administrative ability holds the system together--his power
of will maintains it as the faith of a community. When he
dies--Mormonism will die too. The men who are around him
have neither his talent nor his energy. By means of his
strength it is held together. When he falls--Mormonism will
also fall to pieces.

That lion--you perceive--has a tail. It is a long one
already. Like mine--it is to be continued in our next.

(Reprise of first picture of curtain and footlights.

The curtain fell for the last time on Wednesday, the 23d of
January 1867. Artemus Ward had to break off the lecture
abruptly. He never lectured again.)

6.3. "THE TIMES" NOTICE.

"EGYPTIAN HALL.--Before a large audience, comprising an
extraordinary number of literary celebrities, Mr. Artemus
Ward, the noted American humorist, made his first appearance
as a public lecturer on Tuesday evening, the place selected
for the display of his quaint oratory being the room long
tenanted by Mr. Arthur Sketchley. His first entrance on the
platform was the signal for loud and continuous laughter and
applause, denoting a degree of expectation which a nervous
man might have feared to encounter. However, his first
sentences, and the way in which they were received, amply
sufficed to prove that his success was certain. The dialect
of Artemus bears a less evident mark of the Western World