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YELfbOW JISVEfl. < '<Hz=j&t= BY © IOTA. =-#^TD>-~ CHAPTER V. “Now, Ruth,” said Mr. Fel- lowes, when he ha<f finished and dispatched his note, and, light ing a cigarette, settled himself in his arm-chair opposite to her, “•I’ll yield you up all I know. It was the queerest interview I ever had with that queer pair. —You needn’t wriggle with an ticipation, my dear, no human creature could reproduce the scene with any justice to him self or to his subject. Waring had-most palpably put on for the occasion a brisk man of-the world air that was superb, but his wife seemed dreamier than ever, and limper, and her hat looked rather askew.” “It always does, but do go on.” “Directly you give me a chance, dear. Waring opened the campaign with a little small talk as he always does, but it was quite off-hand and reckless to-day. He had hardly set his gentle tap fairly flowing, how ever, when his wife suddenly woke up and chipped in with phenomenal clearness and pre cision: “ ‘Dear Henry, suppose we state the object of our call, we can converse afterwards.’ “Then it all came out. First one stated a fact or a theory, then the other had his innings. It was hard enough to follow the two and to watch them at the same time; one never likes to miss the moment when they clasp hands again and the little looks they cast on each other in the process. It appears the pair meditate a definite experi ment on those wretched chil dren, and want my help in se curing a bear-leader for the task.” •‘Good gracious!” gasped Mrs. Fellowes. “Go on!” she com manded grimly, “what is it?” “On no account whatever is either to be sent school or al lowed to hold intercourse with other children; no woman is to have any hand in their tuition: naturally cricket, football, and every other boyish sport is to be carefully excluded from the 'curriculum, and all Christian teaching is to be utterly taboo ed.” “Mercy on us!” “The facts of the Old Testa ment are to be imparted to them with other ancient history and they are to be well-instruct ed in the natural sciences. By these means they will learn to know Godin His Works—with capital ‘W’—Mrs. Waring ob served this solemnly to her hus band for my benefit. ‘Exactly, my darling,’ he replied, with a most surprising alacrity—they had rehearsed this point, those two babies.—When the children are launched into their teens and have presumably arrived at an age of more or less discre tion, the Bible and any other existent evidences of Christian ity obtainable, are to be formal ly presented to them. The imps may then receive or reject them according to their particular turn of mind, but in no case are they to be biased.” • The parents have seemingly occupied themselves a good deal with this part of the exper iment and regard this presenta tion of a choice of beliefs as a sort of function on which they mean to take exhaustive obser vation.” The rector paused to roll another cigarette; when he had finished and lighted it, he went on. “Ruth, you are an intelligent woman and won’t misjudge me when I say, that this experi ment in itself seems to be a rea sonable one. ‘•‘This Bible reading question Is an awful one,” he went on musing aloud, “we all have had, every decent English man, woman, and child of us has had the Bible religiously drilled into him from the time of conscious ness till whatever time he can manage to read it for himself, then he is exhorted to carry on the exercise independently, and a good percentage of people do; you’d be astonished »t the num ber of people who never miss reading their Bible every day of their lives, and perhaps more astonished still if you were to know the amazingly small ef fect it has on the lives of these people. Even from an intellec tual point of view, it is incredi ble to me, how little the aver age human being has grasped the heritage he posesses in this book. “I was speaking to a girl the other day—by far the most in telligent one I know in these . regions—she yvas talking to me with perfect unrestraint and frankness about all sorts of things. She told me she could see no beauty whatsoever in the Bible, and that she had never been able to derive an atom of encouragement or assurance from anything in it. If it did pot bore, it upset her, and made belief harder. It had become a mere patter to her by vile read ing and intonation, and the re markable turns of thought given to it by many minds insulted her reason. Even the poetry of the diction had been spoiled for her and seemed, she said, to reek of half-fledged curates. Under some conditions this experiment of the Warings might prove a success.” “Oh, but with that moth er'” “Ah, yes, that alters the whole aspect ot affairs! If you could only have heard the pas sionless, analytical style in which Waring and his wife dis cussed the matter and specula ted on the issue, which they think will be more typical in Gwen than in Dacre, his brute strength being, in their opinion, his strong point, and his theo logical side hardly worth consid ering. They throw it in, how ever, ‘careless like’ as, if the experiment is to be tried, it is just as easy to try it on two as on one.” “Mercy on us,” again said Mrs. Fellowes, clattering the fire irons viciously. “By the way, Waring amused me intensely by one revelation he made, he could hardly get it out, and I saw him fling a pa thetically-deprecating glance at his wife and give her hand a squeeze before he began. He felt he had to account for the luckless Dacre’s streugth of legs, of which he seems to have as poor an opinion as the Psal mist, he feared that I might fall into the error of casting the blame on him or his wife, so he determined I should know the real cause. ‘You will hardly believe me,’ he observed, ‘when I tell you that my wife with her refined intellectuality is the out come of long generations of sol diers and of—ahem,— famous duellists, and I fear our son, Dacre, is a very clearly-defined specimen o f throwing-back.’ Poor Mrs. Waring! she felt her ancestry keenly and got as red as a rose during the confes sion.” “Goodness gracious me! What a woman! what a pair! What in the name of goodness brought the two together and mada them marry each other and produce children. If I were Providence and had that on my mind, I’d never look up again.” “My dear child!” “John, in the present state of my feelings, brought on by you yourself recollect, you must for get your sacerdotal character and only remember my state of original sin. Why should two beautiful children’s lives be spoiled for the vagaries of a pair who never had any right to bear children? Think of Gwen’s sad old face full of the trouble of all ages, think of her naughtiness with that horrible unique sort of infernal touch about it; that painting herself blue is the most childish escapade I remember.” “I was at Mrs. Doyle's yester day and she was telling me a lot about Mrs. Waring before we came. After Dacre’s birth, she sa ; d it was absolutely ghast ly to see her with t^e child, she was terrified to hold it, and trembled like a leaf whenever she absolutely had to. Poor Mrs. Doyle, she got quite irri tated and excited about one thing; it seems she could not nurse her own children at all, and that Mrs. Waring was a capital mother from that point of view, and Mrs. Doyle seem ingly could not see at all why an unnatural little bundle of scientific data should score off her, a good, wholesome creature, made for a mother, in this man ner.” “It was certainly too bad, and one would never have ex pected it of Mrs. Waring,” said the rector laughing. “Oh, and whenever Mary brought either of the babies to her or she met them in the corridors or about the grounds, Mrs. Doyle says her one request was that Mary should take- the creature away and give it food, it looked faint! They were both huge, flourish ing, healthy babies, I hear.” “Ruth,” said Mr. Fellowes suddenly, “I wish those people would keep away from church.” “You are shedding your sa cerdotal character with a ven geance. What do you mean?” “You have no idea how they distract me, sitting there togeth er with their eyes far away and their ears sealed, except at the odd times they give those spas modic simultaneous starts, and twist their thoughts back for the minute to what’sgoipgon.” “But, John, for the sake of the parish—” “If the pqrish can't l»fep up to its ordinary pretty low water mark without this prick to its piety, it must be in a poor state, and even more of a discredit to me than I imagine. They are far too good to be asked to play this weekly farce for the parish’s sake. It was Hopkins, not I, who insisted upon this church going, and of course they gave in in their gracious simple way; and now, not even a water spout would stop them from coming, they are so concerned for my feelings. What a pair of unconscious Christians they are to be sure! One sees it crop ping up in all directions.” “I wish it would appear any way in the management of their children, I don’t see many trac es of it there. When is this wretched experiment to be set going?” asked Mrs. Fellowes. “As soon as I can procure a suitable person to conduct it. I think I know a fellow who might do.” “What business have they with children, those two?” cried Mrs. Fellowes with a little spasm of pain twisting about her mouth. “I don’t believe those children ever got properly hugged in all their lives by that inhuman little mother of theirs. And oh, Gwen’s dress! That is awful!” “Ah, yes, that makes the whole affair very much sadder! Don’t you think dinner is ready? Yes, those children have a great deal to fight against, it isn’t their ancestors alone that will handi cap them, poor little beggars.” “Cartloads of saints for an cestors wouldn’t be worth a rap to them with an eerie little creature like that for a mother,” said Mrs. Fellowes hotly, in the pretty lazy drawl into which her touch of twang had developed itself. “I pity that wretched coming tutor.” She let her skirts drop and gave them a dexterous kick as she went out, to give them the correct “hang.” CHAPTER VI. There was no time lost in set ting the experiment going, and it was soon in full swing. Its birth pangs were awful, and embraced in their throes a great number of persons. The par ents’ sufferings were so complex and so quite peculiar to them selves that it is impossible to expound them to an unsympath izing public. The tortures that couple en dured the first months after the initial stage of intellectual de velopment had been instituted and was being dealt with, were severe, but they were in no wise connected with their children’s anguish at the sudden and un expected onslaught on ' their higher parts. Their misery arose from the jarring and inconveniently close contact with tutors, whom, in their unconscious Christian way, they found it their duty to admit for some part of every day into the edge of their lives. This was a terrible discipline, more especially as during these times the unhappy instructors also thought it their duty to ease off their slough of learning and to expand their social parts, and thus the manufacture of small talk became a daily neces sity in the lives of the distract ed pair. They had both taken infinite pains to provide sdent enter tainment for their guest—or rather succession of guests—in the tutoring line. The stand ard scientists were first tried, and these seeming to have but little effect, a whole cartload of mixed literature, including all the rag tag and bobtail of fiction the bookseller wanted to get off his hands, was imported and spread about enticingly; theo logy and ethics were also given a show, till at last all the tables at one side of the room were spotted with slate, yellow, and dull blues and browns, and every form of journal from the Times to the Police News was scattered broadcast over the place, all with a view to lay hold on the tutorial mind and keep it independent of its enter tainers. Directly the tutor for the time being, entered at his appointed hour, they rose simultaneously from their work, as if the same spring moved them, hurried to ward him with outstretched hands, Sat down side by side facing him, and broke into con versation, which if gaspy, and at times inconsequent, from the sudden upheaval of waves of thought in one or other of them, was kept up with gallant relent lessness till the period of deten tion was at an end. As soon as the clock announ ced this event, they broke off suddenly with a click, and the tutor was, so to speak, shot out. and the rent he liad made in the lives of his entertainers was patched up as well as might b6 for that day. But during the entire first course of those tutors, Mr. and Mrs. Waring felt always as if they were suffering from ragged edges As for Gwen and Dacre, their first taste of reclamation from the savage state, was bitter, sudden, and condign. Civilis ation seems the last thing in Ihe world capable of soothing the savage breast, especially if the savage who owns it is young and In rude health. Then Mary suffered. It was a hard blow to find her fledgelings torn from her in one fell stroke, and only allowed to return at odd moments for repairs to skin and clothes. Poor Mrs. Fellowes fretted herself into a regular feverish attack. As for the tutors themselves, the less said of their sufferings the better. Three succumbed to them in four months. The one that followed, a most excellent person and cut out for a family man, broke off his en gagement for fear of conse quences, his slight substratum of scientific knowledge having got so much stirred up while at Waring Park, that he grew be wildered. If such results as he had to deal with, he reflected, were to be seen in the green tree what might not come to pass in the dry? 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All persons in need of babbitt metal can purchase It cheap at THB Dar- umtoj News offloe. ZIZ TXARTSVILLE RAILROAD. June 8, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartsville 5.30 a m Jovann 5.45 a m Floyd's 6.05 a m Darlington 6.25 am Palmetto 6.40 am Arrive Florence 7.00 a m Leave Floretee . 7.35 p m Palmetto 7.50 p m Darlington 8.20 pm Floyds 8 40 j> in Jovauu 8.55 pm Hartsville 9.10pm J F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. C HARLESTON, SUMTER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Reve.var In Effect Jan. 16, 1894 NORTH. SOUTH. 1 2 AM. P.M. Lv 7.30 Charleston 8.45 Ar 8.40 Pregnall’s 7.27 10.47 Sumter 5.27 12.(5 Darlington 4.12 12 56 Bennettsville 3.21 1.20 Gibson i.r* 1.47 Hamlet 2.Sj Ar 6.00 Raleigh 10.15 Lv P.M P.M. No. 1 connnects with Seaboard Air Line at Hamlet for Raleigh Wilmington, Charlotte, Shel by, Routherfordton ; and at Charlotte with R. & D. Vestibule Limited for Washington and New York. Passen gers can take sleepers at Charlotte at 8 :39 p. m. No. 2 passengers by this train have through Sleepers. New York to Char lotte, connects with S. A. L. at Ham let from Charlotte, Raleigh and North, and Irom Wilmington, con nects with N. C. Ry. at Pregnalls for Charleston, Columbia, Augusta and the West. Dinner at Hamlet. C. MILLARD, Superintendent. N A 1). and C. Si S. RAILROADS. In effect June 3, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Wadesboro . 2.00 p m Bennett's . 2.25 p m Morven’s McFarland Cheraw . 8.45 p m Cash's Society Hill .. 4.40 pm Dove's Floyd’s . 5.80 p m Darlington 6.05 p in Palmetto Arrive Florence Leave Florence Palmetto .. 8.00 a m Darlington 8.85 a w Floyd’s - 9.00 a m Dove’s .. 9 15 a m Society Hill . 9 45 a m Cash’s .. 10.15 a m Cheraw . 11.00 a m McFarland 11.40 a m Morven’s 11.55 a m Bennett's . 12.10 a m Arrive V’udesboro . 12.30 a m Local Freight. Leave Darlington 4.80 p m Palmetto 4.42 p m Arrive Florence Leave Florence 8.80 a in Palmetto 8.50 a in Arrive Darlington 0.05 a m A. F. RAVEN EL, President. fly ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. Lm In effect June 3, 1894. SOUTH BOUKD. No. 61 f-eave Florence 7 45 a m Kingstree 9.20 a m Lanes Arrive Charleston 12.10 a m No. 85. Leave Florence 3 10 a m Lanes 4.20 a m Arrive Charleston 6.10 a m No. 23. Leave Florence 7.45 p m Kingstree 9.02 p m 1 sines 9.23 p m Arrive Charleston .11.18 p m No. 53. Leave Isines 7.05 p m Arrive Charleston 8.40 p m Train on C. Si D. R. R. connects at Florence with No. 61 Train. NORTH BOUND. No. 78. Leave Charleston . 8.35 a m Lanes 5.40 a m Kingstree 6 00 a in Arrive Florence 7.10 a m No. 82. Leave Charleston 3.80 p m Lanes 5.88 p m Kingstree 5.57 p m Arrive Florence 7.05 p m No. 52. Leave Charleston 7.15 a m Arrive Lanes 8.45 a m No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of 8. C. Train Nos. 78 and 14 runs via Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Lice—and makes close connection for all {mints North. J.F. DIVINE, Gen. Snpt. w ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect June 3, 1894. A SOUTH BOUND. No. 55. Leave Wilmington 3 40 p m Marion 6.81 p in Arrive Florence 7.10 p m No. 50. Leave Florence 7.85 p m Sumter 8.47 p m Leave Sumter 8.47 p in Arrive Columbia 10.10 p m No. 58. Leave Florence : 8.20 a m Arrive Sumter 9 40 a m No. 62. Leave Sumter 9.58 am Arrive Columbia 11.10 a m No. 52 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8.48 a m, Manning 9 25 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave Columbia 4.80 a m Sumter 5.5o a m Arrive Florence 7.10 a m No. 56. Leave Florence 7.40 a m Marion 8.23 a m Arrive Wilmington 11.10 am No. 53. Leave Columbia 4.20 p m Arrive Sumter 5.45 p m No. 59. Leave Columbia Sumter 6.55 p m Arrive Florence 7.05 p m No 53 runs thiougji w cnarlestou via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 6.22 p m Lanes 7.00 p m, charleston 8.40 p m. Trains on Manchester and Angnsta U. R-, leave Sumter daily except Sun day, 10.59 a. m. arrive Rimini 11:59 H . in. Returning leave Rimini 1.00 p. m.. arrive Sumter 2:10 p. m. Trains ou Wilmington, Chadboaru and Convay Railroad leave Chad- bourn at 10.10 a m, arrive at Conway : 12 30 p in, retnruingleave Conway at 2:00 p. in., arrive Chadbourn 4:50 p. in. Leave Chadbonrn 5.85 p m and 5.15 pin, arrive at Hub 620pm Re- tnrning leave IIqb 8.15 a m, arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a m. Dally exepet Sunday. JOHN F, DIVINE. Genl Snpt.