Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-26
THE NEW BARN.

The expression used in an interview at
Pistsburg and was taken up by the newspaper
psragraphers in much the same way as the ex-
preston he used before a former senatorial
election Then he said he was coming home
TO hx his fences and now he came to build
barn He has built the barn in reality. 1t
cost $4,000 and Is pretty cottage-hke house
about fifty feetIong and forty feet deep fitted out
with all the best stable requirements. In it
found three or four carriages and half a dozen
good horses, which the Senator told me were
OF his own raising. In the old barn near by
were number Of Jersey cows and these are
Mrs. Sherman's pets. They produce the
finest Of milk and cream and Mrs sherman
has her butter made under her own super vision
She Is thoroughly domestic in her tastes and
not long ago she was so proud of her butter
that she had some of il entered at the county
fair. but left her name out of the list of ex-
hlbitors ard the butter was displayed as anon
ymous- The judges, IN making the award
gave the premium to another butter maker
aad passed Mrs Sherman's butter on the
charge that il was so yellow that IT must have
been artineially colored. Mrs. sherman was
naturally very indignant at the charge and she
cut the roll Of butter up and sent slice Of 1t
10 each OF the judges with her compliments.
THE SHERMAN RESIDENCE.
Senator Sherman's house is an almost ideal
home for a great statesman. II is a big two
story and msnsard brick, eighty feet long and
perhaps sixty feet deep, and it has wide
Porehes, big windows anu beautiful views. 1t
Is by no means a grand house nor a gorgeous
one- Every part of it is simplicity personified,
Dat u imPresses you as being a most comforta-
bic home The brick is painted drab and the
windows. steps and front doors are finished in
a peculiar old red sandstone streaked with
golden yellow, IN all the variations of the onyx
or the agate Passing over a porch about If
teen feet vide. YOU enter through the front
door into . generous hall. which, In the shape
OF a capital l. makes. IN fact two good sitting
rooms At your right on the wall hangs a pair
OF antiers which Senator sherman got in his
trip over the Canadian Pacific, and at the right
and left are doors opening into the parlors.
Around at the other end of the hail is the
dining room. which Is. / judge about twenty
i've feet square, and back of this through a
buffers pantry, II a big kitchen, lighted by
Georgia pine.
MRS. SHERMAN AT HOME
found Mrs sherman with q great sunshade
On her head, peelins luscious peaches for can
ming, in the dining room, and ms we looked at
the kitchen she said she hoped il / was going
10 make description OF the house that would
notice the trees and describe the interior Of the
house as il was. Said she: ''Our home has been
described u grand mansion, and often find
our visitors rather disappointed when they
come here expecting . palace. The house is,
as you see, very plain, but il is = comfortable
home and We like it," During my stay visited
the other portions Of L. IL contains, should
Judge, at least twenty rooms, and all Of the
rooms are large and airy. The Windows give
me v,ews over miles Of rolling country, and in
one Of the libraries noted q telescope and
asked Senator sherman II he used this in
studying the stars He replied with laug
thas - now ana Than looked at the moon and
a. Venus and Mars through it, but that the
sessa sss Of 1t within the past few weeks had