The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-12
RAG PICKER DRANK
LIFE TO THE LEES
History of Old Beggar Woman of
Lyons Becomes Known When
She Dies in Filthy Garret.
BETROTHED SLEW FATHER
Beautiful Daughter Of Rich Silk
Merchant Became War Nurse,
Revolutionist, Aged Miser.
BETROTHED SLEW FATHER
Special Cable To The Tribune.

Special Gable to The Tribune.
LYONS. March f1.--"Mademoiselle.
the rag picker had a name though no.
body In Lyons knew Il Till she was found
dead on the floor of her garret-dead Of
starvation and old age combined Her
name was Marguerite Carrol And 10 her
name there hangs story
Seventy years aso-in lSi0-when Mar
Guerite was 20. tho Carrcls were among
the silk magnates of Lyons. The silk
maSnates formed a nobility. an aristoc-
racy as proud In It's own way rs trc old
aristocracy OF France had been oetore the
revolution, Marguerite was the CAr:els'
only daughter. She WAS extremely beau
tIf4i. and before she was Is had n many
admirers as the Lyons silk merchants had
grownup sons.
But she would listen to or look at
And then ono day n young EnglIshman
came to Lyons. His name has not sur
vived. He was the heir OF English
silk firm OF importers which had busI-
ness dealings with the Duval firm. rival
OF the Carrels. Between the families was
a feud as bitter as that between the
MontaSues and Capuets.
Marguerite Carrcl met the young Eng
llsh friend OF the Duval house one day
and fell In love with him, and he with
her The Engishman was rich and did
with or without dowry.
aelioi angry dI EAOpOSdl.
He went to old carrel her father. and
asked him for his daughters hand. Old
Carrcl picked up the long cane of tor
toise shell with the ivory crutch, with
which he used to walk abroad. The
young man put his hands behind his
back.
You are an old man, sir, he said,
Il know l am said old Carrel, but
forget the fact. do not want to forget
that you arc. here foreign guest In
Lyons, and that therefore we owe you
He broke the cane of tortoise shell
across his knee.
Now CO." he said. while I remem-
That night Marguerite carreI and the
Englshman left Lyons In a postchaise
Their Idea was to drive south to misead
pursuit. TO make for Marseilles. and from
there to ship for England.
Duel Doubly Fatal.
But old carrel got wind of their flight,
and followed Forty miles from Lyons
frightened gaze, Carrel and the young
Engiishman shot one another dead.
What happened after that to Mar
guerite Carrel nobody knows for certain.
She was not seen again until 1870 the
year OF the war. Then one day an old
man who had been helping to carry food
and drink to patients in the hospital,
recognized In one OF the lay sisters Mar
guerlte Garcia woman of so now
whom he had known and admired as a
wore the dress Of religious order, and
the Geneva cross. She did more work
than any two other helpers In the hos
pital.
Woman Of the Commune.
Then came. the Commune, and the hos
termagant. who was in every crowd
which rushed about the streets screaming
z song OF revolution and doing wanton
time and then released. and for some
years again she disappeared
When next Lyons saw Marguerite Car
rel rel she wa was AN an old woman OF 70, The
all Frenchmen and all Frenchwomen
she had her papers; but she was old
quite harmless, and quite poor. She
one OF the sights of Lyons, and was
shown to visitors like the bronze horses
and the living pigeons of the Place des
swered, MsdamoiseIle's s an and ai@MSs Madam am
oisele' was what they called her.
Begs for Her Living.
All that The Lyons of the last few years
knew about "Madamoiselle" was that she
was an old wcman. bent nearly double.
with witch's nose and chin. She
dressed In bits OF sacking and oddments
Of clio niothng naS aSs Which the old clothes
Si'o.' 70 hoo HiSCdloeos SnS llVc0, literally
lived. on what She picked UP.
All night she was to be seen prowling
up and down the streets Of Lyons peer
Ing about for odds and ends begging
a bit Of sugar here. picking up a cigar
| or cigarette end there, on her old feet
till and a. m. when In luck getting
copper or two from the people who sat
outside the cafes.
oiselIe:" the beautiful MarGuerte Car.
rel seventy years ago. was found dead
OF prfVation in her garret Her filthy
mattress fell to pieces when the police
lifted II: and out OF a gap In II to the
floor rolled $4,000 in gold