The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-22
CLARK A BENEDICT AGAIN
Montana Senator Welded His Ward
Three Years Ago It Is Stated

Mont. in Marseilles. France, on May
20, 1901. according to an announcement
given out here. Senator and Mrs.
Clark are the parents of a 2year7old
of DR.. La Chappelle. n physician. who
died in Chicago several years ago.
The romance began SO many years
ago that Anna La Chappelle was too
young to know anything about it.
The father of the girl. handsome
French-Canadian. had died and left
Wife and children in straitened Cir
cumstances. There was a whole brood
of little ones to be looked out for and
only one grief-strcken woman to do it,.
Senator Clark undertook to help the
family and Anna La Chappelle became
his ward. He took upon himself the
education of her and her sisters.
OF course. that was more than doz-
en- years ago. and Anna was a curly
haired little tomboy. So in Butte she
grew to womanhood. She became ac-
quainted with much gossip about the
senator. Among other things she heard
speech from enemies that made her
black eyes flash with Indignation. A
friend recounted the incident the other
day.
Some one was talking to her of the
senator, a man who said he knew him.
He has no heart" said the man. He
is simply bit of human machinery
very skilful"-
Defended Her Guardian.
Anna La Chappcle Interrupted him.
How do you know" she cried. How
do you fnow what he does for people?
What dc you know of the family of
children he has educated: of the
household he has provided for; of the
girl he is going to send abroad for
study with the best masters the world
can provide? Every one who finds
fault with the senator knows as little
about him as you who say he has no
heart"
Miss La Chappele has developed a
voice of great power and beauty. She
had grown into a splendid creature
with black eyes, dazzling teeth and
masses of back hair And meanwhile
1t was whispered that she had lost her
heart to young lawyer back in her
native city. For while this story
was credited, but every now and then
1T was exchanged for one that men,
toned Senator Clark as the haDDy
Montana gentleman.
After one year of it she sailed for
Paris. She was enthusiastic and so
was the senator. In Paris it w2s pre-
dicted that Montana would have the
honor of giving new prima donna to
the world.
In appearance she is so French that
she is rarely taken for an American.
At first the Parisians believed her to be
one of the great American heireSSeS
but when they heard about her billion
are su"rulih they predicted lhe TO-
mantle conclusion TO the affair.
me most striking characteristic or
MS nature is attention 10 detail. me
next most conspicuous is caution. NO
hmt ,,.,a e,et i tnu na'h % Mol,'a1tt
will be remembered taat ne started life
on a farm, worked in the mines fought
Indians on the frontier. suffered hard
ships in the mountains and contested
for supremacy with the hold and active
spirits who have made the west. That
meant hard work, and he has not lost
the habit
Ever since the death of Senator
Clark's wife, some ten years ago. Cos
sip has innumarable times married him
off always 10 attractive women There
is reason for this. The senator is not
more than Ga alert active vigorous
wry, a man of tremendous energy His
eyes are clear and piercing; his hair
abundant and but slightly streaked
with gray: he has a brown beard and a
good muslache.
Clark of Montana has never made n
failure. Everything that he touches
turns to gold, ont west they are al
most suDerstitioJ, about his Incl,
He is fond of pictures and a Judge Of
them He will smoke the hes of Ha-
vanas and be absorbed for an hour in
his library, and then turn to the daily
report on thu, price of copper or the
drop in the cost of steel rails. He is
fond of Sociatv .Itbo,,gh domestic az
Fiction has put limitations upon par
ticipation in the social whirI
;ea :, m,eL;,,to,
When in Washington Senator Clark
leaves his home about 10 O'Clock in the