The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-03

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forty, who has also been the unsuccess--
ful defendant in celebrated action for
damaged heart. There must be some
thing in the mental atmosphere OF a
bachelor of forty which inspires him to
scott at the pleadings Of susceptible fee--
male affections. Mr.. Schultz chose to
scott. @Pooh!" he is said to have ex-
claimed when he was warned that the
VOTERS family would call him to ac-
count for his trihing. "Poohl Old VOL
tiers has no money. can buy him off
for thousand dollars" But Mr..
Schultz didn't reckon on the sturdy re-
spectability which is so emlnently
characteristic of the middle-class Ger
man menage. The Wolters father, and
brother, compelled Miss Georgine to
bring this breach-of-promise suit, al
though she shrank from the notoriety
involved, and the verdict of TWEEN
ty-fve thousand dollars in her favor
already causes Mr.. Schultz to sing
a very different tune. Miss Georgine
VOTERS is an attractive looking woman
of about thirty-one years of age, tall,
dark, handsomely proportional and
thoroughly well qualified to make
good man good wife.
MIR. EvARTs' MISFORTUNE.
A great many people have wondered
why Senator Evarts, during the latter
part of his term in the senate, did so
little to connect himself with the cur
rent of affairs. This is largely ex-
planned now by the announcement that
Mr.. Evarts is almost blind, and is una
bic to perform any work which cannot
be done by dictation, He has practi-
cally withdrawn from professional and
social life. Some three years ago had
occasion to call upon Mr.. Evarts in his
old-fashioned home over on Second av-
enue. He inquired with much SYM
pathy concerning well-known gen.
tleman, whose eyesight at that time
was failing, and he then told
me of his apprehensions concern
ing himself He said that he had
been for some time unable to read
with comfort, and he had great fear
that his eyes were permanently failing.
| recall very well the distressful tone in
which he referred to his misfortune,
and the feeling way in which he char
acterized blindness as the next calamity
to death itself Since that time Mr..
Evarts has tried all the specialists and
has left nothing undone to preserve his
eyesight, but his son Sherman, in an
interview recently, said that he had
about abandoned hope. Mr.. Evarts' in
tellect, 1 learn, is as clear as it ever
was, and he takes as much interest in
worldly affairs as most men of acute
minds. He is still vigorous enough
physically to put in ten more years of
hard work, but of course his misfortune
now will remove him from the con-
fiict. Since the days of Mr.. Sew
ard, the Office of secretary of state
has had no keener, more dig
nifed or more sagacious occupant
than William Maxwell Evarts. It was
the custom few years ago to berate
him in certain political circles because
he had accepted an office at the hands
of Mr.. Hayes, about whose election
there was something of a difference of
opinion. But it certainly cannot be de-
MED that Mr.. Evarts was an ornament
to the Hayes administration, and what
ever personal character it had was
largely due to himself and Mr.. Schurz
The trouble with Mr.. Evarts has been
that, while his tastes were in the direc-
ton of craftsmanship, he has been COM
PEELED to dabble in the pool of politics,
and he never was shrewd, designing
politician. He suffered in all his con-
tact with purely political life. His
fame, perhaps, will rest more upon his
ability as a lawyer than as either a
statesman or politician.
TROUBLE IN THE -FOUR HUNDRED"
1t having been announced by Ward
McAllister, who elzes out an existence
during the dull season by betraying
social secrets to the newspapers, that
Mrs. j. Coleman Drayton is to return in
the fall and resume her place in society,
a very interesting season is predicted.
Persons in the swim intimate to me that
the season will not only be interesting,
but exciting. There will be music in the
ambient atmosphere. For my own part,
| am prepared to see the season" de-
velop monkey and parrot time. There
has always been considerable jealousy
of Mrs. Astor as the head and front Of
New York society, and her rivals-there
are about dozen Of them-will make
use of the scandal which attaches to her
daughters name to overthrow her su-
premacy. Inview of this it is well enough
to look out for breakers The Astors
are determined that society shall accept
Mrs. Drayton as if nothing had hap
pened, and are depending upon
their money and subservient Ward Nc
Allister to see that society does it. So
far as Butler McAllister is concerned,
this will be the severest test that has
yet been placed upon his social leader
ship and grave fears are entertained
that it will not be equal to the awful
strain. The butler has already marked
out his plan of campaign. Taking
young Borrowers solemn declaration
that nothing wicked ever occurred be-
tween himself and Mrs. Drayton, The
Butler will go before the .sFour Hun
dred" and plead the case, with tears in
his eyes, if necessary. he will show
that Borrowe knows exactly what he is
talking about and that there is no going
behind the Borrowe returns, as it were.
He will elucidate that Borrowe would