Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-28

life even to save life, sometimes foundt short shrift and sure card. This man with impressive manners never goes out Of his way to make friends; newspaper men don't find waters of information gush from him like waters from the rock Moses smote. He says he knows nothing about politics or pub lie affairs, and has neither curiosity nor ap. petite for current events.
 ''No sporting man," he said, ''magnifes his occupation. For one know the penalty of being a gambler, and do not recognize gentlemen on the street meet in Saratoga at my club, nor do I expect to be recognised by them away from my place of business. If take fancy to a man and he likes me invite him to my house to dinner and he generally comes again, and after that he can come to my home when in Saratoga. A gam bier, as the world knows and know, makes his living by violating the law, and if he is allowed to do that much quietly it is all the recognition that he ought to expect. It is certainly all he can get. have been invited myself to the Clover club, the greatest dln- ing institution in the world. I reckon 1 simply declined to go because was @ gam bier. Now, if you want to oblige me, never mention my name in the newspapers"
 As he was honest and earnest in this re- quest respect it. His life unfolded would make the essence of cool and stormy bio- grsphy, and it would be instructive because 1t would disclose the earnest effort of man to be good husband, good father and @ good citizen while made an outlaw properly enough by legislative statutes. This man told me at his own supper table, when we were alone, that he had killed desperado in New Orleans who had shot his friend to death in cold blood and followed my host with open insult, which went beyond the forbearance required by the Louisiana code. He was put in prison, tried for his life, and nearly sent to the gallows by the general commanding the Union troops in New Or leans by false statements that he had killed his man because he was a northerner, when, in fact, my friend was a northern man, and when the facts were made known that the gambler in limbo was quiet man, who nev- CT gave ofense, he was speedily released.
 Another incident in the case shows how game man he was. As my Saratoga friend passed from his prison to the steamship on sailing day brother of the dead gsmester, himself an athlete and sta1wart one, rushed from his hiding place and made a lunge at him with bowie knife. My friend stepped aside, escaped the thrust and knocked his assailant down on the gang plank of the steamer, plucked his knife away before he could rise, handed the man to policemen, saying. without raising his voice: "Take this man away. I will kill him next time."
 Safe away in Havana-this was early in the war-wit6 his family with him, this man, who worshipped the fckle goddess of fortune purely in business way, drew quiet draperies around his life. He gained money quickly, broadened his "pbylaeteries," e1- tended his enterprises by becoming a. sugar planter, and came to America one month af- ter General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, with half million gilt edged securities, which he turned into American four per cent bonds He ia now the most remarka. past or present. He is, perhaps, the fore most, but at the same time the least con- snicuous uamhlar in tha IInion