Show AN ENGLISH MANS REVENGE A late lite parisian paper tells the story of a wealthy englishman who may constantly be seen been at the grand opera and the italian opera and who enjoys a great reputation not only as being a great connoisseur of 1 M I 1 b but t further as being a great ama amateur teuro binting how the latter rep citation was a acquired c ired you you will presently see lie was wag he is one of those bedouin englishman who live alternately in all the european capitals except when they are on an occasional jaunt to egypt or to china or to india or to the holy land he never traveled alone his hia wife was with mm film bis bia bonafide bo baide balde wifel wife for notwithstanding his errant lire ao so apt to weaken ones morals be he had bad all the english respect for tor the sex and a true English mans manIg lo 10 loyo ve for bs his wife she veas vias a beautiful woman one of those keepsake beauties ea that once adnie seen make a man deam forever her social success was waa very great in all cities they visited in rome home after some years niome marriage they became acqua acquainted ed with a german artist of a good del det of reputation choto who to big bis art joined the earning of benedictine dic tine and knew the city of rome as well as Wm kleman or visconti vis Via conti 1 the german volunteered to be their cicerone in the eternal city they gladly accepted his offer many were ivere the hours they passed with him in in the museum of the capital in he the Viti vatican can ean in st peters Fe and in the delightful exan si na they imade in the environs of rome the artist became calein in love withie with the english lady shere bhe she reciprocated ei p located bib bis affection the husband was a long while in seeing the staid stain upon his bis bonor honor several beveral montha passed away before be perceived it for be he was very much pleased with the artist and they bad long been on the most intimate footing Alt although hoogh stung to the quick byruch by sueh such base faithlessness and buch such grosa violation of the laws of hospitality and friendship be he said eaid nothing he disliked scenes he was nevertheless determined upon a revenge rs and he appealed to cooler reflections to furnish forth a suitable punishment 1 I abe passions are bad counselors he left italy and retired with his wife to england saying nothing but av au revoir to the artist when he reached england he told his bis wife of the palli painful discovery he riad made and be gave her bei back bacic into her fath fathers erys erss hands he then returned to the continent alone and visited germany russia and france where he purchased a great many pain paintings painting tings he be ahn went to italy meanwhile continuing to purchase paintings and at last two years had bad now passed away since their last meeting he called on the german painter who oho still lived in rome and demanded satisfaction from him his hia challenge was accepted and the englishman ace arding to the european custom being the offended party select d the weapons he chose pistols during the past two years he had practiced daily for several hours and his big known addre address 49 with the pistol had become an unerring certainty of shot ile he sent bent bae tae t ie shot wherever he wished it tog toga the parties went on the ground they were placed at thirty paces apart and with the privilege p rv i I 1 ol 01 t i advancing ten steps before firing the he signal i was then given onel one atwol three fire the word fire dire was wag it of the seconds mouth when the engi engl fired without moving bis antagonists pistol fell from bis his hand ai and d was discharged by the fall the ball burying itself in the ground the englishman anians ball had bad shattered the artists arm and amputation was necessary bis his career of artist was ended and forever fore vr A few days after the amputation the englishman called on him and without noticing the ah angry ry reception be met said to the suffering artist it if you think my vengeance is satisfy satisfied d with your shattered hand and the wreck wrack of your artists career you strangely underrate the agony of a deceive deceived dp dishonored husband though I 1 have condemned you to a life of vain regrets to a never ending series of impotent sighs to a total oblivion by all amateurs and arid historians of the art oh no sir 21 interrupted the abe artist his face beaming with a ray of hope the last you cannot do my madonna at st lev let b rg my luther at berto ber in my dight flight into egypt at pane 1 iss lbs iny my 1 the englishman ng is h man interrupt interrupted ea him ID in turn spare me said he be the abe the names of tour your our works but look over this catalogue and se if I 1 have not the exact list ot of them all yes yeb yea yes they are ail all there even the paintings I 1 finished the dy djay before the duel so I 1 was persuaded all the paintings on this catalogue are my property properly bilowith I 1 do with thew them what hat bat I 1 pleasa I 1 please fease to 10 burn them aye to burn every one at of them that your jour name shall be effaced from the ibe glorious roll of 0 artists in two hours rom this time your toil your conceptions skill will be as completely effaced from the he world as the lines which the urchin traces n the sand are effaced by the rising tide fire 3 as distractive as water 17 in vain the poor artist begged for mercy the wronged husband was insensible to his supplications ions lons and in two bours the servant brought to the artists room i large earthen vessel comi commonly used to con aln ain oil filled with astles aslies it wab was ilias all that renamed remained of his bis painting paintings TERRIBLE RESULTS OF licentious NESS professor wine winea v in an article in tb emeri can presbyterian and theo thao theological logical review on the sources of crime gives dives the following mr lir goud gould relates the story of or a fallen tallen woman whom he encountered in one of our penitentiary hospitals which casts a terrible light upon the tendency of licentiousness to produce crime she had been a woman of exquisite beauty and elegant cult culture tire lire her father a wealthy merchant of new york failed in business and gave up evert even thin thing thins to his creditors she was reduced to the necessity of learning the trade of a dressmaker dress maker to earn her daily bread she abe became a proficient in the business and her taste and skill commanded liberal wages which enabled her to provide an ample wardrobe for herself she had been intensely devoted to the glitter and gaiety of fashionable life and hope which springs eternal in the human breast whispered that a fortunate marriage might restore her to the charmed circles whose delights she had once tasted and which she longed to reenter re enter she used every effort by the charms of person dress voice coite and manners to attract the notice and win the love of eligible young men at length she thought she had succeeded in her object but the young man whose affections she dreamed that she had bad won proved to be a coldhearted cold hearted villain who wis was in n pursuit 1 of amusement ant ani gratification fr the passing hour one evening he invited h r to ride driving into the country he alighted ata at a house bouse of refreshments in the nei nel neighborhood of that city ile he offered her a ablass glass of wina wine which she drank the liquor had bad been drug drugged eed zed A profound stupor ensued and she awoke the following morning to find herbit herself ruined with returning consciousness the magnitude of 0 the injury burst up n her tier she instantly resolved on revenge and the plan for its accomplishment flashed upon her mind with the suddenness and rapidity of lightning she betra betrayed no emotion she uttered no reproaches pro aches she treated what had happened as a harmless jest and blandly invited a continuance ti nuance of the intimacy the young man exulted in the ease and completeness piet eness of his victory but from that moment she bhe became the evil genius of hi bib big ilfe life pro eesing the tendered an irid 4 trot uno unselfish elAsh affect tion she drew from him hial continually with which she to furnish him with to drinking gambling ram cam bling and all me forms of vice and debauchery at every rally raily of his better nature by skillful alternation of persuasion banter and menace she choked the rising impale of virtue chained him to the car of dissipation and confirmed him in his career of vice full well did she ehe know her all this would lead him nor was she disappointed in I 1 her malignant expectation drunkenness clouded his understanding debauchery ruined his health and gambling reduced him to I 1 poverty not until this point the goal of all her prayers and efforts had bad been reached when poverty and disease had bad done their work and he was unable to procure a wretched bed or a scanty ineal meal except through her charity cb arity did she wreak upon him the full measure of her vengeance then it was her daily delight to asit him to load him with reproaches and to reveal to him in bitter exultation ul tation the whole bachme so cunningly devised and so steadily pursued by which she haet hail wrought his ruin lain and when the closing scene drew near bhe she bat eat by his bedside and mingled her execrations exec rations with the shrieks extorted by his dying agonies her warfare was against the whole sex whom she regarded a as 11 accursed and her insatiate revenge cried out oat for still other vict victims in 9 nor was her vengeance yet satisfied whenever she could fasten her fangs on a young man of genteel family whose unclouded prospects ecta foretokened fore a brilliant career she never relaxed her hold bold she studied with keenness sharpened by experience peri ence every point in his bis character his bis tastes his bis passion passions his hopes hs fears whatever attracted and whatever repelled him and then with an almost unerring sagacity adapting the means to the end she seldom failed in her demoniac purpose she claimed in this manner to have hunted down thirty two tiso young men involved them in disgrace crime and ruin some of them ended their th air days in prison and others hopelessly fallen failen were on the road to the drunkards an and felons grave when asked whether her sisters in infamy felt the same hatred to mankind she replied that the she thought twe the to be general nener gener alif ailt it not ur universal aversa among them adding that when a woman had bad once fallen she desired to revenge herself not only on her seducer but on all hib bis sex that no game was followed with greater relish than that involving all who came within her tolls toils in crime and its consequent punishment that the most of them could number at least two or three victims whom they had bad ruined and that maisy of these victims went to the length of the actual commission of crime |