The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-09-26
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, September 26, 1906.
Sam Jones in Charlotte.

enough at one time. He spoke at
the Charlotte Chautauqua and he was
the favorite. The Observer reporter
made snap shot at his humor and
oddities. The earnest and pathetic
paragraphs were left out. We give
the following from the Observer. He
began in this way:
"We will now," he said, "have a
selection from my wife's first hus-:
band. I am like Pat. I hope I'n
never live to see my wife married
again.
He told the story of devil who
married woman and lived with her
20 years, they working together and.
accumulating property. Then she
dies, and before - months that devil
begins to notice. He gets him rub
Der tired buggy and fine horse, and
rides that woman all about. Pretty
soon the old house is rolled back and
new house built, and then there's a
wedding. There are two servants,
where there wasn't any before. Sam
said that if they ever heard of his do
ing that way they might break his
neck. Continuing: II always did
think woman ought to make her
children respect her first husband. Of
course I don't care what she does
with the other devil.'
ssI am going to talk tonight on
Comm Some Inever tried it be-
fore, but I thought I'd try it here.
This audience viii do to practice on.
That's why I like to come to Char
lotte; it don't strain me to talk to you
or listen to you. I always go away
from here perfectly rested"
, He discussed the chautauqua move
ment, saying that the name means a
sack tied in the middle. He repeated
the definition several times. 81 just
say this for your information, he ex-
planned, with fine irrelevancy. '"The
chautauqua is compromise between
the old Methodist camp meeting and
the. county fair. There amt enough
religion left for camp meeting, and
the people are tired of the old COW
and the punkin." Apropos of the
scarcity of religi :. he said that the
preachers are not to blame; they do
the best they can with the material
they have to work on. ''You feed
your preacher on wheat straw the
year round and tap him up, and ex-
pect him to make it in 2:10. Our
good brother last night gave you some
straight goods about the cigarettes.
He didn't talk about them as would,
but he showed he would if he could. y
A mother once asked Sam what to do
about her sons smoking cigarettes.
"How old is heg" Sam inquired.
"Six,'' she said. ''Take him out in
the back yard and wiring his neck, !"
Sam commanded.
There amt church in this town
that hasn't got them lousy devils, the
members of that club, in it. wouldn't
let my carriage driver drive up to that
club, and he's nigger, and a full
blcoded niger. I'd rather have my
son in the penitentiary than in that
club. And you claiming to be the
chillun of God and on your way home?
But don't want to make you
club, fellers mad, for I amt agoing to
fight you. Pm about you like the
feller who started off to commit sui
eide and mad bull made at him and
he ran from the mad bull A locker
on asked him, "Why did you run
from the bull, if you wanted to die?"
But he says, I reckon I've got my
choice as to how I'm goin' to die?''
He said he would talk straight at
them, if they rode him out of town
On a rail, and if they did so, he would
say to them, Gentlemen, I'd as soon
walk but for the honor of the thing.n
He has been criticised for preaching
out of the bible. s'But you fellers
are out of the bible yourselves, and I
must go out of it to hit you fellers."
If anybody is not satisfied with Sam
he will reply as the negro Baptist
preacher did to the Methodist niggers,
who were looking on at his baptizing.
He said, "Breddern, 'mersion is de
only bible way to baptize." "How
does you know dat?" said the Metho-
dist aiggers. 'Dat amt none er yo'
business retorted the preacher.
He touches on politics, saying that
Roosevelt is the best, truest, bravest
President this county has had from
Washington down, and I'VE been
around some, too. pve been around