pathetic adventurers of our day; but Flagler also deserves our
sympathy.

For an unimaginative and hard-working Standard Oil king to have
a D'Artagnan thrust upon him as a son-in-law must be trying.

James A. Harden-Hickey, James the First of Trinidad, Baron of the
Holy Roman Empire, was born on December 8, 1854. As to the
date all historians agree; as to where the important event took
place they differ. That he was born in France his friends are
positive, but at the time of his death in El Paso the San Francisco
papers claimed him as a native of California. All agree that his
ancestors were Catholics and Royalists who left Ireland with the
Stuarts when they sought refuge in France. The version which
seems to be the most probable is that he was born in San
Francisco, where as one of the early settlers, his father, E. C.
Hickey, was well known, and that early in his life, in order to
educate him, the mother took him to Europe.

There he was educated at the Jesuit College at Namur, then at
Leipsic, and later entered the Military College of St. Cyr.

James the First was one of those boys who never had the
misfortune to grow up. To the moment of his death, in all he
planned you can trace the effects of his early teachings and
environment; the influences of the great Church that nursed him,
and of the city of Paris, in which he lived. Under the Second
Empire, Paris was at her maddest, baddest, and best. To-day under
the republic, without a court, with a society kept in funds by the
self-expatriated wives and daughters of our business men, she