The times., 1897-08-03

| Eight or nine years ago Franck Brown
! was married to Susie Dawson, a daughter
OF Mr.. Thomas Dawson. the present chief
| clerk OF the Interior Department. She
was very attractive young girl, accom-
| pished, handsome, and had host of
| Brown at that time was a handsome
| young fellow, not nearly as stout as he is
| now, and he wooed Miss Dawson With
ardor for several years before they We're
finally married.
From stock brokers' clerk he became
stock broker himself, and with the
rapid life He rrequented theaIeTs, took
actresses tc supper, and spent money al
most as fast as he made it. In fact,
later developments show, faster than
he made it. Il good deal OF it was other
peoples money, and he had what New
Yoriiers would call a regular good time
A year or more ago his STOCK bTOking
firm went under, and then 1t developed
that he had lost sornethingl like $50, 900 OF
other peoples money.
Not long after that and while he vas in
China Madge Dean, the pretty actress, who
had played the part OF Willie Grow, the
gilded youth, IN Hoyts "A Trip TO China
town. brought suit for divorce against
him, alleging that she was his wife. She
stated that when she met Brown he had
wooeG and finally won her, and that their
married life continued harmoniously until
she lea,ned by chance that he had pre-
viously contracted a marriage with Miss
Dawson. She mad also learned that her
gay Mr. Brown W as the father of an enter
prising yourg lady five years of age
or course everybody in Washington was
surprised, exceps those who, observing
Browns rapid pace, AMI his peuchant for
actresses. had looked for some such thing
to happen
Browns defense, made by way of China,
was that he was married TO the
charming little actress, but that he
had contracted the theatrical alliance
when the ideas in his mind were some
what confused, and when he as incompe-
tent to act owing to drunkenness" twas
further stated by his friends out of court
that he had spent something like $685.
600 on Arlss Dean, and that both wives had
been kept in bliSsfuI unconsciousness of the
others existence for nearly two years.
Mrs. Dean Brown further contemplated, it
issaId, an action for bigamy, and Mrs. Daw-
s)nB-own set about instituting a suit for
divorce
All this tine Brown was in China peni.
tent and scared sending letters home by
every ship - his Washington wife. and per
haps sub rosa TO his actress spouse In the
In No hp hat his
offenses be ondoned and that he be al
lowed 10 cross her threshold. He Insisted
that once fast tied to Madge Dean he had
believed it nece ssary to con ntinue the
deception, and so had wrecked his domestic
happiness.
For long time Mrs. Dawson Brown was
obdurate. She held out no enCoura cement !
and, acting upon the advice Of her |
friends, she refused 10 lie reconciled and !
withdraw her suit. So time Iassed un-
til few weeks ago Brown, who in the |
meantime hasbeen free under bonds offered |
by his counsel, returned from China and !
took up his residence in New York. Since |
then he has made it regular thing to |
visit Washington every Sunday, and his |
friends knowingly shake their heads and |
say, 1t viii be all right; she viii take him |
back"
Frank Brown was in Washington last |
night. He would talk entertainingly OF /
China of his business. OF anything except |
his domestic affairs, and upon this sub
ject he modestly begged to be excused
HIS business in the Flowery Kingdom
he is in the employment of Louis Spitzel |
s Co, contractors-he says is wholly occu-
pying his time and attention. 1t is busi-
ness, strictly business, which brings him
back to America and causes him to come
to Washington at this time, but what
kind of business he refuses TO say.
He would entirely change the direction
1f Horace Greeley's advice. and say, Go
east, Young man. In China are vast on
portunities and resources which are Just
being brought to light. The ChInaman he |
believes to have brighter in tellect than |
the japanese, only the latter have been
Inst TO adopt modern ideas and methods.
[t only remains for China to Join the
procession Cinnamon are beginning To
regard foreigners with a more friendly
feeling, and tue American is his model
Mt Brown Is going to return to China 50
ne says, but when he does not know.