Show GRAINS OF CORN WERE RED Gambler Stuck Them Into a Poker Game Where Chips Used Were Vere White Grains and Row Ensued A they had dined togEther III Ii a aM AFTER M Michigan avenue hotel the other night four of the thc members of the tue I Reformed Poker Players club st stepped into the barrom They cou d there an anold old gentleman and Ida his son sitting at a table The old man nau must 1114 have ve been a ac c character before the thc of old age ase took hint him out of active life Ufe and left I I him the fr free use ItIe or of his hlf tongue me memory lie He had re as af eth Martin or of St Louis he be told the re reformed formed players when hf n he stepped up to after some me one sa say some pome something thing about poker Hp He was aR fun full of rem Ini cf or of the old days of the MIs when t the steamboats that plied between beten New Orleans and SL LOuis were pre floAting gambling dens r 1 rend read ac accounts counts of old days dRYs sometimes ld Id the old man Strange odds odd and get into intI the press and aud come to tomy my 1511 notie Its ICe pretty to re read about to be sure but the real thing was not notIe no Ie nice Th The blackmen ta Inched hed hero that you rend read bout about was itS anything but a hero There Ther was no iso chivalry about him whatever and he be was ready for any dark deed that would profit him hin or Of nu Im about the i professional gambler bler Cor or very every one i gambled If they had not done so th the would soon noun have been een gone The chivalrous ones i were the southern planters but slot not mean who would play the thc full Cull limit and get fleeced r I was en one of the smaller boats boat on one nl night t on which were some gain m bIers going down the river to m meet et a large steamer coming cominS Up tip UpI tipI I sup the gum gam gambling hUng bling the bt big boat had most of their gambling At any rate wh when n they saw two or three young plantation men on the boat the they could find holy one greasy puck pack of cards ants And no chips The bOat had a large cargo argo of corn and so one of t the e party shelled seine e and It was used for tor chips About the tRe time the decision was made one of f the t planters disappeared i He had hll managed ged to slip down in the held where the corn com was and in the dark be took the first ear he dime came to and shelling it put the corn com In his I pocket It was wag his intention It If he lost I the chips he bought to tall fall back on the I I chips In his pocket Luck Luek was against him and he lost hIs Ilia last honest chip It was Isis his turn I to ante He flung his hand down into lila his pocket got get some grains of r corn and I stepped sapped them down on the table When lee he rained his hand ho 10 and behold the I grains were red In an instant every evory everyman man was va on his feet One held beld a pistol I at his head while another went through I his pockets or Of course they brought up a whole lot of red corn Th The cern that the deal dealers dealers II ers bad shelled and gIto out ivas as I white They bound him hand and nd foot and I wert a council Ii to l I what to do with i 1 1 whistle tle of the large steamer They took him on board with them and I never ascertained ned what the they did with him I was on the river for runny ven years after that but I never AA saw him him gin again When n the old gentleman ceased cease speaking and comments had been made on the corn incident a general conver nation sprang up regarding gambling By the way ay gentlemen n spoke poke up one of the old players j 1 suppose YOU have all beard about the death of Gen esel Sc whiCh occurred not hot long ago You have Well perhaps I can tell teU yoU a story about him that flint you ou heard Justl Just a week before General death he sat at a table in his own Oln residence with General Ricker and ind Scho eld lna two United Stat States S senators It was a jackpot Every Everybody bod had passed aSS up to who promptly opened it for the limit One of oC the senators raised the general gner 1 raised him bACk and the senator stayed Each Eath drew one card Then the betting began fast t and furious Finally the senator said ld General I 1 have you beaten I think I have a dood sure ure thing and r I dont care to bet any more money on this kind of a hand But I dont think you have bae roe me beaten heaten When J I get enough or of it Ill was the reply Accordingly the merry war of chips began Then the senator renewed his proposition and Offered to fatten the stakes b by the r of a dinner for thE fire gentlemen preSent This was General Genend had four nines the senator had u a t straight Push but the little dinner for five fhe never came off Two evenings before the evening set for It General Schenck died Speaking about General Schenck spoke poke up another man present re minds me of a game In which the gun gen oral Was sees interested The uThe game gam in this instance I took plue at the Blossom club then the old Tm man many Hall New York CIl City the general there wore Ike of o al oU oil re renown C Coroner Dick I sun gun and Jack Sharpe of Broadway railway fame It was the generals edge As was customary he made it 2 to come On I pIcking up his hand Sharpe raised it 10 Flannagan looked nt at his cards and ard made it 20 Oliver look at hiS hand until money was in inand Inand and to the surprise or of everyone he too raised the limit I The old general smiled as he made good the raises and lie ho remarked as he dropped in an ertia blue chi chiI chin f As you all seem soom to be in a raising mood Ill raise her myself To abbreviate a long story stor they boosted each other for a long IonS time Finally at the generals suggestion they all called Oliver who was dealing called Cards cards The general shook his head and with witha a grin observed Id spoil my hand it If I 1 took ab alsy Nun here remarked Sharpe 4 These will do me chimed in Flan Finn pagan Oliver put th the deCk in the middle Of f the t tabre remarking f No use of m my taking any I Thon they began egan betting belting a again n and th W r good sIzed checks wIth an all the chips that had M 1 boOn n IsSued when tb the general allowed it was wa his P pot t and h ho kne knew that at J ast two tao of th the other fellows c Uld not siford to lose the hc money they bad put In Th There Therefore r fore the general when OlIver called caled You will sc sc th the or of your wa waS s ha Ing out on the tho table tile the three four five t six and seven cit hearts hoort Sharpe white and aad threw down a sequence of sPades from trays to seven 1 we Win will It the money general genera he said Stid No you ou dont doiL rt lre got t Po ii finger in the pi pie and lie he exposed a au flush of 0 dia from th to seven ven I Then men Oliver turned over Oer a of the Uit sult In hi value Joc of tilt the other tb three i The They divided ed the money and some someone one accused Outer Oliver of ef Tl ing stacked the cards naros He denied It ver er and anda a h he bed bad ne never cr hat had tIte te reputation of being tl a clever mal manipulator lJ lator of the all of the players ae ac accepted Ills his Worth word a pretty good stor story for an informal yarn yam like thIs but I want to tell teU you a real good goed see mid an oW old WIt who has woo b his wa way around t the hp worl a tim times s with cards uOn One da day a shall san net be for ob obvious obvious lost everything owed everyone lid and thought of killing himself do It aon tonight t he said Jf if lurk luck runs against inc and with that he hc pawned a bit bIg ring It a cherIshed d heir heirlOom heirloom lOom for Ill play t the lot Jot at roulette and call U eli IMI No 4 lac be said id 10 the only 1 ho had bad Wt left Why Vh Just because bau thorn then a ar f four letters In Hope and four eur l letters it hi H JI and its one or the other with mf me be said saidA A fools whim perhaps But old man manTh Th That t night he gambled 00 Now gents gent make your your our bets yelled eIle the croupier Are you ready How snuck much in that roW roll Four hundred and sixty Correct Four hundred and sixty dollars on the No o 4 And they all sit and they aU all stand and aU nil ready So yelled the croupier with his drawl and then came broken by the tiC ot the roulette wheel as asit asit it spun around holding a young YOUn m luauS ns life jn in its whirl T Then n the croupier sung out a ln No 4 Wins even ven the Pretty Prett slick luck he ad added ed and then began to multiply by you sir air he said But the gambler had fainted Y Years ars later the two friends were chatting together U How terribly close to death I was as that night ld the wi winner oer who Ito had nt never ET gambled gambl i since that night What a strange thing that the No 4 1 i chaee in iii and aM as Much at stake Not ot so strange after nl al my friend when you re reflect we e all hail baft Jt It arranged In advance with the croupier who very cleverly deverly made mad the ban ball drop into No o 4 Your father paid the amount mout of your our and nd i 1 handsome sum be besides sides Chicago Inter Iter Ocean |