St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-06

yves.
AS this had been considered an
achievement of no small moment, il had
formed the basis for wild dreams by
every fond mother since; and all the
comedy little girls whose fortunes had
thrown them in this particular neigh
bOrhoOd were looked over, discussed.
sized up and consigned to good or
evil future by the old wcmen there
abOutS.
Filled with the utmost confidence in
the attractive powers of his daughter
and their ultimate usefulness, the father
of Marie
DISCOURAGED YOUNG MEN CALLERS
from his own class in society and
guarded his living capital with a jeal-
OuSy that forbade all thought of love or
elopement.
Sixteen years passed over the head of
the lovely Marie, yet the duke of the
landed estate fai led To materialIZe. The
anxious though confident father could
bear the suspense no longer, so gather
ing together his guldens until his little
pile amounted to respectable sum, he
sought the services of a friend who was
acquainted with some one who was on
borrowing terms with one OF the court
kammerdiener, personal servant of
the emperor, through whose kind offices,
secured by the judiciOuS disposal of the
surplus gulden. Marie was enabled to
attend state ball given very shortly
after. Having no right tO join with the
invited guests, the interioping debu-
tante Offlciated in the lesser capacity of
attendant in the ante room. Keeping
her eyes open to the main chance, with
an anchor east well to windward, she
captured the affection of Count Karnau,
~ al hn narln lan .yc Nf 80,
patrician society for an evening and
goodly share of the night spent in the
royal conservatory. amid the romance
creating odOr of tropical plants and the
secluded protection of an all-concealing
palm.
The hours sped with great celebrity,
though no more rapidly than did the
progress of the couples young affec-
ton. When the count resigned his fair
acquaintance to the protection of her
own home, he rolled away in his car
riage, hugging the bliSsful thought to
his heart that Marie had promised to be
his.
The counts marriage was followed by
prompt dismissal from the family cOUn-
ellis, and he was thrown upon the cold
charity of the world, with only sufficient
TO support carriage and horses and
illlllSCll NOuUS III itlC III
condition that made the old carpenters
assistance quite acceptable.
The new countess attracted the live
Hest admiration when she drove on the
Prater, and it was not long before her
young husband received an offer of a
place at court from certain influential
but debaSed attaches, who sought the
favor of the wife in this ass stance to
the husband.
The position was taken, and Marie
cOquetted with her persistent anmirerS
until they YEARLY realized the sport
that was being made of them. Then
they withdrew their influence and sup
port, provoked that there was no act or
word of which Marie had been guilty
that could be tortured into a reflection
upon her.
Shortly after the count was killed in a
duel, and Marie, left almost pennileSS,
began life that
has hardly its equal. Beginning with
the acquaintance made during her few
seasons at court and otherwise through
the connections of her acquired name,
the countess addressed each day a let
ter to several of them, setting forth her
condition, her loneliness OH earth, her
dependency, and finally her impecuni-
OSty, concluding with an appeal for any
sum the reader might feel disposed to
contribute toward her support. Pre-
ceded by pompous and dignified old
eX-butler. now her only male servant,
whose plethOric stomach was confined
within leathern vest and upon whose
head there perched tall hat carrying a
white cOckade, and who beat the ground
with his heavy cane, suggesting to pass
m n md of &c lIctr
the countess left in the morning her
begging applications to call later in the
day for the dOucer that their generoS-
ity appropriated for her.
She tlOated into the homes of her vic
TINS with the same easy grace that dis
tlnguiShed her entrance to the fashion,
able salons during the heyday of her
fortune. Prince SchwarZenber or Prince
ESterhaZy, it mattered not, they one
and all were recipients of her impOr-
tunitieS, and they one and all came for
ward like men and responded with alac-
rity and cash to the appeal.
Time, however, removed the cOun-
tess standbyS in one way or another,
or possibly they merely tired of the con-
tinuouS solicitation, and she turned her
steps toward the homes of the newly
made mobiles, the new-fedged aristoc-
from elder members of the league into
which they have just squeezed.
Here her demands were more preten-
tious and remunerative; the receipt of
a visiting card bearing the symbolic
corOnet and name of an old family and
the importantly in the name of COM
mon streak of blue blood for help for
starving woman, were more than the
novitiateS could stand. So money for
time was plenty with the countess, and
she almost realized the condition of idle
independence.
But change was in store for her.
Success had made her reckless and in
different; she would no longer go visit
ing, but sent her FiduS AchateS, the eX.
butler, to make both the application and
the collection. The route was long and
tireSome, the butler old and readily eX-
hausted, and he sought strength after
each call in a flowing bowl of schnapps.
which with time became not merely fire.
quent. but Intoxicating. One day he
was missing from his daily errand. and
the countess learned too late that her
trusted representative had lett for an
other cline with everything valuable
and negotiable there was to be had.
Discouraged and:incapacitated by age,
the once beautiful Marie, now para
lyzed and dying, sought refuge in
hospital, and amid those who SubSiSt OH
the public purse, she lay for weeks un-
til her disease conquered her will, and
she Succumbed in December to the sick
ness that had for a long time sorely
Attic ted her.
"TARANTULA TOM"