The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09

f -4 Young Todd. however, showed no dis pomH,on tss,,. to repeat the experience, the ol " being only to sink him
 oeeper and deeper Into dissipation u,a. sseptatner was now often calied uvon 70 settle his obligations at the
 gaming table. delicately referred ts as business embarrassments." and beau
 urul historic Montpelier was finally sold
 70 pay his debts. When this crisis was reached he made some effort at restitu- uon by beginning upon Toddsworth. inc aoJolning place. house for hia mother Lack of funds. however, prevented fts compietion. as well as that of his plan Tor the establishment of a silk farm. France a number of silk man1facturers, before he had hatched the worms or planted the mulberry trees. Reduced His Mother to Want. |. After President Madison's death, when
 his widow returned to Washington, oc- House. on Lafayette Square, the @3o. 900 paid to her by Congress for his reports of the Constitutional Convention, togeth- CT with what he himself bequeathed her, would have been sufficient to maintain her in comfort, if not elegance. had 1t not been for the drain upon her re- sources of her sons habits. As it was, she was sometimes reduced almost to want, and Paul. President Madison s body servant. who had purchased hisx own
 
 Webster. often brought market baskets of provisions to her from his employer. even occasionally assisting her with his own earnings.
 Meenwhlle her son was ordering rare cheeses and other luxurfes from abroad. efeat-nephew of Mrs. Madison, the grandson of her sister child," who still lives in Washington. and who used to stand by her side at her famous levees Gas largely attended as the White House
 
 Young as I was I often observed a look of i!stress upon my aunt's face. and being sometimes the bearer of small sums to ner, suspected its cause. When. ating $29.0oo to the purchase of my unele's letters and ether writings, ran from the Senate Chamber as my fathers avant courier to have the pleasure of announcing the news."
 This gentleman. who also distinctly re- | members his cousin. her unfortunate son. says:
 "To me he was the most fascinating of men and have always believed that he was fundamentally good. only led astray by temptations which fews would have been able to resist. At that time he frequented a fashionable res1kurant, the Boulanger, situated on c Street, near the War Department, and I recoliect on certain occasion his taking me there to cat strawberries and cream While abroad-where they put brandy with their coffee--he contracted many foreign hab- its. and there was certainly something stronger than the unfermented juice of the fruit with my saucer of berries. 1m- mediately after eating it was conscious of strange sensations fin my head and soon afterwards shocked my parents by arriving at home in state of iftoxica- tion."
 Death of Mother and Son. The closing years of Mrs. Madisons S life would have been desolate indeed had 1t not been for her nephews and nieces. who chung to her to the end with ten derest devotion. One of then1-a second Anna Payne-lived with her. nursing her through her last illness. She died in 1Si9, aged s2. the last words upon her lips being My poor. poor boy" He survived her only two years. his crowning act of infafny being an rnsuc- cessfuI attempt to break her will and wrest from her "dear daughter. Anna
 Payne" the portion left to her A short 1 hotel on H Street. fs WAS seized with l typhoid fever. and, tended only by two | of his mothers old servants, ended his wretched existence. He was buried in | the Congressional Cemetery, on Wash 1 ington's Birthday, just one week before | the completion Of his own :9th year. As l the hearse which bore his remains wound | slowly through the streets heavy snow | was falling Two carriages followed 1t. l In one was Q single friend; in the other Gilberta S. whittIe