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Show POOR SHADE OF ROYALTY JSaroness Harden - Hickey Once Ruled in Royal State on the Island of Trinidad, Now with Mind Hopelessly Gone, Is in Sanitarium with Delusions of Former Greatness Her Only Comfort. New York. Almost a queen! Fit title for a modern melodrama, this phrase which, in invisible characters, is written over the door of a private room in a sanitarium at Stamford, Conn. Almost it might be called an epitaph, for behind that door sits the mental wreck of a New York woman who ruled figuratively by her beauty and charm, and literally by the title conferred upon her by her own husband, his highness, Jacques I., prince of Trinidad. Harden-Hicke- y y Baroness Anne has for her subjects only devoted attendants and each of whom in his or her way rules over a little kingdom which none other may enter. For the once beautiful and gifted daughter of J. H. Flagler, cousin of Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, has lost her reason. The death of her daredevil husband, whom she worshiped, and drugs, taken to forget her loss and grief, have done their work. The To-da- cultivation crops might be raised. There were fields of guano and pasture enough for sheep raising and, best of all, the island was unclaimed by any power. Some day he would be king of this island. On his return to Europe he niel Anne Flagler, and in less than a year had won and married her by a special dispensation of the pope, who also created him a baron. This was in 1889. In 1893 he realized his ambition. Financed largely by his wife and her relatives, though there were rumors of a $100,000 loan, he landed his colonists on the forlorn little island of Trinidad, and there he set up his court. His overseers were white, but the land was cultivated by peons. His palace was a mere hut, but it stood apart from the rest, and his court was held as punctiliously as that of St. Janies. To be sure, there was a great shortage In court ladies, but the beauty and enthusiasm of his devoted wife, who entered into all his plans, made his peculiar kingdom a paradise. But one fatal mistake had been made. The foreign powers had been formally notified that the Island of Trinidad had been colonized as an independent state or principality under Prince Jacques I., and two years later. In 1895, Great Britain decided that she needed just that island for a future coaling station. Their movements accelerated by a British gunboat, the colonists fled from the island In the yacht of their prince and princess. For years Jacques I. of Trinidad of his fought for the recognition rights and almost made Trinidad, an international issue. But after being mixed up In a filibustering scheme aimed at one of the Hawaiian islands not yet annexed to the United States, the Harden-Hicke- y star waned. Always accompanied by his devoted wife, he led a more or less adventurous career, and finally wound up In El Paso, Tex., where a pistol shot ended his disappointments, in Feb-ruar- posed on the queen or street. Eai;t Map of Trinidad. Sometimes, when the chloral had been less deadening than usual, Anne Baroness Anne would catch fragments of some neighborly sorrow. Then indeed did the queenly nature come to the surface. With all the graciousness which a Victoria might show to the family of a hero, to which Anne added' the democratic personal sympathy which a real queen may not display, she would go to the stricken one and minister financially and spiritually. The children of the neighborhood built fairy tales about the mysterious woman who sat all day long in her apartment in queenly state, waiting for the king who had passed out of her life forever. Or, again, she came slowly into their midst and waited for an open carriage a victoria preferred in which she might lean back and bow graciously from side to side as the women and children of the neighborhood saluted her. The cabbies all knew her and stood at attention as she entered her vehicle. The motormen on the Third avenue and Lexington avenue cars knew her, too, and watched for the quaint figure which stopped not for trolleys nor trucks nor ambulances, but swept serenely on its way across crowded thoroughfares, secure In the belief that no man would run down a queen. Sudden Disappearance. But there came a day when her wanderings led too far from the graystone apartment-house- , when her could no longer control the household expenditures and the charities of the woman who was almost a queen drained upon the purses even of Then Baron- her millionaire relatives. t y, Adventurer though he was, Harden-Hicke- y was a man of honor and financial probity the type of man who commands the respect of his wife and Anne, princess of Trinidad, never ceased to grieve for him. A Parlor Her Throne She came north, and though her personal fortune had been dissipated through her loyalty to her husband and his many schemes she was amply provided for by her relatives. Society no longer charmed her. To ease her aching heart and find comfort In sleep she took to chloral, and then began her new life the life in which she was, to her own diseased mind at least, a veritable queen. The comfortable front room or parlor of her Bmall apartment at No. 147 street became her East On East street, between Third and Lexington avenues, they still talk of the stately woman who walked among them unseeingly, save when she performed some regal act of kindness or charity. There, in a commonplace apartment house, she kept up her little court circle and forgot all else. A few of her Immediate family she received as her equals; all others were given a regal audience. And yet an audience was eagerly sought by her neighbors, for despite certain eccentricities which come with Fifty-fourt- falling mentality, Baroness Harden-Hicke- y was a woman of marvelous charm. Her neighbors never laughed at her. Thoughtless children never pointed the finger of youthful scorn at her wavering figure. Tradespeople and policemen on the beat rose as one man to protect her coming and her going but few, indeed, knew the truq history queen ... t of their almost Wooed While Being Edited. TRnle'V rtlckey, born Bareness Anne Flaglef delved every advantage, and her Education was completed by Several trips abroad. On one of these bhe met and teas wooed by as j arises or James Harden-Hickey- , dashing a character as the nineteenth century ever knew outside of book covers. He claimed to be a Frenchman by birth, but rumor has It that he was born in San Fran'rfsro ill U54 and removed to France at a very tender age. However this Yiiay have been, hp grew up a pronounced loyalist, and after the establishment of the republic was a diverting political figure. After being graduated fiYifn the French military school at St. Cyr, where he left a brilliant record as a duelist at least, he established a newspaper of his own called the Trlboulet. As he was only 23, his career as an editor and publisher was marked by a succession of duels, fines for damages, assessed by the French tribunals, and strong animosity among the Republican politicians, lather than subscribers und It ended in his financial returns. fleeing to London, where he found life altogether too fame, so he took passage on the British bark Astoria, to see the world. Off the Southeast coast of Bra7.ll, In the South Atlantic, the bont was thrown out of its course by a Btorm, and a boat's crew, including their passenger keen for adventure, went ashore on a precipitous island named Trinidad for water and such fresh provisions as might bo picked up. The crew found an abandoned Portuguese settlement, buildings falling to decay, all signs of cultivation hidden by wild vines and rants. The imagination of Jacques Harden-Hickewas fired, lie saw that with y rr Womens Work in Public Charities By Julia C. Lathrop Potency of the Intelligent Sympathy oi Refined Women in Dealing with Problems of the Poor Lady Bountiful d Juvenile Courts Established Through Woman's Intervention College Courses Stimulate Interest In Charitable Work The Service oi Wisest and Best Needed n Prisons and Asylums These Now Afford Slipshod Means of Livelihood for Untrained Persons. Out-Date- V by Joseph B. Bowles.) long associated with the work of Hull House In Chicago and with larger activities elsewhere, has had an Important part In building up many worthy institutions in Illinois. During her terms of service on the Illinois stats board of public charities, of which she is now a membpr, she has actively labored to improve conditions in the great hospitals and asylums of the state. The Cook county Institutions at Dunning also owe much to her d work. Much of the credit for the Juvenile court in Chicago establishing and broadening Its Influence for good is due to her. In ameliorating the condition of child workers and in other ways she has shown her devotion to the helpless classes of the population.) One of the significant signs of the times is the growth of a sense of responsibility among women as to mat(Copyright, (Mina Julia C. Lflthrop, field which may be called public charities. This sense of responsibility is the natural development of those Individual charitable ministrations which have always been assigned to women as their legitimate province. The comfortable, if not comforting, charity of a Lady Bountiful is A woman cannot make the moot innocent visit to a family in distress without finding herself beset by the whole army of problems of causation. Willy-nill- y she is dragged into public, efforts for laws and institutions, in each case the inevitable result of simple activities which apparently would lead her no out-date- Fifty-fourt- h woman who waB almost a queen will never mingle with the world again. ruirunjnjuu-uui-r' ters of public hygiene, the protection of children, the care of dependents and delinquents in short, that rather indefinite and constantly enlarging throne-room- Mpa!AdomyJ4xi)Mrcxzr jYnn public-spirite- Room. . Here she graciously received and mingled with her relatives, who never ceased to humor her In her desires and whims. Here, on rare occasions and with due form, she received such neighbors as' she felt were And here she worthy of admission. lived with a single who never failed to bring out the royal robes when they were demanded, who served meals to her sovereign with all the glittering formality the apartments simple fittings would permit; and from the humble door of the gray-ston- e apartment-housBaroness Anne passed out, when so inclined, to drive or walk her triumphant way through the neighborhood. Always stately and gentle, gracious and especially kindly to children, she never became an object of pity or scorn In the humble neighborhood. She never mumbled to herself, as those who live In a world of their own ofttimes do. She carried herself like i jrtneess and never became gro-- . tesque. - - g 1898. SApoatss fjApmJr-ffiCjrjs- 'r ess Anne disappeared from her little kingdom on East street. Her neighbors spoke of her regretfully. The cabbies and the motormen' looked for her In vain. Their erstwhile queen was in the care of relatives who had spirited Jier iway, far from prying eyes' and gossiping tongues. For almost a year she lived thus in retirement; where, none but her family knew. Then came the public announcement that Baroness Harden-Hicke- y Fifty-fourt- h farther than neighbors hearth. For example, in the last few years, to take Illinois as a fair type, a large amount of legislation has been secured qf a philanthropic sort the parental school law, the Juvenile court law, the improvement in the compulsory teduca-tiolaw, the law as to factory Inspection and the labor of children, the esAnne Harden-Hickehad been re- tablishment of the asylum for chronic moved to the Stamford sanitarium, insane, the state training school for there to reign over her imaginary sub- girls, the new St. Charles' school for jects and to await the call of her boys. These measures and others princely consort from that dark and have been initiated and urged In large uncertain Bkore whither he had pre- degree by women, and are a logical ceded her on adventures which 6he evidence of the desire to find conhad always yearned to share with structive remedies of general applicahim. , tion which follows the simple Involved in being a neighbeginnings BRET HARTES GRAY HAIR bor 111 tb direct fashion of the parawe take it, Poet Ascribej ft t0 Piar of Attack by ble. The time has passed, usefulness or prothe for questioning Walked m Regal State. Road Agents. priety of such larger activities on the Vo be sure. Her costumes were not Cfhee, lht)eed, on tny remarking the part of women, further, as we disbrand af-- graying of his hair, Harte told me It cover that few conditions are local or always of that tailor-madWR due to the continued influence of spasmodic, that cause baffles us and fvar while a rider with Yuba Bill. prevention alone shows Itself as an HGKTHWtST Several of his predecessors In charge adequate end, the effort to make ComUY of the specie casket having been shot, mon provision fob specially helpless WMl M he never mounted the stage, as he de- persons or classes bf persons. In the & clared, without some apprehension of interest of society as well as of these a daik glen, a flash therefrom, a re- classes Is certain to Increase. As an Illustration of this tendency port, and a tumble from the seat; to increase the scope of charitable efhe to nerved himself and, although his new duties as best he could, they fort consider the growth of public grew more uncongenial with every charitable institutions from the county Then It was he had no- poorhouse to the constantly elaboratrepetition. ticed that he was growing gray about ing system by which the blind, deaf insane and others the temples. I reminded him of his and feeble-mindeown mllitaiy career of his having en- are cared for by the state unit In seplisted as a volunteer In the war be- arate groups and by which the care of tween the Eel river and Scott river groups once classified as criminal are To which allusion he re- now set under a milder heading. The Indians. Yes, that was Rfter the Hum- slates, too, are constantly taking up plied: I was escorted new tasks, so that the philanthropic boldt bay, massnere. to ihe recruiting officer by Indignation and reformative functions of a state But although the hard- are Its largest item of expenditure, and hunger! ships and privations endured then left sometimes absorbing half Its revenue. me a feeble stomach and irritable In the state of New York alone there non ob, I came to no other harm. Hav- are said to be 100,000 dependent and MAP ing no blood to spare, I shed my di- delinquent persons, whoso care costs fo freedom. You see, he the public $26,000,000 annually, and It gestion TRINIDAD 1 never had continued, any sympathy Is conservative to estimate the total with these mess-porheroes, although population thus supported at 230,000 footed by New Yorks well groomed their wavs, and, above all, their point persons. women. Sometimes she decided that if view, were to me nil Inexhaustible her triumphal progress through the source of amusi ment and interest. 1 Consider another phase which at streets would be heightened by an r cared little whether they wore their first glance appears to he judicial luce frock, worthy indeed of a own at alps on their heads or wore rather than chat it able, but which Is court appearance, though decidedly the seal s of others to trim their buck- really In point that of the juvenile behind the times. But the court train skins." Chicago Ihiily News. comt. The law authoilzing this court was there, the feathered headdress, In Chicago was the result of long . The Teacher. the dainty handkerchief sod fan, the years of effort on the part of men If we work upon ninrlle, it will po high heeled shoes, and the regal carand women to lessen Juvenile crime riage of one who had been almost a ish; If we work upon brass, time wj and to furnish some reasonable protecefface It; If we rear temples, (hey wl tion to children. To this end women, queen. When she entered a shop In the crumhlo into dus.t; but If we wor especially through the women's dubs, have eontiibuted much, and the securneighborhood and left an order she upon Immortal souls, If wo lmbti did n4 hnggle about prices nor limit them wish principles, wiih the Juing of the support of the probation ofher pm chases by mere pounds or ft a r of tloil and love of fellow mei ficers, without whom the law would be a failure, has revolved mainly upon quarts, She ordered ns for a royal wo enclave 011 those tablets soim women. The law, while only a resulthousehold, nnd the tradespeople knew thing which will bilghteu all eternlt; HanU b'Uer. how much should be sent. No one lm- ant of much previous experimenting and of such enactments as the Massa e e WP all-ove- y estingness of masses of people. At Vassar 25 years ago there was no history In the course, much less any hint of the study of men In their social and Industrial relations. Now such studies are conspicuous. No young woman who is liberally educated can escape contact with that modern interest which at worst expresses itself in slumming, whose best has not arrived, but whose progress is marked by such attempts as those to better and equalize primary instruction, to Improve bousing and living conditions In crowded town quarters, to protect children, whether at work or neglected and mischievous; to cope adequately with diseases of poverty, like typhoid and tuberculosis; to create an agreeable and refined social life in the cosmopolitan loneliness of a typical tenement locality, to give to the immigrant and his older neighbor a civic con- chusetts parole law, has attracted wide attention. It has been closely imitated, or is being urged in various cities, notably Fifty-foun- h n Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St Louis, Denver. And everywhere groups of women will be found who are urging the matter, as in St Louis, or who have succeeded as the New Century club has done in Philadelphia. The probation officers, almost universally women, are superficially officers of a court of law. In fact they also come in contact with every problem which poverty can breed. They know the barricades to the progress of righteousness which aye set by drunken parents, extreme poverty, sickness and neglect They must deal with all the agencies of public and private charity in discharging their function as the legal guardians of these children. The structural usefulness of such work is only beginning to be recognized, and it Is apparently destined to be widely extended. Wherever it goes it means the employment of women and their real cultivation of mind and feeling, their devotior to their task, will be the measure of the value of the probation system. Some years ago the Illinois state board of public charities made an inquiry as to attendants In hospitals for the insane, addressed to superintendents all over the United States. The replies brought out some facts interesting in this connection. There was a general recognition by the best superintendents that women could be used advantageously to a greater extent than at present In the care of men patients, that for less money a better quality of ability was In the market among women than among men. The experience In certain hospitals abroad and in this country, in placing women in charge of men patients, and the success of women in taking both men and women patients to board in village colonies, reenforce the belief that the services of women under proper medical organization and leadership could be introduced in the care of the insane to quite a revolutionary degree. science. It is not too much to hope that from all the rich output of cultivated minds, trained in the modern fashion of interest in human life and its homely struggles, we may gain as a mere byproduct, if you please, enough interest in public charities to create a new vocation for women. Further, we may believe that as the states must sustain the institutions they will in time connect them with the universities and will provide training for the highly specialized service of carrying them on. I once spent a few days at the markable undertaking of Pastor re- Bethel colony, at Bielefeld, Germany. Every visitor Is' impressed by the devotion and efficiency of the deaconesses and brothers who care for tne epileptic, the sick and the wrecks of drink who make up the that population of community. A fellow visitor said: "Ah, well, you cant expect such devotion in a public institution. These people work front the religious moI have thought often of that tive. remark, unquestioned at the time. Why should the public commarid less than a private undertaking? Why should that sweet old definition of religion, which lays such emphasis on comforting the sick and visiting the prisoner, be less potent In a great public institution than In one conducted by private persons? Why should tne commonwealth command less than the service of her wisest and best children on behalf of her most foolish and helpless ones? After all. It Is something larger and more structural which we desire than the incident of employing many more women or even of making a career for educated women out of what is now a slipshod means of livelihood for untrained persons. What Is really needed Is to gain the increased attention of the only leisure class of America, women, to a great public function of constantly and sometimes blindly enlarged scope which is too often disregarded as without structural Import to social progress, but which, by the very symptoms of disease and failure which it presents, makes the most urgent appeal to the student and the lover of humanity. wide-spreadin- g Consider the huddled misery of a county poorhouse. Its control let annually to the lowest bidder, its location set apart and its dally life un- known and unconsidered by prosperous people. Yet It is a place where intelligence would pay in the most commonplace sense of the word. Why does its superintendency not invite as a career? Now and again some incidents give a suggestion of what may occur in the opening of a vocation for educated women. The head of the New York reformatory for women and the whole staff of that Institution were selected by competitive examination designed to discover special aptitude and cultivation. The head is a college graduate and is said to be particularly successful. In connection with the effort to reach a scientific basis for the food of 22,000 Insane wards of New York, educated women were placed In charge of the food department of various of the asylums. It is hard to realize how difficult a task is the proper feeding of an institution. Grant that good supplies are purchased, the preparation Is the problem', how to combine the regularity and economy necessary in a great institution with the varying needs of a community, some citizens of which work in the fields, others in th house or laundry some are consumed by the fire of acute mania, others are inert and demented. The temptation to a monotonous routine is almost irresistible, and foodstuffs of good quality become hateful from the thoughtless preparation and serving. No one who has been obliged to know them can forget the great tins in which institution food is all but universally served, with their acrid odor of all grease as characteristic as that smell of the worst type of tenement, which is precisely Identical In Chicago and Paris, New York and London. If George Herbert was right as to the value of sweeping fl. room, then to keep sweet the food vessels of institutions would be a service worthy of canonization, and to so keep house for the 350,000 wrecked and miserable beings who are sheltered In our public institutions would add incalculably to the cheer of that scattered nation within a nation which, with the solidarity of misery, they perforce compose. DOG ANSWERED Remarkable AN Coincidence in AD Cate of Lott Animal. Here is the latest dog story. It is the story of a lost dog which answered in person an advertisement about himself before it had been published. It is vouched for by J. Parsons, proprietor of a staid English provincial paper, the Hastings and St. Leonards Ob server. One day an advertisement containing a description of a lost dog and offering .a reward of five shillings ($1.25) for its recovery was handed It into the office of the newspaper. was set up In type, with hundreds of others, and in due course passed into for classithe hands of the "make-upfication. While he was perusing it a strange dog made Its appearance in the' composing room. To get there it had made its way up five flights of " stairs. The coincidence, of course. Impressas something decided the make-uedly out of common. But his astonishment was vastly greater on discovering that the animal bore a striking resemblance to the description given of the lost dog In the advertisement which lie held In his hand. He kept On the other hand, here is a great the dog in the composing room until penitentiary system which lumbers on, the paper had gone to press, and, an headed and manned by persons who hour or two later, accompanied by it, are placed in charge not because they presented himself at the address have offered to the state the service given. It was the dog that had been of trained ability and ardent love of lost, sure enough, and the man was fellow men, hut because given the five shillings reward. Now their they have stood some esoteric test of the question has arisen whether the merit known only in the circles of a long arm of coincidence can be stretchdominant political party. By what ed far enough to account for the dogs logic do we justify the universal waste behavior, or whether it was led to and failure of the public prison and anticipate the appearance of the ad the ignoring of such Interest and ability vertisement by some spook. to deal with the prisoner as persons like Mrs. Booth have shown? Why Last of Famous London Tavern. should the public purse, the public The end of June saw the end of the conscience, divorce itself from the ef- fatuous Albion Tavern In London Engfort to give a man his chance in the land. As a city restaurant the Alworld again? So long as the prison bion has been In existence more than exists w by do do we not call to its serv- a century. It lias always enjoyed a ice the fittest persons who can be great reputation for its turtle soup, found, whether they be men or wo- inunenso quantities of which have men? To undertake seriously the study been consumed at the Innumerable conditions of social banquets taking place within Its alof pathological life in these great institutions, Is it most historic walls. not as reasonable and withal as InvitIn the old days the sheriff's lnnttgn ing ns to study diseased tissue in the ration dinners were always held there, laboiatory? Is it not time to remove us also the farewell dinners given by this heavy und exacting task from tlie the East India company court of dilist of unskilled occupations and lift rectors to their departing governoi it into a dignified profession? general. The colleges and universities have Among the traditions of the taveir added schools of economics nnd soci- is one to the effect that Alderman Sir ology, all unknown a quarter of a cen-tur- William Curtis, tie nidi known gum ago, und through them the young tmirid of his time, once banqueted bin persons they educate certainly vain friends there at a cot-- of near!) 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