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Show . , at. Poker Not Entirely According to Hoyle York, nor as wicked as St. Louis or Cincinnati, but we have our customs and idioms just the same, and the stranger who can't tumble to them must take the consequences. The traveling agent of a liver pill concern in the East struck this town to contract for an advertisement in the Torchlight, remarks the editor of the Snagtown (Ark.) Torchlight. Finding Find-ing that he was an old newspaper man and that he purposed remaining two or three days to take In the town, we set out to post him on some of the idioms and customs. He thought he knew It all, however, and that's the reason he Is In bedroom No. 48 in the hotel with a bullet In his groin. It seems that he dropped into the White Eagle still and took a band In a game of poker. The game Is rather eccentric in this town. Sometimes two pairs beat four of a kind, and sometimes some-times not. it Is a good deal according to who Is playing and how much there is up. It seems that our friend got a royal flush and was called by three jacks. He at once jumped 10 the conclusion con-clusion that he had won the Jackpot, but he was sadly mistaken. Tom Ephriam Smith was in the game, and it was an occasion when a pair of sixes, if held by Tom, would beat four aces. While rnklng In the pot the liver pill man was stopped by a bullet, bul-let, and even If he gets well he will have a limp In his left leg. This town isn't as big as Chicago or New |