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NEW SOCIAL LEADERS
Gossip About the Ladies Who Are to
Preside in the White House.
HOW HARRISON WON HIS BRIDE.
Russell HarrisOn's Wife and Secretary
HalfOrd's Interesting Family.
MRS. MOTION AND, HER DAUGHTERS

The shifting scenes in the national drama
of executive session brings to the front new
characters in the administration of public
affairs and in the social regime of the place
of supreme rank. In American politico-
social as in politico-administrative con-
Germs it is the sphorism of the effete institu-
tions of divine-right doctrines repeated with
q feminine application, ''The Queen is dead,
long live the Queen. In the drawing rooms
of the Executive Mansion, while words of
regret and farewell have been said to the
retiring first lady, in the psrlors of the
President-elect salutations and welcome
have greeted the new first lady of the Re-
public. The career of the former has been
phenomenal in the rewards OF public ap-
plause. She had youthful beauty, amia-
bility of spirit, and an unusual aptitude for
the duties and exigencies of social leader
ship. The latter will have that splendor of
matured loneliness of person, character and
works which is the elimination of matronly
influence and worth.
Mrs. Cleveland exemplifed the marvellous
range of capability of the American girl.
Mrs. Harrison will illustrate the wonderful
force and development of the American
woman. Mrs. Cleveland entered the Ex-
ecutive Mansion as bride, fresh from the
gayeties of her girlhood and maiden life.
The pleasurable experiences of college days,
entire into society and European travel were
still new. From the walks of young lady
in ordinary society, she entered the highest
sphere of social preferment, and played her
part with brilliant success. Mrs. Harrison
takes her place in the Executive Man.
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sion after life of domestic experience, early
cares, and subsequent successes. The story
of the life of Frances Folsom Cleveland, as
first lady of the land, has been written in
her career imperishably in the social history
of administrations. Mrs. Harrison follows
in the line of social leadership and pre-
eminence with her career before her.
THE FIRST LADY.
About 50 years ago the household of Rev.
John Witherspoon Scott, Presbyterian
divine, President of Oxford, O., Female
College, was made happy by the birth of a
daughter. AT that time Andrew jackson
Ewaved the destinies of the country, and
Emily Donelson, wife of his private secre-
tary, and Sarah Yorke jackson, wife of
his foster-son divided the honors of the
social administration OF the Executive Man
sion.
The infant daughter of the reverend pro-
fessor received the name Carrie. De- Scott
belonged to an old Pennsylvania family, his
birth occurring in Bucks county, that State,
in the first year of the century. When he
was a youth in Philadelphia he met a
young lady named Mary Neal. The young
people became much attached TO each other,
but circumstance intervened to separate
them. The young lady's father was bank
cashier in Philadelphia. About the time
she was entering the most interesting age of
maiden life he removed to W ashington, Pa,
taking his family with him, to found and
manage bank in the interests of Eastern
capitalists.
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studies, but most of all he was the idol of
his school-fellows, Just as he is of his parti-
sans to-day. A few months after gradua-
tion he went to Kentucky and taught school
at the Western Military Institute at Bene
Lick Springs. While in Kentucky he
wooed and won his present wife, then Miss
Harriet Stanwood, native of Maine, who
was being educated at Millersburg, Ky.
Returning with his young wife to Pennsyl-
vania, he studied law, but was forced by
necessity to take position as tutor in the
Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction
of the Blind. Here he remained from 1852
to 1854. when he went to Maine to assume
editorial charge of the Kennebec Journal.
The moribund condition of the old Wing
party and the rapid growth of the Republi-
can organization gave him an opportunity
that he made the most of.
He was elected to the State Legislature
IN 1S5S and in 1860 gave up his position as
journalist. He served for four years in the
Legislature, and during his last term was
Speaker. In 1862 he was sent to Congress
as Representative. He soon became a pro-
fcient parliamentarian. He was reelected
to each succeeding Congress until 1876,
when he was made Senator to succeed Lot
NJ. Morrill,. In 1869 he was made Speaker
of the House, and held the position for six
years, when the mutations of politics placed
his party in the minority. As Speaker he
enjoyed almost unbounded popularity
When the Maine Legislature met it made
him Senator for the term ending in 1888.
He, however, did not serve his full term,
for in 1880 he accepted the position of Sec
retary of State under Garfield. After the
latter's death he sent in his resignation to
President Arthur. Ever since 1876 Mr.
Blaine has been prominent candidate for
the Presidency. He was placed in nomina-
tion at the Cincinnati convention and also
at the Chicago convention of 1880, and both
times was among the leading candidates
In 1884 Judge West, the blind orator,
nominated Mr.. Blaine amidst the scene of
the widest enthusiasm. The fourth ballot
resulted in 541 votes for the Maine man; on
motion of Congressman Burleigh the nomi-
nation was made unanimous. The Incl
dents Of the campaign of 1884. are still too
recent to need recapitulation. The meager
majority by which Blaine lost New York
and the election, the enormous maiorities
in Pennsylvania, Colorado and other States,
attested the popularity of the candidate,
and urge his supporters in demanding that
he again become candidate for nomination
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Rhinecliff and Kingston, where the State of
New York had its political birth. She has
been leader in the Congressional circles at
Washington and in the sphere of diplo-
matte hospitalities near the court of
the French Republic. In her
domestic surroundings Mrs. Morton is not
only happiest, but her own little casket
of household gems gives her the greatest
pride and satisfaction. Edith, her eldest
daughter, is tall, willowy blonde of ex-
pressive beauty, just entering her fifteenth
year. Lena, who has just entered her teens,
bears strong resemblance to her mother.
Helen, who is IL, is a striking type of
childhood attractions. Alice, who is also a
blonde, is 9, and Mary, the youngest of the
family, who is another competitor for the
honor of family charms, is z The only son,
Lewis Parsons, who would have been IL
years of age had he lived, died while his
parents were in London.
Mrs. Morton is very striking blonde
with blue eyes of deep expression. She is
the type of queenliness of figure, and in her
movements exhibits all the grace of dis
tinguished lineage and cultivation incident
to careful training.
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terly affection was brought within the periph-
cry of the family circle by the marriage
of Russell Harrison to the daughter of Al
vim Saunders.
MRS. RUSSELL HARRISON.
Her father, a descendant of Virginia
family of Kentucky pioneers, where he was
born, went to Iowa in 1886, was a member
of the Constitutional Convention upon the
admission of that State into the Union in
1S45; was President Lincoln's Governor of
Nebraska from 1861 until it Joined the sis
terhood of States in 1867, and was Senator
of the United States 1888. Her mother
was Marthena, daughter of Theodore Bar
low, of Green county, Indiana, originally
from Virginia and prominent in the early
development of the Western Territory.
The marriage of Mary Saunders to Rus
sell Harrison took place in Washington in
January, 1885. The young couple removed
to Helena, Mont, where Russell Harrison
and Charles L. Saunders, his brother-in-
law, engaged in business. Mr.. Harrison,
who is largely identified with journalism
and the stock raising and agricultural in
terests Of Montana, is very popular among
the people of that embryo State, and it is
said that there is great probability OF his
appearance in the affairs of the new Com
monwealth. His wife, with her year-old in
FAINT, Marthena, will spend some time at the
Executive Mansion.
1t was also during the residence of Gen
eral and Mrs. Harrison at Washington that
their daughter Mary became the wife of
James Robert Mckee, young merchant of
indianapolis. Miss Mamie Harrison was
well known in Washington in select circle
Of young ladies, and her return will form a
pleasant opportunity for the younger wives
and daughters to enioy the social entertain
ments of the Executive Mansion. Her two
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HARRISoN's CABINET.
Sketches of the Men Presumably Chosen to Assist the
President in Steering the Ship of State.

Although President Harrison has not yet
officially announced the names OF the
gentlemen whom he has invited to take
Cabinet positions it is well understood that
the Offices are to be distributed as follows:
Secretary of State, James 6. Blaine, of
Maine.
Secretary of the Treasury, William Window,
of Minnesota.
Secretary of War, Redfeld Proctor, of Yer
mont
Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin F. Tracy, of
New York
Postmaster General, John wanamaker, of
Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Interior, John W. Noble. of
Missouri
Attorney General, W. h. n. Miller. of Indi-
ana.
Department of Agriculture, Jeremiah M.
Rusk, of Wisconsin.
Portraits and biographical sketches of the
members of the new Cabinet follow:
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the whole Rebellion and served with Gen.
eral Sherman from the siege of Vicksburg
until mustered out at the close of hostili-
ties, when he held the brevet rank of Brig
adler General, gained for services at the
battle of Salkehatchie. He was a member
of the Forty-second. Forty-third and Forty
fourth Congresses, and was Chairman of the
Committee on Invalid Pensions. Later on
he became Governor of Wisconsin, holding
the Office for two terms. 1t was during his
last term that the labor riots occurred in
Milwaukee, and it was only, thanks to his
determined opposition in ordering out the
militia, and concentrating the whole force
in Milwaukee, that the Anarchists were
held back
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JOHN WANAMAKER, P. M. G.
Pennsylvania Representative in Presiden
Harrison's Cabinet.

Pennsylvania Representative in President
Harrison's Cabinet.
John. Wanamaker's career as a merchant
has been remarkably successful, and his
present leadership among Philadelphia's
business men is the result of cast-iron nerve,
heroic energy and triumphant ability. Con-
centration of purpose, springing from ma
ture inherently stable, and sustained by a
spirit worthily ambitious, has achieved for
John Wanamaker the victory of renown
and the advantage of vast wealth. Mr..
Wanamaker is self-made man, and repre-
sents the best type of American character.
He is to-day, in the drygoods trade, incom-
parably the most influential merchant and
manufacturer of the City of Brotherly Love.
His fortune is variously reckoned, but all
the estimates make him many times mill
ionaire.
His life reflects his religious convictions,
his conduct is governed by profound sense
of moral obligation, and his character is
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energetically opposed by NJ. Il. Dunnell,
member of Congress from the first Mime
sofa district. In caucus Mr.. Window re-
ceived SO votes out of "a necessary to
choice. Dunnell fought him openly and
secretly, and the deadlock continued for
some time. Finally break was made and
Dwight NJ. Sabin was elected. After his
defeat for the Senate, Mr.. Window spent
most oil his time in New York with his
family, but always put in an appearance in
Minnesota before each general election.
Mr.. Window has been interested in some
railway schemes and is believed to be q
wealthy man. His former administration
of the Treasury was infinitely creditable and
most useful to the country.
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hearts and willing hands they crossed the
threshold of life's duties together.
r.prr urrnDEn TTFE

hearts and wiling nanuS uneV crOSseu Lne
threshold of life's duties together.
EARLY Welded LIFE.
The cash capital at the command of Ben
iamin Harrison when he began married life
and the practice of his profession was $500,
an advance on lot IN Cincinnati inherited
through his aunt, who married James Fin
Law, soldier in the War of 1872 Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrison began their domestic re-
sponsibilities in rooms in an indianapolis
boarding house. In the summer of 1854 NJ rs.
Harrison paid visit to her parents at the
old home at Oxford, and there, on August
II. Russell Harrison, their eldest child, was
born. After this event in the family circle,
the young mother having returned in the
autumn to indianapolis, the proud husband
rented a small house, and began life in
earnest, his faithful and industrious wife
doing her own housework, in a cottage of
three rooms. The steady gains in fame,
practice, and pecuniary rewards in two
years found Mrs. Harrison presiding over a
a larger and more pretentious house. Here
their second and last child, Mary Scott
Harrison, was born.
In 1881 General Harrison entered the Sem
ate of the United States, and Mrs. Harrison
became a member OF that distinguished cir
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ANOTHER OHIO MAN.
General John w. Noble, Who Becomes
Secretary ofthe Inter5or

General John w. Noble, Who Becomes
Secretary ofthe Interior.
John Wilcox Noble was born in Ian
caster City, O., October %, 1881, and was
the youngest but one of nine children. His
early days were spent in Columbus and Gin
cinnati, where he received good education;
he afterward attended Miami University
and Yale College, graduating from this in
stitution in 1851. He then studied law in
the Office of Henry Stanberry, who later on
was Attorney General for the United States
under President johnson. Mr.. Noble COM
menced to practice in St. Louis in 1856, but
removed in the following year to Keokuk,
where he soon won good name at the bar.
at the breaking out of the war he enlisted
as a private in the Third Iowa Cavalry
Regiment. This regiment was engaged
during the whole war, participating
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PREMIER BLAINE.

The Magnetic Maine. Man Who is TO be Sec
retary of State.
James G. Blaine was born in West
Brownsville, Pa, January 81, 1880. The
Blaine family distinguished itself in the
Revolution, and Colonel Ephraim Blaine,
the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was an officer of the Pennsylvania
line, as we'll as Commissary General of the
Northern department. The family had been
well to do, but at the time of James birth
was neither rich nor poor. The boy
attended Washington College, entering
it in 1s43, and although not a
sedulous student, ranked well in his
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above reproach. In spite of the vast busi-
ness interests which elm so much of his
time and attention, Nj. Wanamaker never
becomes so absorbed in such matters as to
be indifferent to the privileges and delights
of his home life. He is a thoroughly do
mestic man. and in the companionship of
his family he finds his completest satisfac-
tion and most restful delight. The portrait
at the head of this sketch gives an excellent
representation of its subject, whose features
indicate great mental strength, executive
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ability and force. and straightforward dis
position. Mr.. Wanamaker is noted for his
courtly manners, which are those of pol
ished gentleman of the old school. As a
politician he is moderate in his views.
though he is stanch Republican. Mr..
Wanamaker is native of Philadelphia and
takes an active interest in all matters per-
tanning to the trade and commerce of his
native city.
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in many battles where it always distin-
guished ITSELF Mr.. Noble was at the battle
at Pea Ridge, was present at the surrender
at Vicksburg, and took part in the cavalry
raid into Georgia and Alabama. When the
war closed he had gained the rank of Briga-
dier General. General Noble married in
1854 Miss Halstead, daughter of DR.. Hal
stead, OF Northampton, Mass, with whom
he has had two children, both of whom are
dead. Since 1876 he has made st. Louis
his home, where he always has taken great
interest in public affairs. General Noble is
a thorough gentleman and very good pub
speaker,
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3. & R.

Two special numbers; portieres at s6 90
and 81 80 pair; all shades-old gold, new
gold, old red, old blue, terra Gotta, etc., and
you can't match them in any other store at
these prices. See them.
BoGGs & BUHL, Allegheny.
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No Money for City Employees.

City employees were disappointed yester-
day when they expected to receive their
salaries, for it turned out that the Mayor
had gone to Washington without signing
the appropriation bill. Some people still
think he will veto it.
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elected for four succeeding terms. In 1871
he was elected to the United States Senate
and reelected in 1877. He left this body to
enter President Garheld's administration as
Secretary of the Treasury, but resigned after
excellent Secretary, having both wisdom
and courage in his successful efforts to re-
fund the high interest-bearing bonds at a
much lower rate. He was conspicuous for
the reliable conservatism, which is the
soundest principle in the world for fnan-
cial head of any Government.
In the memorable year 1888 Mr.. Window
was again a candidate for the Senate, and
was apparently the choice of the Republic
cans,of the State, but he was bitterly and
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City Controller Morrow insists that the
street improvement bill is as good as could
be had. He says printed copies of it will
be given to all persons who desire to read
it between now and Tuesday next, when the
Legislature will act upon it again.
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FARMER RUSK.

WiscCnsin's Ex- Governor, Who Will Mana ge
the Agricultural Department.
jeremiah NJ. Rusk, Ex-Governor of Wis
consin, was born in Morgan county, Ohio,
June II, 1880, and received good educa-
ton. When % years old he moved to Wis
consin, where be soon went into politics
After having held several county offices he
was elected to the State Legislature in 1862.
When the war broke out he was commits
stoned Major of the Wisconsin Volunteers.
He fought with great bravery during
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THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

Ex.Governor Proctor, of Vermont, One of
the, Original Harrison Men.
Redfeld Proctor, who has been rendered
the portfolio of the War Department. is a
native of Vermont: and swas at one time
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Prohibitionist. Di.countins Prospects.

The Executive Committee of the Prohibit
ton party met yesterday. W. D. Dunn
presided and made speech of some length
on the bright prospects the party had of
winning,
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER.

An Able and Wealthy Lawyer Who Was
Formerly Harrison's Partner.
William Henry Harrison Miller, former
law partner OF General Harrison, and who
is to be Attorney General, was born in Au-
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PLEURIsY pains, asthmatic, and all
throat affections, are soon relieved By that
certain remedy for coughs and colds. DR.,
Jayne's Expectorant.
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NEW YORK'S REPRESENTATIVE.
General Tracy, of Kings County, Who is to
Have the Navy Portfolio.

General Benjamin F. Tracy, who will be
the new Secretary of the Navy, is about SO
years old. He was born in Owego, N. Y,
and secured his education in the common
school of his native town. After leaving
the Owego Academy he entered the law
Office of Nathaniel W. Davis, where he re-
mained engaged in the study of law until
1851, when he was admitted to the bar and
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SECRETARY WINDOW.

The Statesman Called TO Take Charge of
the Treasury Portfolio.
William Window, who will be the next
Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Bel
mont county. Ohio, on May 10, 1927, of
Quaker parents. When he had completed
his education, he studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Mount Vernon, in 1858.
Two years Inter he emigrated to Winona,
Mimi, where he practiced law until 1859,
when he was elected to Congress, being re-
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coMINa powN no pArE.

Rutherford B. Hayes gave his views Of
national administration in 2,472 words and
16 rs. james A. Garfield backed and filed
on the salient points of pnblie policy and
party expediency in z, ,949 words and 10 rs.
Chester A. Arthur, the Apollo Belvedere
of Presidents, took up the blood-stained
mantel of Garfield and formulated a nom
aggressive policy of administration and q
reign OF Chesterfeldian social indulgences
in the suceinct numbers of 4S1 words and
IL.
The Democratic Presidents again came to
the front in executive control in Grover
Cleveland, who told about Jefersonian SIM
plicity, civil-service, one term, financial
whirlpools, silver breakers, and economic
reform in 1858 words, in which he modestly
stood himself up in the form of the pronoun
/ but five times.
President Benjamin Harrison outlines the
course of his administration in an address
conCaining over 1000 words. In the use ofthe
personal pronoun he strikes fair and mod
crate average, contenting himself with II
rs.
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LINCoLN's ADDRESSES.

Abraham Lincoln, the first of the Repub-
lican Presidents, outlined the administra-
tive policy of the new regime in political
control and discussed the movements of Sc
cession. the authority and perpetuation of the
Union, the possibility of war, the raising of
revenues and strengthening of Government
in g. ,5S8 words. The martyr President stood
forth in the heroic attitude of 1 43 times, which
overtopped the numerically pronominal
prominence of all his predecessors, and vet
ne was always known as the least obtrusive
of public men. He made his second inau-
gural salutatlon in the breVity of 2SS words
and single 1.
Andrew johnson, over the slain body Of
Abraham Lincoln, told the country of his
plans of Succession in 362 words and 15 rs.
Ulysses S. Grant, the great Captain in
the war for the preservation of the Union,
gave his soldier notions of civic duty and
administration in 1, ,139 words, and for free
dom in the use of ranked next to Lincoln's
43 by scoring up SO uses of the individual
izing integer lu the prenoun family. Upon
his second appearance under similar cir
cumstances, in disposing of questions of
reconstruction and international differences
growing out of the war, he gave expression
to his views in an address of 1882 words,
supported by "a rs
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terly affection was brough within the periph-
cry of the family circle by the marriage
of Russell Harrison to the daughter of AL
vim Saunders.