El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
GOVERNOR TAYLOR LECTURE

OOVERNOR Ih1LUR LEU UAE
Delighted A Large Audience Last
Night
Governor Taylor's lecture last night
was q success in every way. 1t was
jolly and off hand, it was beautiful and
helpful, it was lively and entertaining,
apparently 'haphazsrd. yet it carried
one to It's definite conclusions-a newer
love for music, life and merriment.
The lecture began with the statement
that the governor believed in love,
light and happiness, and then, splendid
1t is to tell, many of the heavens on
earth were pointed out, their doorways
always music. The paradise of singing
birds: of happy children, OF lovers. of
the home aud it's cheerful hearth, of
the paradise of the beauty of dawn
and starlight, all these were dwelt up
on by the lecturer in poeticsl
rhythm way that kept his listeners
tapping their feet to the time of his
| speaking.
| The lecture at times was so funny
! laughed out loud. There were hun
dred droll anecdotes of the email boys
mischief, lovers troubles, Uncle Ras-
tus stories, postum stories and ghost
stories, little stories whose humor was
doubled ny his irresistibly funny way of
telling them.
The account of the old log school
7 Of
nencement day exercises, was like the
magic carpet of old, the listeners were
carried back by his fancy to those old
days.
They saw the benches full Of boys
and girls, heard the little girl in her
shyness lisp "Mary had q little Lamb"
and the barefoot boy orators fiery
eIoquence in "The Boy Stood on the
| Burning Deck" the fiddler fddling
1.-THE ARK ansaw Traveller" and the
echoolmaster explaining his methods
to the committee.
Then there was something Of an &C.
count Of the judgment day and several
st ort, goodhumored brushes with the
various characteristics of the different
that were apt and excellently funny
but that did no harm to the religions,
so good humored was their fun.
Govern or Taylor did not play bic fG-
die and many were greatly disappoint-
ed : however, be did sing snatches of
songs fitting his own words to new and
oil tunes, and no one but felt that even
without fiddle, it WAS one of the finest
lectures possible. The governor is
never dull evea when he rambles
among flowers and bowers. He is al
ways breaking off his sentiment and
plunging into fun before the ursenti-
mental ones have chance to grow
weary, and breaking off from jokes
and frivolity and pointing his
moral or adjoining his lecture with
descriptions OF beauty before bis senti
mental ones can complain that he Is
: unthinking or unduly light hearted.
! Thus are The eyes of The sentime ntsl
everyday folks have to take their peep
at the Paradise of love and beauty, be-
fore they know what is happe ming to
them. Every body is pie ased, every
body's horizon Is little wider, his
sympathies are tuned up little more
!, truly and his life is bound to have
little more harmony because OF the
governors lecture.
Such lecture is in truth sermon
aud better than many sermons that
preach of life as mostly vale Of tears
and temptation with heaven beyond
the dark shores of death. The man
that shows the heaven that is in our
city, up and down its streets and over
the threshold Of our houses, the heav-
en- that should be in our hearts, the
heaven that we can make for the
children in our homes, the man who
believes in the heaven of the ~ of
right living and tells of it has a mes
sage from on high. The mau who
plays and insists upon each
note of the scale of Joy
seeing the beauty of dawps ard star
lights, through the middle octave of
notes of healty heartily laughter over
the little mishaps and contrasts of our |
days, to the low, deep, thrilling notes |
of the Joy Of happy homes, good men
and women and blithe children, makes |
divine music for those who have souls |
to hear. Some may catch but q strain J
here and there or chance melody of it |
all, while others hear the whole har-
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