The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-03
BELLE Of MILLIONS
WEEDS the Coachman of Her
Benefactor Uncle.
BECAUSE SHE LOVES HIM
And Always Loved Him, When
They Were Poor Together.

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New York, Aug. 1.-THE World says
Adelaide Phillips Kennedy has made his
tory in the uove lore of Swampscott
Mass
She has enacted in real life the story o.
Bret Harte's Poverty Flats" only sh,
has added the touch of romance which
the author dare not add-she has married
him who was her hero before ore wa.
struck.
With every luxury and daintines.
around hire, with the millions of her aun
and uncle awaiting her. with possibility
oS a wealthy marriage, or even a title
before her, the belle of Swampscott'.
schoolgirl has followed the bent of hel
romantic heart and welded her uncle.
coachman.
The Phillips family is one of the
wealthiest in or around Boston. War.
rem Phillips, with his brothers, inherited
the millions accumulated by their father
Eben Phillips out of oil and fish.
Warren Phillips was ambitious. He
married a girl of similar inclination. To
day the Phillips name and millions are
power in Massachusetts, and their so.
ciaI prestige great They have several
splendid estates. tn cone at Swampscott
being the favorite, at which they spend
most Of the year. 1t is one Of the finest
places in the beautiful north shore. The
house is spacious and has an air of state
ly magnificence about it, the grounds are
beautifully laid out with gravelled walk
and green hedge rows, beds of flower:
and artistic statuary, and the green lawns
slope toward the greener ocean beyond.
Yet the splendid setting did not bring
complete happines sto the Phillips hcme
There were no children to whom the mill.
ions and theh prestige they had won could
descend.
So when Mrs. Phillips sister died nine
years ago. the orphaned daughter Addit
was taken into the Phillips home and
adopted as their own, to share the bene
fit of their present wealth and inherit il
at some future time.
Addie was then eigth years old. a sliI
Of girl in calico froclls, with blue eyes
tawny hair and piqued expression. Fol
her young life had had its ups and downs
with considerably more downs than ups
Her father, Nelson Phillips, not relate,
to the Phillips family into which heI
mothers sister had married, was a fish
erman. Sometimes he was lucky anC
sometimes he wasn't His fuctuating for
tunes were reflected in the little family
that occupied humble cottage on the ole
swamp road. Days when the hauls wert
big. the living was good enough. for fish
has an active market in Swampscott; ant
days when the hauls were bad and tn
fishr wouldn't bite, the families on tn
old swamp road looked forward to tn
next day and accepted nothing with diff
ferent degrees of contentment, accordin,
to temperament.
few yards down on the opposite sid
Of the road from the house shared b.
Nelson Phillips with another fisherman:
family, lived John Kennedy, stone rnaso1
broad in brogue and large in family.
His youngest son was Bernard, a brigh
eyed. go-ahead sort of lad who played
hockey when he wanted to, was lovej
and feared by every boy in the old swami
read. and was popularity known a.
Barney"
Addie Phillips was the belle of thu
swamp.
Not because OF blue blood. or beauty. o,
wit. but because she was the favorite o.
Barney Kennedy. Barney was six year.
older than Addie, and had been through
the classes at school long before her S,
when school was out he helped her will
her lessons. Often he played hockey t,
work among the fishermen and pick VI
change to treat his favorite after the les
| sons were over. And IL any of the vii
lage school house doubted the complet,
conquest Of Addie Phillips over the hear
Of Barney Kennedy. all doubts wer,
swept away I'm vacation time when the!
sat side by side and fished. and Barne,
! baited all the favorltes bent pin hooks
But loves very young dream was nippe,
/ in its earliest bud for the belle and beal
| OF the swmp.
| At the modest age Of eight Addie mad,
her exit bidding adieu TO old haunts. Ok
] Companionships. calico frocEs and tn
| ureCarious living of a porr hshermant
| household. She also bade adieu to Bar
ney Kennedy and in a little f5lack frock
/ whose somhreeness was all that was lef
/ to remind her of the life in the old swami
/ road. she entered the stately mansion O
the Phillipses and started In upon he
! new life.
Every advantage that wealth could az
! ford was given to the little orphan. Sh
| adopted herself readily 70 the new cir
cumstances. She lost the care.essnes
| and ciumsiness Of the child that grey
Ike weed on a country road and un
/ consciously acquired a grace and elega1c
/ betting her environment.
The tawny yellow hair was brushed b,
n maid until It grew glossy and show
with glints Of gold. and her face. pro
tected from the sun. lost its tan an
/ freckles and became soft ana fair Fri
vate tutors trained her mind and instiile
therein taste for literature ana the art.
Ethics were made a part of her natur
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