Evening journal., 1901-05-25

tunities as she ough to have had. and
neither she nor the child had or could
have any social position. There were
then many slaves in Baltimore of
pure Indian blood, and even to-day no
one can enter a trolley in Washington
without encountering colored people
in whom the Indian blood predomi-
mates.
LIFE IN BALTIMORE.
Classy had not lived long in Balti-
more before there came TO her a Ger
man of scientific pretensions nam ed
Boehm He had been in India and
had married there one of the half
breeds, almost always beautiful and
accomplished, called Eurasians. She
had died leaving him one son, whose
Hindu tint proclaimed the story. For
him there was no suitable home in
Baltimore, and for him the father
could not endure the negro boarding
house which he had been obliged to
accept
" Madame, said he to Classy. we are
in the same situation; you are lady
buh not white. you are cOlored but
you cannot be a servant. Why should
we not live in the same house? ] can
protect you should there be need, and
can educate the children.
80 the little Eurasian and The little
Indian grew up together. and as there
we're no other children, when they
were old enough they married.
think Boehm died before the marriage,
and Cassy's daughter bore to his son
pair Of twins-Marianne and Casper
/ Boehm. I do not know whether the
grandmOther brought up the twins,
but they grew up. fairly well educated.
land did well until Marianne married
a mulattO and was fOrsaken Of her few
/ friends among the Germans in conse-
lquence. The true tragedy OF the story,
however, rests with a second and third
marriage of Cassandra- If she had re-
manned single she had enough PROP
erty to make her comfortable until
she had completed her century, and
which her husbands brother could
not touch. The plantation had been
seized by one OF Smiths brothers as
soon as Classy left 1t, in 1912. The
three men she married were all Eng
lishmen. and the last two squandered
what property she had been able to
keep. She seems to have lived until
1850, when she must have been at
least 100 years OF age.
THE WILL FOUND.
1T was not until the year preceding
the burning of Fairfax county court
/ house, early in the civil war. and -
or 1S years after Cassandra died, that
her granddaughter, trying to make
use Of the crimson recticule, discover
ed Thomas Smiths will. Young
Boehm carried it to Charles Sumner.
In the tumult OF the war it could not
be expected that anything could be
obtained from any heirs of the Smith
family, nor was it reasonable no ex-
lpect the will to be legally valid after
the expiration Of more than 60 years
Mr.. Sumner advised its deposit in the
Fairfax courthouse until the war
should end, and with the burning OF
that, shortly after relief became hope
less. Not long before the centennial
year Mr.. Sumner obtained for young
BCehm the position of barber to the
Senate. Marianne shared equally with
her brother such relics of Washing
tons home as their mother had left
|, The year 1876 had hardly opened be
/. fore BOehm died suddenly II / re.
AhNAnUNA NOllGAll1 nt Ultu III Ills IDOIl
at the capital. Marianne was in Bal.
timore, and when the funeral was
over she found her room stripped OF
/, all articles Of value. 1t was the cen.
! tennial craze. she said.
MOUNT VERNON RELICS.
Among the things that she showed
, me, after telling this story. wer,
! plates. candelabra and dishes like
! those on exhibition at the Nationa
! Museum. Many Of them were unmis
! takably from Mount Vernon, other.
! might have been purchased by Smitl
+ himself. She had a drinking cup mad,
Of a cocoanut shell and bound Will
I silver. This had Lafayettes name anG
! crest upon it in silver, and had beer
4 given to Cassandra, Mariannethcught
] by Lafayette on his last visit at Noun
4 Vernon. Several articles-a lookini
q glass, with a portrait Of Washington
above It. a razor with a likeness i'm
l Printed in the tortoise shell handle
< surrounded by the stars Of the Il
!. staites, and other emblems-were evi
s GENTLY sent to Mount Vernon with thI
o compliments CT the manufacturer
4 after the Declaration Of Independenc'
Sni the close of the war. The reti
I: Guile which had held the will was o
e fresh as if it had just left the artist
n hands; but the article which inter
4 ested me mczt was a sketch book q
= three or four stin leaves on whicl
I Washington himself had skechel
o -~e7 and scallops for Cassy's needle
a work and drawn lightly ,ma dlsigas
b which I recognized as suggea isr
/. 9fterwg 4 ked cu. by Ci-riati q
!. Mount Vernon, or en- the iarels c. b.