The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-17

which ignores the great truths illumi.
mated in heraldic language over its very
Capitol is not yet at the end of its
woes" iCi
IN THE MIDST OF OLD FRIENDS.
On Feb. 8, 1890, Gen. Sherman
reached the age Of three score and ten.
In honor of the birthday he gave
series of dinners to intimate friends,
rejoicing to see Scho6eld, Howard and
Slocum, the men who had led the gallant
hosts that cut the Confederacy in twain,
all seated at once about his genial board
after ve-and-twenty years of the peace
they had nobly earned. In April, after
the lenten season, he gratefully accepted
superb reception rendered to him by
the Union League Club of New York
City in honor of his 10th birthday.
The eloquent witness of the high
esteem in which the club held him, an
esteem manifested in the gorgeous and
tasteful decorations of the palatial club
house, in the banks of flowers the pro-
fusion of flags, the assemblage of illus
trious guests-Judges, Senators, Cen
erals, Bishops, Representatives, Army
and Navy officers-in the enthusiastic
singing of Marching Through Georgia
at the banquet, and in Mr.. Depew's
dignified and elegant tribute, touched
him profoundly.
His answer to Mr. Depew's remarks
is fair sample of bis homely speech.
After the cheering had died out, he be-
gan:
l thank you from the bottom of my
heart for this response to Mr.. Depew's
handsome tribute to me. Every man
loves his neighbor nearly as we'll as HIM
self DIR. Paxton we'll knows that it
won't do to be too good in this world,
for the millennium would come when we
were not prepared for it. In St. Louis
| had circle Of friends that | loved,
but they were my seniors and passed
away, and when | came to New York
! thought, instead of going among the
old, would look for younger Ones who
might possibly outlive me- So looked
into the Union League Club. / have
mingled with you now for two years,
and will go on and stand by you whether
yoa are right or wrong. And for the
members, from the president down to
the last one whose name was read
week ago tonight, / feel as though they
were brothers all.
"And now. my friends, / know that,
Ike all other bodies. of men, you wish
to make the world as good as yourselves,
which is very natural, right and proper.
But the first way, to reform the COM
munity is to reform yourselves. But
YOU have to take the world as it is. 1t
is good world. It is the best we have
now. | don't see any, who are anxious
to depart from it." .no
The letter-book of this year contains
4 number of notes relating to dinner
which he gave the Comte de Paris on
occasion of his recent visit to America.
The Comte de Paris visits us" he
says, as Capt. Philippe d'Oreans, who
in 1861 evinced a maply spirit by coming
to America and offering his sword and
life to uphold and Sfend the Goveria-
ment which France in our infancy ans
weakness did SO much to establish"
There is letter to the State Depart
ment inquiring into the fate of Ismail
Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and one in
January, 1891, to Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, in which he says: "The cause
which made you and me enemies in 1861
is as dead as the rule of King George
in 1875, and like Humpty Dumpty, all
the Kings horses and all the Kings men
cannot bring it to life again
tT,E he