Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
GOLD JOHN ~STOCKDALE."
via Experfence at "Keerds'' with a
Couple Of Nice Young Men.

A couple of evenings ago a man put
nm at the Grand Pacific Hotel and
registered from Brenham, Texas. He
was rude and unlettered, and bore
every appearance of being a successful
c~attie-drover. Two young gentlemen
of fashionable exterior, VINO had wit
messed the act of registration, ap-
preached the desk as he stepped away
from it., and carelessly scanned the list
of arrivals, then strolled away through
the office for a moment, and met the
honorable gentleman from Texas. One
of them-it subsequently appeared from
his conversation that he was the nephew
of the cashier of the First National
Bank of BRENNAN, and had, casually
made the Texans acquaintance while
on a visit to his uncle-accoSted him as
MIR. So-and-So, and, though at first the
Texan aforementioned" him, soon re-
called the circumstances Of their pre-
vious friendship to mind. His COM
p%anion, he said, was a young and
wealthy stranger from Philadelphia.
The trio had several drinks together,
and the nephew of his uncle proposed
to the Texan that they should go out
and have d little fun with the boys.
The Texan admitted that, as beftted q
cattle-drover, he did not object to long
horns-in fine, that they would
have a long horn, a strong horn, and q
horn altogether before they parted /;
"but'" he added in his rude and vigor-
Gus vernacular, emo keerds for me, my
son. Not but what l have in my day
and generation slung q whole herd of
c+na,c booF1 hIAac onG hnrnc nm n
little pair when [ knewed the other cuss
was drawing to three kings, which was
only what any other gentleman would
have done under the circumstances, but
I'm getting old, and my uncle's son is
studying for the ministry, and so you
see it would kinder bring disgrace IN
the church, so I've sworn off,"
They said that would be all right
that they respected conscientious scru-
Piles and the like. "Drunk or sober,
inebriated or intoxicated" continued
the Texan, cold John Stockdale never
went back on his word. I've got $780,
600 acres of AND and $1,000 head of
cattle, and if | lose | pay. The last
time [ got on a regular old bazouri was
at Kansas City, and when l was Sober
ing up next day the cusses [ had been
spending the evening with came roHnd
and told me I'd lost $4,000 to them in
a game of draw. I'm a gentleman,
and so, though | didn't recollect a thing
about touching a card, / just hauled out
my s~ub-treasury and paid them then
and thar Both Of the young men
said that he was an honor 10 his sex,
and shook hands with him warmly.
elbow much'll it take to see this yer
Arctic expedition through" said Mr..
Stockdale. co." replied the nephew
of the Cashier Of the First National
Bank of Brennan, ''you don't want
any money. Wen just have d couple
of drinks and some oysters, and go and
hear the St. James's church chimes,
and have q hot lemonade and go to
bed" The Colonel said that was all
right, and therefore he would leave his
wealth with the clerk, which he did :;
said wealth consisting of a wad of
greenbacks about as large as a nail
key. Then ne went OuC with those two
nice young men. About midnight those
two nice young men brought him back.
He was very drunk. Next morning
about 9, as the cattle drover came out
from breakfast, he was encountered by
the young Philadelphia millionaire.
81 called, Col. Stockdale," he said,
rendering the Texan a small roll of
bills, "to settle a debt of honor. Here
are the $3.50 | lost to you. | hope you
81 o $3.50 Otf'n you, did |? | must
have been drinking Il pretty considera-
BILE few" replied the honest drover,
"for l disremember touching d keerd.
I'm sorry | went, because eff his trus-
tees knew of this they might make a
regular Beecher out of my uncle's
second son. Come and have some
thing"
While they were having it the cash
ier's nephew came in, and, greeting
them cordially, said: "Ah, Colonel,
give you any sort of luck at the cards,
and think [ would back you as a poker
player against any one in the world.
But, after all, two pairs of kings beat
three skies most anywhere" The Tex
an assented to this automatic PROPOSE
ton. "It was fortunate for me that
the luck turned or you'd have got away
with me worse than you did with my
friend Perkins here. But them foar
kings left me a little ahead" 81 re-
MEMBER" said the Texan; 81 thought
| could sort of bluff you. Lemme see;
how much was | behind when we quit?"
and he hauled out his pocket book.
"Well," said the cashiers nephew, 81
don't know. You said you would make
a memorandum of it, and I never both
er about such things. Debts of honor,
among gentlemen you know" "That's
So" replied the Colonel; "but I've
mislaid the memorandum and I'm not
quite sure whether it was -" SIT
was" said the cashiers neph-
ew, $4,000 up to the last
deal, where Perkins passed out
and you raised me-you r~ememberg'
eyes," said Perkins, sand you wanted
to raise him $4,000, but he hadn't
that much money with him, and got a
sight for what he had. 1t was so, go,
l think" t'No," said the cashiers
nephew. ''Ie was only $3.50, for the
Colonel pointed out a mistake of a 500