Show wa 7 1 I ti mg 1 1 a 05 r z I 1 I 1 hi ad raby OP OF JONES filonida 9 SENATOR EX DIED A LU LUNATIC on once tb the pride of r 1 abe I lp people of state he dies an object of public charity his fatal love affair rall of an able W man Y this time the remains of ex sena 1 tor charles W jones of florida who died a few days ago will w have i been laid away in the little cemetery at his old home e town pensacola his death at detroit must have come as a relief to his broken spirit A little over a decade ago he was the idol of his people from Floa Flo aaton amaton to tampa tarn pa there never was i profound er lawyer in the palmetto s le hi his practice was enormous and he hc lived the life of a happy happ student ar and d thinker until the desire to enter congress attacked him from that moment his entire life bec amea changed one F from rom the quiet unostentatious gentleman of florida he became be ame the dudo dud of pennsylvania avenue in washington agton once in the senate he quit his law book he never neer entered into ino the debates of the senate and aad it was the case that he absented himself from the chamber tor for days from the life of an active lawyer he soon nursed the habits of a sybarite while in washington ho be lived at the riggs house I 1 lie le spent sent hundreds hundred eds 3 of dollars with tailors ilia his clothing was I 1 I 1 4 01 i I 1 fa I 1 0 I 1 I 1 X 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 IQ I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 CHAS W JONES of the most expensive expense kind an jf peculiar pattern he HC affect el cl tic the tye style of the old type of dross anat ln n i victure beoka tell us vias w as used ard by u all southern gentler gentleman nn in the lays daa of calhoum and yancey his rn sars were of broadcloth his vest f sik ilk ard and his coat facings of velvet lie ho wore high heeled boots a hat and aad finaly binel plaited shirt bosoms rl 2 vaa rare specimen of physical marili cod I 1 know of but two men who were wee before the public n jones day da I 1 t lit approached him in physical size HIPS were wee we e senator coke of axas iio now dead and justice harlan of I 1 once saw coke and jones war wal doxa do en the aisles of the senate chamber arm locked they instant instantly became the cynosure of all eyes in n the gall gallery when debating a ul t jon N oi oie noie e was very loud but it vas quite biinte mui cal his gestures pre leoo cf c an orator and his natural manners v vere ere those of a gentleman Rent leman cut but in time he became foppish and er eccentric centric and he had been in congress but a short while before he succeed suc succeeded cee bec in makin making 9 himself thoroughly disliked dislike a in the early part of 0 1886 there arrived at the riggs he use a 1 11 mi 1 1 palm ot of detroit ac accompanied companie I 1 by her woeber and maid she went L 13 the nat national tonal capital to participate in the social festivities ti tivi ties of the season sho she was not un known in washington she was a woman of 1 leanty it has been said of her that she was one of the most accomplished romeu in michigan her carria carriage g P was graceful aud and her eyes were of th dreamy kind that make men rave and lose loc sleep she was not long in the florida senator who at once became a lave at ae her feet he pal paid 1 d her hii undivided attention he boadt her extra a gant presents and one of the expensive washington florists was avas eniz en eagel aged by the senator to supply her room with fresh flowers corniss an ani I 1 evening so warmly did he prose prosecute clite his love case that mi miss as palm had to in ay ily iy rom from the city she returned to her home thinking that she would get rid of her ardent suitor for whom she cared nothing tones jones went upon the theory that taint faint heart neer aou fair lady he bought a ticket to darrolt aiso aiau he remained there vainly ap acaling ealing from day to day to be allo allow wol 3 1 to see the idol ut of his heart but ds as V fast as he dispatched i not notes es to lo the homo of the young lady ildy they tai ey wera s as ricly returned jones finally sought a t tho the father of 0 the woman who fired I 1 him fr from 0 m h his Is presence with the velocity of a constable I 1 se seizing izing a slot machine the senator auli waldea ed the street in ft front of a IBM hiss palms balms residence for hours every night he watched edahl the shadows of the even ing lights la ailing ei on the lawn and im agines that h his sweetheart nasr near them im he antl poetry in the shadow of f the ahe stand st stars and left his P W the th doorsteps where hire they vere e swept jimmy away t by cruel j servants athe au i ia iian songs 93 under er ha z edw il by the police 4 1 v 1 wb si kl id 11 A i ar me rl la ag s p 2 a g ai A I 1 d on al t ak a t T lier 44 euti 1 w t N 0 4 T OFT S I 1 f 6 V f iz 11 i 1 ur alp ilp is d 1 I V 4 it I 1 k I 1 ache anal ahe I 1 wits lights inside ted ceased to t inzen 1 but the tare la in J jones apart grew mor MOM efte rious em senator thomas W palmer waa VM sent to detroit to urge jones to return to washington his mission w was a s frait fruitless lem thim then his friends from thoai ill flor io r ida appealed to him to return A delegation if f gentle 1 gentlemen meu from TaUa hassee went to mr algan to intercede with alth him aim he listened to his friends borrowed money nt nf them and then dolfl them to go home ho he would stay in the north a and rd he did finally his te tenn tem m in the he seriate expired ani an 1 I then his income 1 cc chasel asel he had bad all the ah mori y re 1 e had bad in u a pensacola Pensa coa bank that he had left when he proudly boarded a train with his commission as a st si bound tor for washington Washing toa his bills at his hotel grew into large I 1 proportions iro tro portions and ww not liquidated lie he was asam ask for hij hia room he then went to a private boarding house finally he was adjudged judged insane and was booked tor for the state slate asylum lie he had lost all of his florida friends but before he could be removed senator palmer and gen eral alger had him committed to a private sanitarium I 1 jones was a bachelor and it is sall sail that miss paim was the only woman who had ever couched vouched his heart while he was in detroit and before being declared insane lies palm was by one of the prominent 0 gysi clans in Mich michigan igau the doctor was a married man but bu he got a divorce and wedded the beautiful woman his divorced wife I 1 dm told is now som somewhere in the east unconfined in ary asylum but is in a demented condition whether the doctor and his second secand wife are living or not net I 1 io ao not know samson had his delilah anthony his cleopatra his lone boulanger his dejon dilke his crawford parnell h his is kitty oshea and jones his palm I 1 poor old man james S evans |