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he wondered what his old teacher the heir kapellmeis'cr would say to his success he looked around the i i nn furnished as comfortably as most any in the city l ind felt a grim satisfaction in knowing that the ple beian karl berger was taking his ease in the very chamber where caesar i irgia had once slept his was a no bility as hi^li as his ancient predeces ', sor he said to himself and he laugh ed grimly for the young swede had but little ie-peet fur nobility and he of i en spoke of his ancestors the ber ber 1 iris and vikings as thieves and cut-throats while he sat musing lazily watch ing the smoke curling up toward the blotched and crumbled almost oblit erated frescoes of the vaulted tiling above a servant brought in a note to iii maestro berger the city of milan informed his excellency the maestro that the last of the three pu pil had been chosen and the pupil ihe ( ontessa lucia yiniila would at tend him whenever the maestro would be pleased to receive her signor ber ger scowled and shrugged his shoul ders he had already in the short time he had been in milan heard sev eral coutessas play and he had not been favorably impressed by their ge nius and indeed it must be admitted that the ladies in question had a great er desire tosee the handsome foreigner than to make a y progress in music he had forgotten that the three pu pil were too poor to pay for their tu ition and were therefore given their musical education by the charity of the city however he sent back au answer that he would give the contes sa her first lesson at 3 o'clock the next afternoon and then he took up his violin and the contessa and milan and success and the kapellmeister passed from his mind while the music soared in tremulous vibrations through the room the next day everything went j wrong he had yet to learn the pa tience necesary for a teacher and the countless mistakes of his pupils and the jarring discords and the seeming stupidity rendered him nearly furious at three o'clock the charity pupil contessa lucia was ushered into his presence followed by an old woman her escort the contessa did not look very aristocratic in her dress lvery thing she had on was cheap jn fact except that herdri.ss was neater and mure tastefully arrange it was about the same as vhe servant's 1 he maes tro w a s walking up and down the room with an ominous frown on his face he wi celled around and look ed at her " well signora what do you wish he said crossly i have come for my lesson sig nor she replied timidly he looked at his tablets yon are either too early or too late there is a contessa viuella who comes now j>;it ifshe does not come 1 am the contessa signor and she proceeded to unwrap her violin from its green covering while the servant hobbled to the nearest chair yi u came to amuse yourself in a dilettante way on the violin 1 came to learn to play maestro to be able to teach music some day who knows and she laughed a lit i tie nervously contessas don't teach music he said scornfully it is only poor ple beians who do that let me hear you play she nestled the violin on her bhouldcr caressingly and obediently commenced the air was simple a 1 plea-ant lullaby in a minor key s ft and sad which had been sung by ma ny roman mothers to their children one ot those airs which like the ger i man lieder one finds among the peo ple its author and origin lost in an tiquity yet everlasting from its pathos and tenderness the violin was fit to be its interpreter ah old cremona almost black with age the music flouted out from the five quivering strings the girl her eyes almost closed and her head bent forward stood erect playing the old servant s.at listlessly caught by the music swaying to and fro as it rocking some child dead fifty years ago karl her ger stoiil frowning in 1 1 o shadow of n curtain what right had a contes j sa a young girl to play like hat what riu'lit had she to a violin which was so much hotter than his the o!'t repeated strains came to an end and the girl turned proudly toward i him it is a wretched piece wrechedly i played ho said crossly yon will 1 never mike an artiste of vo irself it j lacks soul it lacks rhythm it lacks | i everything these k'tulant words — words which . i ho hones karl berger was ashamed of even while he uttered them — struck ! : the young girl like a blow her face proud and happy at her successful | rendering of the simple pleasant air | ' fell suddenly at this harsh verdict and gl»l like she btisrt into sobs and j left the room while the servant star ed stolidly at the fteroe foreigner and then rose and hobbled after the girl karl berger felt ashamed of him self and his sudden fit of anger he took up his violin but it sounded j harsh he was cold and courteous to ! the pupils who came that afternoon but he was glad when the day was over they were lighting the lamps j in the courtyard below when he look ed out he watched the servants as i they put the lamps in their places and after they had left he stood at the window looking absently down on the empty courtyard beneath when he saw a figure coining slowly across the | yard he stepped out on the balco ny aiid called to her for he recogniz ed the escort of the contessa lucia when the woman had come up he asked her : where does the contessa vinella j live l ln this house signor with a rela tive the contessa has no other friends and she lives here hut not in idleness signor ! she is too proud for that ! t>he takes care of the house and works like a servant she has no friends but me i was her nurse she is too proud to go with others in the house even her relatives do not patronize her and the servants are always very polite to her and always obey her but behind her back they laugh at her here and cul 1 her the conte.ssa-of-all-work and the eontessa-c'iok her grandfather the count vinella had taught her music and she worked so hard at it that she might earn her own living i that way last week she won the prize at the conservatoire and the city was to pay her tuition with you you should not have spoken so harshly to her signor i found her in her liltle room crying as if her heart would break " kail berger ran his hands through his lair 1 was wrong — very wrong will you tell her i said so ask her to come again and i will promise to be fairer the next afternoon the girl came in it was very silly of me maestro to run away like that she said ; out i want so much to be a good artiste and when you told me i could not — ' don't talk about it please inter rupted karl ; 1 was cross and tired and if you must know it jealous and he s:uiled grimly ' yes jealous that von could play better than i lucia flushed with delight . if you mean that — but no you are laughing at me !' i mean what i said replied karl determinedly i can teach you lech nique perhaps ; after thai you have ' nothing to learn so it was settled one day during the lessons karl said abrupt iv : would yon like also to study at night my evenings are all my own the girl laughed with pleasure and ( ried : oh maestro you are so kind so alter the work was done lucia would come in with marcia her old ' nurse and after the lesson karl would pick up his own violin and play one , night he stopped suddenly and said to her i wish you would not call me ma estro lam ni t a master in music ' 1 am only a sham and some day they will find it out 1 am not much old er than you and don't play any better 1 i want you to think of me as a fellow student not as a teacher what shall j cul you then lu cia askt d shyly karl ' i hat is a pretty name said lucia it was my father's and he went on to speak of his northern home of the snow torm when all the family { died but himself and how he was found famished and senseless with his • violin hugged to his breast and lu cia sat still and drank in cverv word i 1 hen he told him of her own home and her past history each night af ter they laid their music aside they would sit and talk and marcia would it and slumber quietly in her chair soon the opera season commenced and often the three would sit back in some little box which had been plac ed at kail's disposal and listen to the grand creations of masters a ■ happy tiuie for both karl was all i geutleness to the little contessa and ' the grim yon::g norseman began to find himself making jokes to amuse her he to make jo/;es who had hitherto gone through life in his sober solemn way — to make jo/:es ! it was surprising indeed they called each other karl and lucia and sometimes brother and sister so lliin^s went on till suddenly marcia fcjjl s'wk lu cia stayed by her bedside as much as her wora would allow the lessons must cease till marcia grew better for she had no other chaparone and of course it was impossible for her to go without one the days seemed to drag slowly along and the uigltt wat citing began to tell on her she grew paler and went about sad and musing as fur karl the first time that lu cia missed her lesson he became rath er angry she thinks she lias learned every thing perhaps and is through with me be muttered he tried to feel injured and banish her from his mind and for awhile he thought he had succeeded when the long evening came and he found him self alone he became restless and un easy and imagined himself only anxious that nothing might have happened to lucia he took up his violin but soon put it aside and then he went out to the opera-house the prima donna was out of voice and the orchestra vile coining home he met one of the ser vants where is marcia he asked very sick signor so that was it he went gloomily up stairs and went straight to the mirror and began to apostrophize his image maestro berger you are an ass he said quietly however poor she may be she is still contessa and you are on ly karl berger and he took up his violin and commenced to play but with all his self-restraint he found the days very long and tiresome one night lucia sat alone in the room when she heard karl's violin he was telling his story of love unconsciously to the one from whom he intended to hide it as the girl sat there in the darkness holding marcia's hand she felt strangely happy and quiet sudden ly marcia opened her eyes lucia she said i am ever so much better the proud contessa bent over ar.d kissed the wrinkled face of the servant and said gravely that is well but you must sleep marcia and not talk play for me cara said the old wo man drowsily and karl berger heard suddenly from marcia's room the answer to his violin's confession sweetly and softly it came to him at first but soon it swelled out into full volume it told all to him that was necessary and when the girl ceas ed playing and sank back in her chair blushing rosily red there were two peo ple in the house who were perfectly happy when lucia awoke the next morning and found marcia better and the heav ens and the birds in harmony with her happy mood the first thing she did was to kiss her violin and when she had dressed and was coming down the stairs singing like a lark she saw at the foot karl berger his face flushed and look ing very happy indeed tell me little lucia he said eager ly didn't the violin speak truly 1 don't know what she said for i didn't hear it but i do know that milan was surprised to hear that very wintet that one of its contessas had married a music teacher washington hatchet an old man attacked by a hog mr britton parker of buford to wns i rip is 80 years of age mr parker owns a berkshire boar three years old which for a year or more lias been very vicious and he has been compelled lo carry a large stick to defend himself from its savage attacks on last saturday evening mr parker metthe hog in the lane without his stick and was attacked by it the bog threw him down and cut three terrible gashes each about four inches long in his right side and one of his ribs was torn loose from the breast bone a terrible gash three inches long was also cut in the left thigh the hog then desisted and walked oil a fen feet when mr p managed to crawl to the gate which was but a lew feet distant and just managed to set inside and shut it when the hog again made a rush for him mr p was attended by dr t l poster who thought on sun day that his wounds would prove fatal on tuesday morning he was a little better and the doctor then thought he might recover — monroe kiiq'lhcr a goodonc the following burlesque on the loom-foolery now being proposed at austin is from the honey grove independent it is too good to be ! lost while the present legislature is in j session we want them to make it a j felony for boys to tie a can to a dog for a girl to ask for more tlin.ii three saucers of ice cream or three dozen fried oysters for any man to borrow a newspa per who is able to pay for one for writing a spring poem for writing any other poem fur writing anything except as the legislature dictates for a married man to stay out af ter 10 o'clock at night for a married man to go home be fore 10 o'clock at night for him to go home at any time for saying by jingo when he ' might swear like george washington ' or an english nobleman and say egad for speaking of the weather for public speakers to lay all the blame on the printer for it to rain for the sun to shine for having any kind of weather for throwing cluds at a neighbor's chickens for shooting at a thief for shooting at a mark for shooting at all fur having anything to shoot with we call earnestly upon the present legislature for speedy action upon these vital objects for tis with soul wringing a-nguish that we note that the unusual and increasing prevalence of these crimes is leading the fairest j youth of our land into darkest lined paths ever devised by satan for the downfall of man they are by being yet permitted bringing the gray hair ed sire and the loving mother with tottering footsteps lo ignoble and for gotten grave wrecking the sweetest homes into bitter ashes over big'ited hopes and spreading an egyptian plague of ruin misery death and moral chaos in wide spread confusion over what should be the fairest land on the globe and all for want of a little high pressure legislation aud a few felony laws — ni my son said a father to his little boy at the breakfast table if you had the choice to be burnt at the stake like john rogers or to have your head chopped off like king charles the first which would you choose john rogers said the boy and wh ?" because i should prefer a hot stake to a cold chop stands at the head tin i.roiit-ki/xxino domestic that it is the acknowledged lender is a fact that cannot be disputed many imitate it none equal it the ltirprcst armed the lightest running the most beautiful wood work a.\d is warranted to be made of the best material to do any and all kinds of work to be complete in cverv respect agents wanted in unoccupied territory address domestic sewing machine co richmond va for sale by kluttz & rexdleman 84 3g:ly salisbury n c when you want hardware at low figures i'all on the undersigned at no 2 granite row . i a atwell a^3nt for the oarlwellthresher salisbury n c june 8th tf m # ( yi-v e/.v ; - ;•■ - *) ■, royster's - ;, ; ;■' > > j 5 imw filh 2c hit ? sao phosphate i top to iff the best sold in the state t •"•' r i '- f f p v also ' * x *" ;,• - .. . v •• ■■■ : - jy - ■*■-■" y 1 1rman kainit 11 4 ■■•,' s j ■• . 8 % j m'l all fou v l 1 composting i ■ ■'■■- v •• ■' ■• / l!»i * = - ■■■;,' iii tobacco guano 1 t in small size sacks ; y 4 a v -■.•.- i : for plant beds § j ?' ■ ' " :; g i ; § " - ; t / " : "/ % v r f ' a r i - i truly r : h pi w xxx