, 1875-07-20


LADY FRANKLIN.
Indy JANE GRIFFITH FRANKLIN is dead.
Her long waiting and weary watching are
ended. Through tho darkness Of the grave
she has passed to that country whcre the
mystery 40 long hidden in tho frozen fnst-
nesses Of the North Inns n!ready been solved
for her. Thirty years. ngo, Oh bright Afny
morning. Sir Joua FRANKLIN Bet sail on his
fatal voyage Of discovery to tho North Pole.
Ills brave wife with her own hands had
helped tit ont tho Terror and the Erebas, those
vessels of ill-olnened namca, and her good
bye and words Of encouragement were the
last sounds he heard ns ho sailed away, never
to return. Years passed, and no nows came
from tho North. Slowly and reluctantly the
world came to the conclusion TINT the gallant
explorer wns ost,--all but this devoted
woman, whose faith aud courage roso as nll
others gnve up hopo. Sic was not a woman
to sit and wiring her hands in mute de-
spnir or to waste her lifo in hopeless
mourning. Sir Jous was lost-then he must
he found. She ronsed herself and reused
others. Moved with admiration of her
woman]y courage and devotion, there were
not wanting gal1ant knights, both in Engand
and America, ready to nnswar her cali to
search for her absent lord throughout the
silent regions of tho Pole. Expedition after
expedition sought faithfully, but the ice and
snow refused to yield their secret. Five
years passed, still the woman's heart did not
fail her. She lifted out m expedition her
self, md it sailed away with tho blessing Of
her prayers, aud freighted with the dearest
same melancholy tidings. Four moro yeara
passed, and DR.. REA came back with the
news that he bud found somo roles which
demonstrated to the satisfaction Of tho world
that tho Terror and tho Erobus Ind been
crushed In tho icebcrgs mud that the crow
were lost. Still this braye-henrted woman
did not give up hope. With undauntod cour-
age shc fitted out still another expedition,
which was placed in charge of Capt, Nc
C11srocx. Three yea,a sped away and ho
returned boaring with him a record OF the
death of Sir JouN FRANKLIN and the abandon
ment Of the Terror aud Erebus found in Nh
icy cavern On the shore of King Willinm's
Land. This was the tloath-warrant OF her
hopes TINT l,er husband WINS aliya. 1t oxtin-
guished tho last spark Of hope tlnt they two
could ever meet again in this world. but it
con]d nat ert;uouis], her love, and devos;on
and oouraoa. sha conld no longer oneat;on
that her husband was s,eon;np his ,ast a,oen
in tho frozen North with no monument to
marls tho spot but tho towering icebergs
whose solid, glittering walls ho had sought to
n;orca throurh Ia rluck TIM rnvs,crv ~ tba
Northern pole. She could no lonrar hona
to catch tbe o,eao NJ b;a com,ro aa;, a. sba
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