Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1874, Page 9

T e e ——— PSSR (e + great Roman historian Tacitus. Tho Trip. from' Rone toFlox« ence by Rails Narst and the Tigh Bridio' of Avgus. ' tuss-=Terni and'Its Cascadosi- Bpoloto---Assisi and St. Francis-«Pe: rugia- and' Its Slege: by - the- Goths Lake Trasimerius and thio Pefent of the Romgis by, Mavsillals A Begutiful Olty:--The Cas- oine: Park: Florenc Bpeetal Correspondencs af T'he Chieago Tritune, FLORENOP, April 13, 1874, The'** 1l6s " of -April" adnionisliod me that my stay in Romo muat-torminate, and that a further examination of ruine, and churchos built thore« from, and ploturds-and statuary, mustbe indofi- nitely postponed. With many rogrots for having to reepond to tho fnoxorable call of Time,” I 1ofc for Florénéo, by the middie or i ) MOUNTAIN ROUTE, on tho morning tidin of n'gloomy, wet day. Tho distanico thenco is 185 milos northward ; faro, 434 cdnta por mile, *firat-oless;” 8 conts, second ditto; and 2 cénts, third. Amborlcans, nobles, and-*'fools" tiko tho first-class conolies ; overy one elad*tho socond and third. . For tho firat G0 miles out of. Rome, the rond rufy ‘aloig the . Valloy of the Tibor, At a station called’ Orte, which formerly wag' a boundary-villags botwoon’ tho Kingdéth of Tialy aiid this littlo Kingdom of the Pope, tho- road léavés tho Tiborsnd turns shaiply to tho oastward, following the beautiful Valley of the- Nove,—s mountain-stroam.* At tho: Village of Naml, tho train paesod the high bridgé of - Augustis, which heré’ crossos - tho Neva; ono of tho'srchos I8 gond ; the bridgo ia noarly. ninotoen centurics old. Tho Flaminian ‘Whay to the Alps ran-up-.this® valley from Rome, From' Narxii to 3 E TERNI, o distance of 20 miles, tho'rond ascends a vory stoop . grade, passes through many tunnels,and is' overhung . in places’ by'- high,: rugged crojs. Tho' sconory fs° vory” wild and' giand’ Horo. tho road strilkes' anoth- or . mountain-stream,—the Velino,—~remark- able. for its' cnscades avd falls, Tho- first fall docends’ GO foot; tho' middle one, 500~ foot, and'tho lower ond; 240°feot; total, 800 fobt! In' tho spring, when'the mountain-torrents in groat volumes tumble down these falls, they rank in grandour and roar among - tho flnoat in Italy, Torni ia also colobrated as tho birth-placo-of. the Horo nlso woro: born two Emporors. of Romse ‘in its decadenco,” whoso names are not worth montloning., Thoy mot the common fate, aseassination. An. hour'’s run down an:exceodingly steep -gradoe; and' through: a long tunuel, brings the travelor'to the' fine old-town: of.! 9 STOLETO; containing 12,000 inhabitants. It is' situsted Aaway' up: on’ &' mountain-slope, with a castle on the snmmit, and surronded by an‘anciont wall, built’ befors the time of tho' Orubados. It posgessos. a churoh erccted in A: D. 617, The old aqueduct which brings water into tho town’ crobses & deop chasm on ten ‘arches, in length 700 foot; and in belght, onoot thom, 278 Taot, oand throe or four of tho others not much lass. It was copstruoted in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius, ond is still perfect, 'There are many anciont ruins to be scon below the town: ‘The uoxt polnt of note is . Assisr, whero, B. 0. 46, the Elozinc poet Prapertius wis: born ; but it is indebtod for ita: chiof: roputation - 88 belog tho birth-place of.8t. Trancis, inA: D.. 1182, tho foundor of the monpstio order-of Frantiscan monks, 'who spread'all over: Europa during - the Dark Ages,. ond - exercised: o great influonco,—whether : for good or- ovil is' a quostion whioh!. will be mn- gwered- varionsly according to tho dogmatio ‘viows of the replicant, Tho inomm:e of the town, na « ono approsches it, i8 very fine; itg towers and- battloments, its nqueduct and'rumed cantle, malio np & romantio picture; Tho stroats aro silent and narrow, crookoed and- steep; tho houses: are high, gray, and tottaringiwith ago; and it looks uxnntiv fitting for the abods of tho old Franciscan monks in their brown-woolen robe and hempen girdlo, » An hour's run brings the tourist to tho noted city of- PERUGIA, half way betwoon Ttomo anid Florence. At this oint; the road; turning westward; comes into [’ho Valloy of and crosses the Tiber,which extends away. up ‘m‘?"F tho mountaing to the north, Porugin is a quaint old place of 20,000 inbabi- tants, It is beautifully ‘situatod on'the heights, 1,600 foet sbove ‘tho Valloy of - the Tiber, Amonf other remarkable things in its history is the -desperate siege i 1suatained against the Goths, who only captured it aftor.s stragglo of soven yeurs' duration, and -who imposod on it all tho destraction that firo and sword.could in- flict. Its old palacos and cathedrals contain many works of urb which rank high and are great-' ly admired by visitors. The best works of the groat paiater Porugiuo aro proserved here; also, the first three pictures of Rapbael. The Um- brian school of art was doveloped hore. ‘A littlo distance boyond Pervgia it the LAKE OF TRASIMENUS,— w sheat of water 8 miles in dinmoter, and stud- ded with’soveral littlo rocly {atands.” It was on thie north ‘ahore of this protty Iako that Hannival nined-his firut -groat- victory ovor tho Romans; 'he railrond- poescs across® the battle-fiold." ‘The student of Roman history, will recolloct the narrative of this terrifio dofeat of the Roman army, ‘which ocotirred o the 23d of “June,'8: O. 217, Hannibal left ‘Spain’ the prévious sutumn, tvith: 60,000 - mon- and - 100 elophants. - In the month of Boptember he crossed: the Alps at the Bt. Boruard-Pass, amidst avalanches of -snow, ftor iuorediblo efforts, and descended: into tha alley of the Po, whil Belplo, with' a Roman srmy, waa ' watching - to intorcept. him on' the” banks of the Rhone,'in France! « He winteredin the Valloy of tho Po, in the vicinity of Modena. Tho Roman Sonate spocdily raised wo armios, and dispatched thom into Tuscany to guard all the pasace of the Aponnines, and provent-Han- nihu‘l from ponetrating any further sonth until a large army.undor Bcipio could assall him in tho roar. Hannibal, however, chose what was deemed an utterly: impracticablo route, and orossed the mountains, and, boforo the Roman General know of it, ho hind gained thorenr of tho Roman . aimy, and takon up hLis march on Romo itwelf,, The Toman ' foreo atatioped ot Arezio, 40. miles eouthonst of Tlorenco, immediatoly ~marchied in i\mmlL ‘Hannibal kopt on, until lio ama to the ake Trasimonus, whero ho stopped - his march, oncamping on it north sliore, in o valley whore 0 spurs of the mountpin como down to the east and wost ends of the lake, forming n valluy in the form of a haraeslioe,—tho lake being in | {front, and the éncircling mountains forming. the baokground.: A delilo leads :into, and another. out of, tho plain at the toes of tho .shoo. The great military rond to Romo ran along the shoro of tho lako, prasing through these deflles. * This clroular valoy is about 5 or 6 milos in extont, A deneg fog huug over the Inke and .plain tho morning thoTiotuan General entered it.: Hanni- bal's army lay concealod behing some low foot- hills in tho valloy, out of the ling of mareh. At sight of the oxit doflle ho had stationed o heavy column, Tho first thing .the: Ro- mens knew of dangor. was whon _thoy encountorod the Calbaginians in tho oxit dotile, whero o bloody encountor qulokly onuued. A} the samo moment tho cavalry.of Hannibal atruck tholr renr-guard and bagy ago-train, and cut them to piaces, whilo the bulk’ of hig force nasaulted tholy flanl slong a line of sovoral. milea. Trrotzlavablo “confuslon onsuod among | tho Romang, who had 1o raom t6 deploy and 1o’ | time to form & lino of battle, Thoy made tho bost rosistance in thoir powor; but tho contest was . AMABSACRE BATHER THAN A DATTLE, Tifteon thoussud Romany were killed on the spot, and nmong them the CQonsul, Flaminus, who commauded thom ; an cqual nimbor, wore taken . prisoners, . Two logions, of 6,000 ‘mon,, fought thelr way through the dotllp, killlug;,m‘)‘d of the Cathiaginiang, aud escaped into tha open; counbry, byt woro surrounded on-a hill noxt day, py Hapuibal's oayalry, supported by - light.ig- tantry, and wdre obllgdd t6 1hy.dowij tholr arms. Of the 40,000 men who composed the Roman army, loss than 4,000 csoapod doatly or captura. Tho army wat antifhilatod st a'blow. It waa tho luAvicst Yoverse sho Ropubllo had avér yot eilf- fered. . Novertlicloss; Hounibal did not yonture to lay.siogo to Roma,:but marcliod pant it into ;}mmvmoy of the Volturno, in the viclnily.of aplod, ¢ " From' tho antguitinty flold'of Trasimentis'the tralni Toll nlon‘g a‘brahch of- th Rivér - Arno"for tho:grontorpark:of: tho way to Florenve, throughi & broad, fortilo, and! e : \IIGNLY-CULTIVATED PLAIN, . where it, arrived at dark, Tho wintor whoat, which was growing luxuriantly in'the flulds, was noarly knoa-high'(April J.u?,' afid’ all’ tho " sprin sonihg and'planting of otlier ordpa were floialied, nmmmnfiy.v ‘Tho.motive powor on the farms ig chicfly.white oxon, with short horns, oxaotly o cpuntorpart of tho anclent enored eattlo, On tho Roman Campagiia tho oxon ato of a l‘ght.‘gny color, with ‘prodiglous long hibrng, oxtending tho Tongith'of &' mun's outetrotohal: arms. 8o romarkablo ara thelr . horns sharpnesss; and ',hunut{l‘ that .. thousands ufton, aro polished and’ sold. to travolors to talo lome “with thom for exhibition: The'cattld'in both of thoso valloys,—the Tiber and :Arno,—appear to bo of axcellout broed, w rapidly, attain largo- size, and produco tent oty Juloy, palatable ‘meat,” 10.185: milea botwoon Rome snd-Florence consumeéd'noatly. o TEN, TOURE' TINE,— ¢ tho ‘traln’ runniog - af 4 thaa 20° miles' por hour ; but; in the dintanco of B0 milos from whorb ‘the rond 'quits the"Nevn' to' tho summit~ tunnel, the train‘asdonds 8,788 feot,—nccordlng to'tho statomont of ' thio’ guide-hook,—and then derconds'an 'oqual boight i Bfi'mllqs on the othor side of ‘tho mountain, Until a'fow yoars ago, travel on'tlils " routo was Pnrrarmnd' on' & gort of stngo-condh’ called o **diligonco.” By not traviling at'night, aud' remaining over ono stagn at' Perugia, and ‘anothor at Asslsl or: Torni, tho. trayolo? oonsumed abotit ® wook " betweon Tloronce' ‘and' TRomb. Dut the ' magnificonco of* the' Beonery coripansated for tho lose of* timo, and tho eontosts with tho parasites'at night: Thero'was no other: route through Italy which- surpnssed’ this ' one, in beauty or grandour, & groat denl of ' whichis lost to viow from ' the oara, becuse, instoad-of going overtho meuntn\ns'lnd,'hllfs; tho train runy undor thom, and rushes paat’ romarkable' ruins,’ towers, aquoducts, cathodrals;: bridges, water- fall9, andiont walled towns parched 'on the topd of" bigh' illa;j’ whoteas*: tho' old ¢ dlligance™ draggod slowly’ and deliberatoly past, through, among, and ovotthem. The old owjoyment of delfberate ' ebservation’ is' ruthlossly sacrificed to acoommodate tho' **spirit of tho'age," whiol ‘which: oconomizos timo in translt, and squanders ivaway st the tormini." The"bonuty for which ' for longth, » FLORENCE 3 in ' 8o justly colébrated &' mot moro in, tho " situation’ and‘ onvirons than in' the e itgolt, It' is docidedly” tho best-bullt and handsomest oity to tho'eye “which T'hove: yot sebn in Italy, - It looke' altogethor difforont now, frém what'it dld to tho ‘trayolor foiurtdon yonrs ngo, before ‘tho umity' of' Itdly whi aohioved. in 1800, Whon 1t was, dull old town of 100'000 ‘inkmbitants, with most:of the streota narrow, crooked, and hl-pn_vgd. :and ruled over by &' branch of the Bourboris; yet it was then'colebratod as tho chiof seat of ‘art'in' pid- tures, and only -seoond to Rome‘in’ séunlpture, in Ttaly! Bub 1t “rocoived' a prodigious impalso from the reconstruction of Italy, and "especially from the'lotation ok THE NATIONAL GAPITAL here' in 18G4, whoro. it' romdined until 1871 Tho population swelled to 170,000 souls, Bcorow . of now, brond, atrafght stroots and avenues, wero lald out, and platitod along tha walks with trecs, and built up 1n firat-olass atyle; and sovoral of the old lanos, which looked liko' corkseraws, wore straighténed, widoned, and rebuilt into fino” stroots,, Tha old city-wall, constructed in’ the. twelfth contury, was Lorn down, 'snd & magnificent boulovard, 140 0160 foot wido, 'and -fringed with ornamontal troes and studded with statuary, ocoupies its placo, The now atreots, and many of tho old onos, aro hr.-nutuull{‘ paved . with' largo flag- stones, obtnined in the. mountain-quarries near by, "Tho same material is used for milding pur~ poses. It is a light-gray stone, not so hard os ranito, but i ns firm and " solid ag limestone. 'ho whole oty hag a clean, bright, chéarfal mod- orn'air'and sspect, with just’ cnough ‘of _tho quaint and medioval’ in” parts romainini to hofghton the' effact, and rendor it ‘picturcsque ond pleasing, . | . Tlorenco lies in ° 'THE VALLPY OF THE ARNO, where it seoms to omerge from tho uIaphwg., dulating . Apennine Mountains, aud sproads out into o 'wide, .rich plain, extonding to ihe soa, 50 odd ' milos to the . westward. . Tho river passos . through Pias, : famous - for its Loaning Tower, aud emptics into. the Moditorranonn.. noar Log~ horn, which. is the scaport of "this Tuscan Provinco., Thus Floronco is, situnted in the up- per slopo'of an. eolovated plain, with mountains, on two sidas for o background. ' Tho country in tho immediato._ viclnity is oxccodingly. charming, Lrom the heights adjacont, which overlook the olty and valloy, the sight is onchanting, . Tho mountnin-fienlm, the, abrupt bluifs, the %nntly‘ rounded hills, the swolling ridges and tho sloping lains, covered with treos or olad in verdure,' with th boautiful Cityof Florencoin the foreground, ita lolty domos,” apiras, aud_towers, roflocting- back ilg sun’s .rays, and the Arno stoaling through’ the ‘city and velioy to the soa, shining liko a silvér throad,—all -combine-to form n’ miost ' bonutiful pavoramio 'vision. Tho wholo Tegion glittor with white villagos and villas on- the slopes, and' every spot of ground is:con- verted .into gardons, or covered with vinea and frult’ treos, There’ are’ numerous drives to the ‘onvirons, whére new viows cai beobtained of' he city and valloy. at ovory turn and:wind of tho way over thoso hille; Bolow thetown, and ad- joining it, is = THE GASCINE PARK, " which ‘s the pride of Florenco, It is 2'or 8 un- milea’ long, bub of moderats width, and filled” with' foreat-shade. foot-path loads alony the" river-brink ; near' it is Inid off s{md carrisgo-way, and inslde of that n rond for'oqueatrians. Thoso throe ways— foot," carriage, sud horse—oxtend around tho l)nrk, down the Arno on thelsouth sido, and up a ittlo ‘mountain-stroam on the north side, with * cross-ronds™ or connecting drivos, rides, and andlovors’ walks through “the woods. 'To this park rosort, ‘every aftornoon, thousauds of citi- wony and strangers,—some on foot, others on horsa-back, " and “the romuinderin yohicles ‘of evory description, from the plain go-cort to the stylish® four-in-hiand with ' gorgeonsly livoried flaukeys mounted bebind. ~All" the styles in Europo may bo bero- scen—an Italian Prince, Dpko, Count, or what-not, drives four showy horses for hisown amusomont. The Gormany and Rusgiany prefor two, and let the coachman drivo. Tho En(;lmh,_ ‘men and women, tako to the sad~ dlo—Dbringing their bloodod hunters from homo. The ‘Americans 'Entmniz‘n ovory style' of turn~ lem' boing ' decidedly loud and My countrymon are oo fond of mak-' ing o * sonsation wherover they’ go, which is ot to thelr oredit in tho oyes of -Europoans. The" Froncli in' Floronco—wall, theystay at home in ** La Bello Franco,” save ‘thoir monoy, ond soe nothing. ) THE CLIMATE TN FLONENCE 1 sevoral dogroos coldor in wintor that in Rom, but it is .far_moro éolubrious. Ono's health i§ not” endangored by Roman ' fover. The Cams pagna is not malarions.” The people look fresh, 0d havo fair comploxions, nddod. to' intalligont countenauces; and the mondicant nulsance s banighed from tho streots ; oue 18 not boset by beggara at ovory turn. The hotols, as'a rule, are well kopt, and the 'charges modorate, with lces disposition cvinced to chioat the guest than in most othor Italian citios. So faras T lhave had timo to'see and undorstand it £ am plonsed vory much with Florence, J. [A"KISS TO THE BRIDE: b Bictod, blithesomo, undented, \With Veuiaons froth East niid Wesh, And salutations North and Bouth, broigh ‘mo, fudeed, (o-dsy &' millon heaets and s, A Wefting a million lovas, & milliof soul-folt prayers§ Tender and true romalu tho arry that shields theo | Tl winda aiways GIf tho g madla lat wall thes! Olearpin by ey, and Lt sacs t ight, s on P e ] Dear giri—turough me the'anclent priviisga too, Tear tho new waF,througih 0t ha ld, id woddiog i roel h $ i3 0 yauga ad fistin1’ 0 swoot Misaoust ross1’ © bony Pt Yield thy rod chceks, thy lips to-day, Unto o Nation's loving Kius, —¥ait Whitman. Tobacco In Piper or Clgarss 3 | Acoording to Mossra, Vohl and Euloniborg, tho aotion of tobacco smoke nud tobacco juico 18 not due to nicotine,' for it contning' nono,’ but: to pyridine,, pleoline, colliding, and other. banes, forming n wniform. sorles, which are_ producol amlngtlho combustion of tho tobaceo; and the ronson why strongar 'tobacco can bo smoked in Bcigar than in o \x}pn 1y, thatin tho pipo’ a large quantity of pyridine {a foimed, whivh ja vory ivolatile pnd stupetying—while, in_a oigar, littie g,"mluo aud_much colliding ‘arq formed, The ngos “pyridine ‘aud 'ploolliie,’ greatly regemble uicotiris; both' i smell and phiysiglogieal aotion, producing contractidn of the punil, difioult < yos«" Pplration, conyplulons, snd-doath, ' . e g BEEGHWOOD' CASTLEh | .. THe dountry srourd 'Boschwcod Oastd 1s o doal lovol; snd undorlylng the thin orust’ of antidy soil aro riok bads of marl; whiok tho ptow sUrap ‘to’ thingls kiudly with tho sutface and mako tho grass grow rank and groon for .the stoors'anil Lsifory who atand {u 1t knoo-deop and dontontod j and 2 . ' THE DEFOIMTREES, which:love this limy goll, tollin tholr tall, anotht [ barked trunks, their groat outaprosd . branohes;’ atid tlioir, oloso-grown loaves, oty wide and Loty doop tholr'roots biave akruiok -ino tho notitishing soll balow.- ; : , Thoto 'ara nd othor troos” thian beoches.in this traot of country, but no ono who knows tho trus bontity ahd varioty of this troo whers it growito, porfeotion would regrat this. Theywore horoof' ovbry ago and kind; thoro wora sapling’ troos, with tliin, doligato stoms and loaves ;oldos'trace, fonthering thoir' branches :gracofully - to the onrth; Jiko the' wido-sproad wings of somo’ gront; bird ;' theio woro the groat forest giants, round whoso hugo trunks men walked admiringly, and aloft; in Bummer-timo, oletda of groon Iewves,'snd ‘laoked liko gront ships’ mafling: uindor prosa‘of canvas'; and théra” wore ‘tlhio atolont xioss-covoréd troos--rmost’ boautiful of all—withi- Uolien-sthincd " trunki with forhs ‘growing in the'clefts atid'oranhles'of tho" wood," and’ on thoir mmooth batk a hundred nemes written'of Jovors‘dénd sind gond long’gon- orations ago—trocs that, sliorn by timo of “half: thofr branclios, still - put- fofth’ their' delionts’ groén " leafige'in Spring, and changod it to'rod and- gold in‘tho 'Auturn: Thla whelo 'dldtrlet wha'a forost 6f* thoso' troes; fowii* ais’ Beoch< woods; std the gront house st trf'thé nildat of'it; was! . DEECHWOOD OASTLE, 4 whoere lived Bir Philip and Lady Sandon; and Mies Evgenla S8andon, thelr only ehild, Beechwood Costlowas inidmo add iri fach a renl” modiioval castls, with moat, turrat, and’ projot-, ing bartizans, snd Sir Philip, Bandon was & inan, worthy to have luherited” such . monumont of’ tho old thme. If evory individual of the gonora-’ tions’ of men, through whoso hande the tone-. siouts bulle In snclost days have come to us had resoryod his precious hoirlooma ng Bir-L'hili [iad aguv; thio Tngland of to-day wodla bo full of buildings orcoted by men who know'the art of., building cbuirchos, housos, and-halls ad'wwo shall noyor know it. . ey Sir Philip had boon at paind to rostors his houso to its pristino condition, He. kad’ thrown down w wing addod in tho Elizabétian poriad ; he'lind, with loss hositation, romoyed an Italian. ortico of a lator date, aud with tho'zoal of an iconoclast b6 had ruthlessly domolished a hid- oous, facade. which bad ' dofaced ono slde of the. houso sincothe timo of the sccond Georgo. Tho snmo tnstolosa poriod hadfllled in thomont ; Lo~ clearod it out,'and could with,dificulty. bo In- duced not to roplonish it with stagnait wator. Thd house now stood as it stood in, TIE FOURTEENTII CENTURY, i whon 1t was bullt—ndielling-houso and a strong- | hold, Every atono was ag tho mediioyal builders hind left it. "Somo men love ,oncient buildivgs’ nat 80 much for what thoy wore oncoe ns for what thoy are no; lovo,tho moss;that time has gath- erod npon thom, tho wenthored stono surfacos that tho lichons stain gray and yollow, and tho’, ivy—nbotlor in the ruinous work of tmo—which stenls up liko o thibf from tho enrth and olutohos tho stouos in its grasp to drag them doyn ; but’ Bir Plulip was far too logical and uncompromis- ing ani antiquarint to give in to tho mild mathot cism of such likings. Ho treated his rostdor as it firat castollan’ wonld ‘have used it—kept it cloan and nbat. If'lichons or moss showed on the walls, ' thoy woro scraped off; if o stono moldorad away, it was replacad by one similar in: shape, pnd taken‘from tho quarry whonco the old Dbuildors bud héwn out its prédecessor: Nothing botter plensed tho possessorof Boochwood Castle than to hear a stranger say- it looked as if it had : been bullt yeatorday. Bo it wag that if on this ‘bright June day any ono had travoled by the atraight averiito of grant trees‘and’ had caught ' glimpacs of tho onstle, with its towora and turrets’ glittering in tho sun light through the vistas of * this 'eweot woodland soouery, tho moat-surrounded outor -wall, tho: ortoullis chaina _in their places, and tho draw- cidge lot down, e might almost forget tho four or fiyo hundred years that had passod, aud dream for & momont, if it 8o pleased him, that ho.was in ronl truth a knight or a burgher of the old_times, coming-to seek hospitality at o medinval castle. T = Such o traveler, ;onnuud with such a fanoy, it.ho had Linpponad to bo’ coming.to Boachwooy COastlo o this sm\(cu}n June asfternoon of my story, might indood have thought himselt DITAMING WITH IS 1YES OPEN. Undor,. the walls of the castlo, standing about in groups on thio broad cxpanso of turf which strotched from'tho moat to'whors the leafago of the woods roso up Hke s huge " wall 'against” thie alcy, waa'nn ‘assemblage of ladies and gontlomen,: dressed not 08 'we expoot in these days to sec our countrymen ' attired, but in tho strange costumo’ of a long past-sgo, Thére were ladies with ‘tall -orections of stiffenod silk ‘upon' thoir' hoads, ‘in shapa such asaro'still worn by tho penssint ‘wo- men of Francoand Gormany, and woaring bright~ colorod drossos with long-trains that vrailed. bohind thom upon the: closo-shaved lawn. The .younger mon .wore. dressod morc brightl, even than tho Indios, in tight-fitting hoso of ro or yollow, and jorkins of rich silk with sléoves of o difforont calor, quilted, padded, and”trimmed with varions-hued ‘sillc. and volvet; thoir heads: bare, or covered by the small, velvet, plumed. caps that wora worn in the etly part of tho fit- tooulh contury. . Thore woro but. a_fow cldorly mon, and 'thoss wore .o garb. that batter com- | ported with thoir years,—loose,- fur-trimmed gowns with hoods.: It was'n masquerade at Boochwood Cnstle, and ustho’ fashion of to-day sets strongly toward fanoy-dross-balls, and s strongly, in the coun- iry; toward day entertainments, 1t had besn Lady Bandon’s whim and plensuro to COMDINE TIESE TWO THINGS INTO ONE, + Thore was to bo daning, but it was to bo in tho auik of evening, on a polishod floor tompo- rarily aid in o sylvan glade, ‘There wore to be' fancy dresses, but they must be'of one'poriod— of the'asgo whon chivalry wae flotirishing, and when : troubndours still “sang’ ‘tho * prowess of knights' and tho ‘beauty of high-born ladiea. This had beon Lindy Bandon's edict, and it had been cheorfully obeyed by a nelghborhood who* took ali their fashions and ‘many of their idens from- tho lady of Beochwood Onstlo, During the wholo pravious spring, little elso had baon’ talked about, and.tho sntiquarian knowlodgo of Sir Phillp Sandon had novor boon 80- highly-prized in tho county. Tho choosing of their drosscswas s losson in historyfo'a groat” many lndies , and gontleion’ who had mfldnm troublod thomeolvos: to read a pagoiof 1t, and most loarned talk provailed as to escoffions and Dalandrans, vair.ond miniver, smong- pooplo who had lookod ‘out thoso words: n-the dl:xtlon. ary an hour beforo. Tho day camo, tho peoplo ' assembled; and the mnsquorado “was a succoss, Thore was somo- thing for tho stupidest 'guests to talk about, a good deal to admire, and, most dolightful of all, 8 vory groatdeal folnugh af. Itls not evory Iady ho can moungos train ; it isnot - overy gontlemun_ who feels comfortablo in: garments Whioh aro in theso days seldom worn but by har- loquins and circus-riders, . Iinglish poople, 8s 4 rule, have'too much dig- nity and purhr.Es too muoh shyness to shine an masquoradors, but_hove thero was one causo of difidonco removed, Evory ouc was drassod aliko, or moro'or -loss allko ; and’no ono, thore- fore, hnd to brave out-a more,eccentrio'or n more ridioutous dross than his follows,' There wero, of ‘courso, among tho crowd of guests somo pooplo whoso dross soomied to enit thom bottor than othors, Some flgures, both of mou aud womon, ; SEEMED ADMIRADLY SUITED totho tight-fitiing costime, who looked s it thoy Lind stepped from the canvas of somo of the groat carly paiutors, ‘Lo auch porsons were dspeclnlly ‘notad—biga Sandon, - the heiress of Tloochyood Castlo, aud hor affiancod husband, Lord Vorokor,” Livory oue had known that he was - good-looking' young - mau, fair complex- foned, fair-haired, amiable, and JmpulAr, and Miss Sandon bad boon' recognizod aa a boanty oven in London, when sho had como out, two {unrs before; but to-day thero was no end to Lo admiration which theso -two young porsons excited, " 17ao¥1n who' were almoat strangers to thom starod at thom' with a baif-imbacile smilo of admiration, Nothing ro oxquisltely graceful, nothing 8o Euuluvnly eautitul bad ever boen #oon In ——ahiro ag this pair of lovers. i Tho whole couuty had beon full of medimvallsm for a month past, studying old books in country- houto libraries; porlug over illuminated missals, and some ope; ' little” better informed than his nolghbors, sald* thoy wora likd Aucassin and Nicolotte, the' famous pair of Provencal lovers of whom tho ballads slog—sho with tho akin so whito that tho daisics lookod dark as hor naked foot prowsod thom; Le, the slim, golden-hairod knight, with “eycs of vair "—Aucassin, “li baix 71 blon "—and ‘this sentonce was caught up and wont froim mouth” to mouth, aud slmost overy one talked. of ' Augassin, 1§ baix, i bion," and L+ B ‘pff“’fid”d td odiibldef tho! phrisa' $xtrdmcly ap. : plioablo, e i~ Thoro was causo, for."those raptures, Mo was MARVRLUUSLY MANDBOME, | and'his light figuré phoiyéd to'adyantags in tho ight ihosen! of pald orimnon, in his doublet.of ! groon sllk alashed with . allyer-gray, with » dags gnt‘ln a joyoled soabliard horne in & broad silyor olt. Hla yourg, frosh faco, orf'whih not even » mubtaohe had ' yot npbnnrm‘l*wn ;' BOIMO ABYOro orltion thouglit, hiardly a6 manty aa' it sliould bo, but if go, it-would bo but nll tho more suitably.to. the imporsonification of . Auonssin, whose a‘rord,, tho ballnda sy, would drop froin; "his ' hauds ‘in 1 midat of battle, o ta;gmm-bi hia knightly dttlon wan ho'in'his Jove'for Niaolbtto. ) To be sure, if 1tho Nicolotte ot tho-ballad was liko Misn Bandon, ~there’ was exouso':ehough, . 8ho,'too, had the hair which " grow in golden- ringa of the ballad-mongors, &nd har eyés, liko-- wiso, woro of - tho!intonsa gray-bine whiclitho . siugora llkoned to the aolor of “vair,” 'tho rich forolgn fur then worn, ' Her figure . matchied his in ite'alim, grndeful contour, drossed s sho was irt & narrow, long-irathed xobe of dim bluo penrl, 8own to mark tho dolicato linos of hor:body.' Her hair.was drawn bnok: from!the. fair forchend, :and tho soft,swoet:oxprossion of -hor-faco, smooth and doliaato, like {ho potals. of May. biossoms, 1yas retloved by tha sovaro linos of tho tall hoad- drosm, sloping”back - half -8 yard high,.of dark gr:lry silk, ., > % G ‘0 800 thoso:tiwo lovars togother, to sratch tho sorious intensity of thoir glauces at, pach . othor, waa s thing quite apart from tho bard, :matorial oxistonos of - ovory-day—wns tho-realization of on {dyllio POOM—1¥aS - A DIT OF TOE GOLDEN AGE ITBELY. What ‘Innooenco | ‘what pufity! what . trustful sifaplioity ! ‘Happy lavers ! whoonu both bo so | suro that neither of* you will over find an object Bo delightful 08 tho éthor! i Yasovor o young lady 180 innocont as -Misa' Bandon lookéd,” or is’the world, perhaps, not 'fimwn littlo too old for'us:to oxpoot Any reflec~ ‘Mon of thesgoof gold in thio ninotoonth contury ?* ‘Alns! we have imost.of us onr Nomesls some- ‘whero not:far off, rendy - to overtake us for our lgront or: our litilo ‘slng, “aud Mjsa Bandon's ifiumenlu “vas'at this'very moment coming:noarer and noarer.’ OHAPTER II. MISS SANDON'S NEMESIH, It was nightfall, and the daueing had begun, ortunately:tho evening-was celm and dry, au on:tho warin air arose.tho delicious fragrancoe 'which ‘n wood .of .booch-irecs .gives forth af night-timo, . 8l -Philip, Bandon. .had. found a medimval precedont for stretohing. s broad ean- yag rdof, by:mosus, of cords aud -pulloys, high over the dancers’ hoads, to keop off the ovening dews; but this sorvico. was. already accomplish~ vd by the . high-poised . strata of gray clouds,. through the oponings -of: which. tha full moon only showed from: timo to itime, A hundred saucor-shapoed iron sconces,. filled .with somg flaming resinous conspound .and beld sloft on tall:poles, surraunded the ylvan ball-room, and cast b strong rod light, which mada tho loafy x6- cessos of the wood all round’ scem doubly ol Aoiure, o Sl e Bir Philip Bandon bad quito #6167 in Iduding tho band to learn the old Provencal ‘musio, an ZLady Sandon horsolf had opposed his ,sufgcullon that her :guests should , make thomiuolyes ‘ac-. quainted witl the dances of the time and’ cou try of tho Troubadors—with the furandol wheroa wido cirelo wus formed by tho’ daucors, with ?nlnm honds, or;: the. torch dance, o witd catillion whero enah dancer hold in 'his hand o lighted brond, - 8o thoball was after all bt 'n commopplaco one, only that as’ tho. ball-room neyor got.t00 bob or too: dusty, . sceing’ that its ‘walls woro tho frosh, edotous fzmnuhpg of trées, tho bullwasan . - o 'EXOLPTIONALLY DELIGHTIUL ONE. . Totwean tho dnuces tho guests walked to and {ro on the mossy turf. boyond the flooring, Just within the cirole‘of light “given by the torches; and boyond thiiis outer procinct, -hslf hiddon by tho troos, somo dozens of. Bir. Philip Batidon's norvnots and tonants had gathered to watch tho doneiag, | v ; i -Liord: Vorolker had hardly loft the sido of, Aliss 'Sandon dnriug tho oflmius, and they were' now. pacngslowly backward and £ talking eagerly to ezch other in lqw. tones. It w8 casy to-guess from-his looks and from hor answoring ones how' prosporous wera thelr Toves. 5 . ‘A8 thoy passod by one group of .country spac- tators bmnp Handon heard hernamo spuknrg. Blo: stopped. *¢Ploago, Miss Sandon, may Ispbak to you 2" 1t wi o child'a voire that spoke. e 4 “YWhat isit; Jolin?" Bhio'kriew the voico to ba thitof the kéopora ohild, and tho boy, encotiraged by ‘the friondly touo, cimo out of tho darkiioss, holding ' something ‘in his outstrotched hund—ao lottor.,” Miss" Soudon took ity opened' it, and road it H Eiigonis, T am walting for yoi ot tho ‘treo ‘whora o uscd To'meot. You must ¢onie, and'coma alone.- I shall’ not wait lorig,’ I shall ba‘watching you from'the dark- ness whilo you read this, Tako caro that you donod provoke's dosperato man to a desperate course, Bha read the lettor, and when she looked up’ into her lovor's faco the world ‘wns changed for hor. She:was liko o - porson ‘awskoned from'a leasant ‘droam, like'ons' summoned. from the Enmult. ‘ot afeast:to the :silence of 'n tortura chamber.'* The swook visiorrof * the present was dissipated, and the horrors of tho past, which: gbe biad thought'dead, were revived. i Bhewaa takon with : A MORTAL DREAD:. 4 Hor body shook, and her gloved right hand that had hold the Jottor tremblad, lyiug ou hor lover's arm,: Bho -claspod | tho other hand on it to kelp hovgolf'to suand,so faint did-tho shock make hor feel, - Sho looked up in his face 'for com- fort, - i *What ig it, -Eugenia?".ho asked. Sho'could not- answer. for & time, . “Arthiur;” she snid presently, ** do you quite bejiove in ma 7" A A . Ha looked round to'sce that'no one was noar. * Quite,* Lo s0id, smiling; and ho loid his hand', on lior clasped oney. i “Do you remombor what I once totd ‘you abont———- 7" . . % About Stophen Goodlalwo " i I am'glad I told you that,” | wyghy B ; i “Hu'ishoro now."” 1 ** Whoro ?" # “Within o fow yards of ‘us'at this “moment,— portaps watching us,” shie ‘snid, in a low voice, and sho:hold Lerself closor to him. | Lord Vorelcer looked grave. - **What does ho want 2" ! 4o gea me.” With fingors * that i would goarcely “obey -hor ‘she opened out’ the' lotter,’ which'glie Lid ‘crumpled in- hor ‘hand § sho flat toned it out on hie wrlst . s “Rendit,” she'said; looking with" anxious oyes into his'face. . . No,” ho said, Plnvlng his own' haud fo cover the open lottor; ‘I do not 'wish to,” Aourlous fecling cimo to hor, Tord Veroker was everything in the world to hor. She would dio gladly rather than loso tho loast particlo of tho grent'lovo she kuow'he'had for her; and yob in thils oxtromity of hers 'sho could xiot rofrain | from'coniparing thé Stephon ' Goodlaka of' the dtit, the man whio had onco sworn Lo loved her éttor than ‘any’ woman in' the world, 'aud to ivhom -lonjs ns his-imugo Lad faded from’ Lior tHoughta—eho -belioved “sho “had for a short ' momont given some littlo sharo of her 'girlish hoart ; sho”compared him with Lord Voreker, ‘und, looking'at him, ‘she wished ho had been & man that slio could ‘bettor have conflded in. Bho know ‘that ‘Btophon' Goodlske was trdnt- ing hor'badly: sho know that bis' lobler ‘was n threatening letter’; shoknow, that: ho trusted to ‘tho utrengtli' and ' voliomenco of his ‘character to forco hor in somo'way to his will.. - There was Bomoething that was ‘ terrible to her i bis mere #izo sud physicnl strongth, and shio wished sho could have -looked to Liord Veroker au to ono i whose protection she could foel quite secure, whoso superior moral strength would encompaes ‘and support.and mako mmends for or own feo- ‘blonoss, to whom eha could. havo intrusted her fonra and 'frooly admitted hor past woakncs, and her presont stronjsth m- hor loye and ‘in hor trath' to" him, -Bho would bave llked to'sny to hor lover,t ¢ I'his‘man hos been this muah tome, - —little onough. In comparizon to what you aro, ‘bt still numetldpg,—thfa iu what o now says, thin 18 what T foar ho will tiy to forca mo to do'; buk noy that Lam yours; do not Ik’ him huit me,—stand botwoen him nnd mo;—save mo fronii hin;" aud this it wos that she folt sho could not Any to Lord Verokor, Bha had often dosirad to tell him TIE WHOLY KTOLY, with - every ‘fim’unulur and_ocircimstanco, of, Stephon Goodlako, and she had told him some- thing, but nob all that sho_had, wishod bim to know. . 8ho way cortain he had nover rightly yn- dorstood how, this inan's voliomonce had Lurried ;| hor, little moro than & child ot tha timo, iuta fancyiug that sha cared foy ono whoso charaoter sho aftorivard lind roason to desplso, and whoso momory 8l now loptied, She felf that sho hor- solf would bo woak in the prusonco of this man, but at lanst sho wos o woman, and lflmmln por- Lips gofer thau any man who should efaud ba- +foro Btophon Goodlake in ouo of his angry, env- -fio moods—of auy man, thpt I8, Who was, physically his inforior; and thoro was, though, she hardly dofined tho' feellng, soms bittornoss in this rofloction that’ Lord rVérnkun wmich ay slie lovod L, was noither in bodily nor ovon. in moral strength the equal: of : Stephon Goodlake, “What \,vxil you do?" said Lord Voroker. * [ mut speal to him=-alono." é {+Is that your roa] wish #" sald herlover, | 1 mie{"do 1t," sho' nald, divengaglog Ror) oy Tt orward on tho grags, | Bhe went onwird 4 fow atopa:iand sho ttrhod. todook back at-hor laver..- Bhie gould .not undos-: stand him-guito. .Ife mado noobjoolionio hor. goting Lo Moot a man who ho kiow had loved har, - unJl porbaps would toll’ ‘hor ' ho'atll" 1gved' her. Wonld sho . be. 1iké!that i£- . thio' onsos woro® re-' yorsod-?. . Could . ho oaro for: hor as . sho, dig for ;him. | fn. truth ebo.was . right in thifking ‘thint slio’ dld' ot quits uhdorstand | Lqrd Vercker. Tivon she, had not got to know fult loflnlty of hig lova ‘tot lior, nor tho largh trust ho Dad:in tho womnn:whom' bo.had.on-| :'I"xr_lnodlfln:hh hoart.as.tho truost and, noblest in 0 world, : e ¢ Arthir}” slto’ snld, retuttiing “tio fdw staps’ sho had gono, and touching: hig arny, *tell mo I g0 with Your lonvo, ™ gt B *'Go, my datling,” ho said, and he pressed hor hand, ‘T shall ot bo otk o{vhanrlnfi.' IF YOU {YANT' ME, OALL, v Bo eroouragod sho’went forward intb the" darknesd of "the wood f: roaching more'and foro into td stillngss ; nurgod to, eotiplianoo with'tht . Tagto thraatas of tha man she fonred, but moving ¢ with utiwillingslops, nowphuelng, not quitotoloso thofaintor-grown sound of tho musio and voices, now %zulug orward {n the dunphn(hg\ shade of Dhonglng boughe, A quaint sight his Euglish groouivood, thils elight-fgured lovely ymmp{‘ &), stoaling forth alonby tiny, trombling 60 'that ab' timon -sho woull hold hor hand “on. a bratich thot'orosaed the ‘path - to’ stoady horsolf, with palo face, looking, id hdr" strangely-fashioned,: trafling gatmdnts of rich silkon Ktufl of dim, del- [cnt(glanlorlug, like porhe - fair palutod mdidon in 4 ploturo, toplion ‘Goodiake waalonriing ngatnat tho treo. Bho raised hor eyes to Lim, anil lio did not khow him for o mommont.”* His board now hid much'of his faco; but his oyes: she kunow_him by almont immodiatoly—the gront, Intenso, durk oyos whioh 8ho had oneo lked to look'into,: Thoro whe not thio angry; monaoing exprossfon In thom which sho had expected thoywould wonr at sight of hory which ¢he had'soon onco or twide before, and which was what chiofly sho romom- bordd Stephon Goodlnka' by, and “what in truth had got to clotht him'in harmeimory with a vaguo® tofror. Not, indood, that tho girlwag physically o coward ; sho could raise hor oyos boldly onough to the 'level of anymoro bodily yoril, but 'sho dronded, ns women -will always “drend, tho un~ known. Blic hwl'formed" soma ' quite ignorant supposition of the oxtont of ovil that the min ‘who stopd bafore her could work hor if hoshould ohooso; in plain' truth she foared that he' could crosa the gront love botween Lord Voroker and hergolf,: 5 =P THIS EPISODE IN HER PAST LIFE, ;) of Stéphon Goddlako’nnd his love 'for hot, had at one time gono nearly out of Lor memary. It wid moro than four yénra ago that ho had como to} Beachwood, the colldge-fileind 'and compan- ion of hor brothor, ‘She, half child and half woman, had beon for an {nstant captivated by his handsome face, and belioved in and *hnff responded to tho love ho had told hor of with such strong .somblanco-of ' passion, ‘Then ho had-gono. - Thon thers had .como, to Bocshwood atotios of ‘his ‘misconducts of somo great ‘dis- graco'thint'he had inourred,* somo' stain ‘on hig honor thit no time' would romove; so deep o stain‘ithat ‘oven her brothor, his own:familinr’ Iriond, Lind bpolon’of him' with contempt. Then, it was known that,ho Lod been compolled . to loavo England, ‘and aftor, that_ his noime, had nover licon heard at Boochwaod ; * and rofthor thon, nor st any titno, ‘had' it ' boon' suspooted that botween' Stovhen Gobdlake and - Eugonin Bandon snything had praged. - o Aftor this had, como for Lot the pidsing into ho noty busy lifo'of sooiety, which our’ English girls” ontor at astop from”out of tho ‘narrow’ roudd " of ‘thoir’ childish existonco. . Thon. had’ fim\vu‘ up the love botwoon her and Lord Vero- or, and that-love had quite filled hor.life ; thon Lor only brothor's donth: and now a. yoar or moro had passed, and the timo 1 of her marriage was drawing near. G ) It had boon- Iatoly and for . tho first timo that tho old mombry of Btephon Goodlako had ovor- taken hor. At momente whon tho vision botora hor seomed at its most, fiuklun, ‘whon hor enjoy- wment of her youth and hor gront love mado-ox- istenco o bright, dolightful dronm for her, whon lior lifo-pulos wero beating thoir fullest and quiokest, thon suddenly a vaguo dread would #o0iz0 and benumb hor sensea ; for somo instinot told'Mer to sifmiso that the man's naturo that had made him falso to othors would maké him .. . . PLAY PALSE WITIL MER TOO. Noedy and unaceupulous a8 ho was, ho . might, it 1ud ane day ocourred to her, ace his advantage il torturing iuto = .promise on hdr part that which Lad: passed baotwoon thom, and.thé.ro- domption of any.such . promiso, now that she wag - great helross, might be worth such a man's while to hesitato at nothing: to bring sbout. W A Blio had told . Lord: Vorckor everything. ho. svonld listen to about this evont in her lifo;. it was indeed but a half confeasion, for ho wonld henr of no full“details; aud what if now this man, driven to dosporation, should, cithor in . revongo or to gain hig cnds, partly :rovonl, and pirtly exaggerato, and partly invent some such story as shonld bo a slur upon her.that oven hor lover could not overlook ? Lo : “Eugenin,” eaid Stephon Goodlake. Bho looked full at him; nnd: he could not. seo in hor Taco how full of torror was her hoart. I am, come here, at no littlo dangor to mysolf, to see you once more."” z 1t was the old voico which she romembered so well, and which onco sho thought eo cloquent, but now thoro was a ring in'1t which’ grated un- Plensantly on her oar, an _unreal kind of ovor- emphasly, such as actors in'tho thioatros omploy. It seomed to hersolf odd that-she should notica-| this now for tho firat timo. ' Bho mado him no answor. 505 1 I was compelled to writo to you as I did," he Bald, *thot I might’ bo’ suro you would come, Eugonia, toll me you have somatimes i . LET MY IMAGE ONOHS YOUR MEMORY[". . Bhie drow back, for: ie had, steppod forward from the treo ngainst'which hohad boen leaning, sud would havo taken her hand. § . | % Mr. Goodlnke, Liave you auytbing to say to mo?! Bho spoke in o volco that was hardly ‘more than a whisper., ¢Yes," ho snid, in earncst tones that acemod | to tromblo, or thnt ke mad. to Aoem, to tromblo, | #vyes, I havethis to tell you, that nover once in the four : long . yonrs that have passed. since wo parted at this tree, novor onco sinco the day you #wore to'me you would bo mine—" . Lugonia shuddered. ' #Never far & day,” ho wont on, “novor for an hour hiava T censed Lo think of, to Lape for you, 1o wish for you, to long for the timo to como, as it has now come, whon tho cloud that has hun, ‘oyer my name. should bo romoved, when I noulfi ‘como to you, Euganln‘ end romind you of the ‘promise you gave me.’ . 'Cho false note in tho man's voice struck bor. ‘mora and moro as Lo went on, and strouger and Atrongoer was the fooling of repulsion 1t ronsed in Lier. 1+ “You nro atating what you must know is nat truo. - Whon wo mot bioro, four yoars ago, % NOTIING OF WIAT YOU BAY TOOK PLACE.", ! 4 Yourid not plight your troth to me?" | Bho looked straight into hisoyos. ., - ! #You know I did not{”,sha said. Indignantly, i “Do you think to’ triflo’with mo?" and hn rolged his voico, *Do you think that I, who Dbave suffared pationtly all theso yenrs iith the ono hope that you would keop your - faith to me —do you think that I am golng to submit to let, fatetako you from me ns woll?. Do You‘ nob know I love you, Eugonia ?" he enid, with rapid Bpeoch, *and can you think Tshall “over aban- don you-~to what, and to whom, my Godl—to tho miserablo boy I enw you with Just now 1" 1 % Mr. Goodlake,* sho said, *you shall not | Bpoal thua to mo af—" { " Listen!” ho sald, intorrupting..her, and Bponling with his tooth sof, and. o look of fury on his faco ; “llston to what I sny. . Unless you ratify the promiso you made to me hore—unioss | you ear, beforo you loave the spot you stand on, that you will be mine, I will do this—befora., Tlenvon:I wvoar that I will not slrini from it I will walk' straight to the peoplo youder—~I will PUOOLALM YOUH HUAME, OPENLY:. .. boforo thom all—I will say thzt of you which shall mako ““ll;’ -hm:;ml lwmmm shun you, and ovory mun you know dospise you s * Oh, Mr{ Goodlake, B{)’lfl) mo [" eaid the girl, in extromity of distress. * You could not eay of mo what you know i« falge 1" . ) Ho saw the improgulon he had 'mado, and went on': Do not provoke mo too farl I have told you that I was o "desperato man., One thing, sloue, will saye mo—will sava tho man gou pratond to prefer to e, whom you promised to loye ' for- evor, Ona thing only "will save ' yourself. ' Ohoose—now, this moment! or the tima’ will haye gono by I Ho sprang forward, and soized hor wrist,' ¥ £ © Eugonin! your fatoisin your own hands— my lovo or my hate " "And ho grasped both hor - wrista with sitch forco that, partly from the pan, partly from her sudden torvor and’ lnnmini( of the - man's touch, shie involuntarily gave a half cry; Ho hold her more and moro tightly ns sho struggled to froe horself. 3 A Tustle’ smong: the underwood was hoard: and, in o momont, Lord Vorelior ‘was atanding: betwaen thom: 3 1118 1AND WAH ON GOODLAKE'S THROATj and beforo a word had been spoken Lord Verckor thad foreod ” him baclwerd against tho trae, and Lhield him thore in his fightmuufi g{mup. ‘The biggor man strugglod, bub ho struggled. \noffootually, A bottor mau than Btephon Good- luke, enuglht in tho' doing'of a meah action, aud oalled on to defend himsolf, is apt to' mako but a. paor fight of it ; aud, notwithetanding his powei- ‘lg}h'nma and good plugk, thore yras’ somothi that paralyzed him in the very . face- of hiy ad- .| told him’whiat was in horhourt, and thauked him vormnry ; and thut ndversary. was not ono ithat ovon auch'An athloto as o yyas could make light of.’ Tiord Vdrokor was 'not'o ‘big a man ny Goodlnke| though 'nonply, ns. tall, ko was' norc’ Alightly mada ; thoro wis ok tho Bame muscntnr dovolopment—but musco is an offafe of qunlity rathor: than ?m\nm.y a8:'connolssours . fn - thio shnttoe “woll: know, “In ‘suoh a_hand-to-hand Alrtiggle A this, 'whon two iuen' aro mo fairly mitcliod, onduranco goos for fnucht and 4 'man doon 11t get Into Lho’ law, drinking habits Gaodlaka- hnad ‘noquirod, ' with' fmpunitys’, s again) doos anothor huny four dags a weol: and apar, fonco, and bhoot tho- othier two, with no rosult to witid'and Hmb, i Gdodlnka mako & hugé:bifort to shake' off hla: asbilant; but Lord Voraldy's grifi'on hia’ throit romained. - opdlalid stryck ‘ont, wildly with his closed fiatg ; hut o, man wkose. windpipe is com- prossod as in o stool vise dolivers no vory for- midable Llow. Eis faco got -black; he openod Lia lips to curse; but the pound that oame from thom was more like: n howible gurgle., For' ouo momont ho :scomod.: oxhusted,, anst donned his | buck'againgt tho ‘troo sud: Lord Varoker used tho opportdnity-to Ly 5F= _ . ITARE A BTIONGER JIOKD -, .. . with the loft hand thaghad nover lott his thront. Thon Goodlako| syfmonod ' all his “remaining forco for that suprenp offort which ls mnde by | 6véry mon atid bvory fnimil-in a nh'ulxgln "bo-r; twaoni life and death-on offort which: ia Enrtly; & convulsion. ., The tfo:men .awayed togothar aa ong . body, straininglimly sgainst limb—tholr | tooth clonchod, lhng brows' furrowed and - 1dw-* oring withi tho furyof' tha fight. * Then . Good= Inlcd's st¥etigth and'broath: bogan to fail:.ho iolded inoh by tnch as : his sntagonist . pushed im, by shocer oxooss of onduranco. and epirit, baok again to.tho troo.. Thore ho hold hirm, stitl fghting wid sosltiog though bt ovorcomo.- Thoto Lord Versker hotd him a minute or two;. thon ho put in practioe the . old wreatling back- | fall,and his opponent foll puddenly and fxunvllm among tho twisted roots of. the groal booch-troe ondor, which the atrugglo lind thlton' plnce. Ho mado no offort 'to’ move, lylig thore, brenthitng stertoriously with: tho - blodd: slowly. oozing.from mouth and noag, snd: his arms ont-. strotchiod helplassty, - Lord Verckor lookod doiyn at him curiously for o minyte’or 4wo’. thon ho turned to &co li ony ono bad withossed 'the’ on- countar, 'Tho hond keoper' ‘was' thero, who touchod his hiat aud smijod. h *YOU'VE PRETTY WELL SETTLED I, my. Lordl " LSRN ' # Thopo ne naid Jord Voraker; mnufilll tho sooundrol dogérvod it, Lodson hik' tle, Willism, and ralsd highead. | 7 Tha keoper Luolt dwn by tho fallon man’ and {lor!or nd tho ofticed which 'his proféssion had might him how to ‘{‘nndnr.; . “T'sont him thrdigh tho wood ‘with my little 0y,."8aid Nowall / **$and ‘wlien tho boy did not como bnok I fowdd' ‘somothing was Wrong, and eamo affar hirh,") ; e Lord Voroker yaited untfl'his lato antagonist ‘li:nd rocovored cgusciousncss’; thon he addrogsed m : ¢(Stophion Goodinkio; Taii golrig.to give. you Into 16 chaxggof Sir Pillg,Santoive Leapsr T Lnow why yoy came horo to-night, I guoss. | what you camg to_sny.- Aud now, liston well to what I toll yon, , It reats with mo, and md alono, : to prosocute you criminally.for tho forgery you committed aythe Univerpity threo years ngo. I Iot you off then for your_ frionde’ sako, and hop- i;xyou might roform,. I geé I did wrong. Your ' behayior .fo-uight sliows_me you are & groator blackguard than ever, Now, mark miol.,Tho | dvidonca of tho orlme_you committed can Bo gat togather in o weok:; tho Indictment .is already drawn ont ; tho bill, with my accoptineq forged ' by you, {4 In my possesslon. Ono word from me and Fou aro in jail, and in two months from now will bo working ou& n_conviot's sontence, QGoodlako gronned, ‘*As I have stood here wotching you I have debated with. myaolf whothor of not I have a right to provent thia lnw from taking its coarso. . . 1 QIVE YOU ONE MORE OHANCE," M Hrtnphun Goodlake broathed n doep sigh of ro- of. * Bu, ldten'to this, 11, clthet to night or, ot any future time, you . give me the smallost rea- [ son to regrot my lenieucy, I give you fair warn. ing, you shall anewer for tho erime you have: committed in’n court of law, i Holiad spoken ina grave, doliberate monner thnt had olearly. torrifled the baffled scoundrol at his foor, . Even William Nowall was improssed. Puiting his hand into. tho oapacfous . pocket of. his bhooling jnoket, ho produced.apair of stecl handouffs, and without a word. sll{lpnd thom over Goodlake’s wrista with the skillof a London Police Sergoant. . + “ Got up, my mian,"” ald, the keoper roughly, oud with & fumnlouu thrusting of Lis . knuckles, into the villain's riba, Goodinke roso, cowed aud ocrostfallon, “* You have my authority, William,” said Lord Vorokor; ns the kaoper lod" away bis prisonor, # you havo my fall authority, it he misbohaves, to tako him to tho nearest polico station.” This gcono, had passed.very quiokly. Somi strangulation is & rapid process, - A fow scconds. liad been onough for tlie struggle and the over- throw of Goodlake:-Mies Sandon had, of noces- sity, witnessed it.all. Torrifled us she had beon by tho man's threats, ehe would not, ovan in Ler extromity, havo brought her lover into the peril of contnat ivith one shs thought eo terriblo ; sho would have endnved it nil alone, 8hewas o bravo, truc-hoarted girl, and it is nob such womon.ag sho who fly with' scronms and protty squeamishness when 6 deod of righteous ‘mane haod is porformed in their: presencs, She Lad watchod the fight a8 o high-born.muiden of tho old time might have.looked down upon tho prowess of hor chosen knight. 5 ‘Tlioro, watching out the ucmmgln boetween the two mén, sho had firat lesrned tho . * - FULL WORTIX OF THE MAN . - whom she had alrondy sot. on the altar of. her, hoart, tho gonorosity that : would not .pry un- worthiily into tho _ono waakness of her pasf, the mavhood that had reseuod hor from' hurt,’ the prudence that know how to shield her from even tho shadow of antioyance, i Then and,thoro in tha silenco of the wood, sho apain and again—told it Lim a8 Lo hold Lot to Diitm, enlaging his arms afound_bim, and lookiug up into his faco with o now and strongor love, Tien those two lovors-walkoed slowly baok to~ fotler through tio shadowy alloys of o ool ; and, just before thoy camainto the gloom of tho liglts, sho stoppod him fo say: “ Arthur, thoy say wo .ara liko Aucassin and Nicolotto; but I'don’t think you will over lat your sword drop from your hand in the battlo!” * Not ovon for Jovo of you?” sald Lord Vore~ ker ¢ and Lo laughod a littlo. *'No," gaid, Miss Sandon, smiling t003 ‘¢ not u;cn‘(or love of mo."—Neiv Quarterly Maga-~ ne. 2 . “ LIMBURGER.” On & treo there et a crow, Tn'hie bill a chunk of cheeso On the ground a fox, bolow, - . . Baid, * Bomo music, If you pleate, ‘You nro boautiful of wing, And I bot that you can sing," Clicored by fiattory, tho crow Baug, and dropped the choesa below, “Then the cunning fox dld freaz o the fillen chunk of cheess; Angl ho calmly. luggedd it off, .+ Aud ho scoffed tho song with scoff, MORAL, | ‘When they pat you on the back, Whon thoy asy that you're the one: { ‘When they aay. they're on tho the tra : # And baya beon obllged fo runj i ' When thalr | Thoy &6 go} You'can do i But—you'd =Fort Scott Monitor i —_— ! . A TECoStorys Tho following . lutration of the power pos- wossed by iusocts to communigate their expori- oncos to ope another is given by o lady, copros-* Pnndnnt of tho London Speclalor: “1 was stay- ng in the houseof o gantlomun who wag fond of trylng’ oxporimeénts, and who was.a boo- keppor. . MTaving road i some book on beed that tho, boat aud most humane way of taking the. houoy.without destroying tho hees was toimumerga, the hivo for a fow minutos ina tub of cold | water, whon tho boos, being half drownod, could. not sting, while the houey. was uninjured, siuca. tho water conld ot ponctrato tho closoly Waxod colls, ho rasolved on trying the plan. . I'hawy thn, oxpérimont. tried. . The bees, according to tho rocipe, woro flshod out of tho wator aftor, tho hive had boon immersed .» fow min- utes, .and, with thoso romaining. in tho hive, laid on n siove In the sun to dry; but ag, by bad managomént, tha oxporimont bnd boon ‘tried ‘too Into in tho day, nd tho sun wis olug down, thoy wera romoved into the kitehop, {5 tho great indignation of . tho . cook, on whom thoy rovenged thoir eufforings ne soon a8 the warm riys of the fifo bofore which thoy woro complinients denote ing for.your voto, . Just av yau pleast, ettor watcli your choese, placed Dad rovived them.. As. she lusisted on’ lhelr'bnlngvluknn BAVBY, th_uy.woru‘{ml book into, thoir old hiya, whioh hud Logn. driad, togother. with a portion of their honey, and placed o ona of the sholves.of tha, apinry, in whiok Were flve or tix other strong bived fufl of hoou, dnd loft for tho night. Eavly the next morning my friond went to look at the hivo oun whioh he expori- mpntod the night bofore, but, fo his snazomont,. no} only the .boos from !Imt hivo WOre wong, bu tho othor hives wore wll desorted—nol & Leo o~ .mnined in any of them, The half-drownod bees must, thoroforo, in some way or othor, huvo i muda the other becs -understand the fate: whioh awnltod, thom," , = " GRA[I‘{_» T NEW YORIE, Elonting Grain-Warchonses—A Pnpor Tby B, I Kndcland, onon New Dinn for Grading und Storlng Grain, - . . New Yo May 93 ' o e Edtor'of The Eheags Trwings, T o -B1r ¢ Notleing nn oxtract from yonr ‘artigl * Graln In Now York Harbor " in the Daily e [ el of thin ftorning, T sond you, in reply t 1ty tokday. Our Exoliango havo boon at work sinco Janusa 1. last upon tho porploxed question 'of dolivér- fen of catgrain. Wo fool wo'\ive mado sore - pilogross, and we hopo- ia tho “right.- direotion, ' \Béar. . with ‘our infirmities " nwhilo, and, whey' i “nation s taken; it will bo subject to'criticism, - Wo feol iow vital to our - own olty ia an outley “for grain suck as will move tho. largost ponsible. qualitity at. the lowest possiblo ,exponss j and, it ., W shenpon torminal oxpanges., hors 1 or 2 cente . 2 bushal, it will bo dirootly rofidgted in" profit to #hio’ producor, nod ' that will b epectfully yours, - H. T, KNEELAND, Trom e N Fork T T he Neto York Tribune, May L, .1 - . T. Knaoland, of tho firm of Oarl oul.cohb& Co., wad raquostodl omo tniio igo by tho. (lom Hittes of Graln Rtecolvors and Rallway Agents’ in soasion at the Produce Exchangs, to propare a Dpaper with roforanco to the grading and'delivery of grain at tho port of Now York. , This apor 18 . on tho ! Cax Graln Trado of New York,” and ia of groat fmportance o tho'grain intoroal’s of this. country, niid partioulnrly poris ag follows: **Why will not Now York beoomo tho greatont grain afirmatively, wo think, n two worde—gar-grafn. Tho mado it cloar-{o every thinking man that some now tocoipts of graln at New York for four yeara are : Tho rocolpte of graln from Jnn, 150 April 30, 1674, by rail alono woré upward! of 18,000,000 busholt, .. This, . tndor Ligh ratos of frofght, the hog crap being movo of tho roady, ond terminal facilitics that aro inados quato to' tho bustnoss of the threo great trunk lines, , 0., the Now York: Cantral, - Erle, and- Ponnaylvania Comprulos, into whioh tho hotworlk of rafiways (n tha great West pour thelr through traflic. Wastorn mon wondsr why large olovators are nat constructad, and - o bustucaa of o o clovtor system, . Wore such elovators bullt, wo doubt If thoy Wwould fmast tho, ¥equitoments. of the trado, bocausd by tho customs of this port a system of - delivory of grain alongslde ship ling ‘boen canaidorad * necoauary o compoto Wit the canal trafli, 8o noton- ey line tho syatem of dulvary to ehip Bacomo thsé compatition.haa forood the railroad compantes to dox Dacco, flour, provisions, potroloim, otcy when in quantiti, S5t s the mods tn which qrafn b Firal—] 9 modo In whic] in handled for oxport, conatwiso shi) mfit, 'lnéi.l 2?1: lary 0 reagons requiring dulivery alongel 3 gratu b Second—Tlio projuidicos of buyors fn favor of estab= Itshed oustoms are difficult to ovorcomo, espocially it thoso customs aro warranted by tho oxlgancios of fio rado, A . Third~Steamahips. ond large’ nafling vossola taka mized cergoes, uaing grain fo:z.zlmllnat snd for partlsl cargo, .pad " dopend. upon albipmenta of, cotton, pros ‘vislons, apd othier producia of tho country to complote tho gauic, a3 tho.lattor usually pay n battor frolght, Fourth=Theso largo crafts bring cargocs of goneral morchandise, it “often - hofng nocessary for grain to bo- londod ints hom £or ballast colncldeat wilh the unloading of thole . cargoes. - ' T4 4a owing to this quoation of dolivery fo -ship thas clovatoraat tho” toruint, of rullconds Wt AoL. cone atrugted ore this, for it Js not to b supponcd that the Hhrso great, trunk linca of raflway hava fafled to build o by the Eris Canal, oo with thotn purely a' quostion of praclcabily 1 ‘viow of tha customs of our grain trado,. - 3 Notwithstanding tho immanso inorcass in tho osr graln trado, Now York lins_boen digcriminated againsh by o system roquiring shipmonts of five cars of ona kind of. grain to insure delivory. “ lightorago. freo, less than five cars helug subject to lightorage, wherens, to Boston, Philadelphix, and Raltimore singlo cars ara | taken at tariff ratcs, inoressing iholr trado matorially by shipmonts that would naturally come hero. Under ;mslnut mothods of raltroadiug a shipment of five cors broken, Often noveral, das. lntervana betwaon arri- vals of the firat and st cary, rendering nocossary the, bolding of tho grain oither on the track, or in boa awalting arrival of tho bnlanco, or delitverios in small parcela. . Thoso dolnys are very oxpousivo, provent the nloading of cars prompily on arrival, cause orowds upo tho track, Increaso Lio numbe.s of boats Fequired, and put upon thio carrior tho cont, of dolivory in. smnll. parcols,” Under tho present systom oach shippor's grafn must bo kopt goparate, . A plan Ia now under conaliloration, by. & committes of nine—aix of whom aro membora of tho -Produce Excliange,. and_thras: of whom ropresent tho thre trunic lines—to grada fhis grain upon its arrival, and araliouss it ompararily abonsd of boata. This Droponc tho eatablishmont of New York gradealof {ne indig grades of the comntry, markets, and to which thn irade of the Woub woull naturally: conform ; . grain fo bo wolghed. on track ucales and Joaded {nto alt identily being lost in the grade, but quantity. guare Antead, thus permitiing consolidntion -of tho roceipts on boals ready for immediato dolivery, negotinble “ror nipts bolng fasted by th allzcad ooiépanles, o arc pormitted to doliver, on ozdors {rom ownors, any grai of.tha grado namod in such "recelpts, -from’ nny-bom - thoy olioose, proclsaly as If the properly was in an oloe Vator. Tha merits of thla plan are ¢ Firat—1t {8 on immediato roliof, . Second—ts: simpliclty s it does not overturn the ox- tating atstus of our export trade, and vainly ondoavos to force it into channols fhat aro nunatural, such es a . syntem of atorago olovators invalvoa, LR Third—It rolioves the merchants of o vast amount ot labor selling by samplo, . 3 5 Fourth—1t ouablea buyora to got what proporty thay want promply, - ; Fifth—Tt cainblishes ono of the soundest ond mosk perfectsystams of warclouaing frain that lns evet ox- ated. Yor, if o cortain_grade of grain 1a loaded info a boat, that work must como out ! A nystom of elovatora ownod by privata capitaliata futorastod in having grain g0 into thele warehousos nt a low inapeotion and go out at a Ligh one is thus avolded. Sizth—Tho oxponsa of stargo on board eanaibonts (3¢ cant por busbolper, day aftor tho first fivo working. days, which aro freo) s sich a4 to insuro prompt des Jivery from boate, and {0 prevent unwarrantablo spocts Intiona In géiin, Ssventh—With elovators, wo could not oxpoct loss rate of slorags than 3 cents a Lnehol for the first torm, and I doltvory alonguido was then nocestary it would involvo tho cost of lightorago to ship, not foss than 4 conts more, making o dis stion of at loast 4 conts & bushol agatnt rail grain in with which the Toads compate, This nomiunt oxponse, apparent in overy account of sales yadored to Wentorn eli{ppars, would bo offact in part by n roducad rato of frafght, covoring tho oxponso of delivery undor the proposdd plan, whother approclatod or not, - Tle plan doba not intorforo with tho building of olo- yatora fo oy extant, If thoy azo found nocoiscy ; for ‘o bollove. {t shadots such an fncreaso in . tho graln . trado of this port aa will absorb ovory factlity that can o provided for it, LN i In concluslon, this plan is stmply sn adaptation ot tho grain trade o tho nooosslty of commoren hero, by.. s system of amall floating warchoniaca thnt.can bo tuken . to our grent ships, whercss at Chieagn and Milwaukeo tho small vossels 0 10 tho groat waralionses, " i Brookwys, May 10, 1874, T, T, KNKELAND, Fost A e Abxinthe. The Swiss Times gives tho following actount, | ot absttiio gud it bistory : .‘‘In tho Canton of Nouchatel, in the long, Droad, wild Val de Travors, famous for its asphalb ‘mines, is the soat of thomanufacture of absinthe. ‘I'ho manufucturs of this porniclous drink dates Dack to the lnst decados of tho eightsonth cens tury, - A Frenchi exile and dootor, named Ordis naro, who selogtod tho villaga of Couvet as bis, rosidenco, is oroditod with tho first nvontion of :abgintho, which he employed as a medicine, and at bis doath Dr. Ordinaire loft his receipt to his: sorvaut girl, Milo, Grandpiorre, Sho sold it to' tho daughters of Liout, Honrlod, who grew the iherbs roquirod in thoir,own gardon and oarried, on tha distillation of tho liquour in- the kitchon.: At tho begluning of thig century tho receipt was, 180ld to M. Pérnod of Couvont, and from thnt ‘poriod tha p*Extrait @'Absintlio’ ,uppoars, in commorco. The firat who manufacfured tho articlo on o large scala were Dubied, fathor aud #on, aud their relative Honry Louis Pernad, &on,. |all throo of Convol, Of conrsp the production {of.tho two Liouaos wasonly limitod ; the domand was noithor large nor goneral, and the want of, tho esgontinl herbs formed nnother obstaclo to. the dovnlogment of .tho mnuufacture., Dubled and Pornod hiad 1o other sources for thoir ine grodionts - than their own gardons. By de~ fimeu tho demand for tho extrait d'ubnf;xthu ocAmO Eruntm‘, and with it tho oulture of tho Lliorbs, In 1880 the receipts for, tho. wermuth plantations in, .tho four communey of Couyet, Matiors, Fleurler, aud Buttos, was ostimated st 1000-1200 louisd'ors,. and 1t was sald in praiso of a_private grower of Couvet that ho had sold alono 2,500 .francs’ worth of.tha plant.. From this time tho culture of the absinthe plaut sssumod large proportions, .sud, . to-dny, tho proprietors derivo Inrge ine comes from thoir absiuthe flolds in Couvet,, The villago of Boveresse solls, yourly, moro than 6,000 francs’ worth of the plaut, and Motiorn and Couvot fu similar.proportions. _Tho quantity of absintho manutaotured in tho Val do Travers at the prouout day I8 ostimated &t about 870,000 litres, The horh (Artentisia absinthium) of which the absinthe is firit propared is a plant ixmwln" to s boight of from two to four flm?. It s found throughiout Coutral Yuropo on stony hill, and also in s:nnlnun. Consumers of ab- sinthe are, priucipally found jn Frango, North Amoriga, nud Bwitzorland, aithough thd hurtful offact of tho liquor on the noyvous ByBe m»; hus boen repoptodly pointod ont by modical of ‘this ‘oity. Tho pa- eaormous- increasn in ‘thin- trado tho past winter has © plan must bo adopted.£or faoilitating deliverios . hora, | Wsources, © Rafl n;evpu‘, 5 iy . i " 017,524 ll‘flfl'&,fi(! 125, 101 18,055,000 108,384 24,607,213 2,714,870 . 29,583,000 0 port, of New York mado to conform - liver " 1ightorage frea ¥—not ouly grafn, but cotton, tos . alovatora thronyh Jack of euterpriso or funds, It haa. - rom sny Westorn poiut is not likely fo arrive horo un= lan #pection for all gratn, which would soon bocomo tha . known in all European ', ats rrespactive of Gwnorehip, 6 articlo that appoared lu the Zrfbuno ot yose' * honefit_you, Tds .mact.in tho. world 2% This .question 1s_pnsworod .. nnd sbgorbing o vory large portion of tho rolling stoclk o numpu::j and milling, since tho establisiment of the . requiring_dock facilities for unloading, | Englaud, *