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Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) A FUGITIVE PRESIDENT 1809-James Madison, Inaugu rated President, aged fifty. seven. 1812-(June 19) War de-, clared. 1814-(Aug. 24-27) In flight from the British. (Dec. 28) treaty of peace. 1817-Madison retired from Presidency. 1826-Rector in University of Virginia. 182-in constitutional con vention. 1836-(June 28) died, aged eighty-five. B T"l' for the smliles of his bloom ing Dolly, Mdilison's administra tion would be i desert without an onsis, over whose dreary expanse the weary biographer would wander athirst for human anecdotes. Her bubbling spirits relieved the austerity of Jeffersonian simplicity and won her a popularity that has been equaled, If at all, among the mistresses of the White House, only by Mars. Cleveland. Unless Grant must he excOpted, Madison is the only president who found the presidency an anticlimax to his career. One of the really great lnw-givers of the nation, he was wilh out executive force. With a weak cabinet, this gentle, sweet tetperel, peace loving scholiar found himself adrift on the turbitl seat of the great Napoleonic wars. I 'crhiIps it was no loigar possible to keep Us out of the war when iti last the Ulnited Stutes wns the only neutral left ii the civilizeil world. Bit. cer tainly it was no time for at faiir-weatlh er sailor. After 20 years of kicking and cuff ing from both sides in the European conflict, bullied by England and lied to by Napoleon, the country was sore all over when the "warhtawks" of con gress, under the youthfutl Henry Clay, seized the tiller of the ship of state James Madison. from Madison's iaresolute hand and recklessly pointed the vessel straight into the teeth of the storm. The sea board East wvas more for peace and at that time the military section was the new West, wvhere the Tennesseans and Kenttrekians, Indianlans and' Ohiloans were lustily shouting "On to Canada I" Overborno by their rash counsels, Mad ison consented, as hie said, to "throw forward the flag of the country, sure that the pteople wvould press onward and dlefend it." Without competent civilian military leaders, without fInancial credit with out war equipment, the people could not ptress onward, 'as any history of the dismal war of 1812 wvill tell you. Eveni the capital was left undefend edi, and Maidison, "in a lit tie round hat wilth at big ('ockade," rain abloutt in helpless he-vildermnent as the~ British 11mnrelhed un Washington. \Vith the' intvader-s entering tat 0n0 side of the dlefeniseless townt, the president fled tat the other. As he turned lhe siaw the flamtes .shoot ing up behind him, lhe lied faster anid farther. While the BritIsh cotmmaunder wtas blowing out enndles on his (linner tai ble that he might feast in thle light of the burning WhIte flouse, its fuigi tlve moaster was hiding in a forest but '25 mriies aiway. A fter an aibsence or thireet daye, a hieaivy-iieaartedi, shaitteredl, hioutseeSs president returnted to view the din rred wall s of his, oflelni Ireslietnce Iand1 of the capitol. At every tun lie wsgreetedl by it ly nt ttetinogs of the genie ral d ispositIion to nitink im the fwan tigoat for alI the nti iotnail shot ((intirngs int a wiar thait had been: thrust upioniliii hiam. t i vi cto ry tat New Orl-en1us anrd the returnra of peace, thle votee of the faultitider wuas drIownedl in I ' (-105 ig dlays of his aihntinis ti-at tion Maidison wais (chteored by many assuranices that this count rytinen wer-e not forgetfail of t he -to y-tars t hat lie haid se-rvedl themi in patre dlevol lont. Like John Ada ms, hoe emtet-ged froma his r-el Iremtent to sit in the contstiitu tionial conivetiion of is staite, where the aged utatesmuan closed his activo oblaiic life, as lhe had opened it, with a sentiment of humranity for the slaves. 'Mi mUs Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN . . (Copyright. 1920, by James Morgan.) JAMES MADISON 1751, March 16-James Madi, son born at Port Con. way, Va. 1772-Graduated at Princeton. 1776-in Virginia legislature. 1780.3, 1785-8-in Continental congress, 1787-In constitutional conven tion. 1789-97-in congress. 1794-Married Dorothy Todd Payne. 1801-9-Secretary of state. 0 l A s JAAIES AIA1ISON madle a great name for himself before entering the presidency andl adled nothing to it while in the White [louse, it must he that he was a good dleal of iatan but not much of a president. Like all the more famous Virgin lans, Matlison vas not of the highest aristocracy, but the son of at plain, well-to-do farmer in an outlying coun ty. His early life was passed at Mont pelier, the farm which his grandfather had wrested from the Indians; from it he drew his, only private income and at last he was burled in its soil. Ile was dependent on his father until he was fifty, when the latter died and the place became his own, with 100 slaves, who continued always to adll dress hin simply as "Master Jimimy." Standing only five feet six Inches aid one-.iuarUer inchtes, lie was, with (rant the smallest of our presidents. Naturally thin and t'rail his zeal for study nearly wrecked his health While a student at Princeton college, where for months at a tinie he slept only three hours out 'of the 24. Unfitted for military duty when the Revolution ctme, he went to the Virginia legisla ture instead. Yet this seemingly broken-down young man was destined to be the longest lived of all the presi dents, with the single exception of John Adams. When a candidate for re-election to the legislature, Madison revolted Dol adsn Dlu arlof i Madionnwh. a elecntd The odefeatedi cusdtom had to wait a dozen years for his first chance to distinguish himself. Still ino time wvas lost, for, while lie was waiting, he diligently prepared to meet opportunity when it should come and made' a close study of all governments, ancient nnd modern, If Miadison hadl not been crossed and blessedl in love, jposterity miight not catch him on his human side at all and only yawni over this prosy, serious, stutdh ':s, cool-tempered unaggressive, weiizedi, little great man. ie was already a mature hatchelor of' thirty two and a member of the Continental congress, w~hien a slxt een-.tear-ol d girl in hia Phladelphia. boarding house was the first to toucht a soft spot in his hieairt. A young cler-gymatn who hung aind sighed over her harpischord cut hinm out, and hie was p~ainfully aw~akened from his first dream of love by a letlter of dismissal whieh, for rea sons tinknowvn to this inter generation, ihe young miss seitled wIth a pinch of rye dough. Madison wans past forty, iand well into his Indian summier, when lhe he camie inv-olved in still another- board ig house romance at P'hil, ':-lphia. Only, Instead of a lady boarder-, hie fell in love this time with a land lady's 4ii'ughiter, Dolly3 Paiyine T[odd, whlo was only twenty-six, hiaul lost her humshatul and wias living with hieir moth er, "'who received into her house a few gent leniumen orders" Among them was Seuna tor Aiarion litirr of New York. Maisoin himself wvas sliaying at nn i ther- house, where lie and two it hem- fuitumre presidenits,-.ffersoun andl Mon roe~. were 1iig tihriee ini a roun. Trhere thle fame of thle pr-etty y-oung Qtauakeess tiraiveled to lim, and he askedl Jlumrr-thiey were at Princeton togethler-t o t akue lii t see hter. The manutch flatmed tip ini the flash of atn eye, and Dolly rnnd her- hoy werec horne away to Montpeler-, wvhere she provedl her tactfulness anid kindliness biy dweluni; lnapeace'uinder the nme roof with her mother-imalaw thilrty-Qve veari. AMERIANS TO (ET . TAIDE IN lUSSIA Opporiunities in ('aucausus and South ern Rutssin to bm Taken Adva-uu ln!t.e Of. - Constant inople, Sept. 25.--Ameri calls are gradually preparing to avail tlemiiselves of t rade opportuniti es which will present themselves as so011 as conditions beteonte 110'e settled in Soithern liussia and the CaUcasis. 'Tie (uaranity 'I''st 2Ol'many. of New York, opienhs its C'onstanltinled branc(h, trs;t Amneric"an bank I inl 1114 laevanut, tiliat mn th1 . Thil A111(ri(.rni its sIi,)pintg clepaii ent 0(1 to ani At . i enn organizat uol n lled the i hlac " i Corporation. N. G. lloothi. .r.,. for - mherly representllative of the l )nier( tatus Shipping ll oard in ''onsiant iu' plie. is hal of1 th( 1-w corIJoretinW. which las eltiert dii severat ships fI the( illaeck ''" trade and is desigio-d"t ""r.inmarily to ats:"enable frei7ght from the various ports of the Itlaick Se. a tt mnake. it available for larg.^er Amterican Athips at 11,a1u11 for ('enstantinople. .\dmiral .\ark Biristol, Amneri'-anl Ii.h 'ommiissioner, is Lratly iIle esle(d in the d(elomlient of AmerIi cant tade in this lleid, which has t, .a abandoned by (Gellany and Austria. Twelve Amietiean Iirims are already 4s tablished thoroughly in Constantino ple and ten others have agencies which ipromise to develop into porno nient1 organizations. So far, the Amtoer'' ical slips have not mNadi) regular schedules in the Near ':ast, with the resuilt that their bu1siness has bet n usi. saltisfactoriy in many cases. In a recet report to the state dc p artmecnt, Admiral liristol submlitted1 ; su' gestion of F'. A. TiIn nertnant. an! An rihani stiippiing agent. in ( onst cal tin(>ple, thalt a direct" lint, het weenh New Orleans and the ILvant w(culd doubltless he profitable. lio wouhd have such a line c'all in 'nba, Spain, Italy, Greee, Blulgaria, Rm.)th Runssia.l Georgia and Turkey. It is argued that the proposed line between 'New Orleans and llackt S.a portls woul afo a more I 1101 dIirect Iline tthan( now exists for the shipment. of coffee and other South and (en't iaI American irodutcts to the Near East, in combhination with shoes, hardware, machinery and various other manlt factored products irom( the .\lississiitid Valley, which, Alle'ricans hope will Low. e, .3 II permanently replace German and AuIs trian goods in this market. Ilamberg formerly fu rInlisie the Ltevant nmost of its coffee. Geinr1y anid Austria together in pre-war tines slupplied the Black Sea area'with most of its mattfactuled goods, but such goods were pouring in here in larige, 'inantititis from America, ieore ex cihange beentnle so unfavo\"rabh-i. up-. tlis of this sort cotld I< adily be st I'- ississi.:, i vahlly point: th ahy ! wc Orle~a~n, in thei of . \ . l'iilg il: at'i i all e ir Iloise1l 1 Ily vi'ieI. iintov mga~nst. on p't hI r, irntrio, h cttirouhl d":tr'y iron h aot And tai. yer wlirtn :1 e i : a to hevy tm to. : ti r with WO !. a ii ptu s, I, Thos !re Dinky Be il fts. at '- ii-d e to i! d v r f l An on, w wot t the Fly. Tihe das lti. ot SOietesri capable of being entrrieel by onte liuse t !y v'aries drytu blt to to0,00, H once a er-. sIleIn against this pest which is iost n utnerous dluring the seatson of the year when (epideie~s nrt, likely to oe. cur will play a great part in preven tion and stir~.d of any maldy. Those Dinky Befits. He is a very strong and a very fleet man who can get away from his tailor these days without sone sort of little dinky belt tacked on to his coat. A WOMAN'S Bv-K The Adite of This I.airens W1oman is of s 'eraain Value .\day it Iay womll's back his Iniiy at'1ee And p~ains. Ofti etit tI t'-; t he t'fa . That'. why i oane' Kidney Pill a"' th as y i .tinl Inl wdai :n :;t owt tili:. .\y sk or a di.:hhoer'ge Read whiat : Pt lir to s at lia . .\lr . . -:. L'. -S "uai . 4i:!: "anll . laurtenl. says4: ". \'w ye r a,") mly kidney. wsr. in had condition and my bIa< k as lme and w"ak. e-tsin. m). cousido+rable annioyan(ce. I uts-d~ Doan's Kidney Pills at tis ti e and Tey entiresy cud mI of the attack. I llse D(,an'.: Kidlney P'i'.l o r-"asionll y and they ward of' any more attacks of this trouble. I advise kidno}y :-uff rers to try this teindy." Price Met~ at all dealers. Don'tsm pil: ask for a kidney remedy-:;et loan 's Kidney Pills-tho same+ that. .\rs. Swain had. 'oster-.\ilburn C'o., Alfra . 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