The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-03-30

Waking up Chestnut street one day when
the dog offended him, and be began 10 beat
Il with bis three canes. A man witha soft
heart Appeared.
Hold onf' said the man. Don't beat
that dog you curt"
Drouin, who Is a. bold and excitable AZ a
tiger, instantly wanted - fight, but a GER
tain prudence which shows his ecceutricity
~ well perhaps as anything could, re-
strained him. just wait" Doc said after
his challenge had been accepted, "until go
home and change my clothes" And OFF be
hurried 90 his hotel. where he told every
body he WAS la fight and was going 70
change his clothes for b. So be went 10
his room and came down again In a little
while in marvellous raiment and then hur-
riod away TO have the fight out.
Drouin used 10 strut through the cor
ridors Of bis hotel with his sectional bill
lizard cue an elaborate affair, In a snowy
case. lie would boast 70 all bis acquaint-
nnces Of bis skill ~ the game and challenge
them time and agnin 20 play him But
Drouin always played billiards alone, aud a
queer game be played. lie got the three
balls together, and then with = nervous
stroke. holding bis cue vertically. he tapped
them gently, moving them an inch or two,
but never counting. lie seldom played
longer than four or i've minutes. Then he
broke Oft in a rage at some mi stroke and
hurried away
lie was sitting at dinner one day with his
wife, who is a pretty blond, and who wears
very elaborate dresses aud jewels, and bis
chair was so placed that every minute or
two a waiter bumped 10 as be strobe past.
Drouin stood this all through the meal, but
he was pale with rage. The next day,
which was Sunday, be walked into the
dining room with "A big knife Ia bis hand
and laid il down ia front Of him. Then he
said IN "A loud voice that the first waiter
who bumped into his chair during that
meal would suffer for it. No waiter, OF
course, tried the experiment.
Drouin has done more travelling than any
thing else OF late. lie owns "a ranch in Tex
as and considerable property in Peoria and
Chicago, which he has 10 look after. Every
now and then he takes a trip abroad, and
when he left Philadelphia for Atlantic City
recently it. was with the intention Of sailing
afterward for France. lie is not supposed
70 be doing any extensive operating In
grains now, but he is quite a keen and sue
ccssful bull ia the stock market. lie does
not plunge at all, but buys $4,000 or $l5,-
600 worth at n time and generally comes
out on top. There are no stories told here
of his enormous extravaganza. He was
perfectly willing when he was here TO buy
his friends champagne and terrapin and all
that sort of thing, but he neither lighted
his cigars with $40 bills at that time nor
handed his friends bank notes TO that
amount with which TO light theirs.
a spendthrift Of different sort who has
been making a sensation in London aud
Paris is Max I.ebaudy. This youngster has
recently come into possession OF IA fortune
Of about sl5,OO0OOO and r. endeavoring to
spend as much OF II as possible in decided
~ novel manner. His relatives including
his own mother, have vainly sought to have
him placed under guardian on the plea Of