The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01

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 which Mrs. Madison loed to decorat
 her young friends, and full of luscious
 fruit, and ingratiating himself with tn
 French gardener the little boy fell hei
 to the choicest specimens of these.
 l negro butler more than ninety years old, with hair like a well-card ed lambs fleece, who stood behind hi' grandfather's chair, was another source
 of interest, while the quarters, separa' ted from the dwelling by leafy screen | where he heard weird songs and stories | and where colored mammies roasted | vans for him on cabin hearths, were 6 | powerful magnet drawing him ofter down the woody path which led to them The rigorous methods then employed
 in the management of children made | the pendulum of maternal authority | swing too far in the opposite direction
 and Payne, who soon exhibited the | faults which afterward assumed such
 overWeening proportions, was general | ly permitted to follow his own sweet will. His stepfather, too, was far more lenient to him than he would have been
 to an own son, often quoting to his mother, when results were beginning to sum up
 Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
 Those who would seek for pearls must dive below
 The grandmother alone seemed fully { 70 realize the importance of this plastic period. and beguiling him into her
 apartment set daily lesson for him to
 learn, endeavoring to instruct him fur
 ther by reading aloud to him. Payne,
 however, possessed a curious mental
 sieve which separated the amusing
 and entertaining from the dry and di-
 dactic and the bear and Indian stories
 and the boyish escapades of his cousin,
 Patrickk Henry, were retained, while
 the historical events and their teach
 1ngs, which these were meant to season,
 passed quickly away.
 After time he was sent to school to the Bishop of Baltimore, where he was associated with Mime. Bonaparte and the members of the distinguished circle in which she moved, but with the ease and polish which he thus acquired he contracted habits of extravaganza and dissipation which chung to him through life, and eventually proved his ruin.
 When his parents were installed at the White House he joined them there, and, singularly handsome, with his mothers magnetism, and the glamour surrounding him ase the presidents son, he was sought after and f1attered and soon lost all taste for the simple pleasures at Montpelier, only going there during the hunting season with parties of fashionable friends.
 Aroused to the danger of his situa- tion, Madison prevailed upon him to &C., company the embassy to Europe to treat for peace with the British repre- sentatives at Ghent. There, however, he was regarded as the prince of Amer ica, the heir apparent to q foreign throne, and admitted to royal circles, from which the ambassadors were ex- cluded, and fresh adulation was heaped upon him. Years afterward, when dis sipation had set it's stamp upon him, Henry Clay met him on the street of Washington one morning, and fixing q keenly scrutinizing look upon his face, said:
 Do you remember when we were in Russia together, how John Quincy Ad ans and all the rest of us set apart in a gallery and watched you dance with the Czar's sister, we being debarred be- cause we were not of the blood royal?"
 Upon his return from this foreign so- journ his mother fondly expected that he would settle down to some useful oc- cupation, but he idled away his time, first in one city and then in another, and, having squandered his own ample fortune, began to make demands upon hers. Her one hope for him now was marriage, and he did fall honestly and ardently in love with Anne Cole, a beautiful Williamsburg belle. Fortu- nately for her. she rejected his suit, when Mrs Madison, in f1utter of anx- ety, wrote, reminding him that there were many other charming girls in the world, begging that he would not turn his back upon the sex because one member of it had proved unkind."
 Young Todd, however, showed no dis position to repeat the experience, the re- suit of 1t being only to sink him deeper and deeper into dissipation.
 His stepfather was now often called | Ipon to discharge his obligations at the table, delicately referred to as
 business embarrassments,' and beau | iful, historic Montpelier was finally | sold to pay his debts. When this crisis l vas reached he made some effort at | restitution by beginning upon Todds- | worth, the adjoining place, a house for | ls mother. Lack of funds, however, | prevented it's completion as well as that | If his plan for the establishment of a | fix farm, with which design he brought | rom France number of silk manu- acturers, before he had matched the worms or planted the mulberry trees.
 Arfter President Madison's death, when his widow returned to Washing on. occupying what is now the Cosmos lubhouse, on Lafayette Square, the hirty thousand dollars paid to her by ongress for his reports of the constitu- ional convention, together with what e himself bequeathed her, would have cen sufficient to maintain her in com ort. if not elegance, had 1t not been for he drain upon her resources of her ons habits. As 1t was, she was some imes reduced almost to want. and 'aul, President Madison's body ser- ant, who had purchased his own free om, and was, then living with Daniel often brought market bas- cts of provisions to her from his em- loyer even occasionally assisting her Jith his own earnings.
 Meanwhile her son was ordering rare