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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-3-16, Page 2rin EIXT411, TIDIES 4148.140•P'''‘INV"‘Ne'N.i.'`'‘'- V*Wositr." ''w 1 i.‘ Love 0, . and .; ip A 0;0 Oy caesli.eees***,. CHAPTER, X1X.-Continued, After that raga Rose had no cause for clonal/taint teat Sammie was rude to Annie, or Annie cool toward» him, for though Annie talk -ed to him but little, elle did not forget the sympathy so delicately manifested. for her, and» treated, hire with as much respect,. as ebe awarded Tom who grew each day more and more interested in the black - robed figure reminding him so //mush o bis lost Mary. Jimnaie knew hp did, and wateeed narrevely for , the time when she svould know it, too; but such time did. not come, fax Annie had no suspicion that either of tee ,brothers regarded her with the shad- ow of a feeling- save that of ordinary eriendship. As muce of her time as possible was spent with the Widow Strains, and a great part ot, Isaac's visible improreanent was owing to her gentle care and the sunshine of her presence. Soha's furlough had ex- pired, and now that Ile was gone, the disoonsolate Susan turned to .A.nnie fax conefort, while Isaac, watched daily fax the sound of the little feet corning up the walk, and bringing with them so much eappiriess to the lonely cot - tape, "I wish you'd stay horae more; we miss you so much, and it's eo dimmed without you. Mother nods over her knitting, Tom just walks the floor, or reads some stiff Presbyterian book, while jinarele thrums the piano and teases my kitten awfully," Rose said, to Aenie one nigbt when the latter came in from a tour of calls, the last of which had been on Mrs, Baker, now a meth happier, better woman, than when we first naade her aegnaintance. "It's so differs,nt when you are here," Rose continued, as Annie came and» sat down by her side. "Tom is a heap more entertaining, while Sinamie is not half so mischievous and provoking,' "I did not suppose nay absence could affect your happiness-, or I would cer- tainly have stayed with you more,' Aenie replied; and Rose continued.: "Well, it just does, and now that both Tore and Jimmie are going so soon I shall need you to oversee the thing I must get ready fax them." "Captain Carleton and Jimmie goin away soon 1" Annie repeated, in soma surprise. "Where are they going The Captain's furlough has not ye expigede "I know it," Rose continued, "but a be is perfectly well, he thinks it right to go back, and has fixed on one wee from to -day." "Yes, but Jimmie. You spoke of hi Leaving, too," Annie said, and Rom r joined: °Jimmie is going. with Tom to jai. the Federal Army in the Potoraae, and us he. says, retrieve, if possible, th character he lost by turning traito oncee' "Oh, I am so glad! and I like 3ai so much fox- that 1" Annie exclaimed her white face lighting up with a sud- den animation, whieh made it see very beautiful to the young man jus entering the door. "I would brave the cannon's mout fax another look like that," was Jim rate's mental cerement as he steppe into the room, and advanced to th ladies' side. "So you are glad I a going ?" he said, half playfully, to An nie, who answered frankly: "Yes, very glad." "And won't you miss me a bit ?Folk like to be missed, you know, if the are ever so bad. It makes one thin better of himself, and consequently d better if he knows that Ids abseno will cause a -feeling of regret, howeve slight, to the friends left behind, Jim- mie remarked, while in his eyes tear was a peculiar expression which An nie failed to see, as he stood lookin down upon her. She would miss Jimmie, she knew, fax she had become acoustoraed t his uterry whistle, his ringing laugh his teasing jokes at Rose's expense and his going would leave them ver lonely, and so she frankly admitted adding that "it was not because sh wished to be rid of him that she was glad.; it pleased her to see bim in tbe path of duty, even though that pat led to danger and possible death." "Oh, don't, Annie, don't talk of deat to Jimmie !" Rom cried, with a shad der. "You can't begin to guess lea it makes me feel, or how terrible i would seem if either he or Tom shout die l'• "Can't I r Annie asked, with such depth of mournful irathos, that Rose' tears flowed at °nee. Of course A.ente knew how it felt and every fibre of her heart was bleed- ing now, as she remembered one wb left her as full of life and hope a either ,Torn or Siramie, but who earn back no more, save as the dead cam back shrouded and coffiaed for th grave. But Annie would not give wa to her feelings then. She would cone fort Rose, and. encourage the youn mart, who, she felt, shrank from th perils spread out before him. So sh told how few there were, coraparativ ly, who died on the battle -field, whil the chances fax life in the hospital were greater now that better care an skill had been proeured. "Annie-•exeuse me, Mrs. Graham V and Jimmie spoke vehemently, wbil his eyes kindled with a strange gleara "Why don't you go as nurse? might be the means of untold good t thi poor fellows who need such car as you could give!' "I have thought of it," said Anni while Rose exelaimed: "Yoe tarn hospital nurse-ridiou toes 1 You never shall, so long as can prevent it. Statile_ she, Tom ?" An she appealed to the latter, who ha jest come in. "Shall Armee go int those horrid hospitals ?" "I am not Mrs. Graham's keeper, Tore replied, "but I slibuld be eorr to see her acting iii the capacity o hospital nurse, evert though X krio that some of our noblest, best wome are engaged in that woxilre' "Yes, old chap," and Jimmie bugle merry laugh. 'It's mighty easy tal. ing that way now, hut suppose you Captain Carleton, are :Mae day neon the terribly wounded, thigh she terottgh, arm splintered above the e bow, jaw -hone broken, and all tha wouldn't the vein be meet' to bear, i the nurse shoald happen to be Mr Grabera, or somebody just like her ? "thulottbtedly 11 would,e Tom a r 'or eeeeee•e''';edeoir'''''''" ". ' '''''' re tufaesa '• '2.' 'were ton Wart**. . , edatiellhQefr, TORY OF SLAVERY DAYS. el the Keay J. egeemEe. i ,,, for' arl %.."44h0.4,,,,:4L‘osik..."-14•.°14,:?:"W140,11hOt, the 4111.4¢,-.01.,40.-7777 seeetheee'esseet. '1'.• . 7 . - end , eeeeeel treeired. etetill 1 sheuld be mere/ to have her there amid the sickening 11.0r- perieeee tearnea "Ploaae std.% I can't hear to hear One elatext it 1" Rase exclaimed. "1 know it smiled, be nice to be a Flerenoe brought eligetingale, and Annie would Make a splendid one, but I'll never let her go, persisted. unless you, or jitereie, or Will are wounded, and the we'll eoMe togeth- ditions, er, wont we, Annie r ., accident There was no response from Annses, felled until Jimmie said: the "Yes, Mrs, Graham, if I are ever from, wounded, and you hear I am suffering in some dismal bole, will you. some and care for me?" terribly, He did not join Wiles or Tom's narae evinced with hie own.. It was eeimmie Carle- singular ton" whom Annie was to nurse. 13nt thing did not matter.. Lifting up be r head ,so that her soft; bine ' eyes looked in- arid to his Annie answered, unhesitating- raany ly : , ,. "ProVidenee permitting, will, and 1 would do the same for any brave fel-, serving low who follows, as my husband did, where duty to his country leads." lifted, "So you see you will fare no better than I, after all," Tore laughingly re, joined, while Jimmie thought within himself ; "Why need she always bring that husband in 1 • It's bad enough to know she's had one, without eternally hearing about him." - , Foolish Jimmie. It was folly for hms to lie awake so long. as he did that night, or to dream, when at last he . slept, of hospital walls expanding in- to:a palae,e as an angel form with hair and eyes like Annie's bent. over his feverish pillow, while soft, white hands dressed. some gaping wound. where the enciaay's bullett had been. eheer folly, too, was it for "dignifiee old Tom,' to watch from bis window the young rnoon, until it set in the western sky, thinking of' Mary, as he tried to make himself believe wondering why it was that Annie reminded hina so much of 1 her, and why he should be so deeply interested in one who, until a few , I weeks past,lead been to him a 1 stranger. i To Annie, Captain Carleton end Jim, e naie were nothing more than friends, ' mei if, during the week preceding their departure, she was quite as busy as Rose, and apparently as much in- terested. in the various preparations ; for their comfort, it was only because ' they were soldiers, and not, as Widow : SiMMS once suggested t Susan, o eee_ cense they were Calletons, and hand- I some and rich, and, -and, -well, there's • no tellin' what will happen, when a !tiswidder's young and handsome, but ' hI know, I've never married, .and ; I my man's been dead this nineteen 1 ; he'd be .1 years R Nobody need tell Me s ; se busy for anybody but them Carle- 1 toes. If 'twos Cap', I wouldn't mind, L I but that sassy -1404a xeems.. ugh le , I and in her ire at Atuaie's supposed ; preference for'sasey-feeed Seems,” the / I widow 'spilled nuns than. half of the " spiced chocolate she was carrying To Isaac. I I Never was the widow more mistaken. - Annie Graham would have done for 1 , Eli, John, and Isaac Simms,' or possibly ; 'William Baker, the same offiees she - was doing for."the Carletons," and her voice would bave been .just as sweet and hopeful when she bade them fare- ; well, as it was that bright spring morn- ing when in the parlor of the Mather , , , ... mansion, Tom and jiramie were wait- , ing to say good-bye. , At the very last moment Bill Baker : bad announced his intention of going too. ; "Thirteen dollars a month and dog's - fare was better than! lasecin' round ; hum," he said; "and liyin' on the oldbrains gal, who was gietin' most too straight , and blue for his notions. Besides , that, he felt kinder . 'tached to the , Corp'ral, and wanted toebe where be , could see him and. wait on dm like • any other nigger." i' , Jimraie would gladly have dispensed ' with such a singular attache, but Bill; ' could not be sheken» off, and. as he did ' in various ways evince. a Strong re - -- . gard for his former captive, Jimmie wae forced to submit , to whet be term -Dame ' ed "his thorn in :Wet flesh," givingwho ' from his own purse money for Billy'srettred. • outfit, and eurnishine the mother with ' means to repair her dwelling andSaxon • make it far more comfortable than at present. This ]ac was surd pleased - Annie, and no sacrifice was too costly it won her regard. , She had prayed fax him, he knew, fax Bose had told ; him so, and prayers like hers, thoughItems,. they did not avail to save her George's 1 life, would surely shield him from dan- 1 ger. He- should come back again when ' the wag was. over, -coma hack to find 1 an older grave by Rookland's. church- % yard gate, while the wife, who daily ' watered that grave vville tears, would - be as young, as beautiful, arid • fax t more girlish -looking than now, when, % in her widow's weeds, she offered him 1 her hand at parting, bidding God -speed - to laim and the noble Tom, who stood % beside him» , 'There were tears, and kisses, and ' blessings from Rom and her mother, a , few low -spoken words of sympathy and good Will from. Annie, and then the % two young men were gone. • Ralf an hour later, and the. eastern ' train thundered through the town ' 3 bearing away to the fields of ' bloody % carnage, three more young, vigorous lives, and leaving desolate two homes, , one the lonely cottage where 13111's mother wept . alone, the other the ; Mather mansion, svhere Mrs. Carletot iL and Rom eobbed bitterly, while Annie e renege le various ways to eomfort 1 there a CHAPTER XX. , 1 • ly at the Mathes' e It was very one. . • mansion after the departure of thee 3, soldiers, and it required all Antaxe's tact to keep Ro.e. frOM sinicing eetire- a ly under the muse at desolatioh which and -,.. OX'ept over 'her as she began' naore a more i,o realize 1,vhat.gtho wilt meant, g and to tremble, for: the safety of . Jeer t husbaed. and her 'brothers, They were ,.... ,still in Washington, but they night , :, be ordered- 1-i° nalinwe' at any '0°11°1'4 . f and, in a traitor of distreest Pt•se 6 waited ,and watched' for eTery Mail i, which 60111d being hex' tidings of theat. Nazi to lid hUshand's letters, Sines — Miele. did her the most goods for Jim- eie pewee 4 wox,ia of bo and bonier; and hie lettere. full- of ftin, end quaint deserip- ci.d the liee be was leaeing, .444. tThoera tellarereletoYnc,liaagediuJalU-Wie,i-li latter. suffered the most at:lately, in. addition to his ilielleee ef 'Maid- hfo bo vas cometalled, to endure jokes awl jeers welela the coarser naore eaneeleag es his eeurre4es tiRen hiM when, from Bill Baker, theyeeeard teat hie grst. ex - in. arna-eearing had. been. in the army a the enemy. TQ of BUN, instinote it seemed, e great thing tat he had captured and, to Washiugton so illustrioue e prisonee as tbe "Corp'ral," as he in oanieg 'him, and the story was repeated with' such; wonderftil ad- that Sinenie. when Onee by lie was ,o, listener to the tele . . i utterly to recognize himself in "chap whola d so many miles„ a. ranw and then fou.ghe so many hours with, the redoubtable 13111," who, while annoying his quondam Captive so still, und.er allecireinaistences,.•tion for 'him an attaehmeet as as it was einoere. Every- width, he cored do for Jimmie he did, heeonaing literally hie servant drudge, and thus saving him from a hardship which, as a private, be would otherwise have encountered. R was a fancy • of jimmie's that by as . a private in the array against which his hand had once leen, he should in .some way expiate his sin, and, perheps, be surer. of win- ning favor from Annie Graham, whose blue eyes were censtantly before him just as they ..had looked. ween, in ' her dresa of black, she stood in the spring sunshine, bidang hins good-bye. Soon after his arrival in Washington, he had been offered a sedond lieutenancy in Captain Carleton's coinganee but he steadily declined the offtee, giving no explanation to any one except his brotherand. his sister Rose, to whom he wrote; • "Perhaps I was foolish a ' h to d cline the office, and fort a moment I was horribly tempted to accept it, especi- alb' when, by doing sci, I could to some, deg•ree eScape my thorn in the flesh, who,. notwithstanding that be does me many a kindness, annoys me exeessive- le. But I could not feel. that I de- served that post. 11 ought to belong to some one who had. never spurned» the Old Flag, and so I stood firm. and euggested as a substitute that other Simms chap from Rockland,The Hephni or Phineae or Eli -hanged . if - , , , _ e I know what bis name is. Anyway, bward, is that crabbed 'domes son that ' w , use p d to pucker ber mouth so when she saw that young b of a Carleton,' and snaech rsee „„ . tshould bit "'nay her gown for leer 1 ,e. me. I reckon he'll get the office, with its twelve hundred. a year, which he can use for his mother's support. One . of her sons,,,..you knose, is 'married, and as good as lost to her; while that boy Isaac is not long for 'this world.. ' Pie -- son life at Richmond did the business for. him, or I'm mistaken so let :Eli be lieutenant, and James Cerleto 1 only.a' private D u think I did Tight •• 0 you ' , and will that paragon of yours, Mis- .. tress Graham, think SQ, tor •, This was what Jimmie wrote to RoseThe after he had been gone for three or four weeks,.•aii& what; Rose, with her usual impetuous thoughtlessness, read to her mother and Annie, who were Math in her Toone when the letter came. Annie had made an attempt to leave; but Rose had insisted that there could be no secret. in Jinamie's letter. If there was, she • would skip it, elle said, and , she r , g read • on stumblea dreadfully, and mispronouncing words, for Jeramie's handwriting was never very plain; and this letter, written with a sort lead . pencil, with a bit of slatestone for a table, was- his very worst. She made oat, however, ,that he had declined the office of • second lieutenant because he teought he did . not deserve it. that he had named Eli .; z . Simms as a fitter person for it than bimself, and th t he had called the widow a "crab-apple,"a or something like it.' All tn-ye' clear. and, egoe - aa.. • • " In isalari t ,l'I I ; mor- bid *seenxse -oit justiceininsone breath, and pronouncing 'him "perfectly splendid', - till7afternoon in another, she kept on ti she reach- ed "paragon," which the rendered "P mat," makin the sentence read, "Will -that' Pe g t f quo o yours,Mistress erahane think I did right?" • ' "What did he call me?" Annie ex- 'claimed, ber f 'white, ace turntng very as she leaned toward Roset t • , who, s ar - led at her •vehemence, tried again. to make out the woid, whicb ,was• strangely from e ac distorted,. I the f t that jeseas jinamiewas writing it, his shadow,uBill hadwetruck /elm famithar- ' ton the sho dere saying, wi h a laugh efie -le , t - nem o your gal I s'p,oset Give ber Bel Baker's- t " B113 a egre, s. -were "It looks like, Pequot, and some like Patagonian, Rose said, deciding at lest that it was paragon, and add- self of Annie's evident surprise, "you ing by way of an explanation to her- did netlike the idea of his calling you a Pequot,. did' yob. Annie? •Itl 'wouldn't eave meant anything if he had, and it , was natural that 1 should make the blunder, fax that's the name he gave the young giri at the pequot Rouse,- the oee he liked, and to whom he pass- ed himself off as Dice Lee. You re- 'member I told» you about her." . eyes . • , , I remember" and Annie s voice was a little liusky-"the little - girl who was not happy with- bee aunt and so listened the more willingly to. tbe boy's kind winning words." °e ' n° 31" said Ani did t .kwhyshe'd that, unless it e wrun from herfile bysomesuddeiTrarnae, hitter of what had been a.bright Sun -Spot in ber eheerlese clail•dhood. ,Where the Pe uot irl ent'ened in her pre- , q . lig .bris m hie had ' all/feted trit°t.e it ul f°"' LT NI Ogle t ' ',8 a, ' .was mos • y 1 re a e en prom which had taken the by away frometny more rambles on the beach ot Moonlie,-ht sails upon the bay' and pets • - • i haps it was a desire to defend Mid eats masa' the girl which prompted her to - d TY k L ' , a vence ,a reason why ic Les's a t- teetione had' been so 'aere'lable Seea ' ...-: , would have.:Agiven. Mach to recall htx, words, whiee made Mrs. Ciarieten dart a Quickrcurious glance at her, wbilef • -' ;-•,, . - d . - Rom exolauxiede Ilow o yen knovie she was not happy with her aunt? Did Jimmie tell you about Isere' . eNeeeed Annie replied, feeling glad that a servant appeared just at that Mordent, telling Rose a little girl Was 1 'a the kitchee aeking t� see her. To. rie bentinued. , , i,,.„ li cep of ‘e Th Italy I`e , " _ :lame ,,„. , , .. horde the Pearl. Tie Neapelis tat7/3111eIliher 'the. Qneen of Pearls.. The h A •t erieeu is vere toed of IcaPles, anh i is the eeeeeite age et. the oprinee el • Salelese" ter telly sou, and mile child, or he Ns•ae 1)ern there, writes Mese Maria Elsie Lander, a Torent°' 'Iv nue e s'edtei t.be, e)411.1.161 e e_ ,,‘ of tee Queen, given elle by herself, with enettertilbc:111da,ngtisubleyforroeemale,,reeuctaoigur:gplal.nabne-y bright memories a PALJULY, .1- . ' f ' thflobver- °rewind Italy. Margherlta Is e ens nie crowned head of Europe. The crowning beauty of Enapresa Eugenie oe France is her lovely heace and. its - ' bust- wonderfuL pose on a queenly that once bright head, none alas, bow- ed down with grief; that of the poor EmpressAustria'. th Elizabeth of was e finest .head of auleure eaii• in Europe,• sweeping down to.' her feet -ba full . dress in emu% Elizabeth always went • h . • ' f dazzlingblue in her hair, and a pair o . eyes; but Margherita is the incarnation es beauty, graee and a great sympathY. The secret , of ber power 1' this lies i 'n i e humanity, . • ,love for ,radiatesf wbich from her person and lends to her Manner and facial expreseion something dis- tinotly inimitable, and she is passion - . . t 1 fond of re ildren and delights to a e Y . h .near gather 'them about her. . . From- whatever standpoint you re- gar the Queen, she lea beaten. per- , sonality, She 'Speaks. five languages fluently, and I remember at. our first ,piesentation at eourt in the Quirinal -' - - - • • Palace, she addeessed everyone in their native tongue -that is when she spoke ' _except this new Ambassador of Ja- pan 'and the Amb dby assa Tess, who, th _.. a appeared for the first time in e w y,, European costume, •whom she address- ed in Fren.eh. M r h 'tthe and 'Ili - a g eri a plays e pianog tar, and possesses a sweet yoice, free quently accompanyingherself. And she IS a writer of taste and brilliancy, great- _ ly apereciated. by her own people. Queen is fainiliar with all the great . Poets, -- and it is her favorite pastinae 7 . when her Maid. has prepared. her for the /eight's repose to wrap .herself in . , a warm garment, if it is winter, and ' , •, before lying down to sleep to translate an ode 'from. Hoieee or a bit from . . , . Virgil, or some other ancient classic. . Nevertheless, she is a very early xis- er, not requiring somueh. sleep asmostet people, is out for a morning ,seale with f her ladies at ' the taking down one 0. g , • tri of the. shutters, frequently making - e • h. '. ling pure ases, and many a stranger Meeting thgraceful figure ' . ell e gure .in . e e Ro • at that early •heux lit- streetso mn . y t he is face to face tle imegine that .Perhaps with the august xaistress of Italy. Tee Queen is such an untiring pedestrian, like poor Elizabeth of Austria, that she . diff' It tchoose' from finds it very iou o eo among her ladies any who can bear the fatigues of her mountain tours. When . Bome, Humbert d. X h Ate. oc- n arg e in Me,a, .. the Quirinal Palace once the pal - cups, .e., . ace of the Popes, and are the worst housed there of all the sovereigns. of . Europe the rooms'• -being insufficient , . for -home life but and badly arranged. , dining -hall is beautiful, With its , the . _ . I d th pieta ana, tweet. decova tons, an e Queen likes it to be kept in total dark- d. her Majesty -re foot• nese an when • touches the threshold the light is turn- ed on, and she • leas pleased as a child at the sudden trausit ion frora•darkness to the splenseors. of Eget. In the King's' audience !chamber, Margherita's chair has its own place by the table, and from 5 to 6 o'clock every , , the 'Queen has . her hour's tete-a-tete With the ging, and this never • fails when they are at - the Quirinal» , The Meg and Queen are cousins; the Duke of Turin, the Queen's. father, was brother of Victor Emmanuel. At the . . , s death, the Duchess „of Turin, is sister etc the King of. Saxony,, to Germany, and in the vicinity a Dresden and near the romantic Switierland she sojourned. in etricCretirement, directing the educe.- tion of the young' Princess. The Duch- ess sowed. deep and sure, like the wise Duchess of Kent. The 'visits of the Queens - t • mother were great ventsein and I remember at a grand military review . the Queen' and- the Daehess driving 'together, when the King rode up to the' royal carriage, both, ladies rose and stood in their Carriage to receive his Maaesty's salutations, and remained standing till he rode away. The .royal livery is sca;rlet. and_ wbite, and every day the Queen and her ladies ., drove past oar place of residence, and we usually saw her later on the Pin- • • cian Rill, where there is a lovely drive, though short,. and» one drives • round many times to enjoy the superb view over Rome and St. Peter's, or we met her in grounds of the famous Villa Borghese, and all. ladiert out driying rose and Stood' in their carriages to salute the ' Queen in passing. I as- sure you, it wag a life in glamor -land I the brilliant royal colers, the bright an lovelyd intellectual face of the 4411Sea' the ' gallant greetings of her people, the sparkling and leaping , f -7 6- the founteins„ the erunabling ruins of long ages ago; in fact, one litres in a perpeteal glamor in Rome. I should. riot have been at all surprised to have met Caesar in the Roan toga, or regieee. or Augustus and Olivia, or a nee, ee ancient mete el.'" • ' s • ' . f there was great sickness there you would find both Ring and Queen, and iithird o asarrnemo a, thearthquake'f C i • ' ' I w an e of in the Island of lachia, ' took place the King • d' • ' • i 11 tbe . mg went 'reedy dawn nto a et trouble, and the Queen Paid from her - •• privy parse or I am na ion o e the '11 i t' f th Coliseum,bothexternally and internal- •• - e . .. ' ly, Atidoessively, with Bengal Lights, The admission to the Palatine Rill ot within the liinits set apart was it like and a half; and tele Monty was sent for the relief of the suffetertt, Well thatt-tras a spectacle simply ini- imaginable, But the hats did t ot. like the light. . • _ __ 3)uring our stay ftt Naples, her ma- , o 1 co 'ended nee foe jeete gra leue y lilla a ,last.private audienc.eie the P.alace, el Oapodimente, wile:1i le eeated on Ingh some two miles ebove the city, end, the d.rive. is all tee wey up hill. 1 was .eseeree into, the, presence .ebain- ' bera. where [was Xeeeived by the _semi- able Mistress of the' Robes, the Mar- , . - -• , • • , • . onto -lees qi. v ilieratieina„ weo conaecce ed me to the "job:king billiard_room . . . I may my that the Margate di Vil- larearina„ whom we met at the Quiri- nal, was. assoolated with Garibaldhin thetru le heel restated in placing: Victor Egrar%alivisel oia the throne., The BfarqUiS did some yea,Ts ago, In the hallad-re,erja Ghanoltgs the lolooryterdattthol! Napoleon n e re.. , w palace, . e Italia. ns have a capital pun on his name; leoneparte:-- . . , "I France..st sono tutti hide', Non tutti, eaa BuonaParte." all thieves' best t. pote. all, but earena. parge...teepar , • The windows : command . ravishing down over Naples the Bay of VieW$, , Naples, it is useless to .apply any adjeee tive„ for nothing suits, the opposite shores: Vesuvius, in his , awful Isola- . . . . rising against the blue heavens, ' with that dense column of smoke at eight a lurid flame. The Queen had breakfast in tlie park, and was atill there, and the Marchioness and I ciliate ted of many teings. She Teraarked:- . "The Italians „are not educated litre you English ladies," and illustrated. Then the Duchess of Pallavioixii came in a most meteerle person, naueh. -, , .. . _ older than the. Mistress of the Robes, and then other court ladies joined us. Finally, the doors of the private draw- ing-room opened, and I,was led to the Queen, ,ane we were left alone. Seated ,wherever her, our conversation; was long and varied. How radiant Margherita was that bright June morning, in soft grey silk -she is very .fond of grey- ,.. . . and. pearls, • the beautiful soul looking out through that loeely 'pale of"efedie terranean-purple blue eyes. Meanwhile, Sgambati, the composer and pianist of Rome, a , favorite pupil of the greet . . . . ., . Liszt, was waiting in the bi. lar -room 11' d to give the Queen a mimic lesson. I hear Margherita's soft,. tech, musical voice in faney, and see her radiant countenance, as .she talked or listened for many questions I had to answer. I recollect SOMS Moat kind and gracious words, which- I may not repeat,' an d the waving of stately trees, the drip- ping of a. fountain the. perftime Of rarest flowers mingled with this happy and unforgetable hour. 'I amused my- self on my return drive With , a coin- . I ' the d the down.On pamon o e up an . ewatch my way up new and. broader beauties , name constantly n. o mg as moun - it 'ht I tee ed. higher ; now I was descending, and inane, menet vanished with the descent. But the thought, the mind, What of these ? • they lose Could t 1what memory had painted with her magic brush? . • 1 , , , SAILED 'HALF A STE.A.ISIIIP ess... LEAVP.Ta 011TE, END OF IT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE S.A. -1.,... . Novel emit Partag.11.eat outtirme Savage Which INA:towed the 'Wreck Di: the k or StenththIP ThaWnialcee. 'on the Ift(n- 8 eetettet eceurs as the coast Or seething. There wag considerable excitement along tee banks ,of the elver. Tye not _Lee , , - - . , "'ay -nays ago, the e oreeet of interest raft btheointgoadilLee: tebtrangeelookaingshie 1, ,PlAace . , p e river, what, was 'left of her -that had eVi'- ,when • . • . , deatly been in trouble at sea, and was returning to port with: are much- speed as the Captain weld get met of her., ' Slae was the queerest looking object that sailors of 50 years, experience had ever seen, and at, first' there Was no I d puzz e esigna ing her... Her oem . d ' 1 f ' the patriarcee Of the looal marine , world as they stood wit.ili.their glasses to: their e s ndeavouring to 'unravel Ye e , . Her wobbling the fleatleg mestere. . about in, the water as she progressed through, the intricate' passages , on the ere d (1 • " 1 es made One's w e river in p ac eyes dance with fear, while her mode of ' propulsion being eltogether so very. , . different. from that of ships of „,. . . , . (3ra rts proper,caused crowds to run alongside the banks' of the river, or they couId, in their anxious endeavor to find out how she was being . . .steered. • . • ' She did not appeal; foi laeye a PrePer bowmane or stern; on the dontrary, she looked like a battered: up piece of old .. • got loose black, hull that had sortiehow e from the bottom, and was floating any- . • • ' ' where and plunging anyhow • • ' AT THE MERCY OF CHANCE. eate a As you know, steamships cr , disturbed wake with their propellers aft, but this freak ship d emus . . p ma ,e a c churning at her bow, like' a spaniel • . , . paddling eimself• along with his paws. • It turned out afterward that this ' • marine prodigy was all that was left • • - • • t o fine of h. ne steamer Milwaukee, weed, had oilier two days previously left the Tyne . for foreign ports,- and on the con . ay s rue e ioe s a dd t•kth ;k at den Scaure witb a •tremendous crash, . when gobag at full. speed. A sharp -teethed rock penetrated in- to her keel and stood up eight feet high ' the • • this deplor- in e main hold, In is . able condition it looked as if the big eteameide was a total loss. • But this, accident simply' served the - purpose of causing the most remark- able salvage feat in the world. •It was • seen ,that no ordinary 'operation could save her, so the daring' representative. of the underwriters who Went out to ins bitbrilliant idea • it inspect her on a ., was the last chance. . -, . He determined to blow the ship in two with dynainite, a tt t t an a emP ° float off the . stern end, Which con- t in d the 'ship'sand steer- a e : e machinery bag., gear. This part of the ship was quite free from -water Owing to the watertight bulkheads. There was no .hesitation, no waiting, and. so the. work commene- ed at once at imminent risk and peril only. to the disabled. ship, but to those Who were about to engage an the hazardous work. - Fifty feet forward. of the stokehOld bulkhead which still remained intact,. operations were begun. to out the ship in two. Charges of dynamite were spread about the ship,. eaoh charge varying in bulk according to tee thick- nese of the steel sides to be broken. • , . • One especially troublesome plate took .s . • - POUNDS OF. DYNAMITE SEVERAL • ', to sever it. • The salvage party naturally proceed- ed with their work very; carefully, only , being abIe to do a little bit at a time, so it was not till . at the end of the third Or fourth week that the last • ex- plosion took plaee which finally divicl- e e s, tp., . e tbe h• As the. after -end of .the .livialhan- floated off the reek' into deep water, the crew and workers set. up a great °hear. • • . . . • • ' of The forward end of the ship, course, was left on the Seeks . to be battered ineo splinters, by .the wintry seas , . Hexing so far succeeded .in their work, the next thing the -breaking -up parte did was to put. the machinery in the floating end in order. All the essential parts of the ship were un- harmed; the boilers, engines, dynamos an e piope er and .g d tie • 11 1 steeringear all intact. The great ragged end where the' amputation of the bow had taken plea() wax patehed up as -well as possible with iron sheeting below the water line and with tarpaulin above. Now steam was got up, and thus she startee, stern first for the neetest port, Crawling up the river when she got there in the most .extreordinary fashion, zigzaging and pitening about in a stupendous manner. h Another strange face In connection with this ship is that she is heering b. , new fore -end built to her present half, ancl when the -whole is completed she ' ' d • will be as goo as ever. . se - -. --- . COREAN WOMEN. • . In her childhood the Corean woman laich e •• receives a nickname by w sh is known in the faraily and by .her dear friends, but which, when she arrives at maturity, is employed only by her parents. To all othetetersons sbe is "the sister" or "the daughter " of sueb an& such a „one. Attie :ber marriage her name; IS berieci-she is ,absolutely,, nameless.; her own parents refer to . b le 'n ' the district into hei y men mai g ., . . which elle, has maerted. Should ber m-rriage be blessed with children she ' '1 •' ' ' h " f '-d. 0 If it is "the mather" o so , an 8, . . happens that a woman has to appear in ,,, . ' judge gives her a court 0 ' h - . e .. a '-ew - - e special name foe Use while the cam t• I d t save time and to sim•• lap s n �rder o: lif matters. P 1 . INTEBESTINO ,--e.... A 14...e. Paragraphs Wm. welt Ittoeth. II Teeatrical reelism 3.1 'ilea, too far in Toledo scene ill the Pier of ' riumber a cloth ads( bribes; and stones • ari seem. . On meeeeeol trodueed among teem. this was thrown with head, necessitating fit . ' it, cpk . . greatem er c W. M. Coodon, since, in East El. at . the age of 111 y SMOhillg. Wilen. . ten .eret- tinned. the habit 14101 his boast that he had. x ,. teem the powder come tle of. Waterloo • H( ' • ' birte and had beer , army. Boenholm, an igen -Sea, ninety miles mei e , „ , lormea or Magnetic 3 se .. LI a eat the , compass when in their vicinity, on stationary object guides . One sulanier • e' oharged with magnate Pass on a vessel, pass perpendicularly down Th • . • e evidence of . . scheme of a settler in Wash. • He had taken meat land, and teeplare capied it , the required him to oweership T. - , . .-. . g that a- tanely of ie his bed, and this no . °couple .bis bad t ' d ' .. . to law. . . A prominent ,Neer positively asserted thi sible for a man who k to stake the grip," w prised by a. lett be / • - - - '31' - - morning. It Was from d • / limo en legs, who dec. . winter, .for the past fi been a victim of the . i A. watchful, policemi Kan. interfered with , , couple of k d b mas e TO powered , pl mit hixn u . , money and re, tied him to a tree. • 1 when the Mc . . . , e 0 8] he was about frozen t A. pickle. manufactm . laud, to be on the sal( naakes its pint bott. mo than a • t , It re an . - pus . : with a. snag in Cana, . g reveals that any 1 P .,.. • more than a pent mut quart.. .. A sausage sixty-six of the big things int, hogs were recently eta Cushing of William . , other big thing was eriatig.h to. feed a tro • • . - : hog weighed 827 the finest x istence is that in- As Was built b the E y 6 MI for himself. It Was E of erection and on it constantly'employed' . iod: The COSt was t • One of the happiest B,ockefeller's life war ing relative gave hin He was then Ohly a. carried it • ever since, of money could induce it. • - • • Think of it 1 The sity of Birmingham,' tablished " h ' of , a 0 air brewers . end itiatst - ` • well be .annual the score . ' An anti-breakiast Eglirt,' Ill. The men eelves to two meals a morning' meal. . The] stomach needs -a .daiel twelve, hours. - A -mischievous wreb ed a nail in k le at a P.. in •Funkstowe, Md. testanta.breinebt his against the ten ethat tooth.. The 'nest of, the bo • 's Ineeniouslv Mittel/ ' - - bird. fastens fire -flies elaY, and in tee nig changeful elsarke• , The debt of France • .. e.a.ela resident, that. ee Greet Britain, eV , 11 ited States elk. - TO widen e business tower in Copenhagen, is to be bodily 'moved yards, . A telephone cornea. . . • charges only fifty et - tele') hone service in ' Gieat • Britain cc square miles of Merl which dyvell. wee. 41,0( The Fie ' ' • . Tinos are . ' that rarely is one, se play some instrumen S i ed s in Italy ha n .1•• e . • ' per cent, daring the ....A.n, ostrich every se thers werth. from $40 . • A line of street cal 0 he run by eompee . -,- ON DEVIL'S ISLAND. , • Ike rrlf401I of The Story of a heater t , -il Droyfaa. . Airre • , - The London Daily Telegraph publish- . -.„ , , es- the following under date of Cayen- , , , . ne • Januar 14, iers, t . Y • The City of Tang steaming at eight knots, took two hours and a half to go from the Iles d S 1 t 't C I -' • tee a a u o Cayenne. n passing f 't ore Devil's Island,three railes off at least, according to the regulations, I with my glass was able to distinguish . the residences of the wardens and the but f Dreyfus.•1 thh le f was • in mg 0 .,not finding some changes, or to speak more explicitly, relaxations- in discipline. There was nothing' of the, met, for the double. barrier - of . ti b .'' - en er is always • , there, and I could see five warders on guard around the prison and cannon . . pointed at our vessel. •At Cayenne the offielles.maintain the strictest silence' a.bout the Dreyfus af- fair.1 the first d f xxi • al...I ..n eaye o y arriv went to pay a visit to the director of the .penal adininistrations. • He re- - d ' t ' 1 but coldly: eeive me cour eous y; , "Airy instructions are very simple," he said, "First and foremost, we have . • d Paris. the f llo ving or- receivefrom e 0 N ., • der, 'Absolute silence about Dreyfus.' ' . - • . So ling as a judgment bas not been given . by the Court of Cessation we shall not raodify the regime that • THE •COND.EM_NED MAN. . has to undergo, for the siniple- reason .,. that there are no regulations which h lay down that the treatment accorded to a prisoner should be altered because a revision efhis trial is admitted- I next went .te see M. Rnberdeau, Governer of Guiana The Governor ' was very much put out because he had been reported to have said that Drey- fes was subjected to cellular confine- ment. "I never said anything of the kind," he remarked, ' "far the simple reason that Dreyfus was never under such a treatment. What 1 said, and what I repeat was and is that by the very fact. of his imprisonment On Deve il's Island he could_ be considered as condemned :to a oell, bemuse the meets- ures of preeaution taken' by the ad- ministration caused the prisoner. to , be personally watched and guarded, and to be prevented from walking alone. "Dreyeas," contbatierl the Governor, • oes whate likes in is enc °sine. "d '• ' h • ' h' 1 ' Be eats, drinks ' and smokes as fancy imeele tura. Only he has not leave to come 'over to .Cayenne or go back to Prance." I learn that for some time past Drey- ' has been. ill. Its moral. courage appears to have deceased or have left him since he learned what has been taking plate' in Prance during the !Diet three months, The thief medical of- ficer of the administration laiiiietaken. the teetege cc; go three antes to Devil's'Islarid in order to attend the • • O/the : , • . prisoner. Owthe Lest and second oc- casions illnette Was due to weakness „ , ulleat a -b -t, gaStr- attacks.Th 'MI' ' e " - le e tines, Santiery 8, it was dysen- ter y He .has tiot yet 'got over this attack - ' ' I ' , • . i , . In a few' days time the ware erg at e - ' ' ' d Devil's Island are to be ehanged, an „, , ill be gent out from bay» ''''W ones w ,. y ehtie. ' . . ., . . . ,.- -- - - -- . ee...... BATING liCieSts et .The consUnaption •• growing in Paris tc grit it is proposed I ' ' ' abattoir fax the hippi - . , . sent "ne elangb"eri4 . . . - human food i e car is e , . .. s, I , ,,, , ,, .,., 10,7 4e("adl- •I"•I ''' ' itie...ege deekeye we /neat weighed .8,748,11 eumption of horse . fl ,, . , . . to new ming it Fran siangliterthouee , wa/ elippepliagists claim,' better aid ae hotel any other eremite tion is that the. animi are. geeerIttly old, e bevies which meet 1 WHY THE' T.RAISLEe EXISTS. . Mrs. Helms -You ought to be cisha.raed Of yoiirself. We are all seet into the world for some useful pur- pose. ' • The Tramp, humb)y---V.'es'in. I think I must have been ,intended to use lin, cold victuala - BEHIND IRS nAcat. Jonglers is always worrying for fear somebody will undermine his reptitee tion • Reel foelise. ' Nebody whose word is worth considering will ever get dowri that far. • ITEMS. !a Will he round! 4%411144 as reeently ear- , Ohio, during a - Shantytown." At Iles, resembling used in a riot s jeker had in - reel bricie, and seeh force that rank Murphy's e Stitches to re-, losecl his career died, not long mfield, N. ears. Ile began re old, end con -- his death. It was ade More smoke. med at the bat - wee of Irish in the British d. of the Baltio t of Zealand, is coke. They 80 that na.vigatortil, eave to rely upe sedforioe, kstieserinsgo, nn that the cora- ng over it dips ard. ice utieet the Polouse County, up some Govern-» d that he had co- , time to entitle e discovery was• ice were nested showed teat he horde according Yorker, baying t "it is' import- eeps his feet dry as a little sure eceived the next a man with two ared that every ve years, he had rip. n in Fort Scott, the designs of at ers. They over - red him of his diver, and there rive hours after - was discovered, o deatb. ing firna in Eng - side of the law, es hold a little generosity met La, where a law essel measuring pay duty on a feet long is - one which two big nverted by C. F. spost, Md. The a pork pie large up» for a month. pounds, ausoleum in ex- ra, India, whi eror. Shah jehort 2 years in °mum 20,000 men were during that per - 4,000,000.' days of John D. the day a lov- a silver watch. boy, and he has - and no amount him to part with Midland -Culver- England, has es - brewing." Now ors, with college le, turned. out by society exists in bers limit them - day, omitting the assert that tbe .rest of at least h recently plant - pie -eating match One of the con - molar so forcibly he fractured a ya bird of India ated.. This little to 11 with moist ht it glows with 18 about 0115 for £ Holland, $1.00; aly, r5; the Un-' street, tee round 151) feet in height, a distance of 50 3' in Elyria, a, ote a month for iesidences. retro] s 2,510,926 ory in Africa on 0,000 inhabit s. o fend». of masin en Who does not t. e inereased fifty past ten yeers, ar furnishes fea- to S50. 's in Si,. Louis is ssed air. itAT IN PARIS. of horoeflesh is sueb an extent o erect a spe.cial phagiats, tt pre - g of horses fax d oe at Villejuif,' melte) Is, i rue ud- toesunted The 0 kilos. The oon- esh 18 oI COW'Se, ce. The first horse opened in 1800. that horseflesh is slang 1.t8 that of Is ohvious objec- tsktflcd ie -Paris orn-out hacks or ite aceidente,