proposal to retire had bee received. At this time he was 80 years old. When Howe learned that the company was to come to America he realized that the expense would be very great, and that the minor rôles he played could be easily filled over here at a much less cost. As a result of these gloomy reflections he wrote Mr. Irving that he appreciated the situation and would either retire or accept a reduced salary. Not receiving an answer, he brought the matter up at a personal interview.

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Once when Mr. Mellish had been ill and called to see the actor regarding his further association with the company, Irving said:

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I was by nature the most sociable of beings." He says further:

"He was born to be the boon companion of all good fellows. He loved to have his friends about him always, to give them good dinners and, above all, good suppers; to sit far into the night with them drinking healths and telling stories, and then to drive home with them through the echoing London streets in the dead white light of early morning.

"While the world was good to him and health not yet uncertain he was constantly gathering his friends about him, and many are the stories that some of us could tell of interminable and sometimes grotesque symposiums at his club and in the 'beefsteak '-room at the back of his theater. Money was nothing to him in those days but a means to enjoyment or an instrument to bring happiness to himself and to others, and as long as fortune came to him with both hands full he poured her treasure into every channel that called for it.

"Old friends down on their luck, old actors fallen on evil days, strangers writing pitiful letters, servants and waiters and cabmen, were all sure of something from the giver that seemed to give to all. It took his devoted lieutenants, Bram Stoker and Henry Loveday, all their time to intercept impostors, and many was the shift he was at to defeat the schemes of the friends who tried to keep him from being 'had.' Even when the tide of his luck began to turn and the ebb had set in rapidly it was sometimes impossible to restrain him from charities that would have been reckless in a rich man and were almost criminal in a poor

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"There are many still in Georgia who cherish tender memories of the President's beautiful, aristocratic mother. Throughout her girlhood she was a noted belle, admired everywhere for her beauty, accomplishments, charm of manner, and strong mentality. During a visit to her sister in Philadelphia, she met Mr. Roosevelt, who was captivated by the lovely young Southern girl, and the announcement of their engagement soon followed. Felicitations and regrets were intermingled, for many deplored her loss when the bridgeroom rode out from the North to claim his bride.

"Martha Bulloch Roosevelt loved with ardor her native State and mourned with anguish the sorrows that the war between the States brought to her people. On one occasion, after hostilities between North and South had begun and when her Northern home was decorated for some festive occasion with American flags, she, to show her loyalty to the South, displayed from her boudoir window the Confederate flag, which caused angry sentiments in the crowd that collected in front of the house. They demanded the removal of the flag. She refused when told by Mr. Roosevelt, and no persuasion from her husband could induce her to withdraw it. So he made a speech to the crowd, by this time a mob, told them his wife loved the flag, as she was a Southern woman, and the mob dispersed."

The Popular Loubet.-Few Presidents of the French Republic were ever more popular than Emile Loubet, says Henri Chautavoine, in Figaro (Paris). There have been more sudden and more startling examples of popularity, but none so enduring. That of Mr. Loubet has grown year by year. The writer continues:

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Some Cleveland Stories.-John S. Wise, candidate for Governor of Virginia during the first year of Grover Cleveland's administration, contributes to The Saturday Evening Post a series of personal reminiscences of the ex-President. Mr. Wise gives us an insight into a side of Mr. Cleveland's character that is seldom seen in print. We read :

"In our strolls about the beautiful Cape we sometimes talked of the difficulties of the Presidential office. I recall one evening when we were out walking alone. He was interested in some of the farm work and we had been to inspect it. The sun had set across the beautiful Chesapeake, which lies to westward, and we strolled along in the brilliant afterglow. He enjoyed the sight of the water and the great pines and the light of the gloaming. Suddenly he said:

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"I do not pretend that these were Mr. Cleveland's exact words, but they give the substance of his speech, and when I heard that cry of a strong man in his agony I wished that every kindly heart in this broad land could have heard it, too. It would have been a final refutation of the dirty and disreputable falsehoods which small malice has for so long industriously whispered against the ex-President and his family." Of Mr. Cleveland's sportsmanlike qualities, Mr. Wise writes:

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