The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-02

laughter, and that he intended to draw
so long as he saw any other man draw
his. I Laughter His next effort to draw
was to draw cider through bunghole
with piece of straw, and in that he was
q complete success. He could draw lit
erary men from their studies, scholars
from their books, the rich from their vel
vet carpets, the poor from their poverty,
the laborer from his toll, the farmer
from his plow, and with permission he
could draw every inmate in every peni-
tertiary and Jail to him, and he could
attach more closely whatever he drew.
Applause The people present would
be glad that they were born to hear such
a man as he, and those not present would
60 down to their graves in sorrow, be-
cause they had missed that opportunity
ofhearing him. Laughter.
AS they had read, "No prophet is with
out honor, save in his own country"
That infallible utterance, given years ago,
was still valid. We have prophets, in
our own day, who are noted for their
talents, and eminent for their learning,
and yet they seem to be disregarded.
They had to import learning from other
places. Ohio was great and mighty
State, great in her own resources, great
in the extent of her dominions, and
mighty and renowned as being the abode
of himself and the Immortal j. n"
Laughter. 1t was high time that they
pay attention to and commence to like
and preserve their own distinguished
personages. But greatmen are not often
noticed before they die; and then lofty
monuments are raised in honor of their
names, with towering SUBMITS and broad
characters, commemorative of the career
of the heroes engraved thereon. APP
plause.] What good does this do to the
dead2 They cannot reap any benefit
from it, and as the gambler once said,
when asked to insure his life in an insur-
ance company, "There is no fun in
game you have to die to win" He went
on at some length characterizing the lack
of interest manifested in relation to lit
erary subjects, the apathy there was for
any of their own distinguished men, and
the antagonism many new prophets had
to contend with. He lauded the State Of
Ohio as having furnished men and Gen
erals for the army, having sent its men
to the Senate, and as having furnished
two ofthe Presidents fthe United States.
Applause He did not know whose
fault it was that there was such lack of
encouragement to literary spectators,
but he did not know that it was shame
and dishonor to the State of Ohio
Permit him, then, to return to his le-
gitimate subject. His lecture, like others,
would be composed of words words |! !
words! And everything depended on
the manner in which he used those
words. Their arrangement and context
so as to make a humorous lecture. If at
the conclusion, his arrangement of the
words did not suit them, they could just
throw them together. to suit themselves.
Laughter He had not chosen to ad-
dress them on Light, Heat or Electricity,
because. he was not scientific man. But
if he had chosen any one of these sub
jects he would have gone to his encyclo.
pedia, and in two days he could have
stolen therelrom a lecture, and have
committed it to memory, which would,
upon its delivery, cause the people to
cape with wonder, and remark, "What a
clever little old fellow that is" Laugh
ter But, as Moncure d. Conway said {:
"I know nothing about it," He knew
very little about the last mentioned man,
and from what he had heard, he thought
that the less he knew the better. He
certainly enjoyed an unenviable reputa-
tion among orthodox Christians But he
did not want to say anything about this
man, and he would let him alone, if he
Conway would let him alone. He felt
in regard to this subject. something like
the Irishman when he was about to die.
The priest addressing him said: "Why,
Patrick, you are not afraid to meet your
God, are you?" "No, your reverence"
said the Irishman, ut is the other gen
tleman Pm afraid to meet" Laughter
The great subject of American pane
gyric, was the eagle. He was certainly
Of noble birth, and was bird of undis-
puted good qualities. He could keep his
head cool on the Canadian frontier, warm
his tail in the Gulf of Mexico, dip one
wing in the Atlantic ocean, and receive
the refreshing breezes from the surface
of the Pacific on the other; and on the
Fourth of July build his nest wherever
he pleased. 1t was a bird begotten for
fighting purposes, and before his pen
feathers were set he whipped the British
Lion, and now in full plume he can tie
one claw behind his back, and with the
other whip any bird, beast or symbol of
any nature, which represents the other
nations. [Applause.] That is what they
say.
But the Swapping Turtle" was no bird
at all, Laughter And he did not want
it to be bird. He had not feathers in
his tail laughter and he did not want
to have feathers in his tail. Laughter ]
He had no use for them, and when he
sees the eagle performing his acrobatic
feats in mid air, he wonders why he does
not quit and come down and behave him
self as he does. He is not particularly
combative, yet he could fight, even
whilst young, and everybody knows
what an old snapper can do. You can
take his head from his body, and yet he
will exhibit symptoms of life. Some
thing like the Irishman when he took of
a turtles head and still saw indications
of what is termed life, Said he, "The
creature is dead, only he amt conscious
of it."
A turtle never knows what it is to quit
he always holds on. He has as his
motto, "Never give up; stick till the last"
This was a good motto for man as well as
the turtle. 1t was good for any man to
fight on, labor on, "for while there is life
there is Lope." Years ago, wnen Paul
Jones went forth upon the ocean, he had
the control of poor miserable hulk that
the United States had procured from
France to fight England with. They had
not been long at sea before they came in
sight of much larger vessel belonging
to the English. A fight was commenced,
and the firing was heavy and continu-
GUS. The poor old hulk was drifting
slowly, helplessly, almost hopelessly, to
the side of the adversary's ship. Still
they kept up courage. Further did they
drift; the masts had been blown over
board-the very frame work of the small
bark had been riddled with the shots