The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-17

ing to me the other day of the lates
American invasion, one in the interests
of temperance he said: We've got DR.
Henry, of New York, over here, one q
/ the most slashing men on the temper
! ance question that God Almighty ever
let live, and we're going to set Londor
| on fire in the right way" Remarkina
to him upon his extreme views and
strong language, he said: Yes, If &C
| in for anything / do it with all my soul
and strength. For instance, If l kiss
my wife l don't just give her little
tantalizing society tip, but 1 give her a
buster that means something"
Happily married Is this erratic, lat
| ter-day prophet. His home is in the
| Strand, where he has still another sec
| ond-hand book warehouse. He is UNI
doubtedly correct in claiming that in
| his special line of back-number maya
zines he does the largest business in
| the world In his cellars at Paternos-
| ter Row he has three hundred and
! twenty tons of this kind of literature.
These storerooms stretch from the Row
clear back into st. Pau's churchyard,
and excepting for the labrynths. which
pass through, they are packed with
back numbers like sardines in a box.
But the man himself is not a back
number. In trade he is equal to the
smartest. From one Boston firm alone
he showed me an order for five hundred
volumes.
AS to his family life, one could not
help making inquiries about that after
reading some of his conspicuously dis
played posters. This, for instance: TELL
your partners all the good things you
think of them while they are alive and
can hear. When they are dead they arc
deaf, and it can do no good. Another
of the same kind was: Real self-de-
NAL makes counting couples happy, and
you might have another summer of
happiness now you are married--if you
denied yourself for it"
One who thus in front of his business
place breaches to others ought by right
to be above reproach in his own family
life, and by the testimony of acquaint-
ances, as we'll as his own, this gentle
man is you're a married man. he
remarked. as we talked matters over,
and I did not wish to deny it, feeling
rather fattered that my tidy sensible
appearance had led a stranger to so
correct judgment. well" he said
there's something 7 do that III bet
sovereign you don't. L keep a common
purse. My wife never asks me for
money; she just goes and helps herself
out of the common pile to all she
needs" Here was model husband, in
truth, I felt And I've two daughters"
he continued, both of whom are mem
bers of the Academy of Music, and one
of whom Is the leading vioinist at DR..
Parker's City Temple; they also help
themselves out of the common purse,
and are never restricted or called to
account" And here's this lad" he
said further-"come here, sonny, He's
we adopted him when he was a
baby. Now, sonny, go and look around
for customers outside. When that boy
says he's cut of money what do ! do?
| put my hand in my pocket, like this
suiting the action of the word-draw
out handful, like this--it was big
after taking out the gold
pieces and half-crowns turn over to
him what's left without stopping to
count it,
This man of large business affairs
and such very advanced notions on
family life walks to Peckham Rye and |
back every Sunday-four or five miles
each way--to address what he holds to
be the largest audiences of men that |
gather anywhere in London. As an
outdoor ator he Is one Of the best of a |
very large class. Speech is very free In |
especially in the parks and
and the speech Of this genius I
IF Paternoster Row, one can readily be /
ieve, Is particularly free and of a de- t
,idedly spicy flavor. Why doesn't he I
ride to his Sunday duties? One doesn't |
1eed to ask him that; the placards on
he outside of his shop window are suf-
iciently conclusive upon that point.
)ne says: "It is as honest to thieve
money as to rob a fellow man Of his
lays rest" Another was very con-
picuous, and it reflected little upon
lis neighbors: Editors down this Row
ind their masters are humbugs. They
preach against the dissertation of Sun
lay and ride themselves But this
ebuker of the shortcomings of other
,oor mortals-no one ever catches him
iding on Sunday Still, he works hard
nough on that day, as all the park
ators do. His speeches occupy every
sunday at least an hour and half in
he morning and two hours and half
n the afternoon while his boast is that
N three occasions he spoke continuous
Y for more than five hours without
aking even drink of water.
These park audiences are great not
My in listening, but in talking back.
are courted; they add In
crest and give the orator a chance to
how his power of repartee. Woe be-
ide the empty headed noodles who
resume to cross arguments with this
traight-speaking ge-hammer gen
rs from Paternoster Row! They do 1t
ometimes, but they are always sorry,
,hat there is left of them. mo, I Rad
o Interruptions yesterday but | had
its of fun he said, "all the same. Not
ar from my stand they tried to hold
ro- Boer meeting, and the crowd would
OF let them 1T took fifty policemen to
eep order. How ] ached to go over
nd give blast in favor of the war,
ut couldn't, for fear of being arrest
for melting to riot. But you can bet
gave some hot shot from where I ,
,as." What kind of hot shot he gave
he reader may Judge from three pla-
ards which 7 found that morning In ,