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Volume XV.
The Lone Inn
A STORY OF MYSTERY.
BY FERGUS HUME.
Copyrighted by the Author. '
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Afti.' all, 'it is trae that the unex
pected always happens. In my-nnravel-ing
pf the Feu inn riiystery I, never for
a moment expected toj find that Francis
was alive. I was even ignorant that
Felix had been to.theimi on that night.
He had ridden round the back way of
the house, and as- my room was over,
the front door I had not heard his ar
rival. Under these ! circumstances it
was easy for me to make the mistake
and think the dead man was Francis,
particularly-as I was misled by the
marvelous resemblance between the"
brothers, and, moreover, saw the pearl
ring on the linger of the corpsa My
mistake was a perfectly excusable one,
and I had been confirmed in such er
reonous belief by the adroit fashion in
which Francis, for his own safety, kept
up the deception. L '
Now I knew the truth that Francis
was alive and Felix dead yet as regards
the name of the. man who had commit
ted the crime I was till quite in the
dark Rose Gernoii knew, 4?ut it was
questionable whether she would confess,
even to save her owji skin. Either she
or Strent was the guilty person, as none
other was in theinnjitthUt time. Strent
had vanished, but no doubt sho knew
his whereabouts. The question was
whether sho would telL
"Oh, she'll tuil where he is, right
enough,'' said Merrick, to whom I put
this view of tho matter, "especially if I
she is guilty herself. V " . '
"You don't think sho is the criminal,
Merrick?" lr
"There ts no reason why sho should
not be," ho repliod' argumentative! y.
"Sho had every reason to hate Feix
Brarfiold. Ho liad promised to marry
her and was engaged :to Olivia. Quito
enough reason there for a jealous wom
an such as sho Beeius to be."
"But she wanted Felix to kill his
brother, so that sho might force him to
marry her. " - .
"Yes, but that little arrangement did
not come off. My idea is that she saw
Felix when ho arrived at' the inn and
asked him straight? out if he had :ir
ranged to marry Olivia. She would
heaof the engagement while passing
through Marshminstet on her way to
the lone inn. No doubt Felix lied abt at
tho matter, and she lost her temper. It
may be that she did pot intend to kill
him, but having tho poisoned arrowhead
in her hand had forgot how dangerous
it was. and throw herself on him. He
put out his hand to ; keep her off, and
00 was -vvoandeU. Then he died, and, ter
rified at what the jbonkjquences might
be, she and Strent left 'the inn.
"But what about her blackmailing
Francis?";
"She gue&sed what Francis had done
and saw a chance of' securing her aims
by putting the murder'-on to him. He
had so compromised himself by his f ool
ieh actions that of course he was afraid
to denounce her. " j
"Still, why did 'she, want to marry
him? She loved Felix, no.t Francis."
: "It's .my -opinion she loved neither pf
thenr, " said Momck'dfyly, "and simply
wanted to. marry for respectability. "
"Do you think; she will denounce
Strent?" - :
"She'll denounce any oho to save her
self." . ;( . '
"Won't you come" and hear her con
fession, Merrick?"!'
"Not L . A respectable practitioner
like myself has nonbusiness to be mixed
up in such criminality. Hitherto I have
been the sleeping, partner in this affair,
and you have carried through my ideas
excellently well. Continue to do so and
then come and tell too all about it " ,'
"Very pleasant i for you," I grum
bled, . ' 'but I have all the hard work-. " ;
Merrick laughed and pushed me out
of the. door. Ho had a dozen patients
waiting and could spare no more time.
He said one last word before I left
"Oh, by the way, Deuham, "I said he,
lifting a warning forefinger,' "don't
you trust that Rosjo Gernon in the, least
I've been making inquiries about her,
and sho has a black record about the
worst in London, I should say. "
On my way to Jcrniyn street I won
dered how he had gained this informa;
tion. ' .A specialist , of ; Merrick's stand
ing does not go roand making inquiries
about loose characters Yet I knew he
spoke the: truth. "His faculty for learn
ing things was marvelous. Decidedly,
Merrick should have been a detective.
His opinion about Rose Gernon coincid
ed with mine. One had only to look in
her face to seo what she was.
; At Jerrnyh street I found Francis
eagerly waiting my arrival. ;
"I'vo sent down to the Marshmihster
police, " said he quickly, "and instruct
ed them to drag the pool near the Fen
inn." . i !
"I am afraid you'll get into trou
ble over that, Briarfield."
"I don't care, " said Francis dogged
ly. "I have been a coward too long.
Had I trusted you and told all there
would not have been this trouble; If
the police arrest me, they can just do
so, and I'll leave it to you to see mo
through."
"1 hope we'll learn the truth from
Rose today. "
"It's possible, but not probable. She'll
lie like the' devil, whoso daughter she
is." '.:
"I'm not too 'Bore of that If she is
guiltless, she'll, bo only top anxious too
save her own neck. Why should she
risk her; liberty: for the sake of this man
Strent? Who it he?"
"I haven't tho least idea. "
"Then we'll mako Rose tell today pr
have hor arrested t' s
"There is not sufficient evidence
against hert " objected Francis.
"Yes there is. I'll take the risk of all
that Before Rose Gernon leaves this
room she has to confess the truth. It's
your only chanco of safety." ;
""But you don't believe I killed". Fe
lix?" - 4-: j" " -
. "I don't, but the police may. You
forget how highly suspicious all your
actions have been. -Rose knows you
have been passing as your brother and
will bo sure, to mako capital out of it."
"You'll see "me ' tWlli, Denham?"
he said, taking my Jut '
GONOORD
"Yjju can be sure of that, " I answer
ed, shaking it heartily. "I won't rest
Mil you are safe and the murderer of
your brother is in jaiL "
"Who killed him, do you think?"
"I don't know, but Rose does, and
we'll make her telL "
We discussed the matter extensively,
but neither of us could come to any
conclusion. When the clock struck
noon,! Rose Gernon, true to her appoint
ment walked into tho room. Without
waiting for an invitation she sat down
in a chair and scowled at me.
"That man of yours is outside, " she
said savagely. "He's, been following
me about everywhere and watching my
house all night Perhaps you'll ask
him to go away. "
"That depends on the result of this
conversation. Y'ou're not out of dan
ger yet, "Miss. Gernon."
"I am not aware that. I was ever in
danger, Mr; Denham. Are you going
to accuse me of killing Felix?"
"I might even do that nnless you tell
the truth."
"Oh!" said she with a sneer, "is
that your game,, sir? Then suppose I io
tell the truth and say you killed Foli:-.?"
"You're quite capable of doin;; so,
but no one woul(J believe so wild tale.
I hadi no reason to kill Felix Briar
field' -
. "Then what motive had I for so doing?"-
"That's best known to yourself," I
answered tartly, weary cf all this fenc
ing. .
"If; is waste of time talking li!:e
this;'' interrupted Francis. "Y'ou nm-t
be aware, Miss Gernon, that you shu.d
in a 'very dangerous position'
"lot more so than you do yourself,"
sheteplied; with superb insolence.
"Pardon me, I' think otherwise. Ey
your own confession you went down to
the Fen inn to assist my brother in get
ting me out of the way. -You said that
last night before two witnesses Miss
BejLlin and Mr. Denham: "
j'l talked at random, " she muttered,
"i! did not intend that any crime phould
bo committed. " ;
,' f 'Perhaps not. Nevertheless my broth
er is dead, and you know how ho died. ' '
'I know the cau.-:c of his death, but
I do not know who killed him. ",
, "If you know one thing, you must
know the other. "
"I do not. When Felix arrival, kn
showed . Strent and I an arrowhead
which he said was poisoned "
"Is this the " arrowhead?" I asked,
producing it out of a thick piece cf pa
per. -
"Yes. Where did you get it?"
"I found it in the ashes of the fire
place, where you threw it." ,
"That is not true," said Miss Gemou
angrily. "1 did hot throw it into the
fireplace. I never even h:;d it in my
hand. The idea that it was poi-ioiu d
frightened me. "
"Pray go on with your story. Miss
Gernon."
"I see you don't believe me," she
flashed out defiantly,; "but I am tolling
exactly what took place. Felix s.iid ho
was going to kill his brother with ti e
poisoned arrowhead. I told him I would
have none of that sort of thing: that I
only consented to play the part i f a
waiting maid in order to decp'no lii:5
brother into a meeting.' I said Fn.ncis
could marry .Miss JUellin, and lie w:;s
to marry me."
"And after that?"
"He jeered and said he intended to
marry Miss Bellin, Then I grew angry
and struck him. " ,
She was in real earnest, for her mouth
was set, and her hands were clinched,
not a pretty sight- by any means. I re
membered Merrick's idea and cohceived
that it might be possible tho woman
before me had killed tho man who flout
ed her not intentionally, but in a lit
of blind rage!
"You struck him with tho arrow
head?" I hinted.
"No, I didn't. Ho had laid that
down on the table. I struck hir.i with
open palm1 and said if ho killed his
brother I would denounce him to the
authorities as a murderer. Then ho
would go to the scaffold instead of the
altar with Miss Bellin. " - ,
"What did he say?"
"Nothing at first. Then I saw a look
pass between him and Strent, and
they seemed to understand one anoth
er. Felix said he would return to Marsh-
minster and let his brother marry Miss
Bellin. I did not then know he! had
been passing himself off as you, "she
added, turning to Francis. If. I had,
I would havo guessed that ho( was ly
ing. As it was. I thought he spoke the
truth and kissed him. Then I went to
bed." !
"And afterward?" said Francis,j see
ing sho paused.
"Well, I never saw Felix again till
ho was dead. " "
'"In the morning?"
"No. An hour after I left him.
Strent fcnocKOd at my oairoom door
and asked mo to come dt;wu.
guessed by his voice ho was nfraid, so.
dressed hurriedly and came down
stairs. Felix was lying dead by the
table. I could not see Strent and
went to look ffor him., lie was out ' at
the back door mounting Frarcis' Lrs&'
I asked him where ho was going, and
he said Felix! .was dead, and he did not
want to stay !in order to be accused of
the crime. " j ,
"Did he ay he had killed him?"
"No, nor had I timo to ask him. Ha
went off at a gallop and left me alone
with the body. I was horribly afraid,
as I thouent von or Francis would
wake up and accuse me of tho crime.
Besides I could not account for ray pres-
i ence m that house without suspicion,
! so I nut on mv hat and cloak and fled
to Marshmmster. -
"How did you fly?"
. "There were a tran and horse in which
! Strent and I had: brought pioviiioi-s to
! the inn. I harnotd the hc.r;-c and
! drove back to Marshiuinstcr. There I
; returned it to tiuj ov.-i:. i weut b:.
to Loudon by the early trai;:. "
'.'What became of Lireiit?"
"I don't .know. I havo never set eyes
on him since." i . .
"Do you think ho.kilJed Foii:??"'
"Yes. I believe thev had a row, and
I ho killed him. I But lie did not admit
lit." r.:! , - .";.
! Francis and I looked at one another.
j The whole business was fco queer "' as to
be hardly believable.' Nevertheless we
I saw Rose Gernon had told "the truth.
j "What made you come tome?" asked
Francis.
'BE TTTST -JlSriD IFZE-iA-IEe 1TOT.
CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 17,
"I thought you. had escaped from tho
Inn and wished to-ask you what had be-
Felix was lying dead by the table.
eome of your brother's- body. Then -I
saw you wore the clothes of Felix and
guessed the whole game. .
"Particularly as you listened to my
theory at tho Fen1 inn," said L
"Yes," she answered qruoidy. "It
was your conversation vvuio.i . tue
idea into my -head. I 'saw that Felix
had passed himself off us Fiv.nci;-., and
afterward Francis acted the part of Felix.-"
''You- wished to marry me?" said
Francis, whereat Rose laugh' d.
"No. 1 tried that game o.-t to .-ct.tho
whole truth out of y.ou. 1 wislx. d yuu
to admit yen were Felix, for
promised to marry me. How
did not fall into tho trap. A;
:-, you
now, "
sho added, standing up,
you all. ?Jay 1 - w?'.'
"L have 1v!d
I consultetl Fr j:i(
s with a h.'jk. V
consented mute! . .
"Yes," 1 , sstid, alxO rising, ' "y-
may go, lut my detective ,vvui f-t.
watch you. "
"For hovv long?"
"Till Strent ij found",
"You think I know, " she said, to
ing her head. "You tare vroii.-r. Ti : '
met Strent at Maruhriiinnter I-'i.i .
saw him before, nor do I know wh
ho now is. Take off your bloodhound.
"When Strent is found, " I persists .
not till then. "
She looked wrathfully at
rushed out of the room.
(To be continued In our next.)
White Men Must and Will Kule.
With the recent honible outrage at
Lake City, S. C, as a text, wherein a
negro postmaster and his family were so
inhumanly assaulted and two murdered,
the New York Post has this to say.which
is significant, to say the least, cpming
from a leading Norhern paper whose
proclivities have ever been of the lie
publican persuasion. .Says the Post:
"This hostility to the black official is
but ODe manifestation of a hostility to
the race which affects the whites in all
of their relations as citizens. They will
not submit to the rule of thg blacks, no$
matter what the numerical Supremacy!
of the blacks. There are tens of thou
sands more blacks than whites in Mis-!
sissippi, South Carolina and Louisiana.
The two former States have within the
last few years adopted constitutions
which practically disfranchise most of
the blacks, and a convention now sit-:
ting in Louisiana will undoubtedly fol-;
low these examples. A pretense is madei
of reaching this end through the estab
lishment of educational or property
tests which affect impartially the igno
rant and shiftless of both races, but the
unconcealed object, which is accom
plished in most cases, is to keep nearly
all of the blacks from voting without re-.
ference to such qualifications, while not
disfranchising any whites. If all of the
colorsd men in such States could read,
and were the owners of propty, the
whites would not allow them to govern:
We do not think that the
feeling in this respect is. greatly differ
ent in the ,North. Lynching is less
prevalent here than there, and we would
hope that South Carolina is. the only
Southern State where the respect of
human life is so low that such an out
rage as that at Lake City is possible
But our people would resent bitterly the
appointment of negro officials, and no
Republican administration ever named
a black man as postmaster in the North."
They Laughed at the Way Undo Sam's Leg
Wa iieing Pulled.
Greensboro Telegram, 5th.
On the north-bound- vestibule last
night was a gay party of some fifteen
or twenty from the land of the sky, the
homeof J. Wiley Shook, the stamping
ground of the iridescent Mr. Fearson.
From town and country, hill and vale,
they had been gathered in through no
fault of theirs and were being yanked,
along to Washington, D. C, to prove
the "kareckter" of Hamilton C. Evnrt,
sometime candidate for the western dis
trict judgeship. They were of all shades
of, political opiniou and belief, true
blue, ring streaked and striped. They
were discussing the occasion that took
them to Washington and laughed much
mirthful at the way Uncle Sam's leg
was being pulled. Five4cents per mile,
each way was the tune of it, they said,
and;keep while at the capital. One or
two of the crowd said it was a beastly
shame but they were not responsible for
it. Mr. Butter had attacked the
record of Judge Ewart aud things had
to be proved, The length of their stay
in Washington they did not at all kuowjj
but they did not seem to worried
about it, - . j
A man stands no chance of beiog
elected to the mayorship of a city unless
he enjoys the confidence and esteem of
his neighbors. Geo. W. Humphrey is
the popular mayor of Swan ton, Obioj,
and Under, date of Jan. 17, 189G, he
writes as follows: "This is to certify to
our appreciation of Chainberlain'b
Cough Remedy. My family and neigh
bors have tested it, and we know it is
an excellend remedy for coughs and
colds. -George W; Humphrey." Sold
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The Spanish warship Vizcaya, which
has been in. New York harbor,', sailell
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On the morning of Feb. 20, 1S05, I
was sick with rheumatism, and lay ifi
bed until May 21st, when I got a bottle
of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Thefifst
application of it relieved me almost en
tirely from the pain -nd the scond af
forded complete relief. In a short time
I was slble to be up and about again.
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BIL.L ARP'jS LETTER.
; v ol 1 , j . . Shenandoah valley was the finest sneci-
lesterday was, long and happy day 1 r,f .,,, J , . .. .
u r 1 r u j men 01 strategy and tactics of wnich the
at oar honse, for a lot of the grand- L,r1H i.oa ara tu ; ,u- T
Uwu 1 j ,1 : worm nas any record; that in this Series
chddren came early, and sorne of thejof battle8 animarche8 there was never
neighbor ihttle ,girl ifound da they were Ubiunderand thal this campdign w2
here. Ihey always find out, and so : Superior to either of those madeby Nap-
IZlTf KKTiS Uteon in Italy. One British officer wllo
day long. The little ones brought their
dolls along, , for the maternal instinct
begins early. They made playhouses
under the trees and played mumblepeg
with my two knives, and rode in the
hall and veranda on the tricycle and
dressed up in all the find old clothes
my wife could find in the trunks and
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DlOllO SXUKi UUIUUU1D. WllU LULU LI UliiB
dragging after them, and they played
going to call and receiving calls. When
the dinner bell rang they all came run
ning and.it took all my time to wait on
them, and their grandma got out every
good thing she had in the house, and
about the middle of the afternoon they
wanted to give a little party and had to
have more cake and crackers and pie.
Some of the little ones, got hold of
some chalk and colored crayons and
marked all ouer the verandah Knd tried
to make pictures of dog and horses and
monkeys on the walls, and then they,
called for scissors and fashion books and
cut out dolls and ladies and othes pic-1
tures and scattered them - all over the!
room. They gohoid of my, mucilage.1
bottle and pasted things all about' and,
even ventured to my little table to write;
letters while I was working in the gar-
den, and all. their grandma said was,'
"You had better watch, out, your grand-!
p'a is coming." I'm going to lick 'eni
sometime -when she is not about. But
in due time they had to go home, for i
"The (lay was done and the darkness j
Fell fronitlio winfjs of nifjht."
Our own girls went visiting after, sup
per and my wife and I were alone and
not a sound was heard' in all the honse
save the ticking of the clock upon thi
mantel. The contrast was so great that
it was impressive and we felt lonesom
and almost sad. Each of us had our
corner and table and lamp and tried to
read the war news, but our old eyes
were tired and, we gazed upon 1 the lire
and ruminated. For some time we had
been in silent, serious reverie about
those little, happy children and breath
ing a prayer that they might always be
happy and that no calamity or affliction
might befall them, and then our minces
turned to our absent boys, who aie
scattered far and wide, from New York
to Mexico, and we breathed another
prayer for their health and happiness
and their return to us some of these
days yes, some of these days before we
die they will come, we know, bat it muiy
be to a funeral instead of a feast. . j '
We are ruminating about all this in
silence, when suddenly my wife seetm d
startled and whispered, "I heard a foot
fall at the window. There is soniebocy
there." Before I could answer, the
sweet, 6ad strains of minstrel music bs
gan low and soft and the violins at d
guitar played to the fitting song of "Old
Folks at Home." The minstrels bud
reconnoitered and found that only ve
were at home. ; They gave us but one
song and were gone but these little
episodes sweetea the passing hours aid
comfort us in our golden age. Fortiy
nine years ago to-day we were wedded.
It is like reversing a telescope to look
back to that day and time, when the
glow of youth and health and beau(ty
was upon my Creole maiden's cheeks,
when gems adorned her raven hair,
when the evening light was on her br!)w
and pearls upon her breast as she stojod
beside me at the marriage altar. It J is
like looking through a kaleidoscope ito
recall the days and weeks aDd months
and years that have intervened since
a kaleidoscope mat at every turn of he
sands of time presents another picture
of life, its joys and sorrows, its trijala
and its blessings. What changes, what
surprises, and in the midst of it all a
war a long and horrid war that always
looms up before our memories and
eclipses all that was before or after. "But
on the whole the lines have fallen tojus
in pleasant places and we have liad
more joy tnan sorrow, more comiori
than distress. God gave us five child
ren before the war and five more came
after and we are thankful that only jve,
the parents of them, shared aud suffered
all the long anxiety and they knev it
not. God grant that neither they bor
their children; shall be so tried, so
troubled, so strained in mind and heart
for four long years, while theJ qays
seemed weeks and the weeks itfbntbs.
But we endured it all and thousands of
others endured and suffered mare.'
What is it that man and wife cat not
endure when their children are at st; ke.
The pout say 8:
'They who Joy would win
Must share it. Happiness was bom a t v in."
'Audit is the same with grief and
affliction:
-I have bad some most dilicious read
ing lately. Itis the address delivered
by Dr. Hunter McGuire on January 22d
last at the St. Deuis hotel, in Sew
York, at the eighth annual banquet of
the confederate, veterans' camp of Kew
York city. It must be, I know," the
most beautiful and thrilliuir tribute to
Stonewail Jackson ever written or spiken
by any man. Dr. McGuire was
sou's medical director and most
Jack
confi
dential friend and told in this address
more touching incidents connected jwith
the great general's military career than
I have-ever found and they are beauti
fully, charmingly told. Every page of
this little booklet is adorned with them
It is 'not often that medical men in
ulge
in biographical literature, buf Dr
Guire is certainly a man of rare cukuxe.
I read this address aloud to my wife and
daughters last evening and at tiifies
could not read. I had to pause at times
aad wait for my heart to be still anil my
voice to come back to me. These a
tell me when vvhat j read is inspired.
How did our hearts burn witniu us as
I read aud how: was our patriotism re
vived and set aglow with a new
lire.
Even on the first page he awake 18 us
from that lethargy which time anc cur
rent events bring over the best of patriots
for he save: !
"It was with swelling heart thbt I
recently heard some of the first soldiers
and military students of England declare
that within the past 200 years the Eng
lish speaking race has produced but five
soldiers of the first rank Marlborough,
Washington, Wellington, Robert E. Lee
and Stonewall Jackson. I heard xhem
TIMESo
1898.
1 declare that Jackson's camraiero id the
lege, told me that he used this campaign
-1. 'a i-v 4ti apical J j UI LL CU1-
as a model and dwelt upon it for months
n his lectures and that it was taught in
all military schools of Germany and Van
Moltke declared it vas without a rival in
(the world's history. ' 'Indeed, " he add
ed, "Jackson seems to me to have been
inspired." Another British soldier of
W rank and a. trained student of war
jtold me that for its numbers the
army
force
01 ionnern Virginia had more
and power than any other army
e -rr 1 r -
that
ever existed.
v ell, that is enough - for starter a
starter of the blood in the patriot's veins.
Sometimes I feel like 1 would be proud
to have been born a Virginian, where
these great soldiers lived Washington,
Lee, and Jackson and where Jefferson
and Madison and Monroe aud Patrick
Henry and John Marshall lived. I wish
that every old soldier and every young
man in this southern land could read
mis npienaia address. 1 tear mat it is
too loDg for a single issue of . the Con
stitution, for it is near 7,000 words, but
nothing better could occupy its columns
It reads like a romance and if there are
any young men in Georgia who are
inclined to make sport of the war, the
perusal of this address will make them
feel ashamed that they ever entertained
such unpatriotic feelings. 1 We have
heard ef a "young man's party" as
being hostile to any further political
honor to the veterans, but surely- this
cannot be true, for what young man
can be found who would, so dishonor
the mother who bore him or the father
or uncle, or kinsman who fought or fell
in tne late war r io. Kather let every
young Georgian echo the sentiment of
Henry Grady when he said at the New
England banquet : "The South has
nothing to take back. In my. native
town is a monument that crowns its
central hill a plain white shaft. Deep
cut into its shining side is a name dear
to meabove the names of men that of
a brave and simple man, who died in
brave and simple faith. Not for all
the glories of New'England would I ex
change the heritage he left me . in his.
soldier death. To the foot of that mon
ument I shall send my children's chil
dren to reverence him who ennobled
their name with his heroic blood
That is patriotism pure and simple.
" Bill Akp.
A SKKMON BY SAM JOJirf.
Rev. Sam Jones preached in Atlanta
recently from the' text: ,: Withhold
not good from tuem unto whom it is
due when it is in the power of thine
hand to do it."
After reading his text Mr. Jones said:
"Now, there are two forces m this
world. It is in the power of every man
to do good or evil. Why it is or how it
is I can't explain, but it, is in the power
of us all to do harm and mischief to
our fellow man that we come in contact
with. God himself gets uojiigher than
doing good ; the deVil gets no lower than
doing evil. He that does good and
only good walks arm in arm with God,
aud he that does evil continually' walks
arm in arm with the devil. You can't
get higher up than to work on some
angelic mission of good to your fellow
man, and vou can't get lower than to
lock arms with the devil to do your
brother harm or hurt your fellow man
"I would go into no business that
would hurt my neighbor, make his wife
unhappy, or beggar his children, lou
have 120 men in Atlanta who, with
their clerks,, bottles and demijohns are
hurting and damning every man in
their reach, and the city of Atlanta ab
solutely privileges every bull-necked,
white-aproned devil of them to do this
For $1,000 apiece the city allows them
to debauch the people in order to get
money to save taxes. Tlie saloonkeeper
is the lentleman aud Atlanta is the
dog."
" Mr. Jones then took up the lake
warm people who took no sides aud did
neither good nor evil. !
"They are like the old lady in the
prohibition election who said; "I have
got friends on both sides and I am not
going to take anv part iu this fight;
am iust going to be a nuisance.' There
are a great many who do nobody good
and nobody evil. They are a notch ; on
a stick, a hole-in the air. ihey are
like that post. That. post never did any
harm, never swore, never got drunk,
never robbed anybody, and it never did
anybody n good turn. It's just a post
setting here -in this building.' It re
minds me of sonfe people m this world.
I expect I have seen a hundred, collec
tions taken up in this tabornarh-, aiul I
will venture the assertion that there are
a thousand men in too smmd'of my
voice who never gave a nickei !t any
thing. You hay hardly, manners
enough to pass the hat, yon dirty devil.
(Laughter) and there is that old sister
that has attended every service' in this
tabernacle and never gave a cent, and
she goes away singing, 'Thank God I'm
on my journey, home.' "
Here Mr. Jones, at the word "home,"
pointed his finger down toward the bot
tomless pit with an energy that seemed
to 'send the aforesaid sister tq a warmer
climate. The great audience caught
the significance of the gesture and a
great wave of laughter broke over' the
sea of faces.
"If she keeps on," said he, "she will
make the landing."
Mr. Jones then launched into denun
ciation of selfishness. He began by de
scribing the last day of Christ's work,
which from dawn to eve was one con
tinuous work -of healing, and mercy to
others. He never thought of himself
till late in the afternoon, when be was
exhausted with his labors.
' 'That, ' r said Mr. . Jones, "was the
noblest, the sublimest life that this
world ever saw, and it was all unselfish
ness. Oh, if I could get all the selfish-,
ness out of me! Oh, self, self! wire
pulling for self, working forr sell, run
ning for self. There'is not a S)ocies of
meanness in this town that is not due
to selfishness; there is not a" saloon, not
a gambling hell, not a shameless house
in Atlanta whose business is not based
on selfishness. ; Selfishness is the mean
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est thing in this world. Hell is selfish
ness on fire, and it is a wonder some of
these old deacons don't ignite by spon
taneous combusitiou aud. go to hell in
a sheet of name.
"Go down Peachtree street and iust
take the superfluous things that you
women have got no use for and you can
clothe every half-clad, half-starved wo
man in this town with things packed
awav that vou- haven't Rosn in hm'
years. (Applause.) I am talking to
women right now that have got three
cloaks, and this week you pass on the
streets a poor widow in tattered car-
ments .with shivering children, and yet
you expect to get to heaven. If you
should accidentally break into hetiveu
there would be a stir there until ou1
got out.
" When I was in Boston those good
old fellows were very solicitous about
the negro. I said to them : Y'ou need
hot be wasting your sympathy on the
negroes. -Just-you go out here in your,
midst and lend a helping hand to some
of these poor women with wan faces
who are working fifteen to eighteen
hours a day to eke out a miserable ex
istence. The negro doesu'lt need your
sympathy. He is getting along first-
rate. , He works two or three months
and that brings him to blackberries and
blackberries bring him to watermelons,
watermelons to peaches and peaches to
persimmons and persimmons to 'pos
sums "j . 1
At this boiut the sentence was lost, in
a storm of applause and laughter. Mr...
Jones said that heaven is all about us ff
we only knew how to find it, and told of
a preacher who preached about heaven
and greatly enthused his congregation.
One of them met him the next day and
said: "That was a grand sermon, but
you didn't tell us where heaven was."
The preacher told him to go. to the
cottage of a poor widow who was sick
and hardly had enough to keep soul
and body together. Tell her that you
are her brother and you have neglected
her and you have come to beg her par
don; and take fifty dollars' worth of
provisions with you and tell her that she
shall never want again. Then ask her
for her Bible aud get down on your
knees and pray with her, .and if you
don't find heaven there, I will pay for
the provisions.' That afternoon the
preacher met the man and he said:
'Oh, sir, I did what you told me and
God and the angels came down in that
cottage, and if I didn't spend fifteen
minutes in heavau to-day there isn't
any such place.'
"Oh, brethren," exclaimed Mr. Jones,
"heaven is all about Atlanta if we only
knew how to go after it to find it.
"I don't know any better, investment
than Atlanta real estate, I don't know
any better bankstock' than Atlanta bank
stock, and there are no more solid busi
ness enteprises than some here; but the
one thing that lives in the memory to
bless us is thegood deeds we have done.
When the last day has. come and the
doctor sadly folds up his case and says
he can do no more, when the clock on
a mantel ticks slower than it ever did
before and wnth weeping wife and child
ren by your side you realize that your
last hour has come, it is the good you
have done on this earth that will com
fort you." '
Mr. .Jones was very hapr.y in his
witticisms and epigrams while he wras
taking up the collection. 'All of you
ought to give something, or take some
thing. You sisters, if you can't give
anything else, pull off a feather and
put that in the hat. You men, if you
are plumb broke, give us a lock of your
hair, and if you are baldtieaded, spit
in the hat. It is more blessed to give
than to receive. I'd rather give
money to the heathen tblau be one
of them aud get the benefit of it.
I gave a mau two dollars once as I was
coming from church. Ke .was a poor
fellow who was in the habit; of getting
drunk and one of - the preachers with
me said, Jones, you are a fool. He
will take that , mouey ami get drunk
with it, I said I don't care , what he
does with it. I'd rather be Sam Jones
and give it to him than be him and
gets it."
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