Goldsboro weekly argus., 1915-05-06
NIELSEN 8EClTAL
ENDS GHAUTAUQUA
famous Prin,a Donna Capt.
vated large Audience
Splendid Programme Rendered Last
Eyening-ExceIlent Lecture by
Thomas Brooks Fletcher
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
The Redpath Chautauqua that LOT d
week had been regaling and uplifting
great audiences at every program dur
ing the mornings, afternoons ana
evenings OF its engagement hefe' CON
cIuded with its really croWnlng attfac-
tions yesterday afternoon and last
night, and has now passed into history
and will ever be a golden page IN the
memories OF all VINO attended
Mr.. Thomas Brooks Fletcher, Wno
spoke for more than an hour yesterday
afternoon at the ChautauQua, IS man
with a message, He speaks with tre-
mendous earnestness and dlrectnefs
and does not even engage in that most
DIeasing of the arts OF the average
lecturer on the platform today OF pat
ting his audience on the back, SO 70
speak, and telling them that after ali
what he mas to say applies not to them
but to the people living In Kalamazoo.
He does occasionally resort to these
tactics, but always with a burning
irony.
He was frequently applauded, though
not usually as spontaneously as ire
quently happens when great truths are
driven home But when he pictured
in graphic words Woodrow Wilson as
he sat at the White House, loaded down
with the cares of the nation, alone
oft n
last fall, fulfilling his official duty to
the people of the nation with sublime
courage and divine wisdom, there was
prolonged applause, which showed
that his hearers appreciated the spirit
that is loyal to duty and never fiinches
no matter how hard the task nor how
dark the day.
'.The Martyrdom of Fools was his
subject He divided it into two dl-
.Yisions,,the. first-being the fools-as-
the world takes them-who are mar
tyred because of what they advocate
and fight for, and the second being the
men who are martyred by their owl
foolishness.
In the first part OF his lecture hi
drove home mighty truths that have TX
do with government of city, State ant
nation, and in the second he cam'
back to the individual who sins agains
his home, his mother and his Cod
Today men are not burned at tn
stake nor crucifed upon cross, b
declared, but instead they have thei
bread taken away from them. With bit
ing irony he pictured men who ar
we'll in body, but, as he termed it, ar
dead from their chin up. That is
more horrible death, he declared, tha.
to be burned at the stake.
He is an intensely dramatic speake
and although suffering with hoarse
ness yesterday was able to paint scene
with such glowing words that his at
dience could almost see the incident
he recalled being transacted befo1
their very eyes. No man can talk lik
Fletcher without believing every wor
that he speaks.
He was heard by a large audient
and they remained to the close of tt
lecture, WHICH ldSICO 4OA q AAII1O AAAO1
than an hour It was a fitting cllms
to the splendid addresses and lecture
that have been given at the Chauta
qua the past week, and the Goldsbol
people will want him on next year
programme.
Last night a record-breaking aud
ence filed and over-1owed- the gre
tent and was made up Of home fol
and visitors by train and autoznobil
Sor 80 miles around.
The feature OF the evening was
song recital by the wor1d's forenle
prinaa donna, Alice Nielsen, herself
Southern born woman, and thereto
by ancestral inheritance as well as
her own innate genius, culture
study, capable Of interpreting the Sc
Of Southern songs. as sung BY her /
night. as only great ge2iuses ito
manner. born" can.
Srpgavted by F~a1'el FzavHeek. vol
3st and William Raadialz. ptantae, EE
stelsen apreared last night IN . ?