The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT BLARNEY.

A specimen of George F. Train's oratory will not
be without interest to many of our readers. He
delivered the following lecture at Blarney, where he
evidently found himself as much at home as any
native. It was at Dr. Barter's Hydropathic Esta-
blishment, St. Ann's Hill, the ostensible subject
being " The Laws of Health." Mr. Train, however,
disdained all the conventional rules of oratory; and
indulged in humorous digressions, keeping his
audience in continuous laughter. Besides the
patients sojourning at the rural retreat there were
several ladies and gentlemen from town, and a toler-
able contingent of the village of palloi were also ad-
mitted into the room. The lecturer, who was
greeted with applause, commenced by saying
that he had come down to kiss " the Blar-
ney stone." Plymouth Rock was the Blarney
stone of America. He was passionately fond of
history, and especially Irish history, and as he
looked away and saw that grand old castle, he felt
as if he saw Sir Walter Raleigh bombarding it, and
being gallantly repulsed by the Mac Carty Mores.
Whenever, after Sir Walter sent despatches to Queen
Elizabeth, saying he had taken such and such a place,
she said, " Oh, that's all Blarney." Hence the
origin of the phrase. He stood there on the spot
where Cromwell once stood, in the days of Shak-
speare, Beaumont, and Fletcher, " Rare Ben Jon-
son," and Francis Bacon. When he thought of
Elizabeth, a woman ruling a worldand sinking the
Spanish Armada, he could not imagine why it was
not acknowledged that the women of our day were
worthy of taking their legitimate part in politics,
and be allowed the exercise of the franchise. (Hear,
hear.) But they would have the right one of these
days. (Applause.) Alluding to the opposition
which had been given him in certain quarters he
said he liked antagonism—he loved it dearly.
(Laughter.) He liked to have people Oppose him ;
and he was never so much at home as when
he was in the enemy's camp. (Hear, hear, and a
laugh.) The world had a way of destroying men
of opinions in political and social life. If he thought
he was sane he would blow his brains out. (Great
laughter.) Ile never saw so many sane men as were
in the world at thepresent time. (Continued laugh-
ter.) A man who had done what Dr. Barter did,
he looked upon as a real specimen of insanity.
(Much laughter.) To think that a man dared to
face such au enemy as the most powerful organiza-
tion on the face of the globe—men who had macada-
mised the graveyards with babes, and men, and,
women. Ile had clearly proved his insanity by hiss
success. Mr. Train then read some correspondence
which he had received from England, which he said
was written for the purpose of endeavouring to
entrap him, and which he showed to the resident
magistrate and the sub-inspector. He declared him-
self above the Fenians. (Cheers.) What he wanted
was to try and free American prisoners confined in
English gaols. He then entered on the subject of
his lecture, and pointed out the tardiness of im-
provement observable in the science of medicine, in
which reforms obtained success very gradually. Mr.
Train detailed the great medical reforms which took
place from time to time, alluding to Esculapius,
Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus. Galen lived
140 years, because he took none of his own drugs ;
but Paracelsus, who did, died at 42. (A laugh.)
One doctor said that when he commenced practice
he had twenty medicines for every disease, and when
he finished he had twenty diseases for which he had
uo medicine. He was sure no one there would take
drugs again as long as he or she lived. (Hear,
hear.) After some further observations relative to
the use and advantage of pure water, and the anti-
quity of the bath as a curative institution, he con-
cluded by saying he intended to establish a Turkish
bath at the Rocky Mountains, and to introduce
them generally throughout the States.
There is an amusing cut in Frank Leslie where
George Francis is represented as a bill-sticker with
his-paste brush and a large placard, which he is in
the act of affixing to the back of the British Lion,
" George Francis Train has been Arrested ! First
Class Advertisement ! !"

Mr. Train lectured in Dublin on Thursday night,
and talked much in the same way as he did at
Cork. His audience was very boisterous, cheered
vehemently for " the Green above the Red." Any-
body who expressed his dissent from the lecturer or
from his admirers got roughly handled. —An glo-
American 2imes .

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