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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. \ ISSUED SBMI-WEBKLT. i. m. deist's sons, pubii?heri. j % cfamilS Bewsjaper: <^or (hi; promotion o)f th^ ^oHUottl, J5ociaI, Jt,gricttltu);at and (Commercial jntcrests of the people. _ , established 1855. YORKVILLE, 9. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1900. N"Q. 6. WORSE Si i A Tale of the Revoli Upper C Bv JOHN P. CHAPTER VII. Scmo Account of Philip Lindsay?Sen- ' sibility and Retirement Apt to En- ( gender a Pernicious Philosophy. The thread which I have now to take 1 up and weave Into this history requires ! that my narrative should go back for I some years. It briefly concerns the I earlier fortunes of Philip Lindsay. < His father emigrated from England, ! and was established In Virginia about ] the year 1735 as a secretary to the i governor of the province. He was a | gentleman of good name and fortune. I Philip was born within the year after 1 this emigration. As America was then I comparatively a wilderness, and af- 1 forded but few facilities for the educa- i tlon of youth, the son of the secretary 1 was sent at an early age to England, l where ne remained, wun uic tion of an occasional visit to his pa- t rents, under the guardianship of a near < relative, until he had completed, not i only his college course, but also his i studies in the Temple?an almost in- < dispensable requirement of that day ( for young gentlemen of condition. I His studies In the Temple had been ] productive of one result, which Lord l Coke, if I remember, considers ldiosyn- i cratic in the younger votaries of the < law?he had fallen in love with an < heiress. The natural consequence was a tedious year, after his return home, 1 y spent at the seat of the provincial gov- ' ernment and a most energetic and i persevering interchange of letters with ] the lady, whom my authority allows i me to name Gertrude Marshall. This i was followed by another voyage across i the Atlantic, and finally, as might be i predicted, by a wedding with all prop- i er observance and parental sanction. 1 Lindsay then returned, a happier and < more tranquil man. to Virginia, where > he fulfilled the duties of more than one 1 public station of dignity and trust. < In due course of time he fell heir to I his father's wealth, which with the estate of his wife made him one of the most opulent and considerable gentlemen of the Old Dominion. He had but two children?Mildred and Henry?with four years difference between their ages. These were nurtured with all the care and Indulgent bounty natural to parents whose affections are concentrated upon so small a family circle. Lindsay's character was grave and thoughtful, and Inclined him to avoid the contests of ambition and collision with the world. A delicate taste, a nice judgment, and a fondness for inquiry made him a student and an ardent lover of books. The ply of his mind was towards metaphysics; he delved into the obsolete subtleties of the old schools of philosophy, and found amusement, if not instruction in those frivolous but ingenious speculations which have overshadowed even the best wisdom of the schoolmen with the hues of a solemn and absurd pe dantry. He dreamed in the reveries of < ' Plato, and pursued them through the aberrations of the Coryphsens. He delighted in the visions of Pythagoras, and in the intellectual revels of Epicurus. He found attraction in the Gnostic mysteries, and still more in the phantasmagoria of Judicial Astrology. His library furnished a curious index to this unhealthy appetite for the marvellous and the mystical. The writings of Cornelius Agrippa, Raymond Lully, and Martin Delvlo, and others of less celebrity in this circle of impos. ture. were found associated with truer philosophies and more approved and authentic teachers. These studies, although pursued with an acknowledgment of their false and dangerous tendency, nevertheless had their Influence upon Lindsay's imagination. There are few men in whom the mastery of reason is so absolute as to be able totally to subdue the occasional uprising of that element of supersltiton which is found more or less vigorous in every mind. A nervous temperament, which is almost characteristic of minds of an imaginative cast, is often distressingly liable to this influence, in spite of the strongest resolves of the will and the most earnest convictions of the Judgment. If those who possess this temperament would confess they might certify to many extraordinary' anxieties and troubles of spirit, which it would pain them to have the world believe. T In/loQu'o nurcuHcs ho/^ ImnrOQQPfl his understanding with some sentiment of respect for that old belief in the supernatural and had, perhaps, even warmed up his faith to a secret cred- ' u!ity in these awful agencies of the spiritual world, or at least to an unsatisfied doubt as to their existence. Many men of sober brow and renown for wisdom are unwilling to acknowledge the extent of their own credulity on the some topic. His relations to the government, his education, pursuits and temper, as might be expected, had deeply imbued Lindsay with the politics of the Tory party, and taught him to regard with distrust, and even with abhorrence, the Revolutionary principles which were getting in vogue. In this sentiment he visited with a dislike that did not correspond with the more usual development of his character, all those who were in any degree suspected of aiding or abetting the prevailing political heresy of the times. About two years after the birth of Mildred, he had purchased a tract of land in the then new and frontier country lying: upon the Rockfish river. Many families of note in the low country had possessed themselves of estates at the foot of the Blue Ridge, in this neighborhood, and were already making establishments there. Mr. Lindsay attracted by the romantic character of the scenery, the freshness of the soil, and the healthfulness of the climate, following the example of others, had laid off the grounds of the new estate with great taste, and had soon built, upon a beautiful site, a neat and com I 0 E tOBHISOt itionary Struggle In j arolina. J i KENNEDY. fortable rustic dwelling, with such accommodations as might render it a convenient and pleasant retreat during the hot months of the summer. The occupation which this new establishment afforded his family, the scope which Its Improvement gave to their taste: and the charms that intrinsically belonged to it, by degrees communicated to his household an absorbing interest in its embellishment. His wife cherished thls.enterpr!se with i peculiar ardor.' The plans of improvement were hers; the garden, the awns, the groves, the walks?all the lttle appendages which an assiduous taste might invent, or a comfort-seek- 8 ing fancy might imagine necessary, a vere taken under her charge; and one f neauty quickly following upon another, a 'rom day to day, evinced the dominion tvhlch a refined art may exercise with s idvantage over nature. It was a quiet, ^ aim, and happy spot, where many con- | .'eniences were congregated together, c md where, for a portion of every sue- g :eeding year, this little family nestled, c is it were, in the enjoyment of volup- j luous ease. From this idea, and es- e pecially as it was allied with some of r :he tenderest associations connected { svlth the infancey of Mildred, it was j :alled by the fanciful and kindly name t nf "The Dove Cote." { The education of Mildred and Henry j Oecame a delightful household care, rutors were supplied, and the parents ^ arave themselves up to the task of su- ( pervision with a fond industry. They , now removed earlier to the Dove Cote { svlth every returning spring, and re- ^ malned there later in the autumn. The j neighborhood furnished an intelligent ^ hnsnltnhlp society: and the exeat . western wilderness smiled with the contentment of a refined and polished t civilization, which no after day in the r history of this empire has yet surpass- r pd?perhaps, not equalled. It Is not to ^ be wondered at, that a mind so fram- ( ?d as Lindsay's and a family so de- s voted, should find an exquisite enjoy- t ment in such a spot. I Whilst this epoch of happiness was g In progression, the political heaven be- v jan to be darkened with cloud. The r troubles came on with harsh portents; war rumbled In the distance, and, at c ength. broke out in thunder. Mildred r lad, in the meantime, grown up to the f verge of womanhood?a fair, ruddy, 8 lght-halre<l beauty, of exceedingly v graceful proportions, and full of the c most Interesting Impulses. Henry trod a closely upon her heels, and was now ^ shooting through the rapid stages of boyhood. Both had entwined them- a selves around their parents' affections, r iike fibres that conveyed to them their c chief nourishment; and the children g were linked to each other even, if s that were possible, by a stronger band, j The war threw Lindsay into a per- 0 ilous predicament. His estates were _ large and his principles exposed him a to the sequestration which was rigidly y ?nforced against the royalist party. r To avoid this blow, or, at least, to mitigate its severity, he conveyed the es- t tate of the Dove Cote to Mildred: as- t signing, as his reason for doing so, that, as it was purchased with moneys belonging to his wife, he consulted and executed her wish, in transferring the absolute ownership of it to his daughter. The rest of his property was con- j verted into money, and invested in f funds in Great Britain. As soon as ^ this arrangement was made, about the c second year of the war, the Dove Cote e became the permanent residence of the v ramily: Lindsay preferring to remain here rather than to retire to England, t hoping to escape the keen notice of the ^ dominant party, and to find, in this t classic and philosophical privacy an v oblivion of the rude cares that beset s the pillow of every man who mingled r In the strife of the day. f He was destined to a grievous disap- f polntment. His wife, to whom he was romantically attached, was snatched f from him by death, just at this inter- t esting period. This blow, for a time, s ilmost unseated his reason. The natural calm of such a mind as Lindsay's Is not apt to show paroxysms in grief. Its sorrow was too still and deep for show. The flight of years, however, brought healing on their wings; and Mildred and Henry gradualy relumed their father's countenance with flashes of chetrful thought, that dally grew broader and more abiding: till, at last, sense and duty completed their triumph, and once more gave Lindsay to his family, unburdened of his grief, or if not unburdened, conversing with It only in the secret hours of self-communion. His hopes of ease and retirement were disappointed in another way. The sequesterment of the Dove Cote was not sufficient to shut out the noise nor the Intrigues of the war. His reputation. as a man of education, of wealth, of good sense, and especially as a man of aristocratic pretensions, irresistibly drew him into the agitated vortex of politics. His house was open to the visits of the Tory leaders, no less than to those of the other side; and, although this intercourse could not be openly maintained without risk, yet pretexts were not wanting, occasionally, to bring the officers and gen lieilieil OI IIH* DI'lllXIl lllicrt'ai lu nic Dove Cote. They came stealthily and In disguise, and they did not fail to involve him in the insiduous schemes , and base plottings by which a wary , foe generally endeavors to smoothe the way of invasion. The temporary ] importance which these connections , conferred, and the assiduous appeal which it was the policy of the enemy to make to his loyalty, wrought upon the vanity of the scholar, and brought him. by degrees, from the mere toleration of an intercourse that he at first sincerely sought to avoid into a participation of the plans of those who courted his fellowship. Still, however, this was grudgingly given?as much from the inaptitude of his character, as from a secret consciousness, at bot torn, that It was contrary to the purpose that had induced him to seek the shelter of the woods. Unless, therefore. the spur was frequently applied to the side of his reluctant resolution, his zeal was apt to weary in its pace, or to change my figure for one equally appropriate, to melt away In the sunny Indolence of his temper. I have said that, during the tenderer years of the children, and up to the period of the loss of their mother, they had received the most unremitting attention from their parents. The be eavement of his wife, the deep gloom that followed this event, and the now ?ngrosslng character of the war, had n some degree relaxed Lindsay's vlglance over their nurture, although It lad in no wise abated his affection for hem; on the contrary, perhaps this vas more concentrated than ever. Mildred had grown up to the blossomime of life, in the possession of every jersonal attraction. Prom the fanciful deas of education adopted by her father, or rather from the sedulous care vith which he experimented upon her opacity, and devoted himself to the ask of directing and waiting upon he expansion of her intellect, she had nade acquirements much beyond her rears, and altogether of a character inusual to her sex. An ardent and >ersevering temper had imparted a lingular enthusiasm to her pursuits; ind her air, though not devoid of playulness, might be said to be habitually .bstracted and self-communing. As the war advanced, her temper and iltuation both enlisted her as a parisan in the questions which it brought nto discussion; and, whilst her father's opinions were abhorrent to this itruggle for independence, she on the >ther hand, unknown to him, was castng her thoughts, feelings, affections, md hopes upon the broad waters of ebellion; and, if not expecting them o return to her, after many days, with ncrease of good, certainly believing hat she was mingling them with those >f Patriots who were predestined to the -I V. 4 /v# T ,?ri?iit.csi uircu vi givx j. A father Is not apt to reason with a laughter; the passions and prejudices >f a parent are generally received as jrinclples by the child: and most athers. counting upon this instinct, leem it enough to make known the >ent merely of .their own opinions vithout caring to argue them. This nistake will serve to explain the wide inference which is sometimes seen beween the most tenderly attached pa ent and child, in those deeper sentinents that do not belong to the everylay concerns of life. Whilst, thereore Mr. Lindsay took no heed how the leed of doctrine fructified and grew In he soil where he desired to plant it, t in trust fell upon ungenial ground, ind either was blown away by the vind, or perished for want of approbate nourishment. As the crisis became more momentius, and the discussion of national Ights more rife. Mildred's predilecInno ran citr-on ffor on fho renilhllcftn Ide: at the opening of my story, she was a sincere and enthusiastic friend >f American independence,?a char.cter (however it may be misdoubted >y my female readers of the present lay, nursed as they are in a lady-like ipathay to all concerns of governnent, and little aware, in the lazy lap >f peace, how vividly their own quick lensibilities may be enlisted by the trife of men) neither rare nor inefflcent amongst the matrons and maidens f the year seventy-six, some of whom -now more than fifty years gone by? ire embalmed In the richest spices and io!iest ointment of our country's nemory. It is, however, due to truth to say hat Mildred's eager attachment to his cause was not altogether the free notion of patriotism. How often does ome little under-current of passion, ome slight and amiable prepossession, nodest and unobserved, rise to the urface of our feelings, and there give ts direction to the stream upon which loats all our philosophy! What is lestiny but these under-currents that iome whencesoever they list, unheedd at first, and Irresistible ever afterwards? My reader must be told that, before u" ?? V? maIfa ??!? Kin nntKlloluctlp rirl had flitted across the path of Arhur Butler, then a youth of rare facilty and promise, who combined with i gentle and modest demeanor an eariest devotion to his country, sustain'd by a chivalrous tone of honor that tad In It all the fanciful disinterest dness of boyhood. It will not, thereore, appear wonderful that, amongst he golden opinion the young man was storing up In all quarters some fragments of this grace should have made i lodgment In the heart of Mildred Jndsay. Butler was a native of one of the ower districts of South Carolina, and vas already the possessor, by inheriance. of what was then called a hand, some fortune. He first met Mildred, inder the safe-conduct of her parents, it Annapolis in Maryland, at that time he seat of opulence and fashion, rhere the wise and the gay, the beauiful and the rarely-gifted united in a iplendid little constellation, in which vealth threw its sunbeam glitter over he wings of love, and learning and eloluence were warmed by the smiles of 'air women: there gallant men gave ;he fascinations of wit to a festive cir cle unsurpassed in the New World, or :he old, for its proportion of the graces that embelish, and the endowments that enrich life. In this circle there was no budding beauty of softer charm than the young Mildred, nor was there amongst the gay and bright cavaliers that thronged the "little icademy" of Eden, (the governor of the province.) a youth of more favorable omen than Arthur Butler. The war was at the very threshold and angry men thought of turning the ploughshare into the sword. Amongst these was Butler; an unsparing denouncer of the policy of Britain, and an unhesitating volunteer in the ranks of her opposers. It was at this eventful time that he met Mildred. I need hardly add that under these inauspicious circumstances they began to love. Every Interview afterwards (and they frequently saw each other at Williamsburg and Richmond) only developed more completely the tale of love that nature was telling in the heart of each. Butler received from congress an ensign's commission in the Continental army, and was employed for a few months in the recruiting service at Charlottesville. This position favored his views and enabled him to visit at the Dove Cote. His intercourse with Mildred, up to this period, had been allowed by Lindsay to pass without comment; It was regarded but as the customary and commonplace civility of polite society. Mildred's parents had no sympathy In her lover's sentiments, and consequently no especial admiration of his character, and they had not yet doubted their daughter's loyalty to be made of less stern materials than their own. Her mother was the first to perceive that the modest maiden awaited the coming of the young soldier with a more anxious forethought than betokened an occupied heart. How painfully did this perception break upon her! It opened upon her view a foresight of that unhappy sequence of events that attends the secret struggle between parental authority and filial inclination, when the absorbing Interests of true love are concerned; a struggle that so frequently darkens the fate of the noblest natures, and whose history supplies the charm of so many a melancholy and thrilling page. Mrs. Lindsay had an Invincible objection to the contemplated alliance, and immediately awakened the attention of her husband to the subject. From this moment Butler's reception at the Dove Cote was cold and formal, and Mr. Lindsay did not delay to express to his daughter a marked aversion to her intimacy with a man so uncongenial to his own taste. I need not dwell upon the succession of Incidents that followed; are they not written in every book that tells of young hearts loving in despite of authority? Let it suffice to say that Butler, "many a time and oft," hied steathily and with a lover's haste to the Dove Cote, where, "under the shade of melancholy boughs," or sometimes of good Mistress Dimock's roof, he found m^ans to meet and exchange vows of constancy with the lady of his love. Thus passed the first year of the war. The death of Mrs. Lindsay, to which I have before adverted, now occurred. The year of mourning was doubly afflictive to Mildred. Her father's grief hung as heavily upon her as her own, and to this was added a total separation from Butler. He had Joined his regiment and was sharing the perils of the northern campaigns, and subsequently of those which ended in the subjugation of Carolina and Georgia. During all this period he was enabled to keep up an uncertain and irregular correspondence with Mildred, and he had once met her in secret, for a few hours only, at Mistress Dimock's during the autumn Immediately preceding the date of the opening of my story. Mrs. Lindsay, upon her death-bed, had spoken to her husband in the most emphatic terms of admonition against Mildred's possible alliance with Butler, and conjured him to prevent it by whatever means might be in his power. Besides this, she made a will directing the distribution of a large Jointure estate in England between her two children, coupling with the bequest, a condition of forfeiture, if Mildred mar rled without her father's approbation. I have now to relate an Incident in the life of Philip Lindsay, which throws a sombre coloring over most of the future fortunes of Mildred and Arthur, as they are hereafter to be developed In my story. The lapse of years, Lindsay supposed, would wear out the first favorable impression made by Arthur Butler upon his daughter. Years had now passed; he knew nothing of the secret correspondence between the parties, and he had hoped that all was forgotten. He could not help, however, perceiving that Mildred had grown reserved, and that her deportment seemed to be controlled by some secret care that sat upon her heart. She was anxious, sollcitlous, and more inclined, than became her *'outh, to be alone. Her household affections took a softer tone, like one in grief. These things did not escape her father's eyes. It was on a night in June a little more than a year before the visit of Butler and Robinson which I have narrated in a former chapter, that the father and daughter had a free communion together, in which it was his purpose to penetrate into the causes of her disturbed spirit. The conference was managed with an affectionate and skilful address on the part of the father, and "sadly borne" by Mildred. It is sufficient to say that it revealed to him n truth of which he was previous ly ljut little aware, namely, that neither the family afflictions nor the flight of two years had rooted out the fond predilection of Mildred for Arthur Butler. When this Interview ended Mildred retired weeping to her chamber, and Lindsay sat In his study absorbed In meditation. The object in life nearest to his heart was the happiness of his daughter; and for the accomplishment of this what sacrifice would he not make? He minutely recalled to memory all the passages of her life. What error of education had he committed, that she thus, at womanhood, was found wandering along a path to which he had never lead her, which Indeed, he had ever taught her to avoid? What accident of fortune had brought her into this, as he must consider it, unhappy relation? "How careful have I been," he said, "to shut out all the inducements that mghti give a complexion to her tastes and principles different from my own! How sedulously have I waited upon her footsteps from infancy onward, to shield her from the Influence that might mislead her pliant mind! And yet in this, the most determinate act of her life, that which is to give the hue to the whole of her coming fortune, the only truly momentous event in her history?how strangely has it befallen!" In such a strain did his thoughts pursue this harassing subject. The window of his study was open, and he sat near it. looking out upon the night. The scene around him was of a nature to awaken his imagination and lead his musings towards the preternatural and invisible world. It was past midnight, and the bright moon was just sinking down the western slope of the heavens, journeying through the fantastic and gorgeous clouds, that, as they successively caught her beam, stood like promontories jutting upon a waveiess ocean, their rich profiles tipped with burnished silver. The long black shadows of the tree slept in enchanted stillness upon the earth; the night-wind breathed through the foliage, and brought the distant gush of the river fitfully upon his ear. There was a witching harmony and music in the landscape that sorted with the solitary hour, and conjured up thoughts of thetworld of shadows. Lindsay's e mind b<<gan to run upon the themes of c his favorite studies; the array of fa- si miliar spirits rose upon his mental n vision; the many recorded instances of b what was devoutly believed the Inter- tl ference of the dead In the concerns of p the living, came fresh, at this moment, h to his memory, and made him shudder n at his lonesomeness. Struggling with si this conception, It struck him with an a awe that he was unable to master: It "Some invisible counsellor," he mutter- n ed, "some mysterious Intelligence, now e; holds my daughter In thrall, and flings fl his spell upon her existence. The n powers that mingle unseen in the af- b fAtrs of mnrtnla thpt ciildp to crood or n lead astray, have wafted this helpless ft bark Into the current that sweeps on- s< ward, unstayed by man. I cannot con- p tend with destiny. She Is thy child It Gertrude," he exclaimed apostrophizing sj the spirit of his departed wife. "She ai is thine, and thou wilt hover near her hi and protect her from those who con- r< trlve against her peace; thou wilt pi avert the ill and shield thy daughter!" a< Excited almost to frenzy, terrified m and exhausted In physical energy, tl Lindsay threw his head upon his hand m and rested It against the window sill. A moment elapsed of almost Inspired ni madness, and when he raised his head v< and looked outward upon the lawn, he ti beheld the pale Image of the being he 11 had Invoked gliding through the gi shrubbery at the farthest verge of the ec level ground. The ghastly visage was d< bent upon him, the hand steadily tl pointed towards him, and as the figure tl slowly passed away the last reverted w gaze was directed to him. "Great tl j(ioar ne ejaculated, "inai rorm?inai ai form!" and fell senseless Into his c< chair. t< During the night, Mildred was awak- ai ened by a low moan, which led her to <n visit her father's chamber. He was g not there. In great alarm she betook <?< herself to his study, where she found o: him extended upon a sofa, so enfee- t? bled and bewildered by this recent in- c< cldent that he was scarcely conscious sj of her presence. tl A few weeks restored Lindsay to his tt usual health, but it was long before h he regained the equanimity of his it mind. He had seen enough to con- h firm his faith In the specluations of Is which I have before given the outline; b and he was. henceforth, oftentimes g melancholy, moody, and reserved In 01 spite of all the resolves of duty, and In b deflhnce of a temper naturally placid o and kind. * Let us pass from this unpleasant In- c! cldent to a theme of more cheerful lm- ei port; the loves of Mildred and Arthur, a I have said these two had secret meet- d Ings. They were not entirely without rr a witness. There was a confidant In f< all their Intercourse; no other than w Henry Lindsay, who united to the fl reckless Jollity of youth an almost n worshipping love of his sister. His tl thoughts and actions were ever akin to hetf. Henry was therefore a safe de- ? popltory of the precious secret; and as p he could not but think Arthur Butler fi a food and gallant comrade, he deter- ri mined that his father was altogether tl on the wrong side In respect to the love p affair and, by a natural sequence, v\ wrong also In his politics. v Henry had several additional reasons u for this last opinion. The whole coun- c tryslde was kindled Into a martial )< flame, and there was nothing to be u heard but drums and trumpets. There a were rifle-corps, and they were all tl dressed in huntlng-shlrts, and bugles w were blowing, and horses were neigh- v\ lng; how could a gallant of sixteen re- b slst It? Besides. Stephen Foster, the h woodman, right under the brow of the b Dove Cote, was a lieutenant of mount- tl ed riflemen, and had, for some time f, past been training Henry in the mys- w tery of his weapon, and had give 1 him tl divers lessons on the horn to sound the tl dgnals, and had enticed him furtively ? to ride In a platoon on parade, whereof he had dubbed Henry corporal or dep- n uty corporal. All this worked well for o Arthur and Mildred. a Mr. Lindsay was not Ignorant of o?( Henry's popularity in the neighbor- o hood, nor how much he was petted by a the volunteer soldiery. He did not ob- a Jeet to this, as It served to quiet sus- ~ picion of his own dislike to the cause i< and diverted the observation of the 'i adherents of what he called the Rebel P government, from his own motions; ri whilst at the same time, he deemed It s in mhop than a eeweaw that Dlayed tl upon the boyish fancy of Henry with- li out reaching his principles. c Mildred, on the contrary, did not so e regard It. She had inspired Henry h with her own sentiments, and now s carefully trained him up to feel warmly s the interests of the war, and to pre- c pare himself by discipline for the hard s life of a soldier. She early awakened In him a wish to render service in the a field, and a resolution to accomplish n it as soon as the occasion might ar- ti rive. Amongst other things, too, she o taught him to love Arthur Butler and p keep his counsel. tl t< h CHAPTER VIII. tl The Mansion of a Gentleman and a c si Scholar. The site of the Dove Cote was eml- E nently picturesque. It was an area of n level ground, containing, perhaps, two c acres, on the summit of a hill that, on n one side, overhung the Rockfish river, b and on the other rose by a gentle sweep n from the champaign country below, n This summit might have been as much II as two hundred feet above the bed of a the stream, and was faced on that side a by a bold, rocky precipice, not abso- a lutely perpendicular, but broken into stages or platforms, where grassy p mould had occumulated, and where the ti sweetbrler and the laurel, and clusters e of the azalea shot up in profuse luxu- fl rlance. The fissures of the crag had h also collected their handful of ti soil and gave nourishment to strug- e gling vines, and everywhere the f ash or pine, and not unfrequently the s dogwood, took possession of such spots f< upon the rocky wall, as these adven- o turous and cliff-loving trees had found t congenial to their nature. The op- ti posite or northern bank of the river had v ?""?i oUvotinn nnd tutted forward s so near to the other as to leave be- r tween them a cleft, which suggested p the Idea of some sudden abruption of n the earth In those early paroxysms e that geologists have deemed necessary li to account for some of the features of v our continent. Below was heard the h ceaseless brattle of the waters as they 11 ran over and amongst the rocks which f; probably constituted the debris form- t d In the convulsion that opened this i hasm. It was along through this ob- r cure dell that the road, with which ly reader is acquainted, found place r etween the margin of the stream and n fie foot of the rocks. The general as- p ect of the country was diversified by o lgh knolls and broken masses of c lountatn land and the Dove Cote it- s elf occupied a station sufficiently d bove the surrounding district to give i : a prospect, eastward, of several a llles in extent. From this point the t ye might trace the valley of the Rock- r sh, by the abrupt hillsides that hem- c led it in, and by the growth of som- d re pines that coated the steeps where r othlng else could find a foothold. Not t lr below, in this direction, was to be p ?en the Fawn's tower, a singular p innacle of rock, which had acquired h s name from the protection it was t ild to have afforded to a young deer r gainst the assault of the hounds; the t ard-pressed anmial, as the tradition a Hates, having' gained this insulated h oint by a bound that baffled the most h dventurous of his pursuers, and ad- 11 tiration of the successful boldness of a le leap having won from the hunts- o laa the favor that spared his life. e With the exception of a large chest- w ut near the edge of the cliff, and some s fnerable oaks, that had counted cen- h iries before the white man rested his a mbs beneath their shade, the native w rowth of the forest had been removi by Lindsay from the summit I have sscribed, and he had substituted for . le wild garniture of nature a few of le choicest trees of the neighboring ^ oods. Here he had planted the elms, le holly and the linden tree, the cedar rid the arborvitae. This platform was ?ml-clrcular, and was bounded by a p 'rrace or walk of gravel that swept p round its circumference. The space t iclosed was covered with a natural c rasa, which the frequent use of the n :ythe had brought to the resemblance t f velvet; and the lower side of the v rrrace was guarded by a hedgeway of v sdar. Over this green wall, as the pectator walked forth in fair summer me, might he look out upon the dis- g mt woods and meadows; and there e might behold the highroad showing v self, at distant intervals, upon the { ll!sides; and in the bottom lands, that t ly open to the sun through the forest ( ou"d valleys, might he see herds of ? razing cattle, or fields of yellow grain * r, perchance, the slow moving wain, . urdened with hay, or slower moving lough. t The mansion itself partook of the +a# fKo nlono T t Tiro a norph. a?to use a phrase peculiarly appll- * able to Its position?almost lmmelately at that point where the terrace lade an angle with the cliff, being dejnded by a stone parapet, through 'hlch an Iron wicket opened upon a ^ lght of rough-hewn steps, that terilnated in a pathway leading down to ie river. The main building was of stone, onsisting of one lofty story, and cap- 1 ed with a steep roof, which curved, so ir over the front as to furnish a broad r ustlc porch that rested almost upon he ground. The slim pillars of this r orch were concealed by lattice work, hlch was overgrown with creeping c Ines: and the windows of the contigous rooms, on either side of a spalous hall, opened to the floor, and v joked out upon the lawn and quiet indscape far beyond. One of these 0 partments was also accessible through 0 onatorn e-ahla hv a nrlvate door- ^ ray shaded by a light veranda, and 9 ras appropriated by Lindsay to his 11- s rary. This portal seemed almost to a ang over the rock, having but the ' readth of the terrace between it and 9 tie declivity, and showing no other '' jr? ground than the parapet, which * as here a necessary defence against 1 tie cliff, and from which the roman- c Ic dell of the river was seen In all its ilderness. There were other portions of the lansion constructed in the same style r f architecture, united to this In such ^ manner as to afford an uninterrupted * ommunlcatlon, and to furnish a range f chambers for the use of the family. n l rustic effect was everywhere preerved. Stacks of chimneys shot up In 9 rotosque array, and heavy, old-fash- * ined windows looked quaintly down t rom the peaked roof. Choice exotics, r lanted In boxes were tastefully ar- ? anged upon the lawn; cages with Inging-birds were suspended against he wall and the whole mass of bulldlg extending along the verge of the liff, so as to occupy the entire dlamter of the semicircle, perhaps one undred and fifty feet, sorted by its Implicit}' of costume, If I may so peak, and by its tidy beauty, with the lose-shaven grassplot and its trim hades. Above the whole flinging their broad r nd gnarled arms amo-igst the chimey tops, and forming a pleasing con- ( rast with the artificial embellishments e f this spot, some ancient oaks, in ^ rimival magnificence, reared their Imr-honored trunks, and no less shel?red the habitation from the noon-tide than thov nffordprt an nsvlum to he ringdove and his mate, or to the ountless travellers of the air that here topped for rest or food. Such was the general aspect of the )ove Cote; a spot where a philosopher light glide through life In unbroken ontemplation; where a wearied states- , inn might betake himself to reassemle the scattered forces of Intellect for ew enterprises; where the artist might epalr to study with advantage the vlng graces of God's own painting; ad where young beauty might bud nd bloom amongst the most delicate nd graceful forms 0:1 earth. c The Interior of the dwelling caacious and comfortable. Its furniure, suitable to the estate of the own- t r, was plain, and adapted to a municent rather than to an ostentatious f ospltallty. It was only in the library hat evidence might be seen of large , xpense. Here, the books were ranged rom the floor to the celling, with . carcel.v an interval, except where a . pw choice paintings had found space r the bust of some worthy. One or wo ponderous lounging chairs stood in y he apartment; and the footstep of the * isitor was dulled into silence by the g oft nap of (what, in that day, was a are and costly luxury) a Turkey caret. This was In all respects an apartlent of ease, and it was provided with very Incentive to beguile a student ato silent and luxurious communion ,-ith the spirit of the sages around 1m.?whose subtlest thoughts and hoiest breathings, whose most volatile ancles, had been caught up, fixed, and urned inta tangible substances, more I ndestructlble than adamant, by the nagic of the letters. I have trespassed on the patience of 1 ny reader to give him a somewhat nlnute description of the Dove Cote, irinclpally because I hope thereby to t pen his mind to a more adequate con- t eptlon of the character of Philip Llnd- f ay. By looking at a man in his own ? welling, and observing his domestic ( lablts, I will venture to affirm, it shall t carcely in any Instance fall to be true, j hat If there be seen a tasteful ar- ' angement of matters necessary to his ] omrort; n nis nousenoia De wen orlered, and his walks clean and well t oiled, and his grassplots neat; and If s here be no slovenly Inattention to relalrs, but thrift against waste, and ilenty for all; and, If to these be added lablts of early rising and comely atlre?and, above all, If there be books, nany books, well turned and carefully ended?that man Is one to warm up t the coming of a gentleman; to open lis doors to him, to take him to his eart, and to do him the kindnesses of ife. He Is a man to hate what Is base, -d to stand apart from the mass, as ne who will not have his virtue taintd. He Is a man, moreover, whose rorldly craft may be so smothered and uppressed In the predominance of the ousehold affections, that the skilful nd designing, alas, may ever practise dth success their plans against him. TO BE CONTINUED. IARPENTERS' STEELE 8QUARE8. nventor s Vermont Blaokamith Who Became a Millionaire. The large steel squares used by carenters are such a common tool that >erhaps few know when and where hey were first made, and how they ame to be used, or even give the f natter a thought. The making of hem Is a great Industry now, but yhen the last century came In there k-as not one In use. The Inventor was a poor Vermont ilacksmlth, Silas Howes, who lived In (outh Shaftsbury. One dull, rainy day a peddler of tinrare called at his shop to have a shoe astened on his horse. These peddlers ravelled up and down the country :all!ng at every farmhouse buying iverythlng in the way of barter, [ his one had a number of worn out teel saws that he had picked up In various places. Howeo bargained for hem shoeing the peddler's horse and ecelved the saws in payment, and >ach thought he had an excellent rade. His Idea was to polish and weld wo saws together, at right angles, ind thus make a rule or measure luperlor to anything then in use. itter a few attempts he succeeded n making a square, marked It oft nto Inches and fractions of Inches tnd found that It answered every )urpose that he Intended It for. In the course of a few weeks he 1 nade quite a number during his spare ' lours. These he sent out by the 1 >eddlers, who found every carpenter ager to buy one. Soon he found or- 1 lers coming In faster than he could ' upply the demand. One of his steel 1 squares" would sell for $5 or $6, which * k-as five times as much as it cost him. 1 He applied for and obtained a patent * in his Invention so that no one else 1 ould deDrive him of the profit It gave ilm. It was Just after the war of 1812, .nd money was scarce and difficult to ret. But he worked early and late, ,nd .is he earned money he bought ron, and hired men to help him. In , few years he was able to erect a arge factory and put In machinery for he making of squares which by this lme had found their way all over the ountry and had made their Inventor amous. Such was the small beginning of a arge and Important Industry. Peo?!e came miles to see. the wonderful orges, the showers of sparks flying rom beneath the heavy hammers, and Isten to the din of the thousand worknen. Silas Howes lived to be a millionaire, md he did a great deal of good with lis money. Squares are still made on he spot where the first one was made nore than ninety-five years ago.?Conrregatlonallst. WIRE WOUND CANNON. low Uncle Sam's Most Powerful Guns Are Made. . Losing an International rifle shooting natch a few years ago resulted In the nventlon by Mr. John Hamilton Brown . if one of the most formidable, efficient ind terrible high power cannon ever . troduced. The cannon will throw a rojectlle weighing 100 pounds a dlsance of thirty miles and Is now being ested at the Sandy Hook proving Tounds of the United States army, "he World's Work explains the gun nakingr process: The most efficient heavy guns made n England are wire wound. But. rhere as the inner tube of the English run is a solid forging, the tube of the American gun consists of a number of teel sheets, each one-seventh of an nch thick. Around these is wound wenty-one miles of square steel wire me-seventh of an inch in diameter. The tension of this wire is so great hat the Inner tube is compressed to he point where it cannot be overcome ty the explosion of gunpowder. The run is so strong therefore that it canlot be burst by any charge that can be laced in It. although its powder chamler is much larger than that of any ther gun of similar caliber in existnce. The six inch Brown wire gun will hrow a shot weighing 100 pounds for i distance of thirty miles. A projectile Ired from this gun will penetrate a .Teater thickness of armor plate at .000 yards than a projectile fired from my other gun at a distance of twenty eet. After flying thirty miles the proectile will have enough power left to ^ >enetrate six Inches of steel. A ten inch gun of the same type has j teen designed. A great many weird eats are predicted for this ten inch i run?however, it is not yet built. If he wire guns of large caliber fulfill the j )romlse given by the six inch guns ilready built the costly and cumber- i lome armor plate of the modern batleshlp will no longer afford proteclon. ( OT A newspaper correspondent re- " :ently found near Klmberly, South ^ Africa, a diamond of 149} karats that f le sold for 913,465. < GAY TEXA8CATTLEMEN. rhe Earl of Aylesford's Ranch Party Naar Big 8pring. 'The experiences of members of he English aristocracy in the cattle >uslness of the United States have left i fund of amusing anecdotes In the louthwest," said R. L. Caplin of 3uthrle, who was an employee of he Texas and Pacific Railroad com>any in western Texas in the early 80s. to a Guthrie correspondent of the Kansas City Star. "I have a keen remembrance of he Earl of Aylesford, who bought i ranch near Big Springs, Tex., about [884 or 1885. I was living at Big Springs and saw the earl and his :ompanion8 almost daily. His fam ly name was Finch, and with him vere his two brothers, Clem and Dan Finch, a rollicking blade known is Lord Harry Qordon and an Epls:opal clergyman known as Bishop 3ernard. "Locally, the earl was called judge,' which he did not resent. He vas reported to have an Income of ;55,000 a year, and his expenditures ndicated that his means were large, le bought a frame hotel at Big Springs, which he used exciusively or himself and party when they vere not at his ranch. He once was twner of a Big Springs saloon for one light. He paid $6,000 for the estabishment and presented it next mornng to the man from whom he had >ought it. I never saw any members >f his party pay for anything. They ilayed pool and billiards frequently n a local resort, smoking the best :igars and taking their drinks reguarly. At the close of the games the Jckets were cashed by the earl. "The earl and his friends were rreat sportsmen. In the fleld they iften used .20 calibre guns for birds, ihootlng plnflre shells imported from England. The earl had hunted in all he big game countries of the world, ind his collection of furs, skins and leads were of great value. His ranch inuse was filled with them. Tn cedar :hests he kept photographs and menentos of his life abroad. His ranch louse was burned by accident one light and was destroyed, with all its :ontents. "I was Invited once to Join his party in a winter hunting trip, and luring the expedition saw a surprisng illustration of the bath-loving Englishman. The weather was cold md I had arisen early, chilled to the narrow, and was shivering near the look's fire, when Gordon crawled 'rom his sleeping bag to dress. \bout fifty feet distant was a pool >f water covered with a thin coating if ice. 'Bless my soul,' shouted Gorlon, 'what a Jolly chawnce for a >ath,' and he plunged into the water, creaking the Ice as he went and folowed by the earl and his brothers, rhe sight 'was excruciating to a warmth loving American, but the >odies of the Englishmen glowed pink and red in the frosty air. "Despite his youth?he was about thirty-eight?the earl was looked upon as an elderly man. by his companions. He had gone the pace, and toon paid the penalty. When his physician called one morning the jarl, who had been in bed several lays, asked that his pulse be taken. Well, Judge, I should say you have ibout fifteen minutes to live,' said he physician, after making his elimination. 'If that be your opinion,' ep'led the earl, without a tremor, give me a good, big farewell drink >f American whisky.' He emptied his jlass, and with a long sigh turned on lis side and was gone. "The cablegram business at the Utile telegraph office at Big Springs for :he next few days astonished the operators. The rate was $1.10 a word, ind the cable was used as if the senders were writing letters. One of the Irst messages of condolence from England came from the Prince of Wales, now King Edward. The body it the earl was taken home by &jl his retinue, and none of them ever relumed. Incidentally, the physician 'ound that the earl's liver weighed 'ourteen pounds." Through Nineteen Battles Unscathed. Robert Young, a veteran of the C.inea and the Indian Mutiny, died at his -esldence in Red Lion Close, Montrose, >n Saturday evening. He was 77 years >f age, and his career as a soldier was ull of desperate fighting. One of the ? nost fortunate men on the field, he :ame through nineteen battles scathess. * He was a native of Edinburgh and dined the Black Watch in 1846. Unil 1853 he served in Canada in which rear his regiment returned home and, var breaking out with Russia he volmteered for the Crimea. His offer vas accepted, and he was transferred o the Ninety-third Highlanders, who vere ordered East. Under Sir Colin Campbell he was engaged in many batiles. He fought at the Alma and at balaclava, where his regiment formed 'The Thin Red Line." He was at the :apture of Redan and the Malakoff, ind spent the severe winter of 1854-55 n the trenches before Seb&stopol, beng also In the forefront of the lighting vhen that famous fortress fell. When he Highlanders returned to Britain hey were Inspected by the Queen at Vldershot, and Mr. Young, along with hree others, had the honor of being >resented to her majesty. During the mutiny Mr. Young fought n all the principal battles. He was at he relief of Lucknow, took part in he forced march to Cawnpore, and vas at the storming and sacking of the >alace of the Queen of Oude. In De- ' :ember. 1867, he retired on a pension )f lOd. per day, having served his jueen and country for almost twentywo years?Dundee Advertiser. If You?Find fault with others, it vill make them faultier. Worry about your work, it will make rou less capable. Anticipate evils, you will be sure to >ring tnem upon you. Imagine you are disliked, it will nake you less likable. Talk about your ill health, It will nake you less healthy. Sit bemoaning the past, you will nev;r get on in the future. Talk much of what you are going to lo, you will never do It. Complain of lack of opportunities, you'll miss what you have. Wall bitterly that it is an unjust vorld and life not worth living, you'll find it come true for sure, in your own sue at least?Philadelphia Bulletin.