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THE SUNNY SOUTH* ATLANTA, GA* SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10,1881.
18nn South.
AN AMERICAN PENMAN.
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A Great Detective Story.
KtOM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYRNES.
BY JULIAN HAWTHOKNE.
[Copyrighted 1887. All right, reserved.]
CHAPTER I.
A man take* to gambling for either one of
three reasons—either from natural predilec-
tioa, or beesHM be hope, to recoup himself
proms, iy for s desperate loss of money, or be
am, he has tired and wearied of all other
forma of excitement; and has only this left to
Um. .
The you, Russian gentleman known an
Cout Fedovaky might bare been classed under
the third of these divisions. He was not by
■atare specially inclined to game, of chance:
and, after two or three year, of aimlesr and
rather reckless life in European capitals, he
•Ull had plenty of money. But his mental and
moral palate had become pomewhat callous to
ordinary form, of ammement and dissipation,
md he felt the need of a stronger stimulus. It
oocarred to him one day that he had not yet
tried the spell of the cards and the green cloth;
and, acting, as he was wont to do, on the spur
of the moment, he packed his trunks (or or
dered his valet to do so) and took tickets on
the next train for Monaco.
U,. to this point in his career Count Fedovsky
had been in many respects a favorite of foi-
tane. He was the only son of one of the
wealthy members of the Russian nobility. He
had rec-ived an excellent education, and was
familiar, from his childhood up, with the prin
cipal European languages. His father had
been an influential officer of the imperial gov
ernment, with a long line of Cossack ancestry
behind him; he had been high in favor with the
Otar, aoch*as saturated with all the prejudices
and traditions of the autocratic idea. His
mother was a beautiful, indolent and amiable
woman, who had indulged her sou without
stint, and, if he disobeyed her, contented her
self with punishing her serfs, who, for their
part, were so fond of their young master that
they generally suffered without complaining,
When the Count was about twenty years ol
age he fell desperately in love with a young
girl whom it was impossible he should marry.
She was not of bis rank in the first place, and
there were other re as ins of a politic character
against the match. On the other hand she re
turned the young fellow’s passion, and in
mind and body they were eminently suited to
each other. Thec iunt’B mother, whose con
ceptions of morality were those of her race
and generation, would not have been averse
from allowing the lovers to indulge their affec
tion without the intervention of legal and ec
clesiastic'll formalities, but her son, whose
best and purest emotions were concerned in
the affair, had the rare magnanimity to decline
any such compromise. Vera should be his
wife, or nothing. It was in vain to argue with
him, and as his will had n ver before been
crossed, he became very difficult to manage
At length the mother, appr. hensive lest her
boy should run off and get married in spite of
her, was fain to reveal the state of affairs to
her husband. Sue wrote him a letter on 'he
aubj set, and the old autocrat arrived from St.
Petersburg three days later.
His course was markel by promptness and
decision. He had an interview with his son,
in which he iut before him in terse language
the magnitude of his folly, and then informed
him that he must prepare to return with him
the next week to St. Petersburg, where an offi
cial position awaited him. R msing to listen
to any persuasions or entreaties, he ordered
the young man to his room, lucked the door
upon him, and, getting into his carriage, drove
to the residence of the unfortunate Vera. To
her parents, who were poor people, he gave a
brief epitome of the situation, and ended by
prop ising that their daughter shon>d be imme
diately united iu the bonds of matrimony to a
certain enterprising man, the overseer of one
of bis estates. By way of facilitating this ar
rangement, he placed in the parents’ bands the
sum of flf y thousand roubles as dower for the
bride. The parents did not dare to offer any
objections, even if they were otherwise dis
posed to do so; and the marriage was actually
an accomplished fact before the end of the
week. The young count, on learning the truth,
Went to his father and informed him that, since
yt was now impossible that he shonid ever be
happy, he intended to take leave of bis life; at
the same moment he snatched up a pistol from
the table and placed the muzzle against bis
fort head. The father sat unmoved, his eyes
fixed sternly upon tbe youth. The latter drew
his breath for tbe last time, turned pale, set
his teeth, and pullid the trigger. No explosion
followed; t.he sagacious old noble had taken
the precaution (knowing his son’s impulsive
ie nperament) to draw the charge. He now
rose from his seat, took the useless weapon
from the boy’s unnerved hand, and forced him
into a chair.
“Come,” he said, in a kindly tone, “I have
hopes of vou after all. You have proved to
me that you possess courage and determine
lion; and as for the girl, you have attempted
to lay down yonr file for her sake, but no man
can do more. Thanks to my foresight, how
ever, instead of being a useless dead body, yon
are still alive, and with a fine career before
you. Do not regret the inevitable; that is the
part of a coward and an imbecile, which you
are not. To-morrow yon return with me to
the capital. I will put you on the road to pre
ferment. With your abilities and my influ
ence, there is no height too lofty for your am
bition to aim at. Be a man henceforth, and
live in the world of men. You are my son;
70a already have my affection; deserve likewise
my respect and esteem I”
The autocrat carried his point; such men
generally do. But it wss a lethargic and in
different youth that he took with him to St.
Petersburg. The disappointed lover, though
he had his life, placed no value on it, and took
no interest in it. For some months this nega
tive state of mind continned, and neither the
gaieties nor the occupations of the capital
sufficed to dispel it. Gradually, however,
tame began to produce its inevitable effect;
and, probably, bad things continued in their
ordinary course, young Count Fedovsky
would have become the man of routine, forms
and authority that the old count was before
him. But, as fate would have it, an incident
occurred which completely altered tbe course
of his life. On entering hts father’s room one
morning he found him lying on the floor, dead
from a stroke of the heart.
C unt Fedovsky at once despatched a mes
senger to his mother with the news, and on her
arrival at St. Petersburg the funeral was sol
emnized wi h all due pmip and ceremony.
The young man then obtained an indefinite
leave of absence from his official duties and re
turned with his mother to his estate, heir to a
great fortune. The shock of the sudden death
of bis father, fer whom he had begun to feel a
sentiment somewhat warmer than respect, en
hanced what had grown to be the habitual grav
ity of bis demeanor, but in some conctaled
chamber of his heart there may have lurked an
anticipation of some possible future happiness
with Vera. If such were the case the hope was
destined to be frustrated. Upon instituting in
quiries with regard to his former lady love, it
was discovered that her husband bad retired
from tbe management of the estate and that
there was an impression that his control of it
had been more remarkable for astuteness than
for honesty. Whither he had gone no one
could aay; but wherever it might be, he had
taken his wife with him.
This was doubtless depressing news for tbe
count, and be seemed to lack energy or incli
nation to take a new departure in life. He set
tled indolently down on bis estate and betook
himself to a desultory course of reading and
dreaming. His mother was his only compan
ion; her health was beginning to give way, and
she placed all her dependence on him. He re
mained at her side, leading an existence that
scarcely differed, save in name, from imprison
ment daring no less than four years. During
that time, from bis twenty-first to near the end
of his twenty-sixth year, he was never visited
by an impulse to escape to see the world, to
mingle with men and women, to achieve any
worthy ambition, or in any manner to vary bis
environment The instinets of youth seemed
to be dead within him.
A mat the end of the fourth year his mother
died. Her death had not been unexpected, but
it left the count with a sense of loneliness that
surprised himself. He had not realized how
much she had been to him, nor how large a void
her departure won d leave. He wandered about
bis great house, restless, moody and disconso
late. One night he bad a vivid dream that be
met Vera and that she was in some sort of
peril. It was tbe first lime he had dreamed of
-her since their parting. It produced an exag
gerated impression upon him. After brooding
over it for a week he took a sadden resolution
He determined to leave his home and travel
about the wor d, and not to return until he
had found Vera or settled all doubts as to her
fate.
This new purpose in life acted upon his dor
mant nature like a charm. He became alert
and active. He summoned his stewards and
business agents and made arrangements for a
prol onged absence. He neither knew nor cared
whither he was going nor what length of time
might elapse before his return. His mind was
full of vague schemes and anticipations. He
was busy all day, ate heartily and at right slept
soundly. He was surprise] to find himself
happy and eager. The long-repressed energy
of his nature came rushing forth with all the
impetus of so many passionless years. He felt
as if he had been asleep for a century asd had
awakened with the strength and capacities of a
giant. Although tbe thought of Vera was the
ostensible cause of this change in him, it can
not be held accountable for the whole or the
greater part of it. The time had come for Urn
to take a new step, and his dream of finding
his lost love was but a pretext for taking it.
Once launched upon the world with his vast
fortune, his ample education and the warm
blood of bis yoatb, it wss not likely that he
would ever again relapse, Vera or no Vera, in
to tbe old moody and lethargic rat from which
he was now emancipated.
He took only one companion with him on his
journey. This was an English servant, a man
some ten or a dozen years older than himself,
of approved faiihtulness and sagacity. This
felloav, Tom Bolan by name, was a personage
of various accomplishments. He had begun
life as a sailor and was an adept at all kinds of
trades—was a carpenter, locksmith, tailor,
painter and glazer In addition to this, he had
in some way acquired a speaking acquaintance
with the French and Italian languages, could
play an excellent tune on the fiddle, and could
dauce a hornpipe or a fandango to almiration.
After making a number of voyages he found
himself stranded in New York, a r d,'by way ol
variety, he strolled into a large livery stable,
where he made himself so agreeable and
showed himself so handy that he was forth
with engaged as hostler, and, during his three
or four years discharge of his duties, obtained
a very good knowledge of horse flesh and all
thereto appertaining. The stable gave accom
modation to horses of private genuemen, and
one of tue latter, to whose stall Tom had been
ministering, took a fancy to the clever youth
and eng iged him as his own groom and attend
ant. With bis new master he subsequently vis
ited Europe and made the rounds there; but,
while on a visit to St. Petersburg, tbe master
was taken ill with pneumonia and died, and
Tom was thrown upon the world with a few
hundred dollars in his pocket and an unusual
share of worldly experience. With such a cap
ital he cou d not be at a loss, and, after serving
fi r a few months as waiter in one of the fash
ionable restaurants, he attracted the favorable
nitice of no less a personage than the old
Count Fedovrky himself, and presently found
bimseif an imnate of that nobleman's city es
tablishment. Here he acted in various capaci
ties, chit fly as valet and table servaut, and
gave complete satisfaction. It was some time
after bis establishment there that the old count
brought his son to the capital. Tom imme li-
ately conceived an immense affection for the
young man, which grew so marked that the
lather iorma.ly made him over to Fedovsky,
Jr., and he became the latter’s confi ;ential at
tendant and factotum. He stoud by him dur
ing all those lonely and gloomy years, never
losing his own spirits, and doing much toward
keeping those of his master from falling Into
still lower deeps, and, when tbe count resolved
upon bis journey into the unknown, it was a
matter of course as well as of necessity that
faithful Tom should go with him.
The two companions, on leaving the center of
Muscovite civilization, shaped their course for
Loudon, iu which every Russian feels a greater
unless degree of interest. The coqpt hadiexcel-
ldet leti era of Si traduction, as well as practically
unlimited letters of credit; and, as a conse
quence, he was at once received into the best
society. After passing a season or two in the
world’s city,, seeing .he sights, riding in Rot
ten Row, dining with tbe aristocracy, listening
to debates iu parliament, boating on tbe
Thames, betting at the Derby and Ascot, and
following all this up with a couple of months'
shooting os the northern moors, Count Fedov
sky bade farewell to his English friends and
crossed the channel to Paris,, where he-soon
found himself agreeably at home. The life of
the boulevards, the cafes and the theaters
amused him; in' the young men of Parisian
society he found charming companions, and
he made his first studies with some of the mys
teries and eccentricities of the feminine nature
But how different were all the women be met
from Vera, and in what corner of the universe
had she hiddtnherseli?
From Paris he traveled to Dresden, Berlin
aud Vienna; thence again, to Rome, Florence,
Naples and Venice. He made excursions into
Sweden and Norway, and even penetrated into
Turkey, Roumania and Palestine. Iu the fol
lowing June he returned again to London, and
the succeeding two years were passed more or
lass after the same fashion. He became a re
cognized figure among the well to-do idlers of
Europe, and he was still so young and hand
some that it was a matter of continual surprise
to those who knew him that he did not either
marry, or for n a liaison with one or other of
the many women who would have needed bat
little urging to associate themselves with so
wealthy and attractive a personage. Perhaps
Fedovsky himself would have found it difficult
to explain his own indifference. It was not a
premeditated or deliberate indifference. He
had no idea of steeling his heart against the
charms of the other sex. Neither, on the
other hand, could it be said that the loss of
Vera still affected him to such a degree that he
was powerless to appreciate any one els a. It
was now more than seven years since Vera’s
marriage, and Fedovsky was, after all, like
other human beings—an impression, however
strong, could not remain with him forever.
Nevertheless, up to the time he set out for
Monaco, he had not met with a woman who
could take Vera’s place.
CHAPTERIL
Monaco—or, to be more acurate, Monte Car
lo—is as beautiful as it is famous, and that is
giving it high praise. Before the gambl ng
palace was erected by M. Blanc the place was
little visited by tourists, because the Cornice
road passed on the c.iffs above it at such an
altitude that no one, unless be were furnished
with a parachute, ever hjught of taking more
than a passing glance at it from his carriage
window, as it lay far below him in the blue
Mediterranean. Subsequently a railroad was
built to it aloLg the snore of toe sea; aud thus
M. Blanc, by establishing his business there,
made it one of the headquarters of wealthy
aud frivolous Europe.
It is all veiy well to protest; but gambling is
the normal expression of a certain element in
human nature, just as love-making and fight
ing are, and all the laws framed by absiact
morality must remain powerless to suppress it.
If it be shut out from oue place it will reap
pear in another, and were the whole universe
freed from it, it would still have its impregna
ble abiding place in tbe hearts of its votaries.
Accordingly, though Baden-Baden knows it no
more, it flourishes with more than its pristine
luxuriance in the tiny Italian principality;
and if the prince ehouid forbid it there, it
would still be practiced in the center of Africa
or in the remote recesses of Chinese Tartary.
Meanwhile Monte Carlo is a very charming
habitation for it No doubt, indeed, a person
who is suddenly making or losing a fortune
may not be especially awake to the beauties of
natural scenery; bat a large proportion of the
visitors do not make gambling their principal
occupation; they merely look on, or play with
chance as children play with a toy, instead of
engaging in a life and death battle with the
wild goddess whose secrets no human being
has resolved. Gambling is always dissipation;
but, when taken in moderation, it temporarily
stimulates and arouses the mind, as small
quantities of alcohol do the physical system,
aud leaves no serious dilapidation behind it
And one may be immensely amused at Monte
Carlo without once winning or losing so much
as a five-franc piece.
In planning bis visit, however, Fedovsky
had no snch temperate intentions. He meant
to find oat ail there was in gambling, and to
spare neither time nor expense in the investi
gation. It was an entirely de iberate step on
his part, fgjr he had not what is called the
gamblgga instinct; his mind yras so constituted
as totorefer 1
suspense and I
sms in
inexhaustible fascination, seemed rather
stup'd and wearisome to him. But he had
read and heard that people have been driven
mad by unexpected success at play, and have
blown out their brains under the despair of
sudden and total raio, and, as he believed him
self capable of fealiog all the emotions incident
to humanity, and had been, nevertheless, for a
long time barren of any emotion to speak of,
he was resolved not to give so fairly promising
a stimulus the go by. He was devoured wi-E
ennui in short, and deemed no seen floe too
great to dispel it
He gave Tom orders to pack his tranks sc
oordingly, and—being at the time in Paris—
proceeded by rail to Marseilles, and thence by
steamer to Genoa. From Genoa, with which
he was already familiar, it was no long jour
ney to Monte Carlo, and he arrived there in
due coarse, and without incident A comfort
able suite of rooms at the best hotel had al
ready been engaged by telegraph, and in the
course of twelve hours after arrival, the in
genuity of the English valet assisted by bis
master’s excellent taste and the contents of
the tranks, had made them homelike and com
fortable. This done, and before approaching
the green tables, the young count sallied forth
to explore the features and surroundings of
the scene of his proposed experiment.
It was certainly a lonely spot, whose great
natnral advantages had been enhanced by art,
and were enriched by historic association. Oo
the one bond the immense mass of the mari
time Alps, mounting tier above tier to the sky,
green with verdure and stern wi:h prcc-picee;
on the other, bosomed upon the broad blue
expanse, the rocky promontory with it verti
cal sides, which had so often defied the as
saults of war, and which, mere boulder though
it was, contained a kingdom which had
been ruled by one hereditary race of kings
since the dawn of European history. Upon
this basis of rock and shore rose an agreeable
medley of architecure, modern and mediaeval
elegant and picturesque, interpersed with
beautiful gardens iu luxuriant cultivation,
broad white roads, winding paths, and charm
ing embowered nooks and signs of vantage
The Casino and the adjoining buildings were
separated from the citadel of Monaco by some
two miles of curving road, along with diligen
ces plied constantly, bearing visitors to and
fro. Everywhere well dressed people were
strolling about, all aoparently in a holiday
humor, and with notbiog on earth to do but
enjoy themselves. The hotels were close to
the Casino, and in the immediate neighborhood
were a number of pretty villas, owned or rent
ed by private persons. Altogether, it was a
fairy-like place—a sort of enchanted domain,
where everything seemed happy and prosper
ous, but beneath the fair outside you dimly
felt the presence of evil influences, which
could in a moment—for such as came under
the evil spell—cause the phantom beauty and
good cheer to vanish/ leaving in their place
a grizzly desert peopled by demons and lost
souls.
Count Fedovsky strolled about with the
others, and admired the view, and quietly ob
served his associates, and matured his impres
sions of the place, aud it impressed him favora
bly. It was not at all like any of the great
capitals to which he was accustomed. There
was no society, in the ordinary se-ise of the
word. Not that there were not plenty of peo
ple who were in society when they were at home;
but this was a species of communism where a
person was expected to wear decent clothes
and not create an uproar, but nobody cared
who he was, where he came from, or whither
he went when he went away. It was not good
form to be over inquisitive about the anteced
ents and worldly circumstances of the individ
ual who happened to sit opposite you at din
ner, or beside yon at the green table; he might
be the Czarewitch, or he might be a convict
newly escaped from the hulks; aud in either
case he would prefer to postpone any discus
sion of the fact. If he smoked gold cigars, di 1
not eat with his knife or bis fingers, and lostor
won his money with tolerable composure, it
was the utmost anybody could require of him.
As regarded the women tbe case was similar,
though with such modifications as are insepar
able from the sex. The man of the world does
not much m nd temporary association with al
most any variety or grade of men; but he is
necessarily more circumspect with women. A
woman may appear everything that the most
fastidious taste can demand; and yet, if she be
away from the surroundings proper to her, and
which afford the only means of really fixit gher
social standing, sbe will be regarded with wary
eyes. No doubt, women who never leave their
own private ciicle may be just as deficients on
the mor^ side as riie mosj, jinnijstskat$e ^ad
venturesses; but people are obliged to form
their judgmen s of one another according to
certain conventional rules, iu default of mutual
transparency.
Th-re were a great nianv attractive women
at Monte Carlo; but Fedovsky did not happen
to meet with auy whom he ki ew, and lacked
the enterprise to umodnee himself. Nor did
any of bis male acquaintances appear amid
the crowd He bad no one except Tom to
converse with for several days. During this
time hn did not enter the Casino. But at the
end of a week, when tbe novel' y of the scenery
had worn off, and he was beginning to feel
bored aaain, he made up his mind to begin the
experiment he had set out to accomplish. He
strolled into tbe Salon de Jeu one afternoon,
and stood with a cigarette between his fingSrs,
contemplating the scene at one of the Rouge et
noir tables. The players seemed much inter
ested and made a good deal of noise. There
were orders to the cronpiers, protests, com
ments and disputes. Piles of gold and silver
appeared, disappeared, and shifted their posi
tion upon the board in a manner to make one’s
head swim, whi e tbe revolving bowl in the
center kept the fateful ball whirling, upon the
destination of whose incalculable career so
many million francs are yearly lost and won.
It was the game of a lifetime concentrated into
an hour or a minute. If only the interest and
excitement were correspondingly intensified.
Fedovsky could not bat admit that it would be
worth playing.
A gentleman who was standing on the oppo
site side of the table, looking on in the same
manner that Fedovsky had been doing, pat his
hand in his pocket, reached forward and
placed a gold louis on the red. Black came
up at the next round; the gentleman smiled
and turned away. As he did so his eye caught
that of Fedovsky, which happened to be fixed
upon him.
A humorous, half-deprecating expression
passed over the stranger’s face, and he swung
his shoulder a little, as much as to say: “Any
man may be a fool occasionally.” A few min-
ntes later the movement of the shifting crowd
brongbt the two men together, and the stran
ger, noticing that Fedovsky was exploring his
pockets for a match, silently extended toward
him his own newly-lighted cigar
The count bowed and availed himself of the
cour esy, and then returned the cigar with an
acknowledgment. The other merely nodded
good-humoredly, and they drif ed apart again.
But ten minutes later Fedovsky was lounging
on the outskirts of the trente et quarante board,
when tbe person immediately iu front of him
turned suddenly and came in contact with him.
It was the gentleman who had just furnished
him with a light
“I beg your pardon,” said the count, in
French.
“Not at all,” replied the stranger. “My
fault.’,
“I trust you have been more fortunate here,”
said the count, nodding toward 1 he table.
The stranger glanced at him rather keenly
for a moment, as if to satisfy himself that the
person addressing him was tbe right sort of
man to talk with. Apparently the examina
tion was le-assuring, for he answered in an
affable tone:
“Oh, I don’t do mnch playing here. I throw
away a louis or two, when I come in, -just to
pay for my entertainment; that's all. Yon
don’t seem to take mnch interest in it, either?’’
“I haven’t tried it yet,” the count replied,
“but I came here to see what it is like; it
seems to interest many people.”
“Oh, yes,” said the other, “it’s exciting, no
donbt. when yon get into it; hut, for my part
I made my money by hard work, and I’d
rather spend it for something more permanently
valuable than an hoar’s excitement.”
At this speech the count, in his tarn, sub
jected his interlocutor to a brief scrutiny. He
was well dressed, though he wore bis clothes
rather carelessly; bis figure was slight and a
trifle above the medium height; his face and
eyes were keen, grave and intelligent, and
when he smiled his expression was very agree
able. He might have been five and thirty
years of age.
“Yon are a foreigner, I presume?” said the
count, politely
Well, we’re all foreigners here for the most
part, I suppose,” returned the other, with a
laugh. “Monaco is so netbiug like my country
in that respect, only they don’t take out natur
alization papers here. I’m an American.”
And as he sp ke he handed a card to the count
on which wls engraved tbe name and address,
George Willis, New York."
“Ah, yon are from the United States,” said
the count, in English. “Then we may speak
in yonr language.”
“And whom have I the pleasure of address-
i^r^Mr. WU|is
eian, but, like mlny Russians, l have mnch
admiration for American institutions.”
“Well, our institutions are ail right on pa
per," Mr. Willis replied, “but, somehow or
other, they don't always work oat quite right
in practice. However, I guess our form of
government is a touch beyond despotism, any
how. Yon’re not a Nihilist, are yon?”
“Not a bit of one,” answered Fedovsky,
smiling; “bat I feel the necessity for greater
civil freedom, if Russia is ever to become truly
meat.” The young count had often expressed
similar opiniodrbefore, perhaps showing
rather less judgment than right feeling in so
doing, for Europe is full of ears and tongues,
and the spies of the Czar sometimes turn up in
the most unexpected places. But. daring his
1 Jug period of solitary existence on his estate,
he had read and meditated much on questions
of political science, and had come to adopt
very liberal views; which his observation of
the working of other European governments
had served to confirm. Had his attitude been
kuown at the Russian court it would nndoubt-
edly have cost him dear.
Mr. Willis, howmrer, was not a Russian spy,
and he assented freely enough to the couut’s
remarks, though evincing no special inclina
tion to enter into a discussion of the subject.
“Yon Russians,” he observed, “areacuri-
ons mixture The only Russians that we see
have so much money that they don’t know ho v
to spend it; and the only ones that we hear
about are either trying to blow up the Czar, or
are being exiled to Siberia.”
“I hope to escape Siberia, at any rate,” re
turned the count, good oatnredly; “and as for
the money, if ail accounts be true, M. Blano
will soon disembarrass one of any superflu
ity.”
“As to that it’s none of my business,” said
the American;*“hat if I was in your place I’d
let the tables alone. If you want to lose yonr
money, take a hand at pokbr with a friend,
and lose it to him. However, that’s your look
out. Good day, sir."
He walked off with the careless, sauntering
step that was characteristic of him, and Fed-
ovsky was left to his own devices. At first he
was somewhat inclined to follow the keen-eyed
American’s counsel; and ke perhaps would
have done so had tbere been a friend of his
at hand who was ready and able to gamble
with him. Bat no one answering that descrip
tion was accessible,, and besides he had agreed
with himself to gamble at Monte Carlo, and he
meant to do it. Presently, therefore, on a
chair being vacated at the table, he occupied
the retiring player’s place, and laid his first
stake upon the table. He had with him gold
and bank notes to the amount of about 20,000
francs. He played all the afternoon and well
into the evening, and, after several vicissi
tudes, one of which brou ht him within a few
hundred francs of being cleaned out, he left
the table with 35,000 francs in his pockets and
a vague suspicion that he had been rather
bored than otherwise.
[TO Bit COHTIXUED.l
Don’t Undervalue tbe Boy.
The following sound reasoning we find in the
American Agriculturist. It wtuld be a benefit
to both fathers and their sons if its precepts
were more often regarded.
Too many men make their boys feel that
they are of little or no account while they are
boys. Lay a responsibility on a boy, and he
will meet it in a manful spirit. On no account
ignore their disposition to investigate. Help
them to understand things. Encourage them
to understand what they are about. We are
to apt to treat a boy's seeking after
knowledge, as mere idle curiosity. “Don’t
ask questions” is poor advice to boys.
If you do not explain puzz'ing thiogs to them,
you oblige the n to make many experiments be
fore they find out; and though experimental
knowledge is best in one sense, in anoiher it is
not, for that which can be explained clearly
does not need experimenting with. If the
principle involved is understood, there is no
further trouble, and the boy can go ahead in-
telligentiy.
D > not wait for the boy to give up before you
be,in to_ treat .him as an equal. A proper
', and worosof emourage-
d giving him to understand
in many ways, helps to
long before he is a man in
amount of confidi
msut and advice,
that you trust b;
make a man of ' '
either stature n:
The Boston J
a good suggest
above. — v
Give him tool!
of Commerce also makes
rents appropos to t^ie
.iysthe writer, and let him
find out for himsJjf whether be has got any
mechanical taste or not. D j not di c >ur ige him,
as parents are apt]to do, by saying: -On, it is
no use for you to try to do anything with tools.
I never have any taste that way, and of course
jou have not.” If a boy finds he can make a
few articles with his hand, it tends to make him
rely on bimseif. And the planning that is nec
essary for the execution of the work is a disci
pline and an education of great value to him.
The future weliare and bappmess of the hoy
depends on the surroundings of his youth.
When he arrives at that period in his life when
he is obliged to choose what profession or what
line of business to follow, it is highly impor
tant that he should take no false step. And if
in his youth he has cultivated a taste for any
particular branch, the choice of a pr jfession or
business will be made more easy.
Fireproof Paper.
An account is given in L’lndustrie Moderne
of Ladewig’s process for manufacturing from
asbestos fibre a pulp aud a paper that resist
the action of fire and water, that absorb no
moisture, and the former of which (the pulp)
may be used as a stuffing and for the joints of
engines, ine process of manufacture consists
in mixing about twenty-five per cent, of asbes
tos fibre with abont from twenty-five to thirty-
five per cent, of powdered sulphate of alumina.
This mixture is moistened with an aqueous
solution of chloride of zinc. The mixture is
washed with water and then treated with a
solution composed of one part of resin soap and
eight or ten parts of water mixed with an equal
bulk of sulphate of alumina, which should be
as pure as possible. The mixture thus obtain
ed should have a slightly pulpy consistency.
Finally, there ii added to it thirty-five per cent,
of powdered asbestos and five to eight per cent,
of white barytes. This pulp is treated with
water in an ordinary piper machine and work
ed just like paper pulp. In order to manufac
ture from it a solid cardboard, proof against fire
and water, and capable of serving as a roofiing
material for light structures sheets of common
cardboard, tarred or otherwise prepared, are
covered with the pulp The application is made
in a paper machine, the pulp being allowed to
flow over the cardboard.
Puzzle It Out, If You Can.
“I have been very mnch bothered lately,'
said a horse dealer to a St. Louis Globe report
er, “with a question arising out of a deal which
has been to me a sou-ce of greater annoyar ce
than the sixteen puzzle. I sold a horse 10 B
for 880. In a few days he came back with the
horse, and I re purchased the animal for $70
I immediately resold him for $65. The ques
tion is, ’How much did I gain or loss by the
transaction?’ When I bought the horse back
for 870 I certainly made $10, and when I sold
again for f65 I assuredly lost 83. Now, if I
gain 810 and lose 85 my net gain is, it seems
to me, 8-5 But, on the other band, after my
first sale I had no horse and 880, while after
my second sale I had no horse and only 875,
consequently I must have lost 85. At one
time, when I think over the matter, I congrat
ulate myself on having pocketed a “V” through
sharp dealing, while at another I feel like go
ing around behind the barn and kicking my-
self for having been such a blank fooL ”
Senator Edmunds has been retained at a scat
of 825,000 by the Chicago dressed beef interest
in their battle with tbe railroads before the
Interstate Commission, and his old friend and
whist partner, Ex-Senator Conklin, will repre
sent the railroads. -
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Laughter is the poor man’s plaster.
Making every harden light;
Turning sadness into gladness,
Darkest hour to May dawn bright,
Tis the deepest and the cheapest
Cure for ills of this description,
But for those that woman’s heir to,
Use Dr.Piercb’s “Favorite Prescription.”
Cures all weaknesses and irregularities, “bear
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Price reduced to one dollar. By druggist
the(oiTntfiy
Philosopher
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Nor*.—By special arrangement with the author of
these article* end the Atlanta OoiutitutUm, for which
paper they are written under a special contract, we
publish them in the Suititr South under the copy
right No other papers are allowed to publish them.
One by one they drop—drop into the grave
—nt t the aged and the ripe do I mean, for that
excites no surprise, no shock, no lasting grief—
but I was in a sad reverie about my classmate.
There were forty-four of ns then, and we were
all well and strong, and hopeful of long life
and success and happiness. It is lonesome
now—the props are nearly all gone. There are
but eight living, I believe, and in a few years
all will be gone. Some fell early by the way-
side and some fell in battle, and the devil set a
trap for some and caught them. But few—
very few—found life a joy or success. Is this
the way with all—the experience of all who
group together in their yonth as schoolmates
and friends? Well, the boys who are now at
Athens, and Oxford, and Macon, and other
schools, go through the same sad role and live
disappointed and die before the allotted time.
Only one-fifth of the number live to see sixty
years pass by. Sixty years is but the prime
of life, or ought to be, and yet how few do
reach it. Old men are scarce—very scarce.
Look round the town or the city; look in the
church when you go there and count them, and
then coant the others. They are scarce, and
when you find them how few have a green old
age and have been happy 1 Most all have the
lines of care and sorrow written in their faces.
Bat I was thinking about my dear old friend
Boling Stovall, who has just died. He was
one of ns, and we all loved hi n, for he was
kiDd and unselfish, and when we parted at the
college gate and stepped out, each for himself,
upon the arena of IRe, we all b ft our* marks
upon each other, and Boling left his upon our
hearts. Is it not so? Eveiy tcaool boy leaves
bis mark upon his mates, and tbe\ know him
always by that mark. Long years will not
obliterate or change it They know each other
just like t ie soldiers did during the war. The
war tried men just like the school tried boys.
The battle, the march, the picket the camp
fires made a mark upon every soldier, and the
maik followed him home, and is there yet, if
he survives. How often do we hear tbe boys
say, “He was a good soldier; he never shirked
nor dodged his duty; he would divide his last
ration; he never giumbled, nor found fault
with the officers " And sometimes we hear
them say the reverse. We thought we knew
them at home, before the war tried them, but
we didn’t. I know there were some at Rome
who went out under a cloud, for they had no
resentment, and it was thought they lacked
courage, but they were as true as steel, while
some of the braggarts skulked and played sick
on the eve of a battle.
I love to linger over those college memories.
The roads ofjjfe have forked and separated us
and scattered us hefe and tbere and we seldom
meet, but all of us were thinking, thinking of
each other, and when the newspapers told us
of another who had fallen saduees came over
those who we e left. Smaller and smaller
grows the number. In a few years it will get
down to one, and then a cipher, and each one
of us w mders who will be the last—the last of
the forty-four.
But whether young or old, Boling Stovall’s
life was always a success—it was a success ev
ery day, for he so lived as never to lose a
friend, but was ever ad liDg to tbe score. How
many can say that? I wish that all of us
could, and then tbe world would be happy I
still treasure the memorv of oar evening walks
along the shades of Cobbbam where tbe sweet
girls of Athens used to promenade, aud how
we looked and lingered as they passed, and 1
now reckon sweet girls of his own are walking
those same streets, and there are other boys
to look and linger.
His life was not brilliant. He had none of
that vaulting ambition that overleaps itself.
His nature was gentle and modest and kind;
he sought and found tbe purest joys of the
earth by the domestic hearth, the home circle,
the wife’s devotion and his children’s love.
Wonld that I could have pressed his band in
the last hours for he never knew how much I
loved him. I was happy with him in the long,
long ago and now 1 often recall what Dr. John-
bod said to Boswell: “I have always looked
upon it as the worse condition of man’s destiny
that persons are so often torn asunder just as
they become happy in each other’s society."
The brothers are together now—noble men,
Boling and George Stovall. I saw George as
he lay dead among the pines of Manassas and
will never forget the calm-repose, the sweet
serenity of his youthfnl face. Havelock was
not more of a Christian soldier than he was.
He went to the field among the first, and it
was not for glory or fame or from any pressure
that was behind, but he went from a huh sense
of duty, and duty sustained him to the last.
I was thinking too of an aged friend who
died the other day, a man of lonr-score, who
was ripe and over-ripe, and had been waiting
long and could not go. General Black was no
ordinary man. Intellectually, he bad not
many peers, and for years I felt my weakness
in bis presence and paid willing trioute to his
genius. In politics be was a leader of the peo
ple, and his best religion for thirty years was
a devotion to that proud old party known as
the old time whigs. He almost idolized its
leaders, and bis lace shone with enthusiasm as
he spoke of Ciay and Webster and Fillmore
and Stevens and Toombs and John Bell. But
the war wrecked him and subdued him, and at
its close he became blind aid this humbled
him, and as earthly treasures and health and
sight began to fail his reflections changed their
habitudes and went upward. Though never a
skeptic he was long outside the pale of the
church, but at last professed his faith and was
baptized. General B1 tek was a man of great
ebari-y and kindliness of heart He loved his
children even to too great indulgence, but al
ways insisted that the bo> s would turn out all
right in the long ran, but that they must have
time, plenty of time. And they did. One of
them in writing to me from the far west said:
“When my dear father bade me farewell some
twelve years ago he said with deep emotion,
‘Gi-d bless you my sou,’ and those precious
words still ring in my ears and I hope they
may prove the talismanic key that will open
the pearly gates to my sorrowing soul.”
“Shortly after the battle of Seven Pines,
General Black desired me to go with him to
see General Lee, which I did, and this was tbe
only time that I was ever face to face with
that great and noble man. The scene is before
me now as these two gray haired patriots dis
cussed of tbe war and the situation and the
wants of the soldiers, and when General Black
adroitly inquired about our Georgia troops and
their commanders, General Lee said: “None
better, my dear sir There can be none better
than Georgia’s soldiers, and their commanders
uphold me aud sustain me nobly—except, ex-
oept one or two who gave me some anxious
thoughts,” and a shadow passed over his face
aa he said: “Except, except."
We well knew what that meant and the in
quiry was not pressed. There was at that
time some dissension about the mode of pro
motion, for General Lee had issued an older
that the West Point rule should be tbserved,
and two of our prominent commanders had re
belled against it, and ordered an election to
fill vacancies. But marches and counter
marches and impencing battles, and the seven
days’ fight, and the second battle of Manassas
took
and
into
came in quick succession, and tbere was —
time for el* ctions or to indulge in insubordi
nation, and s> ended tbe apprehended trouble,
the conflict between home role and West
Point.
When General Black became blind I
him in charge tpjiillliaiM.tillk. Chisolm
saw that eminent surgeon thrust his knife
tbe glassy ball and insert bis forci pi and
roll the cataract that like a curtain had
scured his vision. I saw him later after __
had been for a fortnight in a room of utter
darkness, and I stood near when that room
was dimly lighted and the bandage was re
moved from his eyes aHd heard his grateful
j lyous exclamation as he looked at the pic
tured wall and said, “I see, I see—thank God
I see," and he threw bis arms around tbe good
doctor and hugged him. I never placed a true
value up in my own clear vision until then.
And another good old man is gone. The
father of Governor McDaniel. He, too, wee
ripe—not over-ripe. He went to sleep with
his faculties all unimpaired and no sign of that
physical decay that generally foreshadows
death. He was a good man and well served
his day and generation. He set a good exam
ple. Sleeping he died, and dying, slept- What
a comfort it is to go that way—to die without
either the dread or the pain or the sting of
death.
And there is still another who has just left
the judgment seat and takes his place among
those who are to be judged.
Georgia honored him in his day, and he won
his high calling fairly—honorably. Judge Hall
was no ordinary man and his private virtues
were in good accord with his public trust. I
was among his kindred in the old North State
and sojourned with them, and they were both
proud and grateful that we had elevated and
honored him.
Soon another will take ’ bis place and live,
and wore and die. This is a very busy world,
and the unseen reaper is just as busy. What
carious poe ry that was that the children
our generation learned in the old primer:
Xerxes did die,
And so must I.
Time cuts down all
Bo.h great and small.
But as the soldiers fall in the fight and the
ranks close up and press offward, just so the
busy crowded world closes over our graves
aDd we are forgotten, soon forgotten, save by
a few—the sorrowing few.
Tbe Meaning of a Girl’s Name.
Francesis “UDreetralited and free;”
B rtha, “pellucid, purely brtPbt;’’
Cun, "clear as the cryna' sea;”
Lucy, a star of r&dUnt “ilstu
Oainartne Is “pur. ” a* mountain air;
Bub ra comtth ‘ from afar;’’
Mabel Is ‘ like a ll>y fair;”
Henrietta, a soft swe-i. “siar;”
F. ilcU Is a ‘happy Rlr :
Matl'da Is a “la'iy true
Margaret is a '‘shining pear!
ReDecca, "with tbe faltbiul few;”
guian 1* a “lily w tte;”
Jane bas the "wllioa’s” curve and grac< ;
Cecelia, de u. Is “dun ot sight
Sophia si o vs 1 wlad. m ’ on bar face;
C instai ce in fl m and ' resolute;”
Grace a dntcloua ‘lavor m-ei;”
C<<»ilot e, “jobie, of g ol repute,-’
Harriet, a fl^e - oOi.i naeti;”
Isabella is ‘iidy rare; ’
Lucinda, “constant aa the day
Marla means ‘ al»d> fair;”
Abigail, "J lyful” as lb- M iy;
E IztDelb, ‘ ao oaibof irj, ;’
Adelina, “niceprincess p <-ud;”
Agatha “Is >rn'v go»danr j ist;”
Leila, "a J by love ann.rveri:”
Jenil a, "a si.li sound in air; ’
Carolina, “sweet spuit ban-
C iruella, “harmonious and fat-
Selina, “asweet nlgbilngUe;”
Lvdla, ‘ a refreslib g well;'’
Judith, "asoug 01 sa<Tea nralse;”
Julia "a J-sayl none .xcel ” k H
Frltciiln, anciru- of Oajs.”
An editor wants to see more of the ballet-
girls. Is it possible.
“It is well to leave something for those who
come sf .er us.’’ as the tnan said who threw a
barrel in the way cf a sonlstable who was chas
ing him.
Some lawyers con’t sleep. They lie on one
side then turn over and lie on the other.
Whenever a boot-black departs this life, the
truth of the aphor sm is bro ght home to us,
that “Death loves a shining mark.”
“My dear doctor," said a lady, “I suffer a
great deal with my eyes.” “Be patient, mad
am,” he replied; “you would probably suffer a
great deal more without them.”
Women swallow flattery as babies swallow
buttons, without any idea of the trouble that
may follow.
In a week’s time the earth travels over 11,-
000,000 miles. Fortunately there are no wood
en bridges on the line.
“Our Nugget.”
[mat SODT CSAWFOHS.J
Some call bar b ue • yes.
And some call her pat,
Ymlet and sonatina
And sweet mignonette;
•uicen hair, bine bird.
And sweet lltMe love.
Bat 1 dll her Majll >wer,
My little wbl.e uove.
B^es like her mother’s.
And lips like a peach;
Cheeks like two apples
That's j is* out ol reach.
Kars llkr bright amber.
With gold ha’r above,
My own little Mayflowtr,
say little watte duvs.
A boy novice in smoking turned deadly pale
and threw away his cigar. Said he, “ There’s
somethin’ in that cigar that’s made me sick.”
I know what it is.” said his companion, pull
ing away. “What?” “Tobacker.”
‘Gentlemen, I noticed your advertisement
for an organist and music-teacher, either lady
or gentleman. Having been both for several
yearB, I offer you my services.”
Where the Buttons Came From.
‘Where did you get all those buttons?’’ asked
a lady of a little boy who bad a thousand or
more an a string.
Why,” was the reply, “don’t you know pa
is a minister? ’
Yes,” returned Die lady, “but what has
that got to do with it?”
“Everything,” said the boy; “because he has
the sorting ol the collection banket.”
Cashier’s wife (reading)—The advantages of
paper are in its lack of balk. A man could
easily carry 840,000.00>j if in 810,000 bills.
Cashier (meditatively)—Well, well! I never
thought of it.
Woman and Artist.
[Century.]
I thought to win me s name
Snouid ring in the ear ol tbe world —
How can I work with smal' pink 1st
About my lagers curled?
T#en adieu to name asd to famel
They sc roe are worth at the best
Oue touch ct ibis wet UtUe, warm little mouth
With Its Ups against my breast.
What would the modern and fashionable
yonng man and young lady do if they were to
marry without money on one or both aides?
Imagine a couple setting up housekeeping on a
bunch of cigarettes and a pug dog.
The female moeqni o does all the biting and
the male mosquito all tbe singing. Together
they make np a heap of agony tor mankind.
For Sale—A piano by a lady about to visit
Europe with carved legs.
The treatment of many thousands of cams
of those chronio weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, *ttho Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. T„
bas afforded a vast experience in nlooly adapt
ing and thoroughly testing remedies tor the
cure of woman’s peculiar maladies.
Dr. Flsrce’s Favorite rreaeriptle*
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and
valuable experience. Thousands of testimo
nials. received from patients and from physi
cians who have tested it to the more aggra
vated and obstinate cases which had baited
their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
suffering women. It la not recommended as a
“cureau,” but as a most perfect Specific for
woman’s peculiar ailments.
As » powerfnl. Invigorating tonic,
It imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the womb and its appendages to
particular. For overworked, “wore-out,
“run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliner*,
dressmakers, seamstresses, “shop-girls, house
keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women
r nerally. Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription
the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled
as an appetizing cordial and restorative tome.
Ae a soothing and strengthening
nervine, “Favorite Prescription is une-
S ualed ana is invaluable in allaying and sub-
uing nervous excitability, irritability, ex
haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and
other distressing, nervous symptoms com
monly attendant upon functional aod organic
disease of tbe womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de-
spondency.r^e,^ FaTorite Prescription
Is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to womans delicate
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morning sickness, or nagsea, from whatever
AAiinn nniainiV ,ITl iO IT cf/VntUpll lllri ilTPfltlOll. QYR*'
LOSes. will prove very ueucin mi.
M Favorite Prescription 99 is •posi
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painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions*
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
“ female weakness, anteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronio congestion,
inflammation and ulceration of the womb, in
flammation, pain and tenderness In ovaries,
accompanied with “ internal heat."
As a regulator and promoter of func
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eqi
wn
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wnen taken for those disorders and derange
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“Favorite Prescription,” when taken
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Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets (Little
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diseases. Their combined use also removes
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scrofulous humors from the system.
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the following hand-
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omamrnts for a lady'a dresalng cose or bnrvau that we have ever
seen. Wishing to Introduce Into thousands of new homes our
large and attractive 16-page, 64-colnmn illustrated paper, The
LatlirV World* which Is ever brimful of tbe moat interesting
sad Instructive reading matter for ladles, being devoted to
stories, sketches, poems, fancy work, home decoration, fashions*
hygieuo, housekeeping, etiquette, reading for the young, etc., we
Low make the following extraordinary offer: Upon receipt of
only Thirty-live Cent*, ieetcill tend The Ladles’ World
for Six Months* and to every tvbteriber tot will alto tend,
Free and poet-paid, the beautiful Jewel Gasket above
describ'd, together with the following jewelry which each
Casket will contain: a handsome imported Pearl Shell Necklace,
consisting of a la'ge number of beautiful eheUt neatly Joined
together; a pair of Imitation Jet Bracclttt, good aud durable;
a x*teme*-ptasva nreatt Pin, otty neat and attractive. Remember,
the Casket, together with all this Jewelry, costs you nothing M
Is given free with n g-months* subscription to oar paper. Fife
subscriptions and five caskets of jewelry will be seat far tl.&S.
You cannot afford to miss this great ehsncs! Tsks sdvnntsgs sf
It at ooos I Wo guarantee double value of money tent Aa to
sur reliability, ws refer to any pabllaber la N. Y. Address,
& B. MOORE Me CO„ *7 Park Place* New York.
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A positive Cure.
A paitlcle is sppued uiu> »acn nosmi aua is
agreeable. Price f0 cents at Druegi«l»: hv man,
registered, 60 cents. Circulars free. ELY BROS..
677-yr Druggists, Onego, N. I.
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