The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02

| They got $50 day In Mexican money and
and / guess the hull is Nm ished BY nowh -. =
q 20 the ""ny hSGs al
tho railway building, Is now south q the CARL
OF The world conductors Of construction trains
! are stu putting away 5000 month hauling
Ire.gnt ana bassengors en- their own hook
from TohuanteGec. A hundred men got their
| q the three coCks was a Chinamau. This
cCihi99amnn got a black iSicknsss Of some
Of the coast, country. and it meant death
TO him. boyle was afraid 1t was catching, He
g get. He didn't wait his men to die The
nhinainnh aid down on the outer edge OF the
was nearer than ltty miles On the third day.
when all the aXemen wcro out in the woods.
Doyle went to the Chinaman and stopped over
Kope n blanket wrorred close. about ye.'
49,, ~, Me feel plenty slick said John. Me velly
=" poor ,haythin. y are, SAYS Doyle, an q
ye have ut; IN saints be good to ut
and bee h the tb t tn5T2ugh The head
If. blankets and all. Whom the men came back
m nGh n tMIG at the SPOT Wner@ the
little smoke rising. They did not ask any ques-
toqs and the other cooks had nothing to say
said the third engineer, and is yet Tor that
matter, Put things are not SO easy to our boys.
Even Mexican will learn In time. They are
an honorHhle people in games Of chance as
well rs the most genuinely polite folks in the
who wanted a ljie sport to walk into room
where ban King game was IN progress, go up
TO the table, lay IA roll OF bills down and say
won he received the amount he stated. and II
h" lost his roll was taken and. when counted.
That is the way tine MpXicans did IT, The
A Amer worked this to death in lttls.
they lost, however. their rolls when cxamined.
found to Be Of Sr0w h tho inside
Now. down in Mexico when n man throws a
roll on the table the dea er counts it through
OF Mexico is called Tqcubaya. and there they
5g ny the aTgeIt GamGing banN in TIE world
most man can win on one bet + $1,000. At
Theqfo}a H. lint T. t1 M 7IS Of the bank toll
bills. placed in front Of the deacT n The game me
Is mont and the number Of players as in faro
who ran into the city OF Mexico over the Mex-
can National line. Il $ run extended clear up to
Lnya, and figured on beating the game. but
Sourht Of fellow MAY named !! tt who he
n ii at Brem3nI and was think. one of the
took Matterson down in his caboose. They had
s2,3oo hStTmen them. vas in the city at the
plated coup, He did not explain it. but knew
that some sort OF stealing was conte mplated.
walked into the monte room at IA.
@ oposs 'GGs snG a He '2 Sst
for an hour. triiling amounts, and at the end
Hnne% nGE aHd sn down 81
table some four or five chairs from him. No
greeting was exchanged. The rIen were APP
OF each deal. the dealer hands the pack to each
player in turn and asks him to cnt. This IA
the cutting player for that deal. Hunter waited
for fifteen minutes before II came Mlttersons
Ss' the lay %T' was MADE E[E" Ha %ff b"
$1,000 on the queen Of clubs against q deuce
was cns ceoMsea as The ne r GHt
found 1t correct and began to pull the cards.
Hunter was paid. stuffed the money in his
no hog and had enough, Here Mattersons
stil but he rose , also Now the dealer " an old
gambler, knew that he had been robbed; That
Ing. he could not object. He looked steadily at
The two men. bowed his head eravely and said
wall %dMn AmGricanos very we'll done-very
"FuIl Of gle". Hunter and Mattorson came to
me at the Hotel Iturhidc. showed me their
wealth and told mo how it was done, The
Mexican monte decks have backs Of the same
pattern. | think that the cards are made
by the same irm Motterson had bought
larSe heavy red six HANDKERCHIEF. He nentt
this hapdkcrchiei While sitting at the table
to'kes{[ and fastened it hy the four corners
making himself an. artificial, lap, When
i came his turn to cut he merely substituted
to the dealer. and with single motion OF his
hand, cmptied tho dealers cards into the
Hunters bet MatterSon had unlocked the
handkerchief. wadded it up with the cards in
it. and stuck tho whole business into his
Pocket. lie had ruug in a cold deck"
The one-legged brak eman. who had been
imnatiently waiting chance TO break in. said
onct Of a Acal,I" in the little town OF Vaila-
d"ras. out IN Noovo Leon. close to the narrer
gauge. There was a hole I'VE feet decp an six
some \merikins that happened along arsked
him Wy h" didn't III ltur., The hole hna heen
nr y E"2r H b an he Hndnt 9Tysr
Under his tosein' they dug a hole in
TP r %hd tn thav hole so an 'nTw H d ia
hole was fun an they had . new, hole. They
had to I'LL tibet hoe up, an they did it in the
sam" way. They kcr this up for two, months:
on feast days They alters had 4 hole to spare
hut it didn't bother en- any Finerly they got
n, mIllleo IN roai but tibet weren't any o
tn Alrad"s concern. / guess he's tn only
man aIiv" tibet ever dug hole out O. town"
Il suppose TINT will he about all" said tho
conductor. and the railroad men went home.
WONDEREUL BLIND STUDENT.
Highest Honors Taken by John r. Swear