The times., 1898-06-12

parture of Mrs. Kerens will be deeply re-
GREETED by the sick Missouri boys at
Camp Alger, whom she is keeping supplied
with ice and other luxuries during the
month of June.
Lieut.. Mckenna is attached TO Maj
Gen. BrOoke's staff, now stationed at
Chickamauga, and viii have helped to
make a good bit of brilliant history for
his country before meeting with his lovely
young fancee again.
The first thing Bar Harbor seems to be
doing IN the way of Summer gossip is to
revamp that oft-contradicted story about
an engagement between Gen. II. Kyd
Douglass. of Hagerstown. Md, and Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris. They have even
located the place for the wedding and can
almost selected the time. II does look TO
ordinary mortals, that men and women
whom Providence has blessed with money
enough 10 live at Bar Harbor ought TO
have some better use for their time than
TO foolishly interfere with affairs that
are so distinctly not their own. Mrs.
Sartoris has several times denied the ru-
NOR in her quiet. dignified way, but ap-
parently no one believed her-f one may
judge by the way the story keeps going
the rounds.
Gen. Douglass was asked about 1t the
other night and this was the way he an
swered:
The story Is absolutely without foun-
dation and the renewal of the old rumor
is a great outrage to Mrs. Sartoris. II
she is to be married, I know nothing of
1t. / don't see why she should be an
noyed in this way"
That ought TO be conclusive. but there
are some people whom even this straight
frOm-the-shouldeT statement will be un-
able TO convince.
Time flies like a champion scorcher on
a '9S wheel. 1t seems only the other day
that Nellie Grant was a sunbeam of a
lassie in short frocks with her hair
tumbling about her shoulders in a brown.
fluffy heap-and now to think of her be
ing the daughter of grown up girls Oh,
dear! Oh dear. OH deari And thinking
of her as the little maid of the White
House recalls a funny story about herself
and Gen. Grant.
They had gone to the opera, Nellie
sitting sedately erect In a maroon velvet
suit and her father lounging comfortably
in the background, talking TO a corre-
spondingly lounging friend.
The house was crowded, but as Parepa
Rosa, with portly figure and a voice as
grand and deep as the ocean-almost-
appeared on the stage, the prima donna
was conscious of but one presence-the
warrior whose deeds We're so renowned
that for very awe she trembled-she who
had hobnobbed with kingsI
She might have spared herself her emo
tions, however, for the general was
nightly interested in his statesman
friend beside him, and the great English
singer might have been promenadlng on
the cliffs of her native Albion for all the
general knew or cared.
Then the little girl whispered. "Papa
Parepa is singing
Whereupon the hero of Shiloh inter
rupted his conversation long enough to
say indulgently-he adored his small
daughter-'All right, Nellie, she's not
disturbing us, let her sing" And the
best part of the story, next to its being
true, was that Parepa heard of it through
the statesman, and being as humorous as
she was portly, she had a good, hearty
laugh at her own expense and admired
Grant more than ever.
Word comes from the North that Prince
Albert of Belgium, who is spending the
last few days of his stay in this country
at Newport, will, while there be "openly''
entertained, for the first time" during
his visit to this country The word is
doubtless used advisedly, and sounds
frank and honest, but it has its little
drawbacks-unless, indeed, it means that
l1iC Pl4llCe IS SOiUS 10 throw MS 1ncOgnitC
to the winds and proclaim himself to the
fashionable as the heir to his uncle's s
throne. There was nothing sub rosa
about the dinner given to his royal high
ness by the President and Mrs Mckinley
the Belgian Minister ana Countess Iich-
terveldt and Mr.. and Mrs Hobart durine
his visit to this city.
There is no doubt however, of the
splendor of the festivities that will await
a. ,nr+ fn,. =;
Potter Palmer, is lavishly elegant in he1
hospitality, and Newport will be gay
with the courtry's richest and most
cultured representatives, VINO will spare
no expense to enliven Prince Albert's
stay.
Little Valerie Padelford, the grand.
daughter of the late Gen. Albert Ordwav
has just been granted by; the Orphans
Court of Philadelphia an annual allow.
ance of $4,000 for her education and sun.
port. The little grill is entitled to ar
estate of quarter of a million dollars b,
! her fathers viii, and this fortune. which
is now in the hands of a great trust
company Of Philadelphia, viii increase
year after year until she attains her ma
Jorrty, when she can command the whole
Ex-senator and Mrs. Calvin S. Rrice
are oOoul ~ opcii their NIlld at NEWPORT
where Mrs. Brice will doubtless re
peat her notable entertainments of las
year.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry NJ Earle have
leased their home at Chevy Chase ant
will spend the Summer near New York
Mr.. Henry Clews. of New York, whc
came on to Washington to give his niece
Miss Belknap. in marriage on Tuesda!