Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-16

TWO Merry LOSERS,
EACH DROPPED 4 FORTUNE AND
sEEME0 TO ENJOY THE LOSS.
Apns Lighted . Cigar and Calmly
Went Back to sheep Herdins and
the Other smilingly Started In
,Anew and Made Half . 1Gillioa.
"There's no way Of telling in advance
how q man is going to take his complete
Riping out in game Of chance" said the
sx-mayor Of Colorado CITY when the talk
Ut the club drifted around to the subject
of hard losers and the other kind.
"There's no rule about 1t. I've seen men
Of long tested gameness go all to pieces
after big 1osings; seen them suddenly
struck speechless, as weak as children,
with their lips trembling like those of
women who are about to cry. On the
other hand, I've seen chaps with low fore
heads and weak chins, and regulations for
crawfshing and backing water in tight
places, stand four square to the finishing
Wrenches of long runs of fearful luck and
take their bitter medicine with hearts ap-
parently as brave as their faces were weak.
Probably the best educated and the most
highly organized men are the hardest
losers.
"The gamest loser ever saw was q
sheep herder who didn't look to have
enough character to him to stuff q gnat
pelt. He WAS punching sheep on the Idaho
sage ranges for $25 month and his grub
when an aunt in Connecticut whom he
had scarcely ever heard Of, much less seen,
died and left him 5000. He didn't have
TO come east to get the money; a lawyer
handed it to him in a bundle in Pooatello
he went to Jim Hosford's faro bank and
told Jim that he wanted to make few
thousand dollar bets. Hostord told him
that he'd better hang on to his money.
The herder told Jim that he wanted ac-
tion on his money, and that II he oouldn t
get 1t at Hosford's layout, why, there
were others. So Hosford dealt them from
the box himself, with q $1,000 limit I
saw tho whole play. II only lasted Is
minutes. The hert1er wasn't in 1t at any
stage Of tho game. Coppered or open, he
couldn't land right. Il was the fieroest
run Of evil luck ever saw man have at
faro. When the herder had lost 418, 600
Hosford said to him: : .,s ~
At :. =: You'd better pinch oAt that remain,
81 ng 5000 Qmbrey; giys yourself
You hand mo ont another boxful,'
replied tho herder. when get enough,
TIL quit
1.-THE man was perfectly cool and COL
lected, and he laid down his last five 3d.
600 bills without tremor. He picked
four straight losers. BY that time the box
was out, and Hosford riffled 'em and
started another one The herder watched
them slip out for a minute and then he
put his last 81 900 Oh the high card. That
kind Of long shot playing don't do for
cinch work, and the bet trimmed him
out. There wasn't particle Of contrac-
ton to his TEXTURES when he struck a
match and coolly lit Il cigar. I think those
who saw the play felt good deal sorrier
for him than he did for himself
Bud said Hosford to the hertler,
TN. no hog. I'll just split the difference
with you, and he began to count out half
Of the money he 1 won from the sheep
man.
"'No, you WON'T replied the herder,
shut you can give Inc a drink and bot
tie to put in my pocket
Is Better take a couple of thousand and
run to Frisco or Denver and have a whirl
out of it, anyhow persisted Hosford.
"'I've had my whirl,' was the mans
reply. He wasn't sulky at all, and he
didn't try to look abused. He was simply
all man and all game.
Where are you bound for nowr ask
ed Hosford after settling for the drinks.
Back to the old G-S,' said the herd
i er, and he started for the ranch an hour
later. He had bought three blue flannel
shirts, a pair of top boots and poncho,
and he took these things along with him
jim a bundle. They were all he got out Of
his SIS, 1000. He was found frozen stiff on
the south bank of the Snake river the next
winter.
"Tom Vanbrugh, who in the late seven.
ties ran the two biggest layouts on the
Pacific coast, one in San Francisco and
the other in Portland, and who died few
! years ago in Melbourne, Australia, was
another splendid loser. His rival In San
u francisco was Byron MoGregor. Nc.
Y Gregor had big faro layout on Kearny
I street. The two men didn't particularly
fancy each other. MoGregor went up to
Portland In the summer of 1873 and buck.
t~ON SsAO1uSA . UtAuA OAoIO w q 6ut1uOSbA44s
!Vanbrugh closed the Portland place. Then
$2l MoGregor brought his winnings down to
'fVanbrugh'S San Francisco bank, and,
with an almost unprecedented run Of luck,
Tasting for more than a week, he closed
= Vanbrugh out. Vanbrugh realized $50,
1000 on his California Investments and took
THE bunch to MoGregor's Kearny street
place McGregor dealt himself. Van
n lbrtlRh.s luck seemed to have deserted him
a land he lost every dollar OF his money. a,
was broke. ,2.s.%>o.. ~,
$s - 'Vanbrugh,' said McGregor to him
after the last turn out Of the box, I'll
give you $4,000 year and percentag,
aif you'll run No. . game here for me.
Much Obliged said Vanbrugh, .bu,
~ I've worked too long for myself to bt
4 ltractable in another mans employ. I'm
Sagoing to take a sail, anyhow ~
& Would $25, 900, say, be Of any use tc
4 lyon to make a start9' McGregor asked
's4him. The two men, as say, weren't
particularly fond of each other, but they
a were very square and generous chaps. i
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