Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — Sumner’s Practice. [ARTICLE]

Sumner’s Practice.

Near the close of Sumner’s career “Apphia Howard” said to him in his Washington home : “What are you doing here without Congress ? ” “Did you never see,” he asked, “ when, a train of cars is standing in a station’,* a man go around striking each wheel and every part of the machinery that has been under any strain ? He is testing it. I am doing this,” he continued, “ with my speeches. lam going over them sentence by sentence, and testing each, to see if there is one that gives an uncertain sound.” Music exerts a very perceptible influence on the circulation and respiration of human beings and animals.