VOLXXXII Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman, WHY AREWEI ? Mill THRONG WHAT ATTRACTION^ It is only the unusual bargains that don't go a begging. Values and big ones a that alone possess the power to interest. We have the \alu. s. awl a visit to our big store and inspection ot our immense stock of Dre-s Goods, Millinery. Wraps, &c., comparing our prices with prices asked elsev here, will i onvince you that this store is full of big bargains. HERE'S THE BARGAINS: 25c all-wool black awl colored Serges, 36 inches wide, real value, 35c. 39c all-wool colored Serges, 38 inches wide, real value, 50. 50c all-wool black and colored Serges, 5° inches wide, real value, 75c. 50c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 40 inches wide, real value, 75. 85c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 46 inches wide, real value, *I.OO. 50c all-v. black awl navy Storm Serges 46 iw wide, real value. 75c. 75c all-w ! black and navy Boucle Cloth latest nuv.lty, real value, fi.oo. $3.98 late t style, Ladies' Jacket, Beaver Cloth, real value, $5.00. (5.50 latest tyle genuine Rothschild Jacket, real value, $8.50. SI.OO infant's Eider Down Cloaks, real value, $1.50. £1.25 infant's Angora Trimmed Eider Down Cloaks, real value. |2.00. fi.oo ladies' dark calico wrappers, lined, real value, $1.25. 1J.25 ladies dark Flannelette wrappers, lined, real value, $1.50. 50c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, real value, 75c. This is but few of the many good valu. market is steadily advancing. We fortuna in prices and gladly share the profits with Don't forget that we are sole agents fc Don't forget that we are sole agents fo Don't forget that we have the largest. Millinery in the city of Butler. Don't forget that we have opened a fit: Mrs, Jennie E. ZimmermaN. j Opposite Hotel Lowry. Successor to llitter <fc balaton Bring your friends along. More Than lie topiwl For. Looking Forward, IN FOOTWEAR. Always alert to the interests of our LATEST AND BES T Wm Yw , IN SHOES. ideal stales in FOOTWEAR i'OR Wl2r~ LADIES & GENTLEMEN Is what every cusioiner ot ours UJ j\ I I j\ [X| thinks he has received after making -I- .XJ- 1J 1 J " a purchase. We find that our c ' ls_ "lTXT" 1 "TVHT r ¥3 tomers being convinced of means \AJ I IX] I H K many more customers for us. You 1 T * * -■—" get liiore than you bargain for when **7 -r-i \ I you get a pair of our SHOES. W Ladies' twentieth century SHOES Cork soles Goodyear welts. Ladies' Fine button shoes, Pat. tip 85c, >I.OO, sl*2s an<. $1.50. Heavy sole fair stitch at $2.00, *2.50 and $3.00. Goodyear welts are perfect gems for the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and button. Try our Womens' and Childrens 1 Kid and Calf Shoes, Thev are the thing for School Shoes. They will resist water. We have theni in high cut, lace and button, at price that your pocket book will open quickly when you see the goods. . . . m • • | | | | Shoes for men 111 fine Invisible Cork Sol $2.00, $2. 50, $3.00 and #4.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, jfi.oo, J1.25 and f 1.50. Fine Shoes at 90c, ji.oo, $ 1.25 add <1.50, Ixitli congress and lace. Our Kid ami Veal boots, high and low insteps at #1.50, S--"' ?--5° and <3.o°. Dril lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut. Boys' and Youths'SHOES*S the Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi tively will resist water at 75c, fi.oo 1.25 and 1.5°. Manufacturers are asking 25 pn cent advance on shoes. HTTSELTON will sell this winter :it oM prices, quality maintained Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes. See our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. \\ e guaran tee our best rubber boots-not to break. Save Money Save 'X ime Save Anno v ances by buying at #- E>. C, Huselton's, Every step you take in HUSELTON'S Shoes is a treat to the fee 102 N. Main Street, - !H MILLINERY! As usual we have the most complete line of Millinery in Butler at the lowest prices. LADIKS' AND CHILDREN'S FURNISHINGS This line is also complete and contains many items you have not heretofore been able to in Butler. M. V. & M. MARKS, 113 to 117 S. Main St. ' W!£ FAIR. y.y . \\ \ (NOT I'AIRY) \ isi I Hands and arms are counted high'mong \" I I nature's charms. When decked with rings \ V V V ai;<l bracelets bright, these charms possess V \ a greater might to fascinate the beholder. \!i Jl Tlie f.nest jewelry in this and other lines Yl X to be found at prio that defy competition. '/ji U \1 make a specialty of new and fine novel -1 H 'I jjnnr tit sin silver and cut glass. 1r( m f t Allcnticn (liven to Watch Repairing,' Etc. J. R. GRItCB, l 8 South Main Street, - - - Butler, l'a -THE BUTLKK CITIZEN. 75c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, extra size, real value, SI.OO. 22c per yard all-wool Country Flannel, sold everywhere at 25c (>er yard. 50c per pair heavy cotton blankets, real value, 75c. $3.00 per pair heavy all-wool country blankets, all colors, worth $4,00. 15c per pair Misses' anil Children's black wool hose, real value, 25c. 15c per pair ladies' black wool hose, real value, 25c. 22c per pair ladies' fleeced cotton ribbed vests, real value, 25c. 69c ladies natural all-wool vests —pants, real value, SI.OO. 25c men's heavy underwear, grey mixed, real value, 40c. 50c men's heavy natural wool underwear, real value, 75c. 5c per yard good dark calico, real value 6^c. 5c heavy sheeting—with advance price, real value, 7c. $2.25 Chenille Portiers, real value $3-50- 50c, 26-incli fast colored Sateeu umbrellas real value, 75c. les we have at old prices. The dry goods itely bought our stock before the advance you. 3r the Rothschild Wraps. or Standard Pattern's. most fashionable, lowest priced stock of lie Art Department. What You Need When you aie weary and worn, without an appeuw, have po ambition, sleepless, -lflr-fflllTfl 1 irtitaßle, is purifled, enriched end Hood's Sarsaparilla Is bite offly true blood purifier promi nently in the public eye. fl; six for £5. Hood's Pills nefift. headache?, 250. HEINEMAN & SON, i SUMMER # is approaching and the V r only way to keep cool is J J to go to Ileineman's jn: and get yourßelf a nice J 2 jzf Hammocks 3# U'e Lav© the largeet £<? PQ ▼ and finest line of J xt Hammocks jz I ever brought to Butler *{ Wall Paper Ig fro 111 ihe cheapest to the 5 finest ol Pressed \ ii PAPERS. \f MO # r- 0 Wo also handle the f __ celebrated g} RAMBLER J? j BIC YCLE. | HEINEMAN SON. 'Selling out J # To Quit | I Business.? r Wall Paper at less thanr Jone-half cost. X £ Fine papers at the pricei iof common cheap ones. # # Tlie largest stock of WallJ f Paper in the county to be f ssol*d out either Wholesale ors ißetail, at — # jDOUGLASS' I # Near P. o.* i N. B.—Wall Paper hasj within two months. r 4^%.'WW'* It's All In The Making. nteff" / I f,;\ ; /A' / ■ • ' sV-f.Lv k 4a sin , /r| --V:- " " whether clothes fit well or not. That is where we excel. Whether we succeed or not you can judge I>y the fact that the best dressed men in Butler almost with out exception patronize us. Poorly Made Clothes always look cheap while those well made have an elegant appearance. The clothes we make are put together thoroughly. No slop shop work is tolerated. Try us, and see if we do not answer this description. Cutting Your Cloth to suit the size and shape is a good thing to push along, also the cutting of our prices to suit the de mands of the public. You'll be astonish ed at the low prices at which we are mak ing up our large and elegant stock of Foreign and Domestic Woolens. Call and examine our large stock. CaOPER & EO Cor. Diamond, Butler, Pa cVv D. Qaimmmmimo |Uq>der= | •|W<car | 1 Points | •. rv: -x. gg r\j ryj §§ F <xj x M fvi OJ ./ • 'J^ % oMMmmumiio All grade of underwear at very low prices. Largest stock of hats and furnishings for gentleman in the country. An inspection will prove this to any ones satisfacture. Colbert & Dale. " 242 S. Main St., Butler, Pcnn'a. 7STTTLTER. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1895. ffiy, Pjr'WF.C./... jJ, COPVRI6K7. 1835. 8* frtl AUTMOH. CHAPTER VIII. As narrated in an earlier chapter, I left England two days before the first lot of false bills was sent in. I left se rene and confident of the future. My de parture was a happy event in a donble sense. All my negotiations had been carried on at a considerable expense of nerve, and in leaving I left everything in such trim that success seemed cer tain, with all chance of danger elimi nated from the venture. I felt that the trying toil was now all over, with noth ing for me to do but to reap the harvest, and that without efiort or eare on my part. So when tho late Novemlier sun look ed down on me —I crossed by daylight this time—standing on the deck of that same wretched channel steamer, it look ed on a happy man. I did not know then that success in wrongdoing was ever a failure. The anxious toil of the Lon don and continental negotiations was a thing of the past. Was I not young? Wealth was or soon would be mine. Was I not in perfect health, body sound and digestion good, and, above all, was not the woman I loved awaiting me in Paris, to give herself to me ill all her youth and beauty, aud then somewhere across the western waters would I not find in some tropic seas a paradise, which gold would make mine, where I could bear my bride, and there, turni*g over a new leaf, live and die with the respect of all good men mine? Here was a stately structure I was go ing to erect, but how rotten tho founda tion! I fancied, in my case at least, the eternal courso of things would be staid, and that justice would grant me a clean bill of health. She did give me that, but it was long years after and only when she had had from mo her pound of flesh to the very last ounce. I joined my sweetheart and her fam ily at the Hotel St. James, Rue Saint- Honore, and our wedding day being fixed a week ahead we all set out sight seeing and having a good time general ly. I now engaged the coachman I had met before as my valet, and a very good all around handy man ho proved to be. Of course I was anxious to hear that the first coup on the bank had succeeded, but I was tolerably confident it was all right. Had it fallen through it would have proved awkward for me. Late one December morning on open ing my eyes my first thought was, it will be hit or miss at the Bank of Eng land within the next 00 minutes. Wo had engaged for a coaching party to Ver sailles and were to dino there. I left for the drivo that day with a dim fear that liWore the sun set I might be under the necessity of leaving Paris in a hurry. When starting for Versailles. I left my servant behind to wait for tho ex pected telegram and to bring it to me by rail. We were at dinner, and I was just raising a glass of champagne to my lips when I saw my valet, Nunn, cross ing the esplanade. Ho entered the room and handed mo a telegram. Tearing open tho envelope, I read: "All welL Bought and shipped 40 bales.'' That meant the first lot for $40,000 had gone through safely. It was cer tainly a great relief. Three days after I received $25,000 in United States bonds from George in London, my first share of tho proceeds. I sold tho bonds in Paris, receiving payment in French notes. On Thursday, the day before my mar riage, I had a telegram from Mac and George to meet them in Calais, and to Calais I had to go. I arrived there at midnight, just before the Dover steamer got in, and was on the pier to meet thorn. Wo exchanged warm greetings. As we did so Mao placed a small but very heavy bag in my hand, and they began laughing over my surprise. It contained £4,000 in sovereigns. We went to a hotel near by, and there they count ed out tome tho very nice sum of SIOO,- 000 in gold, bonds and French money. As they were going back on the same steamer and I was to return to Paris by the train carrying tho passengers of tho steamer just arrived, we only had a brief half hour's talk. After giving me the money wo went out and sat down on the pier, and that conversation and scene are forever impressed on my mem ory. I shall make no attempt to describe either, but could both be put on the stage with the audience in possession of a full knowledge of the enterprise we wero embarked in there would bo seen a picture of human life such as the nov elist or playwright never had tho imag ination or the daring to depict. To the earnest student of human life it would have been a revelation. There we were, three earnest, ambi tious young men, enthusiastic for all that was good and noble, I about to wed a pure souled woman, who thought me an angel of goodness, and about to fly with my plunder and bride to Mexico. My two companions wero returning to London to continue carrying out a giant scheme of fraud against a great money institution, but there we wero with SIOO,OOO at our feet, sitting under the stars listening to tho dash of the waves and talking not at all like pirates and robbers, but much more like crusaders setting out on a crusade or liko pil grims going on a pilgrimage. I told my friends I should go to tho City of Mexico for a year or two and then meet them somewhere in America, where we would unite our wealth to inaugurate some scheme that would benefit thousands in our own generation and millions in the generations to come. We would hedge ourselves about with kindly deeds, so live as to win the re spect of all, and when under the sod live in the eyes and mouths of men. Too soon the whistle sounded, and wo had to say goodby, which we did in an enthusiasm that told how we felt. We were walking in the Primrose Way; its flowers and songs were sweet. Wo knew it not, but it was fast leading us into a chilling gloom in whose deadly blight the flowers were all to wither and the siren songs to be hushed and still. I again arrived iu Paris at daylight, but early as it was my sweetheart, es corted by my servant, was waiting my arrival. It. was our wedding morning. During our drive to the hotel, radiant with joy she told mo the separation had been a cruel ono and sho was so happy to know we should never be separated again! At 4 o'clock that afternoon wo wore married at the American embassy. My purpose was to sail by the Lopez & Co. steamer El Rey Felipe, from Cadiz to Mexico, which was advertised to Eail ten days later. We were married very quietly on Fri day, and our friends, wisely recognizing the fact that young married people like to be alone, the next (lay said goodby *nd returned to Brittany. We spent a quiet and happy Saturday and Sunday, and on Sunday night we left—my wife, servant and self—for Cadiz, via Madrid. My wife, like all English people, knew £"4 lla<l 80ch hazy UVUUU ci ui muenca mat sne tnought it quite the thing to goto such au outland ish and faroff quarter of the globe as America via a Spanish port. Columbus had gone that way, and why should not we? We had an all night ride to Bayonne in one of those antiquated compartments used in railway carriages all over Eu rope, but the ride was not tedious or the night long. This little earth had no happier couple, and talking of the happy years that lay before us the night rush ed by like a fairy dream. Where was my conscience? Why, my dear reader, I had sung it such a song that it was delighted with the music, and had, I was going to say, goue to sleep, but it bad not. It was wide awake, and we were good churns. We both—conscience and I—had persuaded ourselves it was a virtuous deed to do evil that good might coma My con science was perhaps as old as tho sun, but I myself was young and too inex perienced to see tho fallacy of the argu ment, since I myself was the doer of the wrong, but of course I should have hot ly denounced any other such philosopher as a villain and a rogue. The night flew by, and to our surprise we found 240 miles had slipped away, and we were in Bayonne. Thirty min utes more, and we were speeding south and soon crossed the Bidassoa, the boundary between France and Spain. Then my wife, saying, "Now I will sleep," lay her head on the shoulder of the happiest man in or out of Spain, and in ten minutes her regular breath ing told me she Was in the land of dreams. The Pyrenees, in dividing France and Spain, stand between two distinct peoples, and as the centuries go by the streams of national lifo meet, but only to repel each other, never to mingle. In Wc had an all night rUle to Bayonnc. 1872 and 1878 the Carlists held the mountain, and more or less fusillading was going on. Tho possibility of my way being blocked by the Carlists never entered into my calculations Our train crossed tho bridge over the Bidassoa, and wo were on Spanish soil Soon wo entered tho gorges of the Pyr enees, and while speculating whether I should awaken my wife to see the magnificent scenery all necessity for awakening any one on that train was over. Three or four musket shots rang out; our train was off tho rail and after a crash or two came to a sudden stop, and then a babel arose, while the train was surrounded by armed men. It was laughable. It seemed like opera bouffe, the real thing, this motley array of brigands all trying to maintain under difficulties the grave Spanish exterior. One monkey of 18 or 19 years, armed, came to our compartment, and pointing to my chain said he wanted it and my watch. None of us understood Spanish, but wo all comprehended his meaning readily. I refused to make him a gift and got rid of him easily. We were all ordered to alight, and our captors seemed inclined to bo ugly. Myself and party were about tho only well dressed people on the train, and seeing a priest close by I went up to him, and ascertaining ho could speak French I began in very bad French in deed to threaten with very dire conse quences Don Carlos and every band of Carlists who dared to annoy an English duke and duchess and demanded in stant shelter and a guard for my wife, the duchess. We could hardly keep from laughing, it was so very like a melo drama. My wife thoroughly enjoyed tho situation, and I should have done so, too, had I not had such strong reasons for quick passage through Spain to blue water on the south, for I desired to put gome leagues of Neptune's domain be- Iween myself and tho old world. The priest, although a sallow, somber fellow, was a very good one and seemed to realize the gravity of the situation, for calling the chief to him ho warned him to bo careful. That gentleman came up, and drawing himself up said very proudly, "Sir, we are soldiers, not robbers." I said I was very glad to know it and demanded to be informed if I was a ,jrisoner or not and was told I was not, but with tho same breath he said he wou:d be obliged to detain us for a few days. There was a fonda, or inn, close by, and leaving my wife there I finally managed by a liberal use of money to secure an ox cart, and by virtue of great generalship on tho part of myself and servant got all our bag gage out of the wrecked train and safe ly up to the inn. Spaniards are provokingly slow, but by riding muleback five miles away I succeeded in seeing the local command er of the Carlist forces, and he promised to send me the next day a pass through the lines going either south or north. I got him also to include in the pass my fellow passengers. I did this because there was a Portuguese family who had tickets for South America. They were then on their way to embark at Lisbon, and the old gentleman, the head of the family! was very weak and ill. My safe plan would have been to re turn to France, make my way to Brest and embark from there to New \ork, and that would have been my course bad I any conception of the slowness of the Spanish officials and of the fierce storms and snows that dominate tho passes of the Pyrenees in winter. We were informed by many officials, railway guards, custom house officers, Carlists, etc., that by crossing 80 miles south we would pass the lines and get to a little town on the railway where trains left frequently for Madrid. The Spaniards about tho place would never have let us start out on that perilous trip had it not been for the money there was in it. I had secured at round price three century old bullock carts, and in the afternoon of the second day we gut off. I had all the women and the sick Portuguese in one cart, with the twooth er carts ahead heaped with luggage. Thus there wero eight bullocks, four mules and (unlucky number) 13 men engaged. ! i iiad very misty notions as to our dee : tmation, but took it for granted the baker's dozen of natives I bad with me 1 knew what they were about. Snow was j everywhere, and we were mounting up, j up. up, oa wheels, but I supposed the highest altitude was only four or live 1 miles away, and that the down grade would be easy until wo reached some I snug inn where we would find shelter : for mail and beast. Then an early start ! by daylight and our novel jaunt would ! come to an end in civilization and a , railway. But I did not know Spaniards, ; their country, the Pyrenees, or what ; blizzards can blow in sunny Spain. Myself and my servant Nunn trudged j on alongside the cart with the women. : It took an hour to get out of sight of the fonda, and then we struck a fine, wide military road that wound in and around , the mountains, but always up and deep j in snow. Three, four o'clock came, and i still no sign of the summit, but with the road winding in and out for miles ; ahead. The sky began to darken, and without warning down came the snow. Then frequent halts of the caravan were taken to rest the cattle. Deeper grew the snow, and as the darkness began to settle down I realized the responsibility I had unwittingly taken on my shoulders. I had four deli cate women and a very sick man under my charge, and we stuck fast in the miilst of a snowstorm. I recognized one blessing, however, and was profoundly grateful—the air was calm—and though the snow fell thick and fast it was nor driven by a storm. Nunn proved to be thoroughly relia ble, helpful and full of cheer. Between us we kept up the spirits of the party. But all hands began to grow hungry. Fortunately I had in my baggage a large pate de foie gras—'hat is, a fat goose liver pie—-.and it was fat, happily so, as it went further. Then I got rugs and wraps out of my trunks for the women and a couple of bottles of brandy and administered liberal doses all round. I soon had them happy and full of cour age. It was certainly "better to have them full of Dutch coin-age in a fool's para dise tlian to have them awake to their position, for I quite expected it would end in anight camp out in the snow and sending an empty cart for supplies. Two hours after dark we came to a dead halt, and my guides—they were beauties —said they could go no farther; the oxen could not pull the carts. There was a fonda, tlicy said, two miles away, but did not show any disposition to help to get there, and for that matter did not seem to care whether we did or not. I ordered them to leave the middle cart behind and divide the teams, one team to be added to the front cart and one to bo hitched in front of the mules. Our interpreter was one of the Portuguese women, but we did not get on very well, the Spaniards objecting to any thing being done, all of them apparent ly waiting for the Virgin or some of the saints to come to our aid. Nu 1111 and I were exasperated and finally took the matter in our own hands. By my orders, despite the ener getic protests of the driver, he unhitched the oxen from the middle team, and be tween us we got them to the mule cart, hitched them in front of the mules and pulled out and past the other carts. Here the Spaniards halted us, and after an angry altercation in the dark, and it was dark, they agreed to go on. So, taking a yoke of oxen from our cart, they were put in front of the four of the first cart, and off we started. Nunn volunteered to stand by and guard the stranded cart, so giving him two blankets and a little brandy we drove off in the darkness, but not until in sight of all I had given him a re volver and each of the unlucky 13 a good nip of brandy. My anxiety about serious results was over as soon as we started, and in 1 % hours we halted in front of a wretched inn, patronized by muleteers, with the first story for a stable, but tone of us was disposed to be particular. A supper of Spanish beans was soon ready, and then a bed was made up on the floor, and the wom en were soon asleep. After seeing that the mules and oxen were fed I took half an hour's nap. Then, with two drivers, we started back, taking three yoke of oxen. What a tramp I had back through the snow and storm! I was very happy, however, for I knew my wife and party were safely sheltered, and the excite ment of action kept me from being gloomy. In due timo we found our stray, hitched to and started, but it was hard pulling, and the exhausted oxen had to Come to frequent halts. At last, just as I was beginning to feel tired, we came to tho fonda. The snow had slackened, but the wind was beginning to blow, so Nunn and I carried all the luggage and traps into a corner of the stable below, and tumbling down into the hay we were st on in the land of dreams. In my dreams I was on a shoreless sea in a bark that silently and swiftly circled aroun. l'ark clouds closed in, the horizon dra\v.n:r in on all sides, while my boat sailed in an ever narrowing circle, the clouds still closing in, until a giant hand grew out from a ragged edge of the cloud wall, which, seizing the prow of my boat, pulled it into the gloom and diirkness. I felt the clouds brushing my cheek. I heard the roar of falling water and felt that my doom was sealed. I thought of my wife, and, trying to call her name, was dumb. I looked behind. Far off and far up there was a glow of rosy light, and within the aureole was her face, full of Borrow, looking at mo with pity in ev ery feat are. As I looked her face was slowly eclipsed by a cloud. Then with one cry I plunged into the sea and awoke. That dream would easily have joined the long procession of forgotten dreams, but it was recalled many a time during many years. And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy. When I awoke in the morning I was dumfounded to find a blizzard blowing that the cattle would not face and with every appearance of continuance. In re ply to my inquiries I learned they some times blew in those latitudes for a week. This was pleasant news for me, and the prospect made me nervous. It was now Thursday, the fourth day since our de parture from Paris. And what might not have happened in London in that time! Here was las completely isolat ed from the outside world and from all news about my companions in England as if on a desert isle. For all I knew discovery might have been made and full details of the fraud might be blaz ing in the press of Europe. I began to fear I hail run into a trap. To make matters worse, the steamer El Rey Fe lipe was advertised to sail Monday from Cadiz, and to miss her seemed danger ous indeed. I was a prisoner in a wretched inn in a defile of the Pyrenees, with a civil war raging and no telling what might arise to detain us. Our objective point was only some 85 miles away, but with roads deep in snow, with wretched cat tle and more wretched Spaniards for drivers, there was poor prospect of mak ing headway. I felt it would never do for me to suffer longer detention. I determined to leave my wifo and baggage in charge of Nunn, to put the $120,000 I had in a bag and start back to the French frontier, cross into Franco and catch the Saturday steamer from Havre to Now York, explaining to my wife that important business demanded my presence in America; that she could follow on the next steamer and that I would meet her on arrival. In tne meantime xuy unlucky 18 were huppy. For were they not sheltered, with plenty of food and high wages, all out of the pocket of the great lord the Virgin herself most have sent to tlii-in: In fact, they were winning from me what to them was a fortune. 1 was lay ing each man #1 a day aud f>r each team and cart. All day long the blizzard blew It was a novel situation, and how I should have enjoyed it had 1 only possessed that greatest of all blessings—a good conscience! As it was, I was in misery and could find no peace, not even in my w..v "'iles and evident content to be anywhere . '. At 5 O'CIOCK " binds up and breakfast under w::.. 1 the drivers and hangers on to teams hitched up and ready at day break. They all ate breakfast heartily enough, but- were not zealous about starting out. They made all sorts of pretexts and excuses to avoid leaving their comfortable quarters. Certainly the road was not an inviting prospect, there being quite 18 inches of snow, but I was determined to start one way or the other, either south with the party or north alone. After long argument they, thinking they had me at their mercy, refused to hitch up the cattle to make the attempt. I delivered a speech to my lucky-unlucky 13, telling them in the best way I could that I was go ing in order to deliver them all over to tlio vengeance of the military chief of the district; that I should accuse them as robbers and thieves and that they might look for anguish that would wring their hearts and souls. They were greatly moved, and, pull ing out my watch, I informed them by pantomime and bad Spanish that if they got the teams in harness and the lug gage all packed on the carts in 20 min utes I would take them into my favor and resume our journey southward. Spaniards are proverbially slow. But these Spaniards were not slow this time, and a very few minutes saw us all once more mounted on our cart, with the two baggage carts following, aud on our rocky way southward. Wo passed during the day a military post and several squads of armed men. Poor fellows, they were wretchedly equipped, so far as garments went. They all examined ns curiously, but did not offer to stop or question us, while I marched on ahead of the cavalcade like a drum major, giving the military sa lute to each party we passed. I ought to have been fatigued, but I was not. After about 5 miles of uphill work we began to descend. The road was a mas terpiece of engineering, and well it might be, for it was one of live mili tary roads the great Napoleon ordered to be constructed across the Pyrenees, and it was done in a thoroughly work manlike manner. It wound in and out and along defiles of stem beauty. We ljalted for rest and refreshment at nixin and agaiu at 4 o'clock for an hour. At the last place we found some Carlist officers, one a young Englishman, who was a good fellow and most attentiva Ho was an aid-de-camp on Don Car los' staff. He void me there was no chance of his side winning, but he was in it for the fun of the thing and in hope to see some fighting. He had taken part in a number of skirmishes and was by no means satisfied yet. He volun teered to escort us through the lines and was evidently more than pleased to meet an English lady in the person of my wife. It was beautiful to see him order about my muleteers and bully them up hill and down dale, not hesitating to use his whip on them. About 5 o'clock we started off in great shape, having some 20 miles to go to the little town on the railway south of the Pyrenees. We had two lanterns and a number of torches. It was a picturesque caravan in the darkness. Tho young officer rode beside tho first cart, conversing with my wife, while I walked in the rear. We had reason to congratulate ourselves over our escort, he being a bravo and brilliant fellow and evidently a person of importance. Ho little thought whom he was escorting. I was pleased on my wife's account, as he was company for her, and altogether she thoroughly en joyed the novelty of the whole situa tion. Another rnilo and onr escort had to leave us, but the town, standing dark against the snow, \v:is in plain view. By his advice I went ahead on foot with two men in caso any of '' the enemy were prowling around, but found none until we arrived in the town. Then a scene of great excitement to the towns people arose. We were examined and cross exam ined and our statements taken down iu writing and sworn to by all hands. In the meantime 1 had made beds for oiu 1 sick man and the ladies in the waiting room of the station, and about 2 o'clock I went to sleep. The station was forti fied and full of soldiers, but I did not care, being told the Madrid train would start at daylight; if so, I would be in time for El Rey Felipe, and would be sailing out of Cadiz harbor on Monday over the blue water, westward ho! After a two hours' nap I was up, paid off my lucky 13, giving them a present in addition to their due, with a written paper certifying that they were honest and brave and bad delivered me and mine in safety. The weather continued very cold, and when the train, consisting of two pas senger and one baggago cars, arrived we found there were no heat in??" arrange ments, and we shivered at the thought of an all day's ride without fire or heat across that windy plain. I determined to have a compartment to ourselves, for my wife and I had not had a moment's privacy since the smashup of the train. So we fixed up a bed on the floor of a compartment for our sick man and then I put his family in to look out for him. When the train left we found ourselves, very much to our satisfaction, alone. I had telegraphed ahead to Burgos to have hot water cases, then the only mode of heating cars in Europe, ready on our arrival. The engineer of our train was an Englishman. As it was so important that I should not be delayed I gave him a sovereign and his -stoker another and asked him as a favor to xnako time. He said he would and kept his word. But, arriving at Burgos, wo found that the train from Santander going south was two hours late, so my wife and I start ed out to see the famous town. At Burgos I tried to get an English paper, but none was to be had, and no one there had ever seen one. But here some startling news came flashing over the wires, nothing less than that there had been a revolution at Madrid, the capital. Amadeus, the late ly elected king, had suddenly resigned, and a republic had been proclaimed with Caste Jar at the head. [TO BE CONTINUED.] A High Stepper. "Lizzie, it's a pleasure to turn the rope for you, you jump so smooth an easy " —Troth. THREE COMMANDERS. MEN WHO WOULD LEAD EUROPEAN ARMIES IN CASE OF WAR. An. Englishman Who Thinks It Would lie Profitable to Make a Technical Couipar- Iton lU-twfn Vincount \VoI»«-ley and a Hii««ian and French General. I do not know the new commander in chief of the English laud forces. I saw him once or twice in my life, but this is many years ago, and in military mutters of the magnitude involved in the supreme command of a great army 1 a;u afraid I should prove an incompe tent critic. But I believe to a great ex tent in physiognomy, and if Viscount Wolseley be not a very clever man he High* to bring an acti«.n for libel against his face, for he looks decidedly clever. If there were any doubt in my mind about his ability, if would be set at rest by the not very enthusiastic remarks in connection with his appointment I read in one or two French newspapers. "You are an irritable people, ciivi-ma, jealcns and pi .ud to degree," said bismarck to Gentral de Wimpffeti on Sept. 1, 1870. "Yon are an irritable people, en vious. jealous and proud to a degree," he repeated. " You were under the im pression that victory is au appendage which was exclusively reserved to you. " Ras the quarter of a century gone by since those words were uttered made a difference iu.that respect in the French people? I should not like to say. It may not be altogether uninterest ing to look at the two men against whom the English commander in chief will be pitted if a quarrel should ever unhappily break forth in Europe. lam alluding to the commanders in chief of the Russian and the French forces. The Russian army contains several men of unquestionable capacity; never theless, there appears to be a consensus of opinion that, in the event of war, with no matter whom, the supreme command wonld virtually devolve npon (General Obroutcheff, to exclusion even of General Kouropai kine. 1 say virtnnl command, for, nominally, young Nicholas wonld be at the head of his legions. Having declared myself at the outset incapable of judging the English com mander in chief from a military point of view, I am not going to stultify my self by endeavoring to do this in the case of Obroutcheff. I only repeat what. I have heard. Until very recently the chief of VaDUOWski's staff and Aid-de camp General Obroutcheff was, in spite of his recognized talents, looked askance at in Russian military circles. The epithet "red" was invariably tacked to his name as lato as 15 years ago, and the third section of the imperial elian cellerie, without troubling to inquire into the matter, placed him on the list of "dangerous" men "to be watched very closely. " A note like that from the Russian police becomes practically indelible, and, aid-de-camp general though he was, not the slightest attempt was made to efface his name from the list. After his exploits on the Danube Loris Melikoff drew the attention of Alexander II to this apparently flagrant injustice, to this permaneut insult. The name was maintained on the list for all that, but the epithet was changed from "red" into "well meaning." Obroutcheff has married a French woman, and is a declared partisan—or supposed to be—of an alliance with Fiance. His views in that respect date from 1870, when he was an obscure general. I repeat, about his abilities there is little or no doubt. After the first checks in the Turko Russian cam paign he was sent in hot haste to the Danube, and he is credited with having saved the Russian army from total de struction. Before that, though, he had already become the intimate friend of the heir to the throne, and the friend ship underwent no diminution duriug Alexander Ill's reign. Wherever the scene of the next Eu ropean campaign of the French may be laid, General Felix Gustavo Saussier, the present military governor of Paris, Is beforehand designated as the leader. Saussier is close npon 70. In spito of his large size he is very active, but for that size ho would give one the idea of a monsquetairo of the Louis XIV period dressed in modern uniform. There is no doubt about his value as a soldier, which does not always mean an equal value as a supreme commander, but it is fair to state that in the battles around Metz, a quarter of a century ago. he distinguished himself most signally. The famous infantry charge at St. Pri vat, which practically barred the prog ress of the Germans on that side, was led by him. Saussier was one of the officers who signed the prutest against the surrender of Metz. Having refused to pledge him self not to serve again during the cam naign, he was sent as prisoner of war to Cologne. Nor would lie give his prom ise not to escape, consequently he was transported to a small town on the Vis tula (Grandenz, I believe), and abso lutely sequestrated—without effect, for he made his escape after all. Ho allowed Gambetta tc remain ig norant of all this, as well as of his re publican origin, and the "great trib une," whose infallible instinct has been vaunted so much, only looked upon Saussier as a colonel of the empire and treated him as such. After that Saus sier went once more to Algeria. Saus sier, I should say, has had more fight ing than any general in the French ar my, but it would be rash to say that this made him a strategist. A bril liant soldier he was and is still, in spite of his age, and as he was barely 40 when France suffered her reverses he may have profited by them. To many in Fiance herself he is an unknown quantity. These are the two men a com parison with whom and Viscount Wolse loy it would be profitable to establish, but I mean a technical comparison.— London Illustrated News Hat iorlnntioD. Rector —Duggan, attention ! Asyou're an old Balaklava soldier I am inclined to make allowances, but this is the third time I have seen you under the in fluence of drink. How is this.' Sexton—Well, you see, sir. when I go down town, one fellow says, Duggan, will you have a drink?" and another says the same, and I get drunk without knowing it. Rector —But, Duggan, when I go down town, no one asks me to take a drink. Sexton —\es, but ,tm're not nearly such a popular man, you see.—Punch. TN r o 4fi TRAFFIC IN TANGIER. It Is Large and Cocttnuou* and Appar ently Conducted Cuder Difficulties. The traffic in Tangier is Jarjfo and continuous. There is no footpath proper, ami the foot passenger has often to pick his way among heavily laden donkeys and camels. Sometimes he is jostled by Jews in dark bine jelabs and skullcaps, the distinctive badges of their race; sometimes his progress is stopped by n burly negro slave, all in white or faded yellow, bearing on his head a tray of bread from the public bakehouse: some times be is swept into a miry corner by half a dozen of the sultan's cavalry, whose richly caparisoned ."-feeds, flow ing robes, flintlocks or spears, make up altogether an imposing spectacle. Per haps also he may find himself confront ed by a huge packing case borne down the street on the back of a donkey and supported on each side by men of color, who alarm the neighborhood with shouts of '' balak.'' The most interesting sight in Tangier .it least, fioni an artistic point of view —is the sok, or large market place for country products. It lies immed ! r»tely outside the wall in the upper ] :of the town and is approached (■ ..gii the old slave market, now -on rtrd into a shoeing forge. In t! fo.eii .it is too crowded to be interi !:ig, ; rin the afternoon, when busini b has a<e what slackened, scenes of varied inter est may be observed. Yonder is a water carrier, with large goatskin bag slung over his shoulder, attracting your attention with the tin kle of a bell to the refi eshing draft he offers. Here is a gaunt Arab from the Riff mountains, bareheaded, blank et draped and flashing eyed, interview ing with fierce and threatening gestures an obdurate looking Jew, who is evi dently demanding his pound of flesh. Near them is a country woman seated behind a small sepiicircle of milk jars. Her shriveled, wornout features can be discerned through the folds of her coarse haik, whioh she holds carelessly together with her left hand, while with her right she lifts the lid from one of the jars.—Good Words. ANIMAL CURIOSITIES. Tree Climbing Habbit#, Sheep Eating Par rots and Sheep That Love Snails. It seems almost a stretch of the im agination to think of rabbits climbing trees. Yet in Australia many rabbits have somehow acquired the tree climb ing habit, having been forced, on ac count of the persecutions of dogs and other animals, to drop burrowing and imitate squirrels. An Australian sent on to England recently the two front feet of a rabbit that bad been killed on an acacia, three yards from the around, and he wrote in his letter that this was not at all a remarkable thing, and he had often found them, or at least the traces of their claws, on the bark of trees four, five and six yards high. For a parrot to eat sheep is another remarkable thing, and yet the kea of New Zealand has become a sheep eater, having changed to this article of food from a purely vegetable diet. The kea has proved a serious source of annoy ance to the New Zealand herdsmen, and methods have been taken for the destruc tion of the species. These gay colored little birds will eat almost any kind of meat, but it is sheep that they prefer. They have been known to kill as many as 200 iu a single night and have done serious harm to the flocks. The tradition of the island is that at cne time those parrots wore unable to ob tain their usual supply of vegetable food and that in desperation they invad ed the "drying rooms" and ate whatev er came to haqd, finding sheep meat agreeable. In Iceland almost all the horses are fish eaters, for the reason that the grain is scarce there and fish is plentiful. In England sheep are known who delight in snails. The observation of this fact is not new; it dates back 150 years. It is well known that a large number of insectivorous birds become grain eat ers whenover they find that they cannot procure their ordinary diet of insects.— New York World. What Victoria Could Do. As a matter of fact, our sovereigns have rarely taken any active part in politics since George IH's time, but they could still do some very astonish ing things if they chose. The queen oould dismiss every Tommy Atkins in our army, from the commander in chief to the youngest drummer boy. She could disband the navy in the same way, and sell all our ships, stores and arse nals to the first customer that came along. Acting entirely on her own re sponsibility, she could declare war against any foreign country, or make a present to any foreign power of any part of the empire. She could make ev ery man, woman and child in the coun try a peer of the realm, with the right, in the case of males who are of age, to a seat in the house of lords. With a single word sho could dismiss any government that happened to be in power, and could, it is believed, pardon and liberate all the criminals in our jails. These are a few of the things the queen could do if she liked, but it is not necessary to say that her majesty Uever acts in matters of state except on the advice of the government for the time being.—London Tit-Bits. What She Would Do. "Johnnie, dear," said his mother, who was trying to inculcate a lesson in industry, "what do you suppose mamma would do for you if you should come to her some day and tell her that you loved your studies?" "Lick me for tell ing a falsehood," said dear little John nie, with the frankness of youth.—Pitts burg Bulletin. A Stride to Freedom. "Which," asked the unsophisticated young person—"which is the proper side of a horse for a lady to sit on!'" "Both," responded the severe lady with the short hair and seal brown bloomers.—Cincinnati Enauirer. .. ■ un The Modern Child. "Oh, Miss Daisy, I wish you'd com© with me! Tommy Parker wants me to go with liim to the Round pond to sail his boat, and it wouldn't look well to j go with him unless I had a chaperon. 1 —AUrtilafiei,
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