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i#?-V S , k? ' ,' ' ^ioldenht ^ovyil^i 18* by Be CHAPTER X. Continued. T iras born in England in the year of Christ, 1600, that year being the fortyA?"* rt f fVi/v T*lff*ln umi. vi IUC ici^u vi iuc ? Elisabeth, in my brother's house, "where I et present live?which is to say, in the manor house of Holdenburst, by St. Edmund's Bury, in the County of Suffolk?and am the younger of the two sons of Christopher Trueman and Barbara, his wife. The two manors of Holdenhurst. bestowed on my family by the eighth Henry, would hare supported the dignity of a baronet: but my father, unlike his predecessors. sought for no public employment. and viewed with indifference the acquisition of ihe highest honors by men of meaner birth, living in pence and content upon his paternal acres at a stirring period when the fate of his country trembled in the balance. Both my parents having died at an early age. my brother succeeded to the estate and treated me with extraordinary liberality, permitting me to share with Lira equally in all that be had?except the anxieties and vexations which accompany the possession of property, and those he generously kept for himself. When he took to himself a wife my brother abate-1 nothing of his kindness to me. but I was deprived of much of his coinpauy. This event took place in 1620. the twenty-fifth of my brother's life and ?f mine the twentieth. Kow it so chanced that immediately or soon after the marriage of my brother I conceived a very violent and all absorbing passion for a certain maid. who. eveu at the time I was so eized, I could not but acknowledge possessed nothing uncommon in beauty. talent or fortune. Nevertheless, for some reason which remains unknown to me to this day I loved her with an Intensity of devotion which might bo equalled, but could never be exceeded. My suit was well received, and one day. in response to my request that she wofiUl become my wife she sent roe a missive, couched in loving terms, wherein she professed herself very willing to accord with my wish, subscribed. "Your loving wife that is to be." The messenger who brought this un-.t ??..1.1 ?.nw^u. jjritui,> iu< vpisut- cuuiu uuiui) uuiv returned to her ere I received auother letter from the same source. It ran thus, or nearly thus: "Think of me 110 ? more?try to forget me. Do not write or come to me. I c:ui never be your wife," and appended was the signature of she whom I had preferred before all women. I knew not what to make of this, so paused, thinking oue of us must be mad. and endeavoring to decide who was that one. but I failed. Then followed the only occasion in my life when I went where I .had been definitely told I was not wanted. I sought mv promised wife, found her and talked with her. but he would not acquaint nte v>ith the cause of her perjury, contenting herself with the assertion that it must be *0. I left her. not hating her?I could mot bring myself to that?but with a cynical, albeit illogical, contempt for mil women?contempt which I retained for many years after the intense feeling I once had In this matter had died out. Shafts propelled by the envious fates against the young and vigorous do not often probe ueopiy. nui ior rue most pan fall to-the ground blunted. Kot many, months had elapsed ere I Jbegau to consider myself fortunate in baving escaped an alliance which I had recently contemplated with so much satisfaction, perceiving that a woman who will deceive one man will t.s readily deceive two or more men: so that when soon afterward I learned of her marriage to another my only emotion was sympathy for the man who had won her love?that is. supposing that she had any love in licr nature, or, having it. suffered it to control her in her choice of a husband. But contempt for women had become ingrained with me. 1 recognized them as maternal necessities, hut could not regard as serious anything any woman might say; at the same time holding it right and proper to employ any means for their subjugation to my desires. I am aware that my conduct was as illogical as that of the apocryphal debtor who robbed lVler to pay Paul, but such it was. and it must be noted as well as other circumstances of my career. With his usual kiiully solicitude for my welfare my brother adtisod me to travel, conceiving that familiar intercourse with strange nations, and the view of distant cities and wonders of ni'.iirv. \v -? mwlicim. suited to 1UV malady (for I had fallen Into a nielnncholy moodt. and to that ca<l gave mo a thousand pounds, and took groat pains to furnish me with letters of recommendation to prisons of consideration abroad. The Carl of Arlington, whose estate lay contiguous to the Holdenhursts. was our friend, and being high in the King's counsels it was in his power to help us much. The Karl generously lent his aid. and proenred for me letters to the English Ambassadors at IV.is and Constantinople. and to the most considerable merchants iu the principal cities of Europe, of which it is only necessary that I should specify one?that ad irstYlHalij rALTER BLQOMFIELD >BEBT BBS NEB'S SOK?. (dressed to Signor Pietro SImonn. shipowner. of Venice. Thus provided I bade a tender farewell to my brother, and taking horse set out on my travels unaccompanied by a servant. In eight days I reached Dover, having journeyed by way of London, quite safely and without adventure.' At Dover i j sold my horse to an innkeeper, who at : first offered me a tenth of his value, and when I refused it threatened to carry me before a justice of the peace and accuse me of having stolen the horse. I told him he was an impudent rogue, and that if I had the pleasure of appearing before a justice in his company I had influence in my pocket sufficient to hang him on the nearest gallows for so insolently aspersing the character of an honorable gentleman, whereon I pulled out of a satchel which depended from my girdle a passport signed by King James, with Ills Majesty's seal attached. When he looked on this document the innkeeper turned pale and trembled, and without further ado told out from a long purse as ranch money as I had asked for the horse, and withal shared with me a quart of choice canary at his own expense. After diligent inquiry I obtained an j introduction to the captain of a I barque, who designed to presently j j proceed to Calais, and he contracted j j to transport ine to *'ranee tor twenty I shillings. It was two days before we j set sail, and the barque was no sooner at sea than the wind proved contrary, and we beat about the coast of Thanet in imminent peril for a day and a night. I was sore sick from the turbulence of the sea. and almost starved: for my inclination for food was but small, and the only victual aboard musty biscuit and sour wine. After two days of dire misery I w.?s carried ashore, more dead than alive, at Dunkirqu.e, where I recovered my wonted 1 health very speedily, though I soon ! came near to losing it again by a sur- j feit of oysters and onions prepared for; me by a fishwife of that town. My j clothes wore torn and spoiled by the j bufferings I had sustained in the barque, so I bought me others of French make, which served excellently for a long time, being exceeding strong, though such as would denote a French mariner rather than an Eng- ' lish gentleman making the grand tour. When I was perfectly recovered from the ill effects of my voyage I bought a horse and set out for Taris. spending my money with great economy 011 the way. and carefuly avoiding such company as I judged might be dangerous for the safety of ray thousand pounds, into which 1 had dipped but sparingly as yet. and 1 doub, not my security j had an additional warrant in the fact i that I was tall and muscular, at any time n-.vparcil for combat wl.h the best man ia France. In this manner diil I journey across the continent of Europe, staying many days in the tine cities of Rouen. Paris. Dijon. Geneva. Turin. Milan. Verona and Padua, observing all that is remarkable therein: and so at last came to Venice, fair city of the waters. Inasmuch as Venice is beautiful beyond the power of words to depict, and I had been traveling with but brief rests for seven mouths. I purposed living among the Venetians one whole summer at least, and so indeed it fell out, as shall presently appear. I hail always heard that Venice was tho most beautiful city of Italy, quite fascinating the stranger, who reveled in a constant succession of delightful . 1- - A otnfatv surprises ;is uu pawu m.-i imhht... squares and colonades or luxuriously gilded over the surface of her wonderful canals, with sky of uubrokeu azure abovo and historic palaces around, and so indeed I found it. Here, therefore. I resolved to stay until I had mastered the Italian tongue, of which at present I knew only iuconsiderable fragments, picked up haphazard since I had come to Italy, and I rightly appreciated my want when I presented my letters to Signor Siiuona. who spake no English. French I could speak tolerably well before I left England, thanks to Monsieur Felix Lamoute. who. when I was a pupil at King Edward's Grammar School. Bury St. Edmund's, impressed upou me the irregularities of French verbs by the regularity of his hoggings, which were frequent and severe. I Touching this Monsieur Lamoute. 1 ! retain to this day a vivid recollection ' j of his skill iu tying up birch rods (for i ,.l 1..., 1,? | | lie "VYUU.U uae UUUV Hill IUU.-1. ii<_ U.41. | i made hiinselfi. of the graceful curves described by his right arm when lie flogged auy of his pupils, and of his boast that lie could produce by six strokes a postcrloral agony as exquisite as an English master could produce by a ilor.eu. Though in bitterness of spirit I had often cursed Monsieur La in on to. I had of late had cause to think more charitably of him. for be was a gcod teacher, and I n >v.* expo- | rienced the convenience of his lessons 1 as much as I formerly did the inconvenience of liis methods of imparling them. Ic was a great boon :o me to be able to converse with Signor Siicoaa. who was a gcod French scholar, which would not have been the case ; if t had been ignorant of French, j When llrst I beheld iii^uor rictro SImona I was deeply Impressed by his venerable aspect. His years then numbered as many as mine do now, which is to say sevenly-one. but he appeared much older, his vitality bein.tr sapped by his intense application to affairs of commerce in early manhood and middle age and by stress of recent sorrow, to say nothing of the natural ravages of time. Nevertheless he exhibited traces of a nobility of features and stature which an attenuated face and bowed back failed to obliterate. The moment of my introduction to him was a painful one. for he had just returned from celebrating the obsequies of his son. and his only remaining child, the young and beautiful Anita, was administering to her father such comfort as was possible in the circumstances. I had entered the presence of the old man and presented my let uts ut*iure i was ju'quaiuicu nuu un unhappy condition, but so soon as I was informed of it I sought to withdraw until a more fitting occasion should offer. The fair Anita, perceiving that my business might divert her father's thoughts from the object of his grief, would not willingly suffer mo to depart; so I yielded to her solicitation and remained. My host was a man of extraordinary intelligence, delightfully frank and communicative, notwithstanding a quiet dignity which usually accompanies a combination of wealth and intellectual power. Of his grief he spake not. but I observed all too many evidences of it. After some conversation with him on general matters it was easy for me to understand how this man had from humble beginnings risen io be the most opulent shipowner in Venice. When I asked his advice in resjiect of a house wherein to live during my sojourn in Venice the old man regarded me with mild surprise. "I know of 110 other than this." he said: "who comes from England with credentials such as yours lilt' n ui'iu. XX15> alU.iliu.^ >?r ,1,V very marked, and that of his daughter yet more so. After many weeks of daily expeditious to examine the wonders of Venice, in all of which I was accompanied by the daughter of my host, the beautiful Anita showed in many ways that she had fallen in love with me; and this circumstance occasioned me much disquiet. If I but talked with any other woman, or ventured to express admiration of a costume worn by one of the Dogaressa's maids her pearly teeth would clench and her dark eyes flash. It was a great difficulty, and hastened my departure from Venice, with strange consequences disastrous to herself. I would not love her in dishonorable fashion for the sake of her father, my host: nor would I marry tier, tor 1 nau previously resolved to measure the faith of all women by the perfidy of one. aud my unreasonable distrust was a yet unabated. To be continued. Strange Doinj* of tlje French Army. A most remarkable feature of the biff sham battle fought ou the plain around Fort Yitry by 140.CHX) French soldiers for the edification of the Czar of Russia was the repetition of the very strategy and tactics which the British armies in South Africa long ago discovered. at a terrible cost, to be absolutely fatal in tbe face of modern ritles and ordnance. Against Fort Fresnes tbe French generals directed a "frontal assault" ?the phrase that instantly recalls Buller's deadly aud disastrous experience on both sides of tbe Tugela River. This mimic assault, the cable tells us. was delivered in "heavy lines" across an open plain that was swept by tbe guns of the fort. And. to cap the climax. "the position was finally carried n*' tim bavonet." And the men who did the charging and bayoltering were clad in uniforms of bright red. blue and goid coloring, by way of making the whole thing absolutely absurd. If the Czar has read M. Bloeh's famous analysis of the South African fighting, which demonstrates that the day of frontal assaults, bayonet charges across open ground and bright uniforms is entirely oyer, what must have been his reflect ions on the preparedness of his ally for real war?? New York World. Soandle** Powder Next. The chances of smokeless powder seem seriously compromised by the recent invention of the ltomau General Gilletta. Thanks to the latter's "acoustic telemeter" it is cow possible to ascertain the enact snot whence I the firing proceeds.? Manchester Guar- j dian. LABOR WORLD. Albany. X. Y., union tailors will sub mit a new scale of wages. British India r.ow employs over 1,- J 000.000 people in its cotton industries, i The Western Flint Glass Workers' i Union has again joined the American ' Federation of Labor. The union label has been discarded , by thirty wholesale clothing rnanu- j facturers of Itochestor, N. Y. English workmen in the engineering and allied trades are but moderately employed at the present time. Copper mines in Michigan have in- j creased in number from less than 7000 must be my guest." These -words :iffordcd me great conient. and in Sicrnor Simoua's house I accordingly took up my abode. November IS. ? A thorough mastery of the Latin and French tongues helped me greatly in acquiring the Italian speech: sans such equipment I doubt not I should have failed, for ray method of learning differed greatly from -what is prescribed by the schools. Signorina Anita Simona was my instructress. and her lessons occupied nearly the whole of every day. She told me the names of things, and corrected my errors of pronunciation, but of grammatical rules she spake not: I fear she had but scant knowledge of them herself. Though no Catholic, I * ?I**-.-* momn'nor trt moc< Weill Willi uei lavu uiuiuiuf, >vr U...C which pleased her greatly. for she hail a superstitious horror of Protestantism. And hero I may remark upon the convenience of conforming to the religious prejudices of the people among whom one may be cast; it is both easy and politic, and may be done by most travelers without strain. My days in Venice passed with great swiftness, as days of pleasure always do. Signor Simona was a merchant prince, and his marble palace was a storehouse of works of art brought by his captains from all the countries of xt. "1 1 TTMn-lnneo * /\ *v?? WOC 1 THEm! I Great IView Offe | United States 1 to May 2 Coniest Opened Ja 1 Dl I For tho er.nct, or the nearest to ^ of Cotton received at all Unit ^ 1st, 1904, both inclusive For the next noarest estimate-. For the next nearost estimate.... I For the 3 next nearcs: estimate. For the 10 noxt nearest ostimat< For tho 20 next nearest estimate For tho 50 next nearest estimate For tho IOO next nearest estimate Additional Offers for Bes1 Made During Different of the Contest, For convenience the time of the co test is divided into estimates receive by The Constitution during four p riods?the first period covering fro tne beginning of contest to Fcbruai 10, 1904; second period, from Febr ary 10 to March 1, 1904; third perio March 1 to 20; fourth period. Marc 20 to April 20. 1904. We will 'gii the best estimate received durii each period (in addition to whatevi other prize it may take, or if it tai no prize at all), the sum of $125.00. The four prizes thus offered t $123.00 each amount to Conditions of Sending Subject to the usual condi is now on. Attention is called tc 1. Send S1.0C for The Week In 1893 to more than 14.000 in 1903. In January and February the membership of the order of Railway Clerks of America increased 1220 iu membership. The engravers of America are organizing an international union. The headquarters of the organization will probably be iu New York. The Musicians' Union of Toronto, i Canada, is aid to he the largest organiztioii of the kind in the dominion. The membership is about ">00. February returns of the English boilcrmakers and the iron shipbuilders show n total of 9559 members on the funds, as against 10,352 iu January. It is said that the attempt of Sully, the American "Cotton King." to corner the cotton market has cut down the wages of the English cotton spinners ?_,uuu,wu a wees. Muskegon. Mich., union carpenters j have agreed with local contractors to j arbitrate all differences In the future, the wage is to be 3'2Vi cents an hour, with an eight-hour day. Returns from the local trade unions and from branches of the amalgamated bodies show a general increase in the number of unemployed among the machine-tool makers throughout England. Giant Lobster Found. The grand patriarch of the lobster tribe was recently brought to Gloucester, Mass., by the crew of the schooner Ella M. Goodwin. While engaged in hauling their trawls off shore two of the crew brought him to the surface firmly hooked. He was nearly two feet long and weighed 13 pounds. One of the crew has removed the meat and his shell will be placed on exhibition as the Jumbo of his tribe. IZ. ae 11(1 cents ior inu 3. Send $1.25 for The Wc TIMATES in the contest?that hi 4. Send 50 cents for ONE SCRtPTIO.i. Such a remittance make a number of estimates on warded at the same time estimai without subscriptions, the sonde; fered for only ten estimates in om CEIVF.D WITHOUT SUBSCRIP1 PER ITSELF IS AN AC KNOW! CAREFULLY RECORDED. 5. The money and the sub; The estimate, the money and the Secretary Hester's F fi COTTON SEASON. c I 1897-98 - 1893-69 - 1399-00 !600-01 \ 1901-02 \ 1902-03 $ The fisrures above are cvrff fie 1 bv J furnish *'%n. ofliciui iigures to d?ciJc I 11 Addkcss AM Orders to VMMBnBHBlBBHBQHam I THE / Amem Rgp I Tur vrrrccA I IN THE PRESII 5 The Review of R |s necessity, in recognition c ? readers "up with the timi I In Presidential elec OF REVIEWS is more I magazine." Everybody w informed about this or th; forged to the front; to ki dates and personal factors plete picture at hand of || history. S? In Dr. Sh*w's editorials EJ tributed articles, in its brilliant 6 sations and reviews of all the im; and in its hundred a month of v Kt and interesting views, the RE' t*?| much desired new: of the worlt e; World under a Field-glass " is tl M Mem Irs public life, like I [9s members of Congress, and the % must keep "up with the times S3 enrer America, have decided it is I 25c. a copy. I THE REVIEW 0 S3 9 " Astor Pla Note and Comment. The greatest Roman Catholic heiresi In England is Lady Margaret Crichtor Stuart, only sister of the Marquis oi Bute, The father of the marquis wai .lie original study for Disraeli ir 'Lothair." The biggest part of hei property consists of ground rents ir Jerusalem. During the first quarter of this yeai there were 1,181 new stock corporationi formed under the laws of New York. mxmmatmmmmmmmBemmammm OCashl INTA CONST \r Upon Receipts Ports From Septe 1st, 1904, Both In n. 18th, 1904; Close! VISION OF PRIZE tho exact, estimate of tho total n ed States ports from Soptember I f $25.OO each >s, 12.50 each >s, iO.OO each js, 5.oo each as, 3.00 each. t Estimates TWO GRANS : Periods First?For di those estimates n- I the above 188 pri 'd 500 bales either figures m "y Second?For c uj those estimates ;h the above 188 pi re ing the first eons lR ing within l.uuu ^ oi the exact figu Lt? .. Crand T< ?t In case of a 500.00 i monoy will bee I Estimates in This Pi itlons, as stated regularly in The Con ? the following summary of conditions: :ly Constitution one year and with it Sunny South o?e year and with it tekly Constitution and Sunny South b . one estimate for The Constitution ESTIMATE alone in the contest IF merely pays for the privilege of send this basis, you may send THREE ES Los are cent. If as many as ten estim : may forward them with only $3.00? > order. A postal card receipt will be 'IONS. Where subscriptions are order /GDGMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE script ion and the estimate must come subscription go together. THIS RULE "inures Covering: the P< TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS. !>t ^opWinhoi1 to 1st Mar (inclUKivrO f following year. The period covered by thi? ontesi. 8.333,862 7.993.451 6,843,134 6,346,312 7.218.170 7.373 627 e . rotary Henry G. 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The American missionary board, 1 which was organized at Bradford, 1 Mass., June 29, 1810, did not receive f its charter until 1812, the year in 5 which its first missionaries sailed for > India. Since that time it has commisr soned 2,384 persons?949 men and 1,1 458 women. The total amount of money received for the board from its . beginning until now is $34,431,255.51. *rv it w 1-nnnrtl i air. uavia jdchjucilll, a wen nuunu merchant of Aleiaidria. Is dead. nrullofs of Cotton at All mber 1st, 1903, elusive. s April 20th, 1904. S. I umber of Bale* st, 1903, to May * ? s 2.BOO.OO ? 1,000.00 500.00 125.OO 125.OO r 200.00 250.00 300.00 $ 5,000.00 :> CONSOLATION OFFERS. stribution among (not taking any of zes) coming within way of the exact $ 1,000.00 listribution among (not taking any of izes and not shariolation offer) cornbales either way res ltOOO OO ota I - $7,500 OO I i tie cm any prize estimate the qualiy divided. * ^ ort Receipts Contest. sticotion each week, the contest ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. ONE ESTIMATE in the contest oth one year, and send TWO ESand another for The Sunny South. YOU DO NOT WANT A SUBicg the estimate. If you wish to TIMATES FOR EVERY $1.00 for ates are received at the same time this splendid discount being ofsect for ALL ESTIMATES REed. THE ARRIVAL OF THE PA; HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND IS in the ^atne envelope every time. IS POSITIVE. 5riod of the Contest. BALES (N COTTON CROP. Tli>* I* mTPlr fnryoor information and i* lint tho s jt?|ort of this present content. It I. | ' j?i%-pii ontj* n* an additional aid to an intetli gent climate*. 11,199,994 11,274,840 10,383,422 9,436,416 10,680,680 iO,727,559 Orlctrn Cotton Exchange, who will ITUTJOfi, Atlanta, Ga. 8 w v jtj wM'tmamiy.