Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — A Better Game than Poker. [ARTICLE]

A Better Game than Poker.

“"While I was on the Union Pacific,* Raid the conductor, “I made np my mind to break np card-playing, because it led to so many disputes. The boys used to get the best of me, however, and they always had a substitute for Hoyle’s game of chance. The best I ever saw was one time when we were coming East from Ogden. There were four in a party, and one of them had a common cigar box with a hole cut in the center of the top. Within was a cockroach. Each of the party placed a piece of lump sugar on the corner of the box nearest to him, as it was placed in the middle of the quartet. The ‘ante’ was a dollar, and the game was to see which lump of sugar the roach would tackle first when it came up through the hole. His highness made his appearance soon after the chunks of sweetness were placed in position. The fun then began. The loach would take a survey of the situation and then dart for one corner. Just as the lucky owner would think his sugar was to be seized and the stakes won, the roach would turn suddenly around and go for another lump. Thfis the excitement would be continually on the rise, and the outside bets would commence. Sometimes it would be twenty minutes before the roach would light on a lump, and only those who have seen this game can imagine the interest created. Why, poker is nowhere in comparison, and the night I speak of it caused more confounded t ouble on my car than fifty games of ca ds. The ladies grew wild over the game. I must confess I got interested myself, and came hear missing some local fares. The roach game kept up all the way to Cheyenne, and over S7OO had changed hands among the players, to say nothing of outside winnings. I was afterward told that the man Who had the box had just come out $1,500 ahead on the game in ’Frisco, and that there it was all the rage.” —Omaha Railway News.

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