The National tribune., 1901-02-28

no easy matter to put her into a fiy-away,
or keep the bonnet in its place on the
back of the poor, nodding head, when it
was got on. Usually it had the extra
neous effect of always being on one side,
and was perpetually tapped on the crown
by the maid who attended on the youth
ful, sportive and gay paralytic. 1t was
painful TO see this old woman battling
with the grim monster, death, and trying
to be young and coquettish. Her chief
boasts, as long as she was able to talk,
were of her numerous cOnqUests. and the
conquests of sweet Alice, which matFi-
mony had by no means curtailed. Though
the malady had attacked Mrs. Jarvis
tongue so as to render her articulation in
distinct, she was still spGrtive and childish
in her dress and appearance, and rs she
was wheeled about in her new fur robe she
looked in her childish costume like an old
baby. All of q sudden the youth
full creature OF 20 disappeared. She
sleeps in an unknown and unmarked
grave. Her fat son, Asa, being left on
the world without fortune, ability or
friends, was for awhile a longshoreman
wharves. One dag as he sat sleeping on
| the dock, with his hands in his pockets,
he fell into the water, and has never been
seen or heard from since.
Mrs Chick lived in Albany for many
years, making frantic efforts TO regain
| litI lbsl plutt III buTE IIttUuS,
and he had many, years after he was
proven to the world a villain, tried hard
| to hold her up. She was made the chief
attraction ut their balls, receptions and
| social entertainments, and became the re-
| cipient of hundred foolish favorS by those
eager to whitewash her unsavory reputa-
| ton. Some people are like carTlon-hirds
preferring the tainted to the sound, as
was proven in Mrs. Chicks case. Many
who had ignored her before she acquired
her unsayory reputation, hastened to pay
| homage TO her III the fear that an injury
| to her might injuFe Col. Burr. We read
| Of but one account Of Mrs. Chick after
Aaron Burr dropped out of public inter-
est. This narrative was published in Har-
per's Magazine in the year 1851, and was
as follows:
1.-The late honest but poor Mathew l..
| from him, while living, trunks full of fem
inine correspondence, by which Burr
sought to make Davis's fortune, but
which he generously returned without fee
or reward, to the grateful recipients.
"Lobbying-now an anomaly-was then
| i'll full force. Several important bills had
| passed the New York Legislature and
some were SO uncharitable as to intimate
| that improper influence had been resorted
to. Davis was accused of being engaged
in bringing about successful result
"A lady of rank and fashion conde-
|
mingIe in anything out of their appro-
pirate sphere, the limits of the domestic
| circle-to say hard things of Davis She
| went so far as TO intimate that she could
| calmly look on and see him hung. Davis
went to her door, rang the bell and sent
up his name, and was promptly answered
she was not and never would be at home
to NJ. Davis.
Pray ask her If she has heard from
her husband at Niagara?
He was forthwith invited up stairs.
The lady entered in trepidation and alarm.
Has any calamity happened to my
beloved husbandY said she.
This will explain ALL said Davis,
handing her letter in her own chirog-
raphy. addressed to Col Aaron Burr.
Good heavens, sirp said she: for
what purpose is this letter destined to re-
main in your possessionY
Madame, to be disposed Of by you, al
your own discretion was the reply.
My kind friend exclaimed she, how
ear l ever repay such an act of unpar.
alelled magnanimity? I. who have spoken
SO unkindiy, SO unjustly, of SO noble q
frendT
"'Ever afterward,' said Davis, she nj
most broke her neck In extending her head
out of the carriage window to greet me
as she passed."
The long trial Of Aaron Burr before
the Supreme Court of the United States
at Richmond, resulted in a verdict of not
guilty, but the popular voice regarded him
as a traitor. He had scarce reached
Richmond when his evil genius. in rags
and tatters. her frame bent and totter-
ing, came to gaze on the man she had
sworn to hate. Sic sat on the steps of
the court house and reviled him as he
passed.