Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
~ GAME ON TRAINS.
The Man with the Cards and the FnF
Too sure Thing Bet.

other day concerning Tie ! test Wrin-
kle in confidence games. The melan-
cbolr one had just been relieved Of
$50 by a couple of chance acquaint
ances ON a train.
..This is how it happened" said the
traveller: Il was coming from Oklaho-
ma and after leaving Fort Scott sat in
fine smoker with a man who got on at
that station. We chatted a bit and
were watching a game Of cribbage
among some travelling men across the
aisle when a man came through the
car with a pack of playing cards in his
hand. He stopped by the cribbage
players and asked them to buy the
cards. They refused, so he turned to
our seat.
Gentlemen he said, I'D like to sell
these cards. They are of unusually
good quality, and I'll sell them for the
price of an ordinary deck
"'Let's see,' said my seat mate, TAX
ing the pack. 4 don't see anything re-
markable about these. They look like
ordinary twenty-five cent cards to me-
"'All right replied the owner Of the
cards in an offended tone; If you can't
distinguish the difference in the quail
tv of cards, there's no use in my vast
ing time talking to you
ale reached for the pack, and as it
was handed back to him one Of the
cards fell to the floor, apparently un-
noticed by the owner. My seat mate,
however. saw the card fall and said
banteringly:
"sThOse cards may be extra fine, but
I'll bet there's not full pack there
sThe owner Of the cards glared in
dignantly at my seat mate.
@.You say you will? he exclaimed.
Now. what will you bet on thatY
"NIv companion had already covered
the card on the floor with his foot.
"Oh, I'll call anything you've got
he laughed.
"Without more ado the card sales
man lugged out bundle OF. bills and
announced that he didn't like to take
candy from infants, but that he would
bet a hundred, even money, that the
nasteboards in his hand composed
full deck Of fifty-twO cards, not count
ing the Joker. This, Of course, looked
like Christmas expenses to us, who
knew that one card of the pack lay on
the floor.
"T'n let Won in on half Of the bet
said nv seat mate generously, and, OF
course. 1 jumped at the chance.
s.The money was posted, the cards
wore counted and the deck found to be
complete. My seat mate and the card
salesman left the train at the next sta
tion. OF course l see it all now-that
is. all but one thing:
syhv did it not occur to me that
there was something odd in man haV-
ing S1OO who had a. moment before
been trying to peddle two bit pack OF
cards Y-Kansas City Star
Kew YorIz's New Cathedral TO Lead
In Humane Activities.
Many people who read from time to
time of the progress Of the work Of
building the Cathedral Of st. John the
Divine, in New York city, probably re-
gard the undertaking as purely artistic
and look forward to the day when they
will visit it as tourists now go to see
ST PauTs in London. The American
cathedral will, however, be something
more than a magnificent Secimen Of
modern ecclesiastical architecture. 1t
Is. first of all, to be the means of unity
ing several of the biggest philanthropic
In ~
tropois.
The nucleus of this great proposed
center of social service consists of sew
eral already famous undertakings.
There is the New York Protestant
Episcopal City Mission society, which
maintains six chapels and several
houses of refuge and has representa-
tives not only in the almshOQse and
the state reform school, but also in all
the city prisons and hospitals. This So
ciety is mainly responsible for the
maintenance Of the Chapel of the
Epiphany, otherwise called the pro-
cathedral, a social settlement in one
of the most crowded districts in the
world. Religious services are held
every day, clubs Of all kinds have their
Headquarters there, baths, day nurser-
les. clothing bureaus, dispensaries and
libraries offer attractions to all sorts
and conditions of people; volunteer
choir of men and boys cheers the way
farer and keeps many a struggling
youth off the streets, and in connection
with the work is a country house used
for summer outings.
Next door to the city police head
quarters, near the once notorious Mul
berry bend, is st. Barnabas House
where helping hands are. outstretched
to destitute women and orphan chill
dren. Attached to this house is dis
{ pensary in which the intirm and thu
ailing are attended to without charge
) over between the Bowery and the Eas
] river is Gods Providence House, whicl
( comprises a day nursery and a kin
, darga ,fen One of the most notable