Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-24

MEETING THE GREAT EBER.
also once met Joseph Cook, who was
on his way to his regular work repair
ing and editing some Of the works OF
God, and even he was kindly and al
most sweet 10 NE.
So I say that people OF prominence
should play into one another's hands.
"reminiscences Of Senator Plumb are
so plenty since his death that l venture
90 call up one Of the incidents Of his
early experience. We had been running
around over the Capitol, looking at
whatever was curious in the way OF
memoranda sent i'm TO congress by the
presidents, like appointments, etc
some in pencil on MANILA paper contain
ing a whole cabinet perhaps, but a. in
formal as list of vegetables for your
cook TO order for over Sunday; then
others would be stiff and formal, like
George Washington engaged in taking
the thirty-third degree in Masonry. We
had looked oyer and commented on all
these things, snapped bon mOtS, with
Senator ingalls,, greatly TO our own ad-
vantage, for Senator Plumb was never
remarkable for his repartee, and as a
bright and ready bon motter l could
never make wages, being slow Of
thought and possessing rather a pro-
found mind-nOt OF course the profund-
ity noticed i'm fresh, young, newly mat
REGULATED aSShood, but depth which is
slowly stirred, Swallowed over with an
earnest gloon.
We then went up into the gallery and
for an hour or two forgot our own
greatness; the senate chamber faded
avav on the drlwsy, buZzing wings of
of the motion 10 refer 10 the committee
ON rules; the hot, Turkish bath air
which is used to Sprout the senatorial
thought lulled us TO half fOrgetfulneSS
and hushed the pop of the committees
report. For the time we were back
again in the far west, with widening
miles between us and the Chaste refine
ment of senator Hoar; with billowing,
breezy states between Us and the classic
Hfsceck, the deep. appealing ayes of
Cameron and the Roman noes OF Ed
muDdS; we were again sitting aStride
the wasDy cayuse or returning hurriedly
ro camp, where kind hands again pulled
out the arrow OF the savage and told Us
how the place looked 10 one who could
cot around there and see for himself.
How kind hands could tell this TO one l
leave the ready and versatile reader to
figure out.
1--WE used to make our writing ink in
the early days where l lived, " said Mr..
Plumb. "of maple bark, which was
boiled down til it was little redder
than umbrella juice and little thicker
than stump water.
1T looked badly, but it was a peri
compared to the way it Smelled. 1t
.meIed like the deluge at low tide.
New York when ii is opening up sub
way on a hot day shows great possibili-
ties hut IL cannot get in the little trillS
and tbrobs Of meSsly and antique stencil
that this homemade and fermented ink
did.
"ODce went over to try a case before
a moor white Justice ei the peace over
thirty miles away. He was plain, un-
educated man, who used his tongue In
writing and breathed heavily, like 4
mush kettle, while thinking,
composed 10 me as counsel was man
who had been admitted 10 the bar.
had not. He was rather pOmpous, and
hated 10 try a case before q country JUS
lice. but he had TO do il. He was hot
and cross, and. while he was making his
argument one Of the children got an
acorn I'D its nose aud we had 70 stop
and bore il out with the iron worm on
an old ramrod. That made counsel
mad, and while he was making a dila-
tory motion the Squire picked a brier
ont OF the palm Of his hand with Bar
low knife and overrUled il.
"Then counsel got so hot that he for
got himself and said things to the court
which ought to have remained forever
unsaid. After that the court got angry
and threatened 70 commit counsel for
contempt. Counsel allowed that the
court did not know enough TO draw the
miJtimus. ,,
Gan right, I will show you, says the
court, and thereupOn he bit OF piece
of tobacco about the size Of prayer
nook and took down large, fat volume
of forms for Justices Of the peace weigh
ing about nine pounds and smelling OF
pork gravy and childhood.
"He wrote on and on till dinner time.
Then be glared at the man he was en-
Gagged in committing and ate the IN
demonstrative corn dodger with him
meantime.