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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-4-8, Page 3All11113 8, 1.802 essosreessw..*.smesomeme....seievs....1101.....". THE FROZEN RIVER, ((1oxehe Dan), All at ace she ponied as enddistly its she had begun, lend daehing 1,110 Jute 211.)011 the ground, exeliticeed Aiid lute the limiter Or the forest no \verde itt whieh to pritieti the poor Xingarre dance" Weal utiblee werellOt 50 scent of their 'Moult to, and lave offered her muolt gold to greet. them revels,' " 01ent," cried 1 van, retiovering hinteelf iron) his niumentary bewilainment, y011' are always enchientine„ but Isi•day you me beyond evevything. NVIty have you ailopt. ed this Omega cotit moo ?" As he spoke he drew closer to bee, aid, encircling her waist wtth hisarm, endeavor/ ea to prom Ms line to hers, Without withdrawing hereelf from his embrace, the girl bent forward and with- drew her ripe, red mouth front the ettempt- ed °loess. II Not so fast ; not so fast," exclaimed she, with a light laugh ; " talking m0105 before kiesing. You 'Asked no how I knew that you wee° coming Why, as .1 glided upon my skates down the river last night, the whole foroet seemed to be whispering, He is coming—Ivan Is ooming.' Do you never hear strange it510024 in the forest--curions murinuta Oat seem to tell yeti what is going to happen ? Haws you never Reen strange sights when you have been waiting for the wild beasts?" Ivan shuddered, hut shaking off avague feeling of inquietutle, he Dowered, when did you know of my coming, sweet Olga ? " The fiend of unrest oriole on me last eight," replied the girl, " so 3 bound 011 )ny sikates and sena as far as It favorite spot et mine, the deserted mill on the river " Surely you aver 3vent alone to that weird and desolate spot," mei/learned leen, ehill pervading his veins ; " why, it that is, they say—" " \V hat do they say asked the giti Nvith ti Hash of her dark oyes, as her lovet paused, " That it is the haunt of the (lemons of the waste," oldie,' Ivan, " and that feerful sowed% me head to issue front 1 2 besides, it is not 21 spot 1 hat 1 thought you would have ventured 1511' -ole,'---- " tile 1)1)of that hot-headed young Pole tras found there," interrupted the gypsy " I rather think that 1 ougla to be grateful to a spot that loot freed Inc from his perseention. Pet yours two but foolish preind lees, awl 1 k n ow whence yole derived them. They imme from the obi wontim who sits ranee ell day in the hut on the island, epiening at her wheel, anti try. ing tn keep her at from l'ettikoff--froin the al women who knows 50 meth of the svil epirits of the strettin and wood thet (me might well etippoee that she was in constaa comma feat 1 on si'itli t hem Yon have heard aIl these idle tales, Ivan Iptinotr, from your inother. " Yes," enn tinned the young girl, with in,:reasing vehionem 1,215 ,511e wrenched herself away frinn her lover's clasp, " and you have come here to -day to ask mo to be your wife, to leave all my amnsoments and 0111211 101, to quit, my life of gaiety anil ex- citement, awl to immure 11135011 111 a lonely hut with an rid witch who hates 1110 SO that she weithi poison me before I had beeu three weeks tunli•r the same Loofa me," " Olga, you wrong my mother," pleaded Ivan, " I would do much for the man I loved.'' consolitary forest life with him, but I will not risk his and my happinees. Listen listen te me, Ivan 1 An 1 not right, did you not come to tley to ask me to be your wile?" " I ata, dearest Olga," answered the forester. " Then you must eltooee between your mother and me," replied the gypsy " I will not submit to bee prejudices, and if you st ill, why, you eau relinquish me 1 nit shenla you elect to ea like a man and 1101 to be tied ki an old wontatt's apron-atrings, aro there itot hospitals and houses of refuge where old people can end their days?" Ivan marvelled at hearing telmost the sante suggeetion drop Irene Olga's lips as he had made to Ms mother in an excess of pose slots The idea no Mega E emeti t,o hor. rible. " Chnose," reeunied she : 111131 father will soon be back again, and we axe all our arrangements to make," " Olga, I can not live without you enswored the young men passionately. " But Inc could you get on with me ? Von have been brought up a member of the Greek Church, whilst T. tun of the religion of my rue." A fated glitintur was swiftly stealing over the young man, ad he felt that no secri. flee was too greet which would enable him him to win the Intuit 111 girl, " As a soldier, Olga,' replied he. "1 had not mall time for religion, and BS a hunter ot beasts, still le.s. As fa my mother, she most go, as you say, to the hospitn1 ; an for my faith, I will cast it aside for a kise fvont those sweet lips," cried the infatuated young mart "Tako it, them and remember that) now yon aro mine, body and soul," murmured the Gillum, end flying into his terms, sho glued her lips to his In ono long passionate kiss, "Hush," said the girl, suddenly gliding from his arm with the sinuous gram of a 502: - pent, "my fother is comingi I can hear his steps twoesing the yard. He will not lose 111131)0 will ?lover nonsent to our union. We meet fly, Moet mo to -night at the ruined initi 1" "Ab the ruined null I" ovied the young erten, staaled from his dream of hoppiness, "Yes. I will skate hp to the mill. Meet me there at midnight, and we will speed onward to our future home," whispeted the girl "Ono more kiss to seal the bargain— qui my father's hand Is on the /atoll." A "hi pressing her lips 'T°n his the gyp- s ded behind the curtain. At that in. t Coven/in entered the ohamber, beae- throe large littaks of corn -brandy and Hawed by four other gypsies of as villain. us appearance as himself. Ivan Iptenotr, like a true Rnssian, could drink loeg 111)1 deeply without the liquor mounting to his brain, but bile gypsies gang, se:reached, and querrelled over their liquor, and their excitement eaosed the potent spiv - it to do Its work the (nib:liter. The reveiry was at its height when Ivan felt a slight 1011011 upon his shoulder, end, turning round, saw Olga, standing bellied him. She had thrown a long gray cloak over her strengo costume, covered her revolt trance With a tall, pointed ottp of these= tneterial, and drawn on a pair of Mt -dined boots, Her sket es wore dangling in her right hand, end Iva;, felt her warin breath upon his oheek ash° whispered; "Follow me in an hour, ad then you 00 1111,15 forever." With a warm preesuve of the heed she glided awite , end the neon, by an in- voluntery movement, etarted to hie feet a though to follow her, balite restrained him by a, gesture, and slipped :through the 110e1 with scarcely sound, Her father end his boon Companions had 1t01) 110tiend OlgnA Movetnents, )itsittg engaged in 'a violent dia. wession regarding the sotto of the frost. Conintlin et lest. appealed to Inas "Yon know all the signs and amigos, my brave forester," Hail be ; how in /1,41 longer in the 2101 /ming to 110111 3" Alient three weeks, 1 eltould think," mum/eyed the young men. " devils," retorted t half -In toxl • eatod gypsy ; tell you, my led, that if you de not get Intelt 10 your hovel on the Wand by ltenigh 1, poi will have te try Home oilier path than the ri otos" "Nonsense 3 do yoll moan to sty that an tutexpected 1112)0) 111 coming on here Were e2515 of it 125 1 hill 11)51)12)2 ;dream," returned Iven, inlets/mid etealy. Dhl you say 1 nom -mist. 3'. -•then 11101111 that. 1 mu a liar 1" roared the gypeS, with 11811,11110 burn. of fortieity, tool suatell. lug up a, heavy goblet, it hulled it at his guest's heinl, Drink, however, renders 1110 hand imeteady, and the miseilo struck wee of the Win/ gypeies On the forehead, vetting the skin slightly. 121 an instant ell wee up- roar, knives were drawn, and iu the chance melee teemed the lamps were Main. guished and the chamber plunge'l into total darkners. Avoiding the inebriated mem Intents as best he coula, lean felt for Ida skates width wore hanging upnn a peg &leen bite 1,1)0 311011, 0)11 1)1 hie iwarch he do. tached sotne objects which fell, with a slight noise, upon the flows Pence hail been by ,his time restored, one of the lamps wits relighted, and the late oonthatants, one of whom had received slight 01118, w ere, exchanging a tipsy =brume. The light wedded Ivan to discovee his skates, but as he moved forward to detach them from the wall, ho felt some object be- neath hie foot, and looking down, he saw that, the object was a crucifix which he had thrown down, end Oa he was trampling the imago of the Saviour beneath his feet. At ens, other time, Ivan svould have felt deeply shocked at his tincoacioue dooeura- tion of a sacred emblem, but his thoughts were eo firmly fixed on Olga that, with a, muttered oath, he Itiolced. the crime on one Mille, and, taking down MR8111,204 front where they bung, lei t. the room withont being noticed hy his host or his boon eompati• ions. Direetly he emerged into the open air, ho Was sensible that. a great change had 111)1,11 ;dam, The night, was sensibly warmer:dal he began to thi»It that after all Conradin might be Tight as te hisproolmey regarding the thaw. (Siting down to elle Waters edge, he strapped 1111 his skates, and. Was putting up the eoller 111 his heavy coat when 11111 finnan catight 111 1 tird muted his '100 11, which he remembered sustained le smell eross which had beim placed there at hiS birth. Solna feeling 'which he (meld not 00- enunt fur seemed to nrge him to throw i1 aside, but thrust the emits back beneath his shirt, he grasped his it/on-shod emit in his Mind and struck out imo the centre of the stenos As lie got further up tho riVer,thc notieed that there wits a good deal of mois- titre upon the we, and that, here and there small pools of water had formed upon its Ho lied not far to go noW before Ise reach: eilthe trysting piece where love and Olga aweited him. The wood was 1100) moult thicker, and ell at. onee he was senstble of a something which was floaing in the reir in front of him. 1,1 50110 1110 istilistinet figure of a man, bloated end swollen, as though 11 had laid some tune beneath the waters of , the stream. Ivan felt his blood 011111 and his hair bristle upon his head, for in the dis- colored featurtm he recognized the man— Alexis 1mm/ellen-0f whom his mother had spoken :luring their last cone-mesa:on. The figure still floated by his side, keeping pace with his every stride, and from it appeared to issue a faint unearthly Voice. ''Itt back, go ba:k t" it seta; " death and destruction are before you!" %Vitt) a ory that he cont(1 not restrain btu/sting ferim his lips, Ivan bent forward end exerted his utmost speed to distance the spectre, end he this he eueceeded, for in a few ininetes the 11n00a1/2mm vanished. The river soon took a 1501111, and es he swept round it at the top of his speed, he saw the figura of e, man standing in his path maki nit frantic gestures to him to turn heck. Unheeding this, teen pursued his headlong 0151001until he came within a fow yards of the figure, when to his surprise, lie recog- nized 1115 fair heir and blue eyes of the Pole, Lunettes Skyrneeki, with Ins fano bleaulted and distorted by his terrible death. The :Teem utleved no sound, however, but still waved his hands with motion of entreaty. ! With his teeth firmly set, and with a, feel- ' log of desperatien 11)051115 111);), the young nen dashed onward and seemed to pass entirely throegh the apparition, tool, turtl- ing Leek/wail, saw the spectre still there, ' with its hands raised high above its head with gesture of mute despair. A fooling ot terror shot through the young malt's heart, hut the thought of the Iteauti- ful gypsy, nerved hint, mut once amon he ' sped upon hes way. He could see the dark mass of the old es eter-mill looming Meek against, the snow, and knew Mutt a f ew minute's exertion would unable him to meta it. All at once, to his extreme sot/page, a host of shining lights seemed to elloot up hymn between tho rafts/vs of the inineil rnof and spread themselves allover the building, like a mass of fiery insects. The ciosotl.up windows seeined to glow with a lurid fire, and It strange and confused murmur of many sveird voicee joining in 111 ineentat ion, from the words of which ho could not make any meaning, rang out in the still night. For a moment he paused a the etrage and unex- pouted sight, and then muttered between his clenched teeth ; " 11 1, had to face hell iteelf, end all its fiends confronted 1110, 150111(1 dare them for Olgols sake." Again lie sped on, and M a few seconds ! came to the toot of the broken stop and halted in front, of the door, 'The infernal discoed inside was as lotui and deafening as ever, and as he gleamed fettrfully about him, the dooe liew open and the figure of Olgis appeared upon the threshold. She Watt itS beitaiful as ever, but there was 0 Inrid look in her eyes which he had never seen there before. "So yon Intro come, most feithful of lovers," said she ; "001115 to join the lutopy haud thet wender over the ice and snow ; come to give np yonr soul to onr great mas- ter anti your body to the fishes of the Vistela 1 ante to give me another year's health and beauty and power to enjoy ail the pleastlreS of life. Poor fool, did you think thet 110011 condescend to share the hut 0115 miserable peasant? 13111 come, you ere mine now, foe yott yielded to tontine. - Lion and arcs 105), forever." A. wild burst of laughter mug out from the balmier of the mill, wed there was a stratige rattling eound, whiell filled the heart of the forester with clreitil. With all her earthly lemony gone, and foaturos changed to those of 0 demon, Olga aiming down the steps end clutched leen by the thvoa. Ifor a moment the pressure Was so intense that, he tholight he must, have fallen to the ground, 1)111, 11,111h i nOwerild he wrenched himself away, end wheeling route& darted olf with all the rived that he wits capable of in the direction or iao home on the island. With a ory f dhotis. poieted Page the gypsy started in pursuit, and the ring of Ole two pairs of skates sounded loud miil elem. above the din tend revay of the old mill, Another strange somul was heard, and Ivan, 5111111)05 0110 his shoulder for 511 Mauna saw 0, troop THE BRUSSELS POST. of elteletone, with fiery oyes viewing through the doorway and following it) PIP' 51111, NY1‘11 11111.1i 1-11)1 1,5 of fleehlette joints. But horrible am this sign1 waa, tlmet 12 wits 0110 yet 11101V1 terrible, Iltil 11111, in3lie 1111, y1111115 1111111 41)21111 ,every nerve end 511100) 1 1/ 111V1141111 hir4 ,it01,1-111111 that sight was 1 lot of Oiga Coma lin, her Irtlf.closed lips dewiest the 1201113' teeth set, firmly to.. gether, ,ier eyes gleaming with saitute dud ter Mende est ended:with their linguist Lent the 1010115 01 11 14111 of 111•11/ 1111 though elope to 511103) 111011' Intended Victim. She Was only atiotit ten paces behind tin forester and melting evevy elnirt, to 511111 ;men Onwitra 11/011 11,11 hi11.10113 ehase ..-tho Ignited man, tho girl -listed, end the grisly treop tit el«ilittons, swooping along like some terrible phantasmagoria of night- mare, Suddenly Ivan heard, further up the river, a Merl report like that of a mention and 1113 overstrained brain relived to per• form it0 deny end to tell him the cause of it, Olga hound it) too. It was the break- iog 1110, " I have 1,1111 110W, fool," pulled alio '(111 you think to escape me ? No. you IMP mine soul and body, like Ivanovitch and likyrneeki. " She entice/ilea her efforts and gained two patios on dm distance between them. All a once, etri saw 111)131, lihiek band, of some Wel t'n feet in width, Stretell'og 11011010 Ile l'iVer, and UMIld hear LI1S 50111111 11 11111'. - blind waters, In an instant he ;Evian that the lee had begun to break up and that he was lost, He felt for the ethos that was round his neck, etel, drawing it. out, 001l1 1081111101 himeelf to 2.11, berishot fend It. Alex- 1 tender ot Nevskoe in the perilous rettempt that he W11.4 about to make to leap across the 3100)3)05 clown]. lint Olga was upon his track. I.Vith suildee spring forward she teenaged to plane ' hot' tend on his shoulder. The touch of the beautitul liend thrilled Ile young men with drend. 121, almost fell to the ground ; ae if filled with h 1011b. den inepiratitm, he t, imbed the fingers which clasp,' him/wit.: she little cross, and, with a fresh inyocation to t he 511111 ttl, sprang Heroes 1110 terrible whirl offsvaters and brok- en 100. When the [moss toughed her, Olga tett/Bred a yell of terror. 111r hand dropped by her side and she stumbled ferward into the black weetet e which filled the yawning chasm Ivan's leap Was a suceeodul one, though 110 tell on lite halide anti knees. As he rose to hie feet be not one 10/i1, behind hien and 51151, Olga otruggling in the icy waters, while the hellish chose of grisly skeletons disap- peared. NN'ithout venturing upon enothor glenee, Iven Ipanoil• sped onward and in about an hour arrived at his island home, drenched with perspiration, and with a facie white es marble. " Have you anythtng to say to me, son Ivan " asked his mother, advancing to neeee him. " Only to eareat you to pardon me, and I believe that I will be good son to you for the future," answerea the couseience- stricken man. The only reply his mother made was to kiss Mtn fondly, and tithing the cross, which he still grasped iti his right hand, the fastened it once more round his neck by a fresh piece of cord. (Tent men.) WORLD'S PAIR NOTES, Bulgaria has decided to participate in tho Exposition. Foreign partieipation, so far as tomertained up to the -present, ea braces seventy-two nations and provinces. Canada has been given (18,471 square feet of spaeo in the various buildings, es:elusive of space yet to be granted in the agriculture and live stook departineuts. Tho Wornen's Uhristien Temperanoe Union wants to put up a budding, ,02e1 00 feet, in the Exposition groends, in width to exhibit the motto system of its work and to conduct a cafe for the side of temperance c 'a. Five acres of space in the Miawas Plats - once lieve been reserved hir a nursery exhib- 11 The Cluster Mining Company, of Ideho, is taking it very extensive colleetion of ores for exhibition at t/ie Fair. Tho Sulrollt 11,1-00 Society, 'England, has offered two gold tnedels, of the value $30 each, for the best Suffolk horse and mare or filly exhibited at the World's Fair 111'C:idea- go- The City of Cineiunati wants to creel; a building at the leepositien, to be used both as a club house and receptacle foe 11 1111111101. pal exhibit. Itis williug to eepend $30,000 in the undertaking. Lieut. litker, of the 'Marine Set:Linn of the 1)011)111 1111111 of Transportation, his secured Si promise from the Detroit DryilSook Com- pany for an exhibit 01 11 perfeet model in stuceo of the entire shipbuilding 1110111 1)2 the cimpany, both at DOL1'01 atia Wyan- dotte yards. , 1)0512111 111111110, of Chloe:so, teuether ' with many other SCIOLIOStN, declare that. no 111000 rariking proofs of 1110 511111111 (meet exist in this country 1111111 are -eon in the Demplaiites valley between Oltioago and LI (diet. Foe eel ucetinnal reasons Si is (1 at lie advmatea tho melting of um exhibit demote Witting this fact at the World's Fair, with maps, surveys and colleations 1.f geolegiusl speeimens, which are uhundient, so etratiged as to show Elsa linos of glicisl progress. This, he estimates, wou.d require Rimed $10,000. English women are active in preperation foe their panticipation in the Fixprisit 1011, At a meeting of the woman's onmini Mei in London, nu March 3ri1, it was annotioned that Queen Viotoria 31,1,1 3)10101s0)1 speeitans of her own work in $pinning 1,11,1 knit tinge. done when she was a girl I ale., wino; of her embroidering, fine drawing and waterwolor 'psinting, tneneess Loins./ will ...aril rti some (gay inodoling, 'Fritter:8- Beatrice see- elal paintings, and 3)111,050 le tettan &into embroidery. The committee assigned chenge of various inettelies 1 wiimen's ex hibits 118 folloWS 1 'o0,,t,05 of Aberdeen ; Scotch, Lady ; thropy, 'Berontss lientiett-Cou tts tel ties thus Mrs, Fawcett, the welter on psi' teal mem. omy ; 11001)115-1 nursing, Mr: Isenwiek ; Wentem'S art, Mrs. Robert 0111S1 ti Several W00100 were selected to prep,: •• pipers on various edema/Mind mid oeoniono; ijeet s lt, is probable thitt the 111)111' position will Immo opporths 11 n' seeing a more extensive end liner exhits ion oi oient Greek art than it 11113 11111,10101T h11011 possible to see outside of Ir ee 1'. Cue 1eed11/15, 1/1rect trealmien ttl or 11 s 1 01 Alibi nuitdos, hog written t hat the i. oe au gov- ernment hits aceopted the i -vitals 11 10 11/11`. Lleipitte tt the laxpoettimi, iv • li , 11 under- standing that it will he ropres. only hy memorials of its am him!' ! /rive Wel/ 010111, 1)1vector of the Ante :, '4 1,,,'l Clessie Studio et Ilea tit (Irocian government hits ea! : to maim and send tin 1,1101211 posit toe e / of 1 he priii• e13)111 Worke 11 Necklet eel 11 s m Cree ;0, together with mans, iiingi ni, I 'tont ie. granite. To those will pi, ; . 11 61,41 01502N, tEnd 1)(9.111118 101110 II Of ppecimene of 048810 11101-11 11• 15111011 Are 110W 11(51 11110 Lod . TEE fLYSTERY OV A BOX. 11 bii , but no more thsn 11 feet, and after N WS workieg one (ley we gave Op that liie1 had likrpp, FoigiciN for medlar. 0115110 were tient down to net 111)11111 thelh,1 wilt -revel/ poen ble, 11.1111 1/11t. for T 110 prO80111.0 Of sharks we 15011111 Imre bad Of the 13111,1111reernite sf the Germ n her ever 1,1 a day. ,as if one inonn er had army 111111 naVy 111 3)5)1, 1 p0r00111:14j0 Of 1)2 Ioito,l with another for mites up illiteraoy was 51, am, hist 2.37 in 1875, 1.32 - and detest 1 toast, they gathered siont the iu 1111e1, and .71 in 110;7, schooner mid the reek, and I had the Baron Ag„,„, ron a hotus,thild has gieew seneetang TIT/0101T S11111011 801100001'. 111 110' P'151' 11417 1 found 1113100)13 al, lido obtlicirh, 112 110SO/Lil, 1101 a tioller 111 111y 10111114, 15011 Malty to ask the Ainci lotn ',moil to send 11)1111)11to the Linked Steles the MOW, 1'114111Y. 1 11411 11001.1 0111 With an Americn awhitlerouid had 101011 bIt herb 130 brOk011 111 1101411 1.111A 110 000 SIII4104011 11102,1,1 lin O TW15100i(S. As the ! slop Mel token no oil there was nothing 001111111! 1:0 1110, I IVIvi.ii, 1 W144 111110.111 011 LO 110r, 11111i, bat for the few dellere raieed louring the men, I should have been apauper on lending One afternoon, while I wait cm my way to tile (to:vol.:MN to Bee what help I euuld obtain, I (moan .ored an Englishman whom I a tome identified 101 a sailor —Captain or mato, 1(1 stopped and inquired my name, nativity, end oeutipation, and when I had ettxilatlinhimined, lheslapptikn ed lee uo the baad " a la of luck that I met you. I've got a plane for you told we'll drop fit Home. whore and have a glean and it talk," He wits blunt-apoken man, but a ett11. tiouH s one. e did not unfold la planon s . til be bad gum eil nse pretty dry, and ap. parently setts( col himself that I wait it man 1)5 wented. Even. then I only got a part of the story, and 15111 atill in the dark tte to minty partleulare. 'Plea etranger's name was Capt. Roberts, end ho had given up the canasta of an English bog ona ppotto tn e entrpee a hunt for treasure. Two yeas before, 118 he Informed me, a coasting mehooner, 15`118 earr in half a million dtd term' worth of {Banton, s, esides a large 01111 111 rolIgh gob!, between Rio and Monte - relies bail been wrecked [shout eoveuty 111111')) lielew Porto Alegre. 'Why this tree: PAM, !lad 110011 intrusted to a smiling veasel 111111 whether it belonged lo Church or State or some iticlivianal I never learned. 'The Cap t tein liet( nothing 111 0031 about that, and I 1111)1111a 11)50011 to seureny regartliog the whole affair. How Cispt. Roberta lad legated the 1500012 was a matter I did not oak about, but I ditl hear it said that ell the crew Were lost, I was a sailor 0»t1 a diver, and he offerea to stand all the OXI100130 of the search and give me $10,0110 in gold if we recovered the diamonds only. lf we got the gold as well I was tohave a larger share. He had chartered a eoasting schooner for (Mee months, and was theu getting aboard whatever ho 01011511 would be needed. I signed with hint that ellen-loon as mate, and three days after we had picked np all our crew. Fortunately for us, a ship came in with twelve seamen rescued from a burmug barque at sea,and. WO Lok eight of them and 00012. This gave 114 eleven hands all told on the 111.110 010(1, but wrecking is e thing demandeng plenty of muscle at the marks, windlasses, 1111! toll ropes. Tho am pro- per were not let into the secret, but signed for a voyage to Buenos Ayres and return. They were so happy at securing a birth that no one eared which way 0)3 sailed or I t •1 There Was a, Rio banker behind the ex• pedition, as I encidently aiecovered, but be did not come near the schooners, and Capt. Roberts visited him only by night. We were so well provisioned and. provided tat 11 1111201 have taken a snug stun of money to 11.1 08 011b. ThiS OW. balker no doubt ad- vanced and took his chances. At the Cus- tom House we cleared for the Platt in ball- ast, but some of that ballast hurl been taken abroad under cover of (1arkness. We had o diver's outfit, timbers, planks, spare casks, extra ropes 5111)5111)eh tins, end about the last package received contained dozen muskets and a lot of fixedi tunintloRion. We slipped out quietly oue night with the tide, end before daylight were fav away. Capt. Ruheres had a petty fall ar, ltaof the neighborhood of the wreck and after a speedy run down the coast WO reached it one forenoon about 10 o'clock. When we came to work inshore we got sight of the mountains peaks laid. down on the chart, end 111 a couple of toms wore aatisfied that wr tho eek 11151115NV101111 a mile 01 113 north 1)1'1)1'south. Just there WPM 0. reef about four miles off shore end extending up and down the west for thirtyB miles. ehind this reef in 1115-131 plays was deep water right up to the shore line. It being 852 '111101' weather, with the winds light, but holding steady, wo anchored off the reef, and then the men were then LOW WO 111111 come to search froa wreck, It was all right with them, ,(ter dinner two boats were lowered to begin the searelt. Taking the achOotier 11,5 the mare, we pull- ed both witys, running close to the reef. The treasure craft, had !teen dismasted in a squall and driven shoreward, and wo con. fidently expected to rind hev hell, 1( 11, had not gone to pieces, on 01 1)051' the reef. Before sundown 51'0 hali 11111110ca o refu58101''),seele foe three miles either way, bat with. out ending the elieldest triton of her. 'Next 11111131011g we tried it lint nothing was Mought to light. In some places the reef slime ed nbove the stirfitee 01 low tide, in ethers there was plenty of water to carry us over et any time. The treasure craft might have bit the reef at a favorable spot, foul been droten ahnost to tho beach, but before accepting this theory 55'0 got out the drag end explored the deeper waters sea- weed from the reef. We spette three days t this work, grappling only the rooks Ind. den away from thirty to sixty feet below, end using Up the Melt With the hard wook. The schooner teas then sailed over the reef end anchored thirty feet elf water, awl we began the search of the shelve teeters. Our peoeess of search WAS this Bach boat took ciertan shore bearings and cover- ed aortae, territory between the reef and the heaeh. The water was so clear that oue hl1ing 11,, ennbreits over his heed to shut „if the light could see the bottom anywhere at thirty or thiety-nve feet, 111,11 them were no deeper spots inside. In Met, the average depth was may about Wert ty-fivc foot. The 8110111 W1551 0001031y 1311111; 01'055010d with a dense forest, with a few yields of shingly hese!, ist long intervals. We bed seitrolied this bey for four days without Molt, 0)110110)110111 had the gooa fortune to 1115001101'1115001101'the tvrack with my ossoi eyeo. She ley within half a mile of the beach in tweitty.two feet of water, and woe bottom etile up lewdest, it big reek. She had pro- lotbly ptssed the reef in safety, nut had struck tide rock, 35111011 thrust its head hin throe feet of tho surface, and hi going dewn turned turtle, it sootned 11015110151 hanw l lot a ell of her crew hat! (Limped, Etna how anyhtely w eftererd located the r weelt end merle 0, (Meet of the loonlity 15,18s it greater mystery then owns OnOso'first move was 111 1111115g the smoorier as near as postale, and thou we began preparatione Lo lift thit wreck. She 1011,1, be over, BO 11.4 10 (Ito. a her keel, it nothing more, Lying bott at 11p, there was 110 possible way to get 111111111111her cabin, Next day, after the tlisoovevy, woot Amen in my diving dresa end attitelled 011-11,0)s bor starbeat 1 82110. Thera were ((line 11 ont with wont roprs loading, aboard 11 0111, solme»er, tool 1(1er helf days work we neve reedy to haul, We could li(b her )'i118001 hal of a tall from 87000 ViennSeenity for leottlIding eighty-six dm sal hue moving about its id 0110 ,inerkm) 51,15,1 by „ Nm.,,1„,„„ urn,. They will time, tind ilon't believe tint 1V11,1 half 00, r,,,,'11 ti,„ ,„1„, by inneetter Una WI)) f ally fifteen feet Home tor cunmuumh.„,,, long, Standitig on Oar (lecke 1 coated oitsenatie boot 1111,18 will 1 iut re tho phut. numbet of stalks witli1, 0 eirele 011 1111e03) 111 ,30,.maiiy siald,,,n between /2 or of s mile, There could be '1"1"'Il ' illyit'g 'and 14 rare worktel ill !act .,11,") in 18i10 ; 131,*' 1101152104 "I"'ll3( 11113 w" '414 in Englund, 110,4219 under 1) years were emos. to work toga elear their company. (.4111. ' pu,yea, animas haii foreseen 511011 on emergency, s, and had come provided, sictier,t9d' Co. Kori,he 42811wnr,litt tseellt !.4(‘Ivece(elri'ilhaPilhYi (1""1" 0 a 511111.5 "I'"W "V"' 1111a '11101-3501 improved tuberactline until he shall have revenge 00 Sailor Janie)) implacable enemy, 105120(1 11 beyond ell chance of doubt in hie Tho makets were brought up 111111 far of / '010 11100 1011.1 OW 10 1180 them. A fifth man' The commat„ in Aix pe, the reeweeti„ 5508 p01 ill nhnre oftt Whnle Inn,'s, 0" t''" of the temporal power 1/i lie Pope has pub- adl'iniSt"Ing a lishea d n eppeal to all root of us wore kept busy I.:et/wiles CO partici- plusiehmen t which might be called barbarous pate in 12(13 eiroulating and ,,ign ing 01 mon,.. by humanitarians, We heated bricks reel ter otitions to the Stile/ ,1lt Italy-, requesting hot on the galley stove, swiftly wrapped. s him to " return to the H.oly Chair its hea- then) up in olothe, and 010)' 110 Homier tagm,, Walled the water than 01e3' were 1)"11"011l The Hotel de Sens, near the Paris Hotel 110W11. AS soon 0021 ithark was 3vounded ity .aa villa, a building of the fifteenth eat/ash or Janne so as to leave a trail of blood !nun tge reside. „f Ardwf„),„p „f sow, he was at once attacked by others, and 001' hot bricks soon turned a dos= or move big. and later the abode of Marguerite de Valois,. followe bolly wopreserved, is for sale, but will probably - the tern down unless preserved through the. tippet/no/et.It was a rivulet/ eircue for about three .Hommivea 01 Historic monuments. hours, during which at least fifty of the, moats -ire WM% Alanghtered, rend then those... Gustav Willisch, a Berlin shopkeeper, was that 0)55 10(1 alive suddenly drew MI tr; the '9ned $50 by a patio° uourt two weeks ago last ono, and we 11111 1101. see another shark for °Id °' " toiephn,uuo giri 0)3,0 kept during our 513).1 did not g„ 1110)12 „4,01,„ him waiting fifteen nu511011100" miserable, for twenty-four hours, however, not feeling braZen.faced wmnan." The prosecution ceitaii, 1 ',a „,„ big fsi was iring asked that he be 1111011 only$5, hut the pollee in wail the wreck, When I did ile- , court held thie penalty to be too mild, as seem] I found the selenener lifting to the leloPhoo" girls needed epecial protection casks, and Litter attaching three or four ,mito "'sults 1110111 she s;owly rose to the surfitee, Wel 31 10 reported from 500.211 that the Federal then got the boats catt and towed her itito o GOvernment inis fori.iiblen itil ofileers in the depth 01 fourteen feet and tlien 00) 11351 her. SWiSS Serslut, appear on German soil in over mall she was leghttel. She went to uniform. A eonilar order hes post been tho bottom again, of comae, no the casks given to the German soldiers end officers 110 hniger buoyed her, but, we expected garrisonM ed SS 111» Swfsit frontier. The that. 11) ersnatin ewspapers co mplaiD that the Feder- ' t was now a comperatively easy job to al tiovernment has tiot tuade the order ex - got et the cabin of the tveastire craft. She tend to the French frmitier, and they are had been dismast oil and most of her bulwarks asking Io;' 'apint,oI i1•115. 1 SW0P1owa•y, awl her lows had been stove; IL-rem/mu •Zeitung, who makes his living in as she struck the reeks. Everyth og ap- by traveling in trunks ana then exhibiting peere1 all right eft, however, and we lead himself in variety shows on the Continent, the yawl anchored over the tvreck and I was made his last trip front Antwerp to Chris. all ready to go down when see had a second tam in a wooden box, whoh stood on the intertaption, coneting schooner, going ship's dock four clays and finer nighte with - awn the dma"i tu 1 standing well in shore, ent anybody's knowing that it contained a espied us, and either supposing WO were in man. The voyage NV1N0 stormy, but Zeitung distress or aettuteed by inotivee of curiosity, kept his nnse to a crack in the boards, ate she lay to off tho of and began ti, maned his sandwiches and kept well, es, melting what was the matter, NV e °apt, Bottego of the Nineteenth Artillery - leered that we teem all right, but silo was, Regiment of the Italian artny made a wager not eatiefied. 'recently that he eonld ride 15(3 miles in She lOst ere,/ a boat to pull to LS. but we' twenty.fnur hours without leaving the sad - got ahead of her. Captain healed no die except to &mega horses. Be mounted down a box of cigars and e dosebottles of at 1143 cn Saturday evening ana at 11150 wine, and I met the boat a mile away. The on the following evening had covered 173) Captain himself was in the stern sheets, and MUM 011 1:110/1day morning he was a0 drill he seemed considerably put out when tola as usual. He ehang,ed horses five times dux - that we led not been lidden over the reef ing his ride and lost thereby thirty min - and were not in need of assistimee. I told utes. During twenty-one hours he rode et him that our schooner had been ,,'hartere,l a trot, by0 naturalist, who was collecting fish! The Austrian War Minieter has issued an from the shoals and birds from the forests, 'order to encourage reltgious feeling in the ana he swallowed the story and returned army, 13e finds teat Austrian soldiers do to his eraft a happier man, 1,102 attend divine service according to the When I came to go down in 017 suit 1 regulations. Inas-much as the encourage - found ahnost a clear deck. She had been ment of religious feeling regarded as of schooner rigged, and both masts 115.0 Leen great service to the tnilitary, the army carried away at the dock. Beginning at the must hencefoth go to church an least once & heel of the bow -sprit and running along the month ;Iikawiss, the young oflieeta in eon?, pert side about twenty-five feet of her but- mend at church must conduct themselves nt warks were left standing. C'apstan, wind- a more reverential spirit than has been obi.. lass, beta covers, and the skylight of the served cabio had been swept 1150113'. This Later fact Austria's maitary matueuvres this year was greatly m nty favor, as I coul'l drop will be on a grander scale than those in the directly IMO the cabin. I 1111.9 told te look IValelyiertel last yoar, when about 00,000 for the treasure in the Captain's stateroom, men wore ite the field. Four army oorps, but my feet had no &woes 10110.1ed the with unusually large bodies of cavalry at. . cabin floor than my ontstretelicel hantls en- Moiled to them, will operate in Bastern countered 5,11110111Mo which I knew by the Galicia with captive balloons, field telegraph feel to be m dead man, illy finding Mtn in lines, bicycle corps, and all other apparatus the situatioo I did still further deepeneil os the most modern warfare. It is expeeted the myetory of the syliolo expedition. He that 86,500 Or 00,000 combatants will be en - was tied fast, and I had to cat him loose gp With my knife, 1,5 5005 0,0 released 11)5 1)1(131 Gertrude Scruine, a pretty giol of 18 years floittecl upward, and the men told um that who lives in a town in Aroostook county, Heated out to sea with the tide, riding Me., has never been 11.001011 00 laugh or oven on the sat/face liko o cork, to smile. While intelligent in other matters Evenin5 was now avowing near, end tor- s.n ) pareutlyd cannot understand a joke, titer seareh " was abandoned until another „„d is unnmaby the keenest witticistus. day. After breakfast next mornieg 1 de-, " wended tgain, and within two hours had' Jose de Tirotios, a French explorer, wei the treastire out of the wreck. I found it, known in South America, who has spent not in the Captain's stateroom, tot on the more than twenty years among the Indians floor of the main cabin, The diamonds were of Sonde America, 0)00 married recently at in a cestdren box, and the gold in gout Rio Halm, United States of Colombia, to a. wooden boxes, and 1 he t nothing behind, granddaughter of Hitipara, the head Cacique From the 0/mestere being found where it of the Gottgira Indian tribes, a man of great was I argued that there lied been a mutiny power and inlietenee in that region and hefore the storm, antl that the Captain had among the Indians generally. been tied in the &thin and the crew was mak- A missionary writes from the .1_ atigthe ing ready to divide up the spoils. Perhaps River that he tried in November last to buy after driving over the reef and si Liking the land on whia to build Louses for the at - rook atm had been eat ltsh ore tri tell the eommodation of a party of miasionaries who story, and. it 'was on his in Meniation we Bet- 0)010 coining up the viver. He thought he od. If so, however, thereat was not ad mit ted. had secured the land. All arrangements I learned no more than I have told you, had been made except the signing of the Not one of the trew know the valne of our deed. Then the man who was sell ng the find, and, sailorlike, they asked but few property bead a repert that the mission- uestsons ' 00180 1110 children. That u ly news friaht- When the treasnre was safe aboard We re» coed the poor man and he colleted to sIgn turned to Rio. For faiir days not a man WINS the papers. The missionary hoped the permitted to leave the vessel. Then I re- man's fright svould subside, ba at htst .iio- oeived the sum agreed upon, WW1 oonsiel- counts he bad not yet succeeded buying entitle inereese, the nten wore made happy the property. with a thug sum of money counted clown to The miorophone, used as a death tett, each, and NVO were all bundled aboard of a prevented the permature burial of a woman steamer betted for Cuba, each gfeing his in St, Petersburg who, when in a state of promise to soy nothing of the wrecking ex. syneone, NVOS pronounced deed from paral- peclition to any one. I learned lister on Limb ysis ol the heart. All other tests failing, 1.4overnment vessels searched for weeks for the microphone, applied to the region of the the wreck, and that the Rio benker had to , showed that it etill beat, end the flee to Eingleald, but that only %tided to the ! women wee resuseitated, strangeness of the adventure instead of cleat- ing up the many mysteries. Trying to Pleme Employers. Mistress—"I am surprised. You say you were married six months ago, divorced :Berlin, whore the numbers have risen tromm three mouths ago, and remarried to your 41427 105,3371 aud at Halle, where they husband last nisalit." play° risen from 1,403 to I,B22. Laing° still Homeetic_it yeeen, you eeen at the aret holds the second place with 3,431, lollowed so we got married : but the next place they A eignifinant indict/01mi of the changes in plane he hard they wanted a married man, by Munich with 3,214. wanted a single man, so we gob divoroed, !the ideas and sentiments of the people of and I Ca11113 here. Now bo's /end a place the Soak, and in the material condition of where they want m man for ge,vdening and things throughout 1110 Southern States, is wife to cook, 00 0)1' got married again, and !contained in the incidental remark of a I'm going there with him." Richmond newspaper that "Many htmdred Renaming Ivatchee were invented by Bar- low 111 1i310. There is certainly something of exquisite kindness end thneglif NI benevolence itt the rarest of glfts—fine in/oecling. Tho nutnber of students entered this win- ter at the twenty universities of Germany shows ft marked decline. The total is only 27,836, as oompared with nearly 30,000 lest 51101I001'. This deerciaee is general, exec it at yoneg ladies aro employed in the venous factories of Richmond, and the amber 30 deity growing." Melly Northern people still bold Gently 10 11)8 belief that the woman who worke for her In the South ls looked down upon and slighted, and that working girls and women 00 01 greet " Are you the maetsr of this house 1" ask- swim dissiismdege them That may have oil a stranger, addreasing the young married , "eon the case at one time, ha 11, 15 nob 00 man, '' No," said the yang married men now, Tho Item notre the 15(1)801 01 &license 001 th 11081' 01511, 1110310)110iIltOjllsLpllttilOto a bartoom in the neighborhood of one of master in tho ornate,' I the factories whore the wnenen aro employ. Voice (at the telepane)--" Major will you ea, for the reason that, the city was deter - please bring your family anti lake slipper Mined to tiee that the envirtmmente of the with ne next Mendes ?" MT/Int (11r1 (re- 0)0151015 wore ‘` ouch as (Airy have a right to plies bark throngh tolophenej—(‘ Master expect," AirtheinticTtatshotaillth111110815lo tlaa: 0.1111 Anis' resS are not in at present, but they statiatles shwivImth can't come to (nipper as it's my Sunday 1,1100,1110 1)010 spinales them it had eleven oat, . yeas ago.