The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-03-14

Geo. Francis Train delivered his third
speech on "Finance," in the Newark
Opera House last evening. The price
OF admission having been reduced to ten
cents, and fifteen for reserved seats, the
ball was crowded. Mr.. Train assembled
the stage shortly after o'clock, and re-
moving his sealskin overcoat, showed
himself to be attired in evening dress.
Without noticing the auditors, who bad
received him with cheers, he walked
gravely to q side gaslight and opened q
letter. Before beginning to read, he ap-
parently recollected himself and said:
This affords me an opportunity to give
you lesson IN manners. Ten minutes
with me is q liberal education. l can
see more through keyhole in the dark
than the rest of the world through an
open door in daylight. Now for my
lesson. open this letter. No gentle
man, according to the rules of etiquette,
ever should open letter in the pres
once of company. A letter, you know,
may contain SheriH's summons, or u
writ of Injunction. This don't-I will
read it.
"Mr Twain-will England get involved in war?
"England is in q tight place. She's
in as bad box as we are. She has lent
money to every country, bankrupt or
not. She is the banker of the world.
But what she has lost she has made
up out of rs. We have been ruled fifty
years BY England. America is the pas
ture ground of the British aristocracy.
New York is the State prison of all na-
tons. There is no other place where
one man in ten is q lion. Ono in ten;
you meet them in the stage, in the ferry
boat, in the pulpit, in the hotels, at the
bar, in the banks, in the stores. in the
houses. You can't 60 on Wall street
but you see Gilman, a Case, Lambert
all of whom are robbing the country
for-Christ's sake. But said England
ruled this country. When Exeter Hall
took snuff the Republican party sneezed;
when Free Trade Hall, Manchester, laid
an egg, the Democratic party
cackled. Because would not sneeze
and cackle and be led by the nose MIR.
Train here pretended to pull himself
about the stage BY his nosel had the
reputation Of being the champion Amer
lean lunatic. l know all about England
and the Eastern question. l was at the
Crimea. was at BaIaklava and Alma.
l wish had time, and d give you Ten.
nyson's Charge Of the Light Brigade
Voices: Give it; give it, l haven't
seen it for twenty years, but you've
Psychological me. Just turn on pint
and half more oxygen, will you, Mr..
Janitor? Well, in one of my three
tours around the world, after putting up
at . holcl on Mount Cavalry, and
another at Gethsemane-"
Here q second letter was handed him,
which he opened and read as follows:
1t has been said at Methodist breakfast liable
Mr Train became crazy through being secesslonst
The terrible revelations he thas witnessed made him
crazy.
"Me a secessionist! Repeated Mr..
Tram scornfully. "For the six horse
railroads I created IN London l was
offered 100000. For two years l
held Yancey in ono hand an 4 the Lord
John Russell in the other, forcing them
to cheer for America. I went into de-
batting halls where men with 24inch
otuo ouuuCT 0uu DtolTlc
have lived twenty minutes,
and half an hour would have polished
off Ben Butler. 1t was q mere matter
of one man against secession Europe,
and to do this threw up $4,000, 900.
Here's another lctter:
'.M.. Train. what shall We do in case Of famine 20
"Call on me !"
"Did you ever hear such . question
when peanuts are five cents quart 2"
cat twelve to-day took q bowl of
have taken nothing since
until this evening. Mrs. Kimball gave
me two spoonfuls of oatmeal, q cup OF
coffee-which is rare thing with me
and some jelly. That's dissipation for
me. generally take only two bowls
Of oatmeal q day, at ten cents each.
This is twenty cents q day, or sl.40
week. must teach you how to live.
l will do it next Monday.-New York
Sun.