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EX-SENATOR M'DONALD. Tiie True Story of His Marriage and His Wife's Previous Divorce. How".His Political Opponents are Trying to Injure the Indiana Statesman's Presidential Chances. The Divorn- Suit of Karnard vs. Barnard —Mrs. McDonald—-Womeu's Spite Work. [St. Louis I'ost-Dispatch, March 22.] A group of men in the corridor of the new Denison hotel attracted attention by several indignant exclamations against something or somebody. "Look here," said one of the party, as I approached, "this is dirty work for Democratic papers to be engaged in," and then he read aloud the following from a Wa-hington Letter copied into the Cincinnati Enquirer : "It, is a question in the minds of some whether .McDonald in tin; end will be a can didate. If he pcrsiMs in remaining in the field, he is sure to bring down a great deal of unliapplness upon the bead of his wife and upon himself. Malignant tongued scandal is even now being used to force him to with draw. It i- a fact that Mrs. McDonald was a divorced lady, and that McDonald was the attorney who procured the divorce. His mar riage to a divorced lady, it is said, would drive from him many Catholic votes. The naked facts of the divorce trial and the subsequent marriage- have been tortured into various ugly forms, and if the senator to Chicago and insists upon remaining a candidate, he must go prepared to see pub lished in the newspapers opposed to him a great many disagreeable things about his late marriage. His wife is bound to figure in tticse Btories, ami tin- result will be the great est amount of discomfort. Mr-. McDonald j- too handsome a woman to ever be pardon ed for getting rid of a worthless husband and bu- marrying so prominent and influential a man as she did. "In so doing she incurred the social enmity of Mrs. Hendricks, who was the leader of In dianapolis society at that time, and who has been the chief director of the war which has fa-a long time waged against McDonald. Mrs. McDonald, prior to her marriage with He- senator, was an unobtrusive member of Indianapolis society, well received by even one." Similar Innuendo, s have recently appeared In other prints. The public before which Mr. McDonald is announced as a candidate for the presidency, is entitled to the facts, if any there be, which compromise him. If there are none such he deserves to bave glanderous insinuation stamped out by the press. Ex-Senator McDonald and Mrs. McDonald are at Old Point Comfort, Va. In their ab sence I have applied at authentic sources "for the negro in tin- wood pile," which it is threatened will scare his name from the Chicago convention. The responses are here presented. MAX AND WIFE. Mr. McDonald, now in his sixty-fifth year, Is hale aud active. Your vigorous lawyer of forty is no more industrious, aggrosive or less a suffer from fatigue. He is universally reputed a kind heart, fond of his house and cheerful in it. His handsome income is lib erally expended in providing comforts aud pleasures ior those of ids household. Mrs. McDonald is possibly 50; though, like her husband, younger than her years in ail save her hair, which is white rather than gray, and has been for years—her silver threads coming prematurely. Two weeks ago a lady pointed Mr>. McDonald out to _e am! said: "I would give something to know I would look so magnificently at her age." She is not only handsome, but brilliant: her enemies know that of her. The most cen sorious have never pointed out a better mod el of housewife, one who made more of home or who busied herself less with the af fairs of her neighbors. Her maiden name was Farnsworth, her father having been an esteemed and at one time wealthy citizen of Madison, Indiana. the divorce. From the records of the supreme court of Marion, (this) county I have copied tbe following: "Josephine F. Barnard vs. Jc heil Barnard—the plaintiff complains that on the 21st day of November, 1854, she was puly married to the defendant at the city of Madison, Ind., and lived with him as his Wife from thai time forward until on or about the Hiith day of December, L876. That during said period the plaintiff conducted herself at all times with propriety and at all times managed the affairs of her household with prudence and economy, and at all times treated the said defendant with kindneis and forebearance, but that the said defendant, disregarding tie- solemnities of his marriage vow and his obligation to provide a reasona ble support of the plaintiff, has, since auout the first oi' the year 1S75, and thenceforward continuously until the present time, failed and neglected to provide for and support the plaintiff or to contribute to her support and comfort in a reasonable manner, and that by reason of such failure and refusal of the de fendant the plaintiff bas at all times been compelled to rely upon the members of her own family for provision and support aud has, since on or about tbe time aforesaid, lived, and been compelled to live, separate and apart from the defendant and with mem bers of her own family, and has not cohab ited with tiie defendant." "Wherefore the plaintiff demands judg ment of divoree from the defendant, and that the marriage aforesaid maybe dissolved, and the plaiutilf prays for all proper relief." Ch m'man- & Hammond, Attorneys for Plaintiff". The foregoing was tiled on January 17, 1879. On the same date the defendant waived service of process, and "iu his own proper person"' entered a general denial of plaintiff's allegations. The following day, January is. 1879, the ease was before tiie su perior court in manner and with result shown by the following record: "Josephine F. Barnard vs. Jehiel Barnard —Come now the parties by agreement this cause is submitted to the court for trial, find ing and judgment, and the court having beard the evidence and being fully advised in the premises, finds that the allegations of the plaintiff's complaint are true and that she is entitled to a divoree as prayed for, and the court doth thereupon order, adjudge and decree that the bonds of matrimony aud the marriage contract heretofore entered into and existing betweeu plaintiff and defend ant, be, aud the same are, hereby set aside, annulled and held foi- naught, aud that the said Josephine F. Barnard be, and she is hereby divorced from said Jehiel Barn ard, "It is further considered and adjudged by the court that the defendant pay the costs herein." BtronK. Elliott, Judge. The record shows Chapman A: Hammond to have been Mrs. Barnard's attorneys. Mr. Chapman is dead. .Mr. Upton J. Hammond, surviving in ember of the firm and the one who managed the case, bad just dropped bis valise after a visit to New York as 1 entered bis office. Jl'DOXALn NOT IX TUE CASE. "Who was Mrs. Barnard's attorney in ber Biiit for divorce?" I asked. "I was," answered Mr. Hammond, brush ing dust from bis trousers. "Did Joseph E. McDonald bave any con nection with the case?" "Ob, I see you've been reading tbe news papers. Well, tbe reports tbat connect Sen ator McDonald with that suit are false, I never had any communication with him, di rect or indirect, in reference to the. ease." "Do you know of any circumstances justi fying such report?" * "N'oue, whatever. He was at bis post in tbe United States senate when the divorce proceedings were decided upon and when tiie trial was had." "You see," continued Mr. Hammond, "I had known both Mrs. Barnard and ber hus band. A little over twenty years ago when quite young, I boarded with them. They bad a spare room and, to help Barnard along, she took a friend of mine and myself to board. From that time on I entertained the greatest respect and esteem for her. I knew then, and ever afterwards, of her thrifty management indoors, and of his thrifUessness as a provider. Wh?n I mar ried, my wife and Mrs. Barnard became fast frieuds. She was never a woman to talk of ber husband's weakness, but circumstances forced her to confer with mc at times con cerning bim. For instance, he was short at one time in his account with a Buffalo insur ance company, for which be was agent. The company sent me the claim and ordered prosecution upon failure to collect. Mrs. Barnard gave a chattel mortgage on her piano to save him from trouble. It was while consulting with me concerning* one of his periodic dilemmas that she told me (this was some two years before the application for divorce) that she had not the heart to strug gle longer here, in Indianapolis, and that -iie had concluded to rent her house (a gift from her father) and go to her brother's home, in Washington, D. C, where her son was also, for the time being. I shall not soon forget that conversation. She wept like a child. I trust tbat, as a man born of a woman, what I then saw of a woman's pa tience aud long suffering made me less willing to listen to slanders of one." Mr. Hammond was here interrupted by a client and I left, temporarily, to call on Hon. Braynt K. Elliott, now on the bench of the supreme court of Indiana. In answer to questions, Judge Elliott said: "Yes, I was judge of the superior court and rendered the decree in the suit of Jo sephine Barnard vs. Jehiel Barnard. Senator McDonald did not appear as counsel for the plaintiff, nor was he, so far as I know, at all Interested in that suit. The counsel for the plaintiff were tiie late General Geo. II. Chap man and D. J. Hammond, Esq., gentlemen of high standing in society and in the pro fession. Mr. Hammond bad immediate charge of the case. The evidence adduced proved a cause for divorce under our statutes Beveral reputable witnesses being examined srho testified that Mr: Barnard had failel to make provision for the maintenance of his wile."' A special note just here: Judge Elliott and Mr. Hammond are both I. publicans. in every political contest both are arrayed against Mr. McDonald. But the canards against McDonald do not stop with the falsehood that he was the attor ney in tiie Barnard divorce suit. I read in an insignificant print a week ago that he had "bought his wile from her former husband by paying him a thousand dollars," andhere, in Indianapolis, 1 Have had the same slan der WHISPERED IN HY EAR after a timely conditioning that this was a "graveyard" seer.-t so far as the -whisperer's name was concerned. I am compelled to say, too. that, this disgusting imputation has in each instance, come from a Democrat who expressed a preference for Thomas A. Hen dricks. I do Mr. Hendricks the justice to say reputable friends of his tell him that if present ihe is now in Europe), he would re buke any such slander. I have hunted down thi.- slander, also. Between Senator McDonald's first wife and Mrs. Barnard there existed, uninterruptedly, a cordial friendship. They were the promi nent members of the board of the Indianap olis Orphans' Home and intimate associates. With bin characrcri.stic generosity toward the friends of his family. McDonald listened to Barnard's appeal in December, 187(». for help to save him from criminal prosecution. lie was defaulter for a thousand dollars to the Farmers' Insurance company, of York, IViin. He stated to McDonald that Byron K. Elliott would share the amount requisite togel him out cif the box he was in. With this understanding the senator went his sure ty, to lind, subsequently, that he had been deceived, forjudge Elliott had made no such promise. Concerning this transaction Judge Elliott answers a writtcu question of mine, in writing, as follows: "I know something of Mr. Barnard's hav- Ing procured Senator McDonald to become surety for him. Mr. Barnard had become indebted to an insurance company, of which be was the local agent, for, 1 think he told me. one thousand dollars, and asked me to join Senator McDonald as surety for him. This I declined to do. Mr. Barnard after wards told me that Senator McDonald had kindly assisted him and relieved him from his embarrassment, for which he was very grateful. This occurred some time, but how long I cannot remember, before the applica tion was made by Mrs. Barnard for a di vorce." That indorsement McDonald had to pay at maturity, though Barnard had assured him that he could readily pay it if only allowed the time the indorsement secured to him. Henry Cue Esq., the present local agent of that insurance c puny, has shown me the register of its Indianapolis business. Barnard secured the agency May 1, 1S7<3. It was tak en from him in December of that year and shows him to have been $1,04-8 short. This was more than two years before Mrs. Bar nard's application for divoree. But it was noticed that Barnard, who had been impecunious for years, had money when the divorce was granted. Upton J. Hammond is seen agaiu and states as fol lows: "While residing with her brother's family in Washington iu the autumn of 1876, .Mrs. Barnard occasionally communicated with ine by letter in regard to collecting some old judgments rendered here in her father's fa vor against a man who had subsequently re moved to New York, and was thought to have acquired property there, aud concern ing the taxes for which her house had been soldand which she had been led by her hus band to believe had been paid. She also communicated the fact that her husband was annoying her with complaintsof his financial needs. I then suggested to her that she ought to get a divorce. After considerable hesitation she authorized me to file a petition, but desired me to spare her husband's feel ings so far as I possibly could. Knowing Barnard well, I called on him. He talked opposition, saying if she was divorced from him he would want to go elsewhere and had no money to go on. Subsequently, Mrs. Barnard authorized me to mortgage her house, and from the proceeds to give Bar ard $1,000. The money. $1,800, was bor rowed, December 1878, from the Thames Loan ami Trust company aud through W. W. Herod, his attorney Barnard received from his wife $1,000. Thus Mrs. Barnard manifested, even when separating from him, the kind spirit which had always marked her treatment of him." •lehiel Barnard remarried two months only alter the decree of divorce was recorded. Josephine V. Barnard was remarried two years later, on January 12, 1881, to Mr. Mc- Donald, who had beeu a widower since Feb ruary, 1875. Frank Barnard was in government em ployment at Washington aud the attendant of his mother during her stay there prior to her marriage to Mr. McDonald. His record in Indianapolis is faultless. Since his resi dence at Washington he has married a soci ety favorite there, a neice of General Sher man. it is women's spite wokk. I was invited to dine two days since at the residence of a hading merchant here, whose wife is a favorite in the best society of the city. An opportunity occurring for the questioning. I asked: '-Madam, what is the animus of the social war on Mrs. Mc- Donald*" ''Ah!" answered the lady, whose husband is a Republican : "it is a characteristic Dem ocratic spirit—envy. The leaders of it are of Democratic families." "Are you personally acquainted with her?" "Yes, I have known her well for twenty years. She, Senator McDonald's Iirst wife and myself were quite intimate, and for a long while on the Orphans' Home board to gether. 'What do I think of her?' Why, that she is a very superior woman. I never have discovered a petty point in her charac ter. 1 remember with what delightful patience she endured poverty, laughing and joking over the plain dresses she had to wear and the ingepious devices for making them appear to best advantage. She was entirely devoid of envy of those who could dress bet ter. She was ambitious to stand well and appear nicely, but not at the expense of womanly dignity and honesty. I fully justify her," continued the lady, "and so do all who knew her well, and are not jealous of her, iu procuring the divorce. When, two years later, she wedded Senator McDonhld she did no more than the law sanctioned. But that is what incurred for her the wrath of some women—the erstwhile poor women, whom they had patronized, becoming the wife of so distinguished a man. And since ber husband has been mentioned as presi dential candidate they have been furious. Should Mrs. McDonald become mistress of the White house I fear some of them would fall victims to hysteria." In St. Louis last night, a veterinary sur geon named Carlin, who has been separated from his wife for two months, went to the house other brother, where she was staung, seized her by the hair of the head, and other wise abused her, and tried to shoot her, but his pistol would not go off. He then went into the yard and got the pistol in good order and returned to shoot her, but her brother coming in, interfered, when he was shot in the shoulder. Carlin was then arrested. BURDETTES PROVERBS ADVICE TO TOUXG MEX. "He that dilligently seeketh good, procureth favor; but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come upon him."—Proverbs, xi, 27. Tread softly. See the strong man bowed upon his knees. His pallid brow is pressed against the carpet. Aye, bumble yourself proud man. Prostrate yourself in the dust. Aye, groan. It mav relive your pent up feelings, but it will "not help you to see any better. The strong man rises. What is that which he remarks? He savs it is not under the sofa. But what else "did he say? He says if a man's eyes stood out on the side of his head like his ears a man might look be hind the bureau. But what did he say be fore that? Never you mind what he said be fore that. He did* not say it necessarily for publication, but simply as a guarantee that he was in dead earnest about it and meant what he said. There, be has upset the rock ing chair. Now he has broken a goblet. He stands on the back of a chair to look on the top of the door frame. When the chair falls over with him he says he knew it was not there. He puts his head out at the door and shrieks down tbe hall that be cannot find it. A female voice somewhere down the ball sweetlv beseeches him to speak more softly or he'll sour the milk iu the cellar. Tbe man drops on his knees and crawls about the room on all fours, holding the head low, like a Gordon setter bunting a cold trail. A beautiful child, with soft blue eyes and gold en hair, comes into th'- room, and with a merry, silvery laugh, tries to climb onto the man's back. " Now the child bas gone bowl ing down the hall, and voices of lamentation and oomfort streak the pale air. The man puts on his boots and veils out that some body bas bid it. He tramps across the floor. Suddenly be stops. He stoops. He says; "Ah, there it is!" And so it is. It is his collar button. How did be find it? He stepped upon it. It is not quite so flat as a postage stamp, but is a good deal Hatter than a wafer. Is the man glad because he found his lost collar button ; He is of age, ask him. Did youjever hunt for something you didn't want to find* Peo ple frequently do. No man wants to find a horizontal collar button, nor does the gentle woman who carefully nnd anxiously looks under the bed every night for a man, really want to find the man. she believes there is one there, but she would be greatly disap pointed and surprised to find him. Never look for tilings you do not want to find, my son. It is hard enough to find the things you want. If you do not want to fiud faults in your friends do uot look for them and you will not see them. If you do not want to find your enemies, do not hunt for them. They will hunt for you, my son. And what is worse, they will find you. too. I have known men who passed their lives hunting for things nobody wished to bave discovered and which only make the finder miserable. There are men who can't smell a heliotrope held at their lips, but have a nose tor carrion that would be a fortune to some poor struggling buzzard. He never looks for a good point about any man. He finds the spots on the sun, but sees not one ray of its brightness. A (dear running brook gives him the hydrophobia, and a mud puddle is a reviving a Turkish bath to his mean little soul. If he could go to heaven, which, prais ed be all goodness, he ne.er can, he would be of men the most miserable, because be could fiud no mud to throw at the angels. And when be goes to the other place, which, Indeed he will, he will be happy be cause everybody there will be so mnch bet ter than himself that he can enjoy himself trying to pull them down to bis own level. Don't look for the faults uf your neighbors, my son. Remember, as Shakespeare has said: '•Who steals my purse steals trash, But he who filches my good name Robs me of that 1 never had; And losing which enriches me the more, Bat makes him poor indeed;"' or words to that effect, be the same more or less. Don't look for the traces of evil, nor for any of the rest of the harness. Don't go up and down the world looking for the signs of moral leprosy. "The priest shall not seek for yellow hair." Moreover, dearly beloved, it isu't enough to seek. Sometimes, "though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it." On the western farm, where much of the sum mer time of my life was passed, we bad a dog. There being two or three boys on the farm, we had seven or eight dogs, as a mat ter of fact, but there was one particular dog, with whose tail I desire to point a moral. He was a hunter. Morning after morning, summer and winter, he went forth to hunt. Night after night lie came back home, bis hair full of burs, his feet covered with stone bruises, and bis ears pendent with wood ticks. For seven long years that dog lived on the farm. He gnawed not the bone of idleness, neither was he wise in the conceit of the sluggard, because in all those seven years he hunted all the time, seven days a week. But, alas! like the slothful, he "roast id not that he took in hunting" (Prov. xii., 27). Because be never found anything. Not one single, lone, solitary, lost thing did he find in all those seven years of hunting. Never found a thing. But we kept bim, because we believed, indeed we knew, that the dog's intentions were good. He meant well. Every morning as be went forth, hap py aud confident, he hoped to find some thing and to bring it home with him joyous and triumphant. But be never did. And at last, oue keen, clear, bracing November day, be went down in the ferny glens and lost himseif. We never heard that he died; nobody ever saw him or heard anything of him again; his bark came back no more; be was just lost: he had wrapped the drapery of tbe unknow able about him and joined thelnn.merable caravan of intangible things he bad been hunting for years. The moral of this passage is self-evident. There are. men, even in your circle of ac quaintance, who hunt all their lives and never find anything. They are industrious. patient, hopeful, and yet they never accom plish anything. They take the Congressional Record for its jokes and read the Nation for political instruction. He goes to the minstrel show for amusement and reads the Washing ton papers for news. He goes to a summer boarding house to get cool, and takes a vaca tion that he maj- rest. He goes to the coun try for cream and fresh eggs and keeps a horse to save street car fare. In all this he doeth foolishly. He hunts well enough but not wisely. You must know, my boy, before you go hunting, where to bunt for what you want. You might go deer stalking all over Coney Island for tweuty years and never bring home a pair of branching antlers to hang in the ancestral halls of the flats in which you live. RANDOM SHOTS. I may as well confess that I bave been buuting a great deal in that random happy go lucky way this week myself, and bave done some very wild shooting with a pen that seems to scatter badly, even at its best. Like the young dog that you take out into the field to break for your own shooting, and want to kill a hundred times a day. He chases cats, runs after rabbits, stops and digs in the ground after moles and field mice, and winds up by "setting " a grasshopper. HEREDITART OPINIONS. Wendell Phillips once said that a man un ■ der six feet in height had no business on the public platform. This doctrine ishereditarv with the Boston people. The ancient Athe nians, from whom they are directly descend ed, worshiped form. And it so happens that right in Boston, Mr. Sullivan receives more money for sparring twenty minutes, than Philips Brooks gets for preaching a whole year. Not tbat tbe American people worship brawn and muscle in the rough; oh no, it must be trained. A strong man, who can scrape the mud off the streets or dig a ditch to drain a pond, and thus benefit man kind, is paid §1.50 for ten hours' work, but a man who can pound a fellow creature's face into a pulp in four rounds of 3 minutes each, gets three columns in the daily papers and $8,000 gate money. TRA, LA, LA, LA! Sing me a song," and his fond glance fell on a face of beauty, wonderous fair, and the clustering mass of curls fell over her brow a fountain rare. Seeking her young heart's love to please, ber bright eyes answer ed the glance of his own andlhe white hands swept over tbe ivory keys lightly as the leaves by tbe zephyr blown. The red lips parted— oh, faint and far! Her lover listens and ne'er forgets how she whooped it up on the opening bar and jodled clear through "Sweet Violets." NEVER WORRIED. " Is it possible !" exclaimed the new chap lain, speaking to the worst thief in the peni- tentiary; " are you 52years old? My unfortu nate friend, you don't look 30!" " No," replied the thief, humbly, " I don't show my age, but that is because I take things so easy." And the good chaplain told him tbat was right, that care and worry made men old faster than hard work. OLD SHADT. " What is the 'dark horse' in the presiden tial contest, that the papers are all talking about?" asked Laura, looking up from the Sunday Eagle. A woman always reads the morning paper after supper. "Night mare," grunted Tom, with a hol low groan, for he was doubled all over him self, trimming a pet corn with his favorite razor, and had just made a miscue and sliced the top off the top of a toe two toes away from the corn pasture. ALL FLESH IS GRASS. The Missouri hay crop was a failure, last year, but Kansas City packed 420,000 hogs. Bulwer knew what he was talking about when he made Richelieu say, "The pen is mightier than the_sword." But so also is cheese, for tbat matter. THE PROPER TIME. Yes, young man, yes. I know that. I know that Solomon said, "There is a time to dance." Yes, your interpretation is correct, I think. He probably meant that your time of life is the time when your bead is so much emptier and lighter than your heels that you can't use it for anything under the sun "ex cept a belle buoy. Certainly, my son, cer tainly; run away to the daunce. OUR BEST YOUN'G ME.V. "Wha's all talk 'bout that Texas fellah and this Lasker business!" asked one of our best young men, as be stood with his friends in haling the maddening fumes of the destroy ing cigarette. A long silence followed, which was at length broken by the best young man who makes a living by sucking the head of a cane. After pondering the question fully for a long time, he said: "What Lasker y' talking 'bout? The first youug man was evidenly annoyed by the question. He looked sadly at his toothpick shoes, hoping for some inspiration from them but none came. He sighed heavily, cast an appealing glace toward the well informed best young man, who remained silent, however, and the first speaker re plied: "Same Lasker—fellah that got into trouble with Texas fellah—Doubiltrce, was Texas fellah's name, b'lieved. Some kind of—er ah—trouble, b'lieved." The eyes of all the best young men now turned toward the well informed best young man. He was always looked up to iu politi cal discussions, because he once drew a sal ary In the custom house for doing some thing or other —he had forgotten M'hat it was he did in the custom house, but he did it for several years. In answer to the glances bent upon him in mute, but intelligent Inquiry, the well informed best you man said: "Aw—yaas; I know. I said at the time there'd be trouble. Said when Secretary Steward " "Who's he secretary of?" asked tbe best voung man, whose mother takes iu wash ing. ••Dash if I know," said tbe well informed best young man, after a piinful silence; "some club or othah —I've just forgotten what. Well, I said when Secretary Steward bought Alasker of the Proosians—said then Bismarck make trouble 'bout it some da}-, 'n so he has." "Wha'd he buy it for?" asked tbe best young man, who generously allows his sister, who teaches school, nearly one-half of ber salary. "Don' know," said tbe well informed best young man. "'Spect wanted to build on it, or—or —or something," he added, with a sudden gleam of knowledge that dazzled him. "Wha's Texas fellah got to do with it?" asked the best young man, who used to assist at the ribbon counter. "Why," explained the well informed best young man, "Texas fellah's something to do With government; he's land commissioner, I b'lieve; something 'f that kind; he's in with government some way, anyhow. Name's Oglesby, Texas fellah's name is. Has some some interest iu Alasker, reckoned." And the best young men wandered on to a place, that sold scented cigarettes, marveling greatly at the breadth and and depth of the knowledge of the well informed young man. Still, it isu't every young man who could en joy that young man's opportunities. But these are stirring times, and when we reflect that by and by the youth of to-day must man and guide the ship of state it is very gratify ing to see our best young men taking an ac tive interest in politics. Robert J. Buudette. Ardmore, March 21. OUR COUNTRY^ DEFENDERS Generals Who Fought in the "Four Years' War." ' "Can I see General Hancock to-day?" was the query addressed by the writer to the non commissioned officer who has charge of the Governor's Island ferry bouse at the foot of Whitehall street. "The general is not in good health, and be is not receiving many visitors nowadays," was tbe reply; "but perhaps be will 6ee you if you go to his house." "Can I not find bim in the office at head quarters." "I think you will be more likely to catch him at home. He is not able to spend much of his time in his office, and bis family will not permit him to leave his house any more thau is absolutely necessary." Stepping aboard tbe little ferry boat, the visitor was soon conveyed to Governor's Is land. Walking up the path that leads to tbe general's residence, he noticed that there were a few changes in tbe landscape since the days of the last presidential campaign, when the island was the favorite resort of multitudes of the friends and admirers of the Democratic candidate. Old Turk, the gene ral's favorite dog, was nowhere to be seen. Turk is dead, and the remains ofthe gigantic specimen of the St. Bernard breed are en tombed under the shade of the walls of Fort Columbus. General Hancock's bouse is a comfortable but not luxurious abode. Everything in and about the bouse is plain—more of the useful than oramcntal pattern. The visitor was ushered into Hie general's presence. The general was sitting in a large easy chair. He did not look as much of an invalid as some recent statements in the newspapers bave led the public to believe him to be. As a matter of fact he has near 7 ly recovered from bis physical trouble, and all'be needs is rest and time to recover bis full strength again. As one of his friends remarked: "There are many years of service for bis country still remaining for General Hancock." The general is no egotist. Itis seldom that he talks of his own military achievements, and he never utters criticisms on tbe conduct of tbe men who were associa ted with him in suppressing the great rebel lion. "Twenty years ago we were in the midst of the war," be remarked. "At that time the rebellion had been in progress two years, and two years of bard fighting yet remainedto be done. How quicklythetime has passed since the close of the war! It seems but yesterday that General Lee surrendered to 'General Grant. And through what changes we bave passed! Tbe country has recuperated from the immense drain upon her resources, and to-day we are a happy and prosperous nation." There was a tremor in the general's voice as be recalled the names of the old war gen erals who have passed from this life. Gen eral Thomas sleeps beneath a splendid mon ument in the beautiful Oakwood cemetery at Troy, N. Y. When he was removed to Oak wood, in 1805, his remains were accompanied to tbe place of burial by an immense con course of citizens, and there were present a large number of military men from all parts of tbe country. The roll of the dead gen erals includes Meade, Hooker, Garfield, Kil patrick, Burnside and Halleck. General Grant, who was the central military figure during the latter portion of the war, is now 64 years of age. He is frequently seen In Wall and Broad streets. The same sphinx-like expression for which he was noted twenty years ago is still upon his face, and he takes the same consolation from the smoking of a good cigar as he did of yore. His business office is upon the sixth floor of the tall building which stands on the northeast corner of Wall street and Broadway. He is, as is well known, deeply interested in the develop ment of railroad enterprises In Mexico and the southwestern portion of the United States. The prevailing impression among down-town business men is that General Grant is immensely wealthy, but one of his friends recently remarked of him: "He is not as rich as some people think him to be." One of the general's sons, Colonel Grant, has made considerable success as a broker. His office is in the same building with that of his father, but instead of being away up in the sixth story, is ou the ground floor. General Grant enjoys the best of health and bids fair to live to a ripe old age. General Sherman, whose age is sixty-four, seems much older than Grant. He appears as venerable as a man of eighty, but his figure is erect and as straight as a gun-bar rel. General Sheridan, who was only thirty years of age when he was made a major general, has just passed his fifty-second birth day. He is in fair health, and an efficient commander of the army—useful in peace as well as in time of war. Poor Fitz John Por ter, who has been regarded by his friends as one of the worst-abused men who ever fought for his country, does not enjoy good health. He stoops when he walks, and" his hair is as white as the driven snow. During a portion of the war no general's name was more prominently before the pub lic than that of General George B. McClel lan. He was an officer of undoubted energy and ability, but he had to contend with un fortuitous circumstances. After the war. and until recently, he took an active part in politics. He is now able to spend the re mainder of his days, if he so desires, in ease and well-earned enjoyment. A correspondent of a provincial paper has described him as ''rich, rotuud and round shouldered, with the activity of his life over." Gem rals Pleasanton and Roseerans reside Washington. Generals Hawley, Logan and Slocum are still in politics and serving the country iu a civil Instead of a military capacity." The same correspondent also writes: "Sickles is a Ne.v York lawyer. Stoneman is governor of California. Double day is in New York writing a book. Hum phreys, Hunterand Crittenden, ou the retired list in Washington. Fremont, no longer rich, lives in New York. McDowell is on the retired list. Buell is in business in Ken tucky. Banks is United States marshal. Han cock. Schofield and Pope arc major generals in the army, and Howard a brigadier. Scho- Beldsucceeds Sheridan in his late command. Gilmore, Parke and Wei—el arc in charge of lighthouses and fortifications. Gtierson is cimimanding a colored regiment in Tex as." The writer of the above is slightly in error in regard to the residence of General Fre mont. Instead of living in this city, Gener al Fremont resides on States Island. He is indeed in somewhat pinched circumstances financially. Senator C. L. Mai-Arthur, of Troy, recently wrote of General Fremont: "He is one of those kind of men who can not keep riches, and is bound to be poor periodically, no matter how much fortune favors him. He has had opportunities to be the richest man in the United States. The vast Mariposa estate properly handled would have made him worth double the wealth of the richest Vanderbilt. Trciior W. 1'ark paid Fremont out of the Mariposa estate^ 1,750.00b in a single payment, aud yet Fremont man aged to get rid of it all within a year, and then became again impecunious. Trenor W, Park went to California a poor boy, but died worth probably $10,000,000 or $12,000, 000. Fremont, in the Mariposa estate and in other things, had such opportunities of wealth as no other American ever had. And yet. sad to say, he is destiued to die a poor man."' '•Wootluntil. Spare That Tree." It is a pity to raise such a question, but is "Woodman Spare that Tree," the poem up on which the reputation of George P. Morris largely depends, a plagiarism- Did Mr. Morris know auy more Chinese than he found on tea chests* Didhe know the lovely ode "Kan-tang?" This ode can be found among tbe odes and songs collected bv Wan Wang and Duke Chan at the beginning of tbe Chan dynasty (B. C. 1126). The dates of this collection, say Dr. Wells Williams, in his great book on "The Middle Kingdom," extend from B. C. 1719 to not later than B. C. 585. There is no telling how a Chinese compiler could include iu his collection in I}. C. 1129 a poem not perhaps composed till centuries after, but it is enough to say that Mr. Williams refers the ode "Kang-tang," or "The Sweet Pear Tree," to the time of Wan Wang, a contemporary of Saul. Here it is: 1. Oh. fell not that sweet pear tree : bee how its branches spread. Spoil not its shade, For Shao's chief laid Beneath it his weary head. 2. Oh, clip not that sweet pear tree ! Each twig and leaflet spare— 'Tie sacred DOW, Since the Lord of Shao, When weary, rested there. 3. Oh, touch not that sweet pear tree I Bend not a twig of it now; There long _JO, As the stories show, Oft halted the chief of Shao. What is this but the Chinese way of saying: Woodman, spare that tree: Touch not a single bough, In yonth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. —Harper's for April. ' London Guiltl Dinners. The court dinners of the leading guilds— the Mercers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Gold smiths, Merchant Tailors, Clothworkers—are marvels of splendor and taste. Prepared with the highest art, they are served in the finest style. An air of stillness and repose breathes through the banqueting ball; the guest is made to feel, for the time, at all events, that rich meats and rare wines are the end anil purpose of existence; and in the utter absence of haste and other distrac tions he gives himself wholly and deliberate ly to the solid pleasures of the banquet. In all tbe surroundings there is found an apt and subtle harmony with the occasion : thi eve turns from the wealth of flowers and the heaped up fruit to tbe quaint and beautiful plate which loads the table, the massy drink ing cups, the twisted vases, the candlesticks, the gold and siiver salvers, the ewers; and leaving these, dwells on the rare oaken carv ings and mouldings of the hall, the crests, mottoes aud devices with which the walla are frescoed, and the silken banners floating overhead. Queer old customs abound in these ancient balls, which are nowhere else met with in perfection—the drinking in solemn silence to the memory of some founder or benefactor, and the elaborate ceremony of tbe loving cup. The music, playing overhead or in an antechamber, is just sutlicieutly emphasized to permit one to talk or keep silence, as it pleases him. On rare occasions there is presented to each guest at the close of the feast a gilded and quilted satin casket stuffed with choicest sweetmeats, and until very recently it was tbe practice occasionally to bestow a parting gift of even more tangible value. Tbe hos pitality of the city guilds is world famed. They have entcrtainee princes, statesmen, men of letters, art and seience, and tbey number all of these on the roll of their bon oiary members. Tbey have compassed tbe globe in their extravagant liberality; and at one time or another have, in tbe most literal sense of the words, kept open house for all the world. Time. Jtrs. Langtry's Washington "JfasJi" During Mrs. Langtry's engagement in Washington, Congressman Belford, of Col orado, went to witness one of her dramatic performances, and after the play this gifted rhetorician declared that the actress was by all odds the handsomest woman that trod the American continent. After she returned to New York, Mrs. Langtry sent Mr, Belford a magnificent medallion portrait of herself in closed in an elaborate velvet case studded with diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies, and accompanied by a letter in which the fair lady expressed the conviction that Mr. Belford's remark was the highest compli ment she had ever had paid her. Then she ! asked Mr. Belford if he would kindly send her a lock of his hair, to be placed in an al- ' bum devoted to capillary mementos contrib- I uted by her most notable friends—the Prince of Wales, Gladstone, Dilke, Aylesbury, Lor- j ne, Bradlaugh, Bright, Spencer, Mill and other eminent personages. Of course, Mr. Belford had to comply with the request and the tuft of bright red Colorado hair was remitted to Mrs. Langtry, with a febeitous quotation culled from Pretonius : Arbiter, Mr. Belford's favorite Latin author, and signed with Mr. Belford's full name and numerous tittles in a bold strong hand. 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