The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-13
THE TRICKY TRAIN.
Harmless Fancies Of Mild and Eufer-
esGiDg Maniac

New York Graphic-l
z OF the thousands Of people who pass
through the east side of Madison square
park every day many stop 10 take second
look at a sun-bronzed man who invariably
occupies the middle seat of three-seated
andh eye as bright rs eagle, but Il is
something else about him that commands
attention. He has an air OF repose that is
the vision OF the sculptor and the goal Of the
actor. Looking at the careless set Of his hat
over bis brow and the loose comfort Of his
clothes. you would say that Walt Whitman
had strolled into the square for 'Eirst-day
Loaf looking at the man YOU would say the
Apollo Belvedere, grown fuller Of habit, had
. tired of its position and was taking rest in
the pleasantest green spot il could find in
New York. This is George Francis Train.
Mr.. Train says he died four years ago. Then
for the first time, while he was in the Tombs
suffering as martyr for the cause of free
speech, he found that what ne supposed he
he had in reality been doing for
himself-Tain. Then came death and
a larger life. He took 900 Turkish baths.
After the first 200 ne banished meat from his
diet. Another hundred baths sufiiced 10 lei
him see that he could not eat butter At
further successive stages Of his course of
bathing he stopped sitting beside people.
etoptCQ All manu- SudhlliS. anu ulctON-
cred that he must not allow people
who were not in psychological affinity
with him 10 talk to him over two minutes.
Ii i very probable that he thinks that even
this limited intercourse between him and a
large portion of the human race must
soon cease. He does not know
what IL Will lead 20. He did not wonder
that people called him crazy. IF
eocoanut," said he, Happens to roll into
| village Of peanuts, of course the peanuts
will call il crazy. They don understand it.
1t is too big for them. When | died, four
Years ago, discovered myself ! discovered
that / was bigger than anything saw. ] am
now universal. Think Of those men Offering
me the presidency, They to ask rue to get
into their poor broken down wagon when
am bowling along the road behind four-in-
handr' As he uttered the words his listener
was irresiStibly reminded of Edwin Forrest,
rs he used To draw himself up
and seem actually to grow taller
in pronouncing tine passage in king
Lear, Yes, every inch king."
When Mr.. Train discovered himself four
years ago he was then in the evolutionary
stage. Human progression begins at that
stage and thence. advances by series of
colossal steps to the highest plain. 1t is,
first, evolution; second, absorption; third,
universally, and fourth, psychology. BY
evolution Mr.. Train makes no reference TO
the theories OF Darwin ana Huxley, Tor
whom he cares little, but means the natural
progression of the mind and the birth OF one
idea at the dissolution of another BY psy-
choiogy he means the sum of human at
tainments He will not use the terms
''souP' or spirit because they seem 10 him
vague and misleading At present he is
universal. He is a drop in the ocean Of life.
Once when it was urged upon him by a
friend that if he was drop in the ocean he
could got help being moved by the ocean, he
readily admitted the force of the simile, and
confessed that he was moved, butonly by the
ocean OF which he was part. lie was moved
by the children who crowded aboIt him. Ii
he could save the world from ruin by the
movement of a finger, he would not move
his finger unless il should happen to afford
him some pleasure to do so. Once'he talked
for little time with an intelligent begger in
the park who at the close of the CONVEX
satlOn represented that he was in very
needy circumstances. 81 have 'evoluted'
50 far" said Mr.. Train, "a he turned on
his heel unmOyed by the petition, that
freely accord you the right to starye.'