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Show GENERAL SHERMAN IN WASHINGTON. WASH-INGTON. ; . In army eircles, of course, General Sherman leads; but General Sherman says, with less good sense than usual, that his family cannot live in Wash-, ington on $13,500 a year. Yet General Gen-eral Sherman and his family are sociable, delightful people, whom one goes to Bee for their own sakes, and not for tho table they spread or the music they furnish. Mrs. Sherman, through her husband's position and her own christian character, is certainly cer-tainly one to set a noble example to other women; and what ahould she do better than live on her husband's income in Washington or any other place, no matter what that income was. An obscure congressman's wife, who must be extravagant, because Biie cannot ha anything else, has some excuse, but not so with the lady in question, who is an honor to her sex and faith. This outcry against Washington expenses is foolish, because be-cause it lies within the power of those who lament it to curtail it, and when one seea people like the Shermans deferring to what might bo described as the Belknappery ol Washington society, its redemption seams, indeed, hopeless. |