Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — A Noble Wife. [ARTICLE]

A Noble Wife.

During the revolution in Poland which followed the revolution of Thaddeus Kosciusko many of the truest and best of the sons of that ill-fated country were forced to flee for their lives, forsaking home and friends. Of those who had been most eager for the liberty of Poland, and most bitter in the enmity against Russia and Prussia, was Michael Sobieski, whose ancestor had been King a hundred and fifty years before. Sobieski had two sons in the patriot ranks, and father and sons had been of those who had persisted in what the Russians had bt;en pleased to term rebellion, and a price had been set upon their heads. The Archduke Constantine was eager to apprehend Michael Sobieski, and learned that the wife of the Polish hero was at home in Cracow, and he waited upon her. “ Madam," he said, speaking politely, for the lady was beautiful and queenly, “ 1 think you know where your husband and sons are hiding?" “ I know, sir." “If you tell me where your husband is your sons shall be pardoned." “And shall be safe?” —H~~ ' ——-~ “Yes,**nadam, I swear it. Tell me where your husband is concealed and both you and your sons shall be safe and unharmed.” ' “Then, sir," answered the noble woman, _ rising with & dignity sublime and laying ptsr hand upon her bosom, “he lies concealed here—in the heart of his wife—and you will hawe to tear this heart out to find him." , Tyrant as he was, the Archduke admired the answer, and thespirit which had inspired it, and deeming the good will of such a woman worth securing he forthwith published a pardon of the father and sons. | » —Miss Braddon is about to write a novel in which the hero and heroine elope across tbe Englisn Channel in Capt. Boyton’s lifb dresses, while tbe enraged papa, following behind with a pair c* cork floats, becomes exhausted and is taken on board by the happy pair, whom he then and there forgives and blesses. ' —“An unfeminine shrieker” is the pleasant way a New Orleans paper describes Anna Dickinson.