Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-16

the appearance Of the pay car than that
OF n half-day's possession OF their hard
earned wages. DAILY would give them
a kindergarten lesson with the cards,
at the end Of which he would walk
away with all their coin. 1t was gener-
ally a bitter lesson for the ~rice-eaters,
and as it is one of their superstitions
who Is able to beat them in games of
chance is to incur the everlasting dis
pleasure of the gods, they would at once
set out to hunt another job.
"And how is DAILY nowp" was asked.
us he still working his way into tho
pockets of your simple countryme n?n
The Celestial didn't understand tho
question, but in his subsequent re-
marks he made reply to it all the same.
Rolling his moon face over to one
side, blinking mysteriously, and grin-
ming in a knowing sort Of way, he said:
81 fxee DAILY. Him alec done up.
You sabe Sim Songp Sim Song blong
Chinatown. Way up pokah boy. Him
Catchee TO- acee quick, lunee bluff,
playe full hand. Him lightning"
"Well, what's that got to do with
Daly?" asked the reporter.
81 sendee Sim Song down to Mo-
habbe, long with a gangee section
men. He come long to Daly's and
knuckee him out, quick 'nough."
How it happened may be briefly res
lated. Sim Song worked along with
the common laborers until the pay cart
hove in sight. Then he laid down his
pick, went over to the boss and told
him he was sick-that he would have to
quit work. He went to the cabin in
which the Mongolians lodged aud hung
around there until night time, and whom
the boss came o to propose the
regular monthly game he lay on his
couch moaning.
"Here's your money!" said DAILY,
handing him his wages. But the
Chinese took little interest in the pay
ment, and stufing the money into his
pocket went on moaning. He was not
in the game when it started, nor. in
deed, until the other hands had been
~"broken." Then DAILY, who was not
above beating a Chinese out Of his
months wages, insisted that Sim was
we'll enough to take a hand in the
game. Sim protested that he was too
feeble to hold the cards, but as Daily
would hear no refusal, the moaning
and grooming delegate from Chinatown
said he would come in on a two-bit ante,
with a So limit. So at it they went, Sim
displaying a profound ignorance Of the
game, and DAILY chuckling over the ease
with which he won his money. Then
the lack turned and DAILY lest game
after game. and Gs the limit had been
raised frem time to time, he found him
scii betting heavily. After a while he
had to go Over to his section house and
go under the mattress for more money,
which he eagerly staked in the hope OF
| regaining his lost coin. Sim still
handled the cards clumsily, but it was
noticed that he had stopped moaning.
They played until daylight, and when
the train for San Francisco stopped at
the water tank at 7 o'clock, Sim got On
board with $500 in his possession, hav.
ing entirely CLEANED out" the boss.
The latest advices from Mojave are
that DAILY has quit playing poker, and
that his men now stick to him as closely
as IL he had never had a mascot and had
never worked it for all it was worth to
raise his bank account.
Storm Calendar and Weather Fore.
casts for 1889, by Rev. Irl X. Hicks, with
explanations OF the .'Great Joyian
Period" mailed to any address, on re-
ceipt Of a two-cent postage stamp.
Write plainly your came, p~ostofiics aud
state. The Dir. J. II. Mclean Medicine
Co.. ST. Louis, Mo.