The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-04
(st Paul GIobe.)

son can start a little game luuOCeIll-llkts
in one part OF the world and have it cause
all sorts of good and bad luck TO some
one else on the other side of the globe,
whom the first party probably never
heard OF. There was man named Du
MahrCa. OF some such name, who wrote "a
book called 'Trilby' some years ago. Did
this Du Mahrea have any grudgc against
old Bill Stebbins2 1t amt likely he ever
heard OF Bill. Yet this .Trilby' tale was
the cause Of Bill getting pretty wei
pounded up and making him lose MS
was good deal Bilis own fault LOT ne
ought to have known that there was a
mighty heap OF difference in playing the
svengah act on a girl in Paris ana 80, PEI
know poker hand when he saw H.
This 'Trilby' book was left IN camp py
a coast gambler whom the boys caught
dealing from the bottom, and whom they
helped 70 a place where he wouldn care
for books or any other lutlamHaDle ND
teTiaL The boys weren't very strong on
the literary game i'm Deep Gulch, ana the
book was tossed about camp until one DAY
when Bin Stebbins. feeling TOO tired %
work, and not having enough money 70
sit in game OF poker, happened 70 PICK
IL up. and began reading H. AFTER BIZ
had read "a little time IL was plain th4L
he had become nightly interested. He
didn't put down the book until he had
read il from cover to cover. Ihen ne
went to the edge of the camp where ne
wouldn't be interrupted, and sat down
with the air of "a man who has an i'm
portant Intellectual problem to wrestie
with. The boys, naturally surprising that
Ire was thinking up some plan for collect
ing the coin Of the realm without working
for IT,. respected his occupation and dldn'
bother him.
But Bill had regular Napoleon of
finance scheme working i'm his brain, and
that night he sprung II on his partner,
Dick Kelsey. First he told Dick about the
book and how "a ddgO named SVengali
had been able to hypnotic young girl
named Trilby so as TO make her obey his
will. which. in this case. happened to be
the coppering of the entire outfit at the
song and MARBLE tgame.
Svengali's Lost Opportunities.
d. Now said Bill to his partner, after
he had explained the principles OF the
game now, it certainly seems TO me ina
this SvcnEaH had the making of q great
play i'm his hand and simply threw ~
away. Instead of hypnotzing a young ElLl
So that she could make lol OF nolse VIII
her voice he ought to have hyphouzeu
a man with big stake so that ne Woulu
think he was holding a four flush. while
Mr. Svengali was there with all the aces
Seems to me that Sven had the chdnce
of a lifetime hnd threw it away. 49,
''WeH, Dick Kelsey was consldeTanly
puzzled what TO think. II was an down
in the book iu plain print ana at the
time both Dick and Bill believed tnat any
thing they saw i'm print was gospel truth
Vet neither of them could figure out why,
If such a thing We're possible, IL hddh Z
been tried before.
"'If the thing could be done that way
said Dick. why didn't old Sven walk up
To one of the men who ran The Paris
bank and wiggie his fingers before ms
lace. look him straight IN the eyes ana
exert his viii power until he had him
nypnOtiZed. and then say. You owe me
a million. and I'D thank you for IT now
-Bill Stebbius couldn't explain this, but
he felt that the game was worth trying
In the book young Miss Irilby was SUI
fering from a toothache or pain of some
sort. and she went TO old sven, and ne
handed her out bunch of the hypnotic
influence. which stopped the pain. or
course. TO give the thing fair trial II
necessary to follow out the exact
programme Of the book. and This seemed
sort of hard for the Deep Gulch boys
were not often sick. But by great good
luck a few days after Bill had begun to
plan his hypnotic career big Dan Evans
happened to have a bad toOthache- Here
tootnache he could feel that he had fol-
lowed out act I of the Trilby-Svengali
so Bill took Dan Evans down to his
cabin. There he told him 70 look straight
into his eyes. At the same time Bill made
a lot OF passes with his hands and con-
Centrated his viii pawer- After minute
ne drew a long breath and said:
There. You are cured an right; your
tooth has stopped aching. The pain has
an gone. although ft may be a few mo-
meats before you think IL has. But that
viii be just mental delusion of yours.
Toothache Cured While You Curse
Then Dan Evans was certainly an
angry man. He cursed Bill Stebbins
with an the curses known 20 Deep
Guch Camp the city slum in which Dan
had been brought up. and the Missis-
Siupi steamer he had once worked upon
before taking advantage of a mans mis-
fortune 90 play such game on him. lt
was a mighty comprehensive curslng
ana anything ieiJ unsald WASH worm
noticing But Bill WAS calm as a sum
mer sky. and kept insisting that Dan s
tOOthaChe had vanished.
1T may have been the result of Dams
rage. or it may have been owing OF the
numerous drinks of red-eye he imbibed
i'm. but whatever the cause, Dams tooth
ache dld disappear Inat settied me
hypnOtism question as far as Bill StCp-
bins was concerned Blushlng modcStly
as To his own worth and capabilities
wasn't Bits prominent characteristic. He
asCribed the stopping of the tOOthache
entirely TO his own poWerS,a and immediate
Is ranked himself as the real old original
when II came TO hypnotism. If old Sven
gall himset had appeared on the scene
Bill would have felt himself qualified
to give him lessons at the hypnotizing
game.
'' Those dagoes ON the other side of the
pond may be all right i'm their own small
way remarked Bill 90 Dick Kelsey,
swelling out his chest. but when it comes
right down 80 delivering the real hypnotic
goods your Uncle Bin Stobbins is the real
acc-high hand. Auyhudy could make a
Young girl like Irilby DO a little song
sing act But to cure the toothache
of a profaue. big-fisted miner like Dan
lvans-well. If ] don't get a special place
i'm the Hall OF Fame il viii be due t.
envy and Jealousy on the part OF the
"Dick was willing To admit that there
might be something I'm hypnotism. but
he advised Bin 70 go a bit slow at the
game But. no. that didn't suit Bin at
an. He had made Dan Evans forget mis-
tootache, and now Dan could be con-
sidered "a regular subject of his, u.s. Trilbv
had been OF Sven after he had hypuOtized
her n few times. The next step would
be to get Dan under the influence I'm n
big poker game. so that he would think
Bill had the winning hand. no matter
what the cards were.
so that evening Bill driftcd down to
Jim Haley's place. where there was q
big game I'm progress. Dan Evans was
the best poker player I'm the camp. and
when Bill entered the room had a big
Bill didn't waste any time but bought a.
couple of stacks of chips and sat In the
game. OF course. he was nightly care
ful TO take "a seat directly opposite Dan
Evans. where he could look straight into
his eyes
Dan Was An Intractable Subject.
Dan acted sort of sullen toward Bill
from the first. for ne hadn't gotten over
his hard feeling at the game he supposed
Bill had played ON him whom he had the
tOothache. To didn't improve Dams tenn
per. either. when Bill made such point
or taking n seat directly opposite hun.
or course. a man has a. right to sit where
ne pleases IN the national game and
Dan didn't make any open protest. But
It was plain that Dams temper was get
ting worse every second. and 60 wasn't
temper that was over sweet at the best.
But Bill StcDbins. his head filCd with
ideas as 90 his own greatness as n hyp-
nOtiZcr. never noticed this. Instead OF
miudinE his own business. and not tay-
ing any notice Of Dan. he made point
Of fixing his eyes on him every chance