The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-19

not believe thing against him. Lord
and Lady SaXondale, mutual friends of
all concerned, and Iicky Savage come
over from England to help Philip, but
after a duel and other exciting adVen-
lures, the American gives it out that
he is beaten and leaves Brussels with
Savage to sail for home, and the Sax
ondales go to their place, Castle Gran
eycrow, in Luxembourg. The wedding
day arrives, a fashionable congrega-
ton awaits the coming Of the bride
at the church and an impatient bride
O. groom keeps his eyes fastened on the
door, but she comes not. What hap
pens is this: Dorthy and her mother
start for the church with an uncle,
when they find themselves taking
long drive and finally are stopped by
masked man, who calmly tells them
1t will be useless to resist. To make
long story short, the mother and I'M
Gle are left in vacant house on the
way and Dorothy, blindfolded, is car
ried on, and the next morning wakes
up in a very beautiful room with an
English maid to wait upon her. Then
the truth comes out Aided by Saw
age, Philip has abducted her and she
is at Castle Craneycrow with her
friends. Fear for her mothers safety
and Indignation that they have made
her the most talked-of woman in Eu-
rope naturally turns her against those
Would-be friends, and it takes many
pages and chapters to reconcile her
and teach her, that after ALL it is the
American she loves and not Ugo. When
the prince finally finds her and comes
armed with authority to arrest the con-
Sp1ratorS, she saves her lover and his
friends by informing the prince that
she went willingly, in fact, that she ran
away with the man she loved in order
to escape marriage with one she did
not love. This very impossible story
comes to an end with love triumphant
and an American flag flying at Castle
CraneycroW. 1t is cheap and sensa-
honal and will not add much to the
reputation of the writer.
Early Steamboating.
Scribner's Magazine for January
contains a very readable account of
the old river route to New Orleans
written by Willis Gibson. 1t is illus
trated by Jules Guerin with pictures
of Fort Smelling and other picturesque
places on the river from St Paul to
New Orleans. The writer dwells upon
the comfort and pleasure of boat travel
on the Mississippi forty years age SO
well remembered by many old settlers
of st. Paul OF this city the writer
says:
But as for st. Paul, she is now the
railroad center Of the Northwest. On
the Mississippis east bank, budding
between the water and the main city
are great railroad warehouses, Gepots
and terminal yards On the west bank
are new buStIing factories and-more
railroad tracks Gone is the old broad
levee where single steamboats, some
times landed as many as 500 settlers
fer ST. Paul and Minneapolis at a trip,
Where the toWnSpeople were wont to
oh
East, where the First Minnesota volun-
teerS embarked for the frontal sac
riticed to the railroad. And very late
1y-consider- the ingratitude-the CITY
looked smiling on while the Union De-
pct company. with piledriVer and steam
shovel to make room for additional
trackaga fmpudently moved a halt
mile of the eastern shore some sixty
feet out into the river. So
today st. Faul, from her hills, gazes
tndifferently upon her river. ;
So let the pilgrim who quits ST Paul
on downbound steamboat be Of good
cheer, for in less than an hours time
he will find himself inside the boun-
darieS of the MissisSippi's true world
strange land cleaving The heart of our
hurrying republic from north to south
to find whose end he must travel as far
rs from the Atlantic to the Rockies y
The writer goes on TO descant
upon the great changes that have taken
place in river travel from the old DAYS
and his description of what has beer
done by the inroads of the railroad and
the rush of business interests will
make good reading for those of the
pioneers in st. Paul who well remem-
Der when the river was the only outle1
of this district.
Also of Local Interest.
In the January Scribner's, too. is tn,
first instalment of the letters of Madam
Waddington, telling of the English
court and society of London in thu
eighties. Madam Washington was al
American girl, Mary Alsop King, anC
thirty years. 0ssibly -forty-ago, sh,
visited in st. Paul her cousins. tn,
Misses Paterson, daughters of DR.. Will
liam Patterson, the first rector OF st
Paufs church in this city. Miss King
then was noted for her charm and wit
and those of the old settlers who re-
member the good old days" will no
have forgotten Miss King. She wa.
the daughter Of Charles King, of New
York, who was president of Columbia
college many years ago. After hi.
death she went to France with hel
mother, and there met and married
Monsieur Washington, who obtained
his English name from his grandfather
Washington was educated both il
France and England ana quickly rose
from ore position to another in publ,
life, until he became one of the hes
known diplomatists Of his time. III,