Seben, Come Eleben!

B : we e throe and fow: o' i Sunday iriarning the palfee caided a resort on líoui'tí] avenal and eaugJit foui eolorerl men jik! one vliite man deeply engaged in tke Aiiiean uatioxeal game. In additiou to tbe Hve men the oificers seized a poker lay-out and some smal] eliiauge which vas iliriwn about in the shuille. The namcc of those arrested ai'e Willinm ■'yna. Edward Millor, Jacob Bei K, John GifCord . i n 1 1 Gc-orgu .Mi Loney. rere taken up before Justice Duffy and were all let off on bail, thelr hearing being set for ii,i morning. For some time Marshal Sweci U&s been Leeping a pretty close v,t.ci on the place, suspecting tliat ganïbling might be gotog on thei'e ïegularijf. He kopt the maner qulet unlil vesten7,. iv morning vvlieii he uotítied the members of the 'orce wiioii) he wisíted ;.:) aoeouipany lim on the raid :md set oul Cor the circus. Officers wore stationed at the doors ready to receive bn' :nu ti speed the departing guests. W'hen everythlng had been carefuUy arranged, Officers CKMám and Isbell took thelr stand mider ihe víii1on nhioli opens into the room where the gambling was goiug on. Tlie cartain v-a down l)iu tlnoTiïh the open winilew the voicos of the exoltetl ganiOj sters could be piainly h.e-anl, al; iimoc-ent that their eónrersáüoii was being overheard the crowd kepi right at ir. "Hot setben, eletoen; come saben, come elében" carne ftaatmg ihrougii the snmmer air iu sevêral different times. Something carne. At the iin!tation to co-me Ofiicer O'Mara sUouteti. "We're coming," aml in through tbe window the two policemec piletl to the amazemeut of the dusky occuI ■;hi;s of the room, who made for liberty as though there was a waíaumelo'i at the end of t. O'Mara had two of ihem by the colla V before tiiey coold move. Thelr backs had been toward the window aud as they feit his soit hand on thelr collars, their surprise v.as expreased in language iorcible but inelegant. T'ie rest of tlio "push" made for the deorway, but the passages were dark and at each door was a blue-coat wiu. a gun. "Fo' tiie Lawd's sak'?, don'r shoot, Mistali Sweet," said one. whiic arother running into a post head lirst exclaimed, "dün't hit me again, I glve up." It was likt' jHitting a ferret into a irest of rabblts and closing all nieans of egrese. Chairs and tables woo-t flyaig, poker eh'ps rolieil about gleel'ully, and it donbtless seemed to ihe cclprits that .-bout seven times eleven poiicemen were cireulatiug around the room. The prisoners were marched to the jail in a body. The white man atten pted to explaln that he had been there only atoout !" minutes and beg ged to be let off, bui the marshal said him nay and he had to go along with hifi darker brotiiers. ilond.iy a b.-.tvli of the offenders wore taken before Judge Duffy. Tiiey all pleaded guilty. .■uid as it was the ïifst time up for most of them thej got ofL easy, ]aying a dollar lino rd $A.( costa apiece. Souie ought to tbank the offieers for stoping the game so early. It migiit have c'ost their. more than $5.70 before the nlgixt was over. One 0f the men was taken before .Tustiee Pond and he fared about the same as the others.