Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-07-20

bassador extraordinary Of England to
the court of Austria, who was be-
lieved to have committed suicide in q
fit of insanity at Perleberg on Novem-
Der 25 of last year, is we'll in mind
and body. His friends have received
letter from him dated December 13,
which, therefore, must have been
written after the date of his supposed
death"
Who inserted this paragraph, and for
what purpose?
1t was absolutely untrue, but may
have been designed to cause the au.
thorities to relax their efforts to probe
the mystery and perhaps to abandon
them altogether; or it may have been
plan to throw dust in the eyes of the
public, to whom the story of Bathurst
was one of absorbing interest.
To those who held Bathurst in af.
fectionate remembrance it was com.
fort-and it was their only one-in
after days to think that every con-
ceivable effort had been made to find
out the meaning of his mysterious dis.
appearance. His young wife, to whom
he had been married for four years,
was utterly heartbrok en-, and at time
when wars and rumors of wars dis.
tracted Europe, making her task al.
most an impossible one, she gave her.
self up heart and soul to the difficult
and dangerous business of finding out
secret that was without doubt DO.
litical one.
She appealed to the Emperor Ma.
| h al Gov, e. 1.
assured her through Cambaceres that
von his word of honor he knew nothing
of the matter beyond what he had seen
in the papers. She demanded per.
sonal interview with him, and there
is no doubt that they met, but what
she asked the great man and what he
answered has never transpired. But she
received his permission to advertise
for her husband in the Moniteur and
all the French papers, but with no re.
suit. The poor soul travelled all ovel
Germany, staying for months at Perle.
berg and the neighborhood, where she
offered the most liberal rewards even
for the slightest clue to the secret.
But, though the sums offered would
have made any of the peasants or the
dwellers in the somewhat poverty.
stricken place rich beyond the dreams
OF avarice, no one ever claimed them,
no one came forward with even gar
bled statement of facts; there was
never glimmer of light to dispel the
darkness.
Mrs. Bathurst never gave up the
hope of his return to the last hour of
her life, and she lived to be a very old
woman.
The husband of her youth was to her
still living figure, and she firmly be-
lieved that the hour would come when
he would come back to her once more.
Her life was sad and troubled one,
but that consolation was always hers,
though her dream, as we know, was
never realized.
OF her three children, the eldest,
son, was killed when riding steeple-
chase at Rome; while the sad fate o.
her daughter, the beautiful Rosa
Bathurst, is still remembered there,
and the place is still shown on the
banks of the Tiber where her horse
reared with her, and-the river being
in food-fell back and drowned her in
the stream. She was riding with the
man to whom she was to be married
shortly. She was only II and ad.
mired and loved by all.
No wonder that her mothers heart
was half broken. Still, through all
her troubles she was sustained by the
belief that her husband would returns
but the grave does not give up its
dead, and the well-kept secret has
never been disclosed.