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cussed yesterday the uubject Horn

Graft nnd Dishonest GraftSince this dock investigation ofJeronu

was started you hear lots of talk aboTammany men growiu rich on graftbegan hut you dont hear nobody drawltho distinction between honest graftdishonest graft

Yes ninny Tammany men have gotIn politics Im ono of them Imand gettiti richer every day But I1

never gone in for dishonest graft bloc1

mailin gamblers saloonkeepers disorderpeople neither has any ofmen who have made big fortunespolitics

Theres an honest graft and Im aexample of how it works I might sum tthe whole thing by snyln I seen my o-

portunltios and I took emJust let mo explain by examples M-

partys in or the city anti its gain to undelot of public improvements We

Im tipped oil t ylay out a uuw park at n certain place

I KOP my opportunity and I take itgo to that place nnd buy up nil theI can Intho neighborhood Then thoof this or that makes its planthere is a rush to get my land which nobocl

cared partickilbr for beforeit perfectly honest to charge

and make a profit on mymy foresight Of course

Well thats honest graftOrsupposln its a new bridge theyi-

goln to build I get tipped off and I bu-

ns much property na I con that hns to

for approaches I soil at my owprice later on and drop some more monein the banks

Wouldnt you Its just likenlicad in Wall Street or in the coffee c

market Its honest graft and Ilfor it every day In the year

will tell you frankly that Ive got a goo

lot of it tooIll tell you of ono case They

goin to fix up a big park no matterwhere I got on to it and wentabout for land in that neighborhood-

I could get nothing at a bargain hutbig place of swamp but I took it fast enoug

held on to it What turned out waI counted on They couldn

make tfie park Complete without Plurkitts swamp and they had to pay aprice for it Anything dishonest in that

Up in the watershed I made some moneytoo I bought up several bits of Ianthem iioni years ago nnd made a prettgood guess that they would be bought u

for yator purposes laterSomehow I always guessed abou

right and shouldnt I enjoy the profit o

my foresight It was rather amusincondemnation commissioner

came along and found piece after piece oland in the name of George W Plunkitt o

the Fiflnonth Assembly district New York

city They wondered how I know juswhere to buy The answer is I seen mopportunity and I took it

I havent confined myself to landthat pays Is in my line

For instance the city is repayingRtreet and hna several hundred thousaniold granite blocks to sell I am on hamto buy and I know just what theyworth

How Never mind that I hadof monopoly of this business for awhilebut onco a newspaper tried to do me Igot some outside men to come over IronBrooklyn and New Jersey to bid againstme

Was I done Not much I went t-

each of the m yi and said How manyof those 250000 do you want

One said wanted 15XK

and another wanted 10000 I saidAll right Lot me bid for the lot

Ill give each of you all you want fornothin

They agreed of course Then theauctioneer yelled

How much am I bid for these 25000C

nor pjivln atonesTwo dollars and fifty cents says ITwo dollars and fifty cents

the auctioneer Oh thats ame a re l bid

found the bid was real enough My

rivals stood silent I got the lot forgave them their share Thats how

the to do Plunkitt ended andsuch attempts end-

Ive told you how I got rich by honestgraft Now let mo tell you that most

mon who are accused of robbin tirecity got rich the same way

They didnt steal a dollar from the citytreasury They just soon their opportuni-ties and took them That is why when areform ndtnintstrntlon comes in and theyspend a half million dollars in tryln to find

the public robberies they talked about In

the campaign they dont find themThe books are always nil right The

money In the city treasury Is allEverything Is all right All they canis that the Tamminy heads of departmentslooked after their friends within the lawand gave thorn opnnrtunilins theycould to make graft

Xow let me toil you thats noverto hurt Tammany with tho people Everygood man looks after Iris friends and anyman who doesnt Isnlt likely to b popularIf I have a good tiling to hand out In privatelife I filvo it to a friend Why shouldntI do tire same in life

Another kind of honest graft WhenTammany Yes in power it raised a goodmany nalnrits Thorn was an awful howl

by lllo reformers bnt dont you know thatTammany gained ten vofes for every onoIt lost by wikiryralrin

The Wall Street bunker thinks It shame-

ful to rnio a department clerks salaryfrom year but every manWile draxvsn says Thatsnil right I wish it was me And ho

very much like votin tho Tammanyon election day just out of sympathy

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the people wore dooilved into believln

that it worked dishonest graft Thny

didnt draw a distinction between dls-

honost nnd honest but just thatKomoTammany and supposqd they had ben robbin the city treasuryor Invyltv blackmail on disorderly houses

or workln in with tho gamblers and law-

breakersAs a matter of policy If nothin else

why should the Tntnrnany lenders go Intosuch dirty business when there is HO muchhonest graft lyln around when they areIn power Did you ever consider that

Now in conclusion I want to say tlintI dont own a dishonest dollar If myWOrSt enemy was given tho job of writinmynpitnph when Im gone couldnt do

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The Old Scrip Man Knows How to Put IInto the Dead

It was one of the of thedull days Wall Street haslately There was little a c-

pornls guard on floor of theExchange and didnt care a bawbtapparently whether prices went updown or how far

It was mining of course and manytho heaviest of the room traders had f-

saken tho exchange for convenient amoro Inspiriting cafH At a table in oof tho most famous of those in the WStreet district a halfdozen bankers abrokers wore sItting nnd with themtho Old Scrip Man buyer nnd seller of t

junk of tho worlds securitiesScrip wild one of those at tho tab

suddenly and apropos of nothing inticular these times are dull enoughus who deal In live ones How tho dedo you who deal only In dead ones manuto keep clear of th blues

Easiest thing In tire world replied t-

Old Scrip Man Theres no for megins on ones audi whun resurrc

Im In for nil Mints handBut say if the situation in this

today was tike it was In Cireoco1810 the Stock Exchange In time of awould Iw a cemetery compared n

morgueAnd now well have a talc of the cat

combs exclaimed one of tire partyLets have it said another a mould

one ought to go well with a wet dayhappened in Greece In I83i

Well said tire Old Scrip Man sontime before 1830 the Government of Gree-iseuwl some bonds to get money for sonitiring or other A German eaTer

of FrankfortontheMain bouga big hunch of those bonds for personinvestment wasto iieak of and the venture looked ilkthe tiring the old German knew

bonds matured andbacking and filling mid fusing arounfor a tho Greek Government decidedto repudiate the bonds It was concludethat that was tha easiest way to pay em

But the Greek statesmenwithout Druckert He n-

rmdlation end h decidedhe wouldnt be repudiated He thoughtmatter over for a came to aand sent to the Greek Chancellor of thExchequer or whatever the fum

was called In substance the folosing

Government has seen fit to ropediatn tire principal and interest of anof bonds a part of which I holdtook my good money and I took what Iposed was your hands Now I wanmy money back with Interest If I donget by lhe date was mentioned Ienter harbor of Athens on a ship c

war and Ill blow hell out ofThe message was duly received and n

attention paid to it But that didnt dh-

turb old DruckertHo bought a strip somewhere and

it from to rudder At thend of ho time set in his ultimatum thstrip armed manned and equipped

front of tho cityThis done sent another ult-

natum ashore to the effect that Ifmoney wasnt paid to him within twenty

would open fire on GreeGerman looked like I

meant business arid since Athens had aboutis much in the way of defences OH Lonesomeiurstl damned if Greeklldnt and old Druckert sailed hornwith his dough-

As a of unrecorded history remarked one of the party ofmint thats ever hut how

uld a situation like that in this countrlife Into your morgue of securities

replied thOld Scrip Men You know ofi Southern StatesNorthern ones issued bonds some tim

history which afterward rea fine collection of thos

Kinds including those of Louisiana Arlisas Mississippi Florida Nort

Carolina nnd West Virginiais well as the Wabash and Erie canal bondi-

f Indianaand bonds issued too pay the the State of Michigan

were repudiated in 1858Now if I send a of wa

iround and make these defaulting States paip thored P a greater for

at shop was for NorthTII Pacific those Maydays of 1001

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OUR MAGIC I KUttOPK-

I lievolution In Black Art Caused byAmerican Desire for Something New

I have been reading a great deal latelbout the American invasion of England-aid a manufacturer of magical goodsbut there is one branch of our trade thaiLas escaped tho attention of the commerinl writers and statisticians and that ii

he exporting of magical apparatusComparatively few persons not in

Fronted directly in magic know anythltif-f tire enormous business done in conjurinj-pparntus but when I tell you that thenre at least 150000 enthusiastic amatoti-lagicians in this country alone to

othing of the professionals somean be formed of the trade in this line

A few years ago most of the magicalpparatus sold in this country was Importedroar Germany tine homo of modern magio-robably no other city in tho world hat

many amateur magicians as Hamburgno other city in the world tins so many

devoted solely to the manufacture ofuigical goods

Next to Hamburg Ntiromburg in thetost important city as regards tho innnu-

irturo of magical apparatus and applinces Tho jtrman turn out

finest goods and magical apparatusbe worth at must of

highest grade Notwithstanding themost work

ten could be employed in this work tineriips on tines goods were so lowlilt It did not American dealers tompoto so they simply theiraius from a hand

profit Magical apparatus comesIgh

After a while however tho Americanbecame tired of doing the mime

tricks over and over again Ho de-

inndfd something now in tho ofusions and small tricks or at least honijtod new methods of achieving oldfectsThe American dealer in magical

iw that ho must put on his thinking capho would retain trade

i improve upon thin old tricks and to makea while he hogan to

vent new tricks that were far ahead ofle old ones and hn began to make apiratus based new

Tire American magicians appreciateditno efforts on the part

rs and too to invent newiclcs and devise new apparatus So intIre an now magicnw in this country

Then came of Europe by-

e American magiciansIth them their now nnd completely

lh foreign werenick to BOO that they were in danger ofcoming out of date So tond to for illusions and

and slowly but surely a fornn trade grew that now reachediportnnt proportions-

Our supply tho magifinn of England France Germanyely with most their tricks and all of0 host illusion of late years originatedthis country Thern are at a score

boused In America whonothing else unit turn out magical goodsMost of tin fIrms art

irk Philadelphia Boston and Chicago1 of support foreign buyers

are always on somehut their usefulness

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Points Math by Ioners A SnlisnMaker Who Wanted an Kilunatl

Two Men Who Asked n Ilnukmnlfor a Marker Loser Who

Tire season a young yet but Iveready herd more kinky peoples numbon my shoots than I ever haul lx fon in tcourse of a whole summers racing i

marked n member of the Metropolitan IlAssociation noted nan bookmaker who do

not refuse one bet In a thousand Tfreak are more numerous tills yethan they over were before since I firbegan to hold down n stool and that go

hack some several tIdesI like tire freak bettors They are

droll I dont care whether they stingnot 1 like them they art so nnlvn yesOne of them by tho way did sting n

the other nfternoon fore thousand He luon what looked to me like a twodaleftover and tacked up to my stool just iI was making ready to go out to the law

to look nt tho thrd race for the horses we-

nt the postSay he aIl to me Ill lay you

the favorite finishes last and he pokedbill at me

Why thatll just pay my miinicurirbill said I and I took the twenty

Nothing could have looked muchthan that did for the favorite wns n 3 toshot in a field of four horsts with tint ranoutsider at 50 to 1

Your ought to bo n Pink Jnck I said t

him You must know poiniHhing abetthe geegees in title race

Nope snid turn man with the leftoveI dont know one of em from the other

But I just to prove to my ownfaction blocksquatters are

a kite when you think you know howprices against such fool proposition

is horse races Ive got a theory thatOmnipotence knows in advance what horp

is going to tat another horse aiyou laying me that tho favoritelast

How about 50 to 1 I askod himfigured a good deal longer than thatmy hook was rounded up and I didntlike offering him a higher quotationhe bucked for it

Thousand to twenty safe a a

any of em the man said and myrecorded the bet ilown in one cot

th paneTim 3to5 favorite did finish a pun

last and tin Ironic bot kill dwhatovcr profI had made on the rate The man with thleftover didnt have any line on tire

and there wasnt anything especial thmatter with the horse exceptdidnt feel like running fast

Tine freak bettors theory looked nsound to him as n boilerrankors chisel aftithat race anti he came nt again

Now he said to mo before tie burtrace Ill lay you the thousand that th butoutsider wins this race

The outsider was a HOtol shot on mslate but I wanted that thousand linefind I took the bet one of the WKRHSI tirewere ever registered on my sheet 3300001

1000I figured that no funny bettor couth

get in right twice in a row all thsame ray heart was boating aievils tattoo against my ribs at the finisif race The SOto1 slant that I stooi

out of businofison hookoiit up with tho favorite at tire top of thstretch and then it vim just trail andIxstwwn them right down to tho wire Thfavorite just did stick his tongue out antwin on the post hut I WON sonio tottery aI climlied down from my stool andake a long breath until tie fiivoritilumber was hung

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it Morris Park in May A disgusted ownewho was selling out Ills stable of dogsjno of thorn in a race and nt post tine h-

imhled up to my stool said toHot you n rot ten lastThats a good wife of it

aking I said to him but being nsIm a gay dog of a gambler Pit lay youiimdrrd to your fifty Miat your mutt Iwati-

it least ono other Shetland in tho sprint-It looked good enough to that waj

00 Ills horse was th rank outsider In thejetting hut they dont always run tn chalknaybo youvti hoard that said notii wln n-

xjfore no and I figured it a downenough tiring that th skate wouldn ahead of at least one of other horsesor they were all a cavalry lot of maidens

This freak met wound up in n grouchThe owners dog did finish Inst of all of the

that actually ran but liter wets onif thorn left at tho post Tho owner of

oiirse declared that lie had beaten me outI couldnt see it since the horse thai

was left at tho post was actually the lastif the to finish

owner of the pine stormorI offered to turn the kick over to the

lEg arbitrator my bet wns that my horsecould last Ho did run last The onr

was left at the post didnt run at allie only jogged beck to the stand nfleiicing left

Butt tire one that was left was in tholartors hands and that lots me out I

him Its the same for you as if youdbetting on Urn favorite and tho fa

had at thohad of rings Kick Bureau

ecidod I lurid correct end of itthe of tbo plug hints bion

round ever since people that Imshine and aDown in Washington this spring I lentil

nolhorone of these freak n chawir an aftermath A Washington man

th a small stnbjo of skates hod arnipln in n field of maidens

of them arid ho mule Ills llttlopooch to me before the plugs linedp at the harrier

I dont think my horse can win saidB to mo hut Ill hot your two hundred-i a thousand that hell boat non horsesinnll boat him

aboard said 1

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rent Blunt flirt muttdnt wind up in tho ruck Ho finishedtenth In tho field of thirteen Thatado it six horses in front of him and sixthlnd him and I won tho lujt

easy whores the dough said10 owner of horse alter race

Think it over horse finishedventli I told him Just frame a

he snld to mn my hotth you was that horse

many horses as heat him wasnt It

then I saw that hn was of thosecotrack grammarians

Not wasnt said I Youur horse would l oat more horsos

bent him and mere wero sixfront nnd six behind him so you see

belong to the You liosnput a friccHseed l of over it

of witnesses who had ionFinding by testified ho lurid saidtore instead of en many horsrs

said and aver since manis boon spieling around tolling folksat I spend cooking longdraw

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down in a of the sheet ato fifty dog ho named would

Well his horse did some bronco wiat the very first tossed his

the hedge anti then relloof tire burden on his back went onthe field taking tho with themthe way around near t

Just llko conning for tire Sisi Id tho kinky bet

when ho crime around to 11

after the race and tint duck actuallythat he was going to itchilly nerve got me around tho colli

did ever nlghtschocI couldnt help hut ask

Whv the matter ho askme with iris lamps ns big around as moagates used for tnws then I could f

thnt the chap nctunllv believed that hocopped out bet I wasted four

to him that a that doesicross tine iris Isnt cosidcred ns finishing

Rut I didnt about no jockflnlshinV he replied sulkylike I I

you that the thewasnt no agreement about where t

ud finish my othousand mid dollars or Ill we M

Robert Pinkerton about you hes n fri0 arid ho aint to see me don

Pinkerton who happened topassing my stool just In

never seen funny bettor lioforo In 1

life hnd to give the tire treatedtoward tire when he unnounced thlie was going to take the 1050 out of ncuticl-

eI hud a experience at the Acjuduct in the awho made a 100 lust with me on t

2 to 1 In a twoyearold tacofavorite a butstewards disqualified the for flagrant

a contending horsesthe stretch flirt the bolognawas tire first mart In my line eveafter tire announcement of the illuquai-ficatlon all tine same

Tree alrottv said to npayoff the of

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headWhat horse nicked the cashierTe favorite said the maker of

This Is youre in bad WaneI said to stool Thiswhere become a charter membertine LoseOut Society The favoritesdisqualified

cord ho naked mo withblank face

Disqualified I repeated Set bnout

chucked In with tint also rnns maderun last instead of first In brief

But how could dot l e the sausnRimaker asked tIne lOW of beginniito out of irIs forehead

How could he bo last when hn verede front yen dc vas reached hein

I was tempted to bund him that orfrom the tire first 1m

and the lat being I felt that themight be too for him

Your horse finished in front allI raid to him hut the rnce has take-away from him beoaiiso tire

a lot of rough riding nnd fouled threefour other horws in tire race

Vat difference tines lot maig to me-t he sausage maker to K

hot up I clad no joggey I didnt riii-

do horso I malg no rouKliridin-nlrottv vot I getout of huntert toiler yen I alnno roughrider tint my vin to-

mo dotWell that was too long a

lot my cashIer do tire rest of the explaintinning to hinthung around payoff lint for the n-

maindor of he afternoon weeping lamp

Globules of liquid fait on the payoffsat oho

Ono of tire nervy bunch prodded his waup to my seat they were n

Billy said ho to me so manof them me Billy that I neverin on in life before give momarker for a hundred on thewill your

Wo seem never to have met befonJack I nald to him fooling some sarcnstiover tire cheek of Iris request Wlutmakes your think that I think that youi-iood a hundred

Your neednt bo so turned crnbboabout it was tint he squelchedpullIng a little bankbook out

to show it to me I guess Irjood for it all right thisyou that Ive S2J3 on deposit InVIount Vernon Savings Batik

Then Cooper big whiskeredPink who to he standinginotionod the man with the swell accountin Mount Vernon Savings flank to g

Its surprising how men whounknown to bookmakers cool

isk for markers I rarely pay any utIcaion to thorn hut I did once atast spring-

A graymired man who hail lieon making 20-

wts with mo for several days tintny stool before the last race of tirele hail lost out on five straight

You dont know me he in a iiioart of nnd so there would be no

my offering you a cheek But I woiili-o if let me n thouJinddollnr marker on tire favorite in thi

nice that if if such a Isnt oncontrary to vour custom

1 took n at the mnns square countin nci

on sir I said to himIt was us tho mutt lend put itn whomcontrary ti my custom to

if sort hut ono of those Install-nnooiiH iiilnchos that this quiotspokoinan wns ill right

The fnviritf lost by n nose The grayiilrod man my stool iiftor tin

BCO and kril mo nt what lintel I winpgWerod I told liiin nnd lie walkee-way I saw him getting into an autotnu

ns I mdo for return trainWhon I got to my hotel about three

itmrtors of nn hour l tor I found in 111-

3tor box containing a on-

housnnd dollar bill nml the card of a ITnitMSenator from tho West with tinThrnkK for tire oourlony written Ii-

oncll nt the bottom of 1n-nt taking dinners liko that often

viTioviUTT siwvInure Anirrleaii flipped Nunilxr o-

UrltlHh Sailors IKcrcaMnp

In tout years the number of AmorioailIons shippntl on American strIps hiss In

eased from 22000 to 3flKX while tho mitnr of Scandinavian sailors shipped on

merlcan vessels has decreased from 22 HXi-

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In British shipping the most extensl-vi the world th numlier of English saIlors

is decreased nnd the number of Lasoarsnut Indians has largely Increased Within

past ton years a steam ban roplnood-

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nployed on British steamers has doubledat present 40000 tire so employed

lille there are 150000 Britishborn seamonn years urge then were 20000

0000 Britishborn nnilorsThe l isuar whoso capacity for with

torrid heat is abnormal Is spn-

illy useful ns a fireman In thoand Now Zealand have

ninst tho of fiovHrnment mailmtracts to sinus employing eIther Laycars-

Clilnnmen In rocent-

nrHn conhldorabl Increase In the numbersailors on Amoii-

n and tho number of Italians hitson than doubled in ten yearsOno explanatIon of tho which is

nationality of seameni British ns well nip on shipsI ho fact that a notch larger share ofgrids commerce Is runt tropical

than has been tho ease heretofore10 extension of American commerce in-

most exclusively with tropical or semioplcnl The same true tomore limited extent with British antiniuui foreign commcrco

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GREEK METAT POKE

A Memorable Game inCity Which Left Two Dead at

Old Man Greenhuts

Thera wns nn appearance of joyous t

pectancy about the email group of loungiwho sat In Old Man Greenhuts saloon c

summer afternoon seeming to indicate t

probability of some happening In the m-

futuio though a stranger might well ho

been at a loss to conjecture tie naturetire expected vent Oreenhut hIntertough ho occupied lila favorite seat by t

window and hal lib feet in their neattomecl place on the sill was unusuallyanti smoked inlet cigar nervously The ot luwero chewing their tobacco insilence with only an occasionalat tho open door to Indicate that thoof waiting wits beginning to tella long time no ono but presentthe Old Man broke tho silence

I reckon there haint no o tclllany on ye to play clost to yerwhen then here Memphis sportshe said but taint goin to doto say that youve got your work cut o

for you an tIm repytatlon of ArkansCity hangs in tho balance Theres notion hut what Sun Bloodgood anTurner is two o tine short card playcthat travels the they do say ththem two plnyin together iraskillin in every town betweenan New Orleans ceptin Arkansas Cit

That theyve left for tho lastI aint Asayln but theyve show

judgment in that reason theynever come hero If theyd beenany other There haint nogoin to tackle a Arkansas City pokerif lie finds any other game too goodhim but these two haint So ye donwant to make no breaks in yer play n

remember them two has eyes like hawksTheres others can see a hole through

n fence said Sam Pearsall I reckotheres talent enough right hero to cutcombs aforo they leave town

Well if I didnt think so repliedhut I wouldnt crow so loud as Itimes but there nint no harm in chuckiiIn a warnin word All I I want to say

that these two aint no ordinary playersIf we didnt know that said Jali

Winterbottom with just a touch of inpatience in his tone wo wouldnt bo tnkiithe interest we is takin In meetin of em

further conversation there miglIs doubtful for whllo ho

still speaking Joe Bissott the Sherifftine county was seen approaching wit

the two strangers from Memphis whcearrival on the rRt boat with the avowepurpose of engaging the local players idraw poker had set tlio town talking

As was bcromlng In one who had offlcidignity to maintain and was thoroughly

conversant with tho etiquette of tho oc-

casion Mr Bassetl asked his two guestto join him In a drink and included all thop

present in tine invitation No ono wachurlish enough to droll no or foolishto lose inlet opportunity rind as tire new

comeTs recognized tho obligationrested upon thorn Old Min Greenhut wa

kept busy for some time juggling hi clnsscnnd One or two others in thewere moved to extend slmilnr suggestionbefore it was deemed fitting to introducthe subject that were really uppermost I

every ones mindBut at length the preliminary ceremonip

were duly completed and Old Man Green

hut remarked in a tentative fashionWo WItS nhenrin round here tha

you uns was coniin to town lookin for i

genusWell yes said Turner with becomini-

Jiffldeiice Weve been hoarin abou

Arkansas City poker for quite a spell now

Some says you play hotter Irene nor they

lo In some other places nn we Iowcwed try a little of it if your uns d like t

We dont know much about thowere within to learn if we can

any such players as they say there Is rounc-

Hm Well I dont know said OreenhutI dont play much myself born as I its

to look the theres sometine boys that set in with ye for

just for an accommodation-in such fashion wore the ob-

served whlili were foil to be approprlatt-o tho occasion and tho great gamewas destined t bo talked of from onof tho river to the other was begunThero wore six players four them

Vlnterbottini llawtt PonrwillObfd Plunkitt Iwlns counted the most

the galaxy of stars that hind builtin the reputation Arkansas City andhe other two as hnd Mug

tho most skilful of the marry

gamblers that outdo their living on themats In the river towns hurt mostlyn thC boatsThere wns no flk of n limit Tlio occa-

sion wits too serious a one for even such nus tnblo stakes would have

icon Rich felt that ho WiLd likely to loon to Ills to the utmostof his oach wns pre

inured to retire from the game only in cisi10 lost all The beginning howevervns a modest ono the six moilipioce in chins nnrf paying for them at thetnrt It was mini long before itvan ovldon use hothips wereikily o In tho making ofor one after another pullod out Iris rollo important bets tire tablevis strxwti to the extentif several tliotiKiimli of dollars Thisin till tine pUy had gone on someIll auto win ono oills two whltoloinR n for a number of deals10 very npn nr v-

iPnwmly Bloodgood sworehis breath mid tiioi ho laughed

odnurodlv It taM hisnil inn limiting a jackpot I

lont how n Imnd I have to10 M but that is worth looking nt-

Uitl In throw down four tens that he hadold

Well that sure WON hard luck saIdVlnterboltoin and the otherscreed It for a few momentsowever that having lost one

was about to anotherit being hi deal of course in tinetho first man on his loft who happenedBiissett opened tho pot for the

which wits 12 sittin-got cum in So did Turnernd Poarsnll In turn none of them raisedIt wits clmnco and ho

romptly raised it 0It was too strong for the but

rintorbottom Much obliged to youdasont to riiiso It afore bein o-

rivin everybody out hart s longst the I dont you

neither fitly annul he 8100

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Five hundred said WinternotI want bo added

m good and ready for seesaw thudmy comic You cnn both jump right In if

fool strongProbably tire words did trot count Neither

nor Turner wits likely to be-

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How tunIs ho said ns ho picked-i the deckHelp yourself sink Wlnterbottom-ll bet on tlirsoHave to cull you said

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tho vigilance with winch trwatched ono

On tho as tho play grow heavtho suspicion with which mart look

There were not deals ui which as nmmoney changed hands as Winterbottr

won ecu his four deuces when hotho luck to catch a pat full againstbut tho of waslargo and ns there was a wholesome su

of bluffs prevalent theru wen ruthmore ennui than was among such cc-players as tire six

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mon wore hard hitthoy managed to hold tholr own fall

some hours of thwero perhaps four oTr five thousand togood their two an or

no ono of the Arkansas City players hbeen forced out of thin game exceptkltt who had gone broke on annato of hands culinlnatliwith an flush against a quofull that Turner made In aHe retired with as good grace ho conmuster and joined of onloolcwho sat hour almost nsInterested as the players tlumsMvcn in tgame

Among these onlookers non was triokeenly observant than Old Man Oivni

who nail out frobehind tho lnr bringing the drinks orfresh deck of cards whenever they wocalled for und personally to tlreplenishing of two lamps wink

to the ovtho card tabln furnished all tire in tlsaloon H lost of tho interestiiifeatures of tho andho saw the two strangers gradually gottlitIre beat of the strugglemore and moro

Pears to mo he muttered to hlmsemoro than once like there was a prf sslneed for some merciful interpositionProvidence thouton it Is that someity In comln on The boys aint dolt

justice or herosports bettorn I reckoned

Joe to lx ot a slniikmind and as he was at all times pron-to In his words and acts there swemrto be a probability of somcthinintervening or he swoiviolently when he lost as he did more frt

as the game went on and presentthe climax came

It was Turners deal and a jackpot Theihad been some so them

wIts 26 in the centre of the table whoWinterbottom opened It for 25 the thrrmen before It Irokras if and tho dealtwould have It out between them the otbnthree not so Turner haino hesitation in raising which he did C3

pectlng the others toso happened however that Basset

had the jack ten ofand tho temptation to with thechnncof a a flush or overt a roytflush won too great for him to resist IItherefore threw Iris leavingwith no moro than two hundred In his rol-

and waited for Wintorbottom to spentTime latter could out ace

In his hand and certainly was notenough lo raise hack so simply madgood

the draw each man took a cardhaying three fives and a kickerbecause of the apparent certainty thathrees were to thchance of the draw

Winteibottom hnd not bettered so hbet a white chip Turner trailed withoulooking at putting it up to Bassetto if he lied It was a rathecurious and to be explained ba fear of the two onecard drawshim

It happened thnt Barrett lord caugha and he threw iris roll in th

laid down anti Turnelooked fit his draw Ho haul made a fivfull on queens anti called seeing thinBasfiett wine in

At this Bassott lest control of himselbworo with a great oath tha-

Llio deal wIns crookedthat word no game was

played in Arkansas City without nn intertire least and and Turne

knew it The shot that wine tired aBassett mlrsed its mark because some onbehind Tumor knocked iris nrn

at tire moment ho the trigger buit crashed through the big lamp

theAt tine moment of Bafsotts speaking

Old sprang for bar amseized his he bed norainy lifted it light watt out

must be considered n coinjidence he swung the nrounc10 clumsily one of the two remainln

was knocked off the bar And Itmother moment the only remaining lainiad been smashed so that moonurea In darkness

Two or three more shots rang out almosin the instant Then crime a huahhen the sound of a furious struggle

a shriek of anoise Then silence

Presently several men struckmd the reappeared but wn10 more hind boerhot dond and Turner was stabbed dowr-hrough the throat They looked at hlir

but he too wasBrats all said Old Man Oreenhut wher

hues had come to a realization of nil thaitad happened It sure is amnzin how

comes here to do Arknnsmmeets with accidents almost invariable

Sillier they Icnes their reglnr irhe courcn o the or else tht takeiheir lives in their hands like these twt

critters an crookedinowln whats liable to happen Poarf-ike they haint nono on em sense

CltAllS CATCH V1SH HAWKS

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a JrrarymniiAt this time of year provided tire con

ition of tint water is right cnid a Tomes

liver man anyone along our part of tinerscy const may get a lot of fun wntchlnj-urdKliell crabs in the river as they enlcl-

ch hawkB The water is just tight nlwent muddy nftor tho ruins and thean U on

Flair hawkti common nil alonginst osp olally whero throne aro rivers andwillow hays and nt this time of your tireanti shell crab have a hnbit of swimming3 neat the surface of tho water ns they canrt In swimming thus their claws coment oftho water and mako sufficient splaoh-

ig to interest tin sharpeyed hawks sailig watchfully high above

The muddy water prevents than birdsrom discovering just what is showing

much life below but as it is In tho wnter10 hungry birds evidently suppose Itmst course be fish loown will drop n Imwk like a plummet

Not a hawk ever rl esMinced on and clutched what it thusroppod down after hutno sooner lifted out of tho water than itaches out with its claws and grubs thenwk by a or some tender part tire

result I wime of tine queerestmime of midair unities

Tho hawk under the pinchig the erab gives it and in movesier shakes its vigorously and twistsnd turns in nil sorts ways its effort

free Itself from tint Sometime10 crab will hold on to the hawk In tho-

r until the bird irene In its twist bogs andirnings fallen into the water but genally he will loosen hut claws after a w

come somersaulting buick to iris nativelemont

As there ate frequently n half dozemorn hawks in tho nt one time thus

In trying to from crabsnut have and more gettingrudy to In tine sameie is like n continuous performanceot tire leastisltivonohs and suddenness with whichhawk once free Incur Its crab takes itself

from tint on vlgotmw wingangry shrieks of nairi t the

entmrnt hums receivedToward evening tho fun is tho great

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Fashion cuts unit as much of a W-In gambling ns it does in clothIng siidnina who has made and lost several foruncs through iris fondness for gameschance I minoan of course in met IK

of cheatingA fow years ago apparatus was

titling and no gambler whether fort siwror thud class sat in a genie without a 1mready for instant adjustment to tire mulsurface of the taint a reflector hiddena stack of chips a pipe or a roll of Crierbacks or a holdout attached either to hsleeve or waistcoat These cnini invogue mainly through the succor of Kr-jilingor a San Francisco gambler w-

iiiventfd the finest slcivo holiioiii in tlbusiness and won a fortune bofoii h

secret was discoveredTh n tho use of apparatus wan

gamblers chucked tliobufjand roljcti rs annul markiil card n-isucJthlnjcs and wont back to manlpulaiitcurd sleiglitofhnnd Today tin IK

gamblers play with fair cards onlyThoy play in partnership

courso and are practically inxinriMThe most 8uccchsful gamblers nro of thclass and all of thorn can do the finwork with n pack of carets

The secondclass gamblers nre thnwho have generally given up th twonppnrntua hurt piny marked cards 7most KticciMful players in thus clnss m

tlint IsmnrliHl by a tynof their own devising so that no Mnot acquainted with tho key coulil linnout in a lifetime These men if they IT

got their own cards Into a game art suto win

Then after those markedcard pliiyrrcome tho class of second healers l Uodealers antI cheap sharps wire haUtiialdo primitive stunts with tire puck to M

Those nirn always get caught in the lui

runThe skilful mon t he firstclaps gatnhliT

do riot rely upon much sleightofhamoffset the elements of chance Their nuexport work consists in putting up humwhile ahufiiing and to do this withrifile which is tIne shuffle in common usdemands skill such ns is trot possessed I

ono sharp In a thousandIn theory tire process is absurdly siripl

It consists of rifling between the soloctcards the proper number of iiiiliffotvi

ones The great difficulty obviously is

know thnt the right number of cards aheld up each time and that tire right nun

her is put between tire cards that tlgambler has held out for hut own Imnd

It seems almost impossible that it en-

ue done with certainty but there are plonl-

af firstclass gamblers who can do it readi-ijnough without any mistake In fartome are so skilful with this shuffle tinhoy can find any cards they please b

simply looking nt theturnedup corneaind can plnco them in any position withhe pack This is the master degree i

gamblingNext to tire skilful use of the rim

muffle in puttingup hands tine most usef-

iiccomplishmont by which a man ma

heat at poker is a system of tJiarpinmown as It Is by a-

dds most scientific mode ofCountingdown is an operation tha

moreDf hand It requires long practice amreat skill It necessary that tine

who practices It should to memortaas many cards as possible

Now few canfive cards at a glance There is rIot onperson in 10000 can remember te-

barcls There ore some persons wIld cm-

nemorize the order of cardsjut this is accomplished by a o-

irtificlal who bonstant practice has trained his mciiioro retain of ten cards can coonIowa to perfection and In a short tliiv10 should own a home and an au-

omoblleHow itt accomplished

iVoll in theory It is reallyan

he firstclass sharp Invariably practiset on irIs own to o

not as a matter of routine for In

annot exercise himself too much in tinnental anti physical requirements of tin

ivstcniSuppose in a of poker that it ii

he sharps next deal at her

innd tire cards ho holds are tint o-

nuch consequence lieWhile tire players are battling ton

he pot tine upind remainder the and keepingho faces of tine carrie from him

ivcns tlium In readiness for tlio dealThem he waits until tho hand that artwing played are shown

a ho remembers as iiiy n-

lheso earns as ho can places them iitlniit tine top or bottom them I-

rositon by mentis of n false shufllo H-

jililiinz n useful dodge known as nebe caiiss the puck to bo cut K

lint when tire hands art dealt the lastnrd comes into his lintel the d al

3 one of tire that he mcmorled-mi that are now at the of the pack

Consequently he not only knowno Is oft in tho drnft to the nhilayers but ateo what remain1 for html

his turn to draw Inor thin draw In does trot Bland in doubt-s tho do lout throws awayocordlng to tire nature of the cnnl Iw

ill hint to ilraw from tho puck o roplivo

It is an advantage great enough to fiw1-m to win In ho sits in I his

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systom of artificial memoryiviiicilili n poker

Skilful and ff courso l th skill of th oonumnambler nnd this class of rilv-

Imost entirely ctrtnln forms ol-

Wght of hand to decisive thlr luiin-

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igo to who losuristheSe mot hods of manipulating tins ranisOne of oldest fortes Ing 1-

3ie Utttom deal This simply ronuM-Icking t lu cards to dinluig-

nd in placing certain curtIs that wiuld

i shulfilng of course he will tale pn J-

ir not to disturb centshere arm sovornl ways to neutralize tn

it so that he jan stiR retain thirds on tire Ixittom of peck

In dealing his own hand he hn-

irds bottom instead of the tophtml quickly done It Is impossible fr h-

inrjxst to seo whether rnro onTo

tan t w or the bottom butin always b detected by dUTiwnt-iiind a card when it com s froni10 bottom There Is a slight dirkhloh i distinctly audible aid iirily

sharp who uses mini dilrely resorts to tiny oIlier form of ninwpu

nail it Is trot long in his cnroi r Ufcomics to grief Hooonds IH

ore listTill antI liable to d teetum10 trick Is so nnnvil hiTiiimo it ismswui

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Tins firstclass gambler however sel-

m resorts H vtid and undir-

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msvlf by denllng himself a card from tho-

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