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Show STORY OF A LIFE TRAGEDY. There are tragedies going on in the private lives of many men. One is coming to light in a Virginia court. The will of John Armstrong Chanler, made in 1895, was admitted to record in the County Clerk's office at Charlottesville Va., last week. The deed conveys con-veys to the University of Virginia his Merry Mills estate near Cobham, containing some 400 acres, together to-gether with all the paintings, statues, books, furniture, furni-ture, chattels, farming implements and live stock. The purpose of such conveyance is to make a home for such professor emeritus of the university as the rector and trustees may designate. But, in the preamble of this deed, Chanler gives the history of his estrangement from his family, which began with his marriage to Amelie Rives, and culminated in his incarceration in Bloomingdale. These few words give a vivid picture of a tragedy more terrible than death by the block or by electrocution, of a life in a few years changed from one of extreme happiness and pride to a life in a lunatic asylum. In this world, as a rule, less reason is shown by men and women when they come to marry than in the small affairs of life. What is to, come of the marriage to themselves and to posterity they hardly think of. They follow an infatuation and the result re-sult is the creation of thousands of unhappy homes and the filling of insane asylums with unfortunates, which are the pity of mankind. v |