The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

time learning OBJ speak clearly, ana DEE was
clumsy. determined CHILD
Par son Cleveland was A4Ir college
man. ami used Go walk neaa. W.fl u-E
ana the family ni-hts after prayer mce.-
tns. OF service. while he aud i would rIlE
about what I was studyins- Many time
I have helped carry the children home
from church They would be sleepy ana
cross, and all being big. healthy children.
Il was NOT tle easiest JOB ~ tlr NotI4 Co
look after thcm- The CteVelal.s lived lt
clinton seven or eight years. So you see
lad ample opportunity 20 observe tlt cli,-
Qrcn develop.
III came On my duties 10 look after The
Dig, oid-ias nloued wood stove n the
church. All the old-timers boz tue east VIII
Eecall tleIn- / remember how Grover Us.l
20 loFe 20 come there from the parsonage
when 1 was at work alone building sizes
preparatory for service. He was tuu OF
mischief and would throw balls OF snow
on tha broad stove top TO watch them
bubble and melt and hear them -iIze.
'oue day when I told him several times
TO quit, le threw a Still larger snow BAN
on the hot stove. ana when sn4tcheI hold
OF MIN he shouted some sautE words at
me.
Il lost my temper in a moment and
Just laid little Grover across my knee
fiAnl there In the Presbyterian church
tWlth no one around Of course IuI gave
MN ABOUT dozen spanks fhar made my
nand burn. 1 was downright mad. and
meant business az every stroke.
Dld ne cry Not bin OF D.. He wig
sled himself loose from me. and suppress
ing ms anger ran out OF the church pell-
NELL across the snow toward home
III was "a week before he would look az
me- L told FarsCn Cleveland what had
GONE, and hc smiled and said he guessed
5IoNer needed q few more such lessons
IMAM he got. The pars0n never needed
Solomon's precept at an.
There were probably half a dozen other
times ln the course OF my JAM lrship in
the clinton Presbyterian church. that
had occasion TO mildly chastise Grover
once ne and several boy companions per-
sisted IN playing with the church organ
1 was afraid they would break some OF
the apparatus. and church organs cost 90
heap of money fifty years ago. When tho
spuhky little chap told me one DAY when
ordered him away from the organ 90 shut
my mouth. or something 20 that effect, J
suatched him and shook him almost hard
enough TO loosen his very teeth.
Another time when / had spent several
hours IN shOveling snow from the meeting
house walks ana pridcd myself ON nay fine
WOrk. thut little Grover Cleveland undiu
an my work by rolling about the snow
banks had made along each path and
scattering snow all over the walks When
l reprimanded him he gave me 90 under
stand that l was blamed Old fool any
how. You may be sure some more chas-
tisement Immediately followed. I don
known whether Parson Cleveland quite
liked my way of dealing with their boy,
but / was young and rash in those days
ana did not stop to inquire.
- remember the last time | saw Grover
Cleveland IL was at a Sunday school cOu-
dren in the Sunday school at Clinton.
Grover was then about 8 years oid he
had his piece to speak the same as the
other boys ana girls. His sister Mary re-
cited pretty little poem about the shop
nerds on The night that Christ was born.
while Grover spoke with such loud clear
voice that made II remembered through
all these years. story descriptive of the
children of Israel entering the promised
land
Il can see the boy-red-faced chubby
with a great shock OF brown hair both
hands locked tightly behind him and O.
white waist and long trousers reaphihg TO
his boots-standing there I'm front OF the
old-fashioned pulpit, reciting chat piece,
while his mother fairly beamed with
pleasure.
Il moved away from Clinton at about
1913. 1 went to Niagara Fails, and / res
member that while / lived there ! got the
news of the sudden death of Rev. Richard
Cleveland al Holland Patent, ~ Y. which
is in the same region as Clinton. I never
heard of Grover again until some twenty
years later, when / was living in Iowa.
and learned that Grover was a lawyer in
Buffalo OF course / have heard consid-
cradle of him in the last fourteen or IF
teen years"