Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-26
A LEADyILLE SERMON.
Tho Discourse Delivered by a Miner M m
Variety rh.ater.

Mr.. J. H. Dow, NJ. +. (viciorial, a
Scotchnlan of excellent hunlor, who N
returning nom n tour In America.
read us n sermon which he had taken
down rs he had heard IL Ia Leadvllle.
The service was In variety theater.
some whiskcy barrels made the pulpit'
After the singing of IA DAYS March
nearer Home n hard-featurcd miner
rose TO address the Manufactured con-
creation:
Friends, the regular preacher has
gone down among the boys who are
working the new carbonate mines nj
Gunnison, and have been appointed
to take his hand and have Il iorall it's
worth. 10 many OF YOU present IL
won pe necessary To tell yoa that I'm
kinder new To this business but don't
believe there's n rooster In the camp
mean enough to take advantage of my
Ignorance and cold-dcck me on the
iirst deal. | have been reading In this
yerc BOOK that yarn about the prodi-
yal son, and | will try 10 tell YOU the
story. The book don't give no dates,
nut guess II happened considerable
speii BACK in history. Ii seems tho
trod's father was pretty flush with the
stamps, and u real good sort into the
bargain, rs he always shelled GU, free
ly when the kid struck him for d stake,
and never buckcd at the Size of tho
pile neither so long rs the boy heaved
IN hearty ON the ranch and generally
behaved hisself handsum. nut by
and'hy the kid grew restless aud want
ed to rustic out the travel: so he got the
ole man to ante up In advance of the
death racket aud ict him 70, He no
sooner got his dizzy in his pocket than
| ne SHOOK the ranch and spread him
self out 10 take IN some of the far.ofr
camps, Well according 10 the book,
he had way'up time ne first and
sung his coin around as IL he owned
the best-paying lead within a thousand
miles of Denver. But, NV f,iends'
this game didn't Inst forever. Hard
luck struck him NJ last, and the pod
IL found In one of his sober intervals
remarking In u confidential way TO
one OF his chuns; 81 say. old rard.
I'm busted clean down 10 the bed
rock, aud thems the cold-blood,d
mets," The book don't say what tie
prod went broke on, hat probably he
slcefou up against some brace game
Be tnnt IA 10 may, however
lie was so beautifully cleaned out
that he hadn'ta two-bit piece left 10
20 and eat on. In this condition he
struck ranch belonging 10 an old
granger who, taking pity on the poor,
busted prod, gave him a Job of herd
ing hogs. The granger wasn't n bnd
Oh sample IN general way, but he
was inclined To be kinder mean on the
feed, and so IL came that often tho
prod got 80 frightfully sharp.sct for
meal ne had to 80 whacks In the hog
trough. You bet the kid who In hls
Ia Ian.
among the best of everything Ike
n silver king or n big rail.
way nonopolist, Ind now plenty
Of time on his hands for
doing n tall lot of thinking, and one
day he said TO himself. am lust ding
this business. Why, even the meanest
help ~ my old governors hired service
are living on square grub aud plenty
OF IL, whilo I'm worrying along here
ON shook lunch. ! know what IN
IN just akin back home Ia the old
, man aud ask for new dcalp So
away he went, but hr hnd hard time
reaching the old rauch, and don't YOU
forget II. When You have plenty of
coin, my friends, evcrybody's pleasant,
but when you're on the borrow you
don't mud II SO good Finally be did
strike the familiar trail leading down
To the old home, and while crossing
} some open lots the old man, ns the
book puts 1t, saw him a-copiing afar
; OF Yes, that old mans eyes were
very dim, but he did not fail to spot
the boy nlar efI.
: Ana what dye suppose that prod's
father did2 Did he whistle the dogs
mp 10 chase him oil the ranch ? You
bet he didn't. Did he go and take
down his shotgun and wait til he got
agood drop on him2 You bet he
, didn't. No, but IN tell you what he
did. He just wnlt2ed right out Of the
! gate 10 meet him, aud frozc to that
, poor scare-crnw right on the spot, mud
fell kissing of him and weeping over
him aud calling him his poor, long
lost boy until the prod got broke all
up and like n sluice dam when the
! snow comes down on Pixies Peak
under II July sun. The old man then
took him right away 10 a clothing
+ store and rugged him out In the n0bbi-
! est suit to be had for coin, and put m
elegant ring ON his finger, ordered the
latest steer on the ranch 10 be slaugh-
tered, invited all the neighbors IN,
and had the biggest blowout that
camp had over seen.
: Now IL appears the prod'a elder
pifhh'i Nh1 'ht Nv nplN WIN WIZ
: teams, aud when he came IN he asked
: some of the help what WAS the mean
Ing Of the picnic they were having in-
side, and when he was told the reason
: he just got real mad The old man
hearing OF this went out % him, aud
, snid: Come In lad; your brothers.
come back, aud we're having regular
: old-fnshioDed jubilee; now you come
right along, like u good fellow, and
, share IN the breakdown But the
brother wouldn't bulge, and said:
T Look here, dad, have stuck TO the
ranch. and have never trnnsgressed
: your orders. hut II never struck you 20
have II picnic Of this kind until you
} give II IN honor Of loafer who has
disgraced our Dnmc." But, my frie1ds,
you make your bets on II that the old
man had level head, and wasn't
easily To be bluiIed. He eays: my
son, you say you have never trans
crossed my ordcrr, but are you quite
sure that's SO? tell you that you have
grievously transgressed my command
ments by your unbroiherly aud un-
charitable behavior. Learn that am