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.
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\ 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
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0 Wo also handle the f
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HEINEMAN SON.
'Selling out J
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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 — #
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# Near P. o.*
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within two months. r
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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
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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.
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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,