The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-10


marked Judge Twinkle as he lit fat cigar
There was the late lamented Suily, for
instance. He was making money so fast
that the people at the mint had to work
overtime to keep up, until one day some
body called him the Cotton King, and then
it didn't take long to turn him into deuce.
Poor Sully! So long as he was in
dog-eat-dog deal he ought to have given
the silent partners in his pool the double
cross before they had a chance to work
the Xxx degree themselves About the only
thing l can see for him to do now is to
get a pair of dice and start up crap
game. Getting back into the cotton bus
mess won't help much. History records
mighty few instances of any man becoming
twice a king. Anyhow. 1 find it somewhat
difficult to work up any amount of SYM
pathy for this particular ex-king. He was
a broker.
Il don't expect to meet any brokers in
heaven, unless perhaps they let in one just
as sample. Understand, L have no grudge
against them, barring the fact that | hate
the whole breed on account of two thou
sand dollars l once lost in the game-and
L consider 1t a good. honorable business.
So is faro dealing with sanded deck and
horse racing with a ringer. l wish them
no harm at all, believe me, but L do take
a heap of pleasure in the fact that the
brokers nearly all take their own poison,
and, like bartenders who drink their own
whisky are bound to wind up in con-
vulsions, with green snakes and purple
monkeys on the bed posts.
Ibid you ever hear of successful card
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of a hospital. or a king of speculation who
didn't sputter out like a skyrocket and
come back on his friends to eat? 1 never
knew but one man who carried anything
away from the margin game and kept it,
and that man was Colonel Kilem, of
Montana He got his title of Colonel on
three counts; because he had white whisk-
ers, because he 'cussed every time he ex-
hailed breath, and because he had killed
his man in a duel over a dog fight. He
blew into New York one afternoon, and
inquired about faro game as soon as he
got out of the dining room.
'Sh-h-h -h-h! said the hotel clerk. The
district attorney might hear your
az see, said the colonel, sinking his
voice to a confidential whisper. Have to be
a little quiet about it, EN-?
"'Not even that replied the clerk, wear
lily. 1t wouldn't help any just now if you
was deaf and dumb
What! gasped the colonel. No faro
in New York?
Not any. sighed the clerk.
"a little game of draw, them the colonel
ventured.
1.-The clerk informed him that he didn
even dare draw his breath too conSDicJ-
ously:
| lousy.
1.-The clerk shook his head.
." A fellow might get up little private
! game of seven-up or plnochle or mugginS,
mightn't hep the colonel suggested desper-
1t wouldn't be safe the clerk assured
him. You can't even pitch pennies or play
| pick-or-poe with the bell hops without run
| ming risk often yearsat hard labor. They re
| trying to pass a bill now TO make spending
your own money capital ofense. The
| only chance you've got is TO buy a gold
| brick or run up against a badger game or
| purchase theater ticket on the sidewalk.
] These games are still protected, 1 under
stand. I'm thinking myself of going 10
| Oshkosh, where | can spit on the sidewalk
without a pull and a special permit.
:" Dash. dash. dashT observed the colonel,
his bulky six feet two red with indignation.
| Just cross my name off the big book and
| hunt me up the first train for the West.
| I'm too blank safe and well protected
| herer
"'Oh l don't know the clerk kindly
| answered. If you're dead bound TO reduce
your Inflammation of the pocetbook. / can
put you wise 10 skin game that still
| seems TO have a pull. They haven't raided
| the Board of Trace and the Stock Exchange
| yet
| :" I've heard of it, said the colonel
/ thoughtfully, but / never did seem to
| banker for any game where l couldn't see
| the cards dealt If that's the only recrea-
| ton your district attorney has left for the
| lonesome wayfarer, though. / suppose IL
| have to take a chance. 1 understand you
have TO make all your bets through 9