Brown County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 19, Nashville, Brown County, 5 May 1899 — Page 2

THE WOMEN SAY There Is No Remedy the Equal of Pe-ru-na in All Their

in the neighborhood of :192,000 mile-, long, of a total value of about $12,500, 000,000 and employing a million men ii their operation. THE "MONROE HEAD” COUNTERFEITERS. The gratifying news that a gans of dangerously expert counterfeiters has been apprehended by the govern ment secret-service officials hints at ai interesting story of arduous labor ant remarkable ingenuity on the part of the counterfeiters. The $100 bills which they succeeded in getting into circulation were so good that they ever passed the sub-treasury, and it was only after careful examination thai tire government officials made certain that they were spurious. How care fully the members of the gang hit] their traces is shown by the fact that it took more than a year of searching for the secret service men to find them In a case of this kind counterfeiting fairly becomes an art. Beside it slur pie forgery is mere bungling. Tin work requires fine tools and a knowledge of their use, some familiarity with chemicals, with draughtsman ship, engraving and minor arts. Constant care is demanded and the conn terfeiters must exercise any amount of ingenuity to escape detection. They must account for their movements their occupations, and their purchases of tools on some pretext, and they must collect their machinery by stealth and operate it under lock and key. In the end, as has been shown ft in tliis instance, the result is almost certain exposure and heavy punishment. Very likely the ingenuity, label and forethought used in making these $100 counterfeits if applied to some I© gitiniate enterprise, would have sufficed to put each criminal of the gang in a position from which he might have looked forward to life in fairly comfortable circumstances. That tin counterfeiters preferred to strive foi much quicker returns through illegal means is only another evidence of tip potent fascination exercised upon sonic criminal minds by the idea of getting something without the necessity of giving a legal return for it. Considering that there are doubtless numerous otli er criminals who are also inspired witl this desire to get something for nothing, it is to be hoped the punishment of the present gang will be exemplary,

Up to this moment, since the first note of opposition fell from the librarian, Seraphina had uttered about twenty words. With a somewhat heightened color, her eyes generally lowered, her foot sometimes nervously tapping on the floor, she had kept her own counsel and commanded her anger like a hem But at this stage of the engagement she lost control of her impat'ence. “Means!” she cried. “They havebeen found and prepared, before you knew the need for them. Sign the dispatch, and let us be done with this delay.” “Madame, I said ‘honorable,’” returned Otto bowing. “This war is, in ray eyes and by Herr von Gondremark’s account, an inadmissable expedient. If Ave have misgoverned here iu Grunewald, are the people of Gerolstein to bleed and pay for our misdoings? Never, madame; not while I live. But I attach so much importance to all that I have heard to-day for the first time —and why only to-day, I do not even stop to ask—that I am eager to find some plan that I can follow with credit to myself.” “And should you fail?” she asked. “Should I fail, I will then meet the blow half-way,” replied the prince. “On the first open discontent, I shall convoke the states, and when it pleases them to bid me abdicate.” Seraphina laughed angrily. “This is the man for whom we have been laboring!” she cried. “We tell him of change; he will d a vise the means, he says; and his device is abdication! Sir, have you no shame to come here at the eleventh hour among those who have borne the heat and burden of the day? Do you not wonder to yourself? I, sir, was here in my place, striving to uphold your dignity alone. I took counsel with the wisest I could find, while you were eating and hunting. I have laid my plans with foresight; they were ripe for action; and then——” she choked —“then you return —for a forenoon —to ruin all! To-morrow, you will be once more about your pleasures; you will give us leave once more to think and work for you; and again you will come back, and again you will thwart what you had not the industry or knowledge to conceive. Oh! it is intolerable. Be modest, sir. Do not presume upon the rank you can not worthily uphold. I would not Issue my commands with so much gusto—it is from no merit in yourself they are obeyed. What are you? What have you to do in this grave council? Go,” she cried, “go among your equals! The very people in the streets mock at you for a prince.” At this surprising outburst the whole council sat aghast. “Madame,” said the baron, alarmed out of his caution, “command yourself.” “Address yourself to me, sir!” cried the prince. “I will not bear these whisperings!” Seraphina burst into tears. “Sir,” cried the baron, rising, “this lady ” • “Herr von Gondremark,” said the prince, “one more observation, and I place you under arrest.” “Your highness is the master,” replied Gondremark, bowing. “Bear it in mind more constantly,” said Otto. “Herr Cancellatius, bring all the papers to my cabinet. Gentlemen, the council is dissolved.” And he bowed and left the apartment, followed by Greisengesang and the secretaries, just at the moment wlu'n the princess’s ladies, summoned in all haste, entered by another door to help her forth.

A JUNTO STATEMENT. CLAIMED THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE ARE ENTIRELY UNOFFICIAL. Secret Negotiations Said to Have Been In Progress Since Before the Attack on Malolos—Conditions Proposed. London cable: Members of the Filipino junto here made the statement to the Associated Press Sunday that peace negotiations between the United States authorities at Manila and General Luna were unofficial in character. Luna, the junto asserts, does not represent Aguinaldo's government. It is further asserted by the junto that secret negotiations between Dean C. Worcester, of the United States Phillippine Commission, and a representative of Aguhmldo have been in progress since before the attack at Malolos. The following conditions, it is alleged, were proposed after the capture of Malolos: “The Americans to issue a proclamation granting the Filipinos self-government and political, civil and religious rights similar to those enjoyed by the people of Canada; the Filipinos to control internal mercantile relations and enjoy equal rights in the islands; Manila to remain in the possession of the United States until Congress decides otherwise; the American flag to fly over the capitals of the islands and in most prominent positions, along with the Filipino flag, except at Manila, where only the American flag shall fly; all vessels to fly the American flag with that of the Filipinos; the Roman Catholic clergy to he under the same administration as in the United States; Spanish clerical direction and intervention to be abolished: the status quo of rural property belonging to the religious orders to be maintained, without return to the ante-bellum state of affairs; hospitals and schools formerly administered by the orders to be handed over to the government, the oredrs to retain only their present town property; the secular clergy to retain their property.’’ The junto asserts Agulnaldo, in view of these proposals, withdrew from Malolos, hut that General Otis’s proclamation after the occupation of Malolos failed to grant self-government on the proposed lines. This, it is further asserted, caused the hostilities following the capture oi Malolos.

MISS SUSAN WYMAE. Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Richmond school, Chicago, III., writes the following letter to Dr. Hartman regarding Pe-ru-na. She says: “Only those who have suffered with sleeplessness from overwork in the school room, such as I have, can know what a blessing it is to be able to find relief by spending a couple of dollars for some Pe-ru-na. This has been my experience. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and every bottle of Pe-ru-na I ever bought proved a good friend to me.”—Susan Wymar. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214 North Superior street, Racine City, Wis., writes: “I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to me. I feel healthy and well, but if I should be sick I will knoitf what to take. I have taken several boU ties of Pe-ru-na for female complaint, t am in change of life and it does me good.’* Send for a free book written by Dr* Hartman, entitled “Health and Beauty.’* Address Dr.' Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Agreeably Dissappointed. Sidney had been dining out with bis parents and had eaten as heartily as any boy of five years well could. While the adults were sipping their after-din-ner coffee, Sidney straightened up in his chair find emitted a deep sigh. “What is the matter, Sidney?’ Haven’t you had a good dinner?” inquired the hostess. i “Oh, yes* a great deal better dinner than I expected,” said Sidney.-New York Commercial Advertiser.

“There have been further orders,” the baron explained. “A new park of artillery has been completed; five hundred stand of arms,- seven hundred baggage mul*s—the details are in a special memorandum. Mr. Secretary Holtz, the memorandum, if you please.” “One would think, gentlemen, that we were going to war,” said Otto. “We are,” said Seraphina. • “War!” cried the prince. “And, gentlemen, with whom? The peace of Grunewald has endured for centuries. What aggression, what insult have we suffered?” “Here, your highness,” said Gotthold, “is the ultimatum. It was in the very article of signature when your highness so opportunely entered.” Otto laid ,lhe paper before him; as he read, his fingers played a tattoo upon the table. “Was it proposed,” he inquired, “to send this paper forth without a knowledge of my pleasure?” One of the non-combatants, eager to trim, volunteered an answer. “The Herr Doctor von Hohenstockwitz had just entered his dissent,” be added. “Give me the rest of this correspondence,” said the prince. It was handed to him and he read it patiently from end to end, while the councilors sat foolishly enough looking before them on the table. The secretaries, in the background, were exchanging glances of delight; a row at the council was for them a, wire and welcome feature. “Gentlemen,” said Otto, when he had finished, “I have read with pain. This claim upon Obermunsterol Is palpably unjust; it has not a tincture, not a show of justice. There is not in all this ground enough for after dinner talk, and you propose to force it as a casus belli.”

THE DEMOCRAT. By ALONZO AEEISON. NASHVILLE, - INDIANA ■ -tii.,,—** 1 ' ,l1 —"""J 1 ■— A Wisconsin paper announced a lec ture on “The Beneficial Effect of Flirtation on the Public Health.” Public curiosity subsided to some extent when the letters of one word were arranged into, “filtration.” The New York Evening Post, which is generally reliable on such matters, says that the Messrs. Seligman, prominent bankers of New 7 York, have about completed arrangements for the organization of a strong bank to do business in Manila, acting as fiscal agent for the government, and that the Anglo Banking Company, of San Francisco, will start a bank in Honolulu. Dr., G. Carl Huber, assistant professor of anatomy and director of the bistorological laboratory at the University of Michigan, has just discovered that, contrary to the belief of the best physiologists of the world, the blood vessels of the brain are controlled by the nerves. Dr. Huber has demonstrated this, and in the March number of the Journal of Comparative Neurology well publish the results of bis extensive research. Prof. Kablenburg, of the department of chemistry of the University of Wisconsin, has discovered that- by running a direct, current of electricity through anhydrous organic solutions of lithium chloride, the basic metal is thrown down as an amorphous precipitate of pure metallism lithium. Metallic lithium cost $100 per ounce, while the chloride is comparatively cheap. The professor hopes to secure metalic sodium and potassium by the same method.

BOOK IE OF LOVE AND POLITICS. CHAPTER YTI —Continued. “The hour preses, your highness,” said the baron; “may we proceed to business?” “Your highness wall pardon me,” said Gotthold; “byt you are still, perhaps, unacquainted with the fact that Prince Otto has returned.” “The prince will not attend the council,” replied Seraphina, with a momentary blush, “The dispatches, Heir Cancellarius? There is one for Gerolstcin?”* A secretary brought a paper. “Here, madame,”- said Greisengcsang. “Shall I read it?” “We are all familiar with its terms," replied Gondremark. “Your highness approves?” “Unhesitatingly,” said Seraphina. “It may then be held as read.” concluded the baron. “Will your highness sign?” The princess did so,' Gondremark, Ei sen thai, and one of the non-combat-ants followed suit; and the paper was then pased across the table to the librarian, He proceeded leisurely to read. “We have no time to spare, Herr Doctor,” cried the baron brutally. “If you do not choose to sign on the authority of your sovereign pass it on. Or you may leave the table,” be added, his temper ripping out. “I decline your invitation, Herr von Gondremark; and my sovereign, as I continue to observe with regret, is still absent from the board,” replied the Doctor calmly; and he resumed the perusal of the paper; the rest chafing and exchanging glances. “Madame and gentlemen,” he said at last, “what I hold in my hand is simply a declaration of war.” . “Simply,” said Seraphina, flashing defiance. “The sovereign of this country is un-der-the same roof with us,” continued Gotthold, “and I insist he shall be summoned. It is needless to adduce my reasons; you are all ashamed at heart of this projected treachery.” The council waved like a sea. There ware various outcries. “You insult the princess,” thundered Gondremark. “I maintain my protest,” replied Gotthold.

“Certainly, your highness,” returned Gondremark, too wise to defend the indefensible, “the claim on Obermunsterol is simply a pretext.” “It is well,” said the prince. “Herr Cancellarius, take your pen. ‘The council,’ ” he began to dictate—“I withhold all notice of my intervention,” he said, in parenthesis and ad-, dressing himself more directly to his wife; “and 1 say nothing of the strange suppression by which this business has been smuggled past my knowledge. I aih content to be in time. ‘The council,’ he resumed, ‘on a further examination of the facts, and enlightened by the note in the last dispatch from Gerolstein, have the pleasure to announce that they are entirely at one, both as to fact and sentiment, with the Grand Ducal Court of Gerolstein.’ You have it? Upon these lines, sir, you will draw up the dispatch.” “If your highness will allow me,” said the baron, “your highness is so imperfectly acquainted with the internal history of this correspondence that any interference will be merely hurtful. Such a paper as your highness proposes would be to stultify the whole previous policy of Grunewald.” “The policy of Grunewald!” cried the prince. “One would suppose yon had no seme of humor! Would you fish in a co, e cup?” “With deference, your highness,” returned the baron, “even in a coffee cup there may be poison. The purpose of this war Is not simply territorial enlargement; still less is if a war of glory; for as your highness indicates, the state of Grunewald is too small to be ambitious. But the body politic is seriously diseased; republicanism, socialism, many disintegrating ideas are abroad; circle within circle, a really formidable organization lias grown up about your highness’s throne.” “I have heard of it, Herr von G’ondremark,” put in the prince; “but I have reason to be aware that yours is the more authoritative information.”

PREDICTS RACE WAR. Bishop Walters Says There Will Be Trouble In the South. New York special* At the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Jersey City, Hi shop Walters spoke on the recent burning- at the stake of Sam Hose, colored, at Palmetto, Ha. The bishop asserted that the charge of assault which was put forward in justification of the treatment of Hose was unfounded and would soon be shown to be false. He warned the whites of the North that !f the negroes of the South were not given fair treatment a. race war whuld be precipitated. “The Cub ms and Filipinos,” Bishop Walters said, "upon whom we have spent so much money and shed so much blood to free from Spanish oppression, were never, treated so barbarously in time of peace by that government as some negroes have been in the States of Arkansas. Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Those who speak flippantly of our extermination,” he said, “will find when that work is begun that all the white people of America will not be against the negro, any more than they were during the civil war." Bishop Walters announced that the first Sunday in June would be observed as a day of fasting and prayer to Almighty God for aid in this hour of distress.

THE INDIA RUBBER SUPPLY. The consumption of india rubbei has grown enormously in recent years, The trade has been stimulated chieilj by the use of pneumatic tires on bicycles. Several years ago it began to be evident that unless wasteful and de structive methods of collecting rubbei were discontinued the supply would dimnish while the demand was increasing. Government after government has therefore prohibited or restricted the collection of rubber in its territory in order to give the plants time to multiply and recuperate. The Congo Free State has now gone a step further. In addition to its decree of 1892, still iu force, which made it a serious and punishable offense to kill the rubber plant of to gather rubber in any way except through incisions in the bark, it is now made obligatory to plant at least 150 vines or trees for every ton of rubber collected. Infractions of the new decree are punishable by fine up to $2,000 or imprisonment. A Bureau of Control of Rubber Forests has been appointed to guard the rubber interests of the State and to enforce the decrees of 1892 and 1899. It is necessary to kill the camphor tree in order to get camphor, but it is not necessary to kill any of the varieties of trees and vines that yield rubber to collect then juice; and yet this inexcusably stupid and wasteful method has been employed in many countries with the result that rubber plants have been exterminated in hundreds of thousands of square miles of territory. How. speedily this result is achieved is illustrated iu the recent case of South Madagascar. In 1890 Fort Dauphin, on the south coast of that island, was a trade center of small importance. Then it was discovered that rubber was near at hand in fairly abundant quantities. A dozen firms from Germany, France, Mauritius and Tamatave appeared on the scene and set all the natives they could muster to killing the rubbei plant and collecting its juice. They paid the gatherers nearly $10 for 220 pounds and sold the product at Tamalave at enormous profit. They rushed the business and ruined it in six years. In 1896 the natives had to travel north for a week before they could find a vine to cut. The product dropped in 1896 to one-tenth that of 1893 and South Madagascar rubber disappeared from the market in 1897. All along the west coast of tropical Africa the trees and vines producing rubber have been killed for a distance of forty to fifty miles from the sea. In the Amazon basin, the greatest rubber field, this useless destruction of a source of wealth has never hem practiced. Small incisons are made in 'the bark, the milk is caught in hollowed out lumps of clay placed beneath the incisions, and each tree yields a supply every year. But other American countries are finding it necessary to adopt stringent methods to protect the industry. In British and French Guiana It is now illegal to collect rubber except by tapping the trees. The cultivation of rubber on plantations is now everywhere encouraged. The exportation of the article from a part of Nicaragua unless produced on plantations, has been prohibited till 1907 on account of the great destruction of rubber trees. Costa Rica also prohibited the killing of rubber plants. 4

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Every great international exposition brings forward a number of remarkable novelties, and the world may rest assured, that the great Eouisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1903 ■will stand at the front in this respect. One of the new things to be shown at Paris next year is a model of Vesuvius 330 feet high and 495 feet in diameter, built of iron, steel, cement and turf. A spiral path, bordered with cafes, will wind up the volcano. Inside is to be represented Dante’s heaven and hell. An ingenious Englishman has figured out the cost of an hour of government since the beginning of the century. Iu France the figures show an alarming tendency to increase. Under Napoleon an hour of government cost 115,000 francs; under Louis Philippe, 150,000; under Napoleon III, 249,000; from 1870 to 1880, 307,000, on account of the raising of the average by the cost of the war with Germany, but from 1880 to 1890 the cost -was 403,000 francs an hour. A French paper remarks that this seems to prove the undesirability of paying a government by the hour or by the day; payment by the piece, according to the work done, is the way, it thinks.

Sandstorm in Kansas. Kansas City, Mo., special: One of tho worst sandstorms in years prevailed in central and western Kansas Sunday. At Abilene newly planted fields were injured. At Newton, where the velocity of the wind was sixty miles an hour, the sun was obscured by clouds of dust, trees were broken and small buildings overturned, At Eilfnwood hundreds of window panes were broken, the skylights In the Hotel Wolf were blown off and most everything loose was carried away. The wind came from the west and blew at a terrific rate all day. In the vicinity of Chapman great clouds of dust obscured the sun, causing people to remain in doors and creating more or less damage. In Chapman many outbuildings were overturned, chimneys toppled over, signs broken and windows smashed. The wind has blown a gale for ten hours. Kirksvllle Victims Buried. Kirksville, Mo., special: With the exception of tw r o victims who died Sunday all those killed in the tornado of Thursday evening have, been buried. Calvin Little succumbed Sunday to his injuries, as did also Paul Beeman, a child. This makes the number dead thirty-three. Fifteen thousand visitors came from hundreds of miles around to view the ruins Sunday. Mayor Noonan sent a message to Governor Stephens asking him to issue a proclamation in behalf of storm sufferers. Twenty-five thousand dollars whl be needed during the next two weeks to prevent suffering. The New Law's In Effect. The new law's went into effect Friday by proclamation of the Governor. The morning mail brought the last receipts to the Secretary of State and the last county to report was Morgan. The receipt from that county was dated as signed at 11 o’clock Thursday morning, and the Governor proclaimed the laws in effect from that time. The proclamation was issued at 9 o’clock Friday morning. The commissions of all additional members of the boards and the new boards created by the Legislature were dated and filled out and wmre sent to the new appointees Monday.

OUR TRADE WITH GERMANY. The remarkable increase In trade between this country and Germany has been decidely in favor of the United States. Our imports from Germany bare decreased from $102,886,617 in 1890 to $77,679,016 in 1898, while our exports to that country have increased from $79,999,246 in 1889 to $163,776,623 in 3898. The balance of trade in favor of Germany in 1890 was $11,565,401, while in 1898 the balance was in our favor to the extent of $86,097,607, representing a gain in our commerce during the nine years of $97,668,008. The bulk of our exports to Germany consists of raw products, although we passed the million mark in bicycles, $1,724,404, and agricultural implements, $1,232,242. We also sent some books, vehicles, clocks and watches, cotton cloth, electrical and other instruments, hardware, sewing machines, typewriters, leather, boots and shoes, rosin, tar, turpentine, pitch and spirits of turpentine. Our largest exports were raw cotton, $54,886,245; corn, $14,171,961; lard, $12,820,843; mineral oil, $5,482,493; tobacco, $4,140,900ffi oil cake, $3,795,548; copper, $3,705,937; bacon, $3,338,869; wheat, $3,124,543; oleomargarine, $1,911,780; fertilizers, $1,738,351; fndts, $1,644,723; horses, $1,161,750, and hams, $1,109,550. A RAILROAD REVIVAL. According to the Railway Age, the present year is likely to see a great revival of railroad building. It estimates, that 5,000 miles will be added to the mileage of the United States, which would be a greater record than that of any year since 1890. The building of 6.000 miles of railroad means the investment of about $150,000,000 and the permanent employment of 25,000 men. Tables show that there are 590 new lines projected or under construction, with a total length of 40,563 miles. Of these lines less than 2,500 miles of railroad is in the New England or middle States. In the Southwestern States there are 110 neAv roads under way, with a length of 12,211 miles. The south Atlantic, gulf and Mississippi valley States have an equal mileage of new roads in prospect, the central northern 'and northewestern States have nearly 9,000 miles projected, and more than 4,000 miles of railroads are to be built in the Pacids States. The 5.000 miles of new track to be built this year consists largely of extensions and links for the large western systems. With these additions the railroads In operation in the United States will be

At the height of this confusion, the door was thrown open; an usher announced, “Gentlemen, the prince” and Otto, with his most excellent bearing, entered the apartment. It was like oil upon the troubled waters; every one settled instantly into his place, and Greisengesang, to give himself a countenance, became absorbed in the arrangement of his papers, but in their eagerness to dissemble one and all neglected to rise. “Gentlemen,” said the prince, pans-, ing. They all got to their feet in a moment; and this reproof still further do•moralized the weaker brethren. The prince moved slowly toward the lower end of the table; then he paused again, and fixing his eye on Greisengesang. “How comes it, Herr Caneellarius,” he asked, “that I h,y ve received no notice of the change of hour?” “Your highness,” replied the chancellor, “her highness the princess ” and there paused. “I understood,” said Seraphima, taking him up, “that you did not purpose to be present.” Their eyes met for a second, and Seraphima’s fell; but her anger only burned the brighter for that private shame. “And now, gentlemen,” said Otto, taking his chair, “I pray you to be seated. I have been absent, there are doubtless some arrears; but ere we proceed to business, Herr Grafinskl, you will direct four thousand crowns to be sent to- me at once. Make a note if yon please,” he added, as the treasurer still stared in wonder. “Four thousand crowns?” asked Seraphina. “Pray, what for?” “Madame,” returned Otto, smiling, “for ray own purposes.” Gondreraark spurred up Grafinskl underneath the table. “If your highness will indicate the destination ” began the puppet. “Yon are not here, sir, to interrogate your prince,” said Otto. G raflnski looked for help to his com-1 raander; and Gondreraark came to his aid, in suave and measured tones; ■ “Your highness may reasonably bo surprised,” he said; “and Herr Gra- ! iinski, although I am convinced be is 1 clear of the intention of offending, would have perhaps done better to begin with an explanation. The resources of the state are at the present moment entirely swallowed up, or, as we hope to prove, wisely invested. Iu a month from iioav, I do not question we shall he able to meet any command your highness may lay upon ns; but at this hour I fear that, even in so small a matter, he must prepare himself for disappointment. Our zeal is no less, although our power may be inadequate.”

“I am honored by this expression of my prince's confidence,” returned Gondremark, unabashed. “It is, therefore, with a single eye to these disorders, that our present external policy has been shaped. Something was required to divert public attention, io employ the idle, to popularize your highness’s rule, and, if it were possible, to enable him to reduce the taxes at a blow and to a notable amount. The proposed expedition—for it can not without hyperbole be called a war —seemed to the council to combine the various characters required; a marked improvement in the public sentiment has followed even upon our preparations; and I can not doubt that when success shall follow the effect will surpass even our boldest hopes.” “You are very adroit, Herr von Gondremark,” said Otto. “Yon fill me with admiration. I had not heretofore done justice to your qualities.” Seraph in a looked up with joy, supposing Otto "conquered; but Gondremark still waited, armed at every point; he knew how very stubborn is the revolt of a weak character. “And the territorial army scheme, to which I was persuaded to consent — was it secretly directed to the same end?” the prince asked. “1 still believe the effect to have been good,” replied the baron; “discipline and mounting guard are excellent sedatives. But I will avow to your' highness, I was unaware at the date of that decree of the magnitude of the revolutionary movement; nor did any of us, I think, imagine that such a territorial army was a part of the republican proposals,” “It was?” asked Otto. “Strange! Upon what fancied grounds?” “The grounds were indeed fanciful,” returned the baron. “It was conceived among the leaders that a territorial army, drawn from and returning to the people, would, in the event of any popular uprising, prove lukewarm or unfaithful to the throne.” “I see,” said the prince. “I begin to understand.” “His highness begins to understand?” repeated Gondremark with the sweetest politeness. “May beg of him to complete the phrase?” “The history of the revolution,” replied Otto dryly. “And now,” he added, “what do you conclude?” “I conclude, your highness, with a simple reflection,” said the baron, accepting the stab without a quiver. “The war is popular; were the rumor contradicted to-morrow, a considerable disappointment would be felt In many classes; and in the present tension of spirits, the most lukewarm sentiment may he enough to precipitate events. There lies the danger. The revolution hangs imminent; we sit at this council board, below the sword of Damocles.” “We must then lay our heads together,” said the prince, “and devise some honorable means of safety.”

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CHAPTER VIII. V The Party of War Takes Action. Half an hour after Gondremark was once more closeted with Seraphina. “Where is he now?” she asked, on Ids arrival. “Madame, he is with the chancellor,” replied the baron. “Wonder of wonders. be is at work!” “Ah,” she said, “he was born to torture me! Ob, what a fall, what a humiliation! Such a scheme to wreck upon so small a trifle! Who could have dreamed he Avould become a bully? But now all is lost.” “Madame,” said Gondremark, “nothing is lost. Something, on the other hand, is found. You have found your Senses; you see him as he is—see him as you see everything where your toogood heart is not in question—with the judicial, with the statesman’s eye. So long as be had a right to interfere, the empire that may he was still distant. I have not entered on this course without the plain foresight of Its dangers; and even for this I was prepared. But, raadame, I knew two things—I knew that you were born to command, that I was born to serve; I knew that by a rare conjuncture, the hand had found the tool; and from the first I was confident, as I am confident to-day that no heriditary trifler has the power to shatter that alliance.” “I born to command!” she said. “Do you forget my tears?” “Madame, they were the tears of Alexander,” cried the baron. “They touched, they thrilled me; I forgot myself a moment —even I! But do you suppose that I had not remarked, that I had not admired, your previous bearing? your great self-command? Ay. that was princely!” He paused. “It was a thing to see. O! I drank confidence! I tried to imitate your calm. And I was inspired; in my heart, I think that I was well inspired; that any man, within the reach of argument, had been convinced! But it was not to be; nor, madame, do I regret the failure. Let us be open; let me disclose my heart. I have loved two things, not unworthily; Grunewald and my sovereign!” Here he kissed her hand. “Either I must resign my ministry, leave the land of my adoption and the queen whom I had chosen to obey—or—” He paused again. “Alas, Herr von Gondremark, there is no ‘or,’” said Seraphina. (To be continued.)

“How much, Herr Graflnski, have we in the treasury?” asked Otto. “Your highness,” protested the treasurer, “we have immediate need of every crown.” “I think, sir, you evade me,” flashed the prince; and then turning, to the side table, “Mr. Secretary,” he added, “bring me, if you please, the treasury docket.” Herr Graflnski became deadly pale; the chancellor, expecting his own turn, was probably engaged in prayer; Gondremark was watching like a ponderous cat. Gotthold, on his part, looked.on with wonder at his cousin; he was certainly showing spirit, but what, in such a time of gravity, was all this talk of money? and why should he waste his strength upon personal issue ? “I And,” said Otto, with his finger on the docket, “that we have 20,000 crowns in case.” “That is exact, your highness,” replied the baron. “But our liabilities, all of which are happily, not liquid, amount to a far larger sum; and at the present point of time, it would be morally impossible to divert a single florin. Essentially, the case is empty. We have, already presented, a large note for material of war.” “Material of war?” exclaimed Otto, with an excellent assumption of surprise. “But if my memory serves me right, we settled these accounts In January.” ,

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