Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-10-16
A LOVER IN STONE.


In Yellowstone National park are in
Vulnerable geysers the waters of which
are strongly impregnated with calcareous
and silicious sinter, a white substance
which instantaneously incrustates what
ever it falls upon. Big mounds and
craters are formed by it. Travellers place
under the streams bottles and other OBJ
jects they desire turned to stone, " as
they term it, and as soon as the sintcr
hardens carry away their trophies i'll
triumph.
Mr.. 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 a felo
de Sc. He wandered over tho world to
discover some artistic method Of depart
ing this life. He paled at the thought
Of an inquest over his mortal remains,
of accounts in the press and Of spocula-
ton by his fellow man. He climbed
Vesuvius and for hours contemplated a
plunge into the awful fires below, where
his body would never be revealed. He
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not that. He conceived that in the
invisible world in which he was bound
he might desire to gather his mortal
elements somewhere, some time, in the
cycles Of eternity; hence, why so utterly
annihilate themY
Mr.. jacques sailed to the borders Of
the great maelgtrom off Norway and
considered a plunge therein heavily
plated in q 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 a~erostatic engi-
neers NJ. Gabriel Yen and Captains Rem
ard and Krebs as to the possibility Of IN
airship which would bear him beyond
the earth's atmosphere out into homo
loidal 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
expeditions Of DR.. Il. V. Hayden into
the unknown wilds of the Rockies, Of
the initiation Of the then worldwide
respected United States geological sur
vey, of the wonderful gey4or regions Of
Wyoming. Into the northwest corner
of this territory he FASTENED his flight.
August was waning when he mounted
the terraces Of Mammoth hot springs
and saw the clear blue waters gush from
the highest plaza and fall evenly in
voillike sheets over the sides, which
constantly increased in size. He saw
that he had only to sit there t o be
pushed higher and higher, while a
mountain Of incrustation ~broadened be.
low him and reared him about.
But as he watched the transformation
of liquids into solids he saw that certain
objects at the base of the mound, us fast
as they became incased with sinter,
were pushed down hill, down toward
the valley below. He speculated. He
concluded that some time a conclusion
of steam might explode the mound, and
if a body were thrown therein it would
become exposed to beasts, men or sun.
SO he determined to be incased sepa-
rately and allow his body 10 be pushed
down hill, to become one of the rapidly
forming, immense mass of incrustated
objects.
While the strange young man was cx-
hausting his life devising aesthetic
means Of death Miss Mignonette Fayro
was leading "A dissimilar career Of in
venting fancies and searching the world
for a man who should be a synonym Of
her ideals so created. In her flights Of
romanticism she had investigated the
widest noble red man in the deepest Of
unfrequented deeps. but ascertained
that his value set Oh q woman was less
than that Of IA horse. She studied a
widower president, but, if he fulfilled
her dream, he did not tako kindly to
her advances. She went abroad deter.
mined to f%ascinate u great prince, but
all the princes she met spoke not Of
love, but Of an annual stipend to be-
come her husband.
n 1890 Miss Fayre decided to enjoy
the miner in the Yellowstone National
park, a uac' solely under the jurisdic-
tion Of the government, but formerly a
part Of the then territories OF Wyoming
and Montana The Mammoth Hot
Springs hotel suited her romantic ideas.
While here she often climbed the plaaas
Of the great spring. She placed bottle,
combs, horseshocs and other objects I'M
der the trickling streams and saw them
turned to stone" to her hearts con
tent. While she filed big boxes with a
vmried collection o. these aud kindred
objects her ideal in this repect, as ia
the case Of "a man, was unfuldlled.
Sho saw the big heaps Of objects in
orustaEed, which seemed TO have slid
down into the valley, and she was in
dignant at the government for |onactiug
laws 70 protect this avalanche" and
making IL a misdemeanor 10 carry any