Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-13

tions. He said once he never so com pletely felt his own unwofthiness as when he stood face 10 face with q real. live hotel clerk.
 He was never, " says one ef his com panlons on the circuit, seated next the landlord at a crowded table and never got chicken liver or the best cut frols the roast, lie =. 2..'11e-s 11e-s '@i=57s od nf .74- food, bed or lodgings. If every other fellow grumbled at the bill of fare which greeted us at many of the dingy tayerns, Lincoln said nothing Yet he loved the IlIe and never went home without re- luctance ; Accommodation at the tav- erns were exceedingly limited, for things then were necessarily crude and prinli- tive. When the court moved from one county to another, there were great bus tie and activity at each successive place. Men came together when q term of court rolled arc und to meet tie celebrities at the bar, to buy family supplies, to ne- l getiate loans, to buy and sell live stock. to hear the lawyers plead {" and, in short, for almost every imaginable pur- pose. The best room at the tavern was reserved for the judge and such choice spirits among the lawyers as he might select. The other lawyers slept two in a i bed, and three CT four beds were located i'll one room. At meals the judge, law yers, suitors, jurors, witnesses, court 1 officers and prisoners out on bail ate to- gether at long dining table The con versation was general. ''I we'll recol- lect, " relates one of this promiscuous company, 8 term of court at one place where a prisoner who was on trial fer perjury used to spend the evenings with us in Judge Davis room, and at another place where the prisoner on trial for larceny not only spent his evenings in our room, but took walks with us and ate i'll cur immediate company
 In this crude society and nomad life Lincoln spent ever half of each year. Without the conyeniences of the modern lawyer, stenographer, typewriter, with out books even, he moved from court to court, his papers i'll his hat or coat pocket, his business iii his head The consideration and trial of each case be- gan and ended with itself, and each successive county brought new business and q different class of clients. In the matters of food and dress he was less fastidieHs than any other han on the circuit, and his personal habits were of the very simplest character His hat was usually brown and faded, and the nap almost invariably worn or rubbed off. He wore a short cloak, and some times shawl His coat and vest hung loosely on his giant frame, and his trousers were always a trifle short He carried with him in one hand faded green umbrella, with his name, A. Lin coln, in large, white cotton or muslin letters sewed on the inside The knob was gone from the handle, and when closed piece of cord was usually tied around it in the middle to keep it from flying open. In the other hand he car ried literal carpetbag, in which were slowed the few papers to be used in court and underclothing enough to last till his return to Springfield
 ''I shall never forget, " related an H. llnois lawyer to me several years ago, ''the first time I ever saw MT. Lincoln. It was in Danville i'll 1858. I had set out from my home i'll the east to find i'll the great west suitable place in which to locate and begin the practice of law
 A friend had given me a note of intro duetion to A. Lincoln, Esq, whom he designated one of the leading lawyers in central Illinois. had expected to meet Mir. Lincoln in Springfield, but I l 4Tl1 4l,o+ 1,o Al,o circuit and that I would doubtless find him at Danville In few days I re- paired to the latter place. When 1 called at the hotel, 1 was told that I would find him i'll Judge Davis room. In the region where had been brought up the judge of q court was q man generally whose presence was gravity itself, and 1 was therefore not q little abashed aft CT I had climbed the unbanistered stair way to find myself so near the presence and dignity of Judge Davis, in whose room l expeetcd to find Lawyer Lincoln. In response to my tilnid knock, twf voices responded almost simultaneously Come inP Imagine my surprise when the door opened to find two men un- dressed, CT rather dressed for bed, en- gagged in Q lively battle with pillows, tlinging them at each others heads. One, a low, heavy set man, who, ex- hausted with the sport, leaned against the foot of the led and puffed like lizard, answered to the description of Judge Davis. His companion was a aman of tremendous stature In comparison to Davis he looked as if he were feet tall He was incased in a long, indescrib- able garner :, yellow as saffron and from beneath which protudcd two of the largest feet 1t has ever been my privi- lege to behold This immense shirt, for such it mllst have been, looked as if it had been literally chopped out of the original bolt of flannel of which it was made and the pieces joined together without reference to either measurement