The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-01-04
"The Paradise Of Fools. .

Ex-Governor Bob Taylor deliveries
his popular lecture, The Paradise 81
Fools" at Jobe's opera house Salnr-
day night for the benefit OF the
Southern NJ. E. Church. This is the
second time this season the GoveTnuw
has appeared in this lecture, but the
house was full TO overlooking just thar
same.
bis personal magnetism will fill axsw
house in Tennessee, and bend any
stubborn heart 10 admiration. As&
story teller Bob Taylor is withoua m
parallel. AS speaker he is crosse
between the rugged, light hearted
mountnlneer and the iInpassioned ors--
tor, and he oscillates from one 10 thee
other with natural grace that lends
charm To the transition. From hiEa
blunt prototype Of the mountains he.
gets his brilliant and sententious wiz.
and from his birth and education hiHs
great ability as word painter Hes
belongs to that class of orators whiclrl
the modern hustle of business is iasts
starving to extinction. A few mOres
decades and the heart will yearn INA
vain for this soul imbruing unctiona
from the platform. His lecture is SA
variesated arch spanning from yOutla
to old age.
The description of the original eden
was beautiful. There were no shamss
in it. "Not a painted cheek, nor ialse,
tooth, nor bald head, nor bachelor
Eve was clad in sunshine and Adam
in climate. Sin changed the scene
from roses to thorns. In that fall was,
lost love sometime family heard
from orators and poets like angel
voices That original happiness is lie
a rainbow now, ever in sight, meyer ma
reach, but always resting on the hoSis-
zon of hope"
The speaker regarded the child @S
the nearest approach to the PARADISE
that was lost, but the Adam is sooa
manifest in overturned slop- buckets.
maltreated kittens and murdered COS
lings. - - -','ist-'}. .,-
His little child and old coIorsGa
nurse are perfect. Il
| Youth is described by the GoverACsar
as the sedlitz powder period, the lanCs,
of folly, long legs and loose iointss,
shaving and scraping the down irou,a
a face that looked like o pimpleHs
goose, and with voice half rasp anIS
half caliope reciting bad poetry abOukz
g his girl, But she sends back his little-
greasy photograph and his paradise is
lost.
Then the young doctor treading tks.
paths OF glory which lead bat to tina.
grave.
"But folly does not end with yontaE.
Man loves to stumble around in thka
paradise of fools. The drunkard is tbEs
fool of FOOLS"
"The bachelor could restore Eden.
by putting his arm around its waiss-
: but he's too cowsrdly to do it,"
Q "The widower's age and bank ar
!. count are in doubt, and his jealousE
, is as cruel as the grave"
!, The Governor said he would rathess
: have the power of Joe Jefferson ~,
y make the world laugh than to be-.
President and disappointed with tw,n
Q girl babies. Happiness is not 10 poi
e itics. The man who shouts the |. nd
9 est generally has TO cure hia hoar-+ n -.
by swallowing his own defea,. .sm
!. bition dries mp the nobler sentiments
a of the heart"
a The pessimist Jared roughly in the
# lecturers hands. He wants to be de-
livered from the man to whom ioke
is an assault and battery, and whose
|. smile is like sending an electric cur
:. rent through the facial muscles Of q
T. corpse.
It He bitterly denounces infidelity AZ d
l. pays glowing tribute to God Who
alone is able to restore the paradilsT
n which was lost.
~ Still Another.