Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Gathered Smiles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gathered Smiles

WHEN THE EARTH PABBEB.

Concerning the carrying power of the open air speaker's voice, Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff notes that an Oxford citizen who had traveled in the United States, told him that he had himself heard what Colonel Thompson, the secretary of the navy, was saying at a meeting in Indiana at a distance of half a mile. The same traveler qnoted the reply of another American orator, Mr. Corwin, to an Interruption, a man on the edge of a crowd at Buffalo kept clamoring “Louder, louder!” Finally the speaker retorted: “At the last day, when heaven and earth shall pass away like a scroll, when the Ancient of Days shall sit on his great whits throne, thousands and tens of thousands of the heavenly host ranged on his right hand and on his left, when the Archangel blows the trumpet that shall rend the tombstones and wake the dead, some fool from Buffalo will be heard shouting Louder, louder!”’—New York Press.