The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25

case ON your representation nj the
situation and am glad TO have bocn
OF service. This man (Our clicnO
has given his life to helping the poor
and that In all l am going 10 charge.
And he wouldn't take cent moro
than tho nominal fee he had hXcd.
There are many stories illustrat-
lng the candidates. ability to meet
campaign Interruptions with quick
and humorous rctort. nm invaluable
asset to u platform speaker For OK
ample, In 1908 his Democratic op-
ponont for the govcrnOrship, Lewis
Stuyvcsant Chunlcr. said in one of
bis drives that Mir Hughes was a
modern oliver Cromwell" Mr..
Hughes was speaking In an upstate
city ON the following day, when a
man In the crowd shouted, How
about oliver CromwellH"
"1hat reminds me-" the governor
bcamcd. "of the man who was asked
By the waiter what kind of soup he
would have
What kind have you?' the diner
replied,
Oxtail. said the waiter
Isn't that going pretty far back
for SOUP
Cromwell. Chunlcr and the hostile
voter who had preached the topic
were forgotten In the laugh that fol-
lowed. There were no moro inter-
ruptiOns.
MIR, Hughes is n temperate man.
but. as he says, not Understanding.
In his school teaching days he smoked
many clHarets. later he turned from
them TO cigars. and the black HRvan-
as that he used to enjoy are part OF
the picture retained by those assoc
clntcd with him when he was COVER
nor. 1t will be news to many Of his
friends that he gave up smoking al
together about two years ago in the
midst OF his work MS associate Justice
OF the supreme court.
Through his manure years he has
not dlsdalned to take nm occasional
drink OF rye whlskey, when II seems
appropriate to his needs or the Oc-
caslon. Phrases which will Rstonish
those who have thought OF Mr.
Hughes as always envolopcd In m
Olympinn mist Of high scholarship
are TO be found in an appreciation
written by President FaunCo OF tho
Brown University several years ago,
Speaking of Hughes the undergrad
uatc DR.. Fauncc said:
He had u touch OF that bohemian
ism which among students Is so FREE
quently the mask OF profound moral
seriousness. He never hurts himself
with ovcrstudy. His desk was piled
high with works Of fiction. for mis-
curious and restless mind was react
ing out into sympathetic relations
with all sorts and conditions OF mon.
a better story teller or more whole
souled companion on n journey IT
would be hard to ind"
MIR. Hughes still reads fiction. still
keeps abreast OF the best In modern
literature, still repeats the sayings
Of MIR. Dooley with broguc that
would win approval even from Finley
Peter Dunno. Like the late Senator
HOar. no usually has detective story
handy with which to rest his mind
and begullo his fancy from the de.
lightful tedlum Of law. and like Mr..
Hoar. no can afford TO laugh at pom
derous critics. for before he was ton
years old the boy Hughes had read
all Of Shakespeare "fOr the story"
and his mind is stored With the treas.
urcs OF the richest literature. ono
night as he smoked and talked in hls
West End avenue library, before no
went to Washington. he said:
I'VE are all incorrlgible hypocrites,
n oh
to read or the things we think we
ought to like to read. Now, being
moro man. confess that / like a
good blood and thunder swashbuck-
ling romance better than almost any
thing else you can give me in print.
er's ink. | don't care much VINO
wrote II, so long as II has n rafting
good story between It's covers. And
next TO n good thriller Of this sort
lean pretty strongly to the good old
fashioned detective story as a pana-
cea for n wearied brain and n tired
back.
He was immensely amused by
magazine sketch pOrtraying him as
startling an Alpine tramp with "a
volume OF Rants philosophy, a trea-
tlse on solid geometry and "Lycur-
gus p" He pleaded guilty to n fond
moss for Kant, repudiated the solid
geometry. and as for Lycurgus he
said. II don't know what that may
be. but hope It's nothing lntoxIcat.
ing"
One night in the last session OF
an especially hard-hsted legislature
n visitor went in TO see the governor
expecting to find him bowed down
with the weight Of the conflict and
burning the midnight oil over re-
factory bulletins from the capital.
But Mr.. Hughes came forward with
finger marking a place in u book
that he held.
Good evening. Mr.. Blank" ne
said. II have read six novels Of Du-
mass since the session began and II
Il keeps up much longer. I'll have TO
begin on Gaboriau."
Mr.. Hughes's whiskers may yor-
ry art critics and provide bread for
the cartoonists. but there Is no evil
dence that they have ever distressed
him for n moment.
The original reason for Mr.
Hughes's beard. which, by the way.
has been nOticeably reduced in al
mansions in the course Of his resi.
dence In Washington, 10 to be found