Depew's First Fourth Of July Oration

Chauncey M. Depew will always asBociate the Fonrth of July with bis first attempt as an orator, this important event taking place at Peekskill when the great af ter dinner speaker was 21 years old. Mr. Depew had then just gradnated from Yale and was not so fluent of speech as he is now. The late James W. Husted was present and also delivered an address. "Our Chauncey" remembers that for the first and only time in his life he experienced "stage fright. " "The andience were very kind to me," he said, "and appeared to be very mnch interested, although I feit every moment that I shonld break down. I can still hear their cheers in iny ears as I finished, but I feit nevertheless that I had made an utter failure of my first attempt. Husted made a much better speech than I did. He laid special stress npon the injustice of England. Just when the mother country was getting it the worst an Irishman in the audience called out: 'Grood! Give 'em h - 1, Mr. Husted! Give 'em h - 1!' This incident was the only one which at all relieved my downheartedness on this occasion. " - New York Press. ■ - What can be more foolish than to think all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? - Jeremy Taylor. Gninea was named f rom a west African word mean ing "abotmding in gold."