Pittston Gazette

              * 1 lA- it. EST VBT.IiillEl) 1850. » VOL. XLI1I. NO. 85. D Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming aiiev. PITTSTOX, I-i:ZKJ£XE CO.. PA., KHIDAV. KKP.RI ARV 24, 1893. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. I 91.5» IT '? » v v I I V ADVANCE. _rla:l to help fcimc. (to; u£!Uer t« Roy * ThE royalist. the brig's ammunition was under hatches, wo could offer no effective resistance.Tu a larter is nci 1 the o' ad fcer i r ow ti on t J ,'il T) I 'mad hn.fi a hijit that- to-morrow or the next A T THE POMP AIM )DR. Our entire troop and the business manager slept in the erine room at a hotel in West Virginia, and at 2:55 a. m. -we arose, picked out our different clothes, put them 011 and walked across the Kanawha river on an elevated iron bridge. Oh, how cold it was! The wind cut like a knife. -How cold the sky looked t "Shall I perish here alone?" I asked myself, i»ut could get no reply, only a low moan. Tho moon came out. but seemed to retire that it might not see my suffering.Better than hav your head iced either left their h vfwj that don't n 'citoyenn piinuram "I shall f?ee Male. Bonaparte today, ■id When she knows the} facts I am sure Two boats, filled with soldiers, were already pulling off from the fort. now I prayed for a wind! And it came, but, as ill luck would have it, from the wrong quarter. As taking the brig out of the river was now out of the question, I resclved 1 at t w ar I r, ifr •nor if opportunity well, i •lately necessary for niatitl iC!er with a v t tiin wi' t a in EiighiaU I ine to she will intercede for yon. BILL NYE IN A HOTEL WHERE THE moneyless ici bas is altt rts bad a trie \nd so victim of a "In Mrine. Boneparte is my on]y,hope. From all I hear of him, Bonaparte is not tender-hearted. But his wife is, and she has great influence—especially with Bar- COOK LEAVES EARLY, BY WILLIAM WE8TALL and n very r eanvexpi nad« I am ire CHAPTER I. was to replenish my puiDe that 1 put ray head into the lion's mouth. You ran j th v r rned t n you know :ny oh t you will for- Uoamjng About at Niglit a Stranger In a TOE year 179? theri" happened, jndgoi' by its consequences, the most important event of my life. I was? taken prisoner by the French. This was the way of it: The S y 1 p h, a smart forty-gun frigate, of which I was first lieutenant, had been cruising in the rsa r- and opened a regular deal of I thank you with all mv :lrawa 1 lesketeh of the p-ivo irn1 jeautiful eyes bespeak who, they say. was once her lover Strange Land—Will lain Sings and Hold* are sti officer and a gentleman, Mr thoi i litt impression was a wh a. tender 1 nd with t I t k her hand and is still her obedient servant. And you seem to be vory successful with the an Audience—In Kentucky During the This observation or question the chateau, we were kep on the alert and forced t i. I must •h not in the first bloom of youth ladies. Mere :s .Mile. Carmine, "whom Told Spell pos of nothing, sounding1 mi L'iity like aa mother, in which I shall she whs lnff woman, and in he: you raw for the first time yesterday, Last evening we stopped at the Pompadour House. It is a good house, but at 9 o'clock tho cook goes home, after locking up the doughnuts, and spends the night at bis residence over beyond the fair ground. This makes it impracticable to get a good; lunch at 11 o'clock at the iCopyright, lWCi, by Edgar W. Nye.] imports ner made me stare ammunition at a rate tha n of set f ViT. t H'rreement, so expressed only you and herself will s purport. Perhaps I had [ i' !C £ r m !' J ruling' you confidential notes and sign- I was so cold that the vertebra of my no cracked when I tried to rub it into Jife. Frost formed on my spectacles l»J that I could not see. Now and then I could see the light of a happy home where the husband had just returned from his work at that early hour staggering, for he was trying to support a jag instead of those who loved him. Then frost would obscure my vision as my breath lit on my glasses. "My patience!" I exclaimed with an agonized shriek, "must I freeze here iu the south and be found here by strangers?" The train was an hour late. Eight colored men, who were fuller the equals of the white man in intellect—if you will let me pick the white man—were slumbering in the waiting room. One of them slumbered like a croupy elephant. His shirt was open, and I could see his dark throat where it fastened on his massive trunk. I could also see his trunk. also inly an officer, and. I hopi I answered, coldly t a ■t time. qucs And \\r I infers tar nt'.ema :i me. 1 praj you, f "It was -or do this to-d 1 may not be hero "She is moved with compassion for yon, elK-valier, and would save your chevalier, earnestly to IT n Dw [ not t £ to like the tnnn; lie bad a j " life." 1 Aary question- al mos f th beifin mflacnng. 1 was "Seeing tl«at I have been here a K~ v 2rD had t ith hiin and it month, her compassion comes father la.te. No, ftlr. Roy, s,hc is moved by your bright blue eyes and ruddy counte- housi vr mruu i bad to think that within '' - - n'«v- • / '*il " We have formed the habit of eating at this hour, jjs we .are not very hungry at 0, and at luslf past 10 we are quite fatigued with our dramatic and artistic programme, so we have pur bouquets and floral horseshoes sent to the hotel and go out skirmishing for a late tea. 'w[rTw$ lm I I J^^:S3^/ Ililil to C frvventv-fotir ho his bead on tlie b!c "I am he might have to lay nance, row seas and ol" the northern coast of France, capturing the enemy's n will be hsre to-nrr This was rather pC the talk another turn, by aski Gex whether Mile. Carmine's note por- ■nal, so I gave id die f rv to i row; aiiCl I d -n't believe this shameful sentence will be carried out. It would be si r Dti led for a sort.it - V tended ;i visit or a sumuior merchantmen en- our tr :-nrt« siccorrHnffl "My drai- sir, the directory don't stop at oiu.-der, a:vl to returned emigrants they show no mercy. I have abandoned hope,"  r mur m "Per gaging his warships, chasing and cutting out his privateers, and generally giving him all the trouble she could, in the which, as her captain was young, enterprising and daring, and well seconded by his officers and crew, she was very successful.«6 ■ ' either you will need to he _ Sailors are naturally out- cms viu-ror Last evening, tho town being a small one with a College to it, we found the streots all dark, save here and there where the soft light from some gilded but pitiful lager beer place seemed to in- wat.« h. and at tleutlof ntobt, v A loraatic HB WAS PROSE OS THE DECS. •J t|iern w :jK j. itATiaB hou.se, accidents wh ft 2 \ t Si :i wl srjoken. But Frcnch v in a very strange cunditi m. body is watched, or suspected, by some other Ixxly; and if you eomc in contact with Bonaparte and his entourage yon must think before you speak, and let your wit bridle your tongue." "You think I shall meet Gen. parte, then''" yis ju Kv. ry- t now of thos h so '•You have done a very bad thing. I abandon hope though I were to the scaffold. Why Hi' 11 f i to do the nest best tiling'—run her ashore. So, after throwing overboard all her guns except those in the hatches, we put the ship about and steered straight for the nearest land; but before we could reach itrLe Bonnet Rouge gTounded on a sand bank with a shock that made her shiver from stem to stern; the main mast snapped like a stick, and, as the top hamper came down with a run, the Freuchmen below, thinking their last hour was come, set up a yell that might have been heard a mile off. I ordered the brig's launch to be lowered, but she was hardly loosed from the tackles when one of the luggersand half a dozen boats came alongside; at the same time the brig's crew swarmed out of the port holes, and we were attacked by a force that outnumbered us ten to one. the Ik laid olans we should would r vite one. safely thro ;i the inves' on t shouldn't we try to escape?"' i TOOK HER^haxd. Oh, it is a fearful thiug to bo on the streets of a town, a stranger and hungry, while all seems so dark and cold except sin. Ah, think of it as yon sit by your own warm lite with children clambering over your knee! Think of it you who have never been hungry, and yet yon murmur at the rich warm pie! Think of ifi you who havfe never gone forth in the darknessnot knowing where the nest menl was coining from, while each door was locked and even the great figure of the!clothing store statue taken inside where it is warm. Then the rich rays shoots out from the wicked lager l*Dr place, vjhere you know that light and warmth and a glad welcome await you. On a winter day, early in the year, Le Bonnet Rouge, a thirty-pun brig, which we had chased a whole afternoon. succeeded in evading us and anchoring under the guns of a battery at the mouth of the Seine. ing dojr ro- we f the last 'oivott "F-fapo! I' "I c direetnir dress, which showed hoi to run for oar lives, shot c nepers, am! v. My father and of the n't know yet. I have not seen room. Ilut men have got out of than this, and what beautiful!y-rounded arms, looked rcallj chartniutr. Bona- He had a home near by, but he would not go to it. He had been told many times to go thexe, but he 6till loafed and slept in the waiting room. Now and then the agent would go out and get a coal scoop full of snow and put it in the colored man's trunk. It did not crack the snow. When he woke up he would get on Ids feet, let the snow fall out at the lower end of his trousers legs, and then he would seek much needed rest. A healthy colored man is not easily irritated. The agent did this several times, but the man did -not -say anything even when he went to sleep with his mouth ajar and kind friends put an icicle in it. At Paris, Ky., we found Colonel Craddock. He is unmarried: but would be glad to hear from those who want a good home and who belong to an entirely different sex. id bv m* teen who f r do v.-p can do. "And your object is, mon ir—?" she "Certainly, if you go to his house." sueeecded in possible; the windows fc.re Raid, mulvir.nr.a not very one to free 1 ic effort "I should like to see him very mueh. lie is the first general in France, don't you think?" On this, Capt. Wharton, who could not bear to be balked, decided to cut her out. others were eit her slain in the fight killed in cold blood on the foilowi morning1. i the prison well guarded n and without." "To s.'ivi "Who?" and the life; of a brave man." "Your object is—' I WAS TAKEN TO TUP. ABBAVF '•Say in Europe—and the stron -nan. onlv man who can restore mvfJCBt nent. indeed. En glish of, Onee in tlio mount tiTD mv niii "Mi t'i.' ■ T mean to try. I mufle totwr:ipe within flTft ruinC f m.v capture; I have been on the i! f--p tin opportunity ever since. Chevalier do 0 But before the feat could be attempted it was necessary to take bearings and soundings, reconnoitre tbe battery, and ascertain the strength and position of several gun-boats and armed luggers which, as we knew, were lying in the Seine. are gentlemen; the one ixnplie other. And your face is enongh. read faces, and in vours I rex were mrsu I even "It is uso monsieur. is eon- C3D W& \ J( V v/ /i # Cf I ) ffc?§&■ w£ fc=t''j 'f / /PC/' - ; rK \ 'I \j.\ll f fi / / _ •'' \ I ' V wNw ■ ' Jl if'15"" I can reached (Jen and sister. joined r iy mo 1 Wnt i can, raadcmoisclle—wit can save I im." courage, honor and sincerity, just the man to lead a boardi or stand bv t friend to the '1 hi.1, t ssijo ! merely 1 m tic a \ ? { it T and I know that it wilt conic." \on are comir K-.l not c Vi'e c "Verv ! y: but I fear that it will p yon not con to land. : uier ourselves sare, ioii oy way or Uerma suon enough to save mv life not escape by a coup de main letter to Mme. For this service I volnnteered, and suggested a means whereby it might be accomplished. like these extravagant c and when a man I •d. 1 C V'cnecd i i cr ; atience.opportunit v. and I can think Bun have no from v •i can r 'I it. I •Tf ?ins bv I "And then Ik a another .str tins c maj' bo ni l -tsli. cr the letter. It was suggested that we go in here and get a sausage and some attar of limberger cheesei "But. no," I said as I recalled the viyid description of John B. Gough and qf the gay company sailing toward Niagira falls and at last going over with an eternal plunge, "we will not go iu theie. If we take cheese now, we will Bucie day want something After a hot fight of five minutes, during which time as many of my men were killed and wonnded, we were over-, powered and compelled to surrender. A11 of us who were not hors de combat were taken to Havre de Grace and lodged in the town prison. ydu up he generally ends by a.- favor. ing a life. Our resources1—mv mother's of only one possibility which offers a gleam of hope, and that is so remote as not to be worth thinkinjr about—the immediate overthrow of the directory "Your mother was Freneh, yet yon are English," she said, regarding1 me The plan I proposed was to capture a fishing-smack, of which there were plenty about, disguise myself and two or three of our fellows in the fishermen's clothing, and then sail up the river in broad daylight, making our observations at leisure. 1 spoke French so fluently and, as I flattered myself, so correctly that if any questions were asked I felt pretty sure that I should be able to answer them without exciting suspicion. elry and the rest—were soon exhausted and w e had to keep the wolf from th door as bDst we could. I pave lesson "Yon are surprised that I. an into stranger, should address you continued De (lex. after a short "Hut necessity has no law. I in sore need of a friend, ar ' rather s ► tons! in Fr h. my sister in paint'' liner inoiselle. levcral C He is the editor of The Kentuckian and Citizen, published in Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. He does not tell his age, but is very active indeed, though he remembers very well about Daniel Boona and has often been in swimming with him. . mother little En» made lace* but. as we kru sh and had neither influfn You tiiink Gen. Bonaparte would »ke yixir sentence?" *\storr, were born in a British yet we came of nn ancient and mung nor friends, pupils and customers wer hard to find. More than once we wer on the vergt* of starvation: and. in tli ena, as i nave aireaov mentioned, i rv rev color Capt. Wharton, getting' wind of what had happened, sent in a cartel (forwarding at the snrae time my clothes and some money) with a proposal toexchange me for a French lieutenant wh im he had captured a few days previously; but the authorities of the port, having moanwhile communicated with the directory and received orders to send .me to Paris; refused. the rat-n to whom yon wen; just n introduced there'is none that trust At least one of their exec "[ do. They sny lie is opposed, to the ion of returned emigrants; and c must. a re v list "An-1 use her "I tli Illustrious English family stronger I flarf Mm at heart Hona'f inPm think Mr '(•in favor of M. doCex?' Bora parte •will So we toiled on till at last we came to a confectionery place where six or eight mad revelers who had come from a distance by sleigh were eating oysters and caramels before going home. Half of these were girls who conversed all at the game time, and the other half were young men who laughed at what the girls said. smiling rascal with the slightly-hooked ,o return to Uex and try .to ro She comes of a noble family, her Erst husband. Viscount was guillotined, she eanh love for the revolution." t is come1." I exclaimed, Mo w was it I did not think' f s'v? wnuM roccive me T id hor nose—is a moulota, a police s; the others are nobodies. Yoti will un derstand why I need a friend when I tell you that I am under sentence of death." and cover the hidden treasure-. atn.'t lent roe tr. nf.r for t SO JVC *nCl couM r .1X1(10 I to do so; Colonel Craddock showed me where Henry Clay made, as an awkward boy, his first speech, it being on "Emancipation." Very few know that Clay's first speech was on this subject. Clay was a good talker afterward and spoke fre•iuixnij, turning many away sometimes. "A con ttiiar s very powerful EACH EOTYF.t). C&pt. Wharton approved, the fishinprboat was captured, and. taking with me a quartermaster and two A.B.'s whom I could thoroughly trust—all as well as myself rigged up in the fishermen's togs—I sailed up the Seine as far as Honfleur, then stood over to H arfleur, making my-fobservations and taking all the bearing I needed. As I ran/ between Le Bonnet Rouge and the /battery, the better to note them one of the brig's officers, a man with a fierce red face and still redder hair, whom I took to be her captain, hailed us and asked whether we had seen aught of the Sylph. jouruc of 8w ■ 'sii'h I accomplished «. rlard. I found the chp.t 1 and dismantled; iind if e wnv ve rai is otfr best ronrral. Hois the any ana give peace to rrar.ee. The royalists have great hopes of him." 'And then the chevalier proceeded to give me a detailed account of French polities, of the jealousies that prevailed among the members of the directory, of the Intrigues that were going- on under the surface, and of the evils under which the country groaned, and which in his opinion could be cufed only by giving- it a master. siblo that if GC: jrroatost iri Yes, it is po«v- "Under sentence of death! so bad as that? I thought Is it tSoT! t to whom I mode m torfcrp. tho sentence of M. do Gers P.onapartp worn to in- They had taken it into their heads that we were acting in concert with the royalists, and that the cutting out of Le Bonnet Rouge was to have been the signal for a general rising. In no other way conld they explain the temerity of twenty men in a long boat attacking a heavily-armed brig, anchored under the guns of a fort, and within pistol shot of half a dozen gunboats and armed luggers. I was taken before the port captain and a juge (le paix and closely questioned as to the designs of the royalists and my part in the supposed conspiracy. But. as I knew nothing of the desigrs in question, and the conspiracy was purely imaginary, they naturally got but little out of me. you f ! not botraved mo I slfc ijip as if ironc mad What is com asked Do Cox. look-9 thought I had suddenly be revoked The saloon was used for ice cream in summer, and in -winter canned oysters almost as large as lima beans are served with large circular pickles fresh from the brine—if one may use such a seeming paradox. You can also get a steak here for 15 cents. I took one of them, and when I got back to my room I repaired my trunk with it. Daniel Boone was not so good an offhand speaker, but used to kill Indians in defiance of the game laws of Kentucky mD to the time of his death. feared —' have s And m wi!l help me in t will "Feared! Do I look as if I were afraid?" asked the chevalier, haughtily. ] need not fro into c roke of luck; a chance of recoverliberty and savin# your life, ee M me. Bonaparte." nC t demoisc lie? Beautiful won- "I beg your pardon, said apprehended. At the Ram; though I have faced death prettjs I should have icntenced to death as a returned e sc nt to Paris, and ten da«s yorxl rails anl sister. en tihvisy* have /rood hearts, and it is a Think of hi; prjor mother Colonel Craddock is chiefly noted as being the first man to welcome Columbus on his arrival in this country and to suggest the possibility of bringing dagoes to New York for the purpose of supplying policemen with freshly roasted peanuts. ' , grant red in mute surprise. • fill see Mme. Bonapr.rte. often "Yo now why I require a tn hits a sister, then! Is she very and may have to do so again, I frankly confess that, if I were poing to be beheaded I should be afraid." "Well, 1 do not like it. But it touM 111 become a De Gez not to w* tt his worthv frit She in a ('reoie of Martinique root.h [• is a Creole of Martinique. mv They I was trying1 to suppress a yawn, for at that time French politics did not interest me much, when a hand was laid lightly on my shoulder. are c when thev C.r bread of ox et there is Bnt ns T never saw her. I ai'niit tell. Before to-ilay I never saw tab] T. 1 pet it— i"i. riifht oars, a sraa :D "other when they were girls, ondon on short leave jusDt be- i'.io c ali* t." We had some crackers, too, that had been carefully looked over by other people till they were all powdery and seemed to have stood on the lunch counter all day for daws to peck at, as Shakespeare says. lion of which would render them ir.d* pendent for life. Hut I c thira; my days. my very hours, are numbered. Will yon undertake the enterprise in which 1 huve failed—the saving 'ore t 'h was. commissioned-: and nnfrof her old friend . 'rir. and the strange i m the wife of one died on the scaffold and of .0 was marching from vie- T -vi'l rite to M.no. 1 'ior w'10 I am, and ask which she is sure to 1 you arc taking all this trouble Turning' round, 1 found myself in the presence of Citoyen Carmine, llie governor of the prison, end a gentleman in So he is identified with much of the history of our country, and yet seems to bo almost in his prime. He never misses a sociable or a political convention, and a pink tea on the Rue St. Honore in Paris never. becomes uproarious till ha comes. I said that we had seen her a few hours previously outside the bay. sailing nor"west-by-north under a press of canvas. ftp DC»t is ta a Pa for a str noise lie, t •e.-'frold. I would tlo a preat deal. moclc* .ve man from the this letter You v.-ill conVc; railitaiT uniform. "I lie;? your pmlon, Citizen Roy anl the gr.veruor, respectful!y. This seemed to satisfy the gentle- of the treasure?" aothcr y to Mmo. II capr1-* "V will von r "but .The room was rich in decoration, with a battle piece at one side of the room painted by some unknown man and O K'd by the horsefly in the summer time. The proprietor was a man who had been a great scholar. Ho had always taken And read The Grate Fire Companion and was reading it when we came in. We spoke to him. and he looked at us with dazed eyots, for he was still watching the Indians scalping some people who were on their way through Death valley for a btraw ride. ■Y, man, and, though he looked hard at me. as if there was something either In my appearance or in my accent which piqned his curiosity, he let me pass -without further questioning. At nightfall we reached the Sylph, which had been standing off and on during our cruise "Yon forprt that I am a prisoner 1 your* If. Moroovt-r—" :Cl i biitfe you ver much. here is le- Capkaine Laclase, aiilc-decamp of Gea. lionaparte. lie desires to A few days afterwards I was sent to Paris in a post chaise, under so strong an escort as to render escape out of thf question. /Two gendarmes with cocjsed hats and t half-cocked pistols sat oppo site me all the way,#and two fully-armed dragoons node alongside. Hut it was by no means an unpleai ant journey. Being regarded as a prisoner of importance, I fared well and was treated with great respect. I made friends with my companions, who wiare very good fellows, and saw more of la lDeile France than I had ever seen before.mor "You would confer on mo «n obligation which I should never bo able* to re:DD I pros--''i ber hand. ?" she murrainM He is certainly a very interesting man. He writes a good deal for The Kentuckian, besides interviewing all the great men who pass through the city. His memory is said to weigh four ounces more than those of B. F. Butler and Daniel Webster combined. "*\A prisoner of war. sure sooner or later to Ik- exchanged. Hut hear proposal. I do not ask you to ri D tri' rf'l.v for 11 C• sake of two women viev speak to you." i this -anti when she receives me I will r to (jet me exchanged and you I answer And with that the governor, though he remained within hail, left us to curselves, as did also De (lex. "Then I will wnd letter to Mnif. Bonaparte, give it into -no, I will take this you iirti-r saw and for whom y i'.i not c foil you also mean to raareli 'Dvy to victory, I think. Still, though I doubt whether *" has the power to revoke And there is a lor own hand Cnpt. Laclnse bowed, I bowed, and each protested that he was delighted to make the other's acquaintance. This ceremony over, the captain explainer that he came on behalf of Mine. Bonaparte, who sent her compliments and would be glad to see me at her house in the line de la Yictoiro (see called In honor of Bonaparte). "But will the governor let mo go?" I After making my report I told the captain that in my opinion it would be quite impossible to cut out Lc Bonnet Rouge by main force. I thought, however, that she might be taken by stratagem, which I explained, and which after some discussion it was resolved toD adopt, no soon as the wind should be in the right quarter. My plan was to take the long bo&T with twenty picked men, row up the river after sunset, run alongside the brig and get aboard of her by pretending that we belonged to La Lionne (one of the gunboats), overpower the watch on the deck, batten down the hatches, slip the cables and then make ■ail for the bay, where, all being well, we should fall in with the Sylph and get belp to secure our prisoners. I calculated that the gunners in the fort, though they might guess what had happened, would not open fire on the brig for fear of hurting their own people, and once fairiy under way we could bid defiance to both gunboats and logger* The collection at Gcs is worth, at the very least, fifty thousand pounds sterling, and would find ready purchasers in London. Half this sum will make my mother and sister mure rnadf fur an answer.'1 liscllo—a thoiisand it is pi - . " i iixruvs ihanks! You are {food; you have a true woman's heart; I shall never forget idness." If happily wedded, I see no reason why he should not make some woman a happy wife. He does not object to yonth and inexperience. He has enough himself for both and is a large cyclopedia in a revolving chair. even Bonapar sentence. a r seri /iis preliminary difficulty. • IIow will yon forward your letter to M me. Bonapprte? If in the ordinary way vour We looked in the showcase for quite awhile admiring things. There were all kinds of imperishable candies in boxes. Some of the candy was captured during !j||! ..,ant ■ n I kissed her band; and her lip3 so tempting that I was just goben the stupid warder opened ■Dr ami informed me that the half hi mff— the C director of prisons, and, as likely as not. never reach its destination. You will also have an agent of police here, anil i' rhaps be interrogated: for these it tnnv be detained by the Colonel Craddock knows as much as I thought I knew when I was 20 years old, and I can say no more than that. He told me about a Cincinnati rnart who bought a high bred horse recently with a pedigree that went back to a team that Noah used to drive when he was doing Ilis hauling from the sawmill to the dock where he was building his boat. • V hour was up. asked. It was hard and had been felt of by people who have long since passed on to their reward. the war. CHAPTER It THE CnEVAJ.IEK's STORY c:ia R IV "I think so. Lut we will soon ascertain. What say yon, Citizen Carmine? will you allow your English prisoner to accompany me to the house of Mme. On my arrival at Paris I was taken to the Abbaye. an ancient building, now, I believe, po more. fate with sang froid, and I would rather perish a thousand times than give these canaille the satisfaction of thinking they had made me afraid. The worst of it is that I know not when I am to die. I may be roused from my sleep before to-morrow's dawn and told that iny last hour is come, or they may let me live a month. But you are wondering why I tell you this. It is not merely to enlist your sympathy: it is something much more practical. I told you that I had been in London. I was there with my mother and sister, and though we all worked—when we could find anything to do—we found life so hard that I resolved to return to France and make an effort to recover a treasure which belonged to my Do f'cx nrm mv 'keep ot If oonM not well Ives to nurr,elves" all the n Kitssor Li* J* - pentl f Monaparte f the directory are terribly The young people were gay and full oi life. I like that. It makes me feel sometimes that again I am a young idiot in a small way myself, as I used to be before I had better opportunities. Earl was one of the young men. He was a young roue from the salons of Paris, Ills., about 19 years of age. and could ] -C tobacco, or cigarette smoke, ither. t :;:irely around through the inC\e of ]: , - h£ad a:. Tout at the nose withit injuris-a the brain, although the livor oi the sino!;e was somewhat im- After breakfasting with the governor and his daughter, the former of whom was very polite and the latter verypretty, I was shown into the common room, a room, as I afterwards learned, of terrible memories, for here, in the September massacres, scores of men and women were slaughtered like sheep. During the reign of terror it was a vestibule of death, tlironged continually with prisoners on their way to the scaffold, whose places, as fast as the doomed of the day were dragged to the guillotine, were taken by fresh victims. Its aspect was somber and depressing: the walls were grimy, the long windows strongly barred, and hero and there on the floor could be discerned dark stains as of blood. jealov "A i is of the utmost imporwonld it do to gite one of the moat •n v.-ould hav Bonaparte?" tance. the \va him to "II.-' ir other com ran iti scDme of th 's. and "Ilaye yon brought an order from Earras or Iiottot?"1 y a five-fraac piece anC] ask ves ■  b!e by pledging the letter ia the post?" take the money and keep the pet credit for himself by them iv.r wine and treating, t] em to "No; merely a verbal invitation from the wife of the conqueror of Italy; and I dare say that CiLi::en Roy -will give us his parole not to »-.D.*ape while he i:; in Bv and by the Cincinnati man felt unable to such a valuable horse and offered hinj. for sale to a Kentuckian who knew the herdb^ok. bad handir it to the governor." our c supy we r. cr xched oft to Well lett« it must be arranged somehow. mu.it reach Mme. Honaparte day, or, at latest, to-morrow Stay! I have another idea. to your my eharprC Tho Cincinnati man produced his pedigree, which was as follows: Bay horse Blue Grass, foaled in 1887, sire Black Sampson, daan Young Phyllis; Black Sampson, by Breastplate, dam Lady Waxie; Young Phyllis, by Blue Jeans, dam Mattie J; Mattie J, by Cyclone Wilkes, dam Miss Tormentor; Miss Tormentor, by Tuscarora H, dam Ada V; Breastplate, by Frank, dam Jellico; Jellico, by Bucephalus, dam Princess; Bucephalus, by Sir William, dam Eulalia. The Cincinnati man said, "We will go around and see the horse," aind they did so. The Kentuckian shook his head. Setter the ehc That is enough. You may go," s-iid to I ,ed for the governor, whi I had g !ven my pa- tnor Yrm Mile, tannine?" rrpor's daughter." breakfasted with her this ■h vet. I t worry yon r After making myself presentable by donning the handsomest suit of mufti in my tea-cheat (which Wharton had thoughtfully sent ashore with the cartel), wo left the prison, and were driven to the Rue de la Vietoire in a carriage which the aide-de-camp had in waiting role. 1 ime enon self, my dear Everything he said was with the air oi one who bad seen all of life, had tasted every pleasure and only hoped to meet with a dramatic death. He came very near it, too, while doing a sword swallowing act with his caseknife. Lired, A few nights later, the conditions at to wind and tide being favorable, wc set out, and two hours after leaving tht Sylph were under the brig's starboard quarter. . ewer in the morning, and I am sure it SHOT DEAD BY MT SiDE morn She is pood-looking, and, better still, has kindly ways and sympathetic eyes. I think I could persuade her to help us. either by taking- my let- Ilonaparte herself or send;re hand. Would it be poa- will b' f; with a)n :C I w! pored back. than happy. The other half I offer to you as a compensation for your risk and trouble; and if you succeed you will richly deserve it. It may also weigh somewhat with you that by agreeing to my proposal you will (lift a heavy load from the mind of a doomed man, and confer a great favor 011 two forlorn womerv who, I can promise you. will not be ungrateful." riore c ace than family. ■f felt, for if ?• iirmine had been as My men. whc^lad received their ordT* beforehand and cnew exactly what, tc do, made fast the boat, and I boardoc' the vessel by the rope ladder whicl hung over the bulwarks. "'Who goes there?" asked the officer of the watch. "I must tell you tliat at the outbreak of the revolution the regiment to which I belonged joined the rebels. As I could not turn my sword against the king, I left the army, and, escaping from Paris by the skin of my teeth. ter to Mm good as Lor v id ther was no reason at the door. Earl aimed to be considered a wild and willful num. who had, after all, a big. generous heart —a man who could raise a mustache and yet disdained to do so. In this room were five or six men, one of whom came forward to greet me. He was a man of about my own height —that ib to say, a little' over iniauie height—but slightly built, and with a pale worn face and dark expressive eyes. ir'' it V hv I should not have had Mine. IJona- in the course of the day, When we arrived at (Ien. Bonaparte's house, Capt. Laeluse knocked at the door, and, after whispering something in the ear of the servant who opened it, went away, saying that he would re- sible to s 1 I not say you were a man of re?" said Dt* (iex, his face for the iacte relaxing into a smile. "A ' idoas, too. And I should not be urprised if you hare made an im■n on Mile. Carmine's heart. She nil yon are fair, and 1 have no ;nt?tt"s always take kindly n with blue eyes, likeyourr.eeirig her, there is nothinp 1 manage that. But first her, do you think?" parte s rC However, there was nothing' for it bnt to wait for what the morrow miffht sour first Yv e ato our stews and listened to hinD Xhon we went home to our.room at the hotel, where there were no hooks to hang clothing on, but a large flannel butterfly on the wall, caught in a natural cobweb. brin fortl and, deferring1 inspection "Your horse has a strain of vulgar blood," he said. "Notice he eats like a horse that has lived and lunched out of a nosebag like a cab horse. He has no refinement. I can pick out a horse that has had good parents and been brought up tenderly. That horse has been belted around the stall with the back of a currycomb, and he is a jay horse." "Well, he is not, begging your pardon. He only needs to point to his pedigree, which I bought him on largely. Bead it. and yon will find no break in the title. I bought him of a Kentuckian who knows horses." went to my ancestral home—the chateau de Gex. in the romantic Jura country, which the flood of sedition and treason had not yet reached. My father had always dwelt among his people. and so confident was he in their loyalty that, although the peasants in other parts of the province were burning down the chateaux and murdering the seigneurs, he felt sure that no harm would befall him or his. I did not  with him; I knew that sooner or later OiCr place would be attacked like the others; and I prevailed on him to send my mother and my sister to Geneva, where; as I thought, they would be safe. But my father refused to budge. lie was resolved to stay at Gex and defend his property to the last: and. albeit the result was disastrous, I think he was right. If French gentlemen, instead of deserting their posts at the first alarm, man of my quarters until daylight, for the very snsKcient reason that 1 had no candle, I turned in, and in a few seconds turn in an hour. "Friend, from La Lionne," I an •rwered. "Good morning, sir," he said, making When lie was gone the servant ushered iae into a salon, and, after inviting me to be seated and saying that he would inform Mine. Bonaparte of a low bow. CHAPTER III is dar ticcr] that I was fast iisleep. "From La Lioane! And what do you Want?" "Good morning, sir, also malting a low bow. " I answered, Truly a tempting offer. Twenty-five thousand pounds, the gratitude of two noble ladies, and the sense of satisfaction that comes of doing a good action; and all I had to do for it was the recovery of a treasure the whereabouts of which were well known and would be imparted to me. 1 nv he with the sun, and looked An alarm of firo broke out in the audience on two successive evenings lately, and at one place we feared that there Would be a terrible stampede, for the house was full and the one exit narrow and down a winding stairway. I have always said that the exit should be morf ample where we speak, but I cannot seem to get any one to listen to it. to blonde m self. As foi easier. I v.- roun( I, For a prison my room \yas by no incaDs bad. Jt had a vaulted coiling, red oil the outside, and an ken-bound door. The furniture eonled of a table, two chairs, awashstand and a truckle-bed. amva il. left me to myself. "The captain has sent ma-witli a very Important message; and here is a letter.""Von are English—if I may judge by your uniform and your accent." "Not exactly. liut English is my mother tongue, and 1 am a subject oi King George, and hold a commission in his navy." a window I It was a. large room and handsomely furnished, and on the walls hung several fine paintings, which I fancied the general had brought with him from Italy. if at your lett-r "M. le Capitaine Dufour Is ashore. He shall have the letter when he returns. But what want all these men? And. ma fol, they we—" Before the officer could Snisb his sentence he was prone on the deck, and in a trice every other mnn of the watch -mus m tne same position ana securely pinioned. The hatches had been battened down, and a gun run on each to prevent the people below from breaking out. iero was no difficulty, for, il prisoners, we w.-re It seemed almost too pood to be possible; but there were several litt! indulgence compati- When I had drussed I put a couple of of chairs on the table, climbed up to While I was locking at one of them— a battle scone, if I remember rightly— I heard tho door open, and, turning round, saw eoming towards me a gentleman dressed in some sort of civic He had a sallow skin and "Scottish or Irish, then; it comes to the same thing. T'ray excuse my seeming inquisitiveness. Hut, as we are a very small community here, and it is well to be on friendly terms, I have been deputed to aet as master of ceremonies and introduce you to our society. But, first of all, allow me to introduce myself. Before the revolution 1 was Chevalier de Gex, captain in the royal regiment of Languedoc; cow they call me Citizen Gex. and I am a prisoner of the republic." "And 1 am Mark Roy, first lieutenant of his Britannic majesty's ship Sylph, and a prisoner of war." ailH afe-keepinjj. cto the composition the wijii v. and looked out. Below mf Women fainted, for the rumors were that the fire was in the store below, at the academy and at the depot. The engine house was across the street, and the firemen made considerable noise, many of them being in the audience when the alarm was given. culties in the way which the che had seemingly not taken into ae a!ier a good deal of thought, n, Dctiex called the warder letter was t court-Yard and the ijloomy en- This Kentuckian glanced over the pedigree and said: "There is something singular about this pedigree. I know all these names; but, you see, Black Sampson when he was aljve was a jackass. Of course we cannot tell where he went when he died. This is no time to raise theological questions and get the whole presbytery after you. "What I can do to ob p. nil yourself I will," was my answer; "hut you forget that f also um a prjflr ladi Dunt ivas wr 11 i-f Iran 1 spi to the prison Beyond tl ;ites Dr, du nd. slipping' a pour-boire int tsked him to inform Citoyenn I ;i picturesque little hou&c int pardon, in which tvvo women ;uxl a form were walking. Their gait were your heir f his dark ha'r, long a mer. in. Cjjtoven I! compliments, that tires told me tlv IT, anil I the back. was cut short in front and plastered on his forehead with pomatum. This gave him a singular and almost a sinister look; but he had square jaws and a resolute mouth,wonderfully wellcut features, and the most piercing1 black eyes I ever saw. In person he was insignificant, his meager little body and short neck contrasting strangely with his large head and dark powerful face. You will bo exchan When it pit the direct D see her: he had hoped the A panic was well started, and crazed men stood up on the seats and yelled while the ladies wrung their hands, but showed more sense than the men. One stranger arranged his overcoat so that it resembled a fainting woman and politely passed through the crowd "to save the life of one who was dear to him." When he got out, he put on his overcoat and asked to have his money back. It was a terrible scene and one long tc be x-emcmliered. The crowd surged toward the door, and little children cried as thev were trampled and crushed. All this took only a few minutes, the ■watch, fortunately for us, being very weak and half asleep; but when the prisoners recovered from their surprise they became so noisy and abusive that I had to threaten to knock them on the head. This pacified them. But their comrades under hatches, now fully aware of what had happened, were making a terrible uproar, shouting to the people at the fort: "Les Anglais! les Anglais! A nous! a nous!" and discharging muskets and pistols from the ports. Two or three of them jumped into the sea and swam ashore. had stayed at home and done their duty, the revolution, though it might not have been averted, would have been shorn of half its terrors. The canaille were left to themselves, and the republic the}1 set up has become one of the vilest tyrannies upon earth. not be for a Ions' tim the conundrum After awhile they turned their faces towards the prison, whereupon I put one of my hands through the bars and though I were exchai like to to hit 'i she ." -Wed him ut breakfast. 1'he warder aias.vered with a Vrow- "Young Phyllis was a Shorthorn cow. Breastplate was a Shorthorn bull. Lady Waxy was a saddle horse. Mattie J is a pacing mare. Tuscarora II is a gray mule down on Four Mile. Ada V is a steamboat on the Kentucky river. Frank is a yellow dog in Simpson's livery stable, and Jellico is an old mare mule that runs extra on one of Brown's coal carts." In the language of the poet: ' I It is not all of life to live. Nor all of dealt) to die. - . andon a career which I prefer war \Y 1 my pocket handkerchief, gain distir other, and in which I 1 Dn. even for twe X' to 1- ol understood pt d Ik en luive ahva a kindly feel in? thousand pound: y-tivf :ie Carmine as for pr come oners and captives; and it had to my mind that in the event of » ou eon Id pet leave nl Jet us know what she niy appeal to Mine. Bonaparte being unsuccessful these young ladies might "Good!, Now I shall have the honor of introducing yon to our fellow captives." "After awhile we heard that'a band of mis -reants from Lyons were marching northward, stirring up the peasants to insurrection and murdering and plundering in the name of liberty. Still my father did not believe that they tvould trouble us, and it was only wherD '.hey were in the next commune that hi "No, my ship is in eotnin shC- is one of the smartest frigates in t will remain so as lonsr as th ion. r:n(i as "Who are you?" he asiied, abruptly, almost rudely indeed. When we were done with our introductions and a few more questions had been asked and answered, the chevalier, putting his arm within mine, asked me in very passable English to take a walk with him. 1 you sav that?'' I le to escapc servic war lasts. Besides, I should lose rny chance of promotion, to say nothing- of the chance of being arrested and shot us a spy." ie man was fro ■i about a conun To in ■eat delight, one of theni ac- 'Lieut. Roy, late his Rrittanic majy's ship Sylph, now a prisoner of knov ly ware iedgvtl my grovtinjj with a friondhanii and a fp-acofnl of hi te warder and pique the court,*" id I was considc war '•Why are you in Paris?" "I was sent liore from Havre, I believe by on lor of the government." "Ah! I think I have heard something about you. You are the man who tried to cut out Le Bonnet Rouge from under the pruns of a heavily armed fort." It was then that I came upon the stage, and kicking aside the heliotropes and tulDeroses with which the stage had been showered on my former appearance and tossing back my hair I burst forth into "The war w "You thinlt "Yos. The royalist feelinp is  ground daily, and 1 have reason to h liere that (!en. Bonaparte- will p!a,y the part of ruonk and brinCf back the kin#." 1 r.crt last.' ill scout a in couM arm 11 D£c a code of Uejiril irnal when I But we were too busy making sail and slipping cables to heed the hubbub. "Where?" I asked, eel me to prepare for the \v. r:-.t ci all I could—furbished up our ;u it in supplies of food and amiauni: led doors and windows, Drganized a small garrison, con: i f the gamekeepers and three or 1 ■Id servants, whose loj alty was bey km lit. I)e ( 1 for n tri prophet. The flatter of wooden si •s on the VLet those shout who win," I said, as the canvas filled and the ship paid off. "Only give me an hour of this breeze, and they may all go to the deuce." Bang went all the guns in the fort; a shot flew across our bows; alarm-bells rang ashore; rockets careered athwart the sky; and by the light of the moon (which just then rose above a cloudbank) we could see the luggers and gunboats making sail. "Here. This room is exactly forty paces long and thirty paces wide—not bad for a prison. We can stretch our legs and wag our tongues at the same time. What say you?"' ned in a feCv minutes and eorrid ■tii lit r. 1 was on the floor in an iund when the warder entered he id tliat ( ane Carvnine would r found everything in its placf arri »lon Uut he must a Ilonjour. eitoyeii," lu aid. "I enme I sang "Oh, Bury Me Not In the Deep, Deep Sea" till there was breathless silence, and people came back to their seats Hi wonder and amazement. Even the fire company came back and listened to it while the fire went out. song. lorce of HADit* rue to t ttempt to C I be iii.s duty to h-rn ni parole d'lkmneui ape; unless I did to tal you to breakfast; and here is a "1 did cut her out, and if it had not Veen fur a sudden change of wind 1 bhoujd have carried her off. 15ut 1 did nearly as well—threw all her guns overboard and ran her aground." "I don't know what has come over our "I am entirely at your service. IIow well you speak English!" "Yes; I know English. It would be strange if 1 did not, seeing that I hare lived several years in London; and if J had been wise I should be there still." "In that ease vour mother and it w sist me at tin The bit of paper ws bit of paper for you from son since he went to work in a shoe store," said Mrs. Blaggins. "He was looking at a calendar, and he spoke of the figure '6' as '3' and '4' as '2.' His mind Diust be going." will come back with him and claim their infer Mile. Carmine, and rar thus: "I only succeeded in seeing Mine. Bonaparte ;i n "The old chateau, thoucri bit ill, was, of course, quite in ivitlislaniling artillery, but • armed only with  forks it could offer a stout rC "My father was not rich i but he possessed an exception:* collection of gold and silrc. , coins and antique gems, wliieh he lie been gathering the. greater part of hi a life, and several almost priceless paintings. These he and I placed at dead of night in a hiding place the whereabouts of which was known only to him and me. own ray parole and told him to lead and "Unfortunately there is nothing for them to elaiin. 'i'he chateau anil C were confiscated by the national tion and are now the proper' \\c walltw 1 auroBs Hi parturients last nigh dare say the day. Shi' read your letter ,-ou will hear from her during .1 ri.ii:." nil I I knew, of course, that I was talking tii Gen. Bonaparte, and I guessed that he knew all about me; but, as he evidently desired to keep his incognito, I thought it expedient to fall in with his whim, and make as if I did not recog- It is a wonderful gift to be able thus to appeal to the hearts of humanity and make people forget other horrors by calling them to confront a greater one. Last month we visited Kentucky for a short time. It was during the cold spell which surprised and astonished one and all. The Kentucky hotels are not made generally for Siberian weather, and we got very little blubber on the bill of fare, lint every landlord did the best he could. It is not possible, though, to warm a large, airy room in such weather with a little watch pocket grateful of coal. You might as well fire a bottle of koumiss into, the heart of a snowman and expect to pret up a healthy glow. ts nnd f court-yard to 1 made up mi with the eit mind to be perfectly frank xoferni Dr ••Oh," replied her husband, "that's all right. They have put him to work selling shoes to the lady customers."—Wash- Washington Star. "Never mind, sir," said the quartermaster at the wheel, "we've got the heels of them; and if they overhaul us IH be-" "Yon are likely to be a prisoner some time, then?" f va iind trv to obtain As 1 read it I thought of the poor evalier. rious occupying owners, \\ perish rather than give up | My mother's right to tlK'trea tion m i entcrfh ises. "My faith, I wish I was! I am much more fikely to lose my head." rich After u lit ■ring'me into a 1 itt It ying' he would return for me in iilon "How is Citizen Gex this morning'— still alive'.'" I asked the warder "Lose your head! I thought the reign of terror was over." "So it is, except for the class to which I belong. 1 am a returned emigrant, and returned emigrants receive little mercy." plat he contested and sh find half t he. warder withdrew n Kov, what a str nx- nize him. [to be continued. | A Growing Pleasure. The words were hardly out of the nqan'a mouth when the wind dropped, and if the tide had not been running strong we should have had no steering- tin? notliinff. even tli wherevvi iouslv "Alive? Ah, I understand. The lioad of Citizen Oex is htill on his shoulders. He—Aren't you pleased with the wayj my mustache is growing? She—Yes, indeed! I'm more tickled with it every time you call.—Brooklyn Life. hiil to f u send in« said tlu VuaOlo to Tell. one, who just then entered the "A conundrum, indeedf You Allons Yes, that was so. For years I suffered sevetely with scrofula; sores broke out all over my body / and I am unable to tell one half that I suffered. 1 was not able tD obtain relief until I used Sulphur Bitters, which completely cured me.—C. B. Dale, 17 Allston srreet, Boston. way." throu a rn self. t me a conundrum What does After broakfar.t I showed the ehev- This was like to prove fatal to our enterprise, for, though the enemy could no more sail without wind than ourselves, they had sweeps and small boats, wad u we were only a handful, and all "Did you know this before you left London?" it mean?' alier Mile. Carmine's letter "It is well, yet half sadly he said, with a Pmile, "well for you, whatever Too Cold. "The next day we were beset by thC Lyons mob, reinforced by several hundred peasants, among whom were man; of our neighbors and tcnauts. 1 to D Mi, mat Mamma—Why don't yon go outdoors! Hid play? Little Daughter—I've lost dolly's mit-' t?ns.—Good News. "Surely. But I had a purpose, and London is not gay, and teaching young ladies and gentlemen the French lan- tary 1 tilt "Ilush! you must not sav 'mademoi- it may be for me, a moment's thou .Apart froiu-any advantage to myself, I poit 6eil Never mind the we are inst regulation "And why is it not well for yon?" "Time cresses, my friend. I have