The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18
HELD THE WINNING
HAND AND CASHED IN
A Seemingly Reckless Visitor
sits i'm Poker Game at
Arkansas City.
Nv DAVID 4. CURTIS.


when they Is things happen what
cont pear to show none too greet wis
dom on the part o. mob dy. " co'se It's
gently reckoned how they Is a always
nm beneficial Providence what ranges
everything TO the best 'dvantage, but
pears Ike the devil takes hand onct
IN n while an halls things up
Don't take no gre't amount o wis
don, 70 TO SEQ that" said Jake Winter
bottom, somewhat cantankerously.
As q rule Mr. W.nterbottom found
Il easter, as did the others. who spent
MI their business hours in the old mans
little saloon on the levee in Arkansas
City. to listen in silence while the old
man told them what he knew than II
was TO interrupt his discourse with re-
Elections Of their own. seeing that he
was inclined to he impatient at the
sound of voices other than his own.
From time to time. however. there
would he an occasion, and this was
ono OF them WI n ono or another OF
the company felt called on to express
hrs own Impotence This time It was
Mr.. Winterbottom.
When he spoke the faraway look in
INC old mans eye disappeared instantly
ana q glare Of disapproval replaced II
go ouickly az to Indicate the coming
Of trouble.
~Th' a!n't no call 70 TO git bias
parnious, Jake" he said with great Sc
verify. TITS one thing TO- 10 cnsider
The ways O. Providence philosophical
Tito, but rs doggone sight diff'rent 70
10 talk wry'hald Them that scoffs
don't show no proper sperit. an a man
o. yo Experience d ought fo TO know
better
Having delivered this rebuke ne con-
tinued TO glare, az II yearning for re-
partee. Mr. wiu,erbottom. however
seemed to think that he mad expressed
himself sufficiently already ana APP
parently gave his whole attention to his
pipe.
The others in the room were plainly
disappointed. a difference of opinion
between the old man and any one OF
them was not always followed by per-
-onal violence, hut It usua ly led TO an
'n-prchange Of words acrimonious
enough 10 be interesting, and welcome
on that account as means Of beguiling
tho mon1tony Of life during those
periods when they waited for the pos
shle arrival OF some stranger who
might happy prove TO have pre-
election in favor Of draw poker as q
post!me.
n appeared 20 them therefore that
Mr. Wl-tcraottom was more or less de-
Nnqu.ut IN refusing the gauntlet flung
~ nm 50 violently 10y the old man and
thr e. ting wa that 1t was incumbent
,u somebody To- pick II up.
lm Ela.gdeil said aftorward: II seen
sowarm' "a uugh, TO- TO no did an !
done r." What ne said at the time was;
- don't SEQ no SIGH difference as yo'
&c
ew.ra to pick on Providence long o
] ,au,p!u .winc wrong ne mought az
! well 20, wrvoa,d as philosophical.
Orc's nigh bout as blasphemious as
totn,r"
T, WI. not the tone in which he spoke.
That was deliberate and calm No
Judge ou he bench ever uttered his
words With M re conviction or con-
veycd NOR" az sense OF fnality by
tho u'f.ranOc than Mr.. Blaisdel did
The words themselves however. imply
ting rcproaoh MS they did, were entirely
destructive ~ me old mans equanmity.
lie boiled over
'Wh.at' no exclaimed THE Good
Book says how some IS got to be often
s.ve. but II tolls how the cree. thing
f. Gao say whoa" 10 en- Pears like
80 urs Is al sons - Balllol Theys
H"ays been s.ch. even since the Dark
Ages when the Good Book was wrote.
"Ts.y toll me how they is a school
10 'rr yumo'rrs In Yurrop. an Gawd
! know 7 w,sht vo' urs had went to II
whom ... ,yas little. Mehbe yo'd a been
learned mo- n pears to be able to
learn y,, Wav Ills | reckon yo' won,
nom on w. never know nothin'."
"Tlcv was one thing" said sam Pear
hot