St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-30

And then her love-lit eyes grow tender,
And meath their yelling lashes say,
Come nearer, love,-and III surrender
''When gay the song comes ringing,
The song of the gypsy girl.
Mark well the look she's flinging
To help the words she's singingl
Or take care
OF the GYPSY girl.''
After this the singer with his wooden
bowl in his hand went round the ring and
made collection OF few coppers. But
the take seemed III be rather poor, and he
returned to his place TO soften his auditors
with the second cOuplet of his canZonet.
''When fun the gaze of her glorious eyes
Meets yours and all their witchcraft lend
Your heart she wins as her rightful prize,
She'll keep it-and she'll ne'er surrender
''when gay the song comes ringing,
The song Of the gypsy girl,
Mark well the look she's flinging,
To help the words she's singingi
Or beware
OF the gypsy girl!'
4 man of from fifty TO ffty-nve was lis
tening to the gipSy's song; but. being little
sensible to such poetical seductiOnS. his
pNAHS iitlA anu
ne was about to move off when the young
lady by his side stopped him and said,-
Father. L have no money with me. VIII
you give that man something's"
And that is why the guZlar received four
or five kreutZerS which he would not have
had without the girls Intervention. Not
that her father, who was very rich. was
mean enough to refuse aims to a poor for
eigner, but simply because he was never
moved at human misery.
The father and daughter passed through
the crowd towards other booths Just as
noisy, while the guzla player disappeared.
probably 10 liquidate his receipts.
But all the open air artists, singers and
mountebanks, were not so freely patron
lied. Among the most deserted were two
acrobats who were figuring away on plat
form with no spectators to encourage them.
Above the stand was a sheet of canvas
in very bad state of repair. with por-
traits of wild animals d2ubed on in distem-
per, in which in most fantastic outline
there could be seen lions. jackals. hysenas.
tigers. bears. etc, leaping and disporting
themselves in maryelously unreal land
scapes. Behind was tiny arena, rallied
off with pieces of old canvas which boasted
so many holes for the eyes of the indiscreet
TO look through that they must have seri-
ously diminished the receipts. In front OF
one OF the poles was a dilapidated piece of
plank as an apology for a signboard. On il
these five words We're roughly written iD
CHARCOAL
PEsCADE 6 MATIFoU,
FRENCH GYNINAsTs.
From physical point of view-and prob
ably from a moral one also-theSe two men
were as different one from the other as two
human beings could be. They were both
natives of Provence, and il was that fact
alone that had brought them together TO
fight the battle of life in common.
Whence came their queer names? Were
they the two geographical points between
which curves the bay OF Algiers? Yesl
And the names fitted the perfectly, as that
of Atlas does some giant wrestler.
Cape Nation il an enormous mamelon.
strong and unshakable. which rises at the
northeast end of the vast roadstead of
Algiers as if TO defy the unclaimed elements
and illustrate the celebrated line
Ats mass iudestructible wearied ont time"
And such was. the athlete Matifou-an AL
cides. a POrthos. fortunate rival of the
0mpdIaileS. of Nicholas CreSte. and other
famous wreStlels who have shOne in the
arenas of tine south. This giant was more
than six feet in height, with yoluminous
head, shoulders in proportion, chest like 4
smiths bellows, and limbs like tree-tTunks,
with the strength of steel. He was manly
strength in all its magnfiicence. and had he
known his age. we should have found. not
without surprise. that he had only Just en-
tered his 22d year. Although this giant
was not GIFTED with striking Intelligence.
yet his heart was good. and his character
was simple and gentle. He knew not hate
or anger. He would DO no one an injury.
Seldom. indeed. would he shake the hand
that was offered him for fear ne should
crush il in his own. In his powerful nature
there was nothing of the tiger. although he
had the strength. And besides at a word.
at a sign even of his companion, he would
obey. as if he had been the gigantic son of
that little slip of 4 man.
As contrast. at the western extremity
Of the Bay Of AlgierS, Point PeScade, Oppo-
site Cape Matifou, is a thin, spare. narrow,
rocky tongue running out into the sea.
From it the name of Pescade was given 10
this fellow of 20. who was small. slen-
der. skinny and of not half the weight of
his friend but supple. active quick-witted.
of ineXhaustible good humor through good
and evil fortune, a philosopher in his way.
| inventive and PRACTICAL regular monkey
without the mischief-and indissOlubiy
linked by fate TO the enormous pachyderm
whom he led through all the phases of a
mountebank'S life.
Both We're acrobats by profession and
travelled from fair TO fair. MatifOu-Or
Cape MatifOu as he was also called
| wreStled in the ring. giving all sorts of dis
/ plays of strength. bending iron bars on his
biceps. lifting the heaviest of his audience
at arms length and juggling with his young
companion as if he were a tennis bail.
| PeScade-Or Point PeScade as he was com
monty called-gesticulated. sang. played
the fool. amused the public by his clowniSh
wit astonished them by his featS as an
| eQuilibrist, at which he was very clever,
and mystified them with his conjuring
| tricks.
But why on this occasion on the quay at
GravOsa are these two poor fellows left out
in the cold. while the people crowd to the
other booths? Why have they taken so lit
tie when they want it so much? 1t is diff
cult TO say.
Their language. an agreeable mixture of
PrOYencal and Italian, was more than
enough for them 10 make themselves I'M
derstood Since their departure from Prov
ence, where they had known no relatives
and seemed TO have been produced by spon-
taneous generation. they had wandered
about from markets TO fairs living iii rather
than well. but still living, and if not dining
every day. at least having something for
supper every night; and that was good
enough for them. for. as Point Pescade re