St. Landry democrat., 1889-06-01
Tad Lincoln.
HOW HE RAN THE WHITE HOUSE KITCHEf
IN THE YEAR 1862.

HOW HE KAN ldE WILT MUSE NiASaIS
IN THE YEAR 1862.
Both the steward ana the cook had re-
monstrated with master Tad" upon bring
ing into the kitchen of the White House,
s.such SQUADS of poor, dirty, hungry street
urchins to be fed p and at last Peter said
that Mrs. Lincoln must be told, writes M.
s. in the May Wide Quake.
Tad flew into rage, ran upstairs to see
his mother himself, and on finding her out
searched the place for his busy father.
Meanwhile the small objects of his char
ity waited at the lower door-for Peter
had absolutely refused to let them "step
inside"
The indignant boy spied his father just
crossing the ward, with head bowed, eyes
to the ground, talking earnestly to Mr..
Seward as they walked to the Department
of State together. He cried out to him at
once: Father father can't 1 bring
those poor, cold, hungry boys home with
me whenever | want to7 Isn't it our
kitchenI'
By this time Tad had his father by the
hand, who stopped short to listen to the
frantic appeal.
Cant / give them good warm dinner
to-day, say They're just as hungry as
bears, and two of them are the boys of
soldier, too and, father, I'm going to
discharge Peter this minute, if he don't
get out the meat and chicken and pies and
all the things we had left yesterday. Say,
mayn'tl? Isn't it our kitchen, father?'
Secretary Seward was shaking with
laughter. Mr.. Lincoln turned to him with
twinkle: Steward. advise with me.
This case requires diplomacy
vi Tca q
said he must be careful not to run the
government in debt, and the President
took Tad's little brown hands in his own
big one, and with very droll smile bid
him to run along home and feed the
boys" and added, ''Tell Peter that you
are really required to obey the Bible by
getting in the MANNED and the blind, and
that he must be better Christian than he
is
In less than an hour Mr.. Seward said
they passed through the yard on their
way to cabinet meeting, and no less than
ten small boys were sitting with Tad on
the lower steps, cracking nuts and having
Estate dinner"
Mr., Lincoln remarked that the "kitchen
was ours"
How They Rob and Ruin Their I'm
suspecting Victims.
A celebrated gambler told me few
years ago that he had gone out of the gam
bling business because of the confidence
games mixed up with it. Said he:
In almost every community of this
country where there is any money there
will be few men who like to play game
of chance like faro. These were more or
less reliable customers for gamblers. be-
cause they sometimes won and sometimes
lost, and were always kept on the string.
But suddenly there would appear in the
town travelling gambler and his associ-
ates. who take room and open game,
or perhaps play it in hotel where he had
got good quarters, and only the regular
PLAYERS of the town become acquainted
| with the fact.
Having played straight game for one
evening, the next morning the principal
in the game, or the player whom he is sup
! posed TO hire, will approach the most sol
vent of the village players and say: 81
would like to arrange with you to deal you
a game If you will come up to night ano
bet strong l will manipulate the box ane
make you winner to a high figure. OF
course you will divide with me. | am go
ing to leave that man, and want stake.
So the village victim will take of hi:
bank or stock large portion of his money
and go to the private place, where nobody
imagines any gambling exists, or espe
cialiy that he, the business man, the Goa
operator, the bank teller, is risking am
thing in that outlawed way. The playel
will have his eye on the victim, and h
will bet according to arrangement, and TO
little while the cards will waver, ant
finally the man will have lost more thai
ever before. He will leave the room
wondering, sick creature. But the fellow
who was to deal to him the game viii
manage to see him during the evening o
the next morning. and say IL couldn'
deal you that game last night because oil
Smith was watching me. Tonight | an
going to get rid of him, and will fix
for you all right ; SO come at me again
The man will go the second night an
lese the remainder of all his means. HI
first step to ruin is consenting to be part
ner in the swindle, even upon gambler
The whole game in coming to that tow
was to get his particular money. and il
that game were dealer, boss, gambler an
and everybody Gath, IN Cincinnati Hin
quires.