fli - OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE , 27, 1820.
Hootch Nice, but Not Absolutely Necessary
Suggestions Are Given for Entertainments
By Ring W. tmrOnee ,
To the Editor: .
P. M. A. writes: "My hootch Is an
cone and roV husband has Invited a
whole lot of people
out here next Tuesday-
night and X
wondered, if you
might or - might
not have any sug
gestions In regards
to entert ainlng
them.!
-j Well, , sister, my
hootch Is not quite
all gone but In the old days before
I ever heard of It we use to have
wonderful time at different partys
playing" different games like char
ades for Inst.
I suppose I will half to .explain
charades. ' The game is that you
choose -up sides and one side goes
out Into f he hall wile the' other side
stays In the parlor and bore each
other to death waiting for the'eppts.
to come in with their charade. Well,
the other side makes up a word or a
sentence that they have got to rep
resent In some way and , the de
fensive side tries to guess what they
mean. Like for Inst, suppose the
word was cow. slip. Well, the people
that went out" borrows a cow from
somewhere and a slip and brings it
in the parlor and you half to guess
what it is. A . . I '
' Along these lines. I might give; you
ja few more suggestions. Take, the
word poultry All you half to do is
go out and borrow a pole and a tree.
Or take the word Massachusetts.
Get an . old slave owner ; that C his
slaves would rcall him Mass and an
other guy that' don't smoke, his to
bacco but chusetts.' r ,; C
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Take the word poultry. All yon
y pole and
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Or take Milwaukee. Bring in a
typewriter witch us newsppaer boys
has nicknamed a'mlll and bring in
a walk and a key. Or take the word
hemisphere. All as you half to get
Is a man named Hemis and a man
or lady named Phere. Or the word
have to do la go out and borrow a
a trfee." .
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highbalL-. Bring in a 'man that's
very high and ' some good model -of
golf or tennis ball and be sure .Its
a good one. : f . .
r i When this game gets too' disgust'
tog - you; can start , a game called
consequences that we boys and girls
use to play. In this game you pass
around a whole lot of slips -ot paper
and the first guy-writes down a boy's
name and the next man or lady
writes down a girl's 'name and what
she said and - etc - and finely what
was the consequences. For Inst,
here is the way it goes:V : -;
William JV .Bryan.
. (Then the 'writer folds -the paper
over.) - . - -
'- Met Sarah Abercromble.
In the park. ' ,
-He said: Tm for grape Juice.
She said: -"Good night." : -
And the consequences was - what
they wasn't married. v
When people geU through giggling
at -this game they can start another
game called "Here comes 3 dukes
a-rovingl" In .this game,.'H of the
party stands opp. to the other H
and the first' V begins to sing as
follows: ' . .
. "Here comes three dukes a-roving,
' A-rovlng, a-roving.
. Here comes dukes a-roving with
a rancyAancy teeV .
As I recall it, the next verse Is: v -
"Im just as good looking as yojk
--are. :
As you are, as you are.v;
, rm Just as ' good looking as you I
.are with a rancy-tancy tee." .
'That don't seem to be ''very well
connected, but probably several of
the - guests is the ame way.
; Or if. say. theys only ten guests
In the party, why the Jhost and host
ess can ask 4 of them to ' go home
and then you have got a good poker
game. ; I Or take 5 f or inst the other
night I went to a party and the host
took "me into his library and showed
me a geological map of Ohio and it
took , pretty near all evening but at
lease I now know where pretty near
every stone; is in Ohio and when a
man attends a party like that - he
feels like he has accomplished some-
ining, :.
I hope 'I .have helped you F. M. A.
' RINO W. LARDNER.
' Convention, June 25.
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SOMETHING -NEW? Lillian Gish directed Dorothy in
this a combination of the screen's greatest, comedienne
directed by the screen's greatest tragedienne and one of
the funniest pictures imaginable: Dorothy married a flirt
who just wouldn't behave one' of those always out of control
guys. But she made a one-woman man out of him and the
way she did it will come in handy to any wife who feels her
husband is slipping: Two bits never bought a better receipe.
Gbl. Alf. Saves Bad Man's Life
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"Skinned" Greaser Ungrateful
By Alfred X. Cridge
In the early summer of 1877,1 came out of Tonto basin in Northern
Arizona, where I had helped to take in several hundred horses from "Cali
fornia for the Sixby brothers, and was intending to go to the San Pedro
river in Southeastern Arizona to take up some land' recently opened to
settlement. . . , '
As a paid-off cowboy In company with several others, we were wel
comed at Fort McDowell, especially hy the saloons and gambling rooms
always accompanying them. ; Putting my money in the form of a post
office order on' New York, and sewing that up in oiled paper inside my
ornamental boot top, I retained only a few dollars in silver and looked on
the carousals without taking part. I was not much value tothe 'tinhorns"
and after ascertaining that I was nearly broke they let me alone.
One of the ' gamblers was Colorado
Jack, a reputed bad 'man. 'a crack ; shot
and a likable disposition. - He encour
aged: me to let 'the games alone, occa
sionally showing xne how some of them
worked. Next he proposed that we go
to Florence and buy out a saloon, res
taurant and feedyard. . Jack was to fur
nish the money and run the saloon, and
I was - to i conduct the restaurant and
feed corral. , ,
This enterprise never developed. ' but
it looked for a time as if it were the
road to : millions.
HOT ACCOEBUO TO HOTLJ
Entering a big saloon one warm after
noon when all the town was dozing and
little business was being transacted of
any kind, I found the bartender asleep
at his poet of duty, and farther back,
where th - slight breeze came through
two open side doors. - Colorado Jack and
a cowboy of the Sixby outfit I was look
ing for were playing a game of draw
on a. little wobbly table. I wore moc
casins and made no noise as I took a
step forward. : Just then I tav a half
breed move up , toward Jack. The fel
low clutched a knife and looked as If
he was about to stick it into the back
of the gambler.' I had practiced what
was called "hip shooting" a little that
is. shooting 'from the hip without aiming-
and without stopping to draw con
cl usions 1 shot at ' the halfbreed. Now,
of course. In any melodrama the half
breed should have dropped in his tracks.
but he didn't, for I was a bad-shot. It
startled the gamblers and the bartender,
however, and the . halfbreed jumped
through the side door, making appar
ently 15 feet at a bound, and disap
peared.
According to all precedent. Jack
should have wheeled In bis chair and
nailed the fugitive with one - shot,' but
he didnt do anything of the kind. He
leisurely went to the door out of which
the halfbreed - had bounded and saw
nothing , but the sands and hills of the
veraie. -; -v ..v.: -.-,"v. !; , '-.-; :
"Ungrateful . damned hound !"' he' ob
served. ."I gave him a dollar after he
went- broke, and he gins up and tries
the sticking ; gama Thanks for your
good intentions, Fred," he said to me.
"Put up your gun, Fritz," he directed
the bartender. v"Fred isn't sticking up
the house. The drinks on me. No ; we
won't chase him. ' He wilt ; slink into
some Greaser's hut and they will sit
right over his hole and say 'Kin savey ;
yo no say. (Who knows? I don't) It's
too. hot to chase anybody on an after-
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nrtAH Kirs 4fcU n ne .wam l thaif Vi4 sw '
wwe utiot w v v v - s as, mmj i
sasslnated the president of the United
States." : - .- t .
GREASER FIRES TP
I found that1 Jack had played cards
with the halfbreed and toward morning
had taken his last dollar, and bade him
a friendly adloa The victim of .Colo
rado Jack's uncanny skill had grouched
a few.-hours and finally came to the
conclusion that he had been tricked out
of . his hard-earned money. - Fortified
with some 4ad whiskey, on an empty
stomach, his mind reverted to aboriginal
ideas of revenge, and I had broken up
his fond ambltionr ' .
v The' bartender cussed me for shooting
a dent in the floor near where the de
parted guest had stood, and my cow
boy comrade sneered at my marksman
ship in a most irritating manner. Also
bis disgust 'was intense at my ordering
a soft drink, and he began to tell the
assembled crowd tales of foolish people
who didn't come out welt because of
fastidious notions about drinking with
gentlemen. - Colorado Jack put a stop
to nla raillery and we adjourned to a
shooting gallery where he showed me a
few things In quick shooting.!;
TRICKS OF TRADE EXPLAINED
In a day or two afterwards, We de
parted for Florence across the Gila des
ert, as it was then, but. Is now partly
under- Irrigation. , In camp, Colorado
Jack played cards with me for beans
and outlined to me the philosophy . of
the professional gambler. He had an
Idea that ' he could make of me a card
sharp, but the unf aiding of bis philoso
phy and the observing of his 'methods,
together" with my natural aversion to
card playing, dispelled any possible Idea
of mind to fouow thle path, of fortune.
. The philosophy of the gambler is that
the man who sits in opposite him is
willing to take money that is not earned
and for which nothing is to be given in
return. Therefore, the victim-to-be is
fair game. The victim does not win,
because ' he is ' crossing ' swords with
skill and sometimes with trickery. The
young man untrained In athletics can
not, on the-average. . run a foot race
witA a trained athlete and win. If to
that .be . added . trickery - and treachery
and probably boose, the untrained racer
would be at . a fourfold disadvantage.
The greenhorn or amateur with stiff
fingers and intellect dulled : by liquor
is an easy prey to the supple-fingered.
calm and intellectually alert profes
sional card sharp.
Social games of cards are played pure
ly on chance, but not so the profee- -slonal
game. Into this problem comes :
psychology which enables the close
student, and the clever professional al
ways is such,, to read the face of his
victim and divine In advance the
strength of his hand. Then come
marked cards, which any gambler can
mark before the cards have been
through his hands half a dosen times.
There are also cards with water marks
on the back, as easily read as if face
out. There are stool-pigeons, who stand
behind the victim and by code signs
tip off the hand. There are many ways '
of skill and trickery whereby the gam
bler by profession takes the money of
the victim.
As we lay under the wagons In the
burning sands of the desert. Jack out
lined these to me. He. had been a min
istry student in his young manhood and
came to Colorado a "lunger." ricked
on by a camp bully while "swamping
for a freight teamster. Jack had shot
him. ' From that day Jack was a
marked man. He shot others, but al
ways, he claimed, in self defense. 1
am charged with killing 17 men." he
complained one day, "but I never killed
but four white men and Greasers and
Indians don't count in this country.
They hang on to me killings I never
had a thing to do with, and they won't
let me alone." '
In the midst of the desert we came
upon a well and a road station. The
little adobe house, store and saloon, was
protected by a rampart of -stone in
fear of an Indian raid. The well was
over ZOO feet deep and the water was
pulled by a donkey, rope and bucket.
Here Colorado Jack learned to his dis
gust that he had been elected or ap
pointed marshal of Florence. -
"Florence is a lousy hole, and full of
Greasers." he told me. "The pay la
anything X say, but the border is too
close to be healthy for marshals. If
you start killing they say you are a
bad man. and if you don't start killing,
off the bad ones they say you are
white livered. I think, however. I can
run most of them out of town ' and
clean up the place with very little
trouble
And so our combination restaurant-feedyard-saloon
air castle faded like a
desert mirage at sundown.
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