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 done since the war. Cot-ton was made up in scores of forms; coal and i-ron from mines near by told of wealth. The work of those who were once slaves was shown at this Fair. The states of the South gave large sums to train these blacks in schools, and it was plain to see that some of them had made good use of their chance.

In 1896, U-tah came to join the Un-ion and there are now 45 States. In the last ten years there has been great growth in the "New West." Miles and miles of rail-roads now run through there. Grain farms yield food on a big scale. Mines of gold, sil-ver, and cop-per give great wealth. Tons of beef, pork, and mut-ton are sent from the rich grass of the West to all parts of the earth.

Gro-ver Cleve-land has been a man of clear, brave, strong thought and speech both while in and while out of the chair. He was the sole man to be put up for chief three times right off, and that, too, by men who did not all think as he did. When his last term was out, though some who were his friends at first did not stand by him, still, through the land, there was high praise of him.

Cleve-land was the first Pres-i-dent to be wed in the White House, and was, too, the first who had a child born there. No "First La-dy in the Land," save Dol-ly Mad-i-son, had been so young as his wife.

One of the last acts of Mr. Cleve-land while Pres-i-dent was to speak at the U-ni-ver-si-ty at Prince-ton. The old town had so much charm for him that, with his own, he has made his home there since he left the chair.