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A STORY OF ANCIENT ROME.

CHAPTER X. A terror, reigned of Bilamu whan night approached and the fair Claudia had not mined. Hilanna wan abaent i ■p of the legion of which bo

bonae of Antonia, when be waainform, that the lady, with her aitendanta, had darted for the city long before nightfall. When the aerrant returned with

information a diapatohed in

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STEREOSCOPES AND VIEWS,

n that the aboent imp of her father.

with a petty of of hia legion on their way to Rome. In few worda the moaaege oi the aermt wm, giren. When Silanne became awmrr of ita full import, ho plnngod hie epora into the ‘of the noblepnimal npon whiuh he shunted and rode forward like tin. wind toward the city. Reaching the tatee the d. lay of opening them aee > him interminable, bat when onoe •nre pneeed he again rode fleroriy iard until ho n-ached the courtrard of i« palace on the Palatine bill Is the hall of the paiaea were the lady Acelia and Oaina Oeaar, awaiting Ui arriral, and as be entered they looked

aa following him. - Olandia ha, not retorned dried the lady AaeUa. ita not lean hex," replied the

'' No,'' aaid the lady, » she a her bande and tamed away to hide the rushed orer her pale cheeks. A dark frown had gathered npon the row of Oaii ~ turned and asked hia opinion of the

tween the two for a moment, whan they ■tarted in fall panraR of the party the tribune. And they in tom were ft lowed by Elydon. They reached tl gmtee before the whole party of horaowith them paaeed thn Elydon, keeping close to the wall passed the gate, aaw the two alamo of 8eagain in consnltatlon, when of them mored awayswiftly on the track o horsemen, while Cyra, me letauely turned off in the opposite di-

ahS Ult.r job hare we in hand out in the country I Doth acme lore charm draw thee 1 For of something better to do I moot atUl follow thee.” liiing the oction to the thought, Elydon followed the retreating form of Cyme silently, stealthily, nntii, footsore and wmry, they reoebod the Tilla-costle if Sojann,, and Oyrua, making eome lignal at the heavy portal, it opened a u.I closed behind him, leaving Elydon aUrwonder and chagrin that he far to aooompliah ao little. But a, he gaaed npon the portal where thought like a revelatiou occurred to by following the slave of Be janna it was possible be had followed Oantionaly

of Be Janna, and ia ’ a prisoner in hia peiaoe." Now, uy the god.- I" cried .the tri- *. "if such pram to be the fact, though enrronnded by the whole remp of hia pratorisae. I swear that my swnad .haU reach the heart of the baas fynat.''

’ b ^n b *^. , th* i0lli, ‘^r ! “' U * h * I b®' hy afle vanta. and wiSn™ hour Trfi^ tSdW taeS°rt tL* T , t ° 18 0p0n a^beycadiaj pom. lord ihaunkaof thomrobh-alhavamen- aia. and bring ha

her ton boose then beet celled mine, to be her keo,«r I"

erect seA with a gliding m followed is hia footsteps, behind the spy ea keeping near the object of its espial, and aometiffl when the spy moved as eloao np with the yonng Oeaar the faithful Elydon was almost thrown off hia guard in hia haate to move forward; as he followed in the footetepe of the spy. What If the intention of the wretch And the faithful for a long knife that was girdle, and ao adjaatad it that it ooold be drawn forth with tl slightest effort. Theakywas coven with a light base, through whiuh be Ihera a single star might bo aee he moon had not. yet risen. Aa moved along they occasionally came to a place where the shadows lying deeper, and at these places Elydon instinctively grasped the 1 knife and with half drawn ad for the dreaded attack which be feared, nntii at last

Elydon bad baited in the dark shado of a baHdiog when ho saw his master i safety, hia eyes a till fixed npon the ap;

la, then, thou beat met thy

policy.” "And dareet then, .Aelxn' Hej thus vaunt thy vile poHey wit he breath in which them hast d red my 1 No; sooner wools I. to that poverty from which thy bounty OBsd m than eamat with one though; a or sot, thy viUi purpose. Hear me, Sejanua; them itiou will dr _ thee ; bat e single unguarded step, and thou art lost. Through the dim abodewa the dreed future I reo a dark arising wh o hidden thunder wil _ the yawning abyss where the dweller, "of Hades wander in eternal Oh, ojanna I son of that sister whom I ao dearly loved, who hath bee hard to ethora and > hath been ev~r gentle, wilt thou

the

from

! the

ailonl dead ? Woo to thee il i to the innocent maiden now in ils; woe to thee, whim an outraged people and a jealous master turn upon rind to mo. I have loved thee, fer

irow open the casement. Hie cool ight wind blew npon hia fevered brow, bo gaaed out into tho darkness, but yet iw nothing, for hia eyes were tur inwardly as he sewght through the to safety. No, no,”he whispered, “I wm yield the maiden to them; they can trace her to thu place, and my good Ghiretta mnat remain her toper,

the light, he gently ported the leaves, and thare right before him, within twenty yards, stood Oyrua, the slave, and

CHAPTER XL

With a alow and hesitating atop Dame

o the bright elyainm to

le tall, spare ona of the woman led to grow taller and the fora, to e, aa with hands outstretched and a

indued with the spirit of prophecy. Bejanna trembled aa he listened, and hia fade became pale aa die face of tho deed; and when her voice ceased, it was to answer her. " Ghinna," eaid he, and hia voice htiil trembled from the emotion bo had felt; ''Qhinna, thou bast magnified tho importance of tho act for wbiob thou dost condemn me. What vronldat thou have

" Open wide the door and “And acknowledge I dared i

bid tl

her I"

Oh, pride of human heart I Dare 1 Thou should,! not dare do wrong, but the right for it ia an attribute of tho “I wm reflect, and to-morrow perhaps wm do aa thou deal root me."

Ind ho turned away fyom her with n omy brow, while she slowly loft the apartment

Elydon glided swiftly down the bun at the tree. When he had reached tt ground be stood a (aw ra

bear. He remembered a friend, a poor fanner, of whom be might obtain a he thought of (he sad

stable of his master for the expedition. Moving forward swiftly, when he bad eome to this conClarion, he eooo reached the gates, • he inquired whether the party of ibuno had returned, and was and in the negative. When he appeared at the gatee the gray dawn was breaking along east, and, aa be started

wind be progteeeed i Daylight soon spreat

d ha ooold see the tracks of the party horsemen, whose steeds had tom up tho earth ae they had moved on at full speed. Elydon followed the tracks '* he earns to tho camp of the Tenth legion, the troops of the tribune, wnore they had halted but a few moments. itaohmente of soldiers ware patrolling o country, and as ho approached the mp, a email party of horsemen were oving out of it, who halted aa ho "From whence oomest thonf”

I had thought I would si

le tribune. " What aayaat thou, "Theact would bo unlawful, and if our dear Olandia be not found there, it being, aa it seems, the bonae of the mlalatsT of the emperor, oompUeatioos, if not eriminationa, might

table, if not

with Elydon for a few hours longer, and if he should ascertain for a fact 'a** our lost one ia oonfined there, I will assist to poll down the lari stone of the structure but we find her.” “ So bo it," replied the tribune, but in a lower tone, accompanied by a deep mid ; "Alas! my poor child,to what aad fate art thon doomed t" They had reached tho camp of the legion of the tribune and had’halted for a few momentato dispose of tho prisoner, when Elydon, who was looking upon the

.for the following story supposed to illoalrate life in the great divorce city. The TWhune says: ♦ Poor gentlemen eat in the breakftet »om of the Grand Pacific Hotel. All ere reading the morning papers, when suddenly one broke the silence with the

' "By Jove I abe'a divorced Noticing that kin words had the attention of hia compan-

ions, he apologised and explained that he had boon somewhat surprised .to aee the divorce of hia quondam wife chronicled in the legal intelligeneo. " She id I parted.” be aaid, in a dreamy, reospeetivo manner, " in August, 187U, id two montha afterward she married np in Peoria a fellow named Tompkins. ” Tompkins t" mid the second gentle isn. with a sudden interest; " Tompkins, Peoria, Oetober, 1872. Was her

vant whom he believed was a spy or traitor. Aa they approached the city gates he notioed that the servant on

had rested gave

quick and furtive contrived to fall bode to , party, and at last diamoui

of his ao

arof the

penda on the incarceration of Yno in this place, and ahe will snbmit.' Turning irom the window, he walked i the door of his apartment and looked

Oyrua and Barban hither," he

faithfully in

many thing*," mid Sejanua to them, id hast deserved at my bends thy freedom; but I ooold not give it to thee, leak thou should*! desert my aervioe. Now, I onoe more teat thy fidelity. The thon didst long ago nelao and aHv to escape from thesis again in ny power and lodged la tUaboaae. She proem to be of higher tank thin I had r, and it ia iw pessary that the

should be

price. Should an a ' fir, ascertain M pomibla il l follow it Rave thy hone at ac <* without tho gates to be ui m be need of it Begone I A i true and faithful expert tl

of robbers who

" I. seek tho party of tho tribune " What news bringert thon I" “That which willrauae tho retora of

10 party at onoe to Borne.”

“Forward, then; we ride with thee." And the party rode swiftly onward toward tho cart, where eome heavily wooded hills arose darkly in tho morning light Tho lew peeaants they eaw had hoard the party of horsemen pane the ms night, bnt none had seen them, aerly an honr they rode on, guided i fresh tracks of tho party they in pnranit of, when they met a peasant who said a party of horsemen 1 (Jowly passed him within a hall | rr.' Tl»' horeea of the tribune's party I re evidently jaded, and the soldiers h Elydon bod not ridden far before - y came in eight of the tribune and servant* halted npon a hillside. Aa \ Elydon and thu aoldiers rode up to thorn ; saw the tribune waa questioning a , lant who stood facing him, with his ' n k toward Elydon. s " Wbqn waa this," he heard the tri- f '• And thou aayert the party attacked •'

and carried away captive waa a lady and ' 11 two attendant*I" 11

“Aye, and tho lady rode a dappled

horse of groat beauty."

"And what course did they take when they had accomplished their pur"They rode in the direction of tho Sabine bills and seemed to be in baste." “ Did they seem lo notice thee?" " No ; I halted, for what rooM ono man do against twenty armed men.” " Did they nae the lady roughly 1" " No, in all gentleness it aeemed to me. ono of the robbers simply grasping the bridle of her horse and leading

da receding companions. Elydon sud- .) donly wheeled his horse and rode down j upon this man and cried : " Yield thee.

way around, and as ho canfe down npon his forward feet he lashed out with hia hind feet so viciously that for a moment there was a wide space between the man and Elydon, and tho next moment he sprang from tho ground into his sad*

Il Here IntemM.

limpid, bine eyes, and always had a roll-ing-pin under her pillow on the nights the lodge met?" '■ The name, stranger, the same. Shako, old pard,” eaid thefirst speaker, "and how was abet" "She was all my fancy painted her," replied the second. •• But I had a rival in a stove lifter, for which she had too ranch affection, and in January, 1875, the courts of Lafayette, Indiana, diasolved the bonds between ns. I believe she married again—some rooster called

Green, I heard."

“lam the rooster called Green, and am glad to make your acquaintance. Gentlemen, I know your wife won for over a year, aad, barring her vivacity with toasting forks and long handled fryingpans, a better wife I never had. " vo ported last December, as soon onld get out of the doctor's hands with a fracture of tho skull (in oonji

a boot-

i with a

ting up to light the lire—el jack), and I thought tho (act had been previously announced. ' aaid tho first speaker, "your , my companion in divorce, is

Green; tho last time she was divorced it

from Hr own." "Brown! Brown 1" Mr. Tompkins, reflectively; " there ono fellow nsmod Brown used to

j drink after breakfast, but this ia i \ cud OOOOKOU, and wo may, mayn't So they aU went out to the barrooo

is gen- c

a fisherman caught

It is the sagacious remark of a keen observer that yon eon generally toll u newly married couple at the dinner table by the indignation of tho groom when a fly alights on tho bride's butter. Bartholomew Shugroo waa an unman. in tho Norwich

The dty of Ouster, in tho Black Hills, « celebrated its first funeral and begun ita first graveyard. In the whole city only one Bible waa found. It belonged to a girl, daughter of one of the miners. The manager of a co-operative bank in England has been sent to Newgate to await his trial for obtaining money and seenriUea under false proteases end with intent to dofread from the trustees

" | treat. I have just b

i divorced.

cried Elydon, who had dlamounted and ooming np behind the peasant reaped him by the throat. There fleroo struggle for a few momenta between the two, and then the peasant waa hurled to the earth and pinned there by the knee of the freedman. "Bring oordafor the traitor,"cried Elydoii. aa he still straggled with hia prostrate foe. a few momenta thp peasant waa I by a oord pairing around hia waist, and at the elbows, binding hia arms behind his book, while the tribune and Gains Oeaar stood looking on wiln

"Elydon," said the tribune, "dost thou know this man I” " Aye, aa one of the moot arrant knaves Borne. It la Cyras, the slave of " Didst thou hear the story he told P " Aye, and every word waa false." "Dart' thou bring tidings of my

aaid the tribune, as the party of hcreemen moved forward, leave ingOaluaCeearand the tribune, with Elydon riding between them, in the rear. Now, we will beer thy report.” And in ae few worda as posable Elyon told what he had Bear and beard at the villa whither he had followed Oyrua,

ie slave.

" Dost thou think," asked the tribune, that Claudia i ei this suburban villa of Sejanua I" ahe ia in the power of 8eto the place

lame is Brown, and I'm going t

tho house."

solemnly, exchanging three looks I ot intelligence among themseivea, when y of 'the mombera of the temper- , » weak-eyed young man walked in dilubn joined under tho preasuro of | agonally and said : " Seo boro, yon fob excitement, and withont much : |„ni have got to take a bottle of wine ioght. The prediction was our- with me. I'm a nowly married man; temperance wave bridegroom rejoicing to ran a race, you ibaido the pledges would bo know; have something 1" And ao ho id the rum traffic would take a wandered oa till, to got rid of him, they lease. Tho men joined at a - agreed to go up stairs to tho ladies' i they had no employment. On ' potior im j bo presented to hia newly ’ the season, the vessels were | made bride. They did so, and lo 1 and

Bean—" Shall I got my overcoat and put it on yon I" Mias Rose—" Oh, no; bnt (glancing at the dock) hadn't you

better put it on yonraelft"

When a thief enters a house in Paris and carries off all tho valuable*, along with the door knebs and blind hinges, and then returns for the clapboards and tEerart of the building, it is called steal-

ing " a fa mode Ameriqae."

There has seldom, if over, been no much unemployed labor u> the north of England an at tho present moment. There are eighteen colleries laid off in the county of Durham, and 10,000 iron workers have been idle for months. The dogs of London have oueViend, at all events. A lady of the city boa offered £500 reward for the conviction ol

" 0 are going about London

systematically poisoning dogs by throw* my jdng <!.. vp. poisoned food in the streets. *"' 1 George II. being informed that an im-

fonda; in some caeca they ooold ncoroe- j ti on was ly get trusted for a drink. ;. m., woni It was folt by all that the time of trial j marked would be whan these men returned from \ jaa- yon tho first trip and received their pay. j Tompkii

sufllricntly c an didn't faint, but simp : "Oh, Mr. Green, glad to

that they

xnna friends and foea of the fishermen watches! for. their return. Well, the vessels have oomo and gona ont again. The fares, while not largo, were enough to give each man tho mean* of breaking hia pledge “ desired. A public meeting was hold for tho reception of the men. nonneed that twenty-eight been fitted out with tempo: and that not one man of those who had retorned had f*U»n Instead of falling, they have turned miamo'nariea. Ono Frenchman, who Bailed with an unpledged and somewhat intemperate

all, to sign on their return. Two men wont to Beaton, ono pledged, the other not. The latter drank freely, and ]ort himself; but he waa oared for and well advised by hia friend, aad the other day came in alone and signed the pledge. The dty missionary of Portamonth waa

that, althongh incy were away from home, they were known as ont-and-ont temperance men. Borne members on shore, however, here fallen—thirty-two in all Bnt none of these have been entirely given up, and eome of them stand ready to return when the elnb will receive them.

The Wheat Crep.

The Toledo Blade pnblielua compredred points in Ohio, Miehigan, Indiana, and Illinoia. These indicate that the prospects of wheat in the principal, wheat producing regions of those States are unusually good. In southern and central Michigan the farmers are •anguine of having better crops than for years. Hie same ia true of the gnat wheat fields of wratora and northern mind* and northern Miaaouri. . In the rich new Unde of northwestern Ohio the prospects are not so good, aa much ol tho wheat haa been drowned onL Through central Indiana and central Illinoia a very greet deal of wheat haa been winter HIUA, and many flalda have been plowed np. A half a crop ia all that tho ra hope for. There win be a large

probably be greater than over. There ia a disposition among Michigan farmers to pknt large quantities of oats. The fruit from everywhere ia reported aa looking unnsnally well, end each locality aaomi to hope for even s moderate crop of peaches. The wot weather haa greatly retarded apring plowing.

Brown* of lafayette, Indiana 1" And Boot* and tho Health of Soldier*. Thoee admirers of tho Germans who, ainoe tho enoocesee achieved by tho Prussians in 1870-71, would hare as introduce into oar army everything Prussian, even to tho piokolhaube and long boot*, will do well, an English paper rays, to examine the medical rtaliatica recently published relative to tho Ulc wax- From these Whies, prepared with that painstaking and laborious care which ia ao marked a trait in the Ger-

io nofee bearing tho forge. 1 rq i of Victor Emanuel, which b circulated in Italy, ia the king'**

pher at the sapper

fixed a philout

rhisper, said Whil

‘owls wo hav do tell moth

Thera ia a really " noble red man " in California. A rtsge coach apact in a swollen stream, ami two peaoengers were drowned; hot tho Indian rode into the water on horseback, at a great risk, and Three swindler* confined in Newgate, London, haying complained to the lord mayor that the)*wcre underfed, tho governor of tho jail proved before the chief magistrate that the complainant* had ‘ in weight since their admin-

patting o ter fails tc

An ex alderman of Newark, N. Y., auieided himself became hia wifo worried him day and night about her dreaees or the want of them. If hia example should be generally followed, widows

nearly 40,000 men were p'ioed I “j” 11 !' ^ ^ the sick list daring the campaign, . .A Southern paper says that when the ' caused by the jtovenue detectives of Mobile boarded e

' " ' " ' etosmer direct from Onbe the other dey,

tho captain invited them below to dine, and while he wee saying a very lengthy grace, the crew pnt ashore a lot of amng-

glod'cigarn.

We continue to hear of ririprd stocking* doing harm to their wearero. Bot it isn't the stripes; it ia the poisonous material* they ore dyed with. Striped stockings are better than those that are all one color, provided the dye ia the

What la famof i barber shop, when the following oc loquy took place : Barbqr—Any now* I ~ rart i* deed, I hear. Mr. Stewart I Gent— Barber (thoughtfully) -Unesa be didn't abavo here. The rapid and emphatic recital of tho following ia said to be an inXalim* cure for lisping: Hobbs moot* Bnobbe and Nobbe; Hobbs bobs to Bnobbe end fobbe; Hobbs nobs with 'Bnobbe and robs Nobbs' fob*. " This is," Bays Nobba, "the worse for Hobbi' jobs,'

long boot* worn by tho infantry, and that in neversl case* the laceration* w of so serious a nature that tetanus, t minatifig in death, supervened. I doubtodly the ammunition boot at pr ant toned to our infantry ia by no mn a perfect clothing for the foot, and hope ere long to aee an improved [ tern introduced; bnt still it mart be ad-

eiUier the long boot of the German . the shoo of tho French soldier. Tho to mer is made to fit over the instep, a with difficulty be taken off when wet.

oo much play, wl keep ont either m

gage loot on the Ameriqae, abandoned sea. As carrier* tho company oonld not be responsible for the oonseqneaeea m event dne to the elements, like the founded on the point that the loan not dne to the elementa, and that the ship wsa not lost, os ahe was rnbae- ' ' o into an English port by British aailora. It wee, however, held by the court that the abandonment was ne< to be “ judged in the light of after hat the fert that she was

it the company la held to be responaihlB. Bnt co the principle of this judgment it would make e greet deal of difference pillaged before

Providence ia at w

yon can't r or—you ' The Liebig x

’ with hair dyo.

WJa.-IO. and it Commemorating

needed. The mode of Commemorating _ -eat abomif t haa not yet been determined, but it is thought that acbblarahipe will be founded, or a fonntain^will

in thin vicinity who inland going to the Centennial should know, if they do not already, that a large hotel, capable of aooammodating " day, is to be created in

where they will be oil