Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-11-19

For an evening Of genuine entertain
ment. without trace Of didactic morale
ing and which Vet leaves one with IA strong
er bias toward the good and true commend
u 10 VIII Carleton, who visited BrattlebOro
for the second time on Monday evening last.
under the auspices Of the Y NJ G A As
was said ON the occasion Of his first appear
ance here, il l. impossible 10 give a conven
tional report of an effort 81 entirely Original
and free from conyentionality this one
must hear and see in order to appreciate
The subject announced was The Chain of
Success. and some Of the links composing
ii Jamong them Health, Modesty, Financial
Cummonscnse, the disposition to do for
others and Faith-that quality which ena
bles one while planting his feet firmly upon
the earth To cling with his hands to heavenl
were held up 10 view, one by one and
then garlanded with that poetry which has
won such a warm place in every American
heart because through il all however home
IL the diction, runs that touch of nature
which makes the whole world kin Just two
things we would like to mention for the ben
eft of those who were not fortunate enough
10 hear them at first hand the lecturers
definition of success and the little anecdote
Of Garfield, which was new to many if not
all in the audience The first was, sue.
cess means doing everything that YOU un-
dertake u do aud everything that God un-
dertakcs that YOU shall do, while in regard
10 our martyred President il was related
that when the news Of his death was cabled
across the water the people of London
heard with wonder, and many Of them for
the first time, the tolling of the great bell
ON St Pauls cathedral, which heretofore
had never been tulled save when a crowned
head was laid low 1t was thus that Queen
Victoria honored the man whose love and
respect for his mother-as shown by his
thought for her even in the supreme mo
ment when he formally received the highest
office in the nations gift-she deemed worthy
of this public and unusual tribute.
BELvA LOCKWOOD IN BRATTI.EBoRo.
The First Regiment Band orchestra gave
a delightful half-hour program Tuesday
evening, preceding Mrs. Lockwood's lecture
aud those who went early enough to hear it
felt more than repaid. A fair-size audi
ence assembled by s o'clock, attracted quite
as much, probably, by desire 10 see the
woman who had secured admittance 10 the
highest court in the land as by "a wish Ia
hear about the American Mecca, and were
made acquainted with the speaker of the
evening through "A brief presentation ad-
dress by Mrs. Housh, Mrs. Lockwood's
production was necessarily rambling and
somewhat disconnected, and could scarcely
be called lecture. 1t was rather a series
of word-pictures thrown upon canvas by
the strong light of long and intimate ac-
/ quaintance with Washington and its people
"a sort Of oral stereopticon entertainment
Among the pictures thus presented in quick
succession were The city, its public build
ings and institutions, lovely drives, histori-
cal associations, etc; government employees
boarding house keepers courts the army
of people with claims, some of them buoy
ant with expectation, hut more of them
heartsick with hope long deferred the ON
nipresent newspaper reporter and CORES
pendent churches office-seekers lobby
lists, male and female, including the so-called
kings of the lobby, Sam Ward and Joe
Stewart Members of Congress, and Wash
ington society in general. Some of the more
stirring political episodes of the last 20 years
were also touched upon, with vivid portray
ais of certain prominent actors therein. 1t
was evidently the speakers intention to give
fair and impartial sketch Of the social and
political life of our capital and her personal
opinions were not Extensively obtruded al
though in one or two instances il seemed TO
us that the suffrage question was brought
IN without any apparent connection Mrs