Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-02-22
DIR JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.
The Subject of Grand Lecture by
DR.. Nourse at the Insti-
tute Last Night.

DR.. Nourse, the dramatic orator.
was the attraction on the lecture
course at Merrill Institute last night.
DIR. Nourse came to Pine Bluff a
stranger, but by his able and enter
tanning lecture last night he has won
placein the heads and hearts of our
citizens which VIII insure him inn
mense audiences in the future should
he again visit Pine Bluff. His sub
iect was the famous story aud char
acterizations OF Robert Louis Stey-
enson's CDR Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. !"
The lecturer entered at once with
out preliminary or introductory re-
marks upon his theme. He began
by reeiting the famous and familiar
story OF DIR Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
and then at once began to apply It.,
He declared his belief in the story as
an inspired parable. There were lots
of DR.. Jekylls with the hide off in
every community. He referred 10
| the number of business men, mer-
chants and others who are DR.. TEX ylls
on the streets and on Sunday, hut
who become Mr.. Hydes as soon as
they enter their places of business,
counting houses or goato market.
The well known habit of merchants
and Others of taking in the sights Of
a city and "seeing the elephant"
when they go abroad or to the mar
| kets was also humOrously touched
upon. AS in DR.. "Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" so in real life is the DR.. Jekyn
the moral and upright life--one of
beauty and loneliness, while the Mr..
Hyde-the lower life of inebrity, wick
edness and criIne-one which debases
the physical appearance of orr race
until such creatures resemble the
hideous appearance of the lower an
imals.
Man possesses two liyes-eaeh ra-
daily different from the other. The
one the noble, lofty and philanthro-
pic impulses of Dir. Jekyll and the
other the knavish and murderous in
stincts of Mr.. Hyde. Every man is a
DR.. Jekyll and a Mr.. Hyde, declared
the lecturer, in whom there is a con
slant fight between st. George and
the dragon.
Science has demonstrated, the
speaker went on to say, that every
man has two brains, each with a
separate function. There was a
ma tural and spiritual body in every
human being which was the basis of
q profound philosophy. There We're
ten thousand women with two faces
he declared, and then went OH 10
Illustrate the point by mention of
much of the duplicity which is en-
acted among the fair sex in social
| life. He declared that he had once
seen woman who had two heads,
two faces. two mouths and two
voices. She could carry ON two sep
arate conversations at the same time
/
could sing the highest soprano with
one voice and the deepest contralto
with the other His humorous rep
reservations OF the lady receiving q
social visitor and her remarks after
the visitor departed, brought down
the house.
The speaker then alluded to the
number of DR.. Jekylls in appearance
who were Mr.. Hydes in secret.
Among these were opium esters.
the whiskey drinkers and the
morphine fiends. The Importation
of opium into the United States, he
said, had grown from $4,000, 700 to
II 900, 900 annually, and the sale OF
/ morphine had increased % per cent
in prohibition States. AS between
the opium eater, the morphine fiend
and the whiskey drinker, he said
that he would take the whiskey
drinker everystime.
He then referred to the universal
lover ofmoney. Money, he declared,
could make mems hearts az cold as
itself. did you ever buy horse?'
he asked. "Did you ever sell {
horse?" he next inquired. Then yot
have seen both CDR. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde" in the transaction.
| The lecturer then touched up th,