-- I I I I
o £TOt ..Y of
MONTE. CARLO
The object of this article is to show
the demoralizing effect of gambling.
The craving to get something without
honest, hard work can never be the
true foundation on which to build a
successful career. Gaming is seen in
its most vivid phase at Monte Carlo.
No thinking man can witness the play
there without realizing the utter
emptiness and folly of it. Even mathe-
matical statistics show that every
Player must sooner or later lose his
all if he continues to gamble, and with
his losings his self-respect also goes.--
Ed.
Five million dollars per annum, or
nearly so, have been realized during
.the past few years from the gambling
tables at Monte Carlo. Let it be stat-
ed briefly how the gambling tables
Were taken there. Francois Blanc was
father to the schemes which have com-
Pletely transformed this natural
beauty spot of the Riviera into an
earthly paradise, and centralized in
the picturesque little principality all
the luxuries and comforts, as well as
all the vices that belong to mankind
at the beginning of tl~e twentieth cen-
tury. But there were gambling tables
at Monte Carlo long before Pere Blanc
arrived. As far back as 1853 the late
2,000. Then the bank in Nice, which
had always financed the Casino, got a
large number, and several politicians
and Paris journalists who helped to
assist the affair were favored with the
paper. Altogether about half the
shares were distributed in this way,
the rest were offered to the public.
A Gambling Enterprlae Tha~ l~ules n
]Principality.
As Pore Blanc remarked: "He who
breaks the bank to-day will be broken
by the bank to-morrow." The winner
at Monte Carlo returns to make a little
more; the loser returns to try to get
his money back again. And so, in the
end, the bank Wins.
Let us now proceed to the debit side
of the Casino account. To take the
items of expenditure in the order given
upon the balance-sheet, of a recent
year, we note first the $250,000 paid
annually to the Prince of Monaco, un-
der the contract, for the concession to
carry on the gambling business in the
principality. When Prince Albert
"came to the throne" in 1889, he was
credited with a desire to close the
Casino, and thus, by wiping out the
stain which his father had laid upon
it, restore thee prestige of the ancient
House of Grimaldi. The Princess (who
was the' Duchess of Richelieu, nee Mlle.
Heine) was also anxious to range her-
self among the crowned heads of
Europe. But Prince Albert looked from
his palace across the Bay of Hercules
toward the gilded minarets of the Ca-
sino, and found himself powerless.
Theoretically Prince Albert is as ab-
solute a monarch as the Czar; prac-
tically he is as impotent as the de-
posed African king, and is held just
as much in bondage. The Principality
sion, in the case of Ryan vs. Preston,
and held not to impose an additional
burden on the highway, and not to be
a use of the highway for which the
abutting owner is entitled to compen-
sation. The court said that the regu-
lation confining the bicycles to the
use of such paths no more imposed an
additional burden upon the use of the
highway, as affecting the right of an
abutting owner, than would a statute
requiring all vehicles going in either
direction to keep to the right. It was
objected that the bicycle paths would
interfere with the custom of hitching
horses, but the court said that no case
had been cited establishing the abso-
lute right of obstructing travel upon a
highway by hitching horses.
Agreeable ]Friends.
I have friends whose society ts ex-
tremely agreeable to me; they are of
all ages and of every country. They
have distinguished themselves both in
the cabinet and in the field, and ob-
tained high honors for their known
edges of the sciences. It is easy to
gain access to them, for they are al-
ways at my service, and I admit them
to my compay, and dismiss them from
it whenever I please. They are never
troublesome, but immediately answer
every question I ask them. Some relate
to me the events of the past ages,
while others reveal to me the secrets
of nature. Some teach me how to live,
and others how to die. Some, by their
vivacity, drive away my cares and ex-
hilarate my spirits, while others give
fortitude to my mind, and teach me
the important lesson how to restrain
my desires, and to depend wholly on
myself. They open to me, in short, the
various avenues of all the arts and
sciences and upon their information
I safely rely in all emergencies.--Pe-
trarch.
Books as Levelle~.
In the best books, great men tall~
to us, with us, and give us t~eir most
precious thoughts. Books are the
voices of the distant and the dead.
Books are the true levellers. They
give to all who will faithfully use
them, the society and the presence of
the best and greatest of our race. No
matter how poor I am; no matter
though the prosperous of my own
~'H ~" CASI~r
Prince Charles granted a thirty years'
eoncessio~ to a company with a capital
of $500,000 to carry on the gambling
business.
Pere Blanc, who was a man of the
French bourgeois type, simple in his
habits, but clever and strong-headed in
finance, died on July 27th, 1877, leaving
a fortune of nearly $35,000,000; and
this notwithstanding the immense
lUres that were spent during his re-
~aarkable career upon his several
gambling establishments.
The Casino was carried on for the
13lane family by Count Bertora (who
aspired to marry the old man's widow)
until the original concession expired,
in 1883. In October of that year he
Was successful in concluding another
thirty years' contract with Prince
~harles for a consideration of $250,000
Der annu~ from the profits ~of the
gambling and 5,000 shares in the new
company which it was then decided to
|Orm.
The statutes of this the existing
COmpany are dated December 14, 1882;
they were approved and signed by
Prince Charles onMarch 15, 1883; and
[a them are embodied all the con-
dltions of the original concession, cer-
tain modificatiohs being made to meet
the requirements demanded by the new
V~anagement.
Ik Cloie Corpo~tlon with 86.000,000
CnpltaL
The capital of the concern was fixed
at $6,000,000, divided into 60,000 shares
of $100 each, to bear a fixed interest
at the rate of 5 per cent, or $5 per an-
aura, payable after the half-yearly
~aeeting in November and a dividend
ripen the profits of the gambling of the
Fear--the amount to be divided by the
directors at the annual meeting in
April. A clause was inserted in the
statutes to the effect that, in order to
be able to take part in these meetings,
a shareholder must own at least 200
of the shares, or $20,000 worth of the
~asino stock; and, when the allotment
Was made, good care was taken that
Only members and friends of the B~anc
family should be permitted to take up
this number, so that the control of the
Concern should remain in the hands of
their little coterie. Some years ago,
however, all that was changed; and the
Daternal Blanc-Bertora administration
gave place to another of a very differ-
ent character, with two Paris bankers
at. its head.
Five thousand shares were, as al-
ready stated, given to the Prince of
Monaco; Prince Radziwlll took 4,800;
Prince Roland Bonaparte, 4,000; M, Ed-
lnond Blanc, 4.200; M. Camille Blanc,
4,000; Coupt Bertora, 2,000; the Wag-
atha family, related to the Blancs,
of Monaco Is entirely governed and
controlled by the bank, and if Prince
Albert were to attempt to break the
contract it "might cost him his
crown!" Financially such a step would
be much against his interests, seeing
that, in addition to the $250,000 which
he receives from the concession, he
gets revenue upon 5,000 shares, and
on this his average profit amounts to
$200,000 per annum. Altogether the in-
come of the Prince of Monaco cannot
be less than the comfortable revenue of
$750,000 a year.
Found Guineas to Lo~e Them,
One of the most cruel stories that we
have read for a long while is that of
the remarkable find of guineas, some
50 in number, by two little girls at
play'in a garden of the village of Lud-
dington, near Goole, in Lincolnshire.
It Is a fine marshy country that con-
ceals excellently well any secret com-
mitted to its keeping, Here these lit-
tle girls found one of the guineas lying
on the grass and called their mother.
The soil was dug up, when about fifty
were discovered. At this very pleas-
ant point in the story, the inevitable
marplot of all children's best devices
swoops down in the shape of the police
and the law, claiming the guineas as
"treasure trove" for the crown. The
guineas were iv_a fine state of preser-
vation. Their date is 1774 and later,
and no doubt they must have belonged
to some former owner of the house,
pulled down last year, which stood In
the garden where the little girls found
the guineas of which the hard law de-
spoiled them.--Country Life.
Sldepathq for Bloyolee.
The New York statutes authorizing
the construction and maintenance of
side paths for the use of bicycles along
public roads and streets and for use
of such paths by persons riding bicy-
cles have been declared constitutional
by the supreme court, appellate dirt-
time will not enter my obscure dwell-
ing, if learned men and poets will en-
ter and take up their abode under my
roof~if Milton will cross my thresh-
hold to sing to me of Paradise, and
Shakespeare open to me the world of
imagination and the.workings of the
human heart; anti Franklin enrich me
with his practical wlsdom--I shall not
pine for want of intellectual compan-
ionship, and I may become a cultivated
man, though excluded from what is
called the best society in the place
where I live. . Nothing can sup-
ply the place of books. T, hey are
cheering and soothing companions in
solitude, illness or affliction. The
wealth of both continents could not
compensate for the good they impart.-
Channing.
King's "Bran dofflehness.-
'I~he prediction that the king would
follow the example of h~s ancestor,
Henry V., daily finds fresh co'Jflrma-
tion. Since his accession he has devel.
oped a "standoffishness' towards his
old intimates, which is little short of
startling. Intimations that he will not
in the future dine or sup with a sub-
Ject have caused endless heartburn-
tngs. "Favorite" is to be an unknown
word in his ¢ourL sccording to present
calculatlon.--Londo.n cable.
Patrlnrehnl Lawmake~
Senators Hoar, Stewart, Pettus and
Morgan are a patriarchal group in the
upper house at Washington, but they
are overtopped in age by the dean of
the British house of lords. Lord Gwy-
dyr has Just completed his ninety-first
year. He took his degree at Cam-
bridge in 1831.
Miss Lucy C. Coolidge recently re-
ceived the largest vote ever cast for
one person in Portland, Me. She was
on all tickets as a candidate for tin
school board and got 8,413 votes.
re gan on
CH.~PTER IX.--(Conttnued.) her favors, young B;ount having re-
As for Mildred, no sooner had the celved orders to join his regiment,
words crossed her lips than she dis- which was stationed in Ireland, with-
I dained herself for the utterance of out further delay; so that scarcely a
them, and wished them back unsaid, week remained to them before "Fare-
Ever since that fatal night in the li-
brary Denzil and she had lived seem-
ingly unseen and unheard by each
other, as distinctly remote as though
spheres had separated them, instead of
• so many rooms or feet, as the case
might be. Now she felt that, by this
one rash, uncalled-for act, she had
done away with all the good so many
silent days had helped to accomplish.
Nevertheless, having once given her
word Mildred felt that she must abide
by it, and appeared at the breakfast
table next morning, to all outward
seeming as imperturable as usual.
Eddie had also risen betimes to see
~ts friend depart, and rattle on in gal-
lant style all through the ~ismal meal,
leaving no space for the other two to
express their opinions, had they been
so inclined. At length, a footman en-
tering to announce the arrival of the
dog-cart at the hall door, Eddie rose
to see to Denzil's further comforts, and
so left him and Mildred at last alone.
He came toward her, and, taking
both her hands, held them with a clasp
that amounted almost to pain.
"Think of me kindly," he said, in a
low tone full of acute meaning. "I will," she said.
"Is it quite hopeless, Mildred?"
"You will be late for your train,"
murmured Miss Trevanion, very gent-
ly.
So it fell out that King's Abbott was
once more bereft of guests;, and still
the Trevanions were unhappy, because
the very train that carried away--
snugly ensconced among its cushions--
the unhappy Denzll, brought to~,Lady
Caroline a letter that filled her ~entle
bosom with dire alarm.
The letter began, "Mr. Dear Niece,"
and ended, "Your attached aunt, Har-
riet Disney," its contents being to the
effect that Lady Eagleton--Lady Caro-
line's aunt by the father's side--had
generoussly made up her mind to sacrl-
lice her pleasu~s~ inclination, habits,
end ~f generally for the purpos~ of
'bestowing her society upon her "dear
I niece" aforesaid. This was ineed a
heavy blow, her ladyship having at-
I rained the troublesome age of eighty-
two--being one of those people whom
to entertain is a kind of martyrdom.
As misfortunes never come single, it
was Just about this time also that Lady
Caroline heard for the first time of
Mildred's refusal of Denzil Younge. The
I girl had hitherto kept it nervously to
herself, thinking of it now and then
with mingled feelings of pain and
something akin to pleasure, but out-
wardly suppressing all sign until this
day, when Lady Caroline timidly and
without preface touched on the, subject
of his evident admiration of her.
"It seems a pity you could not care
for him, Mildred," she said, interroga-
tively, as though it were by no means
a certainty that Mildred did not care
for him; "we should all like it so much,
and your father says "
Mildred rose hastily and threw down
her work, while two red spots appeared
on her cheeks.
"Mamma," she sald, "perhaps it will
be better, and will put a stop to all
further mention of this matter, if I
tell you the truth. Mr. Younge did
propose to me, and I refused him."
She finished almost defiantly and
turned to leave the room.
"Mildred, is it possible?" exclaimed
Lady Caroline.
"Oh, Mllly!" cried Mabel, who was
also present, with lively reproach and
disapproval in her tone.
"Is it such a crime then? Has noth-
ing of the kind ever been done be-
fore?" demanded" Mildred, passionate-
ly; and then she went out. and left
them to their wonderings and censures
an her conduct.
When eventually Sir George was told
the unlucky news, it rendered him at
first furious, and then despairing.
Things were becoming more embar-
rassed and entangled day by day, the
immediate possession of a large sum
of money being the only hope his law-
' yer could hold out to him of ultimate-
ly saving the ~tate; and,. as affairs
were, It would be a difficult if not im-
possible task to procure it. Denzll.
with his immense wealth, was out of
his great love for Mildred, would have
thought little of lending twice the
amount required. But now all that was
changed, and Mildred's had been the
hand to dash the hope aside.
Both he and Lady Caroline were
strangely distant and unsympathetic to
her in these days; her father irritably
~, her mother with a sort of mourn-
ful gravity that touched her far more.
Lord Lyndon, who at this period
showed a tact and an adroitness that
would have reflected honor on a clev-
erer man, managed to be perpetually
at her side. His attentions were open
and unmistakable, while he declared
his inability to withdraw from her
presence even for a time by the fact
of his taking a shooting-box quite close
to King's Abbott for the season.
All the little world of Cliston were
beginning to look upon it as a settled
matter, there being no mistake as to
whom his devotion was given, as Roy
Blount's wooing, and Mabel's accept-
ance of it. were very transparent
thln~ indeed; besides, Just now, "the
queen" was too much taken up with
~orrowful mls~ivln~a and tender re-
flsctt0ns to admit of an7 division of
well" that saddest of all words--
would have to be uttered.
This news had been communicated
to Mabel in a doleful whisper, and had
been received as dolefully. For once
all coquetry was laid aside, and she
confessed herself as miserable at the
idea of his going as he could be to go.
CHAPTER X.
Lady Eagleton and her "train" ar-
rived at King's Abbott, the "train"
consisting of one long-suffering maid,
one ditto man, one lapdog, and one
dilapidated canary.
"The canary always means three
months, does it not?" asked Eddie,
tragically, as the cortege swept up the
stairs.
Mildred burst into an unrestralnable
laugh.
"Oh, what shall we do?" she gasped.
'~What is to become of us? A little
of Lady Eagleton goes such a very long
way. Mr. Blount" to Roy, who had
walked over as usual, and who, having
seen the procession, was enjoying the
whole thing as much as any of them--
"I will give you anythinig I possess, if
you will show me some method of get-
ting rid of her before C'hristmas time."
"And I will give you anything, if
you will Just take her out and tie her
to a tree and deliberately ghoot her,"
said Eddie, gloomily.
"Edward, how can you speak so dis-
respectfully of your grand-aunt?" put
in Lady Caroline, reprovingly, walking
away, her face covered with smiles.
• $ $ $ ~ •
For a week everything had gone on
smoothly, or rather there had been no
actual outbreaks on the part of Lady
Eagleton, though smothered hints and
comments had been numerous. In a
covert manner she inveighed against
actions, habits, aequaintanees, and all
that came beneath her notice, but
carefully subdued any open demonstra-
tions of disapproval unt|l the day be-
fore Roy's departure, when she chose
to be particuluarly offensive.
Blot~nt ha(] come over rather earlier
than usual, i~ being his last day, and
he and Mabel had gone for a farewell
walk among the shrubberies and
through the winter gardens where they
had loved to linger all through their
hurried courtship. As he was not to
leave until a late train the following
day, he parted from her with the as-
surance that. he would be down the
next morning.
Slightly flushed and wholly miser-
able, Mabel entered the ~mall drawing
room, where ~she found her mother,
Mildred, and Lady Eagleton assembled
"How heated you look, child! What
have you been doing with yourself?"
demanded the old lady, the moment
she came within her view.
"Walking," returned Mabel, shortly.
"With that young man again, I pre-
sume?" grunted her grand-aunt, omin-
ously; whereupon Lady Caroline began
to look uneasy.
"I was walking with Mr. Blount,"
said "the queen," defiantly. She was
sore at heart, and longing for sym-
pathy, so that the old woman's words
and manner grated cruelly on her
overwrought feelings.
"I rea'rly think all decency and order
have gone from the world." went on
Lady Eagleton. "Society nowadays is
widely different from what it once was.
Even common propriety is a thing of
the past. In my time a young woman
would scarcely be allowed, under any
circumstances, to walk alone with a
young man for hours together~certain-
ly not unless they were formally be-
trothed, having the consent of all par-
ties concerned--and probably not even
then. I presume he has made you an
offer of marriage?"
Mildred rose, as if to interfere; but
Mabel spoke again.
"People in your time must have been
very depraved people indeed, Aunt
Harriet," she said. with ill-suppressed
indignation, "if they could make mis-
chief out of a simple walk with one's
friend. At all events, I am very glad
I live in the days I do; and, if you are
particularly anxious to know, I will
tell you that Mr. Blount has not made
me an offer of marriage, as you call
it."
Her ladyship was triumphant.
"Has he not?" she said. "Then, if
I were you, my dear, I would have as
little more to say to him as possible.
Young men who dilly-daily, and put
off the evll hour, as he appears to be
doing, seldom or never mean anything.
I dare say he is only agreeably whil-
ing away his time down here. and will
think no more of you once his back is
turned."
Mabel was choking with rake, but
could think of nothing to say. Lady
Caroline, who sat a little behind her
aunt, put out her hand to her daughter
with a "gesture of sympathetic affec-
tion. but she was nervously afraid of
this terrible old woman, and knew not
how to interfere effectually.
"Young men now are not what
young men were," continued Lady
Eagieton, impressively, "and I think
Mr. Blount one of the worst specimens
I have yet seen. His manners are so
cool; and he is so insolently self-pos-
sessed; and he has none of the well-
bred diffidence, the courtly elegance
that distinKutshd the men of my 4~n-
oration. He is not half good on@ugh
for you, my dear, even were he iq
i
earnest, which I am pleased to consld~
e2tremely doubtful. I will receive youl
for a month or two, Mabel," declared~
her ladyship, magnificently, "and in-,
troduce you to those with whom youl
ought to associate. You shall return'
with me to my home, and gain those
advantages that this secluded country"
place can never afford."
"Your ladyship is wonderfully kind,TM
returned Mabel, "but I find 'this se-
cluded country place' quite good
enough for my tastes. Besides, I could
not dream of accepting ypur Invita-
tion."
"May I ask why not?" demanded her
grand-aunt, majestically.
"Because there is nothing In the
world to which I should more strenu-
ously object than to spend two months
in your ladyship's society," answered
Mabel.
'.'You wicked girl!" almost screamed
Lady Eagletou, rising and supporting
herself on her gold-headed stick while
she quivered with anger. "How dare
you presume so to speak to me! Caro-
line, why do you not order her to leave
the room? Am I, at my age, and after
all the sacrifices I have made for my
family, to submit to the impertinence
of a chit of a girl like that?"
Poor Lady Caroline was terrified.
"Dear Aunt Harriet, she did not
mean it," she said--"she did not, in-
deed--did you, Mabel? Speak, darling,
and tell her it was all a mistake."
"She shall apologize to me, or I will
leave this house, never to enter it
again," protested Aunt Harriet, still
raging.
"So she will, I am sure. Mabel, my
dearest, tell your grand-aunt haw sorry
you are for having used the language
you did," said Lady Caroline, implor-
ingly "apologize to her."
"Apologize for what?" demand~l
Mabel. "She asked me to pay her a
visit, and I declined. She then inquired
~ny reasons, and I gave them. I do not
see that any apology is necessary.
However," she went on, turning to-
ward the old lady, and executing an
impertinent little courtesy, "if it will
in any way'gratify you, I will beg your
pardon, and admit that I am extremely
sorry to think I was the cause of put-
ting you in such a dreadful temper."
Lady Caroline, after considerable dif-
ficulty, having managed to smooth
down the old lady's ruffled plumage,
she consented to forgive and forget,
and once more peace was restored.
But Mabel, when the terrible "last
hour" came the following day, though
she never for a monist doubted Roys-
ton, yet felt somehow shy and con-
~traln~d. remembering vividly that one
little b~ttng question of Lady Eagle-
ton's~ as to whether,he had ever made
her the requisi.tei offer of ~aarr|~age.
Meantime Roy s sorrow had swal-
lowed up all nervousness and every
other sentiment, leaving him only able
to hold her hands and entreat that she
would never forget him.
"I shall be back soon," he said--"so
soon that you will scarcely have time
to miss me; and meanwhile I shall
write by every post, and you will do
likewise, will you not?"
To which she had returned a sad,
half-reluctant "Yes."
Had he been less wrapped up in sad
thoughts about the coming parting, he
might perhaps have fancied his love
somewhat cold and cruel; but, as it
was, he saw nothing. Presently he
spoke the words that, had they been
uttered yesterday, would have caused
his "queen" to stand in such a different
light before her tormentor.
"Shall I write to your father?" he
asked. "You know, Mabel, it is time
there was some decided understanding
between us. Shall I ask your father's
consent to a regular engagement, dar-
ling?"
"Yes," Mabel answered, partly co'm-
forted--"I suppose it will be best;"
then, sadly breaking down, "Oh, Roy,
what shall I do .without you?"
After this there ensued fond words
and lingering caresses, and warm as-
surances of never-dying love; and then
they kissed their last fond kiss and
parted.
(To be continued.}
CITY PBOPLE CURIOUS.
Colored Mnn'l" Song Nearly ]Blocks
Ttmme in New YOrkd
It was only a song, and an old one
at that, but it came near causing
block on the Broadway cable line the
other day. The singer was as black
as the coal in the cart he was driv-
ing, but that fact cast no shadow on
his exuberant spirits. As he swung
his chariot from Broadway into Cort-
landt street he raised his voice. ~lays
the New York Mail and Express. Then
the trouble began. When the notes of
"Old Black Joe" rang out high anct
clear above the din of traffic exprea-
sions of blank amazement overspread
the faces of the hurrying pedestrians
who thronged the sidewalks. Nscks
were craned in a vain search for the
location of some newly patented pllon-
ograph. Crowds collected and gazed
vacantly into the air, as If they" ex-
pected to locate the sound in som~ of-
fice window. Teams were drawn up
until a long line of trucks'extended
into Cortlandt street to Broadway,
barring access to the street, that their
drivers might ascertain the creme of
the crowd's .curiosity. Suddenly
newsboy cried: "Ah, rubber: Dontcher
see it's only de nigger a-singin'?" The
crowd laughed. The darky, now hm-
tily holding forth on "The Suwane~
River," turned sharply* into Church
street, totally oblivious to the e~ci~
sent he had caused. The crowd then
dispersed, and the long line of wagons
began to move once more. '~ell!"
exclaimed a Jerseyman on his way
to the ferry, "New Yorkers call coun-
try people curious, but~" He shr~-
ged~ him shoulders and passed on.
Train the waltr~m to hold a d~
with her hand un~
