Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-06
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 is constantly amusing himself Nitll oar ,lestinicS. For instance at the end at the eighteenth century il showed Il Ii tie CorsicHn tue crown of France ki' cd about by q 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 aeSigUatcu the monarch who lost the crown ihr Corsfcan appropriated to be the nltr ei q long line of Soycrcigns to lose il ;lH Hd his head ;tt he same tim. Ic WAS litr only one ut the lot WIo in many wears deserved lo wear it.
 Ill the ease feeitc,i il tllS story il would seem that this inexortble tafc took a cunning atiu malicious pleasure
 A party oi American SieltspeiS abroad were doing" tie gardens o1 Versailles 4 middle aged couple stroll ed away from the others and sat them selves down to rest
 Al twenty" said the ulan. Il laid out a definite plan for my fife which 1 have followed 10 the present moment. Having tastes which 1 Lau no lneaIis to gratify, resolved 10 spend twenty years in accumulating fortune where with to spend another twenty years u an ideal life. Before leaving America a month ago l closed out my business. having accumulated the requisite Fnouut The first twenty years of my fife have been passed as intcuGeI, The second period is before me.
 aOf 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 II with me. In you 1 have met that person-- the only woman I have ever wished to make a life companion. It rests with you whether this secoud period shall be Il S,lccrss nr |; failure Will yu, spend ii with me as my wife,:
 There WH> a lon. silence be!ween them, al he end of which the. woman said;
 II milk" y"t, laid Il" plan for my life. .\t eighteen loved married and Was for trH Nc;trS supremacy happy with ma hn>balsl nal nls children Then AlitlH l l'.M nluntl.~ they were atl sap; :; -..lE hE ,.-1jil cauilo, be without lse!n therefore, il sv,'s.. bt. i,ie,>st,.!e for hl. to enable No1l IL, Noal cel1tfssttinn tn s.:1rry uut 1he See's., 'efr; "f .oHr plan,
 'lieh r.r,sns f!IaI 'sis part has t; reg fatle,l:;,,
 :. 1T dependent upou me: net on all "Jhcr.'
 Had Hot failepl iu with you might possibly have been happy with annther.
 The Ne'2an va9 locking on the ground. 1aHhih2 marks on il with the end of her para>ol Presently she looked uh int" the mans face to see there q bitter disappointment resting on every feature.
 .'ln that casc will do my best Tor you. consent. she said
 There was 2 wedding in the Amer ican farisian colony, aflcr which Wal ter Lanier and his bride speH; ,}n him' six delightful months in a land where there is every opportunity for Il culti- Vated man 1u enjoy himself, The only shadow falling upon him was that de spite Il brave struggle on the part of his wife, she occasionally showed that her heart was with those who had gonc from her The husband, seeing that nccnpation would he better for her. proposed (llal they return to Amer iea. Whel" she might have the care of Il home. in reply to this proposition she told hiAl that Wilatcsrr llc wished was her preference.
 Lanier believed il would he better tu take his wife where she would enjoy the compAni9nShip of those she haH always known, He planned a sur1ris,. for her. He wrote q friend to buy a house for him in the ne.hborhood hI which his wife had been born and reared. where her father and mother and a sister would he near her lt happened that just such q place was ill the market and 1t Was purchased for Ianicr. Ii needed no improve meuts aud as soon as I.anier was ad Vised that the papers had passed he and his bride sailed for America
 HN this time Mrs I.anier had been Nveaneu from Il constant dWeling upon those she had lost. She had married q splendid man for her second huS. band and every day clung 10 him more and more. Indeed, she seemed to real izc that Il living with the dead is an abnormal condition and resolved to live for her husband.
 On the day of their arrival at the place of their intended future resi- dence the Wife expected to be taken temporarily 1o a hotel. They were met at the station by a carriage and driven away. She did not know where and did not feel in q mood to ask But presently she noticed that she was on familiar ground. She looked lp al her husband in4uiringly. He put his arm about her affectionatcly. but said nothing. When they reached the To cation of her old home Mrs Ianier put her hands on her eyes as if to shut out memory Then he carriage stopped, and her husband alighed He had taken her hand To help her out and her foot was on the step when she looked llp at the house her