Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-05
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Il met John Nicholson, the drum
mer who breaches and prays, few
days ago. and he
Nick" Nicholson almost shook off
my ideas of a.
and lifetime" said a
travelling man at
His Religion. local hotel to-
day. II had
heard a great deal about Nicholson.
and had heard him talk one day at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, but / never before
met him personally He is the ma.
tional president of the 'Gideons, the
Christian commercial travelling mems
association and about as enthusiastic
worker as ever met.
u was reading a book the newsie
had thrown in my seat, when a big,
square shouldered, good looking man
came in and sat down in the seat OBJ
posite me- l looked at him several
times before recognized him, then
was not sure. But finally spoke to
him. 1t was Nicholson, the leader of
about 5000 Christian travelling men,
who work while they travel, not only
for their houses, but for the kingdom
come, l guess that is what they call 1t.
His card bears the simple inscrip.
ton, Nick Nicholson, but he never
stops there. You
have to turn it His Greed
over and read the
other side Printed Is Printed
on it is this mes
sage to the travel on His Card.
ing men whom he
meets:
Just thought. The flowers of
love and sweetness which we can give
when the human heart is hungry for
sympathy and attention are lifes rich
est offerings. Kind words spoken are
far more fragrant and lasting to the
soul than bushels of natural flowers
heaped upon the casket. only to with.
err and die without the sense of appre.
cation A life that thus goes out in
the good that it can do. In pure, un-
selfish love, in it's quiet moments reaps
the fruits of its labor When alone
with God it has the peace of mind
Holy Sririt.'
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wonderful man. l never before knew
commercial trav-
| He Leaves No eler in the twenty
years have been
Bad Taste on the road who
could talk religion
| In the Mouth. to me without my
going away with a
bad taste In my mouth But none of
the boys could laugh at Nicholson, if
they wanted to- He is too earnest
and has an army of workers back of
/ him. And he halls from Wisconsin.
too where the circusesa come from.
could not help thinking all the time
was talking to him that there must
be some strong inspiration back of
the Gideons. asked him about his
work as we'll as could. but he told
me about all there was to it without
asking question. He began this
preaching himself about eight or nine
years ago and he does not meet many
1 travelling men who are not better for
having talked with him. When left
him he shook my hand cordially and
said, Read the fifteenth chapter OF
John. my brother, the first time you
get chance, and you will know all
about it."
Ex-Representative James Hamilton
Lewis who was recently made corpo-
ration counsel of
Chicago, told at A Story on
a recent political
j gathering there, General
story of the late
j General Fitzhugh Fitzhugh Lee.
4 Lee.
4 "It was when he was a candidate
for governor against General Malone
the day following the election, which
left the count in uncertainty He
came down by the way Of the univer
sity of Virginia, and ran amuck of oul
old janitor. He said:
4 "'Zebe. did you vote for me. yes
terday?'
"Zebe replied: 'es, Massa Fitz,
voted yesterday
"I know. but did you vote for me.
Now, honor bright, Zebe, tell me the
4 truth
ITO which Zebe said Well, boss
the truth is, I'm member of dc
church; can't tell no lie. No,
, didn't vote for you, Mass Fitz, but
they count it for you, jes' the same
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