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He was apparently about 50 years of age, of medium height, stout, with a broad, flat head, from the top of which the hair had dis appeared, leaving a bushy ring round the sides and back. His face, which was ruddy and broad, with a large nose and a thick mouth, indicated coarse good nature and shrewdness, tempered by irritability. At the moment we come upon him he was standing in his shirt and trousers before the looking glass, endeavoring to adjust a scarf necktie of brilliant colors. Something seemed to be wrong with the fastenings, and after a few ineffectual struggles he wrathfully flung this im portant article of a gentleman's attire on the floor, emphasizing the act with an audible expletive. He then walked to the mantelpiece and poured seme of the contents of a decanter into a tumbler, gazed at the liquor for a moment, and tossed it down his throat. He turned to the table, upon which, among various other articles, was lying a foreign cable gram. He took this up and glanced over it gloomily, then thrust his hands into his trousers pockets and strode heavily to the window, where he remained, mak ing inarticulate grunts and inutterings, and occasionally puckering his thick lips to whistle a few bars of some operatic air. After a while his wandering gaze was arrested by the figure of a gentleman, fashionably dressed, who was coming along the street in the direction of the hotel. He stepped hastily across the room, and pressed the button of the elec tric bell beside the door. "Tell the clerk," he said to the servant who presently answered the summons, "to ask Mr. Hamilton Jocelyn if he'll come up here: 1 want to see him. 1 guess youil find him in the ofiice. Look alive now!" "All right, general," replied the ser vant, who was a complacent negro, and seemed to entertain a kindly regard for the stout gentieunm. "Nothin' else, sah?" "Go to; the devil!" the general an swered testily; upon which the colored person smiled indulgently, and gently withdrew. An interval of several minutes fol lowed, during which the general march ed up and down the room with a preoc cupied and impatient air, like a lion moodily pacing his cage. At last there wa3 a loud and brisk knock on the door, which opened at the same moment, and Mr. Jocelyn came in, with a jaunty smile and a cigar in Ms mouth. "Halloo, Signer Don Gercerai Impre sario Inigo!" he exclaimed, as his gazu perused the wrathful and lugubrious Sgure of the owner of the room; "who's been crumpling your rose leaves now? Do you know it's half-past 10 o'clock and yon ought to be" "I ought to be! Oh, yes: of conrse 1 aught to be! 1 shall be, too, before long ?with such a gang of thieves and scomi irels as I've got to deal with! Now, look here!" "I'm looking," said Jocelyn, seating bimself in a rocking chair and crossing one knee over the other. "Have a cigar? Why don't you put on your vest? 1 de dare, general, yon're getting stouter every day. Why don't yon adopt the Iurkish costume? It would suit your Egure to a dot, besides giving your inno cent victims a warning of your charac ter. When I was in Stamboul" "Now, just you listen here," interrupt ed the general, a slight Jewis\ pronun ciation becoming perceptible in his speech. He drew up a chair in front of bis guest and sat down on it, with Iiis feet drawn up underneath, and his fat hands on his knees. "Just you listen here. I'm an honest man, ain't I? 1 pay my way cash down, don't I? I'm no slouch nor deadbeat, am I? When 1 sign a contract, and And I've got left, i don't go bacK on it, do I? Oh, this is a sweet world for honest folk, this is! I'ye been in this business fifteen years, by Jupiter! I've run all the big singers in this country and in Europe, and if you Americans have ever seen an oi>era decently put on the stage you may thank me for it. Where would all \ hese blessed stars and divas, with their throe and four thou sand dollars a night, where would they be if Moses Inigo hadn't shown 'em up. and worked for 'cm, and kept/ em straight, and humored em. and stepped out and told lies for 'em to the public's face, by Jupiter? And here I am. a poor man today, and they rolling in riches! And haven't 1 just gone and built the finest opera bouse in the world for a million and a half of dollars out of my own pocket and" "Yes, for a poor and virtuous man you've done pretty well, general." put in Jocelyn, removing his fiat and yawning. "But what's the matter? Has the chorus struck for higher wage? or wont tho electric light work? ordi?in"t that fellow at tho club pay you the five (iollars you won of him? or haven't you had your cocktail this morning? or what?*' With an air of terrible calmness Gen. Inigo arose, took the telegram from the table, and handed it to his friend with out a word. The latter received it indo- i lently, disengaged from his fob pocket a i pair of eyeglasses, placed them across ' the handsome curve of his nose, and be- ; gan to read the telegram with a sigh. Meanwhile the general, with a certain | air of tragic satisfaction, repaired to the ' mantelpiece and repeated Iiis lato trans- ' action with the decanter and tumbler. ; He then resumed his chair, si ill in silence. Jocelyn had by this time reread the telegram mere than once, had said i miiiinninfi?imiiiiim ? ii "Humph!" in several tones, and had bit- : ten his lip and pulled at his side whiskers j reflectively. "Well," he observed at I length, returning the paper to the other, j "she has played it pretty low down on | yon, Inigo, and no mistake! Any idea what's got into her?"' The general lifted his shoulders and eyebrows and spread out his hands. He j had temporarily become as voiceless as he was just now voluble. He was en joying the dignity of unutterable wrongs. "Any row about tenus?" pursued ! Jocelyn. The impresario smiled scornfully, as one who could not deign to correct such" an insinuation. "Must be something, you know," said Jocelyn. "A woman doesn't throw away twelve thousand dollars a week for noth ing. Depend on it you've stepped on her toes somehow. Til tell you what it may be?you haven't put about any i photographs of her. Of course! What 'are you thinking of?" > "Yes, you are one of those fellows that think they can fix everything in five mkmtes," growled the impresario, breaking silence at last. "Now just youdook at this." He held up a broad, square topped forefinger. "That woman ha^Miever had a photograph, nor any so: picture, made of her in her life. ;Slu0'won"t allow it to be done. That's her<^d, and, by Jupiter, it's pretty s:nar*^Lf her, when you come to think "HovkIv, is she? Has to depend on her vou*'. I see." "Yon don't see an inch before your nose! She may depend on her voice when she's nothing else to depend on. There's not another voice like it ever been heard in America: but?homely! Well, i saw her last year in St. Peters burg, and if ever I set my eyes on a handsomer woman I'll take 'em out of my head and give 'em to her! No, sir! I'm a judge, it any man is, and I say that for face, figure and movement there ain't lier equal on the stage to lay." "Then why the deuce" "Exactly. That's just it. 'Why the deuce?* is the whole thing in a nut shell. Everybody says it, and what's the result? Why, that everybody's ten times as hot to see her as if they all had her picture tucked away in their breast pockets, or their watch cases, or on their mantelpieces, if they're bachelors. She makes on it every time. She knows that any woman can be made to look handsome in a photograph: but she's the anly handsome woman before the public whose photo's never been seen. 1 tell you, sir, curiosity, if it's managed well, will make two dollars where beauty or anything else will make one. There's no advertisement ever came up to it! And to work up curiosity lias been that woman's pet scheme from the start. There's more stories going about her, and scandal and fewer facts than yon can put 3'our fingers 0.1. * * * Oh. she's smart!" "She's overdone it this tim^," Jocelyn remarked. " 'Unable to keep my con tract' is what her telegram says; 'will pav forfeit.' How much is that, by the by?" "Bah! I would as lief take ten cents! Am I a man to cry about a little money? That ain't my trouble. But here I am, with my opera house built, and my post ers out for three weeks back, and ad vertisements and paragraphs in every paper in the Union, and everybody on their beam ends to get the first sight of the great Russian prima donna (though whether she's Russian, or Irish, or Amer ican, the devil only knows; it's just what she's a mind to call it), and my great prima donna drops me a telegram that she ain't coming, by Jupiter! A nice ficrure she makes me cut, don't she? Here I am, with a public record of fifteen years, and never once disappointed an audience, or kept them waiting, or failed to give them their money's worth, and now, after ail my labor and planning and contriving, this is the reward I get? to be made a fool of! The jewel reputa tion, that's what she's robbed me of! I'd sooner she'd done me out of a million. Bat I'll be even with her, as s\re as I'm Inigo, if I have to send her an ounce of dynamite in a jewel case!" "She's never been heard in this coun try, has she?" "No, nor in England either. I don't suppose there's another man besides me in New York today that has ever heart? or seen her. She's kept herself on th* continent and sung for royalty and kept herself out of people's way, as if she were royalty herself?that's been her game. And a first class game it is, too. when a woman can afford to play it, as she can. She never hollers for herself: she lets the others do it for her. And that's why the public will pay higher to listen to her?if they could only get her ?than to any other woman that sings: and I traveled 8,000 miles and spent close on to two million dollars just so they might have what they wanted, and this is how 1 get left!" "Can't you get any other" "Any other? Oh, yes; 1 dare say; of course! 1 think 1 can see 'em when I propose it! Why, they've been that jealous of this new woman, as they call her, and of me building a theatre for her, and cracking her up to be the finest soprano and the grandest singer in the world, that when they hear she's sold me they'll be ready to split 'emselves for joy; tliat's what they'll be! And if they could only get me to ask one of 'em to take her place, so as to give a chance to say, 'Don't you wish you may get me?' I do believe they'd split outright and be done with it!" "You're confoundedly vulgar this morning, Inigo," observed his friend musingly. "They say success is more trying than adversity, but I think the reverse is true in your case. Of course I wasn't thinking of substituting Patti or Scalchi, or any of that caliber. They'd stand on their dignity, naturally; but. as your great Russian is entirely un known here, except by reputation, I was thinking"? He paused. "Out with it, man, if there's anything there!" exclaimed Gen. Inigo impa tiently. "By George. I shouldn't wonder if it could be done!" muttered Jocelyn, half to himself. "Why not? There's necessity enough on both sides!" "What's tliat?" demanded the general. "I'll tell you what I want you to do, Inigo," said Jocelyn, throwing the butt of his cigar into thcfirei>lace,and resum- ! Lag his hat. "I want you to finish put- j ting on your clothes, and get yourself into a composed and respectable frame of | mind, and then join me downstairs, and i we'll go over tot lie club and have break- I fast. I've had only a cup of coffee this morning thus far." "Have breakfast?" cried the general : indignantly. "Is that all you have to i pr< ?p< >sc?" "No: n< .t by a good deal. Unless I'm very much mistaken I've got a scheme that'll set you on your legs again, upset ; all the rivals and make your gre * Rus sinn si rangle herself for rage. But I'm going to tunrit over ia my; mind first, and then I'll let you into ft in my own way. You came to the right quarter this time, old fellow. But it isn't every j man in the world, let me remind you, [ that's got a Hamilton Jocelyn to advise : him." "All I have to say," returned Inigo, as he took his place once more in front of j the- looking glass and selected another i neck scarf from the drawer, "is that j whoever does Moses Inigo a good turn never has any reason to regret it. That's all I have to say at present. We'll go into details when we've heard what the good turn looks like." "You'll find me below in the reading room," said Jocelyn turning, with his hand on rhe door. "You'd better make your arrangements so that we can leave town if necessary and be away all night. And, mind }-ou, don't open your mouth to any human soul about what has hap pened. Everything depends on that." "I guess I know how to hold ray tongue anyhow," reclaimed the impre sario resentfully. But before he couhl say more the door had closed and be was alone. In the course of ten minutes he finished his toilet and sallied forth, jingling his door key as he went. "If he pulls me out of this scrape, by Jupiter, I'll make his fortune," he mur mured to himself. ;is ho took the eleva tor to the office floor. When the two gentlemen were seated at their breakfast fable, in a retired cor ner of the club dining room, and had swallowed their first cup of coffee, Joce lyn opened his mouth and spake as fol lows: "How old is your Russian phoenix?" "She looks twenty and may be thirty," the general replied. "What's her style? Stout or thin, tall or short, dark or fair?" "That's about as she likes, I expect. She's what I call a true child of nature ?changes with the seasons," said the other with a wink. "One of those wo men with hazel eyes and oval face, and hair all the way from straw color to black,- that can make 'emselves look like anything. She's about medium height. When we'd signed the contract at our last interview," he continued, putting on a diabolical leer of retrospective gallan try, "I pressed a chaste salute upon her brow, and didn't have to stoop for it." "Probably it was the recollection of that embrace that influenced her in throwing up her engagement," remarked Jocelyn dryly. "You're a dangerous fellow with women, Inigo, in some senses! Better make all your salutes parting ones?final partings. Well, to continue, does she speak English?" "Just as well as I do myself," returned the general emphatically. "Pooi' girl!" said Jocelyn as if to him self. "What are all these questions for, anyhow?" -demanded Inigo, after a pause. "What sort of an actress is she?" went on Jocelyn, net noticing the interruption. "Realistic or conventional or what?" "Independent, I should call her," said the other. "She doesn't seem to act much anyhow, if you know what I mean. Free ? graceful ? spontaneous!" he explained, waving his short arm about, with a forkful of mashed potato in his hand. "Worth your money to oce her just walk about the .stage," he added, engulfing the potato in his enor mous jaws. "She'll do!" said Jocelyn, leaning back hi his chair with the air of a man who has succeeded in an arduous and ingen ious enterprise. "Your famous Russinr. diva, my dear Signor Impresario, lives not more than a hundred miles from where we are sitting; and if I knowan} thiug about human nature, and hers in particular, she will make her appearance as per advertisement, and sing herself and you up to your chins in bank notes, not to mention my modest little com mission!" "Bah! What ails him now?" said the general, helping himself to another croquette. "Let me tell you a little story," con tinued Jocelyn. "About a hundred miles from New York city there lived, once upon a time, a beautiful and tal ented young lady, only daughter of a father who had brought her up in lux ury, refinement and seclusion. This young lady had an amazing genius for music, and a voice so ravishing that the larks came down from the clouds to lis ten to her, and the nightingales grew hoarse, with unavailing rivalry. The bu:it instructor in the world was pro cured to train her, and in the course of a few years he turned her out finished in every resneet. But, unfortunately for mankind, lier affluent circumstances forbade her appearance on the public stage. At this juncture, however, a providential change of circumstances al tered the entire complexion of her career. She had a brother, a wild and graceless youth, who, finding his native place too narrow for the development of Ms ener gies, went forth to investigate foreign lands, with an unlimited letter of credit on the paternal exchequer. Now, this same letter of credit is the specious?specie, I would say?dis guise of the fairy who works the trans formation. The energetic youth makes use of it to such good purpose that in less than a year from the time of his de parture he has not only exhausted the family income,- but lias made desperate inroads into the capital, most of which has to be sold and the remainder heavily mortgaged?tho old gentleman paying all demands for the sake of what he calls the honor of the family, though other people might think it was in order to prove what an incorrigible idiot a man of antiquated prejudices and aristocratic lineage ear., make of himself when he is afforded the opportunity. The result, at any rate, at the time of which we speak is that the old gentleman finds himself choked with honor and destitute of cash; that he is on the point of being obliged to sell tho ancestral mansion in order to satisfy tho creditors, and that were the honor he has preserved at so high a price worth anything in the market he might, perhaps, be disposed to mortgage some of it in consideration of an assurance of bread and butter for the rest of his life." "I've heard of gifted amateurs before now,'"began inigo, shaking his big head with a sigh; but Jocelyn interrupted him. "What you've heard before is nothing to the purpose," said he. "This is pre cisely tho c;ise that contradicts all expe rience. Now. it so happened thata cer tain distinguished impresario had spent vast sums and made stupendous prepa rations to introduce a famous singer to the New York public. It so happened, too, that the diva in question, although so famous, was personally quite un known in this country; and, as if for the ! special purpose of insuring tho success of the grand enterprise that was prepar- j ing, she had even taken a whim to allow no portraits of herself to be exhibited. For some cause, at present unknown to j this historian,the diva at the last moment j backed out of her contract. The distin- ; guished impresario, with disgrace und] ruin staring hini in the face, luckily be thought himself to consult the wisest man of his acquaintance, who, by virtue of his presence of mind and penetration, promptly saw the way out of the diffi culty. He took the impresario with him to the ancestral mansion aforesaid, where the young lady sang to them and was instantly made the recipient of the following offer by the impresario: That she was to assume and inviolably main tain the name and personality of the Russian diva; that under this name and character she was to come to New York, take up her abode at the most fashion able hotel and receive whatever com pany will venture to form tho acquaint ance of a lady with a history so formid ably and fascinatingly scandalous as hers. In consideration" "Hold onj hold on!" said Inigo, with a shake of his hand in the air, "? see what you're driving at. I didn't take it in at first that your amateur was to appear as the diva herself, as well as to be her sub stitute. It's a smart notion, but I ex pect it'll do better to talk about than to try. She'd slip up somehow. She might carry it out for a day or two, but when you come to two or three months, that's another story! It would take a better actress than I've ever come across to" "She won't have to act at all," Joce lyn interposed. "The public of course will have made up its mind beforehand that she is the real original diva, and tho more unsophisticated she appears tho more convinced and charmed they'll be. They'll take her innocence to be the diva's consummate hypocrisy, man alive! and any unfamiliarity she may show on the stage to be the perfection of acting. But. for that matter, when once they've heard her sing they wouldn't exchange her for all the divas in Christendom!" "If she can sing?yes!" said the im presario rather skeptically. "Did you ever happen to hear of a gentleman by the name of Dorimar?" inquired Jocelyn, putting down his wristbands and folding his handsome hands on the edge of the table. "Old Dorimar? Rather! Best man in the profession. Dead now, poor old boy! Ah, if he'd only kept his voice" "Dorimar was the instructor I men tioned just now. He went up one day to hear her try her voice, and the conse quence was he stayed three years to lis ten to it. He told me a month before he died that she was the finest soprano, with the grandest method, "xe'd ever known." "The devil he did! Dorimar was no fool, that's a fact." "I found her out before he did. If it hadn't been for me where would you be now, friend Moses?" "That's all right; but I've got to hear her first." "That's why I told you to make your arrangements to be out of town to-rright. We'll take the noon train up there. I've telegraphed 'em to expect me. Well settle with her to-night, and be back in town to-morrow morning. Now, as to terms. You'll have to pay her what you'd promised the diva." "Oh, I will, will I? I'll see about that!" returned the impresario with a shrewd grimace. "No need of me believing she's the real diva as well as the audi ence!" "In that case we won't take the noon traiu," said Jocelyn firmly. "Say, my boy, what's your game?" in quired the other after a pause, during which the men ha 1 looked intently at each other. "Do yon want me to pay you her salary, ?ii? J ^ on hand her over whatever doesn't stick to your fingers is that it? lie! he! he!" "You're a coarse minded idiot," said Jocelyn brusquely. "You attend to your business and I;>: me manage mine. 1 know what I want nnl how to get it. If she's not all I say she is, of course the bargain's off altogether. If she is, you'll have to pay for her?that's all. And if you don't like those terms yon can get out of your scrape yourself?if you can!" "You ought to be a rich man, my boy. one of these line days," remarked the im presario meditatively. "Well, if she comes up to your report I'll agree. But if she doesn't" "If she doesn't Til stand the railway fare there and back!" said Jocelyn, and with that they laughed and rose from the table. As they were passing out of the room a tall young man, with a thick brown beard and severe blue eyes, met them in the doorway. He had a roll of paper in his hand. "You're the man I'm looking for," he said to Inigo. "Halloo, Bellingham!" said Jocelyn. "How comes on the Temple of the Muses?" "All right," replied the gentleman so addressed, rather curtly, .-is his manner was. He looked at Inigo and added, "There's a point about the construction of the stage entrance 1 must consult you on." "I'm in a devil of a hurry," objected the impresario reluctantly. "I want only ten minutes," Bclling ?oam said. "You architects are worse than?oh, by the way, 1 can't decide about it till to-morrow anyhow," exclaimed the other, as Bellingham began to unroll his paper. He glanced at Jocelyn and went on, "Come to the office to-morrow after noon and we'll fix it." "Tho workmen will have to wait," said Bellingham. "Everybody has to do that," returned the impresario sententiously, aud with a nod he and Jocelyn went out. [?0 BE CONTINU KD ] Science Senses. From the Srientific American lu the past ten or fifteen year? there has grown up a need for special train ing of the senses, fa order to use pro perly scientific instruments, uot iu study or in any way applying to it. but as ?ece?.?ary adjuncts of butines* com munication in e.very-day life. First on the list will come the tele phone. Most persous using one for the first time ?nd themselves ab>oiute!y hors de comhat, unable to recognize a familiar voice, and are only eon.-eit.us of the most helpless hearing-deafness After a short training, the air and mind adjust themselves with wonderful nicety to tho new duty required of thetn, and learn to recognize a voice as unerringly as though talking face to face with the individual a ho is, perhaps, miles away. Following closely in the wake of the telephone, which may be look< d upon as the pioneer of the inventions which will later rely upon the auditory nerves , or hearing for their uses, is the jirapho phone, a marvellous little machine, 1 whose fitness for the work it has to do is so wonderful that, were it not ex plained on purely scientific principles of natural laws, man would think the inventor of it in ler.jjue with the Buyer of Souls." It records sounds by the vibiations of the air acting od a steel stylus, j which is ho placed that it cuts or traces the (ins lines on a cylinder or rubber coated with wax. These lines are of varying depths, according to the force of the sound waves. The vibrations or 30unds are repro duced by the aforementioned cylinder being revolved under a small stylus to which is attached a pair of tiny ear trumpets which are so adjusted that they transmit with absolute fidelity every sounci wave to the ear. It is impossible to predict the boundary line of scientific discoveries, and the u<es to which man may put them in the near future. But to follow out the idea of the trained senses, take the vision, how the microscopist with his little instrument is every day opening new vistas. It is only the supreme intellect of the human mind which renders what may be called the brute senses of man of use to him, because when un'rained they rank far below the senses of the animal, though it) the latter they are not so evenly balanced as in man The eagle and condor have wonder ful visions Of these birds it is said that the former cau face with an un flinching eye the sun when shining with full noon-iide glory, and of the latter Prescott in his "Conquest of Mexico,'* says, "The sight of the condor of the Andes is almost beyond belief. When a horse or Qiule drops by the roadside, scarcely a moment passes before one or more of these huge birds may be seeD hovering over the unfortunate animal, proving plainly that they are guided by sight aloue" The sense of smell in animals is perhaps found in the highest perfection kuown in the well-bred bloodhound This animal will follow a trail boors after the man or animal has passed, and Dever lose it, even though it had been passed over by hundreds. The sense of touch possessed by the clumsy-looking elephant is most won derful. The tough-looking bide which covers him would never make one think he could lay claim to the sense of touch iu any degree of perfection. Man supp'emtDts what he lacks by using bis knowledge of the laws of nature. Thus with the aid of the microscope and telescope he can com pete with the eagle and condor. Up to the present time he has not invented any instrument which will aid in distinguishing odors, but passing over that, he has covered nearly the entire range, embraced by the five sens s?sight, taste, touch, Smell, and hearing. When we speak of trained senses, we do not for an instant mean to imply that the man of the present age is bet- - f<;r equipped by uature with the senses than his ancestors were, but that by the aid of scientific iustrtrm-euts he has supplemented the use of these senses to an almost supernatural extent. Hew-' ever, beyond a certain point he cannot go. as if is only in his power to use intelligently the things that be, not to errate. Kve;y invention of man thus far has only consisted in some new or perhaps forgotten application of a law of na ture, and is not in any way dependant on the inventor personally, save iu his ability to make his knowledge of prac tical use to the majority of mankind. The man of science is the idol of the preseut age. Hi* dating and success in the field of invention have blinded the eyes of the people to the fact that there can be a limit to his power, and make them lose sight of the reality that he is only a pupii in the school of nature, where the doors are open to all. It is not probable that any special benefit will be doue mankind physically by this training, for it does not demand any abnormal conditions. It is simply a better understanding of our physical capability of using our senses by intel ligently applying them to abtain a re suit kuown to be as certain as the law, "water seeks its own level." There is a vast change in the ten dency of the inventors of the present a<ie, and this generation specially. Force is guided rather than controlled, and the result is that machinery has become more de'ica-e and often more simple, but requiring by that very fact a more highly educated mind to operate it than did the crude machinery of the early inventory, where muscle was as much needed as kuotfledge. All that is changed. Igno?ance is now often death-dealing, particularly when elec tricity is the motive power or where chemical compounds are used. livery day adds to the necessity for a practical working knowledge of the numerous inventions which are now found iu daily use iu all civilized coun tries the world over. No one who has ever read "Joho" Halifax, Gentleman." cau forget the masterly description given of the per sonal antagonism felt by the working men to the machinery which was placed in bis mill by the hero. In their blindness they could not realize that meutal labor placed them on a higher plane tbau manual labor, aud that machinery at its best can only supply me-sele. not mind, and that they were being given, by the very machin ery which they were bens upon de stroying, their one chance to be some thing more than mere machines them selves. It rs to be hoped as the world grows older h grows wiser, and that we are being c;:rried to a "Golden Age'' on the wheels of the inventions of the tweutietb cet?' \ Dorsey Barton. Ratified Acts. The following are the titles of some of the most important Acts and Joint Resolutions of 6he General Assembly j which were passed a* ?ts tecent session : Au Act to amend 6-31 of the Gen eral Statutes of the State, relating to tho annual meeting of the board of county commissioners of the several counties of the State. An Act to ratify the amendment to'1 Article 4 of the Constitution rf oouth Carolina, relating to the judiciary de partment, by repealing Section 19, which provides a board of county co.n tuissioners. Au Act to amend an Act entitled i "An Act, to ameud Sections 2,236 j i 2.237 of the General Statutes*?1'? ie iatiou to juries.*7 An Act to amend Section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate ths" fees of physicians and surgeons for testifying as experts in criminal cases,,f approved Decemb<:r 26, 1885. An act to amend Paragraph 1, Sec tion 997, of tie General Statutes, re lating to meetings of State board of examiners An Act to aaiend Sectim 5, Sub division 6, of au Act entitled "An Act to alter and amend the law re lating to the jurisdiction sticr pay of trial justices and constables in severa* counties therein mentioned,'"" approved December 24, 1888. Act to provide for a license for the sales of pistols and pistol cartridges within the limits of this State. Act to amend Section 5 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for ther formation of certaiu corporations under the general laws Joiut Resolution directing the ex?* ecutors-of Thomas G Olemson to mark his grave and procure a good portrait of the deceased. Act to authorize school trustees fctf sell any school property, real' or pereou al, iu their several district?, <ruc? W ap ply the proceeds to the sebco? fan?s of their several districts. Act to provide for she election of chaplains of the &nate and House of Representatives of the State of South? Carolina and for their compensation. Joint Resolution providing for the* investment of aH funds hi the hands, of the State Treasurer uud-er the Cleniscff bequest. Joiut Resolution to require the penitentiary directors to furnish- ad ditial convicts to Clemson College. Act to amend an Act to amend Sec tion 1.090. Title 10, Chapter 22, General Statctes. An Act to incorporate the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Act to incorporate the National Land and Improvement Company. Act to re-organize and provide for* the University of South Carolina, con stituting a board of Trustees of the* same and defining their powers and duties. Act to create a board of phosphat^ com missiooers. Act to make appropriations to meefr the ordinary expenses ef the State* Government for 1890. Act to authorize Richard W. Simp son, executor of Thomas G. Clemson,. to pay certain legacies- to Isabella Lee. Joint Resolution to appoint a special commission, consisting of the Governor" and Superintendent of Education, tor confer and correspond with the Gov* ernors and Superintendents of Educa tion of other Southeia States as to the adoption of a uniform system of texS books used in free schools of the State. Act to provide for the appointment of county board of physicians to ex* amine diplomas of physicians and surgeoss in this State. Act tff regulate the appointment and term of office and define the duties of trial justices in tbi-s State. Act to amend an Act ea-trr?cc? "?o Act to charter the Southbound Railroad' Company, approved February 9 A. D. 1890 Act to amend Subdivision 2, A, of Section ?.0?2T of Cbapte.- XIX of the General Statutes, entitled "Of the free public schools." Act to amend Section of th& General Statutes of the State, relating; to the compensation of the members of the State board of equilization. Act to abolish the department of Agriculture aod the ofiioe of commis sioner of agriculture, aod to- devolve all of their powers, aod duties ot? tSre" board of trustees o'f the Clemson Agri cultural College of 5oet.h Carolina, ex cept the control of phosphate i&teFestg of this State. Act to prohibit any person from? transporting horses,- mules or asses, into this State infected with glanders. Act accepting the benefits of an Act to apjr/ly sr pcTtiou of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and su-port of the colleges' for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established under' the provisions of an Act of Congress July 2, 1862. Act to amend Section 44, Chapter IV, of the General Statutes, relating to* the distribution of public funds. Act to incorporate the town of Little* Mountain in Newberry county. Act relating to the renunciation of dower by married minors. Act to proride for the sale of the* lot and buildiug known as agricultural! hall, the fish pond lot aod the agricul tural experiment stations with their" personal property at Columbin and iff Darlington and Spartanburg counties' and to appropriate the proceeds thereof^ Act to amend Section 2,123 of the? General Statutes, relating to Cirea-i& Courts in this i*tate. Act to punish frauds of misrepre-*' sentations iu the manufacture, analy sis or sale of fertilizers and commer-* eial mau'jres in this State. Act to amend the General Statutes relative to the appointment and collec tion of taxes for school purposes, and to add two new sections to be known atf Sections 229 A and 2-29 ix Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the rcdem?tro? of that part of the State debt kuowo as the Brown conscl bonds aud stocks by the issue of other boocJs and stocks,*** approved December 24. A. D. 1890. - il? WI '" Fcr Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothiryg Syrup bas beeff ?^er? for children teething. It soo?!*??'? the child, softens the pum?, alli?ysal! jjwtn, cures wind colic. Hud is rite best remedy for' Diarrhoea. Tttentv-fTre cents a bottle. Tho quality of the tilood depends much upon"* good <>r bad digestion ae l assimilation. To make the the blood rich in life and stre-vgfh piving constituents use Dr. J. H. ."vjrf.ean'4 SarSKp-ril'a. It will nourish the propertte* uf the bloodj from which tbe elements of vital'*;, are drawn. vloct It von feel "out of sorts." cross and P-.evish?take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sars parilla; cheerfulness will return and life will acquire new zest. vloct Don't irritate vour lungs with ? stubbor s couch woe.) a plee ant and effective reme *' may he l?mnd it) Dr. J. H. McLean's Tat* -Wine Lung 1&\ta [ "tloct "It ur.rs ri-ht to the spot," said an of\ m?t?, wt_0 wa^robbing in Dr. J. H. McLean * Volr.'^ic Oil Liniment to relieve rheu.nnnsuv.