Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-03-13

got him back to her again. Mrs. Ola
Ser has begun no less than three &C
tions for divorce against her husband
but they were all discontinued when
she had him back again. As reward
he beat her and kicked her about. Of
course the poor little wife might have
known that. She might have presum-
ed from her experience of life that love
cannot live where its flame Is not
famed by respect. and how could he
respect where he saw so much weak
ness as in his wife. She however claims
that all her troubles are caused by
"that willy woman who has complete
ly enthralled him. At the same time
chat woman loves him as her letters
and conduct.plainly show, and thus the
object of all this strife is made to play
the absurd role of shuttle-cock. "Hu-
man nature" as old Stephenson, the
hero of one of Marryatt's novels would
say.
Elk Secretary William NJ. Evarts, is
really wonderful old man. TO look
at him, one would think him nothing
more than small, animated bundle Of
bones, whose angularity is concealed by
skin which resembles parchment
more than it does the human particle.
He delivered the closing argument in
the Stokes will case and it occupied
him more than three days. He spoke
every day from the opening of court
till recess. When everybody went out
for lunch, he remained behind, study
ing up his notes, and when they re-
turned he resumed his argument and
continued till the hour of closing. One
day he said that he felt hungry and did
20 out for lunch, but he afterwards
complained that he had eaten too much
and that his stomach felt heavy. His
lunch on that day consisted of single
sandwich, washed down with mouth
full of water. During those three days
his voice never lost it's timbre, his eye
its brightness, nor his face its impas
siveness. Hundreds of other lawyers
would have felt worn out after such an
effort, but Mr.. Evarts was as fresh as
when he started on his work, and on
leaving court walked briskly down to
his Office in Wall Street, a distance Of
fully ten blocks, and at once set to
work on another case. For reporters
he is holy terror as one Of them
said. His long, involved and convolu-
ted sentences and quaint intonations
make it almost impossible for a scribe
to follow him unless he fully under
stands the subject.
Rents will remain about the same
figure this year, as even landlords per
ceive that prices cannot very we'll be
screwed much higher. Houses uptown
are going up at such a rapid rate, and
Brooklyn is draining $" hard upon our
surplus population that in some parts
of the annexed district there will this
Spring be really more accommodations
for tenants than applicants. Down
town, however, in the business dis
tricts, rents continue very high in first
class buildings. Mr.. Cyrus W. Field
has completed his new structure, the
Washington building, at the Battery,
and applicants for rooms are so numer-
Gus that almost any price can be asked.
There are five elevators in the build
ing, and consequently the upper floors
bring more money than the lower ones.
An idea of the traffic done in one of
these huge buildings may be formed
from some statistics which Mr.. Field
has gathered. On an average $4,000
persons a day pass in and out of his
building. The new Produce Exchange
Building averages $4,000, the Mills
Building $4,000, the Boreel 10000,
and the Equitable Life about $4,000.
Father Knlckerbocker would be lost
were he to visit the site of the original
Gotham village again.