The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23

When. four years after his passing from the White House. Mir. Harrison announced his purpose to. remarry. there was general pleasure and heart lest good will was expressed all over the country. On Feb. 2i, 1897. a child was born to the pair. Elizabeth Har- rison.
 A woman of rare beauty and charm. Mir. Harrison Is naturally very pop plar. both in Indianapolis. where she had her home. and in Tuxedo. NY, where she spends much of her time.
 Mrs. Cleveland has only lately been made the widow of President. The whole life of this lovable woman. since her girlhood days, radiated around the life of the only man the Democrats have succeeded in putting in the White House in half a century of effort. They were welded in the White House during the first term of the then New Yorker.
 For the remaining years of his term Mrs. Cleveland presided with a charm and dignity that were irresis- tible. and that gave her perhaps more thorough popularity that any woman of the many who have held the title of First Lady of the Land"
 For four years more In private life Mrs. Cleveland continued to hold a place in the affections of the people. and when in 1892 the vote of the people carried Grover Cleveland back into the chair of Washington, many a Republi- can found the bangs of having a Demo- cratic President lessened by the fact that his selection returned Mrs. Cleve- land to her old place.
 Her triumps of the first term were abundantly repeated. and when once more the pair retired to private life to take up their home in beautiful West lands. their Princeton abode. Mrs. Cleveland remained a beautiful memory to the Nation that had genuinely loved her.
 Now as a widow, charged with the responsibility of training her family. the old affection is still there.
 Mrs. Cleveland completes notable line of White House widows, first and most ilIustrious of whom was Martha Washington, wife of the founder whose body Hes beside that of the immortal George in the simple tomb of Nit. Vernon. Martha Washington died in 1S02. having survived her H. lustrious husband bx three years.
 Thomas Jefferson outlived his wife forty-four years, a most remarkable extent of time. She died in 17s2. while 4l1G QAu AOb 6O AAOlh tA1 0Ouy OA bAa~ greatest of Democrats till 1926.
 Mrs. Madison lived thirteen years after the death of her husband
 John Adams outlived his wife; so did Andrew Jackson. John Quincy Adams oIed four years before his wife.
 Martin Van Buren almost equaled the record of Jefferson. and lived forty three years after the passing of his wife.
 Widows Pension suEgested.
 The first time a pension was ever suggested for the widow of an ex- President was when William H. liar rison died one month after his ina.Mg- uration. Prior to that time there had been only one instance of a(widow get ting any favors whatever This was when Dolly Madison gas granted the right to publish in other countries for her own bepsnt the manuscript de- bates on the Constitution.
 IhA death of Harrison peculiarly ap- pealed to the sentiment of the Nation and Mrs. Harrison was voted outright S25.000. Even this sum was not ex- travagaht, for she had to live on 1t for the twenty-three years she sur- vived her husband.
 The second Mrs. Tyler, who married the President during his stay in ofics occupied the White House for eight months.
 -- When the former President died in