The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08
would be pest Tor me TO stay away an

would be best Ior me TO stay away an
the time. ~
II made him visits every week or two
anG he always seemed glad to see me.
He gave me all the money needed. and
bought me clothes and other things.
When I would give money to some of
my kinfolks it would make the Others
mad, and then Clell and Brother Will
got into that shooting scrape over me at
Valley View. didn't know what to do
last decided to come here and keep house
Tor my youngest brother, Theodore. He
b about twenty-one. He Is working In
tho tobacco factory here. and had no one
to keep house for him, 90 came. Even
since have visited Mr.. Clay, and ex.
| beet to 60 to see him now. .. F: 49, /
'The last time I was at White Han vm
| about six weeks ago. He told me then
| that he had been thinking Of getting d.
vorce. He said that had stayed away
from him more than a year, and that he
mad thought over 1t and had decided that
| divorce would be the best thing. told
him to use his own pleasure; that our
| getting married was his choice, and that
! II ne wanted to get a divorce would not
! object.
| HE then sent an agent here and bought
/ these two lots of Mr.. Claude Riley and
decided them to me. This house T shall
| live In with my brother Leonard, and the
other house, which is just like it. I am
| renting. The land is poor, but I think
| 1t will make us a home, and I feel that
I may be happy yet.
II hope the people will let me alone now
that I am not Mr.. Clay's wife.
"Well, when Mr.. Clay got out the pa
pers for divorce some people thought
ought to hire lawyer and make a
fight for big alimony, but I told them
that was willing to leave everything to
Mr. Clay's honor. I am very we'll salts
fled. did not marry him for his money.
but, as I told you to please my folks and
Mr.. Clay. love Mr.. Clay, as told you,
like a father, but I do not love anybody
else" (Riley Brock WINGED little when
she said this.)
II have seen some pleasure since I mar
ried Mr.. Clay, but it has nearly all been
trouble that I have had. My whole life
has been one of trouble, and am afraid
1t Will be trouble as long as I Live. iOne
thing, certain (and here her face, usually
sad, frightened up), II have dnne lnobody
HARM"
AS your correspondent started to leave
Riley went out into the yard with him and
volunteered this:
1T was foolish to think that a girl as
young as Dora should love ia man old
enough to be her greatgrandfather, as is
Gen. Clay. He ought to have known bet
| ter than to marry her,
When Riley was asked about the COM
| ing marriage he blushed deeply and said:
81 came here to board because knew
Dora's brother Leonard and herself in
Valley View. I was with Len down here,
and we had no place to board, $50 I told
Dora it would be nice for her to come
down and keep house for Len and let me
| board with them. She agreed. and here
we are Yes, joined Capt. GREEN'S COM
pany in the Second Kentucky, and was
at Lexington during the mobilization, but
L@1. ho1 a no
Yes Dora was there when 1 was"
Riley Brock is good-looking .youg fell
| low of twenty-five. He has a pleasing
face and says he is always happy. He is
! not the kind of man who talks much or
gushingly about his love affairs. He is OF
the same station in. life zs mora, and
there seems to be an affinity between
| them.
| It takes more than a paragraph to tell
who Gen. Clay Is and what he has been.
| America has never produced "a more va
riedly interesting man or more romantic
career. He is now lightweight years old.
His family is to Kentucky what the
Towards are to England. His home is
| fine old mansion filled with beautiful pic
lures. His wealth was once .pr1ncely.
| Even now it is not small.
He founded common schools In Ken
lucky and established there the right of
! freedom of speech and press. He was a
| captain in the Mexican war and subse-
| quently nose to the grade of major, gen.
| eral.
| Almost alone in Kentucky, and in spite
! of repeated attempts at assassination,
Gen. Clay maintained the cause OF abo-
| lition of slavery. If you do not know the
| times and the region you cannot .appre-
ciate the bitterness and strife this caused.
| AS minister to Russia at the time iof the
Civil war he prevented England from
giving active assistance to the South. He
l <H1 oslo 0Ho 100
and since then, as lecturer, editor, lawyer
and politician, has added to the fame al
ready acquired. =
Gen. Clay has fought more duels than
! any man in the country. More attempts
have been made to kill him than were
| ever directed at a crowned head. Many
| of his ~duels were the result of political
enmity; others of family matters. They
| really form a part of the history of Ken
| lucky.
In those day Kentucky politicians were
| as sensitive of their honor as German
army officer. Once when Gen. Clay was
| making a speech at Russeps Cave, Sam
Brown told him he lied. Clay brought
| out his bowie knife, Brown "a pistol.
| There were several flashes Of the steel
| blade and one report from the gun. When
| it was over Brown was frightfully .slashed
and Clay had bullet imbedded IN ms
| scabbard which, when the knife was
| drawn, was yanked upward and remained
| directly over his heart. Encounters like
these were frequent.
| Again, at White Hall, Cyrus Turner
interrupted Gen. Clay's speech with a
| similar remark. Among all in the hall,
Clay had only zone friend. But with his
! ever-ready bowie knife he jumped into
the crowd. slashing right and left. But
against his weapon were scores OF Others.
Clay finally tainted from loss OF blood.
Much as Kentuckians hated the famous
| abolitionist they could not continue the
| attack after he became unconscious. He
! and Turner were carried to the same no
| tel. Clay Of course, recovered, but Tur-
| ner died. Not, however, until he and his
| enemy were reoonciled and had exchanged
the usual compliments and regrets so dear
! to believers in the code duello. ,.-ssg
+! Gen. Clays first appearance in e duel
took place shortly after his graduation
! from Yale. He WAS engaged to marry the
/ daughter of DR.. Warfield. A disappointed
rival DR.. Declarey, gave him cause to
issue challenge. They met in Indiana
and were already in position when Gen.
! Rollins arrived and stopped an exchange
of shots. Afterward DR.. Declarey- did mot
/ suicide.
| The first marriage Of Gen. Clay was mo-
I happier than his last. A divorce was ar
ranged and, actuated by a fine sense of
| honor he gave to her one-half of his
| wealth. The same principle governs him
] now. To his young divorced peasant wife
| he has given a farm where she and her
| new husband are to live.
HERO AND MARTYR JEERED
| Az a Covyard-One OF the Most Heart
! reading Incidents of the War.
/ BOSTON Journal: TAINTED bacaIse of hia