Show A FAMOUS LAWYER willom WiH lom maxwell evarts now liv inu in retirement ills ilia great victories in politics politic 8 and law some of the great t delivered by the veteran opinions worth a fortune william 11 evarts is living in most complete retirement in ills his quaint old mansion anion yn near bramer Or amery w park earlc new york lie ile resolutely refuses refuse to discuss public men or eve events rits and it il is s slid silca lid he cares biffle how the cicat political battles ales wn wage e except so far as tile fires fire of P post ambition now and again smolder into flame then howish he wishes os the success eess of the party to which lie he gave the best ambitions of ill his life lilt but as far a as this world knows tile the old dal bat 1 d I eagle lias ila fought ills his last fight and now rests content upon his arins anno waiting for the alic victories of a lif life e that is not of the world of men inen A lay day with william 1 illaN maxwell voll 14 aarts in his stately old in mansion anion near gramercy square would be something never to bo be forgotten but is a privilege the old campaigner will N ill not readily 0 0 accord even hi hn friends friend A recent visitor describes him seated in thy tho park in hn his liand hand he hasa has a cane ile he makes marks in the sand with the stick lie ile looks about there is a strange pallor on ill liis face it is a face too aich N once con en can never bo be forgotten it is the face of a born leader among men time in aging the face may have stolen an a ay some of the fierceness of the countenance but even today to day with thelong the lodgment of the snows of many wint kwintera cr in in his hair with b his s form forin shrunken so that it no longer fills the ion long el old time tin c frock coat there is in the hird hard lines line of the face the conscious pov er to wield and manage men inen caesar had that im imperious cerious look no doubt napoleon had it no doubt luther had it no doubt so did washington 0 and so has this old man casar a and rid bonaparte v ere small dinall men too like this one some children are pla playing yinT near the flo flowers Nors they romp noar near the strangers sti angers seat beat I 1 lie takes one of them on liis his knee and tt talks afflis to ala the child like sjma me good grandfather it is a pleasant picture the children run and play the old man looks fondly after them lie sits in the park until the sun hii grows disagreeably hot then he goes 14 WILLIAM WILLIAIM 31 ATELL EVARTS slowly home arrain again 0 carefully closing the big doors door of the rambling mansion behind himas him as he disappears from public view when he was a stripling n of twenty three his learning and a acumen arnen was such that he was consulted by the older heads there ire arc many of mr evarts friends in wall street his lav offices have hare been there for many years they tell about tho the mans great victories iu in politics and law allow everts evarts proceeded against the cleopatra filibusters in 1851 18 1 l how ha nominated for pres president dent how he ran against n greeley for the senate in 1801 how ho he established the right of the united states in times of war to treat captured vessels as maritime prizes how lie ho proved in a great lawsuit lav suit the tha unconstitutionality of the act taxi taking jarr government bonds how lie he defended president johnson in the impeachment trial before the senate in 1818 how low lie ho adi adjusted list et tho the alabama claims at geneva how lie he def defended ended henry ward beecher in the celebrated trial of seventeen years ago liow how ho he advocated tho the claims of the republican p ican party before the electoral commission in 1877 how ho he was secretary of I 1 staw state under ilayev how lie was delegate to the monetary tary congress at paris in 1581 how ho he served in the senate in 1885 how lie delivered the eulogy c on chief justice chase in 1873 1870 the centon centennial oration in spec poe li he 3 at the webster atsuo and nt it the tact sac tetuo of liberty griven by 11 rance to A merica america lie ile has been known to have re revived bivel as high as to arl for n l opinion opi aion ile he used t be the hlll ot alie richest corporations in will case basea in iii evolving n tao his a ivice alvice ila has always been sought tile the famous case in in the family of the widow of Pro provident 1 1 clr choin s what evarts has done in this line of pia pi a |