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returned to Kentucky and entered
himself as student to Centre College,
at Danville, in that State. This was
a Presbyterian institution, and was
quite celebrated in its time. 1t has
sent forth a good many men who
have made their mark upon the his
tory of their times. Among those
now or recently
PROMINENT MEN IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
in the different States may be named
Senator ]. c. S. Blackburn, of Ken
lucky; Thomas T. Crittenden, ex-
Governor of Missouri; Representative
James B. McCreary, formerly Gov
ernor of Kentucky and now a promi-
nent member of the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington; John Young
Brown, now Governor of Kentucky;
W. c. P. Breckenridge; John c.
Breckenridge, late Vice-President of
the Cunted States, and Claude Mat
thewS, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Indiana last year. They
were all graduated from this college.
Living IN new country, he thought
ne saw an opportunity to make place
tor himself in a profession. So in
his twenty-second year he left college,
without graduating, and entered ur On
the study of the law in Bloomington
with Robert E. Williams, then himself
a comparatively young man, though
old enough to have attained consid-
cradle reputation both as lawyer and
Democratic politician.
1t was not the fashion in those DAYS
to attend a law school. But young
Stevenson pursued the studies with
much earnestness, and with such sue
cess that he graduated in his twenty
third year, and was admitted in 1880
to the practice of his profession in
Bloomington the town Of his residence.
BY coincidence Mr. Cleveland him
self, the same year, was admitted to
the Bar in Buffalo.
In the year of his admission young
Stevenson left his home in Blooming
ton and removed to Metamora, in
Woodtord county, of the same State.
There he settled down to the practice
of his profession, doing such work as
a young lawyer could find in pio-
neer community.
Soon after his removal to Metamora
he was appointed master in chancery,
which office he held for four years.
There were in those days no impor-
tant railroad cases, nothing but ordi-
/ nary routine business, mainly of an
equity character. But it gave the
young lawyer recognition in such a
community and enabled him to make
i many legal connections that were
valuable, not only then SO far as fees
were concerned, but which brought
him many friends in later years. So
we'll did he do his work that in 1864
ne was elected to the office of Dis
trlct Attorney, which under the old
constitution of Illinois was an office
whose work extended over several
counties. This Office he also held for
tour years. Although the district
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-03-09
AUTHORITIES DIFFER.
The Question is When Were
Cleveland and Stevenson Elect
ed President and Vice-Presi-
dent, Respectfully?

On the 18th Of Feb. Mr.. E. L. c.
Manning, of Norfolk, Va, addressed
the following letter to the editor of the
New Y DIRK Wor1d:
VIII YOU kindly answer through the
columns OF Your extensively circulated
journal the following interrogatory,
rideitcit:
On what day We're Mcssrs. Cleveland
and Stevenson elected President and
Nice-President OF the United States?
l. On the 9Th day OF November, when
the Electors We're voted Tor?
,. On the day that all OF the returns
We're III the custody OF the President of
the Senate?
3. Or, on the day OFeb. Sth) that the
returns from the respective Electoral
Colleges OF the forty-fOur States We're
finally canvassed by the Joint session OF
Congress at Washington, d. G.?
To this the editor of the World re-
piled by letter as follows:
"Cleveland and Stevenson were not
elected on either of the days specified in
your letter. They We're elected when the
electors met in their respective States
and voted by ballot for President and
Vice president" +
a similar letter was addressed at
the same time to the editor Of the
New York Herald, and in its issue of
Feb. 10Th. it answered as follows:
In the eyes Of the law the voting on
November Sth was of no moment so
far rs MCssrs. Cleveland and Stevenson
We're concerned. The legal choice OF
President and Vicc-P President was made
by the Electoral College but the election
was not completed until the vote was
declared by Congress on February Sth.
There Is much dispute as to the powers
OF Congress in cases OF conflicting re-
turns or disputed counts, but action by
that body is certainly necessary to a
perfect title"
As there was difference of opinion
between these recognized authorities
letter asking the same question was
written to the Philadelphia Record
and in its issue of the oath Of Febru-
airy. it submitted the following solution
The electors were elected Oh Noyem-
Der :; the electors elected Cleveland when
they met III their respective capitals; the
official declatatiOn Of the election was
made after the returns had been received
at Washington at the Joint session OF
Congress, on Feb. s.
The question still appears to be I'M
settled, since no two of these able
papers agree upon the same thing.
Who Is correct-lf either of them.
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VICE-PRESIDENT ADLAI d. STEVENSON.

although the Republican candidate for
President had carried the district by
several thousand.
After his retirement from Congress,
Mr.. Stevenson returned to the practice
of his profession in Bloomington. He
never permitted anything to keep him
away from his practice except those
public duties which could not be
shirked. During the time he was in
Congress his law practice had been
kept up, during the sessions, by his
partner, James S. Ewing, SO that he
had only to return to it to find plenty
of work
In 1878 Mr.. Stevenson was nomi-
mated by the convention of his party,
and was supported by all the elements
opposed to the Republicans. As usual,
he did not push himselfupon his party,
but once nominated, he deemed it his
duty to enter the field and give the
best service he possibly could. His
personal popularity stood him in good
stead again, and he was returned TO
Congress, after two years absence, by
good majority.
Ia August: 1885, Mr.. Stevenson
was rendered and accepted the Office
! Of First Assistant Postmaster General.
He was never an applicant for the
place, but he was on intimate terms
with Postmaster-Ge Villas, who
recommended the appointment, and
was exceedingly anxious to obtain Mr..
S.evenson's services in his department.
Ever since the close of the Demo
cratic administration, 1850, Mr.. Ste
venson has been looked upon as the
firm friend of Mr.. Cleveland, and he
always insisted that the one thing
| to do was TO nominate Mr.. Cleveland.
He was potent in bringing this about
during the convention, and was the
original chairman OF the Conference
Committee, composed of prominent
Cleveland men from every State that
took under its charge the duties of the
canvass.
Immediately after his retirement
from Office Mr.. Stevenson returned to
his home in Bloomington, resumed
the active practice Of his profession,
and has been engaged in bis old work
ever since. Since that time he has
manifested his old-time interest in
politics, as we'll as in business matters,
by taking an active part in the in
terests of the location OF the World S
Fair al Chicago.
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gave about a thousand Republican
majority he was elected as Demo
cratic candidate, his first experience
of this sort.
The practice of a lawyer holding
such an office is, of course, almost en-
tirely criminal, and although he had
had little experience in this he worked
hard and did his duty justly and fear
lessly. The position of public prose
cutor was then more important than
it is now, when the prosecutor is often
times enabled to bring to his assistance
some of the best members of the Bar
in order to enable him to meet the
many lawyers who are sometimes
pitted against him in the defense of
a man indicted for crime
1t was almost as natural for lawyer
to go into politics those days as it
was for him to eat his dinner, and
Stevenson was no exception to the
general rule. He got his first nitro
duction TO politics in 1860, when he
made some speeches in favor Of the
election of Stephen A. Douglas. In
1858, while still resident o: Bloom
ington, the celebrated series of de-
bates between Lincoln and Douglas
were being carried on throughout the
State of Illinois. One of them was
held at Bloomington, and it was there
that the young lawyer first made the
acquaintance of Mr.. Douglas, then
the leading man of his State, and per
haps of his party in all the country.
The older man formed liking for the
younger one, and it was perhaps only
natural that when the campaign Of
1860 came on the young lawyer, then
beginning his life work in another
town, should have thrown himself into
the contest with all his zeal.
In spite of the fact that he was a
kentuckian by birth, association and
training, Mr.. Stevenson refused to
support Breckenridge, and allied him
self with the Douglas or northern
wing of the Democracy. He was one
of the most earnest of the young sup
porters of that wonderful man, and
and in 1861, when, during the dark
and early days of the war, Douglas
died, it was Stevenson to whom the
people of his town looked when they
cast about for some man to pronounce
the eulogy upon the life of Senator
Douglas.
Mr.. Stevenson entered Congress in
the first House of Representatives con-
trolled by the Democrats after the
war. For fourteen years the Repub-
licans had had absolute control not
only Of the Executive but of both
Houses of Congress. But the tidal
wave of 1874 brought into the House
large number of new men, defeating
many Republicans who had been most
prominent in the drastic legislation
of the war period.
In the Congressional elections OIL
1876 Mr.. Stevenson, renominated by
all the elements in his district op-
posed to the Republican party, had
been defeated by Thomas F. Tiptor
by majority Of less than $50 votes
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NOW !!

If Won have friend worth loving,
Love him. Yes. and let him know
That Won love him ere life's evening
TinCe his brow with sunset glow.
WHY should good word ; ne CT De sara
OF a friend till he is dead?
If Won hear song that thrills YOU
Sung by any child Of song,
Praise it. DO not let the singer
Wait deserved praises long.
Why should one who thrills your HedIt
Lack the iOv YOU NAV impaIt.
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ADLAI I. STEVENSON.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Brief but Interesting Sketch of
the Life and Career of the Man
Who Stands Next to Head in
the Highest Office in the Coun-
try.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson was born
in Christian county, Kentucky, on the
on the 23rd Of October, 1885. His
father and mother were natives of
North Carolina, having left there when
they were mere children. His grand
father Stevenson was one OF the early
settlers of that part of Kentucky. His
ancestors were Scotch-Irish. The
paternal great-grandfather of the
new Vice-President was native
of the North Of Ireland who settled in
North Carolina about the beginning
of the last quarter OF the eighteenth
century, and his son, the grand father
of Gen. Stevenson went, in 1913, to
Kentucky, which was then primitive
country-far more primitive, in fact,
than any settlement to be found any
where in the country at the present
time, however remote it may be. All
these men were farmers, as their an
cestors had been for generations.
The Stevensons were farmers in
Kentucky, as they had been in North
Carolina and in Ireland; SO when the
father of Adlai moved to Bloomington,
H., in 1852, he proceeded in accord
ance with the instincts and habits
of his race. At this time the future
Nlce-President was sixteen years of
age. The community in which he
thus had his early training was en-
tirely agricultural, and the school to
which he went was an old fashioned :,
country one, in which, for some four
or five months in the year, some peri
patetlc pedasogue, or some poor, but
aspiring, young college student, ad
mlnistered to the wants of a pioneer
community in a log school-house,
which has long since fallen into such
utter ruin that it would probably be
difficult even to find the place where
it stood. He attended the neighbour
hood school in Kentucky and after the
removal OF the family to Illinois he
continued his studies there.
He himself never engaged in farm
ing, except it might be in some early
efforts In which he helped out his
neighbors Or his friends. But, like
many others who have come up through
this plain and industrious school, he
was not satisfied with his surroundings.
His father, like all of his generation,
was just little bit further advanced
in the art of money-getting, and the
instinct for gain had grown SO much
stronger among the people that the
sons began to look out for a better
education than their fathers had had.
So, only little while after the re-
moval to Illinois, young Stevenson
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ICincinnati Commercial-Rep.
Newspaper ridicule of Mr.. Hoke
Smith, the young Democratic states
man of Georgia, because of the pecu-
liarity Of his christian name, is coarse
and offensive. Our Atlanta friend has
the advantage of a christian name to
distinguish him from the vast army
bearing his surname. He has the
honor Of the family name of his
mother who was the daughter of a
jurlst of high reputation in North
Carolina. Nancy Hanks was the
name of President Lincoln's mother
before she was married, and the
supplemented son, in all the glory of
his greatness, never forgot his mothers
name.
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To Prevent Grin

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-03

declared war to the knife. Turned out
his light cavalry from the kennels,
called out his infantry in the person of
a ferocious Zulu stable boy, and came
out himself with a fearful implement
they call it q sjambok. l executed q
mastery retreat. leaving a portion of
my rear guard in the mouth of the cav
airy"
II can't say I'm sorry for you. Young
ladies r not to be won by ultima
tums."
And me . member of one Of the
ouldest families in Oireland." he ex-
claimed, tragically. ''Oh. now, that
father was unreasonable. He said he
wanted no one TO offer him impertinent
advice about his daughters education,
and he had the blessed impudence to
curse me and my ancestral home.
Twas then the war broke out, and my
Partially for bananas and ripe lips re-
ceived . cruel blow. See that pool Of
foul water on the fiat? Well, l went
straight of there to drown meself and
sorrows, but there was a prior
claimant in the shape Of a poor divil Of
a bloated dog. and SO / thought better
of it and drowned the ultimatum in
stead"
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A BIRD OF THE SEA.
The Mates Story OF Mother Carey's
Chickens.

Chickens.
The mate had a Of his own
to tell of the Mother Carey's chickens.
lie had first a great deal Of romance
about them to dispeL In the first place,
they are not lowering about the water
for the owe Of it. There is no poetic
intention in this continual haunting of
the salt waves. Far from it. The
birds are simply feeding themselves.
And what. think you, are they feeding
upon? Upon the drippings of oil
from the machinery of the steamer.
which rise to the surface in its wake;
and when you see them lingering SO
lovingly for an instant, seeming to
float upon the water and kiss it, they
are ~scooping up this unpleasant sub
stance with their beak. The mate says
that. il you were to catch one of these
birds in your hands, you could not for
weeks eradicate the evil odor that il
would leave there. He told a pathetic
story Of a little dog which he had aboard
ship once. and which worried some OF
Mother Carey's chickens that e
brought aboard, and after that, for the
space Of ut least a month. the little
dog hated the world and himself. and
received nothing but kicks where he
had received caresses, and thereupon
wisely abjured the worrying OF old
sailors souls" for the rest Of his life.
The mates own romance about the
Mother Carey's chickens was this: He
declared that they never went ashore
or neal the shore under any circum-
stances; that they breed at sea. carry
ing their eggs under their wings until
they Matched and n~ourishing their
Young there. He averred firmly and
on his word as q mariner and an officer
that he had seen the bodies Of females
of this species which were carrying
their newly-hatched young close under
their wings, and the bodies Of other
females with the unmatched eggs
there. This was certainly . most in
teresting story. The mate was a sea-
faring man Of years, solidity and char
acter. 1t was a shock, therefore, 10 be
told. on the authority of one who really
must know, taat this is not true and
that the Mother Carey's chicken, like
other marine birds, gocs far north to
breed every season and matches its
yonng in due archaeological fashion by
sitting on the egg somewhere in the
waters OF Labrador. Boston Tran
script
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'How WAS 1T WITH THE ULTIMATUM 2
official envelope with . most serious
air.
"Now you listen to this fiatter
meself it's neat:
Dear Sir-uhats her fathcr)-Dcar Sir: As
you are doubtless aware. I am ardently in love
with your charming daughter. and tits the wish
OF my heart that she should become my wife.
Ny family is the Oldest and the proudcst in
Ireland. and my wife must have no defects Ny
love for your daughter does not blin.l me to the
fact that her education has not been without its
defects-defccts which are inexcusable in this
young lady. She has . tendency TO drop her
his from one end and her gs from the other.
NV family could forgive anything but that
Now. my dear sir, l would respectfully but nr
gently propose that you daughter should be
placed at once in an establishment for young
ladies'. where she would be perfected In the
elegant use OF her moshe. tongue. and fitted
for the high honor Of q union with my family.
Believe me to be. etc. etc"
You surely do not intend 10 send
that extraordinary document to her
father?"
That's my intention. It's only due
10 me family"
well then, send IL IN, and prepare
70 leave the country in . hurry"
"D'ye think he'll take offense? But
think Of the honor Of an alliance with
the ouldest family in Oireland. I'll
chance It. anyhow"
lleft noon after for A~aritxburg, and
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-03
MUCH LIED ABOUT INDUSTRY.

Big manufactures Busy Denying state
ments Of Over Jealous Pr~otectionlstA-
More than two-thirds Of the gloves
made in this country are made in Full
ton county, n. y. About 200 firms
there employ 5000 or 1, 1000 in factories
and 5000 or 1000 more in their homes.
Mckinley raised the protection duty on
gloves from so to an average Of about
So per cent after making duties so
high on many kinds Of cheap gloves
that they are no longer imported OF
course protcctionists like to point to
Fulton county 10 show what protection
has done. Last year when the Ameri-
can Economist was engaged in its des-
perate search after wage adv>nccs, I'M
der Mckinley rule. it took the liberty
Of naming two glove manufacturers
who had raised wages since 1890. These
two firms enjoyed much free advertis-
ing in republican papers and all went
well until one day when the Reform
club sen a representative TO Glovers-
Vile to inquire into the cause of these
alleged advances. IL wal then learned
that these-like the others of the twen-
ty-seven similar wagc-advanccs-were
fakes The only basis for the reports
was the fact that these firms, as usual.
had increased the wages Of a few new
hands taken from the couLt try the pre-
vious fall and winter and who had
worked at very low wages with the cx-
p~ectation that they would receive more
when their terms Of apprenticeship
were over.
Many were the lies told about the de-
pendencc Of the glove industry upon
protection during the campaign Of 1892.
The New York Tribune sent one Of IL
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II has been hard work in some cauos
TO get the manufacturers to enter pro
tests against the revision Of the tariH.
The Indianapolis Journal came out tho
other day with . Washington dispatch
introduced by such head lines as these:
Don't Seem to Care: Indiana Glass
Manufacturers Neglect their Oppcv~
tunity; Not One has Notified the Demo
cratic Tariff Thinkers at Washington
that He Desires to be Heard" The
correspondent complains that not =
word has been heard by the ways ard
means committee from n Of the
manufacturers in the natural gas be;t
Of Indiana, and that although there
are very large plate glass establish
ments at Kokomo. Alexandria and New
Albany and other places, no intimA-
ton has been received from either of
them that a hearing vas desired"
Equally derelict are the flint and lime
glass trade, and the window glass,
fruit jar, and bottle manufacturers.
1T would SEEM" says the despairing
correspondent. that the manufactur.
ers in the gas belt are confident Of
their ability To successfully compete
with the manufacturers in any other
part of the country under any kind Of
a tariff law, and that they are defying
the competition Of Europe. which the
democratic majority in congress pro-
poses TO invite under their new law"
Of course there could be no greater dis
grace for Indiana than to have her
manufacturers enterprising enough 70
beat the WORLDLY y. Evening Post