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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
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Other points in proportion. Tickets on gale
Sept. 11th to 18th Inclusive, fjood returning
thirty days. For further particulars call at
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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.
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(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.
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*" f-'or. Seventh and H'acouta Sts.
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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.
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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
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OpCjff TICKET OFFICE,
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" RAJI^ 'Phone lliU.
Lgave- 1 a Dally, b Except Sunday. | Arrive.
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From Union Depot Officp, 396 Robert St.
_Leave I j^J>aily. b Kx -op; Sunday. A r re.
g;«*» DULUTH U7:lsai
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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.
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L 7. For |~~ lITIONS. \r .
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mi .St. Louig. • Sunday
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Ticket OftV<\ 400 Robert St T. ]. 3
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Ticket Office -. Robert St., cor. sth >i . Phone 150,
Tralus leave from St. IV.ul Union Depot
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