Show bright old men in essex county I 1 essex esses couil county ty mass ilass has been noted not only for its legal lights like rufas choate caleb gushing cushing judge story and others but also for its deputy deput y sheriffs some borne of whom have served many years of one of these men daniel potter many amusing stories have been told at ono one time he entered a newspaper office in salem and addressing the only scribe who was in sig sight said 1 I thought I 1 would tell you that tomorrow I 1 shall go where I 1 never went before and can never go again the scribe knowing knowin his caller promptly gave it up and then mr potter said it is into my eightieth yearl some years ago these old deputies had ft a gathering at the home of a certain one of their number in gloucester while they were roaming about the house the host called the attention of his guests to an old clock a great favorite of his he told his bis friends of his great attachment to this ancient timepiece and grew quite pathetic at certain points in his remarks which he brought to a close by saying in a voice roice full of emotion gentlemen I 1 have wound up that clock every night bormore for more than for forty ty years ho he had evidently made an impression on his visitors when one old deputy ullo rho had been carefully examining the toch lock turned the tide fide of feeling evoked by the story by saying dryly well I 1 always did think you yon were something of bf an idiot t hats I an eight day clock 1 youths companion |