Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — A Stratagem On the Scaffold. [ARTICLE]

A Stratagem On the Scaffold.

A Paris correspondent relates the following story about the great-grandmother of the Polish Princ.e Lubomirski, “ who writes so cleverly and chatters so incessantlvd! ’ “ Tins unfortunate Princess remained in Parrs during the Reign of Terror, imagining that her foreign na tionality would save her from the guillotine. The, unhappy lady, who was very beautiful, made a mistake" She had been the intimate friend of Princess Lambelle, and was arrested, on a groundless suspicion of being in correspondence with the Austrian Government, and hur-

ried off to execution on the day fqjiowing that which saw Madame Roland perish. Princess Lubomirski had one little daughter, whom she wished to rnn-.. I bract! before she died. A faithful nurse I brought the child in her arms, and, at I the risk of her own life, to the very foot of die scaffold. The wretched mother, I wishing that her little one should be ! recognized in after years by the Luboi mirski family, and not being allowed to ' write to them, imagined the following ! means of identifying her orphan daughter: Stooping down, she dipped her finger in the blood of a victim who had just perished and wrote these words in big letters on a scrap of her linen: ‘ The child with the letters L. B. scratched on ' her arm is my daughter, Princess Lubomirski.’ Tllen taking a jiin she scratched the initials.on the arm of her child, embraced it, and a few’ moments afterward laid her head under the knife. The nurse, when the Reign of Terror was over, took the child to Poland, where, lieing recognized by her mother’s family, in the course of years she married her cousin, Prince Ladislas Lubomirski. The present Prince has often seen the initial scar on his grandmother’s arm. The old lady only died a few years ago.”