Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — Glamis Castle’s Mystery. [ARTICLE]

Glamis Castle’s Mystery.

Many have heard of the mystery of Glamis Castle. The story goes that there is a secret chamber there, and that in some way the chamber is associated with the mystery. It is known only to the owner, to the fader and to the heir apparent. Guests at the castld have vainly tried to solve it. One day* when the owner went out shooting, they all agreed to hang towels out Of the windows of every room, in order to arrive at the whereabouts of the mysterious room, through no towol appearing at the window. The experiment, however, was not successful, and it seems to have been agreed that the chamber had no window, and that it was approached by a trap-door opening into the room bpneath, which itself was reached by a secret staircase. It is now believed that the mystery has been in part solved, and. that the room contained some person who died a week or two ago at a very advanced age. But, if this be so, who was this prisoner ? Why was he incarcerated ? If he really was shut up for long years, surely the family might now reveal the cause; and if not the authorities mighrinaist upon knowing. It may be that this modern “man with a mask ” preferred to remain isolated; but on the face of it some explanation i* requisite, for, when an individual is hidden away in this mysterious fashion until he is taken out a corpse to be buried, the presumption is that he Was not a free agent. —London Truth. Miss Alice, who has just finished saying her prayers with her little brother—“Mamma, Ally wasn’t thinking *abor*t God at all. He was thinking about his sled.” Master Alfred, indignantly—- “ How do you know, miss? you can't see down my stomach.” *