Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-14
Yates and Labouchefe-

These gentlemen are among the light
OF London. Laboucherais a man equal.
cordial in his likes and disikes. Wha
Is rarer in Englsnd, he has the courage
of his convictions, and when he want.
to say a man is scoundrel he don't g
fishing around for gentle and circum
Iocutory forms of expression. He has
always been a man of means, and his
fortune has steadily grown until it is
now very large. l have seen him often
in the House of Commons, of which he
is an important and powerful member.
He does not look to be the kin! oi
writer he is. He Is the mildest man
nered man that ever scuttled fraud OF
slugged an enemy. In figure he is be-
low the middle height, and Just trifie
inclined to stoutness. His oomposure
is perfect. He has full, large fore
head, rather prominent nose. and
deep piercing black eyes. His hair is
curly. and Just turning gray, and his
beard, which is worn full and pretty
long, shows many white hairs at the
chin. / should take him to be about
40 He wears plug" nat, which Is
also true of every other member of Par
lament, excepting Joseph Cowan, the
the wealthy owner of the Newcastle
Chronicle. Labouchere's favorite cos
tune is a black Prince-Albert coat,
dark trousers, black scarf and turn
down collar, and natty little boots.
He walks about a good deal of the
time with his hands behind his back and
a reflective look on his face. He has
been in America, and am told that he
was one of the original Californian
'49ers. His handwriting looks ike the
tracks of duck on white floor.
Labouchere has had some bitter news
paper tights in his time. Tue worst
was the contest with Levy-Lawson, the
the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph.
Lawson sued Labouehere for libel, and
won his case, L belieye. though the
defendant carried on bis own CT Sc in
court with wonderful skill. They had
a physical set-to in the street, also, in
which, If my memory is up to anything,
Lawson opsned the hostilitIes by
whacking Labouchere over the head
with an umbrella.
Labouchere's first departure IN the
weekly newspaper line was when, in
company with Edmund Yates and some
body else, he started the World. In
that paper he handled the financial
department, l think. Afterward he
got rid of his share in tho World and
founded Truth. II may be added that
the paper has never been the same since
he withdrew from the staff. Labou-
chere second venture devotes a good
deal of its time to the task of proving
the total unrellability of what appears
in the World-an undertaking that is
not often dithcult of accomplishment.
Edmund Yates is the towering genius
who speaks of w. ID. HOwells as a man
possessing can assurance which Is nG-
tional, and an ignorance which Is also,
perhaps, national" This is what Ed
mund thinks about America. / saw
him the other night for the first time,
gentle reader, and you may accept my
word for it that be is about the sort of
looking bird you would expect to utter
such a statement. MIR. Yates is built
upon the architectural design which
follows the lines OF TIN coffee-pot. He
is much the biggest ut the bottom. He
has the figure of an alderman and the
manner of a superior being. In the
centre OF the vast waste of his shirt
front there rests, like a clump of rocks
in the middle of Sahara, big pearl,
surrounded by diamonds. On the least
bulky finger of his right hand-it
would be hideous satire to call it his
little" finger-there is one broad gold
ring and also couple of marrow ones.
On the corresponding member of the
left hand there is a big, faring eats
eye.
1t is Mr.. Yates head, however, that
Is most remarkable. This head is
scantily patched at the sides with
wrinkled, grayish hair, and on the
crown there isn't any covering to keep
of the rain. The ears are like the sails
of a yacht, and the eyes are little,
twinkling gray beads set close together
and necessarily rolling about. The
nose is thick at the end, and has
downward curve, Mr.. Yates jaws are
immensely broad, and have habby,
run over look about them.