Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Blessed Even the Gambler. [ARTICLE]

Blessed Even the Gambler.

His Twenty Dollar Investment in a Colored Church Proved Profitable. A. M. Clevlaud of Dayton 0., tells a good story of a gamblea from that city who has made fortune out of a Baloon and faro-room L,.st winter he was in Florida with some friends, and visitaq a church wheie a few poor colored people were engaged ru worship. The roof leaked, and the pastor praved most fervently that the Lord would provide a way to repair the roof. Then a collection was started, the pastor saAiug that special blessing would b« asked for all contributors. One good biother out in a dime. “A d h e from Braddor Jones. De Lord bles* Brndder Jones.” Then a quarter was received. “Brudder Johnson a quarter.— De ivo'd bresi(Brudder Johnson.” The collector reached th? gamble r, who had made a big winning the night before, auu,- flashing his flashing his roll, put in a 820.00 bill in the bat. The almost breathless collector said: “ Wha’s de name sah?” “Never mind the name. lam a gambler from Ohio.” “Gamblah from Ohio $20,” shouted the collector. The pastor rolled his eyes up,and, raising his hands, said, in a voice choking with emotion: “Twenty dollars—pamblab from Ohio. Mayjjde good Lo’d bress and prospah de noble gamblah from Ohio.” The gambler says he has prospered ever since.— Washington City Star. - ■ ■ ■ ■■■ Backward turn backward, oh, time in thy flight; Jfeed me gruel again just tonight; I am so weaTy of sole-leather steak; petrified doughnuts, veloanized cake; oysters that sleep in the watery bath, as Goliath of Gath; wearv for praying for what I can’t eat; chew„ ing nprnbber and calling it meat. Backward, turn Backward, for weary I am! Give me a whack at my grand-mother’s jam; let me drink milk that has never been skimmed; let me eat butter whose hears hsve been trimmed; let me once more have an ole fashioned pie and then I’ll be willing to curl up and die. —Ex. There is no use walking the floor with a felon says an exchange Wrap a cloth around it, leving the end ope. Pour gunpowder in the end and shake it dotfn until the felou is covered, then wet it with camphor in two hours the pain will be relieved and a perfect cure cjuiokb follow.