The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-24
HOURS WITH GREAT MEN.
Ism Nye, in Memphis Sunday Times.

l IBnl Nye. in Mewphis Sunday rimos.i presume that could write an entire
 library of personal "reminiscences relative
 10 the eminent people with whom have
 been thrown during a busy life, but l
 hate to do it, because | always regarded such things as sacred from the vulgar
 eye, and felt bound to respect the con. tidence of prominent man just as much
 as l would that of one who was less be fore the people.
 remember very we'll my first meeting
 with General w, T. Sherman. would not mention it here if it were no; for the tact that the people seem to hs yeATuing tor personal "reminiscences ct great men, and tha, IS perfectly right, too,
 It was since the war that met Gsn. eral Sherman. and ii was on the hne ot the Union Pacific railway at one ot those lrstiY celebrated eating houses. which understand arc now abandoned. The colored waiter had cu, oh stup uf the ouelette w,th & pair of shears. the ScoFched oatmeal had beSn passed around, the htsle rubber door mats tried in butter and called pancakes had bsen dealt around the table, aud the cashier at the end oi the hall had Jast gone through the clothes of a party from Vermont, who claimed rebate on the ground tha, the waiter refused to bring hm anything but his bill. There was no sound m the dining room except the weak request oi the coffee tor more air and Shmulants. or ne.haYs the cry ot nain when ihr butter while praeucina with the dumb bells would hit child on the head, then all would be still again.
 General ShetmaN sat at one end of the table. throwing a lsis piescrvef to a fy m the milk pitcher.
 We had never me; before, though for years VIC had been plodding along hic's rugged way he ln ,he war department, Tn the postotilce department. Onknowu 10 each other. we had been holding up opposite corners of the great national fabric, Il you will allow me that tNpies sion.
 remember, as vel! AS though |, were but yes 'erday. how the conversation be- sa::. General Sh-..nan looked stetnly d, me and said
 wish you would over po~er that but ter and send Il up this way'
 All tight sad l, If you will please pass those molasscs
 Ina; Is a.! ths, was sa;d bat shall never forget it, and probably he never will. The conversation was bfiet. bu, yet how full ot food for thought. Ho@ ttur, how earnest, how natural Nothing suited or false about it IL was the nal ural expression of two minds that were too great to be verbose CT to monkey with social, conversational hapdoodle.
 remember once, a gfea, Whiie ago, 1 was asked by friend to go with him in the evening to the house of an atquaint ance, where they were going to have kind ct music ale, at winch there was Ia be some noted pIanis,. who had kindly consented to play a few strains. did not get tho uan1e ot the pFote ssioBa;, but i l went. and when the first piete was an nounCcd l saw that the light was very | uncertain. so kindly volunteered to get a lamp from another room. held that big lamp, weighing about twenty -.Ine | pounds, Tor half an hour, while the | pianist would hnky tinky upon the light hand, or bang, boomy ,o bang bang. down on the bass, while he snoricd and ! slugged that old concert grand piano and | almost knocked it's teeth down ifs throat, or gently dawdled with the keys like a pale moonbeam shimmefipg through the bleachcd Taiters ot a deceased horse until al last there was wlld angie, Such AS the accomplishc: musician gives to an instrument to show the audience that he has disabled the piano. and will take d sli2ht iotermission while il IS sent to the unk shop.
 With sigh of relief l carefully pat down the twenty. n,ne pound lamp, and ny friend told me ,nat had been stand. ng there like liberty eniightening the world, and holding that heavy lamp iot Ijlind Tom.
 had never seen him before, and dipped out of the room before he had 4 .hante 10 see me