Evening journal., 1892-11-12

to Smash Vcntriioquist-He Never
shouted Fire But Once and His Father
Famed the Flames A smyrna Editor
Caught.
"The idea that q vontriloquist throws
his voice is erroneous, remarked u we'll
known ventriloQuist to an EVENING
JoBRNAL reporter several evenings ago
cit is an idea which is generally ac-
cepted, remarked the newspaper man.
81 know that. was the reply, but
that does not make il the more correct
1t is nothing more than sound. man
talks from the stomach. The lower he /
gets his voice the farther Off IL seems TO |
be- began work at the business when |
a mere boy. My father took me to see |
the celebrated Signor Blitz, q man whom /
you have doubtless both seen and heard. |
| caught on, as they say, and found |
! that my powers as a ventriloquist in |
creased from day to day. ! discovered
another thing that man who expects
to entertain an audience i'm the evening
must abstain from eating supper or his
worl, will be poorly done
81 suppose such an accomplishment
is q source of never-ending amusement
to n mau, suggested the reporter.
"leF, if you can call 10 an accomplish
ment Observation and experience have
convinced me that it is natural gift
and cannot be acquired by any person
you have doubtless had many laugh
able experiences
"Yes One of the most laughable was
In Kent county | have n friend a doc
tor, by the way, who has very nice san
itarium at Wyoming. Despite the fact
that he has made wonderful cures men
will die ON his hands just the same as
they die when i'm care of doctors OF
greater or lesser reputation.
cone day was sitting with him on his
porch The Inbound Delaware divis-
ion train puRed i'm. deposited it's passen-
gers and then pulled out again. In a
5 few seconds | saw an aged man coming
D towards the house He was supported
3 by two servants
"Well, doctor" said "here comes
another patient. He looks as II he were
on his last legs, and I'll bet ten picheled
j. niggers that he doesn't live week
t "Oh may be able to pull him around, "
} said the doctor
+ "rhe sick man and his attendants
p reached tho house, the doctor met them
. and the disease wasted frame was duly
T installed as an inmate of the sanitarium
VI ] w NAAN ne NNhNNA va AiANanNtAAN- 90 his
D. comfort left
y 'Just one week later / happened Go be
- in Wyoming and again called upon the
n doctor. All recollection of the new
Is patient had passed from my mind
# 'Well, old man., said the doctor after
r our first greeting, you said he wouldn I
IF live week. and he didn't
Who didn't live n weelly / asked,
at q loss to account for the remark
"Why, my patient He died this
morning. ] have just sent for the un
S dertoker Come no and look at the old
n gentleman. He was too far gone for
Is me to do him any good, Come up and
# see him.
# eve went up to the room. In the in
d animate form upon the bed ! easily
,e recognized the living man of the week
"a befors; that he was a gruesome sight
q, One eye was closed, the other was open
o and his jaw had dropped. I passed my
s, fingers over his face pressed down the
n eyelid' and raised his jaw with my
M thumb. We then went downstairs and
a took seat in one Of the rooms
p. 1--WE were scarcely seated when the
undertaken came He had brought th,
local carpenter with him for assistant
The undertaken walked in rubbing hi
hands in convulsion of grief or avarice
s. The carpenter took the cue ana hl
rubbed and smirked and made a disma
failure of 10.
" The doctor conducted them upstairs.
y. followed. The undertaken was standin,
ce at the foot OF the bed with pain-drawi
as face and rubbing his hands with grief o
M sotsfaction-the latter, ] guess. for th
,v man was not related to him. The carpen
M ter had misery marks all over his coun
h tenance. lie looked as IL q cyclone ha
me- blown down the frame Of a house he wa
ed erecting.
ID "They stripped the corpse, put th
~ trestles under the cooling board Th
undertaken took the mans shoulders au
tine carpenter took him by the feet
They lifted him gently, but the ja'
dropped in spite Of their gentleness.
he put the devil into me. Just as they ha
of him half way between the bed aud TIA
oo cooling board the dead man seemed to say
n. in agonizing tones.
For Christ's sake handle me gently
I'd. They dropped him-yes, they droI
G ped him. clear 10 the floor He fen wit
his sicteumg tbud The undertaken dre'
,rs himself up.
ed Why, is il possible tine man is nC
nd dead? BY George he certainly spoke.
ps "While he was gazing at the corpse j
nd mingled curiosity and fear the carpentC
was making his way TO the door Whei
he went / don't know, but | do kno
that he could not be induced to ent'
the house again
.ht Matters were explained 70 the unde
lev taker and he completed his work. But
nv noticed that he did handle the corp
law very gently. even while filling the cav
-er ties with embalming fluid
IAN Fun at a Negro Wedding.
~ cone of my funniest experiences WI
~ nv at a negro wedding a few miles fro
~ Milford The bride was the servant of
@ friend Of mine The groom was a we
ny known young negro. Myself and sever
other white persons were informally i
vited TO be present.
"lt was a swell affair The seats ]
rlo served for immediate relatives az
- friends were marked by white satin ri
" bon They had ushers and everythil
.Iy usually seen at a swell wedding
ch friend and got there little late n
DDS liking to make ourselves conspicuous