Show A SLANGY blasphemer among the evangelical counte banks who daring the present decade have imposed conspicuously upon american toleration is sam jones by dint of irrepressible impudence rpm mingled with a sort of picturesque ignorance this mouthing reprobate i reports are true has the pockets of the superstitious herds in the bum of well nigh half a million we can aerate oe rate almost anything in form of piety loud or dolorous or silent the litter preferred BO long as al the heart there is a trace of honest zeal bat these howling hyenas tha without mi or par pose save the lining of their pockets bob up like a hawker of carn plasters wherever and whenever the aiges are right for a rich hail ae a e something too much tor patience not tha least in this sort of pious jugglery are the over earnest ministers who engage for a consideration the so called evangelists to hold periodical revivals in their churches alie intent of the beine virtually to drag net their neighborhood tor ecstatic illiteracy with something in its pockets the more practiced the cuave the mire valuable are his eer vices the schooled who can soonest poison the minds of sober but unread boilers toilers with mystical frenzy can always find readiest employment nithe agest pay it would be hard to determine who are the most reprehensible the scriptural jackal or the pious fraud that employs him both are a scandal upon tolerance one of the latest but by no means the worst of sam joness elaugh shrieks is this john the baptist wa the bravest type of a christain I 1 know of lie just jumped on herod and pawed liis feathers out now we rc submit to every candid man or infidel jew or pagan that a person who uses euch language in the pulpit is a fool and the person who takes pay tor such diabolism is nothing wa than a thief TUB comment of the day upon new yorks fund for the fair is this from the boston iosa the guarantee fund which is being raised in new york for the worlds fair now amounts to over alich raenna according to the newspapers that a great deal of enthus 1 yet it is stated that the subscriptions on wednesday were only hilt as largo as they were on monday and already the suburban towns and caltea aro being told that it ia their duty to help on the good work that is just about chaten thusia sn means to new york IT IJ maj baa been p pointed 0 olney no republican ralda lu the the postoffice post office appointing power should consult method pursued by the utah commission in such an exigency in butali towns where no liberal resides factotums facto tums of that party are bent from a distance to run the election machinery WHEN AN alderman of san diego is absent from a meeting of the municipal board be is fined five dollars un hesss ho can show a doctors certificate of illness tho latter is the popular alternative as the certificate only costs 2 and besides it helps gling young doctors |