The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
DESCRIBES WAR IN
BIBLE LANGUAGE
Freak Account of American
Revolution Discovered in
an Old Book.


saw the statement recently in a
Chicago newspaper that Steve L'Hom-
medieu had won $4,000 on single
race on the previous day, and it was
estimated that he had walloped the
Chicago bookmakers to the tune of
something like $4,000 since the open
ing of the Chicago racing season." said
q departmental official here who hasn't
seen a horse race for a good many
years, but who at one stage of his life
was reduced to the smoking of much
punk tobacco in unsavory dudheens
through his addiction, strictly as
piker, to the horse game. Il am glad
to hear that Steve is beating them out
again, because he helped me to. start
housekeeping here in Washington
lot of years ago.
"At that time L'Hommedieu made
his headquarters in Washington, be-
cause he found it warmer here during
the hard winters than in some other
places and because there used to be
summer racing here. He was only
plunger in embryo then, but even then
he had the plunger's nerve, If he did
Jack the resources. He didn't have
solitary attribute of the piker whereas
l was born one.
4 had just slid into the departmental
at the old st. Asaph track, across the
Potomac in Virginia, took my annual
leave in halliday sections of after
moons, with the nebulouS idea of run
ming Shoemal1er's bank roll into a
Shoe and Leather bank. had often
met L'Hommedieu around town before
the beginning of the races. and re-
sllmed my acquaintanceship with him
at the St Asaph track
NV government nav was nrettv
small then. My wife and l were living
IN dingy boarding house, and by the
time L got through paying the board
what was left of my wages was mere
metallic junk But, by the time the
st. Asaph meeting was a week old,
was just 5000 to the good.
Il flashed that colossal bundle on
Steve on the in-train from the track
Look what I've done to 'em,'
said TO him, gloatingly. And they're
never going to feel the heft of this wad
again-Fm through. I'm going to start
housekeeping with this wealth.
L Hommedieu took the wad, shuff1ed
IT, handed 1t back to me, and shook his
head.
Isn't enough of it, he said. That
might set you up in housekeeping in
Manayunk or Seituate or Ipswich, but
it'll never do it in Washington. Got to
buy the furniture on installments,
maven you 2
OF course told him.
Well said he, by the time YOU paw
the first inStallment on the furniture.
and months rent in advance, and
make the dig to have the gas turned
on, and cough for the moving, and
stake the larder to a bottle of queen
olives and jug of Worcestershire
sauce. you're all in.
L'Hommedieu and hoofed it across
hreSI loo
tai assets, 5000, in my kick We took
the side streets for it until we reached
a turkish bath, experimenting that we
might have to stand for pinch If we
were ever seen in the shape the Vir-
glnia dust storm had left us.
1t I'D be too bad not to have some
thlng to put on the great thing that Is
TO eventuate in the first race tomor-
row, said LHommedieu as we sat in
the hot room at the Turkish bath.
only way l know, now, to get it is to
put dent in that stud game at the
Owen house.
He referred to the all-night stud
poker game that was then running at
the now defunct Owen house, on Penn
syNania avenue. within a rocktoss of
the treasury department.
I'VE slid into the stud game at 1
O'Clock in the morning. 1 made a cut
or the SIS that 1 had left after paying
Tor the baths, giving Steve 50 SOS he
could buy in.
I'VE played until dawn, and when
the daylight began to streak in and the
game dissolved we were each about So
winner. Combined assets at sunrise.
$34.
Deduct from this the price of two
straw hats, at so cents each-We'd been
going about bareheaded since leaving
the track the evening before-break-
fast for two, clean collars and cuffs for
two, and the price of the telegram
Which l sent to the boarding house, in
forming my wife that had been sitting
UP with a friend suffering from heat
prostration-and when we got to the
st. Asaph track about an hour before
the races that afternoon we were Just
$50 strong, the same being divided into
two parcels.
"L'Hommedieu was pretty serene on
the way down on the train.
You'll have the green trading
stamps and be buying your household
junk tomorrow he told me. It's going
TO happen today. When you get es
tabhshed you want to settle down and
behave
Il didn't make any reply. figuring
that he was probably flighty from loss
of sleep.
He left me on the stand and disap-
III Inc uIreclloH OF the barns
When we reached the track. When he
came back he nodded me over into
far angle of the stand
johann worked five eighths in
minute by lantern -light~here day be-
fore yesterday morning. he said to me.
THAT'S good enough in itself. But
they've going to make it better Jo-
DAMS going to get the strongest hypo
punch of the quick juice, just before
the race, that was ever pumped into
an equine system. That'll make him