His report was that his
own was better than the Connellsville coke, which was the
standard: it was higher in carbon and lower in ash. The Ludlow
brothers, from Eastern Virginia, had started a general store. Two
of the Berkley brothers had come over from Bluegrass Kentucky and
their family was coming in the spring. The bearded Senator up the
valley, who was also a preacher, had got his Methodist brethren
interested--and the community was further enriched by the coming
of the Hon. Samuel Budd, lawyer and budding statesman. As a
recreation, the Hon. Sam was an anthropologist: he knew the
mountaineers from Virginia to Alabama and they were his pet
illustrations of his pet theories of the effect of a mountain
environment on human life and character. Hale took a great fancy
to him from the first moment he saw his smooth, ageless, kindly
face, surmounted by a huge pair of spectacles that were hooked
behind two large ears, above which his pale yellow hair, parted in
the middle, was drawn back with plaster-like precision. A mayor
and a constable had been appointed, and the Hon. Sam had just
finished his first case--Squire Morton and the Widow Crane, who
ran a boarding-house, each having laid claim to three pigs that
obstructed traffic in the town.
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