The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-16
THE WINNER.
Joseph gets Praises and Potipher
With the Sedalia Gamblers,
Take A Roasting.

other days shene at the Congregation
al church Sunday night as Rev. B. F.
Boiler faced an audience larger than
usual, but not as numerically strong
as it should have been.
Such winners rs 81. L. Berry, Milo
Blair, ]. B. Wilcox, Frank Eastey.
Ernest Henney, Ed. Mcclellan, w.
B. vedder, Will Van Wagner, Char.
Lie West and Allen Sweet, were pres
ent to hear the Word.
After singing, q violin selection BY
three ladies, and reading the lesson,
the clergyman gave out that there
would be tea given Wednesday even.
ing at the following rates:
Ice cream, plain, 10 cents.
Ice cream, with strawberries, 15
cents.
joseph was the real winner the
preacher talked about.
Rev. B.ller did not tell as much
history of Joseph as there is written in
the Bible at the BAzoo Office. He
did not tell that the hero of the dis.
course was one Of twelve boys and
Jacob the high-daddY of all.
Joseph had q coat of many colors.
and he inherited all the virtues Of his
relatives and none of their vices.
That was nice in Joe.
When the other boya wanted to get
rid of Joseph they sold him into bond
age and told the father, Jacob, that
he was dead.
He was sold to Potipher.
Now there is q woman in the case.
Most always is, when q fellow gets
in a cloae place and can't wiggle out.
Potipher's wife was no angel and
did not wear Jenness Miller's new sys-
tenn.
He was tempted, and Mrs. Poti-
pher was the tempter.
The giddy old girl was "not any
better than she ought to have been"
1t was tryin' on Joseph, but he had
too much character. He had no am
bition to surrender to old lady Poti-
pher, although she hid nothing from
joseph. He could not be corrupted.
"How different from the modern
politician ?" said the speaker as be
alluded to a case within two years,
OF q man holding Office in the
United States took $4,000 for his
'sinfluence" which meant his vote.
Of course he did.
The speaker said all the politicians
were not corrupt, but there are 80
few who could not be corrupted, that
when one was found, he ought to be
embalmed and kept 30 that the people
could tell what the almost extinct
species looked like.
Then Rev. Boiler got down to bust
ness sure enough and roasted those
who gamble.
Did not say . word about Might've
and progressive euchre, like Judge
Ryland condemns or b. ccarat like H.
r. II. has been fooling with.
He commenced on betting on elect
ions and said one man in Sedalia had
won enough to refurnish his store.
We presume be meant he bought 9
new stock of goods and sold his old
stock as the refuse from q large fire a,
auction.
Another man in Sedalia VOL
enough one election to buy house
and lot.
We are glad newspaper men ant
reporters have no houses and lots. fol
they might be unjustly accused of bet
ting on elections.
Reader, they don't bet. Got moth
ing to bet with, but wind.
The preacher wasn't afraid to cal
things by their correct names.
He has found a bucket shop in Sc
dslia and he heard that some mem
bers of the church had been shyinl
their castors into the ring hunting
around for the right side of Jul.
wheat and October corn.
Then, by the way of a parenthesis
he stated in sort Of a mellow ton
and a brown plush voice that tn
8. bucket shop patrons did not belong t
his church. Fact.
None of these people referred +
were Josephs like Joe White. No
any.
Then Mr.. Boiler went cunning fo
the Sedalia gamblers, saloon keeper
houses Of iIlfame and the city admir-
istration.
Twelve professional gamblers in S
dalia-no arrests.
Saloons kept back door open Q
Sunday-no arrests.
A saloon on Main street with gaml
ling rooms upstairs-no arrests.