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Bellefonte, Pa., February 8, 1907.
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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. Louis parvenu, handing a dollar
to the waiter with his order, “and tell
him to cook it my way.” “Give this to
the cook,” said a scribe at the next ta-
ble, handing a two dollar bill to the
walter with his order, “and tell him to
cook it his own way, for he is a better
cook than I am.” We will not be out-
shone. We will not shrink in any man’s
shadow. At the same time the pace is
too hot and fast for most of us.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat,
We love in others what we lack in
ourselves and would be everything bu:
what we are.—Stoddard,
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