The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
SUE PILL0W-MARTIN.
The Strange, True and Highly n
mantle story of Tennessee. p.,'

She was not merely belle and bespf,
back before the war, this faseipati,,, y,
capricious Sue Pillow Martin 81 eA1
/ pears TO have been a new woman -P-
ahead Of time into an epoch ana en-. '.''u d
ment that irlsed her even more tl,a, ,''o'--
shocked them. she
When the Mexican war was fo,,,t.
Pillow was a general. Naturally ,5st q
ded 10 his social prestige. Renovyn '''-
not needed. though. to make his e,,
daughter easily first among equals IN ,,t
| land of her birth. 'iie
She was pretty, she was witr,
| danced like a Wyilis.. and was co.',,. '"e
her finger tivs. She had lovers ana 49, %
| affairs by The time she was IL NJ, 80
| serious ones, vet serious eEoue6 ~ very
/ neF quality Of impcrious caprice snow
caprice that set her world by the was
ana MIS- Gruqdy at defiance W6ata'
| she willed to do, that she did Ina, w ualel or
| of They Say and all his works 7"luIess
BY ana by young McNairy OF Ksr,,,.,.
! came counting her. At first she ,o l.hy
/ her head. In week they Were 5r, SoSsea
and the wedding day set Friend 9ased,
fortune smiled approval Ii was ms, ana
in every way. McNairy was an o,i,r ~ IL. 70
allu anu ms Iather rich man, witha, an emf,
nent Judge. His sons choice So nj sun,
him that he resolved to make he 'ii, rfo
the brides Homecoming the M, iit.att
bic social event in South Kentucky,s' MT ~
tory. He sent all the Wav To NJ. MS us
for family carriage the firsf ciC.7 AOIK
rage ever brought 10 that resiaS, Vdt-
OF the supper was likewise ordera5 80
New YORK, also lveries for the Nh ~
coacnman, the footmen and yoIIng M n
Nairys own man. "e NC
-Four fine black horses, perfectly r,,+.t.,
and Dtted, drew the carriage Es,ar,.ttIIl.tu
was SDlck and span when the hrids55~tt'Iia
set out to claim his bride Elkfon III IL on
town, lies in a border county SOM n sgli.e
miles from Nashville. The PNl0u+ 9tA'y
Stead was just outside Columbia. which H.
about 1ltty miles due south of m nes
capital. So IL was a TWO. DAYS, dri, 'le
the horses minded ir no more trar ~ D5l
master. Ihoroughbreds in perfect conditi51'
they had no need of 'fthe resi- H.
feast day, and the pressed day ., aFl t ,ne
by the hoSpitable prOVerb i0''9'
4 II was very well they had nat si
-lIneey went nome the very next day Mis-
F1loW had changed her mind moi LIS
marrying, bus as TO who shouid h9 Lt
man. A certain Hugh Martin. never a 'rS
neher than McNairy, had come upon t6s
scene-she was fond of nove-tteg ,ri5
dearly loved 10 give her world a sensattnn'
She wrote McNary a curt dismissaj ana
married Martin with all the pomn ara CIV
cumStance~ prepared for the man he had
McNairy faced the changed condit,ors
with sort of grim humor He bought al
the Grape in Columbia, put horses and Ser
wants IN deep mourning and drove ~.
There he insisted that the infaTe should IL,
on Just the same, although the bride was
conspio uously absent He said of her onI5
that she mad exercised her undoubted priv
liege or changing her mind. If Others said
more, he at once changed the con yersafion
He might have married hundred times
over, but though gallant toward all wo-
men, he said he would die a bachelor
Sue Pillow Martin meantime was lead
ing her new husband the merriest sort ~
dance. When he came to understand that
his money had tempted her, he gave il
away with both hands Every week nj
most she drove to Nashville, and went
about its finest shops, with her black
maid carrying roleauX of gold to nav for
her purchases. The gold was but one of
her lnnumerable Whims. She would not
touch silver or paper. Doubtless had dia-
monds been minted, she would have de-
manded diamonds.
Hugh Martin had married her for better
or for worse. He bore and \for bore until
she came actually to despse him. She set
her mind on divorce, then and there re-
garded as almost indelible disgrace, But
divorced She would be- and divorced she
was, in spite of her father, her family all
her friends. Her freedom proved after a 4
crowded about here, there was that in the I
eyes and voices of the women that poison L
ed life. came to Sue Pillow Martin. By
way of changing all that, she whisted
back her old lover, McNairy, and married
him out of hand.
That would have made a seven-years' i
sensation, only the civil war came on,
and not long after. McNairy fell from
a high window and broke his neck The
shock almost killed his wife. She came
as near loving him as her supreme selfish
ness allowed. Troubles did not come sing
ly-her father died about the same time.
Both left estates much involved When,
a little later, the fail of the COnfederacy
annihllated slave property the widow
found herself with Strengthened prospects.
Poverty was not imminent, but the Old
lavish luxurious life was forever gone.
The brother regning in her fathers stead,
was brotheriy-kind, but she. was no more
supreme. Besides, her world was wonder
ing what she could or would do next
What she did do was to write, in her
brother's name to her divorced husband,
Eugh Martin, asking for information in
regard to some part of her fathers es-
tate.
Martin recognized the handwriting He
had gone back TO his Old home-East Ten
nessee-and proSpered there throughout
McNairy's lifetime. War losses even leIt
him comparatively rich. When news came
that his ex-wife was again free, ne TOOK
his bed, declaring he would never leave
il alive To the friends who rallied az
her, and begged him not to think OF nef,
he said simply that he still loved ne
very earth she trod She might not de
live to know that she had married SUI
another man as she was sure TO DO 80
her letter came to him as mamma IN the
desert. He answered il a once-She threw
aside disguise and wrote again. The seq
ond letter set him on his feet although
but ghost of his old self.
A third came quickly. He packed nls
grip, put money in both pockets and went
away In month or less he mad reHiSiI-
rled-there was again legally a Sue Pr
low-Martin. He found her just the SAINT
fun of capricious Turing, of swift anger,
and sudden remorseful tenderness. But
now she was content 10 sun herself IN me
eyes OF an adoring husband. Then tngLe
was the child-her little daughter by Nc
q ri a
though il were his own. That helped him
with the mother, and consoled him Tor
many of the wounds her indifference gaEe.
him Years of stormy and moonit happi-
ness. Not so very many years. his VIZ
died, aud his heart was buried with hesIni
He outlived her only a little While Al
grew up a gracious and beautiful y9un5
woman. wholly lacking her mothers law
less charm.