Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-23

tion and every token I am a southern man, and I'm woman'S rights man out and out I believe a woman has got as much sense as nigger; I do-and she's as good, too. We men have been trying to run the world for the last coco years, and we've nearly run 1t to the devil and I believe in letting the women have whack at it now. l think wo- man has right to be everything in the world she wants to be except the father of family, and she doesn't want to be that. She'd rather be mother. Con- trast such women as Hannah Whitell Smith, Mrs. Judson, Frances E. Willard, with those little one-horse preachers that say, I don't believe in woman going out of her sphere Let folks talk; let little preachers bark; let Rome howl-but you go and do your duty"
 As the Talladegans and excursionists were filling the hall for the Il o'clock lec- ture, excellent music was furnished by the Laverty band and orchestra Master John, the S-year-old musician, who has been ill for the past fortnight, played the alto eornet and violin as skillfully as though he had been in constant practice
 President A. B. Jones introdced a man who is sowing more seeds of truth and righteousness than almost anybody else, Rev. Sam P. Jones, who for an hour and half moved the people from laughter to tears and from tears to laughter with his lecture upon "The Ravages of Rum" Sdiu. dln ilOl Here to talk diDOuI the saloonkeeper especially. I've got but one objection to him, and that is the way he makes his money off the heads of fami- lies. If anybody in the world ought to make money, he's the man, for he has no other compensation in time or eter- nifty.
 There are five links in the downward chain to perdition-the drunkard, the saloonkeeper, the statute law the leg islator and the voter. I've got heap more respect for horse thief than for a church member who votes and works for liquor A horse thief Is a gentleman, a Christian and a scholar in compari- son. Which is the incest job Brother Jones, Keeping a saloon or robbing train? Speak out if you get licked for 1t. If you preachers would stop talking so much about the sweet by-and-by and preach little about the nasty now-and- now, God knows we need a gospel of ethics and backbone and power God help us preachers to get up and be some- body.
 What hurts the temperance cause more than anything else is the little negative fellow sitting on the fence. There are just two blanks in my platform: I'm for everything against whisky and against everything for whisky. It's everybodys business that nobody drinks whisky. If there's only one sober man in America by the grace of God I'll be that man.
  sell whisky and nobody but an internal, low-bred fool will drink whisky Three years of my life remain as a wild, wierd dream, when I was drunkard and made the roses fade forever from my sweet wife's cheeks; and I tell you today it is the saddest thing you ever heard a preacher say. It is twenty years since I have touched, tasted or handled the accursed stuff,yet through all these twen- ty years the appetite has bounded me, and never expect to feel saved from drunkard's grave until my wife has kissed my cold lips in the last sleep of death.
 The afternoon session was occupied by MT. Jones in lecture on "Shams and the Genuine"
 The world is full of sunshine and shad- ow, pleasure and pain. This is a great old world. It's mountains are Gods thoughts piled up; it's rivers Gods thoughts in evolution; its flowers Gods thoughts in bloom; it's dewdrops Gods thoughts in pearl. All nature tells me the hand that made such is divine. Whatever unhappiness has come into this heart has come from something wrong I've done or that has been done by those dear to me. The greatest hap piness comes not from what a man has, but from what he is. Shut your eyes to