The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-05-29
MR.. BEDE All HIS BEST.
His ssYankee Nation Lecture Full Of
Hum0r and Thought.

w hen ] ]. Adam Bede was appoint
led United States Marshal BY Presi-
dent Glev Gland, at the special rel
quest 81 Elk Represe sentative NJ. r.
Baldwin, a Lyons, France, paper
remarked that the President had
appointed half-breed Sioux In
dian as United States Marshal for
the District Of Minnesota. This
was all owing to the fact that Mr.
|Bede was then residing up ia the.
northern portion Of ST. Louis coun-8
[ty. and wrote out his application
for the Office on a sheet OF birch
bark which had been prepared for
the occasion The birch bark APP
plication gave currency to the rum
or that Mr.. Bede was then wearing
birch bark trousers, and when this
got into print and the American
papers struck France the French
lpeople came to the conclusion that
Mr.. Bede was an Indian Of the half
Iblood. AS a result Mr. Bede at
once became an International char
lacter.
Mr.. Bedel has always edjoyed this
little foreign thrust at his Sex,
color and previous condition How
little it was merited people who
Ehave seen Mr. Bede know. But
the fact that he secured an interna-
Itional reputation thereby gave him
4 an advance of what he is now en-
titled to. That reputation is not
like that which the French paper
! would bestow, but rather a reputa-
i ton for being one of the finest lee
#lturers in the field, and certainly one
/ of the best humorists Of the age.
For should Mr.. Bede appear in for
i eign lands he would undoubtedly
catch his audiences as quick as he
does here in America, and once
l caught he would hold them in that
fascinating manner Of which he alone
i knows the secret.
i He lectured on This Yankee Ma
] ton at the opera house last Wed
/ nesday evening The crowd was
. the largest that has ever attended a
lecture in Redwood Falls, to ou1
/ knowledge. Tt was a good audi.
fence, too, composed OF people quick
. to perceive his witty points, his
Iclever remarks Mr., Bede inter
q Tested them at the start, and he held
j them as Bede only can hold an an;
I. dience. It was $40 O'Clock before
4 he took the platform in company
4 with TT. A. Baldwin. A minute OF
1.-TWO later he was introduced. ln
4 doing so Mr.. Bal dWin used a politl
cal story on Mr. Bede, wherein
while Mr.. Bede was stamping il
h the west one Of his hearers, aftel
1.-The speech, remarked that Mr.
Bede was not two-faced, because i
4 he was he would be wearing thu
3 other face. To this thrust at Mr.
h Bedeas alleged homely face NJ +
Bede promptly replied that while
n on the street with Mr.. Baldwin
|. that afternoon a lady remarked tina
the two looked enough alike to b
sIbrothers The laughter commenced
+ with this.
Commencing his lecture he sail
that the women Of this Yankee Ma
ton were doing so much that ther,
/ iisn t much left for the men to dc
Carrie Nation was doing her par
lin Kansas. Her husband was Con
ster Nation They had several car
nations. This Yankee Nation wa
another kind Of a Nation. Mr.
Bede then pointed out the beautie
of the United States, the beauties 9
the government. Of the people, am
said that every bush was afre Wit
God, but only he who takes off hi
!. Eshoes can see.
This Yankee Nation. he said
holds in trust the liberties Of man
E kind Hereliberty was first brough
i forth, but it was the fruit Of al
ages. tt was necessary to hav'
the Roman Empire with it's creates
men, the reign Of Cleopatra i
Eggy pit, the coming Of Christ, th,
battle Of Runnymede with til,
wrestling Of Magma Charta iron
King John, the Dark Ages, aud al
other political and religious perse