Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-09
BLACK SHEEP OF
THE BLAINE FAMILY
Jimmy Blaine, Engaged to Marry
Admiral Hichborn's Daughter,
Has Gone the Pace.
HIS FIRST WIFE WAS AN ACTRESS
Her Troubles Finally Drove Her to Divorce
Court-Kuhne Dcveridgc, tho sculp-
tress, Later Flame-started for
philippines.


Philippines.
The news that James g. Blaine,
| jr., has reformed comes hand in hand
with the announcement that he is to
marry Martha Hichborn, the lovely
daughter of Rear Admiral Hichborn.
Jimmie Blaine's temptations unfor-
tunately resulted in escapades that
have made him famous. The most re-
cent of them must be within the men,
DRY of the lovely Miss Hichborn her.
self. 1t rang through the country as
loud as the news of the war, says the
Chicago American.
Captain Blaine, In the countrys SER
vice. had been ordered home because
of conduct unbecoming an officer and
q gentleman.
1T is not more than year since
young Blaine first had the honor of
being dubbed rival of Senator De-
pew In the affections of Miss Hich-
born.
Since then he has been on probation.
He has served his tenn apparently with
honor. for, in the language of the day,
his engagement is "out"
"On probation" was concession to
the demands of those others who love
Martha Hichborn; for instance, her
father and mother.
On Probation.
The rear admiral, whose memory
stretches over more years than his
daughters. was doubtful even when
MS prospective son-in-law swore that
Sfs past was past. He was called upon
20 prove 1T. So he went on probation,
and the rear admiral's daughter de-
tlared with a smile that she was on
probation, too.
1T is matter of fact worth record
Ing that he has been the hero of no
ascapade demanding SO much as
paragraph since September 1885,,
when, just for fun, his chum, Perry
Tiffany, decided to knock out a cab
happened to be with him, was neces
barily involved. But this was an Incl
dent trifling in the light of Jim
Blaines past history.
He first began to have an identity of
his own when he held lucrative gov
eminent clerkship granted him be-
cause he was the son of the famous
Maine statesman He distinguished
himself by swearing he had fallen head
over ears in love with the daughter of
eS-Congressman Palmer and by induc-
Ing her somehow to elope with him to
New York. Some weeks later the girl
was found in New York living alone.
and In spite of the Blaine prestige a
scion of the house was ostracised from
Washington society.
But he was still in the world. He
emphasized this fact by once again
falling in love, this time with such adj
mirable taste that no one but his fam
lily disapproved the choice.
The elder BlaineS who hanDened tn
be off In Maine, raised a dreadful row,
to which Jimmie only gave heed suf-
hclently to marry the bewitching Marie
Nevins privately, instead of waiting for
the pomp of q church ceremony.
Welded snd Divorced.
Miss Nevis was an actress In the
Modjeska company and poor. And
young Jimmie knew he could never talk
over his mother, lady with set ideas
sent. He acted the role of Romeo as
many lover might, without it. No one
blamed him While he remained a lover
Until after their child, James Blaine
The third, was born things went smooth
ly and then rumor set them in a very
sea Of troubles that finally dubbed
over and drove the young wife to the
divorce court. She was given her free
dom, the custody of her child and the
ter she married DIR. William L. Bull,
the eminent New York surgeon.
After this Jim Blaine's heart seemed
to be as inf1ammabe as skyrocket set
over burning match and among his
loves the name of kuhne stands out. 1t
belongs to Miss Beve: ige, sculptor
of some talent and much beauty. Peo-
pie wondered just what she saw in
young Blaine, but evidently she saw
p; something, For she permitted her name
to lie linked with his, even to the point
of their engagement being announced
Jim Blaine has the height of his dis
tinguished father, a heavy body that
! comes from high living and slow NOV
ing. He has the Blaine nose, strong
shaped like the beak of an eagle, and
the slow, heavy lidded, almost dull
Blaine eye without the nobility of the
late statesman's plance. But he has
an independence of manner and per-
, suasive boldness that may be the key
to his destinations.
His record proves that he has fasci-
nation, which returns us to Miss Bev-
e,idge. For While she who had been
the heroine of one romance, brief one,
when She became the wife of Charles
Coghlan, the actor, seemed to be in the
halo Of another. Suddenly, without
apparent cause, she stepped out of it
and crossed over to Europe, whether to
mould bust or to consult her mother
no one knew. 1t may be that she, too,
had placed the erratic Jimmie on pro-
baton.
Jag Cure and More JaRs.