Wilmington journal., 1876-01-28
EDITORIAL sE~PONDENCE.
HoT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS,

HoT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS,
December %, 1875.
The guests at this hotel are very
nice people. am confident on thi:
point for every body remarks upon it a.
an extraordinary az well as pleasing
| fact. General Hooker, fighting Joe O.
the Fe leral army, says the company
IS very fire, and he ought to know
Indeed is he not enough to make 8
good company if there was Nc, one else
present? But he is not Gll. Was
there not young Van Buren, grandson
of Il President of these United States
and IL very we'll behaved young man he
was. only it turned out that he was
not at Unrelated to the former P. 0 ,ident:
And then, too, was not young Barnum
here whom every body said was the son
OF the immortal p. T. Barnum, of Fee
Jee mermaid and wUolly horse noto-
| riety? And would he too not have
made any company good one had it
not turned out that he was not at all
akin to the great Snowman And as
for money there is scarcely man here
who does not connt his greenbacks by
the million. These people are not
SOusherners but rather bIoated bond
holders, a vegetable that ihrives only
in the colder climes of America. Some
times your bloated bordholder is an
exclusive animal in his hablJs and looks
as if he Was saying to himself, "I
wonder what these peOE ie wish TO get
we'll for, L don't suppose that one of
| them Is worth more than a hundred
| thousand ?''
Sometimes he is mere glutton who
has made his belly his god, and with
| loose unctuous lips and leering sensu-
Gus eyes seems never SO happy as
when buying or eating some extra dish.
4 fat pig iu the street, though eating
garbage will make his mou water
and if he sees a fine beef, his great
jaws stralghtway begi1 to work, as he
pauses to wonder how many Juicy
steaks there are i'll the animals s carcass.
And this brute expects the waters to
help him.
And then again, the bloated bond
boiler affects the aristocratic and is
very distingue looking; he buttons his
coat closely around him, carries eye
glasses, talks e-r cdthedra about "the
most elegant gentleman" he ever met
and mistaking stiffness for style moves
with measured tread. He dimes late
after common people have finished and
has been to Europe. This M IN in his
heart of hearts, IS satisfied he wi | ben
eft the waters. And again there are
other bloated bondholders who are as
plain, honest, clever and really as well
bred people as one can meet anywhere.
Nor Is the Dated bondholder always
male. The number of women here
who are worth two millions is ustonish-
ing. But In our goody company we
have had persons distinguished for
other things than mere money. One
gentleman, if rumOr be true, came here
to see what effect the waters would
have upon a plea of guilty, en- cred by
himself to All indictment for being
member of the ST. Louis whisky ring.
He was handsome fine looking fell
low, but the heavy load he had been
carrying of late was evidently telling
on him, 50 that one cnuid not help fan
cying he bad the penitrntlary cons ant
ly before MS eyes. His wife was with
linn, a bright, magnetic young woman.
Whether she failed to realize the sltua-
ton, or was making that btave fight to
keep up appeas sances IL public that on
" high S rung WON al can make, l
know not. But this [ do know, if [
were Judge Treat and that woman came
to me, begging her husbands liberty,
he would get the lightest sentence the
law would permit. Perhaps it is we'll
for their reputation that some men are
not Judges. can not help hoping the
man will escape somehow, for his
wife's sake H was a rect fer ard
not revenue officer, and his clothes
seemed Ia hang more loosely on him
every day he staid here. The waters
do not seem to have had any efficacy IL
his case.
MAN WITH A HISTORY.
| Said gentleman to ne, ferring
I to one who had just left Us ''that is
man with a history. He is Judga
-- OF my city, be has got heart
III him as big as a meeting house. and
owes all he IL in life to the reading Of
a novel called '"Ten thousand Il year.
As that book had been favorite read
| ing with me from my boyhood days,
[ listened to the story with eager at
tention; it is briefly as follows: Judge
when young was ne'eE DOVE Il
| dissipated reckless man without the
a vantage OF liberal education but
withal an active deputy sheriff and
constable. When the term If Office
of the Sheriff was about to expire it
| bee me evident he would not be re-
elected aud cons quently that his de-
puties would be without places.
Therefore the Judge called upon an
old lawyer and referring to the sltua-
ton sa d he believed he would study
law, that he thought he h d sense
enough to practice, and asked what
books he ought to read, The old law
yer replied that he would not need
many books for has practice,
in fact that one :book alone
would answer his purpose as it had
more law In it than he would ever use.
The Judge asked what the book was
and where he could get it, aud was
told that his adviser had the book
and would lend it to him, and thai
it was called Ten thousand year.
The book was borrowed and was read
and the reader became changed man
No longer reckless and Clsslpated
hut thoughtful studious anC
sober he went to work at the
law i'll earnest, i'll due time got license
to practice and did heavy busines:
until he was elected the bench
where he now sits commanding the es
TEEN and respect of the entire commu
nifty. The turning point of his life was
the reading of "Ten Thousand Year
"a book that was doubtless put into
lis hands to show him the supposed
, folly of his fancy for being a lawyer
for there is no book that places th'
profession of the law and its practie'
upon a higher plane than does tina
SAM "Ten Thousand Year" Its au
! thor, Mr.. Warren, was one of th'
brightest ornaments of the English bar
I and but for his untimely death woult
doubtless have been one of the bright
| est ornaments of the British Parlia
} ment. After Judge - was on tn
full tide of prosperity, perhaps sool
after he was first elected to the bench
| he wrote to Mr. Warren, stating all tn
t facts in his history and thanking hin
for the later and better phase in hi
i life. It is said Mr.. Warren highl
r priced the letter, and was In the habl
: of showing it with pardonable pride t.
> Americans and others visiting him.