Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-18

ne WOulu soon De drained ury were ne
to conform to the ordinary custom IN
this respect. While l was there the
proprietor of the Office came in and in
sisted on shaking hands with the 'great
reformer. Train finally submitted, but
afterward said with the utmost serious
ness that the operation lad shortened
his life thirty years. In spite of this
terrible calamity, however, he evidently
does not anticipate his early demise, for
he informed me in the course of our con-
versation that he had discovered the Sc.
cret of mans being, and should himself |
live 200 years. All the reasons for his
being so favored he did not disclose, but |
laid great stress on diet as means to
patriarchal longevity. Never" said
he, ''did smoke cigar or drink a
glass of liquor; and never for years have
tasted meat. One ten-cent bowl of
oat meal and milk in the morning, and
another at night, that's all-all but
this he continued, drawing forth a
shelled peanut from his pocket and hold
ing it up impressively before me.
'.For the last few summers" said Mr..
Train. 81 have spent all my time in
Madison Square, with children for my
only companions. In their society |
have at last found my level. They, and
they alone are my peers. Why" con-
tinued the psychologist, warming to his
lofty theme, ''if so much as shelled
peanut the wrong way, a little girl
would come and twist my nose thus"
suiting the action to the word. 'Do you
suppose" said he, giving me a threaten
ing glance, "that any one but my peer
would do that p OF course | modestly
agreed with him on every point, and he
soon started off on finance and politics.
81 am now engaged in giving series of
thirty lectures" said he, "and by the
time they are concluded the nation will
have become psychological (his favorite
expression), and this whole country will
be rocking to and fro like an earthquake. "
l ventured to inquire how these start
ling results were to be brought about.
"By myself" he burst out, striking him.
self on the breast; 'by George Francis
Train and by this, pointing to copy
of his little paper, The Dictator, which
lay on the table. SIN six months |
shall be the Dictator of this country,
with all the people at my feet. ;" At this
point ] could not conceal faint smile,
which caught the quick eye of our flu
ture despot. "You don't believe it" he
cried; every we'll just wait and see
Everything has happened as have pre-.
dicted thus far, and this is certain.
know it. Here" he went on, without
pausing for comments, 'Ill explain t.
'. you how it is. You 60 to the Centenni
al. You go into Machinery Hall anc
ask to see the steam engines. You ar,
shown one. How much is this p TEL
horse power Another. Twenty hors
power Another. "A hundred hors
power Then you come to the grea
Corliss engine. How much is this ?
Fourteen hundred horse power ant
drives ten miles of shaftlng.' There yo
havo ID ThaU's me I am the Corlis
engine in human form. I turn my hand
thus, and men are irresistibly moved
hundreds of miles away. Yes, SIR h
concluded, extending and clenching hi
fat brown hand, 81 hold the power c
. life and death, and can impart it, too
- as | will"
" 1t would be utterly impossible, and
+ have therefore not attempted to conve
- an idea of the manner in which all tn
~ and much more was delivered. There
unquestionably great amount of mas
! netism about the man, which, with til
- natural quickness and keenness of h
now unhinged intellect, compels after
ton to the utterances which, on pape
: are seen to be so irremediably absurd
~ and the mobility of feature and neve
. ceasing gestures with which his speec
!, is accompanied and the rapid, lmpressi,
- vehemence of the utterance itself, gi,
y him power over his audience, large
= small, which many saner orator mig
" envy. we'll remember on the occasiC
~ of the railroad journey to which | ha
: already alluded, performance of N
y Trains which l presume no one wi
- heard it has forgotten. We were tearil
: along over the Nebraskan pralries o.
:. evening when he jumped up from b
" chair in the parlor car which contain
our excursion party, some twenty-five
:" number, and rushing to the end of t
= saloon turned about and began to reel
- - 1.-The Charge of the Light Brigade" 7
~ effect was peculiar and intense. T
" strange circumstances, the growing dar
- ness, the rushing train whose rumblil
illustrated the ''volleys" and thunder
= of the poem seemed to accord with a.
~ enhance the exaggerated force and dl
matte action of the declaimer. Amid
binary surroundings his performan