The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-28
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN
STORIES or THE TEMPLE OF NAM
MON AT MONTE CARLO.

some of Them True, Many False. bua All
Highly IntcrestIng-BAek9sn and the
~weIIInEtOn boot systems-A Talk with
Mr. Spectator. o Man who Knows
But who should this be slipping some
iced verlnouth at the marble table but
an old friend whom I will call Mr..
Spectator He lives at Monte Carlo, he
has passed a score of seasons here, he
has plenty of money, he goes to the
Casino every day and every evening. and
he never plays cent 1t is his occupa-
tion in life to be an observer Of things
and to mark the ways of man and wOm-
an kind In the summer he will mark
them at Aix-les- -Bains, at Lausanne or
at Trouville. He knows everything
about what is going ON just now at
Monty" what Russian princess
pswned her diamonds last week and
what Cuban sugar planter did not die Of
apoplexy at the Hotel Carmbole, but
poisoned himself with prussic acid
He was a fool, sir, quOth Mr.. Spec
tator. why didn't he go to the admin.
istrati0n7 Why didn't he make his deo-
laration? They knew well enough that
he had lost 200. 900 francs in the course
of ten days. They would have paid his
travelling and hotel expenses back to
Paris, or back to Brazil, for the matter
of that. He was a fool, sirl'
Mr.. Spectator went on to explain that
when a cleaned out player made a can
did admission Of his impecuniosity the
administration gave him q sum Ofmon-
ey sufficient to defray his journey by
| railway to the place whence he came
and his incidental expenses en- route.
He mentioned one case in which whole
family of five persons were allowed 10
louis apiece to take them from Monte
Carlo to London, the sole condition at
tached to the largeSs being that the
recipient should not re-enter the Casino
unless he or she recouped the admins
tration for their outlay. In the case
which he cited, one of the party, lady,
who had not gone farther than Nice,
received some weeks afterward a hand
some remittance from England. She
went back blithely to Monty" repaid
the 10 louis, re-entered the Casino, anC
backing the dOuze dernier, not forgetting
zero, won $500. "You are not to be
lieve," added Mr.. Spectator, "a tithe ot
the sensational stories printed abou
ruined gameSters hanging themselves K
trees in the gardens, or blowing on
their brains in the reading room" TIL,
2 majority of these canards are set ON foo
I by obscure French newspapers whicl
have not been subventiOned or bribed by
, the administration To puff Monte Carlo
l One of the pleasantest characteristic
| ,f my friond Mr. &napt.4fpr IL that aN-a,,
time you meet him he has fresh stor,
to tell you about an infallible system fo
winning at roulette, and this time he re
galed me with a succinct narrative q
what l may call the Wellington boo
, system" Captain Backum had playe
tor many years a large number of sys
3 TENS, and by the time he was five ant
I forty had played away IA handsome fol
q tune. a happy Thought occurred'tO him
T I.c always wore Wellington boots. Hi
{ capital was just , louis. This II
8 changed into 8 frame pieces. and he neN
Q er staked more than one piece at a time
Y and if he won be Withdrew his stakes aft
9 er the third cou,. His winnings he cart
i fully placed in a side pocket, and wher
l. ever he had won four pieces he change
It them into u louis and slipped the col
g into one of his boots. He played f
d seven consecutive hours before his stoc
It capital was exhausted. Then he returne
= to Nice, somewhat heavy of footsteI
}, and drawing off his boots, found that /
s had Won 100 louis.
Q This was two years ago" continue
a Mr.. Spectator, land only last week
= found Backum at third class hotel 1
II Nice. He was in a dressing gown an
q slippers and looking by no means chez
n fol. How about the Wellington boz
o syStem!' l asked. Utter collapse,
:, replied. COMPOUNDED run Of bad luck
;, And the boots?' Invent on. The boots
y he replied. i pawned them yesterd;
II afternoon.
So this is Monty" in full swing
II Monty, with its ups and downs,
q ct:aseless whirl of gayety and dissip
o tion. There in no rest at Monte Carl
70 When yOu are tired of play, there a
!. dramatic performances, there are CO
II certs, there is pigeon shooting, and
t. the spring and summer there is plen
ID of yachting. But all these are only 81,
p issues. The Grand Trunk line of Mon
1t Carlo leads to the temple of mammO
1t is crowded night and day by peop
J. lnsting for money which they have n
10 earned, and it is the road to ruin.
X London Telegraph.
ar The BARRIERS Little Joke
n Il see you wear Grand Army bU