death, the brilliant critic of art and music of the _American_. Then
he was on the _Times_, and Henry N. Cary, now of the _Morning
Telegraph_, was his managing editor.

When Du Bois reported to Cary on his assignment, he said: "There
is nothing funny in that story. It's pathetic. Both those men are in
earnest. They are convinced they are being robbed of their rights.
Their only fault is that they have imagination, and that the rest of
us lack it. That's the way it struck me, and that's the way the story
ought to be written."

"Write it that way," said Cary.

So, of all the New York papers, the _Times_, for a brief period,
became the official organ of the Government of James the First,
and in time Cary and Du Bois were created Chevaliers of the
Order of Trinidad, and entitled to wear uniforms "Similar to those
of the Chamberlains of the Court, save that the buttons bear the
impress of the Royal Crown."

The attack made by Great Britain and Brazil upon the
independence of the principality, while it left Harden-Hickey in
the position of a king in exile, brought him at once another crown,
which, by those who offered it to him, was described as of
incomparably greater value than that of Trinidad.

In the first instance the man had sought the throne; in this case the
throne sought the man.

In 1893 in San Francisco, Ralston J. Markowe, a lawyer and a