The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-07-14
MRS. sARTo Ris r oMANcE.


MRS. sARToRis;s r ROMANCE.
Loved BY GxA Douglass for Thirty Years
May Become His Bride
When Gen. Grant was inaugurated
prestdenF Of the United States
MS daughter Nellie, then child,
was permitted to sit on she
platform from which her father delie-
cred his inaugural address. In the
crowd which viewed the impressive.
ceremony was Henry Kyd Douglass, an
ex-confederate general, then and still!
often spoken of as sthee handsomest
mani in the SOUTH At the Inaugural
ton ball THAT evening the handsome
and court1y southerner first spoke tor
the charming little daughter of the
man against whom he had fought 81
we'll. Then and there he Fell in love
with Nellie Grant and vowed fealty to
her. Thee vow has been we'll kept by
all accounts, for it is now peusIstently
declared by persons "who ought to
know that Gen. Douglass ard Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris are soou to be
married. The family of Mrs. Sartoris
declare that the report is without foun-
dation, but as this has come to be al
most pre-nuptial form no great
amount of reliance is placed in the dis
cialmer. While the Grants deny, WASH
1ngton society, wherein the scene Of
this mature courtship has been enact
ed, affirm. It hopes and expects that
It's lovely and beloved Nellie Grant
Sartoris will be the" chateTaine of Gen.
henry kyd Douglass splendid mansion
In Hagerstown, Md. Gen. Douglass,
though past 60 years old, is still called
the handsomest man iir the south"
lie was one of the bravest officers Of
the contederacy. He isSone of the ricfr-
est men in Maryland. Society assumes
its wlsest air and says" the match is a.
fitting one, and sometimes society is:
right. When Algernon Sartbris wooed
and won Nellie Grant, Gen.. Douglass
MD his disappointment like a gentle-
man and soldier. By that time he
had come to be a genuine adfnirer and
close personal friend Of Gen. Grant.
though during the terrible days of the
CIVIL war he had hated the silent SOL
dler OF the north with bitterness char
acterlstlc of his southern race. The
hero of Appomattox always had fears:
that his beloved daughters happiness
was being intrusted to unsafe keeping,
and to Gen. Douglass spoke of his mis-
g1vlHgs. The latter consoled the anx--
Ious parent while suffering his. own
pain IN silence. Ere long the sun Of
Nellie Grants happiness had set. The
knowledge that his favorite daughter
was unhappy embittered Grants last
days and he often talked of his grief.
to- Douglass. Five years ago cAlgernon
SartorIs died and in due time his widow
returned to America with her children
and went to live at the Washington
home OF her mother. Nellie Grant Sar-,
tor1s in measure renewed her youth
I'M the old atmosphere. The pathetic
lines about her mouth Disappeared.
Something of the old merry-ligit' re-:
turned to her eyes. She was i'm the
country she loved and whose people.
loved her. She was girl again. When
her period of conventional mourning
had disappeared Gen. Douglass renew
ed his attentions, rudely interrupted, by
her marriage twenty-five years before.
He followed Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant and
her daughter and grandchildren toSor- :,
rento last summer. @'Those who know"
say Re will repeat his pilgrimage this:
summer, and that before autumn The,
hand and happiness of Mrs. Sartbris
WITT have passed into the excepting Of
her faithful lover of thirty years: Her
son. AIgernon Sartoris, is a manly fe1-
low of 20 years. His sister, Vivian MAY,
is rs; Rosemary, Is. They are, say
the gosslps, very fond of their motfer's
elderly and devoted sutton Mrs. sar-
tor7s is AZ years old. She looks, ten
years less She is as fair as when she,
was first dubbed the most beloved girf
in the United States. Society on both
sides of the Atlantic is much interested
IN the rumored engagement, fully ap-
proving in advance.