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True to the Last
A FRENCH STORY.
It wag the carnival season in Par
is ; and Col Eugene Merville, an at*
tache of the great Napoleon’s staff,
who had won his way to distinction
with his own sabre, found himself
at the masked ball in the French
opera house. Better adapted in his
tastes to the field than ihe boudoir
he flirts but little witn the gay fig
ures that cover the floor and joins
but seldom in the waltz. But at
last, while standing thoughtfully and
regarding the assembled throng with
a vacant eye, his attention was sud
denly aroused by the appearance of
a person in white satin domino,
the universal elegance of whose fig
ure, manner, and bearing convinced
all that her face and miud must be
equal to her person in grace and love
ness.
Though in so mixed an assembly,
still there was n dignity and reserve
in the manner of ihe white domino
that rather repulsed the idea of a fa
miliar address, and it was some time
before the young soldier found cour
age to speak to her.
Some alarm being given, there
was a violent rush of the throng to
wards the door/ where unless as
sisted , tiie lady would have mate
rially suffered. Eugene Merville of
fers his arm, and with his broad
shoulders and stout frame wards off
the danger. It was a delightful mo
ment 1 , tho lady spoke the purest
French, was witty, fanciful, and
captivating.
‘Ah 1 lad}', pray raise that mask,
and reveal to me the charms of fea
ture that must accompany so sweet
a voice and so graceful a form as
you possess /’ .
‘You would, perhaps, be disap
pointed.’
‘No I am sure not.’
‘Are you so very confident?’
‘Yes. I feel that you are beauti
ful—it cannot be otherwise.’
‘Don’t be too sure of that,’ said
the domino. ‘Have you never heard
of the Irish poet Moore’s story of the
veiled prophet of Khorasan—how,
when he disclosed his countenance
its hideous aspect killed bis beloved
one. How do you know that I
shall not turn out a veiled prophet
of Khorasan J’
‘Ah, lady, your every word con
vinces me to the contrary,’ replied
the enraptured toklier, whose heart
had began to feel as it never felt be
fore; he was in love.
She eludes his efforts at discov
ery ; but permits him to hand her
to her carriage, which drives off in
the darkness, and though he throws
himsi'lfupon his fleetest horse, he
is unable to overtake her.
The young French colonel be
comes moody ; he has lost his heart,
and knows not what to do. He
wanders hither a id thither, shuns his
former places of amusement, avoids
his military companions, and, in
short, is miserable as a lover can
well be thus disappointed. One,
night, just after he had left his hotel
on fo“t, a figure, muffled up to the
ears stopped him.
‘Well, monsieur, what would you
with me ?’ asked the soldier.
‘Yuu would know the name of
the white domino?’ was the reply.
‘I would indeed,’ replied the offi
cer, hastily. ‘How can it be done ?’
‘Follow me.’
‘To the end of the earth, if it will
bring me to her.’
‘But you must be blindfolded.’
‘Very well.’
‘Step into this vehicle.’
‘I am at your command.’
And away rattled the youthful
soldier and his strange companion.
‘This may be a trick,’ reasoned Eu
gene Merville, ‘but I have no fear of
personal violence. I am armed with
this trusty sabre, and can take care
of myself.’ But there was no cause
for fear since he soon found the ve
hicle stop; and he was led, blind
folded, into the house. When the
bandage was remqved from his eyes
he found himself in a richly furnish
ed boudoir, and before him stood
the white domino, just as met her at
the ma-ked ball. To fall upon his
knees and tell her how much he
thought of her since their separation,
that his thoughts Jiad never left her,,
that he loved her devotedly, was as
natural as to breathe, and he did so
gallantly and sincerely.
‘Shall I believe all you say ?’
‘Lady, let me prove it by any test
you may put upon me.’
‘Know, then, that ihe feelings
vou avow are mutual. Nay, unloose
your arm from my waist. I have
something mere to say.’
‘Talk oh forever, . lady ! Your
voice is music to my heart and
ears.’
‘Would you marry me, knowing
no more of mq than you now do V j
‘Ye3, if you were to go to the very
altar masked !’ he replied,
‘Then I will test you,’
‘How lady ?’
‘For one year bo faithful to the
love you have professed, and I will
be yours—as truly as heaven shall
spare my life.’
‘Oh, cruel suspense!’
‘You demur ?’
‘Nay, lady, I shall fulfil your in
junctions as I promised.’
‘lf at the expiration of a year you
do. not hear from me, then the con
tract shall bs null and void. Take
this half ring,’ she continued, ‘and
when I supply the broken portion I
will yours,’
He kissed the little emblem,'
swore again and to be faithful, and
pressing her hand to his lips
bade her adieu.
He was conducted away as mys
teriously as he had been brought
thither; nor could, he by any pos
sible means discover where he had
been, his companion rejecting all
bribes, anil even refusing to answer
the simplest questions.
Months roll on, Colonel Merville.
is true to his vow, and happy in the
anticipation oflove. Suddenly he
was ordered cn an embassy Jo Vien
na, the gayest of all the European
capitals, about tho time that Napo
leon was planning to many the
Archduchess Maria Louisa. The
young colonel is handsome, manly,
and already distinguished in arms,
and becomes at once a great favor
ite at court, every effort being made
by the women to captivate him ; but
in vain ; he is constant and true to
his vow.
Hut bis heart is not made of stone;
the very fact that he had entertained
such feelings for the white domino
had doubtless made him more sus
ceptible than before.
At Inst he met the young Baron
ess Caroline Yon Waldroff, and in
spite of his vows she captivates him,
and he secretly curses the engage
ment he had so blindly made at
Paris. She seems to wonder at
what she believes to be his devotion
and yet the distance he-maintains !
The truth was, that his sense of
honor was so great that, though he
felt he loved the young baroness,
and even she returned his affection,
still he had given his word and it
was sacred.
The satin-domino is no longer the
i leal of his heart, but assures the
most repulsive form in his imagina
tion, and becomes,- in' place of his
good angel, his evil genius l
Well time rolls on, he is to return
in a few days—it is once more the
carnival season; and Vienna, too,
that gay city. He joins in the fes»
tivitioa of the masked ball, and won
der fills his brain, when, about the
middle of the evening, the white
domino steals before hjm in the
same white satin dress he had seen
her wear a year before at the French
Opera House in Paris. Was it not
a fancy if •
‘‘l come Colonel Eugene Merville,
to hold you to your promise,” she
said, laying her hand lightly upon
his arm.
“Is this a reality, or a dream ?”
asked the amazed soldier.
‘Come, follow me, and you shall
see that it is a reality,’ continued
the mask, pleasantly.
‘I will.’
‘Have you been faithful to your
promise ! asked the domino, as they
retired into a saloon.
‘Most truly in act; but alas, I
fear not in heart!’
‘lndeed.’
‘lt is too true, lady, that I have
seen and loved another: though,
my vow to you has kept me from
saying so to her.’ *
‘And who is it that you love ?’
‘I will be frank with you, and you
will keep my secret ?’
‘Most religiously.’
‘lt is the Baroness Von Waldroff,’
he said with a sigh.
‘And you really love her!’
‘Alas! too dearly,’ said the soldier
sadly.
‘Nevertheless, I must hold you to
your promise. Here is the other
half of the ring; can you produce its
mate!’
‘Here it is,’ said Eugene Merville.
‘Then I, too, keep my promise 1’
said the domino, raising her mask,
and showing to his astonished view
the face of the Baroness Von Wal
droff!
She had seen and loved him for
his manly spirit and character, and
having found by inquiry that he was
v orthy of her love, she had managed
this delicate intrigue, and had tested
him, and now gave him her wealth
title and everything.
They were married with great
pomp and accompanied the arch
duchess tp Paris. Napoleon, to
ctowri the happiness of his favorite,
made him at once a fieneral of divi
sion,
Eooles for Playing onto a Organ in
Mectin’. .
BY P. BENSON, SR.
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A Foolhardy Feat—Crossing Niagara
on a Rope.
Signor Henry,Balleni, an Italian,
astonished the visitors at Niagara
Falls, on Monday afternoon, by
crossing the chasm on a tight rope,
as Blondin did years ago, and sub
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the rope into the river below, a teat
which his predecessor did not at
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hundted feet in length, was stretch
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on the other. Both shores were
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appeared on the Canadian side and
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was given to the man on the rope,
who marched along, apparently
with the greatest ease, to the music
of a band which was stationed in
front of the Clifton House. At 4,54
o’clock Balleni reached the middle
of the rope, where he halted to re
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applause which greeted hi3 exploit!
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tramp. This was the only stop
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had reached the American end of
his rope, he having made the trip in
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was off to the mid Jle of the rope to
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when there at once began making
preparations to jump. While thus
engaged he lost his ballancing pole,
which fell into the water and sank.
A cord six feet long, made of rubber
bands, was attached to the rope at
a point just one hundred and fifteen
feet above the surface of the water.
Balleni caught hold of one end of
the elastic cord before the spectators
thought he was ready to go. He
descended like an arrow and the re
covering snap of the rubber was al
most simultaneous with the loud
splash of his fall in the water. No
sooenr was the splash heard, than
the Signor came peeping out of the
water, and he struok out vigorously
and heart ly toward tho boat which
was there to pick him up He was
quickly hauled into the little craft,
carefully wrapped up with heavy
blankets, and rowed to shore.
A Joke on the Lawyers.—Rick
el was telling us the other day a
good joke on the legal profession.—
In a German settlement, no matter
where. he had been called on a suit
before a justice, in which Schneider
(but that is not his name) was a
party. The case was decided
against Schneider, and the old man
was naturally dejected, discouraged
and disconsolate, and satin the
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midst of the crowd with his
between his hands. The conversa
tion run on law, and someone de
scribed a picture representing a cow
with the plaintiff tugging at the
horns and the defendant pulling the
tail, while a lawyer on each side is
drawing the milk. This aroused
Shneider, and he said “Oh, dat is
nodings, I know von besser ding as
dat on de lawyers.” “What is it?
what is it? eagerly cried the listeners
Arid he told them; “There was or.ee
a man so sick that he thought he
must die, and he sent for two law
yers that he might have one on each
side, and die like Jesus Christ.”
‘Sam,’ said a darkey to his ebonj'
brother, ‘how am it dat dis yaa tele
graf carries de news froo dem
wires! ‘Well, Caesar, now s’pose
dar am a dog free miles long.’ Neb
er was such a big dog ; do’n b’leib
dat 1’ ‘You jess wait a minnit; I'so
only illustratin, you stupid nisger.
Now, dis yaa dog, you see, jess puts
his from feet on de Hoboken sho,’
and he puts his behind feets on de
New York sho’. ‘Yesser.’ ‘Now
s’pose you walk on dis yoa dog’s
tail in New York.’ ,Yesser.’ ‘He’ll
bark won’t he V ‘Yesser.’ ‘Well,
where will dat dog bark?’ ‘ln Ho
boken, I calcalate.’ ‘Dat am jest
it.; You walk on de dog’s tail in
New York, and he bark in Hoboken;
andat’s de way do telegraf works.’
‘Yesser; dasso-—dasso! You’s right
by golly.’ * .
A German Temperance Lectu
rer.--Tlus laconic but sensible Ger
man ought to be sent out to lecture
among people on temperance ;
‘I shall tell you how it vas. I
drink mine lager; den I put my
on mine head, and dere vosh one
poin. Den I put mine hand on mine
body, and dere vosh anoder pain.
Den I put mine haud on mine pock
et and dere vosh nottin: So I jine
mid de temperance. Now dare is
no pain’more in mine head, and de
pain in mine body vos all gon avay.
I put mine hand in my pockt, and
dere vos dwenty tollars. So I stay
mit de temperance.’
Thus far this year fingland has
imported cotton from the United
States to the value of over 24,000,-
000 pounds.
A Widower in Manistee, Michi
gan, who has forty-eight children
living, has just maried his fourth
wife.
English capitalists are said to
have invested five million dollars in
the coal and iron business iu Geor
gia. _____
‘Mama, why don’t yon wear a
hush !’ asked little Johnnie of his
mother, the other day.
‘A hush 1’ said the lady, what do
yon mean ?’
‘Why, I asked annty, what that
was that made her back stick out
so, and she said, ‘oh hush Jonnie.’
Nothing is more indicative of the
earnestness of life'than the sight of a
well develoded male creature spend
ing eight hours a day in. trying to
wear out a dry goods box with the
seat of his pants.
‘Who dat hit me T Whar’s dat la
tern V were the exclamations of an
astonished Virginia darkie alter be
ing thrown something like a huns
dred feet by a locomotive.
The St, Loui3 Democrat prints
the following beautiful fragment of
a poem on ‘The Streets of St. Loui3:
‘Go see what I have saWn
Go feel what I have felt 5
Go out at early dawn
And smell what I have smelt.’
Ven some men shlaps me on der
shoulder und say, ‘vas glad to hear
you vas so veil,’ und den sticks be
hind my pack his finger to his nose,
I has my opinion of dot veller,
‘Why is a chicken on the fence
like a silver dollar ?’ Because heads
on one side, and tails on the other.
The polioy of honesty finds its
latest illustration in Belmont, Mo.,
where a man look back from a mill
owne,r to whom he had sold it as
sound, a saw log which proved to
be defective, and afterwards, on cut
ting it up for firewood, discovered
that SSO in gold pieces had been
hidden in it by an unknown bank
er,
A little boy recently became
greatly enamored of a little toa
trumpet which had been given him.
Qne night as he was being ‘put in his
little bed,” he handed the trumpet io
His grandmother, saying; “Here,
gran’ma, you blow while I pray 1”