The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-26

her at the Tuileries with marked honora The elder Dumas became her close friend and literary adviser. Rosa Bonheur painted her, Rlstori urged her to dramatic competition, while, from the usu- ally cold and grave Lamartine she received visits that lasted for hours At the brilliant court recep- tions the attentions Of Napoleon became 60 marked to incite the jealousy of the beautiful Elm press Eugenie whe soon succeeded in turning the American women of Paris against Mrs. Lewis Napoleon and the greatest of France continued in their attentions, but the aversion of her own sex deeply cut the authoress and she moved to London. Here she repeated her conquests, and for years she was was brilliant figure at all the liter ary and social occasions of the most prominent English families of rank and wealth. One morn- ing she was found dead in bed in her luxurious London lodgings, dying it is supposed from . neu- ragic stroke. Her remains were entombed in the catacombs of Kensal Green cemetery, near London. The funeral was attended by all the prominent authors, artists, society people of London and eral members of the royal family. When her will read, 1t was found to contain 6 provision that her remains should be embalmed, returned to her native land, and buried Tn Greenwood. In the fol- lowing spring her body for the second time en- tombed-in the spot selected by herself and where her remains now rest. Brilliant, indeed, were the parts this gifted woman played in her time, yet how completely forgotten is that grave arbor- covered gladiolus path.
 It is on the gentle kno! directly facing the sculp- tured entrance gates of Greenwood that the Cary sisters buried. The lot is small one contain ing three simple mounds. The center grave is that of Aice that to the east is the grave of the young est of the three sisters, Elmina, while under the mound facing the west sleeps Phebe. Thus do the sisters sleep in death, as they were in their lives, side by side. decaying box-wood hedging surrounds the plot, while the simple granite shaft is crumbling at the base. This monument many will remember, was the outcome of popular sub- scription headed by Horace Greeley, in whom the two sisters, Alice and PhGbe, always found de- voted friend The younger sister scarcely known to the literary world. No two sisters could be attached to each other than were Alice and Phoebe and it was due to the snapping of this bond of affection between them that the latter survived the formers death scarcely five months The officiating clergymen and the pail bearers were identically the same both sad occasions. 1t was upon his return from the burial of Alice that Horace Greeley wrote: "What a stormy day it was, and how dreary Greenwood looked. Immedi- ately after we had laid her away the heavens cov- cred her resting place with drapery white her soul and as soft and noseless her charity" He who wrote these words now lies only 6 short dis tance from the graves of the three sisters to whom he was 80 devotely attached Up to the time of his death, Mr. Greeley cared for the plot of the Cary sisters but since 1872 little has been done for it.
 Greenwood has not 6 more neglected grave within its borders than that in a small plot facing the beautiful little lake called Sylvan Water" A rusty railing surrounds the plot, and the small granite obelisk, once considered a pretentious monument, is fast crumbling into dust Evidences of entire neglect are apparent on every side and even the poetical inscriptions on the stone need close inspection to render them intelligible. For years 1t was called "Poets' Mound" and was the mecca of literary visitors; to-day not two in- quiries year, the keepers tell me, made for it.
 Each of the four sides of the stone bears in- scription On the side facing the mound are carved the words:
 Epi'aph Written s..s.t by him'elD
 Pook MCDONALD CLARKE.
 
 On the side facing Landscape avenue is a neat medallion of the poet showing person of striking features, immense forehead and finely carved nose of the Roman type On another side are the fol- lowing dates
 Born 18th June,
 Died Ssh March,