Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-07-13
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
How a Crooked Faro Dealer Was Hoist
With His Own Petard.

81 had a curious experience when
! first struck Seattle" said a well
know gambler. Il had been playing
pretty lucky down in Denver and up
in the Cripple Creek country and
came up to the sound by way of
Portland. Don't know why came,
but just came. didn't find any of
the boys whom knew, but soon got
acquainted and was moving around
having a good time, but not playing
any. l had a good deal of money
and was enjoying few days of lei
sure. One day sat down to a faro
layout and was keeping cases my
self. l didn't know the dealer from
Adams orphan and didn't pay much
attention to the game. Twas simply
chipping along waiting for the cases,
keeping about even, and seldom
making more than one bet at the
start of deal
after awhile my attention was
called to one player. In fact, about
all of them had dropped out but us
two, and as I was noticing my own
play only enough to see that my own
bets were promptly paid had to no
tice him. He seemed to have plenty
of money and was dropping a good
deal of it on the high card
Now, there are good many
things about a faro box that every
one is not on to, but with a fellow
who makes his bread and butter on
the green cloth, as have for years.
it's an old acquaintance. l own a lit
tie one that got from Clifford down
in San Diego year ago, and prac
tice with itsemioccasionally upin my
room, when I haven't anything else
to do and nothing particular to think
about.
when l noticed the fellow lose
his money, turned my attention to
the dealer. The man with the
money must have been greener than
the cloth in front of him, for he
didn't tumble to the dealer, who was
working very raw. He was putting
up more than half the deck for the
high card to lose. He did not pay
bit of attention to me, so l did to
him. have pretty good memory,
because | need it in my business. 1t
was no trouble for me to watch him
shuttle and remember eight or ten
turns from the top, and of course
| could catch the last turn. He was
just putting up for the other fellow
and thought I was just playing
lucky, for l didn't play many cards
open, but had my chips leading over
from some out of the way card to
the card l knew was going to win
and was, of course, apparently as
much surprised as the dealer when
it was seen my chips led right.
THE dealer was busy and was ac-
complishing what he was striving
for. l was busy, too, and equally
successful. The result was that in
two or three deals the moneyed gen
tleman had dropped close on to 81 600,
while l was fully that much to the
good, and the dealer was apparently
not noticing that his hard work was
accomplishing very little toward in
creasing the bank roll.
About that time Rickebaugh of
Los Angeles walked into the room,
and stopping near me in surprise said:
Hello, Lem, what are you doing in
this country3 Thought you'd gone
into mines in Colorado and quit faro
I looked up and was of course sur
prised to see him, but l knew the
little game in which was not taking
much interest was up.
'The dealer looked at me a mo-
ment and said: Say, Rick, do you
know this gentleman He has been
playing mighty lucky
"Rickebaugh glanced at the great
stack of chips in front of me and sar-
castically remarked, Lucky, h-lr
1.-THE dealer looked sold, and at the
end of the deal quietly turned down
the box and cashed the chips.
''Of course didn't have the heart
to call his last turn, though 1 knew it
from the time the cards were boxed"
Poisonous Medicines.
Great care should be taken in ad-
ministering remedies in the form of
tinctures which have stood for a
long time in small walls in the family
medicine closet. When the bottles
happen to be loosely corked, the al
cohol readily evaporates, leaving the
drug in the form of a concentrated