Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1871 — Two Personals Explained. [ARTICLE]

Two Personals Explained.

A year ago there appeared in the “Personal" columns of many newspapers, in this counter atd Canada, an advertisement which excited no little comment, and its meaning has, until this time, remained unexplained. Unlike most ativertisements of its class, it was continued month after month, and read as follows : DOD— I am well, but we are in affliction, and I long for .you, that we may comfort one another. There ia a letter for “Dod” at the Poet Office, New York. MA. Soon after another appeared in its place, which was also continued for a long time, as follows: —rIM ETIILICK—JuIy 12, 1869.—1 have I’4- been seriously ill; getting better, but very weak; come if you possibly can, immediately, for yon are more needed than you can tiling. MA. It now appears that these advertisements were inserted to attract the attention of the “ Missing Earl of Aberdeen.” The key was in the address, “ Dod,” which was the familiar pet name by which the absent earl was addressed in the family circle. If his eye had ever rested upon it, it would have struck him at once as a voice from home. That he gave it no attention whatever is conclusive proof that he was one of the few who never saw it. “ Methlick ” was the title of one of the baronetcies held by the earl, and the, one most familiar to him. The advertisement, however, failed itodraw out any response, save the jesting Twfoments of the idle readers who saw in it only a communication between criminals who shunned more direct methods of correspondence. A half a million dollars is said to have been spent to find the wandering earl, but the only clue to his fate that can be discovered is that which traces him to the bowsprit of the schooner Hebra, from which he was .Washed and drowned. The Mystery of “ Dod ” and “ Methlick ” is thus unraveled. .