Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

affair. One of the horses in this race
looked like such a moral that twelve of the
jumpers originally carded to go were
scratched TO the swell one, leaving only
two to run against him. and these two only
good enough to go after the second and
third dough-on the dope, that is.
when the three jumping horses We're
parading to the post Lucky Luke looked
them over and inquired of one of his friends
the name of the horse leading the process
sion.
THAT'S the 1-to-4 baby that's going to
skate home by a margin of four and one
half days was the reply.
g Bet you hundred he falls down., said
Luke.
Apparently Sure Things Lost.
Done said the other. promptly. But
1 hate to give you the worst of it, so that
1 want to tell you that this horse has
never fallen down in race in his whole
racing career. and he's one of the finest
and safest jumpers on the %ptinent
and"
bet you another hundred Luke inter
rupted, that another of the NUTS In the
race besides the favorite that you're Drag
gng about so falls down, leaving only one
of 'em to finish
"'Oh. I'll lay three hundred to your hun
dred on that proposition was the other
mans swift reply-he was a visitor In lew
Orleans, and not familiar with Luke's mar
velous record for luck. Anyhow the bet
sure did look good to him, seeing that there
are mighty few cases on record in steeple-
chasing in which only one horse has mn
ished.
But that was one of the instances, all
right. The mighty favorite made pad
bobble of it over the very first hedge, and
went down like a rocking chair under
member of the Fat Mems Club, and the
second choice in the betting, after leading
by ten blocks for most of the remainder
of the distance, took off short, too, at the
Ia at hon turned a SOT1eTSalIlt.
chucking his boy about thirty feet. The
outsider strolled home all by himself.
Luke went to a ball game between
couple of New Orleans militia teams-an
outfit of infantry and a team of cavalry
boys. In the sixth inning the score stood
Is to in favor of the cavalrymen. This
was just the kind of a situation that Luke
liked, and he got busy
Say he said to the men with him, I'll
bet you fellows a hundred to two hundred
that the infantry fellows win the game
Make it a little more, Luke, they all
said to him, SOS we can all have little
piece o that. 1t looks good
Well said Luke, I'll bet you four
hundred to eight hundred, then, that the in
fantry fellows win out
They took that like carp fighting for
smelt bait. The bet hadn't been much more
than made before the cavalrymen's pitcher
got hit in the eye with batted ball and
had to be carried off the field. The pitcher
that the cavalrymen then put in was a
glass-armed WARBLER with a bad case of
Charley-horse. and the infantry boys pro-
ceeded to swat the cover off the ball. They
rolled up nine runs in the seventh, thirteen
in the eighth and six in the ninth. The
cavairymen only succeeded In fattenng
their tally list by two three runs for the
remaining innings, SO that 1t was just a
walk for the Northumberland for Lucky
Luke.
Buying a Pearl.
'Another time Luke was standing in front
Of the st. Charles Hotel with a group of
friends when beetle-browed mug, who
looked like lag just turned loose sided
up, and, producing a nice-looking article
that looked like q pear-shaped pearl Of
fered TO sell 1t for a ten-dollar note. All
of the men in the group laughed-except
Lucky Luke.
"'Came out of a package of lemon drops
they said, after taking a peek at the thing
that looked like a pear-shaped pearl-all
but Lucky Luke. Luke dug a ten-spot out
of his kimono sleeve and handed it to the
low-browed mug, and took the gaud
"They all called Long Shot Luke a shin
ing f. Z. Mark, and kidded and strung him
vastly.
I've got a couple o hundred that says
this thing Is a sure-enough pearl was the
way he got back at them, and one of them
snapped this up like a log-cabin dog snap
ping at a soup bone.
'"rhey went to a jewelers. in the next
block. The jeweler, who was known to
d
the thing that Luke had bought for the
ten-case note.
We'll, 1 guess that's not a choice piece
Of goods or anything, said the jeweIer.
Perfect pear-shaped, and about as velvety
a skin as ever 1 saw on a pearl
Worth anythingT Long Shot Luke
asked the dealer in gems
Well, I'll give you $1,000 for it, spot
cash, if you're selling replied the jeweler
Luke wasn't selling, though. Feeling
sure that the pearl had been stolen, he adj
Vertised it in all the New Orleans papers
without springing the owner of the pearl,
and then he gave 1t to his wife.
Quick Action Here.
Luke and some of his friends were TAX
ing lunch in the Cafe de la Louisiana, in
Eberville street. one afternoon, when the
water main in front of the restaurant burst
and the water gushed through the pave
ment in high fountain at the rate of about
a thousand gallons a minute, flooding the
street Luke and his companions sat at
their table and watched the fountain for
four or five minutes Then Luke pulled out
his watch.
Let's get a little action out of this he
suggested I'll bet a hundred the water'n
be turned off inside of ten seconds
They all yelled for some of ii at once
but Long Shot Luke accepted the money of
the man sitting next to him.
Now said the man with whom Luke
made the bet, his eye on the second hand
of his watch 'One-two-three-fo ur-five-
six
There she dies yelled the other men
at the table; and, sure enough, the water
main fountain had suddenly disappeared at
the count OF the sixth second.
During the last Mardi Gras parade the
carriage in which several of the prominent
organizers of the festivities sat was drawn
by four milk-white horses.
Must be four red-haired girls some
where In the neighborhood to match these
four fiery untamed white steeds;' said one
of LuRe's friends, as they watched the pa
rade.
I'm give you a hundred for every red
headed woman you find in walk of six
blocks straight up Canal street, provided
you give me hundred If you don't spring
any, was Lukes instant comeback
The other man was firm believer in the
Observation-Disclosures superstition
but, even If he hadn't been. that bet looked
like something real tasty to hin-six blocks
all crowded with women in which to dig up
red-haired girls-and he grabbed at It, He
lost out. He and Luke threaded through the
crowd for six blocks, Luke's friend rubber
ing for all he was worth, but nary red
haired girl did they come across in all that
huge parade watching crowd