Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-23


"Mn partinxt on" was al a..
sumed name, the former being
N truth, Charles y Browne, and
the latter, p r shiil, Der. Browne oamo
70 Cleveland green 4 Duntry lad aud en.
Tered newspaper ON. .. AZ length be
reached the position Of city cdltorof the
tiaindealer, the principA democratic
ualiy paper OF Cleveland Nut nc was
wag, above anything else, t,nd he took
acharacterlstlc way OF inakii'R living
out OF bis peculiarly. lie started In
what be called the i'show business, y
which was In fact only o lectariLg tour.
ne was one Of the original as we'll az one
OF the greatest ~ Amer rnn humorlsts, m
American prnntct, by the way, that 10
celebrated The world over. ifcsIdent
Lincoln ives very fond Of his fan, and
found Time, even amidst the cares OF Mia
great office aud ~ his troublous times. TO
read his bcsi-known work, "Artemus
Ward, His Book
John Hay II both rich and famous,
Like Browne, he wos once a journalist,
but he left the profession TO become pti.
vate secretary TO President Lincoln.
Amasa Stone was wealthy resident OF
Cleveland, who made his money IN rail.
roads, aud was, withsl, Woodworking
millionaire He had u son aud daueh.
ter. The son died, and Stone founded
Adelbert college, now one Of the proml.
ncni institutions OF Cleveland, with mil
lion-dollar endowment fund. The daueh.
ter married Col. Hay, who ever since has
led lite of lpxurious ease. About his
only task during the past dozen years has
been the dictation OF the text OF a life OF
President Ilucoln, which, IL is expected.
will prove TO be the standard biography
OF the great man, The work Is IN nregs
and viii soon be issued.
All Western cities that know anything
OF are very ambitious TO grow big. That
10 the great incentive OF the Cleveland OF
to-day Its people fondly hope that It's
population win number 100000 by the
close Of the present century.
-.
THE HOME on TnE GARFIELps.
Twenty miles cast OF the city Is Mentor
rendered famous by Us having been the
country residence OF President Garfield. 1t
Is a town Of not over 1000 souls. and Il
as large now as IL probably
eyer viii be. Garneld's place
WAS named "Lawnneld," though
there was anything but iawas about IL
! The farm which is sill owned by Mrs
| Garfield, comprises about 200 acres Of az
| fne grain lands as there are In tho world
1t lies Just west OF the village of Mentor
and the house, into which Mrs. Garfield
and family have Just moved for the
summer, stands In the midst OF
grove OF tall trees. II ~ built Of red
brick, has slantiDg roof in the Gothic
style, and Is surrounded by outbuild.
ings that IN their way are rather bettei
than the house itself. The plao,
can be indistlnctly seen from the car win
dows, and the trainmen told me that they
never pass there In the daytime that the,
arc not besieged by passengers 70 SHOW
them the famous home OF the second mar
tyr president OF our republic. The farm
is now worked by the Rudolphs, the fam
lily OF Mrs. Glficld-plaln country foil
who never relshed the notoriety their re
lationship with the Garfield famll,
brought them, and who have relapse,
back into the obscurily for which boil
they and tbs world know they nre hes
fitted II is not always that people knoy
what Il best for them nuGel similar cir
cumstances. Mira. Garfield, an told
leads q cheerful life In caring for th,
wants OF her children, enc OF whom i
now a successful teacher Ia the publ,
schools OF Manchester, N. II. In temper
ament, Mrs Garfield Is Of the stole sort
and did not feel half 40 keenly the dealt
OF her husband AZ did tho aged mothe
who was present at the funeral. IL wa
not Ia her nature TO do So 1t may be
little harsh TO say 80, vt this late day, bu
the truth IL that prior TO Mr.. Garfield
nomination to the presidency there wer
some good-szed skeletons in the Gar
field household which, In any other even,
undoubtedly would have been dragge
out of the closet. But let thai all pass
There were no scars on the honored es
cutcheou OF the dead president and con
sistency demands that the veil OF sllenc
be drawn over family history that con
Germs the family alone. ADMIRAL.