The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-01-31

and In the course OF a few hours had won fifty
dollars Then he stopped He would pass in.
and out dozen times a day, play q 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 was saving his
money to get into business with, he said.
He won SO steadily that 1t made the proprietor
of the place SILVER every time he came in.
One day. while the ex-dealer was playing, an
old man dropped In and, gancing around the room
for moment asked:
who runs this placer"
Il do" answered bewhiskered individual
who was watching his former employee rake in
the cash.
VIII 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 all the time"
"So?" said the stranger.
He walked over and watched the man lay his
BETS
Returning to the proprietor he said as he
passed out card:
7 represent this house. which, as you see
deals in gaming devices. / take it that the man
sitting at the wheel makes q killing every day."
he does. stranger. to the tune Of fifty or
hundred"
For thousand 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
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
Daii dropped. stopped 1t. and turning to the pro
prietor asked:
See anything strange with that wheel?"
mo"
Well. see. there are two nineteens and two
twenty-threes on this wheel They are unusual
numbers-so that the fellow who plays them has
anna Tnor0 s,frrx- d. IL
numbers that you have when a man PLAYS ON a
regular wheel. We made this wheel more than
tnlrty years ago. It was sold to house by a
couple OF sure thing men. who almost broke the
outfit Then we lost track of IT..
The exdealer had noticed the double numbers
ana 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 was the big noise in the North
west gambling world, and the primeval forests
We're closer to her doors. some big games were
played.
One night a stranger stepped into one of the
principal houses and took seat at faro table
An hour later he had lost more than I'VE thou.
sand dollars. The proprietor sent him flfty.
cent cigar. A few moments afterward the
stranger had couple Of hundred dollars and
within an hour had regained his fve thousand
Then commenced streak of luck that has sell
dom been witnessed In any gambling house The
roof had been raised ito the sky" and Mr.
Stranger 'coppered' the king and doubled a bet
OF nve thousand He tried It again for repeat
or. with ten thousand. and drew back twenty vel
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bats OF thousand eacn
and before he had smoked the cigar he was TWEEN.
weight thousand to the good! Then he quit
Who he 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 hume
up was raked down on mule race in Arizona
man owned hole In the ground" He was
satisfied that 1t worth a fortune. His
friends thought he was crazy He refused to "a
to other "diggngs" where the prospects wers
better He was more than twenty-five miles
from water which had to be carried in on the
hurricane deck Of mule He worked awav.
nursing his claim and sticking it out alone. Then
he went to settlement some distance away. He
became excited over the performances OF muia
owned by another man, and in a moment OF ex
uberance bet his claim against one owned nv
prospector from another section that his mp,e
could outrun the other fellows He lost
He had the privilege OF plotting the winner To
the mine" and saw him take more than seventh
thousand dollars worth Of silver. net, out Of a
pocket, almost the surface Of the eroupdi
Since then the property has produced millions
1t all came about because one mule could no.
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