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Show THE MARLBOROUGH SORROW. i i - . It seems the Marlboroughs have agreed to disa- . gree, and a bit of somethingiike irony is told in the announcement. By the deed of separation the American-bora Duchess may not visit Blenheim. Now, , Blenheim j was a tumble-down, half ruin until the tVanderbilt millions restored it and made it a place which the King of Great Britain and Emperor of India delighted to visit. When the Duchess thinks Df that she must feel as did Charlie Chapman, a Ne-irada Ne-irada miner, who in that first hard winter, when food .was scarce, became satisfied that , some kind of an ' e" animal was nightly stealing his food, .so one night he left a light burning in his cabin, crawled into his bunk, lid his revolver on the outside' of his blankets and waited developments. He did not wait long un-til un-til an animal came in. He thought in the dim light It was a cat, and he exulted at the thought of how he would fix that cat. The 'animal jumped upon a Chair, then upon the table, and with a satisfied look ion its face, commenced to eat sugar from an open imgar bowl on the table. But Charlie did not shoot. IThe animal was a full-grown skunk. Charlie's partner part-ner was in a bunk above Charlie's, and he heard Charlie in a low voice saying: "The blankety blank pon of a gun. He is stealing my sugar and enjoying - himself , for he knows I dazen't shoot, d n him." The girls in America will take .notice that a 'ducal coronet is not a panacea against unhappiness ; that all the gold in the world cannot buy peace of mind. Of course, Miss Vanderbilt might have quarreled quar-reled with an American husband, but had she married1, mar-ried1, a man for love and had some great object in life Motive for, her chances for happiness would have been better than to try life in a station for which she .was never born. Her old grandfather was happier ;when he' was rowing passengers across North river 'for a dollar apiece. ..." |