Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 April 1898 — Page 6

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SHOTS AT SENATORS.

A CAMERA FIEND AT LARGE IN THE CAPITOL.

fiTe Snaps Mtny Picturesque Cbaneten, Ineladlng the Sardonic Vest, the Antlqaarian Hoar, the Smiling: Lindsay and the Crisp and Frostjr Chandler.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASEKfGTorr, April 4.—There is

wealth of picturesque material running to waste in the senate. Unlike the house of representatives, with its crowded seats and aisles, the more dignified body is divisible into its individual units. Each personality utands one a well ronnded and isolated whole, with, as the artists say, an atmosphere and a perspective particnlarly bis own.

If I were asked to name the most picturesque personage in the senate chamber, I should be at loss for an answer, not from lack of material, but from the abundance of it. One of the smallest men of this body is Senator Vest of Missouri, bnt he is at the same time one most frequently pointed out to visitors, not from his commanding presence nor from his frequent bursts of oratory, but because he is absolutely unique as a personality. As he sits in his seat, apparently inattentive to the proceedings around bim, bunched up like a frog on a log, engaged perhaps iu the performance of some minor detail of his toilet, in which he is assisted by a large and tobacco stained jackknife, he seems oblivious to everything at a lesser altitude tban the moon. But suddenly something arrests his attention. He draws hiB diminutive figure out from beneath his desk, into which it has sunken during his unconscious absorption, and leaps to bis feet. In a clear, high pitched voice he addresses the ocoupaut of the vice president's cbair and proceeds to demolish tbe pet theories or arguments of an opponent with a pitiless logio and a wealth of imagery which show that he not only has paid the keenest attention to what was going on, but that he also is equipped fur a fight.

Although one of the most sarcastio and vituperative men in this chamber on occasion, still there is something whimsically humorous in Senabpr Vest's expression which leads me to imagine bim 0110 of tho most oompauionable of men in social life.

Senator Hoar.

A direct opposite to him, and one whom he used to provoke to frequent

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and poppery rejoinder in the times that are past, when the "bloody shirt" occasionally waved, is Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. Like the senator from Missouri, ho has been so long here that anything about oithor is likely to savor of triteness, yet there are some points about both that may have escaped observation. Senator Hoar is a keon lawyer, or rather I should say a learned advocate, and is also a diligent student of history. At home ho is a prominent member of the American Antiquarian society of "Worcester, liis native oity, and takes especial delight in its meetings and proceedings. And, by the way, this sooioty is one of the most celebrated among antiquarians and archaeologists and has contributed an immense amount of information to the garnered treasures of the world.

Senator Hoar has one of those youthful faces that betray by their lines no trace of tho passiug over them of tbe hand of tiiuo, Ho is one of those who never tiro in the acquisition of information.

His publio spirit and his persistence in ferreting out odd items of information and works of art cannot be better shown than by mention of his latest gift to tho library of congress of the very rare engraving executed in commemoration of tho treaty between France and America fn 1801. It is said to be the only ono in existence, in fact, and for years tho senator has been searching for it, as it shows that France, at that time at enmity with every other nation in the world almtiet, was not only at peaoe with us, but once in close alliance.

Senator Ltndsajr.

It is always a delight to visit the senate and gaxe into tbe honest face of {Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, for it is usually adorned with an expansive and paternal smile. Senator Lindsay to one of the old school gentlemen who dress immaoulately and believe the good things of life were created for the "elect." to which they themselves be

long.

He is now 63 years of age, portly and handsome, and, except for a small flurry among his constituents a little while ago. apparently at p^ace with all the world. He served all through the war on tbe Confederate side and was finally paroled as a prisoner of war at Columbus,

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going home, owing to a difference of opinion on the financial question. The legislature had it that he bad "gone back" on his pledged assurances, but the senator in a neat speech some time ago promptly refuted all tbe charges his would be enemies brought against bim. At any rate, he proposed to stick to tbe senate, which he declared good enough for him, and stick he did and does. Still he was a good deal exercised over tbe performances, and it was about that time that I saw him one day walking slowly and thoughtfully up the winding path to the capitol. He was as

SENATOR LINDSAY. SAD AND SOLEMN.

oarefully dressed ae usual in long frook coat and silk bat, carrying in one hand a cane and in the other a roll of manuscript which proved to be the speech with which be relieved his mind.

Having my camera with me, I took the liberty of "shooting him on the spot," and I fancy I secured the only picture of Senator Liudsay which presents him without his beautiful smile. His mien was sad and solemn then, but a few days later I had the good fortune to secure another photograph, which shows him jocund and happy once again and pacing the marble flags with his accustomed alacrity.

Senator Chandler.

Another most interesting figure is the Hon. William Eaton Chandler of New Hampshire, who has now been in the senate 11 years and who knows all the ins and outs of legislative proceedings if any one in the country does. He had fame already when elected to thiB high position, having been solicitor and judge advocate general of the navy and secretary of the navy under Arthur.

He is one of tbe few, the immortal ones, whose names adorn the region around the pole, as it was during his administration of the navy that the brave Greely was rescued, and the latter pays deserved tribute to his energy and generosity in fitting out tbe rescuing expedition. It may be from tbe consciousness that his name was bestowed upon an inlet of the Greenland coast not far south of the "farthest north" that gives him tbe gelid, even frigid, smile which he allows only occasionally to flit across his face. Those who know him best, though, say he is not half as cold as he seems and that beneath his arctio exterior beats a warm and responsive heart. That may be, but as Mr. Chandler is not one who wenrs that organ on his sleeve a casual observer is forced to judge by external appearances. I do not say this ill naturedly, though I really might be pardoned for harsh feelings against him because of his failure to respond to a request of mine for seeds once when I owned a farm up in New Hampshire, the rocks of which I wished to hiue beneath exotio creepers.

It may have been a recollection of this fact that caused bim to apply bis handkerchief to his face when be saw my camera pointed at bim. Perhaps it was to spare bis blushes, and again perhaps he may have had a oold in the head.

If you want to see tbe wise men of Washington in their undress, as it were, and just before they assume the senatorial toga for the day, you should haunt the "senate entrance" of the capitol in tbe late hours of the morning. Like the representatives, tbey have

SKKATOB LINDSAY HIMSELF AGAIN. tbeir hours for office work, and most of them visit their sanctums as early as 9 or 10, some in their oommittee rooms at the capitol and others in the Maltby, which is but a block away.

By waiting patiently about this entrance at anywhere from 10 to IS in tbe forenoon you may see them hurrying up, alone and in flocks of half a dozen or so, and have excellent opportunities for studying them unawares and off tbeir guard. Some* like Senators Hale and Davis, come in tbeir carriages merely because they are wealthy and

know him say that his can afford to do so others, like Mr.

troubles during the war were as Both- I Morrill, because they are aged and have inn compared with the late unpleasant- to, or, like Senator Berry, because of witb the Kentucky legislature, the

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WHITTIEEMEMOEIAL

THE PORT'S OLD HOME AT AMESBURY OPEN TO VISITORS.

The Whittier Home Association Secures Control of the House That Cor Fifty Tears Sheltered the Quaker Poet of New

England.

[Special Correspondence.]

AMESBURY, Mass., April 4.—A step of national importance has just been taken by tbe Elizabeth H. Whittier club of Amesbury in securing control under tbe name of tbe Whittier Home association of the late home of John Greenleaf Whittier, the famous Quaker poet, situated in this town, and opening it as a memorial of the poet to tbe pilgrims who from all parts of the country visit this shrine.

This adds another famous house to the homes of the American poets preserved from the chance of private disposition, and, while tbe arrangements just made by this woman's club, named in honor of the poet's favorite sister, are merely temporary, efforts will be made to purchase the property, by publio subscription possibly, and preserve this famous place as a national memorial to one of tbe six gryat American poets.

Tbe Amesburg home of John Greenleaf Whittier is visited by many lovers of the songs of this poet of New England. For 50 years in this modest dwelling some of the most beautiful, poems of tbe English language were written.

Amesbury is now a thriving town of 10,000 inhabitants. Typically a New England town, it has a half dozen cotton mills and half a hundred thriving carriage manufactories, claiming, and for good reason, to be the leading center of fine pleasure carriage manufacture in the country. It is a town of many pretty homes and exceptionally picturesque surrounding scenery. From its elevations lovely views are had, and Powow hill, whose summit is 383 feet above the sea level, commands a wide and diversified landscape. To this hilltop Whittier frequently climbed for inspiration, as he said, and saw tbe town nestling close around its feet.

With surroundings so naturally lovely is it strange that a home almost at

WHITTIER HOUSE AT AMESBURY.

the foot of this grand hill should attract one of his idealistio nature and tbat Friend street, one of the most beautiful streets, where elm and maple shade its entire residential length, should be selected? The house itself is of pleasing form, with two stories and sharp gables, sitting a little back from tbe street, separated from it by the neat picket fence so characteristic of former New England days, and with a sloping lawn adorned with flowering shrubs and evergreens.

A bronze plate fastened to the corner of the house designates it as "The Home of John Greenleaf Whittier." When tbe house was purohased by him, it was a modest cottage of one story, for which, with the largo lot, he paid $1,200. Into this he, with his mother, sister and Aunt Mercy, moved from the homestead in East Haverhill in 1836. Since then tbe cottage has been enlarged until it now contains eight rooms and a kitchen attached. '''HJ'T

The parlor, a square robni with two windows facing on the front lawn and one on Pleasant street, with an open fireplace on the same side, is tastefully furnished with a carpet of cheerful colors, a half dozen chairs of oddly different designs, a center table moved to one side under an old fashioned mirror with gold ball frame surmounted with a colored glass scene, a corner stand supporting a group of statuary and a few books. Iu another corner is a rustio stand, the top being a 15 inch circular section sawed from a branch of the famous old elm of Boston Common. A comfortable couch is across tbe southern end, and at its head a door opens into tbe dining room. Over the mantel bangs an oil portrait of tbe poof smother. Opposite hangs that of tbe sister, Elizabeth, eight years his junior and possessing the amiable and gentle graces of her mother and tbe poetio nature of her brother.

From tbe parlor, passing through the dining room, one enters another small hallway, from which stairs lead to the room8 above and, crossing this, to tbe study, wbioh was also the family sitting room, where the poet worked among his family undisturbed. Books line tbe walls in upright cases and overflow into the up stairs hallway, from which a door opens into tbe poet's sleeping room since Elizabeth's death, as plainly furnished and appointed as would be expected from one of his simple tastes.

Whittier was a companionable man notwithstanding that his sensitive nature led casual acquaintances to think otherwise, and be liked to visit among old friends in store and shop about tbe town and discuss tbe turn events were taking in those eventful times before the war. He was an ardent political partisan and always interested in tbe affairs of town and country, rarely missing tbe privilege of voting in tbis town, where be held his legAI residence until his death. Tbe local newspaper offices were frequent calling places of his, and tbeir columns often contained com imicaiioos from hixn upon local or national interests, Mid frequently he would bring a manuscript poem and have it set in type "just to see how it looked." Gtuus P. Sams.

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Shopping In London.

One of tbe erroneous impressions that Americans have before they try shopping in London is tbat things are remarkably cheap there, and when they are set right by actual experience with the fashionable dressmakers and haberdashers they get a second mistaken idea tbat English tradesmen are extraordinarily uncivil. This all arises from tbe different customs that govern retail business in the two countries. In America we pay cash for goods or settle our accounts monthly. In England, however, accounts are supposed to be rendered quarterly, and it has frequently happened that because some patrons have asocial prominence that gives their trade value as an advertisement the shopkeeper has allowed their aocounts to run for three and four years. Other patruns have demanded the same privileges and have abused tbem, and the result is that to compensate for interest on money owing by solvent debtors and for tbe sums loit through those who never pay the tradesman charges a goodly profit on all his goods, and the prices are accordingly high. On the other hand, American women shopping abroad seem to be bargain mad, and their efforts to beat down prices inspire the tradesman with much the same feeling that a well trained butler experiences when his nouvean riche master economizes on his wines. In fact, looking for bargains in Bond street is folly.—San Francisco Argonaut. pS

Lord Byron.

Here is a new light on tbe character of Lord Byron. The quotation is from a letter by John Murray: "Lord Byron is a curious man. He gave me, as I told you, the copyright of his new poems, to be printed only in his works. I did not receive the last until Tuesday night I was so delighted with it that even as I read I sent him a draft for 1,000 guineas. The two poems are altogether no more than 1,200 and 1,000 lineB and will together sell for 5s. 6d. But he returned the draft, saying that it was very liberal—much more than they were worth tbat I was perfectly welcome to both poems to print in his (collected) works without cost or expectation, but that he did not think them equal to what they ought to be, and tbat he would not admit of their separate publication. "I went yesterday, and he was rally ing me upon my folly in offering so much and that he dared to say I thought now I had a most lucky escape. 'To prove how muoh I think so, my lord,' said I, 'do me the favor to accept tbis pocketbook,' in which I had brought with me the draft, changed into two bank notes of £1,000 and £50, but be would not take it."^'

A Transformation.

Soon after my arrival in Leipsio my attention was called one day to an elderly gentleman on the street. f&Ff* "Do you see that old gentlemfiB'with tbe big soft felt hat, the blue glasses and the big umbrella?" "You mean the one who is shambling along as if he were not just sure where he is going?" "Yes, but you should not speak so disrespectfully of the greatest of living is 3

But the mistake was pardonable, for few would have supposed that he was not some plain village burgher who had just come up to town and felt somewhat lost in the big city. Once in Wundt's lecture room, however, one reoeives a very different impression of him. As the great philosopher pours forth one of his learned discourses those plain features light up, his bearing becomes dignified and impressive, and you no longer think of tbe ungainly walk and the quaint mannerisms.— Roanoke Collegian. •'•£^4.

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