People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — Profit and Loss Considered. [ARTICLE]

Profit and Loss Considered.

A young man was telling of the great luck he had in betting on the horsos recently. Besides picking Dr. Rice, he also had a lot of other horses that won, and he cleaned up considerably over one thousand dollars on the week. “How long have you been playing?” asked the man, who wore a jeweled horseshoe in his scarf. “About two years.” “Ever had any other big weeks like that week?” “Oh! yes; I raked in over twentyfive hundred dollars one week, and on a great many occasions I have made as high as five or six hundred dollars.” The man with the jeweled scarfpin looked very serious. “Now,” he said, “I want you to tell me honestly, whether, with all those winnings, you are ahead or behind the game with your two years’ playing?” “I am nearly six thousand dollars behind,” he said. This is a faithful report of an actual conversation. It is not a joke. Indeed, it is a sermon.—Buffalo Express.