The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-06-08
zAGFRANA.
4 Remarkable Romance Of Africa and
Europe.

The Kaleidoscope or luStce, says q Paris
correspondent, ever revolving and ever re-
ceiving new additions Of mans follies and
passions. continually startles us by new pic
lures which the boldest ~novelists in quest OF
the sensational had never dared to linn.
Read this history of human lives and won
der st novelists' timidty. In 1842 Eenry
Husson gave up in despair. He had adopt
ed teaching as profession, but, do as he
might. he could not earn more than a bare
livelihood. To live in Paris with only money
enough to keep the wolf from the door lsto
lead Tantalus's life, which Henry Husson
refused to do. Looking all over the globe
to see where he might hope to escape the
curse of poverty, he thought Egypt offered
most promise. He shook off the dust of
Paris from his feet and 70 Egypt he went.
It was the hour when Frenchmen were most
in favor there. He was at once made natural
list of the Government, and he explored Up
per Egypt and the frontiers of Abyssinia.
During one of the excursions he saw 8
beautiful Nubian slave, became enamored OF
her and bought her. Zagfrana Cher nance
bore him d son, which he acknowledged"
before the French Consul at Cairo, who reg
istered his birth as g French subject "Hen-
ry Husson, a natural son Of Henry Husson
and Zagfrana." Ihe woman Was passionate
w attached to father and still more to son
father seemed to love her as well, but-'all
earthly things break, bring safety and pass
aWay.'' none of them more rapidly than love.
One day Henry Huss0n fell in love with Mile
Schueckenburger, q French girl, daughter Of
g. wealthy Lorraine merchant OF Cairo.
Daughter, mother, father listened favorably
to his suit. He quietly sent bis son to a
French boarding school in the neighborhood
Of Cairo, and sent Zagfrana to the slave mar
ket. where she at once found q buyer. HAY
ing deity blotted out in this way his "silly
Nubian romance" he married Mile. Schen-
gckenburger. His married life had been
most happy if the cradle had a tenant, but
the rosv checked cherub never came. One
cav husband confessed to wife that he had q
son. and told her his 'ssilly Nubian romance"
She became deeply attached to Z~agfrana's
SON. and begged her husband to quit Egypt
and make France their home, bringing their
SON. with them. They returned here, and
made Mile. Schneckenburger'e native place
their home.
THE CHILD ACKNOWLEDGED.
Their first care after the house was in or
der was to have their marriage certificate by
the French Consul at Cairo registered in
Nancy, and to have record made Of their &C
knoWledgment of Zagfrana's son for their
own child. Nobody in Nancy stared. Egypt's
sun is hot and burns faces to a sWarthY hue.
Years came and years went. Zagfrana's
baby grew to be man. He was married to
q rich. accomplished, beautiful young lady,
Mile. Estelle Clement, Of an excellent family
OF Nancy. And Zagfrana ? Her spectre, all
tears, ali wild wall when son and husband
were reft from her, cruel conjecture Of the
life she led thrown back into African hands
after being long handled by gentle European
hands, haunted her old lovers bed and board.
Remorse for the. sunny hours passed to-
gether. still sharper remorse for clouded
hours. all her own, gnaWed him until at last
some vital part was severed and death re-
leased him from the torture. Lorralne's Gil
mate is harder than Egypt. Z~agfrana's son
after marriage fell into q rapid decline, and
before the first anniversary Of bis wedding
came galloping consumption had laid him
in the grave. Zagfrana had never ceased to
weep and wall her son. "Her tears were
her meat day and night. New masters
SOON grew tired Of her (Woman there is only
mans toy), and she changed hands time and
again. At last age defaced sex, and a mas
fer gatiated with her charms, conscious that
no eve would again see promised pleasure
in her face or form, and touched by the story
of her first love, her only child, her rapid
massage from hand to hand, gave her freedom.
Her wild longing was transferred to hope
hope to see her child again and press him
once more to that breast which had for so
months-happy months been q fountain
of life to him. She made her way to Cairo.
There she found out all she wanted to know
at the French Consulate but she was penni-
less. She haunted European travellers. re-
sorts, begging q copper coin here and q cop
Der coin there. AT last she got together
money enough to buy cheap cotton goods,
which she hawked, making q little money on
on each sale, every cent ofwhich she boarded
saves petty sum necessary to buy a little
pulse to allay hunger's sharpest pangs. Mean
while she appealed to all those who had
known her in happier days to give her writ
rem certificates that she had lived as Henry
Husson's wife. and that she was indeed the
mother of Henry Husson's son. Ia time she
had amassed money enough TO visit France.
s'Where there's a will, there's 8 way"
MOTHER sLOVE.
She made her appearance in Nancy. What
a strange sight, that Nubian negress, tossed
from slave-market to slave-market, from
harem to harem, amassing money by beg
ging and then by peddling N Cairo streets,
coming from Egypt to France and seeking
out her flesh and blood even to q provincial
town, that she might once more fold her
arms about her son and hear from his lips
ssMother r. and think herself generously re-
paid for al those years Of anguish; for all
that hoping against hope !; for all those
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