Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — A JEFFE RSONVILLE POET [ARTICLE]

A JEFFE RSONVILLE POET

Routs Hendricks and ThiFs Cleveland. Washington Special: The last of the callers were about leaving the White House this afternoon, when a man, who gave his name as Captain James Herrington, of Jeffersonville, lnd., stepped up to the door with a request that he would like to see the President, adding that Vice President Hendricks had sent him. On being questioned as to his business he said he desired to read to the President an allegorical essay, prose and poetry, on “The Irrepressible Conflict of Public Sentiment.” He therefore produced from his overcoat pocket a package of about forty pages of foolscap paper. The door-keeper offered to take it, saying that Colonel Lamont read all the poetry that came, before it was sent to the President, but the Captain declined for the reason, he said, that the chirography was poor and so much interlined that any one except himself would have difficulty in reading it. The doorkeeper under the circumstances refused admission, and he went away grumbling. As he was leaving the Captain said he had been for years a river pilot at St. Louis, and he thought he had a better idea of the cause of the war than any other man living; that he had penned his thoughts m leisure moments, and that he thought the President would be better off if he heard his essay. He said he had a talk with Vice President Hendricks during the early part of the day, but that Mr. Hendricks had no kind of appreciation of poetry or prose unless there was some redhot politics in it. He said that Mr. Hendricks tired of it after hearing but seven pages, and he suggested he let the President hear the remainder.

Judging by . Appearances.—l notice it don’t always do to judge by appearances. The attitude of prayer is also attitude of peeping through a knothole. —St. Paul Herald.