ALtAMv-llUNTEB.
A cup of coffee, egg anil rolls
Sustain lilin ci )i ftgiornliii: strolls t
Unconscloi b of tliu pas' m by,
He trudges on llh iloivncnt eye:
He wear a queer oM liat an J co-tt,
SusjgcstVii f 11 st.vic remote;
llU'innm i:r 1st p;o cciiplcd,
A Miamblltig g.iil, from s!lo to fide.
For lilm the deck, br.Klit-wluilowcii'sliop
Is all n vain lie do-'B n it stop.
Ills tlnugMs ore fixed on ilmlv Miches
Where musty volumes little themselves,
Hare prints of poo r nnd prose,
And qu i nil? lettered folios,
1'crcliuncc a piircliuiciit iiMHU'crlpt,
In seme forgot eti corner slipped, .
Orir.o k llluinlncd ml-slii bound
In vellum wl h t.russ clnsps mound ;
TIicsj aiollu plciurul things thatthiong
Ills mind the while ho walLs tilling.
A dlnjy street, a c c lar d m,
"Willi boitU-laicd ah, Milllces hltn.
The uust Is white upon his shcvis;
Ho turns the yellow, dog-careO" Ioavet
Willi Just the sninu religious look
That pr csts give to the Holy Hook.
He does t ot ho d t ho flllllng air
If so he finds a treasure there.
He knows tare hooks, like precious nines,
Arc hid len where the sun ne'er shines j
For hltn delicious fl.ivors dwell
In books a In old Muscatel;
He finds in (entires of the typo
A clew to ptove the nape was rlpo.
And when lie leav s his dismal piece,
Ilclio d, 11 smile light up his facet
Upon h's checks a gen'al glow,
Within his hand lloccncclo,
A first edition worn with age,
"Flrcnze" on the title-page.
Frank Dempster Sherman, in The Century.
Mates Sandorf.
-Bt-
JULES VERNE.
atjtiioh op "journey to tub gentiie
op thk kaiitii,". "tiiip to tub moon,"
"ABOUND TUB WOIlIiU IN KIUUTX
DAYH, " " MICHAIU, BTIlOUOl'F,"
"TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES
DNUlill TUB SKA," I7rO., ETC
TEANBI.ATION COl-VJUdUTI!!), 1883.
CHAPTER V.
ran MusaAau in oirnnrt.
Two days nftorwards Sareany wan
installed in tho houso of Ladislas Zath
nmr. Ho liml been introduced by Silas
Toronthal, and on his intvoditction had
boon received by Count Sandorf. Tho
banker mid his agent lind beoomo ac
complices, tho object of their Hellenics
boing tho discovery of 11 secret v,'hioh
might cost tho chiefs of tho conspiracy
their lives, nnd tho result, as tho prioo
of thnir infonnation, u fortuno fulling
into tho pocliot of an adventurer, that it
might 11ml its way into tho strongbox of
a banker who had reached tho point of
boing uuablo to honor his engagements.
A formal ngreoment had been drawn
np batwoon Toronthal and Surcany, no
cording to which tho expected profit
was to bo shared equally. Sareany was
to havo suflioiont to enable him and his
companion, Zirone, to live comfortably
nt Trieste, and to meet all outgoings and
expenses. In exohiiiigo.ind as a guar
antee ho had handed over to tho banker
tho frto-flimilo of tho message which con.
tninod-thero could bo no doubt tho
uecrot of tho conspiracy.
It may, perhaps, bo said that Sandorf
was imprudent in acting thus. Under
such circumstances to introduce a
Btrauger into tho house where such im
portant matters were in hand, on the
vory ovo of a rising, of which tho signal
might bo sont at any moment, might
Boom nn net of Btrango imprudence.
But tho Count had not acted thus with
out being obliged.
It was necessary that his personal af
fairs should bo put in order now that ho
"was about to enter on a perilous adven
ture in which ho risked his life, or at
least exile, if ho wnsobliged to lly in tho
uvont of failure. Resides tho introduc
tion of a stranger into Zathniar'H house
appeared to him calculated to provont
mtspicion. llo fancied that for somo
days and wo know that ho was not
miatukon there had been spies in the
Aoquedotta; Bpies no other than Sareany
nud Zirono. Were the police of Trieste
kooping their eyes on his friends nnd
him nuil thoir proceedings? Sandorf
might woll think so and fear ho. If tho
mooting placo of tho conspirators,
hithorto bo obstinately kept hidden,
iseomed to him to bo nuspeoled, what
bettor means of batliing suspicion could
bo devised than to admit within it an
accountant merely busying himself with
accounts? How could the presence of n
clerk bo dangerous to Zathniar and his
guests? In no way. There was no
longer any interchange of ciphered cor
respondence between Trieste and tho
other townsof Hungary. All tho papers
relating to tho movement had been de
stroyed. Thoro roni.iiuod no written
trace of tho conspiracy. Thu measures
bud been taken i they were not intended
to bo taken, Count Sandorf had only
to give tho Mgnal when tho moment
arrived. So that tho introduction of a
clerk into the house, which tho Govern
ment might ham under surveillance,
was calculated to allay all suspicion.
That is to say, tho reasoning was just
ttuil tho procaution good, had the clerk
hr.-it any ouo else than Sarcauv, nud his
introducer any other than Silas Toron
thai. Sareany was a past-master in duplic
ity, and took full advantage of tho
gifts ho posbesHod - his open face, his
frank, clear oxproKMon, and his honest,
straightforward look Count Sandorf
nud his two companions could not but
bo taken with lum-mid they woro
taken with him. In no way did he show
or learn that ho wuh in tho presence of
tho chiefs of n conspiracy to naso H'o
Hungariau race in revolt against tho
Germans. Mathias Kandoif, Stephen
Uathory ami Ladislas Zuthnmr seemed
at thir meetings to bo only occupied
with (lisou&sions on nrt and science
iuxo was uo Bceiet ooiroapoudouoo;
SAHCANY FINDS TUB
thoro woro no mysterious comings nnd
goings about tho houso. Hut Sareany
know what ho wanted. Tho chance ho
wanted was sure to come in turn, and ho
waited for it.
In ontoring Zathmar's houso Sareany
had but ono object in view to possess
liimsolf of the grating that would cnablo
him to decipher tho cryptogram; and as
no ciphered despatch arrived at Triesto,
ho began to ask himself if, for pruden
tial reasons, tho grating had been do
stroyed? This would bo rather annoy
ing for him, as nil the scaffolding of hia
sohonio was based on his being able to
read tho letter brought by tho pigeon.
Thus, as lie worked at putting in or
der tho account! of Mathias Sandorf, ho
kopt his eyes open; ho watched, ho
spied. Admission to tho room whoro
tho moatings took place between Zath
niar and his companions was not forbid
den him. Very often ho worked thero
illalono : and then his oyes and his fin
Rors woro occupied in quite other tasks
than making calculations or casting
figures. Ho ferreted among tho papers ;
ho opened tho drawers by means of
skeleton keys made for him by Zirono,
who was qiuto an adept in such matters.
Anil all tho timo ho kopt a Btrict watch
on llorik, witli whom ho seemed aamo
liow, quite out of sympathy.
For llvo days Sarcany's search was
useless. Each morning ho eaino with
tho hopa of succeeding; each ovoning ho
roturncd to his hotel without having
discovered anything. Ho feared ho was
going to fail aftor all in his criminal on
ferprizo. Tho conspiracy if thero woro
ii conspiracy, and ho could not doubt
that thoro was ono might como to a
head at any moment before it had been
discovered, and consequently before it
liad boon reported.
"Hut rather than loso tho benefit of a
discovery, even without satisfactory
proofs, better inform tho police," said
Zirono, "and givo them a copy of the
letter."
"That is what I am going to do if
necessary," said Sareany.
Of course Toronthal was kopt inform
ed of all that went on. And it was not
without dilllculty, that the impatience
of the banker was duly curbed.
Chance canio at last to his assistance.
On the first occasion it brought him tho
message, and now it came to him to
show him how tho message could bo
uoeiphored. It was tho last day of May,
about four o'clock in tho afternoon.
Sareany, according to his custom, wii'
going to leave Zathmar's houso at flvo.
Ho was greatly disappointed that ho
had advanced no further than on tho
llrst day, and that tho work ho had
boon doing for Count Sandorf was ap
proaching its ond. When tho task was
tlnished ho would evidently bo dismiss
ed with thanks and rewards and ho
would havo no chance of again ontoring
Iho house.
Zathniar and his two friends were not
it home. There was no one in tho houso
but Rorik, and ho was busy on tho
ground iloor. Sareany, finding himself
froo to do as ho liked, resolved to go
into Count Zathniar's room which ho
had not yet been able to do and then
search everything ho could.
Tho door was locked. Sareany with
his skeleton koys soon opeued it and
entered.
Hotweon tho two windows oponing on
to tho street thero was a writing desk,
whoso uutiquo form would have delight
ed a connoisseur in old furniture. Tho
Bhut-down front prevented any ono in
specting what was inside.
It was the first timo Sareany had Uio
ohauco of getting near this piece of
furniture, ami ho was not tho man to
waste his opportunities. To rummago
in dilVerent drawers, ho only had to
fores the front. And this he did with
tho aid of his instruments, without the
lock being in any way injured,
In tho fonr.h drawer under a pile of
papers, was a kind of card cut into curi
ous holes. Tho card caught his atten
tion at once.
"The grating!" ho Biiid.
Ho was not mistaken.
His first idea was to take it with him,
but on rcllectiou ho saw that its disan
pcarauco would awake suspicion, if
Count Zathniar noticed it hud gone.
"Good," said ho to himself; "as I
oopiod tho message, so I'll copy the grat
ing, ami Toronthal nud 1 can read tho
despatch at our ease."
Tho grating was merol' a squaro ol
card altout two and a half inches loug,
divided inl thirty-six equal squares.
Of those thirty-Bix equal squares,
urraugod in six horizontal and vertical
GBAT1N0 IN TUB DESK.
lines, liko those on a Pythagorean tablo
of six ciphers, tweuty-soven wero shaded
nnd nine wero open that is to say, nine
squares had been cut out of tho card and
left niuo openings in different positions.
Sareany had to bo careful to take the
exact size of tho grating and tho exact
position of tho nine blank squares. And
this ho did by tracing tho grating on a
sheet of white paper and marking on his
copy a small cross which ho found oh
the original, and which scorned to dis
tinguish tho toj) side.
By moms of this grating, which it
would bo easy to copy on a pieno of
ordinary card, Sareany felt that ho would
havo no difficulty in deciphering tho fuc
siiiiiloof tho message then in possession of
Toronthal ; and so ho put back the orig
inal giating among tho papers, as ho had
found it, left Zathniar's room, loft the
house, and returned to his hotel.
A quarter of an hour afterwards Zirono
beheld him enter tho room with such a
triumphant air that ho could not help
exclaiming :
"Hullo! What is up? Tako caro of
yourself! You aro not so clover in hid
ing your joy as you are your grief, and
you'll betray yourself, if"
"Shut up," answered Sareany, "aud
to work without losing a moment "
" Reforo wo feed '("
" Reforo wo feed."
Anil then Sareany picked up a card of
moderate thickness, lie cut it according
to hia tracing so as to obtain a grating of
tho oxuOj shapo of hi3 copy, not forget
ting tho little cross which showed tho
right end uppermost Then ho took a
rule and divided his rectangle into thirty
six squares, all of equal size. Thou of
theso thirty-sixsquares nino wero marked
as they appeared on tho tracing, and cut
out with tho point of a penknife so as to
show through them, when applied to tho
message, whatever signs or letters wero
to bo read.
Zirono sat facing Sareany, and watched
him as ho wi rked. Ho was deeply inter
ested in tho performance, becauso ho
thoroughly understood the system of
cryptography employed in tho corre
spondence. "Now that is ingenious," ho said,
" highly ingonious, and may bo of Fonio
uso ! When I think that each of theso
empty squares may perhaps hold a mil
lion of money"
"And more!" said Sareany.
Tho work was at an end. Sareany
roso and put the cut card into his
pooketbook,
"The first thing to-morrow morning I
call on Toronthal," ho said.
"Keen an cvo on his cash box."
"If ho hai tho message, I havo tho
grating!"
" And this timo ho will givo it up."
"Ho will givo it up."
"And now we can feed?"
"Wo can feed."'
" Come on, then."
And Ziroue, always blest with a
healthy appetite, did full justice to tho
excellent meal ho had, according to hia
custom, ordered.
In the morning it was tho 1st of Juno
at eight o'clock Sareany presented
himself at tho bank, and Toronthal gave
orders' for him to bo shown into tho
ofllco immediately.
"There is tho grating," was all that
Sarcauy said, iu ho laid tho card on the
table,
Tho banker took it, turned it round
and round, jerked his head first on ono
Bido then tho other, aud did not seom at
all to share in the confidence of his
ussociate.
"Let us trv it," said Sareany.
"Well, we'll try it."
Toronthal took tho fao-similo of tho
message from ono of tho drawers in his
desk mid laid it on the table.
It may bo recollected that tho message
was composed of eighteen words, each
containing six letters the words beiug
quite unintelligible. It was obvious
that each letter ought to correspond with
n square of the curd ; and consequently
that tho six tlrt words of tho message,
composed of thirty-six letters, must havo
been obtained by means of tho thirty-six
squares.
And in the grating tho nrrmigomout of
thu blank uptaros hud been so ingen
iously thought out that for every quarter
turn-that is. for tho four times tho
blank squares changed their position
they came in a different place.
It will be Been that this must bo bo ;
for if ot tho-tlrst application of Iho grat
ing to white paror tho figures 1 to 0 aro
inscribed in each blank space, and then,
after a quarter turn thu figures 13 to 19,
nnd then after another quarter turn the
figures 19 to 27, and then, after another
quarter turn, tho figures 28 to 3G, it will
bo found that no squaro has two num
bers, and that each of tho thirty-six
squares is filled in.
Sareany very naturally began on tho six
first words of tho message, intending to
mako four successive applications of tho
grating. Ho then thought of treating
tho nest six, nud then tho six finals in
tho samo way, and thus use up tho eigh
teen words of tho cryptogram.
It need scarcely bo said that Sareany
hnd told Toronthal what ho intended to
do, and that the banker had approved of
tho plan.
Would thopractico confirm tho theory?
Therein lay all tho interest of tho
experiment.
Tho eighteen words of tho messago
wero theso :
ihnalz zncmen ruiopn
arnuro trvrco mtqssl
odxhnp cstley ccuart
acceil ennios noupvg
Bpesdr crssur ouitso
cedgno toecdt artuco
At first they set to work to decipher
the first six words. To do this Sareany
wroto them out on a sheet of whito
paper, taking caro to spaco tho letters
ond lines as to bring each letter under
ono of tho squares of tho grating.
And this was-tho result
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Then tho grating was placed over tho
letters so that tho littlo cross was on top,
and then through the nino openings
thoro appeared tho nino letters shown
below, whilo tho other twenty-sevon
wero hidden :
hazrxoirg
CHAPTER VL
CAN THE CirilEK, HE (SOLVED ?
Then Sareany mado a quarter turn ol
tho grating from right to left, so as to
bring the side with tho cross to the right.
And these woro tho letters that appeared
through the spaces :
n o h a 1 o d o c
At tho third attempt tho letters visiblo
wero these :
nadnopodn
To tho astonishment of Toronthal and
Sareany, nono of theso combinations
gavo any senso. They endeavored to
read them conclusively in tho order thoy
had been obtained, but they proved us
meaningless as tho despatch itself. Was
tho messago to remain iudecipherablo ?
Tho fourth application of tho grating
resulted thus :
ilruoposs
which was as obscure as tho others.
In fact, tho four words which had been
discovered wero :
hazrxoirg
nchaledco
nadnepdu
ilruopeas
ond theso meant Nothing. - - -
Sareany could not conceal his rago at
such a disappointment. The banker
shook his head, aud remarked, in a
slip-lit tone of irony:
"Perhaps that is not tho grating !"
Sareany simply writhed in his chair.
" Lot us try it again 1" ho said.
"Try again," said Toronthal.
Sareany, having mastered his nervous
agitation, began oxperimonting on tho
six worda forming the second column of
tho messago. Four times did ho apply
tho grating; and theso aro the four
meaningless words ho obtained :
- amnetnoro
velessuot
etseirtcd
zerreoncs
This timo Sareany throw the grating
on the table with an oath.
In curious contrast, Toronthal kept
quite cool, no was carefully studying
tho words hitherto obtaiuod, and re
mained deep in thought
"Confound all gratings and all who
uso them !" exclaimed Sareany, rising.
"Sit down," said Toronthal.
"Sit down ?"
"Yes ; aud go on."
Sareany gavo Toronthal a loolc. Then
ho sat down, took tho grating, nnd
applied it to the last six words of tho
message, as ho had dono to tho othors.
Ho did it mechanically, as though ho
took no interest in what ho was doing.
Aud tho words given by tho four appli
cations of tho grating wero :
uonsuoveu
glangisro
inierpuata
rptsetuot
That was nil. Tho words wero as
meaningless as tho others.
Sareany, enraged beyond all bounds,
took tho paper on which ho had written
the barbarous words which tho grating
had yielded, aud Was about to tear it
into tatters, when Toronthal stopped
him.
"Do not get excited," ho said.
" Eh!" exclaimed Sareany, "what can
you do with an insoluble logograph liko
that ?"
"Writ all those words in a line, ono
aftor tho other," said tho banker.
"And why?"
"To seo."
Sareany oboyed ; and ho obtained the
following :
hazrxeirgnohttUxltcnetJnejvtinilritoptuwmi
ttnortKUssouteimrMzerrecneiWimwreuqlan
gisreimttyuaterptutuot
Tho letters had scarcely been written
boforo Toronthal snatched tho paper
from Sareany nnd read it and gavo a
Bhont, It was tho banker who now lost
his head. Sarcauy .thought ho had gouo
mad.
"Head 1" said Toronthal, holding out
tho paper to Sareany. "Read !"
" lUuid 1"
Yes I don't you Reo that, before thoy
used the grating, Count Sandorf s cor
respondents wrote the letter backwards ?"
Sarcauy took tho paper, und this is
what he read, proceeding from the lost
to Iho first:
Tout ost nreL An nromier sicnal
auo vous nous onverrcz do Trieste, tout J
solevcront cn masse pour l'independ.
ence do la Hongrie. Xrzah.
" And the four last letters ?" ho asked.
"An ngreed-upon signature, or some
thing to fill up," mid Toronthal.
"Oh, then! 'All is ready. At tho
first signal yon send us from Trieste, all
of us will riio together for the independ
ence of Hungary!' That is it, is it? Well,
wo havo got them nt last 1
" Hut tho polico havo not got them 1"
"That is my business."
"You will act with great secrecy?"
" That is my business." said Sarcauy.
"Tho Governor of Trieste shall bo tho
only person to know tho names of tho
two honest patriots who have nipped in
its bud this conspiracy ngainst tho em
pire of Austria 1"
And as ho s2ioke, the mockery of each
tone and gesture betrayed tho tnto feel
ing with which ho tittered the words.
"And now I havo nothing elso to do,"
said tho banker.
"Nothing," answered Sareany, "ex
cept to tako your share of tho profit"
"When?'
"When tho thrco heads fall which
aro worth a million apiece."
Toronthal and Sareany bid each other
adieu. If thoy wished to gain anything
out of tho tecret that chance had handed
over to them they must bo quick and
denounco tho conspirators before tho
plot broke out
Sareany returned to Zathmar's houso as
if nothing had occurred, nnd went on
with the accounts. His work was nearly
finished. Count Sandorf, in thanking
him for tho zeal ho had shown, told him
that ho should not require his services
after tho next eighteen days.
" To Sarcany's miuC this meant that
about that timo tho signal was to bo
given from Triesto to the chief of Hun
garian towns.
Ho continued, therefore, to watch with
the greatest care, but so as to givo rise
to no suspicion, all that took placo in
Zathmar's house. And ho played his
part so well, ho seemed so imbued with
liberal ideas, and had taken bo littlo
pains to hide tho invinoiblo repulsion
ho said ho felt for tho Gcrmuus, that
Sandorf thought of giving him a post
later on, when tho rising should havo
mado Hungary a freo country. It was
not so with llorik, who had never got
over tho first feeling of disliko with
which the young man had inspired
him.
Sareany ncared his triumph.
It was on the Oth of Juno that Count
Sandorf had agreed with his friends to
give tho signal, aud tho Slh hnd come.
Hut tho informer had been at work.
In tho evening, about eight o'clock,
tho polico suddenly entered Zathmar's
hoitfco. Resistance was impossible.
Count Sandorf, Count Zathmar, pro
fessor Rathory, Sareany himself, who
made no protest, aud Rorik were secretly
arrested.
I TO HE COHTI.NL'KD. I
The Rrahmhi's link' of Life.
"Eat, dr. nk, nud bo merry, for to
morrow wo die!" which is the ex
hortation of the modern materialist,
as it was of tho ancient Etryr.tinns at
their banquets had no placo in tho
great creeds of India. Tho soul was
undying; and purity, nsqoticisin, qui
etism, wero the universal watchwords
in the required work of spiritual liber
ation. The first ntep in this turning
away from the wot Id is when tho in
dividual begins to seo through tho il
lusiveness of life; becomes conscious
of tho unreality of his surroundings
and of tho soul's independence of tho
external world and ot the sensations
which it produces upon him through
the glamor medium of tho senses. If
ho bo an orthodox Hrahniin ho says:
"What havo I to do with this phant
asm of nature, this mirage of an ex
ternal world? Why should I allow
myself to bo subject" to tho painful or
disturbing sensations which it imposes
on mo through thu senses, when in re
ality there is no existence but Hrnliui,
of whom I am a part?" This hist
pliraso is tho mint intelligiblo to a Eu
ropean; but what the Hindu sa.vs is,
"1 tun Hralini" in tho senso that a
drop taken from tho ocean is thesanio
in substance with tho ocean. Truo
knowledge sees through tho decep
tion of Maya; it dispels tho darkness
from tho embodied soul, and thereup
on tho soul seeks to liberato itself
from this bondage of illusion; it conies
to know that it is part of tho soul of
tho universe, and, l.ke tho reclaimed
prodigal, cries, "1 will arise and go to
my father!" The rule of common
lite, as preached by tho Hrahiuius, was
to fulfill tho duties incumbent upon
each ono in the position in which he is
born. No ono was to disturb another
in the discharge of his duties; hu must
not injuru oither man or beast, and ho
must bo tender oven to plants and
trees. When ho had set up his houso,
had married and begot a sou: when he
hud fulfilled the duties of a house
master; when ho was old and had
seen his children's children, then ho
must prepare lor futurity and rotiro
into tho forest to load the life of an
ereniite, and work out his "libera
tion," or tho salvat'on of his soul.
This was prescribed even for tho com
mon throng although, doubtless, the
injunction was hut littlo, or vory
slightly, observed. It was acknowl
edged that it is not over ono who can
beoomo n truo ogee, much less a
Sannyasin or Arhat. Hut to all who
nsniro aftot tho higher grades of libor
atfon aud spir.tual existence, marriage
itself was forbidden, and all sexual
indulgence pruh lilted, as most fully
retaining tho soul under tho bondage ot
tho senses and keeping it from rising
into the fuller and higher lite which it
outers upon when emancipated from
tho fetters of tho body. The Uri'.ish
Quarter y J,ciucw.
Too (iood to His Faiur.
A formor resident of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, and now of
Utah penitentiary, says in a lotter to
a I'r.eml: "1 tun serving asix months'
sentence for loving, cherishing and
caring for my dear families, consist
ing of thrco of tho best, noblest ami
loveliest wives in tho union, and twen-ty-threo
just ns good and pretty child
ren as over canio from heaven to so
journ for a season on this mundane
sjihoro." Council Blus A'o;ir.e'.
OTllULLO.
How It was 1'orfbriucd by a Xcsro Com
jinny. There was a performance of "0 thello"
in New York recently which ono may
well believe to bo "without n, rival," oa
the Times says it wns, judging from its
account of tho tragedy. The piny, wo
are told, diflered from that with which
New York audiences are fnniiliar in
ninny particulars, chief of which tvaa
that the characters wero all Moors.
This made the rago of ono Urabantio,
because his dauahtor had married
Othello, ulittleditHcult to understand.
This trivial circumstance, however,
did not weigh heavily upon the minds
of the Astor-placo tragedians, and
they proceeded to make things just as
lively for Othello as if ho had been
common white trash. Tho Times
critique runs tliuslv:
Othello, the lord'high executioner of
Venice, was impersonated by Ben
jamin J. Ford. Mr. Ford makes tho
part up much darker than Salvini
does, and even than GustavusBrooko
was wont to do. Mr. Ford's dark
make-up, however, does not prevent
him from standing considerably over
six feet in his thights and giving the
audience a great deal of Othello for
their money. Mr. Ford has a voice
which extends from tho sub-cellar of
the base clef to the third Iloor, back of
the tenor, and is capable of spreading
itself over a largo portion of the com
munity at one time. Tho quality of
tho voice is distinctly cheerful. The
lower notes have much of the pathetic
mellowness of thecontra fagotto, while
the upper notes are like tho lascivious
piping of the E-tlat clarionet. Iago
was represented by J. A. Arneaux, of
whom it may bo said, in the langungo
of a classic song composed in tho timo
of Nelsonidis Seymourus, that French
ballet girls are in the shade when ho
puts down his shoe. Desdcmona, the
Yum Yum of the drama, was acted by
Miss Eloiso Molinenux.
The various episodes of the play
wero watched with deepest interest by
the audience. When Othello ran away
with Desdemona, and stood up like a
littlo man before her irate papa, tho
spectators hailed him with loud excla
mations, and when ho talked business
to a lot of disabled base-ball catchers,
whom ho called senators, the audience
shouted with joy. The efforts of logo
to convince Othello that his twilight
colored bride had shaken him for ono
Cassio were watched with intense in
terest, and when Othello's counte
nance was distorted with a "fright
ful, fearful frantic frown," and his
voice fell all the way downstairs from
high C to D flat below tho bass cleil,
every one knew that thero was a good
stout rod in pickle for logo, and
cheered Othello to the echo. Subse
quently when Othello seized Iago by
his little pigtail and drew his snicker
snee, while Iago flopped down iipontho
unyielding pine boards and "gurgled
anil guggled," the ajiplauso roso to a
pam of wild glee.
Rut it was in the final act of the trag
edy that Othello woke up the fullest
senso of tho situation and demon
strated that he was boss in his own
house. He grabbed Desdcmona. by her
flowingswitchos and swept thesplinter.s
of the'stngo with her. He jerked 1 c
from L. U. E. to K. 1. E.. across tho
stage and down the middle, lie scat
tered the English language in about
300 parts of speech all around her,
and though she moved earnestly for
a new trial ho gave her to understand
in plain words that the jig was up and
that she hnd to seek a field of useful
ness in another and better world, llo
then proceeded to stufT a boarding
houso pillow down her throat and sit
on it, whereupon Desdemona, knowing
when she had enough of a good thine,
curled up in a heap and died. Then
Emilia, impersonated by Miss Belle
Martin, in a black dress with brass
buttons down the front, gave away
the deal which her husband had made,
and Othello awoke to a consciousness
that his friend wns a bunco steerer of
the lowest type. So ho once more drew
his snickersnee and proceeded to per
form tho difficult, not to say danger
ous, operation of self-decapitation.
The auiiienco roso and departed. Tho
spectators evidently had no great de
sire to behold any manslaughter, as
they hnd seen wonuinslaughtcr suf
ficiently widespread to last"them for
several months.
Too Stronsr a Temptation.
The postmistress of Corning, Lehigh
County, Penn., has been arrested un
der somewhat singular circumstances.
Tho people of tho neighborhood had
complained for somo timo that their
mail showed evidence of having been
tampered with, and investigation re
vealed tho fact that tho lady in chargo
of the ollico had been amusing herself
nnd adding to her stock of general in
formation by opening and reading
everybody's letters. On being taxed
with this she is said to have ac
knowledged tho truth of Mieacusation,
nt thesanio timo observing that she
did not know she was doing anything
for which she could bo punished. Dur
ing her periods of innocent law-breaking,
therefore, she must havo enjoyed
ono of the most delightful privileges
conceivablo from tho point of view of
a healthy postmistress with a natur
ally robust thirst for insight into tho
private affairs of her neighbors. That
with such a fund of knowledge at her
disposal sho did not convert tho quiet
village of Corning into a Pandemonium
such as was created by tho diabolical
ear-trumpet ot Dame Eleanor Spear
ing may bo regarded ns conclusive dem
onstration that she know how to
keep somo kinds of secrets.
In his "Historical Sketches of the
Town of Swiunpscott"Wnldo Thotim
son, of Lynn, states that about lb'Hj
John M. Ives, of Salem, received two
or three marrow squash seeds from a
negt'ess, whoso husband was a t ook
upon ono of tho merchant ships, Cap
tain Lord, from alparuiso. lie also
obtained the tomato seed in the sama
manner as "lovo npple," and, after
growing them a yoar or two back ol
bis store, be was told by usea captain
that they were eatable, and from that
time they were ned as food."