Eureka Reporter | 1902-11-28 | Page 3 | Might Have Been Worse

MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE philosophical view taken by detect ed card sharper N C goodwin tells a story of a poker game in a tar far western town where gambling Is permitted by law and regulated by the gamesters who generally have the moral support of the community when they administer strenuous punishment for crooked dealing four men sat in on this occasion and two of then them worked together with so much disaster to the other two who were playing fairly that the suspicions of the latter were I 1 aroused they soon disc discovered overe d the I 1 system in operation against them one two or the required number of fingers were laid with apparent carelessness on the table for signaling purposes tiro two fingers were resting on the table when quick as a flash one of the cheated sliced them off with a knife ending the game the following morn ing the victim of this impromptu bit of surgery was beard heard singing and whistling cheerfully in his room in the local hotel and was asked by a sur stranger who had heard of the evening evenings s game and its finish it cheer falness were not somewhat out of or der on the part of a man who had just lost two fingers and been branded as a cheat why I 1 in in luck luckl was the ous reply suppose I 1 had been hold ing a full hand at that stage of the game