St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
GOSSIP GOING AROUND.

PearSall, Lawyer Abe Hummer. OF
New York, is also here, and he and Far
rell and Mccall have been playing a
combination game at the club house
since the middle of July. Up to the be-
ginning of the week Farren and Mccall
we're each winner about $4,000, while
Hummel had won about $4,000. On
Wednesday evening Mccall and Farren
won 81 800, and Abe $500.
About o'clock Thursday evening
Farren strolled into the club house and
bought $500 worth of chips and started
to play the bank. BY midnight he was
81 400 ahead. He stopped playing then
for while, chatted with some of the
guests of the club. commenced again,
and again luck ran his way. The chips
stood in piles in front of him, and the
crowd gathered around to watch the
game. Finally he began to lose, and
when he arose from the table at )
O'Clock Friday evening he was $4,000
loser.
On Friday evening Hummel and Nc
Call played. Mccall won $1,000 and
HummeI 81 200. Hummel has also won
200 at the races.
"Krupp' Gum, the Chicago gam
bier, is running a game. "EOle" Pear
sail and George Wheeloek are among its
patrons. Last week Cole won 81, 500,
Wheelock lost $4,000 Thursday evening.
at faro and 81, 900 at the races. Mccall
is winner $4,000.
Speaking of men who have made and
lost fortunes, r. Brown. well-known
civil engineer of Seattle, now visiting
Kansas City, remarked to Times re-
porter: 'Henry Willard, you will re-
member, lost almost everything a few
years ago. He had made millions out
of the building and operating of the
Northern Pacific. He made one mis-
take which l should have supposed a
shrewd, keen man like Willard
would have avoided. At the
time when he was on the
crest of popularity he gave
several 'gilt-edged excursions to
Oregon and Washington. He invited
the Eastern investors and his old
friends in Germany, also heavily inter-
ested in the Northern Pacific, to go with
him in his private car to the far North
west. Now the Northern Pacific road,
like every other railroad. runs through
the very worst section of the country.
Willard did not take the eXcursi0nistS to
the rich agricultural sections where
lands we're found which would have
caused the German investors to open
wide their eyes, lands which will yet as
toniSh the world in the quantity and
quality of the crops produced. He did
not take them to the great mineral
regions, but he kept them close to
his private car. The country natur-
ally did not meet with expec-
tations and representations 1t did
not stand up as we'll as
it would if the Investigation had been
more thorough. The result was what
might have been expected. Northern
Pacific stocks went down and so did
Willard. He could not have disposed of
his interests in the far Northwest if he
had tried, matters were in such tam
gle, but he held on until the boom came
for Washington and Oregon, and is now
a millionaire again. A man who has
once gone down in financial storm
knows how difficult it is to regain his
fortune, but that is precisely what
Henry Willard, OF the Northern Pacific.
has DONE"
.sMr. Billus," demanded his wife,
freeZingly, "what is the meaning of
that long brown hair on your coat col
lar?"
ut means, madam" retorted Mr..
Blllus, 'that Pm chuckle-headed jay
of the jayesu sort. Pm chump from
Chumptown. That's what it means,
Maria.''
explain yourself, sir"
"One of the boys at the Office put that
hair on my collar not fifteen minutes
ago, and said didn't dare to let it stay
there. l said did dare to. said you
were a woman of too much sense to no
tice such a thing; | told him you
wouldn't even see it. He offered to bet
me S. you would. and took him up,
Mariar' snorted Mr.. Billus, Il took him
upH-Chicago Tribune.
In the opinion of every old farmers
wife in New England George Gould's
shooting of the American eagle, about
which such glowing accounts have been
written. will bring him bad luck for the
of his life-unless, in his
case, the rule ''goeS by contraries." as
dreams sometimes do. All over Yam
keeland it is a matter of abso-
lutte faith that the man who
kills the bird of freedom is
doomed to misfortune. You may shoot
a golien eagle as often as you get the
chance, but the American eagle must be
spared. write feelingly upon this SUBJ
ject, for when l was fifteen years old L
killed splendid specimen myself. He
aighted on the top of a tall, dead pine,
the haunt of hen hawks with their prey,
and beneath which | was watching for
one of the-poultry thieves, concealed by
a bower of spruce bOughS. He seemed
to me at first to he a gigantic hawk, but
| soon perceived his true nature, and it
made me so nervous that it was imp0S
sible to take aim. Several minutes
elapsed before l could lift the gun.
When / did fire the shot merely broke
one OF his wings. He fell tothe ground,
and, as the American bird ought to be
fierce and unconquerable, he attacked
me at once, and it was only after
hard struggle that l stunned him by
him with my gun. He meas
ured seven feet and a half from wing to
wing. You may imagine the pride with
which / lugged the gallant bird home.
But my pride got quick fall. An old
great aunt was visiting at my fathers
house. Lifting up her horror-stricken
hands as soon as she knew What l had
done, she exclaimed: what! Killed
the American eagle! You will never
prosper. No man can prosper who has
killed the bird of freedom" In my
case the prophecy has come true-after
a fashion. How will it be with George
Gould? Can he possibly have any bad
luck?
When Hannibal Hamlin was vice
president of the United States he went
fishing in Canadian stream, and had
struck splendid salmon. A boat APP
in which were the English
treaty commissioners. Mr.. Hamlin
was meeting the crisis with the vigor
and skill of an accomplished angler.
The Englishmen, as their boat drew
near, saw that he was battling with a
noble foe. When told who the gentle
men were, Mr.. Hamlin called out: ''You
must excuse me till land this salmonp
The introduction was deferred for about
half an hour, when the Englishmen
were able to salute not only the vice
but the conquerer of kingly
salmon. He decided the question of
etiquette off-hand, though it is to be
that the salmon would have
preferred the following of the venerable
and accepted ruIe-dr0p everything
when caller is announced.