Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Eloquent Rags. [ARTICLE]

Eloquent Rags.

“Eloquence Is speaking out.. . out of the abundance of the heart,” say the authors of “Guesses at Truth.” An Incident related by Doctor Barnardo, the English philanthropist who cares, for friendless children, illustrates this characteristic of eloquence. “I was standing,” he said, “at my front door one bitter day in winter, when a little ragged chap came up to me and asked me for an order of admission. To test him, I pretended to be rather rough with him. “ ‘How do I know,’ I said, ‘if what you tell me is true? Have you any friends to speak for you ?’ “ ‘Erlends!’ he shouted. ‘No, I ain’t got no friends; but if these here rags’— and he waved his arm about as ho spoke—‘won’t speak for me, nothin* else will.’ ”