The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-04
Quaint Sayings Of sam Jone.

"I see q st. Louis paper takes issue
with me on the proposition that $4,000
drunkards in America stagger into a
drunkard's grave every year. I refer
the editor Of that paper to the 1900 bar
rooms in St Louis Ny God just take a
view Of that city. 1t looks like St. Louis
would send so 900 drunkards whirling in
to hell and let the balance OF the country
free. And wherever you see a barroom
that stands for ten men that have crossed
the line. Do you hear that7 Whenever
you see q barroom lifting its sign and
setting out its bottles, that means ten men,
we claim. that viii never recross the line
that will fill drunkards' graves as Ger
tain as God made the world I tell you
no barroOm can flourish withsut at least
ten men who have lost all hope Of recov-
cry and spent their best hours and their
best means in buying the drink they Will
furnish. My God go to Chicago, with
her 5000 barroons, and then wonder that
10000 people every year fall into drunk
ards graves. Look over here to Kansas
City, at the barrooms sprinkled over the
streets OF that town, and then wonder
that CO. 600 people of America stagger into
drunkards' graves in q year. Brothers,
directly and indirectly. l have not nearly
come to the mark. But l tell you, wheth-
or there are 90, 900 or 1000 let rs never
furnish another poor fool for hell. What
do you say 2''
well, IL there IS a woman that I am in
sympathy with In this world 1t is one Of
these kind, psinstaking wives who does
her best to please her husband, and to-
day she has had the whole house reno
waited and everything changed, Just so it
would please the husband. And then she
prepares herself in her best garb and
looks, and she says I will make home
cheerful for him this evening" and she
meets him with a smile, kisses him, and
expresses words of kindness te him. and
he comes IN and takes his seat, and
doesn't sit there five minutes before he
takes his merciless tongue and cuts his
wife right down to the floor. God pity
you, you old devil you, for that's what
you are"
what we want at this camp-meetina
Is gospel of power-mark the express
sion. How will you get it, You know
when God wants to launch out His laws
into force to do work for Himself. He
don't count noses and see how many noses
He has got. He goes by weight. He
puts up scales and weighs us. Do you
understand There is many great 200
pound Methodist or Baptist aronnd this
country, and you put him on Gods scale
and he don't weigh an ounce. He has
great big. fat body; but If you could pull
out his soul and show it, then He would
say What is that starved, shriveled,
shrunken thing you have got there7 Why,
1t hasn't had a square meal in ten years"
Ibid you ever start anywhere with
your wife and keep hurrying her up
when you ought to know that she has not
only to dress herself, but five children be-
sides, wELe you have nothing to do but
get ready' And after n while she tells
you to Go on husband: I'm afraid 1
can't get ready in time for you; don't
want to hinder you I've done Just that
way. I've walked of and ont thc gate,
and then I'd stop and think. Then
would walk back, and go In and find
worry in my wife's face and tears in her
eyes, and I'd go up and put my arms
around her and say, Wife, I want you to
orEive me- and she forgives me P'