The Monroe journal., 1920-03-26

I uDQl 14utu puuog a4 IeAtAp uta~NA
+ ceipG STAMPS on them showed TIA
almost all had been paid on the da1'
rendered. He was Punctual. metho
deal.
There were letters. correspondents
/ with business associates IN Denfe
and Omaha. postcards from woman
who Vas spending a vacation ON !
farm. One letter vas from a lieu
tenan, in the army stationed al CAM
TAYLOR. near Louisville. Ky, tellln:
OF j big stud poker game IN which
two Young millionaires from the cas-
were easy picking.
The lieutenant told how easy 4
would be TO trim the miilionaire'
with marked cards, and asked th'
gambler to be ready 10 take tht
train for Louisville when things were
ripe"
..It would be a shame 10 LEI money
like this get away" the Lieutenant
wrote. 'You could win thousand
dollars at sitting. 4 chance like
that doesn't come often. He IN
closed a code for use in exchanging
telegrams.
In the gamblers Trunks the ad,
ministrator found more striking eNl-
dence of his life. as well as an eN-
PLANTATION of how he managed io
accumulate sixty thousand dollars IN
currency. Attached 10 an old Nesl
was complicated poker 'hold-out.
device for slipping cards up the
sleeve and concealing them Tor use
in am emergency. The holdout was
equipped with delicate springs aud
adjustments. A slight movement OF
the knee would bring the extra cards
instantly into play
There were twenty-five or thirty
decks of marked cards. machine
like a tobacco cutter with razor
edge for trimming the edges OF cards.
There was a catalogue from a firm
in San Francisco listing more than
seyentv-hye crooked gambling de-
vices - from a tiny thumbnail prick
used 10 scratch a rough spot on aces
listed al ffty cents. 20 combination
poker and dice table with electric
wiring and holdout attachments,
which sold for $3.50.
In the game which the partners
ran in the upper floors OF smaii
hotel here. the skv was the limit.
Their customers" We're farmers ana
s.ockmen and old men from kansr 3.
oklahoma. er Texas. Whatever ele~
mont. IF mrs,ery surrounds The Sat-
ale- death. there is no mystery IN
ii.n was sc built his fortune.
II one 81 his trunks was an me
ter.sf,ng collection Of books There
was ma I'D family Bible Inscribed 0h
fhe Gr-lcaf: TO Dear Mother Christ
mas. 1895" Here are some OF the
aeaE. which he had possessed
\ LNae Book Of Old Tine Verse.
Science and Health, with Key 10
ne scriptures.
Illustrated south America,
Rubabat nl Omar hhayy3m.
Collected Verse of Nadyard Nip
ing.
Thanaiopsis.
In a small pasteboard box was 4
collection of newspaper clippings
mostly poems. They were happy go
lucky little poems, iull OF the bubble
philosophy of life. Here is one eX-
tract:
Oa. worry over tnis thing and
worry over that,
Bur / notice when the atmosphere
is cleared
That The bad luck | had looked for
didn't come and knock me Hat;
And | didn't have the trouble that
feared.
This is another.
\ liltlc bit of life, little bit OF love
\ little bit OF happiness and money;
just to shove
Up the hill aud over 10 make onl
journey sweet
.ud yet we DO not ask too much, We
say 10 all VIC meet.
: Not much. not much, only all there is
/ 0f richness and OF beauty in world
like this.
Perhaps the gambler hai clipped
ltbla oat himself; but it seems nof.
ina 70. that his wife clipped them uud
sent them to him in her letters, lol
some OF them are underscoled and u
/ terlined with remarks Al ans rate
I he saved them. aud there they Eer,
j When the public administrator aht
i his assistants searched through hr
+ trunks.
The gamblers money probably vii
4 be divided between the claimants who
are scramblmg for it IN the courts
but his real legacy is found in th'
4 object lesson which he left behind
him.
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