The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-23
BATES'S ELECTRIC TALKER.
| How Any One Can Become a Good Orator,
Actor SINGER.

Actor or Singer
Greenwood tArk.) Letter 10 Chicago Tribune.
Like StratfOrd on Avon, this place has but one
claim to notoriety. 1t is the home of DR.. Henry
Bates DR. Henry Bates is the inventor, the
dscoverer of Bates's electro-fonetics. Electro
fonetlcs is a system of charging the human voice
with electricity like telephone, that it will
galvanize and tingie into life the coolest audi
ence Electro fonetlcs be generated by
anything from fine tooth comb down pro-
vded you know the combination. And that
DR.. Bates knows. 1t was proven by his Fourth
of July speech here, when thousand men,
women and children innocently strayed with
In ear shot and like the man who had hold of
the electric battery. couldn't let 60. The Doc
tor rubbed his hands through his hair once or
twice before speaking, and when he did begin
the electricity fairly gurgled from him like
apple jack from stone jug. You could hear the
current sizZ through the audience, circling in
and ont, creating something akin to the sensa-
ton produced by strange mouse at a women's
sewing society meeting Even the children did
not escape.
Mr. 6. w. Crumpton, the Doctors best friend
speaking of the wonderful discovery said: The
secret of electro-fonetcs will make fine orator,
singer or actor out of any man. l have been
trying to induce the doctor to 20 to New York
and give his proud invention to the world. He
has worked at it alone and unaided for twenty
years, and now tits so far perfected that he can
make electricity in the human body and shoot it
at will through a great audience. The appca-
ton Of electricity 10 the sound of the
voice will make any sermon, subject OF
song interesting and exciting. 1t is
grand sight to see DR.. Bates charge himself like
leading howtZer with bird shot and then let
himself loose in the midst of great assembage.
The charge goes swooping down the line like the
onslaught OF Niagara hackmen on the first spring
traveller. The secret IS simple, durable, and
cheap and can at slight expense be attached to
the poorest actor or the dullest preacher, max
ing them attractively magnetic"
Did the late Mr.. Blaine. who was to some
extent electric. know the secretE
Il think not at least not fully
There is story current of test of his in
ventOn made by DR.. Bates on circuit-r rider at
Burnsville, this county. Unknown to the poor
preacher the Doctor attached electric
fonetic machine to him when he went into the
pulpit. The effect was wonderful For years
the orator had talked in the same monotonous
way to stolid hearers. This Sunday the enthu-
siasm of the congregation frightened him. They
were all on their feet. yelling, shouting, and
applauding. Even the horses tied in long lines
to the Zig gag fence outside were affected. A
pair OF oxen forced their way into the church
door and stared with big eyes at the electric
preacher. The thing success.
Next DR.. Bates tried it himself on his Fourth
of July audience in this village. The fame of
his invention brought all the county to hear
him. Five minutes after the doctor rubbed his
hands through his hair the audience was hys
terical in its appreciation of the splendid
brllliancy Of the Grafton. The sentences seemed
TO sparkle from him in forked flashes like
lightning from storm cloud impatient
spluttering from a soda water fountain
In one of the opening sentences the electricity
seemed to have played havoc with his metaphor
where it makes wheel erase thunderbot. The
doctor electro-tOnetics as follows:
so long as we live the heels of time should
never erase from memories the names of
Washington, Adams Franklin, Lafayette and
that mighty thunderbolt of North Carolina,
Francis Marion Their comrades, patriots and
soldiers of 20 should be inscribed upon the
inmost tablets of our hearts.
THE banner Of liberty that they unfurled 10
the breeze should never be permitted to trail in
the dust.
1.-The American eagle should forever continue
its fight amid the dazZlings Of the MONDAY sum-
THE iightninCs of the eternal heavens should
forever play around the heights of Bunker Hill.
THE Declaration of independence that has
caused the hearts of untold millions to beat with
JOY should forever float upon the eternal wave
of Time.
Full of the magnetism of the electric fluid
generated in some mysterious wav the doctor
quoted the howlIng assem- blage. and shot this
thunderbolt of Arkansas oratory at them:
1T was liberty or death that crushed the iron
heel of despotism and brought peace on earth
and good Will to mankind We expect, fellow
citizens that when your eyes are glazed in
death, and the cold clods of earth are ratified
over your graves, and you have passed through
that dark valley and landed upon the great
shores of eterity, you will look over the embat-
Elements of high heaven and see that majestic
and towering form of Patrick Henry proclaim
ing to Kings, monarchs, and despots of Europe
liberty or death"
And then. with this last lightning flash of
fonetlc electricity, flash that brought an
swering thunder roar from the great crowd, he
let them so:
THE rocks Of Gibraltar may crumble, the mad
waves of old ocean cease their roarngs, the frost
Of many winters encirc!e your hrows, dissolution
in the name Of the heroes of &c when YOU come
to depart from the world and bid a long and
lingering farewell to all of the beauties and glo
ries of earth, give to your darling child the Con
stitution of America. the Declaration of indie
pendence, and bury deep into its heart that
pure lofty and immortal declaration of Patrick
Henry-Lberty of Death"