| Show A SENATORS SCRAP BOOKS A Poop Into John Sherman Workshop and a Look at Ills I Collodion of Speeches uiicl Scrap = = Jill LUrtry of tjeoo tafshws and I fa 1atHU Booti lit lib myth mut SlaNt Ut CUtiici lllt J ttf I ti fi Caress and law lit rrtftrtt Tktm IHt firs Xfftt S0 i IMt AI Ir Dutli nt huttatn of Hit Ntrtt d KtmMuaut if tit KmuuNAmk TrnMt Caglni and Gut SoMtlha lit JtiteftJ 11111 MMUM an KU > iietHt flnl p Ales m = = = zt awe l Mrwreoarer NOM Nswa WAIHINOTON Match 15 11911 I spent an seining I recently In looking over the scrap book oIa United States senator In them I found a large l pttt of the history of the United Slates for the last thirtyeight inn They coy ered the whole of the melting six jwr iMfor the wr They embraced spec ha intenrlew ami stories fathered fath-ered at Washington tilt lime of the I greet rebellion They covered Itoys I of rtconttrutllon and coming cm down told the story of one noted mn life i as It run In and out affecting the leading lead-ing evtol of our history from that time to tM They were the Imoka of Senator John Sherman member of Congrew Senator of the United Slate Secretary btlheTrejwury r pteddtoltal candidate and famous financier MHATOK IIEKHAKK NKW iioiii It U I Interesting lo study the intellec Suet life of it public man It Is I store Interettlns when the nun lute for thirty eight yarn been at the head of affairs ol a treat nation and It It I most Interesting Inter-esting when the man loan 10 decided a mental Individuality as John Sherman 1 Ohio You can pt some Idea of him lie I live I bye peep I Into hlf workshop f loU know In hU new while Hone man I i lion facing Kranklln Square lll house Hands on doe site of the old brick which w built when this famous pork was I little more than a cow pasture and alien he wan Hill a poor member of ConxreM Ilie I present house is I about I filly feet Ironl and It Is I maulve and I beautiful hi wall are thick enough to outlast the age You could drive a i t wagon load of hay up the wide stone step solicit lead to In front door without I with-out brushing the railing at the sides and the 1 lull In which you enter la ao wide that the union could almoat turn around In It Tlie vestibule I with In tiled I lloor U seen through lone doors 1 of thick I pUlf ctau I the tnlld pans of 1 hide rash with only n narrow binding of wood from floor lo ceiling and by I pre oing mi electric I i button the Inner iloort open and you find yourself In one of the mutt lundtome and most char aclrrlitlc of the o new house < of Wa < h legion You are truck Kith the genuine MIA ol everything All about you It I solid miulve beautiful and real There I 11 no varnhh or veneering Th WOOl work aelcctcd from the tmeit of Ulilo 1 hens U beautifully carved and U toss the 1 pollah of rt a plino The bran future fu-ture which hunch the light ole trulIg and firm and great globe oropateKcnt glaM the use of a wash 1ln 1 tiller Ole electric rays 10 that they meet your eyes with I a soil lloli light I At tY the I night tide of you it mho Senator library At the left Ina great parlor and back of these Is I one of the finest dining I rooms In Waihlngton Ironi lion rear ot the lull wide stairs wind their way about walls lined with picture to the second floor I and the ellect ol the arrangement give the Idea of abundance ol room BBNATOR miUKMAN1 LIUKARV The Senators library ou this drat H floor Is I I judge at least tuenly I five peel long and about twenty feel in width It Is walled with books and 1 It represents the accumulation of a lifetime Senator Sherman ban been n book buyer from Ida boyhood lie once told me that he began lo buy books when he woes boy of fouiteen carrying I it rod and chain In a surveying catty on lion Mu kin I mono canal He I lias now all told about 1 5uoo volumes and among these are many fine editions lie I like l good type good paper and good binding and hits tools embrace nearly every branch literature Allot the famous novelists have place on his shehes del ho finds a part of his Intellectual 1 rest In novel reading lie hae d lust finished I 1 nl the Trlnce of r India 1 Gen Lew Wallace last novel and he tIa crlbcs the t story as one of absorbing Interest tt abounding beautiful description I descrip-tion Ill 1 Is fond ol Dickens and I Scott and he keep himself I thoroughly I versed In thou magailne literature 1 of the day I I lets n scientific student Oa well and a large part of his calm are filled u Ith scientific woikl He in l up In biology and astronomy and one of the last books he IMI I read Is I the New Astronomy Astron-omy by 1rof Langley the head of tll liaio the Smithsonian i Institution He U a reader of French and Ueiman as well as English unit among hU volumes I noted the Iliad and man of the elastics His library of financUl r authorities I It large I and he has c > er > thine worth owning which relates to the history of this country In the back of the library there boa great vault where hit private I Jtllr paper are kept and here U I ell packed away the correspondence of hi luelime He ha been keeping his letter since lie was fifteen r and ever > thlngof talon tl lose been aed I This I vault I of picked full of unwritten history and tneie U I scarcely a prominent man In the world today who has not written something that latrcuiired In collection Among others there are about score 01 volumes vol-umes of autographs each as big as a t dictionary and these contain perioiiil letters I hole all sort of distin belied j people floe Senators acquaintance has been very wide and his friendship embrace the prominent men of nearly every country and they have extended over more than a generation The most lttl of these letters will I never be puhlisvd I A number of them are personal and private and some of the most InterestIng Interest-Ing relate to the Senator and his family Those brtueen him and bin brother I have been partially published They covered you know the lime lrolll Gon Iltormon enlraoce to blest Iolnl to thai of his death and they some hen by the I Senator I lo the general I family Ihnrlly after lint They form a most valuable addition to the history of thh country and have added to the icpuu ion of Sherman the HtaMman I as a cll iII i-II Sherman HIMOM A rvATOi iv < IRI uar It it In tW library that John Slit rman rev ivc hi fntd I soot rny lied him It ham almc t any venlui and thus silo red tape In celling In llm lieu i e charming < nvenalJooatlitcan talk In lereulntly on almcxi any subject and b I not luckwsrd In saying what he think Ai you sit with him In this rorxn surrounded by his 1 hooks you would Imagine him more of a leisurely I student than a hard working statesman and for the time you would be right The real work of his day h I not done on thl floor He has a workshop Miner than his library at the head of tie C stairs and II U In this that he write hu speeches dictate lib tellers and rises the really hard labor of his life Helm I I a nlmilar den at Mansnekl Ohio and It U I In these room thai the ordinary caller seldom goes It Is here fiat his scrap books are kept and here you lint many rr ul of the books which would I be out ot place on the ground floor The work hop of Senator Sherman Is hung with the photographs of the moan statesmen states-men with wlium he has been associated Ireildent Hayes Chief Juillce Chase and other great Ohloant look down upon you frnm Iheso walls honk case stand under these and government reports re-ports and financial nulhuritirs sun at you from every aide 1 Une set of shelves It I filled with books labeled 1 Speeches Con tea them area score and more of these and each ol the books Is as large en a famllt Ilihle or the I argest ledger yon have ever seen Thou are scrap books m which are I tailed the speeches and I addrewe 1 hlch Senator Sherman has I delivered during the last thirtyp5ht yean They d Titheroand are bound In green leather and ar made of heavy nunllU taper The speeches are patted only on one side ol huge and they Include In alt thousand thou-sand of pages of closelyprinted mat tir OliN aillHUANll Close nlIKCII lere I In olume first Ia i John Shermani first Breech In Congress delivered when Frank Tierce was Iresldent and as I look at It 1 remember a story which the Senator 1 told Oe about lal It lie said II I was In the Kansas Nebraska debate and a number of other young Congressmen had just made their first speeches I I sat neat to an old Congressman named Day who rather despised sophomoric oratory He I was slightly deal and he would listen lo these young men with Ins hand at his ear and the moment one of them had finished he would say with a grunt of satisfaction Another dead If i 1 cork In the pit At last I saw where I thought I could nuke good point I I jumped to my feet got the speakers eye and said my say When I was through I sat down beside the old nun and I said Here t is another I dead I cock In thin pit Mr Day llul Day replledNo I my young friend I dont think it I < rIo so bad aa that with you and I hIV h-IV me to understand 1 had another chance for my life Ironi that time to this Senator Sherman luis I been making sKechea and these volumes contain nearly every word he has uttered in public J I le h not as fond of speaking l now as 1n the past and lie sal J the I other I day that he thought he mint be gelLing gel-Ling old and bay He seldom tribe out Ids speeches and I prefer lo rely Uton the inspiration of thin moment bar Ihe work Uf all the speech which he has delivered he say that lilt Impromptu Im-promptu and eiteinporaueous speeches 1 Ive satisfied him best TiiounANm or NKwarAPKK SC AM In another case are the volume of Senator Shermans newsiiier scrap These till several helve and they are made up of newspaper comment storleiand Intertlewi about and with Senator Sherman In them yelt find hundred ol editorials some praising and many condemning here are three columns on every page and the page number tluiuannds During the past decade Iheae newsiuper cliq > lngs c rl il hate been Illustrated and the picture which have has published ol Sherman might be taken at random fare photograph photo-graph gallery I ol freak fhey look JuI just about aa much like him Many ol them love been made by chalk I artists 1 tr and Oboe cartoons cf Thomas Nash and of Puck and judge are numerous home of these ankles concerning Slier nun are In I the form of frof I Inre Is I one which was published at the time that Sherman was a candidate fur Ihe presldentnl 1 noniln vtion It mien lo tint as nn Icicle and It 1 entitled joaii uriNioK Tliiy nit him hard and stolid sad say hit L Is odd And that hs only 1 outs la lieu lU dial ol giJii Obi Illlti do her knew how abut aad warm a bssn may bf Which burs heel semis basso oDd aapU hf to Me lit hued sad celdl John Shermaal Why the aua U has a child to tbs who kaov ad km Mm IMS Had amasses oDd ralM A ma whom Booty esanot buy Mr newer nor laniKaca soy IJ ku no luiljmnl d > if 1 scald atasd Is I old John AwmaaV shoes Ai aay rait I waal to Un Hit dghlera tlghtycet Aad tnui IU t Una throw up my hal asd Moat lor IUMU John And U hem then IIiovch lusts may growl and piobtlales Ms HI 11 W the blaies Prsulkns Wms bans aleted 1 rat JOHN IHEKMANI OUKIA In one volume I And a number ol clip tings about Sherman and the bloody shirt and in 1880 Iheie was great talk ol a duel between Sherman and Wade lampion I Sherman had clurged lamp I ton with hoeing connected with Ole I ku L xWI and had given evidence lo t show Hut he was correct Wade Haiiptou did not try lo controveit the evidence ly I i1IIlh but he samhed himsell by sending the folUmlng lelteruhlch he thought would bring Sherman to n duel CiiARiprrBviLLKVa > October i Hon 1 John Sherman Sir As you do not disclaim bite language lan-guage to which 1 have called your attention atten-tion I have tnuiy to say that m using It you uttered what you knew lo be aluo lulely faUe My addreaa will Columbia Colum-bia h C cI 1 am jour olwdtini scr mi WAUB KAMI ION In rrply to Ohms Sherman rein > rain Iu ststemniK md pulihslied Ilimpton lolicrlull the rulI a that H mivn w 11 laush d at all OUT tin country hhprnln can mu II IICrr R duty i I I x utii1 I 114111 t t oj I + i fh wIn w-In 1 tun I I t naling II list named llnxht 1 Id I that one of hit Utfiiimu w tO i < Sherman11 l r rk 0 hut It was report + n1 the next day t I I i e npar h m m 1 t Inn of privilege II I n I > h i i i n u i lid the remark ami li I lout i 0 I i l d < the gentleman who M I 11 0a ich a condition drunk i that I > now whit he wa saying l n i u I oh h Wright looked I YIf h m m M iih I and Hherraan picked a bun of wif r < owl threw It In Wrights laci II i In I it then tried to draw I a pistol hill the other members Congrew rather Iuund him and prevented him from itng The nftalr created such a ecnsr i thai Ihe Mouse adjourned livery utie ex pectml a duel imf Sherman ww r sled spun by one oil soutotrn mem i rs and asked what he apectcd to lo Sherman replied thai he wai not a duel hat hilt that he would repel any physic il I niiuc upon him with inierfi lj Ida I good shot and he 1 soya that hn never bit loler li1 Ids life than he iid the next marring when lie walked uu lo the Capitol with a phlol 1 In his pocket lie had nude up his mind that If Wright AIproaoh him In lIch a mangier Oslo hueufy It chit he would hot hm dd 110 I took a friend wit i him and wm out to > hoe Capitol lie did not see Wrignt mil Mi return trip Ai he waked down the steps lu go home Wright came out and wdeJdowi on the opposite op-posite side The two passed 1 around the Ijunialn l which then stood In lassos of the Capitol Each s man had a colleague col-league with him and Sherman eapecled rrhth n11h rrht J = eT Wright to shoot He had his hand on his pistol and he looked Wright the V ready to rnlte 1 the pistol and hoot blur it he made any demonstration of jttack Uright however ssw that Sherman meant huslnns and he walked on past without doing anything Senator Sherman charged a man with lying In one of hit speeches In the Senate last loll The man was an author who hail mI I simir charge regarding the Senile and > lIver and Sherman publicly charged him with being a liar A ns NATO Or sass a It was generally known that John Sherman wanled to go into the army He raised a brigade Manaheld Ohio and he had two regiments of infantry n battery of artillery and a < Uadion of cavalry completely olhcered l manned nod equlppetl there He had I I been at the haul of Hull Kun and went to Mansfield to raise three troupe inlpiid log lo lead them lobo the war but on hh return lo Waihlnglon he was persuaded per-suaded to stay In Congn There Is no doubt liowc er but wlmt Sherman had plenty of morns He showed this fintln this Kan atNe i > rail < t Investigation Kunsas was at t e tort tilled with ruffians and r the cummlllei of Coneres which wi m out ihirewnc again and again threatened with I de ith The Senator hit told me that Ihr would often rind I a picture of a collin over which was a skull and cross lanes on the door of Ihe room when they came In the morning lo open their section and below this picture would be u warning for them to leave the terriior t One nfAr taya Senator Snerman w man entered Ilie room and began to swear at the committee He abused w In the most profane manner and he was evidently r spoiling I for a fight We had S a stenographer with I us and as vim as Ihe nun began lo talk 1 made a nmllm to i him to take down his words He did ao and after the rullian had gone on for about ten minutes I called a hall and la told him that he had 1c 1 nude hliimll 1 liable to arrest thereupon I asked him if he knew what he had been Mylna and 1 called upon the stenographer to read his notes Short hand was Own unknown In the west and as the man heard his enact words repeated his Jaw J fell his face paled analro he asked the amamientta to lei him lee the taper Itwasthowntohlm He looked I at It for a moment and tlwn frantically tear r dug al his hair rd Kctslmed I J Snake by God and rushed from the room We did not see him again during the Investigation IIOH TOM WINO TOOK Cl HIY I once asked Senator Sherman whether It war line that he once came near having Ken Shermans place and of going to West Point He replied rfhl th No 1 think not When my lather died he left you know a family of eleven children the l oldest of whom was eighteen eigh-teen years snob the youngest sic weeks He did not leave a large amount of properly and some of Ihe children were taken by our relative and the general lb ioh wss adopted by the lion Thomas Ewing who was u great friend of the family and 1 who lived near us Mr Iwliig cam to my mother and told ho r Hat he would like very much la adopt one ol her hops II she would permit him but tliat t he wanted Ihe amarlest ot the lout As the story goes my mother I rlih You had better take Cumnyhu I Is the smartest As for r John I think he Is I too young to leave nit And so Cumpy was adopted by Mr I having a IIJ l by him lent lo Weal Iolnt 1KANk G CAKMINrllX |
