The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-02-06
ON THE ROAD TORUIN
STOKES or THE TEMPLE or NAM
NON AT MONTE CARLO.

Some OF Them True. Many FAIs-. bal All
Highly IRterestlnE-B Baskam aud the
~wellinEton lloot Systrm--A Talk with
Mr. Spectator. = Man Who Knows
But who should this be slipping some
iced vermouth at the marble table hrt
an old friend whom I viii call Mr.
Spectator. he lives at Monte Carlo, he
has passed n score Of seasons here, he
has plenty OF money. he goes TO the
Casino every day and every evening and
he never plays a cent. II il 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 viii 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
pawned her diamonds last week aud
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
istrationg Why didn't he make his dec.
laration? They knew well enough that
he had ,ost 200, 600 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 fool, sirr'
Mr.. Spectator went on to explain that
when q cleaned out player made a can
did admission If his impccuniosity the
administration gave him n sum II mon
saNrE EfFf ffffsfarsf a. Anf~nw- -
railway To the place whence be came
and his incidental expenses en- route.
he mentioned one case in which whole
family Of five persons were allowed )
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 rccouped the admins
tration for their outlay. IN the case
which he cited. one Of the party. a Indy.
who had not gJne farther than Nice,
received some weeks afterward a hand
some remittance from England. She
Went back blithely to Monty" repaid
the Is louis, re-entered the Casino. and
backing the douze dcrnier, not forge ttinc
zero. won $500. lyon are not 10 he-
AANhNH aAAfANAA AAAs NAAANAH u NANAAL vi
the sensational stories printed about
ruined gamesters hanging themselves 70
trees in the gardens. or blowing out
their brains in the reading room. " The
majority of these canards are set on foot
by obscure French newspapers which
have not been Suhvcntiuned or hrihed hy
the administration to puff Monte Carlo
One Of the pleasantest characteristics
VI my friend Mr.. Spectator il that every
time you meet him he has fresh story
to tell you about an infallible system for
winning nc roulette, and this time he re-
galed me with "a succiuct narrative ~
what l may call the Wellington boct
system. Captain Backum had played
Tor many years 4 large number Of sys-
TENS. and by the time he was FIVE and
forty had played away handsome for
tune. A happy thought occurred 20 him
he always wore wellington boots. His
capital was just . louis. This he
changed into franc pieces. aud he new
er staked more than one piece at n time,
and If he won he withdrew his stakes aft
er the third coup His Winnings he care
fully placed in a side pocket, and when
ever he had won four pieces he changed
them into louis and slipped the coin
into one Of his boots. He played for
seven consecutive hours before his stock
capital was exhausted. Then he returned
to Nice, somewhat heavy of footstcp.
and drawing off his boots. found that lac
bad won 100 louis.
This was two years ago, " continued
Mr.. Spectator, land only last week
found Bacl1um at "A third class hotel at
Nice. He was in dressing gown and
slippers and looking by no means cheer
fol How about the Wellington boot
system:' / asked. Utter collapse, hC
replied COMPOUNDED run Of bad luck.
And the boOts:' went ON. The bOots?'
he replied. i pawned them yesterday
afternoon.
so this is Monty" in full swing
"Mmty," with its ups and downs. its
c,.aseless whirl Of gayety and diSsipa.
tiOn. There is no rest at Monte Carlo
When yOu are tired Of play, there are
dramatic performances, there are CON
certs, there is pigeon shooting. and in
the spring and summer there j. plenty
Of yachting. But all these are only side
issues The Grand Trunk line II Monte
Carlo leads 20 the temple Of mammun.
1t is crowded night and day by people
lusting for money which they have not
earned. and il is the road TO ruin
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