Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-03

4 wanted to see any Of the shows. The
: l learned that there was some crcoke,
work a-goin' en-. because l give tn
feller back of the winder dollar an
he gives me one hundred dollars. o
course / never said nuthin' about hi
mistake, but ii seemed mighty quee
that they would employ such careless
bankers
/ The place was certainly fixed III
come scrumptfous, and locked jus
like the time when was waiter
In stable for transient mules at thu
time of the rush in Californy. Gosh
but there was a lot of purity girls II
there, and one of EN- comes up t
me and tickles me with little feather
buster and says: oh. you hayseed!
X ! hadn't been afraid OF the folks to
hum a-findineit out, would have al
most. of been tempted to nave winked
at her. But / reckon that I'm a git.
tin too old to spark with the wimmin
folks.
81 looked around all the places, and
took in the shows, an / sure hated
to think OF havin' to pay as much as
thirty dollars to go into enc of 'em.
A feiIer come, up to me and wanted
me to take a chance on one of these
here automobiles, but told his as
how opined an old strawberry roam
was good enough for me. The old
horse that I've got to hum Is built
Tor comfort and not for speed. Don't
care for speed, nohow.
Next to the last place / went into
was the one what made me open my
! eyes and look You won't believe me
II tell you, but 1t was a gamblin'
mouse. Yes sir. real gamblin house,
and there was wimmin folks in there
too. And the Teller at the door did
lot of gamblin,, too, with his soft
talk, because he was taxin' everybody
somethin like twenty-five dollars to
get IN. There they was. three or
four different gamblin' games a.goiri'
on, and you couldn't hear sound
Dut the dealer a-rakin' in the money.
They was all playing with paper
money, too, and there was crowd
a,waitin' to play. Here was a faro
table, here was chuck.a-luck, and
some fellers over in the corner was
dealln klondike. never seen nothin'
IKE It Why, even in the little town
OF kokomo, where spent last sum-
mer, hey don't allow gamblin,.
But the worst is yet tSscome. Over
IN one corner, surrounded by a mol,
OF men and women with their hands
chuck full of green backs. sat a Teller
VINO have read about in the news
papers mere as bein' mighty clever
man. he was a-dealin' of faro. Now
! nate to tell You who he was, but if
youH promise not to connect. INV
name with it, I'll let. the cat out II
was man named Breckons. Yessir.
mats the felier. And do here that
ne Is about as weffs known in this
town as a Teller would like to be.
Don't 1t seem a shame that an inf1,l.
entail feller like him should go to the
Dad that way? But that amt ali No
sir. There was another. Oh. this Is
horrible scandal, amt it? | wonder
II these fellers' wives know that their
husbands is gamblers? Well. as
was a-goin' to say about the other
feher- They tell me that he Is con-
nected with the Y. M. C. A. and that
ne goes to church regular and passes
round the contribution box. Seems
70 me his name was ToWser. No.
that amt it either. Lemme see
loWse! That s the name. He was
also a-dealin' In gamblin' game, and
must nave been some dealer, because
ne had wad of money in front of
him. There was several others there. i
too, but can't remember their names. !
nave seen their pictures in the pa
pers, though. /
Amt there no police force in this [
town? Why was they allowin' gam !,
Dim there? You bet that if | was
the mayor or this town that I'd send
en- All to Jail fer thirty days. Z
!. Where did you go next?'' asked
Inc Cub, as the Senator passed to bite /
The face of five-cent plug of Star. I
II got right out of that gambiin' /
place, resumed Busenberry. "You /
bet | wasn't goin' to take no chances
u bein' caught there if the police /
aided the place, which expected to ]
zee EN- do every minute, because 4
mere was big, important lookin' |
eller with a star on standin' just out
side the door. But suppose the fell Il
eri at the door was a-slippin' him
'ome money to hush him up. | went Il
,ut and looked around for a while
Ind finally saw place that looked II
Ike saloon, and feelin' sort of dry,
reckoned that I'd go in and see if / II
couldn't get glass of hard cider II
walked into the place and up to the
,ar, where there was a bunch of n
,oung fellers. One of 'em stepped up
o me, and when ] asked him for what II
7 wanted, said that they didn't have
my. ! asked him for little red lik- H
Ter and he said that they sold only II
oft drinks there. He was an awful
Teller, and he winked at me II
Ike as If We was old cronies. or II
curse j winked at him and told him II
o hand some ginger ale He winked II
t me again and smiled, and just to n
re jolly / winked back at him again.
Nell, sir, he brought me a drink
f ginger ale, and it certainly tasted n
God. The realistic surroundings
made it taste just like real red Hkker.
started out of the place, and then
vent back and had another, because
he first tasted so good, and then
ont hoe u