "fraud" after compiling the returns of the recent election.

THE BROCKEN SPECTER.

An Explanation Anent the Phenomenon of the Harts Mountains. Science. This phenomenon ha been associated with the Brocken, one of the Hartz mountains in Germany, 3,700 feet in bight, because more often observed from there. It has given rise to a large number of remarkable theories in explanation, many of which originated with those who h id never seen it. An exhaustive article, giving a resume of records regarding it, will lm found in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society for 1S$7, at page 245. The explanation having the widest acceptance was published in the al)ve article, and later in the American Meteorological Journal, August, 1SS:, and is as follows: The eye is deceived by the apparition, and thinks it much farther away than it really is. The only wav in which the eye could le deceived would be in case the shadow were formed a long way o(f ; but, if it were really formed near the eye, it would ajv pear in its natural size. When one looks into a concave mirror the eye ia at first deceived, thinking the mirror plane; but in this case the deception is very plainly due to the action of the mirror. The very singular explanation is given in Johnson's cyclopaedia that "the vapors of the atmosphere act as a vast concave mirror." lingular as it may seem, however. it is probable that this" is, undesignedly, more than half correct. A short stay on the summit of Mt. Washington has shown this specter in all its phases. The best time to see it is either early in the morning or just before sunset, and when the fog is not too dense to hide the Rim. If the observer turns his back to the sun he will see on a bank of fogs, if it does not envelop him, a slightly diminished shadow of himself. The eye is not deceived in any case as long as the fog forms a nearly vertical wall at lifty or more feet distance. If, now, the fog envelops the person, the shadow appears to start directly from him and often seems very large. There is no deception of the eye at all, if one is accustomed to careful observations. The following is advanced as a probable explanation: The shadow of the person is cast upon the fog in solid form; that is, the object shuts ott' the light of the sun, and one sees only the surface of his own solid shadow looking into its axis. The arms and legs also cast solid shadows, and the person sees the movement of these outside of the shadow of his body. It may be better understood to call to mind the shadow one tees on the ground as the sun is setting. This gradually grows longer and longer, and at last disappears in the distance. The fog forms a sort of "ground," and the shadow is cast upon it It is possible to form the same shadow with a lantern which concentrates its rays by a reflector. There is no difficulty, in" a fog, in seeing the shadow enormously enlarged. Scores have seen it on Mt. Washington. It might be thought that the nearness of the light was the cause of the enlargement ; but this was not the case, for the shadow began exactly at the person, where it could have been only the natural size. The familiar appearance of "sun drawing water" will help to explain this phenomenon. In this case tho air is full of haze or fog, and a small cloud casts a solid shadow thousands of times as long as itself. The surface of this is what we see. If an eye were placed in the edge of the cloud casting the shadow, the latter would appear on all sides. In the case of the specter, this same solid shadow could be seen by a second person standing and looking across it, provided the light of the sun were not dimmed by the fog. It is to be hoped that we may have more observations of this interesting phenomenon. To "Daw Ma." I'se only a little dirl. With tiny little tor. And little of 'dis world I know With ail its gossip and woes. I'se but a tree hit baby yet, But I has eyes so blue, I know, "Paw ma," I'd mate you laff Dif I tud look at you. I'se only a little ting. Not half as big's niy ma, Yet mamma tinks I'se so sweet And fair, without a flaw. I'se riot a little 'tnrly head. With hair as Mack's a crow, And sometimes you tink I was one 'Diffyou could hear me crow. I'se dot a fimny little face A cunnin' little now A mouth so small scarce mouth at all, My cheeks most like a rose. I'se dot two tiny little hands Though little they can do But some day soon, ray dear Daw ma. Will tro' a kiss at you. LrcT Maria Tuom. About Finger Nnils. Medical Classics. A white mark on the nail bespeaks misfortune. Pale or lead colored nails indicate melancholy people. Broad nails indicate a gentle, timid and bashful nature. Lovers of knowledge and liberal sentiment hare round nails. People wita narrow nails are ambitious and quarrelsome. Small nails indicate littleness of mind, obstinacy, and conceit. Choleric, martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. Nails growing into the flesh at the points or 6ides indicate luxurious tastes. Feople with very pale nails are subject to much infirmity of the flesh and persecution by neighbors and friends. They Encounter It Everywhere. I Chicago Herald. J A salesman in Hart Brothers' place tell this etory on a middle aged Hebrew friend, who visited Chicago last week to buy goods. He ran across one of the omnipresent slot machines, which bore this legend: "Drop a dime in tha slot and get a box of chocolate." The Hebrew thought at first that he might be able to beat the machine, so he put a niokel in the slot Of course it did not work. Then he dropped in another nickel, supposing, of course, that as two nickels make a dime he would get the chocolate. Again the machine refused to work. The Hebrew gazed at it a moment and then turned away in disgust. "No madder vere you go," he said, "dere is alvaya prejudice." Ilia Claim Itndly Spoiled. Lewiston Journal. What could make a man feel shabbier than to have his lost trunk come to hcht just after he had convinced the railroad officials that it was filled to the brim with valuable goods when he committed it to their care? This was the experience of somebody in Maine the other day. He had presented a bill of $77 for a lost box, when a railroad employe found it in the Bangor depot, and the box contained a peck of peanuts, a monkey wrench and a jack for lifting wagons, only these and nothing more. Shocking; Taste. Time. Ethel "Don't you think Charley Desmond a Clara "Yes, if he didn't dress with such awfully poor taste." "I hadn't noticed it" "Why, h carries the same cane in the afternoon that he does in the morning!" An Apt Apprentice. fPuck. "What you working at new, 'Itastus?" "I've tooken a job of carpenter work, bossmending up de holes in old Dr. chmerz's stable." "Can you hit a nail on the head every time?" "Not yet, sah; but I can hit de nail on de thumb, four times out o' three." Trouble Wtth th Servants. Puck. Husband "My dear, the howling of that cat of ours is unbearable! I wish you would try to eet rid of her." Wife (drowsily) "Her month is rp on Friday, and I'll send her away without a character'

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