Show Stimulated by Fright to Oratorical Triumph There Is hardly any public ep speaker aker of great celebrity who will not confess conteas con teas fess that he feels more or less Ie tremor when he lie ri rises p to speak leak on ou a great oc oc- c lon tion though It be for tor the hundredth bun hun time It Is III well wIll known that I Erskine r the great forensic all advocate was at nut first pain painfully tully unready of or speech So Ko embarrassed was he In one of ot his his' maiden efforts that he III would nave hare abandoned the attempt aUf to harangue juries had he not felt as nI ash astie nIh h tie tells us the children tugging at athis hit his gown and urging him on on Sheridan Sheridan Sheri Sherl- dan and Disraeli at as all the world knows knowlI hung lire Ire In their first nut speeches pe chet Cumin was 08 almost knocked down by the sound of ot hla tole own onn voice when he first addressed hi his gentlemen In a little room of ot a 8 tavern The first speech of ot Cobden who became one fine of ot the most mot powerful champions of ot the Cure Corn Law league was a humiliating ing failure It Is said that Canning was sure of or speaking his bet best l I if he rose In a great fr lot To feel his Ills heart beating rap idly to wish the floor would open Olen up and swallow him were signs of an nn oratorical oratorical ora ora- triumph At a mayors majors dinner dillner In Liverpool he be was so 80 nervous lIenous before he was called coiled on to H speak euk that he twice left the room to collect his ills thoughts Doctor noctor Storrs of ot New York OUt ono of ot the most accomplished ed preach ch preachers ers In America states that when he delivered hI lots his II rot t sermon ln after his ln In Brooklyn he made al almost al ai- ml most t n a dead failure He ire staggered nl mix mid and floundered for tor 20 O minutes and 1 then nine caino to a II cloud stop I 1 sank buck un the tho chair utmost almost wishing that Hint HintI I 1 had hall 1 been with witty and his hish h huts i ts when the Hed sell sect went over then theu My I lords said the earl arl of or Rochester Rochester Roch Roch- ester on n certain occasion I I-I-I- I I I Irise rise this time time toy my lords I I 1 I I divide my qty discourse Into four tour branches Here he en came me to a halt and then t My I lords If It ever er I rise again oguin In this house hous I 1 give you jou ou leave e to cut me 1111 oft off root and branch forever When WIlen Tristram of ot Rhode Island wall wua a 1 speech In III C con con- II- II gl s 's o onto once he directed his eagle eye eje e find and pointed his forefinger toward his hi opponent on the floor and anlIn In this threatening attitude made mad a long and und dramatic pause laUse That pause was terrible terrible ter tr ll said suid a 1 member to Burgess after atter the debate ate had hod closed complimenting him on Its dramatic effect To no noone noone one ono so eo terrible as to me said Enid Burgess Burgess Bur Bur- gess for tor I couldn't think of anything to say From From Orators an and Orator Oratory by William Matthews Mathews Ten pass ni through a stretch h of ot timber near St. St Joseph Ar Ari John McElroy was startled by bl cries of ot help I Murder 1 coming corning from the thicket just off orr the road lIe He rushed In and discovered a parrot struggling to escarte the clutches of a ft chicken hawk The hawk flew away at the arrival arrival ar ar- rival of or McElroy y who p picked up the wounded parrot and took the bird home with him It was so badly lacerated lacer that It died within a few hours houri but while It was wo alive alln It U shook its Iti he head d continually anI and muttered Bad bad |