Show A LAST TRIBUTE OF LOVE A monument which mich fills I 1 visitors to pariss cemetery will wonder THE STORY OF AN enigmatical TOMB tho the gigantic pork butcher and her two flus bands how Com picCo fo lichty cut cat short A couple oc lives abe giant and tile tho little jour A philosophic willow and the sago conclusions beached by alfer hartho jhc thc ill af story of tho grasp ins ing alande iter her first namo name was ella and hr her family faintly namo name Tr bruchet Tru chet thero there was nothing to bo be ashamed ot of abent that thai As aa to her profess profession loo well she was it a pork butcher let whoever hoover has nothing Ingol of the hog about him castillo cost tho first stone at horl they oven even called hr her tho the phenomenal pork park butcher under tile ilo protest that 1 t lio lie had eight feet six of these hero e ro in bight the iho two others at alcho the extremity of her lower lamba ifor mother had bad baptized ilia iho latter tardy trotters theres nothing noth lui like mammas tor for such antithetic tenderness As to tier shoulders ders I 1 shant peak of them and her hands a perfect poem wio when ellsa had piled pollens politics of springs upon of vi intern and could count fully twenty completed years pero iero truchot who vas as growing olt ohl manifested tho the very natural desire ot of abdicating in favor of a son inia in I n law w and invited his bis daughter to pick out oot some brisk fellow who nho seemed scorned to tier her capable of tier her it was not hot tin an easy matter to conclude this marriage although ellsas portrait lui had been sent to all the foreign courts overett hero that public rumor announced a trace of a bachelor pork butcher but IS LAIty when sent one into the iho latI latitude tudo ot of the alio ets lo be had JU just 4 st two feet loss than lit ats future companion ono one day ohl joy t there here came along a man who was twenty centimeters carti ti taller than ellsas but ho he was a brewer by tradel they passed over that circumstance as pere bruchet undertook to teach him in a couple of weeks all tile the secrets of his bis art tho the most difficult thing in the iho pork business said he be is to keep bour our hands clean tier THE PRACTICAL carr the marriage took place it matter wacie ahei a with tile the pomp point eliat distinguishes the iho retail pork I 1 ride bratle well and duty duly married in the ho presence ol of 51 tho the mayor a rich merchant of the quarter who made them a speech about the duties of 0 husband and wito wife a speech that finished with the judicious Judic lons advice to 50 soil as little on as possible at short weight eight not necessarily tor for the reposo repose of 0 the conscience but on account of the unpleasantness ness one experiences w b ben on 31 the of police finds it out I 1 almost forgot tn loll 1011 i 11 you flit that it the husband the happy floppy husband atu named Boril boniface face Rou stall ou this miner once established I 1 can affirm that thai never dover was honeymoon moro more delicious than that he of the two giants one spring evening when the intoxicating odors oders of the ilia scalding caldron wore were mantling in humid whirls to the of the wadded wel cd pair M adame flou in the posture aorl bribed bcd to the venus of milo only she had her arms wai plunging melancholy glandla into the deepest depths of other the he was trace because she was pou lve sive and p pensive no ve because she was mute aou instantly noticed it and deposited t long kiss of love upon the bare neck clock of his spouse I 1 I 1 1 what fills you roy my dear he elisa anin antlered vered first with a sigh and shaking hei bet beautiful red hair added I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 I was thinking of know PoI Pol Crates rates the pork butcher of samos dont ou oil tanon passed his hand acro ibin his I 1 forehead on art which stood drops of old cold 0 dew and till bli eyes common commenced ced to bow on haggard 1 11 you don t know tho the story eh emiro 2 1 ro slimed ills it better half bulf 11 ohl bow I 1 D fartunato fortu nalo it 11 was that I 1 used tile tho P es of the llie book to wrap rap up sausages i b ot oarra I 1 would gle it to you 10 re a 11 alai be tilled r risked I 1 a led Rous tafu does doca lie owe us a anything 11 j an no failed indo indeed cill lib no no toi foi foliate in all his bis enterprises 11 thaulo a concluded things coul dat always cochin in that shape aud to exor exorcise elso 1111 1 luk k throw threw an etu acu oc at a hundred undred li sous sons zi the tho window the mil day ho mounil he a piece of a hundred sous in the h of the first hoi hog he bo slaughtered j TIM tar STRANGE PI I 1 what a tough story finai why a toll tell it 11 to you mo me I 1 i because wo we are enjoying too c 1 pleto pl to felicity Vo ln letco allue tco and I 1 think ls i lima to throw something out of 10 a window not on the passers by sure uro lyl i Clel claimed aued Rous tallou with great not nest beak mica el continued without paying a r attention to this remark I 1 have something to ask ali yon yen that may seem strange to you ask alidal ali oal 1 I 1 would like now dont miko make f H of nic me 1 would like to bo be certain th tb wo we ill not bo be separated eve even art death I 1 dont ask so anything athing bettor better for or m part f d la Is that so no then I 1 it t would b bo v vcr or handsome band somo in on out all so ao very tomorrow to morrow worril morn ing a tomb for two for bato us two all by out selves in the cOr cemetery of vero that wo we may rest refit there in peace ta fa from fit maddening lota lets retire formulated tile tho be 0 the house cios ces ald begun i blink 11 to lo murrow will take lako care 0 itself you ft m ill order tho the tomb ill order as many as you like ralth ful to his promise lion nation flou th nox nou t day sant for a mason manou and settled I 1 li concert irth fah his bell better balf it tin a mausoleum mausa 1 I stant A ant sald eald ellaa LI 1911 two 0 places places more vilh fill arm arrus s in fu bronie bronic his fils and mine his bis hand in my abanil also A above each arm to contain our all 11 this very cry plain and in good taso catch tile tho lda idony dot your life answered the mason the be tomb ono may say bay we WA a rousing success mason ono one morning and 1 d l that hi ilia JI jolt 1 was done madam millam Mi ilam kissed him on both liv 1 its 11 al ta it of gh ing blut blid money to 10 pet get a drink drini ill bing b ing lilt Rou Konsta fion who did not wish to adgear offered to go 60 at walh ith the workman and wet not his bis littin MOO country house houm tito rejoicing took place at the th hon bon coing and lasted until ov evening ening tin CLOCK or OF arr STR STRIKES when koast giboo returned honio home the iho clo clock kint ot eternity struck nine blue elasik wan anything tint but and nd to uttered if I 1 opened that hog bog id find tho the hundred sow sous la in him and more tool come now march sim she ravo gave the tipsy in man en a pash tho I 1 he latter climbed up to the ho second arconi story and mado made his bia wily way to 10 tho the conjugal chain br r barcli Mar r c cli tell ellsa elii Kons taLou marched lie bo marched so lar far that he ha reached tho thi window at tho the end of tho ilia room had and as it was wide upon open out he waltzed into s paco through tho the sky into the shop shon bolow below a a tho the funeral decorations and services tt or cro a on a amle common N ft ith tho the grief of ellsas ellsa who atin tomb pronounced this memorable speet spee spew rf t 1 I hall speedily rejoin you ohl my well beloved you wont won t bo be long there drying mortar all alono thon she went every day to shod shed a tear upon the stone that covered sit all she ehe loved this grief lasted just a week it tossed the moment ilia widow riot noticed noli crl that it was waft injuring In jurim her bu business Ainess and herbeat her beamy ity sho she sighed nevertheless fora fare month once silo said fiand to herself that after all her of a husband had only a obeyed boyed the aw law of da nature re death being tho the lot of all sooner or later ho be havo have had to submit to it ho he m was as the ilia most in a hurry of tho ilia two ho he had gone before rad and besides ho be was an angel in heaven sho lio would rejoin him a fad tho the i latest possible tile date data flou had been beoo in tho the ground I 1 three months when tho the idea occurred to her tint silo had committed a folly in expending so much money for the iho construction st of a funereal monument sho she had yet long lone years to live and biou was thero all alono alone with alth great dignity a hundred good food lyres of her income ln conio the price of a handsome hog without counting tho the profit silo sho was losing on the amount bho bo might durum citified film la in tho the potters potter a lidd fold or oven even but as min always does stupid things in this life 1110 she bad Hs i toned only to her heart tito fourth month aho ho said eald that dog doff of a liou the month after she exclaimed ahl why ht do they force a woman to binl remain a ten Is it alls a EO a amusing to be boa a widow its plainly to be scon iliac thac the men mado made that lan lair the llo mean incao scoundrels scoundrel sl lot us ua say to ellsas praise that sho she had the tha resignation to wait ill tho 0 stipulated time lime though sho she swo re roundly abou tit but buano no sooner wo acie ro tile the ten months up than lunn having r reached tho the exasperation abojado mado to herself tile tho following confidential admission binl at 41 A NON no I 1 dont wish to run tho the risk of having to wait years for a now husband minor pretext leair no to DO taller than I 1 am t ono one had a r 0 at hand band every lay and be I 1 fides aides tho the tall men dont last any longer then than tho others now what prevents no me from taking a little fellow she called FranC francois francois was her bar head band and w a 0 may soy ay her only journeyman francois sali aid fille the you yon b have avo ofton often expressed tho ilia Intent intention lon of 0 establishing yourself in ufa life do you joa still stick to but null doti 7 I 1 yes citizen then heros toy my hand no exclaim exclamations a no DO gestures but bat bo be at the mayors office la in two weeks to marry me francois Fran francois cols bruffet reached hii t to the widows shoulder ile he hid bild little legs little arras arms little shoulders a lilleo voice in a word everything little ito mado made a mistake in wedding lite phenomenal pork park butcher hn after afler it month of a cloud ho he burst like a bomb for feet the llie moment ellsa elias Tru chet ct the widow nou the widow douffet Bo Bouff affet et could not longer contain thinking of him ho he had been her bor second husband sho she exclaimed this Is 1 what romes of having ahli ani spoiled the other oilier I 1 lodged him so BO well that his successor or wanted to try the tomb also alao well you shall be there both of you my boys and nd lie keep op each other company As for me I 1 time 10 lo bo be a widow once every year no more marriage laj la in initial pit ill so go it alone A few days later those who visited I 1 pero La chalso paused ittu sid to in astonishment in front of a to tomb nib that seemed ical to them two hands of bronze bronie were gr aRping each other strongly beneath the first that on the left they read mad EO tiraco may 10 1875 I 1 ANT al FOU you beneath tho the second that ou oil the right aas as FRANCOIS april 22 1877 ruthk I 1 aul AM MONTIGNE |