Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1882 — He Prayed for Too Much Pepper. [ARTICLE]

He Prayed for Too Much Pepper.

One of the most prominent preachers in the city tells the following anecdote as a fact, whenever he hears a story too incredible for belief: “A very wicked man became converted, and in course of time it came his turn to pray in class meeting. Not being used to speaking in public, of course he was very much embarrassed. This is the substance of the prayer: “Oh, Lord, thou giver of all good things, look down with pity on poor people. You are rich and can spare them plenty to eat while on earth. Send every one of them a full barrel of flour, plenty of lard and a side of bacon, a ham or so and a pound of butter, Send each one of your starving, hungry creatures a barrel of salt; a barrel of pepper—oh, hell, that’s too much pepper. Amen.” Mr. B. R. Kenyon, of Chillicothe, Ohio, writes: “It is impossible for me to praise Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as highly as it deserves. I know it to be an unfailing cure for syphilitic disorders, scrofula, impurity of the blood, dyspepsia and weak kidneys" It cured me entirely of all these disorders ” Down in Texas a number of speculator had taken out risks in matrimonial insurance companies upon a couple known to be engaged. Between the betrothed there was an agreement that the prospective groom should, before he could claim the lady for his bride, provide a house to live in; but as the day drew near it became apparent that he could not keep that part of the compact, and so the lady declared the engagement off. In sorrow the young man told his speculative friends of the turn affairs had taken, by which they were likely to lose the premiums they had paid as well as the face of the policies they held, and they, to remove the only barrier to his happiness and their own enrichment gave him the money to build his house, when he and his sweetheart were married. Whether the policies will be paid or not remains to be seen. £ Barbecue is from the French words b:n-be et queue, i. e., equivalent to from “head to tail,” as in the formation of the word “oriflamme,” from or et flamme. The word “barbecue” was first used in this country in the Presidential campaign of 4840, when at large political gatherings ini the open air animals were roasted whole. France in 1878 iproduced 17,600,01)0 pounds of cocoons; in 18790n1y 11,000,000 pounds, and in 1880 14,000,000 pounds.