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HON. CHARLES SUMNER COOK OF PORTLAND.

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O-DAY'S subject we have taken on a sort of capias writ, Fall not, sir. at your perll; you have ~t to come and "sit," 'Ve admit all your objections and will note tbem in the book Mark 'eln "law," sir, "Def'ts exeeptions-Cartoonist vs. Cook," nut the issue is unquestioned: no escape fOl' ally man, Are you I'early? At the camera! Now look as pleasant as you can.

Now-I respect a man's aversion to being jingled up in rhyme Any rhymester. who would do it, really should be "doing time," To put a man-disjecta membra--in a broth ot poesy. Seems to me, somehow. suggestive of a human fricassee And ns I have, sirs, no incentive to develop human woes I will hold my wayward fancy down to Cumbel'land County prose. He's a lawyer and a good one as it's needless to explain; tor he's about the ablest counsel that we have up hel'e in Maine. He's the head and tront of pushing in a lot of enterprise; for his safe and sane conservatism is where his power lies. He's the business guide and counsel for the railroads and express. And he's banlter and promoter and, I may as well confess that, in the thing that we eall politics, he's done a thing or two and has ser,'ed the State with bonor and bas 8er"ed his party, too. I don't want to get too eager and mix into tbinp:s, you know. that belong to POl't1and's FaithfRI as the Faithful come and go; but I've heard emphatic statements that, when fit occasion come and they're looking tor the proper man to send to WasWngton, there'll be no need to trouble or to strain tbeir anxious eyes but tfie~'ll fllI the place, in Cougress, with a man, about his size.

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