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safer. I have always thought that her
prayers had much to do with my sue
cesses. / shall expect you to help me In
that way.
Governor Cleveland was precisely
like Mayor Cleveland. He was a bust
ness governor. 1t was said of him that
he ran the state as he would have run
a railroad, mastering the details of the
business so that he could run II well.
The same writer declares that ''he not
only preached economy, but he made
the state officials practice 1t. He e
toed bills until the legislators were
wild with rage, and he forced through
civil service reform"
Grover Cleveland was cordially
disllked by the politicians in his par
ty. But his reputation among the peo-
pie as a plain, practicable, businesslike
executive hnd grown so wide that In
the SUBMITS Of 1884, before the expira-
ton of his gubernatorial term, there
was an insistent call for him to ac-
cept that high political preferment"
which in the letter to his brother he
bad declared was not in his head.
The great mass of the Democracy
throughout the country believed that
Cleveland was honest and that moth
ing could turn him aside from a course
which he believed to be right. He was
nominated for president at the Chlca-
go convention Of 1884, his Republican
opponent being James G. Blaine. MY.
Cleveland received a small plurality az
the popular vote and an electoral ma
jority Of t%hirty-seven. For the lrst time
since 1856 the Democratic party had
carried the presidential election A
man who two years before was I'M
known beyond his own city and coun-
ty, a palnstaking, laborious lawyer. a
%ponderous, heavy set "old bachelor ("
had entered the lists and swept to de-.
feat ~thD plumed knight oil twenty
years national renown.
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war department were many crates Of
battlefiags captured from southern
armies. At the suggestion of the adj
jutant general Mr.. Cleveland ordered
that the flags be returned to the states
from whose regiments they had been
captured. Certain Grand Army posts
beehme so indignant that they passed
resolutions strongly %censuring the pres.
ident, with insinuations against him
because he had employed a substitute
instead Of going into the army during
the war. This incident, which took
place In 1887, was intensified In It's acri-
mony from the O. A, K. side because
the president had vetoed civil war pen
sion bills In hundreds Of individual
cases wherein he believed the applicant
was not entitled to a pension. He had
become known as "the veto president I"
as he had been the veto mayor and the
veto governor. SO harsh was the clam
or evoked by the battlelag order that
the president issued a frank statement
resembling II, explaining that he had
acted without looking up the legal a q
pect OF the ease and that In his opinion
Nns direction as to the anal ~diapoaltion
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Though Mr.. Cleveland never possess
ed in a very appreciate degree that
quality which VIC call personal mag
netism, he was undoubtedly the most
popular American Of his time when be
began his second term as president.
When he closed that term and retired
permanently to private life he was one
of the most unpopular Americans for
the time being. He had cut loose from
his party and become that amazingly
unusual thing-an executive independ-
ent OF the powers which made him.
The great struggle for the maintenance
Of the gold standard against bimetal-
ism which s~ignalized the campaign Of
1896 was taking definite shape. The
president set himself obstinately to-
ward maintaining the gold standard.
In the summer of 1893 he called an
extra session Of congress and pushed
through the repeal Of the Sherman act
Of 1890, under which the government
was required to purchase large quanti-
ties Of silver bullion. The Democracy
at large was amazed and enraged at
this action, though a very considerable
portion Of 1t stood with the president
on the issue.
To maintain the gold reserve Presi-
dent Cleveland from time to time made
large issues Of government bonds. The
placing Of some Of these bonds with
New York bankers atoused a cyclone
Of adverse criticism. Mr.. Cleveland,
Of course was in the exact storm cen
ter. Several years after bis retire
ment'Mr Cleveland wrote a statement
explaining the bond sales, defending
bis " course and declaring that he
recalled these executive acts with the
greatest SUBTRACTION.
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He was not particularly active in poll
tics after his retirement.
In the meantime history was making.
Harrison and high tariff were in the
saddle. The Mckinley act Of 1890, in
creasing the tariff on wool, tin plate
and other products, was followed by
high prices for the poor mans nccessa
ries Of life. Events rapidly were shap-
ing themselves toward a ~vindication OF
Grover Cleveland. The ex-president at.
tended to his law work, and the
people did the rest. With the politi-
clans, as Of old, mostly In opposI.
tion, the independent Democratic vot-
ers forced the selection Of Cleve-
land delegates to the national Demo
ocratIc convention Of 1892, held IN
June. -Four more years Of Grover
was tae campaign cry. Though the
New York delegation opposed him. Mr..
Cleveland was nominated for the presI-
dency the third time III succession on
the first ballot. President Harrison
again wis his Republican opponent
Cleveland was elected. receiving 277
electoral votes against las for Harrison
and q for General Weaver, Popnlist
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to a White House bride few fast and
thick, the president having sent elab-
crate bouquets to Miss FRANKIE Fol
som on the occasion Of the young wo-
mans graduation from Wells college.
Frances Folsom was the daughter of a
former law partner of Mr.. Cleveland
in Buffalo. After her graduation she
Travelled in Europe. On June 2, 1886,
shortly after her return TO America,
she was married to the president in the
White House.
Unusual obstacles beset the presiden-
tial pathway of Cleveland from the
moment Of bis Inauguration. Shut out
from executive favor for practically a
generation. the Democratic politicians
were avid for office. The president
sought to adhere to a policy opposed to
removal from office of competent Off
cials except as to heads of divisions
and other important oficehOlders, but
the ~Jacksonian cry ITO the yictors be.
long the spoilsln became so insistent
that the president was induced to mod
ify his policy to the extent Of reH6v-
ais for offensive partisanship, a
phrase coined by him which speedily
became famous. In the light of his
tory it must be admitted that "offen.
slve partisans" in federal offices were
exceedingly numerous in those days
Republican postmasters were slaugh
tered by wholesale. q Jg
In a s~torehouse connected with tht
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was a disposition to help others whenever
possible. Knowing that It was a great
favor to me TO have my poems copied
neatly and legibly, he offered TO perform
that service for me, n l several times
awaited myself OF his aid.
One day the principal Of the school
upbraided the blind woman for using
the clerks time in that way. Grover
told Miss Crosby that she had a perfect
right TO employ him in that capacity.
Inasmuch as her poems were used in
the school and also helped to make the
institution better known. He advised
her to give the principal some plain
prose- the next time he should re-
proach her. When the official remon-
strated a second time, Miss Crosby
stood for her rights and won the battle.
When Cleveland was about eighteen
years old, he paid a visit to an uncle
living In Buffalo. The uncle in
duced the boy to remain and help him
In compiling the american Herd
Book" Grover assisted In several edi-
tions OF this work, studied law and
was admitted to the bar at the age OF
twenty-five. His first official position
was that Of assistant district attorney,
which he held for three years, during
the civil war. Two Of his brothers
were In the army. Grover was helping
to support his mother and sisters. His
salary was small When he was draft
ed to military service, be hired a sub
gtitute and remained at work. Later
he was a candidate for the district at
orneyship, but was defeated. Then be
settled down to law practice. In 1876
be was induced to run for sheriff and
was elected, serving for three years.
After another interval Of private
citizenship. a%ssiduously devoted t.
hlS profession. this bachelor lawyer o.
Forty -four years was NOMINATED fol
81 Buffalo on the Democrat,
ticket IN lH8l. He had become know
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him. England drew in her horns and
accepted the situation gracefully
Grover Cleveland for the time was q
great popular hero. However, his de-
feat for denomination in 1896, had he
desired the honor, was q foregone con-
clusion, Tariff as an issue was tum-
bled into that condition which years
before Mr.. Cleveland had described as
"innocuous desuetude." The free COIN
age Of silver was demanded by the
Democratic majority. Mr.. Cleveland
supported the Palmer and Buckner
gold Democratic ticket. When he
handed over the governmental reins to
President William Mckinley, March 4,
1897. he stepped cut Of office forever.
Mr. Cleveland settled for himself the
problem as to what to do with an ex-
president BY retiring gracefully to
Princeton, NJ j., in the shadow Of the
great university which he ms. 2 poor
boy vainly had hoped to enter. Here
he built a home and grew old with his
family Of bright young children grow
ing up about him Two more girls
and two boys were born.
During and after his presidential
terms the Cleveland fishing and duck
hunting expeditions supplied much ma
terial to the press.
In 1908 Mr., Cleveland was introduce
ed IN st. Louis rs Ythe most Nstin.
guished private citizen IN the world
BY that time his political opponents 10
both Of the great parties. generally
speaking, had come to look upon him
as a historical figure, and 81 the vast
majority Of Americans the venerable
ex-president was regnrded as a true
patriot. ga hcnest pobIIc servant and
an able chief executive.
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tory-that Of being elected president,
r%enominated and defeated and again
renominated and elected, He had
served one full term, with all the ex-
perience in national and international
politics which that service entailed.
In another and more popularity inter
estlng sense the second advent Of
Cleveland was different. He was now
a thorough family man. The Cleve-
lands had a baby, little Ruth, born in
New York Oct 3, 1891 Her death a
few years after her parents retire
ment to Princeton, N. j.. was a mat
ter Of general regret. Mrs. Cleveland
during the second term further endear-
ed herself to the American people.
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ALLEVIATE that large wing of the De-
mocracy which believed in a high
tariff for the support of American
industries was greeted by the Brit
lsh press with profound admiration.
Eminent political economists in the
States declared this message to
be one Of the ablest Of presidential pa
pers. The presidents stand for reduc-
tions in the tariff on a revenue only"
basis was the subject of much discus
sion pro and con for many years fol
lowing.
Mr.. Cleveland received the Demo
cratic nomination for president in 1888,
but was defeated in the election by
Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. Many
democrats attributed his defeat to his
tariff message of 1887. After Mr..
Harrison's election and the consequent
TRADE of criticism from members Of
the presidents own party MI. Cleve-
land sent for the speaker of the house
of representatives, John G. Carlisle, a
Democrat, and said to him. IF every
other man in the country abandons
this issue, / shall stick to it,
Accordingly in the last message Of
his term he stuck to" his stand on
the tariff problem, urging congress in
1850 to enact laws in line with his
suggestions of the winter before.
Cleveland retired to private life
March 4, 1889, and settled In New
York city for the practice Of the law.
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first name and become known in world
history as Grover Cleveland, twice
president of the United States and for
the remainder of his life 1.-The most dis
tinguished private citizen in the world
The Rev. Stephen +. Cleveland and
his wife, who was Ann Neal. daughter
Of a Baltimore merchant, had a large
family of children. Three years after
Grover was born the family migrated,
as preachers families are wont to do.
Parson Cleveland became pastor at
Fayetteville, N. Y, and later at Clin-
ton, N. Y. The father died when
Grover was in his sixteenth year. The
family home was then and until the
widow Cleveland died in 1882 at Hol-
land Patent, N. Y.
Grover Cleveland attended academies
at Fayetteville and Clinton. He had
an early ambition to go through Prince
ton college, but lacked the funds. He
became clerk and later assistant teach
er in the New York Institution For the
Blind. New York city.
Fanny Crosby, the celebrated blind
hymn writer, was a teacher in the same
school. She and Grover became warm
friends, In her "reminiscences Miss
Crosby writes:
He seemed a very gentle but intensely
ambitious boy. Among other very pleas
ant characteristics which / noticed in him
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AVIAN nj tho G0GI or Waf nnfNNnnu
the United States and England. Great
Britain had refused to submit to ar
bitration a certain boundary dispute
with Venezuela. President Cleveland
advised the appointment Of a COM
mission TO determine for itself the
boundary line between the two
tries with a view to enforce an ac-
ceptance of this line by Great Brit
ain, rhe Monroe doctrine having been
accepted from the moment Of its pro-
mitigation by Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams as a part and parcel Of
sacred American polity, the entire ma
ton stood by the president in his
plucky stand. Congress also stood by
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''the veto mayor" He vetoed many
e%xtravagant appropriation bills and
saved his city at least S1,0O0,0O0.
The state Of New York soon heard
much Of this veto mayor. He had been
in office less than a year when the
Democrats nominated him for govern
or. New York had not elected a Dem
ocratic governor since before the civil
war. The Republicans nominated
Charles j, Folger, secretary Of the
treasury in President Arthur's cabinet.
Mr.. Folger was regarded as a partic-
ularly strong candidate, yet Cleveland
was elected governor by a plurality Of
192,S54 over Folger and by a clear ma
Jority OF I5i,T4z I'VE ali the audi
dates. Just after he voted on election
day he wrote to his brother, the Rev.
William Cleveland:
II mother were alive. 1 should be writ
/ Ing to her, and I feel as If it were a time
for me to write to some one who will be-
lieve what / write. . . ] will tell you
| first Of all others the policy I intend to
adopt, and that is to make the matter a
business engagement between the people
and myself, IN which the obligation on my
side Is to perform the duties assigned me
with an eye single to the interests OF my
employers. / shall have no idea Of re-
election or OF any high political prefer
ment In my head, but be very thankful
and happy II / serve one term as the peo-
ple's governor. Do you know that II
mother were alive / should feel so much
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A Sfp . n ~ a a.
brother and
sister, Grover
Cleveland slipped
quietly into Wash
ington March 2,
1885, and on the
4th was inaugu-
rated as president
OF the United
States, succeeding
Chester Alan Ar
thur, T W e nty-
eight years had
passed since a
Democrat had tax
en- the oath of Of
fee as president.
Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland,
the presidents
younger r,
was mistress of
the White House
and r first
lady of the land"
during the first
fifteen months Of
the administra-
ton. During this
period rumors as
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as a careful, hard
working, but not
brilliant, lawyer.
He had no pyro-
technic, ornament
tai side. He sim
ply attended to
business. Though
the Republican
state ticket car
ried Buffalo by
o than 1900
votes, Cleveland
was elected may
or by a majority
of $3.50. Early
in his term he be-
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a FrER an in
"A term of four
years in pri-
vate life Grover
Cleveland return
ed 10 Washington
and was inaugu-
rated president of
the United States
on March 4, 1893,
for the second
time. The Cleve-
lanu or 1898 was
very iferentfrom
the Cleveland Of
1885. When he be-
gan his first term
he was altogether
new to Washing
ton and to nation
al politics. He was
practically an I'M
tried man in the
wider field Of
anu
was but just COM
plotting his forty
eighth year. In
1898, at the very
mature age of if
ty-six, Mr.. Cleve-
land had enjoyeda
distinction unique
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Of the captured
flags should orig
mate with con
gress. Since then
many flags have
been returned.
President Cleve-
land in his e
sage to congress
in December, 1887.
enunciated his eel
ebrated proposi-
ton of tariff for
revenue only"
This was the most
notable incident of
his first term In
Office. The e
sage. submitted on
the eve Of the
presidential nom
nations Of 1888,
amazed the nation
by its bold stand
against the so call
ed protective tar
if. Mr.. Cleveland
was known to be
in a willing mood
for denomination.
His fearlessness
in thus daring to
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KMHRN the

NW the
~ pastor Of
the Pres
byterian church in
the little town Of
Caldwell, n. J., in
1887 bestowed up
on one OF his ba-
bies the name of
the Rev. Stephen
Grover, a prede-
cessor in the same
pulpit, he prooa-
bly, entertained
not the remotest
dream that the
boy would grow
~ a. di-rnrd he
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The Second Presidency Of
Grover Cleveland
His Fight For the Gold STANDARD, Hu Bond
Inues, His Defiance Of Great Britain OVsr the
Venezuela Boundary, His Support Of Palmer and
Bucknsr and HIS Home Life In Princeton. :,

President Cleve-
land in 1894 en-
HANGED his imme-
dlate u%npopularity
by sending gov
eminent troops to
Chicago ito pre-
vent the obstruc-
ton Of the mails"
during the great
railway strike e,
against the pro-
test Of Governor
Altgeld Of Illinois,
who declared that
he was able to
cope with the sit
uation without aid
from the federal
government. This
was one Of the
most sensational
acts Of Cleve-
lands r In
1895 be sent to
the senate a mes
sage relating to
British claims In
Venezuela which
bristled with bull
dog determination
to insist p 0 the
~upholding of the
-f-
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The First Presidency of
Grover Cleveland

His Inauguration In March, 1885, His Marriage
TO Miss Frances Folsom, His Removals. For "Of-
JensiOe Parfaanshiip, " HIS Tariff For RsUenus
Onyn Plan and Tae0 Prudential Campaign.
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The Early Years of
Grover Cleveland

His Birth In CaLdqpeH, NJ, H5 SchOol Days,
His Legal Carer, His Rts TO the GOvernOr-
ship Of NeqD York and His Deftat Of James
G. BLAINE For the Presidsney In 1881.
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Cheanness Of Living.

1
The heath boards experience last
winter with the unemployed in the
lodging-houses and improvised shell
tiers has led 1T to the firm conclusion
that, given careful management,
wholesale buying good use of mate
rails and other conditions. three
square, wholesome, palatable meals
day may be furnished for less than
8 cents day. On the 9-cent basis
the blessings OF bath, a doctor in
case of need, and clean bed were
added to the solution of the food prob.
lem.
An examination of the daily menu
prescribed causes no disappointment.
A breakfast of bread and butter, cot
fee with sugar., and molasses Is de-
cidedly satisfactory. 1t is, in fact,
the much-praised continental"
breakfast slightly modified, and the
question of its sufficiency resolves it.
self into one of quantity and quality.
Where these are adequate the reason
able man will be entirely reconciled.
The same may be said about the
dinner and the supper. Of course.
AN does not live on meat stew
alone for dinner, or mutton soup thick
ened alone for supper. He Graves
some variety. But no doubt science
and art are equal to the solution OF
this problem, too, after their success
with the paramount problem of cost
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Tho Girl Was Not Afraid.

After two men had failed to do 1t.
owing to lack Of nerve, Miss Ellie
Moody Of Rupert, near here, recent
ly climbed an eighty foot slender
ladder to a windwheel and repaired
the wheel.
It was out Of order and her father
sent his gardeners to fix it. Each
climbed about half way UP when they
lost heart and descended, the high
wind shaking the ladder so badly
they were frightened.
Miss Moody, who saw them, push
ed them aside, daringly climbed the
slender ladder herself and calmly
descended, cheered by large mum.
Der of people who witnessed her feat
-Wi1kesbarre correspondence Phila
delphia Press.
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That Temple of Peace.

The Monroe doctrine never had q
more significant or inspiring express
sion than the laying of the corner
stone, in Washington, the other day,
OF temple Of peace, dedicated for all
time to the industrial and friendly
unity of the republics of the Western
Hemisphere. Twenty-one nations
were represented at the imposing ex-
ercises which marked the laying OF
the corner stone of the edifice that Is
to be the material embodiment OF the
spirit which has reflected the policy
of this country toward all the other
nations OF the Western half OF the
globe. The final step toward the
adoption Of this principle by the
smaller republics themselves, which
have 50 frequently been at war with
each other, seems to have been taken
when they participated in the cere
uonies.-Kansas City Journal
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The Most Delicious Eqqs.

Many a Chinaman in New YOrf
would like to have those added eggs
of Andrew Carnegie's Minorca hens
BY a son of Confucius nothing Ii
more priced than an added egg. We
Americans use the term with great
license, as If 1t meant the same as
rotten egg. Far from it. An egg
added is merely in the earliest stage
of decomposition. The French cpl
cure hangs his meats, poultry, game,
fish, ETC., until they are almost III
sincere" All offensive olors dlsap-
pear in the cooking A rotten egg Is
one OF the foul things of earth; but
a stale egg, properly prepared, beats
all the strictly freshes'' ever brought
to table.
want to claim this invention and
should like to have it patened, trade
marked and copyrighted. Finding it
impossible to eat and enjoy soft
boiled egg nowadays on account Of
the toughness and preponderance Of
the white, instructed my chef to
give each egg a thorough shaking be-
fore cooking. The idea was to mix
perfectly in the shell the white and
yellow. 1t was exquisitely success
full You could never imagine any
thing better A few days ago
bought milkshake machine, such as
may be seen in all public resorts in
summer. Instead of milk in the
glass, I filed the latter with cot
ton and put in the egg. A few turns
Of the crank and-as Delmore says
there you are!-New York Press.