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States Senate in 1882, and considered Il q
higher honor than presiding over the body.
so rendered his resignation.

States Senate in 1882, and considered Il q
higher honor than presiding over the body,
so rendered his resignation.
The case Of vice-President King, above
referred to. is unique. William Rufus
King (born April 8, 1876: died April Is.
1889 was a Vice-President of the United
States who never served in that capacity,
and one who took oath Of office on foreign
soil-something which can be said of nc
other executive officer ever elected by the
people of this country. King was an in
valid, but his friends urged him to take
second place on the ticket with Pierce in
1852. Both were elected, but Mr.. Kings
health failed so rapidly that he was forced
to go to Cuba early in 1853, some two and
half months before Inauguration Day
Not having returned to the United States
by March 4, Congress passed special act
authorizing the United States Consul al
Mantanzas. Cuba. to swear him in as Vice
President at about the hour when Pierce
was taking the oath of Office at Washing
ton. This arrangement was carried out tc
dot, and on the day appointed, at plan
vicinity of Mantanzas, Mr.. King was
made Vice-President of the United States
amid the solemn 'Vaya vol con Dios
(God will be with YOU Of the creoles who
had assembled to witness the unique spec
tacle. Vice-President King returned to his
home at Caha ba, Ala, arriving at that
place April II, 1853 and died the follow.
ing day. His remains were laid to rest
on his plantation, known as Pine Hills.
1t looks as though when q man begins
to climb there is always something to hold
him back, but it is particularly aggrava-
ting when it is ones immediate family
which steps in to blast ones budding pros
poets. Judge Alton b. Parker has a
hpnf fhnr ,ho h ~ 30 sc g..
lily. or if he has he places it below pride in
principles, for he says he is a Republican,
and that he cannot vote for his brother
for President! Isn't that just awful
There are ameliorating circumstances,
however. Judge Parker's brother, who is
civil engineer of note, lives in Detroit,
Mich, and that State can be depended on
how, so his one little old vote will not
count for much.
How a soldier or a marine does hate to
have the shining brass and nickel and steel
of his guns touched by moist fingers!
After the metal is polished to mirror
sheen, and is ready for inspection, the de-
sire to keep it in that speckless condition
amounts to perfect passion. The other
day some ladies in official life were down
ut the Navy Yard, and one Of the ''up
and uppers," as the jackie called her, was
so delighted with the polish of a gun OH
one OF the boats that she amused herself
for quite 10 minutes. rubbing the steel with
her hand, from which she removed her
glove for that express purpose, while she
talked with some of the Navy Yard Of
hcials. When she went away, the official
told the jackie that the lady had praised
his gun extravagantly.
-, sure" replied jackie sarcastically;
but she couldn't keep her bloomin' fin
gers off of it, could she2''
Might stop hole to keep the wind away"
philosophical the melancholy Dane as he
gazed on poor Yorick's skull. The other
day great big beautiful poplar tree was
for some reason or another felled in the
White House grounds. 1t was to be taken
to the city dump for the poor to cut up into
hrewood. 1t never got that far, however,
and now the stately tree which has shell
tered every President who ever entered
meat-blOcks for butchers! "What a fall
was there. my countrymenw
Owing to the almost equal difference of
opinion among Army officers as to the ad-
vantages of gantlets over gloves for mill
tary wear, the War Department has de-
cided to make no change in that article Of
apparel, so that gloves will continue to
be worn. Notwithstanding the arguments
in favor of a return to the use of CANT.
let's.
Some fine day we are going to have a
mess of Turkey for lunch, we are that.
The United States has endured the snubs
of the Ottoman Empire just as long as
she can, and now she is going to strike
back, but it won't be backhanded lick,
and it won't be in the dark, either Our
Minister to Turkey has asked, and asked,
and asked again that American subjects,
and especially American professional men.
in Turkish territory, be accorded the same
privileges and rights enjoyed by Euro
peans. and the Sultan turns up his nose
ace, and hires few more brigands to
patrol his domains in search of Ameri-
cans
Now we've got mighty battleship
squadron over there loafing around Glib
raltar. 1t is in command of Admiral Jew
ell. And Admiral Barker with his big
squadron has been under orders, idle as as
a painted ship upon a painted ocean," at
the western entrance of the Mediter-
ranean Sea, just waiting for something to
turn up. Now look at the likes Of this will
YOU. Admiral Jewell, with his Flagship
Olympia, and the cruisers Baltimore and
CleSeiaHo, mas Deen ordered by the Navy
Department to rush himself over to
Smyrna, and the two of them, Jewell and
Barker, these Admirals. who are fighters
OF the Farragut type, are to wait while
for Developments"
The Sultan is "skeered" Of ships. In
fact, he hates and fears his own shadow.
even, but he hates and fears ships more
than anything else. He has no navy. The
Turks can fight, all fatalists make pretty
good fighters, for they believe that death
is but the entrance to a more perfect life
"a very mortal life, it is true, but just
the same they believe that the man who
dies fighting for his faith wins honors in
the other life, whatever or wherever it ia
to be lived. But he wants to fight on land,
On the sea q Turk is a monkey. Turkey
has only two real battleships, and she has
nobody who can run them, and so has to
call on some beast of q foreigner to man.
age her small naval fighting machines for
her. When the Sultan sees that line of
stately ships sailing up to his rotten little
old Empire. he will call for the hills to
fall on and hide him, but that will not
avail if we turn those big 13-inchers loose
on the minarets and palaces of Smyrna.
for instance, or steaming up the Sea of
Marmora, shell that city Of iniquity, which
tripped us all up as kids with its spelling
Con, with a "Con"-s-t-a-n, with a
''stan," Constan, ii "ti," CONSTANT, NO.
mo-" Constantino-p-l-e ''pul," icon.