The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-09-01
RED MANS COUNTRY.

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space in your valuable paper for a
few lines from the red mans land.
| have been in the Indian Terri
tory now. for the past eight
months. This is fine country,
and | never saw as fine crops in
my life Corn and cotton are
both good. Everybody here says
corn will be down to 125 cents
per bushel.
i have just returned from
Brushy Mountain Camp Ground
where a Normal music school is in
session, Prof. J. H. RUBBISH, of
Dayton, Va, is principal. Prof.
S. J. Oslin, (my uncle) is the as
sistant. The school is not as
large as was expected, but is do
ing some fine work in the pro-
gress of music. This beats any
country | ever saw for music,
People will go 50 miles to a sing
ing convention. fully intend
ed to go to the Normal at Brushy
mountains, but was taken sick
the first day of August and was
sick for twelve days, The Nor
NAL will close next Tuesday night
with a grand concert, and I ex-
pect to attend. The Brushy
mountains are thirty-fve miles
from here, and it takes full day
to drive up there in q buggy. Rail
roads are not so handy here as they
are in Georgia
There is one thing about this
country | like, and that is this:
Whiskey is not allowed to be sold
in the Territory, although there
are some violaters of the law here.
| am sorry that | was ever vic
tim Of Intoxicating drinks, but l
am proud to say on the other
! hand that have quit it, and quit
it forever. [ am glad that am
in a country where it is a viola
ton of the laws to sell the
cursed stuff. Wouldn't it be
a grand thing if we could remove
the cursed stuff from our land and
country? Whisky is terrible
curse to the world and to the hui
man race. q know whereof l
Ispeak.) 1t condemns poor chill
| dren to hunger, cold and rags,
drags poor boys away from home,
away from mother, and casts
them into the putrid stream of
crime, and to an endless eternity,
where hope is a perfect stranger
| Drunkenness in the home is one
of the greatest crimes known to
the human law and to the law of
God. | am glad that it fell to
| myAlot this Summer to attend one
of the best revivals of my life, or
at least it was the best one to me.
1t was grand, soul-stirring time.
| Now few lines to my old
friends, and many friends around
old Antioch church: / am so
sorry, yes, so sorry ever led such
an ungodly life before you, but /
give God all the praise for saw
ing power that will change mems
lives this morning that / am on
my way to eternal glory. | beg
my friends and associates to-day
to stop a moment and consider.
Have you crossed the line from
which no soul ever returned?
There is time, l know not when,
A place, [ know not where,
The spirit will poise his golden wings
| And leave me in despair.
There is a line by which all our
paths are crossed, beyond which
God Himself has sworn that he
who goes is lost, and in my own
short life / have rejected, and re-
jected, the mercies of God until /
have almost heard the gates of
mercy close in my face forever,
| but | do bless and praise our
Heavenly Father, for the Holy
Spirit touching and moving my
hardened heart just in time q
think to save me from an endless.
perdition. | suppose you are
tired of reading a letter from me,
so l will now close, but before l
close | want to thank Col. VIM.
Phillips, of Marietta, for such
kind and good letter of advice,
which | received from him a few
days ago. l would be glad to re-
ceive letter from any of my
friends at any time, and promise
you that such will receive nv i'm
| mediate attention.
! JESSE 0. GAINES,
Texanna, Indian Ter.