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One Steam BOSS COTTON PRESS, and Si?S&30>?i?^ with all nec T'FolIeys and "Belting to ron the same. Apply to ot address A. D. KICKER, - . Sumter, S. C. TEMPERANCE WORKER, Re&otsdfrom Columbia, & (7. -^^^ Temperaace Paper, Published Semi-monthly in r.- suamg, s. c. \ - y ^*^er *he Editorial management of ^ " "?.W'-C.T^ OT ?O.6.T. ors. c. ^ Assisted by aa able corps of Editois. and infiaecce of all friends i? ioiicited. Term? oalj_60 ?J8? ADDRESS BY J J. DARGAN, Delivered Before the Brooklyn QX. Y.)BevenueE?form"01?b, March ?9; 1880* Mr. Chairmany Ladies1 and Gentle^ .men: My subject this evening is Parallel iams^f Negro^laveiyaud Protection inutile United States. -, JEIiatory haabeeu defined aa ph il oso phy leaching by example ; and I sub? mit thatthe friends and advocates of a protective tariff m?bt' h^Th the te?bry o?riegro slavery in-the United States vast stores ofp ol ? ti cal philosophy whose teachings it would be well for them to heed at once. The presence of these two relics of ? bygone tyranny in the midst of the freest of aH the free peoples that ever in* habited the globe ; and the1 tena? cious ?igl?. which they", have appear? ed to take upon institutions with which they certainly have nothing ra common, and all a priori' reasoning |^?R??^ war, present anomalous political pheno? mena for the. study of political phil? osophers. * Mr. Herbert Spencer bas labored ta prove that "as unjust customs and institutions derive their viciousness fro m a moral defect in the people living under them, they must be uniformly pervaded by thal viciousness-that as social laws, creeds and arrangements consist merely * of solidified character, the same character will be shown in a? social laws, ?reeds and arrangements which co-exist ; and thatturiher, any process , of amelioration will affect them simulUiiebusly." And he gives copious citations from history in ex empfification of his theory. But we of this Republic are furnish? ing a cations contradiction to this ap? parently sound doctrine. The great chart of American liberty was given to the world over a cen? tury, ago, and our devotion to its principles and roles of political con? duct was attested by years of blood and privations, and crowned, with a complete triumph at last against all opponents to our National independ? ence upon that basis. I In that celebrated instrument we de? clared we held it "to be a self-evi? dent truth that all men are created equal'and possessed of the unalienable right toJife? liberty and the pursuit, of happiness;''-~and that-"to secure these rights governments are insti? tuted.". ; - , Yet only about twenty-- years ago did we rid our government of a gross form oT human slavery, and such hold had-this relic pf a darker day upon our affections that it took an iron hand to tear it from us, and seas of blood to cleanse us of its iniquities. Then as if by some strange perver? sity of fate another form of slavery fastened itself upon us, which bids ^lJl-faLjrivaLits defunct relative in the tenacity ol its hold upoJa." bnr-in? stitutions. Protection, as we now haye it, is. the outgrowth of a tax levied to carry on the war against ne? gro slavery. The war, in other words, for the liberation of the black -man-has given, birth to another form pf slavery for the white*-mao ^ and though less gross and "repulsive in character jet scarcely less blighting in its effects? Oddly enough, too, we find each of these* forms of ?lavery defended by many of our most eminent citizens-find them .'gravely, arguing for each that "it is a. good, a positive good ; the. very corner-stone of American civiliza? tion."' Strange as was this pheno? menon in connection with- negro slavery; it is passing strange that it should repeat itself in connection with protection ; and that after thc abolition of the first, and despite the terrible pains through which the exorcism took place, it is now almost unanimously agreed that it was not too dearly purchased freedom, as it was the most damning curse that had ever afflicted our land. It is re? markable indeed that the same princi? ples that were but yesterday warred against, so terrifically to their utter overthrow should now find favor in the public mind in regard to anoth? er question of governmental policy. To-day the free traders of America contend, as did the abolitionists of an earlier day, that oppression and injustice are eternally wrong, and should be put down because they are wrong. But besides this, reason teaches, and ail history confirms the lesson, that tyranny aud oppression contravene the great laws of nature that govern the material as well as the moral wotld, and that no social, political, pecuniary, intellectual or moral well-being can flow from any form of injustice. But why must we argue over all this ground again so soon with the people of the United State ? Why not simply say that the free traders adopt the arguments on this point of the abolitionists, and the protectionists the arguments ^of the pro-slavery advocates, and then point to Lincoln's proclamation of freedom and the indescribably great blessings ibat have followed in its train ? There it is, all in history spread out in legi? ble characters Go read, ye who de? sire knowledge, and see the end of the present free trade agitation, crowued, as was the fight for negro freedom, with inestimable benefits to all our people ! Wc refer yon for clear statements of the principles that underlie the free trade movement to the speeches and writings of Gar? rison and - Phillips, Sumner and Beecher, and direct you for the de? fences of protection to the labored arguments in support of slavery which emanated from Calhoun and Rhett, Davis and Toomba. It is really one of the most interesting studies to fol? low up the similarities in the fight against negro slavery, and that now waged against protection, and to note the parallelisms in the arguments em? ployed pro and con. Slavery, like protection, was at first never dreamed of as a permanent institution of the Country. Even before our splendid fight for liberty in 1776, we recog? nized it almost universally as an evil ?hat should be resisted in its- further encroachments and gotten rid of en? at an early day, and measures and notably "by South Caroli suppress the slave trade. Bu land and New England hm business of capturing wild A and-selling them to Southern p profitable, and thereby' the at at prohibition on the part of ni the colonies were rendered ineff The mother country went so fa veto our import tax on slai her zeal for business, in the human flesh and blood. So th mous trade went on to the| sha the buyers, lo the greater sba the sellers, who traversed the ? tear their human wares from th? ti ve countries to bring them t American market for money, th is early date to the day when eoln signed the proclamation ol dom was our country agonizing this unnatural growth on our fre During the early days of the Re; the. South .appeared: to have: nized with alarm "Jue plague sj her spreading," and many a from this section is recorded ii nuncialions of slavery/as stroi any expressions that ever came the lips of the later day New En abolitionists. Thomas JeSersoi never, been surpassed by any 01 the earnestness with which he ] ed out the evils of the slave s; and the certainty that disasters ! country and humiliation to the i holders would be its followings, though all admitted the evil hoped for relief from it some day day was postponed from time to as the questions came up in ya form. In the meanwhile the in tion was taking root, especial the South where it was favorer soil products and'cHmate, and .: gan to weave itself into our indm interests "and then into our socia political fabric. The tonger it s the deeper and more intricate bet its entanglements with .all our s< industrial and political arrangeme till at last abolition seemed impos to our Southern people, while growing humanity of all the civi States of the' world made it imj tive that it should uo longer cont in our Republic. Then the curtain rose on the i in g acts in the great tragic di and rolled down only - when si a was laid away in its bloody grav - The free States of the Union p ed for abolition, and as they pre the South raised higher the walls guarded the institution. A sens the real calamities that must b her in the event of abolition, as as pride of opinion and that imper spirit which is born of slave-hold entered largely- into her oppositio the movement that now came i the North. The war of words g more and more angry until "ji ment** seemed to have '"fled brui isl? beasts,** and meirc lo li "lost"their reason/* - ThcjLJt was for the first time Southern leaders found that "sla\ is a good, a positive good;" ' very corner-stone of American li ty.*' Then Northern apologists defenders of the institution be to agree with the slave-holders 1 it was wrong to agitate the slav question,"because slavery was gi ante ed under our laws and const lion, and it was a wicked violai of the compact to show up its e or ask for its abolition by petit or otherwise; and that besides was na evil after all but a great dustrial benefit to the whole count that Southern planters could not p duce cotton without slaves; and t , when cotton prod uction. ceased ,c ton manufacturing must likew cease ; that the abandonment of c ton planting, following as night day the abolition of slavery, must i only bring incalculable calamities up the South, but indirectly as sun upon the North. Hence cotton 1 came "King" in America, and I enslavement of the negro the fount tion of his mighty throne. Heu the North furnished, up to the o break of the war, many able and ze ons defenders of the right of hum bondage. But in the fullness of til there arose a party in New Engla led by William Lloyd Garrisc Vv~ords fail me when 1 contempla the moral ptature of this man Gran noble embodiment of liberty and ji tice, of courage and perseverauc He was for putting aside all calcul tions on consequences and doir right, giving justice and establishit freedom. To qaote his own immc tal words in speaking of his course opposition to slavery : "I will be harsh as truth : as uncompromisir as justice : I am in earnest : I w not equivocate : I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and will be heard." For this utteranc and his fearless fight for liberty i America, his native State of Mass chusett8 had then only vituperarte and imprisonment and stones and tlj hangman's halter to bestow upon hin But now it has come to pass that citizen of South Carolina, upon whoe soil he dared not set his foot twenty five years ago lest he be swun to the first convenient tree, as malefactor blacker in crime thai that unrepentant one who hun, by Christ on the cross-a Sout Carolinian now proclaims his ur bounded admiration for the man* courage and foresight, and his im measurable gratitude to him for doinj more probably than any other on man to liberate South Carolina fron the curse of negro slavery. The firs duty, my friends, of every free mai is to fight for liberty himself, and hi second is to uphold the honor an< fame of those who have fought fur i in the past. I cannot, therefore withhold my expressions of admira tion for Garrison, nor regard him at unworthy of the highest honors tliii nation can confer upon his memory because in his zeal for human freedom, he stumbled into becoming the bold est champion of the now hated doc trine of secession and dis-union that then lived in these United States. I cannot help feeling real respect for him, when he stands up in Daniel Webster's own State and denounces the Constitution of the Republic, bc canse it was ?pro-slavery instrument, ""? c?vemmt with death und a league with hell,"-*; and somehow my inc tion to do him honor is * not chec by the thought that he was a rebi the deepest dye, advocating resists to constituted authority with a rei tion amd daring only equalled those grand old rebels. Washing and Adams, and Hamilton and ? ter. Men will never incur dish< in this land, I suspect, for advoca secession from slave-holding Sts or rebellion against a governn that grossly oppresses and wrc them. Our Republic is the offsp of rebellion against tyranny anc justice. And had the South t oppressed and wronged, rebel would have been honorable and cessful. But men the world over were < vin ced, because of her own dec] tions and conduct, and that she s ded, not in resistance toT opp sion, but in order that she mi oppress without molestation. Th fore, when "her cause v? down liberty loving people evi where could not restrain their den strattons of joy, and today the Soi while dropping tears of deepest fection upon the graves of her ga! Confederate dead, rejoices with th that both'she and her slaves are fi Now has fairly opened the agit?t against commercial oppress: Liberty is about to attempt to t one more step forward. Fortun: ly, this is no sectional issuer and < not become so, and thus we saved from all apprehension of an< er war. Oppression will produce war, i should produce it when all ot methods of resistance have been liently and thoroughly tried and h: failed to bring relief. But there no" chance for a war over free tri issues for many and obvious reaso One is that our people are div.u upon them in every State in se ment and interest, that is, there so-called "protected"' industries every State. Another is, we ; thoroughly tired of war, and quite thoroughly tired of all the iniplaca patriots North an4 South who cam see that the war is really ended. 1 of the South, are a unit now for pea So we can go ahead with the ta discussion with the sweet assurai that it will be fought out to the e with ballots and not bullets. I there is as much honor and renown be won in this political contest, b< for States and individuals, as any tl has been agitated since the foun tion of our government. When thc present tariff was i posed, as 1 have said, it was to ra a large revenue to carry on the Ci WTar.4 lt was a temporary schei that was recognized as a great b den, but one the people ?heerfu * bore in order-to sustain their countr honor in war.* When th? war vt over it was; taken for granted that t burden^would be lifted .But, li neg ro ?slave ry, ? ? h as been ????wVd" 6tand-the day of relief from ! knowledged evil having been po poned, and postpoued till now it h ceased to be universally regarded as evil, as a temporary burden ; but it gravely argued that "it.is a good, positive good;'* "the very eorn< stone of American civilization a that to abolish ifwould be to bril irretrievable ruin upon the Northe manufacturers, and indirectly as sui ly upon the Southern and Weste farmers, and the whole country ; th great industrial interests have grov up under this system, and it is c treraely unpatriotic tb; disturb then that they cannot be dealt with on a stract moral and economic principle We must look at things in a practic way ; this tinkering with the tar unsettles values, creates panics at disturbs the peace and quiet of tl country, and throws everything in uncertainty ! And that moreover tl faith of the government is pledged upholding the system, and it wou be a shocking violation of its oblig tions to change its policy of prote tion now. Aye, these are familii words ; these are the old arguroen with which the country rang, but half century ago. So talked the pr slavery advocates. But slavery wei down, nevertheless, though it ha been fostered by our laws, and it wa therefore extremely wicked and di astrous to "tinker with it.'* Thc rui that was prophesied to come to th South, and indirectly upon The whol country, has failed to putin an appea ance, but lias sent in its stead a haj piness and prosperity that were in possible under the 6lave system. Th cotton crop that must be raised n more after the slavery was abolishe has nearly doubled under the fre system the best yield under slavery No, say the freo traders, these argi men's will not avail'anything, wit .the glaring facts with regard to negr slavery in full view of the America people. Injustice and oppression ar hateful in themselves, and at al times and under all forms unprofitabl to the nation. Tax none for the 6up port of others ; take no money fron one class and put it into thc pocket of another ; assist no private enter prise at the cost of another private cn terprise under the authority of law Because such a course reduces to ? state of slavery, to the exact exton of the labor necessary to earn th< money with which to pay the tax o the class upon which such a tax ii levied. At this time the unprotected classei of this country are required to paj one-third more for all they consume in consequence of the existence oftlu protective tariff. Then it is clear tha they work two thirds of their time foi themselves, and are compelled by law to labor the other oiie-third for thc protected classes. This is unjust this is iniquitous, this is slavery, anc it cannot stand. As surely as wc have seen the evils of negro slavery, and have hurled it from us, 60 surely is the doom of protection approach ing. In that contest, as in this, all propositions for gradual abolition j were rejected with scorn. In this ' contest, as in that, sudden and com plete abolition must result from a per j sistent refusal to accept propositions ' f?>r graduals relief from galling op? pression. Every day it grows harder and harder for protected people t go- their unholy grip upon : slaves ; but every day, thank ( the growing enlightenment of 1 /kind demands in more imperf terms "that oppression in all ft shall cease. 1 warn those who ' jport such ? system that the da retribution is surely coming, it mattera hot what their talent ' past serv???s to their country may they forfeit, their country's gratii who endeavor to perpetuate so tn; and baneful a system of taxation, very persons, in industries they trying to serve, will find as former slave-holders have foi that those who labored to 1 them to hold on to their nnrighte possessions were their w enemies, and those who tore tl away were their best friends. Protection is as certainly a curs protected industries as slavery wa /slave-holders, while it is a shock robbery "of ail other' industries in larod that are not protected. Pro ti?ljjst8 statesmen, orators wrjters had just as well make up t! mfbd3 to pass into history in comp with the blundering advocates negro slavery. Between enslaving black men enslaving white men, whatever form, there can be no moral dil ence, and the disasters to the cour will be more sure and widesprea< the latter than in the former case. Now please pardon me, wini speak a "word or two for my nal State in the present contest, am am doue. I live in South Carolina, and peet to do so to the end of my I My highest political ambition ig serve her while I serve ni}' count and my supremest desire is to m< the confidence and good will of fellow-citizens there. So you v err greatly if you suspect that my sparing jexposure of the blunders the advocates of slavery and anira versions upon the slave system sign any lack of State pride, or affect for my people. I could not do Ca linians an injury or injustice knr ingly-they are raine and I am thei But I believe I am fighting for Soi ^Carolina's honor as a State whei fight for liberty, justice and equali and I can only sustain her proud ch acter by 'having the courage of J convictions ; for whatever else ? may be accused of, no one can s she has ever hesitated to standby 1 convictions in word and act. Now I conceive that it is ~pe< liarly the duty of South Carolin ia to 6peak out and let aU the.woi know what a horrible institutlag ne? slavery wa^, because our^^Bfong so desperately hard iu^ Lim Chambers of the Vn 1 battle-fields of the -^I^H^fc F pe?nate it and make it the^^BH^) of American liberty. Therefore we-owe it to the causo of justice a "l.truth ; we owe "-it to the welfare mankind the world over ; to t people of this nation whom we Ira wronged ; to the American govet mental - scheme with whose nalui development we have so seriously i terfered, and above, .all, we owe it ourselves and to the well-being of o own posterity, to emphasize *our a horrence of the institution, and bi condemnation of all the argnmen by which we were once misled in support of it. In this way only mi we speedily regain our lost emioeni among the States, pf this Union ai of I lie world. South Carolina's course in all eh but the slavery question, I believ has done credit; to- her as a mern bi of the Federal .Union. Only whi her mental and moral atmosphere ha been poisoned by the foul breath i slavery did any narrow sectional sei timent find favor with her peopli Nullification and secession a;: neither products of her mind. Vi giuia and Kentucky furnished the firs and the pen of the author of the Dei laration of Independence drafted th resolutions that first embodied th idea New England enjoys the hone of originating the secession schem* When it came to South Carolina was sixty years of age, and op to th very day of her practical applicatio of this suggestion from the North, i was questionable whether South Cai olina or Massachusetts had th greater number of secessionists South Carolina in both nnllificatio and secession then simply translate other people's thoughts into action She has paid pretty dearly for trying to shine in borrowed lights. Yoi will agree with rae, I feel sure, tha she will not repeat this blunder a least. lier conduct in the R?volu tionarjr War is known to the world I will not comment upon it here, will leave the deeds of Laurens, Rut ledge, Pinckney, Sumter and Marioi to speak for me. lier conduct afte thc war is a part of our well knowi history. Always broad, national anc ready to sacrifice anything for th( honor of America. Until tho slaver} question began to influence his mind Calhoun himself was conspicuous fo. devotion to tho national interests ant entire exemption from sectional uar row ness and prejudice, Ile was, ii the early part of his career, quite as popular in New England as in hi? own Stale. It is evident that John Quincy Adams expressed the senti? ment of Massachusetts when lie placed tin's sentence in his diary : "Calhoun is above all sectional and factious prejudices moro than any other statesman of this Union with whom I have ever acted." In this course permit mc to say Mr. Calhoun was a true Carolinian. For then, as now, it was needful to be first a true American in order to bc a true Carolinian. The time is now near at hand when South Carolina's exposition of the iniquities of the tariff system in 1832 will add lustre to her name. When all deductions have been made for her rash and in? temperate adoption of Mr. Jefferson's chimerical nullification scheme, there will remain a large balance to her credit for pointing out so clearly evils that must necessarily result from pro? tection, and giving the country by her-bold and resolute resistance to 1 ita oppression a period of comparative free trade, thus furnishing a practical demonstration of its great benefits. Now she enters this contest with the most earnest desire to do substan? tial service to the nation ; to prove to all the world that she loves freedom and not slavery, justice and not op? pression. When it comes to your mind that she once contended that "slavery is a good, a positive good,'' I beg of yon to begin to think of her early history or her present attitude ; and that you recall the fact that there are dark spots even on the sun. . And in looking to the future yon can best infer what her course will be by re? flecting that it is the burnt child that fears the fire. Perhaps only those who have experienced the detestable evils of slavery to the fullest, can ap? preciate to the fullest the blessings of liberty. I believe that poet was a ?rue poet who sang of the South after the Civil War : "Oat bf the gloom futaf? brightness is horn, As after the night looms the sunrise of morn ; And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown. May jet form the footstool ofliberty's throne; A od each single wreck in the warpath of might Shall jet be a rock io the temple of right." Let the hosts that are now gather? ing to do battle for liberty in America move along as swiftly as they please, 1 pledge them that they will find the Palmetto flag "high advanced'* over the front rank, "its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, bearing for its motto no such miser? able interrogatory as "What is all this worth V Nor those other words of de? lusion and folly-'L* berty first and union afterwards.* But everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing in all its ample folds, that other sentiment,*' dear now to every true Carolina heart, "Liberty and union now and forever, one and inseparable.'* BEAUTY'S SECEET By AL AK MUHL Author of ?Vanity Hardware^' "Golden Girls," Etc. BOOK ONE. LADY BEAUTY S MO TB ER CHAPTER L DARKNESS IN BEAUTY'S ABSEXCS. For the room had grown darker to a cer-. tainty. No doubt glass and silver shone as clearly as before, the damask was as white, the bloom of the flowers as rich, and the min? gled lights-sunlight straight from off the green lawn outside, and lamplight just com? ing into radiance on the dinner table--had not lost brightness by one ray. And yet the room was darker. Everybody felt that I spoke it aloud, and we all looked round the table and the walls, and confessed that the room was several shades darker. "It always is darker," whispered an old gentleman at my side, "when Lady Beauty leaves the room-always!" There were six other mer. at the table; but cs we spoke two of these fell into discussion ' upon the old theme of Tory and "Whig. Two more-parsons-struck off into some conver? sation about "high" and "low." How the third pair employed themselves I forget, but they did not join our conversation. Plainly the elderly gentleman and myself were to start a dialogue of our own; and as plainly we should neither be interrupted nor over? heard. I did not know my companion's name; but his fine figure and his cheerful face had already made me feel an interest in him, and I resolved to keep up the talk which he had so pleasantly begun. "Who may Lady Beauty ber I asked. "You are a stranger here," replied the old man, with a smile which pleased me more than ever. I confessed lt. "Or you would know who Lady Beauty fa. Her praise is on everybody's lips." "But," I said, "generally I pay every lady in a room the tribute of at least one look; and-and-I did not notice a young woman here this evening." "I said nothing about a young woman," my friend continued, with a vivacity which gleamed in his eyes and carved scores of hu? morous little wrinkles round the corners of his mouth. "Lady Beauty is not young-by the almanac, that is." . "Then who can she be?" I reflected. "Not surely that spare aggressive-looking woman that sat between you and mo and talked of female suffrage find the higher education of woman?" Hy old friend laughed with great relish. j . "That is her eldest sister." "TTell, surely not that tall, artificial-look? ing old maid-is she an old maid, by the way?-who had such a fine outline and such a suspicious bloom upon her cheeks?" "No, not her; that is the second sister," the old gentleman answered, with another laugh. "A widow, too, my young friend." "I have it!" cried I, slapping the table a lit .1 n my excitement, so that the *\Vhig and T. ry glanced up, but seeing it was nothing, resumed their argument. ''It was that lady in black, with the silver hair, neither stout nor slim, who spoke so clear and low, and seemed to keep everybody in good humor about her. Pity I sat so far away! I was envying the people near her all dinner time. Ana I right?' "You are," he answered. "That was Lady Beauty; and when she left the table she did take some light away with her. You thought you were making a gallant sort of joke ap? plied to the sex generally; but you spoke more truth than you fancied. The room was darker when she left Darker to me it al? ways is," and 1113- old friend breathed a sigh, which interested me more than ever. "1 did not know it was she who carried tho light awav," I said. "I had scarcely noticed her." "There is her praise," tho oki gentleman answered, warmly. "She does not force her? self upon you. And 1 dare say many days you don tieck at the sun: but when sunset comes you miss him none the Ifss." By such pleasant paths we entered into a conversation My friend told me many thincs about "Lady Beardy," to which I listened with an attention ??*hieh~ pleased him greatly; so much that when we were about to leave the table, he took me gently by the sleeve, and said that, if I bad nothing better to "do that night, and liked a chat and a cigar, and would accept a scat in his car? riage, ho would tell me all the story of Lady Braut)'. I was too much interested in him? self and his narrative to say no; and the story, so commenced, and continued on ' several subsequent evenings, I have hore re? corded without any attempt at art, just in the simple way I heard it. I offer it here for the acceptance, amusement and instruction of that portion of creation who, as they are the fountain of lifo anti its best prize, may, b}- the use of the gifts God has so choicely bestowed upon them, be not alone the orna? ment, but the joy of the men they love. I? which high art I respectfully ask them to karn a lesson from "Lady Beauty." CHAPTER It "Jins. BARBARA TEMPLE-THE MISSES TEM? PLE." Sometlung like forty years ago there fell vacant at tho other end of this town a large house with a spacious and splendid garden. Its original proprietor had lived in it for sixty years, and Uiicg a man of great wealth and j fin ?? taste he had"^fajjs^imed\-what was a comfortable family residence into-a man? ?lied with all luxuries, and surrounded green houses, hot houses^ vineries,, sta coach houses and all the other appurtenanc a grand house. He died, and his hund?? thousands ran off m a goldea.riyer of j luck to a nephew in the north of Engl who had. his own estate. Immediately question was asked in our little provincia] uw.:0 will take the Beeches?7 for by simple name the mansion was known. B* body was afraid of the Beeches ; afraid o! gilded rooms, its noble haEs, its green hoi hot houses, vineries, stables and coach he aforesaid; afraid of its splendid tradit gone, we felt, never to return; afraid of < parison with the former owner-a poor si shadow in later days, but even thon su lord at the head of his feble, such a jud; wines, so plentiful with his choice vinta too; such an expert in .gard aers and cc as our town of Kettle well never saw bel and was never likely to see again. Sc great bouse stood vacant month after mc and year after year, haunted by no ghost cept memories of magnificence, which did deed seem to glide through the vast d rooms, down the wide stairs, or through noble gardens, now -returning to wilder season by season. Everybody was af rail the Beeches. We all said,'"The Beeches ?ver let again.77 Let it did, however. There came ? I lady one day, erect, commanding in mannt r "and rich in her attire. She aike see the house. She went from room to rc ?nd marked with approving eye how glor was the place; and sharply she inqmrec the agent if there was any reason why house had not let, except the alleged one o extraordinary grandeur. He assured that there was none. At this she broke a little laugh, which meant, "Kettleweil ; pie must be fools." "What rooms for dancii she ejaculated. *'What staircases, up downl" And thea she set her own dar figure tn ono of the glasses of the con tables, and murmured, "Admirable, miracle taste!" "I shall take this hon she said aloud, as she set her foot on threshold. And as she went from roon room she kept repeating, "I shall take house." "Bedroom,'1 "dressing, room," "m< ing room," library," "boudoir," "serva j hall." With such words of assignment on lips she went about, and the whole mani was allotted to separate uses when she '. completed her inspecting tour. She ct back into the empty dining room, and young roan who, full of awe, had followed round the house, heard her say to herself, what a room for a dancer Then ne, gc out on some errand, and suddenly return] saw the little dame step down the empty fl J in some formal dance, most mystic in his er I and bowing with aristocratic grace to S? invisible partner. The young man reca bis own hops at the citizens' ball, and w dered what this grave measure could be. j .the little lady pulled np all of a sudden, w a whistle of her silks, and repeated for fiftieth time, "I shall take this house," "Mrs. Barbara Temple," was her re I when the agent asked her name. She livered it with decided emphasis, as if syllables might be pondered; and forthw j she gave orders for many things to be don? the house and grounds, saving that she wo come in next month. Ton may be sure j were all alive with curiosity to know eve thing about Mrs. Barbara Temple. ? turned out to be a widow-a- widow for 1 second time, we heard-and with th daughters. She had first married an old m of vast wealth, who died when she was U and-twenty, leaving her with no children a a great fortune settled cn her. Next, avenge herself for thc privations of her fi marriage, she allied herself to a young ensi of twenty-five, handsome and pennfk With him she lived happily for seven yea during which time she gave birth to thi daughters. Then the ycung officer died; a so, having got a fortune by the first husba and a family by the second, Mrs. Barba Tt?iple? VV?S BOTT mating1 rcot?y to load i remainder of her life according to her ot heart. . w The family como into residence on the ? Friday in April, 1858. Nothing was seen them, you may guess, on Saturday, SJ everybody was on tiptoe expectation f their entry into the parish church on Sund/ morning. Thither they came, regular enough, like good worshipers, having, by tl way, spoiled the worship of everybody t side. First comes my- little dame, natty ai brisk, and with something in her movemen that almost made you fancy she must be puppet animated by enchantment Sill feathers of the rarest sort, a fan-the weatb being hot-and her frame braced up in such erectness, that each of her inches wi worth two; so Mrs. Barbara Temple walke into church. There was spirit in the ej which went round the building, not with w pleasing boldness, but with most unmistakt ble courage. There was a vigor in her ste which told of a good constitution, and si held her fan in a way that signified tempe: Indeed, when the pew-opener blundered ov< the latch ol' the door, and kept her waiting i the aisle, she dealt one glance at the worna -one only-but what, a rebuke was in it! A sight of the flash, old Spar kins, the docto: who had been watching the new-come rather obtrusively, was struck with fear tbs he might catch the next; and he dropped int his prayer book like a bird shot in mid au trying to look as if he had seen nothing sine service began. . Three daughters came behind. The fin impression they gave us was of a profusio of rich dress, chosen and worn with tast which was simply faultless. The next ins pression was of tallness of figure, the mor conspicuous fer the tiny dame who led th way. The third impression was of beauty set out m style and fashion such as our lit? town could not rival; and we did not thin] ourselves provincial in any but the geograph i eal sense. After this, we had time t judge and praise the beauties girl by girt Girl the first, walked with a mincing step and a toss of her head which, though stricth within tho limits of good breeding, wa noticeable and significant. Clever she looked too, and her eyes were clear gray, eyes tha could search you-and did search you-read ing your face with great rapidity and appre hension. She was the most striking figure o the three, being very tall, and with spleudk shoulders. Her face, it is true, would noi bear much looking into; and had you taken ii feature by feature, as the children wen taught to break the fagot in the fable, yoi might have proved it a poor face enough But taken in its wholeness, and set upon thal superb bust, it was a face which I should not have recommended a young fellow to gaze al too long unless ho meant matrimony. And then her dress-her dress! O, never tell mc that a woman cannot double-treble-hei locks if she has money in her pocket and taste in her eye! Bat the next was prettier; indeed, pretrj was not the word appropriate to a womai who was unquestionably handsonx?, who knew I her beauty and was proud of it The second Miss Temple had a nose of most-exquisit? shape, large melting eyes of gray, ready tc torn blue, asid she had a lovely mouth, per? haps with a little too much pf the chisel about it, Hbo finely finished", wanting in expression, and with a slight hint, of disdain carved on its fine corners. Beauty, professed beauty, con? fessed beaut)-, and clad tc distraction; so she glided into her pew, and wo had time to con? sider girl the third. Girl the third ! Shall I ever forget her face, then in the first sweet flush of youth ! Shall I ever forget thc light that shone in those deep serious eyes!-the thousand possibilities of tender or delicate expression that seemed to hover around that mouth, ready to alight and unfold themselves whenever summoned! I had been thinking a thousand frivolous and misplaced thoughts, but something in this face restored me- by the most de? lightful of recalls to tito mood of "a worshiper. Xever, never, outside heaven, shall I see such a face again. It was like the dream of a painter, and he a painter whose fancy had drank of some celestial stream of feeling and idea, until he had caught on his canvas a face which had in it all that could be heavenly in a thing of earth, and all that could be earthly.,in a thing of.-heaven. Laugh not at me, neither call me irreverent if I say that one could have fancied her some painted Madonna descending from the walls of a^ church, taking htunan form, and wear? ing^ modern vesture. On tins girl vesture gave you np hint of faslnon; ; her counte? nance etherea-hjseS' har" ??tir?j ?o/that sha Sut 1 see you smile; and is not t^^ ff^ emotion bound to hide ro*?K, lest, being seeo/-^ it should be ridiculed for eccentricity? ?if?ii? Those eyes could shine with ?ar?r^ *arO ^ heavenly love. In each case it would be lov?'-^ deep, pure, intense, with not a-feoisgkt o?.-?^ evB. on its vriaite and ^^pS-.'^?g^^jOgt?^^^ mouth could kiss as daughter, er. mistress* m?rr?% mother, and which kiss would be "**Ht&^5? who could foretell from one who ?oens^??k^^^ serf ord ev?ry womanly duty in tfto iBuefe^i? womanly way? In her look there wWsoti^::^| thing neither of age nor youth, but of wh?t should try to describe as fullness; the li&ggM ridian of the nature when the 'earlyand- wSmBS later sentiments meet, in equals strength, ti?- *? simp?city of youth, the graveness^ mxkk^z? -fife. She was fair, her- hair light \mtwt^/ }t and I saw a trace of a ht?e.foot as$be?tra&^|? into her pew. Bntwhen she knelt and ?t*^r^*^ ered her face, I did the same CJIHW'?IMO^^?A sdously. It seemed right siter the^a?t;^ 'CHASTER, EL ?f tWSm TSE PORTRAIT OT. A ?A?T! " ^|^jg?3 . That week everybody called uj^'^St1^99?.'?-^ plea .The universal jmpflsssfains vyasArS*^^ able, and we all rejoiced over so -riva^ouMK "sdditiOu to oar society, and already 4?^q?Mi% :^i tion was nying front, lip to. hp; ?BNsVg ladies: "Whom will, tho Hissey$fp?$*?~?? marry r "That on the grounds of soc^pc^J^ .tion. and education"the ittew- conwr?c.5ro*l??^^ stand high amongst- us- was not dcjibted1larj??^^ moment, while their easy fortune 'was ff*? claimed by their drt-ss. the f?rnttnro oiitteflr-i^ boase and their manner. of life ,gpnepmfc~??? Each successive visitor liacPsometfimg^ telL Ona remarked how finely the ?fcrjt?hnt^.i^ and ornaments . were^-?anded.f-.^AOC^?L^^? marked the glories of the harp -and the piaav.:^| "The pictures are lovely,7*.said a tfaii^Jnc*-*^^ poorer on the walls !" And carpets^ Wr^?B^^^ cloths and the coloring of the walls cstmein.for:^?i commendation in dae wars?. : All of ^^?* :?|v ' delighted with the lively conversation of th?? girls, and we marveled uiiacrniousry a?Mra.;-^l Temple's wide knowledge of thai, wyri^ai^?jj? tho briskness with which she uttered it \ 2fceti^ was one of these praises nndeserredi^?i^^? drawing room of the Templeswas<a chfcnb???^ ing contrast to most of those" around. cultivation, livelmeas, whatever is chc^S?rt ?i:f^ social intercourse; seemed to pervade th?%verf-^^ air and you ?elt as you entered the rcom tha^^ you had passed Into-a region whecr?'rifin^cS;^* ment reigned supreme. The Tempk?j^aS?^^ somehow, above, us all. We fett it aniwi?^Jli increasing diffidence, as we realized: bar te~''~^? feriority, was the question asked,- "Wh??fei^ will th^ '^ ^^^^^^ E?S. BARRAR! TEMELA lg^>\^0 But old Sparking, who .was ..our shr?^d?iit?^^ head by ? long way, hearing th^?M^??fl?^p asked at Miss Whifihvs houso.one aftaeaSM&^ll remarked, with a comical face to fixout: tention, that we had ?not disposed- at;th? '0% mother -yet Surprising that so- natur?B?.._V*^ thought had not suggested itself be?cr&?^Vtni:^? Templo, as we understock had'be<a>nMtrriei _verv. earlv^ and ^rmint^?i?rjj^?^^ critics declared that she could not belmore \ .:? ^h?h forty-five, or, rather,"! should say, they ' put it that she could Jiot bedess.. ?WeAad-;/"-^ several widows and spinsters of ripe years^ and these agreed that foriy-ffye:wa^ marrying age; indeed, some of tho lad??irdo*:?^L clared that it was the best "time ,-o? an opinion in which Sparkmg'oo??^^^ curred with much vehemence and-:iso?fDf; ?|jg nity, only the old fefl?w was ???^ife^?S winking slyly at a confidential;. -rani' immediately after, which anrased-some ^?i? picion. That Mrs. Barbara Temple nright ho - ^ married before any of her dahghters,^?i?t^^ she was yet an : attractive and inarryiag^^ woman, we all admitted. There was:th?t -fcar-^? her manner with men which told thatshehad ||jp not yet abandoned either the iope or2th? methods of conquest; and it.was plain to all that less likely women are inamcfr ?ye?^f day of the year.. Irides, the fortune?*??* hers-absolutely-as, we had disco^eft?. ar^^ undoubted testimony; and since the fortuno could not be less than three thousanda-^5pBafVf^|| we began to see that for the. pissent1 ife?wa?^v| Mrs. Temple, not her daughters, ;who:^was^^ likely to. be the prize in our ?ext matrimonial ,^ race. So, having settled this in oar. Mi?is''V.^? we proceeded like rational beings to choose~'0^|* husband for the animated, wjdow?7tjQd.- wills f?? scarcely a dissentient opinion^ we cams "to-, the conclusion that OUT rector, t& "51^ iA^Cg? thony Brent would bf ti? happy ' maa? ;W^ .-. ,; ^ were not altogether wrong in this c?^fc?oreb>-r*g as my story shall- dfeclose. 1 Bti?'"3&"???BB|P^^ does not emerge on oar historic .pago s* ; present - ^ ^ '; Let me tell you here that; in the coarm^m.:^^ long life, I have never met a woman r who J ,\ could match Mrs. .Barbara Temple. -CleTOwr:':|^ women, handsomer women, wittier WOTO^I^^ have met in scores; but the- secret .of ^?*-^^ Barbara Temple was her utter, .arti jwitt^^p .love of this present world. Ot-fb&^pj?t?&?: world she was, I believe, the;. soc?restr jan^-^ most unquestioning worshiper that ever livetfc She put no strain upon herself tobecbmewha* ; J-| she was; she quenched no aspiration mt^ re^r pressed no misgiving. Worldliness was the ^ simple honest expression cf^her hatirr^'di^^^ position "and her judgment on affairs^; Never religious c?evotce was so completcry'dfadceei^l^ in a creed as she For, indeed, it w^**flee3; c?^ and a life, too, and Mrs. P>arbara^T^n^i?^:^ loved the world justas a flower loves SP8|^^^| she obeyed a law of her own nature. 1B^ tfajfc?^^ cheerfulness with which she obeyed ft^t?r^^ uncpestioning faith in the power of^tho;;-^ world to satisfy every want; the^ahseo?e off suspicion that there could be any^h^Kr motive in life, or,*indeed, any ?tiier ?iet?vo^^ at all, and the cheerfulness', and ^a$a^i^?ti^r|^ which she follcwcd out. her ??wictfcofe^i? made her of necessity a -rigorous aa? ?rig?nal;^^ character. All that makes what such jiefepli^^ call "the world" she longed .for . and pr?ed? " '.t^ Accomplishments^ money, taste, heri?hv^ie;-?r^ good opinion of society, these, and e3it?n^?k? and kindred matters, she regarded as^?ijst^^M ally constituents of happinessv to he' ioigl^i ^ with the utmost solicitude J9very h^?r^ ti>??^? day. She was grateful , to the wort? -'for^?l being what it was to her-an evex^rnni&g:^^ fountain of desire or pleasure. ' -; n - * . Have I sufficiently sketched ber figure? Will a few strokes mere make her ^,:c?wacr.^^ image in your mind? eye? She^was^pefc, m-i^ I have said, trimly built, .perhaps: * trifctoe^^ stout but that might be disputed: -Ber%qw??^? was rather large, but finely cut, Ske^B^eft^^p ond daughter's, and she dressed her oronin^^ hair in short ringlets,-which " well ,'sui&i*1fte^??j style of her face. He*- color was; sood^aadt-^ high enough to make people ask question?, and her eyebrows were not free:%OTn^a?-j picious traces of making up. H*r-d??;w*r^. always rich and admirably suited to . her:?^ figure and years; for she was careful to^cr**' full forty-five. She avoided all absurd ?ffe tation of youth, and although a kind sprightly-dancing step; which she ?f?en : ~ into, might have seemed rather a fault in this ' direction, most of us considered this gait no ing but surplus vitality acting <KI ? ?rseme-m? Ught and plump that it seemed made foi er. bound like a b*?U. ^ v^.yJ>j?g fTO BK co'srrrsuKO.J r^^0, Gorge 1>. H-ighicy. ofr Si? Conn., recently tost hi? podtetf looked in raia f? r it Th^? ??| I rca med that hosfrur.d spectacles.. ..wh?ckajty^^l? f^d, under a/i^;\be^a^*^f ^iffore.?^?n