Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-25

49,
MEETING THE GREAT EBER.
tree for me this year by Russell Sage,
and yet is twenty three years of age, a
good comedian and pleasing after din
ner speaker.
He has the air, though. of successful
actor, and the amount of dignity he has
considering the II place he has to
drape it over makes me laugh, for am
a great hand to notice things that make
a deep impression on me.
He did not seem to unbend, | thought,
so much as he ought, considering that
crowned heads have rested on this bos-
ON, such as it is, and that dynasties
have staid all night 1T our house.
After | had gone the owner of the
theater said to him reproachfully:
THAT was Mr.. Nye, the great Amer
lean humorous VIII -er, Mr.. Eber. Did
You understand the name fully when |
introduced you:'
Yes" said Mr.. Eber. with a rising
infection, as he sat down on the Chin
ney of a footlight. Il ting half heered
off him"
| do not say this to hurt Eber. for he
is too great Il man to be hurt by news
paper criticism, but why in heavens
name cannot people Of prominence get
along smoothly together? l think we
should stand by each other. Ten years
ago | met the two headed girl for the
first time, and while the meeting was
not ELUSIVE, it was cordial. have also
met the Prince o. Wales and Sitting
Bull, and there was no GOODNESS, no pro-
fessional jealousy between US.
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 III
most sweet to me.
So 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
to 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 in to congress by the
presidents, like appointments, etc.-some
in pencil on manila paper containing a
whole cabinet perhaps, but as informal
as a list of yegeta Oles 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
over and commented on all these things,
snapped bon nlots with Senator Ingalls,,
greatly to our own advantage, for Sena-
4 L IL G.
his repartee, and as bright and ready
bon motter l could never make wages,
being slow of thought and possessing
rather profound mind-not of course
the profundity noticed in fresh, young,
newly matriculated asshood, but depth
which is slowly stirred, Swallowed over
with an earnest gloom.
We then went up into the gallery and
for an hour or two forgot our own great
ness; the senate chamber faded away
on the drowsy, buzzing wings of the
motion to refer to 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 re-
port. For the time we We're back again
in the far west, with widening miles be-
tween US and the chaste refinement of
Senator Hoar; with billowing, breezy
states between us and the classic His
cock, the deep, appealing ayes of Came
ron and the Roman noes of Edmunds;
we were again sitting astride the waspy
cayuse or returning hurriedly to camp,
where kind hands again pulled out the
arrow of the savage and told us how the
place looked to one who could get
around there and see for himself How
kind hands could tell this to one 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 till it was little redder
than umbrella juice and little thicker
than stump water.
''It looked badly, but it was peri
compared to the way it rmelled. 1t
smelled like the delago at low tide