The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
WRESTLING is IN FAVOR.
Strong Men Are i'm Demand This Season and Royal
ty Smiles Them in Drawing Rooms

veloped habit and convincing stories
of it's powers
Although druggists in London and
Paris are forbidden by law to handle
mOrphia without a special license, the
number of sales ION the quiet is de-
clared to be enormous, especially In.
the latter capital. Often customers are
charged five times the regular price,
but as they seldom refuse, the drug
gists' profit is sufficient to warrant the
risk 1t is said, too, that a waiter in
a prominent Paris restaurant always
keeps a hypodermic syringe ready for
the use of any patron who may re-
Quire a dose when he has left his own
at home.
Interest in the American million
aire" has got so keen on this side of
the water that the exploits of the
supposedly plutocratic Bernard Nc
Groary-who returned to Ireland from
New Jersey few months ago, and
who died at Liverpool recently-at-
tracted no end of attention, and a good
deal is likely to be made of law
suit which is coming as sequel to MS
history. McGroary, of course; was the
eccentric Irish-American millionaire"
who, after turning up in Donegal, his
old home, took up his abode at the
local poorhouse and who lived there
h some time in style BETTING as opu-
1T a person as he pretended to be.
Mt long after his death it came out
that McGroary was not millionaire
at all, but possessed of only about S.
900. This he bequeathed, for the most
part, to relatives in the United
States, and now | learn that his kins-
men on this side of the water are going
to contest the will 1t is possible also
to tell. here, for the first time, why it
was that McGroary elected to take up
his residence in so unlikely retreat
for a rich man as the Donegal poor
house.
1t seems that when the Irish-A1ner-
lean arrived at Donegal, preceded by
tales Of the fortune he had amassed
in the new Eldorado, his poor rela-
lions were overjoyed at the prospect Of
having a real live millionaire as a
kinsman. The family tree was quick
ly built up and relationships hitherto
unheard of were as quickly estab-
lished The neighbors came to con-
graduate the McGroarys on their good
fortune and Bernard himself became
the object of an admiring and patron
ling community of humble Donegal
folk A millionaire does not descend
on Donegal every day, so that Nc
Groary was feted and RECALLED by every
one who could by any stretch of mag
ination claim even the most distant
relationship.
The thing went so far that, after
a while, the millionaire" made up his
mind to escape from such pressing at
tentions, and this is why 1T was that,
to the dismay and CONSERVATION of the
McGroarys, he took up his quarters
in the local workhouse-not as a. pau
per, but as a paying guest" at SIS
week. In the Institution he had his
room furnished luxuriously; he provid-
ed his own silver and cooking utensils
and otherwise conducted himself in a
way that suggested wealth. One day
he was missing from his quaint "ho-
tel and 1t was also discovered that
he had forgotten to pay his last weeks
BILL but there was left behind suffi@ent
furniture and plate to guarantee the
debt incurred and a great deal more.
McGroary was next heard Of in Glas-
gov, where he had gone to some more
of his poor relations. From there he
went to Liverpool, where died some
what suddenly, leaving the will which
| quickly removed the impression that
be was a millionaire.
! The $4,000 of which he was pos
| sessed he gave to relatives in Glasgow
as well as in New Jersey and New
York, the Donegal folk being ignored
entirely. The Irish relatives are going
| to test the validity of the will in the
high courts in Dublin. and for this pur-
pose a well known Donegal solicitor
James Dunleary-is retained to prose-
cute their claims. They maintain that
the old mans eccentricity caused him
! to be the object of undue influence,
and that he was not in a proper state
of mind when the will was executed.
Their solicitor is in communication
with an agent in New York, who is
authorized to make inquiries into Nc
Groary's history in New Jersey.
Lady Mary.