The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-09-15
PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
The Only Genuine and Authentic Inter
view Held with the chief Magistrate
in the Yellowstone


'The Breakfast Table" Of the President as he
sat on the porch Of the hotel at the Mammoth
Hot Springs.
".Way upl Never tackled a racket in my
life that seemed to cotton up To the square
thing so much as this little of hand iamboree.
OH she's been daisy; tell YOU"
"You seem to have fallen in with the Gus
toms Of the country, and can talk slaug like
native" the "B. T." continued, reaching into
the presidential vest pocket and helping him
self to cigar.
"Slangl We'll, should twitter. Going to
introduce il into Washington society and have
an order issued that it must be used exelus-
lively in every department OF the Government.
You can break me on the turn II don't revo-
lutionize things when strike the government
al ranch again"
GLOW did you stand your long horseback
rider"
Remarkably we'll. OF course for the first
day or two felt like was sitting on the rag
ged edge or despair and preferred taking my
meals standing up to sitting down at the ta-
bic with the rest of the gang, but | soon
became acclimated could ride buzz. saw
now"
allow did you find the hunting on your
journey"
mo end oft, Why, pard, there's enough
game along that trail to make tubiu OF hash
for every human creature in the whole civil
lied and uncivilized world! Camel You
never glued your headlamps to the like since
Adam was a sore.toed kid"
sin the pursuit Of what species Of game did
you find the most pleasure, Mr.. President"
"Poker. Draw poker. Holy smoke, you
ought to see me down Phil Sheridan on draw!
Pills a good sort OF fellow but he can't
play draw little Bit"
Hasn't had much experience, perhaps!"
suggested the scribe.
"Oh, yes he's an officer, you know, but
somehow he does't seem TO catch on-don't
seem to have no savoy. Ha! hal ha! ha!
I'll never forget the night we struck the Gtos
Ventres. Dam6t amt too good to keep.
You see we went into camp there and coax
ed Phil out into the bushes and boned him for
a game, two-bit ante. I'd hid king, out Of
another deck, in my sleeve, and when ia got
him interested in the game | put up a job on
him. Twas my deal, and / monkeyed with
the cards till dealt him two aces before the
draw and dropped myself two kings. He
came in, of course, and followed. We both
stead Of giving myself three took only two.
gave him two more aces and myself two
kings, and then faxed the other king out OF
my sleeve. Phil pretended to be disappoin-
ted, butt was on to him. He Clipped in So
in a careless way, and hit her the same size
and raised him SIS. Then he tried to throw
me off the track by running over his hand
about dozen times, stopping to study over
the matter between each run, and occasionally
looking me in the eyes, pretending he was try
ing to find out by my looks what held. FL
naly he says: an see that five, old man, and
go you tenner better"
"Thats my game to a dot, says l, drop
ping in a ten, and now I'll Just see what
you're made of. and dropped a cool 100 in
to the pot He came up like little man and
came back at me with five SIoo bills. You
see them four aces made him think he had
the whole world by the polonaise and he'd
have bet his commission on the hand. |
didn't want to hit him too hard so Just call
ed him He skinned down his four aces and
reached for the money, but stopped him and
spread my FIVE kings out on the ground.
Moley hoses, but didn't he look Wild He
never tumbled but threw his cards into the
bushes, said something about his heavenbles-
sed luck, and lit out for camp. The joke was
too good to keep, and gave the trick away
to the whole gang that night. After that
could never do him up on the sleeve rack
again. lie always made me take off my coat
and shirt before he'd sit in game"
al see, Mr.. President, that on his Yellow
stone trip Uncle Rufus Hatch carries pet
dude. Guess he's ahead oiyou in that par
ticular."
"Not by mill site, lie isn't. Mike Sheri-
dams my dude, and I'll back him sgainst
Rufe's for every nickel I've got. You may
not believe it, but Mike insists on washing
his face two or three times week, and he ac-
ually wore socks on the whole trip. Some Of
the party even went so far as to hint that he'd
change his shirt il he wasn't afraid he'd catch
cold during the ceremony"
"How was fishing along the traili'
ooh, Lordy You ought to see me put ii
all over Vest on fishing. Why, he can't fish
in the same voting precinct with me. Vests
mighty good political wire-puller, and can
ladle out fair speech when the spirit moves
him, but when it comes TO fishing he isn't
deuce high. The first fish caught back in
the Sweetwater ghed-(gazing
nervousy and suspiciously into the reporter
! eye -weighed-but let that pass. You're a
newspaper man, and anyhow the exact weight
has escaped my memory. She was holy
terror, though, and don't you forget it,"
"Where do you go from herel"
"Going to slide into a boiled shirt, grease
my boots, and light right out for Washing ton
via Bismarck and Chicago. My sugar is run.
ming, low, and I've got to get to work again
and make some more"
GLOW has Secretary Lincoln stood the long
tripf"
"Oh so so; but Bob's too pious for an expe
dition OF this sort. When we'd go fishing
Bob would stay in camp and read his bible,
and while we endeavered to pass away an
evening with draw poker he'd glide GU
around a rock and have a little game of pra)
solitaire all to himself. He even went so fa
as to try to ask blessing at the table once
but Vest began to sing comic song and shu
him off. Bob's a good fellow, through
shall report this interview just as it ha
occurred, Mr.. President"
"Cert. | never say anything that Il g
back on-that is, hardly ever. | sometime
have to talk politics, you know. Sling it a
'em just as you've got it and won't kick.
"Good. bye"
"Ta-ta. "-[ Bismarck Tribune.
A Chinese Performance