The Washington critic., 1886-03-17
TOPICS OF The DAY.

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money. Such is the story told by a
friend of the Senator to Carpenter of
the Cleveland Leddor. lie at once
struck out for himself, and by the
time he was 81 he had paid back the |
800, accumulated about $4,000 be.
sides and got married. He then con.
cludCd to 20 to Wisconsin. On his way |
West he stopped at his brothers, aud |
upon his asking him how much money |
he had, he answered that he had $2,0JD |
in belt around his waist and about |
$500 in his pockets Count 1t" said |
his brother. Sawyer counted IL and |
figured up just Sl99. Hereupon his |
brother handed him dollar, telling
him that that would make up his ST..
200, and he would know Just how
much he started away with. Sawyer
went on to Wisconsin, bought farm
there and in time got into the lumber
business, became wealthy, and now has
been for years in the Unitad States Sen
ate. In the meantime his elder brother
stayed in New York and tended to his
farm. He still lives there, worth about
$4,000, one of the respected citizens
of his county, and his note Is as good
as gold any day. Two years ago tbe
Senator asked him how he was situated
financially, and, after much pressing,
found that he owed two notes amount.
ing, with interest, to about 81, 100, aud
that hG was troubled by the fact that
he could not get enough ahead every
year to pay more than the interest on
them. Senator Sawyer said nothing,
but the next morning slipped away
from his brothers house and bought
the notes. That night he asked his
brother whether he had any other
debts whatever. His brother replied
that he was owing about slO0
in debts here and there. Sen.
0tor Sawyer hcreupon took out
the two notes, amounting to St,1OO.
and placing 800 on the top of them.
he handed the pile to his brother, tell.
ing him that would make him even
with the world, and he then continued:
"l ou~ need not feel backward about
taking this, because it is merely the
payment Of n debt. When | went West
you gave me n dollar, never eXpectinr
TO get II back. ! considered that dol
lar as n loan. as an investment, us Il
part Of my capital As far rs | can
estimate now each one of the S2,21D
which carried away with me has
swclled into 81 200, and in giving you
this s POO | am only giving you your
share of the profits. - II asked Sena.
tor Sawyer" said this gentleman.
what his brother said when he did
this, and he replied lie did not know
what to make of it at first, but he
finally took the money and the notes
saying he wished he had invested ST..
coo instead of 81"
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Major Lewis says of General Terry
in the New Haven Noes: "Al. Terry,
the General, used to be in the old days
when lot of us were young fellows
here in New Haven, striving to climb
the ladder TO some kind of greatness.
He followed in as clerk of the Superior
Court, and more ambitious worker it
would have been hard to ind. His
father, Alfred Terry, used TO be our
town clerk. Young Terry became Il
prominent member of the Grays and
perhaps from this circumstance his love
for military life arose. | never saw
such an enthusiast, always bent on
some military study. If am not mis-
taken he visited the Crimea during the
Anglo.Russian struggle. | remember
one night met AL in George Bassctt's
bookstore on Chapel street. There
was Il big collection of formidable
looking tones ranged along on Bassetts
upper shelves. Terry grasped my arm
and said: DO you see those books,
Harry? Yes. What are they?' They
are Napoleon Campaigns and We
bought every blessed one of them.
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Speaking of Senators in more or
less personal fashion, Washington
correspondent Of the Pittsburg Chroa.
clc-1elcgram says: "Mr. Spooner of
Wisconsin is a new Senator, and is
going through the process this year Of
being popular. He is not particularly
handsome or brilliant, or particularly
wicked, any one Of which pecuiarities
would make him central figure in
Washington; but he has just had the
tact or ability TO fire the social heart,
and has been lioniZed accordingly. He
will be pushed out of the way next
year, and another Senator given his
place, but he hardly knows that yet,
and could hardly be expected to avert
it if he did lie is only the victim of Il
peculiar society craze which comes
around as regularly as marble time
with the small boy. Last year
Senator Manderson of Nebraska had to
| go through the process. He was q
| plcasant-looking gentleman with schol.
| arly, goldrimmed spectacles, and n
pleasant, entertaining manner, and Of
fetal society suddenly determined that
it was remarkable thing that such
| polished gentleman came from SO far
| west as Nebraska. He was feted, ad.
mired and talked to; his name was in
| the society columns of the newspapers
| every evening, and the galleries were
| iammed TO the door when he made his
| speech on the Fitz John Porter bill.
1t was the talk of the reception rooms
for week. just now, however, the
social face has changed. Mr.. Mander.
son is the same courteous, pleasant
| gentleman as ever but he might talk
on Fitz John Porter all night without
anything being said about 1t at the
next evening party, Senator Spooner
has his place.
~
This is the Good news for Zelda"
that the ST. Paul Pioneer Press tells of:
Zelda Seguin, who is with II "Millado"
company out West, received the other
day the following Characteristic letter
from her husband, Dave Wallace, who
is on his farm in Indianna. Dave left
the troupe the Sunday before and this
is his first cpistlc: Dear Zelda; Good
news When arrived at the farm |
found we had thirty.two pigs in one
litter and n hcifer calf. Yours, Dave.
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