The Arizona sentinel., 1897-02-20
Joaquin Miller Entertains Large
 Crowd.

lowing to say in regards to lecture given in that city by Joaquin Miller who is expected to make his appear ance in th1s village on Friday evening, February 26th, at the Southern Pacific hotel:
 One of the largest audiences thas has yet assembled to hear any of the University lectures was gathered in McMicken Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras."
 Many visitors added to the as semblage of students that filled the hall, and when MT. Miller stepped upon the platform he was enthusi- astically received. For nearly two hours he held the closest attention of the audience, and was frequently ap- plauded.
 "Lessons Not In Books" was his theme, and his heartfelt, soulful words won the sympathy and admiration of his audience. He began by telling Of his little band of pupils, many of them Japanese, which has gathered around him at his home on the coast i'll Cali fornia. These pupils he frequently referred to in his talk as "My little brown students" and explained that the lecture he was given was such as he would tell to his little brown stud ents, where his words were sure to be sympathetically received.
 "I do not teach at all," he said, "I present few simple rules which my students see tackled up on the walls of my cottage. Let me repeat them to you and impress them on your minds as I would on the minds of my pupils.
 "The first is 'SilenceY mean an absence of superfuous words. The second, No dispute or doubt about the immortality of man. The third, Man is good, doing his best as well as he can under his weaknesses Fourth, The world is beautiful Fifth, Man must toll in the sweat of his own face,' and last, Take great care of the health, live simple, go to bed with the birds and rise with tAem."
 Taking these precepts as his text, the poet in decidedly characteristic manner, with earnest face, quiet gestures and impressive attitudes, told of the lessons that nature had taught him with a simplicity and direction that went straight to the hearts of his hearers. Whenever he spoke of the grand mountain scenes amid which his life was spent, he became eloquent, and drew word pictures that were real poems.
 In the course Of the lecture MT. Miller recited two or three selections from his poems and his rendition was wonderful. His words seemed to be entirely spontaneous, and he appear ed to be giving the thoughts as they occurred to him at the moment. AS he closed, he said:
 Some of the greatest lessons are those not in books, but such as come from the great heart of Nature. 1 have brought you some as l have learned them in communion with her in the great Sierras. I now leave them with you, and if some grains of gold have sifted down here from the mud sands of California, you'll gather them up-good-by!"
 When he hand finished, pr. Myers, the dean, stepped forward and clasped his hand, to express the thanks and appreciation of everybody in tke audience.
 MT. Miller afterward shook hands with numbers of the students and visitors present.
 MT. Webber, the artist, accompanied Joaquin Miller to the University. At the close of the lecture, in conversa- ton with the dean, he proposed to point and donate to the University of Cincinnati an oil portrait of the poet. His offer was readily accepted. MT. Miller will remain several days in Cincinnati, while the portrait is be- ing made.
 The generous offer of MT. Webber will meet with hearty appreciation from the students of the University, and they will welcome a reminder of truly great inspirer who won. their hearts yesterday afternoon.
 An Old Settler.
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