Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-01-31


This dealer took seat in front of the table
and in the course OF few hours had won fifty
dollars. Then he stopped He would pass III
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 it winner. His luck was amazing
He started bank account. He saving his
money to get into business WITH he said.
He won steadily that it made the proprietor
of the place shiver every time he came in
One day. while the ex-deaIer vas playing. an
old man dropped in and. gancing around the room
for a moment. asked:
Who this place."
Il do" answered bewhiskere6 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
oI that proved such hoodoo.
4 know it's Jonah. That fellow over there
aInS all the time
So?" said the stranger.
He walked over and watched the man lay hls
bets
Returning the proprietor he said as he
nassed out card
represent this house. which, as you see
seals in gaming devices. | take 1t that the man
sssfSng at the wheel makes killing every day?s
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"
III 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"
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
about the percentage in his favor, on those
numbers. that you have when man plays on a
regular wheel. We made this wheel more than
thirty years ago. It was 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 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
were closer to her doors, some big games were
played
One night stranger stepped into one OF the
principal houses and took seat at faro table.
An hour later he had lost more than Ave thou
sand dollars. The proprietor sent him a fifty
cent cigar few moments afterward the
stranger had couple of hundred dollars and
within an hour had regain6d his five thousand.
Then commenced streak OF luck that has SEX
dom been witnessed In any gambling house The
roof" had been raised TO the sky" and Mr.
Stranger "c0ppered" the king and doubled q bet
of i've thousand. He tried 1t again for repeat
er. with ten thousand, and drew back twenty yell
low chieps. worth one thousand each
After that he made bets of thousand each
and before he had smoked the cigar he was twen-
ty-eight 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
as mysterious as his winnings were sensa-
tional.
Probably of the greatest stakes ever hung
up was raked down ON mule in Arizona
man owned a hole In the ground" He was
satisfied that 1t was worth fortune His
friends thought he was crazy. He refused to GO
to other "diggings" where the prospects were
better. He more than twenty-five miles
from water. which had TO be carried in on the
hurricane deck of q mule. He worked away,
nursing his claim and sticking 1t out alone Then
he went to settlement some distance away Hc
became excited over the performances of mule
owned by another man, and in moment OF ex.
uberance bet his claim against one owned by n
prospector from another section that his mule
could outrun the other fellows. He lost.
He had the privilege OF plotting the winner to
the mine and saw him take more than seventy
thousand dollars worth of silver net, out OF
pocket. almost on the surface OF the groundl
Since then the property has produced millions
It all came about because one mule could ros
run 81 fast as another