The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
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WITTY JEST WORKED TRICK
COnspiratOr Shook Hands With the
Famous POst-PrandiaI Orator
and Made a Really Start
ling Confession.

senator Depew met some hostile Bryan
| tie crowds during his recent canvass of
New York state, and seemed to delight
IN handling them so that they cheered
MIN when he got through speaking, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean. To produce
this effect he generally began by telling
stories till his audience was in good hu-
NOR. In a reminiscent mood one day,
after making one of these changes in
| crowd at a little crossroads village Sen
| ator Depew told of an incident which
showed the effect of humor on a crowd
1T was at the strangest dinner that
l ever attended, and I've attended
! great many" he said. "a woman wei
known for her philanthropic work in New
York was the hostess, and she had as
her guests the hungry and homeless men
/ Who nightly form line outside of a
| bakery On Broadway waiting for the
| bread that is there distributed. The din
ner was on Christmas day, and the wom-
an who got 1t up came to me and asked
me to make speech to those who par
| took Of it. It was her idea that a little
| after-dinner speech would make the din
ner more of success, and she described
the good that might be done in this way
| so strongly that [ agreed to attend.
Like good many other people of New
York, 1 was pretty familiar with the
nightly. scene outside of this bakery and
the character of the men who waited for
the charity dispensed there. The dinner
| was at night, and I made up my mind
! to be as punctilioUs about my dress as
! though l was going to a dinner at the
| Mansion house in London. l put
| on my dress clothes embellished with a
! boutonniere, and. arrayed in this style
l went to the dinner. I don't think any
| thing ever made quite such an impression
on me as the sight Of those men as they
| Tn he Of for
about the table it did not take student
| of criminology to pick out those whose
| criminal instincts had for years been
| dominant, and in their hardened features
1T was almost impossible to read what
feeling that dinner or my appearance
! produced.
GUESTS ATE IN SILENCE.
"All ate ravenously, and what struck
me very forcibly was the lack of CONVEX
sation. In fact, a great majority Of the
! men seemed to prefer to eat in silence
Now and then word would be passed.
but it was generally an undertone
! After while it came time for me to
! speak. While they We're eating it be-
gan to dawn upon me that the task was
| pretty hard one, and when [ got up to
| speak l felt that this was only too true
! Although they had eaten well, and their
! inner man had been satisfied in a meas
ure they had not known for years, If at
! any time before, yet the look given me
| by every man at that dinner appeared 10
| be one of resentment and defiance. My
! hrst words failed to change in any face
! the sullen look it Wore and as nay eyes
| swept over that strange assembIage no
! sign of animation was visible on any
! countenance before me. I don't think I
| have ever in my life felt as / did as I
! looked into those faces and wondered
! how could interest those men who sat
/ looking at me silently and sullenly as
| stood there in my evening clothes, pre-
/ Senung Such contrast.
! Il don't remember now what I said at
! first but do remember that it fell alb
/ Solutely fiat. Then l tried some humOr-
! Gus little things that had stood me in
! good stead in times far less trying than
this. The first story 1 noticed produced
no impression There was still the same
! sullen look on the faces, which seemed
! to .portend dangers, should the owners
! of them meet me under different circum-
! stances By the time l had reached the
! end of the second story l saw that some
! were listening to me in q way that re-
! ally denoted interest. One Or two smiled,
! yet there were still some on whose faces
! there was absolutely no sign of interest
| but instead the defiant look of the anar-
! chist or socialist for one whom they re-
! garded as traditional enemy
81 told a third story. Like the two
! others it was a humorous one, but 1 had
known it sometimes not to take. When
| finished 1t some of those. before me were
! laughing outright, and others were smiI-
! ing. 1 saw only a few who were still
| silent, one Of them in particular, because
| he had MS eyes continually on me since
I had entered. After that I went on
feeling a little more at ease myself.
CROWD BEGAN TO LAUGH.
81 talked on subjects suggested by the
| season we were in and 1 found all Of
| them were listening attentively, and the
| next story told was followed by laugh
! that sounded like music after the some
| what ominous silence that seemed to lin
| ger over that strange feast. Even the
man had noticed laughed this time with
| 1OIN6 Nir1c~ Ion hot