Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-08-03 | Page 3 | News

LOCATING THE QUEEN A MAN FROM AWAY BACK FALLS IN WITH A THREE CARD SHARP bat he was not the arcon countryman that he looked and tausha the professional swindler a lesson that the latter will not soon forget the performance in circus tent had just ended within the sideshow tents the hand organs set up theia loudest and liveliest music and the loud voiced fakir outside redoubled his oratorical exertions as the great crowd surged past bia grand aggregation ot wonders at the southern end of the lake front away from the noise and harly burly of the big show sat two tired individuals whose every appearance indicated that they had left their work upon the farm to enjoy a day with forepaugh and had done it so thoroughly that they were half dead with fatigue A three card monte sharps eagle eye caught the rustics and he swooped down upon his prey liko a young rooster after a potato bug pretty hot it he began you seen a man around here have yon with a long wnnie linen ouster on tall white hat and plaid suit no well im looking for him friend of mine left me about an hour ago hes going to have bome fellows arrested down there in one of the little tents darned fool I 1 tell him you see he was swindled by a couple of men three card mon what is it oh yes three card monte carlo taken into camp just as slick as grease lost a couple of hundred on it in less than a minute robbery nothing else but a mans a blamed fool to bet his money on another fellows game served him right I 1 say cleaned him out eh drawled one of the rustics rusti cs well that game is as old as the hills and a feller that more sense than to try to beat it ought to be turned out to pasture for a while GOOD BAIT looks simple enough continued the fakir 1 I saw the whole thing of course I 1 bet not a cent but blamed if I 1 have put my money just where my friend did darned charp these show fellows sleight of hand trick I 1 guess they mix up the cards some way when they throw them down that is the only explanation of it I 1 can give the farmers langhei lang hed well youve guessed it said one of them after a hearty burst of merriment oh laugh away seems funny enough now ant it so darned funny to the poor fool who loses his money it an easy thing to do let me tell you I 1 cant throw the cards just as those fellows did but they took three cards just like this and threw them down like that and then bet that my friend pick out the queen straight three card monte as sure as youre born said one of the rural visitors ive read all about it a hundred times never saw the thing done though well this is all there is to it the showman did nothing more than this see simple enough aint it why I 1 should say sot I 1 dont see how your friend lost his money he picked out the wrong card have been watching very sharp I 1 guess well dont you fool yourself it aint such an easy trick to pick out the right card do you think you can do it 1 I could if the other fellow do better work than you do bet you a quarter you cant pick out tho queen just as the cards lie thero now for an answer the fanner turned over one of the cards showing the smiling face of the queen TIIE SWINDLER CAUGHT well by jingo you did it the first time theres your money now then watch the cards closely there pick out the queen ill bet you a dollar you can t do it or 3 or 10 or 25 or well put up your money if you want to walk home with your fool friend ive enst left and its going to win more for me right here and now A moment later one of the brangers grangers gr held in his hand while the other bent over the cards preparatory to picking out the royal winner hurry cupl locate the queen and the yours if not its mine and the professional hungrily eyed the but his victim was inclined to move rather leisurely I 1 lets see he said meditatively you stood here just like this and you held the three cards in kovs hand like this with the queen on top then you gave your arm a swing like this and belll palmed the dropped the nine spot in its place and shoved the queen up your light coat elecie where it is now A very had job too partner because its dead crooked and eo easy that any schoolboy might catch yon dead to rights and shoot you full of holes before yon coald square yourself 1 I shall always remember the last time that lay myself he continued as he stowed away the roll of bills it was in the summer of I 1 was doing outside work with show that season and when we struck louisville I 1 caught a sleepy young fellow with more money than brains and tried to work the switch oa him just as yon do it precisely I 1 had not finished the experiment peri ment before I 1 made a rather startling discovery found that my left lung was inhaling through air a large hole near the fifth rib for the next two seasons I 1 did not ta ke an active interest in the circus business bat I 1 eventually took to the road again and ive been with sells brothers ever since up to a weela ago when joe and I 1 came here to wait for forepaugh Pore paugh how are they coming partner chicago mail the dear girls ethel now how old would yon suppose me to be maud I 1 like to say life birds are like human beings canaries like human beings vary very anch in character some cooks heing so indifferent and idle that they will let the hen do all the work of building and rearing while they themselves sit and their feathers others again are perfect gentlemen in their manners waiting on the hen with a quiet courtesy and seeing that all sue requires is at once brought to her again the hens vary in disposition some hens behaving in a quiet modest way attending to their young ones with regularity while others are in a constant state of chatter with their husbands pecking and arguing with them every time they go near thus we see that these little birds have their miffs tiffs and domestic quarrels not unlike ourselves chambers journal vegetarians in history ni story it is evident from arrian and porphyry that vegetarian orders of men were well known in their time and that they were found in india in the time of alexandria they existed in different orders long before the time of jeans in egypt syria etc and were known by the names of Essen ians Essen nees coenobites and etc and those on mcnut carmel of whom elijah the prophet was the chief rabbi described by pliny were known as carmelites Carm elites whatever the name the principles were all the same all were vegetarian the masonic order had its origin in these ancient brotherhoods brothe without dolbt all the masonic emblems of today were known to these brotherhoods brothe so also their passwords dr tanner in kansas city times hard on hoots western shoemaker I 1 dont see how you wear out conr boots so fast considering that most of the time you are on horseback cowboy wall im a light sleeper sort 0 restless yon know au I 1 guess I 1 lack aromnd a good deal good news mans treatment of the dog I 1 in nothing does social usage show such a brutal paradox as in its treatment of the dog it coddles and nurtures him when he is worthless it kills him ruthlessly when he is valuable it supports high toned kennel clubs for his propagation and it makes laws to destroy him at sight it licenses the brute and puts a premium on him and it gives every ignorant justice the power to order him shot it preaches his fidelity and affection with one breath and calls for hia extermination with another there is mon superstition ami ignorance associated with the dog than with the number thirteen I 1 can take you tomorrow to half a score of professional dog fanciers who to guard your pet against hydrophobia arill undertake to extract the worm from his tongue or to bite the last joint of his tail off for a hundred years they have put roll brimstone in his drinking water aa a prophylactic without ever once knowing that water does not dissolve brimstone the dog is thorest loved and the least understood of mans brute companions nym crinkle in new york recorder the duration of a raspberry plantation depends upon the variety cultivated as well as upon the nature of the soil and care given the plants ten to fourteen years is about average under good culture electric slach lae an interesting application of electricity has been made in the electric burnishing machine for giving a gloss to the bottoms of shoes the shoes are painted with a dye after which a cake of specially prepared wax is placed against a rapidly revolving brush which absorbs just enough to yield a coat of dressing to the shoe bottom the sole hitherto a dull black is speedily polished by a wheel worked by an electric motor this wheel consists of a rubber cushion inflated with air covered with cloth and fixed on a grooved pulley the reduction in the cost of the process is remarkable as from GOO to pairs of heels or soles can be burnished daily by the new machine new york commercial ad