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given a good education and was always

given a good education and was always
regarded as beautiful girl, but it was
not until 1876 and 1877 that she became
famous throughout the country. She,
like Matte Ould. achieved her great !
triumph at White Sulphur Springs, in
Virginia, but it was when that Summer
resort had lost something of the en-
phatic Southern flavor that characterized
it three or four years before. Northern
people had begun to come, and Southern
people did not flock there with the same
unanimity. 1t was while spending a !
Summer at White Sulphur and Saratoga
that the report originated that Nellie
Hazeltne and Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden
were engaged to be married. While
there never was even thread of truth
upon which to found that report, it
served to make her more celebrated than
she otherwise would have been. 1t fol- |
lowed her to her grave and clings to her
memory. Nellie Hazeltine and Matte |
Guild were both, Southern types of
beauty, but were very different in ap-
pearance, manner and disposition. The
former was not SO loveable girl as the
latter, that is, she was not so attractive
to men. Matte Ould was free, spon-
taneous, overwhelming. She had a
flow of spirits, of wit, of bright speech
that bole down everything and captured
every listener. Not that alone, but her
beauty was of the voluptuous kind, not
coarse in the least degree, but insinuat-
ing and everlasting-a beauty that
flashes out like the warm, full-faced,
over mastering sun from behind cloud.
Nellie Hazeltine had more faultless
face, Judged by the classic standard.
There was not about it hint of sensu-
business. For an immortal type she
would, of the two, have been chosen by
one competent to judge. Her head and
face and shoulders were of perfect mould
according to the rules of the Greek
sculptors. There were moments when
shs looked as though she lad just been
chiseled out of the marble by the hand
of Praxiteles, putting out of mind the
delicate pink of her cheeks and the
wealth of brown hair that covered her
head. But she was brilliant converse
tionalist. While she was more reserved
in her manner and less witty than Matte
Guild, she was as thoroughly at ease, and
| had, in almost as great degree, the
ability to entertain number of people
at the same time. She was in every
gathering the centre Of a circle.
There was an irresistible charm about
her presence that instinctively drew
others to her, and while she never had
as many earnest suitors as Matte Ould,
she probably bad as many admirers.
But her life, too, was to 60 out in disap-
pointment. Her father failed in bust
ness and she was suddenly left without
the means to maintain her position in
society. She became involved in scam
dial about the same time, which, on ac-
count of her wide reputation, gained cir
culation in all the papers of the country.
The fact that her innocence was clearly
established to those who knew her and
knew the facts of the affair did not
wholly remove the impression that had
been created, and to escape the disa-
! greeable consequences of it she married
believed at the time to be the heir to a
large fortune. Two years had hardly
passed till his fathers money was lost
in railroad venture, and soon her death
followed. The memory of it is yet fresh
in the minds of many people, for 1t oc-
CURED only last Winter. Thus faded
out the life of one of the extraordinary
women Of America, not distinguished
alone because she was beautiful, but be-
cause of bright intellect as well. The
disappointment and secret sorrow Of
be spoken or written, and those who
knew them will hold forever a saddened
but precious memory of them. The
funeral of the one brought tears to the
eyes of thousands when they heard the
sweet strains of Under the Daisies
a song she used to sing-go up from tie
organ in Grace Church, and the grave of
the other in beautiful Bellefontaine, at
st. Louis, was filled to overlooking with
flowers thrown in by the young ladies of
thai city who had known and loved her
when il the prime and beauty of her
wo' anhood. Both died before they
reached the age of TWENTY-FIVE.