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WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS
Recent Ceremony the Twelfth Held in the Executive Mansion Twenty
Years Since Miss Folsom Married President Cleveland.
1' i'v1 ir i .It rfersun 's .id;nl:;lstra!lon
w.is lie Cist tiiat began ami i tided In
the While t'ousi'. He win a wl lower,
i;n I v, li.ili vt r v teres hi-, ail in i ti isr ra
tinTi I. . I ef a so-.ial charncti r wad due
to lie i k m tire of Mrc. Malison, wife
of tile So ret a ry ef Sta'e nnd the
fna'rj: serial factor of Washington
otliaal life.
Tli" 1 1-rMon of Jamea Malison
liroKh thW most -opiiln r of Ameri
can notch to tlie highest so' la I 1 osi
ti. n In the RepnMlr.
There v.eie two weddings in the
Whl e House while she was Its nils
t.vss. The tir.-t wedding to occur lit
the pro I 'cut's house was that of the
willow of a nephew of George Wash
ington I iicy Payne. Mrs. Malleoli's
o'.:i,gir !" er. who was innrrieil at
tin aiie of li. in IT.'I?, to George Step
tin' Washington ami liveel during her
widowhood with the Madisons in
Wiishlngtt n
The second Whi'P House Weil. line
t'HiU place after the War of 1ML' was
ended. Mr.. Madison gave her cous
in a simpler Imt sii'l a large wed ling
The li-iih was a relative hy marriage.
Miss Anna Todd of Phi!.i,ci.hla. air!
the hriih groom was n member of ('0:1
gnss from Vir;:ii,i i. Jnhti (i .lueksoti,
a treat uncle of Stonewall Jacks. m.
The thinl wedding was that of Miss
Von roe.
The fonr'h marriage a ! 'irateil hi
the President's house was that of
John Adams, the sun an. I private rec
retary of President John (luincy .VI
jmis. He was nmrrled to his cousin.
Mary Hellen if Philadelphia.
Andrew JachsDii's a-' lilstiation
suet ceded that of .! '.in Qnlni'V Ad
ams, and It Is recalled as one durini.'
which there w ve three wed lings and
a wedding reception
House.
The fifth marriage in White House
history was that of MUs Delia Lewis
of Nashville, Tenn , whose father,
William It. Lewis, was one of Presi
dent Jackson's most intimate person
al friends. Miss Lewis was man led
to Mr. Alplionse Joseph Yver Pageot.
a native of Martinique, who was ser
letary of the French Legation at the
time of his. marriage.
President Jackson was Intensely
fond of his wife's relatives, nnd being
a childless widower and having not a
relative in the world of his own. gath
ered about him many young people,
aiming whom were several of Mrs.
Jackson's nieces.
Mary Hasten, a Tennessee girl, was
one of these nieces, and when she was
married to Lucleii 11. Polk of Tennes
see the President arranged to have
the ceremony take place 111 the Illue
room.
Another White House marriage that
occurred during President Jackson's
administration was that of Miss Em
ily Martin, a niece of Mrs. Donelson,
who lnvauie the bride of Lewis Ran
dolph, a grandson of Jefferson.
Andiew Jackson, Jr., the adopted
son and private secretary of President
Jackson, married, soon after the Inau
guration, Miss Sarah Yorke of Phila
delphia, ami the wedding reception
was heM at the White House. This
was the first of several wedding rece
tions of tin; sons of Presidents which
have occurred there.
The next wedding festivity to take
place in the President's house was In
the administration of President Mar
tin Van Huren. He gave a very bril
liant wedding reception to his son,
MaJ. Vim Huren, whose bride was the
accomplished Miss Angelica Singleton
of South Curollna.
Following the one month adminis
tration of President William Henry
Harrison, Vice President John Tyler
became the tenth President. The year
succeeding his Incumbency the eighth
wedding to occur In what was now
styled the Executive Mansion took
place. The bride was Elizabeth Ty
ler, who was married to William Wal
ler ot Williamsburg, Vs., In the Dlue
room of the Executive Mansion at
Washington on the 81st day of Janu-
nry, 112. Miss T)ler was In her nine
tientli year.
A .Mar ln'er occurred the death of
Mis. Ictitln Tler. the wife of Presi
dent Tyler, and from September, 1M2,
until the second marriage of the Pres
ident, in lfMI. eight months before hla
retirement, the life of the Executive
Mansion was not gny. Hut when
President Tyler left Washington early
In the morning of June 25, 1M4, to be
married In New York, Washington so
ciety looked forward to another gay
season. His bride was Mlsa Julia Gar
diner, a young woninn ol twenty.
The hridal reception at the Execu
tive Mansion in Washington occurred
on the Saturday following and waa at
tended by nearly every official In the
city, jill the foreign Ministers, army
and navy officers and great throngs
of women. All Washington, in fact,
was represented at that reception,
which was ns no. able an event as the
wedding Itself.
The wedding of N'elllp Grant wns
the ninth to occur In the White
House. It was the first to be cele
brated In the east room, and Miss
Ci ant was the third daughter of a
President to he married in the Execu
tive Mansion. The first, as has been
s-.'fed. was Miss Marie Monroe; the
second. Mis Kilzaheth Tyler.
Miss Grunt was IS at the time, a
handsome, happy and affectionate girl.
Until on her own account nnd on ac
count of her father and his position
there was Immense public Interest In
tlie mat tinge. The bridegroom was
Algernon (. F. Sartorls. He was In
his twenty-second year and by birth
an Knvllshtunn.
The wi ddlr.c orrurred May 21. 1874.
The bridal party entered the east
THE EAST ROOM IN IN THE EXECUTIVE MANSION
in the White room through the corridor, the brides
maids walking In collides. They were
Hie Misses Coiikllug, Frelinghuysen,
Drexel. Porter, Fish, Panics, Dent and
Sherman. Tlie Rev. Dr. Tiffany led
the procession, followed by the bride
groom, wlio was supported by his best
man, Lieut. Col. Fred Grant. The
bridesmaids preceded the bride, who
entered the room leaning on the arm
of her father. Mrs. Grant and her two
younger sons followed.
On a raised platform facing the
large east window and under a bell of
white flowers the bridal couple stood.
The service was that of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
The bride's dress was of Ivory white
satin, covered with a Fkirt of rose
point, lace. The skirt had a very long
sweeping train lined with white silk.
The edges of the lace overdress had
a fringe of orange blossoms and lily
of the valley sprays.
The high corsage was cut square In
the neck and filled In with diagonal
folds of tulle. Point lace, matching
the flounces in pattern, together with
orange blossoms, ornamented the bod
Ice nnd adorned tho sleeves. The
long veil was of the thinnest tulle,
with tlie faint edge undefined by a
hem. Tho bridal chaplet of orange
flowers crossed the front of the coif
fure, and was caught at the left side
In a cluster.
The wedding breakfast was served
In the State dining-room. The gifts
came from a great number of donors
and were valued at upward of $100,
ii'i'. n great sum in those days.
The autumn succeeding the mar
llage of Miss Nellie Grant her broth
er. Col. Frederick Dent Grant, was
married in Chicago on Oct. 20 to Miss
Ida Honore, nnd on Nov. 10 the Presi
dent nnd Mrs. Grant gave the bridal
pair a reception at tlie White House.
Col. and Mrs. Grant passed the next
three winters In the White House,
nnd it was there that their daughter,
Julia Grant, was born in June, 1876.
This daughter Is now the Princess
Cantaeuzene, Countess Speraesky of
Russia.
The first silver wedding to be cele
brated In the White House was that
ot President and Mrs. Hayes. On Dec.
31, 1877, they met their friends In the
Blue room. The actual anniversary
had been kept on the afternoon ot
I)cc. 3, which fell upon Sunday. The
Rev. Dr. McCabe, who had married
them, renewed hla pastoral blessing
In the ime words and heard thvsama
pledges that were uttered twenty-five
years before.
Following; the ceremony a christen
ing took place, the child, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Heron, receiving the
name of Lucy Hayes, In honor of Mm.
Hayes. Then Fanny and Scott Russell
Hayes, two of the President's children,
were baptized.
The tenth White House wedding
waa that of Miss Emily Piatt, niece of
President Hayes, who waa married to
Gen. Russell Hastings on June 19,
1878. The bride had been to the Pres
ident a ad Mrs. Hayes as a daughter,
and she had lived In their home for
many years, going to the White House
with them from Ohio. Gen. Hastings
had been a companion In arms of the
President, having been the Lieuten
ant Colonel of the Third Regiment of
Ohio Volunteers, of which President
Hayes waa Colonel.
The ceremony was performed In the
Itlue room by Bishop Jagger of the
Southern Diocese of Ohio. In defer
ence to the wishes of both the bride
and the bridegroom the wedding was
a very quiet affair, the guests being
limited almost exclusively to family
friends and relations.
When next the Illue room was dec
orated for a marrlnge ceremony the
wedding waa that of a President, the
first to be married Jn the White
House. President Cleveland was the
second Chief Magistrate to be married
while In office.'
Visa Francis Folsom. the bride, was
20 nnd was noted us being graceful
AT WASHINGTON.
and winsome. Her engagement to the
President was made In the summer of
lRSS. Soon Bfter she went to Europe
with her mother, and remained there
until a few days before her wedding.
That occurred on the evening of June
2, 1 S-86. at 7 o'clock, in the Blue room.
To the strains of Mendelssohn's
"Wedding March," played hy the Ma
rine Band, the bridal couple, unattend
ed, passed down the Btalrway and en
tered the Blue room from the western
corridor. Dr. Sunderland met them
under the glittering center chandelier
and the wedding service followed.
Tho bride wore a gown of Ivory sat
in, with trimmings of India silk ar
ranged in Grecian folds over the front
of the high corsage and fastened in
the folds of satin at the side. Orange
blossoms and buds and leaves outlined
this drapery and adorned the edge ol
the skirt.
A coronet of orange blossoms fast
ened tho veil, and garnitures of the
same blossoms were artistically ar
ranged throughout the costume. Her
veil of silk tulle enveloped her and
softened the effect of the satin gown.
It fell over the entire length of tho
long court train.
Gloves reaching to the elbow com
pleted tho costume. No jewelry save
her engagement ring was worn, and no
flowers were carried.
The habit of gift making had not
reached Its height when President
Cleveland was married, and tho
crowned heads of Europe, the Ameri
can Ministers at foreign courts, and
countless other people contented
themselves with sending telegrams of
congratulation. The only gift the bride
exhibited to her friends was a dia
mond necklace, composed of a single
string of brilliants, the gift of the
bridegroom. To this gift Mr. Blssell.
the former law partner of the Presl
dent, added a pendant of diamonds.
The wedding of Miss Alice Roose
velt and Congressman Nicholas Long
worth In the East Room of the Execu
tive Mansion Is the twelfth to occur
in the White House.
Twenty years have passed since
Miss Frances Folsom became a bride
at the White, House, and thirty-four
years have been numbered since Oen.
Grant's only daughter was married to
the East Room.
NpT FOB THE NATIVE
FOREIGN CAPITALISTS THE PRIN
CIPAL BENEFICIARIE3.
Fres Trade In the Products of the
Philippines Likely to Prove Rather
a Detriment Than an Advantage to
tho Natives of tho Islands.
It Is the unwarranted assumption on
the part of those who champion the.
free entry of Philippine products Into
this country that all of the opposition
to the proposal comes from purely
snlfish Interests. There Is a fair
ground of opposition based on very
much higher motives. In this section
of the United States, for example, the
free admission of Philippine products
will Injure no local Interest to any
extent, while the building up of a
great sugar Industry In the Philip
pines, under the plantation system,
doubtless would tend to stimulate
trade with the Islands to the consider
able commercial advantage of the
Puget Sound cities.
Nevertheless, the Post-In'.elllgencer
for one questions the policy of the pro
posed enactment, for the reason that
It does not believe It to be for the
larger Interest of the United States,
nor at all for the Interests of the
native population of the Philippines,
and their Interests should bo the first
thought In every question of legisla
tion In relation to the Philippines.
For one thing, If free trade Is grant
ed so far as concerns Philippine Im
ports Into this country there will be
an insistent demand which cannot be
Ignored perpetually fo free trade In
American products entering the Phil
ippines. To admit American goods
Into the Philippines free or at a lower
rate of duty than Is charged on goods
from other countries would be an ab
solute and final abandonment on the
part of the United States of the "open
door" policy. The trade of this coun
try with the entire continent of Asin,
with all of Its great possibilities,
would be Jeopardized In order that we
might retain to ourselves the exciu
f.ve control of the trade of one group
of tropical islands off the coast of
Asia.
The tlemaYid for the free entry of
Philippine sugar conies from those
who hope to build up the cane sugar
Industry in tlie Philippines. Tho
cano sugar Industry is operated
altogether on the plantation system.
with great blocks of land in Individual
or corporate ownership, with heavy
investments of capital and with ser
vile or semi-servile labor. The pro
posal Is to Introduce this system Into
the Philippines, and this on the plea
that it will be for the benefit of the
Filipinos. No Filipino will own a
sugar plantation, nor will he labor
thereon, save at a rate of wages
which will permit of n bare subsist
ence. Indeed, those who advocate the
Introduction of the great sugar plan
tation system into the Philippines in
rist also that as an essential to Its
prosperous conduct there must he a
free entry of Chinese coolies into the
islands to replace the Filipino labor
ers, who cannot produce as much for
the same wages as can the Chinaman.
In short, free entry of Philippine
sugar Into this country is asked In
order that men of wealth can secure
possession of the best agricultural
land in the Philippines nnd produce
sugar thereon by the use of Chinese
labor to their large profit.
The kind of prosperity which this
would bring to the Islands, particular
ly to the natives of the Islands, Is not
the prosperity which should be as
sured the Filipinos under the protect
ing care of the United States. What
share In this prosperity would the
i.atlves have If shouldered out of the
possession of their present land hold
ings, that great sugar plantations
Might be built up, on which the na
tives would be given merely an op
portunity to compete for an opportun
ity to work with Imported Chinese
coolies?
Every product of (he small farm or
holding, such as could be operated by
the natives or the families, might
properly be admitted Into this country
free, even tobacco. Cotton produc
ANOTHER MASKED ATTACK.
Vthereal thing?, j 57
i ' 0
This time Mr. Tariff Reformer Is
the Philippines.
tion might be started In the Islands,
or cultivation of spices or other tropi
cal products on small farms. But the
Introduction of sugar cultivation on
a large scale, under the plantation
system of great estates cultivated by
servile labor, would prove an absolute
and unmitigated curse to the natives
ot the Islands. -
la there a native Hawaiian of un
mixed blood' who Is the owner of a
sugar plantation In the Islands, and
has the sugur Industry advanced the
Hawaiian natives? These are ques
tions which are worthy of serious con
sideration In connection with the at
tempts to make of the Philippines a
country of great sugar-jiroduclng es
tates. Seattle Post-lntelllgencer.
Two Vlsws of tht Tariff.
Yesterday's discussion of the Philip
pine tariff bill brought out two state
ments on the tariff question which
are well worth noting by Republicans
One was made by Representative
Champ Clark, permanent chairman of
the convention which nominated Alton
B. Parker for president. Speaking of
the Dlngley tariff Mr. Clark said: "I
think it Is an Infernal curse to the
whole American people." The other
was made by ex-Speaker J. Warren
Keifer of Ohio, an old-time Republi
can. He said that ten years ago he
prophesied to this effect: "The only
way to get rid of college professors'
theories of free trade Is to have free
trade." Since then we have had free
trade, Mr. Keifer went on to say, and
have got rid of the theories.
It Is not yet ten years since the
country got rid of free trade theories
as embodied In the Wilson bill. In
Its place came the Dlngley bill and Its
beneficent results are known to every
thinking man. Nevertheless a Demo
cratic leader. In the face of all that
the United States went through under
the Wilson bill and all that It has
gained under the Dlngley bill, char
acterizes the latter as "an Infernal
curse to the whole American people,"
and a few theorists in our own party
would have a Republican congress and
administration tamper with a law
which has achieved greater results
than any measure ever placed on the
statute books. The part of wisdom is
lo follow none of the would-be disturb
ers of industrial peace and prosper
ity. Pittsburg Times.
Dalzell's Inconsistency.
Congressman Daizell yesterday ad
vocated the bill providing fcr a reduc
tion in the tariff duties between the
Philippines and tho United States,
holding that the islands were a por
tion of the latter. Theoretically he
was right, but the question arises.
Would he have held the same views If
Iron and steel products instead of
sugar and tobacco were Involved. It
makes every difference as to "whose
ox is gored." nnd Mr. Dalzell's failure
to "stand pat" on the protective policy
is surprising, to say the least. Former
Speaker of the House, Mr. Kiefer of
Ohio, who has just begun another
term utter a lone absence, made a
strong speech In favor of holding
fast to protective principles and
against the bill which he claimed was
a concession to Democratic principles.
But the leading tariff defenders ap
pear determined to make a breach in
the wall guarding American industry,
nnd It will not he surprising if the
Philippine bill should be put through
Camden Courier.
"Easy Definition."
"Do you understand the tariff ques
tion?" "Perfectly;" answered Mr. Cumrox.
"All raw material I use in my busi
ness should be admitted duty free.
Everything else should be taxed."
Washington Star.
There Is many a true word spoken
In jest. Mr. Cumrox represents a
familiar type ot tariff revisionist.
Wedges.
"The Republican party is split, al
most splintered." Burlington (N. J.)
American.'
The entering wedge was the Cuban
reciprocity blunder. The next bigger
wedge Is the Philippine free, trade
bill. Two more, wedges will complete
the splitting and the splintering: Tar
iff revision and reciprocity In competi
tive products. Next!
disguised as a Little Brown Man front
Thoro Is no Rochollo Salt, Alum,
Llmoor Ammonia In food mado wltn
Galumofl
Tho only hlh crada Baklnc Powdar
mado at a modorato prloo.
Judge We you present when tho
trouble started between the man and
hla wife?
Witness Yes, sir. I waa at delr
weddln', ef dat's whut yo' means, sah.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
'9i
TERRIBLE SCALY ECZEMA. "1
Eruptions Appeared on Chest, and
Face and Nock Ware All Broken
Out Cured by Cutlcura.
"I had an eruption appear on my
chest and body and extend upwards
and downwards, so that my neck and
face were all broken out; also my
arms and tho lower limbs as far as
the knees. I at first thought It waa
prickly heat. But soon scales or
crusts formed where the breaking out
was. Instead of going to a physician I
put chased a complete treatment of the
Cutlcura Remedies. In which I had
great faith, and all was satisfactory.
A year or two later the eruption ap
peared again, only a little lower; but
before It had time to spread I pro
cured another supply of the Cutlcura
Remedies, and continued their nse un
til the cure was complete. It Is now
five years since the last attack, and
have nut seen any signs of a return.
I have more faith In Cutlcura Reme
dies for skin diseases than anything
I l.now of. Emma E. Wilson, Lls
comb, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1905."
Shaban Bey. a leader of the Alban
ian Insurrection against Turkey, has
arrived. In this country to try to In
terest the American board of foreign
missions in his project for a boys''
school in Albania.
Garfield Tea, Mild Laxative.
Nothing has yet taken the place ot
Garfield Tea, Nature's remedy tor kid
ney and liver trouble, constipation and
sick hvadacbe. Contains no harmful
ingredients, nothing but medicinal
herbs. Sold at all drug stores. Send
for free sample to Garfield Tea Co.,
Brooklyn. N. Y.
No Yell at Vassar.
First Vassar Student "Say, girls,,
there's one thing we've forgotten. We
hnven't any college yell. All col
leges have yells, you know."
Second St.ideul "Why, of course.
Strange we never thought of It. Let's
have one."
Third Student "But I don't see
how we can yell without taking the
gum out of our mouths."
Fourth Student "Let's let the yell
go. It Isn't very lady-like, anyhow.""
A Prediction That Came True.
Mrs. Muggies "Oh, I just tell yoa
the earth Is full of wonders! My
poor, dear husband predicted the very
day of Ills death."
Caller "He was rather morbid
though, for years, was he nrt?"
"Yes, Indeed. He was always say
ing he was going to die soon, and I
knew in my heart it would come true
sometime, and sure enough it did."
Among the clerks In the land office
In Washington is Mrs. Anna Gridley,
80 years old, mother of the captain
to whom Dewey said at Manila: "You
may fire when ready." She Is also
the widow of a gallant naval officer
who was killed In the fight between
the Monitor and Merrimac.
A 8trngler's Mistake.
Distinguished Stranger (In the
West) "That Is a well-drilled squad
of soldiers."
American General "Squad? Great
Scott, man! That's an army!"
The Field Mouse Hello,, Doc!
How's business? Old Dr. Stork Pret
ty dara slow. In fact, I've about de
cided to give trading stamps. Puck.
UNDER WHICH KING
"The More Postum the More Food
the More Coffee the Mora Poison.
The Pres. of the W. C. T. U. In a
young giant state in the Northwest
say 8:
"I did not realize that I was a slave
to coffee till I left off drinking It. For
three- or four years I was obliged to
taTte a nerve tonic every day. Now
I am free, thanks to Postum Food
Coffee.
"After finding out what coffee will
do to Its victims, I could hardly stand
to have my husband drink It; but he
was not willing to quit. I studied for
months to find a way to Induce him
to leave It off. Finally I told him I
would make no more coffee.
"I got Postum Food Coffee, and
made It strong boiled It the required
time, and had him read the little
book, 'The, Road to , Wellville," that
comes In every pkg.
"To-day Postum has no stronger ad
vocate than my husband! He tells
our friends how to make it, and that
he got through the winter without a
spell ot the grip and has not had a
headache for months he used to be
subject to frequent nervous bead
aches. "The stronger you drink Postum the
more food you get; the stronger you
drink coffee tbe more poison you get."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Baiting
Poudor