Show in the he white while efort motive re falm ft I status of our various presidents 4 t tho the country has read with much satisfaction that the late lata president mckinley managed to accumulate at least during his lifetime of lit hard vork ork and incessant activity to leave for tho the of thoe defend ent upon tipon him rho amount la is finall gauged by mo lern standards of wealth ralth AN and particularly so in comp dilon with mith the he fortunes fort unea by many persons persona of leys industry and real N worth orth in mere mercin intile and india in ail pursuits the sum id 18 nit nil it higher than the average of our chief magistrates several of ahbe have died poor and tri solven bome through an apparent app trent lark lack of lulng 4 1 ing habit and others through in business among theitis were J nies aloni cc 1 homas Jef faison adams andrew johnson and gem central ral grant jefferson owned ii a birge 1 argo irgo tate state in virrinia virginia and other at ono one time but loit it ell all and amp ua iia poor was rated to ba worth when his bla term expired but lie ho lost ill all of it through the failure of the I 1 teed mans mana bank tho the illustrious sti statesman vilio was VM alist in war first lit in p nee 11 etc was also the first of our presidents in i of wealth considering tho the purce ebing power of the standard currency of his day at his death washington s estate was valued at president arthurs arthur s wealth was wag estimated at but lie he would hardly be considered ns as rich it a man as washington tor for all this difference chanan ni ranks pretty high in this begat repaid d with a fortune amounting amount ln t to which lie he left to nice aril a til tit rn hews mrs airs polk was left with ith about I 1 IZO and mrs oar gar flold 10 40 baitin van duren buren helped to brin up the average with the handsome band Bome sum bum of which he tonti nuni to fc E ive e fro n business investments but not from his as an president john tyler left tho the white house na as lie he went into it a campara cely poor man but with enough to lavt 11 vr in rim roni fort the same might be said bald of john adams and alio of millard 1111 more but the latter became wealthy through a second mar martlage ilage franklin pierces Pier coa cos pi opol ty was albod at 50 and ho he left no ono one to lo kinhei it it madison was waa accounted ilch anions among tho the men of hla his day but his money was squanderer squander el b bi mis Mad lnona son laon payne todd an I 1 th v m I 1 I 1 low became a poor woman how much geover Clovi laud had managed to at the end of hla his second term no ono one nilly knows he ts Is now to be woith about facts speak volumes in alvor of the Ei sterling terling honesty of men con in american public life if I 1 pille le A U beekly |