Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-24
4 SP~ANGE STUEF.
Filtration i'm New York and st. Louis
a Tragfcai Conclusion

Filtration i'm New York and st. Louis
A TragfcaI Conclusion
The st. Louis Democrat of the 9th pub
fishes this remarkable story:
"Fyervwhere around US sit the sister
Fates weaving the myriad webs Of mortal
destiny. nor does one human being escape
their tolls. On every hand moves tragedy.
romance or comedy, wearing the mask Of
everyday life. Rarely the mask is lifted,
and thrilling TRUTH, stranger than fiction,
allows us a glimpse of its marvellous fea.
tTlreg. Such mask was lifted in the pres
ence of our reporter yesterday, furnish ing
him AN Ger true tale, "a shallow story OF
deep love- that combines the elements OF
romance and tragedy, not without spice
of comedy.
There lived and still lives in this region,
though she is at present temporarily alb
sent at watering place, divinity in DIM
ity, whose calling it was to ply with def
fingers that flashing fairy shaft, tI.o nee
die Not to put too fine point upon the
needle she vas seamstress. But as she
basteI and stllched and sewed she 0asted
ard sazt-hed an sewed the hearts otyfcud
adorersl n any, and with no FEELING q the
cruel business. In other phrase, she CO.
quetted She sewed hearts herself vita
more -u0l1SAG bl1dA r>lS EGOO6 III pCNt1S OuC-
tons to dresses, and with as little compass
sion for the hearts as for the buttons And
when she tired Of the heart, she would
Just slip it off and let it fall and leave it in
the dirt and carelessly step on it, as she
would do very cheap button. Tens OF
thousands of pretty girls do the same every
day, and exactly the same number Of bad
boys are no bit better.
Rut cI7r h ber6Ina chapne6 fo he in Navp
York city last September, as the compan-
ion OF a St. Louis lady visiting there, and
put Up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Now it
is not every heart-oonquering St. Louis
seamstress, of experienced eighteen, who
has an opportunity to do havoc with her
charms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel So she
campaigned more than ever, and soon
transfxed the smitten soul of a parsonage
no less than the assistant steward of the
great metropolitan hotel. The impaled
steward struggled in vain with his growing
affections; they gave him no peace, and he
courted the St. Louis maiden.
'In sooth, she was both fair and good,
and meant not the harm she did to the
foolish hearts Of men. She encouraged his
attentions, and though he was nearly twice
her age, for he had IN him the fires Of thir-
ty-four years, yet the twain seemed mutu-
ally fain and fond. When parting came he
obtained her permission to correspond
with her by letter, and for months after
her return to st, Louis his ardent epistola-
ry missives passed through the stone pas
ages of the happily fre-proof st. Louis
post Office. She would reply kindly and
assentingly to them playfully she meant
it, and intended no tragedy. But he took
it in deadest earnest, while she, last Janu-
ary, met her magnet at last, and actually
fell in Iove-or seemed to-with st. Louis
dry goods clerk on Main street.
'sYet perhaps this was but coquetry, too.
In such cases, who can tell At any rate
she plighted love, and the marriage was
agreed upon, to take place six months later.
For he was a salaried clerk, and commonly
such are not rich. Then she felt it some
what improper to continue the New York
correspondence, and the signing steward
found his letters unanswered. Now all
history and biography show, leaving
and Fowler out Of the ques-
ton, that true love will not submit to have
its letters unanswered. Ii will know the
reason why.
SO our steward set out upon q pilgrim
age to st. Louis, and missed no train, nor
lost moment on reaching here, but i'm
marched straight to the door of
lis fair, knocked and craved admittance.-
It so fell out that the Main street dry goods
clerk was just at that very time with her,
of their mutually agreed upon
Awkward, wasn't it ? Looking
through the blinds she saw he steward,
md was astounded. She had scarcely time
20 beg her young beloved 10 retire, for
heavens sake to retire-intO another room
when the New Yorker was ashered in.
"Young st. Louis did not retire in good
)rder, and elder New York, having come
to smell a mice, smelled
Orodigious rat. The lady's discomposure
lid not enable her to smooth things, but
,ather made them utterly unsmoothable.
There was a full understanding that had
5he portents of a grave misunderstanding
Youthful st. Louis in the next room heard
saw too-all that passed. He sustained
,he honor of his stadt and Indignantly left
he field There was afterwaId an inter
view, in which she wavered IN her prefer
9nce The man from Manhattan was in
ierce earnest, and had money and prop
erty, and would marry her at once. She
low scarcely knew what to do so she was
eft to the conqueror from the Fifth Avepue
Hotel, whose sudden advent and terrible
and dimes had shaken her
devotion to her avowed O. true love.
F'The new match was formally arranged.
He had business at Rock Island. and on
his returning thence they would become
one. Some seventeen hundred dollars he
put in bank, left the check for 1t with her
and set out for Rock Island, 1t was on
Wednesday of last week that he engaged
passage on the steamer SalIie. Hardly had
he got on board when, as the boat was
swinging of, swaying spar struck HIM on
the head, gashing it frightfully, and knock
ing him senseless. This accident TO Mr..
Maurice Condor, stranger from New
York, was duly reported IN the Democrat
next day. He was taken to the
Sisters Hospital, and early the following
his betrothed heard of the disas-
ter, and went thither to see him. He had
consciousness, but his condition
was deemed very critical At his wish the
priest was called ana the marriage was
We should have mentioned
that both were Catholics, and that in de-
Gliding for Condor she had followed her
confessor's advice.
The next Sunday the newly-made hus-
band died. and on Monday last he was
buried in the Calvary Cemetery. She has
his name and effects, and no doubt laments
hAAA4 LID ID pttAott-AAt@tSA-J I44C
whole of the strange, sad story, which we
may have treated with too much levity in
its beginning, since it ends so tr gically.
Against the lady's repute there is lo breath
save that she trihed unwittingly with
hearts. The deceased, we learn, has a
mother and four sisters living at Quebec,
Canada" ~.
CLAIRvoYANCE. Among the many Won
ders claimed by clairvoyance or rsomnambu-
lism is the faculty OF sight without the use
of the organs of vision. A contributor to
the Journal of Psychological Medicine DR.,
in treating of Modern Supelsti-
ton, observes that we hear of ''times innU-
merable when the artifce has been per-
formed of reading sealed letters laid upon
the chest. 1t is therefore cause OF great
wonder that the premium of ten thousand
francs, which the Paris Academy of Science
offered more than forty year 50, has never
yet been claimed. That sum, it is known
was promised TO any somnambuhst who
will prove herself able to read, before a
committee OF the Academy, sealed
document prepared and laid upon her
chest by the former. As [ stated this pre-
N, inn, hos not baaD oIo5rnal vat and IF