Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-10-11

self. was = wealthy young Sew York
lawyer with a Virginia ectate In Albe-
marie county. when he met. In the
late sos. Amelie Rives. Their homes
Merry Mills" and "Csstl- Hill" we're
contiguous and the meeting had come
about through riding over the country
roads She was the daughter Of a
noted Virginia family Her father was
rather celebrated engineer In the
Civil war and his father had been
thrice minister 20 France. From her
earliest teens Miss Rives had been
writing verse. short stories and a nov
elette or two had come from her desk
But the world had given her little
more than passing attention until one
morning there appeared a little red
book bearing across its front cover
tho somewhat singular title. The
Quick or the Dead"
Society gasped. it was the original
best seller No one ever really knew
how many copies OF that startling
book were sold. and the chief magnet
| OF II all was the fact that II had
been written by a girl OF twenty-five
| years. reared In the somewhat straight
| atmosphere Of an old Virginia house,
and having. presumably, no first hand
| Information on the fetid world OF
| which her book told
\ And the hero OF the thing was
| Chnnler She even describes Jack
| Deering.
There was the same curling, brown
halr above the square, strongmodeled
/ forehead. the determined jut OF the
nose, the pleasing unevenness In the
/ crowded white teeth. tho fho Jaw.
| which had that curve from ear 10 tip.
/ like the prov Of cutter"
Then the Marriage.
Then. only few weeks after the
| publication Of this sensational novel.
/ came the announcement OF the mar
riage OF Chanler and Miss Rives.
/ They went abroad and established a
fund for sending chosen American art
students to the European schools.
Both were interested in painting
Miss Rives even having at one time
painted the portrait OF a nude woman
with herself as model.
She was tho most talked-ot women
IN the country and her book went
right on selling year after year. Soon
she added "Herod and Marianne" to
her list OF writings. AZ intervals
came one or two other novels, and in
1895 there appeared her dramatic
poem. "Selene"
In 1895 Amelle Rlves Chanier and
John Armstrong Chanler came TO a
crossroads OF life and set out on
devious ways. There was nothing in
any way notable about the parting
save the personalities and their great
reputo.
An Exile at Home.
And two years later began the ro-
mantictraglc motif OF John Arm
strong Chanler's life. He was do
votee OF the occult, studied closely
the psychic. which has since come
into frances. in which mis- face was
said to assume n resemblance 20 the
death mask OF Napoleon. and believed
himself able to write automatically
while In such states OF aberrancs
Chanler had hunted brlgands In Mex
ico. Travelled about the world in quest
OF excitement, and what may be more
to the point had a fortune Of one
and half millions. His family
wasn't partial to his vagaries and
had his sanity attacked. BY means
which Chanler has always since de
nounced as fraudulent the othel
brothers. one OF the most active be
ing Robert Chanler. had him sent e
Bloomington asylum, where he spent
four years. His sensational escape
from this madhouse and the subse
Quent search for him in every part o
the world are matters very general!
remembered Half a dozen timei
bodies were found and recognized al
that of Chanler the escaped mono
maniac.
Answering all these things Chanle
appeared In a Virginia court one da!
and had himself declared sane Th,
courts OF South Carolina subsequent
" tried his case and approved IN,
Judgment OF Virginia Thus Chanle
lives today on his Albemarle count,
estate. declared sane by two state
and at liberty to so anywhere in tn
country save to New York. where hi
status still is that of an escaped luna
tic and where his family waits 4
have him cast back into madman'
Il cell
Not only have the courts Of thes
i states held him possessed OF normal
ity. but his neighbors consider hin
more than sane and he is reall
popular man IN his strange exile