Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-11


Artenak. He thought over and lived
among the remembrance of the past
Then the idea of his country reduced to
an inferior position in Europe seized
upon him. For the Franco Italian war
of 1859 struck n terrible blow Mt the
power of Austria. Seven years after
wards. in 1856. the blow was followed by
one still more terrible. that of Sadowa-
1t was no longer Austria bereft Of her
italian possessions IL was Austria con-
qucred on both sides and subordinated
10 Germany; aud to Austria Hungary
felt she was bound The Hungarians-
there is no reasoning about such a senti-
ment, for il is in their blood-were hu-
inflated in their pride. For them the
victories OF Custozza and LISA we're no
compensation for the defeat of SadOwa.
Count Sandorf. during the year which
followed, had carefully studied the POI
htical outlook, and recognized that q
separatist movement might. be success
full The moment for action had then
come. On the 81 of May of this year,
1867, he had embraced his little daugh-
ter, whom he had left 10 the tender cares
of Rosena Lendeck, and leaving his
castle of Artenak had set out for Pesth,
where he had put himself in commune
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 radiated all it's
threads collected in Sandorfs hands
In this town the chiefs Of the conspiracy
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 were resolved to follow
the enterprise to its conclusion. Count
Ladislas Zathmnr and Professor Stephen
Bathory were Magyars of good birth.
Both were a dozen years older than
Sandorf. but were almost without for
tune. One drew his slender revenues
from q small estate in the County of
Lipto. belonging to q circle beyond the
Danube the other was Professor Of
Physical Science at Trieste, and his only
income came from the fees from his
lectures.
Iadislas Zathmar lived in the house
discovered on the Acquedotto by Sarcany
and Zirone.an unpretending place,
which he had put at the disposition of
Matthias Sandorf during the time he was
away from Artenak-that is TO say, till the
end of the projected movement, when
ever it might be. A Hungarian, Borik,
aged about ffty-tive. represented the
whole staff of the house. Borik was as
much devoted to his master as Lendeck
was 10 his.
Stephen Bathory occupied n no less
unpretending dwelling on the Corso
Stallion, not far from Count Zathmar.
Here his whole life was wrapped up in
his wife and his son Peter then eight
years old.
Stephen Bathory belonged, distantly
but authenticity, 10 the line of those
Magyar princes who in the sixteenth
century occupied the throne of Tram
8 lvania The family had been divided
aud lost in its numberless notifications
since then. and people may perhaps
think il rs onishing that one of its last
descendants should exist as n simple
professor Of the Academy at Presburg.
Whatever he might be, Stephen Bathory
was a scientist of the first raIk-one of
those who live III retirement, but whose
work renders them famous "Inclusum
labor illustrat," the motto of the silk
worm, might have been his. One day
his political ideas, which he took no
pains 90 conceal, rendered IL necessary
for him to resign, and then he came to
live at Trieste rs professor unattached.
IL was in Zathmars house that the
three friends had met since the arrival
of Count SandOrf although the latter
ostensibly occupied an apartment on tbs
Palizzo Modello on the Piazza Grande.
The police had no suspicion that the
house on the AcqucdOtto was the centre
of a conspiracy which counted numbers
of partisans in all the principal towns of
tho kingdom.
Zathmar and Bathory were Sandorfs
most devoted nuxiliaries Like him,
they had seen that circumstances were
favorable 10 q movement which might
restore Hungary to the place she desired
in Europe. They risked their lives,
they knew, but that they cared little
about The house in the Acquedotto
had thus become the rendezvous of the
chiefs of the conspiracy. Numbers of
partisans- summoned from different
points of the kingdom, came there to
take their measures and receive their
orders. A service of carrier pigeons was
organized, and established rapid and
safe communication between Trieste aud
the chief towns Of Hungary and Tran
sylvania when it was necessary to send
what could not well be condded to the
post or telegraph. In short, every pre-
caution had been taken, and the con-
spiratOrs had not as yet raised the least
breath of suspicion. Besides, as we
know, the correspondence was carried
on IN cipher. and on such a plan that
unless the secret was known absolute
security was obtained.
Three days after the arrival of the
carrier pigeon whose message had been
intercepted by Sarcany, on the 2tst of
May, about eight o'clock in the evening
Iathmar and Bathory were in the study.
waiting the return of Matthias Sandorf.
Ills private affairs had recently COM
PEELED the Count to return into Transyl-
vania and TO Artenak but he had taken
the opportunity of consulting with his
friends at Klasenbury. the capital of the
province, and he WIS to get back this
very day, after sending them the de-
spatch of which Sarcany had taken the
duplicate.
During the time Sandorf was away
other correspondence had been ex-
changed between Trieste and Buda, and
many letters in cipher had arrived by
pigeon-post. And Zathmar was even
now busy in working out the real mean
ing Of one OF these cryptographic epis-
ties by means Of "giating."
The dispatches we're devised on a very
simple plan-that of the transposit-
ion Of the letters In this system
every letter retained its alphabetical
value-that is to saw. b meant h. q meant