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The age-herald., 1901-10-27
CROOKED GAMBLING TOOLS USED TO FLEECE FARMERS.

for from 65 cents to s1.25 and canvas one for from 50 cents to $1.3O Canes cost from 50 cents per dozen to s1.50 per dozen. Rings cost 65 cents per hundred. With this outfit and a permit the faker sets up his rack on four stakes, which are purposely loose. so as to allow the rack to sway slightly. Then he plants his canes.
 The cheaper ones predominate but canes with swelled heads are occasion ally seen and here and there are crooks, some reproducing a miniature, lower member missing the torso of Venus The rings vary from one and one-quarter to one and three-quarters inches Inside diameter. The heads of some of the canes are almost as great in diameter and those with crooks are turned in such a way that 1t Is almost impossible to ring them unless the ring is dropped im- mediately upon them. It Is difficult even to ring the smaller canes, for they stand loosely in the rack, and side blow tips them so that the ring slides off.
 Next in favor is the knife board. A board costs from s1.5O to $3.5O, and a complete outnt-board, 100 rings and eighty-four knives-may he had for s14.50 and upward Knives may be had from 30 cents a dozen to $3.9S a dozen. These knives, the cheaper predominating and costing about 21s cents a piece, are con sptcuously displayed with all the blades open, and therein lies the secret of the knife board. The cunning faker arranges his knife board so that the rings slide over them as water does a ducks back.
 The wheel of fortune seems as fair as any game can be, yet the arrow has sneak and the faker can stop 1t at any number or article he desires. A wheel may be bought as low as s1O, in cluding 250 pieces of Jewelry, but this is of the cheapest kind, rings, for example, being quoted as low as one cent apiece. With this cheap wheel the first profit at 10 cents a whirl without any sneak ing. amounts to s15. and the business re quires no previous experience" full outfit of 25O pieces of jewelry costs but $5, thus making gain of $20, and some fakers make as much as $50 day.
 The higher the cost of the wheel the more easily and quickly the money Is made, as they are fitted with large pins to separate numbers or colors, and the arrow point has a screw feather, making a certain winner of any desired number or color and avoiding all possibility of disputes.
 Nothing is more tempting to the coun-
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
HANNA VOLUNTEERED
To Serve President Roosevelt, Instead
 of Being Asked to Do So.

Buffalo Special in N. Y. World
 The published statement that President Roosevelt asked Senator Mark Hanna to occupy the same relations to him that he had to President Mckinley is not borne out by the facts.
 A staff correspondent of the World was present at the first meeting between the new President and Senator Hanna just after MT. Roosevelt had taken the oath of office, and heard all that was said by the two gentlemen.
 The first man to enter the Wilcox house at Buffalo, where MT. Roosevelt took the oath that made him President of the United States, was Senator Hanna, the most intimate friend of the dead ruler whose place MT. Roosevelt had just taken.
 The meeting between Senator Hanna and the new President was very cordial, though naturally solemn. The Senator did not look well; his face was pale and streaked with gray lines. His eyes lock- ed the steady gleam which politicians have known for the last six years. He leaned heavily on stout cane
 e President Roosevelt saw him before he had mounted the steps of the picturesque vine-covered colonial house in which he had just been declared President of the United States. He came aerty and ex- pectantly through the crowd of we'll wishers surrounding him and held out both hands
 How do you do, Senator? am glad to see you" he said, in tones rather mod filed from his usual resonant enuncation.
 The lifelong friend pr the dead Presi- dent had his soft, gray slouch hat In his right hand. He transferred 1t to his left. which held his cane. he held out his right hand, looking steadily at the new Na- tional chieftain.
 MT. President" he said, and those who were standing within a few feet thought they detected quiver in his voice. ''Mr President, wish you success and pros- porous administration; I trust that you will command me if can be of service.''
 "Thanls you, Senator; thank you" said MT. Roosevelt, T do not need your as- surance on that point.'
 The two men, easily the two most in- teresting figures in the room, clasped hands for nearly minute, but did not exchange another word.
 The President walked to the door beside the limping figure of the Ohio Senator.
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
Tales From Gotham.
How Rogers and Rockefeller. sC E
 SS & S Gave Away Fortunes

concerns drugs, or the action of drugs or whenever the testimony requires ex- planation by competent persons in a scientific ine-a line of which 1t is evil dent a jury must be ignorant. But in the matter of handwriting, a purely common place, visible thing, jury of twelve men should be able to tell for itself whether 1t is real, forged, or simulated. To allow men, claiming to be experts, to influence a jury by their personal opinions and demonstrations is clearly wrong.
 
 The gay King of Belgium, Leopold the fascinating, has determined to come to this Deveryized city before it is totally ruined by Seth Low and his reformers. Broadway theaters will put forth their prettiest girls to dance before his majes- ty, and strenuous efforts will be made by these maids to redeem diamonds pledged to cover summer expenses. But, alack, alas, the fair sirens of the stage do not know that Cleo de Merode, with the Madonna face, is coming too. Now Cleo is not one ito go way back and sit down."
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 A pretty scandal is brewing. One mill lion of dollars has been expended by the Federal government in new buildings on Ellis Island, and it is now charged that the masonry and stone work is fragrant ly defective. A chimney one hundred and fifty feet had to be torn down because defective from summit to base, and the entire foundation of the great hospital is devoid of cement to hold the stones to- gether. It was sunk on new made ground and built on piles. It Is below the tide level The water pressure caused water to ooze between the stones until 1t washed out the mortar. An investigation has been ordered.
 Among the distinguished foreigners in this city is the Marquis Ito of Japan. He is travelling as a private citizen, refusing all civic honors. Apparently he Is making a grand tour of observation preparatory to his return on November 1. I am told that things in Japan are more mixed than they are in this great city. and his ab-
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
"Old FIfckory's" Body Servant Is Dead
1 HE last member of the group of YIIV family servants who in years

l HE last member of the group of family servants. who in years gone by were employed about the famous old homeplace, the Hermitage. at Nashville, has passed away. The State of Tennessee, In his death, has lost one of its most picturesque eolored citizens.
 Aged Uncle" Alfred Jackson, body ser want of Gen. Andrew Jackson, quietly upon the historic homestead.
 For sometime past the venerable negro has been in failing health, but there was no premonition of death until immediate ly before his end. On the last evening of his life he ate hearty supper and, sit- ting in his particular rocking chair in the door of his cabin, went over "reminiscences of the old times to his son, Gus" him self man of 60 years. From a connected discourse his remarks gradually became rambling and his body showed signs of mortal weakness. A doctor of the Her mitage neighborhood was summoned to the bedside and as Gus watched the light of the old mans life fickered and |
 Uncle" Alfred was one of those South ern servants whose devotion to their ''marsters" has given them place in the literature of the South. He was born upon the Hermitage farm shortly after Gen eral Jackson made the place his home, when an old-fashioned cedar log house was the residence of the President -to-be, and the negro never left it. His devotion to 1t and to the family nothing could af- feet Other men might achieve greatness, but none of them ever rose to that pin nacle which General Jackson reached, in his body servants estimation.
 President Rutherford B. Hayes visited the old place and was introduced to the old negro. The darky calmly remarked in response to MT. Hayes greeting, "Ef you had been as great a man as Ginral Jackson l could a most shuck your hand off"
 Mrs Sarah Jackson had a colored girl named Gracey to serve her in the ca pacity of maid. She became Alfred's wife Shortly after the expiration of General Jackson's second term as President the marriage took place in the large front hall of the Hermitage. For fifty years they lived together. The war came on and with it the Emancipation Proclama- ton, but Alfred and Gracey could not for one day be tempted to leave the place. During all the vicissitudes of the long years of conflict they were as steadfast in their service as before. Regularly on Sunday mornings Alfred was on the box of the old family coach driving his mis- tress to the little Hermitage church.
 Years passed on and the Hermitage came into the hands of the Ladies Hermitage Association of Nashville, an organization to perpetuate the greatness of ''Old flick ory." Uncle Alfred became it's ward He was one of the most interesting features of the place and thousands of visitors to
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griefl
 [ortrud, coming to the foreground, stands before Elsa, exulting.] Ort-Go home-go home-in all thy
 glory;
 I'll tell thy bride wondrous story. Thee in the boat who hither drew? That chain attached by me with care That chain, which at glance knew, Chang'd to a swan this Dukedom heir. Hence by the swan thy knight is carried. Thanks, thou hast sery'd me well Indeed. The knight, if longer he had tarried, Thy brother from the spell had freed. Chorus-Base sorceress. with exultar Canst thou a crime so black confess? Ort-The ancient gods, with indigna-
 tion,
 Thus punish human faithlessness. TLohengrin, about to enter the boat has stopped at the sound of Ortruds voice and listens attentively. Hehnow falls on his knees and prays in silence Suddenly white dove descends over the boat. Lohengrin arises enrapt- ured, and takes the chain from the swan. which sinks. In It's stead ap- pears the youth Godfreyl Loh.-Aocept the boon which heav'n doth grant
 The Duke, the ruler of Brabant! He springs rapidly into the boat which the dove draws off by the chain. Or trud, at the sight of Godfrey falls with shriek. Elsa looks with rap ture on her brother, who advances and makes obesience to the King. All the nobles of Brabant kneel before him. Elsa again looks towards the river.]
 Elsa-My husband! My husband! ELohengrin is seen in the distance. All utter wall of lamentation. Elsa, in Godfrey's arms sinks lifeless to the ground. Curtain fai1s.1
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
FLOUR MILL STATISTICS.
America has One NH to 5000 People.
 Germany One to 150o.

From the American Miller.
 The cry of too many mills has been a familiar complaint in this country for almost generation, and we still hear 1t, though the number of establishments in operation has been decreasing for fully twenty years. Roughly speaking, we have, say, 16,00O mills for &. GOO, ,0O0 people, or one mill to each 5000 inhabitants The showing is better than that, in reality, for the flour product of fully 75oO0, 900 bushels of wheat. enough to feed at least 15.000,0oO people, is exported.
 How is 1t abroad? Great Britan has, according to a contributor to Milling, s46 roller mills and 7149 burr mills so that with a population of 40, ,o00,e0o substan- tially the same ratio is preserved as in the United States, of one mill to every 5000 people. But most of the stone mills are practically not in use, we are told, and almost a fourth of the flour used is imported. If there are 5000 mills all told in operation the average of the home trade would be 10000 sacks of 2s0 pounds per sack, or, say, 15,oOo barrels.
 American production, for the mills &C., tually operated. would not be so large. On the other hand, the proportion of homegrown wheat to each mill would be two and one-half times as large here as in Great Britain.
 But for actual crowding of mills Ger many has pre-eminence. excepting Hun gary With population of something over 5oOo0, 900. Germany has 4o,o00 mills. big and little, or one mill, say, to each 1o00 people. There are 12,000 millers in the two German national associations And all these mills exist and the millers elbow each other in area less than that of Texas No wonder the German miller feels desperate at times.
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
LIBRETTO.

I felt a happiness I never knew. The wondrous pow'r which in my order
 lives, The strength which to my arms my se-
 cret gives, On one pure heart I purpos'd to bestow- Why-why my secret did'st thy strive to
 know? Oh, now from thee must forever go.
 Elsa-Forever will I cling-I will not
 leave thee; To witness my contrition tarry here. Think not with false repentance I de-
 ceive thee; On me infict punishment severe.
 Loh.-My wife. my love, no longer plead
 in vain; The Grail is wroth that I so long remain.
 King and All the Men-Woe-woe from
 us must thou be torn Thou for our chief by Heav'n design'd? Heav'n's blessings will with these be
 borne.
 What consolation can we fnd7
 Elsa-Divine thy nature is-I know it
 well; Therefore within thy heart must mercy
 dwell. If every sin through penitence Is less. Oh. with thy presence now .ae culprit
 bless. Yet leave me not thus lonely.
 Loh.-The crime thou only Oar dst to perpetrate; But I must share the punishment with
 thee. Although we shall be separate, Still shall each the other see.
 [Elsa falls with a shriek to the ground.1
 King and Men lsurrounding Lohengrin) -Oh, stay!
 Thy men implore; in mercy heed them. They beg thou wilt to vic'ry lead them.
 Loh.-Nay. hear me, King; to aid thee
 I'm forbidden. In disobedience champions of the Grail Can never act. Their names no longer hidden,
 Gone is their strength and surely must they fail. Still let me tell thee what my soul pres ages:
 Henry, thou holdest vic'try in thy hand! The Eastern hordes, cen in remotest ages, Shall ne'er be conqu'rors in the German land. Voices-The swan-the swan again! s The swan. see it plain! TThe swan appears with the boat.1 Elsa-Oh, Heav'ns Oh, the swan Loh.-Too long tarry-the Grail for me has sent. [Goes to the brook.] Beloved swan!
 An! mournful tidings hast thou brought So soon to see thee ne'er I thought. After year slowly had past The period of thy slavery Then by the Grail releas'd at last. hop'd my swan again to see. Turns mournfully to Elsa.] Oh, Elsa, till a single year had ended, Had l remained. thy joy I should have seen;
 Then. thy lost brother, by the Grail de- | tended,
 To thee yet living would restor'd have been.
 If he returns, alone thou wilt receive him. This sword-this horn--this ring-rare presents give him. Ills arm will conquer when the sword he raises The horn will aid him in an hour of need As for the ring. whene' CT on it he gazes. He'll think on one who thee from danger freed. Farewell-farewell-I must away! Farewell-the Grail forbids my stay. [Elsa clasps him convusively, till at last, her strength failing, she sinks into the arms of her ladies. to whom Lohengrin confides her. He then ap- breaches the river.1 King and Chorus-Woe-woel of knights the best-the chief k How dost thou melt our hearts with
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try cousin than the striking machine, and nothing looks fairer. But these striking machines are ingenious arrangements, and, in the words of an advertisement of a new kind now on the market, ''can be manipulated without a helper" One of these may be had for s5O while prize cigars are offered to the fakers for s10 a thousand.
 Red, white and blue, is dealing game. There Is a layout with three shields on it, one red one white, one blue. A box and sixteen balls, five of each color and one "dealer's percentage goes with the outfit. Players place their money on a given shield, slide opens ih the box, and out pops a ball. If the ball Is of the same color the player put his money on he wins. If not he loses. If this was a fair game, the player, by the law of chance, would stand some show of winning, but as the box Is fixed the dealer can pro- duce ball of any color he desires. yet any one not in the secret can examine the box at any time and find 1t appar- ently square" yet it is a tricky box.
 There are half hundred tricks worked with cards, anu all of such a nature that they can be worked without tie slightest fear of detection
 But the visitor to the country fair is looking for fun. The faker and his out fit entertains him and he doesn't be- grudge the money.
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
ParIs to WashInaton WIthout chanae

From a Washington Dispatch.
 From Paris to Washington by rail and without change of cars is the project of M. de Lobel of Paris, who has come to Washington to describe his plan to Presi- dent Roosevelt and other high officials.
 M. Lobel Is credited with having been identified with important enterprises in France. He has just returned from Alas ka where he has been for four years su- perintending surveys and prospecting. He represents a French syndicate and pro- poses to organize an American and a Russian syndicate, each of which will be affiliated with the French syndicate in bringing huge project into tangible form.
 ka from Eagle City to the Boring sea, at point near Cape Nome. Also road from a point on the Siberian coast, which has as yet no name. to connect with the Siberian Railroad.
 1T shall see President Roosevelt, if possible" M. Lobel said. From here l shall go to Paris and then to St. Peters burg to see the Czar After getting a franchise from the Russian government I shall return to Washington in the in terest of getting a right of way through Alaska
 Leading financiers of New York, San Francisco, Chicago Philadelphia and oth- CT cities, have already given assurances of taking hold of the project It is per- fectly feasible. My plan is to run ferry barges across the Boring sea to trans- port the carss There is little current. What ice there Is can be easily broken
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sence is diplomatic. He desires to avoid taking part in the wirepulling of certain groups agitating the Limitations of the Emperors ministers.
 The greatest public work of modern times of a municipal character is, with out doubt, the construction of the Rapid Transit tunne1-a hole in the ground from one end of the Borough of Manhattan to the other, distance of not less than twelve miles. Hitherto the reservoirs and acqueducts built for the purpose of con veying water from distant suburban points to the heart of a city exceeding in X magnitude all other public improvements. This tunnel, as everybody knows, will cost s35, ,000 GOO, and will be completed with in four and a half years as per contract time.
 So far the work has progressed with great rapidity. Citizens of this great city have watched with great interest the progress as it has been made To glance into the great pits along Elm street and Fourth avenue is most interesting It re- veals the enormous mesh of pipes which the pavements conceal. Electric con duits, steam, hot water and gas pipes sewers and water mains are suspended by chains from heavy cross timbers without sag or a break. Beneath sometimes hundred feet the rock drillers and haul CTS, the stone and brick masons, the iron workers and carpenters are seen at work. In many places for blocks the perfected tunnel runs with the timbers removed, the hole filled in and the street above repaved.
 There has been the usual loss of life. In spite of all vigilance and caution ac- cidents have happened. There have been explosions, and rock slides, machinery broken and misteps. Still the percentage has been small. A recent accident through a rock section was particularly unfortunate. A huge rock, without any warning, fell from the side and roof and crushed five men beneath 1t. Murders, too, have taken place, and so the tunnel has already its statistics of death and crime.
The age-herald., 1901-10-27
Tohn Byowm's OAd Home
 Becomes e Go5 House

At the gateway two stone pillars finish the wall which extends around two-thirds of the grounds, the remaining portion of the lawn or links. as 1t is now, being en- closed by a rail fence on the same style as the one which first marked the bound- ary of the Brown estate
 Two shade trees, planted by John Brown, stand just outside the gate, one on each side of the walk leading up to the house. The broad piazza which extends along the entire front of the building and across the end overlooking the links Is recent addition, but as the entire house has been freshly painted this mod ern porch does not lend distracting air of newness to the quaint old building, as do most so-called Improvements.
 Ohio Is a favorite home of golfers, and there are many fine clubhouses within the confines of the state, but none excel and few equal the Portage Club in extent and beauty. Besides which 1t has the addi- tional interest of being the only golf clubhouse in Ohio with a history.
 Aside from the tinge of romance given the place by the fact that it was once the home of one of the most remarkable figures in the history of the United States it Is noted from the fact that it is right on the old, historic portage path made by the Indians many years ago in carry ing their canoes from the Cuyahoga to the Tuscarawas river. The land sur rounding the clubhouse was once used as hunting grounds by the Delaware Indians. No more beautiful place can be found in the old Western Reserve than the spot where John Brown once lived and 1t will always be kept in good shape in memory of him.
 The new links have been carefully map- ped out and the club bids fair to he one of the most noted in the states. Already it has enrolled upon it's membership list the names of many golfers made famous in America and in international contests.
 I. 0. Allen, the president, Is as we'll known on European links as in America. and his play is always watched with inc terest by lovers of the game.
 Only the elite of the countrys golfers can enjoy the privileges of the Portage Club. and this institution will set the fashion in golf. To be either an active or an associate member of the Portage Club. or John Browns Golf Club.r as it is sometimes called because of the house that 1t occupies. will establish tho stationfof golfer beyond question.
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the Hermitage met him and talked with him about his old '.marster." The aged darky was a man of remarkable intelli- gence, and his memory, especially re- garding the more celebrated days at the Hermitage, was extraordinary.
 When General Jackson died his old ser want was by his bedside and the deathbed scene was one of the most highly prIzed incidents in the memory of the negro. Weep not for me! Weep for yourselves!" are words which many visitors to the Hermitage will remember in connection with the story of the passing away of the great man.
 For several years Uncle Alfred acted in the capacity of guide and caretaker of the Hermitage, and superintended the placing of the old family furniture as 1t was procured by the Hermitage Associa- tion from those into whose hands it had passed on the death of Mrs. Jackson.
 During all of these years Uncle Alfred