Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-01-26

other happy. and failing utterly,
though still loving with a passion
never to be duplicated in the after life
OF either, Joaquin and Minnie Myrtle
separated. The world concerned it
self IN their affairs and parce!ed out
It's judgment accordingly,
II was a simple, yet tragic tale Of
mutual misunderstanding: the ahso-
lutte tncunpatibility Of nature whose
Wills We're constantly opposed, but the
cold world, as usual, was to stupid
to read the truth between the lines.
Minnie Myrtle came to San Fran
cisco and wrote for local journals, She
also delivered lectures, mainly on
Oregou and western themes, through
out the east. Maud had been placed
by her father in the convent of lor-
etto. Ontario, Canada. Joaquin Went
to London. He gained the recognition
there that his own country had failed
TO give him. While the world was
awakening to his genius, he, Prentice
milford and Charlie" Stoddard
fought fate in cheap lodgings on thirty
cents apiece per day, Returning to
California and finding the west and
east still browsing in literary pastures
where the Songs OF the Sierras' were
not, he acquired land on the Alameda
hills and made his hands do what his
brain had not--lay the foundation of a
fortune.
One of the brightest graduates of
the convent of Loretto was Maud Mil
ler She could chatter French as easily
as she could ride western broncos
bareback. The tall young girl with
the tawny hair could still dance like
fairy, but she could translate dead
languages as we'll. She had captured
prizes in the way of the marquis of
Lorne's gold medal for literature and
a gold medal for christian doctrine
And she had been left motherless
when scarcely in her teens.
From The convent, after gradua-
ton, Joaquin Miller took his daughter
down the St. Lawrence river for a
promised visit to the Princess Louise
and marquis Of Lorne at Quebec.
whose husband had invented re-
volving cannon not quite good enough
for Uncle Sam, but acceptable to
France, Maud went to PAWS. Here
she met number of notable people
who had known her fathers songs
by heart while America was trying to
commit his name to memory as verse
writer from somewhere or other in the
untamed west.
At the age of sixteen Maud Miller
went on the stage. As a child she had
known Ada Rehan and Rose Eytinge,
and six years previously had made
her debut with the latter at the Bald
win theater, Her one ambition after
meeting Miss Rehan was to become an
actress. She Joined one Of Days
travelling companies, managed by
Arthur Rehan,
Then she met Loudon Mccormack.
He was an actor. starring in her
fathers plays; tall, handsome, fasci-
mating; a man of the world with the
taCe of a Greek god He dazzled the
young girls romantic fancy She
thought it would be 80 nice to appear
with him in papa's plays" Contrary
to her fathers wishes. she married the
actor. who was considerably her
senior and as improvident as he was
good looking. In The Danites and
Forty-Nine she made hits as Billy Pr
per and Carrots, Her honeymoon
waning almost before il had really
risen in the domestic sky, she sep
arated from Mccormack. who. by the
by. belonged to an old Virginia
family.
few days ago the last scenue was
enacted. Pale-faced, haggard and
pcnniless, Maud Miller came to her
fathers ranch and sought his for
giveness. He took her in like he would
an unfortunate. not his daughter.
What comfort she takes out OF life
from now on will be Swallowed by the
sad remembrance that she once
brought sorrow to the heart OF one OF
the worlds noblemeu and her own
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