The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02

| buckets empty ID the evening. IEey have no appreciation of the fact that their father is the head of a mighty nation, with even more unlimited power than some of the monarchs of the old world. To live in big marble build ing with nurses and servants to attend to them is natural; for they know no other life. If little Ruth were told that she could not have milk, or cream, or candy, or bread and butter because ''papa has no money and is out of work" she would open her big bright eyes In amazement. That sort of lan- guage would be all Greek to her. It would be a foreign tongue, and she would stamp her little foot and order with anger that her demands be con- piled with at once. We may hope and pray that Ruth Cleveland and her little sister shall never know what depriva- tion means. While we are prone to envy the successful and prosperous in this world, we are not inclined to wish that others may suffer poverty or pain.
 No baby of the white house has ever come to grief, but ladies who have lived in the executive mansion have known reduced circumstances in later life. For many years there has been a resi- dent of this city, living on charity, who was once the leader of the society of | Washington, and who was kuown as the first lady of the land" In 1S42 the wife of President John Tyler died, and her daughter Letitia Tyler became the domestic manager of the home of the president until the close of his ad- miuistration. She was beautiful, too; and her social reign was brilliant. Twenty years after the Tyler admins tration, at the close of the civil war, Letitia Tyler-Semple, orphaned and widowed. in reduced circumstances, in actual need of money for food and clothing, went to Baltimore and opened select school for young ladies' She was about forty years of age, still at- tractive and beautiful, but proud of her family, proud of her welded name, and unwilling to become the wife of another man: and so she worked with will and succeeded. But her eyesight failed and her health broke down. Destitution stared her in the face, but she never complained Her circumstances, how ever, became known to the millionaire end philanthropist, William w. Corco- ran, of this city, and he came to her rescue. In memory of his beloved daughter, who died while quite young
 MT. Corcoran esta ablished a home for ladies of gentle birth and breeding, and called it the Louise home."
 Within year of the establishment of this house of refuge, Mir. Corcoran learned of the condition of Le- titia Tyler-Semple, whom he had known when he was young man, and whose father, President Ty- Ter, had been his friend. MT. Corcoran went to Baltimore, saw the lady, told her of the establishment of the Louise home," asked her opinion of it, and finally invited her to become it's most honored guest. She dsmurred, ex- pressing the belief that her strength would be restored and that she would be able to care for herself; but Mir. Cor coran finally induced her to come to Washington ana enter the home. That was nearly twenty years ago, and she has lived there ever since. She is about seventy-fve years of age, tall, slender and unusually erect for lady of her age. She is thorough Tyler, with the strongly characteristic features of that famous family. Her hair is silvery white, and the brown eyes, pleasantly smiling through the gold-rimmed glasses, gleam with brightness. Her memory is un- impaired, and she delights in recalling the time when she was the recognized leader in the society of the country and a queen of the American court. For the past three years she has re- ccived pension of eight dollars per month, which, though small, is yet an addition to her slender income. In this same city for many years her brother, John Tyler, lived as an employe of the treasury department, and they often saw each other and talked of old times when they were great and powerful. But finally John Tyler, who had been private secretary to the president, be- care unable t6 attend to his official