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The Brussels Post, 1893-11-24, Page 2HE ,BRUSSELS POST N ovEMBER t,4:, 1803 'IN THE MIDST OF ALAIIMS' ROBT. I3ARR, IN "LII'PINCOTP'S MAGAZINE," CIHAPTER VIT. Befpre night throe more telegraph boy found Yates and three more telegrams in sections help to carpet the floor of the forest. The usually high spirits of the newspaperman went down and dowu under the repeated visitations. Al last be did not eveu swear, which, in the ooso of Yates, always indicated extreme depression. As tight drew on, he feebly remarked to the pHrofessor that he was more tired than he had evorbeen in going through an election campaign. He went to his tent -bunk early, in a state of such utter dejection that Rom mark telt sorry for him and tried inel%cru• ally to cheer him up. If they would ell come together," said Yates, bitterly, " so that one compre hen. sive effort of malediction would include the lot end have it over, it wouldn't be so bad ; but this oonetent dribbling in of messengers would wear out the patience of a saint.' As he sat in his shirt -sleeves on the edge of his bunk, itenmark said that things would look brighter in the morning,—which was a safe remark to make, for the night was dark. Yates eat silently with his head in his hands for some moments. At last he said, slowly. " There is no one so obtuse as the thoroughly good man. It is nob the mes- senger I am afraid of, after all. He is but the outward symptom of the inward trouble. What you are seeing is an example of the workings of conscience, where you thought conscience Was absent. The trouble with me is that I know the newspaper depends on me, and that it will be the first, time I have failed. It is the newspaperman's 'Minot to be in the centre of the fray. He yearns to snoop the opposition press. 1 will get a night's sleep if I can, and to- morrow I know I shall capitulate. I will hunt out General O'Neill and interview him on the field of slaughter. I will tele- graph columns. I will refurbish my mili- tary vocabulary, and speak of deploying and massing and throwing out advance guards, and that sort of thin. I will move columns and advance brigades and invent strategy. We will have desperate fighting in the columns of the Argus, what. ever there is on the fields of Canada. But to a man who has seen real war this opera. beef% masquerade of fighting—I don't want to say anything harsh, but to me it is offensive." He looked up with a wan smile at his partner sitting on the bottom of an upturn- ed pail as he said this. Then he reached for his hip -pocket and drew out a revolver, which he handedbutt•end forward to the professor, who, not knowing his friend car- ried arried such an instrument, instinctively shrank from it. " Here, Renny, take this weapon of de- vastation and soak it with the potatoes. If another messenger comes in on me to -night .1 know I shall riddle him if I have this bandy. My better judgment tells me he is innocent, and I don't', want to shed the only blood that will be spilled during that awful campaign." How long they had been asleep they did not know, as the ghost stories have it, but both were suddenly awaked by a commotion outside. It was intensely dark inside the tent, but as the two sat up they noticed a faint moving blur of light which made itself just visible through the canvas. " It's another of those fiendish messen- gers; whispered Yates. " Gimme that re- volver," "Hush l" said the other below his breath. «There's about a dozen men out there, judging by the footfalls. I heard. them con - nig.' Let's fire into the tent and be done with it," said a voice outside. "No, no," cried another ; uo Hien shoot, It makes too much noise,and there must be others about. Have ye all got yer bayonets fixed?" There was a murmur apparently in the affirn ative. "Very well then,Murphy and O'Rourioll, come round to this side. lou three stay where you are. Tim, you go to that end; and, Doolin, come wish me." The Ferman army, by all the gods I" whispered Vatee, groping for his clothes, "Renny, give me that revolter, and I'll show youmore fun than a funeral." "No, no, They're at least three to our one. We're in a trap here, and helpless." "Oh,just leb me jump out among em and begin the fireworks. Those I didn't shoot would die of fright. Imagine sooute scour- ing the woods with a lantern I—with a lan- tern, Ronny 1 Think of that 1 011, this is pie l Let me tit 'em." Hush I Keep quiet 1 They'll hear you. Tim, bring the lantern round to this aide." The blur of light moved along the canvas. "There's a man with his back against the wail of the tent. Just touch him up with yer bayonet, Murphy, and let him know we're here." "There may be twenty in the tent," said Murphy, cautiously. "Do what I tell you," answered the man inconlmend. Murphy progged his bayonet through the canvas, and sunk the deadly point of the instrument into the bog of pobatoee. "Faith, he sleeps sound," said Murphy, with a tremor of fear in his voioe, as there was no demonstration on the part of the bag he voice of Yates rang oub from the interior of the tent : "What the old Harry do you fellows think your doing, anyhow ? What's the matter with you ? What do yon want ?" There was a moment's silence, broken only by it nervous scuffling of feet and the click- ing of gunlocks. "How many are there of you in there?" said the stern vonoe of the chief. Two, if you want to know, both tin- • armed, and one ready to fight the lot of you if you are anxious for a scrimmage," "Come out one by one," was the next command. " We'll come out one by one," said Yates, emerging in hie shirt-eleevea, "but you can't expect us to keep it up long, es there are only two of us," The professor next appeared with his coat on. The eitnatien certainly did not look inviting, The lantern on the ground threw up a pallid glow on the severe fade 09 the oommander, as the footlights might illuminate the figure of 3 brigand on the stage. The face of the officer showed that he wasgreatly impressed with the iinpor tanto and danger of hie position. Yates glanced about him with a smile, all his re• dont dejection gone, now tbat he was in the Midst of a row. " Whirl is Murphy," he said, " and which is Doolin? Hello, alderman, he cried, as his eyes rested on one tall, strap, ping, red'hatrod man who held his bayonet ready to ohargo,wibh a fierce determination in his face that might have made an op• pentane quail, " When did you leave New York? end Who's relining the city, now that you're gong?" Tlie men had evidently a sense of humor, in;spite of their blood -thirsty Wetness, for a smile flickered on their faoes in the lam tern•light, and several bayonets were um ominously lowered. Bet the hard face of the commander did not relax, "You aro doing yourself no good by your talk," ho said, solemnly, "What you say will be used against yep." "Yes, and what you do will bo used against you ; and don't forget that toot. It's you who are iu danger,—not me, You aro at this moment making about the big. gest ass of yourself there is in Canada." "Pinion these mon," cried the captain, gruffly. "Pinion nothing!" shouted Y ates,shaking off the grasp of a man who had sprung to hie side, But both Yates and Rouniark were speedily overpowered ; and then an unseen difficulty presenbed itself, Murphy pathetically remarked thab they had no rope. The captain was a man of re0ouroe. "Cut enough rope from the tent to tie them." " And when you're at it, Murphy," said Yates, "out off enough more to hang your- self with. You'll need it before long. And remember that any damage you do to that tent you'll have to pay for. l'ts hired." Yates gave them all the trouble be could while they tied his elbows and wrists to. gather, offering sardonic suggestions and cursing their clumsiness. Remnarir sub• mitted quietly. When the operation was finished, the professor said, with the calm confidence of one who has an empire behind him and knows it, -- "I warn you, sir, that this outrage is committed on British soil, and that I, on whom it is committed w o , am a British sub - jot." "Heavens and 'earth, Renmark, if you find it impossible to keep your mouth shut, do not use the word 'subject,' but ' cit. izen. " " I am satisfied with the word, and with the protection given to those who use it."( 1 " Look here, Renmark, you had better let me do the talking. You will only put your feet in it. I know the kind of men I have to deal with ; you evidently don't." In tying; the professor they came upon the pistol in his coat -pocket. Murphy held it up' to the light." "I thought you said you were unarmed Y" remarked the captain, severely, taking the revolver in his band. "I was unarmed. The revolver is untie, but the professor would not let me use it. If he had, all of you would be running for dear life through the woods." " You admit that you are a British sub- ject?" said the captain to Renmark, ignor- ing Yates. "He doesn't admit it, he brags of it," said the latter, before Renmark could speak. " You oa.l't scare him : so quit this fooling, and let us know how long we are to stand here trussed up like this.' "I propose, captain," said the red-head- ed man, " that we shoot these men where they stand, and reporb to time general. They are spies. They are armed, and they denied it. It's according to the rules of war, cap- tain." "Rules of war ! What do you know of the rules of war, you red-headed Senegam. bian? Rules of Hoyle? Your line is digging sewers, I imagine. Colne, captain, undo these ropes and make up your mind quick. ly. Trot us along to General O'Neill just as fast as you can. The sooner you get us there the more time you will have for tieing sorry over what you have done." But the captain still hesitated, and look. ed from one to the other of his mon, as if to make up his mind whether they would obey hien if he went to extremities. Yates's quiok eye noted that the two prisoners had nothing to hope for, even from the man who smiled. The shootiug of two unarmed and bound Wren seemed to them about the correct way of beginning a great struggle for freedom. ' Well," said the captain at length, "we must do it in proper form, so I suppose we should have a oourt.mertial. Are you agreed ?" They were unaminously agreed. " Look here," cried Yates, and there was a certain impressiveness in his voice in spite of hie former levity, " this farce has gone just as far as it is going. Go inside the tent there, end in my coat•poeket you will find a telegram, the first of a dozen or two received by me within the last twenty- four lours. They you will see whom you propose to shoot." The telegram was found, and the captain read it while Tim held the lantern. He looked from under his knitted brows at the newspaper -man. Then you are one of the Argus staff." "I am chief of the Argus staff. As you see, five of my men will be with General O'Neill to -morrow. The first question they will ask him will be 'Where is Yates?' The next thing that will happen will be that you will be hanged for your stupidity, not by Canada nor by the Spate of New York, but by your own general, who will curse your memory ever after. You are fooling, not with a subject this time, but with a citizen, and your general is nob such an idiot as to monkey with the United States government and, what is a blamed nicht worse, with the American press. Come, captain, we've had enough of this. Cat these cords just as quickly as you can, end take us to the general. We were going to see him in the morning anyhow." "But this man says he is a Canadian." "That's all right. My friend is me. If you touch him you touoh me. Now hurry up. Climb down from your perch. 1 shall have enough of trouble now, getting the general to forgive all the blunders you have made to night, without your adding insult to injury. Tell your risen to untie us and throw the ropes back into the tent. It will soon be daylight. Hustle, and let us be off." "Untie them," said the captain with a sigh. Yates shook himself when his arms regain. ed their freedom. "Now, Tim," he said, "run into that tent and bring out my coat. It's ohilly here." Tim did instantly as requested, and help. ed Yates on with time coat, "Good boy 1" said Yates. "You've evi- dently been porter in a hotel." Tim grin. ned, " I think," said Yates, meditatively, that if you look under the right-hand bunk, Tim, you will fled ajuug, It belongs to time professor, although he has hidden it under my bed to divert suspicion from himself. Just fish it out end bring it here. Ib is not as full as it was, but there's enough to go round, if the professor does not take more than his share." The gallant troop smaoked their lipe in antioipetMon, and Renmark looked astonish. od to sae the jug brought forth. "You drat, professor," said Yates ; and Tim imr000ntlg offered him the jug. The turned man shook ]tie head, Y ,tea laughed, and took it him- self. " Well, here's to you boys," ho said. and may you all got book as safely to New York as I will, The jug pawed down along the Hee until Tim Notified it. "Now, then for the camp of the Fenian army," cried Yates, taking Ronmark'sarm; and they began their march through the woods. •'Groat Closer Stilly," ho continued to his friend , "this is rest and quiet with a yen. geauce, isn't it ?" cape will be either in jail or shot beforeWISDOM OP THE CEO w. 13O.111IS IN AN OPER HOUSE, twenty-four hours," " Well, by the gods, it won't help you any. 1'll have you shot ineido of ten min• ties, instead of twenty -foul' hours." " Hold on, general, hold nn," cried Yates, as the angry man rose and confront• ed the two. "I admit that he richly de. serves shooting if you were the fool -killer, wbielm you aro not. But it won't do. I will be rosponsibblo for him, Just finish that pees for roe, and I will take caro of the professor. Shoot me if you like, but don't touch him. He hasn't any sense, as you mei see, but Iam not to illame for that, nor ere you. If you take to shooting everybody who 18 an ass, general, you won't have any ammunition left to conquer Cana- da with." The general smiled in spite of himself, and resumed the writing of the pass, " There," be said, bending the paper to Yates. " You see we always like to oblige the press. I will risk your belligerent friend, and I (tope you will exercise more control over hint, if you mesh the Cana. diene, than you were able to exert here. Don't you think, on the whole, you had better stay with us ? We aro going to march in a eonpl0 of hours, when the men have had a little rest." He added in a lower voice, so that the professor could not bear, "You didn't see anything of the Cana- dians, I suppose?" "Nota sign. NoI don't think I'll stay. There will be five of our fellows here some time to -day, I expect, and that will be more than enough. I'm really here on a vacation. Been ordered rest and quiet. I'm beginning to think I have made a mis- take in location," Yates bade good•by to the command- er, and walked with Ins friend out of the camp. They threaded their way among sleeping men and groups of stacked guus. On the top of one of the bayonets was hung a tall silk hab, which looked most incongru. ous in such a place. " I think," said Yates, "that we will make for the Ridge Road, which must lie somewhere in this direction. It will be easier walking than through the woods; and besides, I want to stop at one of the farm -houses and get some breakfast. I'm as hungry as a bear after tramping so long." • Very well," answered the professor shortly. They stumbled along until they reached the edge of the wood, then, crossing some open fields, presently came upon the road near the spot where the fist -fight had token place between Yates and Bartlett, The two, now with greater comfort, walked silently along the road towards the west, with the reddening east behind them. The whole scene was strangely quiet and peace. ful, and the recolleotion of the weird camp they had left in the woods seemed merely a bad dream. The morning air was sweet, and the birds were beginning to siug• Yates had intended to give the professor a piece of his mind regarding the lade of tact and common sense displayed by Rem mark in the camp, but somehow the soareoly-awakened day did not lend itself to controversy, and the serene stillness soothed his spirit. He began to whistle softly that popular war -song, " Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," and then broke in with the question,— " Say Ronny, did you notice that ping - hat on the bayonet ?" " 1 es, answered the professor ; ""and I saw five others scattered around the Damp." " Jingo ! you were observant. I can imagine nothing quite so ridiculous as a man going to war in a tail silk hat." The professor made no reply, and Yates changed his whistling to "Bally round the flag." CHAPTER VIII. The company, feeling that they had to put their boat foot foremost in the p1eseuoe of their prisoners, tried at first to main- tain something like military order in marching through the woods. They soon found, however, that this was a difficult thing to do. Canadian forests are not as trimly kept as English parks. Tim walked on ahead with the lantern, but throe times he tumbled over some obstruction and dis- appeared suddenly from view, uttering maledictions. His final effort in this line was a triumph. He fell over the lantern and smashed it. When all attempts at reconstruction failed, the party tramped on in go -as -you -please fashion, and found they did butter without the light than with it, In foot, although it was not yet four o'clock, day break was already filtering through the trees, and the woods were perceptibly ighter 'We moat bo getting near the camp," said the captain. "Will I shout:, sir?" asked Murphy, "No, no, We can't miss it, Keep on as you are doing." They were nearer the oatnp than they suspected. As they blundered on among bhe cracking underbrush and dry twigs, the sharp report of a rifle echoed through the forest, and a bullet whistled above their heads. "hat the divil are you foiring at, Mike Lynch?" cried the alderman, who recogniz- ed the shooter now rapidly falling back. "Oh, it's you, is it?" said the sentry, stopping in his flight. The captain strode angrily towards him. What do you mean by firing Like that? Don't you know enough to ask for the countersign before shooting ?" " Sure I. forgot about it, captain, entire- ly. But then, ye see, I never can hit eel. thing : so it's little difference it makes." The shot had roused the camp, and there was now wild commotion, everybody think- ing the Canadians were upon them. A strange sight met the eyes of Yates and Renmark. Both were astonished to see the number of men that O'Neill had under his command. They were a motley crowd. Some tat. tered United States uniforms were among them, but the greater number were dressed as ordinary individuals, although a few had trimmings of green braid ou their clothes. Sleeping out for a couple of nights had given the crowd the unkempt appear. ante of a great company of tramps. The officers were undistinguishable from the men at first, but afterwards' Yates noticed that they, mostly in plain clothes and slouch irate, had sword -belts buckled around them and one or two bad swords that had evidently seen service in the United States cavalry. "It's all right, boys," cried the captain to the excited mob. "It wee only that fool Lynch who fired at us. There's no- body hurt. Where's the general?" "Here be comes," said half a dozen voices at once, and the crowd made way for him. General O'Neill was dressed iu ordinary citizen's costume, and dict not have even a sword -belt. On his head of light hair was a black soft felt hat, His face was pale and covered with freckles. He looked more like a clerk from a store than like the commander of an army. He was evidently somewhere between thirty-five and forty years of age. "Oh, its you, is it ?" he said. "Why are you back ? Any news?" The captain saluted, military fashion, and replied,— " We took two prisoners, air. They were encamped in a tent in the woods. One of them says he is an American citizen and says he knows you, so 1 brought them in." " I wish you had brought in the tent too," said the general, with a wan smile. "It would be an improvement on sleeping in the open air. Are these the prisoners? 1 don't know either of these tnen." "The captain mi.kos a mistake in saying that I claimed a personal acquaintance with you, general. What I said was that you would r000gnize somewhat quicker than ho did who I was, and the desirability of treat- ing me with reasonable decency.—Jusb show the general that telegram you took from my coat -pocket, captain," The paper was produced, and O'Neill read it over once or twice, " Yon are on the New York Argus, then?" " Very much so, general." "1 hope you have not been roughly used?" Oh, no ; merely tied 0p in a hard knob and threatened with shooting,—that's all," "Oh, I'mn sorry to hear that. Still, you must make some allowance at a time like this. If you will oome with me I will write you a ase which will prevent any similar mistake happening in the future." The general led the way to a smouldering campfire, where, out of a valise he took writing -materials, and using the valise as a desk, began to write. After leo had writ- ten " Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Irish Republic," he looked up and asked Yates his first name, Being answered, he inquired the name of his friend. "I want nothing from you," interposed Renmark. "Dont put my u tme on the paper." Oh, that's all right," said Yates. "Never mind him, general. He's a learned man who doesn't know when to talk and when not to. Ae you march up to our tent general, you will see an empty jug, which will explain everything. Renmark's drunk, not to put too fine a point upon it, and ho imagines himself a British subject," The Fenian general looked up at the pro. feasor, "Are you a Canadian?" he asked, "Oertainly I am," "Well, in that ease, if I let you leave camp, you must give me your word that should you fall in with the enemy you will giveno information to them of our position, numbers, or of anything else you may have seen while with 118." "I shall not give my word. On the con- trary, if I should fall in with the Canadian troops I will tell them where you aro, that you are from eight, hundred to one thousand strong, and the womb -looking set of yoga - bonds I have ever seen out of jail." General O'Neill frowned and looped from ono to the outer. " Do you realize that you confess to being a spy, and that it beoomes my duty to have you Mime out and shot ?' "In meal 'war, yes. Butt thi0 is mere idtntic fooling. All of you that don't cm. (TO BE CONTINUED.) THE JEWELLED COBRA. 1 serpent That Uses Electricity as a Lure. The Sable Bird es lite Most Cunning or Feathered terentnree. Those who know the crow only as a largo black cawing bird, that comes northward in the (pito early spring to feast on merlon and, later, to pull up the young corn plants, know but little of his teal character. There is not la the entire list :of our Northern birds another that has such cunning and sagacity. These birds are not only mischiovoue and malicious, but they are bora thieves and pilferers, and they now to mews these qualities knotting them to be such, and to indulge Menu with a keen end grotesque sense of humor at the expense of their en- emies. They build great rough nests of sbioks and leaves, high upon the foresb trees, and aro woeful not to indulge iu any noise in tho vioinity during the building and brood- ing time. Four young ones are generally brought forth, end these, when newlyfledg- ed, aro a quartet of as ill -looking crea- tures as one may see. Large, lank and bony, with uncouth heads, it is at this stage that they foreshadow the grewsome inspiration that nest have haunted the brain of Edgar Allen Poe when he produced his celebrated raven from the dusk and the gloom of his weird imagination. Ae the young gradually take on flesh and feathers they become more presentable in appear. anoe; the eye gleams with bhe inborn Intel. ligence; they gave vent to a sort of falsetto "caw," but are anything but docile and well-behaved ohildren. There is an hereditary enmity between the owl tribes and the crows. There is n clear reason why there should be thia anti pathy as the former are strlotly night -prow. ling birds, while the blank fellows do their foraging all in daytime. When a orow spies an owl perched in some secluded place he at once comment. mites the fact to his companions, and then Mete is a noise in the woods that can be heard a utile in any direction. In India there is a common superstibion to the effeot that the jewelled cobra, a most poisonous reptile, can never be found with- out its precious stone, The natives assert that as soon as a oobra loses its stone or has it take n away, it eventually dies a linger- ing death or commits suicide. These snakes aro rather rare,otherwise this super- stition would have ceased to exist; how- ever, an entomologist of an enquiring turn of mind and a dabbler in eleatrioity regent• ly returned from India, tells the following indieidenb. He was anxious to catch a number of Indian fire -flips, and as a decoy he need a half•oandle-power incandescent lamp, ourrenb being furnished by a small sulphate of mercury primary battery. The battery and lamp he deposited upon the ground in a neighboring thioket or jungle and awaited developments. It should here be mentioned that only the male fly is pro- vided with the brilliant light, while the female gives bub a faint glow, and does not leave the ground. The first night that the lamp remained on the ground very few of the male flies name near it. This he surmised to be due to the fact of the light being too intense ; so the next night he set the decoy again, dimming the lamp, however, by covering it with Some tissue paper. He laid this down by a tree, and, net in hand, awaited the ooming of the male flies. They name, too, in short order, and in quite a little while he had eeoured a fine tat of specimens. Sud- denly, however, the air was free from flies ; they disappeared as if by magic. Just then the entomologist, thinking that the cause of their sudden departure must be due to something unusual, looked down to see if the light was still burning It had gone out. Stooping down, in the darkness he placed his hand where he thought the lamp ought to be, and, to his great horror, he found that he had touched the moist skin of a living oobra. The reptile had swallowed the lamp, thinking it to be a 'cobra's jewel.' It is almost needless to say bhab there was a mutual surprise, bnbit is comparatively easy to tell which was time more frightened, The snake hurried off, and as the batbery woo a little too heavy for him to drag along, the wires being strong, the was he lam foroiblyremoved from his mouth. This incident led to an investigation, and it was found that the oobra, while young, makes a search for a phosphorescent pebble, composed probably of barium sulphide, which, upon being slightly heated, produces a light which resembles that emanating from the female firefly. This he lays upon the ground immediately in front of his mouth, and as the winged insects approach they b000me an easy prey to this fnost venomous reptile. No Rear Cars Wanted. Pat—"Now, Bridget, dear, an' for yer Iola: don't '00 pin' an' slain' of yersolf nn tit' rear ear of b11' thrain on yer way to To. ronto. Ault 1 lb's thin asmilers gets smaehed t' smithereens." Bridget—" An' Oi won't, indado, But whey n0 it, Pat, the railrhodos nivor hoz th' since t' bo s,fth0r leavfn' 9±' rear cars off th' thrains for th' safety of their travellsraP' TEM' I0AD A DEEPER 80I1E6r10. The crows have no intention whatever to precipitate a fight—they are not built that way. The owl understands this, and much as he deprecates the unseemly noise, being by nature a quiet bird, he simply puts him- self on guard, glares at hie black enemies as they swoop close to him with their aggro. voting Daws, wines his feathers and greets them with a kind of hiss and an open bill. On such occasions be is generally found on a large limb, close to the trunk of the tree, to which he turns bis back and preserves a dignified defiance, daring his enemies to the onset. But the tactics of the black imps are too deep for the comprehension of the owl. 110 knows much less about man and his methods than do his cunning adversaries. They are abroad during the day and understand the meaning of a gun better than any creature that falls a victim t0 that weapon, and the whole intention of all their loud vociferation is to attract some bunter, whose coining they will notice, as they are on the wing and on bhe alert. When the time comes they will clear the coast, and the owl, non. granulating himself on their disappearance, probably falls a victim to the discharge of the murderous shotgun or rifle. Meantime the crows may be holding a jollification in an adjoining wood and bragging to each other about their sharp practice. It has been observed long ago that these birds hold conventions, or rattler that the gather together in deliberative assembly. This is in bhe fall, and a tree is choosen which has shed its leaves. A bunchy, spreading wal- nut would prove a favorite, back in the days when those trees wore still plentiful, and to this the sable hosts would repair to the number of 100 or more. The orators for the occasion would be perched above the audience, and it was a comic sight to see and bear the gestures end earnest caws that these gave forth. When something partic- ularly impressive had been advanced, it would be attested to bya vigorous flapping and an all-around concurrent cawing. The assemblies would last half a day with frequent adjournments, which wore espe- cially hasty if some urohin was detected stealing along the fence witim a gun. REGULAR COURT SESSIONS 1110110. Many People Murdered By Auarohists In Barcelona. fifteen remit 019111ed O11111ght and Many o1'the '8lb01uded are Dying—Others Hurt ht Ihr 1'ttnie—Anarchists Avenge the 811000M101 or Paling—The trindnall$ Escape, 1111,1 (11e Town rear Oilier 00107 rm1",e.s'80'1111'el few, A clotppatoll from lhtreoloha, Spats, says —The Lyoeum Opera House, a place of amusement muoh frequented by Barcelona's society, opened the opera season last night. "William Tell " was billed for production. There was a large audience, liverybhing went along well until the second act, when, as the audience were listening intently to the singers on the stage, two bombs, pre- sumably loaded with dynamite, were thrown from the gallery. As the bombs struck the floor below one of them exploded with a bereft repott. The audience sprang to their feet in terror and dismay. Wild shrieks and cries of agony rose from the lower part of the house, and it wao known that many persons bad been injured. Many men, their faces pale with fright, abandon- ed the women they had eseorted ani made desperate rushes from the exits, knocking down and trampling upon those in their way, without regard to age or sex. When the smoke and the dust) caused by the ex- plosion cleared away the forms of many persons were seen WRITIRNO i PON TILE FLOOR near the place where the bomb had fallen. The seats thereabouts had been blowi to pieces and the flouring in spots was torn up and the beams partly shattered. Fifteen persons were instantly killed, and eight lave since died, making a total of twenty- three who lost their lives by the explosion. Several persons were removed from the building with nearly every shred of clothing torn from their bodies. The only persons who retained their presence of mind were the police. Immediately after the bomb exploded and the singers rustled in terror from the stage the officers grasped the situation, They knew that the outrage was the work of Anarchists and endeavored to prevent the escape of the misertanbe. Some of them ran to the gallery and surrounded that part of it from which the bombs had been thrown. Several suspicious -looking characters were placed under arrest, and it was found that two of them were Anarchists well known to the police, Some of the polios gave Leh; bo oaring for the wounded. Six women and nue men were Some writers on crow habits have affirm. ed that they hold oriminal ware sessions, judicially try culprits, and, if convicted, sentence and summarilyinfliot puuishtnent. It is posible that they recognize a code of honor among themselves, but there is cer- tainly nothing of honor discernible in their relations with any of the other congeneric families of the feathered tribes. They are systematic robbers of the eggs of other birds, and do not hesitate to loot the nests of the domestic turkey and farm- yard hen. When a neat has been dis- covered and a raid has been decided on, a small gang makes the sortie. One is oharged with vigilance to watch for the approach of danger. Another gets in front of the set- , n hen and taunts her, holding g her atten- tion, while a confederate at her rear goes for the plunder. Or they will rush forward in assault, scaring the poor creature from her nest, when each seizes an egg, which it readily carries in its bill, and all flap their way to the woods with generous congratu. lations to each other on their good general- ship. Plundering the nests of any of the small birds is also in their line, and one may often see the little victims whose homes have been despoiled in hot pursuib of the blank marauder, who leisurely flaps his way, utterly heart -hardened to any appeal for meroy. But it is when domesticated that the real orow character can be beat studied, as he Men exhibits all his 'secularities, which in a wild state cannot be nbeerved. TALKINI# 1J LY. Tho Italian Ambassador Rouses the Ire or Some or the french Papers, A special says :—The speech of the Iia• Tian Ambassador at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London on November 9 is caus- ing angry comments from the French press. Referring to the vent of the British Medi+ t'orranean squadron to Italy, the Italian Ambassador said t " We Italiana have no need to go into raptures or to turn our house inside out when receiving foreign guests." This is plainly a reference to the Franoo.Rnssian fetes, and f t, has aroused the ire of the newspaper mon of Femmes, causing them to indulge in some very bitter re• marks regarding the friendship existing between Italy and England. Some of them go so far as to intimate that Italy may yet regret her display of friendship for Eng. land, and the combined French and Res. Sian squadrons in the Mediterranean are capable of dictating terms to any ootbi• nation wltioh Italy and England may pre- sent in the Mediterranean or elsewhere. This feeling has brought forth renewed sag• gostions that France and Russia should sup. port Spain in a demand for the surrender of the "key of the Mediterranean," and that England must on no a:count be al• lowed to 0atablisim herself in any position opposite Gibraltar, cont eyed from the Opera House to the hospital. Each of them was severely wounded. When the news of the outrage spread through the city the Opera House was quickly surrounded by a great CROWD OF EXCITED 200PLE, who gave vent to their feeling by cursing the Anarchists and the police. They insist. ed that the latter were to blame for the ex- plosi0lt, as they should have known that the Anarchists are still active in the city. Within the past six months several Anar- chist outrages have been perpetrated hare, including the attempt by Pallas to kill Gen, Martinez Campes, for which Pallas was shot. The police wore very active for a time in hunting down Anarchists, and their efforts were rewarded, many of the gang falling into their hands. Much explosive material was captured,andthen,a,parently,tlie polies rested content with their work, leaving the Anarchists free to plan and execute other outrages. The feeling against the Anarchists is very bitter, the pepolo believ- ing that this is but the first of a seri:e of outrages that will be attempted to avenge the death of Pallas, who, the night before hie death, declared that some of his fellow Anarchists had sworn to wreak revenge for his killing. It is supposed that the reason one of the bombs did not explode was that it struck the back of a man sitting in one of the seats, extingoiehing the fuse. The missile, its fall being broken, and time burn. ing fuse put out, dropped harmless to the finer. The scene in tho Opera House beggared description. 51IRIEIra AND Census were heard on all sides, A few of the mon sought to protect the women, bub they were swept away like chaff before the fear -crated mob that filled the aisles. Men and women, seeing that it was useless to attempt to force their way through the fighting and howling mob, climbed over the backs of seats and sought to reach the door in this manner. A great number of persons were more or less seriously hurt in the struggle, and it is considered wonderful that many of them were not killed out- right. Notwithstanding the frightful con. fusion, the lower part of the building was emptied in a few minutes of all but the police and the dead and injured. The stalls were completely wrecked. There were many women occupying these stalls, and a great many of them were injured, some reports planing the number as high as 100. The crowd that gathered outside the building when the first intelligence of the outrage spread swelled in numbers throughout the night. It seamed to em- brace about half the populabion of the city. A strong detachment of TUE OIVIO OUARD was promptly at the sone. They had great difficulty in preventing the orowd from entering the building. There is a general feeling of panic in the city, last night's ex. plosion being believed to be but a prelude to further outrages by the Anarchists. The police were busy throughout the night, They searched the houses of suspect. ed Anarchists and arrested a Frenohman named Aragon, au Italian of the nano of Soldini, and a number of others. After tite explosion the telegraph lines Were 000upled in time transmission of Government messages all night. No private despatches were allowed to be sent before this morning. Early Last evening Gen. Martinez Campos sent a long despatch to Madrid informing the Government of rho affair. Among the killed are an American gentleman and a wealthy German. The wife of the Amer. ican accompanied him to the performance. She was iojuried. Ab noon the dead num- bered twenty'tbree. It is thought that others of the wounded will die. All the men arrested on enspiolon of being the authors of the outrage proved to the saris- faction of the police that they had nothing to do with it. The unexploded bomb ie in the possession of the police, Ie is a fact, simile of the bomb used by Pallas in his attempt upon the life of Gen, Campos. faithful Betty. Now Girl : "Young man has called to see you, mom. Miss Lillian Languid (glancing at pard) a "' Mr. Fitz'James MoStab 1 Gracious l I'm not fit to be seen I Tell him, Betty, that I'm -•Ph, she's gong 1" New Giri(a moment tater to young man): "Yes, sir, the s. in, but, gracious 1 she s not fit to bo aeon,