The morning times., 1897-02-21
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9 Some Oid-Or New;
3 All Good Stories These
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The scene OF the story is the breakfast
room of the White House.. Mrs Cleveland
was sitting at the table with the Chill
dren, and the following dialogue preceded
the coffee:
Mrs Cleveland-We shall have to leave
this lovely home before long, my child.
Ruth-Why, mamma?
Mrs observation-disclosures papa will no
longer be President.
Ruth-But he'll be my papa, won't he?
One day an elderly man came to Mr.
C!eveland's house when he was governor
of New York, leasiing his son, blind
boy, and bringing letter of introduction
to the governor. The secretary took the
letter in TO Mr. Cleveland, while the two
waited. Presently the secretary returned
and bade them enter.
This boy comes from n school where
you were once teacher said the man,
as he came to Mr., Cleveland desk.
.IIe was blind FROM his birth, and he
has heard so muchSaboat you and has
so often begged me to bring him here
that | have had to Go IT,
There were tears sin the sightless eyes
OF the boy, and no doubt he thought
that If he could stand iii the presence of
SO great a man he WDuidsurely be able TO
see him.
Come closer, my boy said the gov
ernor, as he laid his hand ON the small head
that rose not far above his knees Il
remember very well the days | spent
teaching the blind, and l have very
tender feeling for them.
Then he talked a few moments with
his little visitor, and something that the
boy said touched him deeply When he
went away tears were starting In the eyes
of the big governor
When Mr. Cleveland was first elected
President there was a certain deaf poll
tician-a deadly and invetcrate bore
who came often to give him advice Once.
when he had talked, and covered and re-
covered his subject, the President became
very nervous and was shouting yes and
yes" to the man at every sentence
After an hour or SO, Mr.. Cleveland mo-
toned to Col Lamont, who came up close
behind him. Then, between yes and
no TO the deaf man, he said to La
mont:
Get this Internal ass out Of here some
how, OF he'll kill me-
While the trouble was on with the ca l.
tIemen who had driven their stock into
Oklahoma before its formal opening, aud
the administration was wondering how to
get them out, Lamar was instructed TO
prepare n proclamation. IN due time the
ahSent-mindcd Southern statesman sab
nitted the result OF his labor at Cabinet
meeting After it was read, the various
members Of the Cabinet expressed their
approval.
That covers the point very well, :"
saidthe President finally very well indeed
but don't you think that the first para
graph would be "a little more flexible ana
satisfactory If it read like this?' Then
he took pad and wrote new paragraph
and read it, and they all agreed that il
was better
NOW" said he, "as to that second
paragr aph, what would you think OF
changing it so as to make it alttle milder?"
And he submitted his own idea of the
proper wording which all agreed was
better.
Then other changes We're made until but
fragment OF the original was left un-
scathed.
Il never thought" ,"sad lamar, who had
an English method OF pronouncing certain
words, Il never Thought that I'd be a clark
60 any man, but | made up my mind TO
be satisfied with mere clarkship after
that
John Sherman is hard man to inter
view because OF his absent mind. Its
easy enough to get at Sherman, but It's
another thing to get at his mind. They're
never both in the same place. He has
n way of fumblinga at his buttons and look
ing into the dim distance Sometimes he
will say yes, and you know ali the time
he isn't hearing word. The other day
he was in one of these distracted and af-
firmativc moods. He'd say yes two or
three times and was looking very far
away. SO l remarked:
Senator, will you loan me fifty thou
sand dollars?''
Not today" he answered, smiling.
Gen. Curtis, vino expects to be As
sistant Secretary OF War under Mckinley,
is the tallest man in either braCh of Con
gress. 1t is pretty nearly a toSsup witt
linn and Vary OF Kentucky. Between them
it is largely a question of boOtheels. Curtis
is shade taller, however, stands eX-
actly six feet six inches in his stocking
feet. His massive shoulders and broad
chest make him a Hercules. Sulloway Of
New Hampshire takes the third prize for
length among the Congressman. Curtis,
Vary and Sulloway, if they were TO lie
lengthwise with heel to crown, would
cover a strip of ground 19 "a feet long.
did you ever know said Curtis the
other day, that Il man is shorter at night
than he is in the morning and that a man
is also shorter in middle life than in his
youth?
Its fact, he continued, that man
loses quite a bit of his length in the
course Of a days work. Did you know,
too, that any one may add considerably
to his stature by lying in bed for
week? That is a trick that men some
times resort to who are a little short of
the required length in order to get into the
army"
Women the World Over.
A lady in Essex recently rode to hounds