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MPNI Mfr'fMl n FRANK"' J, ARKINS (Conducted by th National Woman's Chrl i Man Tmprano Union.) WOULD EDUCATE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW i 4 1 LC. .. .. AMBLINO for big itakei il common thing In the west few yean ago. In nearly all sections, the evil bat been suppressed by law. In the few portlona where It ii still followed It Is carried on under cover and In con stant dread of police Inter ference. . Not so long ago, however, the cry of the -roulette man and the click of the ball could . be beard In the lobbies of many of the principal hotels. This was particularly true of El Paso, Cripple Creek, Leadvllle. Gold field, Butte, the Coeur d'Alene, and many other sections. The practice prevailed to a greater or less extent In the larger towns. Everybody has money In the early days of a mining camp. It was an era of speculation. The coun- , try bad not "been proven," and bence a "find" In a new section resulted In a great rush to that locality. . Property changed hands at fabulous prices overnight The ragged prospector of today might be roll ing In wealth tomorrow. It has happened ao many times. When there is money to throw at the birds, the gamblers, like so many vultures, assemble at the point to which It is being cast by the thoughtless and improvident possessors. Oames were played where the stakes ran into the millions. A man wealthy in the morning ometlmes had to" borrow money to avoid going to bed hungry at night A stockman In Colorado "sat Into" a poker game in Denver, and by midnight bad not only lost all the cash be bad wltb him, but bad ex hausted a large bank balance. He owned, on the range in Colorado, the neu tral strip ("No Man's Land," now extreme west ern Oklahoma), and in Texas ten thousand head , of cattle, worth twenty dollars a head, or a total of $200,000.' He possessed land in three states and hand some residence In Denver. He made a bet of thousand steers worth twenty thousand dollars and lost He continued this until the herd of ten thousand head of stock belonged to another man. Day dawned, and he was still playing. Breakfast waa sent in from a restaurant main tained at the end of the gambling hall for just such people. ... "Now," he said to the men who had won bis cattle, "you have the critters, but no place to . keep them.' I will play you my Texas ranch.' He lost that Then followed the Colorado -ranch, finally the residence In Denver, together wlththe furniture, bis horses, his watch and chain. . At eight o'clock at night twenty-four hours later he was penniless, and started for the Rio Grande country of Texas, where he found employment hauling logs to a sawmill. He bad lost more than a quarter of a million dollars In twenty-four hours! ' "Will you oblige me by taking off your shoes?" asked a road agent politely, while he held a -re-rolver menacingly In the face of a passenger who stood up In a line with others. ' ' . The hold-up man had stopped the stage going Into Leadvllle to "collect toll." He had Just pur chased the road, he said, and "heeded the money. He passed down the line and, by means of a pasenger whom he forced into service, gathered , up all the money and Jewelry, until he came to the last man In the line. Then he asked the man to take off his shoes. He found four thousand dollars under the -inner soles! Several nights later the man who had been out . wltted by the hold-up man was sitting In the dealer's chair of a faro game in the "Cloud City," as Leadvllle is called. Before him sat' a man who lost money steadily. The gambler "raked ' In" the money carelessly and with the utmost un concern. The player lost something like Ave thousand dollars and then pushed back his chair. "All In r asked the gambler, arching his brows. "Tep you've cleaned me out" . "Then we are even for that tittle Incident the other night, when yon collected your road tax from me.". . . , "Tea, youf The hold-up man knocked down half a doxen , loiterers In his rush to reach the door and escape. A well-known mining man, who was noted for ' his Judgment In "knowing a hole In the ground" when he looked Into It, had Just made a purchase ' In Cripple Creek. He had money, and he was wilK lng to spend It for anything that looked good. After .having tramped over the hills all of one - day, he "sat Into" a poker game In the lobby ' of the principal hotel that night, and engaged In a friendly game with a number of acquaintances. They were playing for twenty-five cents a cor ner. While the game was in progress a ragged prospector appeared and attempted to Inject him self Into the company. The mining man explain ed that It was simply a private game between friends -outsiders,- and . particularly strangers, were not wanted. . "I have money that has never been spent" - "We dont know you." . "Oh, that's It! Then let me Introduce my self." , There was no way to get rid of him appar ently. Then, like an Inspiration, and In an an noyed manner, the operator said: "How much money have youf" : ""Eight hundred dollars." ... . . . "Sit down, and M show you how to play ; poker." . .' In less than fifteen minutes the prospector withdrew. : : :; Shortly after be returned with a thousand dol lars more- This was Interesting. He lost It Then he lost a diamond pin, following it with a -watch and his "cayuse."' When be pushed back his chair the operator, '. asked: A- '- "' V ' -. rvN--' : "Are you broke now?" v- " "X have a claim over on the hill." v "What do you value it at T" , : - "One hundred thousand dollars." ' This staggered the mining man for a moment "You have been a good loser; I'll put in with you and play a hundred thousand against your claim." The prospector lost the claim. "Now I will play you for your services tomor row to show me where the claim Is and where to open the ore. For that I will consider that you have Ave thousand on the table." The prospector lost that The next day ha .traced out the lines of the claim for the winner, who organised a company, with a stock of one million, the shares of which went for sixteen dollars each! Millions were taken from the mine within a few years. It became one of the most famous In the entire Rocky Mountain country. In the early days of the Comatock Lode,- tn Virginia, Nevada, some men made money so fast that they did not know what to do with It Those who were not making It spent their time devising ways and means to talk the others out of a por tion of their wealth. Gamblers were In full evi dence, and. there were some big stakes; but It remained for a bunch of Mexicans to play for the largest stake on record in the United States without the use of cards. One of the many claims, located In the midst of the district had not shown any ore. Even the men who had millions hesitated to sink a shaft on It The people were In a fever of excitement The Mexicans owned practlcaly nothing. In fact the "greasers" could not get a "look In." Alto 1 gether It waa very discouraging to tbem. ... Then It occurred to some bright genius to capitalise the labor of the Mexicans. Gathering a bunch of them together. It was proposed that they sink a shaft on one of . the well-known claims, which was twelve hundred feet in length. "For each foot you sink, we will give you. a ' one-foot surface Interest In the claim," they were told," provided you sink to ore." .- ' ; In other words, if they abandoned the work at any time before reaching ore, they would get nothing, and the owners would have the shaft It looked like a cheap way to prospect The Mexicans pow-powed and Jabbered at one another for half a night and then started to work. ' i '. Everybody laughed. They were comparatively poor men. .They could ill afford the expense they were undergoing. - They drilled by hand, ought the hard granite, and gradually lowered that shaft . They balled water that flowed in so fast that it threatened to drown them, but they stuck to the work with desperation. ' At three hundred feet they uncovered the rich est portion of the world-famous silver deposit ' and, from the vein they opened, more wealth was taken out than from any other portion of that richest single mile of ground In the world. The Mexicans' share was one-quarter. Nearly one hundred million dollars came out of the hole they sink! ' It was a gamble pure and simple. They played for high stakes and won. , - In the Coeur d'Alene, of Idaho, when that min ing region was the center of the earth, there were some big games. The story is told of one man who conceived the Idea that he . oould make money In gambling faster than he could take it out of the ground. It was so much easier. With what caah he had, after selling his mine, be could count up to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ' ' i . He had evolved a wonderful system. ' ' "1 simply can't lose," he told his friends." His plan was to play steadily for sixteen hours dally, and, by. a complicated series of bets, to retrieve when he lost . v.. ...... Everything went along swlmlngly for the first ' few days. At times be waa as much as twenty five thousand to the good. Nine days after he started" top lay he suddenly found that he was Just where be had started ' he had one hundred and fifty thousand dollars when the cards came a certain way, which would Involve, according to his system, betting e en tire amount ou a single "turn." He played the queen to win, and the fickle creature played false to' him. ., .:",--'' . ' .':.-. "Women are the cause of all trouble, anyway," ne muttered, as he rose from the table. "I ought to have known better than, that, for that was the queen of spades, and I should not have made that bet except when all the queens except the queen of hearts was out.".'', It was the irony of fate that when the queen of hearts came out of the box. It so happened that It Won. ',,"") .- - ,.- In the days when Cheyenne, Wyoming, was the headquarters for the cattlemen of the northwest, gambling ran wide .open. When the cowboys came to town they made things 'hum. Money ; grew on trees. ' The gaming spirit was In the air. A dealer standing behind a roulette table one -night suddenly motioned the proprietor.. A. few moments later he was paid off. . It is customary to pay' a. gambler his salary at the end of each day. Many of them have the faculty of losing it back over the very table where they know the odds to be against the player. In roulette there is a distinct percentage in favor of "the bouse." Everybody knows that This dealer took a seat In front of the table;! and In the course of a few hours had won fifty dollars. Then he stopped. . He would pass lu and out a dozen times a day, play a little here and some there, but always be would bring up in front of the roulette table, and more often than otherwise left it winner. His luck was amazing. He started a bank acocunt He was saving his money1 to get Into business with,- he said. He won so steadily that it made the proprietor of the place shiver every time he came In. One day, while the ex-dealer was playing, an old man dropped in and, glancing around the room ' for a moment asked: "Who runs this place?" "I do," answered a bewbiskered Indlvidua. who was watching his former employe rake In the cash. "Will you do me the favor to tell me where you got that wheel?" be asked, pointing to the one that proved such a hoodoo. "I know It's a Jonah. That fellow over there wins all the time." "So r said the stranger. He walked over and watched the man lay his bets. Returning to the proprietor, he said, as be passed out a card: . "I represent this house, which, as you see, deala In gaming devicea. I take it that the man sitting at the wheel makes a 'killing' every day?" "He does, stranger, to the tune of fifty or a hundred." "For a thousand I can tell you how to bust bis luck and make him look the living picture of re morse. You would have to agree to purchase a new wheel from me, also." " " ( "If you show me, I'm game." "It's a bargain," said the drummer. Walking over to the wheel, he waited until the ball dropped, stopped it and turning to the pro prietor asked: . "See anything strange with that wheel?" "No." "Well, see, there are two nlneteens and two twenty-threes on this wheel. They are unnaual numbers so that the fellow who plays them has about the same percentage In his favor, on those numbers, that you have when a man plays on a regular wheel. We made this wheel more than thirty years ago. It was sold to a house by a couple of 'sure thing men, who almost broke the outfit Then we lost track of it" . The ex-dealer had noticed the double numbers, and therein was the secret of his "luck." How the numbers bad escaped attention so many years Is one of those mysteries of gambling that can never be explained. When Seattle was the big noise in the North west1 gambling world, and the primeval forests were closer to her doors, some big gamea were played.' : s - p : Om night a stranger stepped Into one of the principal houses and took a seat at a faro table. An hour later he bad lost more than fife thou sand dollars. The proprietor sent him a fifty cent cigar. A few moments afterward the stranger had a couple of hundred dollars, and within an hour had regained his five thousand. Then commenced a streak of luck that has sel dom been witnessed In any gambling house. The "roof" had been raised "to the sky" and Mr. Stranger "coppered" the king and doubled a bet of five thousand. He tried It again for a repeat er, with ten thousand, and drew back twenty yel low chleps, worth one. thousand each. ' After that he made beta of a thousand each, and before he had smoked the cigar be was twenty-eight thousand to the good! Then heqult Who he was, where he came from, where he went no one ever knew. His coming and going were as mysterious as his winnings were sensa tional.::, ' , Probably one of the greatest stakes ever hung up was raked down on a mule race in Arizona, A man owned a "hole In the ground." He was satisfied that It was worth a fortune. , His friends thought he was crazy. He refused to go to other "diggings" where the prospects were better. He was more than twenty-five miles from water, which had to be carried in on thai hurricane . deck of .a mule. He , worked away, nursing his claim and sticking it out alone. Then he went to a settlement some distance away. He became excited over the performances of a mule owned by another man,and in a moment of ex uberance bet his claim against one owned by a prospector from another section that his mule could outrun the other fellow's. He lost. He had the privilege of piloting the winner to the "mine" and saw him take more than seventy thousand dollars' worth of silver, net out of a pocket, almost" on the surface of the ground! Since then the property haa produced millions. It all came about because one' mule could not run so fast as another. ANCIENT AND MODERN FEET No Doubt That the Pedal Extremities - , of Our Ancestors Were Larger Than Are Those of Today, ' . assure us that no Greek f r voi ' i have ever dreamed of I a i ! -h foot on a five-and- ... ; . a. Tl-e typs for tie o i' t,s lie f :;iirt were Uki-n from tlie i; -t pi".' ct forms of llvi.-.? por- sons. l'i.au. ..;u,fcl.:y the human foot. as represented by the ancient sculp tors, was larger than the modern one; and. in fact the primitive foot of all feoples whereof we have any record, either of statuary or otherwise, was considerably larger than the restrict ed foot of latpr times. The masculine foot, forn-.lrj an" an prexiwe aver.- a of four ;.T-retit co;- - i. fts i Tit 12 Ind-.ps l.-; z. Till woiilJ reou 9 at leant a X. 1J shoe to cover It comfortably. ; The av erage masculine foot today is easily fitted with a No. 8H shoe, and Ix therefore - not above 10 7-16 inches. Now, by the old sculptural rule of pro portion, a man five feet nine inches in height should have a foot 11 H inches long, or one-sixth his height. It was of no great consequence what size san dal he wore, but he would have requir ed a modern shoe of ai least a No. 10H for a minimum fit or a No. 11 for real con fort For won "ii. allowing t.r the dl.T-?r- ence In the relative Blze of the sexes, which was about -the tame then aa now, a woman of five feet three inches in height would have had a font ten inches long, requiring a modern shoe or tne size or no. as tne most com fortable, vor a No. 5H as the limit of comfort. Harper's Weekly. Real Apprehension. '1 am afraid, dear one, pa will put his foot down on our marriage." "I can stand that darling, as long as he does not put his f ot vo." LIQUOR TRAFFIC IS A CURSE federal Judge In West Virginia DIs trlct Makes Scathing Arraign ment' of Saloonkeepers. In a charge to the grand Jury of th federal court in Wheeling, Judge Alt ton G. Dayton ot the United States court for the northern district ot West Virginia delivered a scathing arraign ment of the liquor traffic. Among oth er things be said: : It has been my experience, in the seven years I have occupied this posi tion on the bench,' that violations of the Internal revenue law are ten times as many as all the other offenses against the laws of the United States put together. Why? Because, funda mentally, the sale of Intoxicating liquor Is not a legttlmateand honest business, and no man canbe in honest man who engages in it It isn't hon est to destroy a man. It isn't honest to take away the bread and butter of helpless women and children. Gentle men, It Isn't honest for any man to come into your household and take the bright, strong, vigorous son and lead blm on and on until he becomes a disgrace to you, an annoyance to his fellowmrn and finally lands In a drunkard's grave. And yet there Isn't a single saloonkeeper's saloon In this country that does not send every year Its man to a drunkard's grave, and more than that; and when dishonest men once get into a business it is the hardest thing in the world to make them stop. I want to say that there Is not a very great deal of distinction between the man. In my 'deliberate Judgment who stand up, and for revenue pur poses, votes to license the saloon, and the man who conducts the saloon. The good Christian people who go to the polls and vote for license are the power behind the throne; they are the power behind the saloon, because If they did riot vote tor license the fel low could not run his saloon, J tell you In this -country, gentlemen, the cry comes up, as It came up to Cain, the blood of our fellowmen cries out from the ground to God Almighty; the victims of this traffic In every cemetery and every graveyard In this country cry out to God against us, you and me, who have permitted this traf flce to exist so long. See to it that In this court all violations of the reve nue laws are ttjoroughly investigated, and that, so far as we can see, we put ourselves on the side of utter and com plete and absolute condemnation of the whole business, from start to fin ish. . -. BOY'S ANSWER WAS VERY APT Particular Brand of Whisky Was Like Bridge Because It Leads to Poorhouseand Cemetery. A liquor dealer in the town of Ayt. In Scotland, had a particular brand of whisky, which he wished to advertise. One day the circus was coming to town, and to add Interest to its per formances, and to advertise bis whis ky, he offered a prize for the best an swer to the question, "Why his par ticular brand of whisky resembled a certain bridge across the water of Ayr?" Just over the bridge 'were some public Institutions. Tbe successful competitor proved to be a poor boy, who, perhaps, knew from experience what he was speak ing of, and his answer to the question, "Whv the publican's whisky was like the bridge" was "Because it leads to the poorhouse, the lunatic asylum and the cemetery." DEPRIVED OF EDUCATION. The following figures refer to the state of Massachusetts In 1910: Total population ot all no-11- - cense cities and towns.:... 1,497,722 Total number of high school pupils In all no-llcense cit ies and towns Number of pupils In high schools of no-llcense places ' for each 1,000 population. . . Total population of all license cities and towns ....1,883,924 Total number of high school pupils In all license cities and towns ................ Number of pupils In high schools, of license planes, for each 1,000 population.. Greater number of pupils In , no license places, for each 1.000 population ; .Difference In favor of no-llcense, 37 per cent Keep the boys and girls In school by keeping out the saloon. In these days of Increasing competition, your boy ot girl, will neod the advantage that a high school training gives. 34,633 23.ll 11,707 16.83 6.29 New 8lavery for China. China, which so long has suffered from the opium curse, though free from the legal clutches of that mon ster, la fast coining under the rule of King Alcohol. Liquor, is there char acterised - as "new Jesus poison," "German poison," et cetera, to dis tinguish It from the English poison, opium. . It Is reported, too, that mil lions of cigarettes dipped In opium have been given away by Americans to try to create an appetite among the Chinese youth for the double poisons.', r License Voter Gets WhatT . From a bushel ot corn the distiller gets tour gallons of whisky, which re tails at $16.80. The farmer gets 45 Cents, the United States government gets four dollars and forty cents, the railroad company gets eighty cents, the manufacturer gets tour dollars, the drayman gets fifteen cents, the retailer geta seven dollars, the con sumer gets drunk, the wife gets hun gry, the children gets rags, the loll- iclan gets office, the man that votes cense geta WHAT? To carry knowledge of scientific agricultural methods directly to the man between tbe plow handles, and thereby Increase tbe agricultural prod ucts of this country by at least 20 per cent Senator Hoke Smith In a speech In the senate the other day urged the passage of the Smith-Lever bill to establish agricultural exten sion departments In colleges ot agri culture. , "The annual value of our agricul tural products Is, in round figures, $9,000,000,000," Senator . Smith said. "If the Increase as a result of this work were only 20 per cent we would have an increased value of $1,800,000,- 000, or a sufficient sum to meet the proposed appropriation for 600 years." Senator Smith pointed to the pas sage of the Morrill bill for the estab lishment of land grant agricultural colleges in each of the states ot the' Union, and of the Hatch bill for the establishment of an -experiment sta tion In each state, upon them the government is now spending about 4,ooo, 000 annually. Much of this money and of tbe $16,000,000 appropriated each year for tbe exclusively agricultural work of the department of agriculture, he stated, is spent In Investigating and experimenting to show bow the best and greatest crops can be raised. "There are students at those colleges who are obtaining much aid from the instruction which they receive, but there is no sufficient provision to . 1L. M . 1 . 1- - . W1. I.l.ii ..htj.1. V Vl IL.H van iu iua u&ruierv bi uioir ugmn ua tbiubuio iuiuriuuuu i, muu ua and will be obtained by tbe work ot the colleges and experiment stations," continued the senator. "According to the plans of the bill," he continued, "the representatives of tbe colleges in the various state will enlist farmers who, under the direc tion ot the representatives of the Agricultural college, will test the value on their own land of the Information brought by the representative of the college." 1 I IT V J. H. HAMMOND WOULD PACIFY YAQUIS John Hays Hammond has asked the Mexican government to permit him to go, unarmed and accompanied only by an Interpreter, Into tbe mountainous stronghold ot the'Taqul Indians In Sonora, to pacify that turbulent tribe. The government ot Mexico has fought the Taquls for thirty years, but today the Taquls are unconquered. fw Ifnmmnnif arnaf-tl that the i ' , f , Madero government will give him the ', , ' v"' permission which he desires. His program is based on his beller mat as a result of his life and work in Mexico, many years ago, the under standing between blm and the Taquls Is so thorough as to obviate tbe risk of his being Injured or killed. Major Burnham, the famous American and South African scout and fighter, will accompany him. Last July Mr. Hammond wrote to Senor Calero, the Mexican ambassa dor to this country, outlining bis wishes to pacify the Taquls and bis plan for accomplishing that object In ihls letter he explained that as manager of minea near Alamos, Sorona, in 1882 and 1883, he had many Taquls working for hint that they were the best workmen be had over had and that he held them in high regard. He wrote tbe ambassador of his conviction that he could render Important assistance to the government In settling all disagreements and all grudges held by the Vaquls. 1 Tbe Taquls maintain In their stronghold at this time. In addition to their warriors, a force of 1,600 men armed with modern rifles. They are absolutely Impregnable. Dlas tried to bring them Into submission, but failed. As soon aa the Mexican government assures him that It will carry out tbe promises of fair treatment which he will make to the Taquls In his own behalf and on behalf of the Mexican government, Hammond will go to his property in Sonora and have natives communicate to the Taqul chiefs that he would like to confer with them. MISS BOARDMAN LAUDS BOY SCOUTS Miss Mabel T. Board man, secre tary of the American Red Cross association, baa sent a message to the 400,000 Boy Scouts of America. She rejoices in the good deeds that the Boy Scouts are doing. She com pares tbem with the knights of King Arthur of old. "The Vision of King Arthur" la tbe title ot Miss Boardman'a article In Boys' Life, the Boy Scouts' magazine. Miss Boardman pictures the dying King Arthur, and says: "Something held his clear blue eyes not glitter ing armor nor helmet with its visor down only a boy in simple brown, who stopped to lift a little fallen child. And there! Another guided a blind man through the dangers ot the noisy street and yet another, with kindly mien and friendly stroke, soothed some poor, bewildered dog, his master lost , Here 6ne took from her trembling hands the ""heavy load of some old dame and bore It tor her. Another darted swiftly through the town to call the doctor to the aid ot some one who waa ill.; Not here, not there alone, but everywhere, through north ern winter snows and under sunny southern skies, the king beheld these knights in brown. Bending over some injured comrade clustered an earnest group. With skillful fingers the wound was dressed; with arms that were strong yet tender the boy waa carr.'ed home, and on the porch from which the aid was given, behold, a cross of red " v; . '"This Is a little story for your Boy Scouts," continues Miss Boardman. "You are tbe knights In brown. The bold Sir Belvedere thought the true old times were dead, but you have brought them back to life again." -- MME. JUSSERAND BARS "FREE LUKCII" ) Mme. Juaserand, wife ot the French ambassador,, and new doyen of the diplomatic corps at Washing ton, has decreed the abolition of the diplomatic "free Hunch route," which is the undiplomatic designation of that Indiscriminate and uncensored list of hostesses from whom the at taches of embassies and legations have been wont to accept luncheon, dinner and dance invitations. Henceforth there will be a rit'd adherence to diplomatic and soci ,i lines by the young diplomats v'.i have entered too much Into the s : of our democratic institution g r ' gone to those entertainments v he spirit of conviviality led t!n The gossip in diplomatic ci that there has been not onlv a -enlrt of discipline, but that t. f bachelor sot, not rr,v! " ! l.v" s " aecw" t ' t' r f ! - 3, 1 f r ,1 i y . - whereby they have beea t Ja to t what otherwise would be t at tc
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