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Whether Hamlet should be fat or lean
is sufficient cause for a deadly quarrel
over in France.
This episode in higher criticism recalls
TO mind a number of combats wherein
blood has been shed based on ground
equally trivial. The amusing feature OF
the last performance on the besmirched
field of honor lies not SO much in the
mere fact that two men should fight as
that In all probability neither knew for
what he was fighting. 1t is probable that
neither can read a word of English and
therefore could not appeal to the text for
justification. But they were game and
stood by their original pronouncements
even to attempting to relieve each other
of a little heated blood.
Now, these Frenchmen are not the only
ones who have done battle over literary
plum In fact, even with the ludicrous
setting which holds this gem of the duello
their effort pales in balderdashic insignif-
icance besides the deeds of Count Sivio
Di Luna Of Florence, who fought four
teen adverseries and vanQuished all in
defense of his expressed belief concerning
the relative merits of two poets,. The
noble Florentine was wont to assert that
the productions of Dante far outshone
those Of AriOstO. lie was ever ready to
maintain this with his sword. Indeed he
did maintain il against fourteen of the
flower of Italian nobility.
Mr.. Mendes has fought an equal number
of times but not always in defense or
dispute of the legs of the Bernhardt as
proper representatives of those Of the
tabled Hamlet Doubtless he had other
reasons of equal Importance to France
and posterity fer the other thirteen af-
fairs But Count Di Luna fought four
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turn OF the cards or the whirl of the
wheel, but he doesn't often walk out into
the night air and blow his head of over
his obliteration
The gamest loser ever saw was
sheep herder who didn't look to have
enough character to him to stuff a gnat
pelt. He was punching sheep on the
Idaho sage ranges for $25 a month and
grub when an aunt in Connecticut whom
he had scarcely ever heard of, much less
seen, died and left him $4,000. He didn't
have to come East to get the money;
lawyer handed 1t to him in bundle in
Pocatello. He went to Jim Hosford's faro
bank and told Jim that he wanted to
make a few thcusand-dollar bets. Hos
ford told him that he'd better hang on 70
his money. The herder told Jim that he
wanted action on his money, and that if
he couldn't get 1t at Hosford's layout,
why, there were others. So Hosford dealt
them from the box himself, with q 81 900
limit ] saw the whole play. 1t only
lasted forty-five minutes. The herder
wasn't in it at any stage of the game.
Coppered or open, he couldn't land right.
1t was the fercest run Of evil luck I
ever saw man have at faro. When the
herder had lost $4,000 Hosford said to
him:
You'd better pinch out that remaining
si.0e0e ombrey; give yourself chance
You hand me out another boxful,' re-
piled the herder. When get enough III
quit
''The man was perfectly cool and col
lected, and he laid down his last five
ons-thousand dollar bills without tre-
NOR. He picked four straight losers. BY
that time the box was out, and Hosford
riff1ed 'em and started another one. The
herder watched them slip out for min
ute, and then he put his last $1,000 on the
high card. That kind Of long-shot play
ing don't do for such work, and the bet
trimmed him out. There wasn't a particle
of contraction to his features when he
struck a match and coo1ly lit & cigar.
I think those who saw the play felt a
good deal sorrier for him than he did for
himself.
Bud said Hosford to the herder, Tn
no hog, I'll just split the difference with
you,' and he began to count out half of
the money he had won from the sheep
man.
" No. you won't replied the herder,
but you can give me drink and bot
tie to put in my pocket
Better take a couple thousand and
run to Frisco or Denver and have a
whirl out Of 1t, anyhow, persisted Hos
ford
1--we had my whirl,' was the mans
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reply. He wasn't sulky at ell, and he
didn't try to look abused. He was SIM
ply all man and all game.
Where are you bound for nowT
asked Hosford after settling for the
drinks.
- Back to the old G-s.' said the herd
er, and he started for the ranch an hour
later. He had bought three blue flannel
shirts, pair Of top boots and a poncho,
and he took these things along with him
in a bundle. They were all he got out
Of his $4,000. He was found frozen stiff
on the south bank Of the Snake river
the next winter.
Tom Vanbrugh, who in the late sew
enties ran the two biggest lay-outs on the
Pacific coast, one in San Francisco and
the other in Portland, and who died only
three or four years ago in Melbourne,
Australia, was another splendid loser.
His rival in San Francisco was Byron
McGregor McGregor had a big faro
layout on Kearny street. The two men
didn't particularly fancy each other Nc
Gregor went up to Portland in the sum-
mer Of '7S and bucked Vanbrugh's bank
there to standstilI. Vanbrugh closed
the Portland place. Then McGregor
brought his winnings down to Van
brugh's San Francisco bank, and, with
an almost unprecedented run of luck,
lasting for more than week, he closed
900 on his California investments and took
the bunch to McGregor's Kearny street
place. McGregor dealt himself Van
brugh's luck seemed to have deserted him
and he lost every dollar of his money.
He was broke.
'Vanbrugh,' said McGregor to him. af-
ter the last turn out of the box, I'll give
you $4,000 a year and percentage If
you'll run No. 2 game here for me-
=" Much obliged said Vanbrugh. but
I've worked too long for myself to be
tractable in another mans employ. I'm
going to take a sail, anyhow
Sc Would $4,000. say, be of any use to
you to make a start?' McGregor asked
him. The two men, as / say, weren't
particularly fond of each other, but they
were very square and generous chaps.
:" Not giving you short answer, Mac,
we haven't been on good enough terms
for that replied Vanbrugh, and he walk
ed out. An hour later he was the most
genial and collected man in his party out
at the Cliff house. A lot of his friends
offered to start him going again in San
Francisco. but he smilingly asked them
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Trifling Reasons for Due1s
The "Hamlet" Affair in Paris Has Had
Many Prototypes.

as Mr.. DAILY. Come, gentlemen, proceed,
proceed"
Well, they fired and the barrister was
hit So much for the sport.
Staying one another out of love is not
according to rule as set out today. Yet
two boon companions in 1867 actually
fought for no earthly reason. Here Is
the account from the Edinburgh Review
of the duel between Sir Henry Bellasses
and Thomas Porter:
TWO FRIENDS FIGHT.
"They dined close together in Sir Rob-
ert Cars. II happened that these two,
the greatest friends in the world, were
talking together and Sir H. Bellasses
talked q little louder than ordinarily to
Tom Porter, giving him some advice
Some of the people standing by said:
What, are they quarreling, that they
talk so high? Sir H. Bellasses, hearing
It, said: No; 1 would have you know 1
never quarrel, l never strike How?
said Tom Porter. Strike? l would see
the man in England burst give me a
blow. With that Sir H. Belasses did
give him a box on the ear, and so they
were going out to fight, but were hindered.
But they met, Porter watching the coach
for Sir Henry, stopping it and bidding
him come out of it.
$50 out they went and they both drew
and they fell to fight, some of their ac-
quaintances by. They both wounded one
another, Sir H. Bellasses mortally. He,
finding himself severely wounded, called
to Tom Porter, kissed him and bade him
shift for himself. For says he, Tom,
thou hast hurt me, but 1 will make shift
to stand on my legs till thou withdraw
and the world take no notice of thee, for
/ would not have thee troubled for what
thou hast done And then Tom Porter
showed him how he was wounded too.
Both of them were extraordinary friends.
1t is pretty to hear the world talk of
them as a couple of fools that killed
one another out of love-"
The sanguinary meeting between John
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took all Of his available cash. He was q
holy show of temper when he got up
from his final 1ose-out, and he hired a
horse and went out to his roadhouse a.
hting. Then he took heavy chair and
went through the place like a wild man,
smashing everything he saw. He was
cold sober too, but hard loser, and
just mad. After he had battered every
stick of furniture in his place to smith
Greens, he told all of the employees to get
out, and he deliberately soaked the car
pets with kerosene oil and touched
match to them in dozen different
places. The place burned down in twen-
ty minutes 1t was a quarter of mile
from any other place, and there was no
wind, but I think Hill would have burn
ed it down had it been right in the mid
die Of the town and cyclone blowing.
He left Omaha after that, and If he isn't
driving a truck now he ought to be-"
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a Democrat, and finally he offered to bet
his saloon and restaurant against his
friends wholesle grocery that Blaine
would win out. The grocer took the bet,
and the morning after the election he Of
fered to take the losers longtime notes
for half the value Of the saloon and res
taurant and call the bet square.
You'll be sticking two-karat dia-
monds in every bar Of yellow soap you
sell when you get a tintype of me en-
gagged in the act Of doing the baby turn
said the Blaine man, and he cleaned out
the drawers of his desk in the restaurant
and walked out. He went to work as a
conductor on the Midland two weeks later
and has been conductor ever since.
''The hardest loser ever run up
against was Joe Hill, who ran road
house, and pretty profitable one, not
far from Omaha. Joe lost 5000 one week
at poker. That didn't break him. but It
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His ANTAGONIST was doing Boyle the same
favor under the supposition that he was
Billy Caples, with whom he had feud.
At last when the belligerents were placed
closer they discovered they had made a
mistake and had endangered the lives or
parties unknown to themselves The
United States furnish a parallel to this
fictional fight in the duel between William
M. Gwin and ]. w. McCorkle In Califor-
MIA in 1853.
THE GWIN AND MCORKLE AFFAIR.
DR.. Gwin was state senator and Mr.. Nc
Corkle was a member of the lower house.
They became embroiled and were eager
to fight, SO a meeting was arranged. the
place to be on the border of San Francis
co and Santa Clara counties. Rifles were
chosen, the men to whirl and fire at the
word. They fired as many shots as Sir
Harry did and the results was as blood
less. Then the seconds got together and
evolved the following touching declara-
ton:
After the exchange Of three Intellectual
shots between the Hon. William M. Gwtn
and the Hon. ]. w. McCorkle the friends
OF the respective parties having discover
ed that their principals were fighting un-
der a misapprehension of facts, mutual
ly explained to their respective principals
wherein the misapprehension consisted;
whereupon DR.. Gwin promptly denied the
cause of provocation referred to in Mr..
McCorkle's letter of the 18th May and
Mr.. McCorkle withdrew the offensive
language uttered on the race course and
expressed regret at having used it."
The boodiest duel ever fought on Am
erican soil was the one decided between
Joseph Bowerman and Abner Shelling
along in 1886 Bowman was a Kentuckian
by birth, a man of marvellous power and
extremely long arms. The fight was alb
solutely without cause, Smelling hunting
up his antagonist and proposing to fight
on the trivial ground that he (Shelling)
was the best man in the parish and the
two could not live there. The fight took
place on a plantation in Louisiana on
which Bowman was overseer. The gi
gantic Kentuckian was a kindly man
when not aroused. but when at a white
heat was cruel and merciless. His repu-
tation spread about in the parish until
he was reputed to be the best man there.
One day while at work on the plantation
stranger with long black hair, piercing
and cruel eyes and frame fully as large
as that Of Bowman rode up and asked
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Spiny mice, which have hitherto never
been seen outside of an English zoolog-
ical garden. They are odorless and their
forepaws and feet are delicately modelled,
while their tails are covered with a
curiously corrugated skin that can be
pulled on like that of a dormouse An
attractive type is the Dutch marked
mouse copied from the Dutch rabbit
which has q fine blaze on the forehead
with even cheek markings.
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MRS. PoYER's STRANGE PETS.

silver, chocolate, agontz, cream. blue.
black and white. and, to make the mediey
complete, all the solid colors are broken
with white thus producing piebalds and
skewbalds. She has had & few In three
colors, but they are extremely rare. f66i
the type has not yet been fully estab
lished, as one of the colors generally
disappears before the mouse reaches ma
turity.
on5 Of her greatest curiosities l. tns
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WEALTHLIGHTLY LOST
GAMBLERS WHO DID NOT COM
PLAIN WHEN DISASTER
GAME
THE GAMEST OF THE LOSERS
A Sheep Herdeg Who Kept His Leg
acy of $4,000 Just Eorty-Five
Minutes-WIpdns Out of a Noted
San Francisco Gambler-A Coal
Miners $s,OOO-One Hard Loser
I'm the Bunch

WASHINGTON. May Q8-'"There,s no
way OF telling in advance how q man Is
going to take his complete wiping out In
game of chance" said the ex-mayor of
a Colorado city when tho talk at the
club drifted around to the subject of hard
losers and the other kind. There's no
rule about 1t. I've seen men of long
tested gameness go all to pieces after big
losings; seen them suddenly struck
speechless, as weak as children, with
their lips trembling like those of women
who are about to cry. On the other
hand. I've seen chaps with low foreheads
and weak chins. and regulations for
crawfishfng and backing water In tight
places, stand four square to the finishing
wrenches Of long runs of devilish luck
and take their bitter medicine with hearts
apparently as brave as their faces were
weak. Probably the best educated and
the most highly organized men are the
hardest losers. American men do not
often kill themselves over gambling loss
es, as they appear to do on the other
side in considerable numbers, II there is
any truth in the yarns that we get from
Monte Carlo and such places. The hard
loser out In the Western country Is liable
to stun himself with drink for O while
after being jamned to the wall on the
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MRS. EDITH K1NGMAN PoYER.

Mrs. Edith Kingman Poyer, of Wood
stock. ILL.,. has defied the traditions of
her sex by making pets of the most
despised class in the animal kingdom.
But even q confirmed mouse-hater for
see her superb collection of mice-hun-
dreds of dainty creatures whose soft,
FURRY coats are as fine as spun silk They
are In the most exquisite colors, fawn.
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Some Fast T1me Records.

The fastest times reported for the mile
are: Railway, "a seconds; iceboat, min
bicycle ssea miSnte f % seconSs 90 Sbeoonas borse
minute S51a seconds; ocean liner, 2 min
utes 20 seconds; running, 4 minutes 12A
seconds; rowing, minutes As seconds.
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RAILROADS.
Baltimore & Ohio
RAILROAD

RAILROAUs
Schedule in effect November 10. 1s99
Leave Washington IRON =sta,iop corner OF New
Jersey Avenue and Street.
For Chicago and Northwest vestibuled Limited
trains io:S5 a. m, SOS p. m, daily.
For Cincinnati, st. Louis and Indianapolis
Express, lo;as m. vestbuled LIMITED $40 p.
M r,oe express pres 1905 night, daily.
$50 and IL 80 p. M, daily.
For Columbus, Toledo and Detroit. 12:05 night.
for Winchester and way stations, 1915 a. IN.
and $40 and $3.50 p. m.
For Luray, $40 p. m. daily
For Baltimore. week days. x2:35, 500, $50,
o. 1;uo. x'io, 1880. $685. x1:3o. xi0:oo a. m,
x5;os, xS;lo. x5:so, xe:2o, $50. $500. 10000
x1i;So' Lbs p: m. Sundays. x2:3j x1:o5.
n;lo. $3.50. x9:oo a. m, x2:05. I:0J, Kills,
200; ZOO; 49,, A5:o5. x5:lo. $50. xs:OO. xlo:oo,
For Annapolis, 7:lo and s:s5 a. H.. I2:I5 and
''So p. m. Sundays. $50 a. M. ABS p m.
For Frederick, week days. s:35 1886 a. M,
f;S. 5;O p m. Sundays. 800 a. m. LIS p. m
For HageIstown. '1o:35 a. m. and IS 80 D. m
Fer Boyd and way points,, week days, s:a5
a m, 4:so $50. 7:o5 p. m. Sundays, 900 a m,
s:s5 a. m, ESQ. 4:so. 4:ss. $50. 5:s5. 7:o5.
II % p. M Sundays. 300 a. m, l. l5, 4:3s, 7:o5,
For Washington Junction and wa- points,
week week days. s:a5 a. m, i:So, $50 p. m. Sundays,
500 a. m, lis p. m.
Royal Blue Line.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light.
For Baltimore, Philadelphia, New YORK Bosto,
and the East. week days. 7:o5 (Diner). $50
tbufeD, 1000 (Diner) a. m.,. l2:o5 (Diner)
lis DINER. 500 Royal Limited Ex-
clusiyeiy Pullman Train. Dining Car. sos
Dining Carr. 500. u:30, (Slecping Car open at
1000 oclock). and 2:35 night. Sundays 7:o5,
9:oo a. m, I2:o5 noon. lis Dining Cars. 800.
5:o' Dining Cars. s:00 1880, sleeping Car open
10 o'clock, and Pas night.
Parior Cars IN all day trains --itt.
For Atlantic City. 1000 a. M. I2:o5 noon and
Ills and 500 p. m. week days. 1915 noon Sun
days.
For Cape May, week days. 12:05 and 1:l5 p. m.
Except Sunday. 1ExpreSs trains.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders
left at ticket Offices, GIG Pennsylvania Avenu?
NV. New York Avenue and 18th Street, and at
Depot.
r. d. UNDERWOOD, D. b. MARTIN,
I'd v. p. ard Ger N~n Nor Pas Traffi-.
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puNCANsoN BROS. Auetioneers.

TRUSTEES SALE OF UNIMPROvED LOTS IN
l'-lSHERW0OD," ON R0SEDALE STREET
EAST, SIXTEENTH STREET EAST, AND
ALLEY IN REAR OF R0SEDA1E STREET.
By virtue OF a deed OF trust. dated March I5
1906, and recorded March 10. 1895, in liber 1884,
folio is6 ct seq, of the land records Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia and at the request of the
holders Of the note secured thereby. VIC will sell
in front of the premises on WEDNESDAY, THE
TWENTY NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. ID.
1899, AT FOUR O'CLOCK p. NJ. the following
described property situate in the county OF
Washington. District OF Columbia. to wit: Lots
IA, Is and So to 63. both inclusive in the Ameri-
can Security and Trust Company ct ais subdi-
vision of lots in block 81, in sherwood" as
referred 10 in said decd.
Terms OF She-0ne- e-fourth OF the purchase
money to be paid in cash and the balance in
one, two, and three years, at per cent per an
mum interest, payable scmi-annually; or all cash
as the purchaser may prefer. deposit OF $25
on each lot will be required at time Of sale
Terms to be complied with in ten days from day
OF sale; otherwise property will be resoid at risk
and cost OF dcfaultng purchaser. Title good or
no sale. Conveyancing and revenue stamps at
the cost OF purchaser.
LOUIS D. WINE,
CLARENCE D. RHEEM
Trustees
nolS-d6dsexSu DIG + Street NV.
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FOR EXCHANGE,

FOR ExCHANcE-SpeciaI; now Is the time to
trade; my list OF city and country property
is the most complete in the city; what have
yolf What do you want? My speciality is trading
ABRAHAM FISHER. 5l2 st. NV. nos I0t- cod
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wANTED-HoUSEs.

- --..-..
WANrED-l can rent any house in this city;
send me q list of your vacant houses: have
rented all had c. j. HANBACK,, GLE = st.
NV, room 4. no223t
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The ''3 Days" Cure

dor mem leads all remedies in this city:
prompt and permanent cure or no charge Con
sultation free DIR. McKEEHAN. 5l6 18th st.
NV: Office hours. all day, Till p. m. (sundays
included. oclo-Ss;
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FOR REsr-cLATs,

FOR RENT-A fat of unfurnished rooms; very
reasonable. with or without board 7o4 T
81: NV .---.----- no223 81
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AUCTION SALES.

T. q. SINCLAIR, Auctioncer, 6e6 Ia ave-
Our regular sale of furniture Oh THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER %. at 10 O'Clock, consisting of bed
room suites, parlor suites. sidcboards carpets
stoves. pianos. sewing machines. etc. Consign-
ments received up to hour of sale. 1t
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FOUND.

FOuND-Mondsy. pocketbook containing money
and papers: owner can have by proving
property. GEO. c. GUYTHER, Harveys, lIth
and Pa. ave. ". nos2-3t, en-
FOUNE-Iee cream, pure and delicious 1oc per
gallon LACEY CREAMERY CO., COZ n. Y.
svc. NV. Phone 9s1. ic2T-h
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TYPEwRrrERs.

CoAfE IN and do your typexTiting, ler per hour;
preliminary instruction free; typcwriters
rented for practice at low rates, delivered to
your hsme; best grade of typewriter ribbons
1bc; % per dozen NEWMAN'S TYPEWRITER
AGENCY. GIL 7th st. NV ocas smos
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WALL PAPER.

THE BEsTEsT goods Tor the Ieastest money is
the way Virginia cf6ss-roads grocer adver-
tises We say. rooms papered for q up. with
rich. handsosse. stylish pspo. Finest work a.
ways An kind Of pslntiAG equally low. =. G.
NOLTE, SO 9Th st. NO BRANCH. nozztf
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HELP wAxrEp-FEMALE.

Advertise under this head
viii he Inserted fer one cent n word
Tor each Insertion.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-13

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confdenay back her Gnr from
him He wGOn ugqse gscefn m pose
IKE Realy y hke in five
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women Wh1 OF eIsed I art
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actually toer-cae for the man. Really we may
sroIed out the Sd To91n soT bend
him defany perhaps little & udy II % hey
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plenty of steel in his composition anu
then wfnt to d ns
Puzzlsd in m ms ee rn M and
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he could not start nnt the he he holding
the Interest Of the actress OF ms eGsnt
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he V@os Woud 60 to e bed @fa and f tRnR % Of war ,
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cynical he had none r ms his tRoughts passing
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against fp9q frande ana
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quantity Coleman and cad @ T WI W
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moment with an lonncal "
the @ STATEN Coleman and ff ninye hg In
could tilt with LANCE at both GODS
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and he wanted to ask the man ana un con- G
baloonng soul was in danger OF On