The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-14
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Chicago Tribune.
Among the objects to which isbs
and benevolent principle of co one, stsss
can be applied, by no means tbe al sanl
important lie that OF skinninp am nr $500
pecting stranger for the drinks sus
cigars by the familiar and aprsrsr al0
honest process of I" saddlinp the bo-.ssg
This athletic exercise-le il he SOFA !.
the benefit of the sisters, and the cons; ~
and the aunts OF the gentleman reade,
consists in writing on slips of paper !.
many numbers as there are plsvers.
2, 3, q, etc. One of the numbers il 49,
repeated ON another slip of paper N.Y.
anchored in q safe place of concealmar.
under decanter or q match~safe: thss
each player draws slip, and the vict;m
on whose slip is the fatal number !
elected for the drinks, or cigars. - H.
case may be. A simple young mar
from st. Louis came to town one d.
last week aud fell among among tIs
board of trade men, who took him h !
saloon, and proposed that they sbould
saddle the horse for drinks. There wers
six of them present, including the gen.
tleman from the butt end of the Il,
bridge. The barkeeper prepared tLs
slips, and placed the fatal numbe undr
decanter, and each player drew his 1T
The St. Louis man was courteousIys.
lowed to name his first, and he criN
aloud, -Four" hat ends the pamea
said the barkeeper-eyou' re stuck and
on examining the voucher under the IA
canter, the St. Louis man found that il
bore q 81" Well, that was auick
work What're you going to have
boys?" he said, and they all toof
brandy. Now, gimme my revenge
he said; and they gave him his revenge
and, the slips having been Distributed
St. Louis was stuck again, and paid
tribute, to the amount OF 81 so, into The
Golfers of the metropolis OF the west
The St. Louis man said luck was againH
him, and demanded another trial, and
this time also he was stuck. And 90 be
was next time, when he remarked that
he had never seen such q run of luck IA
mis- hfe--it WAS clean AGAINST the doc
trine of chances; but he would saddle
the horse just once more for the cigars
They did 80, and, to let him see that
everything was lair and above hoard, let
him put the voucher containing the fatal
number into his w&tchcase. Vain pre-.
caution-he was stuck againf By this
time time that unhappy st. Louisan had
got mad, and he swore q dreadful oath
that he would win one round of drinks
from Chicago il he had TO stand up to
that counter all summer. When
the saloon closed, at I'll p. MI
the gentleman from st. Louis had
been stuck eighty-nine times in sue
eesaion, and no one else had lost
single round-an occurrence SO singular
that an eminent mathematician has
estimated that the chances are "a, $685.
324 ,674 5341 ,586, 274 ,498, 1876 to against
its ever happening again In the next
10, 1000 years, although all the population
OF the earth, In gangs of six, should 20
on saddling the horse once every minute
for twenty-four hours daily. SUNDAYS
and legal holidays included. The ST.
Louisan took the next mornings train
tor home, intending to sell his house, and
come back and renew the arduous strife.
1T is not at all likely that he will ever
win one round. The boys and bar
keeper belong to q cooperative Saddle
tne-Horse Mutual Aid and Benefit
society. Whenever the barkeeper writes
ON the tickets, he puts the came numbn
on each of them, including the one under
the decanter, and gives q signal to the
boys what the figure is. Then, no mat
thr what slip the stranger draws the
fatal number is on it and, if he doesn't
speak first, all the others have to do is
to call out any other number, and chuck
their slips into the spittoon. In simpli-
city and sureness this invention beats q
corner, or even returning board.