Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-21
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health to dare to undergo the hardship
OF the platform. John B. Cough is oyeI
whelmed with applications. New Yor
sent him thirty-nine invitations, and b
accepted but three. He omits Boston
goes to but three places further east, an,
keeps secretary employed writing refu
sails to half the West. He declined fiv
hundred invitations last year, and Nigh
lecture three times day for eight month
to come at two hundred dollars a time
Anna Dickinson is to lecture, but ha
probably completed her large list already
Here is a wonderful career. The writel
met gentleman not long since who re
members her as lecturing in a small towr
to free audience, and at the close bon
net was passed round for contributions
She was the same brilliant woman then
and to-day paper mill might be KEEP
running from the contents of the waste
basket which holds the invitations for lee
lures accepted or refused. Theodore Til.
ton lectures and attends TO all the cores
pontence himself. Horace Greeley IN AZ
lecture internationally, but none of the
! profession is less certain. Public aft airs
engross his attention. Mark Twain had
a marvellous career open to him last
year. He might have followed it up this
year and made fortune; but be is going
to take wife, has dropped into an edito-
rial chair, and nearly all this years en-
gagemeuts are TO be cancelled. Last wear
he was TO lecture at Rome, in this state.
lie got the appointment by telegraph, for
a private reason was obliged to be else
where, telegraphed that be couldn't come,
and that he would pay the committee for
disappointment, and a large bill was sent.
He paid il, and then the ROmOR Citizen
most ungratefully pub ished reviling
editorial. The old genuine Roman citi-
zens would have been more courteous !,
DIR. Hays Will be back from the Arctic re-
gions by October Is. He will lecture to
promote new expedition. The Ameri-
can Literary Bureau arraDges bis dates,
and his terms are from $500 to 500.
Olive Logan lectures this year on Girls"
and q Paris, City of Luxury" She is
one of the newest and most Fortunate
all the associations want her. She will
appear some one hundred and fifty
nights and average about $50 each
time.
Kate Field l. still newer in the arena,
but she Is already immensely popular, and
will have every night filled up at from
500 to Si50. Her subjects are Women"
and "Out in the Woods" Wendell Phil
lips is one Of the great geniuses of
America. Long ago he observed that SEN
sationali-m was the winning card at
literature, and at once introduced il 10 the
ro-trum. His lecture, The Lost Arts
proved 10 astounding multitudes that all
the wonders of the nineteenth century are
as old as the pyramids, if not anterior 70
the Ark. Cough was equally keen. He
saw that great many very good people
would like 10 go TO theatres, if public
opinion would only let them. He ac-
cordingly brought the theatre into the
lyceum, exhilirated with pantomime,
initiated all the passions and follies of hu-
manity, and made rybody laugh and
weep spontaneously as if in a theatre
box. These two men still stand at the
front of their profession, and the amount of
stamps used in fruitless attempts 10 secure
their services would surprise people AZ
large il of il were told. All the lyceums
want them. They could ask any price,
yet, comparatively speaking, their forms |
are moderate. Their highest rates are
very seldom over $500, and Phillips, lat 1
year-if We are not greatly misled-took |
800 only, not unfrequentty. One of the |
facts with these men is their
wonderful knowledge of the United States |
Meet Mr.. Philips ON Broadway and ask |
him To lecture at Whitewater, Wisconsin
A. if reading from pocket book, he will |
run over in his memory all the places for
which he is engaged for the season Fifty
towns, fifty dates, twenty railroads and
time tables, all accurately repeated off
much more quickly and easily than
policeman could tell you the side streets
into Wall street; finally the de-
structive remark that he must lose two
days at Whitewater, and "that can not he
done, with the emphasis on the politesf
part of the denial. No one j. more acces-
,ible, no one is reader with fresh topic
4 pugent title, twenty whole lectures in
hand, and prepared to extemporize new
)ne from the evenings telegraphic dis
patch. The same knowledge of towns aud
-ailway lines, affability of manner aud
facility charectcrizes Cough.
To those who have been flooding him
with invitations. a glimpse of the hard ,
working home life at Hillside, near Wor-
,ester, may not be amiss, and although
we take our excerpt from a private letter ;
he fault will be pardoned Il have been ,
lltogcther overworked this summer" be
writes, "ana. in addition, my wife ha-
been seriously i'll for weeks, and twice /.
within the past ten days we hRve gather !
d round her bedside, fearing she would
ink, but almost 10y superhuman efforts, ,
With careful nursing, night and day, she !.
has rallied. For more than a month !
rave not been in bed till two or three
hree o'clock in the morning. Then the
publishers are pressing for the compile ,
ion of my book. Then ,,
ny route is to be made. and already more !.
han four hundred letters have been
nswered,' ground Of excuse, surely, TO
inpatient committees and of thoughtful /.
ess to invitationless lectures who regard
he great "Stars" in the field a. living
harmed lives. \