The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-17
MEDICAL.
ileeD aud slept the sleep Of the weary till 4

sleep aud slept the sleep Of the weary till 4
! o'clock in the afternoon.
"But my nerves were no longer of steel
when my suave gambling friends called at
the hotel and informed me that the bank
l had busted in the morning was again
| financially rehabilitated for business. went
again to the Jungle of the tiger. l was so
seIf-con6dent that took my sl1 600 into
the faro bank. My phenomenal luck had
weakened my Judgment"
| What luck did you have~ l eagerly
asked.
''Just the luck any # ought 10 have
had, I lost every dollar of my S1l 1000 before
midnight
Did you ever play againFn
| Never but once" answered Counselor
Melton, and that was at No. IL West
| Twenty-f1fth street, formerly called the
Shakespeare Club, where Charley Ransom,
the most gentlemenly of gamesters, made
himself rich, and won so much money
that he was never able to lose it all before
he died on the horses at Saratoga. That
event, too" continued Melton, twas as
strange as my gain and loss of 81 900 in-
side of tweutyfour hours in Charleston. l
was sick with rheumatism at home. l left
| Charleston, s. c., TO try the benefit of the
Hathorn spring water at Saratoga, and
stopped with that most charming OF land
lords, Breslin. of the Gilsey house.
II had the inhsmmatory rheumatism so
| badly that / could so nowhere without my
colored valet, my faithful Sam, who had
| been with me long before and after the war
l could not lift my hand to my mouth at
| the table, and Sam was my constant body
guard. 1t was heavenly night in June
| and there was In the air that sympathetic
silence | have often noticed on Indian sum
mer afternoons-ad delicate haze that seemed
only the kindly air made visible.
AR'Tba GDaTfab f1rnVarh tThn daxyfl
| tempts most people. but an idle man tempts
the devil"
| 'What possessed me to 60 to the Shakes
| peare Club know not-possibly to set that
| Admirable Crichton of gamblers, Mai
| Crump, a longtime friend of war times
who left Rhode Island to go into the con-
| federate service as a major. 1t might have
| been the IL O'Clock supper for which Char
ley Ransom's place was famous. Anyway,
l went.
SANS eyes opened wide as he waited for
me near the front window opening on
Twenty-fifth street. 1 called him ABOUT
midnight and handed him $400 and told
him to place the money on the ace, as the
! dealer, with the air of an expert, twirled the
silver box and disclosed the king as soda
card. Sans eyes look like saucers. | think
| he thought was mad. He said: Fore Gaud,
Marse Melton, dis yere's funny business
My $500 Sam, with a negro flourish, laid on
the ace; a ten-spot quickly followed the
ace. The $400 became $500 the first turn.
I'm two turns the $500 had mnguifed
into 81 800. Then long wait and the ace
won again, while Sam showed his ivorles
with delight as he saw the ace obscured
with lucky blue fish. The dealer paid out
to me 50, 200, which placed on top of the
fish on the ace Maj. Crump had taken
the dealers place, who had retired In dis
gust. meant to parallel my bet. looked
at Crump; he nodded ia the affirmative.
The next turn came my way, and the dealer
scooped the pile and handed me Sc 400.
played no more that night. l gave Black
Sam two Sl00-bills, which made his mouth
to (y)ear. Soon after daylight / took the
early morning train for Saratoga springs.
The waters acted like a charm. and in two
weeks was back in the Gilsey house, a
we'll man."