The Tailur Shop of Andy Johnson. J
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There is a tale of two tailors, which
the game has the Unique quality of
being true.
The seventeenth president of the
United States was Andrew Johnson.
Bofore he became the president he
was successively congressman, gov
ernor of Tennessee, United states
aetiator, vice-president. After BOl'V
mg his time as president, he was
oho-en a United States senator.
It will be remembered that there
was an attempt made to impeuch
Prouident Johnson, in thoeo trying
it me i that followed the death of the
lamented Lincoln. it all arose thru |
Johnson's request that Kdwin M.
Stunton should resign his ofllce of
secretary of war. Starte !i was n man
ol touch ability?but he had a temper
like a termagant, chewed tobacco in
seven different languages, swore like
a pirate of Penzance, and was nearly
as precocious as Job, who. wo are
told, ?tirsei the day lie was born?
surely a wonderful feat for one
young!
StantOU tried Lincoln's patience al
most to the breaking point, l have
?xv Influence with this administration
? ask StUntOU," Lincoln used to say.
At another time Lincoln said to So
ward, "Look out for Stunton, Seward,
his name Is Vesuvius, ami 1 think an
eruption Is about due."
Stnnton met his match in Johnson,
lot while Johnson was always a gen.
Lloman, there was a trace of Scotch
in his ancestry which made him ob
ject to the steam-roller as U social
and political accessory.
The Impeachment trial was a flghl
to the death hot ween Johnson and
Stnnton. When Johnson was upheld
by the court that tried him, Stanton
at once resinned, an 1 a year later ho
died.
President Johnson attended lus fu
neral, and made a speech in eulogy
.)[ his erstwhile enemy, declaring,
"lie was my friend a friend who did
Hot always understand me. Mo was
otic of the most able men I ever knew.
II ho had faults, they were of the
hpad, not heart; and now all we re
: i am her is his zeal, his earnest desire
for tho good, his upright intent, his
matchless ability of brain. Let love
mingle with memory and police be
..ceo ded to his ashes."
Yc it was only a year before tills,
when the Impeachment trial was on,
iha* Stanton referred lo President
John t?n as. "That tailor from Tennes
see, Olli' knight of the shent's and
goose.*'
And Jouhson's answer was. "It i
truo i aih a tailor by trade, but no
man has ever said that I was not a
good tailor, and If I am relieved <??'
Uns ofllce I now hold. I am proud to
say 1 can stiil go hack to tho bench
nru) earn a living."
In lSV!l Andrew Johnson wits a
member ol h congressional committee
Appointed to Inquire Into, and hinke
:? report on, ihb available water-power
n America. Tliin e6nihilttb>} spent
two days in llochester investigating
tho resources of the (lenesoe Palls.
Thee w as an informal hau plot olio
evening at the Whltcoinh HoUsOiwheiC
me hundred of tiie principal business
,n<in if the c|iy gathered to do honor
in theguestS,. The Into Judge Solo
mon llubhard of fleuoseo Livingston
county, tbid mo thO story. Judge
L'lintoh Of Buffalo presided. In pro?
entlug tho principal guest of the eVe
ii.-: he told of that taunt of StniltOn'S,
"The tailor from Tennessee our
knight of the shears and goose." and
of Johnson's reply.
Now it BO happened that in the
company was another tailor beside
Andrew Johnson, and this was Nathan
Stein, aged forty-four; flye feet, two
inel ? s high in the shade. Johnson
and Stein met on a tailor basis, and
took very kindly to each other.
"When you weigh stein in tho bal
ance you will find him wanting noth
ing that does not belong to him.*' .said
Johnson, and then pausing added,
"and also remeber to weigh him Troy,
not Avoirdupois."
Johnson quoted from the third
chapter of Genesis, seventh verse.
"And they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons."
"These home-made colthes, however"
continued Johnson, "were not entirely
satisfactory, for we read in the -1st
verse of the same chapter, that I have
just mentioned. 'Unto Adam also and
his wife did the Lord God make coats
of skins.' So it really looks as if
God were the t'rst tailor. Brother
Stein and I have high precedent, and
surely we do not apologize for our
calling."
Then Johnson proceeded to tell the
story ahou* Lincoln meeting Alexan
der H. Stephens on board a boat in
the Potomac. It was a cold day and
Stephens wore a big overcoat with
the collar turned up. It Came from
his heels to the top of his head. Lin
coln and Stephens were men on a
tremendous errand -they were to try
to avert the coming war. by buying
the slaves.
Both men were nervous?both em
barrassed. And Lincoln, as was his
wont, dissipated the intensity with a
laugh.
"Alee." said Lincoln, "do yon know
what you remind me of?"
"No, Mr. President, tell me," said
Stephens, with greni dignity.
"You make me think that never be
fore have I seen so small a nubbin
in so big a shuck!" Stephens was
SO small that a newspaper once said.
"An empty carriage drove up and
Stephens got out."
"let in spite of his inches, or lack
of them. Alexander 11. Stephens was
the biggest man of (he Southern Con
federacy; and if Lincoln and Stephens
could have had their way, freed from
the lire.caters, both North ami South,
there would have been no civil war.
"Nathan Stein is the size of Alexander
Stephens -the si/a* of Napoleon and
I like him so well that I thik WO
should call on him." said Johnson the
next da.v after Bio hampi"t. So the
tailor from Tennessee dropped in to
see the tailor of Rochester, as the
committee was on the way to the rail
road station. Johnson saw the work
thai Stein was don Ig ami declared.
"You will make not only garments.
' but an Kpocll! "
Some one challenged Johnson to
take off his coat, and .-i; crosS-leggod
on the tailor's table und sew on a but
ton that was missing from lodge Hub
bard's coat. Johnson accepted the
challenge, sewed on the button, and
took a few needed stitches in the
sleeve-linings as well.
Some mouths after this, Johnson
'ordered a suit of clothes from Stein.
-The clothes were made up and sent
along with Mr. Stein'.- compliments
I "The courtesy of one good tailor to
I anot her."
Vvh.n sixteen yea;- <?; hge Strad
ivari Was apprenticed to Amatl. ami
began to make violins. In his heart
was the supreme desire to make a
perfect musical Instilment, lb- work
ed for exactly forty years before lie
produced a violin that Satisfied him.
1 Stradivari died two humped and
11 fly years aco. but no man since his
day has Improved upon his ail.
"Other men will male different vio
lins, hut no man will ev'er make bet
ter ones," said Stradivari. And bis
' <a ords rang i rue.
I Nathan stein began making clothes
when sixteen years old. At sixty he
was making better ami liner garments
than any man in America. He passed
. our at eighty, the supreme past mas
ter of his craft, yet always a worker
'and alwnys a learner. lie had I fill
tutor*, but no competitors.
Nathan Stein was I he Nestor of the
I model n clothing business and a
1 Prophet of the Bette. Bay.- Milien
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By Damon Harvey.
Wherever comrades may repose, free
from tiie bugle's call,
As heroes, they In mem'ry tiv?>. torn.
Bcar'd by stool ami ball;
Thero let as moot and mingle tears
in unison to-day.
And scatter floral wroaths. alike, up
on iho blue und may.
The few remaining "Vets." with pride
and trembling, tottering trend
All join to decorate the graves of bur
heroic dead.
Tho breach of peace that once pre.
vailed, from ago, has died away. |
The tears of love are shed the same
Upon the bine and gray.
With din of battle on their ear. the
scenes of war in mind,
Our brave defenders, need, gl'tiy, tire
dropping out of line.
15re long the "taps.'* will call the last
tine Soldier Boy away.
Who may have worn the Northern
blue perhaps the Southern gray.
No slab of granite mark the spot
where many warriors rest ;
No loving hands with garlands fair j
to lay upon their breast :
But yet the stars that guard each ;
mound of consecrated cloy.
Smile down with equal rays of love
on both the blue and gray.
They laid their guns ami swords aside
with many a manly shout:
Prom earthly service, one by one.
were gently mustered out.
And as the flowers of May adorn their
silent graves to-day.
Our Nation clasps the hinds of peace
o'er both the blue and gray.
N. LI, It (lie reader of the above
"Poem," will send live "-cent stamps
to the author. Damon Harvey, (lear
llold. Pa., who is a helpless Invalid,
he will greatly appreciate the favor
ami will send in return, his photo ami
the poem, nicely printed mi plate
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