Show AN 000 POKER GAME Victory With aBobtail Flush Followed lowed By a Tragedy f WOMANS LOVE AT STAKE FOREIGN HINISTER AND A SENATOR SEN-ATOR PLAY LEADING HOLES + Were Rivals Courtship and the Defeat of theMinister Led t a Deadly Duel In Which the Foreigner For-eigner Was l dut It Was Bad Poker j > X POkert Chicago JntcrOccaru It was in the dax iinea the only John Chamberlin was catering for the PJo Hc his public on this side of the Styx of says the Washington correspondent the Philadelphia Times that a rare company dined one ovenin at his famous fa-mous clubLouse Jl u a rare little circle for the jeason that all had pass ed the threesure vvlr > cantering through most of the time at a very I fast pace out all of that peculiar material mate-rial of compositIon that neer seems to f succumb to high living and hard work that would lone l ago have killed ninety I nine men of a hundred Two were whitehaired senators vvio had now both financial and political I nl aUCCSSrnefl of millions and exceptional excep-tional characters among millions Three were members of the house standing at the forefront of the representatives of that day three men who had played a tremendous game in more ways than one in building up the frontier in the fortes and fifties Another was an old r fortji iner who made his pile in legitimate le-gitimate mining added to it by ken speculation and piled up jet more by building and wrecking railroads and thing Last to make up the golden number seen was a great editor jet great in journalism and politic but in the mediaeval days of the nineteenth century a man vho swayed the couc try at that time ith his pen making it himself playing the deuce genet ally Chamberlin noered on the outskirts out-skirts of the circle joining in the conversation con-versation occasionally the conversa tion naturally in such presence turning turn-ing upon the mysterious fascmatnig subject of game of chance which hae played havoc with the human race ever I since Gaboon apes began to toss up for cocoanuts CHAMBEULIN3 POICCH SPORT John said one of the senators after af-ter the telling of a number of thrilling the John tales of gambling on green tel us of the most remarkable game I of poker that ever came within your observation t df r Thats mighty hard to do aid Chamberlin as you know I have seen so many great games that it is hard to say which was the most exciting Ill tell Jou of one however that seems to me at this distance to have been the strangest of all the games I ever witnessed nessed I was in the old clubhouse I in New York avenue near Fifteenth street which was ocoupipd for ers bj the Young Mens Christian association I associa-tion until it was burned i aie say I there was never a game in the house after mj departure I was in that period following the war when money j was more in evidence than it is at this urns and that recklessness was in I vogue which was a result I suppose of I the dev ilmaj care spirit engendered by the war Politics and play ran high There were political and other adventurers adven-turers hero from all parts of the t oun try and from all countries Foreign ministers and wealthier attaches of the the most reckless legations were among relk less bettors and it was between a foreign for-eign minister and a young and ridiculously ridicu-lously wealthy senator of the United States that the episode occurred to which I refer There was bad blood between the t two men and it was whi pre there I was a lay in the case At any rate I made note of the fact that when tile J mae other hands were laid down in the big game of poker that was on one evening I the two men raked each other savagely before either would lay down I felt sure that in the chance of the play I these two would come agair > t each other with disastrous hands fo somebody some-body before the game ended The expected ex-pected happened The ante was J 5 and a big jack pot was on The deal had passed several times and each time fattened Finally it opened was fatened Finaly was i > lne by a member of the house who was notpl for bong a high player lie had started as stoker on a Mississippi river steamboat and HiS then owner of a line of steams He < peied the pot for the downs The minister at n < xt and swelled i > U1 Next man Taesed and the next The senator can ull next sator t up with another SVH > raise and the player next to the dfucr dropped nut Tho opener studied his hand for a inrriert and then laid down a = he had hut a pair of jacks and the Aerator mv1 minister acted as though they were out for blood START nTH SMALL BETS The two men looked each < Ier in the eyes fo a moment and there was deadly challenge in the penetrating glare of botn I was the ministers lirssi go He quickly saw the rand jst r-and each took a card I will bet you 1 cent aid he with a sneer asnThere There were no chips of value less than 5 and the foreigner fished a eonKir fr < vn his purse Each player caught his breath quickly expressive of their surprise with the exception of the senator who seemed senao a to have ex peeled some such play I will rtuse you 2 cents said he quietly I then dawned upon the others that these was more in this than poker and they were at once absorbed in the extraordinary ex-traordinary performance The minister put up three coppers thus seeing the raise and raising 1 cent more I raise you 1 was the response of I the senator And I raise you 5 declared the cnv oy COFhe Five hundred declared the senator snu ta in a tone o Indifference a though wearying o the apparent nonsense One thousand better than yOU said the other One thousand and one dollars is my bet remarked the senator but I could see a glitter in his eys that boded no good for the foreigner The latter met the backward step of the senator with I a triumphant sneer and then said Not t o prevent our friends from enjoying en-joying the game I will give you a chance to call a dollar bet I raise you 1Mv Mv present bet is 1 5001 said the Senator DEFEAT OF THE FOREIGNER The two men took their eves from the cards and the table and glared at each other and if I ever taw deadly j hatred expressed in the human countenance coun-tenance it was at that moment The I minister grew pale as the cloth on the I luncheon table and I thougnt he was about to weaken but he came with a I raise of 5000 I was with an e ores don however suggesting that hr hoped I the other would call With yes like those of a rattlesnake when it is about to strike the senator drawled o > it in I measured tones I w ill see your thousand and raise you twentyfive thousand dollars and I began to count out the remainder of his chips and to take notes from his iiock etbook to mae good the sum The minister gave a little gasp and then explained in a weak volc > that 1 be did not have so much money with < ni i R I < t l I j him and would therefore be com I aeefi to surrender the pot OI ash quite willing to accept the aI thee or The note of hand of a foreign minister said the senator in h tone that cut Uke a rapier No by heaven you shall never have in Jour possession either note or check of mine exclaimed the envo angrily shuffling his hand into the dl calc The senator looked at him with a smile of malicious triumph raked in and stacked the chips and cash Still holding his hand when this was accomplished ac-complished with aggravating deliberation delibera-tion the winner glanced at his hand and curiously and slowly laid his cards on the table face up First came the ace of heaits and following it the king queen and jack of hearts Bah shouted the minister in atone a-tone of angry disgust you were betting on an invincible hand I might have known i I The senator laid the remaining card upon the table face down He placed his elbows on the green balsa his face in his hands He looked tle foreigner steadily In the eyes for a full minute and then with exasperating dehbeia tion turned over the fifth card It was the duce of clubs J All of which mo r > s said he with murderous irony that < man may be I lucky at both cards and love The envoy sprang to his feet with a curse and lan from the room A few days later it was whisoeied tHe had I been a meeting across the river in Virginia Vir-ginia and that the minister had been wounded If there were really an encounter en-counter I can quite beleve was the foreign gentleman who was touched I for the senator wa a dfad shot and he must have spared his man pur oely needVell John said the whitehaired senator musingly that is a good poker story I remember lint I heard something some-thing about it at the time Bj the way perhaps none of you lnow that the envoy en-voy was afterward killed in a dual in his own country and the lenort was that an AmerIcan iired the fatal shot I was 0 curious pin said the veteran vet-eran journalist but it could hardly be called good Doker |