The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-19
Collier to come forward and present The

Collier to come forward and present the
of the occasion.
Mr.. Collier, whose rather quaint ap-
pearsnee supplemented by familiar
address, at once put the audience In
smiling humor. He then delivered 9
speech which the other lodges were OBJ
served TO score on the basis of compost
his remarks:
have q most unpleasant duty 10 PEP
iorm-unpleasant because being judge
/ must second time discriminate 10 ia
vor OF two, amongst four admirable ora
tions. When 1 listened TO the first speak
er, Mr.. auckland, l said 10 myself surely |
"Washburn will take the cake" and
when the next speaker delivered his
theme with such an easy grace of man.
ner with 50 many well chosen express
sions and rounded sentences l said he
certainly will be second. But, dear me,
when this Cloud with silver lining /
came before Us and hung about with /
such a graceful poise. such charming |
effect and so thrilling and clear IN the /
outlines of her Grafton, my heart would /
have given her the prize, and l said 10 /
my young friend beside me, ''She We |
born for the boards" and If she does NOT |
some day accept the place nature has
evidently provided for her, histronIc ar |
will be cheated of a genius. / am I'M
familiar with Kansas methods OF educa |
ton, but infer they are similar to those |
of the eastern states l believe We are
on The eve OF 8 new departure IN educa-
tional methods, which will take US out
of the old Euts, make more of thought,
less of rote, more of evolution, less OF in
In he No distant mast fhe
old system has reached an abnormal
growth. There Is a new and higher
method of education floating about soon
to be formulated
The speaker ;hen gave an amusing
| illustration of the system of education
by rote aud afterwards referred to the
knowledge of women as based on intui-
ton in a manner inconsistent with one
of the great new departures IN educa-
ton to which he referred. Not
WIthstan ling this lil'le DEPRESSION,
which ms tlir~iug remarks re-
gard:ng tue SPECIAL abilities of
women as ministers showed to be an
error In his own mind. he paid num-
Der of we'll deserved mplimeats. mo
man." said Mr. Collier, lever reached
his best except through the aid Of good
woman. She is the power behind the
throne aud ought to remain there" He
recited the laughable incident related
once by Blaine, of the notsry's question
asking the powerful and brawnV woman
if her husband, who was very tImid and
reserved, had exercised any undue in
fuenee in compelling % her to sign the
deed.
"a woman" continued Mr.. Collier,
81 say. can do anyihing she wants. OF
Miss Cloud would say, cOnsecrate her
to the pulpit. She may be good wife,
and hope she will be. She ceitalnl y
has the qualities of good woman In all
respects. If her parents and her judg-
ment will not allow her to accept the
stage, and will not really say that they
should, insist that they consecrate heI
! to the ministry"
The speaker paid a high compliment
to the excellence of Mr. DDcking's ora
ton and handed him the token he hac
so meritoriously won, and then delivered
to Miss Cloud the second prize.
/, Many call for Gov. Anthony brough
that gentleman to the front, who ad
I vanced aud at first impugued the loudly
expressed desire of the audience to lister
. TO him sitter the four eloquent speeches
, of the evening. The governor refer
: red to Rev Golfers adore IS as the fifth
! Grafton and brought round after rounI
of applause, at the expense of Mr.. Col
= lier, who also Joined ia, when Coy. An
, thony said that had the fifth Grafton beeI
{ delivered before he had made his decl
: sion it would not have changed hi
mind a bit. In a few happy word
t the governor said that never wa
2 there time when there were so man
: orators, nor never time when orator.
s had so certain and direct an effect 10
t good or i'll, as now. The orators of th
:, past he compared to an isolated tall tire
: of forest, the present to forest full o
), mighty trees. He, too, complimente'
i the lady orator handsomely and spok
2 fittinglY of the electric effect upon tn
a audience of the words of Mr. Docking
!, He gave some advice to the young ore
% tor, that Is we'll worth remembering, Il
e which he said that TO write an articl
n that was to appear in prln
% and to clothe thoughts in eX
y pressIons that were To be spoke
q demanded almost contrary considers
= tions. He warned the orator to bewar
of composing the details of his speecl
o, He must have his thoughts well in han
!, and an outline of his points and the infe
ence to be made and the couclusio
n reached. but to trust to the occasion, ii
u surroundings and the faces of his aud
a ence for clothes with which he was
ID adoTn and drape his ideas with that graz
and effect which should announce b
8, success by the expressions OF approvi
- which would shine from the features
r. his hearers, or detail his failure by II
le frowns or vacuity of the countepanc'
,s open to his view. Spoken language
- - susceptible of a license and really d
l. mands that, which would be Iuexcusib
of in an article designed To be read and n
D heard.
Numerous requests for Noble Prenti
ne whose versatility as both a writer az
he speaker were we'll known to many in Il
81 audience, failed, however. to cause tn
n gentleman TO release the comfort of Il
D. cushioned seat on which he Tepnsed al
I; shaked his sides It the thrusts of b
~ fellow judges He would not exchsnl
n. his ease Tor the awaiting plaudits whiC
he would surely have been his had he fe
or able to trust his fscile tongue TO the in
10 pedlments offered by throat cloggt
by cold.
IL Mr.. B. & Bruce, the alternate tor
40 Lawrence, also refused 10 considerable
~ of his associations with his colleagl
Ial to mske remarks which he was hume
n ouslY asked to present and which
70 undoubtedly had full powers Of pI
u" sentiDg in q most eloquent style.
ng
no After the closing orchestral selects
he Mr.. Wright thanked the judges and L
IS audience in behalf of the associate
he ami announced that reception wou
re, be held at The Coolidge psrIOrs.
eN The reception was well attended a;
heartily eajpyed The victors and va
~ pushed alike INDUCED in a season
no social pleasure Congratulations We
-, numerous aud hearty, aad the gsuer
In good time continued until la:e at niRl
ho
De NE WEAVER.