The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-12-14
ONE OF SAM JONES' LECTURES.
Rumor npd Wisdom on the Subject OF
Money and Manhood.

| aUu Will luc ouSClo oIonu' ANO" "o'o
begun to pray over the matter, and | say
"I want to be man-a1d with the ladies
stand"
1 met grand man once. The longer
stood with him the smaller got, and
the bigger ha got. After while I bad
to get up and go to have anything to 90
with.
| have met some little fellows whose
eyes were so close together that they
could see through keyhole with both at
once.
I do not believe 10 evolution, of course
don't do not believe we spraug from
monkeys. But when I see great many
people I believe they are headed that
way and that they will get there if they
don't stop.
I have great deal more respect for
Nancy Hanks than have for Sullivan
and Corbet. Nancy is daisy. She
can go in 2:40. God made her to 60.
But two old Aop-eared mules can stand
up in lot and do as much as Sullivan
and Corbett, knocking the filling out Of
one another.
never 60 to horse races-not because
do not like to see them, but because OF
the small, scrubby set that il always
there.
Some rich men say vhen you go to
them for money for good cause "Wait
until get fixed p Fixed Fixed Fix>
ed when you are dead fixed for the Gre;
fxsd into hack. long for the devils
sitting room!
Country facts" are a scriptural ami
NAL, and you need not be afraid Of it.
There was an old farmer In North
Georgia who said one day: II am going
to save; 1 am going to lay up; am not
going to be poor when get old and can't
work" And he did save S15O,000. One
day a neigbbor went to see him and said {:
"Brother, how are you off for meat?" 1
have got enough in my smokehouse for
this year, and until hog killing next
year," he said, "and enough hogs to kill
then, and enough pigs to kill the next
year, but what I will do after that the
Lord only knows"
Then he left the old fellow starving on
three years, rations.
A dude is kind of wart on the DEVILS
nose.
You may SOW corn and reap corn, but
SOW dudes and dudines and you will
reap one-half 9 thimble full Of calf-foot
jelly.
Maj. Black says, money per capita,"
but its "per pocketa."
am afraid that we preachers are af-
fected by money. OF couue we don't
work for money, but you stop oar salaries,
and We will quit. All, hal
I believe in decision. You see these
fellows who think they will and think
they won't, but rather think they won't
10 cents q dozen like eggs in warm
weather, and for the same reason.
There was darkey who had mule,
and he said he had to hitch him by tying
him to tree by his tail to keep him from
going through his collar.
You got after great many people
aud they lay 1t all ON Adam. Poor old
Adam
Adam is too far of. You put tvo
drops of water in the Atlantic ocean, and
the poison gets mighty thin when it gets
to the other side. Adam is too far. 1t
is our own devilment that Is kicking up
thunder.
When the devil got Jobs wife on his
side be got trump card.
A mule kicked negro on the head,
and couldn't put his foot down.
l have got government job keeping
Sam JOKES straight.
There are lot Of people who like to
say other people are seft headed when
they are doing right. They got the I'M
preston from their own heads.
I 20 into some churches where the
preacher looks like some big monument
and the people look like head stones and
I 20 down among them and say "Sam
Jones. you are among the dead"
Men and money are two antagonistic
forces in this country.
Men and money are each striving for
the mastery with the odds largely In
favor of money.
There is nothing nublimer than man.
There 10 nothing more hurttul, more
dwindling to manhood than the misuse
of money.
David said to Solomon his son, "Be
thou strong and acquit thy'elf man."
Nine tenths Of the people Of the coun-
try are after money, and the other tenth
are after good time.
1 would not give one grand man for
all the cotton that was ever raised in the
South. You can raise cotton With 8
regro and q mule, but it Is big job to
raise 8 man in this country.
You say, every msu has Ais price," I
don't believe that.
Sslfsbness is the mesnest thing OF
earth. Selfshnsss is the 6rst-born Of
Avarice.
There is not good institution or en-
terprise born of God to-day but what ia
going begging from door TO door.
Cussin' is very low down type Of e
rascal.
Sin is in the blood like cancer. a
man may stop cuasiu' on his tongue, but
it will break out on his hsud, and he WILL
get to stealing.
He who can eliminate se|hsbnass and
avarice from him.elf, is enabled to stand
on top of everything that ever ruiued q
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