Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1893, Page 13

NGALLS 0N ORATORY No Such Thing as Impromptu Speaking as Popularly Understood. A GREAT ORATOR DESCRIBES HIS ART Vivid Account of a Desperato Battle Be- tween Rufus Choate and Ben Butler. “'EMPYREAN OF ARTICULATE SPLENDOR" Webster's Reply to Hayne Was Not Im. promptu, Nor Was it Tdentical With the Spesch That Has Gone Into History. [Copyrighted, 1893.) Oratory is the art of instructing, conviuc ing or persuading public assemblies gathered for worship, legislation, deliberation by eloquent and speech. Its object is to reach the judgment of men by appeals w their emotions, sensi- bilities and passions. There is no science of oratory, nor are the can be stated for ex ing. Thereis no recipe for eloguence for poot e for genius in sculpture and nting, but the power of clear, efticient spoech men of o thing to say that is worth hearing. As those ®rms are popularly undorstood. there is 10 such thing as “impromptu” or sextemporancous” speaking. It is a mis chievous idea, specially harmful to the young, that oratory is a supernatural func tion, like the apostolic gift of tougues, by which a speaker can say anything interest ing or valuable about matters of which he knows nothing. Undoubtedly there are certain aptitudes, traits and acquisitions essential to excel lence in oratory—voice, prudence, energy, flexible diction, memory, clear apprehension of ideas, and that indefinable illum- ination by which a speaker perceives the ations of his mind, s what any general rules that we in public speak nor is rwithin the re and se s nd what he is to say, beneath all are study, preparation, discipline knowledge of the subject, and distinet per ception of the purpose to be Butter cannot be got out of 4 cow unless you put butter into her, and the notion that there is some “inspiration” by which a man singularly - endowed can unexpect edly aud for hours pour forth a succes- sionof majestic periods, freighte argument, wit, humor, description, quota tion, pathos, narration and passion, with out previous thought or reflection, is as erroneous as would be the idea that food and drink and training are not essential to successful pugilism. The orations that surviv of profound thought and long meditation Cicero wrote out iis great speechc and committed them to memory. Aschines and Demosthenes, and this enabled them to participate with more effect in unexpected debates where elaborate preparation was not possible. \ccomplished Webster's Reply to Ha Webster's reply to Hayne, probably the greatest forensic effort of the century, and one of the greatest of all the centuries, was delivered. it is often said, upon the spur of the moment. The day previous he argued causes in the supreme court of the Umited States. In the evening he wrote head lines upon a few pages of note paper that are still exhibited as invaluable relics of that mem orable duel. His | friends were alarmed by . his apparent indifference to the importance of the crisis, and feared that he did not ap- preciate the gravity of the argument. But to Webster it was ounly the culminat- ing hour of twenty years of thought, devoted to the subjects of the union, the states and the constitution. These had been the familiar topics of his medita- tions. He was as well acquainted with them as a farmer with the aspect and boundaries of his ancestral flelds. With him it was not the exploration of an undiscovered country He knew its coasts and fronti His speech was a splendid summary and re- hearsal of precepts that had been laid down before. It was the goal to which his foot- steps had long tended. The notes of Webster's speech taken by the reporters of that day have been pre served. It was withhela for rev that there was a clamor As it finally correction for the publication. avpeared marks of elaborate and polishing are evident. The apostrophe to libert and union halts somewhat lamely in the origi- nal report of Gales and Senton, and does not possess the maguificent rhythin and antith- esis of the ext the sc this connoction General Robert C. Schenck, . who was a young political protege of Web. ster's, said that he once asked the great ex- pounder of his meaning in the three phrases: “Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable,” whether the intention was for the second to qualify the thied, or for the second and third together to qualify the first, either construction being intelligi ble. Webster replied that it was designed as a rhetorical flourish, and that he did not know what it did mean! The Decline of Oratory. Stenography, telegraphy, the typewriter and the daily newspaper have made it much more dificult to be a great man than it was when the cotemporancous reporting of speeches and their instantaneous transmis. sion with all their imperfections on thewr head were unknown. This is one of many reasons for the decline of oratc times. Its ancient function is orator has no place as a_teacher, and under our political system there are no leaders. The most successful orator is_the man who utters what tne people have already thought, und the ouly leader is the man who. like Lincoln, marches where the people want o go. The shorthand re. porter and the telegraph have made oratory id s no speak d error th lost. The ing written spoeg not read has come in as o saving counterfeiv which remote constituencies without detection Another circumstance fatal to oratory is the fact that government has gradually become & matter of purely business consideration vehemenc sion would be incongruous and ludicrous ‘When © or war, national vengeance or mercy, the spoliation of stutes or the exist ence of the fatherland dopend upon the do- uence is appropriate; , colnage statistics and the the budget cannot be treated with enthu siasm any more than the reportof bank directors or the officials of a raiiway corpora. tion, The anti-slavery discussion and th sion debates that preceded the rebellion pr sented conditions favoraple to the orator, but tremendous as were the issues iuvolved, such are the practical tendencies of modern life that no orator voiced the passious of the time and stands as its representative li Demosihenes in his Philippics, or Pericles commemorating the slain in the Peloponne sian war. Nor during the struggle was much spok that will be remembered or quoted. Del in congress and out was copious, but a singlo phrase only can be said to remain perma- nently fixed in public recollection Lincotn at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett spoke at the dedication of tho National ceme tery at Gottysburg, November | place, the occasion, the audjeuce, the ciations were in the highest degres iuspiriug. cheap and Dpasses current in labor. rhetoric’ and pas items of entertainment or | effective | great strong and | ch of all | erage attainments, who have any- | heis | but behind and | against with | | eve of the beholder. | it Aud the same the resuit | | form o | would excite the multitudinous, irropres | ment, fon so long | | moved by the condition of the clerg, 00l books. In | y in modern | wes and of pr nllulu\]n oches | detail, in whose | | juggler, charming juries with by ariff | b AR | DAl 0 bent and whirled THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 18 Everett was an orator of deserved reno with copilous and [llunnm‘ vocabulary, graceful rhetoric, strong, tivated mind, elegant l\'llnlnl"hlr. a rich, flexible voice and noble presence, His address occupied two hours in delivery, and was worthy of the speaker and his theme. At its close Lin- coln rose slowly on the platform of the pavilion. From an ancient case he drew a pair of steel-framed spectacles, with bows clasping upon the temples in front of the ears, and adjilsted them with_deliberation. breast pocket a few sheots oh he unfolded and held in both hands. From this manuscript, in low tones, without modulation or emphasis, he read 266 words, and sat down before his sur. prised, perplexed and disappointed auditors were aware that he ully begun, 1t left no impression, so it was said mild consternation and a mortified sense of failure. None supposed that one of the orations of the world had the five minutes which Mr. Lincoln occupied in reading his remarks. But the studied, elaborate and formal speech of Everett has been for- gotten, while the few sonorous and solemn sentences of Lincoln will remain 8o long as constitutional liberty abides among men Henceforth, whoever recalls the story of the battle of Gettyshurg, when the fate of free dom and the union hung trembling upon that awful verge, will hear above the thunder of its reverberating guns, above the exulting shouts of the victors and the despairing cries of the vanquished, the prophetic monotone of that immortal réfrain—"That government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth- Threo Requisites. To produce a great osation three elements are requisite —an audience, an occasion and an orator, e, g., the English speaking people, home rule for Ireland, Gladstone, Uttered clsewhere, under other circumstances, be- + different assemblage, the observations of Lincoln at Gettysburg would have been ss noteworthy and memorable. The great est orator catnot make a speech upon a trivial theme to unsympathet hearers, They need not fricndly, They may be hostile, but_they must be interested for or On_ ordinary days Burke emptied the House of Commons, but in the debate: concerning British maladministration in the t Indies he re of English eloquence. Considered in all its parts the speech upon the nabob of Arcot's debts may be regarded as chief among the torical masterpicces of the human race. 'he beauty of every landsc in the Shake e says that jest’s prosperity is in the ear that hears may be said of an ora as_much by the he ) speaker eminen esk. s which the pronounced in tion, It is made as by the speaker the bar, in the sacre erves the ru teachers of ambitious and aspiring inform their pupils are indispensable eloquence. The guestures, postures, intor tions and grimaces are unknown or dis- garded. The lawyer, clergyman, stumper or legislator who should obviously follow the injunctions of the professors about his feet, his hands, his arms, his countenance, his modulation, his pitch and inflection sible aud- 4 barn-stormer and derisive laughter of the ience, and be regarded as rather than an orator The Orator Born, Not Made. is does not di; e training and dis- pline, or prove that they are not valuable, T'hey are to be highly mmended, But it is 1 encouragement to those who have been nied opportunities or want grace of man- ner and ornamental diction that the highest ilts of oratory have been achieved by these svithout the -ono or the other. There is no doubt what may, for want of a better description, be called the oratorical temper: is an assembla, of faculties favor- able to sue in public speaking, aptitudes and idiosyncrasies like those possessed by Alexander Hamilton, Rufus Choate, Beecher and Wendell Phillips, but such orators, like poets, are born, not made, nor are they susceptible of classification. Choate and Phillips are both recogmized as supreme masters of oratory, but tney had little in common, and the ¢ cteristics of each would seem to nave been better adapted to the province of the other—the quiet, polished poise and self-pos 1on of Philiips for the bar, and the frenzied gymnastic and voleanic efflorescence of Choate for the platform. It happened to me in my student days to hear Choate at the.trial of a cause at the Essex Commnion Pleas in Salem. It was an action against a railroad corporation for damages scount of personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, a clergyman, who was run down by a train as he was attempting to drive over t! street crossing al- leged to have insufticiently guarded. General Butler represented the corporation and Choate the vis Rufus Choate, The evidence was confiicting. but the sym- pathies of the rural jury were profoundly yman, rremedi- age who was rendered absolutely a bly helpless by the collision. The battle was bitter, and Butl insolen to the court, witnesses and counsel was inconcei able. Inthe closing arguments his sneers id flouts at Choate to prejudice the jury against his influence approached the borders of brutality. Choate sat rapt and imper- turbable during the onset, like one sunk in immovable reverie or a dreamless trance. The morning of his closing address he entered the court room with the faltering footsteps and languid pallorof an invalid just discharged from a II‘lv]III l\ d. He began A JURY overcoats, of by one at in ¢ w and then he shed himself by sucking oranges, of which he had an endless supply. Butler had characterized him as a magician and his legerde- ate's purposc to dispel this imputation by collcquial simplicity. When this omplished he grad-ially and by impercoptible gyrations wheeled to higher fiights, till at lust he seemed almost to hiin the empyrean of articulate svlendor. rvish in his most ecstatic fervor ever and rose and fell in such genuflections and coutortions. Sweat trickled from the black jungle of his disordered hair along the ravines and furrows of his haggard face. He advanced and retreated, rising upon his toes and com- ing down upon his heels with a dislocating jork that made the windows rattle, pausing his speech enveloped in thre which he divested himself oz ¢ main and in seemed to be antations. Ci purpose w No ds | oecasionally to inhale through his dilating nostrils tempestually, shrieking epigram or apostrophe that thrilled the blood like a wild cry at midnight in a solitary piace. With great artistic skill he depicted the tranquil village, the clergyman driving on his errand of merey in the {resh ness of summer morning along the shaded ot; the unsuspected approach of the \ around the concealing curve; the fatal iustant, when too late to advance or retreat. the mouster sprang upon him with what Choate described as “the thunderous terror and then emitting a o, | of its insupportable footsteps. | horse drawing a plow or hauling a | lawyers, xcept | been | | the ¢ ched the high water k| | his politics, rev ' supply the sch the elimax of a baleful tragedy on the stage, the imprecation of Lear, the menace of Richelieu or the rage of Virginius. Instead of o prosaic lawsuit it was a tremendous drama in real life, whose characters were present, whose incidents were rehearsed and for whose catastrophe judge, jurors, witnesses and spectators breathlessly waited How such a blazing meteo sedato orbit of New England life is one of the mysteries of psychology. No such phe- nomenon has occurred in Massachusetts be fore or since. He wore the aspect of an Arab and had the Oriental imagination of a wan. derer of the desert, bug to th were added the sagacious shrewdnéss and pertinacity of the Yankee. He toiled incessantly, studied, wrote, transiated, read omniverously, de- voured dictionaries, and labored with an as- siduity that would have enabled mediocrity to succeed. Tt was like a thoroughbred race- reet car when not running for the Derby. As a representative and senator in congress he did not meet for some reason the full meas- ure of expectation. But genius is always | inexplicable. eared. ional and The Typical Orator Has Diss The recent parlismentary, prof | intellectual history of America is somewhat meager in oratory. There is a surpius of strong, clear, fluent and_effective public speakers, but those who, like Erskine, Pitt, Grattan, O'Connell, Sheridan and Burke, stir and awe ana ¢, inspire and thrill, are few even in tradition. which always exalts and maguifies its heroes. Perhaps the most indulgent pattiality could not resent the as- sertion that today there are none. Wise statesmen, eloquent divine: found philosuphical thinkers, lo agacious politicians, eminent scholars abound, but the typical orator has disappefired. It is not impertinent to recall in this connection that poets, ulptors, painters, actors dramatists and novelists of ‘ade are also not numerous now. practical. Its intellect is em- ployed in the acquisition of wealth and the subjugation of nature. The general average of knowledge has also been enormously raised, sothat pronounced and recognized individual superiority is less possible than ever before. ‘The apparent height of Pike's Peak depends on the elevation of the spec- tator. Legend, and the memor; temporaries, attribute extraordinary powers of eloquence to Henry Winter Davis, Senator Baker of Oregon, RichardMenifee of Ken- S, S. Prontiss, Fisher Ames and Peter Cartwright, but cept to the scholar and the devoteo they are unknown in this generation. An Estimate of Conkling. To those who knew Roscoe Conkling in his meridian it seems incredible that he like- wise should already have become a gorgeous reminiscence, fading from day to day as a crimson saturated cloud grows pallid and ashen with the sun's decline. No man, for the ten years preceding 1881, was more constantly before the public mind or filled a larger space in the public eye than he. No name was more trequently spoken with fervid adulation or frenzied re- sentment than his. The exaggerations of aturists made his form and f tures, his habits. mannerisms and peculiar ties known to every citizen of the republic But no critic or enemy, no lampooner or mphleteer, ever dispa powers or pro- rued of their co- v KLING'S CHARACTERISTIC POSE. impugned his honor or integrity. He pos- ed an extraordinary and attracti ssemblage of physical, mental and moral cteristics, of which he was never en- ious. To the stature of an ring of a courtier ana the head of an A h, he added a voice of incompa chness, flexibility, dignity of carriage and grace gesture. The amplitude and opulence of his language sometimes seemed to detract from the force of his thoughts as excess of orna- ment impairs the majesty of a temple. He aster of the artifices of rhetori his armory of ridicule, invective quotation and satire was full. The Kra y of his self- possession seemed formal at times, and was never forsaken. In his highest flights he did not forget himself nor permit others to forget him. His tenacious memory enabled him to transfer to the platform the toil of the closet with apparent spontaneity, and many of his efforts which seemed extempo- raneous were the result of elaborate prep- arations. He was not ready in rejoinder, and an impetuous, unexpected assault, like that of Lamar, left him floundering and in discomfiture. The cartoons that depicted him as supercilious, vain, swollen with self- appreciation and disdain, wnd implacable in his resentments, despotic and dictatorial in aled the defects of a com- manding personality, which brought about at last the fatal catastrophe. He resigned from the senate with the surance of im- mediate return, buv the patient watch and long vigil of those whom he defeated and humilinted were at last rewarded by his overthrow, and his life thenceforward to its untimely close was a melancholy mono- logue of despai P s EDUCATIONAL. The Press association has become in lowa college. Minneapolis £20,000 a year to 1s with free text book: Hiram W. bley of Rochester has given £50,000 to the erection of a new building for the use of the Sibley College of Mechanical engineering at Cornell, founded by his father. The committee on rules and regulations of the Boston school board decides that teach- ers may inflict corporal pumshment upon pupils, notwithstanding the protest of the parents, The Register at Stanford unive nounces that ex-President Harrison w gin his course of lectures on inter law next October, when the new school of law will be opened President ot of Harvard sees how women ¢ admitted to that institution simpl r §260,000 to its treasury. As onomist President liot ap- n toward thrift he large and valuable sils, geological specimens, etc., which the late Ralph Butterfield of Kansas City b ‘ hed, together with §200,000 to ‘D h, has reached Hu It will be kept in the museum in Culver Hall until the Butterfield vuilding provided for in the will is completed. Another innovation has been made at Yale, this time in the institution of a scholar- ship in connection with a line of cotlege work until very recently regarded as foreign to a colle rriculum. The newly instituted scholarship consists of a fund of §2,000, the the income of which will be devoted to the encouragement of extemporaneous speaking at Yale. According to the 125th anuual ¢ Dartmouth the number of students in t rious departments and comparison with last year was as follows: Ac a loss of 19; Chandler_school, 77, a gain of 8} ricultural colleg a loss of 145 medical college, 105, & gain of 16; Thayer scha no change. "he total shows a loss of 4, ofticers and instructors number i ‘The botanical department of the University of Pennsylvania is making a special study of the effect of climate on plants. For this purpose the collections have to be obtained from the mountainous and lowland districts of various regions. Iu this the university is being assisted by many individuals who a interested in the subject. Collections a being made in Alaska, Turkey, Feuador, rida and California, The friends of Wesleyan a well 1t will cost collection of fos. talogue university are | more. broke into the | It was like | anxiously nwnlll"h F ws of the will h joorge 1. Seney. understand that he promised to give mm«mnm- £350,000. Mr Soney had given $#0000 to Wesleyan, and during the administration of President Beach promised verbAlly to give £360,000 At the inauguetion of Dr. Beach Mr. Seney promised tg give $100,000 to the | university, but owing to financial dificultios in which Mr. Sene fme involved during the Grant-Ward troubles the promise was | not fulfilled. The annual interest on the $100,000 hias, however, been paid yearly, and has been given as pridsdfor scholarships el ek RELIGIOUS. There are supposedsta be about 420,000,000 Christians in the wporld, but you wouldn't think s0 to hear some people talk In one section of Brookiyn thdre is a cher named Goodenough, and in another séction of that town there is one who spells his name Toogood. The Salvation Army system is being imi- tated by the Japanese Buddhis who are organizing a religious body on the model of General Booth's creation, | Alva Gage has presented to the Unitavian church of Charleston, S. C., a haridsome brick parish house, costing over #11,000. It will be finished during the summer. | Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper of San k has a Sunday school class of more than 800 telligent men and women, She has taught a bible class for more than forty year: Bishop Howe of the diocese of Central Pennsylv: celebrated his h birthday at Reading Wednesday. He has been in the | Episcopal ministry for more than sixty | years A posthumous work by Cardinal Manning being his only contribution to secular liter ture, is about to be published in London. It ys on “*Honor, i 0y, ppularity “The *and like subjects, The Methodist church of Kansas has dis ed Rev. V. H. Biddeson, the populist plain of the state senate, because of the prayers made in that body last winter, in which he is alleged to have called down dire maledictions upon the republican party scently expressed him- “Young men who have t and superfic tion want to appear wise and le think in order to do 80 the; gree of skepticism and in: quently r Rev. Hiram neisco Fourth thirty- the Brigham, who for four years has been laboring among natives of the Gilbert islands, had the ion Tuesday of secing the printing of a bible, in the language of the Gilbert islanders, in the composing and press rooms of the American Bible society. He began the translation of the bible for the benefit of the people in 1850, n of the once famous ize figh a series of evangelistic meetings in Indianap ols. For twenty years he has been preach- ing, traveling up und down the world, stop- ping_ wherever enough people winted he 1 came to America about four years ago, previous to that time doing all his work in the British isles con Hiram Camp of New Haven, who 1d to be the most prominent survivor of ul:uul puritanism, recently cele- | 24 mrmu ay in the original man- meeting, at which relatives and frichds from afl parés of New England were present. -His friend, Dwight L. Mood y. conducted the services. The will ot Colonel Elliot F. Shepard of | New York disposes of an estate estimated at £50,000 in_realty and £500,000 in personal property. He gives to the trustees of the Presbytery of New York £100.000 for the g eral religious and evangelical work of that el He also gives the same trustees £:0,000 to b3 used by them far tho beneft of tho Seventh Presbyterian church of Jesus Christ of this city. Rev. Dr. Joseph 'I. Smith, who has just resi storate of the Central Pres- n church of Baltimore, after serving re for thirty-one yeurs, was the modera- tor of the General Assembly which met in Omaha in 1 He is a native of Mercer, Penn., and a graduate of Jefferson college, Indiaa. Tn 1841 he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of %ri was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church of Mercer, his'birthp! illiam P. Preacy, who has made | fight for his church at Swedes- , has won the sympathy and ad- | miration of many who even believe nim wrong, and his life’s history shows that he isa hero. Three times he has risked his life for others. His first herok " rescue a colored boy from death peake bay during a terrible storm, when even the trained hfe guards flinched. In 1878 the priest jumped into the Bronx, near | Fordham college, aud saved the life of James | Murphy. When the viliage of Aeganhoven, in Belgium, was destroyed by fire, Father Treacy directed the work of the rescuers from the roofs of the burning buildings and left them only after every man, woman and child had been accounted for. TALK OF Harper's Young People: It was in the definition class; teacher was giving out the words to spell and explaining them at the same time, “N-a-p, nap, that means a little sleep, you know, Johnny. K-i-n, kin, that means of a family, belonging to the family, do you understand " *Yes, ma'am, Pretty soon the clas: and the word “napkin” came up. n any one tell what napkin 2" asks the teacher. yells Johnny; “a sleepy family.” was called up again 1, ¢ means? What “Iknow, Free Press: A Detroit boy uses slang and his father doesn't likeit. The other day the boy was talkine ! vupted the father, “that J “Tnen why not say s0? A gun is fived, not | a man. | “Wel 1 the boy, stumped for a mo- ment, “Jones was a son of a gun; 1 heard the old man say s0,” and the father retired in mortification. # A mother tells hér two children, who were left at home with the nurse, who, in order to insure a peacefui retirement of the tots, allowed them to take a small lunch to their room. They knelt down, as is their | nightly custom, but the prayer of one of the cnildren was interrupted by the word “Mr. Lord, please 'scuse me a minute, Kit's takin’ @ bite of my pickle. After a short but decisive engagement deyotions were re- sumed. 3 Smull Madeline is something of a humorist and has no very pronounced religious ten- dencies, but the other day she came home from church in a highly pleased frame of mind, “Qh, mamma!" she said, “'you Just ought to have been a4 church today. The preacher had such a good text; just the kind I liked.” “What was it, Madeline?” asked mamma, who had stayed’ at home with cold. Seriously answered small Madeline “It was, “Phe’ Lord loveth tho cheerful | giggler.! The Only Reason cher—Why is this alled the temperate gme Bright Bo, ‘ause i i mmer an' the'o an’ add “em_togother, an’ divide by weather will be just right ou take the hottest Idest duy in winter two the “Have you thanked dog yet, Freddie? had it anyway; I've the lust two months. ncle Charles for your | vXes; but Iought er \ praying for a dog o4 1 wauts some bed an’ wug “Don't say bed an’ “wui Say bwead an’ tehugay ——— | During the month of May the eyes of tho | Presby n world will be turn t Washington city and will follow | nterest what transpires within the ! of one of the large local churches the generul assembly of the Presbyterian chur will hold its sessions at the New York Ave uue Presbyterian church and th wsion | promises to b fraught with the utmost in terest und importance, ‘'he sessions of the | assembly will commence May 13 (Thursday morning. ) * said Mollie. ‘ Bobbie, - The largest church in the I s in Rome: the smallest feet square, in the Isle of Man - ‘There are three thing Time, Trouble und money—ani Do Witt Little Early Risers will save them fov These little pills will save yo i time act promputy, They will save you tr they ¢ 2 B0 pain I'he money 4s they economize do world is St a churcn ten worth saving or's bills. BASEMENT | HOUSEKEEPES | From 8 to 12 o'clack, | 65e. WENTY PAGES. APRIL SHOWERS Bring May Flowers. They also bring you the agrandest opportunity to display good judgment in purchasing dry goods ever oftered. Our immense estapblishment is overflowing with goods, such as you want. We want to move them out with a rush this week, and for Monday and all the week, or until all are sold we shall make prices which will literally PACK THE STORE, Grand Book Sale. From the bankrupt stock of the Worthing Company, publishers of New York, books of one-third the cost of publication. CLOTH-BOUND NOVELS AT HAS ‘ | Liyerything marked at prices that ] will interest you, AL Given Away with eve BARGAING. HARVEST, halt gallon water pitchers, new goods, handsomely polished glass, made to sell ut 85c, sale price, two to a customer purchase of $1.00 or more at our book sale: Wo will give a vorite Dictionar, the words in da Fa- all copy of The containing ¥ use, Everybody From 1 heav, price price. until 6 p.m., best tin pans, regular Enthusiastic. Curtains. Iine white lace curts Cedar water pails, 8 : L prico #3.50, EOWARD HAMPSHIRE, Clothes pins per gross, 5 | I‘ regular L LR The fireman, leads, Who will Ironing boards, Meatboards, 20c lead next week? Vote for your favorite. He may go to the FOR THIS SALE $2.00 Chenille curtains, all colors, da- doed and fringed top and hottom, cannot be matched for less than $b a pair, World's Fair at our expense. vote with each 25¢ purchase. Here is the list as it stood Fri- day night, arranged in order ac- .f 10c. Egg beaters, Sc. Lin coffee pots, Tack hammers, Cedar wash tubs, 49c. Regular price, | cording to the votes received. FOR THIS SALE 265 kol alarm ¢ 1m L worth 81. Ed Hampshi fireman. . Rov. . Crane, minister. . Rev. Mackay, minister. . Miss A. Hopper, teacher. Miss M. Hogan, teacher. . Miss R. Brady, teacher. Miss Sireet, teacher, Croft, carrier. der, teacher. . Tillotson, carrier. . Rev. F. M. Franklin, minister, . Rev. Murray, minister. Miss Lehmer, teacher. Tot of printed Platn China silks, 50c zoods, for this sule, 25¢c Dress Goods. ThoTon of our all wool challis, sold i e TR always at Gsc, for this sule, Ravi Bas ot alato: 49c¢. Rev. T. J. McKay, minister, Atlof our dvess goods remnants R e and short pieces about half pri ot ae Wash Goods. ‘\l( Clark, carrier. 21, George Avmstrong, carrier. Rev. Cramblett, minister. 3. Miss A. McDonald, teacher. (TR \ Mr. Charles Bloom, policeman. made to sell & only Dark them. Amoskeag Ginghams. Miss S. Squires, teacher. - Miss A, Witman, teacher. 29. A. A. Keysor, policeman. Sress etyles, sold always for this sale, 51-2¢c. Ladies’ Capes One lot of 25 capos in tho latest styles, handsomely trimmed with ribbon and embroidery. Wo have been selling them for $12, $13 and § For this sale $8.48. Hosiery By far the best assortment aud valies we have evor offered—seam- less hose that cannot he matched for less than 20¢ a paiv—for this sule 9c¢. Men's half hose, sold always at 15¢ & pair, for this sals 3 pairs for 25c. TO-INCh fancy prints, at 124c, for this sale 31-2c. styles. Come early for . Pr ~uf " Allen, tenche J. M. Stafford, carrier. Rev, Gordon, minister. . Charles Nelson, carrier, Dick Marnell, policeman. I’d Kelly, carrier. Rev. Williams. minister. H. N. McGrew, currier. . Rev. Mann, minister. 9. Mary Alter, teacher. Rev. H. Sharply, minister. . C. Rose, carrier. . Rev. Detweiler, minister. . Miss J. Newcomb, teacher. . D. W. Overall, carrier, Miss A. Long, teacher. ) . Miss . A, Alexander, teacher. I On()‘ecg 48, G. L. Gilbert, policeman, > D . Miss I\, Carney, teacher. . Mr. Miller, fireman. . Rev. Conway, minister. Father McCarthy, minister, Rev. Helling, minister. avage, ministor. . Tracy, currier. 5. Rev. Lloyd, minister. . Mr. Anderson, carrier. . John Woodruff, carrier, . Helen Lloyd, teacher. Mr. Lenard, carrier. H. Russell, policemun. Miss 1. M. Hart tman, teacher, 3. Rev. Paterson, minister. . Charles Reynolds, fireman, Miss Arnold, teacher. 36. Alice Havens, teacher. . Miss M. Fried, teache this sale, 5¢. [ : V. Bevan, S. O., policeman, Daniel Sillison, carrier. Toanch pilow cuses, ready for Rev. C. N. Dawson, minister, use, with 2-inch hem, worth lsc . Rev. Parks, minister. each, for this sale, Rev. Ewhinys, ministar. 10c each. . Rev. Hodgeits, ministe Miss D, Vale, teacher Miss A. IFoos, teacher. All linen bleached and brown crash, ;i Morton, teacher. 18 inches, and 2xtra quality, worth 124¢, for this sale, 6 Boys’ Clothing T'wo-piece suits, 10 different pat- terns, sizes from 4 to 14 years; & good $5.00 suit, price for this sale $2.87. Very dosirable and choree terns, 15¢ goods, for this sale, 9c. Domestics. pat- Men’s Collars This week we will sell a line of 4- ply collars, in all the new shapes,at 10c each, 3 for 25c¢. Men's 4-ply cuffs, 18c a pai 4-4 bleached muslin, a 9¢ quelivy, for Children’s Waists. Waists that are worth 385¢, for this sule Night Gowns. Miss M. Moriurty, toachor. Miss A. Hansen, teacher. mma Whitmore, teacher, Prescott, policeman, i alligan, firoman. W. Butler, minister. yoa, minister. teacher. ’\llss lhuuull l« acher. Mvr. Burkett carrier. . Rev. Dean Gardner, minister, 88, Kate Hungerford, tencher. 1 89. Miss McAra, teachor, 4 L M . M. Brenneer, teacher. A . Newman, 4Gy Dress Trimmings. only, we will sell and passe Special lot of ladies’ robes to be closed ouv at 75c. Be sure and see them. night For this week aoything in trimmings monteries at . carrier. off regular price Any of the above goods are LIGHTNING BARGAINS--they will |go like lightning, You will have to act like lightning in order to gath- | ler them in.