Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-08-12

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went into his office, on the right side of
the hall where he SAW .he different en-
ployeS OF the place and heard their re-
spective reports.
His walk WAS slow and feeble, his
paraly2ed right leg moying with stiff,
! uncertain movement. He could not
| speak above Il whisper aud his thin and
! rWrowcG face ana labored movements
evoked sympathetic commeats from the
villagers who saw him leaning Oh the
arm OF his valet or his companion, Miss
Gould, rs he stepped 10 or from the
carriage that took him on fine days for
a ride about the country. His mental
faculties, however, were bright and un-
impaired up to the last. He suffered
much from Indigestion, and twice Il
week was visited by his physician, who
often has spoken lately of Mr.. Tlldan's
still robust intellect.
DR.. Simonds and DR.. Samuel j. Swift
were with him when he died. His
memory was usually retentive and to
the last he preserved the most exact
method in dealing with the concerns of
his house and farm. Each day he talk
ed with his business manager ard con-
Gdential secretary, Mr.. George w.
Smith, and showed complete acquaint-
ance with the smallest details of his
business. His medicine was admins
tered with almost mathematical exact
ness and it rarely happened that his
night doses were missed at the regular
time. And it was the same with his
food. Every ounce he ate was calculat-
ed and weighed before it was prepared
and set before him. Rich soups in
quite small quantities We're supplement-
ed with small draughts of creamy milk
the latter the yield of his famous Alder
neys and GuernSeys. together with the
tenderest part of a chicken, or mere
morsel of meat minced so as to be read
lily masticated, made up his diet. These
Yiands temptingly cooked and carried
to his lips by his attendant frequently
failed to rouse his appetite, and were
returned almost untasted. 1t was 4
matter of comment among his intimates
that he should have been able, on so
little nourishment, to sustain life at all.
Sketch Of His Life.
Samuel J. Tilden was born at New
Lebanon, in the county of Columbia
and State of New York, February 8,
1S14-the year which ruined the for
tunes Of the great Napoleon. One of
his ancestors, Nathaniel Tilden, was
Mayor Of the city of Tenterden, Kent,
England, in 1923.
The Governors father, farmer and
merchant of New Lebanon, was a man
OF notable judgement and practical
sense and the accepted oracle Of the
county upon all matters of public con-
Germ, while his opinion was also eager
ly sought and Justly valued by all his
neighbors. but by none more than by
the late President Van Buren, who till
his death, was one of his most Cherish
ed, intimate and personal friends.
From his father Governor Tilden in
herited taste for political inquiries,
and in his compani0nship enjoyed pc
cullar opportunities for acquiring an
early familiarity with the bearings of
the various questions which agitated
our country in his youth.
Young Tilden eptered college in his
18th year.
Mr.. Tilden had not been long at Yale
College before his health gave way and
obliged him to leave. After some rest
he was enabled to resume bis studies,
and in 1884 entered the University of
New York, where he completed his a.
cadenic education. He then entered
the law office of the late John w. Ed
munds, in the city of New York, where
he enjoyed peculiar faculties for the
prosecution Of his fayorite studies Of
ii" StHu pOIlNICo
Upon his admission to the bar Mr..
Tilden opened an Office in Pine street,
in the city of New York.
In 1874, in anticipation and prepara-
tion for the election which resulted in
making James X. Polk President and
Silas Wright Governor Of the State Of
New Y ork, Mr.. Tilden, in connection
with John L. O'Sullivan, founded the
newspaper called tie Daily Ne,Cs.
In the fall of 1915 he was sent to the
assembly from the city of New York
and while member of that body was
elected to the convention for the re-
modelling of the constitution of the
State, which was to commence its ses-
siOnS few weeks after the legislature
. adjourned. In both of these bodies Mr..
Tilden was a conspicuous authority,
and left a permanent impression upon
the legislation of the year, and especial
ly upon all the new constitutional pro-
visions affecting the finances of the
State and the management of ifs SvS-