WHY HE CONTINUED PLAYING
Denman Thompson Could Not Allow
Himself to Be “Outgentlemanned"
by a Gambler.
Stories of Denman Thompson's
quaint and characteristic doings still
circulate along Broadway, now and
then. Here is one which was told the
other night by the attorney who man
aged Mr. Thompson's legal business
for many years.
“I once went out to confer with Mr.
Thompson on an important matter,”
said he. “I found the hotel at which
he was staying, in a western city, and
waited for him to arrive It was almost
daylight when he got in.
“ Tve been playin’ faro bank,’ he ex
plained, smiling cheerfully and shak
ing my hand.
“ ‘You played pretty late,’ said I.
“ ‘Yes,’ said he, 'I played later than I
wanted to. But I really couldn’t leave.’
“ ‘Couldn’t leave?’
“ ‘No sir, 1 just couldn't leave. You
see, when I started to play I lost all
the money I had, about $2,000. 1 was
goin’ to quit, when the dealer tells me
to go right along and play. He said
that Denman Thompson’s I. O. U. was
good for any amount with him. Well,
that was mighty nice, considerin’ I
never met the man before. I took out
a couple of hundred dollars’ worth of
checks on credit, and I begun to win
right away. In about three deals I had
all their bank roll and they turned
over the box. I wap tired and ready to
go home, but I sez to myself that I
wasn’t goin’ to let any gambler out
gentleman me, so I just told ’em that
their I. O. U. was just as good with
me as mine was with them, and so I
kept on playin’ until they won all their
money back.’ ”—Cincinnati Times
Star.
TO IMPROVE THE SUITCASE
Addition of Pockoto Will Greatly In
crease the Capacity of the
Receptacle.
The suitcase can be greatly Im
proved, so far as convenience Is con
cerned, by the addition of pockets.
These pockets may be made with or
without flaps. If the flaps have snaps
upon them the«contents will not come
out easily when the suitcase is tossed
about.
This lining Ib best made of denim or
linen, and can be made detachable, so
that it may occasionally go to the
laundry. Narrower strips of linen are
placed upon that covering the bottom,
the inside of the lid and about the
sides of the lining, making a double
lining, into which rows of fnachine
stitching are placed, joining the two
layers of lining together, to form as
many pockets as you desire. Three
pockets or more can bo very well ac
commodated. In the lid, an eaual num
ber can be accommodated In the bot
tom, and several smaller pockets
about the sides for jewelry, powder,
etc. In this way everything can eas
ily be kept In its place. The larger
articles, of course, such as frocks,
blouses, skirts, etc., are packed in
the remaining open space of the suit
case. If you wish to make an elab
orate lining, it can be made of heavy
satin.
Japanese.
The brightest, best tempered and
most polite people in the world are
the Japanese. They absolutely do
not know what it is to quarrel, and it
is said that if you throw a Btone at
a dog or cat in Japan, the animal
stands and Btares at you in amaze
ment—it actually doesn't know what
cruelty means. The Japs are a jolly
people and fond of a Joke, and they
are generous and trustful to a marked
degree. They also have a strong sense
of pride, and travelers relate a pecu
liar instance of this trait. If a trav
eler is annoyed by being followed by
a crowd—which, however, is always
quiet and respectful—he can cauBe it
to melt away like snowflakes on a hot
stove by simply halting and holding
out a coin. The Japs feel hurt at
being taken for mendicants. Fancy
what the result would be if a traveler
adopted this expedient in the fee-tak
ing cities of Europe. He would be al
most torn to pieces by the crowd try
ing to get the coin.
A Bed for Seventeen.
Probably there la no bed capable of
holding bo many as seventeen in this
country. But such a bed la to be found
in the Mount Tet hut (10,000 feet
above the sea), one of the Swiss moun
tain cabins belonging to the Alpine
club. The bed is really constructed
to hold only fourteen, but the day on
which a party visited the hut was so
exceptionally clear, and the conditions
for climbing were so favorable, that
twenty-one members and friends, be
sides the guides accompanying them,
turned up at the cabin to stay the
night. The guides took possession of
the kitchen and the twenty-one sorted
themselves out as follows—seventeen
"slept” on the bed, three on the floor,
and the remaining one In a chair.
Origin of Veronica.
One of the most interesting of twist
ed names is the girl’s name, Veronica,
which, by the way, is not so common
as its beauty entitles it to be. You
probably know the legend of how St.
Veronica wiped the brow of Christ
on his way to Calvary, and how on
the handkerchief a miraculous print of
the Savior’s face remained. This was
the “verum ikon” (the true image)
celebrated in Christian legend, and the
name Veronica bestowed upon ^he
saint was simply an anagram of those
two words
j KATHRYN'S COURTSHIP jj
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By IZOLA FORRESTER. {;
Kathryn never glanced to right or
left, passing through the long rotunda
of the hotel.
Ahead of her was
her mother, per
sonally conducted,
as usual, by hall
boys and three
maids. There had
been the usual ar
gument about the
dogs, the usual ar
gument about the
southern exposure
and the maids’
rates.
Kathryn hated
every little detail
of it She had heard it all over Eu
rope, and now they were back in New
York after two years, it would be just
the same. There would be several
hours of talk after they were settled
in their room, all the old reproaches
! would be gone over, and their ex
penses, and the alarming decrease
quarterly in the income from the west.
It would end with the passionate dec
laration that the fate of the whole
family was in Kathryn's hands, and if
she didn’t marry money pretty soon,
something would snap under the
strain.
"Let it snap,” Kit would say, calmly.
"Nobody wants this mad whirl but
you, mumsie. I’d be perfectly con
tented to stay out home where we be
long. You’re using up every last cent
Uncle Peter left us trying to marry
me ofT, and I won’t be a speculation
for anybody. I want to fall in love. I
want to have every last earthly thrill
that all the poets have gone mad
about. Isn’t there anything in it at
all? Weren’t you in love, mumsie?”
"Heaven help me, yes, my dear, I
was,” Mrs. Burroughs would say with
portentous warning. “You know
Punch’s advice. I would change it. He
said to persons about to be married,
'Don’t.' I say to persons about to fall
in love, 'Don’t.' Love is nature's trap.
I think I may eafely say that civiliza
tion has built a protected right of way
roundabout it. Do you know why I
am taking you to the Langhorne?”
Kit glanced up from her pile of mail.
There was a curious light in her eyes,
a little happy smile hovering on her
lips.
"I don’t care where we go so long as
we’re back in New York again.”
“Prince Waldemar preceded us by
one boat. He will be here for six
months, right here, Kit, at this same
hotel, and you know he was perfectly
mad about you. He trailed us all over
Europe last winter—”
“Yea* he did. Why? Because you
and old Lady Varic spread the report
that we were awfully rich, and he was
after the money. He wouldn’t have
cared, mumsie, whether it had been
you or myself, just as long as he got
a good grip on poor dad's gold sacks.
I’ve just had a letter from Ben and
he’s coming east on some business
deal.”
“Kathryn, shall you eee him here,
Ben Colby?”
Kathryn nodded her head amusedly.
“Right here, bless him, and won't I
be glad to see him after the varied as
sortment of men we’ve been treated
to on the continent? Mumsie, you
would never be cross with Ben. Why,
he’s been with us ever since we had
the old lodging shack for the boys up
above the mines ten years ago."
Ben arrived the week after they
crossed the ocean. Mrs. Burroughs
had gone calling with the prince.
“Oh, Ben, I wish you’d been with
me,” she said, holding both of her
hands out to his eager grasp.
“Lord, it’s good to look at you, Kit
They haven’t spoiled you, have they?
Do you mind my coming to see you?”
"If you hadn’t, Ben Colby, just if
you hadn’t!” she laughed back.
“Where are you stopping?”
“Why, er—with friends," said Ben
guardedly. "Seeme good to see the
old town.”
“I didn’t know you had been here
before.”
“I lived here, about six years ago.
You know I left the camp twice to
come back east. That was when It
was.
“It’s a bit different now, girlie,
though. I've struck it rich out yon
der. You know the old claims, 20 of
them, that went with the Creighton
deal, and everybody laughed at me for
buying. Well, it looks like radium.
I’m not letting go of my Interests.
They’ve formed a company, and paid
cash so far. Will you be my partner.
Kit?”
And Kit looked up at the dear boy
ish face that she had dreamt of on the
other side, and carried in her heart of
hearts. Somehow it all seemed part
of the Maytime, and the calling birdB
around them, and the tender green
everywhere. Would she go back to
Nevada? Ben caught the look in her
eyes, and right there he took her in
his arms.
Kit was dressing for dinner when
Mrs. Burroughs came back from a tea.
"My dear,” she began, meanfully,
“my dear, I have news. I heard this
afternoon at Mrs. Cruger Colby’s that
Ben Colby is her grandson. He threw
up society and went out west for fun
and adventure. Now he’s made a for
tune, she says. I do hope, dear heart,
that you have not written anything
hasty or unkind to dear old Ben."
“Mumsie, you precious fraud, you,”
laughed Kit. "You’re a dear old
weather vane, and I can look right
through you. I told Ben I’d marry him
this afternoon.”
XX
Matthew Arnold's study of Heine
has the following passage:
“Heine's Intense modernism, his ab
solute freedom, his utter rejection of
stock classicism and stock ‘romanti
cism,’ his bringing all things under the
point of view pf the nineteenth cen
tury, were understood and laid to
heart by Germany, through virtue of
her immense, tolerant intellectuallsm,
much as there was in all Heine said
to affront and wound Germany. The
wit and ardent modern spirit of
France Heine joined to the culture
of sentiment, the thought of Germany.
This is what makes him so remark
able; his wonderful clearness, light
ness, and freedom, united with such
power of feeling and width of range.”
HATCHED ON MOTHER’S BACK
Toads of Dutch Guiana Have Some
what Peculiar Method of Propa
gating the Species.
The toad of Surinam, Dutch Guiana,
Is very remarkable in one respect. It
first awakes to life while on’ its moth
er's back. When the eggs are laid
the male takes them in his broad
paws and contrives to place them on
the back of Its mate, where they
adhere by means of glutinous secre
tion, and by degrees become embedded
In a series of curious cells formed
for them in the skin. When the process
completed the cells are closed by
a kind of membrane, and the back
of the female toad bears a strong re
semblance to a piece of dark honey
comb wjien the cells are filled and
closed. Here the eggs are hatched,
and in these strange receptacles the
young pass through theic first stageB
of life, not emerging until they have
attained their limbs and can move
about on the ground. Over 120 eggs
have been counted upon the back of
a single Surinam toad.
African "Fire Drill.”
The average civilized man would be
hard put to It If he were compelled
to start a fire without matches, tinder
boxes or burning glass, but in various
parts of Africa the natives accomplish
this feat with astonishing ease and
quickness.
The materials employed are two
simple bits of wood, one flat, about
six Inches long and not quite an inch
wide, with a row of grooves on one
side; the other about twelve inches
long and of the thickness and shape
of a lead pencil.
The longer piece, fixed in one of
the grooves of the shorter piece. Is
held tightly between the palms of the
hands and whirled rapidly round and
round. In a very few seconds the
wood dust which is produced by the
friction falls through the grooves and
begins to smoke. This dust is then
carefully nursed into a blaze.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
C. T. Thompson, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. F. Magee, H. P.
R. W. Beede, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. C. A. Beiry, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y. *
HUTTIG LODGE No. *348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
A, P. Holtsford, N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Dona Holtsford, N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 11 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
L. M. DeSpain, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE, v
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK * MONROE RY.
South North
5:25 a. m Huttig 3:25 p. m
7:55 a. m Monroe 1:00 p.m
Leaves
11:55 p.
LOCAL. *
m. Huttig
Arrives
1 2:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain^, Southern
PAHMERVILLE * SOUTHERN RY.
North South
4:42 a. m. ,.. Huttig 3:54 p. m
3:15 a.m. Farmerville 5:20 p. m
local, t
10:15 a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
fArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
•Arrives Tuesday. Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
Mutt Be Protected,
Time is money, but the man who got
five years for stealing one dollar doubt-«
less figures that money is quoted too
high.—Spokesman Review.
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