DECORATION DAY. gish tongue warily styled the rever- She will not be the first to sting THE TERRIBLE KIIOPJTE snake's attention from the sword to himself. eould feel the slight vl-b- ra Bleep, tonmlfs eleep urd' rest. end Capuchin father, Joseph da that apathetic blood. But have I not I On this Bed of the rouadedaxmi. Tremblay. This alter ego of the from all such fair shoots plucked the .ion again and I knew that the Where foe no more iao( snake was preparing to strike. Nor mo try t ahot alarars! cardinal was an enigma, perhaps insidious ivy of his love?" he added even to him whose friendship he confidently. "Yet shall it creep DEADLY THAN THE COB.iA. And then like a flash of lightning Ye have aiept on the Tocnd before, went blade past my eyes a hissed And M.irted lo jour ever cherished as that of a kind of around my blossoming tree, where the At tli caon I?t Allah" driven through clenched n' iiiddm row divinity. There is no doubt Du innocent thoughts make music that or Brown Death ; Or the tlrum'g that Vndrr the Kpll the redoubliai best e teeth, my half stupeSed Tremblay was sincerely religious at spirits in heaven might hear? No, Martini Kiprriem-- l a ientlemao j penetrated senses. But in thM camp of Death the outset of his career, but never brother, must have oo mis- la Karoiull Savnl by the I'irm Hand j Io sound four slumber breaks: had his superior found a more faith- tress but the state." of a Native fcervaut. I felt a rush of something down my Hero is no fevere! breitn. back, No wound tti.it btoeds acl acbsa ful disciple of Machiavel. He was In the vocabulary of that cabinet and not knowing whether the reckoned a pious courtier, never- state was Richelieu. snake had been cut in two or missed. All Is repoe and pace. and the I was living in the town of Akyab, I'Mrampled lie th? sol: theless, no bribe of the crown, no But your foes are not so easily I tottered toward a chair. I had not is English in Emir-Aili'- s Toe shoun of d, which a very old port Kittle cene charms of no of circumvented. They are many-heade- taken a step before strong It la the truce of God! the queen, threats araon men and they to Burmah, and other arms were about me and with tears the nobility affected the devotion of Jeban, intend 1 there knew and had business with j Ret. comrades. ret an 1 sleep; Richelieu's right arm, 6ole consoler use her as their instrument Doubly: of joy in his big lustrous eyes, the The thou hts of men snail ba a native born but Christian man j As aentinels to keep and sustainer against all. they use her as a bate to lure the poor fellow was saying, "God is named MordaL One day lie came to j Your ret from dangers free In tho end the astute churchman king into silence of their crime great " me and asked me to go over to some j snake lay on the floor, Yonr silent tents of green opened his eyes, and said in a voice meditated against the realm and The struck property he had on a neighboring j We deck with fragrant flowers: weak and husky by a cough, the church in slaying thee, and as a in two, still vicious and striding at Yours has guHerint hectic island. He had been having some the been. 'And, so, on Baradas." its own body, a khorite about three The memory sb ill lie ours Joseph, you think this fetter trouble about boundaries and wanted Henry Wadsworth I.on .fellow new "How on Baradas?" and a half feet long. He had fallen conspiracy the craftiest trap yet me to give him an unbiased opinion. laid for loves her. He comes from on my. back from the roof whero he the old fox? a nickname I "He We in a nail boat about 12 like; for, same part of the country as that started had been after rats. as Plutarch said of the the o'clock and got to his place about 4. Cardinal Richelieu. Greek Lysander, knight of Mauprat, who was a boy that where the He and I got out of the boat and DUELING IN EUROPE. lion's skin fell short, he eked it out beside her in her childhood." Founded on IMay up a bungalow ho bad - nt the of Richelieu," by Mauprat!" went to small A Sport That I Entertaining- and Lord l.yttou. with the fox's, and so L A great on posts six to ten feet "Who is in Paris agaiu. " built about F.jerrise for the Muscles. statesman, Joseph, that sa me Lysan- from the ground, and consisting of CKAI-TK- he had been passed Dueling is the leading, and almost L der." "Methought sitnplv the floor, the roof, and some spikes! A trouble town, the only athletic sport in Italy. It is Tho Two Sphinxes. Orleans beads the traitors." through the ' j times walls run up six or seven feet. In 1611, a desperate strike-fir- e bold to think true, that there is an Alpine club, so the year when France was "A very wooden head, then! Well, There is no ceiling and nothing over-- j menaced by leagues of neigh- and firm to speak, but not on my called because its members climb the all its who'shis lieutenant?" but the roof, which is made of j to play. You tell me. Joseph, head lesser heights of the Apennines, but bors and those undying enemies, Baradas, the favorite." board bamboo and thatched with leaves pushing blade is here again, des- there is no crickot, and except England, Austria, Italy and Spain, "A boy," sneered the cardinal. the from the toddy plant. ' my among the laboring classes, ball whose secret representatives deeply Baradas and Saint Simon shared pite mandate?" We were sitting on the veranda. "Marion saw hiin masked, it is games even of the mildest character embosomed were wittjin her heart, the king's favor. The latter was of roof of which was not mure t'.ian a gambling table in her the are hardly ever played, says the there sat two men in profound pon-derin- high degree, but the other a weed of true at live or six feet from our heads. s house. Lady aiaugiron s. Idler. The young Itaiian gen Jeman in the master's cabinet in hastv crow th who had mounted as sister Mordai was talking to mo about the e save tne report,: uer finds dueling an exercise which is that Cardinal palace which we know high in half a year as Richelieu, in is heaven 1 boundary, and had become quite beneficial to his muscles and suff- as the Palais Royal at present. the times of the Huguenot's power lover. in some maps he had in be. For I interested iciently exciting to interest him, and The walls were hung with an arras over France, in six years. All this mav brother. examin- - his lap. While engaged in middle-age- d do not have the court-flie- s buzzing the Italian keeps up his depicting scenes wbere the church He is a mere gaudy lizard. But ing them I felt something fall and me latterly. practice with the foils and occasion- militant bad triumphed, the windows I hold the ladder, and when I shake about strike ray shoulder. I rose quito ' 'I like the winter who like summer wast ally challenges and fights a friend were hermetically sealed, and the he falls! more?" an ' What The swallows fly that floekei before so fast " slowly, still talkiug to Mordai. and just to show he is not too old to doors precautions Tho Capuchin was glancing at that double. These There was a flaw of sadness in the turned about to soo what was in ray lost a genial interest in were not wholly political, for a fire some papers. have the note of resolution, and the scarlet chair, thinking that perhaps a piece pursuits of youth. un- of innocent burnt luridly in the deep mantel "The worst at last The count robe quivered at tho slight shrug of of bamboo had been blown down by Dueling to marble-piec- is contrary law in Italy, der a e embossed with a Soissons" the bony shoulders. the wind. As I turned my back was but the duelist is never punished, struggle of "He who attempted our life in 1 was mo- centaurs and He reached out and touched a toward Mordai and struck he should kill ex- '35," Richelieu, with a (unless a man), though it was summer's height, and interpolated spring which doubtless caused a bell tionless by a hoarse "For God's sake, cept in the army, where the sport is would of eye. be- hor- any thoughtful observer have lighting up the which to ring without, for there appeared don't move, sahib'." From the obligatory and strictly prohibited. expected to see in the tenant of the trayed the worst point of his tem- at a secret door behind tho tapestry, ror in his voioo I knew as woL as if vindictive-ness- , The same curious anomaly exists in chamber one whose term of years perament its relentless which he divided to show his hel-met- I could see it that a cobra or a khor-ite- . be- Germany, where army officers are made fire a second life. A large too blind to discriminate head and gleaming breastplate, equally deadly and more numer- punished those arrested and if they fight a screen hinted at u further means of tween personal grievances and a herculean figure, ruddy, and man- ous in that part, was on mv shoulder. duel and either cashiered or forced concealment, brass state "the count of motionless, I and the huge and against the tled with a beard so thick that I stood perfectly for .to resign if they do not The Italian enough Soissons, sly serpent, who UBinsr ebony clock was capacious that a bullet might have been buried in it knew that the snake. aroused officer, when challenged to fight, is man. have been trampled under to secrete a On the dull green should and he never be conscious till he now. would strike it he felt the virtually told: "You'll be condemned map Rochelle, Mars' steely years agone. he walls hung a of La train came to comb it out; a herald o the least movement. Cold perspiration if you do and condemned if vou the works which Cardinal and well?" a stood out on my forehead, with grenadiers of Frederick the Great: don't" This seems to the Anglo-Saxo- n de- Bouillon, whose Richelieu was accredited with "The duke of warrior for Michael Angelo to design and I set my teeth hard decidedly idiotic, but nothing and, an army is on Piedmont frontier, toss-up- , I signing traced in red ink, as the the armor for; had he carried a club and waited. It was a can well be m re idiotic than duel- was opposed to in close communication. Orleans deliverance, antithesis, there it a are and not a sword, he would have fitly knew; either and that drawing-roo- m with ing. Playing charades in a plan of the castle where the king's engages to make them friends represented one of those heraldic speedily, or the sharp, stinging rises to philosophic heights will wel- brother, Gaston, duke of Orleans, the Spaniard, whom they savages which are supported in cer- punctures in my neck or head, anil of wisdom in comparison with assassins against come into France upon the advice death. minute seemed it had planted the tain coats of arms. then Every At least ninety-nin- e of every hun- minister is in the My was prime minister, whom he never that the prime "Huguet, dispatch Montaiglon and an age. suspense the more dred Italian duels are of the class to face in power of the plotters." Mau-giron'- because I could not see my dared combat two to Lady terrible technically known as "first-blood- " power, Joseph? j mo- The table that the two thoughtful "How in their where they should find enemy, and so could not tell the duels. That is to say, the combat was cov- Methinks Gaston's is not the hand would Time will men shared between thein or learn the whereabouts of one ment he strike. ceases the moment either of the ad- ered with papors and charts, vials of to pluck this nettle." Chevalier Adrien t.e Mauprat" He never efface the memory of that versaries loses blood. In these duels necessary revive secret "Thev are seeking their Ravail- - wait from my mind. In the chemicals to " handed the saturnine guardsman, death the sword is always used, and the writing, keys to cipher in binding lac." who advanced into the room as far chair, shriveled and gastly, his hol- slightest scratch on the hand or the half-glaze- furnished with lock and key, and a "What, would the duke of Orleans as the hem of the coarse gown of the low, d eyes staring at me arm which are the localities usual- be- gaze small model stage after classical again try the stabbado? This gray brother, whom he evidently with the helpless, fascinated of ly scratched signalizes the end of precedents, which at the moment, comes monotonous. " held in repugnance, a paper gar- a bird half in the toils of a serpent, the game and authorizes the duelists from partiality to their weaknesses, They hope they will by practice nished with a seal and his signature. huddled Mordai. His white, blood- to sheathe their weapons and go hps spasmodically, as if not indifference to the object, was become expert" This is your warrant to apprehend less moved somewhere to dinner together. In- allowed to be a species of kennel for "At least they have not chosen him; clap him into a closed chair, over and over he repeated in a dread stances have happened in which a five or six kittens of different colors; the stiletto yet eh, my noble heart and bring him hither. Away!" whisper: "God! the brown death." I duelist has been accidentally run was khorito. Cling- slumbering pellmell after a tiresome and truest friend?" When silence had fallen again then knew it a through the body and killed, but in- be- to my was a snake ten romp, the mass, all heads, tails and "Jehan," said the monk, using after this inroad, Father Joseph ing shoulder cidents of this Sort are extremely in- legs, vaguely suggested one of those that old name by which his ducal gan slowly, with a horrified air, times more malignau and merciless frequent compared with the fatali- animals which christened, than a cobra, and just as deadly plates of interwoven eminence had teen which spoke entire tracts in support ties of the foot-ba-ll field. Italian Da Vinci loved to design and Paiissy but which no other familiar em- of the change of spirit he hoped to "the brown death" of the natives, dueling is probably the safest of all painted in earthenware. ployed save this humble-seemin- g be thought undergone since he was a reptile which it has been said if a athletic sports, except prize fight- On the board also was a large seal monk, of whom his superior said in a brilliant soldier in opening life man were to gaze for any length of ing as practiced by modern pugilists which bore the device of Richelieu, tribute, "No other minister in "The better to delude Count Baradas time into its eyes he would become by means of letters to the sporting Europe can cope with this cowl," for suit, pro- insane. Unlike all other creatures, the eagle amid ciouds, and there and veil the royal it is papers. , he punned like a clown of the. marry minion with your has no pupil to its eye nothing were others which presented tokens posed to the it ' of his posts as peer, religious chief, "Jehan, brother, the adopted child." but a brown mass of malignity. DESULTORY READING. with great powers. dagger is ready, sharpened, pointed, "Wed Julie to Baradas!" ejacu- I do not know how long it was, and correspondent Visitors to the world's fair left l,OO0T Cheek-by-jo- they seek the guiding hand." cardinal, with hissing but it seemed an eternity of time with a reliquary but lated the a umbrellas behind them. "You do never warn vainly, laugh. "No; 1 have another bride that I stood thus. At last the swing- stood against the wall a A horse belonging to a Mr. Martel swung Joseph," said the premier, writing a for Baradas one more faithful than ing Madrassi song of the boatmen Kenton sword such as Charles of Ashland, Oregon, died a time Saracen out of few lines, "1 will recast my guards. the love of fickle woman; sorrow carrying the stuff broke on my ears short when he drove the ago at the great age of 36 actually used The trusty blades are rusty since never knew so sure a soother; and like a song of deliverance. Dill and years. his realm; it had been Mrs. hand-to-han- way Captain monotonous had seemed to me John McCarthy of Butler, Ta., be duke of Richelieu in a d Captain Cavois gave to when she clasps his neck she will it the now was strangled by false lodg- encounter with the defenders Huguet, my Titan. A single traitor .never disentangle her single arm often enough, but it sounded a tooth impotent fate of the sweetest music ever caroled. ing in her windpipe in a lit of cough- of La Rochelle, of which a notch in could strike tho till he has breathed Ms latest there! like we suro of Their singing seemed to rouse ing. the blade from shearing a helm re- thousands. Joseph, are Joseph, the sword of the headsman for Mordai from trance-lik- e stupor, mained in honorable witness, A Huguet? Wo hanged his father has not cured these bloodthirsty his Montana is large enough to hold the Montmorency rebellion in '32. " by and staggering out he grasped my population of of half-armo- r, veiled with a ban- the dukes, earls and marquises, and the entire earth and suit Emir-All- i, son, e'er-burnin- g faithful servant, by ner, seemed to stretch out one pad- "But you have bought the the lamps above, Bara- the then have but fifteen persons to the on " shoulder, and with his lean, bony glove to reach and heaped favors him. das shall end on a rope! Are you acre. ded it nothing. In his finger pointed toward me. No But that heavy falchion was no "Favors past are going brother?" for the monk had need A pet dog in Bath, Maine, which has of explanation for Emir-Al- li My feather in the tremulous, hours of confidence with you, has he risen, and after pulling his cowl now reached the mature age of 17 longer a on com- heart gave a throb of joy when I and bloodless hands of that named the favors he counts down on his nose, and folding his years, drinks a cup of coffee and milk slender saw his supple, careless form of nearly three-scor- e ing?" hands within his gown. "Joseph," he for breakfast every morning. silent man straighten up and his black eyes years, who confronted the other on "Yes; a colonel's rank and letters went on, in a voice querulous with An American colored woman, Mrs. Ave my ma- glisten with the light I had seen in his left at tho board. of nobility." age, "I did omit an in Amanda Smith, is a temperance un- me. them before in time of deadly peril. was Jehan Armand Duplessis, "Colonel and nobleman! we tins; atone the grievous fault for evangelist in England now, lecturing It augment them.1 weak, you strong with Twice before had we fronted death duke of Richelieu and Fronsao, a make peers, not Joseph, I am under the auspices of Lady Somerset. be. we have scourge, were charity to together and his heart had not bishop at 24, a home and war secre- That can never But the it but g at so much a guess is n shoul- faltered. Even now I see him as he the prelate-statesma- him not the less, for we'll promise take my sin on your broad species tary at 3J, and later stood just outside the veranda, one a of gambling peculiar to who made his boy master it And see the king withholds!" ders." Northern New Jersey. The farmer monk, vague of the fow natives a white man had slave, an illustrious slave, Yes," said the with a But the capuchin, without wincing who conies nearest to telling the a but only trusted, anal met trust for trust and reckoned the greatest of contem- smile on his marble lips, the at the pleasant invitation, responded porker's weight gets the animaL of his countenance sin- loyalty ever. porary monarclis. features all that with humility, admirable for its A Kentucky judge has decided imbued with play of muscle, Discarding his gaudy jacket and that lace collar, though of seemed cerity if not assumed, and still more a man who gives up his business to A Venitian are oft a great convenience gathering up his dote tight about his hue, seemed whito under "kings amirable for its successful imitation court a girl in behalf of another man an Isabella to a minister." if the revorse hips, so that his sinewy limbs his hard, dry, wasted face; hair as gleamed like those of a statue, gets his pay as he goes along, and can Is there anything more bristling "I should never be guilty of such he set gray as dull stool escaped from the his square white teeth and hissed not sue for compensation in money. ton- your budget?" inquired the other, criminal presumption as to mistake velvet cap which covered the in through them an Invocation to Allah. The practicability of producing a lore-hea- wander heed- myself you," and shuffled out of strayed upon the high letting his eyes almost for good for sure, and dialogulst around cabinet, while Richelieu eyed Grasping the dah in his powerful article of tea commerce in wore a gruy mustache and lessly off his the the the island of Jamaica is, according he Perugino to Poussin, him astutely to the last, forced to hand he stole as silently and as to goat's board which was called wall, from swittly me as the information received by bureau that he was, from Titian to doubt even him. toward the venomous the -- cut" in mockery of the whose patron on my back of the American republics, the royal Durer of the man bewil- "O friendship," said he, "thou rose creature might have attracting wtich forbade it bolnj worn. the awful done had he been making attention there. edict dered in a thicket chocked with without a thorn! why do we fear the attack. Everybody hated hiin, and every- Poised aloft was the glittering steel, The old fashioned game of "Follow be- thorns, and impenetrable to all but a ; even to pluck thee and carry thee to body had their reasons; the king for well he knew the snake would my leader" is practiced in grisly oncomer with a scythe, under our bosom, lest a worm is in the daily the felt his inferiority beside keep his eye on the gleaming savage Celebes cause-' he was label, "Dor Tod kennt folded inmost leaves? Ah, Joseph, blade, courts of and Darfnr. nobles because he hod which the there would no him, the Weg" Death finds the way. why have you uttered never a word on and be movement to If the king stands everybody stands; off tho highest of their heads den him downward struck Anything of the same agreeable the king's promise to make you car- disturb till the rush, it the king sits everybody sits. .If the Tarquln. the pooplo and then ah! who could sayF Allah like another tonor?" dinal if you will sell your master dusky monarch falls from his horse him their taxos grew would strengthen his hand and di- hla do under Thoro is more, but private. with his budget of state seorets? retinue must likewise; if he prow again. . rect the edge of the blade and kis- chooses to all y and still Louis, the king, has particularly Perhaps, because you guest that the bathe the passers-b- if there wore Bloom on the met would be. throw into Hut your ward, Julie de Morte-ins- r. credit of Louis stands not strong at must themselves the water. his red emluence, there For a second ha stood close beside visage of chaste monarch is Rome I sooner a bishop thanks to me, In Darfur this slavish Imitation is car- the ivory face of the The me. I might was none oo .1 .i t a cardinal thanks to any lay have touched him. ried to a greater extent If the king of the statesman s than fierce gleamed second occupant stared, but immediately potentate in Christendom ln Jill black eyes on the looses a tooth each of his subjects la IGunriuuu. knew was drawing fil09t himself, be answered TO BI CONTIXDia I he the obliged to have a tooth knocked out. Ills Gray Eminence." the wag , - V . r.'