Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-05

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body from the Alantic to the Pacific. be
said, knew Sam Jones. His voice first
tortured the Jones family in Alabama,
but Sam was moved to G, orgia when
he was so young that be was thorough
Georgian. AS a speaker he had been
severely criticised for his plain and
painfully striking words. but his hear
ers always felt that they were said in
spirit of kindness and for their good.
He was eloquent Not the eloquence
defined in the dictionary as faction "
That elOquence might be applied TO
dog fight or foot bal game. as thew
could not be beaten for action; but it
was the eioquence that convinced, the
eloquence that got the verdict. He was
not only eloquent, but he was original
He did MOI think as other men did
Solomon said there was nothing new
under the sun. but solomon in all his
glory naver saw Sam Jones.
Mr. 10 1es then walked to the edge of
the platform and opened with the re-
marks about the grip gisau above. He
then proceeded: 1.-The constitution of
the UDit-d States SAYS The citizens of
this country shall be free and equal
Here beg to differ with the constitu-
ton. Not many of us are free aud very
few of us are on an equality. Accord
ing TO the conditions OF the thing we
are to talk about tonight very few of
us are equal. Some of us are mora
wealthy and some hove lots more blood.
We also hsve lots of slaves millions of
them. Slaves 10 money-getting
Everything is done now with view to
profit. Even the preachers when they
want t. make good collection first set
to work TO convince the congregation
that God will give them two for one.
History is said to repeat itself. If il
does what will become of American
Greece's greatest work was in the pro-
duction of books, and the monument of
that nation is her books Rome's great
est work was her army. and her monu-
ment was q spear When the Unitad
States turns up her toes TO the daisies
she will be entombed under big silver
dollar. Everything now is business. 1t
is brought into the home circle by the
| father when he comes home at night,
and the children learn it, and it poss-
esses their minds before they know
their Sunday school lessons. A man
can be no better than he thinks. AS a
man thinks, he is. No man lives above
his thoughts The Russian novelist.
Tolstoi, picked up bright eyed boy in
a crowd of ragamuffins aud said to him:
Il will make something out of you.
He clothed, fed and sent him TO school.
but one day the boy turned up missing.
He was found with circus dressed in
calico suit, leading an elephant for q
penny a day, That boy thought the
Job he had was the best thing on earth.
1t is the same way with dude who
imagines that to dress up is the great
est thing on earth. Work on the little
fool'o head His troube-is above the
eyes. Bot there is small hope for a
cure. ] have prescribed boring him for
the hollow-horn. 1t is not so much the
condition we are in thatma Us happy
or miserable. but the condition we think
we are in. There was man once who
was never heard to grambla He had
wife and ten children. One day a
neighbor met him and asked how be
was
Oh, fine.
And the old lady and the children?
+" They amt so we'll The measles
struck our house the other day and nine
of the children have EN- And il
would Just tickle YOU to death 10 see
the old woman .rot'iug around waiting
on them nine speckled children
1T isn't where YOU are. but what
/ hot he. a 10
deepest misery is in the habitation of
Injury snd ease. Drummond in his
Natural Law in the Spirit World lik-
enea law to column. Anforms of life
occupied a place in the column. Stone
was the bottom as the lowest order. aud
God at the top as the highest. If a
stone could speak it would be on the
same level with man. So If man was
spirltualized and glorified he would
occupy the$ame place in the column
with au angel. Now apply it this way.
There is nice pig in pen. He likes
butter-milk And here is a man who
likes whiskey. Blu ter-milk is better
than whisky. so the pig is better than
the man Butter milk makes pig
tight. while whi.key makes the man
drunk. They are on dead level
When man gave way to his appetite
he is on dead level with his craw.
There's a Young girl who thinks IL
sire can just have q young buck to
dance with and some fiddle music, size
has reached the highest point OF hap
piness Now. WHIST are Won going to
do with a thing like that? I'd be
afraid to marry one Of those things.
1t might evaporate If was t. come
home and find nothing but some bangs
and pair Of slippers on the floor I
would not ask whore my wife was
would say, where is up
If her husband should die first there
would be one man who would eteraally
regret his death anJ that would he the
man who got his widow. When a man
is not good through ignorance | have
some patience with him. The ignor-
anee of the negro who bought a box of
axlegrease believing it to be cheese was
excusable. but the man who goes on IN
his eussedness when he knows b. er
/ has no excuse A man was on his
/ first coo xtOvaOa aud a Ffar fba shin hod