The Forrest City times., 1906-01-05

to do it. but he also wanted ;o know how we managed tD win. and when We told about il pa said it was To sin to beat a slot machine, cause it was an inanin.ate thing. just a machine. and anybody who could beat nickel in me slot machine at his own game was equal to a Rockefeller.
 So after everybody had got excited about our nickels told them how to beat the machine. l told them l didn : get excited and go rushing in where angels fear 10 tread. and feed the slot machine on good hard earned nickcls of my own but waited until the countrymen and tenderfeet had fed It on nickels until it was too full for ut terance When the machine swelled out like it was blowed up, and 1t kind of wheeZed like it was ready to cough up. and was only waiting for an ex- cuse. put a cough lozenger about the size of a nickel in ;hc slot and turned the diaphram, The machine shud- dered minute and thcn had regular hemorrague, and coughed up tin cup full of nickels into my hand. and the machine seemed to rest easy, and take nOurishment again from the silly fel- lows. who thought they could beat l..
 Well. sir, the whole crowd WAS so ex- cited they could hardly wait 10 find a slot machine. and finally they bought nearly all my cough lo2engers. and went out into the night. and pa and I went along cause pa said he under stood all the slt' machines were | owned by Rockefeller. and he made more money on them than he did on Standard oil. and tAe money that he gave away To schools md churches Sas from his rake-oG on his slot ma chines. Pa said 1t could he a good thing fl someone eou!d break up the repreheasible practice by beating the blasted machines 10 a finish.
 So Pa he got ba2 to bring back the nicliels in. and bunch of Is went to q store where ene whole side of the place Was filled WitI slot machines. and he way the people were playing the game was seaHda'ous. Pa watched 8 machine until the players had fed it so it seemed a5 th0asH it would aie un- less | sat air. and ne stepped up and put in q Iezsneer and turned tae wheel. and held fse bag g1dir the paat fer tAa#eo.a= =hed il aIau't come. Some more f5=l51s put in ricEcls. and the maslaa aaee IittIa aackine eoa4E= and coaeaed a5 three or four uieheis. Iut nola.Hz Ina seemed at all II he nals-a financial henmo4a2ue. 0ts f.1 ta7A aao1ner loze41er and l... .5 5l.= 4n4 by glnear the machine ueeaa to heaye I'D nickels ike ft was in the teoesh Of 1a sea.
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 Pa turned blue and asked the lawer if there was Ho way out of f. aud the lawyer tald him that for $l40 u pot cash he WaHld let Aim 20. and 12ht line ease after 1he snow had get out of the sfate huAJrod and twenty i've dollars was tha amount they found on pa, an3 he told them that tuasmuch aa they already had +. they better keep the money and let him go. and he would be always q liging example of the terrors of gar bling
 So they let pa go. and al the way 10 the train he told Us ne hoped this | 'APti4tHte "0Giu be t lesson tO Us sOt to coyet the money of the rich. aud as far as he Tas concerned. John D Rockefeller could go plum to thunder with his money after this
 Then We got to inc car, and found about a dozen of the circus men who had been cut to beat the slot machines. broke flat. and had to divide my shot bag of niekels with them, that 1 had won before l let them into the game. before they would let me go 10 bed { Dad says this circus life Is making me pretty tough.
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