Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 19, 1914, Page 8

TAGS FBR MEMBERS By JOSEPH BARNHARDT. e 0000000000000000000000000 The members of the Commuters’ | seated as usual in their facing seats on the 7:55. They were very busy and very quiet Crochet club were this morning for | Mabel had found a new crochet pattern in a mag- azine, and they were each work- ing it out. Any one who bas had per- sonal experience with a pattern of this sort knows that it takes a great deal of per- severance a n d | concentration to follow it closely, and to the expected re- sult. “On e, three, two, tone. “One, two, one, two, single crochet,” murmured Mabel to the rhythm of | the car wheels. Mary stopped for a minute and glanced over at Anne. “Why,” she ex- claimed, “your lace doesn't look a bit like mine.” | “And neither of yours is like mine,” sald Mabel, looking at Mary’s and Anne's. “Why, isn't it queer?” sald Sadle. “Here we are all following the same directions and getting such different results.” Maude laid down her work and looked around at the group with the air of one who has something tre- mendously important to impart to a listening audience. “I can't help thinking,” she said, “how symbolical this is of all life.” “What's symbolical of all life?” said the round-faced girl, looking up with & blank expression. It was always hard for her to follow Maude'’s flights of oratory, but she tried her best. “This crocheting,” sald Maude. “We are all following the same pattern and yet are all making something differ- ent. In the same way, a stranger might look at us sitting here in the train and say: ‘How much alike those girls are. They're all about the same age; they're all of the same national- ity; all work in New York, and have the same interests, judging from the way they keep up conversation while they crochet’ And yet, each one of us here is very much of an individu- ual” achieve ! double | crochet,” counted Sadie in a mono- | 2525352525252525252525252525¢52535 | guess he had us spotted from the “I tell you what I think would be a good idea,” suggested Mabel, “for people to go around tagged with a de- scription of themselves as they really are. It would save a lot of time and | trouble in getting to know them.” “We might make tags for each oth- er,” said Anne, and the others sec- onded the idea. Pencils and paper were passed and each one but the person to be tagged { added a line to each description, and by the time they had reached Jersey | City six were done and read as fol- lows: Maude—Wavy auburn hair and ha- zel eyes; inclined to be dreamy; fond of poetry; imaginative; artistic tem- perament; absent-minded. The Round-Faced Girl—Light halr, almost red; round, blue eyes; round, jred cheeks; fat; good-natured, and willing. Sadie—Medium-colored hair, me- dlum-colored eyes; always up-to-date; fond of statistics; eminently practi- cal. Mabel—Curly brown hair; brown eyes; much interested in current informed. Anne—Tall and thin; light hair and blue eyes; wears eye-glasses; a stu- dent of psychology and an interested observer of life. Mary—Small, quiet; a good listener. And as the six walked to the ferry- boat, they compared tags good-natur- edly. The round-faced girl was the only one who was displeased with her description. “I'm not fat,” were her last words, as they parted. “I only weigh 156.” English Coal Fields. The coal flelds of Northumberland * and Durham counties claim to be the oldest in production of any coal flelds in England. It §s a historical fact that these fields have been worked for at least 700 years. Every kind of coal, with the exception of anthracite, is found in these two counties. North- umberland coal s best known for its steam-producing qualities, but it is also used in the homes and in manu- facturing plants. Durham coal Is used for the same purpose, but it is better known for its gas and coke pro- ducing qualities. It 1s estimated that one-tenth of the population of Durham county is connected, in some capacity, with that industry, and that the county’s output of coal in 1018 was valued at the pit's mouth at $100,000,- 000. 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L1202 & @ @ PRHPHDD ER 2 2 2 o o L e e the exclusive COUTS ine of depend- FITTERS S A TP IN COPPER | | By EPES WINTHROP SARGENT. | LOOOOOOOOOIXXN XX XXX XXX XXX (Copyright.) “Now you come!” cried Griscom, as the porter appeared in the doorway of the smoking compartment of the sleeper with a whisk-broom and an expectant smile. “Yassir. Mos’ in now, sir,” with a glance out of the window where the ' strings of cattle-cars proclaimed the’ railroad environs of Chicago. “You ought to be all in,” grunted Griscom, and the ‘porter laughed as he gave me a perfunctory brush-off for the quarter he had seen in my band. I had come on the train at Omaha that morning, but Griscom told me he | had come from the coast. Coast pas- | sengers should be good for a dollar, ;nt least. As tipping time approaches. of the street-crossing chicken as rare 1 humor. | Griscom was standing with a hand- | ! ful of money he had just taken from ; his trousers-pocket, and the porter’s eyes gleamed, for there were gold i ;pieces in the mass of quarters and i halves, and Griscom selected one of | these, Quietly Griscom sorted out the gold and put it in his waistcoat pocket ' while he regarded a silver dollar re- flectively. The grin on the porter's face was less expansive, but he still smiled. Griscom eyed the dollar for a mo- | ment and dropped it back upon the { pile of change, then he picked out a | copper cent. “Don’t throw that away and don’t make any remark, or I'll have you set down for a week. Towles 8 a friend of mine.” Apparently there was magic in the name of Towles, for the porter pocket- ed the coln without a word, and brushed Griscom’s coat ‘with three sweeping strokes before he backed out of the compartment. “What had the boy done to deserve the copper?” I asked. “He looks like a pretty clever boy, and a copper is worse than nothing at all.” “I know it—but I hate portors. Look here, you think better of that dinner invitation tonight, and Il tell you ! why I do. Is it a go?” I nodded, though only a few min- utes before I had evaded an earnest invitation to dinner. Griscom smiled contentedly. “About six, then. I've got to beati it as soon as we land. So long until | then. Here's the shed.” We were just pulling up to the plat- | form, and by the time I was pos- | sessed of my grips Griscom had dis- appeared. That night, as he came into the un- pretentious lobby of the little family hotel that was home to him when he was in Chicago, no one would have taken him to be one of the most ex- pert card-sharks on the continent. He was not more thar five feet six, | but broad-shouldered and suggesting | an enormous strength. His complex- fon was that of a rosy baby, but the thinning hair suggested the middle thirties. He dressed quietly—no one | ever could remember just how he was dressed, for he was far removed from the gambler of fiction with dyed mus- tache and flashy clothes. He suggested rather—well, that was 2 like his clothes. He looked all right. 1 did considerable traveling, and Griscom' had taken a liking to me. Later he rescued me from some card- sharpers, though to do so he had to admit it as his own profession, and later, in his room in the hotel, he ! had told me some things and had | shown me some tricks of the trade that I had oured me of card-playing. | Griscom was an artist, eschewing the aid of “shiners,” “hold-outs,” and the rest of the clumsy mechanism. | His clever fingers could do wonderful | things in a shuffle, and he trusted to | a wonderfully developed memory and, ' on occasfon, to some markings on the back of a deck that had not been | printed on by the manufacturers. ! It had been very decent of him, and I appreciated it. We were not inti- mate, but I saw him now and then, | and enjoyed his company, for he was | a wonderful talker, With an apology for a minute's tar diness, he led the way to the dining- room, where he had ordered an excel-{ lent dinner, and it was not until we | were up in his rooms with the per- fectos glowing that he alluded to the incident of the train. “l saw Towles this afternoon,” he began, as he surveved the tip of his cigar with a grin on his usually im- mobile face. “He says the porter cursed me and the copper for one solid hour. “He could appreciate that joke. He knows my reason for hating the por- ters. This boy is a new one on the western run. Most of the porters know I don't ike them and they leave me alone. “It dates back about three years. 1 was working with Don Eastman on the western trains. Don was not a good all-around man, but he was a clever player and an artist at the rip- shufle and pass. He claimed he had invented that, but you can search me. “l showed you the trick, a shuffle where one-half the cards is passed through the rest of the deck and the pack comes back just as it was hand- ed out. It was mew then, and with Don sitting next me, we made a lot of momey out of it “One trip Towles was on the traia. | king. start, but he was a good fellow and never let on. He let us trim a sheep-l man out of a thousand. | “It was hard work, for the sheep- chaperon was foxy and he did not want to play with our cards. He bought a pack from the porter and it was straight playing, but we were two i to one and we got it. 1 | “Powles got us in the smoker and suggested that if the porters carried marked decks it would be pretty soft for anybody who didn’t like to b?t on a full house against fours. That's all | he said, but he explained that he had charge of all the cars on that road— put up all the supplies. “We looked interested in the details, but we didn’t bite until we got back to Conicago and found out he was what he safd he was and not a railroad de- tective. Then we flopped and Towles was reasonable. “He could put marked decks on every car that carried them, and all‘ he wanted was ten per cent. e didn't even ask us to wear cash reg- isters. | “Well, Don had a friend who made events, and determined to be well.| 2/ POrter would regard even the query | peautiful ink. It wasn't the sort they | sell suckers and come-ons who answer ads, but the real goods. It cost us ten ! dollars for about a teaspoonful, but it blended perfectly with the 1-1‘1:;:-! ing. | “It took us three weeks to mark up a stock, and then we had to wait until the cars were stocked. That was another couple of weeks, and then— just as though luck was made to or- der—I got a tip from Pickering, the | chap in New York I told you of once —that Bob Brown was headed lor‘ home. i “You've heard of Bob Brown. He, fell down a sump hole and came out with a broken leg and a bonanza i mine. He was going back to Califor- | nia, and he had a chap with him who owned three or four counties in Texas, | and had so many cows it took three | men flve weeks to count them. i “Three days on the train with them, and them liking poker and being will- ing to be murdered if it was done nice! “Pickering wised us that the old‘ fingerwork wouldn't go. They knew i the tricks—Bob had lost about three millions, and you're bound to get some wisdom for that—but Pickering knew 1 could mark ‘angel’ backs to fool even a professional. “Pickering got fooled himself once, and he wrote that he thought we could get to them with some good marked papers. “Don and me were on the train that | carried Brown and his pal, and altgr, breakfast the next morning we broke in. Don landed them first and dragged ' me in last, pretending he didn't know i me. “I suggested that I had a couple of new decks in my grip, but Don couldn’t see that. He thought the train-cards were good enough, end the wink he handed Brown and his pal made them sure that Don was wise and on the level. “The porter brought the cards in, and if the train had run off the track just then I'd have given the engineer a cigar. I pald the porter the dollar he asked, but I wanted to ram it down his throat and make him choke over it. “They were the same sort Don and me had almost ruined our eyesight on, but they weren't our work! “There we sat with men who'd drop a couple of hundred thousand before the train got down out of the Sierras and never bat an eye-winker, if they thought the game was on the level! A couple of hundred thousand, mind you, and me and Don with our hands tled! “Those fellows could play poker, too, and we dropped most of our big bank-roll before the porter called din- ner. When lamps were lighted Don and me were playing five-cent ante with a whisky drummer,. and those easy-marks were playing with a pat- ent-medicine manufacturer and the cards I'd paid for.” Griscom stopped speaking puffed savagely at his cigar. “But was the porter to blame?" I asked. “Was he to blame? “Man, he was a rotten thief, that's all—a black-hearted son of a pirate What do you think of that dinge? Here he was, getting from fifty dollars to seventy-five dollar a round trip in tips and a thief! [n- stead of getting the cards we had marked from the dining-car conductor, as he should have, he was carrying his own ecards as a side line and cheating the company out of the profit. “That’s why I've hated the whole race of porters ever since. “A clean chance at a couple of hun- dred thousand, and to be burned out by a thief of a porter stealing fifty cents”’ and Legal Tautology. The circumlocution of legal docu- ments is the penalty of having a b lingual language, and descends to us from those centuries when the Eng- lish and the Normans were slowly amalgamating into one people. So the two races, in the market place or in social converse, to make their mean- ing clearer, joined a French word to an English, or vice versa. That is why, in the prayer-book, words so often run in couples: “Humble and lowly,” “acknowledge and confess,” “assemble and meet together." English was for the English; the Norman-French for the French. OO OE The | Chaucer is a great user of such bilin- gual phrases: “Hunting and venerye,” “wright and carpenter,” “care and heed.” And that is whence lawyers | get such talk as “ald and abet,” “will and testament,” and “use and wont” —London Chronicle. \ —— 't is oply ]aner it has “come true" i y | semblance to the parent. HOLDING DAHLIA SHOW — ireg Wash., Dahlia Society Sept. 8.—The |vears that it can be conc; is holding ! real variety. So far, everylg today, named his dahlias accordiy . "own ideas, and the confusioy, less. 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