The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-24
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There are Il great many Dressings
in Disguise said an old Californi,t.i
when telling stories OF the early days
of the Golden State. In fact, bless
ings usually come in disguise. Anoth-
er adage akin to it is. 1T is the uneX-
pectcd that happens. and still another.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody any
good This group of sayings When
boiled down means you can't tell un-
less You bet
when | lost one of my eyes III
fight with an Indian l didn't know
that. though | would suffer from not
seeing nuIderouS enemies on that SIDE,
inconvenieu"es resulting in Judging OF
distances and little things like that
the circumstance would lead to fortune,
with It's consequent comforts, indie
pcndcnce and freedom from worry.
Frisco was looming up in those days.
and lots of the attendants of oar su-
| pcrior civilization. such as logWo"d
wines. poisonous patent medicines
and such like. were being brought
around the Horn and dumped on the
| Stitt AHffl2 btIitf tiiiifs-'' % '''f
ne-tic,lt Yankee took ont Il lot OF ar
/ tifciai limbs, teeth and glass eyes.
| "As soon as | saw one of those eyes
IN Il shop window it struck me as
means of restoring my departed good
looks, for. though | was rcd headed
and freckled. the girls all said that be
fore my Disagreement | could rake
'em every time with the feeling l
would throw into my blue orbs. You
see. after the loss of one of EN- had
TO concentrate all the expression INTO
the other. which only half did the bust
ness. | went in. and the Teller spent
half an hour hunting for an ey" to
match the one in my head. finally be-
| ing obliged to give me one or Il rev
shades lighter blue than the other-in
fact it was rather steel gray. When
I got away from the shop and looked
at it in mirror it struck me that the
devil was looking through it. 1T was
the coolest blooded thing you ever
saw. So long as ! wore 1t | never
ran The risk of losing the other one
for all I had to do was to cover man
with it to wilt him I kept it for my
enemies and my real eye for the girls
THE accession Of the Chinese devei-
oped the spirit of gambling among u.s.
| If the same time diminishing our
| funds There was gradual passing
Of our dust into the clothes OF these
varmints. In fact. it got so bad that
T determined something had to be
done. I had a plan. but no money to
start a game with. But when | stated
the case to two or three more prosper
Gus friends they agreed to put up for
me and give me all the winnings II
succeeded. they to stand all loss up to
$1,000 What they wanted was to let
the copper colored thieves know that
they couldn't always win.
"a Chinaman named Ting Ling had
won a lot of money from our crowd
and 2 invited him 90 have small
game with me Before we sat down
put patch over my glass eye.
wanted to se'luce him with the heav'
emily blue of my natural one into a real
noble game l proposed to let him win
for awhile. but that wasn't necessary
It was just as easy foe him to hold
five aces as pair of threes. l just lei
him 60 on, betting light. till lie had got
half my pile Then l got up between
deals to find a match for lighting q
cigar and before I returned to the ia
bic took out my devil spyglass,' as
! The boys called it. and laid it on ta
bic on Ting Line's right. letting dowI
; the patch over the empty socket in my
head the same as before.
at was a half hour before the rasca
turned and saw it. At first l wa:
afraid | had scared him off. l called
his attention back to the cards by max
ing bigger bet than usual. but no
. for long He kept looking sideways a
the eye, and. as had placed it Just ia
I enough behind him to look into hi
hand. I saw him holding his cards ii
' a position to escape its glance. Fo
awhile he kept on with his rascality
being very careful that the eye shoul'
not get a glimpse of his hands. but h
at last got ratified and stopped cheat
ing entirely Every time he looked t
his right there was that eye, with it
: devils expression. staring at him AM
e doubtless noting his every movement.
a 1.-The oftener he looked at 1t the NOR
. he got ratified When l saw that tn
!. proper time had come, Z did a littl
). slight Of hand myself and held som
e fine combinations Ting Ling was har
i to draw in. and I didn't win muc
Y money. but somehow he took 1t int
: his head that us Melicans had got O
to the Chinese delicate methods. an
after that game there was no NOR
yellow sharping for a long while,
managed to rake 5000 out of him whe
= he got SO ratified that he settled up a
= the game stood and got away from tn
= eye
j. II was sailing out on to the stree
= when who should come along but Jill
;. Rogers, who | supposed was off pros
n pecting. Hello, Jim" says l. Hello
n Tom" says he. Where you been?'
asked. In Calaveras county all tn
WHILE says he. Any luck" says
Not bit Cot a few specimens, bu