The Corvallis gazette., February 21, 1895, Image 4

Her Wedding King.
N the house, a big hive b
work people, situated in the
rue Delanibre, wnere tor
six months Tony Robec had
occupied a room, everyone
ithiought that he was a
widower. He could not
have been a widower very
long, for his little boy, Adrien, who
lived wJith him, and who waa always
well cared for, waa not more than G
years old. Yet neither of them wore
mourning.
Every day Tony Robec, who was
employed as "a compositor in a printing
house in the Quantier Latin, left his
room with the child, still half asleep,
on his shoulder. He left the little one
ait school, and called for him again
at night, when returning from work.
The kind-hearted gossips were full
C pity for the poor fellow. He
ouldn't be more than 40, and was still
good-looking, although sad and pale,
and with silver streaks in his black
beard. Behind his back they said:
"That man ought to marry again."'
They wished to make his acquaint
ance!. Generally this is not difficult in
uch a house, where the tenants live
with open doors. But Tony had a
very reserved manner, and they were
Afraid to approach him.
"No, ladies," said the doorkeeper,
who was inclined to be sentimental,
'that widower will never marry again ;
mark my words. The other Sunday
I passed him in the cemetery at Mout
parnasse. His wife is doubtless buried
there. It cut me to the heart to see
the poor man with the motherless lit
tle chap at his. side. He must have
doted on his wife."
But he was not a widower.
His life had been simple, but not
by any means happy. Although a
conscientious workman, he was not
particularly good at his trade, and
therefore until he was 30 he had not
ucceeded in making a tolerably good
living, and could not think of marry
tag.
When he did resolve to marry, he
tight to have chosen a sensible, econ
mical wife, who had known want as
lie had. But love does not occupy it
elf with such trifles.
Tony lost his head .over a pretty,
light-minded, light-hearted flower girl
f 19, honest, doubtless, but frivolous,
and thinking more of her toilet than
f anything else under the sun.
They were married and at first
lived very happily. They had two
modest rooms on the fifth floor of a
mouse in the boulevard de Port Royal
with a little balcony, from which they
kad a bird's-eye view of Pans.
Every night on leaving work Tony
Robec disguised his workman's clothes
wnder a smart overcoat and waited for
kia wife, who presently appeared from
ker little booth in the rue Saint-
" Honore and arm-in-arm they returned
tso their humble home.
At last a son was born, and put out
to nurse. The parents went to see
kim once a fortnight. But at the end
f a year the child died of convul
sions. The parents were, however, soon af
terward consoled by the birth of little
Adrien. Having had such a sad ex
perience, Clementine resolved to bring
mp the child herself, and gave up her
little shop in order to be able to at
tend her baby.
She took in work, but did not make
mora than half of what she had pre
viously earned. Nevertheless, she
continued to dress well.
In vain did Tony work desperately;
the household became embarrassed
and steeped in debt.
One evening, when Tony entered the
kouse with the child whom he had
picked up ait the asylum as be had
passed, he found an envelope on the
mantlepiece, from which, when he
opened it, fell Clementine's wedding
ring. In the letter she bade goodbye
to her husband and child, and begged
their forgiveness.
Toward the end of September he re
ceived a letter from his wife four in
coherent and desperate pages plenti
fully washed with tears in which she
announced (that she had repented and
implored pardon. This was all very
painful for Tony, but he was very
proud, and the letter remained un
answered.
He heard no more from Clementine.
On Christmas eve he went, as was
. mis custom, to the cemetery at Mout
parnasse, there to place on the grave
of his dead child a few frozen violets
and roses.
For the first time Tony went alone
with the child, and Strange as it may
aeem, on entering the cemetery he suf
fered more poignantly than ever be
fore: from the absence of that wife
who had so cruelly deceived him.
On arriving ait the grave, he started.
for alt the foot of it were strewn sev
eral little playthings such as the poor
give to their children a trumpet, a
jack-in-the-box, and a whistle. They
had evidently just been placed there,
for they were quite new.
"Oh, what pretty playthings!" cried
little Adrien excitedly. But his farther,
having detected a scrap of paper
pinned to one of the toys, opened it
and read: "For Adrien, from his
brother Felix,- who is now with the
child Christ."
Suddenly he found the boy pressing
against him, and murmuring, "Mam
ma." There, only a few paces away,
under a clump of cypress trees, knelt
the mother.
She was clad in a wretched dress
and a thin shawL Her eyes were
sunken, and her cheeks hollow and
pale. She was looking at her husband
and her clasped hands were stretched
toward him in supplication.
Tony pushed the boy gently toward
her, saying, "Adrien, go kiss your
mother."
The poor creature strained the child
convulsively to her breast, and eov
ered him with kisses'. Then rising and
turning toward her husband, but al
ways with the air of a suppliant, she
said: "How good of you!"
But he, already at her side, said
huskily, almost harshly, "Don't talk.
Take my arm."
It Is not far from the cemetery to
the rue Delambre, and they walked
quickly and without uttering a word.
The child, engrossed in his newly
found treasure, trotted along at their
aide. -
When (they reached the house the
housekeeper was standing on the steps,
"Madame," said Tony to her, "this is
my wife. She has been six months in
the country with her mother, who was
ill. and now she has come back to
. live with me."
When they reached the room Tony
made his wife sit down on the only
arm chair, placed the boy in her lap,
. and opened a drawer from which he
took an old cardboard box. Out of
this he took the wedding ring, which
he pressed on bis wife's finger.
Then without a word of reproach or
bitterness about the sorrowful past,
silently, gravely, with overflowing
generosity of a simple, childlike heart,
he gently pressed his Hps to her fore-
tly pressec
;1
head as the
seal of forgiveness.-f
Romance.
HIGH DADDY IN THE HOUSE.
Thev had a little outpouring of lan
guage Friday on the floor of the house.
language ucuoiuyanu.-u vj 6raui,iui
tion. The language was all of It fervent
and some or' it quite lurid, though it
lacked the illustrative cuss words with
which pei-sons who indulge habitually
in that manner of discourse usually
decorate conversation and make their
meaning clear. The gesticulation was
forceful and animated; so much so
that soma of it came near impinging
on the features of the statesmen who
were giving the exhibition. Devotees
of the manly art in the galleries and
on the floor, who have been, feeling
more or less depressed of late in con-n-mience
of the growing tendency
among the great lights of pugilism to
omit gesticulation from their athletic
engagements, bigan to be encouraged.
Not for many months has there been
so close an approach to actual collis
ion between public men of the dramat
ic profession, or the pme ring, or in
the congressional arena. It refreshed,
encouraged and exhilarated many
whoso spirits had Deen drooping over
the manifest decadence of the manly
are. Except for the interference of
mean-spirited bystanders, who enter
tain the absurd notion that discussion
of public questions of great moment
should proceed from between the nose
and chin and not trom tne suouiuer,
there might have been then and (there
jlii entertainment that would have re
joiced the galleries exceedingly, and
possibly made a warm-ueuneu aim
patriotic people very prouu ol wieiu
nl thoir representatives. If
it had been continued to a finish it
inhrht have reconciled the Hawanans,
to whom the debate was not unrelated,
to the policy of the present adminis
tration, which keeps their republic
from the enjoyment of such festivities,
or -it might have made them more
eager to get in and have a hand in
the sport
The discussion sprang up, as it were,
snontaneously. Mr. Heard, of Mis
souri, who is described as a tall and
thin pei-son, a recent invalid andf not
muscular or athletic, had become
weary of the talk about Hawaii which
had been going on for some time, and
accordingly moved the previous ques
tion. There are democratic precedents
for moving the previous question with
a gun; also with an empty bottle; also
in many other ways which in demo
cratic communities are deemed effect
ive for closing debated But Heard did
it by word of mouth. Mr. Breckin
ridge, of Kentucky, who is not un
known to fame as a peculiar Presby
terian with a silvery tongue, an im
pressive manner and a physique which
commands the admiration of both
sexes, had some remarks of a high
order of eloquence shut up within his
heart's hot cells, which he was ex
ceedingly anxious to let looso then ami
there. He expostulated with Heard.
Heard was abrupt. Breckinridge, tap
ping his eloquence on a key a trifle
lower than" he had intended, let fall
a remark that Heard was an imperti
nent scoundrel. Heard, feeling in his,
own mind that Breckinridge, however
sincere he might bo in his statement,
was evidently laboring under a mis
apprehension as to his (Heard's) real
character, endeavored to correct hir.i
by informing him that he was a liar.
Nothing could have been more to the
purpose or freer from circumlocution
than this brief but apposite remark.
Breckinridge, who is famous for his
readiness at repartee, as was shown in
a recent trial, immediately let go his
left Whether or not Heard dodged
does not clearly appear from the re
port. Probably nat Democrats are
not dodging so much as they were in
the Reed congress. At any rate, the
gesture fell short.
Then the debate became tumultuous.
Lafa Ptmco entered into it with en
thusiasm. Much language was spilled
on the floor unreported. Mostly crude
and extemporaneous, but " tropical in
the extreme, for both disputants are
warm-hearted, high-spirited,' "and the
soul of honor. Of course, it is only the
soul of honor that discusses public
questions in this manner. Then the
United States government the same
government that compelled Coxey to
keep off the grass appeared on the
scene in the form of the sergeant-at-arms,
carrying an uncommonly im
pressive Stick with a gilded bird on the
end of it. This emblem has the repu
tation of having quelled everything in
the nature of a disturbance except the
civil war. Doubtless it would have
quelled that if it had been taken in
time, but Breckinridge and Heard had
by this time become so much interest
ed in each other and in the various
members of the democratic and popu
list parties who were holding them
apart, that they "failed to recognize the
emblem. So they" kept right on illus
trating the latest phase of Christian
Civilization, the present condition of
the democratic party, and the millen
ium which was ushered in in 18D2.
It was very inspiring while it lasted.
Everybody felt that this congress was
on the point of doing something. Then
after Lafe Pence and the rest got
tired of holding the controversialists,
and the controversialists themselves
were weary, that portion of the enter
tainment ceased and the curtain was
rung up for apologies. Both gentlemen
apologized in the handsomest manner
to the United States government and
then to each other. Them each with
drew the apology he had , made to the
other and took a fresh start, until at
length the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, who
is not remarkable for being warm
hearted and high-spirited and the soul
of honor, suggested that as the house
had considerable work to do and not
much time ito do it in, it Should pro
ceed to business, which it did. Noth
ing herioe about that But, after all,
it suggests a contrast and sets one
thinking. New York Tribune.
There has been a disposition to con
demn , the Hawaiian republic because
of the sentences of the military court
upon the rebels. But the court could
impose no other sentences, under the
circumstances. The president now re
views the sentences, and will probably
show clemency. That seems to be the
opinion in Honolulu, according to pa-,
pers just received in Seattle. There
had been no official announcement of
sentences on February 1st, when the
Warrimoo left, hence Minister Willis'
haste to protest against execution of
the sentences, was, to say the least,
premature. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
There should be no bank examnier at
the expense of the general taxpayers
of this state. This kind of legislation
is too plentiful already and too entire
ly paternalistic and antagonistic to
free institutions to have more of it.
The people are in need of no bank ex
aminer and if one Is appointed the few
will get the benefit of his services; !
while the many the workers and pro
ducerswill have to meet the expenses
of his office, some $5000 or $6000 a
year. Pmdleton Oregonian. i
on '
How Man's Cupidity
Undoes Elm.'
The Greedy Pawnbroker
of Paris
And the Clever Ruae by Which He
Lost Seventy Five Thousand
Francs.
Mr. Lagrange sat behind his win
dow looking over his accounts. The
window was draped after a fashion
that displayed both art and science.
A few pieces of lace and antique jew
alry were exhibited in such a way as
kr inform the initiated passer-by that
such articles were bought, sold, and
taken hi pledge on the premises; while
true science was shown in the ar
rangement by which the master of the
establishment could see into the street
without himself being observed.
It was a convenient plan; and it
enabled Mr. Lagrange to notice that
a tall, pale, clean-shaven young man
was peering in at the window in an
inquisitive way. He had a eeini
olerical aspect, wearing a low-Oi-owned,
black soft felt hat, and that
voluminous garment known as an
"Inverness cape." His manner wis
nervous and hesitating, aa of a man
who found himself in an unwonted or
embarrassing position. He made as
though he would pass on, stopped,
looked at the name on the brass plate
a second time, glanced up and down
the street and then, with an air of
affected unconcern, walked into the
establishment
Mr. Lagrange's street door opened
noiselessly, and admitted the visitor
to a small, carpeted hall, in which the
enly apparent aperature was a win
dow like that of a hooking omce at
a railway station, formed chiefly of
ground glass. The open part was close
to the seat occupied by Mr. Lagrange,
who had, of course, observed all the
MOVEMENTS OF HIS VISITOR.
After standing at the aperature for
a moment or two without seeing any
body, the stranger rapped gently with
his knuckles on the window sill, and
shortly afterward Mr. Lagrange, with
the air of a- man who was taking a
constitutional, sauntered past the
spot
"I have got a ring," began the
stranger, speaking with a marked
Frunch accent
Lagrange gave his visitor a bold
look, before which the young man's
eyes dropped, and held out his- hand
for the trinket
With some hesitation the stranger
produced a plain gold ring of a pe
uuliar pattern and laid it on the desk
before him. It was very much like
one of those old-fashioned rings which
were made with a hollow space for
a morsel of hair of a deceased friend;
only, in this case, a scroll work took
the place of glass; and this scroll
work was of a very delicate pattern,
hero and there pierced with minute
holes. Lagrange had seen such rings
before and knew that in former days
thev had often been used as the re
pository of some small articles of
value, such as a gem or a precious
medicine.
Taking it up in his fat, shiny fin
gers, Lagrange, without a word of
apology to the owner, carried the
ring to a large plate glass window,
under pretense of examining it under
a better light The pawnbroker then
Weighed the trinket in his hand,
peered at it curiously through a ma
nifying glass, shook it a second, third,
a fourth time with increased Interest,
for ho was certain that he heard
SOMETHING RATTLE INSIDE.
Bonding a little backward, Mr. La
grange took an observation of his vis
itor through a convenient hole in the
ground glass, and then, moved by a
feeling that the strangers face was
not unfamiliar to him, he wrote a
few words on a scrap of paper, which
ho dispatched through a tube.
"This is a quaint little thing," ob
served the pawnbroker, returning to
his customer.
"A yes."
"Have you any objection to give a
reference? It is usual.
"Well a I'm not sure that the
father superior would like it. The
ring belongs to our order the Order
of St Simeon. We lost all our prop
erty during the reign of the Commune
in Paris, and then the French govern
ment banished us with the other
monks."
"What is all that to me?" asked the
pawnbroker, impatiently.
"One of the fathers," said - the
stranger, in an humble tone, "told
me to try and borrow a little money
on the security of this ring." But, you
understand, I must not sell ilt. It is
a kind of a relic, for it belonged to
Father Clerc, the superior of the or
der, who was shot by the .Commun
ists in 1871. He got it conveyed out
of prison to one of our friends."
"How?" asked Lagrange, who was
beginning to feel interested.
"I cannot tell; I did not belong to
the order then."
"But you do now?"
"Yes; I am a Lay brother."
"Well, I don't mind lending you a
sovereign. It's only worth the weight
of its gold.
"But we must have more than that,
and the lay brother leaned forward
through the window and spoke in a
low, eager tone: "We are all " con
vinced that there is something re
markable in that ring. I have heard
that Father Clerc always wore It, be
cause It would one day bring back
prosperity to our community."
"He senjt that message out of prison
along with the ring?" asked the pawn
broker, in a careless tone.
. "SO I HAVE HEARD,"
responded the lay brother. Could it
be, Lagrange asked himself', that the
Imprisoned priest had used this ring
as a means of conveying a secret mes
sage to the rest of the community. He
felt Interested and curious. Eventual
ly he agreed to lend Brother Anftoine
three pounds on a special . contract,
which provided that if the ring was
not redeemed withm a month it
should become the absolute property
of Lagrange.
The lay brother cast a regretful
glance at the ring, .signed the agree
ment, slipped the sovereigns into his
pouch, and left the establishment
No sooner had the door closed be
hind his . customer . than Lagrange
touched a bell which summoned his '
confidential clerk.
"Did you recognize the gentleman
who left the house a moment ago?"
he asked.
'I cannot be certain," answered the
clerk, "but I fancy he is M. Le Comte
Desnoettes, a nobleman who used to
visit us years ago in Paris."
'Ah! Very likely. I fancied I knew
the face. I thought I had assisted at
the funeral of the gentleman's gay
career! He tells me he has joined a
religious order. Those poor devils of
ten do when they are sold out That
will do, Marat"
Then the pawnbroker fell to examin
ing the trinket which Brother Antoine
had left with him. He even tried, by
slightly enlarging one of the holes in
the scroll work, to catch a glimpse of
the small object which his sense of
hearing iold him was concealed in the
cavity of the ring. But in this he was
quite unsuccessful, he could see noth
ing. All' he could learn was, that if
a precious stone was inside, it must
have been wrapped In something to
deaden the sound of rattling.
THE SECRET REVEALED. ,
Not daring to break open the ring,
Lagrange waited thirty days with the
utmost impatience, hoping, almost
against hope, that the young lay
brother would find himself unable or
would neglect to redeem the trinket on
the appointed day, and thus suffer it
to become his property. He was con
vinced that the superior of the order
would not have taken the pains to con
vey this ring to his brethren when
he was in such imminent peril unless
it contained something of value.
Sometimes he felt as if he would give
half his fortune to cut the trinket
open.
One by one the days went by. Un
luckily the month had 31 days. Mr.
Lagrange reviled the idiotic arrange
ment of dividing the months of the
year, and waited until the next day.
As the afternoon drew to a close he
bpecame more anxious, more eager to
possess (the jewel and its hidden se
cret He could not sit at the window
Every nuan that passed made his
heart beat with the fear that it was
Brother Antoine come for the ring.
At length Lagrange convinced him
self that G o'clock had- struck. He
locked and double-locked his door,
drew down his blinds, seized an in
strument, and in the twinkling of an
eye had cut the ring m two.
A tiny pellet of paper tumbled out
Carefully and slowly the pawn
broker unrolled it It was a morsel
of very thin paper, closely covered
by writing so very fine that it had en
dently been written with the point of
a pin. The color was a reddish brown
the color of the blood when it is
dried.
With the help of a magnifying glass
Lagrange read the secret message
which the paper contained, written,
of course, in French:
"My children, I die tomorrow, and
I send you my blessing. The church
plate is in the cistern of our own
houw. which has a false bottom,
P.wt our savings, amounting to near
ly 4,OOJ,000 francs. I caused to be
buried in the right-hand corner of
Jacques .Guegan's house, in the Rue
St. Louis. He knows nothing of this.
Courage and hope! E. C."
Lagrange's fingers trembled so that
the paper fell from them on the desk
before Mm, and his face became
PALE WITH EXCITEMENT.
Four' million francs 160,000. La
grange looked at his watch, seized, a
timetable, and turned over its pages
with feverish haste. That night he
sailed for France.
Ho could easily understand thai the
accumulated wealth of the Order of
St Simeon (which numbered many
well-bora men in its ranks), should
reach the sum of . 4,000,000 francs.
And nothing was more probable than
that the superior of the order should
have buried the money in the house of
sonie obscure sympathizer at the time
of the siege of Paris. But the fear
that haunted Mr. Lagrange's mind
during the tedious journey was: What
if the secret has leaked out? What if
the money has been accidentally dis.
Covered by someone who has had
brains enough to hold his tongue?
Once or twice the thought crossed his
mind that this treasure did not be
long to him. The poverty into which
the Fathers of St. Simeon had fallen
was probably due to the loss of this
treasure, coupled with their expulsion
from French territory. But Lagrange
silenced his conscience with a growl.
He had not carried on the trade of a
money lender for twenty years with
out being able to do thait
Having' -arrived in Paris, Lagrange
sought out. the Rue St Louis and
found Guegan's house without much
difficulty. It was a small, mean-looking
place, hardly bigger than a cot
tage. Guegan was a shoemaker in a
small way of business.
Lagrange paved the way diplomat
ically by ordering a pair of shoes and
then asked the shoemaker whether he
had any cellars to let.
THE EXPOSE COMES.
"Cellars! my faith, no!" answered
the man of the lapstone. "The only
cellar I have is paved with earth, but
two metres either way. How cdnld 1
let that? What do you want it for?"
Lagrange saw that he had made a
blunder.
"I want it for a a store place.
But you are right It Is too small.
I should need the lower flat also. Per
haps you would let the house?"
"Well I have not thought of that,"
said -Idle shoemaker, with a suspicious
glance at his customer.
"What do you say at 40 francs a
month?"
"Not enough."
"But I should only occupy it a
week."
Lagrange could have bitten his
tongue off as these words escaped him,
for he saw that they had roused the
landlord's suspicion effectually.
It was In vain that he offered a
higher and higher rent; the very fact
of his being willing to pay a month's
rent for a week's -occupation of the
premises seemed to make Guegan de
termined not to let the place at all.
Lagrange saw that he would have to
purchase the house out and out Well,
what did it matter? he said to himself.
He could sell It again. The cottage
and garden might be worth 10,000
frances.
"Would "Guegan sell the house?" he
asked.
"Yes," answered the shoemaker,
with a grin. "What would the gentle
man give?"
"I'll give you 10,000 francs down,"
said Lagrange.
The man darted a keen glance alt the
stranger, shook his bead, and calmly
went on with his work.
'Eleven thousand twelve thou
sand?" -
"No." ' .
Then Lagrange stopped. He saw
that he must affect carelessness, or
he would never get the house at all.
and curtly saying, "Twelv thousand ,
ia too' much; good day," he '
ABRUPTLY LEFT THE HOUSE.
But he could not rest for a moment
What If that horrid old man, who
knew that the cellar waa the center
of the eccentric Stranger's interest,
should take ft into his head to dig
thene in the meantime? Lagrange
went to the Paris correspondents of
his bankers and provided himself with
a notary, and, accompanied by that
functionary, went back to the Rue St
Louis .
The old man proved a tougher cus
tomer than he had been before. He
evidently saw that Lagrange had set
his heart on the property, and he ran
up the price until the pawnbroker, in
despair, offered the man 75,000 francs
the whole of his 3,000. This was ac
cepted, and that very afternoon the
deeds were signed.
Lagrange, trembling with excite
ment,' remained in the house during
the rest of the day, and toward eve
ning the shoemaker, having pocketed
the money, went for a van and went
off with his belongings.
Then the treasure seeker set to work
With pick and shovel, and dug deep
into the solid earth dug until tlie
sweat poured from his brow, until his
arms ached, until the walls of the
house threatened to fall down and
bury him.
If Mr. Lagrange could have peered
into the- next, street and seen Guegan
and the pretended lay brother, with
a bottle of brandy between them, di
viding, with many a joke and burst of
laughter, the 3,000 which he had paid
for the tumble-down cottage, he would
have left off digging sooner. Ex
change.
Of the Veritable Queen
of Song.
Jenny Lind's Superb
Successes.
Tale of the Famous Swede and Her
Career On thes9 Shores, En
gagingly Retold.
The tour of Jenny Lind through
America stands out still as the great
musical event in the life of the nation
Other song birds have come and gone;
they have delighted audiences and
reaped rich returns in the way of ap
plause and money, but none of tbeni
have ever rivaled Jenny Lind in the
hearts of the people, as they could not
rival her in song. She was the queen
of hearts, as she was the queen of
song. More than a generation has
passed since she captured all America
by her singing and by her pure,
womanly life, yet none who heard or
saw her have ever forgotten the emo
tions of that hour. She was triumph
antly above all others the human
nightingale, warbling notes that
rivaled those of her feathered name
sake. She had experienced a wonderful
European career, such as no other had
won, before she was heard on the
American shores. She had sung before
immense audiences in every capital of
Europe, and before all of the crowned
heads. She had been the welcomed
and honored guest of the highest and
best ha all the countrieV of the conti
nent, and was the idol of the people.
Her fame had leaped the ocean and
extended to America. An English
actor or two had made professional
tours through this country, and had
heen moderately successful, -but no
singer of great note had ever crossed
the Atlantic to try her powers on
these shores. She was .the pioneer in
that line, and although she has been
followed by other birds of song, Jenny
Lind still stands without a rival in
this country.
It was a daring venture for Mr.
Barnum to attempt to introduce this
new and untried feature in entertain.
ing American audiences, and no one of
less daring spirit or with less faith in
his own powers would have under
taken it He made her what was then
a fabulous offer for a series of 100
concents. It must be remembered that
the population of the country was less
than one-half of what it is now, and
its wealth was not one-tenth as great
Washington was hardly more than a
straggling village, and Chicago was al
most wholly unknown. There were
scarcely a dozen cities where it was
thought possible that paying audiences
could be obtained. Yet she carried
away with her as her share of the pro
ceeds of .the ninety-five concerto a
very large fortune, after giving away
more than $50,000 to various charities.
WELCOMED TO NEW YORK.
It was In August of 1850 that the
wonderful singer sailed from Liver
pool for New York. Sunday, Septem
ber 1st. the steamer reached New
York, where every preparation had
been made to receive her. Thousands
of persons crowded the shipping and
piers as the Atlantic steamed up to
her landing place, while otlier thou
sands were crowded on the wharf. A
bower of green trees, decorated with
flags, and two triumphant arches
were arranged upon the whairf. As
she appeared on the deck of the steam
er, leaning upon the arm of Mr. Bar
num, a great shout of welcome went
up from the thousands who had been
standing there for hours waiting to
get a glimpse of her.
Never before had there been such en
thusiasm in New York. The day was
forgotten, and within a few minutes
of her arrival at the hotel" not less than
10,000 persons had gathered around the
entrance. At midnight she was sere
naded by one of the musical societies
of the city, numbering on the occasion
more than 200 singers. At least 20,000
persons were present. The musicians
had been escorted to the hotel by 300
uniformed firemen, bearing torches.
The calls for the songstress were so
vehement that Mr. Barnum was com
pelled to lead her out on the balcony,
when the cheering lasted several .min
utes. The enthusiasm continued unabated
for several weeks. She was the idol
of- society, and her rooms at the hotel
were thronged with visitors, including
all those prominent in church and
state, and the carriages of the leaders
of Gotham society were Been in front
of the hotel during all fashionable
hours. When her carriage appeared at
the door It was immediately surround
ed by an enthusiastic crowd. '
The first concert was to take place at
Castle Garden on .the evening of Sep
tember 11th. Great preparations had.
The great parterre and gallery (Of J
Castle Garden Were divided off by tin
aginary lines into four compartments
each of which was designated by
lamps of a peculiar color. The tickets
were printed in colors corresponding
to those of the lamps, thus designating
the position of the seat of the holder.
One hundred ushers wearing appropri
ate colors were in attendance.. The
tickets were sold at auction! Mr.
Genin, a hatter, paying $225 for the
first choice.
THE AUDIENCE WENT WILD.
When the singer "was led down to the
footlights the entire audience arose and
received, her with shouts of applause
and the waving of hats and handker
chiefs, and the casting of bouquets on
tne stage., it was by far the largest
audience that had ever greeted her,
and tne enthusiasm agitated her at
first so that it was with difficulty that
she uttered the first notes, but in a
moment she recovered herself, and
then her triumph was complete.
The enthusiasm had been wrought
up to tne highest pitch,, but the wonr
derful musical powers of the singer
were far beyond anything ever before
hieaird, and mamy times the singing was
Ios(t in a spontaneous outburst of ap
plause. A voice so rich, so full,' so
clear, and so sweetly musical had not
Deen dreamed of. At tie conclusion
of the concert she was several times
called before the curtain, the applause
lasting for several minutes on each
occasion. At last the audience called
for Mr. Barnum, who appeared and
announced that the entire proceeds of
tne concert would be devoted to char
Stable objects. On this announcement
the audience went wild with Its cheer
ing. From New York she wenl to Boston,
i-miaueiplua, Providence, Baltimore.
Washington and all the principal cities
of the country, meeting with the same
wonderful success. Wherever she ap
peared sne was feted and honored.
In this city President Fillmore' called
upon her at the hotel, and entertained
her one evening at the White House.
While there all the prominent men of
the country then in the city, including
Mr. vveDster, Jdr. Clay, Mr. Critten
den, General Cass and Colonel Benton,
called upon her. Two or three verv
amusing things occurred daring the
two concerts she gave in this city.
Both of the concerts were attended by
the president and his family and by
members of the cabinet
At the first concert, while the over
ture was being played by the orches
tra, the venerable Henry Clay, feeble
witn age and increasing lunrmities.
entered the door. A murmur 'of ap
plause greeted his appearance, but it
was hushed and the number com
pleted by the orchestra. On its com
pletion, the audience broke into a wild
cheer. The leader of the orchestra did
not notice the thin and feeble figure
of the popular idol slowly making his
way -to his seat, and took the applause
as a tribute to his orchestra, and be
gan bowing right and left.
He soon discovered that the eyes of
the peoplo were all turned In one di
rection, and that was not toward him.
About that time someone shouted:
"Three cheers for Henry Clay!" and
they were given with a will, as the
abashed orchestra leader sank into his
chair.
WEBSTER JOINED THE CHORUS.
The next evening several of the
members of the cabinet were detained
by a dinner given by the Russian min
ister, and it was late before they made
their appearance. Soon after thej'
had settled in .their seats the second
part of the concert was opened by
Jenny Lind singing "Hail Columbia."
At the close of the first verse Mr.
Wc-bslter's enthusiasm and patriotism
got tlie Inst of hiin, and he arose to
iiis feet and joined his deep bass voice
with the birdlike tones of the nightin
gale in singing the chorus.
Mrs. Webster, who sat immediately
behind him, tried in vain to get him
to sit down, but the .great master of
parliamentary oratory stood like a
Greek god and joined in the chorus to
each vittsie, to the great delight of
both Jenny Lind and the audience.
At the close of the air Mr. Webster,
hat in hand, made her a bow, such as
even Chesterfield could not have sur
passed. The singer, in return, cour
tesied to the floor. The audience broke
forth in vociferous applause, when
Webster again bowed to the singer on
the stage, who again returned it with
a deeper courtesy, and the house again
applauded. This "was repeated several
times.
Her charity was unbounded, and she
gave away large sums to one object
or another. No one from her native
Sweden called upon her without re
ceiving the most friendly welcome. It
was told of her that while in Boston
a poor Swedish girl, a domestic in a
family! living in one of the suburbs,
called on her. The divine Jenny wel
comed her and detained her for sev
eral hours, and in ithe evening took her
to the concent in her own carriage,
and after the concert was over sent
her home In tlie carriage.
The desire of all classes to hear her
sing is best illustrated by a story told
of one of her concerts in Boston. A
girl approached the ticket window,
and, laying down $3, the price of a
ticket, said: "There goes half a
month's earnings, but I am determined
to near Jenny Lind sing." Jenny's
secretary was in ' the ticket office at
the time, and on going to the room of
the singer told her the incident She
immediately askea him if he would
know the girl again, and, on being
assured that he would, gave him a
$20 gold coin, and told him to seek
her out and give it to her with her
compliments. Washington Star.
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130 miles. Falls 42 feet high, at Ore
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square miles, or nearly 5,000.000 acres
In extent. This valley is the best set
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From northern to southern limits it
is a succession of orchards whose
blossoms perfume the air as early as
March. The valley is also noted for
wheat rand hops. In addition to cer
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in any part of the United States, ex
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the coast range of mountains, on the
east the Cascades, making it a scenic
locality. The prairies are interspersed
with streams bordered with timber.
and lead up Into the heavy forests of
the mountains. . Portland, unsurpassed
In "scenic beauty and pre-eminent in
its wealth, is 12 miles from the mouth
of, the Willamette, but reached, by the
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