Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-22

pleasure of doing great things, of making
history and of being, during the greater
part of your career, one or the most
famous men of international life. But you
have had disappointments as well. Now,
looking back over your whole career, has
the game, after all, been worth the
candle?"
1.-THE old senator stopped and apparently
weighed my question in his MIND before ne
answered. He then said:
Eyes, l think it has. The chief pleasure
of life is success and according to my own
standpoint have succeeded. 1 have gotten
nearly everything 1 have striven for Yes,
I may say l have gotten everything, with
the exception of one position, and l should
have had that had 1t not been for that
man.
Here a worried look came over John
Shermans face and he stopped Yes, I
would have gotten that if it had not been
for that man.
He stopped again. He could not remem-
Der Garfields name His mind, clear until
then suddenly failed, and it was only until
1 mentioned Garfield that he caught the
thread again and said:
Eyes, Garfield; that is the name. If 1t
had not been for that man Garfield I should
have been President of the United States.
That was what John Sherman believed,
although during his life he would not say
so for publication. He thought that Gar
field nomnally his friend, was false to him
at Chicago, and that he thereby robbed
him of the nomination and the presidency.
Sherman's House Torn Down.
Leaving Mr.. Kerr, 1 crossed the street
and walked through the grounds of the old
Sherman homestead. They are rapidly
changing His beautiful residence, which
the people of Mansfield begged that he
give them as hospital, was left as a part
of the estate, and, with the consent of the
heirs, has been torn down and carted
away and the grounds are now being cut
Lotto HOY al 6y
been put through them and buildings will
be soon going up. Some of the magnificent
trees which the senator planted have al
ready fallen under the iconclastic AK. and
on the corner of Park avenue west, at the
lower end of the. lawn, the Methodist
Church of Mansfield has bought lot and
will erect place of worship The farm OF
Senator Sherman'S wife, which lay east OF
the city. has been sold, and that at the
west, some distance further out than the
homestead, belonging to the senator him
| self, has also been graded and cut up into
| lots.
His Monument.
| In a short time every one of the old land
marks will be obliterated, and. indeed
| about the only thing now left in this beau
| tiful town to mark the memory of hin
| whom the world considers it's greatest man
is the monument which stands over Johr
Sherman's grave - r. 4,
| his 10 Sltudlch III inc hcd't VI tiie Genie
! terry above Mansfield. 1t consists of a
| block of gray granite, about eight feet high
| and twelve feet long, standing on gran
| lite pedestal, with the words John Sher
| man upon it's face. The stone stands ir
| the center of the Sherman lot, little be
yond where he and his wife lie side by side
each with a marker above them. On one
| ma rker is carved the words, John Sher
/ man. 1S23-I900.'' and on the Other, Cecilia
| Stewart Sherman 1S27-19O0" The two
| were married in 1913, when Sherman wa.
| still a young and unknown lawyer
and they lived together most happily fol
| more than fifty years. their deaths being
| but q few months apart. One of the
| vagaries of Senator Sherman's mind during
| his last days was a worry about his wife:
| grave, and his death was probably accel
| Grated by his desire to go to her. The tvs
| now rest side by side, with the green leave.
| of a magnificent beech tree whispering
their requiem.
| FRANK G. CARPENTER.