The Helena independent., 1894-12-02

Their Text the Remarkable Vagaries Of
Luck

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Luck,
II suppose senator Wnloott N ono of
the coolest mon living when engaged
IA game OF chance, said Albert Wat
son. of DonVer who was one OF party
Of gentlemen at the Cochran recently.
says the Globe Democrat Lake most
men whose early manhood has been
spent on the frontier, he learned the
value of poker hand and the best way
10 keep cases as soon as he learned law,
and he was known AZ a limit player all
over Colorado before his fame as u law
yer had spread outside OF pOnYor When
playing faro he always ala, ana does
yet, bet M much On the turn of card
ns the dealer will allow him Ia, and
when he hts Ia poker game the other
people want To keep their eyes wide
open ana play their cards mighty close
To their chests, Wolcott once found him-
self la game of poker whore three of
the other players were playing a sure
game. They were professionals, and
were after u big bundle OF money that
he had IN his possession, ms well as look
ing for that which the hfty player. "a
mining operator named Durkln, was
known To have, Wolc0tt knew la TWEEN
that the Intention was 10 rob him and
wearled his wits trying To ind n way
To get out of the game without making
trouble, but he couldn't discover "A
means To save him. Al last he was dealt
pat flush cf diamonds, made up of the
i've. seven, eight. nine aud Jack, He
skinned those cards over ana did "A
mighty piece OF thinking, He felt in
his bones that II flush would be no 81.
count In the world when " --ie TO n
show down, hut he Clipped In and stay
ed TO draw cards. TO his surprise he
wasn't raised before the draw. He
looked over his bright red diamonds
again and concluded 10 draw card,
In order, ls possible, Ia atraighten the
sequence, lie pondered a long time be-
tween dlscardng the five spot or the
picture, and at last tossed away the
Jack and called for "a card. The dealer
looked surprised at his wanting any,
but gave him card. WolcOtt picked IL
up and found that he had gotten the
six spot OF diamonds, lie never turned
a hair. The betting bcgan.au he nurscd
his sequence Of diamonds. and just
stayed along. letting the other fellows
do the raising AZ last IL got down To
Wolcott and one OF the professionals.
Finally there was call and the other
man showed four queens. Wolcott lald
down the flVe, six, seven, eight and nine
OF diamonds and swept In the pot. The
game stopped right there. | reckon thht
was the greatest piece Of luck that any
man ever had In poker game.
When Mr.. Watson had concluded ms
interesting recital and the wonderful
draw had benu eXpatlated upon,another
one OF the coterle remarked that he reck-
oned Il was his deal "This is story OF
luck too" he remarked, but OF DIFF
fcrent character from that experienced
by Senator WolcOtt. a friend OF mine
who lives out I'm Maryland was paying III
n little pokcr game not long ago. The
paraphernalia OF the game was print
tive, consisting Of single. well-thulnp-
ed deck OF steamboat cards, WIN grams
uf corn for chips. My fPiend was Iol-
lowed by a regular tempest OF phu luck,
and his corn was down 10 very tew
grains He agitated his mind for min
ute or two and then suddenly announG-
ed that he had forgotten to give ms
horse water, and would have 10 90 ~
uc went out of the house, and being IA
miliar with the premises, MADE ms way
10 the corn house, and, putting III hls
hand I'm the dark, got an ear OF corn ana
nut il In his pocket. Then he went TO
The stable, after making big NOISE AT
the pump 10 let the fellows lnSlue pt
ljeve he was moistening his animal, anu
returned in "A few minutes TO the house.
~ sat down and proceeded TO pun out
,be 'chIns' he had placed in his pocket
,yhcn ne left, and which he had SUP
stantially added to meantime. you can
Imagine his Consideration wheh ne
s,nnd that he drew forth MS otlBlnal
dozrn white chips with Twice tnat
r,anv red. He had managed to nnd IN
The dark the only red ear IN the corn
house" ., s.ss,o,, or,or
that" said Henry Miller, Wheu ,ilc
laugh subsided. some years az" ! "as %
prone now and then TO lhuulse in g,,a,'5 .,iS
delights Of draw. and there was friend
,i,,tnp near mo. over in Georgetown, at
HIctad with intermittent insanity OF the
sane SORT that visited him AT intervals
.,oincideut with my own, Consequently
we usually hunted the animal toEetnSr'
ono night we came over TINS sue Oh ule
,,.,.,.t, ,nr,etber and proceeded 10 place
an Nlnth street. where public game
with table stakes, was pretty popul5I'
Along about ~ o'clock we both GOT pioke
and concluded to 60 home The hight
had grown stormy, ana " was SlSe'ins
like sin when we left the club as II was
called. A search revealed that we had
I'M one car ticket between us. The bob
tail cars. without "A conductor, were
thnn used on the Metropolitan line, ana
,,y. conceived the highly original dea OF
shifting that ticket in half and drop
ming the two pieces In the box. we
boarded the last car over ana carried
out our scheme. You may knock me
down II both pieces didn't fall into the
box white side up. The driver glanced
at them and then started TO open the
door but we both made break and got
off the car. | made up my mind there
that my luck was too Utterly bad for
poker player. and, walking home
through that blizzard | determined to
try no more poker. and haven't touch
ed a card in money game since