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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1890.
WEDDEDAPRINCESS.
Tlie Only American WlioEver
Broke Into Eoyalty.
HE FLEW niGHEOK A TIME.
Then He Came Down, Just as Do Our
Girls AYho Marry Titles.
TWO FEIXCES BORN OP THE UNION.
IWmTTEX FOB THE DISPATCH.l
Charles Allen Perkins, of Syracuse, X".
Y., enjoys the distinction of being the only
American citizen who ever contracted mar
riage with a family of roval blood. The
circumstances attending this extraordinary
alliance are not only aglow with the color of
romance, but bear directly on the convulsive
history of Spain during the vast 15 years,
during which period of storm and unrest in
the land of Ferdinand and Isabella the
American spouse of a Bourbon princess
played his little part in a desperate game of
destiny. As two children were born ot this
union of love, and are now growing to man
hood under the imperial aigis of a line of
kings, the inconsequential note made of the
event at the time ot its consummation, now
Charles Allen Perkins.
takes on an importance which revives the
story with tremendous interest.
An American leveling through Spain
the past bummer, while whiiing away a fort
night at Madrid, accidentally encountered
these young princes, in whose veins are
minded and course the pride of the house
of Bourbon and the sovereignty of Ameri
can manhood, and though the narrative of
their boyish lives was simple enough, the
incidents antecedent to their birth was so
close a copy of a fairv tale that an inquiry
begun in Spain was even more assiduously
prosecuted in America. Thus it was
that Mr. Perkins was found at his
home in Syracuse and lather forced,
not persuaded, to mrtially lift the curtain
of his life. Mr. Perkins accomplished no
common thing in wedding a Bourbon prin
cess, but proved his fitness for diplomacy by
earning as well the respect and admiration
of those i hose royal toes he had most ruth
lessly trodden upon,
CIRCUMSTANCES Or THE MAERIAGE.
The marriage took place in Portugal
when France and Prussia were at war. It
was not limited by ante-nuptial agreements,
except as u the religion of its issue, and
had no morganatic features. It was the re
sult of a courtship carried on during the
exile, in various parts of Europe, of the
reigniDg family, that branch to which the
dashing young diplomat joined his fortunes,
being resident for the nonce at Lisbon.
The revolution in Spain, arising out of
the profligacy and conjugal license of the
court at Madrid, had come in 1833. Queen
Isabella had been oblitred to flee for her life
to find an asylum in France never to return
to the throne, which she abdicated two years
later in favor of her son Alfonso, Prince of
the Asturias, who ascended it on the resto
ration of the monarchy, which fol
lowed the turbulent and wretched trial
of republicanism. The bride of the Lisbon
The American Princes.
From an Amateur Photo.
marriage and her mother, Her Royal High
ness Dona Isabel Fernandina Bourbon de
Bourbon, had taken refuge in the Portu
guese capital under the protection of King
Luis, who extended the exiles his gracious
condolence. In his official capacitv Mr.
Perkins was frequently at court, and there
under the strict etiquette of those circles,
met bia future wite. The love-making
doubtless had its little excitements and es
capades, but it is clear that the incentives
in both hearts mastered the rigid system of
espionage prevalent in Spain and Portugal
more than anywhere else, for in due course
the ofler of the American for the hand of
the Princess was approved by the family,
thoughbywhat means the lovers conquered
the prejudice natural to royal minds against
a subject and a republican is not vouch
safed here to record.
PArAL DISPENSATION.
The marriage of these two, moreover, waB
only possible through Papal dispensation,
owing to the disparity in their religious be
liefs. Only alter formal consent had been
obtained from the Pope's Nuncio was it ex
pedient to proceed with the happy prepara
tions. The form of the certificate was as follows:
translation.
In the year 1870. tho 12th of November, in vir
tue or a dispensation ol disparity of reliclon ac
corded by the Apostolic Nonco at Lisbon, on
the 21th day of October last, and of a special
authorization of tho Vicar-Capitular of the
patriarchal vacant see. and all the prescribed
formalities having been complied with accord
ing to the usages and customs of the diocese in
Knrh circumstances as the documents iiresrTfl
lu the archives ol this church bhow. L the un
dersigned priest of the mission, chaplain of the
church St. Louis of the French at Lisbon, have
attested the mutual consent which has been
riven lor the marriaco of Mr. Charles Allen
Perkins, Secretary per interim of the legation
ot the United States at Lisbon (born in
Salisbury, Conn., In the United States,
of America, the 17th of September. 1840, son of
Jehiel Perkins and of Mrs. Alathia Northup
Perklns,proprietors In the United States, be
longing to the Anglican Church), and the
FrioceeS Maria Isabella Francoise, Countess de
Gorowski (born at Brussels, Belgium, the 10th
of June, 1847, baptized in the chnrch Michael
Guaulc of the same city, on tbeoth day of Feb
ruary, 1818, legitimate daughter of Ignacius
Mlcislaus, Count de Gurowski, proprietor, and
of Her Most Serene Koyal Highness. Isabella
Fcrdinamle Josephine del C.irmen Francoise
F'licle Vcnanclar Kaphela Roiuana Kiatltc-
6 Ida Jnaqnlna Carolina, Infanta of Spain,
onrbon de Bourbon, at present in Lisbon).
Their majesties, Queen Isabella IL of Spain,
and Don Francisco de Asia, were represented
at this marriaco by Isabella Ferdlnande do
Bourbon, Infanta of Spain, and by Admiral O.
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G. Glisson, of the United States Navy, who
nave signed the present act.
The witnesses were Charles H. Lewis Minis
ister Resident of the United States; Henry H.
Diraon, Consul of the United States, and R. M.
Folger, Lieutenant Commander of the Marine
of the United States.
This interesting paper was dated Lisbon,
March 22, 1871, and signed as follows:
Maria Isabella Francoise Gurowski de
Bourbon, Countess Gurowski; Charles Al
len Perkins, Isabella Ferdmande de Bonr-
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Princess Gurowski de Bourbon (Mrs. Perkins).
bon, Inianta of Spain; O. G. Glisson.B.ear
Admiral; C. H. Lewis, Minister Kesident;
Henry S. Dimon, Consul; R. M. Folger,
Commander, and Miel, Chaplain of St.
Louis.
THE WEDDING FESTIVITIES.
The necessary royalty and the friends of
Mr. Perkins were present at the wedding.
Their majesties the ex-King Don Francisco
de Asis, and the ex-Queen Dona Isabella II.
of Spain, were god-parents to the bride. The
groomsmen were Admiral Glisson, TJ. S.
N., the United States Minister, the United
States Consul, and the Count de Jlesquitella.
The bride wore a beautilul white gown and
appeared very happy, conversing with all
the guests present. After the nuptial cere
monies the party visited the United States
frigate of war, the flagship Franklin, lying
in the river Tagus, where Admiral Glisson,
Commodore Rogers and the officers of the
vessel, entertained handsomely. The capi
tal of Lisbon was like a holiday on account
ot the event, and the festivities that fol
lowed on land and water gave eclat to the
occasion.
Alter the honeymoon passedat CintraMr.
Perkins, out of respect for the wishes of his
wife, forwarded his resignation to the De
partment ot State at Washington and was
relieved from duty at the Legation. He took
up his residence at Lisbon to share with the
family he had entered the future lat;had in
reserve lor him. Through the benevolence of
Queen Isabella, then in Geneva, Switzer
land, a handsome dowry was settled on the
bride, which with the accumulations of Mr.
Perkins, was sufficient to keep up their es
tate as befitted their rank. Thus began the
new life of the American consort of the
Spanish Princess.
IN THE GAT FEENCn CAPITAL.
"When the Napoleonic lamp went out with
the close of the war, Queen Isabella and her
suite went to Pans to enjoy in their own
fashion the allowance ol JIOU.OUU a year
granted her by the Spanish government.
Don Francisco de Asis, the cousin and
royal partner of the throne, who married
Isabella in 1846, after nil the potentates of
Europe had meddled in the match-making.
also had a residence in Paris, but lived apart
from the Queen. By request of Her Majesty,
Mr. Perkins and his bride left Spain to re
side at Paris near the Arc de Triomphe.
The most intimate and profuse hospitality
was offered the young "people, who 6nent
their time in an atmosphere of adulation
and gayety, as restless as it was expensive.
But as the royal purse was paying the piper
thev danced sans intermission.
It was at Paris February 25,1873. that the
first of the two Bourbon Princes of American
paternity was born. The accouchement was
attended by the late "W. E. Johnson, M. D.,
of 10 Bt. Malesherbes, an American physi
cian in fashionable demand in Paris. This
child u now a fine young fellow of 17, who
is prepann; himselt for a career at Madrid,
and the discovery of whose existence led to
the record of this strange, eventful history.
The christening and baptism of this child
made a pompous and impressive ceremony,
enlisting not only the sympathy of the whole
Bourbon family, but the condescension of
the Holy See at Rome, the offspring of "the
marriage being given over to the church by
the ante-nuptial agreement.
INTERESTED IN THE BABY PRINCE.
Here is a letter from Queeu Isabella to
Mr. Perkins:
Translation.
Sir. C. A. Perkins:
Sin I have read with great pleasure the let
ter in which you notify mo that my dear niece
has just happily given birth to a boy. I com
pliment you both very sincerely.
You express the desire that I and my son
should be the god-parents of the new porn.
I accept with pleasure and General fteyoa
will go to see you, so that you may flx the hour
and the church where the ceremony 13 to take
place.
I wish all kinds of happiness to the new born,
and I beg you to give to my niece my most af
fectionate remembrance.
Believe, sir, in the sentiments of my esteem.
Isabella dk Bourbon u.
Tuesday; February 25, 1873.
Queen Isabella so interested herself in
this event that she personally elected that
the function of baptism might be politi
cally celebrated and this request was
granted Dy the ope. u.nis was an excep
tional honor to confer, and tended to give
the ceremony greater interest. All the
members of the royal family wrote appro
priate letters, the lollowing being from the
Queen Isabella.
surviving queen mother of this family of a
100 Kings, a family who have governed
.Europe for eight centuries, and whose pres
tige and pretensions surpass the Romanoffs,
the Hapsburgs and even the Guelphs:
Translation.
Mrs. Ferklns:
My Beloved Niece I learned yesterday by
the letter which your good husband had the
kindness to write me of your accouchement and
that yon happily eave birth to a boy.
I greatly rejoice and wish to express myself
of all the satisfaction which I feel asking God
for you and yours all kinds of blessings.
Refer this to your husband In thanking him
for his attention and believe in the love of
your very affectionate aunt
. MAHIA CHRISTINA.
Pabis, Tebrnary 23, 1873.
AN OCCASION OF SPLENDOR.
The baptism excited great public interest,
and was conducted with every formality and
becoming splendor. The ceremony over, the I
Qneeu mounted into her roval eauinacre. kr. I
companied by the happy father, the child
and nurse. This was so uncommon a spec
tacle that it was the talk of the haute
noblesse of Paris. Queens are very chary
about sharing their carriages with others
than royal equals. The party were driven
directly .to the mother, who was found re
clining on her couch. The baby was as
chirrupy and happy as he could be expected
to be. The names that were heaped upon the
infant were Alfonso Francisco De Asis Fer
nando Marie Del Piler Pio Carlos.
At this happv gathering the Queen pre
sented the mother with 0 set of diamonds,
her new-born godson with another set, and
to the father she gave a portrait of Alfonso,
her son and the future King of Spain, en
circled with precious stones.
The advent into this world of the second
of the American Bourbons was none the less
joyful, but not nearly so formal. He was
born in 1876 at Paris and received at his
christening the name of Don Carlos, to
gether with several other patronymics which
were designed to placate members of the
royal family living or dead. Thus it will
be seen the American Bourbons bear the
names of the two rivals for the throne, Al
fonso ana Don Carlos. At present the
youncer prince is the companion of his elder
brother at Madrid and is to enter the army,
being noir in a royal military school. Both
boys are fine young men, the elder favoring
his mother in looks, (and the younger his
father.
The Princess and her American husband
trcd the primrose path of dalliance for four
years, basking in the full glare of royalty.
CAST FORTUNE ON ME WRONG SIDE.
In this close communion with the narrow
circle which upholds the divine right of
kings, the American consort and his royal
helpmate lived in luxury until the caprice
of politics undid them quite. They had
safely launched their hopes on a sea of
ambition, and escaped its shoals a thousand
times, only to be wrecked at last.
At this time war was raging in Spain.
The Carlists were in the field contending for
the throne against the Republicans. No
one had yet taken the field for the other
branch of the family Isabella and her son
Don Alfonso consequently the Legitimist
press thundered in favor of Don Carlos,
whose army gave hope of success. The
bouse of Bourbon divided against
itself in a whirlwind of clamor. Yield
ing to the importunities of his wile,
who had been induced to go into the Car
list camp by a promise of recognition better
than could be obtained from the supremacy
of Alfonso, Mr. Perkins frankly declared
his preferences. He took an active interest
in the progress of the war in Spain, and as a
member of the Carlist junta, or club at
Pari, contributed much to the Parisian
and London press inimical to the hopes ot Al
fonso. "With that candor characteristic of the
American he said what he had to say bold
ly. Mr. Perkins and his wife were both
egged on in this direction by the patronage
ot Dona Margarita, wife of Don Carlos, the
pretender, who found the young American's
equal facility in French and English a
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weapon not to be despised. Her letters to
the Princess Maria Isabella (Mrs. Perkins)
at this critical juncture were full of ardor
and expectation.
THE PEINCESS PLEADED FOE HIM.
"With the proclamation of Alfonso as
King, December 29, 1874, Mr. Perkins's
name was enrolled in the list of prescribed
persons by the new government at Madrid,
to which capital his wife went to re-establish
herself with the powers that were. "With
the prestige of her birth and the various ex
cuses that could be offered on account of
her youth, as well as the friendship of Don
Francisco, the King's father, the Princess
was not long in regaining the favor of the
court.
In the meantime Mr. Perkins, who had
been left without resources in Paris, a prey
to persecution and the victim of deception,
lived a life of mental torture and physical
discomfort. Finally the prayers of his wife
prevailed with Alfonso and his advisors,
and Mr. Perkins was allowed to join his
lamily at Madrid. He had served in a
debtor's prison for obligations contracted
under authority from his royal patrons, and
otherwise had suffered indignities which
would have disheartened a man ot less for
titude. The condescension which permitted Mr.
Perkins to once again take up his abode
with his wife and children was to some ex
tent vain show. "While those nearest "the
fierce light that beats about the throne"
tieated him deferentially, he found himself
in continual hot water, owing tothe over
bearing nature of the Spaniards and their
distrust of him as a foreigner and dislike
for him as an alien interloper. Every favor
he was accorded was at the cost of his self
respect. The haughty grandees who
swarmed about the person of the boy King
were possessed with envy that an American
could hold co exalted a place, while they
were, as a rule, obliged to cool their heels in
the ante-chambers.
CHABGES AGAINST PEBKINS.
Every secret of the family, every dis
closure in politics written by correspondents
from Madrid to the Paris press was at
tributed to Mr. Perkins. He escaped sev
eral times confinement or banishment
through tho intelligence and activity of bis
wife in disproving the accusations which
his enemies lodged against him. His de
parture from Spain at least for a period
was decided on and hastened by the publi
cation in a Paris newspaper of a private
letter he had addressed to a diplomatio
friend. This unwarranted infringement
upon a confidence heaped troubles on Mr.
Perkins, which made his condition unbear
able. Surrounded with every luxury and
ostentation that such a relationship as his
implied, he found, nevertheless, that a per
manent residence at the capital was incom
patible with liberty and domestic duties, and
resolved, therefore, to withdraw until time
would be bis intercessor.
More of a Bohemian than a courtier, he
severed his bonds temporarily as far as
those of a parental character were con
cerned and returned to America. "Since
then Mr. Perkins has occasionally re
newed his acquaintance with the Span
iards, briefly visiting the country to see his
children.
CABEEB OF THE HEBO.
And now a glance at the hero and heroine.
Mr. Perkins was the son of a gentleman
farmer of Connecticut. He was sent to
Paris for education when a child. While
stndying law his health gave way and he
went to Italv. He was at blades when
summoned to America by the death of his
father. The rebellion was then at its height
and after the settlement of his family affairs
he visited Washington, and under the pro
tection of William H. Seward, a friend of
his family, passed an examination in the
State Department and was appointed Consul
and Secretary of Legation to Stockholm to
accompany General J. J. Bartlett, Minister
of the United States to Sweden.
Mr. Perkins returned to Washington dur
ing President Grant's administration, and
under it was appointed Consul to Barce
lona, Spain. There he served during the
troubled times of revolution, and saw that
city, with Valencie and others, many times
in the hands of the mob.
Some years following Mr. Perkins wps
called to serve as orivate secretary to Col
onel Charles H. Lewis, of West Virginia,
whose brother, the Senator, caused him to
be appointed Minister to Portugal. It was
during his residence at Lisbon that Mr.
Perkins was presented to his future wife.
A FBIEND OF GENERAL SICKLES.
General Sickles was United States Minis
ter during this time at Madrid, and was a
friend of Mr. Perkins. The General mar
ried one of the prettiest and most courted
young ladies at the Spanish capital.
Ou his return to the United States he fell
into Wall street among the bulls and bears.
Taking chances that ran in his favor he soon
found himself a member of the Open Board
of Brokers and finally a member of the
Stock Exchange when the two united. He
closed out, realized and returned to Europe
with a new appointment and a good bank
account. During all this adventurous career
he made but one false step, namely, when he
passed from the oamp of Isabella into that
of Don Carlos, her rival for the throne.
Twenty-five years in Europe among dif
ferent nations has produced in the hero of
this romance a cosmopolitan of great versa
tility. "As a linguist," says a professor at
Johns Hopkins University, where he passed
two years, "few in our country equal him."
At his present home in Syracuse he follows
a simple course ot life totally at variance
with the pulsating tenor it had when he was
abroad. He is distinctively a bon vivant,
with a love for companionable books and
companionable men, and a man of varied
accomplishments. King Dom Louis con
ferred on Mr. Perkins two orders, viz:
Knight ot the Royal Military Order of Our
Lord Jesus Christ and Knight of the Royal
Military Order of Portugal of Our Lady of
the Conception Villa Vicosa.
ROMANCE OF THE HEROINE'S MOTHER.
It is a gratifying detail of this story that
it can be said Princess Maria Isabella,
though a Bourbon of the Bourbons, inher
ited none of the viler blood of Queen
Christina or her dissolute daughter Queen
Isabella, but is a singularly sweet and un
affected woman, whose private life was never
tainted by a word of reproach. Yet the ro
mance'ot her life, though not an escapade,
was a bequest from her mother's side. Her
father. Count Ignatius Gurowski, ran away
with her mother. When he appeared in
Paris at an early age his antecedents as the
juvenile champion of Polish freedom, com
bined with his handsome appearance, ele
gant manners and uncommon vivacity,
gained for him the entree into the most ex
clusive and fashionable society of the time.
It was at the house of the Duke de Capriola,
then Neapolitan envoy to Paris, that Count
Gurowski first met the Infanta Isabella.
The Infanta was only 20 and had hardly
been freed from domestic and conventional
restraint when the dashing political adven
turer made a deep impression on her plastic
mind and untried affections. The suit of
the irresistible Pole was not favored by Don
Francisco, who had placed his daughter in
the convent, while he resided at the Hotel
Gillifet, Rue de Grenelle. Their love mak
ing was carried on clandestinely, however,
and ended in the girl letting herself from
her window 20 feet to the ground, and then
the lovers fled to Belgium, where they found
a priest to wed them. The father attempted
to get rid ot his son-in-law, out nnally lor
gave him.
THEIRCHANOEABLE FORTUNES.
The "reunited 'pair returned at once to
Brussels, where they passed 11 years and
piled up a mountain of debt, which was
never razed. Then they transferred their
residence to Madrid, but after a sojourn of
two years the Count was accused of med
dling in politics and he was given notice to
quit the kingdom of Queeu Isabella. He
never returned, and until his death a few
weeks ago lived upon an allowance from his
wife, who never left the Spanish capital.
When Don Francisco and Isabella took up
their abode in Paris, the Count attached
himself to them, and shared their fortunes.
The Count Gurowski died a few years ago.
He was the brother of Adam Gurowski, a
Polish exile from Russian tyranny, who
was long a resident and well-known at
Washington during the war, a writer, a man
of genius and a lriend ot W. H. Seward.
The Infanta Isabella Fernandina still lives
at MndJid near the royal family, retired
from the glittering pomp and ceremony of
the court.
"The Princess Maria Isabella (Mrs. Per
kins) was educated at the Convent of the
bacred Heart at Orleans, France, under the
special care of the late Monseignor Dupan
loup, Archbishop and Senateur. The posi
tion taken by this magnate of the church on
the question of the infallibility of the Pope
some years ago, made his name known to
the whole world. It will be remembered
that he refused to accept this bull. After
much agitation he was called to Rome and
the result was peace.
TO MAKE HER HUSBAND A CATHOLIC.
The Princess is a devout and zealous
Catholic, and naturally used her persuasive
powers to convert her husband from Protes-
Alfonso XIII. and Mother.
tantism. In this effort she sought the in
fluence of her old preceptor, Monseignor
Dupanloup, who writes this characteristic
letter to his pupil:
Translation.
Madam I have the honor to send you the
letter of introduction you ask for.
Be a fervent Christian, and you will not fall
In a short time to make of your husband a good
Catholic
I bless you In our Savior,
Felec,
Bishop of Orleans.
These solicitations Mr. Perkins repulsed
in the kindly spirit in which they were
offered.
A gentleman who saw the Princess (Mrs.
Perkins) as "a bride on the day ot the mar
riage describes her as a woman of the finest
Bourbon cast. "She has," this observer
wrofe in a letter fortunately preserved, "hair
of lustrous brown, which falls nearly to her
feet. Her eyes are large and as soft and
blue as the azure sky of her native land.
Bedecked for the promenade or opera in the
graceful costume of her country, the black
mantilla over her coiffure, she is a vision of
be'autv fully up to the fabled beauties of
Andalusia." C. R. S.
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HOW STATESMEN WOO
Romantic Episodes in the Lives of
Public Ilea We All Know.
INGALLS LOVED AT FIRST SIGHT.
Mrs.
Cleveland Quoted as Saying
Groyer Proposed Five Times.
Her
ALGER'S BORROWED SUIT OF CLOTHES
tCOEBESPOaDESClt OF TnE DISPATCH.!
Washington, March 8.
HE greatest of our
men are made by
their wives and there
pre few great states
men in public life
whose careers are not
closely connected
with the women they
marry. Senator In
galls 'never makes a
great speech without
Mrs. Ingalls is in the
gallery, and the
greater part of Sam
Randall's Congres
sional work has been
done in his study at home, with his wife's
tewing machine along beside his library
desk, Mrs. Reagan is her husband's pri
vate secretary, and Mrs. Representative
SDringer advises the Honorable William as
to every act of his political career. It is
perhaps due to Mrs. Ingalls that Senator
Ingalls has his seat in that chamber to-day.
She kept him put of public life until he was
a big enough man to represent the whole
State of Kansas and he might have gone
into the House if it had not been for her.
It was many years ago that he was offered
a Congressional nomination. He tele
graphed his wife of the fact and she wired
a reply: "Don't accept." He took this ad
vice, though his friends and hers said he
was foolish for doing so, and he held off
until that remarkable Senatorial election
occurred in which Subsidy Pomeroy was
charged with having bribed the Legislature
and a big man was needed to jump into his
place. Ingalls was then ready and he got
the position which he has held for three
terms and which he can have again if he
wishes.
SENATOR INGALLS ROMANCE.
The romance of Senator Ingalls was one
of love at first sight. He was a struggling
young lawyer of Kansas, and had hung out
his shjngle in o little town above Atchison.
He paid no attention to the women, and the
flowers of the frontier wasted their sweet
ness upon other nostrils than his. One dav
he was asked to be groomsman at a friend's
wedding, and while so acting he saw that
one of the bridesmaids was exceedingly
fair. He was introduced to her as Miss
Anna Cheeseborough and he learned that
she was the daughter of a New York mer
chant who had come to Atchison to live.
In company with her he journeved for a day
with the new bride and groom and Cupid
got in his work to such an extent that the
two separated each in love with the other.
Ingalls made arrangements to call, and
after a short courtship he popped the ques
tion and received an acceptable answer. He
was a candidate for State Senator at this
time, and it was a curious thing that his
prospective father-in-law was running for
the same office. Miss Cheeseborough had
to stand the fires ot the friends of her lover
and her father, but young Ingalls won, and
as Mrs. Ingalls says, her "sins were for
given" and her father consented to her mar
rying his political rival.
CLEVELAND PROPOSED FIVE TIMES.
I am able to give some inside information
about ex-President Cleveland's romance.
At the time of the wedding the mouths of
the President and his wife were as tight as
that of a clam concerning their love affair.
None of their friends knew much about
their courtship and they went on the princi
ple of the great German proverb, that
'Speech is silver, but silence is goiden."
The wedding is still gossiped about here,
and the womeuronounce it a love match
while the men invariably take the ground
that the White House had a good deal to do
with Mrs. Cleveland's acceptance. It seems
that the men are somewhat in the right, and
a lady who lately returned from a wedding
trip to the Continent gives one of my friends
a conversation which she had with Mrs.
Cleveland not long ago. The storv as it
comes to me is quite spicy, and I do not
vouch that the report of the talk is verbatim.
I give it as I heard it. This lady said:
"I met Mrs. Cleveland shortly after I
landed in New York, and one of the first
questions she asked me was to pray tell her
how long I was engaged before I was mar
ried. I answered her and told her the story
of our courtship. She listened with interest
and when I was through I concluded that I
would learn something from her in return.
I asked:
MRS. CLEVELAND'S OWN STORY.
'"Mrs. Cleveland, I have seen a great
many stories about your marriage, and the
most I have seen have been contradicted by
you or your friends. I have told you my
story and now I want you to tell me yours.
How long were you engaged to the Presi
dent before you were married?"
"Airs. Cleveland laughed and blushed
and said:
" 'Oh, there is the most ridiculous stories
told about us, but, honestly, they are hardly
as funny as it really was. Uncle Grover
proposed to me five times before I accented
him. First, when I was 14, and I just
laughed at the idea, for he seemed so much
older. Then again two years later, when I
went to college; and the third time when he
was elected Governor of New York. I was
by no means ready to marry anyone, and he
let things go for a year, or until he was
nominated lor the Presidency. Then he
asked me again, and I again refnsed. At
last he was elected and I promised to marry
him in a year. Of course I always liked
him better than anyone else, and I always
meant to marry bim some day, but I'll own
the White House had something to do with
hurrying it up.' "
ALGER'S BORROWED CLOTHES.
General Aleer, of Michigan, was here the
other day. His pocketbook is now heavy,
his check is good for millions, his face looks
happy and his heart seems whole. It wears,
however, the scars of a youthful romance,
and he will never forget the troubles of his
boyhood love. He was a law student at
Akron, O., and he fell in love before he had
finished Blackstone. He had only money
enough to live on and his ladylove was the
daughter of a rich but hard-hearted old
chap of a father.
This man had a slight opinion of Russell
Alger and he had no better Opinion of the
law. He was wont to say that Buss Alger
would never amonnt to anything, and every
morning he said to his daughter that she
had better drop Alger for he would never
earn his salt. It was when things were in
this condition that the girl gave a party.
She invited Alger. His clothes were poor,
however, and there were no suits for rent in
Akron. Alger did not dare go to the party
with poor clothes and he finally borrowed a
suit from a brother lawyer. He wore it to
the hbuse and danced until morning in it.
It happened that his friend had left the
town for a visit and Alger
STRUTTED AROUND FOB A WEEK;
in his borrowed clothes. The old man, how
ever, learned the story, and he went home
and gave his daughter to understand that
she must give up Alger at once. He made
sucn a lace about the matter that she
dropped him at once, and a year later
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married one of his friends. Alger, how
ever, was soon comforted. He married a
friend of his old sweetheart, and moved with
her to a little town in Michigan, where he
built a loghouse for $20 and set out his
shingle. He lived in this loghouse for 14
years, but soon turned from law to lumber,
and, though during the first year of his
career as a lumberman he was obliged to
borrow SO cents to help get his raft of lum
ber into the river, he it now worth his mill-'
ions, and it is said that he made $3,000,000
at one turn last year.
Senator Matt Ransom cot his first start as
a politician through his courtship with Miss
Hattie Exum, who was a noted belle of the
Roanoke Valley. The Senator was then a
Whig, and a candidate for the Attorney
Generalship of the State. He had many
friends, and-the story was noised about that
his sweetheart had said she wqnld marry
him if he was elected. His friends then
came gallantly to his support and he was
elected.
HOW SENATOR EVARTS COURTED.
Senator Evarts married the daughter of
Governor Wardner, ot Vermont. He
courted ber as a school boy, and he became
engaged at 16 among the hills ot her father's
farm. He did not marry until he had a
good start in life, and he was 25 before his
wedding took place. Senator Edmunds
married the niece of the Hon. George P.
Marsh, who was one of our ministers to
Italy. Senator Dawes met his wife while he
was teaching school. She was one of his
pupils, and he married her after her gradu-
ation. Senator Teller married a girl who
lived in the same town in which he was
brought up in New York, and Frank His
cock got the money which enabled him to
encage in a political career by his marriage
with pretty Cornelia King, who now pre
sides ovcr'his Washington establishment.
Senator Payne is largely indebted to his
wile for his millions. She was the daughter
of an old farmer, who had a large amount of
land near Cleveland, O. Payne was a poor
lawyer when he married her. The city
grew, and Mrs. Payne's father's farm in
cluded the lands which now make np the
most fashionable part of Euclid avenue.
LOVES OF SHERMAN AND CAMERON.
Senator Sherman was married when he
was 25. His wife has lived with him dur
ing his 35 years' residence at Washington,
and she is one of the finest looking women
at the capital. Tall, straight and brown
haired, she has rosy cheeks and bright
brown eyes and a graceful and stately form.
She was the daughter ot Jadge Stewart, of
Mansfield, O., and the Hon. Thomas Bart
ley, who afterward became the Governor of
the State, was one of John Sherman's rivals
There is a story told at Mansfield ofthow the
two went to see Miss Stewart at the same
time while she was attending a Pennsyl
vania female seminary, and how they nar
rowly escaped meeting. Sherman, however,
won the maiden, and Bartley, I think, mar
ried Senator Sherman's sister.
Speaking of Sherman, calls attention to
the fact that Don .Cameron married John
Sherman's niece. Mrs. Cameron is one of
the prettiest and most accomplished women
of Washington. She must be about 33
years of age, but she does not look over 25.
She is a great favorite in diplomatic circles
and
LIKES TO GO INTO SOCIETY
as much as her husband likes to stay out of
it. She was the daughter of Judge Sher
man, of Cleveland. Don Cameron met her
here while she was visiting her Uncle Jnhn.
He proposed and she accepted, notwith
standing the Senator has some daughters
nearly as old as she is. The wedding took
place at Cleveland, O., and was one of the
most brilliant ever held in that city of
millionaires.
Senator Bruce, who has just been ap
pointed Recorder of Deeds ot the District
of Columbia, was married at about the same
time at Cleveland to the pretty octoroon who
presides over his Washington household.
Bruce got the best part of his education at
Oberlin, O., and I think that Mrs. Bruce
was attending school there at the same time.
After she finished her education she came
to Cleveland to teach school and she was
acting as a school teacher almost up to the
time of her marriage. She is a woman of
more than ordinary attainments and her
complexion is no darker than that of many
tne wnite laaies ot w asmngton.
A MICHIGAN ROMANCE.
Another romance is that of ex-Senator
Conger. Conger was a young Ohio lawyer
and he was practicing at the town of Ra
venna, not far from Akron, when he fell in
love with Miss Stella Humphreys, the
daughter of the Judge Humphreys who pre
sided over the court at that time. He was
poor and Miss Humphreys was rich, and the
success of his suit was by no means assured.
One of his first cases was a breach of promise
suit and he was trying it before Judge
Humphreys. He made a stirring, spread
eagle speech, denouncing the claims of the
girl to the hand of his client and ridiculing
tbs maiden in no moderate terms.
When he had finished his speech the op
posing lawyer arose and turned his shafts of
ridicule upon Mr. Conger. He referred to
his unsuccessful suit with Miss Stella
Humphreys, and made so much fun of him
that the tnture Senator laid his arm down
on the table and bent his head upon It and
cried. He left the court room without com
pleting the trial and went off to Michigan to
make his fortune. In time, however,
HIS HEART HEALED OVER
and he married a Michigan girl and had a
family by her. He was elected to Congress
and finally came to the Senate. His wite
died and he was here as a bachelor Senator.
Mis3 Stella Humphreys also married, and
her husband moved out to the West, made
something of a fortune and died. The
widow, to drown her grier, took a trip
through the East, and among other ulaces
visited Washington. Going into thSenate
gallery out of idle curiosity, she saw sitting
below her a man whom she thought she
knew. It was Senator Conger.
She sent her card to him. He came up to
the gallery. The two chatted over old times,
and after an hour's conversation the old
flames of love began again to burn. Senator
Conger asked permission to call, and.after a
short time another engagement was made
which was fulfilled. The two now live very
nicely at Washington and they are one of
the most loving couples at the capital.
THE MARRIAGE OF SENATOR LAMAR.
The romance of Justice Lamar is some
what similar. The marriage, you know, took
place a few years ago while Lamar was Sec
retary ot the Interior. Lamar fell in love as
boy with Miss Henrietta Dean, who was
then a beautiful and accomplished girl of
16. The two were engaged, but they had a
lovers' quarrel and parted in anger. Anoth
er suitor for the lady's hand came to the
front and he married her before Lamar was
able to make up the quarrel. Lamar was
married and his wile died and he then mar
ried his first love, who had become a widow
and who was wealthy through the fortune
left her by her first husband.
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CHAPTEr. XVII. '
THE REVENGE OF ME rEOrLE.
"Lord," whispered Baruch, "Lord, I did
ask naught of theo and thou hast given me
all!"
He uttered these words In an awed, breath
less voice; with the manner of a man who
spoke to some person quite near him. His
face was upturned; his bands were clasped;
he had fallen upon his knees.
Ariella stood before him, shining and
sweet; she smiled while Baruch prayed.
But his mother wept for joy, and bowed her
head upon her hands. The man born blind
had said: "My mother, I behold theel Thou
hast a dear countenance. Let me look upon
it while I can."
This was hou'3 ago, and still the wonder
held. No return of their lifelong darkness
had visited those afflicted eyes. As the
night had passed on, the rather Baruch testi
fied that his vision clarified. From cloud
and haze, and floating, shining spots, and
wavering phantasms, and dizzy vagaries of
light and shade, firm outline grew, and per
spective took her place, and the laws of op
tics slowly and surely asserted themselves.
After the first thrill of delight in the sight
of Ariella and the natural movement of
tenderness toward his mother, profound
religious emotion had seized the devout
nature of the blind man. He had passed
much of the night in a rapture of prayer
which the two women dared not disturb.
"Let him alone," whispered Rachel
through her happy tears, "give him his way.
He always liked it as well as men with
eyes. Praying is safe business and keeps
him out of harm's way, till his sight be
stronger, if, praise to God, it doth remain )
THE TEYSTINO PLACE
unto him. But for my part, I had rather he
slept for a space. There's nothing weareth
upon the eyes like watching."
"I would that he were here who hath per
formed this marvel," murmured Ariella.
"He woulidirect us what to do. He know
eth all things."
"If that be the case he knows enough to
manage his own cures," retorted Rachel's
practical sense. "Would that he were here
that I might fall down and worship him!
But I should leave him to attend to his own
affairs. I should not say: Lord, shall my
sou do thus? Must my son do so? Women
do displease men by that manner of prattle;
and 1 suppose ne is a man alter an, added
Rachel. "I'm sure I don't know what else
to call him."
While the women whispered together,
Baruch silently prayed on. Toward morn
intr Ariella slipped away to her own couch
and slept; for she was weary with the ac
cumulating excitement ol the day. To the
invalid, for years confined to the little
world of the sick room, the recent events of
lile were nothing less than tremendous.
Her scale of estimate was so fine that such
experiences were to her soul as wars to the
history of nations. The cure of the blind
man crowning the wbole,almost Btunned the
girl. She slept from sheer exhaustion, long
and heavily.
Mother and son remained together in the
familiar room. Rachel watched Baruch
like a tigress her young. Baruch seemed
almost unconscious ot her. He had fallen
into a spiritual ecstacy. Truly it seemed
that this unusual man cared "less in that
hour of his deliverance from the worst of
human afflictions for the newly revealed
and precious power of sight than he did
that the attitude of his own soul toward the
source of this incredible mercy might be
the right one. He was, in short, too nearly
overcome with gratitude to God and to the
Healer to be trivially divested by the mar
vels of vision.
"It thou would'st stop praying long
enough to get a nap," suggested hi3 mother
at last, "thou could'st begin again after
ward." "I do but srrow stronger as I nrav." re.
plied Baruch gently. "Behind my eye
balls I feel weakness strengthen, and
power cometb upon me, as if it were the
moving of an unseen force. But thou art
my mother, and I obey thee."
With these childlike words, Baruch
turned like a little boy, laid his head upon
his mother's knees, and slept. Rachel put
her thin, elderly bands upon his cnrling
hair. Her tears fell silently. She dared
not move. She sat till dawn, and blessed
him. Only she who has borne an afflicted
child can' understand the thoughts of
Rachel.
Commotion ruled the house of Malachi.
It was morning; in fact the banners of the
early day were well unfurled upon the fair
est ol skies and unto the gayest of breezes.
It was a cool day, when the people are ear
ly astir in Eastern countries, and the crowd
in front of the house was larger thanisual.
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Continued From Last Sunday.
Rumor had gone softly, but had whispered
that unusual occurrences were tasing place
within the house of the Pharisee. It was
impossible to make out what; and curiosity
invented tale upon tale.
The fact was nothing more than Malachi's
discovery of the flight ot Ariella. Of thii
event'H.ijaar, her mother, was the most in
nocent woman alive. She had waked her
lord from bis sonorous slumbers at a lata
hour with the agitated announcement that
the bed of Ariella was empty. Malacht
sprang and cursed. Hagaar" paled and
weDt. He stormed and commanded. She
searched and sighed. He accused her of
complicity in the trick. She denied it in
the name of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
lv the souls of the prophets, and by
the house ot David. He fell into a furv,
and she dropped upon her knees. He made
as if he would have rushed from the house
to discover and secure the maiden. But 3
glance at the gathering mob in front of his
gates withstood him. In vain Hagaar en
treated him shrewdly: "Go, my lord; go
forth! Hasten and seek thy daughter, lest
harm befall her. Go thou and gain news of
Ariella, or my heart will be broken within
me."
"Nay then, since thou askest, that I will
not!" retorted her husband, "the damsel
may go hang herself for aught I will bestir
myself for her!"
At this moment the clamor of the people
arose shrilly: "The maidenl The maidenl
Give us news of the maiden on whom the
miracle was wrought. Come forth, Malachi,
tbou double-faced Pharisee, and account for
her!"
Upon thi3 Malachi flung open the door.
His disordered appearance add agitated face
added to the jeers of the crowd. As soon a3
he began to speak, a hum of sarcastic sym
pathy arose.
"Poor fellow," cried a rough voice, "we
AT THE PALACE.
are come to mourn with him over his domes
tic misfortunes. Such a calamity is it an
invalid daughter!"
"And mine, O my neighbors," protested
Malachi, "is greatly increased by her in
firmity. Ariella "lieth in my house, the
most helpless, whining woman of them all.
But I may not upbraid her, tor I fear me for
the nature of her disease which groweth
violent upon her. I do ereatlv fear me that
r this sickness is unto death. Condole with
me, O my neighbors, and spare me these
numerous expressions of your sympathy; go
ye your ways, I do entreat you, and leave
an afflicted household in peace unto itself."
At this instant the crowd parted with a
kind of electric shock. The wildest voice
hushed. Not a word was spoken. In the
silence of stupefaction the people divided to
the right and to the left and fell back.
Straight through them, erect, strong, fair,
and smiling, walked Ariella. She was led
by Baruch, the man born blind. He turned
his face upon his neigbors, with bright,
conscious, seeing eyes. Behind them
walked Rachel, quivering with joy.
"Behold," she cried shrilly, "behold my
son who was born as blind as any mummy
in the sepulchres of Egypt. No man ia
Bethany seeth better than Baruch seeth on
this day. Tne Nazarene hath wrought the
deed. Behold the maiden whom he hath
healed. Behold my son to whom he hath
civen eyes that nature did deny him. Be
hold BaruchI Behold Ariella! Bless the
Nazarene?"
"The Nazarene! The Nazarene!"
The crowd took up the cry. It rose and
swelled with a mighty shout. The morning
air throbbed with it.
"He hath wrought a wonder in our midst,
such as no man knoweth of until this day.
Where is the Naztrene? Bless him! Crown
himl Call him! Jesus or Nazareth bo
glorified in Bethany from this hour!"
But Ariella and Baruch fell upon their
knees at the sound of that precious name;
and there among all the people they offered
thanks nnto Jehovah because ot him; and
forgot the people and forgot the clamor, and
remembered nothing but their own once
miserable plight, and his power and mercy
who had snatched them from it.
But the mood of the people wa3 not so
solemn; and another cry quickly replaced
the name of the Nazarene: "Malachil
Malachi, tho Phariseel Have him outl
Have out the father who denieth the marvel
wrought upon his "daughter, and tricketh
the people of Bethany and ot Jerusalem.
Have bim out unto us!"
Before any calmer spirit could interfere,
the roughs of the crowd had burst open the
door of the house and seized the cursing
shaking Malachi from behind a curtain
wherie- he had ingloriously hidden. They
had him out indeed. They tore him out and
tossed him to and fro, and, in default of a
pool to plunge him In, fetched water and
soused him smartly till he was like to
drown. In the sputtering and exhausted
condition consequent on this treatment, they
rolled him down the hill till he was clothed
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