The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-03-14


known only as the brother 81 Pastor
Francois Grin. At Zsrmajt. however. be-
hiossome1 fortk as Monsieur Louis G~
R0uge mont.
Oae Woman's Escape.
According % Grin. De had numerous
love Affairs bar the most genuine sound
INK + The one On which the wife OF tt-
postmaster Is concerned She does not
hesitate 90 saw that she considers EsT 90
cape lucky one. In her early woman
hood she was beirothsJ 20 the future "N'
B0uremOnL" but her agut stopped th-
marriage. Madame laughs heartily over
the story which tells az the pear.s IHG
zach gems which he sent her She only
heard rumors u them. 10 WAS "a great
blow TO bis pride that ne excited no Won
uering admiration In her It;Is Household.
As looked a. him" she said. "ny hssr,
filled with joy when I compared him w.t1
NY best OF husbands"
II Grin had stopped al this point ot hi#
career. all might have been well bot n S
ambition knew no bounds. Mt FitzECral
Eow conceived the idea Of bringing him
before the British Association. re got t.
/ couple OF experts 10 vouch for M, d.
RoUgemont' although ID has been rather
difficult 20 understand what they vourhei
about him. They saw no reason why Boz
had rot lived among sdvases. AMI lid uu-
/ think his geography Of q startling char
aCter. Under the patronage 81 these men
Mr.. Fitzgerald and his Ur1iege ola a mos
amazing thing-LTrInSed fOT JWo Iur1
papers 10 be added 40 those already rr"-
pared, and one of the largest halls Ia
Bristol 10 b. engaged. 50 thar al m!ght
near the explorer and drink in his con
I tT5ut.ons 20 science
This vas the zenith OF his fame. lie re-
turned to London 20 be Toasted and faJoI
BY many believers aGd 10 have SOoj
tine generally.
IN Auto-hypnntiS;.
In appearance he is interesting. but NOT
attractive; I'm conversation his face be-
comes animated. His ordinary manner
Of speaking is not without irnpressivenes-.
and at times his tones become singulaTly
persuasive. He has. as might be expect
ed. extraordinary powers of-possIbly un-
Observation-Disclosures This shows It,
SELF at once in the way he adopts sugseS-
tons.
Speaking Of his return to civilization ~
said hats and boots were his chief troub-
les. He was asked whether the solcs OF
his feet did not become thickened during
the years he had gone without foot COW
eriRg. This point did not seem TO have
struck him before. He said. however
that undoubtedly the soles Of his feet had
become changed a good deal. one OF his
heaters remarked that he supposed the
entire sole would swell and form soft
pad about a half inch thick. something
like the sole or an india-rubber shoe DE
Rougemont said that vas the case with
his feet. It was then suggested that tn"
sole Of the foot might become IN time
coated with a horny growth Ike corn
De ROugemont not apparently seeing
anything Incompatible in the two sug-
geStions really adopted the second, also
and said that the sOles of his feet were
Ike an enormous corn; that was the rra-
son why boots we're at first 50 uncOm-
Portable to him.
And here il may be well TO say that
conversationally, all his descriptions Of
savage life are unreal. In all he tells
there is an utter absence Of vividness and
actually. The same impression Of unreal
ity is made By the man himself Can
this well-bred gentleman have lived thir-
ty years among the cannibaIs? one would
expect TO see the fingers flatt+ned, the
n..ls short and buried in the flesh. the
palm horny, the whole hand coarse AMI
unsightly. Quite the contrary. The nails
are long and spotlessly clean, the fingers
delicate and tapering, the palm soft a.
a WOman'S. and on the backs the blue
veins show through the white transpar-
ent skin.
He remarked 10 seine Of his hearers
that lie would produce u sensation when
/ in his lecture. he told OF how the first
child his canniEal wife had by him WaS
killed and eaten by its mother A greater
effect would be produced when he told
why she did 1t. She did it to save his life.
He was i'll At the time, Some one asked
in tones OF as much sympathy as the O.
caSi0n would allow what disease he was
suffering from. He had, apparently, not
thought OF the disease. Fever was sug-
gested by one. Quickly De ROugemoHt
adopted the suggestion. Yes. he Was sur
fering from fever at the time. For the
wife'5 sake 1t is 10 be hoped il was not
contagious one.
Colossal Liar.
This modern CrIsoe continued TO tell
these marvellous stories Question after
question being put to him, his answers
were almost more prepOsterOus than his
previous statements. The language, man
hers. and customs OF the savages he had
strangely mixed. the geography vas
wrong, yet people believed Ia him. Others
who knew Australia were put upon sus-
picion by his evidence OF ignorance and
invention in his tale. The stories OF max
ing boats Of turtle backs, planting and
raising potatoes in the turtles blood. sail
ing FOR days on the ocean without "A drop
Of water. and yet being wi'nin ten miles
Of land and many other such, aroused
some criticism.
Al this point IN the adyenturers ca
reer his critics proceeded TO inVestigat..
the mans origin and former life, and ~
show him up a. d fraud Instead OF being
a FrenChman, as he claims. he Is a SWi-s
sYeT aQl 10 ssIOqs Gun no uIJq sBM Oh
Of Neuchatei in 1871 When De- was about
ten years old he removed 10 YVorIou.
where his father was employed by IN.
town. Henri j. said Ia have helped his
father In mis- business until be- was about
seventcsn-that Is. about the year 49, 90
isGi. Curiousiy enough. the true story Of
Grin al this point comedies, as u does az
a lew other points with the adventure
Of n. DE RVggemCnt" IL the local sgl-
dtDCe san be- trusted. ID Is quite true that
the boy left ms parents and his home Oh
account Of quarrel with has mother.
that for time he was lost sight Of. and
that his people gave him Up for dead. A.
j. also true nat during ms absence from
home he had many adventures. but they
were not the kind u adventures described
fD The Wide. World MagaZlu%