Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1893 — Page 12

THE INDIANA. STATE SENTIN'EL WEDNESDAY MORNIN1. JANUARY U. W3-TWELVE PAGES.

NERVE IN 'POKER PLAYING.

BLUFFERS WHO ACHIEVED SUCCESS AGAIN5T STHONG HANDS. XtaWln; a Pot on fair of Deuces anil Traj with Dearei Winning The Young liookkeeper Who Itegsed for Mercy from the los Gambler How la Settlement Was Mniie with a Widow. A few weeks aeo, about the time the police authorities were raiding tho pamblers, a party of lawyers, police authorities and ethers were RathereJ in one of the lovrtr rooms of the court houe encaged if a conversation about public morula ami tbr suppression of crap joints, poker rooms and other pit-falls. Fical;y someone trave his personal experience iu an Indianapolis jramLÜnc room. It was but a comparatively short time before it became known that more than one gentleman present hrul had an experience of Lis own ia tho lair of the tiger. "Talking of bis blufTs," remarked a wellknown lawyer. "I believe I can tell the kin? story. It was in Yunkton, Dale, about ten years ago. I had dropped into Yank Thomas' room, just to 6ee what was going on. and found a couple of friends who wanted to play a little poker. I was agreeable and we sat down. Tho cards had not been dealt when some one was heard to say: 'Hold on there! S'posa you fellers ain't coin to 'bject if another feller wants to drop a little money learnin' how to play, are yerV We turned around and saw an Innocent, gresn loo 'tin. and simpleminded individual. We excdvined glances and invited him to takt a s.at at the table. He seated himself and the deal was made. We a?reed upon a jack-pot and made it a fat one, worth about $40 . to start out with. The gentleman on my riirht winked his eye and opened the pot for 10. All went in, including our haieed friend. 1 felt quite comfortable for I held a pair of kings, which I drew to an i caught a third. The player on my right drew one card and the one on the opposite side of the table called for thre. The innocent stranger said he believed he could Bet alon? with two curd, and they were civen him. The first bet was 10 and our Innocent friend said ho uewed tie could go a little better than that and laid down a couple of ten-dollar bills. We looked first at him and then at our cards, lie kept his eyt s on Lis cards and never smiled. I saw his raie, for i had a h:tnd that nothing laus than a lirst-c'.nss one wou'd beat. Tho next man also planked down ins extra tern and hid next neighbor astonished tl.e crowd by raising the countryman a cool rive. The preen one studied his hand for fully five minutes and then slowly aro-'e to his fet and said : I don't know hut mighty little about this same, pards, but jf you will wait a bit I'll try and co re down with a little mora stuif.' He then slowly drew from Lb pockets, one after the other. paper money, in various denominations, silver dollars, halves and quarters, and even lucent pieces and half dimes, and finally a few pennies. He piled up the stuli' ami it was found to be exactly 8177.51 'That's my level best, gents he saiJ, 'and if you think you can got it, why, jiat pitcu in and git'it.' "Mv three friends studied for a few moments and then laid down their hands. I did the same thing. The innocent young man shoved his hand into the deck, raked the stakes into his big side-pocket, arose from his chair and said: '"I b'liere I've found out a darned sight about this 'era game, and I've got to be goin. Good eve, pard..'" "He walked out and that was tho last seen of him. As soon as he was out of the room a gen fern an whom we all knew well, and who had seen tha stranger's hand, broke into lusty laughing. 'What did yon fellows hold?" he asked. When he found that the hands were three kings, a six full on queens, and tens and jacks, he simply said: 'You little boys had better jjj home to your mammas. 1 hat waa a meaolv blutF, and if ever three suckers were easily hooked you are tl.ofce suckers. That country boy whom you thought you v.err going to bleed held jiiet a pair of trays; not another thing in his hand. About six months afterward that 'country boy' came into my office at Yanktvn and retained me in a case. Before we got through with it he paid me over ipnOO. lie had a hail interest in one of the best herds of cattle on the Henrietta ranges, and also owned sheep almost without number in the northern part of the state. It was John Hardmon, and he bad been born on the plains and besought up on the ranges." "l know of a story of bluff better than yours," here remarked another of the party. 'lt happened in a gambling room In this city, not morn than a month ago. There was a fellow in a game with two others, and ho had been trying his bluding right along, until finally another individual, who didn't look as if he had sense enough to go in when it rained, asked to coin a in. It was not a half hoar until two men, one of them the l3st comer, had raised the other two out of the gime. Then the two who remained in went at it and raised each other back and forth until there was not less than fl50onthe table. At last it cams to a khow-down. the b!u!!er winninz, and all be hel l was a pair of deuces. The other player held a pair o: trays." "Boss gam tilers, as a rule," said another person present, "do not give up mony lost in their places, but I know of one instance where this was done about two rears ao in a North hide room in this town, and it wasn't a forced surrender of ituff either. There was a young bookkeeper in a wholesale house who was a regular visiter, and for about three months he had been plaving in desperate luck. Une night about ll:;x o'clock he came up to the rot.M and seemed unusually aervoua, for ha walked back and forth for fully half an hour without saying a word to anyone, although oe was wed acquainted with nearly - veryone in the room. At last he sent in order down stairs for a brandy and 'jrhen it came tossed it down. He went Up to a tab a where a game waa ju?t being Marled and said he would play a few dnlars' worth. The game after a time dwindled down to the young man and an individual known as one of the worst crooks with cards who ever stunned a nan out cf hard-earned cash. In the course of an hour and a half the young bookkeeper arose from the table witn a face aa pale as any dead man's, staggered over to where the boss garab er was ta!king with a couple of friends and said: "I have lent the last cent I have on earth and its worso, a d d sight worse than that, John; let me t'ill you something." II took the gamo.er aside and they talked for about ten minutes, and then both went down itairs. That young man has never 6ince that cigiittomy knowledge payed another card in a gambling roo'ii. Tor more than three months he had been plaving with Lis employer's money and was in for several hundred. The bxs gambler made him pl-dge not to play again, and then give him all the money- Iu had Iot. Ha remained in his position as bookkeeper and about six or seven months ago martied, lie is living a guiet, resectable life.

SKINS ON FIRE ita agonizing Eczemas and other Itchicp, Dunlin, lllvt-UiRsr, rn;.!y, Blotchy, and Pimply

Mkia an.l r-ciir j'lseaw are in. etantly relieved an. I peejiy cored bvtbö CiTiri R Kevkdies, comsiting of Cuticcra, the gnalakic eure, CUTICURA Soaf, an e--jii!!e akin purifier ami bcautilier, and Citicvka litsolvent, trt itestof humor renn.-, dies. This is strong liminair, tut every word is true, as proven by thousand of pratefiil .estitnartial. frvicruA KEVimrs arc, A I I l I Im c rj. ... .f S L i r Cur-a, E!ond Iurl:KT, ati i Humor Kcuicdiu of modern tiiiies. told everywhere. I'OTTER lKf axo C.u;.n. CnRT., T5oton. -How to Cure bkin lieeue" uiaiicd free. niVrLES, MafkhMi, r"h ron), chipped, ar.d r I jj oily fkin enred ty I'l'Tiei'IiA Soap. WEAK, mWL KIDNEYS, With their weary, 2u!!, nrhin?, Iifcl:ve, all-L'iii en itio'i, t-lievel in nmiiiite by the 'nl in r A lit i-P;i i l 'l'"ter. The fi vt nrl only int ! iitccus iaia-kll.ins strenstht-aiug bfter. 2ö et: " To those aciu;iinted with gamblers, and espcciallj- some of the boss gamblers of this city, this story mav neem to have some extra amount of fringe on it, but it ia a fact nevertheless." "I know of a case that happened not so many n.ontln ago." ea d a lawyer, "where a gambler put up to a consideratde extent ior money lost in his place, but be probably did so for reasons cr.tinly dül. rent from those which actuated the imiividal to whom you referred. A man came hero with his wife from a northern city over a year ago. He bad a pacsioa for garnbiin and the b osses of the leading gambling rooms, as lon us he ha 1 money, did not worry themselves at'Out ke ping him away from their places. Infi de of nine moiiths he dropped about ,.WJ. II afterward died leaving a penniless young w ile. Under the laws of the state the widow could recover in the courts what her husband had lo?t in the gambling rooms from the proprietors. The bos gamblers who were interested knew Ulis, und two of them paid all the funeral expenses, gave tho widow about '(), and have been paying her rent ever aince." " WAS CHARMED BY A RATTLESNAKE. An AMe:-lJo lied Jinn M.iite Helnleaa ty Ihe Serpent's Snltlo Spell. J. W. Felts, a prominent and reliabl citix'Mi of the adjoining county of Cheatham, says a Clarksvil e (Tenn.) correspondent of the St. I.ouis tVW-Ihmwrfif, relate the following extraordinary story of tha int'ij'jnce exerted upon him by a rattlesnake a short time ago: "1 started out one day in company with a Colored man to cut Rome limber, having a measuring pole in hand, the negro carrying an ax. Aflvr a time we separated, and I had not gone far before 1 noihed a large rattles ;ake in the path ahead of me. Apparently we discovered each other about tl e sjino tiic?, and both stopped. My first thought wai to kill the reptile, but ho threw hi in sc If into a Coil, and I concluded, as tbe soaee around was open, and not oanr.g his escai e, to wait and ree wha tiiepnake would do. 1 was coon intently watching his movements. He cut up more antics than I hud ever ceen performed by a snake. To me it was a pictura calculated to attract and rivet attention, and my purpose of destruction was soon forgotten. "Ere I was aware of it I stood, or rather et-ioped, spellbound, as if tranaüxed to the spot, without the power of speaking or moving, save in cbadience to the will of my captor. I lelt the distance between cs continually lessening, and, although I waa conscious of my perilous potiti-m I seemed powerless to change it, and, what m?.y seem to be more strange, had no deeire to do so. only to approach nearer the the object that, under aiderent circumstances, would have been one of terror rather than attraction. I knew we were nearing each other, but how I could not tell, not buing conscious of moving, and the Fnake appeared to occupy the same position relatively as at llrst. 1 only know that in the beginning I stood erect, now I was in a kneeling position, my body inclining forward, lay right hand extended, gradually nearing the Bnake, not in a straight line, but ogcidating, and at each moment lesteningthe distance. From tho first moment that I caught the eye of the reptile there seemed a line extending f ro:n-each of his eyes to mine, ubout the eize of ordinary sewing thread, which seemed to exert a power over me eutlicient to hold me and make me subservient to his will. "How long I remained in this position I know not. Tho colored man becoming uneasy at mv prolonged absence commenced calling me. I could distinctly hear him, but had no power to answer. Finally searching for me he found in- in the attitude described. He a'ain ca led to me, but as before I paid no attention to him. Then he came nearer und discovered the huge reptile within a few feet of me coiled for the deadly fpring, my right hand within a few inches of his mouth, each gazing intently into the other's eyes. He cmprebeuded the situation at once, took hold of me violently and threw n:e buckward fron the snake, thus partially breaking the spell. No elfort vftft madd by the snake to escape. The negro at once killed theenake, while I all the time was begging him not to dj ro. It measured about six feet in length and fourteen inches in circumference and had eight rattles. I was so completely under tho influence of the snake that I cou'd not shake it otf, nor in fact, had anv disposition to do so. The hallucination was not only p easant, but exhilarating, and there was only lacking one un definable something I could not tell what, but it seemed almost within my grasp to make my happiness complete, .o powertul was the fcll'ect upon my syste.m that I was striken down with a severe spell of sickness." Aimer Got the llil. Kiinsaa City Timea. Abner Taylor, a six-foot-two hack driver of Jot'lin, arrived in Wichita in search of Ktnel Tho'nas, who ran awav from Joplinthree weeks ago with John Burnett. The pair came direct to Wichita. Her father, who is reputed to be a prominent citizen of Joplin, engaged Taylor to cotne here and get his erring daughter. The big hack driver located th girl and went to her rooms at 7 o'clock tonight. Burnett was there and fired two Bhots at Taylor, both of which took eflect. However, Burnett was overpowered by th hack driver, who directed the gin to pack her trunk. Burnett was released, and made an assault on Taylor with a knife, ind.cting two ugly wounds on the throat. Taylor again overpowered him and turned him over to the police. The hack driver's wounds were dressed, and he left for Joplin on the night train with the girl in charge. Neither budet wound ia dangerous, but both are painful. The Cirave of '.' Camill." Over two score years have passed since the woman who was the original of "Camilla" died, writes Lucy Hamilton Hooper in a very interesting article on "How Dumas Wrote 'Gamble' " in the January Ladiss' Home Journal. She sleeps in the cemetery of l'ere Ia Chaise. As is well known, it is the custom in France for all persons who have lost a relative or friend to go on the anniversary called "the Day of the Dead" to decorate the graves of the departed with flowers. Lvery year, on that day, an unknown hand deposits on the tomb cf Mari Duplets m superb wreath of white camellias. It is generally conjectured that the author of this touch Ing act of homage ia Alsxandre Dumas.

J

A TEST CASE.

Longman's Magazint. The following story, I know, is not told as it ought to be told. Everything should be narrated in the historical present, and I should pay compliments to my own beauty. To be orthodox, as I am a young woman writing about myself. I should begin thus: "The down train. Parliamentary, is starting from Beading. A girl wiio has been waiting on tho platform trips along in search of a carriage. She is tall, slim, the feet which wove so quickly are arched and bien bottea (sic); she is deeply veiied, yet admiring male passengers, looking back at her polden locks, cet an impreesion of a blonde. Header, that girl is myself me. Barbel Brinton, M. D., spinster. I am traveling lirst-c ass, but without a n aid. I have come up to Basingstoke, ar.d am hurrying on my way to a professional appointment at a country house near X." That is the humor of it; but tbongh I have sins enough to confess, this kind of writing is odious to me, and I must be permitted to tell my story in my own way. The fashionable statement already set forth may be taken, however, as practically accurate. The train, when I tried to enter it at Reading, was very full, and at last I did the beFt for myself that I could by getting into a iirt-c!ass smoking carriage. Apparently it had but ono occupant, and he, judging by an elaborate traveling bag, a pile of literature, a salmon rod in the rack, other appliances of sport or comfort, was a wealthy and probabiy a young man. Some women dislike traveling with a solitary stranger of tho opposite sex. 1 do not prefer it myself, but we were in a 6low train, which stopped at many stations, and after all a man is not neceasari y a beast. It was better to take my chance with the unknown than to wait for a couple of bom s in Beading a town famous chiefly for its biscuits. Besides, I had business on hand. So I settled myse.f down with an air of proprietorship, and, by way of discouraging familiarity, began to read a copy of '"David tirieve," which I carried about for that purpose, l'eople are known by their railway literature, and I saw with pleasure that there were no frivolously pink and no society papers in the multitude of journals on the opposite seat. Nay, I noted the Athin:euui and the As I was drawing theso and other inferences the guard came up and, begging my pardon, assured me that the carriage was one destined for the consumers of tobacco. 1 replied that this was matter already within my knowledge. He n?xt informed me that the carriage was "engaged"' and that there was room for one in the compartment for ladies only. I made answer that I disliked a back seat, remote from the window, in a vehicle already occupied by three old maids, a nurse, a baby, a matron, a canary in a cage, a pug and a morgrel. The guird was etil engaged in the controversy when the occupant of the one seat in the smoking carriage arrived. He was a young man of about twentv-eight, tall, dark, a gentleman, und in his hand he held a paper bag of buns and ono of these little photographic cameras, at that time a favorite toy. "I told the lady that the carriage was engaged. Sir Walter," said the guard, ami when I heard the name of "Sir Walter" I privately determined to stay where I was in spite of any ellort to dis'oilge me. Noadveniureps and nt that time I was cn adventurers would neglect euch a chance, but my reasons were stronger and more particular than tho mere desire to make a freeh acquaintance in the ranks of a hybrid order of nobleste. I said nothing, but sat still and smiled sweetly behind by veil. The young man looked decidedly annoyed and murmured something to the guard' who had no time to answer, but sped to bis post. Bells, whistles, flags, p nyed their usual part, and the train elowly moved out, tbe stranger jumping in at the last moment. "I am uware that this is a smoking carriage." I said; "but if you will permit me to keep my window open, I assure you that smoking does not annoy me." He bowed, and threw his" cigar, which he had held iu ambush, out of the window. I kept my eyes firmly fixed" on 'T'avid Grieve." We passed one or two small stations, at which we stopped. He had been looking at u.e all the while in a respectful and even shy, but observant, manner. In his hands he had a green review which at fir.-t I thought was lxtUeffi. I was mistaken it was a volume of the "Proceedings of the Psychical Society." Wi parsed a third station. He looked at Iiis watch; I looked at mine it was 8:1"). I felt that he was going to epeak. Can you toll me the exact time?" he said. "I fear my watch is fast." What could ho want with the exact time? "It is precisely seventeen minutes past three," I ret lied. "I 6et my watch by the ßtation clock." He thanked me, hesitated, and then left his seat at the oppositH end of the carriage and sat down next me. "I am extremely sorry," he said, "that 1 have unluckily been compelled to share your carriaae." I looked at him steadily, and his eyes fell, though he could see little of mine, lie blushed, smiled and went on: "That is one of the things that we wish we had expressed thetwiee. I mean I am sorry for your sake--" I began to be uncomfortable, but merely looked inquiringly. "I do imp ore you to believe that I am naturally the last person to want to to make a lady the the partner in an unusual adventure." "This to an adventuress!" I thought, rather bitterly, but I only bowed. We must be nearing a station. Was he going to ssk me to look out of the window white he changed his clothes? Was he a runaway offender? And if so, why was he traveling by a slow train between Beading and X? It's it's horribly inconvenient," he said; "but I must first entreat you to credit my statement that, in spite of appearances (which have not nearly come to the worst), I am penectly sane. If you wish to be convinced of the lucidity cf my intellect I will enumerate all the kings of llgypt from the eighteenth to the twentysecond dvnasty." "It will sullice to tranquillize me." I answered, "if you will recite the dates of the N'ormsn conqutst, the discovery of America, and the battle of rrostonpan?," and I could not help smiling as I spoke. He smiled, too. and obliged me with the information which I demanded. "Now," I said, '"I am quite easy about your sanity, though the test may not be scientific. You have excited my curiosity pray go on." The train was "slowing." "I can not possibly do what must be done at a station," he said; "and, by the way, two ladies, a pug dog and a canary are alighting. You may still" ".Still exchange your society for that of a baby," I said : "and my curiosity is that not to be satisfied? Believe me. it is acute. You are fond of photography, I see," I added, as the train began to move on again. "A little," he said; "and now I think of it. you may even asist me if you pleaso. It is only a kind of acientiäo experim ent.

at his watch, 1 Would vcu I mind just snapping the machine at mo wheal give the signal? I'll drop my banderchief." "With pleasure," I said, and waited for "developments of the situation." They came. He deliberately emptied his paper of bnns. put the paper bag on hi" head, placed one whole bun in his mouth, took his handkerchief in his hand, and suspended Limse.f by his feet from the rack lor light Inggage "overhead. In this unconventional attitude he dropped the handkerchief, and I drew the trigger of the little photographic machine. lie instantly disengaged his feet from the rack, showing a good deal of agility, and reappeared with a scarlet face, as was natural. Then ho looked at mo ver gravely, I locked at him, and he smiled in a manner rather sheepish. He had a very pleasant smile, with his ruffled hair and reddened cheeks. "Your chsracter for sanity is established, as far as Iain concerned." I eaid; "but aa we are nearing a station, ma)' I suggest that von might remove your present hea idreps?" He put r.p Ids hand, found tbe paper bag, blushed agai:i and threw it out of the w ndow. 'T am more than ever obliged to you," he said. "You are quito cei tain that you are not frightened?" "Not yet." I answered, and as soon as the train was in motion agnin he began to undo his salmon rod from its cover and to lit in the joints. He then fixed on the reel, and I ran the line throuzh tho rings. To do this and atlix an angle minnow and cast to the end of the lina is no easy task in a railway carriage. Finally he trolled out of tha window of the rusiiing train as out of the boat, and by his request I again photographed him while thus engaged. "There!" he said, when he had replaced the rod in the cafe, and suddenly diving under the seat of the carriage be sang, 'Charlie is my Darling" iu a very eweet and touching manner. "There," h went on, "that will do. I can never tell you how ranch I am obliged to you for not clutching at the cord outside the carriage on the left side and giving me into custody a a raving maniac. And now let us be ordinary human beinvs again. You are neglecting vour 'David Grieve.' " "Truth is so much stranger than I beg your pardon," I said. "I mean that in no romance, however imaginative, have I previously " ' Encountered a gentleman, perfectly eane, who trolla for salmon out of a railway carriage, and trolls Jacobite songs under the seat. And yet King Crasua of Lydia " Here I really began to fancy that his mind was wandering. Afterward I discovered his line of thought, which it, perhaps, already obvious to persons who have enjoyed (or at all eveuts received,! a classical education. We traveled together for only a quarter of an hour longer, und in that period he displayed no trßccs of what many would consider eccentricity. On getting out ho bowed, and expre.-ed a sincere wih that wo n ijht meet again iu circumstances less unusual. He then thanked me for what he kindly called my scientific courage an I coo nees, and we parted. On reaching mv destination at a placo which need not be mentioned, some dozen miles bayond that which Sir Walter had alighted, and for which I myself had taken my ticket, I first paid the extra charge and then went in a cib to an obscure inn where my luggage was awaiting hie. Here my own appearance might, had there been an observer present, have seemed as , eccentric as those of my late companion. I went into a bedroom, arranged a number of bottles and boxes taken from my dressing case on the table, changed my dress, provided myself with a kind of eegant jointed crutch from my trunk, and so arranged niV appearance that the who. had entered as an English woman of light complexion emerged as a lady with dark hair, dark eyebrows and a dusky skin, distinguished by a limp and an American accent. Kache. Brinton was now Mrs. Schuydam, the celebrated transatlantic telepathist and clairvoyant. For that was my professional name, and it was in this f.e d of adventure that I earned my livelihood and supported my dear mother. Yeiled and cloaked. Mrs. Sehuydam raid her bib, and, taking another cab, drove to the nearest station on the line from London, ahout eix miles from the town of X. Here I waited tiil the ö'A't train from town stopped at the littie station, when a hund holding an umbrella out of the window of a carriage guided me to the compartment where my agent and hypnotist, Dr. Puygre, was "waiting for me. "Find out anything?" he said, as boon as the train started. "A little," I said ; "enough for tchropfl to work on." Now Schropff was the name of my spirit of divination who spoke through mj when I wa "in the trance state." Schropff yave himself out for the shado of a German army surgeon shot at Sedan. He spoke in a gruff Teutonic accent. My medical atuaies at Zurich years ao were useful to Schropif. By dint of private information, conjecture, a habit of swearing in German, and other devices, Schrcplf had acquired rather a favorable reputation in psychical circles, and the great quesHou was debated aa to whether Schropif was my sub-conscious self or was really feu Scbrop'f, or merely acasual spirit unattached, who, perhaps, had never been anybody in particular. My present business was a test case. At the house of an old Mr. Lindsay, I, or rather SchroplT was to lind out what an inquirer, unnamed, had been doing at a particular hour on that very day. By private inquiries and inferences we had arrived at the conclusion that the unnamed was to be a certain Sir Walter Wei more of the Barrow. I had run down, at very short notice, and in my own habit and aspect, to pry and spy about the Barrow. As the intelligent reader surmises, 1 bad been lucky indeed, and had learned from the chanco word of the railway guard quite as much of Sir Walter's pertormance as was necessary for my purpose. "Find out anything?" Puygre had asked and I had replied, "A little." I had no mind to take Puygre into my confidence He was detestable. 'He made my loathsome business more hateful yet. A matterer from some wretched little Yankee college, Poygre was an ignorant quack, who despite his ignorance, and his consciousness of being an impontor, was a conceited pedant. He believed, if in nothing else, in his own knowledge of "occultism," and reveled in a slang compounded of "the patois of Zion," and the newest coinage of sham scientific language. Puygre was necessary to me, and ho had more than once remaiked that he "could give me away." But this liberality was less in his power than he supposed, for he knew me only as Mrs. Schuvdam. and had no more idea that I was Kachel Brinton, than my mother ha I that Kachel Brinton, M. I)., being destitute of patients, practiced divination as an American medium. My changes of costume and persona ity (I real y had two personalities) were made at my private chambers. "Did you get into the mansion?" he asked. "I hear it is open to the citizens on Tuesdays and Thursdays." "I aever went near the house," I said; "and now htrre we are at X." where, indeed, we Stöppel, and found Mr. Lindsay'a carriage waiting to take us to his house, Ardley Court. I had mads Purere lriü2 ereniQS dxees

after ail. But," he looked "It is 3:4ö. i must begin.

raiment against which his whole eoul rose in republican rebellion. We met in

the drawing room before dinner. There were about a doz9n people present, and among them Sir Walter! Our host himself led Mine. Schuydam. limping and gracefully camg her cruich, in to dinner. The innocence of these psychical people is amazing Next me. ou my left, was a learned Oxford professor. On tho opposite side was mv friend. Sir Wader, to whom I was not introduced. In lact aa part of the "te't," I was Introduced to nobody, and no names were mentioned, but I knew the professor and one or two others as old researchers. It was plain tome, from a dozen undesigned bints, that my railway companion was the person whose employment of his time was to be accounted for by Schropif. I knew that I was about to make a wonderful hit, that success and advertisement were to be mine, and yet I did not feel elated. Sir Walter looked so thoroughly honorable; he had been 60 courteous ; he was, in brief, so handsome, his manner so friendly, I had so enjoyed being myself and being treated as mvself whi'e wo traveled tog' ther, that Schropif and a l his works and ways were hateful to me. "Why can not I live with these people as one of themselves," I asked, "and in the rank to winch I was born?" Needs must, however, when somebody drives; and Eomebod v, aided by a broken bank, agricultural distress, a batch of young, lie pless brothers and sisters, and by a mother who believed me to be practicing as a lady doctor, had driven me to this. "Well," I said to myself in a passion of shame, grief and envy, "I am what society has made me." This is the mo lern equivalent for the old excuse, "the devil tempted me," and with this I hardened my heart. After dinner tbe men joined us soon. We were on ly three ladies old Mrs. Bindsay, the profeFor's sister (a hardened skeptic), and myself. Let tue hurry on. Tuygre, after talking a flood of nasal" American nonsense about "currents," "influences," "percipients," and the rest, "by piiotizd" me, and after the usual "business" 1 went into "tho trance condition," and began t- taik gruffly and in a German accent. This was Schropif invoking thunder and lightning and atking what was required ot him, w hich, of course, be ought to have known, if he knew anv thing. 'You are invited to say," read old Mr. Lind.-ay ironi a written paper prepared beforehand, and attested, "how the owner of this object" (here a New Zealand ear ornament of jade was placed in my hand ; I knew it by the feel) "was occupied between 3 :4" arid 4:43 today?" "Something small and ernooth; it ia stone, it is pierced, it is green," grumbles Scbroptr. "Ach, it is foreign, an ornament; it is Maoriseh, ja!" That is Scliropfl's highly agreeable stylo of conversation. I suppress tho German expletives, wi.ich ho uses when annoyed. Mrs. Lindsav. "Wonderful 1" The Professor "Hush!"' All Schropil's remarks, be it noted, were taken down in shorthand for purposes ot science. Schropif "I Fee something moving, it is larg, it is oblong. (He pauses. Movements of expectation.) It is a railway carriage ! " Mr. Lindsiy "Who.if any one, is in tha railway carriage? Schropif "I pee a woman." (Titters from a young man of the class known as "Johnny.") The Professor's Sister "Hush!" Schropff "She is young, she is beautiful. Wliat lor do you laugh? (impressivelv.) She is nod the berson!" The Pro'essor (in a whisper) "Ilui-h, sir" (be mentions a name which I fad to catch.) SchropT "She is nod tho person. 1 6ee him coming in. He is angry. His luggage is here before. What is that in hia hand? He has a bag iu bis hand. Ha takes out gskes out of the bag. He is going to eat the g ke s. He puts the bag on his hea 1. He hangs himself up by the heels. Oh. he will dnmhle down. (A wil l explosion of laughter, clearly from the Johnny. They are remonstrating with him. I h-ar him say, 'Hut. my dear fellow, I w as' here ho is suddenly eilenced. I hear him being led to tho remotest end of the long room; someone is whimpering to him. I catch the word 'must' and 'honcr bright.' and chuckles, with mora remonstrances. )" The Profrsaor's Sister "All this is very irregular." Puygre "If people laugh, the odylie currents are disturbed, and the tranco moJium ceases to be a lucid percipient. Mr. Lindsav 'Go on, please, Dr. Schropff." Schropff (sullenly) "What for they laugh? if he makn a fool of himself, is that my fault? (The professor, Mr. Lindsay, and others propitiate and mollify Schropff. He goes on.) Then I eee him take a bag out of the rack. It is a long, thin bag. He takes a etick out of the bag. Tliero are several sticks. He joir.3 them together. What fo' is this? " Ho runs a piece of string along the etick. What does ho do? I do not understand. The Johnny "Perhaps he's puttinsr up a fishing rod." (He explodes and ia bott.ed.) Tbe Professor "Dr. Schropff while alive was not a sportsman. Perhaps the explanation just volunteered is correct." Schropif "He fastens a let'dle metal fisch to the string. Now he is fishing out of the window. He is a very foolish man. Now he gets under the seat of the railway carriage. Ach, I hear him sing; itissoaa this: Acli, Jarley la ray darling' I see no more. I go away. Good night, the company." Here Puygre went through the farce of awakening me from my trance; as he did so lie made a secret feign lhat I had bluu 1ered terribly, that Schropff had made a gross series of errors. This had been Puygre's iuference of what he saw of the company. For myeelf, I ftlt that if Schropff were wrong he was very w rong, indeed. It was no question of haif measures on his part or of "fishing inquiries." Schropff, for once, had spoken out. The hypnotic hypothe is, of course, is that I, as the percipient or "u bject" knew nothing whatever cf what Schropff had been eating. I was only his unconscious mouth-piece. I waited humbly to hear what the company thought of tho performance. Presently Mr. Lindsay came up, leading the young man whom I have permitted niyfelt to speak of as the "Johnny." "Dear Mrs. Schuydam," Mr. Lindsay remarks, 'this is, indeed, a triumph I Skepticism is silenced at last!" Ahl how happy i felfl "Since Croesus, king of Lydia, boiled a lamb and a tortoise in a chaldron of bronze, to test the telepathic lucidity of ttie oracles (a test from which Delphi alone emerged triumphant, as Herodotus informs us), t eychical research has had no more signal victory. Dr. Schropff, you wilt be delighted to learn, correctly described the very unusual occupation which engagad Sir Wader Welbore today between 3:45 and 4:45. Permit me to" present you to Sir Walter." And he introduced me to the Johnny I Somehow the rest of the evening went by. 1 withdrew as early as possible, pleading extreme fatigue. What had happened? Could two men have gone through the same insane performances? Were there two Sir Walters? Puygre, though puzzled, waa radiant; but words cannot describe my own perplexed anxieties. Oh, if I cou'd only hear what they say in the smoking room, by themselves! I thought aa 1 got rid of my limp, my crutcü, nur dark wbiz. aui my American

accent before going to bed. and even to sleep, for I was worn out with contending emotions. Next day Mrs. Schuydam breakfasted in her own room, and took leave of her host and hostess in the most unassuming manner. At the station Puygre was about to enter my carriage, when t?ir Walter my friend I mean; not the genuine Sir Walter epoke a few worJs to him on the platform, and Puygre. with a white face, told me that he would travel in a smoking carriage. My companion of the day before entered mine, got nie a newspaper, procured another for himself, and read it tiil we were well on our way. This time we were traveling in a last train. I asked a few of tbe questions which an intelligent American traveler might be expected to ask ; he answered as wed 83 he might, and then producing a pocket handkerchief he presented it to me, saying, "You dropped this yesterday when I got out." Now, the handkerchief was marked in a very legible hand, B ichel Brinton. When one has a double personality, one cannot bo too careful as to how one's double st of things is marked. I was reflecting cn this, when he paid : "Perhaps 1 am not misliken in thinking that you would like some explanation of what occurred last night?" "What did occur?" I a?kcd. "I only saw that you all seemed satttdied with Dr. Schropff, but you know I am only a e!e"Ping partner, and have no idea of what Dr. Schrootf may have been revealms..'' He looked" sieadily at me. and I felt that

Mme. Schuydam was blushing through her dusky complexion. I could keep it up no longer. "I am at j-our mercy," I said. "What are you goicg to do? Why did you not expose me last night?" 'It is not my business," he said, "to expose people. I wish you would let ine be your friend. lam not speaking to Mrs. Schuydam. 1 am speaking to the lady with whom I traveled yesterday." '.Nobody shall ever epeak to Mrs. Schuvdam again as long as I live," I said, and I threw that lady's crutch out of the window of the railway carriage, and I suppose I exhibited other signs of emotion for ho seemed deeply interested in the landscape on the other side." "Do you really mean that?" he asked, after a long pause. ''Yes, whatover happens. Mrs. Schuydam is dead ; mv name is Kachel Brinton." "Then, Miss Brinton, I am delighted to exp ain what occurred. I had often been at Mrs. Si huydam's stances; 1 was going to attend that of last night, and when you spoke at Reading I recognized your voice. Your Pennsylvania accent is not bad, but I never thought it was genuine." "Do tell !" I exclaimed, in the voice of Mrs. Schuydam. "That whs better," bo said, "but you were not always so happy in your imitation. I detected you, as I said, and when tho guard called me 'Sir Walter' I saw your expression chang and I knew yo;i took n e for Walter We. bore, end I i.ad spotted him as your 'subject.' Now I am called Hr Walter Bethune, and 1 was on my way to visit Welbore and go with him V: tho Lindsays. So I played these antics. Afterward I arranged witli Welbore that he should pretend that Dr. Schropff waa correct in his revelations. To oblige wo (for 1 enco did him e. good turn) he consented, but he laughed dreadfully during the performance and nearly spoiled the whole affair." ''And what bed Sir Walter Welbore been doiug?" I inquired with a natural curiosity. "Counting his pairs of boots and reading Rtiff'x Gui'lc to (he Tuff. Mrs. Schuydam might I mean Dr. Schropff might almost have guessed. "And why." I asked, "did you let me off when r ou bad such a chance of exposing Mrs. Schuydam?" "Do not let us argue about motives," lie said, "nor speak ill of the dead; Mrs. Schuydam is dead, you know." And, indeed, he managed so well and arranged matters so c'everlv at Weetbourne Park station that when Puygre got to Paddin :Jon no Mrs. Schuydam whs to be discovered. Nay. not a trace of that lady has be6n found to this day. After Schropff's most remarkable triumph, the woman who had lhat spirit of divination vanished utterly to the extreme bewilderment of the eocietv for psychical research. Some incline to believe that she was disintegrated; others aver that ehe is to Le looked for in Thibet; but no one recognizes her in Lady Bethuue. Id nonage of the I'mbrella. An American, after lenghtened study of tbe subject, gives the following deiinition of the language of the umbrella: "To placo one in a rack at a club indicates that it will shortly change owners ; if a cotton one is substituted for a si.k, it means that 'exchange is no robbery.' " writes Angela C. Boyce in the January LinLef Home Journal. "A man getting all the raindrops from the points of the umbrelia, which he holds over a lady, signifies courtship, but when a man keeps a lion's share of the articie, giving the lady the raindrops, it denotes marriage. To carry an umbrella under the arm at an angle implies that the individual following will lose an eye while to hold it just high enough to injure passers' eyes and men's hats Eignifie, 'I am a woman.' Lastly, the loan of an umbrella i.3 synonymous with an act of egregious folly." Starving Our Children. When we see our house plants looking stunted, putting forth few leaves and no flowers, we stir the soil in ttie pots and enrich the earth, writes Elizabeth Bobinfion Scovil in a helpful ariic.e on "The Children's Luncheon" in the January Ln lki' Home Journal. When we aoe a child looking pale and thin we say, it we know something of phvsiological chemistry: "Too little nitrogenous food." If wo are simple folk, avers- to long words, we remark: 'That child seems haif Btnrved." It is the truth, however we express it, and a wrong ia being done to the child that the fact is not recognized and remedied by whoever has the daily oversight ot i s meals. The unconscious victim may seem to eat a sufficient amount of food, while it d es not get enough of the proper kind to furnish the nourishment the body requires. MaiDta'nins the Court's Dignity, fl'arenport Democrat.l Judge Byan of the Sixth Iowa district has made a departure which is attracting attention. He has prohibited smokicg in his court and orJered that lawyers keep their feet off the table while examining witnesses. In most court rooms smoking is prohibited during the sessions of court. But when it comes to compelling a lawyer to keep his feet on the lioor and his hands out of his pockets, that is quite another thing. I t savors strongly of the blue laws. Judge Byan has started a revolution. He is in danger of being waylaid by the lawyers of his court and called a czar or something worse. Couldn't AfT.trd to See the Serpent. London Globe. There was a captain of a Cunsrder once who was cal ed on to the bridge by his first olhcer to see a supposed sea serpent. "Sir," said he, "I once knew a man who saw one, and put his name to a document to that effect. Ho was a captain, too. and when be came into harbor his emplovers dismissed him because they said they couldn't have a skipper who got so drunk as that. He was the sport of the press for A month, and his friends all put him down fur as big a liar aa Capt. Drake's greatgrandfather. I'm going below. I can't sJTori to see sea serpents."

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RADWAY'S Tho Cheapest and Rtt Medicine for Family Ue in the AVorlJ. Sore Throat, Colds, Couh. Pneumonia. Brenchitia, Iutltnima'.ious, Cmigeition. Iu iuenza, D:ilicalt UreaiLing eurji anJ preventei by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Irf!nimU -n o! th Kidney. laSa-naU-. et tl H.aldor, Imlvifttall ot i n rtils 'l.ne tioa of tin i.in(, Pa' t tat' m of i i II an. ilfit-r-lc. Cr .up, ll.o iih ria. Citarr i. Pi .1 i-it. Clt. Cbi'.la, Acne C!ii!l-, C'j'.i'uUlu, Krosi-b-.to. Urouiie, Hi 1mu . Theappi:ct...n of ins ECV.DY EELIiiF 19 Vx part or lartt her tin J.Sca.ty or fa.n unii w.U a r 1 " I o in .orr. R VOW A Y'S RA1Y BSMCF 1 thso-Ur rnJ al 4ent n roine tint ill nuia.lr ill, pua. il loeta.iilr riievvi an 4 so ta carj. Rheumatism, Neuralgia. ciatiea. Ileadaehe, Toothache, X.ttl iiiiuiKiLion, Aclhuia, Iiid'U'iwa. lsiHIrult Itreath'.n;, I.nmh.tgo, Swelling of the .lointa, Fains lrt Back, Chest or Limbs. Railway's Kea.ly ICeliet I a Cure for Kverje l'iiiu, Snralns, llnuse. it Was the 1 irt and I the Only PAIN REMEDY Tbat instantly stopi the exruc.atin paia. atlaM Iiitioniauon inj (jrti C ni;..n', i, wii iher ot in Luag, Stomach, UoweU ur oilier Un J or ort-iat-I'r. Eadwa: I lia uel your K:alr K lief Pill and Hariajmrill aii lijsolT.Mil, a i I IU.qc t'.at tief aro tbe -.au Jar l rmuivlioa of me world, l ue ear wl'cn ad oiliera hul. Aiii. VJ, UjL FKUD iL McCBEEDY. NiiKV.iL, IX Dr. r.aiwaT: Iis ! your uisdiom fori! years and h:ia cura t all d sea ei I bar rar treattd. I laT e ired e!S trh-.n oinr d ct-jr hal firm upas u .tiev 1 bit tlu t.-l sacum wli.1 in1aian.tcirT r huuiatuuu Mreh P. 15J1. Mlii. S. S. SCtlEU JMXItNAl.LY. a li'f tn a um-ooaf d in ia.f tuiaUer I mi r ml', ii a t-w uiiti'i'sy oir Oaint, S.ani, Sjar Ü.O'rnal. M nu. V .iu.ti i. Ilrarttmrn, r ca-iei. S co;j!-'!ii, S H a ! a. h , hiarruea, CuUc, i'latulcuc, auJ all luuroal 1 aina. Malaria in Ira Various Forms Cured and I'rcvrtnte.l. Tlierat not a remi:al aice.it in the wor'.J tint will cur fe-r ml au- an J all o tier r-.-vn. Villous nl olU-r ior r . ai-tel KAnWAV S toiiuickly a H VPSVAY - KE H'Y It-UtF. A fr ( ur- i..r hr mi-t A.U. ßiüWAY S HEADY K1XIEF i a aur iirtt weii aa a irrenlits o: r'eT-r a.i t Ali. Hire a rttuodr ir 6 J caciU thai w.H o ir . mti JU lively, and enaiil i.er.i . 1 1 I ia t:is .rt K ü diitr.c, raa Iroin au-. T.ua it b tl-r inl li leion of af.i C'jrea, quinin, c'HM)(ii, I ..,.. irl th .iii.nl. Iair 4rijinMHiJt' lul, in a law of wa'.er, talc-a th) first I'll ix oa -tm' o t of led in the im-mtw. wi I pr fcl i!i tttn from attack. .. 3nl b ttlawiU o :M aa entire lam.ly, au J naTeenou-1 loU to iu all lala of raiu that may UuiiUa joj, eiiUer from ajjuea or diea. 50c per Bottle. Sold by Drnrgists. lADVAY'S pa i r 'sW ä Sarsaparillian Th Great TlUnrt Fttr fl-r, For the toe of Chronic Disease. Pweilinir Tuia r; Hu P. "roQon.li. Voten y doe. be aar..,.r,.U Barren o. remrdl.l aK.nts 1 th sure of Cur-nit. Hers i iloat. loii.tilutional and bia JUeaaes, but ia luaosur pbBit to cur Ivr KIDXET AND BLADDER COMPLAINTS, OraTel. I:abeUs, Proper, fciot.pi. of Water. I aand in all ch ü r , t W are br.c-J nt 1m .t, l,xb" ".star Hinte. Coaly, -ud w.ia like tbe white oiRte, or thread! lik wUiweil. orthersi. a w.rb.J, . Ik..o- ,p "Vwhit bo. .du.t dei.-it. n 1 wheu th re 1 prUSl - Inc. burning ern.t!on w!n-n punnj the atr, t paia in tLe email of the back an I a.on- the loiaa. Kidney Troubles. Atiiins, O. Pfarttr: I thonffht I would write yo.i and t.l you. hat wonderfu! work your S.rp.r..l..a Lit nt h .lo..e for me. S; w eks a... 1 OJ.d. BOl m..Te without th- prev.ei.t fan. w t! ot th kidn-y. I ha.e tried eTery kind of :iuiui-nt and diß.rent med.rine. and had ...r ";ct..r t. Jrjbe. l,t noth n U.d any s..o;l tin Ml tri 1 o R so Jcnt. I "ok r e ottles (and j .t to' ree 100 TUM KAKUiN. Yard Maatr. Athene, M. A C Ipota. Kidneys lie-turning to a Healthy State. V Hwtr A C Centimen: lam ow takin the fifth boule of 'your !... en end I a.n '"'a Zrln faaneft iTom it when al! flth-r niedionei Jailed, and tar Kidney are ref.rru.,, t l"r condition, and ..u!d reconi ,sn4 it t . a.l "" from aay d.e.av. Laleer from their hadaeys. iU. eUiully yoor-. . Pi,u,mouth, Neb. Uiahetc. LrriiA. Mo. Pr. KiiT-Dar Sir: I l.ae ued a r edi.a with sreat uceeM In pr oi.c; eni tbe way i f.tnd !.T.fr wi.h yor K-.lr.-nt. H curei ue of D ab,t . after Uree phy-cian. bn I UPdelected achan. in my urine In two h.-r. u. t Iba fir.t dow, and tLree twttto 'VJ V. pAG& I)f. Hi "ways SirsiDirii.ua tolvcuL A reme ly compoped of in'irJieats of eitrajr liaaryiu uiaai pro . nie, eneil.auy t p "'.' reirad iierae!ie brok.n down aai aeUl boor. tuck, pWa.it.. if I '' tr-ai-nent and -..r.. S ii 1 by a.l d ra.'.nU. ON Poll.aU a itorXLii, R1 H The Crent I tTer and Sfor.ineh Kenifdy. An. Kaccltent and Mild Cathartic. Terfeet riirettttvea. Soothing Aperients, Act Without 1'r.in, Always lUIiahlo ana Natural lu Their Operation. Pertectly taU'le, el oitlr cotl with awet gum. purg, rgu:atc, puriiy, ciliare an 1 ilreaejthea, RADWAY'S PILLS Fop the. cure of nil disorder of the Slom.Mll, l.iver, Honrl, Kidney. IM.nd.ler. min liseae, l-osof Appetite. Ilea. lach, dm. stipation. 1 oititeiie, Indicentioii, Iliiionne, Fever, In tlnui mat .on or the IPiwel. I'ile, and nil leranciiient of thff ltiteen.il Viscera. Purely exet tl.l-, containing n merenrjr, mineral, r deleteriou irug. prr.FKtT rH",i:STIOX will te aceotnpU.he4.by taking lladwav' 1'i.U. l y ao Uou.:; DYSPEPSIA. Pick lladach Foul fctoma'-h, HiH-unef. will be aoi I-d. aa the food tlml i eaten rontrihu lie nourishing prone'tie. ior the support of the natural wi of lue body. rtibwrr tne tuVomf ymplow ree.iit.Of from dineae.-'S ot tn d gtio ordain: Cjinilpatioai, inward piie, fulluee of l.lond lu the haJ, acijitf of the .tunaeh, ntue, barthurn, .iiatof fool, fodne-a or wor;it of the ato uas , e ir eru.-t.tiona, aiokiaa: or fiuit'.Tin ot t ie linari, e'aociof or.4Xcatinif ..nettione when In a lyi to-lue, di aiati of Tieion. dot. or wet.e tefur tut e,hl, ferer and, duil pain in th Ii a I, de lciency of periiratlon, ye lownete of thd akii and ye pain ia th- aide, chot. 1 lobaand audden fluduci of heat, barninia lhAl"wdoie. of RAJ WAY'S TILLS wilt free the arttera of all tho above nam d Jior Jera. Trice 25c per ISox. SoM br alt Drneeista. DR. It ADWAY A CO. N'n. S2 Warron a, Be York, win riiail Boo ot Adficeoa application. Urn bare to Oat "ltadwav'a,

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