The age-herald., 1902-02-02

number of silk manufacturers, before ne had matched the worms or planted the mulberry trees.
 After President Madison's death, when his widow returned to Washington, occu- pying what is now the Cosmos Clup House, on Lafayette Square the $So,V0o paid to her by Congress for his reports of the Constitutional Convention lo- gether with what he himself bequeathed her, would have been sufficient to main tain her In comfort, if not elegance, had 1t not been for the drain upon her re- sources of her sons habits. AS It was, she was sometimes reduced almost 10 want and Paul, President Madison's body servant, who had purchased ms own freedom and was then living with Daniel Webster, often brought market baskets of provisions to her from his em- ployer, even occasionally assisting her with his own earnings.
 Meanwhile her son was ordering rare cheeses and other luxuries from abroad. A great nephew of Mrs. Madison, the grandson of her "sister child" who still lives in Washington and who used to stand by her side at her famous leVees Gas largely attended as the White House receptions). says;
 Young as I was, I often observed look of distress upon my aunt's face, ana being sometimes the bearer of small sums to her, suspected its cause. When there fore, the bill was passed appropriating 900 to the purchase of my uncle's let ters and other writings, I ran from the Senate chamber as my fathers avant- coureur to have the pleasure of an nouncing the news"
 This gentleman, who also distinctly re- members his cousin, her unfortunate son, says:
 ITO me he was the most fascinating of men, and I have always believed that he was fundamentally good, only led astray by temptations which few would have been able to resist. At that time he fre- quented a fashionable restaurant the Boulanger. situated on c street, near the War Department, and I recollect on a certain occasion his taking me there to eat strawberries and cream. While abroad-where they put brandy with their coffee-be contracted many foreign hab- it's and there was certainly something stronger than the unfermented juice of 1 the fruit with my saucer of berries Im- 1 mediately after eating 1t l was conscious | of strange sensations in my head, and soon afterwards shocked my parents by arriving at home in a state of intoxi- cation"
 The closing years of Mrs. Madison's life WoulQ nave been deSolate lnueeu, ndu IL not been for her nephews and nieces, whc clung to her to the end with tenderest de- votion. One of them-a second Anne Payne-lived with her, nursing her through her last illness. She died in 1S49, aged 82, the last words upon her lips being My poor poor boy!''
 He survived her only two years, his crowning act of infamy being his un- successful attempt to break her will and wrest from her dear daughter, Anna Payne" the portion left to her. A short time afterward while staying at hotel on H street, he was seized with typhoid fever, and, tended only by two of his mothers old servants, ended his wretched existence. He was buried in the Congress sional Cemetery, on Washingt on's birth day. just one week before the compile tion of his own fifty-ninth year. As the hearse which bore his remains wound slowly through the streets a heavy snow was falling. Two carriages followed 1t; in one was a single friend; in the other the faithful slaves