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The Huron Expositor, 1876-12-29, Page 27 a: THE HURON EXPOSITOR. DECEMBER 29, 1876. 11.040.••••••••s+ MR; QUATTY'S GREAT SPEECH. A more sincere and every way excellent min than Mr. Phip,Quatty never lived, nor a more -thoroughly uneducated one; and a more sensible one you never knew. In the dialed of the South-western city in which he lived, "If ever a man . had what you may'F.call good strong hard horse -sense, Quatty's your man." As all admitted, however, there tea,s one fatal exception which was always stated in the making out of this verdict — the indi- vidual in question "would speak." Mr. Venable, his young pastor, begged him in private, and almost witji tears in his eyes—for it was a very serious matter , indeed—not to make remarks in prayer - meeting, yet entreeted him in vain. Mr. Ezra alicajah Parsons, who afterwards secured an income of sixty-two thousand dollars a. year by one of his many inven- tions, had patented a vast variety of railway brakes rimoug other things, but he failed ignominiously in devising any means of stopping Mr. Quatty, and never had Mr: Parsons given his mind more • vigorously to anytking. Mrs. Chaffings- by, who imagined herself an artist, and painted atrocious prophets, apostles, martyrs and seraphims, became herself a picture of disgust in the framing of her pew "at meeting" whenever Mr. Quatty arose to speak. Mr. Parsons and her- self were members of the same church with the offender, and had a strong av- ersion to his peculiarity, —of all people living, queer and notionate people being the most impatient of the oddities of others. There was Commodore Grand- heur, superintendent of the Sabbath School and high official in general of the church, a man of imposing presence who hadan alarming way of growing purple as to his face when angry, and bristling as to his heavy white mustache, and demonstrative as to :his still _heavier gold -headed cane. It was 1 uot every ' one who dared face the Comnaodore when . the veins about his bald head became blue and swollen. After every attempt of Mr. Phip Quatty to "make h few re- marks" at any' church naeeting, the Com- modore would roil, so to speak, down upon the culprit in a thunder storm even more terrible than the one before; and yet hat good or evil did hie almost ap- oplectic expostulations do? Not a bit. To Mr. Quatty, at least wheu the next . opportunity to speak was come, the ve- hement denunciations were no more than the puffs of smoke from the cigar of the last passer-by. Mr. Quatty woad speak. It was very remarkable. Every Wed- nesday night he went from the livery - stable of which he was the energetic • owner—the city in which he lived being famous for the superb sea -beach drives near by—to prayer -meeting as fully re- selvect as any man could be, tkatehe would not _say a word. Alas, the lights, the singing, the •fervent prayers, the reading by the pastor of some specially striking Scripture, most of' all, the ex- hortations of some brother present, would be sure to stir him up and alto- gether beyond his own con trol, and in spite of himself as well as of all the world be- side, speak he must, and would, and did. • I liked Mr. Quatty thoroughly, and I cau see him this instant. _He was a tall _ man, long, lank, 1e , sunburned by rea- son of unceasing posure with his horses, eylich, by the ye, were so /limy manias t\him, on1yi less so than his speeehes. He was re tless of eye, gen- erous to an absurdit with his money, • whoever wanted it, w.th a sbaewd and kindly face, having bit that one faulthe would speak. Nor was that a fault when you. came to know the reason - prompting the simple -hearted man; real- ly it was the noblest sort of an excel- lence instead. , The fact that Mr. Quatty Was one of the shrewdest of men in everything else, caused this insanity id his for public ' speaking to stand out in grotesque con- trast upon the daily background of his otherwise uniform and even coarse com- mon sense. Explanation is easy. He hed heard a vast deal, of oratory, very often of an exceedingly florid kind, on Fourths of July, during political cam- paigns, on Masonic anniversaries aad the like, and whiskey could not; have so in- • toxicated him. Not that the subject matter of the eloquence was of the slightest interest to hien. A breathless listener frona first to last, by far the most excited hearer present, hie one thought through all this was: "Oh, if I could only get a show at this crowd in that way! Yes, and, if I .could just get to going, I could. pileon the agony higher thau '1 Oli are doing, you i bet ! 2 i In other words, to V1Ir. Quatty, pub- lic speaking meant 41.eciamation, and declamation meaut soi ething immea,se urably more than or mary language. What so poor and mean as the daily t talk he held now withd , his one man, an now with that! In ccutrast, what so glorious as for him to heve to do with a thousand people at once, his talk swell- ing into -a kind of thunder -storm pro- portionately ! But, Dr. Burrows, a previous pastor of his, ' had stipulated his hallucinations into madness almost. A very lore rotund() speaker Dr. Bur- rows was. Portly of person, powerful of voices., orbicular of gesture, the sol- emnity of his themes gave a sanction to his oratory which made it a matter of conscience, in addition. to all else, that Mr. Quatty should imitate and surpass • it all. He would be more than Presi- dent of the United States if he could present truth in that way, now inking hand and .voice into the still small hisp- er of thrilling appeal, and now--arel this he liked the best—crashing UpQi the people in thunder of righteous d nun- ciation. — , • me !"- Mr. Quattyi had many a tinae groaned. to himself on leaving church, "if I could get up as high as. the Doctor did, I could have got up fifty times higher, and. I could have aome down upon those people a hundred times harder. You -bet !. No, not bet, it's Sunday, and it's a sermon. But, oh, if I only had any sort of show,—but one fair chance,—just one !" , And thus it came about that Mr. Phip Quatty arose one eventful day at an unusually early hour. He had been very wakeful all night, so that when his wife groanecl as he got up, 0 Phip, Phip, I wouldn't if I was you ;" and her hus- band replied, "Can't help it, Sally," it was but in continuation of a conversa- tion to alike effect ,which had been kept up intermittently through all the hours of darkness gone before. , Mrs. Quatty sat up in bed, arranged her hair a little, rubbed her eyes, which had been evidently deprived of their lawful rest, and made one last, despaie- ing appeal. • • ".0 how I do wish you wouldn't !" • "Can't help it, Sally."( The words in reply were few, but it -was in substance_ all Mr. Quatty ever said, in that connection, to her or to any . one else. They were few and final, be - cease they were the utterance to others of what was to the man himself, the de- cree of destiny,necessity, nature. Ile did not desire to make remarks in meet- ing. A vast deal rather would ,he listen, instead, to anybody else you might men- tion. ," There is nothing I have to do I hate more," he often said. it was the grief of his life. "1 would rather any day have an overseer take a rawhide to me," he was Continually observing. By an inscrutable doom, more perplexing and painful toilful than it codld possibly be to any other, he "had to speak," and that was all.there was of it. Mr. Quat- ty had neyer read of the Virgin at Del- phi uttering oracles. sorely against her will, or he might have quoted that pre- cedent. As it was, his reply, as final in its tone as in all else, ao cool because concerning something in relation to which all discussion was idle—his reply expressed it all— "Can't help it, Sally." The morning alluded to, was that of the day upon which it had been arranged by Mr. Quatty's pastor that he should have a hall engaged for the purpose, and an entire evening to 'and for himself. Then and there he was f to make fully, finally, mice and for all, the remarks he had so often and faithfully tried to make in prayer -meetings and elsewhere, and tried in vain. Although the plan had been suggested by his pastor very cau- tiously and with hesitation lest it -should hurt ibis parishioner's ifeelings, Mr. Quatty had consented to it promptly, cordially, almost rapturously. It was precisely the thing he had desired for years. "I haeenever had any show, you 'see, sir," he explained tie Mr. Venable at the end of their conversation. "People all around me are going to ruin, and even when you get such people into a meeting somehow what is said does not bit a man of the crowd as a hammer hits a nail on the head. It may all. be very good, but it is mighty misty and roundabout. Somehow it don't hit so as to hurt, and • people go away exaetly as they catue. That is the reason I get up. Something must be said. I would- as , lief have a hand chdpped off as to have it to do, but if nobody else does it I must !" , "But why not say it all," his friend asked, "to people in conversation. You have many wicked men coming in your stable every day, Youtell. me,—why not seize an opportunity then, and have a private talk? I find I can do more with a person in such saiversation than can from the pulpit.77 The other made prompt reply: "Because, being a minister, they don't interrupt, yoh see, any more than when you are preaching. Talk ?-1 try to do so every day of my life. But the fellow., whoever it is, Will interrupt. , He is sure to say, `Oh, Quatty, let me have a horse and buggy and go ;' or 'Stuff, Quatty, nonsense, if you care for my soul, why won't you let me have that ten dollars?' and I do let them have the ten dollars,— fifty of them for. that matter,"—Mr. • Quatty added, "except when I know for dead certain it will go for whiskey or .gambling or something worse. No, sir! and twenty to ona, as sure as I begin to talk, the man will say, 'Well, now, you have had your say, let me talk,' and then he will fly off with some joke or story; or start me talking horse -flesh. What I want, you see, is to get at people when • I can say all I've got to say without any- body putting in. My idea is to get a crowd to sit still as they do for you in church, and listen. Then I only want a good fair start, and I can always have that by beginning with my being an oys- terman, and all I want after that is to get going you know! I have so much to say," he added with almost tears in his earnest eyes, " that if I get the hang of the thing, the swing of it, you know, the rush of the thing, you understand;" with an illustrative gesture of both of his arms, as iffhe were pushing some ve- hicle rapidly ,before him, "the gush and rush and roar of the thing, 1 couldanake a speech that would tell,—yes, sire e bob, tell like thunder !" And now' the naorining of the dy set for Mr. Quatty to silieak,had Come. Full notice had been given in -all the ci y,pa- pers, Colonel Rosselyn, the editor f one of them, adding in his sheet a speci 1 ed- itorial in reference to !`Mr. Quatty, our well-knewn, estimable end enterprising fellow -citizen," the 'subject of commend- ation as ignorant as a lamb Of the sar- casta of the Colonel's italics. Never had his many friends been so zealous in his affairs, Profane men ad gamblers as many of them were, they had cheer- fully contributed towards posters adver- tising the meetins in the hall,—posters exhausting the resOurcea both as to the largest type and most vivid colors, of all the printing offices in the city, No won- der Mr. Quatty was unable ta sleep the night before. Nor is it to be wondered that on rising, as we have said, he resist- ed his wife to the last as he put on his best clothes at once, so as to give his whole mind and bedy to the matter with- out the interruptidn of having to dress again at night. Imrhediately after breakfast he had his span of "crack" grays harnessed to his on private bug- gy, and drove o_ff to thel sea -beach to be by himself and to think: It was a morning bright, Aol, crisp enough to inspire the dullest man living. Mr. Quatty's soulwas charged and sur- charged with an abdndance ot things to say,—things to him of the highest con- ceivable beauty and sublimity as well as importance; ; things which held and stirred his own heart beyond anything else in all the world. There was plenty to say, no fear of that; and no man could be in more vigorcfus, not to say, rugged health; the blood coursing swift- ly, that bracing morning, through his brain, enabling him to dare and to do everything, as it did through his stom ach, enabling him to digest eaerything; As he struck the beach he shook the reins eagerly. "Mang !" he said to his grays, and, as they sped along in the fringe of the surf, ,"That is it,' he said aloud, "that's the way to get to going to ny speech,—the way to get to the rush of the thing; and now let me study." But the orator found it almost impos- sible to do so. He could not help going. over in his mind his many past efforts and failures. Then he pictured to him- self the hall at it would be that night, the lights and the crowd, the death -like stillness of attention, the deepening in- terest, the tears of all present as he pro- ceeded, the applause when he should end, the congratulations of Ma fri nds, the notices in the papers next day. As his horses flew along the broad iard beach, their driver continually sha ing the reins and urging them on in his eager- ness, Mr. Quatty had never been so e cit= ed in his life. "The morning I was to marry weal not a circumstance to it," he said; "not even the day I joined the church. But look here, Quatty," he continued, "this. isn't studying my speech. Hold up a moment," he said aloud, and he reined in his grays until they came to a stand. "Let me imagine all the people there, still as mice, and attentive as you please. wonder if the hall will .be crowded. Perhaps some will have to sit on the platform. Never mind. Whoa, hold up! Let me begin at the beginning." Now, it should be explained, Mr. Quatty always began his remarks in pub- lic by telling. of having once been an oysterman, and a rather disreputable one.. Also of his having been rescued from his evil courses by the the intervention of a stranger who had told him some- what singularly, that he perceived that he, Mr. Quatty, was a gentleman and a scholar. It is not improbable that Mr. Quatty had made a hundred efforts to speak, and every time he had begun with these facts, but, somehow, he al- ways broke down almost immediately after stating them, whereas he had -al- ways regarded them in theory as but the safe beginning of the rousing address he ‘ always intended to make. 41 was once," he now rehearsed, "an oysterman, that I've got pat Then that man, and how I said that he was not a gentleman and a scholar, pat as you please. Now here is • just where I begin to break down, it's the weak place in the harness. I must have something strong to say exactly there. Can't you step your stamping and pawing? Whoa, I say. Let me see, let me see—." At this juncture a sea gull swooped by and so near the heads of his pair, that eager for the least pretext to do so, they started off on a run, jerk- ing the reins out of the driver's hands. There was not much danger, seeing that the ocean was on one side of the beaeh, and that the sand was heaped up twenty feet high on the other. The horses, however, were as well as their driver, full of life, encl put such soul as they too possessed into their heels. Mr. Quatty had been run away with who can say how many hundreds of times in his life, and was before long master againof the situation, but ,when he had his horses standing still once more, and all in a foam, it was miles further along the beach, and all his preparations up to that point in his address had to be gone over again. "Yah, you beauties !" their driver said to his horses as they struggled once more against the long and sinewy arm which held them in, "you upset my speech, that is all. You would, would you?? I only wish I may run away with that hallful of people to -night the same way. Yes, and 1 can do it if nobody interrupts. If I can get to going, that is all I ask, to get under a head of steam, to get to the rush of the thing. Now, what next? Just at that weak place I'll have something as strong as I can fix it, smart and strong to keep me from stopping one moment. Let mi seer and he meditated deeply with his head down, but with no result. "If you only could be still one moment !" he ejac- ulated to his 1 animals, "it is that, it is the interruption that halts me, and all 1 need is to get into a good headway. Let me see," p.n.(' his eye fell on a crab burrowing in the heaped upmounds of sand on his left. "Exactly,, ' he exclaim- 1 ed, "yes, I see, I'll illustrate that way, how a fellow burrows in the dirt when he drinks and gambles and such like. I can bring in the hard shell and the claws as sure as you, live. That's geod, they'll understand that! Get up, I'll see some- thing else," Mr. Quatty revolved his il- lustration over and over as his horses trotted rapidly along against a tight rein, the driver deep in thought. Suddenly they shied to one side, and only by sheer strength could Mr. Quatty hold them in rearing and plunging. Ly- ing right across their way-oe the smooth hard beach, its head down and still toss- ed as to the _matted heir by the receding tide, was the body of a drowned sailor. It had evidently been washed up by the heavy slid of the night before, and it was far from the first time Mr. Quatty had come on such a sight along the aeach. He held his struggling horses in as he considered matters. Life had long been extinct. The glazed eyes were staring at the sky„ the brawny and ta- tooed breast was all bare to the day; the ineffectual arms, pictured over even to the tips of the finger; with anchors and crosses and hearts( were spread • out in dumb appeal on either side, still being lifted aud let fall by the ebb and flow of the retiring sea. "Poor fellow, but you ain't the first," nor will you be the last. I'll dri4 right back and send out the . coroner," and be turned his horses .suddenly around. "Hold up?' he 'exclaimed with excite- ment as he did so, "it's a Providence has pitched you into the very outset of my speech. 'Why, it's the grandest sort of an idea ! Alman, dear friends, and Mr., Quattytnansferred the reins from his right hand to his left, and extended his arm to an imaginary audience, "a mortal map once as full opf life and deviltry, I dessay as any of yoth, and now, behold, --Oh! I have got the idea. I'm sorry for you, but glad for my speech; yes," he added, shaking his fist at the buzzards slowly circling round and round overhead, "1'11 put you in too. Many and many 4 man of you," Mr. Quatty continued return- ing to his audience with an iuflation into oratory of his'voiee, and a wave of his hand, "is a worse turkey -buzzard, a -cir- cling and a -swooping every day round and round many a poor sailor in our har- bor! Oh, but 1,11 make your feathers fly -tonight !" Mr. Quatty added with another shake of his fist, this time at those of whom the birds of ,prey were but a type. "Glang, boys !' he added to his horses, and, as they gladly sped. homeward, "I'll hold on to what l've got and go for the coroner; get up, will you!' [coacauseme *EXP WEEK.] • —Carefully, cautiously and with joy in her innecent young heart, the dear girl is now -a -days busily engaged in working a pair of number seven slippers for her young linen, and the chances are five to one that he wears a ,number ten boot. —"I don't care inuch for a quiet baby, but I dote on a squalling one," said an old bachelor. "Why, how strange !" admiringly chorused all the mothers in the room. "Not at all," responded the bachelor, "because, you see, as soon as the brat begins to squall, it's always taken from the room." —There are a few good men still left in Boston, one ;of whom, 'hen the col- lection for foreign missions was taken in his church the other day, gave his usual thousand; dollars, and then added another thousand because the time are so hard, and the good cause ought not, to -suffer. 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All surgical operatione performed with care and promptitude. Fees as low as can be obtained elsewhere. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Rooms over Mr. A. G. Mc- Dougall's Store, Main -at. In the absence of Mr Derbyshire the office will be open on Thursday, •Friday and. Saturday of each week. 20 "peR-P,UMATISM CXTRED WITHIN TWELVE -"' HOURS —Brunton's Rheumatie Absorbent will relieve acute pain in 4 hours, Ad all pain within 12 hours, it is certain and permanent Brunton's Digestive Fluid—Nearly all diseases arise from the stomaeh, occasioned. by free acid TheDigestive Fluid neutralises the acid, conse- quently it must cure Dyspepsia, Erysipelas, and all Blood. Poisonings, the effect is immediate Sold by Druggists. Price 50c. Sole Wholesale Agents, Kerry, Watson & Co., Montreal, or ad- dress W. Y.,BRUNTON, London, Ont. 462-28 , — MISCELLANEOUS. :1 1'. BRINE, Licenced Auctioneer for the " • County of Huron. Sales attended in al] parts of the County. All orders left at the Ex- POSITOR Office will be promptly attended to. C°IfimE ,RCIAL LIVERY; Seaforth, Ont. T. A. SHARP, Proprietor. Comfortable and elegant carriages, and first-class reliable horses always reaey. Charges moderate. Office and stables on Huron street, second door east of Main street Orders left at any of the hotels promptly attend- ed to. 399 HENSALL. SAW LOGS WANTED. THE Undersigned is prepared to purchase saw- -L. logs delivered at Hensall this winter, for which he will pay the following prices in cash: Pine, $6 per 1000 feet; Basswood, $5 ;- Oak, Ash, Butternut and Cherry $8; Hemlock, Birch, Maple, Beech and Bock and Soft Elm, $4. AS I am going to erect a mill in liensall I am prepared to receive any quantities. 471-113 T. J. WILSON, lit-nsall. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. THE PARTNERSHIP hitherto subsisting be- tween the undersigned, under the firm of Munro & Hogan, as Plowrnakers, in the town of Seaforth, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. , All debts due the late firm must be paid to Malcolm Munro, who will discharge the liabilities of thesaidfirm. - -MALCOLM MUNRO. DENNIS HOGAN. ' • SEAFORTH, Dec. 1, 1876. Jn reference to the above announcement, the tin- dersigned desires to state to the public that the business will be carried on as formerly in all its branches by himself; and he hopes the patronage so liberally extended to the late firm will be con - timed to iaim. He would also request all those indebted to settle without delay. -MALCOLM MUNRO. 470-4 .31-4BEEtr.,-- licIJONALD'S PLANING MILL And Sash and Door Fa‘cto)..y SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. MABEE & McDONALD, having establishbd ie connection with their Ltmiber Yard a Plan - hag Mill and Sash and Door Facto, are prepared to- execute work in this line in a. -satisfactory manner. Planing and Lumber Dressing of every description done to order. Doors, Sashes, Frames, &c., always on hand or Made to order in the. best manner and of good material. Lumber of all kinds on hand and for sale as „ usual. Estimates furnished for buildings of all kinds. 449 MABEE & McDONALD. SWITCHES, In A Seaforth. HAIR DRESSING. 1 , MISS AMANDA STARK , WISHES to inform the Ladies of Seaforth and V T Vicinity that she is prepared to makeup CURLS, BRAIDS, kc., _ the 'Latest lrasbion from Combings. Prices ModerateAnd all orders punctually attended to. Call Solicited. Residence—Goderich Street, 467*19 DEcnipo 11111•11111111111111111.0m.11 Tha .broItis hataluih 1 If he suffers frol machinery of th not a door must heard,awnodrlh aitwtoaroyesuagpephroell are only anothe y-enience. At of has usual -ro ever cause it Heves hitiaself daalvt3rrrty,ab s13rii per doctor. 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