White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-29

ELoogENT SPEEca.-Many . gem Of
eloquencs is permitted to be forgotten.
for want Of reporter to transmit it, in
its fair and elegant proportions. to pos
tsrity. We are determined. 10 far as it
in our power lies. to keep the sin Of
omission. in this respect, from our dsor.
We have for some time past had 9 mas
ter-2iece of orAtory in our possession. but
had hoped that some one else would take
the responsibility of laying it before the
public. That hope being disappointed.
we now give the gem to the public. feel
ing confident that il win hereafter find .
place in the school books. alongside Of
Twinkle. twinkle, little STAR" 80,
were you meier . scbOol-boy! ?" and
You'd scarce expect one Of my sgel'
The narrative runneth thus: Sometime
last Winter, Lodge Of Good Templars
aOurished in the town Of Oregon. beyond
the Missouri. and. for aught we know.
still fourishes. It was . practice in the
Lodge, to have some member deliver an
address at each meeting. Upon one eve
ming, it was announced that, at the fol-
lowing nesting. an address would be de-
livered by . Brother from q Lodge in Q
neighboring State. who had lately taken
up his residence in Oregon. The news
spread among the Brethren, and the pros
pective orator himself. BY divers winks.
knowing looks, and studied expressions,
did much to impress all with the belief
that he had an address cut and dried,
which, for beauty, force. power, elo-
quence. and choice and chaste language.
should eclipse anything ever before lis
tened to, west of the Nodaway. and
east Of the Tarkiol It was in every
ones mouth: Mr.. j. w. Biggsrs. (vxlg..
Big head. J that good-looking and nice
young man. who worked in the printing
Office. was going to make great speech!
He had been born. bred and buttersd ct
Erie, Pennsylvania, where they tore up
railroad trAcksl He had ScjOurned in
Illinois, had taken q tramp in Texas.
among the horned frogs, aud more re-
Gently hailed from Sidney. Fremont
County, lows. ria Forest CityI Conse-
quently. be was q young man who had
travelled, and "seen the elephant
young man who had his "eys-testh cut
"A young maA Of Junction." and Of
"extreme parts 70
The meeting night came, and there
was large turnout Of the Brothers and
Sisters. Members hocked IN from the
country; lukeWarm members, who had
neglected to attend Lodge for. months,
made their appearance once more; mem
bers who had forfeited their right to the
password, by nou-payment Of dues, fork
ed over, and were thsre-all assembled
to hear the speech of the eloquent young
Pennsylvania, from the city Of Erie. BY
way of Illinois, Texas, Iowa. and Forest
CityI The moment for the speech arri-
we'd. All eyes were riveted upon the or.
ator. The silence was 50 profound as to
be painful-to the speaker. He arose.
and spake = speech which, for volume
and wisdom, has never besn equalled.
save and except by one other. perhaps
and that was the speech uttered BY re-
markAble qusdrupsd owned by one Mr..
Baalam. The orator said:
3" Worthy Chief Brothers and Sisters:
They have g society mp at Sidney,
called the WashingtoniAns, which has
done a good deal of good for the cause Of
temperance. There is also Good Tenn
plar Lodge there, which has also done q
good deal Of good. There is also good
deal Of also-ahem p
Here the orator became "too full for
uttersnce," and sat down amid "silenl
applause" leaving his hearers to guess
the balance He was right. II they
could not guess the rest, after hearing
that brilliant commencement, they could
not have appreciated it, had the Who'll.
been spoken
Orator searched for . gimblet hole tc
creep into, and his hearers, like true Brs-
theirs and Sisters, endeavored to alIeviatt
his overburdened feelings. BY helping him
to feel ashamed!
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