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

best ! might. finally telling him that l,
too, was a lecturer, though l was keep
ing 10 as quiet as l could on account OF
my family, and so l went on trying to
brace him up and give him courage
even while ] could hardly smile myself.
His agent seemed 70 be along with him,
and to him I finally addressed myself In
the smoker little later on.
"Can you not get a special or do some
thing 10 relieve the anxiety of your at
traction?" inquired. ''He seems to be
suffering so much over IT,"
"My attraction" said the agent,
biting of the ragged edge OF his cigar
wrapper and looking out at the frosty
miles OF northern country, has been
this way for eight years. 1 am taking
him TO the asylum. Eight years ago
he was a young man. BE made hit
when ne graduated and delivered a
thrilling speech regarding the Ameri-
can Indian. Never having seen she
American Indian be loved him. He
said, among other things, that the
American Indian Appropriated more
nearly 20 what man should be-manly,
, grand, physically perfect, morally great
and true 90 the instincts OF MS conscience
than any other race OF beings, civil
lied or uncivllized. Where, be asked,
do we hear such noble sentiments
or meet with such examples OF herOisH
and self srcritice as the history or the
American Indian furnishes? Where
shall we 90 again 20 hear such OratOry
as that Of Black Hawk and Logan?
Certainly the records OF our so called
civilization do not furnish IL, and the
present century IS devoid OF IL.
, They were the true children OF the
Great Spirit. They lived nearer
70 the great thrObbing heart Of the
Creator than do their paleiaced con-
Querors OF to-day who mourn over the
lost and undOne condition OF the saw
age. Courageous, brave and the soul
OF honor, their cruel and awful des-
tructiOn from of the face OF the earth
is a sin OF such magnitude that the
people OF America may we'll shrink
from the just punishment which is sure
10 follow the assassination Of so brave
q race. He had quite LOT Of things
like that In his speech, and his father.
who had a chattel mortgage on the press
OF The Home and TndiCItOT, OF our
place, got Il printed 70 the exclusion OF
the tax list and other spicy reading.
"Friends then petitioned him TO let
the boy lecture. He swelled up with
/. pardonable pride and encouraged the
young man, and so he started out He
was all wrapped up in the Indian, and
90 be prepared a lecture on The Red
Man, Past and Present. He put all the
poetry into it that boy who had never
seen an Indian would, He practlced on
his piece all the time, and finally he got
an engagement. Itswas ia q near
by Town where they were trying
TO buy library. They only
needed $50 more, and so they had
decided 70 have q course Of lectures
= during the winter. The committee in
tended TO have one lecture on The
Attic Region and How 70 Avoid Going
There by an old artlc explorer who had
taken so picked men up 70 whore he
could hear the nUrth end OF the earth's
axis squeak, had eaten the leather ends
of bis suspenders, taken the latitude
and longitude, picked some OF his ten
Grest men again aud returned. IL was
also the scheme 10 have a lecture on
Political Economy and How TO Put
Money In the National Pocket by =
man who lived on his sistsr-in-law and
who was clothed by his son-in-law.
The cOmmitte has also decided to en-
plOy an able theOlogian 20 lecture
on Inside Facts Regarding Divine
RetributiOn' by man who had
given bis whole life to a study OF kin
dred subjects. Then 3 we'll known hu-
morist was TO follow With a lecture on
'ScaROld Orators and OratioRS. Past and
Present.
Last OF all, Napoleon PangbOrn. my
young friend, was TO lecture on The
Redskin and His Wrongs The price Of
the whole course ticket was only So. and
the public was on the o. we've, as you
might say, to hear the closing lecture.
Napoleon had not been idle. He