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AT FORTY-EIGHT.
At twilight, vis-a-vis with fato,
She Rat. unhappy and alone .
Her in ties tone* lumtiercd forty-eight,
No other pathway crossed her own.
No tender voice robbed age "f gloom,
, No smiling faces cheered her sight—
There only glided through tiierootn
The phantom of a dead delight.
••flow dim and drear the pathway seems,”
She said to mt‘ at forty-eight;
Long dure 1 wa.ened from my dreams—
i seek for naught; for u ailing wail.
“I am like one who hlindlv t - q>es
Toward fading sunsets m tin west;
Behind me lie t oir.h’B Shall, r- : hopes,
\\ hat can 1 a.ot for uotv but rest?
“Some jovß I south’ with heart on tire
Would find me nun. hut L too late—
-1 watched arabi'i" i’s funern' p re
Burn down ere in as forty-eight.
“With nought to hope, expert nr win,
This lone!' lot remains ;•> me;
To fount •be wree-sol v 'at -has been,’
An : h no >f that uo.hmg more can be.”
Too sad to weep, too tired to pray.
Alone s e sal at f ,riy-eight,
W tide sunset colors pa e l In gray—
How desolate, how and sol Hie!
t'll.i H'h eeler Wilcom,
MATTHIAS SANDORF
By JIILES VERNE.
Translation Copyrighted by O. If. Hanna, ISBS
CHAPTER VII.
THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA.
A quarter of an h'dir afterwards,
Pierre arrived on the quay s of Gravosa.
For a few minutes lie stopped to admire
the schooner whose but gee was Juzily
fluttering from the mainmast-head.
“Whence comes this JLir. Autekirtt?"
he said to himself. "1 do not know that
flag.”
Then addressing himself to a pilot who
was standing near he asked,—
“Do you know what Hag that is?”
The pilot did not know. All he could
Hy about the schooner was that she had
come from Brindisi, and tout ail her
papers had been found correct by the har
bor-master; and as she was a pi asure
yacht the authorities had respected her
incognito.
Pierre Bathory than hired a boat and
was rowed off to the Bavareua, while the
Moor, very much surprised, watched him
as bo neared the vacht.
In a few minutes the young man had
set foot on the schooner’s deck and asked
it l)r. Antekirtt were on board. Doubtless
the order which deni and admitiauco to
strangers did not apply to him, lor the
Isiatswain immediately replied that the
doctor was in his room. Pierre presented
bis card and asked 11 he could seethe
doctor. A sailor took the card and dis
appeared down the contpan'on which led
to the aft-saloon. A m.iiuto afterwards
be returned with the message taat
the doctor was expecting Mr. Pierre
Haihory.
Tue young man was immediately in
troduced into a saloon where ouly a half
light lound its way iu through the
eui tains overhead. But when he reached
the double doors, both ol which were
open, the light from the glass panels at
the end shone on him strong ami lull.
In the hall-shadow was Dr. Anteklrtt
Seated on a divan. At the sudden ap
puaranceof the sonot Stephen Bathory he
felt a sort ot thrill go through him, un
noticed by Pierre, and these words es
cuped, so to speak, from his lips,—
"Tin he! ’tis he!”
Ami in truth Pierre Bathory was the
Very image ot his father, as the uobie
Hungarian had been at his age. There
was the same energy in ins eyes,
the same nobleness in his attitude, the
same look prompt at enthusiasm for
all that was good and true and beauti
ful.
“Mr. Bathory,” 9aid the doctor, rising,
“I am very glad to see you ir. response
to the invitation contained in my let
ter.”
And he motioned Pierre to sit down in
the other angle of the saloon.
The doctor had spoken in Hungarian
which he knew was this young man's na
tive language.
“Sir,” said Pierre Bathory, “1 would
have come to return the visit you made to
my mother even If you had not asked me
to oomu on board. 1 know you ure one of
those unknown friends to whom the
memory is so dear ot my lather and the
two patriots who died with him. L thank
you for having kept a place lor thorn iu
your remembrance.”
“Forgive me,” ho said. “When I think
of the>-e things l cannot nel|> —”
Did he not leel then that Dr. Antekirtt
was unite affected than he w as. and that
If ho did not reply it was the better to keep
bidden wnat he felt?
“Mr. Bathory,” he said after a length
ened pause, “1 have nothing to f rgive in
so natural a grt if. You are of Hungarian
blood, and what child oi Hungary would
become so denaturalized as not to feel his
heart, shrink at such remembrances? At
that time, til teen years ago—yes, already
fifteen year* have passed—you were still
young. You can scarcely remember
your father and the events in which he
took part.”
“Sly mother is bis other self!” answered
Pierre. “She brought me up in the creed
of him she has never ceased to inouru.
All that he did, ail he tried to do, ail the
life of devotion to his people and his
eoun try, I bavs learnt irow her. 1 was
only eight years old when my lather died,
but it seems that he Is still living, lor he
lives again in my mother.”
“You love yßir mother as she deserves
to lie loved,” said tne doctor; “and we
venerate her as it she were a martyr’s
window.”
Pierre could only thank the doctor for
thus expressing himself. His heart heat
loudly as he listened; and he did uo notice
the coldness, uaiuiai or aoquired, with
winch the due to spoke, and which seemed
to be characn ristio.
“May 1 ask if you knew my father per
sonally ?” ask. and he,
“Yes, ilr. Bathory.” was the reply, not
without iioei tarn hesitation; “hut 1 knew
him as n student knew a prolessor who
was ono of ine iuo'. distinguished men in
the Hungarian universities, 1 studied
medicine aud physics in your country, 1
was one of your tatlier’e pupils, for hs
was only my senior by twelve years. I
learnt to esteem him, in love hi in, for I
felt that through ail his teaching there
thrilled all that which niude him later
on an ardent patriot, and l only left mm
when 1 went away to finish lb” studies 1
bad begun iu Hungary. But shortly
alterwards Professor Stephen Bathory
sacrificed his tiusltiou for the sake of
Ideas he believed to lie noble ami just, anil
no private interest could slop him in bis
path of duty. It was theu that he left
Presburg to take up his residenoe in
Trieste. Your mother had sustained him
with her advice, and encompassed him
with her thoughtfulness, during that time
of anxiety, Nhe possessed all the virtues
of a an as your father had all tbo
virtues ot a man. You will forgive mu
for awaking your sad recollections, ami
if I have done so it is only because you
are not one of those that can forget
them!”
“No. sir, no,” replied the young man
with the enthusiasm of bis age; “uo more
than Hungary can forget the three men
who were sacrificed for her—LadmUs
lathinar,Stephen Bathory, and the boldest
Of the three Mathias hmidorf!”
If bo was tue boldest,” answered tho
doctor, “do not think that his two com
panions were Inferior to him in devo
tlon, in sacrifices, or in courage! The
three are wor t hy n! tho sumo respect!
The three have the same right to be
avenged.”
The doctor paused and then asked If
Madame Bathory had told him the cir
cumstances under which the chiefs ot tho
ooßspuney had beeu delivered up, If she
had told him that troavm had been at
work? But the young engineer had not
heard anything.
j In fact Madame Bathory had been silent
"■subject. She shrunk from instill
i ii;. atred into her son’s life, and perhaps
, idlag him on a false trank, for no one
know the names of the traitors. And the
doctor thought that for the present he
had better maintain the some reserve.
What be dnl not hesitate to gay was
that without the odious deed of the Spani
ard who had betrayed the fugitives in the
house of Ferrato the fisherman, Count
Bandorl' and Stephen Bathory would prob
al.ly have escaped. And once beyond the
Austrian frontier, no matter in what
country, every door would be opened to
receive them.
“With me,” he concluded, “they would
have found a refuge which never would
have tailed them."
"In what country, sir?”
“InCephalonia, where I then lived."
“Yes, iu the lonian Islands under the I
protection of the Greek flag they would I
have been sale, and my lather would be
still alive.”
For a minute or two the conversation
was broken off with this return to
the past. The doctor broke the sileuee.
"Uur recollections have taken us lar
from the present. Shall we now talk
about it, and especially of the future I
Lavo been tbinkiug of for you?”
“1 am ready,” answered Pierre. “In
your letter you gave mo to understand
that tt might be to my interest—”
“in short, Mr. Bathory, as 1 am aware
of your mother’s devotion during the
childhood of ner son, I am also aware
that you are worthy of ner, and alter
tue bitter experience, you have become a
man—”
‘•A man,” said Pierre bitterly, “a man
who has not enough to keep himself, nor
■ to give his mother a return tor what she
has done tor him."
“That is so!" answered the doctor,
“but the fault is not yours. I know how
difficult it is far any one to obtain a
position with so many rivals strug
gling against you. You are an en
gineer?”
“Yes. 1 passed out of the sohools witti
tho title, but 1 am an engineer unattached
and have no employment from the State.
1 have been seeking au appointment with
some manufacturing company, and up to
the present 1 have found nothing to suit
me—at least at Kagusa.”
“And elsewhere?”
“Elsewhere?” replied Pierre, with some
hesitation.
“Yes! Was it not about some business
of the sort that you went to Zara a few
days ago?”
“1 had heard of a situation which a
metallurgical company bad vacant—”
“And this situation?”
“It was offered to me.”
“And you did not accept it?"
“I had to refuse it, because l should
have had to settle permanently in
Herzegovina.”
“Iu Herzegovina? Would not Madame
Bathory have gone with you?”
“My mother would go wherever my In
terests required.”
“And why did vou not take the place?”
persisted the doctor.
“Sir," said the young man," as lam
situated I have strong reasons for not
leaving Kagusa.”
And as ho made the remark the
doctor notloed that he seemed embar
rassed. liis votes trembled as he ex
pressed his desire—more than his desire—
his resolution not to leave Kagusa. What
was the reason for his refusing the offer
that had been made?
“That will make wbat I was going to
offei you unacceptable,” said the
doctor.
“Should I have to go—”
“Yes—to a country whore lam about
commencing some very considerable
works which i should put under your
management.”
"I am vory sorry, but believe me, that
as I have made this resolution—”
“I believe you, and perhaps I regret it
as much as you. 1 should have been very
glad to have been able to help you, in con
sideration of my feeliDga towards your
father.”
Pierre made no reply. A prey to in
ternal strife ho showed that be was suffer
ing —and suffering acutely. The
doctor felt sure that he
wished to apeak, aud dared not. But at
last an Irresistible impulse impelled
Pierre towards the man who had shown
such sympathy with his mother and him
self.
“Sir—sir,” aaid he with an emotion that
be took no pains to hide, “do not think it
is osprloe, or obstinacy, that makes me
refuse your offer. Y'ou havo spoken like
a friend of Stephen Bathory. You would
show in,■ all the friendship you felt for
him! I feel it, although I hare only
known you a few minutes. Yes, I feel for
you all the affection that I should have
had for my father!”
“Pierre! my child 1” said the dootor,
seizin'; the young man’s hand.
“Yes, sir,” continued Pierre, “and I
will tell you all. I am in love with a
young lady in this town! Between us
there is the gulf which separates poverty
from wealth. But 1 will not look at the
abyss, and maybe sbe has not seen It. If
occasionally I can see her in the street or
at the window, tt gives mo a happiness I
have not strength to renounce. At the
idea that 1 must go away, and go awav
for long, l become Insane! Ab, sir! un
derstand mo, ami forgive uij refusal!”
“Y'es, Pierre,” answered the doctor, “I
understand you and I have nothing to for
give. Y'ou have done well to toll mu so
(rankly; and it may lead to something!
Does your mother know of what you have
been tolling me?”
“1 have said nothing to her yet. I have
not dared, because in our modest position
she would perhaps have the wisdom to
deprive me of all hops! But she may Lave
divined and understood what 1 sutler—
what I must NtifVer.”
“Pierre,” said the doctor, “you havo
confided In me, and you arc right to
have done so! is the young lady rich!”
“Very rich! Too rich! Yes, too rich
for me I”
“is she worthy of you?”
“Ah, sir, could 1 dream of giving mv
mother a daughter that was not worthy of
her?”
“Well, Pierre,” continued tho dootor,
“perhaps the abyss may be bridged!'’
“Sir,” said the young man, “do not en
courage me with hopes that arc unreali
zable.”
“Unrealizable 1”
And the accent with which the doctor
uttered the word betrayed such confidence
in himself that Pierre Bathory seemed
as It were transformed, as If hs believed
himself master of the present, master of
the future.
“Yes, Pierre,” continued the dootor,
"have eotifldonoe in me. When you
itiiuk fit, and thiuk the tom. has come you
will tell me the !adj’ name—”
* “Why should I hide it,now? It is Sara
j Torontli.il!”
Tae effort the doctor made to keep calm
as h>> henrd the hated name was as that
of a mao who strives to prevent, hlmselt
from starting when tho lightning
strike* at nis feet. An instant—sev
eral seconds—he remained motionless and
mute.
Then In a voice that betrayed not tho
slightest emotion, he remarked:
“Good, Pierre, good! 1 must think it
over. Let mo sec—”
“I will go,” Interrupted tho young
man, clasping tbo hand which the doctor
held out, to him, "and allow me to thank
you as I would have thanked my fath
er!”
lie left the doctor alone in tho saloon
and then gaining the deck be entered bin
!>at, landed si the quuy, and returned to
Kagusa.
The stranger had been waiting for
bitn ail the time he was on board the Bar
arena.
Pierre felt very muoh happier m his
mind. At lest his besrt haul been opened.
Be had found a friend in whom h could
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1885.
trust—mete than a Mend, perhaps. To,
him this had been one of those happy davs
of which fortune is so stingy in this
world.
And bow could he doubt Has when he
passed along the Stradone, he saw the
corner of tho curtain at one of the win
dows of Torontbai’s house slowly rise
and suddenly fall!
But the stranger had also seen the
movement, and as Pierre turn -.1 up the
Kue Marinella, she remained motionless
at the corner. Then she hurried to the
telegraph office and despatched a message
which contained but one word—arid that
was
"Come!”
The address of that monosyllabic mes
sage was
"Sarcany; to be called for; Syracuse.
Sicily.”
CHAPTER VIII.
THE Mourns OF IDE CATTARO.
Aud so fatality which plays so predom
inant a roll: in the events of this world
had brought together in Kagusa the fami
lies of. Bathory and Toronthal; and
brought them not only to the same town,
but to tho same quarter ol that town—the
stradone, And Sara Toronthal and
Pierre Bathory had seen each otto r, met
each other, loved each other! Pierre the
son of a man who had been betrayed to
death, and Sara the daughter of the man
who betrayed him!
As soon as the engineer had left the
schooner, the doctor might have been
heard to say to himself:
“And Pierre goes away full of hope,
hope he never bad belore, hope that I have
just given him.”
Was tbe doctor the man to undertake a
merciless struggle acaiust this fatality?
Did he feel himself strong eivnisrh to dis
pose of tne affairs of humankind at his
will? That force, that moral energy,
which must be his if he wis to succeed
in fighting destiny, would not tail
him ?
“No! I will fight against it,” he
said. “Such love is hat tful, criminal!
That Pierre Bathory should become the
husband of Toronthal’s daughter and one
day learn the truth would be to deprive
bimetal! hope of revenge! He could only
kill himself in despair. And I will ten
him all if need he! I will tell him what
this family has done to his! At all costs
I will break this thing off!”
And in truth such an unifiu did seem
monstrous. It will tie remembered that,
in his conversation with Madame Bathory
the doctor had told her that the three
chiefs of the Trieste conspiracy hud been
tbe victims of an abominable scheme
which had come to light in the course of
the trial, aud that, this had come to his
knowledge through the indiscretion of one
of the l’ielno warders.
And it will also be remembered that
Madame Bathory for certain reasons had
thought it best to say nothing of ttiis
treachery to her son. Besides, she did
not know who were the traitors. She did
not know that one of them was wealthy
and respected, and lived at Kagusa, a few’
> arda away from her in the Stradone. The
doctor had not namud them. Why?
Doubtless because the hour had not yet
come for him to unmask tbeml But he
knew them. He knew that Silas Toron
thal wus one ot the traitors, and that Sar
cun.v was the other. And if he bad not
taken more into his confidence it was be
cause he reckoned on Pierre’s assistance,
and wished to associate the son in the re
tribution with which he was about to visit
the murderers ol bis father.
And that is why he eouid not say more
to the son of Stephen Bathory without
breaking his heart.
“It matters little,” he repeated. “I
shall break off this match.”
Having made up his mind, what did he
do? Keveal to Madame Bathory and her
son tho history of the banker of Trieste?
But did ho hold material proofs of tho
treachery? No; tor Matthias Sandorf,
Stephen Bathory, and Ladislas Zathmar
who alone had these proofs were dead.
Did he spread through the town the report
of tnis abominable act without first tell
ing Madame Bathory? That would prob
ably have been enough to open an abyss
between Pierre and the young lady—an
abyss that could not bo bridged. But if
the secret were divulged would not Silas
Toronthal try to loave Kagusa?
But the doctor did not want the
banker to disappear. Ho warned the
traitor to remain ready for the execu
tioner when the day of execution arrived.
And were he to disappear events might
turn out differently to what he had im
agined.
After having weighed the question in
all its pros and cons the doctor resolved
to proceod more vigorously against To
ronthal. Iu the first place it was neces
sary to get Pierre away from the town
where the honor of his name was in dan
ger. Yes! He would spirit him awav
so that no one could trace him! When
he had him ia his power he would tell
him all ho know about Toronthal and
Sarcauy, bis accomplice, and he would
associate him in his work. Hut he had
not a day to lose.
It was with this object that a telegram
from the doctor brought to the mouths of
the Cattaro, south of Kagusa on the Adri
atic, one of the swiftest vessels of his
lloet. This was one of those hug# launch
es which served as the lore runners of our
modern torpedo boats. This long steel
tube was about tortv-rour yards in
length and seventy tons measurement,
had neither mast nor funnel, aiul carried
simply an exterior deck and a steel cage
w!tu luutiouUr scuttles tor tho steers
man, who could be hermetically shut up
in it when the state of the sea rendered
such precautions necessary, •she could
slip through tho water without losing
Blue or distance In following the undula
tions of the surge; aud having a speed ex
celling that of ail too torpedo boats of tho
Old or New World could easily travel
her thirty miles an hour. Owing to this
excessive speed the doctor had been able
to accomplish many extraordinary voy
ages, and lienee the gift of übiquity with
which he had been credited, ior at very
short intervals of time he had been able
to run from the farthest corners or the Ai
otiipelago to tho outermost borders of the
Libyan sea.
There was, however, one striking dif
ference b -tween steam iaunoues and the
doctor’s boats, and that was that instead
oi superheated steam it was eiecrli tty
‘.ual furnished tho motive power by
means ot powe|fut accumulators invent
ed by himself long before the lat ir in
v. ntor that liavi{become *o famous, in
those accumulators lie could store the elec
tricity to a pm .Ucall) unlimited ex
tent. 'l’iieso dtatoh boats were known
as Electrics, ivitu merely a number de
noting the order in which they had been
built, it was Kleutrlo No. 2 that had
been telegraphed for to tbe mouths of the
• attaro.
Having given these orders, the doctor
waited tor tho moment of notion, and
warned Point t’esca ie and Cape Matlfou
that ho would soon require tlu*ir services,
and it is aardly necessary tosav that thu.v
were vory gin lat having at last an op’,
portunlty of showing their devotion. One
cloud, one only, throw its shadow ovor
tne gladness with which they welcomed
the (tOOtOpe warning.
Point i'eecade was to w ait at, Kagusa to
keep watch on the Uousi s iu the btradouc
and Kue Marinella, white a|t Muttipii
was to go with the doctor to Cattaro, Tit's
was a separation—the first alter so many
years or misery that they lmd lived
thiougli together—and hence a touching
auxiety on tho part ot t ape Mstifou in
thinking that ho would no longer be near
his little Peaoade!
“Patience, old Cape, patience! It will
not last! The play’s beginning, nml un
-1 r I not mistaken It is a splendid piece
they are getting ready for us, mid we
have a famous manager who has given us
both good telling parts! Believe me
you will have no reason to complain of
youra.”
"Thinker.?”
“I am sure of it! Ahi No lover’s part
for you! It is not in your nature, al
though you arc so sentimental! No
,; • aitor’a part either! You are too
big tor that! No. you are to be the good
genius couuag in at the end 10 punish
vice and recompense virtue!”
"Lika they do In the traveling booths?"
answered Cape Matifou.
“Like they do in the traveling booths!
Yes! I can see ypu in the part, old Cape!
At the moment tile traitor expects it
least you appear with your huge hands
open, ami you nave only to clasp him in
them to bring about the end! It tbs part
is not long, i; i sympathetic, aud w hat
bravos, what coiu’you will get daring the
run!”
“Yes, perhaps so." answered Her
cules; “but all the samo we must, sepa
rate.”
“For a few days! Only promise me
you will not destroy yourself during my
absence! Get vour six meals regularly
and grow! And now clasp me <n your
arms; or rather pretend to do so os if you
wt ii: on the stage, c * • you will risk stifl
ing me. Wo must get used to a little
play-acting in this world! Now embrace
me again, and nei r forget your little
Point Pescade who will never forget his
big Cape M a t!foil! ’
such was the affecting farewell of these
two friends wben their separation came;
and Cape Matifou was truly sad at heart
when he returned on hoard the Navarena.
The same dav his companion took up bis
quarters in Kagusa with orders not to lose
► ight, of Pierre Bathory, to watch Toron
thal's bouse, and to keep the doctor in
formed of all that went ou-
IlU'ing this time Point Pescade should
have met in the Stradone with the my
stet ous stranger who was evidently on a
similar mission; and doubtless he would
have done so had nor the Moor after send
ing off the telegram L-tt Kagusa tor some
place further south, where Sarcany could
join her. Pescade v. as thus not interfered
with in his operations, and could carry
out his instructions with his habitual in
telligence.
Pierre Bathory never imagined that he
bad been so closely w atched, nor did he
know that for the eyes of the Moor there
> ad now been substituted those of Point
Precede. After his conversation with the
doctor, after the avowal he had made, he
had felt more confident. Why should he
now hide from his mother what had taken
place on board the bavareua? Would she
not read it in his look and even In his
soul? Would she not see that a change
bad taken place in him, and that grief
and despair had given place to hope and
happiness?
Pierre, then, told liis mother everything.
He t id her who the girl was that he loved,
and how it was for fir that be bad refused
to leave Kagusa. Hu situation was of
little consequenoe! Had not Dr. Ante
kirtt told him to hope!
"That is why you suffered so much, my
child,” answered Madame Bathory.
"May heaven help you aud bring you
all the happiness we have missed up to
now 1”
Madame Bathory lived in great retire
ment in her house in the Kue Marinella.
She did not go out ot it except to church
with her old servant, for she attended to
her religious duties >■ ith all tho practical
and austere pity of h r race. She had
never heard tell of the Toronthals. Never
had she looked at the large mansion she
passed on her way to the Church of the
Redeemer, which is situated just where
the .Stradone begins. She therefore did
not know the daughter of the old banker
of Trieste.
Aud so Pierre had to describe her and
tell what she bad said to him when they
first met, and how he did not doubt that
his love was returned. And all these de
tails he gave wit; an ardor that his
mother was not Wprised to find In the
tender passionate soul of her son.
But when Pierre told her of the position
ol the Toronthals, when sba fouud that
the young lady would be one of the rich
est heiresses of Kagusa, sbe could not
conceal her unta-iaess. Would the ban
ker consent to his only child becoming a
poor man’s wife?
But Pierre did not think it necessary to
insist on the coolness and even contempt
with which Toronthal had always re
ceived him. He was content to repeat
what the doctor had said to him—how he
had told him that he could, that he ought
even, have confidence in his father’s
friend who felt for him a quasi-paterual
affection; a fact which Madame Bathory
did not doubt, knowing what ho had al
ready wished to do for her and hers. And
in the end, iixt> her son aud like Borik,
who thought it his duty to give his
advice, she did not abandon all hope; aud
there was a trifling gleam of happiuess
in the humble Lome in the Kue Marl
nelia.
On the following Sunday Pierre had
again the happiness of seeing Sara Toron
thal at church. The girl’s face, always
rather sad in Its expression, lighted up
when she caught sight of Pierre, as if it
had been transfigured. They spoke to
each other with their looks, and they un
derstood each other. And when bara re
turned home, she bore with her a portion
of that happiness she Lad so clearly read
In the young m in’s countenance.
But Pierre had. not again seen the doc
tor. He waited tor an invitation tore
visit the schooner. Seme days elapsed,
but no letter came.
“Doubtless," he thought, “the doctor is
making inquiries. lie has come or sent
to Kagusa to ascertain something about
the Toronthals! Perhaps ne has been get
ting an Introduction to 3ara. Yes! It is
not impossible that he has already seen
her fatner and spoken to him on tho sub
ject! A line from him, only a word, how
happy it would make me—particularly if
that word were Como!”
The word did not arrive, and Madame
Bathory had some trouble in calming her
son’s impatience. He began to despair,
aud now it was her turn to give him nope,
although site was not without auxiety.
Tho house in the Kue Marinella wan open
iiOtbe doctor a lie knew, and, even with
out this ic \7 interest Uo had taken in
I’ieire, w as not tbo interest hotwok in the
family for whom ho bad already shown
sifli sympathy enough to attract him
there?'
And so l’iorre after counting the days
ami ttie hours hud no longer strength to
resist. He must, at all costs, again sec
Dr. Antekirtt. An invincible force urged
him to Gravosa. Orioe on board the
schooner, his ImtfXtlHiioo would be under
stood. his action would bo excused even
if it were premature.
On the 7’h bt .Tune at eight o’clock in
the morning Pierre Bathory left bis
in.>Uo r without saying anything to her of
ids plans, lie left Kagusa and hurried to
Gravosa at such a rate that Point Pes
ccdc con'o hardly keep up with ntm. As
her it ’ll' I The quay in front oi the moor
logs occupied by the Bavareuu at his last
visit he slapped.
The schooner was not in the harbor.
Pierre looked about to see if she had
changed her place. He could not see
her.
[TO RE CONTIKt’KD.j
mow TUYIU.P, by resrnni; ms”Sot
<>f Life." iim host mod teal work ettr
pntilUacil. ior yo'ing sod rautdle-agsd net.
Please Try aud Not Re Left Tills Time.
To keep alive the great Industrial Kx
postlion at ?ryv Wp-ans, La., the lm
in (Mine xp.MvlijuroJrf .brains, money ami
labor lias been vttUxed by a thorough re
organization, and many thousands of
pleasure amt health seekers will go to the
Crescent ity, between now and Mardi
Gras, when the great event of Southern
liio ocours. But monthly Gens. G. T.
Uoaiireaaial. of Lcutaiuua, aud Jubal A.
Marly, of Virginia, supervise solely the
drawings of the Izvuisiana State Lottery,
and scatter some $2H5,f)00 to holders of
tickets or fifths thereof, costing from $1 to
Llt-ncb. Any information can he had of
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. Re
coil* t that Dot. 13 next will he the 185th
recurrence oi the event, and do not be ielt
1 this tune.
jPemrai,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Local option is creating a good deal of in
terest all over Georgia, and especially in the
larger cities, but Swift's Specific can be used
either wet or dry, and thus suited to all classes
of vuters.
The method of manufacturing Swift’s Spe
cific 20 years ago was strikingly illustrated a
few day* ago in the News by a cut prepared
by Mr. Hyde, the well-kDOwn engravor. Iha
picture was true to life.
A great many people want to purchase 8. 8.
8. by the gallon, but the company never sell
it in that way. It is put up m packages in dry
form, and in bottles, and can be had at any
r t-peciabie drug store in the country.
The S. 8. S. Company receive a great many
letters ordering their celebrated medicine di
rec’„, the writer stating that there are so many
imitations, and they are afraid oi getting
swindled. This can be easily detected. Every
genuine bottle has the signatures of J. W.
Rankin ana C. T. bwift on a strip of paper
pasted across the cork ot each Lottie.
We learn that the Swift Specific Company
are having printed 1.0u0.000 copies ol tho cele
brated Grier’s Almanac for Iwd. They are
for general distribution, aud everybody ought
to have one.
“Send mo your treatise on blood and skin
diseases,” is a sentence in almost every letter
received by the Swift Specific Company, it
is a valuable publication and mailed free to
ail who ask for it.
Those who have been poisoned with mer
cury and potash nostrums should buy 8. 8. 6
in dry form.
Friday is considered by many as an unlucky
day, but on last Friday, the ISth instant, the
Swift Specific Company shipped 9.378 bottles
of their Specific. Most of it went west by the
East Tenne-aee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road.
A gentleman from Atlanta recently travel
ing on a coast line boat from San Francisco
via Vancouver’) island to Portland, Oregon,
on his arrival at Victoria, called at a drug
store to purchase something for a disordered
stomach, felt himself at home, be said, when
he saw several boxes of S. 8. S. on the counter
of the drug store. The proprietors told him
that Swift’s Specific was one of the staple
articles in his trade.
A late number of Frank /.elite's Illustrated
Weekly had a good picture of the new capitol
building now in the process of erection. This
building is only one block from the laboratory
of the Swift Specific Company, who are figur
ing to add another story to their building in
order to supply the foreign demand for their
Specific. The people in America now buy 8.
S. 8. as fast as it is made, aud it is necessary
to increase the capacity in order to supply
this outside demand.
Swift’s Specific is now sold in dry form as
well as liquid. The dry can easily be pre
pared at home, and can be used without
spirits if desired. Price 50 ceuts per package.
Sent by mail on receipt of price. Some of the
most wonderful cures have been made by
using the remedy without any spirits at all.
In passing out Marietta street a lew days
ago, we met with Lem McLendon, who workß
at tbe oil talk ol Chess-Carley Company.
When asked about his statement recently
published aa to a wonderful cure of blood poi
son, he replied very promptly; "It is true
every word ol it. I was given up to die when
I first began to take S. S. S. In fact they told
me I could not live two weeks longer. I took
nothing else bnt S. S. 8., and am sound and
well, and have not felt a symptom ol the old
disease since I was cured a year ago. Have
been at heavy work, earning my fS a week,
and have not missed a single day from my
work during this time. Yes, sir, every word
of it is true. Swift’s Speciflo saved my life.”
Mr. W. B. Croebey, Manager the Atlanta
division of this famous oil company, says that
Lem McClendon is every way reliable, and
that what he says is true as to his case.
“I have found the wonder of tho 19th cen
tury,” remarked a man from Ohio, a few days
ago, to one of our druggists, "aud it is a pro
prietor of a patent medicine who told me that
his remedy was not suitable to my case, and
advised me not to take it. 1 called at tbe
laboratory of the Swift Speoiilc Company and
consulted their physician with the above re
sult. I was convinced so thoroughly tba 4
their Specific is a good medicine that I have
bought a case and sent it to my cousin who
has scrofula. They told me it would cure
scrofula, and 1 believe it to bo true."
8. 8. 8. is a harmless remedy; it is a relia
ble remedy for all disorders of the blood, and
cleanses the system by forcing the impurities
out through the pores of the skin. It is now
sold in dry form, and can be prepared at
home. Price 50 cents per package. We advise
those who have been worn down with mercury
and potash nostrums to use the dry form.
“I kuow a man whoso bones are almost as
brittle as glass,” was remarked to a Constitu
tion man the other day. “His bones were so
brittle that in throwing a stone, he broke his
arm between tbe shoulder and elbow, i
know another man,” continued the speaker,
"who kicked at a dog and broke his thigh. In
vestigation showed that liotb these men bad
been taking iarge quantities of mcroury. and
for quite a time. If they had been under the
treatment of good pbvsicians to regulate the
dose and quantity, it would no doubt have
beeu all right, but they had been taking nos
trums containing such poisonous drugs as
mercury, potash, etc., and had fatully im.
paired their health.” These cases are beyond
the reach of 8. 8. S. or .’my other remedy, hut
they might have been saved if they had taken
the right medicine. Mr. Thomas H. Morgan,
of Oglethorpe,Ga., says that he suffered many
years from mineral poisoning and had a ter
rible mercurial sore on his leg which his doc
tor thought would render amputation neces
sary. Ho objected to the cutting and took
swift's specific instead. Tbe result is that be
is entirely well, has two good legs, and is in
belter health than for many years.
From tho Old North State.
About four years ago I had what tbe doc
tors called catarrh, being brought on by ex
posure to cold weather. They said it wus
lucurable. I left Wilmington aud went to
Goldsboro, N. 0., and while there an eating
rore can't’ on my nose. The doctor whom 1
consulted called il cancer. I was under ireat
ment ol rornc m or seven, physician*, some of
them speclsluts in tills line, in Wilmington,
Goldsboro, Stnilhiieid, Kuleigh and Magnolia,
N hut I continued to grow worse all the
time I ws* in a denlorsble condition. m>
nose eaten iff and a hole iu my cheek near my
eye. Depressed and dlaboarloued, I returned
to Wlliniugton, I thought, to die. One morn
log while rending the Pally .•‘tar of thiaritv,
my eve caught the sonic nos. “i was cored of'a
I'Hi'f- rby using X. 8. 8.” This gave me hope,
and I sent at once to tho drug store and pro
cured a bottle. Ibegnu to feel better from tho
start, and bv the turn* I had taken Ihror hot
tlea the cancer began to heal, and now my
noae in well and has been for two veers, and
1 attend to tnmineesevery day. J am troubled
a little sometime with catarrh, otherwise my
health Is good. Rrv.J.G Drgss.
Timekeeper on Atlantic i oust Line K. K.
Wilmington, -V. I ~ JSejtl, to, IStii.
Oct the genuine Swift's Specific, and beware
or imitations, and mercury and |>olash mix
tures. ficml for Book on Bkm and Blood Dis
eases. and Contagious Blood Poison, both
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY
DRAWER 3, ATLANTA,GA.
Well Open (toFiSeason
ON MONDAY, SEPT. 28,
WITH THE
GRANDEST BARGAINS
IfiVKK HEAKD OF.
DRESS GOODS ANI) SILKS.
V\' r E have made extraordinary efforts in this line, and havo received a very large line i
v v ready, vet immense quantities for which we have contracted are arriving dailv w.
propose to show all grade* of goods, from the humblest to the choicest, noivest and most el..
“■ *•—- • *
FLANNELS AND WOOLENS.
have every thing desirable in this line, tbe Plain Flannel, the Twill Flannel, the Shaker
tbe Plain Opera, me Basket Flannel, also Embroidered Flannelson White, Blue ami Red r„’
fact, everythiug that you can ark for and at such prices that we feet confident to ldease. ’ w
do not ask you to buy on sight, but if you desire to purchase such goods, to examine ours
fore you purchase elsewhere.
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.
We have a supcrli line of Table Damasks of all kinds, the very best, the medium and th*
low grades—prices right. You can't find them as low any where. Our Towels are iminenaA
A L linen Glass Towels, yard long, at 10c; All Linen Damask Towels at 10c and 15c, worth i r .
and 25c. We have a lino of 25c Towels which we are sure will put every Towel m the fthKlD
for which they ask you double. Next our Curtain Laces from 10c up. lie member, wo <ion*t
aek fancy prices. These are goods you don't buy every dav; hence you are not supposed to ba
a good judge, yet we make the lowest prices, whether you know’ or don’t know; we will
vou full value. We treat everybody alike, whither you understand the good?* or not. w
have a nice line of Linen and Woolen Embroidere I Table Covers, excellent value, prices bo
iow you can’t afford to do without them. i?hoetings and Pillow Casing**; every known tmtU
at lowest price. Just think, we will sell you the ooicbrgted Merrimack 45-inch Pillow Caum?
at BUc. Good Sheetings at Ise and 20c. The celebrated Pepperel Brand at 26c; New York
Mills, 10-4, at 30c; Wamsutta, 10-4, ai 35c. If you think vou can beat these prices, just try it
They might meet the competition, but they won’t offer these goods at such prices.
Lonsdale Shirting and Fruit of the Loom by the piece, the former at Be, the latter at7o
Bv-the-by, when you call please ask to see our Napains and Doylies. We really can do you
good. Tne only drawback you will find ia this: if you have no need for them you willbs
tempted to buy them, for they are so nice and wondrous cheap.
Another thing we make a specialty of this season, and intend to impress it upon you eo
that you can’t forget It, is to buy your 1
BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES AND BED SPREADS
Of us every time, for we are preparing to give you the best value for as little money as possi
ble. But do not foreet, in fact please never forget, that we keep every quality of these good,
if you desire the very choicest quality, we have it sure, but we will not charge you a tanev
price for it. 3
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ UNDERWEAR,
Also Children’s Underwear. We keep a complete line, every quality to the very finest iu the
market. We will mention here a line of All Wool Scarlet Medicated Gents’ Undershirts, sold
everywhere at ?1, which we offer at 59c. We desire to tell you also, and to impress upon your
mind that we have a very choice line of Ladies’ Muslin and Cambric Gowns, Chemises, liras’,
era. We claim that our assortment cannot be surpassed and our prices are right.
Gents’laundried and Unlaundried, also Fancy Shirts Is a specially we have given muoh
thought, and we can cheerfully recommend this stock for quality style and prices. We have
a complete line of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, and gentlemen would I eneflt themselves if they
will give us a call, for we have excellent goods at probably one-half the price they have beea
in the habit of paying.
We desire you not to forget that we keep a full line of Jerseys, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs,
Ribbons, Braids, Buttons, La'-es, Corsdts, Vfiling.-, Crepes, Buttons, Gloves/Collars, Crockery,
Glassware and Window Shades, and we respectfully ask a patronage for the same.
WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES;
6 cases Fruit of the Loom Shirting, by the piece at 7c.
5 cases the celebrated Lonsdale Blnrting. bj the piece at Bc.
6 cases t-i Bleached, worth Bc, by the yard at Sc.
10 bales Heavy Sheeting, 4-4, worth Bc, by the yard at 5c..
10 bales Fine Sea Island 4-4 Sheeting, worth Bc. by the yard at So.
40 pieces 5-4 Piilow Casing, the celebrated Merrimack, at fij.3o.
100 pieces 10-4 Pepperel Sheeting at 25c.
50 pieces 10-4 New York Mills at 30c.
50 pieces 10-4 Wamsutta Mills at 35c.
100 pieces Lower Grades ol Sheetings at 15c, 18c and 20c.
35 pieces AU Wool Red Flannel, worth 25c, at 15c.
, 500 pieces first quality Mourning Prints, worth Bc, at sc.
050 pieces Good style Prints, worth sc, at So.
We have carefully enumerated some of our bargains, but we have hundreds of them more,
for we have a buyer in New York all the year round, who watches for all chanches to buy be
low tbe ruling market prices, and therefore we are confident that we n*cd not fear competi
tion. Should competion cause us to cat prices still lower, we are able and willing to da >at
the shortest notice. Please hear in mind that we do not put one or the other ariicle down to
draw trade, but that every article wo sell, considering the quality, will be fouud tu Le lower
than can be purchased elsewhere.
DA VI O WEISBEI IS 9
SitQar JitfUc an!) piiuo.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
Brouffhtou Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets,
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA,
Casting of all Kinds at Lowest Possible Prices.
THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS
t 1 I Tr AS Induced us to manufacture them on a more extensive scale thaa
r I 1 ever. To that end no pains or expense has been spared to maintain
their high STANDARD OF F.XCELLKNI K.
These Mills are of the BET MATERIAL and WORKMANSHIP,
with heavy WROUGHT JKoN SHAFTS .made long lo prevent, danger
to the operator), and rollers of the best charcoal pig iron, ail turned up
true. They are heavy, strong and durable, run light and even, and are
ca P* l>le °* geot'liug tho heaviest fully
AU our Mills are fully warranted for one year.
<^ur Fans being ca.-t with the nottoms down.
smoothness, durability nr.d uniformity of
far SUI’EBIOR To I ilu.aJS MADE IN .I**
Td HT THE USUAL WAY.
® Having unsurpassed facilities,
WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES
TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED. A large stock always on hand for prompt delivery
WM. KEHOE & CO.
N. 8.-Tbe name "KEHOE'S IRON WORKS’* is cast on all our Mills and Pans.
ilfomiml
Wish tocallliie attention ot'their Friend; and the public generally to
their large stock of
l tf Sugar Mills and Pars! \
H THEY NOW HAVE ON HAND. WHICH ARK
m H ora very SUPERIOR QUALITY and at moderate
They being tbe oldest establishment iu the city hofiS
- ” “
■’es.'nx UN EQUALED KAOITITIE- lit supplying a Kin-T-ULA*®
, r* V 1 ’-*2l ' KTU I K. feel confident of giving salts fuel ion ui their friends wtw
KfWMIIMHWBc. iJlfavor them with their orders
"-HWIyWM? nmiBB They *lo k* p on hen 1 a lull suiqili of STATION ARY and r'Uil A
’,§l“-* ENGINES and BOILERS; a!s,>, VERTICAL and TOP ttb.NMM*
B H C OHN MIU.', together with all other work unuAliy to be ha<i to a uri
*** cla*H ehUblUltiuent.
We Solicit your Orders, which xhall hare onr PItp.WPT ATITNTIOY*
ilattrrti.
W. C. STKVKnX ~ J.'u. STLVENS WM. STEPHENS. a .
Headquarters ot sewer m < u ;i,l !uiuiiNU-f
eveflnatlng. TIT.K for Drying Land. DOUBLE GLAZED VI TRIFJKD WA l
? IKE BRICK, uaoqualM iu quality and price. BORDER BRICK, the very U |1,11, „ r , .
ornamentation of yard*. GRATE BRICK, .omothiug ntoe and that will nerej JtfiTuirt
FLOWERPOTS, WALL ROTS, and UUN3 Plain and Taucv. WE BELL NONE Bic
FIRST-CLASS GOODS, and for leu nmuev loan any Pottery iu the Southern State*-
To City Corporations and Radwave w offer special inducement*. Write for Pf‘ cllBl
•end ua jrour orders and they will be filled with piomptneaa and care.
BTETEHB, IJUO, A U> M Stereos’ Pottery, *•