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POKER FLAYING,
IIOW THEaSAMK IMMORTAMZED BY
BOB SCMEStCR HAS TAKEN HOLD OF
THE CLUS PEOPLE AND, OTHER
CLASSES IN THIS CITV.
Chicago Tribu ne.
‘Yes, 1 think draw-poker’properly
merits its title to ’the gentleman’s
game,* said ;an experienced gambler
yesterday to a representative of the
Times. ‘I will tell why I think so.
Played ‘on the square’ there are no
opportunities for disputes or quarrels
of any kind. When a hand is ‘called’
it shows down for what it is worth,
and there can be no quibble as to
who is entitled to the money. Of
course cheating can be carried on
playing poker, but it requires an ex¬
pert manipulator of cards or the
employment of confederates to suc¬
cessfully accomplish any ‘crooked’
work. A very common way of
cheating is to use marked cards. You
know, of course, that cards are man¬
ufactured expressly for the crooked
gambler. While to the inexperienced
eye no difference can be detected,
each card is different from any other
in the pack, and the sharper can kell
them at a glance. If he can ring his
deck in a poker game, he lias a
decidedly ‘soft thing.’ It isn’t nec¬
essary for him to lose a ‘pot,’ for he
has the advantage over you of know¬
ing exactly what is in your hand as
well as his own. Compared with
such a game, ‘brace faro is infinitely
fairer.
‘Poker is not a favorite with pro¬
fessional gamblers, because none of
them have any confidence in the rest.
,Such a tiling as fair pla^ng they do
not expect of each other, so, when
they play poker, they seek other tiian
professional opponents. I’oker play¬
ing is carried on iu this country to
an inconceivable extent, and its
popularity seems to be continually
on the increase. I need not limit the
statement to thi3 country, either, for
it is fairly a rage in England, and is
played almost as _ much in France .
General Sehenck undoubtedly did a
great deal to popularize the game in
England, and I have heard that
among the gilded youth of Great
Britain the mania for playing is so
strong that ancient family estates
have been dissipated and family
escutcheons soiled by crime to gratify
the passion.
‘You would be surprised to know
how many devotees the fascinating
game has in Chicago. 7 don’t think
7 am overstepping the bounds of
probability when I say there are more
than 250 poker games going on in
Chicago every night. It is the favorite
and almost the only game in the
clubs, from the most aristocratic to
the most plebian, and, go where you
will, in any quarter of the city 7 , there
will be found rooms in the rear of
cigar stores and saloons, where the
soft click of the ivory ‘chips’ may
be heard. The proprietors of these
games, particularly in the saloons
and cigar stores, find in them import¬
ant adjuncts to the profits of their
establishments. The profit to the
proprietor comes from the rake-off.'
This is usually a chip of the lowest
denomination used, which is claimed
by the proprietor for each hand that
is called containing three of a kind
or better, and sometimes a rake* is
called for each ‘jack-pot.’ Thetas-
ciuation of the game lies, I think, in
its mysterious aud unfathomable
possibilities. There is no telling
what a man may make of his hand on
the draw. In the first place five
cards are dealt to each player, one at
a time. The placer to the left of the
dealer puts up a chip or chips, which
is called the ‘ante,’ and holds the
‘age’ or the privilege of forfeiting his
‘ante’ and staying out for that hand
coming \u by making his ‘ante’ equal
to the ainouat put up by the other
players or of‘raising’ the -ante.’ Ttoe
‘ante* is usually half, or less than
half the amount required to play in
a hand. Anybody may ‘raise’ the
ante in the order of playing, and
those following must either put in
an equal sum or forfeit what money
they already have in ‘pot.* When
the pot is made, all who are in to the
amount called for by the ante are
privileged to discard as many of
cards in their hands as they chose,
and of drawing a likfe number from
the pack, in their order of playing,
Here the great possibilities of the
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By Edw SCHAEFER- 1
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game come in. A player having
three of a kind may’ have raised the
ante, and another, staying in with
four cards of one suit, may Till' his
flush and win the hand. I could go
on indefinitely, and almost infinitely,
naming these possibilities. A great j
many men pride themselves on their
ability to‘bluff’ in the game; that i9,
to bet off a hand which is really of no
value. A good ‘bluff is very liuelv
to make an opponent ‘lay down,’
though lie may really have much the
better hand. In all probability the
science of ‘bluffing’ is the secret of
our best poker players’ success.
Nonchalance is the greatest require¬
ment in ‘bluffing.’ I once saw an
interesting game in Louisville, Ky.,
in a parlor at the fruit //ouse. 1 lie
players were a couple of stock-dealers
and an old farmer from the Biuegrass
region. The Tatter had just sold u
fine lot of cattle, and had a ‘roll’ of
several thousands. The betting had
rnn very high, and the old man had
lost quite heavily. At last a hand
was dealt that evidently meant busi-
ness, Bets were raised at first by
hundreds, then b# thousands of
dollars. The old man s last dollar
was in the ‘pot’ when one of the men
‘raised’ the bet $2,.'>05, 1 he old
man ‘skinned’ his hand carefully a
moment or two, pulled out of his
pocket a warranty deed, and said :
‘Gentlemen, you see, I ve run out*>f
cash, but 7’ll go ye my hull.farm
better. She’s worth $18,000 in the
maikc.b ' sh-goc» loi $10,000 Fh
other players weakened and threw up
their hands. Ihe «>d Bluegi asset
carelessly turned his cards face
upward and showed a pair of deuces
Lord-! how those fellows clubbed
themselves. One had four trays and
the other had an ‘ace full’ on kings.
A TEXAS WIFE.
The best-natured woman in the
United States lives in Austin, She
has been married a number of years
to a man named Ferguson, but she
and her husband have never had a
quarrel yet, and he has frequently
boasted that it is utterly impossible
to make her angry. Ferguson made
several desperate attempts to see if
lie could not exasperate her to look
cross or scowl at him, merely to
gratify his curiosity, but the more
outrageous lie acted the more affable
and loving she behaved. Last week
he was talking to a friend about
what a hard time he had trying to
find out if his wife had a temper. The
friend offered to bet $50 that if Fer¬
guson were to go home drunk, raise a
row, and pull the table c-loth full of
dishes off the table, she would show
some signs of annoyance. Ferguson
said he didn t want to rob a friend, of
his money.’for he knew he would win;
but they at last made the bet of $50,
the friend to hide in the front yard
an j watch the proceedings of the
convention through the window,
Ferguson came home late, and
apparently fighting drunk. She met
him at the gate, kissed him and
assisted his tottering steps to the
house. He sau down hard in the
middle of the floor, and howled out:
‘Confound your ugly picture, what
did you mean by pulling that chair
from under me?’
‘O, I hope MPV you didn’t hurt
it was my awkwardness, but I’ll try
and not do it again,’ and siie helped
him to his feet, although she had
nothing in the world to do with
falling.
He then sat down on the sofa, and
sliding off on the floor, abused her
like a pick-pocket for lifting up the
u ther end of the sofa, all of which she
took good-naturedly, and finally siie
led him to the supper-iable. He
threw a plate at her, but she did as if
she had not noticed it, and asked him
if he would ta e tea or coffee. Then
the brute seised tbe table cloth and
sa? down on the fl f *or. pulling the
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dishes and everything else over with
him in one grand crash.
What did this noble woman do? Do
you suppose she grumbled and talked
about going home to her ma, or that
she sat down and cried li/to a fool, or
that she sulked and pouted? Nod a
bit of it. With a pleasant smile, she
said:
‘Why, George, that’s anew' idea,
ain't it? We have been married ten
years, and h$ive never yet eaten our
supper on the floor. Won't it be fun
—just like those picnics we used to
go to before we got married,’ and
then this angelic woman deliberately
sat down on the floor along-sifle of the
wretch, arranged the dishes, and fixed
him up a nice supper.
This broke George all up. Be
owned up he was only fooling her,
and offered to give her the fifty 1
dollars to get herself a new hat, but
she took the money and bought him a
new suit of clothes and a box of
cigars.— Texas liftings,
. PLAYINQ COMET.
The Roman Candle Racket the
Bad Boy Worked on ms Pa.
[Milwaukee JSun.J
‘But look a-here,’ says the grocery
man, as he gave the boy a little dried
up lemon ?>bout as big as a prune?
and told him he was a terror, ‘what
is the matter with your eye-winkers
and your hair?' They seem to be
burned off.’
‘Oh, thunder, didn’t pa tell you
about the comet exploding and burn¬
ing us all? That was the w orst thing
since the flood, when Noar run the
excursion boat from Kalamazoo to
Mount Ararat. You see we had been
reading about th<j comet which is
visible at 4 in the morning, and I
heard pa tell the hired girl to wake
him and ma up when she got up to
set the pancakes and go to early
mass, so they 7 could see the critter.
: he hired girl is a cathlick, and she
don’t make no fuss about it, but she
has got more good, square relidgin
than a dozen like pa. It makes a
good deal of difference? how religion
affects different people, don’t it. Now
pa’s relidgin makes him wild, and he
wants to kick my pants and pull my
liair k but the hired girl’s relidgin
makes her want to hug me, if I am
abused, and she puts anarchy on my
bruises and gives me pie. Pa wouldn’t
get up at four o’clock in the morning
to go to early 7 mass, unless he could
take a fish-pole along, and some
angle-worms. The hired girl prays
when no one sees her but God, but
pa wants to get a church full of sis-
terin’, and pray loud, as though he
wits an auctioneer selling tin razors.
‘Well, when I heard pa tell the
hired girl to wake him and ma up, 1
told her to wake me up about half
an hour before she waked pa up. and
then I got my chum to stay with me,
and we made a comet to play on pa.
You see my room is right over pa’s
room, and I got two lengths of stove
pipe and covered them all over with
phosphorus, so they looked just as
bright as a comet. Then we got two
Roman cand.es and a big say rocket,
and we were going to touch off the
Roman candles and the sky rocket
just as pa and ma got to looking at
the comet. I didn't know that a sky
rocket would kick .back, did you?
Well, you’d a didc to see that
A e tied a piece of white rubber gar-
den hose, to the stovepipe fora tail
and went to bed, and when the hired
girl woke us we lay for ma and pa.
‘Pretty soon we heard pa's window
open, and I looked out, and pa and
ma had their heads and half their
bo aes out of the window. They had
'their night shirts on and looked just
like the picture of Tiillerities waiting
for the world to coine to an end. Pa
looked up and seed the stove pipe
and he said; ‘Hanner, for God’s
sake look up there. That is the
rlamest comet I ever see. It is as
bright as day. See the tail of it.
Now that is worth getting up to see.’
‘Just then my chum lit the two
Roman candles and I touched otf the
rocket, and that’s where my eye
winkers went. The rocket busted
the joints of the stove pipe, and they
fell down on pa, but ma got her head
inside before the comet struck, and
wasn’t hurt, but one length of stove
pipe struck pa end wavs on the neck
and almost cut a biscuit out of him,
and the fire and sparks just
down in his hair ami burned his!
nightshirt. l>a was scarf. He thought j
the world was coming to an end, and j
the window came down on his back,
and he began to sing, ‘Earth’s but a |
desert drear, Heaven 13 my home.’ j
‘7 see he was caught in the window j
and I went down stairs to put out
the fire on his night shirt, and put j
up the window to let him in, and he
said: ‘My boy, your ma and I are
going to Heaven, but 7 fear yon will
go to tlie bad place,’ and 7 tq}d him
7 would take iny chances, aud
going better anywhere put on his that pants there if be was j
would be
liable to be ladies present, and when
he got his head in ma told him the
world was not coming to an end, but
had been setting off
and she said she guessed j
it was thair dear little bo} 7 , and when
J saw pa feeling under the bed for a
bed slat. 1 got up stairs pretty pre-
vious now, and don’t yon forget it,
and ma put cold cream on where the
sparks burnt pa’s shirt, and pa said
another day wouldn’t pass over his
head before he had me in the reform
school.
‘Well, if I go to the reform school,
somebody’s got to pay attention, you
can bet your liver, A boy can t have
any fun these days without every-
body thinks he is a heathen. What
hurt did it do to play comet? It’s a
mean father that won’t stand , a little
scorchin' in the interests of science.’
The boy went out, scratching the
place where his eye-winkers were
and then the grocery man knew what
it was that caused the lire engines
to be out around at four o’clock in
the morning, looking for a fire.
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HORRIBLE DEATH OF G.
YOUNG.
AN ATLANTIAN KILLED BY A TRAIN AT
FAIRBURN—TORN INTO FRAGMENTS.
The Campbell County News-Letter
ot Wednesday 7 , says: Yesterday
morning Fairburn was thrown into
excitement by the report that some
man had been killed by the train near
the depot some time during the night,
The coroner, Dr, Malone', had been
informed of the killing, and when we
arrived at the spot, about fifty yards
below the depot, he was having the
horribly 7 mutilated remains taken up
and placed in a box.
;n"'h had been nC 'f torn Cr Tnn up h-”-I.e^ctrT by the
and if they all were to present
sickening a spectacle as this one did,
we hope we may never see
The head was severed from the bo Uy
with the .exception of a small strip
skin, and the skull over the right aide
of the forehead was crushed in so that
the brain was laid bare : the
from his neck down to his legs, was
torn into small fragments and strewn
along tne track for fifteen or twenty
feet; his arms were cut into small
pieces, while his legs were torn apart,
the right one cut into two or three
pieces, and part of it ground to atoms,
The ground about where the frag-
ments were scattered was saturated
with blood, and the rail on the left
hand side of the track was crimson
with gore for at least twenty feet.
After the remains had been gath-
ered up and placed in a box they were
taken up and placed on the platform
of the depot, and the coroner, as soon
as possible, empaneled a birr to hold
\ TERMS— $1 50 A YEAR,
NO. 20.
an inquest over the remains. If
assembled and after consulting over
the matter, decided to adjourn till ten
o’clock a. m. to day (Wednesday), bi >
order to have time to secure the
testimony duetor of the of the train engineer and con- j
by which he was
run over. They, however, searched
his pockets to ascertain if they could ;
find anything by which they could
identify him. They found nothing '
about his person but a telegram, but j
this was sufficient, for it was addressed ;
to his sister on J.nckie street,
Atlanta, requesting her to.mect liim!
in Newnan yesterday, and was signed j
George Voting, which no longer left!
any doubt as to his identity. There !
are several tlieories as to how the
accident happened, but the most j
plausible one is that he was attempt- j j
ing to get on the train after it started j
and slipped and fell under the wheels,
Col. Luther Rosser came down from
Atlanta on the two o clock a. m.
train, and stales there Was a drunken
man on board whom he took to be
Young, and that before the
train reached Fairburn he dropped off
to sleep, ami when it stopped at t the j
depot he roused up and said some- j
thing about getting off at this place. ,
Col. Rosser states further that he got
off at the back end ot the car and H‘^ ;
man went toward the front end, as if
intending to get off there, ami that he
never paid any further attention to
him. The train stopped several
minutes at the depot, and it is thought
that Young got off and wandered off
toward the calaboose and concluded
to get back on the train after it had
started, and was killed in the attempt,
for his tracks were seen coming from
toward the calaboose up the embank¬
ment to where he was killed, A
messenger was sent to inform the
family of his tate Thev were
greatly grieved when they received
the intelligence, and expressed :r.i
intention of coming up immediately
to sec about the disposition of his
remains, but they have not yet arrived,
They stated that he left home Mon-
day morning*, intending to go to
Carroll County, His family consists
of a wife and three girl children, who
are suddenly 7 bereaved ot the assis¬
tance of a husband and a father. ’I he
affair is one of the saddest which it
has ever become our duty to elironi-
ele.
<S8bdg*
PA Y OF TLIE FIKST CONGRESS.
Some antiquarian has just dug up
these figures as the pay received by
the first United States Congress. The
Continental Congress met on the
16th of Mav, 1775; the number of
members was sixty four. At this
time a member , appeared , Rom bt. cv
Johns Parish. Ga„ and
the colony of Georgia sent an entire
delegation. I-.ach colony paid .. Us u
own delegation. New “ *.....
! allowed to each all expenses, a
,
| ; ant, two horses, and a guinea a day
Massachusetts, expenses and $3 a
^ day ; Rhode Island and
sellings a day and expenses;
| Virginia, a half Johannes per day :
Carol!na> £m p#r ;
CarHlina- £3W per annum:
1 roooth while in
}
j Dick Macon Johns Telegraph: is authority for ‘Conductor the
state-
| m0 nt that at the camp of convicts
j n ear DuBois, Railroad, on the Macon anr5
Brunswick there is a strange
j instance of man’s love for his wife.
: Jt seems that a colored woman was
sentenced to eighty years, imprison-
mcnf The husband has gone in and
i will serve forty years with his wife,
j a eighty nd the forty j*ears*of both makes He
years sentence. has
j shackles on and is working like the
other convicts, and all this because
of devotion to his wife. It is seldom
!you hear of such instances. This is
a pretty story if the law would allow
' it. Wc give it just hear it from
as wc
Conductor Johns. .
OWNED TO 111 ; RECORD.
S:\lt Lhke Tribune
The editor was sitting in his re¬
volving cane bottom chair when
Tornado Tom. the traveling terror of
Texas, came in and demanded re¬
traction of the statement that he had
swindled an orphan out of $4.
‘It's a lie clear through,’ said the
Terror, striking the table with with
his fist. I’m as good a man as smells
the atmosphere in this section,*
‘Perhaps yon are better,’ said the
editor, meekly.’
‘My record will compare favorably
with yours’ said the Terror “with a
snocr \ -perhaps there are a few little
b at -k rackets in your life sir that
wouldn't bear a microscopic mvesti-
option »
‘Oh, sir,’ said the editor, visibly
agitate( , d on - t recall th4» r ast;
p r j n , T Uf) ( j ie memories of the
* . j £ n j« ve j e j , x <jf e _ j
don - t dony it< j med S j, orty Barnes,
tbe Bowery boy of Y>w York_
i... e [ cc .| b mu all to pieces with a knife
bav e atoned for that a thousand
times 1 blew a ‘ man's head off at a
, og ”. . rol; - m Kc nillokVi bitter!*
u a / repented of ,nv tbllv. I slew
a , o( . of lnotrengivB citizens'of Omaha
over a paltry $4 pot, simply because
I got excited. Oh,*could I but cheat
the iomb of the U1CM1 l bave ldace j m
its maw I would be happy. But it
was all owing to my high temper and
lack of early training, 7 know that
I have been wayward, wicked, and
you have a right to come here and
recall those unhappy memories ; but
it’s mean for ail tha 1 / Nobody with
a heart would treat a man like you
have me. Don’t leave, stranger; I’ll
tell you all. 7 sawed a man’s head
fjff witb an 0 | d Rrmy saber just for—’
ip be »p exas qYrror was down stairs
and b alf way around the corner, while
the editor, taking a fresh chew of
rattlesnake twist, continued his
peaceful avocations quietly as a law-
abiding citizen.
A FINANCIAL ANECDOTE.
Theodore was a poor lad. One
day when he was very hungry he
espied a 5-eent piece on the floor of
the broker’s office, which he was
sweeping out. He had remembered
stories wherein little boys bad picked
up a small piece of money, handed it
to the great merchant or rich banker
and been immediately taken into
partnership, # 1 hcooore ^
s eppe<
up to the door ol the broker s private
room and said :
‘Please, sir, here’s a 5 cent piece I
found on the floor.’
The broker looked at Theodore a
moment and then said :
♦You found that on my floor, did
you? Mad you are hungry, aren't
you'd
‘Yes, sir,’replied Theodore,
‘Well, give it to me ari l get out. I
was looking around for a partner, but
a bov who doesn’t know enough to
buy bread when lie is starving to
death would make but a sorry 7 broker.
No, boy, l can’t take you into the
firm.’
*»< 7 h V«« , ncver b “*“ a
, ««“•*! ‘ Ue ***
ls
policy, 1 children, but it is not indis-
to . the , , brokerag* .
success m
bustness —Boston Lranser.pt .
,
MONKEYS.
The monkeys seem to amuse the
people most. I uke a monkey 7 myself.
Do you know I believe it is a positive
loss to human beings that they
haven t got tails like monkey,? Why
a moo Key can hold anything With his
tail, just iike you can with your
hand, s. It's really a third hand.
Now. s’posin 1 yon bad snth a tail? If
vou luuJ to [. u ., r oa t<> thy platform
of a crowded horsecar with your
band , you could hold your umbrella
w - ;ll vc j !jr ta p If you were walking
up and down : night with
t j ie p n by, ^ you com l carry j!p him in
r an ? ^im fu] of
. a 0on
‘
>ai . e ^ ., ol q c wlla Yollr t ,. ; } you
wan to take your family out for
^ ^ you eoulll a child
£ and aj) - Tjjj ti ,« baby
0 ^, ac j J w ith vour tail. I t>li you sir,
a to you t : ia i \ou*re not
built like the inoak«v._Max .Meier.
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The value of poultry in me United
States amounts to over &L(*QOJ,COO.
This large sum would be increased if
poultry received tue sama a. cut.on
as is bestowed on sheep, caitlc oy
’ horses.