The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-09
BowsER's LECTURE.
Troable Maker Got Homo alive.
ICIevelnnd Plain Dealer J

1t uinuef ISL toNAg yoes = "a
like you to hurry it up bit" said
Mr.. B3Wssr. rs hs got hJms ten
minutes ahead of his usual hour
the other evening.
"Are you going outP" queried
Mrs Bowser.
"Yes I'm booked to deliver a leo
turs this evening and 1 haven't any
time to spare"
Dinner was all ready and AS be
partook of the meal he explained :
"a friend of mine named Whit
more has been delivering lectures
or talks to tramps every Wednes-
day evening for the past three
months, and as he was suddenly
called away today he wanted me to
take his place."
Have You made any noies Of
what you are going to say?' Mrs.
Bowser asked.
mo. There is no need of that !.
It will be more of talk than a
lecture, and can think of plenty
10 say. I shall touch upon temper
ance, ambition. industry and so on
Whitmore's idea has been to incite
the tramp to higher aims and he
has had great success. He says
that at least ten men have gone to
work after Ioafing around for fif-
teen years."
"You are sure there is no joke
about it?" asked Mrs Bowser, who
somehow scented put up job.
joker Joke? Nobody ever
jokes with me, madam Eight or
ten men will gather in room hired
for the purpose and 1 will stand up
and appeal to their manhood for an
hour or SO 1 fail to see where q
joke can come in. Perhaps, how
ever. you will regard it as joke if
three or four of my hearers rise
above their present life and are
heard of in the fields of industry"
Mrs. Bowser said no more. She
had never heard of Mr.. Bowser's
friend Whitmore, or of his "talks'
and she knew that Mr.. Bowser
himself had no "Sift of the gab,"
but she helped him make ready to
go and trusted to luok that he
would at least come home in the
ambulance. AS he left the house
she said:
You won't blame me if anything
happens, will your"
What can happen?" he asked.
"I don't know"
well, don't make pancake of
yourself. One would think 1 was
about six years old and that you
were afraid I'd be hooked by a
cow"
Mr.. Bowser had been told that
he would find his audience in the
back room of a marble shop, and he
found them. The marble cutter
gave the room rent free and light
ed it with two candles because he
had once been a tramp himself.
Seven men were gathered to greet
the lecturer and let his words of
wisdom sink deep into their breasts
and they applauded him as he ar
rived. After the applause had
subsidized the marble cutter took
him into the front shop where the
tombstones were and whisperingly
said:
''The boys are all here as you
see, and are expecting something
good. What will you start cut
with2"
"Why 1 think I'll relate the case
of western governor who wts
nothing but a tramp, but who
worked himself up by sheer force
of character
~ don't mean that. Will you
start out by giving the boys beer
or cigarsP We generally send out
the growler TO oil up things"
II am not here to pander 10
vice." stiff1y replied Mr.. Bowser.
.'As 1 am going to talk about in
temperance 1 don't propose 10
mingle beer with it."
"Then we'll make it cigars"
We'll not make it anything of
the kind. I'm not going to bribe
anyone to listen to me-"
''Oh-sh-all right" said the
man, as he fell back. ayes, you
are right. and you can go ahesd.
The boys will be little surprised
but that won't hurt anybody.
Giva IL 10 'aro atronoD