The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08
POKER BABY TURNED THE WINNING CARD An Orphan Gave Good Luck to
 Colonel Beaupre FATHER MADE A MISTAKE Dropped Remark About Fake Flush and Then Failed to Shoot Quick
 Enouah-The coIonel's
 New Year Story.
FATHER MADE A MISTAKE
From the Washington Post.

a poker lie started tne gun play and left me with an orphan kid said Col. Adam Beaupre. of Natchtoges. as he threw down his soft felt hat and ran his long. bony fingers through his shaggy gray mane. T aint argying the merits O the fight, and I ain't saying as how Bill Graves should have showed his gun under Bob Carruthers nose an sent him into kingdom come-whieh ain't neither here nor there. It were this way:
 "Carruthers were trying to run every body out of a big jackpot by showing in big stack O chips. The game was for table stakes, and there were at least 5000 on the cloth Carruthers didn't have such a strong hand, only two pairs kings up-but he raised the pot before the draw to the extent of $25O, an every body dropped out except Bill Graves, who had a pat l1and-a small straight.
 Graves hesitated a while but showed ir the $250, which took nigh all the money he had in front of him. It hap pened that he was dealing and when he asked Carruthers what he wanted the answer was:
 Nothing But Flush.
 ." Not any accompanied by an em- phatic knock on the table and the re- mark; I've got nothing here but a flush
 "Carruthers made this statement in such keerless way that 1t sorter struck all of us as was watching as being the truth. It struck Graves that way, too, for he dropped the deck and studied his hand with a great deal O care.
 q would have sworn that Graves, too, had a pat hand, which he did, but 1t was ranked by the supposed flush that Car ruthers held, and, consequently, Bill thought it was worthless. With this Idea, what did he do but split his hand and draw two cards to an ace, king and queen of diamonds taking long chance of making a bigger flush that Car ruthers.'
 "Of course, he didn't make the flush, and Carruthers ral1ed in the pot, all though, as Bill was all in,' the hands had to be shown. Then we all saw the sharp trick that had taken the money Irstead of the flush that Carruthers had boasted of holding his winning hand was only two pairs.
 Graves Springs Surprise.
 "But we was unprepared for the next move. Graves hand was raised above the level of the table and the shiny bore of a A gun was pinting jes' on a line with the red lips O Carruthers.
 " I don't 'Zactly know as how 1 con- siders you done tine square thing by me- said Graves in his softest. smoothest voice, and I ain't going to hesitate to say that l believes you done me a scaly trick. I aint in the habit of shooting a man when l has the drop like this. and l ain't going to do 1t now. There aint no one as can say that haven't given them a square deal and a fighting chance. even though I am d gambler. I would appre- clate the courtesy if yo' would jes draw yo' gun
 well I tell you. that there was a time that tried folks nerves" said Col onel Beaupre. as he crooked an elbow until steaming hot whisky reached the level of his lips and then surveyed his listeners with interest. They was try ing moments. Carruthers sorter got a glint in his eyes and turning round to me he said:
 Adam, I ain't afeered of no man what ever came out of Kentucky, but if anything ooes happen taken care O the kid for me. I have lert money for 1t in the bank and will give you this order for it In the presence of witnesses. Ollie mother only been gone three months and l wouldn't like to know that the kid was in bad hands,
 Crowd Edged Away.
 well, the crowd sorter got around the edges of the wall, for both of the men was pretty good shots, and we didn't know what might happen if they fired at each other more than once Neither of 'em had moved from the ta- ble, when Graves spoke up:
 I've will both put our pistol hand un- der the table says he and when Beaupre counts three raise It, and Lord help the slowest man.
 Which want none to my liking" said Colonel Beaupre, as he stopped, momen- tarily, to puff his cigar and to heighten the intensity of his story "but there want nothing l could say and | counted
 " One l says and then sorter slow said two, and l seed the muscles ir beth arms across the table twitch and then, God help me, I eaid three.' and the pair of 'em raised their arm. There want much time, when all this was a happening, an the next thing was when Lem Day leaned across the bar and sized up Bob
 "Hes dead. said he as he drew his hand from under Carruthers' shirt And that's about all of this part of the story" said Colonel Beaupre Graves wasn't arrested. and noun ever said pes turkey about it, for all of the boys
  ly do the square and level in the game Finds Child an Infant.
 T had knowed before Carruthers diet that he had kid. but I had never seer him. and l also knowed that the young ster's nanny was dead. So, through tn, cold I went to him that night and carried him down to my diggings wrapped up 1T blanket. He kinder cooked his eyt open and looked peart and said Goo then. I found out for the first time that the child was a mere sixteen-month ole baby.
 ''Well. to make matters shorter. tha' kid seemed to cotton to me from the start. He was saying Adam instead of Goo within a week. an I was tht proudest old gray-nead in the camp. Ev cry night when I blowed into Pink En | his bar to turn a card or two I carried the kid strapped over my shoulder like z say that the fellers there actually stop ped throwing quids O tobacco on tht floor for fear the kid would get 'em.
 Turns Up Aces. "Afore the comin' O that youngste, into my life, had had bad luck. but got the idee that things would change and on Christmas night, after we hat buried his daddy, 1 set him on the cor. ner of the green cloth nyar on this table with Bob Jeffries horn saddle back O him to bolster him up Would you be lieve me, the first hand dealt started my luck Pink dealt the hand, and the first