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The JACKSONVILLE MINER
for anything, and caught me too any statements made by our cler
BOOGEY MAN IN RELIGION
quick before I could bite my gy-at-large that cannot stand the
LOT OF HOOEY, JIBES
PROSPECTOR REYNOLDS tongue.
light of reason.
However. Billy might have been
It is well to remember that in
right about it after all, as the the |*ast the uneducated masses
(Continued from page three)
ago I was in one of Billy Sunday s Good Book tells us that when we have been oftentimes deluded by
meetings. Billy, as perhaps you are pestered by this Devil, five assertions made by members of
know, has a wonderful gift of gab. short words. “Get thee behind me. this fraternity. For instance, not
as well as some small ability as a Satan.” will dispose of him in a so long ago that anyone has for
contortionist. He is honest enough hurry. So if it is that easy, why all gotten it. the illiterate were led to
to state publicly that he never this fuss and commotion over a believe that terrifying comets ap
proaching the earth could be
read the Bible through, knows matter of no importance?
Incidentally, during the war scared away by the ringing of
nothing of theology and only took
up preaching because there was when Billy was making the big church bells. Statements like that,
more money in it than in playing talk about going over to France though made with pious Intent,
baseball. He is always more than to cheer up the boys in the always should be taken with a tew
ready to teach other people how trenches, I wrote him an open let- I grains of salt, to counteract the
to raise their children, though he ter which was published in one of effects of the poison on the sys
certainly did a botch job on rais the leading daily papers of the city i tem.
ing his own boy. At this meeting I in which he was at the time, ad
speak of, the house was jammed vising him that it was not nearly
and Billy was at his best. He was so dangerous to stay at home and I
preacr.ing about the Devil, whom fight the Devil as it would be to
he represented as the most pow get over in the trenches where the
erful Being in the universe, next shells were flying around. He
-—-♦
to the Lord Warming up to his probably paid no attention to my
subject, he took off his coat and .etter, but anyway he changed his To the Editor:
In an account of our Medford
tossed it onto a chair. He said mind about going.
I wish to particularly emphasize which appears in the American
that no one on earth was safe from
this bad god. who took pleasure in the fact that during my life in the Educator published by Bellows
undoing all the good accomplished west I have gained (and held) the Durham company of Chicago is
by the Lord and described tninute- friendship of many clergymen of the statement that her population
ly some of his activities, which the various
denominations.
even in 1910 was 8840 while in 1920 it
Lord was powerless to hinder at though I have occasionally unmer was only 5756. a decrease of 35 per
present, but would administer pun cifully roasted some of their meth cent This sounds rather fishy to
ishment for at some later date. ods and beliefs. It is possible, as us. We wonder if The Miner would
Then he shed his vest and you may know, for a man in any dig up the facts for us The Miner
started to gallop up and down the walk of life to be broad-minded is good at digging up things—we
platform as his arguments became tnd sincere. And whenever I meet are told that is how it came to be
more impassioned. This violent ex such men I never fail to accord a Miner.
For the benefit of any new
ercise made him perspire profuse 'hem my fullest respect, regardless
ly. so he stripped off his outside of what religious beliefs they may comers in the country, we might
shirt and heaved it after the other entertain. However, I am not in state that Medford is the east sub
garments. In ringing tones he told the habit of taking for granted urb of Jacksonville. We understand
of the irresistible power and craft
of this prince of hell, at whose bid
ding unnumbered legions of dem
ons were unleashed, to wreak
havoc upon the defenseless inhab
itants of the earth.
Then, rushing to the edge of the
platform, he threw himself upon
his stomach and. shaking his
PLEASING the most fastidious
closed fist downward in the sup
tastes of Ladies and Gentlemen for
posed direction of the lower re
gions shouted, “Satan! we've got
nigh onto 20 years with excellent
you licked. It is no use for you to
service
and lumber that leaves no
fight any more. You are done.” All
splinters in the dispositions of the
at once, in a flash, my mind pic
tured this awful and powerful bad
most particular Artisans and
god ias Billy had described him)
Craftsmen. Our facilities await
looking upward from the bottom
your call.
less pit at a tiny microbe of a man
who was shaking his fist at him
and telling him he was licked, and
the expression on his face as my
imagination pictured it was so
darned comical that in spite of
myself I burst into laughter, much
to the disgust of the righteous au
PHONE 124
dience in my immediate vicinity,
who turned around to look at me
and give me the "bad eye.” I did
not mean to be disrepesctful. But
George W. Porter
204 South Fir Street
I have a strongly developed sense ,
of humor and that was too funny
Medford hax a little paper to
which we might have rcaortrd for
our informaUon. We know It would
have been glad to have told uh If
the statement In the Educator wax
NOT ao, but if it were, er, er.
well, we would not wish to tempt
our brother to prevaricate.
I have confidentially asked one
or two brother farmers of Jack
sonville about thia matter. Of
course they were more or lesa en
vious of our eastern suburb, as
always is the case where a suburb
secedes from under the parental
roof. They told me this decrease
in Medford's population might
have been caused by the bite of
the Boom Bug in 1910. Thlr afore- ’
said suburb of Jacksonville is
going to have a monstrosity there
on June 3-9. 1 believe they call it
•'Ths Oregon Diamond Backed
Jubilee" and it sports 7ft rattles
and a buttonhole. Now since I
have lived all my life in Jackson
county I feel that I am entitled to
be classed as a pine-burr and these,
as well as the pinc-eurs. have a
fatherly interest in the hole of the
country.
So I am offering a word of cau
tion to those in charge of thia
mysterious leviathan to be careful1
and not let any of Medford's clti- I
sens get bitten by old Diamond ,
Backed Jubilee. It has the sound '
of being something venomous and
although It should swell her popu- I
lation for a time, the aftereffects '
might prove similar to those re
ceived from the bite of the Hoorn
Bug.
Jubiluntly yours.
BERT HARR.
.... . ...
We're told thut a beer drinker
must start with the hard stuff be
fore becoming drunk. At that, he's
seldom u beoondng drunk, Wes
ton Leader.
Dr. II. I*. Coleman
f'hlropriu-tlc • Phjslothemphy
Oregon Licenw 264
California License 3029
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