Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 4 February 1892 — Page 2

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,?f a teetotaler, rV walked into the blinds draw\ im and cheerl hearth. He ra' to be lit at one' luiikself into an ai ized— '•I suppose I must keep up aflpearces forV day or two. Thank God, iis all ov&r! My only anxiety now to know if there is a will. I have /writen to M^nzies, and he will be l^jover in the morning."-•*-

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Menzies was the name of the laird's, /^solicitor, who resided in Glassgow.' yet he had made no sign.

Within the hour, the old servant [announced that dinner was ready to fe served. 1 "Lay the cloth here," said Linne, ^iei1

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Marjorie."

cloth was duly laid and all red. Then Donald, after a upstairs, returned and said Iiss Marjorie did not care to •coi-v 'own, as she had a headache. ''It::1 her I must see her on most Important business." '"But Miss Marjorie said "Deliver my message, confound you! You are too fond of talking. Do as 1 bid you!"

The old man bowed and retired. After an interval, the door opened atid Marjorie appeared, her eves red 'with weeping, her face pale and livery sad. "You wished to see me," she said. V- "Y es, of course. In the first place Sj I want you to sit down and take some dinner." •'I cannot eat," was the reply,

Nevertheless, as he persisted, she sat down with nim ana now, for the first time, Edward Linne ostentatiously took the head of the table, eave his orders like the master of tu-° house, and grumbled not a little homely fare. Marjorie scarcely •^d the change, she was so full •row. Pressed by her companhe just put the food to her lips

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tears choked her, and she not swallow one morsel. repast over, Linne said—" mind my smoking?" shook her head sadly, and,y "V,hout waiting for the i°' na" lit Vi's

ihe lawyer. "My last instructions were to read the will in his presence. jy "The will? What "will?" cried inne, startled. "The will of John Mossknow, laird

Linne, drawn by me and witnessed ray presence in this very room, the twenty-seventh of last Oo-

uncle said nothing of any Tied Linne, almost angrily, very extraordinary. /illie the Preacher put in

jess your soul in patience, man, till Mr. Meozies exeverything. I told ye once be—the co/ mav craw to soon!" i'he lawy^ ?itli a dry rough, sat down it tF/ le, put on his spectacles, and\ out his papers. "Oblige h*. sir," he said, "by calling the household together. It is essential that everyone should be present, including, of course, the young lady whom' the late laird adopted."

Fuming with impatience, not unqualified with alarm, Linne rang the bell and gave his orders. Presently Marjorie entered the room and took a seat by the window. Then came the old servant Donald and his wife, who did the housekeeping, and the company was complete. "This is the last will and testament of John Mossknow, laird of Linne," said Menzies, producing a document. "I break the seal in your presence."

Having done so, he proceeded to read in a low, monotonous voice. Divested of its legal phraseology, the will was to the effect that John Mossknow, being at the time of sound mind, unmarried, and without direct legitimate issue, had made disposition of the landed estates and monies in his possession as follows: Firstly, to his nearest male heir, Edward Linne, his nephew, he bequeathed the sum of one thousand pounds sterling and the freehold estate of Linne, consisting of five hundred acres and the tenements thereon, including the Castle, subject to all the mortgages and burdens thereon, specified in a schedule to his faithful servant, Donald Sutherland, and to Mysie, his wife, a sum of fifty pounds annually, payable by the aforesaid Edward Linne to his friend, the Rev. Wm. Macgillvray, the sum of five hundred pounds: to his adopted daughter, Marjorie Fleming, for her sole use and enjoyment, all the rest of his possessions, including the monies at the bank or lying out at interest, the estates of Muckle Barnmore, Lesser Barnmore, Eskdale and Faroaclejxg)* all contiguous to Linne, wit^

farms and pasturage •v"' Scarcely na*1 far, whe^ his

he ship on which she sailed was lost at sea, and I believe every soul on board perished. Nevertheless, since the ways of God are inscrutably, and even the seas have before now given up their dead, I make provisp in this codicil that if, by any miracle of chance or divine dispensation, my son, Robert Campbell, child of the aforesaid Elizabeth, should be living, he is, without question of legitimacy, to be acknowledged as my sole and lawful heir, the inheritor of my name and all my lands, reserving only to my nephew, Edward Linne, the sum of one thousand pounds to my foster child, Marjorie Fleming, an annuity of three hundred pounds, to-be paid quarterly out of the estates and to my old and faithful servant, Donald Sutherland, and his wife, the annuity already specified in my will. I add this codicil with neither hope nor dream that my son, Robert Campbell, survives, bab partly tQ ease my conscience of its heavy burden, and partly to justify the poor woman who, I hereby again acknowledge, was my wife in the sight of God."

The lawyer paused, folded up the document, and laid it on the table. Marjorie was sobbing bitterly why, she could scarcely tell. Willie the Preacher sat bolt upright in his chair, gazing with a curious expression of triumph and dislike at Edward Linne, whose agitation knew no bounds. Then, at a sign from the lawyer, the old couple left the room. "I have fulfilled my duty," said tho lawyer. "Mr. Mossknow's wishes, I believe, are quite clear. Putting aside the remote possibility of the survival of his direct issue, he has left the bulk of his property to the young lady, with an injunction that she should unite her fortunes to you, sir, who inherit the patrimonial castle and titular estate. ^-i•-Vj "I was right," cried Linne, pacing up and down the room. "My uncle was a madman! Whoever heard of such a tissue of absurdities?" "Tnere was method in his madness," interposed Willie the Preacher. "He knew weel what he was doing. Weel, Marjorie," he added, "you have heard the will read. Is this young slip to be your husband?"

But Marjorie only sobbed— Oh, do not speak to me! I want nothing. I'll take no money. Let Mi? Linne take everything—it is his

("Remember the laird's wish, my d4o," persisted Willie, still with his eyes fixed on Linne. "Enough of this!" cried the young n. "You shall not torture the 'ady. If this will is a legal "hich I doubt—" sir," said Menzies. an set it aside."

ted by a lunatic! ba sane man he w:o consorted with /as this man, wh* is

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right andVrong of the case the pub lie soon made up their minds. It was the one act of the laird's life which called forth general approbation the one thing which succeeded in sending him to his grave applauded by one and all. Everybody loved Marjorie everybody looked with distrust and dislike upon the interloper, who had come, as they averred, to rob her of her just due. Consequently, when it became known that the interloper had been dethroned and that Marjorie held her fate in her own hands the joy was great and general. During the day the news was talked over with delight at many a fireside, and when night set in bonfires blazed at many across road.

From the window of her room Marjorie saw these demonstrations and felt more pain than pleasure. It seemed like exulting over the fallen, she thought to herself, and that was utterly foreign to a nature like hers. Even when she remembered the scene which had taken place in the Castle the moment the truth became known, when she recalled the bitter accusations, which Linne had made against every one concerned, she felt no great resentment toward him, ever alleging as his excuse the bitterness of his disappointment at the change. The blame, if blame there were, must, according to Marjorie's idea,fall upon those who had led him to look upon these things as his own. It was like crowning a king and then dethroning him yet everybody seemed unreasonable enough to expect the disappointed monarch to rejoice. '1

[to be continteo.

AMERICAN SOCIETY.

An Eloquent Tribute Paid by au English Duke to Our Fair Women.

London Special N. Y. World. The Duke of Marlborough takes quite revenge on those British people who have been unkind to his American Duchess with an article in the New Review.

This article compares the conditions of life in England and in America. particularly dealing with the aristocracy of America as compared with the titular aristocracy of England. "Any English Duke," writes Marlborough, "may be toadied by a few costermongers or local clergymen, but an American millionaire holds a species of court in Wall street or on tne Chicago Exchange. His orders are things to be feared."

Taken as a whole, Marlborough believes that though the pleasures of life to the working classes in America are not so varied as they are in Europe, people are infinitely happier though they work twice as hard.

Writing of the continual scramble of American girls for titled Brittishers, the Duke

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bells will for along time hanker after the glories of British institutions, with their lordly mansions, broad es-f

Adulteration of Coffee.

So extensive ia adulteration of coffee it is not easy to obtain thf pure article, even, although the higpest price be paid. The substances ejmmonlv used in adulteration are chVory, roasted grains, peas or beans. The principal element of roasted chicory is sugar it is useful in coloring the decoblion, but adds nothing to its virtues. As\for the other substances, although ttiej\may be harmless, considering their use fVom an economic point of view. nothingMs made by buying coffee which contains them, even if the price of the mixture be much under that demanded for the pure article. This "i3 evident when it is known that not infrequently what passes for low price coffee contains at least sixty per cent adulteration. In buying coffee the pure is actually the cheapest. And in the matter of adulteration of this important article of food there is a weighty consideration beyond that of economy. The more good, pure coffee there is obtainable he less will be the demand for spirituals liquors, for even the veriest toper nil often choose the former in preference to the totter. Boston Herald.

i# About the Opal.

The absurd superstition held by so many that the opal brings ill-luck to its owner, as if there were a compelling power or genius residing in stones, would not seem to be shared by those who rate the two opals belonging to the French crown jewels at $15,000, or the famous one sent from Hungary to the tirst world exhibition at $20,000, or by those who protect the delicate and triable edges of very brilliant specimens by a thin lamina of quartz. 'I he Hungarian merchant who takes the pains to export the opal to the east by means of Greek and Turkish agents, from whence they return to European markets as oriental gems, are hardly intimidated by the existence of the superstition nor could Humboldt great,y have regarded it when lie brought to the polite world the lirst specimens of the superb stone known as the Mexican first opal, too precious to be nvned, with its red and llame-colored splendors, by many with less than imperial purses.—Harper's Bazar.

It is related or Potter that ho was once taken to task by a few of his denominational brethren on the charge of exhibiting a conceit of himself at variance with the spirit of humility/ "It not conceit," said the bishop,' with that ponderous bearing that sileneed opposition, "it is not conueit, brethren it is the consciousness oi superiority." n•

"Bishop Mackenzie, of Zuhilaha, who died Feb. 9, of enteric feverj gave instruc lions previous to bis demise that his corpse should be. buriedin-Zulufatfbion. .Accord' ingly no coffin was used, bat the body Was tied up in a

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