St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 6, 1900
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» ORS ak 1, tna Na i He that some of our leaders ought to be and shot to death.” ‘disaster at home and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad, MONDAY—ST.. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH AUGURT 6 1908. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.| Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER. Published by THE PULITZER PUBLISHING CO., 513 Olive St. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. City and Subarbs. 1 cent 5 cents Conntry. 2 cents 5 cents 15 cents 65 cents 45 cents UMBERS. Main. Kinloch. “920 A646, A645 ily and Sunday, per week ally and Sunday, per mooth Ly only, per month BY MAIL IN ADVANCE Daliy and Sunday, 1 vear... .§6 0 — Daily and Sunday, 6 months.. $f onion Office. ..664, 665, Daily and Sunday, 1 month.. 60 Editorial Rooms,..1050 Dn, B POEL. .ccececctcces 200 City QBunday, &@ months........... 140 Circulation Sunday, 3 months 8) Department..... 1927 TRANSIENT POSTAGE RATES. costume ee 40 to 50 Pages TELEPHONE N Bet! BP PAMOBS 6 ccc ccs Outside the United States, Canada and Mexico, d uuble the above rates. 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SS Tee eeeeeeEeeEe—eeEeEE——E—E— See ee Oe a eee eer eee eee eee eer ee Le Post-Dispatch readers leaving town for the summer sre reminded that they fan bave the paper nailed to them every Cay from this office. Rates will oe found at the bead of this column, and all subscriptions sent to this office will receive prompt atte ntion. Addresses changed at pleasure of eubecrib ers, upon notice sent to the Post-Lospatch. —» ANARCHY'’S FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE. Count Malaiesta’s definition of the anarchist creed, given to the Post-Dispatch’s London c rrespondent, is interesting because it gives the best reasons which the recognized intel- lectifal leader of anarchy can give for such crimes as the murder of King Humbert. es Assuming for the sake of argument that the equal division of all. the world’s wealth is both a practicable and a desirable end, it is very evident that the killing of one King or ten kings or all kings will not bring it about. The fundamental mistake of the anarchist is his enormous exaggeration of the importance of individual men to the existence of government and the social order. He pays mon- archs too much deference. He overestimates their weight in the scale of humun affairs. -He overlooks the fact that with- out the general consent of* mankind the existing social order | cannot be changed. even though the kings themselves turned anarchists and advocated the equal division of wealth which, according to Malatesta, anarchy aims to bring about. St. Louis sorely needs a business administration. So long as party machines are kept up at the expense of the city we shall continue to be in trouble. The World’s Fair year is not far away. Is the present pitiable spectacle to be kept up until the whole world shall have come and looked upon it? oe SHE HAS HER EYE ON YOU. The young women of Great Bend, Kan., have started a novel temperance crusade. Their organization is known as the D. D. M. B., which being interpreted is ‘“‘dun’t drink, my boy.” The girls station themselves near saloons, relieving each other at intervals, and take note of the young men who enter. If personal remonstrance is ineffectual, the name is reported to the executive committee and the young man receives a note informing him that he must choose between drink and his girl. Furthermore, if he doesn’t stop visiting saloons he is sent to Coventry, there to abide until he thinks better of it. This is practical and ought to be effective. No sensible man will offend his best girl until the seal of matrimony sets him free. It is said that the D. D. M. B. is working well. Many brands have been snatched from the burning, and it is thought that Great Bend wili yet flow with fresh water as a consequence of this original woman’s movement. .~ ih di 2 Boston, not for beans, but for Mark Hanna is going to “Dough.” = = * —— SAVING THE SALARIES. Why does the Carrol] appropriation bill provide for the sal- aries of street inspectors far beyond the time when the work will cease? The amount appropriated is $53,600. For cleaning $39,000 is get aside, but $52,000 of this has already been expended under temporary appropriation bills, leaving $7000 only for expenses to April, 1901. Inspectors of cleaning will have little to do as such. Will they put in their time inspecting fences? It is not to be supposed that they will be idle. The superfiuous city employes must be taken care of, though their employment is political work. The bosses get the goods; the people, they pay the freight. This is a rascally bill from every point of view. Its one ob- ject is to strengthen the grip of the machine and tie up the city for four years under another disgraceful administration. A public protest, conspicuous and emphatic, may stop the business. It is not likely that it ran be prevented by any less menacing demonstration. This Nan worked well in the case of the temporary lighting. It will work well now. —_—__—_—_-—+—__ © ¢@ The voter who talks against expansion by bloodshed and votes for it has a clear case of the McKinley wabbles. Sn “DEAR SIR” AND “YOURS TRULY." To shorten labor and save time is to lengthen life. When, therefore, our contemporary, the Haberdasher, proposes to reduce the burden of business correspondence by abolishing “Dear Sir” and “Yours Very Truly” it is proposing a reform in the interest of longevity. Actual experiment has shown that it takes a typewriter one hour to write the formal words with which they are opened and closed in a batch of 500 letters. The Haberdasher finds that on the estimated total annual letter mall of the world. which is eight thousand million pieces, the “Dear Sirs” and “Yours Very Trulys’’ even if all written by machine, would take the time of one typewriter 6700 years, counting 300 days to the working year. The cost of the typewriting thus need- ever saying anything of the kind, but he cannot deny that the words are quite in keeping with his temperament. But he does not deny his St. Paul speech. Such language is inexcusable. Mr. Roosevelt is a man of high personal char- acter, who has served his country creditably in peace and war. For that very reason he should avoid expressions which are, to say the least, unbecoming in one whose position re- quires tact and discretion. Political issues ought to be reasonably discussed. Patriot- ism is not the property of anybody in particular and all should be given the credit of good public motives. Welcome news comes from China today by way of Paris. If this news is true, Secretary Hay has scored a signal] diplo- matic triumph, and Minister Conger will, of course, be im- mediately heard from. In that case, there will be no longer any reputable reason for an advance of the allied forces on Pekin. > >> ~— AN IMPERIAL CORNER IN WHEAT, A unique chapter in diplomacy is disclosed for the first time by J. D. Welpley in McClute’s Magazine for August. Ac- cording to his statement a serious proposition was made by the Russian ti.vernment to our Government at Washington on Nov. 4, 1896, to combine as governments to corner the entire sulplus wheat of the world. The object was to raise the price of wheat 100 for the benefit of the Russian and American farmers at the expense of all the rest of the bread-eating mankind. Our Government of course declined the proposition. not, in fact, within its power to assent to it. Together the United States and Russia produce about 90 per cent of the entire sulplus wheat of the world. The world’s wheat crop in 1898 was 2,879,000,000 bushels. The farmers who raised it sold it for’about 50 cents per bushel. The Russian scheme carried out, would add nearly $1,500,000,000 to the selling value of the entire crop. The farmers of the United States would thus gain about $350,000,000. The Russian farmers would add $200,000,000 to their income. Meantime the English people would find their food bill increased by over $60,000,000 a year. British farmers, per contra, would get $30,000,000 a year more for their small crop of wheat. It is plain enough that a Russo-American wheat trust would, in the present conditions, press most hardly upon Engiand. But the inevitable final outcome of such a combination, suc- cessful though it might be for a year or two, would be to stim- ulate wheat production in every country in the world where wheat can be grown. It is a testimony to the great strength of the agrarian interest that the Russian government gave no consideration to the consumers of wheat in its scheme to double the price. sis ccniaepepieeipitiillilt itil nsaiaiiaie The $25,000,000 of gold taken from the Klondike the past sea- son, as well as the large crops and foreign markets, will be credited to Mr. McKinley. Though he has had nothing what- ever to do with either the gold digging, the crops or the foreign demand, they are all claimed for him. From every vart of Missouri comes the intelligence that im- perialism is the leading issue in the campaign. It should be in all the States. This issue is the greatest that the American people have ever had to consider since 1776. May they act cautiously and wisely. It was So) = = i i Spain is now represented as really glad to be rid of the Philippines, which her enormous sums and which she could’ not subdue. She must be quite happy when she thinks of the $20.000,.000 we gave her for them when they did not belong to her. cost a &—— — a Indianapolis, in getting the Democratic notification meeting, seems to have been almost as fortunate as was Kansas City in securing the National Convention. There is a promise of 50,000 visitors. ‘here is no livelier State than Indiana ina presidential year. ~~ - The Chinese atrocities are not unparalleled, though hasty newspaper writers are declaring them to be so. These atrocities have been paralleled in every century known to history. The tiger in human nature has always been in evi- dence. some S ooo -——— — President Harper of the University’ of Chicago has’ deter- mined to.try the experiment of providing his family table at a cost of 15 cents per day pei member. This is a crucial test of Emerson's maxim that plain living promotes high thinking. The Superintendent of the St. Louis Insane Asylum declares that it is barbarously overcrowded. Everything tends to bar- barism under a city government which exists chiefly for the benefit of unscrupulous politicians. Northwestern merchants have been buying in Chicago from habit. Now that some of them are coming to St. Louis we have the opportunity to serve them better than the Windy City has served them. —-@o Mr. Hay comes perilously near to a declaration of war in his dispatches to Li Hung Chang, and by doing it does not in the least iniprove our chances of getting back our citizens alive. oe With Mr. McKinley borrowing the phrases of British states- men and Webster Davis borrowing from Garfield. other Orators will feel bound to help themselves to apt extracts. _®o- The -history of Italy’s venture in expansive imperialism would make a highly readable campaign document, but the American people should need no such lessons. +o The Abraham Lincoln Republicans are well aware that Abraham Lincoln said no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. -- oo The increased estimate of the United States in Europe undoubtedly implies that the World’s Fair of 1903 must be made to surpass all its predecessors. _—_—_————____.___- 9-9 @—____._.._........ POST-DISPATCH SNAP SHOTS. The politicians and the city paupers cannot have pie at the Same time. When women shall speak more in public will they lecture less at home? The growth of shoe factories in St. Louis is only a part of the evidence that we are stepping forward. A free flow of liquor seems to have brought about the feud tragedy at Doe Run, Mo. It may have been the Kentucky article. With the letter carrier made a shirt-waist. man, the letter receiver may gradually get courage to make himself comfort- able in summer. Uncle Sam in the Philippines is like a comma in the wrong place. He is distorting the meaning of the Declaration of In- dependence. war? If Mr. Gates should come to the World’s Fair to scatter the other day in Paris. generous capitalists. It appears from the Sunday Post-Dispatch that Mullanphy Island, in the Missouri River, has moved six miles in thirty years. Mullanphy is perhaps possessed of a praiseworthy am. bition to reach St. Louts. There is no prejudice here against +o lese#ly done every year, allowing $10 per week as the type- writer's wages, is $5,350,000. » Why not, it asks, drop these meaningless phrases and begin right off: “John Smith & Co." Say what you have to say and eign it “T. Brown & Co.” Why not, indeed? Is a telegram less courteous or effective than @ letter? But we never use any more words in telegrams than are needed to convey our meaning. z — — = — If William Waldorf Astor cannot be an Englishman and is no longer an American, he can become a Porto Rican or a Filipino. =_— = — i i DISCRETION IN SPEECH. Gov. Roosevelt's recent assault upon Democrats as repre- sentatives “of lawlessness and disorder.” “dishonesty and dis- aster,” and his declaration that they stand for license and recall his atrenuous expressions {n 1896. Mr. Willis J. Abbot. a man whose character and reputation for truth-telling is quite equal to that of Mr. Roosevelt. says: “I am ready to certify to it, that you (Roosevelt) named men in the Chicagu convention whom you expected to have to meet In armed conflict, and that you said in so many words put up against a wall it should be said that he eat’ : ’ tice to Mr. Roosevelt ' question , City, A Storm of Enthusiasm From the Minneapolis People’s Paper. The New York Sun's statement that that provoked the slightest enthusiasm at Kansas ; is just a plain He. The most tumultuous, prolonged and indescribable storm of enthusiasm burst upon the when Senator Tillman read the words which declared imperial- ism to be the paramount issue of the campaign. This demon- stration was the most glorious sight we have ever seen. It was the sublimest scene in the lifetime of all present. The uation made by certain cynical dailies that the enthusiasm man- ifested was not eens, but artificial, is too absurd to need refutation t were impossible to arrange with 20,000 people congregated from all parts of the Union, that at one point in the reading of a platform they would burst forth in an over- powering demonstration which the chairman found it to quell until the people ceased their shoutings from sheer phy- sicai exhaustion. free silver is the only The Direct Knock-Out. From the uisville (Ky.) Evening Post. The number of vacant stores on Main street is not at all en- couraging, and the general opinion inclines to the belief that this is directly due to the practice of factories selling direct to re- tatlers and making the igbber and the traveling man superfiui- ties in the scheme of business life. = = " Gin-Mill Humor. From the Chicago Chronicle. When we read of the mérry jest petrated by the Clark street saloonkeeper who poured alcohol on a sleeping friend gud bin ae ge ye FL paaten “2. cannot as ay 84 they SE at the u yo ‘hinese “Boxers,” y can’ e peo- ple in fun 1 of in earnest?’ 4 Why doesn’t he put a period to the Philippine | coins among the populace, he will not be arrested, as he was! convention | insin- | impossible | ~ - Vv Ta NOVEL WALKING COSTUME. Flegant promenade toilet of mauve cloth and black taffetas checked with mauve. The cloth is cut out over the checked taf- fetas and stitched at the edges, forming a sort of novel embroidery. The blouse bodice of taffetas ends in a separately add- ed basque, which is scalloped at the edges. BIXBY’s FRENCH. “Bixby went into a French restaurant ard called for ‘caffy oh lay.’ ”’ “That's all right. ‘Coffee with milk.’ What then?’ “Why, he got mad.’ “What for?’ ‘Because they didn’t bring him coffee and an egg.-—Cleveland Plain Dealer. NO SUNSTROKE IN FLORIDA. In Florida sunstroke is entirely unknown, although the temperature often reaches 110 degrees Fahrenheit. This is attributed to the extreme moisture of the atmosphere. HIS LITTLE JOKE. The t-embline Boxer knelt before Li Hung Chang and strove te explain matters. “TI ‘must have lost my head. I see no other reason why I engaged in the upris- ing, O Sen of the Blue Sky,” he wailed. “You are a trifle off in your grammar,” interposed Li “You should say, ‘I will heve lost my head.’ ”’ And the executioner stepped forward at the prope: signal.—Baltimore American. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Some men have wheels and some are simply cranks, A coat that you owe for is a bad habit to get into. Battleships are well supplied with shelis of the ocean. Coal, wood and gas are prominent among the words that burn. Mustard plasters naturally the head of smart articles. Somehow the homely girl always fewer enemies than the pretty one. Although Adam was created before Eve, the latter was the first maid. Many a young lawyer suspected of hav- ing talent has been tfied and acquitted But few people ever get so full of emotion that they have no room for dinner. The wit who occasionally blows up her husband must be a sort of domestic maga- zine. If you are poor your friends seldorm help you, but if you are rich they usually want to help themselves. come has but in Women may never get their rights, their lefts will always be in evidence the shape of old bachelors. When a man reaches that point in his ca- reer where he is satisied with himself his usefulness on earth is at an end.—From the Chicago News. COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. “You can’t belie said the sceptical citizen “Tl should say not,’ answered Mr. Meek- ton. “Some things are 100 preposterously awbsurd! Why, only the cther day | saw a poece about a man who made fun of his wife’s cooking.”’ e oll you see in print,” "WHAT IS THE HAPPIEST CONDITION ? o> + a/_ oa She: Will you love me just the same when I'm old and ugly? fe: Why, I love you now, dear. —_ —_ —— —— — ‘This Duty Done. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. “What is the happiest condition?’ To be happy the mind must be free from care. This true of the child as well as the adult. Practice unselfishness. Selfishness hampers and checks the duty and. obligations we owe others, be they great or small. Nonfulfillment of these will cause fric- tion, to be followed b® the penalty, with its attendant evils; hatred, fear, worry, etc., a want of happiness, which unfortunately also reacts upon those dependent. The un- burdening of our duties and obligations in proper manner will of itself bring content- ment and peace of mind will result in such pleasures as the characteristics of each in- dividual may suggest or chance upon. This is happiness. H. F. LOUIS. is Three Requisites. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Faith in God, faith in one’s self and a clear conscience. These together make the happiest condition. E. 5S. JeiMnings, Mo. A Comprehensive Rule. To the Editor of the Dost-Dispatch, My experience is that | find no happiness in anything without a clear conscience; to feel that [I am in God's friendship and to love not only my friends and peers but enemies as well. 1 a a A Sense of Security. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch What is the happiest condition? A sense of security, physical and financial, allied with something to love, something to do, and something to hope for. SMUS. St. Louis. Takes the Next Best. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. As life in which we can be deemed truly happy. Drink of life’s joys and sorrows, pleasures and disappointments just as they come; scatter all the sunshine you can, and do your duty to God and to man, with a quiet and peaceful mind, and this will ~—_—_—_-~----———— Contentment is the only condition In this | bring happiness, or the happiest condition A Prize of Five Dollars Will Be Given for the Best and Briefest Answer to Question. of life; be you rich or poor, old or young, ‘ignorant or educated, or wherever in God’s universe your lot may be cast. Perfect happiness is not to be attained in this world, but the nearest to it is contentment. St. Louis. L. J. BARLOW. A Family Man’s Idea. Special to the Post-Dispatch The happiest condition licity.’”’ is: “Domestic fe- I SHORT. Internal and External. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Is love happiness? It is too full of an eager unrest. Its memory is happier. Is memory happiness? Regret spoils it. There is too much anxiety and suspense in antici- pation. Ignorance is bliss to the weak. Knowlgdge must cultivate happiness by strengthening the character. A happy per- son is one who is courageous, helpful, self- forgetful, cheerful and industrious. He fears neither past nor future. The past it- self is dead; the future a mere calculation. Hie appreciates the beautiful in his sur- roundings. Real, true happiness is har- mony between the internal and external world. BE. R. Neither Poverty Nor Riches. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. A profound belief in the existence of a ' Supreme being whose love, justice and | mercy are accepted, through perfect faith, as eternal truths. Neither poverty nor riches but a suffi- ciency of this world’s goods to prevent want and suffering. Added to these conditions a full consciousness of having daily dis- charged our duties to our Creator. our fel- | low-creatures and to ourselves ought to pro- | duce the happiest condition for man in this life. J. R. ROGERS. St. Louis. Cultivate Happiness. To the Fditor of the Post-Dispatch. 1 believe any one may become supremely happy by inducing and strengthening pure or happy thoughts. | It seems to me to make a happy condition /one must necessarily have good | pure heart, a kind disposition and moderate |, Wealth. Always seek peace and pursue it in order | to be truly happy. NELLIE COLLINS. Piedmont, Mo. ne ee te a PA EXPLAINS HOW TO HAVE | PEACE IN THE FAMILY, ‘What fools some people are,’’ paw sed when we were Having a nice sociable Time on the frunt portch Thursdy nite. . “T no it,’’ maw told him. “Sometimes it makes me feel real sad To think they are s0 menny people in the world that can't see their faults as Others see them without thinking They are prejudist against them- selves."’ “Look at the door,'’ paw says. to no Better.” aa ‘What have thev Been doing?’ maw ast “I rode out in the same car with the cap- tun today,” paw anserd, ‘and we got to ‘talkin’ about how jellug it always makes a woman to Be told some other woman looks yung. So he told me all about it. He sed he got to plaiging his wife telling her Mrs. Bassett doesn't look a day more Fhan thirty. The captun'’s wife sed she new she Was thirty Five, and so they Got a going it, and now she wont speak to him. . “It makes me perfectly disgusted with some peeple,’’ maw*sed, “when I hear about the Foolish things they do. If he wasn't blind he could see his wife was rite about — captun and his wife next “I should Think they ot “But what I blame him for.’ paw says, ‘Ys sticking to it when he could have peace in the fambly by lettin’ his wife think he oor the same as she did. becoz it wouldn't o enny harm.” eer don’t see why she wanted to go on Talking about it,’’ maw told him, “when she new the womun was thurty Five and it didn’t make enny difference wheher the captun thot so or not.” Ves,” paw sed, “and if I would of been him I would of let her go ahed thinkin’ the way she Pleased as long 48 it made her happy, and wouldn't make Mrs. Bassett -— more'n twenty-nine or Thurty, enny way, and mite——’’ ‘“‘Paw,'’ maw told him, “you're just as Sillle as the old fool of a captun About lat Woman. She'll never see Thirty-six again and you no it.’’ ‘Thirty-six?’ paw says. ‘‘Maw, crazy. I'll bet she ain't thirty Yet. see it by her Looks.,’’ “You no Better than that,” maw sed. “If you don't you must be as blind as a batt.” “There's no use getting into a skrim- midge about paw ansered. “I ain't agoin’ to be the captain. TI no too mutch about hewmun naitcher for that. if you want to think she's 36 KO ahead and Think so. It won't hurt her enny or make enny difference About what | Think. So what's the use getting mad about it? I believe in Being sensable about these Things I'd rather give Up when | no I’m rite than to have a quarrel with a womun about anuther womun’'s aidge. So if it ti do vou enny good to Think she's 6 or ‘Seven years older Than she is go ahed and be Hayy vy, and [ won't say enny more about it I don't beleave in Harpin’ on a thing when you know your breath is Wasted, But I can't see why wimmin are so biame jellus of one anuther’'s aige, and what's the use ronging her behind her back? What good would it do you if She was 4 in- stead of 27 or 28? It wouldn't make you enny younger, would it? That's sumthing I'd like to have you explane. If the cap- tun would of had enny sense he would of aa said all rite*-when his wife told him she you're WAS 0 dropped the subject like me. where some people’'—— Then maw jumped up and grabbed her sowing and went fn the house and slammed the Door as hard as she could. “Well, by George,” paw sed, after he looked around quick two or Three times becoz he thot he mite get hit by something from behind, “that's always the way when you go to Tawk fllosofickle to a woman Here I came home all tired to-night and thot we'd have a nice soshuble time so I could Forget about Bigness cares, and that’s the way it turns out. No wonder so menny men haft to go way from home to get a little sunshine In thetr Iives.””— | Georgie in Cylcago Times-Herald, But that’s under = ‘ - - C0 eee ee THE ASSASSIN OF VENICE, OR, THE BRAVO. BY J. FENIMORE COOPER. Condensed for the Post-Dispatch. fe The Bravo’s Letter. HE carnival was on, in Venice. That citv of the sea was in its pristine +t glory. Victorious in its wars with the Turks (though still harassed by the Turkish privateersmen that cruised dan- gerously near their shores), the Venetians were in a state of exultation. In the Piazza San Marco two gondoliers, Gino Monaldi and Stefano Milano, stood I see it written. And this paper bears ane- other name than mine.”’ He walked off, leaving Gino alone. Gino gladly turned away, but he had not left the other many paces before he saw a female form gliding behind the pedegs- tal of one of the granite columns. Mov- ing swiftly in a direction to uncover this seeming spy, he saw at once that Annina, a grisette whom he knew, had been a wite ness of his interview with the Bravo. In a neighboring house at the same hour sat a young and beautiful girl: tall, fair, innocent of face. She was talking to man who wore the white robe of a Car- watching the distant festivities and await- | melite monk. Near by sat an older woman, ing the revurn of their respective employers. Suddenly passed them. The stranger was the object of universal notice. His years were under 30, though the caim gravity of his counte- nance imparted té it a character of more mature age. The cheeks were bloodless, but they betrayed rather the pallid hue of mental than of bodily disease. The per- fect condition of the physical man was sufficiently exhibited in the muscular ful- ness of a body which, though light and active, gave every indication of strength. His step was firm, assured and even; his carriage erect and easy, and his whole mien was strongly characterized by a self- | ' which there, possession that could scarcely escape ob- servation; and yet his attire was that of an inferior class. The face was somber, and its perfect well with the striking calmness of the body. The lineaments of the former, however, were bold and even noble, ex- hibiting that strong and manly outline is so characteristic of the finer class of Italian countenance. Out of this striking array of features gleamed an eye that was full of brilllancy, meaning and passion. This man was Jacopo Frontoni, a man of good blood, who, however, was now shunned as the plague. For he plied the trade of bravo or hired assassin, and in that capacity had the credit of having worked certain dark deeds‘for the state it- self, and was credited also with possess- ing too many state secrets to make it safe for the senate to punish him. Don Camillo Montforte, Duke of Sant Agata, passed a moment later. He was a Neapolitan, now pressing certain legal claims in Venice. fe had lately gained some fame by saving the life of Donna Violetta, a young girl of wealth. Don Camillo hailed his gondolier, Gino, and was rowed at once to his palace. Arrived he said abruptly to Gino: “Do you Know Jacopo Frontoni?”’ “Yes, excellenza,’ replied Gino, rather than accorded melancholy repose with a | start. token of thy authority. 1 of | Sighs, Don Camillo noted the start and said: “As thou Knowest the person of him I have named. our affair is simple. Take this packet,,’ he continued, placing a sealed letter of more than usual size into the hand of the gondolier, and drawing from his finger a signet ring, ‘‘with this Within that arch the Doge's palace which leads to the canal of San Marco, beneath the Bridge of thou wilt find Jacopo. Give him the poeeeti and, should he demand it, withhold not the ring. Wait his bidding and return with the answer.’’ Gino received this commission with pro- found respect, but with an awe he could not conceal. Habitual deference to his master appeared to struggle with deep dis- | taste for the office he was required to per- | form; and there was even some manifesta- _returned his master’s signet ring. ' ened i tion of a more principled reluctance in his hesitating yet humble manner. If Don Camillo noted the air and countenance of _ mental at all he effectually concealed t Masked to avoid recognition, Gino made his way to the appointed spot. There an- other figure, also masked, awaited him. “Sig. Jacopo,” said Gino, handing him the signet ring, “‘my master sends you a packet.”’ The unknown took the ring and van- ished into the®shadows. The gondolier gazed after him a moment, then remembered that the stranger had not He hast- after him and found himself in the midst of the public square, which was full of merrymakers. He at last saw Jacopo, who, however. — now unmasked. Gino rushed up to m. “Wouldst thou aught with me?’’ de- manded Jacopo, when the gaze of each had continued beyond the term of accidental glances. “My master's signet.’’ “I Know thee not.” Gino told of the scene where the signet was taken. Jacopo scarce heeded him, but interrupted: He “The packet man! then continued: “Thou saidst something of a ring. Dost thou bear they master’s signet? I am _—— accustomed to see pledges ere I give aith.’’ ‘Blessed San Teodoro grant that I did! Were it as heavy as a skin of wine, I! would willingly bear the load; but one that [ mistook for you, Master Jacopo, has it on his own light finger, I fear.’’ Give it to me!’’ health, ag or 6 years older than she is and | “This is an affair that thou will settle with they master,”’ returned the Bravo, coldly, again examining the impression of the seal, The dark eye of the Bravo was seen roll- ing over the person of his companion, by the lights of the moon, in a manner that caused the blood of the latter to steal to- ward his heart. “I bid thee read to me aloud the name the paper bears,”’ said Jacopo, sternly. “Here is none but the lion and the saint above our heads to listen.”’ “Just San Marco! who can tell what ear is open or what ear is shut in Venice? If | you please, Sig. Frontont, we will postpone pe examination to a more suitable occa- 810n. “Friend, I do not play the fool' The name, or show me some gage that thou art sent by him thou hast named, else take back the packet; ‘tis no affair for my hand.”’ “But I cannot read,” out Gino. “Nor can [. T am no. clerk,;" replied Jacopo. “Yet I know my own name when i blurted poor they ceased to speak, as a Man | | are thwarted in our ill-digested wishes. Donna Florinda, the young Donna Violet- ta’s duenna. Violetta herself was a “w of the Venetian republic.” The Carmelite, finding the young girl in a somber mood, was striving to make her more contented by pointing out the luxury of her home, But she replied: “Tt would there were less of luxury and more of liberty within its walls.”’ , “Time will enable thee to see differently, At thy age all is viewed in colors of gold, or life is rendered bootless, because we I deny not, however, .that thy fortune is tempered by some pecullar passages. Ve- nice is ruled by a policy that is often cale culating, and haply some deem it remorse- less.”’ Though the voice of the Carmelite had fallen, he paused and glanced an un- easy look from beneath his cowl ere he continued, ‘ “The caution of the Senate teaches it to preclude, as far as in it Hea, the union of interests that may not only oppose eac} other, but which may endanger those the state. Thus, as have suid. ncoue Senatorial rank may hold lands withow? the limits of the republic, nor may any of account connect themselves b the ties of marriage, with strangers of erous influence, without the consent and su- pervision of the republic. The Jatter is thy situation, for of the several foreign lords who seek thy hand the eouncil see none to whom the favor may be ex without the apprehension of creating an influence here, in the center of thé can- als, which ought not to be given ts ®& stranger. Don Camillo Monforte,. the eave alier to whom thou are indebted’ ‘fer thy life, and of whom thou hast so t«'s spoken with gratitude, has far mor Y to complain of these hard decrees) ta: thou mayest have, in any reason.” , “I would make my griefs still heaviex did I know that one courage in my behalf has equal Tres40Nn av feel their justice,” returned Violetta, quick ly. ‘‘What is the affair that, so fortunately for me, hath brought the Lord of Sant’ Agata to Venice, if a grateful girl may, without indiscretion, inquire?” “Thy interest in his behalf is both natur- al and commendable,”’ answered the Gar- melite, which a simplicity which did more credit to his cowl than to his observation. “He is young, and doubtless he is tempted by the gifts of fortune and the paasion of his years to divers acts of weakness. Re- e ‘r him, daughter, in thy prayers, that part™of the debt of gratitude may be paid. His worldly interest here is one of general notoriety, and I can ascribe thy mgt of it only to a retired manner oO e,’’ “My cnaree hath other matters to oc- cupy her thoughts than the concerns of a young stranger, who cometh to Venice ow! affairs,’’ mildly observed Donna Flos- nda. “But if I am to remember him in my prayers, Father, it might enlighten my etition to know in what the young no- le is most wanting.” “I would have thee remember his — itual necessities only. He wanteth, of a truth, little in temporalities that the world can offer, though the desires of life often lead him who hath most in quest of more. It would seem that an ancestor of Don Camillo was anciently a senator of Venice, when the death of a_ relation brought many Calabrian signories into his possession. The younger of his sons, by an especial decree, which favored a family that had well served the state, took these estates, while the elder transmitted the senatorial rank and the Venetian fortunes to his posterity. Time hath exti shed the elder branch; and Don Camillo hath for years besieged the council to be re- stored to those rights which his prede- cessor renounced.” “Can they refuse him?’ “His demand involves a departure from established laws. Were he to renounce the Calabrian lordships the Neapolitan might lose more than he would gain, and to keep both is to infringe a law that Is rarely suffered to be dormant. I know little, daughter, of the interest of life, but there are enemies of the republic who Say that its servitude is not easy, and that it seldom bestows favors of this sort with- out seeking an ample equivalent. “Though I would wish justice done to the noble Neapolitan, it may be for his everlasting peace that the additional wealth he seeks should be withheld. “TI am unwilling to believe, father, that a cavalier, who has shown himself so ready to assist the distressed will easily abuse gifts of fortune.” The Carmelite fastened an uneasy look on the bright features of the young Vene- tian. Parental solicitude and prophetic foresight were in his glance, but the ex- pression was reileved by the charity of a chastened spirit. “Gratitude to the preserver of thy life becomes thy station and sex; it is a duty. Cherish the feeling, for it is akin to the holy obligation of man to his Creator.” “Is it enough to feel grateful?” demanded Violetta. “One of my name and alliances ought to do more. We can move the pa- tricians of my family in behalf of the ‘stranger, that his projected sult may come 'to a more speedy end.” “Daughter, beware; the intercession of one in whom St. Mark feels so ney A interest may raise up enemies to Don Ca- millo instead of friends. The Carmelite departed. Violetta, attended by Florinan, set out in her gondola for the palace of Signor Gradenigo, the man whom the Venetiasa Senate had appointed as her guardian. She had a mission of importance to fuk- fill. ‘ —_— _ (TO BE CONTINUED.) a ee -- - You can. PEACGH FRITTERS.—Put one cupful of flour in a bowl, blend tn one-fourth of a tea- spoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of su- gar. Beat two eggs unt! light, add to them one-half cupful of cold water, and pour over the flour, mixing to a smooth batter; lastly ,add one tablespoonful of good olive ofl or melted butter. Halve the peaches, roll in sugar, dip in the batter until perfectly coat- ed and fry in deep fat. VINPGAR.—Put quarts of ripe raspberries Into an earthen bow!; pour over them a quart of vinegar; at the end of 24 hours press and strain out the Uquor and turn it over another three quarta of freeh, ripe berries. Let it stand another 24 hours; again extract and strain the Juice, and to each pint add a pound of sugar, and boil for 3 m'nutes. Turn it into bottles, and cork when cold. When used as a beverage dilute the raspberry vinegar with three parts of Water. FROZEN PEACHES.—Select ripe, fine peaches of good flavor, peel and quarter them, aweeten by dipping Into a heavy s#u- gar oprup. pat into a freezer and k in twg-thirds ice and one-third salt for one ang@ one-quarter hours. They should not be hard and stiff, but just half frogen. COBBLER.—lAne a dripping pan with rich biscuit dough roiled rather thin; fll with peaches cut in quarters. M’x one cupful of sugar with one tablespoonful of flour In a (errall saucepan, add one and one-half a fulse of water and cook RASPBERRY three moet of the time; peaches dot weil with but x ter until eee - peaches and crust are done. There eho be enough svrup to well moisten the all through the pan, the Size of the pan de termining the amount it ts neceasary te make. It is better, I think, without a ¢ crust. All cothlers should be served wi cream. PEACH ICDCREAM.—1. Make plain va- nilla cream by any preferred recipe, freese, remove the paddie of the freezer and atir ‘mn one-half the bulk (of cream) of finely flavored ripe peaches cut into small pieces, Pack and allow to stand two hours. 2. Mash the peaches to a fine pulp or rub them through a sieve, add twice the bulk of pure cream, sweeten and freeze. BREADED TOMATOES.-—Choose tomatoes; peel and slice, roll each sites flour highly seasoned with salt and pepper. then dip in beaten egg seasoned wit Juice, roll in crumbs until perfectly covered, and fry in deep fat. BLANQUETTE OF piece of brieket veal, Remo bone ry Loepan a quantity of onlous t same brown nively. emai who has shown so mich .
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