The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1898. SHAFTER REPLIES T0 HIS CRITICS Difficulties of the San- tiago Campaign. ARMY UNUSED TO HARDSHIP DID ADMIRABLY UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. Compelled to Strike Quickly to Es- cape the Epidemic That Threat- ened to Destroy His Entire Force. Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK Nov. 25.—General Shaf- ter was the principal guest to-night at a banquet given at Delmonico’s by the Sons of the Revolution of the State of New York. In the course of a speech he said: t the late 2. 1 sup- mpaign has want to tell h easier for a man to hould be done than to do detailed the r the Cuban campaign rkation for Santiago. eneral Shafter said: red in April, at the begin- on ip’ Cuba. It w of the Shafter then preparations fo on no matter He would nteers to Cuba during the amor to the conditions lier action necessar. told of the embarka his arrival at San- forces, and said: ere was no of a con- troops in and numbers “would d have some sigkness, to make a sharp and aight to Santiago, I of the light artillery ble There , one cowboys, while th Of the regul we: hardship, lives to ere were also the and the Second good New They short time these regi- carry comfort- Svery man had 1 the generals ex- foot with rations, like the hat then described the and the methods of in fighting, and con- Shafter at the battle e first day we ap- )m _the northeast. I r best men to recon- return they told me be taken. On learn- I ordered an advance fter complimented Gen- and General Lawton's Of the El Caney fight he said: t I knew that n nd I was deter- iago before the sick- = men. . surrender of Santlago € I was 1 ish Consul afterward that s ours when we arrived at the w 3 There was much_clamor 1t the town. I had to ex- . itest effort to withstand it. king of the sufferings of the In spe: of suffering, I will admit. ¥s suffering in war. Thers t when I could have pre- man suffered unneces- 0 wounded but thirteen as 1 was informed, in July. That is I percentage. 1 have never heard a mplaint from any officer or man of the r arm, 1 Shafter closed with a tribute ons of the Revolution and sat n amid great appla: X . Van Dyke, D.D., was in- and created a sensation by nently denouncing the policy of expansion. He declared that the pur- s for which we went to war were iom for Cuba and the cause of hu- manity, and not for the aggrandize- nt of territory. He referred to the evacuation of the British and said: Imper! s a reaction to the policy was Wa a "he greatest excitement prevaliled at this point and the speaker had to wait for quiet. Then he paid a wonderfully elnquent tribute to the flag and hoped it would never float above any country whose peopleé were unwillingly under the dominion of this Government and should never stand for con- d imperialism, instead of hu- anity and enlightenment. He read .ctions from Washington” farewell address and declared that Washington was not a fool or a fogy, but had a prophetic vision of the present situa- tion. = - SCHLEY AT A BANQUET. Rear Admiral Describes the Destruc- tion of Cervera’s Fleet. NEW YOR 25.—Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley was tendered a com- plimentary dinner in the Brooklyn Club to-night by its members. Covers were laid for 1 The clubhouse and dining room were decorated with flags of all nations and potted plants and flowers. Rear Admiral Schley was escorted to club by Congressman Bennett, and was accorded a hearty reception hen he took his place at the guests’ along with Chauncey M. Depew, . Tracey, Colonel Hester r McKelway. lway acted as toastmaster ~i--cuced the guest of the even- Ing. When Admiral Schley arose to speak he was greeted with prolonged che *h were renewed at inter- his description of the de- srvera’s fleet. high tribute to my profes- 1id, “to say that not one ves- ng were Chauncey M. F. Tracey. TEXAS’ CREW CELEBRATES. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The sallors and marines of the battleship Texas to the number of several hundred held their ~nnual ball to-nirht at the Lenox Isvceum. Captain Sigsbee of the Texas and Miss Sigsbee led the grand march, in which four hundred couples partici- pated. Captain Sigsbee was vocifer- ously cheered during the march. There were many noted characters present, but perhaps the most popular ones were Sallors Deignan, Clausen and Phillips, who sailed with Hobson on the Merri- mac. A dinner was served after mid- night STATE'S BOOKS - FREE 70 ALL Should Circulate Among the People. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S PLAN MAJORITY IN FAVOR OF THIS 1LNNOVATION. Herbert C. Nash of Stanford Advo- cates the Establishment of a Copyright Re- pository. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 25.—Pursuant to a call which has for its object the adoption of a plan' whereby the people of the State may get the benefit of the books in the State Library, there was to-day held in the Senate chamber a conference of librarians, under the aus- pices of the Library Association of Cal- ifornia. While a large number of pa- pers were read and addresses deliv- ered on various subjects, it was ev: dent that most of the librarians pres- ent favored a plan whereby the books in the State Library could be placed before the people. State Librarian Coombs in opening the meeting stated that he hoped this would be one of the results of the present meeting. George D. Clark, president of the Li- brary Association of California, who acted as chairman, reiterated Mr. | Coombs’ statement and said that the rich of the State Library should be opened to the people of the State. He hoped that the present law could be amended so as to permit the circula- tion of the books in the State Library. J. C. Rowell, librarian at the Univer- sity of California, declared that it was far cheaper for a man in Los Angeles to pay the freight or express charges on a book than to go to Sacramento to read it, and he ought to be privil- eged to have the book sent to him un- der proper restrictions. Persons at a distance wishing to borrow booksshould be allowed to get them through their local libraries, and the local library, acting as the borrower, should be held responsible to the State. Deputy State Librarian W. W. Sea- man read a paper explaining the his- tory and growth of libraries attached to the public schools, claiming for them an_ educational value. H. Weinstock of Sacramento followed with a paper treating of the great value of the library to the community. He said that the function of the pub- lic schools was to give to the pupil the rudiments of an education and to put him in the way of educating him- self. The free public library finished and enlarged the education of the pupil, and the free public library was the greatest of all educators. The evening ses: paper by Herbert C. Nash, librarian of | Stanford University. He advocated the use of the State library as a depos- itory for copyrights. Under the present | copyright law authors are compelled to | deposit two copies of their works in the library at Washington. At the last session of Congress an effort was made to get a bill passed es- tablishing additional copyright de- positories at Denver, Chicago, New Or- leans and San Francisco. tacked by authors, publishers newspapers who misunderstood it and thought it was an effort to get some- thing for nothing. The bill failed of passage. It was now proposed to get a law passed by Congress establishing but one additional depository, and that | at Sacramento. Under this plan au- thors would not. be asked to more than two books, the same as at present, the one copy being left at Washington and the other at Sacra- mento. If then the copyright library at Washington were to be destroyed by fire, the immensely valuable list American literary productions would still be in existence. At Washington the copyright library is not accessible to the public. The bill proposed to be introduced in Congress asks that the books sent to Sacramento be given to the public. William D. Armes, trustee of the Oakland public library, read a paper in which he said that two important amendments should be made in the law. The minimum amount to be raised for library purposes should be fixed, and the library trustees should not all go out of office at once. He lampooned the Mayor of Oakland and the Oakland | City Council for their action in crip- pling the library and reading rooms in order that the money which legitimate- ly should have gone to the support of the public library and its auxiliaries might be expended on Lake Merritt. The session was closed with an ad- dress by Willlam H. treated of the educational value of libraries. He objected to the proposi- tion to make Sacramento a copyright depository and favored a plan whereby instead all departmental publications, such as those of the Geodetic and Coast Survey and Department of Agriculture, would be collected and preserved. He thought that such works as these would be of far greater value .than the con- glomeration of literature ground out under the copyright laws. He opposed the plan of circulating the books in the | State Library. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. List Headed by Captain Picking, Who ‘Will Be a Commodore. WABHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The Presi dent has made the following appointments in the nav To be commodore—Captain Henry F. Picking. To be captain—Commander Charles J. Train. To be & commander—Lieutenant Com- mander Danfel Delehanty. Lieutenants to_be lieutenant command- ers—George L. Dyer, Dennis H. Mahan, 1son T. Hous m R 0. ok Hubbard, Alex McCra Lieutenants (junior gra Chester M. Frank K. ¥ ) to be leu- Knepper, Albert M. Hill, Roger Welles, ‘Ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade) _James W. Reid, Clarence R. Wiiliams, Borcher, Henry A. Wiley,” Frederic B. Bassett, Herbert D. Gates, Richard Jackson. To be passed assistant paymaster—As- sistant Paymaster John Irwin. PROBABLY WAS MURDERED. Body of a Rich Mining Expert Found Near Prescott. PRESCOTT, Nov. 25.—The body of a supposed rich mining expert, decomposed and unrecognizable, was found to-day in the brush twenty-five miles from here. It is supposed he was waylald and killed. ‘All papers and other property had been taken from the body. The man was of middle age and wore finely made dark clothing with silk lining. The victim had been dead six months. Bt o SRt Maimed Under Train Wheels. SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. %.—Joseph Griffin of San Francisco, aged 20, attempt- ed to board a freight train this morning at 2 Summit. He fell under the wheels and his right leg was severed. He may survive. on opened with fl“ This was at- | and | deposit | of | | favor of annexation; do you agree with 1ls, in which he | | | ; | | | |DESIRE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN | who knew nothing about these subjects 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000 TERRITORIAL about completed and the report is final shape ready for Congress. poses of territorial treatment any county of California. The form of character of the men at the head of mission as essentially American, an manner of New Mexico and Arizona. as to declare himself in favor of th even now. The loca: laws by the be inaugurated to conform with th 0000000000 0000000000 CO00CCO000 0000000 GOVERNMENT OF HAWAII NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—A Washington special to the Herald says: Recommendations for the future government of the Hawalian Islands in accordance with the resolution of Congress adopted July 7, 1898, are According to my information, Hawait has presented a few ohstacles to the American members of the Com- missfon, Senators Morgan and Cullom and Representative Hitt, in the way of its treatment as a Territory. It is not considered for the pur- for a Territorial form of government and for a Governor after the . Senator Morgan has gone so far be allowed to prevail as far as possible, but a tariff policy will at once 000000003000 00000C000000 FORM FOR expected to be by to-morrow in its more forelgn than If it were a government there, as well as the affairs, is considered b the com- d provision will be made at once e admission of Hawail as a State terms of the recommendations will e laws applying to this country. COCO000000000000000000000000 ANNEXATION OF CUBA CERTAIN Leading Islander Holds This View. WANT TO BE FREE FOR ONLY A | SHORT PERIOD. Former Vice-President Capote Says They Realize That They Must Soon Come Under Our Flag. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | .—A dispatch to | NEW YORK, Nov. the Herald from Havana says: Domingo | Mendez Capote, late Vice President of the Cuban Republic and now president of the Executive Commission, has ex- pressed his belief that the future of | Cuba would inevitably be annexation to the United States. This, he said, was the natural outcome of recent events, but he denied that Cuban leaders had that aspiration. The independence which so long ani- mated the Cuban people is to be tem- porarily satisfied. They wish, for a short period at least, to see their cwn flag waving over “Free Cuba.” They recognize that annexation will come, and that shortly, and by the unanimous volce of the Cuban people themselves, but they desire to see the cause for which they had fought crowned with the success it deserves. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The Cuban Commissioners who came to the United States to offer President McKinley the views of the Cuban leaders for the fu- ture government of the island expect to go to Washington on Monday. Jose R. Villason, one of the Commissioners, expressed some decided views on the subject of the future of Cuba. “Is the strength of the annexationists very great?’ he was asked. “No,” he replied, “and if it were it would make no difference. The United States has declared to the world that it does not intend to annex Cuba. It can do nothing but recognize our inde- pendence. In the meantime it is practi- cally governing the island, and we can do nothing without its permission. Tt could not annex us without a political revolution, and that is impossible.” “General Nunez said that General Fitzhugh Lee would hardly make a good Governor of the island, as he had formed opinions and was apparently in him?” “Any gentlemanly soldler would make a good Governor, and especially General Lee, since he knows our laws and customs and our traditions. A man would hardly be acceptable to us.” “Do you anticipate that there will be any trouble between the Cubans and our forces when the time comes for the occupation of the whole island?” “There will be no trouble,” he said, after a long pause, “if the United States forces behave themselves. If they are kept under strict control, if they are governed by officers who know their business, we will welcome them with open arms.” “Do you object to our troops at San- g0 because some of them are ne- Not at all. We have no race troubles in our country, and many of the best men in our army are neeroes.” DIFFICULT TASK OF NEW YORK SURGEONS They Will Rebuild the Face of a Man Who Was Terribly Dis- figured. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The surgeons connected with St. Catherine’s Hospital, in the borough of Brooklyn, have in pros- pect a task which is likely to attract world-wide attention., John Wagenblast a few days ago, while handling a shot- gun, blew off the front and left side of his face. The doctors are planning to build him an artificlal face by what is known as plastic surgery. The work will' be in charge of Dr. J. C. Kennedy, visiting sur- geon at the hospital. ana_br. James 8. 4 tavin, the house surgeon. Surgeon Stavin sa; . “The first step will be to replace tne nose by one of rubber or celluloid. We shall draw up the skin op either side of the new nose so that it will slighuy over- Jap ...e edges. The cheekbone and the bone over the eye will be replaced by lates of silver or platinum. We hope to BP able to use the old roof of the mouth without any plates and to save the teeth. When once we get the nose and plate in place and the process of healing has ad- vanced we will begin grafting skin on the bare surface. The skin we will take from the man’s thighs. It will require a long time and much Eamnce on the part of the Suffering man; but we hope to make a re- Spectable Job for him before we got through. The last step will be to replace the lost eye with one of giass." o2 oo IRRITATES THE SULTAN. Memorial Asking —for Reforms May Cause Dismissal for Ministers. CONSTANTINOPLE, 2.—Several of the Turkish Ministers have submitted to the Sultan a memorial pointing out the dlsturbed state of the empire and the re- forms they consider necessary. The Sul- tan is _irritated at this attitude on the part of the Ministers, and it is expected e will dismiss several of them, although it will be difficult to find substitutes who do not favor reform. McCoy May Come to This City. NEW YORK, Nov. 2%.—Kid McCoy 1s training at Asbury Park, N. J., for his fight with Peter Maher, which is sched- uled to take place at Coney Island Ath- letic Club on December 5. He declares that he recelved no information to the V. effect that it will not be held from the management of the club. “If Maher falls to come to time,” said McCoy to-day, “I will go out to San Francisco and meet Jeffries. I have had) a very flattering offer to make a match with him.” Eh g i CARDINAL GIBBONS ON -RACE TROUBLES Thinks a Restriction of Suffrage by | Property Qualification Would | Be a Remedy. BALTIMORE, Nov. 25.—Cardinal | Gib- bons, in discussing the recent.race trou. | bles in the South, sald to a representative | of the Baltimore Sun to-day: I “In the history of mankind it has been observed that when two distinct races co- existed in the same territory one race has always exercised a certain supremacy | over the other. | ““While this principle is admitted, it is | the manifest duty of every patriotic | statesman and Christian to see that the | relations between the races should be | triendly, harmonious and mutually bene- ficial. ‘The race conflicts, antagonism and bloodshed which have recently occurred | in_several States of the Union can be | largely traced to two great causes—the one-sided and {ll-directed system of negro education and the indiscriminate and con- sequent abuse of the ballot “The _colored race,” continued the Car- dinal, “are naturally kind and gentle, af- fectionate and grateful, with religious emotions easily aroused.’ But the educa- tion they are generally receiving is cal- | culated to sharpen their mental facultles | at the expense of their religious and | moral sense. “It fosters ambition without supplying the means of gratifying it. It feeds the head, while the heart is starving. No ed- ucation is complete that does not teach the science of self-restraint, and this is | found only In the decalogue and In the | gospels. But it Is hard to get a hearing | on the subject of popular education. We | must appeal from Peter drunk to Peter sober. ““The abuse of the ballot-box is charge- able more to white demagogues than to the blacks themselves. The politicians use the negro vote for their own selfish pur- poses. I am persuaded that a restriction of suffrage by property qualification would be a wise measure. “It would be an Incentive to industry, and as men are Instinctively disposed to { protect their own property, they will nat- | urally vote for those rules and public offi- | cers “who, in thelr judgment, are more qualified to protect their property from | unjust and exorbitant taxation and to promote the material prosperity of the | commonwealth.”” PAINTED GERMAN TOYS DANGEROUS TO CHILDREN Some Interesting Information in the | Report of the Chief of the Bu- reau of Animal Industry. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%5.—Dr. D. F. Sal- | mon, chief of the Bureau of Antmal In- | dustry, in his report to the Secretary of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, states in connection with the | examination of imports from Germany it | was found that German toys and colored | goods were poisonous, and all highly | painted German toys may be regarded as | very dangerous to children who may suck off ‘the paint or swallow the pieces that may be chipped off. The study of tuberculosis with refer- | ence to both men and animals has been | continued, and reports indicate that in in- | ciplent stages of the disease the serum is of considerable value. This division con- templated beginning investigations rela- tive to Texas fever, anthrax and other | | diseases, The division of yatholngy has continued dipping cattle, with a the experiment o view to destroying the ticks which spread exas fever, and a su.- the infection of stance has been found in which the cattle may be {mmersed without suffering any serious injury and which will destroy ail the ticks on an animal in a single dipping. In making recommendations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1%0, Dr. Sal- | mon asks that a sufficlent appropriation | for extending and developing foreign | markets for dairy products of the United States be made and that legislation be sought by which the existing system of Government inspection and certification of meats and meat products for export from the United States may be extended (with | suitable modification) to include butter, | cheese and condensed milk. e 2 BONES OF A MASTODON. | Story of an Interesting Find Brought ! From the Klondike. ! VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 25.—J. W. Nee of Tacoma s here with an interest- ing Klondike mastodon story. He says that of a big plle of bones found on Su'- phur Creek one was a_tooth bitwean four and one-half and five inches long and nearly two inches thick at the bas2. An- other was the leg of an animal from the knee to the ankle. It was five and a half | feet in length. From the ground to this | animal’s body the distance was probably | over ten feef. the leg bone was eight or | nine inches through. ONE OFFICE OR TWO? Test Case to Decide as to Auditor and Recorder. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 25.—The question as to whether there is any such county office as Auditor anu Recorder, or wheth- er they are separate offices, Is to be tested in the courts. Bing C. Brier, a short- hand reporter, claims that he received a number of votes for tne office of Recor- der. To-day, by his attorney, Major W. A. Anderson, he began proceedings In the Superfor Court for a decislon in the mat- ter. Mandamus proceedings were insti- tuted to compel the Supervisors to de- clare - Brier duly elected County Re- corder. BUILDING THE SHAMROCK. Aluminum May B; Largely Used in the Yacht’s Construction. GLASGOW, Nov. 25.—The work of con- structing the yacht Shamrock for Sir Thomas Lipton, the challenger for the America cup, will be commenced during the coming week. William Fife, the naval architect, who is to build the racer, has invited a firm of Bssen, Germany, to sup- ply light W('lfht nickel steel plates for that portion of the vessel's hull below the water line. It is believed that aluminum will be used for the uprer part of the hull and for the yacht's fittings. Estiaged, STEAMER FITZJAMES LOST. Fo\md_grl in the English Channel and Nine Seamen Drowned. LONDON, Nov. %.—The local steamer Fitzjames, bound from this port to Swan- sea, foundered lyes:erda morning off Beachby Head, in the nglush Channel, during a gale. Three of the crew were rescued. The remainder, numbering nine, were drowned. Ends Life With Strychnine. NAPA, Nov. 2%.—John Edmund Crad- dock, a native of Virginia, aged 69, com- | still confined in the City Prison. WAS KNOWN N CHIGAGD AS A CAPITALIST Armanino’s Career Is Being Exploited. STILL DETAINED IN PRISON ’ CLAIMED HE WAS A WEALTHY STEAMSHIP OWNER. Explanation of How the Linen of Dr. Weigand Was Found in His Trunk—The Latter’s Story. Amadeo Horace, allas Armanino, alias Redeschi, the alleged swindler, who was arrested in this city several days ago is Until sufficient evidence is secured against him the police do not intend to proceed against him. If he is the noted Italian swindler as he is belleved to be Chief Lees intends to hold him' pending the arrival of an officer from the East, where he is wanted on numerous charges of robbing unsuspecting countrymen. In the prison- er's trunk the police found a number of bogus telegrams, together with a miscel- laneous assortment of fake correspond- ence. This will be used as evidence against him if he is taken East. A dispatch received last night from Cm- cago states that Horace was well knogvn there as Alfred Armanino. He impressed those with whom he had dealings as being wealthy and polished. He arrived in Cnoi- cago on October 12, and stopped at the Wellington Hotel for a short time. He said his home was in Milan. The dispatch further says: “The statement of the San Francisco police that Amadeo Horace, the alleged confidence operator, has meen identified as Dr. J. M. Weigand, a Chicago_dentist, is an error. The police discovered among Horace's effects some linen marked with Dr. Weigand’'s name, but the latter is in Chicago to-night. How Horace managed to get possession of the clothing Dr. Wel- gand does not know. “'Dr. Weigand, whose home s at 417 Cen- ter place, says he rented apartments to Horace, who sald he was Robert H. Armanino, representing Armanino Bros., lithographers, of Genoa, Italy. He de- clared he had large interests in Chile, owned two steamship lines and was in this city to buy machinery. Dr. Weigand says Horace was accustomed to have his linen done up at the family’s laundry, and on one occasion, he remembers, they were mixed. This {s the orly reason he can ascribe for his name being found on Hor- ace's linens. ‘*‘He told me he was worth $2,500,000, said Dr. Weigand, ‘and desired me to abandon my practice and go with him to Chile. He spent his money lavishly. Ke remained with us three weeks, and on leaving said he was going to New York, where he had bought a lot of machinery to ship to Chile.” " ‘While searching the prisoner’s trunk the found several pieces of linen on hich as indelibly printed the name, Dr. Weigand.” They concluded that the alleged swindler was traveling under that name, and at once endeavored to establish his connection with the well-known medi- cal man of Chicago. The prisoner still remains silent, even refusing to answer the questions of the detectives. Illinoisan Dies at Pasadena. PASADENA, Nov. %.—James Power, one of the most prominent residents of Central Iilinois, who came to Pasadena a short time ago with the hope of regaining his shattered health, died this morning at the advanced age of 74 years. Mr. Power had large banking Interests in Springfield and other points in Illinois, besides own- ing several thousand acres of farming lands in that portion of the State. RELIC OF THE PAST. Not by any means few in number, al- though for the most part unknown to the general public, are the spots in England where the customs and ob- servances of far-off days are still fond- ly cherished. One of the most interest- ing of these is the ancient hospital of St. Cross, which is situated a mile to the south of the city of Winchester. This charitable institution was found- ed in 1136 by Bishop Henry de Blois, King Stephen’s half-brother, and was intended to entirely support thirteen indigent old men and to give a dinner daily to 100 others. But the next Bishop of Winchester provided for the feeding of another 100 poor men, and in 1445 Cardinal Beaufort, who then held the see, added to the hospital another foundation, called the Almshouse of Noble Poverty, and provided it with an income sufficient for the maintenance of two priests, thirty-five brothers and three sisters. As time went on abuses crept in and the revenues were misap- propriated till about the middle of this century, when the Charity Commis- sloners Interfered. They made provi- sion for the residence of thirteen broth- ers of the original foundation and four of the later, and for out-pensions in lieu of the daily dinners to the 200 poor men. Now the revenue is so much | greater that ten additional residents will shortly be admitted. Henry de Blois committed his foun- dation to the keeping of the Knights Hospitalers of Jerusalem, and from there is no difference between the two orders. Each brother has a weekly allowance of 10 shillings and four cooked dinners, a loaf of bread every morning, a house with a large garden at the back, fuel and extra fare on certain festivals, or “gaudy days,” as they are called. These are Christmas day, Easter, Can- dlemas, Whitsunday and All Saints’. And the extra fare consists of a “Ben- jamin’s mess” of roast beef. baked plum pudding and mince pies carefully made according to an old recive. For- merly the festal menu included “Judas’ sop,” that is, slices of bread boiled in beer and sweetened with honey. All/ the corporate cooking is carried on in the anclent kitchen, the baking being done in a brick oven heated by fagots | and the roasting in front of the origi- | nal fireplace, the meat being fixed in a cradie resting on “dogs” and turned by a smoke-jack. Here, just before each “gaudy day” revolves and frizzles a joint large enough to give five pounds to every brother. e PERKINS BROKE. “There may be some poker-playing nowadays, but nothing that will hold | a candle to the sort that the cld-time sports enjoved in the days when Dr. | Crawford and ‘Old' Perkins were the acknowledged kings of draw,” said M. ; F. Fairburn of Cincinnati at the Riggs. ‘‘Perk,’ as the boys called him, was | the smoothest article that ever shuffled | a deck, and it is related that he once | won $58,000 on a single hand, but I will | not vouch for the figures myself. Any- | way, he had never met his match at | poker till fate threw Dr. Crawford in | his way. The doctor was frqm Dublin, Ireland, and a typical soldier of for- | tune. He and Perkins met on a railroad train, bound for Cincinnati, and it was | not long after their acquaintance that a | proposition to play cards was made and | accepted. | “Perkins was an illiterate man. He | could neither read nor write, and the| major part of his nose was missing— | the resudt of a personal difficulty. The loss of a large piece of that organ | caused him to talk through his nose in a way that was amusingly comical. His opponent was a polished man of the | world and proved to be as much supe- | rior to the uncouth Perkins at poker | as he was socially. “The game must have been a great | one, from all accounts, and Perkins re- sorted to every smart trick of manipu- lation that he knew, but he was out- classed and loser from the start. “Finally he had all his remaining | funds shoved up in a pot, and Dr. Crawford showed down the best hand.! breaking ‘Perk’ completely. The de- | feated gambler never swore an oath, nor could any one tell from the work- | ings of his face that he was the least | bit sore over the loss of a huge pile of | b He looked long and with keen scru- ting, however, into the face of the man | who had bested him, and the only| words he uttered were, ‘You're tougher than leather.” "—Washington Post. [ —— POKER PLAYED BY A DREAM. “Brown always swore that he wasn't superstitious,” said Brown's friend, “but I've seen him twist his second fin- ger around his first when he met a cross-eyed man. and I know he has conscientious scruples against going under a ladder. The fact that he occa- sionally gets up and circles around his chair three times while playing poker | may not prove anything, but any man | who will lJay down a good hand on ac- | count of a dream is open to suspicton, and that’s what Brown did. “It seems that Brown dreamed one night of having a tilt with Smith. | Smith opened a jackpot, and Brown | just hipped him once for luck. He held the eight, nine, ten and jack of clubs, s0 he had chances_of filling either a straight or a flush. Smith drew one card—in the dream—and Brown, of course, did likewise. He pulled the queen of clubs. Smith seemed to have bettered, too, and they had a nice little tilt. When Smith called he showed an ace full to kings, and Brown woke up Just as he was raking in the pile. “Well, it happened that a few even- ings after this Brown and Smith were in the same game, and after a while Brown opened a pot with aces and | kings. The rest dropped out, all but | years ago considered ab: | ago, and has stood the test ever s Smith, and he raised the limit. Brown | made good, and each man drew a card. | Brown got a third ace, and Smith | seemed to be pretty well satisfied with i his draw. Then Brown remembered his | dream. He held exactly the hand that Smith had held in the dream, and he broke out in a cold perspiration. | “‘Dreams go by contraries,” he| thought to himself, ‘and it's a cinch | that Smith has got my straight flush.’ Then he bet a white chip, and Smilh‘ came back at him with a limit raise, | and the limit 'was pretty high. That blooming fool Brown hesitated for a minute and then laid down his hand| with a sickly smile. ‘Your straight flush beats my hand,’ he said. ‘How did you know I had a straight flush? | asked Smith, surprised. Then Brown‘ told about the dream, and _Smith | laughed fit to kill himself. ‘There’s | your dream hand,’ he said as he laid it ! out. The eight, nine, ten and jack of clubs were there all right, but the fifth | card was the seven of spades. | “Ot course Brown swore, but as the | matter stands now he doesn't figure out | just where he’s at. Those two hands | came so close to the dream that h can’t settle it in his mind whether fat slipped a cog that once or whether he | was a chump. But I know what Smith | thinks.”—New Yo Sun. | e PRESERVE THE ALLIGATOR. | Since the authorities began enforcing the game law the game all over the State is becoming more plentiful. A similar jaw should be passed whereby the Flor- jda alligator should be protected from the them is derived the distinctive dress of the brothers who enjoy his bounty. It | consists of a long black gown, with a | siiver cross on the left breast. On the! death of a brother the cross is laid | upon his coffin, from which it is re-! moved at the grave, and in due course | is handed to his successor. 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