Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-01-04
A ROMANTIC STORY


The literature of love 10 entitled &c
the best place on all the shelves. Love
is the golden theme of every language
the only one to whose charm there
is no exception-tbat enchains the
thought and delights the fancy of all
ages, classes and conditions of men
and women. The love stories of real
life are those that have the deepestin.
terest. However exquisite the poet
or the novelist may mould bis fiction
with whatever force or nicely OF deIln-
cation he may depict his persons and
tell us the secrets of their souls-he
can never give to fiction that height
OF interest or power that every story
has the moment we believe il to be
true-the real. 1t is this faith il
their reality that has perhaps brought
down through so many ages, and still
keeps alive some Of the oldest love
stories Of the human race. It il Ger.
taiuly this that has given vitality to
the love of Abelard and Heloise. Who
does not read the history of Sir Will
liam Temple, or the story of Horace
Walpole and Miss Berry, with more
interest than they can any mere in
vention
Another history, not unlike to these,
is disclosed in volume OF love letters
just published by Carleton, of which, |
it is said, fifty thousand copies are
already called for. This story resem.
bles, in various respects, all the stories
alluded to-that of Abelard, of Wal
pole, of Swift for his Stella, and of the
Chevalier Wykoff for his Miss Gamble.
1t draws the curtain, and lays before
the eyes of the world peculiar chap
ter in the life of distinguished man
and singular family history. There
is the usual romantic perversity of the
passion, at the very outset of the story.
The persons were DR.. L. K. Kane, Of
the United States Navy, whose Arctic
discoveries have a worldwide fame,
and Miss Margaret Fox, well known
as one of the original Rochester rap
pers, or mediums" of spiritual com
d
One day-to begin at the beginning
the Doctor went to one of the se4nces /
of the rappers in Philadelphia.
There" to use his own words, che +
saw little priestess, cunning in the \
mysteries of her temple, and weak in 7
everything but the power with which $
'he played her part" A sentiment al a
most of pity stole over his worldly D
leart as he saw through the disguise. b
Jan it be, that one SO young, SO beau. "
iful, so passionate, and yet so kind. a
'ea-ted, can be destined for such a
ife These were his thoughts. There o
Lpou he went to work and did all r.
bat true kindness could do to get her
ou6dence," and in doing this he lost :
is heart and fell irretrevably in love. :
The Doctor is said to have declared
lat be determined at once to make r
1e young lady his wife, He told her 4 4
lainly that ut was no life for her" to N,
> there-so constantly in the public ~
axe. He was thereafter at the sean. Ion Ion
IS every day and, every day bis in gu
rest in the sensitive medium grew sOd
rouqer. His attentions of various pa4l
nds were constant, and his desire de
as always that Margaret should re- ~ FUR
quish her life as medium, because tan
be was fitted for better things" In se1 IL
this we see true and noble ma ste
re-. DR.. Kane became an avowed de- dse :
,er Of Margaret, and the constant Fl F.
sme of his letters to her is chow q
,ch I wish that you would quit this O.
Of dreary ssmsnsss and suspected ~. ,
reit." ID a.