The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22

the cabin were several handsome silk dresses, a vase of exquisite wax flowers under a glass shade, and a beautifully carved shell. All these fell to the share | of Tillett, with the portrait, and all were in the possession of Mrs. Mann at the time of pr, Pools visits.
 Miss Pool thus describes the portrait as 1t hung upon the rough upholstered wall of Mrs Mann's humble home: "The picture, apparently the portrait of a woman in flower of her youth was an oil painting on wood, about twenty inch | es in length, enclosed in gilded frame | faded and tarnished with age. The | face, which presented a three-quarter view, was striking and beautiful. The graceful boise of the head, the proud l and naughty expression of the brilliant dark eyes, a shade darker than the au- burn hair above, the classic mold or the | features, the refinement and intellectu- ality so unmistakably stamped on the whole told of aristocratic birth ana me ! mental endowments The bust, uneon- fined by corset, was partly concealed by a white bodice, rich with lace"
 According to Miss Pool, two criminals executed in Norfolk, Va, confessed to having taken part in the murder or Theodosia Burr. And two sailors, one dying in Texas, and one in a Michigan poorhouse Cor Detroit hospitaD made deathbed confessions to the same ef- feet. The latter said her face had haunted him ever since and gave him no rest She told them who she was' and pleaded for her life, but finding her prayer unavailing, she refused to be blindfolded was the last to step over the ships side and met her doom calmly and fearlessly. However we may execrate the memory of Aaron Burr, 1t would be indeed hard heart that does not pity the unfortunate father as the slow, pitiless days dragged by and brought him no tidings of the daughter whom he so longed to see The one pure unselfish passion of his heart was for this beautiful, accom- plished woman, who had shared his triumphs and his reverses with equal dignity and devotion. To him she seemed endowed with all possible graces of body, mind and soul: to her he was the loving father, the brilliant statesman, the calumniated patriot In his darkest hours she upheld him, and when he returned from exile his heart yearned for her as hers for him. She needed his consolation, for she had just before lost her young son, so leav- ing her husband, and home she started alone on the ill-fated voyage. The portrait was to be gift to her father.
 Most members of the Burr and Ed wards families have seen this portrait, or photographs taken from it. Most of them believe 1t to be that of Theodosia Burr. It has been compared with other portraits of her, and critical judges consider 1t to be of the same person It bears a strong resemblance also, to portraits of many other women of the Edwards line, A reproduction of 1t ap- peared In the magazine. with Miss Pools article. This picture bears neither date nor name of artist, says the writer but though bearing every mark of age, it is still in an excellent state of preservation.
 A FAMOUS" AUTHOR,
 "Who grasped at earthly fame grasped wind
 So wrote the author of "The Course of of Time" possibly in q inomen of keen appreciation of its vanity and empti- ness. n
 One wonders what John RuslSin thought of his fame in his own country and among his own people, when he received a letter that had wandered long in search of him. The letter was written by an admirer in Scotland and | plainly addressed to
 "The Learned Mir Ruskin,
 "The Famous Author,
 "Englapd."
 Then It went travelling about from 1 one English city to another for nine | days-a nine days wonder to Postoffice clerks who knew nc learned Mir Rus kin. At last they gave up the search and sent the letter back to Edinburg where a canny Scotch official who knew more about famous English authors | than the Englishrnen, redlrected it to | MT, Ruskln to Christ Church College, Oxford, From thence 1t was sent to his home at Ambleside. But 1t is a comment on contemporaneous fame that would make cynic smile
 HILARY.