The sun., 1899-05-16
Ex-President Waters's Sunday Game
of Pinochlp.

On Sunday there was baseess rumor of
Mr. CLEvELAND's sudden death at Middle
Bass Island, in Lake Erie, whittier he had
gone on fishing expedition with few per-
sonal friends. The story was too quickly
contradicted tocause prolonged anxiety in
any quarter. Visitors returning from the
island to Sandusky in the evening reported
that at five o'clock that afternoon Mr..
CLEVELAND was in perfect health, and was
then engaged In game Of pinochle with his
companions. similarly reassuring ac-
count OF Mr. CLEvELANDs condition was
rendered later that night by exclrsonists
who had remained on the island until after
nine o'clock.
There Is likely to be more or less sur
prise at Princeton, and perhaps elsewhere,
over this accidental disclosure OF Mr.
CLRvELAND's choice OF occupation on that
particular day. For although the ex-Presi-
dent is not officially connected with the
great Presbyterian university. and al
though he Is in the fullest sense the master
OF his own recreations and the formuator OF
his own views OF Sunday observance, 1t Is
nevertheless true that he has come to be
regarded, perhaps In spite Of himself, rs in
somed degree preceptor OF youth, or at least
rs pattern Of decorun and dignity, and
to that extent an adjunct OF the institution
The ex-Presidents usefulness in this re-
spect is recognized both by the faculty and
the students. The fact is creditable to him.
Pinochle under many circumstances. is an
innocent IL not an intellectually pxacting
diversion, but 1t ID not believed that Mr..
CLEVELAND would practice it on the front
steps OF his Princeton house at five o'clock
on Sunday afternoon.
The senior class in psychology as well as
the students in tho Princeton School OF
Theology, will find profit in examining an
extraordinary poem written much earlier
in this century by the Hon. GROVER CLEvE-
LANDS grandfather, the Rev AARON CIEvE-
LAND OF Norwich, Conn. In this poem Mr..
CLEvELANp's grandfather sets forth with
great clearness the influence OF diverse
heredity as explaining apparent inconsist
encies OF character in the same individual
lti remarkable, indeed, to find an old fash
ioned New England minister boldly avowing
ideas which belong rather to later science
than to the ideas OF will and personal re-
sponsibility held by most Of the thcUlugians
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who We're his contenl-
poraries. Mr.. CLEvELAND's grandfather
did not merely advance that theory of the
duality OF character which appears in STE
VENsoN's story Of DR.. JEKYLL and Mr.. HYDE
he went further and declared that he, the
Rev. AARON CLEVELAND. was Il multplex
and variable character IN whom one or an
other OF the -four most furrerul ancestral
types in turn prrdomina,rd
-Four kinds of blood now IN my veins
And govern e"ch IN turn my brains.
From CLEyElAND, PoRltR. STwTLI WArIgR
had my blood distinct in quarters
After some general philosophical rrHrr-
tions, which show that the Rev. AARON
CLEVELAND was person with Il mind uf
uncommon RrutrncsS and humur much
ahead OF his times. h" proceeds to analyHe
the four principal strains Of ancestral blood
that contended necessarily for the control
OF his own actions:
e Tn" name Of CLEVELAND must wrar
Which some poor founding first must bcar.
PORTER. I'm toll, from Scotland came
bonny bard Of ancient fame.
Swell" an English derivation.
P"rhars s'ne outcast from the nation.
WATERS. an lrshman. wceu,
straight roundabout frnm Aberdeen
such is my heterogeneous blood
motley mixture, bad Sad good.
Each blood Aspirrs t. rule alone
And each in turn asurnds the throne
And rules Till Other, tear him down"
The Cleveland strain he rather liked. hut
had greater respect for the Porter PORTER
was the sage SEwELI. the commonplace
ahh preten,ious politician:
When PoRTFR nelt may wear the crown
Now all is calm, discreet an wise
Whatc do whate'cr advise.
sEwEIl., perhaps may next bear rule;
m then aphilosophic fool.
With JEFFERsoN correspond
And soar with him the stars beyond
while tSery hbre Of the brain