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was a very ordinary poker player. He
was a rash performer in a regular game
with his cronies, always trying to get
away with absurd bluffs and boosting on
nothing and making all sorts of freakish
mispiays. in all the time I was with him
never knew him to get up a winner
from poker fiesta.
Had he been so disposed he could have
won just about as many millions as he
figured ne could use if he'd shaved off
his magicianS muStache and goatee and
gone into the business of playing poker
for revenue only, for there was simply
nothing that he could not do with a deck
of cards, and right under the watchful
eyes of experienced card players too
He could deal 'em from the middle and
bottom in such way that you couldn t
detect him at it with microscope, and
he was the only man l ever saw who
actually could stack the cards that
he could give you absolutely anything out
of the deck that he chose to let YOU
have. But as l say, he was invariably
a loser at poker
HE rarely played serious poker--for
blood. that is-with men with whom he
was not on terms of friendship for he
always had the feeling, naturally enough
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woman that they saddled on me? Well,
she doped it out. after reading her part,
that she was going to be 4 minute hand.
anyhow, in the works: but y'ought to've
seen her part after I got through with IT,
Say, it looked as IL II had been taking the
obesity cure for nine years.
What's left of her part wouldn't make
a malaria microbe-two shippers and II
getaway, and that let's her out-and She
had il handicapped that she was going 10
pork-pork the mid-stage and grab some
SEVERAL big mitts for herself. Ye-eh, the
VARY idee.
But, say. don't drop any squeaks like
that in your stuff. will you? That's under
the toadstool, savvy? She amt such
bad kind of a COB. at that, only she thinks
she's an actress, see?
She can't act any more than my old
maid aunt i'm Nine Cricks. Neb.. but shs
doesn't know it, and they haven't got hep
TO II yet out front, and SO it's all right.
But, say. get this: II there are not forty
six road companies doing this thing one
month from the time We open with IL I'll
sleep on a vacant lot under a pup tent
for the remainder of my natural-thats
how rotten it is. matey."
Kind o different, the printed and the
actual talk, yes?
Well, we sort O. thought you'd notice
some points Of difference.
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was kept standing on one leg and then
the other for more than an hour in one
of the anterooms of the committee. and
he was so sore over his Inability to see
Mr.. Hitchcock that he just vamped
right away from there with his twenty
thousand-dollar check in his waistcoat,
and now he amt a-goin to play at all no
more, and he's a-goin' 10 keep his 1000.
too. All of which is just mOonbeam1sh-
ness filtered through leaky screens. Any
time Il gentleman with twenty thousand
bucks gets away from Mr.. Hitchcock $
plant without having a chance TO come
across with that piece of change therell
be forest fires on 5th avenue and you
know how many trees there are on 9TH
avenue.
\ heap of precautions. however, nave
To be and are taken to keep the swarm
of cranks and grafters always indigo
nous, so to speak, to a .natonal cam
paign) from attempting to eat up the
time of the busy chairman of the re-
publican national committee. The I'M
imaginable gall and the strange kink>-
ness of some of these gimme-g1mme
grafters and cranks must be seen and
heard to be appreciated. There's a force
or men stationed at the various doors or
the headquarters To shoe these people
away, and some Of them can take 81 heap
OF shooing too. The nervier their prop
osiuon. or the crazier. the longer they'll
SUCK around. all efforts of the staff of
shooers to roll them along on their way
10 the contrary notwithstanding.
The other afternoon, for example. a
Fittspurg nut showed up with kite
proposition. He wanted, on a certain
day, to fly flock Of box kites all the
way from Portland. Me. to Portland
Ore. with streamers attached to the
strings of these kites. the streamers to
read. "Bryan's Bum and "Taft's o.
X" and Vote for Taft and You're Vot
ing for Teddy" and "Goshdarn is to i"
and all like that. The kite shark voIun-
teered to furnish the kites and men TO
fly EN-. and all he wanted for this little
stunt was the piffiing piece Of change
known one hundred thousand bucks
He hasn't seen Hitchcock yet. He
camped on hard chair all that after
noon, and buzzed doorman about the
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He was known to everybody as one of
the squarest men in Wyoming, and here
a stranger with a goatee and a foreign
accent q man he'd never clapped an eye
on before, whose name he hadn't even
caught at the introduction a little while
before, was holding him up as card
cheat.
Yes. and here's another of them"
exclaimed the magician. again bending
over and picking another ace from I'M
der the collar of the cattle mans coat.
THE ranchman leaped to his feet in a
state of dumb fury. AS he did so per-
feet shower of cards fluttered from his
lap to the floor, and then the magician
grabbed the huge cattle man by the
lapel of the coat, whereupon another
cascade of cards dropped from inside
the ranchman's coat.
''Gentlemen. solemnly inquired the
ma gician. addressing those at the table
who knew him, and who were still hav-
ing troubles Of their own in keeping
their grins down. lis this your so-called
western hospitality? Have you brought
me here to have me shredder
why. you id billygoat." bawled
the cattle man. regaining his voice and
his muscular powers at the same in
slant, and he was on the point Of whip
ping out a gun when the others leaped
across the table at him just in the nick
of time Even then they were SO weak
with the laughter that they'd been sup
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pressing by main force that they could
barely hold the big cattle man while
they explained the situation To him
THE magician had "a number OF odd
experiences with card sharks in travel
ing up and down the world. and several
times he showed up these swindlers
while making Atlantic voyages.
He uncovered Ned Carlin. one of the
most successful of the old-time bunch Of
Atlantic steamship card workers, in a
simple way when Carlin had laid his
pipes to cop the rolls Of a pair Of heavy
drinking westerners who were passen-
gers on the liner.
The magician recognized Carlin as
the professional shredder as soon AS he
boarded the ship, having seen Carlin
operate on previous occasions. So when
Carlin roped the pair of booZed western
ers into u three-handed game. he asked
to take a hand. and was cordially invited
to do SO on the more-the-merrier pre-
sumption by Carlin. who didn't recog-
nize the ma gician. who a short time be-
fore had removed his goatee after hay
ing accidentally burned it while lighting
"a cigar over Il gas jet.
LAS soon as the deal reached the ma
gician he dealt Carlin five Sevens. One
of the sevens was from a dead deck.
with the same back as the deck in use.
that he found in the shelf beneath the
board.
"Carlin studied that extraordinary
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mitt. five seyens. for a minute, and then
he plainly reached the conclusion that
the deck had come foul from the fac
tory owing to the carelessness of the
sorter. But Carlin didn't toss the hand
face up on the table and call attention to
the queerness OF his hand. He wasn't
that kind of a Carlin. especially as the
pot had been opened and boosted before
his turn came. At that. il was odd that
the five serens in his mitt didn't arouse
his suspicion that something was wrong.
But he was greedy. and so when II was
up to him to draw-and he had Il chance
to rap in several big boosts-he tossed
away his superfiuous seven and took one
paper. If drawing to something.
Instantly the magician picked up the
seven that the shark had discarded and
held it UP with a smile. at the same in
slant reaching over and snatching Car
Inns cards out Of his hand.
You didn't think you could use the
extra seven. eh?' said the magician to
the swindler at the same time spreading
out the five seyenS to the View or the
pair of soused westerners. Carlin. who
WIS a frghtful coward for so huge
man. pushed back his chair and beat K
out Of the cardroonl. and made the rest
of the voyage in his room. for the pair
of westerners didn't look dovelike enough
TO him after the magician had Grabbed
that mittful Of five pat sevens.
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the new man in the game off the scent.
Presently the deal reached the magician
ON natural jackpot.
der the gum four kings. and. of course.
the ranchman opened the pot with bang
for the size of. it. The magician handed
out the signal to the others. who were
waiting for the fun to begin to stick
along and they all did.
when they'd drawn and the betting
began the cattleman, of course. couldn't
shoot his checks to the center quick
enough, and all hands, including the
magician, kept right on boosting him
back until the ranchman's countenance
became wreathed in smiles, for he felt,
naturally enough. that he was already
munching on all that fine candy.
Suddenly, however. the magician
reached down. and, with his thumb and
forefinger, plucked a card out from in
side the cattlemanS vest.
See here, what's this were up
against" he exclaimed. with never Il
symptom OF grin, and he held up the
card, an ace and gaZed sternly at the
cattle man, while the other men at the
table We're fighting themselves to keep
their faces straight. for the cattle man $
cOuntenance was a study.
His face was not only study. 1t
grew alarming, for he was quickly turn
ing purple. and he was speeches. with
the speechlessness that goes with pur-
plsh countenance in such circumstances
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after that. and the next time Mark Twain
honors the gallery they're going TO lock
little Arthur in the coal hole.
-
IT is evident that those old war horses
1 OF the republican party who believe
in the political methods OF other days
still blooming and effica cious, and
who think that oratory. red fire and
campaign music have got a card index
system pounded to a pulp when 1t comes
to getting out the vote. can't understand
Frank Hitchcock and his frosty little
ways. They think, too. that Mr.. Hitch
cock a young man himself. has carried
the young-blood Idea to extremes in con-
nection with the personnel of the working
force at republican national Headquarters.
When / was in New York a week or SO
ago l took a local elevator in the Met
ropolitan Life tower and after a journey
of an hour or SOL didn't notice the exact
time-I landed in front of the main en-
trance of republican headquarters. whore
Mr.. Hitchcock and his young men hold
forth. In the doorway, apparently hav-
ing just eme Iged from d brief and not too
satisfactory chat with the main squeeze.
fourteen rooms within, were two old
fashioned politicians Of state. but not ma
tional, reputation. They were scOwling
and one of them had just bitten a per-
fectly good Wheeling Havana In half.
Real lovely bunch of workers in there:
WHAT" said one of the old-timerS, as he
gazed belligerently at his companion.
"Oh. yes.' replied the other. hopping
his red face and breathing heavily. but
won't 1t be- hard on the party when school
takes in"'
Really. you know, j think that was a
charmingly subtle knock.
ACK MESSENGER. who writes those
! fine and dandy political pieces for The
Star. has been living in Pullman car
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that if he did happen to win heavily the
suspicion would be bound to find lodg-
ment in the minds Of the other players
that he had employed his professional
skill with the cards to annex the coin.
In his travels he preferred to mystify
and have fun with the casual acquaint-
ances, club men and such like. with
whom he sat into little games of draw.
AT the Cheyenne Club in Cheyenne he
once took chance on standing for a
leaden puncture owing to a whimsical
stunt that he pulled off in game of draw
that started off in earnest but that pres
emily developed into a sort of farce ow-
ing to the magician's mischievous inCina-
ton to stack the cards that night in the
most amazing fashion.
-Four well known men of Cheyenne
were in the game with the magician. and
when he began to give them all pat
Pushes and fulls and tours at the same
time they enjoyed the fun Of trying to
watch how he did it. for they were all
personal friends of his.
''They were trying to fathOm the method
of riffiing them and dealing them from
all parts of the deck when a non resident
member of the club, cattleman from
southwest Wyoming drifted along. The
the others were acquainted with him
and then the wink was passed to the
prestidigitateur.
'They took to playing seriously for a
little while for the purpose of throwing
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That's how bad that duel scene is.
messmate.
Worst thing of its kind I ever saw or
heard Of: Ne standing in the shadows. like
on top Of an old Norman tower, yknow,
waiting for the girl to make the roof;
but instead of her, why seventeen OF the
other mugs side-walopers with rapiers
pop out on me there on the roof. and then
the two-milliOn-c andle-power spotlight for
little Rub-a-dub-dub Reggie. the same be-
ing muh. And then I'm there with the
snickersnee gag in a way that'll-but.
here, don't want to put you juggins to 1t
before you see 1t.
But, say If that duel scene don't hand
you rap on the ulna bone. if it doesn't
make you think you've been tickled on
the wishbone by a runaway trolley car.
why-oh, well, it's the mediocre and the
commonplace scene, all right.
And say. shucks. the play doesn't give
me any chance at all. I haven't got line
in it. I don't spend n minute more than
three hours under the spot, and it's a
shame, honest it is.
And l haven't built up and slapped
lot of fat into it, no. Why, say. nobody
else in the play does thing but ME. I'm
on the job from the first Ginning OF the
temple bells till pipe down and all hands
are in their hammocks. Leave it to your
little playmate to fix up all that end of it.
Say, you know that fish-faced leading
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morning: Come on over to Gus's and
have scoop of suds and a cookie with
me and I'll tell you all about it.
Say. look a-here. this thing ought to
run for nine years without airy break!
There ought to be fourteen road COM
panies doing it week after / produce it!
For why? Well. because it's got
everything that's been done since Jim
O'Niell was spear-packer tied into a
timber hitch and chucked off the Tarpeian
Rock. that's what it has, DO!
Just waitll you get peek at it. and
if you don't come a-lumbering around to
the stage door after it's over with the
big salt globues as big as old-fashioned
chandelier crystals a-running out OF your
wicks. then I'll buy you all the imported
frankfurrers there are in North America
to feed your fiat mutt with.
why, say, hombrey, the things SO full
of ginj and pep that I'm afraid it'll keep
'em sneezing out in front, honest l am;
and, say, the lines.-well, I reckon your
little ride rumbler Alcwyn of the sunny
locks won't be breeZng out in front by
.twentyTour lengths. from the tap of the
drum with bunch of lines that sound
like-wel. say, die ever hear a little
murmuring cascade play on the jewsharp?
mix? Well, neither did T, but that's
what those lines of mine sound like,
shipmatey. I can hear 'em sobbing now,
out front. We're thinking of furnishing
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that Hitchcock was harder to than
the eighth assistant secretary TO the pri-
vate secretary of ]. Pierpont Morgan;
which faint true at all, as folks find out
who actually have any Sure-enough occa-
sion and reason for seeing the chairman.
People, for instance, who show up at the
committees Offices with checks or cur
rency in their hands haven't the least
difficulty in gaining Ambulance to the
innermost sanctuary of the chairman; and
even those who have got a whisper or
Two to make with reference to where they
think some money might be nailed can
get by every Cerberus planted at the
various doors leading to the innermost
temple.
A dreamy little yarn was pulled by
one of the "reactionary" newspapers the
other day to the effect that "a gentle
man high in the councils OF the republic
can party" in a western state had called
at the committee headquarters for the
purpose OF slipping over little check
for $4,000. to be applied to helping the
election OF Mr.. Taft This liberal per
son, the ag'in-Hitchcock newspaper went
on to say had only a couple OF hours To
spare before taking a steamer TO Europe
According TO the hasheesh account, he
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the lowering bunch Of five rejected and
disconsolate looking youngsters in a jiffy.
'Cm-ever work before" inquired the
delivery clerk. sizing this ono up with
discerning and favoring eye.
"On'y since I was six" was the reply.
''Oh. just like that. hey?" said the de-
livery clerk What at?'
ANY OIL thing-jus' hustlin'," replied the
dark horse. not jauntiiy nor freshly, bur
in a matter-of-fact tone.
Dye like to work.?
The boy grinned
Well. L can't say I'm dead stuck on il.
boss" he replied. but it's a case o tn
eats with me. work is"
You're hired-come around tomorrow
morning at s" said the delivery clerk.
and the dark horse Sauntered out and
didn't even much see the other
five still lowering around the door.
THE race is not always to the swift,
The last shall be first" etc. etc, etc.
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actually was uttered.
We think maybe you'll be able to per-
ceive certain differences.
As printed, then, the interview ran thus
fowsomely:
This new play of mine is amazingly
beautiful 1t combines swiftness and per-
feet continuity of action with a gracile
literary finish. 1t is, moreover. replete
with subtle dramatic values. and yet the
simple. tender heart interest Of the story
is unfailing in its direct appeal.
THE narrative of the piece, while it
is carried on with unf1agging rapidity and
evenness is embellished throughout with
the fanciful and dainty literary touches of
master stylist.
I'm it's construction the play is totally
at variance with the somewhat circum-
scribed theories of the dogmatists OF the
stage, in that there is powerful climax
at the termination of each of the four
acts, and yet not one OF these tremendous
scenes is open to the suspicion of being
an anti-climaX.
LAS to my own part in the play. why,
I can barely trust myself to advert to it
with calmness.
while my role is most exacting it is
overwhelming in it's dash and beauty, and