Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Senator Voorhees' Story. [ARTICLE]

Senator Voorhees' Story.

“It was years ago,” remarked Senator Voorhees, “when I was just beginning the practice of law. My circuit used to take me over in Eastern Illinois. It was then I first saw Abe Lincoln. He was practising law then and was very successful. I recall a story he told on some opposing lawyer, during the argument of a case. “ ‘Our friend,” said Lincoln, to the jury, ‘is not responsible altogether for the very remarkable argument with which he has afflicted us. Our friend is all right in conversation, and he may even examine a witness fairly well. But the moment he embarks on a set speech his mind becomes peculiarly affected. Its operations, while our friend is speaking, seem so much retarded that they might almost be said to have ceased. In this respect he reminds me of a steamboat I knew many years ago, and which busied itself in the Ohio River. This puffing little steamboat was of unusual, not to say illogical construction. It had a five-foot boiler and a seven-foot whistle; and every time it whistled it stopped. It reminds me very much, gentlemen, of our friend.”—[Washington Post. The favorite gowns for little children are the wool dresses of bright, warm plaids in soft art serges, and the newly-revived cashmeres that come in every shade are daintily ornamented. These little gowns have borders just scalloped with silk embroidery and hems laid in with a fine vine of silk embroidery. •