Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-08
THE "TGsus PAPER RACKET"
The Originator OF That Brilliant
idea In ''confidenees' card Playing.
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Red Shirt was product of life among
the Pennsylvania coal mines, ami VIXEN not
engaged in working railway trains be made
| things expensive for the rural visitors at
county fairs. He was the originator OF the
brilliant idea in cards known the tissue
paper racket His favorite role ga.
that of = man bored heath with
| the scoaotony Of riding Il rail-
road Aha was anxious 10 iini concenial
| PARTNER. f.: q social game at -uchrc T.,
| tko.e days the newsboy Will. h;s cards ana
| lapboaId t. hir. 10 passengers had not made
! his appearance or chr railroads. ami card
/ playing 20 Pass the time was comparatively
a new thing. Red Shirt, who wolli readily
have been taken for the easy going son Of n
wealthy father. overburiened with bo;.i
time and money. always had dainty, brand
new pack Of cards in his yalise and be sci
dom had h. wait long 10 get up a glme, and
be rarely failed TO manage t. select players
who had blood III them The game Of
euchre seldom progressed far before Red
Shirt wonld say. in careless. off-hand way,
and apparently speaking .rore &c himself
Than 70 anyone else:
BY .ioVe. this'd be beauty Of band
IN LITTLE game OF draw
Whenever Ped Shirt reached that STAGE
Of the sa1e you could make pretty zig bets
that hi, hand wasn't the only one around the
board that would be beauty III a game Of
draw and that other hand never failed in be-
ing four Gees. cold The man who held that
hand Sever taiel 81 !e Just game enough to
remark tta' bis haia l1omesi up pretty fair
for a !o.-er hand, leo. Then Red Shirt
wcuidn't ~ anything more about it, but
make cut - if he WAS about 10 proceed with
tie eushrr game. Vow, a man with four
aces in his hand, who has had the value Of
hands aS regard poker suggested to him.
i not q truc-Dorn American citizen if he
sacrifices II at eEciIre, AMI nobody knew this
fact better than Red Shirt. The man with
the four aces would invariably uro-
pose that hey test the value of
the two hanls ia the usual way Red
Shirt wo;.ld at first prefer not TO let.
but finally would b;rk hi, hand. The other
nan would raise .Iil. Of course And 50 it
would 90. back AMI forth, until it SUITED Red
Shirt % bring the matter to 4 close. when h.
would call his opponent:
-Four accsr that lucky person would saw.
VI hat Red Shir. would exclainl, e.
cite lily. 'Let's sec en-
The man would throa his cards toy-n.
Red Shirt picking them up would run then,
over quicGiy, and then rubbing his thur..b !
on one Il tie ace cards voulI shave of .
covering shat r.'rcel1t tao mora spots, max I
ing it a tray SPOT
Look here. my friend he would say, III 1
i thought | was playing with
2 "I.t.emon You can't run in any Of your
4, 'a.csso tricks GA ia-r
Then lie would ilIcy, d VIZ a hand that
always b,at three q; :: Kind, and before the
Others recovered from their astonisEnent
tie raocoy would be in hi possession, and be
wualf make break for the car door. He
noTer fa!lei to time his play with the move
l.e1t5 o. tIe train, and when the climax
ca.--.o 10 cars would b. slowing up for a sta
lien. Il g:.ls nc trick al all for him TO get
OF {. tza..I no"ing fifteen OF twenty miles AN
sour, 1:,i he never got caught but once that
know o.. Thor h. waS followed cioSe by
rs victim, ans they both got OH the train
,oS:uthcr. Red Shirt sas given most beau
Sful S-oancins, but the nan dill not get his
800. 1t happened that as
Ed Shirt was hurry.ng out Of the car i.e
..ei chr Baiiy un the platform coming in,
iIli llic.; 5 Il fash he passed the money, all
,,-lill.l! d up IN wal in his hand. TO John.
Re- SHIRT made thousand, Of dollars during
is career, but he del in Pennsylvania
courthouse II consumption a,few years ago.
think his name was Brown.