The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-11-12

.'You get out Of here!'' said the MGR.
chant. - $ You are an ignorant old drunk ~
ard!''':zs. ~, S z5z.,. ~
IT am eh!'' shouted the old man, and
he backed tho merchant over box Of
fans. The clerks hauled him
off and threw him out DOORS and as the
police took him the1old man said:
m ready TO die! Daniel Webster is
up there with tho angles, and I hear him
calling me to get out Of o this onc.hors
crowd S2* '.'>,.''
: = s. DANIEL OC0NNELL.
ill.,. Temple Bari
The secret of O'Conne,l's power with
his countrymen was his consummate
knowledge Of their idiosyncrasics, and
his natural capacity for rejecting on a
gloritied scale their aspir ations, their
follies, their conceits. lie was an cpl
tome Of all that is most brilliant in the
Irish character, and as such his fascina.
ton and his influence fer an Irish crowd
never failed. He knew when to tatter and
to wheedle, when to cajole and
to coax, when to terrify and alarm, when
to rouse to indignation, when to quell to
submission. He made his hearers feel
that they had only to gaze upon his per.
son and to hear his words to witness an
apotheosis Of all those qualities and char
acterist:cs which were the chief gr ound
Of their patriotic pride. sNobody' SAID
one who knew him we'll, and who hated
him as we'll as he knew him, 'scan deny
to HIM the praise Of inimitable dexterity,
versatility, and even prudence in the EN-.
ployment Of the means which he makes
conducive to his ends. He is thoroughly
acquainted with the audiences which he
addresses, and the people upon whom he
practices, and he operates upon their pas
sions with the precision of dcxterous
anatomist who knows the direction of
every muscle and every fiber Of the hu-
man Frame And in miscellaneous So
cicty, in London as we'll as in Dublin, the
Liberator could make himself hi hly
agreeable. He was visitor at the Hol-
land House, and it would not be too
much to assume that the recognition ex-
tended to him had something to do with
his temporary abandonment of Repeal.
When Mr.. Greville met him at William
Ponsonby's, in 1926, the year of emanci-
patton. he said: ''There is nothing re-
markable in his manner, appearance or
conversation, but he seems lively, we'll
bred, and at his ease.'' In the House Of
Commons OConnell was failure, as eve
ry man must be who has lived the best
years Of his life and has grown quite in
capable Of readily adapting himself to a
new and peculiar atmosphere. He could
never catch its tone, and therefore he
could never for long hold its car. His
quotations and his adaptations Of poetry
were sometimes exceedingly happy.
Nothing could be better than his parody
on Colonies Sibthorp, Percival and YER
''Three Colonies, in three distant countries
Lincoln, Armagh and Sligo did adorn;
The first in matchless impudence surpassed.
The next in bigotry; in both the last
The force ofnature could no further 60
To beard the third she shaved the other two"
Ut these gentlemen, two were in,bcrbis
and the third intonsus. He was also dc.
cidedly happy when, on being called to
order by the Speaker for having charac-
ter:zed the interruptions with which he
WAS assailed on all sides of the House as
''beastly bellowings," he retracted the oh.
noxious epithet, but added that he had
never heard of any bellowings that were
not beastly. *Pcrhaps, writes his friend
Mr.. Phillips, ''personality was his most be.
setting sin. He had nickname for every
one who presumed to thwart him-curt,
singing, and vulgar, suiting the rabble
taste, and easily retained in the rabble
memory The personally aggressive in.
stinct, which in the House Of Commons
found its qualification in such jeu d. s.
Pr1t as that just quoted appropos of the
three Colonies, assumed far more vehe.
menta spcct on popular reforms. "A man,
! writes Mr.. Lccky, the staunch admirer OF
O'Conncll, who did not hesitate to des.
cribe the Duke of Wellington as stunt.
ed corporal aud who applied to other
opponents such terms as a mighty big
liar or "a lineal descendant of the impcn.
| itent thief, or "a contumelious cur or a
Scorpion (as he called the late Lord Der.
by,) place him beyond the pale of court
esq.," But there we're force, point and
sting in O'Connell's vituperative phrases.
They stood the test of all excellence
they stuck. His description of Peels'
smile-that it was like the silver plate
OH coffin has only of late been for
gotten; and his characterization of the
1imes-''it lies like false.numbered
mile stone, which cannot by any possibil-
ity tell the TRUTHS said to have amused
no one more than the editor Of the Times
Barnes.
THE SNOW PLAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA.
The days pass-some in wild, fierce
storms of snow and slcet, that howl
around US as though all the demons Of the
steppe were up in arms, some in bright
sunshine, whose intolcrable glare blinds
US ard blistcrs our faces. From time to
time We drive down into barksome under
ground holes, hot and reeking, hover
around the steaming samovar, pouring
down oceans of boiling tea; then out on
the silent steppc again to continue the
weary struggle. There are nights when
we awaken from half-frozcn sleep, and
remember we are in the heart Of the mys-
FERROUS regions of Asia, and see nothing
but the wide, snowy steppe, silent and