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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

n ~ nnFnine TAea 4 was - -
task 70 fnducq our Enelish frie1d u
takn part III the lottery particularly y
he was mellow With Rpederer and rafs
old Madeira. and was camlaFtah]y
ahead Of the poker game. Weiss
plunged in and was permitted to win
$1,000. Miller slowly counted out his
money in crisp 500 bills. The Eng.
lishman was radiant.
He called for four more tickets
which cost him $500, and as in
formed him he stood to win $1,000, he
laid down his thousand dollars and
filled UP his check for $4,000. Miller
never changed a muscle of his imper-
turbable face. Weiss proceeded to
draw his ticket out of the wheel, and
out came a blank. He ragged like MI
indian lion in the desert, But I, as
his next friend. quieted him with the
assurance that | knew that Miller
would make it all right with him in the
morning. Then came more cham
payne and more Madeira, till 1t was
3 O'Clock in the morning before could
induce him to go to MeGinley's Hotel,
dead broke. / took him to my room
and remained with him till ! saw him
aboard the morning train for Savan-
nah. l took care to put 500 in his
waistcoat pocket over night, and paid
his hotel bill to old mckinley before
my English friend was awake. Hav-
inb implicit confidence in me Il posed
as the son of well-known millionaire
of New York; / assured him that he
could telegraph from Savannah for his
money to be sent before his vessel
sailed. He did telegraph for his bal
ance in bank, but in the meantime
had drawn the $4,000 weiss check, and
made it convenient to get off for few
days shooting with some Brooklyn
sports after alligators up the Okalawa-
ha.
MILLER went up the ST. Johns river
for a day or two among the ponderous
bars, and when he returned laden with
the spoils of rod and gun, we found
that Weiss had made the very air OF
Savannah blue with oaths foot long
when the obliging cashier wired him
from Jacksonville that his balance in
bank was short just $500 ON a check
| fer that amount indorsed Miller &
Raymond The Englishman wend
home a wiser and sadder man, but
made no public cutlery that reached
Jacksonville, because he feared the
young bloods-his eorAanions-wouId
laugh at him, as they Inevitably would
have done.
A Tough Customer.
But we often struck snags. THE
toughest customer we met in our South
ern pilgrimage was Jers syman nam
ed Andrew Jackson Sheetz. Hs never
drank drop, but we played OH his
avarice and found no trouble to make
him lose at our palatial rooms Sc, 900 In
an hour. We had only to permit him
to win $500 and he began to plunge
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

aid Slowly: Yeu heya come fQg
| sspry: tAaf Is the meaning of this card
bit Hiihgry Joe onght to HAYS re-
| spected my ipcQgnito. Still, what
know at the life Of : buaco srtist will
tell you without varnishipgs. It Will
| be the naked truth. But please respect
my incog. In New York l am known
as correct business man, and If In
spector Byrnes recognizes me he makes
, me sign because / am on the hon est
lay. The STORY tell you is true. ALSO
| lutely, with Eere and there dead man
name omitted, and had it aesn as easy
when / was hunco artist to get a rich
mans check cashed as it was 10 corral
| onto the check itself, might have been
worth quarter Of million instead CT
the small sun I now have Oh the right
side OF the ledger.
Jacksonville Was Easy.
| Jacksonville, Fla" said Eassbrook.
was once the paradise of the bunco
to make us afraid. I worked with Mil
Ter and Raymond. Miller was the rec
ognized head of the Pirate Band and
/ took my orders from nobody else.
We boarded at the best hotel and paid
the best prices, associated with the swell
element and spent as much money as
the best of them. No hostile police
man ever interfered in our play and
the first winter no question arose as to
our respectability. II anybody sus-
pected us no one else was the wiser.
Miller had yacht and was in the habit
of taking fishing parties down as far
as st. Louis. Cur first victim, as re-
member, was a clustering Englishmal
named Weiss. who had a great deal
more money than brains, and he never
had less than one thousand pounds on
deposit in the local bank. Raymond's
role was to discover the right man to
tackle. Weiss was a blusterer and 1t
was needful to arrange the sapping and
mining of his bank account so that he
could not have time to alarm the town
before we got out of harms way. For
tunately the burly Englishman, who
was an amateur boxer, and could hit a
blow like John L. Sullivan, received a
dispatch in the morning which render
ed it absolutely needful for him to
start for England. by way of Savannah,
on the next morning train. That night
there was little difficulty in getting
Mr.. Bull to accompany Miller and my
self to a quiet game of poker at our
rooms a square away Our domicile
was large house surrounded by shade
trees and adorned with costly paintings
being against the most expensive pa
per, and black walnut buffet furnish
ed liquors of which Lorenz Delmonico
would not have been ashamed.
The Lottery.
IA Woodcock supper awaited us and
champagne flowed freely till O'Clock
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
and only get small bopdls like IN ~



when Miller and RAYMOND did husi-
ness in Florida we had q regular vim
ter assessment among the boys for pro-
lection. This we called the school fund
and it was an educator among the po-
lice, you bet, and the accommodating
cops became out best friends. We had
code of danger signals, which were
always impaired to us when it was
needful to light out or give leg ball,
which it was always needful to do when
we tried to get big check cashed and
the bankers at the North would begin
to wire mckinley in Jacksonville to
know whether some of his guests, who
had been giving checks against their
accounts of unusual magnitude, were
still in their right mind.
Cyrus Eastbrook was pal of Mil
Ter and Raymond, and knew more than
both of them put together. He has $780,
600 in cold storage now, put away
where thieves or pocket burglars of the
bunco handicraft cannot break
through and steal Eastbrook was as
fine an artist as Miller, and better man
nered than any man that ever followed
the business, and the pleasure Of being
cheated by him was compensation
enough to some of the men he 'burgled'
out OF big money. He was never ar
rested, but the inspector in New York
had his eye on him and Eastbrook had
the good sense to drop bunco, and he is
now doing the respectable, in New York
as an insurance agent. He is known,
but is not in danger of being molested
as long as he keeps our or buncoland."
Here Hungry Joe wrote name and
address on card for private view only.
The name was not Eastbrook
Easthroek Was Nervous,
The beginning of the week following
this talk, called at the modest three
story house On Fifty-seeond street. New
York, with the card given me by Hun
CRY Joe. Immediately a well dressed,
natty-looking man OF forty-five trip
ped down stairs and asked ne up to
his room He was dressed in The ex-
IRENE of fashion, ana eyed Hungry
Joe's card with seme nervou sness. Ills
steel gray eyes were passionless and he
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
REFORMED.
nUNCO MAN TELLS OF THE GOOD
OLD DAYS.
JACKSONVILLE A PARADISE.
Some Interesting Experiences with
Men of Money-An Enzitslman
Northumberland the Ar
lists Struck q Customer Who Was
Too smooth For Them-Lotteriex
md Gold Bricks.
Fourier Journal.

Hungry joe minor bunco artist,
Dust emerged from safe, but tempo
rary retreat where he was curtained
from the gaze of the gross world, re-
Gently lamented the rise and fall of
bunco as fine art. Why" said Joe,
his nostrils distended with fine scorn,
'iwhen Miller was alive-the man Tracy
shot in Darling's Broadway saloon
the bunco business was not without
some elements of responsibility. We
had a Gordon stretching from Jackson
willie, in Florica, to Newport, R. l. We
had cipher in which we wired to each
other, and Eastbrook, of Baltimore,
(and this man was lucky enough never
to get caught, aroused our Gordon san
ttaire by wire whenever the exigencies
OF the service required it. Eastbrook
Mas the best dressed man on the force
and he roped them in from bank pres
6dents down to deacons. Once let him
get his eye on a man, old and rich, and
he followed him as beagle hound
traces a bounding stag, and he was sure
TO milk him of his last dollar, and ten
to one he got away with a good sized
check besides. Yes" said Joe, with
far-away look as he hid away a good
cigar in his pocket, MILLER was a dan
dy dipped in dew, and he was cut off
too soon to suit me. And j am so dis
gusted with the degeneracy of the pro-
fession that when l get out of here l
am going to buy an interest in corner
grocery and fight the cops no more.
What! DO you suppost that l would
continue in business which has ceas-
ed to be respectable, and is followed
by gyps who rob Swedish Immigrants
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

met with the paying teller's polite re-
Spouse, Mr.. has no money in
this bank The clerk went away with
flea in his ear. returned to Atlantic
City satisfied that all was not gold that
glittered; that there were drawbacks
even to the bunco industry.
Ma@pate Gold-BricLed
CAS- rule the bunco man who I'M
derstands his business prefers comedy
to tragedy, and many successful
sharp has been saved because OF thu
merciless ridicule which follows the
loss of money 10 those who play with
the hope of making extraordinary
gains. And I have come to believe
that there is no limit to human crod-
ulity. The richer our clientele and the
more worldly wise they were reputed
to be. the more certain they were to
become the easy prey of well-man-
nered artist in the buneo art. and the
victim usually enters the snare like
the curious antelope. attracted by thu
odd costumes of the hunter. willingly
waiting his doom at the hands OF his
disguised pursuer Once upon a wager
with Miller. who was man OF fine
presence who deserved better fate
than to be snuffed out by Tracy's pis-
tol | went uD to Newport and in a
single day did the gold brick act on a
man who was one of the most foremost
powers OF his day. And that great
magnate did not give me check, but
handed me the $4,000 in thousand dol
lar bills. and | can assure you thar ha
was too big n man to ever 'scnear
about the deception and | was too
prudent person to ever boast OF my
good luck"
GEORGE SELwYN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
E7APPENINGS OF ADAY
GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE.

Yesterday was pay day at the La
Belle tin mill.
"A benefit dance was given last eve
ming at Mozart hall.
wv. P. Meyers is improving his resi-
dence on South Jacob street.
Prof, Becker's dance at Odd Fell
lows Hall Tuesday night was well at
tended.
A mantle of nice soft mud over
spread the village of Leatherwood yes
terds..
Peter Haberstick has placed an
aquarium in the window of his Royal
Blue Cafe.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board OF Education will be held next
Thursday night.
The sale of the Howell property, at
Elm Grove, has been postponed until
Saturday, the 18th inst.
The sale of lots in the Howell ad-
| dillon to Elm Grove was adjourned I'M
til next Saturday, the 18th inst.
Mrs. F. C. Henderson has purchased
the confectionery stand formerly con-
Quoted by Thomas Fox, at 1927 Market
street.
Yesterday the Wheeling Traction
| Company started the work or laying the
new switch on Forty-third and Wood
| streets.
The regular monthly meeting of the
members of the Wheeling Board of
| Trade will be held Tuesday evening,
| May 18th.
! Yesterday Capt. Carl Reichmann
! enlisted George Drum into the regular
army. He will be sent away for drill
in few days.
! The A. o. U. w. lodges of this city
are making arrangements for union
! outing to be given some time during
tne month of June.
Word has reached here that young
daughter of Mr.. John Ray, who for
merly lived in Wheeling. was drowned
in cistern in Detroit.
The stockholders of the new Quar-
| ter Savings Bank will meet at the
rooms OF the Board of Trade the 29th
of May for the purpose of organizing.
| The Blue Ribbon Club will enter
tain their friends with their final dance
at Blue Ribbon hall, Benwood. Monday
evening. May 18th. Music by Prof
Long.
-The Catholic congregations will
again make their jubilee pilgrimages
to-day. All will complete the jubilee
except the congregation of st. Mary
| Church.
| Tomorrow, in the coanty Jail, will
occur the hearing of Mrs. Minnie Jones
of No. 2a07 South Jacob street, who was
committed to Jail last week by Squire
Greer on lunacy charge.
in Police Court, yesterday morn
ing, Ed. Bonesettler, of Washington
Pa, was fined $50 and costs for entic-
ing a young girl from that city into a
resort OF Ill fame in alley c.
Yesterday a Polander fell from a
street car at Forty-third street and was
rendered unconscious. He later re-
viVed and proceeded on his way. He is
a puddler and is employed at one OF
the Benwood mills. The only name
given was Big Ike"
| -Dahna Temple, D. o. K K, will
hold meeting Tuesday evening, 14th
inst, at Pythian Castle. 1t will be a
social session, and an entertaining pro-
| gramme will be rendered. All the
members are expected. as well as visi-
tors from other Temples.
Arrangements which had been made
for the closing exercises at the Park
View pubic school house Friday night
were deferred until some future date
on account Of the deluge. The gradu-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

child fingered along until IL was about
two years old, when its little life was
yielded up to the fearful poison. For
six long years I have suffered untold
misery. / was covered with sores and
ulcers from head to foot, and in my
great extremity I prayed to die. No
language can express nay feelings OF
woe during these long years. I had
the best medical treatment. Several
physicians treated me, but all TO no
purpose. The mercury and potash
seemed to add fuel to the awful fame
which was devouring me. I was ad-
yised by friends who had seen wonder
R..I res N, In hsx IL q tr. q & & VIC
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
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Blood Poison disease The enlightened world well
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a 70
Their Mercury Potash hide the destroy the
highly handling clothing
brush towel drinking the nocued The and
humiliation followed
the disease this endur suffering that the guilty
How confidently believed
had been blood child
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

little body tortured with sores, the glands of
the neck swollen and knotted and the skin
a-hre with some burning, itching eruption.
The symptoms of this hideous disease can
not be mistaken; eruptions upon the skin,
sores or ulcers in the mouth and throat,
copper-colored splotches on different parts
of the body and the loss of hair and eye
brows, are infallible signs of Contagious
Blood Poison. Other and more destructive
symptoms follow, of course, as the disease
progresses; the whole skin surface is often
covered with mass of sores, and even bone
and tissue are destroyed. This is not a
simple disease; do not triAe with it; terrible
as are the immediate effects, it is horrible
to f11iul that thr,,.01, vo1,r careTeccueec n,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

got two bottles hope revive in breast
hope health happiness again improved from to
nd complete perfect the result -
s. s. is only which reaches despsrats
cases MRS. T. w. LEE, Montgomery Ala
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
The FIounced skirt.

In spite Of the fact that the long,
plain skirts are more graceful and be-
coming to the generality OF women the
fiounced skirt is coming more and more
into fashion. and some Of the newest
gowns display this style in its various
renderings. says the New York Even
ing Telegram Made OF lace. net or
any light material. a 1ounced skirt is
not by any means ugly. indeed i'm many
instances is most attractive. but as
every fashion suffers by Imitation this
one must needs be made, or rather
caricatured. In cloth and heavy fab
RIGS. Three or four nounces are con-
sldered the correct number when the
lighter materials are employed; when
cloth is used two are all sufficient, and
these two arranged to form an over
skirt effect, trimmed with a plating
Of silk. Fortunately the art Of skirt
cutting and hanging has progressed
marvelously since the old days Of
hounced skirts, and with the close
fitted silk drop skirt the nounces can
be so adapted that they do not give
the dreaded size to the figure. When
It is a 6ounced cloth skirt, the over
skirt finished with the plating is sepa-
rate from the cloth skirt, and only the
lower hOunce of a half yard in depth,
also finished with the plating. is sew
jed into the silk underskirt.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
The Overvorl,ed TeIephone.

One Of our steam contemporaries
calls attention to the fact that an
American manufacturer Of rotary
pumps adyertiscs as follows: "Our
pumps at work about three miles out
I'm the country are started and stopped
from the company's Office, their opera
ton being ascertained by telephone
This goes on for days without any
person going near them" There could
Of course be other electrical methods Of
observing the fact that the motors and
pumps were at work. but the audible
indication Of the telephone Is all right.
There seems TO be no end Of the du-
ties that can be thrown on the tele-
phone. and each latest suggests n new
one. For example. in mill towns It is
now found that calling people up in the
morning by telephone beats the alarm
clock and the perambulating watch
man all hollow. This idea has recently
received an extension I'm a western city
where a patient tired Of depending on
careless nurses now has them notified
by telephone every time the hour comes
around for the administration Of his
dose 1t is said the plan works to per-
fcction.- Electrical World and Engi-
neer
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
GUNS MADE IN GERMANY

The British war office really does not
seem to be satisfactory to any one ex-
cept the enemies Of England. The most
recent groan which goes up from the
British "ratepayer" Is over the hurried
purchase Of guns In Germany for use
In the South African war. Germany
proclaimed a strict neutrality, and
England was warned that she must
not violate 1t. To buy guns from Herr
Krupp would be fraught with so much
danger Of discovery that England was
persuaded TO use a "middleman" and
buy her guns from another and less
well known firm. They did so, and the
guns got safely out Of the German en-
pire and into the British empire In
spite OF the vigilance Of the officials Of
Wllllam' the Only.
But now the "ratepayer" is bowling
that he has not got his moneys
worth" that the guns he bought are Of
inferior make and in short, he Is real
ly beginning to believe that Germany
"bunkoed' the mistress Of the seas"
AS the guns were not used in actual
warfare after all and as they have not
been condemned by the war Office. it
would seem that the firm which sold
them to the British would have pref
ty good ground for an action of libel
against the critics which are now hys-
terically condcmning them offhand.-
New York Times.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
California Navel Lemons.

The acme Of perfection in the orange
kingdom Is the navel It's praises are
sung and its merits known all over the
world. California lemons are fast be-
coming as well and favorably known,
and only recently we published n series
Of analyses showing their superiority
over the Mediterranean fruit.
Among the requirements Of a lemon
for market are comparative seedless-
ness, thin rlnd and light pulp. These
the California lemon possess in a mark
ed degree. But It has remained for DR..
Woodbridge. the well known agricul-
tural chemist of Los Angeles and South
Pasadena. to succeed in producing n
navel lemon absolutely seedless and
possessing the characteristics and adj
vantages of the orange after which it
IS named, for he has named the new
lemon California navel lemon.
Origin? That's another question. We
tried to get the doctor to tell. but he
wouldnt.-California Cultivator.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
The Troublesome Moth.

The Mediterranean moth is giving
good deal of trouble in the flour mills
Of Wisconsin and Minnesota. 1t thrives
In Touring mills. evidently feeding on
-four dust. and multiplies at an enor-
nous rate. Thus far no effective way
has been found TO get rid of it, The inn
mature worms play havoc with the ma
chinery plant, weaving webs in the ma
chinery, in the dust collectors and va
rious shoots Of the mill and blocking
operations. In one Of the mills Of Su-
perior the moths got into some of the
wooden shoots, and finally it was nee
essary to take out the shoots and burn
them. The moths are transferred from
mill to mill. it is believed. through the
interchange Of sacks and bags. Duluth
millers are greatly exercised for fear
that the moth may in some way get en-
trance into their plants. Indeed. all the
millers In the northwestern states will
guard vigilantly against such caiam-
ity.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-07
La Grippe Quickly Cured.

In the winter Of 1898 and 1899 /
was taken down with q severe attack
Of what is called La Grippe" says f.
L. Hewett. q prominent druggist Of
Winfield, Ill The only medicine
used was two bottles Of Chamberlain 4
Cough Remedy. Il broke mp the cold
and stopped the coughing like magic,
and / have never since been troubled
with Grippe" Chamberlain Cough
Remedy can always be depended upon
to break MP q severe cold and ward off
any threatened attack Of pneumonia.
1t is pleasant to take. too, which makes
1t the most desirable and one Of the
most popular preparations in use for
these ailments. For sale by N. N
Lewis.