wins —— CHESTER A. ARTHUR AN ERA OF REFORM 1830-—0ct. 5, Chester Alan Ar. thur, born at Fairfield, Vermont. 1848-—Graduated at Union Col. lege, Schenectady. 1861.2—Quartermaster General of New York State. 1871.8—Collector of the Port of New York—Removed by Hayes. 1880-—November, President. 1881—S8ept. 19, Took the oath as 21st President, aged fifty. elected Vice ”~ £ Ww HE public anxiety for Gsrfield through his long battle with death was deepened by a general dread of the vice president's succeeding to the presidency. The people as a whole knew nothing of Chester Alan Arthur, except that he had been only lately nomi- as a iticlan, and that he had heen nated for the vice presidency henchman of Roscoe Conkling. After Athur had been sitting In the vice president's chair only a little more than two weeks, he opened a big White House envelope one day and flushed as he glanced at the unexpect- ed contents—the nomination of a hated “Half-Breed” to the collectorship of the port of New York. With an ex- cited gesture, he summoned Senators | Ee Co ic Chester A. Arthur. Conkling and Platt, and the three “Stalwarts” flamed up with rage at | the challenge to them from the new administration. When the New York senators resigned thir seats and ap- pealed to the legislature of their state to reclect them as a protest against | the administration, the spectacle of | the vice president descending to that melee lent color to the already un. favorable impression of him In the public mind. When In the midst of the fight and e losing fight, Garfleld was shot, the American people revolted at “he thought that Arthur and the “Stal warts” should profit by the assassinn. | tion, at the prospect of a political boss en- motley following about him, Puck, wns distorted and untrue. siraply because the background was omitted of the man had been shaped In sur first came under its attention. Born York state, Arthur had grown up In village parsonages, where the was plain and the thinking high. 1883-—Jan, 16, Arthur signed the civil service law, 1884—Defeated for the Repub. lican nomination by James G. Blaine. 1886-—Nov. 18, died In York aged fifty-six. New 1 IS one of the pranks of fate that Chester A. Arthur, whom President Hayes put out of the New York cus tom house as a spollsman and a politi- cal boss, should find himself In the | White House seven months after | Hayes left it and conducting a reform administration. It was the mandate and lesson of Garfield's assassination that we must get rid of factions and spoils or the government itself might next be struck down as its chief had been. Arthur saw that this was the | logic of the tragedy which had thrust i him Into the presidency and he did his best to clean house. The race for preferment had excited { an unnatural appetite for public office, | and the getting of a job was regarded E exhilarating sport. From police man, fireman and letter carrier to chiefship and consulship, every place on the payroll of city, state or nation went by favor. Two endless proces- sions were forever moving, one made up of those who had been turned out {or turned down, and the other of those who were struggling to get in. The civil service law, i passed In Arthur's administration, took { out of politics the departmental clerk- ships In Washington but 85 per cent of the federal employees as 1 whole were left under the spoils system. {| Nevertheless, the difficult first step had been taken toward the present com- i prehengive system, when all but a few hundred of the hundreds of thousands of places are open equally to self-re specting applieants, regardless of par ties or politicians. Arthur also was the ment in carrying forward the recon cillation of the sections. He was the first president in his generation who {made no reference in his annual mes. sages to the South or to a Southern i question. He was indeed almost the (first president in 50 years who felt {free to ignore the unhappy issues of gectionalism, When be stepped into House Arthur found his party rent by factions. He left It more nearly united than It had been before ‘to win again In 1884. He might him- {self have been the Republican nom- i inee in that year if he had not scrupu- i lously refused to take an active part in promoting his candidacy, He looked ns well as acted the dent, presi. | since Washington, and perhaps the | handsomest, with a tall, graceful fig | ure, the manners of the great world {and a grave but easy courtesy. Although a widower president, { sister, Mrs. McElroy, was a charming them the social life of the took on a more sumptuous tone, son and namesake was away at school much of the time, but his little daugh- i ter, Nellie Arthur, lit up the house { hold with her song and laxghter. Mrs. Arthur died only in the year be. ulous at first, last that he honestly meant to be pres- ident of all the people. Some of his old associates In ma- chine politics were ns astonished at the change that had come over their “Chet” as Falstaff and his eronles were when Prince Hal became King Henry V. Not that the new president <oldly repelled the claims of friend: ship. He simply put first his obliga- tions to the whole country, though it cost him dear in the regard of men like Grant and Conkling, who set him «down as an ingrate. “Why, general, If you were still president of the New York County Republican committee, you would be here right now nsking for this very thing,” protested the head of that or ganization, “As president of the New York County Republican committee,” Ar- thur frankly admitted with a smile, “1 certainly would ; but since I came here 1 have learned that Chester A. Ar thur is one man and the president of the United States ia another.” Mra, John E. M’Eiroy. the presidency, and her absence from his side was a haunting sorrow to Ar thur. Declining to remove the collector of the port of New York, whom Garfield had appointed, against his protest, he even permitted that officeholder to lenve his post and oppose him In the contest at the national convention, No other president has done so little ps Arthur did to obtain a second it was well, not only for the high example he set, own sake also, Arthur's not equal to the strain ) - : Western Newspaper Union ing built for workmen, Thirteen-Year-Old Lad Is Pro- ficient in French, Span- ish and Greek. Parents as Proud of His Ability as a Baseball Player as of His Schol- arly Attainments— Knows How to Concentrate. San- San will Wapwaliopen, Pa.—Frederick tee, son of Dr. and Mrs, C. L. tee, who, at the age of thirteen, town In a few days enter Harvard oniversity, is the Babe Ruth to PFrEALAALLAAARARRALRATC TRAV RBRRRRBARRR of his basehall team. And his par if not than the fact that their son be among the youngest regular “I'd rather play ball than eat” Is nas well as his textbooks In French, His par His fa- Frederick is an only son. His mother was a teacher. The parents’ iden is that thelr son is not precocious, but much lke other boys, except he knows how to con- For Instance, Frederick will play a hard game of baseball and get tired that ene would think he was But insteadl of resting out a French recuperating In that lectures and he can sit through an entire lecture without getting fidgety, his mother says. rend, fashion, began to spell words almost as seon ns he could walk” his mother sald. as much as we conld for a child of He began to spell entire senfences In a few weeks, Before the multiplication fable, Graduated When Thirteen Years Old. “At the age of eleven he entered He fin- He wns grad- Wore Only Shirt and Lantern to Flag Train Winsted, Conn.—When Thomas J. Doyle of Waterbury, a New Haven rallroad brakeman, stood on a grade crossing In Torring. ton with a lantern in his hand and nothing but a shirt on his back, some one notified the po lice and Doyle was escorted to the police station by Patrolman Muribut. Then he cursed. In court Doyle said he was in the eaboose changing his rain. sonked clothes and that before he had a chance to put others on it became necessary for him to run to the crossing and sig- nal the approach of a locomo- tive, ctatssasssssssLssnsanasnd -—— uated from the Central High school Inst summer when he was thirteen. “Fred took second honors in French, Among those who came up for the éntrance examination to was the only one who wore short troukers. He was usually finished be. fore the others and he got a good grade, “Latin and German he began study. ing when he was nine years Since then he has learned to read French, Spanish and Greek fluently He prefers reading French or Spanish te Finnish snd he has a good French library. In the last four years he had four years of Latin, ald He has never but he it Spanish and German. studied much Greek, well, “Fred ther's Soutateps, reads his fa Latin. in the follow studying expects to medicine.” Ruth. his graduation Call taking up Him Becond Babe i i ited to books Is testified to by the oth- er youngsters of Wapwallopen., He on the hoys’ the Yankees. He can pitch a little, 100, and on the bases he's a whirlwind, taseball ix the only sport he Bas taken up. letween cries of “Atta him another!” the his mother's statement pected to be a doctor, The boy ix about the for his and his lithe, well-b and body shows no any Frederick in the his mother savs, never content unless he thing trait natural thirteen. “He he boy!” and verified he ex- boy that usnnl ull of nge, muscled 1 $ sig does considerable work house, is doing some for boy of i in 1% been 80 busy playing mer,” his mother said, had much r Of course, he reads French or ish at night out his outfit and does some father puzz “slint work Span iv not time for or pets chew his led over In Esthonian Savs Troops Would Revolt. Throughout the Whole of Russia --On Last Lege. — filed | the London. —Just as imperialism #0 will Imperialism be Plip, foreign minister the consequences of the bolshevist of- fensive in Poland. While foreign minister last year M. one of the best authorities in Europe on Russian political and economic con- ditions M. Pilip asserted that Russia's eco- nomic condition was rapidly getting a failure likely that wholly depo He sald it was not un- the cities will soon pulated, duce lig enormous army,” he conclud- ed. “Unemployment is now FEA AAAS AAA AA RLARARRR RARE ARR RRRRRRS eal problem throughout the whole of if the men who as sol- which the soviet rulers have common with representatives of other Russian border states, In “The bolsheviki are fighting Poland captured from Denikin and Kolchak” he sald. “This is now almost exhaust. ed, and Russia cannot renew jit” tack by the bolshevikl on Esthonia, M. Piip said: we sure trading with Russia. The so- cut off Russia from the supplies §t receiving through We might perish, but soviet Rus. would go down with us™ vitally needed is now Ein DISAGREEABLE TASTE IN MOUTH Stomach Was Out of Order and Head Ached, So Kentucky Man Took Black-Draught.—“It Cured Me,” He Says. Nancy, Ky~—Mr. Marion of this place, says: “For qui walle 1 suffered with stomach trot I would have pains and a heavy feel. ing after my meals, also a most dis. agreeable taste in my mouth, If I ate anything with butter, oll or grease, I began to have regular sick headache, “lI had used pills and tablets, after a course It just seemed to 1 found they no good at all for my trouble. “1 heard Thedford's Black-Dr: recommended very highly, it. It house Holcomb, te a long ihle, of these I woul fear were aught $0 1 began to cured me. 1 the liver medicine use keep It It made. 1 all time. is the do not best | he ave sick headache or stomach trouble from headache, con- When suffering liver trouble, well-recommended, Thedford's Black- stomach old vegetable, wtion, or try the and brough also ha Just as Black-Draught let to Mr. Holcomb, thousands of others, so it and shoul ton, Insist on having the genuine —Ady, Tokens of Honesty. At some of the Lon two men make 8 trad exchange black This binding that traci. jon docks, when wan is regard a written and Cuticura Comforts Baby's Ekin | When red, roug hie | baths of Cuticura Soap and tous Cuticura Ointment Also make now and then of that exquisitely wre ed dusting Tw of indispensable Cut PRE itching wit and = hes powder, Cuticurs 1 he 4 Day, Then Decide to Kiss and Make Up. : i do bu like girl in the dark. Trying to giness with a map winking Insist on having Dr. Peery's pd Worms or Tapeworm and the ¢ procure i It is the only Ver operates thoro web y after a wing e¢ dove A frost is dew before generaily been fought here Glovanni Favino between Sig nor and Siguor fashionable restaurant. This duel be sun uni because they were hungry kizsedd ench other and then, arm in arm, adjourned to a aseighbor- PUA INLET ALARA R ABARAT ATRATCARARRR SCR R ENS Chick's Crop Holds Lost Diamond Ring Macon, Mo.—~While preparing a chicken for dinner Mrs, Owen Pimmick of this city found In its crop a valuable diamond ring. The ring she instantly recognized as one belonging to her neighbor, Mrs, John Thomas, who lost it about six weeks ago. Naturally the loss occasioned Mra, Thomas considerable worry, and she searched every- where for it. She even consult. ed the fortune teller who was here with the carnival, and the fortune teller told Mrs, Thomas that she could locate the miss. ing ring if she would go to a dry goods store and purchase $4 worth of certain goods wanted by the fortune teller. Mrs, Thomas didn't see the con- nection and declined to invest, BEBE ARR ERRRARRA SERRA... HUNT FOR Danish Scientist Hopes to Gather Interesting Information. Seeks for Spawning Eel, Something "That Has Never Yet Been Seen— Quick Death After Maturity. Cardiff, Wales. — Dr. Johannes Schmidt, a Danish scientist, is search- ing the Atlantic between the Azores and the West Indles for spawning fresh water eels, which the eye of man hos never seen. This announcement was made by Dr. W. A, Herdman, pro- fessor of oceanography at Liverpool university, in his presidential address | British asoclation, C“All the veils of the streams and tor Herdman sald, “live and feed and grow under our eyes without reprodue- ing BY hr kind—no spawning eel has ever been seen. © After living for years 4 EEL DATA in immaturity, at last pear the end of their lives the large male and fe male yellow eels undergo a change in appearance and in nature, They ac quire a silvery color and their eyes enlarge, and in this bridal attire they commence the long journey which ends in maturity, reproduction and death, They migrate In the automn to the coast, from the inshore seas to the open ocean and still westward and south to the mid-Atlantic and we know not how. much farther, for the exact locality and manner of spawning have still to be discovered. “The youngest known stages of the Leptocophalus, the larval stage of eels, have been found by Doctor Schmidt to the west of the Azores, where the water is over 2,000 fathoms In depth, These were about one-third of an inch Doe Fin length and were probably not long hatched, “Now Doctor Schmidt Is traversing the Atlantic in the hope of finding the missing link in the chain, the net! i spawning fresh water ee), in the inter- wediate waters somewhere above the abysses of the open ocean.” RUSSIAN WOMEN PAY TO WED Give High Prices for Finnish Mus. bands in Order to Leave the Country. Viborg, Finland. — Hiring Finnish men to marry Russian women, to en able the latter to get out Russia has become a popular a tive business in the border towns south of Whore. the method ls unfailing. It makes n Finnish subject of the woman, and Is recognized ar lawful by the two coun: tries, which have assumed diplomatic relationd. Endless trouble ensues, of course, If the woman thus freed of Russia refus”s to part with her pseuda husband, These newly married couples come out of Russian into Riarmjoke, the fron. ter town, not more than 80 miles trom Petrograd, with the dally exe dus of Swedish and Flanish refugees BD ar tr Et AER EE ALAA AA RAR AREAL RS RAAT R TERRES Weak and Miserable? Does the least exertion tire you out! Feel “blue” and worried and have daily backache, lameness, headache, dizziness, and kidney irregularities? Sick kidneys are often to blame for this unhappy state. You must act quickly to prevent tore serious trouble. Use Doan’s Kid ney Pills, the remedy recommended everywhere by grateful wsers. JAsk your neighbor! A Maryland Case Mrs. J. T. Ab kine West St, Beriln, Md. says: “1 was troubled hy backache ' Mornings it was a 10 tie my sh en or stoop over When 1 tried to Get Dosn’s at Any Store, 60¢ a Box DOAN’ s RIDNEY PILLS Liniment will readily admit hat it is by far the
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