Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1900 — Entertainment No. 2 of the Lecture Course. [ARTICLE]

Entertainment No. 2 of the Lecture Course.

The Event of the Season. It is with special pleasure that the management announce the early coming of Colonel Ham, the famous Southern orator and humorist. If unbroken success and continually-increasing popularity be the test of merit, then Colonel Ham is entitled to the wide favor which he enjoys, and to rank as one of the foremost lecturers and platform ojators in America. He rivals Mark Twain in humor Wm. M. Evart ni the length and faultless construction of his sentences, peaks as rapidly as George Francis Train, and as distinctly as Senator Ingalls; yet he resembles none of them. He has a style peculiarly his own, and it should bring him both fame and fortune.

It is not too much to say that Colcnel Ham's lecture will be the literary and society event of the season. His lectures crowd the largest halls everywhere with the very best people. He breaks the bread of sparkling wit, rare humor magnetic eloquence, and sound philosophy, giving to each his portion in due season, and charms alike the young, the old, the grave, the gay. No one can afford to miss it.

Personally, Colonel Ham is one of the most genial and companionable of men. Socially, and on the platform, he is always the polished gentleman. A true hnmorist, he never wounds to make merry, but finds his fun in sunny places; his wit is dean, and without stain, and nothing coarse ever finds place in his social or public utterance. Original, epigrammatic, and eloquent, those

who hear him once are always more anxious to hear him the second time. We commend him with confidence to our friends, believing they have in store one of the most delightfui treats it has ever been our good fortune to present them, Ellis’ Opera House, Friday evening, Dec. 7, on account of meeting of Jasper County Teachers Association and to acoomodate

those wishing to attend both leo “ tures. Col Ham w.ll commence at 8:30 p. m.