Show CUT WITH A KNIFE The Effects of a Row in a Chinese Gambling Den ONE LUNGS SAD LITTLE GAME ire Emulates Ah Sin and Receives Considerable Consider-able Worse Teatraent Than BrefHartes Bad Heathen One of the leaders of the four hundred of Chinatown was sitting under the rear balcony of his palatial residence yesterday afternoon There was a faraway look in his eyes a large strip of court plaster down one side of his face and a large red bandanna ban-danna covered the place where his pigtail was supposed to sprout With his head in his hands he rocked slowly backward and forward and occasionally uttered a moan as though in intense pain In response to the queries of a reporter who approached him he dismally shook his head and like the railway official when asked for news concerning his road he had nothing to say A companion however was more inclined to be talkative and while he would not go into details he said that One Lung or words to that effect had the night before figured as the hero of a fight in one of THE CHIXESE GAMBLING HELLS that are popularly supposed to exist in the vicinity of Commercial street Plum alley and other odoriferous localities sacred to the footprints of members of the copper colored race The talkative Chinaman said in answer to a query that his name was John and that on the night in question there had been a heap big time among the Chinese and that One Lung had been detected by a fellow gambler gam-bler in the practices Bret Harte made Ah Sin guilty of in his now celebrated poem In other words One Lung had endeavored to work a cold deck or play five aces when by even the Chinese method of calculation there were but four in the deck and three of these were held by others in the game One of his opponents who had been aheavy loser during the night took exceptions to this and a fight followedj in which several of the mongolians participated In a few seconds however the fracas was quieted save as between OXE LUXO AXD HIS OITOXEXT and when the former had been dragged away by his friends and the other fellow emptied out into the street it was found that Lung had received several bad cuts one across the head another on the side of the face and a deep gash in the arm which rendered that member of his body almost useless Asked if he viewed Lungs injuries injur-ies as dangerous whether he believed Lung would receive a summons to the great beyond be-yond John said he thought not but it was lucky that Lung had been pulled away in time a his assailant was a heap bad man and always carried a big knifewhich he had used on more than one occasion occa-sion John pressed more closely also gave it as his opinion that the attack on One Lung had been the result of an old time grudge as much as anything else although there was no doubt but that Lung had been in the act of cheating when the game was so suddenly interrupted All Chinese he said are great gamblers but there are few professionals among them There is scarcely a night but several big games are running but owing to the successful suc-cessful raids made at times by the police the heathens are extremely cautious and they are carried on with the greatest secrecy se-crecy and generally in places where detection detec-tion is almost impossible To the average heathen gambling is XOT A QUESTIOS OF MORALITY but a matter of business and while as before stated there are but few professionals profes-sionals amongjthem that is men who do nothing else yet in truth nearly every Chinaman might properly be termed a professional pro-fessional because he looks upon it as an accomplishment much in the same light as the average society belle prides herself on her ability to play White Wings with halfadozen more variations than her neighbor 01 any of the other members of her set When asked why One Lungdid not make a complaint to the police and have his assailant arrested and punished John closed the interview by the sage remark Getting cut very blad get in jail for I gambling much worse Gettem both make Chinamen quite sick I |