The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-22
Talks With TalmaQ0.
WaShington's Most Popular Preacher and His Work--A
High-pressure Human DYNAMO.

machine, but he and the machine had
such Il fuss that be has never departed
from his live male stenographer since.
Even if there was Il machine made hich
would receive the immense volume of
matter he dictates at once, he could not
use it because he dictates while on tho
90 all about the room. he could not
carry it around the room with him he
cause he is perfectly unconscious when
he gcsticulates, and he would drop the
machine on the floor and break it all
to pieces. 1t would be manifestly ridi-
cuIous for him to tie it around his neck.
so 1t IS difficult to see how Dr.. Talmagc
II the talking machine can ever come
together. no matter what the capacity
of the latter may come to be i'll time.
When talking to his stenOgrapher. his
family, to friends in his home. or his au-
dlence i'll his church. DR.. Talmage is
always the Same-so intensely impressed
with what he is saying that his pastures
ana gestures are unknown to him. AS
he grows older these gestures seem tc
become stronger and more graceful.
Even III the house. in his d~rawing-room
or at the table with his family he acts
constantly and unconSciOuSly. In his
work. which is all done in his house. he
employs no one but his stenocraphers.
Several times he has employed secreta-
ries. but never knew what to do with
them but to discharge them. and now he
does everything his stenographers can
not do for him.
HIS PERSONAL HABITS.
He always dimes with his family when
he can get out of dining in public. and
there is nothing i'll the calendar he does
not eat and relish except goldfish, and
this he lOves-ten miles away. Next to
his family he seems to care more for his
collection of relics than anything else.
At the back Of his main hall is Il small
room which he calls his Oriental room.
and it is filled with an extremely rare
collection of relics presented to him
while travelling in the Orients. His
dr~awing-rooms are filled with rare
paintings. furniture, and bric-a-brac.
mostly presented to him by the rulers
of countries he has visited and written
about. His study IS truly a "'hoiy
show especially after he gets through
debating Il series of sermons. He mutt
lates books terribly and throws them
all over his work room. This. he SAYS.
is one of his only real bad habits. For
years his family has preserved in albums
all the pictures sent to him of babies
with "Talmage' somewhere III their
names. They have finally tired of
~ H'Ah GNU "H ~ tht til-
tries. but there are several albums chock
full of the most motley aggregation uf
children one ever aw. Every year he
receives hundreds of books. some good.
others perfectly useless. with autographs
of the authors.
He is something of Il crank on the pro-
fuse use OF Wa'nr. and goes il fer
auuaticS a. enthusiastically as he does
for gymnastics. In his house IS Il worry
l. moo an1 .L I-,-
bathroom. md from his copious use OF
water eveIS mn:ning before breaAja:t
one might easily l"l.,N6 hin: n natural
Baptist.
He is robbed of thousands Of iolllrs
Ey imn5st-rs ..:a' c;i publishers "r3
the inadequacy of our international
copyright Iaw. He has published but
fifteen books. Yet there are fifty-four
masqucrading around the country under
various titles as his works. According
TO the copyright laws of this country he
cannot copyright his IN after they
are delivered. Any one can publish
them entirely or in part. Although he
will lose a fortune during his life by
not being able to control his ermOn
exclusively after they are delivered, ne
pcrSiStcntly refuses to join any aSSocla-
ton for the protection of authors or to
fight any publishers. He says he is
making enough money to be content i'll
this world. and that if there is any mis-
sion in what he writes the more it is
spread about the world. either by him
self of some one else, the more good it
will do mankind.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MINISTER'S.
DR.. Talmage's advice to young minis
tiers is for them to find out just how
every other minister breaches and to
then preach entirely different from any
of them. His theory is that if the Lord
has made fifteen hundred million differ
ent faces. he expects TO have things
lone in fifteen hundred million different
ways. Il always" he said, TRY and get
as many points i'll my sermon as pos
siblc. Some years ago Il reporter in
Brooklyn once said to me, We'll, Doc
tor. are YOU going to give US some points
to-day?' and | have always tried since
then to preach thrcc-quartcrs of an hour
with as many points as possible"
Even if he had time. he says he could
not read modern novels for amusement.
He has recently tried to force himself on
railWay rains. where he could get moth
ing else to read. to 90 through a number
of popular novels of the day. and after
reading Il few chapters he would give up
in disgust and look out Of the car VIII
dows and study the works of God as TIE
train sped on throughthe green fields
and mountains and over ravineS and
winding streams. Facts and good things
seem to stick to him as he goes through
life like cookies stick to 4 boy as he
wanderS through Il green field. lie has
always been Il close student Of the daily
lives Of public men. His great American
ideal is Abraham Lincoln.
BEWARE OF OINTME\TS FOR
CATARRH THAT CONTAIN
MERCURY.
as mercury will surely destroy the sense
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