The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-16

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promises Of reward. Life in the Senate is III;
same things, which are. never permanently &C
complIshed. No tariff bill will ever last. tn,
duty dsnyr and toil win q satisfy I the public. The mex
ddayy or next year r. bFlnEs neT Eeqaireme Sns
on both sides Of every question"
Mark Hanna 10 q study Of the influence oil
fashion among ouakers. The story OF Virgins
Quakers is that feature everybody would like to
know of, but no history OF Virginia seems eK'
tant which deals with the main influence Of that
State, it's social distribution abroad. In 1T77
Pennsylvania Quakers were banished TO Vir'
ginia for lukewarmness in the great revolt.
Among them was Pemberton, OF the family of
the man who surrendered Vicksburg to Grant,
and several of the exiles died at Winchester.
Mrs. President Madison's father was a Quaker
light. Loudoun county, above Washington city,
has still a large Quaker settlement. Penn drained
Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware OF their
Quakers, leaving only here and there a Seeding
to be contaminated by the world. Johns Hopkins,
Chief Justice Chew, and John Dickinson were
Of the Quaker connection. Hanna's people were
Virginia Quakers, mixed with Scotch-lrish. He
married the daughter OF a Vermont Democrat.
The spirit. grace, and clear social intellect Of
his wife may have whetted his political am
bition, and he has been lucky in compromising
personal opposition, the last centre Of which Is
guessed to be Gov. Bushnell Of Ohio. By a pop
ular admiration in that State, after handling
McKinley's canvass. Mr.. Hanna overbore the
jealousy OF other leaders who condemned him
as a new quantity. AS he won the reciprocal
friendship Of Mr.. Plat in New York, he also
softened his colleague Foraker; but an impress
sion has gone out among the laboring folk that
Hanna Is distinctively an employer while Nc
Kinley Is 1.-THE workingman's friend
th ann ansbd aHw slss, iih Is s SIrSnidSsPt I SUlain M' fsss y
his first espousers. Tho Irish stock Of Mckinley
makes clanship in an unlocal sense his uncon-
Titled in his mind. The same clan feeling was
In Andrew. jackson. The homely spirit OF affec-
guishes the Ceito.SsIon. and was as notice
able In Z George Q Clinton n It. 1h amM9n nSgo6 his New Britain
Hanna is a iookfeeper become a great fore.
man and forwarder. He replaces. probably in
the Presidents admiration that Mr.. walker Of
himself and involved the McKinieys till Hanna
made them whole.
playing the assisting hand, which in euchro
means the 5est hand. The President handles
s%Ty:s aiE''i ii%isatisn ss'SS MasKin iese Is e q SiHe;
M Msnns i is the hsf ssn. Teo satisfies. lSissF I, Wiz Z KIT +. Of ss s 2ess ss
business is slack; but the negociant and, one al.
m nos t f noasisI. the the 98G n a T nesHSsiSHippt AT , Is there So1
to be President : II so his curiosity would be q
part of the ambition.
its personal parts. We know that Mckinley has
been an expert Congressman and a capable cam
palm PALM, handler m,,S ,, In the C domain Of ideas n which .
much results as flashes: the fash Of tho cannon
precedes its report. go.
examination viii last awhile, but all these
stewards are in themselves unimportant: the
Even Dom Pedro Was fired out Of Brazil Tor
obliging everybody. Hanna must think, and
e e6s1sssa PITSpo'itbiS s M %nss b Pe .sS ! nest S & great ct
up Louis Napoleon. whose efforts had been in
cessapt to reach the French throne; but those
natures were in Franklin Pierce and Chester
being killed for recovering from Senators their
feudal assumption, of the royal prerogatiyes.
of srsat men. Hannah More was better than
Lord Byron, but Hannah Is no more.
Two fine. straight, white-haired. clean.shaven
men, each over six feet high, stood near the
Arlington Hotel but yesterday, talking. went
up and said:
Not to congratulate such youth would be like
scorning these green trees in May. How old are
you, Col. James r.
Eighty"
And you, Col. Berrett T.
"Eighty-three."
The first gentleman was Lincoln's Collector OF
the Port Of San Francisco and second of Arson
Burlingame in his mooted duel with Preston 8.
Brooks. The second person was JamesG Ber-
rett. Mayor of Washington before the war, and
intimate friend Of William L. Marcy. The lat
ter is Of San Domingo French stock, born in Bal
timore during the war of 1914. Mr.. James was
born at Sweden. Monroe county, New York.
The picture of their halencss Is not overdone;
their white hairs express no more age, than do
young Dragons.
together. and Parr believed he had lived f52
years, though he was 80 obscure that he couldn't
find his own age with a candle"
Where can a good account of Parr bo had r.
said Mr.. James, with a lively octogenarian in
histories Of the United states he had BEEN
writing one. soon to be finished. Col. Berrett Is
the last fine picture Of the great department
clerks were the social friends and visitors OF
their ministers. He pointed out to me whore
Of the Arlington Hotel, whose guests still use
Marcy's staircase. may add that Intelligence
Berrett says that he was thrown into Fort War
rem under an entire Misrepresentation Of his In.
%tentions In 1851, but he has let IL pass. and, not
striving only to get even." has got far ahead.
An old doorknocker with the name Of at.
Law upon 1t causes visitors to my den to ask
questions. I took 1t in April last from 1.-THE Re-
treat" an old villa two miles from Washington
dcrohn ITO CdsIcru brdncn, having only reulb-
covered that Maryland house of former fame by
addressing letters with return postal cards to
all the Postmasters beyond the District limo
southeast of the city. One Of these replied that
a place called THE Retreat" existed, but he
had never heard of Thomas Law. Alas! among
the autograph valuables stolen from the Library
of Congress recently was the request made to
Gen. Washington to permit the Hon. Thomas
Law to marry the Oldest grandchild of Mrs.
Washington, Eliza Parke Gusts. Mr.. Law was a
fine Persian scholar and friend. and subordinate
of both Warren Hastings and Lord CORVALLIS
In India, whence he emigrated almost directly
to America, bringing his fortune with him; and
he bought and built better than any other man
in Washington. His wife was a beauty, he &C.
centric and forgetful, with sons born by the
Gauges almost as old as his wife; she separ-
ated from him in about ton years, their only
child marrying Lloyd Rogers of Baltimore. She
lies in Druid Hill Park, which her son. Edward
Law Rogers, sold to the city Of Baltimore. Faux,
the English farmer, who has left the only de.
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