The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02
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gambler at horseraces, the: other is a model young man and more domesti- cated In his tastes, and up to last pay day he had not been allured by the blandishments of the tickle bookmaker.
 On that day the two boys.were given half-holiday in addition to their month ly salary, and the good bellboy com menced to bemoan the sad state of his financial affairs, deploring the fact that his wages were So low and tips so few and far between. The bad bellboy con- doled with his, at the same time saying, "Why don't you play the races and make a winning?' The other one replied, Its against my religious principles, and, what's more, I don't know one horse from the other, so that will not help me any; and then suppose I would lose?"
 "Why, my dear boy, you can't lose if you play the way I tell you," the tempt CT answered. 'I have been watching the races for a long time now and you can bet that know the horses all right.
 The spacious arguments finally over came the conscientious scruples Of the good boy and they both went out to the races, where the guileless one ventured s2O, which represented the sum total of his earnings, in every case following the tips of his knowing companion. It Is needless to state he lost it all.
 When they were coming home his vol uble friend was explaining how it all happened; that the horses they had picked to win were not in good form, the jockeys were a little off, and he indulged in the "con' race talk characteristic of losers.
 The good boy, thinking this a small measure of consolation for his losses, with sad intonation of voice and with doleful visions of the lately departed double eagle, interrupted the other by inquiring, 'Say, old man. did you say that you knew the horses?"
 ''Thats what I said." his friend re- piled
 Well" said the other, ''dont you think you had better get another introduction O.
 Lieutenant Byron l.. Reed of the U. s.. S. Corwin and Lieutenant l.. T. Cutter of the U. S. s. Rush are located at the Cali fornia.
 George J. Apple and wife of Dawson, who have been visiting in the southern part of the State, have returned to the Grand.
 W. Forsyth, the vineyardist and raisin- grower of Fresno, is convalescing from his late serious illness. He is at the Occidental.
 Mrs. Sherwood and her daughter of South Ascot. England, who are making tour of the world, are guests at the Occidental.
 Edward Percival Mcdonald of New York, who keeps a fashionable stable of hunting horses on Long Island, registered at the Palace last night.
 H. w. Pratt, ex-Mayor of Chelsea, Mass, and. S. R. Sargent. proprietor of a large woodenware factory at Cleveland, Ohio, are on the hotel register of the Pal ace.
 E. O. Brandt, assistant auditor of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad at Omaha, who has been here on business connected with his road, will leave to- day for his home.
 s. F. Loughborough of New York and a cousin Of the lately deceased Alexan- der z. Loughborough, is stopping at the Grand. He has extensive mining inter- ests in British Columbia and Arizona and Is en route to the Klondike, where he proposes to invest some of his surplus cash in mining property as he is Q firm believer in the golden promise of that country.