The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-10-08
MAUD BRA NSGNpa8KsR
= Woman Svhe>uaa Nobody Kmevys

WHO is Maud Branscombe? asks the
Paris correspondent OF the Tribune, Her
portrait is in every Photographic shop
window. Sometimes she is " nun. her
eyes raised toward heaven IN fesvens eesta~
sy; i'll another place she appears as M
obaiasque, with her HHshVsqk drawn aside;
and her beautiful brow glit1ering with
rows Of sequins; elsewhere we sea her
dressed as 1inc lady OF the nineteenth
century, and yet agaia as 0phelia OF the
Magdalen. Not y stosanger Oh the Paris
boulevalds has passed tushecdingly before
that wondrotisly loyely face, and yet no
one knows who she is, whence she came,
nor whittier she goeth and IL any body Ia
the United States can give information, on
| these points, especially the third, great
boon will be conferred npon Parisian
chroniclers, who are terribly exercised ea
to her personality. ssoRaesa thatshe neF-
er existed in Elesh and blood. but is Rserely
an abstract idea of beauty. crented BE- soaae
Imaginative painter; others. that she Is
simply model who hires oaat her faaltIess
features for 4 percentage On the sale OF her
| photographs
"a ClaEetie asf1rme that the tate 1,os:q
Taylor revealed to him the mystery, which
| is q romance, Maud Branscornbe, whose
real name is, possibly, Sarah Ann Stokes,
is, az Emma Crouch, alias Cora Pearl. has
been represented to be, the daughter of an
English clergyman. She was betrothed to
young ge1tleman-a tradesman Of her
fathers parish--but, being of an eccentrte
disposition, disappeared on the wedding
day.
Years passed without tidings Of har.
whereabouts; she was supposed TO he
dead; her family went into mourning.
her young man went to Australia and
made 81 fortune by way Of consolation,
One day he met some one who pretended
to have seen Maud or Sarah Ann on the
boards OF a San Francisco theatre. He dio
not remember whether she was there as an
actress Or as a mere figuralltc, bat he was
certain OF the tnct. George--the lifted
ones name was George~-felt, al he said
''all his old love return;' hq left aelbo4lrA
for the States, but when he reached his
destination the bird had again down. Did
any one know about her? One individual
certainly did, as he told George hoss. he
had married her, and how, after years
felicity, during which u great deal of crock
cry had been mutually broken, she had
bolted for parts unknown, he supposed.
with III entire stranger leaving only q
brief note which recommended rhe for~
Warding Of the baby to its maternal grand,
father, whose address she had given, al@
though silent about Ter own. tsHa,l he
taken no steps TO trace her?', ''TakeI
steps, shouted the miner; "her--all the
steps I'd take would he to keep out of her
---- way"
This would have discouraged naaas peo-
pie. 1t did not discourage George, who
sent her messages through an actress OF
her acquaintance, and advertised In the
agony column OF the .. T. and the Figarf,
that all should be forgotten and forgiven,
that he was ready to offer her name and
q fortune. But it is, SO far, all in rain: il
is loves labor lost, for Maud ob4iratelq
refuses TO answer, although BarAts Is will,
ing, and there are heaps OF tnanev. a. an
incentive. Mand's portrait is everywhere,
Maud ls nowhere; aid ii any citizen Or
:ltlzeness OF the great Republic viii ar can
throw any light Oh tho subject, he or she Is
lnnnificens reward by the
Benedict.
a sentry placed before powslsr-raags-
slne sees his colonel approach, smoking an
imported Havana cigar. He presents
'rms, and says, firmly, but respectfully:
Pardon me, Colonel, but smoking ID mot
allowed here The olcnel, With a.
verb gesture, flings the cigar, and
ives the eaitss :, sem zss11 lou5.G,or. Az
oon as leta u. nd the corner the faith.
III sentinel, with proud tears on his rug
'ed eountenance, picks up the cigar and
!nishes It with every manifestation Of de-
ght. q C
Gilhooly lives on Galveston Avenue. nos
e frona nailkman. Yesterday he met
he milkman, and. taking him or to one
lde, asked him, seriously:
~ Wasn't there a fire in your bara early
esterdayf : had ! great notion to rna
yer TO your assistance. =
AsWhy, there was no fire in the barn.
ai1 the milkman; ''w.aat made yon think
of''
Nothing, except saw yoa pump two
uckets Of water right quick, aud rush into
ae stable with them where you uailk your
oWs. =