Show distinguished EXILES ax myor citey bau living la london jad theodore tilton hi you will meet men who bring up that are of the baat and are almost forgotten writes a correspondent from paris to the philadelphia times they bring op old memo ghosts of the past as it were it ia but a short time ago that I 1 gaw oakey hall in london and what recollections of new york under the rein of tweed he brought un those were great days for hall and tw men who were a great deal corae than he what a fellow of infinite jest he was and what a bright spot he made the mayors office in new york gome twenty years ago the older news paper men politicians and men about town will long remember its attractiveness he would have been a rash roan in those days who would have attempted to pro chesy the height in the temple of tame to which this brilliant and witty man might not climb what prophet could foresee that thia once popular man was to pass the evening of hia life practically an mile in a foreign land leaving behind him on the fields oi hii early triumphs nothing but shattered ambitions yet this was to be in a small cafe in a somewhat unfrequented part of paria the other day I 1 saw another man who recalled a case the fame of which ia worldwide world wide he was at a table seemingly buried in thought of a not pleasant character and oblivious of his surroundings he had an intellectual face but on it were deep lines that told of past sufferings his long hair waa gray prematurely gray his shoulders were bent there was a moody brooding look on his face but he was evidently a tall man and some years ago buet have been a handsome man As he sat at the table he looked like a strong man borne down by the memory of some great sorrow of the past presently he arose and walked out without looking to the right or the left and then recognized him although it has been years I 1 saw him before it was theodore tilton the once famous editor of the new Y ork independent but how changed in the days of his popularity tall erect strong and handsome now a broken prematurely old man he is doing some sort of literary work here but no one seems to know just what it is I 1 could not but think after seeing the man that the scandal in which this mans life was wrecked was more than a mere scandal it was in tact a tragedy the circle of the chief actors in it is narrowing the greatest of them is dead BO are others among them some of the lawyers and several of the jury one of the lawyers benjamin F tracy ia in the cabinet of the president of the united states mrs tilton is more fortunately situated than her husband lor she has the company and sympathy of her children but theodore tilton haunts out of the way places in paris seeking neither friends nor friendships a miserable and broken |