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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-07-14, Page 3.11 1. ,�- .7; ,­ -, �, - _____.____._.________1____ V I I d . ,rHE PAINTER, OF PAWIA; �� THE MAGIC OF A M ASTERPIEG E. meat with a firm and steady lhaad� dy- Ing at the age of oighty-five, wit his weata,l faculties intact to the last. ,,And then Antonio, the son of Gio- � , ann!, at the ago of twenty-two As- .,,nded the ducul thixine a,mid the bless- ing,i arid plaudits of a well-pleaSed and contented peop'e. Antonio ha.d been tit - I to more then a year a duke iof Parma when an old priest, called Father Paul arrived in the city from Spain. lie had liven bere but a few days when lie-, heard by chance the Story of the loss 44 the Genoese vessel, with the wife and hild of Prince Giovanni on board. At i Ho Stopped, utterly overcome, and U the, duke had a suit arid heir ll(L i'ku,je he called Oil the Duke Antonio � �. . buiiad his film in his hand -4. A few-, N%ould be Prince of Piacenza. 6t' -'f- i�ith a wonderful story. The princess _. lauments so, and then be felt those funu earnestly besought tile duke to 110A nut saited in the vesse I for Tou- loving arms once more over his shoul- ' sign him that title; hut he might as !on. The story had been told to that I . ders. arid this time around bit4 neck; %%ell have asked for the dukedom. effect., fearing pursult by bet- hus- and a sweet. Lealfill VUi430 bUllIlded in Nons , rise. Antonio gave him the inar- 1!aud's enealies. She, with her fiLLIe . )its ear: quisate, thus granting hint a litte;ibut ljoy, had mailed in the care of this very "Jaull, you love me with all your iiie revenuv8 "I the P1,W0 it"O ah"Ost main -Father Paut-for Spain, arid had I hodri V riot it Ing. Illk. luiile,�� pl,oved all utter arrived safely at Carthagetra, and there . "With all my heart, with till my soul failure, and the land will barely sup- the priest had been obliged to sepaxate , andwitli all my strength -Lay first lu� a port those who till it. ,Still, though from her, she having determined to 1, of woman Since in), mut he I- died ! ' ; the duke refused his brother tile prin, Seek friends Of w-hom she had heard in "And I love you ,the same I I am cip,dity, he allo%�s him to draw Li. ,1,0!e.do. The good father said he had yours, now and everniol'8. It you gaodly Share of its revenues." . seen her under the protection of the heave me, I say -and 1 say it ono `e 11 Z " " Is a ma 1 -vel to itte'" 61t id Zanoni, bitiliop of ,1,0,0do, %v.ho ch&acO,d to be at shl., Joirever-only death shall part, u.1 � looking curiously, into the beautiful Cawthagena, when they arrived. He - - etiag fancy, no sudden, face 'before him, "thAt St0ffH,IIO has not visiteAt her once L0 the formor city, and passion; but a calm, t rusting. ii.sked his b-rother for your precioud . L)nl,y once, aihout six montlis aftar -her ring love, that has become part li-trid a hand that would Lie doubly pre- dettlement the] -e' The next time he �l of my life, a Part of my ver). 61, 1. I Wpp—love � oio��tci him. l.sabell t Have I hur heard. of her she had gone 1/0.liladrid, you because you are, to mi you ? I did nott"-- He never Saw her again, but hetheard . idaa,l of all my thoughts and dream,; "Hushl" the trembling girl implor- from her or other, severad times. And . of my hero, my champion, my one inav -d, putting foirth bet- hand * "IOU" here the stiors, becomes painfully per - above all other -men. I am glad you I ,�ords struck a Sharply vibrating chord plexing. Ahl What nQw? are beautiful, but far more glad am I ill uly bosom. I Lim sure Steffano hits -_ . that you are good and noble und true n.,vpr dorred to hint it thing to �mp CHAPTRIt VI. and loyal -a truly Christian gentle. suan. Juan, I am your&, Yours, autL �ruardian; but, more than once, thave LOUnd .his g",e, fixed on me, with aull . Isabel's abrupt pause in her narra- . youns alone -wbile life and sense is v.-:preasion in his evil face ,%%Ilich could; live and the exo1amation which follow - mine; anil I hope -1 prtty-thaL our lo�v have meant nothing els,� than a yearn- ed had been ouva,sioned by a iler�ous and iml)atie-rit knot -king on the door . alay live glorified and eternul I" . 1� " Amen, and amen 1" and he took her ing to possess me -and inine for his own." ouililnuilicating with the Niaiting-room. tolhis, bosom, held her close, and their ' Oh, my soul I Heaven itself -would Of course it could Ile none other than Alad O- lipsirriet in the first waxin, ecstatic kiss interpose Lo prevent such a consum- , on, as the outer door of the suite could. not be opened witli,out, of a pure and lofty love. � A little time -or a lunger -of Silent. mation I With this the PILinter turned and sounding air alarm in the. studio.. . rapture, heart speaking to heart ,with 'walkod slowly across the room. Ile I The first thL�ught, of the princess the old, old story, as Old its creation altered the arrangement of one or two was of hot- watoli. 61itk took it Out and I . 4, -the Story that found birth when the curtains, and whell he came ,back he consulted the died. ",Keruy I" site ex- glaA Stars of iwrning first sang to- s!bl; down within reach of the princess's c,'aimed, in utter astonishment "I had * ? ge-ther-the Story that must enlist the hand and facing her. "I'sahel," no thoughL of tbei,&u�sswgoi of t Line 4 1 lliave been hors aLmust three hoursi" deepest and holiest Sympathies of the he said, with simple "No human heart until humanity shatl have Straightforward earnestness, "of thc� I I'll-vossibl,v I" But upon oon- I wank�hed from off tha eavthl Marquia I know literally nothing. i suiting his uw'n Litne-piece be found Then, when the first wild, delirious I have heard tha,t his eartle,st years I that she was right. and all -absorbing emotion of pussion- were spent abro4d. I have won- I , "My ol,ear friend," lie said, operting ate bliss had passed, the painter led dered Ifow he and Antonio Farnese - the door, and standirig aside fur the the princess back toi her seat, and was could be brothers. But are they own 1 oitt-annit, to enter, "you must li4a,me tile' soon able to speak colierently and brothers? Were there not two moth- this time. Since laying altide � caamly. ers?" t1my brutshes I have been listening 0 � .L "Isabe-11 AFy lovel my lifel We have Th,� princesi shook bet- head sadly. wonderfully ititeresLiiig stury which I much to say to each other. Shall 1, , 'No," she replied, "The same fath- bad persuaded the princess to I -elate to . while we Speak, go on with my work?" er and the Same mother were parents me." I "You might take your palette and of both. Did )-oil never hear the story : "Aye I" added 1,%ai,�el brightly, ap- t brushes," she said, flushing slightly in of tile ebildhood of those two broth- prollenclLng at orice her lover's intent view of the implied, deceit; for neither thein believed the -%vork erat" "Never." ,and Vuipose, "arid it is not yet con- ultioloid, but it will require few , . of that could I go on isuccessfuliy4 "That is strange. And yet, after all, Unly- a minutes more. Dear old mamma, I "Certainly," returned Zationi, with not. -so man), know it as one might; have been teffing tol"him the Sad story an an"wing Smile.' - I think, considering how, really intormt. .of Priu,-e Giovanni Farnese and his fa - f Simple as -,vas the passage, per -i Ing, and even ronil ritic, it is." U114. I have come very near to the . hips nothing else could have occurred I . "Will you tell it to me, daxling?" end. You will Sit right. down boxv and .. so, Nv�ll calculated to put them at their " With plea,Su re. The duke himself 'walt Whilia I finish it." � ciaze and oparl the way to a, caim. and told it to me. Listen I" Arid the "Indeed," ventured tile pii,intw-, with dispassionate conversation. Princess proceeded as follows: an edi-nest stuile, "It'seems to me aa � The first thing the lover did was td "Seven arid taventy years ago, as though I should not sleep if I did give the princess an account of big you probably know, Alonzo Farntse was ,lot hear the t:0nolusion.,4 If meetingwith the count and marquis on reigning.cluke of Pa,yma. He -wau well "I have retvAled the ilarivab in Parma the previous evening. He knew shei advanced in yealre, and having never Of Father Pa,ul.,­ explained Isaiiel, "arid must hear of it, drid he preferred that Wen remarkable for moral and intel- have Cold how bill visi red the unforl ua� � it should first carRa from his o,An lips. lEctolul strength, he had now, at three- ate Princ,ess at Tuledo, and never saw '. "But you will not fear for me, dear- so -ore and ten, become 'weak and child- her again thought he had heard from est," he said, when he had graphically ish. He had but one son, Giovanni. her as ha,ving gone Lu Madrid," I F ictured the last incident of the scene. Giovanni Farnese was then in his Lbir- "And haven't. you told hini (LbOut the I am confident that the count will ty-fifth yeax, and Nvit.s one of the best wonderfu;1 e,onxing to life of the boy, exert all the Influ"Oe he can wield and bravest and most gidlant gent.le- Steffarrol" (-tied the o!d "-Oman with I toward preventing Steffano from fur- men of his time. lie was also a hand- a 4urtit (if enthusiasm. . � ther outrage." 'Some Man, and generous to a fault. I "No; I was coming to Chat when you I"Ah I" said the thoughtful girl, with Ilia heart was kindness itself. ac wit&. knocked and interrupted me." a dubious shake of her head, "I see you. do nut know Count Guia3ppe Denaro. moreover, of poNkerful intellect. and liberally "� am very sorry,. haleve me, for having disturbed most educated. you, but you don't . He Is a gentlemAn, possessing veryl "Unfortunately for Prince Giovanni, know how tired I had grown of wait - I many, good qualities; and those good I many People felt that the aged, child- ing. However-, never mind that now. qualities are uppermost. They are to i ish duke should &bdicwte, and that the I will wait while you tell the rest Of be seen of all men. But. I am sorry ,I I prinee Should rule in his stead; and, the story." And with this the duen- I toi say, he has bad qualities, which are at the time of -which I have evoken, no. Sat comforLably back in the large not' SO tip arent. Juan, I fear the I- ,count coulT be somewhat treacherous I this feeling hxd not only become wide- I but Lwi�-,4.1rdir she bad appropriatotl,, and if !l K an Occasions. He is proud of his rank; Spread, it had found voicle. It I was Spoken in public places, and by site amy cluntrition in view of tile inLerru-ption ,She had caused, she c,qr- ud that he was born patrician; and Fn r"vely men oi. rank and Istation. Naturally a,* tainly (lid nut sbow- it. As so. -in U's Silo � sensitive where his fan- man so good and pure, its was Gioviturli lmd thus seLLIed herself to listen, the ,oied Privilege of class is trenched up- would have enemies, and his enemi '13 . Princess resullied her narrative. on, know that he has been to poor � had resolved to destroy him, it liossibie,. L Ali I -You ca,n imagine how greedily such 1, '1 told you t ha,t4 though good Fatheir I Paul never Saw the Princess aigain aft - o,"I d Xadelon and asked her to -watch would Trasp, at the opportunity offered Or she left Toledo, he had eeveraltimes � ine-to watch me while with you. I by the speech of those ill-advised heard of her. AS I think I informed � distoovered it this morning while we friends. ybu he ---our good father -was settled were Lmtting ready to come hither, "I can not. teiLl youl"I that was done. in Carthagena; being permanently at - I Enough. to 4ty he is milking himself You can imagine it. I need only tell t&cbed to it church there. In course of really unhappy arid miserable with fear yuu, the time came when men occuipy, time he made tile auquaintance of a ., t� . of -you. He has spoken with the?u4e, ing high place in the councils of the cOurier--li, government weshenger- I I a.m sure. They wduld not hit a me e � . now- it -they think 1 do,not-but poor . � realat. preferred against Prince Giov- anni the charge of treason I Yes, he whose regular traveled route, vi,aS from the naval station at Carthagena to Ma- GuWappe can not keep a secret. Un- was accused and arrested. Then he drid. His name was-', fortunately- for himself, he let fall to. raoi a single sentence of half a dozen was examined by a tribumml made up "Clou-siglia I" volunteered Madelon., as words that revealed to me the truth. entirety of his enemies and fully com- for bet, mistress momentarily hesitated. '.'He Yes, he has tried to persuadi�my dear mitted. pablk� trial. His situa.tion N%as critical. Witil the best intentions was a king's messenger I" she went On authoritatively "He had to guardian that thoire is danger In my ' in the worid; with a. love for his old go from Ca-rthage,na, whore the king's ooming to your studio." .. . "And fa,ther, s6nd a devotion to his interests 1 allLps (if war all lay, to.the royal l - the dake?" asked Zanont anx- that kirew, no swer-irbug, he baxt suffer- Ilia . ace at Madrid, cynco in every. six - Lotraly. "As near as I can learn he only ed himselt, when in conversation with his mon ths. So you SON lie had t ( (.4o a nd . laughed at the idea, its ridiculous and zea-lotis friends, to admit that the aged duke was Scarcely fit for the ex- come, And it was a blessed thing lie did, forr if it illad not been for -hint we preposterous. Poor, deal, guardian I it alted Station he o.!,cupied. But I never should have kuow­u a -bout C110 L �. waS the danger of my loving you that he laughed at. but he will not all[- need riot r&u4pitu,la,te the Points of ev- Pool- dect.r princess wrid bet- darling boy . fe r. We shall be far away when lie Lden,e the ill -minded men had marlag- ed to toge,ther. Suffice Ah I I;ut you can -tell it better than i can, dear lady, knows it; and when he realizes that it Let it to my he, was tried and found guilty; but the though I remember ev- ery word of it -every ble,4sed . Is tolone, past the power of mortal man old duke stayed the execution, At word- Jand every sylimblev, to undo it, he will soon become content. 10 is no -t as though I u as his child, Or the joist moment his love for his so n 1-y 1. . s&id Isa,bel, when she was M- I , I I very nearly rola,ted. The cousinbhip -began I overcome his weakness., and a wonder- ful energy sprang to life within him. lo%ve". d to p i o -eed, "th rough the me(] lum lof the kifig's messenger-, Father Paul several generations ago and onille his moth:�r's Side, so he can notipointed summoned a. new council and n4)- friends icontinuod to receive intelligencoof the feet the ties of blood particularly, . OfL the prince to mem- I,e,,ship A n,aw trial was ordered; it princess for a period of ten ears and little more. At that time-ayt the end Strong. But ellowigh of the duke, it is of the count I wish to speak. came oif and U iovanni Fa rnme was not of ten years-sihe and her sort vverell;olh . . . . "Dear Juan, you must bew-are of him. only declared innocent, )lot his. whole A.liv(! and -ell, as Cur.4iglia learned I do not ,mea,n that you have to fear, past course Nvas warmly approved. "But,' atasl the evil deed had been from a priest of his ac-quairilance who knew him, When the time ' I Not fit all. but, should he discover our lovie-und he ,witi strain done, A ca,araity bad faileal Giovan- came round for the ale9senwer's next visit to I -lie every nerve in the attempt so to do -be sure ni had a wife,, between wiloin and him- seaport, instead Of li'atber Paut's Old friend his anger will run at once into selt was a love that bad seemed Co grow deeper and WILrmer as Ume wen't cam,, it sI rEinger, wit h word that Corsiglia wag dead. - thoughts of ven,goduce. Ile is not a Large-boarted tuan, nor can he be un- On; and lie had two obildren-hoth boys-Anionio, then To bo Con t in Lied. . selfishly generous. If you could tweive years (if age, and Sleffano, otil�y three. The i It eb. know how ignora.nt he is -how lack- hwl been three daught ers born between, .. ingin evettaproper education for one laying the least claim to gentility- who had died in infancy. Tile (floler OLD SHOES. 3ou would be better able to estimate !)Oy, Antonio, M. the time. of bis fattler's ­, I his character. Plainly, Juan, I be- imprisonment was at school in Rome. And a Word Aboat other ThIngg dpld, ln. I liere he hates you because you are so His wife and little Steffano vvere at it'Onle, here in Parma. And now listen. 4'111411119 40141 11libiII4. "'As immeasurably above him in every "When word had been brought to easy as ani old Shoe,, is to fami I j - thing Clint constitutes inborn nobility and native manhood. And. hating . Giovanni in prison, Chat his enemies ar saying," said kft. Stayboll, "and ou thus in the outset, what must be were seeking the destrurtioll of hin lov- thfkre can be nc:ydiou,41 thot an old,shoe Zia feelings when he known that, you ed otios. he sent, for'llis wife, who aft- is a mighty eomforlabin thing. After have -%%-on (be prize that he would give er much troubLe and delay. was per- we have worn the new shoes, c,loSe fit- . bis, -I -,N,as going to any life; but he Inii,ted to �isit, him. Ile Cold )let- what he had heard; told bet- where to find , ting, hard arid forma,lN,how- gladly we would not give. tbaA. He would give IL -portion of his wealth, however, and, money; and fin(AAY o4tained front her Put them off. and with wba-t joy we his reputation, for that which a promise I ha,t she, would flea, wit fisher put (m tile shoox. that iwe ofirt and,worn 01 rerhaps I have given you. .Ali I my own true It has been youngelit boy, to another an(t diMLILUt land. A trup fritend would secure )ter anti familiar W the feet I Old Shoes, love I no prize ,Aon by I you. Heaven gAve you to me, IT in I passage by sea front Genoa, and he 1101i'lever, are not the only thing old who have won the prize." promised her tha(. the elder ho�y. An- that, we tike. We like. an old 1xid, if Iti. , "And I," added Zitnoni, lifting ber tortio should be snnt, t(linin herassoon is not too uld, but just old'enough, 1,0 hand to bin lips as he spoke, "have won a,4 pomsi)ile, he. being meantime, ent1re- Chat wbile still .soft, a,nd comfortable it heaven Itself I And now, my darling," after a thoughtful pause, "lot tile say Jy .safe under the protection of �Ipow- orful cardinal. is I a so shaped Somewhat to the hody '' . . I think I understand andfully apprect- I "The unfortunate princess. broken which it Supports ah every polnC, yield - ate all you have said of Count Den- with grief. w&% u.4.4istort to Genoa, and ing a degree of comfort which not tile aro, and I thank you for the informa- tion, As a, class I find the nobl-i of therp.. it was 9uppu,;ed, ghti.was put on hu.trol a vessf,l 1,ound for Toulon. ,in finesi. of beds can affor(A when it Is new. � Parma, sadly deficient in general in- Frencte. A week aftAr the trial of the "But it is i4lu with all things old, 11.1in i velUgence. A few have gained .some- Prince came off, In another week the are not too old, Including old hathi In. thing from travel, but very few from old duke had asserted himself and ord- . We oling to theind so long U's they give . L I at tidy, The duke himself Is the one ered a new trial, with the result as 11 Us comfort. and wo hate i�o change. We I - p-sitive exception. Ile Is one Of the have told you, &n, creatures -of habkt, who would if . � 69t educated men I have ever known, "And now, on the day that saw Gio- we could follow to the end along the . and one of the most intelligent by no- vanni set free from prison, word came first comforto,blie rut w -a fAll into, and ture. that the vessel in witioll the princess never look out above it -s sides. And 11 LL. ,'And thin brings me to speak of an- 6b,,�,. hOA Sailed had beieq overtaken by a, ter- It is well for us tha,t ourr shoes twear , . ,othor-af the Marquis Steffario. B�y rific storm and wrecked, and that every out and that we �have to buy newonp,s - he way, what in he marquis of? Wbere one on 1;oard bad perishoolt The news and wear them; tha,b we are in vartomg and what is lih marquisiate ?" was nuthentir-liot to be doubted. One ways oompolled to change; that weare "Ohl" laughed (he princess, "J will short week thn prhnee lfvedattor that, rooted out now Sad then and set going (o[I you. At the foot of the Apen- 7 anti then he (tied, a whlte-haired, de- amew. nines, cilose upon the confines of! &n., orepit, broken old ina.u. "And Some of us prx),ftt by this 0% Is a NvIld, rug1ged districit. contain- "The effect of it si-1.1 u,pDn the aged obange. Once Ilifted. out of the rut we Ing the (owris of Cajmljirtno and San Duke Alonzo ,.ftg wonderful. Instead stay up on the plain, where there Is Steffaro. A great. many years. ago ' Of breaking film down it. inspired hily� nothing to ciramp, ws� a-nd where we can wilen there were nuppo,4ed Co be won- wIlh a new energy anti a new life. He lay about freely Ili any direction In Ile- derful mines of untold mineral wealth sent to Romp and ha,d bfs grandson . oordtlnce with our power, but more of In that m,ountalnous district, it was Anlorio brought to him, and therea.ft-, us. I fancy, rather weloome the days olevated (A) the dignity of it marquis- Pr had him Ptinkraloid tinder his own oye, when the shoes grow old again, anti . atA,ftnd. the. title bestowed upon C -he and during Che ten yeaws whirb Ill I 1�4 yield without muoh Struggling to the younpr bimtheir of the welaning duke. beyond that lie directed his govern- enticements of case and comforvo SPAIN'S LOST, COLONIES, b,Z."e..1 tried inhabiLante of Span - r c a. to take advantago of tht diffieultim in witich, Spain became in __ ,olved with Fra=e arid England in CRUELTY, GREED AND TYRANNY the first de,ade of this CoIlLary, ancl CAUSE HER DECLINE. to begin wdrs of independence on theit. own account, and inasmuch as the con- � Glertlitteut Illstorical FlIets-. The reople Or. ditions of affairs at Madrid aft the time PI'veluded tile dirspauvh of re-enforce- pressetr ror the ueetent or Titled Drone luenbs to tile various viotiroys dud Cap- -14panish.AmerICILIK KCV0111111091114, FAC. Lain Generals, the robellionti attained Toward the end of the sheteenth cen- sueb, proportions by the time pearehad tury Spain ,w -as without question the beou restored In the mother country. greatest power in thei wort It' She Own- and . troops were tie -at across the AL - I antiv to the Western homispheie, that od all tha� she now possesses, In ad- it was then too late. dition to Portugal, the kingdoms of Not- Ilut the Spaniards, despite the odds pift and of Sicily, the durideis of Mil- dgai.ast them, made a sLubborn fight, an, the Neitherlunds and the whole of just as they have been doing in Cuba - 6 it it although the war of independence , n the two Americas soiLtb of the thir- bega)a in Venezuela in 1810, it last- ty-fourth parallel, a dominion to which ed without interruption, until 1824, nelther Great Britain nor Russia, nor when Spain surrendered her last pos- yet the I.TaKed States can be compar- sessions on the American continent. It was a war characterized by the sav- ed in respect of potential wealth,yield- agery and frightful cruelty which the ing r.ower. This O=pire, too, rested on CartiA conflicts, and in moro revent strong foundations. It lasted ia Na- n times the struggle in the Antilles, have demoustraited to be inseputable 11 I Lea for 200 years. 'rho people of the from ,1�panlrih methods of conducting Low Countries threw it off only byl,an warfare. The royal troops showed the ,4fort that was like a mattyrdom, NNhile ia irgonts no mercy. According to � 2 I the Spanish ascendancy in America was Sc nish official records they executed ' r.000 perhons, warly of -whom were put 11!0 deeply rooted that even now the , o death -with every refinement of' creed, the language and the civiliza- cruelty, while the ILIAOL-108 Of tile Lu - tion of every larict tha�t belonged to till republicis of this continent sihoNN , -ain remaino. essentially Spanish ' 8p that there were at least. a quarter of it million victims thus executed, exclu- To -day SipWit is one of the most .1dv18 of the untold thousands killed in weak and fallen kingdoms on the face vold blood by tile royal troops, who of the globe. only part of the lber- destroyed every village land town Lan Peninsula remains in her posses- through which they passed if tile in - habitants were Suspected of sy uipat-h- . skon. HtT population has dwindled to izing with the. revolution. 1700,000. She is threatened with the (,en. Norillo, wit(.) commanded the loss to the llnLted States of her only Spanish forces in Vpnezuela, Evilador arid New Grenada, seems to have serv- two remaining colonies, the Antili" ed aa an example to Gen. Weyler. For and the Philippines. Her treasury is in his official despal-t-11 describing the practically bankrupt, her army disor- measures which he adopted on enter- ganIzed, and In fact she has sunk to ing the City of Santa Fit tie Bogota. he writes - the level of a fourth-ratte power. Site " Every person of either sex ,Ahollt`a. shows tha�,shc is one of those nations. . caimble, of reading or writing was which, to use the -words of Lord Sal- put. to de0h. By thi,8 cutting off all bsbury, " have exhausted their vital- who Nvcre in arty way educaled I hope, effectually to check the Spirit of the Lty and are doomed to de,cay." revolution." lKhat the cautie of this (levity can All who bad held official positions in be is a subject for much speculation the local administ ration, all who were confiectsd with ib�-, insurgents or dis- I and discussion, neither of -which, how- tinguished for their talents or attain- I erveir, has as yet furnished any sat- ilients, were Lilrown into prison and I, there kept 11n,til the, day appointed for IsfactoWy response to the problem. thl-ir execution, when they were eith- Theirc a.ra some who LuwrLbe it to the' er hanLmd or 4hot, husbands being put expulsion of the Jews, but Spain reach- to deaLh in the presence of their wives, : ed (be culmina.t,ing point of heir pow- - alad viiihiten in th�k presence of their er almost two centuries after the Ile- ' parents, These terrible wts of cruelty, far Wows had been driven out of the from intimidating the rebellious col- _- kulgolom. There are yet others who in- ontes, merely served to exasperate them ai,st tha;t the valok and the manhood mare bitterly against Spanish domin- of the Spaniard hits decreased, butam- ion and to determine them that, death . I any form wits preferable to acon- Itlitnuanco ple evidenco to (be ,contrary ha,zi been I of the tutrovious tyranny to furnished even since the I)eginning of I whirb t hey had been .subje0ed ' IvIore- the present war, ,%%-bile the first. Na- over, they. were encouraged by I he poleon was wont to declare sympathy %%,bi)L,.h their Struggles ekeit- . ed both in the United ,States, and in hb.d never met in,all his wars more England, symputhy which showed it - daring and re(-.1clees foes than theftan- self in the fOTXa Of sUpplies, and Of inh gueirillas. . volunteers. Large contingents of North . . Americans and of Rxitoris were to be CUPIDITY OVERREACHED ITSELF. found fighting side by Side with the I In fact, tbere Is no explanation t ba t robels in almost every nol0,1e ent,nige- ruent, and In the grea,t battle of Aya- oan be furnished for the 'astounding cucho, in 1)ecembf,r, 181�4, N�hlcjl prOv- de0bne of Spuin unless it be tha;t t be, ed tile. death blow to Spiln!Eh rul(t in ' inevitable advance of progress and ell- Chili arid Peru, it was an EngJishinnn. les lightenment, even in Spanish countri Gen. Millor, who commanded the eav- alry of the patriot army, while an Am - has g,radually awakarved the masses to erican, Col. O'Connor, was chief of the injvstice of their being oppressed .staff. and ground down for.the benefit of the. One might, have thought that the les- classes, and to the# iniquity of extort- son thus taught, at so heavy a cost. would have been taken to heart by Ing from the people the fruit of their Spain. and that ,she wovild have order - labor for the beiiefl� (if favored arid ed Iler administration of her remain - generally tilted drones. Spain, it must i ing c6lonial possessions. Che Antilles be confessed, bits from time 'mmem- and the Philippin--is in such a way an I to win the. good will and thfi affeor�tiorr orial treated her rureign possessions as of the population. Such, however, waa witch cows, to be -drained of their, last not the ease. Spain pursued in Cuba cilrop of milk for the sole advaintage and in the far Orient the same policy Of Lho�w in power at, Madrid, and has that had Yesulted in the lass of all not even practiced that �iece of ele� he.r immense dependencies on the Am- ment&r- dom tW economy which con- erican mainland. 81-sts in leaving sometbing I to the pro- durer W serve as a kind of .nestegg. She forgot, in fact, the principle in- cuitcated. by the Bible whoin it forbittle the muzzling of the -ox that thrashes the earn ' I Greed and cruelty are Wdeed the chief cau,ses of Spain's decay as a great colonial enipire. ller deliendencie,s, "ifl- tramar," that iis to say, beyond (he sea, besides being fleeced by the Mad- rid Government have been robbedwith- out scruple by the royal officials and adminiArators, all of who)m have been Sparliurds appointed by the sovereign. Spaiiiish America, which comprised in the early yyart (if this century, the whole of South Aniprica., with tile ex- oeption of Brarzil, the entire region of Central America, including Mexivo, and wore. than it thi.rd of what is now tile. Cnited States we-, divided into four vice royalties, bearing the names of Mexico, Peru, Buenos Ayres ail(] ,New Grenada, arid into three captain tren- Pral4hiPs, Chili, Caracas and Gusto - mala. Thme, vioeroys and Captain Gen- erals wpre ac,countable only to the monarch of Stinitt, and exercised the niost. autocratic and despotic sway, (heir. %vord being law in .all I eginlfttive, judicial and military affairs. Thpi r Cermis of office v6ere from four to mix ynars, and they invariably returned to 11 , Rpaln With ('010';801 fortulles aillassed by nefarious mearls. I DESPOINIRNI HELD SWAY. The tyranny with which Spoin ruled h.er American V010niQ-4 is almost incred- ible. I'liere was EL strict censorship of literattife. No hooks could be import- ed of which file ecele4ja'stle's disap- proved. At (Ili- beginning of (be re- volution in 1910 Peru and Chili possess- ed between them only one printing press. Intercourse vii1h other voun- iries was as far its possibIL prevent- ed. The King of Spain reserved to �imself 4he right. of. granting tit- rpfus- ing passports Co such of his so)) ' jeets as desired to visit the colonies, anti no coloniist was"Illowed to visit Irtirove or even a neighboring colon y -wilhout I he slw6ial permission of the Captoin ueneral of the province in whiell he.. lived. Shipmasters, other than Spaniards, w.ho attempted to enter the harbor (if any Spaniovil colony, ,in also merchants w4io, traded -without official permission, were Tyuniii-bed wi(h death. To increase hin revnnue the KinR sold to the so- crilled Philippine Company, sin ossori- Ation of Sp,anitih mpreb,rints trading in America, ai well as in th,i far Orienl, the, itiole right, of importing and ex- porCing to till(( from his colonies ev- ery description or merchandise, and of fixing the prices at which it might he sold. Death ,vv-n.q the penalty of trading wiihoult- thin company's lin- ense. The colonists were compelled to -sell thle.tr produce at prices fired by ihs oompiany, uhase not profLts were at thiet rate of 300 pier cont. The minp-any w" also allowed to maintain a floot of armed vessels known as Guylxda Costas, to prevent tradini Rnd IntierrourRe wilix any ship or individual unfurriNlied with ill,, company's linexise. fn fact, the op- Tiression and depotism wil h which Spnin administered her colonial posicemlonsin thi,q berniqpherA "ill(] be beyond be- Iief wwria it nblt f(w IW fant that It %urvivad until afew mftthA awn In lhh Philippine Telands In all Its meoll- aeval horror. , 9TIArN DRJVBN OFF TTITS CONTIN- ENTIM . . The ottrieest; ot the Males. of the N)wth Am#TJmn rappillic enolouragod ' CAVALRY HORSES IN WAR. They Act Very 111luch lyke a Man Before and Arter a Battle. A veteran cavalry hor,se partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the Same as his rider. As the column swings into line. and witits, the horse grows nervous over the waiting. If the wa,Lt is spun out lie will tremble and sweat arid gro,w apprehensi;ve, 'If he has been six months in service he knows every bugle call. Aw the call (.owes to advance, the rider can feel him -work- Ing at Llre bit with hW tongue to get . it between his teeth. An he moves out he will either seelk to ,gett an faster than he should or bolt. tie cannot bolt, however, 'the lines will carry him for- , . wa.rd, and after a itiLnutet he will grip the bil, la,y back his ears, andt one can feel hi,s sudden resolve to brave the -worst and have done, with it as soon -I as possible. When the troopers begin to cheer and the sabres to flash the horee responds. An exultation fills hi,,4 heart, ho will .Scream out, and big eyes blaze, and tire fixed .Steadily in front. No Inatter how obstinate he was tit the Start ha will not, fail ag the lineq carry the, last fifty feet of .4pave. If a volley comp,4 anti tie is unhurt he will lower,hioi ht,ad, and then t;lke 11 Slid - den breath for 11w orash. If cliargin infantry hi- -%%ill thunder .4traigill. ;It a man and kilock Jilin ([own ; if Ligain-it it title. of horsemen he will lift 11 i.4 head - and front feet an if groing over ,i fence. A man seldom rri#�s, out %heii hit in tile. turmoil of battle. It .is the sanie with it horse. Five Irooriers out of six, ,o,hen Niruck -by it hutlel, tire out, of their saddies within a minitte. If )tit ill the breast or shoulder, txp go thpir hands arid they get it beovy fall� if in th-A leg or oTool or arill, 1hoy rall for- ward and roll off. Even with a foot cut off by a jagged piove (if ,4hell a bor4e will not. drop. R is only ,.i.-hpli shot through the head or lipart that ho volnes do%Xn. liern,93, lie fahilly i%ound- ed, hkII liv, hiihfIP4 out of 1he fight lo right. oz, left, and xtatidg with drooping hi� . ad until loss of- blood firings him down. Tb- horse Chat loses his rider anti is unwounded hinixelf will continue tc run with his set of fours, until Poin ' movement throw -s him out. Then lie pen gallopLtig hery and there., neigh- ing with fear and alarin, but he will not. leave the. field. Ili his racing about he MR7 get. am , ong the (lead and vround- hut, he will dodge them if possihle, and in any case leap over them. When Ire h,%g come upon three or four oibpi riderless nteedA they " fall in," anti ket-,p together, ors if for mutual protec- tion, anti the " rally " on th!� bugle ma'y bring Cho whole of them into the ranks in . a body. A hortne wbirh has Passed through R bnttle unwounded iq frotful, sulky nn,l nervans-the name as a ninn-for the next itiree or four dayg. His first hat- Ite ijs also the making or unmaking of him as a war horse. If Chet nervous tension has been too great he will be- come a bolter In the fac ane and thereby become a danger in him- qplf. If the, teot han not been beyond hi in, he will go Into the next fight wit h head held high and fleoks of foarn blow - ;ng from his mmith as he thundersover Che earth. PURELY PERSONAL. , — totem About Some of the Great Folks 01 the World. J 18 A VERY ANCIENT CITY � SANTIAGO DE CUBA ONE OF THR Zola received the swa of A18 for his OLDEST IN THE WORLD. first book; for `L'Aasommoir" he re- — oaived 126,000. Second go Santo DoAultago-FoandedNearl The buke of MAI'lliorough is one of Four Hundred Tean Age and still the most enthusiastic of amateur fire- 1161alivii Many Old-I'line Cnistonsit-The - mon, anti takes, a keen interest in the City Ifus a Memorable Illestory. Fire Brigade Union. Ile freqpently The naw Sa,utiago given to the �%ears a fireman's uniform himself, former capital signifies in English St. Kaiser 'Wilhelm is annoyed in his James, and hits at various times been drives about Berlin by bicyolters who valled Saa Jago. San Diego, and Sairti- ride around his carriage with no re- ago, all NNilh the hame meaning. It is gard for eti4liette. Ri-ce"LlY an .,ituuLed 45) miles in it direct line jk%kLkward oyeter ran his machine into SOULII-east of Iltoviiiia, dud is still the the Emperor's carriage. . �hief city Of tile ewii,eirk depwrtment of Verdi, now 82 years old, rides on Cuba- It is the rubidential town of horseback every day. Jae composes E6 little every mottling, phLyn cardis with the archbishop. Lind is the beat Of sev- his family in the afternoon, and in the. e tal yearly religiuus ittzinvals, which evening likes to read poehy arid phil- art, ce'ela-al.ed �NiLh pump all(i Ce Co- osuphy. trway. . The pope made eight hogsheads OZ Santiago is the terminui of Lv%u rail- %%iL'e Cast year from tile 6neyard in road lines. one u: N%hich is the outlet thit Vatician gardens. A ama,li paitof of LoLn&i do Cob;'e, ilia ce ebl'ated VOP - the NNI116 is reso,rved. for his own use, per Luiues sil.Llaied hievera.1 miles ia- another portion iii .sent to the churches iand, 'ilia set und I ailt oad Passes to be used at mass, and tile r8sL is Bold , * Lieut. -Gen, von (ter Gultz, better through the rich wugur country, alf- known us Von der Coltz Pasha, tile re- fording transportatiou for that Staple Organizer of the Turkish Army, has artie,Le Of exilot-La,tioll. The expurtis been appointed luspectorJjeuerut of from Santiago are Said to reach the sum of $8,000,000 annually. TOhitevo, huney. Fortresses in the German At -my, In 'e 1080 UK- t� I ruin, ouctia, alld mahO;;any UL Place of Gen. Vogel vol, Cqlikenal , n. The office is secon'd in importance only ported in gieat quaai�ities. Sautiago Is to Chief of the Geuerat ��,taff. eno�osed oil Lbree sidei by hills ribing kiam Stick'a son, Sir Arthur Ilali- ra.pidly from tilt, bay LO mountains of Iyurtun., 1"te Permanent Secretary of great, 11eight. and beauty, whi,A heiides the War Department, was tuade a peer I being 1,uvely to look upon affurd per - oil the Queen's birthday, and is said fect drainage to the city. I by the Court Journa,l to have selco-ted WRETCHED SLATE uv S,rftEETS. the title of Baron Haliburtou. 118 is a native Nova 8,cotiull arl(I the first, The streets art,, all alike, and appar- Bluc Nose to enter tile House of Lords, ently have not been iepa,Lred since Mr. Gladstone at tile time Of hiAjirst constructed four hundred years death wits a member of the Royal Aca- I agu. Sta,rl.ing at the shove, the streets domy, holding the sinecure office of! which are very narrow, run directly up � Professor of Ancient History. Other 'I the hillside, ii, disuit-noe of one hundred honorary members of the Acad 3 - - and fifty feet or more. Tropival rains sre not artists are. Mr. Lecky, who is I have washed g.rOat gutters down the SeCr(AarY for Foreign Correspondence; I Bishop Creighton of London, Profe.ssoc I rutids, in some plac,es three and four of Ancient Literature, and Mr. Francis feet deep, and the tniffio hu.s upi-ooted C. Penrose, antiquary, the cobblestones laid hundreds of yettra M' CelicOUrt, 1k 18,WYOV Of A111111-itILIS, I ago, and Left in the road pitfalla arid NNho was the last advucdte in the island mantrap, -i for tile unwary. The main to plead in French, has been made ai street, upon %�hicll the American Con - Knight of the Legion of Honor. \N'horl the British I sul lived, is in such & condition of tie - Government many years cay that no effilet is made to IdIrive a ago ordered that English should -be the ve�hicile through it, and even w horse - official lauguage, of MituriLil I certain day, M. Cletivourt on the last inan cann(A tide through it after dark. day talked from noon till midnight, jThere is risk in attompting to na.vig- inding up with a farewell to hi,4 ate the streel on foot in broad daylighk. mother tongue. �V 4 -ust of the sLi-eats have cement Side - Charles Kean the younger's books w alks, Len or fifteeLi inches wide, but anO Mementoes dire W be gold soon in in some streets eyea this accommoda.. London. Among them a.re tile folio tion is done awa-y, with, Shakespeare presented by the Duke of, Sani.ittgO liar, the reputation of be- D'evotiahlre to Edmund K in, a mut, lag the most unhealthy city in Cuba. , .. berry tree at Stratford-or�A "'. .ric �e Hen;xrried in by mouttuins, withl aid the owned by Gurrhek, end the scales, � city's fit-th festering in the su.13, it is Nveights, knife, and pa.rchment bond surprising that ye.11txw fever does not us�,d by Edmund and Charles Kean make the city its regilkw, abiding place, 'when acting the part of Shylock. instead of visiting it annually, as it Kaiser AVillielm draws the line at does. ,No charge is made, for living pic- Je wa. Wrote in the streets of Santiago, and A Magde,burg Hebrew, Proud children of hoth sexes and to the age of his seventh boy, asked permission of ten or t�ve,lvef years. tolally dispense bo call the,ohild William and to,have with cdothing, and chwse aboitut in tile the 1,'mperor'a namo entered on the re- streets and highwilys in oustumosakin gister its goolfa,ther. He received in to those worn by the only residents of reply from the Government "the deLls- the Gandoin of Eden. ion I bat the entry of his All Highness,s ALL TfIE HOMES BUILT ALIKE. name as -godfather in the registry of Houses of the better cilass in the names of children of Che Mosaic faith oity are tt,4 alike as two peas, and & Is not, Permissible." description Of one amswera for ail. Africa Seems to work on Prince Hen -4 Take the buoi-Iding whic,li. was occupied ry of Orleans's temper, In his . by the American Conbul, situa,ted in last; ex- a street absuluteiy impassable for any- pedition he quarrelled with M. BOn- thing but podestrians. It is necessary va,10t, 'his com.panion, returning to in- should one be driving,i to leave the c,a,r_ ' suit the Italian ariny, wbich led to his riagL alt the ejorner of the street. arid duel with the Count of Turin. 3,he pick ilia way 'down the so-catlied Side - L 1 walk to the Old-fashioned building expedition into A43,ssinia, which he I has Just entered upon with the Russian ! re,cogn-ized as the Congul's home hy Geontieff. has already split. up into two the Americ,an eagie, -which surmounts Iva rties, as the Prince arid 1�1 i the keystone. The wal is of the bui I d- Leontieff ing are three feet thick, of wild ee- could not agree from the st4rt ' l bardened to* the .solidity of I ment, Alany year,% iigo (he daughter of an marble, with windows one foot squa,re, artist who was painting the queen was'set in ut, variousl arid unexpected places discovered to be so exactly of the Same !in its front Nialt. The door posts are stature as her majesty that she sat to !set in tiie ground ten feet, and the -1building, as is evidenced by its her father for the quelen'ts figui e, there Strength "aa built to resist the fra- by relieving her 11111jetity Of many tedi- quLtut e4rthquaked. � oil$ hours. This lady, whose name in I In the business di-4triot of the city Miss Blanche Sully, now lives in ,tln� 0110 Cannot but be intore.-oAA with ilia terica, to which country She went hack i quaint and peculiar appearance of file loaded with exquisite pm -gents from'shups. The front of the shop building lict, majesty. is entirely open, &rid inside can lie seon Lord Wolswley is almost as devote the clerk divested of every particle of �ulothing except such as is absolutely to the pen 'is the Sword, and if he had necessary fur covering nakedness, co - not been fated to Ile a field marshal I quetting with bright, gally-a(Lired mu - .he would beyond question h*ave been I lattu girls. All the shopping is done a Man of letters. He rises early in the 1 by servali(.4, the women of the aris- I toe -racy nsver v44iting the shops, but morning to write, and his Official duties sending for everything needed sither only cornmence when a pile of APz. . for dress or for howsehold purposes, tc,Ktifim to his industry with the ppn, Much of the shopping k (lone oil the � FOr some, time iwstt he has employed a corners of the street whore heavy no- numb`r Of COPYiSts in inaking extracts gresses sit on I lie ground, surrounded for him in the arobivea of Veinice. 1.by huge baskets contadning fruit, veg- Ot, Kaiser Willielm oarrie.s with him .9. .� bles and yams. striall but servioeable revolver either VEHICLES SELDOM SEE,*4. in his pocket or in his belt whan in I Few vehict,'es axe seen in the itieets, uniform. The threAts of the onar- and when seen Che poor beasts of hur. chitits have oadsedfilm Co have recourse (ten are to be corurrikserated as there I 11.4 absolulelY, no adre given to (he ani - to this measure of see-urity. His Ina, !rnals, the owner al)parenLly desiritiq jeaty is extremely skillful in the lise !only to get a.4 much isork ,is tmssihle of the weapon, and lite chas,spur wlio out of the lipast.-i before (boy surrender aocomir , ani,Ls him every%Nherft hits had to fate aud drop (lead in their tra.�kq. orders to inspect it Pvvr� morning in Half �%a.� up the hill back of tile order to m,ika sure tha,t it: in in -vi oi king city. 4ituated upim it piaza, where Ilia ordi,r. mi!itary iiand lilay4 wi f,erlitin oven - Few people know how Bismarck and ings. s(amk Itie cothedral, tile must P-etentiOUS Fttll 'tille fit Sautiaklo. 'I'llit his ,Lnicestors got thF-ir njime. Bis-'calhAra.4 is tho largo-st. and linest on rivirek in the name of one of 1hose till- the is!,and of Cuba, but ilm N�alls, built cient cantles a. short disLanen from of ]to, OLIN stone.%% hich issleadily Crumb- titendal. oil the road frolit Cologne to , liIIg A%1,113', give it tile lippealarlee of Berlin, in the. center of the ol(I Afilrqu_ bAng muth-eati�n. The city al.ouri(I4 in inateor Rrandeuii,urg. The oitsllt� hit(, c:ub-hou4esi, there being .six foi, a pop - this name. because it, defended tit e u'ation of only 45,000. Gainihling-hous,is ",Nliirca," or the line where the River axe �% idv (yen and an un(whsi ructed view Ili .- formed a boundary ill former "n be obtained fronii the streolm of I ho I i mi S. or mark of defenso against in- Interiors of fliew, rpsorts. where ilin r u ote rs * Flence t he n,,rne of .Tti.q_ Spaniard and Cohan can get rid of ralarck, his .surplus vilsh. ': ,,4itillngn is memorab'e histmietilly, Lord Sa I inbu ry reiwhed hi4 sixty- niolitily for the Frerich '04-cupalion 4 eighth hirthday revently, Only one or 1553. anti the affair ( if the Virginhuq the quppn'n rprime miniMers, 1Nlr, (,11;ld_ just t%%enty-five years ago, whi.-h re- 4uflod in the Citt.yinent, hy the Spanish stone, has held that office longvr than ' Government tollie. VnitedSta.tes of:in Lord 8,ilialiury,. who. roughly spesiking, indemnity for tile rattroler of Captain lik,� Lord Palmerston, hasheen chipf of Fry and thocrow1of thal. vessel. 8:infi- tlip enhinel for nine years; but Mr. ago has also been the sPat of Most Pi(t wiia head of the f�ovprnment con- Of tile political uprisings agairmt ilia thitiously for seventeen Vp:irs, anti tile oppressive rule of tile home Govern- E,arl of Liverpool. %%ho �,-wlmed office men( and it long line of patriols have in 18N, on the asmasination of Mr, Per- licien shot on Ihe ramparts of the Civftl, remained prime minister for just ' Morro, Castle Overhanging the harbour. upoix fifteen years, Of course, f'ord The city contains a theatre. a run - i miliabury has lvppn foreign minister for (oni house, barravics, and hospital. a much longer period. Poundries, -,cap %%orks, fanyards And eigar factories ars the only induqIrial The German emperor and empressnri- establishments. The exports have the earliest risers of all European sov- been steadily,doevemsing since 1985, no- ereigna, but with them 11, is it case of (iceably in copper ore, in which they following out. Che rule of "Fiarly to bed "' t one time a,mountedi to 25,000 Cowl an- nually, hul now Ch"yjliavp dwindled. to and early to rise," for they retitle As greatly diminished quantities, early an 10o'clook. At 5o'clock in the . . — , summer and 6 o'clock in I lie winter I hr POWER, TO DRIVE A 111CYCLE. emperor Is tip and nbout. arid the em. The driving of a bicycle At, ten miles ' lor,-sq ilses only a little litter, that; she an hour has been ascertained to require may lie re,ady bprwlf to prepare her about one Lwnenty-third oC it hni-Afi pow - ford an rriaatod life first cup of coffee. nr. An expert rider for a sho�-f time I'he, children of the imperial pair are may exert one-third of a horse -power. hrouglif up to follow titipir parents' ex- For rapid work, no(-. scorching, on(%-SAV'- ;Imple in this as In ove,ry way. Th I, enth homp-powor is noicided. Those fig. I"11IT"Tor of Austria Is another mon- tires are the result of a so,iontific in- aZ who breakfasts with the lark. Vestigation. I . , 6tIi