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The Clinton News-Record, 1898-08-18, Page 3, rI-i i PAINTER OF PAROA-1 -- O R, -- THE MAGIC OF A M ASTERPIEGE., ! i ti _ .� w _ sd. /� r w .. a ss w w wA4 I t , I CHAPTI!.Rt X. "Of course she does; and poor Anton- ,A� ��r (Continued.) io, heaven help him, sees clearly an- _�"'' �' The first person ,boon the duke metI ough what a mess he has made of It. If he had listiened• to you In the first •carter leaving his ward was the page place this thing wouldn't have happen- cwho bud attended at the door of the ed. But it is too late now to help it, drWwing-room during the evening. though, thank fortune, we, can put an B'ilippo, do you, know if either Hen- effective stop to It.” ri Vavalli,a or Paulo Alavado is Ia the "" Do yoru suppose she confessed to palaceI"" ' the duke that she loves the man?" the They aro both gone, sire." count asked gingerly. i "'All the guests are not gone?" "' Of course she did. 'Couldn't you see ' All except the Ckrunt Denaro. He that for yourself? Good heavens, man, is with the mlLrquia." I he was completely demoralized by his ",What in the world sent them offl interview with her. Didn't you mark So early I Bless my soul 1 Refreshments I the pain in his face P He looked as had not been served. What was the though he'd lost his best friend." .matter?" " Aye, brut might it not have been tl°he bop started to speak and stop-, his regret at the affair by the river pe"!. Finding his mustier waiting he' yesterday ?" started again, but broke down as be -I " Well upon my word I" And Steffano tore. laughed uproariously. "Haven't you t' I/'ilippo, have I ever given you ecus- eyes, my dear Count? Couldn't you see &ton to fear me ?" how my question concerning the prin- Oh, no, my lord 1 You have given I cess fretted and er lexed him P Bless only orxsasien to love you with all my I your simple soul, would the story of heart." the spat w7ith the painter have caused Then why do you fear to answer him to refuse us all information touch - the question I ask?" in a matter entire! different. No. I " 1C was, fay lord, becatisa I he can tell you Cha whole secret, just as oast a quick sweeping glance around Surely as though I had it from him- tha hall, and presently went on, with self. Listen and you shall ba enlight- ',( fear and trembling, ' because -I was ened; you shall acknowledge that I afraid of another. am right, too. �; " You mean Marquis Steffano P" " The duke was alone with Isabel a r;. "Yea, my lord." long time. I Saw the Countess Rizzi _;. " Now, boy. tell Me plainly what he coming away from the chamber where ,,: hkd to do with it, and in return I she had been cairried while in her swoon r' promise vont that you: shall suffer not land she, the countess, told me that one atom from him, either in word or they had all, every one of them, been V deed." sent away, and she was sure had rCha page had beton present and wit- heard the key turned in the lock af- A.; gess of the passage between the mar- ter the door had been closed. Mark quis and the two young nobles of what I say—the door was locked, and �''; whom the duke had spoken ; he was, Antonio and the princess were, closeted moreover, possessed of a considerable together. degree of dramatic power; acid he told '" Now see." Here Steffano laiddown '" the story •so fai: hfully that, had his each proposition with the fingers of hearer been present at the meeting, the right hand upon the open palm• of " he could not have seen it more vividly. the left, speaking sharply and ear- I3�e had not a question to add. He nestly, as though he meant that each �; simply listened to the end, and, hav- and every word should strike home !ng atssured him once more that he —should find lodgment in his heart. bac{ nothing to fear, dismissed him. ",Kot the whole scene is as clear to After that he -votuld have avoided me ns though I had been there his brother, and he sought to do so. throw Ir;; gh it all. T,he duke asked her, i" H•e did not wish to see him until be fairly and squarely, if she loved the $ Aad slept and had opportunity for painter, But, you will understand, she ;!9' ,I thought, and if possible he would have had already betrayed herself, over and held another interview with his ward over again.. Guiseppe 1 i know the dear sclero be answered any questions of girl well enough to know that she'd Ja- • .Steffano's askinlg. cwt her hand off sooner than tell a lie. But he whs not t:o escape. Being in She saw plainly enough that her see- . his own mind well assured that it the ret had alread guests had all departed, his brother so she had nothi geto losehbykmak g would have betaken himself to the a clean breast of it. smoking -room, he ventured to look in- "" Remember, further, she must have to the drawing -room before retiring been at the time -when She first re - I• to his private apartments,. He entered, covered consciousness -firm in the be - finding• the lights mostly extinguished, lief that her lone -born lover -vas dead, but enough had been lefft burning to and, so believing, she would speak free - reveal to him the forms of Steffano and Guiseppe Denaro seated at an open b and fearlessly. Yes, my dear Count, window. Even then he would have to sure she mads a clean thing of it, passed •on, butt the marquis had• seen telling her guou ask everything. 4; And no"iv, you ask me why the duke him and came forth to speak with him. �s so reticent ; and K" " stroll, Antonio, was I not right?'' Y+m would fain know what he will do about it. lie was he asked, with intense eagerness. Did reticent because he was so terribly I make a mistake I" wrought upon that: he knew not what Steffano! we will not speak of it to say. V4'ith regard to what he will to -night. I haws moire than caro for do -he will try to save his -yard with - my ward to trouble me, and" I would out ,arm to her plebeian lover. Upon have rest and quiet. I wish to think." my word, his infatuation for that fed- . " But you will give me a simple word low is beyond my comprehension. Count •of answer to my question. Surely that as I ,live, 1 do verily believe—I am ser- -g can not tax you heavily." ious in this, I mean it—I do verily `Lhe duke web not a man who could believe that if he were hard hide his true feelings. Whatever he pushed ; if the princess should Eelt, especially If he felt it deeply, ap- hold out, as we, know she . ca '� poured on the surface. The marquis p- saw the cloud upon his brother's brow able of doing, and the painter sihould"go L_- an e i 1 1 n hi lar a ex- down on his knees and implore, as he d th pa nee ook i s g is evidently capable if imploring, he k- pressive eyes, and he burst forth would wilt like abru{sed flower -bud." • ooareely : "Hark ye 1" Here Steffano rus ed Fore heaven I I trust I have done }rhe bewildered count b Lhe wrgr and nothing to ruffle the current of your y life. if I have I am truly sorry.,, whi:;pered into his ear: "I can trust I you, I know. By heavens 1 If you Steffano," returned the duke, stern- should betray me I But tush I � Of E, ly, but without anger, " what is your what am I thinkingIV Here, it i awn opinion, no -v that you era sober plumply iind,pla.int,i: :.Vfy good brother- �:, .and rational of your treatment of Sig- Duke of Parma --would at th�ii moment nor Zanoni last evening ?" throw over the whole body of the Oho 1 who has been •.tattling, I won- nobility, neck and heals, and take into der? Will your grace kindly inform me bow the story came to Your ears? his council -Lake to his heart the w Otto' '� L^^ it f The princess fold you, body of what he calls the people. By ��,„., y� St. Paull if the members of our - anQ vuv painter told bar. A most no- ble enc! -.reliable solurce of information, GI -and Council of Twenty could but truly 1 I can imagine that the Pe11oIv gain suspicion of the real feelings and did not spare me in his pathetic nar- gyp -routed sentiments i their sand. rative I And did you believe it all?" they wowld ver to him off -hand. - "Yes, Steffano, I believed every word Haven't you ever thought t, theep'i of it. You are mistaken, however, if "I have. bout! , a thought," replied you think the ma,n y'ou so grossly in- Dtlnaro, cautiously, and after consider- " bulted is the only person who waswit- able pau�e "that the duke was notOar- 'r mess, with yourself, of the disgraceful titularly proud of his own rank and scene," station; and that it might not pain him Duke," demnnded the marquis bo resign both at once and forever." hotly, "do yogi say that I-Steffano "'Ohs, he would resign his dukedom, )F'arnese--insulter! a low -born, plebeian f grant you; but for what Ah., you painter?" don't know him as I do, if you fancy " I say the Insult was the more gross he could be content in humble station. I. and unpardonable in that it was given No, no: he would be king, with Ipatri- �ry a Farnese and brother of the reign- ciao and plebeian alike his subjects and [ng duke I" his-I.ondmen 1 That is what Antonia yarn se would bring to pass if he o(uld. �. ' Per Bacco 1 I doubt if the tioble9 Now.�Gui • e c o u b . i t of Parma would be content to acce t xpp 1 of gig n n under- � p• stand? llo you not see -chill you your dictum," the marquis rejoined, have to do?" with a grating, bitter laugh. Thn count gazed at the hold speaker The duke turned quickly to thpenunt, blankly. ,. woo still arLt in the recess of the win- "Do you not see'?' the areh plotter . Sow. repeated. "Is it not clear that if "Signor Count," he said, looking at matters are left to take their ow•n the man squarely in the' face, "what courne-if the duke is left to the con• r� is your opinion? I will leave it to you trolling influence of those two -that as a man of sense, of judgment, and the handsome painter will hear away as one possessing a sensn'of honor and the golden prize toaforeign land, and self-respect. You were witness of the you lose her forever. For, be sure, it I:: scene. Would you deem Steffano's Antonio ul lows her to go. ho will make treatment of Signor Zanoni an Insult.?" ove.r to her every penny he holfis of 'her W., "Sire," returned the poor fellow, property. Say, man, 'will you suffer trembling perceptibly, "I wish you that?" would excuse me." "Will you point out. away by whict "Which means," retorted the duke, I can preroent it?" without pausing to reflect, "that you "Yes; I can do that very quickly shrink from characterizing the man- Were the cas, mine i m'ght empl+)y ars of your • friend in their true a bravio Ln which case I he quiet. stroke light." of a ,.+harp stiletto would put him out Now this was placing the unfortun- of the way and nobody would be, the stn count in a terrible plight. if be, wkar. Rut that you would not do Spokn the simple truth, as he felt it OU you needn't have shak:•n y(,ur head in hie heart t.o be, he would deeply I know your quality in that direction offend and nnger a man whom be both But I'll tell you - what you can tl0. Yot frareA and hated, rind yet w•boge good ars one of the hest swordsmen in 1'ar• offiocS he very much needed, Or, at ma. You certainly have ;u,t, c.iuse foi nil events, he thought be did. if he i c Aling h'in out, H, knew—hn h•ic refused to eper.lc he would not. only k o n :o n Ion; rim —o' ; our ('evo' offend the one man bf all the world'love for the princess; and ypt, plebeinr ,hos invor he most 6psired, hitt he. aS he is, he sets himself to ihn worl wrnl}d er himself in that• mans ns- ( t i nwlin,; you of y our heal rt'S desire tim+tlI'm. e could onlyernve, forbear- Jus. il.,avenl will you stand supinely nn"' ns h had Bonn, f>y and sen him hear tdlr beautiful gir Anel who the retort. damn, ihnuah a'ap;" hp fish, it to he harsh anri unkind, he "Never 1 Neverl' By the life of m; darer! not sn y sn. TIe only hung his imirortal •olil, he shall not, do it I" pearl and -ami silent, "11'dll you 4wear it'? "I:nonah I" said Antonio, after a "Ypa, l swear it I" brief, painful silence. "Let us say no "'I h•en, my dear Guitieppe, go home ore at prearpni. 'T forgive you, suis- and steep upon it. Only, remembe eppe, for your loyalty to ymir friend, this one thing." Again the plot.te and I nrrk your pardon for having pine- caught. the count by the wrist, an( ed ynkr in such a• dilemmn-Nni not whi•perpd into hi3 ear: "Of course, ih, another word to -night. I" hp added. to duk, will put a slop to thl prinves4' his hrothpr, who hat] slaripd to spealt. \i it4 to th• p•iintnr'n studio. At till Anil with this hp, turner! and left the both s.hr and thn painter will fum, I room. and fret savagely; and thus the gran( j For n lime after flip duke had gone�demnuem.ent. will be ha=tened. Jus I the tw•o mpg regardpd one anoihpr in imagine how' It. would be with yourself A Silence. The marquis -van the first to Give them three days, and, by San ,Mar speak. ro th•v w{tl he off." \V^II old fellow, whnt. do •yon) think; "Sleffanol" of i1 ?" "i)o you 6ouht tt.?" Whal• w•oub 0 •' 1'; my word, Stoffnno, T know ',yon rlo -corp }ml in the pnintpr'a ,lac pat i., io think." nn•I h^ {n yo-ir?„ "Yon knrw-, 1 hope, what to Ihink "Pori are ,i,xhl " the ropril admit.tod rbont Ilip prine(wsand the painter?" n ter a brief pall p, "Oh let, m "C,hp lovpcq him I" w -as the reply gtiv- think I 1 can not !este her I It woul� ban with I gasp of pain and ang itsh• kill mel" L } .. • ., , t,:.:.._. W t .,...u, _ „,. p "I2 you are bravo and true you shall it." EXCITEMENT OF PO.A.CHING reasons why the spot was favored by I the Wemel, he lot. Go home and bleep upon "I will. OIL, Steffano, you will particular as said no gamekeeper could possibly tell where the gun was diad by me ?" "T`o the death„ Guiseppol" THE -' DANGER BRAVED IN ILLICIT fired, because of thle, echoes that car- ried the sound in all directions. TW "Thanksl Gond-night, i shall see SPORT IN ENGLAND. two shots of the poacher meant that ,on on tho morrow." — two hares were lying dead in the field. "And be sure you come with your It ie Fascltinting to the then Who Make a These found and, begged, he would en - wart strong and your roSulution firm- y fixed," 1insWers of Breaking Clio Law" -Old •" ter the grove of fire. "To me the trees were sim 1 masses - i will be sure.' Wein"el's" t)areer and Ills Ste&Ithy of darkness that m eyes coulcd not Y "Then success will be yours. Cour- Ilethods of tlecariug tdatne at MUM. penetrate, but this Weasel saw on every (ge, old fello,uI Have ouly ooulage, and "No one who has never experienced branch &crouching pheasant, No uaise he most beautiful, a,s well, as the It Dan have any idea of the fascination will startle a pheasant from its roost, mtletest, girl in Italy shall be Your there is in Lhe life oY an English poach- but if it is'touOhad by anything it will £!utter away in the darknete. I]egdn- iwu." era Steffano acoumpained the count as attended though it is b the y great- ping with the bottom bird in the tree, ?a.r as the outer door of th tiMainvesti- est peril and hardship, and the con- so that in falling it would nut dis- jule and there they parted. Otani fear of detection, arrest and im- turb the rest, the Weasel would shoot «"Oh„" the marquis mu�Lereel as he turned toward his own apartments I prisonment," said an old re4dent whose them one after anotiyer from their perches until they all lay dead at his able he could gain space)' with Isabel early years were spent among rural feet. The capacity of that groat coat while he is in this uncertain state I am scenes in England. of his, for storiu;s away game was to •ure bhe w-u;d speak her mind without Mercy l "Poaching is now looked upon, even me miraculous• Bare after hare, par - tridge after partridge, pheasant after fear and without subterfuge. "hat a muddla it is I Bu i th)uk L by those whose fathers were wont to pheasant, were swallowed up in the tee my way. Ah I With the painter Shoot Over the 'Squire's' lands without mysterious pockets and linings of the and the count out of the wayi the prize an invitation or the formality of a l{- «sat, and yet there was always room may be mine" Was it in answer to Steffano's earn- cense, as a calling fit only fur neer-du- wells and social outcasts entlrull but g y; for mare. "1'hen, later on in the night, there est desire or was it fate? Whatever the cause, the result wets a thing of forty years ago it was practiced by re- were nets to take up in out-ol-the way spots, and snares to look after and fact. putable young farmers and others who renew, Than maybe, these was a In the rear of one of the )wings Of could not hope to be included in the visit to pay to the silent stieum lead - the du'a,l palao3 was a garden euclo��- list e•d art two cider by walls o1j•Lhs Pw,laoa, of genlltlmen sP,UfLsmtlu,' lVhr all- Ing to the mere, helmiuod in by osiors, log y g untrimmed and, hauutel h uoolS on a third by a high wail, erected for nually had the run of• the woods, and moor liens, v,hich came up at the purpo.e, while on the fourth itwas strtlam,s and moors• I have Ln my mind night to feed in I lia quiet nooks, There r+hut in by an iron feuca of intricate beautiful now a very worthy and well-to-do "'ould be a half hour's tempting of lusty perch ant sluggard tench, araid lattice work. It was w spot; a bower of f,oweriag farmer in my native county, whose upon the night-foodinP, v.uler fowl, perfect vines and blooming shrut,bery, iia MInputonce came from his successful and then a",,ay to other rabbit runs wealth of Loses, of infinite va.riaty, just nocturnal visits td the game and fish and hare paths. bursting into full-blown loveliness and preserves that aboundpl in his vicin- "'One September night, in those ro- fragrance. Within view of that garden, in the ity. In those days, however, the ume g mantic day's, the tYe.tsel had shot a bare just beyond the old stone, bridge early morning, walked Count Guiseppe laws were nob ,what• they are now and that led away across that same quiet Donaro. Sleep he could nut, anti hiss poaching was not prohibited under such stream. The eohoea look up (he sound chamb3r would not hold him. Hein" severe Pyenalties e,s it is to -day, In ant sant it every which w•a'. But the have heaven's free, flash air in whi h to breathe -in which to think. So La fact, the resent a p g m,e laws of Englaud gamakeep6il ohalli,ad to be taking some perch himself the'. night, and, witb had arisen and dressed himself and took away from poaohing certain tra- the puncher's insJuct, the \Teasel felt wanlere:t foith. A lover's instinct had ditions of romance that surrounded it• his pre.euse t}beret as Soon as the shot pro' a,�)ly given direction to his walk. changed it from Laing a channel ` as fired, With aery of 'Look thee, I lead t.hee,' it had strangely chanced that on during through which the love of field sport lad, an,t mind the way away ha )'rent with my frightened self shut i:e1f- ams morning, anal that iucanti &I hour, ih: P.incoss I alio, that is inborn in every English breast at his heels• But. alasI I hall nut his finding it impo..siGAO to sleep, had her favorite out -of- could be satisfied into acalling of re-. subtle sense of woodcraft nor his know• - ledge of the winding byways and hid - arisen, and sought door ie.reat--.h,3 gar.lcn afo esaid. pruach and placed every one who fol- den hedge openings, and all the t-vist- -Until the present season theta had lowed it below the uummun thief on in.g and turnings of lvooda and fields, been, just inside the iron fence, a THE CRIblINAL CALENDAR. and it uva.s not many minutes before I found myself w i, -bout guide or friend, high, thick h�dga of close shrubbery, through whduh no prying eye "Leo offenders against the Brillsh 'as floundering about in a maze of cOPSO, could penetrate, l.0 . it had b. o.:me old, law are punished so severely the darkness profound on every side, and and was dying, for which cause Li httd poacher, The fields and the woods of A VENGEI UL GAMEKEEPER been taken up, and new, fresh young plants had been planted in place of the all l:uglaud are now overrun with oa the trail, I afterwards learned that old; but they afforded no protection as game, Hares ai•e as plentiful as flies one had little fear from the pursuit and would not before another year. almost, while partridges, pheasants and of agamekealier in the dark, the poach- yet, Howevier, our heroine had not thought the like are so numerous as to be. in er's only ogre being the removing of himself from the immediate vicinity of of that; or, at all events, it had not hold her bark. Shs had oome forth, and Some places actual. pests. Yet they are the enemy. was paelug• thoughtfully to and fro. not for the laborer. or the plough- "Finding myself lust this night, I She had plucked &single rose, still man, or the rusLie of low degree, orept• trembling into a hedge, after having first run full against it, There wet with dew, picked it in pieces, and as each white petal had fluttered Should some poor ectw,ger, with lar- I lay panting for an hour, bruised by to the earth a sigh or a whispered fallen from her lips: It der clean and pocket empty', steal out at nightfall Lo a Spot where he knew falls and scratched by bushes and brambles. Tben I det'armined to crawl murmur had w•as plainly to be seen that she had hares were feedinla. and, making his from my hiding place and endeavor to make my way to the turnpike, which been weeping, but there were no signs of tears now, Her lips were closed, way through a field gale or through some veil -known opening iu tkku badge, I know must not lie far away. I had save when they parted for amurmur- firmly compressed. Her fire and kill' asingle hare, 46 makes great but &short d{stance when a grant Ivhile owl fluttered by me along gird word, and eyes glowed with a steady:, fervent himself liable to prusecut{ou for Cres- pass, for carrying a gun without a the hedge, the wind of its wings stir - light; hsr hands were tightly clil,�ped in license, and for having game {n his ring my hair and its weird presence l adding to my terror. Noiv and then before her, and in form and feature, movement, sha possessiau, unlawi.ully, li it should a hawk would be disturbed from its every look and every was the incarnation of resolution and happen that he is near the high,va.y when the shot, is fired,he is also liable retreat in the hedge and fly aimless - iy about among the foliage. Wild cries will, Count Denaro turned his eyes in the to be prtlseutetl on t1L'e charge of fir - ing a gun in proxdmity to Cha public of strange creatures aroused from sleep acme from avert' side. direction of the garden„ and saw her, but she did not see him, She sawmoth- road. if he is arrested there is no es- cape from long imprisonment in jail. aper, and and arrest by Cha gamekeeper, and ing save the one dear object of her It ds this stigma that has turned then the inevitable jail, wero constant terrors to my mind. Yuu may imagine every thought and every feeling. She did not know that she had plucked a poaching over to the mo.al delinquents OI the parish, although the 'ani:Lteur then, there »rasa joy in my heart when I heard lo',v, but disLincC, and rose and ulled it in locos, petal Icy p P , and east the sightless stock, poacher' is still to Ue found iu ev,ery short -loving rus- a voice, unmistakably the Weasel's, coming petal, away. She did not know that the neighborhood -some tic of goad name and standing, from from the confines of aditch, Saying: llon't thea go that a -way, tall wtth.ardng petals were beneath her feet, though her eyes were turned sLrai,ght whom the rigor of the law and the disgrace that would follow datectiun Coom (loon quiet -like into the detch 'n upon th m. The who13 populace might hava failed to drive the fascination of The gamay's lost us. us'll goo backr'n get the 'are.' halve congregated and passed the icon fence, so that they had made no dis-s` a night spent amoag the rauUit runs and hare paths, The amateur poacher "And presently th'e Weasel led the turbanee, and she would not have I is an eager spirit, and lit) argued that w'ay boldly back to the bridgge, and there by tht) sicla of the grassy lea.Lb seen them. De•naro saw. and his heart bounded a law which doclarm that the lova of adventure in the field and a genius for !licked up the fitre he had shot, blip=ged with a Ihro;a that well -night tot.k away woodcraft are criminal when pwtress- It do his urag'0 coat and was ready that he hii I:r,ath. flier image had fill* i his thoughts at that mom nt. Oi her, and ad by those unfavore,l. by bu•th ur fur- tune, is a law against ahigher law• of for anotber. A iveuk after was reconnoitring across a hedge not of Zanuni, he had boon thinking ever Ance he had lifted his head from its nature, and one against which it is no far from that. very bridge. His dog had wandered till apith on the pillow. One question -one theme- crime to wage w•ar, '"1•he regular professional poacher is right of the. hedge, unl catny face tc formed the center around which all necessarily a man of great nat ur tl face with the gamekeeper, w•liu shot the The' Weaset's life his fevered thought and imaginings held their course. The question was force of character, I remember a. puauher who wits the here uL my ua- Iloor brute ori sight. was bound up in his dog, and he knew ih{ : If the painter.ware out of the way, by his-Denaro's - hand, tive village. His real name was by poor Trusty's yelp all that had hap - pened. Without athought of his ow•r removed would she in time listen to his"pleat{- JAMES CROTTY, safety he hurried to the spot, and see• ings? Would the duke give him his but he was never Ballad anything but ing the lsuor dog stretched dead in the best influeneeP ; 'Weasel' a name that was most appro- path, with the gamekeeper standing \What strange anomaly -with a glar- priate, He could turn his hand to over him, he sprang upon the guard{ar {ng inconsistency the heart of a, man anything in the line of field or forest of the preserves, and in the struggle p&sslona,Lely,, blindly in love may pre- sport. lie knew every by-path, every that onsued the keeper shot him t( sen'I "If 1 should kill the painter in hedge opening, every turnstile for save hint: elf. The 1Veasel's end w•a) a fair and honorable combat, could I miles around. He could imitate th,e that of many of his daring brotherf hope to win the hand of the •princess? call of any bird that lived in the'w-oods• of the illegal chase. Could I ever hope to win her heart?"' His dog Trusty, a yellow and black "Winter is Ibe favorite time of yell) 6e, he asked himself, and when his "No," he mongrel, he had trained so well that its intelligence w•as almost human. Iiia for the poacher, The danger of di.scov cry by outsidarS is les:;. 'f tin gamekeedp common sense answered Straightway flew int.(> a paroxysm of gun, which he could separate into a er loves his ease and comfort loo moot wrath against thn m:,n be ,would :;lay. dozen pieces and carry in th'a capa- o{ous Pockets of his corduroy hkW ing to brave the frost and snow, and game is tracked and caught. Thi The fact was, his exceeding jealously of Jutan 7.anonl had made him mad. coat; his net., and Trusty, were all ha easier Ix)acher {s the hero of the village tav Nevar at hi:, host• a man of strong mind; needed w1Len ha went on hi tours. "Man a time have I stolen awn Y Y ern, and when ha relates his exploit; his hairbreadth escadre; never tin indepen•Icnt.. colt -governed brave. hold four- from home when a lad and joined the bearinh on from keepers and treacherous+ dllche� man; never a and ri hi was now, g� leas ehthe in Weasel in his nocturnal tramps over the CSqui.re's well -stocked domain. TIe, anti envious spies, no orator ever hat d auriend under Cho influence of blini dog pass- u ion, in danger of becoming idiotic, like all poachers, started for his night's each he vill ass or nor Ili e.S. The, vidbt(�e ianddrrd is his friend "Oh. i4 I could sea her and speak work about the lime the pheasants were rising to seek their perched among for the tavern larder can a1w+Lys sup )'Eat hare or phe�isant or part with hart" the firs snot the tiaras come out into ply ridge to the hungry guest, alt.houg) What. he would my he never told the moist fietds to feed. Like a she- the ittndlord never known to p& him+elf, for, as the last word of she dow lie would steal slung the old hy- cn9 the licensed dealer gams sentence found Speech, his startled eyes had rested upon the witching form roads ant[ keep in the narrow Strips of beaten footpaths that ler! by short d bfany a keep^ or used n i d Many horse and between odd of the loved one in the garden. cuts away from, the turnpike, In the e. agar his and gig, night and clayhreadt house4 toe I,w'entl TIe had been admitted t:o that. bloom- latter pedestrians were more than like- miles around have been served wit, ing hit of pa.ra," q more than once.ilind ly to be astir, the chances being that fresh game t.bn6 did not. oma in thl the way was I'll'"Alar to him. Without a gamekaePzer or Lwo would he among regular w�u3'." pausing to reIN ell -with only the one them. By these footpaths he could thought, of mer mig and speaking with travel as silently as the animal for the princess in .tv mind—he turned which he was nicknamed. COLORS BEST SUITED FOR WARFARI qui kly toward a .-mall postern, which "'Ay lad,' the, Weasel has Often said he knewhnwould find open. determin- to me, as I trudged by his side, half "' miner] to reach her if the thing were frightened at the necessity that call- Itecent i:cpert"tellta Show• Tlint Ne•tnrle possible. ed for &II -this stealth and wariness, but +Gives ilia worst ]lark for lite• Ritle. (To Be Continued.) bound by the fascination of it all, Scarlet., it has always been supposed _ _ 'ut's the 'edge row's, 'n the roonin' wat- way the ,Drat colo } o sib!' io th par A SHIPWRECKED BABY. era n the dein' laches as &tan's us 'ancly for 'ilia' places if the game.,yS ,Gress of I.he hat.11efield. .lt bass 1•eeI should nose us at ur ,Dock, damn 'em1 '� fr• ueno indeed said su with such c q y, An lnetdeut of time It'reek of ike Steamer "'P'lte \!'easel always sought fur n that nobody of late years has carp(l.ki Maitland In Amtrullan Waters. hiding' place overlooking astubhle field dispute the fact. \�'e awe it to sem Every shipwreck has its story of about the time i.hp co ve is, began to settle there iii coveys, for 1ha very practical asperiruent•s enrrierl ou heroism and gallantry, and the rodent night. This w•a.s to'mark them down in Germany that the question has nov wreck of the Maitland wars no excep- for observation had t.au.ght. him that }peen putt on a more sattsfact.ory basis tion, says (lie Sydney Daily Telegraph, 'i'hpre's these birds never move during the night from where they setIIa• Then, no A .- uari' pf tan men, two) dressed h q a world of tenderness, too, in matter Crow dark the night. might be light gray, two in dark gray, two tis thn bonlsna,in's na.rralive of how a 1;hat followed, he would walk straight, Scarlet, two in blue and t.wo in tgvepr bplpless baby wa.s succoured and sav- to the spot he had selected and Se- were I&tely orderer! to march acro:+s fit ed. tier mother, Mrs. Ifoward, had bean sant ashore nn Friday, and Cha sent. cure covey after.covey. "Another favorite slot of the Wean- open rouniry. 'Their movement,4 we.r alo4el(y ,waicdred. The first )grin, t, al was behind a large ash tree that ddsappenr from sight. vera Iho4o it sur[ rolled between her and her eLOOd On the BIIgP, of )lw'OOd skirting a light gray, immediat.Plq nfl.nrward CIU baby seemed likely to part them for meadow. On the otherlside of the mea- Fearlo.t an•l the groes. !tern we hav ever. The Iiti.le one cried bitterly. dow' the land rose gradually, until it formed hill, coiered with fir till well-worn theories upset. Experi "Biscuits," said the boatswain, "were arounded trees of the densest growth. The firs merits carried out on the rifle rang t,hn.t our national color pos t the only food left. We soaked thew ' in a little port wine. When the tiny made afavorite roosting place for phlea- pants, and as the sun sank behind the showed sasses even distinct merits, The idea was this time to aScerta{r mite held out her chubby hands for l more we knew that we had found just hill they pagan to appear in Cha mese from the adjacent coverts, Thle which color gave the worst marls fo ) what was wanted• For hours after- dow' hares came down in droves from thb the rifle. Twenty men, all grind shote were used for the purposes of the ex I wants Iwalked up and down the deck s singing the child to sleep, Than the upland and fed and sported about in periment. After they had fired a giver I captain relieved me, and did the same. the stumpy grass. Presently tale phea- would be,g{n to rise and antler number of rounds it was discovers( I 'f hus the night passed. In the morn- Santa the firs, and by the time darkness (hat scarlet was far the most. diffioul to hit, For every miss at the ' ing we softener! a hiscult and spread . it with aausa.ge meat, It wan good to closed in on the scene they wore all among Cha hrancheS. color other Delors there ware three {n fn • Ore the child oafs. A few hours later brave boys from the shore branst,ed settled THE TNDI9'rINCT FOII, S ver of scarlet, We will not assar that these expertmenta were conolusiv the waves—and you know the res(," of the hares in the grasa wbra distinct 't)t>ag evidence in favor of our nation.TI, bu t Not. a family in, tb+a district. but want- enough to the 1, and, when all they certainly go a tong way toI jUst•1f; b f ed to See thin little shipwrecked strap- was Still, in quick succession the re- Its retention, There lS much to ger; not. awnman but. wanted to purse ports of his double-barrelled gun would w6d in throe does of quirk -firing; gun favor is Idlffi , dt. And when moth@.r and child left ring out upon th'e stillness, and on In. of &uniform wlilah % for Sydnpv the whole, population for everyy side an ache,, as loud and dWinot. cult, to hit, and in this partinular Sint. I miles nrnund was at Cho station to as tha report itself, answ^ered and re- let undoubtedly will hold Its fwt See them off, yeated the sound. Thin ryas One of the against all other colors, id' it - word was printed In enormous let - 200 tv thio t ". . C , lag PIIE TII�ES DIS�TER taxa, it - word was printed In enormous let - 200 tv thio t about people got on particular staging, and were washed -� MAILS OF THE TERRIBLE ACCT- into ,•amen the water. majo of them wore and the majority esceapvd. Itj DENT AT A LAUNCHING. w'as a most lamentable accident, ca- t„+,,, peoially after such a successful launch. l Iluge Wave Swamped a Stage-Ilnndredr The Duchess, I think, knew nothing of of Wooten and Uhltdren hurled Into the glimpse disaster, unless she just caught a of the ®Dene as she sped away the Turbulent Water+► liaartre.ung in her steam launch; but that is not tleones and Brave heeds of Rescue. likely. ' In desoribinv 'he disaster that at- In 1886, when nor Ua.jesty's ship tended the launching of H.M.S. Albion, BeaLow was launched, the bank -wash at Blaokwall, on the Thames, on; ,Tune swept &il nine people into the water, but were rescued. 21. The London Dt,,{ly Telegraph says: ....,� All the preliminaries of 'the lac were conducted !n the usual way, Th Y 1* ITEMS OF INTEREST. Royal %Highnesses were taken into an , ' ` *•-"-i inner elevated draped stand, and a A Few Paragratilt" Which May be Found Royal salute was fired, On a table Worth Reading. there was stretched a silken cord of Crabs two feet in length are often red, white and blue, which held the seen in India. weights suspended above the two dog There are no typewriters employed shores. During Ithe customary short in the State Department of the U. S. reli ious service, Government, g Pxsrfortned by (the About 6,000 stars are visible to the Van. Archdeacon Stevens, vicar of St. naked eye. A powerful tele -cope re- John's Stratford, and the Rev, Canon veals 5.000000 of them. Pellq, vicar of Wast Elurn, the hlow,5 organ in the world the The lral of the hammer could be heard ns the oL a Cathedral of Sevilla, Spain. it has 6$ men under the vessel's keel knocked pipes cud !10 stops. away (the last blocks, until, whilst !n Kansas a man is considered a Psalm cvii., "They that go down to the "`Lhorou+gh-bred" who bas &pair of sea in Ships," was being sung by the suripeuders for every pair of trousers choirs of the two churches, all that ha owns. held the ship was the silken cord. Aft- A plan hue been perfected bq h er the. Old Hundredth had been given Lyons, (1,' sloth -weever, be which and prayer offered, a silver -gilt knife, nae) the wool on a h""epskin ossa be oonvert- with enamelled haft, and design of od into vel Un' ii re hent ly. ho r York roses and May blossoms entwin- s o-rh:+gip:,kins have Lieu chiefly used for ha ad, and the monogram V,M.Y., was rug.. and earpats. handed to the Duchess of York by Dor. A suail travels at t.hn rate of halt an Hills. The blade was inscribed with inch a seer mil; & ratan walk'ng, 4 feet the date, and set forth the occasion. asecoud; afast runaar, •L3 feet; a fly, With this knife Her Royal Highness, 24 feet; afa;t skater, 3`t feet; acarriar, at ten minutes to three, severed the pigeon, E7 feoi; a lot omotivc-• ixty cord at a third attempt., Immediately miles an hour -88 Leet; a swallow, 2'20 the heavy weights fell, knocking away feet. the remaining supports, and the Al- A. G. Walte, of Wilverly, Mo., stands bion was in such haste to get away 6 ftet, 8 inches in his stockings. .110 that she did not give the Duchess is one of a family of ten, all of whom time to christen her, by breaking the are tall. He had a brother whose bottle of wine, which had & richly height was 7 feet 8 inches. The small- w•orked cover, that was afterwards est in the family is a Mister who stands presented to Her Highness, against 6 feet 3 inches. the bows, It was Mr. G. C. Maakrow, Ono of the Sunday amusements in It is naval architect to the company, who Havana, is cock -fighting, cua- sm,whed the bottle on the rail of the tumary at such contests, to revive a platform. But •t.he incident passed half vanqui.�bed bird by spraying unnoticed in the cheering and general Santa Cruz rum over its head. The jubilation as already described. rum IS blown from the mouth of ° one FORGOT TO CURTSEY. of the fight directors. It seemed, too, that the Albion, Very lit.tla• furniLure is used in the which went gracefully down the ways, bedrooms of Turkish houses, Rarely, forgot to curtsey. She took the wat- er quietly, though the strain on the L4 a chair seen in any of them. A few cables w•as very great, asthree of them parted, But everybody was o£ mats adorn the room, and the bed is stretohea on the floor'. In the morning opinion that it was a very successful the bed is taken u' by a slave girl and launch, for its difficult character. removed to a closet, owing to the narrowness of tba creek, Barney Morris, who is employed as wa"s fully recognized by exports, and indeed, the hast been nnticed by a laborer in Pro,pect Park Brooklyn,' point the Duke of York, immediately he Saw N.Y., is 106 years old. Iia was born the ship. No one on the head stage w•as aware that the wave caused by June 10, 170'3, in Covan, Ireland. He has been thrice mal•r{ad, never used sudden 'displacement, consequent up- tobacco, •unit only once tasted whiskey, on the launching of some thousands ,,When he was a lad of fortv.•t,wo." of tons of dead weight into a confined John D, Moroi, say made ha'f a million area was overwhelming a stand occu- pied by two or three hundred sight- dollars in two years, by mining ven- seers. Certainly nothing was perceiv- tures, . Leadville, Colorado. In 18,3, to ed by the Duke or Duchesst or by DIr. strove to augment his fortune i)y Gowben, with whom they remained chatting; for some minutes. There were enb'aging in horse-racilig. At this. his )'tonne, no shrieks, no tries, no panic; but then the syrens filled the air with business Ile lost must of and has just died, a pauper, in t.11e discordant sounds enough to drown poorhou:a of Leadville. any human voice. Very slowly the ele- On-• of the mo t a( Vv•• r. p est w al i es vated reserved enclosure, surrounding the Royal stand, where the ceremony ist :he Fren^.ti Chamteer of 17adsutie-, is had been performed, was vacated• anti afull= loo,!e•{ negro f o,u Gu_d luuil-,• the guests retired to their steamboats Ile wants to talk on every question, laughing and congratulating each oth- he underst•,n,k LL or cot. 110 er upon having w'it•nessed a spectacle whelh::r wa; ellt(ed by a coiait•on or lila:ks which, in the beautiful went her, seem- and w•hit.es against th:l mut tttoes un i lie ad to be without a blot of any kind. island SCENE OF THE DISASTER. A bride and gruorn, recently wedded , But at that very moment, hidden from view by the newly -launched bat- ill *11,1?he.rson Coun y. Kan KLs, era tleship, the terrible disaster took place aged, respec' i vely, sixteen and Feven- A Bridge across the enI of an old teelr: 'rhe -mother of the bride .enther di.aused slip, and part of Lhe staging written con ant to Lhe judge who beneath the counter of the Shilds- hima, on an adjoining slip, bad been ` "I believe in married them, taling' the Only w•ay t•ostop crowded with sightseers, anxious t.o view the launch. This was in defiance early marringesas alot of courting foolishness." of all the rules of the yard, and it A savage orang-outang was kept is stated that -on former occasions these wooden erections had been kapt. b aFrench sen; -captain in the Itue Y During the abseence` of clear by the police,in accordance with d'Ale:{a, Paris. d the notices on the danger board in the the captain a hurghtr enter yard. As the Albion entered the hou"e, and was attacked by the ape, water, a great wave was raised in, ibe narrow creak, and i:ho 1>ackwa.4h taus- } ' i In Feverelq, and tried to which � it h burglar -vas res- od some eighty feet of Ihis,bridge and Strangle hien- The cued, IluL rubseque.utly b2eame crazy ' staging to give way, thereby immers_ ' ing' some three hundred people. The The Countess de la Gurdie, of £-tock- I st,a.ging. gave one swerve, and 1 hen hrint, Is a klept.nmania.!, lint her mania ' fell outwards. A wens of terrible eon- ' of the extends only to the theft of food. Under fusion ensued, the shrieks ' drowning, mingled with the cheer)' of her dress she v;ears .'a large oilskin I the thousands who were quite unaware po kat, and in thii Shn secrets all kinds i of the accident.. The Polito boats ill- of food, even whole chickens, w•hi,h I stantly made for the Spot, and, with she finds on ihn tables ofllerfriends. ' the aid of several dockyard hands, a They areall aware of her purloining • number ,of the peOple were pulled rut, propensity, . whilst. many more. scrruubft+d atilsnra - ' themselves. ' a'lte unfortunate people POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ' who were thrown into ihn water era for the most part inhabitants of the — how neighborhood. Several persons were Only a truthful Tuan knows • Iaken out. in an apparently lifeless con- much ht; lies. ' dition, and iminediatel conveyed Y '1'hn tu•liun of a 13.•inch gun speaks . • away to the tahe(L•s in the yards, and to. Then several dead bocf- lou•ler• than words. feet loci)' attended I ies were hauled out, one of the first Thr. gas melkr hay more animate,l thing. ' being Lbat of a baby. During the next. half hour eight. booties were recovered any other Many a pa,r roan fins it harrier to and taken to a shed, %which oras turned get drunk than to stay sober. into a temporary morturu'y, 'Che Collsixtency may Ire it jewel'but it is ' half drowned girls; and women were apt. to halve: an nlum flavor. removed to the fitLnrs' Shed, and there lt',issing miry be unhealthy, tut every attrrided to by the firemen and sev- girl con jders herself an Immune. ern! nurser, who were soon on the 1vbou a man u-�amps in speculation scene. a lot of wreckage eorru++ Lo thai,urface. HrAi T-RE:NWNG SCi";NA75. Ari old bachelor doclares that even Ai'ennvOi In heart-rending scenes were the sweet. girl graduate will ferment 1 taking place at. lire approaches to the ill time. , yard. The wildest, rumors 400n Trot. lt.'s far va ier• to purcha4e old jokea , afloat., and every one who had friends in the coluic paper than it ds .to ,sell in the yard rushed to obtain news of t.heul. ) them. Mothers sought Ihr.ir suns taut daughters, husbands their wives, an"1 1'hr only way ",nine married people IO avoi,l quarreling i4 by ro- • brothers their Sisters, but a4 nobody Icnew w•ho was on the staging Ihat had manage hl,<in:,t in make up. . givpn w•tay the greatest anxiot.y writs ' maIlifested. People I•till about wildly 11•ornan wan made from the rib of )'Lill, lint cit; to the nri}rin of latdies' I asking everybody they mel for news of hislory i4 prtinfully Silent. i Iheir friends, and many touching ll. is rutinored ilial, Spain will ksu(va I scenes ocourrnd when some lost. ane new map of her po se•;sions nf,er file I was futind to bn safe, The police and war -!shat i.•i, if she has tiny possessions their a,ssi4lants worked Splendidly," ill left., ) I as the tide way at. its hoighl the depth f'erhnd,s Some people du not. know , of water rendered their operatI0118, i very difficult. that. the sphinx lint. its reputation for Ona extraordinary circumstance. at- being vnry wise by keeping its mouldy � tending the disaster was that The chief ,hul 300) years, . - guests on the stands at t he hen(I of I be _- Slips were totally unaware that nny accident had taken play.e, and Iho ma- AN EOXDUS Oi' RATSI. I r jority left Blaokwa}l on the return journey wit.houl. having heard the The North Chinn. Elrrald says !shit, a news, Thin was also the cease of Cho curinuS ,hen<•rn non was wit)'^44."d ra- . Duke and Ducbe4S of York, who left Gently at dnyhreisk upon tile. oppurng I I on the Beatrice, anti arrived safely at of the Ch'angmrn h+•)t.e of Soo how. t West:minsler about half -past four, Soma x,000 nr moor rnt4 of all s ir.�•s THF STAGE "DANGT%ELOi15." were Sean to file cul of I lit, gaf vs. •.h )w• - In an interview with Mr. Hussey, t Secretary of the Thames Ironworks ing no fear of Ihn•tounlsy people who 3 Crnnpany, that. genilema.n said to a whre. flocking to sell their Inarlcrt plo- ':h•fe t Central News reporter: "There da duco in the. oily. i't trilwh e.ri"r- f always a return wave al. such launch- meat, nmounling nlmo4l to a p n,c, f a,'s, and we invariably label adjneent a stages which this water {s likely to thereforp, in Sol, ho,t, nn -1 a dire , a in prophe4i^d to tno city, it I•eini; re- . rewh with the ward 'Dangerous. fo- memberprl that, (s Aillilnr a-od ill h(p- . day we follo-ved the usual en4Tom, pi,nrd in the 8!14, jtr it prior 1 o the f 11 i but although police were posted about of I hp city into the, Itan.ls of th- T -lip - to warn people,and although the worn- ing rehelg.