UP FROM OBSCURITY WEDDED IN WHITE HOUSE 1837—March 18, Stephen Grover Cleveland, born at Cald. well, N, J. 1854-—An office boy in a Buffalo law office. 1859-—Admitted to the bar. 1863 Assistant district attorney of Erie county. 1870—Elected sheriff. 1881—Elected mayor of Buffalo, 1882 Elected governor. 1884—Elected President. 1885-—March 4, Grover Cleveland inaugurated twenty-second president, aged forty-seven, o> +» O OTHER man has stepped so N quickly from obscurity to the presidency as Grover Cleveland, When Gai fleld stood on the steps of the cap- itol to be Inaugurated he never had heard the name of this Buffalo attor- ney, who was to stand in the same place four years afterward. At forty-five Cleveland remained un. known outside his county. At forty- seven he was In the White House. It was a meteoric rise. Yet this man was no meteor. Slow of mind, with a narrow range of reading and of intel- lectual interests, Cleveland was stolid in manner and without brilliant qual- ities. Bur he had a character as rug- ged and immovable as a mountain, It Cleveland as Sheriff. nad been built up in rural parsonages, vhere his father, a Presbyterian min- ister, was required to rear a lar ily 8nd set an example to the commun ny on $600 a year. For more than a quarter of a cen- tury he plodded along in Buffalo, a quiet, trusted, but not lawyer. Unmarried and without family or nn home, he took no part in the so cial life of his community, where 100 other Buffaloninns may have heen bet. ter. known to their fellow-townsmen, He had heen an ~ssistant district at- | torney of Erie county and also ita} sheriff. The first that was ever heard | his sledge-hammer vetoes from the wayor's office only two years before his election to the presidency. The whole state of New York stopped to listen whole country took notice. The sudden, the theatrical the man was not a blind stroke of luck. 1864-—July 21, Frances Folsom born In Buffalo, 1885-—Graduated from Wells col. lege. 1886—June 2, married President Cleveland in the White House. 1913-—February 10, married Prof. Thomas J. Preston at Princeton, N. J. + Al THE Democrats had lost power under a bachelor president, James Buchanan, they regained quarter of a century under another bachelor president. That strange co- incidence was brought to an end by Cleveland's marriage in the second year of his administration. From the day Cleveland entered the executive mansion at Albany, gossip busily made matches for him with one after another of the eligible women who appedred at his receptions. A spe- cial favorite of those persistent ru- it after a his old law partners, Oscar Folsom, whose home was one of the few homes was not suspected that all along his own choice had been the rather than the mother Even the wiseacres of Wash. young girl who wes present st a re er year be the bride of her host, the announce- Her pame was on America ; every paper, nnd crowded about her ship was smuggled sboard a to avoid the curious crowd at New York There had been marriage of a president, and John Tyler was a which took some of the ro of the occasion, For the a president was to marry As Miss Folsom't evers the press boats from which dock. only one first time her grandfather's house was in mourn ing for his recent death, like the of a sovereign her husband's home to be married. Th: wedding in the blue room was extremely simple, the only ing a few relatives of the bride and and the members of the cabi After the cake had been the bridal pair train in a switch yard. They had i » dent because he was the logical, com mon-seénse choice: hecause this un- known, unambitions lawyer of Buffalo hod become In twe swift years the most conspicuous embodiment of the things that the timed called for——inde pendence In polities and a higher standard of conduet in office. Here was a man who was to make his own precedents, a to care for nothing that had president after the Civil war to have had no part in that strife, he was with. out a political past, and his face was turned whelly to the future. He struck dismay to the greedy long wandering In a wilderness with out spoils, by announcing that he would let the Republican office-hold- ers finish thelr terms, with the ex ception of those who od been guilty of “offensive partisanship.” When the Republican senate attempted to interfere with such removals as he did make, he objected to the revival of an old statute “after an existence of nearly 20 years of almost Innocu- ous desuetude.” This phrase was too tiich for the senators, and the aet was repealed, At last Cleveland deliberately sac. rificed himself for the sake of plain spenking. The prospects of his re election were bright. His native con- servation hod made him a f(avorite in the great financial centers of New Sork, and the all-powerful business Interests of the country were satis fled with him. But on the eve of the election of 1888 he upset the entire situntion by sending to congress his vensational tariff message. opening with the now oft-quoted words: “It Is a condition which confronts us, oot a theory.” | whose locomotive was under steags and in readiness to pursue them, with a {trainlond of reporters, to thelr honey- {moon retreat in the Maryland moun | tains, The continued attention of a vigh press wherever the presidential the bridegroom, who hotly de Mrs. arover Gleveinc. his family affairs were discussed. More malicious, more cruel were the unprint. ed tales which were persistently circu Inted as long as he remained in public life, Mra. Cleveland is sald on one octa- glon to have given a pathetic hint of vhat the strokes aimed at the presi dent through her little ones meant to a mother. With childlike bashfulness a daughter was holding back from the greetings of a small company at the White House, when Mrs, Cleveland sald, “Speak up, dear, or the people will be told that you are deaf and dumb.” Mrs. Cleveland herself waa spared. At first her girlish charms, afterward her womanly dignity and her maternal devotion made this most youthful the House. (Copyright, 1020 by James Morgan) SS ————— ond regiine nt of rallroad artillery. Place Softening Spell Over Its Throngs of Visitors. in Milarity—Villagers Enjoy and Appreciate Shakespeare—Many Americans There. Stratford-on-Avon. — The poet Bliropshire hang given his high metrical to the statement that the quietest places under the sun are In but be refers to places only, and obviously Is not thinking of towns, of which the quietest under noise, much ax Shakespeare himself compre hends the heights and depths of human life easily as to the manner born, There are plenty of strangers here this summer, but they do not make a crowd and their volces are not lifted in hilarity. Perhaps they are under the The nearest approach to merriment 1 have yet no ticed, however, was In front of the birthplace. It was already full of sightseers, and a ttle throng awaited entrance on the pavement, Among them the whole com pany bore the plain, sturdy, bucolic stamp. Dressed In thelr customary Sunday sults of solemn black they re vered the Immortal memory with but In the train from London a Prench- This photo was taken during Is the of Peace the summer festival matinee of “As | You Like It" in the Memorial theater, | is way back to the railway | Americans are not the folk tenn bustle, He might have been reas sured on the motor question, Such Is only is calculated thant sixty and the like stay In Stratford every (day. They take thelr passengers | the many delightful towns { lages In the neighborhood and tin the Inhabitants of spots | would otherwise be remote, Villagers Enjoy Shakespeare. A Inrge proportion of the of the summer festival who have ar a8 means of conveyance, and do. 1 am assured, really Shakespeare. Not only that, possess an inborn aptitude for English dances and pageantry. The stories one hears of Maypole and Morris dancing In some of the villages suggest either that Shakespeare's Engin] has never died, or has been revived by the agencies that alm at resuscitating the drama In the coun tryside. But It shonld not be conclnd- ed that these vilinge festivals are manufactured by artistic labor. On the contrary. they are described as the spontaneous sports of the young in which the old are not afraid to join. Stratford itself has more than one to fined which nd [TPR &U Tre hd 1 ; The shooting was particularily good, the target practice by the Forty-Sec- on place tb which a Maypole would seem no allen addition. From time to | time much has been sald and written of its commercialization, With some, | the memory of Shakespeare may have { become a trade, like aluminum or any- thing else. Others have shown how | Httle they fear the Intrusion of a fac | tory. Yet the town remalus a { passable vestige of that In Bhakespeare was born. The spirit | the Elizubethan village still broods j over its thmmbered houses and spacious very which of | streets, and the business In mementoes has not succeeded in destroying thelr No town can get and it Is peace ins secured hy semis {divine right and retains In spite of every provocation to barter the | Bion. menning. for | the asking { Stmatford peace which sone [HOBSCE. Many Americans There, Too. The Warwickshire meadows are | smooth and green as ever. There { river glides at its own sweet will | the placidity of other streams but ne of their de er it whole whether some ns tha with ie ness, One wonders wheth. for Shakespeare that the to part of the for retreat wi has expressed In many a parka ge. Be the what It may. the visitors this very year form a kind conspectus of Stratford's universal at It need hardly 1 that been many small parties From various reg! gathered an is only world comes Kiratford compl is not that desire remembered attraction traction. be sai there have of Ameri may be Cans, steers idea of their rep resentative character, for Denver fol lows and New York is doar 10 Colorado In those Routh Boston next unndenial America is there, nds high in and after Australis African. pRges, Australia sts Dominion visitors, comes South the lis New Home for Orphans of Vel Heroes Is Opened. nnd Leamington. *sked Jail Sentence to Be Sure of Home for Winter Manuel Costa of San Fran ciecon, who has heen occupant of the city Jail every winter for 20 years, is again “at home” In a cell reserved for his use and he will remain there for three months, Police arrested Costa, saying he was tearing up the pavement, pitching the cobble. stones In the air and bouncing them off the back of his neck. When Costa appeared before Police Judge McAtee he asked to he sent to jail for six months, explaining to the court that by expiration of his sentence the Alaskan fishing season would be open and he would be ready to go north. The judge compro mised on a three-month sen tence, SRA AJ LAR UCR AER ERAT RCC TRB RCE RRA. FASE ASA AAA AAA AAA AAL ERRATA ARRRRAARRR RRR RS Funds to Buy and Maintain It Given by American Admirers of English Valor, | sons of British | tion, whose headquarters are at No. {2 West Forty-fifth street, New York. The announcement sald that the money { for the home was suppiied “through American admirers of British Valor” und that the home was "a tribute of appreciation and a memorial from the American people” Lieut. J. GQ. Churchill of the British army has been named headmaster of the home, and | his wife, Mrs. Churchill, has been ap- | pointed matron, | protection of the British ministry of education. It will be a home for 48 boys, A check for maintaining the home was taken to England a few weeks ago by John Moffat, chairman of the National Allled Relief committee, and ment committee, i merly St, The home was for Andrew's home of the Waifs | purchased furnished and equipped. | fn composed of Col. Arthur C { may, chairman; Mn}. J. J. Astor, treas. urer; Col. A. 8 Cleaver, Robert Grant, Jr. Mills McKay and James Yan Allen Shields, The honorary patrons of the com. mittee are Ear! Reading. British ambassador to | States: i enne, the Belgian ambassador: Kijuro Shidehara, the Japanese ambassador, Lund Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president ‘ | emeritus of Harvard university. Didn't Need to Be Egged On, KEPT YOUNGSTER ROPED TO WALL | New York Boy of Ten Years Tied Up for Four Days by Parents. ————— — WEAK WHEN RESCUED | Stepmother, Arrested, Declares the | Boy Incorrigible, and “Roasts” Neigh. bors for Interfering-—Proper Home Will Be Found for the Lad, New York.—It all came about—this police court fairy tale—because little Miss Thirteen, who is wide-eyed Anna Gold, was visiting “down the bi | on the evening of Bafarday, Aug Anna was sitting with ber friend, Mrs. Marie St on on the first floor of the two-family house at 534 Fifty-seventh street, Brookiyn, when a plaintive, frightened volce came to them: “Mra. 8t. Jacques, Jacques ; have you anytl The words melted into 8 choking sob, Little Miss Thirteen leape her feet and rushed upstairs. In a dark bedroom opening on the hall # dark shape huddled against the we Khe got some lighted one and saw a thin, pale iad, bh ier grm, bound by a rope and his frail body encircled several times by snothe er rope which attached to a spike driven into the wall, Tied Up for Days the wk" _ Mrs. St ing to eat.” oh, } tn she matches, little is sien was “What's matter, little axked Miss Thirteer tied up since Thursds tremuiously “I've been morning.’ Master Ten, “3 ¥ wenkly Answered who is Joseph Pllock nd stepmother tied They have giver read and water, for a little wi le boy.” , her ey Mrs who So it came Ten was fastened to the three nig Then the relea hits and the parents rested, tee Litt Ea Wa ta RE EL | ete] against them, out, were being thrown. About 600,000 is the estimated popoe intton of Venice, which Is built on bes tween TO and 80 islets, 26,500,000 Are Eligible to Bal lot in November Election, Washington. Figures compiled by the census bureau and other govern: ment departments indieate that the number of women in the United States over twenty-one years of age is U8. 085,000, of whom approximately 20. BOO000 are eligible to vote In the No- vember election. This estimate makes a liberal allowance for allen women, Amerlenn women married to aliens and other ineliz'bles, Iexnct figures mre not available on the number of women over twenty one, but barred from voting from vark reservations ; 8,007 Chinese and Japan ese women Ineligible to vote, a com- paratively small number of American wonien married to aliens and barred from voting for that reason, and a larger number deprived of the ballot under state statutes In harmony with constitutionnl provisions. The total of these ineligibles was estimated at about 1.500,000, Amerienn women married to aliens are not eligible to vote, the Depurt ment of Justice has held, but foreign. boru women married to American citi zens or whose fathers have become American citizens are entitled to the betlot, without naturalization proceet)- ings, in the United States this year has not boon determined. Based on an esth mated population of 105000000, how. ever, the census bureau figured that there are now [4,807,000 men In the United States over twenty-one years of age, of whom probably 81,500,000 vember, In Death They Are Not Divided Lexington, Ky.—*"Red Buck" was only a dog, but he was faithfwl to his master, 8. 8 Fizer of Mt. Sterling, Ky. and Is to me immortalized in stone along with his owner, according to an order just placed with a loreal monument company. Flzer, when Le dled a year ago, set aside $1000 or a monwmnent, which shall contain a life size likeness of the dog. This One Starting Young. Huntington, Ind Cirle have heen known to give wrong phone numbers to chanee~acquaintances, Katherine Parrott, aged three, wha man awny fromm home to find her daddy's office, fooled her gentleman friend. ton. {le was a policeman, She told him hor phone number was 15083 when It was 1528 and It took four hours to "dentify His Armee Bound by a Rope. bread-and-milk idyl told thelr stories to Magistrate Louls Reynolds, in Fifth avenue court, snd Pflock and Little Master Ten wan and pale in contrast to the ruddy strength of his his stepmother, fingered his eap nerv- ously as he told of his agonizing ex- perience. He sald his father punished him frequently after his second mar riage. . He was trussed to the wall because he took some prunes from the jee hox, The first night he remained standing agninst the wall and all the next duy. Woman Assails Neighbor, Pflock and his wife asserted the lad was incorrigible. The latter sald she contd have “conquered” him If the neighbors hadn't “butted 0." At which a bevy of neighbors In the courtroom “booed” andibly. Little Joseph shrank away from his parents in the courtroom. He clung wo Agent Charles Harstedt of the Chil. dren's soclety. who took him into an Mre. Ellen O'Grady, deputy police com- misgioner, who put her arms around him and sald: : "Don't worry, little man. We are “going to find a good howe for you." For the first time Little Master YS NS 100k emma suf ut ited.
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