New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-22

putting on q very reserved air.
Yes" said Joe. "Put in reg lar TWEEN y
keg blast; but it only tizzled. Reckon the
rocks purity tough. professor, an not much
indi cations, NO how" And Joe laughed in
his sleeve, and started to find the major
and beg cigar.
The major gave Joe an excellent cigar,
pro missed a larger monthly dividend than
the claim had ever declared before. and
told Joe first rate story, Then, when ne
had got Joe into an excellent humor, he
com menced moving skilltully On Joes out
works.
Got much laid up, Joe!' inquired the
major with bland hypocrisy.
Mary p replied Joe with emphasis, and
then loud laugh at the utter absurdity OF
such an idea.
Time You commenced. old fellow" said
the major. "You can be well off in few
months, if the claim keeps doing as well as
now"
NO good of me savin' money replied
Joe, with an oath as generous as it was I'M
necessary "Somebody'd steal it."
Nonsense " cried the major. You'll
want a wife, and house to live in, one OF
these days; and then you'll find money very
handy, no matter how much you may
have
House an wife y calculated Joe. ''Thun-
hev sech galoot ez me-"
'Plenty of them would, quick enough
replied the major. you're young and good
looking and good natured, and have plenty
Of good sense. All you need to do is TO
stop drinking, gambling, fighting, swear
ing
.'Major," interrupted Joe, blowing
smoke from both corners of his mouth
until his face was etfectually clouded,
"thats the identical game that two
other chaps hes ben a playin' on me this
mornin."
Not the deacon and the professor :"
aueried the major quickly, and hiding his
lips entirely away under his moustache.
"Jus's sO," replied Joe. Zone of 'em
piled on the birthstone, an t'other tried
sugar. But faint no 60, major. Fact is,
I've thought heap about it, an I've made
up my mind tibet what theirs SO much fight
in about is too much, by a long shot, fur
me to git through my head. Take some
thin'l Oh yer don't drink on duty, do
YER well / do saying which Joe saun-
tiently about until he could fall in with
some one whose conversation should run in
different strain from that he had heard
during the morning.
At the dinner table that day the partners
did not exhibit their usual cordially. Joe,
to be sure, ate with q good appetite, and
told good thing or two he had heard at
the saloon; but his three partners regarded
each other somewhat after the manner of
three well bred dogs having designs on the
same bone. The deacon and the professor
felt aggrieved; and the major seemed con-
siderably annoyed; but all were too good
hammered to chow any rudeness. Joe fin
ished his meal and departed in search of
more cheerful company. AS he departed,
the deacon uttered long sigh and ex-
claimed:
"Oh the depravity of the human heart ~
.Ah, think" said the professor, empty
ing his coffee cup, that it is perhaps well
to remember that the human mind is
more amenable to persuasion than to force
Our friend is better tempered than most
men; but he despises the sentiment of fear.
and is likely to be indignant when any one
TO awaken it in him"
"The law was made for sinners" replied
the deacon. with a savage kick at the cooks
dog; that's what the apostle says, and it's
terrors ought to be talked to 'em till they're
awakened to q sense of their danger and
fee from the wrath to come"
Suppose We approach the matter in a
common sense manner" suggested the ma
or. IF we are all three going to attack
Joe at once, ordinary prudence dictates
that we act unitedly. Remember those two
Mexicans we had, who fought about mule
hat some scamp stole while they SQUAD
Dled p
The deacon was az reasonable as men
but when he heard the human
soul compared, even distantly, with a
Mexicans mule, he INDUCED in what would
rave been called decided sniff had the
leacon been lady. But neither insulting
nor heterodox loOseness as to
means of grace, were sufficient to make the
ieacon swerve from his clearly compre-
ended duty, so he exclaimed i'll very de
ided tone:
..Strait is the path, an narrer is the way;
n nobody amt got the right to make it
ny broader"
II don't want to make it So" said the ma
Dr. right testify; ''but isn't it better to walk |
q any road than to wander carelessly about |
II the gateways Of hell I"
The deacon did not dare answer in the af- |
rmative, yet had too much heart to say no,
D he compromised, and remained silent.
Il think said the professor, Turing
troublesome fly under a tumbler by |
,eans of fragment Of stewed dried
pple, and then quickly dropping
ne tumbler, THAT the persuasive
lethod would be-ah-by far the best.
how him the delights of virtue, and how
|
and then call his attention to the
ANY precious promises that are contained
the good Book
"And some of those which aren't in it.
at which God has written just as plainly"
Iterrupted the major. .a
well, wouldn't be-ah-too sure about
lat" said the professor abstractedly, put
ng his hand before his eyes.
Nor !, nuther,' said the deacon, closing |
Is lips rs tightly as if they were the doors
the safe which contained all the COM
any's refined metal. l.
The major arose abruptly and so did his
irtners. Instead of the three partners
alking together to the claim as was their
,ual custom, the professor became absorbed
a book, and the maj or consumed an I'M
,ual amount of time in lighting a cigar.
After the deacon had been gone long
Tough to preclude the possibility of his
ling overtaken, the major started. The
'ofessor fingered over his book few
oments longer, when he also started, but
as suddenly stopped by the German cook,
no ran against him, exclaiming-
dat saloon, de Pride of Shpurtip,' is all
ire. -
Therprofessor took lively double quick
the direction of the fire; for the saloon
as very near the claim, and the works of
Q claim were of wood only. Fortunately,
'wever, the wind was in favorable dlrec-
IN, so the professor stopped and gazed at
Q conhagrstiOn with considerable salts
ction; for, although the professor was
'ry quiet man, his opinion of the liquor
ade was very decided.
As the saloon was of implanted boards,
I'd plastered, the flames made rapid
ogress; so that Jim Slipson, the proprie-
r, had barely time to save two or three
mfuls OF bottles. With these he retired
the opposite side of the street, where the
ectators stood; and he was mournfully
ntemplating the effect of caloric upon
c0hel. when he suddenly started, and ex-
aimed:
Good God Ipjin Mary's in the loft
'er the saloon y
who's that 2" asked the 6eacon wbn |