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THE INAUGURATION.
HOW GROVER CLEVELAND WILL BE
INDUCTED INTO OFFICE.
till First Inauguration Compared with
Others of Recent History?The Weather
an Important Factor?Mr. Cleveland Has
Always Be:n Fortunate In This Respect.
ICopyright, 1893.1
IF THE weather
be as fine as was
the case on the
4th of March,
1885, the inau?-mj
*i?w gural ceremonies
J&t Nybich Mr.
Cleveland will be
fij i g>r honored on the
') irJ V VwmI March,
'fj I /J \ \W\ 1898, will prob?
?ll ? ill ? W nV?l?? Krt oa VnnL
HI $1tfSZZZr**
L'^l H: have ever occur*
"-* red. Mr. CTeveland
was exceptionally fortunate when
he was first inaugurated. Those who
live in Washington look forward to
I the inauguration ceremonial with
keenest anticipations of pleasure, which
are always?tempered somewhat by
apprehension that the weather may be
bad. President Harrison was inaugurated
on a day when the rain ?\*as both
heavy and chilly. Garfield's inauguration
took place amid the most unpleasant
atmospheric conditions, although
the rain did not fall until evening. The
day was raw and cloudy, and those who
were spectators suffered considerably,
especially the company which was permitted
to sit upon the platform erected
at the east portico, and upon which the
president stood when he took the oath
, and delivered his inaugural.
Perhaps the most trying inauguration
day was that which occurred on the 4th
of March, 1873. General Grant was
then to take the oath of president for a
second time, and arrangements had been
made for a very brilliant military and
civic display. On the evening of the 8d
of March a bitter cold wave set in, increasing
in severity during the night, so
that on the morning of the 4th Washington
was suffering as it seldom suffers
from cold accompanied by a high wind.
It was as near an approach to a blizzard
as the capital has ever experienced. The
military suffered very greatly, some of
them were overcome with the cold, and
the cadets from West Point and the
naval academy who were not well protected
were completely demoralized,
6ome of them suffering from frost bitten
ears and fingers. An immense throng
had gathered in Washington to witness
this ceremonial, but many did not dare
to venture forth and face the cold.
But when Cleveland appeared to take
the oath the sun smiled upon him. The
air was as balmy as it is in Washington
in May. The suggestion of summer was
given by the warmth of the day, by the
songs of the birds, and by the buds, which,
tempted by the warm south winds, were
almost ready to burst into early blossoms.
The day was exceptional. One
of the earlier presidents had been in'
CLEVELAND'S FIRST INAUGURATION,
augurated upon a day when it seemed as
though May instead of March had come,
but the usual experience is either in
clement or chilly weather.
Of course preparations are being made
for an inaugural ceremonial without any
thought of the weather. It is customary
for the citizens of Washington to appoint
a local committee, which is authorized
to t:i!ro chr.r;-" of (ho military and
civic display. This committee appoints
subcommittees, to which are delegated
such duties as preparing for the inaur
gural ball, for invitations, for arranging
for the right of line and other places in
the line, and this committee has cooperation
with the government and the
committees of congress.
Already it is made evident that the
military display will be quite as imposing
as any that have been made at previous
inaugurations, while the indications
are that the civic display may exceed
in brilliancy and nimbi rs any ever
"witnessed in Washington i.pon a similar
occasion.
The Washington committee has been
in communication with Mr. Cleveland,
and some of the details of the ceremony
have been determined. In some
respects these do not differ from those
which have characterized other inaugurations.
It has always been the
custom, for instance, for the president
elect upon his arrival in Washington
either to call in person or to send formally
his card to the president. Mr. Lincoln
and Mr. Buchanan exchanged calls
within a few hours after Mr. Lincoln's
arrival in Washington, and Lincoln was
greatly impressed with the courtesy and
consideration shown to him by the retiring
president. Mr. Cleveland when
he arrived in Washington in 1885 called
early in the day upon President Arthur
and was cordially received, and before
an hour elapsed the president returned
the call. Cleveland was also invited to
dine with his predecessor, and after the
dinner, which was a delightful affair, ho
retired with President Arthur to the
president's private room, and there, casting
aside formalities, they renewed acquaintance
begun years before and sat
chatting until far into the night.
Upon Mr. Cleveland's arrival in Wash
mgton, wmcn will prooaoiy occur aoout
the*2d of March, he will go the Arlington
hotel, and very likely have the same
apartments there which he occupied in
1S85. Whether Mrs. Cleveland and the
little girl will be with him is a matter
of Borne doubt. The baby certainly will
not be taken to the White House if there
be the slightest danger of contagion, of
which there is some fear, since it is
known that the germs of scarlet fever
are sometimes very difficult to kill.
President Harrison will be informally
notified of Mr. Cleveland's arrival, so
that he may be prepared to receive him
when he calls at the White House, which
he will probably do about 11 o'clock.
The visit will be purely formal and is
likely to be of not more than ten minutes'
duration. Mr. Cleveland will then return
to the Arlington and await a visit
of ceremony from President Harrison,
which will be made before an hour has
expired. The president elect will probably
dine with President Harrison, although
the dinner will be very private,
find probably an intorinai one in view or
the recent affliction which has befallen
General Harrison. These formalities
will end the ceremonials 60 far as the
president and president elect aro concerned.
Other details have been arranged very
much as is the case in all inaugural ceremonies.
A committee of congress specially
appointed will upon the morning
of Inauguration Day an hour or so before
V noon call at the Arlington for Mr. Cleveland,
and in an open carriage, unless
t the weather be very stormy, drawn
by four as handsome horses as
can be found, will escort the president
elect to the White House. President
Harrison will be ready, and seated
beside his successor upon the rear seat
of the carriage, two senators facing
them upon the front seat, they will be
drive? to the CapitoL President Harriv
1 _
eon will bo followed "by tbe members of
his cabinet, but it is not at all likely, as
has been reported, that Mr. Cleveland's
prospective cabinet will be also in the
procession, since the public is not supposed
to know formally that he has a
cabinet in view.
While these ceremonies are going on
the vice president elect will be sworn in
to the office for which he was chosen last
November, and immediately after that
ceremony, the house of representatives
having adjourned sine die at 12 o'clock,
both houses of congress will proceed to
the platform erected over the steps in
front of the eastern entrance to the Capitol.
The chief justice of the United
States and the associate justices and such
distinguished men as may be specially
invited will be also provided with seats
upon this platform.
Custom has varied somewhat the proceedings
which take place after the distinguished
company reaches the platform.
Sometimes the president elect first
j receives tne oatti trom tne cmei justice |
i and then delivers his inaugural. Presi- !
dent Garfield read his inaugural message j
first, and then, turning to Chief Justice
Waite, said, "I am now ready to receive
the oath." Mr. Cleveland when he was
first inaugurated departed from the precedent
set by his predecessors. Every
one of those who had held the office of
president before him read the inaugural
message from manuscript, and Garfield
had some difficulty in so doing, since tho
wind was so strong that he could not j
! keep the sheets in place. Mr. Cleveland,
however, discarded manuscript, and it
was with something of surprise that
the distinguished company behind him,
many of whom had seen every president
inaugurated since Buchanan's time, saw
the young president elect step forward
without manuscript and proceed in a
clear, skillfully modulated but not very
strong voice to address the vast throng
before him. Mr. Cleveland has the faculty
of committing an address to memory j
by the mental operation required in writ- j
! ing it. His address was shorter than I 1
any other inaugural excepting the second |
oue of Lincoln.
After the oath has been administered
the military and civic display will be
seen. During the forenoon the military
companies will at their convenience J
march to the plaza beyond the eastern
front of the Capitol, and there will be
assigned to their various positions in 1
line. They will be drawn up in line in 1
front of the vast throng which usually '
occupies that part on Inaugural Day. 1
The civic societies will also be assigned
places mere, ana as suun as me uam is i
: administered Mr. Cleveland will be es- :
! corted to his carriage and will take his '
place in the line. The procession will !
then start, returning to the White House j
by way of Pennsylvania avenue, and I
when the "^Vhite House has been reached
Mr. Cleveland and those whom he has
invited will from a reviewing stand
i honor the military and civic organizaI
tions by saluting and being saluted in
I return as t'ney pass by.
THE DRIVE TO THE CAPITOL.
Washington gets a perfect illustration
of the truth which is contained in that
trite saying, "The king is dead; long live j
the king!" on Inauguration Day. With {
the administration of the oath a presi- ; I
dent becomes a private citizen, and a t
private citizen becomes the occupant of : 1
an office which Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, '
of New York, has described as the grand- j *
' est political office upon earth. He who j
was president in the morning and now ! (
becomes ex-president usually goes away j t
without any formal courtesy at parting. | <
Mr. Hayes was driven from the Capitol 1
directly to the railway station, where '
his family was awaiting him, and started f
for his home in Ohio, and within an hour .
had as narrow an escape from death as t
any man ever experiences who is in a f
railway accident. ! t
General Arthur quitted the White : i
House for good when he left it to escort , t
his successor to the Capitol. After the 1
oath was administered to Cleveland Ar- 1 1
thur went as a guest to the house of
Secretary of State Frelinghuysen. He j ,
remained in Washington, however, long- i (
i er than any ex-president ever did, since ;
I he was Mr. Frelinghuysen's guest for
I nearly a month. Mr. Cleveland quitted
j Washington immediately after the inaugural
ceremonies, and it is understood
; that President Harrison will leave the
capital on the afternoon of Inauguration
I Day.
The indications are that the military
disDlav. while it will be imposing, may
not exceed in numbers the military escort
tendered at some other inaugurations.
At General Grant's second inauj
gural and upon the occasion of Garfield's
inauguration there was a very large mili- ;
tary attendance, both from the United
States anny and from the state militia.
HARRISON'S INAUGURATION
But if the military display is not so
large as others have been the civic bodies
in the procession promise greatly to
exceed any other demonstration of that
j kind. Conspicuous in it will be the rep- J
resentatives of Tammany Hall. This delegation
will bo under the direction of
General McMahon, who is the grand marshal,
and will have the right of line, and |
the Tammany leaders are making more
elaborate preparations for the event than j
they have ever done for any other public
demonstration in which they have
participated. There may bo 3,000 or 1
i 4,000 of them in line. They will all be , J
dressed alike. They will wear silk hats t
nf !,? etvlo and most brilliant
V. ...v
gloss. Artistic badges which will ap- |
| peal to the eye will be pinned to the lapels
of their coats. Mr. Croker himself
is quite likely to march in this proces- !
sion, and other politicians of Tammany .
Hall whoso activity in the organization
has given them wide repute will be
found marching side by side with hum- I
! bier members. i
Mr. Cleveland is pleased with this dis- I
position of Tammany thus to honor him, 1
and it is the intention of the leaders of I
that organization to mako such demon- j
stration as will suggest that the stories
of their hostility to the president are unI
founded, and that they will give him as
cordial support in his administration as i
they did during the campaign. 1
A great body of Democrats from Phil- c
adelphia, one from Chicago and others i ?
from many of the western cities will also J j.
make up this imposing civic demonstrar i t
tion, and there is to be a fine representor !
tion from the Democracy of New Eng- j s
land. | 2
The managers of the railway com- j '
panies report that the indications are | that
the largest throng will be gathered g
in Washington ever witnessed there r
upon an Inauguration Day. The facili- t
ties of even some of the greater railways j
will be taxed to the utmost to transpori g
these persons, and many of the organiza- t
tions have already made arrangements
for special trains. It is estimated that 8
there are likely to be more than 100,000 jj
strangers in Washington upon that day. t
If Mr. Cleveland has the experience of t
some of his predecessors he will find that ?
there are some more exacting duties for ,
him than participation in the ceremo- c
nies, excepting that one which requires s
him to take the oath. General Garfield
returned from the Capitol to the White e
House still perplexed about his cabinet,
and it was not until after he had attend- ?
ed the inaugural ball that he was absolutely
certain of whom his official family c
was to be composed. Mr. Cleveland was f
not troubled in that way in 1885, since J
cabinet problems bad ceased to perplex o
him at least two weeks before Inaugura- ?
tion Day. Yet he was harassed by ap- 1
plications for appointments before he e
had been president six hours, and after J
ho returned from the inaugural ball he ^
spent an hour or two reading some of t
the indorsements and applications, so i
that it was past 2 o'clock before he was c
able to seek his bed. He was up at 7 on t
the following morning, and spent an
hour or two before breakfast in examin- '
ing his correspondence.
j. lie excneuieut ami uicuuu euaui >
which the inauguration ceremonies and '
the experiences which the first few weeks .
of occupancy of the exalted office entail j
are usually very exhausting, and Presi- I
dent Harrison has laid that he was more '
fatigued by his first month's experience ;
in the White House than he had been by j
the work of a year after he became fa- [
miliar with the duties imposed upon j t
him. It was to recover from this strain '
that General Garfield planned the vaca- j v
tion which the assassin's bullet prevent- i I
ed just as he was entering the railway i '
Btation to begin it. Mr. Cleveland, how- I r
ever, bore these fatigues without appar- i J.
ent weariness, and his familiarity with fl
the office causes him to look forward to ; t
his second experience with none of the
anxiety which he felt when he first be- j o
came president of the United States. j 1
E. Jay Edwaiua j t
d
INAUGURATION DAYS. ! \
? Is
Historic Notes Apropos to the '
Coming Event of March 4. fc
s
I
NINETEEN PRESIDENTS ELECTED. J
0
Sixteen Were Inaugurated on March 4, p
Two 011 March 5 and One on April 30. ?
Curious Facts Tending to Create Superstl- c
tlon?Comparison with Other Countries.
How March 4 Came to Be Selected for ?
Inauguration Day?Carious und Interesting
Facts Connected with the Occasion.
Copyright, 1893, by American Press Association.]
I
There i3 an old story to the effect that
Benjamin Franklin selected the 4th of
March for inauguration day because in the
yryy*. next two centuries it would
S fall on Sunday less often ?
}than any other day in the
W/ -Tear' an<* statement has a
/I crept into a few works meant
& - <_ to be historical. It is, how- 1
1 ever' one l^e many f
cases> hke those of Niobe
<*W?lr and Lot's wife, in which a 8
WASfllSGTON. rnmnrl-nhlfl and interestinor ?
'act ha5i gradually given rise to a legend to i ?
iccount for the fuct. It is a pleasing story, ^
nit there is no proof of it whatever, and
here is almost conclusive proof to the con- ,
;rary. ?
It is certain thut Franklin bothered himself
very little about the distinction be- P
,ween sacred and secular days, and disrejarded
it altogether in his
laily life; that the conven- fsf "V
;ion of 1787 did not fix the S
lay, and in fact could have Ft?] -J?* 6
10 means of foreseeing when *1 ?, > yfta 1 0
t would be possible to name "
1 day. and that when it be:ume
possible by the adlesion
of the ninth state to ; f;
he constitution the Con- ADAMS,
cderation congress then in session fixed I
he day by a sort of accident. And yet it '
s a fact, and a very curious fact indeed, v
hat the day does very rarely fall on Sun- i 0
lay, though at first view it would seem t *;
hat this day or any other day would do so j
itie time in seven. ft
The first day set was Wednesday, and ; ?
he years 1S0O and l'.KX) are, contrary to the ^
our year rule, not leap years. The first day 1
t was just eleven years before . |>
the close of the century, and | * J"
thus it has resulted that the J
day has fallen on Sunday , P
but three times in the first
hundred years and will not f
again fall 011 Sunday till
11)17. Thereafter it will so ;
fall only in 11)45 and 1973 in j
the next century, the result > .
JKKKKiiSox. ijt.jng such a conjunction
jnly six times in the first two centuries of p
:be government's existence, or once in
hirty-three instead of once in seven yeara 11
But little less curious was the result of
lie meeting of the first congress in 1789. ^
Vs six congresses convened in the last cen- .
ury and the seventh in 1801 it results that ^
he calculation as to the number of any [ p
:ougress turns on the alleged "unlucky
luuilier"?13. Thus, to determine the num- If
>er of any congress, add thirteen to the j
I! ~ ? ? .,1 1 ?t* t?-n ! 4.
be quotient is the number of the congress.
Conversely, double the number of any con- j
jress and substract thirteen, and the renainder
will be the year it convened. j
Ninety-one and thirteen ure 104, the half of
vhich is fifty-two?the number of the pres:nt
congress. For the next century add j 0
13, and so 011.
Though we have had twenty-three presilents,
but nineteen were formally inaugu- jj
ated, and but sixteen of these on the 4th j
>f March, if the first time
inly be counted, for Wash- fcC I 4,
ngton took the oath the P\?JF ?jj> !
irst time on April 30, and lilS ^
Taylor and Hayes were -ski#- j
naugurated on Monday, '
March f>. The same is true
>f Monroe's second inaugu- * p
ation, but his first was on ' y<
:he regular day. The sec- MADISOX. | tc
>nd Adams, Pierce and Garfield were in- !
lugurated on Friday. Five inaugurations j?
lave been on Monday and five on Wedneslay,
and the coming one will make five on 01
Saturday, no other day in the week having '
lad more than three.
It is also a curious fact that, though the ' "
government i.s 104 years old and we have
lad twenty-three presidents, there were
but eight in the first half of
0 the period to fifteen in the
mu ?>% J second half, and a man who
is today but half as old as
the government uas uvea 111
i jib the administrations of twothirds
of the presidents.
*1 Jw Thus from 1789 to 1837 tho
f averageoff.president'sserv- | .
monuoe. jce WftS {_jx yCarg ei^ht I N
nonths and seventeen days and a fraction, tl
vbile since the latter year the average has p-l
)een but three years and six months, and 01
his despite the fact that two of the late ti
iresidents were re-elected. Deduct the j C!
sight years of Grant, and the average of tho w
ithers really appears alarmingly short. n
Theshortestservicewasthatof W. II. liar- : fi
Ison?oue month?and the longest that of b
3rant, who held the office eight years and
i day, unless indeed we s?tl
idopt the facetious sugges- / v\ : tc
ion of the Whigs that Jack- ^
ion really governed during | ' t(
he "nominal administra- ^
ion of Vnn Buren." It is ai
ilso worth noting that of
he eight presidents re-elect- | ^
:d Jackson, Lincoln and " , n
Jrant were the only ones *? ^
vhose second inaugurations j-q-adams. jj
vere celebrated with much display, though a
t is certain that Cleveland's will soon fur- fi
lish a fourth case, and a notable one. In
ruth, there are many things in the latter's
:areer which might justify a little supertition
in his case. No other American,
ave possibly Washington and Jackson, has
tad such an extraordinary personal triimph.
The selection of March 4 was. as aforeaid,
probably a sort of accident. On the
d of July, 1788, the president of the Conederation
congress, then in session at New
fork, notified that body that New Ilamphire
had ratified the constitution on the
list of June preceding, and as it was the
dnth state to do so that instrument was
iow by its own terms to becomB the bu>reme
law. After prolonged debate con,Tess
on the 13th of September, 1738, passed
he following:
Resolved, That the first Wednesday of Janu.ry
next (1780) bo tho day for appointing electre
In the several states which before the said
lay shall have ratified the said constitution:
hat the first Wednesday In February next bo
he day for tho electors to assemble in their repectlvo
states and vote for president, and that
he first Wednesday In March next bo the time
,nd tho present seat of congress the place for
ommenclng proceedings under the said corn
titution.
t-1 ili. 211 1 was
r rom ILIIS 1 b will uu occu IiUIIK IUC1C niu
xactly a month's time between each of the
hree very essential acts of appoint ing electors?assembling
the electr
irs in their respective states
-and "commencing pro- & ij, 'j)
eedings." As a mutter of
act, the first Wednesday in R1
Jarch, 1789, fell on the 4th, jA
.nd three yeurs later that
late was fixed upon for all
ime. But there is nothing " x xtant
to indicate any speial
reason for it. In truth, JACKSON,
t is at almost the worst season that could
iave been selected, and as the matter is enirely
within the discretion of congress, and
iVashington was inaugurated the first time
in April 30, the argument for a change to
hat date is strong.
Every reader has had enough on the first
nauguration of Washington. Suffice it to
epeat that the day was fine, that Chancel@lor
Robert R. Livingston,
of New York, administered
the oath in the presence of
some 40,000 people, and that
the centennial celebration
of that event in New York
city in 1889 was a really
wonderful success, on which
van BUltEN. occasion there were more
>eople in the city than at any other time in
ts history. It was positively the only
ime, said the oldest inhabitants, when
'the city crowd was completely overvhelmed
and lost in the country crowd."
lis second inauguration, in Philadelphia,
ilonday, March 4, 1793, presented an alnost
ludicrous contrast. He took the oath
n the senate chamber in the presence of
10th houses of congress and made a brief
iddress, and if anything unusual occurred
he journals of the day failed to mention it.
Nor was the inauguration of John Ad;ms
on Saturday, March 4, 1797, a particuarly
impressive affair. Thomas Jefferson
ook the oath as vice presilent
in the senate chamber,
ironounced a high compli- Sfi
uent on Mr. Adams, who |c^,. /
md just vncated the chair, : '"tSl
nil then led the way to the
hambcr of the house,where
he inauguration took place. 1
llmost every witness who V '
las given any account ol! it w.ii.haurison.
ays that all eyes were directed to Waslington,
and as Jefferson s;tood on the other
ide, a rather tall and (*>mmanding figure,
ho new president really seemed overshadwed.
He spoke at some length, eulogized
Vashington very highly, denied quite emihatically
that he favored a stronger govrnment
than that ordained in the const!
ution and pronounced the oath after the
hief justice of the United States.
Adams is distinguished in our history for
aany things, and one is, unfortunately, for
eing the first president who refused to pnrticipato
in the inauguration
/' f \ of his successor. It was in(*ee<*
a very trying o:casion
s/*jd for him. There have been
jJjfjk.: some heated campaigns
'ftV??mL<k. since, but none in wb ch perjjBsonal
nnimosities played so
r1 greut a pari, as in 1800. Nowapolk
Part'sans ?tliv'
er "rebels," "traitors" and
enemies of American industry," "thieves"
nd "monopolists" or "cranks" and "Adulimites,"
but it is chiefly Pickwickian. In
600 they reully believed it. So when Jeferson
was elected by the house on the
birty-sixth ballot and after a desperate
truggle a deep groan ran through the Fedralist
party, and Adams left Washington
arly in the morning of March 4, 1801, This
ad example was followed by his son in
829 and by Johnson in 1809.
It is rather singular there should have
een so much dispute about the facts of
efferson's inauguration. It is clearly
roved that he intended to go in the usual
tate, with a carriage and six horses, but
he carriage ordered was not completed in
iine, Adams refused the courtesy, as aforeiiid,
and so Jefferson, the attendant marhal
and a few others made the little trip
n horseback. His second inauguration had
lore style about it. On Saturday, March 4,
S09, Madison took the oath in the hall of
he house, and the only fact about it which
xcited much comment was that lie was
clad in a suit of elegant black cloth euirely
of American manufacture."
The next four inaugurations were conditional
in the extreme. That of 1821 was
n Monday, March 5, as then, for the first
ime, the regular day fell on
unday. John Quincy Ad- jr^
ms revived much of the
Id and solemn ceremonial, rjyg
ut with him it ended, n.3
he country had now outrown
English and colonial '
arms. And as a great break '
allowed, this is the proper TAYLOR,
lace to give a list of the presidents regulrly
inaugurated, with date of birth, inuguration
and death, and to note the in
arregnums filled 4ky vice presidents:'
George Washington?Feb. 22, 1732; April 30,
r?u; March 4, 1703; Dec. 14. 17!W.
John Adams- Oct. 11), 1735: March 4, 1797; July
1820.
Thomas Jefferson?April 2, 1743: March 4,
S01; 1805; July 4, 1820.
James Madison?March 10, 1751: March 4,
100; 1813; June 28,1830.
James Monroe?April 28, 1758; March 4, 1817;
[arch 5, 1821; July 4,1831.
John Quincy Adams?July 11, 1707: March 4,
25; Feb. 23, 1848.
Andrew Jackson?March 15, 1707; March 4,
!29; 1833; Juno 8, 1845.
Martin Van Bureu?Dec. 5, 1782; March 4.
137; July 24, 1802.
William Henry Harrison?Feb. 0. 1773; March
1841; April 4, 1841.
John Tyler?Interregnum.
James Knox Polk?Nov.2, 1795; March 4, 1845;
uno 15,1849.
Zaelmry Taylor?Sept. 24, 1784: March 5, 1849;
uly 9,1850.
Millard Fillmore?Interregnum.
Franklin Pierce?Nov. 23, 1804; March 4, 1853;
ct. 8,18G0.
James Buchanan?April 13,1791; March 4,1857:
uno 1,1808.
Abraham Lincoln?Feb. 12,1809; March 4,1801;
>05; April 15,1805.
Andrew Johnson?Interregnum.
UlvsscsSimpson Grant?April 27,1822; March
1809; 1873; July 23, 1885.
Rutherford Birchard Ilaycs?Oct. 14, 1822;
[arch 5, 1877; Jan. 17, 1893.
James Abram Garfield?Nov. 19,1831; March
18S1; Sept. 19,1881.
Chester Alan Arthur?Interregnum.
Grover Cleveland?March 18, 1837; March 4,
S85, and to be inaugurated again just eight
cars later, the first casoof the kind in our his>ry.
Benjamin Harrison?Aug. 20, 1833; March 4,
KMI ll.?. \f 1. 1 l.? ...ill
wir. niai iUiuuu * iicai nu ?? ?ai uo uiu vui;
ving ex-prcsident, as his successor and predei;ssor
now is.
The fact that three presidents died on Inependence
Day is indeed extraordinary. As
ut twenty-one havo died the chances of
IgMfp. one's death on that day are
49not quite as one in eighteen,
Jri bm of two still fewer, and of
three not one in hundreds.
Dut that two should die on
.* same day and a third
hut five years later, and the
two signers of the Declaration,
the chances are so repierce.
niote as to be scarcely calcuible.
Vet it happened. Vice President
[amlin also died on that day. Nearly all
:e presidents have lived to an advanced
5e, us it was natural they should be men
f great vitality and temperate lives to atlin
the honor. John Adams was the old
it, lucking but a few weeks of ninety-one,
hile, omitting Lincoln, killed at iifty-four,
nd Garfield, killed within a few weeks of
fty, the youngest dying was Polk at liftynir.
Another curious fact is that, including
:ie presidents of the senate who succeeded
) the functions of the office, there have
een more vice presidents than presidents?
5 wit, thirty-four, though Clinton, Tompins,
Calhoun and King each served in two
dministrations.
From Adams the father to Adams the
m, as aforesaid, the inaugurations were
lild affairs, but Jackson came in with a
ree/.e, and the occasion was indeed breezy,
ie set the example of taking the oath on
nd delivering the inaugural from the east
ont of the Capitol, and then, making all
reasonable deductions for the partisan spite I
of those who described it, the scene which .
followed did indeed "beggar description." I
The largest crowd seen in Washington i
down to that time was tn attendance, and {
the mud was, in southwestern phrase, "half j
bootleg deep," on Pennsylvania avenue.
Through that mud the crowd rushed to !
the White House, where all the doors were |
thrown open and punch served out in bar- i
rels, buckets, tubs and even, ryiT\ j
bo the opposition said, wash //^\\ !
basins. Every room In the i
house was crowded, and men hi
with heavy and muddy boots jjW
stood on the finest chairs
and sofas to see what wa3
going on in front. Lamps
and furniture were broken,
and punch spilled till the
house was a wreck. Soon BUCHANAN.
: after there was a levee at which a cheese
weighing 1,400 pounds (a present to Jackson)
was cut up and served. The struggle
for pieces resulted in a smash of furniture;
liquor was spilled and cheese trodden into
the carpet, while ladies held dainty handkerchiefs
to their noses and foreign diplomats
looked on in undisguised horror.
Daniel Webstersaid the place looked like
a republican palace taken by siege and
lacked by the victorious enemy, but Bentton,
Felix Grundy and men
of that class thought it just
as well to "J<t,^he boys have
tbeir way ""fcce" in four
years." It was the last scene
of the sort, though Jackson's
second inauguration
also attracted a large crowd.
The next inauguration?of :
LINCOLN. Van Buren in 1837?was a !
comparatively tame affair, but in 1841 the
Whigs honored Harrison with a grand rally.
Thence to Lincoln each inauguration
was much like its predecessor, and none
presented features of unusual interest. The
crowds, however, continued to increase,
and the procession which followed Buchanan
reached nearly from the Capitol to the
White House.
This was the end of the old regime. Little
as the great men of the day suspected
it, the old republic was, practically, soon to
pass away, and be replaced
by one of vastly increased
and centralized powers. In (E&
all the great speeches and iSf
state papers down to 1801 y-Aj
I one finds the federal union
I referred to indifferently
I the Union or the confeder1
acy. Thus President Pierce Iny* '
j in his inaugural said, "The \ *
I security and repose of this GRANT,
i fnnfwlnmev forbid interference or coloniza
tion by any foreign power." And President
Buchanan in his said, "Let every
American reflect upon the terrific evils
which would result from disunion to every
portion of the confederacy." What a storm
: such use of that word would now raise!
The impending change was indicated on
! March 4, 18G1, by the first military display
of real consequence at an inauguration.
There were sharpshooters
[ ^ on the housetops along the
Lm j&v Jfck avenue as Mr. Buchanan
VJyK Jw and Mr. Lincoln rode slowly
Capitol; there were
mL V-Wk- squads of cavalry to guard
the street crossings, and
V/. / squads of infantry along
the route; there were trusty
I1ATES. riflemen at the upper windows
of the Capitol and artillery to the
right of the east front, commanding the
crowd to which the new president spoke.
It was a sad presage. General Scott was
savagely criticised for these arrangements,
but subsequent events justified him.
Sinco that date the military has formed
an important part of every inauguration,
and at Grant's second induction, March 4.
1873, the display wins such as
to excite the admiration of
foreigners accustomed to the ujdg, _ >
finest exhibits of London, \
Paris and Berlin. But it was
fatal to some of the partici- M
pants and to many specta- tjjj
tors. The day has a bad preeminence
as the most inclem- ent
of any inauguration day GARFIELD,
in our history. From dawn , till dark a
northwest wind so keen and cold that it
seemed to chill even the bones blew without
an instant's cessation. Scores of soldiers
and sailors who had to stand long in
place were prostrated in consequence, while
spectators suffered so much that the average
mortality of the city for a short timo
after is said to have been notably increased.
Far otherwise was it at the inauguration
of Cleveland, on which occasion by far the
greatest crowd ever seen there was assemibled
in Washington. Cor- j
g~\ respondents celebrated the |
|L occasion in many hundred j
F columna Citizens of Wash- !
e V ington still tell with glee j
how the visitors sat the j
1 trough on chairs, on |
benches in the parks and on |
the steps of public build I
I CLEVELAND. jng3) ^ tjl0 wefttber was :
fine and all the hotels overcrowded, and railI
road managers tell with pardonable pride
how they got the hundreds of thousands to j
their homes in fairly good season. But all j 1
these and other incidents of recent inau- I
gurations are still fresh in the public mind. 1
In conclusion, a few comparisons are jus- j
tillable. We have had twenty-three presi- (
dents in 104 years, while Rome had, dis- j ,
carding minor contestants,
sixty-four emperors in 503 \
years, and Great Britain has \
had, beginning with Wd'ffiOJv.
liam the Conqueror, thirty-kij&jk | 1
five sovereigns in 826 years, i 1
Of presidents in Mexico, * i
Hayti and South America,
it would be idle to make an "My " < (
i estimate. Yet two of our.b. harrison. (
| presidents have been assassinated, and another,
Jackson, only escaped that fate by
j an accident which apparently would not j '
happen one time in a thousand. Another
escaped impeachment by but one vote. On !
the whole, though we may justly claim an <
improvement over the dark past, yet there ! <
is nothing to make us boast. Our govern- J |
ment is by no means exempt from the evils
1 which afflict other nations.
J. H. Beadle.
Tiik Meteruric Showeii of 1832. i ,
i It wus it rain of lire, not stars. The j
i stars, or sparks, only occurred at the j 3
! end of the lines of lire. Imagine a {
: rain of molten iron striking the earth,
each drop bursting into sparks. Xoth- , j
ing else will compare. I could not i j
now describe it, if experience with ?
foundries and smith-shops had not af- i i
forded the comparison. The lire fell ! i
; in streams like the heaviest rain {
J I ever witnessed, and swayed to and j 1
fro just as the water is by the motion 1
of the clouds or winds. The only i
1 stars I saw were just such as one sees j 1
! when molten iron is running into or (
from the ladle, or when iron with a ! <
j welding heat is withdrawn from the 1
forge, or such as is seen when the liquid ! i
: metal drops upon earth, or such as is <
I seen in the wake of an exploded i
| rocket. j '
; The strangest feature to ine was no j '
| sparks or stars appeared except at the I
; end of the line of lire rain, which ! >
stopped about live feet from the earth, i 1
! as near as I can judge. The piazza j 1
had three steps from the ground. I ^
could not have been more than three I (
feet high, and the line of rain burst ; 1
I into sparks on a level with my eyes, j ^
| None that I saw struck the earth, but i J
after sparkling on this line disappear- j *
ed, to be succeeded by others in quick ;
succession. I recollect distinctly oh- 1
; serving the scene around the yard, , 1
and the road led directly from the gate, *
and wondering why none of the fire
or sparks reached the earth. It was (
not as light as day, but a lurid light 1
greater than I have ever seen since. !
! Objects were perfectly discernible,
though not so well as by daylight.?
j Blackshear Georgian. j &
Some of Bl'kns's Phrases.?Here j
| are a few specimens of Burns's happy j t
phrases: "The best laid schemes of
mice and men gang aft agley"The i
! fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, to i ^
hand the wretch in order;" "But
pleasures are like poppies spread ; you j j
seize the flower, its bloom is shed;" 1 .
"Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us ] j
i to see ourselves as ithers sec us;"
| "Man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn "Xurs- t
j ing her wrath to keep it warm "The j
mirth and fun grew fast and furious ?
"What's done we partly may com- T
i pute, hut know what's resisted?
| "Princes and lords are but the breath 1
of kings;" "The rank is but the guinea j
| stamp, a man's a man for a' that."? i -y
j London Tit-Bits. | x
?hc ftovn ttUrr.
When Lee Surrendered
By SALLIE PATE STEEN.
[Copyright, 1891, by American Press Association.]
CHAPTER m.
"Oh, Frank, you must hurry."
But other things even more important
than the fact of Missy's defection
weighed upon the girl's mind. A crisis
had suddenly arrived in the family affairs.
The instructions which terminated
her brother's 6hort furlough and
the orders for which he had waited had
at last arrived, and Glen was feverishly
anxious to convey them safely to his
hands. On the evening of the arrival of
the Union troops at the homestead he
had barely escaped being made a prisoner
by receiving information of theii
coming, and since then he had steadfastly
refused to leave the vicinity without
orders, hoping to be able to carry
some information concerning the enemy
to headquarters.
And all this time Glen's heart was
torn by a thousand fears. Her imagination
intensified the real dangers of his
situation, and the unsettled state of the
country, just before the close of the
war, warranted in a great measure bei
anxiety. He might be made a prisonei
at any moment, or shot as a spy. Many
a night the girl awoke sobbing and panting
from frightful dreams, and the fact
that the whole responsibility of the
household rested upon her shoulders?
that upon her devolved the duty of sustaining
her timid and gentle motherrendered
her position a thousandfold
more trying. When her brother left
home they had hurriedly fixed upon s
rendezvous where she might meet him
at certain times, but experience had
taught her that her visits to the deserted
little shanty, deep in the woods, which
they had selected, were not unattended
with danger.
Of any personal peril she did not stoj
to think, but there were scores of runaway
or discontented slaves, eagerly looking
forward to their expected freedom,
who would gladly bear tidings of a Confederate
soldier to those whom they considered
their best friends and liberators.
Rnf- +1ic.aa n.inori! irmat-. Iia rl aH VArpd intf
tuvuv '
her brother's hands. She could not
breathe freely until this was done. It
was late in the afternoon when she made
her preparations for the long walk. It
was not safe to meet her brother until
night had fallen, but the moon would
rise on her homeward way, and her mission
once accomplished she would know
no fear. At last she was ready to set
out. Missy put up her lips for a goodbj
kiss, and her mother overwhelmed hei
with whispered precautions and messages
to her boy. At last Glen was out of the
house and walking swiftly down the
long cedar avenue. As she passed througt
the great gates she noticed Nelse skulk
ing behind one of the trees, and sharplj
ordered him back to the house.
For a moment a suspicion of the boj
shot through her brain. He had beer
unusually surly of late and rebellious
of authority, but this she had attributed
to the general disaffection which now
hung like a dark cloud over the relations
of slave and master. She dismissed the
fear from her mind as she hurried onward.
When she reached the wood the
sun was almost setting, and the dense
shade of the trees made a twilight undex
their thick boughs. She had advanced
but a few steps?the hut was still fax
out of sight, and its occupant, if ho had
already come, far out of hearing?when
she was startled by a rustling in the
bushes behind her. It was some wild
animal, she told herself?a squirrel, a
snake, possibly, gliding through the undergrowth.
If?her heart stood still al
the thought?it were anything else, it
were equally perilous to advance or recede.
She turned swiftly to face the
danger. Directly before her, creeping
along in the bushes, her quick eyes discovered
the crouching form of Nelse.
"Nelse," she called, her voice shaking
with scorn and anger. The old habit of
wna fnA o f vn?<+ lnm Pnr
TV <10 cvvy duviiq upvii unu iVi
open resistance, and he slouched forward,
cringing under her blazing eyes,
but his rebellion was not quenched.
"Don't yer hit me, Miss Glen," he
whined. "I'se mos' free now, I knows I
is, and you dasn't hit me. 'Deed you
Jasn't."
"You should answer for this, if a whole
regiment of Yankees backed you," she
laid. "Now go.".
And Nelse needed no second bidding.
Ee sprang away like a deer, and his
nocking laugh came back to the girl's
startled ears. But she had not a monent
to lose. She understood too well
what his next move would be. He had
jone back to the house to inform upon
ler. There was a short* cut which she
ladnot taken, on account of its publicity,
and of this lie and they who returned
with him would avail themselves.
Of this new complication she
Jared not tell her brother. She knew
lis rash impetuous temper, and that
rather than allow her to encounter any
langer alone he would 6imply wait
md give himself up to his enemies.
There was but one course open to her.
3he must hurry on at her utmost speed,
jive him the papers, and without arousng
his suspicions, urge him to instant
leparture. All this she determined
apon as she hastened onward with reckess
speed. But the hut was still at a
:onsiderable distance, and the way was
rough and difficult, even to her nimble
?eet. When at last she reached the
ihanty and sank into her brother's arms,
she was breathless from fright and exlaustion.
"But, dear, I cannot keep you a monent,"
she panted, after ho had glanced
>ver the papers she thrust into his hands,
'not even to answer questions. You
lon't know the danger we are in or the
isk I have run in coining. Oh, Frank,
t would break mother's heart if any;hing
should happen to you. No, dear,
we women are not in any danger. The
loldiers are quartered upon us, but they
ire civil enough in their bearing. But.
>h. Frank, you must hurry. Let me
jive you mother's love and her blessing
ind her kisses, with dear little Missy's
ind mine, and then you must go."
"And not a moment to talk with you.
31en?"
"Not a moment. Is that Black Bess
ied out yonder? Wait, I will go with
rou to mount, and then you must ride
ike the wind."
It was quite dusk in the wood.
Black Bess whinnied with pleasure
ind snuffed daintily jis Glen passed lier
land caressingly over the creature's
latin ueck. Her brother held her for a
noment in a closo embrace; there was
i whispered "God bless you," a quick
ranlt to the saddle, and then the spirited
nare, with her gallant rider, dashed forward
out of sight. Glen watched them
mtil the last glimmer of Confederate
I gray had vanished, and then turning,
, with tear filled eyes and a beating heart,
' saw Captain Campbell not ten rods dis|
tant, leaning quietly against a tree.
I with his arms folded on his breast.
In an instant the indignant blood
I rushed hotly to her face and throat. He
! evidently expected her to speak. Ini
deed, he lifted his cap and advanced a
I step, but her pause was only momentary.
I With her head up, she went swiftly past
j him, noticing him no more than if he
hnd hppn flip t rpp n<r.iin<jfc whirVi hp hud
leaned. With ono stride he was beside
her.
' "Will you accept my escort, Miss
Helen?" he asked courteously. "This
wood is a lonely place, and particularly
unsafe in these unsettled times and at
this hour."
"It seems infested with spies at any
rate," she said haughtily. "I could
scarcely expect you to relinquish your
rolo so quickly for that of protector.
But to spy upon a woman 1" In her uncontrollable
excitement she had turned
in the narrow pathway to confront him,
and her face 6hone white in the darkness.
"When you and your soldiers
forced yourselves upon us, Captain
Campbell, we accepted the fortunes of
" war as gracefully as we might, and
treated you, if not in the spirit at least
in the letter of courtesy, as our guests.
Do you know that a southerner?yes,
the humblest of us?would sever his
right arm from his body sooner than be
guilty of what you have seen fit to consider
your duty? And a gentleman
' would scorn to accept information from
1 a base slave who betrays his master I"
"Perhaps the latter character is an exotic
which exists only south of Mason
and Dixon's line, Miss Helen."
His tones were perfectly calm. If she
had not been so swept out of her ordiI
nary self control she might have detected
! a faint amusement in his voice, but her
1 passion had blinded her perceptions.
"And now, if you have fulfilled your
] mission," she said after a pause, "you
will permit me to find my way home."
"My mission will not be fulfilled until
I have seen you 6afe at your mother's
door," he said gravely, as he lifted his
I cap and fell a pace behind her. If her
: life depended upon it she could not have
1 J uttered another word of protest. There
! was nothing to be done consistent with
' dignity but to hurry homeward and rid
| j herself as quickly as possible of his hated
I j presence. As she pressed swiftly forj
ward, trying to forget that she was not
i alone, but hearing always that steady,
| firm Btep behind her, a hundred quesI
tinno in hpr br.iin. Whv was h?
alone, and on foot?
She had expected to see a squad of
cavalry dash from behind the trees and
scurry forward in the direction which
I Black Bess and her rider had taken.
Was he armed? No; she had not thought
of it before; but now, as if his presence
( had been photographed upon her memory,
she saw him as he had leaned carelessly
against the tree?in a dark blue
frock coat, with his cap pushed back
from his brow and not even his sword
dangling fi*>m his side?as peaceful a
( figure as one might meet on an afternoon
stroll. What could it all mean? She
was faint with excitement and perplexity.
The way seemed interminable, and
it had grown very dark. An owl hooted
close at hand and the wind sighed in
the pine trees above her, and still that
firm step sounded behind her, bringing
with it?how dared she acknowledge it
to herself?a certain sense of protection
j and comfort. Once he stretched out his
baud to hold aside an overhanging
j bough that she might pass, and then,
thank heaven! they cleared the woods,
' the way grew smoother, and at last the
| lights of home twinkled before them.
As they entered the long, dark avenue
which led to the house it seemed like go.
ing into the gloom of another wood.
' Strange to say Glen was feeling wildly
that this silence must be broken?that
she must say some word of acknowledgment
or dismissal. As 6he turned her
foot caught in the protruding root of
i one of the old trees, and she would have
fallen heavily forward had not a pair of
p strong arms caught and held her in a
j close embrace.
"Glen, my poor child, have you hurt
| yourself?" When the first spasm of pain
from her wrenched ankle was over, she
heard his low voice in her ear. "Am I
! cruel to say I cannot be sorry if it has
' given you to me for one moment? My
darling, don't struggle so. I love you,
! Glen; do you hear me? Love you!
[ What do all the wars of the universe
matter to us? Nothing; though I were
; a traitor for saying so. You do not
hate me?" There was only a low moan
i for answer. "But when this war is
ended you will let me come back and
' win you?"
"You may not care to comd back
' then," she said defiantly. She had drawn
[ herself away from hiin, though the efI
fort to stand without his aid was blanch'
ing her lips. "You may not care to
| come then. We may be the conquerors."
] ; "No, my poor child, that will never
: be. For your sweet sake 1 might for a
I' moment forget myself and my country
and echo your wish; but when your
| i gallant commander lays down his arms,
when Lee surrenders, Glen, may I come
back and claim you?"
"When Lee surrenders!" she repeated
j mockingly, and then she remembered no
' more.
CHAPTER IV.
"This Is not my ghost, darling."
j When she returned to consciousness she
j was lying in her own bed with Maum
j Betsey's black face bending anxiously
j over her.
"Dar you is, honey," she said, with a
j great sigh of relief. "Bless my life, but
j I thought dem eyes nuver was gwine ter
I open, and yer ma's jes gone plum
j 'stracted 'bout yer. She stepped to her
| room for some mo' arnica, and honey"?
j Maum Betsey raised her finger warningly?"don't
yer tell her how you come ter
be heali." '
The caution was given not a moment
too soon, for just then the door opened
softly and Mrs. Helen came hurriedly
* ' ' ' ' * * - * 1 * -1 * 1 .1
in. INOt mat uien couiu nave uivuigeu
something of which she herself was totally
ignorant, but the old habit of shielding
her mother from all anxiety, which
she had shared in common with Maum
Betsey ever since she was a girl in short
dresses, asserted itself now. When her
mother's pale face bent over her she was
able to look up brightly and reassure her.
"It is nothiug, mother; only the slightest
sort of a sprain; you see, I was walking
so rapidly?but I am perfectly well
now. I?I"?becoming vaguely confused?"don't
quite remember how I
came here, but iMaum Betsey found me
and put me to bed, so as not to alarm
you any sooner than was necessary."
"And your brother, my poor child?"
"OhI he got off nicely. He was in
good spirits, and says we shall hear from,
him in a few days at farthest. But,
mother. 1 must send you to bed. You
look as tired ;is 1 am, so good night." !
But when the door closed gently after
i her mother Glen raised herself on one I ]
arm and looked Maum Betsey eagerly in | i
i the face. i ]
"Mammv." she said, "how did 1 get I <
here?" j ,
"Why, bless yo' life, chile, de capeu' { (
brung you. You didn't think a meracle j ,
done happen ter my old jints, so's 1 could j |
fotch you, did you?, Lawd! when he \ .
corned roun' ter de kitchin do', and called i ,
me, sorter soft like, wid you in his arms, j ]
des es limp es a dishrag, you could a'
knocked me down wid a fedder. But he f
mighty quick 'splained it, and den I seed ^
de coas' was clar, case old Miss was (
singin Missy to sleep in her room, so we j
crope in an' up de staircase, an' he laid | you
down jes as easy as ef you'd ben a , '
baby. But Lawdl ain't I gwine ter give
dat Nelse a tas' o' my strop in de mawn- 1
| in'."
"Did Captain Campbell tell you about
| Nelse?"
"Cose he did. He brung him roun 1
ter me by de shoulder. '1 hain't teched ]
dis young rascal,' he said; 'but he '
d'serves as sound a thrashin' as you can
! fin' it in yo' heart to giv' him,' and den '
j ho tored off lak mad down dat short cut
J to de woods."
There was a long pause, and then the !
girl broke the silence with a sobbing, j 1
pitiful cry: "Oh, mammy, mammy! 1 1
am so tired. Can't yon sing me to sleep, j'
j like you used to?" i ]
"'Deed 1 will, honey, 'deed 1 will, j ]
j You's all wukked up, 1 knows you is. j i
I Nuver inin', uuver min'." ]
Maum Betsey patted the girl's hand i i
gently, rocking her own body to and fro j 1
as if she held in her arms the baby she ' i
had nursed so many years ago, and ; <
Glen nestling in her pillows was soothed 1
oy the senseless lullaby crooued in the j
|uaveringold voice.
Baa, buu black sheep,
Whar you lef yo' lo-a-m?~
? ay uuwu yuuuur iu uu vuuey.
Sho was roused in the morning by the j
trampling of horses, the jingle of spurs
and a bugle call on the lawn below. |
Maum Betsey, who had kept faithful
watch all night by the girl's bedside,
roused at her startled cry. "It's de so*
jers, honey," she said drowsily. "I clar,
I furgot dat Mars Capen' done cha'hged
me to tell you dat he done got hjs orders, j
and hed to uurch de fust ting dis inawnin\"
And so upon that day Glen took up
life anew with an added burden?a secret,
awful burden that weighed upon
her girlish heart. All through that fa- ,
tal month, in which the March winds
clothed the woods with beauty, the days ;
went by in that old house, wrapped in a ;
mist of fire and blood and carnage. No j
news of the outside world reached them.
No communication stirred the pall of
dread and anxiety which had settled 1
down upon them, but at night they could ]
Bee the red light of fires blazing against J
the quiet skies, and shuddered in their 1
beds when the sullen booin of cannon ! 1
shook the earth. Not one word or line
came from the absent son and brother, !
and to the anguish that was whitening <
her mother's hair Glen dared not add
one pang by disclosing this traitorous,
disloyal, nameless feeling tnat had grown 1 i
up in her heart. Oh I that she could j ]
crush it out like a poisonous thing?this
strange madness which had changed her j
from a careless girl to an anxious, sad- j
dened woman. The old rooms and the
quiet wood where she often wandered
to escape her mother's eyc9 seemed to j 1
mock her with memories of things that j
had passed away forever.
It was one day late in April, when she j
was returning from one of these aimless (
rambles, that she saw a body of horse- |
men moving along the road before her. |
They might be a squad of cavalrymen
like those who had passed and halted
many days before, she thought, uncon- 1
sciously quickening her steps. But no, j
they wore the Confederate gray, a fit rag- ;
gling, disorderly band, torn and tattered, :
with unkempt hair and beards. Many
of them reeled in their saddles, with ;
songs and reckless laughter, but she felt !
no fear of them. She put her hands to
her mouth, trumpetwise, and shouted:
"What news? Has Lee surrendered?"
And the leader, swaying heavily over
his horse's neck, shouted back with an
oath:
"No, miss, and he'll never surrender!" 1
"He'll never surrender!" they all yelled
in a wild chorus, as they put spurs to
their maddened horses and disappeared !
in a cloud of dust.
When she reached the house her j
mother met her, with a new light on her ;
stricken face, and led her gently in, and i
there upon the sofa lay her brother, pale
and worn and wasted indeed, but sound
in body and limb. "It is all over, Glen," |
he 6aid, springing up to meet her and ;
clasping her in his arms; "it is all over, j
and Lee has surrendered." He broke ;
down in a burst of sobs.
And now a strange hope awoke in j
Glen's heart and lived there. It budded j
with the spring, and blossomed with the
summer flowers that opened this year to j
shed their p' lals upon many graves; but
when the autumn came and the wood
dove moaned all day in her plaintive
tones and the wind awoke in the pines,
a newspaper, the first in many weeks, !
founds its way to them. It was out of j
date, but still welcome, and Glen went
to the open window to read it and there, ;
in a list of the dead, she saw his name.
She was alone, but she did not cry out
or faint. She had never been guilty of
anything so weak and womanish but
once in her strong young life, but she
stepped out upon the lawn, though it
was raining heavily, and went like a
wounded thing down the long dark avenue
of moaning cedars. "He is dead,"
she said to herself, when at last she |
reached the great gates and stopped; j
"dead, and he will never know that I
prayed he might come back to me?that !
no matter what happened ho might
come back?that he might only, only
come back." i
Through all the wind, and the falling
rain, and the darkness did he hear that I
despairing cry? For he was there, clasping
her in his passionate arms.
"It was not 1. This is not my ghost,
darling," he was saying, as he showered
kisses upon her white face; "I have come
back in the flesh to claim you mine,
Glen?mine?always mine!"
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"And to think," she 6aid, lifting her
happy eyes to the tall man who leaned
against a tree beside her, leisurely smoking
and watching her as she rested on
her royal couch of pine needles, "to
think that in this very spot I was once
so very, very angry with you, Alan!"
"And to think," he answered, bending ! ]
down tfl pat the sturdy youngster who, !
seated in his mother's lap, was pulling
all her bright hair down with his brave i <
hands, "that just four years after a j '
southern girl?a Virginian of Virginiashould
confess that she blessed the day j
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Speed of nn Earthquuke.
The course which an earthquake runs j '
is usually very rapid. From the instant
when the first shock was felt at Lisbon 1
to the period when all was over, and
nearly 30,000 people killed, not more ;
than two minutes had elapsed. Usually ,
from ten to thirty seconds elapse between
the first and last shocks of severe j
earthquakes. But this lightning speed 1
is not always the earthquake's mode of
traveling. While Caraca, in Venezu- ,
ela was almost totally destroyed and ,
12,000 people were killed in less than |
twenty seconds by the great shock of (
1812, there are cases in which constantly
recurring shocks have lasted for weeks. j
No odds how brief tho span, the most ,
frightful havoc can be wrought, and the j ]
wave of destruction propagated from the
most distant regions. The rumbling j j
earth sound travels at the rate of about | j
10,000 to 11,000 feet per second, and the | ,
earth wave, on an average, about 1,200 : '
feet in the same space of time.?St. .
Liouis Republic. '
WHAT STANDISH FOl'HHT WITH.
The precise population of New England,
either Indian or white, at the
time of Philip's war; cannot be stated,
hut for the purpose of war it may be
said that the forces on one side and the
other were equal, says The ChautauFjuan.
At that time the Indians were
is well used to firearms as the whites,
but the firelock of those days was but
m inefficient weapon compared with
Lhe musket of later times or with the
rifle of today.
It seems certain that in Europe
flintlocks had been introduced before
this time; but, on the whole, the concurrence
of evidence shows that such
ocks were not used in the Civil war in
Kngland, and that both the king's party
and the Puritans still relied on the
matchlock.
The form of this can be readily
explained to any person who has seen
the old flint-lock of the present century.
A hammer?a good deal larger
than the hammer which afterward
held the flint, but quite like it?had a
screw which tightened or loosened the
hold which two pieces of iron had
upon a match.
Each soldier was obliged to carry
3ome yards of this match with him,
and when the battle began he lighted
the piece of this match which was
fixed in the hammer of the gun. A
pan which held powder, exactly as the
pan of a flintlock afterward did, was
in front of the hammer, with a cover
projecting, from which a sort of horn
ran up nearly vertical, to be opened by
the hammer when the soldier pulled
the trigger. The fire of the match
communicated with the powder and
the gun went off.
This was a sufficiently complicated
way in which men should go to battle,
perhaps in a wilderness, where even
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attended with some difficulty. The
accounts of skirmishes of those times
are full of occasions when a shower
put a stop to the whole battle. This
is because the fire of the matches was
extinguished by the rain.
To change this rather clumsy lock
into a flintlock, simply required that
a flint of sufficient size should be screwed
into the hammer in the place made
for the match. The flint then striking
upon the cover the pan made a spark
which fell at the moment the pan, opened
into the powder. Eventually these
locks were made with great precision,
so that the gun missed fire very seldom.
I have no doubt that one and another
soldier in Philip's war found for
himself that a flint arrowhead screwed
in the place of his match could be made
to answer the purpose of firing the
powder much more readily than the
match itself could do.
A similar invention, however, as I
have said, had already been made in
Europe, so that it is thought that flintlock
guns had been found in France
early in 1640.
In 1672, however, just before the war
with Philio beean. the law of Massa
chusetts and the provision made for
her soldiers, still required the use of
the matchlock.
DIVINE CONCEALMENT.
When some of the Sioux Indian
chiefs were invited to go to Washington
and visit President Grant, one of
them, known as "Spotted Tail,' hesitated
about going for the following
reason: He said that if he went he
shouid probably see many things which
would be new to him, and when ht:
returned his friends would ask him
what he had seen on his journey. If
he told them the whole story, they
would listen for awhile, and then
leave his lodge one after another, saying
"Spotted Tail tells lie? since he
has seen the Great Father's kingdom ;
the white men he has seen have made
bad medicine for him." Thus he feared
he might lose his chieftainship and his
influence among the Sioux.
The fear of this chief was not altogether
without foundation. It is related
that a certain young Indian once
made such a visit, and witnessed the
wonders of civilization, and on his return
to his tribe, they listened to his
wonderful tales, until he told them he
had seen a white man take a basket
and fasten it to a big ball, and get
into it and fly up in the air; when an
old Indian, concluding that a man who
could lie like that had lived long
enough, leveled his gun and shot him
through the heart. <
It is sometimes pretty serious bus ness
for a man to undertake to tell a
he knows. There are men who will
not believe anything unless they can
understand it, and the more marvelous
the tales they hear, the greater liars
the narrators are supposed to be.
Many a skeptic is certain that Christians
are lying to him, as was this old
Indian, when he heard the young chief
talking about men hitching themselves
to a balloon and flying up into the sky.
They do not believe his story, for the
simple reason that they do not know
enough to believe the truth upon this
subject. Hence, at times, even truth
must be withheld from such persons,
because they are not in a At condition
to receive or appreciate it. The pearls
must not be cast before swine, nor the
holy things given to the dogs.
The fears of the wise chief were
not realized. He made the visit to
Washington, saw the sights and wonders,
and on his return was so careful
and prudent in his statements that his
influence was increased rather than
diminished. He was the firm friend of
both Indians and whites, and was finally
selected supreme ruler of his tribe.
Religious Paper.
THE "CRUCIFIXION PLANT."
Those versed in plant and flower
lore say that the celebrated "Plant of
Calvary" was unknown in the flora ot
the world prior to the date of the crucifixion
of Jesus. According to the
tradition, the original plant sprung up
in the track made by Pilate when he
went to the cross for the purpose of
placing that famous "title" over the
head of Him of whom the Jews said :
i?gay that he called himself 'King of
the Jews."' The plant as it is now
known is a common trefoil, resembling
the common clover in many particulars,
especially in its peeuliorit.es of
growth. There is but little doubt that
in truth it was originally a native of
Turkey or India, but Christians who
discredit the story of its miraculous
origin, still claim that its native home
is Palestine. Under the name of Calvarv
clover it is known all over Europe
At present the three round
green leaves of the plant each have a
carmine spot in the center, which
looks for all the world like a drop of
blood. During the day the three
leaves stand erect, thetwoside ones latterly
taking on almost the exact form
of a cross. During the season a small
yellow flower appears, its form and
make-up reminding most startlingly of
the Crown of Thorns.
Early Christian writers and not a
few "vulgar" historians mention this
botanical oddity. Julian says that in
his time each of the leaves had a white
center in the form of a cross, and that
close inspections would reveal miniature
pictures of figures hanging to
each. The figure on the center leaf
was always clad in white, those 011
the sides either in black or red. He
also says that the crosses, figures and
bloody spots disappear from the side
leaves before the flowers burst into
bloom, but that the central one, (which
in all countries was thought to represent
the Saviour) "lasted a good fortnight
after the others had faded from
view."?Globe Democrat.