The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-11
Ho took all the Bots.


sitting In the Gould and Curric office Car
son, Nevada, reading about the "Jumpin,
Frog Of Calaveras," when an ide
occurred to him that some sor
OF a trick like that would be
splendid thing to ring in On Maurice Hoe
hlch, the mining expert. Hoetiich i
around tho office good deal, and when
ever he takes q lunch with blackay, he Il
sure to get in some sort of dispute ant
oifer bet. slackay don't like bettins
and frowns it down, unless he thinks peo
pie arc trying to bluff him, At last he dc
termined to cure Hoetlich of his habit ant
lind where the weak spot in bis armor Law
One day he saw Hoellich on the s,oop
playing with an enormous. grasshopper,
| which he was teaching to Jump. lIoe,
ntch's grasshoppcr could jump twenty
three feet, and it wasn't long before he re-:
| marked " Mackay: L.. .sl ~ sa,1 saa =
IN pct two dollars dot you caud lind a
| hinsect to peet him., ypg, .s.ysg.s ; lY!l
Alackay bet ton dollars that he could
beats it, and Hoctlich raised him twenty
~ oncg. The bet was closed ut these tir.
ures, and Mackay said he would have the
hopper there in a day or 80. He then sent
trusted ,omissary down to Carson Valley
10 secure contestant for the winged steetl
of lIoctlich. %
The man spent nearly week roaming in
Carson Valley catching hoppcrs. Hc sent
an Official report to Mackay, stating he had
caught over three thousand grasslloppers
ana put them through their PAGES. The
pest gait uny OF them had was III feet.
lie doubted If bigger jump could be &C.
cured. On receipt OF the letter the Bonan-
za Prince tclcgraphcd to the man to bring
him up anyway. The next day he ar
rived with about a dozen hoppers from
Farmer Treadway's and MIR. Muckny gave
them quarters in his room rs Vanderbilt
would his stud. Each hopper had Il cigar
'oN TO himself, and every morning they
were taken out and put through their PAGES
IL was impossible, how er, to get ono to
jump over IL feet, although all sorts of in
vigorating food was given them.
Mr. Slackay was in despair, but one
morning hopper smiled at a bottle OIL
ammonia on the table and Immediately
Jumped thirty feet. After making a few
experiments it was found that one whilr of
ammonia 50 enlivcncd the hoppcrs that
they could make jumps that were almost
Incredible. Next day Mackay announced
to lloctilch that ho was rcldy for the
match. Tho expert was ready at nine
O'Clock, an hour before the time, with his
pct hopper. Not lindiug Nr. Mackay in,
hc sat down in the study, and there noticed
tho bottle OF ammonia. While examining
ii, Bridget tho old and faithful domestic
OF tho Gould e. Currie firm came in with:
'Dout be tcchin' that numonia, Mr..
lloelich. us to make Mr.. Mackcy's hop
pcrs sprigMy. 'cdad, l behave by tic
,I,no - .,Ir I. =.
since the pump broke ut the north ind"
Hocliich pumped the domestic nnd soon
knew all about Mackay's game.
a light broke upon Hocllich; grabbing
the bottle hc rushed up the sire Ct TO Per-
kin's drug store, threw away the ammo mia
and ordered it filled with chloroform. In
ten minutes, he was back, aud leaving the
bottle where hc found it got out of the
place as fast as he could.
Mackay soon arrived with half a dozen
mining supcrintendcnts he had invited up
to sec hlm layc some fun with uoclllch.
They were hardly seated when Hoctlich
came in with cigar box under his arm.
81 vas "a Iccllc late, Mr.. Mackuy, but I'm
here mid dcrhoppcr and der com"
lie lnld down the money which was cov-
cred promptly.
".Anyone else to pcd7"
doe Stewart laid down $l00.
John Kelly put up 500.
Warren Sheridan stepped in for $500.
Hank Smith wanted q like amount.
Sam Jones had only $50, but he put it
up.
Then few got into the corner of the
room and concluded it was a shame to rJpe
lloetllch in that way, and finally agreed to
give the money back after they had won
1t. Blackay then bantercd Hocllich To
raise the pot 100 shares OF Union Con.
l1Ocfich wr0lc an order on his broker and
remarked:
Oars no limit to dc bets, gentlemen,
dc com sbcaks.''
Nearly every man donblcd his bet, and
then Mackay got behind Sam Jones and
let his hopper sniff Of the ammonia bottle
which held llocfllch's chlOroform.
Time beng called, the hoppcrs were
placed side by side on the piazza, and at
the word "go," each insect was touched
on the back with a straw. Hoeilich's
grasshoper described a semicirclc in til.
| air and scored twenty -four feet. Mackay's
gave lazy lurch Of some four inches, and
| folding its legs across its stomach fell fast
asleep. Jones sworc that he could hear II
| snOTc.
Hocfich walked back into tho room,
swept tho coin into a canvas suck, and
Mackay wrote out an order for tho stock.
lloc:ich went up the street with his hop
per under his arm, leaving tho others toe
much astonshcd TO speak. Presently
Sheridan put the ammonia bottle to his
nose and called Mackay's attention to tho
smell.
"Chloroform by graciousl"
Then the Milcsian woman who was the
cause of all the mischief, appearing with {
broom announced that it was "swapin
time, and tho crowd dispersed, each going
in different directions.
AS Mackay started for the Union shaft
ho remarked:
That fellow, IIocflich docs play in qucc
luck"
And to this, all hands lnwardly agreed.
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Clever shepherd Dog.
The great sagucity and intelligence OF tn