| Show THAT LECTURE A to 0 o our 11 and like ai artemus temus it olve got II 11 well ell IN weve acknowledge wove weve 1 got it bad self we ile talk about 40 Bronchitis es or 15 measles why they ain 7 i n t a circumstance with about 1999 others for there 0 were fully 2000 folks in the theater monday night when the 11 celebrated humorist 11 held forth young annei loan IN with ith about 1999 grown folks and a or N two 0 of babies i we e went we saw we were 11 konle konker red cd 11 we held our birath at first then our sides and desti destroyed oyed avi ano 0 bandana of lines hues and finest handlei chiefs gorgeous texture in the vain attempt to smother not mirth not laughter not cachinnation but emotion such as no w e neler neer felt before but the use of trying to describe artemus effort which was no eforoi t at all it they things 18 jokes T wit it fun pathos vi what bat shall i we c call it a themo cr came crelling rolling out of him just as easy as if he was used to it or them but then he be des deserves cries no cp especial ecial credit because as Mic auber used to say every body makes an effait even his dear wife ife made ar an effort but artemus dont do anything of the kind As we nw were saying tho the use of trying to describe that lecture 11 leettie c indeed I 1 now by all the gods it at once that a joke it ni a locthi c it a stoby nor a disco tiro nor aught alight ol else c like anything in the fic ivons above abai c in the earth beneath or in the mateis under the dittli 11 atas it was a nondescript peili perhaps pei haps aps like bar bums What isit ihan anything aDy thing we inc know of these abc some of the leagons why we dont attempt to acs elibe it be wal baldos ds lecture Lec tuie c but iv we c have other reasons first we dont know iv ceic to take hold of it debt like an all eel it would squirm out of our grasp second it would be dangerous for it bristled all oi over or with sharp points and like a mississippi catfish cat fish would bo be unmanageable third we please an anybody body if we should say it was good the shades ideson of aiom aristotle and cicero dwin down to ed evera ever ett john gough and that most shadowy of all of them thein dead or alive ralph waldo emerson soniN would dit disturb our nightly di earns calls if wo we was bad we ic would tickle artemas immensely if wo we called him a bum humbug bug we ine would but repeat his own declaration and quote aiom his own announcement lie revels in the idea th that tt lie he out humburgs humbugs ill all humbugs humburgs the ever saw if we said it was a bell NN we a would be ourselves sold and that wo we wont do to please an anybody abbody body and that remind us in tile halce on days of california when good follows fellows al 11 trumps we ice left shot shortly aly afterwards N we c hid a benci society classically known as the E clamp sus sits vitus it was a terrific institution and the mysteries w v aich surrounded its eel em onles created the liveliest bulor there were no dread oaths of mccresy sc so cresy but after a fillow once went lit in lie he was never known to th tint thit it lie he belonged nor donld he divulge an alief ista i of the installation doings his cue was to get 11 lis is next fi lend in and it was in tensely tens cly satisfactory but we hive an indis notion that somebody was badly sold now aw it e C dont doat mean dinean to aldge anything ire are not going to tell what artemus ai tomus 9 said aid or dr did iest lovae sensitive cuss might hesitate about going to hear him bim and then 1 we 0 would have the advantage of that chap or es he of ug emch wl ieh would amount to the sime thing one cannot fully appreciate ward unless lie be hears lira him and if after ono one lie deais al s him ho he does appreciate him its all right we siy say nothing Off corse thus to fix we have only spoken of the funny pat baj t of the Lec lecture turell tho little episodes wherein lie he wrung in now and then A gjoke joke but leaving leay ing that f fur ur all to enjoy ay ho hoard beara or who shall liall heir hear artemus 1 we c turn ith Ilea to the soua solli substance of the DI discourse Dis couise SCOllie the balies babes hi m the woods roods hero we discovered running through the narrative an almost albod imperceptible thread of the most lost to touching pathos As a descriptive lecturer war ward d excels as was evidenced lj his bright ight word paia painting ting of the homely cot whery tho the folks born ij s the bright fields whole lio lie leveled in the ibo wantonness of childhood the i school house and its cb charming charmin armin innia inmates te the scenes of louth and the gambols on the green this was charming but when he be came to the trials tile hardships the sufferings rings of tile the little innocents in the wood their wanderings up and don down n the earth the tear unbidden would start from the hoisted lid and wrape in NN wonder on at his eloquence the heart would throb for the little darlings dai lings baito of all we ic could do tho the final triumph of virtue in the icleane and redemption of the babes 11 had a deep coial ir it which wo inc had bad not looked for aiom a professedly bumpious lecturer notwithstanding the convulsive c laughter of the entire audience ii which blell we could no more understand und cistand than tho the lecturer himself we trust they ii will ill lay up for after i ef lection the stem stein moral truths which lie ho so impassively gave them when lie he reverted to his subject As a lecturer mr waid is prone to fly off aloni his subject like water florn an overshot wheel but he be always comes back to it and reasons in a oil ceicle cle if he would only strike out atom his pathetic disco discourse dis couise the jokes with which he be antei it to raise a laugh fl aiom om the boic thoughtless and to a certain extent de troyed the connection if he would auld confine himself to the simple and glo glorious ilous narrative naira tive which he be so eloquently tells about the little darlings his lecture might poil laps be shot shelter ter but iv mould bo be more highly interesting in inov knowing ing hi his pi proclivity for fl flying in off at a tangent lie he had on the table before him four our of 01 ivo five slips of paper to ho be now and then recurred as if they nare notes we havo have examined these notes in private and find they axe aie covered all over avith these cords vor ds the bibos babes in the woods the babes in the woods the babes in the woods a hundred times repeated they serve to mccall the lec tinor to his subject whenever lie he finds himself rain rambling bling which occurred several time limes dining the ci evening ening his main 1 boak ex e red to now new Eui england gland but its immediate healing beading on the subject v as not distinctly apparent except by indirection whilo while describing the gloom 0 of f tho the dark forests in which his babes wele cast in so unaccountable a manner his mind wandered back no doubt to the douse dense timber of his native nathe wooden state in this view so unpardonable a joke could only be excused not ju justified stifled ii hile bile treating of such stich a subject but it is needless for us to go on the lee lecture h one of the most pathetic in the hie whole range of modem literature and yet at times the pathos as we have intimated is varied by a humorous and once in I a a bile chile rather ludicrous joke by way of illustration we doubt if in we c have conveyed an intelligible idea as to the of the lecture on I 1 monday night but as most everybody hereabouts hereabout s was present they can judge for themselves and as to folks over in denver and f arther eist they can pay their dollar when artellius gets over their way and then if they want to write a boic accurate account we are compelled however to admit that some of wards ward Is jokes and slaps were very good we do this the more readily because his audience laughed consumedly and brought down don n the house very often with applause for instance his 1 I boak on simmons struck us as being inexpressibly funny his raps at the follies of fashion and his quiet allusions to army contractors not very pertinent to I 1 hh 1 is subject perhaps were caustic and laughable wo we enjoyed them highly but wo we were unable to soo BOO alio point of his malicious satire on the public press cant understand why the pit and the dross circle and the galleries should loir whon when ho grossly slandered editors by intimating 11 that they sometimes vary aloin the truth and other ether similarly savage and uncalled for inauen loes which were not at ill all pertinent to the subject matter in h hand and after the lecture we called on prof simmons and lie he agrees a entirely with avith us its except that lie he thinks it was was a pretty good thin thing on the papers but that joke about him lie he as A bloody shame 11 and a bli blasted asted 11 outrage iles hes indignant tile the naughty man 11 IV we c sin since C e h heard c 1 rd a wood contractor object to tag big satire on army contractors 1 it is astonishing that a fellow never can see tho the point of a joke when hea hes tn tho he butt of it but vc ie must stop we cant toll tell all our I 1 at once if Artemus had loft left out olit his sarcasm a reasin on the we might have bave said that his lecture was good funny heavenly i eloquent either one or all as it is wo we inns must pronounce A waid a h humbug bumbu umbu a sell a tra ducer and we are glad the people all laughed at him ile ho deserved it in conclusion ne c are requested to say that it is not true that he be intends return returning im to this city early jn m tho the spring to explain the point of one of his hh jokes or resuming the interns interesting tin g naria c of the babes ile ho folded his tent like an arab I 1 and quietly itolo tolo away iwa re I ie has visited all parts of the world and is going oln back again ile he travels by way of a joke I 1 alas A las I 1 adoo A doo I 1 A ward |
