The age-herald., 1898-03-26
Entertained MT. Hay After He Had DiscoV'
 cred Four Jacks Were Useless.

 From the Washington Post.
 MT. Ed Hay has no particular objection to this story getting out. Anyhow, he can't help himself. Tho story Is around everywhere already. When his friends who are as the sands of the ssa-twit him about it and solemnly offer to purvey to him all colors of gold bricks and large plethoric punches of green goods, We'll I never laid claim to omniscience, did IF" inquiries MT. Hay a trifle mournfully.
 MT. Hay went over to New York on a legal trip recently He got into oonversa- tion with a couple of well-groomed men in the smoking compartment. The two weu-groomed men did not appear to know each other. (They never do in such cases made anlf provided.) But they were inter esting takers, and MT. Hay, being rather better than an interesting tail1er himself, and being also innocent, guileless man of law, found them entertaining compan- ions for a railway journey. After the train left Philadelphia one of the well-groomed men suggested a little game of euchre, "just to pass away the ume." The other stranger fell in with the proposition readi- ly So did Mr. Hay. MT Hay never lags when he perceives an opportunity to- con- tribute to the entertainment of his friends
 
 course, was only flor fun"
 After a while one of the well-groomed men emitted well-bred whistle upon picking up his hand
 "G4ee whizp' he exclaimed, but what a hand for poker!'
 MT. Hay was scanning his hand when the man opposite him made this remark. The man that made the remark had dealt the hands, it needs to be understood
 T was just about to give utteuance to a similar ejaculation myself" replied Washington's popular all-round man. 'I've got a lallapolusa of a poker hand myself, now that you happen to mention it."
 Have, hey?" said the man across the table. "Bet you a double sawbuck that mine tops yours as a poker hand"
 q don't see how I can conscentiously let chance like this get by me, either going or coming" unused MT. Hay, and he laid his twenty alongside the other mans twenty.
 MT. Hays ace full on jacks was, of course, more looming than the other mans queen full on tens, and he slowed his own twenty and his acquired twenty away in his wallet with manifest satisfaction and a beaming countenance. The man who had lost looked chagrined.
 Serves me right for betting," he sighed, and the trio resumed their Innocent game of euchre. The euchre game went on pleas antly until the train was a few miles this Slue or jersey SlIy. Inen, dIIer QedllnS a round of cards himself, the other well- groomed man, gazing rapt at his hand. gave a sudden twist in his seat and ex- claimed:
 Holy smokel If I caught hand like this in a poker game I'd never survive the shock" | MT. Hays countenance betrayed visible excitement. A q am bound to confess" said he, regard ing his cards, that if I were to get a poker hand like the one I now hold 1t would require a highly tempered chisel to pry me loose." 2. 'Is 1t worth hundred?'' inquired the other man. a 'Well, about that" replied MT. Hay. and both produced their bills. 2 MT. Hays four jacks were good cards, but they had to make their respectful de- voirs to the other mans four kings Then the train rolled into the Jersey City Sta tion. MT. Hay admits that he did not get to thinking until he had put up at his hotel in New York.