Show Clev elands peculiarities dodou D you know apai abil I abriel a friend I 1 G of f the hie president to me the other day aliat that groner cleveland is the strongman in ill america in regard to receiving ili presents ever ince tince t I 1 lime known him end it lias his been a lung long time dating tack back to tile tit time no when T h lie he was a young man unknown even yc in buffalo where ii here lie lived be seemed to have a dread of having n to accept ft a gift aft 1 kven van when ullen ins ills clients paid him his fee lie som sometimes etimos remarked that lip he w was as afraid he lind not earned it this is one of life rc reasons sons 1 I 1 think he be is working so hard bard now because lipe ause lie 13 afraid some bome one will say my ito ho IS ilat carnit I 1 his salary ile he believes in the bible deachin teaching that it is more blessed to give ive thai than to receive have you von hotl noticed ed how oft often 1 I lie he has declined gifts 1 I could tell you numerous little instances where lie he lias has practiced w what hat tile bible teaches Clevel cleveland arld Is is such euch a modest inai inin in regard to lo his own doings that lie he hates antono to tell about his deeds of thai clia lity ity jet lie is charitable you have no ide idea t of the number of letters lie 0 gets from beggars be 00 gars yes I 1 call them by that flint panic flame because licy are arc not utter better than those we incel meet on tile the street ex cc copt pt that they use pen and paper rather than sit on the curbstone with tears slid and an outstretched liand hand mr cleveland often allen he is tired of lii dy vork goes into bollam col lam onus room room and fit picks up tip a pile of assorted letters ile he reads them for recreation the letters are arc usually peculiar ones selected either for future use bic or for lite presidents perusal ile he often comes across a begging letter and I 1 linic hae known him to td sit doin down if af after per readi reading n a a tot touching ichino appeal and dash oft off n few few words of i SY sympathy and slip blip 1 a I bank note flote between the life leaves of the paper fola it and direct ile he Is is upon as iauch by bybe bears gars iia as lio lie aliby cud and you know that is often talking about ills refusing gifts I 1 remember at albany just juit after his clec election tion a lime b I 1 IA I 1 A lie ae refused everything ever tiling thing why lie he actually had to employ a 1 1411 14 int 11 aly ally to lo work ip hii re packing the gifta sent him from all over life coun liv you will bardl hardly N believe from november to march larch lie had eighty 0 I 1 nine I 1 I 1 ne dogs sent bent him eland ili 1 is fond of do dos dogs 0 s but lie made inide it a rule never to see sec one of the stable of the mansi oll and the professional packer re shipped reshipped them one day clay clr jr cleveland happened to de be in ili the bald alien ili an express ain wagon 0 on fr ar rived with ith 1 a I dog it il was a splendid newfoundland I 1 call an avil I 1 when saw him liu lit looked I 1 longingly linings lin 0 0 nt at lill shaggy liha aliha y black creature creni as it if to say ilow how I 1 would mould like to keep keel 3 oft lilt but lie passed on oil and the dog was bent balk ulic whence tive lie came aurin during blint lime inne lie received no less thi iliin ll 11 six six eagles splendid lit birds bill tit they biere eru till all bent back nr ir cleveland Clec lind allays sent seat 0 back that thai could bp r rc V licit but thero uns ona one thing LC could not they were aare embroidered broi dered hat bands why I 1 do not exa exaggerate erate in the alic least when I 1 say lie ell is as mail anany y as a billiel basket full in a day I 1 have often seen see at cocain evening ti binic a C during 7 NO november v or dece december aliber lliber 1884 a bushel basket hill full of these thins in like library of the executive mansion at galbally Al bally what alint did lie he ila do them 11 alel amer er flow aw them chev carried out ity life servants ber and sold for waite paper or rag I 1 often used to think liow holy niana bunra had been wa sted by fair hands in marking tile G C on oil diese hat bands I 1 was ini mistaken staken alivn I 1 said lie returned return cil every thing ile did keep vile onu 0 gift vines canes lr fr cleveland had the ihu linest set of clines cn ies of any nian illan in life world ile he had 1 a I va babinet binet for the alie are arc sl bl in ili all anti and such itic 1 I 1 1 beauties c lie lc re v es a large il lilli bc iolj rold to li iiii iio io fairs all ail ov over r tile lo ito 10 I 1 over r five gold 0 0 1 headed ones it a number liti laber of t hein cry handsome liand hand somo lias no pets at tile whito white 1101 lionso 0 and if ha well known know trail of 1 all I presents lias has stopped to a cert certain fill extent his being in bothered by receiving a any 11 if lion hoc hocher ever ver one docs doc 3 stray into the white flonc biou c before lie bece it iiii orders are arc to chii effect I 1 I 1 iti ij |