The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-01


and in the course Of few hours had won fifty
dollars Then he stopped He would pass in
and out dozen times day, play little here
and some there but always he would bring up in
front of the roulette table, and more often than
otherwise left 1t winner. His luck was amazing.
He started bank account. He saving his
money to get into business WITH he said
He won so steadily that it made the proprietor
of the place shiver every time he came in.
One day, while the ex-dealer was playing an
old man dropped in and, gancing around the room
for a moment asked:
Who runs this place."
Il do" answered a bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employee rake in
the cash.
will you do me the favor to tell me where
you got that wheel?" he asked pointing to the
one that proved such hoodoo.
Il know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
wins ali the time"
"So?" said the stranger.
He walked and watched the man lay his
bets.
Returning to the proprietor he said, as he
passed out card:
Il represent this house. which, as you see
deals In gaming devices. take 1t that the man
sitting at the wheel makes killing every day."
He does, stranger, to the tune of fifty or
hundred"
For thousand l can tell you how to bust his
luck and make him look the living picture of re-
morse. You would have to agree to purchase a
new wheel from me, also"
IF you show me- I'm game"
It's bargain" said the drummer
Walking over to the wheel he waited until the
ball dropped stopped 1t, and turning to the pro-
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
NO"
We'll. see, there are two nineteens and two
twenty-threes on this wheel. They are unusual
numbers-so that the fellow who plays them has
about the same percentage in his favor on those
numbers, that you have when a man PLAYS on a
regular wheel We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago. 1t sold to a house by a
couple OF sure thing men, who almost broke the
OUTFIT Then we lost track of It."
The ex-dealer had noticed the double numbers
and therein was the secret of his luck" How
the numbers had escaped attention so many
years is one OF those mysteries Of gambling that
can never be explained
When Seattle the big noise in the North.
west gambling world, and the primeval forests
were closer to her doors, some big games were
played.
One night a stranger stepped into one of the
principal houses and took seat at a faro table
An hour later he had lost more than five tbou-
sand dollars. The proprietor sent him a fftv-
cent cigar. A few moments afterward the
SNoh5ei ndu couple OF hundred dollars and
within an hour had regained his five thousand.
Ihen commenced streak Of luck that has sell
dom been witnessed In any gambling house Thu
roof had been raised ito the sky" and Mr.
stranger "coppered" the king and doubled a bet
or hve thousand. He tried 1t again for a repeat
er, with ten thousand, and drew back twenty vel
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bets Of thousand each
and before he had smoked the cigar he was TWEEN.
weight thousand to the good! Then he quit.
VINO ne was, where he came from where he
went no one ever knew. His coming and going
were as mysterious as his winnings were sensa,
tional
Probably one Of the greatest stakes ever HING
up was raked down on a mule race in Ar,zons
A man owned hole in the ground" He was
satisned that 1t was worth fortune. His
inends thought he was crazy. He refused to 90
70 otner diggings" where the prospects were
oetter He was more than twenty-five miles
from water which had to be carried in on the
hurricane deck OF mule. He worked away
nursing MS claim and sticking 1t out alone Then
ne went 70 settlement some distance away. He
oecame excited over the performances of mule
owned by another man, and in a moment n, ev
uoerahce Oct his claim against one owned nv
piospeclor from another section that his mule
couid outrun the other fellows. He lost
ne had the privilege Of plotting the winner IN
tne mine" and saw him take more than severtv
thousand dollars worth Of silver. net ont q, a
pocket almost on the surface of the erourd,
SINCE then the property has produced million.
IL all came about because one mule could 49,.
run so fast a. another A~'