Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
CHIVALRY IN POKER
PROOF THE GAME is NOT OF Me-
CESSlTY A MEAN ONE.
Colonel Tells of Meeting Between
Southern GentIemen-Finer Feel
ings Displayed in an Act of Rare
Generosity and Silent Toast.

poker is a mean game" said the
travelling man. ut doesn't give ones
finer feelings any show You can't be
charitable, because if you try to lose
other sees what you are doing and
gets sore. The game doesn't lend it.
self to delicacy."
"Ah'm sorry to heah you say that,
sah," said the Colonel, because All
cahn't agree with YOU"
you'll have TO give us something in
support of your opinion, Colonel"
"Ah should be delighted-an' All can
vouch for the accuracy of what Ah'm
about to tell, because All was there.
ut was two yeahs aftah the wah
gentlemen, that All happened to be
visitin' an old friends of mine, whom
All will call the Majah. Two othah
gentlemen, the General an the Cap
tain All will call them, were also thar.
1--WE had known one another befo'
the wah, an been in the same regiment
during the late unpleasantness, an
were dinin' together fo' the first time
fo' many yeahs. OF course we were
glad to see each othah, be we were
feelin powerful sad just the same.
1.-The Majah was plumb ruined. He
only had the house he lived in, an
that mortgaged. 1t was especially hard
in his case, because he showed us a
great chest half full of Confederate
bills.
THE Captain was Twin on what he
made off raisin' a few racehorses, an
All was as po as the rest.
"The General was the most uncom-
Portable of the crowd, because he
alone was prosperous. Coal had been
found on his estate, an he was worth
about hundred thousand dollahs.
"Well, we KEEP gettin' saddah an
saddah' ovah the change in the world
until the mint juleps came in. Then
we perked up, an some one suggested
a pokah game.
1T was the evenest game All ever
saw, gentlemen, until hand when
the Majah an the General both stood
pat, raisin' one anothah till all the
chips weresin the pot.
1.-The Majah looked at his hand, re-
gretful like, an said he hated to stop,
but he had no mo- moneh.
"'Ah beg of you,' said the General,
not to, let small mattah like that
interfeah with your pokah.'
Gentlemen, All could see what the
Majah was thinkin'-he was sayin' to
himself: 'Ah have $4,000 life insur-
ance that will go to nah daughter. an
All have a hand that cahn't be beat;
an then he said:
"'Ah raise you $4,000, General
"'Ah call you with a low straight
flush, Majah, replied the General.
1.-THE Majah tossed TO kings an an
ace into the discard, an we all sat
silent.
"Then the General spoke:
"'The wah is ovah, gentlemen he
said, AN we are together heah aftah
long time. There amt any mo- Con-
federate States except in our own
hearts. There amt much pleasure left
fo' any of us, but All would like to
considah this evenin' as bein' one
back in the old times an undah the
old conditions. Majah, will you go to
that chest an bring me $4,000 in ouah
moneh?'
1.-THE Majah never said word, just
went an brought twelve one thousand
dollah Confederate bills to the Gen
eral.
"Then somehow we found ourselves
standin' an drinkin' silent toast, not
to Confederacy, but to somethin the
end of the wah had not taken from
the South"
And then the Colonel stopped short
and looked solemn.
1t was the travelling man that broke
the silence.
Colonel" he said, 81 wish you
would have a drink with me-"
81 should be delighted, sah," said
the Colonel, emerging suddenly from
the brown study into which he had
fallen.-New York Sun.
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