The herald., 1894-05-08

rouleaux OF dollars and halves in re-
Spouse to touching appeals, but they sill
went in the direction of Louisville.
At last the Judge got FESTIVE, and when
there was particularly big lot
of silver on the table and SIS
ne found himself with three jacks
on his hand he determined to make a
killing, and he raised the ante to 81
before the draw. The colonel stood and
drew four cards, and winked his other
eye. The trsgedian drew two, and
sighed. The impressario took one, the
Times and HERALD men dropped out,
and the judge drew two to his jacks and
did not help them, but as he confided to
the HERALD man, who sat next to him,
he had "a bunch" that his jacks were
good. 1t was his first bet, and he cas-
ually flecked a dollar into the already
fat pot. The colonel made it land two"
and the tragedian lust stayed" The
impressario made it land three" and
the Judge weakened on the reliability of
his bunch, and he Just stayed" The
colonel called for fresh beer, told the
darkey waiter TO watch those fellows
closely and see 'em VINCE" and
raised it five. The trsgedian dropped
his pair of kings and aces, having
caught one to his bob" the lmpreasa-
rio stayed and 30 did the Judge. 1t
was the same thing over again. The
colonel bad caught an ace, king, queen,
flush, in his four card draw the inn
pressario had also caught flush, but
his dropped from ace, king, TO ten-spot,
and the Judge felt 60 ashamed of hie
knavish trio, that he omitted to tile q
demurrer and laid them down without 8
motion for rehearing.
"Oh, how [ love money !" gently muir
INJURED the colonel, and more demands
mad to be made Cd Billy's sxchequer.
That Durveyor of excsllent beer came
up stairs himself with his loans this
time, to see. "Vot is der Something's do
matter NIT you fellows" he growed as
he came in. Here is das gelt. l
mein sale hal two times open and no
more can / you gif. Meip Gott but you
roll NIT 'em high tonights," and Billy
laughed his glorious, confdeace.inspir-
ing laugh and dashed out his guilders
TO the players, and the game went on,
but always the same way. Every body
had forgotten about the nice little
penny ante affair of the early evening,
and there was a hot lot of play ito get
even," but it was Kentucky's night, and
between epigrammatic utterances and
Money and Morals, the colonel gathered
in pot after pot until his pockets bulged
out with the coin. In fact he had to
pass over part of his winnings to the inn
presssrio to take care of for him.
Along about this time diversion oc-
CURED by the entrance of Riverside
editor. who said he guessed he'd come
in. He did. And he lasted just about
Is minutes, and then had to do some
tall figuring as to how he would pay for
those new rollers he had ordered for his
press.
The HERALD man had managed to
pick up few little pots that no one
seemed to want very badly, and saw that
if he could get out of the game soon he
would not be involved in irsedeemable
bankruptcy; SO he mentioned some
thing about playing round of hackers"
and quitting.
"All right" said the colonel, casting
his eagle eye about the table, while his
massive brain rapidly calculated that
there WAS little left worth winning. But
instead of starting the hackers" with
half dollar, as had been
the custom, he insisted upon making
them for ~. The tragedian demurred a
bit. but the Money and Morals expert
insisted and even limited that in the
event of further objections he would in.
sist on playing his devouring little and
big dogs and tigers. So no one kicked
any more and the six jack pots were
played. That is to say, the boys wen
! through the motions, but the colene
did the playing. He won them all
And in doing it he won every cent in thu
crowd.
He had a small audience at his frs
lecture on Money and Morals at the
opera house that evening and had only
| taken in about $50 at the box Office.
But at the second lecture at the PresI
club his receipts were larger. Some o.
his auditors have not eaten anything tC
speak of since, and there has been 9
decided reformation among the sportive
ly inclined members.
The tragedian has blown away, but
the Times and the HERALD man, the
Judge and the Riverside man, when
asked if they play poker nowadays, en-
phatically say mo" They used to
think they knew how, but Colonel Wat
terson, who has created so many illu-
sions, destroyed that one.
Mo ITIPJCnICTI0N