Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — George Law’s Poker Game. [ARTICLE]

George Law’s Poker Game.

They were telling about big games of poker, and the Alb ny man sighed so- the slosh-pots of Egypt as he said: “They are gone.” Then he went on to say that since the war, while poker had been popularized, poker pots had been minimized, until now the game was scarcely worth the candle vou play it by. “ Why,” he sa’d, “nowadays it is a big tlrng to see $5,000 change hands in a night’s poker-playing. But I remember one night before the wur, when I was going up to Albany on a steamboat with Commodore .Vanderbilt, Dean Richmond, George Law and some others of that crowd, they sat dow.n to a game of poker. I sat down to watch, and not to play, for I hadn’t money enough for their ante. I sat beside George Law, and he turned to me as the game began and said: “Don’t you be scared if I lose u lot of money to-night.” “I responded forcibly, if not elegantly, that 1 didn’t care a curse if he lost his whole fortune. I?ut I confess it stirred me to see him losing and old Vanderbilt Winning SI,OOO at a clip, until toward morning Law had lost $45,000 to Vanderbilt. Law took it coolly, and so did the rest. I did not understand Law’s coolness, for I knew he was not as rich as all that, until I met him a day or two later in New York. “Well,” said he, with a wicked wink, “I made $855,000 out of it.” “Out of what?” I asked. “That game of poker with old -Vanderbilt,” said he. “I sold him my steamers the next day for Philadelphia llecord. Mr. Arthur Shurtleff, Parker, Dakota, writes that hs suffered two years with a lame knee, which was entirely cured by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. He considers it a most wonderful, remedy. It conquers pain.