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Schroeder, ic is understood, ow ngaged in preparing a work t aitlini &an history, which will eith peculiar grace from the i 4 of a native of Ihode Island, ,' n ed by Scandinavian authors to Sit ebeen the Viuland of the Chroni f From lh. Non~ port Mercury. rract f a Letter from an American t e Swees to i asfriend at home. OCKHOLM, April 23, 1852. Iii tact, mly dear , 'p se that we have all a kind of P ;iuint, or at least a disinclina I firdthin idea that Columbus was eirst great explorer of the far Yl Auh antic. With . me the S'ht has always been unwelcome; c v h~rt is because i am way. t'aonug the Northmen, and e am naturally asking about r istt an.-:sters; or whether I imam Nwbt Xi oOver to th -ir ih o e ueomn ~by n iai 010 t WAvthe present day, the result ;pas been to +,"e in_ mu'ch rei ng. if& thu Vikiog R',a'ers, and C e t ' ita( i 'the~ elo icles 11 Thndrs, as well as in their k u ild &agas -traditions origi is.rViud was discovered and peo li uearl- six hundred y ears before e of Columbus, by a race of a"sgian adventurers, who pre te heir independence for four d years.. '.t hey had a consti in' and. a form of government rly republican. One of of their rsidents was the renowned Snor ;foiSiurleson, whose editorial genius a made him the delight of the nor herp antiquity ; but long before his aid indeed during the greater part -of the period of the Iceland iidependenice, the chroniclers had ber-regularly at their work. 4 ._There is, indeed no doubt that car i. lire Columbus went to Iclan. 1 liere the people were, as now, siLa. y rIy well informed and prudt .oi .eu10"cestrs, and of their aiices rs glory. There is no coumr.,, it' iipearai, in which the lower ela--ss je so well inmformed. Au icolau. sat will ofteir a-lidress a traveler nlatim, and recount to himt wh-,ae oer of classiac record of the ~1eniimes. TniaL Golumbus escape I swe izay ardently hope, but as iae rahlly avas in. Ilel, and as setumg ti i.mh the Thrthrn skippers Ihe ce?.uh frthe'r andh entred seve dlm. grec. 'sithini .he polIar circie, it ~umsa jus ossible thut, huingi th.a e imid of' ins life, lie miay hamve Iie. esome htle of --.. Btthis * Q heard a sa lable oft half d zen irdiiers who at different imes, d with surprisig uniformity, wrote m~ru tile wvords of' explorers them 6flves ; let us, therefore, be resolved never to suppose that Columbus ever learne~d a syllable, unless the barna 41eicd91-ed keg that was picked up hi teeStraits of' Gibralter (and -hidh they tell us was thrown over oamdiby himself in a storm on his voyage) shall at length disclose ~ie ferriblo confession, as it were, e.*}rnies. 'Z&tis as it may, my friends in - r en claim that their ancestors not jI ere ini America, in 1001, hut '.jcbishwmnts there for the suc ~ ig846$ years; and as old Rhode : and Connecticut andl much i ed din the large and uniiquida 1 intmmi'it has been a labor of' love * 'ruple;. with the Seandinavian u ~dinake a task of love to * 'WVV vhilu am 'dwelling ini the an lot ,,,4ihiigentupI.' The old itleste~ must-admit to be fair nahh t$c'ariinavia ever pick ~~ ick; so let us look at her chronicles of A.D. 1001 Once upon a time there was a wan -a Norwegian--whose tame was Ieriolf, and who,.with his son Biarn, sailed about in shii s, and trafficked from land to land. He was descend ed from Earl Ingolf, who, more than a hundred years before, had founded the colony in Iceland; and like the Vikings in his native Norway, He riolt and his son were most at home upon the stormy sea.. By some strange accident, they were once and for the first time separated. The pi. ous Biarn, in search like of a north era Telemachus, wandered about in vain from port to port, and at length turned his restless prow to far-away Greenland. Steering by the stars, and-groping about the wide waste of ocean with such experience as men in those old days could have, (it was exactly eight hundred and fifty-one years ago,) the bold Biarn at first sailed with prosperous gales ; but a fierce storm succeeding, drove him wiles and wiles away to the south and west, and nearly wrecked him on a wide, flat and woody coast, whiel the rower knew could not be Greenland. A vast summer-looking cape lay inviting on his lurboard bow ; but the long prayed for southern wind had risen another Mentor, and Biarn, shouting out temptation, bore away for Greenland icy mountains. Re ward followed close upon his self denial, and was locked in his fathers arms. Meantime our friend Biarn had seen, and was the first Euiopeans to seo America; but IHeriolf, and his son, thrifty traders both, had ever found the oceans and shores their fa thors had known tllite vast enouln er'theu, and wb " herefore, well contenUt to ship o e:! for a ..-: ward voyage. Lie, iywevue,. Ou Iceland nob!e, atntd sou to .t!" Red Eric, resolved to pursue the adven ture. His father. Earl Eric, twenty years before, had been driven from the peaceful colony in Iceland be cause of his bloody hand. Collect ing his sons and his liegemen, he sailed boldly away to the west, eight hundred wiles and wore, and entered at last a deep bay which he called Eric's Fiord, and named the -land around him Greenlaud. Finding the new region as good as Iceland, lie sent his sout Lief to Nor way with messages to Kiug Olaf de. scribing the mnudutiene-e of Green land. lac ling who was a ready a Chris:ia ., hatug4 received from Lief theil prous e U1 lis m atlitr's and his own t: .ueision, Seiit them forthwith aistance- met, lroviaioua, uiission aiLd, at(i 1iinaLa a :.ishop; s) that enmei andit Cua cvents wcre built Im Gree:..,a. L a ni &di, the Green ata colony was qulto ale to take up the uinnatinai t tlt aetures of liraa, and Liet was the Chiawpiou. H1s aged father hiuself would have zeauied the enterparise but his horse stumuled as lie r. dc to the ship, and toe Northau, eight hundred years ago, 'was wwarineu by the owen. Lief, hunt ever, tbestrude at surer-foot Cii steeLL, land elibat kedi all nnlaaunit ed. llis ship, tainneil by a crw of tirty-live' Iearless roVers, sailed antag thlrough the luaiei waves of ho est, aind. Jiarn s land of prom ly &. i to the diis. AL was New. fn an, alt tie Nurt-inein calel a 11aomia anai~ d Iute ithl its flat aspec't t innel southwtard. to pleasanter coasts, an~d laded iii N va Scotia, nuling it Markiaand, the land of the piams. Tfhe favored ship, speeding with the breeze, coasted ahoiig beautitul aiid shiady regioiis, itn corii arid fruit growiing wtild in the fielus-a Paradise landa to the Nortinun. Rivers anid lakes teem iing with fish, and an atrnosphere soft and bahnny in the "Skoredemnand," (the harvest moon of the year,) filled the measure of templtationl, and the iNorthmen built their cabins for the wimiter Thei ship was moored and all hands busy on shore. One day a German sailor named Tyrker, from Rhinlanid, wandered off in the charming fields, and came upon tall clustering vines bending with rich clusters of grapes; ho seized an armfull of the ripest, and hastened to teach the Northmen how, on the hillsides of his native river, men made the sparkling wine. "Vinland !" cried Lief, "a deep skoal for Vinland !" and Vinland thenceforwtard wias the N orthman's name for our modern isles of Rhode Island.' Tho old authors thought the bantism unfortunato, nin of genvc and the halycon verdure of the fields; the old authors were right, for the wild grape broke the promise of Tyrker. Lief returned in the spring to Greenland, the winter had been far milder than his men had ever known before, and so rapturous was the general report that Thorwald Lief's brother, embarked the same year. He passed his winter in the cabins of Lief, and in the summer made excur. sions into the country, discovering an archipelago of little islands with leaty groves along the white shelving beaches, but nowhere traces of man or beast, excepting a single strange wood-pile, in form like a pyramid. A second winter was comfortable in the old quarters, and when spring came again the ship was found to be so much disabled that half of the summer was required for repairing; a new keel was needed, and the place of the sturdy ship-wrights was named 'Kiellarnaes'- the cape of the keel. At length all was ready, and the helm was put up for a cruise to the eastward. They sailed along shore in calm summer seas, and attracted Tone day by the beauty of a deep ford the ship was brought to anchored. Thorwald pulled ashore with a boat's crew, and was amazed to discover, moored in a shady spot, three birch en canoes, with a red man sleeping in each. Imprudently and barba rously, he gave instant orders for their death. One, however, dashed with swift paddle strokes across the ford, swifter than the flight of Thor wald's javelin; and when the North men reposed in their turn, fleets of the red inen covered the little bay, the cifT eohoes rang,. startled wiO war songL , baWed arrows and da t hurted through the air, but fell harm, less and blunted. The Nort men; 4 iafil the :S7itU t bucklers of hide. . The savages, whom Thorwald con temptuously names Skrcelingucs. (puny men,) and who are thus known in all the Norwegian ballads and chronicles, believed it vain to contend against invulnerable stran gers, and after an hour's conflict were seized with panic and fled. They had done more mischief, how. ever, than was ever known to them selves. One fatal arrow revenged their murdered comrades, and sti uck down Thorwald himself with a mortal wound. "Let the cross," said the dying rover, (the chroniclers thus make him a Christian,) "let the cross of the Saviour be lai I on my grave;" and his tomb was built on the headland Kors-naes, the cape of the cross. The survivors bore home the sad news to Greenland, whereupon '1'hor wald's son, Thorsten, (both names are from the Scandinavian god of war,*) resolved to recover the body of his father. le embarked eatv in the year 1006, and took with him his wife, the beauteous Gurida, who was destined, but not with your Thorsten, to be the first of European ~'males to cross the ocean, and to hear upon its farther shore a Chris tian child. With Thorsten, however, all was unfortunate. Tempest-tossed and driven irrecoverably northward, his ship was thrownm far back in Baf fin's Bay, upon a coast so far remote that he was forced to winter in a fa tal climate. Tfhorsten himself, and more than half of his crew, fell vic timns to exposure; but happily Gudri dIa returned and laid her husbanid's body in the Chmrist ian's tomb in Greenland. Next year the most con~Isiderable expedition of all wvas undertakenm by a wealthy Icelander-, Thorfin, whose genealogy is carefully pr-eserved by the chroniclers. Hie arrived in Greenland with a numerous retinue, in 1007, and having espoused the disconsolate Gudrida, became pos sessed of Thorsten's right to all the establishments in Narraganset Bay. He sat sail propitiously' with bride and five attendant bridemnaids. His cargo was a precious collction of domestic anmmals, cattle and sheep and he had tools and weapons and abundant provision. His ship, more over, was manned with sixty picked Norwegians--men whose nerves were str ong amid the dangers of their own Maolstorm, and whose restless spirits could never brook King Olaf's home reforms. The voyage was in everything prosperous, the landing was safely effected, and the summner was passed in establishing themselves for winter. 'he cattle and the sheep roamed in the pastures, and a young bull throve so prodigiously that his strength aid ferocity surpassed everything the Norsemen had ever seen. In the spring came the Skrowlingues with preciou a skins and furs to traffic, but. fled-away dismayed at the frightful roar of the bull. They came back, however, encouraged, and Thorfin prudently commanded that ni''weap ons whatever be sold them. Gudrida and her woman offered cheese and sweet milk, and in return received from the delighted Sknelingues the most valued commodities. Quarrels, however, could not be avoided. The savages were forced to- retire, and the Norsemen had to guard their cabins with stockades. Three happy years'were passed in tranquillity. The visits of the Skre. lingues became peaceful; and in the summer of the fourth year, leaving the colony prosperous, Thorfin. and Gudrida, with the little Snorro,t their Vinlaud-born son, returned to. Iceland. A splendid cargo was sold. Crowds of volunteers offered to go back with them, and many success= ful and prosperous voyages were made. Finally Thorfin gave the di rections of Vinland affairs to other. chiefs, and spent his later days' in Iceland, where he lived in an anti. que hall like a lagman of Norway. He died in a green old age, and, Gudrida, after a pilgrimage to Rome, returned to a cloister : and church which her son Snorro had' built on' the lands of his father, and piously devoted the remainder of her days to God. Thus and thus runs the tale of an cient mariners of Norway; ind' thus and thus the old chronicles ea nightly -aloudilo the f'amily -... de give ihe narratives.ith marvelhtus uniformity; but they appear uioro minutely than elsewhere in the so called 'Manuscript of Flatey'--writ ten, its author asserts, from the words of Th.,rfin himself. Iceland historians of later date speak abund antly of Vinland, but, as the expedi. tions after that of Thorfin varied lit tle from his, the chroniclers content ed themselves with describing more minutely those only which are re markable. One, whom the critics have considered among the most au thentic, relates the story of a Saxon priest, Johan, who went to Vinland a missionary, and was there condemn. ed to death. In 1121, a Greenland bishop named Erie, undertook the same errand, but his fate appears never to have been known, and, in deed, from this period Vinland was gradually forgotten. The colony of Thorfin does not appear to have been much reinforced after his death. His successors explored more south. erly coasts, and landed in New-York and New-Jersey. War broke out in Narragansett with the Skrolingues, and notwithstanding the superior arms and defences of the colonists, the little band gradually wasted away, but not before they had built such monuments on thne Rhode Is land coasts as will puzzle antiquaries in centurles to come. The expeditions of the Northmen were not conafined to southern hati tudes. In 126t3, led on by their priests, they penetrated Barrow's S'raits andI Lancaster Sound, not perhaps in search of a north-west pas sage, but to pick ump dIrift wood, as they thought from Siberia, and to kill she bears and whales. At length Greenland was swept by the phgie; a few straggling survivors ia.re murdered by the natives; and, ahohDyl Pope Nicholas V. appoint ed a~ Mhop to Greenland in 1448, the chronicle of the north were dumb a hundred years before. Ie land had fallen from her high es: :te; she was a tributary, dependent upon foreign kings, and all that her enter prise and the indomitable courage of her Northmen heroes had found on the western ocean, sunk deep below the horizon of human knowledge, un til again brought up by an immortal hero from the south, like 'drowned honor by the locks.' The general truth and fidelity of the Iceland chronicles are thought well attested, and modern students seek in vain~ thro ~gh the mnge~I pa ges for a statem.~ent imrul'uwle overstrainod. I..Irony to ' - prismng degree exists in the ns tivcs, and that they were w itten the tirmo is rendered cor~ai tV testipnony of continental contempora ies; and. especially by' the virtuous Adam of Bremen, a priest who wrote Jess than half a century after the first discoveries of Biarn and . Lief. Adam gathered his narrative -from the King of Denmark, Swayn, and other personages of the day. He -was long entertained at the Danish Court, and speaks of the American discoveries as facts and -certainties everywhere known; 'and, indeed, when we bear in mind the hardihood of the ancient Northmen, their gr-eat maritime skill and daring, and that unqtienchable thirst for roving and adventure which led them to expedi tions all as hasardous as 'those to Anerica, it becomes less hard 'to have. faith in Biarn and shake hands with Adam of Bremen. Old French and German writers say. that,, they found among certain northern tribes of Indians distinguishing peculiarities quite sufficient to satisfy them 'that they were 'a .colony of Europeans degenerated into savages through misery and destitution;' such are the words of the learnedtravelcr, Father Charlevoix. - . r . But without continuing this -over grown letter, I recommend to' you, dear F--, a series of light sum u.er reading for further information, as Dr. Baumgarten. 'Bishop Pontop pidan, of Bergue, Torfacus, Father Charlevoix, and especially, Adam of Bremen, who wrote in' the year '1046. :Should you not ' find their tomes, ptem plie Red wood i t r = whiihbowsiver, I do not it .: the devo ed Ag ~i NA er tam ate Scindinavianrescrch? ' Yours, ever, F. S. .1 he"4ubaJn Organization. formidable character is rapidly draw ing to a head in' Cuba. The whole history of this remarkable organiza tion would make one of the most in teresting buoks of the century. There is a curious fusion of the inftexibility of the brave and obstinate old' Span ish hidalgo, with the fiery seal and rash enterprise of young America, in the character of its chiefs.' A bout 1824, a party of young Cubans, belonging to the principal families of the Island, passed over to Colum bia to confer with Bolivar-then in the brightest flush of his liberating victories-on the possibilities of Cu ban independence. With persever. ing enthusiasm these youthful "mis sionaries of freedom" opened a correspondence with Columbia, and Mexico, and if the President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, had not interposed a negative, there is little doubt that at the Congress.of American nations which Bolivar pro posed should be held at Panama, the Spanish American Republics, then at war with Spain, would have uni ted in 1826, in the invasion of Cu ba, with the view of aiding her to assert a republicani independence. Finas, imprison menit, and exile, fell heavily upon the heads of the devoted missionaries of freedota, but they vowed to each other and their country, never to cease their efforts until Cuba stood erect, re deemed, and disenthralled, among the free nations of the earth, and for a quarter of a century they have labor..i faithfully and steadlastly to p~erfect their vow. -All that are liv ing are still in the work, sacrificing ease, fortune, iEmnily, anid country, some in prison, most ini exile. and4 all in inconceivable privation, but not one faint-hearted betrayer has eve. teen found among them, a fact rarely paraleled in the records of conspiracy it is nearly impossible for a citizen of this free Union to comprehend the danger and diliculty of effecting any ibhing like conceit and organiza t~in in a country perpetually under the rigor <r material law, where the press is fetLo. :d with the sternest severity, where freedom of speech is an unpardonable crime, where e son, propertv. d ey of a Cap rlhsolute p0 LI) and wS hued with the republiesn *teachings and enthusiasm of the miasioneros. de Libertad. their impetuous 'desire for action was continually hurrying this class of republican theorists iute partial conspiracies and local insur rections which, from want -of general concert and well understood combin ation, only ended in the ruin of the unfortunate leaders. The time seem ed to call for' more thorough plane than could be effected in Cuba,.and the old missionaries took the field or a new system of action. It was de cided to establish in New York, tbt commercial metropolis of the land of 'unlimited' freedom, an organ for gath 'ering, ripening, and. diaseminating the principles and plan of a revold tion. This -organ, whso voice hat penetrated every recess and stirred every family in Cuba with new hopes and anxieties, was called La Verdad and began its course .in January. 1848. From that time 4 the project of wresting Cuba from -the power of Spain -has, advanced steadily, to lit: completion:' There is one feature ir this system of organization "peculiai to itself, and which could only spring from the- experienced brain of" suci long-tried conspiratoes'as those Mia ioneros' de Libertad. Circles and societies are formed among the "re publicans" of the Island, which in stead of communicating dwith eac other to any: daVlgerous extent, es tablish relattons directly with' the Cuban Council, sccuitely 'and'perma. nently located at' the free 'and safe city of New York, and . whatevei these local organizations' require from a number of Lg.= Verdad to e prineting-press or ,sea-steamer, canb ordded throtigh its reprtsentative it Con.i.t. .it flows thatnotrat o r ierts oul.def aris t~gsbetrb dera~g~ E igea'. ttenthttie genem * ' 1twiiy~Ct.af 1'~e grt~i measures are lockced p in 'the coun cels of -hosen men, who, by placing themselves on this soil, are situated to consult, plan, publish, and organ ize with unbounded freedom and ad vantage. Whatever it is essential tc communicate is printed in La Ver dad, and falls in some mysterious nocturnal shower all iver'Cuba. I is sent to the conspirators and tc their enem'es, the Spanish party with even-handed impartiality. The officials know this, for they too are visited in a frequent and unaccounta ble manner by this pertinacious and unwelcome Truth, and it perplexes them somewhat in their system of ar resting-all who may receive or have in possession the treasonable sheet for it may sometimes happen that they are themselves the principal and only known recipients. To make this confusion the more inextricable, the sectional organizations -in Cuba are beginning to print and circulate revolutionary sheets on the Island, although in the midst of arrests and espials, which, falling almost invhria bly on innocent and highly respecta ble families, ends in inflaming them with rebellious sentiments, and ca ting new circles of organization. Each, as it forms, know, through La Verdad, where to fimd its chief, and can send without fear or delay its contributions and representative to the Cuban Council. Th'lis Council, or Junta, to use the Cuban word, is composed of representatives from thec various districts of the island, and its members are men of the highest reputation. It has thereore a na tional dignity and weight in the eyes of the Cubans, and of course gives proportional uneasiness to the g~ov ernent of Sp'ain, which can no more comprehend how tho laws of the Un1 :ited States can protect such ani organination& within its limits, than Austria couldl comprehend tho recep tion of KO.suth. - In close connection with the~ reo lutionary movement is the Order of the Lone Star. This Ordor has, or is planting, its Divisions in every city all over tho Union. Men of wvealth, talent and high social posi. t' are avowedly and actively its do nohesitato 1"t to extend kce a at the firsto f II)rsr9etioCn When. that",i ots inay srike what, success, still. sleep ein a written future; but of all pibabiati the least probable is tha t8 wear much longerthe Poat, Antilles in her diademO, .:' Singular aiwe ot afe Stable Boy. 3 The Paris eorrespondentof~g eii,1 .m don Daily News gives the folio singular historw of -the-now Reg 'Parina: . The elevation' of Wdil t ' the Regency of Parma W fotsf singular instance of the m ii human aitirs but of the te the Anglo-Saxen race, when teni - - ed to 'foreign -countries, to n ige ; eminence and surpass .athers y~ homely but rare qualities. of dtomntnte: sense and nufaltering energy. E as your readers are perfectly was a 'Yorkshire groom. The bulk of Lucca, who obtained,. by .his fI~ ffrom horseback in ROtten-row,theiili , liar so6briqust of "'Filthy lucre'.' ing the lad's merit, took bir; into service, ind'promoted hims-thiobgh't several degrees of cornfhand in h14 - stables to be head groom of the d stud. Upon Ward's arrival 1 1t1 with his master, it was soon found thE the intelligence which he displayedf the management of the stables applicable to a variety of:othe:da partments. In fact the 'Duke hadau a high opinion of WardM' isdoe 6 he very rarely omitted-to'consiltihr upon any question that'he:was perpJi.,, - ed to decide; andathausucess,Avliim never failed t6 crowin t:ud'iadyr" gave him in the eye's of thefeile3d sceudent of the Spanish ,panish, 6i bons the prestigeoof'infa libility ,''? As Louis Xi. used to. apswer t.ids who applied to him on anybuslness; by- referring them'' to tie Car inaI dAmboise, with the words "slc George" so Charles of Lucca cts all applicotions with "Got to T'l expefls:. of the'stabIe?tI"g heen .redui&'(Q b)l hitan ha'br:. urses wgrt the envy of .l ab uk thi r yiiftif a it would be a godd thing if the.. economy could be introdneed4 ,i, other departments. So Ward ';tried% his hand on one thing and the oth continally enlarging his sphere of n - fluence, until from household matters - he passed to those connected with the state, which, indeed, is such a minu ture sffiirs that it does not .greafy pays the limits of some private: nestic establishment. Ward now be. cane the factotum of the prince, on, , in the distutbanees which preceded ifer revolutionary year of 1848, a diplo=: mnatic dignity, and was.despatehed 4r Florence upon a confidential miasidr. of the highest importance. IHe vais deputed to deliver to the Grand :Daka the act of abdication of the Duke S' Lucca. At first the Grand Duke wa% doubtful wheth he could receive, in diplornatic capacity a messenget of whom he had only heard in relation to the races of the Cascine, where War4 had been in the habit of riding as a jockey. But it soon appeared that the Luc clese envoy had in his pocket a 'cm;r miasiozn making him the viceroy oafthK. Duke's states, which was to be acted upon in case the Grand Duke made any dilliculty, or even if he refused tr :; receive Ward as ambassador of tho states of' Pairma at the capital of the Medicis. Soon after, in 18419, wahent the Duiko otf Lucca resigned his other? states to his son, Ward became theo head counsellor of' this hopeful prineeg who has thus been able to follow outa sporting h~eut under the best auspices,. wvhile lie had a miinister whose shrewd sense was more than a match for the first diplomists in Italy.. Ward was "' on one0 occasion dispatched to'Vienni in a diploamtic capacity.Scwrn burg was astonih~led at -his capacity n in ftet, the cideruan* Yorkshire stable boy was the only one of the diplomatio1yj body that could make head against the~ , impetuous counse s, or rather dictates p of Sehiwiarzen berg ; anad this was found highly useful by other members of the,. diplomnatic body. Among others, Meyendorft', the Ruse' siananmnbassamdor, cultivated him great-~ ly. An English gemlemnan, suppin~ one night at thme Russian ambassador? ermpliirnenteod him up'on his excellend hmoi. "There's a member of our d >loimatie corps here," replied Meyen'.s df,'t " who supplies ss all with hsms. fromm YoXrkshire, of wvhich country.e i. enative." W~ard 'viited Englaid.' The broad dialect and home'yphrie bartmayinmg his origin througih the pro fumsioni of orders of all countries Spiar~-' ling on his breast, lie rar~ely ventu~i mppear at eveniug soireears~o~ n declared1 hoe asonm~of lomen be had ee d '(lE