The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-12-02
POKER BETTER THAN Law.
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-""m ~. If there 'a- uot" ki,hlu' non" hN
folk ~ don't understand the reel CYANIDE. r
~ M" gam" th1u ihof".- rny call lot
Nuhudy had spoken about poker and thor"
had hneu no kIcki uy done IN the place that
afternoon excepting b, tho old man iiu ELI.
WHO had kicked u yellow dog ont from behIud
tho har where II wa'lurhinr for = place 10 -l"rp
hut no one IN the PARTY wa disputaiiou- and
he old man nllnhted The hutt 81 h- cigar and
talked right along
Rightly cons,dctod. he .ad. draw phrr
t. n benefit Ia clNilizaii, u. besides helm y great
moral education To- the individual II II WI,
pror.ri, rcco'niIed. ~ would a." away Nfh
heaps q misery an Useless contentious I
hainl u LAY IN bat that ii mousht do AVA with
all the courts iu'tho country. what l. he man
caus. a. most - the troublr they j. II folks
would settle heir quarrels with n deck - caris
an a stuck - chips apiece, 'si"ad q hmm
lawyers an lrsvin' things TO idric~, IN" huil
world would Dit along cheaper an easier.
an 81 Justice far NOR" frequent than row
"Jn.t naturally they H. rase- what couldn't
hr settled that Nay. but folks gen ~ j. cal able
a. ssttliu' SIGH eases they selves II n Niger
steals my chickens I kin lay for him with a
shotgun. II an, body steals my boss. me an
my neighbors can settle that satisfactory.
without goin' 10 no court. 'thontsn the fellrr
~ Wv WV ''"'' $50 800
that may came M between two fnll-groen
men Is easy settled with a knife or Il gun an
no fees nor costs o. court 10 pay. Mostly
every thing that comes up IN court might better
be left n a fair settlement. man TO man, outside.
An when Il comes to a matter q property
| an each Teller reco niLes that the other Teller
has some rights. too.the easiest an most natural
way o. decidin' the controversy il just What
| said 4 fres2e-out j. a blame sight quicker
a,tsso,orw - ,n. man 81. win. which i. MI
sa,'sia'torv 10 Ut" man az VILE "n'h : ~
a lawsuit Is. besides .avin' the costs which
| frequent ruin a man that goes to cour, even
ra, b. ,.in. 81. .,i,
wien ~ wins NJ .r., .u..u. ,a,
over come up before the courts in Arkansas
.a. ell, -a,u.d no, uo, ia ia. e,,i,e ..,i.-
a nna'S 49," h,, -. au, sr., h., ua.
faction oil every body blt the Jaw! efs 'ha' was
gittin' rich outen 1t. They called il a beautiful
nus-tior I'M, nobodv el,e that I ever bcer'd
OF called it anything else but a bad tansle that
couldn't he straisht-ued out under any Law
that was ever mt onto the s,a,oo,e,. That
was the case o Bl'N'ns against D'sget'' on
" ever there was two unfortunate men that
didn't seem to have no .how TO git GU, o. the
clutches q me lawyers II was 'hehl same TWO
jim Blivins ar 40 Dog9ett was Two AS fine
81. Francis Valley, an they was iriends, too.
fora good many years Intact. they wa%SaiSaNs
ri" "a rp %s' for Gr 'Sm. sn' even H' hen they didn't
have no special grudg" ag'in each other until
the hand q Providence took to rubin it in too
strong for poor weak human natur' to stand.
They'd always been neighhor-. havin. planta-
ton. rght opposite each other on the 81 Frau
shore and Doggstt. he lived on. The east bank.
They both had pretty good sized sized places msy .r,
TODD. havin' plenty a. mules an horses an
all the nAin's that go TO make a plantation
profitable
River i. IT, Jus, like old Mississip' herself.
on'y on u sm4-ller scale. That il, II runs around
in the yaliei maxim, a chsnnel for itself pretty
where dry land Was The night afore, an iopsy
Just naturally this made the boundary line
between Blivin-'s place an Doggett's, Il leetle
onsartin sometipes Blivins would have con;
then Doggett would wake up in The mornin'
an And he river a half a iiilp further away
he, consequent. considerable Iicher'n he had
been When he went 10 bed There hadn't
they was boys. an what one Of 'en CARED I'm
Tie other AZ one time. was pretty sure 10 come
back 10 the other sfore long. 80 they didn't
iokc one another about II pleasant enough.
| though neither Of en- RELY liked il
There come a time. though, 'lopv in the
seventies sometime, when he river took a new
notion In IT. fool head, an loppin' on a good
big slice m each PLANTATION, itbpIlt upa good;
AlFs1 a III III hh hnIIf a AhHN THO
be.n he channel IL was good ground loo,
an after a f"w wears both men begin TO see
that they Wa possibilities o. cultivation here,
an ihey both beyau 10 hsuker after tha, island
A. nrst they had Ioked about II. an made one
or Two h.rs about which side a. The river il
wouId land ON Nr,t. Tor nobody believed il was
vnin' tn M, a nerr,aurut hing
"Ru, rivers - utleer things In this mari a. tho
world an The Old 81 France. ,seuad ,o he 80
,Irkia M ,Le id.a a. Layin two channels In
toad n ma thai +, ken ON fopin on hotb
Ids n 10 .lard an'Ile Island ken n oetti,,'
hiover allie BIiyiuS an Dagger see their Man
,ations a mei,in' away slowly 10 build I'M q
,lssed STAND that didn't belong 10 nobody
They M a good icnI OF talk akou, II nm
an do,u The river Inn unbody seemed ro knouv
iu.t vLat The right hing was 10 do ma ,no,e
;han Riivins an Doogeti did an tbera an,
nn ,ollin' wLat would Ia hanpened # Rlivins
Iadn', s,rtck nm ;den one doy ,hst hc ,houvif
Vs. sIl.fred hr,vb, seems tI. wstar o.,
rn,.id'nhia Io,nr tho channel ~" III, IA.
than if wa. on tLe oIb.r M he saw. 10 himsef
tI,at II he sLn,ld sink "A fai host ON Lbs aide ~.
h. ,i,ar iu., uh,ya ,be ISLAND would .snJ
he wafer N rouob ,Ln o,her channel an ienx.
do i.i.,d bi,,IaJ nr,n lie ,Jania,hn ""'
'.Jn't T.irra,v Dnugott Ifnr'd shn,, 4, ma.
mn. n,d LA" ,irnrah 's,ead a., yoin. o.
w. RIUvi"s 49, ha"riniS' ami Nil
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