The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1903 Page: 2 of 14
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itinl »»H ran umlrr lb* charier uf tl»e
K.r.t Hank of Kalita.
Three Hit'll ivrin am»*icl at Welcciha
mi ihv charm* uf I be! I of freight oil-
triuted to thnr I'ttu*.
A c« iii|wiiiy i# incur) *oratad at Haiti
for (iui i.CUO to coiwtruct anil opcrata au
electric »lr**t railway.
It i* n‘|H»rt.'*l that the major of Ster-
ling wait nrremel recently for forging
limnun to 11*|in>r litvinit*.
K I (re Brother’ll etora at I.-thigh waa
recently eiitere.l by burglar* aud a
mnull amonut aecored by them.
(’apt. Haimer, of Company M, Okla-
homa National Guard, hna been up-
jointed mujorof the national guard.
W. O. Urbach, a soldier from Fort
Sill, deserted and was arreated in La*.v-
ton. He was taken back to the fort.
The Mountain Park & El Paso Rail*
road company has established head*
quarters in the town of Mountain Park.
Okemnh, is to ImVv* a tine three*story
hotel, to he built on Broadway. It will
be one of the best hote!s iu the Terri-
tory.
Brinies Krober, a Germau *44 years
old, hanged himself in his house, east
of Thomas, because a i7-year-old girl
refused to marry him.
The Chandler postoftice has lieeu rair-
ed a notch—it is now iu the lint sec-
ond-class offices with the postmaster’s
salary fixed at $4,000.
The people of Fort Towson. I. T., a
new town on the Arkansas and Choc-
taw road, will celebrate the Fourth of
July with u big barbecue.
< Jklnhomn City has secured the Shaw-
nee base ball club and now Shawnee is
making pretty faces at the Enid team
with the hopes of securing it.
Milburn is to have a picnic and oele-
biation June 25th, in th$ Interest of
good roads. The local commercial
•lub is b ick of the proposition.
A test kiln of brick was opened by th#
Waoletka Brick company last week. The
brick was of a fine quality anil the com-
pany thiuks they have a bonanza.
D. W. Taylor, a lineman for the
Western Union Telegraph company
was bitten by a copperhead snake near
Durant. His arm was badly swollen.
The Indian office announces that sec-
tion line reads must be opened before
old roads are closed aud the opening
must take place as soon as wheat has
been cut.
Chicknsha now has a fisherman and
hunter’s paradise in the shape of a lake,
formed wheu the Wichita river took a
notion to ebauge its course during tlra
recent high water._
Work has been commenced on the
! 20-foot standpipe for the Muskogee
water works. The tint section has bees
pnt in place and to the Phoenix rs>
rnrter it looks like a wmshtub.
"AMATEVR HAS NO SHOW."
SAYS OLD-TIME CARD SHARK
NqImM Gamklar Shout How Car* Aft MerWJ
la Dacota to Hmmoi Mar PI /ar "No Such Thing
it • Gaatonac o Came.**
"Forty year* hi fieeriaa I* »h# #*r
ltd uf an old mas shsr fare and da
ir« are familiar lu u»a* uf th# smart
•«i dwellers on Ike West Hide and lu
, .»«r* samkhns hoo** uf mi »«*»# In
he tusuirp II* is an old n»sn s»»*
ireriy »ui> lie ha# utad. and I*. I
I du«e« fur I uaes Out uf Ike are* K lie
>s» mansard lu »a«e a ml» sum
•m*ugk iu enable him tu *m|<|smi iu
toe *1 > le a silt- three benUlifUl ttJUBll
rr» and tau *uliegei>red sons hike
be broker sad ike haulier a In. *rus
, -Ired uf the fray. be has "n-lired;’’ yi*«
I u his eager, alert miud there uilil
' |well* esery sei-ret known lu the card
•hark, every tih-k uf ike "skin " game.
From Faria iu l.unduu. from dsn i
: l’raurU(u lu Near Yurk. fruiu Canada
j u New Orleans he has picked lit****
ip. dome be has Invented kluiself.
Never, until a week agu. had he di-
vulged one uf them. The iiuwriituu
i ’aw among gambleis forbade it. Yet
I u a moment uf euthuaiastn be was
; 'HTSuaded to throw light un these dark ,
‘ .eerets uf the gaming house. From j
1 he lips uf u mao who Iran wltuejsed
unity tragedies of the green tuble It Is
i uieresiiog to learn how he aecom-
dished it. liow he bus uiuuaged to
•scape the law. how he could look
1 ipun card-sharking a** a legitimate
! nisi ness.
“The man who cheats at cards earns
ils money.” he said. “The profession-
il gambler must throw all fine seutl-
neuts to the winds when he embarks
m his car*c.\ Friendship—why,
friendship ceases, as we say. the
ninute play is started. Honor, hon-
esty, mercy—all go. You are out to
win—to win. no matter how. You
au show no quarter. You may be sit-
ing behind the best hand in the deck;
,-ou may know what the other fellow
las—something good that he will play
o the limit. You know that if he
»ets his pile he is ruined. Do you let
ip on him? Oh, yes, after he has
shoved over his last chip and can t
»et credit for any more. No quarter!
You have to do It. You may be wiri-
ng to buy wine for the crowd after
ward to the extent of a hundred spot,
>ut you wouldn’t let that man keep
five dollars in front of him.
“I have been a gambler nearly all
uiy life, and 1 will say now that the
honest gambler has never been boru.
It is impossible for him to be honest.
Times come w-hen he does not cheat,
but it is for lack of oppoituuity. We
are out to win. It is our business to
win. Gambling is all chance to the
honeet man. We have to eliminate
chance as far as possible if we are to
make a livelihoed out -of It.
“There is no such thing os a gen-
tlemen's game unless you know tie
history of every man at the table— and
even then It isn’t. For nearly lorty
years I have played. I have belonged
to some swell clubs. Of course I have
cheated. 1 could not have won epough
to pay my dues regularly If I had not.
•*1 wore good clothes, had a good ad-
fireaa. and no one suspected that I was
a gambler and a cheat, i did not
make the mistake of playing all the
time at one club. Qfift night n week
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tb*** little trip* I *<-M «u *4h*r rill*»
lu play |M*k*f- Uim *- after a ran of
friaord hard link I qui* plajifc* *T»
llrrly, 1 was rar#f*il •** aiti,*m»t*- ibe
la* i Wbal •!*» f»o *<i - * » I did iw
lhe interval? I drew ?7S> u Week for
marking curds.
"That is the principal secret of my
success—marked cards. I knew how
to do It, and practically all ni.v life as
u gambler I have played with decks
so marked thui I could read the
backs, of the raids as well as tubers
could read the fat es. There are few
packs which cannot be fixed in this
style by a little time anti patience on
(he part of an expert.
*Of course it is possible to buy
•brace’ decks where the marking is
done in tlie printing. But I preferred
to mark my own «aids. Of course tin-
other players were at my mercy. They
might as well have spread their hands
down on the table face up. I knew
what every man held.
"There ait* all sorts of ways to
mark cards. The simplest is the best.
To the casual observer there must be
no difference between the cards. Take
this pack. Do you see anything wrong
about the backs? Look closely. No?
Certainly you would not. if you saw
them on y in shuffling and dealing
amid the excitement of the game.
They are marked, and 1 can tell the
denomination and suit as fast as 1 can
deal them. This is the ace of spades;
this the king of clubs; eight of spades
a«id so on.
“All quite remarkable until you get
the key, and then it is so plain that
you feel like kicking yourself. With
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dUgraie hung-* n\*-r >*»u all ill* lliu*
and voii mu i *••-•- evrryililou uliliout
•il>pui*iiily paylttk m*»r*- aiieniioii to
ihe i ur*ij* of rtic o*h»-. than un>hod>
around th** table.
• An amateur poki-r player no mat-
ter low expert, hasn't th*- llghiesi
I'huiii •* aauiust a prol'eanhuiul 'I he it
are too many trl* ks in the name. I Ins
protesolnnul knoai* elioiigli of these to
make it a sure thlug. while Ills oppo
neat is tloundering hopelessly iu tlie?
mazes of clianct-."— New York Press.
FLEUS IN FEAR OF THUN5ER.
Butcher Removes to Oregon, Wlicre
There Is Said to Be None.
Henry Seaman lias left Bayside, L.
i.t find is now on his way to Oregon
with his family, because Long Island
thunderstorms upset lits nerves, and
he heard that there was no such thing
as thunder and lightning in Oregon.
He declared, before lie started, that
if the report proved untrue ho would,
seek some place so far above th?
ciuuds that it would be impossible for
thunder to lie heard there.
Seaman was a butcher doing a lu-
crative business in Bayside. He wuo
never known to lack courage tav.'i
when the thunder of a summer storm
was rumbling anO crashing, when he
was as likely to desert his shop aud
stick his head between a couple of
feather uiattres<n> as to continue
waiting on his customers. His friends
finally became /.ceustomed to seeing
him drop cleai m and meat saw wheu
a stoi’.i. broke*, and, asking them to
leave his stoi'-.., rush out himself. One
of his beliefs was that lie was safer
in s ome movt-ig objei; than on the
groui'd, am* to frequently hoarded a
trolL-y ear during a storm and stuck
by it until Hit- thunder ceased, re-
g;.*.dress thither it conveyed him.
He \v:-„: entirely unable to explain
Ms ab>> i. fear of thunder, it is .aid,
howevtr, that when a l*oy lie nainiv-
ly escaped death by I'ghtnlng.
Aged Man a Lady Killer.
Jam *s A. Curran, an. aged capital-
ist of Hamilton. Mont., lias been sm.-d
for $5h,Mnn damages for ulb-i ating the
affections of the wife ».( John llay.
Sixty witnesses have he"' n _ur.ii.ouod
U» UXilfy iu the case.
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