Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-03

way. but he said they always swelled up
! and came to the surface on the follow
ing day bigger and more disagreeable
! than ever.
| said that was good si1lile.
| He said he didn't know what it was.
/ but it was 50.
found that he was laxative, and SO
! conversed with him. He said that he
had got all his work done up ahead and
| got all over the rush before / came, so
that he could have real good visit with
me when got here. | judged that it
had been several years since he had been
busy however
He said that Texas was advancing rap
idly, he thought, in the matter of civili-
cation. | said "Yes?" with a rising in
Election. He said that she was now
safely past the crisis, he thought, be-
tween the customs of the cliff jewellers
| and finger bowls. "Some Of us, of c'ose
is raw yit, but we are advancing.
would like to have you the guest of our
club here this evenin', sab, if you will
come down-the Upper Congo club it is
called, sab. We run it on economical
principles, sab, but it is quiet, home
like place, whah you kin go for hour
or two, check you old razor and injoin
youseff.'
1t was quiet and rather unpreten-
tious place, the Upper Congo club, occu-
pied during the day as laundry and
Tuesdays and Fridays as a club room.
The franchise of the club consisted of
the inalieRable right to meet, mediate
and adjourn. The club properly consist
ed of guests register, made in imitation
of butchers order book, with a pine
lead pencil tied to it by string, gallon
beer pail and set of dominos.
The Upper Congo club allows no mill
ionaires' sons to join. OF course if
member should become millionaires
son after he had united with the club he
cannot be expelled without a two-thirds
vote; but / was told that brains" and
brains only, was the qualification-self
made brains. Wealth could not come in
and corrupt the pure thought ganglia Of
the Upper Congo club.
Sam Jones preached in Texas and lect-
ured and licked the mayor Of Palestine
last fall Everywhere one goes he hears
Of Sam Jones and the good work done
by him. Also by DR.. Talmage, who with
Mr. Jones, another well known revivalist,
and myself, furnished star course of
lectures the past season for Texas with
great success, people coming in some in
stances for hundreds Of miles, bringing
their dinners and paying dollar apiece,
looking upon Us with awestruck features
for a few moments and then retiring
cheerfully to their distant homes
Texas people say that Sam Jones re-
minds them Of John the Forerunner in
some ways, only that John, so far as they
know, did not eat with his knife. Sam,
however, is a plain, offhand man, and
since he and aud DR.. Talmage have
worked together in Texas ! do not feel
like hearing either one criticised, and
know that neither Of them will sit calm
ly by and allow me TO be run down.
Dallas is beautifully surrounded by
the state Of Texas and Oak Cliff, hand
some suburb, with thriving hotel and
vigorous girls college. Also a pavil-
ion for speakers and concerts during
the summer, and n menagerie. There
Is train running between Oak Cliff and
Dallas which is called an accommoda-
ton. It is owned by the hotel, and goes
along with the reading room, parlor and
washroOm. EOu board mt the hotel and
the proprietor throws in the railroad.
| say this 50 that the interstate com
merce outfit may look into the matter
and throttle this giant evil.
Dallas did "A business in 1899 Of over
$3l 900, 900. Since then trade has greatly
increased While there | met a com
pany Of Boston capitalists. headed by ex-
Governor Bracket. They had Just
bought building for $4,000 that day.
-Four million dollars are Tor is) invested
in factories, and the yearly product is
over $4,000 | was also in Dallas
two days, and PIT quite little sum of
money in circulation while there. | can
not help IT. The western spirit of free
dom and reckless expenditure comes
over me, and buy the morning paper
sometimes and do not read half Of it.
went 10 see the "Clemenceau Case" J
while in Dallas. | had avoided it in
New York, but the pictures and printing
were 50 beautiful that accepted the in
vitation Of a real nice man and went to .
see the "Clemenceau Case" | will never