The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-17
F,,n Ire CINCINNATI Ttms1.
,,T -" AT HOME.


walks 'Anier SHpper"---HIs Views
on the Labor Question and DistrI.
button OF the RheumRti-m, &c
1 The Jeukipses of the press have re-
Gently turned their attention to writing
/ minute sketches of our public men, how
/ they live, move and have their Spreeiny,
when they go to bed, when they get up
what they eat and drink, what they
read, what they say, &c. Ben. Wsae
, was put over the course while ago oE
correspondent of one OF our cry
dnilies, and more recently Thad. Sle-
I VEINS received similar attentions inOih
reporter for New York daily 4hesy
sketches are copied so extensively anu
read with such Hvidity, that We are
constrained 10 try our hand AT II. We
scrDrdingIy sent a correspondent 10
hnnt nm the illustrious philosopher, j
\ Free. more widely known as "Ihe
immortal J. Is" He is IA public man.
euiovinE IA national reputation. He has
stood the "prrssure" North and south,
and has serious Intentions OF going to
Mexico 10 seq what he can do for that
torn and distracted land. The follow
ing is what dur correspondent mas 10
say about
THE IMMORTAL AZ. y" AT HOME.
I The first dithculty l encountered in
. bunting up the great philosopher. was
+ in finding where his home was, but al
. ter diligent inquiry l asceEtained that
ne was az home any ChcTc. de Is cltl-
zen office world, and, may add, that
the world has produced more great
men than any other place in ONO, eI-
cent Sheboyghu. ~. N makes him
. self perfectly at home wherever he may
/ chance to be at the time. lie differs
. from the man who wrote, There Il no
place like home" for every place Is
. IKE home to him, and all homes are
alike. l found him, at length SitunS
{ in the office Of the BuDg:own scHty
YOu-Bet, entirely al home. ne occu'
pied the chair OF the editor, VINO was re-
sp.c,fulIy slindinE by his side listen
IN, TO the woriIs of wisdom which fell
rom the lips OF the philosopher, one OF
whose sect reposed on the desk, among
unfinished editorials, and the other on
the imposing stone. de seemed en-
tirelv nj homeA l reminded him OF an
invitation he Extended TO me more than
a vear ago, to 5lSit him at home, and /
told him | had come 20 do II.
He said l needn't look any further,
for he WAS al much at home in one
place As in another. il not more so. He
hen commanded the editor OF The You
Bet 10 bring ME Il stool, which being
done he ordertsd me to seated with an
imperious wave OF his hand. l accord
iuSIy sat down. ] found that here the
immorta! philosopher spends large
portion of his time that he spends here;
aud the editor prints many OF his wise
sayings in his weekly, You Bet. Ss--s-
The fearlesS and Immortal philoso-
pber had II book III his hands which he
had been peruiing. 1 saw at IA glance
that II was "Pld Mother Goose he
has learned etery line of 1t by heart,
and SAWS he Fan beat Ben. Wade re-
peatiuS it. l took a look about the
room where ~. "" IS accustomed to
making himself so much at home.
The walls were hung with war maps,
cobweOs, Fourth Of July posters, news
papers, auction bills, old clothes, &c.
/ asked ~. n what were his favorIte
! books, and he polluted to shelf on
which were displayed a volume of
/ Patent Office ILeports, the Congression-
/ al Globe for 1870, two volumes of Pub
/ lie Documents, work on the Ohio
| Canal and the Annual Report OF the
| ASYLUM for Idiots. Some idea OF the
! massive bent OF this mans mind may
/ be gathered from this.
~. n" has keen appreciation OF
| humor, and consequently is great adj
mirer OF TuppeI's Proverbial Pniloso-
ply. He readW it TO the editor OF You
/ Bet, because, he says, he don't like to
/ laugh alone" He hasn't a very high
| opinion OF Graeley as a comic writer,
/ but says he DOES just as foolish things
as any OF th4m. Although -. n"
| isn't much on war, he prIdes himself
on understanding Caesars campaigns.
| He j. familiar with every tight Caesar
| had, having read full reports OF them
| in the New York Ct;pper AS they oc-
Cured.
| The philosophers habits are peculiar.
| he never dresses himself before he gets
up in the morning, and he don't dress
| very much then. He rarely washes
| himself, as it consumes valuable time
/ that should be employed in philosophi-
1 cal reflections.
| His breakfast is very light, usually,
sometimes confined to picking his teeth
with broom splint. After breakfast
| he takes a walk, which is gagged ac-
cOrding to the distance to The next town.
| He takes great many papers, ali, in
/ fact, that any editor will permit him to
carry away. lie hasn't eaten dinner
! for twenty years, II the hotel keeper
could keep him away, which he can't
do very oiLen. All the rest OF tue fam
| lily 10 as they please about dinner. He
uses his knife "A good deal in cutting his
| victuals. He cannot endure any liquor
| in his whisky. Some one attempted to
! put some gin in his cocktail once, when
/ his back was turned, but he detected it
| immediately-ald called for SOME
more.
He takes a walk after supper-the
length depending on how far ne has to
! walk after II.
His invariabie custom is to retire
early; he acquired the habit while on
his tour through the South, where, it is
| feared, he wasn't altogether under
stood. In every place where he at
tempted to make a speech, he was COM
| PEELED TO retire early. He says he don't
/ mind hens eggs, but they employ
| goose eggs down there.
read him a report oil one of his
speeches in the South, reported in the
DOggond ReUieu, and he laughed and
said ii was garbi.d. Said he:
II didn't say that labor-saving i'm
plements should be allowed to vote,
and that a thrasHing machine was bet
ter than any othdr man. Neither did l
declare myself TO be in favor of AN
equal distribution of the inflammatoI y
| rheumatism in the United States among
the people, for in five years it would be
in the hands feet, elbows, knee
] Joints, &c.,) OF Il few again. But
what did say was that moving
/ machines do not digest as readily as
the common scythe among the working
| classes, and that steam saw mills are
not as healthy a summer beverage AS
when worked by hand" / then asked
him, ought he not to correct the erro-
neous reports of His speeches through
the columns of thd Bungtoun You Bel, AS
they might injureIh his prospects of being
a candidate for the LunRtic Asylum;
but he only laughed, and said it was
contrary to the Established usages of
his life to contradict anything or pay a
| cent.
then asked him, in view of the con-
| hict that is going on between labor and
| the rheumatism, what was to be done
| He was thoughtful for moment,
resting his mussivd brow upon the point
OF steel pen, and then he replied: ~
! don't know unless YOU lend me half a