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CLEVELAND’S DEATH SHOCK TO COUNTRY Ex-President Succumbs Unexpectedly, Though He Had Long Been 111. Great Democrat, Twice President of the United States, Dies at His Home in Princeton, Aged Seventy-One Years—Sketch of His Career, from Poor Boy to the Highest Elective Office in the World-Famous Venezuelan Message Princeton, N. J.—Grover Cleveland, t wice president of the Fnited Stares, ♦lied suddenly Wednesday at his home here. Mr Cleveland had been a sufferer from {tout and diabetes for more than two years. Early in 190(1 he was stricken with an attack of indigestion, The result of diabetes, and for weeks was unable to partake of any except liquid nourishment. A sojourn in the south improved his health considerably, and his sud den d. raise comes as a complete sur prise. A statement, signed by Dr. Joseph H. Bryant. Dr. George R. Lockwood and Dr. J. M. Camochan, explaining the death of their patient, was given out: “Mr. Cleveland for many years has suffered from repeated attacks of gas tral intestinal origin. Also he has a long-standing organic disease of the heart ana kidneys and heart failure complicated with pulmonary throm bosis and oedema were the immediate causes of his death.” Cleveland's Early Struggles. Grover Cleveland was born at Cald well. Essex county, N. J.. March 18, 3837. As a country boy. he left home when 16 years of age, charged not -only with the necessity of making his own way in the world, but with the responsibility of providing for his mother and sisters. He fought the battle sturdily and not only won, but achieved the highest honors that can come to an American. His father was a Presbyterian min ister. The son was christened Steph en Grover, in honor of Rev. Stephen ‘7 rover, who had preceded Rev. Mr. Cleveland in the pastorate of the lit tle church at Caldwell. In even the ■earliest childhood of the boy. however, the parents omitted the name Stephen and addressed him always as Grover. The son always signed his Tiame as Grover Cleveland. In 1841 the family removed to Fay etteville. N. Y. They lived afterward at Clinton and Holland Patent. Grover, while he attended school, served in his spare hours as clerk in a country store. His father died in 1S53. His money, tt was found, had been expended for the education of his children. It de volved upon Grover, then 16 years of atge. to qualify as a contributing mem ber of his family. Through his broth er. who was connected with the New York institution for the blind, he se cured appointment there as assistant teacher Attracted by Law Career. Two years gave him enough of Teaching. He was ambitious to be come a lawyer and to work in a field that offered more advantages than ■could he found in the east. The city ■of his choice was Cleveland. Ohio. All of his spare earnings having been sent to his mother, he required borrowed capital to get his start in the world. The amount of this capital was $50 and the friend who gave it to him was an old man who had been a deacon in his father's church. The lender's ■security was a note signed by the boy. That it was sufficient was proved two years later when he received a remit tance covering the amount of the loan with interest. Grover started in 1855 for Cleveland by way of the Erie canal. He stopped over for a day at Buffalo to visit a ■rich uncle, Lewis F. Allen. The lat ter prevailed upon the youthful pil grim to make his home in Buffalo. He provided Grover with six weeks' work at $10 a week to assist in the compila tion of a herd book and secured for him a piace in the office of a promin ent law firm. As a law clerk he re ceived $4 a week In 1859 Cleveland was admitted to the bar. He remained in ihe service of the law firm as managing clerk, in view of which dignity and honor his stipend was increased to $10 a week. On January 1. 1863. he was appoint ed assistant district attorney of Brie county. He allowed himself the bare necessities of life. Every surplus dol lar was sent to his mother and sisters. At this time he was drafted for serv ice in the union army. He borrowed money and sent a substitute to the war. Much was made of this fact In the political campaigns of later days. Friends of Cleveland replied that his action was in accordance with the custom of those days, when some members of a family went to war, while others remained to care for the ■dependent ones. Two of Cleveland's brothers were in the army. Entrance Into Politics. In 1865 Cleveland was nominated for district attorney. He began the prac tice of lav. He also maintained a keen interest in politics. In 1S66 he was chairman of the county commit tee. He had few intimate friends, but was favored by a strong follow ing of men attracted by his power of leadership. In 1ST0 he was elected sheriff and filled the office for three years. Then he returned to law. Success was gained by hard, faithful work. He had never been accused of being bril liant. but he was thorough, and gained by conscientious digging Uie victory that came to others by so-called gen ius. In ISrl he was elected mayor of Buf falo. as a Democrat, by a plurality of 3,500. The candidates on the Repub lican state ticket carried the city by 1.G00. After the election Cleveland said in a letter to his brother that he proposed to stand in the relation of an employe to the people of the city. His one aim would be to render faithful service to his employer. In carrying out this resolution he became known as the "veto mayor.” of government, but he gave keen at tention to the matters brought before him for action. When these seemed not to be for the public good his dis-i approval was expressed promptly and with the plainest words in his vocab ulary. From 12 to 14 hours a day were devoted to the investigation of bills and reports submitted to him for ac tion. On July 11, 1884, in Chicago, he was nominated to oppose James G. Blaine in the campaign for the presidency. A slender plurality in New York state turned the scale and he became the first Democratic president since the civil war. The second time in his life that he visited Washington was when he went to the capital to lake office as president. His bearing on the stand erected for the inaugural re vealed his masterful character to the experienced statesmen who sat around him. Stretched before him were more people than he had ever seen assem bled for any purpose. They w’ere en thusiastic. but neither their demon strations nor thought of the grave re sponsibilities he was about to assume affected him in the slightest degree. He was calm as any man there hav ing nothing at stake. When the time came to speak he advanced to the bar firmly and coolly as a lawyer in court. Deliberately and in a strong voice he delivered his address of 8.000 words, and he shattered all precedents by giv ing it from memory instead of from manuscript. He declared for the Mon roe doctrine, economy, protection of the Indians, security of the freedmen, and for civil service. Famous Venezuelan Message. The death of Mr. Cleveland will recall to all the days when he was the most foreeful figure in American public life. Nothing which he ever did while pres ident attracted more attention than the famous message he sent to con gress in December, 1895, on the sub ject of Great Britain’s controversy with Venezuela over the boundary be tween the latter country and British Guiana. The foundation for Mr. Cleve land's message was the note of Secre tary of State Olney to Lord Salisbury, the British minister for foreign affairs. That note was written during the con gressional recess, three months before congress convened, and before Mr. THE LATE EX-PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND. I It was an honorable title. Buffalo had long been in the grip of unscrupulous politicians. Grown arrogant from power and rich ; from graft, they had come to regard rule wholly to iheir interest as a settled right. Mayor Cleveland dis ' abused their minds. Raids on the ! treasury were blocked by his veto. Officeholders were warned that their allegiance was due the people. Claims of friendship and the pressure of pow I erful influence were without effect up- j | on him. His sturdy fights in the inter- i est of his “employer" were widely pub- ! lished and attracted attention through out the state. Governor of New York. So it happened that when the Dem ocrats in 1882 cast about for a can didate for governor their eye natur ally turned toward Buffalo. Grover Cleveland was placed at the head of their ticket. He was elected over Charles J. Folger. then secretary of I the treasury, by 200,000 plurality. Cleveland's record as mayor and his ! overwhelming victory in the election S made hint a national figure. There was j widespread curiosity as to the course j he would pursue as governor. He i gained new celebrity through his ve- 1 j toes. He refrained from discourses : ' on public affairs and framed no theory Cleveland's message was prepared. The Olney note was drafted after a consultation between the secretary of state and Mr. Cleveland during the summer at Great Gables on IUizzard’s bay. Mr. Olney went there to confer with the president about the Venezue lan question. The note was submitted to every member of the cabinet. War Was Not Feared. Mr. Hilary A. Herbert, then secre tary of the treasury in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, has said of the incident: "I remember that as the note developed it almost took my breath away, and I was inclined to oppose its presenta tion. but before the reading was fin ished I realized its force and value and I heartily approved it.” "Did you anticipate that war would result from the message?” he was asked. "No, I did not think so, because 1 did not think there was enough in the controversy to cause a war between the two countries which were so close ly allied in blood and business. Of course, such measures as could be taken with the means in hand to be prepared in case cf trouble were taken by the navy department, but there ■ was neither time nor money nor oppor tunitv to make any extensive prepara tions.” Going the Limit. "Some people,” said Uncle Eben, "is -30 crazy ’bout money dat they takes mo' pride in false teeth an’ a wooden leg dan dey does in what dey was born wif free of Charge. — Washington Star. Which Reminds Us. Somebody wants to know if we re member candle snuffers. No, but dad does. He remarks (with much wit, see think; that they were the original are traps. Virtue in Waters of the Ganges. Natives of India have held for cen turies that the waters of the River Ganges are blessed and healing to | those who bathe therein. A scientist says: "I have discovered that the water of the Ganges and the Jumna is hostile to the growth of the cholera microbe, not only owing to the ab sence »f food materials, but also ow ing to the actual presence of an anti septic that has the power of destroy ing this microbe." A Beam of Divinity. To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in ad versity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.—Seneca. When the Trouble Starts. One swallow does not make a sum mer, but it is the first swallow that starts the trouble.—Manchester Union MAum/wi. BY W A nHT^A rwAi \ii i iir ^ yflillBillliriMfrOTnUii. /•-^-^^ *«lKiTTlr^tTT7m^ e % WHY DIDN'T YOU THY TH/6?' % % % -Sf-t HETHER mar riage be abso lutely a failure or not is some thing to be de cided only by those who have tried it, and 1 am no feminine Don Quixote, tilting against windmills. 1 am simply an observer, seeing happy marriages, and unhappy, and sometimes finding what is evident to all except the persons most concerned, “the little rift within the lute," which has made its music mute. It might be said at the outset that the fact of asking all over the world if marriage is a failure <rr~, Jf//£W£uf\ ov£#r//£\ [mrmo6£//r\ %!££/£££ rf££h w\gf//r££ y/< is not proof that it is a success, nor is the excel lence of an institution proved by the few cases but by the many. The few but prove the possi bility of success where there is more often but slight measure of it. No one who has considered the matter thought fully can doubt that marriage at its best is the perfect life, ideal in its relations and in Its devel opment of the best type of man and woman, but, unfortunately, that a thing may be is not the same as that it is. To an outsider, one of the strongest arguments against matrimony is the number of those who try to get out of it. Being tied is in itself a condi tion trying to an erratic temperament, for you are never so eager to get away as when you know yob can't. I have watched devoted lovers grow into in different partners, and also have seen most beau tiful marriages grow from rather commonplace wooings, so the advance stage seems not much of an indication what the future will give. One of my girl friends said to me of her fiance: “I am not one of the silly girls who cannot see faults in those they care for. I can see them all the plainer because I love, and though I have hunt ed very hard for them, I can't see a fault in Joe, and so I know he hasn't got any.” She and Joe got married and went their loving way. Some years later I met her. and in the course of con versation she surprised me by saying: "No. of course, I don't tell Joe everything, the way I used to. Men are so stupid they never understand, so it is foolish to tell them and get into a fuss.” ‘‘Do they grow stupid after marriage?” “Well, they maj- not, but they seem to. Why. Joe nearly went wild over the most innocent letter that a man sent me. and he happened to find. I’ve told the maid again and again never to bring my letters to the table, hut to put them in my bureau drawer, but she is so careless. One often has letters she doesn't wish her husband to see, bills and things of that sort.” Now, it is hard for me to imagine marriage a success in which one party to the contract has such a feeling as that. Marriage, it seems to me, is one of two things, either a business con tract, or a union founded upon sentiment, and if deceit enters into it one party or the other is not living up to the agreement, how’ever smoothly things may seem to go. If it is a business con cern, each partner has a right to the confidence of the other, and so long as sentiment enters into it there will be the same interchange of interests between married couples as between the engaged. The rule holds as good whether applied to man or to woman. Another of my friends loves her husband de votedly. she says. She has no secrets from him— nor from anybody else—not even those she ought to have, for perfect faith does not necessitate telling a man every foolish little thing, nor pass ing on to him something some girl friend has told her. When of an evening her husband puts on his coat to go out this wife begins: "Why. Harry, are you going out this evening? Where are you WHHTD/D YM/to. tz/r// rf/Arr/Fry C£/vr6 / g/?m? rou / /rs guingvv hat are you going for? Who else is going? What makes you go? You can think of me waiting here alone until you get back. I shall sit up until lou get home.” Think of a self-respecting, able-bodied and mind ed man being subjected to that every time he goes out ol the house. Could you bear it. oh. sister woman, if he put you through like questioning? " fcy should a man or a woman be required to give an account of all the moments as they fly? Speaking of human beings from my own stand point, I should say there is nothing dearer than freedom of the individual, and nothing much hard er to bear than any infringement upon it. I con sider being questioned almost the unpardonable offense on the part of a friend, yet. left to myself, probably I should tell him or her all I knew; but quizzing me always results in my telling nothing, ami there must be others like that. Something of this kind I said to Ella, and that to ask a man so much seemed to me like an in dignity. She replied: ‘‘How funny you are! Why should he object to telling me if he isn't going where he is ashamed to have it known? Am I not his wife and entitled to know all he does?” ‘ He probably might tell you without your ask ing if you gave him a chance, but anybody with an atom of sense would object to being forced to tel. every time he turned around and why.” "If he loves me he ought to be willing to tell me so little a thing as that.” What are you going to do with a woman like that to live with every day—love her? Yes. but you will come to the conclusion that dumbness is not without some compensations. Once I was visiting a friend who had been the most romantic and sentimental of girls. When she was first married she wept bitterly because her husband said another woman was the hand somest one he had ever seen. ‘‘No other woman ought to be so handsome to a man as his wife, however she looks." sobbed she. as if a man lost his eyesight when he mar ried. Wouldn't you suppose a woman would lose confidence in her husband's judgment if he thought, she was the most beautiful of women when her mirror told her she was not? \\ hile I was at this friend's home her husband told at dinner of something funny that had hap pened that day in the office, addressing his re marks directly to her. She made no pretense of listening, and evidently did not hear a word. "You don't seem to see anything funny in that?” "Oh. 1 never listened to it at all. I thought likely it was as stupid as the stories you usually tell"—rudeness in her manner as in her words. She often sighs because marriage is so different IMPORTED BREAD IN ENGLAND In a statement presented to the British parlia ment it appears that in 1900 the imports of wheat and wheat flour into the United Kingdom were 78 per cent, of the total supply. In Germany the imports in 1905 were 35 per cent, and in France in 1906 three per cent, of the total supply. It was stated that in the United Kingdom in 1906 imported supplies were, of meat, about 47 per cent.; of butter, 57 per cent., and of cheese, 61 per cent, of the total consumption. For France the latest returns relate to 1S92, and in that year the imports of meat were three per cent of the total supply. In Germany in 1906, under the old tariff, the imporls of meat were 11 per cent, of the total consumption. The United States ha3 a consider able exportation of all these commodities. The imports of wheat and wheat flour into the United Kingdom in 1906 were: From British pos sessions, 58,462,000 bushels, valued at $60,000, 000, and from foreign countries 129,330,000 bush els, valued at $132,000,000. The quantity of wheat grown in the United Kingdom in 1906 was 54, 123.000 bushels, of which probably £3 to 90 per cent, was directly used for food by the people.— Kansas City Star. .1 from the girl's dream, yet she never blames her self for any part of the failure. Still, as she could speak before me and her children with this lack of courtesy to the man whom she had sworn be fore God to love and honor, she may not be wholly free from fault. Should you, present lovers, call the marriage in which such as this was a com mon occurrence, a success or a failure? In the course of my wanderings to and fro I have often spent some time at a house where there never has been a meal finished without some fault-finding by the master thereof. This is not due to ill-cooked food, for the wife pre pares good dishes and sees that the cook does likewise. If the chicken is broiled, "Why didn't you fry this?” If it is fried, "Why wasn't it broiled?" Or perhaps the complaint will be that chicken was cooked at all when he wanted fish. The vegetables were always over or under done; something that he wanted and had not spoken about had not been prepared. Maybe it would be; “I’ve been trying ever since I was married to teacn folly to make bread, but it seems im possible for her to get it into her head,” and the bread is as light and sweet as bread ought to be. Heaven help the woman whose husband thinks he can cook, and help her doubly if at the same time he has the grum bling habit! If you sat at the table three times daily to such remarks, you dear little bride of the future, what would life be worth to you? Yet this man has been much loved of women and has made three wives happy—or miser able?—well, conscious of a few of their de fects, let us say. But to some women it would be bitter bread that had that flavor; one would De as couuun able walking on tacks as living with a man ^bo is never suited, never praising, but always find ing fault. I have never seen an instance of a very happy marriage when the woman was the bread win ner. if the husband were a strong, well man. If a woman makes a home and cares properly for the husband and children who should be in it. she has business enough within the walls of her house. Whatever she does outside is just so much taken from the strength and thought that belong rightly to the home and its inmates. From the beginning it has been woman's part to care for what the man provided, and this instinct is rooted back many centuries, and is a part of the human race to-day. So surely as it is violated for anything but the greatest need the woman and the man suffer for the violation. She grows to despise the man who does not provide for ker—and he loses his self-respect. The woman who works with all her might to help a man make money, makes a great mis take if she is seeking happiness, for the money is bought at the cost of the character develop ment in tenderness and unselfishness that the man needs and gets when he looks after his wife as he wants to when he marries. It should be some very strong cause that leads her to take from him tills tight to au unselfish manhood. The woman who makes a true home does more for the man than she does by going into the labor mart, and she cannot do both. It is true that the happiness of married life depends a good deal upon the woman—more. I think, than upon the man—because her strength lies in just and proper using of the powers of heart and spirit. Of course, men sometimes are trying and dense, but 1 have seen most unprom ising material made into husbands who were de lightful and the envy of women who had not known or cared how to use what was theirs to build with. One cannot be happy with an unbearably jeal ous man who suspecis his wife at every turn, but the mar. with minor faults, such as asking "What did you do with the 50 cents I gave you last wvek?" may be cured by the right handling. It may be hard to be happy if you have black eyes and hair, when your husband takes pleasure in ealiing your attention to beauties with blue eyes and golden hair, and tells you how he al ways admired that style of beauty, but think what a compliment he paid you iu preferring ycu in spite of his fancy for another type of come liness Jealousy, brutality and vulgarity ara -o strik ingly offensive that a!! the world admits there is no chance for happiness with them, but they wreck lew lives comparatively, if marriage is a failure it is not in any great measurs because of these, but because it is allowed to become common-place. These w-ho keep a te,uch of ro mance in their r tailors do not. find wedded bliss a myth. It is well to preserve one's illusions. Beside the loss of all I e- ,, y cut the mutual life, another cause for l.ne unhappiness in mar riage that ma.:cs it seem a tad ; a is lack of courtesy, of the toi siderrUon that is given in stinctively by the sweetheart tv.Vi cor it no bore to listen to her lover's store r r finds it difficult to laugh at them, th. u h ; • : « them over and over. (Copyright. '»■ J. a B Iiwlcn)
