The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
LovE-LoRN MR.. JONES.
Remarkable Antics at Detroit OF the
Qufxottc senator from Florida
BreYiOuS lExnloifa.

a Detroit correspondent of The Phild-
delphta Press writes: Senator Jones, tits
generally believed by the people of this
city, is insane. No one speaks to him;
he is completely ostracised by society of
all kinds. avoided and deprived of all
human sympaty. Even the Catholic
church and its priests have deserted
him, although he is a member of that
sect. His state %repudiates him. The
United States senate has eliminated his
name from all committees, and has
practically closed its doors against him.
He is a man without a country, without
a home, without a friend, and his case
is the most dcspicable in some respects
and the saddest In others in all history.
Senator Jones' rooms arc on the par
Tor floor of the Russell house, the best
suite in the hotel. Here he enters,
throws open the blinds and windows,
stations himself in front of Il large mir
ror, which he ima@ines to be the senate
chamber, and makes long, vigorous,
and lusty speeches, while people gather
on the walk below to witness the
strange spectacle. His s%elf-vanity is
boundless; he struts up and dowr be-
fore the glass in Il pompous manner,
making sweeping gestures and oratori-
cal ilo%urishcs. He dresses like a dandy,
walks Il half-dozen times per day up and
down Jefferson e in front of the
Palms mansion, maintaining the form
of silent persecution with unvarylng
regularity.
He does not know Miss Palms by
sight. He has passed her twenty times
on the street without recognizing her.
Often on such occasions he has glanced
at her squarely without showing the
least visible symptoms of recognition.
This conclusively demonstrates the fact
which has been presented to him by the
friends Of the lady, without sparing
whatever profanity there exists in the
language, that he has only 4 besotted
ideal in his mind which Miss Palms no
more resembles than the man in the
moon. This is the painting of Char
lotte Corday IN the Corcoran art gallery.
Miss Palms is 4 charming young lady,
probably superior in personal charac-
terist;cs to such an ideal, but possessing
but little of the facial beauty depicted
in the painting.
In order to show why the senator
does not know Miss Palms by sight it
Is necessary to relate correctly some
facts which have heretofore been put
before the public in a garbled, hearsay
form. Senator Jones and the Palms
family are Catholics. In the winter of
1883, Miss Palms was visiting at the
house of Mrs. Sands, in Washington,
who formerly lived in Detroit. Mrs.
Sands is a Catholic, and at her residence
it was customary for leading society
people OF that sect to congregate. At
one of these gatherings Senator Jones
casually met Miss Palms. He was
merely presented to the young lady and
no conversation cnsued. During the
following summer Senator Jones stop
ped ut the Devon house in Newport.
At the same hotel ex-N1ayor w. G..
Thompson, of Detroit, was also 4 guest.
The gentlemen were introduced. and ia
the course OF some desultory CONVERSE
ton Mr.. Thompson, who naturally
presumed that 4 United States senator
was deserving of the courtesy. invited
the Eyerglade representative to call
upon him if he should chance to pass
through Detroit. Mrs. Thompson, nee
Miss Compau, is a double cousin of
Miss Palms by a double marriage in the
Palms and Campau families.
In the fall of the same year Senator
Jones passed through Detroit and was
invited to Il dinner party at the Thomp-
son where he again was presented to
Miss Palms, but nc particular CONVEX
sation was carried on between them.
The next day he called on the young
lady, proposed marriage. and was in
dignantly rejected. All of this occurred
SO long ago that the facial features of
the lady have completely escaped from
the senator's mental imagery, if he ever
had any.
Up to last June the senator made
several visits to this city. He was in
vited by the Sister Superior to deliver
an address for the benefit of the Char
ity Orphan asylum. and on his way
home after the Chicago convention
made the address. He stopped here
on several occasions, continuing a Sc
we're persecution of the young lady at
all times. He wrote to her daily after
his rejection the most endearing letters,
which were placed in an envelope and
remailed to him. When in Washing
ton he sent to her reams of his speeches
and all newspaper articles about him
good, bad, and Indifferent. all of which
were returned to him by express. When
in:Detroit he sen flowers to her daily,
which were returned to him by the
messenger. Last june he arrived here
and registered at the Russell house,
where he has been the hotels best Gus
toner ever since-so good a customer
that naturally the proprietors oppose
any move to have him taken away.
From the moment of his last arrival
his presents of flowers, deluge of let
tiers, and walks in front Of the Palms
mansion were kept up with wonderful
perseverance. Finally the friends of
the lady devised a scheme to ppre
some of the persecution. At their adj
vice Miss Palms drew her pen through
her name on the letters and packages.