The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-18
Native Plants.


but all were desirous of making their visit to
the Quaker City not entirely fruitess; conse-
quently they brought great quantities of it with
them.
On Thursday morning last some of them met
at the Continental Hotel, where they discussed,
with DR.. Pepsin, the best way to got sight at
Mayor Fox.
The Doctor said there were various ways of
getting before the Mayor. One was by knocking
down the walters or by winking at the lady
boarders of the hotel Che did not speak from eX-
perience), or by cutting the painted pictures out
OF the Societys posters. Any of these things
would give person an audience with his Honor
Mayor Fox. daughter and cheers.) But the
Doctor would suggest that they put bold front
on, and each member take bunch of grapes in
bis hand thus they would be able to bring to his
Honor's mind the classical story of the 'FoX
and the Grapes" Here the Doctor waited for
laugh, but the rural gentlemen all looked as
sober as post and rail fence, perhaps not
knowing the worthy Mayor is a Fox in name.
The Doctor, failing to get up any enthusiasm
or to elicit any ideas for the days proceedings,
suggested that they proceed in an agricultural
body right down to the Mayor at once, before
the st. Clair Mulhollanders came in with their
reports as he had little speech himself in his
pocket which he would like to run off.
They then left the Continental-only two of
them stumbled coming down stairs-and arrived
safe at Independence Hall, where Mayor Fox
met them, to whom they were introduced by the
Doctor in the following telling speech:-
DIR. Pepsin-His Speech.
Sir:-It is my pleasing privilege to astonish
these country chaps by my eloquence in intro
ducing them to you, as it will be their pleasure
to astonish you, when they show you the size of
their tomats, tell of the quantity of lifeever-
lasting they can raise to the acre. applause
from the rural gentlemen.)
present to you, sir a body of fertilizers who
are as familiar with all kinds of soil as they are
with their daily food, and who have done more
to enrich the country with their various guanos
than is done by all other causes combined
present to you a body of men whose inhu-
ence and weight in society will all of them ave-
rage 1S0 pounds avoirdupois, and who are in
deed the ''solid men" of the country.
present to you an assemblage of men whose
labors in the fields of natural science have been
from o'clock in the morning till sunset in
summer, and but little short of that in winter.
and whose names are familiar in every grocery
store and tavern in their native county towns.
present you, sir, the nutmeg cultivators and
clock growers Of the New England States, whose
heads are now silvered with age and whose
present the pioneers of the ever-advancing
Northwest by North, who are planting theil
vines, fruit trees, and distilleries at the outel
verge of civilization, by which they expect Il
drive q smart trade with the red man of the
forest, the cream-colored Coolie of California
and the ice-bound idiot of Alaska. (Tremen
dous cheering by the rurals.)
present you names as familiar and honoret
in the profession of fruit culture as Bill Nc
Mullin is in the Democratic vote culture, or a
your own Chief Saint is in the culture of procla
nations and orders. Cheering by the Null
hollanders.)
In imaginaton-let me here draw on my ina
gination a little-I present the genius of thi
''cracked bell" to the cracked belle of the nine
teenth century, who with her "chignons,
blends" and ''palpitators" seeks fame an,
notoriety which will prove as hollow and as un
sound as the bell here before us. And here Of
this sacred pile, hallowed by the Mayors ofic
On one side and the Tax office on the other, +hi