Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-03

an Inscription = Poker and Bottled ke
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 It frequently happens, said col. lege graduate, that different chapters of the same Greek letter fraternity, sit | mated at different colleges, develop diff l ferent characteristics. All of these so. cieties, think, are organized to encour- age literary pursuits 1 mean that's what the constitutions say. As a mat ter Of fact, the literary element is rath | CT lost sight of ill most cases ill the 1 stress of having ! jolly good time. When convention time comes round, however, the chapters that have main tained their literary quality come to the fore, and the others have to put up n bluff by sending as delegates men who have high standing as scholars or elsa take a very back seat.
 ''rhe chapter to which l belonged was located at country college, and ill some way or other it had acquired q 1 reputation ill the fraternity of being es- sentially nonliterary, and, ill fact rath i CT sporty in character This was SO much the ease that ill my junior year ] there was a movement on foot to expel l or suspend our chapter from the frater ! nity. We weren't very strong in high stand men and couldn't even scare up 1 two to go as delegates to the conven- tion. Another man and myself were finally selected fer this function IS the most unsophistieated looking members of the chapter.
 As usual Ill such cases, special train was made up to start from the westernmost chapter and to pick up as many of the other delegations as could 1 be arranged OH it's way to the convention i city. We were among the more remote chapters, and when we boarded tue train there was only one other de1ega- tion OH board, composed of three mem bers. We sighed when we saw big boxes l of bottled beer in the freight ear and reflected on the elaborate instructions 1 We had received from our constituents We were prined for the occasion My companion, Forbes, had classical vol ume i'll each side pocket Of his coat and there were ink stains on his fingers. l had borrowed from classmate medal given for scholarship, and this | had rather ostentatiously hung on my watch chain.
 We soon made the acquaintance of the other three delegates and joined them in their stateroom. Before long they proposed d game of poker, and one of them produced pack of cards Forbes said he didn play, retired to corner, pulled out a copy of Gladstone's Landmarks of Hamerie Study and after gazing tboughtfuIly out of the window for q moment or two apparently became absorbed i'll it. l admired his conception of the part, but eouldn bring myself to break up the game, and that's what it meant, for everybody knows there's no fun in three handed poker. Besides, there were only three delegates on the train to witness my fall 1 said l didn't play but had-seen the game and thought it looked inter esting. l was willing to learn.
 When we got started, there was a demand for q buck, and I unhitched the scholarship medal and dropped it into the pot as q good means of calling at tention to it. Everything went on swimmingly for awhile. l had outra- geous luck and won pot after pot, so they were confirmed ill the idea that I was q beginner. After awhile one of the other delegates got away with t jack pot, and while he was waiting for the cards to be dealt he picked up the medal and glanced earelessly at the obverse side. l hadn examined it particularly, but I found out afterward that it bore this neat inscription: Garrett J. Gardner, Weymouth University, Glass Of '8i
 The delegate started and looked at me with glance that was first mysti- fled and then suspicious.
 beg your pardon, Brother Gard ner, he said, with d touch of sarcasm. I thought you said your name was Hawkins, and we've all been calling you that right along
 There was a smothered guf1aw from behind the Landmarks of Homerie Study, and I saw the jig was up. We made clean breast of ii, and Forbes sat into the game, making it five hand. 1 ed, which, ot course, IS the ideal game. We didn't lose any time sending for ward for consignment of that bottled beer, and the floor was strewn with dead Indians when the train filled up with other delegates, and they crowded around to watch the game
 "Our elaborate bluff hadn't worked, and the convention opened with our chapter in just as bad odor as before, but NC had made staneh supporters of the three delegates and some other kind- ly spirits who had joined us on the train. They all went to work like bea- Yers, and when our case was taken up in the convention we had a good work Ing majority which sustained our char ter with q whoop. New York Sun.
 Must Have Been Very Bad.
 Iii this day of slang and slipahod l English 1t is anite refreshinp ta find one