Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-21
SAM JONES WHEN At HOME
|sow MS NEIeHHons Love AND
HONOR HIM.


MA while Rev. Sam Jones is one OF tho
best known men In the country few
people are acquainted with his home
g HE. As he will be in Texas again IN
u week or two to hold one OF his big
meetlngs, a few facts regarding his
home life may be OF interest TO the
public. which he always entertains so
well, whether he afterward receives
their approval or adverse criticism.
air. Jones lives In the little town Of
+ Cartsrsville. Ga. a place OF hardly
400 people. He has lived there almost
spontaneously since he entered the min
fstry. His home Is two-story wooden
w structure. compactly and uniquely
built, the many additions giving 1t an
* unusual shape. The outside OF the
house ~ painted drab color. and the
interior Is papered handsomely. The
house Is nttcd with all modern con-
vsniences. and contains some very
K handsome furniture and pictures. The
carpets In the parlors are unusually
zine, and In the east parlor two life
size crayons of Mr.. and Mrs. Jones'
4 adorn the walls
There are not IN Georgia many pref
y tler yards than the one In front OF Sam
+ Jones' house. Mrs. Jones gives much
attention to this portion OF the prem
( isea, and the clomberinR vines and
! brsght-hued flowers % almost countless
variety that can be seen everywhere
Z are but the evidences OF her tnste and
culture. MIR, Jones drives good horses
10 good vehicles and he takes good
care Of them. His stables while not
extensive or unusually fine, nre conf
Portable and neat MIR Jones loves his
horses and loves % drive them. and
Il ~ an everyday occurrence when he
is at home to sec him coming down
the level stretch OF Cassvile street
coat OF. hat set back. cigar pushed In
one side OF HIS mouth, pulling the
reina to steady his pair Of spirited
ErayH. He owns a farm q few miles
from Carlersvllle. aud n you win be
on the lookout early almost any day
when he Is at home you viii nee
him, SIN IN hia shirt sleeves. with
the same pair OF naughty gruyH, seated
W big twO-wheelor, coming dOwn
The road like a whlrlwind. No one
knows how many different kinds OF
vehicles the Jouca' have unless IL N
because they lack wny TO 50 out
MIR. Jones spends about three or four
days Of each month with his family
in Gainesville, and no traveller ever
Ind creator Inducements to stay at
home. He has slN children. four
daughters and Two sons Two OF his
daughters ARE married He also has
Two little Granddaughters, who are the
IDOLS Of HIS heurt, and he always has
one Of them with him during his brief
stays at home.
No man was ever more universally
loved ana honored by his ncighhors
than " sam Jones, Whatever his crit
ics say OF him they say 1; away from
HIS home. a year or two ago Mr..
Jones decided that II would be more
convenient for him To live In Marietta.
twenty miles from Atlanta, hut when
The people OF Cnrtersville heard Of II
they met together md appointed a
night on which to call on Mr., Jones
at his residence and Try To persuade
him TO chnngc his plans, And on that
night they went bv palra and groups
md families whltca aud blacks, rich
ma poor. all went until the house
was fun Speeches were made by the
most prominent men In the town and
long petitions presented. Mr., Jones re-
piled In his tenderest vein and had all
bis hoarcra In tears. And ne changed
ms plans, TOO, Tor no one could Wei
Disregard such unanimous expression
Of public sentiment, In that little town
he fought the wolf from hia door dur
inR the days OF hia dissipation, and he
has remained there TO ahnre with the
people who hclped him, the phenomenal
prosperity with which fortune has
crowned his later years The widowa
and the orphans, through whoEe doors
his charity has entered. tho sick whcsc
sufferlnEs have been frightened by the
presence of hia consecrnted wife. md
whose needs are supplied by her gem
frous hand~-the old comrades Of other
days when he was reckless man
OF the world. who have been brought
10 reform through hls wonderful In
fiuence-the henefnctiuns that he has
bestowed not alone In his own town
hut In scores of others all over the
United States. the little waits who
in asyluma which were butt BY his
generous bounty, have been shielded
and sheltered, and the countless hearts
that he has frightened and Hladdened
BY word and dced-these should be
placed In the scale Of criticism and
weighed with his hard hits at sinners
aud evil-duers before verdict IN rem
dered. Az his nelghbor for several
years. the writer can gay that but few
men were ever more conspicuous CON
tradiotlona az the old proverb, "a
prophet ~ never without honor saw
at home" than Sam Jones'.