A special meeting of the cabinet was held in Washington, D. C., on Wednesday, January 18, at which the following executive order was drafted and adopted:

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES:

The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at eleven P.M. yesterday, is an event the announcement of which will be received with very general and very sincere sorrow. His public service extended over many years and over a wide range of official duty. He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He had steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.

As an expression of the public sorrow, it is ordered that the executive mansion and the several executive departments at Washington be draped in mourning and the flags thereon placed at half-staff for a period of thirty days, and that on the day of the funeral all public business in the departments be suspended, and that suitable military and naval honors, under the orders of the secretaries of war and of the navy, be rendered on that day.

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., January 18, 1893. By the President,

J. W. FOSTER, Secretary of State.

On the day following, Governor McKinley, of Ohio, the ex-president's native state, issued the following proclamation:

TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO:

It is my sorrowful duty to announce to the people of the state the death of one of its most honored citizens, Rutherford B. Hayes, which occurred on the night of the 17th inst., at his home, Fremont, Ohio. It is fitting that the people of Ohio, whom he served so long and faithfully, should take special note of the going out

of this great life, and make manifest the affectionate regard in which he was held by them.

His private life was conspicuous for its purity, gentleness, and benevolence. His public services were long and singularly distinguished. In his youth he had an important official position in the chief city of the state. He was among the first of Ohio's sons to offer his services to the cause of the Union in the late war. In battle he was brave; and wounds he received in defending his country's flag were silent but eloquent testimonials to his gallantry and patriotism and sacrifice. From major of the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry he reached the high rank of a major general of volunteers, commanding a division; beloved by his comrades and

respected by all. While in the field he was elected to the national house of representatives, but his sense of duty impelled him to decline to serve in congress while the country was imperiled. Subsequently he performed honorable service in that body. For two successive terms he was elected Governor of Ohio, and after a period of retirement he was again chosen the chief executive of the state. Then the nation called him to the presidency, and he performed the duties of that high office with dignity, faithfulness, and ability.

From the completion of his term as President of the United States until his death he was an exemplification of the noblest qualities of American citizenship in its private capacity; modest and unassuming, and yet public-spirited, ever striving for the well-being of the people, the relief of distress, the reformation of abuses, and the practical education of the masses of his countrymen. We are made better by such a life. Its serious contemplation will be helpful to all. our own honor by doing honor to the memory of Rutherford B. Hayes.

We add to

I, therefore, as Governor of the State of Ohio, recommend that flags on all public buildings and schoolhouses be put at half-mast from now until after the funeral of Rutherford B. Hayes, and that, upon the first opportunity after the funeral, the people assemble at their respective places of divine worship and hold memorial services. And, as a mark of respect, I do order that on the day of the funeral, the 20th inst., the executive office be closed.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to be

affixed the great seal of the state at Columbus, this the 19th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth.

By the Governor,

WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JR.

SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, Secretary of State.

The funeral of General Hayes, at Fremont, Ohio, took place on Thursday, January 19, and was attended by many distinguished persons, including Grover Cleveland, the only ex-President of the United States now living. President Harrison, who was prevented from being present in person, was represented by several members of his cabinet.

ONE OF WASHINGTON'S SWEETHEARTS

On the occasion of one of the numerous journeys which General Washington took to the North in February and March, 1756, he visited among other places Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It is

stated, too, that in New York he was impressed by the charms of a young lady, Miss Mary Philipse. A few particulars in connection with this pleasing incident may be of interest. Mary Philipse was the niece and heiress of Mr. Adolphus Philipse. The founder of the family and of the family's wealth was Frederick Philipse, owner of a vast tract of country which embraced Tarrytown and reached down to the Harlem. Upon a tax list of New York city for the year 1674 he is rated as worth eighty thousand florins (thirty-two thousand dollars), by far the richest man in town; only two men approached him in wealth, and these were rated each at fifty thousand florins (twenty thousand dollars). Frederick Philipse and his son Adolphus, after him, were in the governor's council, and intensely loyal to the king. The wealth of the family had not grown less by the year 1756. Mary Philipse was heiress to a vast amount. Her sister, likewise an heir

Mary Morris

ess, had married Beverly Robinson, the son of John Robinson, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, and as such had so eloquently complimented

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Washington when he took his seat there. Beverly had been a schoolmate of Washington's, and it was but natural that the latter should be his guest on this visit to New York. And, equally as a matter of course, Washington at this house met Mary Philipse. Irving says of this meeting:

"That he was an open admirer of Miss Philipse is an historical fact; that he sought her hand, but was refused, is traditional, and not very probable. His military rank, his early laurels, and distinguished presence were all calculated to win favor in female eyes; but his sojourn in New York was brief, he may have been diffident in urging his suit with a lady accustomed to the homage of society, and surrounded by admirers. The most probable version of the story is that he was called away by his public duties before he had made sufficient approaches in his siege of the lady's heart to warrant a summons to surrender."

Whatever the truth of this courtship is, it is certain that Washington did not marry her. Yet, by the strange concatenation of events in that stirring age, twenty years later he occupied her house on Harlem Heights as his headquarters. After he had gone back to Virginia a letter reached him from a friend, giving him warning that another was seeking the rich and beautiful prize. Captain Roger Morris, a fellow aid-de-camp in the Braddock campaign, was likely to win her hand. But Washington left the field clear for him. Hence Mary Philipse became Mary Morris. And when the Revolution came she clung to the traditions of her family, and remained a loyalist. Besides her wealth and beauty she was credited with possessing a strong mind and imperious will; so much so that it was freely hinted at that time that if Washington had married her he would never have been the leader of the patriots. Captain Morris may have needed no petticoat persuasion to keep him from joining the rebels. At any rate, the wife and husband both fled to England, and their estates on Manhattan were confiscated. They owned a beautiful mansion overlooking the Harlem river and the country far beyond it. Later it came into the hands of Madame Jumel, who was married to Aaron Burr shortly before the latter's death in 1830; and it still stands to-day, known as the Jumel Mansion, as a lonely relic of former days, on One-hundred-and-sixty-first street near St. Nicholas avenue. It was occupied by Washington as headquarters after the battle of Long Island, and before his retreat from Manhattan island, or in the early autumn months of 1776. It may be that his thoughts reverted with fond regret to the beautiful mistress of the mansion in the happy days of youth.

TRUTH ABOUT SECESSION

Secession" has not a pleasant sound to our ears. It has cost us too much blood and treasure. However, if there be any good ground for distributing the blame of this bad thing, do not let us be so unfair and so unhistoric as to concentrate it upon one section, and confine it to the men of one period or generation.

The author of a recent book puts the matter tersely and strongly thus:

The truth is, it is nonsense to reproach any one section with being especially

disloyal to the Union. At one time or another almost every state has shown strong particularistic leanings; Connecticut and Pennsylvania, for example, quite as much as Virginia or Kentucky. Fortunately the outbursts were never simultaneous in a majority. It is as impossible to question the fact that at one period or another of the past many of the states in each section have been very shaky in their allegiance, as to doubt that they are now all heartily loyal. The secession movement of 1860 was pushed to extremities, instead of being merely planned and threatened; and the revolt was peculiarly abhorrent because of the intention to make slavery the 'corner-stone' of the new nation; but at least it was free from the meanness of being made in the midst of a doubtful struggle with a foreign foe.” This last clause is aimed at the decided separatist sentiments and activities prevailing in the New England states during the war of 1812. It seems almost incredible (but the facts are there, and they are unmanageable things) that "half a century before the 'stars and bars' waved over Lee's last intrenchments, perfervid New England patriots were fond of flaunting the flag with five stripes,' and drinking to the health of the-fortunately still-born-new nation." It would seem the part of wisdom then for the pot to lay aside its habit of predicating blackness of the kettle. We have all erred on this unhappy "secesh" question, and now we have all learned to be wiser, after having had some punishment for our error. Union after Liberty will no longer do. It must be Liberty and Union, Liberty with Union, Liberty through Union. But we must cease prosing about this matter; the point is, not to forget the farther past in the overwhelming importance of the more recent past; or let us forget both together!

A STRANGE STORY

When Gouverneur Morris, our Minister at Paris during the Reign of Terror, was in France, he formed intimate friendships with many members of the royal family, even before he was accredited as the representative of our government. Among those who admired him and cherished his society was the Duchess of Orleans, the wife of the wretched Philippe Egalité, and mother of Louis Philippe, who reigned as king after the downfall of Charles X. At one of these frequent and sudden turns of fortune which were constantly bringing one or another group of "patriots" to the guillotine, General Dumouriez found it the better part of valor to seek refuge in flight. He had lost a battle, and the French red republicans had no alternative for their generals but "victory or death," in a somewhat new application of that brave motto. In his train fled Louis Philippe, and by that means escaped, probably, the fate of his father. But while he saved his life, he did not save much of worldly goods with it. In this extremity a friend of the duchess called upon Morris for aid. Remembering the mother's kindness and friendship, Morris responded at once and generously. He gave the young duke money wherewith to go to America, and directed his bankers at New York to give him unlimited