The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30
CARER u GE0RGE D. SAXON.

Winifred Black in the New York journal.
The brown earth lies in smooth
mound on the grave of George D. sax
ton. The grass has not begun to grow
above him-yet there is no human be-
ing who saws that the world IS lone
lier since he is gone. 1t is not pretty
story. the story of this dead mans
life. but it is true, and it is full of
what he and men like him call in
teresting episodes" He was born in
Canton. O. His father was one of the
rich men of the city. He had two sis
tiers. One of them is now Mrs. Mary
A. Baker One is Mrs. William Nc
KinIey.
When he was a young fellow, just out
of his teens, he fell in love with Miss
Alice Schaeffer, sister of Mrs, WlllTam
r Dav. whose husband was recently
secretary of state. There was some
sort of quarrel, and Alice Schaefter
sickened and died. Tilted, the gosslps
said by her first sweetheart. the man
who was murdered last week in can
ton. The next week he began paying
marked attentions to a pretty little
apple checked girl in q little village
not far from Canton. Her name was
Lulu Russell. She was the daughter
of a rich and we'll known man. Her
friends leased her about the devotion
of her Canton sweetheart, and she
laughed and blushed and showed them
q quaint little ring with two hearts
speared together with an arrow. one
day she had a long letter from George
SaXtOn. She tore it into little bits.
Then she laughed and pulled the quaint
little ring with the two hearts pierced
with an arrow from her fnger-and
oh with
fathers cOachman.
The neighbors had not ceased to roll
the sweet mOrsel of this elopement un-
der their tongues when there came the
story of a farmers little schoolgirl
daughter who slipped out Of the farm
house to a pond in a field and tried
to kill herself because the man she low
ed and trusted had forsaken her.
George SaXtOn was the man. A few
weeks after the schoolgirl episode there
came one which was not quite so
amusing. DR.. Catlin, a physician we'll
known and much respected, found that
his neighbOrs were gOSSiping about
SaXton's rather marked admiration for
his pretty young wife. He bought
pistol, and the next time Mr.. Saxton
called upon the physicians wife
he was met by the physi-
clan, who gave him very
pointed invitation to take himself and
his compliments to some house less
Yigilantly guarded. George SaXton did
not find the pistol episode amusing.
His friends did.
When they found that Mr. SaXton
pursued his gallantries only under cir
cumstances under which he was per-
sOnally perfectly SAFE they began to
weary little Of his endless tales of
love affairs and of the somewhat ego
tistieal rehearsing of his successes.
To ,O1I 49, IL
to Mr.. SaxtOn. He had been leader
he came to be simply a tolerated
hanger-On, suffering even that license
only for the sake of his family.
Two pretty sisters came to Canton,
to see a winter in town. They were
rosy, black-eyed, light hearted girls.
WEo could skate and ride and dance
and they soon had all the available
youth Of Canton at their feet. George
SaXton paid them great attention. One
Of them seemed to find him agreeable,
and all Canton was amazed one day to
hear of her sudden marriage with a
jewAlry salesman. The salesman's
name was Park. He was a smart, we'll
dressed, Snowy young fellow, and Sax
tons acquaintances jOked him I'M
merclfully about the success OF his
rival. MI and Mrs. Park came to New
Y ork to live. They had a little daugh-
ter Who is now an Unusually beautiful
child.
Mrs. Park was not always happy
With her husband George Saxton
heard Of this, and he wrote to her ask
ing her if she remembered the old days
when she was the pTettiest girl in Can
ton, and when she broke his heart by
marrying John Park At first Mrs
Park did not answer the letters George
SaXton wrote. They came often. Thel
were kind and friendly, and they made
her think Of the days of her care-free
girlhCod. No matter how little atten-
ton she paid to the letters, they kept.
coming-cordial and frank and I'M