The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-12
tai is still pouring into the valley. and
every available piece OF ground IS
seized upon at once.
ROMANCEIN REAL LIFE.

seized upon at once. !
ROMANCEIN REAL LIFE. !,
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. /;
While the most prosaic Of people
are ready enough to concede IN Terms
that fact is often stranger than hctlon,
some Of the least exaggeratlve WRITER'S
in the school of literature known Dy
the latter designation have hard Work
to convince their readers that the
strangest portions Of their nomlnally
fictitious narratives are founded upon
truths in real life. Yet the skliieu
professional romancer, IN passing MS
story upon we'll attested realltles, RE
quently deems it prudent to make ms
work modification OF the Original
facts in order to escape charge OF ex-
travagance; so that some such syllog'
ism as the following might be Justly
used to illustrate the old adogc: Factls
the basis of all fiction; the seemingly
most extravaganza fiction is but vers-
ion Of facts SO artistically moderated
as to be less apparently strange than
it's original; therefore fact differs chief
" from fiction in being merely the
stranger aspect of the same sub]ect.
In the year 1929, some time after his
Bride of Lammermoor' had been
published. Sir Walter Scott thought 1t
necessary to prove in a new preface
that the tragical aud supposedly lncred-
ible story Of the novel was rather un-
derwrought delineation of the life and
fate of the beautiful and unfortunate
Janet Dalrymple, whose sad history had
ample certifcation in unquestlonaDle
family records.
The maturest literary genius OF 1.-THE
Great Unknown was requisite TO make
the softened fiction OF the lll-fated
bride OF LammermOOr acceptable IN
any relation Of possibility. though the
real life and death of the hapless Janet
had been even stranger and more ter
rible: vet here we have coming
through the California papers OF only
a few days ago, the facts in a personal
history more extraordinary and ro-
mantle in some particulars than either
Scott's novel or it's Dalrymple original.
A bride of LammermOor has consum-
mated the tragedy Of her fate in our
Pacific metropolis, and from the sew
: eral sometimes conflicting reports OF
the san Francisco journals may be
. gathered consecutive narrative to
f the ensuing effect.
: About twenty years ago young
= German nobleman, whose title is given
as Count Won Apponig, living upon his
:, estates in East Prussia, some fifty miles
. from Koningsberg, ''ranged' hlmsel
:. as the French say, in marriage with
:, lady Of his own degree, and tnenc'
deemed it incumbent upon him to de
stroy or remove all traces OF earle
r sentimental episodes. Amongst tn
! the latter had been a youthful attach
- ment and clandestine wedding to tn
- pretty daughter Of his late father
: steward. That union, resulting IN
: son and then a daughter, had been
70 70 carefully guarded in its legal integrlt
- from public recognition that the wifi
~ and mother fairly died broken-hearte
= under the reproaches OF her tamil
20 rather than imperll her husband s SUI
- cession to the paternal estate by avov
> ing herself his lawful wife. And wit
- the death of this too loyal creatul
- passed away the Counts last compun
o ton in the matter. At his father s d
- !" mise he removed the steward, who's
o name was JosephsoL and while kee
"a ing the two children within scope
-. his own surveillance, allowed it to
1T supposed that their dead mother a;
,,r left them an inheritance OF no iaW1
h. name but that Of their plebeian gran
as father.
- The relative in question, who wa
~ of course, the displaced steward, II
helpless to do more in vindication
ho his own wronged household than 8
his nephew Carl, mere boy, to wat
the dlsowned babes of the Count, al
keen HIM informed of their dlSpOS'
Too Young to understand all the fac
in the case, yet instinctively comp
ed hending that the nobleman was equa
NV to be distrusted by them and by hi
mt self. this Carl Josephson was tirelt
to in lowering about the remote Gotta
far where his departed cousins son a
pa. daughter had been immured for pr
in. emit private keeping. Such was :
to. situation when Won Apponig. as not
mn. above. entered publicly into q m
in rage equitable to his rank. and
of came anxious to be rid OF all prior
tn. cumbIances and claims upon his c.
es, science or his heart. Possessing neitf
ted of these human qualifications IN a
md very generous development the Coz
cen arrived at determination no less d
at ing and heartless than that he wo1
, of deliberately carry forth the Lit
rms Frederick and Antonio into wild {
the est bordering the most eastern line
inc his estate, and there leave them to
few mercy of the beasts This he actua
rec did with the girl the boy being
nts tunately absent from the cottage
ord the connivance of the suspecting /;
hat yigilant Carl Josephson when tt
ver pitiless father called there to t
Law them, as he said, upon "a little exc
,tri sion" with him.
re And the girl, Antonio, is the here
adj of the story now coming to us Fl
ora San Francisco. The Count, after
eng ing her journey by carriage, nm
noer nlaced her upon saddle with him
: "a : horseback ride. and having gallo
oil with her deep into the appointed w
aroe dropped her to the ground, and "
ines ont word rode away from her TO
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