Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
BY STRICKLAND GILLIAN

with a fOur-OunCe voice. ne lawyer re-
moved to Oklahoma and became a federal
Judge. Not only was this lawyer large
man with fifelike voice, but he was as
witty as his i'll matched ply que and vocal
power made him seem eccent ic.
Not long after his appointment as federal
Judge in Oklahoma he was trying boot
Logging" liquor case. The prisoner at the
bar was inclined to be a little bit snippy,
which fact was not lost on the court.
When all the evidence was in, the Judge
squeaked out to the prisoner, well, I'll fine
you just two hundred dollars and COSTS"
"All right, Judge" smiled the prisoner,
patting the right side of his trousers bosom.
II got it right here in my hip pocket"
"And sixty days in Jail" flied the big
Judge. "Got that in your hip pocket"
A PLATFORM lecturer who was green
the manager of his bureau, as follows: Why,
they tell me that down at Johnsonburg
you lectured two hours. That's too long.
The committee says that more than half
your audience left before you were nearly
through"
well, let me tell you" protested the new
lecturer. "You told me, when you started
me out, that 1 should make it rule to quit
while the audience wanted more. And I'll
be hanged if saw any signs of their wanting
more at any time; so l just kept on
TT is pernicious habit among lyceum lee
turers of the popular" brand to tell as
their personal experience any adaptable an.
ecdote they believe will create general
laugh in their audiences. One of that type
was relating story at La Crosse, Wisconsin,
last summer at chautauqua. He told the
personal experience" with great 6 1sto, in
spite of the fact that the anecdote had been
apocryphal before the lecturer was born.
After the lecture, an old lady whose de-
fective hearing had let her catch only the sal
lent and recognizable point of the anecdote,
but had not caught the statement that
the lecturer himself claimed to have partlci-
pated in it, came rushing up to the speaker,
in the midst of handshaking group, and
shouted out:
ooh. sir, was so glad to hear that story
again about the college sophomore! Do you
know, the man that that really happened to
lectured in my town when l was little girl?
/ the smaller communities in the West, as
well as in the East, one of the pests of
the popular assembly, especially OF the lee
ture course or chautauqua, is the doctor
who has himself called out, or so secretes
himself in the audience that in case there
is call for him he will have to be publicly
mentioned, together with the urgent need
of his valuable services at some bedside.
Many public speakers wage steady cru
SADIE against that sort of thing, and usually
it is the doctor who undergoes the humilia-
ton, as the audience is always in sympathy
with popular speaker and resentful of an
interruption.
At Fairfield, Iowa, during their chautau
qua gathering last summer, the platform
manager stopped speaker who was just
getting warmed up, to say:
"Is DR.. Blank in the audience? He's
wanted at the telephone"
The audience was displeased; the speaker
was sore. Turning to the platform manager,
the speaker looked at him moment, then
said to the audiences:
Il have doctor brother who used to en-
ploy that manner of advertising when he
was just beginning"
The doctor, being an old practitioner, was
followed with wild shouts of laughter as he
blushingly beat retreat from the tent.
Another instance of the doctor call at
Sheldon, Iowa, last summer, was handled
by the same speaker in this fashion:
as DR.. Brock in the audience? He's
wanted at the gate" said the manager.
Il wonder what's the matter with the
gate?" flashed the speaker