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Re curse of carnes hold.
A TAT/E OF ADVENTURE,
By Gk -A.. HIEISTT-Y. .
4uthor gj “Under Dbaki'3 Flag,” “With Clive Is India,'’ Etc., Etc.
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1 CHAPTER L
| how THE CCBSK BEGAN.
I T here was nothing about Carne’s Hold
l “would have suggested to the mind of
RToassing stranger that a curse lay upon
W Houses to Which an evil history is at
fc-hed lie almost uniformly in low and
Kin situations. They are embedded in
CT their appearance is gloomy and
Edancboly. The vegetation grows rank
■round them. The drive is overgrown
Eth weeds and mosses, and lichens cling to
■ wal is Carne’s Hold possessed none of
EL features. It stood high up on the
■one of a hill, looking down into the val-
Ev of the Dire, with the pretty village of
Earuesford nestling among its orchards,
End the bright stream sparkling in thesun
■ ThLe was nothing either gloomy or for-
Edding about its architect ire, for the term
■Hold" that the country people applied to
was now a misn >mer, for the boinbard-
Ks of Essex had battered the walls of the
Krdfied house, ad tiad called in the aid of
Ire to finish destruction. The whole of the
Iresent house was therefore subsequent to
Kat date; it had been added to ad en
■arced many times, and each of its owners
Kd followed out his own fancies in utter
|T,regard of those of his prede essors; con-
Knue itly the house represented a medley
If diverse styles, and, although doubtless
In architectural monstrosity, was pictur-
Kque and pleasing to the eye of men iguor-
Eit of the cauous of art.
■ fhere were no large t ees near it, though
I clump i ose a few hundred yards behind
I an d took away the effect of bareness it
I'ould otherwise have had. The garden is
Kell kept, and bright with flowers, and it
Kas cloa that no blighting influence hung
Ker them, nor, it would be thought, upon
Re girl who, with a straw hat swinging in
■e band, and a basket, moved among
Kern. Butt, ,e country people for six
Riles round firmly lelieved that a curse
Ry on Carne’s Hold, and even among the
Rmnty families no one would have been
Rilling to give a daughter in marriage
RaD owner of the place. The family
low simply called their abode the Carue’s.
I Carnesford, now a good sized villago, had
Rice been a tiny hamlet, au appanage of
Karne’s Hold, but it bad long since grown
Rut of the leading strings, and though it
Hill regarded the Carne’s with sometning
Rf its ulu feudal feeling, it now furnished
R> suit or service unless paid for so doing.
Ramesford had grown but little of late
Rear.-, and had no tendency to i crease.
Ruere was work enough in the neigbbor-
Rood for such of its inhabitants as wanted
H work, and in summer a cart went daily
Ritb fruit aud garden produce to PI. ni-
Ruth, which lay about twenty miles away,
Keenest road clipping down into tne valley,
Hid crossing the bridge over the Dare at
Har est'ord, and then climbing the hill
Ham to the right of the Hold.
■ Artists sometimes stopped for a weeks
H sketca the quaint old-fa-hioned houses
■ the main street, and especially the mill of
Hu am Powlett, which seemed to have
Hianged in no way since the days when its
Rwner held it on the tenure of grinding
Rub corn as the owners of the Hold re-
Riired for the use of themselves and their
Often, too, in the season, a
would descend from the coach
it stopped to change horses at the Carne’s
Hrms end take up his quarters thore, for
was raro fi-tiing in tuo Dare, b >th in
deep s:iU pool ab >ve the mill and for
four miles furt.ier up, while sea
Rout were nowhere to be found plumper
Rid stro :ger tha 1 in the stretcu of water
Rt'ieen Carnesford aud Dareport, two
away,
■ Here, where the Dare ran into the sea,
Ras a fishing village as yet untouched, and
■most u known even by wandering
Rmrists, and offering indeed no accomino
■atiou whatever to the stranger beyond
■hat he might, percuance, ootaln in the
■shermen’s cotia.es. The one drawback to
■arneslord, as its visitors declurod, was the
■m. It certainly rained often t ere, but the
■Hagers scarcely noticed it. It was bo the
they knew, that they owed the bright
the vadey and the luxurious lessor'
■it-garden crons, wnich always fetched the
■p price i t Pl>mouth market; and they
so accustomed to the soft mis
lip by tne southwest wind from
the sea that they never noticed
■aether it was raining or not.
■ Mrungers, however, were less patient, and
HT“ UI, R man who was standing at t.ho door
the Larne Arms just a- t 10 evening was
■ usm K iiat t .e end of a day in tuo begin
of October, ISSO, looked gloomily out
■ the wea her.
H' "One dues not mind when one is fishing,”
■>muttered to himself, “but w on one has
changed into dry clothes one does not
■ant to be a prisoner Here every evom lg
■imtuer <iay like this, and I shall pack up
traps aird get back again on board.”
■he turned and wont hack into the house,
■>u entering the bar, took his seat in the
■be sanctum behind it, for he had been
lug in the house for a week, and was
■m, <*, '* r ‘vileged personage. It was a
i tle room; some logs were blazing on
Hearth, f r although the weather was
■could, it was damp enough to make afire
'ant. lures of the landlord’s particu
■r crimes were seated there—Hiram Pow
■t . the miller, and Jacob Carev, the black
,’. and ,'T' 1 Reuben Claphurst, who bad
■en the vnlage clerk until his voice bee me
■ Urn and uncertain a treble that the
■m WaS oblli = t 0 find a successor for
Hid Sl f. v° Wn ’ Mr - Gulston,” the landlord
E h “ cuest entered. “Fine davit has
■ought in^“ C ’ “' d “ UiC6 ba3ket 3° u have
■rd l buH?- W fi en P u S h for Ashing, land
■h. l 1 would rather put up with a light-
Bather aUd haVe a llttla Pleasan^r
■{!f s ® n timent evidently caused sur-
■ T ’ alcj Jacob Carey was the first to
■ye e Xpress , on to.
■„i^ U - dop,t say, now. that you call this
■Pleasant wither, sir ? Mow I call this
■ti o ,P‘ ( and weather as we co-id expect
Rft and i 1 Wetk of oct °ber; warm and
■ ..,> aad ‘", ever y way seasonable.”
R lit hi y^e al * tha V’ tbe guest said, as
u , aP IPe ’u bat > own I don’t care
■ck iron, K g raln trickling down mv
R“onr fi breakfast time to dark.”
Re rah, . 6rr ? au about here look on a lit-
Bnaiked g °° d for s P° rt >” Hiram Rowlett
■ am" 11 , but I am afraid
Bed to be a sportsman. I
Rd tho-m-h? r d fishing when I wa, a lad,
| lt I should lue to try mv ha .and
Bent Re I ’ ut atn afraid lam not as pa-
Bdschocd m l d0 “’ t th iuk sea life is a
B : I w ‘ f , or ‘bat sort of t dug.”
Rior iW, that y° u might be a
h ' ll ton ’ 'bough I diun’t make
Bsometni, aSk V Soutebow oroth-rtho e
BTthi v about your way that made
Bdn’t k o",° U f Wa r bre T up to the sea. I
has „ ’ - jr can’t recollect as ever w e
tefo 8 re D ” l6man Stay ‘° g h6r6
Ri' kwe scou laughed, “I don’t
Rt'iich hook I ?t tke to tbe r(xt - Bai ing a
B*rx i s ab,rn® e: and of a seal llne fur a
inrt,,? 1 tb e extent to which we
B 6 are at Mni 1 , 6 ’ ® liou g b sometimes when
Res overbuarH ° r s’° youngsters get the
Barn a fi and catch a lew flsu. Yes,
B ea ag.shinf,’D, nd belong, worse luck, to
■Cft on r ,T yraouth - B >' the ” a y,”
r acob Carey, “y, u
■ * at Jus - as you were going oat,
something about the curse of Carne’s Hold.
That's the house upon the hill, isn’t it?
What is the curse, and who said it.?”
“It is nothing, sir, it’s only foo.ishness,”
the landlord said hastily. “Jacob meant
nothing bv it.”
“It ain’t foolishness, John Beaumont,
and you know it—and for that everyone
knows it. Foolisaness indeed; here’s
R-.uben Claphurst can tell you if it’s non
sense; he knows all about it if anyone
does. ”
“I don’t think it ought to be spoken of
before strangers,” Hiram Powlett put in.
“Why not?” the smith asxed, sturdily.
“There isn’t a man on the countryside but
knows all about it. There can be no harm
in telling what everyone knows. Though
the Carries be your landlords, John Beau
mont, as long as you pay the rent you
ain’t beholding to them; and as for you,
Hiram, why everyone knows as your great
grandfather bought the rights of the
mill from them, aud your folks have had it
ever since. Besides, there ain’t nothing but
what is true in it, and if the ’squire
were hero himself he couldn't say no to
that.”
“Well, well, Jacob, there’s something in
what you say,” the landlord said, in the
tone of a man convinced against his will;
but, indeed, now that he had done wha he
considered nis duty by making nis protest,
he had no objections to thast r v b eing t Id.
“Maybe you are right; arid, though I
should not like it said as ihe affxirsof the
Carnes were gossiped about here, still, as
Mr, Grulstou might, now that he has heard
about the curse on the f mily, ask questions
and hear all sorts of lies from siiose as
don’t know as much about it as we do, and
especially as Reuben Claphurst here do >s,
maybe it were better he should get the
rights of the story from him. ”
“That being so,” the sailor said, “perhaps
you will give us the yarn, Mr. Claphurst,
for I own that you have quite excited my
curiosity as to this mysterious curse.”
The old clerk, who had t ild the storv
scores of times, and rather prided hi ro
se.f on his telling, was notuing loth to be
gin:
“There is nothing mysterious about it,
nothing 6t all; so I have always maintained,
and so I shall maintain. There be some as
will have it as it’s a curse o i the family for
the wickedness of old Sir E Igar. So it ba,
surelie, but not iu the way they men .
Having been one of the officers of the
c.iuruh here for over forty years, aud
knowing the mind of the old parson, ay,
and of him who was before him, I always
lake my stand on this. It was a curse,
sure enough, but not in the way as they
wants to make out. It wouldn’t do to say
as the cur se of that Spanish woman ha i
nowt to do with it, seeing as we has author
ity that curses does sometimes work them
selves out; but there aiu’t no pro f to mv
mind, and to the mind of the pars ms as I
have served under, that what they call the
curse of Carne’s Hold ain’t a matter of mis
fortune, and not, as folks about here mostly
think, a kind of judgment brougat on them
by that foreign, heathen woman. Of
course, 1 don’t expect other people to see it
in that light.”
This was ii answer to a grunt of dissent
on the part of the blacksmith.
“They ain’t ail had my advantages, and
looks at it as their fathers and granafa.hers
did before them. Anyhow, there is the
curse, and a bitter curse it has bean for the
Carnes, as you will say, sir, when yon have
heard my story.
“You must’know that in the old times
the Carnes owned all the lan 1 for miles and
miles round, and Sir Mirmaduke fitted oat
three hips at his own expense to fight under
Howard aud Blake agaiust tno Span
iards.
“It was in his time the first slice was cut
off the property, for he went up to court,
and held his own among the best of them,
and made as brave a show, tuey say, as
any of the nobles there. His son took alter
him, and another slice, though not a big
one, we.it; but it was under Sir Edgar, who
came next, that bad times fell upon Game’s
Hold. When the trouble bega i he went
out for the king with every man he could
raise in the country round, aud they say as
there was no man struck harder or heavier
for King Charles than he did. He might
have got off as ma y another one d.d, if he
would have given it up when it uas clear
the cause was los:; but whenever there was
a rising anywhere he was off to join it,
till at last house ad lad a id all were con
fiscated, and he had to fly abroad.
“How he lived there no one exactly
knows. Some said as he fought with the
Spaniards against the Moors; others, and I
think they' were not far troin the mark,
that he went out to the Spauish Main, aud
joined a band of lawless men, and lived a
pirate’s life there. Mo one known about th ,t.
I don’t think anyone, even in those days, did
know anything, except that when ho came
back with King Charles he brought with
him a Spanish wife. Thore were many
tales about her. Some said that she bail
been a nun, and that be had carried her off
from a convent ii .Spain, but the general
belief was—and a*; there were a good many
Devonshire lads who fought with tae rovers
on the Spanisn Ma n, it’s lioeiy that the re
port was true —that she had been the wife
of some Soauish Don, whose ship had been
c iptured by the pirates.
“Sne was beautiful, there was no doubt
about that. Such a beauty, they say, as
was never seen before or since in this part.
But they say that from tne first she nad
a wild, hunted look about her, as if she had
either something on her cons deuce, or had
gone through some terrible tiin tuat had
well-nigh shrken her reason. She had a
baoy some months old with her when she
arrived, and a nurse was engaged from the
villa .e, for strangely enough, as everyone
thought at the time, Sir E igar had brought
back no attendant either for himself or his
lady.
“Mo sooner was he back, and had got
possession of his estates, being in that more
lucky than many another who fought for
the crown, than he set to work to rebuild
the Hold; living fir the time in a few rooms
that were patened up and made habitable
in the old building. Whatever he had
been doing while he was abroad, there was
no doubt whatever that he had br ,ught
back with him plenty of money, for he had
a host of masons and carpenters over from
Plymouth, and spared no expense in having
things according to his fancy. All this
time he had not introduced his wife to the
county. Of cour.-e, Ins old neighbors had
called and had seen her as well as him, but
he had said at once that until the new
house was fit to receive visit irs he did not
wish to enter societv, especially as bis
wife was entirely ignorant of the English
tongue.
“Even in those days there were tales
brought down in the village bv the servants
who had been hired from here, that Sir
Edgar and his w ife did not get on well to
getner. They all agreed that she see ned
unhappy, and would sit for hours brooding,
seeming to have no care or love for her lit
lte boy, which set folk more against her,
since it seemed natural that eve i a heathen
woman should care for her child.
“TBsy said, too. there were often fierce
quarrels between Sir Edgar and her, but as
tuev always talked in her tongue, no one
kne hr what they were about. When the
new,'house wa, finished they moved into it,
and' the ruins of the old Hold were leveled
with the ground. Pe .pla thought tnen
ti f.t Sir Edgar would naturally open the
house to the county, and, indeed, s mi en
tertai meets were given, but whether it
""as that they believed the stories to his
disanvantage, or tnat they shrank from the
snauge hostess, who, they say, always
THE MORNING SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1880.
looked on these occasions stately and cold, i
and who spoke no word of their language, I
the county gentry gradually fell away, and
Carne’s Hold was left pretty much to its I
owners.
“Soon afterward another child was
born. There were, of course, more servants
no .v, and more stare, but Lady Carnes was
as much alone as ever. Whether she was
determined to learn no word of E glish, or
whether he was determined that she should
not, she at any rate made no attempt to
acquire her husband’s language, and many
said that it was a shame that tie did not get
her a nurse and a maid who could speak
her tongue; for iu the days of Charles there
we e foreigners enough iu England, and
there could have been uo difficulty in pro
curing her an attendant of her own religion
and race.
"They quarreled more than ever; but
tho servants were all of opinion that what
ever it was about it xvas her doing more
than his. It was her voice to be heard ris
ing in passionate tones, w hile he said but
little, aud they all agreed he was polite and
courteous in his manner to her. As for her,
she would walk for hours by herself up
and down the terrace, talking aloud to her
self, sometimes wringing her hands and
throwing her arms wildly about. At this
time there began to be a report among the
country round that Lady Carne was out ot
her mind.
“She was more alone than ever now, for
Sir Edgar had taken to making journeys
up to town and remaining for weeks a; a
time, and there was a whisper that he
played heavily and unluckily. So things
went on until the third child was born, aud
a fortnight afterward a servant from the
Hold r de through the village at night on his
v, ay for the doctor, and stopped a moment
to tell the nows that there was a terrible
scene up at the Hold, for that during a
momentary absence of the nurse, Ladv
Carne had stabbed her child to death, and
when he came away she wai raving wildly,
the efforts of Sir Edgar and two of the ser
vants nardly suffieiu to hold her.
“After that uo one except the inmates of
the Hold ever saw its mistress again; the
windows in one of the wings were barred,
and two strange women were brought
down from London and waited and attend
ed on the poor lady. There were few other
servants there, for the girls from
about here soon left, saying that the
screams and cries that rang at times
through the house were so terrible that
they could not bear them; but indeed there
was but small occasion for servants, for
Sir Edgar was almost always away. One
night, one of the girls who had stayed on
and had been spending the evening with
her friends, went home late, and just as
she reached the house she saw a white
figure appear at one of the barred win
dows.
“In a moment the figure began crying
and screaming, and to the girl’s surprise
many of her words were English, which
she must have pick?d up without anyone
knowing it. The girl always declared that
her language made hor blood run cold, aud
was full of oaths such as rough sailor men
use, aud which no doubt she had picked up
on ship board; and then she poured curses
upon the Carnes, her hus) and, the house
and her descendants. The girl wasso
panic-stricken that she remained silent
till iu a minute two other women ap
peared at the window, and by* main force
tore Lidy Carne from her hold upon the
bars.
“A few days afterward she died, and it is
mostly believed by her own hand, though
this wai never known. None of the ser
vants, except her own attendants, ever en
tered the room, and the doctor never
opened his lips on the subject. Doubtless
be was well paid to keep she ice. Anyhow
her death was not Sir Edgar’s work, for he
was away at the time, and only returned
upon the day after her death. So, sir, tuat
is now the curse came to be laid on Game’s
Hoi 1.”
“It is a terrible story,” M-. Gulston said,
when the old clerk ceased; “aterrible story.
It is likely enough that the rumor was true,
and tuat ne carried her off after capturing
the vessel and liilli ig her nusband, and
perhaps all the rest of them, and that she
nad never recovered from the shock. Was
there ever any question as to whether they
had been married?”
“1 here was a question about It—a good
ileal of question; and at Sir Edgar’s death
the next heir, who was a distant cousin,
set uii a claim, but the lawyer produced
two documents Sir Edgar had given him.
Oae was signed by a Jack Priest, who had,
it was said, been one of the crew on board
Sir Elgar’s ship, certifying that he had
duly and lawfully married Sir Edgar
Carne and Donna Inez Martos; and there
was another from a Spanish priest, belong
ing to a church at Porto Rico, certifying
that he had married the same pair accord
ing to Catholic rices, appending a note say
ing that he did so although the husband
was a heretic, being c impelled and en
forced by armed men, the town being in
the possession of a force from two ships
that had entered the harbor the night be
fore. As therefore the pair had been mar
ried according to the rite3 of both c lurches,
and the Carnes had powerful friends at
court, the matter dropped, and the title has
never been disputed. As to Sir Edgar him
self, he fortunately only lived four years
after his wife’s death. Had he lived much
longer there would have been no estate left
to dispute. As it was, he gambled away
half its wide acres.”
“And how has the curse worked?” Mr.
Gulston askad.
“iu ttie natural way, sir. As I was say
ing before, it has j ist buen in tho natural
wav, aud whatever people may say, there
is nooui 2, as I nave ueard the old parson
lay down a many a tune, to show that that
poor creature’s wild ravings had aught to
do with what followed. Tuo taint iu the
blood of Sir Edgar’s Spanish wife was
naturally inherited by her descendants.
Her son showed no signs of it, at lea-.t as
far as I have heard, until he was married
aud his wife had borne him three sons.
Then it burst out. He drew his sword and
kilted a servant who had g.ven him some
imaginary offense, and then, springing at
his wife, who had thrown herself upon him,
he would have strangled her had not the
servants run in aud torn him off her. He,
too, ended his days in confinement. His
s ms showed no signs of fatal tsmt.
“The eldest married in London, for none
of the gentry of Devonshire would have
given their daughters in marriage to a
Carne. Tne others entered the army, and
one was killed in the Low coun'ries. The
other obtained the rank of general, and
married and settled iu London. Tne son
of the eldest boy succeeded his father, but
d.ed a bachelor. He was a man of strange,
moody habits, and many did not hesitate to
say that he w .s as mad as his grandfather
had been. He was found dead in his
library, with a gun just discharged lying
beside him. Whether it had exploded acei
deatally, or whether he had taken his life,
none could say.
“His uncle, the general, came down and
took possession, and for a time it seemed as
if the curse of the Car ties had died out,
and indeed no further tragedies have taken
place iu the family, but several of its mem
bers have been unlike other men, suffering
from fits of morose gl >om or violent pas
sion. The father of Reginald, the present
’ quire, was of a bright and jovial charac
ter, and duri g the thirty years that he was
p ssessor of the Hold had been so popular
in this part of the country that the old sto
ries had been almost forgotten, and it is
generally believed that the curse of the
Carnes has died out.”
“The present owner,” Mr. Gulston asked;
“what sort of a man is he?”
“1 don’t know nothing about him,” the
old man replied; “he is since my time.”
“He is about eight and twenty,” the
landlord said. “Sune folks say one thing
about him, some another; Isays nothing.
He certainly ain’t like his fatner, who, as
he rode through the village, had a word for
every one; while the young ’squire looks as
if he was thinking so much that he didn’t
even know that the village stood tuere.
The servants of ihe Hold speak well of him
—he seems kind and thiugntful wnea he is
in tbe humor, bat he is of to i silent and
dull, and it is not many men who would be
dull with Miss Margaret. She is one of the
brightest aud highest spirited young ladies
in the county. There’s no one bad has a >
good word for her. I think the ’squire
studies harder than is good for him. They
say he is always reading, and he doesn't
hunt or shoot; and natural enough when a
roan shuts himself up and takes no exer
cise to speak of, he gets out of sorts and ‘
dull like; anyhow there’s nothing wrong
about him. He’s just as sane aud sensible
as you and L”
After waiting for two days longer and
finding the wet weather continued, Mr. j
Gulston packed up his rods and fishing
tackle and returned to Plymouth. He had
learned little more about the family at the
Hold, beyond the fact that tha Hon. Mrs.
Mervyn," who Inhabited a boue standing
half a mile farther up the valley, was the
aunt of Reginald and Margaret Carne, she
having been a sister of the late possessor of
tue Hold. Iu her youth she had been, peo
ple said, the counterpart of her niece, an and
it was not, therefore wonderful that Cii
thero Mervyn had, in spite of the advice
of his friends and the reputation ef the
Carnes, taken what was considered tae
hazardous step of making ber his wife.
This step he had never repented, for she
had, like her brother, been one of tho most
popular persons iu that part of the coun
ty, and a universal favorite. The Mervyn
estate had years before been separated from
it in the time of Sir Edgar’s grandson, wno
had been as fond of London life and as
keen a gambler as his ancestor.
The day before hn started, as he was
standing at tne door of the ho;el, Reginald
Carne aad his sister had ridden past; they
seemed to care no more for the weather
than did the people of the village, and were
laughing and talking gaily as they passed,
and Charles Gulstou thought to himself
that be had never seen a brighter aud pret
tier face than that of the girl in all his
travels.
He thought often of the face that day,
but be was not given to romnnee, and
when he had once returned to his aefive
duties as first lieutenant of H. M S. Tene
breuse, he thougnt no more on the subject
until three weeks later bis captain handed
hitn a note, saying:
“Here, Gulston, this is more in your line
thau mine. It’s au invitatiou to a ball, for
myself and some of my officers, from Mrs.
Mervyn. I have met ber twice at the ad
miral’s, and she is a very charming woman,
but as her place is more than twenty miles
away and a long distance from a railway
station, I do not feel disposed to make the
j luraey. They are, I believe, a good
county family. She has two pretty daugh
ters aud a son—a captain in the Borderers,
who came into garrison about a mouth ago;
so I have no doubt the soldiers will put iu
a strong appearance. ”
“I know the place, sir,” Gulston said;
“it’s not far from Carnesford, the village
where I was away fishing the other dav,
aad as 1 heard a good deal about them I
think I will put man appearance. I dare
say Mr. Lucas will be glad to go to, if you
can spare him.”
“Certainly, any of them you like, Gul
ston, but dou’t take any of the midship
meu; you see Mrs. Mervyn has invited my
officers, but as the soldiers are likelly to
show up iu strength, I dou’t suppose she
wants too many of us.”
“VVehavean invitation to a ball, doc
tor,” Lieut. Gulston said after leaving the
captain, to their ship’s doctor, “for the
20th., at a Mrs. Mervyn’s. The captain
says we had better not go more taau three.
Personally I rather want to go. So Hilton
of course must remain on board, a id Lucas
can go. I know you like these things, al
though you are not a dancing man. Asa
rule it goes sorely agaiust iny conscience
taking such a useless person as one of our
renreseutatives; but upon the present occa
sion it does not matter, as there is a son of
the house in the Borderers; and, of course,
tuey will put in an appearance in strength.”
“A man ca 1 make himself very useful a’
a hall, evea if he doesu’c dance, Gulston,”
tbe doctor said. “Young fellows always
think chits of girls are tne only section of
the female sex wno should be thought of.
Who is going to look after their mothers,
if there are only boys The con
versation of nso isilde man like myself is
quite as great a treat to the chaperons as
is the pleasu| of hopping about the room
with you to The girls. The conceit aid
selfishness of you lads surprise me more
and more, there are literally no bounds to
them. How far is this place off?”
“It’s about twenty miles by road, cr
about fifteen by tram, aud eight Or nine to
drive afterward. I happen to know about
the place, as it’s close to the village where
I was fishing a fortnight ago.”
“Ttien I think the cnaperons will have to
do without me. Gulstou. I am fond of
studying human nature, but if that in
volves staying up ail night and coming
back in the morning, the special section of
human nature there presented must go un
studied.”
“I have been thiuking that one can man
age without that, doctor. There is a very
suug little inn wtiere I was stopping in the
villago, less than a mile from the house. I
propose that we go over in the afternoon,
dine at the inn, and dress there. Then we
can get a trail to take us up to the Mervyn’s,
and can either walk or drive down again
after it is over, and come back after break
fast.”
“Well, that alters the case, lad, and un
der those conditions I will be one of the
party.”
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
JACK DSMPSEY’3 SWKLL PUPIL.
One Motion That Demolished an Elab
orate Theory and Badly Frightened
Its Author.
New Y"ohk, July 30.—Jack Dempsey
told me this story the other evening: “I
never made a business of teaching for sev
eral reasons. It is not satisfactory from a
financial standpoint and it has many
annoyances. If you teach you are tied to
your pupils, aud must not break
your engagements with them. You cannot
dispose of your time with as good results as
if you are free. Now and then, though, I
have given lessons to my fri ends for noth
ing, aid once I had a pupil who paid mo.
That was in nan Francisco; he was a physi
cian of that city and he gave me S3O a lesson.
I would not go through the same trouble
again for S3OO a lesson. He was one of
those theoretical athletes who have their
heads stuffed full of rules and he nearly
had me crazy. A bout with him was hke a
policy game—‘one’ meant a straight left
hander; ‘two’ a straight right hander: ‘one
two’ a nght hand cross counter; ‘two-four’
a left hand swing; then there was ‘two-four
two’ and ‘four-two-four’ and ‘flve-seven
eigbt,’ and all the otner combinations you
can maze out of tbe numbers below ten. He
insisted that I snuuld go by the book and
was kind enough to show me everything.
Dash the thing, I got those figures on the
brain trying to learn them, aud coull not
sleep for the uigutinare tuey gave me. I
got the book to se iif ne really understood
it himself. Ye3, he had it all straight. It
dil not seem to occur to him that instead of
me teaching him he was teachiug me.
Finally when he was in the middle of one
of his lectures I did this, (here Dempsey
drew bacic uis left fist aid threw forward
his left foot with a very violent motion,
clinching his teeth as he did >o.) ‘What is
tbe number of this? I asked as I sent a
good hot left hander at h.m. As I expected
Doth his han is flew up in front of his face
aud that one motion scattered all his theory.
It was not a particular hard punch, but it
landed fair in his stomach aud doubled him
up in a corner. Wheuhegot on his feet
again he remembered an engagement he
had been neglecting and went right off to
attend to it. That was the last I saw of
him and I must say I was glad.
I would have gone insane if he had keps on
trying to stuff me with his book. What be
was doing was good enough if he oaiy in
tended to show nis friends bow clever he
was in a parlor, but for fighting purposes it
was absolutely useless. The power of hit
ting hard, getting away quickiy aud stand
ing Droloaged and severe namuiermg only
comes from practice. Rules which can do
a pugilist any good are very few aud very
sirame and hs sunns learns them by experi
ence. Reading books will never teach any
man how to fignt and I doubt if it will help
him.” Sydney Reid.
PUBLIC ALARM.
Thf Serious Ciunf for Agitation orr Ihe
Dancer* of tbe Braion- lutrrHlng Inter
views With I'romluent People.
[Xew York T^nie*.]
There has been much excitement within the
past few days over the condition of our drink
ing water and the alarming increase of Summer
diseases. On every side people have been over
heard conversing on this subject, which is cer
tainly of the greatest importance. The follow
ing facts which we have gathered and which
bear directly upon the question, will be found
both interesting and profitable:
Mr. Henry Brown of the American Bank Note
Cos. said: “During the warm weather we are
often obliged to keep our people at work dav
and night, so thaj employes ha\* the h*ar to
endure as well as the odor of the various inks.
I desire to acknowledge n\y recognition of the
valuable service Terry Davis' Tain Killer has
rendered our employes. It has grown so pop*i
lar among my people, we should hesitate to be
without it.”
Mr. H. F. Greer, agent of the Colleze of Flee
trical Engineering, sai i “I have studied modi
cine and have traveled extensively in JDurope,
Asia. Africa and America. I have seen the
dangers and deaths that hot weather and had
water bring, but I have never fou and a better
medicine than Perry Pans' Pain Killer.”
Chief Engineer J. A. Severns, IT.l T . 8 H M..
said: T cannot speak too highly of Terry Davis'
Pain-Killer In cases of cholera, diarrhaft**, etc.
I have had occasion to use it both for myself
and for the men on board ship, and the relief it
gives is so speedy and sure, thaj no ship should
ever go to sea without a supply of it."
Sister Cecelia, in charge of tne Homan Catho
lic orphan Asylum, said: “Whether used ex
terually or internally. 1 have foun t Perry Davis'
Pain Killer of immense benefit. Especially is
this true in the treatment of children. I prize it
specially as a remedy which acts so certainly
and so speedily in oases of sudden need. ”
r>. D. Mallory, one of the best known canners
and packers in America, said: “1 have suffered
terribly from dyspejvsia and from the painful
and prostrating 6ick headaches and neuralgia,
whicn proceed from a disordered stomach. I
found nothing equal to Perry Davis' Tain
Killer in giviug me relief. I certainly recom
mend it to ail who have been aitlicted as I have
t>ean.”
Rev. E. D. Newberry said he had used Pain
Killer extensively In his family, and both he
aud all his household were enthusiastic over its
virtues. He would not be without it
This great remedy has been used more by
missionaries in India, China, Africa and through
out the world, than all other medicines com
bined. This we learn on unquestionable author
ity, and it is confirmed by the m inionary socle
ties themselves. Rev. B H. Bodley, missionary
at Lucknow. India, the hot bed of cholera, says:
•‘There is nothing Uka Perry Davis' Pain-Killer
for cholera and like diseases, and it is used by
nearly every member of my church.”
The above testimony, so high In its nature, is
remarkable. It proves beyond question the
wonderful value of gn at remedy an 1 that
it is possible to prevent summer diseases by its
constant use. If proves that not only can these
dangers of the season l>e prevented, but also
that they can be cured when the right remedy
is use 1,
—2 -
BUILDING DESIGNS.
MODEL SI,OOO COTTAGE
uv
R. W. SHOPPELL, ARCHITECT.
lino Model House Denlsne of other
discs and Conti. The most help
ful aids ever devised for
intending builder*.
r
A large view (showing detail*), also large
loor plans and a full description of the above
lesign, and of 24 other deeigm, each of which
■an be built for SI,OOO, all beautifully printed
in plate paper and enclosed in a handsome
doth portfolio, will be sent by express, pre
/aid, on receipt of $2. I have, also, the fol
owing:
Portfolio of $1,500 Houses, 25 designs. Price $2
“ 2,000 “ 25 " " 82
“ “ 2,500 “ 25 “ •* *2
“ “ 3,000 “ 28 “ “ |2
“ “ 3,500 " 32 “ “ |2
“ “ 4,000 “ 20 “ “ *2
“ “ 5,000 •* 25 “ “ $2
•* “ 6,000 “ 22 $2
“ “ 7,500 “ 20 “ “ $2
“ *• 10,000 “ 16 “ “ *2
•• “ Stables, 16 “ “ $2
Any 3 of the above Portfolios for $5; any 7
lor 810; the complete set (12) for sls. Pam
phlet of specimen pages, 25c. Address R. W.
ihoppcll, 63 Broadway, New York. Mention
bis paper.
“lottery.
LOTTERY OF THE PUBLIC CHARITY.
ESTABLISHED IN 1877 BY THE
MEXICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
OPERATED UNDER A TWENTY YEARS’
CONTRACT BY THE, MEXICAN INTERNA
TIONAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
Grand Monthly Drawings held In the Moresque
Pavilion in the Alameda Park, City of Mexico
and publicly conducted by Government Oltl
crnls appointed for the purpose by the Secre
taries of the Interior and the Treasury.
drawing or august 11th, 1883.
CAPITAL PRIZE 530.000.
PRICE OF TICKETS. AMERICAN MONEY
Wholes, i*2 Waives, $J —Quarters, 50c.
Club Ratos; 27!,j Tickets for SSO U. S. Currency.
LIST op prizes.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $ 10,000 is 830,000
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF SIO,OOO is 10,000
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF . 5,000 is 6,000
1 uItAND PRIZE OF 1,000 is 1,000
SPKIZES OF. 500 are... I.uOO
tPRIZES OF 300 are... 1,500
ID PRIZES OF iOOare... 2,000
75 PRIZES OF ID) are... 7,600
90PRIZES OF 40are... 3.500
175 PRIZES OP' 20are... 7,50)
'B3PRIZES OF 10are... 7,530
APPROXIMATION PRIZES,
ec Prizes of SSO approximating to $30,-
000 Prize 2.500
iC Prizes of $lO approximating to $lO,-
000 Prize 1,200
40 Prizes of S2O approximating to $6,
300 Prize 600
SFS Terminals ef $lO, decided by $30,0)0
Prize 7,930
2,269 Prizes amounting to $ 89,230
All prizes sold in the United States full paid
In U. 8. Currency.
SPECIAL FEATURES.——
By terms of contract the Company must de
posit the sum of all prizes included in the
scheme before selling a single ticket, and receive
the following official permit:
CKHtlr ICAIE.—I hereby rerttfu that the
London bank of Mexico and South America
hat on special deposit the necessary funds to
guarantee the payment of all i/mtes drawn by
the Loteria de la beneficencia byhlica.
K. RODRIGUEZ RIVERA. Interoentor
Further, the Company is requirei to distrib
ute 56 per cent, of the value of ali the tickets in
prizes—a larger porportion than is given by any
other Lottery.
Finally tne number of tickets is limited to 83,-
600—20.000 less than are gold by other lotteries
using the same scheme.
For full particular*, address U. BASSET TL
Apartado 736, City of Mexico, Mexico, or Box
583 Montgomery, Ala.
trunks7 —
DRT GOODS.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Our fifty-thousand-dollar stock dam
aged by the late fire, will be put on sale
on WEDNESDAY NEXT, at Bay street,
two doors west of Whitaker, formerly
Guckenheimer’s building, regardless of
cost. IT MUST BE SOLD. Such an
opportunity seldom presents itself.
JACOB COHEN.
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE
: FOR
The Next Twenty Days
PRIOR TO SEMI ANNUAL INVENTORY.
Our Entire Stock at Actual Cost.
Odds an! Ends and RomDacts Slanglitered
Get Our Prices Before Purchasing!
Save Twenty-Five to Fifty Pur Cent.
AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY TO IT DRY GOODS
G. ECKSTEIN & CO.’S
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
THE BEST OFFER YET, DOWN GOES THE PRICES
ALL SUMMER GOODS MUST GO.
100 pieces Cnuklo Seersuckers at 5c.: reduced from 10c.
1.50 pieces Crinkle Seersuckers afcfi^c.: reduced from 1 2^e.
250 pieces Plaid Dress CJlngija n at for this week only,
1.000 yards Printed Challles at 5c.; not half their value.
1,000 yards Printed Wool Challien at 15c : reduced from and 28c.
25 pieces Printed Wool Challies (double widths) at 17>^c.; worth 25c. and A)
5 cases Plaid Nainsooks at fi^4c.: best value for the money.
4 cases Plaid and Striped India Lawn at 10c. and 12; cheap at 29e$
125 pieces Extra Wide Colored Batiste at 11c.; reduced from 15c.
5 cases Colored Lawns at 6V4c.; reduced from 10c.
1 lot Colored Sateens at 12 y{ •.; some of this lot cost 22c. to import.
>I,OOO Gents’ Scarfs at 5c.; only oqe thlri their value.
50 doz**n Gents' Gauze Undershirts lte£c.; worth double.
50 pieces Gents’ Colored Linen Suitings, at cost for this week.
200 loading' Fancy Parasols at your own price for this week.
250 Gents' Negligee flbirlsat $1 25 (to close out); cost $1 75 to $2 50.
Big drive in Toilet Waters, Bay Rum, Extracts, Toilet Soaps, Etc.
TAKE NOTICE. —This sale is only one-half their regthatr
price. This chance will be for six days only. It will pay you to
purchase now.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
<3 U T M A. JN r ’S,
14-1 BROUGHTON STREET.
SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK OF GLOVES AND MITTS.
Ladies’ Lisle Thread Gloves at 15c.; worth 35c.
Ladies’ black and colored Silk Gloves at 25c.; worth 50c.
Ladies’black Silk Gloves, embroidered, 50c.; worth sl.
Children’s Silk and Lisle Thread Gloves at 15c.; worth 35c.
Ladies’ black Silk Mitts, embroidered in colors, 65c.; worth sl.
Ladies’colored Silk Milts, embroidered, at 50c.; worth 75c.
Ladies’ colored Silk Mitts at 37c.; worth 65c.
Mail orders will receive prompt attention.
MEDICAL
At HldMll bj LIPPMAN BBOS., h*v,a
flAh. Qa.
L. a. McCarthy,
44 Barnard street,
(Under gnigbU of Pythias’ Hall).
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
STEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY.
Amm TENTS will jay for THE DAILY
■JK MORNING NEWS one week, delivered
/ Ito any part of th.e city. Send your ad
tm y dress with 25 cents to the Buainesa
Office and have the paper delivered regularly.
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