FIVE MINUTE
THE SECOND HARRISON
CLEVELAND CAME BACK
P
1833—August 20, Benjamin Har.
rison, born at North Bend,
Ohio.
1852—Graduated from Miami col-
lege, Ohio.
1861.65—Colonel _ and brevetted
brigadier general in the
Civil war,
1281.7—In the United States sen-
ate.
1888—Elected president,
1889-—March 4, inaugurated the
twenty-third president, at
the age of fifty-five.
1892-—Defcated for re-election.
1901—March 13, death of Ben.
jamin Harrison at Indian-
apolis, aged sixtypseyen,
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adminis
an
B ENJAMIN HARRISON'S
tration to be only
proved
but
president
Cleveland drama, History gives
nce at the one
redecessor became hi
8 SUCCOSS-
up the presidential
from.
nore brains
had a larger
118 most
Benjamin Harrison.
housekeep-
1 in
lig. He was not admitted to
nell
tle three-room cottage
after hls and
garriage,
1
¥ le
money he ev was
at $250 a day. Later.on
hi practice with
the supreme
Then came the
+ Served gallantly
} marched with Sher.
wn. Afterward rose
ind prosperous rank in the
nw
Aw
er as
mind
mn
lean
hie
office Harrison
to the
senate,
politiend
f his
before election
sent
¥ was a in the
ited for re-election to that body
ar before he was elected preg.
left, Washington with
wotilld soon return as
frankly
HeK,
no
de-
candidate that the
ans wanted
# Blaine
» refused to make
At last
to
mination,
he cabled from Seotiand
And the
him
rison.” convention
ently
The
rison
tariff act;
then donl
took
administration—the
allver act,
the
treasury
the
Tedd
the
the
which
of
Sherman
purchase
metal by the
law on
pendent pension act,
American congress
hardly
grees took the reins,
gat
Noss,
With the ery of “Cod help the sur-
plus!” the Republienns gave the coun
try In Harrison's administration the
frst “billion-dollar congress” the ap
propriations for the two-year term ris
Ing to that unprecedented total.
the popular protest Speak
torted: “This is a billlon-dollar coun
try.” But the country did not feel rich
enough to pay the higher tariff rates
¢f the McKinley net,
That law was passed only seven
weeks before the congressional elec
tions In 1800, Of course anyone who
had anything to sell seized upon the
excuse to mark up prices. The “shop-
ping women" rose in thelr fury at the
higher cost of living, and the voters
nverwhelmed the Republican majority
in the house,
That was the forerunner of a still
greater political overturn in the presi.
dential election In 1802, when Harrison
went down under a sweeping victory
Jor Cleveland. ’
Reed re
1893-—-March 4, Grover Cleve-
land inaugurated a second
time, aged fifty-five.
May, a great panic began.
July 1, Cleveland went
under surgical operation
for cancer.
Oct, 30, The Silver act re-
pealed.
18945. July 4, Cleveland sent
" troops to Chicago to inter-
vene in railroad strike.
Aug. 27, the Wilson-Gor-
man tariff became law
without president's signa-
ture,
1895—Feb. 7, Cleveland made
arrangement with J. P.
Morgan and others for
protection of gold reserve.
Dec. 17, sent in his Ven-
ezuela message,
1908—June 24, Cleveland died
at Princeton, N. J
aged sgeventy.one,
“+l
defeat aud settled down
1
:
tice of n New York
was seen that
much the leader
party when he
House,
In the fo
seldom
law
He
of the
moeratie
ns Was in
ur years of hi tirement,
he Yet
strong Ww
3 sb
{epul
“0
ns ist the
HICHNR §
186
him in
auguration.
power cau
newspaper
8: “AnOther
it rey
Inrrison i
having
whi
his mouth
leer
of
te
His g
was concealed fro
mind of the publie,
inn
ana
iCht ns it sted
er, off New
yvenrs had
¥ .
ti ©Ong
when
with a rubber
known that
» faced it
Under the pressure of the president,
act
bitter struggle which left the
iit. The
ded the
he Silver was repenled, bh
after a
Democratic party hopeléssly sg
of a tariff bill 4
riff bill
It wa ich a
log-rolling me:
to «ign
his signature
Democrats went down
the cor
pars
still jobhy-
ade
nore. #
Cleve
t be
After
in de
it, but
“fused it, let |
aw without
the
in
tha
font igressional elections of
1804,
In
rouhigs the
Venezuelan
it he announced that the British
had r
arbitration of a
ar
the sith of domestic
his famous
In
BOY.
our
president sent
message to COngress,
ernment ejected all
for the
ressing in
which
ica, an ie boldly proposed
the
oo
our appeals
land dispute
Amer
that
question
it was p South
we
otirsslves uld decide
and proceed to enforce the decision.
long in Lor
there
of
tumbled
New
talk
heat
York, and
both
Reooks
don and
much wild
Atlantie,
on sides the
tronbled
“Grover Ceveiand,
tary, “Thurber, this does not mean
war: it means arbitration Asad that
was the outcome of all the hubbub.
Cleveland's outburst of plain speaking
had the effect of awakening the Eng:
lish people, as never before, to the val
ue of American friendship, and It
opened a hew era In the relations of
the two governments
Cleveland's hardest, lo: battle in
While second administration # for the
goid standard, Almost hone he upheld
it through four years, abandoned Ly
most of the Democrats and unaided by
the gold Republicans in congress, who
were afraid of “hurting the party”
with the silver people, >
(Copyright, 1020. by James Morgan)
THE SAD PRINCESS
there
najned
NCE upon a time
beautiful princess Edna.
wounced that he was determined she
never know pain
Le Mold his wise men that
determined to shield her
unpleasant sights in order
or
was
to
“You are making a mistake, Your
Let her live among
life as it is"
But the king would not listen,
Edna up in a lovely
All around
dens, parks and giant trees, lnkes with
fountains and Only
palace of
were rose
SWINE,
Cor inG pons
THE RORO
WES AN
soegned
hours
iid £it al ¢ wild
fiving overhead or the twinkling
Her face
her father tried
wenry of this luxury. or
she wot watching the
goose in
Hehts in a
to brighten
3
Une o
ily thr
rode rap!
loped alo
“1 am
mured,
view,
ne out
tired
fis
“The
robes and
gardens,
constant
ERown wenrisome
there Is something Adi
Then, for the first time In
a tumbledown
margh,
an old
At a turn
ar ask
saw on
of a
was
down
hobbling
the
ations,
edge
road
a crutch.
a blind be
gutter ragged hildre
man
in way
in
played and
bent mothers carried wood
upon their hacks F
she saw life
PN $15¥ 4a oS pry
tx misfortunes, | i erty
lesgnns She ver known
there pain, sickness or sorrow
Struck w
home nnd
bright
the worl
shoe galloped wept
t dawning
d her maids,
she “l am
rising with a face
through tears, she of
“No more of this” said
What the Sphinx Says
By Newton Wewkirk.
“Some
men begin
whipping the
devil around
stump
then r
around t'oth-
er way to
meet him”
the
un
NE my frien he been een da
school for longa time cen deesa
country. Other day he taka me veesit
dat place for see da footaball game.
And after 1 watcha dat ting leetle
while I stronga favor da League of Na-
tion. Ees too moocha fight wot no
gettn you somating enn dat game alla
same een da war. 4
But was greata beeg crowd alla right
een dat place, Some guys come out
weeth a ball wot losa da shape and
starta plenta trouble. One man keekn
dat ting so harda Le can and den ev-
erybody run lika devil,
tartan da gaine,
look leetle while,
my frien when dat bunch gonna
queetn fight and stgrin da game, He
tolla me da game has been go on for
Jonga time and ees no gonna be any
fight.
Well, for tella you
He say da guy wat maka da keek try
getta da ball back now,
wanta keepn da ball wot he keek
away for een da firsta’ place, ,
dat ball. One guy stoop over an trow
unhappy the
| want
| 118 Joys,
shut up
GTN
{1 know 1
helping.”
will find
was drained, the
with comfortable
were given a home,
huts
cottages, the aged
the sick
And the princess
{ busy from morn
her face, helping
that
i got Justice, care
The ©
sad
| hi
a scene of
till night, a smile on
all
every
| and seeing one in
and kindness,
1d king
daughter was
health
was surprised
now un
of
and her domain
model
ppiness and
busy con
r thie inl wise old man
christening
in the king
:
i
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3
iT
AEE
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GE shows {itself
that the
young
A in so many places,
| REED .
| yours, must do
:
| face, to preserve he
soman who seex
Neck Youthful
Keep her neck young,
face, for a flabby-lined
snce
as well as he
throat
well-cared-for face might
will give away all the years the
hide,
! between hoes to other one. And
right
r $ vy
ghtn HOLD
queeck dght
Tons
ong and try breaks hee: head or
bull or ating, 1 Den
| bunch geeva look and when
woe «de ¥ Ce yet
dunno.
i hie no bust BOTH
nore push and
oreaka loose,
I no lika
i place and
dat fight
home,
0 1
My frien
o
RO
| deesgust,
da game and breaka
fight 1 tella da cop,
Wot you tink?
eet up enn do
iain usm
Proud Mother—Id you detect may
‘signs of genius in my daughter, pro.
| fessor?
Professor (eoldly)=Modam. 1 am
‘not a detective. Answers, London,
.
Ni
Hpi |
——-
Betty Ross Clark, the
screen star, has aided wonderfully
making Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle fa
mous in the “movies.” She
garded as one of the prettiest
most talented of the
picture actresses.
charming
in
is re
and
younger motion
ot
SHH
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fo
=
HEEERE
i
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i 4
the pores
to strengthen the
oins
nes
Cause for Depression,
The bos
was solemnly
“Smatter, Rastus?®
“Nuffin' mach. ut I was jus’
thinkin’.
“Nhat about?
“Weil, Fra
gone, and Ps
done an’ Dookah
ton's daid, an’ 1 ain’
too good mahselfl !”
working on shoes
Our
silent.
Douglas is dune
ul Laurence Dunbar's
Y
File
sine,
Washing-
feelin’ none
* r -
A Popular Method
“How iff the world
into the poetry
can I'ever break
market and
get thy
“Get a job driving a garbage wag
Then some day when the reeking
is esxpecinlly good, go to a magnzine
office and hand in some of gour best
verse, You will at once become knhrwn
as “The Garbageman Poet,’ your verses
will be as good is if you had
written them on bond linen at a ma-
dosk, and
on
twice
» - -
DIFFERENTIATED
Recently by riding all along
an oxteasive inter-Reubea rail.
way system twice, we found out
the difference between a “limit.
ed” ard a “local.” The limited
merely makes what stops there
are, and the local makes all of
them.
* - -
Not the Stealnble Kind.
“Now.” sald the zealous salesman,
“con you hoy me just obe renson why
shoulin't buy wie of the Gale
stolen?”
“Yep.” eid the quiet man. “Come
take one look at me car”
«. * 9
PROBABLY NOT,
Mizory lover company, but the
aitraction (n't mutual.
FORT IN TREE
Human Monkey Is Finally Shaken
Out by Firemen After Other
Methods Fail.
GIVES PEOPLE SCARE
Ingane Man Sleeps in Tree, Chatters
to Himself and Apparently Derives
Much Pleasure From
promptu Tollet Aloft,
im.
Deaver, Colo~ Fred
enped
the cog
“Not a Chance,” Was His Reply.
Po
with
tree, mounted to the top
armed Burns scampered
far out on a limb and amused himself
by twigs at passing motorists
while plans were made to bring him
down.
A net was thrown across the street
to break the fall and the rescuers ats
icemen
ropes,
tossing
of the “monkey-man” Suddenly be
Burns was s@fely caught in the net
apd was vot injured by the fall of
He was quickly overpowered
tonded into the ambulance and
was returned to his cell in the county
hospital, )
Died Preparing to Operate. \
Springfield, Mo~Dr. Walter A
Camp, sixty-eight years old, was stricks
en with apoplexy while preparing to
perform an operation on a patient i
a hospital, and died a few milan
tater,
——
Chiengo~~“THirsty" Smiddy,
crap shooter, lost §1 and costs 9
Municipal Judge Stewart rolled
dice with hit for a fine in a
court.
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