The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

Ladies and Gentlemen; As stood al
the door taking your dimes and passing
, dead-heads. il pleased me TO observe that
each face bore a look of intelligence and
interest. The receipts of the house are
, less than a dollar. but / do not offset In.
telligencs with money. II / can clear 81
cents a night while addressing an audi
ence like this-one ftted by intelligence
| and cultivation 10 sit in any gathering
anywhere. l am happy
While ] was obliged to walk thirteen
miles on foot today not to disappoint you
! with my great moral exhibition this
evening. and while the receipts at the
door are only s1.15. and the hotel keeper
seems to be a stony-hearted. avaricious
critter, I appear before you i'll no wise
cast down or discouraged. ! have mis-
sion to fulfill. and in fulfilling II | eN-
pect to meet with more or less adversely.
Before opening the exhibition ! will PASS
around the hat and take up collection
for the benefit of the club-footed people
in the Island of Guam. No one need feel
obliged to give. but all should remember
that cheerful giver is greater than a
Chicago beef-packer. Do not confound
this stereopticon exhibition with any of
the circuses travelling over the country.
and remember that .. Hope Jones Is not
. the tool OF any trust or the agent of any
syndicate. The collection foots up II
cents and several buttons, and in due
Du- new possessions will have reasons TO
bless your liberality tonight. 1t isn't the
mount Of money YOU raise for native
with his head drawn down to his knees.
but it's the sentiment that induces YOU
70 give.
Our first picture this evening IS given
10 settle a disputed point. II is contend.
I'd by agnostics that Cain never killed
Abel. Those Of W. who believe he did
have Holy Writ to hack us. and this pic
ture backs Holy Writ. You see cain
and Abel before you. The man with the
club is Cain lie has Just struck Abel to
he. ri and Abgl is inst hrTaf thing his
last. They were brothers. but Cain had
threatened for years to do him UP. There
WAS envy and jealousy TO urge him on.
and one day the feeling deed was ac-
complished. I do not claim that nv spe-
cial artist was on the spot. hut IL there
IS any wild-eyed. knockkneed CarHist in
this audience who disputes the anthem
ITCHY OF this picture his money Will be
returned at the door. II was not only a
cold FLOODED unprovoked murder. but
Cain was inclined to brag about IT after
ward And the fate OF Cain Is moral
lesson which none Of us must loose sight
Of II profted him nothing. On the con-
trary. he was driven out of the land
without coat on his back or a cent to
his Lame. and after wandering to and
fro for nobody knows how long he crept
into thicket and died. II any of you
are planning to kill Your brother. pause
and reflect. There is no profit in IT. |
have brother whom I would like to
practice or with Crowbar for about ~
teen minutes. but I shall restrain my
hand and wait for consumption TO get in
its work. No matter what theories may
be advanced or what sophstries brought
to bear. never doubt that Cain killed
Abel. The scene is before YOU. You
cannot doubt.
Our next picture represents the whale
swallowing Jonah The agnostics have
endeavored 10 make the present genera
ton doubt that such an AFFAIR ever took
place. but you have the scene before
you. just as it has been handed down
from father to son. These Carpists ask:
Why should the whale have swallowed
Jonah | ask them in return if they can
rea sonably expect that Jonah should
have swallowed the whale Some one
had to he swallowed. The whale was
there and Jonah was there. and the
whale being the biggest he naturally
climax. II is contended that Jonah could
not have lived on after being swallowed
How do these carEiSts know that he
who had been culped down? Those We're
special occasions, and special Jonahs
was just as easy for that whale to take
in Jonah as il is for goat TO bolt a
sardine can, and il there is coCk-eyed.
how ba cked villain among zig who wants
n war map of the interior OF that FISH.
that he may dispute sacred history, let
him rise up and face me. It's NOT our
business to inquire how Jonah made out
after being swallowed. He may of had
a good time or hard time of it: but we
know that he was all o. X. when he re-
appeared. .. Hope Jones has had his
dark DAYS. nv friends. but in the midst
consoled by the belief that Jonah was
duly swallowed.
Our next picture represents Daniel in
the lions den. and here again we md