MONPAY, JANUARY 5. 1000 Sd . PIVOT VPDIOIOP Pd PIPPI ITS Bonverd il. A Legend of a Lost Kingdom, By F. A. MITCHEL Hob 00000000000 000000000 S : Since the dawn of bistory the map of been changing. Many years ago there was a nation the very docution of which has been lost," but it os wsed to have occupied a part of Au a4 and a part of northern Italy. There (8 a legend connected with this fountry which bas been handed down by word of mouth for many centuries Traces of It Lave, beén found among German speaking people and among Italisns There was a king of this country--so + the story goes--who was at continual war with a°people ving to the east of his territory, supposed to have been Blavs, whose descendants pow occupy the Balkans. He appears In differegt versions of the. tradition under differ ent names, but usually Bonverd. Thé hame of the nation Le 'governed was Thungaria, supposed by some to have ibeen the origin of Hungary While King Bonverd was hard press. od by his enemies a sou wus born to him. There, was & prophecy that the Serbs would overpower Thungaria, but that a Bonverd born at the time of the, ronquest would re-establish the king: dom and subject the conquerors. This prophecy, which reached the Serbs, filled them with a desire, should they succeed In fulfilling the first part of it, to nujlife the second part by either killing the infant who was, when grown, to work thelr destruction of make him a captive, At the birth of the helr to the throne {Bonverd Il, If he lived) his wother was unable to nurse hint, and # peasant woman who gave birth to a man child at the same time was called In toigive suckle to the prince. She was assign ed rooms In a wing of the palace and brought her own child with her. The woman, whose name was Jo- sepha, was dark and her child was of like complexion, while the heir appar ent to the throne was fair, with blue eyes. The king, when Josepha and her son, who was called Herman, were brought to the palace, called upon bis councilor to make an inspection of the twa infants in order that the peas ant boy could not be substituted for the prinde. They reported to the king thant. since one was light and the oth er dark, any one who Bad seen them, knowing which was the prince, would always be ab' wto judge correctly he tween the two. This satisfied the king, and he wade no objection to Josepha ving bur own son with her. - Mengwhile she Serbs were slowly approaching the capital of Thungaria, their king. Boris. being a great general und matchéd against 4 commander who was his {fferior, for King Bon: verd , was. not a warrior and was obliged to yield. the command of his troops to another. This man risked all on one battle and was defeated, and the whole of Thungaria was open to the eneiy, who bad advanced rapidly on the capital' Indeed, they came as fust as the news that they were com- Ing. One morning Josepha heard a din below and, looking through a window, saw the street filed with the enemy's troops. The pribce was asleep in L's crudle, covered with drapery of the finest texture and bearing the royal arms, : Joseplia's own son was in his own cradle, made of vak and unadorned Hearing a noise in the corridor and believing 'that the Serbs bad broken lato the palace and would murder the prinee, she Jaid Him in ber son's cra- dle and put her son in the place of | the prince. Then, passionately em: bracing ber offspring, she went into | an adjoining room that sbe wight not see him killed. She had searcelyidoné so when the | Busery bor was thrown open and armed men entered. In a few minutes they were gone, and Josepha went back, expecting to. see the body of her murdered son. The cradle was empty, | and the prince was lying where she bad placed bim in the onken cradle. King Bonverd was killed fighting at the Deal of Lis bodyguard, and all his Courtiers who oatlived the taking of the city were scattered. Josepha, car rying the prince, Who Wap supposed to * be her child, escaped from the palace and made tier way to her home in the , country. She dared not let it be known that the babe was beir to the throne of Thungaria lest the fact reach the conquering king and he should be kill od. She therefore kept her secret. Twenty years passed. Thungaria was 8 provide of the kingdom of Boris. Roverngd by a viceroy, Bonverd was brought up by his foster mother ander the name of Joseph Rernsteln and "unlike nis father, mapifested a predis- position for a military life. At an eariy age be enlisted in the army of King Borls in o corps stationed 'in Thungaria. Helng a fine soidier, he! | was rapidly promoted dil at twenty! 'years of age be was made a cnptain. A few years later a Young man came 'to Thungaria and announced thar he was Ronverd 11, king of Thungaria He declared that when the Seis had © tunquéred ihe.conntry fie had been | taken | order of King Boris from his (Cradle In the paince and enrried to the ing, who had tured Bim over tc i t be dispatched #£urope has a tha Reid were quiet Dec, 29rd. > The officer, not relishing the work of killing an infant, bad turned him over to a co lier, who fn turn com missioned Lis to strangle him. The woman reported that she had dons 80, but instead bad-gomcealed bim and afterward brought him ap as her own child, . 4 Great changes had taken place since the conquest of Thungaria, King Boris bad died and tad been 1coeedpd by bls son, Boris IV, who was a weakling. The young claimant to the throne of Thungaria called upon his people to cise and throw off the yoke. It was-- quite likely that be would have sue ceeded in putting himself at the head | of an army at once had not several of King Bonvend's councilors, who had been commissioged to inspect the | prince and his foster' brother when | they were babes, still lived. They at once visited the claimant to the throne i and pronounced him an Impostor. . He was of dark complexion, while the true prince was fair. Joseph Bernstein was at the time ! sérving with the army and had risen to be colonel. He seldom saw his fos ter mother, and she bad never revealed to him the secret of his birth, fenring that he would attempt to lead a re voit which would surely fall. aed in stead of gaining a crown he would lose | bis head Bernstein heard of the pre | tender and espoused his cause, think- ing it better that even a false pre tender should lead the Thungarians to liberty than that they should remain Aubjects of their conqueror, A secret meeting took place between | the two men. Bernstein reported that she corps he commanded was largely composed of Thungarians and he could begin a revolt with it.* The offer was accepted, and suddenly the viceroy and all the Serb civil officers of the gov. ernment were arrested The news | spread rapidly, and the people sprang | to arms. Not only was a sovereign at | hand in the claimant, but a military chieftaln in Bernstein. The army | through a long term of years--a quar | ter of a century--hnd become largely Thungarian and only needed a leader, | Berustein' therefore found himself at | the head of an army almost immed} ately. + | But a force composed entirely of | Serbs was sent to put down the rebel lion, and many battles were fought. | At first it was a losing game for the | Thungatians, but under Hernsteln's | leadership they beld their own until, | gaining strength, they were able to | meet the enemy under more advan. tageous circumstances. Finally when | thelr general found himself in a post tion to strike he sent his adversaries | back in a rout, dictating terms of peace | In their capital which restored the in- | dependence of Thungaria. i When - Bernstein returned with this | treaty at the bend of a victorious | army one of the first persons he met | standing at the foot of the steps lead- | Ing up to the palace, where he was | golng to report to the pretender, was | hig fostér mother. { "Hall King Bonverd!" kneeling before him. | "What do you mean, mother? he | asked. : ! Before the throng that were crowd. ing upon the young victor she told the i Story of how she had been bis nurse, how she bad put her own son in his place when the Serbs broke into the palace and how she had taken him | Away and brought him up as ber own | son. i At that moment an old man who had | been a member of King Benverd's | cabinet came forward to congratulate | the man who had freed his country, | i i oi 80 wile she sald, | arriving in time to bear Josepha's | story. He remembered Josepha and, looking fron her to the man she had | saluted as king, dropped upon one i knee and kissed his soverelgn's hand. | The crowd recognizing in the old man | oue prominent as a minister of their | Inst 'sovereign, rent the alr with loud | huzzas for Klug Bonverd 11. ! The eldmant, as became a sovereign, | was walting in the palace to receive | the homuge of bis genertl, when, hear tug the shouts, be directed an attendant | fo go and learn what. they meant. The | man returneq and sald: | "Please, your majesty, they have ac | claimed General Bernstein king." ! The pretender, rising from his seat, burried ott and appeared with cloud. ed brow before the king and the group about nim. Josepha threw her arms | around the pretender's neck, exclaim. ing: { "My son, my son: I believed they had killed you! Happy day that both | my children are restored to me! Salute your king!" The proof that the blue eyed general | Was king of Thungaria was so com- plete that he who had belfeved him. self king was convinced and gave his adhesion to the true sovereign. King Bonverd made bim bis prime minister and treated him as a brother. As for Josepha, the king had always. that she was his mother and loved her' #8 such. He insisted that she occupy quarters at the pniace and be treated with the respect due a queen dowager, When the Serbs heard the story of | how their late king had falled In his attempt to thwart a prophecy It be- | (ame a oniversal opinion that what fate had decreed it is useless to op | pose. . \ WR They were very much dissatisfied with their own king, and when later Ring Booverd, rielding to bis sob. ° Jects' clamor for revenge at thelr long | subjection, marched at the head of' fn'army to their country they declined | to. make any opposition. For hed not It been foretold that be would conquer bia father's conquerors? So Bonverd | of their A quiet wedding took place at honie of Mr. and Mrs. Chas, atu : Toronto, on Dec. 17th, when their second daughter, Henrietta Louisa, united i marriage to the eldest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Archer, Wellington. 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