The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-16

NO. i wont % up TO the mourners
bench with yeu. The two girls went
up and cried.
Peos Woman Saved Him.
b n woman dressed in a calico
wrapper. with a worn lace and hands
h q bore the imprints OF toll. walked
down the aisle. She went to him:
had been his washer woman. and cali
ing him by his name. asked him n he
would o give his heart to Jesus
Cnr1st and he said. Yes; will 20
with YOU and he was converted.
He started trotting square and was
one OF the i've men that orxanfzed the
Gidden society among the travelink
men. This society In q religious or.
SANITATION and has grown to great
strength. II IL doing a wonderful
GOOD In the country today.
Taught Students Gambling.
was preaching out in Iowa one
Tune when superintendent of schools
who had lost his position through
gambling with the students was I'm the
taoernacie ! was preaching a ser
mon on gambling and I saw him In
tne gallery. After he had finished he
got up and started down. said to
a preacher next TO me. II is now or
never with Mr.. superintendent He
was the first a to become con
Yerted.
i walked HON with him and found
people taking his piano out for A
DEBT. His mothers picture was taken
down. That man started out and or
ganized a Sunday school class of so
young people. He brought 40 souls
10 Jesus Christ and the last time I
heard from him he had gotten his
old position back and was trotting
square. That a had lost everything
put was a brilliant man. He was the
head Of the State Educational asso-
citation.
6urs Your Cards.
In j. j. Hollands book Gold Foil. ."
on gambling. there is an article in
which a friend OF a prominent bust.
ness man who. while dying. asked his
friend not to let his son gamble.
stating that he lost his all in gam.
bling.
Some of you may say, Why. card
playing does not affect me I lust
play for fun Then you 20 home and
burn your cards for those that learn
the game n gamble. People that
are members OF the church and gam.
BILE for trophies are no better than
blackleg gamblers.
Dancing Evil.
are al! interdependent. Some
people come to me and say, Mr.. Sun
day. do you condemn square dancing
with round dancing? Yes. they are
all alike.
MY daughter Helen. who was GO
ing TO college. came home one day
and asked her Ma II she could learn
dancing. Her mother asked her who
put that into her head. She said.
Well. the daughter OF the dancing
master was at school to-day. and she
said her father had asked her to have
II the children ask their parents IL
they could take dancing lessons.
Now. Helen. you know hat our Pa
is against dancing. Yes. we'll. ! be-
lieve as he does But. Ma, she
showed how graceful she could step.
and her father said that dancing
! made people graceful Why. I would
rather have Sis go through life wad-
ding like a hippopotamus than TO
take dancing lessons.
Worse Than S%aloonist.
II have more respect for a saloon
keeper than a dancing teacher. +
don't believe hat the saloons do as
much damage. DO you know what j
would do to a daughter Of mine that
went round kickllng up her legs like
a quarter to twelve. ] would take her
20 the woodshed and dust her between
both h~emispheres in two minutes.
A"There was a time when the old
Catillions were satisfactorily. They
are toe slow today for the hot bloods.
Barn Dances.
After ! was through playing base
ball ] vent into the Chicago Y. VI. e.
] A.. and one day I took Nell and the
I children out to Kansas. where mother
was for a visit. Mother lived in Kan
sas. then but she Is living with my
brother out in Oregon. now. lie has
a fruit farm there and the climate
agrees with mother.
We were there on the Fourth OF
July. and Nell and ! went out TO a
country dance The girls with their
blue sashes on and their red bows
were there. and there was lemonade
and peanuts. Why. some OF those fel.
lows were spending as much as 30
and 90 tents on their girls that day
we walked TO the platform TO see
the dsnce. and there on the platform
VAS . big red-headed. freckle faced
man oailirx the dance fSundsy gave
- imitation of the dancsl 4 big
country fellow uith = little Eirl valk.
- up. and When they started sving.
inr partners this fellow uf,ed bis Eiri
clear on her fe~f about fhree feet
hixt md swung her around the cor.
ner had % dur from being
kicked. and . said to Nen These
dances are al alike put that dozr
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