Newspaper Page Text
BONAPARTE.
His Unconquerable Will and Purpose Re
vealed.
' • ,*< ’ I’ '* •* { ». ’ •‘-Ci 1 - . .A- r ----- ■
Command of the Army of Italy—Begins His Career of Military Glory.
Genius of the Great Soldier Displayed—Four Austrian Armies
Beaten in Succession—A New Boundary for France.
t Copyright, 1805, by John Clark Ridpath.
X.—FIRST CAMPAIGN OF ITALY.
Seven days before the- marriage of Na
poleon he was appointed commander-in
chief of the army of Italy. His star
shone suddenly above the clouds. He tar
ried with Josephine until the 21st of
March-, when the honeymoon of the war
rior-after twelve brief days of dallying
ycting-hunsbandhood—broke suddenly ; and
be set out for the field of glbry. His love
letters to Josephine Indicate that his na
ture was deeply stirred by her influence,
and that his affection for her was as strong
as any other feeling that ever competed
with his ambition tor the mastery of hfs
life.
To have an Independent command of an
army, or armies, had long been the pre
vailing motive with Napoleon. True,
many of his current sayings and actions
seem inconsistent with the predominant
passion. Only a short time before depart
ing on the first Italian campaign he wrote
a letter to Bourrienne, then an emigrant
at Sens, saying, “Seek out for me a small
piece of land In your beautiful valley of
the Yonne. I will purchase it as soon as
I ban get together the money. 1 wish to re
tire there; but recollect that I will have
■ nothing to do with national property.”
Quite Insincere and fitful! Indeed, gen
eral, “a small piece of land” is the last
thing In this world that you wish for
a/id as to your “retiring" there, your re
tirement is fixed for another place—that
far-off island to which you referred in the
last clause of your school exercises at Au
tun. Your essay was headed “Possessions
des Anglais;" and you finished, thus;
"Sainte Helene, petite isle. You will
find it so!
The military glory of Napoleon properly
begins with his first campaign into Italy.
The states of that peninsula were about
to be made playthings of great ambi
tions. Whether the influence of Austria
and the coalition should continue predom
inant from Piedmont to Venice was the
question. The existing order in the Ital
ian states and cities favored the Aus
trian power; but the popular party was in
sympathy with Republican France. Bona
parte.) mission Into Italy was ostensibly
for preoccupation and defense; but It
meant, out of the nature of things, sharp
war and speedy ponqueet.
Hardily had the campaign in Piedmont
begun before the directory In Purls would
send out the veteran Kellerman to be sec
ond dm command. This might be a. com
pilmenit to a gen oral-fl n|-shlef not yet
tWenty-seven; but not so to Bonaparte.
He at once replied saying that it was in
different to him (a thing most
untrue) whether he should serve
in Italy or somewhere else. All
he wished—so ran his plaint—
■fffry- ?'4
i irSfeßesai-. . yj
,• NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OK ARCOLE.
«m a. brief page in history at trded for
service to- hia country. Gen. Kc-llcrman
had. more eperiepce than he. and knew
better how to make war; "but It-oth to
gether we shall maker it badly. I will
not willingly strve with a man who
considers himself the first general in
Europe." How strongly le here revealed
the unconquerable will and sHlf-sutfli-ien
cy and purpose of Bonaparte to bo all or
nothing;
Let us scan the field. The coalition
against France now embraced Austria,
Bavaria, Piedmont, Naples and England.
The smaller states of Germany and Italy
were also in the league. For the “pro
tection" of Piedmont and Indeed ot all
Italy, an army of about sixty thousand
men. thoroughly equipped and supplied,
and commanded by Gen. Beaulieu, one of
the ablest and most experienced in Eu
rope. had been sent into Lombardy,
Against this power Napoleon's army of
Italy was set. consisting of only thirty
live thousand new men, miserably desti
tute. ami having enthusiasm for tts prin
cipal resource. With this he must com
pete for the mastery of states and king
doms.
But the army of Italy had for a com
mander a military genius of so audacious
a character us to rank its possessors with
the two other prime warriors of human
history. He had daring military Inven
tion, the power of combination. the dis
covery of new expedients, sudden adapta
tion to unforeseen contingencies, courage
ambition, foresight, subtietv. and Indeed
every quality fit to make him what ho
was now about to become—the greatest
commander of modern times.
At Moutenotte, twenty-six miles west of
Genoa. Napoleon fought his first field bat
tle. He attacked the Austrian division of
D’Argenteau. and won a victory. Mark
you. he fought with a division of the
enemy! This was on the 12th of April,
only twenty-two days after his departure
from Paris. On the Uth he struck the
Austrians add Sardinians at Mlllesimo
ten miles further on. and won another vic
tory. On the next day he came on the
enemy at Dego. and added a third. On
the 21et he reached Mondovi, forty-eight
miles from Turin, and on the following
day attacked and defeated the division of
Gen. Colli. In every engagement his blow
was like that of a thunderbolt. The 11s
clplined armies of his opponents broke be
fore him.
An :ncM«it of these tlr»t wiki days of
tNWtfh' and vlocory well illustrates the ere.
vailing, temptr of th< conqueror. Ills
first passage with Colli was with ptn
rather than sword. Just after the conflict
at Dego. the German general G<>man.te»cl
the refi tse of a certain Emigrant Moulin
who Juul been taken by the l'r< u. ti, though
bearing a floc >t truce. To >■-. Bona
paru» replied: "An emigrant is <* parri
cide. You forgot rhe respect due to the
French people whan you sent M Moulin I
With a flag of truce. You know the laws •
of war If contrary to those laws you iw
thorite an act of barbarism, all tihe'prtecm
cr* taken from you aha!l l>e InvmedU t< Iv
made responsible for it with the me t dv
plorabL vrswanee.” There Jnleei. jn
his first fiekl-note, spokoou** the Corsican,
La t no cue trtrtc with Mm.
The king of Sardinia was already beat
en, Aftsr Mondovi he made overture* of
peace. Without pausing, Napoleon ad
vanced on the mahi Austrian dlvr’cn un
der Beaulieu. Him he found irtrongly
ported on the Adda, hoktihe rhe bridge
that ted tnto the town of Lodi Frrk.dv
the Redi)M*cd had fouodci l<odi on ’he
gte of the ancient Rotnun Lens Pompela
a the 101 h of May th* Am-trlnns, ylxte- i
thousand wirwg, were attacked at the 1
bridge of the Adda by six
thousand French grendaiers, led
by NAipoleon and Lannes in
person. The action was bloody and
decisive. The name of Lodi was added to
the lengthening column of victories-. Two
thousand of the French were killed and
wounded, and a much larger number of
the Austrians. Here Bonaparte, fighting
in the ranks, gained his famous title of
Little Corporal, w'lbich to 'the end of hu
man annals will be repeated as h!s so
briquet.
Five days afterwards the conqueror en
tered Milan; Lomibardy was at hl-s feet.
He made levies and requAslttons with a
freedom only equaled by the audacity of
the things accomplished. He pulled down
without compunction the magnificent art
trophies of the city, and s<mt. them as fore
■tokens of his triumph to Parle. Well he
knew the effect which the news of the
startling events, and his 'treasures of an
cient art as evidence, would produce- on
the Parisians. Naples, Modena and Par
ma went down before him; and the pope,
becoming petitioner, signed an armistice.
Such was the first passage of the ■war;
and the second 'was like the first. The
coali'tlion was not to yield without further
battle. Napoleon made Mantua his next
o>bjeotive. FieJd-Ma>r&hal Wurmser of
great fame, a veteran of seventy-two,
came swiftly out of the Tyrdl wiiffli a new
Austrian army. Before he could reach the
scene of action, Afantua was already be
sieged by Napoleon. The defense held out
until Wurmser’s army came on ini two di
yislonis, and the French were forced to fall
back.
T'h-e division of his forces proved fatal
to the Austrian commander. Woe to the
army that was ever ’divvied in Ifro-nit of
Bonaparte! At Lona to. on the 3rd of Au
gust, he (attacked a division of Wurmser
and gained a complete victory; Gen. Au
gereau was the hero of the day. On the
5Uh and 6th of August a second battle, on
the same field, was fought with
still more decisive results; Wurmser was
hurled back, and Mantua again besieged.
The enemy soon returned to the onset.
At Rlverdo, on the 4th of September, the
division of Massena defeated the Austri
ans with great losses. On the Bth, at Bas
sano, Napoleon routed the main force un
der Wurmser in person. On the 15th o-f
November was fought the great battle of
Arcole where eighteen thousand French,
led by Napoleon, Massena and Augereau
triumphed over the Austrians nearly forty
thousand strong. The battle was fought
in a swampy region traversed with oa,use
ways and difficult bridges. After three
days of desperate fighting Wurmser was
bo disastrously defeated as tb end the
contest
Napoleon now sought to settle some of
the issue® of the war. He corresponded
w.-th the dilreetory; set forth the condi
tion of Italian affairs, and -his own pur
poses; Indicated the necessity of subju
gating Venice; granted armistices to- the
king of Sardinia, to the duke of Parma
to the king of Naples, and made with
Genoa a convention for a permanent set
tlement.
< A rcole - Wurmser threw himself
into Main'tua r an-d wo cooped up. In Ja»n
uajry. 179 L Austria sent her third army
into ;tne field under Gon. Alvinczy. This
great force proceeded -towards Mantua
as far a® Rivoli, where It was struck by
Bonaparte and -routed -wiith a. loss o-f
abouit twenty thousand men! At Favo-
r < _? n the letih, the French were again
victorious. The ruin cf Alvinczy’s armv
was complete, and on Feb. 2 Mantua was
surrendered with eighteen thousand pris
oners of war. *
Swiftly Napoleon followed up these tre
eJ?v°U,\a» CCe3 A Bes k , A fourth Austrian
army, under Archduke Charles, came
down from the Tyrol as tar as Tagllamen
°. n , th £. IGth of March, it wa.-
robted by the French. On the 7th of
April, an armistice was granted bv Napo
u«nd on l < h ? 18th bfl ma< le with Aus
tria his provisional treaty O s Loeben.
That power was compelled to cede the
Netherlands, and to accept, in mocking
compensation, a bit of the state of Venice'
Meanwhile, another coup d-etat had oc
curred in Paris By violence the two
state purged themselves
of fifty alleged royalists and anarchists.
Carnot and Barthelemy, members of the
directory, were sent flying into exile.
Such was the savage Indignation of the
renuhlic that the coalition became willing
KT Vt Campo-Formio, on October
1/tn, 1797, Napoleon met the representa
tives of the German empire, and with as
tounding presumptiooi dictated to that an
cient power the terms of pacification.
Openly, Austria should cede the Belgian
provinces, recognize the Cisalpine repub
lie and accept fragments of Venetla.
France should have the results of the war,
V”’ A°P lan Islands. Secretly,
the Rhine should henceforth be the bound
ary between Germany and France.
Before leaving the scenes of his glorv
Napoleon sent Joubert as his herald to
t aris. He shall announce for us the fol
lowing results; The campaign of the army
of Italy has extended from April 12. 1796
7 ,'-a We have taken 150,-
000 prisoners; 170 standards; 550 siege
pieces; 60f) field guns, 5 pontoon equipages
nine ships of 64 guns; twelve fri
gates of 32 guns; twelve corvettes; elght
bavc Slven "liberty"
(whatever that may mean, general') ‘to
t Eerr K ara A Mo £ ena ' Carrara, Ro
magna, Lombardy, Brescia, Bergamo
Mantua, Cremona, part of Verona, Chia
yena. Bormlo, the Valtelline, Genoa, the
P? rc £ ra ’ th * lonian Isles,
Ithlca. B e send to Parts all the master!
P i*' Cea n Of M'fhael Angelo. Guerclno, TL
Correggio. Albana.
Carracci, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci.
Not all the masterpieces of these immor
tals, arneral; but the rest Is true to the
letter. And by order of the directory your
glories shall be written in golden cata
logue on a memorial flag to be hung in
the great hall of sittings, and be seen bv
shouting Parts and the world. You were
never yourself a poor man afterwards!
John Clark Ridpath.
WOMAN OF FASHION.
New York. April 20,-The Ice once broken
we shall now have license for any extrav
agance In the way of a spring costume.
For, notwithstanding the fact that it Is
out of fashion to go on parade on Easter
Sunday, it is still true that Easter marks
the line between winter and summer, and
everything after Easter must take on a
summery look, and only straw hats are
allowable as headgear. The woman who
appears in a felt hat after Easter is al
most as much out of date as the man who
does not buy h!s straw hat until June or
July. Fur boas are discarded and wraps
are the shortest of short capes. Feather
boas, which were exchanged for some
thing warmer during the winter, have
come out again in all their glory. They are
better for cool days than the flower boa,
as the latter is chiefly lovliness, with very
little warmth thrown in. Sometimes,
when the flowers are mounted on ribbon,
there is a little warmth in a boa. but such
will be better -for hot days when protec
tion is not the chief consideration. A
pretty boa which will be just the thing
for those days that are to come is made of
a long strip of black ribbon, which has
I bunches of mses and leaves set on at In
tervals around the neck, with long ends
of ribbon and sprays of flowers hanging
down In front. This style of boa is less
brilliant than the kind made entirely of
flowers, and Is. therefore, preferred' by
thos* who follow Polonlus* advice to be
"rich but not gaudy In their attire."
The black rose and the black poppy are
iM»ed for flower boas with mourning cos
tumes. The silken flowers are very
pretty, con«‘dered as fabric, but conaic
lered as flowers the hue is against them,
for no normal being whose taste has not
become vitiated really admires a black
roae or poppy, even if It is only silk.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY. APRIL 25, 1895.
Blaok flowers are seldom seen on hats
any more, and they are the only ones
which have any such diistl-nctton. One
etarts out to matoh r. color in flowers
■about as -confidently as df it were rtbbo-n
that was wanted. It is a profitable botani
cal study to visit the counters where flow
ers are massed and vote the different
species. And there *s very little danger of
encountering any nondescript plants, for
nearly -all that 'are exhibited have their
prototypes in nature’s own realm, df we
butt search long enoug'h for the particular
class to which they belong. But the spe
cies doesn’t trouble the young woman who
is ouit to find flowers to match the old
pink tn 'her gown. Some 'llly-shaped flow
ers in dull red are a very rich decoration
for a black leghofin, and very little- other
trimming is needed.
Hats grow more and more beautiful. The
straw is .either very fine or very coarse.
There 'is no medium ground. The- very fine
Is usually leghorn, and the milll'neir \s al
lowed any latitude in puckering and pinch
ing them until their ’broad 'brims become
narrow and the hats look almost small. A
white leghorn, with pink trinumd-ng, was
laid in a pleat at the slide of the face, and
over this was a rosette of -pink chiffon.
Underneath the brim, next the hacr, was
a bunch of fascinating pink roses and
pink ties of chiffon fell from the back of
the 'hat. This fashion of wearing long,
gauzy ties suspended from 'the back of
the hat and wrapped around the neck
comes in every season, but there are so
few to whom tihs style Is becoming that
i't seldom last long. It is only the tall,
willowy g'irl without any bone in her back,
who looks well in such headgear. This is
the type -that the artist sometimes takes
for his representation of spring, with the
long ties wrapped around the maid of
willowy stature and floating in the breeze
as she balances herself on a piece of ozone
and grasps nothingness with her sylph
like hand.
But ordinary girls, with plenty of pot
ash In their bones, look best in some
thing with'a lilt and a dash about it—
-a big hat, with feathers set at a wicked
angle, and the whole tipped up at the
side at an angle that looks rakish but
premeditated.
It Is the same with gowns. The wil
lowy kind can w r ear a dress that has
an appearance of being wrapped around
the- figure with any visible means of
support; but this style is rare, and it is
safer to wear a trim costume, for when
one attempts to look -willowy and doesn’t
succeed, one is in danger of looking awk
ward or untidy. That is one trouble with
the blouses of this season. They are not
sufficiently definite to look perfectly neat
and trim. The blouse style -is very trying
to stout people. Many a stout woman has
very good lines in her figure which are
completely concealed, under the fullness of
a blouse, and, all that remains is the ob
jectionable size. One of the prettiest cos
tumes I have seen tor a woman Inclined
to embonpoint has a gray and black
striped si Ik skirt, 'that is stiffened in the
regulation style. A corselet of black vel
vet is trimmed with large fancy buttons,
and above this is a yoke of finer striped
silk, wifich also forms the sleeves. A
large hat of Mack mull trimmed with black
feathers was worn with this costume, and
the whole was a very stunning combina
tion. The general elfect was black and
white, and the colors were repeated in
the gloves. These gloves were very pecu
liar and something entirely new. They
were white on the back and on the palm,
but the spaces between the- fingers were
black, and the backs were stitched wLh
black.
Another variety of the same thing in
gloves had black backs and palms with
white stitching and white side pieces in
the fingers.
The new white gloves are all stitched
heavily with black and have large white
pearl buttons. The very newest shade in
gloves is pink—not bright rose pijik, of
course, but what is known as old pink—
and reminds one of shrimp salad. These
tints come In both dressed and undressed
kid, and the mousquetaire is the most
fashionable cut. Gray gloves will not be
worn, and tan will not be so correct as it
usually Is. Black gloves, stitched with
white, are allowable, otherwise not.
Shoes incline to the 'English cut, with
French trimmirfgs to relieve their plain
ness. This is rational, since the English,
being a race of pedestrians, should be au
thority on the science of sensible foot
wear.
Stockings do not come In solid colors.
Those that the merchants have had in
stock have been put on the bargain coun
ter. The new stockings have the foot in
black and the leg in some brilliant hue, or
are black, embroidered in a lighter shafle.
Many of the new stockings have open
work fronts, such as were worn six years
ago.
Ribbons saved themselves from obliv
ion by coming out in entirely new de
signs, and have succeeded so well in
their . bid for popular favor that they
are at the-head of the list of trimmings
along with lace and flowers and jeweled
passementeries. All the new ribbons are
wide, and this is a point in their favor,
for they will go much further as trim
ming. A figaro effect with wide ribbon is
as important a part of a dress as a real
jacket, as will be seen by referring to one
of the pictures here given. The material
of this gown is an old pink crepon. The
bodice is made with a full front, with a
figaro effect of green satin ribbon, which
also forms the collar. The skirt is trim
med with the same green satin ribbon,
set on zigzag fashion, with bows at the
upper points. The hat is a combination
of green satin ribbon, flowers and aig
rettes. It would be very easy to make such
a bonnet as this by pinning the various
parts on separately to the hair with hair
pins. I have seen an evening bonnet
made that way. The girl of ideas had a
jet frame in the shape of a coronet which
she pinned to her hair. She then took
some roses and fastened them to hair
and jet with hairpins, and when she had
finished she had an evening bonnet. But
that is digressing, and I have one more
gown to describe.
This gown has a figured siHc skirt with
velvet bodice. The bodice is turned away
to admit of a lace chemisette, and is
trimmed with a cascade drapery which
knots in the center of the front. The
sleeves are of chiffon draped over silk
of a contrasting shade.
The hat is trimmed with feathers, aa
many of the summer bats will be, not
withstanding the popularity of flowers
But fur that matter It would be difficult
to find anything that could not with pro
priety be used as hat trimming, and the
more there is of it the better.
Alice Amory.
Can Pnlns Be Remembered f
From Harper’s Weekly.
If an ordinary person who has at some
time in his career experienced the mis
eries of toothache were asked if he re
members the pain in question, there is
very little doubt as to what his response
would be. Unquestionably he would say
he remembered it. But this incautious
admission might lead at once to contro
versial difficulties, for it appears that
psychologists are In doubt as to whether
any one can under any circumstances re
member a toothache or anv other pain
It seems desirable to follow this state- !
ment at once with the assurance that
it is not a joke. Psychologists, as a rule
are not humorous, and thev have no
thought cf being funny when they as
sert that pains and other sensations can-
J‘ eme ™ her <*’- Those of them who
hold this- view are strictly in earnest
and mean exactly what the words imply
in their soberest sense. They are perfectlv
aware that we commonly speak of re
membering pains, and suppose that we do
remember them. But they contend that In
such a case we remember not the oaln
tJ ? e * hat were associated
with the pain. We remember, for exam
ple, that we were unable .to work be
cause we had a toothache; that we ao
®lled remedies to it unsuccessfully; that
finally we went to a dentist and had
the tooth extracted, and at once gained
relief. All this we remember very vtv
idly, as every one admits. But, it Is said
we do not retain in our minds the slight- !
est trace of the pain itself as a memory
or of the sensation of relief that came
when the pain ceased.
To the person not accustomed to look
ing sharply into the darker corners of
his own mind this will no doubt teem ‘
a very unnecessary splitting of hairs
But the psychologists do not so regard
it .They are discussing the matter pro
and eon with a good deal of vigor this
being, indeed, one of the controversies :
that go to make up the current historv
of that world apart in which the nhiloso’-
phers five.
Another moot-point of perennial inter
est to the philosophers is the question i
as to wh»t pain, and pleasure really a’-e i
psychologically speaking. There is op!
port unity for whole dictionaries full of
controversy on that question.
Donkeys have an aversion to drinking
running water or crossing a. running
stream.
OUR BAB.
A WRITER WHO IS EVER PIQUANT
AND EVER BRIGHT.
She Answers a Number of Her Fair
Correnpondents Afternoon Tea
Etiquette—How to Serve Dainties.
Dressing; for Dinner, Handshaking,*
and Letters of Introducton—Why a
Witty American Over in England
Referred to His Letters of Intro
duction as “Soup Tickets.’’
New York, April 20.—1 t never entered
my head that I should write a book of eti
quette. It has been my doubtful fortune
to read a number of them, and I came to
the conclusion,' as they invariably contra
dicted each other, that good manners
were the result of kindness and sympathy.
That so-called social laws differed in
every city, and that the women who were
counted as social leaders made laws for
themselves. I had no intention of start
ing an "Answers to Correspondence" bu
reau; but it has been forced upon me. I
regard it as greatness, but as a greatness
that is not to be longed for, inasmuch as,
when you tell somebody that a certain
rule exists where you live, you are at once
contradicted by somebody else, whp says
that they don’t do it that way in Phila
delphia or Kalamazoo, in Boston, or St.
Jo. How, it is to be understood in answer
ing these most interrogatory "letters"
that I am telling what they do in New
York.
The thing that troubles women most is
the simplest function in the world—the af
ternoon tea. She who is invited wants to
know if she must send axt answer. To
this I most certainly say, no. Her ap
pearance is enough; but, if she doesn’t
go, and is a married woman, she sends, by
post, in a card envelope addressed to her
hostess, one of her own and two of her
husband’s cards. If she goes, she leaves
the same number of cards, and she makes
no after call. If she is asked .to a dinner,
her note of acceptance or regret must
be written at once, and she will certainly
never be asked again, if she sends such a
note as this, which was received by a well
known woman:
“Mirs. Norfolk Howard regrets that I
cannot accept your kind invitation, but
my husband has made an engagement for
me, and If when he comes home he can
break tt, then Mrs. Norfolk Howard will
be very glad indeed to come. Yours
truly Mrs; A Mee Norfolk Howard.
Shades of Grammar, defend the writer
of this! You, who asked me about sig
natures, must know that there are no
Circumstances that permit rhe prefixing
of your title to your name. Business
and formal notes are written in the third
person. All other .notes are signed, “Marv
Edwards Brown.” And If Mrs. Brown
fears that the person getting this letter
will not know her title, she writes in
parentheses, in the lower right-hand cor
ner, "Mrs. Jaimes Brown.”
h .??J± tur n to the tee. The wise hostess
has her tea. table in the most convenient
room, possibly the music, possibly the
I £J n t l il ° dinting-room, the
table is larger than In any other. If she
should elect it to be: in- 'the drawing
room, it fcs- a small table haivtog’ upon it
kJYVII? m ' ade elaborate with em
broidery and drawn work; then the brass
tea kettle with Ms alcohol lamp under it,
te a caddy, am array of
saucers, a platter of wafers vr
tiny sandwiches, and a pile of napkins.
There te wisdom in inviting a friend to
serve the tea, and a neat maid, wearing
apron and cap. should be trained to
?.^ tly removes that have been
used and replenish the tea table with
rresn ones.
When a table is spread in the dinlng
y°°Jn ‘ h a *r re elab( *™to tneal is* offend.
the b Y«, never- the word “re
freshments.” n is Ipt?ne«’y vulgar . •
there may be tea served at one end and
niiAd he ?A her ‘ Cut "Slass dishes
oe filled with strawberries, for
which powdered sugar and whipped cream
tfnv nfv* 1 as adjuncts, while sandwiches,
"“J ®> nd y e , ry 9ma)l biscuits split
buttored while they are hot, are
counted good form. From 4 o’clock on
people may drift in and out of the dining
they, pJ T a3e - iMLondon! thfy
?? y ’ i 1 .? on y Americans who shake
hands- Here, that rather embarrassing
fashion, .is limited to the greeting of the
SX S ntV ilea simple bow 18 considered
sufficient for a now acquaintance, and an
old one gets a bow, smile and a few
th Ord ?‘< Those hideous jar:? advertised by
the big shops as “cradker jars,” and
ho,d STna P biscuits, and not, as
might be supposed, fiery trifles, suited
what a small Quaker boy called
the 1-ourth day of Seventh month,’ are
n logger seen In good houses, for they
are too suggestive of the pantry, or the
grocers. If you are asked to dinner, you
?? y . your , hostes9 the compliment of
dressing In your most beautiful gown
and wearing your richest jewels. You
cannot overdress for a dinner, for your
?,E!? ea £ an ? e is always a compliment to
? v^ n at the most informal
nne ,r the host heads the procession to
dining-room, taking with him that
lady who is of most importance, while
the hostess comes last on the arm of the
man of most importance, who sits on her
right, as does the lady escorted by her
husband on his right. The question of
being seated and the leaving the table
can be made easy by watching the hos
tess, who suggests by a look to each
lady where she wishes her to sit, while
her husband acts In the same manner to
ward the men. Here an after-dinner call
should be made within ten days, although
it is not considered necessary in Lon-
As a nation we are too prone to make
presentations where they are not de
sired, and to give letters of introduction
to acquaintances of recent date. A wo
man of the world will consider well be
fore she vouches socially for one, ana
then, when she does, her friends realize
that she means all she says, and that she
wishes them to show courtesy to the
stranger, who comes in her name In
England, a letter of introduction is at
once met by a dinner Invitation, and for
this reason, funnily enough, a witty
American called his numerous letters
soup tickets.” The next letter is about
cards. The received cards for ladles is
quite thin, pure white, not as large as
before, and with the name, address and
’at home” day engraved in ordinary
script. There is no excuse for a written
card, nor for, horror of horrors! a oink .
one with a rose painted by hand, in one 1
A young woman who graduated i
with high honors at a well-known col- ;
lege, who rfijid Hebrew and Greek a
fluently as site did English, horrified a
young Engllsman who had visit-d at
h< -S f* th ® r ’ 8 ranch by sending him, for. a i
wedding Invitation, a rose-colored prints '
card, ha ving In one corner a picture of the '
herself and in another a picture of the i
bridegroom, Seetnr her in the woods,
where the conventionalities scarcely- ex- I
Isted. he had admired her wit. been at- I
tracted by her beauty, and never dreamed !
until he got this abomination how utteriv
ignorant she was as to all social laws.
A young girl, who is just out, has her
name engraved upon her mother’s card
and does not possess one of her own un
til she marries. One’s Christian name Is
reserved for those whom one loves and !
who ar £ c!oB ® to one * consequently a i
widow does not have unon her visiting
f ard AHc ? E ro ’ r ?i' but ’ when she ;
is the widow of the oldest son, simply I
"Mrs. Brown," and when the widow of a
younger son- “Mrs. Norfolk Brown ”
using her maiden name and her married
one, so that exactly who she is may
be conveyed to her friends. No answer
is required to a wedding invitation. The
preferred formula (which is the one sent
out by Miss Leiter) is taken from the Eng
lish. because it says all that is necessary
in the simplest way. It reads "Mr and
Mrs. James Howard request the pleasure
of your presence at the marriage of their •
daughter Elinor with Mr. Charles Thomp
son on Wednesday, June 12, at 12 o’clock i
at St. Paul’s and afterward at 1.000 Fifth !
avenue.” No hour is named for the recep
tion. but the guests understand that thev
go direct from th** church to the house
The parents of the bride stand at the
drawing room door and receive the guests,
but the bride and bridegroom are not
with them, but instead further on in the
room, where they are ready to receive con- :
gratulations. Later on they lead the wav 1
<nto the dining room to the breakfsm. or
luncheon whichever may be served. There
is no formality as to entering the dining
room after the bridal party, and ladles
•may go without gentlemen as escorts, for
the number of ladies generally outnumbers
that of men at weddings.
As to visits, fifteen minutes is quite dong
enough for a formal one, and the proper
hours are counted as between 'three and
six. The most formal ones 'being between
four and five, while one’s intimates drop in
between five and six. Well-bred people do
not write “R. S. V. P.” on a dinner invi
tation nowadays as one’s friends are sup
posed to know that such an invitation re
quires an answer, and the letters suggest
giving a lesson in politeness. It is very
bad f orm for a man who meets either a
married lady or an unmarried one at a
tea to presume to call on either withevt a
suggestion that he would be welcome. And
'by the bye, when Mr. Algernon Smith iis
oid enough to pay a formal visit he is
quite old enough to take care of his own
hat and coat, and to retain his immacu
late gloves. And also by the bye (al
though Boston objects to this), in enter
ing a theater, a lady precedes a gentle
man down the aisle, with the usher ahead
of her. This method is preferred because,
if the gentleman were a head he could not
protect the lady from 'being pushed
against, and it makes It somewhat easier
for her to take the inner seat and leave
the outer one for her escort.
I think that is all they have asked me. I
believe I have done my duty as solemnly
as I know how, and I hope 1 won’t bring
on my innocent head the judgment of the
writers on etiquette who do know such an
lawful lot. They always say, as if it
'was the easiest thing in the world: “Be
at once reserved and yet pleasant.” It
sounds very easy. In real life it is very
difficult. Then, too, there are situations
-where it might be possible, and others
where it mightn’ t. I can imagine a, com
bination of reservity and pleasantry
when you have the toothache, and know
the dentist is going to take it away very
soon. That is, when there is hope in the
future; but I can’t imagine a combina
tion of reserve and pleasure at an auc
tion. you want to get something, and
four other women want it just as much
as you do. You said a dollar, and that
hateful woman said a dollar ten. And
then a woman who dyes her hair said
a dollar fifteen; and then you said a dol
lar and a quarter 'and tried to look pleas
ant; and then the other woman -said a
dollar and fifty cents, and you try to
took reserved,and only succeed in achiev
ing an expression of crossness. The auc
tioneer remembers' your name and speak
to you and you feel pleased, but not re
served, because you laugh. 1 tell you it is
a wise auctioneer who finds •out the
names of the different women. Women
love to be thought of importance. They
like to have Mr. French call out, when
he is selling a Corot, and he knows an
awful lot about pictures: “Now, Mrs.
Calvert, you are a judge of good work,
you are not going to see this beautiful
picture go for a mere song.’’ And Mrs.
Calvert feels that she is> appreciated and
bids on the picture; and, suddenly, the
agreeable auctioneer says: “Why, Mrs.
Tompkins, I didn't see you before; I don’t
pretend to teach you anything about this
picture. You have forgotten more about
art than I ever knew. I’ll just ask you
to look at it.” And. Mrs. Tompkins
raises the bid, and so the tempter goes
on, and lovely woman tries to be reserved
and squanders her money. I always
think, when I go to an auction, and I go
often, that the only safety for me lies in
Mr. French not seeing me; for if he does,
I am gone. And I am one in a hundred
who knows that pleasure is a certainty,
while reserve is a positive doubt.
Then the etiquette book says, “never dis
cuss personalities. Speak of things, not
people.” Well, youg bosom friend calls,
and you start china as a discussion. I
mean china cups, not the Chinese war.
Ethelinda says: “Did you ever see such
mean china as Mrs. Parvenu had on her
table she other day?” And you tip-tilt
your nose as if you smelt something not
quite nice, and answer: “She is a horrid
thing, anyhow. I am surprised that you
went to her house.”
And Ethelinda says: "Oh, she says such
funny things. You know, her daughter is
going to marry an Englishman. They
made their money in the retail way in
Chicago, I think. Well, a society reporter
went to interview Mrs. Parvenu about the
wedding, and she came down stairs in her
wrapper, and, think of it, dearest, she said
to him: T hope yon will excuse my ap
pearance, but I thought I had better not
keep you waiting, and so I jusf came down
in my non de plume.’ ” Then I told
Ethelinda, forgetting all about the china:
“I can give you a better one than that.
The daughter was out on the veranda one
night, and some one said to her mother:
‘Mrs. Parvenu, you ought to tell Miss
Mary to come in; she has no wrap on, and
there is a strong draught out there, and
she looks very delicate.’ Mrs. Parvenu
replied: ‘Oh, no, you are very much mis
taken; Mary is the most indelicate girl I
ever met.’ ”
"Well,” said Ethelinda, "there is a
story about the father that I think is
worse. The daughter introduced Mr. W.
D. Howells to her father, saying: ‘Father,
this is Mr. Howells, the great writer.’
Old Parvenu grabbed him by the hand,
with this greeting: ‘Glad to meet you,
sir, and if ever at any time you want
an account of anything that Is going on
in this house, come straight to me and I’ll
tell you' everything and give you a bill
of fare.’ “But,” added Ethellhda, "bad
as this was, there is something worse.
They have a younger daughter who is
snobbish beyond expression. A gentle
woman, who is forced to earn her living,
is her day governess. The other morning
this snip said: ‘I had such a good time
last night,’ and then proceeded to tell
where she had been and what she had
seen. The lady said: ‘I had a pleasant
time, too.’
“ ‘Where were you?’ asked Miss Snob
Parvenu.
“ ‘I was at the Georgetown assembly,'
answered the lady, ‘and by-the-by,’ add
ed Ethelinda, ‘this is the most exclusive
affair in Washington’
" ‘Oh,’ said this impudent girl, ‘I thought
they only had nice people there.’ ‘My
dear,” added Ethelinda, "that young wo
man needs the services of the professional
spanker.”
“Yes,” said I, “ofie can forgive Ignor
ance, but one can’t forgive that sort of
thing.”
"No,” said Ethelinda. "blood will tell.”
And then we looked at each other and
realized that we hadn’t lived up to the
book of etiquette; that we had been talk
ing about people and not things. Ana
if ever there were two guilty wretches,
they were Ethelinda and her friend,
Bab.
Tt apears that the steamer Allanca es
caped from the Spanish cruiser With one
of the most remarkable collections of the
remains of the ancient Peruvians that was
ever brought to this country. The collec
tion was made by Adolph F. Bandolier,
the archaeologist for the American Mu
seum of National JHlstory. The ruined
town of Ancon, on the coast, furnished
the richest collection of relics. Many of
the curios were found Inclosed in the
wrappings of mummies. Among otjher
things were spinning and weaving imple
ments, the former being a distaff, -wound
with many colored threads. A quilted
blanket, stuffed with fine wool, was made
in regular New England style. The same
mummy pack contained a beautiful fez
cap, made of feathers, a flint knife deli
cately chipped, a cotton bag, filled with
cocoa leaves, and also a bovM of peanuts.
In another pack was a paupipe, a stone
lancet, comb, wooden top and complete
fishing tackle of line, sinker and copper
hook. From a dhSld’s grave was taken
the oldest hammock in the world. Accord
ing to Mr. Saville, hammocks were un
known until Columbus saw them used
by the natives of America. The richest
part of Mr. Bandolier’s discoveries is the
wonderful collection of gold, silver and
bronze ornaments, and of pottery. The
finest specimen of the whole collection is
a drinking cup of pure gold. The entire
des-tgn on Che outside 4s the noble head of
a man. So delicate and perfect is the de
sign -that it rivals anything that modern
workmen can produce. Long pins of yel
low gold show that the Peruvian women
wore as lhandsome stick pins as the mod
ern girl.
Pack of tarda in His Coffin.
From the London Daily News.
At the little village of Nomps-au-Val,
near Amiens, a curious ceremony has
been seen at a funeral. The deceased
was a card-playing enthusiast, piquet
having been his favorite game. By the
terms of his will, a pack of cards had
to be placed in the coffin with his body,
ana certain of his card-playing friends
were to have a legacy or about a hun
drts pounds apiece on condition that they
bore him to the grave and stopped on
the way to drink a glass of wine at h
small tavern where, to quote his words,
he had "spent so many agreeable even
ings at cards.” The instructions of the
will were strictly carried out, and a con
siderable crowd assembled to see the last
of the piquet player.
YOU CAN’T ALW AYS TELL.
A Person Cannot Safely Be Judged
by His Surrounding*.
From the Washington Star.
“You have no doubt noted how complete
ly the felon a man looks the moment you
charge him with a crime and lock him
up?’’ It was a congressman from Ohio
who asked the question of a representa
tive of the Star. Without waiting for a
reply, which was bound to be in the affirm
ative, he went on;
“There has been one experience in my
wild career which led me to doubt the ac
curacy of our vision on these grated door
occasions. I’ve been made to wonder
whether it was not our imagination
which furnished the felonious look which
we see in these captives of the law. This
is the story: Lt was many years ago, in
Columbus, I was a member of the legis
lature. It occurred that a couple of fel
low statesmen, who were on a committee
which had to do with the institution,
were called by dint of business to pay a
visit to the state asylum for idiots. It
was an evening enterprise, and as I was
without any programme I accompanied
them. It chanced to. be a field day, or,
rather, a field evening, at the asylum. The
inmates were in a long hall, with a hard
floor, a cross between a ball room and a
gymnasium. At the far end of the hail,
on several tiers of seats, much like that
luxurious upholstery one finds at a cir
cus, were huddled the more irresponsible.
But down in the body of the big room
were probably 100 persons of both sexes,
ranging from 10 to 40 and 50 years, and
who were equal in a mental way to going
through a kind of a drill in calisthenics
with wooden dumb bells. And they did it
very nicely, as I noticed from my place,
with my fellow visitors up in front. There
was a brass band, tooj the instruments
being managed by inmates who had a
taste for the melodius. I am bound to say
that is was a good band; far better than
many which might boast more brains.
The zany who operated the B-flat cornet
was a wonder. I was much interested
in all I saw, and as many of these weak
minded folk were girls, and pretty ones
•at that, my reflections, as I gazed on the
scene, were not without a cast of melan
choly. I felt sorry for them; their fates
seemed vdry hard. To be born into an
easy world like this one of ours, and then
to not be granted sufficient wit to take
advantage of it was hard.
"Perhaps an hour was taken up in the
dumib bell exertions of the boarders, and
the music of their ‘band. The meeting
then lapsed easily into an informal dance,
quadrilles being readily arranged.’ Every
now and then a ‘waltz or round dance of
some sort was pulled off. It all went
smoothly off, too; the ‘gentlemen’ seek
ing their partners with the most studied,
if not labored, politeness, and the ‘ladies’
conducting tihemselTle® in all respelcts
'like belles of the first water.
“My fellow statesman had been over
there before, and appeared—like the horse
■thiietf in Louisiana—to feel perfectly at
home. It was no time at all when 1 I
beheld them each with a partner take
their places in a quadrille. And to their
credit, be it said, they did yeoman service
and danced every bit as well as the idiots.
While I was feeMng proud of them Mrs.
Boren; the wife of Dr. Doren, the superin
tendent of the home of little light, and
who felt somewhat responsible for my en
tertainment, asked me if I ever danced.
I admitted that on one or two occasions,
casting caution to the winds, I had. in the
teeth of the advice of my best friends,
given way to this frivolity.
" ‘Why didn’t you tell me,’ cried Mrs.
D., ‘l’ll get you a partner in a moment.’
And before I could restrain her, she called
to a very beautiful girl, seemingly about
20 years old, who was dancing with a still
younger girl for a partner.
“ ‘Here, Anna.’ said Mrs. D., in a pleas
ant sort of haste, “here is Mr. G. and he
has no partner. Won’t Maggie excuse you
and let you dance with him?’
“Anpie seemed in no wise loth. She ap
proached with smiling eyes, and. the next
moment we were a part of the waltz just
then raging.
“I was very much pleased with Anna.
She was such a dainty, beautiful creature,
that her mental .shortages were made all
the more a blow. I paid no heed to the
rather Informal introduction, which Mrs.
D. bestowed upon us, rightly concluding
that where the Wit of a person might be
measured by a child of 8, elaborate social
observances would only serve to tangle
an abash.
“As Anna and I were circling down the
situation we .conversed. 1 hammered my
observations down so as to keep them
within Anna’s reach, and we got along tip
top. After the waltz Anna and I promen
aded the hall with the others. I asked
about her home and her parents, and pro
posed such other topics as a child of five
might safely struggle with. I didn’t want
to overload Anna’s brain.
"Perhaps I was with her half an hour,
and it was the most sorrow-bitten thirty
minutes I ever added to my life. I was
i younger then, and more capable of the
softer sentimentalities. Anna was so beau
tiful and so unfortunate. Without that
luster of the soul; wanting that rich
warmth of color which springs from in
telligence; what could Anna be? My*heart
wept for her.
“But it was time to go back to the Nell
house. There were divers cares of state
waiting for me to plunge into them. I led
Anna to a seat, where there was quite a
cluster of idiots, and where she, there
fore, would not feel so keenly the pang of
my absence. Then I shook her poor, inane
hand, and after gently patting her on the
head told her to be good, and that before
long I would see her again. She thanked
me nicely; and there was a smile in the
corners of her mouth which made her ap
pear almost intelligent.
‘How did you find Anna as a partner?’
asked Mrs. D., while we were busy with
our coats in the reception room.
" ‘Excellent,’ I said, ‘excellent.’ Then
I launched into eloquent regrets over the
twilight fate of one. so fair and so af
flicted.
“ ‘Why surely you didn’t take Anna for
one of the inmates?’ said Mrs. D.; and
there was horror in the lady’s voice and
ire within her eye.
“ ‘I certally did,’ I replied, while alarm
began to curl at ihy heart.
"‘Why dear! dear!’ said my hostess,
what a horrible mistake! Anna id our
head teacher.'
"I never went back. and I never saw
Anna again,’’ concluded the law maker.
I hear she is married now, and make no
doubt she at times recalls me as the big
gest idiot she met at the asylum.”
DIMITRI’S CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
An Amusing Instance of Administra
tion Under Russian Bureaucracy.
From the Tagliche Rundschau.
There was once a Russian named Dimi
tri Dimitriewitch—there or thereabouts.
He occupied a tolerable powerful gov
ernment position in a certain Russian
country town—in fact, he was a sort
of glorified county councillor. He loved
wine, woman and song, particularly wo
man; also cards and horses. These quali
ties he shared with all other Russian gov
ernment officials. One afternoon he went,
as he usually did, to take tea with the
lovely widow Alexandra Wassilyevna, who
received him, contrary to the usual cus
tom, with a sad -and depressed manner.
With tender anxiety, he asked the reason
of her sadness.
"Dimitri," she replied, bursting into
tears, you know how passionately I love
music; and I have no piano! And when
you are away 1 have no solace, no ”
"Jfy sweet little strawberry. Sun of
my existence! You know yoh never ex
pressed a wish which I did not immediate- f
ly gratify! You have only to command and
the piano is here!
"Oh!” cried Alexandra, in a voice of
ecstacy, her tears all gone, "do you mean
a Bechsteln grand?”
"A Bechstein grand,” replied Dimitri
But Alexandra’s smiles disaopeared as
quickly as they had come. Dimitri bimi- '
trlewitch,” she said, "you are promising !
an impossiility; you are not telling me the -
truth. How can a piano be brought here 1
from the station through the bottomless 1
sand in summer, or the still more bottom
less mud in spring or autumn?”
“On a sleigh in winter," replied Dimitri
with decision.
“No, the piano would be ruined by the •
cold.” and Alexandra began to weep !
afresh.
"Loveliest flower in the garden of earth,” !
RRR
FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USE.
CURES AND PREVENTS
Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Influenza,
Bronchitis, Pneumonia. Swelling of the
Joints, Lumbago, Inflammation,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia
FKOST6ITES, CHILBLAINS, HEADACHE,
TOOTHACHE, ASTHMA.
.PAINS hi’fram one to
twenty minutes. NOT ONE HOUR after read
ing this advertisement need any one SUFFER
WITH PAIN.
Radway's Ready Relief is a sure Cure for
Every Pain, Sprains, Bruises, Pains
in the Back, Chest or Limbs—lt
was the First and is the
Only PAIN REMEDY
That instantly stops the most excruciating
pains, allays inflammation, and cures Conges
tions, whether of the Lungs. Stomach, Bowels,
or other glands or organs, by one application.
A half to a teaspoonful in halt a tumbler of
water will in a few minutes cure Cramps,
Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervous
ness. Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrhea
Dysentery, Colic, Flatulency and all internal
pa ms.
There is not a remedial agent in the world
that will cure Fever and Ague and all other
Malaileus, Bilious and other fevers, aided I y
ttADWAi'S pills, so quickly as RAD
WAY’S READY RELIEF.
Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists.
KADWAY & CO., New York.
EVERY MAS? W$L7
W. H. PARKER, M. D„ I *
THE MOST EMINENT SPECIALIST IN AMEBICIi
Established in 1860. Chief consulting physician
of the Peabody Medical Institute, to whom
was awarded the gold medal by the National
Medical Association for the Prize Essay on
Exhausted Vitality, Atrophy, Nervous and
Physical Debility, and all Diseases and Weak*
news of Man, FNII E> E* Q the young, the mid*
dlt-aged and wUfiEw old. Consultation in
person or by letter. Prospectus, with testimonials,
ED F F Large book. The Science of Life}
Jf Self-Preservation, the prize
essay, ,370 pp„ 125 invaluable prescriptions for acuta
and chronic diseases. full gilt, only SI.OO. double seals*
vigoPmen
i Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored. j
zut-*, Weaknew, Nervousnemfe
\ and al! tral *
°f evils from early errors or
W later excesses, the results of
Jb I&AtT Y overwork, sickness, worry.
I v A eto * Strength, deve>
if .„< I opment and tone given to
-^£^rt) every or K an and portion
of the body. Simple, nab
iPii'Ulini ural methods. Immedi-
J/4 ft ink I I nPI// ate improvement seen.
Arailure impossible. 2,000 references. Book,
explanation and proofs mailed (sealed) free.
PRIR MEDICAL CO.. Baffala.
Chlchcitcr’e English Diamond Brand.
Pennyroyal pills
9 Original and Only Genuine. A
j* zi’ slwayn reliable, ladies ask
V'MtM Draggirt forOtcbwter'. EnglM, ,Dia-JgnL\
.Brand in lied and Geld metal-VWfcSr
CX —jpfiJJJlie boxes, sealed with bine ribbon. \y
Wo tWTake no ot her. Befiue dangerout V
I / “* eubetitutumi! and Imitations. At Draggirto,
I *•» or send 4e.laetamp."rorpa.rtienlar»,te»t!ino-
\ "©« JR nIUs and "lt,dl<>rk>r Utter,
\ AT by return Mall. 10,000 TestiwmUl*.
/fame paper.
Chichester Chemical Co., Madison Rnnnre,
Sold by all Local Druggist*. Phllada., Pa.
FITS CURED
U, <B. Journal of Medicine.)
Prof. W. H. Peeke, who makes a specialty of Epilepsy,
ias without doubt treated and cured more cases than
tny living Physician; his success is astonishing. We
lave heard of casesofSOyears’standingcured by him.
He pnblishesa valuablework on th is disease which he
sends with a large hottie of his absolute core, free to
my sufferer who may sendtheir P. O. and Express ad
iress. We advise anyone wishing a cure to address,
Prof. W. H. PEEKE, F. D.. 4 Cedar St, New York.
PARKER’S " "I
HAIR balsam
jSfi Clean»e» and bcastlfie* the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
’-»Jrai :No * or Falls to Eeatore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color,
rCulet scalp d(aea«c» ft hair tolling.
cried Dimitri, “it shall be done; a road
shall be made on purpose!”
"Friend of my soul,” murmured Alex
andra, “I thank yoti.”
Dimitri always kept his word when it
was possible without any grave inconven
ience? So the next day he dressed in his
best uniform, and went to explain to the
governor that the town was simply going
to rack and ruin for want of a good road
to the station. The governor, who was
the father of six unmarried daughters, the
eldest of whom he had often thought would
make a capital Mrs. Dimitri, received his
visitor with much cordiality, saw the ne
cessity of the road, and agreed to allow
500,000 rubles for the undertaking—that is
to say, at the rate of 100,000 rubles per
tnile.
Dimitri went to. work alt once. But as
he reckoned that each mile would cost
him 96,000 rubies, at which rate he would
only be able to pocket 20,000 rubles on the
whole transaction, It struck him. he could
not afford to make a foundation to the
road. Nor did he; so that the work got
on qiuckly. Three miles were already nn
ished, and Dimitri <Vas about to travel
to the government town to receive the
rest of the engineering money, when a
fatal thing happened. Alexandra sudden
ly eloped with a Cossack hetman named
Nicolai Fomitch Dargan, so that ths
reason for the road existed no longer.
Just as Dimitri, with full pockets, but
a sore heart, was issuing from the door
of the governor’s palace, he ran into
the arms of a lieutenant of dragoons.
“Heltb, Dimitri,” said the lieutenant, "it's
ages since we rntet. Let’s go to Anton
ski’s and have a drink.” At Antonskl's
they found more dragoons, and a little
play was proposed. Dimitri had bad luck,
and when he left he had lost 200,000 rubies.
He went home very cross. He had lost
Alexandra, he had lost the money for
the rest of the road, and he was deter
mined not to spend od it what he had al
ready saved out of it. So he first gave
orders to leave off working. By and by
complaints reached the governor’s ears,
and he ordered Dimitri to appear before
him.
"Dimitri Dimltriewitch,” said his ex
cellency in severe tones, "take a cigar
ette and sit dowm.”
.“To hear it to obey, your excellency,”
replied the culprit, doing as he was told.
"Dimitri Dimltriewitch,” continued the
governor, “I have heard terrible tales of
you. Why did you not have a foundation
put to the road?”
"I forgot it, your excellency.”
"And why didn’t you finish the road?”
"I forgot it, your excellency.”
"And the money you received for the
road you lost at cards. Didn’t you know
it was his majesty the emperor’s money?”
“I forgot it, your excellency.”
"Dimitri Dimltriewitch, you have
robbed his majesty, our gracious czar,
whom God protect! This is a serious
crime, and, sorry as I am, for I am fond
of you, it must be punished. Either you
must marry my eldest daughter, or you*
mint be—ahem, transferred, shall we call
it?"
—Miss Eraddon Intends to write no
more novels. She has already given to
the world more than fifty works of fic
tion.
7