Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-15
POKER.
some Though hts ON she Great American
Gambling Game.

Burlington Rd,0keye.
4 man who can sit in his pew in
church when the collection plate is be-
ing passed, with his eyes rivited on the
ceiling and seeming to be. engaged in
silent prayer while bis fingers are In his
| pockets squeezing a nickel till the fin
ger nails ale blOodshot, has mistaken
| his calling. Such q man should rope in
suckers to play poker. The most sue
cessful poker player we ever knew was
a truly good man who acted as usher in
church. He could disguise his feelings
so you couldn't tell whether he had a
sequence" or a pair of deuces. He
would draw to pair of queens and get
two more, and then he would throw
down his hand in disgust, but finally, as
he thought it over, he would simply
chip so he wouldn't lose his blind, and
somebody would bet $40 to raise him
out, and he would see and raise and
come back with a roll and scare the
man out of his boots. He was very sue
cessful, but finally they brought charges
against him for heresy, and he went
west with his savings, and now owns a
bonanza farm in Dakota.
Poker is being played to largely in
society that man must be mighty
careful how he sits into q game. Not
long ago, q gentleman who had played
some years ago was at card party at
the home of friend, and he was in
vited to sit in with couple of dudes
and couple of dudesSes, and being an
old bachelor, he thought he would
show them that, though he was no
dude, he could play poker. The first
hand be got three ten spots, and a girl
drew one card and bet a dollar. He
raised her five, thinking she might have
two pair, when she came back at him
with ten dollar bet, and he laid down
his three ten spots, believing she had
filled. AS she raked in the money she
laid down her hand, and it was q bob.
tail flush. The bachelor said she played
that bobtail flush as though she had
tours, and there was not q movement of
muscle of her face, though she
breathed hard, and there was seal
skin coat gleam in her eye that para
lyzed him. On the other hand, she
looked as though she had lost every
friend she had, and seemed to be sick
with ennui, and her whole face, as she
simply put up a chip, seemed to be
high, as she was only poor orphan;
but he bet $40, just to show her that he
knew his business, and to get his money
back. Instead Of laying down her
hand she she languidly threw down $50
Just to keep up the interest, and think
ing of her bObtail flush that she had
bluffed him on before, he put up the
money, and she threw down four jacks
as innocent as baby, and he had only
nine.spot full, and she, as she raked
| i'm the money, laughed so sweetly that
the bachelor said he didn't care for the
money. The game of draw poker is
fashionable, ana it is dangerous, unless
man knows enough to cut the cards.
AS ifrailroad travel were not perilous
enough already by reason of misplaced
switches, broken rails, sleepy switch
men, Grabbed wheels, single tracks,
train.wreckers and rotten bridges, the
Manhattan Beach railroad must needs
introduce . new source Of danger, and
| one which even the authority.Of rail-
road commission cannot remedy. A
train ran off the track at place called
Kowenhoven's curve, and the first eX-
PLANTATION given was that the rails had
spread. 1t now appears that the rails
did not spread, and the company says
| the accident was caused by ian unac-
eountable dispensation of Providence"
il is hard line for railroad travellers
when Providence turns train-wrecker
snd moves in mysterious ways tn dump
cars into the ditch.
The famous Bilwell Bar orange tree
in California Is 25 feet tall, aud its
trunk Is As inches in circumference. It
bore last year 2,075 oranges.