Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
BUNKO.
BUNKO.
Concerning a Game in which
the More You Lay Down
the Less You take Up.
Al Exhaustive Expose OF ChicagO's
Most StupendOus Swindle.
All About 'Ropers,' Ringers Strip.
pers,' Turner's and .Steerers.'
From an old Number Of the Chicago Times.
THE DEPARTURE

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THE DEPARTURE
Good bye mother
Good bye father Be sure and
keep your throe; vel! wrapped up
Don't forget to go to Brother
Jones's church if you are detained
over Sunday
mo, | won't.'
Don't forget anything-the boots
for Johnny, the list of things from
Field-Leiter's, the bottle of cough
medicine and-and-but you have
got them all down and haven't for
got the paper have your I'm sure
you have. Men are always so care.
less
Yes, yes; I've got it. Don't
worry. won't forget anything.
Good bye, and don't forget to 60 TO
prayer meeting Wednesday night
and get the children to Sunday
school in good season.
The st speaker, who carried q
carpet-sack 10 his hand and a sha W !
thrown over his arm was gentle.
man of some As years of age. Toe
other was his wife, a motherly
creature, some five years bis ia.
Dior. The place was IN interior
town in Illinois named Grangerville
within one hundred miles of Chi.
cago.
He was hard ware dealer, o dea.
con in thriving Baptist church, q
director in the national bank in
town, and a well.to do, universally
respected citizen. He wac about to
lake run upto Chicago to make
some additions to bis stock of hard.
ware, and to purchase supply of
clothing and other necessary arti-
cles for his family.
He took with him abont $4,000.
Of this amount about 500 was for
the purchase of books for an addi-
ton to the library of the Sunday
school OF which he was the honored
superintendent. A Thousand dollars
of the money was the result of va
rious readings, picnics, concerts,
oyster suppers and the like given
by the church society for the pur.
pose OF buying an organ. It was
the accumulation of several years
hard work and saving by the good
sisters of the church.
The purchase of an organ had al
ways been thing hoped for but
not seen by the members of his con.
gregation. The final securing of a
thousand dollars was regarded with
universal satisfaction mingled with
serene religious exaltation. The
day of its coming was looked for.
ward to as a fete day. The day
upon which it was to be put up was
to be set apart as Baptist holiday
in that vicinity. In the evening
there would be grand concert and
oyster supper, whose proceeds, i,
was believed would assist materially
in lifting a mortgage of $4,000 held
against the church property.
A distinguished soprano from q
neigbboring town was to assist. A
solo was expected from a promising
youth who practiced on the cornet
and who lived at the next station
south.
There were other reasons why
this organ must be had A PresbY.
terrain society had waited until the
Baptist edifice was completed and
then it had built one and gone the
advocates of total submersion 'one
better in style and decoration. A
sort of holy desire had sprung up
on the part Of the Baptists to lay
over the others; and it was believ
ed that a thousand dollar organ
would place them so far in advance
that no believer in infant.spriukling
and Calvinlstic reclamation in
that locality would ever again as.
sumo airs of superiority.
This it is seen that Deacon Gran.
ger was bark freighted with a
very precious cargo of hopes. He
was eminently worthy of his mis-
sion. He was staunch and true and
might be trusted in any matter.
Seaworthy 10 every respect be
minded the helms Of conscience and
never missed the stays and lacking
during his course in the strongest
of gales, but always came about
filled, and bore away in an Instant
-one of the sturdiest, most obedi-
ent and mos, reliable Baptist crafts
that ever plowed the waves of life.
The deacon had $500 of bis own
money. Part of this was for fare
end hotel expenses; part for the pun
chase of family supplies and the
rest to use in buying such odds and
ends 10 hardware as he might pick
up 10 small lots on the basis of q
cash transaction.
Such q customer as Deacon
Granger was treasure in the esti.
mrte of Chicago dealers. Statesmen
regarded him as q sure thing
nugget that yielded at least $500 to
the ton. Every hardware dealer in
Chicago had one salesman especial
ly to attend to Deacon Granger.
In every case these statesmen had
all been duly immersed into the
Baptist church; and were up or
close communion. the true meaning
of the Greek particle 'els, and also
the genuine idea contained in thai
other Hellenic term, baptiso. Such
statesmen attended all the Baptist
weekly prayer meetings, had classes
in all the Baptist Sabbath schools
and seats off the middle aisle in al
the Baptist churches.
These gospel privileges were al
paid for by their employers. whG
charged the amount to profit OBJ.
tanned from dealing with Deacon
Granger and few others of nj,
class. All these salesmen had SO
date faces. q shaved upper lin an