The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-03

| important part Of the mamallia anatomy,
| the backbone. He cited many instances
| OF the necessity OF viii power over en-
! vironment, Of sturdy, energetic force
/ against circumstances, especially tempt
/ alton. lie repeatedly declared that man
can be what he says he will He even
declined to except the matter Of III
health. He admitted it was a hard ar
! gument, that one with shattered ply
| siQue is handicapped in the mad game OF
| life, and that ii surely is misfortune,
| and vet even this need not be an entirely
| insurmountable barrier to success and a
life Of usefulness, and as an eminent in
stance, cited the case of the immortal
Alexander II. Stephens. who had never
| seen q well day from childhood. but had
been wheeled in and out Of the council
chambers Of the nation between whose
halls he had built up a fame which time
can never dim nor occasion shed of its
lustre. He died the governor of the En-
pire state of the South, and that invalid
chair is preserved as q relic among the
archives. He spoke of VIM. Lloyd Garri-
son, who had made a stand and remain
ed steadfast to it in spite Of the threats
Of the populace who, IN the stormy period
preceding the outbreak of the Civil war,
even threatened his life In the matter
Of health he related one humorous in
stance in his own career when on his
first boat ride on the restless sea The oc-
currence took place on Chesapeake bay
and he had had the most energetic battle
with his own interior works, and the
latter were about 10 get the best Of the
fight when his travelling companion came
into his state room and suggested that
he take a cocktail. He at first declined,
but later when It really seemed as
though one hour was all he had left Of
life, he sheepishly sidled up to the bar
tender and asked for q cocktail without
the slightest notion of what all ingredi-
ents the mixture contained. The bar
tender asked him the startling question,
What kind?" Then came the study
He did not know, and he could not tell
Should IL be gin or whisky was more than
his Information was enabled TO decide. SO
no said gin It was made, and when it
hit the bottom OF his cavernous stomach
il seemed ike liquid molten cast iron, or
like a steam saw-mill was at work over
time down there. lie said if ever his ply
sician should determine that he needed
blasting out from the inside it might be
done by gun-pOWder. but never again by
gin. lie related how. at oxford college,
some one found q dead rat and took it
after quaTtering and splitting 1t in two,
TO the learned doctors to have it classi-
fed, and after mature deliberation they
solemnly declared il was an extinct
genus of the order dragon. and the
speaker said any cat about Oxford would
have had better sense than that. One
man even wrote poem on the wonderful
thing before he could be stopped He
said. TOO. in speaking Of the universally
of human sympathy, that not s. cry of
an injured child IN Cuba, of distressed
humanity IN South Africa, OF the down.
trodden serf on the Russian steppes. but
all were heard about the whole round
world, and today Liverpool IS as near
l.
great effect, showed how man is not a
mere autOmaton, a mere machine. but
rather q living entity, a being with in
dependence and viii, and reason, and
soul. That God did not place him here
with severe limitation which ne can
never control, but that ne may make
of his life as much or as little as he
may choose. Then he vivid portrayed
the case of the pitiable drunkard who
had from babyhood been a slave of the
evil Of intoxicants. and before a vast
throng in the distiller's Cwn country had
confessed his struggles and how he had
been dead dog drunk just seven times, but
before all and his Maker he would never
be again. This was backbone such as
makes Anglo-SaXon character. As the
strength of the chain is gauged by its
weakest link, so the strength of mans
character is often tested in his hour of
most aOJecU weakness.
His political career was a recital of
laughable experiences. and his every an
ecdote and incident was applicable and
appropriate There was that native hui
NOR which ever bubbles forth from the
sincere, the true, the great. and there
was the delicate flow Of richly varied eiO-
quence. of tender emotions of a child
ike simplicity and an heroic mien 1t
was a splendid effort by a giften and
able man, able as a thinker and gifted
as a portrayer of his thoughts. Every
one was pleased, and all went away glad
they had braved the elements to listen,
anG TO be entertained