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• •- «. V ' " " AinMiii h Scourge dfDdLm&scus SYLVANUB COBB. JR. CHAPTER II. ' - The Terrible Julian. • / tin fear and trembling eat Win. ; awaiting the coming of the terrible Half an hour passed, and she not been troubled; but during that she had witnessed transactions which were not calculated to allay her fears. She had seen over fifty of the Icing's guards bound and led away, and •he saw that a number of the robbers bad been placed on guard at the en­ trance of the rocky passage. They were wild, savage looking men, ap- g^earing to her fear-wrought vision, |Jilkc the evil spirits she had heard her i - Old black nurse tell about. At length tli« sound of feet wag !":i $ beard near at hand, and very shortly . the door of the apartment was opened, ftnd a black slave entered. It Woman, and one of those ,V. : )|ing had left. . "Good lady," she said, trembling as spoke, "the hour of doom has •oine. I am a slave to a new master, and that master has sent me to tell that he wishes to see you." "Who is he?" asked Ulln. M "I don't know, but I think he Is Ju- Ban, the Scourge. His look is terrible.. Wpon his brow sits the thundercloud, •nd in his eye flashes the forked light­ ing!" " " " "XL 1 kir, "He said so." **I have no power to prevent him. Tell him I am weak and defenceless, and at his mercy." The slave bowed and withdrew, and In a little while some one else came. A heavy footfall sounded without, and flte door was slowly and carefully •pened. But, who is this? What spirit has f6X. thus appeared in the palace! A man bad entered the chamber alone. He Was youthful--not more than three or iour-and-twenty--with kindly look, ftnd of noble bearing. He was not larger of frame than common men; but the perfect symmetry of form, the exact correspondence of all the parts; the delicate rounding of the graceful futline, and the filling up of all joints where sources of strength could %e deposited, gave token of a power Which might lead the careless observer lo pronounce him a giant. He gazed upon the beautiful maiden isr some moments without speaking, Seeming to drink in a new inspiration |rom her loveliness, as the student of ; nature does when some new and un- #*pected scene of grandeur bursts upon %ls vision. "Fair lady/' he said in softest tones, ••permit me to hope that this intrusion ftnay be pardoned. I would not give ^ou pain, and if you have been alarm- ad, be assured that you have cause Isr it no more. Tell me how I may serve you." T He approached her as he spoke, and ifce, without hardly realizing what she did, arose and gave him her hand. If j tie had gazed upon her with admira­ tion, her own feelings had not been en­ tirely different. Her woman's in- jstinct told her that here was a man whom she could trust; and her wo­ man's heart beat with an emotion en­ ter el y new and strange. "Noble sir," she said, meeting his gaze with the strength of perfect '^trustfulness, "Heaven has sent you to nave me from the dread man who has wade his way to this place. If you bave the power to do it, you will lead me to bless you forevermore." 'Of what man do you speak?" asked the stranger, still holding her hands. "I speak of him who is known as the % Scourge of Damascus--of the terrible iulian." The man was silent for a few mo- ttents, but he did not withdraw his Caze from the maiden's face. "Sweet lady," he at length said, spe.iking very lowly and tenderly, "I am informed that the king of Damas­ cus has sent you hither to keep you safely until he can make you his wife." "He hath done so, sir." "And yet it seems that he did not so wisely, after all. Would i you wish to be carried to the king?" "No, no, sir--not to the king. I would be carried to my father." | ! There could be no mistaking the character of the emotions under which > j the princess spoke. With all the king's . power her hope was not in him. The ^ stranger marked the changes of her countenance; and, while a warmer light shone in his handsome eyes, he resumed-- "I cannot say when you shall be re­ turned to your father; but I can give you my solemn assurance that I can protect you. I will protect you froih the hands of those whom you have ?use to fear; and, at the same time, will regard you as a sacred trust, to be respected and purely cherished. And now, lady, have I your confi­ dence?" He let go her hands, held until now. and when he had taken a seat not far from her, he continued: "Lady Ulln, you have spoken of Ju­ lian, and I sea that you fear him. Did you ever see him?" IJlin shuddered as she answered in the negative. "Did you ever hear hl« story?" "No, sir. Albla has told me some­ thing, but not much." "I can tell you the Whole, if you would hear it." "I should like to hear it, fair sir." "Believe me, lady, when you have beard what I shall tell you, you will not regard Julian with fo much of ab­ horrence. But ot one thing I give you warning: In telling the story of Ju­ lian I must speak harsh words against your affianced husband." "My--affianced--husband?'* repeat«{(l Ulln, with a troubled pause between her words. "I mean Horam, King of Damas- S«s," said the stranger, regarding the beautiful maiden as though he read her every thought. "I am not keeper over the character 9t Horam. The truth, spoken hi a true •aose, will not offend me." "Then, lady, let me first assure yon that Julian Is not the monster your fears have painted. He has never done wrong to any, save the powerful of Damascus. Go to the forests and mountains of Lebanon, and you shall find a thousand poor peasants whose families he has befriended. He has taken gold and jewels, and precious stuffs of silk and linen, from the stores of Horam; but he hath not made him­ self rich therefrom. He and his fol­ lowers have lived, and beyond this the booty has been bestowed upon the poor and needy. Julian hath also waylaid and broken up caravans; and turned back many expeditions which the,.king had sent out. He may be just what hath been said--he may be the Scourge of Damascus, but he has no wish to trouble honest men. His aim has been, vengeance upon the king." "And why should he seek such ven­ geance upon the king?" asked Ulln. "I will tell you, lady. But for the king of Damascus Julian might be now one of the most free and happy men living; but as it is, he is a stranger and an outcast upon the face of the earth. He is a wanderer, without a home, and with only such friends as are bound to him in his adventurous and danger­ ous course. Once many years ago--he had parents and the prospect of life was bright before him; but in an un­ happy hour the gloom and the dark­ ness came. Horam, in wicked, jealous wrath, swept away all that was bright and promising from the path of Julian and shut out the star of hope forever. O, sweet lady, I dare not pain your ear with all that Horam did. Were I to tell you all, you would regard the king as such a monster that your heart would close against him, and your very soul would shrink at the sound of his name. As true as the heavens are above us, so true is it that the heart of Julian is not evil. When he looks back upon the utter desola­ tion of his young life, and realizes that1: the ^king of Damascus malignantly and cruelly brought the curse upon him can you wonder that his soul is fraught Vlth vengeance^" .. v "I never heard this story before," said Ulln, her voice trembling with deep emotion. "If it is true, as you have told me, I cannot blame Julian so much." , "And yet you fear him, lady?" "I cannot help it. He hath come hither in battle array, and mad* war against me." «. "Nay, nay, sweet lady. ' You do much mistake his intent. I can tell you why he came hither. He heard from a mes­ senger whom he met upon the plains of Marthal, that a fair damsel was shut up here--a maiden whom the king in­ tended to marry. It might have pleas­ ed him to deprive Horam of a wife; but i|T))leased him more to release a against the king." "Then you should have asked mo no question touching his character. I, would rather talk of this man who has just left, us. I, who am only a poor slave, could love such a man." Ulln lifted her hand to her heart, and pressed it there as though some new fueling had crept in to worry her, and, as she sat thus, one of her black slaves came In to see if she would like her supper. "Not now, Calypso," said the prin­ cess, starting up. "You may bring me some grapes, and a few dates. But first, tell me what these strange men are doing. How many of there herte?" "Not more than a score of in the palace, my mistress, but there are thousands of them outside of the valley." Ulln had no disposition to argue the point; so she asked what the robbers were doing. ** "Albia," said the princess, after the black slave had gone, "I do not believe that Julian is such a terrible looking man, after all. What do you think?" , "I think," replied Albla, "that peo­ ple have described him who never saw him, and that their fear-fraught imag­ inations drew the picture." "So I think," returned Ulin. She gazed a few moments upon that old vacant spot, and then added: "I sha.ll see him on the morrow, and I must say that the thought is not frightful. I feel assured that he "ret," ventured Albia, "It Is a curi­ ous whim which should lead him to seek to release you from the hands of the king. But I don't know as we can wonder at it. Perhaps he thought you were some friendless girl who did not The princess motioned for her com­ panion to stop. "We will not talk of the, king, Al­ bia; and, touching thiB Julian, we shall know more when we see him." i (To be continued.) gentle lady from such enslavement. He knows what the king of Damascus has, ere this, done unto his wives. He has heard that the dark waters of the Pharpor are but a short span from the royal bed. And hence he came to set free one whom he feared might, meet a worse fate than the encounter­ ing of the Scourge of Damascus. Did he commit a grievous sin in this, lady?" "Indeed, sir, I know not what to say." "Will you not see Julialn? Do not shudder. I assure you that he will be most gentle in his bearing. But I know he would like to speak with you --he would hear from your own lips that you do not think him a monster; and he would also know your pleas­ ure." "When will he come?" , "Let it toe tomorrow morning, lady. It is near evening now, and your rest shall not be disturbed. You may sleep as safely tonight as ever you slept upon your mother's bosom, and so shall you be safe while I am near you. You will see Julian in the morning?" "You will come with him?" "If you wish it, lady." "I do wish it, for I feel that I am acquainted with you; and, further­ more, I have said that I would trust you." "It shall be so." And thus speaking the visitor arose, and moved towards the door. He turn­ ed, with his hand upon the latch, and added: "I trust that your dreams may be sweet and pleasant If dark phantoms come to your pillow they shall not be of Julian. There is another whom you have more cause to dread--one who, in hard and hoary age would feast upon the charms of your loveliness. Par­ don me, for I go with a blessing breathed upon thee." In a moment more the man was gone, and the door was closed behind him. Ulin gazed vacantly upon the spot where he had stood, until she felt a hand upon her shoulder. She started, and looked up; and it was only Albia. "My dear mistress, is not ibis a strange adventure?" "Very strange," replied the princess, casting her eyes to the. floor, and then slowly raising them to that vacant spot. "What do you think of the strange man?" the slave girl pursued, sitting down by her lady's side. "What do you think of him?" said Ulin. "I think he is very handsome. He is the most noble looking man I ever saw." Ulin showed by her look that she was grateful for this answer. It pleas­ ed her, though' she may not have known it. "Such a man could not be a bad man," she Baid. "Deception cannot dwell in such a face." "I should think not," returned Albia, to whom the remarks had been put in the form of questions. "And what do you think of the story he told concerning the robber Julian?" "I think he told us the truth, my lady. As he went on with '.he tale, I remembered that I had heard it just so before. He told us the truth. "Then the king must be a hard, tad man, Albia?" "I must not answer you lady. The COURTSHIP ENDfttfc The lbrrlai* of • Coaple Stop* Goealp In tb« Eut The end of the troubles of Miss Jennie Howell of Scranton, Pa., and Edward B. Dean of Hackensack, N. J., came when they were married. The courtship of Mr. Dean and Miss Howell was attended by unusual difficulties. The young couple met at Atlantic City last summer and were mutually at­ tracted. Miss Dean was a woman of 31, and an invalid. Mr. Dean was a widower of 48, and each was well situ­ ated with regard to worldly goods. Mr. Dean frequently visited Miss How­ ell in Scranton, and a story was^eoon circulated that they were engaged. This was violently opposed by Miss Howell's brother, Franklin Howell, who instituted proceedings to have her declared a lunatic. How these pro­ ceedings finally collapsed in the face of the testimony of expert physicians from Philadelphia was told in the pa­ pers a short time ago. In answering the questions-of the marriage license docket in court, Mr. Dean had placed ( on the records mention of the fact that he was divorced from his first wife in Cameron county in December, 1879, and his second wife died on March 17, 1800. i iiiitijjrtyjiiljli • How to Become Wealthy. • In a New Hampsihre city there dwells an octogenarian physician who, in addition to his wide medical skill, is known far and wide as a dispenser of blunt philosophy. The other day a young man of his acquaintance called at his office. "I have not come for pills this time, doctor," said the visitor, "but for advice. You have lived many years in this world of toil and trouble and have had much experience. I am young and I w^nt you to tell me how to get rich." The aged practitioner gazed through his glasses at the young man and in a deliberate tone, said: "Yes, I can tell you. You are young and can accomplish your object If you will. Your plan is this: First, be industri­ ous and economical. Save as much as possible and spend as little. Pile up the dollars and put them at interest. If you follow out these Instructions by the time you reach my age you'll be ss rich as Croesus and as mean as h--1."-- Buffalo Commercial. were ordered from Puget Sound to San ©iego last week from which the former will sail for Panama, where disturbances of a serious nature have been taking place. The invasion in Venezuela by so-called Colombian' troops mky bring about an Interna­ tional crisis. It Is believed in Vene­ zuela that the troops are not being paid by ti e Colombian Republic at British Guiana and Honduras who are paid by those governments. It is evident that some such belief also prevails in the State department at Washington, otherwise the two great­ est fighting machines In our navy would not be ordered to be in readi- ln an ordinary include the Ranger, which has a main battery of six 4-inch rapid-fire guns and a secondary battery of four •- pounders, and a Colt gun. She has a complement of 21 officers and 127 men and is in command of Commander Wells L. Field. She is now at Pana­ ma. The Machias has by this time arrived at Colon on the Atlantic aide. •* •" "I ' l lT! ! jm I g i J I l l i f t .M. WISCONSIN. TM® IOWA "Boston Murder Mystery. Malta for the Spheres. Dr. Joachim, the eminent violinist and probably the greatest performer of his time, was In Leipsig when a boy of 14. He was living in Mendelssohn's house and often used to visit Schu­ mann. One evening when the three musicians were sitting in the garden the stars were shining brightly. Young Joachim was next to Schumann, who as a rule was very solemn. Suddenly Schumann looked at Joachim, fcazing at the stars in raptures, and said: "I wonder whether there are people living up there and. whether they know that on thb earth there is a little boy who plays the violin very beautifu'ly sni gives many of us great pleasure. Are they shining down in gratitude on that little boy, I wonder?" Joachim, modest from his earliest childhood as he is now, looked delighted, but only mur­ mured: "Oh, how I should like to give them pleasure up there too." Cork Industrial Exhibition. The Cork Industrial exhibition, which is to be held next year, has not only been supported by substantial subscriptions from both Cork and Dub­ lin, but it has now been given the sup­ port of the Irish department of agri­ culture and technical Instruction, of which Mr. Horace Plunkett is presi­ dent. The department, it is an­ nounced, has allocated a sum of £5,000 for the purpose of the exhibi­ tion, subject to the general scheme be­ ing approved by the department. A portion of the sum will be devoted by the department to the organization of an exhibit of products, appliances, and processes relating to industries, which are capable of being introduced into Ireland, or when already established, or being developed. irtlough the woman whose headless body was some time ago found in the Chelmsford woods of Massachusetts has been positively identified, by a set of false teeth, as Mrs. Margaret Reilly Blondin, only^ one little part of the great murder mystery Is solved. Even the time of the murder is uncer­ tain; the place where it was done is unknown. An unbroken chain of facts point to Joseph Wilfred Blondin, the victim's husband, as the murderer, but he Is at large. All the tell-tale exhibits In this re­ markable case have now been got to­ gether by the state and aity police in Boston in the hopes of throwing some new light on the time, place and cir­ cumstances of the murder, which may lead to the solution of the mystery and the capture of the criminal. Che Moti-Oe Found. The motive for the Blondin crime is still a matter of speculation. It may have been a desire on the part of the miBerly husband to get hold of the $400 which his wife had saved before her marriage and then be rid of her. He had another wife at St. Polycarpe, Canada, a much handsomer woman than Margaret Reilly. He wanted to go back to Canada to get a position on s, St. Lawrence river steamboat, which his father had lately found for him. He would hardly have dared to take back a second wife, as he would quick­ ly have been prosecuted for bigamy. By a strange mischance the discov­ ery that the body found in the Chelms­ ford woods was that of Mrs. Blondin was not communicated to the Boston police until after it had been printed in the morning 'papers. So Blondin read of how his secret was out hours before the same papers came to the eyes of the police. He at once left Boston and took a train to New York. This is evident from the fact that next day the baggage master at Fall River received a letter from "James Marrou," New York, which read: Dear Sir: Would you please send my bicycle and my trunk to New York station; you find the check in this letter and send me check to this ad- New York. JAMBS MARROU. Chief WatM, head of the Boston De­ tective bureau, and Chief Wade of the State police had already found the trunk at Fall River to be Blondin's without a doubt. It was sent on to New York in the hopes of catching the owner when he should call to claim it. By June 13, when the trunk and letter containing checks should have arrived in New York, such a sensation had been aroused about the murder that Blondin, alias Marrou, was too wily to apply for either letter or trunk. JCnitfes Are Wood-Stained. This trunk is now in Boston at po­ lice station No. 3. When opened it was found to contain four butcher knives, stained with what is apparent­ ly human blood, though an effort had been made to wash them clean. The trunk also contains Blondin's marriage certificate to Margaret Reilly. The most careful examination of the room where the Blondins lived failed to show any trace of blood on the floor, walls or on any article. In the room. There was no evidence of any struggle, such as broken furniture. There is a theory that Blondin may have choked his wife to death and let her body lie till the blood had almost ceased to flow, then cut off the head, nut the body in the trunk and so disposed of it in the Chelmsford woods. The grips in which Mrs. Blondin's hiad and shoes are thought to have been car­ ried have already been found and are Blondin in New York city they took it up again In Canada, from where Blondin originally came. The police now announce that their man has been tracked to the wild regions in the ex­ treme northern part of the Province of Quebec. No effort will be spared to catch him. The objective point of the fugutive is said to be the town of Perce, near Cape Gaspe. From that point he easily can make his way to the French settlement of Mlquelon, where he absolutely will be safe among his old associates, the outl&w* smugglers of St. Pierre. S? '^5 The Population of Canada. • The present population of Canada is 5,400,000. There has been a gain of 600,000 in ten years. This is the same gain as that of Chicago during the last decade. Ten years ago the population of the Dominion was one-thirteenth that of the United States. It is less than one-fourteenth now. It is natural that there should be disappointment in Canada over this slow growth. There is no doubt that the ease with which land could be had in the United States for a nominal price drew many emigrants here. The Canadians have hoped that when the BLONDIN'S METHOD OF DISPOSING OF WIFE'S BODY. bfllfas a part of the state's evidence. Description of "Blondin. Blondin has such a singular look­ ing face that he should be easy to recognize anywhere. He has a strong, protruding jaw, a slight cast in the right eye; his face is slightly pock­ marked and he is very bow-legged. This latter is perhaps his most marked characteristic. Were it not for these peculiarities of face and limbs he would be hard to pick out, for he is of slightly less than medium size--five feet six inches--weighs 150 pounds and usually wears only the conventional moustache. He is 33 years of age. He has a tattoo mark of a schooner on his left forearm. He speaks with a slight French accent. The Massachusetts police announce that they are upon the trail of Blon­ din. After the police lost the clue to supply of cultivable government lands was exhausted the tide of emigration might set their way. But while this country has no longer free lands to offer, it has work to offer, usually at good wages. There are so many more opportunities to earn money here than in the Dominion that there were living in this country in 1890 nearly 1,000,- 000 men and women who were born In Canada! The census returns of na­ tivities for 1900 have not been made public yet. When they are it will be­ come apparent, no doubt, that the emi­ gration from the Dominion to the United States has not been checked. The public debt of France now reaches the stupendous figure of six thousand million dollars. It is more than twice what it was thirty years ago. The StriKe of the Steel Worker*. Ctvisted tjm British Lion's Bail. ^ The Petit Bleu of Brussels publish** an open letter from the Belgian his- torlan, Barral, to Edmond Rostrand, the author of "I/Aiglon," whicb touches on a curious point of real or alleged history. Rostand's wife is • granddaughter of Mnrnhpl who in 1832 led a French army Belgium. The object of this letter is to tain If Mine. Rostand has any papers of h©r grandfather which may throw light on the attack made by his troop* on the British Lion, which stands oft a hill at Waterloo. The French sol* diers, it seems, endeavored to over­ throw this insulting monument, and it was all that the marshal could do to prevent its destruction. th* Now M. Barral ha though the British Lion is still its tail has been sadly twisted, and be wants to know how and when. The tall, once borne proudly alofv flamboyant and aggressive, now trails as limply and tamely as that of the harmless and necessary eat. In the Brussels Museum is & cast marked "Model of the Waterloo," and this has a tail, while the iron on the battle field has a drooping one. According to M. Barral's account, the French soldiers broke off the lion's tall, which was subsequently replaced by a new one or by the old one in a new position. M. Barral has also Interrogated the proprietors of the Belgian foundry Where the lion was cast about 1830. They state that the original model had an elevated tail, and feel quite that the cast was like unto Fair T'orto *Rlcan Miss Herminla Davila of Porto Ri$* has placed a portrait of Andrew Cat*.. t ' n \ What persons are hil starts,"'fMr by nature.--Sterne. ' ^ Mri.T* AT M'KEESPORT, PA., WHERE NON-UNION WORKERS ARB PROTECTED BY A STOCKADB. HERMINIA ' negie on exhibition in the PortO Ricaa section of the Pan-American. The por­ trait is done in black ahd white silk of such minute needlework that ths effect Is similar to steel engraving. The picture presents the head and shoulders of Mr. Carnegie, and is an exact reproduction of a photograph. The frame was also designed by Miss Davila, and she has embroidered many dainty pansies in the four white ow­ ners. AL "Rooster in Harness, The Rev. Charles A. Long of the York (Pa.) German Baptist church, when not occupied with the duties of his charge, finds diversion in the rais­ ing of fancy chickens. The paito^s pretty little 6-year-old daughter is very fond of her father's chickens, and she has displayed a peculiar ingenuity in timing and teaching a number of the fowls to perform tricks. Several of them follow her where she wills and are frequently her only playmates. One handsome Black Minorca rooster, harnessed to a wagon, takes a staid old hen for a carriage ride, with little Iva manipulating the reins, as shows in the photograph. The same rooster ^several others hav|.^p.,^it ' " to play at see-saw, and they also other accomplishments. Capt. R. G. F. Candage, one of tHi; most prominent men in maritime cir­ cles in New England, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday at his home Is Brookllne, Mass., on last Monday eve­ ning. In his seafaring life Capt. Can­ dage sailed over 500,000 miles of salt water, doubling Cape Horn thirteen times both ways. Jbhn Morley, talking with a frletyt about his literary work at Hawardett, paid that his labor had been greatly lessened by Mr. Gladstone's personal •habits of order and regularity; ^Through me last sixty years of his career ne not only preserved every im­ portant letter or document that reached him, but neatly indorsed It witn his own hand and stored it away In order of date. Among the papers docketed and stored at Hawarden in order of date Mr. Morley found notes of a speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone at the Oxford union just seventy years ago. Edwin Glim, who is to build several model tenement-houses in Boston, has made a long study of social conditions in that city, where he is one of the largest real estate owners. He says ;that now a man with only $10 a mon||t- lor rent cannot possibly get there Itf place fit to live in. Marion Crawford, the novelist, M7 years old on August 2d. His first novel, "Mr. Isaacs," was publish*! about twenty years ago. 1/ ' -v 1^1