The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-10

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Don't do ~ Don't do 81" II you
are tempted to go wrong. Ana
| when you do right your conscience
/ Will say, We'll done. Well done"
A man or woman is a backslidcr
| In their heart before they are IN
/ their open acts. sir. o. folks. /
| have preached down in the slime
| pits OF iuiquity. the quagmirea or
! fltm and | have helped to pun
! thousands and tens Of thousands
| out and put their feet on the rock
In the name OF Christ, aud | expect
\ TO shake hands with them around
the throne of Jesus Christ when /
burst through the gates in the city.
when my days work on this old
| earth Is over. because they will be
true. Wave picked up drunkards.
and | have prayed over them, wept
| with them 20 belp them. One time
\ when I quit playing ball and wcur
into the Y. NJ. c. a. In Chicago, a
| fellow came In and said:
~ want TO see one OF the sccre.
| taries." And he paced back ana
| forth.
said II am one of them"
lie looked at roe az though he
thought I was blufflng. He said: Il
was on my way 60 a header into
Lake Michigan, saw the sign. can
you help mo2"
! said What's the mattcr?"
lie said ~ am seventeen kinds OF
| a fool" And then ne told me his
story. His wife and children had
LEFT him lie was a gam bier and a
/ booze fighter. lie had lost every
thing. prayed with him got
his wife and his two children 10
come over TO him. | got him a Job
clerking In a store. and he was get.
| ting along fine and one time I
the Y. NJ G. A.
Mr.. Sunday?"
| YES"
Your friend is down here at
| tIankln's playing farobank."
| I said: "You are wrong. 1 was
out to supper with him a few nights
ago, he is all right"
! NO, I ought TO KNOW used 10
work the three-card monte gamo
and the shell game. We were side
kicks. He is down there playing
! farobank." he insisted.
sT put on my coat and hat and
walked down LaSallc street and
turned east to Monroe and went
/ into the alley | went up n back
! stairway to Hankin's old gambling
/
doorkeeper and bouncer was big
colored fellow. a prize fighter. I
stepped in. Judge there must have
been one hundred fifty or two hun
dred men in there. They were
playing farobank and heard him
say:
II will copper the queen and play
the ace open"
/ handed him SO dollars after the
house took the rakeoff. lie put
over to the bar and ordered
Rhine wine and seltzer. touched
| him on the shoulder and said.
Got Han u job.
what are you doing here?'
/ >>lle turned pale as d ghost. put
his hand in his pocket and said.
Here take that and give it to my
wife and Kids, let me alone"
Yid, NO. I've come for you"
lie said: 81 have disgraced you
Bill, disgraced the Y, NJ. c. A.. dis
eraced everybody that has ever
placed any confidence in me. Lex
| me GO"
said. "Ns I stood there and
pleaded with him until 1 o'clock. !
took him over home with me.
went and got his wife and two chill.
/ dren again, took them to my house,
kept them until he was going riglN
again and then | got him a job.
o. he was cracker jack OF
salesman. He was like a steel
| trap. He was pulling down five
| thousand bones n year travelling for
n big concern in the west and going
along fine and | missed him for a
long time. OT day he walked into
the Y. NJ. c. z. dressed fit to kill.
Hs would make Beau Brummel look
| like a piker.
Diamond shirt stud as big as
| hickorynut, and one on his fingeS
Gs big as a hazelnut. Diamond curt
! buttons on his sleeves. He had
/ patent leather pumps on, a suit OF
clothes he paid eighty dollars for
a silk lined overcoat, a necktie
| he'd paid four bones ful, and he
came in and he said,
Hello Bill"
! why" said, How are you. how
are you coming?"
Zine" He put his hand in his
! pocket. he piled money on my resk.
bills. silver and $50 gold pieces.
| I said How much is here?"
! He said. -Four hundred dollars"
] said: Where did you get IT,"
playing farobank" He said:
How much do you get?
| I'd quit playing baseball. | was
/ getting $50 a month.
Nobody called me CRATER then,
and | was receiving kilograms Of
| fering me $1,000 month, They
didn't pay as big salaries then as
| they do now. That was some sal
ary-s1,500 "A month, II I'd go back
/ and play baseball and l wouldn't
I have to sign contract. | didn't
| do It, So they let me so. l was
working for $50 a month and went
six months without my salary and
| L.-,walked back and forth to save
carfare. lie said 10 be.
"Blll how much do you get?"
| / said: "A thousand dollars a
/ year.
He said Shucks, made more
money than that last night in one
bet \"
| | said. Look, here. at tho end>of
the year | may not have streetcar
| fare but I will have a conscience.
You can go down the road to hell"
| He said Have you been out to
supper"
| | said Not yet"
He said, "Wil you come with
me-"
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