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MRS. CLEVELAND'S SECOND MARRIAGE r Frances Folsom Cleveland should excuse the American people if they are interested in the unofficial announcement that she is to be married to Professor Preston of Wells College. She mav not know how much she is Joved, and how highly she Q is respected by the people of this nation. in a sense sne is the most intimately loved Daughter of the Ker public. A Her marriage to President Cleveland was a sentimental sensa tion Jo us alt unrivalled in interest in White House affairs' since the double wedding of Nellie Grant and the daughter of General Sher man. There must have been much of unhappiness and sorrow in her White House life. It covered a perio'd when, slander, calumination and gossip ran riot, and when the president was assailed in ways which we hope would be impossible now, and which cannot have failed to hurt the fine nature of the beautiful young bride, in spite of her exalted place But through it all, she was never aught but a splendid figure of womanhood and wifehood. Since she retired from the White House she has made of her .place a strictly private one. She has engaged in no crusades. She has avoided the limelight. She has devoted herselfrto her family. But all the time she has been the same fine figure in the subconsciousness of the American people. We shall all give her our blessings wheri she marries again."" The status of the widow of an ex-president has its penalties, no doubt, as well as its rewards. One of those penalties, we may be excused for surmising, has been an imposed reluctance to break the quiet of dignified retirement by any change of marital condition. And yet, Mrs. Cleveland, as" a .fine, mature matron, may be sure that the American people will understand and sympathize with her de sire for the larger life, and the greater happiness of a marriage of love. - - She may not recognize the right of the people to have any feel ing in -so purely personal a matter, but she cannot help it. As a daughter of whom the republic is very fond and very proud, Fran ces Folsom Cleveland must not resent it if the people lay on her head its clumsy hand in benediction. , b o "WiUiedidn'-t I tell you to shut that shutter?" sa:d Willie's moth er, '"the shutter's shut," replied Willie, "and I can't shut it any shutter ' Padereivsja, it is said, canplay over 500 compositions from mem ory. He needs to read or play a piece; new to him only twice in order to memorize it.