Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — STORY OF MRS. CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

STORY OF MRS. CLEVELAND.

Ber Kxperttnee With a threat Ar.ib ■ Sellin* Lay»n4-r. The other day, flays a W ashtagton latter, Mrs. Cleveland rode slowly down'the Btreel in an f open carriage alone. Albert Hawkins w.-ts on the box and the seal browns in front. The carriage stopped at tlie Palais Royal. Albert wound the Fcins<arpuud the whip in Democratic style, alTglitedasdhelped Air.-. Cleveland M 4a. the same.- , - As she stepped across the sidewalk a little ragged loy with a basket of laven der held up his goods and said: “P.ease, lady,’ tiny a paper of MvGCdMft* ** • What is your price? 7 asked Mrs. Clevelahd. ••Only 5 cents, lady,” was the reply.’ Mrs. Clevelaud took a pt.per of laven der seeds and put them in her : ag. Then She bunted her portemonmiie over and put a dime in the little dirty paw of the small bov, ' ' j~ jaz “If you'll hold my basket 11l get you Mrs. Cleveland laughed a merry,'girlish laugh as tlie “funnyncss “of the idea of the first lady of the lund holding a basket of lavender seeds on the sidewalk of Pennsylvania avenue struck her, and passed into the big store and out of sight of half a hundred people who bad paused in a the promenade to watch her. Another street arab, with a.strimrof the “missing link, or Whitechapel mys tery” puzzles around his neck, said something Hi the ear of the lavender arab. “No!" gasped the lavender arab. “Sure pop,” said the puzzled arab, “Well, doggone my buttons," said the lavender arab, looking regretfully at the door where Mrs. Cleveland had disappeared and then back at rhe dime in his black claw, “if I’d er knowedthatld have gev it to her fer nothin’." . Very, Very Sad. “You seem to be in trouble:” said a philanthropic citizen as he paused before au.-jold —man- who-sot-on — one of the benches in the Now York City IMif'tf’ark looking the picture of woe; “jfbat’s the matter?” “A es, I am in trouble—right into it deep,” replied the old man mournfully. “Are you sick, or out of work, or anything of that kind?” went on the gentlemen. _J2J?o»JhaL. ain’t it," said the old man, “but my boy, only ’bout twelve yearsold, lias been took up for stealin’.” “That’s bad—is there anything in it, do you think?” “Yes. he was tnkin’ a shirt from the front of a store in the Bowery when the cop‘grabbed him." “That is sad, very,” eaid the kindhearied gentleman. “There can’t be anything much harder than to have such a boy. No wonder you feel discouraged." “Yes,” replied the old man as he looked at the ground; “it’s pretty tough at my age to have that kind of a boy. And there hain’t no excuse for it, neither. I told him he'd got to be mighty 7 keerful or they’d snatch him. I guess the next time I want a shirt I’ll lift it myself and not trust no boy. You well say it is sad; I onct thought that boy would be a comfort to my declinin’ years, but it seems it ain’t to be.”

.An Interesting; I believe that the visit of the Prince ot AV ales to Mr. Murietta at Wadhurst, is to be signalized by the formal announcement of Miss Murietta’s engagement to Lord If illiam Nevill, says a writer in U»» Manchester Guardian. Lord AVilliam is a younger son of Lord Abergavenny, and a few years ago he shocked las father—who is the most virulent of Protestants— a Roman Catholic;- The enraged parent promptly cut his erring son oil with “the customary but insutlicent shilling.” The young man, very jnuch lo Ids immediately set to work on his own account, and joined a wine merchant’s business, in which he has prospered so well ihat the firm now trades under'The name of Hatch A: Nevill. Lord AVilliam, who, besides being a consummate judge of the commodity he sells, is one of the best,looking and best dressed young men in London, has now captivated the affections of a great heiress. The Mur ettas are a family of Spanish merchants, and Mr. Murietta, with whom the Prince of Wales is staying, was lately ennobled under lhe title of Marquis of Santurce. He has bought Lord Granville's great house in Carl lon House terrace. Ho has no son, and his daughter and heiress is to be Lady AVilliam Nevill.

Prison labor Contract-*. A very excellent suggestion" lurs been made, which, if carried out, would tend to do away with much of the opposition to prisou labor that is expressed by workmen. It is that tlie prisoners should ba kept at work upon diversified industries. Thus the shoe manufacturer would expe rience no tangible competition, and the foundryman would not haye the some what jus! grounds for complaint which have been afforded him in the past. The proposed system would bet>beneficial in all save one aspect. It would prevent the prison labor from being so profitable as it is now. But as prisons should lie conducted for the proteclion of the com munity and reformation of the criminal, such a consideration is of very little weight. Thy. variods lines of industry would be adtip'ed to the different intelligences of the convict, • and when he 1 ft lhe prison the trade learned there would not be branded ;is a “State prison trade.” Warm Waler Ba r il. - ’•4Vi*MwtwFHißt fcft’ff ihtj’Bttgon’YconcF' newspaper man/took his infant ciiiki to tlie Church <if tlta Notre Dame. Montreal,to have it baptized and asked Unit life ceremony be performed wirh wmm water, as the child was weak. The priest informed him that the sacrament must be administered with cold water, whereupon tlie father took away the child without having it baptlf.cd,— Mr. H ’liry V r alerins. ofHarper. Keokuk conntv. lowa, has found what, he regards -is 'i snra cure for rheumatism. He«'!v-»; ‘ln retard to Ch unberlain’s Pnit> 1* t'm lam nl -iso Ito say th al I can r«Mwnnwnl it with confidence, and that It has done mo o for me than .an v other medicine for rheumatism, of which I have been a great sufferer.’ ’