St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

guns and all the plug tobacco he can chew.
| He proposes to begin at washing machines
and windmills and work up to the nndest
kind of the nude in art and will give us
from two to four columns per week We
have already ordered five pounds of /
and dashes to punctuate
his letters, and we have every reason to be-
| lieve there is a rare treat In store for our
readers. Colonel Keogh, as everybody who
| knows him will agree, is man who has
| the strength of his convictions to wonder
| full degree. Ii they succeed in passing off
| any preserved mummies 5000 years old on
him under the name of Adam or Eve, it
will be disappointment to his friends, and
| if he comes across $30.000 marble statue
with lop shoulders or bow leg, they can't
talk about license in art' to him until
after his guns are empty TIE KICKER
congratulates itself, it's readers and the
whole world in general on the forethought
and enterprise displayed in bringing about
this journalistic coup. The subscription
price will remain at the same old figure.
and there will be no advance in advertising
rates
CLEANED OUT.-Last winter we felt it
our duty to offer some well meant advice
to our esteemed contemporary at Iuni, N.
M. He came back at us with such terms
as squirt, = "egotist, big head, ''.tblamed
IDIOT" ETC., thereby proving what per-
verse and stiff necked cuss he was and
is and showing us the folly of attempting
to elevate the moral tone of the press of
that particular portion of the United States.
We washed our hands of him, but he con-
tinued his growing, and Monday afternoon
he arrived in this town in person and in dis
guise 1t seems that he had been told by
some of the boysShat Ee had no sand as a
pokerist, and he mortgaged his office, Dor.
rowed all the cash he could and came here
with the deliberate purpose of proving our
financial ruin. We had scarcely been in
troduced to the gentleman when we scented
the rat, and it did not take us 10 minutes
to come to correct conclusion We have
no apologies to make for being pokerist.
Some editors run TO agriculture some to as
tronomy, some to poetry or political econo-
my. We happen to run to poker. and when
the boys told this New Mexican chap that
we lacked sand they were giving him the
grand guy. We sat down with him after
supper to an unlimited game. In thecour
of an hour we had sized him up. When he y
saw us lay down a full house rather than
bluff two small pairs, he diagnosed our dis
ease as an attack of the chumps On the
very next deal we got pair of mines, drew
one card and raised him $50 He saw us and
went $50 better Weraised him again, and in
five minutes he was bluffed out of the game
and dead broke, although he had three kings
in his hand. 1t was a moonlight night, and
he started right off on his mule for home
We tried to make him take 500 back with
him, but he was SO perturbed that he didn't
seem to catch the drift of our conversation
We do not indulge in poker with avaricious
or sinful intent. We shall donate the win
nings in this case to the sidewalk repair
fund and to providing the town lookup
with new floor and a couple of chairs. If
there areany more esteemed contemporaries
who have heard of our lack of sand in
game OF poker, an early call will greatly
oblige.