The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-11-08
What a
Worn Did

By r. A. MITCHELL


raise % big army fOi the purpose. MI !
YOU have To do Is TO enlist al the pro- |
fcssional gamblers in the United |
Sintcs. furnish them with ample funds. !
and send them down there to win M" |
country for you"
Tho words were spoken by man |
who had lived most Of his life in Mex
icu and had Travelled much in Central !
and South America.
THE people Of those regions are all
gamblers the speaker continued. "and
If q sufficient force Of sharperS were
sent among them every foot of ground.
and every article on II would soon hc
IN their possession. Thus the gamblers.
or those they represented. could meet
in convention, vote annexation To- the
United States. and the trick would bc
done.
II spent winter in Brazil and every
evening rs soon as the days work was
finished. the set to which ! belonged
adjourned "a the back yard Of an old
fellow named Papiladn. who had u
roulette wheel he had made himself,
and spent the time far into the night
gambling. The roulette wheel was
made Of wood and there was cover
for IT, which was put on while the ball
was still spinning So that the betting
could be carried on indefinitely.
"Somc of the gamblers played for
the enjoyment they =ni out n the
game and some played to earn the
money on which they lived None Of
them was very scrupulouS. and would
have cheated IL they could. ! taught
them the American game of poker hut
there was 81 much opportunity for dis
honesty in II that il was not ttted for
them. Every player was bent ON
cheating. and the game soon broke up
ia II row.
There was among them young
BRAZILIAN who had Il very pretty wife.
lie had small patrimony. which ne
was gradually eating up. He won
about aS much rs he lost. hut he had
tn live. II was really ease If eating
his little fortune. His wife usually sat
beside him. sometimes sewing and
when their baby was waEgful she
would hold him in her arms The
mans name was josh Gomez. and his
wife Maria, for The Virgin.
III Gomez won hundred pczos Que
evening lost hundred the next and
was ahead in the game twenty-five at
the end of the week, he considered
that he was twenty-five pesos tn the
good though he had spent hundred.
His wife took the same view of the
matter.
AT the time | Joined the circle the
little fortune of the young couple had
been nearly eaten up and II had he.
come apparent to them that that was
50. They We're looking anxious. JOSH
was betting fitfully. Papilado bet like
the others, and won or lost like they
did He charged nothing for the use
IT the wheel. seeming TO play for
amusement only. But one night he he
gan Ia show gamblers greed. He
won Il good pile on red five; and after
that il was noticed that whenever he
bet largely il was on red five.
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