RAILROAD lIME TABLES t'KN.N'A K. It. CAST. W EST 7.13 A. M. *.H A. M. 10.17 " 12.:« I*. M 2.21 P. M. I.5:I " TT.UY " .51 " SUNDAYS. 18.17 A. M. 1-58 I'. M. 1). ti. .V \V. It. It. EAST. WEST. 6.58 A. M. A.OIT A. At. 10.19 '• 12.17 I'. M. 2.11P..V1. 1% " 6.111 '• H.2'l " SUNDAYS. 6.08 A.M. 12 47 I*. At. 6.10 KM. X-20 " Phil'A A Reading K. R. NORTH. SOCTH. 7.42 A.M. 11.25 A. M. 4.1*1 P. At. H. 05 P. M. BI.OOM STKEKT 7.44 A.M. 11.28 A. M. 4.M P. At. «.04 P. Al. _ —T - J SMKIMORT. SURGEON DENTIST.^TfBfIS or pick on Mill St., Opposite the Post Office, j Operative anil Mechanical Dentistry Carefully pei lortueil, Teeth positively extracted without pain.Willi . A RECEPTION FOR NEW PASTOR. The members of the church and con- j gregatiou of Wesley chapel attended in ' large numbers, the reception tendered Thursday night to the new pastor. Rev. B. F. Dimmick. D. D. The reception was held in the church parlors, which were tastefully decorated for the occas ion, and during the evening Dr. Dim- t mick had an opportunity to see and speak with nearly all of the members ( of the church, for very few stayed away. Dr. Dimmick was born in Pennsyl vania and educated at Ohio Wesleyan university graduating in the class of '74. He received his doctor 's degree as an in ternational courtesy from Toronto uni versity, Canada. Dr. Dimmick has serv ed many churches during the past years, and in all of them has made a fine re cord. The members of Wesley Chapel have taken 011 new life with his appear ance here, and say every effort is to be made to regain lost ground. During the evening, chocolate, coffee and wafers were served and Bouelli's orchestra furnished the music. HOLD UP A PAY WAGON. Mount Pleasant, Pa., Oct. 31. —Four Hungarians held up the South-west Cjnnellsville Coke Company's pay wag on about a mile west of this place yes terday afternoon. With double team and wagon, in which was a safe con taining some sft,ooo for the Alverton workmen, were the paymaster, Will iam Hosier, a brother of Secretary- Treasurer C. H. Hosier and Harry Bnr gass, the colored driver, both armed. The Huns were in ambush and open ed fire, killing the paymaster. The col ored driver returned the fire, killing one of the foreigners and wounding another. The three would-be-robbers then ran toward .Scottdale, without securing the money. Armed posses are scouring the whole country and their capture seems prob able. Young, Mr. Hotler came here from < 'hicago three years ago and leaves a widow and one daughter. He was aliout •>(! years old and was one of the company's most jKipular officials. TISSOT PAINTINGS. The famous Tissot Paintings of the Life of Christ will be produced at the Opera House Tuesday evening, Novem ber, 13, under the auspices of the Shiloh Reformed church. One hundred of these famous pictures will be exhibited in all the beauty of their original colors, by means of the ELectro-Stereopticon upon a mammoth Mcroen, containing four hundred square feet of canvas. Admission 2ft cents. Reserved seats 3ft cents. Arrested for Murder of A. Goodling. Liverpool, Pa., t». < 31. —Fire insurance o! A.dI.UHO ha >• 'i placed on the wed ding • ifrs o! ,\i 1 I. ■■■■. I). Hicliok (nee Ilastiii: 1 I • nt'.rliler of F: Governor Hastings. Ft: mm. mcEiiv Nli.tK WILKtSBAKHIi. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. —80 —Joseph White was shot and instantly killed and James White, his cousin, fatally wounded yesterday. Josiah White, an uncle of the two men, is alleged to have done the shooting, which it is claimed, was the result of a family quarrel. Ths Whites are farmers and their home is in Sweet Valley, near here. They were engaged in a lawsuit last Friday. This is alleged to have precipi tated the tragedy. A posse is in pur suit of Josiah White, who, it is claimed, fled immediately after the shooting. j When you goto vote keep in mind 1 the conditions that existed in business : I affairs during the last Democratic ad j ministration. STRUCK IT RICH. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 30.—Word was received here yesterday that Daniel 1 Meiss, formerly a tailor of this city, had struck it rich during the past week in j Montana, having acquired possession : for a trifling sum of a mine which lat- ] er develoyed into a bonanza. His strike is said to lie worthsloo,ooo. ! 1 For Jury Commissioner vote for .J. j j F. Patterson of Perry township. KILLED HIS LITTLE SISTER. Carlisle, Pa.. Oct. 30.—Herman j j Kntz, 18 years old, of near here acci- I ! dentally shot and killed his three-year | old sister yesterday. | Kutz had returned home with a gun ; which had just been repaired, and, not knowing it was loaded, pulled fbe trig ger. The entire charge of shot took effect in the tot's head. An honest conservative Associate j | Judge is what we want. You can have* an official of that kind by voting and | working for Robert Adams. DEATH CLEARS A MYSTERY. McKeesport, Pa.. Oct. 30—Word has bern received here that Otto Seaholm, aged 20 years, son of Erick Seaholm, a | prominent resident of this city, was killed in a battle in the Philippines last Tuesday. He was a member of Com- ! pany F, Seventeenth Infantry. Seaholm had been mysteriously miss ing from his home for two years. The notice of his death was the first heard of him in that time. John (». Brown of Danville, who is running for Register and Recorder, is worthy of the support of all voters re gardless of party affiliations. Great Cure of an Editor. "For two years all efforts to cure Ec zema in the palms of my hands failed," writes Editor H. N. Lester, of Syracuse, Kan., "then I was wholly cured by Buckleu's Arnica Salve." It's the world's l>est for eruptions, sores and all skin diseases. Only 25c at Pit tiles &Co Sheriff David Ruckel sounds well. Elect him and you will have a man in office that is worthy of the honor. TWO MORE VICTIMS. Wilkesbarre, Oct. 31.—Two more dead bodies were taken out of the ill fated mine at Edwardsville, at 11 o'clock last night. Their names are Michael Galawehuiis and Adam Way nales' Both were married and leave families. All the missing have now been accounted for. Send James C. Foster to the Assem bly. He is an able man and one that will represent the interests of his con stituents. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The following financial statement of the Salvation Army for the past eleven months will be of interest to many peo ple. The salary of the officers has been very small, but Ensign and Mrs. Ileift say they have gotten 011 very well. Quite a sum of money has been ha/idl ed in this work, and the Army lias ac complished a great deal of good Following is the financial statement: INCOME. Collections from meetings, churches etc $904.49 Donations 374.18 Profit from publications 42.41 Stable and scales sold 7ft.00 Self Denial work £>B 20 Harvest festival 00.00 Total, $1584 28 EX I'KN DITt'RES. Officers,salary and help $2t>0.33 Kent of Armory and house 128.S!! Light and heat 42 98 Henevolent fund, Indian famine, etc 102.4 ft Divisional fund 71.36 Funeral fund 4.80 Organ rent 10.50 Janitor for winter 13.50 Specials 97.29 House furnishing since opening 22.55 Traveling 60 45 Postage anil stationery 13.28 Junior w0rk....,,..,,., 15.84 Opera house rent and printing. 47 04 Purchasing and remodeling hall 485.22 Opening expenses, including house furnishing, hall fur-, nishingand one months rent paid in advance for house and hall 19(155 Sundries 11.19 Total $1584.28 Opening expenses $257.20 Paid 190.5 ft Balance owing ~. $00.05 W. H. liKfKT, Ensign. Montour county will have some very important interests before the leg islature this winter and it is very nec essary to have an experienced repre sentative at Harrisburg to care for these interests, one who can lie a real help to tfre county. Hon. Jas. Foster has the experienoe ami the ability to render excellent service and lyt» should lie elected bv a good majority. AMERICANS MORE RATIONAL. We Are FalHely ( linru<>«l by Euro- ( p<»jtiiM With nclnK l ndifciiitied. Our crowds may and do have rip roaring times \vl*'ii tlie occasion de mands it, but surely they do not he come asinine as do European crowds. Our crowds may stand around news paper offices looking iit bulletins, but even on election night they don't rush away in mad, screaming hordes, every few moments yelling hysterically "a has" something or somebody, as they do in Paris. In London wherever crowds gather for any purpose, from an unveiling to an excursion, street hawkers are 011 hand with two things that they call re spectively "teasers" and "ticklers." The "teaser" is an empty bladder tied to a stick, and the "tickler" is a long feather. The "teaser" is affected most by the male representatives of English dignity, and the "tickler" captures the fond feminine heart. The male goes into raptures of joy when he succeeds in hitting somebody—a respectable el derly gentleman preferred—with his toy. The female trips gayly through the streets, tickling the ears of mascu line persons to whom she has not been introduced. And among our "lower orders," who are as undignified as are the coster mongers of London? We have no class that delights in wearing grotesquely bell shaped trousers with huge pearl buttons down the sides and coats with Immensely broad braid bindings and also profusely covered with pearl but tons as big as trade dollars. —New York Press. HtiKe Modern Cliraraimury. "The modern hotel," said the manager of one of Washington's big hostelries, "has developed into a municipality in it self. The business has undergone a great change within the past 15 years, and buildings and methods then in vogue have been greatly enlarged aud niodiiied. With the Waldorf-Astoria it was considered that the limit in hotel construction and management had been reached, and there are now few hotel men who will venture a prophecy that this immense structure will ever he relegated to second place. I have 110 doulit, however, that within 50 years the metropolis will have a hotel as large again. I believe that within 20 years the older hotels of Washington, which is one of the best 'hotel cities' in the United States, will all he rebuilt. Most of them have recently been im proved. "Brooklyn, a city twice the size of Washington, looks like 30 cents in com parison with the capital 011 the score of hotels, and for years it enjoyed the dis tinction of having but one hotel, on the Heights, and that was a small affair. Commercial travelers and others went to New York to sleep. This sounds far fetched, but it is true. Recently a couple of modern structures have been put up, but the City of Churches will never be a 'hotel town.' "Washington has several Cue shelters for strangers and in a few years will ! have a couple more big fellows. But ! without jealousy hotel men all over the country accord the palm to the Waldorf, and what is accomplished under that sin gle roof every day is fairly monumental. ! "It operates a postoffice, doing as much i business as an office in a good sized | town, handling about 0,000 lettrt-s daily, I reijuirng the services of four men who act as postal clerks exclusively. Callers send up 5,001 J cards daily to guests through pneumatic tubes to the respect ive floors, where they are received by the hallboys. There are GO telephones, with a switchboard requiring three op- , erators. All communication between the 1 different departments, sections and hotel employees is done by telephone. There are enough clocks in the building to stock a large store, the number being 1,200, and two men are employed to keep them in order. "If you say a 'regiment of employees' you speak the truth, as the total number of employees on the pay roll is 1,400. There are in addition about 1,500 guests daily in the hotel during the winter sea son, arid 2,500 people sit nightly at din ner in the two restaurants, two palm gardens, gentlemen's cafe and private banqueting halls. It requires the serr ices of !M> cooks to feed these hungry folks, and the kitchen force alone is near ly as large as a battnlion of troops, the number being over 300. They consume 150 tons of ice a day, and no one knows how many highballs, giu rickeys and small and large bottles. "There are 19 elevators and 180 hall boys and pages. A hotel which has a hall boy force of 12 or 15 is a large one. As many as 400 guests will arrive from the ocean steamers iu one day and as mauy more will depart for Europe. From 2,'>00 to 2,500 pieces of baggage are handled and accounted for every day. The ofbee clerical force consists of 20 clerks, of whom six are room clerks. A 3,000 horse power electric plant supplies the power to burn every night 20,000 incandescent lights, more than in many good size<| cities. Nine boilers for steam copsume 100 tons of coal a day and heat 1,500 rooms." -Washington Sw STAGE GLINTS. There are five acts to Otis Skinner'* new play, "Prince Otto." "The Parlor Match" is to be known in England as "The Matchboard." The Abbe Perosi has written eight oratorios in a few years and is now at work 011 another, entitled "Moses." Carl Milloecker left behind him a for tune of $300,000, besides a number of {Compositions not performed in public. May Irwin next season will employ a vaudeville farce called "Mrs. Black Is Black," written by George V. Ilobart. W. S. Gilbert's "Comedy and Trage dy" has been translated into French for Sarah Bernhardt'* use during tour in this country. Edmund Edmunds, who died a few weeks ago in London, was an actor as early as 1822. He knew Edmund Kean, and George IV was one of his patrons. Dan Daly's catch phrase in"The Cadet Girl"—"Peculiar, isn't it? Very" Hs being repeated *ery generally and bids fair to become a very popular col loiJUililiSM). The author of ''Swept Nel} of Old Drury," the play in which Miss Julia Neilson has just made such a success in London, is Paul Kester, a young American playwright. It is not generally known that Schu bert. though he lived only 31 years, wrote in addition to his GOO songs and numerous instrumental works also a considerable number of operas. Edmoiul Itostaud is said to tie enjoy Jng an income of SSOO a day from "L'Aiglon" and "Cyrano de Bergerac." Sarah Bernhardt's daily receipts In the first are said to be $2,200, while Coque lln with the other has drawn an aver age of $2,000 for every performance, A little borax sprinkled on a clotb and rubbed lightly on the face Is a good remedy for blackheads. Care should be taken to rub lightly, or It will make the skin smart. In general anything that tends to dry the skin should be avoided, such as bay rum. alcohol, camphor and ammonia. If used In great moderation, they are all good. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave yon, if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills, Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and build tip health. Only 2ft cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Patties &Co . Drug gists. IS TEA A POISON? One of ltN Element* Kill* ('«(« nnd IlithhitM. Dr. J. "i. Kellogg declares that tea is all active poison that its active princi ple, a substance called tliein, which can !>e v tilled from tea in a dry re tort. is fi.T.il to life. The tliein in tea is about ill. and a half ouuee of tea contains from 10 to HI grains. Professor Lehiuanu, a German physi cian, gave several men from eight to ten grains of tliein each by way of er perinient. None of them was able to work for two days. There are tea drunkards. There have been cases of delirium tremens from tea drinking. By chewing tea leaves people can become thoroughly intoxi cated. The woman who is tired takes a cup of tea and is relieved of her weariness. But the sensation of weariness is a danger signal. Under the Influence of a stimulant she does not know when she goes beyond the limits of safe ex ertioii. Tea is a drug, not a food. Not only does tea contain no nourish ment, but it interferes with digestion. The craving for it is not natural, as is the desire for food. Taste must be come vitiated by its habitual use be fore it becomes an apparent necessity. Children drink it for the cream and sugar, older people for the effect. Every one knows that tea contains tannin. Add a little iron to tea, and it becomes black. Tea made in an iron kettle is as black as ink. Even stir ring a strong cup of tea with an iron spoon will make it turn black. The combination of the tannin of the tea with iron makes ink. Leather is made by soaking hides in a decoction of bark which contains tannin. A man who eats a beefsteak and drinks a cup of tea. starts a leather manufactory in his own stomach, for the tea, combining with the connective tissue of the steak, soon transforms it into strong leather. Cb!eKei'n on Turkeys. The question confronting most tur key raisers at present is "How can I manage my turkeys so as to reduce the death rate of the young flock?" Most people can raise turkeys to three or six weeks. In this there really has been a change since we raised our first turkeys. If in those days we brought young turkeys to <> weeks old, we considered them safe at least until the late fall, when we usually lost a few and never could tell why they died. Last year and the year before the report was prevalent that after the turkeys were 0 weeks ohl they seemed to grow thinner day by day and finally died without any apparent cause. Many of them were examined and no disease revealed. This was mentioned several times in The Reliable Poultry Journal, and a correspondent of The Journal wrote the following, for which he will please accept our thanks even at this late day: "Tell Mrs. Mackey that the trouble Is the poults are killed by the chiggers. They do us more damage than any thing else." We presume this is the little grass chigger which buries itself in the flesh —at least it does on people—and is very hard to exterminate and very painful to endure. We had never thought of this. The only remedy known to us is grease, and too much of that is fatal to the poults. If the gentleman meant mites, which often infest poultry build ings. liquid lice killer and whitewash will exterminate them. The houses or coops must be whitewashed early in the morning and well aired during the day. It is dangerous to use the liquid lice killer for the little ones, as they might be smothered by the fumes.— Mrs. B. G. Mackey in Reliable Poultry Journal. The Oregon bred cayuse, which, at $2.50 per head, went to the canneries on the coast and from there to France as choice canned corned beef, is now be ing shipped to the central states and sold to good people who jeopardize their lives and their eternal happiness by trying to break them into do the work of decent horses. The federal courts have recently held that a farmer cannot be forced into bankruptcy by his creditors, as may a merchant or men in other professions. The courts seem to wisely recognize the fact that a farmer's ability to meet his obligations is more subject to cli matic conditions than is the case with other lines of business. Observation leads us to the opinion that when three Inches of rainfall oc curs within one hour and a half, as sometimes happens, not more than half of it will find Its way into the ground, the surplus running off into the natu ral drainage channels of the locality. This explains why the effects of a heavy summer rain are often transient. COHMPTIOB CIK BE CURED. T. A. Slocum, M. C., the Great Chem ist nnd Scientist, Will Bernl Free, to the AiHictetl, Three Bottles of his Ncwlv i lisi'ovt,rwl Keme dies to Cure Consumption and All Lung Troubles. Nothing could belairer, more philan thropic or carry moie joy to the atllict ed, than the oiler of T. A. Slocum, M. C., of New York City. Confident that lie has discovered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions wasting, and to make its great merits known, he will send, free, three bottles to any reader ot the AMERICAN who may be suffering. Already this "new scientific course oi medicine" iias permanently cured thou sands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it his religious duty—a duty which he owes to human ity—to donate his infallible cure. He has proved the dreaded consump tion to be a curable disease beyond an v doubt, and has on file in tiis American and European laboratories testimonials of experience from those benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Don't de' ty until it is too late. Con sumption, uninteimped, means speedy and certain death. A'ldress T. A Slocum, M. C., its Pine street, New York, and when writing the Doctor, give express and postothee address, antl please mention reading tli's article in the AMKUICAN' March 4 9 FALL PRESERVING. Ichh Snunr \ow Im il With Fruit*. rultiiiu ! i> I'eai'lios mill I'ears. Spring and ■ i.iiiuirr preserving is important, l»i:t autumn's possibilities are the richest of tlu* year. The pre paring of peaches, pears, plums, quinces, blueberries (the one fruit which is as pooil cooked or preserved as raw), besides all the pickling and relish making the list of delicacies the housewife can make is irresistibly at tractive. There is nothing radically new in methods or results, but there are always variations of the common ways of making the old specialties. In these days of rich and varied living we feel a digestive recoil from old fashion ed pound for pound preserves, popular up to a decade ago. "Preserves" today means or should mean one-half to three-fourths of a pound of sugar to one pound of fruit. Canned fruit should be just "sweetened to taste," which should never mean more than one-fourth of a pound of sugar to one pound of fruit. Even jams and mar malades are better if made in the pro portion of two-thirds or three-fourths of a pound of sugar to one pound of fruit instead of pound for pound. Jel lies alone must keep to the old propor tions to give them proper consistency. For any and all preserving, canning and jelly and jam making use only a porcelain lined iron kettle and wooden or silver spoons, says a writer in Wo man's Home Companion, who gives the following among other recipes: I>o not waste time, sugar and jars on fruit that is inferior. Fill a wire bas ket holding a couple of quarts with selected peaches and plunge it into a pot of boiling water, letting it remain from three to five minutes, according to the ripeness of the fruit. Remove now and roll out on a platter. Skin and if to be canned drop into hot jars, as no more cooking will lie necessary, then cover with boiling hot sirup and seal. Make the sirup of pints of sugar to a quart of water, boiling 15 minutes. Peaches are best when canned whole, because of the flavor the pit gives them. If halved, four or five pits should be put into each jar. In pre serving peaches lirst weigh the skinned fruit, then get three-fourths of its weight in sugar. Make a sirup of this sugar in the proportion of one pint to one-half pint of water. As soon as it boils skim until clear, add the fruit, which should be halved, and cook, nev er allowing it to boil violently, until transparent. The Duchess is perhaps the finest flavored and best pear for putting up. It ripens very late and is of handsome shape and size. There are of course other pears which are excellent for preserving. In either canning or pre serving lirst wash the fruit, pare, halve and neatly core it and then lay it on a platter under a wet cloth to prevent its discoloring. Put all the parings in the preserving kettle and more than cover them with cold water. Fit a steamer ■ over the kettle, putin two layers of | fruit and steam till tender. Repeat this ■ operat-ion until all is done, adding boil- i ing water to the parings as it wastes ! away. When the fruit is cooked, put ; the parings in a jelly bag and drain off all the juice. Measure this juice and return it to the kettle, adding for can- i ned pears one-half as much sugar as j there is juice in the kettle and for pre served pears twice as much sugar. As soon as the sirup has boiled enough to be skimmed clear drop in as much fruit as can be managed without crowding. ! Cook ten minutes for canning and until the fruit looks somewhat transparent for preserves. Cuenmlier I'irklon. Wash and wipe a half peck of small green cucumbers. Pack them in a jar or large bowl, pour over a brine made with one-half a pint of salt and two 1 quarts of boiling water. Let stand for , three days, drain off the brine, heat to boiling, pour again over the cucumbers and let stand for three days longer. Repeat for the third time. On the i ninth day drain and wash the cucum- j bers thoroughly. Cover with four i quarts of boiling water in which is dis- j solved one level tablespoonful of alum j and let stand for half a day. lioil to- j getlier for ten minutes four quarts of vinegar, one tablespoonful of broken stick cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of whole allspice, two tablespoonfuls of ( whole cloves and four small red pep- 1 pers. Keep one quart of this mixture j on the fire and in it cook for ten min- ■ utes as many of the cucumbers as it | will cover. When all are done, put J them into a stone pot or jar and strain | over them the remainder of the spiced vinegar.—Table Talk. Xcvv ricealilll. The old fashioned, ever popular pic calilli is much improved by the addi tion of corn. Add full grown sweet corn cut from the ear during the last hour of cooking, using less green toma to to allow for tliis addition. One-third or one-fourth as much corn as tomato should be used, according to Woman's Home Companion. Mitryland Chicken. Roll a disjointed chicken in flour, then salt and pepper, fry until tender and brown in hot pork fat and butter, then drain off all surplus fat and pour MARYLAND CHICKEN', one pint of cream over t lie chicken, boil up once, arrange chicken on a hot dish, pour over the cream gravy, sur round with boiled new potatoes and garnish with parsley, says Woman's Home Companion. Hardly Thnl, Oumji—So you have gone out of poli tics? Slump—Yes. Gump—Retired to private life, I sup pose? Slump—Oh, no; not quite that. We live in a flat.—Detroit Free Press. Force of lltthlf. Miss Gush.v—Mr. Tipps is so impul sive. He carries everything before him. Miss Cabby—Yes, of course he does. He used to be a waiter. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I lor rlr\a —Our house was entirely destroyed bv tire last night. The children and 1 escaped unharmed. Come home at once. MARIA. To this, after reflecting a moment, he replied as follows: DEAR MARIA Wliat is the use of cominu hom# when there is no home to come to? Take the children to mother's, stay there with them till I join you and d< n't worry. Affectionately, K&ANK. —Youth's Companion. Tor Shattered Nerves. A remedy that will soothe, build up the wasted tissues and enrich the blood is indispensable. Liclity's Celery Nerve Compound has been wonderfully suc cessful in cases of nervousness, as thous ands of grateful people will testify. Sold by Rossntan <.V Son's Pharmacy. DON'T WORRY. WTicn things fo contrary, is often the? do, And fortune seems burdened with spite. Don't give w»y to grieving all dismal and blan— That never set anything right! But cheerfully face what the day may reveal. Make the best of whatever befall; Since the more that you worry the worse you must feel, Why waste time in worry at all? We all have our troubles, some more and some less. And this is the knowledge we gain— It's work and a brave heart that lighten the sum? Of a life's share of sorrow and pain. Then face with this knowledge fate's crueleat deal. Too plucky to faint or to fall; Since the more that you worry the worse you must feel, Is it wisdom to worry at all? —Kipley D. Saunders in St. Louis Republic. LONSDALE A GOOD LOSER. He Had Dren I'j Against a Hard liame, bat Ke Didn't Sqneal. Said a Washington man who does a lot of transatlantic voyaging: "No man can pat himself on the back and say to him self that he is too wise to be 'dona' by card sharps. I've seen some pretty clever men get theirs at cards on the ocean liners. One of them was Lord Lonsdale, about as clever an all around man as ever climbed over the gangway of a ship, and nobody would ever have fancied that he'd prove himself a 'mark' for professional gamblers. "At the time Lonsdale first came to th» United States he was in the full tide of his rapid career. Amid the uproar over his landing in this country the fact did not leak out that Lonsdale was plucked of SO,OOO on the trip over by Georga Sampson, one of the most notable of the older clique of steamship card sharpers. He has since died in Australia, I believe. "I think Sampson had it in mind to do young Lonsdale when he got aboard at Liverpool. Sampson had been working the steamers for 15 years, and at thia time he was a man of 40 or thereabouts. The two men struck up a friendship from the very first day of the voyage, and it was Lonsdale himself who first suggest ed—as he afterward acknowledged, for he was a manly young chap—the game of draw. Lonsdale had only recently learned the hands at poker, and he had the poker initiate's enthusiasm for the game to an exaggerated extent. Before going any further I ought to say that Sampson al ways maintained afterward that in hla play with Lonsdale he was perfectly on the level. "Lonsdale and Sampson started the game on the first day out and kept it go ing almost until the steamer plowed past Sandy Hook. Of course Sampson beat him right along. He made no effort to let young Lonsdale win from him at first. He simply played poker and raked in the young man's money and checks. A lot of us aboard knew Sampson, and those of us who had met young Lonsdale in England got him aside on the second day out and diplomatically put it to him that he was engaged in a pretty difficult en counter—that, in brief, Sampson was a professional player of cards. For our pains we were told that we were too confoundedly officious. "At any rate, when the steamer was drawing near the shore, Lonsdale decided that he had had enough. Several of us were in the cardroom when the last hand was played. Sampson took the pot, and Lonsdale scribbled a check on his Ameri can banker for the amount he had lost at the sitting. Then he looked up at Sampson for a moment and said: " 'Some of my friends here estimate you a bit unkindly, Mr. Sampson.' " 'How's that?' inquired Sampson cool ly. He was a man who never betrayed surprise. " 'Well,' said Lonsdale, 'they maintain that your skill at cards affords you some thing better than a livelihood.' " 'I never denied that,' replied Samp son calmly. " 'ln playing with me on this voyage you have employed skill alone?' inquired Lonsdale courteously. " 'At your suggestion,' replied Samp son, with careful emphasis, 'I have play ed draw poker with you far Bevea days. I understand the game of draw poker, and I have SO,OOO of your money. Do you want it back?' "That was a magnificent bluff on Sampson's part, you perceive. The young chap, he well knew, would not squeal. " 'Oh, if you elect to be insulting'— said Lonsdale, flushing hotly, and ho rose from the card table and left the room. "Well, a couple of elderly Englishmen on board who knew Lonsdale and his fa ther before him went to the young fallow and told him that it would be perfectly proper and right for him to stop payment on the checks he had given Sampson, who, they told him in so many words, was nothing better than a swindler. 44 'You will be good enough to mind your own business,' replied the hotspur. 'l'll do nothing of the sort.' And that was the end of it."—Washington Post. A Light and a Burn. In one corner of a smoker sat a heavy swell whose exterior was faultless, even to the aromatic Havana which he was in the act of lighting. 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