Show 41 I 1 t 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 A I 1 THE they matt nud and spill spin some sonia egregious harng BLIND roun A dent deaf woman who made a noise la in order to heir her hueben I 1 aa an Aged our drummers Dru contention convention was a galhuly attended this week but the stories told were fully ie is elastic as a though there had been a full quorum pree present cut tony who had been in town since last week made the corridors of thu the broom hotel ring with a story about blind men playing cards he lie paid said he lie knew know of four blind men who ito could play poker equally as m veil ell t those h oge who were blessed aith ith bight sight ho ile r said aid lio lie saw then thern playing play me in ili chia chiho cago a at a dub club room 1135 was won by one of the p I 1 who cleaned out ho the other three ree the men played with cards davisa doused and manufactured by the man mail vi who he was ono of the loers losers in the game rhey were about three times as thick is tile ho ordinary cards the tito body of the card bore here no marks whatever but in in the upper tipper left hand corner of cich each were tho the sunken marks which signified tho tile pardal value the suite suits were designated lesi by the letters D it 11 C and S and the carda cards by b letters or numbers beneath acne etli them the tile aco ace of spades for instance being marked S with the figure 1 beneath bc neith and tile queen of heartsie hearts heart II 11 with the letter Q beneath all four of the play players c rs hid had been using the cards for some timo time and had be i c como 0 n 1 c q quite U ite proficient in handling and reading g them 0 the tito winner of tho gamo is a mu asician who iho plays pi iv 8 tho the or organ gan in ili one of the south illinois chure churchea il es the winning hind hand was tour four queens T the he man mail who made the cardi cards held an ace high hush flush and the other two held a jack full and a roven seven full respectively A curious feature of the tile gamo game was that t lie players played ayed with the tile usual role h blue lue and A n 1 I into lito colored chips and 11 1 distinguished I asti n dished the colors entirely by t lie bense of touch did I 1 e ever er acl r lale to to you ou tha the peculiarity about an old lady acquaintance of mine who wai was very deal deaf asked S hope suds who is ism in town drumming up business for a denser denver soap firm well gentlemen n t 1 e it ft as the 0 most peculiar t thing in g ern I 1 eer ever heard of alio it ha 1143 such a f frightful r i noise in in her head that she cint cant hear a tiling thing except when ehos in in a herdic of course bof ion it all I 1 know what an abominable noise and rattle a herdic mikes makes when w hen the rattle of the vehicle sort of drowns dron us the now noise in in her hoid head ho id and sho she can then hear aa as well as over ever she observed this p of her affliction and what did ahe do the other night but bring home a watch mins rattle and a pair of cymbals sho she deiy anything until her husband camo came sy homo ome and sat down to dinner ile I 1 ie began to ask the blessing and sin she g to hear his rem remarks arks began bag ni to bang away on the cymbals b ila ho ile stopped right in in the midat midst of his devotions and asked her vi rath fully if bho was crazy to which she eho re bonded by whooping hooping it up a little louder is whereupon hereupon lie rushed over to my house and eaid said ins his wife wara raving lunatic I 1 went back with lum to try and fix up matters but just as a soon as a I 1 opened my m mouzli ou ill she let flaw fl with the tile wat c linian ls rattle the outcome of it is is that my friend gets all hie his meal meals down dow n town and spends his evenings at tho the city cub while his wife armed with her orchestra goes calli calling ng on her neigh neighbor boN and fools the children into believing that the circus has hits come again talking about deaf leaf and blind people remarked charley Pill builder who represents tho the whole iilo ilo drug firm of lord Stoughten bottle A co 1 I heard a few days ago of an old no gress who lived down in hew new jersey she Is now veara old without an adv y doubt her youngest daughter ami and the only child living is 14 nearing nei ruit SO 80 years scars old mother and dau daughter eliter live in a huton hut on the top of amoun Uin awl in 1 have for years v cars been tile terror of tho the neighborhood main jiin objects of cur dosity to the people of the rural counties that the mountain divides her strength and constitution if 61 bini m ply marvelous nur twice a year she ft ta hakea es a big basket on herard her arm and in company a with her all through tho conaty getti getting in 9 money and clothes clot liei from fa farginere and others to whom hom she lia 1 paid aid semi annual visits v isita for a quarter of of a century she is 18 now pre preparing rin 9 tor for ile her r summer excursion cu arsion na bhe lie go goes es in in july and just ju st prior to christmas durigg her ter life of nearly aa a and a quarter 8 nhe lie 1 she lug has never been sick ono one h hour u r except apt from childbirth and lias has no aches or pains now her four score year earold ear old daughter looks und and acts like an all average woman oman of SO her ifer prow osa is something astounding from 1 rom her mother eho she inherited a pugilistic instincts that th it have hay led her ber into numerous encounters untera she has re P whipped and almost killed the tile strongest men in the mountains nothing plea 1 es her better than a trip to the auvern whore where ehe she can have a chance of showing her skill the stranger that stands up bo be foro her for fora a round or two is cry very sorry before lie lus has been struck twice tw ice the men who know her always keep a respectable table distance from her the fhe old ladys the match despite her years for lot most men and any woman except her daughter in tier her younger days da elie she munt must have been a pugilistic prodigy bhe she was a slave at great bend PJ a a century ago and lier her stones stories 0 of P prowess howess are entertain I 1 ing n sho had to flee from groat great lend bend b bec auito eho she beat her mistress until life was nearly extinct her flight was not only a hight flight from punishment but also from froin slavery slay cry no one dared try to enslave her after she got bick back to now new jersey they tell bell me however t tint ila t there is a in major ajor I 1 in n ogden who thinks he lie is a great man but who whole Is much older than this old and find the fact she site la Is hoping to shortly beco metho methe mother 0 of twins is an inducement du cement to him to wear nursing corsets which practice I 1 urn am reliably reliably y informed he is addicted to there The was a loud guffaw and just then judge gibbons announced that dinner was ready the convention therefore adjourned A |