Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-18

maker from Lower Jasper, who was
holding a little child that was eating
cOoky with pink sugar on it, said In
gruff voice: Can't ye speak sos We
can hear We? Never mind the gestures
Speak up! Louderp
NAPOLEON fetched little kind OF SOD
and took glass Of water. Then he
tried again, beginning back where he
started out, but raising his voice higher
and higher till it was split and ruptured
at the end OF every sentence. when ne
got through, the committee told him
they thought that was pretty easy
way to earn IS. but gave it to him, In
GLIDING q lead dollar. .
"Afterward the Fly-Capper-Sigh, OF
which he was a member, gave him a
banquet They had previously invited
him. and so could not well back out.
He went, though there was a wild,
hunted look in his eye as be started.
The BANQUET was not quite ready, for, as
the steward Of the restaurant said, the
Cove oysters had not came yet, so Ma
poleon sat in the anteroom and people
went by and examined him as II they
were taking farewell look at him De-
fore the lid was screwed down.
HE was very cold and quite hungry,
not having eaten anything since be had
agreed TO deliver the lecture, but they
nut him at the cold end Of the room by
the side OF a trapped president, who
made notes on the back OF his menu and
frightened out OF Napoleon what little
intelligence he had left.
1.-The restaurant was a very poor one
indeed, and the china had large, dark
chips Knocked out OF IL by people who
had tried 30 drive In picture nails with
IL. The courses were widely segregated,
and the dishes came en- each time warm
and hurried and painting, as who should
say: We may be little slow about 1t,
but we do not miss a single course. We
also aim TO please
"Well, to make long story short,
the agony could not be drawn out any
longer, and finally the president raped
on the table with the iron handle Of his
already exhausted knife and said, we
have with US this evening'-just as
though they had been In the habit Of
entertaining all the crowned heads
that came to town. Then he spoke
briefly aad tersely Of Napoleon and in
troduced him as the silver-tOngued rep
resentatiVe Of the Fly-Capper-Sigh OF
Jasper.
Napoleon arose, wiped his cold lips
with q napkin, and taking the table
cloth with one hand by the corner
he jerked it about due east as
the crow files, gave the shrek
OF q demon, and tying the
table linen around the throat OF the
president choked him to death. Then
picking up a whole custsrd pie he struck
a little fellow on the opposite side OF the
table so as to FIJI the ear 10 overlooking,
caught hold Of a carving knife and fled
through the village, cutting holes in
constables and biting elderly people on
their way home. He has cleaned out
two asylums already, and now he Is on
his way TO Waupaca. He still thinks,
poer boy, that be is TO lecture at Jasper
tonight and that II he should disap-
point them he Will be out So"
The lecturer has two or three great
obstacles TO overcome which the actor
has net-viz, be has no scenery, he has
to occupy the entire evening alone, and
there is no division into three or four
acts with chance for the audience TO
rest aud run down the show. Add yet
the lecturer often starts out fearleSsly
without training, or with training that
is far worse than none, and on the repu-
tation be has made In some totally differ
ent art he fearleSsly rushes in where
angels would naturally hang back and
advertise to lecture. AT the expense Of
the public he thus, II persistent and
brave, at last learns TO be natural-if he
didn't foolshly get his originality and
individuality trained out Of him by
iourneyman elocutionists on the start
and is then considered a professional.
He can think Of other more interesting
topics than his speech and sit himself
down by the roadside Of life at times to
calmly remove the thOrns and BRAN
blss from his tired feet-thorns and
brambles accumulated sll along the
harsh and fercely thorny road over
which be has travelled toward even a
moderate success.
am often asked, care the audiences
as different as the people, and where do
YOU find the most enthusiastic and aD-
preciative audiences?" l must say that
no general rule can be given so far as
points OF the compass are concerned.
The west Is hardly more enthusiastic
than the east, though young audience,
q college audience or an audience OF
teachers or newspaper men is the audi
ence for enthusiasm.
Portland, Me-, is said to be the quiet
est aud Chicago the most enthusiastic.
This is true In some respects, but if you
can get time 20 watch the faces Of the
New England audience without forget
ting your piece you will discover the
same degree OF appreciation and enthus-
iasm, though manifested perhaps in
different way, In the one case as in the
other.
Lecturers are better treated on the
whole now than 20 years ago, and the
eggs used by those who criticise the
performance are Of higher order Of
excellence, IL seems TO me.
No one can be quicker TO recognize
az appreciate such reform than
can No one halls with greater glee or
more optimistic salvos OF applause this
stride in the direction OF improvement.
I&ad intended to give 3 few little
De n periences In the way Of an