Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1874, Page 12

1E CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNIS NATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1874---NUPPLEMLE N'E, / FARO. A Lesson for the Young and Towary. in Chicago, An Interior View of a First-Class Touses Opinions of a Leading Gambler on the Question, Ho Argues that Faro Banks Help the City's Trade. Precisely How the Gamo Is Con- ducted Progressive _Modifications 1t Has Un- dergone. Profits of the Bank---Supersti~ tions of Players. How the Proprietors Make a Sure Thing . of It. Ixplanation of the Last-Turn Swindle. ‘The poots who gonerally spoak to nil humani- ty oecasionolly aunounce o specinl lecture for the Lenofit of the virgine and the callow youth ; and newspapors, which toll in proge what pooty tell in rhyme, nlso somotimes addross thom- uelves, not to all their roaders, but to tho boys, the girls, and tho country people. Thero aro many ihings which men aro well acquainted with, but which are strangers to ingenuous youth. 'Tho parent 18 not upt to give in- struction to his childron on somo most esontinl points, since ho thoreby expozcs his own weal- nous, and henceo it becomes tho dulyof « paper, which bas no childron, and . which owns to uo wenlnesees, to act the part of a tutor and in- strnctor to thoso who would otherwise Lave to learn, painfullyaud expeneively, for themsclves. It is unnoceseary to inform the young that the pagsion for gambling, the love of clsnce for- tune, iv junate in man. Every boy who evor played marbles knows that he can romomber his owh emotions, and the low estimation in which ¢ playing for fun” was held. Dap, whother savago or civilized, heathon or Christian, is n born gamblor, ke instinct may manifost itsolf in a hundred ways, in n faro-bank, on Ohange, or on the Gold Bonrd, bat the principle is always tho sanie. v Still, the Inw and cusiom have madoen dis- tinction between difforout forms of gaming, Tor 2 mun io keep o faro-bauk is illogitimate; for n gontloman to ovail hjmself of Liis xkill us u whist or poker player, to add to his incamoe, is not 1lle- gl though improper>=Ti Loth casos tho antag- onisb loses, but u grent deal dopends on the por- son to whom he losos, - In ono cate, wo any o was swindled; in another, that ho was unfor- tunate. If a faro-banl wore unmolested by the law, its profits would be governed by tho same rule as thoso of any othier business; thore would iavo to ho n cortain sum sccured to pay intercat on capital invested, dofrey running oxponscs, Wagos of Iabor, ete. 'Che fair porcontago of gin in favor of a bank will do thet, under ordinary _circumstaucos, DBut tho moment tho businees becomes illogitimate, the situation changes, When tho owner of a bank is subject to arrest and fine, snd the destruction of his property, and when lis cus- tomors are also liable to arrest and fine, thereby “decrensing the number of visitors, his profits made off those who do attend must bo jucrcas. od. If o fair game doos not give thom, an un- fair one must. If u druggist hns Lut littlo cus- tom, ho must put high prices on his drugs; so must the gamblor, g As the vigor of the officors of tho law in- creases, B0 does the unfuirness of tho gumbler, Subject to arrest the moment his quarters aro Lnown, ho becomes & nomad, plying his trado in rooms which he bires oue doy to. abandon tho nest. Inustead of being salisfied with 8 per cent, hie must have 99, 1o Jives by chunce jobs, an must chargo high on each ono, Whon prize-lighting becomes illegal, thore sro nomors “squire” lights, Whon guming be- comes illegal, there in no *‘squarc™ gumiug, This is o more statement of a fact, not an argu- ment for the toleration of gaming, or allowing tha snlo of chances in a Kentucky lottery, a ten- pound cake, or o watch, A prohibitory Jiquor law stops to a conmsidorablo ex- tent {he sale of ale and beer, which aro Dbulky aud deteriorato by keoping. It increnses tho consumption of whisly, which is more easily . mansged, which has greator strength in less * spuce. So the spasmodic enforcement of tho law nguinst the Americau game of faro does away with faro banks only fo increaso _tho number of **skin games,” of bunko, brace faro, ote. Dartial raiding, therefore, miy be pro- ductive of moro Lorm than good, aud the luter German system of uprooting and exterminaling h{] the nlu!y thorough sud suceessful treatment of the ovil, Under the new regimo, in this city, thore isn change, ‘I'here are new gods in Israel. Rehm bay supplanted Washbury, aud thepresont policy is to arrest inmates of gnming-houses only when disordor provails in tho Liouses, or upon & twar- rant, duly sworn out. The immediato rosult is that the gamblors are taking heart of grace. Taro-bunks are increueing, and bunko 18 dimin- iuuli’ng. ‘The guming-holls are becoming moro public, 2 But Leforo going into the subject of faro, it is only proper to give tho views of & prominent gnmh‘u on tho guostion. Wo publisli the argu- ments of Communists, even while wo condomn, them, and it {8 but fair to allow tho gawblor, who hag no newspupor organ, & chanco to state bis side of the case. Desides, it is intercsting to know the opinions of peoplo with whom tho mnss of mankind never como in contuct, men ofton oudowed with decided, though perverted, ability. INTERVIEW WITIf A GAMDLER, TIn thespriug of 1873, Mayor Medill was [avored, with n visit from one of tho lesi-known and most intelligent and popular mombers of tho gambling fraternity of Chicago, who, with tho urbanity of the polishied mun that ho is, enlled to hinve o talk with Ilis onor, with a viow to arriving, it possiblo, at some wnderstanding with the polico authorities, who, by order of thy Mayor, wero pursuing u relontioss and jucessant war _upon the furo-bunks, smushing in doors, breaking up furniture, and, in fact, committing all the damngo pousible, Bupt, Wash- Lurn had regmtored an onth to Dbrenk up gambling in Chicago, and day and night the campaign wus prosocnted, BSo it occurred to Mr. George 1lolt, himuelt the propriotor of a furo Dank, to try nhd argne the mattor with the mu- nicipnl oxceutive. As the result ot the confer- ence was never in print, » TnuNE reportor re- contly ealled upon AMr, 1folt for the purposo of leurning some of “the’ cirecnmetancos ‘conneoted with that interview. Iie found him enjoying an after-lunch siestn on the sofa in tho recoption- room of his cstablishment, but ho was not slow to jump np and extend u cordlal \\'olcumc‘ ngsaon a5 hio ascortanod who the visitor wan, "ho ro- parter inquired concernjig tho stata of businoss, und was told that it had boen o tritlo dull for day or two, owing to the fuct of tho rocont opon- ing of n new hiouse near by, which attractod awny some of his euntom. ¥ Roporter—I huvo hoard, Mr, Holt, that you onco hnd an interviow with Mayor Medill upon tho enbject of gambling, Would you mind ro- Iritinu {ha conversution you thon hud with I Honor ¥ P TALKS TO MR, MEDILL, e, IIolt—Well, I nover oxpected to mnke it ¢, but I will try and give you the mun oints, { nlways had o high rogard for Joo lelill, and it ocourred to me thut possibly he would like to hear somothing on our side of the ambling quostlon, for it was perfeotly ovidont that ho war projudiced for lack of juformation, Ho L called on Lim one day, 110 toceived me vatitely, -aud, in reply to my _relf-Introduction, L 11t he hnd honrd of me beforo, With this feft-landed enconragement, I procecded to glve lum my viewp, which woro, in_subatance, that tho attitudo of the polico with reforenco to tho gambling-houses simply nmounted to por- seentton 3 that in breakine down doors and smanhing furnituro they wora troating gamblern lika falobs or asenpod convicts; that tfiu polico ought to mako n diserimiuation hotwaon liouses which were nniznucos and thoso which ware not; and thint tlie present rolgn of torror was cortain to produco o yeactlon in favor of gambling, just f8 mnny - respoctable citizons favor “tho ropor regulation of tho sale of liquor, ut, when prohibition s wonght to be enforced, they turn around and throw thelr in~ fluenco on tho other side. I snbmitted that it was absurd Lo Mtumtzt to apply to Ohleago the samo moral codo that obtained in a small coun- try villago: that this wasn {:rcnt cosmopolitan city, ond that well-conducted faro banks wero Juet ns much o business and o fenturo as woro dry-gooda liouges and tho Board of Trade, and no more ujurions, TIE MAYOR'S NEPLY, lP.-i‘—Wnll, what did the Mayor roply to all this Mr. 1I,—Tlo expressed himeolf na intorested in my version of tho subject, and bind undorstood that my modo of conductlnsz a gambling-honso was upright and squaro, but, as lio demurred to my promises, Lo must diffor from my concluston, I1n cloged the interview by advising me to shut up my housn for o time, and I gave Lim my word ehnt T would do ft. R.—Did you shut up your hiouse s youngreod ? Mr. J1,.—Ldid, I gave orders that no more cenrds should be played, and none were played, but in less than ten days Washburn sent n squad of polico to raid me,~ There wasu’t n roul in the hoiwe excopt the colored man, and hndn't beon a envd played for a week or mare, but thoy smashed in the doors and broke up the furnitura Just tho same. NATURAT, WRATIT, T.—What offect did this oheerful eplsodo have upan your equanimity? Mr. H,—T got thoroughly mad. nnd swore T would run I gambling-bouse in spite of Wash- burn or Medill. InJune I mot Washburn.ono ovening on 'I'wenty-second atroot, and I fairly bogeed him not to Gend any mora mon to bronk in my doors, for I'would not atand it. I hnd taken omiuent legal counsel, nnd liad boen ad- vised that they hind no right to_break my doors, and that I would be justified in offering nrmed rosiatanco, R.—Did the police_ break in your deors ngnin ? M, H.—No, but they kopt close wateh upon tho honeo, and detailed men by tho week to watch it. 'One dny, when the iouso was empty, and no play was going on,Iwnamot ot tho foot of tho stnirs by an oily-tongued policoman of the Irish persunsion, who accostod me with, “How do you do, Misther Holt?” I gave himn plensant roply, and invited him to comoe into a rostanrnnt and ot a gloss of ale with me. “'Mhank you, I will; but I mustgo up stairs, fitst.” * You can’t go up stairs, sir,” was my ro- ly; “there’'s nobody there, and no i:nmb!lng hns been done there for wocks.” TPulling ont a dirty wallet, he said: I know you're n porfoct gintloman, and I don't want to contradict ve; But T'll jisk bot yo fivo dollars thoyiwere gamblin' up thora all doy yestorday,” I was greally amus- ed at the delicnte manner in which ha called mo a liar, and I put nn end to the confab by walking away. But ho didn’t get up stnirs, THE REACTION. R.—So you bolievo thet Washburn's ferocity towards the gamblors was ono of the things which astisted in the dofeat of the Law-nud- Ordor party ? = Mr. 1L.—I certainly do think so. A_reaction of public_opinion was created by it. In ono of tho Poople's pracessions there was borio this transparency ¢ ** No moroe slodge-hammor law."” SENSIDLE VIEW. R.—Now, that o truce has boen arranged, T suppose tho gamblors will carry matters with a Dbigh hand in Chicago. gtr. I1,—No : I think not ; or, atleast, they should not be pormitred to do so, They shonld bo subjected toa rigid accountability by the polico, and eovery- act of robbery at cards, whethor it bo in tho ‘shape of bunke or braco fnro, should bo soverely punished. The polico Xknow porfeetly woll which aro- tho squaro and which the braco gnmes, and thoy should sup- prees the Intter so far ag it is possibio to do so. Where eatisfactory ovidenco 18 furnishied thet n man Lins been linrpooned, 1t is & vory onsy maltor for thopolica torecovor the money hiolost,and pro- vide agninat furthor complaints from that soureo atlonst. Tho 10-cont games nud tho lLono- houses ought tobo supprossed, for they rope in boys, who stenl to make good what thoy loge, and men working on small enlaries, whose families suffer when they lose their monoy. CONBERVATIVE GAMHLERS, R.—What proportion of the faro banks in Chicago denl & square game, a8 you call it ? Mr, H.—Oh, n vory Inrge proportion. R.—But what I want to gebnt is, how many aro thero who don't occasionally work with a two-card box ¥ Mr. H.—That's o very difienlt question to angwer, and Ican only speak for the honses T have been connected with, Concerning the olh- ers I have nothing to eny. R.—Why 8o roticent on this subject? You ovidently “know more than you are wil toll. Why not make war upon the brace, exposo tho swindle, and aseist the polico in breaking it up ? }Mr. H.—Tor the very renson that tho commis- gion-men, for example, don't trouble themsclves to unearth and ux}msu the petty rarcalitios which are Pmcflcod n their business by dishon- est men. . ‘They atteud to their own affairs, and thus keep out of hot water, 'There is anothor ronson for n couservative courso on the part of the square gamblors, Suppose they raiso the cry of “brace” agninst gome houso which hag been woll thought of. Tho putrons of that Louso will bo sure to koy that 1f anvthing wrong is dono there it is also dono at Hanking’ and at Holt's ; and so, you sao, the squavest and most relinble suffer with (he rest. No,sir; thnb is just tho way to doit. The polico can regulate tho mattor by fhe prompt unishment ot ovory well-authenticated caso of racimg. ‘Thoy should exorcise nbsoluto control aver the gambling-louses, to the end that as littlo mischiof ns poseiblo may be done. Wash- burn tried the suppression policy, and thoreby conferred n priceless boon upon the bunko and Dbraca-robbors, who never thrived so well as whon the squaro louaes wero closed, flehm propones to try what intelligont dizcrimination and control gi]l do. We shell seo which plan works the L GOOD FOR TRADE. R.—You seem to think Lhnt decently-con- ducted faro-bauks are rather a beuefit to the city than otherwise, Nr. fl.—Certainly I do, from n business point of view. R.—Tu what way ? Mr. H,—Inthis: Numbers of kmail dealers como horo to buy their goods, to lay in their stocks for the year, or holf-year, and when they get lero thoy want somo amusement. nnd they look to the wholosalo men to proyide it for them, Thoy oxpect to be'tuken avound to the theatres, and saloons, and similar pluces, They aro away from home, and thoy want s little fun, They want to gamblo a little, and_win or loso somo monoey. If they cannot flud thoso thinga in “one city, they go to another. If they can find ihem in Chicngo thoy will not go to New York to buy. Why, it half ruined the wholesalo trade of Bok- ton when thoy started to onforce all their pro- hlhitor{ Inys ngaingt faro-banks, suloons, otc, Evorything wont to New York. Itoll yon that good gaming-housos nre worth seversl” millions year to tho trade of Chicago. 1t is not the monoy those followa toge that holps the city, but all these attractions servo to bring them horo, With this emphatio declaration the interview closed, and Mr, Ilolt returned {o Lis cigar and Lis siesta, ¥AnO, Au nccount of illogal gambling iy Chicago whionld hegin with faro. The game, whila an oid one, i in its prosont simplitied form tho product of Amorican ingonuity and labor-suving fuvon- tion, It and poker are the games on which the roputation of Ameriea in the eard line cun safely rest. Among oll the various forms of gnmmg:, faro predontinntes, Thoro aro now in operation in this city botweon twelva and fiftcon housen whero it s tho chiof attraction, Tha cont of fitting and farnishing the rooms vavies from $1,000 to £14,000 m oeach caso, Gamblors aro Inxurions in thoir tantes, and expensivo fn their habits. As their monoy comos eusily, it oos quickly. Costly wearing apparel, valuabla S‘m\'uh'y‘ and rich and elaborato surroundings nve thelr weakuoss, T'ho louding faro-banlk ot this city wus furnished at o cost of over 814,000, and ity running expousos, includ- ing ront (¥3,600 per nunum), probably excoad thab sum in the conree of w your, It is situntad on Clark stroot, within' a stone's throw of the Bourd of T'rado, of which body one of its pro- priotors Is n member, and from which it dorives a Inrgo portion of its patronage, It i rognrdad a4 the bost and “squarest ' conduoted gumbling- house in the city, aud by fur the most valuable proporty, "THE PATRONS, It cortainly takos the load in the number and oharacter of its froquenters, who aro for the most part well-to-do business men, and not pro- fonsionn! gamblers, Indoad, it is upon businons men,~sharp, shrowd, tousible men in tho ordi- nary affuirs of trade,—that fara-banks mnust do- pond for thelr support, and tho{fuct thut thoy uro 80 woll supported in Obicago proves thatb tho K:uslnn for gi?mhung 6 by no moaus con= ed, amony business mon, to ¢ transactions ™ in whont, corn, and onts, A losiug denl on "Clnuge is often followod by n rosort to tho lmz'.nn‘i of {ha carde, on the princivlo that luok must changu, It ofton happens that luck fails to reeognizo tho oblirunlion. THL PROVITH Amongt the twelve fitteon farn-banks now in aporation, the majority do n paving business, by hook vr Ly er T'a sucl of "the establish- nionts an ara thronged by day and night by men onger to stakn tholr monoy upon 1ha turn of & card, tho problem of money-mnking is onsy of solution, Nothing is ptainor than that n well- patronized gambling-honro will make Inrgo profits to ita propriotors, wiio, loft to thomsclves, rapldly nequire large fortunes. Tha logitimato percentuge of a faro game to tho bank fs gon- orally computed to bo snfiiciont to defray all contingent expennen i thatis (o say, fu “square gamos, ag thoy ate called, in which no dishoncat dovices nre_resorted to in ordor to cseapo all risk of loks by the bank, tho “split” money is onough to pav ordinary expenses, loaving na clenr gain all that is realized by the prapondor- anco of luck or of caplial, Dut the grand per- contngo, aftor ll, is the wenknoss of human maturo, togothor with tho dlnrl\rlly of capitnl, The bank has much money with which to pay its lomson, and ean watt for luck to turn’ whilo tho nplayor must Mo{: when ho s loal hid Inst cont, and is unable to reap the honefit of tho turn of luck which he might ron- sonably oxpeet to camo in his favor sooner or Iater. But, n wo have snaid, the groat advan- tago of the bank ix in tho weoalness and folly of Tmman patiro—first, in gambling at all, which 1 tho sheerest of all foolishnous ; and, socond, in tho fuct that & man i not willing to lore as littlo as ho is contonted with winning.. Ho will loso all e hins in cexo of an unlneky play, but ia stisfled with a comparatively small “winniug in caso luck favors him. ROTERS, The systom of rmuners or ropers is not om- ployed in thoso houses Imown ns “squarc.” They dorivo thelr patronege mainiy throuqh por- gonal acquaintance and popularity, as woll as by renson ol} o roputation for fair doaling, and fiud it noither nocessary nor dosirablo to soliclt ous- tom. Proprigtors and attachos tako moderato poing to lot thoir ncaunintances know where thoy aro locuted, and, iu common politonors, in- vito them to enll around, provided thoy want thom to come ; but it is the cane in nearly all the woll-reguinled houses that uo ono is ox- pacted 1o call unless invited, or olso introduced y ono of tho regulat hinbitues, Thodoor is invari- ably locked, and tho colored man who attenda it usunlly s instructions to admit no strangora, There is o good roason for this—nob that tho proprietor objocts toa fnll house, but his ro- spectnble patrons docidedly dislike to bo brought in contact with whoever may chanco to stumblo in. No business man likes to bo acon gambling unless by some one who grmbles himsolf. Topors are only employed by tho braco " houses which do no regular husiness, hut depond for their gains upon what they can rob from victims eithor stupidly drank or waturally greon. In this woy not a small numbor of flashily-drassed ouug mon contrive to eke out » hnzardous ex- Jstanco, for thioy got naid only whon thoy * ropn in" a ¥gucker,” whilo thny run the risk of frequont, arrest by the polico ou the charge of vagrancy, AN INTERIOR VIEW. Those of our readers who linve nover boen inside of & gambling-liouso, and are nover likely to go, will bp iutorsted in Imowing how ono s enquipped. Wo will take ng a specimen tho Inrgost ostablishment in tho city, and the ono ‘most elaborntelv furnished, - It occupies tho on- tire second floor of a business block on Olark strect,” Tho visitor opens the enter door, which presents no indication of the charactor of the placg, nnd finds himeelf iu a small lobby, con- fronting another door which is locked. A boll puil suiflices to bring forth & colorod nttondant who first peeps through a giminutive oponing to aco who it i that secks ndmittance,—for there nre always cortain undesirable persons who have been notifled that their nntrunnfiu is unwelcome, —and then opens tho door, and lenda the way to tho interior, 'Phe dealing-room is 95 foof in Tongth and 22 feet wide, with ceilinga 16 feot in tho clear. By tho closing of folding doors nbout one-third of the room is cut off, This is the parlor, whore pokor, loo, ote., aro _played upon occasion. It is superbly furnished with luxurious chairs, tables, witli ox- onsive coverings, & gorgoous mirror rencling to ho celling, from which haugs a crystal chan- delier, while the foot falls upon a French moquet carpet costing 5 n yard, with which tho danllng-rooia aleo is furnished, Iloro thero are two faro tables, surrounded wilh playera; a roulotio table, which is occasionally patronizod; AN YLAUORATE SIDEDOARD containing fina liquors without chargo, for men who gamblo are very exncting in the mattor of drinkables; n lavzo iron snfe, wherein tho re- eerve cush ia kopt, and where, nlso, the faro cnrds aro gecurely locked, to provent the possi- Dbility of their Leing tampored with by some un- scrupulous outsider; mirrors and chandeliers in profusion, and tho walls and coilings beautifully ornnmented with moldings and frosco. Al the furthor eud of the reom tho dining-table is set, and overy afterncon fluds theroon n dinner equal to first-class lotel faro, and which is comsumed by a party of hungry patrons. The dinner is very expensive, but, na it is a powerful attractor of custom, it is conridered n judicious outlny. IIalf-n-dozen colored men, polite aud attentive to a remnrkablo dogroe, mako it fhoir businoss to see that evorybody's comfort and convenionce are studiously looked after, and evorything is done that oxperienco and tact coulil suggest to ronder the place attractive and enjovable. The enmo order of things obtains in all (ha Louses, thongh their furnishiugs are not so elaborate aud costly. TIE GAME, On the supposition thiat o very smnll propor- tiou of our readers have n practicul knowledge of the game, we give a dereription of faro ag it in, now played. It has been variously called Phareon, Phiaraoh, Pharo, and Taro, and much rosembles Dasset, ngamo oxtensivoly played in England wo centuries ngo, and then tho fash- jonable gambling gamo, Its orizin, like nearly oll games of eavds, is French, which language contributed most of the technical terms for- merly omployed, but which haye now passed out of uso nlmost wholly, The dealor was called the taillonr, and bo had an assist aut Lnown a8 tho eroupier, _ whose duty it wns to tako and pay winnings and losings. ‘This Tunctionary is now dispensed with, tho denler performing those duties, with an assistant, called the lookout, whosa businces it is simply to seo that na bets aro avorloolied by thodenlor. Formerly the earda wero tightly held in the denlor's hand, faco downward : mow thoy are contuined in a motul box exprossly made for that purpose. CORRUFTIONS. Tt jn interesting to note the chiangos which tho original tochnical torms hnve undorgono, What i8 now known g o ** turn,” was then o “conp ;* n “aplit” was o *‘doublot:” the *hock,” or Inst card, wns the ““hocly ;" n “stand-off " was + Pune pour laulre” (onio for the other) ; * pare Ieo " was, variously, *‘paroli," “parolet,” or Weacking " the *stake,” or amount of money bot on n card, was “‘coucho” or “enjen:" n player was a * puntor,” The game of faro, like ;u technicalitics, has undorgone muny madifica- tions. DEALING. In playing it, o full pack of cards, fifty-two in numbior, i used, and these, after being thor- oughly shuflled, are placed in & metallic box, open at tho top so as to show the fuco of the cards, which aro dealt face upward, ono at n timo, through n slit or crovice just lnrge onough to admit of the passage of a winglo card. Tho denling-box is fitted with springs, which pross tho pack up to the rim or flango avouud the open faco of tho box, The dealfngebablo is nbout 6 foot in_langth, and i ““\‘z‘]n“iv covered with greon broadeloth, 'On the tablo is e * Lav-our," which consists of u suit of ihirtoon cards, nce to king _inclusive, painted in Mo simile, angl about 2 fuches apart, cuch way—thus: . 6 b, A B '8 & 8 0 1. J Q X This is for tho convenionce of players, who liwvo only to plnce their bots upon the picture of the card they wish to bot on, and that actlon iy sufliciout for all purponcy, as it_oxplains itself, Tho eavds. huving boon placed in the box, face wpward, #o thut oito in oxpoed, the deal bojins, and then goes onin “twrns," By w Yturn" is meant that two cards are pulled from the box, und then the deeler lhalts a momen to nllow the plicing of now bots, or tho changing of thoso alroudy made. 'The rulo of tho gamo s simplicity ituoll. ‘Tho first card shown ot the boginning of the donl, of course, goes for nothing, Itiscalled tho *soda,” though for what ronson is what Dindreary wonlil ¢all **ono of those things no follow ean find out.” A slight prossure of tho fingor nlmn tho fuee of the eard in sight suflices to ulidu it throwh tha slit or crovive above man- tloned, With tho romoval of that eard *action" beging, Tho noxt card honcath it lulllcuhlfi catd 5 the socond is u wibuor § aud one * turn k8 "8 mndo. TIE OHIDS, Tho players nsa checks or ehips, made of ivory or compuosition, ubont tho siza und thickness of a_silyor dollar, Thoso chocks, ropresonting difforent vulues, are used ns n convenience, us, boing of porfectly uniform thicknes, the denlor noed nob count them, hut oan **size up” without four of payiug 100 miuol or too littlo, The play- or handa in & ten-doliar bill, and recolves twonty white cheeks worth 50 conts onch, oty if hio pro- fern thom, four red checky at $2.60 each, ay tho checkn r(mgo in value from hnif udollar for whiten to £25 for blues, JIOW 1T 18 DONE, It haw beou enld that o **Luen ™ conslnta of tho drawlog out of two curds, ono of which iw m losor and the other o winner, Ihis mny bo illustrated by supponing that John Fonoy hus placed balf o ** stack,” 26 worth, of while checks upon the king K” in iho nbove dingram), and Tom Rtohinson lins deposit- ed n liko nmount upon tho tou-spot (10" n tho dlugmm?. After tho “goda ™ card, which counts for nothiog until o turn is mado, is drawn, tho Kking shows, nud then tho ten-spot. Tho firet card being n:losor, tho donlor yonchos out and takes fn xfil tho cheoks thoroon, whilo tho sec- ond card, the ton-spot, belng Lho winnor, the donler must pay cheak for chocle ol that is found on the ton-spot, Mr. Jones loves, and Mr, Rob- fnson wing. _Lhe only varintion to this rule i that the playor mny desiguate o card to lose— that I3, lio may *‘coppor” if, by covering his chiecks with a bit of black cbony, which indieates that tho card Is bot. to fall on' lio losing wido, and if it so falls tho dealor pays. Inother words, 1o bots tho bauk will win, Ounco upon a tine 1. young man camo across that touching poom about tho * Fino old Arkan- sns gontleman, closs to the Chootnw lue,” and wag grontly perploxed by the closing stanza, whera it is rolated * But wlu;n 1o Licard tho checks, ho flung tho Hnen off s faco, . And sung ont ust oxactly ns Tio wied o do when ho was alive, ¢ 1ol on, Prindle; don't turn; Tl go twenty on the king and ¢copper’ on tho aco.” Being n socker after truth, ho hunted for a long timo to find how an sco was to bo coppored. o tinally got the informatiun, which cost Lim precisoly $16. THE BPLITA, It ia for the plnyor to guoss how the card will como. If ho guesses ight, lio wine; If wrong, ho losos, ‘Tho denlor slmply takes the nogative in overy cage, and fn o *squaro” gamo his only advaniago or percentage s tho * splita”—that is, whon two cards of the samo donomination shiow togethor in ono tury, the donler is entitled to half tho chocks bot on that card, So long ns there romatu in the box, undrawn, two, threo, or four eards of the snmo denomination, the denler has n small percentage from the chance that two of these will come Logether, and n skillfulmanip- ulntor can increaso (ho porcontago by shuflling 80 that *eplits™ will bo numorous. But the gront bulk .of the betting is removed from tho dnvgor of * gplits,” ns n careful ployer will wait until tho cards become single in the box befora bo putu down big largo bots. ‘Do percenlago from thisgourco is dillicult to ostimato, but it vrobably Amounts to at lenst 5jpor contof the wi vings of the bank. In order to oucourage bet- ting upon doublg cards, tho bank always pormits tho playor to put'twice as much money upon & doublo” a8 upon o siuglo or ‘*‘case” card. The vrevailing limit in Chicago is 3100 to doubles and 350 to ‘‘coses Wo bave ghown how sud why it was that D Jones lost and Mr. Robinson wou, aud how the rocoss of putting tho bit of black cbany would Fove rovorsnd thintrostlt ng betweer tho tao play- ors, So tho gamo goos on, the doaler making tho “ turns ™ from the box until all the cards are ox- bausted, whon thoy aro shufiled and a new deal bogius. i END-CARDS, - The only variation to this description of tho lay oconrs whon but four cards remain in tho o0, ono oxposed, and thoother three conconlad. Auy ona of theso may bo bot in the usual way, o6 the felly-shoet shows what cords remaw, though ttheir positions are mntters of guess- work, There aresix difforeut ways for the cards to come put—or, rather six combinalions possi- blo, for thoy must como out as they were put m, If there are in the box an ace, deuce, aud tray, and o player bets that tho turn will como nce- tray-deuce, and lappens to hisit right, he is paid four for ono for the monoy lic hns bot—an arrangentont not so liberal on tho parkof tho bank as it at flvat glancoe appenrs, sinco the chanoes are six to ona azainst the player call- ing it ecvicetly, whilo ho gets pnid but four to gml‘i?! e ho hits it, avd loges whut ho bots if io foils. : BYBTEME. Of superstitions, schomos, or * systomas” thore iy an slmost ondless varioty amoug faro- players, such a8 belting n card to como * throe on a side,” *' two on & side,” *‘double out," or “ gingle out,” but none of them stand tho test of timo, - and, whichoyer ono the player adopts, lioig”saro to wish hehad chossn somo othor. In theso doys of clovernoss, no faro-dealor is considered & mastor of Lis trade who caniiot shufilo tho cards so 18 to defent nuy *system.” Tha defeet with all systoms i that the antagon- ists do not staud oman equal fflotini. Tho amount of money the player can stake is limited, 1o cannot keop on doubling up, until n bhappy hit makeshim whole, If ho loses £50, he cannot then bet 8100, and lozing that follow up with 200, snd so on till ho doos win, Ho is playing with limited menus sgnivst an opponont with comparatively _ unlimited means, Tho chaucos are stoadily against him, and the longor ho plays the moro he losea. It is like that game familiar to childhood, whoro one tales the nco of trumps and the othor tho rest of tho deck, and they pro- cocd to piay ngainst ono anotber. It may tako unlimited time, but tho holder of tho ace finslly wing all the cards. DISHONEST GAMES, As nrule, the leopers of gambling houses aro greedy and grasping in their churactor, and nro ready and willing to resort to any practico, short of nctunl {heft, by which tho unwary may bs floeced. 'Chere are notablo exceptious to the rule, but their vory scarcity males thom notable. Porfectly ‘“‘equure™ gambling houscs nre o grent rarity, and it would bo n wholesomo thing if pcol)le who occasionnlly * fight the tigor,” ng faro-playing is called, would bear this in mind, A lnowledge of the rascally devices that are practiced wonld, or oughs to, cure any mnan of the idiotfc notion that _he can *‘ beat the bank,” 1o simply caunot do it., Thero are numerous modes of flaying him, and, soouer or lator, ho iy suro to bo skinued. The main reliance of gam- blers to rob their viclims is the “braco gumo,” or faro in which the donler has it In his power to make o card eithor win or lose, Its application re- quires spocinl parapheiualia, go constructod as to present tho appearance of ordinnry imple- ments, The dealing-box is filted with a con- cealed spring, the touch of which ncts upon w fulso slide, and, by eularging the opening, en- ablos the donler fo tnkio out two cards, instend of ono, at n time, g0 that tho card which should havo fullon upon the winning sido is made to fall upon the losing one. One-half tho cards are trimmed at one edge and at one end, just enongh to revenl the edgo of the card benentn, which is marked with very small dotn, their nimber and )infliuml showing the denomination of tho card, T'ho backs of tho marked cards, and tho facos of the unmarked ones, are roughoned juat a littlo with sand-paper, whoreby they uaturally cling togetlor in pairs, and, a8 the dealer can at all times read the cards three déep Lolow tho sur- face, and by touching the lover ean bring ont one or two ot o time, 88 ho chooses, Lie lms abeolule control over them, and can make them come whichever way ho likes, Itis an actual fact that mearly every fure-bauk in Chieago, or In any othor city, Is suppliod with n bwo-cnrd box wnd a stook of trimmed and dot- tod cards, ‘These aro uotolten used, to besuro; never, in fact, when thers is any chance of do- tection ; but they are introduced upon favorablo occasions, Tho two-card box admits of various ingenious styatagoms of u lika character, and, in fuct, its uso is almost tho enly schoma known in favo-denling by which the cliwneo to win is exelu- sgively confined to tho bauk, Thore are not more than four hauses in- the city in which o rigid aenrch of the prewises would not rovenl the presence of ono of these couveniont inatim- ments of puder, for its employment sinply wmounts to that. An instunce of tho ups and downs of tho life of & gmmblor is fur- nished in the history of ono lhouse. In the month of Octobor, 1878, was_completoly +broko,” lhuving lost upwards of £20,000 in four months, Thon tho ride turned, and the threo brothors have notted o ronnd 380,000 siuco tho 1st of Novembor, Tho bank always wins in llfiu long run. Lot faro players stick n piu thero, TUE ‘' LAST-TURN "' SWINDLE. The propenuity to ronder hazard u cerininty is by no means confined to favo-denlors, It 1a a wonkness common to humauily to “bot on o sure thing,” and it is_douo, in difforent forms, Ly thoso who would bo {he guickest (o resent and dony any imputation of their integrity in ordinary matters, * Lut tho tempiation to got tho best of it " is too stroug Lo bio resisted. Ona of thoe latest and most ingonious of robbing sehomos ut furo i3 basad upon this common fail ing. 1t may bo eafled tho * Inst-turn swindlo,” Llgewhero in this articlo will be found w detmled oxplanation of tho oporation of. the lnst turn whon squarely administored—how thore nro six difforont combinations possible, and tho DLauk pays four lo ouwo to the player who guesses the right wsoquonce. — Tho bank having oloan porcontugo of 163¢ por cont ot all ealls of the last turn, tie player is ullowed to bot ns high ne €60 on tho call, and thuy win §200, 1f It comon bis way, In nddition, ho may pluy ouo of the curds to louo, and the second to wii, for €60 euch, 80 that it la posslolo for him to win 800 on the turn, 'Tho privilege of belng told in ndvanco how tho last turn s to como, is somothing that would be seized by almost auny pluyor, whether profossionnl gambler or othor- Wik, #ud tho queor part of it is thut some ot thy beal posted ones hinve Jumwed at it to thelir sor- row, ‘For tho successful operation of the schemo, o littlo prollminary figuring isnecesunry, A room i sooured and fitted up with faro-tools at a mod- cratocost, Of cowrso the two-enrd box and marked eards avo ossential, The vietim {a sin- gled out from nmotyz (hat numorous cluss of men Who, thouzh 1ot gamblars by occupation, ave in thio finbit of froquont. dallimice with the flekla postobonrds, and who hove large wums of mongy at tholt command. Sneh n mau is nppronched by a denlor ombloyed Iu the racently-oponed houso. 1o s acqunintod with him, and listens in good faith to the propo- sition ho mnkes, viz.: that tho dealor is to givo nway " tho Inst tury, and_enable him to win with absoluto cortainty. Tho oxouso for making tho proposal {8, generally, that the donl- or has l)luyml Away n considornble sum of monoy belonging to the "bank-roll, which must bo ro- placed bofore it Is misaod, ' Thoy mio to shoro alike n tho proceeds of his treachiory to hiy om- ployor’s intorests aftor Lhoy hinvo won enough to mako good the deficlondy, ‘Tho victim scos monoy In this plan, aud readily nesents, being cautioned by thie denier to bot lils menoy freoly through tho donl, 60 ns not to excite suspicion, truating to his cortainty on tha Iast turn to ona- blo him to keep lnrqu\y shend. Supposing the victim, to avert susploion, plays the limit, »ego, on each singlo or * enso "-caxd, the denler, with his two-card box and foul deck, makes him loso so matny of theso bots that ho caunot got oven on tholnst burn with a limit ag low ns ¥50, and on ovory deal, which usually acouples nbout ton minutos, ho loses from 960 to £100. In a fow bhoms ho has lost a lerge sum of monoy, having boon m\cournrf{e , meanwhile, by the expectation of better luck, and ho finds out, all too lnte, that his own intontion to form o dishonost conspiracy to dofraud the propristor of tho bank hag Ueon cunningly made the means to flacco him. Bomething liko $£30,000 was what itcost o well-known Chicago politiclnn, o short time ago, to find out that something beside a suro thing on tho lnst turn is nocded to beat an “artist " who can pull one or two cards as occa- ston requiros. T'ho swindle hins beon succosslul- ly played in New York, a8 n fow Chicago gnr?blum—pm(usulunu.ls. too—kuow to tholr cost, If tho polioy adopted by Mr. Robim and tho ¢ Paaple's Party " is to hnve no better resuls than hns boon observablo 8o far,—lhat of nu in- cronse in faro, keno, nud othor gambhing house: without any additional protection,—thesoaner if is abandoned tho bottor, Let Rehm follow the oxamplo of his moro illustrious countryman, Biswarck, and nscortain whothor the eradication of publio gambling is not poseiblo in Cliicago, us it lins boen proved to boe in the principa) cities of the German Empire, pathiams S . NORWAY AND SWEDEN. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunes Stz Thero appeared in your issuo of tho 28th of Inst month an articlo with the abovo heading, und credited nu * correspondouce of the Seientific American,” in which tho writer unjustly com- paros Norway with Swedon. o says that nover could moro dissimilar nations bo united under ono Govornment than ‘' Norway and Swodon, Nover before, I believe, hog the Scientyfio Ameri- can recolved a moro misguiding correspondence than thia ono, as it openly shows that the writer is quito ignorant of what he undortakesgo write about. G Iuthe first placo, it is ridiculous to eny the two nations are dissimilar, as every ono who knows over so [littlo about them will give an opposito opinion. Sccondly, they are not nuited undor one Governmeont, but undor one King, who rules with vory limited powers. "The one Govornment acts in rolation to its do- ‘mostic affaira just as indepondently of the othor 08 do tho Govornments of tho United States and the Dominion of Canads. nch country heg a Constitution and & Logislative Bodly of its own. That they have o Joint Committeo to doal with foreign affaira is uw mnatter of course, that might bave been understood by anybody, oven if ho did not ke & tour through, or stay in, enid countries. ‘Tho writor next says that Norway, clings with the most absurd tenacity to_old’ things and old wuys of doing them, while Swedon is ready to advango with tho rost of the world. To prove his absurd asscrtions, ho tries ta show a ** atriking difforenco ” on tho line of sailrend botween tho two Capitnls,—Christiania, in Norway, and Btockliolm, in Sweden,—which, he says, 18 400 miles long,—100 in Norway and 300 in Swoden ; the train Tunning through in twonty hours,— eight hours for the Norweoginn length of line snd twolve for tho Bwedish, This is not so. ‘Lho train runs with equal speed from Stockholm to Chrigtlania and vico veorsa, oxcopt that it takes the Nomc&inn train o littlo longor time to r%n up to the Swedish boundary, on account of tho considerabloe rising of the ground, It takes the train about eight hours to run from Clristiania to tho City of Arvics, tho only place of any con- soquence after passing the_frontior, and whera it stops for refreshments. I presume the writor mistakes this point for the boundary. (By the way, in building narrow- gaugo railways, one of the loading orwogian civil onginecrs, Mr. Pilil, hasbaon ine vited to_visit British Columbin, whero railway comproios have adopted this mode of structure.) 'I'o uny Norway does not advaueo with tho rest of the world, is not only » hallucination, but & falsahood. “Cho historinn knows thiat that coun- try bod been counocted with Denmavl until 1814, for about threo consccutivoe conturies, and rulod despotically by that Kingdom's autoerats. ‘fhesa rulers did not_trouble themselves much with Norway's_intollectunl and material devolop- ments. Infact, when they had their faithtul oflicors to gathior taxos aud rovenues, that most- found their way iuto the Danish treasury, they noglected to do good for land aud nation. But it is now happily conceded that Norwny is oue of tha civilized nations which, in the Inst five or six decades, has advanced conspicuously in enlightenment, oulture, scienco, andart, Her industry bos also’ kept pace with the timo, notwithstanding tho absonce of raw mutorials, She can frankly refer to the differ- ont International Expositions, at which she has honorably competed with otber watious in tho digtribution of modals nnd Lonorablo mentions. Hor insufliciont rosourcos, small home markot, aud Naturo's capricious treatmont ou the world's map, compal her tonpply caution in the adoption or intraduction of every conceivablo inveution of which tho qucnt contury is so rich, Bo it ndmitted, as tho writer says, that the Swedes aro a coutriving and mechanical poople, and in such things ahead of their neighbory,— attributable, mainly, to thoir oasy =accoss to native metals; still, it is_ mnot Iuown that the Norwegians are indobted to their neighbors in this or othor flelds. Tho Iatter cast nud manufacture theirown machinery, ote., and build thoir own vousols und stesmers, whith: visit ovory port iu the world. Norwayhas its own lino of stoamors plying botwoen this country nud Europo. $ho bay also ux&)nnflud the cosmopolitan tolegraph-wire from the Dritisn const to har own, und continued it to the upper- most point of the European continent, North Capo, in 71 deg. latitude, througha sparscly- populated aud partly-storile conntry. In tho monutainous regions, whora tho building of rail- way is impracticablo, there is built turnpilies— chaussees—ovor almost jmpassable ground aud mountaing, that have nstonished more than ono foroign travelor. In short, sho triesto improve, sud doey progross, in overy respect, #o far as hor means permit. Indeed, if tho accom- modationn were not Fond, foroign travolers— among which the English are vory numerous— would not swarm over the country in tho sum- mior-senson like butterilios. Contrary to the writer's statoment, tho roads aro not undor Govornment care, but under care of the community they load through. 'I'ha vory old-fashioned carioles, according to his expros- sion, arc as sorvicenble to tho nature of the ground as some other vehicles to other ground. ‘I'he travolor must be o vory poor driver if Lo cannot * push * moro thau six to sevon miles an hour, I'lint tho American Consul in Chriatinnia does not succeed veory well in intraducing Amerlean mowers and reapers is vory likely, ns (hose imploments nre about a8 much fit for Norwayns a fifth wheol is for n swagon., Still, thay are used insome of tho lower lmrtu of tho land, whers tie ground issomewhat lat and freo from stone. That thoy aro. moro applicablo and more used in Swaden I8 probablo ; but, to E,udun from such n theory that the Bwedos aro the best kind of poople Amerien could bave, 1s ohildish, Dofore s man should mako such an assortion, ho ought to take n trip through the sottlomonts of the difforont naliounlities, seo which nre tho most prosperous, and sompnra tho mechanics, morenuttlo men, and those in other occupations of life, in ordor to tind out who aro the bost citizons. L. Mowsrap, -— —Tho fourth volume of the * American Cyclo- ,nudiu“ has boon Issued by D, Appleton & Co, This volume continues the lottor ¢ from the word *Carmonn” to “(Qoddington,” and in- cludos mora than 1,600 titles, o considerablo number of which aro entively now articles, Bo- sidon tho maps thore are 430 engravings, intro- duced in all oasos to clucldate tho texe, Tho citios nro gonerally writton by rosidonts in the localitien desoribeds * Cinolnnatl,” by Mr, %nlllfll 1:. Chumborlin, and * Chicngo,”" by Mr, olbort, — THE FARM AND GARDE. Grapeo = Cult WD e Eho DOIrY -e of MtK~=Erico of DMl Cheose=e'The Wenthers L'rom Our dgvicultural Correspondent, CiiAMvatay, TIL,, Jan, 20, 1874, The subjeat of grape-culture for the farmer in ono thnt na rocelved too littlo attontion. Ask tho farmer why ho does not grow a supply of grapon for his famlly, and ho will bo apt to ro- ply that o does not know how, aud (hat grape- cultura {8 n mystory known only to skilled gnrdeuers, and involves too mueh of labor, too much of pinching, and too much of trollis-worl. Alettor from Dr. C. M, Wright, of Altamont, 1L, Inquires, firal, what Is tho best tinbor for wrapo-stalios, and what is tholr probublo cost por 1007 Booond, In there n plain, conclso book on tho ~= Spirni o Yield RButter or BI'ECTIAT, MODE OF TRAINING ? **Tho Farm nnd Gnrden " was the first to do- seribo this modo of training. Who i the in- vontor, or whors tho plau originated, I cannot sny. My attontion was called to it on n visit to tho vinoyards nenr Alton; and it occurrod to mo that its simplicity would commond it to the farmer who bad little time to give to complox rules of grape-culture. This plan {8 tho most stmplo nnd lonst oxpon - sive of all that I have scon practiced; and I bave nlso groat faith in it for vinoyard-enlturo on n lnrgo sealo, AL this timo I have something over an noro of vineyard on this plan; and have grown many tons of fruit for market in the most satisfactory mavnor, Thore Is no system that glives go uniform largo clusters ns (Lhis, ng thoso at the bottomn of tho vine aro a8 largo au thoso at tho top. In 1872, grapes thus grown sold for 2 conts a pound highor than thouo on troilis and stakes, in tho ordinary man- ner. OF VARIETIES, 1 have teated fifty to eixty varieties in my grouuds, but the Concord is tho only one that has_roturned n steady pratit, 'The Hartford produces n fine cron, but, on the whols, is of no grest valuo for market, as Concord grapes from points farthor south como in competition with them, aud, ns tho lnrtford fruit is inforior, it daon not soll so readily. Tho Ives has not thus far met my expectation, It i Joss hiardy than the Concord : not glving o single bunch of grapes Inst yonr on some h00 fonr-yenr-old vinos ; whtlo, on tho samo number of Concordy, thore wero 600 pounds, As regards eoil and as- pect, thero was mo differonce. Bomo of {he Rogorn grapes gavo s good crop in 1872, but no fruit last year.” Tho Dolawarc has pro- duced somo good crops, but is not sufliciontly reliablo to mako it a dosirabloe variety to plans for market. I bave had somo good crops of Catawba, but, in tho winter of 1873, mosat of the vines wero killed. _ On the wholo, the Concord is tho only ono that I have found suited for mar- ket-purposes; but it is to be hoped that wo shall he able to find at least ono that is moro early and one later in tho gonson, that will be cqually val- unblo. e I am now epeaking of grapes that, in this latitude, require no “protoclion in win- tor. Whbat may bo done with extra Inbor in laying down and covering, is quite another thing. The farmer wants o grapo that needs no nursing; and that, with a vory littla caro two or three times o yoar, will prodiies fino crop of Iruit, of & quality thatcan bo used for family-food. After the farmor has lenrned liow to raiso Concord grapos, ho may then turn his attention to moro delicato variotles, We will now proceed to nnswor the inquiries of Mr. Wright. TIMDER FOR STAKES, Intbispartof tho State, largo quantitios of Oengo-o1ango atokes may bo had at from £3 to 84 per 1,000. These stakes aro from 2 to 6 inches in diamotor and 6 feob long. 'Fhoy are obtninad from neglected hodges, that must ho thinned for plashing, or ent back to form » moro uniform growth. Tho stakes in my vineyard Inve boen obtained from this sourco,—n part of them from my own hedges, and n pert by surchago. Thero in nothing oqual to this tim- or for thia purpose, on the score of cheapness and durnbility, in scelions whero the troo s grown. In ths abscnce of this timber, wo must regort to sich wood as s at hand, aud, amoug aur native timber, the butr-onl i the bost ; but, - in this respect, wo must bo content with what we ean get, providing that it is a round stako from 2 to 6 inches in” diamotor and 6 foot long, for we do not want stakes that nre split from Inrgo trees, as tho sharp edges are Jiablo to in- Jjure the vines, TRAINING, Thera 18 no book on tho training and manage- mont. of tho grape, or, at loast, the Concord grapo, thatis of value to the farmer; for tho reason that alt_ia overdone eo far as adapted to his wants aud condition. When the farmor plants his Coucord grape-vines, ho should sck them 8 feot in tho row; aud, it theio be more thou ono row, have tha rows 8 feet apart; that gives abont 700 vinea to tho ncro. Tho stalkes aro sharpeued snd set in the snmo manuer as hop-poles, by using an iron callod a_lop-pole- sotter, 'This iron makes n suitablo hole for the siakeo, which is sot in by hand to tho depth of n foot, lonving tho stake flve feet above ground. We now tako tho eauo of tho provious year's growth, seluutiniz an avorage one, and, if poe- sible, ono that hns no natural branches to it ; for those avo liable tohave from two to five of tho lower-buds mere lesf-buds, and not fruit- buds. We now wind the cane closely nround tho stake, boing carcful to have tho buds out- ward, which isan casy mattor, a8 tho cano is quite floxible, TFive or six"turns about tho stako will have brought the vino to tho top, where it issecuroly fnstened with basswood-bark or other suitable ligntures, that will hold the vine sccure, with its Jond of folinge and fruit. On the canc thus wound tightly around the stako thero will be from twelve to fifteen buds, and thoso buls will produce from one to four chusters, gencrally two fo three ench. All heyond three should bo pinched off, othorwise they will ho too small ; and, if the ' vines are young or not strong, they may bo reduced to ono or two ench. TUE TABOR AND CAUE. Tho pruning may ba done in Octobor, by ctit- ting away the wood that hes fruited the enrrout year, unless as, in somo instancos, spur-pruning Deeomes necessary from tho want of now canes at the bottom, Wo allow half-a-dozen or more enncs to grow out near tho ground, nnd only one of thes is rotninod for the noxt senson ; all the others are cut off, but not so close but that half- a-dozen or so of buds aro left uear the ground for now canes, ‘This i all the Inbor of pruning for tho outira year. In this climato the cano is allowed to lic on the ground, or partly soi but farther north it is prob- able thut some covering may bo of value. 8o far it is plain, for there is no mystory in rogard to it. Wo hava simply selectod & rood strong view of the current sensan’s growth,—ono that 18 without Interals, ;if possible, and of not foo vigorous growths in fact, wo have loft alargo numbor of canes to grow, in order thac none of them shball becomo too vigorous, for thoso are linble tobo delleient in fruit-buds. ‘Chio noxt timo thut our attention is called to the vines is bofore tho buds bogin to swell in the following apring, whon tho sinkes nra sot and the vinos tied at the top, and the vine cub back to this polut. At _thoe timo of hlooming, wo go throngh and pinch back the truit, as bofore described. Keop ths gronnd clear of wends Dby the use of iha cultivator aund the hoo, nsin all athor garden-crops, and tho work is done, save, porhaps, among the oldor vines, to et an oxtra stako for tho now canon thit grow out from noar the ground, and below the point at which the enne comens into contact with the stake. Thero is no pinching of the leavos, no eulting back of the now caucs, as so mmutely domanied by the hoaks. TILS 18 A UNIVERSAL SYATEN, " that givos tho vino amplo _growth for tho piue- paso of storing "l' plant-food for tha coming yonr, and yot, by the crapitating of the fibres of ho eane, induces nu oxtra offort, as it were, to produco fruit, Ono thing wo must not forgot: that UCCOBH depends on Tupturing tho fbres of the wood by closo, firm winding.—ns tying or windiug lookoly, s many do, will not produce the dosired result, It may bo inquirad why this plan has not been morn Inrgoly pursitod by vinoyardists, Himply on tho well-known principle “(hat new things aro but slowly adopted by old-country eultiva~ tors, and especinliy by those who have served long appronticeships, and have been tanght to Tiold those traths saored. Iam not writing for the vinoyardit or the markot-guapo-grower, and care not what they suy or do about this plan of t: po-calture 3 but to the favmer who is desirous o supply his family with an abundanee of grapoy without interforlug with his othor dutios, or being at the labor or oxpensa of roading or buying oxpensivo books on grape-culture, Woro I to writan book on grapo-enlture, this would compriso tho bulk of tho work, far 1t i nently all thoro I8 of it. I'he growlug of the Concord rapoe In tho contral pert of tho Siate, aud throughiout o largo part of tho Northwest, 1 ns simplo ns growing s crop of onfons, , I might add that, at all poluts north of the hame of the Oflnr.'n-nrun;in, the Ruropoan larch and owr na- tiva red cadnr will mako chenp and durable atnken, T lave now growing for that' purpose at lenst 1,000 of tho red codar, that are now from 8 to 10 feot high, and many of thom two Incoy in dinmotor, * Tho planty wore ot in rows 4x4 foot, and, a8 thoy now shado tha ground, need no enlture. In the coursa of two or threo yenws I shall cut these slulen for the yinoyard, THE DAIRY, ALLEN'S Grove, Win, Jan, 10, 1874, 1 hiavo bean reading * Tho Firan and Garden " on tho Elgln datrics, and an much plessed with t s bt thers aro oue or wo things that X abould ke to know about, I liave o duiry of fourteon cown, and am offar- ed 1 cont a yound for the mille delftvered at a butior factory sonie 4 miles distant, First—What in tho average quantity of milk from or- @inry cows during the wholo saason, providing thoy aro woll fed and_enred for, and hiavo sn abuudant sunply of pure wator ? Second—What prico is usnatly patd for milic 7 ard=1igur Iong shonkd o cow bo milked 7 Tourth—Which in the moat profitable,~to heyo milk mado {nto clicese, or aold to tho butter-factory 7 BIDNKY ALLEN, QUANTITY OF MILK, The quantity of milk per cow varles largoly, aud wo ean only make an approximate ostiinate. I clip tho following from tho Country Gentleman: Lanaz YirLos or BUTTER—A butter dealer glvos tho Buffalo JLdve-Stock Journal some account of Chautanqun County dalrles which ho has Tiandled tho past sovson, A, Toffit hnd 12 cown, and mado from Mnrch 16 to Dee. 10, (260 dnys) 3,605 1ls butter, or over 287 Ibs per cow, Bold at 31.8¢ per pound ; €04.17 per cow. Fed oxtra 24 1t corn and osta arownd, and 257 Ihs bran m sklinmed milk each day 3 cont of feed 6396 per dny for tho wholo dalry, Net proceeds ner cow 83,03, O, Druneon milked 17 cows, innking 4,774 s bifer; 280 14-17 1ha per cow for ho 209 daya, ' Butter sold at i1 1-7¢ per lu; or $87.45 to cach cow, A, I’ Brunson milked 24 cown nud made in samo timo ,017 a buitlor averaging 246 and 1324 lia por cow, BDoth fod extra feed, but kind and smount arn not glyen, YIELD oF NiNe Cows.—Mr, II A, Dlowers fur- nilshes {ho Weatfeld (N, Y) Repwblican with ihe tolal receipts from bis dalry of nins mn- tivo cows, lireo of which aro d-vear olds, and one 8 o 2-year old, Ho made 1,608 of butter— 175 6-0 1w ier cow, and tho sklnnied milk fattened two tioga which dresred 010 b6 : ond rajsed 6 calven, the cash market value of which {8 £10 cach—$50, _Pork Is worth dreased, Goy tho two hoga being worth $36.60. Tho butter wold nt an nverngo of d3ige por th—8521,40, Total ¥leld, $08, or £67,65 per cow. Tho cows had uo .extra feed during tho seanon, Yiztn or Mink Pen Cow.—Dalrymen are nle waya intorested in this eubject, and sny re. pors of Inrgo yields ara suro to 'bo motlced and ntudied, The yield of one, two, or threo cowa is al- ways moro or less excoptional, but tho following re« porta from dairies of twolve or moro cows, which aro [::b"'hed in tho Buffalo Live-Stack Jonrnal, need not conaldered oxceptional, unless in the fuct that the Iarge yicld i3 indicative of mora thun usual cara on the et af thoso dairymen, It will bo moliced that. tho lowest yield glven (6,163 1be.) i8 moro than doubla the nverago vield of the dajrics in tho State—most of which oxtra yiold is o net gasn to the dnirymen, Mr. A, Gooper, of Wyoming Cotinty, ahtnined 04,067 s milk from 13 cows—nan nverago of 4,028 Ibs per cow, Net proceods per cow, $60.03, Fed green oata and sowed corn in additfon to tho yposture, A, Tofft, Chautauqua County, milked 12 cows, which slelded 7,246 1bs milk each, or 20 Its por day for the whole scason, 0, Bruneon, of (ho same county, got from 17 caws, 6,80 1ba snilk each, A, I', Brunson, of the sama plnce, Jina 24 cows, and got 0,103 hha milk from ecach caw—325 Ibs par day, Tho avornge yiekt per cow, as reported by all tho fac- tories in thin Stato for the Inst nins years, Is given hy . B, L. Sturtovant in the Country Gentleman for Nov. 6, 1873 (vol, xxxvill, pago 714), nt 2,010 1L& per caw —tis heing tho averago 'of #37 reporis, covering (he yield of over 137,000 cowa It-will thus be scen that a 1t{lo oxtra care in tho solecton and Licop of cows paya a largo net profit to the dairynian who hus brains snd uses thom in his busiuess, Tho dairies in New York avorago 270 days of tho milking acason, That would give the aver- ago na nbove of 2,040 pounds to tho cow, or noar- 1y 1Lpounds o day. A writer from Wost Corn- wall, Conn., gives 9 quarts ns the average in that Stato, Tho Duel (Montgomery County) cheeso-factory which I visited July 8, reported 502 cowa, nnd the milke woighod 10,680 pounds, or 21 pounds to the cow ; but this was in the hest of tho season, 'Thero i8 no question that cows nt the West may bs milked, on an average, al least ono month longer ; which ought to incrense thio quantity for tho senson. Taking the above avorago ag . basig, at 1 cent n pound wo wonld have 29,40 per cow, which malkes n bnd averazo showing ns compared to the particular reporta given abovo. The Conuocticut man'sa average of ngum‘ta, equal to 18 ponnds, for 270 dnys, womld give $48.60 por cow for tho season, I thmkthe roport of tha 127,000 cows mot very corrcet, ns, from what I could lonrn at tho factories, tho numbor of cows was o mere malior of puens, ne 1 found only one that kept o daily regiuter of the actunl number of cows. TRICE OF MILX. In nearly all cages the milk is mado inta chooge or buttor, aud a fixed prico Tharged for tho making. This, s o general thing, loaves s littlo over 1 cont » pount sor the millk. (. BUTTER Ol ONEESE. both butter and chaeeo at the factorics. In tho cooler part of tho enson, tho milk can bo sot for cream for twelva hours, and tlien mnde into seo- ond quality of cheosa, From all theso roports and facts, 1t can ba seon that much deponds on the cows. But one thing is cortain; that, with onr mildor climato and cheapor food, wo can mnke more monoy out of tha dairy than jsor can be made in the best dairy regious of Now York, THE WEATIIER continues mild, hinving fallon bolow zero onl; on two occasions this wintor, Frnit-buds ail rvight thus far in this part of tho state. A. C. Hammond, Presidont of the Warsaw Horljo tural Socialy, writos, under dato of tho 20th fust: “Wo havo thus far bad o remarkably-open winter, the mercury having fallon bolow zora only twico. TFruit-buds are in splendid cons dition.” Wo need not bo disappointed 1f wo got a sharp frost in February, but it will probably bo of short duration, ‘Thore is little danger of long periods of cold when the ground is so fully sat- urated with water. Pcoplo call this n romarka- bly-mild winter, but we have had several of the samo kind within tho past forty years, Wo are vory apt to forgot those things unless wo keep o dnily record.~ As o ganeral thing, apple-treos begin to mako shoots und have Ieuves half an inch long by tho 20th of April ; but, on two or throo occasions, thoy have heen ton days lntor, I ave observed that these Inte kprings do nob i the best of crops, eituer of lhu“flahl or URAL, HANNAH. Twa oyea of Llup . Thut mocks the hue Of iIo:ven's henming starland 3 A cheek thet glows As fulr s ros0 That gver graced n garland 3 Who would ot bo A sluve lo thee, Ana worship bis tormentor, Dust owi o heart Love's subtles! Can never plerco or cuter, The rosy red ‘I'hint ovo doth shed Ero Heavou's vaulis urostarllt, 1Is faint to trace Th bloomlug grace of thore bright llps of scarlots Who would not die Tor ono swect sigh, And Lless tlie generous donor, Alust own a brenst No'er touched or pressed By beiuty, love, or honor, ‘Tho run that beams ' On hills and streams, On Jeavcs und flowerets teuder, 15 not mora fufr "han thy gold hair, ‘That flows du graceful splendors “To nie you seem A poet’s dream, A queen in fairy Eden; Aud sonl of mine, At thy bright sbrine, Ts Mspiration-luden, Cnioado, TANES LAVALLIN, e s iy A French Marriages A French papor Lolls a singular story of nmar- riage 1n high circlos that comos al_xilu up to our Amorican ways of marringe und divorce, A cor- tain Count X., it scoms, was desporataly in lovo with a beautiful girl, and finully fudncod hor to become his mistress. o would have murried hor if it lnd not beon for the versistout oppo= sition of his parents to any allioneo with one ot the bourgeols olass, 1o kopt up his rolation with tho girl for some Lime, uli the whilo bother- ing his braing to sfind out n way in which he could marry her with the consont of his parents. Tinally ho'pourod out his troubles to n fviond of ready wit, who at once suggested & solution, A bunkrupt youn Count Y., of ancieut fumily, was Just thon huunting the streots of Paris, an the = suggostion wns that this spend- thrift bo hired to marry the girl and thus make her a Countess. No soonor said than done, Count ¥. was found and only too glad to make 81,000 and two diamond stnds, the Intter being stipulated for by him in addi- tion to tho roady monoy, becanso ho forosaw tho probubility of “pnwning somothing after the monoy should haye beou spent. ‘“Tho contract was accordingly drawn up, its chief provision boing that Count Y, obliged himsolf, ** imme- dintely aftor tho marringy, to cedo his wifo unto tho said Count X,, nnd 1mmediutely thoroaftor to lustituto a suit for divorco on the ground of willtul desortion.” The warriage thon look plnce, and tho protty girl, now Countess Y., ro- turned with Count X, to her lodgings, tho whole party having flst enjoyad & splondid dtnner, ab which Qonnt Y, was tho gayost of the gay. 1o faithfully lm(‘;n his word ; n divorce was soon ob- tained, and Count X, told his purents that he would matry no other person than Conntess Y. No objection could bo intorposed, aug evorybody wos wade Luppy. , Tt appenra to ho the bétter practica to'Taraer