Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toad-eaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toad-eaters more.

He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.

Under the system which Governor Hughes professes to regard as more representative, Wisconsin is represented in the Federal Senate by an adroit grandiloquist and a multi-millionaire destitute of a single qualification for his high office.