The sun., 1900-08-05
OPENED ON THREE FlyES.
ONE OF THEN WAS A FITE-sHOOTER.
But THE THREE TOOK THE POI.
Startling Play In q Game Of Poker ON the Mis-
sissippl and u triumph Of Unrighteousness
at = Bisfnns strangers Expense Told by
Old Man Greeahut VI ArkAnsas CITY.

Startling Play In q Game Of Poker ON the Mi,-
sissippI and u Iriunph Of Unrighteou,ness
At = Bisfnng strangers Ehpense-Told by
Old Man Greeahut VI Arkansas CITY.
From all l can learn" said old man Green
| hut u he buried himself behind the bar. put
ting away bottles and gasses and incidentally
pouring back into the whskey bottle sons
three fingers of red liquor that the STRANGER
had been about 10 drink when the fight began.
from all | can learn. this here hypnotisln
they talk much about must be q monstrous
queer sort o. thing. There's times when feel
reely obliged 10 say there aint nothin' to H..
an then there's times when II most seems ~
| II 1t mought be true.
The night was all over and no one had paid
much attention to it excepting the stranger
who turned little pale when he saw Jim Bow
ers get whack in the nose that brought blood
and who hurried out without waiting for HE
! change or taking his drink. Anyhow Bowers
and the other fellows and the stranger had all
gone out and old man Greenhut for reasons or
his own. possibly not disconnected with the
odd change. seemed desirous Of taking ahous
something else. So he came out to his usual
seat by the window, relighted his usual cixsr
stump and went on:
They say that these scientific sharps has
oee" U'''' "'Pi'"''S "a'' u"'V""*h NO
sale O. good liquor. Git a hold of man thao
likes his whiskey pretty well an puts him Ia =
sorlo' trance. like. an tells him stories aboua
what's good for him an what amt. an winds w
a teliin' him he's been drinkin' red Nk. An
the pore unfort nate victim o skull-druggery
| believes EN- an quits drngn.
Now. there's all sorts q monkey tricks
done nowadays n called scientific. Just az Il
| that wis an excuse ior EN-, but thai there q
a plumb outrage that hadn't ought to be did.
bein. bas tn. unfaII,n riSht to life Is.r,r n s":
the pursuit o happinsss' An what right
has these hypnotic sharps T. interfere with any-
mans pur.ui, O happiness, An n GOOD rod
liquor won't MAKE a man happy, what WHIP
Its a plain case o p. ID. y. as the scholars
says when they prove a thing beyond any
question aouo'' An oesiaes' ns ru'how
to. business. ,, ,. ,,,,.
an an what 5 bsd for one thing may be V a,m,sMy
good for another. Inc Old ssyin Is ii,at ,oI
ssn sss ps".es see,os on GTASe Yaa 6S .
nos KIN sss %as wo1G o tn. fs here r.
na ss "a ,hs SSiS hn0Meo noS NE whole hus,r
is that you Kin make a iellcr see ihinss wrong
non 'nsns m pumn % ne Wicked ~ IA "a al ,s orainaiy
mr'S on earth in pIsyin' mixer .j,,st st"s,n va
vi eas a,s,,,n .ns,, nd, ,aiiar 1us. ~. tusn 70
sS Va ssa ony two snsl nair in nSa nsr iu on @
Mar disnensstioD 81 Trdxiasnns. ~ -. !, W"nd 1 ~.
II Won could sort o. saw 10 ki@ viii a wan" wave q: q:
E3ur manu-, n,,, lhen n s'. eTes YOU, oe'u,h nn:
on 'eI; There's oan.y two: You'd better
say II tll the feller,d bet his pile. an. then II
y9H rasfH el;n nn n ouee nee more ie req niss 'ns
ioly nyih IN the iaee o Proymen'e any
! i,rtheI an aus. hatuIany ne uroW doMn
in way, that Moses an an, the prophets would
Il reckon it's too good to be true. said the
Is past l did know, a, feller once though.
He couldn I make man misread his own hand
but he could play cards so that the other fellerd
give him credit for fOar Of kind whsn he hSan
They called him Cap'I Cple, an s'ross
ss up 70 the be 4s name al
after tho crops was all in and everybody was
ieelin' easy. an started In to clean up the town.
atus. There's some pretty husky Players
| here In Arkansas City. an nobody made no
kick about his settin' IN. Folks Is very hospit-
strangers that shows enough green paper TO
set IN with, 50 twarn.t lone. fore he was :
| lookin' for him 10 play crooked. for that's what
| most o these cTossr Dads gamblers undertake.
| That's the reason so few of EN- leaye town
! an the Coroner makes a comfortable liyin'
But this here Cap'n played a stra raioht game
| The boys was a good deal sufrrised an
| didn't 'xactly know what 10 make of him for
few days he just played along an won an
| lost for near a week before he showed no his
| strong suit which il was bluffin' Pears THAI
was his particular lay He'd play along Just
| like any other respectable citizen till folks
| had got used TO him, an then he'd biufy out
| rageous But like all first-class buffers. he
! wouldn't try il on very often.
Course there warn't no way O. provin'
| that he had bluffed after he'd got away With
| the pot for the old rule holds good here like il
| does everywhere that a man caught bhIfRn'
| loses the not an he was too rood n pIayer 10
| get caught But after he'd rot aWay with
| three or four alarmin' good pots one night
| George Greenway saws to me. saws hc. That
| there galoot's bllffin', / do believe. he saVs.
! AN by the lord Harry IN give him n turn at
| his own game. he saws 'if Won ii back me m
| We'll, / amt no hand TO mix up in a game
| when il goes on peaceable in the place ia
| quite enough for one man 10 do to look
after the Kitty and more prontabie in
| the long run. but Cieor % was a good cus,o-
| mar o} nino an Nved Lare an Il d;d
! seem scand lous for 10 see tbis s,ransar
| yinnin' good money that had ouCht IN stav in
The channels OF trade SO says 10 t;eorga sa,.
I Il don't know 'xactiv what you ha va in mind
| / saw but as long as there ain 4 No vioianc.
| into H. saws I'm your backer'
aGecrac winked az n,e hind n. trox,i,. and
.,r1 :, ,', g.. u =. nii ni'.".u uhu