The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-20
Millionaire Mining Man and His
Wife Will Remarry.
AN INTERESTING STORY
LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND THEN
DIVORCE.
Three Chapters Written and the Last
to Come-Reconciliation Brought
About Through Their Little
Daughter Nellie-The Second Mar
rage to Take Place This Spring.
(St. Louis Renuhlic.A


Joseph De Lamar left Holland to seek
his fortune While he was young. The old
Dutch blood in his veins was mingled
with some ancient Spanish lineage crossed
with Jewish blood. So he loved the sea
and wandered about the world in ships,
looking for the smile of fortune and for
many years seeing only the smile of ma
ture and the unplctured wonders of re-
mote and beautiful scenes.
Growing wise in the companionShip of
all races and having fed with loving en-
thuslasm upon the free delights which ma
ture gives to wise men Tor the asking.
ana VIII sell to fools, De Lamar deter
coming age and wed the fairest woman in
the world. Being wise in his own day
and generation, he did not set out to win
the woman first, and wealth afterwards,
man, he knew that it is easier for the
eagle to stoop than soar. Having
achieved knowledge. money, ease and a
reSS towards the grave.
Joseph De Lamar determined, then, to
become rich. He went into the mountains
of Colorado and dug for gold with pick
and shovel He slept on the ground and
toiled in the sun and rain until his face
and hands We're brown and his muscles
were like knotted whipcords. He was
poor and hungry, but indomitable; he
walked from mesa to hill land and from
hill to mountain, with his eyes on the
ground and his heart responsive only to
the. CLEAN of gold. At last he struck a
lead that led him underground. The pick
and shovel were REINFORCED by dynamite.
and at each blast and stroke the yellow.
CLEAN of the quartz grew yellower until
his cave became a mine and his mine an
eXhaustleSS treasure house.
The other miners down the gulch be-
gan to call him captain" the news of his
wonderful strike was noised abroad, the
train of little gray donkeyS which car
ried his ore from the mine to the stamp
ing mill grew longer each day, and each
day the weight of bullion which Captain
De Lamar sent to Denver grew, until his
pectors and the lonesome canyon where
he had sunk his first shaft swarmed with
sold-seekers from all quarters of the
world. When the captain went to Den
yer he registered at the best hotel as
Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar
and the newspapers exploited him as a
new bonanza king. With 500, GEO Sin
sight, the sturdy miner forgot that he
was no longer young, and he soon learned
that the whole world was willing to agree
with him that a rich man does not get
old until he dies.
So Captain De Lamar, with a kings
ransom in his vest pocket, went forth
to find and marry the most beautiful
woman in the world. He had seen the
tawny-haired Auroras of Titan and the
dewy-eyed, red-lippe6 dreams of Boug-
uereau, and his idea. twas a composite
vision of both. He went to California,
and thence wandered towards New York,
enchanted castle where beauty awaited
his coming. He saw fair women of all
degrees, but none that matched his high
ideal of what must be the acme of femi-
nine loneliness.
Weary of what began to seem hope
less search. he was lolling. along Fifth
avenue in New York one day, when he
noticed in a photographer s window the
,satrrY hot ~n6 to hn IN
Even the flat, colorless photograph gave
promise Of rare and radiant beauty.
The face was perfect, the hair an aureole.
the eyes an ecstacy, the neck CLEAN of
Lamar did not waste a moment. He went
into the studio and learned the name of
the girl whose portrait promised the Gull
of his latest and most absorbing
desire Who was she? Nellie Sands, the
daughter of a poor druggist. Her hair?
What color was it? 1t was like the af
ter-glow of summer sunshine!
And then Captain, De Lamar believed
that it was time for him to marry. He
did not care that she was poor, that
she lived in a cheap clearinghouse IN
Twenty-sixth street, He wrote down
ing. Her mother and she had gone to
Nara gansett Pier for the summer. The
next morning he started for the sea-
shore He wandered by the margin Of
the ocean all morning. watching the bath
ars and looking eagerly for Nellie Sands,
his Aurora Finally he saw her rising
like the morning from the surf, the red |
gold hair in an aureole of glory about her !
matchless face. She was stepping, drip
ping from the water, when he saw her
first. When she stopped to pluck the tiny
white bathing shoe from her nimble feet |
ne saw her form was worthy Of her; as
ne watcher her trip across the shining |
sand and vanish nymphtke into her dress |
ng room. Captain De Lamar knew that /
he time had come when all his wisdom
and all his wealth were worth to him |
lothng without this woman.
He found her hotel and called upon her |
mother. He was courtly, soldierly and |
,alm, but he told Mrs. Sands that he had |
seen the daughter and loved her already. !
Night he meet her? He did meet her, and |
she liked him from the first. The gray |
haired stalwart captain soon became her !
most devoted cavalier. The spirit and |
younger men out of the contest in a. week. |
Nellie was the belle of the season, but |
he men could not go the pace set by the |
Monte Carlo from Colorado. A wish from |
Nellie meant fulfillment at once and the |
captain was so SuaVely unconventional, so |
gallant and so modest, so generous and |
20 ardent, that the beautiful girl could !
and the mother and daughter |
vent back to their Stuffy boarding house I
o prepare for a wedding that promised !
that youth and love, wealth |
md wisdom may hope at the hands of |
ate. For Nellie was as pure and truthful |
is she was young and fair, and Captain |
De Lamar, for all his eccentricitieS, his |
me whom he believed the loveliest crea-
ure in the world, was as manly frank |
md Jealous as any wooer of half his age |
night be.