Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-20


and came to the surface on the follow
ing day bigger and more disagreeable
than ever
SAID that was good simile
lie said he didn't know what it was.
but it was so,
FOUND that he was talkative, and SO
convsrced with him. He said that he
mad got ali Frs work done up ahead and
got all over the rush before | came. 50
that he could have real good visit with
me when got here. l judged that it
mad been several years since he had been
busy, however.
He said that Texas was advancing ran
idly, he thought, in the matter of civil.
Zaton' said 'Yes?' with a rising in
lection. 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 a quiet, home
like place, whah you kin go for hour
or two, check you old razor and inioin
youseff"
1t was a quiet and rather unpreten-
uous 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 inalienable right to meet, mediate
and adjourn. The club properly consist
ed OF guests register, made in imitation
OF butchers order book, with pine
lead pencil tied to it by a string, gallon
beer pail and a set of dominos.
The Upper Congo club allows no mill
ionaires' sons to join. OF course if a
member should become a millionaire's
son after he had united with the club he
cannot be expelled without two-thirds
vote; but l was told that brains" and
brains only, was the qualifcation-self
made brains, Wealth could not come in
and corrupt the pure thought ganSlia 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 a 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
tor 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 l and DR.. Talnage have
worked together in Texas | do not feel
like hearing either one criticised, and !
know that neither ofNhem will sit calm
" 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
a vigorous girls college. Also a pavil-
ion for speakers and concerts during
the summer, and menagerie There
is train running between Oak Cliff and
Dallas which is called an accommoda-
ton. 1t is owned by the hotel, and goes
along with the reading room, parlor and
washrOom. You board at the hotel and
the proprietor throws in the railroad.
l say this 50 that the interstate COM
merce outfit may look into the matter
and throttle this giant evil
Dallas did business in 1889 of over
S31 900, 600. 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 $3.50, 900 that day.
-Four million dollars are Tor Isl invested
in factories, and the yearly product is
over SS,0O0,000. | was also in Dallas
two days, and put quite little sum of
money in circulation while there. l can
not help 1T. The western spirit of free
dom and reckless expenditure comes
over me, and l buy the morning paper
sometimes and do not read half of it.
l went to see the ''Clemenceau Case"
while in Dallas. l had avoided it in
New York, but the pictures and printing
We're so beautiful that accepted the in
Y1tatlon of a real nice man and went to
see the ''Clemenceau Case" will never