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Show ing incessantly made inquiries concerning concern-ing them for years. July 12 the lour met for thu first time fdnce the fatal shipwreck, and. as may he imagined, the reunion was a most joyous one. The four are now ma'.ure women and nil are eng.igL-d io the work of their order. They attended the retreat of I the Sitcr of Notre Dame which elosed I last week at Mankato. j CHILDREN OF ROMANCE, 'The Case of Nina Van Zant Fully Explained. SHE NEVER LOVED M5UST SPILS. Anna Williams' Millions of Lovera. Romance of Four Sistirs. Nothing stirs the soul like a tale tinned with healthy romance. Ever kItiiju tle world began stories savoring savor-ing of romance have beea eagerly sought for. Kvery body und everything has a romantic connejlion of some sort. A few years ugo the people of the United .States took unparalleled interest in the romantic marriage- of August Spies, the convicted anarchist, and I .Nina Van '.ant, the daughter of a wealthy Chicagoan. A few days after the ceremony was ; performed the groom gave up his life , on the altar of and in the name of : anarchy. iShe was a widow and donned the weeds of her social condition. n the world of romance none had ever presented such strange features. l-'otir years have now almost pustand the heroine of that strange romance has just joined her hands in another romantic ro-mantic marriage. At Chicago, July 10, Mnu Van Zant-Spies became the wife of Stefano S. Mala to, a young Italian j journalist of great ability and good family, and hereby hangs a tale. The bride renounced her former marriage in no uncertain way. It was done by proxy and not by her consent. Her parents had planned the affair that the arch-anarchist's life might be spared. To Nina Van ant the whole alVitir w;is distasteful. She was neither in sympathy with Spies nor his cause. Still she was made believe that an act of self-sacrifice w.mld save a life and she consented to the ordeal. How she Buffered no one but herself knows. After Spies' death his widow, almost distracted with the excitement attending attend-ing her lover's trial and subsequent execution, turned her attention to the study of languages in tho hope that it would keeo her from dwelling on the terrible ordeal she had passed tnrough. She became an accomplished linguist. About six months ago she became acquainted ac-quainted with Stefano Malato, an Italian Ital-ian journalist. Malato could not speak a word of English and was naturally attracted by the beautiful young woman wo-man who talked his own language so well. Mrs. Spies became interested in Malato and undertook to help him learn English and at the same time perfect herself in Malato's native tongue. Mr. and Mrs. Malato will go to Italy on their wedding trip and will carry recommendations from Vice-President Bryan of the world's fair. Mr. Maluto attended the University of Naples and afterward graduated from the University of Palermo. Even the bright American aollar, the bright spot in all our lives, has a romance connected with it. It is one of absorbing interest, too. Much surprise, sur-prise, was created lately when the announcement an-nouncement was made that "M iss Liberty," whose majestic profile adorns one side of tho '"mighty." has a true original in a living, breathing, beautiful beauti-ful American girl. The voting lady is Miss Annie W. Williams, teacher of kindergarten phil- 55 "Williams t ORonhv in the Girls Normal School, I'hiladolpbia. At tho time Miss William's Will-iam's classic features attracted the attention at-tention of tho mint engraver sho was principal of the girls' school at tho llouso of liofugo. ller profile was then considered to be the most perfect of any woman! n Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. It was with great difficulty, hoveer, that she was prevailed upon to jive sittings to the artist, und only upon the condition that her ideutity should nevitr be revealed would Miss illiiims consent to have -her Ulienoss indelibly stumped upon the hearts of the people fur it is said the dollar is nearest tho average American heart. Hut it was impossible to keep the secret long, und soon after the dollars were put in circulation the young woman's wo-man's identity also became known. The story that the engraver had put so much of his own sou into the work that ho fairly worshiped his idial. and that the romance ended as it always does when two ho;irts beat as one. was, tbo production of a romantic Imagination. Imagin-ation. Miss Williams continued to teach nt the House of Keftige until a few years ago, when she obtained the position at the (iirls' Normal Sjliool, a position which she still retains. j A pen on who will take a silver dollar dol-lar from his purso and compare it with tbo accompanying picture will soo that Miss Williams' features aro still aa classic in mold as when they attracted the attention of the United States (jov-ornment. (jov-ornment. At Mankato, Mm.. the other day occurred a reunion which presents romance in another form. This time four Sisters of Charity furnish the nucleus for the story. Twenty-thrco years ego a ship lef tho shores of Europe luden with German Ger-man immigrants to conic to America, 1 hiring the voyage an explosion occurred oc-curred whi -h wrecked tho ship and killed a great uianv of its passengers. Among the immigrants was a family consisting of a man, wife and four little pirls. The man w a killed, his wife's head was blown off. and ever since two of tho girls supposed the other two drowned. A rescuing vessel found a j iady tloating by the aid of a life pre-t pre-t server and supporting above water the j beads of two of the little girls. She did not know them but took motherly interest in the orphans and cared for theiu. They were afterward placed in I a convent and became widely sep-: sep-: aratcd. One is now the mother super-I super-I ior of the convent in Mankato and the other belongs to tho same order of I Notre Dame at New Orleans. By , chance they recently ascertained thai ; their two long lost sisters were also iu ' ' the order In th$ Northwest, after bar- |