Evening journal., 1897-05-31

Speaker Riggin, who the week before
had ruled that her bill was dead and
could not be resurrerted, apologized 10
her with tears in his eyes and then
voted for her bill.
WAS wOOED BY A BARON.
Mrs. Acklan might have been baron
ess. She was wooed and almost won.
by a German nobleman of immense
wealth. He is chamberlain to the em-
perOr and also one of the official min
istry of the royal household, a first
lieutenant in the Garde Landivche Cav
allieri, and q knight of the order Of st.
John.
This distinguished foreigner twice
crossed the Atlantic to induce Miss
Crocker to accept his hand, bur she was
patriotic and preferred an American
man. He first met her at st. Angus
tine, Fla, and afterward followed her
to New York, where his attentions
were very marked The baron is over
six feet tall, OF very fine physique,
handsome of face and courtly in man
ner. He comes of a noble family. Two
of his sisters married counts and his
brother, also a baron is noted for his
African explorations. The latter mar
ried a daughter Of Hon. John Lytle, OF
Delaware, Ohio. The former was
lion" at many social functions at
Newport and Lenox, and was a guest
at one of the Vanderbilt weddings.
The baron highly lauded this country
and dwelt upon the extreme hospitality
of the people. He has not visited the
United States, however, since the re-
lection of his suit by Miss Crocker. At
the time the press of the whole coun-
try spoke in terms of the highest praise
of one American girl who was courag-
eous and patriotic enough to decline
foreign alliance.
Mrs. Acklan has in her possession a
picture of the baron, which shows him
to be a agnificent-looking man, in
court costume; a photograph Of his
home reveals it as a large turreted cas-
tie, beautifully located, near Hamburg.
How a girl could renounce such a
handsome man and lovely ancestral
home is almost beyond comprehension.
THE ACKLAN FAMILY.
So much has been said and written
about Mrs. Acklan, it would now be in
teresting to know something about Mr..
Acklan himself. His family history is
omewhat romantic. His mother was
Miss Alelicia Hayes, a beautiful, but
poor Southern girl. A rich old South
ern planter by the name of Franklin
fell in love with her, proposed and was
accepted. They lived happily together
for a few years, when the aged hus-
band died, leaving her the prettiest
and richest unmarried woman in Ten
nessee
MARITAL TROUBLE HEREDITARY.
She met her second husband, Colonel
Acklan, of Huntsville, Ala, at dinner
in Nashville He admired her, and then
and there declared to his friends tina;
he would WOO and wed her. That hs
was successful in his suit the subse-
uuent marriage showed. They resided
in Nashville at the wife's handsome
home. From this union there were
four children. Joseph, who was after
ward a member of Congress and who
/ in 1879. was involved in a scanda
with a Washington widow by the name
of Godfrey; a daughter, who is nov
Mrs. Lovett, and has a beautiful hom'
in Washington; Claude Acklan anG
William H. Acklan. Claude married
the goyerness of the family and is nov
living at Alberton, Nd.
After Colonel Acklans death hi.
\ widow married a DR.. Cheatham, oi
Nashville, but they separated within
a short time after their marriage. The
cause of the separation was never
known. Information comes from Nash
vile that the Acklans, once so well.
/ known there. are now scarcely remem-
bered, except the stories told about
/ them.
ACKLAN'S LITERARY WORK.
William II. AclSlan is a man of about
45, tall and slender and of athletic
build. He has wavy dark hair, fail
complexion, hazel eyes and is consld.
erded good-looking. He is clever ant
we'll educated, having studied abroad
for several years. II is a noteworthy
fact that he recently became reconcilet
to his sister after an estrangement d
eight years.
1t Is rather remarkable that not ont
Of his relatives was present at his mar
riage, and of the many thousands o.
dollars worth of beautiful wedding
presents, he received only two.
Acklan really has claim to literar!
fame. He is the author of "Sterop'
the Yelled Pleiad," which has genuine
| merit. Singularly enough, the suOr,
has the musical jingle Of the almighty
dollar, as these two extracts will show
Is
"How may a girl know man sh'
is to marry after few brief meetingi
and partings, a few hours spent in hi
company, during which she sees onl.
so much of his disposition as h
4 chooses to reveal, when it takes tn
! long association of years for us to &c
a thorough insight into his character
\ And then. too" she added hopelessly
Il am too young to be a good judge.
"'And about what in the deuce
thought Malcom, does Detrelon wan
to talk to me in private unless it is tn
marriage settlement? Will he act gen
erously and make the dot a cool $500,
600? But 1 shall show no disap
p pointment if it is less, for in a FEY
years the pile will tumble to us in
block AS he passed in front Of tn
full length mirror he glanced at hi
cravat, drew down his waistcoat anc
with a beaming face, entered the Ii
brary."