Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-20

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& ssshrcssvd BY kkes prsss, Be gaze the fol
lowing p6Sskat Ssmiui1siases Of his life -
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I went 70 the gallery Of the House o.
Commons q parliamentary reporter when
| ~ boy not eighteen. and left til can
hardly believe the inesorabls truth nigh
thirty Years ago ana have pursued the
calling Of . feposief inoSf circumstances Of
which many OF nv brethren 1t home in
EK>hd hsse, many Of my brethren success.
sors, can form no adequate conception.
have often transcribed fos che printer from
my short hand notes, important public
speeches, in which the Stzictsst accuracy
wss rsquired, and . mistake In which would
have been to a young man severely com.
promising, written on the palm Of my hand
by che light Of Z dark lsnteYn, IN : post
chaiss and four, galleping through : wild
country, Ill through The dead Of the night,
It the then surpstNng RE d fifteen miles
an hour.
The very last tine I was q Exeter
atrolled into the Castle yard, there to iden.
tify, for the amusement Of friend, the spot
on which once took ~ We used 10. al
il n election speech Of my noble fried
Lord Russell, in the midst Of . lively fieh,
maintsiued BY oil the vagsbsnds IN That di
vision OF the country, ard under such pelt
Ing rain that renembsr two good natured
colleagues who CHANGED to be 1t leisure
held pocket handkerchief over my note
book after The manner Of : state canopy il
IN ecclcsiastical procession. Laughter.
! have worn my knees by writing on then
on the old back row Of the old House o
Commons; and I have worn M feet By
standing in preposterous pen in the Housl
Of Lords, where We used 10 be huddled lik,
- many sheep. Ilaughtsr] kept In winte
tiil the woolsack might want stufElng. IA
laugh Returning home from excited pc
iitscas meetings in the country TO the Waitinl
press IN London, do verify believe hav
been upset in almost every description q
vehicle known in this country. A laugh.
have been, in my time, on amiry by-road
toward the small hours, fotty or Any mile
from London, in rickety caSriage, Wit
exhausted horses and drunken post boyl
and have got back in time before publics
lion TO be received with never forgotte
compliments by Mr.. BLACK in tho broades
81 scotch, coming from the broadcast {
hearts ever knew. Hear, hear.
Z1ndsb and Gentlemen IL mention thsl
tnvsAi things ~ an assurance to you that
haze never forgotten the fascination of tn,
old pursuit. (Cheers.] The pleasure ths
l nsed 70 feel in the rapidity and dextcrit
OF tts exercise has never faded out Of m
oeeaet. Whatever little cunning ofhand o
head took to It, or acquired in it, have S
retained - that l fully believe could re
sumo il tomorrow. Cheers To thi
sceent year Of my life, when sit in thi
ball or where not, hearing dull speech
she Phenomenon does occur laughter i
Sometimes bcgnile the tedium Of the mo
snssnt BY mentally following the speaker il
the old, old way and sometimes, II you ca
believe me, even find my hand going o.
the table cloth. Laughter
Accept these little truths as . confrma
uon Of what know, as . confirmation o
my interest in this old calling. Accept ther
.: proof that my feelings for the vocation
Of my youth 10 not . sentiment taken up Ia
night to be thrown away tomorrow, hear
hear but faithful sympathy, which is
part Of myself Cheers lverily believe
] am sure. that il had never quilted III,
old calling, should have been foremost an
sealous in the interest Of this institution
believing il 10 DO sound, . wholesome m
aeood one.
Ladics and gentlemen, l am TO propose
you to drink prosperity to the Newspap
Press Fund"