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| Mr.. Reed is the kind of candidate
for President who does not propose to
! join the procession until it is ready 10
! start.
The visit of Gen. Harrison to New
! York is developing the fact that he has y
very strong following for the presidency.
| The points in his favor are: Not single
blunder or scandal is on record against
| his administration, and it was an era of
universal happiness and prosperity
| The people remember also that he car
ried very level head. His speeches and
papers were models of craftsmanship
and contained no platitudes, cant phras-
es or CyclOpedic extracts palmed off as
original. But Harrison will hesitate, we
think, to accept another nomination. He
can quite as well afford to let his record
stand as it is all ready made. 1t will
form one of the brightest ard most illus.
triOus pages in American history.
An ancient controversy has recently
been revived in England by the question
as to what really constitutes classic.
Some define it as IAN ancient author,
highly approved who is an authority on
the subject he treats Of" Goethe, on
the other hand, protested against the
confusion of what is classic with what is
merely old and declared that all healthy
work" no matter whether modern or an
cient, is classic. The French Academy,
speaking ex-Cathedra, defines classic au-
thOrS as ''those who have become models
in any language" while Sainte-Beuve de-
Clares that true classic is an author
who has enriched the human mind"
Indeed, no two opinions on the subject
seem to coincide, and what appears to
be a classic to one sort of people is re-
fused that qualification by others.
There was great deal of excitement
on COlraIn avenue, Cleveland, Ohio,
Wednesday, when nearly 100 women sun
bonnetted, in calico dresses, and carry
ing brooms and hoes, marched into the
street and began cleaning it. They went
to work with a will, and crowds of men
and the passengers on the trolleys ap-
pauded vigorously. All day long they
dug and swept and piled the dirt in piles
in the CUTTERS Many brought their chill
dron and ate their dinner on the curbs.
When sunset came it had been cleaned
from Virginia avenue to the corporation
line, half mile away. Thousands came
to see the street clean for the first time
in six months. The object of the cru
saders was to put the street cleaning de-
partment to shame.
Foreman Frank D. Grover of the
Rochester, n. Y, Gas and Electric Com
pany, Friday night leaned against a dy-
nOmo at the pOwer-house End nearly lost
his life, 1880 volts passing through his
body. Grover was seen to fall writhing
to the floor, and the current was turned
off and DR.. G. w. Wilbur was sum-
mOned. Grover was apparently dead,
but three of his co-laborers. who knew
the pecuiarities of electricity, set to
work to resuscitate him under :he direc-
ton of the doctor. They worked forty
five minutes before there was any sign
of returning life. At noon, Friday,
Grover although weak, said he expected
to work on Saturday. He said he knew
nothing from the moment he stood be-
side the dynamo until he awOke and
found the doctor and men working over
him, and was very much surprised 20
hear that 1850 volts had been pumped
into him. DR.. Wilbur says the mode of
operation of resuscitating a man appar-
emily killed by electricity is much the
same as that employed IN cases of
drowning. Rules for action in such,
case as this are posted in the power
house. and the three men who worked so
assduously over Grover obeyed them to
the letter, thus saving his life. This
theory in regard to treatment for elecs
trical shocks is of recent origin, being
proclaimed by a French scientist d'Ar-
sonval.
The Greshams came from England
in the colonial days with grants for land
in Maryland; and for generations. they
were persons of distinction. Gresham
Hall" says the Baltimore American, on
the Chesapeake, south of and adjoining
colchester, was once the seat of the fam
lily. The present estate-the part where
the manor house STOOLS still called
Gresham Hall. The Hall itself, ven
erable colonial building, was destroyed
by fire about the beginning of 1898.
Thomas Gresham, the last of the landed
proprietors of the family in Kent County,
died few years ago. He owned GrayS
Point farm, at the mouth of Grays Inn
Greek and Lankford Bay. He was coun-
ty surveyor and the story is told of him
that he was once on Eastern Neck Island
making surveJ. A furious storm arose
so that when night came he could not
get home, and he had to spend the night
on the island. Although he had been
married nearly fifty years, he had never
before spent night apart from his wife,
and the old gentleman, while being CON-
fOrtably cared for, was not happy. At
his death the farm was sold and passed
into the possession of Edgar H. Strong,
and the Gresham holdings in real estate
in Kent County ceased. About seven
years ago Judge Gresham visited Kent
County to make arrangements to have
the tombsof his ancestors cared for and to
collect materials for history ofthe fam
lily. While here Judge Gresham said
the name is mispronOunced on the East
erp Shore. While the spelling is pre-
served, the pronunciation has been cor
rupted into 'Grizzem.' He pronounced
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