Show THE DEACONS TIP a by M QUAD 1913 by associated literary erway press 1 deacon haskins was an active church church deacon he was a good man and a guileless man ne ile subscribed to and rend read a religious weekly but so seldom beldora glanced at any other sort that the trickery and wickedness of the outside world were almost a sealed book to him on a certain evening however and one to be remembered to his dying day as the deacon was abroad with his kerosene can he had a hunch bunch to drop into the it Is doubtful if ile he had bad ever heard of the game of poker and yet he be felt that hunch bunch ns as strongly as senator bailey might when holding four aces yes there was a letter for him a letter bearing the new york postmark I 1 it was from a market tipster he wanted to do the deacon and several other persons a good turn by putting them next nest to a good thing the stock of the wild cat silver mine the then boiling at 7 cents 0 on u th the dollar was waa to jump to 60 wit within hi 12 a month it was an alluring circular one read it through a haze of greenbacks green backs it made ones onca blood run faster aster and hla his toes to snap the preacher would have to preach no more and the widow could go ahead and get her fur coat and auto but its speculation sighed deacon haskins as he be laid aside tho the letter yes Y e 91 s 11 sighed the wife weve got in the house you know it if we ve invested that we would make over in a month fl a big profit martha its a whopper and I 1 cant see wherein its wicked to take advantage of the chance it almost seems seema as if providence sent bent it to us tho the matter was debated at great length and the conclusion arrived at was that it be very wicked to speculate in silver stocks they food or clothing and poor peo harmed but dont sena send V your order in cautioned the wife when the other matter had been settled it if you do some one Is going to find out about it you just go 0 o right up to new york and see this kr ar nipper personally it if he be looks lonest honest leave the money with him if he 19 dont then bring it back I 1 have an n idea hes a church member and all right a christian man wanting to do mother christian man a good turn thaes the way I 1 feel eel replied pit the deacon and two days later he was face ace to face with mr nipper mr nipper looked honest he be had it Is face as open and frank as a yearling child he quoted scripture he was a church member and fully intended to go to heaven when he tied aled he courted the fullest investigation into his life and actions since the day he was born of course deacon haskins bought 1500 worth of silver stock ile he reused refused a cigar or a drink but he be did shake hands with great heartiness and whispered something about mee tin g ur nipper in a better world than this martha if that man balant as honest bonest as the day Is long then I 1 cant read human was his report on arriving home but Is he a church member she ane asked why hes bes one of the elders in the tha biggest church in new york cit city va and their confidence was childlike us ra they sat down to wait and the profit they were to make was figured out two wo or three times a day you yon know how such speculations end it was a staggering Btag gering blow to ana ma wife they hardly spoke for days ana days the neighbors neigh bora saw a great change in them but none got at the cause of it the reader must now jump things along for or six months one july day its is the deacon was wag a mile from home looking for or stray hogs bogs he came upon rn an auto that had bad rammed into a fence from the bursting of a tire there was waa only one man in the auto and his he was held in the f fence by his foot it was mr nipper ne he was taking king Is little spin by himself from a summer hotel several miles away lie ile had made some changes in his appearance but was almost instantly recognized recognize such was the bitterness called up by sight eight ot of the man that the deacon went off his head bead ile he pried the foot loose and then flung the man to the ground ind walloped him tiu till he bogged begged tor for mercy then the stopped to let et his breath and walloped some more it deacon haskins now it was an enraged bull seeing red he slammed and hit bit and battered and banged and mr nipper really had hard work to make him take and go 60 his way the deacon went home to tell his hl wife and put the money in the cupboard and then continued on to the parsonage ile he made a clean breast 9 it everything and then asked tarson parson do you think I 1 can be f tor given avent lets see was the reply you V put la in yes and got out Y yes 11 ahem ahem abern it if that goes for K church bell and pow pew cushions I 1 ob should say ear say that I 1 bad a living c chancel bance yes that you ha had ninety nine chances in a hundred and that was waa where the went |