Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1905-12-29


Law, Jiri. how scanlous you do talk
NowStother day Jeems he won S25 in
q poker game longer Jim Sanders and
some other Dallas gamblers-dunno
which one II wuz, Dallas is so full OF
'em--and he had the inshorance to Of
fer me that money to give to Brother
Jinkins TO help pay his salTy. and
pintedly tole Jeems l want gwine TO in
suit Brother JinlVins by givin Of him
tainted money. fer ye know he Is 50
dead agin takin tainted money fer tn,
church. so jist wouldn't hurt his feel
ms by offerin him money what Jeems
won In a poker game" declared Mrs.
Rainwater, while Martha and Safrony
agreed that she was "ixackly right"
"well. l kin tell Brother Jlnkins
right now, II he is lowin to shy at
all the tainted money that is put In the
collection baskit, and fuse to take IT,
his salry is lierble to come up awful
short, fer I'll bet q ginger cake agin a
jug of buttermilk that his best payin
members is also the best playin mem-
bers-when hit conner to poker--and III
the biggest eend of his salry aint taint-
ed. l aint no jedge Of small matters, fer
1 know the members of his congerga-
]
payin ones aint allus the praying ones,
and preacher has to have ginerl
mizter of both (cep'n he wants to arm
his Twin some other way than preach
in), and hit Is my experunce that the
preacher that keeps his eyes and
yeres shet to what his payin members
does, inginerly fares better than the
preacher that sees and hears too much.
I a.. ~ 1T. A..
Methodist church--don't stay no whars
very long ! the members kin git rid
of 'em, and hit Ia my pinted opinion
that II Brother Jinkins lows to turn all
the card playin folks out and all the
women that wars decollit dresses he
wont scarcely have no congregation to
do either the payin or the prayin." re-
marked Jim again.
Law, Jim, ye shore do talk scanlous
about church members. Now yeu know
good church members ort to be both
payin and prayn," remarked Mrs
Thunderbug
Yes, but folks amt allus what they
ort to be- and l has inginerly no.
ticed that them what does the prayin
haint nothing to pay with, and them
what does the paying haint no time to
pray, fer hit keeps em busy hustlin
somethin TO pay with said Jim.
Law, Safrony thar aint no use try
in to pump no religion into Jum fer
do believe he gifts more skepticaler ev-
cry day he lives"
mo, haint skeptical, jist cant help
what l sees and hears and forms my
opinions from experunce and obsarv-
in.y explained Jim.
"WIell, gals. must be goin fer I'm
on my way to Sis'er Tweekins's to take
her some catnip to make tea fer them
three triplets. Tother day when ! wuz
thar, they wuz broke out longer some
thin, and told Sister Tweekins ! most
knowed fer shore they've got the mea-
sles, 80 I'm a tal1in this here cat
nip to make tea outen Catnip tea
shores does make the measles come
out, If that's what they've got,
and tole her TO dope 'em good and not
to send fer Dock Crabtree, but to send
fer me. know Dock Crabtree, he's one
OF them ostypathy doctors and believes
In rubbin ailments uot of a body. and
you-uns knows kood and well, measles
jist KANT be rubbed outen folks. but
: catnip tea shore Will fetch 'em out II
! want so busy a docterin of them
triplets I'd spend the day longer you
} uns and tell ye what | seed and heared
at the Daughters of the Kinfederacy at
Waco. tell ye that shore wuz rous-
In meetin,' said Mrs. Rainwater, as she
erose to go
Law, Lucindy do set longer, ye
J haint sot no time. / WIZ fist a gittin
/. ready to asst ye II ye seed airy CRATER
= while We wuz at Austin or II ye heered
anything about Mr.. Augean's stables.
Ye know thar wuz turrible sight OF
! talk last summer when we had so many
candidates a speakin TO us at them
J picnics. about them grafters a bein so
} plentiful In Austin and Mr.. AugeaD's
stables a needin TO be cleaned out, so I
, lowd ye would tell us somethin about
81 II We heered anything about 1t
down thar" said Mrs Thunderbug
Law, Safrony, ! never hearn tell
nothin about Mr., Augean's stables. and
I recI1in he has done cleaned 'em out
/ least ways they want a smellin any,
and beside, don't DR. Tabor live thar,
an do ye recxin he's goin TO low Mr..
! Augean's stables or any other mans
STABLES TO git in bad fix. and him the
health officer2 jist tole Dock, when |
seed him, that wuz plum proud of the
way he had made folks clean up last
summer. and kept us all from gittin the
yaller fever and ] tole him as how |
wuz plum willin fer him to be the
health officer agin, he is sich q peril
Client one: and as fer them grafters, I
: never seed nary one while / wuz thar
and wuz in all them departments and
not nary CRATER did / see; least ways
they want a wearln no badges SOS a
body could tell EN- and II seed one
meyer knowed 1t.
No. we aint llerble to see no CRATER
wearin bddge TO show what he is.
They aint built that way remarked
Jim H
well. goodbye, gals; I'll stop on my
way back and tell We whuther them
triplets is got the measles or not" said
Mrs Rainwater- as she departed
konw," said Martha.