| Show John Ihe Baptist Knocks Out a Pool Seller Last evening the street preacher held forth on the corner of Main and Second South A large and mixed crowd of men women and children stopped as they passed by and listened to the Knight of the Dry Goods box who dealt out some very striking arguments against Saint and sinner despite his odd presence of a modern Jack Hays or a Buffalo Bill While he was crying aloud for all to follow fol-low a wellknown horseman imbued i with hope for todays races came frantically fran-tically up the street from the Walker House and mistaking the Evangelist for the pool seller cried out Twentyfive dollars for the first choice No answer Thirty dollars and talks money The preacher looked as though his life was being bid for but instead of stopping in the middle of a profound passage of eloquence elo-quence he raised his clarion notes a few octaves higher and drove the pool buyer from the crowd |
