The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05


 named the land of the sky, combining beautys and grandeur. and there nature has wrought to create landscape para disc. But I do not intend to talk about the Piedmont, it's rich soil, its invigorat- ing ozone, pure water, and magnificent scenery. It Is another theme, as follows, viz:
 It was beautiful Sunday night, and there were gathered at the intersection of the two main streets of Asheville, where the monument to Vance adorns the plaza, considerable crowd of men and women drawn together to witness the proceedings of a holiness meeting" The preacher was a young man about 30 and a natural born orator, ignorant and uncouth as he was. He was a man of commanding presence and overfiowing with animal magnetism. He opened the meeting with song, set to ragtime, that was simply thrilling. I remember one line of every stanza. It was, "I saw the ocean," and as the singers delivered 1t the effect was like that of "A hot time in the old town tonight" The preacher was assist ed by three-women, all of whom exhorted and shouted in a whirlwind of delirium until physically exhausted. One of the women was young and rather comedy. She had fine teeth, which she constantly showed and there was human nature in that, especially female human nature.
 Indeed, the preacher was an orator He seemed to harbor a great deal of very vicious malice against grammar. and de- lighted in double and even triple mega tives but everybody understood what he was driving at. and that is the true mis- sion of speech. His preaching was Yis- ionary in the extreme, and mentally one quoted from "The Merchant of Venice: "In law, what plea so tainted and cor
 rupt.
 But being seasoned with gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with text, Hiding the grossness with fair orna-
 ment?"
 And as the crowd went into ecstases one thought of the passage in Macaulays chapter on Von Ranke.s history of the popes: At Rome the Countess of Hunt ington would have a place in the calen- dar as St. Selina, and Mrs. Fry would be foundress and first superior of the Blessed Order of Sisters of the Jails." And then the great essayist proceeds to imagine Ignatius Loyola at Oxford and John Wesley at Rome, St. Theresa in London and Poanna Southcote at Rome.
 The preacher to emphasize a climax would jump up and down like spoiled child in a tantrum. and now and then he would finish a sentence by inclining his body until his head was within a foot of the ground, and he was over six feet at that, He appeared to know the Bible from lid to lid and gave chapter and verse to clinch his every position. He seemed to have a grudge against the med ical fraternity. and claimed that when one was sanctified like himself he was immune to all the physical ailments to which flesh is supposed to be heir.
 was delighted with the mans elo- auence. and could but regret that he was not politician, as familiar with the cur rent issues between the parties he is with all the books of holy writ. If he is citizen of North Carolina. and should enter the broad and expanding field of politics on the democratic side of the hedge there is nothing more certain than that he would run Marion Butler out of the old North state before he had been on the stump a week. Why willAthe round peg get into the square hole, and the square peg into the round hole? This man was made for the stump. and for the Buncombe county stump at that.
 In the new state department, to he erected on the grounds between the ave- nue and the mall and Fourteenth street and Sherman's statue. there are to he several suites-"sweets" they call 'em hereof rooms gorgeous in the extreme, and hard by is to be a magnificent d.n- ing room i'll which state banquets are 10 be pulled off. The third assistant secre- tary of state is to be created t'superin- tcndent of functions" and is to reside in the building and he the Ward McAllstcr of the administration. There is to be grand chef with subordnates and at tendant scullions and turnspits. besides walters and lackeys. The whole world is 10 he laid under tribute for food and drink and the gold and silver plate, cut eiass. cutlery and linen are to surpass anvthns in those lines ever attempted in this hemisphere.
 This cstablishment is to be provided for the entertainment of foreign celehri- ties who mav become guests Of the na- ion." like Togo the Jap sailor, who was with US a while ago. It is said that Prince Henry is to come again soon. and 1t is possible that we may entertain another Prince of Wales carly In the reign of hts gracious majesty, George V.
 
 When l was hor democratic news papers like that old John II. Harney printed in Louisville used to ca rrv at the masthead a declaration of Mai. Gen Andy Jackson. the leader of the demo- cratic party in his day. II was in de- precation of a splendid government and a plea for simplicity and fragality. But