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vice-President Hendricks Death.


in the city
Vice-President Hendricks Death.
The death of Vice President Hobart
naturally recalls the death of Vice
President Hendricks, who expired sud-
denly of paralysis of the heart Nov.
g. 1885. At the time the question of
the succession to the vice presidency
had not been settled by law, though
Senator Hoar's bill providing the presi-
Dental succession through the cabinet
had been submitted on Dec. 4, 1888, and
had remained Enacted upon.
The news of Mr.. Hendricks death
was received in Washington late in the
afternoon of Nov. 25. President Cleve-
land was at dinner when the news was
brought to him by Secretary Lamont.
Notices We're sent at once to all the
members of the cabinet and a special
cabinet meeting was held that night.
President Cleveland's first act was to
dispatch telegram of coincidence to
Mrs. Hendricks, after which a procla-
nation was prepared making an Off
cial announcement of the vice presi-
dents death to the public and estab-
fishing usage which was followed to-
day by President Mckinley. On the
morning following Mr.. Hendricks death
meeting of such members of the house
and senate as were in town was held
legislative bodies were appointed to at
tend the funeral services, which were
held in Indianapolis on the Tuesday fol-
lowing. Nineteen members were ap-
pointed on the house committee and the
rather unusual number Of Is from the
senate.
President Cleveland at first expressed
his intention to attend the funeral, but
there was an immediate protest from
his advisers, seconded by the press of
both parties, against his subjecting
himself to even the slightest possibility
of an accident incident to travel at n
time when there was no provision for
a successor in his office and when his
death might have entailed serious con-
sequences.
After some days President Cleveland
deferred to the advice of his friends
and remained in Washington. The cab
met. however, attended the funeral in
body and the supreme court adjourned
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over till after the services. Pending
the presidents decision not to go to
Indianapolis, the most elaborate prepa-
rations were made by the railroad Off
cials for the safeguarding of his train
in case the journey should be made,
special track walkers, pilot engines and
the line being detailed to insure the
safety Of the whole route.
The vice president was at 1ndianapo-
lis at the time of his death and. through
singular set of circumstances, no one
was in the room with him when he
expired.
The Law of Succession.
The law applicable to the vice presi-
dency was enacted Jan. IS, 1885, by the
Forty-ninth congress, first session. The
main features are as follows:
BE it enacted. etc, that in case of
removal death, resignation or inability
of both the president and vice president
of the United States, the secretary of
state, or secretary of the
treasury, or secretary of war;
or s attorney general, or
postmaster general, or secre-
tary of the navy. or secretary
of the interior shall act as president un-
til the disability of the president or
vice president is removed, or presi-
dent be elected"
The law further provides that when
one of the above cabinet officers sue
ceeds to the presidency he shall call a
special session of congress. A provision
limits the succession to those who would
be eligible to the presidency under the
terms of the constitution and who have
been appointed with the advice and
consent of the senate. The effect of the
law is not to provide a succession to
the vice presidency, but merely to en-
sure succession to the presidency.
BY the death of Mr.. Hobart, Senator
William p. Frye of Maine becomes
president pro tenn, and will discharge
all the duties Of the vice president as
presiding officer of the senate. The
senate rules specifically provide that
ming of the session. Senator Frye ac-
cordingly will continue as presiding Of
ficer till the end of President McKin-
ley's administration, unless he chooses
to resign or the senate wishes to elect
another senator to the Office
A curious coincidence of the death of
the vice president is found in the fact
that of the six vice presidents who have
died in office four died within a few
days of the same day Of the same
month in the year, the death Of Mr..
Hobart being the 21st Of November,
1899: that of Mr.. Wilson the 22nd Of No
vember. 1875; that of Elbridge Gerry
Nov. 23. 1874; that of Mr.. Hendricks
Nov. 25, 1885.
The other two vice presidents who
died in office were Clinton and King.
The former died April 20, 1872 and the
latter April II, 1853.
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FAMILY IS PROSTRAT TED
A Sad Blow to Those Nearest and
Dearest.
death WELCOME TO me-"

Those Are Among the Last Words That
Fell From tho Lips OF the Stricken
Man-Me ssages OF Coincidence Pour in
by the Hundred - The President Is
sues PROCLAIM alton Announcing the
Sorrowful Occurrences to the Nation.
The End Not Unexpected Immediate
Cause of Death Is Angina Pectoris.
Wife Maintained Her Post at the Bed
side to the Last-Rravely Battled With
the Fatal Malaly, but Without Avail.
Flags at Half Mast in Every City and
Town-Funeral Will Be Held on Satur-
day, and Will Be Attended by the
Highest Governmental Officials OF the
Land--His Associates in tho Senate
Speak in Laudatory Terms o. H m as
an Honest, Fearless. Upright Man.
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Arrangements for the Funeral.

Vice President Hobart's funeral on
Saturday will be attended by the mem
berS of the cabinet, the supreme court,
the senate in body and a large COM
mittee from the house of representa-
tiVes, besides many dignitaries OF the
government who journey to Paterson to
pay their last tribute of respect to the
memory of the vice president. Every
senator has been invited to be present
and the senate will meet at the Fifth
avenue hotel in New York Saturday at
IL O'Clock, thence travel in body to
Paterson.
Sergeant-at-Arms Bright has engaged
special train to convey the president
and his cabinet and the United States
supreme court to Paterson. The train
will leave Washington over the Penn
sylvania railroad at o'clock Saturday
morning and arrive on the return at
IL p. m.
Chief Justice Fuller was not in the
city to-day and in his absence no one
could say whether the court would be
able to attend the funeral in body,
but the officials of that tribunal gen
orally expressed themselves as very
confident that it would do so.
Owing to the fact that the house OF
representatives is without a speaker no
arrangements with reference to the
house committee were made to-day.
HeUGFdi f1eHueTSOll, VIII Will ne tilS
next speaker, telegraphed to Major Nc
Dowell. the clerk of the house, at his
home at Sharon, Pa, and Major Nc
Dowell is expected here tonight Upon
his arrival he will consult General Hen
derson and other representatives who
are in the city and committee will be
appointed to attend the funeral.
From dispatches received by Colonel
Bright the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, there will be large represent
taton of members of that body at the
vice presidents funeral. About 80 SEN
ators have replied to the telegram sent
at the direction of President Pro Tenn
Frye informing them of their selection
as members of the committee to at
tend the funeral.
Colonel Bright will so to Paterson in
a day or two to render any assistance
he may be able to in the funeral prep
arations, so far as the senate is con-
cerned.
Clerk Mcdowell of the house of rep
resentatives this afternoon, as a result
of a consultation with prospective
Speaker Henderson, states ne will
make arrangements for a committee of
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BELOVED BY DEMOCRATS,
Senator Jones Speaks in the Highest
Terms of the Dead Statesman.

Chicago, Nov. 21.-News of the death
of Vice President Hobart was received
with regret by the members of The
democratic national executive commit
tee, who, without exception, spoke
highly of the dead republican leader,
both as a public official and as pri-
vate citizen. Senator Jones, when told
of the vice presidents death, was much
shocked.
Vice President Hobart, as presid-
ing officer of the United States senate,
was fair and just at all times he said
"On account of his recent rally I had
entertained hopes of his ultimate re-
covery. He was an ideal presiding Off
Ger and I am very sorry to hear of his
DEATH"
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death A RELEASE FROM PAIN AND SUFFERING
Carrot Augustus Hobart Vice President the United States Passes Peacefully
Away at His Home in Paterson, After Lingering
Illness of Many Months.

1879, and in 1881 was elected president
or that body, and reelected in 1882;
was delegate at large to the republi-
can national convention in 1876. and
was again chosen in 1880; was elected
member of the national committee
in 1884 and served continuously until
1886, when he was nominated for vice
president by the republican national
convention, and was duly elected and
took the oath of office on March 4,
1897.
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MR.. H0BART'S LIFE.
A Brief Sketch of the DISTINGUISHED |
Statesman.

Garrett A. Hobart was born in Mon
mouth county. n. j., June 5, 1914. en-
tered the sophomore class of Rutgers
college il 1860, and graduated in 1868
at the age of 10; thereafter taught
school until he entered the law office
of Socrates Tuttle Of Paterson. N. j.:
was admitted to the bar in 1863, and
commenced the practice of law in the
office of that gentleman; was clerk for
the grand jury IN 1868; city counsel
of Paterson in 1871; was elected coun-
sci for the board of chosen freehold
ers in May, 1872 entered the legsla-
ture in 1873, and was reelected to the
assembly in 1874. and was made speak
er in 1876; was elected to the senate in
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and an especial loss to the large circle
of friends who knew Mr.. Hobart best.
He was a man universally respected,
trusted and loved. He stood in the
front rank Of the business men of his
section, and in his own city was known
and appreciated as good citizen and
benevolent friend"
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Draped in Black

Trenton, N. J., Nov. 21.--When news
of the death of Vice President Hobart
reached here all the flags of the state
house were placed at half mast until
after the funeral. The front of the
capitol will be draped in black for 80
DAYS
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Senator Hanna's Praise.

Cleveland, Nov. 21.-Speaking of the
death of Vice President Hobart, Sena-
tor Hanna to-day said: 'It Is a great
loss to the nation and to the party,
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the house to attend the funeral This
will include such members as may be
in the city.
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Life of a Famous General.

General Ulysses S. Grant, who was
the eighteenth president of the United
States. was born at Point Pleasant,
Clermont county, Ohio, April 81, 1922,
and died on Mount McGregor, near
Saratoga, July %, 1885. The house
where he was born was little log
cabin. AS Ulysses was the eldest of
six children and the family were very
poor he was compelled during his
boyhood to work hard assisting his
father OH the farm. The elder Grant
also owned tannery which in time
yielded the family a good living.
Ulysses attended the village school
until the spring of lS3a, when he was
appointed a cadet to West Point He
had been named Hiram Ulysses, but
the congressman who made ont the
application for his appoin ment,
knowing only that he was called
Ulysses, and supposing that his middle
name must lie that of his ia Ter,
Sampson, wrote out the name Ulysses
S. Grant, and so it always afterward
remained. He graduated in 1912,
standing twenty first in class of 80,
He served in the war with Mexico and
at its close went to st. Louis, where
be married Miss Julia B. Hent, the
sister of one of his classmates. He
resigned his commission in the army
in 1854 and settled on farm near St
Louis. He worked in the Illinois
hardware and leather store of his
father as clerk when the civil war
broke ont. He at once raised a com
pany OF volunteers in Galena and
offered his services to the government.
He entered the war as colonel of the
Twenty first infantry; at its close he
was the general, the head of the army.
On March 4, 1869, he became presi-
dent. Trenton N. j. American.
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sweat of their brows, and if they have
the mental. moral and physical quail
fications for fighting Uncle Sam will
not deny them the bread which they
are more willing to purchase with
their blood.
But not even these form the best
material which Uncle Sam has thrust
upon him for selection. Better far
are the brawny, brainy and eager
youth, from town and country, who,
fred with the true soldierly spirit,
unforced by emptiness of stomach,
come with hearts and heads full OF
patriotism and generous ambition and
high ideas to offer their services to
their common uncle.
The hardy backwoodsmen Of New
England, the daredevil cowboys of
the Western plains, the stalwart farm
hands in the great agricultural dis
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A Racing Bird OF the sou,hwe.,.

When fr:tI saw it the bird looked
like q fa1ed-out and moldy streak OF
blue lightning darting across the trail
through the chaparral thickets. This
was in western Texas several years
ago. A minute or two after this first
sight Of the ''road runner" it appeared
in the trail forty or fifty feet ahead,
stopped, looked back at me sauciy
and began to trot down the road in
the most leisurelv manner. The
chararral clumps were small and far
apart. The open was covered with
bairlike mesquite grass. Here and
there q net of orange blossomed cactus
stood anchored among the limestone
rocks on which mountain boomer"
lizards fattened in the sun.
The day was sweltering, but the
sight of that impudent bird trotting
along ahead made me eager fo- n
chase. So I dug my heels in my
bropcho's sides and loosened the
reins. With leap the horse shot
ahead, almost trampling upon the
road-runner before it recovered from
it's surprise. We never got any nearer
to that bird. Down the trail it ran
like an arrow, whizzing close to the
ground, its speckied shape of blue and
black and brown looking more like
shadow above the sand than like n
living thing. After perhaps an eighth
of a mile of this queer race the chapar-
raj cock gave cry like scream of
iesting laughter, made flying leap to
the top of high bank, poised there
for n moment and then sailed away OH
rigid wings and disappeared behind
thicket several hundred feet away
from the trail. That was the last /
saw of that particular bird but the
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alert for at the start. This is untruth.
fulness. Lies about the age are most
usual. The age limit is from eighteen
to thirty-five. But boys under eight
cen must have permission from parent
or guardian, duly sworn to and at
tested by notary public. If boy Of
obviously not more than eighteen OF
nineteen declares that he is over TWEEN
ty-one the chances are that he is on
the lookout for long truancy from
home.
But if the sergeant was satisfied
that the applicant was neither too
young nor too old for service he must
be examined as to other points oi
qualification. The requirements exact
that if he be candidate for the regu.
lar army he must be native born OF
naturalized citizen, able to speak
English and to read and write; if for
the volunteers it is not necessary that
he should be naturalized or know how
to read and write, but he must speak
English.
These points are easily passed upon.
It is most difficult to determine
whether his habits are orderly, his
character good, if he is out of work,
whether it is his own fault that he is
so, and whether he IS unmarried. No
married man is accepted. The shrewd.
ness of the officer must supplement
the answers he receives, and must
further be called into play to deter.
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The Story of BuIfinch Day.

'Bullfnch day." observed at Mer-
ton COLLEGE, England, has quaint
origin. When Charles II was king of
England he sent his wife, Katharine,
to Oxford, bidding her not to reappear
in st. James for full year. The
warden of Merton entertained the
queen during the time, and the rooms
which she occupied in the quadrangle
are still shown. One day as she sat
working at al open window, bull
finch few into the room. The queen
cauI Int it and held it until cage of
hemp and rushes was made. Some
weeks later, as she was leaving, the
bird escaped and flew away On her
departure from the college gate Her
Majesty said: ''Mr Warden, in re-
membrance of my happy visit, pray
you always liberate, hereafter, wild
bullfinch on this day." So it is that
on this day every year the warden
comes out into the quadrangle at II
o'clock, holding a little cage of hemp
and rushes in which is hulfinch.
The junior bursar, who has been
awaiting his arrival, then advances
saying, "Mr. Warden, is this Queen
Kathar.ne's bmd?" ''Aye," the
warden replies, ''this is Queen Kath-
arine's birdr' The bursar then opens
the cage and claps his hands until the
bird flies away. During the rest of
the year the cage is kept on a pedestal
in the senior common room.
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course certain contingent from that
large, floating mass of waits and strays
who have not yet reached the stage of
trampdom, but who live as best they
can, with no settled home or calling.
So it requires nice Judgment to pick
out the right ones from the mass.
Then, there are tramps open and
self-confessed, or if not actually con-
fessed Ey word of mouth, self-evident.
When the evidence takes the form
of an over fragrance of breath or an
over rosiness of nose they are promptly
dismissed. Stalwart and vigorous as
many of them are in appearance,
alcoholism is sternly barred by the
army regulations. Permanent and
professional tramphood would in it.
self be an insuperable obstacle, but
tramphood that is only recent ac-
cident in an otherwise orderly life
may be overlooked if the applicant
has excellent qualifications in other
respects.
Then there is the large army of the
unemployed who have no vagrant
habits save those entailed in the
dreary pursuit of work. These are
what the French call conscrits de
faim-conscripts of hunger. Though
they are nominally volunteers, they
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tricts oil over the United States
these with little training develop
into the finest soldiers in all the
world.
There are three recruiting stations
in New York. I have stood in all
three of these places and watched the
crowd of applicants streaming in, a
panoramic study of human nature in
its highest and its lowest forms, of
alert and splendid youth, OF depressed,
disappointed and degraded maturity.
In all of these stations the method is
the same.
A sergeant sits at the desk in the
room into which the applicant is
ushered. He is patient, but shrewd; !;
kindly, but firm willed. He does not
balk at any uncouthness in manner
or speech.
He is not offended, even by the
freshness of the lad who bluntly de-
clares. "Say, captain, I want to enlist, "
or even the unconscious rudeness of
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before the surgeon. Tests are made
of the heart, the lungs, the eyes, the
teeth, the hearing. The body is
stripped and the individual is made to
go through calisthenic exercises.
1t is a curious fact that more people
fail through defects of the teeth and of
the eyes than any others. Uncle Sam
requires good digestion and good
eyesight. The applicant must have at
least two sound pair of molars, each
directly above the other, SO that they
masticating the food.
The eyes must be at least three
quarters Of the normal. Printed test
cards arc placed at a distance of twenty
feet, and the man is made to read let
ters of varying sizes. Many learn here
for the first time, to their dismay that
their eyesight is defective.
1t is really pitiful to hear the ex-
cuses, perfectly honest to themselves,
which they make for what they deem
to be mere temporary lapse. They
had been anxious; they had been ner-
vous; they had not happened to sleep
| well the night before.
'Give me another trial." pleaded o
man, who bore every other appearance
of robust health. ''I'll be all right to-
morrow"
But the fiat had gone out. 1t could
not be recalled. He went out angrily,
rubbing his eyelids, as though they
were rebellious children who had will
fully brought their parent to shame.
To all the men, indeed. who fail in
the final test, just when acceptance
seems in sight, rejection is crushing
! blow. They who survive are proper
tionately jubilant. To each of these
is given meal ticket and comforta.
BILE cot in room back of the recruit.
ing Office which he makes his head
quarters until he is sent off to camp
for the training which will turn mem.
Der of the awkward squad into a SOL
dier. Then he is ready to be shipped
to the Philippines.
| From two hundred to three hundred
men day apply to tho three stations
in New York. but rarely have more
than twenty-five or thirty been Sc.
lected.
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enjoys the confidence and friendship

enjoys the confidence and friendship
of very many people. Her husband,
Henry Wright, was one of the pioneers
of the State, having gone to Colorado
thirty-eight years ago. Mrs. Wright
is descendant on both sides from
early colonial settlers of America. Two
ancestors in her mothers family, John
and Jacob Reeve, came over in the
Mayfower. Her father was pioneer
in Wisconsin, as she has been in Col
orado. He was Presbyterian clergy
man, and one Of the earliest advocates
for advanced education for girls.
He founded the Wisconsin Fe-
male College, the first college for
women in Wisconsin, and was the
president for many years. Mrs.
Wright's interests were all along edu-
.ational lines in her girlhood, and she
las never changed in that respect.
Mrs. Frances F. Lee, the other
woman representative from Arapahoe
County, is the wife of Frank W. Lee,
Of Denver. Mrs. Lee is the mother
If five children, of ages ranging from
;hree to eleven, and has always had
:hem in personal charge, and even
aow, while in attendance at the State
House, helping to frame laws to i'm
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sibility with credit to themselves and
benefit to the people they represent.

sibility with credit to themselves and
benefit to the people they represent.
DR.. Mary T. Barry has served the
past year as member of the House
from Pueblo County. In 1887 she
graduated in medicine from the
Northwestern University of Chicago.
After one year in the preparatory
school she attended in the hospital for
one year as house physician, after
which she practiced medicine for two
years in La Crosse. Since 1894 she
has been in active practice in Pueblo,
where she served as county ply sician
during the years 1S96-97.
Mrs. Harriet G.. r. Wright, one of
the two women representatives to the
Twelfth General Assembly from Arap-
ahoe County, located in Colorado
twenty seven years ago, and has lived
in Denver seventeen years. Her fam
lily consists of husband and three
grown sons. Mrs. Wright is recog-
nized social and political leader, and