The age-herald., 1897-10-14

| Detroit and prevail, if possible, upon the
 love sick senator to leave Detroit and
 return to his duties in the senate. The
 senator asked to perform this delicate
 mission was Thomas ". Palmer, who
 was afterward appointed minister to
 Spain by President Harrison, which po-
 sition he resigned to accept the presi- 1 dency of the government commission of
 the Worlds fair.
 l Jones regarded Senator Palmer's in-
 trusion as an insult. He positively re-
 fused to leave Detroit. For the protec- l ton of themselves the Palm family were
 forced to resort to the city authorities,
 and sought to prevent Jones' ever pass
 ing through the street upon which the
 Palms lived. This could not be done, as
 he was committing no violence, and to
 have done so would have been usurpa-
 ton of authority by the city officials. During his walks through Forest avenue he was frequently followed by men, wo-
 men and children. That eager crowd of motly beings who were attracted to l places through idle curiosity The Palms were forced at last to closa their
 house and take temporary refuge in
 New York. Jones soon made the dis | covery that the house was closed. His 1 daily walks shortly ceased. The Palms
 thought he had given up the chase and returned to their palatial mansion Jones soon found 1t out He began his walks again. Some relief must be ob- tained. The condition of Jones sanity | was then made a question for inyesti- l gation.
 l In the meantime his term had ceased I in the senate During the last five
 months of his senatorial career he was
 never inside the senate chamber but all the time in Detroit. His salary as 9
 senator was his only revenue. His law
 practive in Florida had vanished. With
 the passing of his salary. new clothes
 were am impossibdlity. His attire be- l came shabby. He bore the apparance 1 of the shabby genteel. His bills at
 the hotel fell due and were not liquidat- ed. He would frequently appear as l speaker upon public occasions. To a 1 certain extent he was sought after but at last everyone concluded that Jones'
 mind was very much out of joint. A | jury determined the question of his sam ity. It was found faulty. He was not sent to an asylum but some of the big | hearted men of Detroit, among whom were Senator Palmer and the present secretary of war, Russell A. Alger, con- | tributed to his support In private san 1 itarium, and it was there that Jones died day before yesterday. Died paul 1 per and of broken heart
 Before meeting Miss Palm dn the win- | ter of 1886, if any one had said that l Senator Jones was not mentally sound
 7le would have been looked upon as a | fool. Jones had never married, Tn fact l it fpas been stated that aIe never loved | woman until his eyes beheld the beau- 1 ty of Miss Palm. His love for her and | her rejection of it had dethroned his rea- son. By the time that Jones' mind was l found to be out of joint by the jury, | Miss Palm was married to one of the | most prominent physicians in Detroit. | The physician in question, I have been | told, divorced ahis first wife that he | might marry Miss Palm. I saw this | lady not many years ago in a railway carriage on the Canadian Pacific rail- l road, passing from Toronto to Montreal | She was then on her way with her nus | band and children to Europe. She Is l still handsome woman, endowed with a brilliant mind, and is known among l her friends for the annual bsQuest of> | large sums to public charity. When she | first met Senator Jones in Washington, | sine admired him for his brilhancy. When she discovered that llle loved her, | she despised him. It was the old, old story, she scorned his love and he died | with a broken heart and a, dlethroned reason. There were more clouds in Sen ator Jones' life than was needed to | have made the end a glorious sunset He | will be buried in Florida at his former | home, Pensacola. A man who wasted | his life for the love of woman who trampled his affections under her feet. Nn- N