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That he had but recently been de< voting his time to the manuscript of at new book is evident from the fact that such a book is now in the hands of Comte J. de Ia Boissiere. It is entitled Soul Love-" and is said to be a theor- etical romance treating of platonlc ana non-platonic love.
 Baron Harden-Hickey leaves two. children by his first wife, one beauti-' ful girl of 16, now completing her edu- cation at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Paris. The other is boy about IS years of age, and is said to be- the manager of a large ranch in Mex, ico, owned by the late Baron.
 For the past few months the late Baron spent much of his time in San, Francisco, but led a very quiet life while here He seemed to seek se- clusion. That there was some diff ference between him and his wife ist quite evident but as to the matter in dispute between them not even their closest friends know. It is thought, that. he had of late given way to the chloral habit, and this may have had something to do with the affair, for 1t is said that in one of the letters from his wife, found among his effects in the hotel at Fl Paso where he com mitted suicide, she expresses a hope that he would rid himself "of that beastly chloral habit"
 Neither was the Baron on good terms with his rich father-in-law. In g., letter found in his room at Fl Paso and addressed to his wife, he says:s "Well, I have drained the cup of bit-i terness to the very dregs, but 1 do. not complain. I prefer to be dead gentleman to living blackguard like your father
 It is not likely that the differences arose over money matters, for no mat ter what else may be charged to Baron Harden Hickey, he was not an adven- turer from a financial standpoint He was just the sort of a fellow who, if he had taken a notion to marry girl, it would not make a whit of difference to him whether her father was a mill lionaire or a beggar.
 So ends the life of one of the most romantically inclined characters in this very prosaic age.
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died, and this, together with his hav- ing been expelled from his adopted country, France, preyed on his mind until he concluded to break away from all old associates, and he sought new field for his talents in America. He was received in New York as a Baron. He was petted and lionized to degree more extensively than falls to the lot of most Barons upon their first ap- pearance in America, but Baron Har- den- Hickey was a unique figure that stood out in bold reliefinany surround ipgs
 He had acquired an intimate knowl- edge of the Sanskrit language and after studying it's literature he became a convert to Buddhism. Later he de- termined to propagate the religion of Buddha throughout the United States.
 He soon became the literary hero of the day, and his writings were in de- mand by the magazines and standard publications of the world. His. brilliant style and the deep knowledge of the subject of his essays won for him a place among the foremost writers of his time. About six years ago he met, wooed and won Miss Anna Flagler, the daughter of the Standard Oil mag nate, John H. Flagler. For some req son or other soon after his marriage to Miss Flagler he abandoned his ideas of spreading th4 gospel of Buddha throughout the United States. Whether or not he fully gave up his new found faith Is not known. bur it Is hinted that his persistent belief In Buddhism had something to do with the differ ences which afterward arose between himself and wife.
 For time he apparently dropped out
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of sight, or at least he disappeared from public view, only to come still more prominently to the front a little later as James I of Trinidad Baron Harden Hickey was ever a castle builder, but they were not the massive stone affairs which might adorn his colonial estates. but of the thin, light, airy, visionary sort which some people are wont to call "castles in the air" The kingdom of Trinidad was one of Baron Harden Hickey's most pie turesque castles.
 few years ago he went on trip round South America by the merchant sailing vessel Astoria, commanded by Captain Jackson. An exceptionally fierce South American storm arose. which drove the bark far out of her course. By the time the storm had abated the Astoria was lying to off the Island of Trinidad. Now the Island of Trinidad does not cut very much of a figure as an island. In fact, some geo. graphers have forgotten to put it on their map, but a little thing like that did not disconcert Baron Harden Hickey He wanted a Kingdom of his own, and as the Island of Trinidad seemed to have been overlooked by every one else in the want of earthly possessions Harden Hickey planted his flag and took possession of the island
 
 It was in the spring of 1894 that Baron Harden Hickey proclaimed himself to the world as ruler of the Island of Trinidad He had carefully laid his plans and his agents in the United States began to look for subjects for the new king, who had styled himself James of Trinidad.
 Heretofore no one, not even the poli- ticians, had bothered themselves about Trinidad. When it became known that a new king had arisen the unique idea attracted the attention of the newspa- pers, and much space was given to ex- plotting the ideas of the new king and his domain James l proved to be an exceptionally good press agent. It was not long before he had attracted the heads of the great nations and they began to figure to themselves that if the Island of Trinidad was of any value to James I it might also prove of value to one of them. Brazil claimed it as
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pause, that my father married my mother in Panama. l was porn Ill Lima, Peru, and baptized Catholic, otherwise I could not have inherited the title. Bv the will of my grandaunt, Lady Jane Bretherton, am to receive that portion of the estate that is in Wales Papa's estate is distant from ii a three hours railway trip. At first I was heartbroken at the thought of living that far away from the rest of the family But now I've settled all that. How? Oh, it's an easy matter, once you've thought it out. Why, I'll visit them one-half the tune ana they Il visit me the other hail.
 "The very first thing I'm going to at tend to. when we are settled over there, is the childrens schooling. There are four in the family younger than I am three bows and one girl-and I intend that they shall have every advantage ands opportunity. Being their oldest sister I feel as much responsibility in the matter as mamma or papa. At my age I realize the importance of educa- ton. while the children think of noth- 1 ing but the fun.
 'I'm twenty-one. you know" she said | quite frankly, "and I'm afraid that I'm not at all fitted to take up my new | duties. but I'll do my best. There's a | little village that belongs to the estate and they say 1t is in a terrible condi- tion. It will make me so happy to fix up the houses and help the tenants.
 I'll have the little church so beautiful,
 and the priest will help me to help my
 people"
 She evidently feared that she had said "my people" in patronizing man.
 ner, for she leaned forward and, with
 sincere anxiety, said: Please don't 1 think that I'm proud or that this title
 and the money have turned my head. | I'm not ashamed of having worked for my living. I'm very, very glad that
 I've had the experience, because I'll
 know how to sympathize with others
 who work I'll always hold the friends | I have here just as dear as any of the
 new ones that I may make in my new | home. A
 "WiIl I go into society? I haven't
 thought much about that" Then press l ing her pink palm against her pinker l cheeks, Not for year anyway I'll
 have too many other things to do and | to think about. Besides attending to
 my new duties I want to find time to
 read and study music. Just think of | being able to have the finest of teach
 CTS. I don't care for society anyway.
 would rather have just a few good | friends who really care for me-" and ] my Lady Bretherton looked wistfully
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S60RY OF A SPN FRANCISCAN
 W(H0 PR0Cl lHIMED HIMSElF KIM
Adventurous Career and Tragic Death of Harden Hickey

earnings. He made his first literary hit by translating a number of French sto- ries for the English magazines. The experience he gained in this line seems to have been just what he was want ing, for he then began to write stories in French that were acceptable to the ParisianS. He had attained some repu tation as a writer on the Continent, and in 1878 he started in Paris a weekly pa per, which he named La Triboulet, and which he soon made the leading satir- ical paper not only of Paris, but of all Europe. When Baron Harden Hickey started in to do a thing he did it re- gardless of feeling of friend or foe, or other results. He applied the same pol icy to the conduct of La Triboulet, and as result he made no less than one hundred and fourteen appearances in the police courts, and his eXchequer was depleted to the extent of some thing over 300,00 francs as the result of his having written what he thought.
 It was while editor of La Triboulet that Baron Harden Hickey attained a national reputation as duelist. His hot Irish blood caused him to disdain making these the conventional French affairs. They were to a finish and the other fellow was always the one fin ished. Among his more notable antag- onists were Aurelian Scholt, A. Laver- luJOn, 1alne ana be CyOn.
 A feature of his dueling was that it was purely an affair of honor, and po- litical honor at that. for there was never lady in the case. Whatever else may be charged to him Baron Harden Hickey can hardly be classed as lady's man in the worldly sense of the term.
 It was while editor of La Triboulet that Baron Hickey also attained fame 0r-Hi iey ,f Do and for time he set the fashion, and was regarded not only as the best dressed man in Paris but the recog- nized leader of a most exclusive and refined set that devoted its time 10 fashion for fashions sake and went through the ordeal untainted by it's wicked frivolities.
 Between his life as fashionable boulevardier, a duelist, attendance at the Police Courts and the editorial management of La Triboulet. Baron Harden Hickey found himself the most tallSed-of man in Paris. As he rose on the tide of prosperity and fame he became still more aggressive until his boldness and audacity became ir leave France. The French Govern ment could not suppress him in any other way.
 But Baron Harden Hickey was one of the worlds irrepressibles Eng land was too slow for him. and think ing America might afford a wider field for q man of his adventurous disposi- tion he went to New York. There WAS another reason for his leaving the old continent At the time when he had reached the high tide of prosperity and popularity in Paris he had married beautiful and talented French lady, the Countess de Saint Perry. She had
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'T must say" remarked Stayathome, that I cannot understand why you took your wife with you to the Klon- dike. I should have thought that in a place like that a woman would be sim ply in the way"
 Not On your life,' said the miner who had just returned with S100,000. Tn fact, it was through her that made my pile in such short time"
 How so?"
 why, in this way: Whenever dis covered pocket, I'd point it out to Maria, and in less than five minutes she'd have extracted every grain of gold that it contained
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HY the suicide of Baron Harden
 Hickey there has passed away
 of + the the most most. unique 5ss eha5ss ,'s,
 class him as an adventurer, but the nearest approach he has ever made to the characteristics of such a being was in his having wooed and won the daughter of the rich oil magnate, H. NJ Flagler. Inasmuch as he was never known to tap the well filled oil tanks of the rich father-in-law, Baron liar den Hickey was a failure as an adven- turer. One hundred years ago he might have cut quite a figure in the affairs of any nation which he chose to honor with his presence. In the days of the feudal system he no doubt would have been the most turbulent Baron of them all, or in the days of the Crusades he would have unfurled a banner around which would have gathered the chiv airy of the times. But in these modern times he was fated to be but a man heard of, but whose power was unfelt.
 Baron James A. Harden Hickey was horn in San Francisco December s, 1854. and the past four years of his life were ~--NN' With his bride of one year he in 1894 took up his residence on South Hill street. Los Angeles, spending a portion of their time at Santa Monica. TWO years ago he bought one or the most heautiful residences in Riverside. The wears intervening between the day or his birth in San Francisco and ms coming to Los Angeles had croWueu into them more romanceS, ambitious, homes disappointments, well conceived plans and misspent forces, ana lili oueL if all running a tinge Of chlVairy, lhdh has fallen to the lot of but few men.
 The Hickey family first attained celebrity as adherents to the dethroned Stuarts. and for this they were pan- iebed from the United Kingdom and sought refuge in France. Some mem ber of the Hickey family has ever rom that day played a more or less prom nent part in national intrigues ana poi itics, but always on the loslns . Baron Harden Hickey was educated at inc Jesuit College at Namur, and was sent to Leipsic for the finishing touches.
 His career can be said to have begun when he was nineteen years or age AL that time he entered the Military Col lege at St. Cyr. but at the death or ms father in 1873 he came into consideraDie property and concluded that he would prefer a life devoted to sculpture ana the arts rather than a military career. He left the school at St. Cyr to begin his career as a literary man. At first he did not receive much encouragement, but that the business was unprofitabie did not matter to the young baron, for be enjoyed a good income and was not tn any way dependent upon his pen
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thoughts dwelt on the beautiful new home that was awaiting her.
 T love pretty things-isn't that what they're made for?-to be loved? And l suppose I'll be able to carry out all my other plans and still have enough left for pretty clothes and jewels.
 i've asked all my dear friends to visit me and they've all promised they would. There's one I want especially to come," and she paused musingly. And she has consented. It's my chum. We've been friends ever since we were little tots and made mudpies."
 Then the way is clear for some lord who will carry you off. You may still come into another title and estate,' F I ventured, again.
 "Oh, I'm afraid 1 haven't the proper amount of respect for title. I'm very much of an American still. l think always will be-
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"WeIl?" ] queried interrogatively, as she still hesitated.
 "Oh," breaking into soft laugh, and showing her pretty white teeth 1T have so many thousands and thou sands of plans. they play hide and seek in my head all day long. But I'm afraid they would look very silly in print Don't you think so?" And she regarded me with a pretty mixture of wonderment and embarrassment.
 You know" she continued, after a
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WILL DO WHEN | COME INTO WY TITLE"
dephone Suddenly nhe and Wales
  TITLE AND ESTATE OF TIE TELEPHONE GIRL.
Illustrations From Photograph

Pelham, Countess of Marlborough.
 Lady Sibell l.. Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie.
 Lady Emily Smith, Viscount- ess of Hambleden.
 Lady Susan A. Macdonald. Bar oness Macdonald of Earnscliffe.
 Lady Bretherton does not get her title from any of these ladies. She gets it from the Pope. who long ago appointed an ancestress a Marchesa. She cannot, there fore. claim to belong in any way to the British aristocracy, for the papal title is purely honorary and recognized only within the church.
 If Miss Holmes had been brought up Protestant she could not have claimed the title at all, but her baptism at Lima, in Peru, entities her to the honor.
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at several photographs scattered about the room.
 T hope" she continued, brightening, when a tear that had tried to trickle down her cheek had been furtlvely wiped away, T hope that my home will need fixing up. I'd love to be able to do it myself just as want it. I'll have beautiful furniture and flowers and pictures and books" She closed her eyes on the tiny room about her as her
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His Lordship-I am deeply interested in the new gold discoveries.
 Friend-You don't think of going to the Klondike, do you?
 His Lordship-Oh, noi But l thought of advertising that I should be glad to communicate with any successful miner who might happen to have an unmarried daughter.-Puck.
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Still the lady is a scion of a great English house, that of Bar on Gerard. Early in the present century one of the junior mem bers of this family, Sir John Cansfield, married a certain Mary Bretherton, who came of a good, though untitled, North of Eng land family. Her husband dying, the lady married a second time Gilbert Stapleton, brother of Lord Beaumont, and owing to her devotion to the church the Pope afterward created her a Mar cheSa.
 The title passed to Jane Breth- erton, who owned a seat in Wales, and now, with all it's attendant wealth, 1t has come to the lucky hello" girl.
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H EXPRESSES in their own
 right, as the phrase goes,
 are very scarce articles
 among the British aristoc-
 racy. In fact, there are only eight ladies who enjoy this high distinction, and to become a peer ess Miss Sadie Holmes, or Lady Bretherton. as she is now styled, would have had to succeed as di- rect heir one of these ladies. A glance at the list shows this Is not the case. The peeresses in their own right are:
 Lady Mona J. T. Stapleton of Beaumont.
 Lady Louise M. Milman, Baron esS of Berkeley.
 Lady Emma H. Tyrwhith, Bar , oness of BernerS. Lady Burdett Coutts, Baroness. Lady Marcia A. M. Anderson
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Macauley-Golding is foolish to go to Alaska; so sensitive to cold, you know.
 Somers-He has had his union suits lined with mustard plasters.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-21
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-21

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-21
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