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GAMBLERS CARE FOR
. WOMANS HONOR
A Rescue. a Kitty For Charity and
Its Tragic Result Told by
Riverman.

There amt no ALFRED heap O. good
things to be said f'r the gamblers I used
to was thicker n bars In . Ozark thicket
on the river boats said Caleb Mix. 1.-The
veteran bartender on the Mississippi River
packet City Of Natchez. They was q
p'izen lot II anybody sh'd row up in q skin
an asst you anythin about 1t.
But there's one thirs t en- say f'r the
river gamblers nigh as free as I On say
it f'r all the Southern gentlemen l. ever
seen: they knowed how to pay respect
to white woman. Tho gentlemen did
it, o. course, an the gamblers did it,
reckon. f'r the sake O. havin' some one
white streak into em somewheree.
Il amt sayin' t they was all that AWAY
Nor I amt sayin' t them t had women
o. their own, even when they was married
to EN-, treated EN- decent.
But what meant was t they'd act in
front Of lady like they was RELY white
an il one on EN- forgot hisself, as some
times one on EN- would, he were just as
liable to be caught up an maybe shot by
another gambler as he was by any gentle
man that d happen to catch him.
There was queer case o that kind that
come along Of game O. poker on the
River Queen when were youngster.
we was comm down the river Just at
the height o. the Feb uary food, an the old
man was maxim all sorts o stops, an doin
all manner o. things fr to help the people
as was drownded outer their houses an
homes. o. course, want no business o
hisn. What he was runnin' about for was
to take folks an freight up an down the
river. Leastaways, that's what some on
'em thought t had paid their fare I'm
Cairo down an was Kind O. grouty about
spendin' extra week or so on the way.
There want nothin' said to him, though
till we came to the mouth o. the st. Francis
River, an some on 'em that knowed the
channel seen t the old man were turnin
his boat of to the west, like he were goin'
tip the st. Francis. The oap'n Of boat
was somebody them days, an 'twa mt nc
trifin' matter to call him to question, NO
matter what he did.
There was Ave or six passengers, though
that was gettin' sore. an they sort O. braoec
up an says to him t they was thinkin' o
goin' down to New Orleans, an II he didn,
mind they'd ruther be goin' along, 'steac
O. foolin round lookin' f'r people to picl
up outen the water.
Tho old man, he didn't say much, bu
what he did say was like It come olten 9
gun.
"My daughter an her two little ones va.
drownded into the food last year, he says
an II there's any other mans daughter IL
trouble round here, an on get to her IL
time he says, I'm goin' to be there, if
never get this boat no further along Il
there's anybody aboard that's too much in I
hurry to 60 along, he en- try the walkin
or III sell him skill an he en- paddle
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'Just then Frank Hardy stepped round
the corner o. the pilot house. putin his
gun back in his pocket. i beg yo' pardon,
Madam he says, very polite, but it didn't
look to me like there was no time to be
putterin.' I reckon you won't be bothered
with that cattle no mo-
But the wilder she just looked UP like
she didn't know nothin' had happened an
Hardy, he called some O. the servants an
had her took to her stateroom. The old
man como up an investigated. Feared
like there want nothin' to be did, on'y
to see t Red Masters was buried decent,
an that was did at the next landing"
But what became Of the widow, Caleb?'
asked one Of his hearers.
oh, she didn't turn out very we'll.
Feared like she'd never had so much money
before. an there was some doubts whether
she'd ever had a husband. Anyway, she
come to New Orleans and went to the bad
quick. did hear t Hardy said, one time.
t he didn't have no p'ticular regrets about
KILN Masters, but he was kind O. sorry he
didn't have some better excuse
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can read print ,
The most marvellous thing to the lay obj
server Is the glass slphon. II Is no bigger
around than a borsehair and one wons,
ders how any liquid CON pass through
1t. y
In order to avoid friction between the end
Of the siphon and the paper tape, which
would impede the movements Of the delis
cately suspended coil, the siphon Is vibrated
rapidly to and from tho paper by an electric
cal machine. resulting In Its tracing Z
dotted instead Of an absolutely continuous
line.
The operator sits at his desk and trans
lates the tortuous green line on the tspe,
writing the MESA 60 on blank. do does
not have to watch the receiver and could b
away from it for minutes. The tape b res
cording the message more surely than 10
could. ~
A cable operators life Is not hard. ~
takes him five years to become expert
and then he gets about $llo a month. 1
He may get berth in q city oflce or he
may be sent to some faraway station whore.
his board and lodging arc provided andy
where he can find recreation in the anuse,E
ments Of the place.
Al the Hazel Hall station IN Nova Scotia
there arc sixty operators. each Of vhoa1
works eight hours day and has plenty q
time for shooting. ashing and tho othet
sports Of the province. The company
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somepin' like $500 took UP f'r the wilder
at the four tables. Them that quit afore
the old man turned in handed him their
money, but when the others broke up
nigh o'clock in the mornin' Red Masters
was chose a committee O. one to hand over
the money they had to the wilder herself.
if she was anywheres round. If she wasn't
he was to give it to the clerk for to hand
over to the old man when he came out.
Red Masters were crossroad gambler
Pm Missouri t was knowd all up an down
the river f'r bad man ever since he took
to the boats. There was them t said he
cheated, but on'y two men had said 1t to
his face, an they never said nothin' more
about it--nor about nothin' else.
They did say, too, that he were a devil
OF man f'r women, but there want
much to show that on the boats. When
he travelled, he travelled for business, an
il were seldom that women ever had
anything to do with poker game on the
boats. But he had a gentlemanly way
about him, an was very soft spoke, so
maybe that was the reason they made
him the committee.
There might ha' been another reason
too, FIR he'd played great game that night
an had tol'able nigh cleaned out the four
men as was playin' with him. so, o. course
he'd been the principal contributor to the
kitty.
Anyway, he was chose, an alter countin'
the money carefully 30 st the others cd
see how much there was he started out
to find the wilder, an the others piked
of to bed. Only Frank Hardy, t had
been playin' to the other table-he kind
o. shook his head an looked a little bit
doubtful about things, an he sot still while
the others cleared out.
We'll. Red Masters, he went round
lookin' f'r the wilder, an the servants
told him she were on the upper deck. Pears
she didn't sleep none, an had been walkin'
round most O. the night. He found her
settin' just behind the pilot house. sort
O. out O. the way like. She set there with
her hands in her lap lookin' straight ahead
at nothin', with her big gray eyes as dry
az they had been afore the food. Feared
like she hadn't been able to cry none, an
the women had been sayin' I that were
q bad sign.
Anyway, she listened like she didn't
hear nothin' when Red Masters come up
to her and told her about the kitty t had
been made for her. Then he laid the money
in her lap. an she looked up and said:
Thank ye.' Just like she didn't know what
she was saying.
well, Red Masters. he just stood there
an KEEP on talkin'. There amt no tellin'
Just what he said, f'r there want but one
t heer'd him. outside o. the wilder, an
neither the wilder nor that one never said
nothin', but whatever twas. pears the
widder didn't pear TO take no notice.
Then Red Masters took her hand, but
he did it in way t mought ha been en-
tirely decent, and there want nothin' did.
The wilder sot quiet, like she want payin'
no 'tention.
Then Red Masters. he just slid ono arm
round her waist, an just that minute he
pitched for'ard on his face on the floor, with
hole plumb through his head.
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well, there want no moro kickin'
Them t was dissatisfied seen WANT no
use, an they 'peared to be sort O. 'shamcd
o. themselves, too.
There was consid' Fable poker on that
trip, too. There want no extra heavy
game on, but there'd been tol'able st eady
playin' fr the better part of a week, bein'
t there was eight or ten pfessionals aboard
an maybe hundred passengers, not count
in fit ecn or twenty ladies "a was comm
down the river with their husbands. Them
that played was gettin' all they wanted in
the way of excitement, an the gamblers
was doin' tola'ble well in the way o. winpin's,
but there hadn't been no scandal, nor no
row.
-There'd been one thing did It were a
little UNUSUAL. The arst time the cap'n
stopped his boat long enough to pick up a
man as was hoatin down on the roof of
his barn, big Frank Hardy, t was busy
gettin' the money away I'm three Mem
phis men, says, kind o. sudden: L motion
we mako kitty f'rthe poor devil t has been
picked up
well, there want no objection to that
an when they quit playin' that night
Hardy handed the old man s34, tellin him
where it come from, an sayin' t them that
give the money d ruther the poor devil
t was to get it wouldn't know where it
come from.
1T got talked about, though, an after
that every time the old man d pick up
a survivor there'd be kitty in one or two
games. There was somepin' like thirty
aboard by tn time we got to the st. Fran
cis, an the old man was goin' right on pick
in EN- up.
Il recollect we went twenty-five miles
st raight west I'm Memphis, through the
woods. to get family o. three t was Twin
up a tree. We get there just in time.
Il never knowed whether the old man
had heerd of any p'ticular case up the
St. Francis, but he 'peared to have toll
BILE clear notion O. what he were dom,
FIR, long about fours hours a ter We turned,
we come to big storehouse t stood nigh
about where the bank o. the river had been,
an on tho roof O. that storehouse were
woman.
90 course we took her of, an she told
| a hard luck story to make you cry. Pears
there was some fifteen on 'em got to the
storehouse when all the other ,buildin' g
was swep' away an she was the on'y
WOI1An. DIG al IicT hu5boHA nav 6oAS
up to sort O. loft there was to sleep when
it come night, an the others camped out
on the main floor.
Then. long in the middle O. the night
some time. there como sort O wave,
swashin' through the house sudden. an
drownded all them t was on the main floor
An the husband undertook to help some
O. them, and he got drownded his own self.
well, that young wilder, she were az
pretty as a picter, but she 'peared to be
kind O. stunned like. The women on our
boat cried enough to make up, an they
took her OF to their staterooms an fixed
her up with clo'es an things. an there was
four separate htties started for her inside
O. the next two hours.
They played all night that night at
| two O. the tables, an there must ha' been
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4 am annoyed every now and then.
I explained, with blotches appearing on
my face. They come unexpectedly, last a
day or two or longer, and then disappear.
Can you cure mer o,.,o ,,,.o ,as
now the specialist answered scrrtiniz-
Ing my face, and you do we'll to take the
matter in time
II was advised to take of my waist and
submit to an examination OF my arms
apparent an xiety for her opinion l learned
that had a pronounced case OF nervous
skin disease.
= 1T can be entirely cured, however. by
the violet ray and by keeping strictly to a
diet which will prescribe, said the quack,
once.
Il did, taking half hour dose Of the
violet ray before leaving the place.
:" DO you notice the tendency OF the ray
to clear the skim asked the woman, with
e9mplacenoy, near the end OF In, my sitting;
was
Don't you think blue light falling
on the face is apt to give one CHASTITY look,
anyway l suggested.
but she waved away the suggestion with
stores the skin to perfect health and clears it
Of ell impurities.
Remembering her warm handclasp and
solicitous directions at parting it really
went against my feelings to march into
her place the next day with detective
and Introduce him."
is the violet ray specialist out of business
now?' Mrs. Witherspoon was asked
THAT ! don't know. She had no diff
Guilty in furnishing $500 bail, and when her
case is disposed Of and she pays her fine
which, OF course she will do, it Is more
than likely she will go to work again at the
same business, which evidently is tremen-
dolsly profitable.
For that matter, all the quacks make
money"
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an inch In diameter. A piece OF soft rub
Der Is embedded in the end OF this. The
these tools. perforating a strip Of paper
which runs through the machine.
The dots are punched on the upper half
Of the strip and the dashes on the lower.
The paper Is specially. prepared for the
work, being treated with oil in such way
that the perforations are sharp and sure.
The tape runs through to a second ma
chine which works the cable automatically
This method saves delay. The operator
usually can punch faster than the cable
can send but he does not have to wait
for it to catch up. He may be a yard Of
tape ahead Of the automatio sender and
then If he comes upon word which he
can't decipher be has plenty of time to
look it up, the sender meanwhile grinding
away at Its task.
While this is going on in New York the
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Sometimes the scale was shielded BY
a curtain b prevent outer light from max
ing the beam from the mirror too pale.
But the operator did not have to sit In the
dark.
Lord Kelvin, who invented the moving
mirror. did away with 1t by inventing the
Dozens Of operators work day and night
in the Commercial Cable office in Broad
street. the largest cable Office in A nerica
They sit at desks similar to those used in
ordinary telegraph offices, but their ap-
paratus Is much more complicated than
the Morse key and receiver.
The sending machine has three keys,
one for dots one for dashes and one for
spaces. The machines work harder than
Morse keys and cannot be operated with
the fin 9ers.
The operator holds In each hand a little
iron bar about four inches long and half
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message Is being received, say In Emden,
Germany, without delay, for the relay at
operator is using IN even greater inven-
ton Of Lord Kelvin 's-ths siphon re-
oorder.
The incoming currents affect a rectan gu
lar coil Of silk covered wire which Is sls-
silk threads smaller than the finest human
hair. TO this coil 10 attached q glass aiphon
two inches high and shaped like an in
verte1 l..
The upper end swings freely in a tiny
tank of thin green ink. The lower end rests
on constantly moving tape. just like the
tape used in sending tho message
As the current varies with the dots and
dashes, the lower end OF the siphon. con-
stanty wet with ink, swings to and fro upon
the tape, leaving a serpentlne trail. This
can be read by the operator as easily as he
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WILLING TO WE'D 4 SENATOR.
Kansas Widows OTer Declined-Referre6
To Civil Service bureau.

TO Civil Service bureau.
WASHINGTON, May 2o--Members of Con-
gress rec i've some curious requests. A
prominent Senator, who ia widower'
not long ago got letter from widow In
Kansas Offering herself as candidate for
the place Of second wife.
Il am widow with two children, nice
farm, and some means" she wrote, and
want to get married. There are not many
good chances in Kansas and noticing by
the papers that you are a widower l wish
you would consider me if you wish 10 marry
again. can refer you to our Kansas Sena-
tors as to my character and as to the truth
Of my statements.
The Senator who received the proposal
turned it over to his secretary for. reply
and the latter performed tine task allotted
to him as follows:
DEAR MADAM: Your letter to Senator
kind proposal of marriage was noted and
given consideration. The Senator has
directed me to write you and explain tho
matrimonial situation as It appears to exist
at the present time. Matrimony, which
matter, recently has developed into more
or less public duty, and is receiving the at
tention of many distinguished persons IN
public life, and government control OF the
matter is not improbable.
but it is not unlikely that matrimonial
matters ultimately viii he placed under
control OF the United States Civil Service
Commission. which would then have the
authority to prescribe proper examinations
for applicants for matrimonial positions,
and create an eligible list from which selec-
ton might be made from time to time az
vacancies should occur.
while it might be little premature'
no harm could ensue should you call atten-
ton Of the Civil Service Commission to
your desire to secure the position Of wife OF
Senator Blank II the Civil Service Com
would be one of the first applicants and, Of
course, would have an early opportunity
to take the examination and got on tho
eligible list from which Senatorial wives
might be selected
There was no response from the Kansas
widow.
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provides library and a billiard room.
The men at the great cable station at Wa
tervule, Ireland, have equal comforts.
Happy colonies Of cable opera tors arp
all over the world. A man may be shifted
from Pernambuco to Mozam bique or from
the Azores to Tasmania. He IL sure to find
others OF whom he has heard.
Most Of the men are English or Irish.
though occasionally native of one Of the
out Of the way countries masters the art.
The operator Of experience always has an
to regale his colleagues in exile.
Thomas Dickinson. chief electrician Of
the Broad street cable flee, was at South
American stations for many years. He
and nine other operators kept bachelors
hall at the Sail IA Cruz station. They
were fourteen miles from the nearest town
and their food was brought to them each
day by Indians.
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CABLE OPERATORS LIFE IN OUT OF THE WAY PLACES
HdAuto

Cabling b hard. Yod work In black
darkness. The messages are transmitted
TO you In flashes Of light You read these
flashes as q land operator reads his ticks.'
That Is what . man who said he was q
cable operator told q reporter In Chicago
tho other day. When q cable expert In
New York saw the quotation he laughed.
Then he said:
sThat must be an oldtmer. Tho mirror
system hasn't been used IN about fifteen
years. Yet I'm not surprised at tho mis-.
take, for the public doesn't know much
about the manner in which cable messages
are sent.
IT was only ten year, ago that read
that there was o special ward In Blooming
dale for cable operators who went mad
from watching the needle In the glass case.
Now tho system Of reading the needle
haant been used In forty years. don't
believe It ever drove any one crazy. any.
way. Ny father was . cahlist and he
never heard Of such Q thing.
'Thsy thought the cable was great when
ths needle system was used. remember
vsrses printed IN Chambers Papers for the
Psoplss In ths early eos which began.
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I'VE don't need patient watchers now.
Cabling has been reduced to mechanics.
Nor is it true that operators had to
sit In black darkness when the mirror
delicately balanced affair which swung
in obedience to the magnet controlled by
the cable.
"A light was directed against the mir
ror and the reflected rays struck scale
a few feet away. The length and dura-
or figure being sent. The cablist never
took his eyes from the scale. He called
out the message to another man, who wrote
II down.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Sane or Insane.

as there any sure test by which to
tell the sane from the ~insane?" in
CURED a student of the famous French
alienist, Esquirol. "Please dine with
me tomorrow at 6 o'clock was the
answer of the sa1ant. The student
complied. Two other guests were
present, one of whom was elegantly
dressed, while the other was rather
uncouth, noisy and extremely con-
ceited. After dinner the pupil arose
to take leave, and as he shook hands
with his teacher he remarked: ''The
problem is very simple after all; the
quiet, well-dressed gentleman is eel.
tainly distinguished in some line, but
the other is as certainly a lunatic and
ought at once to be locked up" You
are wrong, my friend" replied Es-
ouirol with a smile. 1.-THE quiet, welE
dressed man who talks SO nationally
has for years labored under the delu.
sion that he is God, the Father;
whereas, the other man, whose ex.
uberance and self-conceit have u
prised men, is M. Honore de Baizacs
the greatest French writer of tins
day."-Leslie's Monthly.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

There is but a single medicine which
is a radical specific for catarrh. 1t is
Peruna, which has stood a half century
test and cured thousands of cases.
Ifyou do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
The Hartman S%anitarium, Columbus, o.
All correspondence held strictly con-
Gdential.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

Congressman J. II. Bankhead, of Ala
bama, one of the most influential mem
bers Of the House of Representatives, in
a letter written from Washington, D. c..
gives his endorsement to the great ca
tarrh remedy, Peruna, in the following
words:
"YOur Perana Is one of fhe best
medicines I v tried, and no family
should be without your remarkable
remedy. As a tonic and Cafarrh cure
! know of nothing better. "---J. H..
Bankhead.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Rural Route From Hattiesburq.

The first rural free delivery route
to be established out of Hattiesburg
goes into effect on May 1. 1t is ex-
pected that others will speedily follow.
More and more the farmers and town
people are approaching the ocnve-
nience of these rural free delivery
routes, and are %petitioning the depart.
ment to establish them. The increase
in rural Tree delivery routes in all
parts of the State has been steady for
the past two years.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
For Sunday Violations.

j. c. Clay, yard foreman for the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley at Tut
wiler, his assistant and nine laborers
were arrested by Town Marshal Den
man last week for violation of Sunday
laws. Clay was at work arranging
the loading of some cars that had be-
come so disarranged in transit that it
was necessary to set the ears out at
that place.