The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-29
MYRDNREEDH|hSELF AGAIN.
LARGE AUDIENCE DELIGHTED
WITH HIS TALK.
Hot shot for Game wardens, Mission
aries, some MfIlfonaires and 9th
for All Kinds of xhams and
Fakes N He Has Observed Them.

again Il his address IA the BROADWAY
thestsr. Denver. the osher day His sub
5ect was Christmas. 1885," bat be talked
mostly OF Indians. missionaries and nil
Aona.res. He sad:
The remarkable thing IN tire Bible 70
me is It's indifference as 70 the matter OF
tins Isaiah IS hopeful as 20 the future.
He says: Men saa.I ba!ia houses and
dwell x them ard plant vineyards and
eat the fruIr thereof" But the cheerful
prophet does noE tx any date. When 4
man invites ne 70 dinner and says,
Come any time" I do not 20. Now
time may be nothing 70 a prophet. but It
Is good deal 20 ne. am not particular
about new heaven. but I would ike 10
sse new earth with these eyes
Near my house the other day there was
a barn on fire. When I found that II
was weI insured dill no. weep. Some
body out OF a lob would get few days
work and wages Fire is enc remedy for
ovsr-pTo9uction OF barns. The shop one
Of my sons worked in burned down. The
result vii! be a new shop and machinery
up 10 date Fire Is a good thing. II
burned up Prof. Swings old church and
his cid sermons and ipst left him a clean
scratch-pad ard an unencauahered head.
Before the FIRE a few Of the West
minister Presbyterians IN Chicago knew
Prof Sw!ng. After the fire Chicago
knew him and the nation knew him ard
the word had heard OF him.
The Melancholy Side.
Whatever in this sermon IS disagreeable
or cynical will be the front part OF II.
do not like the melancholy side OF life, but
I see Il.
The net result Of the Cuban revolution
for the past year Is nearly million deaths
War and famine and fever have beaten a
''protracted meetings." idea OF hell The
only American who views this hutchery
with perfect calm and Indifference Is the
president OF the United States.
The newspapers Of the country devoted
pages to the sadness and death OF his
mother. What would your Is there any
thing remarkable when person 50 years
old dies4 Any thing 10 griege about in three
or four columns OF a morning pa per? When
We elect a president by votes. or with the
assistance Of Mr.. Hanna. do We elect all his
kinfolks? An old yermonter / used 10
know was elected corporal Of a militia
company. He came home much elated with
his luck and hard cider. His eldest daugh-
ter inquired OF him: Are We all corpor-
alS?" ''Oh, no. he said. only Just mother
and me-" We do not elect presidents any
more. 1t Is more certain that We do not
elect his mother and sisters and cousins
What are We trying TO do IN this Jefferson
ttA country VIZ need an American
Thackeray. When II GENES 70 fiunkies and
lsckeys We can give any nation on earth
distance.
The Miliionaires.
A man died in a city / am acquainted
with. He was chiefly remarkable FOR
stinginess. for hardness. for lack OF pub
lie spirit When / asked him for SO
he Was paIe-nearly tainted. He was az
hard and white as quartz He died and
the morning papers OF the city !n which
he lived reported that a good man was
dead. Wolfe Londoner made good
speech the other evening at a meeting
TO consider the future. lie inquired where
the miilion2ires were.
There are no millionaires In any meet
ing 10 build up Denver. Why cannot we
have a library building half as suitable
as Omaha or Kansas City or Indianapo 4?
There Is whole lot Of pretense in this
town The naercenary, material. vulgar
side sticks out OF any enterprise and kills
It
Cannot We ever get through with this
cut-throat competition business
NOW the druggists are at IL. Some man
thought II was about time to snatch his
ne!ghboE's Job The eleventh command
ment Is: Thou shalt not do it,
Let me tell you how this thing works.
l buy bottle OF. We viii say, Hostel
ter's Bitters," at cost OF my druggist.
save ID cents and he loses ID cents. I
want TO have him take a seat IN the
broadway temple. Oh. no, He has sold
me his goods at no profit TO himself. ard
he hears straight American gospel for
no profit TO ne. and SO we GO toward the
Soldiers home and the poorhcuse and thu
graveyard.
Talk about savages, There ia not a
pauper IN the poor house Ia all the Islands
or the Southern Pacific. Their only cursa
mas Deem American whalars and Ameri-
can missionaries. They never had the
consumption until some thrifty Yankees
introduced the cotton shirt and Connect
cur rules for living. The history OF civil
NATION Is infamous, We have poisoned
every native people we have toucbN.
And have actually taken up a collec-
ton 10 send 2 ha,f-baket graduate OF a.
theo, oGical seminary TO India: The last,
one as isted has gone into the tea bust
Ntss There arc million Ralph Waldo
h-tnersors in india and my missionary IS
frult ID them.
The whole foreign mission business a
the t!sg - fake on the deck Of the worId
There Is Methodist bishop or his vav
down fn:o South Africa with the good
news u God Who aa muci 80 out Of ion
Finest KIND % trip. ! suppose the bust
4'FVS '9s.tl nave I~ff2 g&T& hS letter hut
TIE bishop has gone nd his sra!ia v,str
him. Il Is sort az tin smile rivatef
OF. ! rsyer saw an evangelist without
that smile. ard when I see i I want :,
hi IL The tsc. Is that nine-tenths ct
ire race are doing the ta<t thew can
There q ret anything 20 smile about.
Ordinarily when a white man kills =
white n'an IN Colorado. Re IS arrested
tried convicted or acquitted W3a- q
WHITE nan kills a white man the govern
or y tae sta.e does roc wal: four wa.ks
5r1 send oat a committee % fro.ftr,-
Peopie who k.I ere another are arrested
IS : rule.
Likes Good lie
Hat Colorado Justice shifts ..er hf79t7la
% SeS what co'2r us3n Is. have t4-.- T.,
scrap hook the account ~ thsza t9rtsr
Faf1anS as rendered ~ themselves. f.lA
lie that stands on txo feet-a well h~a-e.f
competent }ie- 7 wags voa . ro.ic- - ~r,,
WI axe the n@t2s. t5as - twa a. r~eza
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