Sam Jones Outdone

"Lampusas Jake," the cowboy evangelist who is holding revivals in New Mexico, can beat Sam Jones as a vernacular preacher. Here is an extract from one of his sermons: "How many of you's ready to die now with your boots on? Where'd you be to breakfast? Don't any of you dranken, swearing, fighting, blaspheming, gambliug, thicvimr, tin-horn, coffin-paint, exterminating looking galoots look at me ugly, because I know ye. I've been through the drive. Tou're all in your sins. ïou know a fat, well-fed, well-cared for, thoroughly branded steer when you see one, and can teil whose it is and where it belongs. There's a man that owns it. There is a place for it to go. There's a law to protect it. But the maverick - who's a is that? Tou're all mavericks and worse. The maverick has no brand on him. He goes bellering about until somebody takes him in and claps the branding iron on him. But you whelps, you've got the devil's brand on you. You've got his lariat about you. He Iets you have rope now, but he'll haul