Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-06-07
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1nlS attribute TO the Baron q Al1nge,
who is Mr.. Vanderbilt's representative
on the estate and highly refined gentle
man too
We both raise q kind of vegetable
known as mint, n from this truck a
delightful drink is made called the ju-
lep. I am trying to establish a Chau-
tauqua on my farm in that beautiful
land of health, blue sky and smoky
mountains, with lemonade stands at
which the mint in used as q beverage.
Texas is a most beautiful and produc-
tive country, and the average weight of
a Texan is 135 pounds without his re-
volvers. In a hospital here the other day
a consumptive who had come from New
Hampshire said to the attending physi-
clan, Doctor, 1 hate to make a COM
plant, but the fact is hat the Teller
next to me drinks up my cod liver oil"
Those who have used cod i've oil as a
beverage will appreciate this remark.
1t is truly a pleasure after spending
months i'll London to come here to Texas
and hear the English language again.
Yesterday l heard Sam Jones preach
to describe his style. However, I al
truly say that it is eminently and pre-
e~minently suited to his audience. Max
ing a telling stroke, he turns to ayoung
man on his left and says:
"Do you catch on, Bud?" This suits
his hearers. Professor Swing would not
succeed there, and Phillips Brooks and
Bishop Potter would have failed there,
but Sam Jones, the revival humorist,
has his place with these people.
81 don't chaw, he said, "but if 1
did I'd like to set alongside of you all
that does, and I'd squirt about a quart
of the pure umbier into your year."
That strikes his auditors, and they cry
"Amenl' and "Glory to GodI' In his
own sphere Sam Jones, like the Saliva
ton Army, is doing a world of good.
Those who come to hear him would not
go to hear Bishop Potter, and yet they
are making a start toward reformation.
He attacks progressive euchre as if it
were the great objectionable sin. He
says that the wife who allows it in her
home is a fool o. a maniac, and yet I
am not afraid to say thatehe is doing
good, bad as such a doctrine, as that may
be.
He does skin alive the hypocrite and
the stingy man. They deserve it. He
bravely attacks the hypocrite inside the
church and tells him to walk out if he
doesn't like it. go out, " he says. 1.-THE
devil will get you all right at last, and
he won't get much either"
"Most anybody can be a member of
your church" he said i'll Waco, eff he
pays his dues at the church and behaves
himself. What do you do as church
members that an outsider can't do and
doesn't do?s How much better are you
than he is? Not a bit. What's the use
of being Christian and MOI doing any
better than other folks do? You might
as we'll not pretend to be Christians.
"a few months ago II, 900 people
gathered at Paris, Tex, to see a niger
burned to death by degrees. They came
on the roofs of railroad trains and rode
all night. They came hundreds of miles
without food or sleep to see a human
being tortured to death. He was driven
over the city on a float to be exhibited.
The mayor and city officers rode On the
float. He was put on a big platform to
| be roasted, SO that II, 900 Christians
could get a good look at him. Do you
think that Christ was there-Christ,
who said, Peter, put up thy sword
Christ, who said, He that is without
sin, let him cast the first stone?
"Did this terrible punishment bring
reformation t. the south? Did it encour-
age people to come with their families
and their money to Paris. Tex? Did il
make life on the street safer to young
girls?
"Nol It was an eye for an eye and q
tooth for a tooth, and Christ is no with
such a procession as that"
One-fourth of the cotton produced in
the United States is grown in Texas and
of the highest grade. For a week we
have been riding through rich black cot
ton lands. There is hardly a richer
agricultural country in the whole world
You can buy cotton lands and pay fo1
them with the first crop. This has beer
done over and over in this peerless state
Texas has 80, 900, 900 acres of fine tim
Der land. and she actually sends lumber