Show TALES OF THE TOWN A crowd of traveling men seated in the ICnntsfori last night had discussed pretty well everything under the sun when one of them said that in poker the scientific player even though he played absolutely on the square was a sure winner One of the party took exccptiqn to the tamerk That may dO sometimes he said but not always 1 sat in a little game in Butte once where the sucker won and c the scientific player I went broke It was a flvehanded game and all of us were 4 9 veterans with the exception of the is kidHe wris from the east yith a I i wad on him bIg enough to choke a cow a thirst that was something remarkable re-markable and an innocent conceit in e his poker playing that was almost laughable It was a big same and the kid caught it hard from the firsthand first-hand The drinks came fast and the boy got so palpably drunk that all of ha felt sorry for him and let him off light all except awliknoVn mining manIll call him Edwaxdswho played cool and calmlyand raked the youngster tore ndaft It had beeTh suggested that we playa play-a round of jackpots and quit and the last hand had been dealt when the sucker got in his work The man next to the dealer opened the pot for 10 the kid who was next around with his head hanging down and miserably maudlin drunk raied him 10 the next man dropped out and the miner raised it 25 I was dealing and laid doam and the opener thought awhile and threw up his hand It was up to the kid then and my heart bled for him when he raised Edwards a century The miner was ready and sent it back topped by fifty and again the kid raised him Between each bet the boy would take a big drihle of whisKY and at last was almost toO drunk to ieep his eyes open Finally the miner saw his last raise and stopped evidently puzzled and the kid called for four cards I was dumbfounded and angry but had nothing left to do but deal Edwards drew one card with a look of supreme satisfaction on his face but the boy never saw it He raised his head with his eyes bloodshot and his face white as a sheet Botcher every damned cent you got he hiccoughed and shoved his wad over in the center of the table Ill call you said Edwards and counted out his last penny 1300 in all then glanced at his opponent The kid was dead to the world his head was on the table and h was in drunken drunk-en stupor that nothing could disturb One of the men held him up while I turned over the cards that he had crumpled in his hands First cane the ace of hearts and then the king of the same suit but Edwards was smiling grimly and undisturbed The queen of hearts fOllowed and my heart was thumping wildly as I turned over the jack or hearts next while Edwards rose in his seat and glared like a wolf as I reached for the last card Wait he interrupted The boys drunk and Ill just divide the pot Ill be if you do broke in another an-other and the biggest member of the party It was all right for a minute and its all right now There was a ring in the voice that meant business and I turned the last card slowly and almost shouted for joy when r saw the ten of hearts The boy had made a royal flush on a fourcard draw and Edwards had gone in on four sevens pat We put the kid to bed with his I money and the next morning he was oblivious of everything but the beginning I begin-ning 01 the game and had no recollec I tion of the most remarkable draw I ever heard of and Ive seen a good many games of poker o < This is the story of a delayed cablegram cable-gram It was told yesterday by a man from the south who stopped over for a day on his way to San Francisco You know gentlemen he said to heah you all tal1dn about yo salt lake out heah makes me think about a bathln episode in mv native state of Gawga He poured out a little bourbon bour-bon and continued There were two young fellows down there who lived in Savannah They were perfee gentlemen gen-tlemen and great society menvey popular with the ladies and the men too for that mattah Wen one of them decided to take a trip and started I for Japan to be gone a yeah or moah and the las thing he said when he boded the train was that he would I send his friend back some thin from Japan I In due cose of time heah comes a big bundle from John in Japan to his friend Jack in Savannah and among other things were a dozen voluminous garments marked bath In suits Jack was tickled to death and invited six girls and five boys to join him in a beach party over at ybee island with a little supper afterwards They were delighted of cose for Jack was a prince among entertainers an it was quite a o fable honah to be Invited to make one of his little lit-tle pan tys Gentlemen L Gentle-men when they ap pead on the beach 4 f In those foreign bathin suits there s < wasa sensation v5 among the ladies J t and gentlemen gathered theah Th suits were all the colahs of the rainbow and positively hurt yo eyes They went in the watah laughln and havln a good time an were almost forgotten when one of the young ladies gave a wild shriek Jack started towahds her but stopped suddenly ant said some I V thin that sounded like By and down he went in the watah with just the top of his head showin About that time another young woman shrieked and then another and pretty soon they were all huddled up together with nly their heads above the waves I was in bathin and stahted toWahds them but they screamed and told me to go back or they would drown themselves Then that scamp Jack c llec1 to me Foh Gods sake colonel he yelled bring me a bathin suit I kneW he I had on 3 bathin suit as did the other gentlemen who came up anS thlnkin we were bein made spoht of we went away Five minutes after that suh Jack appeared in the midst of us on the top of a big wave without a stitch of cloth to hide behind sub and when he stotted fo the bathhouse as bare as a billiard ball sub the crowd pahted like they were maltin way for a cannon can-non ball He was a fast runner but we were there almost as soon as he was an it would have fahed hahd with him if we could have come at him fo he had insulted evey lady on the beach Finally he got my word of honah that he would be allowed to explain belIe any steps were taken and came out and assuhed us that those Javanese suits had dissolved an that he knew nothin whatevall of their dissolvin qualities when he gave them to his friends to weah He went down and slung bathin suits 10 the young ladles in the watah and to the men and they came out with them on when Jack had to do some more explainin Ve had to take his word fo it but he was under a cloud of suspicion until the next day when a cablegram came from John It was dated at Nagasaki I Japan and ran Dont for Gods sake use bathing suits they dissolve in saltwater salt-water Just discovered It The message mes-sage was from John but had been delayed laye three days It cleahed Jkcks skirts but those young women have not quit blushIng yet and the social circle of Gawga will probably never recover re-cover from the shock No I dont know what the suits were made of for none of the material was left to examine ex-amine |