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THE CUEROr RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
THURSDAY, D!
*M Gates Beat Monte Carlo
3! i
By RALW HEINZEN j lished the world s record for the
^ess Staff Correspondent- J largest known Royal Flush in Eng-
MONTE CARLO. Dec. 13.—Wber. land—more than a million dollars
history ol gambling and great fr0m the bookmakers' pockets,
rs is written. John A. “Bet-1 Contemporary with Drake and
on" Gates certainly will head j Gates were Pieire and Georges Lor-
[Bst and beside him the men whoj iiiard. Michael F. Dwyr-r. Davy
broken the bank at Monte Johnson. Rilry Grannan. Plunger j
iwill be ranked as opportunists.! waltcn and other high rollers.
of the bank-breakers werej plunger Waltcn was an Eng-1
jp^laying in exceptional luck;! Ashman and had run up a fortune
of them were confirmed gamb-! Cn the English turf. Ke fell afoul of ,
they won because the red ran; the powers that ruled racing in tha: j
times in a row, or because their ^ay across the pond arid came over j
Straddled two numbers which; to America. He went broke,
nine several times in a row. pat McCanen, the Brooklyn po-
and his partner. John A. i litcal boss, was a conspicuous figure
were the scourges of the | around the metropolitan tracks j
'and American turf in the | Lucky Jack McGuiness. who was j
days of this century. Drake, a j ncted for his ups and downs, was
out of fowa ,and Chicago,! his chief adviser. In 1902. McCarren I
with taking $1,000,000. j was rated the most consistent win- j
re is today a retired business t ner among the plungers He wound j
i living in the ease which Paris up the season with $300.000 of the
beck's' money.
Not the least spectacular of the ;
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t its clubs and cabarefe affords,
pi a horse on the British turf
^ season, but just for fun. But his
days are over,
was more reckless,
s Gates had heeded the admon-
of the more conservative
he never would have estab-
Priscilla lovely young daughter:
e fh< latf Sir John Harradine,:
Captain - General of the Leeward]
Dies, 'ea’-er, the West Indies aboard j
th; “Centaur " bound for England.
She is accompanied by the pom-;
peus. middle-aged Major Sands.j
her father's aide, who seeks to win
her hand and fortune. The time is
1690; the scene, the Spanish Main.
Although his chances for succeed-
ing Sir John as Captain-General
were negligible, the Major- leads
Priscilla to beiieTe he give np the
opportunity in order to be with her.;
merits of a high flying gambler.
An amazing streak of luck fol-
lowed in which the ex-bellhop ran
up his stake of $100,000. He plunged
it all on Lord Dunraven's Desmond
m mil ^VIVl 1 and the horse ran unplaced. Gran-
__“ nan died broke at Rawhide. Nev.. at
ESTT3^* ; T ™ ™ j 38, with little left of his turf win-
nings. •• t r •
Today there is no equal to the j
Drakefe and the Gates and the near- j
est to a rival is the Prince Aga j
Khan.
Qnfeliqklelp for You!i Perhaps the most famous Casino'
don’t have to put up with
erfibarrassing disfigurement
wish.
Oil—soothing, heal-
-will act like magic
sway every blemish. Just
face with' hot water
and then apply Emerald
players of our times, outside of the |
Greek Syndicate, are a Uruguayan.
Ameletto Batistis. and British Ma- !
jor John Alexander Coats, a mem- j
ber of the family of Paisley cotton-
spinning millionaires, who died re- j
cently and left a fortune of £725.-1
000.
In the history of Monte Carlo
gubbing is of thfrif j and its predecessor, Horn burg, no
Just lave your face gent-! plungers were greater than Pedro
the healing oil, leaving a j Garcia, who sent Francois
your skin all Bight. j racing back to Paris to beg
a few* days you’ll see an loan to keep the Homburg
difference—not a pimple
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waste time merely
abbot it. cm Emerald
from L. L. Buttery Drug
a promise of money _ ___
it doesn't dear your face in a few hours
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STAR HAUL, RABIN
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fl.50 Gentleman’s $1
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plungers of that reckless era was’ ghe. however, considers him one ofl
Riley Grannan. who doffed a bell- the family. At Barbados. Monsieur'
boy's uniform for the flashy habili- i Charles de Bernis, distinguished
looking Frenchman, comes aboard.!
Fearing pirates. Captain Bransome!
of the “Centaur" refuses to take]
De Bernis to Guadeloupe, but of-j
fers to let him off at Sainte Croix, j
Priscilla, attracted by De Bernis,|
resents the Major's hostility
towards the Frenchman. When Cap-
tain Bransome stops at Roseau,
Priscilla. Major Sands and De Ber-
nis go ashore. The major’s belief
that De Bernis is an adventurer is
strengthened when a burly, ill-
kempt Frenchman, reeking of rum
and tobacco, greets De Bernis in an
impudently familiar tone.
CHAPTER FIVE
“A queer encounter for our fine
gentleman. Most queer. Like the
quality of his friends. More than
ever I wonder who the devil he may
be.”
But Miss Priscilla was impatient
of his wonder and his amusement.
She found him petty. She knew the
islands better, it seemed, than did
he. She knew that colonial life
cdtild impose the oddest associa-
tions on b man, and that only the
rash or the ignorant would draw
conclusions from them.
She said something of the kmd.
“Odds life, ma'am! D’ye defend
him?”
“I’ve not perceived him to be at-
tacked, unless you mean to attack
him, Bart. After all, Monsieur de
Bernis has never pretended that he
conyes to qs from Versailles.”
“That will be because he doubts
if it would carry conviction. Pish,
child! The fellow's an adventurer.”
Her agreement shocked and dis-
mayed him more than contradic-
tion coaid have done.
“So I had supposed,” she smiled
distaraetingly. "I love adventurers
and the adventurous.”
Only the fact that de Hernia came
Wo .':peca'i7«- :n hot juicy Ham- i
burgers. Ed. :-!.u-e. W. Main St.
Drive in and be .served. adv) I
;
Late reports from the bedside of !
Lawson Benicn who is sick in a San I
Ar.'cnio he.-.’: : 'that lie us not-
5c a line daily except Wednes day,
for one week. Minimum 3 lines.
12c a line Wed.
Business Service
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Chris'mas erecting'cards bind oki
f: .< nchhips. C 11 Mo. ! and opr
fiderman will gladly show our as- (
scrum r.is io you. Caere FTcmcl
H.-c.i* Edgar is suffering from a
mod mack oi the flu.
Radio and Electrical—
Radio Tubes Tested
Free
Bring them In . . absolutely
no charge . . just part of
Davidson's Service.
LET’S SWAP
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are inserted free of charge in die
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even basis. Where money changes
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vertisers are requested to ■*
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have brought results that they may
j be discontinued.
i'J A1'.
Finley Benton returned from
San A .oi;;.. where he was called
to be with his brother. Lawson,
new employed by Swiff & Co., of
that city, who is very low with;-;---v -—
pneumonia. Renorts that he I Garages Service Stations
:c ted’ well
DAVIDSON ELECTRIC CO.
City Hall Bldg. — Telephone 166
last night and if noj
i complications set in will be ok..!
WILL SWAP—Young Jersey ewd
j for sulky plow or good secoaa-
■ hand saddle. ‘
! Joe Macha, Stratton Rt., Cugra
WILL SWAP—GOOD RffiRlD
: Battery or electric for Ptiq$0. <
i Davidson Electric Co.
vs ill be receive dby his friends asj
:ood news.
I Call No. 1 for Xmas cards. At-;
tractive* cards at the lowest prices!
j in years.
! The Record regrets to report I
j County Agent Oswalt suffering with 1
an attack of the flu.
Ramsey’s Nursery. Austin. Tex- j
J as. has been selling home-grown j
I trees of the highest quality for 57 !
i years. Their products give re- j
| turns in health and beauty, and
j help fight the depression. This
j is a good time to plant fruit trees,
j Pecans. Berries. Shade Trees. Ever-
greens. Roses. Flowering Shrubs,
STARCO
BATTERY ..
Batteries Recharged
$4.95
EXPERT REPAIRING
ALL MAKES OF CARS
WRECKER SERVICE
Day or Night, Phone 484
HENNEKE BROS.
WILL SWAPt A MUSICAL
gan fer wood and country
WANTED
"little songs of his native Provence that left
a i'? stinging eyes aqd an ache at the heart.
Bulbs. Write for their free cata-
logue of reduced prices.
Blanc
for a
bank
open after Garcia had taken 2.000 -
COO francs in one evening’s play.
In Monte Carlo history, there is a
mysterious gambler named Darn- !
borough who went to the casino for j
the first time in his life, won $500,000
and quit the casino
for the rest of his life.
BOTTLES! BOTTLES
Milk users please put out empty
mUk bottles, as the supply is very
short with us. Put out bottles every
day. MILK DEALERS.
Beautiful Christmas card assort-
ments with your ijame printed on
them as low as $1.25 for 15 cards.
Reoorfi. office.
LADIES
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while our stock
■still has a large as-
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patterns.
sizes.
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WOOOWOrrN^DENT
OnsMt*ancc
from a homily. But her answer,
which the Major accounted flippant,
rankled with him; and it may have
batui due to this that after supper
that night, when they were all as-
sembled in the great cabin, he al-
luded to the matter c! that meet-
ing.
“That was a queer chance, Mon-
sieur de Bernis, your coming face
to face with an acquaintance here
on Dominica.”
“A qster chance, indeed,” the
Frenchman agreed readily. “That
was an old brother-in-arms.”
The Major’s sandy brows went
ap. “Ye’ve been a soldier, air?”
There was ax odd light in the
Frenchman’s eyes as for a long
moment they considered his ques-
tioner. He stewed faintly amused.
“Oh, after a fashion,” be -said at
last. Than he swung to Bransome,
who sat at his ease sow, in cotton
shirt and calico drawers, the Euro-
pean finery discarded, ‘it was La-
farche. Captain. He tells me that
he is trading with you.” And he
went oa: “We were on Santa Cata-
lina. together under the Sieur Si-
mon, and amongst the very few
who survived the Spanish raid
there of Perc:'. de Guzman. La-
farche and I and two others, who
had hidden ourselves in a maize
field, when ab was lost, got away
that night in an open boat, and
contrived to rer.-’h the Main. I was
wounded, and my left arm had been
broken by a piece ef iar.grel dur-
ing the bombardmvrt. C:;t nil evils
do not come to bur; us. us the Ital-
ians say. It saved my life. For it
was my uselessness drove me into
hiding, where the other three after-,
wards joined me. They were the
first wounds 1 tool:. I was under
twenty at the time. Only my youth
and my vigour saved my arm and
my life in the trials and hardships
that followed. So far as I know we
were the only four who escaped
alive of the hundred and twenty
men who were on Santa Catalina
with Simcn. When Perez took the
island, he ruthlessly avenged the
defence it had made by putting to
the sword every man who had re-
mained alive. A vile massacre. A
wanton cruelty.’
striding to overtake them, saved her He feB pensive, and might have
left the matter there but that Miss
Priscilla broke the ediuingisilence
to press him for mone fifitaBf. v
In yielding, he tolil hex’ , of the
colony which Mansvelt had estab-
lished on Santa Catalina, of how
they had gone to work to cultivate
the land, planting maize and plan-
tains. sweet potatoes, cassava, and
tobacco. Whilst she listened to him
with parted lips and softened eyes,
he drew a picture of the flourish-
ing condition which 'had been
reached by the plantations when
Don Juan Perez de Guzman came
over from Panama, with four ships
and an overwhelming force, to
wreak his mischief. He told of
Simon’s proud answer when sum-
moned to surrender: that he held
the settlement for the English
Crown, and that sooner than yield
it up, he and those with him would
yield up their lives. He stirred their
■blood by the picture he drew of the
gallant stand made by that little
garrison against the overwhelming
Spanish odds. And he moved them
to compassion by the tale of the
massacre that followed and the
wanton destruction of the planta-
tions so laboriously hoed.
t:
When he reached the end, there
was a smile >t once grim and wist-
ful on his lean, gipsy-tinted face.
The deep lines in it, lines far deeper
than were warranted by his years,
became more marked.
“The Spaniards paid for it at
Porto Bello and at Panama and
elsewhere. How they paid! But not
all the Spanish blood that has since
been shed could avenge the brutal,
eowardly destruction of the English
and the French who were in alli-
ance at Santa Catalina.”
He had impressed himself upon
them by that glimpse into his past
and into the history of West Indian
settlements. Even the Major, how-
ever he might struggle against it,
found himself caught in the spell
of this queer fellow’s personality.
Later, when supper was done,
and the table had been cleared,
Monsieur de "Bernis went to fetch
a guitar from among tha effects vn
his cabin. Seated os tha stern-
locker, with his back to the great
window that stood open to the pur-
tropical night, he sang some
songs of his native Provence
and one, or two qaeerly moving
Spanish airs set In the minor key,
of the kind that were freely com-
posed in Malaga.
Rendered by his mellow baritone
voice they had power to leave Miss
Priscilla with stinging eyes snd an
ache at the heart; and even Major
Sands was moved to admit that
Monsieur de Bernis had a prodigi-
ous fine gift of song. But he took
care to make the admission with
patronage, as if to mark the gulf
that lay between himself and his
charge on the one hknd and this
stranger, met by chance, on the
other. He accounted it a necessary
precaution, because he could not be
blind to the impression the fellow
was making upon Miss Priscilla’s
inexperience. It was also, no doubt,
because of this that on the morrow
the Major permitted himself a
sneer at Monsieur de Bernis’ ex-
pense. It went near to making a
breach between himself and the
lady in his charge.
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(adv) ! Henry Brown's history of Texas. See
W. R. Garrett.
Walter Buchel who recently suf- j
ferecl an attack of blood poisoning Is
L OR-
_ bacon ^
Value $10.00 Will Kennedy 211, Iff*- if
gan Ave. ’
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WILL SWAP—A No. 1 five
old mare for a mule. Thu
_ must be young and peppy.
O. G. Brandt, Yorktovra,
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WANTED TO SWAP:
range for second hand iron,
! or heaters, or what have you
F. G
j ----
I LET’S SWAP—Will trade
j line garden plow, practiceD^g
with all kind of sweeps,
cost $225.00 for $75 truck or
Joe Pannen, Cuero, Texas.
WILL SWAP: DOUS^R!
Pony Plow for something you
that I can use. also a single '
swap. Ed Dietzc
still confined to his bed but report-
ed to be slightly improved the Rec-
ord is glad to report.
New picture moulding. Framing
neatly done. Fey's Studio, fadv.)
Hot soup was served kiddies at the
Mexican school Wednesday, Mrs. Ot-
to Buchel being the donor.
Better Photographs. Prices very
reasonable.
<advt.) Fey's Studio.
Howell Houston was a business
visitor in Yoakum Thursday morn-
ing.
Just received barrel of Gulf Trout,
15c per lb. John C. Ley Food Market
S. E. Herndon of Houston was a
Cuero visitor on business Thursday
morning.
Just received barrel of Gulf Trout,
15c per lb John C. Ley Food Market
Edward Mugge is confined to his
home with a bad cold we regret to
report.
Genevi£ our cook.
I’m trying to be good.
Helen Frances Ellis.
Dear Santa Claus:—
Please bring me a tool chest and
an airplane and don’t forget I
have a little sister five years old,
who wants a doll vanity. Please
don’t forget the little orphans for
they love you too. I would like
some fireworks if I am wen enough
to shoot them.
I hope to always be your little
friend.
Lloyd Little Ellis.
—
LETTERS TO
SANTA
Dear Santa Claus:—
I am 5 years cld. I am going to
be a rual good boy. I want you to
Dear Santa*:—
I war-' you to please bring me a
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Cuero, Texas. Dec. 13. 1932.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy seven years old
and go to school.
Will you please bring me a train]
that runs on a track and belt, and
also a police set, Bring me some
firecrackers and many oranges
and apples.
Santa please don’t forget thei
poor children.
Your little friend,
Eldred Glenn Schultz.
please bring me a train, gun and little doit dresser with a stool to
scabbord. a white day with black lit. It is in Penny's window. Bring
collar on, and lots of candy, fruit a doll bed with a mattress in it
and nuts, a Christmas tree. I and saine sheets and quilts for my
don't want much i&r I have lots < big doff you brought me last
of toys of all kind. Don’t forget [ Chris.rijas. Dear Santa, my
the poor children. j brother, ik sick so please don’t for-
I airi your little friend. . ’ j get him and bring hiih anything
Leonard McDonald Jr. you want too. Also don’t forget
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For Stomach Agony i
Certainly repeated trials have'
shown you that soda can not be {
counted on to end your stomach,
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If you really want to get rid of j
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MUFFLERS
at
$1.00 $1.25 $1.50
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WANTED TO BUY: BABY
walker and High Chair. Ring 486.
FOR RI NT
FOR RENT—FARM of 75 to 90
acres, pastts-e of 325 acres now
used as Dairy Farm three miles
east of Cuero on Victoria road,
paved. Telephone No. 1 or apply
at Record office.
FOR SALE
WILL SWAP: 11
gun, Model T. Ford truck
foot canoe for good tight
truck. John H. Banting.
FOR SWAP—TWO
lb. capacity ice boaas.
change one or both for
Mra C. T. Traylor.
SOME FINE RADIOS TO
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WILL SWAP: ONE
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can use. Nagel Haxdw
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FOR SALE: ONE PAINT SAD-1 bed Lor com. Value of
die pony. 6 years old and one blue ~ ----
rcan Shetland pony. 6 years old.
Beth gentle. See H. L. Poston 511
Court House Street.
Gu$ Woiter at tig
WANTED TO SWAP—A*
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Send tOt for TRIAL SUE
Mo£kln*€rS<^ttowVDrfc
in good condition for a
Otto C. Buohtiaro at
ber Co. *
TO SWAg; A »" l I
model coronet, good as ■
200 pound hog dr—wd Par
lars see Record. A
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TO TRADE; ONE MARS 0
two sound young hanea
Jersey milk cow. Edward
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WANTED TO SW.
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