The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-05
More Evarts Stories.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune sends his paper the
following stories of the late William NJ.
Evarts:
Everybody knows all about Senator
Evarts' dairy farm up III Vermont Fine
farming with him was a hobby that only
lawyer at the head of the bar could at
ford to keep up. IL was when Offering his
guests a little good cheer that~the Sena-
tor pointing TO the champagne and the
fresh milk, cheeriy remarked: Take
your choice They're both refreshing,
and they cost me the same"
Senator Evarts once unwittingly gave
deep offense to bluff Senator Beck. He
was discussing the latter's bill forbidding
members of Congress to practice before
the Supreme Court. and having occasion
TO refer to lawyers whose practice was
limited to specialties and who never had
occasion to appear before the highest jul
dicial tribunal an the land, he called them
''unilateral' lawyers. The professional
dignity of Senator Beck was wounded.
He had been fairly successful at the bar
in Kentucky, but he had early laid aside
the law for politics, and there were even
some of his colleagues who did not know
he was a lawyer, Daniel O'Connells war
OF epithets with the fshwoman, in which
he finally triumphed by calling her a
"contumelous parallelopipedon," was
nothing to the Scotch epithets which Sen
ator Beck began hurting at Senator Ev-
arts He finally satisfied his wounded
amour propre by assuring the Senate that
an unilateral lawyer in Kentucky was
more respected than quadrilateral petit
logger in New York. Senator EVarts had
not been in the Senate long enough then
to understand Senator Beck's peculiari-
ties, but he finally succeeded in pacifying
the sturdy Kentuckian. and their rela-
tions became quite kindly.
1t was Senator Evarts who paid on one
occasion a delicate compliment to wild
Western culture. A Western senator of
good intentions, but of slight acquaint-
ance with the modern classics had been
talking about Don Quixote and the wind
mills He was distressingly exact in his
pronunciation, sounding the 20 after his
own standard and drawing the *" Sen
ator Evarts having occasion to follow his
Western colleague, referred pleasantly to
his friends illustration from Don kee-
hote
'Kee-hote? Who's he?" inquired his
colleague.
Without moving a muscle of his face,
Senator Evarts, in his most courteous
manner, continued:
"As / was saying, the Senator's illus
tration from Don QuiXote"-givinS the
90 the broadcast of sounds, and not for
getting a place for the ''X'' also.
Senator Hoar, who was sitting near,
smiled in his most benignant way, but
no one else remarked the incident.
While Mr.. Evarts was in the Senate his
family, which included many daughters,
spent the greatest portion of the time
on that much exploited farm, near Wind
sor VI, which its distinguished owner
made pay "by crediting the farm with
everything taken off from it, and charg-
ing nothing put on" One spring he re-
ceived a letter from his youngest daugh-
ter. dated from Windsor. which so tickled
his sense of humor that he passed it
around for his colleagues to read.
Dear papa" it said, do come home;
my donkey is very lonesome without
you
Mr.. Blaine at one time in his career
was, as regards consular officers in favor
| of a limited tenure of office-or at any
rate, he believed it to be for the good
of the service to change consuls from OIL
flee to office occasionally in order to
| gain a wider and more varied experience.
! If a consul had slumbered through three
| a dolce far niente he was not aVerse, UNI
| less the consul showed remarkable apti-
tude, to astonish him with an invitation
| to return to this country.
! Mr. Blaine sat in his room at the
State Department one day discussing diff
ferent matters Of public interest with Mr..
Evarts. then his immediate predecessor
in office.
Now here" said he. sis a case in
point. This man has been consul at Tn
Hung for twenty years. He went there
| at the time of the war and has remained
there ever since. 1t is time he came
home and got acquainted with his own
country before he grows queue. If he
| stays much longer he will have Chinese
bias in his sight. 1 shall remove him at
| once"
Il wouldn't remove him, Mr.. Secretary
replied Mr.. Evarts, quietly.
why not?'
/ 81 am afraid it will be an unpleasant
| thing to do. To be vulgar fear it will
make a strike"
My mind is made up" replied Mr..
| Blaine. LAS soon as | can find a good
| live man to take his place L shall remove
| him."
But I think you will have grave diff
Guilty in finding a good live man who
would be willing to take his place"
Il anticipate no such difficulty. But viii
| you explain to me, Mr.. Evarts, why there
will be any difficulty, and-I confess
fail to understand-why it will, to use
your expression. make a striker"
Because the man has been dead and
buried these six months, Mr.. Secretary