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MISTEB HETTY GREEN STRANGE O!.H MAN WHO IS 111 S BAND OF AMERICA'S RICHEST WOMAN LIVES 09 AN ALLOWANCE The Public KIIOAYN but Little «>t Him. j and He Hai*. Xo Sm> in the . lnn am-uu'Mt of Hl* Wife's Million* Him-:-.- of the tirt't'iis at llrl- j l«.v. s i all's. Vt. Small : Jt-imoiiii. s of Mr*. GrMßi From the New Fork World. In ih' peaceful obscurity of ' Bellows Falls. Yi., there la resting this gum in.. . ;ly and simple gentleman, the unknown husband of a well-known w oman. He ia Mr. Hetty H. R. Given. You know that name. There is a smack « .' money about it — a^ much as If it ivert Long Green or Greenbacks. Mr : G n is tho husband of a hundn • is. But for ail that hi,s better Np r c< at is ;he richest woman in the iv< rid, Mr. Hetty Green Ls almost aa Car rom that vast fortune as a divekeeper id from the pearly gates of ; aradlse. li is no great thins in his case to have married a female mint, li does { not mean a fine steam yacht or a palace | at Newport, it does not even signify an nal supper at the Waldorf- Astoria. There Us no Lucullian impor attached to the position of Mr. Hetty Green in any way whatever. No horses and carriages, no pu:p!e and fine linen go with the place. lf Mr. Hetty Green had married the daughter of a country parson, he could not have mar ried less, although he might have mar ried more. Once upon a V.me Mr. Hetty Green hud another name. Then it was in the heyday of the China trade, when Hong kong aNii Shanghai were Hushed with! money. En those days, far !>ack in the. six ■: went <I \vn to the Britiih ieda: 1 oi Hongkong to meet among' a well-dress i d, 1 sss ed, active chap, liberal and fund of the best. This man they called Spendthrift Green. Now he is merely Mr. Hetty j Green. In those days Mr. Hetty Green had MONEY OF HIS OWN. The China trade was making- mil lionaires ■ f many. Every ship that sailed eastward to San Frascisoo bore in its st Btores of silk and tea and opium, 1 arg »es that meant thou sands to the names upon ihe mani fe*.ts. Mr. Edward Green — that's an other name for Mr. Hetty Green — sign ed many of these documents. He was also abl- to his name to other pa pers — checks, for instance, and to amounts up into six and perhaps seven figures. In those days Mr. Hefty Green did not have to talk earnestly to his wife when he wanted a new pair of shoes or a new box of linen collars. In those days Mr. Hetty Green probably had enough shoes to stay him in a walk around the world— that is, if he saw fit to walk. In Hongkong, however, Mr. Hetty Green was not a pedestrian. He did not have to walk. In the latter part of the sixties Mr. Hetty Green forsook Hongkong and homeward balled for Amer.ca. He "was a i n i hen. To u?e a flash e~ pression, ho had money to burn. He could have u>ed up a whole box or matches in that way and still have enough left to light the gas when he ■ home Hongkong had grown tame. He had outlived the club and the gov ernmer: balla and the rat-like Chinese ponies that ran around for cups. He had tired C go-downs and comprador talk and ship sailings, first-chop teas, raw silk and all the rest. Thus Mr. Hetty Green came home to flasii radiantly upon a staid New England people. New Bedford was a great town when Mr. Green got back. The oil-ships w< 1 with fortune? in then casks, coastwise, cross the seas, round the world and home again. Hetty Ror> 1-nson's pa.pa had a finger in many of these casks of oil. Every time a shi;j came in 'the old New Bedford whaler went to the bank with a grip-sack full of money. That's how Hetty Green to be caught the habit. The dashing man from Hongkong found favor in her eyes?. T*j» to that time she had not seen the lighter side, of life. It charmed her. Rierht here it may be a I I hat long ago she got over this. But then it was all new, and Mr. Green — Edward Spendthrift then — was so attent ye that naturally they were married. That was July 11, 1867. Thus Mr. Edward Green became Mr. Hetty Green, husband of Hetty How land R. bin-son, heire?s. Two children were born to them — Ed ward and Sylvia. For a 1 :ng while Mr. Green lived ur> to his life of the past. Then something happened, and he be gan to live it down. Wall street, they say, turni d the tide of existence, so that it swept away from affluence and luxury down, down, down to the uoi ■ikerir.iT simplicity of today. Mr. Hetty Green, as they whisper now In Bellows Fa TRIPOD TO RUN THE MARKET one way when the market desired to run the other. No man can do this successfully. A few dozen Chinamen have tried ihe trick with an invariable result. Si n•■ of them, when it was all over, took the train and went home. A few walked. Mr. Hetty Green, how ever, did not have to walk. His mll- Isted him to leave that Waterloo 1 E Wall street somewhat more ! ezpeditiously. While they lasted, Mr. Hetty Green's Investments were spectacular, they say. Once wealth beyond the nightman his wife seemed within his grasp. But to clinch ii he n : a few more Is. Mrs. Hetty <"• reon had then?, and 1 thers beside. But no, Mrs. Hetty t seeking excitement con ducive to the gayety of the sphere?. No "\Vall street chimeras for her. Mr. •1 get his thousands, ana the >t his crash upon the mar ket res ur.ded even unto Hongkong. Bi Of Mr. Hetty Greer. in Wall In place of the man, the wife, it got also :" and groans and experience. Mrs. Hetty Green had marked thtnsra for h»r own. and v.! she nicked a notch on anything it was hers, while some one went and shed tears. nes they see her now fcnMaina; through the street, « f^v hundred then a million or so In a news paper parcel under her arm. Once she walked into her broker's with $250,000 wrapped up in a morning pap^r bor rowed for the occasion. It would not do, you know, to waste even a paper. "Good heav< ns!" shrieked the man when Mrs. Hetty unmTled her burden upon his view. ''Did you walk through the streets with all that mon^y." "Certainly," said she, "the walking Is excel l« .nt." "Madam," Bald he gravely, "some day you will be knocked down and murder ed in broad daylight for your money. I Implore you. take a cab." "Young man." said she austerely, "you may be able to afford a cab. T am not. Please give me a receipt for this $250,000/' THIS WAS THE HEIRESS Mr. Edward Spendthrift Green had married. This is also how he becarm Mr. Hetty Green. When you have such exemplary economy present at tho matinal coffee and it is not diffi cult to become saturated with its e» sence. Around at the Union club thf^ noted the change. The old boys that sit at the front window rotating long glasses of Iced comfort forgot long ago that they Gnce called him Spendthrift. Now be Is only Mr. Hetty Green. And With all these millions at his elbow, how stands Mr. Hetty Green In their crisp green light? Imagine this, for instance: Just stretch your imagination into presum ing that Mrs. Hetty Green had left $1,000,000 on the dressing table and had gone off and forgotten it. This hypothesis is absurd, of course, but it will be a good thing for thinking peo ple. It will exercise their intellect. Now suppose Mr. Hetty Green came in and saw Mrs. Green's small change. What if he looked with greedy eyes upon it? Bdme men are so rigorously consti tuted that they can withstand any thing but temptation. Mr. Balzac, late of France, discovered this phase of hu man nature. Suppose Vir. Hetty Green Btuffed that million In his pocket and \\ alked out! There is no need of conjuring in your imagination what would be the Hist result Allowing that Mrs. Green survived heart disease and apoplexy, what would be her next tactical pro gression? Could she have the law on Mr. Hetty Green? Could she call in the Bellows Falls police and lay her husband by the heels? If he wouldn't give up, could she have the police put him through the third degree, or would she hire some one not afraid of Joe Choate to rake him across the griddle of civil procedure? Under the old common law Mrs. Het ty Green could not do a thing but gnash her teeth in private. But spe cial statutes now cover the case. The wife's property rights are vested in herself. It is her money. The law States this distinctly and to the point. '"In New York." was the legal opin ion of Judge McAdam, "Mrs. Hetty Green or any other woman could hold her hus'mnd responsible in the eyes of the law for any personal or other property of hers taken without her con sent." So even the law conspires to the unfavored existence of Mr. Hetty 1 Green, elbow to elbow with $100,000,000. This, of course, is no reflection on Mr. Hetty Green. No one has ever accused him of taking: Millions his wife care- U BSly left about I X HER DRESSING TABLE or piano. Neither is It known that he ever appropriated any millions of hers left elsewhere — say on the front sto p or in the back yard. To bring it down to the level of every day. it is not intimated that he ever took even 30 cents she had carelessly left about. To tell the truth, Mrs. Hetty Green never gives any one the chance to pick up any of her money. They can tell you that, too, in Wall street, al though she is not so particular about other people's money when Wall street is concerned. Mrs. Hetty Green, It i may be said, is a trifle careful about her money, although no dressmaker I would ever accuse her of the habit, as far as her gowns are concerned. She spends a great deal on clothes— as much, sometimes, as $14.68 a year. But to return to Bellow Falls. It is a long jump, to be sure, but Mrs. Het ty Green do. a nit mind. Neither does Mr. Hetty Green, apparently. He has got over caring about anything. He is seventy-seven years old, and out .^f training in the vanities of this world. His chief interest in life is the news papers. The Hetty Greens live in tho old Hall mansion, bought generations ago by Nathaniel Tucker, Mr. Hetty Green's grandfather. Recently it was greatly improved by a new chimney. The old chimney had been threaten ing for nine or ten years to fall down and hit some one on the head. So, a p L-r thinking- it over three or four years. Mrs. Hetty Green decided to have it repaired. She superintended the work, and was glad when it was done. So were the men who did it. There have been no social gayeties at the Hetty Greens this summer. The most recent one was six years ago, when Mrs. Hetty Green gave a tea party. They are still talking about it at Bellows Falls. Mr. Hetty Green, propably, has long since given up ret rospection concerning that brilliant af fair. Every one went to it, not so much for the tea, but for other reasons. Today, in Bellows Falls, they take a stranger first to see the soldiers' monument and the new bar.k and the court house. Then they lead him in f 1 oru of the Hetty Green home. This. their most important sight, they save to the last. It is worthy of the climax. If the stranger is fortunate, he may see the Hetty Greens — Mrs., Miss and Mr. Mrs. Hetty Green is frequently seen on the street. Lately' she has INTRODUCED A PET, a fuzzy terrier eight inches high. St. Bernards, Great Danes and similar dogs eat a great deal. A fuzzy terrier eight mches high is not a rabid, rag ing creature at its food. On pleasant days Bellows Falls in this way enjoys the spectacle of a hun dred-million-dollar woman taking the air with a three-dollar dog. The bond Lot ween them is a piece of string, for otherwise the dog might run down a rat-hole and get lost. At home the dog lives in the house, because Mr. Hetty Gi-een is believed to encourage his wife's delight-?. He gets a salary from her, the folks say, and one may even live in the same house with an eight-inch terrier, provided the salary makes up the discrepancy in size. But, according to the best informa tion in Bellows Falls, the eight-inch terrier could draw Mr. Hetty Green's salary and not overstrain itself. Still, it suffices to buy morning papers, and with these Mr. Hetty Green is content. You can see him sitting on the porch, immersed in the morning's news, and with no more interest in the quota tions of bonds and shares than the ordinary man takes in a hair-oil ad vertisement. While he sits there hear ing in the cold, unimpassioned print the echoes of the past world throbbing about his rural quiet, Mrs. Hetty gees down to the butcher's and baker's and to the groceryman. The tradespeople rarely do with Mr. EietgjV Green. Tney know Mrs. Hetty- Green only — or rather, they think they do. Sometimes they wonder whether they are not mistaken. A { woman who deals In millions must look on a shoulder of mutton or a veal cutlet as the Olmyplc gods, after a draught of ambrosial nectar, might t-nilT a snuff from a skin of Libyan wine. • But the same determination that Mrs. Hetty displays in ouying a block of C. B. & Q. is visible in the way she takes to herself a pint of sugar beets or a box of August huckleber ries. If the tjeets are 6 cents at one place and 5 at another fourteen blocks down the street, she takes the other kind, and profits by the exercise. A slight summer entertainment for th 9 mountains and seaside is the diverting problem: "How long would it take to earn $1,000,000,000 buying 6-cent beets lor five cents?" No one ever accused Mrs. Hetty Green of prodigality. Here la Your Opportunity to Travel Cheap Via Wisconsin Central Lines. Toronto and return $20.00 Buffalo and return 20.00 Ottawa and return 20. C0 Pr< tcott aud return 20.00 Ogdeisburg and return 20. 00 Cornwall and return 2't.00 House's Point and return 20.09 Plattsburg and return 20.00 Saratoga and return 20.00 Albany and return 20.00 Troy and i^iurn 20.00 New York and return 23.00 Montreal and return 20.00 Quebec- and return 25. (J0 Burlington and return 20.00 Concord and return 20.00 Manchester and return 20.00 Lowell and return 20.00 Boston and return 20.00 Portland ond return 24.F.Q lloncton aud return 40.00 Halifax and return 45.00 Other points in proportion. Tickets on gale Sept. 11th to 18th Inclusive, fjood returning thirty days. For further particulars call at City Ticket Office, No. 373 Robert street. If you visit the metropolis the advertise ment of Hotel Empire on another page will Interest you. j THE ST. PAUL GLOBE -SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1893. ENSIGN PQWELSQN "IT" I'OI'ILAR NAVAL. OFFICER TAKES A YOl.\(i BRIUE IN MOW YORK PRETTIEST OF ROMANCES The Little Lady ltcfuitrd Ills Hand Becaiwe lie Couldn't Bet Oft Louk KnoiiKh t <» do to Ohio Id Be Wed ItreakM Ills LeX «»« the St. I'nul, She Kc'comeN Hlm \urNr and ton Ments to .Marry Him in New York. As pretty a romance sls ever bright ened this weary old world id that of which Ensign Wilfred Van Nest Powel son, U. S. N., Is the hero, and Miss Margaret Olivia Millar the heroine. True love is strongly in evidence throughout the story, and that such minor emotions as pique, vanity and a;i, or loci served to interrupt it 3 smoothness make the tender denoue ment all the more touching and wel come. Ensign Powelson, by the example of "brothor heroes, who were wedded be fore going into battle or even when away on three-day furloughs, wanted to be married as soon as he returned from the war. Miss Alillar, his flaneer, refused because he could not leave long enough to admit of her long-cherished plans for a church wedding at her home in Wyoming, Ohio. The ensign, disappointed, sailed sulk ily away on the St. Paul to Philadel phia. While stationed in the Quaker City he had the misfortune, or, better, the good fortune, to break his leg. He is at a hospital, smiling grimly in spit* of his pain and reflecting upon thh wisdom wrapped in the trite proverb that "It's an ill wind that blows no body good." Fur Miss Millar "changes her mind." They were married in the hospital on Wednesday. Ensign Powelson did noble service for his country- He it was who by ex pert testimony at the court of inquiry on the Maine disaster proved that the ill-fated vessel had been blown up from without, not from within. He showed that the great, gaping wound in her hull was inflicted by some dastard hand in the dark, not by an explosion in her own magazine. Upon his testi mony an anxious nation hung breath less. The value of the testimony can not be overestimated. Upon his word may be said to have hung war or peace. When war was declared Ensign Pow elson was, by his own request, trans ferred from the Fern, upon which he had been stationed, to the St. Paul. He commanded a gun on the St. Paul which exploded a shell directly over a Spanish cavalry force on the shore of Cuba, scattering the Spanish sol diers in all directions, and it was he who directed the shot that destroyed the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer, the Terror. The ensign's record as a student was no less brilliant than his war record. He had entered the naval academy at sixteen years of age. He not only led his class in recitations, but he was also a leader in athletics. He was graduated from the naval academy in 1593. On July 1, ISOS, he was promoted to the rank of ensign. He served on the Cincinnati, and was later transferred to the Fern. A two years' special course in the Glasgow School of Naval Architecture supple mented his preparation for naval serv ice. It was, therefore, a doubly enviable record that Ensign Powelson brought home with him, to lay at the pretty feet of his fiancee, Miss Millar. He urged a speedy marriage as his great est reward for service done in the war with Spain. Mlsfl Millar refused, because she wanted to be married "in church at home, as all the other girls had been." The ensign said he could not leave the ship long enough to make the journey to her home at Wyoming, 0., and at tend all consequent festivities. Because Miss Millar persisted in the church wedding at home, the ensign intimated that she did not love him. Because Ensign Powelson persisted in being married in New York without de lay Miss Millar hinted that he was in considerate. The more they talked the more convinced was each that the other was wrong. The result was that the ensign sailed to Philadelphia unwedded and indignant, arid that Miss Millar re mained in New York, but she no longsi enjoyed the visit she was making to old friends. Life is never quite so savorless as after a lovers' quarrel. It must be confessed that Ensign Powelson was as sulky as a boy and as preoccupied as men not successful in their love affairs are apt to be. That may have been the reason for the ignominious accident that befell lh.« young man who had passed througn the war unscathed. The St. Paul is now at Cramps* ship yard. Ensign Powelson, who has teen an acting lieutenant on that auxiliary cruiser, was crossing the elevator which had been in use lifting supplies from the hold. It may have been because of the preoccupation peculiar to men whose love affairs are running roughly that he did not notice that the bar holding the elevator was insecure. Tn» bar gave way and the*offleer fell with it into the hold. Two seamen, who had narrowly es caped being crushed by the falling ele vator, carried the wounded officer to the deck. He was taken to the Epis copal hospital at Philadelphia. His left leg and foot were found to have been crushed. No letters ha' 1 n^ssed between the lovers after the St. Paul went to Phil adelphia. The ensign was too angry to write. The girl was too proud to write unbidden. It was through the newspapers she learned of the accident to her betroth ed. How cruel and matter of fact It looked, that really kind letter written by Capt. Sigsbee, commander of 'he St. Paul, to the ensign's father, District Attorney A. V. N. Powelson, at Mid dletown, N. Y. "It was discovered that a small bone In Ensign Powe'.son's left leg was broken, and Urn( his left ankle was sprained. He com plalna of a severe pain In his back but It has boon doomed advisable to take him to the Episcopal hospital b.foro making an ex amination of the Injury in his back. "He has not been unconscious at all and unless the Injury in his bark proves to be more than Is now supposed, it is believed that he is not in danger. Please accept my sincere sympathy. Yours very truly, — "C. D. Rigsbee, Captain. U. S. N." Miss Millar took the next train to Philadelphia after reading the news of her lover's accident. True, he had not written her, but she had no doubt of her welcome. The wedding she had planned to take place In the little stone church, ivy covered and cool, where her sister and mother had been married, seemed very far off now. Her father and grand father were deacons in that church, and she had been contralto of its choir. All her girl friends had been married from the church. Its modest altar and pretty stained windows had seemed to her an essential feature of her ro manoe. She thought of the old-fash ioned church now, with stolen tears of regret. But she remembered other things of greater importance, her meeting with the gallant young ensign Powelson her brother's friend, at Old Point Com fort, a little more than a year ago. It was a military hop, one June even ing. She remembered the odor of the roses, and thought how their love bud ded and blossomed like those roses in that loveliest mclith of the year. When Bhe returned to her home they were engaged. She thought of the de light his letters had brought her, of the pride and anxiety with which she had watched his career during the war. And then had come the pageant of his return. She had come from Ohio to witness it. Her heart's pride had risen higher and higher with each •hout of the throng that had gathered to greet her hero lover and his comrades. And that happy Kreoting she had given him and he her. She blushed with pleasure at recollection of It. And he had insisted that they should be married at once, and she had pleaded for a wedding in the little stone church at home. He had told her that she "cared more for pomp and ceremony than for him." He had gone away an gry, but she wag sure he would come back. She had been pained and sur prised when no letters came. Then, in their stead, had come this dreadful news. A sweet-faced girl, small, blond and blue-eyed, withal raost determined, presented herself at thn Episcopal .hos pital. She scorned the voluminous un rolling of institutional red tape done for her benefit. She did not care whether visiting hours were over nor that Dr. Blank had i"i bidden any one to see Ensign Powelson. "Would you refuse, to allow his wife to see him?" she demanded. "Ensign Powelson is unmarried," was the supercilious reply. "He will not be so for Jong. I'm ga in g to marry him myself, as soon as ever he is able," the young woman de clared. Her perseverance won the day and i [a^saZo^s^evenge] A strange man was Tom Dalton, first mate of the whaler Ironfoow — a strong man among the strong ones. In per son he was six feet in height and well proportioned, and for muscular power he beat anything I ever saw in my life. Yet, somehow, in looking at hla face, one couldn't get over the idea that he had suffered great sorrow, or had some wrong to avenge. He seem ed to be alwayb looking for some one, and we never had a new mate and he never met a stranger, but he'd give, one single, penetrating look and then drop his eyes, aa if It wasn't the man he was looking for. I told him one day how he seemed to affect me, and he gave me one of his strange looks. "Yes, Jack, my boy," he said, "I'm locking for a man, and I'll find him yet, please God! You may t>e thankful for one thing, my lad." "And what is that?" I said. "That you are not the one I'm look ing for," he answered, with a look 1 didn't understand then, but learned the meaning 1 later. "See here, Jack, I must tru-st some one, or this thing- will drive me mad. I want to find a man with the little finger gone from the right hand — a sailor man, with three stars in India ink In the palm of his right hand, and the letter G below them. Find me tha»t man and you'll do an old mate a kindness; that's all I've got to say." I was a carpenter on the Ironbow, and we had a captain, who was a ter ror. Oh, he was a tougfa old salt! — with a face the color of mahogany, and a voice like the roar of the wind In a gale. A stove boat made him happy, if he only got the whale—that's all he asked. But we filled early in the season and ran into port to get rid of our cargu, refit a little and get some fresfo pro visions. While we lay there a man came to the captain and wanted to ship as harpooner. He was a fine, tall fellow, Just the kind of a man a skip per would hanker after, and he proved to the captain's satisfaction that ne was a good harpooner, too. He sailed under the na.me of Gus Williams and was every, inch a sailor, with a handsome face, black curling hair and a devil-may-care look in his eyes. Although he was hail fellow well met with the crew, I didn't like the look of the man, and made up my mind that I didn't want him for a chum. If I'd known what he was it stems to me now that I'd have drop ped him over the rail tome dark night before we were fairly out of port. The captain shipped him when Tom Dalton was away on another island looking after a Kanaka or two that used to sail with him. and so it hap pened that they didn't meet until the night before we sailed, and. as he al ways did, Tom looked at the new man hard for a moment and then turned away. When the new man heard the name of the mate I thought he gave a little start and turned a trifle pale, though why he did that I didn't understand. We were well out to sea and bowling along before a ten-knot breeze when Tom came to me as I stood by the rail. "Where does Gus William hail from, Jack?" he asked. "Martha's Vineyard. he says. I won't answer for it that he tells the truth," I replied. "Do you like him?" "No. He's got the devil in him some where, and It's bound to come out. He's as queer a stick as ever I saw in my life, and I don't want to chum with him." There was one thing about Gus that was rather queer, and I asked him one day why he wore the finger of an old glove on his righthand. He said he had a bad joint there and he had to wear a cover to keep the salt water out. I didn't mind that so much; but one day I was working on a boat and he was helping me and holding the spike and somehow I managed to hit him on the finger covered by the glove, and he didn't even flinch, and then I was sure of one thing — and that was that he had no finger inside the glove. I didn't say anything, but somehow it struck me as queer that this man should have a finger missing and Tom had asked me to look for such a man. I didn't think any more of it until one night In the forecastle, when we were all pretty full of grog, the young men got to 'bragging- about themselves and the girls, and Gua Williams look ed up and laughed. "You might brag if you had the luck I've had," he said. "There's only oie thing on my conscience after all, and that's about a pretty maid I made iove to in Nantucket years ago, and then left without a word. Poor little thing! I wonder what came to her?" "Maybe I can tell you," said a qiuet voice, "that is, if her name was Mary Blake." We all looked up and saw that Tom Dalton had come into the forecastle. "That's her name," replied Gus, nod ding his head with drunken gravity, while he raised his right hand to nis mouth, showing the palm plainly. There, in plain view, were the three stars and the letter G. "I reckon you've led a wild life, Gup," said the mate, seating himself on a locker. "Seems to me I heard some thing of that yarn myself. Didn't you promise to marry her and do your best to make her set her heart on you, md then leave her a letter to say .you were never coming back?" "Why, yes. Perhaps I ought not to have done it; but Ik was Jolly fun to make love to her! Marry her; T wouldn't do that; for I had a wife if Bedford. But I didn't tell her that— oh, no, no!" And then he broke into a careless song, auch a one as a sailor loves, and the mate got up and went out, with such a look as I never saw on a man's face before, and never want' to see again. He didn't say anything to me, and I noticed he never looked at Gus Williams again. I knew evil would come of it, and I didn't know how I could stop it, but lf Gus Williams had known the danger he'd drawn on himself,' I think he'd have jumped overboard.* Things went on all rferht, until one September day, when- 'we were lying off the Alaskan coast, the captain sen* three boats ashore for s'cfme timber he wanted, and I went In* Turn's boat. Gu« Williams, who was t haft>ooner in the second mate's boat, went too. I saw Tom come .up and spoak to Williams after they and they went away together and something put it into my head to follow them. There had befen a light enow, and It was eaey tracking them; and after 1 1 the scene in Ensign Powelson's sick room was a repetition of that private and personal one on the day of the re turn of the fleet. "I knew you'd come," said the ensign. "How do you know? You bad boy! I believe you broke your leg on pur pose. But, why didn't you write?" "I — well, confound it! I was jealous of that old stone church at Wyoming." They laughed as happily as children and with her slender hand, on which his ring sparkled, stroking his hair, he fell asleep. Miss Millar assumed the post of the chief nurse at her lover's bedside. While the gallant sailor boy lay asleep in the darkened room, where she had been watching his every breath, the pretty young woman, a little paler for her vigils, talked about her lover's condi tion and her "change of mind." "We will be married toxJay. I do not yet know the hour. It will depend upon the convenience of Dr. Lovejoy, the minister. Ensign Powelson, while not in a dangerous condition, is still very ill. This is an odd place for a wed ding, I know, but I am indifferent about the place," she blushed charmingly at this, "at least now." Two hours later she stood beside him as he lay propped up by pillows and became Mrs. Powelson. had gune a mile I heard their voices in a little gully, and crept up close. "You told a queer story the other night when you were drunk, Williams," the mate was saying, "about a girl named Mary Blake, in Nantueket. Was it true?" "Why, yes, as far as this: I made her think I was a single man, and made her love me, and then ran away from her." "Didn't you know or didn't you hear, that she had a lover — a man that would have died for her if she asked him?" "It seems to me, now I come to think of it, that I did hear something about a tar that had a fancy for her. But what did I care for that? I wanted my fun." "Did you never hear what came of it, then?" "No. I never bothered myself aibout it much. I've wondered sometimes if the tarry jacket came home and mar ried her." "I'll tell you the end," hissed Tom. "When eibe got your cruel letter she drooped and faded, and when the nran who loved her truly came home from v cruise she was very near the grave. Then, one day, when the burden of her life grew too much for her to bear, she told him of your deceit, and de scribed you, and then died, with her head upon his bossom. Then he took a vow that if you and he ever met he'd kill you." "I'm glad we never met!" cried Tom. "I'm the man that loved her and took that vow, and now I mean to keep my word. Down upon your knees and pray for you have not five minutes to live." Then I saw a spectacle such as I hope never to see again, as Tom slowly drew a revolver and waited. The harpooner fell on his knees, weeping and begging for his life, but that stern face never changed. The self-appointed judge and executioner did not know the name of mercy. The wretch crawled upon the ground and buried his face in the snow at Tom's feet, and I couldn't stand it, and stepped out in view. "Don't come nearer, Jack Ratlin," cried om, "or. as tho#s is a God above, I'll give you shot. This man is doomed and he shall die." "Tom," I said, "before you fire, think a moment. You say you loved Mary Biake?" "You'll rever know how much. Jack — words cannot tell." "Then listen to me. They say the good and pure, looking down from their bright homes above, are witnesses of the actions of those they loved on earth. If your dead love beholds you now, do you think it would make her happy to see you stain your hands with the blood of this base wretch? Can 3 on hope to join her up yonder?" He stared at me a moment and then, raising his hand to heaven, he cried: "Mary, I do what you would have done. See! I forgive your murderer, and leave his punishment to God. Go back, Williams; from this moment you are safe from my vengeance." The man slunk away, shaking like a leaf, and deserted at the first port we entered. And Tom Dalton, with a new light on his face, the hope of meeting her he loved in a better world than tl.is, did hlrf duty manfully until his death, three years after, in a battle with a giant whale. He has entered inlo his rest. Whether Gus Williams Mves or died, I do not know, but his two victims are safe in port. — Spare Moments. _J ST. MUL PARKED NEWPORT. Mr?. John Carrol entertained at luncheon Tuesday. The guests were Mesdames Bailey, Culver, Crc-ssy, Keogh, Cowell and Miss Cressy. Mrs. George Van Riper has returned to bar home in Wisconsin, after spending several months with her daughter, Mr?. M. E. Keogh. Mrs. H. R. Hill entertained at luncheon Friday, for the Misses McLain aid Johnson, of Faribault, and Mrs. Briggs, of lowa. Mrs. George Woodward and Miss Clara Woodward have returned from their visit in Xew England points. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur De Rocher and eons and Mrs. John Willoughby left Monday even ing for Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn, of Waseca, who have been the gue3ta of Newport relatives, returned home Thursday. Mrs. Adolf Anderson entertained Mesdames Clark, Cressy and Weeks at tea Monday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. William Tibbetta. of Delhi, Wis., are visiting friends at Cottage G-rove. Miss Grace Frieze, of Prescott, Wi3., wai the guost of Mrs. John Weeks thi3 week. Mr. and Mrs. Whittier. of Homer, Minn., are guests of Mr. and Hit. H. K. Lutz. Miss Sarah Nultimior has returned ■from a slimmer spent at Yellowstone park. Mrs. W. S. Robinson, of Hurley, Wis., ig the guest of Mrs. Frank Ford. Miss Florence Truax entertained a number of friends Tuesday afternoon. Miss Alice Cressy entertained the Misses James at. luncheon Wcdneday. Mrs. K. A. Smith is entertaining her Both er, Mrs. Hedman, of Virginia. Mils Edith Kemp, of Ht^ctor. ia visiting relatives at Cottage Grove. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Sperry are visiting rel atives in Detroit, Mich. Mi=s Hazleton, of Hastings, is the gues-t of Miss Carrie Meilicke. MlMi Bessie Hughes, of Cambria, Wis., la visiting Miss Jones. Mrs. U. A. Dawaon returned to Prairie dv Chicn this week. Miss Brock, of Hastings, Is the guest of Mrs. Bhelton. MLss Mary Sawyer h~s returned from a visit at Princeton. Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis are visiting In lowa. RIOTING M/W FOLLOW. Opening- of PiMiTvell Coal Mines Fraught With Peril. PANA, 111., Bept. 10.— Serious troub* ll feared Monday, when the Pen well coal bhaft is. started with non-union labor. Both whites and blacks will be employed, and the latter will be housed in a large building on the mine property, heated by steam and sur rounded by a fence resembling a stockade. Tho non-union men will be guarded by deputy sheriffs, the Fame ns are the negroes at Sprlngda!e shaft. Nino negroes from Springdale paraded through the streets to dny. They were not molested by tho strikers. Mayor Penwell fears the strikers may at tempt to burn mine buildings, it is said, and has planed men at the volunteer fire depart ment, with Instructions to clang tho big bell aii'' arouse the town, should a blazo b? aeoL Tilrm, Wlnslow's Soothing Byrap Baa been used for over fifty years by minions of nu-thers for their children while t«ethln«, with perfect duoeess. It soothes the child, softens the COM. liluys all pain ; cures wind colic, and If the best rpnir.ly for Dlorrh<ea. Sold by Dn;tr>:istfi in every part of the world. Bo »urc MM a«k for " Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup," and *aUe no Other kind. Twenty-fit * cents a hottlo. Watch for Number Six. I EXTRA! I a « UJ Pain's Sublime War Spectacle, (J 8 j L_ § 8 8 University Avenue and Grotto Street, 8 8 HWI lof Enfflii uof Cite' Commlitee- 8 8 ENTIRE CHANGE OF PYROTECHNICAL EFFECTS 8 U 500 PEOPLE= gpQ 8 (^ FAREWELL PERFORmfINCE. (^ th 4,000 Seats at 25s 3,000 Seats at 500 #! (g 3,C00 Seats ai 750 530 Box SeaSs, 31, a0 (A 9) if) (A On sale at Wilbur Tibbils' Cigar Store, Fourth 7a mS and Robert Streets. |h C3«S«SSS6S S3 CS S3 S3SSSSSSS3 Reliable St. Paul Retail Stores. BUTTER C^ E , Cff^SLEJS^ CLOTHING °"^,S^r a »E!SP CLOTHING ZSSXZZ? L t^2™^l^- DRY GOODS c^Sr I SCHUNEMAN & EVANS. Sixth and Wabaaha. DRY GOODS Z^:^,. T »i JOLOETm.I 7tn, Hth and Robert Streets. DRY GOODS i l ,, h rbo i a, s ; UD9 habighorst & co. *" f-'or. Seventh and H'acouta Sts. DRY GOODS c™'r rima MANNHEIMER BROS. Cor. Sixth and Robert. FURNITURE Ssss^&sMEE smith & farwell co. ""' " f age for Inrice, uew catalogue. «*(* a)tU .W.,»m*;J«. FURNITURE P^> wallblom furn. & carpet co. viiifjf vfii. IJousefurnishings. 400, JOY, 4()4, and 406 Jack»on. FURS sstr ta B::,« 18 , 5 1^ <s son. <iO i.a»t Seventh. FURS SJL'S^ or^r v ,, RAN §™ t §I°ATON GROCERS g ur pri;"sSi sc//oc// grocery co. **m ■ w vhmv Flavoring Extracts. >epe>it7« unrf /iwi'liray. PIANOS l?zviz;zrr ata - HOWA ™Jt™i LL &ca PIANOS 22*,SS!E!22T* CONOVER MUSIC CO. Trains leave and arrive at St. Paul as fol lows: INION DEPOT, SIBL.EY STREET. OpCjff TICKET OFFICE, Sq^ml JiM> Ba " 4 Ihir « l Street. " RAJI^ 'Phone lliU. Lgave- 1 a Dally, b Except Sunday. | Arrive. lWillmar, S. Falls. Yaakton.l b9 :osam'. .Sioux City, Brown's \'al.. bs:Ssprn bß:3sam:Sauk C.F'gra Kalli, G d F ka b4:Sspni bß:36am|... Willmar, via St. Cloud.. .| b6:lSpai a7:o6pm[Breck., Fargo.G'd I'ksSVpK a7 :4sam al:3opm,. ...Montana & Pac. Coaet... a6:lspm b4:4opm'.. Excelsior & Hutohinsou. .jbll: !sam m — Crookston B?xpies3 .... a7:Soana EASTF,H\ MIS\!>OT\ RAILWAY. gj^puiuth^'w^up^ior. ! a;::. /^%\ TBCKET OFFICE [AgmJ) ih Robert Sts. Xj^£jV}A Ution Staticn, Si. Faui. Milwarkoo Station. MinnoapoMn. Dintng and Pallnaa Can en Winnipeg «t Coast Trains. Pacific Hall," Daily; Vnrgo, Boz^man." I^^ Airlve Hutt», Helena. Mlascirta. Spokane Taconta, Seattle and Pcrtltvrul I:3opm s:lopm Eikcta and Uuitc'ca Er.pr:s3, DaUjrJ UonrhoAd, Fargo. Korgtt* Fails I Walipeton, Cvoofenton, Grand FOl l:.-.l Grafton and Wlnnipc< [7:3opm 7:lsam SugO Lceil, Dally r:cocnt F.i:iv.loy. BCCkmd. Rra«ierd wdKanro.. .. 18:30am o:oopr; "North-Western IM'-C, St. P., M.&O. omee, 395 Robert St. 'Phone 480. Lpavo. : a Daily, b Except Sunday. Arrive. "asTfsam|. .Chicago "Day BSzprefie".. bd:6spm b6 :3opm |.. Chicago "Atlantic Bx."..|all:iOim r.* :li»pm|. Chicago "N. W. Limited". 1 a7:50-i:n b9:2s>am!.Duluth. Superior, Ashland. | bs :ospm all :00pni .Duluth, Superior, Aebland. a6:"oan a9:3sam!.Su City, Omaha, Kan.Clty.l uls6 .11 b4dSopm Mankato. New Ulm.W'more b!0:00 im a7:4spm;Su City. Omaha, Kan. City | a7:L5aTi M. & St. I*. Ocput-Drnndnay & Ith. MINNEAPOLIS & ST- LOUIS R. R. ••ALBERT LEA RQUTB." Leave. I a Dal Iy. b Except Su nday Arr'.vC | Mankato, Dcs Motn&3, Ce-| b9:lsamj..dar KapiJs. Kan. City.. bß :37pm bs:tr»a-ni . .. Watertown. NVw 11ni... b4:6spm bs:(M)pm New Dim Local b1>>:;"0a:n B ;i:,].m Dos Moines & Omaha Lisa aS :loam R7:<onin!ChicaKo A St. Louis Lm. a8:10am b4:4:>pm!Albert Lta & Was^a L-oil,blO:3jaai ST. PAUL & DULtiTH R, R. From Union Depot Officp, 396 Robert St. _Leave I j^J>aily. b Kx -op; Sunday. A r re. g;«*» DULUTH U7:lsai aiiaspm! WEST SUPERIOR i* Trains for Still water; n;<::> r . m a •'• 0 a 2:15, a5:?.5. a 7:30 p. m. For Taylor's a9 :osam, a 2:13 pm, bf> :35pm. M., ST. P. & S. S. M. RY. Leave. , EAST. \r :v,>.~ 7:2opm . .Atlantic L I I 9:osam RhinelunJer Local (tX.Sun.) j WEST. l:Xpm(... Pacific Limited <1 lly) . ■ sp -i |St.Croix Faßs Lo . I Sunday. From Brcedwa 6:oopm — Depot, foot 4th : ; t. . .'. . ;.isa:n 6:3<'piu Dakota Express. L,v. M;n _____ | neapolis. Except Sunday...; 10:00 am BURLINGTON ROUTE. FINEST TRAINS ON EARTH. L 7. For |~~ lITIONS. \r . go, .X sept Sunday. , 1 !:15p a mi .St. Louig. • Sunday __B:o6pm|Cbicaga & St. Louis, dally Ticket OftV<\ 400 Robert St T. ]. 3 Chicago Great Western Ric "The Maple Leaf Route." Ticket Office -. Robert St., cor. sth >i . Phone 150, Tralus leave from St. IV.ul Union Depot ♦•Dally. tExeept Sunday. Leave. srriv«. Dubuque, Chicago, Waterloo, ( tB.M im HUOpu Marshalltowii. n.>s RfoiDes...-{*B.lopn] *;.4. r >;nn st..T.>s,-pii and Kansas city.. ( *B.iopm*i£oOnm Mamorrßle Local *3^6pm*l&tfiun Chicago, tUtanfta & St. Paul RiilraaJ. Ticktt Office, Sus_ 2_iol)eri_ St. "Phone s^ & Dally, b Except Sunday Lv.St.Pi A r.st7pr Chicago "Day" Express... bß:lsamiblO:icp:n ChicaKo "Atlantic" Kx.. i'.Ul:3a:u Chicago "Fast Mail" | a6 :sspm vi Chicago "Pioneer Limited" aß :lopm] a7:lCam Chic, via Prairie da c. .liv b4:4o| n Teoria via Mason City...} at: 4opm | all :l6am Dubuque via La Croeee...| bS HOpm M. Louis and Kansas Cl Mllbank and W«y ! b>:2 am btoOpm Aberdeen and Dakota Ex.. a7:oS,>ni! aS:lsua WISCONSIN CENTN City OflVo. 37.? itobi rt St. 'Phone No. '3f4. Li>ave i Arrive St^aull AU Trains Daily. St.iaul ESau Claire, Chippewa ; B:ooaml. ..Milwaukee md Chicago...} S:lfiara Ashland.Chippewa i:illj,Oih-; 7 :4opm |.. .kosh, Mil. and Chicago...; i.ij^j 17