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Three-card monte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The recent death of Gambetta has given the last \u201cNew Year\u201d a sensational interest, and it is a somewhat sensational coincidence that just at the time when Gambetta died in Paris one of his warmest political admirers and most intimate personal friends died in this city at the Hoffman House. I allude to Edward Stern, the rich and eccentric Russian, the often-married president of the Equitable Gaslight Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leon Gambetta, French statesman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      This Stern was in a great many respects a remarkable man. He combined two things more often combined than people imagine\u2013the dash of the romantic adventurer with the hard sense of a thorough-goin\u2019 business man. He spent money wildly, lavishly, recklessly, but he always made more than he spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of his prominent peculiarities was a fondness for games of cards. He was one of the most ardent card-players that ever lived. He had nothing of the professional gambler about him. Never played merely or chiefly to win, but he generally won. His luck was proverbial. In fact, durin\u2019 the last years of his life Stern refused to play cards with anybody unless the \u201canybody\u201d was somebody who could afford to lose. He generally carried a pack of cards and a lot of money around with him, ready for a big game with a rich friend at any moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Stern had made Gambetta\u2019s acquaintance in the early part of his career, and greatly admired him, both as a man and a politician; in fact, he regarded him as a risin\u2019 man long before he became famous. Stern once offered to Gambetta on his mere word of honor 200,000 francs\u2013about $40,000\u2013but the great French politician gratefully but firmly refused the kind offer\u2013and such refusals don\u2019t come every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Stern made money easily\u2013he was as lucky in business as in cards. Durin\u2019 the war he made in three years over $400,000 in New York, speculatin\u2019 at the Produce Exchange. He had tip-top qualities for a speculator\u2013sound judgment and tremendous nerve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He dealt a good deal in hogs, lard, etc., and one time went South just before the war, on some business connected with his operations in the rice line. He met durin\u2019 this trip with a characteristic adventure\u2013interestin\u2019 in itself, and showin\u2019 the shrewdness and darin\u2019 of the man\u2013which he used to take delight in repeating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Stern was a passenger on board a steamer bound from Louisville to New Orleans, and he played cards with some acquaintances till the boat got to Memphis. There some miscellaneous card-sharpers, three-card monte men, etc., got on board, and Stern, who was somewhat particular about his company, stopped playin\u2019 and contented himself with lookin\u2019 on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among the passengers this trip was a hog drover with whom Stern had done some business\u2013a fussy, noisy \u201choggish\u201d sort of a man himself, very conceited, and pridin\u2019 himself particularly on two things, in both of which he was rather deficient, of course\u2013shrewdness and courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      The hog drover had, among other ideas, an idea that nobody could ever fool him on cards. Well, pretty soon the three-card sharpers got to work, and got their fine work in pretty neatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The worst of the lot, lookin\u2019 like the best sort of a respectable man, of course\u2013professed to be a kind of repentin\u2019 sinner, and desirin\u2019 to save his fellow passengers from the wiles of sharpers. He claimed to have been recently cheated by some three-card monte men out of all he had, and he wanted to show others how he had been cheated, so as to protect \u2018em in future. So he produced a pack of cards from his pocket, and proceeded to show how he had been cheated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Stern knew that this was all a blind, but the hog drover took it for gospel truth\u2013or, at any rate, for truth\u2013for he didn’t know much about the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Of course the other sharpers\u2013the confederates\u2013pretended to take interest in this exposure of \u2018emselves, and finally they got to makin\u2019 bets among \u2018emselves that they could not be fooled the way this highly respectable and victimized penitent had been. They could always pick out the winnin\u2019 cards, although they didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The hog drover got more and more interested, till it last all was ripe to fleece him. One of the sharpers in league with the gang, pretendin\u2019 to be a looker-on, whispered to him a great discovery that he had made, which was that the winnin\u2019 card always had a little mark or speck on the back of it. On this \u201cpoint\u201d the hog drover acted at once, and bet three hundred dollars that he could pick out the winnin\u2019 card. Of course, after a lot of preliminary \u201cchin\u201d and \u201ccircus,\u201d this bet was taken\u2013and, of course, with his eye on the mark or speck he picked out the card that ought to have been the winnin\u2019 card\u2013and of course it wasn’t the winnin\u2019 card\u2013and of course the hog drover lost his three hundred dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was the usual amount of recrimination on the part of the hog drover and the usual amount of explanation on the part of the sharper, and then the two men went off together. Stern had kept his eye on the proceedin\u2019s, takin\u2019 everythin\u2019 in, and now rose and slowly followed the party, who were standin\u2019 talkin\u2019 near one of the chimneys of the boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Concealed from observation, he heard the sharper tell the hog-broker that he had discovered another \u201cpoint\u201d–a point which would certainly enable the hog man not only to get even, but to come out far ahead, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI’ve noticed,\u201d said the sharper, \u201cthat that \u2018ere feller that throws them \u2018ere cards allers lifts \u2018em high up from the table when he gives \u2018em the last shuffle. I noticed it several times. Now I’m too tall to stoop down, but you’re smaller than I am. So just you get behind him at the table as he gives the last shuffle, and stoop down and see the cards, as he lifts \u2018em up, and then you can tell what is the winnin\u2019 card, sure, after he has put the cards down. I will get on the other side of the table, and keep the other fellers from seein\u2019 when you stoop down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       This \u201cpoint\u201d made the hog-broker wild to try his luck again. So, promisin\u2019 a divvy of his winnin\u2019s to the \u201cpointer,\u201d the hog man came back to the sharpers again, who had meanwhile kept up a bit of show by chinnin\u2019, waitin\u2019 till their victim was brought back, and ready to \u201crope in\u201d any new fools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Seein\u2019 the hog drover, the man who was now operatin\u2019 the cards began manipulatin\u2019 two black fives and a jack of diamonds, the jack bein\u2019 the winnin\u2019 card, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThere can be no possible mistake, now, gentlemen,\u201d cried the operator, \u201ctwo blacks and a red, and the red Jack wins; keep your eyes on the keards, gentlemen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The hog drover kept his eyes on the cards from behind the operator, kept \u2018em so closely fixed that, as he stooped down, while the operator gave the cards their last shuffle, he saw\u2013as the operator raised the cards accordin\u2019 to his custom several inches from the table\u2013the jack of diamonds distinctly. He kept his eye on that jack of diamonds, saw it placed on the table and confidently picked it out at once. But the card he picked out was not the jack of diamonds; it was some other card. And the hog drover, who had bet every dollar he had left, had not now a dollar in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He swore fearfully, and then groaned despairingly. He had lost his nerve as well as his wits, but Stern had wit and pluck both. He had pity on the hog-broker besides. It didn’t suit his interests just then that the hog-broker should be ruined by sharpers. Stern had watched the whole affair carefully, havin\u2019 followed the hog man and his tempter back to the table, and carefully noted everythin\u2019 that occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So now he quietly stepped up to the table and turned up the other two cards on it. There was no jack of diamonds on the table at all. Neither of the three cards were the jack of diamonds, although the jack of diamonds had been among the three cards originally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cYou see,\u201d said Stern to the crowd around, \u201cit wasn’t a mistake on the part of this man,\u201d  pointin\u2019 to the hog-broker, \u201cbut a trick on the part of this man,\u201d pointin\u2019 to the cheater. \u201cThe cards have been changed while shuffled the last time. That fellow has hid the jack of diamonds and replaced it by that other card, which was not among the original three cards at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The detected cheat of an operator had by this time drawn his revolver. So had his confederates. But the other passengers had also drawn theirs, and Stern had drawn his, and leveled it at the head of the \u201coperator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The passengers and Stern were too many for the three card sharpers. They had to refund all their ill-gotten gains, and were put off the boat at the next island the boat came to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What became of \u2018em was not known, but that hog-broker, if alive to-day, will be sorry to hear of the death of Edward Stern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: Stern’s obituary from the New York Times<\/em> offers more detail of his “romantic” background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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