The sun., 1910-02-06
.NRAW POKER A
l. CURE FOR PRIDE
Parson Tripp Points to Tim Fine
cane as an Example of the
Uses of the Game.

when IL comes to swattiD' tn high
mighty with a overpowerin' sense o
wuthlessness. observed Parson Trip.
the chaplain of the houseboat Salina.
Il reckon draw poker lays consid able
} over most any o. tn appointed ways o
Providence. Pears like il there's any
thin II fetch a man up sudden, with a
gen1 realization o. how empty the world
il, draw poker II do it.
Il reckon that's one reason why the
game was p'vided by all wise an on
scrup'lous Providence for to improve
mankind. They is them people on airth
what's pow'rful like mules. You can't
do nothin' with 'em 'thouten you lam
haste 'em good an proper. once't in 90
often, teetotally irregardless O. what
they're doin' Of
sort o. opens their eyes an puts 'em
in mind o. what's liable to happen II
they don't watch out. just let one o
them kind set into a game o draw
with a mess o. players what understands
it some better'n him. an by the time
he's had three sor 70 ace fulls beat he's
tol able nigh ready for to lay down TO
jacks an quit playin'. no matter how
highmighty he's done been afo' that"
well, I dunno" said Jim Foster. Il
wouldn't go SO fur as to say but what a
man II get took down occasional IL he
undertakes to play poker 'thouten bein'
qualified. but don't sees he's goin' to
get hellova lot Of improvement outer
bein' did up
Makes heap o. difference how he takes
it. replied the parson. There's some
what's that stiff necked what tn Amt
no discipline goin' to do EN- no good.
'Cordin' to Scripter. Him that's high
mighty let him be highmighty still.
But there's some what's intelligent
enough for to get moral trainin' outen their
affections. an when they get one O. them
soul stirrin' swats what they'm liable
to get playin' poker they set down an
think it over. stead o. drowndin' their
sorrers in drink like the av'rage citizen
does. An for such as them draw poker
is liable for to be a most val'able moral
degenerator.
There was young feller in Tuscumbia
, name O. Tim Finucane useter come To
! Bible class mo- or less reg lar when was
preachin' there what was a strkin'
'xample o. what ON be did il a man sets
, hisself a-doin'o OF it an don't let no foolish
ness interfere.
Il -Finucane was one o. the highmighty
kind. mo- or less gave to shown hisself
on. no matter where he was. Pears he
thought he was some smarter n the law
allows. an bein' as his old man couldn't
do nothin' else with him. he reckoned on
maxim him a lawyer. So he done sent
him to school consid able mo'''n boys is
sent usual in Alabama. an Tim got
ozAas1sahla r,,sAad n,o ror H. -.
nachully. which was mo- n sufficient
\, Il reckon he must "a set up nights
thinkin' o. things to make hisself on
poplar. an 'twa'n't long a'ter he begin
comm 10 Bible class afore seen he was
comm special for to show on. He'd
s'arch the Scripters all night for 10 find
somepin he cd spring on me. 80 3 I he
cd get the others in the class a-lauRhin'
an then he'd set in the seat o. the scornfSl.
as the Scripters has IL, an look superior
like.
Il seen there want no use tryin' TO
lead him into the fold. so says to him
one day when met up with him outside,
'Finucane.' I says. IL you keep on A.
Y comm to Bible class an askin' the kind
o. questions you done been askin' you'll
Spite all the theology there is into the
Methodist Chu'ch. an i won't have no
mo; OF il. but I'll tell you what III do I
says. I'll meet you alone UP in the
woods l says. an argy them questions
with you man to man. So he puffed up
8 mo- an said he'd 20 me. an we went
ON up to the woods.
-Well.' continued the parson with a
pleasant smile at the recollection, when
he come outen that piece o. woods he was
that sore in mind an body. as the Scrip
ters has il. what he didn't walk straight
FIR nigh a week, sayin' nothin' OF black
eye f'm stick hittin' him. an he didn't
like he had consid able mo- respec' for the
/ chu'c though nor he'd ever showed afo' :
an he useter come to me private an get
advice touohin' this an that. Said had
consid'able mo intelligence nor he'd
-One time he came seen he was in a
heap o trouble. an / asst him why he
didn't insult p lawyer about it.
Your tribilations,' says lis mostly
Of worldly kind an don't pear to call f'r
But he says. I'm somepin' OF lawyer
my own sell, he says. an know too much
to go TO no lawyer t'r advice. an he tells
me what ais him.
Pears he done been playin' poker with
a couple o. tinhorns what had come
through Tuscumbia seekin' whom they
mought destroy somebody. as the Scrip
ters has IL: an they everlasting'ly done
wiped the fio' with him an his wad
An that he says. amt the wust
on I. There was about a hundred an
a half he says, what done elected f'r
the Widder Pendergoss an hadn't handed
over, an I done lost that, long with my
| own wad.'
-'More'n likely he says, I en- keep
her I'm takn' pccedin's f'r the money,
but the devil hisself couldn't keep her
FIN talkin' about IL, an IL it gets round,
he says, i won't never get admitted TO
the bar. an that amt the wust on Z. II
tn old man gets TO know what I've done.
he II sho'ly lick the tar outen me-
We'll. 1t sho' was serious. an seen
what he'd had a lesson what'd ouRhter
keep him I'm bein' so all fired highmiRhty
3 he had been, f'r a consid able spell
anyway. even II 'twouldn't cure him per-
manent, so / preached him mighty
powful sarmon. | says TO him."
Say. parson, can't you ias up on this, :"
exclaimed Buck Whipple. -Yo' pear
70 be right In the middle Of tol'able
interestin yarn. Couldn't you Ak IL
| a q ON haar thu afr,rxr ,,lY