RILE ROADS LIKE KINGS. RAlL\\ A\ MANAGEMENT NOW A PB M rricAL MONARCHY. NEW YORK SEAT OF POWER. All the Great Systems Subject to One man Pawer, Which Is Exercised by Bankers in Their Offices in the Me tropolis. —Harriman and Gould Hard- j working Autocrats. —Radical Changes. Recently Edwin Haley, president of the Minneapolis and St. Ix>uis anil lowa Central railroads, accompanied l>y his partner, K. H. Davis, treasurer, and vice president and. treasurer, resjieutivcly, of< the two roads just mentioned, went West t» inspect these and other railroad prop erties in which they are either the con trolling factors or are heavily interested. Messrs. Hawley and Davis have eon trolled the -uinneapolis and St. Louis and the lowa Central for al>out live years, yet neither of these officials had inspect ed either property for at least two years. They have their cilices in New \ork, the meetings of the directors are held there, the dividend- are declared in those otliees —in short, the properties are practically managed from New York. Naturally, it will l>e asked how this can Ih> dun' successfully. For many year- hoi h Mr. Hawley and Mr. Davis were closely associated with that great railroad builder and magnate, the late Collis I'. Huntington. One of the strik ing gifts • 112 Mr. Huntington was his abil ity t<, sclci-t niinpetent aswix-iates and subordinates, and liis willingness to trust them with important duties, lie selected Mr. Hawley for head of the traffic de partment of tlic Southern Pacific Com pany. A- long as Mr. Jlawley held that position he was credited with being the greatest -olicitor in the country. When Mr. Hawley prospered, as lie was bound to do. and came to own and direct railroads for himself, lie adopted i the tactics of his gi at. chief. He had I worked hard, and did not pr p« -e to have his titue and strength taken with details and routine, nor even with fre.jtieiit. trips to tin territory covered by the roads of which he w;is ttie head. Accordingly he selected f< r vice president and general manager the hc-t iti.lll he could find for the p!a>••». a man eagerly s night for by not a few much larger systems. Mr. Hawley ki that he had a g:>od man, ami he made a long-time contract with him at a price that was prohibitive for even hi- -tronger rivals. Mr. Hawley | and Mr Davis, with the assistance of the director-, have managed the finances of the pr iper: ii - very successfully, ami have supervise 111 1 operation <>l the road in a general way. passing on all matters of importance. The vice president and gen eral manager has been the chief operat ing official—the man"On the ground." These few facls suggest in a general way the radical difference in.the manage ment of railroads, particularly those in the West, that has taken place within the last few years. They pave the way also for showing how large a number of rail roads whose line-s do not crime near New York are practically direct" 1 from that denter. How different this from t' not dis tant past! Not so many years ago tlie president.- of Western railroads were men who iuid come up fin>lll the humblest positions in the service. They had their headquarters at a central pant in the territory covered by their roads, and they spent most of the time, on the. scene ot action. They were the operating and financing men combined. Now we have bankers or men of some general railroad experience as presidents of the Western roads. Mr. llawley is a banker, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, although, as already shown, he had valuable railroad experi ence before he began buying them for himself. As in the case of Mr. Hawley, these H It -Makes You I ungry 99 R fust to think ot Ontario Graham Crackers® P I —if you ever ate one. The L,o«k B g I ■ Seal guarantees their frcshnffsK-fl ! Si ind preserves their crisp umlHiH i mm delicious flavor. BKj'B j 188 Ontario Graham Crackers Ontario Oatmeal Crackers ~3y.; Ontario Soda Biscuit EraS [AS Ontario Jersey Butters E^w| f§ S «r» - xj*sct tv ,i - » .AKur- ■•—- —MIII N INNMNI WIR - rriir '■ ■ 'irrtiiniiill ia«i r NII IIJUIMULLI—JU 1 . I men h. ve their otliees in New \ ork and : direct their properties by means of tho I telegraph, long-distance telephone, and j the mails. To the vice president and I general manager is intrusted the direct operation of the property. The banker presidents in the East EM- 11 the stock and bonds with which to buy new rails, equipment, Ac., and the vice president general manager gets the trallic to fill the ear.- and the money with which to j pay interest on the bonds and dividends lon the stock. President of Many Roads. It is safe to assert that few people j among the general public have even an I fipproximatc idea of the large number of I roads that are managed in the way al ready roughly outlined. In some cases a single New York banker is president of several important W<(Stern properties WIKASC lines may not extend farther East than Chicago. I ake, for instance, that little wizard Edward 11. Harriman, who is contesting with that giant in the railroad world, • lames .1. Ilill, for his right to the control of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com pany. Soon after Mr. Harriman secured <■ 'iitrol of the Southern Pacific Company for the Union Pacific Railroad he was elected president of the former company. Control of the Southern Pacific carried with it control of the Pacific Mail .Steam ship Company. Charles 11. Tweed, long one of the late Colli* P. Huntington's most valuable associates and counselors, was then president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. A little later he resigned, ami was succeeded bv Mr. Har riman. Within the last twelve months Horace <!. Hurt lias resigned as president 01 the I'nion Pacific Railroad, and he, al so was succeeded by Mr. Harriman, pre viously chairman of the board t direct ors of that company. Here is one man, essentially a banker—riot primarily a railroad man directing from bis ofiice in NV-v York the affairs, not rnly of fi nance, but largely of "operation, of a sys tem of railro.i Is covering, roughly. 16,- IM)0 miles, and one of the most important ! -teaniship lines 011 the Pacific Ocean hav j ing a large Herd of l>oats. Naturally, the methods employed in this gigantic task will be of interest. In i the first place, it may Is- stated that in the ca.se of Mr. Harriman, as already in timated, lie is president in fact as well as i 1 mime, and he i- the actual head ' 112 ev ery corporation with which his name is connected. Of course, he does not do ev erything himself, althoifgh he does vast ly more than any one not intimately ac -1 jimmied with him would imagine lie has j ilia physical strength to accomplish. Able Ccrps of Assistants. Nevertheless, he has a large and able corps of assistants. For instance, there is .1, C. Stubhs, who is styled trallic di r. etor of the entire Harriman system, i his is an office less than two years old, am! the Could lines have the only other man tilling a similar position. As his title indicates, Mr. Stubbs has general direction of traffic matters all the Harriman roads. Mr. Harriman has 111- treduced mother new office, tin; occu pant of which "is known as director of purchases, flis title clearly suggests his duties in a l.road way. Upon these two men devolve the highly important duties of getting and apportioning traffic among the different roads in rt, ( . system and of making the pureha-os i>f supplies, an item reaching into the millions every year. Of course, Mr. Harriman has the usual iist of associate officers, several secreta ries and assistants of various kinds. He is the man at the helm, however, and nothing large or small escapes his watch ful eye. Mr. Harriman has a strong de sire to have the reins in his hands and to do the driving all the time. There he sits day in and day out in that large front office in the southwest corner 011 the fourth floor of the Equitable Life Building, 120 Broadway, with a map of his entire railroad system before him, subordinate officers, secretaries, and clerks at a moment's call; telegraphic in struments clicking in an adjoining room. It the board of directors of any one of the numerous roads in the Harriman group adopts a measure the purport <>f which must be kiv \vn at once b.v the op -01 at ing officials in the West, a secretary or attendant is called and a message is Hashed over the wires instantly to Chi cago, Omaha, Salt l.ake City. Sail Fran cisco, or whatever point is desired. If this message, for instance, means that ( construction work on a certain line is to be stopped, if can be done inside rf 1111 ! hour. lint Mr. Harriman does not merely sit in hi- New York ofiice and suggest to his directors the wisdom of issuing large ; :imounts ut bonds or - t >cks as in the case 1 t Southern Pacific is, s]iH).Of)!).oo<) of prcterre I - tock recently , or issue cr iers to the officials on the ground in the West, lie m ikes frequent trips over hi* , r.'ids ■ ever.ll trips every year. lie-! member that this man i- primarily a i , banker an I did nut con e up in the rail road ranks. Gould Also in Mew York. A man v.h 1 occupies a posi'!.::i in the! railroad world very similar tot.hut of air. Harriman i- Gorge .1. Cou'd. who is, in t closely as- iciatel with Mr. I far- rim.in in many of the lattor'e railroad enterprises. A substantial j>art of the legacy which tlie late Jay Gould left his children was I in thp form of a long li-t of railroad properties with which hi< name was prominently identified, and which consti tuted the Gould system of railroads of that day. Mr. (ionld's property com prised also a large interest in several i New York bunks. (ieorge <iould has as sumed direction of the railroads and his I brother Edwin of the banks. George Gould's name appears in the of- j ficinl rosters as president of more than j half the roads in the present Gould sys- j teni. lie is tup virtual president of them j all, frr nothing of importance is done by i the other officials without first consult ing Mr. Gould. His word is absolute law in every one of the (iould roads. 1-ike Mr. llarriniaji, Mr. Gould lias his office in New York, and directs all his ' properties from that point. This base of o|x>ration is in the southwest corner on the fifth floor of the Western Union Building, 1!)."> Broadway. Mr. Gould is not only .surrounded by secretaries, asso ciate officers, clerks and messengers, but every official and employe of the Gould companies in the building (and there are no other companies in the building) are subject to his call at a moment's notice to share in the work which lie outlines. As a matter of fact, much that might be termed his personal work is parceled out. among the men already referred to. By this system it can be readily seen how he can accomplish a vast amount of work. Growth of Gould System. I he present Gould system of railroads is considerably longer than that left by •lay (iould. (ieorgc having added to it ma terially. It now comprises approximate ly 1.1,000 miles of lines. Among the most important, roads are the Missouri Pacific, the \\ abash, the St. I/>uis, Iron Moun tain and Southern, the. Texas and Pa cific. the St. jjouis Southwestern, and the Denver and Bio Grande. Mr. Gould lias private telegraph wires between his New \ork oflice and the principal centers touched bv the Gould roads, and is thus in direct communication with all his properties. He not only directs the finances of tlie.se properties in a masterly fashion, but he has much to say and do in the actual operation of them. ■\. t . Bird, to whose oflice reference has !<"cii made already, does the same for the (iould roads in the getting and distribut ing of traffic that •). I'. Stubbs does for the Ilarriiuan lines. In Russell Harding, viee president and general manager of the Missouri iV.cilie, Mr. (iould had a valuable executive in the operating de portment. (Mr. Harding recently resign ed to accept a .similar |>o.sitio>i with the new Cincinnati, Hamilton ami Dayton syster.i.) Joseph Biinsey, jr.. president ot the \\ aba <h and several other roads in the (iould group, is a. man iu whose ability Mr. (iould has the greatest con fidence. and Ii > i- making an enviable record for himself. Both Mr. Bamsey and Mr. Harding have their headquarters in St. Ixuiis, but thev are in New York often in conference with Mr. Gould. Af ter all i- s.iid an I I me. the hitter is the rea. head, OJ all the roads bearing the Gould name. Mr. (iould is a tremendous worker. His fondness lor polo and other active outdoor sports, however, keeps his phy sique in prime condition. The coldest days in winter his business >uit is made of medium-weight serge, and when he ar rives at his ■office. about 10 a. in., he aj. most in variably is in. a lively perspira tion, and is carrying a lightweight top coat on his arm. Once inside his office he strips off' urtdercoat and waistcoat and settles down to business immediately. During the coldest days in midwinter Mr. Gould may often be seen going to vanciis offices in the \\ estern Union Building in the same negligee style. lie even presided at a meeting of the direct ors of one of the companies not long ago without coat or vest. Gould's Frequeat Trips. Mr. (i uhl does not de|>end altogether on his representatives iu the West to carry out .lis orders. He goes over the line, often to see with his own eves what is being done. On these trips he talks considerably to tin- newspaper men. Me has litth- to say t the representatives ot the press iu New York. Still another man in the same category with Mr. Ilirrininn an 1 Mr. (iould is Stuyvcsint fish, president of the Illinois ( entral Rnilro.':!. .Mr. !• i-h belongs to a family c.i' banker and financiers, and was originally a Ixinker himself. Still, i Irom hi-, office on the thirteenth 1!,,0r of the North American Trust lluildiug. Bio Bro.i.lway, he directs. i?t greit detail, the affair* of one of the best railroad prop- : crties in the ( entr.il West. While Mr. I i-!' does n >t maintain a piivnte tele giv;:h wire -ei-ree with (hit ago, the main office of the < mpany in the West. i.til! he has ,i surprisingly intimate know ledge of the exiot condition of affairs all over the lMir.ti; Central system at a :M»en moment. Mr. Ki-li is sjjoken ot iu raiirnnd oirele as one ; the hardest working railroad p; -ident- in the . uni try. i , !' d(!cs not -pi-u.l very much time iu tr»T ;ng over the Illinois Central line.-. :;t hi, •.•rasp of hU property i- wonder j fill. 110 seams to have the entire raiJ ! situation of the country absolutely jin 'land, also. No man can better give a , writer on railroad matters ideas on which | lo lmso comprehensive articles. No Leisure Till 7 p. m. It- is hardly necessary to say that Mr. 1 Fish i-. an extremely busy man. A news j paper man who went to his office reeent j Iv to see liiin was told by a friend there j that a good time to see him would be j about 7 o'clock in the evening. This may | seem a gross exaggeration, but it is ae j tually true that Mr. Fish may often lie | found hard at work at his oiliee at that j hour, even in summer. No man, busy or j otherwise is more accessible than he when lie can find a moment to see his callers. On<-e in his presence, it is even more difficult to get away than it was to get in. This great railroad chief will, of his own volition, chat most interestingly, not oniy of Illinois Central and railroad matters in general but of his farm at Garrisons and numerous other topics as well. lie is extremely plain in his tastes, particularly in the matter of dress. The same is true of Mr. Harriman and George Could. Mr. lush's business dress is in variably a plain sack suit, ooat, vest, and trousers, all of the same material. His neckwear and linen, while always neat in the,extreme, are perfectly plain, Mr. Harriman also wears a plain sack suit, a low turnover collar, and a small plain black bow. George Gould never ap pears in business hours in anything but a plain sack suit, his favorite materials being blue or black serge. All three pieces of (he suit are always of the same material—no figured waistcoats or striped trousers. Nis neckwear is cor respondingly simple. Mr. Fish cares little for the gayety and conventionalities of Newport, where Mrs. Fish is so prominent, but takes far more delight in his farm at Garrisons-on-the lludson, of which he is wont to speak of ten to bis callers at the Illinois Central o trice. Other Roads Similarly Ruled. I lie great Rock Island system, since it passed to the present management, has been directed chiefly from New York. L. F. Loree, when president of the Rock Is land Company, had bis headquarters in New York, and now Robert Mather, his successor, has come here from Chicago to direct the properties. 1!. F. Yoakum, until recently president, now chairman of the board of directors of the 'Frisco system is supposed to have his main of fice in Si. Louis, but he spends more time in New * ork than there. It is prac tically true that the. Rock Island system, the largest in the worhi, is in the hands of bankers, and is directed by them from New York, a- are the Harriman, Gould, < n-1 Illinois Central systems. With the exception of the Wabash, none of (lie Lues of these -ysteins comes nearer New ork than lHtffalo or Pittsburg, while most of them do not extend east of Chi cago, a thousand miles from New York. \\ ith tin' exception of the Rock Island j• 11 the great' railroad systems mentioned are specimens not only of the new style of railroading outlined, namely, the di rect i <ll of a great Western railroad prop erty by a banker from his New* York of fice, but also of one-man power, both in Hie organization of the properties and their management. Another example of the one-man-pow er regime is W. K. Venderbilt, head of flic large system of railroads bearing the name of his family. Mr. Verdcrbilt is president of only a few of the companies in the Venderbilt system, but he is the supreme authority in every company, nevertheless. All matters of importance must have his approval, and if lie is abroad he passes upon them by cable, if of sufficient importance, otherwise by mail. As a matter of fact, because of his long trips abroad, Mr. Vanderbilt transacts more business from London, I'aris and other European centers than from his office in the Grand Central sta tion in New \ ork. Another that might lie. mentioned in the Southern Railway, Samuel S]>encer, its president, has spent most of his time in New York, although the main office of the company is in Washington, D. C. It should lie said in passing that Mr. ■spencer has managed his property with marked success, having brought the pre ferred stock u)> to the full 5 per cent dividend basis from a point where the share holders received no return on their investment. —Wash. !'o>t. e TWO DAYS OF POKER ENOUGH. Finish of a Man Who Made a Business of Warring on River Gamblers. "There was men traveled the Missis sippi River when I was a young feller that von don't rotash lib,* Ym now," ■id Caleb Mix. the veteran bai lend'-r on the river packet City of Natchez. "It must be ni.rh fifty years since 1 begun jugglin' bottles .11 the old Cn de Helle -that was the first 1 at I worked 011. An' thinas ain't no more like what the. was then nor a mule is like a mulberry tree. Hie (J KM is different an' people is different. "One thing yon won't n-ver come across again on the river taints is draw poker the v.-nx if, was played them days. *ll 112 don't never see notanlv like the men t uster make n business o" plavin' it. Fhe» v. as a hard k>t, an' 1 ain't say there's anv -.rest call fort- have no body like 'em oil th 6 Isxit.s to-day; but they «uie IY,I . interest in", un' >.vhcn they troweled the beais like they did there was gen'a'ly some doin's aboard afore the trip was over. "There's lots of 'em I c'n remember, thai was all of a sort. Reekie** dare !«»ils, re.' !y 1 risk their lest, dollar in a 1 tleii ivM in.l fight, nt'-ru i« pi::en ni'*l ways, but hearty an' free •rough with their money at the -nee time. They wa'u'l no earthly good *0 eobody iar then-selves, an' monstrous iit tie to their owns elves. "But there was one feller't aster trav el with 'em an' pluy with 'em almost con- stant. that was different I'm any I ever knowed. 'Pe-ired like lie went into the game different, an' had different idees o' must everything I'm what tin? others had. I never right Jcnowod whether you c'd call him a p'fessional gambler or not, but 1 never knowed him to do nothin' else but play poker. "He were a tall, dark chap, a 1 Knit forty years old when 1 first khowed him; 't years old when I first knocked him: blood into him. Some said 'twas more'n likely he had, bein' as he came f'm Vir ginny, an' they do say Injun is reckoned good blood up there. Mebbe 'tis. Likely there's different kinds of Injun, different places. Anyway, his name was Gwalt ney, an' they said Gwaltney Mas a good name in Virginny. "This un didn't do nothin' down in this part o' th' world for to make it no more illustrious. First off, he drinked some pin' desp'rate. "Everybody drinked liquor them days, 'thouten 'twas some 't had money to drink wine constant; but this here fiwaltney, he drinked all the time. 'Pear ed like it didn't take no hold on him, neither, on'y to make him quiet an' ug ly lookin', which he were ugly enough without it. "He warn't no great fighter, though. 'l'eared like he was satisfied if he was let alone. I never seen him draw a knife but once, nor shoot but once in three or four years that he traveled the river. An' when he did fight, he didn't 'pear to take no satisfaction into it, like a good many does. "He just fired once, an' when he seen his man drop lie turned an' walked away. An' when he drawed his knife an' the other feller backed away f'm him, he just laughed, sort of contemptuous like, an' put it back in his boot. "But it was poker I started to tell about. 'Peared like he played it differ ent f'm most. There's them that plays it for excitement, settin' into a game whenever they nets a chance, ail' playin' tor big money all the time, but not ear in' none too serious about the money, fur as anylxxly c'n see. whether they win or lose. "An' there's them that plays for fun, casual like, whenever it's handy, but not lookin' for it special, an' not 'pearin' to cure whether there's a game goin' or not. Then, o' course, there's p'fessionals that's ai'avs watch in' out for a game, an' al'- ays playin' for the money an' nothing | else, makin' a business of it, cold blooded an' scientific, but not takin' no interest in th' excitement of it. "Well, Gwaltney wa'n't like none o' these. 'Peared like lie war like a man't g'ies out gutinin' for bear, 't don't take no notice o' nothin' else but bear. May tie he'll see squirrels or pa'tridges or even icer when lie's out, an' not give 'em no notice, if lie don't find bear, he'll come home with his gun loaded, just like it was when lie started out. " I hut was Gwaltnev. I've saw him travel f'm .Memphis, plumb through to Xew Orleans, 'thoutcn ever touehin' a card, an' I've saw him play two days an' three nights 'thoutcn leavin' the game ten minutes. "It was this way. He wouldn't set in to no game on'y wit h p'fessionals. If he c'd get two or three of 'em together that'll play with him, he'd set in f'r any money they liked, an' he'd plav right along, win or lose, till they'd quit, or soinepin' 'd break up the game. "Hut if anybody else 'd set in that wa'n't a p'fessional, it didn't make no difference how good a player he mought lie, fiwaltney '<l drop o' the game in no time. 'Peared like he hadn't no use for sucker money, lie al'ays liad plenty of his own, wherever it come from, but he were keen as a hawk to win f'm a gam bler. "He didn't never say nothin' aliout it to nobody. 'Peared like he didn't never care nothin' al>out talkin' to nobody about nothin'. I never seen him talk to nobody five minutes at a time. Nor I never see him readin' nor doin' nothin' else but drink an' play poker. "If there wa'n't no game on. he'd come into the bar ev'rv twenty minutes or so an' take a big drink all to his own cheek, an' walk out. An' he didn't never look like he'd ever had a drink afore in his life. "He didn't have to tell nobody, though, for to be knowed for a man't was look in for a p'fessional game. Thein things is found out without tellin', an' 't wan't often 'the had to look b>ng. Gamblers wis thicker on the boats 'n crows in a cornfield thefli days, an they was al'ays lookin' f'r a man as had money. "Some on 'em got so they wouldn't play with him when they'd set in with him two or three times. Whan a man pla;, s poker 112 r business he hain't no rel ish for plavin' with a man 'I he can't 'cat. an' they did say 't Gwal'ney play ed the best game 'twas ever saw- on the river. An'lie knowed all the tricks there was. "He wa'n't never caught trvin' any on C M, 1 ut lie wouldn't stand for anyiiodv else plavin' 'em. He didn't never make no row about it, nor get ugly, but he'd sort o' grin an' call for new deck, or say smnepin' carelesslike about the way things Mas goin', but he'd say it so's not to make the other man shoot, just to let him know 'the was on. "Tin 'y time't ever knowed him to look sort > ' half way happy was when he'd p'ay son:* gambler t>> a standstill, an' have him qui! the game broke, or back out altogether, an' say flat-footed as how }i« mil In't play no more with him. Two'n't necessary 112 r h:m to give no reason*, fiwaltney knowed it was because fit* otliei feller war afraid ut' his game, an' that 'peared to give him some satisfvation. "Stands (• reason, though, that a man like him WHS <r.»in' to find men that'll give him a run for his money. He wa'n't the ony min n the river 't knowed the ga.ne. v A' \T ; n't the on'y one't were ready to take a chance. "The queer thing altout it to me was't he lasted as long as he did, r-tackin' up ng'in the best men there was on the river, year in nn' year out, for the better part o' four years, but that's what lie "Jfc got to be talked about, natural, an' there was players f'm all over lister come aboard the I>oa.ts to meet him, lay in' for a game, lie never had no pal, an' he never backed out of a game, but he never got much the worst of it till Charlie Hales an' his pal happened along late one fall nn' got pickin' up suckers on the old Creole Helle. " i hey are saiil to be f'm up North somewhere*, nil' they sure was a quiet lookin' [tair o' boys. Neither one on 'ein wa'n't thirty years old, an' Hates were as innocent lookin' as a school inarm. Hut they got hold of a couple o' planters I :ii Mississippi an' done 'em up shameful inside of a hour. "Owaltney were lookin' on, an' he seen plain enough what they was. So just naturally he laid for them, an' belli' as they took him for another sucker, he didn't have to Jo no hard work for to get another game started with on'y three men into it, an' him one o' the three. "Well, they played all the way to \ icksburg, an' Owaltney dropped over s.'{,ooo in the game. 'Peared like that were all the money he had with him, an' he had to stop off an' send for more, or somepin' like that, so him an' Hates an' his pal parted there, but Owaltney made 'em promise to let him know when they come tack. "They wa'n't noways alow alvout that, natural enough, an' all's they did was to go down with the Ixmt to New Or leans an stay aboard for tli' up river trip. Owaltney was waitin' for 'em, an' the three on 'em was shut info a state room with cards an' chips afore the Cre ole Helle had took oil the freight 'twas waitin' on the levee. '1 was called into the room tol'able fre quent for the next two days, l»ein' as Owaltney was driirkin' right along same as usual, hut Hates, he didn't drink nothin . an' his partner, Ferguson, on'y took a nip now an' again, same as most anybody. 'Peared like the}' was lookin' for Owaltney to get drunk, but he never turned a hair, On'y i c'd see f'm what little I did see, 'the were losin' again. "Just naturally I watched out the best I knowed for to see whether there was any crooked work, but if there was it must ha' taen the slickest kind for to get past Owaltney, an' 'twa'n't likely 't I c'd spot it. Anyway, I didn't, but there wa nt no doubt as Mates an* Ferguson was two o the best players 't evercome down the river. 1 seen that, an' 1 seen, too, 't Owaltney was gettin' rattled. Next t hing I knowed the game broke up. Hates an' Ferguson went oil' to bed, an' Owaltney come into the bar an' took a drink. I lien he lit a cigar in' went out on deck, like lie wer® goin' fer a walk. "A'ter thai there wa'n't nothin' ever knowed of him. Hi; was missed 'fore we •got to a landin', but he wa'n't nowheres on the l>oat. liates nn' his pi I traveled the river for a year or so more, till the war In- ke out, an' they went North, an' then I never heard no more on 'em. ears a'ter, I met a feller 't knowed Owaltney up in \ irginny, an' lie said 't Owaltney\s father an' two brothers had all shot tlieirselves fer losin' all they had at cards, an' this here one hail took an oath to make war on gamblers its I;>ng as he lived. lie made a good fight of it while lie lasted, but he'd bit off a tol'able big mouthful when he tackled the p'fes -ionals on the Mississippi."—Chi. linter cean. "So Maude is happily married?" "Happily? I should say she is! Why she married a somnambulist, who gets up in his sleep every morning and builds the lire." 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