Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — A Dangerous Game. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Game.

The Buffalo Courieri tells an interesting draw-poker story, and insists that it is true. The game was played in a Buffalo hotel by seven men. One of the players had won S2OO and waa about to jump the game when he picked up a hand of four kings and an ace. It was invincible because they were not playing straight flushes. All came in, one of them raising the ante $lO. Mr. Four Kings just chipped along, not wishing to keep anybody out. The others staid and all drew cards, the man with the kings throwing away his ace and drawing one card rather than spoil his chances of getting bets by standing pat. The man who had made the $lO raise took two cards. Then the betting began. All were driven out except the man who had drawn two cards. They whacked back and forth at one another until at length, having exhausted all his chips and gone shy for many dollars, the man with the kings felt that he had won all he wanted to, and called. Ta.,his horror his opponent laid down four aces. The beaten man howled and claimed fraud, for how could the other man have four aces when he himself had one before the draw ? The explanation was simple. There being seven players there were not cards enough to go around after the first deal, and so the discards were shuffled up and dealt for the draw. In the draw the man who took two cards and was drawing to three aces, got the ace that the man with four kings had discarded, and was thus able to beat him out of his boots.

Bestful Nights, Day* Free from Torture, Await the rheumatic sufferer who resort* to Hostetter's Stomach Bitter*. That this benignant cordial and depurent is a far more reliable remedy than colchicum and other poisons used to expel the rheumatic virus from the blood, is a fact that experience has satisfactorily demonstrated. It also enjoys the advantage of being—unlike them—perfectly safe. With many person* a certain predisposition to rheumatism exists, which renders them liable to its attacks after exposure, in wet weather, to currents of air, changes of temperature, or to cold when the body is hot. Such persons should take a wineglass or two of the Bitters as soon as possible after incurring risk from the above causes, as this superb protective effectually nullifies the hurtful influence. For the functional derangements which accompany rheumatism, such as colic, spasms in the stomach, palpitation of the heart, imperfect digestion, etc., the Bitters is also a most useful remedy. It is only necessary in obstinate cases to use it with persistency. Seven deaths from injuries or physical break-down during the playing of the game of foot ball have occurred in England in less than one year. If the deaths from hydrophobia had been as many there would have gone up a cry for the banishment of dogs, or their wholesale destruction. Why not give foot ball “the grand bounce?”— Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. <■ The difference between riding ahorse and riding a hobby consists in this—that one can get off a horse at any time, but once on a hobby a man can never get off.