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VOLUME 8.
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SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 22. 1874.
iirod iu The Hone
BY LOTTIE BROWN.
'Whon it's born in you, what arc you
to do nbout]it ? Tha'..'s what I'd like to
kuow. Miss Munser says I'ui wicked by
'unter,' and if I am, where's the u.so iu
trying to bo anything olsa ? You can't
make wator run up hill"
Jessie rattled out a lively measure,
with the heels of her ;buots, upou the
side of the table on which she had perch
od horse 11", and aimed a kernel of pop
pod corn at Hex, who had been holding
tho corn popper over the dim fire for a
lull half hour.
'It isn't wickedness, Jess?it's a pc
culiar something without a namo. A
boiling over, an inward rebellion a wild
sort of what-d'yo call it,' said Ucx, with
a lofty show of patronage.
'Yes, that is just it. It's an uncon
trollablc sort of a what's his name that
ov.rpowcrs me, end stirs mo itr.o a kind
of effervescence which?'
'My dear :' and Abbie's soft eyes wore
lifted from her work, and flashed a re
b?ke?if tho look could be designated
by so loud a term?into her sister's
face. *
'You're all right! You're just as
suro of inheriting the kingdom as T am
of? Rex, tho corn is smoking!'
They were an odd family?a family
?of opposites. Rex was a great, square
Bhouldored, long limhcl, idb fellow
with the Ore of genius holding a war
with 'common sense everlastingly within
him, and as they were poor, and had few
<aud narrow means for a living, hi was
to say the least, a drag !
Abbie was, of all women, tho softe*!
?and slowest. In the tho cour.se of a
year she accomplished a groat deal, be
causo she 'pegged away,' as Jessie tonn
cd it and was never idlej but her modor
tion was well known.
Jessie?I am not up to her descrip
ttion. I fancy ono should have per feet
Ihcalth and beauty, and an 'eutire froo
<lom from cure, to bo one whit like her.
Even then I am not sure that thor j an .
who could reach her.
They were very poor, and Jessie
was, as she expressed it, the poorest ol
the family.
Rex liked his lolling, dawdling 6iy(c
of living?liked to roam about aill day
over the marsh with his gun, getting
an occasional shot at a bird which they
could not cat, or sketchi ng some bit of
Teck or brokcu down lence, the l.ko oi
which may be seen in a hundred thou
sand portfolios
Ho was sure ol 4u living, fur they
owucd tho house; and by a little geuteel
farmiug could raise vegetables enough
to supply their owu table the year
round.
The dry groceries, Abbie earned with
her knowledge of needle work ^and inn
sic.
Jessio could do simply nothing to
ward adding to the family income, un
Ices the little stewing and fussing
she did in the kitehcu could be called a
'help.'
On the night in question, when Rex
wa3 struggling with the corn popper
nnd Abbie straining her eyes over a
piece of fine embroidery, Jessie had
hoen enumerating what she could do
?and what bIio couldn't. What she
?couldn't swelled the list, and what she
could do amounted to nothing in a pc
cuniary sense.
'Ifyou would only rightly apply
yourself and energies, you might do
wonders,' suggested Abbie.
'Very true; I'll tell you what I can
do?Rex never can, to any advantage,
and you never will?I can get mar
ried V
iJcssic !' ploadcd Abbie.
'You aro a born fool !' shoutod Ilox.
'Ami ? Well, they take far better
than sonsible women. Yes, I can mar
ry a rich man.'
?Victor Danforth is not rioh,' sugges
ted Abbie.
'Who^said anything about Victor
Danforth ? I didn't!'
'You mako oyes at him every time
yon see him, nnd you smilo at him
when he comes dangling around hero as
though ho was the dearest frieud you
had in tho world,' s tid Res.
'Well, ho used to boj but I have
changed my mind. I supposj I cau
change my own mind There uro other
men in the world besides?'
Tho corn popper gave a little lurch,
and went down into tho coals. Abbio
lifind her quiet fuco, and Jessie came
down with a houue.) which luvte the
windows battle.
It was a visitor? who, reaching tho
door when Jessie's tontgua was busiest ,
had ventured to cotuo along the 'hall
and knock at the kitchen door, us tho
quickest method of making his presence
known.
'Cotuo in!' roared the two mouth
pieces of the Lake family?viz, Jessie
and Hex?and the door opened.
?Why, it is Mr Foster!1 said Jessie,
with a badly fitting bit. ofafTcctioti which
one might have constructed as meaning
?"The Very person of whom wc were
talking.'
After a momentary pause, she conti n
ucdj
'Come iu ! Wc wore just wishing
'Yes; is was getting very stupid hcro,v
said Rex, trying to spare Jessie the
sin of one lie.
lint Jessie shouted at flic top of her
voice:
'Stupid ! I should say it was . I'm
awfully glad you'vo conic ! It is always
stupid hero and always must bo, when
we arc so poor and cramp id !'
?Won't you come out for a walk, Miss
Jessie V said Mr. Foster.
For a reply she brought down from :t
nail her hat and shawl.
Adam Foster was vcr}' rich, very
ninth honored titid esteemed by his
town people, and lor a long while he
had born the friend of the Lake family.
Nobody knew why but when .Jessie
came home, that night, and bounced
back in lit i place upon the table, the
family itself found out, for she cried:
'Well. I know what I'm good for?
I'm going to marry Adam Foster1
' Jessie '.'
'Now, keep still ! Do let me bo a lit
tie help, if the thing is potsiblol'
?Hut Victor ?' said Abbie.
'Victor will live. II he had wanted
me very much he has had years and
opportunities oaough in which tu a.-k
me.'
So do-sic was betrothed, just as she
had d. iij everythii g else in her life,
with a rush.
She was going to bo rich, aud set Ilex
und Abbie on their legs, ami be a credit
0 herself aud friends.
When Victor Dan forth came, she
bu lied h in, and told him, with her biy
wicked jeyen shining, that he was too
Ue.
'Do you care?' fdio vaucily asked
him.
'For you ? No ! I did love the Jos
sic Lake, my ideal; but the real worn sn
who sells1 herself for niotuy, I dou't care
a straw for.'
And he yave her a glance from his
handsome eyes which told her how tru
ly he meant what ho said.
Now, women like Jessie Lake alway
want just what they cannot have, and
after that speech a change ca me over
her. She grew as quiet us a mouse,
and sewed long scams, and labored as
hard as Abbio herself,
Hex said she was going to make h or
self worthy of tho hi^h position she
would henceforth hold and Abbio agreed
and said she was almost afraid some
thing would happen, Jessie was becom
ing so soft and tender.
But Jessis knew what it all meant.
She kuow why there was a deep furrow
between her eyes, and why the red lips
acquired the fashion of putting tlictn
selves so firmly together; and for the
rest?sho did not care whether they
knew or not. Was sho not guiug to
elevate them by her marriage'{
An for Adam Foster, ho camo and
did his duty in kisses upon the low,
broad forehead, in gifts, in the stateliest
attentions and in generous plans for the
future and that was enough.
So the days pass ed on, and the time
drew near when .Jessie must go out to
him oud be Jessie Lake no more forcv
cr.
And when it wus close nt hand, there
rolled around another night when Ab
hie sewed by the tiro, and Rex shook
tho corn popper over tho coals.
It reminded Jessie so much of that
other night that she began again to talk
01 her usolcseness aud wickcdojy.s.
?My dear, you have been uu augel of
late,' said Abbie.
'Don't be such .1 fool! I'm worse
than ever ! Didn't I tell you that
wickedness waa born in uie'f"'
' Yes; but, doar?'
'I'm not a 'dear.' I'll show you
whon I have a chance.'
And then came the tread of feet
along the hall.
'It is only 1,' said Adam, stepping in.
'I was wishing for you,' growled des
sie.
'Yes, it was stupid here.'
'No such thing. I only wanted to
see you, to tell you that I've changed
my mind. I'm not going to marry you.'
The rich man looked at the beautiful
profile turned toward him?at the ex
quisitc head and its soft chestnut hair
shining in the light .
'What put that idea in your mind ?'
he asked.
'I don't know. T mean it. I am not
ready to marry; and if I were ready, I
am tu t ready to marry you for money.
Wo should never bo happy. I don't
tike you vCry well. I never should have
ucccptod you that night, but I thought
I mu>t help the family in some way.
Since thi n 1 learnt have to sew very
well and I think I can do something in
that way.'
'Then you mean all this'/'
'livery word !:
And Jes&io'o engagement ended, just
ns it had begun ? with uup ircllel ed sud
deuness.
'You are a disgrace to us ;' thundered
Ilex.
'1 always meant to be?it was born in
me. It is an indescriblu sort of a?'
' It is tho work of the devil whose
familiar you certainly are !'
Sothcy were hack in the Valley of
Despair again, with all their poverty
ami misery.
One night when Hex and Abbi? Jiad,,
been sitting nlooc, the door opened and
Victor Dauforth looked in.
'Come in,' said Hex.
'No! I think I'd better not Jessie
is here and her advice is?keep away
from Ilex until he. gets over it. We
won't come in. I'll tell you lies.'
?What is it?" ilex looked at that
child of sin whoso life had been so long
a thorn in his flesh, and saw that she
was as demure as a kitchen, and knew
that something had happened. SVItat
is it he repeated.
'We are?'began Victor.
Victor, stand be hind me !' sai l Jes
'We are?' he began again.
'Married !' cried Jessie
'Yes. I asked her an hour ago, and
found that she has loved me a long,
long while, and that, but fur love of me
'I should have married Adam. Keep
cool, Ilex,' put. in Jessio.
'And so L married her at once; for If
I didn't-'
'StHUO one else would,' said the thorn.
'And we are here?' began Victor.
?To crave your blessing,, en led Jessie.
'Take her! You run your own risks
(i od bless you both !'
And tho e who know her b^-st say that
her life ;s light upon the hills, blessing
all who come within its circle; and hut'
husband?Ilex says he is a happy dog,
and ho ought to know.? Saturday
Niyhi.
ArroiNT.ME.NTtj.? I'ho Oovornor has
appointed Thos. M. Canton u lri:?l
justio for Hichlaud county, vice \>. .1
Noah, resigned; V. ft. McKiulay, A. 15.
Ktiowltoil and K. II. Duncan, emu miss
ioiiers of eleetion for the county of
Orangcburg ; IIon. Laurenee Cain,
.John II. MeDcvitt and V. A. llehinger,
as Commissioners of 1.lection fir K Ige
field county; 11. M. Thompson, Trial
Justice for Clarendon county, vice W.
K. Burgess, resigned ; and has accepted
the resignation of James A. Henderson,
as Coroner for Newberry county
Get Thee to a Nunnery.?Mrs.
Helen M L. Milliugton, of Ontario, N,
Y., has written a defense of Hcoehor.
She thinks that inasmuch as Solomon
wasn't blamed ior keeping a whole
female seminary in his private residence,
Deedier ougth't to be blamed for?well,
for anything. Mrs. Mitlingtou, you
had belter dry up. CeL thee to a
nunnery. Unmuzzled as you are you
ore more dangerous to the community
than would be a howling raccoon of lb j
mountains.?LouUuillc tfo trier Journal.
ORIGIN OF 8PE01BL?A WOUD-I1E-MAR
Q?IS?FROM POVERTY TO FAME?
DRAMATIST AND NOVELIST?RAPID! ?
TV AND SUCCESS?MONTH CRIKTO.
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11Y 1>H. tl. SIIELTON MACKENZIE.
Alexandre Davy Dumas, the most
prolific romaucist that France ever pro
duced (born July, 130o?died Deco in
ber, 1870), was the son of General Davy
Dumas, the illegitimate offspring of the
Marquis tie la PaiIcteric,by a mulatto.
The story runs that, once upon a time,
some very inquisitive person, meeting
with the great novelist, closely cross
questioned him..as to his parentage.
"They tell me, monsieur," he said,
?'that, your mother was a mulatto. What
waB her mother V
Dumas, alroa'ly boiling over with
rage, growled out:
".She was a .:?gress."
Mi. Curious went on : "And her
mother V
Dumas roared out :
"A monkey !?she was a monkey '.
Evidently, my family began where
i/oiiH is eliding !"
After this, there was no further
questioning.
Notwithstanding his illegitimacy,
which is a legal impediment to regular
boirsbip, anil tho succession to titles
and estates, Dumas was never so w ell
pleased as when he was addressed as
??.Monsieur lc Marquis."
Wehen the Duke de Montpensicr,
youngest son of Louis Philippe, then
Citizen King of France, went to Madrid,
in Ocfol'cr, 1S4G, to be married to tho
Que.o.n of Spain's only sister, he rook
Dutntis with iiini to write a history of
tho ^T.iarriage ; and in the marriage con
tract, still extant, there is to bissen
the signature of the great novelist as
"Marquis Davy do la Pailetcrie," with
a long string of other titles. Tho ap
pcarance of Pumas unmistakably indi
cated his origin.
General Dunns, his father, had dis
languished himself in the Kreuch army
lie died, at the age of fort}- four, leav
ing this one son, wholly unprovided for.
The lad was brought up and educated
son chow by his mother, lie learned a j
very little Latin, but could not master
the four first rules of arithmetic. IL:
was a largely built, active, muscular fel
low at eighteen?a famous horse man, a
master of country sports and games, per
fectly skilled in tho use of rapier an d
pistol; a bit of a poacher, and a most tire
less dance.
At twenty, as he has himself slated
(in an autobiography, which, though un
completed extends to twenty seven
volumes), he determined to appeal to
his father's old comrade: and friends ?
that, is, to the Duke de Dclluna, then
high in rank and wealth.
All they did was to get him employed,
as a copying clerk iu the bureau of the
Duke of Orleans, at a salary cd'twenty
dollars a month. Here be attracted the
favorable notiere of the duke (afterward
the Citizen-King), who treated him well,
raised I ?s salary and gave Iiini little to
do, on condition of his devot ing to self
education the ample leisure thus afford
ed him,
Three years after this (in 1825), he
began his literary career by assisting iu
writing a play, his author name being
Davy. About tins time, indeed, lie
wtote several plays, none of which were
acted.
At last, in 182S, his historical tragedy
"Henry the Third," in which historical
truth was boldly set at defiance, was per
formed at the principal theatre in Paris.
Tho Puko of Orleans, with a crowd
of prit.ccs and princesses then visiting
him, witnessed tho first representation,
which was most successful, and lor tho
next twenty years, Dumas was one ol
the most popular of French dramatists.
His firtt play put six thousand dollars
into his pocket, and of course he rcsig
lied his humble clerkship in the Duke of
Orleans' household, retaining the friend
ship ofthat prince and his family.
With success a ml wealth came riotous
livi ig, extravagance and waste. Dumas
never acquired a knowledge of tho value
of money. He literally rolled in wealth,
but often was penniless. lie was in
high favor at court, where tho Djkc of
Orleans, his former patron, having be
como King of tho French, received him
kindly and made him a Commander of
the Legion of Honor.
D?nas was getting well into years be
fore be discovered that he had higher,
talents than were requisite for making
plays lor Parisian audiences. In 1814,
his "Three Mousquctaires" literally
created equal delight and surprise.
They appeard in, short portions, day
after day, in what is known in France
as the fuilluton of a newspaper.
Tho public demauded mure aud nine
of this story ; and the author, happy to
oblige suc?i a band of paying readers,
produced at least hall'a dozen COUtinua
tions and sequeis.
Finding that he had sunk a shaft into
a veritable gold mine, Dumas was not
tho man to leave the virgin ore uncul
lected. While his "Mousquctaires"
wore delighting Paris in one daily
paper, he was publishing "The Count do
Monte Cristo" in another, and tho pay
incuts to him for both were almost in
incredibly large.
Ilivai publishers besieged htm with
(lattery and gold, and he graciously ae
ccpted both. He wrote, ou an average,
thirty-two octavo pages every day, some
times running as many as four different
romances in as many piper"5 at the same
time.
In 181Gj when "Monte Cristo" was in
course of publication, Dumas contracted
with two newspaper proprietors to furn
ish them with as much "copy," or manu
script, as would have made sixty volumes
in the year ! At the same time he was
writing for the stage.
Ilia rapidity was wonderful. lie com
p:scd plays as fast as he could put pen
to paper, lie drew, but not very large
ly. upOn his imagination. He plunder
cd extensively, laving under coutribu
lion, not unknown or obscuro authors,
but such well.known and popular writor?
as Walter .Scott, Schiller, Chateau
briaud, Augustin Thierry (the histor
i;.n), and Victor Hugo.
Lie used to boast that, while he lived
at Marly (a suburb of Paris, on the
Seine), within sight of Maisons, the
country-scat of fair and frail Madame
PuLarrv, it took a man. two horses and
a locomotive to convey his manuscript
daily to his publishers.
Two of them, representing The Presse
and The Constilutionuel, got to logger
heads and law ah nit Dumas, who had to
prove that he was author of the '\orks
that l ore his name. He proved this to
some extent-* that !:?, he showed that
the plots wore his own, though ho cm
ployed a little army of assistants to work
I hem out and make the dialugiio. Paris
was as much amused as it was enlighten
ed by this ex posure.
A little before this lawsuit a clover
fellow, editor id a series of sharp biogra
phics, entitled "Los Contcmparaircs,"
had first shown how hugely Dumas was
aided by other and scarcely known wri
tcrs. This gentleman, whose real name
is Jacquot, called himself Kugoue de
Mirecourt, and published a little book
haopyily entitled "Manufactory of Mo
manecs?House of A. Dumas & Comp
any. He showed that the author of
??Monte Cristo" had seventy*fourassis
tants, who did most of the writing which
passed as his.
There were several answers, assailing
Du Mirecourt, which failed to exculpate
Dumas. Notwithstanding tho exposure,
Dumas' popularity remained unabated.
It is said that Dum s composed five
hundred romance.; and as many plays !
What become of the proceeds ? He lost
one fortune in a theatre which he ostab
lishcd; he lost a second in the Chateau
ile Monte Cristo, which he built near
St. Clear mains, outsido of Paris, at a
cost of $90,000, but was sold for SulOU,
in IS.Y1. His extravagance was a sort
of disease ?Saturday Night.
MottE MuilDEH.?Walter P. Hillings,
formerly a prominent lawyer of New
York, but m ore recently a resident of
Alabama, was brutal ly murdered by a
band of disguised men near his home in
Sumter county in that State, on tho
night of the 1st. No telegraphic
accounts of the affair has been given,
and the world only learns it through
the medium of the Republican press of
that Stale. We are told that human
lifo is as safe at the South us anywhere
else, and yet here is a case where the
only offense committed by Billings was
being a Republican and a Northern
man. . Justice will reign erelong.
Ono Legged IJrceches.
A one legged soldier walking up the
Bowery, was accosted by a clothing
merchant with tho usual "Soil you
somctiugs to-day '(" Entering tho store,
tho veteran was invited to inspect the
large stock, but having looked through
array ol coats and vests and trowseu, ho
turned to go, saying that he saw noth,
iug there that would suit him.
"Veil, vat you vants 7"
"I want a pair or one legged panta
loons."
"Vas dat all 7 Yacob, bring me oue
of dem one legged gray pants ou dat
pile in dc corner."
Ina few minutes Jacob returned and
I reported that the last pair had been
hold.
Meanwhile the, partner nest door
who had been listening through tho
thin partition, had mapped out a plau
of campaign against the one legged
cripple. "Yohn," ho whispered to an
attendant, "cut me off dc leg of one of
dem gray pants. Send him up, quick !'*
By the time this had been done, the
soldier had hobbled out of tho first store
only to be inveigled iuto tho second*
Again be wmt through tho Inspection
ot odds and ends, and agaiu demanded
one logged Irowscrs, hinting that bo
di?n't believe the trader had them.
"Not half oue lagged pant3 ! Fadder
.Moses, vat you takes me for 7 Yohn,
bring mo oue of dem ono lcggel gray
pants in dat pile in dc back of do
shtore."
The newly ?altered trbwsora were pro
duccd, and the waggish soldier gave
himself up as lost. But as he spread
them before him, he became conscious,
as did the dealer, of something wrong.
"Mein Got! Fadder Abraham!
Yohn, you baf rain-mo! Youhafout
off dc wrong leg !"
This was piebably the sauui dealer
who was rcccutly called upon by a
young man for a coat. A fit was made
in- duo time, and then caroo the bagg
ling about tho price. First, twenty
dollars was fixed, then the clothier
abated dollar after dollar, fighting his
way inch by inch, until at longtb ho
had offered the garment for eight
d dlars.
"Do you think I'm made of money 7"
asked the ycuug man indignantly, as ho
turned to depart.
'Say, you come pack! I sell you
dat coat of it cost me a leg. Vot you
gif for him, say now ?"
"I'll give you two dollars."
"Two dollars ! Vy do buttons ish
irorc wort ash dat! Sphlit the difranoc
?make it twenty shillings !"
"No ; I'll give you two dollars."
"Veil, take him. It was a pioty
coat. You gif inc two and a quarter 7"
Producing the two dollars, the young
man moved away with his purchase ;
but as he reached tho door he heard the
dealer exclaim, with uplifted bauds :
"Gott help mo! I only make ono
dollar on dat coat!"
A nother of the Chatham-street dealers
had what ho called army brogaus and
cavalry boots. Au cx-soldier purchased
a pair of the litter one rainy day, but
returned to the storo ivithiu a few miu
utcs, complaining that the soles were of
pasteboard, and had already soaked to a
pulp.
"Vat you vas done mit dem boots 7"
asked the dealer.
"Why, I walked two or three blooks.'
"Valk 7 Y'ou valk in dem boots 7
Vy, dem vos cavalry boots !"
A North Carolina Horsewoman,
?A North Carolina young lady, accord
ing to a local journal, rccoutly started
for a horseback ride near Morgantowo,
in that State. She was riding rapidly
with a gentleman down a long slopo,
when tho gcutlcmau's horso stumbled
and fell. The lady's horao clearod both
him aud rider at ono leap, and then
became quite unmanageable. Two
hundred yards farther ou a narrow lano
was blockaded by a colored man's mule,
and cart square across it. Her horso
was careering at full speed. To pass
around was impossible, to stop equally
so ; but the agile animal at ono fearful
bound cleared colored man, mule, and
cart. The charming cqucstrionno never
for a moment lost her balanco, and was
laughing gayly whou hor horso was
checked two miles further oa.