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?or .family Story. An Episode of the War. BY MATT CR1M. lA>viisiuuu did not Buffer seriously from invasions ot the enemy during the war; hut not one of the Southern States suffered more, perhaps, in the loss of men. They went awuy in coinpauios, they eamo i?ack in two's and throe's to toll of fierce battles beyond the Mississippi, and to bring last messages from falleu comrades. Widows, many of them youug and fair, were left desolate. Some of them married again very quickly, Hit others refused to be comforted. The widow of Jeff Airlie proved more constant than some of her friends. She lived near the village of Marion, in Union Parish, with an old aunt of her husbund. The Atrlies were Georgians, but Dorkls belonged to the soil, descending from an old French Creole family. Jeff* fell In battle a year and a half before the surrender?a friend saw him go down?and Dorkls retired from the world, refusltig to be comforted. She had lored her husband passionately, and gave herself up to her grief with all the abandon of the Southern temperament. The markets were all closed; but she managed to buy enough black gowns, by paying a fabulous price for them, to keep herself in mourning until after the surrender when cloth became moro plentiful than money. She had been something of a coquette before her marriage ; but her husband's death seemed to put an end to her interest in all men. But in the winter before the surronder, Justin Dellaney came up from New Orleans. He had been one of her lovers, but also Jeff's most devoted friend in those careless, untroubled days of her young girlhood. It had been a fair race for nor favor between them, and when Jeff won his friend remained still loyal to him. True, Justin went away to the city and would not bo present ut the \vcilding : but ho sent Dork is a ruby bracelet, and JofT a letter of congratulation : and in return, received the heartiest invitations from them to nay them a visit when he could. He had never availed himself of that invitation, and the silenco of years fgll between thorn. Dot'kis was glad with melancholy gladness to seo his fnco again. She had forgotten that he over loved her, and welcomed him as JelT's friend. But he had not forgotton his love, and trembed a little when sho appeared before him in widow's weeds, her eyes swimming in learn. fSho had never seemed more tender, more bewitching to him than at that moment. lie kissed her hand and stammered such words of consolation hh occurred to him. lie hail been deeply and sinoerely shocked to hear of his friend's death so it was with no pretense of sympathy tliat ho listened when she confided all the harrowing details of her grief to him. He pitied her tenderly, most unselfishly. She was not tho sort of a woman to bear her trials heroically and alone ; she needed some one stronger than herself to lean on. In her joyous girlhood tho weaknesses of hor nature had not shown forth us the/ did when put to the test by the loss of her beloved ; but they seemed adorable weaknesses to Justin. lie fell more and more keeply in love with her. but for a long time he would not acknowledge oven to himself that her freedom gave him any hope. Loyalty to his friend hold all such thoughts in subjection while he listened patiently to her extolling of JetT's virtues. Every day she hud something new to tell him of her hero's perfections, and what a loss the army had sufTered in his death ; in fact, tin; whole Confodeiaey must have felt it. lie sometimes ,.o?.wU...wi : r 1 ovwi qu) nuuuui i;u it r>uu i uau^y in*iivvuu all that alio said--if love ho blinded her ; and felt sharp pangs of envy?yen. envy of one who bad fought and died bravely on the battlefield, if ho was not the great hero thin one woman asserted he was. At such times lie felt bitter self-eontempt, and longed to go away from her: but love robbed him of the will to do so. Once he did hint that he thought it would be best for him to return to New Orleans; but she impulsively said : "Oh, I am sorry. Don't go just yet." His heart beat high, his face flushed. " Do you wish mo to stay, Dorkis?" "Yes, I do; but don't let my selfish wishes interfere with your plans." " i have no fixed plans; but if I had '? " You were Jeff's best friend. To talk with you about him seems to bring me closer to him." He bit his lip and stared silently at the ground. Why could she not see her cruelty, ho wondered bitterly. It. was just like a woman to be so absorbed in her own feelings that she could not comprehend others might he suffering too. The idea that ho still loved her certainly did not enter Dorkis Airlio's head at thut time. She went on torturing him with her confidences and her plaints, and he continued to sympathize and to fight with himself. It was Miss Samantha Airlic, Jeff's aunt, who penetrated his secret. She was an old maid with the hard features and the shrewdness of her Scotch ancestors; but a warm, kind heart beat in her withered breast, and she pitied Dollauey. She thought on the situation a good deul over her knitting, and one day Hhe took hor crutch ? for uge and rheumatism had made her a cripple?and walked down to the gate to tnoet Dellaney, when he rode out from the village. "Is Dorkis at home, Miss Sainantha V" he inquired, as a small black grooru led his horse away. " Yes, she is at home : hut 1 want to say a few words to you, Justin, before you see her." "Certainlyand thon his dark, thin face flushed, und ho raised his hat, smiling and bowing to Dorkis, who leaned from an upper window of the house, her hair falling in loose curls about her face, the winter sunshine lighting it to a mass of burnished gold. A white merino sacquo had replaced the sombre gown she always wore, and it gave the delicacy of her beauty a certain childlike freshness enchanting to the eyes of her lover. Miss Samaotba followed ids kindling, eager gaze, autl hor own eyes lighted with a kindly glow. "bhe looks Happier to-day than she has for nearly two years. You are | still iu love with Dorkis? ' " Yes, I am," he said, with a sigh. " 1 wish you'd marry her, Justin." Ho wheeled quickly and stared half amazed at hor. "Yes. I moan it," she said in reply to that look. " You loved bor, I think, before Jeff ever did." "I've loved her ail her life," he exc.aimed, huskily. "Then do your best now to win her. She is a delicate creature, body und *>ul, aoU was never created to topd u in' i 111??p<? iolltnry life. She's loving-arid lovnVe. 1 cannot livo niu-.y years longvi .it :?.u*t it Is uot reasonable to si.ppotc that I shall outlive hot*, and I won't liko to think of leaving her alone. There's another reason, too, why 1 want hor to have protection. This war wi I soon 1h? over, aiui it is gum to leave us without anything but on land ; and one cannot do much with i' if there are no negroes to work foi us. True I have invested in a good deal of cotton, but it may bo a poot speculation. You don't love Dor kit for hor money, and you can shio'd liei from poverty as well as lonoliness." ' Miss Samantha, you are an angel,1 cried Dellaney, and seized und kissei her withered liuud. She smiled. " I can trust hor with you. Justin : und 'I'll do all i4 uu to help on your suit. 1 loved .Jed as I would Have loved a son ; but I cannot be selfish enough to wuut Dorkis to remain u widow for hissuku. Sue may not love you as she loved him, but she'll always bo tender and sweet and faithful. Sue has grown morbid in her grief, und we must try to draw her more into the world." Dellaney was intoxicated with the sudden hope inspired within him. To have Miss Summithu s sanction meant everything. If she did not deem it disloyal to Jen s memory xor nun 10 murry Dorkis, why should ho uny longer hesitate V Unconscious of the plans for her, Dorkis came down to greet Dellaney, innocently pleased to see nliu. She hud donned the plain blaek gown again : but her lover held that charming window picture in his memory. He was careful not to throw olT the guise of friendship too quickly ; but as often as he could he led her thoughts and conversation away from Jeff. Ho had never been a fluent talker: but he found so many subjects to discourse on that he puzzled and amazed Dorkis. | Sometimes after one of his calls she realized that Jell's name had not been mentioned between them, and reproached herself for it. But that was only the beginning of still greater changes. Before she knew it she was irawn buck somewhat into the sociai life of Marion. Too earners were broken down. She could no longer seclude herself iike a nun, nor refuse to see that beauty and joy were still in the world, t hough she had been so long a stranger to them. She rebelled against the possibility < f being consoled, and invited every sad and morbid thought that she could to bear her company : but they refused to come as readily as they oneo hiul, put to flight by tlio , quickening of healthier claims within her. She felt that Miss Sarnantha ami Dellanoy were leagued against her in eonunon purpose to make her J forget .Jell', and grew secretly resentful. Hut she could not cast olT the influence drawn closer and closer around her. Miss Sarnantha talked a great deal about Dellanoy ami his noble qualities. He was tender ami fait ilia!, too faithful for his own good : for if lie loved a woman he would remain true to her through time and change and separation, whether she returned his love or not. Dork is felt her face grow hot with color. "lias lie made you the confidant of his love atTuir, Aunt Samantha ?" " 1 have known his heart for years," said Miss Sumantha, with asigli. " You cannot mean"? " Yes, Dorkis, he loves you." "Then 1 ? ho has acted like a coward to pretend to be such a good friend to me, to?to .leir. Does he think that I could bo faithless enough to oh, Aunt Samantha, why don't you send liini away V It is wicked. I am Jell's wife !" she cried, bursting into tears of grief and anger. "Jell- has gone wlioro there is neither marriage nor giving in marriage, my poor Dorkis," said Miss Sainuntiia, wiping her own eyes. " You are too young to go mourning all the days of your life, and too gentle and delicate to be loft alone." Dorkis sat rigidly upright, staring at lie-1". " Do you wuiit mo to marry again?"' she demanded, in a low tone. " Yos ; I do." " Then yon are a wicked old woman, und 1 despise you." The result of this conversation was that for a week Dorkis remained in her room, and refused to see her aunt or Doilaney, though her heart relented, und her tender conscience snmto her for her waywardness. From behind the jealousies of her window she would wutch her lover ride dejectedly away, and sometimes the sense of her power flattered her, and sometimes sympathy for him moved her to tears. The week of self-imposed isolation wearied her so of her own thoughts that she made pcaee with MissSamantim. and ri>(<i<ivml DuIImn?u i?t,, favor. She had lost instead of gained by it, and to herself acknowledged a si'iiso of defeat. If she had not sought t ie reconciliation?but tho very justness of that act seemed to weaken her. She had grown really to depend a good deal on Dellaney's companionship, and found herself reluctant to give it up. He did not pros* his suit with rashness, but with the patient stcudiness of a man determined to win. Neither her caprices nor her lits of coiduess could drive him away. Winter advanced into spring, and spring into early summer. The war was over, and people were trying to take up their former occupations: but it would be a long time before the troubled currents of life would settle into pence again. One of Dorkis' ; friends, a young widow, married, and Dellaney sought to advance his own | cause by it. Dorkis listened to his arguments until thov ended in a declaration of his love for her, then she | refused to listen any longer. " Hut you will not send me a way entirely," ho pleaded. " Think how long, now faithfully I have loved you, what it is to me to see you to often. Dorkis, Dorkis, bo not so cruel to mo." ' Hut I cannot love you, Justin. Would it not bo wiser to leave mo V" I " No, no, let me try to make you love j mo?just let ino try ; if 1 fail, the blame i bo all on rnv own head." " You will think hardly of mo." " No, I swear I will not." His wooing moved lier to pity, hut not to love. Still .she folt herself borne onwurd hy it. and by Miss Suiminthu's approval to the verge of promising to marry him. When alio reached that point, ho felt certain that ho had won nor. When aho urged him to go away for a week, while she jonaidorod the matter, ho readily consented. " When you return, 1 shall bo ready to say yos or no," she taid, trombliug, growing white and red by turns. " It will, it must lx> yes," ho cried. She turned silently away. It was the morning of tho seventh day. Dollaney had spent tho week dowu on tho Ouacmitu river pretending to hunt uud tish, but, in reality, giving himself up to a thousand delightful dreams 1 Ho planned a doren ways of spending tho fioneymooo whon he and Dorkis wore married.. They would travel a year ; they would go to some quiet resort, or they would spend tho time in New Orleans there were so many ways In which thoy could dispt>?o of tbl? time aud be happy. Then 1 ' t~~ hoy would settle down nnd lot the y. or* ifllde unnoted over thorn, lleguio < :?nov full reiu, for the cortaiuty of v\ .. i. i.v nor never left liilii. late had lenied Int.: n long timo only to l.old this brimming < ij to his thirsting lips ' at hist. The days seemed long, and yet they i passed swiftly, and the last morning found him on the Ouachita steamer, travelling up to Albemarle Landing, where lie would take the mail coach for Marion. lie would r? noli tut village by noon, and then ho would ride out to see Dork is. Hi walked the 1 deck, humming old love songs, or hung over the railing, gazing dreamily at the high banks where long gray moss swayed from every tree and shrub, looking in the distance like a line-spun veil spreud over the gay green foliage. But lie was not conscious of looking at the scenery. His thoughts were painting far different pictures on his mind from those actually before his eyes. At the Landing, he hurried from the steumcr over to the mail coach ; hot the driver secuied in uo haste to be off. " What are you waiting for ?" Dell . . I . ' (?.. 4l At.. uiiry u?* ma imk-u , mi jjui lutJtijf. "To see if there is anyboly on the ferryb ?ut who wants to go up into the country. 1 a way wait until the last minute I have to spare," said the man, and he spat leisurely out into the dusty road. Dellancy looked down the long, sloping hillside to the ferry. Tno great Hut barge was slowly crossing the river, loaded with white-covered immigrant wagons, with a group of men, women and children huddled together in the prow. " Pshaw ! those people have their own conveyances," he said. " Arc you in a hurry, sir V" " 1 am." "Then I'll advise you to walk on, and I'll overtake you," said the driver, coolly. Dellancy Hashed a haughty glance at him; but he merely drew his whip across his boot leg and turned to speak to the restive horses. Angry impatience hud seized Dellancy. lie walked restlessly up and down the street, and finally entered the postofllco to get a newspaper. As he came out, the j immigrant wagons were coining slow- ( ly up the hill. A solitary foot passe 11 ger walked ahead of them, a tall, ' rather thin, haggard-looking man, in a faded gray uniform and with a Moot walking stick to holpulong his halting steps. Some poor soldier making his way home, or e I ho seeking a now one. thought Dollaney. and feltashaiued that ho had grudged the few minutes of waiting. Hut as the man eamo nearer, , his face changed, grew rigid and ghastly pale. ' What's this ! Airlio, you alive V' he cried, and reeled foward, clutching the soldier by the arm. as though to make sure of his material substance. 1 The stranger's thin face lighted up wonderfully. " Why. Justin, dear old fellow, what ! good luck to meet you here."' The immigrants stared curiously at them as they passed by, and the couch driver whistled softly while lie waited. The bread, dusty street seemed to rise ' and fall before Dollaney's di/.zy eyes; be shuddered in the bet sunshine. ' You don't take me for a ghost, do yuu . acini 4\il III:, IIUl^ l i I IIJ4 . UUll HUllll^ 11is friend's strange manner. "It is a shock to meet you this way after?mourning- you as cicad for two years,*' said Dellaney, huskily. " I was desperately wounded.*' " Where have you been all this time ?" and he could not make his voice other than harsh and t remulous. " 1 was picked up and sent olT with others to a Northern prison." Airlie replied, attributing his friend's strange coldness to the surprise of meeting him. " After the surrender I started South again, fell sick, and nearly gave up in despair; but I knew one dear heurt was grieving for me; and as soon as 1 could travel I set out again, working and tramping my way. Tnank heaven, I'm nearly home at last!" Dellaney smiled in a faint, ghostly ; way. " You have shown pluck ; you?you deserve?all that awaits you. Come, we must take the coach. The man is beckoning to us." "Are you going up in it too?" exclaimed Airlie, in pleased surprise ; " that is better than I expected. Tell me. have you seen Dorkis lately ?" in a low tone, full >of eagerness and suspense. " Yes. a week ago I saw her; she . looks well, and "? " My poor girl, my dear girl !" muttered the soldier. Oh, that ride ! Carrying one man nearer and nearer his happiness, and the other further and further away from his. Tney sat side by sido, they talked. Airlie with the volubility of one long shut otT from friendly companionship; Dellaney in monosyllables, lie sank into strange reveries, while his friend leaned from the coach with exclamations of boyish pleasure at every familiar landmark. He was too absorbed, too delighted, to fully realize that Dellaney had not met him with the gladness of a friend, to notice tho drawn look of his face, the wild, hard stare of his eyes. He guvo an ue, count of his prison life, of his homesickness. of his desperate attempts to got buck, running on in a constant stream of excited, joyous stories ; for even t be sad one seemed to catch tho light and life of present feelings. Dellaney listened with eyes east down, gnawing the tips of his finger nails, or clenching his hands. Airlie tortured him with question about old friends, above all, about Dorkis and M iss Summit ha. " Jove ! what a surprise it will be to them ; but 1 hope 1 shall not scare them as I did vnn. niv <lnnt* " _ j "V ? ,,w" ? laughing, and slapping his friend on the knee. Dollaney shuddered, and drew him* self further away into the corner. " Perhaps they will bo hotter pro* pared to hoc you," he Htiid. "I know they will be ready to welcome me," said Airlio, with muddening confidence. Ho did not purpose to go to the ' village, but to leave the coach and take a short cut through a plantation road a mile from Marion, lie had travora- | ed it often in the old days before the war and its cruel privations and experiences hnd aged him beyond, far Deyond his years. Hut the lire and the strength of his youth seemed to thrill hlin again, kindling his eyes, flushing his face until its haggard lines were I all smoothed out under the mugicul influence. Ho leaped from the eoacli when it was drawn up at the place he designated to the driver, and turned to wave his friend a tinal good-bye; but LMlanev followed him. " 1 will see you across tho tields," ho said, briefly. In tho gurish light of 1 tho moon lie looked so shrunken and old that even Airlio noticed hie cluing- < od appearance. 1 " You have been through hard ex- i poriencos, too," ho said in a svinpa, i thi tie, afTectionuto tone. " VV'o ve i none of us escaped tho strife." * Doilanoy wot his his dry lips with J the t.p of his tongue. i ? f? " I huvo had every hope iu life crush?d out." } " Is that so 1 nui awfully sorry." "It is of no consequence now." I bavo boon so absorbed in mysol t Ibut I huvo not had a thought for any thing' oIho this morning," said Airlil apologetically. " \mi perfectly ^xeusablo, considci ing lli" cireu.usPincos." After that tlioy walked on in i! no i through tin* bolt of woods and aero.-, the sedge-grown Holds. Airlio tool | the lead, his steps unconsciously quick rning as ho noared home. Uollaney followed him. stumbling like a mat, grop ing in darkness. Several timet his glance meusured the tull ligur? ahead of him, and his baud sought hi: pocket; but it dn noed uervelos? 1\ down again. They nad one marsh t cross, a place where tweet gum am Cottonwood trees grew thickly togethei and rank grasses mingled with tub weeds. A low bridge* spanned tie marsh and on either side of it were stagnant pools of water covered witi green slime. It was dark and rathci cool under tlie trees, hut a foul smci rose from vegetation rotting in tin water. Tiie two friends were midwuy the bridge, when Ddlaney abruptly said : " Stop liore, Airlie." It was more a command than a request. ami the soldier wheeled impatiently to llnd himself covered witn i pistol. For u moment ho f tared in amazement. nati ins friend gone mad ' What does this mean, Justin ?" in asked, calmly. " That I intend to kill you, Jell Airlie?kill you." " Why ? ' said Airlie, still composed and fearless. ' Because you've no right to come between mo und happiness any longer." the other'man burst out. The question liad loosened his tongue. Rapidly, passionately, he poured out the story of his second wooing, lie spared no detail of it from the time he had first met Dork is in her widow's garb up t? that morning when, exultant and certain of success, he had stepped from the steamer to be met by Airlie. "fan y< u wonder that 1 long to take your life,'" ho cried, punting, torn by a tempest of rage and hate. " The first time you came between us. won her from me, 1 freely forgave you for it: I loved you as well as the woman, and gave her up without a bitter thought against you : but now, now to have the cup dashed from my very lips by your hand"?He paused, the blood rushed violently to his face, his eyes seemed to swim in a fiery glow. i'uuh kiiu iovo you r sum Airno, in n low tone, gripping' the railing of the hridgo. ' Lovo mo? No," lie cried. " Did 1 not have lo listen to the story of her grief, for you, day after day, week after week ? She seemed to forgot that 1 hud ever loved her, that 1 might still have a heart. Love me! She would never have loved mo as she loves you ! but I could have won her confidence, her utTcotion, could have made her happy in time " " And for t he sake of winning that poor shadow of love you intend to take i my life," said Airlie. quietly. " Well, the advantages are all on your side. 1 am unarmed and so enfeebled in body that I cannot oiler any resistance. You are tuo only acquaintance 1 have so far inet. You can kill me, then lling my body over this railing into one of these pools of water, and your secret will be as safe as though I luid really frlien on the battlefield. Is that your plan ?" ' Yes," said Dellaney. i% When we lirst met this morning. I was stunned : I knew not what to do, then this thought came to mo. 1 could have taken your life easily as we crossed the I'i.O.I " "Thin Is dcoidelv the host place for murder, Justin." "Why do you tako it so coolly? Why don't you bo# for mercy, or show some fear v Man, do you realize your position ?*' "Could 1 fall to, when I see my heist friend ready to shoot mo down ? Why do you hesitate ?" DoMancy threw up his hand, and Airlio instinctively, braced himself to meet the shot; but it did not come. The pistol circled through the air, struck sharply against a tree, startling a Hock of black vultures with the harmless shot it seat into their midst, then sank with adiisaing sound through the green ooze of the marsh. Airlie closed his eyes for an instant, the sense of relief making him dizzy. He had faced death too often to cower before it now, but to have it come when so near home, so near Dorkis. it required something more than mere courage to meet it with composure. /\ strange sound smoto the silence. Uo looked up. Dollancy stood with his faeo hidden in his hands weeping like a woman, and yet un'ike ono in that it was a thousand times more terrible. What emotion moved him so deeply, his friend did not know : but it was a sight to stir all that was generous in Airlies. generous nature, J lo went nearer; but when ho laid his hand on Dellaney's shoulder it was shaken oil". " Go !" ho cried. "why do you stay to witness my shame, my humiliation V The madness?it was madness?is over. 1 have had murder in my thoughts ; but i will not have it on my hands.1' "Let moat least say t hat I pardon you, .Justin." Dolluney raised his face, marred by the conflict of his feelings almost beyond recognition. " You and I part hero, Airlle, never to meet again either as friends or foes ; but I want to tell you that it was not alone lack of nerve prevented you from receiving that shot, but at the last moment I realized that friendshin wn? still stronger than love. Now loavo me, 'tis nil I usU." Ali'lio walk0(1 slowly across tho bridge and up through tno Hold on tho other side, his head bent down, tho ; spring ami eagerness gono from his , stop. Once he paused and looked back. Deflunoy stood on tho bridge whore ho , had left him, motionless, solitary, the purple shadows of the marsh thicket broadening over him. , Dorkis walked in the shado of the grape arbor. Above hor head hung , clusters of pale groen grapes, and her white muslin gown put on for tho ; lirst time since her widowhood trailed over grass and straggling weedy (lowers. Miss S.imantha had porsuudod her to put on the whito gown. "Justin will be back to-day, and you ! ought to do it for his sake." " I wish that I had said two weeks, ' or two months," cried Dorkis. "Aunt Sunmntha. I cannot forget JelT." ' 1. don t want you to forget him, ' child," said tho old lady, pityingly, ' tenderly. " Don't marry Justin unless f you think you could bo contented with J him." 1 "I will go out in the gurclou uud think it all over again." But tho more sho thought, tho more c Jistastoful gro\v tho idea of a second I marriage. She had spont that week s In looking over her husband's thin;;:-, ti oading bis letters and laying them ti iside ready to burn. How ourofully t die had treasured every line written a >y him, from the first note, scrawled n u a schoolboy hand, down to the lust t otter penned by the light of a camp 1 Ire. The growth of his love could be dearly truced from the passionate ! ;ne\ of a youth, to the (loop, abiding litli of ihc mnu. Could she destroy .hose tender words, written by one who vouid never more walk the earth V \nd yet six* must do it if a now love : vus accepted. The pust must all Ik? nit hchiinl her, its joy. its sorrow and \ egret. Terror seized iter. " f 1 I at; thcr uiuu take his place In mv heart, put all the visible ' ,okcn? of iiis life from me V Can I let 1 iim become only a memory, fading out 1 year by year, until, when old age ' mines, our love will seem only adroutn an episode of u day y When others 1 apeak of him L must oesilent, not even is friend or acquaintance dure I claim 1 iim. Oh, I cannot do it -I cannot: i am his wife, hi- love and he Is mine." Slio leaned against the trellis and -tobbed aloud, tears raining down her hecks and into the diaphanous foldsof her gown. " Beloved, I will be true?true, bhiough separation, through death. Nothing shall part us in spirit, if there ho any power in love." Her woeping penetrated the sweet silence of the old garden with strange* y mournful sound. The doves, nesting n a cornei of the summer house, tluttored uneasily ; and Miss Samuntha, .vulking down by the privet hedge, paused to listen with an uneasy sense >f remorse. Perhaps she had been unwise, after all. in urging on this Marriage. She stole back to t he house and sat down in the parlor, to id I v wait to sco what the day would bring forth ; and presently Durkis walked into the room, her step firm, her head, habitually drooping, hold erect. ' I have decided, Aunt Sumaiitha," she said, in a low tone. "Yes?" and the old lady hold her knitting with trembling lingers. '* You have decided not to marry Justin." " I have. 1 may be a weak, dependent creature, but I would rather enter a convent to-morrow never to see aught of the world again than to bo false to JetT. Rotter a thousand times the llugellulions and penances of a nun's I i fc t ban this mockery of a second marriage." Tncy ueard a stej) in the hall. Miss Summit ha rose hastily to withdraw. " It is Justin, deal Kindly with him, Rorkis." ' 1 shall tell him the truth," said 1) trkis, firmly. She walked toward the door expecting to meet Rollancy ; hut it swung gently open and before her glad, amazed eyes appeared her husband. The battlefield had given ui> its dead. - ? UXOITKMMXT l\ ITALY. Anarchists Ti'ti'oi i'/.iiiK lli(> Towns I ami il?e Peasantry-? llailroads j ( uurdcd. IlOMK, Jan. I<>.?There is considerable excitement today at Cararra and vicinity. Tho discovery Saturday ! night of an anarchist plot to i<K)t and burn tlie City of Cararra led the police ( and military authorities to take ex- ( traordinary precautions to prevent any j attempt to carry out tho plans of the i conspirators. Early today a number ! of anarchists from tho adjoining districts, sought to enter the city, but | were prevented by tho military. A number of shots wore exchanged by the rioters and the troops, but so far as known, nobody was hurt. Finding that it was impossible for them to get into the city, where there is no doubt they intended to join the anarchists rt si louts in the city in rioting, tho mob scattered in dilferent directions. They are now scouring tho country, carrying, terror to tho quiet people living tuore. Tnoy go to every house and demand of tho occupants to surrender whati ver tiro arms they may have. About live thousand workinginen have struck in Mussn and Cararra. Both towns are occupied by troops. All the shops are closed. The inhabitants are frightened and many families are provisioning their houses as if for u seigo. Band > of rovoltors parade tho roads, making requisitions on the people for arms and food. At 0 o'clock this* afternoon, the people of Massa wore thrown into a state of consternation by hearing a fusilado in tiio hills near by. A squadron of cavalry had encountered a iuob of 6U0 men at the Fassola Uridjje, two kilometres from Massa. After a stubborn flyht the mob was dispersed. Many we re wounded and several were killed. Troops jjuurd the railway at all points to prevent the tearing up of the rails. H >me soldiers are in uotivo pursuit of bands in the mountains. The cabinet council has glvon Premier Crispi a free hand as to the time when he shall declare the province of Massa e Carrara in a state of soi^o. Tun proclamation will probably bo issued tomorrow unless ine situation improves in the meantime. I/JNUON, Jan. 10.?The K mm cor I' sponile|)t at the u lily Chronicle a tys : " Iminiates or the i'opo believe h revolution is i in pen ling in Italy. Tho Uishops and higher clergy are on the Aide of law and order. *1 no lower ranks of tho Sicilian pristohood are regarded at tho Vatican as being in sympathy with outrage. Too Vatican share* the anxiety of the Quirinul. Tho Times Rome correspondent says ho lias boon informed on the highest authority that tho proofs of concerted revolutionary plans in the hands of tho government are abundant and decisive, A later dispatch from Ko.no says : Tho c ibinot has discussed tho recent rioting, it is not known whut decision was reached, hut it is evident that tho government is seriously alarmed at the situation. ?Senator Waltholl, of Mississippi, whoso present term expires on March 3, 1895 and who was also olocted in January 1892 for tho term commencing March 1, 1895, has resigned. Tho ' condition of his health forces the altorna ivo of protruetcd absence fiom his post of duty or of resigning his scat, 1 mid lie chooses the latter alternative , 1 for his present term of service. Tho conditions existing iu March J895, when I)is now term begins, will decide his action with reference to that term. 1 I II ? Advices have boon received hero i from t ho Sierra Mojada mining camps ( dtuatod in t iio Kscalon district, ] Mexico, of a terrible holocaust. In the ? lower part of tho town wore a number | >f huts, located very close together, rheeo were sot on fire by a band of unknown incendiaries, and before the occupants could escape, eleven mep and * Kveral women and children were J aimed to death. Ton others were J niruodso badly that they will die. ' ? Lewis Rodwlno, Atlanta's fatuous J lofuult r, has been taken to the Coinm- , us, Oliio, penitentiary, whore he is to orvo six years for embezzlement. To ? i reporters Rod\vinto said : " I alone in; responsible for the defalcation in h?< Ciaio City Hank. President Mill nd Cashier MoCandless I. ?? / a) .> ^ ntoly nothing of t.iio shortage until I , i. old Sir. McCuudless.'' 1 WASHINGTON DOTS AND POINTS. 4ecretnry CarllHlo lias all Needed Powei?riii' lionds li kely (o be Portlieoiiiing?<ln Act of Just lee. Ilio' ImiiK Delayed. WaSHINOTON. Jtill. 10.?Tin United States naval force ut Uu> Janeiro has 1 been Increased to live cruisers by the irrival of the cruiser Now York there ' l?f.t night. The fact that the New York did not stop ut any port during >. the last 3,500 uilles of her journey indicates that the department was anxious to have her rcuch Itio in the ijuiekost possible time. The voyage was a reinarkublv fast <'i?e. On January 4. the N'ew York left St. Lueia, where she stopped for coal, and covered tho distunee at an average rate of fifteen knots an hour, or 350 ^ knots a day. Tho other United States vessels ut Rio are tho San Francisco, i tho Charleston, tho Detroit and : Newark. Fifteen separate offers, aggregating 140,000,000, to take bont >, lould Secretary Carlisle issue them, have been received at the Treasury Department. One offer to tako a block of ' $25,000,000 was received from a New York firm this morning. Another offer to tuke $175. was received from a mechanic. No preparations, however. .! \...: i.. .... m I I iiru wii ik iuuuu ui iuu irutisuxy Department for un immediate bond 1 1 issue. Secretary Carlisle will await * a reasonable tin;e for Congress to act. j : probably until February 1, before he proceeds independently of Congress. ( on tiio presumption tiiut no.v that ho lias officially called the attention of Congress to the urgent needs of the ) Treasury, it will act promptly. Until Congress shows that it will not relieve i the Treasury the Secretary will not i feel called upon on his own responsibi 1 t.v to issue bonds under the resumption < act. ! The Senate finance committee how- < over today held two sessions, that of j the afternoon lusting an hour. At its j conclusion. Senator Voorhees gave out ( for publication the following statement : 41 The embarrassed condition of the Treasury and the necessity for prompt action for its relief are fully realized. < There is not the slightest ground, however, for apprehension that the public credit will suffer or be endangered for the reason that ample authority already exists by law for the Secretary of the Treasury to strength- . en the coin reserve to any extent required and to meet every demand that can he legitimately made. The 1W.IVAI* itf t I 1 . , SftAAPitllll.l* /nl' til.. IcUlIM / . f Iionds needs nothing beyond what is ' given bv tbo act of January I lth, 1S7.7. The only desirable object to bo attained by now legislation at this time (>n that subject is to make a shorter time bond with a lower rate of interest, and yet the Secretary feels assured that ho can negotiate bonds issued under the act of 7H7.">. running only ten years, on practically a 11 per cent. 1 basis. It seems, therefore, that it will bo wiser, safer and better for the linaneial and business Interests of the country to rely upon an existing law with which to meet the present emergency, rather than to encounter tbo delays and uncertainties always incident to protracted discussion in the two houses of Congrats. This view of the subject is made stronger by the fact that the condition of the Treasury admits but little, if any. delay, and ot no uncertainty at all in the tiual action to he taken." Secretary Oroaham Is officially advised that ih * English government has declared M mchester. England, a port of entry, thus enabling pcoplo in iUI.. t ? 1-1 ! - 44 4 1 (ii is cuuuu'y id ?1111? direct to mut city. This is n result of the recent opening of tlio Manchester ship canal. The IIousc Committee on Pensions today agreed to repeal that section of the revised statutes which prohibits the granting of pensions to any person on account of disabilities contracted in wars preceding the civil war, who sorved in the Confederate Army during the rebellion. This section was repealed in part in the case of Mexico! veterans who served in the Conlodcrato army, and to whom pensions <if $8 a month are given without regard to (Usability. The purpose of the hill in question is to ropeal the section without a qualification, so that a soldier who lost an arm or u leg la the Mexican or the Indian wars and who sub sequetitly joined his fortunes with those of the Confederacy iiiuy bo entitled to it pension equal in amount to that which is given to soldiers of tlfo late war who sulTer from similar dls- j abilities. The stated balance In the treasury stands: Gold, $71, 49(1,1)21 ; currency, $20,420,320. From this currency j balance must bo substracted $0,073,8ol paid on interest. mm Tiif, Aht op Conversation.?Another tiling which has gone out of fashion is tne art of conversation. It has of late years been so neglected that it is the rarest ehanoe to meet witu a young man who can converse at ail in the real sense of the word. Among his own set he can bubble about mutual aquaintanees, the now singer, the next race or the hist scandal. But throw him among strangers and he is silent < and dull, perhaps making short rc- , marks in a jerky and confused manner, ' but certainly betraying no intelligent interest if a new discovery bo mentioned, a piece of important political news tool or some information given about a j subject of real value. As a eonso- i quutico, ho is not only bored, but he ! i shows it, because he iiu* never oulti- i vated that polite intorcst in his fellow- t creatures which would enable him to > respond sympathetically. One of tho \ old French noblesse was lately heard i < to remark that when he first went into j i sucic-iy 111m iuuicr uscu 10 impress upon 1 i his mind that ut u parly he was bound ' to insure its success so far as ho was in- i dividually concerned. To make him* 1 self agreeable was a duty not to be nogleutod without a grave breach ] Of courtesy both to the guests and i tho friends who invited him. j In a modern gathering no such anti- ( ijuatod sentiment would Hud a dis- a oiplo. Young pcoplo, if they do not f meet somo one to flirt with, will osten- j tatiously proclaim their boredom, and <. would stare in astonishment if it were j suggested that at friend's house it was >i the duty towards the hostess to pay \ Attention to thoso who found them<c'ves among strungors. To hint that I Aid ladies and ugly girls should have a c little share of consideraion would he to ? mbject onosolf to tho charge of old- i fashioned.? Pull Mull Gazette. j ? I ?i r? C ?Tho One Arts building at Jackson V Park. Chieago, will cither have to be . omoved or reconstructed entirely be- \] 'ore it can be used as tho Field Colum)ian Museum. As tho result of an in- I1 ipeetion by the underwriters the insur- v' ince has* l?een retired, und the nn- ? louncemeut is made that tho building 11 s not a fit roceptaele for tho valuable a ixhibits, which will aggregato fully 3,000,000 in value, " P m ^ ^ w ?Capt. A. G. Uabto k. a prominent l ison and the foun t< r of tho Miron c Inmu of iilohinon i Va., died on t;u> aj litU ult, m tnut o;ty. I i, 180*. \t the door stands ninety-four. B'-uriutf trusures in his hand, I'lii'M' are months mi those nr<* dry? i 1 ere tho gluss. vn 1 there tho s. nd. lungs :i vol 1 before his face : What behind it? smile or tear? 'ut I it* tr< usuies in tho placoThosu the gifts of all tho year. show thy faro, O Ninety-four ! Lift tho veil and let us see \ugurios of i?iy in store. Forecast of tho woes to be. 1'hc o w cannot change or move : Fa ec lumauds tiiee what to give; let * h ?pe tor peace and U vo, P.at o to work and space to live. 3uard thy gifts. <"). Ninety-four ! Wo will wait then wdr..-t and best, IV hut is best bo glad to pour ; Dole with grudging hand tlie rest. ? Walter Bcsunt in London Quoi n. STATE NEWS IN BlUEF. Interestlog Notes from Various Sum oes, ? Tho annual meeting of the Farmers' National Alliance will bo held this four at Topcka, Kansas, and will begin its session on tho Gth of February. Each Stat" is entitled to one lelegate. The ropresontativo from south Carolina is J. W. Bowden, the ditor of tlio Cotton Plant, who was jleoted at tbe mooting of tho State Alliance in Walhallu. Work on the Winthrop Normal ind State Industrial School at Rook Hill is progressing rapidly. Tho f mndution, which is of granite quarried at ltoeK Hill, is very nearly completed. Work in soon to bo star tod on tho dormitory. for which tho Legislature nt its recent session appropriated $">(),IRH). Tho building will bo completed and opened by September or October. ?Tho first movement in tho way of direct trade with Europe from tho West tin ough Charleston was mado last week. A consignment of 2,000 sacks of flour has been booked from tho Liberty mills, of Nashville^ Tettn.. via ChurlesU n. Thy steamship llossShirc is i.ow loading li> re for Liver* pool. Tt is shipment is thought to bo the plon< or of a movement which will lead to tho establishment of direct trade. ?An eighty horse-power holler used at the large lumber mil .* of Lukens & ltoifsnyder, at Sumter, exploded last week, demolishing every building in close proximity to it an 1 hurling bricks and pieces of the bjiler a distance of four hundred yards. A defoctivo boiler is supposed to have caused tho explosion. Three persons were hurt and only one of them very seriously, when there was In the mill yard and in the hoi lit i >i"v ? f.M-.,, ,.f .. i ...... u iwi?,v\'i avuu v \hi\j hundred men. ?Mr. C. II. Ilesso one of WalhaUa's oldest German citizens, wn-> burled last week in the Lutheran emotery boside his wife, who predeceased him only 8?ven months They were born in Germany, came to Charleston soon after their marriage ami from there to Walhalla in 1852. They were among the pioneer settlers of Walhalla. Mr. llcsoo was a fine mason and did much in his time for the upbuilding of the town, lie leaves live children, four of whom, throe sons and one daughter, reside in Charleston. ?Governor Tillman left Columbia on Saturduy on a combined business and pleasure trip. He w ill lirst go to Virginia to visit his daughter, who is a pupil at the Hollins Institnto. He will then go on to Washington. The object of his msit to the National Capital is to push the direct claims of this State regarding which lie received a loiter a few days ago from Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle, and to do what ho can to hasten legislation against the receiverships of railroads under Federal judge s. ?The State Hoard of Health met last, week at Charleston. Dr. James Evans, of Florence. lirosidinir. Th? fallowing officers were elected : Chairman, (Jr. John R. Rratton, of Yorkvillo; vioo-ehuirninn. Dr. 'J'. (J. Simons, Charleston : secretary. Dr. II. H. Frabor. Charleston. The new law passed at the last session of the. Legislature was discussed, ami the municipal authorities were notified that they must complete the organization of the local hoards of health and report to the State board by July 1st. ngg ? ? ASCICN DINCi A\ l> It! iSCKNhl.VG. An Aeronaut Describes (ho Sciisn? lion ol tailing iiiiin a llalloon. Asked to explain as elearly as possible the feelings peculiar to tho ascent and descent of a person to and from the extraordinary altitudes to which she travels, Mrs. Kotnigsaid : " Tho sensations arc diamct rieal ly opposite to tho general idea that prevails among pooplo who never made such attempts; instead of feeling yourself lifted bodily and swiftly up into space, you have a realistic sons) of staying' just exactly whore you wero, and of t he earth falling away and downward from you. This fording continues just so long us your balloon continues to rise : when it comes to a standstill you realize for the first time that you have moved upward, and, of course, tho wondet ful panorama spread out below you gives instant ndvieoof the immense [11linines you imvo attained. "The descent from such n troinonfoils height by tho parachute is mother tiling, though it. too, involves something of ilie sumo sentution reversed. Vou seem to boo the onrth ascending to meet you, but your progress downward is bo gcntio ami so much more deliberate that you cannot but know you are going dow^ This fact is forcibly impressed on your niud when you cut loose from the baloon. "Tho dcscont then, and until tho naraehuto tills, is as sheer and sudden md direct aa any unpremeditated fall ,'ou ever experienced, ranging in lopth, according to the volume of vind, from twenty-fivo to one hundred eet, and this is'tho most unpleasant >art of my business. The same pre aution of holding tho breath is us im>erativcly necessary in this first fall is it is when you are submerged in the vater." In response to a oucstion as to tho ongoat jump she hud made in her nrecr ub an aeronaut. Mrs. Uomtff aid that in ifion o? n..i - *>? uv naivt'C .i ust inside tho Golden Gate ui S"uu iYanoisco, sho mado a nerfcctly suoessful jump from an altitude determined by mathematical instruments to >o just a fraction over two and oneialf mil es. She alighted in tho bay, ut being fully protected with a lifo rvsorvor (whioli she always dona 'hen exhibiting near rivers, lakes or ther largo Ixxlies of water), sho was 11 right when pickod up by tho boatlen. who instantly wcut to hor relief. Mrs. Homlg says: "Tho easiest lace in whicu to land is a body of 'ator or a plonged field, but of tho wo 1 prefer tho field." ?-??# > ? ?i - Mrs. Lucipda Kr?wn;ng. white, ged 106 jears lastChr.blu usday, dud l Augutftu, Gu, liurt week.