Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — Kind to the Old Man. [ARTICLE]

Kind to the Old Man.

“I raise you $3, father,” said a Cornstock young man who was in a little game of draw with his paternal progenitor. “What are you doing that for?” asked the old man, rather peevishly. “Can’t help it. Got two pair.* The elderly gentleman threw up his hand, whereupon the youth showed his hand, disclosing the fact that ,he did not have even so much as a pair of deuces. The look of disgust on the old man’s face was intense, but it changed enddenly, for the next hand, which was dealt by his accomplished son, contained throe aces. “Mebbc you won’t be so previous in your bluffing this tune,” chuckled the father, as he drew two cards and shoved a handful of hard-earned silver into the middle of the table. “I tap you," was the son’s laconic reply, throwing down a S2O piece. In his eagerness the old man did not notice tliat his boy hall not drawn any cards, and so unhesitatingly called. He was drowned. The boy bad a flush. After the old gentleman had left, the yo mg man said, in a voice which was almost choked, and which showed plainly how much he was moved by the emotion cf filial affection: * ' , “I had to do it, boys. Ton know how it is. Father has to work very hard, audit was doing him a favor to break him quick, so he could get home and.have hie regular sleep. Bsrkeep. fetch in the drinks.”— Virginia City Enterprise. Thu late Senator Carpenter once described Alexander H. Stephens in this wise: “An empty coach halted at the Treasury Department and Aleck Stephens got out.of it’ • ;