The Portland daily press., 1892-07-06

dill ucE 1dulUS, III SUll1 remains GfuS blal
the poet might well have said of her:
i''n to her lot some common errors fall,
Look on her face and you'll forget them ALL"
The young daughter, whom Mrs. Pot
ter deserted three years ago this month,
has now blossomed out into beautiful,
refined and intelligent maiden, worthy
of the surroundings which her fathers
means and social position and her
lineage on his side at least, have pro-
vided for her. Since his wifes departure
from his home and his country the
course of this man has been one which
has excited much interest. He has
lived quietly in his cottage in Tuxedo,
has attended strictly to his business in
the coffee trade at the foot of Wall
street, and has gone about the world in
a quiet, dignified manner, thoroughly
ignorant, to all appearances, of any
reason to the contrary. He is man
now, should judge, of some forty
three or forty-fve years of age, quiet in
manner, brown-haired, brown-eyed,
beardless and wearing mustache. Mr..
Potter is exceedingly particular about
his raiment, and his personal habits are
refined to a degree. All the devo-
ton that father could lavish upon
daughter he has delighted to give to
his. When his friends have asked him
whether he proposed to take proceed
ings to secure divorce from this wom-
an, who insisted upon dragging his
name in the dirt of three continents, he
is declared to have said that so long as
he took no overstep to put on record the
disgrace of his daughters mother there
need be no record of it to which her
friends and acquaintance in after life
could have cause to call her attention;
that the social world winks at canlzers
which are known to all, and are yet
smothered under the decent garb Of
semi-secrecy, while the first rash hand
which lays them bare serves no better
end than to make them more ignomini-
Gus and excite public scorn and denun-
| ciation.
Mr.. Potter belongs to the famous Pot
ter family of which the bishop is the
head and to which the Browns of bank
ing fame are closely allied. Under the
terms of will now in force, Mr.. Pot
ter is, understand, at no very distant
date to come into quite a handsome
! competency, and I have heard that
within year or two offers Of consid-
erable sum in cash were made through
firm of New York lawyers to Mrs.
| Potter in return for her abandon
ment of the name she has borne
only to disgrace. These overtures re-
suited in nothing and it is the very
irony of fate that Australia and India
| IT, nd
and Ceylon and Japan and China should
have heard of the names of Brown and
Potter, both entitled to respect on the
American continent, only through the
fictitious title of such woman to bear
them It was, believe, the inadequacy
of her husbands income to maintain
her in the social state whichshe thought
was her due that, according to Mrs.
Potter, first inspired in her mind that
discomfort which led to her subsequent
adoption of the stage career. If, as she
then said, she adopted the dramatic
profession for the money she could
make out of it, in her present
almost penniless condition, as
hear in London, she must be victim
of remorse. At the time that she
made this objection to her husbands
means, beside the moderate income
from investment to which he was en-
titled, hehad, Ihenr, even then this hand
some expectancy, and was also making
at least six or eight Thousand dollars a
year in his business. The home she for
feited, the daughter she cast off, and, to
put it on its very lowest basis, the in
come of twelve or fifteen thousand dol
lars which she might now be enjoying
in that home and with that daughter,
must at present look exceedingly attrac-
tive to this would be Cleopatra. The
cable reports that she feels bitterly
toward the United States, and says that
she has too many enemies and critics to
think of returning here. 1t must be re-
membered that she has only what she
has made for herself, and that no hon
orable men, at least, are disposed to put
an obstacle in the way of an erring,
misguided woman who seeks forgive
ness.
YOUNG GoULD's ENGAGEMENT.
The announcement of young Edward
Gould's engagement to the daughter OF
DR.. George r. shrady, Of this city, will
call renewed dUCcuDlOn 10 GQe Illl1IOu-
aire wizard and his affairs. Mr.. Ed
ward Gould is twenty-six years of age.
He has his fathers swarthy complex
ion greatly intensified, and his beard
and hair are of the unmistal1able Gould
type. He is in no sense handsome
young man. There is something of the
pirate in the dark and forbidding coun-
tenance of Edward, while George, the
elder brother, is a truly handsome and
attractive person. A great deal has
been said in the newspapers from time
to time about young Edwards remark
able business capacity. The fact is that
Edward was never studious boy, and
while yet at Columbia college he under
took to do some speculating on his own
account. When his father discovered
it the youth protested that he preferred
a business career to professional one,
and SO he was taken into the Western
Union building, where his talents, such
as they are, have been utilized.
But he really has no great aptitude,
however much fondness he NAV have