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Harris. Janua. p93. janl2 J). U u M THE INAUGURATION. HOW GROVER CLEVELAND WILL BE INDUCTED INTO OFFICE. I J in first Inauguration Compared vrlth Others of I'ecent History The Weather &u Important Factor Mr. CleTeland Has j.lnayt Been Fortunate In This Respect. ICopyright, 1803. P THE weather be as fine as was the case on the 4th of March, 1885, the inau gural ceremonies with which Mr. Cleveland will be honored on the 4th of March, 1893, will prob ably be as bril liant as any that have ever occur red. Mr. Cleve- Lit lie liv t V ke ar- 1 was exceptionally fortunate when was first inaugurated. Those who j in Washington look forward to inauguration ceremonial with nest anticipations of pleasure, which alwaj's tempered somewhat by ap rehension that the weather may be I a t. President Harrison was inaugu r r ed on a day when the rain was both If wy and chilly. Garfield's inaugura te 1 took place amid the most unpleas a:i ; atmospheric conditions, although th? rain did not fall until evening. The da;' was raw and cloudy, and those who vtro spectators suffered considerably, csj ecially the company which was per nn ;ted 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 o? March, 1373. General Grant was the n to take the oath of president for a second time, and arrangements had been ir;a le for a very brilliant military and civ ;c display. On the evening of the 3d of March a bitter cold wave set in, in creasing in severity during the night, so that on the morning of the 4th Washing ton was suffering as it seldom suffers fix n cold accompanied by a high wind. Ii. v.-as as near an approach to a blizzard as 1 he capital has ever experienced. The military suffered very greatly, some of tl.e-n were overcome with the cold, and tLe cadets from West Point and the n;v al academy who were not well pro tec' ed were completely demoralized, sou e of them suffering from frost bitten ear. and fingers. An immense throng hail gathered in Washington to witness tbis ceremonial, but many did not dare to enturo forth and face the cold. U'nt when Cleveland appeared to take the oath the sun smiled upon him. The air was as balmy as it is in Washington in Nay. The suggestion of summer was giv-.'-n by the warmth of the day, by the sin: rs of the birds, and by the buds, which, te .-noted by the warm south winds, were al r )st ready to burst into early blos soi! The day was exceptional. One of he earlier presidents had been in- v LEY'ELAXD'S first inauguration. arg arated upon a day when it seemed as the- .gh May instead of March had come, biii the usual experience is either in cl3i lent or chilly weather. 01 course preparations are being made for m inaugural ceremonial without any tho ight of the weather. It is customary for the citizens of Washington to ap point a local committee, which is author ized to take charge of the military and civis display. This committee appoints sub jommittees, to which are delegated sue" 1 duties as preparing for the inau gur il ball, for invitations, for arranging for the right of line and other places in the line, and this committee has co operation with the government and the committees of congress. Already it is made evident that the military display will be quite as impos ing as any that have been made at pre vious inaugurations, while the indica tions are that the civic display may ex ceed in brilliancy and numbers any ever witnessed in Washington upon a similar occasion. The Washington committee has been in communication with Mr. Cleveland, and some of the details of the cere mony have been determined. In some respects these do not differ from those which have characterized other in augurations. 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 form-1 ally his card to the president. Mr. Lin- j coin and Mr. Buchanan exchanged calls within a few hours after Mr. Lincoln's arrival in Washington, and Lincoln was grca tly impressed with the courtesy and cons ideration shown to him by the re tiring 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 li aur elapsed the president returned the c all. Cleveland was also invited to dine with his predecessor, and after the dinner, which was a delightful affair, he retir nl with President Arthur to the presi dent's private room, and there, cast ing aside formalities, they renewed ac quai itance begun years before and sat chat ing until far into the night. U on Mr. Cleveland's arrival in Wash ingt n, which will probably occur about the i d of March, he will go the Arling ton iotel, and very likely have the same apai -ments there which he occupied in, 16S5. Whether Mrs. Cleveland and the 1 little girl will be with him is a matter n of some doubt. The baby certainly will not be taken to the WhiteTJouse 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 thai ten minutes' duration. Mr. Cleveland will then re turn 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 prob ably dine with President Harrison, al though the dinner will be very private, and probably an informal one in view of the recent affliction which has befallen General Harrison. These formalities will end the ceremonials so far as the president and president elf,ct are con cerned. Other details have been arranged very much as is the case in all inaugural cere monies. A committee of congress spe cially appointed will upon the morning of Inauguration Day an hour or so before noon call at the Arlington for Mr. Cleve- , land, and in an open carriage, unless the weather be very tormy, drawn by four as handsome horses as can be found, will escort the presi dent elect to the White House. Presi dent 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 driven to the Capitol. President Hani son will be followed by the members of his cabinet, but it is not at all likely, aa has been reported, that Mr. Cleveland's prospective cabinet will be also in the procession, since the public is not sup posed 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 Cap itol. 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 pro ceedings which take place after the dis tinguished company reaches the plat form. Sometimes the president elect first receives the oath from the chief justice and then delivers his inaugural. Presi dent Garfield read his inaugural message 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 prec edent 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 the wind was so strong that he could not 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 & clear, skillfully modulated but not very strong voice to address the vast throng before him. Mr. Cleveland has the fac ulty of committing an address to memory by the mental opera tion required in writ ing it. His address was shorter than any other inaugural excepting the second one 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 march to the plaza beyond the eastern front of the Capitol, and there will be assigned to their various positions in line. They will be drawn up in line in front of the vast throng which usually occupies that part on Inaugural Day. The civic societies will Also be assigned places there, and as soon as the oath is 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 by way of Pennsylvania avenue, and when the White House has been reached Mr. Cleveland and those whom he has invited will from a reviewing stand honor the military and civic organiza tions by saluting and being saluted in return as they 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 the king!" on Inauguration Day. With the administration of the oath a presi dent becomes a private citizen, and a private citizen becomes the occupant of an office which Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, has described as the grand est political office upon earth. He who was president in the morning and now becomes ex-president usually goes away without any formal courtesy at parting Mr. Hayes was driven from the Capitol directly to the railway station, where his family was awaiting him, and started for his home in Ohio, and within an hour had as narrow an escape from death as any man ever experiences who is in a railway accident. General Arthur quitted the White House for good when he left it to escort his successor to the Capitol. After the oath was administered to Cleveland Ar thur went ad a guest to the house of Secretary of State Freiinghuysen. He remained in Washington, however, long er than any ex-president ever did. since he was Mr. Frelinghuysen's guest for nearly a month. Mr. Cleveland quitted Washington immediately after the in augural ceremonies, and it is understood that President Harrison will leave the capital on the afternoon of Inauguration Day. The indications are that the military display, while it will be imposing, may not exceed in numbers the military es cort tendered at some other inaugura tions. At General Grant's second inau gural and upon the occasion of Garfield's inauguration there was a very large mili tary attendance, both from the United States army and from the stats militia. HARRISON'S INAUGURATION. But if the military display is not so large as others have been the civic bod ies in the procession promise greatly to exceed any other demonstration of that kind. Conspicuous in it will be the rep resentatives of Tammany Hall. This del egation will be under the direction of General McMahon, who is the grand mar shal, and will have the right of line, and the Tammany leaders are making more elaborate preparations for the event than they have ever done for any other pub lic demonstration in which they have participated. There may be 3,000 or 4,000 of them in line. They will all be dressed alike. They will wear silk hats of the latest style and most brilliant gloss. Artistic badges which will ap peal to the eye will be pinned to the la pels of their coats. Mr. Croker himself is quite likely to march in this proces sion, and other politicians of Tammany Hall whose activity in the organization has given them wide repute will be found marching side by side with hum bler members. Mr. Cleveland is pleased with this dis position of Tammany thus to honor him, w, lcucio i that organization to make such demon- stration as will suggest that the stories of their hostility to the president are un founded, and that they will give him as cordial support in his administration as they did during the campaign. A great body of Democrats from Phil nrtalntn'n rmn frmn fTuVn n-nA iVioto - - . , , . . . , f-Trvrr vnontr "t tlin tvac-tfttn nifina will olan make up this imposing civic demonstra- lion, anu mere is to do a nne representa tion from the Democracy of New Eng land. The managers of the railwaj' com panies report that the indications are that the largest throng will be gathered ' in Washington ever witnessed there upon an Inauguration Day. The facili ties of even some of the greater railways j will be taxed to the utmost to transport these persons, and many of the organiza- ; tions have already made arrangements for special trains. It is estimated that there are likely to be more than 100,000 strangers in Washington upon that day. If Mr. Cleveland has the experience of some of his predecessors he will find that there are some more exacting duties for him than participation in the ceremo nies, excepting that one which requires him to take the oath. General Garfield returned from the Capitol to tho White House still perplexed about his cabinet, and it was not until after he had attend ed the inaugural ball that he was abso lutely certain of whom his official family was to be composed. Mr. Cleveland was not troubled in that way in 1885. sinco cabinet problems had ceased to perplex him at least two weeks before Inaugura- tion Day. Yet he was harassed by ap- plications for appointments before he, had been president six hours, and after he returned from the inaugural ball he spent an hour or two reading some of the indorsements and applications, so that it was past 2 o'clock before he was able to seek his bed. He was up at 7 on the following morning, and spent an hour or two before breakfast in examin ing his correspondence. The excitement and mental strain which the inauguration ceremonies and the experiences which the fij -stfew weeks of occupancy of the exalted office entail are usually very exhaustinj, and Presi dent Harrison has said that he was more fatigued by h;s first montlTs experience in the White U ase than h had been by the work of a year after he became fa miliar with the duties imposed upon him. It was to recover from this strain that General Garfield planned the vaca tion which the assassin's bullet prevent ed just as he was entering the railway station to begin it. Mr. Cleveland, how- ever, bore these fatigues without appar ent weariness, and his familiarity with the office causes him to look forward to his second experience with none of the anxiety which he felt when he first be came president of the United States. E. Jay Edwards. The tallest woman in the world is the giantess Rosita. who was born in Vienna twenty-six years ago, and is noYV on exhibition in Berlin. Hex height is 8 feet 3 inches, and she weighs 351 pounds. Novelties in thimbles are of china in royal Worcester, Dresden and Trenton manufacture. These thimbles are white with a garland of colored flowers on tho border. INAUGURATION DAYS. Historic. Notes Apropos to the Coming Event of March 4. ITTlJETEEJr PRESIDENTS ELECTED. filxteea Were Inaugurated on March 4, Two' on March 5 and One on April 30. Cv ri -u Facts Tending to Create Supersti tion Comparison with Other Countries. How March 4 Came to Be Selected for Inaag-u ration Day Curious and Interesting- Facts Connected with the Occasion. ICopyright, 1893, by American Press Associa tion. There Is an old story to the effect that Benjamin, Franklin selected the 4th of March for inauguration day because in the next two centuries It would fall on Sunday less often than any other day In the year, and this statement has crept into a few works meant to be historical. It is, how ever, but one of the many cases, like those of Niobe and Lot's wffe. in which a WASHINGTON, remarkable and interesting fact has gradually given rise to a legend to 'account for the fact. It is a pleasing story, put there is no proof of it whatever, and Ithere is almost conclusive proof to the con trary. It is certain that Franklin bothered him self very little about the distinction be Ween sacred and secular days, and disre garded it altogether m his daily life; that the conven tion of 1787 did not fix the day, and in fact could have no means of foreseeing when jit would be possible to name tl a dav. and that when it be came possible by the ad- Jvf Ihesion of the ninth state to the constitution the Con- J0HN ADAMS federation congress then in session fixed the day by a sort of accident. And yet it jis a fact, and a very curious fact indeed, jthat the day does very rarely fall on Sun Iday, though at first view it would seem 'that this day or any other day would do so one time in seven. j The first day set was Wednesday, and the years 1S0C and 1900 are, contrary to the four year rule, not leap years. The first day was just eleven years before the close of the century, and thus it has resulted that the day has fallen on Sunday but three times in the first hundred years and will not again fall on Sunday till 1917. Thereafter it will so fall only in 1945 and 1973 in t he next century, the result jefferson. being such a conjunction only six times in the first two centuries of 1 the government's existence, or once In thirty-three instead of once in seven years. But little less curious was the result of jthe meeting of the first congress in 1789. 'As six congresses convened in the last cen tury and the seventh in 1801 it results that Jthe calculation as to the number of any 'congress turns on the alleged "unlucky number" 13. Thus, to determine the num- ,ber of any congress, add thirteen to the . : it firf.t convened and divide by two- t the quotient is the number of the congress. ;Conversely, double the number of any con- ,gress and substract thirteen, and the re mainder will be the year it convened. 'Ninety-one and thirteen are 104, the half of 1'which is fifty -two the number of the pres ent congress. For the next century add I H3, and SO Oil S Tuough we have had twenty-three presi 1 . "' ilents. but nineteen were formally inaugu rated, and but sixteen of these on the 4th ,of March, if the first time ,only be counted, for Wash ington took the oath the 1 first time on April 30, and Taylor and Hayes were inaugurated on Monday, Jlarcii 5. The same is true tof Monroe's second inaugu ration, but his first was on the regular day. The sec- MADISON. ond Adams, Pierce and Garfield were in augurated on.Fviday. Five inaugurations have been on Monday and five on Wednes day, and the coming one will make five on Saturday, no ether day in the week having had more than three. It is also a curious fact that, though the government is 104 years old and we have had twenty-three presidents, there were but eight in the first half of the period to fifteen in the second half, and a man who is today but half as old as the government has lived in the administrations of two thirds of the presidents. Thus from 1789 to 1837 the average of a president's serv ice was six years eight MONROE. t months and seventeen days and a fraction, while since the latter year the average has been but three years and six months, and this despite the fact that two of the late v" TaTvT uu-fc ",c 5m ' alarmintrlv short. The shortest service was that of W. H. Har j r K C3r rison one month and the longest that of Grant, who held the office eight years and a day, unless indeed we i adopt the facetious sugges- tion cf the Whigs that Jack son really governed during the "nominal administra tion of Van Buren." It is also worth noting that of the eiyht presidents re-elected Jackson. Lincoln and Grant were the only .ones whose second inaugurations J. Q. ADAMS. were celebrated with much display, though it is certain that Cleveland's will soon fur nish a fourth case, and a notable one. In truth, there are many things in the batter's career which might justify a little super stition in his case. No other American, save possibly Washington and Jackson, has had such an extraordinary personal tri umph. The selection of March 4 was, as afore said, probably a sort of accident. On the 1 , , .... ' , , . x-. York, notified that body that New Hamp- shire had ratified the constitution on the Cist of June preceding, and as it was the ninth state to do so that instrument was now by its own terms to become the su preme law After prolonged debate con gress on the 13th of September, 17S8, passed the following: Resolved, That the first Wednesday of Janu ary next (1788) be the day for appointing elect ors in tbe several states which before the said day shall have ratified the said constitution: that the first Wedncsdaytn February next be the day for the electors to assemble in their re spective states and rote for president, and that the first Wednesday in March next be the time and the present seat of congress the place for commencing: proceedings tinder the said con etitatiofc. Fran this it will be seen that there was exactly a month's time between each of the three very essential acts of appointjoB elect- ore assembling the elect ors in their respective states and "commencing pro ceedings." As a matter of fact, the first Wednesday in March, 1789, fell on the 4th, and three Tears later that date was fixed upon for all time. But there Is nothing extant to indicate any spe cial reason for it. In truth. JACKSON. it is at almost the worst season that could have been sel ted, and as the matter is en tirely within the discretion of congress, and Washington was inaugurated the first time on April SO, the argument for a change to that date is strong. " Every reader has had enough on the first inauguration of Washington. Suffice it to repeat 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 VAX buren. occasion there were more people in the city than at any other time in its history. It was positively the only time, said the oldest iipabitants, when "the city cowd was completely over whelmed and lost in the country crowd." His second inauguration, in Philadelphia, Monday, March 4, 1793, presented an al most ludicrous contrast. He took the oath in the senate chamber in the presence of both houses of congress and made a brief address, and if anything unusual occurred the journals of the day failed to mention it. Nor was the inauguration of John Ad ams on Saturday, March 4, 1797, a particu larly impressive affair. Thomas Jefferson took the oath as vice presi dent in the senate chamber, pronounced a high compli ment on Mr. Adams, who had just vacated the chair, and then led the way to the chamber of the house, where the inauguration took place. Almost every witness who has given any account of it W.H.HARRISON. says that all eyes were directed to Wash ington, and as Jefferson stood on the other side, a rather tall and commanding figure, the new president really seemed overshad owed. He spoke at some length, eulogized Washington very highly, denied quite em phatically that he favored a stronger gov ernment than that ordained in the consti tution and pronounced the oath after the chief justice of the United States. Adams is distinguished in our history for many things, and one is, unfortunately, for being the first president who refused to par ticipate in the inauguration of his successor. It was in deed a very trying occasion for him. There have been some heated campaigns since, but none in which per sonal animosities played so great a part as in 1800. Nowa days partisans call each oth er "rebels," "traitors" and POLK. "enemies of American industry," "thieves" and "monopolists" or "cranks" and "Adul lamites," but it is chiefly Pickwickian. In 1800 they really believed it. So when Jef ferson was elected by the house on the thirty-sixth ballot and after a desperate struggle a deep groan ran through the Fed eralist party, and Adams left Washington early in the morning of March 4, 180L This bad example was followed by his son in 1829 and by Johnson in 1869. It is rather singular there should have been so much dispute about the facts of Jefferson's inauguration. It is clearly proved that he intended to go in the usual state, with a carriage and six horses, but the carriage ordered was not completed in time, Adams refused the courtesy, as afore said, and so Jefferson, the attendant mar shal and a few others made the little trip on horseback. His second inauguration had more style about it. On Saturday, March 4, 1809, Madison took the oath in the hall of the house, and the only fact about it which excited much comment was that he was "clad in a suit of elegant black cloth en tirely of American manufacture." The next four inaugurations were con ventional in the extreme. That of 1821 was on Monday, March 5, as then, for the first time, the regular day fell on Sunday. John Quincy Ad ams revived much of the old and solemn ceremonial, but with him it ended, as the country had now out grown English and colonial forms. And as a great break followed, this is the proper TAYLOR, place to give a list of the presidents regu larly inaugurated, with date birth, in auguration and death, and to note the in terregnums filled by vice presidents: George Washington Feb. 22, 1733; April 30, 1789; March 4, 1793; Dec. 14, 17W. John Adams Oct. 19, 1735; March 4, 1797; July 4, ISM. Thomas Jefferson April 2, 1743; March 4, 1801; 1S05; July 4, 1820. James Madison March 16, 1751; March 4, 1809; 1813: June 28, 1836. James Monroe April 28, 1738; March 4, 1817: March 5, 1831; July 4, 183L John Quincy Adams July 11, 1767; March 4, 1825; Feb. 23, 1848. Andrew Jackson March 15, 1767; March 4, 1829; 1833; June 8, 1315. Martin Van Buren Dec. C, 1782: March 4, 1837; July 24, 1862. William Henry Harrison Feb. 9, 1773; March 4, 1841; April 4, 1841. John Tyler Interregnum. James Knox Polk Nov. 2, 1795; March 4, 1845c June 15, 1849. Zachary Taylor Sept. 24, 1781; March 5, 1849: July 8, 1850. Millard Fillmore Interregnum. Franklin Pierce Nov. 23, 1804: March 4, 1853; Oct. 8, 1869. James Buchanan April 13, 1791; March 4, 1867: June 1. 1868. Abraham Lincoln-Feb. 12, 1809; March 4, 1861; 1865; April 15, 18C5. Andrew Johnson Interregnum. Ulysses Simpson Grant April 27, 1822; March 4, 1869; 18T3; 'July 23, 1S85. Rutherford Birchard Hayes Oct. 14, 1822: March 5, 1S77; Jan. 17, 1893. James Abram Garfield Nov. 19, 1831: March 4, 1881; Sept. 19, 18S1. Chester Alan Arthur Interregnum. Grover Cleveland March 18,1837; March 4, 1885, and to be Inaugurated again Just eight years later, the first case of the kind in our his tory. Benjamin Harrison Aug. 20, 1833; March 4, 1889. After .March 4 next he wul be the only living ex-president, as his successor and prede cessor now is. The fact that three presidents died on In dependence Day is indeed extraordinary. As but twenty-one have died the chances of one's death on that day are not quite as one in eighteen, of two still fewer, and of three not one in hundreds. But that two should die on the same day and a third but five years later, and the two signers of the Declara tion, the chances are so re- pierce. mote as to be sparoely calcu lable. Yet it happened. . Vice President Hamlin also died on that day. Nearly all tbe presidents have lived to an advanced age, as it was natural they should be men of great vitality and "temperate lives to at tain the honor. John Adams was the old est, lacking but a few weeks of ninety-one, while, omittipg Lincoln, killed at fifty-four, and Garfield, killed within a few weeks of fifty, the youngest dying was Polk at flfty-fonr. Another curious fact is that, including the presidents of the senate who succeeded to the functions of the office, there have been more vice presidents than presidents to wit, thirty-four, though Clinton, Tomp kins, Calhoun and King each served in two administrations. From Adams the father to Adams the on, as aforesaid, the inaugurations were mild affairs, but Jackson came in with a breeze, and the occasion was indeed breezy. He set the example of taking the oath on and delivering the inaugural from the east front of the Capitol, and then, making all reasonable deductions for the partisan spite of those who described it, the scene which followed did indeed "begger description." The largest crowd seen in Washington down to that time was in attendance, and the mud was, in southwestern phrase, "half bootleg deep," on. Pennsylvania avenue. Through that mud the crowd rushed to the White House, where all tho doors were thrown open and punch served out in bar rels, buckets, tubs and even, so the opposition said, wash basins. Every room in the house was crowded, and men with heavy and muddy boots stood on the finest chairs and sofas to what was going on in front. Lamps and furniture were broken, and punch spilled till the house was a wreck. Soon BCCHANAJT. after there was a levee at which a cheese weighing 1,400 pounds (a present to Jack son) 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 hand kerchiefs to their noses and foreign diplo mats looked on in undisguised horror. Daniel Webster said the place looked like a republican palace taken by siege and sacked by the victorious enemy, but Ben ton, Felix Grundy and men of that class thought it just as well to "let the boys have their way once in four years." It was the last scene of the sort, though Jack son'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 tho Whigs honored Harrison with a grand ral ly. 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 Buchan an reached nearly from the Capitol to the White House. This was the end of the old regime. Lit tle as the gr it 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 all the great speeches and state papers down to 1861 one finds the federal union referred to indifferently as the Union or the confeder acy. Thus President Pierce in his inaugural said, "The security and repose of this GRANT. confederacy forbid interference or coloniza tion by any foreign power." And Presi dent Buchapan 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, 1861, by the first military display of real consequence at an inauguration. There were sharpshooters on the housetops along the avenue as Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln rode slowly to the Capitol; there were squads of cavalry to guard the street crossings, and squads of infantry along the route; there were trusty riflemen at the upper win HAYES. dows 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. Since that date the military has formed an important part of every inauguration, and at Grant's second induction, March 4, 1873, the display was such as to excite the admiration of foreigners accustomed to the finest exhibits of London, Paris and Berlin. But it was fatal to some of the partici pants and to many specta tors. The day has a bad pre eminence as the most inclem ent of any inauguratloifday GARFIELD, in our history. From dawn till dark a northwest wind so keen and cold that It seemed to chill even the bones blew with out an instant's cessation. Scores of sol diers and sailors who had to stand long in place were prostrated in consequence, while spectators suffered bo much that the aver age mortality of the city for a short time 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 assem bled in Washington. Cor respondents celebrated the occasion in many hundred columns. Citizens of Wash ington still tell with glee how the visitors sat the night through on chairs, on benches in the parks and on the steps of public build- CLEVELAND. ingSi M the WCather was fine and all tbe hotels overcrowded, and rail road managers tell with pardonable pride : how they got the hundreds of thousands to their homes in fairly good season, lint all , these and other incidents of recent inau gurations are still fresh in the public mind. ; In conclusion, a few comparisons are jus tifiable. We have had twenty-three presi dents in 104 years, while Home had, dis carding minor contestants, sixty-four emperors in S03 ' years, and Great Britain has ; had, beginning with Wil- liam the Conqueror, thirty five sovereigns in 826 years. Of presidents in Mexico, Bayti and South America, it would be idle to make an estimate. Yet two of oar B. HARRISON. . presidents have been assassinated, and an- ' other, Jackson, only escaped that fate by an accident which apparently would not .happen one tune 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 ment is by no means exempt from tbe evils which afflict other nations. J. H. Beadle. Pillows should be made of the best feathers to be had, and we should go to re liable dealers for them. Many pillows purporting to be of first quality are "doc tored" with all sorts of rubbish to help flUup. ' Belle Newport, a young American pupil of Scharwenka. has passed the requisite examination in music for en trance to the Imperial Academy of Ber lin. Ont of the sixty-four students oJy ten passed, and Miss Newport ranked first of these i Father's Gratitude npeis Him to Toll How His Sen Wao Saved tts Sxcclltnp and Scrofula ftctly Cured. Per- Vtea Son cf .V.m L. McZZurray Of Krivmswood, W. Va I do net wive this at the request of one, but be. tiso I feel it a duty to hu lity, so that '-ihers afflicted a . my boy : may know where to find relief. t. When my ; n was seven years old he an to compla.a of soreness in Lis rl.ht A white sv oiling soon appeared just m the knee joint, ar. 1 extended from - knee to tho ankle At the tamo tina was taken with cn attack of fever, ich was brok,!i up, but tho leg lHTani y badly swcl'cnj causing him groat lering, and t!o muscles bo contracted t his leg was drawn up at right r.n;;W. was unable to walk, could njt ven ir to be handled, and 1 thought Lira a Confirmed Cripple. 'After a time wc had the swelling ced, midway between tho knee and the . de, and it would discharge over a pint pug at times. I decided to tako him to cinnati to have the le operated upon, iccting he would lore it. But he h.v1 . ome so poor and weak that I thought I lid let him gather Eonio strength, if slble, and bought a bottln of Hood's faparilla and began giving it to him. medicine soon woke up his appetite. ooii's Cures sr i ne ate more heartily than for a lone t: . At this time the sore was discharc- Is freely, and soon pieces of bone began t ome ouL I have in inv office one iileca one 3 1-4 inches long by nearly half an Droaa, wntcn came out of the 6ore. V'e continued giving him Hood's Sarsa pi Ma. The dishanje frra tho fore de er sea, the swelling went down, tho lesr si- ightcned out, r.nd soon he had perfect li- of his leg. !J3 now runs everywhere, ss vely as any boy, n:id apparently As Well nc Cvsr. It tt PS Cl about fix months from the lime we began f.v.l-.ir hb.n Hood's Sarsa 'la till wc coTir,i !- ie 1 him perfectly d." John L. OlrnuAY, Notary . Uc, Havf n-ov coi, V. Ya. f Ir od'3 P!!o kt Ni..;ni :., SJok Headache, :ojs. SjM by all drujlst I. C. 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