Arizona republican., 1891-12-05
A LOVER IN STONE.


 are strongly impregnated with calcare- ous and silicious sinter, white sub stance which instantaneously incrust- ates whatever it falls upon. Big mounds and craters are formed by it. Travel CTS place under the streams bottles and other objects they desire turned to stone" as they term it, and as soon as the sinter hardens carry away their tro- phies in triumph.
 Mir. Cyril Jacques was a morbid, dreamy and downcast young man. With form, fine face and even wealth at his command, he constantly meditated sui eide and determined to become felo de SC. He wandered over the world to dis cover some artistic method of departing this life. He paled at the thought of an inquest over his mortal remains, of ac- counts in the press and of speculation by his fellow mankind. He climbed Vesu- vius and for hours contemplated a plunge into the awful fires below, where his body would never be revealed He did not fear instantaneous incineration- not that. He conceived that in the ia- visible world in which he was bound he might desire to gather his mortd ele- ments somewhere, sometime, in the cycles of eternity. Hence, why SO utter ly annihilate them?
 Mir. Jacques sailed to the borders of the great maelstrom of Norway and considered plunge therein, heavily plated in metallic armor. Here again he paused and foresaw the decay of the metal and the possibility and absorption of animal life.
 He studied aeronautics intently and consulted the worlds aerostatic engi- neers, M. Gabriel Ton, Captains Renari and Krebs, as to the possibility of an air ship which would bear him beyond the earth's atmosphere, out into homoloidl space. Again defeat. These great men assured him that, for all his wealth, finite power could not achieve the in- finite.
 In the year 1870 he read of the first ex- petitions of Dr. F V. Hayden into the unknown wilds of the Rockies, of the initiation of the then worldwide respect ed United States geological survey, of the wonderful geyser regions of Wy oming Into the northwest corner of this territory he hastened his flight. August was waning when he mounted the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs and saw the clear blue waters gush from the highest piazza and fall evenly in veilllke sheets over the sides, which con stantly increased in size. He saw that he had only to sit there to be pushed higher and higher, while a mountain of incrustation broadened below him and reared him about.
 But as he watched the transformation of liquids into solids he saw that cer- tain objects at the base of the mound, as fast as they became incased with sinter, were pushed down hill, down toward the valley below. He speculated. He concluded that some time concus- sion of steam might explode the mound, and if body were therein it would become exposed to beasts, men or sun. So he determined to be incased sepa- rately and allow his body to be pushed down hill, to become one of the rapidly forming, immense mass of incrustated objects.
 Having formed his plans, Mir Cyril Jacques took chloroform and laid down at the base of the series of plazzas of Mammoth Hot Springs, where the gey- ser waters fell upon him and in a short time incased his body in hardened cal careous sinter.
 While the strange young man was ex- hausting his life devising aesthetic means of death. Miss Mignonette Favre was leading a dissimilar career of inventing fancies and searching the world for a man who should be a synonym of her ideals so created. In her flights of TO- manticism she had investigated the widest noble red man in the deepest of unfrequented deeps, but ascertained that his value set on woman was less than that of horse She studied widower president, but, if he fulfilled her dream, he did not take kindly to her advances. She went abroad determined to fascinate great prince, but all the princes she met spoke not of love. but of an annual stipend to become her husband.
 In 1890 Miss Favre decided to enjoy the summer in the Yellowstone National rark, a tract solely under the jurisdic- tion of the government, but formerly part of the then territories of Wyoming and Montana. The a Mammoth Hot Springs hotel suited her romantic ideas. Lox I. ,.ft ,.li la1 ha 1la of the great spring. She placed bottles, combs horseshoes and other objects un- der the trickling streams and saw them turned to stone" to her hearts content. While she filled big boxes with a varied collection of these and kindred objects, her ideal in this respect, as in the case of a man, was unfulflled.
 She saw the big heaps of objects in crustated, which seemed to have slid down into the valley, and she was indig- nant at the government for enacting laws to protect this avalanche" and making it a misdemeanor to carry any section away. She clambered up and down the avalanche--for such the slant ing collection of objects seemed to be- and each day paused before massive cone of white sinter, the solidity and great beauty of which she admired so much that it became monomania with her. The cone was about seven feet in length. with diameter of two feet and looked as If It were classic Ionic col umn.
 At least Miss Favre concluded she could not live without the cone. In her frenzied admiration of it she forgot to search for man of her romance. She hired the stableman to take q trusted fc.-co 1F ,non ataa1 tha coveta1 obiect at