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The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
HOW TO PLAY BACCARA T
THE REGENT GAME AT TRANBY
 CROFT, ENGLAND.
Little Known i'm America, but . FavOrise with European Nobility 4 Game of Pure Chance How Cheating Cnn lBe Done.

Several attempts have been made to describe the game of baccarat, but the results produced by those who would tell how the cards are manipulated have been such as to leave the reader with little knowledge of the game. It is necessary first that the person who attempts to describe baccarat should be a player. Talking from the book will not do. The game is too intricate.
 The game is very little known in America, and it IS strictly a foreign af- fair The nobility of Europe are fond of it, and the Prince of Wales seems to have been particularly fascinated with it.
 Hoyle says that baecarat is a game of pure chance, and bears some re- semblance to "Vingt-et-un'' or ''Twen- ty-one," but is much more rapid game, and great fortunes can be won and lost at baccarat in an almost in- credibly short space of time. The banker or the players either win or lose as they approximate point which is nine.
 First of all, to play this swift pastime at cards, large oval table should be used Directly in front of the dealer, who sits at one of the sides of the table, not at one of the ends line is drawn across the table, dividing it into two equal parts. Sometimes from radial poinNoefore the banker lines are drawn to the edge of the table.
 As many as choose may play They sit at right or left of the line where the banker sits. All those who are on the right side make their bets on the cards of one player who holds the cards for the right, and all those on the left side have to do their betting on the hand of the player who plays for the left. The cards are played by only two players be- side the banker All the others have
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

Tn 1857 the Queen designated Ottawa, a small town at the junction of the Ottawa, Chaudiere and Iddeau rivers, as the future seat of government. Macdonald favored the decision, but Parliament did not, and the ministry resigned. Within three days it was back in power, and lasted until 1862. Two years of opposion passed before MT. Macdonald returned to power as attorneygeneral under Sir Etienne Tache.
 On July i, 1867, the new constitution came into force, and the Dominion of Canada was formed. Macdonald was created a Knight Commander of the Bath that same day, and, as minister of justice and attorney general, became the first premier of. the Dominion. He held power until 1873, when he re- signed rather than face the charges that he had been connected corruptly with the managers of the Union Pa cific railway. He was succeeded by Alexander Mckenzie, who held office until 1878, when, having reach within a few months of it's constitutional limit, Parliament was desolved, and on Sir John's plan of high tariff the Conservatives were swept into power
 SIDtc lStS DIT NOlE IldS AClo YOWCA continuously, returned by general cleo tion in 1887, and still third time last March, upon the issue of trade recipro- city with the United States, though with majority still further reduced. He carried out his pledges, and high tariff is now Canada's fiscal policy-the N. F. or national policy" which Sir John and hls colleagues have Sd re- gently been defending.
 Under his government the railway system of Canada has been developed greatly, the Dominion has been con- solidated and strengthened, and a pulp lie debt of enormous proportions has been assumed. Sir John lived at Earnscliffe, in Ottawa, where his short, bent form and Disraeli-like face, were well-knoEn to every one. He had not enriched himself by any of the acts for which even his bitterest enemies at tackled him, but had devoted himself | always to the interests of the country where he had been for so many years the most prominent figure.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

The Most High, Most Puissant and Most lllustrious Prince, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Duke of Saxony Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carricl and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, k. G., k. T., K. P, K. C. B., c. C. $. l., c. C. NJ. G., Knight of the Elephant of Denmark, Knight of the Golden Fleece and of the White Ele- phant of Siam, and Bailli Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Hon. Knight of the Order of St. John, Germany, F. C., a Field Marshal in the Army, Colonel-in-Chief of the three regiments of Life and Royal Horse Guards, Colonel 9th Bengal Cavalry, late Colonel-in-C of the Rifle Brigade. Colonel of the 10th Hussars, late Captain General and Colonel of the Hon. Artillery Com pany of London; Hon, Colonel 2d Br- gade Eastern Division, Royal Artillery; Hon. Colonel 3d Battalion, the Duke of Cornwallis Light Infantry; Military Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Hon. Cap tain Royal Naval Reserve. Hon. Colonel of the Oxford and of the Cambridge In. versity Corps, of the Middlesex Civil Service Corps Rifle Volunteers, of the Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders, and of the Sutherland Rifle Volunteers, a Field Marshal in the German Army, Hon. Col of the Pomeranian Hussar Regiment No. 5, Elder Brother Trinity House. Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, Barrister-at-Law, and a Rnpabar nf tba Nil1la rra,n,,1a on1 President of the Society of Arts, D. c. l.. Oxford, IL. D. Cambridge, LL. D.. Trinity College, Dublin, etc, etc.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

the oration, giving history of Father Serea's life. Judge w. H. Webb de- livered the civic oration, sketching the work of Serra and its far-reaching in- huence on the history of California. The figure on the monument stands fifty feet above the high water mark, in commanding and conspicuous place. Pedestal and figure are both of granite, the former being appropriate ly inscribed. Father Serra landed near the site of the statue on June 3, l77O, and founded the missions of San Diego, San Carlos, San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Francis co de los Dolores, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, San Buenaventura before 1762. He died in l7s4 at the San Car los mission, at Monterey. He came from Mexico to carry on his nilsson work.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
..Monsieur t. wrong. This will mAks him i'll. Would monsieur like mo to put him to bedp"

put him to bedp"
 answered.: e rra
 No; let me alone"
 How many hours may have passed know not Oh! what a night! What a night! It was.cold, my fire had burned out in the great fireplace. and the wind, a wintry gale charged with icy frost, was howling without and rapping at my window with peculiarly sinister sound.
 Long hours rolled away. I sat there wide-awake prostrated and over- whclmed, my eyes were open, but my body was nerveless, dead. and my soul was ingulfed in despair. Suddenly the great hall bell rang out
 1 gave such start that my chair creaked under me. The slow, solemn sound vibrated in the empty house. I looked to sec the hour by the clock. It was ? in the morning. Who could be coming at such an hour?
 And, abruptly the bell rang twice again. The servants, certainly. would not dare answer it. I took a candle and descended. I was about to de- mand:
 "Who is thereo"
 Then. ashamed of this weakness. slowly drew back tho heavy bolts. My heart throbbed; was afraid. I open ed the door brusquely. and deserted in the gloom shape like ph anton, dressed in white.
 I recoiled, impotent with anguish and stammered:
 'Who--who-who are you?'
 A voice answered.:
 1t is l. father
 It was my daughter.
 Really l thought myself mad and shrank away retreating backward be- fore the specter as it entered. gesticu- lating with my hand, as if to ward of the apparition. The gesture has never left me
 The phantom spoke again:
 Have no fear, papa; was not dead. Some one has stolen my rings and has cut off my finger; tho blood began to flow and that has revived me-
 And I observed then, that she was covered with blood
 I fell to my knees, gasping, sobbing historically.
 As soon as 1 had partly recovered my senses, so dazed still that hardly comprohended tho terrible happiness that had come to mo, 1 made her go up to my room and placed her in my armchair; then I rang sharply for Prosper, that he might rekindle the fire, prepare a warm drink for her and summon a physician.
 Tho man entered. gazed at my daughter. opened his mouth with q spasm of fright and horror, then fell back. stark dead.
 It was he who had opened the vault who had mutilated and then abandoned my child for he could not efface the traces of his robbery; ho had not even taken the pains to place the coffin back in its case, certain. moreover, of not being suspected by me. who trusted him fully.
 ''You see, monsieur. that we are very unfortunate people"
 He was silent.
 Night had come on. shrouding with it's gloom the sad and solitary little vale and u kind of mysterious dread seized me at finding myself alone with these uncanny beings--this corpse come to life and this father with his appalling gestures l could find nothing to say but stam- me,cd:
 .sWhat a horrible thing!' Then. after awhile, l added:
 Let us return! The night has grown chill" And we walked back toward the hotxNl
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
THE BIG SANDIANS.
THE COUNTRY INHABITED BY
 THE HATFIELDS-M'CO
Raftsmen Who Would Occasionally Seize . Steamer and Make 1t the Scene of Their Wild DebaueAeries The "Big sandy DOllar.''

The mountaineers who live along the Big Sandy river, which forms the dividing line between West Virginia and Kentucky, and their neighbors of northeastern Kentucky, who have been so prominent for many years in feuds, vendettas, and bloody battles, are most peculiar people with history running away back into the sos, '40's and sos and generations preceding, which if published would throw into the shade the best efforts of the Texas frontier in the days of its greatest notoriety. The Big Sandians proper, the men who compose the corps of the Hatfields and McCoys, owe their peculiar character istics, their vengeful disposition, and their undaunted bravery to an ances- try dating back to the time when the foothills of the Cumberland mountains, the streams and valleys tributary to the Sandy were nrst settled by race of intrepid Indian hunters and trap pers, followers of Boone. kenton, Ar buckle, and other leading spirits. Many of these men married Indian squaws captured in raids, or purchased from tine different warlille tribes which then inhabited this region, and the blood of these feminine branches of the Singliest Indians (for tradition and documents still in existence show thao the white hunter of that day was still something of an aristocrat, and seldom condescended to mate with the com moner members of the tribes) is at this late day plainly apparent in the tall, straight forms, the keen eyes, and long, black hair of many of the older families
 The Big Sandy raftsmen became known throughout the country as the widest, most dangerous class of men on the Ohio river. Their carouses, their love of fighting or anything which partook of desperation and
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
RAFT, NJ. A.

RAFT, NJ. A. to school at South port for three years. She spent four years at Bedford College, taking honors, and then became a student at the University College, Liverpool. In 1886 she took the London B. A. degree, being the highest woman candidate and gaining medals and honors. She is really a graduate of Cambridge, though not in name, as we'll as an M. A. of London.
 Miss Mary Katherine Montgomery, one of the young ladies who received the London B. A. last week, is ths
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
A Canine Ncxv.bov.

X uewsboy in the City Of Mexico has taken a partner into his business in the person of a large and intelligent dog. The animal follows his owner about carrying several papers in his mouth and will walk up to prospec- tive purchaser and present paper. wagging his tail in sociable sort of way that generally succeeds. and if he makes sale he brings back the money to his associate promptly.-Chicago News.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
HAUNTED.

h that lest hour whers ws stood,
 Day was gliding into night; With that tender, dying day, E fro0 my soul went all its hghA q loses shivered in the breath
 Of the zephyr as it passed; Sorrow shrieked into my soul,
 Parting time has como at lastp' You are with me still, my sweet,
 am haunted, and will be, HI these tired eyes are closed
 In deaths calm eternity
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

or London unlver- sity, and who, with Miss Selby and Miss Johns, dis tanced all male competitors, is the daughter of T. Sherratt, of Alsa- ger, Stoke on-
 Ire n t. Nit CT spending thr e e years in Germany Mice Ih a,.v.o ft xx,ark
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

founders were invited to visit England where a branch of the society had been formed with A. F. Sinnett, the author of "The Occult World,n as President Mir. Sinnett was editing an English paper published in Allahabad, when Mime. Blavatsky and Colonel OlcotG went there in 1879 to organize so- cietv.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

batteries of artillery? Nothing but . greater civilization can or will remedy these troubles, but that seems now in a fair way of accomplishment, as sev- eral railroads are projected and more than one commenced through the hills and valleys of this rich but at present almost valueless country.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

Colonel Olcott was simply the pup I and
 representative in practical matterH, After navlng aroused an interest and founded society she and the Colonel sailed for India. Her book,
 "Isis Unveiled" which appeared just previous to her departure, created . nine days wonder, but the character of its contents and the great size of the work prevented it being read by the general public. In 1884 the society had grown to such proportions that the
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

next move would be.
 "Fhwat de yez want now?" asked Lydia as the last member of her troupe had given mp the coveted kiss.
 "You can git now" the leader answered, "and be kinder careful, not to tell any body that ye met us. See"
 The last word had hardly been uttered when tho burlesquers were in their seats. They never told any body, and the secret only leaked out quite recently.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
sLAvArsKy.s PARTNER.
Col. Oicott Succeeds Mime. Blavasskl
 as Leader ot the TAcosopl,isfs.

It is more than two years since Col. Henry $. Olcott, whom the death of Mime. Blavatsky placed at the head of the Theosophical movement, left the United States for the East. In 1875, when the society was organ ized in New York by Mime. ,Bia- vatslSy and the Colonel. not a dozen adhercnts were to be found; now the membership exceeds 100000. The in- vestigation of the unexplained laws of nature and the physical powers of man became the first object of the Western members of the order. Mime. Blavat- sky, however, was herself the center of interest to all. and in the beginning
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

daughter of Rev. John K. Montgom- cry, unitarian min ister at Chester.
 She was born in
 1868 and passed the London matric- ulation examina- ton in 1887, after graduating from the Liverpool High School. She en- tered college as one of the first stu dents, and when she
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

as that recently shown by NJ rs. Grimwood, wife of the late British res ident at Manipur. Mrs. Grimwood had
 been married only three years, and it
 is an open secret
 that she did not like being sta tioned at Manipur.
 1t was isolated from the world,
 and there were few
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
HENRY w. GRADY.
Proposed Monument To Be Erected
 at Atlanta, Ga.

The following is an illustration of the monument to Henry w. Grady, which is to be erected at Broad and Marrletta streets, ill the city of Atlanta. The statue, which is the work of Alex ander Doyle, is nine and one-half feet high, with underpinning pedestal of
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
FOUNDER OF OLD MISSIONS.
Monument Erected 10 His Memory
 by Mrs. Leland stanford.

Mrs. Leland Stanford's monument to Father Janipero Serra, the founder of California missions, was unveiled June on the military reservation in Mon- terey, in the presence of 5000 people from many parts of the coast. The monument was unveiled by Miss An toinetta and Mrs. stephen Field, chil- dren of T. ]. Field. of that city, and Father Clcmentine Deymann delivered
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
Very usad News,

A bill sticking machine. which sticks without ladder or paste pot, has made it's appearance in the streets of Pari4 and does its work we'll
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

passed the E. A. examination in 1890. Ahe gained first honors and the uniyer- sity prize. All of her knowleduc Of French. in which she is 50 proficient. has been acquired in England
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
BRAVE AND TALENTED.
Mrs. Grimwood Who Braved Shot
 and Shell for Duty.

Happily it does not often fall to the lot of any woman to be called upon to give proof of courage and devotion such
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
HENRY W. GRADY.

ten feet in granite, the lines of which harmonize with the surrounding archi- lecture, all supported by terrace four feet in height. The work in its en- tirety will cost S35, 600, and the money has come from all parts of the Union. Gov. Hill will deliver the oration sat the dedication of the monument.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts being an accomplished equestrian, wilr ao mounted, ana not fin . carria0o, }o Harvard on Commencement day. TIT
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
TWO BRIGHT WOMEN.
They Gain Degrees, Prizes and HOnors
 i'm the Universities of England.

Miss Sherratt, whose name was re- gently placed third on the list of M. As
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

M Georre vsnderh hfl1in liIS: " q, ea1kls 7oo sasa s -
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
A Poor Teaua.

Broadway N. Y., Car Conductor-- Tell tn stable boss we want better pair O hosses.
 Driver-Wot's the matter with these ere?
 Conductor = Every passenger wot started t catch the car to-day has caught it.
The Globe-republican., 1891-03-25

QAdd further for the information of
the ''reformer" that these are only a
sample lot of the numberless items
upon which the Mills bill tried to fix a
higher rate of duty than that named in
the Mckinley bill. If the latter is a
'robber barons' tariff, what was the
''reformer's" own measure?
We do not adduce these facts as EVIL
dence for or against either measure.
We simply give the figures to show the
insincerity of the ''reformer's'' talk
about taxes" Nor does the comparison
clear the Mills bill from the charge of
having provided for a free-trade tariff.
Its principle of adjusting duties was
strictly analogous to that of the British
tariff. Its prime object was revenue,
not protection. 1t accordingly swept
the protecting duties from some of our
principal products, treated other sched-
ules to an indiscriminate, slap-dash gen.
eral provision, with no regard to the
peculiar conditions of the diverse indus
tries affected. and left high duties on
The Globe-republican., 1891-03-25

and was only waiting my chance to go.
MY work was concealed by rubbing
putty into the track of the saw anc
backing it over.
The engineer came on duty fifteen
minutes before did, and remained If
teen minutes later, while the fireman
slept at the prison and was aroused
about $50 o'clock. had to leave the
shop at SIS to march in to supper with
nv gang. To attempt to leave by day
light would be foolishness, as l would
be seen by the guards on the walls l
must have some excuse for lingering in
nv room until after dark, and l had
Just planned it when an unforeseen cir
cumstance knocked me out. was go
ing to disable the donkey engine just
before six o'clock, knowing 1 would be
called back to help repair it after sup
per, when the prison authorities gave
the wagon contractor leave to occupy
a portion of the garden with his lumber
A great lot of it was hauled in and
piled up directly before my window.
obliging me to use lamp to work.b by.
and cutting off my chance of escape. l
made some cautious inquiries and found
that it was all green stuff, and might
be left there four or five years to season.
1t was a bitter disappointment, but
still it only made me the more deter
mined to get out. About this time
was approached by two or three pris-
oners who had scheme to tunnel
out from the cook room, but l re-
fused to have anything to do with it.
l wanted no partnership undertaking.
with the chance of being given away at
the last moment. In about two weeks
some more machinery was set up, and
outside help had to be employed in the
work. 1 took careful note of the going
and coming of the free men. There
were ten or twelve of them, and they
came and went by the yard wicket.
One day, when my plan was fully ma
tured, I managed to get hold of a cap,
blouse and pair of overalls belonging to
workmen, and 1 fully intended to go GU,
with them as they quit work at night.
had the garments hidden away, and an
other half hour would have witnessed
the success or failure of my plan, when
life man, who was employed as ''lum.
per-" or errand boy. came across the
bundle, caught the idea and, while l re
manned in prison, he walked out with
some of the free men, and l know that
he has never been recaptured.
This escape put the prison authori
ties on the watch. and my hopes were
again blasted. The prison had beer
overcrowded. and q new wing wa:
being built. This was finished when
had served thirteen months, and was
one of the men transferred to it. Re
member, this was long time ago. ant
they didn't build prisons then as they
do now This wing had the cells placed
as follows: