The Prescott daily news., 1908-10-02
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 To one contemplating the strange oc- currences flesh is heir to it would seem that there is real personal fate that Is constantly amusing himself with our destinies. For instance, at the end of the eighteenth century 1t showed a lit tie CorSican the crown of France kick ed about by a mob in Paris. He picked it up, put it on his head and then pro- ceeded to make kings and queens of his family. Per contra, fate designated the monarch who lost the crown the Corsican appropriated to be the one of a long line of sovereigns to lose it and his head at the same time. He was the only one of the lot who in many years deserved to wear it.
 In the case recited in this story it would seem that this memorable fate took a cunning and malicious pleasure A party of American sightseers abroad were doing" the gardens of Versailles. A middle aged couple stroll ed away from the others and sat them selves down to rest.
 At twenty" said the man, "l laid out definite plan for my life which I have followed to the present moment. Having tastes which had no means to gratify, l resolved to spend twenty years in accommodating a fortune where with to spend another twenty years in an ideal life. Before leaving America month ago closed out my business, having accumulated the requisite amount The first twenty years of my life have been passed as I intended The second period is before me-
 "Of that period I have spent but month. and yet it is long enough to have taught me that to enjoy the world l must have some one to enjoy 1t with me In you I have met that person. the only woman l have ever wished to make a life companion. It rests with you whether this second period shall be a success or failure. Will you spend it with me as my wife?"
 There was long silence between them. at the end of which the woman said:
 Unlike you. 1 laid no plan for my life. At eighteen loved, married and was for ten years supremely happy with my husband and my children. Then within a few months they were all swept away by death. l cannot be happy without them, therefore it would be impossible for me to enable you as your companion to carry out the second part of your plan"
 (Which means that this part has al ready failed"
 If dependent upon me; not on an other"
 Had l not fallen in with you l might possibly have been happy with another"
 The woman was looking on the ground. making marks on it with the end of her parasol Presently she looked up into the mans face to see there a bitter disappointment resting on every feature.
 'In that case I will do my best for you. l consent" she said.
 There was a wedding in the Amer tcan Parisian colony, after which Wal ter Lanier and his bride spent (to him) six delightful months in a land where there is every opportunity for culti- vated man to enjoy himself. The only shadow falling upon him was that de- spite a brave struggle on the part of his wife she occasionally showed that her heart was with those who had gone from her. The husband, seeing that occupation would be better for her, proposed that they return to Amer ica, where she might have the care of a home. In reply to this proposition she told him that whatever he wished was her preference.
 Lanier believed it would be better to take his wife where she would enjoy the companonship of those she had always known. He planned a surprise for her He wrote friend to buy a house for him in the neighborhood in which his wife had been born and reared, where her father and mother and sister would be near her. It happened that just such a place was in the market. and it was purchased for Lanier. It needed no improve ments, and as soon as Lanier was ad- vfsed that the papers had passed he and his bri Ia sailed for ( trnarioa