| Show ex president Clev elands bible A washington correspondent of the new york sun alluding first to a pile of bills on dan lamonta Lamont 8 table awaiting presidential signature ape on to tel this little story tho other object of national interest on colonel laments lamonts La monts desk was a little old fash boned bible in shiny covers of black enamel on the uppermost cover in a little space left on purpose was tho name S Q cleveland lifting the cover revealed a line or two of writing in a neat precise feminine hand declaring that the book was a gift to S G cleveland to his lovins mother colonel lament baid that he first saw the book on mr Clev elands table iii buffalo before he became governor afterward in albany ho saw it agabi whenever he entered the governor apartments when the governor Go vernoi was about to become president col onel lament abstracted the book giving it to chief justice waite asked him if he would not be so kind as tc use that particular bible in swearing in the chief magistrate that then was the little black book that or more men and women saw him lift to his lips on the capitol sapps four years ugo march ath on the lasi uyleau of that homely little bible it now the attestation of taft Cler kothe court of the united state 1 that it was used for ceremony the book was given to the president cheh he was a little boy before he dropped as he did in boyhood the fiat of his names stephen |
