SR Bellefonte, Pa., February 8, 1907. _—— erm A FAMOUS GAMESTER Amazing Skill of Captain John Scott at Whist. HIS RAPID ROAD TO WEALTH. ‘The Winnings of the “Gentleman Gam- bler” at White's, In London, In the Eighteenth Century Exceeded $5,000,- 000-—Fox's Reckless Play. Of all the gentlemen gamblers at the close of the eighteenth century in Eng- land a single one is noted for the im- mensity and the regularity of his win- | nings. This was John Scott, who, be- ginning as a penniless captain, wound up his career as a millionaire general. On the subject of the campaigns he conducted history is silent, but con- temporary London was full of talk of his marvelous luck with dice and cards, and the marital misfortunes of his later life gave more material for the gossips. Writing to Richard Bentley from Ar- lington street on Feb. 25, 1755, Horace Walpole says: “The great event is the catastrophe of Sir John Bland, who has flirted away his whole fortune at hazard. He t'other night lost in reckless play an immense sum to a Captain Scott, who at present has nothing but a few debts and his commission.” Sir John Bland, to conclude here the history of that luckless dicer, shot himself dead, after losing the last of his fortune, in Kippax park, Captain John Scott was of that branch of the numerous Scott family of which Sir Walter was a member, and his ancestor in the thirteenth cen- tury was that famous chemist, Michael Scott, who won the name of wizard, A later Scott distinguished himself in the time of Charles II. by marrying, when he was himself only fourteen years old, a lady who was three years his junior. The bride was Mary, countess of Buccleuch, in her own right the richest heiress in Scotland. The mar- riage was a secret one, and none of the friends and few of her family were in- formed of it until the day after. The youthful bridegroom did not profit greatly by this mateh, for his bride died at thirteen. Her sister Anne, who sue- ceeded to her titles and estates, made a marriage with the pet son of Charles I1., Monmouth, and had a numerous family. It was sixty gears later, or about 1750, that young Scott, son of the laird of Scott's Tarvet, entered King George's army. Two years later he was in Lon- don and in the midst of the most reck- less set of spendthrifts, rakes and gamesters that English society has ever | known. Sir John Bland was only one | of a thousand rich young Lnglishmen who threw away fortunes over the gaming table at White's. The one his- toric loser of that era was Charles James Fox, Pitt's rival. Fox gambled away, all told, no less than $5,000,000, Scott was the very antipedes of Fox. When he died, at a ripe old age, he left a fortune us great as that with which Fox had begun, and every penny of it had been won at the gaming table. Fox was a ripe scholar. Scott was al- most illiterate. Fox sald that losing was the next greatest pleasure to win- ning. Scott never lost or so rarely that it did not affect the serenity of his ca- reer as a winner. Fox would go home in the morning after a night in which he had gambled away £10,000 or £20, 000 and immediately lose himself in a study of Sophocles or Alschylus. Scott, like the sensible fellow he was, would button his coat over the portemonnaie in which he carried away winnings of an equal or even greater amount and immediately go to bed so as to be fresh for play in the evening. When Scott found himself in London and amid the wild young men of his era, he determined that gaming was his only chance of getting money. When he engaged himseif to throw a series of mains with Sir John Bland, he had, as Horace Walpole puts it, nothing “but a few debts and his com- mission.” His shrewdness taught him that there was nothing in dicing, at which a stupid man has as good a chance as a bright one, and so he speedily gave up hazard and applied himself to whist, at which game for- tune fights on the side of the skillful did men gamble for such high stakes as Scott and his victims did at White's between 1733 and 1780. Scott's system was an exceedingly simple one. He gave himself the best of it in every possible way. He never went to the gaming table unless his head and his stomach were in the very best order. He never lost his composure or his good nature for an instant. He played a perfectly fair and honorable game, and at first he made it a rule never to play for more than a fixed sum, which he could afford to lose. He won so steadily that it wasn't long before he was prepared to risk any sum which | even the wealthiest or the most reck- less of his adversaries would venture to propose. A story which illustrates capitally Scott's ‘patience in the face of hard luck has been preserved. One night while he was at the card table news was brought to him that his wife, the first Mrs. Scott, had given birth to a girl. | “AL” he said, “I shall have to dou- | ble my stakes to make a fortune for this young lady.” But in a few hours he was £8,000 to the bad. Retaining his invariable se- renity, he said he was sure of his luck returning, and at 7 a. m. he went home the win®mer of £15,000. That's the sort of play that went on at White's night after night during the years that John Scott was winning the largest fortune ever accumulated by a gentleman gam- bler. LADYLIKE GEOMETRY. Figures of the same shape don’t al- ways have the same style. Figures of the same size never con- sider themselves equivalent. A straight line is the shortest dis- tance between two millinery openings. A plain figure is one all points of which have been neglected by the dressmaker. A mixed line is a line composing the 22ception committee of a club's presi- deatial candidate. A broken line is a series of succes- sive straight lines described by a wom- an alighting from a street car. A straight line determined by two bargain tables is considered as prolong: ed both ways until the store closes. Women equal to the same thing are not always equal to each other.—Nellie Parker Jones in Chicago Record-Her- ald. A Pointed Prayer. Aunt Dinah had come to see her old mistress, who had just recovered from an illness, “Yes, Miss Lila, 1 sho'ly done prayed fer yer to git well all de time, and now yer sce how it done turned out.” “Then you believe that your prayers are always answered, Dinah?” “Sho’'ly, sho'ly!” Then, with a sly glance: “Yer see, I neber tempts de Lord, 'case 1 don't pray fer nothin’ dat I don't know I'l git. Dr. John, he done tol’ me he tort yer was on de re- | covery road.” After a pause she went on: “Say, Miss Lila, yer know what I prayed fer last night?’ “No.” “Why, I just p'intedly begged de Lord ter put it into yer heart ter give me dat brown silk dress yer done out- growed." —Brooklyn Eagle. In the Matter of Tips. The man who tips the highest gets the best service and the most ostentatious deference. “Give this to the cock,” said a 8t. 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A Chemist, A Teacher, An Engineer, A Lawyer, An Electrician, A Physician, A Secientic Farmer, A Journalist, skort, if you wish to secure a training that will fit you well for any honorable pursun ‘ife, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES. TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. FAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 1900, the General Courses have been extensivel modified, so as to fur Languages Litera. nisn a much more varied range of electives, ing History ; the Bugliah, Freveh, German, ures ; Psychology; Ethies, to the wants of those who of Teaching, or a general Col ‘The courses in Chem best in the United after the Freshman lege Education. Ci Mechanical and Mini neering are the vn, Shae trical ey no diffienlty in —— pine) a, Yor FOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all cowrses on the same terms as Young Men. THE FALL SESCION ovens September 15th, 1806. 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All profesisonsl business will re- eeive prompt wention, 20 1s i re CENTURY. i | A magazine which has steadfastly stood for all that i= best in American life, has held fast *v the soundest traditions of literature, aided materially in the devel- opment of American art by edueming popular taste and putting work in the hands of promising artists, and in season | and out of season urged upon a people en- grossed in business, righteousness and competency in public office, justice to authors, wholesome conditions In the crowded parts of clties, the larger edu- i cational opportunities for all, —The Out- look, | Send for pull, prospectus affer to naw subseribera THE CENTURY COMPANY, Union Square New York. hl-46 and special OFT DRINKS The subscriber having put in a com- lete plant is prepared to furnish Sof Drinks in bottle such ss SELTZER SYPHONS, SARSAPARILLA, SODAS, POPS, ETC., tor pie-nies, families and the public gen- erally all of which are manufactured out of the purest syrups and properly carbo- nated. The public is cordially invited to test these drinks. Deliveries will be made free of charge within the limits of the town, C. MOERSCHBACHER, 0-32-1y High Street; BELLEFONTE, PA D® J. JONES VETERINARY SURGEON. A Graduate of the University of London has Sormanently located at the PALACE LIVERY STABLES, Bellefonte, where he will answer all ealis for work in his profes elon. Dr. Jones served four years under State Veterinary Surgeon Pierson, Calls by telephone will be answered promptly day or night, 50-5-1y Money to Loan. MONEY TO LOAN on good secarity and houses for rent, J. M. KEICHLINE, 11 1r- Att'y at Law, Faubles Great Clothing House. ! i i i Le in English and German, | house. 1 1 { 1 { Is H. WETZEL.— Attorney and Counsellor at . Law. Office No, 11, Crider's Exchange, second floor. All kinds of legal business attended to promptly. Consuitation in English or German. 56 4 1 ETTIG, BOWER & ZERRBY,—Attorneysat 0, § Law, Eagle Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Sue- cessors (o Orvis, Bower & Orvis, Practice in ali the courts. Consultalions in English or Ger. man, 50.7 M. KEICHLINE—ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,— ' Practice in all the courts, Consultation Office south of Court All professional business will reesjve prompt attention, 19-51y® Physicians. 8. GLENN, M. D., Phy~ician and Surgeon, « State College, Centre county, Pa,, Ofhce at his residence, 5 01 Dentists. R. H. W. TATE, Bu n Dentist, office in the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All modern electric appliances used. Has had years of ex- perience. All work of superior quality and prices reasonable, 45-8-1y. BEST MEATS. You save nothing by buying, r, thin or gristly borg I use pe theo LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLE, and supply my customers with the frean - ast, choicest, best blood and muscle mak- ing Steaks and Roasts, My prices are no higher than poorer meats are else- where ! always have ~=DRESSED POULTRY, Gane in season, and any kinds of geod meals you want, Tay My Suor, P. L. BEEZLR. High Street, Bellefonte F JOU WANT TO SELL standin timber, sawed timber, railroa ties, and chemiea! wood. IF YOU WANT TO BUY e——————— lumber of any kind worked or 1p the rough, White Pine, Chestnut or Washington Red Cedar Shing les, or kiln dried Millwork, Doors Sash, Plastering Lath, Brick, Etc Go to P. B. CRIDER & SON, 48-18-1v Bellefonte, Pa. I REREERERRCE SCS THERE WILL BE BUT ONE WEEK MORE OF OVERCOATS AT = EEEEEEEEEERERRE3SES nn The coats are ONE-THIRD REDUCTION You can afford to buy your next year’s coat. The reduction is big, the largest. we have ever made. THE BEST OVERCOATS produced in America. The assortment. is fair--large enough we think to please all. If yoy take advantage of this Big reduction you will get. the Biggest Over- coat Value offered in Pennsylvania. ~ M. Fauble & Son. rod nil | bh 2%
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