The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-05
A MANS MAKING.

Tho Judge" paused long enough to
change tho position of tho stick he was
whiting shift tho chew of tobacco
from ono side of his mouth to tho other
and then glance around ut the two
young men sitting on tho plank side
walk on either side of him.
Tho judge WAS Go; not fat and
| 40, but fatter and 60. His six feet Of
height was burdoned with tho painful
necessity of carrying 900 pounds when
he walked and of supporting tho Same
weight when he did not move. The
judge supported it usually and TINT
was tho reason his clothes wore out SO
much more quickly ut ono certain place
thnn Mt any other. He went up and out
from his feet to his waist and then up
and in from his waist to tho top of his
head-an hourglass cut in two and put
together again with the large ends III
tho middle. \ fringe of long, dirty
looking hair showed from under tho
band of his slouch hat. Through tho
holo In tho top of tho Init ono caught
M occasional glimpse of bald and
shining spot tho peak of his head try
ing TO get through into the fresh mir
But tho strength had gone from his hair
TO his beard, for his whislors were long
and bushy and his mustaohes equally
so. Judge spoke not with n drnwl.
but with TINT slow movement peculiar
to fat and lazy people. Yet the little
gray eyes sparkled all tho time as
though they had absorbed all the energy
in the man.
"Well. heya," he continued. after
completing his aurYey, "where'd you
be now II you'd enliBted?n
The younger eff his auditors answered
III we'd gone with tho state regi-
ment, we'd 10 Mt Manila probably, But
If we'd gone with drigshy's cowboys
we'd be ut ChickamauRa. jndgo."
eyes. that's 1t, buys. And it'sd----d
hot thoro in tho summer time. | spent
u couple of summers III tint country In
| 1861 with the army. Had good
place, ton boys, whore ! didn't have
much hard work 10 de- but II WINS hot
MI tho same.
"What did yon do, fatherg' asked
Charlie, who was thu judeea youngest
I was judge advocate Of tho rcgt.
mont But soldering il hard work, no
matter whnt you've rot 10 do. It's II
dogs life.
"Yes, wo know that Judge y the 9th
or boy, Henry, said, but wo decided
we could stand it and had sand enough
to do what Wo were told To do without
kicking, and we thought IL wo did all
that and did il well we might hnvo
chance for promotion. =
" oil, boys, / don't believe I'd go
aa II fyate IN nny company. You can't
toll what kind of an ASS you re going to
have bossinR you. Some of tho BOSSES
may bo all right, but there's bound to
bo ono you can't get along with. I"
yes. father, we know it would BIO
hard. but we thought we could stand it,
even if we didn't like it. "
CHATS all right, hoys. but you don't
know anything about it, You've got to
enlift and SEQ for yourself. It's bad
enough when you ara IN officer, but
when you're just private it's id
bad -
.Did you enlist as u private, judge
Henry asked.
mo, Hal; | organized company and
wns elected captain and held that rank
until | got to bo judge. You see, l came
out to Iowa from Ohio when was quite
u kid and had been living thcru for some
time when tho war blolte out, 20 every
body knew mo, and AZ ! was always
good natured cuas they all seemed to
like mo. -
Tho judges stick and tobacco needed
attention, and ho was silont whilo no
looked after them. Thon no went on:
I'VE had colonel that was tho big
gost ass | ever taw llo got tho Office
through political friends and he didn't
know Is from bulls foot. Our lieuten-
ant colonel was pretty decent sort of
"a man, and the two majors We're fair.
But that colonel He was so mean that
| never saw him, but | didn't want to
snatch n gun from one Of my mon aud
shoot him. / had enough sense not to
say anything although the colonel did
know | didn't like him extra well.
Finally ! got tho chance | had been
longing for to tell him what | thought
Of him. But see here, boys, if you ever
get into tho army don't you think Of do
ing anything Ike It, was young then
and "a little foolish.
"1ho colonel--l shan't call any
names-Rot uA into such bad fix on
tho battlefield that ho had to resign to
keep from being kicked ont And there
was hig feast in honor Of his depar.
ture. or course it was supposed to have
been got up as IA token Of his under
officers regard for him. After We had
| finished eating-it WAS in tho lieuten-
! ant colonel 8 tent-and the whisky and
wine and cigars were on the speech
making began. The colonel made lit
Ito talk saying how sorry he WAS to
leave w, and all that sort of thing.
! Then tho Lieutenant colonel and the two
majors made little speech. They all
said something about the colonel being
such fine man and officer and how
sorry they were to see him leuyc--overy
bit id lie "
The judge stopped and laughed. His
laugh wasn't loud, and ono could not
get tho full benefit of it unless one saw
him. His whole body shook with tho
amusement II it, and his features took
on such eomical expression that it
made one laugh just to see him
"Then," he continued, "they called
on mo for speech. I didn't want to
respond and told them SO. They would
not rest and finally told them | had
never made an after dinner speech or
departure speech in my life and didn't
know whether or not could make one,
but that if ] did get up I'd say some
things / thought, and | didn't care
about doing that But they wouldn't
hear Of it, so got up.