WMni.r.q^pi WW)"' V^rtl tpMBWWi yWWBMKiUMu^.^ fc^^v i. yyi *J?m- ^sja jt -f- iwv $ *i but had paid a large sum for the privilege A Little Boy's Pocket, it was deep), an^ buyod up by the hopes he lived to extreme old age-f-Titian lived poor but respectable young man fell in of instruction. Altera time his gentle which her youth and sex might well be but for his art that was his wife, love with Sarah, he should have my consent. Do you know what's in my pottet? manners, his love for the art and his rapid excused for forming, and drank, in daughter, all to him! Some mothers would sacrifice their Such a lot of treasure in it' progress in it had so far won upon Titian draughts of delight (for hope is the Hebe Of the Prince we have no further record. daughter's happiness for riches, but I am Listen now, while I bedin it! Such a lot ofsings to hold, a lone and widowed manas to make of mortality and pours from a golden The annals of Venice record not notofthatsort.Xf "4 And every sin dat's in my pottet, him solicit that Giulio would become an vase!) which made her happy hearted his capture, so it is presumed that he escaped. The young man started vith alarm he And when, and where, and now I dot it inmate of his house. Titian was a solitary beyond what she bad ever been before. But whether he reached his lady didn't know whether he liked Sarah or tor his son was a wild youth, who had Then it was that her father completed love, whether he married her, and whether not he hadn't dreamed of marriage. First ofall,here's inmypottet left Venice for Cyprus in the suite of the that picture which has been known as a in after life, he ever paused to think "She has acknowledged to me that she A beauty shellI pickedit up admiral, and his daughter Beatrice was c/t, f-d'auvre in portraiture, which the upon Beatrice, is unknown but he was And here's the handle ofa tup loves you," continued the mother ''and in a convent in the Fnuli, of which one pencil of the painter and the burin of kind and gentle, so it is impossible that That somebody had broke at tea whatever is for her happiness is for of his relatives was a lady principal. The shell's a hole in it you see the engraver have multiplied through he could have readily forgotten one so mine." Nobody knows dat I dot it, Giulio Mantoni accepted the invitation, the world. And during all this time beautiful, so gentle as her. The young man stammered out: "II I keep it safe here in my pottet. and for three months preceding the day which passed on happily for Giulio also, There is no more to add. This is the haven't neve" ,4Ob mind! Make no apology. on which this slight tale commences he he was not in love with Beatrice. whole story, so far as it can nw be And here's my ball too, in my pottet, had been to Titian affectionate, kind an They sat together now, in the month known, of Titian's Daughter. I know you haven't much money but of And her.e's my pennies, one, two, free, obedient as a son. He was so skillful with of July, with a delicious breeze sweeping That Aunty Mary gave to me: course you'll live with me. We'll take his pencil, too, that Titian was reminded SELLS." To-morrow day 111 buya spade, up the Adriatic and fanning the curtains in boarders, and I'll be bound that we'll When I'm out walking with the maid by his skill and enthusiasm of what his of the room like the sails of some rapid get along all right" I can't put dat here in my pottet, It would puzzle a philosopher to give own son had been at the same age. some bark. It was now midday, and all was It was a bad situation. Hehad hadn'tn ButI can use it when I v dot it. an exact definition of the "sell." Nearly I thirty years before. calm in Venice as in other cities at the even looked love at Sarah. related to the hoax, it differs from it in Some days passed on and the portrait hour of midnight, for the heat ofthe room idea of" he began when she held up Here's some new sines in my pottet! being more innocent in its inception and string1, still remained in Titian's studio. Giulio kept even the gondolierie within her hands, saying: I know you hadn't: Here's my lead, and here's my less mischievous in its consequences. often looked at it but never spoke of it, doors. But it was cool in the room in And once I had an iron ring, but it's all right. With your wages and Some little ingenuity is required to concost But through a hole it lost one day and Titian did not err when he thought which Beatrice and Giulio were sitting, what the boarders bring in, whe shall get a happv "sell but any one may perpetrate And thisis what I always say that there was a meaning in his silence. for the long blinds had been drawn down, along as snug as possible. All that I A ho\e's the worst sin in a pottet, a hoax who is equal to "lending a excluding the sunshine and admitting ask is that you be good to her Sarah has But the grand festival day of Venice Have it mended when you've dot it. lie the confidence of truth." The later is a the breeze. She had been singing, and it a tender heart, and if you should be cross was at hand. This was Ascension Day, deliberately planned deception, oftenest was from the flush of her cheek and the and ugly, it would break her down in a of which the Doge performed the annual attaining its end by personation or forgery tenderness of her tone as she closed the week." ceremony of signifying the maritime TITIAN'S DAUGHTER. or something closely akin to it whereas adenza that Giulio now first surmised The young man's eyes stood out like power of the signory by casting a golden a sell needs no such playing with edged what might be the nature of her feelings cocoanuts in a shop window, and he rose ring into the waters of the Adriatic. The From an Old Maculae. tools, and may not oniy be unpremediated, towards him. This was the song up and tried to say something. custom was, at this proud celebration, for Thou dost not admire that picture, but even unintentional. "Never'mintd about the thanks," courtesh Venice to send out her population of all Ob, sue not though for fortune's dower Giulio?" said the great painter, Tiziano 441 don' believe in long Many an unpremeditated sell has been cried degrees, and it was certain at such times With lordly pomp to gild thy fate, perpetrated from inability to resist sudden Yecelli, of Venice to his favorite pupil, ships. The eleventh of January is my Nor ask of cold, ambitious power, the iairest daughters of Venice never temptation. One of the Judges of Giulio Mantoni. To crown thee with a haughty state! birthday, and it would be nice for you to Si, si, signoi but whose portrait is were absent. 4 the Supreme Court of New York State, Seek not for conquest to entwine 4 be married on that day." The short voyage of the Doge from the Ensanguined laurels in the hair, visited the Centennial Exibition, sat "Butbutbut" he gasped. it? When was it painted? and where has But listen to this lay of mine, quay of the ducal palace to the boundary down in a quiet corner apart from the This orison, this ardent prayer "There, there! I don't expect any it been until dosnow?t" ot Lido and Maltmocca was always performed others, to listen to a great cornet-player, Thou no ask who painted it. Of "love me, love me!" 4 speech in reply," she laughed. "You and on this occasion in a stately vessel 4 and as was his wont in court, drew his Sarah settle it to-night, and I'll advertise called the Bucentaur, a galley said to gray coat about his head and ears as a Oh, if the noontide of thy heart Hast no curiosity, hast no wish to learn for twelve boarders straight away. Ill be of equal antiquity with these maritime this?1' With sorrow were o'ercast, protection against possible draughts. His try to be a model mother-in law. I If grief hod done its deadliest part nuptials. This magnificent vessel always motionless figure soon attracted uttention believe I'm good tempered and kind Till joy were of the past, Curiosity enough, as thou well knowest, bore a freight of some importance for and the whisper ran that it was the How gently 'mid such gloom would fall hearted, though I did once follow a young signor, to prove my descent from Eve, besides the Doge, the council, the chief statue of some wonderful character. The The brilliancy of hope's joy shine, man 200 miles and shoot off the top of his officers of state and the admiral of the whose failing that way lost a paradise to When thought on thought would still recall Jude's eister wickedly told those near head for agreeing to marry my daughter When first fond lips were pressed to thine, port (who acted as pilot, and was bound that thev were gazing at the effigy of an Adam. But I need not ask who painted and then quitting the country." She With "love me. love me'" by oath to bring the vessel back to her Aztec priest from Mexico. The information thus, for there is only one who can paint patted him on the head and sailed out. harborage in the arsenal), it bore the ambassadors The song had ceased, it was a simple passed from mouth to mouth, and And now the young man wants advice. thus. There is only one pencil which from the vaiious countries in melody, but theie was a startling expression some hundreds of people were drawn to He wants to know whether he had better can blend such beautiful coloring with alliance with the republic. Sometimes, ot earnestness in it which struck to the spot, to disperse somewhat sheepishly get in the way of a locomotive or slide besides the ncbilissimi and the state such free drawing. Signor maestro, if Giulio's heart. Eor a brief space he sat when the object of their curiosity, having off the wharf If ever a young bachelor officials, it bore citizens of worth, and at in silence, and then thus spoke to the had enough of the cornet, readjusted thou couldst have thy pictures unrecognized, was "sold," Sarah's young man was in ce times the Doge was glad to see by his beautifulaside cautatr his coat and rose to go. Lay the mandarin, dear Beat- thou must even hang them with 4 that predicament Chamber Journal. side the great painter, Tiziano Vecelh, 4 A good story is told of one Boggs. the painting to the wall." whose pencil could confer such immortality rice, and let us talk. You have never whose impertinent curiosity was proverbial "Flattery, Giuliolank flattery! But as earth is proud of, and whose The Borrowing Nuisance* inquired who or what I am. I consider throughout the country that owned works reflected more fame upon Venice I believe thou meanest what thou sayest. you as my sister, and it is not well that him. He wa3 on one occasion travelling The greatest nuisance that the farmer than Venice in all her glory could bestow you should be in ignorance ot this." As4to thisignor, portrait"e Nay, said Beatrice with a smile and on the Little Miami Railroad, alongside Ay whos likeness is it?" 4 has to contend with, and one which entails upon him. 4 4 a solemn-looking man, who presisted in on him a not inconsiderable amount of Giulio, with others of his age, followed a blush, I will not own you as a brothei, looking out of the window, and took no "As thou art anxious to know, my loss, in time and cash, is the borrowing in the procession, for it was a scene of and I will have no unravelling of mysteries. heed of Boggs' endeavors to enliven the Giulio, and often playest a trick upon huisance. Neighbor A may be a very niceman matchless beauty and magnificence, well Let me sing this barcarole journey with a little conversation. At thy master, methinks I shall not tell in many ways he is sociable, chatty worthy the attention of a painter's mind "Beatrice," said he, with a grave air last the braKeman or guard came round thee. Thou mayest look grave if thou and agreeable. He sends over to our place and eye. The Bucentaur was swept on andjearnest tone that suddenly chilled with some water, and the unsociable wilt, but I shall not tell thee rune. Call and politely asks us to lone him our spade. in a stately manner by the rowers, and her mirth "Beatrice, this is the time, for traveller turned round to take a drink. my gondolieri the day is pleasant and We do not like to lone him our old, weakbacked Giulio's light gondola came near it, within your sake as for my own, to have the Seizing the chance, Boggs asKed. "Going they shall row me across the Lido. affair, so we let him have our new full view of the gallant company beneath mystery unraveled, if it be worth the as tar east as New York Addio, addio!" one, Mr. A promising to return it the next its gorgeous canopy of crimson name of mystery. I am not quite what I "No," grunted the mac. evening, sure, as we want to use it the following The painter went on his way across damask, richly embroidered with gold. appear in a word, 1 aui of the royil "Ah!" said Boggs, "New York is dull day. Our plans are all laid out the lagune and smiled as one smiles at a To Giulio's amaze, Titian had by his side house of Spain my mother was the this time of year meb\e you're striking for work, in which the spade is to play a lucky thought or a successful speculation. a young lady, and when she turned her daughter of a noble ot Almaine my father for Philadelphia?" prominent part, and yet there is no spade Thetmusings were pleasant withiand as face for a moment, Giulio saw to his surprise the Emperor Charles. To avoid a marriage The surely one shook his head. a listles length" the to be found. One of the men is dispathed 4t he lay and delight that she was the fair of his choice, heart and hand being "P'raps Cleveland's your destination'" to bring the missing sbade, while our canopy of his gondola they found such original of the portrait. plighted to a lady-love of my own, I fled insinuated Mr. Boggs. "No?" Can't be other hands potter around until this imd utterance as this from Spain and became a pupil of your The ceremonial went on, and Andrea going this roundabout way to Chicago 44He is a good youth, and hath a proper other tools are brought back. In the father's as much from love of the art as Gritte, the Doge, wedded the sea (an unstable No reply was vouchsafed. course of an hour the man returns minus love for art he is studious, too, gentle in to give my leisure pleasant occupation." and fickle mistress) with the accustomed We wed the with this "Well," cried Boggs, despairingly, I 4 the spade, not being able to find either manner, affectionate, and with a warm words,4 But he spoke to cars whicn heard him s'pose youve no objections to telling the spade or Mr. A, the latter having gone heart. My Beatrice is a tender dove, and in token of our true and perpetual sovereignty." not, for ere he had concluded Beatriee where yo,u are going? Well sir. exclaimed the man, I'm 4 to some remote part of his farm to work. it will be well if she can find a shelter in The moment these words was in a swoon. She was speedily recoveied 4 We then have to alter our plans for that his breast. How he gazed upon the picture were uttered, and the ring cast into the and thus earnestly spoke to him going for seven years!" day's work and go to work at something If he admire the original only halt sea, it was strewn with flowers and fragrant "I did not knowI could notthat we Then the Deputy Sheriff said he would else, after losing considerable time for the as much, the train will soon be in flames. herbs, in the fanciful idea that thuj had a prince beneath our humble roof, rather not have folks talking to his prisoners, accommodation of Mr. A The following He is a goodly youth." And with such the bride was crowned. but whatever you are you must quit and Boggs gave in. morning, on going to the shed where we thoughts did Titian take council on his The pageant ended, Giulio speeded to Venice. It was but yesternight I heard This puts us in mind of Mark Twain keep our tools, the spade is found, full of brief and pleasant voyage to the Lido. Titian's house. He found the great artist at the riddotto at Signor Barberigo's that anecdotes of Artemus Ward and a traveling dirt and grime. We start out to work Meanwhilo the pupil employed himself before the easel, busied, as usual, in some the proweditori had an order to arrest a bore, between whom the following with it, only to find that some of neighbor in looking at the "portrait more minutely work for immortaity. They spoke on Spanish prince who was disguised and amusing colloquy took place Di you hear that last thing of A's men have been using it as a pry and 4 than he heretofore had done. The various subjects, but Titian made no concealed in Venice, I heard it by the 4 have bi ooken its back. We swallow the renewed and closer examination confirmed mention of the young signora, of whom merest chance, as I stood near two nobili Ho4 i ace Greeley's? Greeley, Greeley, Horace Greely loss as best we can, and buy another spade. his original opinion of its excellence, Giulio had just one glance. At last who were talking together, and that the 4 A nice, new briar scythe is borrowed to not alone as a work of art, but as the representation Giulio said that he had seen Titian on the arrest was to be made to-morrow. You who is he?" said Artemus. help in clearing a piece of new ground of a character of feminine deck of the Bucentaur but this, though must fly, signor, it neither suits your Five minutes elapsed, theniscame. George Francis Trai making a and get it ready for tne plow. In the 4 loveliness more attractive than he had yet it challenged Titian's allusion to the lady, safety nor your honor that you remain 4 carelessness and hurry the scythe snathe beheld in Tenice. The portrait represented drew no remark from him about her, so here. Venice wars with the Emperor good deal of distuibance over in England gets badly charred in the fires of brush, a beautiful girl just in the spring that, at last, Giulio ventured to say that Charles my father, the most honored do you think they will put him in while the temper in the blade is entirely of youth, bearing aloft in her hands a he thought the signora much resembled citizen of Venice, has been distinguished prison?" Train, Train, George Francis Train," destroyed. This is returned, with great 4 massive casket, and pausing, as it were, the portrait which he had admired from by the emperor, and the suspicion of having 4 sorrow being expressed that the thing has in her onward progress, to cast a smile the moment it first met his view. wittingly harbored you would only said Artemus, solemnly I never heard happened as it has but never a word 44Admire it, Signor Giulio Mantoni? upon the beholderlike a sudden sunburst be equaled by the misery of your capture of him." about replacing it with a new one. Our The lace was one of exquisite here." Fall asleep before it in excess ot admiration The tormentor tried another tack he clean sound carriage is borrowed. It is beauty, but the naive and cheerful expression, Well, well, thou needest notblush. Giulio, or, as he should rather be called said: What do you think ahout Grant's brought back after sundown with a bolt the heartyjoyousness, the guileless Tis my daughter Beatrice, whom thou Prince Anthony of Leon, seemed aston chance for the Presidencv?" or two missing, perhaps a spoke broken, and trusting eloquence of aspect, shalt meet anon. But signor, if thou ished at this intelligence. "Grant, Grant?Why man!" said and the whole coveied with a generous 4,And whither can I fly?' demanded he, formed a part of intellectual loveliness shouldst admire her, or if thou shouldst Artemus, you seem to Know more sprinkling of mud. The horse-rake goes far greater than usually accompanies not, it would be well for thee to take thy seeking counsel in this hour of peril from strangers than anyone I ever saw." the roi nds of the neighborhood and finds mere beauty of features. Forthough to siesta ere thou meetest her. Women, as Beatrice.namedyou The man took a walk up the car, com You spoke ofyou have its way home with one or two teeth broken. 4 say so would be treason against the~majestyof 4 thou knowest, like not cavaliers who are ing back, he said: "Well, you ignoramus, A sharp saw and sharp chisels are borrowed, that sex whom we generalize as drowsy. Nay, I have not told her that. ne to whom your faith is plighted she did you ever hear of Adam?" and the saw is brought into contact "fair" 1 fear it is but too true that the She saw thee, and asked who thou wert, must ill deserve it if she will not shelter The humorist lookes hidother up and said4 Adam? Wha was name?" witn nails, which does not improve either 4 perfection of personal and mental beauty and I told her Giulio but not thai thou .you." Yo speak wisely, Beatrice," said the 4 the set or the sharpness of the teeth, while do not often meet in one. Yet, even now 4 didst gaze thyself to sleep before her The journey henceforth was made in the chisels usually have several suspicious do I remember to have met that union. portrar. Now, let us within. Thou wilt price "it is the oaugther of Storza, pace. nicks in them which plainly show they The young artist admired the portrait like my gentle Beatrice. She reminds Duke of Milan, and with him, albeit he Very nicely sold were a couple of have been borrowed. As with the tools for some time and then fell into a meditative me of what her fair and loving mother is but a cold friend of my house, nor has tramps who waylaid a wealthy farmer in and implements, so it is with books, periodicals, humora thing unsual for him, was." he much cause to be otherwise, I shall Louisa County, Iowa, and demanded his etc. A valuable book from our for, though he was a Spaniard, he was a And Giulio did very much like Beatrice find safety. And you, Beatrice? money or his life. Disinclined to part library is borrowed and taken to the borrower's youth of quick imagination and lively Vecelli. who, in turn, admired the Of menothing not a word now, with either, he took to his heels. They home, where the children, usually temperament, and it is not the want ot manly beauty and chivalrous bearing of not a thought hereafter. Here," added chased him half a mile down the roughest with unclean hands, thumb over it till it such to anticipate the contemplative the Spaniard. Admired?alas, that is a she, tearing off a necklace, here, if you of lanes, dashed aftei him through a brierhedge looks like anything but its former self, thoughts which they believe belong to word all too weak. Woman scarcely want the means wherewith to reach and went panting across an old while there may be several leaves missing, the maturer season of manheod. The knows a medium, in Her intercourse with Milan, take tnis I have no more need of corn-field. Then the chased one struck having been taken to supply the place of youth thought and thought and thought our sex between the coldest indifference costly ornament." for the woods, and went wheezing up a less convenient paper. Periodiclas are until, when Titian returned, he found his and the warmest love. Long before she This offer was declined, for the "prince steep hill his pursuers pressing closely borrowed, and, it returned at all, are in a pupil seated opposite the portrait, with knew it Beatrice was deeply and devotedly had jewels with him more than sufficient behind with blood-shot eyes and shortened sadly dilapidated condition. Many and his pencial in his hand ani his head attached to Giulio, Her father saw to pay all charges. He saw the urgent breath. The farmer dashed across a fortyacre many a valuable, book have we lost by downward droopingeven as in his mood this, and did not check it he already necessity of speedy flight, penned a hasty stubble field, across a frozen creek loaning, while the broken files of our papers of poetic thought I have seen that of loved Giulio Mantoni as a son, and cheerily billet ot leave and gratitude to Titian, and through a blackberry patch' down a ravine, show that we have loaned them, too. Wordsworth, the great master of the anticipated that, in the natural course then returned to greet Beatrice with a over another hill, across a stumpfield, Happily there area few borrowers who lyre. Titian came near, but Giulio did of time and circumstance,, he would become farewell. He did not mark that her lips to be run down on the road by the take good care of what they tiorrow and not stir nearer still, and Giulio was sowiththe consentof Beatrice. ware as pale as death and her eyes glazed, tramps. They overhauled him thoroughly, try to return it in as good order as the breathing heavily close to him and and her cheek and brow as stoined. searched him from top to toe, to find Very much did Giulio admire the loveliness, received it, in default of which they replace touched his shoulder. The youth upstarted Herhand scarcely trembled whenbe pressed he had not a solitary cent wherewith to the grace, the innocence of Beatrice it. To such persons we take pleasure He had fallen asleep before the it, and, gently as one would embrace a reward them for their perseverance. Vecelli, but he did not love her with in lending, and always shall. We portrait! sleeping child, he kissed more than a biother's love. To do him Our concluding example relates to an Lher fair, cold think our readers have had" some experience brow. He was gone! Oh, what a very unlover-like accident! justice hejwas all unconscious of the feelings afiecting romance told by the Detroit with these nuisancesborrowers But a siesta is a treasure to the Spaniard, which his attentive kindness had Free Press. It was the secSnd time that And with him went the terrible determinationwhich and can testify to what we nave/ written and the day way dull, and it was wearisome awakened in her gentle heart. He read the hero of the story had accompanied in this wreck of her above as not being one whit overdrawn to be'a alone, and, if the truth must to her and talked with her as if she were the young lady home from one ot those heart's hopes had nerved her to act this for we could cite many other incident' be told, Giulio, who had all a painter's his own dear sister and she made the too little social parties which are got up to dreadful partto simulate indifference similar, and, no doubt, could they.Prac-* eye for beauty, had been up half the preceding common mistake of thinking that these bring fond hearts a step nearer each other. while amid despair she felt the immortality iicai Farmer. night, serenading a beautiful general courtesies, made most kind When they reached the gate, she of love. She never moved nor spoke 1 1*1 dama, whose bright eyes had tascinated through the sauvity of his manner, had a asked hinr if he wouldn't come in. He and when at eve her father returned he The Faribault city council haadacidedto him one evening as he passed beneath the particular application. So, the signora said he would. Sarah took his hat, told found her statue-like. For weeks sne lay issue hoenses to druggists for the sale of windows of her father's palace. was in love! him to sit down, and left the room to re helpless as an infant, and at last she died. spirituous, vinous and malt liquor* forWdicinal, move her things. She was hardly gone Giulio Mantoni had been Titian's pupil Her heart was broken. She died, and Two monthi had passed by since the return mechanical, and chemical purposes before her mother came in, smiled"sweetly, for some six months previous to the incident with her died her father's hopes and pride. of Beatrice to her father's house, and only. The demand for the rosy tor mechanical, and dropping down beside the young of the portrait and the slumber. Within a month after Giulio's departure during this time the young maiden, flushed purposesas a lubricator, forhwtan man, said "I always did say that if a she had ceased to be. .Henceforthand Without any introduction he had come with her growing passion (innocent as "expected to be immense. hjLJi* 4- HIT i ^r*"^ *es -*-y J"- fniiriiittiiiiHftf'ff^iYilit i iianiiiin,)iiI, i in JL Vr^~