The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31

born in 1885, and who mingled with his
scholarliness so much kindness and
sympathy that he was one of the best
loved men of his day IN England, He
was Burgundian monk, with a repu-
| tatlon for executive ability. King
John Of England. who had founded a
| Carthuslan monastery which was rapid
~ falling into decay. sent for the young
Burgundian, and gave him charge of the
little monastery. Hugh soon worked
such wonders with its ruin and desc
lation that, against his own wishes, he
was elected Bishop of Lincoln,
Hugh was fond of The poor of his
bishop he ordered many of the deer
that fed in his well filled park to be
killed and given to the poor for meat,
At another time. he excommunicated
the chief forester for unkindness to
the poor. and then dared meet the
the forester. Hugh IS testing and wit.
fairness and honesty soon won the
king back to his side. The bishop
worked with unfailing diligence among
the lepers, who at that time were espe-
cially abundant In East Anglia. Saint
Hugh was fond of animals in spite of
his sacrifice of the deer to his poor
swan, who knew him and loved him.
The most interesting Sophia lived
some time later, about the year 100,
She was sister of Charles VI, emperor
of Germany, and wife of Prince Alexis,
heir presumptive and nephew Of Peter
as Sophia Of Wolfenbutel, and she was
beautiful and good But her marriage,
n marriage of state. was unhappy. and
Alexis used, with alarming frequency,
to give poison to his young wife. So
phia was as plucky as She was charm
ing, and as soon as she understood that
her husband really intended to kill
her with poison, she looked into the
matter and provided herself with num-
berless antidotes,
Once, however. Alexis had the salts
faction of success. Sophia was given
up for dead, funeral was held, the
courts of Europe went into mourning
and Alexis was happy. But Sophia was
only in n stupor, and when she recov
cred consciousness she made her es
cape, with the assistance Of n waiting
woman, and under the protection Of an
old German servant who pretended to
be her father. went back to Paris.
Sophia feared recognition, and finally
she and her adopted father went to
Louisiana. There she was happy. She
lived simply, surrounded by friends
who loved her for her beauty and her
goodness, safe from the intri9nes Of
the Russian court. Before very long q
Russian gentleman, named Moldask,
saw her, and remembered who she was.
He promised to keep her secret, and
the two became great friends,
When news came from Russia that
Alexis was dead, Moldasl. realized that
he was in love with Sophia. He did not
dare, however, offer himself to royal
princess. even if she were in disguise.
But when the kind old German father
died, and Sophia had no one to take
care of her, Moldask asked her. first.
to let him take her back to Russia,
and, when she refused, to let him marry
her. Sophia had learned to. love her old
friend, they were married and spent
the rest Of their lives together hap
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