The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-08

you enter the town graveyard, and when
we took the father mp there to see it we
noticed that some patent medicine man
had erected Il heAdbOard for the sake Of ad.
vertisng his cure all. When we informed
the father of the way his son John met his
fate, he promptly acquitted the marshal of
all blame. He further explained that John
had set out for the far west to become
bad man, and that what he lacked in sand
he made up in whooping aud cracking his
heels together. MIR. Wymnu not only took
q sensible view of the matter at every turn,
but his words expressed his relief and graf
itude that his son was not hung instead of
being shot Indeed be was so pleased with
our people and their way of doing business
that before going home he purchased two
vacant lots on Apache avenue and will re
turn here in the spring TO become a perma.
nent resident, AS the head OF the local
government, as well ms the editor and pro.
prietor Of great family newspaper we
take great pleasure in assisting the rela.
tives of n late deceased TO secure all posi-
BILE particulars of his taking off, and in the
future rs in the past shall hold ourselves in
readiness to do whatever can be done IN
nny and every case. Living relatives who
may wish to consult us after II o'clock at
night will please ring the upper bell and
announce their names before the door is
opened. We have had to adopt this pre-
caution to guard against would he assassins
ANOTHER CASE In PoNr.-On two or
three different occasions THE KICKER has
felt called upon to warn tourists from the
east that the people of this town had their
idioms and stuck to them like ton of
porous plasters, When we were in Chi.
cago year ago, a man took our $50 over
coat and left a IS one in exchange. We
recognized it as one of the idioms of the
town and raised no row. When we were
In st. Louis last summer, some one took
~ out of our hind pocket ldiom again.
and We telegraphed home for more. The
idioms of our people are perhaps mani
Tested in game of poker more than In any
thing else. The game is played here in all
its original luNuriousness - that is, each
player is entitled to lay guns on the ia
BILE before the cards are dealt. The guns
may be loaded or not, but empty guns are
not much of huff out this way In the
east three aces beat three kings in n game
of poker. IN this community they some.
times do and sometimes Notwithstanding
to how you have sized up the other Teller
In the east they never have over four aces
in pack of cards. Here we often find six.
We fully explained all these things to a
stranger named Parker, who arrived here
the other day to see if the climate would
help his asthma, but he went right over to
the Wild Horse saloon, sat down to game
of poker with old Tom Scott and tried to
rake in the pot under the belief that threes
beat two pairs, That would he the case in
some localities, but it is not here Mr..
Scott had to shoot Mr.. Parker in the shout
der before he would be convinced. and we
think he left town feeling that he had
somehow been injured in both mind and
body. Ii Mr.. Parker had had two six
shooters on the table, then his threes would
have knocked two pairs silly, but he didn't
have them. We offered TO lend him one as
he left the office, but he refused the loan,
and thereby lost $50 in cash and got in the
way of bullet. One is no longer obliged
TO drink with stranger or fight in this
town, but we have lots OF other little Gus
toms and legends and idioms which fly up
and hit the head when trodden on.