The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-16

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faculty Possessed by d friend Of mine
for knowing what's going in in place,
though he may not be personally pres
ent, or have any means Of communiea-
tion. You can lay out here on the
table an entire pack of cards, face up,
and touch any one of the 50. Then
step to the telephone and call up my
friend and he'll tell you what card you
have touched"
Impossible, said the patient "Td
bed almost anything that It can't be
done It might be worked if you did
the telephoning, and had some combi-
nation of words, or code Of signals to
use In talking to your friend, from
which he could tell what card had been
picked out But If / do the telephon-
ing-why, I'd wager ten-spot he
couldn't tell the card"
Done" said the dentist
He produced a pack Of cards and
handed thNm to the drummer who
shuffed them thoroughly, and laid
them out, face up. in four rows of 13
cars each. AT the dentists request the
drummer touched one, that chanced
TO be the ten-spot Of diamonds
Now" said the dentist step to the
phone, call SO9 Cortlandt ask for my
friend, tell him that you're at my Of
fee and have touched card, and ask
him what card you touched"
The drummer did as directed, and
after a moments pause, the words
came over the wire; That was the ten
Of diamonds You picked out"
The money was the dentists.
The loser pressed him for an expla
nation of the trick, for trick he be
lieved it to be, but the dentist insisted
that ne was as much in the dark as
the drummer, who thereupon left the
Office
There's a catch somewhere said
he to his friend, the credit man. &c
whom he related his experience, and
I'd give another ten-dollar bill to know
just where"
We'll" said the credit man, I'm not
averse to making a tenner or two my
self, and being forewarned, ! think
can detect his little game-for it mus
be a game, as you say Suppose ! droI
around to see your dentist friend this
afternoon? | have a little filling tha
might just as well be done now as AM
other time He'll likely get talking
cards with me-T1l steer him on to /
If he doesn't. III make a little wage
with him myself, and watch him close
ly, and perhaps I'll see the game be
fore It is really worked, and be able t
catch him in the act You said it wa
worth ten to you to know how it wa
done. If l meet you here at six an
tell you how, is that tenner mine?7
1T is" exclaimed the drummer. pre-
vided. Of course. you do not get the 81
cret by persuading the doctor to tel
you-and as for that I'll trust to you
honor"
Done" was the reply, and the
went their several ways.
Six o'clock came, and thye met 4
the dining room.
Well" began the credit mar
you're stung-and so am l. | wen
through practically the same exper
ence that you did-picked out the &C
Of spades. and the dentists frien
: promptly told me what card l ha
touched. watched them an CAREFUL
during the whole proceedings Whil
: was getting 309 oCrtlandt he paid n
nattention to me at all, but continue
to read in a book he had picked up bi
moment before I selected the card
ITS certainly a most mysterious a
fair all the way through was Il
drummer's reply, "and I'd give an
! thing to know Just how it va
;, worked"
The two did not meet again for nea
ly a year, when they ran across OF
another on lower Fifth avenue one da
and stopped TO chat, and the cred
man remarked:
a by the way, do you remember no
= we two got fooled on that card gan
3 Of your dentists last year? That Ra
! some. who worked with him, must
4 a pretty slick one. I'd ike to look Il
doctor up and ask him to introduce n
/ to the fellow
4 "Rahsoine?" excltimed the other.
Il don't remember that the name vi
4 Ransome. Ny memory isn't very go,
4 as to that part of the occurrence, b
Il it strikes me it was more like RAJ
q say
'. mo, I'm pretty sure It was Ra
!. some" was the reply, but Of cour
d may be mistaken Ramsay or Ra
some however. he was pretty clev
fellow, and We were neatly done. be
Of us. Lunch with me on the streng
Of IT,"
q Accordingly they adjourned TO
q nearby cafe. and we're selecting frC
D the dinner card when the telepho
70 bell on the bar behind them rang. y,
I; This Is SOs Cortlandt," they heard {
70 bartender say.
D. They prieked up their ears on [
n instant. That was the very numb
d the dentist had used in his card gan
of The bartender waited minu
Is "Yes, this Is Mr.. Roberts talking
IL ,-r.,, non. . ha said