The Ottawa free trader., 1870-11-12
gtta'ua 4rse SraDtr.
Ottawa, ILL.,, Saturday. November II, 1870.
Rocks, Ac.

the commonly received notion that woman can
love earnestly and devotediy but once. Esteiie
had given her heart wholly to Louis, yet was
compelled 10 resign him and submit to mar
riage de conreaGnce Happily the husband chos.
en- for her by others proved worthy, and she
learned to love him As devotedly as her earlier
"fsme;" while that fame, having lost Estelle
through Indifference, marries unhappiiy and
lives to grieve over his error THIS is the moral
framework around which is constructed story
above the average merit.
THE HEIR ExPECTANT. By the author OF "Ray-
mond's Heroine" Kathleen &c. Western
News Company, Chicago.
The scene opens on lovely family group
near Liverpool, the head of said family a clerk
on d salary of !e250 a year, q loving wife,
two sweet children, and . youthful relative of
1s The happy picture is marrei BY the advent
ef rich but cross old uncle, who offers to make
the young clerk his heir on condition that he re.
side on his estate, and live, until the old bear 8
death, on a hundred year A. the old fellow
is worth half million of dollars, and we'll up
in the sixties. the young man accepts the pro-
tude at the end of which the poor clerk comes
into his long expected fortune How much
good it did him will be learned on reading the
story, which We can say in advance is admirably
written and will DO found anything but tire.
some
HARPER's MAGAZINE for November Harper
d Bros, New York.
The number concludes the 4lst volume. 1t
opens with "The Huguenots," a thrilling mar
rative, and fit companion-piece to the Vaudois,
in the July number. A finely illustrated article
on "The Cave of Bellamar," in Cuba, follows,
by Gen. Cavada, OF the Cuban army. down
the Mississippi" by Geo. Ward Nichols, Is
other illustrated article, treating of steamboat
life on that stream during the war. "Freder-
ick the Great" is continued, giving US II graphic
description of the King in his retirement at
SauS S9ucj. "TAe Pilot Wife," Lite III Brit.
tany,"" The Rock of the Legion of Honor" are
the leading stories. The Easy Chair" chats
about Berlin in the time OF "Clicquot," while
the other departments maintain their usual
standard Of excellence
We make room for a single extract. 1t is
from "Down the Mississippi" and refers to
favorite game on those waters:
PLAYING PoKER on A MISSISSIPPI STEAM
BOAT.-1 on cannot see now, as we did ten year.
ago, the cabin tables surrounded by planters,
merchants, and politicians, calling themselves
gentlemen, who would gamble from morning
till night, and again till morning, stalking, and
often losing, their entire fortunes. We do not
now encounter the elegant, gontlemauIy profess
sjoual gambler, who was accom- pushed III every
way, and not least III the use OF the pistol AID
bowie-kuite, Well-educatcd, fascinating gentle
men Were they, whose hands were again and
again stained with the blood of their fellow
creatures. All this class OF men are hardly to
be tound ,he Southwest in this goodly year
OF our Lord 1870. Tie war did splendid scav-
enger-work III sweeping them into the other
world And the young men Row coming up in
to life, who would have been such as they rind
a better existence in working for their daily
bread. The gang of gamblers who are our com
panious on this trip belong to altogether another
class than those whose places they fill. These
are what the panel thief is to the bank burglar,
what Burns is to Morrissey. 1t is amusing for
your experienced traveller to watch the tricks
and schemes of these miserable wretChes One
OF these is short, rather fat dressed IN black
broadcloth, and carries under his plug hat
cunning, greasy, smooth-shaven face, which has
small ferret.lke eyes in 1t, and red snub nose,
like a carbuncle, imposed upon 1t. This man is
called the Judge" and is, believe, the leader
of the gang, although another fellow in common
clothes, with wolfsh, cowardly oountenance,
gives the cue to all their doings. The third
thief of the party is small in stature, with black
moustache, and an assumed wobegone look 1t
lis he who, in their makc.believe games bets
wildly and largely, who most always loses, gets
angry, and appeals to the lockers on. The fourth
OF the squad looks like All honest tradesInan
who ought to be in better business than betting
One day these gentlemen were playing at
poker, which is a favorite game for their nefari.
GUS purposes. The "Cacpenter'--we will give
them such names as describe them best--had
dealt "Ferret.eyes" a hand of three kings and
seven and eight Of clubs. To "Wolfmouth" he
gave three aces and nine and ton of hearts
With these hands "Ferret-eyes' and "Wolf-
mouth began to brag and bet in the most exc,.
ed way, talking to each other, appealing to the
crowd, and getting up an enthusiasm pretty
much as the clown and lne riug.master do in
the circus shouting and running in order to
make the audience believe that the horse which
the equine queen" is riding is going fearfully
last, when it is all sham, gotten up for effect
ouch was tho excitement about our steam boat
gaInbling-table. tt'.. d ..
81 see your twenty dollars and 90 you fifty
better" shouted "Ferret.eyes."
~ see your fifty and go ten better" screamed
"Wolfmouth" I0
II see that and make it one hundrel," cries
"Ferret.eyes." ..l '. ..t'.
AT this point there was dead pause and 81.
lence, broken in an Instant by "Wolf.mouth," :"
who turned beseechngly TO the by.standers with
the remark:
Gentlemen, Tn bowed il amt strspped"
Meanwhile moving around the table there