The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-08-19

was very sad and very homely man
six feet four. He never brushed his
hair and washed his ia e only once
day. Sometimes he didn't shave for
month. lie had monst 'ous big hands
and feet-monst'ous big, sub, yessuh.
He was very sad-except when he told
story. Then he would twist his legs
around each other so you would think
he never could dlsentangle 'em-and
my, how he would laugh at his OVID
jokes, sub, yessuh. All remember very
well when John Wilkes Booth assassin
ated him. 1t was sad, oh, so sad, sub"
and the tears came trickling down the
old mans shiny face.
candy Johnson was fine man, sub,
tailor by trade, very sweet-voiced
man. Had the ways and manners of a
S'uth'n german. His enemies used to
say he was drunkard. But that was
not so, sub, nosah. He suffered from
malaria-and it used to make him
shake, sub, yessuh, used to make him
| shake so he could almost shake his
clothes off, sub, yessuh-but All liked
Mistah Johnson fustrate Well, he
went away. Nobody to say goodbye.
Nosuh
"Next came Gen. Grant for Presi-
dent. He smoked a box of seegahs
every day, big, black ones-and loved
his wife. He never said much to any
one but when he spoke he said some
thing every time, sub, yessuh. In the
evenin' with a big black seegah in his
mouth he would walk down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and gaze into the shop
windows. That was his princip "a |
amusement or diversion, When Col
Henri Watterson said he would bring
one hundred thousand Kentpckians to
Washington to seat Mr.. Tiiden as Presi-
dent the General said: Bring 'em on
Henri. l will meet EN- with hundred
thousand or two hundred thousand
soldiers, if necessary They didn't
come, Gov'nor, nosuh. When General
Grant left there was large number of
people who went to the depot to carry
} his grips, sub, yessuh.
"The next President was General
Hayes, a fine looking man. He never
| visited the Arlington, sub, nosuh. He
had troublous times during his ad
, ministration and no wine at the White
House-and so the callers got to be
J fewer ali the time until there were none
, except the office seekers, sub, yessuh
/ When lie left Washington nobody knew
, if, nosuh, but he was a fine man, sub
yessuh.
t "Then came General Garfield knew
, him well. Tall and fine looking-s
powerful oraytor, sub, yessuh. H,
2 was shot in the B. & o. depot. Tha
S mo'nin' before leavin' he played leap
! frog with his children in the Whit,
a House. That was another sad event
D his being assassinated.
}, General Arthur was dandy Presi
: dent Fine, swell dresser. Used to pu
: on a new pair of trousers every Othe
: day. Never wore the same pair NOR
t than twice in suction, sub, nosuh. The
Q had gay times at the White House whel
he was President, sub, yessuh. He wa
t popular with the ladies-very popular
sub. He was known as Dandy Che
e and he certainly was dandy, sub, an
no mistake. He was greatly disar
y pointed when he had to quit the jol
h yessuh.
1. "Then came President Cleveland
n During his first administr alton he neve
% stirred out of the White House mucI
He was big, fine Iookin' man, oh, ye
d sub fine iookin' and during his fri
.e term he married beautiful lady an
y we used to hear lot of things but
le never cared much about that kind {
b. gossip have plenty of it in my fami
b, with four sonsinlaw and five daughter
le inlaw, sub, yessuh.
le "The next President was Gener
le Harrison-a small man, short legs, lor
r. body, big head and about sixty inch,
10 around the waist. He was great p
Of destrian-took long .walks-rain {
shine. The Office seekers drove hl
IL out of the White House and near
IN crazy. He was a hardworking Pres
I'd dent, yessuh-and very nice gen'ma
he He left 'unheralded, unwept, unhonor,
or and unsung,' sub.
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