The age-herald., 1900-12-16
HOLIDAY GREETINGS


mere suggestive flashes of their single
 minds.
 As MT. Chamberlain rose and began
 speaking it was for 0 moment as if I were
 In some other place, looking at another
 man, and I expected him to say: Gentle
 men, I have had the Rocky Mountain
 searched and have found pass where the
 worst gradient is only one in hundred and we shall haul trains with a single light engine as against the four 10O-ton engines now used by our competitors. I have ar ranged to put our own steamers of full At lantc tonnage upon the great lakes and to pay Tor them out of their own savings, at
 the rate of two year. We shall lay out
 for our Pacific terminus port which must
 rival Liverpool in the course of twenty
 years, and which, at expenditure of five
 million dollars, should return us its cost
 annually after the first few years for the next two decades"
 Cool to coldness, so pallid that women
 whispered that he was i'll, straight as an arrow, without a single gray hair, slender as a professional runner, dressed as only can be dressed a man of routine whose pulse is Hollandish, who lets others do the work, the walking and the worrying, ho might be thought to have walked out of a cold storage room.
 The shed was like Turkish bath, and | its heat worked upon his surface ice in | time, after which his smile was more easily | executed and his cheek trembled now and then where the light string of his eyeglass | touched it. For he wore the inevitable | glass, and with a sense of effect as perfect as if he had been Japanese, a terra cotta- colored orchid to balance it.
 Note that the audience was noisy-that 1t had been said there was a plot to break up the meeting.
 The master-the Brain in mans attire exhibited no more importance or-annoy-
 ance than found expression in the slow raising of one hand with a gesture half of insistence, half of warning.
 The disturbance grew and there came from him the note of one who will not
 brook interruption. It was uttered as de- iberately and slowly, with the same cool | ness as all else hat he said. 'If there are | any persons who wish to disturb this meet l ing make circle round them and we can | tell who they are."
 A statue could not have shown more self | control or less sign of feeling. | The noise grew and MT. Chamberlain said, as if some remark was expected, thought 1t did not matter, "Curely you Tn Burton can manage your meetings" and sat down.
 Then rose the wonderful Lady Burton. head of 800 of the most practical lady elec- ton workers in the kingdom, and reservoir of the energy of the local Unionist cam paign. She was not cool, but righteously indignant
 'If you did not come to hear MT. Cham berlain, what did you come for? So many people are disappointed. I beg of you to be quiet" It was she who begged-not MT. Chamberlain one could not imagine him doing it. Tt would be generous to be quiet" was the most he would say. After that the man of all-conquering per sonality began an hours speech, well worth hearing and studying as an expression of the force and subtlety, the command, the finesse and the resources by which he keeps rising and gaining in power It was | as fine as fencing done with hand and | wrist of steel. There was intensity in his speech but no heat or feeling, and no word | was spoken louder than if he had been ad- | dressing a company in London drawing 1 room. There were witty touches here and | there and rounding dramatic sentences, | but they seemed to have been prepared | not spontaneous, but rather thought out | with pen in hand. Precipitation beaded his 1 brow, but his small sharp eyes borrowed
 no heat and his face was grayen to the end. ! He had a wizards power of brain and 1 sounded note after note until he hit the one | that quieted and caught his hearers.
 And then. would you believe 1t, as soon as | he hinted at stopping the spellbound people l cried: "Go on! Go on!'
 | And at the end they insisted upon sing | ing what a jolly good fellow he was.