North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-04-17

and ubiquitous society," which has
borne so much killing, and so thrive
on prescription. The priests, she said. set
on the students an ungaant set Of Ger
man Doors, who quarrcled with her dogs
and did not take horse whipping meekly.
Certain it is that she was compelled to
leave Munich without much time for pack
ing bat perhaps she went not altogether
unwilIngly; the dull life of small Ger
man capital must have bored her immense
iy, aud she was evidently not meant for
"an old mans darling
III remember rightly, the next the world
heard of her was piece of pi9uant scan
dal She had somewhere caught in her
toils-those snbte tolls, seemingly light
aud silver as gossamer, yet in reality as
strong as steel, and as tenacious as Crap
pliug irons "a wealthy and we'll born
young Englishman, and married him. He
was under age and of weak iEtellect, and
as it was presumed that he had given him
self in marriage under the spell of the evil
eye "a pair of them,) if not under actual
bodily fear, his friends resolved to rescue
him ard separate the Unmatched couple.
Then followed that famous pursuit over
the continent, from city to city, Lola Mon
tez ALWAYS keeping little ahead, having
in close custody her terrified and submiS-
sive victim. A pretty chase she. led them,
but they overlook her, at last-her hus.
band went over to the enemy, who bore
him off in triumph. Then there was tri-
al. The law vinIicated injured male inno-
cence, wealth and responsibility, and di
vorced the. poor young gentleman--the
mere wreck OF himself, his friends said,
but it is to be hoped he was brought round
again, on toast and wine-whey, aud ripen-
ed at last into an average Briton of the
"swell' type, which Leech SO delighted to
picture.
Ii was we'll for poor Lola that all this
did not happen a century earlier Her
Judges would then have shut their eyes,
aud conlemre1 her to hanging or drown
ng as witch. She was now afoat again,
and, like all floating things, she naturally
drifed to America.
On the same steamer with the ExGov-
ernor of Hungary, came the ex-dictatress
of Bavaria. Il was noticed that she tried
her fascination on the great Magyar, but
without avail. She daily sat near him on
deck, looking charming, even in her sea-
wraps, gazing dreamilY over the cigarette.
And he too smoked and dreamed, and re-
membered and hoped; but his cigar was
the seGative of brain oVerwrought by
grand schemes and great thoug hts-his
dreams were noble, bis memories solemn,
his hopes benefcent, and if he feeded that
woman of INV ~Omanly ways. it was TO give
a thought Of pity to the restless henrt aud
the wasted life.
The theatrical career of Lola Montez in
the States was not trilliant or prolonged.
Few wished TO see her more than once
she fitted from city to city, doing some
very generous thiogs, let it be remember
ed Of her-showing especial kindness to-
wards children, who were in sorrow and
in need. Then sighng, like him of Mace
don for new world TO conquer, she fitted
to California, where she saw life under a
thousand new aspects, each one wilder
than the last. She flung herself, with
reckless abandon, with what seemed pure,
Irish Devilry, into that rough, advehtu-
rous life, unsubdued, unterrified, incorrigl-
bic, under some very hard experiences
Strange stories of her eccentrictles, her
crazy freaks, her desperate, daring ways,
came to us and made us laugh, set shud-
der while we laughed She tanned bears,
rode en- earlier, gambled, shot at and
horsewhipped her enemies, flung about
her money and married right and left. She
seemed to have mania for marrying ard
being divorced, for falling in love and
fighting her way out-poor mad little. STU
ner! 5...
At length broken in health, if not in
spirit, she returned to the Atlantic States,
and begap a new career, as lecturer.--
Her lectures were tlimsy, patched up al
fairs, and of questionable moral TONE
They were probably not written altogether
by herself-yet l should say she could
have produced something better, if less
ambitious, had she gwen naturally and
simply, recollections of the strange coun
tries and peoples she had seen. Though
not well educated woman, her conversa-
ton was said to he singularly spark ling
and racy. Yet the flash and sweep of her
magnificent eyes and the bewitching fall
of her lustrous dark hair went far with the
general audience to rhakesnp for the lack
of wit and wisdom in her words. Though
apparently the most respectable, this peri
o was perhaps the most pitiible of her
life. The tool of unprincipled men, she
had entered on work for which she was
even less fitted than for the profession of
the dancer, and in which she depended
more dileclv for success on her unenviable
repute. Though her dress was modest
and her manner grave, her lectures were
more demoralizing than her dancing had
been. She usually read very nicely, with
no effort at oratory or display of feeling
but on the night when heard her, q
somewhat Objectionable passage was dis
tinctly hIssed by gentleman sitting in