Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-06-06
DR.. TALMAGE'S MANY TRAVELS.
THE ELOQUENT DIVINE TELLS or
OTHER LANDS AND PEOPLES.
NO" hc WnS deceived at the sand.
wien isinnds-samonns nnd Fills
~ Tribute To Australia
) ana Her People.

over 200 Talmase admirers crowded N.
Fairmount Park auditorium at the Cbau.
tauqua yesterday afternoon. The crowd
came more near to being a representative
Kansas CITY crowd than has been seen at
any OF the previous lectures. Fully 10,
tickets must have been sold after the seat.
ing capacity OF tho auditorium had been
exhausted. People crowded In at tho stage
entrance and Insisted on having standlng
room in the wings long before Dr. Tall
mage had made his appearance and while
the band concert was In progress. When
the musicians left the stage there was n
general rush for their chairs. and every
one seated him or herself without the
slightest regard for the comfort Of anyone
Tess fortunate than they. and an utter dis
regard for the press representatives. who
were wholly shut out and had TO hustle
after considerable diaiculty. they placed at
least get a glimpse OF the lecturer. The
pan, managers should at least have seen
no Il that the reporters for the various
towards making the assembly a financial
success, We're provided with, chair; and a
aser OF the chautauqua, as usual. gave the
e,hbalrma9,s lntrodue,ory remarks. lie
Thousands Of white haniRerchiefs imme-
dintely responded to the call. and all wav-
ing made such a pretty spectacle mat pr.
.'''. wv illFs'N 81 l''hAs ~
marked when he started to speak;
The Inspiration NJ Union.
Like a snow shower In summer, What
can be more inspiring than a union of
gracious men and gracious women. women
without whosc company life would indeed
H. referred to a bill he once saw an
1t had been partially covered. mp with
%n,9sters OF various. other interesting events
nrflEtlN- was gnflnuhaf hpfprnnannng. IL
read: Roy. Dr. T. DE witt Talmage-wm
hold the nth annual iiremen,'s bali-lep con;
against ali corners for $500"
applause. "a %eurvc," continued the rev:
SrSna doctor, H. = Sirsile , %hleh en na y hiet
would have grown to be q circle. MY trip
around the world might be represented by
In about eight days we reached III. sand
witch islands. President Sanford y. Dole
TX. to S"t take Rsr a drive we nr rssad the he Stand. We
stopped at the palace, where kings ana
queens had reigned for ages; uo,or,ror.
Mr.. Dole said that it was founded on a
rock and would be perpetual, y never
account of the Chinese and Japanese pop
~ulation, which amounted TO 5000. The
United States had enough of that popula.
ton already. Long live the Hawaiian re-
Dr. Talmage then dlscoursed on the pro-
life ~fruitaGe of the islands, which he de-
messed it. Eleven days later" continued
the lecturer. 1--WE arrived at Samoa
samon nnd FIJI.
In talking OF Samoa and Fiji .he told the
story OF the discovery by n girl of an herb
which she noticed a rat making periodical
while the rat. which was n sickly rodent
when it commenced treatment. grew fat
sided and sleek and showed every sign OF
thriving from the herb. She came to the
conclusion that II 1t was good for the rat
1t would probably cure human beings, and
, u her return to Samoa she brought some
roots with her. The natives found great
virtue in the leaves OF the plant. They
chew it and spit the juice into pitchers. 1t
pectoration, but / did taste 1t.
THE German drinks beer, the English
man. beer; the scotchman. whisky. and thu
american anything he can lay his hands
bava." He gave a fine description of the
Southern cross, which he graphically called
a horizontal bar of stars.
Another twenty-five days and DR.. Tai.
mage was in Auckland, New Zealand. Three
hours after his arrival he was addressing
an evening meeting In that city. New Zea-
land, he thought. should not be considered
an island but a continent. There he met
the famous war bishop. Colley. and in the
antipodean church luminary asked his in.
terprctution of Tennyson's lines In the
"The charge of the Six Hundred at Bal
a~klava-"Some one had Numbered" The
doctor said that he had never had n sat
i~sflctory explanation of the lines. He found
thc bishop equal to the occasion, however.
lie placed a number of napkin rings in n
line to represent the Russian guns, and
It was Impossible TO, take them. Soma
Held pieces, which were not well defended.
The orders were 10 keep the english guns
at all hazards and "A X the Russian gun
ut all hazards. That's what rennyson
,,..Nt u-hnn he said 'SDmp one Ind llunl-
Conccrning Australia.
pr. Talmage was cap,lvated with, the
climate Of Apstr .yns cant ant t Is a w wonITH sa
its vastness when YOU, travel 5000 miles
Great Britain, The harbor q sidney Is ne
and the doctor was in Ceylon. This he
f ny. b @S Sna S sn,T yainniH,ianaf' iiatqhn has r bSsn OF dnl isf
climate only varies 10 degrees all the year
round. He narrated q thrtlling experience
and several elephant stories in this con-
DR.. TaImage's Indian experience alone
occupied the attention of his audience fully
thirty minutes. He, recorded many OF the
awful trials Of the hesiesed English In the
Farrars, now the queens surgeon. while
he was exploring the scenes OF this mem
u"n1Intion by the 10000 Sepoys. and its
inal relief by Hayelock and Outram. BE-
mares. with lis revolving cremations. which
the doctor described infinitely. and Gavin
recollection OF the wanton massacre, of
women and children, and which he visited
with colonel Joseph Lee as his guide, and
many other points of tragic. interest were
also done full justice to py the eminent d.
The colonel remarked that when he had
gone over the same ground In 81, he had
walked on his heels to avoid being splashed
Ticed Lees picture of the many tokens
~ the butchered women scattered around
IA piece of n lair ornament. n handful of
half purse c9n,da'n'hs ,,s som from in a isy
Who adj given his life that his women folk
might he sp-rcd from the assassin's knife.
many a handkerchief in the audience was
seen 10 wipe away a tear.
He pictured the mausoleum Taimnhul,
,ba mo beautiful tomb In the world, quilt
on the site OF the well where, the bodies
OF hundreds of women and children had
butchers. when even the native soldiers
Rad been humane enough to disobey the
nnrder'uf their saders and hred over the
heads II the defenseless women.
MemulInI &c Women.
This sacred memorial to the massacred
women OF Cawnpore Is a magnificent
structure OF pure white marble. II is about
Sfty PAGES around In the Interior. Above
The entranr~ is an inscription to the effect
mai the monument Is a sacred and per-
sHsItai memorial to the. great women who
NJ cruelty massacred by Nina Sahib,
a}',v IL 1857. "On an arch INSIDE the maus-
,p,y . !, aid DIR, Talmage. was an inscrip-
Sion that would bring a tear to the eye of
H. most blase traveller, II reads: These
they who came out OF great tribula-
tion.' ..u All. ha,L, =, ,ho