The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-09
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wide OPEN l am not going to tell
you what town it was, but this is what
happened to me- / strolled into large
gambling room, one of those places
where a sport can get almost anything
that he calls for / watched the faro
game for awhile, glanced at the
roulette game, and then foated
naturally up to poker game. Five
or six men were playing. 1t was table
stakes, and if You wanted to play You
called one of the men behind the bar,
and he brought you $40 worth of chips
Then Won made the usual conciliatery
remark: "H no gentleman objects Phi
sit in for an hour and went at it. /
watched the game carefully for twenty
minutes, and made up my mind it was
square and then sat in
1.-THE cards came my way and l soon
had 500 to the good. Opposite to me
sat fair-faced young man who, 1
learned, was one of the proprietors of
tho house. The other players joked
with him occasionally when he made a
winning by declaring that it was no
use trying to buck against the house
that's the way knew who he was.
Well, the house wasn't in it after sat
down. If he held threes showed down
a straight; if he held straight 1
skinned ont flush, and il he held
flush my hand frightened up Then the
other players grew facetious and joshed
the house, but still the cards came nv
way, until I stayed out Of . jackpot
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the house ral1ed in with the remark
that he could only win when the St
Louis man kept out. The game went
on for few rounds and then won
again. but this time 'the house stayed
out He still had a big stack of chips
in front Of him. and was surprised to
see him draw out of the game and cash
in at the bar wondered why he drew
out. He evidently had it in for me, and
as he was winner, I couldn't under
stand his retreat l watched him go
over to the faro table and speak to one
of the players. The two men glanced
over towards the poker table and then
/ caught on. The house had called for
reinforcements, and I said to myself
that if my fair-faced friend and the faro
player came into the game would cash
in and quit
"a moment later two losers left tho
table, and the vacant chairs, side by
side, were taken by the faro player and
my former antagonist 1t wouldn't do
to draw out at once, of course, and 50
let the deal proceed. The game pro-
crossed. After few deals the faro
player picked up his hand, and re-
marked in careless kind of way:
I've got tens up He had no occasion
to make such q remark at that stage of
the game, but when I saw the other
man pass him a card knew what was
going on. It was clumsily done, and
couldn't help smiling inwardly at the
crudeness of the cheating. The faro
player had simply called for ten spot
to fill his hand, and his partner had
given it to him. stayed out at that
hand, and was rewarded for doing SO
by seeing ten full ON tours shown
down.
Sin the next hand big listed miner
dealt the cards, and / knew that it was
an honest DEAL had an ace full pat,
SO when the faro player picked up his
hand and murmured: I've got jacks
which was willing to bet something
handsome was jack, felt pretty easy.
stayed in, but let him do the raising.
Before it got around to him another
player raised it. The faro player saw
the raise, and showed in his pile with
the words: I tap you Hewasn't after
me and expected me to drop out I
studied for moment, made up my
mind that the raiser had threes,
and then showed in my pile, which
was just about big enough to
stayed and the others fed We drew
cards 1t was my first say, and had
to expose my hand by standing pat.
The first raiser took two cards; the faro
player stood pat All our money was
up, and it was show down. The first
raiser had three kings to go with, and
didn't help in the draw. The faro
player, as suspected, had jack full.
/ had an ace full. 1 wish you could
have seen that mans jaw fall His
fair-faced partner, the man who had
passed him the jack, leaned back and
roared with laughter. / could see he
had sized me up for card sharp, and
that he was amused beyond measure at
tho smooth way I had done him up.
An ace fullr he shouted An ace FULL.
raked in the pot, raked it off into my
hat and said: Yes. an ace full; good,
isn't it? I'm going to quit you, gen.
tlemen,' and did quit, too.
"And here comes funny feature Of
the adventure. I was attending to a
little business for Uncle Sam, and in
accomplishing my mission it was neces-
sary for me to be just little bit quiet
and circumspect in my movements. But
the story of the poker game was told,
and. although my winning was purely
a piece of luck. was pointed out prob
ably twenty times day for the three
days remained in town as the slickest
card sharp in the country, which, while
it was a little amusing, was anything
but desirab BILE reputation for me. st {
Louis Republic.
Tho Cat Nature.
The eats spirit OF independence, In !
deed, is the most distinct characteristic J
of her nature As Mime. de Custine /
rightly said. the eats great difference /
from. and, according to her sentiments, /