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Show OUR FORMER PRESIDENTS. Presidents and former Presidents are human Just like other persons nnd thete Is no doubt that they keep tabs on each other out of tho corners of their ejes To begin with. Oeorge Washington, of course, had no predecessor tn the Presidential olllce, and so he became the first nnd onl former President when he retired. In 1797 and as he died two cnra later, his successor, John Adam, was the sole former President wrier Thomas Jeffetson came to the hltc House, in 1801 lu lJOJi when Mndlson took ofllc Adams and Jeffer'on were both lllng, and Mmllsoii being succeeded h Monroe in 1M7 the latter had three former Presl-dints Presl-dints llUng during his admlnlsttatloii This was a. good many watching him all nt once Vlth the coining in of Harrison In 1SI1, there were three of his predecessors to keep nn eye on hlm-Atliina Jackson and on Uuren Tler, Harrisons lie President becoming President by the death of Iliirtisnn was u formet Piesldent when Polk came in In 1SH so that Tajlor becoming the head of the Nation In 18IK found three of his pre leceseora alle- Polk, l)ler and nn lluien lliree seems tn be the average number Taylot died in ofllcc before anj of theic had pissed awa). and Fillmore Mie Preslduit, who autceedud him became a former Piesldent In 1558, milking Ihiee then lit It r at the Innuguratlon of Pierce Polk hating die I In 1SI9 These tlitee surtlted lo bo Joined bt pie,re In 1S.7 an 1 b Iluchamn In lsi 1 and Mn-i Mn-i in coming in this jeai found the greatest number of former Pri l lints tint weie cter befoie ot hate been slnte, lite Van Uuren, Tjler, Ullmiire Plene nnl lluihiinun Probably the (ltc lornier Presidents dldn t bother so cieat u man as Lincoln at all miui Ileforc the four Senrs of Lincoln a n.linlnlstrntlon were oter Van Huien and Tjler had died and at the beginning of Johnson a nreer a. President, In m" S"l'in Tir, .' ,l f.'r,:U-'; '"t Ullmor. mm and nuchunan Pierce d in lVbi 1 lllmoie lu nn and Johnson In 187S so that In the last three years n .hE"1!," V"1 ."'. "" lU:"e i10"" U,ete "" n" to'm" PiMenl II ng Such a thing hid not been before sln.e Washington time When In 1377 Hate suueeded Cl.ant the war hen, was the only llting former Preside t ' "" With the rcllLfinint of Arthur and the cntrt of Cleveland i ie n, llajes nnd Arthur were the foitner Presidents Ornnt d e IS 5 ti.h, "",' ism nnl at llnirisona Inauguration In Uo IlaeH nn" "f leteltnil !i ,1 former Presidents cm the return to th. White House", let eland ,,"' , foam an I the) lashed up and wet the du k whenever it How u.nr the surface Toi u long time It fought against the wind ai then it beiame so tired thnt it could (! no more It dropped on the sea und tiled to llott Hut iloitlng was haid woik In such a wlnl and rough ocean The oil from its bo I) and wings dl In t seem lo do much good and then It reall) thought I hi end Ind come The sea spia) dashed In its fate, the wind buffeted It about like a cork and the tides ani currents rushed up to meet It aul drHg it along lo mike mattei" worse, night was coming on In a short time It was twilight, and then all wa. so dirk It could baldly nxhausled with Its struggles the dink was about lead) to give up the lltjit when suddenl) it heatd breukeis und It knew that land was near This gnte It new courage and It tried to raise Ita diooplng head In ii few minutes the first line of breakers loomed up ahead and then with the list of Its strength the duck hopped out of the water and tried tn sivltn across them The wind this time helped It and car-rled car-rled It along so fast that when It llnallt fell plump down completel) exhausted it la) on a strange beach The blrl dldn I mind being lost It walked up away from the water and l.l.l i.. .,., meadow grass until morning it ,eid?.iiPl'p m"rh thnt nlKllt nnd u was wide awike ter eatly In the hirh,n.f , WnenJl ,r""1 to plr" he ?romh.'i f0."nd lhV.tt f0!f ',d tome up from the sen an I It cotildn t see far mii.i0,"'.,.nnly "ilk !"ul ,,s nrnl""l ' little at n time and try hard to Und out w hat 1 each it had been lost on ii1. H.1 " 1n " f'w niusseli and claim that da) but when night approached once more It grew desperate It 3 a..?.'"' "H Vn "" 1,onch aid it Tie, ml""1 Ver. ioncl ,lna hon,e,lck T lie duik now wished that it had mind ed Its pirents nnd om.w ....k.L. -'"." Hut wishing would not help miters and flnall) It decided tn do another te.y foolish thB Insle nfnCn" S n'r1,11"" "m" the fog If,? ed the little duck decided thnt It mi Va.kp 'l"-Perate effort l, get hoi " It thought if it flew In one dliectloi, u would come back to It, own I uch " ani'n.T '""i1 lam" on Jump"l up tnea II niv1",1" ,,1.r01":n ",e 'V to sea It flew for a lung; long time a . but It , alua)i dlsapnolnte.l n. fog was so thick that It could not aeo far and In time It I eciiiue alarmed It seemed ns If It were shut In ii smill prlion with the fog forming walls through which it could not get When bluls t,et puilck) the) lose their heads much like people and this duck roon hut all the sensi It had The night had iome an 1 It made the fog densei, and Ihe frightened duck began to II) around In n cltcle ns fist an It mull uttering tin most frightful shrieks but there was nothing but fog fog fog iter)tvhere This made tho creature more frantic, an 1 It even til r pert down Into the sen at times to make sure that that vvasn t fog too Then Midili nlv n i lungo enme In Ita suiroiindlngs which give It henrt lieid it light seemed lo riaih and then the fog was brightened b) the most dazzling rn)s of beauty The duck flew straight towatd this strange light, and then when It npi eared so brilliant that It nearly blinded the ctes It Hew hard nnl snlft towatd It with a ci of de-HUil de-HUil It thought the nun was coining up out of the fog and that It would soon find home If It had nnt been In a panlck) condition it would hate soowal but It dldn t stop to think It straight at that light, and io h t t iiulckly reached It But whit a different reception ed It from what It exrectrd' Tbi suddenl) oterpowered the bird k brllllanc), und then there ciimi such n shock as mott bird, tn voter from Thli one rtmplrt anl rolled oter and kicked i to nicnls Then It fell to the be.c' lay there as If dead The next morning the Ilrl keeper a little bo) picked up the which had down straight agalr-big agalr-big glnss globe and Injured Ita The bill wns broken and the bodj bruised Otherwise the vourf was not seterel) Injured Hut It was a prlsonrr, ar.d ( years It was kept, with clipped is i pet on the beach W hen the hnd grown out again It one di awn) T hen It wns to much iu moro patient thnt Its on pw not recognize It as their ofTiprlri Ihe duck had to find a matesbt tespect and love It, to keep fror ting and and lonel) |