Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05

scribed. Ward introduced his friend, to
| whom Stevens extended hearty welcome,
and then said: "How are you feeling to.
day, Mr.. Stevens?"
"Oh, was the reply, "about as well as q
man could expect to who has been making
an apothecary's shop of his stomach. ;.
"Whereupon," said Ward, 'T thought l
saw the preachers reverence suddenly van
ish"
The Thick and Thin of 1t.
To big, fat doorkeeper, who was com.
planning of the heat, he said: 81 don't see
how the heat can get through you" Nc
Pherson, clerk of the House, who is q very
thin, spare man, had fallen in fainting tit
In going from his Office to his boarding
house. Stevens, meeting me the next day,
inquired what allied Mcpherson. 1 said:
II believe he attributed it to some black
berries he had eaten for lunch" "Black-
berries" said he, 81 would think one
blackberry would fill him up.''
shall never forget the last interview 1
ever had with him. There were two friends
from Pennsylvania visiting me, and, after
seeing the other sights at the Capital,
expressed a wish to see Stevens. We
called at his room, and found him
that day sitting in a chair, with Dr.. Young,
his attending physician, at his side. He
welcomed us with his usual cordiality, and
his conversation was continuous flash OF
wit, and without the least apparent effort
or even design. He inquired of me after
Mr. Mcpherson, of whom he was particu-
larly fond, and whom he made one of his
executors. L said he was at Gettysburg,
making arrangements to bring his family to
Washington tor the winter. "Serves him
right, " said he, eff any man is fool enough
to get married he ought to be condemned to
live with his family"
Fun With His Doctor.
A servant brought in a note to him. He
glanced at it and dictated reply; when DR..
Young said to him, 'Mr. Stevens, did you
never use glasses?"
Glasses" said he. "Why, what on earth
would young fellow like me want glasses
for?"
''You must have been near-sighted in
your young days"
"Why, no. thought 1 could see through
people much better then than L can now"
"How is your hearing?"
ooh, great deal too good. I hear
great deal more about myself than I
care to-"
And soft went on. As we rose to take
obliged to you for this visit. I wish you
could stay longer. I would like to talk to
you about the political situation and the
state of the country, but you may be as
sured that things are all right now, and
when am dead and buried and 40, 600, 900
worms have been poisoned with the medi-
cine DR.. Young has been stufing into me,
this Government will be standing strong as
ever"
This indulgence in wit was continued
until his latest hour, and affords another in
stance of ''the ruling passion, strong in
DEATH for when his old friend John Hick-
man called ON him the day before his death
and made some allusion to his appearance,
the old man murmured family, "Ah, John,
it is not my appearance that is troubling me
Just now so much as my disappearance.
Not a Magnetic Man.
He was Indifferent to public sentiment,
and, like Grant, never hesitated in his
course from any apprehension of popular
He was totally lacking in
personal magnetism; possessed none Of the
arts by which the masses are influenced, and
carried men with him by pure unhinching
logic, which convinced the reason rather
than stirred the emotions.
He kept the end he proposed steadily in
view, was never diverted from it by any
side issues, and possessed an unrivaled
facility in blowing away the smoke with
which it was often attempted in debate to
obscure the main question, as when, in re-
ply to Rogers, of New Jersey, who had |
spoken for hours on the proposed amend |
nent to abolish slavery, to prove that Con- |
,ress had no right to abolish slavery, he |
aid, 'tMr. Speaker, the question before the |
House is not whether we have right to |
lbolish slavery but whether we have a |
light to amend the Constitution
Question if we shall ever see his like |
gain. CLINTON LLOYD.