St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-06-30

match with all his might, but they
were married and went to London. It
was only little while after that
Mr.. Work was sending them $1,000 a
year to live on. A little later he in
creased it to $4,000. Then he cut OF
all allowances. He said his daughter
had married a man who never could
or never would make living, and that
he was tired of furnishing allowances
and paying bills at the same time.
With the "wherewithal" cut on, Mrs.
Burke Roche soon returned with her
children. She went straight to the
house on Twenty-sixth street. In
1891 she obtained a divorce from her
husband in Delaware, and ever since
has been living at her fathers house
as its beautiful mistress AS has late
ly come forth, She has had little spoiled
ways of her own ever since which
were not exactly In accord with the
fussy notions of an old man. He has
flown into rage ct her more than
once, which is not anything remark
able when it Is considered that he is
81 years old. But she is her fathers
daughter, and, moreover, she Is not in
the least afraid that he means it, and
she knows exactly how to manage
him. So, when he reprimanded her
for having her luncheon served on a
little tray in the parlor, she ordered
her maid to pack up her trunks and
remove to the Buckingham. A pretty
bluff, wasn't it, when it is considered
that all his daughters means of liv-
ing is the SEC, 10000 which he allows her
a year.
But she knew exactly how to man
age her father, who IS given to imag-
lining thfngs-so say her sons-and it
was only short time until he was
denying the rumors that were flying
about that he had diisinherited her,
and was sending for her to come home.
It has been said, though, that he has
put it in his will In the form of a re-
quest that his granddaughter, Cynthia
Burke Roche, shall not marry a for
eigner. as her mother did.
Miss Van Aliens Victory.
In the late notor1ety of young Rob-
ert Collier 1t was remembered what
a strenuous opposition was put up
against him as a son-in-law by James
Van Allen. Mrs. Van Alien was the
daughter of Mrs. William Aston, and
it has been said that Mr.. James Van
Allen Is one of the most snobbish men
in America. He refused the offer of
Grover Cleveland to send him as min
lister to Italy, and, like William Wal
dorf Astor, he has decided that Eng
land is the only place to live in and
bring up his family. When his young
est daughter, Sara, fell in love with
Robert Collier, his only objection to
the young man was because he was
Irish. The rumor of their engagement
was at first scornfuily denied by the
Van Aliens.
Mr.. Van Alien was obdurate, and, al
though his daughter declared she
would marry him and nobody else, she
was whisked on to Europe in the hope
that she would forget him. Instead,
he followed, and she laid such siege
to her father that he looked on 1t !
with little more favor. She returned |
home, where she exercised the grand |
coup and won over her grandmother,
Mrs. William Astor. She also Joined |
the Roman church. Finally, one day,
with a bad grace and perhaps because
be had to, but none the less because
be was managed, James Van Allen cap
Itulated.
It was not, however, until the day
Of the marriage, when he reluctantly
gave the bride away at civil mar
rage in the drawing-room OF q hotel
None Of Mr.. Golfers family was p(es-