Show A GAMBLERS superstition ua he S viewed with 17 herror the proposition to acm jac it a dver DOCK of cards car d L they we were a quiet rubber of whist hist and ud had called for a new deck of rd one of the players was an old timer ane r a card player of years of experience ei ence and he be took up the old worn out pack and put them on the windowsill su throw them in the fire said the voting oung man in an who was his partner what said the elder throw a pack of cards in the fire young man you cou dont know what you are talking about I 1 do it for one thousand sa dollars why not superstition was the answer burn bum a pack of cards and they will never give you another hand and will mock you to the last st they are bad enough at best but you never saw a gambler curse the cards or abuse them or burn bum them or otherwise ill treat them se ile dare to I 1 knew a successful card player who did it il he was dwelling on velvet then theil in a year he was a beggar and he e never won a game wor worth mentioning ment 1 on forever after its a whim but the gentlemen of the cloth of green respect it and they wont burn a pack of cards one wy way by which Rus russians snub snob orthodox hebrews TheR the karaim arai M jews number or 4 03 0 and lite lire principally in the crimea they speak a Tartar dialect elves and ethnologically are much more nor e like tartars than smites Sm ites says he Satur saturday clay review their own le ie ends in fact permit the assumption hat they were Kh azars and were con erred to judaism in the eighth century flicia form of judaism differs from talt that of the or more orthodox rus bus aan jews in rejecting the talmud and traditional theology altogether an aal 1 on fining itself strictly to the mosaic revelation it has been a favorite amusement with the russians russian s for far generations to lo pretend the greatest admiration and affection for this obscure little lii ti tribe be mine had her joke on jhc thc subject abject in london when she gravely inured an interviewer some years ago that there never had been a law of any ind ednd issued bissu ed in russia against the jews when this amazing assertion was questioned she coolly explained that she referred to the jews as in hasi I 1 sla a they did not consider the disciples of the talmud were jews at all inasmuch as s the constitute s only a two thousandth part of the jewish race if indeed it be conceded that they belong to it all the insolence of the russian attitude toward them is peculiarly exasperating aspe rating to hebrews in general and the spectacle of their being brought forward at moscow as the sole representatives of israel will smart a and d rankle just as the genial slavonic 32 character desires that it should hould fa |