Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-08-21
A LOVER in STONE.

In Yellowstone National park are in
Vulnerable geysers the waters OF which
are strongly impregnated with caloareous
and silicious sinter, 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" ~
they term it, and AZ soon M the sinter
hardens carry away their trophies in
triumph.
Mr.. Cyril Jacques was morbid,
dreamy and downcast young man. With
form, fine face and even wealth at his
command, he constantly meditatcd sui
eide and determined to become felo
de no. He wandered over the 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 tho press and Of spcoula-
ton byfhis fellow man. He climbed
Vesuvius and for hours contemplated q
plunge into the awful fires below, where
his body would never be revealed. He
did not fear instantaneous incarceration
NOT that He conceived that in the
invisible world in which he was bound
he might dcsne to gather his mortal
elements somewhere. some time, in the
cycles of eternity; hence, why 80 utterly
annihilate them?
Mr.. Jacques sailed to the borders Of
the great maelstrom off Norway and
considered plunge therein heavily
plated in metallic armor. Here again
he paused and foresaw the decay Of the
metal aud the possibility and absorption
| of animal life.
He studied aeronautics intently and
consulted tho worlds aerostatic engi-
necrs M. Gabriel Yon and Captains Rem
ard and Krebs as to the possibility Of IN
airship which would bear him beyond
the carth'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.. II. V. Hayden into
the unknown wilds OF the Rockies, Of
the initiation of tho then worldwide
respected United States geological sur.
vey. Of the wonderful geyser regions Of
Wyoming. 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 cloar blue waters gush from
the highest plaza and fall evenly in
veilliko sheets over the sides, which
constantly increased in size. lie saw
that lac had only to sit there to be
pushed higher and higher, while
mountain Of incrustation broadoncd bo-
low him and reared him about
But NJ he watched tho transformation
Of liquids into solids he saw that certain
objects at the bnse OF the mound, ms fast
AZ they became incasod with sintcr.
were pushed down hill, down toward
the valley below. He speculated. He
concluded that some time conclusion
IF steam might explode the mound. and
II u body were thrown therein ID 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
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While the strange young man was TX.
hausiing his life devising aesthetic
means Of death Miss Mignonettc Favre
was leading dissinilar career Of in
venting fancies and searching the world
for u man who should be synonym Of
her ideals no created. In her flights Of
romanticism She had investigated the
widest noble red man in the deepest Of
unfrequcnted deeps, but ascertained
that his value set on IL woman was less
than that OF horse. She studied
widOwcr president, bat, il he fulfilled
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