Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-10-16
THE BLUFF FAILED.
BUT IT BROUGHT AsouTTHe DEsIREt
 RESULT AT LAST.

Bad Repute 4 Medal That Contained
 an Inscription - Poker and Bottled Re.
 treatments.
 ]" It frequently happens, said col. lege graduate, that different chapters of the same Greek letter fraternity, sit. uated at different colleges, develop diff. feTent characteristics. All of these SO. cieties, I think, are organized to encour. age literary pursuits 1 mean that's what the constitutions say. As mat ter of fact, the literary element $ssrath. CT lost sight of ill most cases ill 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 the others have to put up . bluff by sending as delegates men who have high standing as scholars CT else take very back seat.
 The chapter to which belonged was located at q country college. and tn some way or other it had acquired q reputation ill the fraternity of being es- sS9lA0AAt AohAAtSAaA dLNis III itlSbg IG0E- CT sporty in character. This was so much the case that ill my junior year there was a movement on feet to expel or suspend our chapter from the frater- nity. We weren't very strong in high stand men and eouldn't even scare up two to go as delegates 10 the conyen- tion. Another man and myself were finally selected fer this function as the most unsophisticated looking members of the chapter.
 As usual in such cases, a special train was made mp to start from tho westernmost chapter and to pick up as many of the other delegations as could be arranged on its 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 i'll the freight car and reflected en the elaborate instructions we had received from our constituents. We were primed for the occasion. My companion, Forbes, had classical vol ume in each side pocket ot his coat and there were ink stains on bis fingers. had borrowed from a clasaluato q meda; given for scholarship. and this I had rather ostentatiously hung on my wates chain
 We soon made the acquaintance of the other threo delegates and joined them in their stateroom. Befote long they proposed game of poker, and one of them produced pack of cards Forbes said he didn t play, retired to q corner, pulled out copy of Gladstona's Landmarks of Hemerio Study and after gazing thoughtfully out of the window for d moment or two apparently became absorbed in it. l admired his conception of the part, but I couldn't bring myself to break up the game, and that's what it meant, for everybody knows there's no fun ill three handed poker Besides, there wcro only three delegates on the train to witness my fall: 1 said didn't play. but had seen the game and thought it locked inter, esting. was willing to leaIn.
 When we got started, there was d demand for bucl, and 1 unhitched the scholarship medal and dropped 1t into the pot as q good means of calling at tention to it. Everything went ou swimmingly for awhile. | had out1a geous luck and won pos after pot, so they were confirmed in the idea that 1 was q beginner. After awhile one of the other delegates got away with q jack pot, and while he was waiting for the cards to be dealt he picked up tho medal and glanced caTelessly at the obverse side, l hadn't examined it particularly, but l found out afterward that it bore tbis neat inscription: Garrett J. Gardner. Weymouth University, Glass of ST..
 'The delegate started and looked aa me with glance that was first mysti fled and then suspicious.
 CT beg your pardon, Brother Gard ner, he said with q touch of sarcasm T thought you said your name was Hawkins, and we've all been calling you that right along.
 "There was q smothered guffaw frola behind the Landmarks of Homerio Study, anu saw the jig was up, We made a clean breast of it, and Forbes sat into the game, making it five hand ed, which, of course, is the ideal game We didn't lose any time sending for ward for a consignment of that bottled beer, and the floor was strewn with dead Indians when the train filed up with other delegates. and they crowded around to watch the game.
 "Our elaborate bluff hadn't worked, and the convention opened with oui chapter in just as bad odor as before, but we 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- vers. and when our case was taken np in tho convention we had good work ing majorits which sustained our char ter with q whoop. ''--New York Srn.
 Must Have Been Very Bad.
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