Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-11-13
DANIEL WEBSTER.
The Lar9e-Sized Hat He Wors,
According to B. Nye.
Tile which Was stuffed with Eioquence
and 5raIns-The Quality Of DinieI's
Head Well Rs the
Size OF tt
TBml Nye. in Boston Globel


1rresume that DAM u Webst.r vas as
good an of hand speaker as this country
has ever produced. MasBachuset he's
been we'll represented in Congress since
that time. but she has had few who cluld
SUCCESSFULLY comgetb with ID. Webster
Esq, attorney and counsellor -at-llw,
Boston, MasL
/ have never mt Mr. Webster, but I
have seen a cane that he used 10 wear,
and since that time have felt great in
terest IA MIN. l. was a h,avy winter
c,ne. and was resented to him as a token
o; re pct.
d. nel Wsts'er had one OF tie largest
aud most robust bruins that evet esarish
ell In our fair land. It was what wo rs
quen'ly call teeming trim, one of IA SO
four-horse teeming Irtins, as it were.
Mr.. Webster wor, ths lar ;est hat OF any
man then In Goa Zress and other SSnats rs
and Representatives used t. fr qusntly
borrow IL 10 wear on the . I Of January,
the 5,h OF July aud aiter other special
occasiins, when they had heen I'm execu-
tive session most ali night and endured
great mental st rain This hat matter re-
minds me OF an incident in the life OF
Benjamin f. Butler, a man we'll known In
Massachusetts even a. the present time.
One evening, at n kind Of reception or
some such dissipation as that, VIII le Jim
Nye was in the Senate, the latter loft his
silk hat on ths lounge with the opening
turned up, aud while he was talking with
some one else, Mr.. Butler sat down in the
hat W Tn so much expression that it was
wreck. Every one expected 10 see James
W. Nye walk up and smise B,1j lm.n F.
B itler, but he di not do so. lie looked
at the chaotic hat for minute, more in
sorrow than in anger, and then he said:
"BJnj min, could have told you that
hat wouldn't fit you before you tried it
on"
Il hope that your chestnut editor is at
the seashore at this season OF the year,
Daniel Wobster's brain was not only
very large, but L. was in good order ali
the time. Sometimes Nature bestows lar e
brains on men who do not riso to gr,aS
prominence. Large bra aims do not always
ind cate great intelle ctual power. These
brains arc large but Of an in 'erior q1al-
i;y. A schoolmate Of mine use l to W ,ar
hat that could put my oad aud both
feet into with perfect ease. remember
that he tied my shirt one day while l was
laying my well -rcu ndel limbs in the mill
pond near my childhood's home
was mad at the tim :, hut 1 cDul / no,
lick him, for he was too large. All coull
d was to patiently unite my shirt wall
my tee b chattersI, then throw \ large,
three -cornere tauns in his teeth and run.
He kept OF p king fun at me, remember,
till / got dressed, AL allulel, incident
ally, to my small Train nnl abn rmal
feet. tn 8 ung my sons tiv5 nature. and
i old him that II ] had such a wealth of
brain he hal and Il was of no uss 10
think with, would take il to a rest lurans
and have Il Dreaded. Then 1 went away.
But we were speaking of Webster.
Many lawyers OF our day wou do we'll
to read and study the lus'rious example
OF Dani Webster. He did not sis In
court all day with his feet on the table
and howl, ave OF jsct." and then down
his client for SJI just because he had
madS a noise 1 employed lawyer orco
to bring suit for me to recover quite
sum OF money due me. After
years Of assessments and toilsome
litigation, we got a judgment. He said
TO me that he was anxious to succeed
with tho case. mainly because he knew
i wante to vindicate myself. said
yes. that was tho id ca exactly. WANTED
TO be Wind Gated.
SO he gave me the vindication and
took the judgment rs slight tes.i-
monial OF his own sterling worth. When
want to be vindicatci again will
do IL with one OF those self-cockIng vim
dicators that you can carry In a valise.
Looking over this letter, I am amazed
TO see the amount Of valuable intnrna-
tion relative to tue life Of Mr.. Webster
that have succeeded In using. There
are, OF course, some minor desails OF NJ.
Webster's life, which 1 have omitted, but
nothing Of real Importance The true
history OF Mr.. Webster Is epitomized
here and told In pleasing and grace
ful manner, n style that Is at once nc
curate and just and still elegant, chaste
and thoroughly refined, while at the
same time there are little gobs Of sly
humor in itthat are real cute.