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POMER BY 'PHONE. Man Played for Another and Lost a Big Pot. New Yok Telegraph. Sam Siedman was sick abed at the last session of the Friday Night Pok er Club, but he wanted to be in the game, so he sent down Franky Litz with $100 and told him to be safe and sane. Litz lost the $100 before he got a long breath. All but $2. He shoved that into the center when he skinned his hand and found three fours. Then he cursed his luck that-he had played in the hundred before he got a hand. Charley Parker was the only one to stay and drew cards against him. He himself took two and got the case four. "I suppose this is a showdown," said Litz to Parker "but I got a pret ty good hand, and if you want to get a play out of it, just wait there while I call up Siedman.'' Parker told him to go as far as he liked, and Litz swung around in his chair, took up the receiver and got Seidman on the wire. ".ay. sam.'' le said, ''T lost that hiunired all riit. Yes, all of it. Al ready?l Well you iever see such hands. But, Sam, I got two dollars in this pot and I hiold a swell hand. Parker says ifr you say so I can play it for what it is worth. Yes. What have I got? Oh, I can't tell you that. All right. Your're on. See you later.'' Tleon Litz turned around and rais ed P.irker $$25. To his surprise Park or came back with another fifty. This necessitated another go at the phone. There's nothing to it, lie told Seid man this time. "I got this guy skin ned the length of the block, but he's raised me fifty. Raise him? Sure, I'd raise him. Right-o.'' And lie came back with another fifty, and again Parker raised. Six times in pai'nful succession Litz called his principal up on the phone and got leave to go back with his invincible hand. He had a wordy war with him the last 'time, because Siedman told him to call. But of course lie had to do as lie was told. Here was $900 in the pot by this time. 'Siedman ain't got no nerve,' he growled. "Says I got to call you and, look here I got four fours; what do you think of that?" But as lie reached out to draw down the Pot Parker showed four eights. He had held up h red and black and drawn three cards. Litz grabbed the phone and called up Siednian for the last time. "Say, Sam, what d'you think? I lost that pot, Parker held four eights against my four fours! Shall I come home?'' He paused a minute and then hung up the receiver, smiling foolishly. "He says I better not,' lie told the other players. "But I'm going over and have it out with him.'' Cuse me, sir,'' interruplted the dinge attendant; ''there's seventy cents telephone charges.'' 00~ CLLEGE BRED, BUT WRECKS. Scholars Among the Derelicts of the Bowery. Recent investigaitions show that more than. one-fourth of the unem ployed, the unfortunate, or whateve\ one may choose to call them, who ap Sply to the Bowery branch of the Young Men 's Chnistian aissociation are men who have had a college edui cation. This fact wvas emphasized re cently in a istatement made by the secretary, HI. W. Hoot, in an appeal for funds with which ta erect a build ing adequate to the needs of th6 in stitution. In the year just closed the total number of men aided was 3,006. Ac cording to the annual report of the branch, the proportion otf men aidedd who had had a university, college, academic or high school education was more than 26 per cent. This condi Hion has prevailed sinoe the institu ion begin its -exiNtence nim1teeent 'ears ago. As to tihe ages of these men, 84 perV ent are under thirty-five. 'is not an unusual thing at tihe owery branch of the association to ad mcen who translate iireek as a stime during the weary wait for rk, and others who are familiar th thme higher mathematics and the ics. At a religious meeting a Sundays ago a clergyman in the rse of his address had occasion, ongruously enough, to quote from ancient poet. Slowly in the midst the derelicts who had drifted in warmth and shelter a young man se, necessarily shabby and uni pt or lie would not have n there, and with beautifully asea apologies pointed out to the iker a mistake in the quotation p)roceeded to translate the quota tion from ancient Greek. The speaker, surprised to find a man with such an education among these unfortunates, made inquiry and learned that the young man was col lege bred and had once had a good social position. Financial misfortune had come, then he yielded to liquor and lost one place after another; un til he found himself a rover, penni less and friendless. The institution has made a new man of him and he is beginning life over again. Almost any afternoon or evening one may single out these seedy schol ars in the assembly room of the branch. They come and go. Few re main long. Some hold themselves aloof from the rabble that floats in. from the Bowery, others-will hobnob with the veriest hoboes, who will liten with out comprehending to talks on the classics. Among these have been men of all classes and conditions and belonging to families of distinction. It is a constant source of wonder to the speakers who address the evan gelical meetings to find men here who should naturally be holding places of distinction. ' lait stranve, ill starre'd fate iis a1o1t uh e ealaiity, such a hum1niliating. finale to once briiht prosl)cs?'' was asked of a man who I has stidied tile (u1es.iol. ''Somletimeis 1"enu10 in misfortunle,' ways (le reply, ''hut usualy Iv anl u0ter lack of sense of rOsponlsibility for htiiself or his futture. Also a born spirit of diseontent with his lot, no iatter how good it mllay be, is to blame. ''A man wants a nice job without working up to it. He leaves his home, perhaps a good job at from $2 to $5 a day, and comes to New York without money or prospects. He is soon in the bread line. 'We can't stop it. We have tri ed. Ve don 't know how. ''Boys as well as men Want to be bank presidents at once. It is not am hition, but an aimless, shirtless dis position that inspires them. They do not concentrate, but drift from one thing to another and from place to I)ILICC. ''Dr'nk is not lie o. :, thing that shiipwreks a man's lif!. The spirit '11 dise.ntent will do it. ''Sometimes these wanderers land in New York and walk the streets. When they come here we get them a job outside of New York if they are willing to work. "Most men are glad enough to go back home as soon as they discover exist,ing conditions in this great city. They want to go where they know some people. With i, montey all gonle and no friends this isn't the eaiest town to get, along in.'' Not long ago a young man who had Jist. been released from Blackwell's Islanid whiere lie had beent committed1 as a vagrant, joined the wvayfarers of the Bowery' and eventualnly appear ed at the association branch asking for aid. He had fallent through gamn bling and dissipation, running thro1gh the property of his widowed mother. After much persuasion lhe agreed to reform, and after getting employment was restored to his mother, wh'lo had mourned him as dead. He had recently been graduat ed from a university. But not all are so fortunate as to see their wayward sons again alive. A few weeks ago a gaunt young man stumnbled inito the secretary's offiee wit.h the pallor of death upon his face. Months of drink had wrecked him. At college he had contracted dis sip)ated habits. A fter his graduation his p)arents refuised to encourage his voices by supplying him with money and secured him employment. But lie refused to work, lost his job, drifted t.o New York so low that lie found it impossible to let his family k now his cond(ititon. Th'le secretariy of thle association .sent him to the hospital, where lhe died before his ileople (con(1ld)e notified. Not long ago a gra dutate of a wvest ern university came to New York with small means, intending to take a post, gradluate course of study. The ent iceets of the city caught him, his mnoney v'anmishted, atnd lie finally turn'ied1 to thue branch for help). With five diplomtas hte took a job that paid him $9 a week. A rollicking Irish law student who, to use his, own wvords, had taken a fivo yoars ''whirl at the booze,'' drifted in one night at the end of his resources, and with a 'bottle of poison in his pocket. He wvas persuaded to stop drinkintg and work about the building. He pulled himself togeth er and nowv is doing well. It was discovered later that he was the son of an Irish clergyman, but ho never said a wvord about his antecedents. Frequently pride is stronger th ani phys~ical suffering. A few weeks ago a yong nnn namli at nt.. ...ot branch who was in dire need and was c willing to do anything to lift himself 1 out of the depths into which he had s fallen through weakness of charac- c ter. When it came to signing the ap- a plication blank, in which he was re- E quired to give full information con- i eorning his family, he said: j "No, I can't do that. I won't have 8 the names of my family recorded t here. If I did I could find no rest in that bed of yours,'' and lie wvent out into the night. Where? Heaven only knows. Only a few nights ago a speaker at one of the meetings was a man hold- a ing a responsible post in one of the a largest corporations in this country e at a good salary. Nineteen years ago t lie was drinking and gambling in t Bowery saloons. Another interested attendant at , the meeting had gone to the branch a years before, a poverty stricken Ger- t man. He was straightened out, gave ( up a dissipated career and has since served as United States ninister to a e foreign country. ''About oi-fourth of the men who n are strapped and stranded and show v I here m-e ~leeve nvil, said Secre talY ot "This *;i a kind of elear- I inl'. 1101. f,or 'ailiiies ar1oild about h1 ile couniltrY. We senid wayward boys 1 lm-k2 1 to theil . m s, to their colleges 5 or t f he'i businless. 4'Freiuieitly a athr wonl't for 'iv-e, but 'Ifter we Conivince himli that his ioy was reforied we always sue CCMi inl briniini,- abouta roemiciliation ."When (Clvealad Ht. iD( de, soonl arter his graduation from Princeton, was chairmani of the committee of management here he could be seen i many evenings in the' week at the ser- o vice with his hand on the shoulder of some college man who was down on his luck and in desperate straits. ''We get them from ill over the world. Only lately one of our inmates was a college graduate from Copen- e hagen, Denmark, and at the same i time we ha otlhers who held degrees y from Princeton and the University I of Chiicago. Men with diploias from theological seminaries, graduates from Yale, Penmisylvania, Rochester and Syracuse universities, all blow a in here, and about a month ago a Har vard man without a shirt to his back asked for aid.' ~~ t Good Roads and Automobiles at t Jamestonw Exposition. e Norfolk, Va. March 28.-When for t greater speed an( heavier hauling 5 the present mannoth locoiotives, C with their greater traction power be- a cane a necessity to meet the require- I Imet.ilts of land traffie, road-beds, rails and bridges were renewed to imect the new demiands upoua them. whenl horse-Car gave place to trol- h ley and Ihe trolleys branelied out into a the country. not. oily new mechan- s ial deivices wer*e essential but laws 1 wvere requirecd to give this class of t< pu1lblic carrier the rights and( priv'il- I eges necessary to their profitable i\ op)erat ions. ( Tile most material factor' that trIanlsportationi will next hav~e to (deal wvitAh, and( certaini it is that before this newv selfpropelling machine can be0 brought t.o its full usefulness it must be provided with suitable roads. The bicycle and the automobile have bro ughlt abhout propagaindai for good - roads which the farmer with his old1 fasshioned vehicle ought to have in sisted1 on hiaving' lonig ago. His awavfk cning to the material advantaces of good1 roads proisesl5C no0w inded, to bie t:he principal in fluenmce that will give to thle autIomnoile its oppnlortnon ity. Thle .Jamestowvn Exp1ositionl is g~o ing~ to do( somiethiing for the farmer, the road1s and( t.he automobile. Thme auto cnn push itself but it doesn1't lay ils own t rack t hou24h a selft-t rack layjing maiichiine wps invenCited on1ce' and1( decrCIibed and3( ill ust rated in the ippes. Th'le ex posiion01 1 20s gin to show what, a good1 road is-many kinds of' good( rolads--ho(w t hey are madie and( what. anl aut ooijle Cani (10 oni t hem. A very f'ine boulevard is bening laid and drawing near comn pletion, bet.ween Norfolk and. the ex p)osi tion grmounmds at Rowel l's PointI and( a. regiular auitomlob)ile service is to be maintained. The War depart - mlentl and the post-ornee deparltmilenit are t.o experimlenlt on this road, for puirposes each relating to its own ser vice. New Jersey is to have among other exhibits, a specimen bit of road such as has been built in that state under state aid and hals bee'n found to be an economical construction, while in so far as good-road-building had ad vanced, it has fully realized all pro mises of great benefit, increasing the v'alue of country lands, drawvingr n)opu1lat ions from eit.y into suburbi'li andu makinig a maiall1 saving in tihe cost of agricultural dray.age. Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York nnd Now Jersey have In1k n1 the lead in state aid and in the list ten years their efforts have re ulted in proving not only the value ,f good-roads but the expediency of tate appropriations, and in other tates in which the movement has ade any headway, the results have ust,ified the inauguration of the tate aid idea and proved an incon ive to further effort. The south is awake to the needs f good roads and some of her sena ors have been among the leaders in dvocating national appropriations or good roads, urging that it is a uestion of expediency and as much function of the general government s is the dredging of channels and reeks and the giving of public lands 0 encourage railroad building in lie West. Pittsburg got the good roads con 'cltion this year but its members re invited to the Jamestown Exposi ion and the question will find full iscussion among experts and the rediction is made that the exposition ill give promnlgation to some ad nceed idea as to the place of the to011141mhile in the transportation orl dI' Ile u1o distanit, fu lire. Th1111mhiie inl all it.- sha.;w. I r ' C0. n-er, dliver v !0 I w1! 1 eVv d will lie shown at thle ex isit in :111 its full developml enilt will 1 !inJ 4 awail only Ile (a1Y of thw Cherry Posphate. 0Govei-Ior Ansel yesterday received roin irof. w. BI. Birney, chemist at lie Uinversity of South Carolina, an nalysis of cherry phosphate which being shipped to the upper part f the stale from north Georgia. This hosphate contains about 3 1-2 per ent aleohol or nearly as much as lie beer commonly sold in this state. t will be forced to go out of business specially as Dr. Burney states that uses fol coloring matter coal tar, ,hich is a violation of the pure food t-w. Catarrh and Catrarrhal Headaches re (Iickly relieved by Nosena. Tt othes the congested membranes al lys in Immations and thoroughly euls and cleanses. It keeps moist all he passeges whose tendency is to Iiieken and become dry. Cures colds, iroat troubles, hoarseness, hay fev r, ''stopped up'' nose, breathing imrough mouth while sleeping, offen ive breath, etc. It is antiseptic and mntains no chemicals or drugs having narcotic effect, or that ean cause ic ''drug habit.'' TEACHERS EXAMINATION. An examination for teachers will he eld on Friday, April 19th, 1907, at rithmetic, algebra, geography, his abjeets such as English, grammar, 1) o'clock, a. mn. Besides the ordinary >ry, physiology, and hygiene, qucs ions will be submitted on Hughes' fist akes in Teaching, Peterman 's ivil Government and current events. This man out acquaintin of SCHNAPPI qualities that i less expense tl 'SCHNAPPS has been i paper so that every che opportunity to get acqu facts and know that dru to produce the cheering the famous Piedmont cc tobaccos, and that SCHN4 ought to chew. Still tla who accept other andc that do not give the samc .The exan,;nation for white teachers -( will be held in the omce of the county superintendent of education, for col ored teachers in the court room. J. S. Wheeler, Co. Supt. Education. CHARLESTON & WE. TErN C I OLINA R.Y. Schodrle 'n cffect Ja::uary 27, 1907. Lo. No" bi.W. N. & ..) 12:3i i.nm. Ar. Lani'ris 1:42 p. n,. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:10 p. In. Ar. 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