The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-01-15


ROSE TO GREET HIM.
was content TO he u chemist IN nign re-
pute among the learned. The Univer-
sity of Pesth, the Academy of Sciences
at Presburg, the Royal School of Mines
at Cnemnitz and the Normal School at
Temesoar had all counted him among
their most assiduous pupils. His studi-
Gus life had improved and intensified
his natural gifts In short, he was a
man in the fullest acceptation of the
term. And he was held to be so by all
who know him, and more especially by
his professors in the different schools
and universities, who continued their
interest in him as his friends.
Formerly the castle of Artenak then,
had been all gayety, life and movement
On this rugged ridge of the, ,Carpathians
the 1ransylvanlan hunters mad held
their meetings, Expeditions, many and
dangerous, were organized, in which
Count Sandorf sought employment for
those instincts of battle which he could
not crafty on the field of politics. He
kept himself out of the political stream,
watching osely the course of events.
He seemed only to care about a life
spent between his studies and the in
dulgences that his fortune allowed him.
In those days the Countess Rena San
dorf was still alive She was the soul of
these parties at Artenak. Fifteen months
before this history begins death had
struck her in the pride of her youth and
beauty, and all that was left Of her was
little girl, who was now two years old
Count Sandorf felt the blow cruelty.
Ha was inconsolable. The castle be-
cGIre silent and deserted. From that
day, under the shadow of profound
grief, its master lived as in cloister.
His whole life was centred in his child,
and she was confded to the charge of
Rosena Lendeck, the wife of the Counts
steward. This excellent woman, who
was still young was entirely devoted to
the sole heiress of the Sandorfs, and
ably acted towards her as second
mother.
During the first months of his widow
hood, Sandorf never left his castle of
Artenak. He thought over and lived
among the remembrances of the past
Then the idea of his country reduced to
an inleUor position in Europe seized
upon him For the Franco Italian war
OF 1859 struck terrible blow at the
power of Austria. Seven years after
wards, in 1866, the blow was followed by
one still more terrible that of Sadowa.
1t was no longer Austria bereft of her
Italian possessions it was Austria con-
quered on both sides and subordinated
to Germany and to Austria Hungary
felt she was bound. The Hungarians-
there is no reasoning about such a senti.
ment, for it is in their blood-were hu-
inflated in their pride. For them the
victories of Custozza and Lissa were no
compensation for the defeat of Sadowa.
Count Sandorf, during the year which
followed, had carefully studied the po-
litical outlook, and recognized that q
separatist movement might be success
full The moment for action had then
come. On.the 3d of May of this year,
1867, he had embraced his little daugh-
ter, whom he had left to the tender cares
castle of Artenak had set out for Pesth,
where he had put himself in communi-
cation with his friends and partisans,
and made certain preliminary arrange
ments. Then few hours later he had
gone to Trieste TO wait for events.
There he became the chief centre of
the conspiracy; thence radinted all its
Al L., Il ,,N
In this town the chiefs of theconspiracy
could act with more safety and more
freedom in bringing the patriotic work
/ to an end
At Trieste lived two of Sandorf's most
intimate friends. Animated by the
same spirit they We're resolved to follow
the enterprise to its conclusion. Count
Ladislas Zathmar and Professor Stephen
Bathory We're Magyars of good birth.
Both were a dozen years older than
1 Sandorf. but were almost without for
tune. One drew his slender revenues
from small estate in the County OF
Lipto, belonging to circle beyond the
Danube the other was Professor Of
Physical Science at Trieste, and his only
income came from the fees from his
lectures.
Ladislas Zathmar lived in the house
discovered on the Acquedotto by Sarcany
and Zirone--an unpretending place
which he had put at the disposition oi
Matthias Sandorf during the time lie was
away from Artenak- is to say, till thC
end of the projected movement, when
ever it might be, A Hungarian, Bpr L.
aged about tifty-tiye, represented the
whole staff of the house, Borik was ~
much devoted to his master as Lendec,
was to his.
Stephen Bathory occupied no less
unpretending dwelling on the CorsC
Stallion, not far from Count Zathmar
Here his whole life was wrapped up il
his wife and his son Peter, then eigh
years old.
Stephen Bathorv belonged, distautly
but authentically, to the line of thos'
Magyar princes who in the sixteenth
century occupied the throne of Tran
$, lvania. The family had been divide,
aud lost in its numberless ramitication
since then, and people may perhap
think it as onishing that one of its las
descendants should exist rs simpl
professor of the Academy Mt Presburg
Whatever he might be, Stephen Bathor.
was scientist of the first ra Ik-one O
those who live i'll retirement, but who's
work renders them famous. "Inclusun
labor illustrat, the motto of the silk
worm, might have been his. Ono da
, his political ideas, which he took n
pains to conceal, rendered. it necessar
for him to resign, and then he came I
, live at Trieste rs professor unattached
, 1t was in Zathmar's house that til