The herald., 1895-07-18
The Witty Talk of the Rev. E. S.
Chapman
McCLATCHIE ON MICROBES
A Scientific Treatise on Bacteria and
Disease
Italy Over Head and Under Ground, the H.
lustrated Lecture by the Rev.
j. G. Fletcher

the Chautauqua was opened by vocal
solo by Professor G. 5. Cornell entitled
The Creole Lovers Song, by Dudley
Buck. Miss Marian Gertrude Hards OF
Pomona reclted Aux Italiens in q very
pleasing manner, Mr.. Earle playing the
piano accompaniment. Miss Hards re-
sponded to her encore by giving hum
orous selection, entitled The Old Maid S
Letter.
u President Weller then introduced Rev.
E. s. Chapman, who delivered very in
teresting lecture on his personal recollec-
tions of life in Washington from 1854 to
1869. The doctor is fnll of wit and gave
his talk, for it was more of a talk than a
lecture, in manner that could not help
but be pleasing to the audience. There
wasn't dry sentence in it. In the be-
ginning he said: ''In the history of na-
tions, as in the history of individuals,
there are certain periods of supreme i'm
portance. Such a period was the decade
from 1860 to 1870: the period of reco"-
struction. 1t was my privilege to be
present at Washington and become ae-
uuainted with some of the most promi-
nent actols of that period. In the au-
tumn of 1864 l received an invitation to
become the clerk of the committee on
territories. | gladly accepted, and as l
approached the great capital of the nation
/ had many queer feelings. Parson
Biownlow said he knew when he ap-
preached the city by feeling a great in
clination to steal. No bettei service can
any man render his son or daughter, for
she will be voter soon, than to take
them up IN the gallery of the capitol and
let them look down upon these mighty
men, assembled under the Stars and
Stripes, making our laws and weaving
the history of this great nation. For
they are mighty men; magnetic men.
Handsome. as rule, and when they
shake hands with you they make you feel
as If they really liked you. Get two or
three hundred such men together and
they charge the very air with electricity
In referring to his notes the doctor
asked for the forbearance of the audience.
His manuscript and a number OF very in
teresting relics were stolen somewhere
near Fresno as he came down from Oak
land. The lecture was to have some ser
ious features; he supposed the serious
part was amusing some vi the owls ou.
on the Mojave desert
Continuing, the speaker gave numbe
of sketches of some of the characteristics
OF the individual mem bers of the house:
There was one member who was an habit
ual drunkard. After an unusually severe
remonstrance one day by his friends,
who begged him to think of the people
whom he represented, lie said: II am
pretty drunk sometimes, but | am never
too drunk to faithfully represent my con-
stituents." Ths district that sends rep
resentative. knowing that he drinks, is
never above the drunkard.
Schuyler Colfax, speaker of the house.
was a vely rapid talker. Public speakers
and singers should learn to speak their
consonants plainly and the vowel sounds
will take care of themselves. In calling
names for voting to those in the gallery,
it sounded as ii Colfax said: Were you
in barrel of kraut in straight overalls. -
when in fact he said, Were you within
the bar of the house when the last name
on the roll was called
When Robert +. Lee visited Washington
after all those years Of bloodshei and
strife. no words but those OF respect and
esteem were heard from man or child.
His gentle Christian character alwa"s
commanded feelings of reverence from
enemies and friends.
The dispatch written by Colfax accept
ing his nomination for vice-president and
the pen with which was written the law
for Garfield forming the educational bu-
reau, the doctor had kept all these years
-butfnow they are being eaten by the
jack ra abbits on the desert.
The most impressive character that DR..
Chapman,met at Washington during those
awful years was Edward NJ. Stanton,
secretary of war. He was man of iron :;
magnificent personality. People came
to the war department and went away
cursing that such man was permitted to
be there, but the nation needed just such
man. AT the assassination of Linco'o,
Stanton was the only man who had pres
ence of mind enough to be of any use.
President Lincoln always put sentences
of death in a little pigeon hole. 1t is
claimed that the hand that wrote the
emancipation proclamation never signed
death warrant.
The speaker S quotations from speeches
by Ben Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, Roscoe
Conkling and James &. Blaine were es-
pecially interesting. He explained the
nature of the great Conking Blame con-
troversy, and how Conklng finally got
his revenge in 1876. when he sent his ia
nous message to the aspiring candidate
for the presidency: ''Will you please tell
Mr.. Blaine for me that l am not IN poll.
tics. l am practicing law and am NOT TAX
ing any criminal cases this year"
DR.. Chapman delivers his second lect-
ure tonight.
The morning hours were consumed in
class work, most of which are well organ
ized and lal gely attended. 1t would be
impossible to give an outline of the work
of each class, but some record of the work
will be mae before the bly, closes.
: Two extra lectures We're inserted in the
programme today at p. m. One by
Prof. Elmer E. Brown on Pedagogy, in
the tabernacle, and the other on Physical
Culture by Miss Addie l.. Murphy in the
Pres byterian church. Both were largely
attended and appreciated by the respect
i've audiences. Miss Mui ply, IN explain
ing her work said: "Pronably no system
of physical culture ever became more pop
ular and at the same time more msun.
derstood and mlsrepresented than the
Delsarte system. We hear it spoken OF
as superficial and fashionable fad.
Some fooishly believe that the Delasarte
system is intended to teach us to sit,
stand and walk after a new fashion. The
laws formulated by Delsarte are nature s
laws, and are universal in their applica-
ton. The culture is three-fold in it, de-
velopment of the mental and spiritual,
as well as the physical. Self-culturP aims
at perfection and Is the highest fulfill.
ment of the law of God. 1t means the
perfect symmetrical development of al
our powers Of body, mind ard spirit
lhe speaker thea continued with prac.
tcal illustrations of the method of teach
ing this system. and EN- phasizing the fact
that 1t was more than the mere develop
ment of personal beauty.
At 3 O'Clock Prof. A. j. McClatchit
lectured III the tabernacle on Bacteria
and Disease. In synopsis he said
There is probably no subject concerning
which there are SO many vague ideas anC
popular delusions as concerning bacteria
and there is good reason for it, TIL,
science of bacteriology is so new and ha'
grown so rapidly that it has been impos
sible for busy people to keep pace Will
the subject. My time this afternoon is
limited and the field is such a broad one
that all can do is to correct some o
these misconceptions and say a few