Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-29
THE BLUFF FAILED.
BUT IT BROUGHT ABOUT TIE DesIREr
 RESULT AT LAST.


 Bad Rcpute = 4 Medal That Contained
 m Inscriptions Poker and Bottled Re.
 Treatments.
 It frequently happens, said a col. lege graduate, that different chapters of the same Greek letter fraternity. sit uated at different colleges, develop diff ferent characteristics. All of theso go. eieties, think, are organized to eneour. age literary pursuits. I mean that's what the constitutions say. As a mat ter of fact, the literary clement is rath. CT lost sight of in most cases in the stress of having a jolly good time When convention time comes round however, the chapters that have main tained their literary quality come to the fore, and tho others have to put up bluff by sending as delegates men who have high standing us scholars or else take a very back scat.
 The chapter to which I belonged was located at Q country college, and in some way or other it had acquired reputation in the fraternity of being es. sentially nonliterary, and, in fact, rath CT sporty in character. This was So much the case that in my junior year there was movement on foot to expel or suspend our chapter from the frater- nity. We weren't very strong i'll high stand men and couldn't even scare up two to go as delegates to the conven- tion. Another man and myself were finally selected for this function as the most unsophistieated looking members of the chapter
 As usual in such cases, @ special train was made up to start from the westernmost chapter and to pick up as many of tho other delegations as could bo arranged on it's way to the convention city. We were among the more remote chapters, and when we boarded the train there was only one other delega- tion on board, composed of three mem bers. We sighed when we saw big boxes of bottled beer in the freight car and reflected on the elaborate instructions we had received from our constituents. We were primed for the occasion. My companion, Forbes, had a classical vol. ume i'll each side pocket of his coat and there were ink stains on bis fingers. l had borrowed from Q olassnate medal given for scholarship, and this I had rather ostentatiously hung on my watoh chain
 We soon made tho acquaintance Of the other three delegates and joined them ill their stateroom. Before long they proposed Q game of poker, and one of them produced 0 pack of cards Forbes said he didn play, retired to a corner, pulled out 6 copy o9 Gladstone'a Landmarks of Homerio Study and after gazing thoughtfully out of Che window for moment OF two apparently became absorbed in it. 1 admired his conception of the part, bat couldn't 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 said didn't play, but had seen the game and thought if looked inter. esting. I was willing to learn.
 When we got started, there was 6 demand for buck, and 1 unhitched the scholarship medal and dropped it into the pot as 0 good means of calling at- tention to it. Everything went on swimmingly for awhile. I had oubra geous luck and won poS after pot, so they were confirmed in the idea that was 0 beginner. After awhile one of the other delegates got away with jack pot, and while he was waiting for the cards to be dealt he picked up the medal and glanced oarelessly at the obverse side. l hadn't examined it particularly, but ] found out afterward that it bore thia neat inscription: Garrett J. Gardner, Weymouth University, Glass of ST.
 ''The delegate started and looked as me with a glance that was first mysti- fed and then suspicious.
 beg your pardon, Brothar Gard ner, he said, with 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 guffaw from behind the Landmarks of Homerio Study, and saw tho jig was pp. We made Q clean breast of it, and Forbes sat into the game, making it l1vo hand. ed, which, oi course, is the ideal game. We didn't lose any time sending for. ward for 6 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 ou4 chapter in just as bad odor as before, but we had made stanch 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- vers, and when our case was taken up in the convention we had 8 good work i'm. ina.; uhicla sr.stni.,na ,.... .,.n,.