The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-11

second fraudulent marriage, yielded at
length to the opportunities of DIR. Gar
| dette of Philadelphia and for the third
| time became wife. 1t may reasonably
be surmised that she thrust the certificate
into her garter with Gardette's affidavit
that he had never married before. nor
even dreamt of doing so. Blessed in his
affection and prescriptions, she remained
his mate till her death many years later.
How far the slanders upon her estranged
Clark does not appear; but to save her
from the same charge that she had pre-
ferred against DeGrange-bigamy-he
did not interpose, and upon his death-bed
in August, 1913, he acknowledged by tes-
lament that Myra was his legitimate
daughter. The will is proved to have been
destroyed soon after his demise by his ex-
ecutors and commercial partners, Ref and
Chew, who proceeded to sell off the vast
Clark estate and thrust the profits into
their pockets, totally unsuspicious of the
daughter, who was to challenge their
wicked stewardship.
MYRA'S STRANGE DREAM.
just prior to her marriage, and when "a
years of age, Myra dreamed the whole cir
cumstanees of her birth; the clandestine
marriage and hameless father and moth
to her supposed father, Davis, at the break
fast-table the next morning; his amaze
ment was as great at the recital as was hers
when, after awkward denials and equivo-
cations, he confessed all. She had dreamed
herself out of the fiction of Miss Davis
inte the fact of Miss Clark. gave her hand
to William Wallace Whitney, of Bing-
hamton, n. Y. and began the great strug-
gle, to the marital partnership in which
General Gaines, U. S. A., succeeded in
1916, Whitney having died the previous
year. Both husbands proved generous
pursers and sanguine, loving champions
of the little woman. She made claim first
as Clark's direct heir and secondly, under
his will and | ana persuaded that having
Loyalty vindicated her mother by a decree
in the Supreme Court of the United States,
she feels as though she were amply CON-
pensated for all her protraeted labors.
SHE HAS THREE JUDGMENTS
in 1861, 1862 and 1S67-recogniZing her
as the legitimate child of Daniel and Zu-
lieme Clark, but they have as yet assured
her possession of scarcely land enough to
be buried in. The precious subtleties and
madness which delight the souls of uHc-
tuous Kenges and warp the souls of Elites
are yet to be threaded. How will it end
| The old lady cannot hold out much longer
her vitality mustsoon flicker. Perhaps,
a sudden reclamation of her vast property
would prove fatal to her; strife is her life,
motive, regimen. Let success embrace her
and she willis as quickly as il she were left
recourse to no further legal remedy and
must needs surrender her purpose. On the
threshold of three score and ten, she has
rescued after forty-two years of effort only
tiny nugget from her rich mine; and as
| see hopes that flutter at her heart and
chirp from her lips, | cannot dismiss the
picture of poor Miss Flite, who, when her
weary faith had crumbled to dust, came
weeping to Esther, and said with tragic
meekness that her birds that she had
promised to lineage when she got her
judgment, had been set at liberty. "TheiI
lives, poor, silly things, are so short in
comparison with chancery proceedings !!