The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-08

could not have passed them in a crowd
without turning about and looking after
them, and admitting that they were
entitled to be called kings of men. One
of the guests at dinner given for Web
ster once told his hostess that Webster
must be a fraud, because no man could
be so great as he looked.
Thomas Carlyle's first words to me
were, You're a vera young man. to
which I responded, Yes, but I'll get over
that, I hope Then he repeated my
name and said: 'Ye're Dootch, aren't
ye? When the Lord made Dootchmen
he gave thin mair coorage than any
other nation. Whin Pheelip sent the
dock Of Alva to squelch the Dootchmen,
the Dootchmen squelched the dock of
Alva like rotten egg This he fol-
lowed up by calling Napoleon bit rid
rag of a Frinchman.' ! told him he
should come to America, and he said:
All, We can talk about yere democracies
and all yere ither cracies, but the secrit
of yere happiness is thot we have vast
deal O. land for a vera few people,
Then I told him I had just come from
the land Of Burns, and that the man
who kept the cottage where Burns
died had killed himself drinking to the
health of Burns. At that he let out a
great peal of laughter and said: Dye
tell me thot? All, but a bit drap'll
send mon lang way
Biographies on the sides Of both
houses have told us much of Carlyle's
domestic life that should never have
haan tn1I hut eli 1y1o T
think of it, I'll say that if you unite a
man who's fearfully dyspeptic and who
suffers much from insomnia to a brill
liant, proud-spirited and sensitive wo-
man, you have all the materials for
spontaneous combustion. Thirty years
afterward I again saw Thomas Carlyle.
I was in London, and wrote him a note
reminding him of my visit of 80 years
ago, and requesting another interview.
The reply l got was probably the short
est letter ever written. 1t was the
scrawl, Three p. m. r. c." And at
p. m. l went with my friend, Newman
Hall. After we entered the room
Carlyle entered. In place of the strong
hale man 1 had seen 80 years before
there shuffled feebly across the room
c. iiiiip olb IlletIl lloliOW CliEChS, leu
spot as big as shilling burning in
either cheek, and clad in a long blue
gown. He sat down and glared at us
in peculiar and rather terrifying way
1t was difficult to start conversation
with such a man, and by way of doing
so l introduced my friend, Newman,
Hail. whom 1 thought Carlyle must
have heard of. His reply to my friend
was: An where do we live STRIP New
man Halls top hamper came down
with a rumble, as the sailors say. l
spoke of John Bright's popularity in
America, and Carlyle saidS,. John
Bright's naething but Manchester
holman. He ought to go to Parliament
with strap around his waist an sam
pies in his pocket He was in pessi-
mistic vein, and expressed the belief
that England had gone down into a
cesspool of utter damnation. During our
interview he must have used the word
'damnable' 20 times, but after each out
burst he would give vent to a hearty
laugh"
OF Gladstone, DR.. Cuyler said that
he combined so many qualities that he
was at its height. / was taking break
man. Il have met Gladstone a number
of times" said DR.. Cuyler, "and of late
years he has come to bear q striking
resemblance to our Webster. I saw him
once when the Alabama controversy
was at it's hight. I was taking break
fast with him when he received
packet of documents. After reading
them, while / talked with Mrs. Glad
stone, he said, his great face lighting
up: There's good news from Geneva. 1
do not pretend to read the intentions
of Providence, but 1 am happy to as
sure you that no earthly power can
now prevent an honorable agreement
between our countries.