The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-08
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ne FIRST time sicce the big fire. He Dc .
AGssissippian and refugee from yellow
fever. He 10 going homo this week 10
sell out and como to Chicago. Hs de-
clarcs that he never In his life struck 50
many easy tisinss'' as he has found in
this city. why, all OF EN- are puddin's.''
said he to Eli Hackett yesterday. They
ain't gamblers. they aint tin horns. In
the Yazoo swAnnps we'd call EN- pollywpss
! aint seen real live sport siucc been
IN town That's right. done win enopgh
money to dig another we'll In Meridi~
"well In Meatu4ang" asked Hackctt.
"WttSt you dom diggin' wclis?'
Amt you never heard about my wells
In Meiadiany ST. L,iis-al the boys down
there have heard about II. Say. don I you
guys up here read the papers9 Them wells
as advertised US 'Dohorsy wells and Is
supposed to cure everything from an tn-
s,owifn' socnail to a case OF 'willies. As
you amt on, 'spose get tell. Mem
Der the time went South ID ate-ate lSS)
10 clean up that Shubuta gang OF poker
payers? umph--yUu Is funny. Say. Never
mind, though. I'll tell you Ahou, chat
first. 5g4,s 3 @s M M
/" Member Abe Rosenbaum. who used to
sell saddles from Cincinnati? HE'S deld
Us you DhHnt 10 knOW,7i OUT you ulunt tell
told you about IL, All night Abe he gets
Into Shubuta. Shubuta is one-horsc look
ins town on tho Mobile and Ohio. not far
from Mobile The houses Is yaller from
age, but all the merchants Is not only
poker players right, but they has the
dough to back UP they hands. an they only
plays 'em as II they made they Twin that
away. which mint So because they Is got
money DIN all sorts OF nashnul banks. and
besides they Is got moggages on every
thing In that country bggern cat Ths
country isn't powerful attnactive. because
it's dryer'n Arizona, thet is In a Ticker
way. Spcakin as though got pat flush
In my han. would ssy thpt mighty
thin crust divides the town from holi.
That's whatever It's the only country I
ever seen whore Jay birds is puffectly hap
py on Frldays"
Jay birds happy on Fridays? What you
mean by that. john"
Course you don't. and an, givin' you
some moro Information. Jay BIRDS, Eli
Jay b!rds, proper, rs supposed to toe sand
to the devil on Fridays See what am
! trydn' to get at now7 Thanks"
All right. AS / was sayin'. Abe he
dead now. Remember that, dent youe
Well. when Abe was In the flesh and sells
Ing Nitabeggar saddles he dropped into
Ssmhuta one day to see Y he couldn't sell
/ few He mat little Ike Champenols tho
biggest merchant there.
"CaAnapepois wanted some saddles, on5i
Abe was wIilin'. He got his order book
out and Champenois he begin TO tell him
what TO write until Abe had his hook filled
from kiver TO kiver. Oh. he didn't do a
thing TO It. Moran $4,000 worth ordslel,
Abe hadn'p sold so many saddles In a month
before in his life. Happy? Why. he'd a.
bought wine till they want no more. but
they want amy there to buy. After sup
per when Abe was sittin' at the little hotel
they got there, UP walks Mr.. Champenois
That was early IN the evening | didn't
start out TO talk so much abouh Abe as
myself and tho wells at Meridian, and |
am leadin UP to 'em just az fast as can.
When Abe no left that town the next day
he was shy six Thousand that's right.
More'n that. when he got to Cincinnati
he done found out that Mr.. chagnpeno.s
done cancel hills order by telegraph Aba
he got fired for BLOWN IN the corlpany,s
money. and FOR a long time he swseh-
brckled around Fifth and Vine very much
on the hog. Presently he gifts a stake and
hunts me out. Al that time frr dealin'
for Ned Parish and things 10 comm pretty
much my own way. But when Abe tells N
what's In aght--how thom Shulbuta FOLKS
throwed the harpoons into hlm-I says 10
him; Abe, I'm with you Yes. III 10
along.
! eits me somo big trunks like drum
moy's. has me soma cards printed. gifts the
lay OF the town, bundles a wad In my
clothes and lights out. ! amt goln' To-
Shubuta direct Not Johnny. kits eff
the train at Meridian and hires a chap to
30 10 Shututa and buy up oil tho plsyin'
cards they IL In the town. He does SO
and is hack In half day. On the mex
train sends Teller down there who was
s'pcsin' to be sellin' stationery and, among
other things, playin cards He offered his
truck and the druggist what sells the cards
says TO him.
How long It take you to gle me about
why. Is you entirely outr asks my
boy,
"IIe f. Well. my boy tells him that
he's got about SIXTY raclus down In his
sample trunk that he'll let him have az
foliowin' me. Eli?
"This happens on Friday sat'day I
rolls into the town and my trunks is
rolled off after me. am spotted ny the
hotel runner and put in the sans room
what Abe had stopped at. ] knowed that
by the guilds OF fine cut what had been
throwed up against the wall end stuck
there. Abe chawed fne-cut the natives
log twist. ! sawed about the town tina!
eyenin' until meets Mr.. champenois. !
was sellin' clothin'. Did he want aeyi
Well, he didn't know. When was goin'
II was Sal.Eay would hold the deal until
Monday. When i said deal he spotted
me. He sized me Up as a hundud dollar
drummer with $3 day 'speases and had
set In a game for about 80 maybe. faint
no use goin Into all the prellminaries.
That night set down. Monday noon
got up with 81, 900 velvet Abou the time
gifts train these fellows tumble to
themselves and they begin tnp2ln' the
wires. They hauls me Of at Meridian and
by the time gifts through payln' lawyers
aid dividin' with Abe aint got more'n
$4,000 left So Gays TO myself. I'll Just
stick down here tell gifts even. That's
ten years ago. I'm bout even.'
What about the wellf" a. Doherty
paused for Z moment.
'I'm comm TO that. stops at Meridian
and opens up Z layout tbat'd mako you
siclG An makes money. too, for awhile,
Gains II. tell the city council, one night
passes . ordinance demandin' OF artesiau
wells. They appropsaafed some scads. OF
course. but i didn't barely scratch the
covertn'. While this wos eo,n' on the city
treasury " ~eut broke. Ono day = wss
pasein' the chief u psaice. - turns IN
begins to ct funny. cursed back, Wes
arrested end took before his high Giblets,