River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-09-03

man extremely painful to witness.
Their devotion to each other was APP
parent, and various books and papers
which they carried about together while
sitting in the parks showed an intel
/ lectual congenialitv which would
hardly be expected in two so unlike in
appearance. Ny curiosity in regard
to them increased daily. So, great was
my pleasure when one evening / no.
ticed Hal go mp TO them and shake
hands as though they were old ac-
quaintances. And | own 10 not hay-
ing waited very patiently Tor Hal
TO finish his evening programme
and Join me in our room. As
soon as our cigars were lighted and
we settled back in our chairs prepara-
tory to recounting our day ; experiences
my first outburst was:
HAL who Is that grand old South
ern gentlemen with whom you We're
speaking this evening""
"Oh. replied Hal, that is ex-sena-
tor Luda La Clair, from New Orleans;
he was here last year: he was some
what of an invalid. and finds these
waters and the Wisconsin air more
beneficial than anything he has tried.
You may well call him grand, for no
more perfect specimen of an intelligent,
educated. cultured Southern graudee
can bc found,
but what is that hideous object at
his -ide2"
THAT object ever at his side is
Cappoli, his youngest son. He looked
frightfUl to me last year at first, but he
does not seem to me now, said Hal,
with more tenderness In his voice than
had ever heard him use before. He viii
furnish YOU one of the most interesting
subjects for your favorite amusement OF
character studying. | know them well
and will Introduce you But first let me
tell Won something of Cappoli 5 history.
His father, as YOU see, is from
the Southern gentry. Early in life he
visited the North and married one Of
Boston New England. blue-eyed.
broWn-haired Puritan daughters. said
to have been rather pretty, highly edu-
Gated, and extremely religious, by
whom he had three sons. The two
elder are both married and successful
LAWYERS. one located in St. Louis and
the other in Louisville They were
here with him last summer, and
although more than ordinary men,
do not consider that either of them
have a~ much real native talent as Cap
poll; but he. poor fellow, can never
control his They told me that at s
years of age he was as perfect
physically as amy child and the image
Of his mother, but the summer follow
ing his Sth birthday Senator and Mrs.
a q. 4
Of trip to Europe The older boys
wcrciu college and q friend of Mrs.
LaClair', who lived in small town
about fifty miles from Boston. and in
whom Mrs La Clair had the utmost
confidence as mother, agreed to take
Capp0l; so there seemed no reason
why they could not 20 ut last, aud 90
they did, and We're camping nJericho
when long, many-Stamped letter
brought them the terrible news that
Cappoh had Just lived through an
attack Of scarlet fever. and, owing to
the malpractice of their best country
physician, one side was almost entirely
parayzed. and his blood in a generally
poisoned. cruptive condition, which
news brought the La Glars hurricdly
to this country. And for eight years
more Mrs, LaCldir travelled from one
large city to another carving her
helpless child to nearly every eminent
physician in America for help, but
with. as you see, only practical success.
And when She was obliged to rellnqulSh
the idea OF cure, she brooded and
brooded over her having left him to go
abroad until it turned her brain, and
they were obliged to put her in pri-
V3te asylum, where she has been for
/ the past fourteen years. Cappoll :
/ body never increased much IN SIZE
+ after the fever, but ms mead You VIII
/ observe Is tullN as large as ms father :.
They are exceedingly exclusive, but
+ | will venture to present You to them
early in the morning, when you can
know them for Yourself.
Immediately after breakfast next dav
We stopped al the door. when in answer
TO Halls gentle tap Cappoli opened it
/ and acknowledged the Introduction to
me with most stagely, tragica bow
throwing his huge head back upon his
shoulders IN what he intended should
+ be an imitation OF ms father lofty
style, but which III him was utterly
horrible; which posing. after a few
j moments conversation, he changed To
I a strongly Neutrality-suspicious. ar
winch was exceedingly Iudicrous ~
such a pigmY. In strange contrast 70
these manHeIlSms were many tokens Oh
T truest poltcheSs ana ready now OF
/ cholce language when eo'ud nave
smut my eyes ana FORGOTTEN ms appear
ance, l could have enjoyed. However