The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
Sam Jones and the Chautauqua

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Sam Jones, the only one, gave two
lectures at the Auditorium last Friday,
before large audiences. He is said. to
be the best drawing attraction on the
American lecture platform today.
Just what is the secret of his power is
rather hard to tell. AS a talker, Geo.
r, Stewart, who appeared the preced-
talks from the platform as no man, proba-
bly,, in his large audiences, would talk in
his own home, before his wife and child
ren. He had no new ideas to advance,
many of his jokes were old, his com
mand of the English language is but
fair, or at least of that part of the Eng
lish language used by the average man,
and his delivery is but average, yet he
seemed to sway the crowd at will. He
made strong appeal, after his own
style, for the support of Hendersonville
people for the Chautauqua, saying the
Chautauqua platform was the one place
in America today where the plain truth
was preached. where higher criticism
and advanced ideas of religion bad no
place, and was the only place where the
plain, true Gospel is preached today.
This is probably news to a great many
of our church congregations. In COM
mon with Stewart, he advocated great
er cheerfulness in religion. He said
when you have told the truth about
any matter, you are through with it; if
you tell lie, you are just naturally
obliged to watch it, worry over it, and
60 back often and see how it's getting
along.
He paid his respects to the peek-a-bOo
waist. Said if his daughter wore
peek-a-boo waist, he would put peek-a
boo pants on his son.
He advocated purity and simplicity.
Said don't wear No. 10 shoe and No.
4 hat If his daughter married a
dude" he would spit on it and drown
it. The sweetest girl is she who loves
her mother and makes sweetheart of
her. The finest young man today is
he who has never brought tears to his
mothers eyes through drunkenness or
debauchery. Claimed it was the bust
ness of every woman in town to try and
stop cursing, for their sons sake. The
test of grown man is his devotion to
his wife. Don't scold all the time at
your children-a child is thing of life,
not fence post.
If you tell lies about other folks, they
will tell the truth about you.
He wants, he said, to leave nothing
behind him but the crystalized knowl-
edge that he has done the best he could
for God and the right.
Paid his respects, in his own peculiar
language, to the drunkard and to the
man who drinks. Said hog was plum
Christian gentleman compared with
such man. Only a low-down scoundrel
will drink wiskey, he claimed. Hoped
nothing he had said would shock any
woman, unless she was dead to all de-
cency, and in that case it would not
hurt, because you can't shock corpse.
Said he went around the country say
ing just what she pleased, and that he
had had only three fights IN 33 years.
The time is almost here when good men
see good IN all good things, irrespective
of party politics or religious creeds.
Used to vote the democratic ticket, but,
thank God, he got we'll of that, and as
to the republicans, he had never gotten
low enough to vote with them; he
claimed.
Paid his RESPECTS to the sinners of
Hendersonville. Said the devil was
sure to get most of our townspeople, but
he wouldn't get much at that. Said
the Chautauqua presented the purest
and best Information on all religious
matters, and that if he lived in Hen
dersonville he would be so proud Of
having helped erect our fine auditorium
that he would have slept there all
night, and had the old woman bring
him his meals there. Best thing we
ever did was to erect the building and
said any man who would not help or
who would not buy tickets for his wife