The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-11

! a decade had failed to accomplish re- | suits. so did she in her turn fail. In a work which continued through all that l spring and summer she drew again and again upon her own private for l tune. Carlisle and Kammerer had 1 charge of the details. but she herself was the driving force of the enterprise While they were abroad featuring and asking contributions to their cause taking with them the slave girl Lily as an example of what slavery had done she remained at Washington. They actually did arrange for the deportation of shipload of blacks to Haiti and an- other to Liberia. X colony of blacks whose freedom had been purchased was established in Tennessee. others were planned for yet other localities. It was part of her intent to establish nuclei of freed blacks in different DOT tfons of the southern section.
 In all this work Lily, late servant of Josephine St. Auban. assumed a cer- tain prominence. this being given to her not wholly with wisdom. She was even. in times of great hurry. furnished funds to go upon trips of investigation for herself. as one best fitted to judge of the conditions of her people. As to
  knew little. There was enough to oc- cupy her mind at the center of these affairs, where labor grew rapidly and quite beyond her original plan. As is | always the case in such hopeless enter prises. the expenses multiplied beyond belief. True. contributions came mea- gerly from the north. here and there some abolitionist appearing who would do something besides write and preach. In all. more than half million dollars was spent before the end of the year 1851. Then. swiftly and without warn ing, there came the end.
 One morning, almost year after her return to Washington. Josephine St. Auban sat in her apartments, looking at a long document inscribed in a fine foreign hand. It was the report of the agent of her estates in France and Hungary. It demanded an effort fairly to face and meet the meaning. In fact. it was this: The revolution of Louis Napoleon of 1851 had resulted in the conf1scation of many estates in France, all her own included. As though by concert among the monarchies of Flu rope. the heavy hand of confiscation fell in this nation and in that. Her Hun garian lands had followed those which sue ndQ OWuSu III I111CG 4ac IOAtS of her estates no longer could be col lected. Her revenues were absolutely gone. Moreover. she herself was an exile.
 Thus. then. had her high blown hopes come to an end. It was proof of the splendid courage of the woman that she shed not tear. Not a lash trem- b1ed as presently she turned to dis patch a message for her lieutenant. Carlisle, to come to her. The latter was absent at some western point, but within two days he appeared in Wash ington.
 He himself began eagerly, the fanat- ic fire still in his eye. on details of the work so near to his soul. My dear countess" he exclaimed. even as he grasped her hands. we're doing splen- didly. We'll have the whole Missis- sippf valley in an uproar before long All the lower Ohio is unsettled. Mis- souri. Illinois. Indiana. are muttering as loudly as New England. I hear that Lily has led away whole neighbbor- hood over in Missouri
 "But we cannot keep on. my dear sir," she said to him slowly. That is why l have sent for you.''
 Flow do you mean? Whats wrong? Cannot keep on-end our work! You're testing"
 ''No. It is the truth. 3Kossuth is in Turkey. Shall l join him there? Where shall I go? Pm an exile from France. dare not return to Hungary. I am ruined financially. My funds are at an end. My estates are gone. My money"
 k6aIS been used to riches. luxuries, all yoRr life. And I-why, I've helped impover- Eh you. I've been spending your mon- ey. A shipIoad of blacks against you? I'd have cut my hand off rather.''
 She showed him the correspondence. proof of all that she had said, and he read with face haggard in unhappi- ness.
 ''There. therei' she said "You've not heard me make any outcry yet. have you? Why should you. then? I have seen men lay down their lives for a principle--a belief. You will see that again. Should not woman lay down her money? I might make rich alli- anee. don't you think?'
 He suddenly stfffened and straight ened and looked her full in the eye, slow flush coming across his face.
 "I couldn't have said it any time be- fore this.'' said he "It has been in my heart all along. but I didn't dare not then. Yes. rich alliance if you liked. I do not doubt. There's a poor one waiting for you any time you like. You know that. You must have seen it thousand times''-
 She advanced to him easily and held out both her hands. Now. now!' she said. Don't begin that. You'll only hurt us both. My lieutenant, visionary as myself An. we've failed.'
 ''But everybody will blame you. You will have no place to go. It will be horrible. You don't begin to know what it means. Of course we have