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were loath to postpone the enterprise
upon such grounds.
Besides the which," continued. II
have 1t upon trustworthy hearsay, that
ten bags Of ducats will be taken by the
banker Monteflori to Castruccio's pail
ace, upon the morrow's morrow at If
teen Of the clock. Marry, then, We will
do we'll to retard the uprising for eight
and forty hours at least, or until these
same ducats are arrived"
Upon hearing these words, they at
once agreed to postponement Of the
instruction. I now thought to ask
about Brother Ambrose. To my sur
prise, l learned that the ci-devant monk
did not belong to their company, and
that they knew of no such parsonage
I was now very anxious to return
to my palace or castle. that might
find my old servant and send him forth
after news Of Ippolita and her maid.
My mind misgave me when I thought
Of the feminine screams which I had
heard at the moment when / was at
tackled by those miscreants in the fields
back Of Castruccio's garden, and
Gus harm could have befallen the coun-
.eSS' see ~. '""' eo"iu "a.' Ho
longer to satisfy myself thoroughly of
the matter. therefore took leave of
my fellow CONF orators. after pledging
myself to meet them at an early hour
upon the morrow, and passing through
the cloisters. the court of the monas-
terry and the old church, found my
self upon the street.
When 1 was come into the Piazza
Publica Of the city, it was already two
hours after midday, and there were
much people in the square. was
threading my way among them, when
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I felt my sleeve plucked from behind,
and turning. l found myself face to
| face with Clan JacoDo. His visage
was pale, and his appearance and dress
much disordered.
Fair prince" said he, "prythee, come
| this way, out of the hearing of the
populace. For have that to tell thee,
which may cause thee to blaspheme
nightly, the which it were not we'll to
do in public
/ followed him to a convenient cor
ner. where we could speak unheard.
And now" said l, tell me thy tale
quickly"
Good master Timoteo," said he, with
eyes bullying from fear or excitement,
''go not to thine abode without taking
with thee numerous body of the
watch, else whist thou be foully mur-
dered. for thy house is presently in pos
session of a great band of thieves and
cutthroats.'
Go to, likely tale" said I, land,
pray, inform me when and how came
these gentry into my palace?"
1T was in the darkness of the night,
fair lord, and hard upon the hour of
one, when they did come. I was wait
ing up for thee as thou badest me,
and the gates were unbarred against
thy return, when suddenly comes me
this pack of villains to the door, which
opening, they incontinently swarmed
into thy habitation. Perdio, there were
a score at least. By my faith, 1 knew
none Of them, and as to the manner
of them, though they We're one and all
tricked out in gay clothing and much
| finery yet did they seem by their faces
the worst pickpockets and highwaymen
in the realm. l had short time to take
note of their appearance, but I did OBJ
serve that he who seemed their leader
bore within his arms the person of a
young and richly dressed and most
beauteous lady, of snow-white COM
plexion and hair as black as night"
His description fitted Ippolita mar.
velously. This, the screams which I
had heard in the rear of the dukes
garden, and the time when the rob-
bers appeared at my house with their
lovely and unconscious victim, pos
sessed me with the certainty that the
fair countess had been abducted by the
same scoundrels who had attempted
my assassination. Who were they, and
by what strange fatality had they
brought her to my house? And. above
all, was Ippolita no more, or did she
still live?
what then? what them" I cried,
Selling Jacopo by the shoulder and
shaking him roughly in my impa-
tience."
"Santiddio, fair prince. know not,
for at that moment one Of those I'M
christian knaves fetched me a great
blow upon the top of the skull with a
pike, so that 1 fell prone and without
sense or feeling. After a time, by the
grace of God, I came to myself, and
seeing that they regarded me not, by
reason of their having preached cask
of thy best wine and of their being
gathered around it with great noise
in the banquet room, I stole away and
hid myself in a convenient place be-
hind the arras. And now I noted that
they had brought with them much
plumber of gold and silverware, goblets
and ewers and platters, from which
they did drink and eat, with much
registering and profanity"
I now saw what had become of the
dukes plate, though I could not occupy
myself with such trifes.
But the lady, Jacopo?" said I. eager
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Literary and News Service.1

NOI OAos
The narrator. Timothy Lawrence. an
tam resemS esGsnd the famous Mesa
cantada in New Mexico situated IN !ne
middle of a lake in the Apennines; he
whose habits and customs are OF the nj NJ
teenth century. Their history is as toi,
lows: They are the descendants OF "a
tablished themselves on an island ano
built city that was quite miniature
FLORENCE. It is CALLED Firenz .his is,an nd
straight up from the lake. distance OF
many hundred feet and the perpendlc1rr
lar sides of the cliff thus formed , cut o- on
Firenzalino from the rest of the Worid.
This event gave rise to two political par
ties in this isolated world-the elevation.
lists. who believe that the island was sH t,a
depressonists. who maintain that the sur
rounding. country was depressed; AZ
present the latter are IN power, amd nave v,
the party are the Albizzi family. of which
Duke Castruccio, the reigning head. Is in
tbs hs fSiafe fam IKE a aoH IS on
eve of conflict between the two parties
>Xhen Lawrence comes upon the scene scene
f T." ef bSetainer of the Pazzi family, who
VIZ r ms far Prince Timoteo del Pazzi.
ROBE. in defiannesYn into the world by
years before. I.awiiee%Sc; s %ho s speaks
italian perfectly, decides 10 ct i the prince,
father having died that very dtS. Clan
Jacopo makes Lawrence assume an arz
propriate costume over sufficient armor
for protection. The two are instrumental
in rescuing Brother Ambrose, Domin-
Jean monk. who is on his way to be
burned at the stake. That night Prince
Timoteo and Brother Ambrose disguised
In gorgeous raiment, attend a great ball
given in Duke Castruccios palace. Here
Timoteo meets the dukes, daughter, !p-
polita, and straightway falls in love with
her. Before the evening is over he has
revealed his identity to Ippolita and eN-
prince and the friar are leaving, Ippolita' S
maid stops the former and begs him to at
tend her mistress at Midnight at the back
Of the palace garden. Something has
happened which has much to do with
Timoteo's safety. The prince arrives at
the place of meeting and while awaiting
1ppoita's arrival he is seized and thrown
into a well. His assailants think he is
killed and withdraw after few minutes
while Timoteo keeps very still for a while
longer
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cat in barrel. This last undertaking
appeared to me as the merest trifie,
for the reason that I am q most eX-
pert and powerful swimmer and am
never so much at home as when I am
battling with the crystal element. l
was getting rather chilly, too, and
needed exercise to warm me up.
therefore started out, keeping close to
the walls, and when l had gone around
ten times in one direction, turned and
went ten times around in the other. In
making the circle l swan about thirty
feet. 1t was a quarter past twelve
when l commenced and five o'clock in
the .-lorning when 1 ended.
The reason I stopped was that it was
already daylight, and that an old cur
mudgeon had just looked over the cop
ing and hailed me.
Say there" he shouted, chou pro-
fame and unwashed knave. knowest
thou not that tits forbid to battle with
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return with his servants and q COM
pany of the watch? We would have
but sorry welcome and a short
shrift."
peace, thou dolt The lord Of this
castle will never return, for he lieth
at this moment. stark and stiff. in the
bottom of the cistern of Saint Chry-
session., in the rear Of the dukes pleas
ure grounds"
"Santiddio. but thou art a rare hand,
master. I saw thee give unto that
popinjay a swift push; but I was not
ware, until this moment. that he was
the lord Of this mansion. Gods my
life! but it is a fine Jest, and merry
one."
LAS to the Lady Ippolita," continued
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in the public wells? Siri1h, come out
Of there at once. and = with me
straightway before the magistrate"
would that could" I'D 1.
He looked at me for sc4e moments
before 1t dawned upon hin3hat he had
commanded an impossibiliv He then
spoke to some persons VIII We're with
him, and they let down ubucket by
means of a great beam orr ver, hung
pivot-wise upon a post whi stood not
far from the coping. I stepSd into the
bucket, and was at once, III without
much exertion on their part, Ted to the
surface of the earth. l shoo the water
from my beforetime gorgeo raiment,
and as I took in its soddd and be-
draggled state, it seemed TOME that !
looked like nothing so M as a
drowned rat. VA
When I landed upon terrNfirma.
found myself surrounded bXhalf a
dozen stout fellows, corsletedyR ID bear
ing bills and pixies, so that er1 pe was
out of the question. 1t was a3mpany
of the watch, and the old dv er who
had accosted me was the caprh Of it.
Two of them presently took nby the
| arms, as though I were most hnger-
Gus criminal, and at the com Ind of
their officer we Immediately y out
for the Bargello, which, as / ward
found, was the prison of the and
also the palace of the podesta ckief
S"agistrate. I went along wit Them
Willingly enough, for the reasW that
l took the offense with whichW Iva g
charged TO be light one and I'M ned
that l would be let off by the gis-
trate upon the payment OF a ling
fine. When we were come to thexar
CELLO, 1t was six o'clock in the mo ng
and I was Immediately conducted6 to
the donjon, and escorted down &vo
| flights of steps to a secure and n nv
cell, about seven feet by eight i'm e.
Here the captain Of the watch T.
quested to be left alone with me. d
when his coadjutors had gone out, -
addressed me: M
| 60 to, thou rogue. Thinkest tt
that 1 have brought thee here. 81
this deal of trouble, for the paltry n
son that thou didst wash thyself III
public well of the town? Nay. I an91l
| man Of more wit than thou thinkd&
apd l will presently come about WIN
thee and turn thee inside out. Fro
the palace of the noble Duke Castruos
clio, yesterday night. in the middle G
great and festive banquet, there Wen
| removed and stolen articles of sold and
silver, to wit-goblets and ewers and
| platters. When first I saw thee, l did
| most nightly suspect thee to be the
knave who took them, else why
shouldst hide thyself within the we'll ?
Thou seest that l am a shrewd fell
low. Tell me, then, straightway, what
thou hast done with the plate, and ]
will see to it that thy punishment is
much softened. Peradventure, thou wilt
only be beheaded, in lieu of being roast
ed at the stake
Thou art a doddering old fool" I
exclaimed. with some warmth. Il am
a gentleman, and have no heed to soil
my hands with the dukes plate
Thou hast not the appearance of
one," said he, surveying my shrunken
and despatched garments. so thou
dost refuse my offer of clemency Pre-
pare, then, to appear before his High
ness the Podesta. who WILL l think, OBJ
tain from thee a different answer
1t was not until ten o'clock that
was summoned before the magistrate,
in the hall of justice of the Bargello.
1t was a great and noble room. The
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said she. But where am I? What ID
this place whittier they have brought
me?"
This Is my own house, fair coun-
tess, the ancestral palace Of the Pazzi.'
I then told her. in as few words as
possible, the whole story, from the
time when 1 had SO foolishly rescued
Brother Ambrose from the flames.
And now, fairest lady," said I,
"prythee, tell me the particulars of thy
capture by these bastard ruffians, and
acquant me with all that has happened
to thee since.''
Marry, it is a short story, fair sir.
and will tell it thee quickly, for i love
not to dwell upon It,"
TO BE CONTINUED
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HUNTER HUMMINGS.

l Jas. R. High drove a pump tho past week.
 l Quite a lot of sick folks around I Hunter this week.
 l When we know anything goo6 l we like to tell 1t.
 Say Bro. H. G. what objections have you to the normal. Rev. Smith preached at this place Saturday night and Sunday. We will never have good roads till we have better system of working.
 To Miss 'sMargurite" if you are a Miss" CT if if you are not q Miss, welcome.
 Miss Anna Freeman is visiting her mother in Mississippi at present.
 So Miss Red Riding Hood you have come to light once more hope you have come to stay.
 Will Sieber one of our clever road overseers was working the road the last of the week.
 Farmers will be better fixed at gathering time this year than they have been in many years.
 We wish that gentleman of Sananton Tex. who signed himself "Clodhopper" would write again. Corn is so large in this neigh borhood that some one will hafto invent machine to split the ears so they can be fed to the cows. Rev. Jas. F.. Buchanon filled his appointment at Macadonia Satur- day night, we suppose he will protract the meeting if the intrest is good.
 It is bad enough for girl to think she is pretty but when a boy or man comes to the awful con cIusion that he is pretty, Oh what a sight
 w. B. Rowden and his family, Thos. Wilson and family and Miss Dora aCrisswcll all went over on the Bayou fishing last Tuesday, and report good time. ] c.
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Mhitlev's fiat. When they got together at the time and place, all being ready and willing for a fight they went at it. One woman stab bed and killed the other and then made good her escape and has nol been caught up to the time ot Ithis writing. Bad women and bad men do a whole lot of mean ness.
 The very enterprising firm O. Cohen & Youngblood have receiv- ed their fine hay press and they have the hay if the rain will hold up for awhile so they can save it. We are glad to see such i'm plements of industry coming into the county. We hope in the neal future to see the threshing ma chimes and good wheat mills in troduced and see part of every farm in the county sown down in wheat and Irish potatoes. The farmer will say that 1t does not pay to grow Irish potatoes for sale. Let us see about that. Will it pay to raise cotton for cents! It will not, but they all raise 1t just the same. Now, to my no- tion lis that Irish potatoes at 90 cents per bushel will pay whole lot more than 4 cent cotton, for the early crop of Irish potatoes mature early enough for the far mer to engage in other enterprises, He can raise corn crop and then be ready to plant his late crop of Irish potatoes, which is the pay ing crop. Please don't forget what you had to pay last spring for Triumph seed potatoes iron $2 to $2.50 per bushel and when the Irish potato growers begin t plant their own seed, then the ex penses will be greatly reduced But if the cotton farmer don't gel rich in one year by other crops than cotton, they stop off then gc back to cotton again. Let us try and see if cannot do better thar raise cent cotton.
 IF. q.
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zENT REQUISITES.

Mr. Britton, of St. Francis was here Tuesday,.
 D. Kelly and B. Kelly and wife went to Brinkley Monday.
 Misses Pearl Anderson and Toliae Rollwage, of Forrest City, are visiting relatives here.
 Mr. McMillain and family, of Dark Corner, were guests of MT. Moor's family last week. 2 Mr. Butcher has the contract for building the colored school honse. He will begin Aug. the 10th. Mr. Harrison and family, and Mr. Schmit and family have gone on a fishing trip to White river. With success to the Argus and readers, 1 remain
 ToLMA.
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to get killed2' It was my colonel's
 voice and his hand that saved me. What
 did see through the field glasses? Not thing. was too scared. .A blind man
 could have seen more, but saved my
 reputation. Many times after that
 was frightened ill battle. but never so
 much so, and never shirked From
 that day until the war closed my men
 adorcd mo, and they thought l never
 knew what fear was during the whole
 of those four bloody years" What did they think ailed you that
 day?"
 Tt went the rounds in my company that had an attack of heart trouble, ' answered the colonel with a laugh, '.and never took the trouble to correct the story. It was true in q way, for was so frightened that my heart almost stopped beating. It's bosh to talk about any man going through war without feeling fear. Any brave old soldier will tell you of experiences such as have told. ."-N. Y. Sun.
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BLACK ANKLE NOTES.

J. F. Pain is on the sick list this week.
 N. Perkins went to Hunter last Saturday.
 The crops were never more promising than now. H. N. Daniels has been quite sick for several days. Would not rain makers stand Q slim show at present. Robt, Craig and others are vic tins of the swamp malady-mal- aria.
 s. D. Sawyer and $. E. Fitz- hugh went to Jones Hill last Wednesday.
 T. E. Jolly and wife were visi- tors in this neighborhood a few this week.
 The mercury is rather high for hog killing, but an L. R, & M. freight train made a dash at sev- ep Sunday morning belonging to l.. E. Turrentine and s. D. Stas7; Saw yer, and got the entire bunch.
 [The remainder of your com munication was crowded out of this issue-will appear next week. -ED.]
 FOUNDER,
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RAYMOND ITEMS

A good deal Of sickness aronnde. 2. here.
 Jim Madison's family are all in bed sick, Mrs. A. w. Oliphant and child are very sick,
 Wallace Graham is clerking for Engle & Co.,. Miss East returned from Brink ley not feeling very well.
 Miss Mamie West visited Brink ley last week, the guest of Mrs. Kate Crafford. Mrs. John Turner died at her home near Turner Monday eve ming of congestion. Mrs. M. A. West spent last Wednesday in Marvell visiting MT. Carlock. Joe Rowland left for Clarendon Saturday evening. He was a nice young man and we are sorry to lose him from our midst. 
 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. :.
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ROE'S BUDGET.

Miss 1Tfhisbe, was Moses not al- lowed to go into the Promised Land with his people.
 Our old friend, w.. A. Thomas son, now n knight of the grip, gas in Roe last week.
 Geo. Powell and family, of Arkansas country was in Roe last Wednesday, to attend the pie mic. Mrs. c. W Glass has gone back north 10 spend the summer She vill be much missed by her many friends.
 The pie nic at Roe on the 3rd inst, was n grand success and the people deserve much credit for eantributing so generously toward xnaking the dinner one of the bsst that was ever given in Roe. Tho attendance was not very large only 250, but the dinner uas sufficient to hnve fed 500 or co people Good order was kep1 III day and everyone present had - opportunity to enjoy them nslves to tLeir own satisfaction.l
 MARGrERrTE.
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BLACKTON BnINKTNGS.
Still it rains.

Still it rains.
 A great deal of sickness in our ioTn and country.
 J l.. Meecham and G. w. Brat son spent Monday in Clarendon. John Umsted and family, of Helena, are visiting J. NJ. Peter ssn and family.
 Rev. k. A. Watson. who is now conducting a revlval at Moro. was in our town Monday. He informs us he is having good meeting.
 Rev. N. w. Womack left Mon- day evening for Benton, Ark where he was called to attend the bedside of his brother, who is seriously i'll.
 
 A great many people came from a distance to attend the camp meeting, but were sadly disap- pointed and had to go back with cut nearing Bro, Evans.
 K. B. Strickland left Wednes- day morning for Clarksdale, Miss, where he goes to accept q position as clerk in grocery store. We sincerely regret his departure.
 Miss Claude Peterson, one of our most charming young ladies, returned from Helena Monday evening, where she has been wis hing friends and relatives for a l week or more. We are certainly | glad 10 sec her back. Rev. W. II. Evans (Wild BiIl) | ,ne in Saturday, but on going the post office, found his com q sion as Chaplain of the 2nd Tennessee regiment, so only tar ried with us short while and is now on hls way to the war.
 DUSSELDORF.
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MORE FROM H. C..


 their appearance in H. c..
 Very hot yet and prospects for more rain. A good lot of hay
 will be ruined, as it was cut last Friday.
 Rev. J. K. Farris began series of meetings at H. q. Sunday and will continue two weeks if there is enough interest manifested on the pant of the public.
 c. G. Kerr, one of our enter prisingImerchants has bought anice top buggy and Mir. Kerr, wife and their little children were out on nice ride last Sunday.
 We have noticed some opened cotton and if 1t does not rain too much this month, some get-up- get farmer will be apt to get a bale of cotton into market.
 No, Bro. C., l have not attend ed the fish fry yet, but think of doing so at once and see what has become of B. D. l don't think we should let her go off that way, aud no account of her. The public school at II. G. will not begin before the 18th of Sep tember, so we heard said by some member of the school board. SoCn enough, think, as we have more sickness during the month of September than any other month i'll the year
 John Mayo has q very sick child Miss Emily, about F or II years old, with malarial fever. She has been sick for quite a while. Hopes were entertained Monday that she was better. May such hopes be realized by the watching and waiting father and mother.
 What dc you say Bro. Bill, Bbiiiiii tthhaft Il i we had buried the wrong Moses?, Well, you want to know about Moses, the brother of Aaronf Oh yes. We'll, l will tell something | of him. He was buried on the Mount of Horeb, and it IS said hat no one but God knows the ,xact Espot, for he was buried by iod himself. Now, Bro. Bill, if here is another Moses, I will try l md hunt him up for you.
 Rev. J. K. Pope will begin a protracted meeting at Hill s church next Thursday and their }rd ,Quarterly Conference will be held on Saturday before the sec ond Sunday in August. Bro. Hughen said he was going to kill a nice, fat hog and he wanted the good people. to come and help him eat it. l hope he will not be dis Supposing that n good many like myself have not much to eat at home, go. We hope that the meeting will be the means of turning the entire vicinity to Christ.
 The woman killing at Whitley's flat last Saturday evening: The colored folks had a party last Fri day night on Judge Greens farm and two or three women had dis pute over young man as to who should have his company home that night and they became so en- ragged that they wanted to fight, and so they set the time and place to settle, Saturday evening at uuuuuuur<u~ssx.x--s~u-u-ruu
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To Fit thc Rations.

While sherman wAs "out in the air between Atlanta and the sea, rations sometimes got little short; but the men were gocd-natured about it. One day an officer found < soldier eating a persimnon that he had picked up, and cried ont 10 him:
 Don't eat that; it's not good for you.' I'm not catin' it because it's good" was the reply; I'm tryin' to pu~ker up my stomdch so as to fit the size of the rations Uncle Billy Sher- mans a-givin' ps."-San Francisco Ar gonants
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TO REDEEM THOSE THOUSANDS OF ACRES:

Bayou Devew Cache river the wes Brnkey acres m fine farming country asert and productive the valley the ovsows and continues overflow and near y worthless to all intent and purposes
 years the of land in the overhowed dstr discussing advisabty of forming Taxing Dis c redeeming the s generally that the the undertaking be compared great of valuable property that be by the levee.
 In ascertain the will of the people and determine whe would be affected by the really want constructed the suggest that all who are interested meeting purpose to be held in Brnkley at II o'clock a.. m, on
 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1898.
 Don forget the date.