Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-02-19
GAMBLERS SUPERsrITIor
Most Devotees of Games of c, Place Implicit Faith in pe
 culiRr Charms,

Seeing that gambling is nea,l,
 ways matter of luck or ill-lncl, q seems consistent with the eterna4 ; Y ness of things that habitual oanl, " should be superstitious and nlaoa l's certain amount of reliance upen eba. and presentiments; but neYertbola.s it is truly extraordinary how much is portance many gamblers attach trivial things and occurrences .srcl anyone else would simply ignore as
 One of the most notorious oarpl7f.. in the British aristocracy Is an imnFo;a believer in the Iucl1-bringing powers os a small kidney potato, without wbio% he rarely plays at any game at the rist of losing large sums of money. Tba history of this extraordinary charm ;s wrapped in mystery" and no one bas been able to drag out of the noble lora for he is a member of the house ot peers-in what way he became nos sessed of his plebeian potato. But bs steutly asserts that but for his t9BgY man he would have been ruined year. d9O DY 1ElS z SttHl lAt4ilS IetDItS.
 He is one of the Iuel1iest men who ever cast a dice or cut a pack. and ffis notorious that an evenings play at Bis favorite club has more than once mt g1,O00 into his pocket. and it reaIIy seems that the superstition attached to his potato has solid basis, for on one occasion, when by chance he left the charm at home-=a rare thing for him to do-he lost heavily; whereas it isa most exceptional thing for him to rise from a card table penny the poorer for q long evenings reckless gambling
 1 well-known jockey. who is reputed to have won ten times as much in bet ting as he has by his profession, al. though he has been wonderfully sue eessfuI, never rides in a race or backs 8 horse for a half-penny if be has not on his person at the time a smoked pearl button; and to attempt to argue with him that his charm could n0f pos sibly affect his fortunes would be use, less; he would tell you of 100 oeea, sions on which the button changed his luck. and finally inform you that it had, when he was a child, saved his life by catching in the upholstery ofa railway carriage when he fell out of the improperly closed door.
 How he gets over the fact that he al- ways carries the button when racing, but does not always get his horse 8 place, we donot know. Probably he be- ffexes it saves him q fall even when 1t does not carrs him to victory, and he has certainly been remarkably lucky in the matter of accidents.
 i leading light of London society who is a frequent visitor to the gaming plaees at Monte Carlo and 0stend, when gambling wears on her wrist part of q broken e1aeksprinav to which she attaches the greatest importance. It is said that on the occasion of one of her visits to Monte Carlo a friend per suaded her to leave her strange-look- ing bracelet at her hotel and 10 play without if. and the result was that, ua- able 10 resist the fascination of gam bling even when losing, she lost be- tween G7090 and { 5000 not thinking how the money was going until il was actually gone.
 Since then she has never gambled un- less wearing her famous eIoekspring, and she has often surprised the com pany at her table by her wonderful runs of luck. She is perfectly calm when gambling with the bracelet on her wrist, while without it she always lost her head at the first loss of money and then plunged.
 Every one knows how superstitious racing men are concerning dreams, but we came across a case a short time since which appears so novel that we include it in this article, although the actual subject is so hacltneyed.
 The superstitious gentleman is one with whose name every sporting manis acquainted, and relies absolutely upon suggestions made to him in dreams for every move he makes upon the turf, and since he made it his habit to do so he aas never lost a penny upon race in which one of his horses was running Philadelphia Times.