The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-12-07
|R,rIJNE At CARDS.
..,,,A ~ JOHN SCOTT, IHE
,,r,FMaN GAMBLER

!. whites, In Londsn, In
'n'. ..rrv Exceeded s5,oeo,ocH.
4 ! r,l,ssr''e' he Was . Man '' inc
Precise Methods
!, i gentlemen gamblers of tAe
he eighteenth century ~ Eng.
.,,a - one is noted for the I'M
',r, I'd the regularity Of his win
This mi was John Scott, who be,
= . penniless captain, wound
-oer : as q millionaire general.
va sioct Of tho campaigns he con-
history is silent, hut eontenlpo
,.don was full Of talk Of his mar
Ill with dice and cards, and
-, nisfortunes Of his later life
.ore material for tho sossips.
;.;ug to Richard Bentley, from
m ..on street. on Feb. %, 100,
\ Walpole says:
! rroar event is the catastrophe
lain Bland, who has fiirtod away
.ole fortune at hazard. lie t'other
ssooa1ed what was lost by the
nike Of Bedford, having at one pc.
4 the night fthoash he recovered
r-satest part of it lost e32, coo,
;,;zans nut on their double chan
nrmps and trndge to st. James
n eynectation of seeing Judgment
Fhita,s - angels, with flaming
|. aad devils flying away with
oyes. like the prints IL Sadier'
II. Sir John lost this immense
\ a Captain Scott, who at present
nothing but d few debts and his
Mission.
John Bland, to conclude here the
II Of that luckIess dicer, shot him-
ead after los. ne the last OF his for
IN Kippaz park.
|ptain John Scott was of that branch
he numerous Scott family of which
Walter was a member, and his an
/ in the thirteenth century was that
bus chemist, Michael Scott, who
The name Of Wizard. A later Scott
'pguished himself in the tima OF
kls II by marrying, when he was
kelf only II years old, q lady who
three years his junior. The bride
Mary countess Of Buccleuch, in
oyn right the richest heiress in Scot
Tbs marriage was a secret one,
none Of the friends and few Of her
{ly were informed Of it until the
after. The youthful bridegroom did
prOft greatly by this match, fer his
/ died at l3. Her sister Anne, who
|eeded TO her titles and estates. made
f.yriage with the pet son of Charles
Monmouth, and had a numerous
ty.
was 60 years later, or about 1850,
|Joung John Scott, son Of tie Laird
pets TarVet, entered King Georges s
F. Two years later he was III Lon
and in the midst of the most reck-
set Of spendthrifts, rakes and game
that English society has ever
M. Sir John Bland was only one
athoasand .'lch yonng Englishlnen
threw away his fortune over tine
ing table st Whites. Tho one his
loser Of that era was Charles James
Fits rival Fox gambled away,
DID, no less than s., coo, 900. Scott
ihe very antIpoaes OF Fox. When
lied' at q ripe old age. he left a for
as great as that with which Fox
begun and every penny of it had
won at the gaming table. Fox was
pc scholar. Scott was almost iliit-
= rex said that losing was the next
''es' pleasure to winning. Scott
y iost, Or SO rarely that it did not
y the serenity of his career as a
lee' Fox would 20 home in the
mug alter a night in which he had
oieu away Ii0, 600 or $50, 900 and
lose himself in a study Of
ocles Or Asehylus. Scott, like the
ole fellow he was, would button
g. over the portemonnaie in which
4'ieu away winnings Of an equal
= greater amount and immediate.
= oeu 50 rs to ba fresh for play
9 evening.
neh scott found himself i'll London,
alnld = the wild young men of his
~ = determined that gaming was
:, o1ance CT getting money. When
saged himself to throw a series OF
. WIN Sir John Bland, he had, az
= , "alPole puts it, nothing "but
aeo's and his commission. His
taught him that there was
- N diclng, at which a stupid
:, aas as good a chance rs q bright
,na =, 80 ne speedily gave up hazard
ppiied himself to whist, at which
:, loaven lights on the side Of the
= ~ payer. Never in the history Of
, ~ men gamble for such high
-, i scott and his victims did al
!, : petWeen 1853 and 1880. Scott i
: ~" vas an exceedingly simple one.
'ase himself tho bact &c = =, ~