tion, I have no doubt,
in entire good faith. The stock of that mine went down. The
investors lost their money, and great complaint was made that
he had used his official position to promote a fraudulent
scheme. He was compelled to withdraw from the Mission. He
was not recalled, but came home on leave of absence, and resigned
here. So he was not obliged to take formal leave. But the
stock of the mine afterward became exceedingly valuable,
and the public regretted the unjust judgment they had formed
about General Schenck. I had and have a great regard for
him. There was not a dishonest hair on the old fellow's head.
His health failed soon after, so he had no opportunity to
render further service, which would undoubtedly have caused
that unpleasant affair to be forgotten.

Judge Luke P. Poland of Vermont was another very interesting
character. He was well known throughout the country. He
had a tall and erect and very dignified figure, and a fine
head covered with a beautiful growth of gray hair. He was
dressed in the old-fashioned style that Mr. Webster used,
with blue coat, brass buttons and a buff-colored vest. His
coat and buttons were well known all over the country. One
day when William Lloyd Garrison was inveighing against some
conduct of the Southern whites, and said: "They say the South
is quiet now. Order reigns in Warsaw. But where is Poland?"
An irreverent newspaper man said: "He is up in Vermont polishing
brass buttons."

The Judge was a very able lawyer, and a man of very great
industry. He and Judge Hoar went over together the revision
of the United States statutes of 1874, completing a labor
which had been neglected by Caleb Cushing. Judge Poland had
a good deal of fun in him, and had a stock of anecdotes which
he liked to tell to any listener. It was said, I do not know
how truly, that he could bear any amount of whiskey without
in the slightest degree affecting his intellect. There was
a story that two well-known Senators laid a plot to get the
Judge tipsy. They invited him to a room at Willards, and
privately instructed the waiter, when they ordered whiskey
to put twice as much of the liquid into Poland's glass as
into the others. The order was repeated several times. The
heads of the two hosts had begun to swim, but Poland was not
moved. At last they saw him take the waiter aside and heard
him tell him in a loud whisper: "The next time, make mine
a little stronger, if you