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20 ONE OF THE RICHEST HEIRESSES IN AMERICA merit; the style is, for the most part, conversational and very informal. If a word here and there brings comfort or encouragement to some wayfarer on life’s journey, my object in writing wiil have been accomplished.” The book contains a text for every day of the year, and to each Miss Sloane has added a few words of re- flection, counsel and encouragement. To the average man and woman it would seem that a daughter of a hun- dred millions could scarcely understand the meaning of shadows, but the sweet altruist disproves such a suggestion in her own simple words: JAN. 3. Until the day break, and the shadows flee JAN. 12. Pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.—Acts, viil., 22. “If we did but realize that we were re- sponsible for our thoughts as well as for our actions we would be far more careful in holding them in check. If they get beyond our control it is impossible to tell what mischief they will work.” The gentle nhnanmmgxsz is many of the texts, notably for FEB. 13. Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your Vosom.—St. Luke, vi., 8. “It is the generous giving out of love which helps us even more than the re- ceiving of it. Do not think because your love is not reciprocated that it is wasted. seen in To Marry 2 Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane met Mr. both were engaged doing missionary work in the sium York. She is copnected with the richest families of Americad. Poor Lawuer. John Hammond whiile ms of New He is a graduate of Yale and a struggling young lawyer of small practice. Their engagement is just announced. But ’:"bwhme thought would almost seem o 0 be How to make glad one lowly human hearth— For with a gentle courage she doth strive In thought and word and feeling so to HE world is having a gasp over the news that a Vanderbilt is going to wed poverty. Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is about to marry Mr. John H. Ham- The rich young woman and the :t by chance while mond. poor young man m doing missionary work in the slums of New York. Interest in their common work led to an interest in each oth: Miss Emily is a granddaughterof Wil- liam H. Vanderbilt and a great grand- daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. Her mother was Miss Emily Vanderbiit before she married William Douglas Sloane, the multi-millionaire carpet manufacturer. So Miss Emily’s birth- right of millions descends not alone from generations of million-getting Vanderbilts, but from the Sloanes as well, who are also celebrated for a Midas-like ta 1t and heredity. Miss Emily’'s fortune is at present $5,- 000,000 with more to come. Mr. Hammond Is a Yale graduate who enjoys a small law practice and lives in a little bachelor apartment. He is said to dress fairly well and to dine regularly, but he is not a man of independent me He has no per- sonal acquaintanc ith rent rolls and government be Under the circum- stances he is sensationally poor. But Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane will marry him just the same and build and furnish a modest little dwelling on the avenue for them to live in that will cost Just an even million, exclusive of the family china, and for quite a while the world will take great interest in them and speak admiringly of the alliance as a love match. There is only one class that thinks more about millions and matrimony than the rich—and that is _the poor. While 400 intimates will Miss Emily's choic: will employ the rprise and applause. Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is really doing something for the honor and ambition of her country. She is nobly establishing a precedent. No American boy can be born so poor that d. marvel at 4,000,000 outsiders he can't console imself with the thought that some day he may grow up and marry a Vanderbilt, and Miss Emily does this at the sacrifice of all family policy and tradition. She has constantly befors her the ex- ample of the millions of her own family being joined in wedlock to t of other families, Miss Fic:ence Adele Sloane, her ter, wedded J. Abercrombie Burden, and with 1im a great share of the great Burden millions of Troy. Gertruae Vanderbilt, her cousin, d Harry Payne Whitney, son of ccretary William C. Whitney, and the fortune of that family is enormous, Alice \Vanderbilt Shepard, her ccusin, married David Hennen Morris. There was an elopement, it is true, which stirred society, and the elopement marked the love match of a Vanderbiit. But it also marked a love match not only of love but of many millions Edith Shepard, another cousin with the blood of the Vanderbilts in her veins, married Ernest Fabbri, son of one of the rich old-time banking mer- chants of New York. Louise Shepard, the first of Willlam H. Vanderbilt's grandchildren to get married, became the wife of Wil- liam Jay Schieffelin, with a very com- fortable fortune mnd! in the wholesale drug business. ’ Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., scorned as he was by his father for his choice, married Miss Grace Wilson, daughter of R. T. Wilson, the Southern multi- millionaire. Alfred Vanderbilt is reported engaged to the young daughter of Mrs. Francis Ormond French, and with her he will wed at least five millions. Thus all the Vanderbilts of her gen- eration are adding wealth to wealth by their marriages. Her mother set the fashion of uniting millions with mil- li by mariage. Wealth attracts wealth, and by their marriages the sons and daughters of multi-million- aires are conserving and increasing wealth as children enlarge a snowball to giant size by rolling it over and over in the snow. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is the first to defy the unwritten law of millions “Thou shalt marry none other than millionaires.” This Miss Sloane, like Queen Wil- helmina, has said that she would marry for love, and now, as has happened to Holland’s lovely young Queen, the man of her choice has come into his own. Miss Sloane is of Dutch descent, and it is fitting that her experience should be like that of the young Queen, to whom some of her far-away relatives still owe allegiance. Miss Sloane is not a typical girl of the ‘'400.” Nor is she a typical Vanderbilt. Unlike the *'400,” she has but a languid interest in the dance of pleasure. Un- like the Vanderbilts, she has no social ambition: Her mother, Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, aspires to be queen of the réigning set bf American fashion. The ughter dreams of a hearthstone; she indifferent whether it be gilded or not if love be there. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is the m.st beautiful of the great-granddaughters of the old ferryman who founded a great house and a great fortune. She is of medium height and slender, with serious dark eyes and black hair. Her forehead is broad and high and very full. Her nose aquiline. Her lips are delicate and sensitive. She has a fine throat and fine shoulders. She has a rarely spiritual nature, says Dr. Greer, her pastor, rector of St. Bartholomew's, commonly known as the Vanderbilt church, of which William D. Sloane and his family are members and regular at- tendants. She has rare intellectual en- dowment, say her instructors in the finishing schools of fashion. Mr. Hammond is a graduate of Phil- lips Academy at Exeter and of the Yale class of '92 and Columbia Law College. He is a member of the law firm of Shepard & Ogden of Broadway. Mr, Hammond is 31 years of age. He, like his fiancee, is not a devotee of so- clety. Like her, he is of studious tastes, with a strong bent toward altruism. He is & member of but one club—that of St. Anthony. Mr. Hammond is a fine-looking man of a type just opposite to that of his fiancee. He is fair, with blond hair and a light mustache. He might, perhaps, be better described this way—like the father of John Halifax, he is a geatle- man and a scholar. His character is said to be above reproach. His lineage is most honorable, but there are two incontrovertible facts—he is poor, and he is not of the *400.” Yet he is the man of Miss Sloane’s choice, and she says she can afford to marry whom- soever she will. Both Miss Sloane and Mr. Hammond are given to altruistic ideals and have been identified with the splendid work accomplished by the College Settlement in Rivington street. Indeed, it was there the young per- sons are said to have first met. It is peculiarly fitting that the strongest at- traction of her life should have come to Miss Emily Sloane in the Rivington- gtreet settlement, for there she has been a bright angel of hope and consolation to her less fortunate sisters, who have been warmed and encouraged by the radiance of her bright spirit and by contact with a beautiful life founded on a definite and uplifting purpose. Perhaps nowhere in New York can there be found a young woman who has tried more gently, more humbly, more persistently and effectively to make the world better and happier than this favored daughter of wealth, luxury and fashion. Miss Sloane, it must be understood, is in no sense a recluse, nor is she the typical religious enthusiast. On the contrary, she is a bright, gay, happy and pretty girl of perhaps three and twenty. In appearance she resembles the Van- derbilt side of the house. She is tall, slender, dark-eyed and dark-haired, full of mirth and innocent gayety. She loves to dance and enjoys all the diversions of youth and buoyant health, but is possessed of the deepest spirit of true religion and of that philanthropy which is evidenced in noble deeds. eral years ago Miss Sloane wrote tle book which she called “Rays of Sunshine,” and which was, as she says, intended as a year book. In the preface Miss Sloane says: “While in Scotland last summer the idea suddenly came to me of writing a year book. These daily thoughts do not in the least aim at any literary less that we should fix our gaze on the bright outlook beyond. This faith in the ()OOOOOOOOOOOOOO0000000000000DOO00OOOOODOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ONOLULU, Nov. 7. Colonel Barber to Mr. W. O the Board of Health, who was Otis Smith, president of 1p McKinley, and his remarks have 1 said day, June 1r. inspecting Camp of dollars to repair and to put in order for the annual race- And to add to the general havoc and ruin, disease has now appeared in the camps to menace the resi- dents of Waikiki, and in fact the whole country. been officially reported to Washington. The army has not been accepted by Honolulu as an un- alloyed ssing. For years the navy has been cherished. and no cloud has ever risen to dim Hawaii's aloha for the sailor. . But the soldier seems to be a different proposition. And yet in no place have officer and man had a more cordial reception ‘or such generous hospitality shown them. Hawaii opened her arms and her purse to the transports and troops. and the navy sighed and said, “Ah, we have a rivall” But gradually it became apparent that there was friction somewhere, and now it is painfully evident that relations are strained between Hawaii and the military authoritie The army's attitude has been patronizing, also overbear- ing. “We have annexed you, poor little thing, and we promise to protect you. Where is your most desiruble spot? Show it to us that we may make ourselves as comfortable as possible away from our luxurious homes.” And Hawaii was at first generous, then indulgent, and at last incensed. . Kapiolani Park at Waikiki, the pride of Honolulu, with its smooth roads and beautiful drives, was given over to 3000 soldiers. There they stationed their camps, and Kapiolani Park is now, in very truth, humbled to the dust. Her roads are cut up until they are uneven and rough and hear no resemblance to their former even perfection: clouds of dust blow throigh on every breeze: breezes that used to be halmy with the rich scent of flourishing tropical growth. The racetrack is a ruin that it will .take thousands And what gratitude have the army shown for thebeautiful site so generously given over to them, for the hospitality known only to Hawaii's lavish shores? What regret have the army expressed for the damage wrought? They have gra- ciously condescended to accept, and that which was not of- fered they demanded. “We desire to station some of our men in the Govern- ment Building,” said General Merriam, General King and Colonel Barber, loftily. And the Government stared at the proposed appropriation of the former palace, which meant the disturbance of the highest officials of the land. “And where would you suggest moving our they asked, somewhat sarcastically. s “Oh, you can go into the tents,” answered these regulars of high rank, with a display of tact and thoughtfulness away beyond the possibility of any volunteer. ¢ But, though complaisant to the point of simulating the worm, the Hawaiian Government knows when to turn. And the palace is still theirs. The next modest .request came from General King in the form of a demand on the Park Commission to have a small pool, or more properly speaking a large puddle. of water drained from Camp Otis, which is situated in the race- track. General King’s attention was politely called to the fact that considering the damage done by his camp to the race- track, it might %e as well to have such work done by his own men, who have plenty of leisure time, judging by the hours they are unoccupied between early morning drill and ‘dress parade at 5p. m. : . offices?” —Song of Sol., il., 1% “It is when the skles are dark and star- sent forth in vain.” 7 7 / gt I AR i : All true love is of God, and it is never THEEAST SIDE MISSION IN WHICH MiSS SLOANE A‘NDAMRI ve, As to make earth next heaven! And this from Lucy Larcom: Their real power, the divine dowry of womanhood, is that of receiving and giv- ing inspirgtion. In this a girl often sur- asses her brother; and it is for her to old firmly and faithfully to her holiest instincts, so that when he lets his stand- ards droop she may, through her spiritual strength, be a standard-bearer for him. Of Miss Sloane’s personal definition of “Ideals” her own words in the pre- face best tell: “Seldom has a subject been oftener dis- cussed than that of ideals, and no wonder, as it is vast and boundless; for no sooner is one ideal achieved than another comes to Mght. The views expressed are apt to be extreme—either too visionary and im- practical or else too pessimistic and in- credulous. The happy medium is always hard-to reach, but here it is almost harder than anywhere else. “My afm in selecting the follow- ing quotations has been to com- bine and harmonize, as far as possible, these Confilcllnf ideas, and to show that the holding of ideals does not neecessarily prove that one must be blind to existing evils. The man who has an end in view, and that end a good one, will generally see life in its true relations and recognize the fact that, although there is much evil in the world, the light is still working its way through all the apparent wrong. It is true that there are times when evil seems to be gaining the upper hand. but if you look long enough you will gradually see the scales change and the good out- balance the bad.” AMMOND > e e MERICAN plutocracy, the chief substitute in this country of Old ‘World aristocracy, had hardly begun to establish itself when what may with no great stretch be termed morganatic marriages began to shock the plutocrats, especially the three greatest familles in the land, Astor, Vanderbilt and Gould. In one case the marriage took place two years or more ago, and the father of the bridegroom, moved by a grand- father’s love, has just granted for- giveness. In another the marriage has Just taken place, and the bridegroom’s family is not yet understood to be reconciled, but the expected slicing of the bridegroom’s fortune in two be- cause of his marriage is almost certain not to happen. These cases strongly suggest a similar and earlier marriage, in which the bridegroom was of an older plutocratic family—one of such ancient standing, in fact, as to entitle it now to be termed the leading family of the land in the social circles of plu- tocracy. It is hardly likely, however, that the bride in the latest marriage of this va- riety, Kathrine Clemmons, who was married to Howard Gould, will suffer much effacement. That she will have to endure a fine lot of snubbing is highly probable, for her husband’s fam- {ly seems determined to ignore her. future will keep us from despairing and give us strength to live bravely through the dreary days that must still inter- vene.” January 9 the author unconsciously re- veals her high ideal of a perfect love: JAN. 9. ‘There is no fear in love; but perfect lJove casteth out fear. * * * He that feareth is not made perfect in love.—I. John, iv., 13. “If our hearts are full {0 overflowing with a great love, there will be no room for bad and unworthy thoughts. Evil gannot exist in the presence of good, be- cause one is weak and negative, whereas the other is strong and positive.” And a few days later she gives proof of a sense of personal responsibility most a volume called with literature. The most , tho The fashionable girl who will bring millions to her husband is perhaps better shown in th book of “ideals.” rare: Besides the volume entitled “Rays of Sunshine” Miss Sloane has published “Ideals,” compilation from various authors, and displays a comprehensive asquaintance interesting selections in this little book are naturally, at this i referring to the sacredness of marriage, nplicity and sweetness of this e quotation from Lowell, which finds an early place in the dainty little Yet sees she not her soul so steadily Above, that she forgets her ties to earth, ‘Whether she will care much about that is a question. Probably not, since, while they may refuse to take her into their social set, she can console herself by the reflection that they in turn are barred out of New York's most ex- clusive society circles. Their great coup, the marriage of Anna Gould with the Gallic Count Castellane, has failed utterly in bringing recognition from the mighty houses of Astcr and Van- derbilt, or the lesser families known as the Four Hundred that bask in the sunshine of Astorbilt favor. Equally inefficacious was the famous season of yachting in British waters. It brought certain courtesies and recog- nitions from Albert Edward and his set, ¥’ know, but it never budged the which is a obdurate Four Hundred, and to-day the George Goulds are-as far from the 1na side of New York society’s ch{ume and charming fold as ever they were. Still, Gould exclusiveness is as ten- able a notion as that of any other set, and, barring their comparative n‘g_m- ness, the millions gathered' by thev\ ll‘; ard of Wall street seem 'as fitting : foundation whereon to rear a struct‘l‘u’e‘ of family and pride as those bequeat ed by the Waldorfian dealer in furs an piancs, or the profane old ferry cap- tain, whose wife used to cook the meals on his zabethport boat. It isn't easy to predict the outcome of the marriage between Howard Gould and Kathrine Clemmons. The Gould family may in time forgive everything, and then again they may not. At this time, according to & friend of the fam- ily, there is virtually no lkelihood that his fortune will be disturbed. But for- giveness of Howard and recognition of the stately young bride are different. There is no doubt that all the Goulds were opposed to the marriage, and that they threatened enforcement of the will in case their opposition was ignored. But the friend of the family quoted above says there never was any real notion of enforcing it in case the mar- riage actually took place. Every one of the Gould children has money enough without dividing up half of Howard’s share, and, besides, they are all sensitive about the publicity that would arise from the legal steps the division would make necessary. More- over, there is small probability that the will would stand in law, and the Goulds all know it, too. This explanation of the present situ- ation has been partially hinted in print before, and the writer has been assured that it is a correct one, Anyway, ac- tion for enforcement would seem to be speclally ungracious on the part of those most likely to move in the prem- ises, Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, for the simple reason, if for no other, that they were the instruments through which Howard became acquainted with Kathrine. That was in 1894, or possibly 1895. Kathrine Clemmons had tried and failed to win success on the stage as the star in “A Lady of Venice.” Mau- rice Barrymore, the late E. J. Henley and a lot of other good actors had done their best as members of the support- ing company, and Buffalo Bill Cody had dropped some tens of thousands of dollars as her angel. After her failure she rested for a while in New York. A little later Cody started his Wild West show at Ambrose Park, in Brooklyn, and placed his pri- vate box at Miss Clemmons’ disposal. All through the performance he played to that box, and this attracted general attention to its lovely occupant. The occupants of another box at the end of the row gazed so steadily at Miss Clem- mons that she asked some friends in the box with her who they were. “George Gould and his wife, Edith Kingdon,” was the reply.- “He's a great friend of Colonel Cody.” After the perforr.ance Miss Clem- mons and her friends went to Colonel Cody’s tent. There they met Mr. and Mrs. Gould. In the following talk it fell out that Miss Clemmons shortly was going to England. So were the Goulds, and so was brother Howard. How love- ly! Possibly Miss Clemmons would like to go on the same ship. She would, and she did. On the way over she saw Howard much. He had hardly recovered from his attachment to Odette Tvler, but he took a heap of notice before the other side was-reached. His engagement to the young woman was soon after an- nounced. The unalterable opposition of the Goulds to the marriage was de- clared at once, and the contest over stately Kathrine has been going on ever since. ©000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Q000000000000000 OUR SOLDIERS are DEADLY SICK 1 Hawar;: HERE’S THE REASON. 4 General King magnanimously allowed the matter to rop. At last Honolulu began to awaken to the fact that al- though they had not been forgetiul of entertainihg strangers, they had not been rewarded by discovering them angels. And then typhoid fever, which the officers began by declar- ing malaria, developed at the camps. The residents of Honolulu could not understand why malaria should have appeared in a country hitherto entirely free from any “pilikia”—the native word for any form of sickness or trouble—a country that has earned the title of “The world’s sanitarium.” And still less could they understand malaria violent enough to kill in a few days, aithough the mistakes of the military authorities have not been alone in defective sanitary arrangements at the camps. In selecting their hospital site they must have been searching for a hotbed for breeding germs of typhoid and malaria, after once introducing it. And they could not have succeeded better. On one side there are pigsties, on the other a mule pasture; at the back are rice fields flourishing in their watery beds. To add to these questionable advantages this military hospital is three feet helowsthe level of the street. During the winter months, when rains are frequent, water collects in pools all over the place. If the selection of this site were not pathetic it would be laughable. And who is to blame? In response to a verbal request from Major Davis, the surgeon in charge at the military hospital, Mr. Reynolds, agent of the Health Office, went down to examine into the sanitary regulations of the camps and to aid in cleansing the sinks, ete. 2 ’ % i But his services were declined and declared unnecessary. although Colonel Barber had been warned as to the serious aspect of affairs. The next day one of the doctors on the Board of Health called upon ex-Minister Harold M. Sewall and requested him, as agent of the United States, to have the condition of the camps looked into before the health of the city was jeopardized. Then Mr. Sewall held a conference with Colonel Barber, who finally gave permission to the health officers to visit his camp. An orderly visited the Board of Health with Colonel Barber’s condescending invitation—verbally ex- pressed, and Mr. W. O. Smith, president of the board. sent the orderly back with compliments and a refusal to accent any verbal invitation. Thirteen cases of typhoid fever one day and seventeen on the following morning had given both Mr. Sewall and Colonel Barber an electric shock, and the Board of Health promptly received a formal request to come to the rescue. At the same time a propitiatory letter was received by the Board of Health from General King in which he politely begged their assistance disinfecting his camps, and as- sured them of hearty co-operation from officer and man. Armed with this letter, Mr. W. O. Smith, accompanijed by Brigade Surgeon Morris, went out to the camps, Colonel Barber's manner was at first quiet and gentle- manly, but when Mr. Smith presented to him General King’s letter there was a subtle change; he became brusque and rude, and finally, at a simple remark from Mr. Smith about the kind of earth preferable for filling the sinks, he burst out into a tempest of wrath and made remarks which are beyond the reach of repartee—excepting in kind. General King was most indignant when he heard of the treatment shown by Colonel Barber to the president of the Board of Health. ™I want an official statement of this,” he said with Infinite dignity; and he got it. Now, it is apparent to those who read between the lines that this whole affair between the military and the Board of Health is simply a question of Barber vs. King. These two men, both West Point graduates, both retired regulars in peace and volunteers in war, have no other points in common. Colonel Barber, came here with every expectation of being in command of the garrison in Honolulu. Mut General King. instead of going to Manila, was sidetracked here, and Colonel Barber found himself, to his bitter disappointment, in a secondary position. General King is loved by a few. So- cially Coldénel Barber is the greater fa- vorite. Still popularity does not make up for lack of rank, and General King's letter was the red flag that sent Col- onel Barber into the realms of rage. At lease s0 say those who know of the re- gard in which these two men hold each other, those who read in General Kine's letter a hit in every lihe at Colonel Barber beneath its smooth finish and courteous phrasing. Also they know that an Inoffensive remark made by the mild-mannered W. O. Smith could not be the cause of an outbreak of rage, Which. resulted in ungentlemanly swearing and such_ threatening ges- tures that Surgeon Morris felt the ne- cessity of interference. J&IN STRANGE.