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Page 4 (itm Mulipou Journal Pubtianed by JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY Of Lackport. George af. Thompson, Prestocnt &. L,. Sitstdow, tt,, Bco'y. and Treas. Yyobhin W, Hlagle, SUBSCRIPIION RATES, opy, 10; one month swagger? kg?“ $0; one your, $3.00 I tialng. Rates on Request, onll. Qéi‘faéé’fimg gnamwm Both Phones No. who fall to roe-We The Jofir‘ggfrfigfiaw will confer a favor by ao rope rtl ‘F o the Business Office, Loqum ¥ & at the I’oatomoo at Look« nofiétwm as socond class mall mat» tor. % NEw York EOD INFORMA ON C C _ wrongs.. Mi REPUBLIOAN NOMINATIONS For Preqident WILLIAM H. TAFT Of Ohio A LY 1, 1908. For Vice Freslclmt JAMES $, SHERMAN Ot New York ALLOWANGE - FOR FRANCES GLEVELAND. It is probable that Congrosy will au-\ thoriges an allowance of $5,000 a yom for Frances Folsom Cleveland, the widow of President; Grover Cleveland, Thore to every coazon to bolleve tha. tie Bugo of Princcton did not leave i lafge amount of money, With two sons and two daughtors to rous anc odmestso, no dottht sich provistou tin much appreciated by Mru Clove» tiud. Kuch naettoy by Congress will no moet with erkl{elam: from any sowret for which the country has any respect Of course, some Interestg wilt rail a. tho Idow of taking i dollar from the publle tronsury for such i purpose, bu as Congress expects It, It can dlsaoun tho storm. Intl the United tates makes sof provision for Its es«prestdents thore {: bound to be discussion over the statu of ex»-pregidents. After being ole vated to such a high office, it Is no ousy for ary exeppostdoent to-earn a ly Ing commensurate with the stylo.it ds practically Incumbent upon him t maintain. fle cannot take anything that offefs. He eannot, if leo bo g lowger, engage tn cases that belong to middlo«class attorneys, 'The problem of the ex«president 4 «tt Important one and hag beeg recog» nized from the carly days of the Re public, Jofforson and Monroe sufforec keenly becattseo of fmuncial disabli{tlos Congress helped fefferson hy purchase» tog hits UTheary at anything but a fancy | price, and was glven the post masterghip of New York, but thes thilugs id not suffice to keep tho groa Domocgat and the author of The Mon roc Doctrine from: fAnanclal worries. Of there lave been excep- tions, Buchanan was not g poot mai when he went home to Wheatlund fron the White House, sithough ho was no woulthy. Harrison seemed to find f neccetrary to practice law ufter he let Wastdnftom. Clevelund was glad t canploy his tatents to caurn money fo tho expenses of hig household. Grant as overyhody knows, had to labor Ir groat patt to complete his memoirs the sale of which pdt fis family be. youd want. Washingtor exacts & heavy toll o} Tt aftemdeaven him anc alter fou AI8f thie preatfent. Itu famly - Inrpoverighed yOAPSe THE IRAEPRESSIBLE SEELEY, Hecloy io in the courts with his al logoed case again. fie hopes to mako i little cupltat for and the crows of which he Is a minor figure. Ho wa: dbuabssodt on chargom He tool hL dianisont mookly enough. Now wit the congresstonal preitqaries news, h Again gore Into the courts in order t toll his old tale abaut the \request\ fr miryn the leaders mude to him to come in with thom, [te avertactks what alt Niagara Coun, ty knows that theo Porter leaders dr fot want his support. 'Fhey never wantcot It ff any time thig your, thes did sot ask him fot It before th Match primiattes and tiey do not wan! It fiews. {Seetoes seenm to forget that some poopfe cast i bilght on any movernen' they age with. The Porter leadors would be spared the blight of Seeley, f{« contintice to tell about being to« yuented to Join with the Porter fortecy hofore the Muasch primarics Wb he nétiw Auy TeAdov qualified to sponte for tho Pgrtet forces who asked him to join with them? - y, Poilticat foaders often make mis- 450; six d of gutry takes, but the Porter leaders would never make the one of asking Seeley to stand with them, for they know, as do Sceley's prosent sponsors, that he | wilt not stand over night on any propo- @itlOt WHO'S TO PAY? Mayor MeClellan will ask that the Clty of New York pay his legal bill ir the three-year fight against Hearst fo. the possession of the mayoralty chair 'It amounts to about $60,000. He may ' count on bitter opposition to such leg- station. 'The opponents of the bilt will use ab kinds of arguments to show that suet legislation is uncalled for, is unconstl- tutlongl, is revolutionary. They wil say that It Is an unwarranted raid of the public. treasury. Some will say that Mayor McClellan has had the hon- or and power of the office for fou | years, that he hag wealth and does no. need the money, and therefore he car woll afford to assign the four-year sal ary, $80,000, over to the City of New York and pay the b{lt thus or take the money and pay the bill himself, Hearst has made the contest ver; costly and has also put McClelian un der a tension that will take him a long time to recover from. It will be easy enough for McClellan to get the bill introduced, but getting it through the Senate and Assembly Is another thing and getting It signed by the Governor is still an other thing. Mayor McClellan can count on i great hue and cry on the part of the Hearst people against it. They wil placard It alt over the metropolis ant they will say that a large part of th oxpensog of the proceedings lave bee pald by Hearst and therefore McClel Ian should pay his share, * Thore are breakers ahead for the McClelian Legal Sorvices BHL According to 'The Unlon-Sun wher 1 man gets permission to institut srocecdings, a mathot of the veries 'egal routine, he has already won hi 'uso; vide Secley versus The Depart ont of Public Works, If this wer io what an amount of trouble ant vorry the courts would be saved. Aan imen sunt ct mots ma names ELOQUENT tN DEATH,. Porhapa Grover Cleveland speak low to the Democtatic Purty more el quently than he ever did alive, say ho New York Sun. 'The events an ittorances of his career emerge fror heir half forgotten hiding places fc houghtful men to ponder. Happlly, there is still time for th | vholosome If belakxd ferment to do it wotlk. The Democrats aro no If mad, nor yet have they been on vely submerged by the ignoble floo. ender and despair. In tho days of Cleveland the Demo ratle hosts now gathoring to Denve onstituted a party which commander ho respect of friend and foe alike. vhich ongcted a great rote In nationa «ffairs. Today they soem to be head ng for a deoper obloquy than the, ive over known before, and all thi. vith no visible object save that o watifying a notorlous mountebant ant | attontng to even greater rotundity hi Ifeady swollen pocketbook. Crover Cleveland, eloquent in deatl wotests aginst this shameful gace Ige. And he was the only Democra' hat had occupled the Presidentia halr since 1861-that is, fom forty- . oven years! BOOMS OF HIS OWN CREATION.\ Mr, Hoarst naturally feels rnucl hagrined over the complete collaps f fils clatm that he was cheated out |E the mayoralty by fraudulent count- | ag, says the Rochester Democrat & | 'hroniele,. The crrors discovered wor asignificant. Some were against Teatst others were against McClellan, ind all were such as might naturally wive been made by perfectly bonest in- poctors. f 'The fact Is that each side was watch ng the other so clogety that crooked fork was next to impossible Mr. 'heatn, Heart's attorney, seams to be attled, Ee is making an outery bout the ballot-boxes being stuffed, nd says he can prove it. This is a otish bluff, If Mr. Shearn had the roof he would have produced it long gh. It ts about time for Hearst to sub- ide. Ho ls a puroly personal figure in »slitlcs, his only booms are of his own reation, and the public Is he ptily red of his self-glorlfication, hfs per- etual claims, and his Industry in cre- | ting turmoll through pald agents. enemee memes 1EORGE H. DANIELS, PROME- NENT RAILWAY MAN, DEAD:. pecial to Loco kpnv‘r Journal, Lake Placlkl, M. Y., July 1. \L fanlols, for mum“ years prominent y identified with New Yore Central Raltzroad, died here this morning. 1EAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. ROCKWELL DEAD. Spociat to Lockport Sownl. Chatham, Mass, fuly f.--Reur Ad- nival Charles H. Rockwell, retivted, led this morning of apoplexy. He nad! sorved «even yours In the navy,. MURDERER HANGED IN CONNECTICUT STATE PRiSoN. Bpocial to Lockport Journal. There won't Wethersfield, {Conn., July 1.-John Waliriaky was hanged this morning in (the atate prison for the marder of Pe- tor Luékaswleg at New Haven on Dec. Bl last year, & «- LICENSESHERE HUNTERS MAY NOW PURCHASE THEM FROM COUNTY CLERK,. After several weeks of waiting the hunters' leenses have af last arrived in the County Clerk's office and are now ready for issuance. County Clerk Walsh has already issued several. City Clerk Bennett nor the Town Clerks nave not as yet received their blanks, but they will be forthcoming within a few days. The paying of the fee, as authorized by law, permits a person holding a license to bunt 'with a gun in such seasons as are prescribed by WL The license is printed upon linen and must be carried by the person to whom it is issued when he is in quest of game so that on demand of any person, game worden, constable or other offi- sial the license may be exhibited, thereby making any person a factor in seeing that the law is enforced. According to the law no person may end or transfer his license to another ind anyone so doing will be guilty of forgery. A resident's on naturalized citizen's cense is issued at a cost of $1.10. Tha 10 cents goes to the clerk who issues the license and the $1 to the state. A muon-resident must pay $20.50, the di- rislon being the same-50 cents to the clerk and the remainder to the state. Chis money is used in the hiring of rame portectors to see that the law is anforced. Any person who is found hunting without a license, according to the new tate laws, is Hable to arrest and fine ar imprisonment. Non-residents may re fined from $25 to $100, or may be in prison for a term not ex- seeding sixty days. A resident of the tate may be fined from $10 to $25, or n default of payment may be sent to prison. = 3ISHOP POTTER'S CONDITION * EXTREMELY CRITICAL. Special to Lockport Journal. Cooperstown, N. Y., July 1.-Bishop Potter's condition is extremely criti- al. There was no improvement this morning. Oxygen had again to be re- orted to. J1CK BURNS ARRESTED AND IMMEDIATELY DISCHARGEDL Dick Burns today had the experience f an arrest and the pleasure of a quick acquittal. The arrest was made iy Oflicer Madden on the complamt f Michael Hodgos, known as the Mexican, who charged that Burns had stolen junk, his proporty. But when Police Justice Ernest came to nake investigation he could not dis- over anything to prove that Hodges had seen Burns take the junk and in addition there was the query who gave the complainant right to claim junk he himself had taken out of the public rbfuse heap. He told Hodges he had r0 grounds for complaint and told Burns to go. Soothes itching. Heals cuts or burns without a sear. Cures piles, occzema. satl rheum, any itching. Doan's Oint- ment. Your druggist sells it. A Musxcal Bed. Chloral, morphia and the poppy must look to thsivr laurels as aids to \na- ture's swest restorer,\ for, according to a French conteraporary, a recent in- vention promises to banish insomnia. The Invention is a musical: bed. The Sleepless nnd tired man goes to bed and with his foot releases a spring which sets a musical box in motion. The apparatus begins to grind out lul lables and melodies. and in a short time the patient is snoring peacefully. The Languagesto Come. [Professor fceott of the University of Michigan s*ys English will bs a dead language by 499 A. D. and Eantu will be the universal tongue.] In the annum four thousand A. D., we ste, Our English no more will be spoke, Italian and Spanish and German will vanish And French will turn turtle and croak. he no language alive to thrive And vex us with grammars and roots Excteptlng the Bantu. (I can't, and I can, 00, , Find something for rhyming that suits.) This nlews are the best I have saw since -l8, I don't know how long ago since! I've been sort o' minglish and chummy with English As spoke and as wrote in the prints, And which is the way she had ought be taught And how she had orter be read Am truly distréssing and keeps woe uns guessing. So maybe she ought to be dead. Then here's to the language to come, by gum The African Bantu. With it Wa won't have to mangle and stifle and strangle Around the infinitive split. In the annum four thousand A. D., why, we Won't have to learn languages 'leven. No uIsu for a man to-just master the antu And he'll be in clover or heaven. -Robertus Love in New York Sun. The street car conductor was about to sit down to breakfast when a mes- senger boy brought him a telegram an- nouncing that a rich relative had' died and that he was the sole heir. \Easy street!\ shouted the conductor, ' reaching up for an inriginary bell rope. --Chlcngo Tribune P \That man imakes a lot of mistakes,\ , said one factory employee, \Yes auswered the other, \more tham all the rest of us put together. The foreman just keeps him around ve that he ean have some one to jump uit ual show that he's bossg,\--Wash Ington Star, LOCKPORT JOURNAl |, GOUNTRY HAS NO EX-PRESIDENT Reminiscences of the Twen- ty-Four Chief Magistrates Who Have Passed Away. BUCHANAN AND PIERCE, LIKE CLEVELAND, WERE UNPOPU- LAR FOR A TIME AFTER LEAV.: ING THE WHITE HOUSE-JEF- FERSON NEVER OUT OF FINAN- CIAL MORASS. Since Washington died in the years 7 of the Presidency of John Adams, his successor, and since the passing of Andrew Johnson in the later of the two terms of Grant, it is declared, says the New York Evening Sun, that now for the first time in the history of the nation, barring those two intervals, was the United States left without a living ex-President. Grover Cleveland, retiring from the White House in his sixtieth year, en- joyed for nearly a dozen years the re- wards of a man who had twice been the leader .of the people. When he died, last Wednesday, he had lived slightly past the average age, at death, of all the Presidents. Counting year: only and ignoring extra months, the records show that the twenty-four men who have passed to rest after serving as 'the Chief Executive died at the average age of 69 years and a fraction. more, or barely under the traditional three-score and ten. When Ruthelfoxd B. Hayes died at; his home in Fremont Ohio, on January 17, 1898, there was an interval of a month and a half before Benjamir Harrison became ex-President and Mr: Cleveland was yet to see active service; as President again. Thirteen American Presidents ex {pired before they attained the ag: reached by Grover Cleveland. Jame: Buchanan, who died in 1868 in hi: seventy-eighth year, was the last pre- | vious President to have exceeded. T( years, which was the age of Hayes Of the first sis Presidents no fewe | than four reached the 80-year mark,. The elder Adams, Jefferson, Madisor - and J. Q, Adams were these four octo. genarians or better. Indeed, Joh: Adams, who died at the age of 90 years was the eldest of all. Since the deatk of the younger Adams, at 80 years none has reached fourscore 'years Eight others, however, passed the sev- entiecth mile-stone of their life's jour- ney. { ® As if to show that men were stronge: | in the days of powdered wigs, of snuft of duels and such like and during the carly years of transition to long, tight trousers, blue swallow-tail coats ane brass buttons, it appears that the first ten Presidents died at the average ag of 77 years and 6 months, while th {fourteen that followed them lived onl; to an average age of 68 years and |( months. Thus, the lives ave lived muc} faster in our mile-a-minute days. Viewing Stuart's portrait of Wash ington, with its characteristic lips anc stern, unbending attitude of the pro- [ nrietor of Mount Vernon, the moderi ' accustomed to' beholder is perhaps think of our first President as a ven- erable man, an old man, in spite of hi: rrect carriage and steady eye. To w all, old and young, he is likely to seen as old as does the teacher of the bo; ; just learning his first reader. In re ality, at 67 years, Washington died : youngér man than any ~other unti James K. Polk. . j The. eleventh President passed awa: a few short weeks after leaving th White House, an old man at 53 year: Since Polk's death, eight others hay gone before reaching the 67 years at tained by Washington. One othe Benjamin Harrison, died at just tha age. Arthur and Lincoln were bot! 56 years old when death claimed them These are the only instances of doubl coincidence of years in the ages of th« | Presidents. Statistics of the deaths of the Chie - Executives show three coincidences One of these is unique and famous t American history. On July 4, 1826 the fiftieth anniversary of the Declara tion of Independence, there died, a about the same hour, two former Pres idents who had stood as leaders in pre paring and causing the adoption o that declaration, Thomas Jefferson an John Adams. In two other instance were the deaths of two former leader . recorded on the rolls of a single year. In 1§62, John Tyler and Martin Va Buren were laid to rest, old politica foes as bitter. perhaps, as Adams ani Jefferson had been. Again,\ln 1901 Benjamin Harrison closed a brief re tirement and William McKinley wa shot down by a fanatic. beginning 1860 saw the deaths of fiv. Presidents in all. After Van Burer and Tyler. there were Pierce, Lincol and Buchanan. That Americans are a restless peopl is fairly shown by the fact that onl}: elevon of the twenty-four late chief: of this nation died within the border: of the states in which they were born Four, however, died in Washington Three passed away within the limits of the towns which had been their birthplaces. Four sons of Virginia breathed their last within that state's borders. Pwo Presidents died in New York City, two in the City of Buffal and two more within this state, not all, The decad | however, being New Yorkers' Virginia in memorials to native Presi- dents would probably come Tennessee, whose soil contains the ashes of Jack- son, Polk and Johnson. Next to / The Fourth of July is a marked date. for one more event in the list. only did Adams and Jefferson die on. that date, but five years later, on July Not: 4, 1831, James Monroe followed them. Seven Presidents have died in the. month of July, while for June the number is five; that is, half of all the series Yet no deaths among these men are recorded for any month of | May or August. One noticeable feature of the written: accounts of the last days of earlier Presidents is the utter self-forgetful- ness recorded of the statesmen of hero-' ic times, their desire not to be a bur- den to relatives and friends, the con- sideration which their own last words expressed. Though narratives of such. j occasions in those days shared the lit- erary style of that more elaborate pe- 0d, yet the words often breathe to- | lay a gentleness and tenderness which vigorous active life usually pushes to the background. It has been denied that the Presidents represented the greatest of American public men. It yet appears that a large proportion of the Presidents have in their later years shown increase of that simplicity and broad humanity which mark the man af large affairs, The death of Washington, a story known to every schoolboy and regular- 'y pictured in the text books, is the sase of a strong man overcome by ex- posure to the weather. The custom- ity bleeding of old-time surgery fol- lowed, The General, two days after a vide in the rain and hail of a Decem- ber day, was dead. Previous to the inal weakening he gave orders to his secretary regarding his funeral To 'Dr. Craily, his physician, he said: \I leel myself going. I thank you for sour attentions, but I pray you to take 10 more trouble about me. I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.\ On De- rember 18 his funeral was held. It was attended by a bodyguard of regu- ars. A salute was fired from a sloop in the Potomac River. Hundreds of 'riends, including Lord Fairfax, fol- 'owed the coffin to the vault on the estate, where it was placed wy his own previous request The State of Virginia has never allowed the rody to 'be removed, so the vault that he nation built beneath the Capitol it Washington City to receive the first President's body remains empty. John Adams lived for twenty-five sears after retiring from the Presi- lency. © In a certain fearlessness of re- ults and an intention to govern the ation for its good, lamor, Adams had somewhat in com- non with the late Grover Cleveland. I desire,\ said the eider statesman, 'no other inscription over imy grave- tone . than thiss. 'Here. lies .John despite popular Ii Adams, who took upon himself the re-, 'ponsibility of the peace with France n the year 1800'\ Adams died with he name of his great rival, Jefferson, n his lips. Their hostility early in he history of this Government wore 'ff as they grew older. For years pre- ious to their deaths the two carried m & friendly correspondence. 200 In Jefferson's last years there is narked a melancholy trend. of thought. Ie feared a dissolution of his powers f reasoning. Such a breakdown never ame. When Jefferson left Washing- on, after nearly fifty years of public ervice, he was so impoverished that e feared arrest for debt. Men said is own Embargo acts had ruined wim. He never entirely cleared him- elf from financial troubles, and he old his library to Congress at a quar- ar of its value because he needed the ioney. Jefferson devoted the closing ears of his life to the working out of n educational© system for his own ate. He was the founder of the Uni- ersity of Virginia. His epitaph was witten by himself: , \Here was buried homas Jefferson, author of the Dec- ration of Independence, of the Stat- te of Virginia for Religious Freedom, nd Father of the University of Vir- nia.\ There was an interval of twenty sars between the retirement and eath of James Madison. 'The man hose temperament was that of a cholar and deep thinker, but not of n executive character, left a legacy ntitled \Advice to My Country.\ This .ocument, opened after his death, was ound to consist of a plea for the reservation of the Union, written in he; \framer's\ old age. In the old Marble Cemetery at Sec- nd Street, between First and Second «venues in this city, they buried James Tonroe, known as the last of the 'ocked Hats, because with him ended he Revolutionary school of statesmen. )n April 28, 1858, his body was re- moved to Richmond, Va. Monroe, to he last, was pressed heavily by. his reditors and was only partially suc- essful in getting reimbursement for xpenses he had incurred abroad in the, iterests of the country. j John Quincy Adams was the first resident to enter Congress after hav- :g occupied the Executive Mansion. 'rom 1831 to 184§ he sat in the House, £ Representatives, a leader in the ght against slavery, an independent oter and an drator of ability. Many of assassination were sent to im. These he ignored. In November, 346, a paralytic stroke kept him for everal months absent from Congress. Shen he again appeared the members f the House arose while two of them mducted him to his usual seat. dams entered into but 'ter his illness. On February 21, line. \48 while the Speaker was putting a iotion, he fell insensible from his hair. Two days later he died in the Speaker's room, whither he had been \Thig IS he last of earth, I carried. ; ast words, are an- ions known now toi Do You Swim i », the most plctur- csque of all the Presidents, léft the White House in 1887, an old man. Hardly ever aftcl was he free from til th became more and more marked con \his countenance. The man who had driven back Pakenham's vet- s at Vew Orleans and who, accord- ingto: ms enerrhes, had fought a hun- dred duels, suffered in his final years | froin a serious lung trouble. He also, j when he reached his home, the Her- mztage, near Nashvxlle, was not only poor in body but in purse as well. A beautlful farm, 150 negro slaves and $90 m cash were Ins total assets. hind 'him | were several large debts. Early m his political career he had promxecd \nis wife that he would \join the church” when he finished politics. He had sald that gt he joined while Presxdent the cr 61; \hypocrisy\ would be' ralsea' Jackson postponed it until, to use hig\ own words, \he should re- tire 1to the shades of private life, when no false nnputatlon could 'be made 'that m1ght be flufimous to religion.\ After two dr more yea‘rs of private life, while he \ras\ being e\ammed by his pastor, a (111655311 was asked \General can yOu forglve \all youl enemies?\ His efflly was “My political enemies I can freely forgive, but as for those: who abused me when I was serving my countly in the field and those who attacked me, for selvmg my country—1 Doctol that is a, dxft‘erent case.\ Com-. modote ' L‘lhot 'a personal friend, se- cured \a salcophagus in Palestine and blought it to Ameuca, saying that it had héld the body of s. Roman Em- peror \und should hold a President The feellngs of democrat“: \Old Hick- ory\ \upon Tecefivmg this present are not told, but his . reply was strong against all \pomp and parade.\ xception of three martyred Presuients, no passmg in \the political history of the country called forth the sympathy of the: xSeople to such an ex- tent as the 'of General Grant Twice PreSIde’nt though he had never been a partisan \and during his life had voted for but one Chief Magistrate hé was' afterward feted on a tour of the world as no ruler had ever been before. Retuuung, he found: himself leducefl lll’ less than twenty months fiom wealth. beggary by the failure of busxnee thers. Lamed for life by\ & fall, attacked by one of the most cruel of diseases, with death certair for lumself and poverty staring his ramxly in the face, he set about writing the now famous “Memou‘s,” one of the f EVeat \of\ t the nineteenth century e died tour days after its last words were written. It was said that the copyright netted Mrs. Grant $500,000 T ollowmg Grant's death at Mount Mo- Cheg EOF \6veriboleing Saratoga battle. field, the publlc funeral in New York was said to 'be the largest ever seer ln America. Over 30,000 men were it Géfieral'' Grant wished to be buried At West Point, but fearing thai Mrs. Chant could not be laid by hi: gide there, he \chose New York \be. cause the people of that city befriended me in\ my need l rlhc only President who has eve 4 been Speaker 'of the House of Repre- sentatlves, though more Speakers have been candxdates, was James K. Polk When he died, in 1849, \the cholers year,\ he left &A will which was passed upon Jmally in 1891, shortly after the death of Mrs: Polk. This will left the estate \Mo the Welthlest of the nam, for evel ** The coul 'ts'declared the pro- vision vmd, as conbtxtutmg a \perpetu- lty\ prot. fides 'The. “Amendan Lou1s Philippe,\ Mil- lard I‘Jllmore, left many document: and public \letters in. his son's posses- sxon upon h 'HeStl. \In these can br Very unportant letter and docu- nent wlnch‘I réceived during my ad. ministration and which will enable flu future historian or blographer to pre pare an authentm account of that pe- riod 'of 01.11 country 's history,\ he wrote in obedlence to the will of the son,. Mlllald P Fillmore of Buffalo these nape were all destroyed by ar executor in 1891 'This son's grand father was known as \one of God Al mighty's' gerit!emen.\ James Buchanan,: who died of rheu- matic \gout \experienced the sam trouble 'tegarding religion that fell t the- \lot?\ Having bee: and talker in hi catlydays,;-he fered the cry of \hy pocrisy\ should he openly avow hi: beliefs. After Lincoln's inauguratior Buchanan wetired - to his Lancaster Pa., home, and during the years of war was probably one of the best hatec nen'in' the eauntry:'s When died in the Executive Mansion early in his admin- istration the rentire nation mourned Eben-«the; Abolitionists praised him though he owned slaves. \I have al- ways, done my duty,\ were his words \I am ready to die.\ My only regret is to those I leave behind me.\ Taylor had «4 gong, Rlchard. who served as 2 the- Confederate {of President Tay- lor married Jeffer'wn Davis. Andrew Jolinson, upon leaving Washington, began a consistent! cam- paign for rehabilitation after the im- peachment ploceedmge It. was. ir 1875 that he w 'as elected to the Unitec 6 Senate 'and was seated at the sign. He died of paralysis on > { that year while visiting his daughter, - mus ' John Tyler, * who became President ar.! uron the death of General W. H. Har- one debatehmon. afterward served in the tem- norary (“ongleee 'of the Confederate Grates He was elected to the perma- nent Pongrrfik hiit died in lRl‘Z before t'fltmg his seat ' When Vl’flham Henrv Harrison 1! Be- | Jneonta Herall:a + WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1908, £3 i‘ \_u 1 _AMUSEMENTS._ | Join the:»#Y7‘~aM..C.-' A. fl EXPERTfmsmucnoy. breathed his last, after one month in the White House, , the news of his death went out as a great shock to the country. He was the first President to die in office, A chill followed by bilious pneumonia carried him off be- fore the news of his illness had spread over the states, . Believing in his de- lirium that he was addressing his suc- cessor, he said: \Sir I wish you to understand the principles of govern- ment. I- desire them carried out. I ask nothing more.\ Martin Van Buren lived to see his country plunged .in. the: Civil War. ° Though dying in its darkest days, he expressed confidence in Lincoln and in General McClelian, then commanding the Army of the Potomac. \This great nation,\ he said, \cannot be dissolved.\ New Hampshire's son, Franklin Pierce, upon retiring to his home, was assailed because .of his belief that to own slaves did not constitute a crime. He malntamed that the country was ‘duftmg into war.\ For several years he was unpopular «with his fellow staters, but on the breaking out of the war his straightforward support of the aovernment, as well as the opening of the eyes of New Lngland to the truth ln popular estéem,\ © 1 Chester A. Arthur was among the soungest of the Plesuicnts He died n his New \York home, at 123 Lexing- ton Avenue, on November \18 1886, in BE fifty-seventh year. THE FORBEARS OF QLEVELAND. The New York Sun prints the fol- lowing ~poem- on heredity wh1ch was written... by-. Grover. Cleve- and's grandfather; the. Rev. Aaron Heveland, ;; of, Norwich, . Conn.,. and which was puhllslled years ago in the four kinds of blood flow in my veins ind govern.eackein.tur my brains; from Cleveland, Barter, Sewell; Waters :. had my blood distinct in- quarters. Vly parénts' parents' names I know, / 3ut I no further back 'can;go. Jompound 'on. compound from the flood \orms now my own ancestral blood. 3ut what my sires of old time were : neither wish to know nor care. . fome might -be others fools, lome might be tyrants, others tools;. Yomé might be Yich, and others lack; jome might be white, and others black, To matter what in days of yore,. Since they are known and sung no MOP&\ 12 va gs - 'he name of Cleveland I must wear, Nhich some poor foundling first might bear. - I'm told, from Scotland came, \ bonny bard of ancient fame. B jewell, an English derivation, Perhaps some outcast from the nation. Naters, an Irishman, I ween, Straight round about from Aberdeen. jJuch is my heterogeneous blood- \ motly mixture, bad and good, iach blood aspires to rule alone. ind each in turn ascends the throne ind rules till others tear him:down. change must twist about my brains ‘ : ind move my tongue strains; iy mental powers are captive L°d is whim or wisdom rules the head. Iy character no one can know, 'or none I have while things are so;. 'm something, nothing, wise or fool, is suits the blood' wluch haps to rule. Nhen Cleveland rexgns I'm. thought a wit - n making words, the funny hit, n social glee and: humorous song ..charm the fools that. round me throng; jut soon,; perhaps, thls blood is down, When - Porter next 'may wean the crown,. / Tow all -is calm, dlscreet and-wzse, 'NMhate'er I do, whatelgr advise: Jut soon, alas! this happy reign fust for some Other change. again. jewell, perhaps, may next bear rule; 'm then a philosophic fool.. . Vith Jefferson.I correspond.. ind soar. with him the stars beyond Nhile avery fibre of 'the. brain - [o sense profound I nicely strain, ind then arise beyond the ken - Jf common sense and common men. Jut who comes next?-Alas 'tis Waters,, Pushing fearless.to headquarters. , Ye knows no manners nor decorum, | 3ut elbows headlong 'to the forum; Uncouth and-odd, abrupt and bold, . Untaught,~ unteachable - and uncon- trolled; } - > Jevoid of\ w1$dom, sense or w1t Tot one thing right he ever hit, Jnless by accident, not skill, . Te blundered right against his will; Such am I now-no transmigration Can sink me fo a lower station Some, Porter, come depose this clown, And once for all assume the crown; f aught in Sewell's blood you find Will make your own still more:refined, If found in Cleveland's blood a trait To aid you in: the affairs of state. Select such parts, but spurn the rest, Never to rule my brain or breast. Of Waters blood expel the whole, Let not one drop poliute my soul. Then mule my head, then rule my heart, From folly; iveakness, wit apart; With all such qualities Ill.dispense, Ang only give me common sense, ; in different
