The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10
9 A LECTURE. Q
Greece Described TO the
Inhabitants Of WafIa
WalIa.

naCk IN lue autumn OF ohf ne euiut l
4 found that town q whole heap
more prosperous than / was. After
I'd been there for a couple of weeks,
with nothing doing, ! began to re-
feet that if something didn't happen
pretty soon I'd find myself begged or /
vagged or something.
In a moment of confidential gloom /
impaired my tale of woe to the /,
landlord of my hotel, with whom |
happened to be all square-yards, for
the reason that I'd had the prescience
and foresight to pay my board with
my last kale two weeks in advance
upon hitting the town.
Now you needn't be surprised a
whole lot l told the good natured
landlord, If l stick your night clerk
up one Of these nights and take to the
chaparral with whatever small change
he happens to have in the till. I'm
all in, and l don't see anybody in
Walla Walla making feather beds
from the holdings of the angels
around here. How about a bell hops
billet, if you expect me to remain
honest, or a berth as head bootblack
of your doggoned old tavern?'
'It was at this stage of it that that
whole souled innkeeper of Walla
Walla got busy in framing up
scheme in my behest and behalf.
Never done no lecturin', have
you, buddy?' he asked me.
Seeing that he was taking an in
40 I 10Th
as we'll be on the level with him, and
so l told him, candidly, that, curl
ously enough, l had never been en-
gagged in the lecture field.
Well, that amt sayin' that you
couldn't spin 'em a talk, s'posin' the
chanst swung your way suggested
the landlord. Now, I've got tucked
away in the cellar a lot o. lantern
slides-picters o. Greece, ancient an
modern, is what they're labelled
that was left here a couple o. year!
ago by a lecturin' son of a skunk thai
never got sober 'nough tn hull timt
he was in an around Walla Walla t
onreel his talk, although he adyer
tised his lecture four o: five times
loco from oooze all tn tine he wer
here, and he disappinted tn popu
lation so often, after promisin
oliver his lecture, that the las tim
he falls down on EN- tn ~ gifts t'geth
err an runs him out o camp, an h
never streaks back no more. Conse
quent, I'm tn heir an assign foreve
81 ~ f1f n T. n
tray all what is boat ancient an
modern Greecs. Now, there's you
tip, hombrey, and you can work tn
rest of it out f'r y'rself. You we
come t use them slides If you wal
to, an I'll guarantee you'll draw
houseful with 'em, and that the bo!
IL behave; they'll haze to, 'cau'
they'll be ladies present. III see tht
everybody in Walla Walla what
broke t lectures Il be on hand
II suppose maybe there WASH
mama in that kindly suggestion.
thanked the landlord, and he had Il
bunch of slides brought up from t.
cellar and busted or.
'He not only had the slides, but
tern and all the res, Of the gear,
ready to be set up and put toseth
for the lecture I looked the sli-
over and found tnal taey were n cor
ing fine lot OF views
~ got a properly man from
new Walla Walla oD'rey haouse "
knew all about magic lantern gear
assemble the stuff ana try it {
against a screen in the hotel DIM
room after the supper had b'
cleared away, and It all worked
tallowed lkids.
Then with the landlord back
me up ] rented the oprey haouse
the following Saturday evening
was then Tuesday-and inserted
sn tick ad. in the newspaper to
effect that Enripides Aristopha
Athereslus, the famous traveller
professor of the University OF AthC
would deliver his noted lecture on
cient and modern Greece at the op
house on the following Saturday {
ming, with the finest set Of views
Illustrative of his subject that
ever been got together.
"The landlord, who was eonsl
able of a citizen in Walla Walla,
busy plugging for me. and when
tickets were put on sale at the
store they went like hot wa1les j
city cab stand. The lantern
sci up and the slides we're throw
the screen in rotation renea
and Saturday morning it occurre
me that It wouldn't be such a
idea for me to think up somethin
say to go with the pictures.
II had never been any neare
Greece than Sandy Hook. but WI
bothered much by that consldera
| didn't stand In much fear that
Walla Walla folks would be sticl
for the exact figures as to an
and modern Greece.
"And, as a matter OF fact,
wern't. The lecture gave them
all right and 1t went through W
clatter. l spread 1t on pretty
about the conQuering hosts Of
ander of Macedon. and / let
have plenty OF The isles of Gi
the Isles OF Greece, where bu
sappho loved and sung Il
think handed them that quot
no less than nineteen times d
ahs lecture. lust to nll in the