The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
PERSIAN TALES.
A King Always Gets the Best of the
Other Fellow.

One day, when it was supposed that
body in the palace was going about on
tiptoe, there was heard a great crash
ing and smashing in his private apart
ments and directly afterwards he ap-
peared in the door and shouted out:
How now yarletsl BY the four
teen horns of the seven white bulls
but where is Murphy! Pass the word
along to him that if he is not here
within three minutes I'll have him
ground up in a tanbark MILL"
"Oh, ruler of the sun and stars and
moon and various other things. but
what are thy royal commands" asked
Murphy, as he came running.
"CatifT, but what are thy dutiesi''
demanded the frowning King.
ITO act as the councillor of state"
Then act croft goes thy head.
have had dream, and / want thy
counsel about 1t. 1 dreamed that I
was on q visit to America. I had just
been shown the Chicago stock Yards.
where they kill a hog or a COW every
second during the year, when a gentIe-
man named Senator Clark, from a
place they cali Montana, offered to
teach me the game Of poker. We sat
down in my, room at the hotel, and in
the course of half an hour I was stone
broke and wondering how could get
back to my own country. Just then
you entered the room. You stepped
to my side and whispered that you
would see me through
Dreams are but p7lantasies o,
King, replied Murphy.
Il dunno about that. This dream
was so vivid that I am inclined to
think there is something in it. There
is a game called poker. isn't there %
of IT. - ga :
They indulge in it in America more
than anywhere else p
7 think have heard So
And Senator Clark must know the
game or he wouldn't be a senator?"
Il believe, o, King, that no man. I'M
less he can bluff on pair of treys is
ever elected to the United States sen
ate, but this dream Of thine can have
no Signifcance-none at ALL
Don't stand on your head too soon.
Murphy" cautioned the King 1T
doesn't seem as If I would dream of
poker and senators and stock yards
without there was something in it. You
passed couple Of years in New York,
didn't your
Yes. o. ruler, was there, but I
was BUSY with a sewer contract all the
time"
But not too busy to learn the game
of poker ana play few hands every
Saturday night? Don't try to deceive
your uncle. Murphy"
wen. then. Q, King, I did learn the
/ game''
That's better. we shall now ascer-
! tain how the United States senate came
to be mixed up With my dream Bring
a deck of cards and show me how the
old thing works.
! 20, thou mighty Sovereign. but this
is my busy day" replied Murphy, as he
turned four shades pa1er and began to
( go down into his boots.
'sDidst hear me, old man?'
Il must call the Royal Cabinet to
gether for a session today, but tomor-
row"
"S'death! There is no tomorrow in
| poker! [ ct back with the cards within
| ten minutes or your name will be Mud
instead of Murphy. Thinkest thou that
/ the minions of a United States senator
dare keep him in waiting? I know
nothing of railroad rebates. but is a
| senator greater than king?"
Murphy was back within the ap-
/ pointed time, and he at once proceed
ed to explain the value of the cards
He found the King an apt pupil. II
ten minutes His Royal Nibs gathered
the cards together for a shuttle and q
deal and said:
Il think can get the Senatorial
twist on them now"
They discarded and drew. That is
Murphy did, but the King stood pat
Murphy had threes and did not help his
hand. and he reasoned that the Kinf
had a straight or a flush or even a full
house He opened the pot for a dol
lar. however, and the King raised hin
five more.
'Tn lay down. observed the Coun
cillor. as he bunch his cards.
IF you do you viii be covered witt
three feet Of earth replied the King
IF 7 have a man at the head of my
Cabinet withsno backbone. the soonel
his head is of the better"
Murphy had to see the five and raise
The King raised in return, and It wa
not until there was a thousand dollars
in the pot that His Highness said:
You may not have a very gooC
hand. If that is the case, don't hest
tate to drop out"
Murphy dropped. and when he fount
that the King had been four-fiushinl
and bluffing his attempt to work up
smile was a Ialnentabie failure
Sayest thou that there is nothing i
dreams - chuciled the King as h
raked in the shekeis well, I CUES
yest 7 won't ba-so sure about Turkisl
dreams. but when you get a combina
ton Of Chicago poker and U. s. Sena