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Show If I -H It 9 p f MRS. FREMONT. B l( m The "Pathfinder's" widow has gone on the long Hi U ,2 journey to find the spirit of her soldier that on B ; n il earth was never at rest. She was of the most royal j Mj stock of American sovereigns. Her father was a i T 3s tower of strength to his country for many a year. Hj: I. (H He was not nearl so Sifted in a scholastic way as Hi ; jl was either of many of the intellectual giants around i ym him, but in sagacity to foresee coming events; to H v Ij listen to the footfalls of destiny and with-constructs - Wt tive statesmanship, anticipating what was to be B h J 1 and to prepare for the future, he was the superior B i -IS of tem all. His daughter was like him; her hor-B hor-B I i I izon like his was as broad as was her country; her BJ t I ambition like his boundless, and so when she be- il j j came the wife of a husband, brighter than she but ;jj ; j with less steady judgment, she became his coun- i- "I sellor, his support, his inspiration, and they almost Hj $ r reached the eminence both were straining toward. B M 1 Tlmt tuey did not succeed was not her fault. She IRi ! had within her the elements which in a barbarous 1 1 I ) age would have made her a Lady Macbeth; in a M : m superstitious age a Joan of Arc; in her own land K i and age a brave, devoted, high-souled woman and Bl f M wife with an ambition to see her early love rather i d 'H than her iron" fatner's Judgment vindicated. She 1,1 ij failed, but she almost won, so nearly so that for Hi M many years she has been rated as a woman around i t 'H whose brows was gathered a halo of romance and glory that will shine back from her grave for all the years to come. It is a strange coincidence that she should die in the same month as Mrs. Grant. They were both Missouri girls, each has been under the public gaze for more than forty years; not one reproach has ever attched to either; each was a glorified wife, each was long a widow, in the same month both passed to the great encampment beyond the stars. They were both anxious watchers while the Nation Na-tion passed through the travail and the fear of a second birth ,both lived long lives in the world's most eventful age; they saw their country expand until there was no more wilderness or frontier between be-tween the seas; they saw the people increase in numbers 500 per cent, saw the continent ribbed with railroads from sea to sea; heard the first click of the magnetic telegraph, waited until a belt was put "round about the earth in forty minutes," and saw indeed a continent transformed. To the last their lives were what they promised to be when they jointed their soldier husbands, true to family, to country, to duty, high-charactered, noble, exalted ex-alted American women. |