began to sell goods. By the fireplace at Mr. Morton's house you see shells thrown into Paris by the German cannon, and they are connected by brass chains which make them a fender.

SOLID.

It must not be supposed that the candidate, though given to placation and cordiality, is without decided views on many questions.

When the oleomargarine imposition was claiming that no law nor government could put a brand upon it, Mr. Morton wrote:

"I am so heartily in accord with any proposed legislation that will protect the dairy interest, that I should deem it my duty to earnestly support the passage of any law calculated to suppress fraud in the imitation of products that go into daily consumption, especially those from the dairy, in which industry so large a number of our people are engaged."

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By the the first nail used in the construction of the Statue of Liberty was hammered in by Mr. Morton, who accepted this statue in June, 1884. He went in person to the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at Le Puy, the hero's birthplace.

INTERNATIONAL.

About the time that Gambetta, from his personal regard for Mr. Morton, suspended the embargo

on American pork, the minister gave a dinner, at which were present all the members of the French cabinet and the chief men in the government, including Gambetta himself, and Rouvier, afterward Prime Minister.

The extraordinary compliment was paid the host by the French cabinet-which uniformly meets in the evening-of holding its session in the morning, in order to attend the dinner.

Mr. Morton was continually extending entertainments to artists, literary men, the clergy, etc., and accepting invitations of different guilds. He presented American officers to the chiefs of the army. When he arbitrated between Venezuela and France, French journals contained the following:

"President Arthur in his message of December 7th refers to the Franco-Venezuelan dispute, the settlement of which the American government has endeavored to promote, as follows: In other words, Mr. Levi P. Morton has had the honor of having won for the new administration its first diplomatic success, for which-as there were no distinctly American interests involved in the question-he is entitled to the greatest credit.""

ABROAD.

Mr. Morton was one of the subscribers to the American Charitable Fund in Paris, and his name is printed at the head of the list to the Garfield Memorial, on which the name of the Empress of Germany appears.

He gave an entertainment on the Yorktown Centenary to thirty guests, among whom were Lafayettes, Rochambeaus, and De Grasses. General Boulanger was present on one of these commemorative occasions.

The London World, alluding to the first reception of Mr. and Mrs. Morton, in Paris, remarked: "Mr. Morton's reception was such as no American envoy in London has ever held. Nearly the entire cabinet was there. There were official representatives of the President, and generals, editors, and authors and artists by the dozen. Every guest was delighted at the kindly courtesy of Mr. Morton and the charming grace and tact of Mrs. Morton."

PRECURSIVE.

While in France Mr. Morton, in company with his wife, went to several of the provincial cities on errands of congratulation and respect. They visited the city of Rouen, which was desiring extended marine facilities, and the Municipality fêted them for several days. The idea was to demonstrate to the influential American Minister that Rouen would make a better seaport than Havre. Mr. Morton, in his speech at the banquet given to him in their quaint several centuries old Hotel de Ville, said: "I hope your project will be carried out, and that Rouen steamers may be seen entering the harbors of the New World. We will

load your ships for the return voyage with cotton for your looms, and-if you will allow us-with American meats, at low prices, for your workmen, and fill the cabins with customers for your beautiful fabrics and works of art and the products of your soil."

Among Mr. Morton's labors in France was the attempt to have the attitude of the French government changed with respect to American corporations. Under the old law French citizens had` the power to sue American companies in the courts, whereas the companies were refused all legal recognition as plaintiffs.

Both Mr. Washburne and General Noyes failed to induce the Conseil d'Etat to modify its hostility to the proposed change, in which resolve it was backed up by the Minister of Commerce.

Finally Mr. Morton succeeded in inducing that Minister to withdraw his opposition, and a decree making a new order of things was published on the 9th of July, 1882.

It is as corporations that the largest enterprises in our country seek the foreign markets, and thus Mr. Morton was at the same time endeavoring to extend our agricultural opportunities with France and giving a larger foothold there to American merchants.

Since the above decree the American life insurance companies have built noble edifices in Paris and other European cities, and are doing business

tributary to this country. It was, indeed, to enable insurance companies to act abroad that the decree was obtained.

A TRUE AMERICAN.

In Mr. Morton's entertainment of Americans abroad no distinction based upon section or politics was ever observed.

Confederates, like General Gordon, of Georgia, found themselves perfectly at home with their countryman.

At the funeral of Gambetta Mr. Morton and his Secretary of Legation walked on foot over the long route to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, and among the floral offerings few were more beautiful than those sent by the Minister and his lady. They represented the American flag, the Union being formed of violets, with the Stars in tuberoses, while the Stripes were composed of red and white rosebuds.

With impartial respect for men who had devoted themselves, mistakenly or otherwise, to the public service, Mr. Morton also attended the funeral of Louis Blanc in the early part of 1883. Said a writer:

"Mr. Morton's presence was much remarked. He was the only member of the diplomatic corps who was at the funeral; the others could have had little sympathy with Louis Blanc, either personally or as ambassadors, but Mr. Morton rightly