The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-25
ROSCOE CONKLING.
New York Sum-

Roscoe Conkling's departure for Eu- rope was the outcome of prolonged dis regard of the laws of health. For years habit has been ito plough deep while sluggards sleep" His retiring hour, as a rule, was any time between } and in the morning. From midnight to ? a. m he usually sets apart for attending to his correspondence. In the event of a pres- sure of business the correspondence was neglected. Eventually MT. Conkling de- voted whole day to clearing off his ac- cumulated mail. Despite his long work ing hours, the ex-senator is an early riser. lie breakfasts al or 10. His meals are models of simplicity. He watches his diet as carefully as miser watches his gold. He eats sparingly of wholesome food, and drinks milk at his breakfast and at lunch. He eschews alcoholic liquors absolutely. Occasionally and upon rare occasions he wlll drink at din- ner one glass of light wine. With such rigid adherence to sensible rules of diet It IS somewhat surprising that MT. Coak- Ing has been unable of late to procure refreshing sleep and healthy appetite ]; S1t eAC CAPldudllOu iS SlIupic.
 The first winter after his retirement from public life Mir. Conkling lived at the Fifth Avenue hotel. He had returned to nis profession with unrestrained zeal, and the heavy practice which he had lad down ID Uuca when he became senator ID 1907, was returning to him with a rush Tar oey ond his wn expectations. The last two years that he pracuced ln Uuca ne,ted nim S2o, 900 each, an his first year s proceeds In New York were double tha at amount. He had brought hls own ad mirable working library to New York lie himself had gathered many of the volumes in his younger days, making a speciality of rare old English reports of the kind not likely to be encountered in private library. A few ot hls books h 1. inherited from his father, Judge Alfred '. Conkllng. Extensive as the scope of nis library was, ne found that it was mad. equate tor many of the new causes that nad come to him. He therefore leased the second floor of the bro ~n stone build ing, West rwenty-ninth street, which ad)oins the law library. Ills quarters consist of three rooms-bed- room, bath. room and sitting room, the latter occu- pying the front of the house. The furni- lure IS plain and comfortable, the deco tasions simple. He has few standard literary works here, but the senator's Splendid private library is still at his ouca home. It is in the sitting room toat he receives by appointment business callers who are unable to meet hi n at his once. For the past three years this class or callers has mouopolized hls evenings aHer caller leaves the ex senator wends nis way to the library next door and IS soon plunged deep into his work
 For two years past MT. Conkling has oeeu an over worked man. Last winter, Tor weeks at time, he slept only five aours out of the twenty-four. 1t was no. q tare thing for him after a day spent in eourt, to drop into Delmonico's at 4 or : ociock in the afternoon and breakfast on q glass of milk and sandwich prep ara- uory to working all night. His physician sarned hm and advised with him, but ae laughed at the warning and7ignored .ae advice. The harder he worked, the laster hls clients multiplied. Ret timers game to him from Chicago, Pittsburgh, nosson, and particularly from his old sSmPing ground along the southern tier counties of New York state, where, Meaty years ago he and Francis Herman sexe pitted against each other in every case of importance.