Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-16
THE BLUFF FAILED.
BUT IT BROUGHT ABOUT THE DESIRED
 RESULT AT LAST.

hEoCLt Al EAS
 The uollexe Society Chapter That yvas In
 Bad Repate - i Medal That Contained
 an Inscription Poker and Bottled Ee.
 treatments.
 eIt frequently happens, said q col. Iege graduate, that different chapters of the same Greek letter fraternity, sit uated at different colleges, develop diff fereut characteristics All of these so. eieties, I think, are organized to eneour. age literary pursuits I mean that's what the constitutions say. As mat ter of fact, the literary element is rath. CT lost sight of in most cases ill the stress of having jolly good time. When convention time comes round, however, the chapters tbat have main. tained their literary quality come to tie fore, and the others have to put up | bluff by sending as delegates men who have high standing as scholars or else take a very back seat.
 "The chapter to which I belonged was located at a country colloge, ;,ii4! in some way CT other it had acquired | reputation in the fraternity of being cs- sentially nonllfcrary, and, ill fact, rath- CT sporty il character. This Was sa much the eaae that in my junior year !here Nas a movement on foot to expel or suspend opr chapter from the frater- nijy. We weren't very strong ill high stsCad men and couldn't even scare mp two to go as delegates to the cenyen= tion Another man and myself were finally seleo ed fer tbis function is ths most pnsophisticated looking members of tie chapter.
 As usual i'll such cases, a special train was made mp to start from the westernmost chapter and 10 pick up as many of the other delegations as could be arranged OH 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 menu bers. We sighed when we saw big boxea of bottled beer in the freight car and reflected on the elaborate instructions we had received from our constituents. We were primed for the eceasion My companion, Forbes, had classical vol ume in each side pocket Of his coat and there were ink stains on his fingers. had borrowed from a classaate a meda given for scholarship, and this I hae rather ostentatiously hung on my watcb chain
 We soon made the acquaintance of the other three delegates and joined them in their stateroom. Before long they proposed a game of pakcr, and one of them produced pack of cards Forbes said he didn't play, retired to corner, pulled out a copy CT Gladstone's Landmarks of Homerie Study and after gazing thoughtfully out of the window for q moment CT two apparently became absorbed i'll it. I admired his conception of the part, but I couldn't bring myself to break up the game, and that's what 1t meant, for everybody knows there's no fun i'll three banded poker. Besides, there were only three delegates on the train 10 witness my fall. I said 1 didn't play, but had seen the game and thought 1t locked inter esting. 1 was willing to lealn.
 When we get started, there was a demand for buck, and I unhitched the scholarship medal and dropped it into the pot as a good means of calling at tention to it. Everything went on gwimmingly for awhile 1 had outra- geous luck and won pot after pot, so they were confirmed ill the idea that l was q beginner After awhile one of the ether delegates got away with q jack pot, and while he was waiting fer tho cards to be dealt he picked up the medal aud glanced carelessly at the obyerse side. l hadn't examined it particularly, but found out afterward that it bore tbia neat inscription: Garrett J. Gardner, Weymouth University, Glass of ST
 The delegate started and looked as me with glance that was first Dlysti- fled and then suspicious
 !" beg your pardon, Brother Gard her, 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 gufaw from behind the Landmarks of Homeric Study and I saw the jig was up We made a clean breast of it, and Forbes sat into the game, making it five hand ed, which, oi 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 mp with other delegates, and they crowded around to watch the game.
 "Our elaborate bluff hadn't worked and the convention opened with om chapter in just as bad odor as before but we had made stanch supporters of the three delegates and some other lind- 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 q good work