The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-20
z. Chandler's Red Face.

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z. Chandler's Red Face.
The Washington correspondent of the
Daubury Neaos promulgates this theory
concerning the origin of Secretary
Chandler's red face:
Perhaps you would like to know some :
thing of Zach Chandler. You and / have
heard and read great deal about him,
and it's time we kne1o something of him.
He is great big man over six feet high
and about sixty years old. He and Horace
Greeley were born within cat-call of
each other, and still no single man did
as much as Zach Chandler to defeat the
philosopher for the presidency. He has
a numbering, heavy walk, OF certain
stride and steady gait. He carries an
alternate white and red face in front and
high, a cane in one hand, and bundle of
papers in the other.
He never walks for pleasure. He is
always on business. He spits every
eight minutes-always to the left, seldom
straight, and with the same regularity
| that punctuates his every action. High
and in front, like the fgure-head on a
great ship, he carries his great, broad
head and variegated face. On a cold
day his countenance beams almost like
| the red glare of a locomotive headlight.
Ninety-n men who pass him on a
frosty morning make ninety-nine re-
marks, freighted with the Information
that s.Old Zach has had his bitters."
But, Oh Lord. how this world is given to
lyingl This red face has history, this
crooked splitting has reason, and will
give you both.
1t is now seventeen years since Zacha-
riah Chandler, being remarkably sue
cessful in business, built for his family a
new and elegant house in Detroit. When
nearly finished he moved into it. On the
first evening, Immediately after the gas
was turned on and lit, the smell of The
escaping gas aroused the family and
servants, and search was made for the
leak. The daughter, now Mrs. Hale,
then a child, with lighted candle, de-
tected 1t in q closet of the back parlor.
The father, knowing the danger OF an
explosion, hurried TO the closet with a
servant, took the candle from the daugh-
ter's hands, and shielded her just in
time to receive the full blast himself.
burning his head, neck and hands almost
to a crisp. The nose, ears, eyes, lips and
| flesh of the face were SO completely
cooked that old Zach embraced the op-
portunity and murmured through his
blistered lips: "Bring on your cannibals.
I'm cooked"
| A physician was Immediately sent for,
who, alter few moments examination,
shook his head in the most unhopeful
manner. With forutude which char
/ acterizes Mr.. Chandler to this day, he
submitted TO the examination, and at
| the close demanded to know the worst.
The physician, Dr.. Clark, wisely en-
deavored to postpone the giving of his
opinion until the next day; but Mr..
1 Chandler insisting, the doctor reluctant
ly answered his questions.
| "Welb doctor, my nose feels bad.
| How about itp"
"Mr. Chandler, you'll lose your nose."
"And my ears, suppose, too'"
r ooo . sn~a,ils6s.s sasl 6ss they are com
"My forehead. How about thatpo
"Well. dopt se.s how the skin will
"My lipsp
"ahe upper lip, Mr.. Chandler, | shall
| nave 10 take almost completely off"
! .tTnat's bad, for a man to lose his up
per lip. Won't the lower one dol"
IL am sorry to say shall have to re-
move portion of that ALSO"
sEhl Well, go on"
sFrnere, that will do. Pll know better
in the morning"
"You can't leave me until know all.
4 Go on, doctor, anything else?"
The doctor hesltated.
ssGo on, doctor. My eyesp
s'Your eyesW
"Yes; Go on"
i "Mr. Chandler, you will lose the sight
of both eyes,"
"That's enough, doctor, you can go
now"
Nearly q year passed before Zachariah
"A Chandler was seen on the streets of De
!. trolt again. No one could recognize him
I except by his voice and immense frame.
: His face, once full, round and muscular,
NJ was shriveled and Muscleless. His heavy
. Jaw indicative OF his frmness Of purpose
Twas almost without shred OF flesh
e And, as he remarked himself, s.He wa:
t the most thin-skinned man in the whole
4 northwest"
Such is the history and reason of hii
red face and crooked splitting, which toe
many addle-pated journalists stamp a
}, the outward and visible sign of a spirit
: ual awakening inside. Such is the his
n tory Of face which DISCUSSES the man 0
whose entrance into the cabinet you al
u howIed like derylshers-a face onl
a 4 saved by the very incest skill Of sprger'
la face wearing sad change, reddene'
and muscleless, incurred To save The pc
o Of the household
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