The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-02-24


compulsion. The woman's Temperance
Union, still another active organization,
Is peIft city delighted at the reception it
got from President Arthur. They
marched 200 strong to the White House
to ask the Presidents cooperation in
their design to hanish wine from dinner
tables. The President received them
most affably, asked to be introduced to /
them individually, gave each one OF them /
flower and unlimited taffy, lodged the
main issue and sent them away efferves-
cling with pleasure. The very next day
he gave State dinner with six wine
glasses at every cover. The President
understands the sentiments of life as
we'll as its logic. Here is one Of the
ridiculous tales that one hears. That
Mr.. Arthur asked Miss Frtlingbuysen
to marry him before he was President
and has asked her twice since, and that
his carriage stands before the Fgyling-
huysen door every day.E How this deli
cate information was obtained by tue
public nobody knows. The President
grieves the disciples of high art very
much ly the way in which he persistent
ly avoids tragedy and such. 1t would
seem to these aesthetics that after going
through with an harassing day, seeing
half dozen delegations, shaking hands
with n hundred people and wadipg
through piles of papers tine President
ought then to like to spend his evening
witnessing the toTtures Of Othello or the
misery of King Lear-instead of which
he selects the most mirth provoking per-
formance her can find when he seeks any
at all.
The dinner given the other evening by
Col. Corkhill in hOnor Of General Sher.
mans sixty-third birthday was the oc-
casiou OF speech by Senator John Sher-
man which betrayed more sentiment and
feeling than he was supposed TO possess.
He Is generally spoken of as cold, sell
fish man. but there is no questioning the
fact that the attachment existing between
him and the General is strong, beautiful
and touching. Senator Sherman they
say is not a bad dinner companion. He
has been in Washington about twenty
five years, possibly thirty. His fund of
"reminiscences is wonderful, and, with all
his coldness, he warns up splcndidly
uuder the influence Of a glass of warm
Burgundy. He is younger than his
brother, the General. and is more meth
odical. For example, Senat or Sherman
has got all the letters he has received
during the last twenty or thirty years
carefully filed away in scrap books, With
an index most complete. lie told me
the other hight that be had about 40, 900
letters indexed and filed away. Then l
wondered what tales these letters might
tell. What a saying that is-"never
write letter, and never destroy one."
Some one asked Senator Sherman what
he intended to do with oil those letters,
but he did not answer; lie changed the
subject. The letters from his brother.
General Sherman, must be very inter
estiug. They number thousands, and
were begun when the General was at
West Point, and have continued ever
since. The love of the brothers for each
o iher is well known among their friends.
Neither has thought that is not some
way connected with the other. The
letters of General Sherman to his brother
during the war will make mighty inter-
esting reading if they are ever printed,
They were written in camp-sometimes
before battle, and sometimes after one
but they gave the writer's ideas straight
from his heart, and told what he thought
the same as he would commune with
himself Mr.. Blaine is writing book
and it will be great one, but Sherman
could write one equally interesting.
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