The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-13
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Rev. Sam Jones.
Sam. Jones delivered one of hiBchatac.
terist;c lectures at the opera house last
night.
He. has Just recently returned from
California, and the subject of his lecture
was 6 California, and Californians.'' p
Sam Jones's lectures and sermons are
always full Of quaint sayings and striking
illustrations, but his California trip
seems to have added even more to his
stock Of wit and hulnor:
& His lecture last night Was on q some.
what different line from that which he
has heretofore followed, but it was in his
:happiest style, and was thoroughly ap.
spreciated by all who heard him.
He was introduced by Rev. "a. j. Ellis,
and in beginning his lecture he said that
he was going to tell Of his trip in the
simplest and most interesting manner he
knew how. r. =
ss q always thought he said, "that
Atlanta was the hub of the universe, and
that when the Almighty created the
world He must haYs been very near
about where the artesian we'll stands.
But when I reached Los Angeles, CAL,
all these thoughts faded away. When I
/ got there the whole west WAS in full
bloom, and Los Angeles was my dream
of fairy land .
He went ont tell about his religious
meetings there, au6 said that most of the
people who lived in Los Angeles were
from New York, Boston, and other big
cities and that they we're nothing like the
other California people. ~
here Is one peculiar thing about.t The
climate ont there he said, "and that is
:afellow always has q cold, OF rather he
takes q new. one about twice q day-it
lasts about Blk houra, sort'o like q drunk
and your nose will run all day long
without teRinding up. Then the cold
makes .yoa have such q queer feeling.
It makes you feel like you had stolen q
sheep and were about to be found out
the meanest feeling in the world. But
the thing that ratified me most was this :
One day T was outriding with o friend,
going down q steep hill it looked like to
|gme. My friend asked me which way ne
were going, and I: told him down, of
course. He then told me to notice the
/, horses, traces. y ]. did; so, and they were
|,as slight as could be and the horses were
pulling hard too. That ratified me worse
than; / ever was BY John Barleycorn, and
i felt like a ol-Ilatural for once in my
|ilife, i reckon. afterwards saw water
run mp hill though, and that made me
feel still worse. ,'Ssss
ID speaking Of the religion of the peo,
plsi San Francisco, he said that they
hardl knew what twas, and that when
Mr.. Christian, a minister there, told him
how things were he never felt 80 much
like getting drunk in his life; thati be
had been a sPfesby yterian be would have
done it, but being q Methodist he was
afraid. 49,
The peoples in California will gamble
:on anything they vii. bet on anything
/ from 81 cigarette to wheat field. Even
the ladies bet. They will bet their dia.
Smonds on q horse race and their seal. skin
sacques on 9, dog tight, and pay them too
sif they lose 3
y, Inc; Inc people OF ean - = lanclsco aon,
believe $ln, nell, ccnlinuea Mr. Jones,
but they nave got more o. u; IT. than any
other people 4 ever saw: :Ihe way they
are ;'1l rushing 20 damnatlon REMINDS me OF
my dog. ynGe .Wsss. ous Walklng' an9
my saog, anGt!e ieiivW, was along, SUI,
g Sueniy 9: a:dog Digger taan Ae was ]amPeo
oat ,,ll:i nom yaid, ana scaIed nl4, anu ne
ran me tastess, =; t1ongnt, = 9aa q ever e
seen q aog run, ana itne oensr :iy aog ngnt
& after MN. u Dlfectly 3 SUN Digger 9og