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THE ROCK ISUAXD ARGUS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 191T. with four queens. This is just to show that one is liable to encounter irregularities in most any game. "It Is a misnomer to refer to s game of poker as a game of chance it snouia be referred to as a game. of cinch, as the sucker has no chance with the professionals in the game, and the boob will lose and the cheat ers win." RAILWAYS IN JAPAN. : AUTCIOBILB I Section I DAVENPORT Alleged Coal Thieve. Steve Mea cer and George Olear were placed un der arrest yesterday afternoon on a charge of stealing coal from the Mil waukee freight yards. They deny bavins stolen the coal stating that -t was piled up by some one else and they merely caned It away. Q3ven Chance to Improve. Continu ance until Aug. 9 for the purpose cf permitting Improvements to be made bo that the property will com tntsra the requirements of the city health or dinances, has been granted in the health nuisance cases Involving the property owned by Samuel Gleadall a the corner of Tenth street and Gran avenue. A continuance was also grant ed la the case Involving the property owned by the Parker estate and situ ated between Main and streets and Tenth and Eleventh streets. bids gambling the chief ordered . all devices out. Obituary Record. Christian Sbaser passed away Thursday night at ' 3 o'clock at Mercy hospital, following a severe fall which he had several days ago. He was a native of Switzerland and was TG years of age when he died. The funeral was held yesterday after noon at 3 o'clock at Runge's undertak ing parlors. Rev. Mr. Rowlands offi ciating. Burial was made in Falrmount cemetery. GustavThode died Thursday night at 11 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Thode, 1611 Wesi Second street, following a lingering Illness of three years duration. He was born In Davenport Nov. 25, 1S89. and continued to reside here until his death. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Thode; three broth ers, William, George. Jr., and Charles, and one sister Hilda. All reside in Davenport. Frank, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Augustine, 1022 West Second street, passed away yesterday morning at 5:30 o'clock, following a short ill ness, at the age of 9 montba and 11 days. He Is survived by a sorrowing father and mother and by one brother and one sister. The funeral will be held from the home Sunday morning, with Interment in Oakdale cemetery. Gamblers an Unhappy Lot MOLINE Fire at Elevator. Fire at the Roths child grain elevator on Rockinghaa road Thursday at 11:30 o'clock resuit- And the dupe does not win with any regularity. In fact. It is a rarity that he does win. The men who have made the study of gambling the work of their lives do not intend that he shall win, and for them to grow old to win from them would be against all rules of the game. "Contrary to the general opinion, the man on the opposite side of the table, who deals the gambling games to the chumps, are not happy with their winnings, and as a class are the most unhappy and dissatisfied people in the world. The care and worry they have to put forth in a game to win make them unnaturally Chief of Police Schramm all the ?aml) ling devices installed at the Mui carnival now In progress oa West Front street, have been closed. Com plaint was made to the chief by the Civic Federation and as the la- for DAVENPORT, Thursday, Aug. MOLINE, Wednesday, Aug. COL. CODY'S TMNAL TOUR AKD FINAL ABEARANCE HEBE OCCURS OH HIS COMIHS FHQDUGTIOM CF A Proudly Prc-cmineat Exhibition, Rich in Homaae. Picturesque. Patriotic, Educating and Eattrtalnlng. Prexntlnf in One Arena Picture-History of tha Conquest of Half a Continent, aad Holdiej tha Mirrer t Nature for Reflections of Oriental Pageantry and Splendors. A GREAT DRAMA OF COSMOPOLITAN LIFE CAST AND COSTUMED WITH AUTHENTICITY AND CORRECTNESS COLWM. F.CODY THE ONLY AND ORIGINAL POSITIVELY APPEARS AND TAKES PART IN EVERY PER PORMANC B BUFFALO BILL TwMit v-vin van have piw I -inre thin hi.t.ir5rI exhibition was founded. For a Quaxtrr century l'.uf?a!o li.il l.w tl A Lt M. IX A I 1. s 11 V ill jlsKLK a. an h.ntertainrr and s an i.!iwirt..n f Western Mi-t.rv im i.'.e i:r'.y l... His l.xt lUtir.n has WITIISTf H )D THE TLifT OK IIMK an J has l-ecn the AlrmrstiTi .f .re than a eenre "f l.arih' I'nxident Nations Ad mirtnc 1 homn-l. t -, 'lehrhiel nr tr. Mr 1( 'I' ' I !TI HI I'UAYVN r HUM Ills! ( KY and fresemed in an f NTEKTA1 VMf.NT ALWAYS NOVEL, :ii:iyi 'I nie to the Fund iroen'sl Facts Vtnn hh it i. K.fc.-ed. Auilt-r:f to an- i Uert.im-: a V rror rf History HEFUXTISU SCENKS OF OTlii.lt V.Ws. lowtiit, l now adied the Kuhurss, the l'.rtura4uenms and Iauti of AN ORIENTAL SPECTACLE Conlrihuted through a r.rr.'in:ition i;h Pawr.ee Pill's Croat Far Eut and fiiowinu with Fidel Ity to I-act and in Aluolut" t 'rreo:re of Ivt.nl :ie P.irhr.iw a:i 1 pienJ -rs ihe Kooiantio Far l'.Ht. Thus in ufie am, a t t.-tr:u'lii. l'n:tur- i Two Hemisphere ar? ' . and the Occi dent Meets the t'cr,t in Iiti:i.ni J (!.. jx. I n.irr the Confalon of IS.M . . and Pawnee Hill there hnre ln Mnrshailr i an lo.po.in Array ut Hero-Horemeo. V. MililOHf! IHOM EVERY t'LlME. and l xitieite ol lix.:t'ieia Couraire acd Manly lee.i; an A."en. bl.ic ol Mus cular Maithvd th- Ivial f w'if h lirw Never lieeu Known, CooaUtuticg what baa been ApU Termed THE STRENUOUS SHOW." "Easy come, easy go." The old weather-beaten phrase Is Harri j still the rule among the easy-money getters, and will be as long as there are "chumps" for them, to get their money from, says the Oklahoma City Oklahoman. They in turn "buck" some other fellow's game and lose irhat thor Invn crolnd Tha rflmhiw ed Jn a loss of about $2,500 to grain wno has" saved enough money to set and building. The origin of the fire is tie down and live in peace for the not known, but lt is supposed thai i -fall" part of hi3 life is seldom spontaneous combustion started ta? found. Many have done this, but blaze. The discovery of the fire was 'they are in the minority, made when flames were seen shooting J a man who has gambled in noarly from the dust shed. The fire depaiu! all of the larger cities of the United ment arrived in a few minutes after j States and who has been in Oklaho the alarm wag turned in and soon had I ma City for a considerable length the blaze under control. The !om is! of time, tells of the "tricks of the j suspicious of every one, and dis about equally apportioned bet we 'n lic trade," and how some of the "easy I gruntled, narrow minded and pessi gtock and the building, which are cov j marks" are caused to loosen from j mistic. All of the novelty of the game ered by insurance. I their "cash." has passed, and the work of winning o "I believe the game Is dead in Ok-! Is the hardest part of the play. All Stop Gambling at Shows Fursuant ' lahoraa City and it is me for the big! the thrills, common to the novice. V ,v. ,, t , Thnrartnv . , , t o w Ti s." he said. "I am tired of the; and all of the excitement is gone. little private games wnen you nave, mtio ucus v.uauc ui womg, auu ; to !e careful of the law. The game ; when they sit In a game they know j seems to be on the blink. j they will win. It is a question or "Whether it be the man on the in- how long the money of the innocent side, or the dupe in the gambling j one will last, and the time of the game, the material benefits derived, play. even if the gains be large, are small j "All of the pleasant features of the game are lost. There is no re laxation, no social pleasure and no uncertainty of chance. The profes sional gambler enters into the game with as much enthusiasm as he would into digging a ditch. "And it is for this reason that many of the wise gamblers, those who have made considerable fortunes in cards, take flyers in the games of others, and they lose as the dupes do on their games. Many cases are known of big town gamblers bucking the markets, and after a short play there they are cleaned out. They do not understand, and the cards aro marked on them in that game as they mark the cards In theirs. "I have made considerable sums of money in my game of cards, poker, and for the uncertainty of chance have come cleaned out. I do not mean that I will lose In email games of the same caliber as the one in which I have been winning, but in other sorts of games, big games, of which I know nothing of the in side." "The net results of gambling are not worth the profit. To sum up the gambler's assets and liabilities, he forfeits the respect and compan ionship of decent people and gradu ally loses his own self-respect; he Is always In search of prey; he must j stifle the finer senses in order ta j smile at people and rob them at th j same time; his 111 gotten money does 1 not stick. j "And the sucker, while he is not j so bad off as the gambler, is liable to . retrograde morally, and finally he is i bound to be loser. Many happy j homes and many promising young men have gone wrong over the gam- bling tables. The desire to replace J the money they have taken from j their employer, with their winnings, i is so strong that before long they are ; 'in to bad' there is no chance for them. "While the man conducting the game knows there is no chance of the unsophisticated winning, still in gambling one never knows who his opponent is. because a shark may enter into a game as a chump, and make the winnings. Cases are dif ferent from other gambling games in this respect. "My experience has taught me that few poker games are on the square, the desire to win being so strong and human nature so weak, conse-j Figuring Tax Levy. R. W. Entri kin, secretary of the board of educa tion, is kept busy compiling figures on which the annual tax levy for schools is based. He will submit the figures to the board at its meeting next Tues day evening. After examinine his re port the board will decide on the levy and will forward it to the township treasurer of district No. 18, keeper of all school funds. From there the re port is forwarded to the county clerk, who iiicludes the levy in the general tax list. Carried a Revolver. John "Wagner, who has no home, befriended an indi vidual a few days ago and it worked to his disadvantage. Wagner was arrest ed at 2:40 yesterday morning and he will remain in this county 20 days more at least. A revolver found in his pock et is what got Wagner in trouble. He j was walking across the railroad tracks j in the east end and when two police i men approached he carelessly threw in the service and allow the havoc his right hand to his hip pocket. This aroused the suspicion of the oflicers and they searched him. When they found the weapon they suspected that the man was a member of the holdup family and they marched him to the police station. No Thefts Reported. Circus day in Moline was a quiet one. Not a theft of any kind was reported to the police, and not a house was burglarized. The police -worked faithfully, the night men going on duty at 10 a. m. and remaining on duty till the following morning. Approve School Plans. The build ings and grounds committee of the Mo line school board met Thursday even ing and finally approved of the plans for the new Ridgeview sciiool, with a few alterations. The plans were drawn by Architect Whitsitt. The committee will probably decide to adyertise for bids at once, but the date of opening bids has not been decided as yet. How. ever, It will be early enough so that construction work on the new building can be started very shortly. Mirny wars and Dirty stations in Land of Cleanliness. "The railway Journey from Kioto to Yokohama, despite the fact that most beautiful country Is traversed. Is not the pleasantest of experiences," de clares a writer in the Wide World. "One bays a railway ticket In Japan In installments. "The ordinary ticket only enables one to go by a train covering the minl mom distance In the maximum time, so an extra express ticket is pur chased, which means that the engine moves a little more quickly toward its appointed goal. "Next a platform ticket must be pro cured to enable one to board the train, and finally one has to fight one's way into a first class carriage. Why do all the passengers in Japan take their rag page into the already painfully small carriage instead of leaving lt in the van? And why, again, does a nation ythat is a password for cleanliness the world over possess a train service so shockingly dirty in eTery detail? "We once in a weak moment looked into a station master's room at a large station, and for pure dirt it could have given points to a dust heap. In the train carriages the floors are covered with the dirt of ages, cigarette ends, orange peel, sandwich papers. At in tervals a porter saunters in witb. a brush and leisurely sweeps all the refuse into a corner, having first care fully closed every window, so that no atom of discomfort or infection shall be lost. "Finally he departs, leaving behind him the rubbish and an atmosphere charged with germs and angry words. Truly a Japanese porter's definition of clearing up is removing rubbish from one place to another." methods can be worked many times during the evening, but the money gained helps. "Another method adopted by some who are unable to cheat, as profes sionals, is to play with a partner in a game. When either of them has a strong hand he nods to the other, and he raises the pot, making the winning of his partner more that it would be without his help. With the aid of a partner in a game of poker I can best any game in which there are no professional gamblers. "But with all the cheating at the cards the man with the streak of luck is liable to win, that is, when he is not in a game where the players are too strong. If he has a run of luck In the private games in which the cheaters are amateurs be is liable to get the money. "Still another means of cheating in a game where there are professionals to watch the play carefully, is for one of the players to help his hands with the aid of the discards of some of the other players. I recall one in stance when I was sitting in a game with some women players. The pot was opened and raised and I dropped my hand, containing two queens. The lady sitting next to me won the pot DIKE DISTRESS. It Is Near at Hand to Hundreds of Hock Island Readers. Don't neglect an aching back. Backache is the kidney's cry for help. Neglect hurrying to their aid Means that urinary troubles fol low quickly. Dire distress, dropsy, Brlght's dis ease. Profit by a sufferer's experience. Mrs. S. A. 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Oa sale at the t-Uow grounds or may be ordered at a.U book store. quexuiy mere is always some one In a game wlUin: to take advantage of the other players. "I am free to say that at leaat once In the life of eTerr man who has i sat around a card table, at which : fire cards are dealt to the players, there la a desire to cheat, and if they do not yield. It la for sufficient reason that they do not know how. Persons who hare played poker for money will bear with me when I say that every player has passed a time when he would grive anything In the world to tell the cards In his oppon ent's hand. "One of the cheating metkods of the amateur, who is unable to cheat as he would, is to forget to put in his ante. Another Is to wait uatll his time to open or pass is passed! and the others hare thrown their hand into the deck, and then to aporise j them of the fact that he has operj- l cn, auu mm iiic amies, pm into tne ' 'pot by the others. Neither of theff! 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