The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-04-15
SAM JONES ONLY RIVAL.
LAMrhSAS JAKE AND SOME SrECINrENs
or his ORAToRiCAL srIIE.

~ 'i' OhN Nlblkl'hII ri as.
; We have all heard Of tho tho sonr
There is a New Coon in Town" nm,
there will be nothing startling in th
statement that there is n new "cyan
, geI'st in the country. His name il
, l"Lamrnses Jake and he ia describe,
hs cowboy revivalist.' II,
breaches in frontier saloons, begin
ming with describing his own re.
markablo Conversion" and then
proceeds to his call for the uncon
vorted. a letter from New Mexico
describes j.he's doings ms follows:
jake preachcs nothing hut ro>
pcnance aud ealva'ion. lIe lives
of the country, he says. Ilo takes
up 10 collections and ho asks fow
favors. lie goes well armed and
never lays aside his weapons, even
when preaching lie has fights fre.
qnently and he sometimes brings
men to repentance 10y main strength
Wherever he finds three or four COW
boys, gamblers, rus,lcrs or adyeu.
tuIors he bcgins Lis services
Going iuto ono OF the hardest of
tho numerous bard saloons III this
place the other night, Jake mounted
n chair and commanded silence. The
games and drinking came to an end
and about twenty men, young aud
old, looked mp One fellow under
took to edge out, but Jake stopped
him
NO, you don't, mister he said,
pointing his finger at him. mo,
you don't When you get to hell
you'll have chances enough to come
a sneak on somebody, but you don't
do it hero Then. STRENGTHENING
himself up, he yelled in voice that
mado things creak:
How many Of you's ready to di,
now with your boots on Whcred
you be to brcakfest' Don't any Of
you drunken, swearing, fighting,
disappearing, gambling, thicyiug.
lin horn, coliiu-paint discriminating
.galoots look at NO ugly, because !
know go. lvo been through The
drive. You're all in your sius. You
know fat, wcll-fod, well.carcd for,
ttcOcc hln 'yorh"d Gforr when you
and whore it belongs There's II
mun that owns it, There's n phc"
for it to go. Tuore's II law 10 pro-
toct it. But tho maycriak--"hoso is
that You're all mavericks aud
worse. The maverick hns no brand
on him. lIo goes bcllering about
until somebody takes Lin IN "nd
clasps tho hrandiuGNiron on hlm
Int you wholps, you've got tho dev-
lis brand on you. You've got hib
lariat about you. ilo lets You have
rope now, but ho'Il haul you in When
he wants iirowood.
Some of yor can fec! tho hnla'
now and oil you old whishey tube
here now can smell the fire. Ill bet
you IS You're scared III bot you
so YOU would give something now
to know that YOU wouldn't get cook
ed. III bet 500 ] can tell you how
to escape. Just you get down on
y,ur knees here now aud yell,
IThuls right all Of you down
Won't do it, oh 7 We'll, You will get
down. That's right. Now,you yell
Cry out for help like Texas steer
in snow belly deep
"You're nice lot of ruilians, ain
you ! You'd look nice galIivantlne
around in heaven, wouldn't you ;
W Wouldn't he'll itself turn pale il 1t
saw you comiug' Iou can get youi
self in condition. You can make
yonr hides slick. There is the grass
of salvation that is green all the year
round. You can eat OF it and you II
make flesh from the word go. You
can refuse it and you'll grow poor
and miserable till your old Lides
will flap on your bones like bed
quilt on ridse"polc. Ch'c"gc
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