CLEVELAND 



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CLEVELAND 



at Heliopolis, whence they were removed to 

 Alexandria in 14 B. c. 



Restoring the Obelisk. Although the obe- 

 lisk had stood undamaged in the dry climate 

 of Egypt for more than 3,000 years, the moist 

 salt air of New York has damaged its surface. 

 Efforts were made with some success years 



ago to protect it, but now many of the hiero- 

 glyphics have been destroyed. Professor Kukro 

 of the Metropolitan Museum has invented a 

 preservative which it is thought will be effect- 

 ive; this will be applied after the inscrip- 

 tions have been restored from photographs 

 which had been taken of them. 



THE STORY OF 



GROVER CLEVELAND 



LEVELAND, [STEPHEN] GROVER 

 (1837-1908), the twenty-second and twenty- 

 fourth President of the United States, the first 

 Democrat after the War of Secession to hold 

 this office and the only President who has 

 served two terms not in succession. Probably 

 no other President was more consistent, more 

 courageous in his convictions, and for a time 

 more unpopular. Cleveland was physically 

 large and heavy, and like many men of his 

 build was calm and deliberate in his judg- 

 ments, but once his mind was made up he was 

 not swayed by public clamor. He was obsti- 

 nate, though never merely for the sake of 

 being obstinate, but always for reasons of con- 

 science. 



Yet it must not be imagined that Cleveland 

 could not feel the public pulse. He may have 

 been indifferent, but he was not deaf to public 

 opinion. And there were times when he pre- 

 sented an issue to the public in such a form 

 that his words are still quoted. He was not 

 an orator, but he could phrase his statements 

 in crisp, telling form. When he said that 

 "Public office is a public trust," everybody 

 understood him. 



His Youth.' Cleveland was born on March 

 18, 1837, at Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., 

 where his father was pastor of the Presby- 

 terian church. The son was christened Stephen 

 Grover, but dropped" the name Stephen before 

 he reached manhood. After 1841 the family 

 lived first at Fayetteville, N. Y., and later at 

 Clinton, N. Y. Grover was sixteen years old 

 and was preparing to enter Hamilton College, 

 when his father died. He went- to work to 

 help support his mother and sisters, and for 



a year taught in the Institution for the Blind 

 at Batavia. He then felt, however, that the 

 West offered him greater opportunities, and 

 in the autumn of 1855 he borrowed twenty-five 

 dollars and set out for Cleveland, Ohio. He 

 got no farther than Buffalo, where an uncle 

 persuaded him to remain and soon found him 

 a position as clerk in a law office. 



GROVER CLEVELAND 



From a photograph taken the year before his 

 death. 



In Law and Politics. Almost immediately 

 after his admission to the bar in 1859, Cleve- 

 land became conspicuous in local politics, and 

 in 1863 was appointed assistant district attor- 

 ney for Erie County, of which Buffalo is the 



