Show LUCK L CK IN GRM GAMES ES OF 0 F It Come and Goes Inscrutably Faro Fro I Ia th the theP P pular Game ea of the Gambler e i ased C ham For I the he Art ant tl I lI lieh hed ed the my mr I I Mir aft s n statement that a man IlIaD by lest y beck ek I fi a tarn at Hot a Ar you y aJ 4 t Uly r loss 1 1 n n 1 g h t y Idom of bet you betty ot of Ute floe kw AA yet at the III ot of Kling Pharaoh are not DOt tIM froID inter or 01 pl rap tines It Is t that tile the s ear ar the lite me game must t bt be mire than the winners In UI th instance one ODe D J I is credited 1 II i t h tort or r to the bad roll roU of the Kentucky K t I lut i u r net Hen the hours of 10 p m tad and tl a m My May be he d dill fl but I if r he be did he have must mat bave had bad luck to a p or Noe W T Shannon who 0 owns tile the I h must Wit have hae taken oIl off the limit and nd allowed PU Km rim Pal child to slather r checks ch all a over the layout Ira in tile the It anti ant expiation el e that he would cork ork hi he be m to Jl have done don At any ny ordinary limit rolt It Is a p pretty hart hard job ob r even for tor r a man mn out of luck to l lon e 1 in six hours hour arid and I am m disposed to walt wait davits before given t the h story full fuU credence Luck however is I Inscrutable When it comes coma com ones oars rt it y there the to is no telling where It will top stop and Dd when whan It to lo against ti 4 man he be might a as well U tit Ile Ie a shoestring mund his hla roll and cash In hla hia stack he has any ny left kit 1 tt cash ish in and sleep aJ p before he be woos th ty fickle goddess aiu tV AU All the tbt stock device IC of f walking Round 1 ha tUb a hunchbacks hunchback hump or giving money to beggars beggar n rr useless eleu u Luck to be I ill that wayn way it mm umI s unsought and It stubbornly re remains aloof loot from fromM om I M t who seek k It The beut Sd beauty about bout It H Is that now new and aDd then i i n it will come come lOme to a man in coal u and andI nd if that in tt I I 01 tn J I tit be game me enough Sir he can ean tart start In with a carpet tack taek and t win ruin n out rollin rolling The biggest faro fro gambling I 1 ever ev saw M was w an en thus this ie It was w in Leadville in the days day d when Harrison on onH a H venue nut was about bout the most fervid thoroughfare On this tilt I nt What Bret Harte alliteratively described de as AI the pop of the pistol pastor was wan w a familiar sound sad and nd i 1 hr irn was the choicest t assortment of faro experts expert in the ther r that ever has hu been rounded up anywhere every avery h dr H l i played U ed faro except ex t The reason n t play pla was w because there were no in the imp amp The Confucian brother was WU not DOt allowed within wit the thet t s of Leadville in those days a and I believe the lion Ion poli y Is hi I still In tons fort Old OKI t I Tabor Nightshirt Tabor as be ho was wass as a s II designated because of ot his hla tastes in the matter r r Ji S UKO robes robe de nuit used to saunter ua lest Into a gambling Ji uv 1 occasionally and drop a few thousand merely merey y to tot t the reputation of the tamp camp aa as a financial center x lid the little Dutch shoemaker who mo located the u Little l I I have ban forgotten his hi name tame Everything was W fa faro r ro for roulette had not attained the popularity that It ItI I r n c enjoy And that reminds remind me that I cant for tor the life Ute of if me nil nn P understand why hy the gambling house houseK houseL bou K L i a r is III i continually squawking about the poor returns 1 i rant mi 1111 the bank and as continually plugging toe for t the it used to be M thought that a faro fro game with a aTlay good T i ty v was wu about bout as good a thing for the man heated behind me tau meI I as a passport to the United States State treasury with Ji dv ly watching you yota Nowadays you will hear z ZiS i who run clubs talking ta about bout chucking huckl the faro fro Us out Into the sewer and forcing ford torel the s gent gentt t take I a k his hi chance chances on the fall tailor of the little tittle marble I tm am ami m i 11 i lined dined to think the gambler has haa imbibed the trust t idea and Dd wants wanta everything in sight eight ht and aDd 10 per cent ant HII for his hla trouble in picking it up The Th episode which I started to relate took place in I th Texas house bouse which was w at that time Ume the biggest wt gambling establishment In Leadville They had bad hair a ad d 7 faro layouts with white checks check ranging from fro M II 1 nt M upward and nd the man who could not find a game me to 10 tot tilt uit t him at t the Ute other tables stud atud in nt i monte was a difficult and fastidious rustler to please e ehi This hi hou house employed a big bl husky citizen cUben to soothe BOOthe ex ue itrI winners and nd reprehend obstreperous losers In Chi Chia Chiao i a ago ao o parlance a bouncer He had bad less lea to do than might fright Tn ha r been expected for tor gambling house hoo manners mannen are a pretty good despite the contrary impression enter entert to t null ml n d hj hy people who ho never have seen the inside of a tern tero i or r fortune torture Hence p his bin salary was wa not large largen tan nn n Saturday night this man got ot his weeks week pay and nd u t td of hiking out and Dd paying payin his hi room rent and buy ir r i t meal ticket U ket he be drilled up to one of the far ar i u and started in to buck the bank He had one oner fir r runs run of luck look that I T spoke poke of i mo eto 1 i t 1 ago alo t o and be by Ii simply lose He dallied with t 1 II h hank roll to the extent of or so 8 and then moved n 11 h tH the next neat at table white where w the rt at 1 the performance He lie kept moving right along Be He Hein Beu u in to play about I 0 and at midnight asme leme me ht 1 tr told me of the way wy be he was w pulling the tail taU out of the MR and I 1 strolled around to the Texas house Muae to view the thep 1 p dings It was worth seeing The l he thing thin had settled down to a duel between the them Inc m nr T r and nd the house The ordinary limit had bad been beenk h k XII n tt off and when I blew Into the room the bucker was wast 1 t tong 10 open and 1601 on the turn He had bad pretty f i h all the chips chip out of the chip hip rack rak and be was Wu as ast asni Id ni t as a n a Chicago street at t car cr in January At that time he heis Was is ai sold aid to be about ahead of the game I watched h hn n an to hour and nd then went home bom and to bed T 11 make a long loraI story short this man with an original onal stake f fak k of lit perhaps p DO or N 40 was into the bank barak roll pretty l I s y to xo S ON along toward 4 1 At that time his vr tr r who w ho had bad been told of his proceedings sailed celled II into tit ill I It loom and swooped down on him with a demand that Ii should huld Instantly cask cash c in and quit He protested and d that be he had things thin rolling his bis hi way wy In barrels 1 ut t t the t ht woman was inexorable Finally he compromised t b by aching ashing in Ira half of his h winnings which be he handed banned han over overto t to 11 I the amount being pretty p tty close dow to the he ht started home with the parting partin statement that he be beu heu u ts as a i fool who would quit broke and she proved to be a at ai t i He nicked his lock hick when wb n he gave n away awa a part r his hi winnings a fatal thing thin to dors do a any aay punter punt will t about bout noon he had lost loet his h last lut white chip His II sensible woman give up ap a cent ceat end and andT nd T he was wa back bark at t his bl old job of bouncing The I Nn i 1 heard was invested in a sheep ranch somewhere ii d n Buena Vista way w Anyhow it never went back beck to ton ton tot n t h t ini n a de of a faro layout r sf f course ourse that was wu an ra exceptional run JU of luck but the thery v i ry has haM some advantage over ov the t ordinary gambling q mi rIl 1 ru in ill the fact td that It Is true Incidentally I J may ay ear y yn that thit n t though hoUCh t I have heard arel of bigger er betting than thara that Lith i h T f have hen been n telling of I J never bave have seen een it and I Ir eta else who bo has It The deck r 11 c i r have hAe seen lIMn anyone f seen h tells you of a ceiling limit and out oot of hand Band handis r 1 is ys 4 has MS the facts feUl from somebody doe They newer never neverin er eroIn in oIn fur ni tit II t first hand And lId that is I why b I am Inclined to t doubt whether my f fr i u nd Bill Shannon really Iy accumulated of Mr r YaIr luM t t cola coin col In six all hours o |