The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29
Withers Redeems the Family
Fortunes by Applying Him
self to Draw Poker.

!
Greenlaw, but I'm dawggoned-.'
And here he paused, indicating by his
manner that he had for once comt
across a problem too intricate fol
him to understand clearly. II seemed
to trouble him"
"They's been heap said" he con.
tinued finally, "c'ncernin' Job hayin
| been n ALFRED patient man, long O
| the Lawd hayin' done smit him with
TO biles but | done had six on ECU
now inside o three months. an aim
| discovered what they's anythin' 'bou
bile what makes man patient, mol
haint found what they is any gooC
place 70 20 have EN-. Pears like they
must be sumpin' wrong"
oh. don't know" said Mr.. Over
Pepper, in an airy, trihlng manner. e!
al'ays found what they was one place
what man en- have a bile onto tina
don't cause him no Inconvenience IL
speak Of.
Witticism by Mr.. Pepper.
where's that?" demanded the Ole
man, sharply. He was not always tol.
Grant of Mr. Peppers remarks.
onto other mans neck" said Mr.
Pepper Then he went away from
there
Some time afterward the old man
returned to the little saloon in Ar.
kansas City, which he conducted, and
in which this colloquy had occurred
Putting his bungstarter back in the
corner where he always kept It, he sat
down and hreathed heavily.
The wicked fees when they amt
nobody p'suln' EN- he said, but it's
some different with Pepper When he
sets in the sloon I'm gently reminded
o the man in the Good Book
what went into a temple 70 to pray
He done give thanks TO not bein' like
what other men was. Pears like cord
In 10 that Pepper d ought TO to be
prayin' most o. the time stead o. set
tin round maxim painful Impressions
Different II He's Married.
"Speakin' o. biles," said Sam Pear.
SAIL they is times when a man don't
give n d-n whether he has EN- OF
not"
Not If hes sober. they amt" de-
clarcd the old man very positively.
Well. retorted Pearsall," be amt
liable TO 10 be sober much O. the time
If he's married.
Nobody seemed to think OF any ade-
quate rejoindcr 10 this and gloomy ST.
lcnce cnsued. 1t was broken soon af-
terward by Jake Winterbottom, who
said in a discouraged way:
81 al'lays Regarded s'loon as a
place To- to bo jovial into Pears like
this I'm is gettin' to be c'nsid'able like
a mo'ners bench al camp meetin', what
with matrimony an biles an sich. ]
reckon everybody is got troubles of his
own. / done got wounded my ownselt
into the wah but l don't never p'rnde
the scyar Pears like it's mo- decent
like to keep things like that TO yo'-
self"
Admits He Is Married.
-Gawd knows" said Pearsall earn
estly, 81 don feel like l was p'radin
nothin' long o. bein' fo'ced to 'cknowl-
edge what rs mailed man."
NO" said the old man. who also
seemed to feel the sting of Winterbot-
TOMS rebuke. nor they can't nobody
say what is done put none OF them
six hiles on exhibition. | reckon /
en- suffer silent an be strong's well
s the next. but it's al'ays hathaway.
IT'S like what the Good Book says
Drink an they's them'll drink with
yo.' but il yo' so dry YOU have 10 90
1t alone Pears like II a man hap
pens to delude 10 a tribilatin' OF him,
all he gifts is a c'ntempchous boot"
Well" said Jim Blaisdell. cody II
hain't never seen yo' all display no
greet amount o. sympathy 70 nobody
what's done lose his wad into a game