Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-09

income. Equipped with such an earning
power he will hardly be willing to accept
any sort of pension or place at the hands
of the people over whom he has ruled for
seven years.
his immediate plans, and those after he
returns from his African engagement and
his period of hobnobbing with William,
Edward, and the rest of them. But
stranger things have happened Fnan that
Cincinnatus should again be called from
the pillow. Was it not said of Cleveland,
after his first term, that when he went
TO New York after his retirement he
made a noise like a stone thrown into the
water-"a splash and then silence for
ever" But did not Mr.. Cleveland come
back into office after four years on a po-
litical landslide the like of which America
had never seen? Perhaps Mr.. Roose Aelt
may yet live to be the second man who
has been twice an ex-president.
The .ex-presidential career of Grover
Cleveland has long been regarded as
the ideal one. AS a writer, university
professor, angler, he lived in a quiet,
dignified way. Benjamin Harrison be-
gan the practice of law, after retiring
from the white house at the age of sixty,
to build up the fortune that had been
neglected during his active political life.
The new secretary of state, Mr.. Knox,
once retained him in a case in which
he was general counsel. Harrison did
the work, and then asked Knox to allow
him to collect from the clients direct,
stating that he wanted a bigger fee
than he felt Knox could approve He
got what he asked. In after years, when
they compared notes, his fee was only
one-fourth of that charged by Knox.
Had he left the fixing of the fee to the
general counsel he would have gotten ten
times as much.
Chester A, Arthur died shortly after
his retirement. Hayes lived some twelve
years after his return to private life. He
became a gentleman farmer and at
tended to his large poultry yards him
self He and Mrs. Hayes were always
identified with the great movements for
the elevation of the race. Mrs. Hayes
left the white house as dry as the sands
of Sahara, but the wine cellars were
soon completely stocked again.
The career of General Grant, after
leaving the white house, carried him
through nearly the entire gamut of hu-
man experience. First came his tour
around the world. 1t was a triumphal
circling of the earth the like of which
history does not record. Everywhere
men and nations united 10 do him hon
or. He afterward said that during the
whole trip the incident that appealed to
him most was the rendering of the
freedom of the city of Ayr, Scotland
But once before in all the history of
that proud municipality had such an
honor been accorded any man, and that
was 200 years before to gallant, native
uyDG hnnnr
been refused the prince of Wales-now
King Edward. After a short stay in
Galena, upon his return home he went
to New York. There he saw his entire
fortune swept away. Amid his poverty
and while suffering from the terrible
cancer that ended his life, he wrote his
memoirs, the sales of which again
brought his family back to affluence.
The path that leads to the presidency
is an uncertain one, as was so we'll il
Illustrated in the case of Grant. Having
failed at everything else, he sought a
position with the Illinois troops in the
civil war, but was refused. Later he was
again an applicant for a command. AT
last the governor assigned him to
regiment of the most insubordinate lot
of recruits Illinois had ever seen. Grant
took them in hand. marched them sew
eral miles, wore all the characterization
out of them, and developed them into
the best regiment from the state. His rise
was rapid after that. Governor Yates al
ways regarded it as the joke of his life
that he was unable to recognize the SOL
Appomattox.
Speaking of the inauguration of John
Adams, the senate journal says: "fhe