Show HIS BIG JACK POT i This Preachers Son Would W Save Have it Only by a Pair of Jacks Kansas City Star When they are sitting around telling stories a traveling man who ho comes to the Midland hotel generally tells this one I once knew a Methodist minister out in Pueblo Colo Cola and he had a son who was an inveterate gambler I will wilt confess that I got acquainted with the son sort first to my sorrow and through the young man I came to know his father The son was a good looking young fellow tellow and his father had given the boy bo a good education but the son was never anything but a gambler He started tn In when he was a boy and he would never hever lay his hand on anything else His winnings were a little more than his beings The difference was enough to keep him alive The preach preachers ers Eon son was a poker player One lay Cay the old man died He had been a careful frugal liver and he had been pretty prett shrewd He had made some good g Investments and made money In his will he left to his gambler son And this under very peculiar con conditions conditions The will declared that If f t the thes son s n did not engage in any gambling I games within two years at the end of ot that time the money was to be paid him himin himin I in greenbacks by a man who was ap appointed appointed appointed pointed trustee But If the boy should play one game of or cards during the two years the money should be given to a hospital in the city rhe The hospital people were Joyous It looked like a cinch to them The seemed easy But the young gambler I was wie II Well Weli he said to himself more than I can make In two years gambling And ff for r two years ears he play a game of cards The day came when the money should be turned over to him by bythe bythe the trustee The ministers son was to the outskirts of at the town and the trustee said The money is in bills It is hid hidden den under that big rock rook yonder You he said turning to the gambler you swear that you have hae fulfilled the con conditions J t do replied the young man man manThen manThen 41 Then said the trustee well get a team of horses and pull that rock over oer and the money Is yours Hold Hoid on said the son I object The crowd standing about was start startled startled startled led I 1 refuse to do it it declared the gambler Wait Valt Take those horses hordes away Get a team of mules Im a gambler Ive been one all my m life Ufe and never will open a Jack pot like that with anything less than a pair of o Jacks |