The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-04

The Georgia numorIst Gives Ills Views on
Exchange,
Sam Jones has been throwing rocks
again az usual, 1t dou'tmatter what kind
OF a house man lives in Sam will hit him
II he has to smash window pane to do
it, He rocks everybody aud keeps Nc
lodging all The time. The fun OF it and
the pity Of it Is that we are oil willing 10
take our chances at dodging II he will give
q sookdologer to our nabos. "Thats
MAJOR Muniord he's after now" thought
I. "That's nRbor Freeman he hit just
then and didn't he cock it to him, and in
q few minutes he hit me a Crosssyed lick
that stunned me and | wilted. Every
time Sam hits the mark he runs his fingers
through his back hair with Hamile Ofaltis.
faction and says: "Thsts It," Humanity
Ia his hunting.ground aud he loves to rest
h'R old musket upon q rail and take q
crack.
sometimes the wounded fight back and
light hard, but Sam stands square to his
gun and says: "It's the hit dog that
yelps." Sometimes he gets q hard shot
himself aud It hurts and he yelps a little
too, but he loads up quick and free again,
Eccentric, electric aud sometimes cratic,
no still fights OH, maintaining his position
or else advancing, hut never retrcating
from the enemy. When the church will
not back him in his assaults he shows no
white flag, but goes 1t alone. In vain his
cautious conservative brethren remon-
strates and advise. In vain the press
denouuCes. In vain the critics make
sport. He still fights on his own limo and
with his own weapons, and has made
more havoc single.handed than any sol.
der Of tho church militant during the last
half century, For while he was called
fraud.
For while he was likened to rocket
that went up with u blaZs Of noisy light,
and they said he would explode and come
down like stick. But nobody erica fraud
or rocket now. His star Is still bright.
Long may he live to wrestle with iniQutly
in high places, for that Is his fort. His
favorite game moves in the circles Of
polits society. Hypocrisy, vanity and
selGshness are his targets. Brave, watch
iul and Beli.possnssed, he is al ways ready
and his magazine is full Of RESOURCES. As
surveyed the great tabernacle and It's
crowded audience said 10 myself: "Who
would who could have built this house
but him2 Who would, who could have
raised q thousand dollars here to-day, in
few minutes, wherawith to beautify
and improve the grounds" Hehas mora
grit, more snap, more assurance than all
the preachers. HO is success in his line,
and it is q good line for the times. Re-
form is the waIChwOrd now, and he ia d
reformer. About some things heis cranky
aud has n touch Of ianaticism, but this
does not matter. Let him BIZ go. So was
Luther and Wesley and John Knox,
Reformers were always extremists.
The pendulum Is Obliged to swing or the
the clock will stop. Sam Jones sees the
young man wrecked at the gaming-table,
and so he denounCes a social game OF
whist at the family tlreside. He sees
young girl in q libertine'g company at
ball, and denounces dancing in any form
or any place. But let him thunder
against cards ana dancing and base ball
and anything else that is carried TO ex.
cess. There is intemperance in most
everything. Boys can play at marbles
too much and hunt too much. Girls can
piggle and chew gum and dress too much.
Women eau visit and gossip too much.
Men can cat too much and drink too much
and chew too much tobacco. l remem.
Der when tho preachers preached against
the fiddle and called 1t the DEVILS instru-
ment, and there arc still some good old
fashioned folks who have a holy horror OF
an organ in church. What would the
old.time fathers have thought oil this
modern tabernacle worship with its paid
reporters on the stand and It's hired sing
ers and lts restaurants near by with re.
ireshments on sale aud syouth parading
the sanctuary selling pictures Of the
preachers on Sabbath day.