The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-21

should be, and sometimes don't quite foot up,
man when / see one says. and I'd Ike to
lie gave me Q good. honest grip. and ! tried
to tell him that his sermon kind Of hit home;
l!glous sermons. and he laughed and said it
depended ON what a, man meant by religious.
snowatorm out Of my little /. OF, l asked
him II his church was rich, and he said ID
didn't make the two ends meet so hard that
As Tor the SIS. he said that would be taking
the mhST ante e''FTrhh Then M / told him I'd blown in eIosa
TO $50 tn" night before. around town; and
s sTS9Gstal n myself H. for ;ns g !gs Hi5TSS fSnt t lssstSr was G nntb I.
game anyway. or words to that, effect. and
s Soaed oh ,R2n sSnS %P o sit { Rlm m%s 7 n mdHKI anSftn a T TS a
COOP or a fancy graveyard at the finish, That
stand. but he gave it Just as straight. No ser-
~ / can blow. In a iftS on that Kind Of a game
guess | ought TO be good for as much here.
able to get the change from the plate. There's
plenty. more, where it came from. l says, and
} !"FI1v elm "SSq had %y Is dittf i + Church. and We got
into the plate and counted out SAT and some
ode, cents an extra big collection. the par,son
let out a veil, and broke for us. | reached for
q gun tina! wasn't there. but when the parso4
like he was o victim OF heart disease. and began
to snort and Gurgle and try to say things; 10
we're looting ne plate and i'd thought he was
H # ,To t aIs , 93ilS ana wo i my Hot gun tot nHd ! been been
"9a ,%% i StH ete't to u co %Sfr% " ms 1 ' WAS Sr eoa.
That was all settled. and the parson. who had
Ions; said IA be safer toTtGe regulation, and
ard th,nrs' ike that. When / / got t ready to 20
he walked down to the train with me. and told
e %S " G a"iSI Sen lnr a a e ! told oil 'R KIM about %Ho tho he
klondike and about the wads Of money a good.
When 70, hack. to the city i felt like I'd
put in q good DAY, | had a talk with my pard,
who's here win me also seeing New York: eng
pars9n. putting it to him straight, It was the
a eSe' iangmaEEG wv we could Pan . oat 81 between vn, Ri, We
WI" n w WIZ got u" It q" Copied sd" out f BY the s'e hotel typss
writer. She said i was the most elegant
to ma i,,ta ny 5 rard fl feel T, good md Sees sDisi, Ss,$
We made was sIasrs. We totdI ne PHrson that
back to, the Klondike with us and locate q
gospel claim up there wee, pay his way Up and
Eshmarann,ee ri "a q GIg church re w shack I,t ana 3 dGublS|
the enc. Of the year. and stake him to a good
claim OF his own, and to show we meant bust
ness we chuckcd in fifty for
Would you believe it, That parson didn't
hlr. ne ,WrOp DUN u llcdcl! Ol u IetteT ,dlU
said he'd like nothing better than TO 90 and dig,
gold while he was thinking out his, sermons.
and that we were all right and our church no.
tion. was the proper one. but he couldn't take
his family up there, and It was his business to-
stick by them. Well. that was a knock down.
Ny pord had set his heart on the scheme So
hard that when it went wrong he, siftcd out and
got boiled and was jagged for throwing rocks
at the windows Of the first church he ran
across.
Il can't help thinking, though" concluded
the successful klondiker sadly. that II we'd
got a parSon to make out that invite in tho
me taking chances with the etiquette Of The
religious game we might have landed our man
and reformed the KlOndike."