The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
MONTANA TOWN IS CRAZED ON HORSE
Mary Made Famous

said my host, with smile. and he
pointed to the megaphone hitched to
the telephone. Nobody's going to hurt
YOU
II saw through the scheme then,
and resumed my seat, feeling rather
foolish. The hostess said 'Sh-sh-sh,'
and held up a warning finger. The
Swedish maid servant, wearing broad
smile. appeared at the dining room
door.
"'Ogden at the quarter, just dane
ing!' bawled that sepulchral voice that
filed every corner of the house.
Why, it's like stealing it, Kissed
my host, excitedly.'
".Just a little walk for the good old
thing whispered his wife.
Gay tink he vim block chimed in
the Swedish maid servant from the
door.
II guess all that didn't make me feel
like rank outsider and a deaths head
at the feast. I was sorry I hand't gone
to old Ogden for little bit, anyhow,
just to be In on the enthusiasm.
1.-The calling off continued, and pre-
sently the huge voice announced:
"'Ogden in the stretch by two
lengths, and UP in the boys lapko-
vitchl
Its shame to take the money
exclaimed my host, looking at his Og-
den ticket admiringly.
It's daylight burglary to accept It,
said his wife, who didn't have any tick
ct to look at, having got her fifty down
by telephone, but who wasn't any the
less happy on that account.
He have to yump the fence to Iose,'
said the Swedish maid Of all work,
who had also got her SIS down over the
phone.
The naan oil Po,,
"'Ogden wins, buck jumping!' sang
out the believer in the calling joint.
"'Yee-owl / guess I'm badl' yelled
the head of the house, swinging his
arms.
1.-The old dear!' ecstatically exclaim-
ed his wife, referring to Ogden.
'Whooshi He yust walk int
screeched the Swedish girl, bobbing in
to the kitchen, and she Topped down on
the kitchen floor and rolled like
yearling in a meadow.
"They didn't mind the chilled dinner,
and neither did I, for enthusiasm like
that is mighty contagious. During the
meal the host explained to me that the
calling off joint was an institution es-
tablished for the comfort and convent
ence Of men in their offices and the
women folks at home.
"A telegrapher In that ROOM located
dOOFC Tic pun OOl1 lildL lbu Lu6 DIX
ton while calling off was in progress
of each race as the information reached
him hot from the wire, SO that all of
the folks interested could make connec-
ton while calling off was in progress
and get the results at their offices or
homes.
MY friend, his wife, and the Swedish
girl all parlayed their winnings on Og-
den to win the last race, too. The pool
room folks had no idea that the old
horse would not be scratched out of
that race, after having copied the first,
and so they eagerly took what they
thought was sucker money on Ogden
to win the last.
They quoted to / against the old
horse, at that, and as the old horse not
only went In the last race, but won Ii
on the chin strap, the Butte pooIrooms
got memorable scorching that way.
1T wasn't merely because q famous
Montana horse was scheduled to go that
day, either, that Butte, as 1 found ev-
horse on the brain. It's horse all the time
In Butte, and the bush meetings that they
have occasionally in Montana keep their
appetite whetted for the sport.
II was debating a letter to a young
woman stenographer in a Butte hotel one
forenoon last summer when a well known
Montana faro and horse plunger, Swede
Sam by nick name, passed by the outside
railing. 1t happened to be on the day
the Suburban handicap was to be run at
Sheepshead Bay.
The Stenoarapher.
Excuse meNe minute. please said the
young woman, closing her notebook with
snap and breaking me off short in my
dtctation, but with such a Winsome ex-
preston that there was no chance for me
TO get grouchy over 1t. oh. SAM she
called to the plunger, who was going to-
ward the barber shop.
Sam wheeled about and walked back
to the railing.
the Dlungers has: Africander any chance
to cop the Suburban.?
Nix the chancesky' replied Swede
Sam in fine, off hand, I-know fashion
Nary chance In life. Hermis Is as good
as in
ct am delighted to hear you say that
said the young woman stenographer, TAX
Ing a $40 note out Of the chain bag rugged
to her belt, and handing the money to
the plunger. Are you going to room
on Africander, straight, for me, viii you,
please? And take the first line of bet
ting;
pocket, and strolled away
You've got lot of confidence in that
chaps selections. haven't you? said to
the young woman when she picked I'D her
notebook again and was ready to resume
the dictation;
woman. unfastening her wad OF gum from
underneath her desk and beginning to get
action on IL. oh, I'm cOppering EaTn.s
picks right along now, and getting the
money. Sans been in bad form for two
long that he doesn't know what it feels like
to get in line. He dropped $4,000 yester-
day without butting into the money in a
single race AS long as SWede Sans bad