The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-20

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nee lle started e. lie down on the
/ snow white eountefpane, but then
/ stopped, and taking nr y quilt at maud
rs spread "a cut ever the bed AND lny
! down upon h, saying, tits no use To
/ slail that nice white bed" After ly7
/ lNv down. Dr. Rogers who happened 10
/ he ia the room, put his hand 10 the
chest and heart Of Mr.. bryan, anil felt
! his muscles and stomach and body, in
1 brief tested his condition, Just FOR hts
own satisfaction, after the phenomenal
| performances of the man, The Doe
| tor said there was not a CULVER about
| the heart; that il beat as normally and
as strong and quietly as childs, And
this is in accordance With an ohser-
walton by Chairman Manly who said
that the brilliant and winning person
ality Of Mr.. Bryan aside, he was besides
perfect animal. At his meals, he ate
heartily and slowly and well, enjoying
his food with great relish, and speak
ing with more comfort just after eat
ing, With as little affectation as alloy,
he took a hearty bite just before
getting into Raleigh, saying when
told that he might get fresher food in
Raleigh that it did not matter, SO it
was something good to eat, and he had
barely finished his meal when the train
rolled into the station. Every organ
is perfect, and his powerful heart and
perfect nervous system respectively
make him rally almost Instantly, even
.aF ID al
and fall into a quick sleep after much
mental effort. But after a deep, sweet 4,
sleep such as he got on that side-track /
out in the country near Goldsboro, his ,,
eyes sparkle like fine old wine, and
there seem to be depth and volume in
them, that volume that responds to inn |
preston like a deep cool pool to the F,
quickly changing lights and shadows
of day of fieecy flying drift-clouds
Those who were with him that.morn-
ing near Goldsboro will probably never
forget the appearance of the man. His
humor was not flashing, but it was
pervasiye like the sunlight of a spring
day: the fire of his eye was not sud-
den, it was rather a deep winter-glow;
his philosophy was not some startling
proposition, but rather the simple
towering of the root that starts in the
home, and his simplicity almost rose
to perfect trustfulness.
To me his greatest qualities seemed
to be his constant remembering of
others and his constant forgetfulness
of self These two qualities, it seemed
to me, gave his sentences now and then
much of that pathetic suggestion
which those who heard him cannot fail
to recall. In them think lay the par
| entage of that dignity which was such
| a gracious dignity--familiar with no
one and with which no one was fami-
liar. The newspaper men who had
travelled with him from Lincoln, hard
ly knew him better than newer ac-
qnaintances. And in this phase comes
the universally and equal-sidedness of
the mans qualities. But DR.. Charles
d. McIyer, who is very close observer,
made an analysis, part of which covers
this universally. DR.. McIver, after
his Asheville speech, was talking to
friend about the secret of Bryan's
power and said: First, he is man
of no one State; no one
listening to him can say he is of any
one State; Vance suggested North Car
DINA, Daniel, Virginia, Alexander H.
Stephens, Georgia, but Bryan does not
seem to suggest Nebraska any more
than he does North Carolina; he SEEM
ed to be one of us. Second, his sim
certify. Third, power of judicial state
ment."
Another point should be noted: Mr..
Bryan during his whole Journey
through the State did not utter one
| complaint, because, doubtless, he did
not feel one. He is not man whose
heart seems to have room for COM
plants. Its chambers are all occupied
with other feelings. Whatever he was
asked to do, he did it without hesita-
ton; it he was carefully looked after
he seemed to enjoy it; if not, he took
II as If it were a matter of course.
And a face and head "a study of which
eludes the pen. The dip at the mouth
corners was enough to put the whole
crowd in fine humor; and when his
lips break apart, and his eyes turn
| sidewise to his friends as if he would
enjoy the fun of it with them, he seems
to be smiling or laughing just because
the thing is absolutely funny in itself,
not because he is saying IL. II his brow
contracts trifle and the line of his
wide mobile mouth begins to straight
en- into plant line, he Is passing from
the smile to the regions of deeper
meaning. Then the change of his eyes
is beautiful study. They are not
terrible in their earnestness but APP
| pealing in their earnestness; the light
suddenly passes from the though-light
under which the fight has been kind
led and warmed tothe feeling-light that
plumes his deepest propositions with
beauty that thrills. I'm this phase,
there lies poetry, which is much the
cause of his musical flow of language,
as well as the cause of the unconscious
~ triumphant bearing of the man
when he feels that he has announced a
truth and has elinched it. The contour
of his face shows strength, mobility,
self-reliance, self control and emotion.
His chin comes forward like a reserve
force TO what he says. He makes no
haste; he makes no STACEY, rhetorical
pauses. But he makes the pauses that
give effective music to his utterances.