McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-15
THE FOOL STILL LIVES.
And tho Old Games are Still Worked on
Him.

New York Herald.
"Now, then, who'll have three more
for dollarP'' said the 'sfakir" to a
crowd near Chatham Square, New
York, as he folded up crisp $40 note
and apparently deposited it In a pretty
little pink box. "Here, you take 'em,"
holding out three boxes with the end of
a bill peeping temptingly out in plain
sight of the verdant-looking youth APP
pealed to. The young man held off,
however, and the operator opened the
box and showed him the $40 note he
might have had for 81. The man once
more shuffled up the box in his bag and
went through the same performance.
A youth who had been watching him
with cupidity blazing in his eyes sud-
denly produced 81 and took three
boxes. .
"Don't open here" warned the
"fakir," but the purchaser needed not.
Two boxes contained pieces of newspa-
per, the third the 10. The young mans
face shone with delight.
"Wasn't 1 luckyPf he exclaimed.
Two men at once invested and q col
ored girl, Respondent in garments of
old gold and blue, also wooed fortune.
This trio went off without disclosing
their find. The young man who had
won sauntered off and the reporter fol-
lowed and caught up with him.
''Isn't that game rather ancient for
the Boweryp" the reporter inquired.
The young man looked at his ques-
toner for a moment and then replied !:
swell, yes; can't catch on with it
very well now.'
s'How many dollars worth do you
and your partner get rid of here in q
day, and who are the victimsp"
"Ob, we can make S18 or 800 a day
here; not much, of course, but enough
to pay us for getting ready for the
country fairs, where we coin wealth.
The people who bite here are mostly
young men from up the river doing the
city; but once in a while very fly
New Yorker, who thinks he knows the
racket, buys the boxes intended for the
'capper' and gets badly left. The cur
rency is not there.'
ssHow is the trick done?''
s'The operator takes genuine bank
L
lively, and puts it in one. If anyone
except his partner attempts to buy,
why he palms the box when passing it.
The seductive paper resembling a
bank bill, is merely piece of an old
beer or tobacco stamp"
ANOTHER WAY.
William Judge, a negro 10 years old,
| ho lot Ivy Tor Nd
is living at No. 237 Navy street, Brook
lyn, was walking down Fulton street,
that city, to the ferry on Wednesday
| afternoon, when another colored man
accosted him.
ELBOWS friend WeaverP" the man
asked. Judge replied that he knew no
one of that name.
"You don't?" said the man. "Now,
that's singular. thought knew you.
and had job for you. I'm employ
ed by a physician to engage eight bright
young men to distribute cards for him.
Now, you're bright young fellow;
how'd you like the job?''
Judge, who is out of work, accepted
the offer with alacrity, and started
with his new friend for the physicians
office. They had gone only few
steps when white man stopped them.
He had straws sticking to his clothes,
wore brass watch chain and seemed
| to be from the country.
81 want to show you something," he
said, addressing Judge and displaying
i've business cards. sits the latest
thing out. Here are five cards, and
one OF them has the number so on the
back. Now throw them around and
I'm betting you can't pick out the so.
couldn't till was told how"
Judges friend nudged him to call
his attention to faint finger mark on
that particular card. Then he searched
his pockets. 81 amt got a cent" he
whispered to Judge. "You lend me
some money and I'll give you half of
what 1 win. We can make big stake
out of it,
Judge unsuspectingly handed over
to his friend four S. bills, all the
money he had. This was staked, the
cards were shuffled, the man drew one,
which was, of course, the wrong one,
and the white man pocketed Judges
money. Judge in dismay demanded
the return of his money. His friend
first tried to pacify him, and then
promised that if Judge would come
over to New York with him he would
borrow $40 from the physician previ-
ously mentioned, and would repay
Judge. The latter agreed to this. and
the three men came over to New York
Judges friend entered a building in
Broadway, near Fulton street, telling
his companions to wait in the street
for him. They waited some twenty
minutes. Then the white man be-
came impatient.
"Whst keeps him so long?'' he said.
Then turning to Judge he added:
1--WE don't want to wait here all night.
Suppose you 60 and hurry him up."
Judge then cheerfully ran up six
flights of stairs and hunted through
the building, but could not find either