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. V ' /\ : \ m--A''^ •*' lit Presses. (Ue«ft4li^> , " tfob Printing BlK&it****'!*** th, Iksit styles on the Ptorl.t Press ; to ,. ^ . • -ZT \' -V jfOUP tfie, tW»* mmA be eettted lee £^TR ✓ V rxvr Alliahce Department. &AHNWELL1 GOURT ROUSE, S. C., JULi 20,1833. \ A-wfu'il ia tHe CoUn J- AUtinoe tit-gen by tbe Couu- nce JiU) 3th; lAAll. . „ J. rATK, AHfirtt iTfe Kbtron, *• - ^Urtisss re re AlltM-llOj# a T," Olio tTU Jxttiwetvx: 1 ahoettd b« eddresS r- F the Cent} AlUeete- 11.1L Groin, Peeshlent. •t; C. Mi.ler, Wee President. " 3V.8. Bamberg, Seen tnry. f A. 1\ Free, Trearnrrr. ti. D. Kinaid, Clmplain. T. 8 Weeks, County Le^cnrer. W. A. All, Steward or Assi-staat Lecturer. W. T. Harley, Door Keeixrr. K: K. Hartev, AssIsUnt Door Keeper, ft. W. Bodlfonl, Benrant-at Arms. ^-F. H-freroh, Bwlnee* Agent. Mree.uttve Ownmlttee—C. B. Free, W. Fltrick, W. A. Faust. „ .Trade Committee—tl. M. Hunter. ;>wling, J. M. Ulmer, v \ u tmittce on Good « ^fnfcjOi^strrJ-- W; .* W.lllan, C W- .Eden * *’ Sister Rose and I were nt Newport last i*un»p«r; hence the title of this story. —Whwa-111 my:iximfurtable. Qnict. vet . beautiful homo on the Susquehanna", 1 read *'My Novel," I came upoil this jws- sage: Bo finally uty owu judgment told me (hat Hose should i^ pat the world—that great, entrancing, «i«ukling world, only ••And tha nice looking party beyond. J mean tire father and dunghtera^' Don't know tHrin," answered Mt. which was thla: If yon would sufreed in 1 “But you assure mo that U what tire Society, you must at least protend to bo writer wautHF faintly forP'ShmlowiHl ft) hrr-nrt1redanc-;xjttwim with' withering-enundntton.—1 ing school halls, the ncconntlt of Mrs. , wonder if any descTtjitlon of type can Gibspn, the toaganne storh.-s. j give tha force to this remark which Mr. Armed and equipped with dresses, (Jibsou gnvp, Ut wits, .-is if the destToy- -ahoreihlo -^g-nn^i.inniq to shivering a fool! 1 Imd got to know', and who frequently took mo to drive. She was charmingly Yea, but 1 ptopose to foil the perpe trator with Irer Own tools. ,1 think I see a well known- hand in this. After some conversation on this point natural, bright and even witty when ^ I consented to follow Mrs. Dorrowc’sad- ■kablo vice. tyrant) and accompanied by Mrs. Uib- son and a large party of her friend*, \v« j ... ; i-, TT t I found ourselves rather startled and un-! r.S thC ^ ,C rT^ H ^ Ura0rpnn ‘ comfortable at NewjKnl emo hot day in’ ed ‘Tlie Dance of Death, in our pol- ^ No ^ ot ^ veTJ . h ot f but 1 dusty, uncomfortable. Everything, was new—our dresses were new and rather 1 tight; our crinoline was prodigious; our accustomed onlyloour own dress ing, were screwed into nnimaginablc F.. H. Iig, E. B. Guess. ished century some sardonic wit should give us the •Masquerade of Haty.’ ’’ There, surrbtimled with cqjijfort, lux ury and beauty, with that feeing of »e- eurity which one’s home gifesljall about . 1 ' ‘ me tho bm! ^ions had retir^l into the , Mat tide. this background of my imagination amHii ; ul took n gur . ^here, shadows without form or reality, , _ • andT thought as I read this passage bow , vt I,' ^ qvendrainod, unreal and melodramatjc ' *y • it was. Yet 1 could not* Torget ill "A Mas<incrade of Hate!" Everything about \ The letliutHsf thn I'nnnty AlUgngy hbtdir. the Opera House at liarnwel last Tliursdily was tullof com fork and encouragement. (July two Sub-AHi- anccsin the County were unrepresent ed. The delegates in attendance wers intelligent, practical, patriotic men, at teotive students of p.jhHc affairs and well Informed as to the issues of the Uay. They spoke freely and forcibly ax If feeling the responsibility resting upon them and not afraid to meet H. There was inueh enthusiasm which, en couraged by the good progress of flie past, will master the problems 1y»d hie suggested peace. The river, broad, beneficent and tranquil, flowed ever on ward'for good. The trees, the flowers, The sky—all was beauty, all ■ was the handiwork of love, j'et ! redd again the words of the great master of English id-' mance, and an inward voice told me ' . that I should one day recognize a truth m them. The fine passage which follows: “Love is rarely a hypocrite, bfit hate, how de tect,, how guard against it? It lurks whore yon least sospex t it. ft our dresses Thanks to j ravin? had taken a contract W dress hs as if we were two Fn-nch j dol(s and hml fulfilled it to admiration' were very handsome. We Were spared ; the Immiliation of finding ourselves bad- the brink oh tho gulf: “Go down and never hope to rise! Twice wretched wretches, go down! down! downt" • Tliere is nothing in Milton wore ter rific than this sentence, pronounced, by your tr,ue worldling. It says unimagina ble tilings, and little as I knew of the world I felt a solemh conviction that that fill her and those daughters were driven out of tho inner world of fashion aa utterly are was Lucifer ejected from paradise. Sister Hose had a distinguished suc cess tl>e first dinner, for Mr. Sutherland, -?i r*r -o' » Tf' l, i-—Ifl •■Oh, dear woman! I •tot all }, op. and 1 uni dying of anxiety Hose. Do let aim go. 1 shall drop 1 if yon do not.” , ffc? MW. ftJTrdwp, _ C lotcsl hie to the door. We left StrtheF nd dancing madljr-areMHIh bead aly-., most bursting with pain I reached my sight into character, but when--wo re- When wo rencTpxl. hStffe, ft was qnlto own room. » turned to the circle of onr hotel she be- dusk, and 1 went to find Rose. She hod , There on the table was a note wrlttett came almost vapid: a well bml languor t"*on driving with Mrs. Gibson, whom I In pencil^ this effect; overspread her features. She said noth ing but commonplaces; no emotion be trayed itself on her trained features. O shadow of Maintenon, of Pompa dour, of Esptnasee, of Recatnier, was this your idea of being charming? Wo wear your dresses; wo copy your graces. Why cannot we follow yonr sprightly to met in tho hall and who said she had been home an hour. Rose was not in my own room or hers, and Matilde, my maid, said hhohadcomo fn Very' tiirriodly, taken a shawl and gone out again. Poor Rose, looking np uncimsciously, saw his eyes fixed iijsin her, and looking down blushed over face, neck and arms. Sutherland was not accustomed to that ly drersed at Newport, jterhoixi one of i r f thing, the coy maidens at whom greatest of the petites tnisercs of life. 1 ho generally stared wereqiast Blushing; We had good rooms; wo were!nt reduced a nd he donblltaw had a 8ensatiou“very right and left; w- had the golden key which unldhks exclusive fashion's inner; thost wicket d«Hir—we liad money. Another advantage wo had—vVowofo new. A something to do’is tho great want of tho Newport habitues and ti is created '*°mething to talk about the absolute ho- by causes that you can the least foresee, and civilization multiplies Its va^ttre [ while it favors its disguise,-for eiviliza- | tion increases the number of contending Interests, and refinement renders more | orercouie-lhodilHculties looming up in susceptible to the least irritation the enfi* cm of self love. Bnt hate comes cOVert- L reltWspFmtnwdtrdrxft TCSOS -ly forth from BOPrewlf iflLerest wehaVg ~~ crossed or from some self love we have - 1 lutloifriVebrtive to The tree'coinage of silver rejwrted Uie following, which » wereuuaniutously adopted: . Whereas, certain parties in our State, la Charleston, Columbia and ©iln-r places, representing their commercial interests, Irevc uwiterf? and by resoin? tlofi declarertXgslnut the free coinage 6f silver, '“•• > And; whereas we do not endorxo sucli f sentiments, and do not believe they represent the settHmentx or luteresuoi thd people, therefore he it Resolved, That we stand pledged to— Awptiwrt and sustain by nnoomprom wounded^and, dullards that \ye are, how seldom we are aware of our offense! You may be bated l*}' a man you have never seen in your life; you may bo hativl ns often by one whom yortfinve loaded with benefits; you may so walk as not fo tread . on a worm, but you inUfct sit fast in your easy chair until yoti are carried ouf to joqr l»ier if yon would l?e sure not to tread on some snake of a foe," . Hate—a word I had almost forgotten. My"own past, how soeuro it hud been from the ugly monster thus startlingly cessity. For a few days WJ ‘furnished them occupation. At the 't-ml of tliri-r days Mrs. Easton, who sat opposite ns at table, kne\y all about us; that we had bail a distant relative in the cabinet of one of the preside^h; that we had sy much (and no more) money; what the family poli- j ties were; what religion we professed, ard-Alrw. Pnstim- - auught.jQiir..jiniunuit; ance,«ind wee-entored cm the Newport like that which a thirsty traveler experi ences when ho finds a fresh strawberry by the side of a du^ty toad—he intended from that mofnent to refresh himself with the nfiexpeetbd frrflt. Mr. Gibson found it out immediately. •Sco." lie exclaimed, “Sutherland is stating af Rosot That is aa immense irempUmeut.* footstejis still further and dare to' be witty and wise as you were at your dear little suppers? \ls it because ther- an at*rn at her. | foolslu high places and wo moil follow , tha fashion aa wtlo of an ngly collaf T because a duchess has a king’s evil and lie : fools if we can—if not. play tliat wo arc? One of the vrite of Newport was Mr, ; Fein pie. lie was very well born and . bml, ami it was considered 'proper to j hughTit his jokes. He. a* It sewired, j’ liad taken ont a lill^iso to l»e funny. All other wit was contraband, lie might lx? ? laughed at . “Mrs. Clifton." ho drawled"cino even- itig, "do you know thi:t todfij’ l have ; made an atrocious pun? I said ! tlull the names of the houses shohtiTbe split, and •onrs should be called the •FiK-.aelle,' and | that the •Vne-Moro.' from tho names j Vf, liring yon th* To ‘■'•j- y An immense insuH," feaid 1, taking Fillmore and Bellevue. We are filled flr« at once. , j with Udlex. and they t-ould view more “Now. Mrs. Clifton, be quioi. My j without linking them!" good friend, you do not know this world | A siTVefy laugh eidioed through tho as.I do. Why. men will look at hand-j rooma We all dared to lx? iminstHl, and some girls, and Sutherland is. a iittlo | this gigantic achiovoinent of ult p:ts-e«l «}M t ilml r -but.iL jnan nl sm b i?csft!nn!. Do . into one of tire lp, , ,cnds of No\ v ix > rt in- gsten to reason and be quiet- ’ If you w:inf to have Ro*c see society, you must n _ . telicetnahty. course with heavy-beUMa-o!!t’ wiccobs. n^int to have Ro*osee society, you must , One of the liidH>A '♦'* Newport bad. as 1 Shadow of Butherlaud! did you rise 1 not qlarrcl with it nt once because some ; had nlWayasiippoaediU very enviable rep- before mo to suggest that cqnim* timile? j 0 f jt, uiodem innovations do not square (ifafiun for Ix r wit, learning and elever- Well, to return lo my first dinner ( ; vo ur very retinal and pecnliar no- 1 ness, but I found this was a jiositive dis- Next me rat Mr. Gibson,- a man whose, tions.'’ vision, though straight on’tigh as to the , -But. Mr. Gibson, rayTetirrd notions^ \ physical eye, was Kintpilarly- oblique 1 „ vou j,| oa . S p to call them, have !>eep - when contemplated with that second set j consideml tlie rules of gentlemanly con- of ofiies which we all possess, and which i (j uct H incO tho world was young. Why, looks beyond and behind the other. To j did chivalry mean; what does po- havo contemplated Mr. Gibson with this , e try. nunance, mean; what d-x-s civitiza- seeond pair of eyes (which never grow tion mean if not that man being strong | annunoned Irefore mo bv the wand of the >'«•« ind Only need xpcc- j shall proh'ct. yes.^raclm.sly and respcct- 1 enchanter! ! n-.nembered h.ow gnarde.1 tarh-sm extreme youth) one would have fully protect, woman and not insult her . ~ iny youth had Wen, the child bfqrrosper- «-«»tm.t ho waa.«khcte«l with a sort of - .. ,, .. i»- moral strabismus, and that some tilings ‘You talk itv. the early loved. I had known no • , , . J were lamentablv contused to him, while . ton tilver at tho ratio <*M« to 1. ttaaolved. That a eo| y of these reso lutions Be Befit to v»ch of onr Congress men and Senator*, and Ikqy be urged ing fldfiity all of the demands ol the 8orr0W( noarcelv disappointment, until a Narinere Alliance, ind specialty we de- an'dYTiromTnTnre r-s tf | mand tlie frels ahd unliiniied coinage of j ^Hth a veil from other experience, for 1 was now 30 and had been 10 years a j widow. ^ Tlie few years cf six-iety and the gay world which camo between my school J — , . dava and early marri.-ige were so briglit. -to uaeentry effort tu Urelr power to M : fnU of uleaanre. tliat I looked back} iecure to our. court try that relief which upon • qlociely^ as a land full of lv tv* **fne«tly bcllcte will result from _ teomi images, fair women, great men, the free coinage of silver. sensible, brilliant, witty conversation, V ’ tf'. R. if^MHKKO, music, dancing, nil tliat cair el.aiin the thIL-.J ^ M. d I’aTK, 1 ininginatiou and the senses. J. Q, Mills*. Tin*# renolirtlwn w lUlieil in the l.’O'rtrtty Organ, others were peculiarly i-.daiited to hi angle of vision; for instance. Mr. Gibson never failed to see what he defined :is a “person of consequence" and’was as blind p.s -pelisarius to a person of “he consequence.” Perhaps, however, lie was as gocal a cicerone at Newport as 1 could have had. though pher ami friend" in any other .tq iteie 1 should not have chosen Imp.,— very well, dear Mrs. Clif- 1 don't doubt, uncommonly well. advantage to her, for on iisking Mr. Semple alxmt her lie BtxMried rather dis gusted and Answered me: “Very goodjhouh*', nioe pofcltiort, rich, too chatty; on. decidedly too chatty!" Tho second week of our stay still fotiud Rose the reigning belle of tho house. Neither Mu* Chase, who sang, nor Mias Brown, who played, fioi Miss Robinson, whose mauima maneuvered, ilinl anything to coiniw.ro with Rose in point of success. And then came tho unmasking! for dinner but it lias no sort of cflect at Newport-^ __L went to dress c no day not the least, not the least.! Ytm might quite fate and had not time to read a talk forever about chivalry, but I rather ; dirty note which I found on my table, think nobody, at least not tho young and which l supposed was some bogging men. would know what you meant, and Tetter, and swing it lie there still unrepd if they did they would not care—no, not they They would stare just as much, ho! ordered imb- >■ Register And Cotton Want. A committee was aiqwdiUcd to ar range with Uro. Jeffries,-State Lecturer, for a series of lectures during the sum- mer. On account 04 tho illness -of ItM&m Jeffiric* and Talbert the pub- fie otirtremex appointed fdr Friday were fsHUponed. JtrntJmr John T. Gaston of Aiken, * District Lecturer, w as present and ad ded much to the interest of the meeting. selected 4n4 tusUHA'dfor ihe next Alliance year : Crum, Vhre I’rcsi- rif*|etary, IV. S. ., A. F. Free, Lec- Weeks, i'liaplain, G. D. T.HarlevJ the senses; a rofim*d hixnrj- giving richness to tho picture, tui early lovo lending it romance and jx?etry. ~ 7 . When the chief figure was stricken out of this picture, I never wished to look "poo R again. I kmaa that in looking U|K?n tho brilliant surface I slionld see only that Void. Bo I had' livid a quiet, j for ••guide, phr’oso-: t j, e p r i s don't dislike itr-hel Mrs, Clifton!" Well, I thought I would swallow my disgust ami bear with “modem innov:v tions." I-had conic to Newjiort; I was ! undonbtedlv^ruslic; my ideas might ! chaiigo. * ' . After pinner I was presented to sev ,_ 1 oral ladies. They were faultlessly ^ " ( dressed, handsome, mnny of-them fine \ ^ ^ j musicians and ginjil linguists, and 1 au- ^ t ic i pa ted ;ntu1» pleasure. What were as 1 was going to take my afternoon drive with Mrs. Uorrowo. 1 put it lustily in my Jsx-ket to read on the way. The affernoo* was bountiful, and as Mrs. Borrow© hniki'd out on the sea slie i quoted Elontce Smith's lino lines: To th,-it cnthedral. bniiiullox* as v.oo«1«t, iVhtiso hlnumglauipH Umsmuiiand iihkiii supidy, ; ttx choir, thd wlmU and wave*; lUorgait, thuM- I 4cr; ' " : It* dome, tlie sky. The choir of “winds mid waves" was | chanting its majestic anthem. Nature I wns grand, calyt.and lienetieenf. 1 could not help asking Mrs. Borrowe if slie did Harley, rgfant at Anus, If; RodH’ord. Delegate to State AlUiflVe, II. II Crum. Tlpfi »M*lr* on the part Af the hrothfeiV U)'elf'ct Brother W. S. Bamberg Bec'fefary for life.- Ne- has ffhrelurjttd tM laborious and rekponsi- file dutiet! of the office, with an ability that challenges admiration and a faith- fiilnesstliat commauda the perfect con- ffdtnce of his brethren'. retired life, surrounded only by tho near est and dearest friends,- nntll grief hx 1 1 ! become melancholy, and finally perhap.-* only something less than that, but tho 1 , world I had forgotten. \ t Was, then, this brilliant pageant calks! | society but a' masquerade? Were men , !; and women bowing, smiling, carcSsinqJ * and entertaining, each other but to for- i ward their own ends, to advance their own interests? Was there-a sfcilebm at ; every feast, and hidden by a mask ot polite and elegant demeanor did jealousy, | distrust, scandal, detraction,walk among , - the guests? „ Hate—a (xitent word; it colored the hnndscajx?; it darkened the son: it gave m P!»r JH 1 tho subj+s'Iswo taikeil about? .ThcxbYUll}. yug sauictimcfl find soil uty tcxlious mid claims of the different houses! .[.ungutiMaCtory. Tliore, with tlie "far sounding sea” singing innnortal anthems in onr ears, with a night above cur.heads such as Listen! Owaita, X'eh., J u ly 8.—II. B\ Lo neks df Ifuroh,*#. 61; prertdent of thd Na- flomtl ftrtlnfrs’ Alliance, was in -Onia- fix to-day. Bpeaking of the silver qftiesriot., he aaid: We are not fn fa- for of tit* repeal of tire Sherman law tefa It >0 replaced b}’ free coinage or . ^ utore. favorable To silver. #e hrtVff rthtr It Congressmen on whom •#e**rf rirff, tfittCM It were not for pit- distribution- we would have ritote. WAdbn’t know what to make of ^MevelAmf. ffe it »-• party in himself. 'Fits«onnfry MatIbttcbnffdatc? in liini. BfemonettyittltaLaif «iiver D not parity, And hetred Cleveland does not stand on dirt pUUorm.” He ex- presred dotrildence hi rtib showing of rtkaVopintfirktlttfl ednHti^ Bute elec- to tho Sutt summer breozo a harsh and severe sound. I felt as if n-disagreeafilo pn-seuce had stolen into my life nnd shut out the tranquillity and happiness, when there appeared walking on tlie green sward beneath my window Bister j Rose. No disagrwable presence was Sister Rose. She banished hate and brought back light to the sun,, music to the breeze. Sister Rose >vas 17; sweet, beau—; ftful and colortxl likeTFq rival flowers of York nnd Lancaster; she was the youngest, fairest bud oil our ancestral j tree, and though 13 years sepTuaVed her from tno wo were .sisters in the fondest ] truest sense, in mutual confidence and love, dashed with a sort of fhaternnl authority on my jtart, n sort of deferen tial daughterhpod on hers. She was all the world to me, dear Sis ter Rose. Mrs. Gibson walked by Sister Rose on tho -greenr—Mrs> Gibsoa was .a^jauM And \nrport is so dcliyht/iilf Lord Byron wrote vers( ; s about, and compares, as somebody irreverently says to a “black eyed woman," these edu cated, nrcomplislnHl creatures could find nothing to say but on the all important jaunt of which was tho more fashionable, the Fillmore or the BellevuoJ i asked Mrs. Paston who was tlie fine looking woman in bluo whom 1 saw hi the parlor •Oh that is Mrs. Akerly, an old friend of mine, but we do not sj»eak now, for we an? nt the rival houses!” Tho tyrarny of bWs is a power w limita. lt made Martin Luther * fting Ins inkstand ut the gentleman in "Yes, but it has attractions. 1 know l am born for something better, but 1 love it; 1 cannot escape Irom it;I believe we should all live with each other, and If Hie iiias^\is stupid let 11s do our in dividual mite to make it brighter." "But do we? Do wo all take a lower ••Who is that young man who look; black; it sent Napoleon to St. Helena; eiVniuch like a horse?" J at^cd of Mr. Gib- it is the force wliicft drove men to the son. \ ' "My dear Mrs. Clifton, how can yon Crimea to starve and die, audit descends so low that it even makes the women | Siiy such things? Tlm.t is'Mi;. Suthf'vland, hate each other, because they charge j a voting man of the greatest consequence, j thetnsel vos with tho honor-of two rival vefj"ncli,’Tciy aristocrat if. a little. taverns! given to gaining, and, they s:iy, rather Sister P.ose had,a success: Rutherland j too fond of horse racing and such little} admired her; other young men followed, j expensive atnuscinents. However, if he she danced lierpetualiy. lia*l flowiaa^md j lie alt" the insignia of bellehood. Bile en- joye.d it; it was her right. I could but admire—tire woman’s instinct which taught her soreadjlv what to Jow ith her ■green. lady who bad come to i«y us a visit, j As they walked tlieir conversation float- j ed up to me through tho still June air. : ‘‘And Newport is so delightful?” asked Sister Rose. "Oh, perfectly dcHgktfuL Tire eli de of Italy and the best people in tho^ P av< 5 ites. Such a charming set of—inns, doesn't injure his fortune, nom-itter. will soon have sown his wild oats." “Ho looks to me as if ho were in tho habit of eating them.” “Ho! he!" s.-ud Mr. Gilwon, who never newly .acquired honors. She was gay I laughed sincerely nt any joke at an aris- but reserved with Sutherland, whose j toe-rat. ' *T character she read at n glance: sfie was j "And who is that little woman who amused with the satirical Warden'Wood.-| looks so much like a poodle dog?” j she liked (1 feared too much) Tracy, a ?‘Now, Mrs. Clifton, you are top bad! well appointed youth, who followed her That is Mrs. Smithson] tho most exclu-i much. but.sire boro Irer blushing honors fcivn wonmn here. Allow me U? say tliat I had never been beautiful like Rose,-and I enjoyed Tire sweet if Mrs. Smithson and Mrs. Paston a^jj-tp be introilncod to you your fortune is gave her for her s;iku and my own. made! I mean at Newport!" ^ 1 must confess 1 was a little angry at the imagined condescension of these la-! 1 dies, but I knew Mr. Gibson, and I fnr- him, for I renumbered his strabis- tone when wo mingle with society? 1 Would you now, dear Mrs. BorfSwo. Iiavo dar«l ty? quyte that«plendid simile which you have just spoken so appro printely if y.ort had bec*a;iu the parlor nt tho hotel?"' "No, because ax Cecil says (that world ly Use Cecil!). *We must, to succeeil in «x-iety. consent to lose onr individuality Host .along' with tho mass, disliu jgnislied only for onr extreme Feamu blance to all tho rest.’ And we must nil remember that hate, envy. detraction, are always lying in wait for the Baccrssfti! person, and if I am so unfortunate ax to command any excessive admiration 1 suCcr for it. Tlicynost snccusaful i>er- , sons I know in society are women who | have neither beauty nor wit, who dress 1 well, and while they alarm and wound whispered; "be no one’s vanity arc still sought for their | nothing wrong. |K>sitiou, .tact and ‘knowledge of the word,’ which means never showing any other Kind of knowledge." "■ At this moment I remenibered my let ter and drew it from my jxaket. . ^ It was a badly spelled, badly written letter, saying that tho writer felt bound to tell me that lie had seen Mr. Bather- land kissing my linndsoiiie sister, Miss Rose, in tho dnsk of the evening before as they were walking on" Ore piazza, and that ho (the writer) had sonic other facts to conimnnicate. which he would do for ~'?7 iTT wonld WrUe hlin n note mvHeavq t.found on tnpjtn/»?r. 1 -waited an hour very uneasily. Then I went <«.t to see Mrs. Gibson.again. Sire knew nothing of her; said sire walked off talking with Sutherland and some young ladies after tho dnro. At this moment on* of fhoj^ung la- rtirs mine in and mid she had returned witlji Rose and-Sutherland just before I drove tip and thought Rose must be In her own room dressing for the hop. I went again. Thefe was Hid dress she was (o wear, hut no Rose. I was getting ffiore and inoro ularmetL I- went to Mrs. Borrowe. Sho was frightenetl too. She asked me if I had perfect confidence in Rose, that she could not be decohing mo. ‘•Perfect, perfect." "Then this Ls a plot to annoy you like all the rest. Now bo calm; you must dress and go to tire hop tonight. Tell ev erybody that Row did tret come because tire imd a headache. Be perfectly cool about-lt, nnd 1 will look for Rose. She is safe, depend upon it, but if you wish to nave her and yourself a terrible scan dal do not show that you ore anxious a boh t her." * Tlrere was Bometliing so perfectly erm- vim-ing in Mtj. Bcj-rowc’s manner that I sii binit text _ _ Mntilde exclaimed' at my palo cheeks and haggard expression. ^ “If madsune wonld Imt color a lectio. Sho has tho distinctiop. the air, the ev erything, but she has not the con plex- ion. ’Would inadame be brilliant lor the ball and permit mo to color with dhcro- tion?" "Do what you like, Mntilde." So Matilda produced from her own magazines Ixlttlcs and boxes and pro ceeded to make mo up. A drawing s -n- gation of tlie skin convinced me that a color "charming, natural," like that which blooiiKsl jierpotoally on the check t?f Mntilde, was blushing on my own. Mye yebruws, my hair, were also touched with various bntslir? .1 fid other instru ments. After receiving the treatment which is generally bestowed on the "juT- trait of a lady," instead of tho lady her- rdf, f was pronounced finished am) looked' at myself. h hardly kneW the enameled visage which {irusented itaclL This, then, was one sort of "mask" which 1 Imd not re membered. It wi-.s easier than I thought to hide the anxiety which gnawed at my heart. 1 cquld better appear nncon- cerned' behind this face. * _ ^‘,Come." s;ud Mr. Borrowe, knocking at my doty; “hero is Warden Wood waiting to escort you. Bless me, how well you look! I am on the tr.-p-k." she conqxised; There is Hi \u Lai-iia-jcaunle Mlllw<i and wayta bvb to rpere nyeraml *|^n« with her. I don’t cars for (hi bok Years af> fcetlonatrly. i, \ •, ’t , IK- h® - *- • I had snffereii enough doling these few }ioui 3 to give me the right to f^i'nt away, which l did iiunrediately, arid oh comink to sent for Mrs. Borrowe, who shared In fny relief as she had in my an xiety “Now, bo quiet,TWar Mra. Oi nnd tomorrow wo will got at. the bptt of this mystety. This note Ros* ert? dently left when? you, ,could see It, %♦ t ■ l L' . . V XL - W llfl LttlY vTl which was mrtjdbyed to auotiyiupns cominunicatioff. Tomorrow you will write an answer to ttu(i au^ leave it bn your table when you go to dinner; de(>etul there is a jilot to bo un- ravelod.’l- .-.- rr- . ■ . . Twaited impatiently; f<?r the morning to dawn, and as soon as the house was openetl 1 put on my bonnet and w^nt over to tho other hotel, where 1 soon found Jeanfiie Millwood's sickroom. S hore bn u sofa lay sistpr Rose, isqiing. **- Tho inralid was »*ri told me that as Rose Had rend to her nearly all night she had aalred her to lie down and get n littfc sleep. ., ( I went across the room and kiaeed th* cheek flnabM with nnaceostomed vigils. I determined, as 1 looked on the jnnot cent ffree and .thought of all her .ifid iovciy ipialities, that my Rose show hi nceforth ojirn in some pnrer bn Ut urmbiptisf»thfttr rtuftof a ing place, a. , l followed- Mrs. Borrowe'g advice and wrote a few words, and leaving^be nut* on my ta\ile fveiff to ^Tinner as usual., . Tho scene which followed may best be dtifcarflied in theatric*! parlance, , The coinpsinv liqlng li%ll seated at din-, ner, n woronr Meajthily creeps across th* deserted juissogi-way and miters my par lor. looks cautiously ground and is on th* piintof seizing tire note when the door to the left, leading to thy l «*droom, oflen^. ami exit Mrs. Bpt+Oflr*. Mr*- .Oyaham, Lowia mid uiicor two more, who summnd the frightened woman, who proven to h* Mrs. Pivston'a maid, and who. on th* 00- casiou of this unexpected detection, falls on h'T krtWH. implores pardon, aays that her mistress has sent her. etc. , ' , - Tho noise and confusion of this scene reached the fining, room, and several Imlies left tho table. Mpi- Paston ana Mrs. fimithwon remained with perfect sang froid in thefr scats. , ' , SnthcTland had md tamed state's ev-' ly queens of fashion bad requested him' to stay out of sight on the night of th* hop. promising him in. return that h* shonld see Rosa in fhe parlor of one of, them, wo should never nave known bow, much was mistress and how much was* maid. Mr. Gibson ami I held a final meeting, on the subject of Newport in illy parlor just before we eamo away. fr il’K m- -Itl TT fZy i *iv-' J, U/ /.jjk M^ny perxoiia think gluten flour," rtrtit Is «*ff<i|« htakrts perfect bread. Tver* are few mHU in th“ United But*s that 4**h* % HteuWty of this 1* inorp th Jtcorttr^s little rollrtb flour J 1fiouF" fr they rmtj 1*3?. 1 . rflttnffclee together peophrin tire cottages—yea, end palaces too! Shell gay scenes nt the Bellevue, tho rillmore; tho Ocean is a little fast perhaps, hut very nice people there too. Such drives, such hathing, snch dress ing, such a dear old picturesque town! Oh. there is nothing life Newport— nothing! nothing!* • “I should so likfe to go," said Rose. „ "And Why not? Make Mrs. Clifton take yon. Plenty of money, youth} bcau- y * I ty, good family; you should go. pome r will i Philadelphia with me, and wo shall brin out } got a beautiful wardrobe prepared and Of 1 —nous verronsf* than every dark, hut bread' ihatr the; h« biscuits, r.or wafijos, it U It* Jhour.—Carolina “But I do not believe Sister Lapra wdfiiaiiko to leave her rettmupnt. She las lieeu quiet V? long. , ’ ' ,' ' _“But she mns^-Motbo quiet. Sire is rfxtffting you out. from that World to which you bejneg. T^ thc. name of that wronged and'fcjre/tJljjid I claim you. 'vejou w "Who is the lovely woman with rests in her hair, who is taking such cure of the stupid little man by her side?" “Ah! that is Mrs. Morisi Borrowe, tho , beauty, tho pet ted of fortune, so amiable, so careful too! Never.hear anything; ogninst Mrs. Morris Borrowe! And tho | little man, twice her ngefis Mr. Morris , Borrowe, married by an ambitious moth- ] er. Every one said too bad, bnt ini- j niensely rich. She really stems to Hko | him though; perhaps wary rmd deep— don’t know. These innocent looking ones arc tho ones sometimes, Mrs. Clifton, he he!" v ,If Mrs. Morris Borrowe was ft “deep one," she was' wry deep, for innocence and-trnth sat enthroned on her face, and talking, amusing myself kindness beamed from her whole do-'"fbveLations} which ‘ “ rticanor. nre, and aR “Who is that fine intellectual man conve: down the table?" -T"" k "Ah! Warden Wood, v««y guished, but got a And l iare v/1 Sitter flute hud n nicer**; Sutherland ad mired her. All was going rtfi well. I was 1 it on tlje table, when 1 went to dinncr. in |iiy own parlor. 4 -—-3 l supposed it was some waiter who wished to get money from me and showed it to Sirs. Borrowe. She looked it over attentively. ‘‘This is from no waiter. It is a lady's hand disguised} fr is done To create 11 talk. Hk? person who wrote it imagines that yon will bo frightened and will mention it to the landlord • or some per son about the house; you will complain of yonr parlor being /pn.ered by some waiter or seryunt, and tho storywill leak ont, and having thus a real foundation j for half the story a number of false ones will be Erected on that. Jt is simply a J plot, dictated by hate, to injure Rose." "Impossible! What has Rose done to anybody^ “Nothing intentionally, bfit every thing unintentionally. She fa** been coohl be Mr. Warden Wood was too well bml to notice niy al»straeti<ais, if indeed 1 1 ehoweil any. nnd I cannot renieinlrei- much of this evening, except, that he and ; otliers Cortiplmieuted me much on my appearance, and that in the many in- ; qiiiries for Rose I thought Mra. v Prtfton and Mrs. Smithson looke<l more in- i tcreited than the o<-casion rcquiml. and both askeil where was Mr. FuthcrlancL Some uncxperttkl inspiration enallied nre' to say, with an itidifforent tone, "Oh. I suppose hd docs cay to coma.if n]y si^cris 'not■he^e. , ’• / u t^i t acre** the room and kitted the cheelt . jtvthal with un.iceujitomcd vhjIUl Mn>j fasten was announced} l sen! back her can|. j ^ "Why do yon. my deaf friend? Why.," yon will make an enemy for life of .th* woman.” screamed th* frightened Gib- "Is thifi left to T»e flonet Is s^e Opt as, mnch myrenemy now as she over oonld "Bnt not openly. Do remember ber 1 was ro excited and distressed that the effort to play so nnnhtura! a ({art was rapidly depraving me of all my strength, when I saw Mrs. Borrowe enter with Sutherland. » I had always detested this man. hpt at this moment he looked perf/Bc-tly Ireanti- ful to me. He came up wixh Mrt. Bor rowe, and after pnyiog tne some compli ments nske*l for my fair sister. ^ I made some inane answer, and a sub tle attraction drew my eyes toward Mrs. Paston. Her face was distorted with riige. Tint became smiling immediately. Xs Sntherlartd passed Her sho gave film a look’ frottrwhkh Ireqoailed, and 1 have Kince observed tfiaf all the evil which the world had pt%vions}y said of Bath^land was praise compaml with what. Mrs. Paston afterword treated him to. •T have not found Rose." whispered jJrs. borrowe, "bnt T found Sufher which was next best, rtbd I com* here With tart} althongli want Co. But he camo me to invite him ^0 tfiy sapper next week, and if matters are aa pect he* has been nsed by sum* to *l&x mtspicion on UoM.and be ts *0 modi in her y<m Ibokl Wh*» Woosdc^ your igniting maid lied than to loo* Mrs. Pim- toii." "But I know"—7-i — -?*4 know yea do* Bnt here is a . dpportuuily to jiretend that yon know." "But why pretend?" * . “Ikreause that is society. If we do oof pretcihl, we conld not support the pres ent strnctnre of; society. ; The truth is K very hamh. and awkward thing and’, shonld hot be spoken at al) tiroes. That is a charming idea donl romance, but it doesn't «V> *t. "* The "Masquerade of , rests icon Id not Veil be .pulled be tho rev* The gue Shonld the horrible wonld __ that of tho "Dance of Death I Yet was not all barren, t Borrowe in i) arid eudship was, worth tha 1 Rose-Rote, found. Mr; Tt heps thole roy Rose .lAvs .V a Tor