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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-20
GREAT HANDS AT POKER.

Some thirty years ago Harvey Brown owned and operated a mine or two in a remote part of Colorado. The loneliness of his situation was occasionally re- lieyed by some eastern friend whom he induced to come and visit him, and at such times the narrow means of enter tainment at the camp would soon have been exhausted had it not been for five negroes who played poker in their cabin every evening, and whose conversation during the game was an endless round of fresh and highly original poker wit. By the way, for the benefit of those who have never seen the game, it may De said that while it Is usually played without a spoken word by shreWd old professional gamblers, there is some- thing about it which seems to bestir the. wit and excite the originality of anna teurs who in the ordinary walks of life are prosaic even to the pointof dullness,
 had already visited my friend Brown and made the acquaintance of the five darkies, so, when I went to see him again. I took along a box of cards--a dozen new packs. The joke was not original with me, but at Browns quar- ters took all the spades from four blue packs and, putting them into a case to- gether, slipped them into my pocket At the cabin we found the five darkies playing, as usual with very old and badly thumbed pack.
 | Here boys said I, throwing the E'fixed' pack upon their table, you've ] played with those old cards long enough"
 l "A volley of enthusiastic thanks was fired at me, and the game proceeded. | 'a"TIyah!' said Sam Jackson to the dealer, Keep yo' thumb out Q yo' big mouth. Does you want to ruin dem new cyards de fust deal?" esa
 'Scuse me, gemmen," the dealer apologized, drying his thumb on his trousers leg. T wasn't brought up on new cyards, I wasn,t.n
 l He threw the hands around with many an ostentatious flourish, remark q ing as he did SO: Say, dem slicks off like was dealin' in CT dream" And at .l the end he added, more truly than he il knew: 'Dar I specs Iss. done dolt you
 all mighty poWahful hans"
 4 The "age" man, next to the dealer
 had put up two un wads-theyg used
 these in lieu of chips.
 Two come five,' said he; ian eff any
 niggah triss to steal it, he gwine have
 fo' dollahs Wuth O trouble."
 .Ise gwine hang aroun' a few minutes
 lookin' fo' dat trouble" said the nex man, showing in five wads.
 ''Ise got a hunch my two pair'll beai I yo's.5 Ise gwine pry it up a little." Tht | third man put in fifteen wads.
 4 st'Tain't tall enough foh me yet" San
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Polly; and it resents being called Polly to such an extent that it will screech in anguish and anger at the appellation. McCrum says that is be- cause the bird hates women, and Polly is a woman's name. So it is, and has been for years, called Willie, and some times Bill for short, until now McCrum has but to speak the birds name to have him sit up at attention.
 Willie has a large cage in his masters shop but the door to it is al ways ajar,, and its occupant is seldom at home during the day. Much of his leisure time he sits perehed on his masters shoulder or hat. and offers friendly little suggestions to the man as he pegs away.
 At other times Willie exploring trips about the shop. and with the gravity and deliberation characteristic of his kind incuires into things about which he does not understand.
 Here, come out and stop your growing said McCrum to the bird the other day, on the occasion of the visit of reporter to the place. Instantly the ruffled feather smoothered them selves. and with as near a smile as a parrot can make Willie clambered off his perch and hopped to his masters s knee.
 "Ain't you ashamed to be so durn | grouchy to stranger?, asked the man.
 Gold day, cold day. said Willie, with a little shake of his handsome feathers, and as if anxious to change the subject. Cold day; ha, ha! 1o cents, please.
 What are you talkin' about, any how?', asked the man. T b'lieve you're crazy Now, take that old shoe and pull all those nails out, and hurry ur with the work
 Without any further ceremony l William took the shoe, and with many a grumple and unintelligible utterance l proceeded to pull every nail out with his sharp bill.
 There now: that's something like,' I said the cobbler, now can go and gel
 yourself a peanut or two. and without the slightest hestitation and a little
 screech Of delight the bird made for j box in the corner and ashed out two l peanuts, which he consumed with mucf l gravity and apparent satisfaction. q No, said the owner of bird, II an 1 not rich, but there isn't enough il l Omaha to buy that bird. He is th'
 only friend I've got; ain't you Bill' T HHa, ha-pretty eold-10 cents T please, observed William.-O -Omahs
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saturday, May 20, 1905.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

Aliens Foot Ease-Druggists'. Annual Meeting-Mothers' Aid Soc'y. Allover Laces-The Chas. Monson Co. Building Lots-The J. T. Sloan Co. Boys Clothes-Meigs & Co. Bonds-Lomas & Nettleton. Baseball-Savin Rock Grounds. Clearance -Gamble-DeSmond Co. Castoria-Druggists California-So. Pacific R. R. Clothing-Lambert. Daily News-Howe & Stetson Go. F. B. c. Clothing-Edw. Malley Co. FinanciaI-Mackay & Co. s1 ] Good Clothes--Dayis & Co.
 Greatest Bargain-S. $. Adams.
 Jell-O-Grocers'. Long Island-Long Island R. R. Lawn Mowers-J. 10. Bassett 6 Go. Postum-At Grocers'. Silk Coats-Wm. Frank & Co.
 Suits-J. Johnson & Sons.
 Saturday Specials-Hamilton & Go. Two Items-The Edw. Malley Co. Trips-So. Pacific R. R.
 ventnor- -the-Sea-Atlantic City. Watch Right ?-Durant.
 d-Situations-51 Court St.
 Wanted-Cook--215 Whitney Avenue.
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Jackson. remarked in a casual way, raising it ten more s
 ..Ah don like ter be inperlite, gem men," said the dealer, 'but Ise got to rise you all ten more.
 The ''age' man got up and bowed profoundly. You ali is de mos com modatin' mess O. l1iggahs eYah met up wid,' said he, setting in Wads eneugn to raise it the limit once more
 So it went, round and round, eacn player in turn raising it the limit and expressing deep gratitude to the rest TOT contributing so iavishly to his enter tainment and profit. When 1t had ser tied down to a call all around the deal- CT took up the pack, moistened ms thumb again and said'
 "Cyards, gemmen" .
 Eff you all hadn' stuck yo' black thumb in yo' mouth An might a took fo' cyards," said the .ase" man, but unduh de succumstances, An mghI ketch de croup of An took any. Ans mo 'fraid O de whoopin 1 cough" remarked the next man. alse declining to draw cards. s.Ah don wan to take no vantage o you-aII poor niggahs. All jes tag alons | wid desc few Ans already got, tht l third man said.
 | Pears to me like And be ongratefu l ter Provides snce eff Ah asked fo' any mo l cyards,a Sam Jackson observed. The dealer picked up his hand again skinned it down carefully and re marked, "Ah s'pose eff An draWed an! mo cyards dan de rest ob you, you-al l would say An was graspin.
 Since all had stood pat, the: first bet fer cautiously put in a single gun wad
 ..Ah don wan to skeer you7all, sal 1 he. 5
 ] Each player in turn said he felt q goot 1 deal the same about and only called tn bet. When it came to show dow each, of course, had a spade flush,
 Ace high" said the first man.
 Dat beats"
 Beats me- @ .'Me, too"
 l All gave up till it reached the "age 1 man.
 "Ace high here,' said he. What yo' nex' cyard?"
 1 'Hor on hyahs' exclaimed Sam Jack | son, How come dey's two ace Q spad
 ses?" Z. .... 1 It was only when they examined tn
 remainder of the pack and found nott z ing but spades that the truth broke i I on them.
 Look a hyar," said Sam Jacksol
 showing the top five cards on the pacl
 "Ef anybody'd d done drawed five cyard' dogged of he wouldn't a had a flu
 han'-three tens an a pair O sebens-
 all spades. Dat oughter beat a straigl
 flush. .''-Brooklyn Eagle.
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towns. They crowded the church at Wednesday evening prayer meetings and they came at eight o'clock, when the rest of New York he had always known was getting ready to eat dinner or perhaps to go to the theater if the play was very good and it was worth while getting there on time. In these quiet streets prayer meeting was as much of a. delight as it had been years before.
 "I wouldn't have given up that expe- rience of seeing New York foranything in the world" said this recluse of a month, after he had begun again to ire auent his old resorts and see more Of his old friends whom he met casually. q returned to what had always known of life in certain number of places with the delight of a man who has bsen on a milk diet when he re turns to his normal bill of fare. Yet with all my pleasure at this return, I can never get altogether over the eff fects of this little excursion into New York I never knew before. will al-
 ways go back to it from time to time. It Is good thing for any man to extend his field of observation and know that some parts of New York exist beyond the few places he is in the habit of wis ! iting.
 Most of the New York men know are bounded by very narrow area.
 We know Fifth avenue and Broadway, and we are familiar with a few busl- I ness blocks down town. But there are
 acres of interesting city streets of which we know nothing and volumes of city | life that are closed to us because we are
 too indifferent to read them. I shall al- ways feel grateful to the man who said that night that he never came into the cafe without seeing me, But for that might never have been interested
 enough to look about me and realize I that I had made my boundaries of city life too small.
 ''It's something to stay right in youi own town, seeing your friends when yor
 want to, and attending to business, vel seeing all the while so much of city l hitherto unknown. that your friend: I whom you have not casually met gree you as if you had been in Europe wher
 they meet you for the first time. "-NeN I York Sun.
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A WONDERFUL PARROT.
Bird Helps His Master in His Pro
 fession of cobbler.

Bird Helps His Master in His Pro-
 fession of cobbler.
 For seventeen years or more William McCrum has sat upon a little bench in little shop in Howard-st and cobbled shoes. is
 Before he came to Omaha he was a seaman. and few and remote are the ocean ports on the face Of the earth that he has not trod. He cannot tell how long it was that he followed the sea, but says it was years and years ever since he was lad and slowed himself away in the hold of a four master bound rom Liverpool to Cal eutta. 4. tt5
 From boyhocd to manhood he grew, and then to middle age, before it oc- cured to him that he would like to see little of the world other than from the fo' castle of ship. So he left the life jog one day at San Francisco and drifted eastward, until he reached Omaha. Here he cast anchor and here he has since remained, While on board ship McCrum had learned as many another Jack Tar has had to learn, to mend his own shoes or go without. so that when his savings were exhausted and it became neces. sary for him to make a competence he took to the cobbler's trade. .s
 One day, long before the idea of leav. l ing the deck of his ship had even oc. cured to him, dusky belle of one O l the Oriental ports where the ships lay at anchor gave McCrum a gaudy huet and unsophisticated parrot. and Wher he took to the land for good the parro l came with him It came to Omahs
 when he did, and it has beel l with him ever since, and vii l be to the end of the chapter unles
 some unforeseen accident happens t, l break the friendship.
 The bird is wonder, as birds go l Few and Tar between are the parrot I with such brilliant plumage, and it
 list of accomplishments is, according t
 its owner, practically unlimited. Tha it is wise bird even a cursory ac l quaintance will prove and when i
 does not know or understand what i
 going on it looks wise and lets it go a
 that. w. This particular parrots name is no
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MIGRATORY BIRDS.

Connecticut Report by Mr. Broadway.
 Arthur w. Broadway, of Hadlyme, this state, is employed by the biological survey, department of agriculture, of the United States government. to ob- serve the movements of migratory birds in this section, and has just completed and forwarded his report for this spring. MT. Brockway is well-known ornithol- ogist, and has done some notable work in that line for private collectors and for the government. His report will be of much interest to bird lovers and those interested in ornithology, as giv- ing reliable data of the appearance in the spring of birds in lower New Eng land.
 The birds noted by Mr. Broadway ur to May 1S are the following: Red winged blackbird, March 16; woodcock March IT.; phoebe, March IS; fox spar row, March 2S; purple grackle, March 25. belted king fisher, March 2S; white bellied swallow, March 29; chipping sparrow, April 10; Canada-geese, April l 12; mourning dove, April 19; barn swal- low, April P; toWfee, April 25; black and white creeper, brown thrasher whip poor-will. April 26; Parula war bier, black throated gresfl warbler swift, blue-iheaded vireo, chimney swift April 2S; la water thrush, April 30; least 1 fy-catcher, American redstart, May 2 1 yellow -throated vireo, Marbling vireo, Baltimore oriole, king bird, yellow war. bier, worrn- eating warbler, golden. crowned thrush Maryland yellow
 throat, prairie warbler, house wren
 May 8; scarlet tanager, yellow winged sparrow, May 4; wood thrush, yellow.
 breasted chat, May 5; great-crested fly.
 catcher, chestnut-sided warbler, May 6 I White-eyed vireo, spotted sandpiper May [; ruby-throated hummer, Black burnian warbler, May s; night hawk
 rose-breasted grosbeak, May g; indig
 bunting, hooded warbler, May 12; vel Ilow-billed cuckoo, back billed cuckoo
 May 1S.
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WORLDS BIGGEST PLANT.


 If YOU ask most persons what the worlds biggest plants are they will probably mention such growths as the giant trees of California, the wonderful eucalyptus of Australia or the huge banyan trees of Asia. But they would. be wrong. All these mammoths of the vegetable world are mere pygmies con- pared with the true monsters which have been seen by only a very few peo-' ple, because they grow where the hu- man eye cannot reach.
 In the deep sea, hidden away from man, except when fierce storms tear a few of them from their secret beds, or when the deeprsea dredges of some ex- plorer wrest them from the abyss, grow plants that are fifteen hundred feet long. They are brown sea weeds, with their roots in the sunless ocean bottom where never a spark of light filters down and their stems reaching up through a full quarter of a mile of ocean
 The greatest of these plants has a stem only about quarter of an inch thick, and at the end it has a leaf or a leaf-like growth that is fifty feet long; surely the longest leaf in the world. This leafy end is beset with great blad- ders, each as big as an egg. The blad- 1ers are full of air, and this buoys the vast plant up so that it stands upright fin the water.
 On our own northwest Pacific coast in another weed that grows to be more than three hundred feet long. At its upper end it has an air bladder shaped something like a cask, and from this again there grows a tuft of fifty or more leaf sprays which are thirty feet long.
 When the Russians owned Alaska and the sea otters were plentiful, they chrIs- tened this weed 9sea otter's cabbage because the sea otters used to climb llr on the air bladders and sun themselves
 Despite the length of the weed and the great size of it's air bladders and its fronds, the stem of it is so thin that tht Alaskan Indians use it for fishing lines to this day. A queer thing about these weed fishing lines is that they are very brittle when they are dry, but as soon as they are let dowun into the water they get tough and pliable again.
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RENEFIT IN DANRuRY.

Professor J. T. Godette, tenor, and Madame De May Godette, prima don- ma soprano, of New Haven, will ap- pesr in a benefit concert to be given at the New Hope Baptist church Thurs day evening next, They will be assis- ted by the best colored talent of this city. The entertainment will be given for the purpose of raising the balance of the amount needed to purchase an artificial limb for A. Frederick Jones, of Bethel. News.
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Local yveather Report.
New Haven. May 19.
Brief Mention.

High water at noon.
 Edward M. Bradley has sold to Etta A. Hoadley a piece of property on Ed wards street fronting 1O6 feet.
 Pierpont B. Foster has sold to c. Aiene Brown property on Whitney ave- nue with frontage of POI feet.
 Etta 4. Hoadley has sold to Edward M. Bradley the house and lot at the corner of Edwards and St. Roman streets. The lot Is 1O6 by 150 feet. The property is assessed at $500.
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NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS.

Than Cutting Corns. The #Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad cures by Absorpt- tion. An entirely new invention. The sanitary oils and vaDors do the work. Do not accept any substitute. Insist upon having The F0ot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad. Identical in merit with AL lens Foot-Ease tpowder), but in shape and form best adapted for the cure of sCorns. Sold by all druggists 25c., or by
 mail. Sample mailed FREE. Address, Allen $. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
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NOTICE TO sunscRIBERs

If you are going away, for a short or long period, the Journal and Courier will be. sent to you by mail without extra charge. The address may he changed as often as desired.
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William Nicely, who was badly injur-
 ed last Monday by falling from a ladder at the home of Dr. Thomson on Park street, is resting comfortably. He had
 two ribs broken and sustained severe
 scalp wound. sS
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A PUBLIC HEARING
 oS THE SteinertOne Pian0f0rte FREE TO ALL.

Encouraged by the warm interest taken by our citizens in the popularity
 of the Steinertone piano the Steinertone
 Company has decided to give a series of piano recitals with the Steinertone Pianoforte. A magnificent concert grand is to be used and the services of
 a skillful pianist have been engaged to Iplay 1t.
 The first of these recitals will take place in Harmonic Hall on Elm Street, next Thursday at 2.S0 D. m The pian- ist who appears is MT. Frank Earnest, | a well-known young artist who pos sesses the marvellous gift of perform | ing upon this wonderful Steinertone ! Pianoforte. MT. Earnest combines an Unlimited execution with a most deli | cate touch that will not fail to give great enjoyment to the listeners.
 Harmonic Hall has been chosen by the Steinertone Company as the most preferable for musical performances and the Company extend a most cordial I invitation to all who love to hear sweet music at no expense to them. The concert is given for a two-fold pur- lpose, to afford a splendid musical treat l to the public and also to demonstrate l the surpassing toRal qualities and the unequalled action of the Steinertone Piano.
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WEATHER RECORD.

Washington, D. C., May 19, s p. m. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday For Eastern New York and New Eng 1and Fair Saturday and Sunday fresh west winds.
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 DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN, ss. Pro- bate Court, May IT, 1905. ESTATE OF FREDERICK KEY. late of Woodbridge, in said District, de- ceased.
 The administrator having represented said estate to be insolyent, it is ORDERED, That commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of said estate be appoint ed at a Court of Probate, to be held at New Haven, in said District, on the 24th day of May. 1905. at ten o'clock in the forenoon; and that the administra- tor give public notice to all persons in interest to appear, if they see cause. before said Court, at said time and place. to be heard relative to said ap- pointment, by publishing this order circulation in said District, and due return make.
 LIVINGSTON W. cLEAvELAND. m1S St Judge.
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DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN. ss.. Pro- ESTATE OF EMILY KEY. late of
 Woodbridge. in said District, deceas-
 ed.
 The administrator having represent ed said estate to be insolvent, it is
 ORDERED, That commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of said estate be appoint New Haven, in said District, on the 24th day of May, 1905. at ten o'clock in the forenoon; and that the administrator give public notice to all persons in in terest to appear, if they see cause, be- fore said Court, at said time and place, to be heard relative to said appoint ment, by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having cir culation in said District, and due re-
 E LIVfNGsToN W. cLEAvELAND. m1S St Judge. DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN, ss. Pro- bate Court May 16, 1905. ESTATE OF FREDERICK c. SAM FORD, late of San Jose, California,
 owning property in said District, de- l ceased
 The Court of Probate for the District of New Haven hath limited and appoint ed six months from the date hereof for l the creditors of said deceased to bring l in their claims against said estate. Those who neglect to exhibit their claims within said time will be debar- red.
 All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment
 coRNELIA L. SANFORD. m1S St Administratrix.
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DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN. ss. Fro
 bate Court, May 18th. 1905.
 Estate of REBECcA L. JACKSON, late
 of New Haven. in said District, de- ceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of New Haven hath limited and ap- for the creditors of said deceased to bring In their claims against said es- tate. Those who neglect to exhibit their claims within said time will be debarred. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate pay ment to
 m1T-St Executrix.
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LOSING HIMSELF IN TOWN.
AS GOOD AS GOING OUT OF
 TOWN.

A New Yorker Tries to Miss His Ae- quadntanees for Weeks, and Succeeds Without Difficulty.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1905-06-08
0Bl B { b \ e

Mr. Sidney Barrett was born, June 10Th. 1S; IT, New
Hampshire moved TO the west in 1871.
Has been member Of tho E, Church. became member
Of the Church at the of Is
Served IN the U. s. Army years III tth, Co. Second
Battalion.
Veteran Reserved Corpse He leaves an aged wife
his loss, Married in y so years old
ne was laid to his last resting place the Sst of May
Two under the Auspices of the GRAND ARMY OF THE
REpuBLIc Services conducted by Rev. h. s. Garrett Ed OF
the CREssET Singing rendered by the Cade Church choir
me entire service was, very sympathetic The Grand Old
erans did all they could to pay due respect to their dead
conrad and to cheer the aching of the bereaved wife,
80 Sleeps in the tomb Soldier true
His spirit has gone to rest
~ tie walked here below two years in blue,
Sixtyiivo in the Church to be best.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1905-06-08
FOWLERITEMS
by Lee

Klnd Ed. | will write few
items for the WoRLD's CRgssEg.
Fine weather at present,
Crops look Gne,
The singing at Mr.. Iinthicunbs
was well attended all had good
time.
John Booker and wife visited
Richard Booker last "Wednesday
night and Thursday.
George ond Abner Iluse visited
Albert, Lewis aud Oscar Horton
Wednesday evening.