The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-30
YESTERDAY IT ACTON PARK.
A Nocturnal Disturbance, Which Causes
Murmurs of Displeasure in Camp.
Well-knOwn Lecturers Interesting Per-
sOnal RecOtlections of Famous Men
Hon. Will Cumbacks Lecture.

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heat. No loyal camper ever acknowledges that
it is warm at Acton, but they do say that all
that is needed to make the place little Eden,
with all the modern conveniences, including
Sunday trains, is real old-fashioned sozzlipg
rain. AS many of the cottagers have left their
houses IN the cities, bringing the keys in their
pockets. they have brought the family dog
along, so that he, and they. might not get
lonely For some reason, though there was no
moon, the dogs last night barked to the dis
turbance Of those who didn't bring dogs,
but cats or canary birds. Col Will Cumback
was spoken to on the subject He has fine
Scotch shepherd dog He noticed there had
been considerable barking the night before and
intended to investigate it. His dog came from
a quiet neighborhood, was unaccustomed to
nocturnal disturbances, and the Colonel feared
the loss of sleep would hurt him. Superintend-
ent Reed was spoken to about the bow-wowing.
He was much distressed, but promised there
should be no more bow vowel complaint If every
dog had to be banshed from camp.
A LECTURERS INTERESTING PERSONAL HISTORY.
At P. NJ yesterday Col. J. p Sanford. Of
Marshalltown, Ia, spoke on ''Old Times and
New his lecture being humorous and quite un-
reportable. The reporter conversed with the
lecturer, who was colonel Of the Forty
Iowa Infantry He has been and is a great
traveller, having crossed the Atlantic seventeen
times and been three times around the world.
Il have eaten bread in every country on earth
except Australia
"Tell him how you came to begin" suggested
gentleman.
81 hardly like to do that" said the Colonel,
but there's nothing wrong in it. I was an
acrobat when bow, in 1871 am ifty-three
years old now-and for four years Travelled in
circus I've tumbled in Ecuador, Brazil, Buenos
Ayres-all over South America, and was called
the South American wonder. I never drank.
and saved money, the latter not usual thing
| among circus people The money that bought
the farm | live on made then by tumb-
ling" During his conversation he smoke of
having been with Bayard Taylor in Egypt in
1872 and also crossed his track in Sweden. He
had travelled with j. Ross Browne now dead in
Holland and California He believed that
he himself WAS the last of the old travellers. he
said Taylor little austere in manner,
though always gentlemanly, but Cough was the
jolliest of lecturers and travelers Joseph Cook,
a man who might make himself agreeable with
little effort, the only lecturer and traveller
whom everyone speaks i'll of. Every body" con-
tnued the Colonel likes Bardett. He's per-
petual sunbeam The trouble with 10 Cook is
that he is constantly assuming to own the earth.
IF he did not demand it I've no doubt most per-
sons would readily yield il to him. AS it is.
they object to the appropriation" During the
conversation the speaker remarked that he had
dined with Gladstone.
When did you dine with the Grand Old
Mani
''At Hawarden. in 1874 There was pleasant
little company there. Gladstone impressed me
ifh In hot artio ,lon
had been absent, the whole thing would have
been failure he aimed, as it seemed to me-
to impress me with the idea of how big man
was, while Baron Rothschild. with whom
dined at his villa Lake Leman. Geneva,
aimed to impress me with the idea of how big he
1.-THE Baron) was. Gladstone, you see is most
agreeable host"
The Colonel is credited with being one of the
strongest men in America. and keeps up his rec
ord when at home by daily exercise with 1863
pound dumb-bell.
THE MODEL HUSBAND
Hon. Will Cumback lectured in the evening on
''The Model Husband" the subject being sug
gested by Rev DR.. Willitt's lecture THE Model
Wife" Mr. Cumbacks lecture, while humor-
Gus, was filled with strong common sense and
practical wisdom. He proposed to show that
poets novelists dramatists and historians had
all failed to do full justice to the male sex. and
Edlu. dtu u0LeFmlneQ 10 make rally Tor q
neglected man and see if it is possible to inspire
him with sufficient courage to hold up his head
and claim his rights. We find volume after vol
ume of beautiful song on the priceless value of
womans love- But it would be we'll to remem-
Der that most OF these poets were rollickiag set
of fellows that spent their nights at clubrocua
tavern; that none of them were sound ON
the temperance question and none of them model
husbands, notwithstanding they claim to have
such an exalted admiration of women
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stock company. Woman is the star actor. We
go to the theater, and find the plays the same
unjust basis Men only skirmish round through
two or three of the first acts to dull and list
less audience, but they attract no attention and
there bouquets / propose to take the
husband by the collar, bring him to the front
put him alongside the model wife and say, in
thunder tones Here is your model husband;
stand up like man; don't be afraid and then
call upon all men who have not forgotten what
they are, to cheer him, and ;mpart hope and
courage into his despairlng and fearful soul
and the garden of Eden Where did you
find any account that any beguiing serpent at
tempted to induce the man to trespass and com
NIT waste on the premisesl How was it that so
soon after the arrival OF the woman he had such
bad name that he was expelled from the gar
den and could not rent a decent place in the
whole country. but had to spend the remainder
of his life in the wilderness fighting thorns and
tnistles? In the sweat of his face he had to earn
his bread. He had a very cool and lovely time
before she came. To clap the climax of in.
justice. the couplet. In Adams fall, we snned
ALL goes sounding down the ages. think the
truth OF history requires this couplet to be re-
vised 1t should read:
Twas Eve who first ct It.
And don't you forget i'll
'The Office of husband is very difficult one
to fill. | see some old bald-headed chaps in the
audience who will confirm this statement Not
withstanding tho real peril attending the filing
OF the Office, nearly every young man in the
country is a candidate for the place And some
old men are running for the third, fourth or
fifth term. The candidates for some other Of
fees have to pass a civil-service examination.
They must know how to write and be able to spell
little Perhaps he has to go through the cru
cible of the convention to get the nomination.
fearful thing with its rings and cliques. Most
men shrink from it rather than take the CHANCES