The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07
The Uastle-Ruilders of Padua.


Giulio and Ippolite were sons of a
farmer living near Padua. The old
man was of quiet and placable tenn
per. rarely suffering any mischance to
rufHe him, but, in the firm and placid
hope of the future, tranquilizing HIM
self under the evil of the present. If
blight came upon his corn one year, he
would say 'twere rare thing to have
bllghts in two successive seasons and
so he would hope that the next harvest,
In its abundance, might more than COM
pensate for the scarcity of the last.
Thus he lived from boyhood to age, and
retained In thhe features of the oh man
something Of the ightness and vfvac-
Iry u youth. His sons, however, bore
no resemblance to their father. In
stead OF laboring on the farm, tlny was
ted their time in idly wishing that for
tune had made them, in lieu of healthy
honest sons of farmer, the children
OF some rich magniico, that so they
might have passed their days in all the
sports of the times, in iousting, hunt
ing and in study ing the fashions of brave
apparel. They were of a humor at once
1mpetuous and sulky, and would either
oily nope about the farm, or violently
abuse and illtreat whomsoeyer accident
might throw in their way. The old
man was inly grieved at the wilfulness
and disobedience of his sons, but, with
his usual disposition, hoped that time
might remedy the evil !; and so, but
rarely reproving them, they were LEFT
sole masters of their hours and actions
One night, after supper, the brothers
walked into the garden to give loose their
idle fancies, always yeerning after mat
ters visionary and improbable. 1t was
a glorious night, the moon was at the
full, and myriads of stars glowed in
the deep blue armament The air stir
ed among the trees and flowers
Waiting abroad their sweetness; the
dew glittered on the leaves, and a
deepvoiced nightingale, perched in
a citron tree, poured fourth torrent
of song upon the air. 1t was an hour
for good thoughts and holy aspirations.
Giulio threw himself upon a bank, and,
after gazing with intentness at the sky
exclaimed
Would that I had fields ample as the
heaven above usi"
3" 1 would" rejoined Ippolito, al had
as many sheep as there are stars"
''And what" asked Giulio, with sar-
castle smile, I" would your wisdom do
with them?"
marry" replied Ippolito, "I would
pasture them in your sageship's fields
"What !" exclaimed Giulio, sudden
~ rising upon his elbow, and looking
with an eye of fire upon his brother,
"whether would or not?"
"Truly, ay, said Ippolito, with a
stubborn significance of manner.
"Have a care" cried Giulio, " have
a care, Ippolito do not thwart me.
Am not your elder brother p
eyes; and marry, what of that
Though you came first into the world,
I trow you left some manhood for him
who followed after"
"You do not mean to insist that, de-
spite my will, despite the determination
of your elder brother, you will pasture
your sheep in my grounds p
" In truth, but do"
cheek flushing, and his lips tremulous,
" and that without fee or recompense %
Assuredly."
Giulio leaped to his feet, and, dash
ing his clenched hand against a tree,
voice made terrible by rage, he scream
Virgin you do not !
"And by st. Ursula and her eleven !
thousand virgins, / protest I will"
This was uttered by Ippolito in tone
of banter and bravado that for a mo-
ment made the excited frame of Giulio
culver from head to foot. He gazed at |
the features of Ippolito, all drawn into |
a sneer, and for moment CRASHED his |
II oo1,S 4la
scoffer, when, by an apparently strong
effort, he arrested himself, and, turn |
ing upon his heel, struck hastily down /
another path, where he might be seen
pacing with short, quick steps, while |
Ippolito, leaning against a tree, careless
" sang a few lines of a serenata. This |
was too much for Giulio /;
he stopped short, turned and then rapid |
" came up to Ippolito, and, with a man
ner of attempted tranquility, said,
H." Ippolito, L do not wish to quarrel |
with you; am your elder brother
then give up the point.
"Not I" replied IppolitO, with the |
same immovable smile.
what, then, you are determined
that your sheep shall, in very despite
of me, pasture in my fields ?"
"They shall"
civilian raved Giulio, and ere the
word was well uttered he had dashed
his clenched hand in his brothers face.
IppOlitO sprang like a wild beast at
GiuliO, and for some moments they
stood with hand at each others throat
and their eyes, in the words of the
were "whetted" on one anoth-
er, They stood but to gain breath,
then grappled closer. IppOlito threw
his brother to the earth, budding his
knees upon him furious blows we're ex-
but scarce a sound was ut
tered, save at intervals blasphemous
oath or a haf-strangled groan. GiuliO
was completely overpowered by the SUI
DeriOr strength and cooler temper of his
brother but lying PROSTATE and con-
luered, his hands pinioned his breast,
and IppolitO glaring at him with mali
,iOus triumph, he cursed and spat at
MIN. Ippolito removed his hand from
MS brothers throat, and, ere his pulse
could beat, Giulio's poniard was in his
brothers. heart. He gave loud shrek,
md fell a streaming corpse upon his
murderer The father, aroused by the
sound, came hurrying to the garden
fiuliO, leaping from under the dead
body, rushed by the old man, who was
Ill too speedily bending over his dead
,hild. From that hour hope and tran
utility forsook the father; he became e
! brainsick, querulous creature, and
II few months died almost an idiot.
fiuio joined party of robbers, and,
.fter brief but dark career of crime,
vas shot by the spirri.
Ye who would build castles in the
ir-who would slay your hours with
oolish and improbable longings-pon- 8
Ter on the visionary fields, the idle ,
heep of Giulio and Ippolito. Doug :
as JeTrOLd. ,
A PUzzLE.-A couple of scientific ,
7renchmen (of course , have been pos
ng themselves and each other with the
question as to where a man who,
travelling west from any place at the !