The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-16


hut, as he bit off the end of a fresh eli
gar. AN more special faint good to
Eive Your mind 10 a thing when there's
somepn else has got to be did immedi-
ate
There's one thing in the good book
that pears 10 have a bearin' on that
question, an I'm free 20 say I l reckon
nkely 1 d Ia wrote II a bit diiserent II
III been the one to write it. The prophet
saws: faint no good for man TO play
a lone hand but there's different ways
q iookin NJ that Anyways, there's room
for "A argument
Them gospel sharps that's aIys tryin
20 tell more meanin's nor they is to a
text ptends to say I the prophet means
as IT'S mp 10 a man TO get married, an
they argues that playin "A lone hand
means hein a bachelor. Stands to rea-
son, O course { that amt right There
W. Mt never a man I'm Adams day to
NOW but what stepped into a mess o
trouble when ne got married O. course,
ihey IS things that makes up fer the
trouble TO some extent. but they amt
10 diSputn' the fact
% course. the prophet was a-talkin'
a draw poker when he used them words,
an I'd hc the last one To saw there
W. mt some sense into 'em. A man
plays lone hand agin well trained
combination - poker players even II
there's on'y two i'm the combination. is
0p against u, an the prophet knoWCd il.
q
rev year an say the reputation O. the
town built up by good honest hard work
az iii the p'fcssiOnals that has come here
diter our floatin' capital he'd ha spoke
even more definite about IL. An the on'y
WAY us been did is by holdin the com
binauOn together.
The trouble with Jim BilwheeI was Z
ne would psist IN trying to take that air
chunk o wisdom both ways Feared
Ike he wa int cOntented to lool, at IL
one way. He played poker. o. course.
"elh an Arkansas man. an he had sense
enough 10 stand In with his pals up TO
LlttIc Rock, but all of a sudden he took
- INTO his head TO get married an then
come TO me an he sprung that gag q
the prophets about "A lone hand for To
Try to Justify hisself for his foolish
Spoke Of the Lady.
The old man paused. looked at his cigar.
anu finding IL had gone out. carefully re-
usnIed II, and walked around to his ia
No ?!.r6.l seat by the window
hem days / was younger N ! be
now. nc said after time. "an' kind
y 1elt IL was up 20 me to reason with Bill
wheel Peared like I'd ought TO be able
20 sno" MN the error Of his ways An
SAYS to him: Jim. I amt sayin'
hotnln ag IN the lady says I. 'fr there
am I nothin TO be said ag5in her. She's
Al right But. jim says. I have heer'd
say she were sort O. narrer like. as to
Ihe matter o piayin' cards. Hain't she
poker. now"
Well; Jim he grinned cheerful. an he
SAYS; SAID nOthin'? Well. l sh'd reckon
she mad said things. Why Greenhut
she made me swear off drinkin' an
smokin an chewin' an cussin' an play
in cards
That sort o. staggered me. an saws.
Does she make any objections to Your
Sdtin once IN while. an breathin out
QUO on sundays / says. + sh' dethnk.'
saws as how she mOught as well cover
me hui ground to onct'
lhen Biiwhcel he grinned again an
ne says: I reckon she haint thought o
Them things. 'MOren likely She will
alore long. an III have 10 swear off on
But 7 says how be YOU goin' to
mama manage II? Pears to me like you was
bltln off considerable chew j SAYS.
Jim winkcd an he SAYS. 'Greenhut
hcE ten me that matrimOny is a great
NEq TfIS 8'I, ne says When the lady is
like she was liable to learn several
things.
Yes. ] saws. I've heard as marriage
:, a teach people things. You know what
the good books says: "Matrimonv is a
dear school, but fools won't learn I'm no
other- Pears like YOU might see
clear white light Yourself / saws alter
You We been runnin in double harness a
But l..seea twas no use to reason no
more Naab man was takint chances
Ike that an ! Didn't say 80 more. But
DAYS after the weddn' an sits. into a
game o poker in George Fosdick's place
Same as he'd been doih arere. smokin' a
cigar as grazen as cotton boil an takiD'
= Sniffer o. rcd liquor afore Settir' down.
J saws 10 him, Are We bcgInnin 90 learn
things. Jim?
"He laughed a little kind of oucasy like.
an ne says. 1 don't know as I am. but
Mis- Bilwheel is. So / didn't say no more.
They played "A torabe ihterestin'
game that night Pete Gresham was into
IT, an George Allen. an there was a
couple o sucker lawyers m up tho stale
that was there lObbyin' an u did look like
the Lord was mOnstrOus good to the
home talent. Them lawyers was filled
with food confidence on good lOOkia hands
Inore'u once, thouten givln' the proper
consideration TO who dealt en- or maybe
not KNOWN GroSjeanS reputation. an
there must ha' been more'n $500 for the
three ON EN- when The game broke up
along towards 5 O'Clock
Were Feeling Good.
,They-wae feelin' to'able good over it
not tho lawyers. 7 don't iucan-au' they
took a couple o. drinks aiurc startin for
home. [ was teudin bar fr FcSdick. an
I served EN-. An / noticed as how Bill
wheel 'pearcd little nervous ike an not
in no hurry to start fr home. lie stayed
fussin with cigar alter the others left
an then he called FOR another drink.
II looked at him spell. an / says:
Mrs. BilwhcCl know you're playin' to-
night
Yes he SAYS; 4 told her afore 1
come out
'What'd she say% saws T.
'Nothin, AN that's WHAT'S got me
Eucssn'' ne says with sickly sort of
smile. And then he went out.
81 SAYS 10 myself { he were toahle LA
lie 20 make some discoveries afora Suuup.
hut there want uothin' for mo 10 do. so
, turned in. havin big room behind the
bar where I sleo
''Mchbc il mought n been a hour OF so
4fpVo come back 4 began kffog.l<iu'
on the door kind a. soft like Feared like
he were afear a o. wakin somebody. but
7 don't reckon he would have. If I hadn't
been sort % lookin ont for him. Fe qpme
in 1ookin m0ustrous solemn an called
for another drink.
'T set out glass an bottle. but
saws. JUST - So'ehln as MN; ASH You
Sayin Somepiu the other day about
rromisin' Mis- Bilwheel not to drink no
more red liquor
BilwheeI he looked at me TT long
time an drinked his whisky powerful
slow aforc he saws: GreenhUt. as nigh as
en- figger H. he says. there amt no
Mis- Bilwheel
~ was kind o'startled. and says: She
No he says u bain't got no infor-
nation % that ne SAYS hui when 7 got
home the house was an dark an shut
up tight I smoke i'm through the second
story wipder. an there wasn't nobody to
home. ] reckon I'm the way she locked
1t me when / came ont z she has gone
homo 10 her mother. An il she has
d" Well what il she has?' & says
" IF she has. GrCenhut. thatll be the
end o. my married life
Feared like it wa MT just prudent 10
say were monsuous lucky 10 get off
50 soon. j didn't know how he might take
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