| Show iwer I 1 STAGE AND bulpit AGAIN adonis dixey figures in a now role in kansas missouri it seems that while playing there recently sam small tire evangelist was conducting a rival attraction in another building mall in one of his sermons after referring fact that the theaters have a penchant for biblical titles such as wages of sin saints and sinners etc said that if lie draw better than dixey lie would never set foot there again and then went on to say that the actor wits a gambler that lie lost 1 at a gambling table in san francisco add squealed about it and yet said you poo ale keep right on famishing fumi shing him with the means to gamble with adonis on reading this became and as a set OIT or caunter to the preachers allegation of blackleg called him a mountebank ile w as indignant that tuch a person should be permitted to occupy a pulpit for such purposes and pronounced the whole story of his gambling gamb ting in san francisco or elsewhere a toa licious fabrication besides lie 6 aimed to have done more for churches and church purposes than any five clergymen being always on hand when appealed to and appealed to pretty often then he must have re crded as a clincher and in which lie will be sustained rosald on cant point out to me an actor in jail and I 1 know of more than one clergyman there dixey then went botho prosecuting attorney ana wanted small but as it was ollya misdemeanor the latter declined ile then swore out a complaint of criminal libel against the editor of the paper which published small a serl hon and he gave kondsior bond his appearance appe aranco the case Is like most others there iff some right and some wrong on both sides smalls attack in the absence of proof was utterly unjustifiable ana wita f b been altogether outside the sphere in which lie professes td circulate as an evangel of reform and charity while the actors his spleen by having an done him no injury arrested was contemptible if lie had grappled with the preacher we could have watched tile struggle with much mom than we do now AT A time lik 0 this when everybody equal to the rank of a colonel in the army or a member of a state legislature has a Ili fol written for dimand foisted upon the public it will our to a good many to read that Gari baldis autobiography Is about to be and that this Is the only the italian patriot and lib the literature of the world will be enriched with THE colonza folks are moving in the mitter of having a convention at washington to obtain the legalize ciori U F dayas a na dional holiday this would so em to be proper for the no groes white object is odow hat to an enforced holiday which was of interest to the other race only |
