Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — “Aunt Nina’s” Appeal. [ARTICLE]

“Aunt Nina’s” Appeal.

“Zel>" Vance was holding forth in one of the cloak-rooms of the senate the other day on the evils of intemperance, writes a Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune. I don’t know whether he intended to “point a moral and adorn a tale,” or whether he exEected that the seed, in the company e was in. should fall on fruitful ground. Whatever hi 3 motive in telling the following little story, I omit for obvious reasons of delicacy, all mention of names. Said the genial senator from North Carolina. “There was a camp-meeting held last year in the immediate neighborhood of my home in Charlotte. Among the many colored people" present was ‘Aunt Nina,’ who was noted for the length and breadth of her prayers, in which she never failed to make mention of her old master, who was much given to drink. On this particular occasion, after having disposed of all the rest of creation, she became more than usually fervent in her appeal in hi 3 behalf, requesting as a ‘special favor that he be saved from a drunkard’s grave at least, and accompanied the request with this irresistible appeal: ‘“O Lord how would it look! him in hell, with his bald head, and drunk at that?”