The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-12-16

| Jul III hiS COUNTY, taxing IN pure All
drinking milk, buttermilk, sweet milk,
cream milk, turning white or some
other color, plenty mules, horses,
cows, calves, hogs, chickens. turkeys.
geese, lions, stations. male GOWN
fact l am surrounded by all that goes
to make up prosperous and happy,
healthy life in the country.
have seen chicken bodies jumping
around looking for their heads, tur-
keys have given up their bodies for
the dish, young cows have been placed
on the altar for the ministers,
opossums have been brought from
their hiding places, and put in all their
own gravy, with sweet potatoes on
the side, in order that they could en-
ter the ministry, gas has been burned
freely in order to keep the ministers
from walking, mules have pulled mule
wagons-in fact there have been big
doings in Pelham this week, and all
because the North African Methodist
Episcopal conference of Texas is
meeting out here, presided over by
Bishop William Decker Johnson,
D. D., of Plains, Ga. / believe it is
the first time in the history of the
world that a conference has been held
out in the country, and it is because
Bishop Johnson is called the bishop
of the common people, and he is will
ing to go anywhere, and not sit
around the city and look wise.
Look where was when I wrote to
you that other letter, and then got
myself together on the Cotton Belt,
made my way to Texarkana, remained |
over Saturday night and Sunday night
and pulled out Monday morning for
this place. l was booked to meet
Bishop Johnson in Hubbard City, but
that old iron horse just got off, and
instead of US getting to Hubbard
Monday evening at o'clock got there
Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock, and
that was some late believe me honey.
remained there until about 9 o'clock
and Bishop Johnson, accompanied by
his wife, Mrs. L. NJ. Hughes got there
and soon Bishop Johnson had some
to tote US out in the
country where this conference was to
be held. got out there in jiffy so
to speak, just IL miles, and when the
pastor came from another place he
told me that ! had been assigned to
stop with a man, and he was a man
every inch of him, w. N. Porter, a
real farmer, and a man with plenty,
including children, chickens, geese,
and everything else. l wish you could
have seen him. He is a man about :
ieet tall and high, and II would i'm
press you that he had swallowed
-abbit and left his tail sticking on his
PIPER lip. 1t was a young rabbit, be-
ieve me, honey. He was born in the
.Suntry, got the benefit of common
chool education, and then he began :,
purchasing land. He saw in the Bible
where some fellow said at is not
God for man to be alone" and he
ought him a companion. He won
he hand and heart of Miss Sarah
who was a trained edu-
ated country girl They started life :,
ogether, and it was not long before
usiness picked up and kept on pick
lg up until the Lord had blessed their
ONE with II, and 10 are living right III
ow. Both of them married under IN
}, and now they look like spring is
looks as young as her W
lughters, and is just full of smiles wi
I the time. 1t would not be possible
" me to tell you all about this Won
erful mother, but | was delighted to III
e just how she keeps so young, I'M I'M
IS she has been to the fountain of in
erpetual youth. pa
Now then, this man Porter, has -.
cen saving and saved, and now he
as acres up in the hundreds, and then y.
lere are so many mules so many -
orses. He has a lion there that is i~
lie father of over 800 mules, and ~
lere is another lion who is young Ia
4, but believe me he is going to ~
. some father also. There are -
lickens, turkeys, and almost every -
ing else. 1t is remarkable how this ~
an is fixed. There was automobile -
II carriages. to tote me and Elmer ."'
orter. who is a school young man, nc
as the driver, and he seemed to take
delight in toting me around. IL
SDeakinQ of the children of Mr. hhe