The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-29
Tricks Of Great Orators.


Great:orators have not scrhp1ed to
n " arts. of the actor to produce their
Is effects. Lord .Prougham, while protest.
ipg. against the rejection Of the Reform
Bill by the House q. Lords, cried, out:
II .implore you upon my knees!" kneel-
ing before them on the wool sack, "'Ep-
on which the Lord, G Chancellor sits when
presiding in the House of Lords. Sher-
idan, having, finished his famous speech
in, the trial of Warren Hastings,e sank
back apparently fainting in. the arms of
his friends 80 Edmund Burke,
at the end of "a, speech l. i up!
on the atrocities ;. which = might be
expected from the French in case Of an
invasion, drew forth an enormous two
edged dagger, and. exc1a:ming, "This
is the weapon which will be pointed at
your ,throats and mine!" dashed it on
the floor with tragic GESTURE Short
Fly afterward Lord CAIRNS speaking
against Burke (who was suspected of
having amassed his wealth dishonestly),
exclaimed: "And' this is the weapon
which is used with fatal effect against.
you and met" dragging out, with
AS every one looked to see him dash it
on the floor, he quietly folded it and
put it in his pocket. One of the, most
noted criminal lawyers now in this
country, while pleading the cause of
his client, is invariably so overcome by
his innocence and wrongs that his voice
fails, he chokes, sobs, and is forced to sit
down to recover himself. II should
think, Mr.. o." said Judge M-5
to him, lately, chat the jury would un-
derstand your little drama by this time"
"Ah, your honor forgets," said D.,
his eyes twinkle, "that it is always new
jury before. whom I play" Prince Bis
marck has profound contempt not only,
for such tricks Of oratory, but for oratory
itself 1T is but the gloss that hides
truth, +" he said lately; "your eloquent
fellow is like a woman who has natnr-
lily fine figure and who screws it into
stays and covers it with tasteless finery."
The True Washington Memorial.
If the. government owned Mt. Yer
non; could maintain there half doz-
en- of its infrm soldiers could place
there its relics of Washington; could
Econsecrate the home as national shrine,
a place of pilgrimage; could clear away
the desecrating refuse of lunch baskets
and restore the lovely spot to it's noblest
associations, the monument of marble
would be-, useless, and might be taken
down. Mount Vernon would be true
memorial of Washington. Here people
could see how he lived from day to day
His library might be replaced on it's old
shelves; for though the original books
are scattered their titles are known, and
the volumes are capable of being easily
restored, at least;in other copies, to the
cases. Here, might be kept his diary.
The garden is substantially as he left it.
The elements of his personality sim
plicity, industry, prudence, economy
are illustrated at every turn. The
small, plain chambers, the modest
furniture, the humble deco
rations, are a perpetual lesson of self
abnegation. He was great character.
No sculptured stone can commemorate
qualities such as he possessed. Nature
alone, as recreated by his private vir-
tues, shown in life, can do that, and at
Mount Vernon he lived and died. They
who revere that sacred memory, and
wish to keep it fresh, pray that his home
and last resting place may be made his
monument; that his countrymen may
find here the shade of their heroic friend,
and may renew their own patriotism by
association with his.-Juns Atlantic.