Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — The Biters Were Bitten. [ARTICLE]

The Biters Were Bitten.

One of the slickest tricks I er r saw wts rprlor.- eJ In a Denver faro-room. TI» Xoya had boon-hitting this bank heavy, ami, although it was in the night, the hank was several thousand dollars loser. Da e Meets was running the game, ami finally took the deal himself. Half an hour bad passed, when-6 eof the players asked for a < igar. Dave sa d to the stranger,’..in the most natural way imaginable: ... .’} -■ , “ Fry one of these. It is a brand I ■amoke-myseHy’’ and he began fumbling in a lower drawer, his head being below the taide. The “lookout? at this moment turned his head to address a remark to a ’bystander, ami the box was left unprotected. In that brief spare of time a small fortune was lest, 'The stranger wiio had asked for the cigar reached over, and, shoving the top card, disclosed the queen of hearts, and then replaced it before the dealer resumed., his position. Handing over 'the cigar, Dave made a motion to shove the top eard. but half a do en voices called to him to hold up. Of course, he waited, and 'a look of surprise passed over his face as every one began to copper the queen, and inside of five niinutes every cent in the room—£4 2,000 —was coppered on that queen. Finally everyone was ready, and amid a silence in which I thought I h< ard. the thumping of one man's heart, Dave shoved the top card, disclosing that selfsame queen of hearts, and everybody breathed easier Uutil another push and the queen of diamonds . lay bare. There were a number of groans and one oath or two, but the. KAA who wanted a cigar had disappeared, and the bank took in half of all beta made in a silence forced by the eonscioußn&-» that the biters had been biiten.— fin hhiuton Cii.i\ ■ . The peculiar combination of Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup enables it to do What no otlier remedy has ever accomplished, aun it is daily s«rwjl>os.e whoj ears ago had givec -up- all hopes of being cared. 1