The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-09-01


asements and Won Out Ct Last.
II nh rs most surprisln' thing"
| 0N0i said old man Greenhat as ne
| ~ set the bottles away behind
~ the bar, that FOLKS don't
IL seem to 'preciate the impor-
| . lance O. bein' persistent.
| NOW, that there ST Walker, t
just come in here an took drink an
went out 'thout sayin' a word to no one,
is bright an shinin' example; never do
IN nothin' worth while, cause he don't
never stick to it. GIFTS DISCOURAGED like.
an sets down an thinks about it,. when If
he'd on'y spit on his hands an take
fresh grip he mought come vus a four
time winner. Why, tell you that man
might "a been a justice O. the peace an
married the Widow Baker with four
hun'red acres O. good farm land, no end
O stock an farmin utensils an money
In the bank, Only fer that fatal habit O.
his O not stickin' to it. Just give I'D. he
did,, cause he got beat out in two lee
| tons an wouldn't run fer Office no more
| an when the widow said no three or four
times he lowed she didn't want him an.
got out o the game, when the blame
fool'd oughter knowed that all she wanted
was a. man with gumption enough to keen
on courtin.''
The old man turned his back for mo-
ment while he slyly poured little water
into whisky bottle in which the liquor
was running low, and then placing it
with the other bottles he came out to his
1avor1te seat by the window and sat
! smoking for some minutes.
| beats ALL he said after a while. chow
folks lets go like that. Don't seem To
have no sense O. religion The Good Book
says 60 to the ant. YOU sluggers. Con-
slder her Wavs and be wise' Now there
amt no p'ints about an ant that's worth
| conslderin, 'cept their almighty stick-to-
lt-lVeness. Stands to reason. it means fer
US TO keep peggin' away till we git there.
| 81 Walker'd on'y pegged like the
ants does he mought "a been rich an re-
spected.
! There was Pete Kennev that dronned
off'n boat here some thirty wear ago
an just STAYED. There didn't seem to
pc no reason whv he should "a come here
in the first place or WHY he shou,d~ -,
| stayed after he arrove. but he did Some
said he must "a dropped onto the boat
by. accident somewheres up the river. an
the captain put him off at the first land,n'
hlm not havin' the regulation fare in his
jeans. However twas, he come. an, he
remained. More'n that. he's well fixed
now an pays taxes.
| There warn't no reason fer it. fur
as anybody could see, 'ceptin' Pete,s all
| fired persistency. He was BRIGHT enou,b
sort O. man an might O. settled down in
| business fer himself, fer he got a lob as
| bartender down to the hotel an, made
| money. They do say as how a steady.
| Industrious bartender In a hotel u,bara
| there's a good run O. business an a 'boss
| that drinks some himself can have q CO.
! loon OF his own in a few years. an 7
reckon it's pretty near true. kent ba =
In hotel myself when I was vonnp
'That wasn't Pete's Law. thoneh po+o
| used to say that there was one wav y,
establishing yourself in life that laid over
any otaer' an that was to hold a royal
nusn IN good stiff game O. draw poker.
Ane!i' he says It's on'y question O. how
much the others has got to inspire their
commence an how much they has to bet
WILL that nXes the amount to be gathered
ALL ol ~hicn man can retire an be re-
spectacle Ter the rest O. his natural life.
some o US reasoned with Pete at times
ABOUT thls. We told him that royal
! bushes was sca'ce game, and that ,fo1r
o a kind was good enough fer a caref,,
player to git rich on, but Pete 'lowod
that royal flush was the on'y thing a
man could be dead sure Of, Seems ho,d
nao Tour queens beat when he was young.
an he'd learned consid able caution fron,
tn experience.
AS to a royal flush bein' sca'ce |.
Pete says, 1t stands to reason that =.
mans goin' to git it some time. If he
! plays long enough. Stick to it, he savs
an sooner or later yer goin to get q
royal flush. The on'y thing needed ,s
to stick to it, -
| consequences was that Pete. havin,
round his theory Of business success. de-
voted himself to the workin. on it ont.
with persistency that would a. rrowed
wool on niggers heel f he'd devoted
hisself to that particular form of effort
Talk about 81 Walker an the widow. E;f
81 had stuck to the widow with one fortv-
'leventh part O. Pete. persistence. the
Widow'd "a melted like butter in a blast
furnace. Why. Pete'd give his nights an
days to poker. He never allowed business
to interfere with game 'slone's he'd
money to play with
Just naturally his theory of the game
interfered with his general success. Most
~ 1t does interfere, I've noticed. when
man gets theories in his head an p;avs
the game different FIN the ordinary run a.
people. These here sharps that fggers
out some particular thing in the game 2 $
BEN dead certainty, always loses
money on it, for you can say what Won
like about the great American game. but
1t certainly does beat anything else for
the preponderance of uncertainty that has
to be calculated on, whenever YOU have
dead sure thing in your mind-all ex-
cepting royal flush. as Pete used to saw
with ondeniable wisdom Is
Pete's mind bein' fixed, so to speak.
on that royal flush, you can see for your
self that it warped his judgment on the
question o. DRAWN cards MANY a time
I've seen him split "a pair of aces, an,
I draE- three cards to ace an queen. or
ace an ten O. the same suit. once I
even seen him split two pairs, aces am
queens, an draw two cards to the ace.
queen an jack o. diamonds, an, Joe
Hooker says he seen the blamed lift split
three kings to draw to three hearts lust
because they was all court cards O. the
same suit. An the first card he picked
up in the draw was the fourth king.
Shows how man'H overlook the blessin's
% Providence right in his fist reachfn'
out after things he hain't no reason
to hope for in the natural course of
events. Stands to reason a man'll lose
money defyin fate with such monkey
shines as them.
. : 1'wasn't mo use to argue with Pete,
though. He were as obstinate as mule.
an stuck to his notion O. gettin' a royal
flush like a sick niger sticks to the