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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28
BAY ST. LOUIS MISS, SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1898.

further explanation that it is exception.
ally important that he should have as
sistants of ability like unto his own.
The president was very fortunate in Sc
curing for the position of assistant sec.
retary of the. interior Hon. George
Chandler, OF Kansas. This gentleman
is giant physically as well as intel
lectually, and capable of standing q
great deal of continuous hard work.
He has been on duty for over three
years, and never left his desk for sin
gle day until he went home recently to
vote. Assistant Secretary Chandler de-
votes most of his time and attention to
the supervision of the general land Of
fee and the Office of Indian affairs. All
matters before both of those Offices
which are not satisfactory to itigants,
claimants and petitioners who are dis
gusted with the decisions of the COM
missioners, come before Assistant Sec
retary Chandler, who is a lawyer of SUI
perior ability and was formerly Judge
upon the bench in Kansas. He has
been obliged to work both day and
night, considering and deciding such
cases.
The government of this country Is
getting to be an unusually large affair,
and it produces vast amount of bust.
ness. The minor machines, the clerks in
the various divisions of the different bu
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Bishop Brooks BRIGHT Niece.

Bishop Brooks-Phillips Brooks, lest
the title be unfamiliar-has a little
niece, brought up, as bishops niece
should be, to say her prayers. One
night when she had put herself to bed
her mother asked her afterward if she
had said her prayers.
"No," she said
But why not?" her mother inquired.
"Well," said the little maid, 81 was
tired and sleepy, SO asked the Lord to
excuse me, and he said: Certainly,
Miss Brooks, with pleasure"
Not Wholly Satisfactory.
II thought you said you were in love
with Miss DeTrop?''
II did,"
"And yet you say now that there is
something about her you dislike"
There is-it's Twemlo. He's always
about her."-Chicago News Record.
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this is rather good percentage. In
three hours ten players would be
"broke," and tho gamekeeper would
have all of their money.
There are ten lottery games In the
Chinese quarters, which has about
three thousand inhabitants. Each lot
terry has two drawings daily-afternoon
and evening. The tickets are about
four and half inches square, each con-
tanning eighty Chinese characters,
marked in green on thin light brown
paper. At the front window Of a COM
bination store sat benevolent-looking
Chinese looking over the returns of the
last drawing. l laid down ten cents
and asked for 'ticket for tonight" ="
AS | come properly introduced" the
ticket was issued without question.
He handed me a marking brush, and
marked out ten of the eighty characters.
These are the numbers I wanted to
win. He marked out the same charac-
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28
QUEER CHINESE GAMES.
Fan-Tan, Pool and Lottery in Great
Favor.
How the Games Arc Played-A Chinese
Pool Room and Its Habitues-How
Lottery Winners Lose Tho
Game of Fnn-Tan.
Especial Los Angeles (Cal) Letter..

Especial Los Angeles (Cal) letter..
On the opposite side of the plaza, fac
ing the old cathedral, and where the
aristocracy dwelt in the days of Mex
lean rule, is chinatown" The crum-
bling adobe houses where the dark-eyed
senoritas and gay cavaliers made merry
are now used as opium dens, and even
for baser purposes. The Chinese quar-
ter has a population of about s, 1000, only
about 200 being women. 1t requires ten
lotteries and about twenty-five gaming
houses to meet the demands of these in
veterate gamesters. Fan-tan, the lot
terry and pool are the principal games.
Fan-tan is the "gentleman's game" an
swering to our great American game Of
faro. The dealer empties from bowl
large pile of Chinese checkers, or
buttons, in the center of large square
table, around which are seated and
stand the betters. There are four crou-
piers, each of whom rakes to his corner
of the table pile of the checkers. AT
each corner of the table space of about
four inches is marked off, into which
the checkers are brought.
Then the spectators begin betting
whether there is an odd or even number
Of checkers in particular corner
After all bets are made, the checkers
are told off two at each time until there
remains either two or one-odd or even
AS the pile decreases the excitement
increases, and the confusion seems tc
the uninitiated to be the beginning of 6
riot. To a Caucasian this seems long
way round, very slow and very tame
but to the Chinese it is as exciting as il
faro to the American. A person can bel
on the odd or even number appearing al
one corner, two, three, or four corners
and is paid in proportion to the chances
This is their national game, and thu
"bloods" often bet $50 or S1oO. A per
centage, or commission, is charged fol-
each game, according to the amount O.
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the stakes, as In the American games Of
rondo and pool.
Chinese pool is combinatio of pool
and roulette. After going through a
dark alleyway dark room is entered;
sleepy Chinaman at the door admits
the visitor. AS soon as the smoke lifts.
or the eyes become accustomed to the
mass OF mist which overhangs the dingy
room, the visitor sees a congress of
all nations" several types of the Amer
lean, the young clerk, the loafer, the
"hobo," the hoodlum, the bunko-steer-
er, and the tourist seeing the sights;
also various types Of the negro-the
waiter in his check suit, the "sport"
from "Nigger alley" with black
slouch hat and braggadocia air; also
the corresponding types of Mexicans,
and Chinese of all degrees and condi-
tions. Around an old billiard table
which has seen much bad use, stand
this mass of motley humanity = the
Caucasian leaning against the darky
from Niger alley, and the Chinaman
exchanging the cigarette of peace with
the Mexican from "Sonoratown"-the
Mexican quarter of the city. At the
head OF the billiard table stands the
gamekeeper with box of tickets-each
about an inch in length, upon which is
written Chinese characters.
A check costs ten cents and entities
the player to three shots. About the
center of the table, jutting out from
the head, is a board about two feet
square, sloping downward. On this
inclined board are twenty-five holes,
scooped out large enough to hold a
billiard ball. At the bottom of each
hole is painted a number, ranging from
one to twenty-fve-the highest num-
bers generally adjoining the lowest.
The player stands at the. side of the
dealer, and shoots the billiard ball to
the opposite end of the table; it re-
bounds and rolls upon the incline.
rolls around slowly as If hesitating
which hole to take. During this trying
moment the excitement is intense, and
the noise deafening, until finally the
ball hovers over large number and
settles upon smaller one adjoining.
And then everyone laughs and ieers,
excepting the player. There are usually
from ten to fifteen players, and USUALLY
some one wins the pot before the
fifteenth man gets shot. The highest
number made of course wins.
When there are less than ten players
the gamekeeper takes ten cents out Of
the stakes, which is one dollar or less;
more than ten. he takes twenty cents.
As 1t takes only from Ave to ten min.
ates 70 sell the ttekets and play q game,
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reaus of the great departments, are un.
der the direction of chiefs of division
who are set over them to carry out the
orders of the assistant secretaries, who
represent the secretaries themselves.
Tho men and women who handle pens,
and the chiefs of division who are over
them. do not amount to great deal
In the actual responsibilities of the adj
ministration, but are mere automatons
who are reliable more or less according
to their ancestry and training, but
have no knowledge of political orders
and affairs outside of the little circle in
which they live. The assistant secre-
taries and the assistant postmasters-
general are the men who really run the
business ends of the departments. The
cabinet officers are at the head of their
institutions more nominally than really
SO far as the actual workings of their
departments are concerned, because it is
absolutely impossible for them to learn
the details of the various bureaus of
the great executive departments within
the brief space of four years. Their as
sistants attend to all matters of detail,
and often act as temporary heads of the
departments Only matters which
come to the secretaries on appeal, mat
ters of appointment and matters con-
cerning land and Indian affairs and
pensions which cannot be finally decid-
ed by the assistants are brought to the
heads of the departments for adiudica-
ton. They act, in reality, in the exec
utive departments as court of final ap-
peal acts in the world of jurisprud-
ence.
President Harrison was unfortunate
In his selection of commissioner of
pensions in 1889; not that he selected a
bad man, or a weak man, but that he
selected man who was too aggressive
in his work to suit the secretary of the
interior. The result was that the de-
cisions of Corporal Tanner were over
ruled by the secretary and there was a
general rumpus and row, which re-
suited in Tanners resignation. The
president was equally unfortunate in
the selection of commissioner of In
dian affairs. He appointed to that i'm
portant office a man who believed in
giving the Indians liberal education
and sectarian religion, first and fore
most and above all other things Sec
retary Noble once said to me, very
plaintively: ''If there were starving,
ignorant Indian before him, Commits
sioner Morgan would give him educa-
ton and teach him the Lords Prayer
first, and give him breakfast after.
wards" That reductio ad absurdum
ftly epitomizes the character and dis
position of the commissioner of Indian
affairs, a man who is SO highly edu.
Gated that he has become narrow
minded; man who cannot obliterate
from his ascetic brain the idea that J..
Fenimore Cooper's romantic Ind ians
were real specimens of the American
aborigine.
President Harrison made very few
mistakes in selecting his assistants; but
the errors which he did make were con.
spicuous SMITH D. Fry,
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should be secured. This is essentially a
law department, and has supervision
over a vast amount of public business.
There is the general land office which
deals with every acre of the public do
main. the Office of Indian affairs which
has supervision of the wards of the ma
ton, the great patent Office, which it,
self is large enough almost to be sep
arate department of the government,
and the pension Office, which iscertainly
the most complicated executive machine
in the republic. All of these belong to
the interior department and are under
the supervision of the secretary of the
interior.
You may well believe that it requires
a man OF great deal more than ordi-
nsry ability and knowledge Of atfuirs
TO he at the head OF this department,
and you may also understand without
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28
The Same, Every Time.

Tutter-Ah, Miss Pinlserly, you can't
Imagine the temptations that young
man has in large city. Take drinking,
for instance. When your best friend
comes up, slaps you on the back, and
says: "Old man. what'll you have?" I
tell you it's hard to resist. No less than
seven fellows have asked me that ques.
tion to-day.
Miss Pinkerly (admiringly)--And I
can vouch for it, Mr.. Tutter, that your
answer was always the same.
Tutter (emphaticallyl-It was.-Life.
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I&X YR75lzk
WING LEE YUEN NIGHT. TIME

"A ALS'oFol WlNNLh, coo FUN len CGNISs
tcrs on another ticket, which duplicate
he kept as check against fraud.
The drawing is conducted by placing
in bowl eighty characters correspond
ing to those printed on the ticket.
Twenty of these characters are drawn
out, and are the winning numbers. As
there are eighty characters on the
ticket, the percentage would seem to be
largely in favor of the game to begin
with; but the player must have guessed
five of the twenty drawn out in order to
win twenty cents; six numbers wins 81;
seven numbers, $3.50; eight numbers,
$50; nine numbers, SLIT; ten numbers,
1915; less the commission of ten per
cent. which is deducted from oil prizes
over IS. There are numerous combina-
tions, as in other games, and the pur-
chaser can mark out as few or as many
characters as he wishes, and the prizes
are about in the same proportion to the
above, according to the risk. But the
ordinary way is marking out ten num-
bers, at from ten cents to 81 a ticket.
The ticket bears the name of the COM
pany selling it, printed in large red
letters: wing Lee Yuen; night time. "
On the side Of the ticket the seller
marks the date of the drawing, as he
sells it. The drawings are conducted
in secret-which is another advantage
in favor of the dealers Eighty charac-
ters, similar to those printed upon the
ticket, are placed in large vessel, and,
after being thoroughly mixed, twenty
are drawn out. These are the winning
characters
These twenty winning characters are
then painted ont with red ink. The IRE.
turns Tor winning numbers are posted up
for the inspection of patrons. The pur.
chaser compares his ticket with the
ten numbers marked out, with the
official returns, and he is paid in pro.
portion to the number of characters, he
has guessed.
Ticket selling stops twenty minutes
before each drawing, SO as to allow the
agencies time in which to make Their
returns to the main office. This gives
the proprietors an opportunity of max
ing trough estimate" of the run or
particular characters, and they will thus
know which ones not to take out of the
bowl as winners. This is the reverse
of not placing winning numbers in the
American lottery wheel. Agents ped
die tickets throughout the city, visiting
places apparently seeking work. The
ticket is made payable to the agent
which fact the innocent purchaser doe.
not know, and should he, by chance
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28
The Crucial Test of Love.

"I'm sorry" said Mrs. Bronstone, in
the heat of the marital spat, ''I'm sorry
ever married YOU"
Maria" replied Mr.. Bronstone, re-
proachfully, ''haven't 1 been a good
husband to you? Haven't I carried
bundles and done shopping and staid
home nights? Haven't L" and here
his voice was chol1ed with sobs of self
pity. Haven't gone to evening mu-
sical receptions with you whenever you
asked?" But he could get no further.
In a passionate excess of remorse Mrs.
Bronstone had flung herself into his
arms and was begging forgiveness
Chicago News.
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Destructive to the Memory.
The Expert Lady Driver.

She-You say you knew it was who
was driving when you were half mile
away from us. Now how could you
recognize a person in a carriage at that
distance?
He-Easy to recognize you. The car
rfhge never turned out for other vehicles
and stopped three blocks one side of the
railroad crossing because train was
coming. News Record.
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MuSiCal Note.

Mrs. Peterby, of Harlem, used to be
beautiful singer, but of late her voice
seems to come unglued, so to speak.
Gus De Smith, who is very careless in
his conversation, was invited to tea.
Music being the topic of conversation,
Mrs. Peterby remarked that. she be-
lieved her daughter had inherited her
voice.
II was wondering what had become
of it," remarked Gus, absent-mindedly
Texas Siftinrs
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Useless.

Maud went with Miss Sears to-dav
TO look at bedroom set; 1t was pretty.
but she wouldn't take it,
Ethel--Why not?
Mand--ls waa too low far q man to
crawl Hadeg, Truth, R" =
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Ready to Prove Her Loss.

Miss Footlytes-Did you see in the
papers that my diamonds have been
stolen?
Stagedore-Yes, but I don't believe
it. Idon't believe you had any diamonds
Miss Footlytes-You don't? Well, If
you will come to my fiat I'll show them
to you.-Truth.
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A Perfect Balm.

Rev. Slowansleepy-Ah, Miss Smil.
AK, | was glad to see you at church
again after your long absence. /
hope you liked the sermon?
Miss Smilax-Oh, yes, indeed; it was
so restful.-Boston Courier.
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Truth.

"Ah, Mees Hobartone, you climb re
Mattcrhorn? Eat was foot to be
proud Of"
Pardon me, count, but you mean
'feat.''
ooh! You climb it more than vonce?''
-Demorest's Magazine.
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To Take His Place.

slave you a parrot that swearsp''
asked woman as she entered the bird
store.
II suppose I could get one," replied
the dealer; 'but never had such a cal
before"
"You see, nay husband went out Yves
month ago and Pm sort O. lonesome
-.IOdpe
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28

Mrs. Mater-Do you like children, Mr..
Baldie?
Mr.. Baldie-I just love them, at the
theatcr.
s'The theater?"
eyes, indeed. I love to have the dear
little things on the seats in front of
me."-N. Y. Weekly.
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F.. An Illustration.

Totling-It's strange how vindictive
some women can be.
Dimling-It is
Totling- Kansas woman who
married one of the men who lynched
ner first husband. Brooklyn Life.
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A Virtue of Necessifx.

Mother-I see you have been playing
with that little girl next door again.
Have you and she made up?
Small panghter--Ne'm, but we
haven't anybp9y else TO play WITH
Good Aews
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Particular,

The Young Housekeeper-Let me
have two pounds of nice ham.
The Butcher-Yes, marin.
The Young Housekeeper-Ham. re-
member. have concluded not to buy
pork in any form.-Chicago Jury.
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She Know.

First Wife-Wcll, Mrs. Brown knows
where her husband is every minute in
the day.
Second Wife That's the kind of a
husband l would like to have. How
does she manage it?
First Wife-She had him sent to Sing
Sing for bigamy.-Truth.
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But He Did Not Understand.

Mr.. Snippy-Er-you want me to
write in your album? Something humor-
Gus, suppose?
Miss Hardtolxill - Yes, something
ridiculous. Write your Nance Chicago
News Record.
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So Very ApproprIate.

Larkins-Doesn't Miss Eastlake look
chic?
Harkins-No wonder. She's wearing
rooster feathers Town Topics.
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Criticism Unappreciated. d.

Prisoner-Judge, you will never he a
!ogician.
Judge-Why not?
Prisoner - Your sentences are too
long.
Judge-Thirty days for contempt OF
,ourt.-Town Topics.
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Not Fitted for Travelling

Little Dot-I wonder why there isn't
ever any spiderwebs in the corners of
railroad cars.
Little Dicl1-Spiders have eight eyes,
an guess it's too much trouble to keep
the cinderS out.-Good News,
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Matrimonial Ifeu

"Ah, John," she said, just before the
marriage, 81 fear l am not worthy Of
you. You are such good man."
Never mind, Martha, I'll change all
that after the wedding. Texas Sift-
ings.
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Always Ready to Smile

Photographer - Now, sir. please let
me see you smile.
Col, Bluegrass - Why, certainly; but
where's the whialsy,.>Tvatb.
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One of Its Dreaded Results

Banks-I don't mind the grip itself
SO much-it's the after effects Tn.
afraid of.
Rivers-The after effects is what ails
me. I'm still standing off the doctor for
S65.-Chicago Tribune.
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Paradoxical.

ga money making business does not
always pay" said Larkin.
What do you mean by that?" asked
Bunting.
well, look at the detected counter.
feiter. Truth.
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Mr.. Plummer-I just found my hat on
the refrigerator. | wonder on what
ridiculous thing I will find it next?
Mrs. Plummer--Probably on your
head, dear.
And Mrs. Plummer smiled sweetly as
rushed downstairs. Judge.
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Not Much Left

Lady-Where Is my trunk?
Raggageman Mani couldn't find any
Iunk,. mum. but I've got the handle
WITH The check eH.--N. Y. Weskly,
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Not Quite the Same.

eyes, he's a fine enough looking
horse" said the prospective purchaser,
critically examining the spirited thor
oughbred again. Hes nothing extra,
Of course, but he'll answer my purpose,
I think. And his tail is already docked.
I won't have to get that job done"
"Curious thing about that tail!'' said
the owner of the horse, patting the ami
malls glossy hide. 'It's always been
just that length. He never had any
more tail. He was born so.''
"Born sop echoed the other. "Then
I don't want him at any price. I'm not
buying freaks. Chicago Tribune.
Destructive to the Memory.
Al have just discovered what it is
that destroys the memory most com.
pletely.
B.-Alcoholp &
"No."
'"Tobacco?"
mo"
''Morphine?"
"No. 1t is lending = man money
Texas Siftings.
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A wELL-MANNERED BOY.

lrate Parent--I am going to give each
of you sound thrashing. Now where
shall l begin?
Hopeful Son-Ladies before gentle.
men, father.-Puck.
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An Edition Do Luxe,

Loves proof read in her sweet face,
Ipraised her loveliness,
Then locked her form In sweet embrace,
And quickly went to pressl
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OFFICIAL RETURNS - THE TWENTY VIM
MING CHARACTERS.

win, he is somewhat surprised and
mystified to learn, on calling at the
office, that the peripatetic agent has
drawn his money with the duplicate.
So, the winner frequently loses.
j. M. SCANLAND.
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A Strong Supnorter.

VI believe" declared the advocate
"In putting down strong drink"
"And so do l." agreed Old Soak,
With very knowing wink.