El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28

, sent as minister to the court ,of St
ON The End Of the Love story.
Eaton before going to FlOr1das tried
his best to get Samuel D. Ingham, who
was in the cabinet with him, TO meet
him in duel There is a story that
pretty Peggy would not have been
averse to having had little OF the
secretary of the treasury's blood shed
She, was bitter enough on one occasion
to tell him at the white house that all
he lacked was pettcOats.
Eaton and Ingham didn't meet on the
field of honor. InSham had no lusL
for combat. He fled from Washing
ton. after refusing an invitation to
fight and upon receiving word from
Eaton that the latter would attack
him on sight
Tallahassee was a very slow place
for Peggy O'NeaI after the splendors
OF washington and It's eXc1LeneuLS-
She didn't like the dreary old Spanish
town, and neither did Eaton. Ihelr
transfer to Madrid was much more 20
their liking at first, but Madrid palleo
on Eaton after a time, as II did on
pretty Peggy. Neither Of them had
much desire for the stilted Life OF the
Spanish court. And, if the truth must
be told Eaton was beginning to tire OF
the capriciOus Peggy and she already
was tired of her aged husband To
Eaton, Madrid meant exile. To Peggy
Madrid meant that she was out or tn9
world. cut off from all life, galerys
everything that she once held dear ana
all because she was the wife Of a white
headed and romantic soldier politician
Eaton asked to be recalled and 70
be taken into the newly formed CAP
met Jackson, who knew that the
return of the EatOns to America meant
a revival Of all the old gossip, re-
fused. Eaton remained abroad as long
as he could stand it. Then bitter ana
resentful, he returned to Washington
quarreled with Jackson and Quafrelsd
with pretty Peggy
1t is odd how queerly men view the
things or the persons that af1ecS their
lives most. Eaton, after his love Tor
Peggy O'NeaI began to lessen, rather
felt that Jackson was responsible for
the fact that Peggy became Mrs Eaton
and he held him responsible Tor Lne
storm Of gossip that centered about
her head 1t was not so with Peggy.
It rarely is with a woman. She is more
generous in matters where man IS
actuated. She thinks Of motive and
not Of effect.
ssHe Wasn't Nan, He Was a GOdr7
Jackson mad been dead more than
forty years and Eaton nearly as long,
and Peggy O'NeaI still lived. One day
in 1879 when eighty three years had
whitened her hair to snow ana LETT
only traces Of the beauty that once
was the talk Of the capital, Peggy
O'Neal sat in her little home in Wash
ington, not far from the tavern where
she was born and where she knew her
early triumphs. and talked about her
self and her husbands and her war
and of Andrew Jackson.
1T is all Of the past now" said she.
cit matters little. 1t is only mem
Dry don't suppose ever would have
been heard Of but for the fact that
was the daughter Of a tavern keeper.
Stranger than all else in connection
with this affair is the fact that An
drew Jackson never spoke to me about
the stories that were current; never
questioned me about one Of them;
never doubted for an instant that they
were untrue"
What do you think Of Andrew
Jackson as a MANI" her visitor asked
"A man. exclaimed the old, old
woman. "He wasn't a man, he was
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