Chapter the Seventeenth A Parisian _Pension_—The Widow of Walewska—Napoleon’s Daughter-in-Law—The Changeless—A Moral and Orderly City Chapter the Eighteenth The Grover Cleveland Period—President Arthur and Mr. Blaine—John Chamberlin—The Decrees of Destiny Chapter the Nineteenth Mr. Cleveland in the White House—Mr. Bayard in the Department of State—Queer Appointments to Office—The One-Party Power—The End of North and South Sectionalism Chapter the Twentieth The Real Grover Cleveland—Two Clevelands Before and After Marriage—A Correspondence and a Break of Personal Relations Chapter the Twenty-First Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer—A Friend Comes to the Rescu His Originality—“My Old Kentucky Home” and the “Old Folks at Home”—General Sherman and “Marching Through Georgia” Chapter the Twenty-Second Theodore Roosevelt—His Problematic Character—He Offers Me an Appointment—His _Bonhomie_ and Chivalry—Proud of His Rebel Kin Chapter the Twenty-Third The Actor and the Journalist—The Newspaper and the State—Joseph Jefferson—His Personal and Artistic Career—Modest Character and Religious Belief Chapter the Twenty-Fourth The Writing of Memoirs—Some Characteristics of Carl Shurz—Sam Bowles—Horace White and the Mugwumps Chapter the Twenty-Fifth Every Trade Has Its Tricks—I Play One on William McKinley—Far Away Party Politics and Political Issues Chapter the Twenty-Sixth A Libel on Mr. Cleveland—His Fondness for Cards—Some Poker Stories—The “Senate Game”—Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck Chapter the Twenty-Seventh The Profession of Journalism—Newspapers and Editors in America—Bennett, Greeley and Raymond—Forney and Dana—The Education of a Journalist Chapter the Twenty-Eighth Bullies and Braggarts—Some Kentucky Illustrations—The Old Galt House—The Throckmortons—A Famous Sugeon—“Old Hell’s Delight” Chapter the Twenty-Ninth About Political Conventions, State and National—“Old Ben Butler”—His Appearance as a Trouble-Maker in the Democratic National Convention of 1892—Tarifa and the Tariff—Spain as a Frightful Example Chapter the Thirtieth The Makers of the Republic—Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster—The Proposed League of Nations—The Wilsonian Incertitude—The “New Freedom” Chapter the Thirty-First The Age of Miracles—A Story of Franklin Pierce—Simon Suggs Billy Sunday—Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr—Certain Constitutional Shortcomings Chapter the Thirty-Second A War Episode—I Meet my Fater—I Marry and Make a Home—The Ups and Downs of Life Lead to a Happy Old Age Illustrations