| Show i Pr Presidents I Have Known Known'S t I II S I I II 1 I By B Mrs Gen Pickett 1 t l 1513 l by the Tress Publishing Co PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR OME O with me around to tomy tomy o om c m my Cousin John Tylers Tyler's lor s rooms rooms said my schoolmate Bena Gilman Oilman with whom I was n a spending a n. few days of ot my va Va- 5 cation catlon I i mu must t tha thank him for foi torIn In my birthday present f Go a aa as quickly quick as aJ you OU can said Mrs GUlam and find himS him S before he lie goes o g off orr to Congress Cong S and bo be sure to a ask J him to dine y with us Ul at our table this evenIn evening evening even even- In ing and help celebrate your yourS our S birthday President Ex John Tyler was then In tn our Confederate conr congress con con- gross gress r s and was as as Its most distinguished member As r rr wo we started across tho tim Picturesque picturesque esque bridge which divided th the theold old Ballard antI and Exchange wo we 0 I I I found ll that he lie ha had bad left leCt his rooms and was sitting on the bridge n in hi his favorite place reading tho thu Richmond Whig Whig- I hud seen Been him before but for some reason I seemed Incapable of or that humility and reverence which would lmae f been boen appropriate In meeting and d speaking with a man who had hall been President of ot the United States I was wits Impressed now by b- the tho dl dignity It and elaborate courte courtesy 3 with v. which he arose and greeted us as If It wo we might havo have been an embassy emb embassy em em- b bassy y from a foreign orl n country whom he was tas receiving receiving re receiving re- re in tho the audience room at the House At dinner that evening ho he came down to tho the level of or our childish minds and und told stories and lau laughingly warned arned us not to permit anything to Interrupt our courting saying saing times m my life Ifo has been saved swed b by rigid adherence to that rule from puppy love lovo to mans man's The Tho first time timo was In hi m my boyhood when I IwaS Iwas Iwas was under a n. cherry tree with m my sweetheart and I m my chum churn who proposed that I r should climb the tree an and l throw down cherries for Cor 11 my little sweet sweet- I heart I wanted to perform that gallant deed but refrained l ed because of or the apprehension that If It I tried myself and left the other bo boy boa on tho the ground he lic wo would Jd make love lo to tho the girl SIlI So o I declined contenting contenting con con- tenting tenting- myself with catching tho the cherries and giving giving gh ing thi them m to to her The limb on which tho most t tempting g ones ones grow grew i io o oa way a and my chums chum's neck was broken in the tho fall Again years afterward a party part of or us were out ruling riding wh when n ono ono one of ot the h horses r es fell feU lame I was urged to share a a steed with a friend but preferred to trot on b by tho the side of the fair lad lady whoso whose escort I was Wo We 0 went on gaily sall- for lor a time when the Budden sudden sudden sud Bud den den- blowing o of a a. L whistle startled tho horse borse which but hut for m my jealous s devotion I should have hove ridden Ho Ito shied and throw threw the rider ilder who ba bad taken the place offered to me killing him When hen I was President In my friend Commodore Stockton invited me InC with the tho members of or m my cabInet cabinet cab cab- inet met and a few rem othor other guests to go o down tho Potomac to witness the trial of or a 3 new cw gun called caled 1 the Peacemaker Peacemaker Peace maker We Yo accepted and wont on board at Wash Wash- ington In When wo were varo soli o some somo miles below Alexandra Alexandria Alex Ale andria andra the sent scat one of ot his officers down downto to tho thio cabin where I was talking with m my sweetheart sweetheart sweet sweet- heart to ask asIc mo to como come on deck to witness s tho the trial of or the gun un Just as tho tIme officer opened the thedoor thedoor door tho the gates gate of ot bliss were ajar for tal me and I was wason wason wason on the eye eve of ot receiving the most precious boon heaven can C'an vouchsafe to man maim tho the kiss of ot i love loc ve re returned returned re- re turned from the most beautiful lips that wore were ever wreathed in smiles I couldn't go mans man's love lovo was wa stronger than Presidents President's dut duty No I must have havo that kiss then THEN THEN Tell TeU the tho co commodore oro with m my compliments to tr try the time Peacemaker and not wait walt for me I saidI said 1 I got tho well 1188 and weB and well tho the big gun waa as fired tired a terrific explosion followed killing kUling m my ray secretary of ot st p P. P hur Up Upshur my rny secretary of or the na navy Thol Thomas na W W. er and tho thio father tather of ot m my beautiful betrothed my Princess Julia whom I married seven soven months later and who was called the Bride of or tho the White House q Only nl l a short timo time after atter this meeting with ex- ex Pr r Tyler his long and laborious life lIe reached I l Its tI close He lie was a member o of the tho Virginia legis legis- lature and governor of ot the state being unanimously unanimously re elected Ho was three times elected to the hc United States Hou louse House c of or Representatives s and succeeded sue suc ed d' d dJohn John Randolph in the tho Senate enate from which time O his career carcer was a a. storm stormy one spent chiefly In fighting tariff protection the tho force tOrce bill and Jackson's Jacksons Jackon Jacksons Jackson's Jack Jack- sons son's on s removal Of or the tho ll deposits no Having n i-n voted l fo for S Clays Clay's resolutionS resolution of or censure upon President Jackson he resigned when j the tho state legislature legisla- legisla turo ture Instructed tho the 4 b Virginia senators senator to voto oto for tor ex expunging ex- ex i- i tho those a 0 resolutions becoming an nn accidental accidental ac kp tk j- j dent he lie had the t f. f misfortune to ant an an- his cabInet cabi cabinet cab cab- C inet met who with tho the i ay exception of or Mr m Webster resigned t 4 e at once His II's part party soon SOC deserted him And he ho was probably probably r ably THE TIlE LONE LONE- SOMES PRESIDENT DENT WE VE U. HAVE VE Jolt r TAYLOR EVER EVEn HAD S |
