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April TI"IE Fl\LLS CITY TRIBUNE 5
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jr GAMING TABLES OF MACAO.
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Portuguese City Has a Rival to the
Casino at Monte Carlo.
\ . Quaint and picturesque is the
, old Portuguese city of : Macao ,
which , though a decaying and al.
most moribund settlement from
4 _ . 'it. the commercial point of view , is ,
' , . : . says Mr. Eutace UCj'nolds-Ball ,
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: ! . ; , the seat of a highlJ lucrative
- gambling industry , over a score of
" licensed gambling houses paying
; ' a tax : in the aggregate 'If some
. . ' $170,000 a year 1.0 the gOyerl1111ent.
' : Macao has been , and is still ,
chiefly celebrated for its gaming
. hib1's , which ( are crowded by Chi
nese and Portuguese , and from
Saturday to Monday bJ 13ritill-
ers from Hong.Kong , who prefer
. having a flutter at the game , if it
. . can be so called , of fan tan , instead -
: ' stead of going to the service at the
, Hong-Kong cathedral. The gain-
- " hJing hells are in the Chinese quar-
4 tel' , and are by no means attractive -
th'e as regards exterior 01' interi-
j ; ' 0.1' . They are , of course , licensed
" ' ' by the Portuguese authoriiies-
j . : " indeed , the taxes imposed on these
\ ; ' ( ; ambling dens constitute one of
\ . r " ) . - . - ' . the principal sources of revenue of
1 , . : the e ty.
' . \ These gambling houses are usu
i ally of one story only , and on the
' . : ground floor ( which you enter at
" ' from the street there being
. . . . once _ , 11
? no hall 01' anteroom ) ; you find an
" , : ill.jghted ] and ill-ventilated room ,
, .o' - some 30 feet bJ' 50 feet , thc sole
' : ; : . furniture of which is a table about
: . " n ( i , feet square by 4 feet high. Be-
: : . fore the croupier , usually the pro-
. '
' - . . : " : J. . : p'rietor , is a small pile , of cash. 1n
] ' 'i he middlc ( of thc table is a large
. - shlb of zinc' , divided into four sec-
.
; - tioIlS , numbered 1,2,3,4. The pun-
' , ; . . ' tern stake their stakes OIl one of
' : I.- the sections ; but the l'icher p1aJ-
. ' , , ' ej's are careful not to indicate the (
: . - amount of the stake , and wrap
- : . , f . ; J their money Ul ) in rice paper ,
u , though even the most skilled
- croupier would find it difficult
: - , . : with so mml ) ' eyes ; watching his
: ! manipulation of the cash to add to
: his legitimate profits by cheating.
: The ground floor room is crowded ( .
. ' ' ed with lower class natives and a
" of fo ' but in
_ . . " . : sprinkling . foreigners ,
- - . . . the balconies wInch surround the
r
: \ ' : : - , " gambling hell are collected the
" " members of the Chinese saute }
I . . lllonde , " mandarins and ' other
I . ' " ; . functionaries , who can join in the
I . " : : game unpei'ceiYd bJ- the common
. . ' . . ; , . ,
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. -
I - . : ' . ; - . herd below.
. . . ' . .
, They ; pass their stakes to the
' " : croupier jn small reed baskets ,
t ' which are lowered and raised by
' ' : ; : , _ . " _ cord. "Then all the stakes have
; : . : ; > , . been laid down and the zinc tablet
i - , by this time is quite concealed by
' . little heaps of coins and little pill-
. :2' like pellets whieh contain the
. . ,
: stakes of the cautius
. more gamblers -
blers , suspicious of the dexterity
, f" _ - of the croupiers in manipulating
' : the out
'r "J - cash-the croupier ! calls
the Chinese equivalent of "Mes- [
. .i- . sieurs , Ie jell est fait. . " Hc pndi-
. . , ' .cates this as well by covering his
I , . " own heap of cash with a brass
. bowl and begins slowly ; and deliberately .
.
' : : . . ; erately to draw out four cash at n.
" time , with a chopstick in each
, hand. His movements are pur
losely } deliberate so as to impress
. . .
aA.
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the punters with the fact "that
there is no dcception. Ultimate.
Iy the heap is reduced to one , two
or three cash ) , or nothing rcmains.
The winning stakes are at once
paid in proportion of three times
the stakes ( less the banker's commission . r
mission of 10 per cent. ) to those KI I i
who have backed the winning
numbers 1 , 2 , 3 or tl , the latter
nnmlw only winning when no . .
rash remains in the heap after di- ; .
.5E-fl- ;
\ son.
.5EflShort , .
Short and Long Days.
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Th'e day is longer or shorter as
you go north 01' south of the eqt n-
tor. Off Cape Horn , 56 degrees
south latitude , the days in mid-
.
, '
winter arc about nine hours long.
The longest day at London iR 16Y2
hours ; at Stockholm , lSY2 hours ' ;
nt ll"mblll'g' , 17 hours ; at St. Pc- .
terbul'g , the longest day has 18
hours \ and the shortest 5 ; at Tot' ,
lwa , 111 Finland ! , the longest day
has 211/2 hours and the shortest
2 : ! hours ; at Spitzbel'gen , the
: oDgest day is H1h months. I
RE D BANANAS AGAIN.
Have Long Been Scuce---Fast : Fruit
Steamr3 Help Trade.
"Hed bananas OIH'e more are
plentiful in the : New York market ,
and arc likely I to be so for some
time , . . " ' saW a fruit COJlmissioll ,
merchant to a New York Press re
porter. "I can remcmbet' the time
when there were more red banana : ;
than yellow ones , t5 01' 20 years
ago. Then they got scarce. Six
.
years ago onl.a . few bunches
came to New : York for the Christ.
trade and ' went to .
Inns , they deal.
ers at $75 a bunch , the highest
price ever paid here for such fruit
'fhe red banana
was the first
to come to this country. Then it
was found that the yellow fruit
was - more easily raised , kept
longer and clung better to the
stalk. This last factor was an important .
portant one , as a great loss comes !
, from bananas dropping from the
bunch. lore yellows grow on a
buuch For these reasons the red
bananas practically disappeared
from the markets and only a few
bunches were brought here.
"The fast fruit steamers have
been responsible for lowering the !
price of bananas. When we hail
to get our fruit from thc sailing
vessels we never knew l whether
we would have enough to supply
the market , for the vessels would
be delayed bJ storms and might
colic in with spoiled cal'goes. 'ro
da ' these fruit steamers
day are at !
regular as passenger ships , and I
we know almost to a Lunch how
much the cargo will amount to "
LOSS F ROM ROBINS.
New Jersey Fruit Grower Claim I
Birds Do Enormous Damage.
The amazing statement is made
on what seems to be the best aii
thorit.r that the law protccting t :
robins enabled those birds to de ,
story $10,000,000 worth of fruit i in
New Jersey during the last sea
son , says the New York World
This is the plaint of Henry Je ,
roloman , of Hilton , N. J. , who i if s :
known throughout the Unite l
States as "king of strawberry
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l , _ _ . _ , . . . . , . . . . , AT - , ! " 'r. UHLIG"S . . . ' K"JM > , . ' STAND. .Onf''l ' . . ! " . , . . . .r'OL. . . . . . .
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growers" in urging a repeal of
the state law protecting ) robins
from slaughter ? Ii' . Jerolomun .
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says :
"I have been a' fruit grower for
more than no ( ) yearn only in a small
way , having about eight acres in
fruit , one-half being in strawber-
ries. . Each season for more than
25 years I netted between $ HOOO
and $ 4,0(0 ( ) ( ) ( ) from t hc 'foul' acres of ,
s trn wberries.
For the past ten years , 01' since
thc law was passed protecting the
robin , I have received little Inure
than onc-half o'f that amount.
m. . . . . . . _ _ _ _ _ " _ . . - Inno1.1.1. . . . lI 1. . 1
TillS season (1003) , ) , ill I.lluugll 11".1
the same amount of land in strawberries .
berries , I did not receive over
$1,800 , although I had one of the
best crops for the past 15 J'carH.
Fully omi.1hil'd 01' more of m"
finest an < largest fruit was picked (
by this bird.
"I have watched a single robin
at work ; he would run along a
row , picking at the largest fruit
only , and ln ' less than two minutes
I have known u single bird to destroy .
stroy two quart of my largest
fruit.
"TheJ' never stop to cat up n
single berry , only hop along each
row , making a hole in each large
berry that has commenced to turn
red on one side , thus destroying
the fruit for the market.
"My loss this season , at a very
low estimate , was fully $500 on
al wherries . alone , and caused by
the robins. This is not the only
fruit thc robins des1ro : ' .
"As soon as the cherries showed
a red side thc robins went at thcm.
From 10 to 20 birds could be seen
from daylight until dark aU the
t hue , in each tree , and in less than
three days they ; did not leave me
a single quart of good fruit ; an
yon could find would be the stem ,
pit and thc green side of each
cherry ; still hanging to some of the
: trees. "
l School of Few Pupils
, The' little islet of Nordstrand .
schmol' , in the North sea , boasts
- what is probably the smallest
I school in the world. Oceanic upheaval .
l heaval has wrenched the islet
.
" ' -.c . ; . . . . . . . . - . . . . u- _ . . . . _
away from the island of Nerd
strand , and the action of the sea
is continually wearing the earth
a wa ' . A ' ' there
away. ; century ago Were
50 inhabitants , who lived by fish. '
ing and rude husbandry , and in
1836 a little school was erected ,
capable : of providing for about n
dozen ! children. Kith the dwindling .
dling of the islet , however , the
population has thinned , and now
numbers no more than 15 BonIs.
For five years past the school attendance .
tendance has varied from nothing
TO half.a-dozen child I'en.
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City Officials V
Saloon Keepers
Druggists
Bank Officials
Administrators .
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Guardians
Rural letter carriers
Contractors
and all others , at all
places in this county
John L. Cleaver
INSURANCE AGENT
Palls City , Nebraska
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