Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — A Belated Lecturer. [ARTICLE]

A Belated Lecturer.

Boston Advertiser. Dr. John Lord used to tell a story )f a visit to Connecticut. He arrived very late at the town where he vas to speak, and on stepping from ;he train was confronted by a man, vho asked; “Be you the lecture man that’s to ;a„lk to-night?” “I am, and I fear I am late,” reponded Dr, Lord. “Well, jump right into this carriage. They’re a-waitin’ fer ye. Sent ne down to fetch ye with me right :o the hall.” After being driven rapidly to the lall the ,Doctor was met by an effusve conamittee, who pinned a blue ‘ibbon on his coat and pushed him io the platform. He was too busy irranging his notes to notice how he vas introduced, but when the applause died away he began to speak in the subject of Alexander Hamil- . ion. Before he had gone very far a loleinn individual in the audience irose and said: “Begging your indulgence, sir, br interrupting you. I’d like to ask, dr, if Mr. Hamilton was a teetotal* ir?” He had been mistaken for a temperance lecturer who was to speak here that night, but had been delved. Meanwhile his audience was iwaiting’ him in another hall. He sot to them finally, but it was rather ate when the lecture was over.