The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-01-28
ROMANCE IN sICKLEs' LIFE.
Accompanied by His Daughter
Whom He Had Not Seen I'm FifteeI

Accompanied BY His Daughter
Whom He Had Not Seen in Fifteen
Years.
Miss Eda Sickles, the twenty-one-
year-old daughter Of Gen. Sickles, is n
young girl of Spanish type, of bcauti-
full face and figure. brownish-black
hair and deep black eyes fringed with
long eyelashes. She is adored by ev-
cry one in the party of the generals.
She wOrshiEs her father, and she is
the 'apple of his eye" She has only
been in America a few weeks, and she
speaks English imperfectly. She has
lived all her life in a convent in Mad
lid, Spain, and the story of it is like
this:
When Gen. Sickles was United
States minister to Spain under Gen.
Grant, he married a beautiful senorita
of excellent family. Two children
were born of the marriage-a boy,
George Stanton Sickles and Eda Sick
les. When Gen. Sickles was ready to
return to America his Spanish wife
preferred to remain. and her father, a
wealthy old Spanish nobleman, made
his will, providing that the boy and
girl should inherit all his riches pro-
vided they should remain in Spain UNI
til they We're of age, the boy to stay
with his mother and the girl to be ed
ucated in a convent. The daughter be-
came of age a little more than Il
month ago. and she and her brother
sailed at cnce for America. WheT,
they reached New DIRK they learned
that their father was out in the coun-
try making political speeches and
would return the X day. They were
at the Grand Central Station to meet
him. The meeting between the old
general and his daughter, whom he
had not seen since she was six years
old, was thus described by a newspa-
per in New York:
LAS Gen. Sickles alighted from the
train and walked down the platform. a
young girl with a beautiful face and
figure, stepped forward and exclaimed,
in a sweet. well modulated voice: is
not this Gen. Sickles?' He bowed and
answered.: 1T is Thereupon the girl
looked him straight in the eyes. ex-
claiming, with n merry laugh, which
revealed two rows of perfect teeth:
Don't you know me?' The general
tSdlu bDN lIS, anu tHlS tlDlc Su1lllIS.
also. said: Pardon. but | must con-
fess and also regret that you have the
advantage The young girl, not a bit
embarrassed, looked at the general
affectionately, and replied:
look at me. Don't you know me
Don't you know your daughter, EdaT
Then the general clasped her to his
breast"
A few days after this meeting Gen.
Sickles started out on his present tour,
and his son and daughter went with
him. 1t is affecting to see with what
love and alteration the daughter looks
upon her father. She is always by his
side when he makes a speech. The
sight of the old veteran soldiers crowd
ing around to clasp the hand of her
father has moved her deeply, and she
says she loves the American people,
though she cannot understand why
they make such a fuss ver the cleo
ton of a president. She is as witty as
she is good-looking and well educated.
When Gen. Alger was first introduced
to her by her father in Chicago, he
said:
You are the prettiest girl l have
ever seem
She replied, in broken English: "You
have seer very little. general
She kisses her father each morning,
not only once. but she covers his face
with kisses. At every station through
Kansas bouquets of flowers were
passed up to the train, and these were
all gathered up by the newspaper
men and given to Miss SickleS. Al
one station she was asleep when the
train stopped, and the armful of bou.
quets were piled against her state
room door. When she opened the door
the next morning the flowers fell in
over her feet, and she clapped hey
hands in delight-Kansas City Star.