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?HS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established Aprfi, IS50. Consolidated Aug. 2, ISSI.! 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Juae, lSfcJ SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1889. New Series-Vol. VIII. No,..IS. BT ?. .Q. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS: ?^o Doita?s per abnam-in advance. ADV K5TISSMKNTS. Coe Sqnare, ffr?t ins?rrton....$1 00 ?'very subsequent insertion. 50 ^.Contracts for three mont-lis, or longer will b**> made'at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private Interests will be charged for as?ivert?sViif?nts. ?b?taaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical-than the ordinary kinds, and can ittot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only tn cans. ROYAL BAK fS? POWDER CO., 1?6 Wal?-st., N. Y. 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Good Table, Private Parlor for Ladies. J. H. DIXON, tfof. 28; Proprietor. A. WHITE & SON, Insurance Agents, Offer ia First Class Companies. FIRE INSURANCE, TORNADO INSURANCE, ACCIDENT IN3?RANCE, LIFE IN*ST RANCE, PLATE GLASS INSURANCE, SURETYSHIP ON BONDS. April 6 HONE Y FOE SALE. J ita ve oo band a tine lot of CLEAR STRALVKi) HONEY, this season * swipe, for ?ale by the galion or less quaotitv-. Also, NEW W?WTE COMB HON EY. Orders Siled at residence, on Republican Street. S*.-n?ja? cac be seen at Watchman and N. G. OSTEEN. PUS PAPER-vi^^?^- ? I JJg SS? tteim A nov . >T Mossrs Mm Wm AY?Jf ? .<>..# our uutkurLicdutcut* ? "T?K?Nir SIEGE. (Copyright by J R Lippincott Company, Phlla delphia. Pa., and published by special arrange cfent through the American Press Assoc?atl??.1 icoxrrxuED.l CHAPTER IV. 1 HE fi r s t ? P^j? j^PP^Jf? yaking _- ?^l?J?f^^3/ cn cc was I ^^W^n??rft''' tho amusement Egg P|\r column of Th? P?J- I ^* Dawn to see what T'Ii ? ^JL, tho iearned critic Ij&'^jP'i ~ ^ of that paper had ?^?*^/^ I.. to say 'about Miss Knowlton's per ^llp 1 "~ formance. It was . i a most flattering criticism; even he could not have asked for anything better. When Iiis eye reached the last line, however, h? was as? tonished to catch tho sub-head, "Alter the Opera: What the Prima Donna Thinks of her New Role, ? followed by a stout col? umn of solid type describing the scene in the dressing room, the Trojan soldier (Rush himself) who stood guard at her door, tho appearance of the prima donna among her friends, with her three lines of conversation elaborated into a hun? dred, and what Mrs. Dick Griswold had said worked up into a most dramatic^ and pathetic incident. Altogether lt was as lively a piece of reportorial in? genuity as R?an had ever met with. He cut it carefully out, and filed it away with tho criticism of the opera; and ho Bought every other New York paper that day and read what it had to say, preserving the critiques for a scrap book that ne intended devoting exclusively to notices of his new idoL Things were not as promising at the office of The Dawn as Rush had antici? pated from his first interview with the city editor. His funds got lower and lower and still no work came. But he fully determined to brave it out, for he knew his mother could not afford to send him any money from her limited in? come. He had plenty of clothes and he had paid his lodging a month in ad? vance, but the ready money for his meals was slowly disappearing. Ho had given up the seventy-five cent dinners at the Italian restaurant and was trying what fifteen cents would do in Wooster street. Fivo cents served him for many a breakfast. At lost he found himself reduced to ten cents, and still no "assign? ment" There was but one thing to do, he could paws his watch. He didn't have to walk far along Chatham street before he came to the establishment of an accommodating Semite, who lent him ?10 on his timepiece-unfortunately an old fashioned one. In the mean time he had called upon Leoni and had been urged by her and both of her parents to share their savory Italian dinner. He could Smell the odor of the spaghetti as l?e declined, but he did so because he could not bear to accept when lie needed the food so sorely. The watch money was soon eaten, and he was about to be? gin on his gold sleeve buttons, when ho thought he would call on Mr. Spar at his house and talk over the situation with him out of business hours. He selected Sunday afternoon, and started out on a walk to tho Spars" resi? dence, in Ninety-third street, with just five cents in his pocket. Hunger got the better of his pride, and he so timed his visit as to arrive just at the dinner hour, 6 o'clock, as the good man had once told him to do when he offered his hospitali? ty in a general way. The long walk had acted as a tonic, and Rush was r.early famished when he reached the house. He found Mr. Spar at home and de? lighted to see him. They had a very pleasant chat, but Rush could not quite make up his mind to tell hint just how hard up he was. Perhaps he would feel more "confiding after dinner over a bottlo of wine. He heard tho clock strike 6, half past C and finally 7, when his kind host remarked: *Tm sorry you didn't como out to din? ner. We always dine at 4 o'clock on Sundays, to let the servant have a good evening out She needs the rest, poor thing, and wo dino so heartily that we don't get hungry again until tho next morning." (Ru^h really feared that Mr. Spar would see him chango color.) "But my wife will bc delighted to get you up a little supper; for it must bo after your dinner hour." Rush wouldn't listen to such a propo? sition. Thanking his host, ho soon bade him farewell, and went out into the street His state of n>?nd was not envi? able He was tho possessor of five cents, and he was just four miles from his lodgings. Should he in his weak state walk home and spend tho five cents for something to eat, or should lie ride home and go without food? Tho Cravings of hi3 stomach answered the question, and, finding a German bake shop open, ho bought a fivo cent loaf of bread. Then be walked over to Central park. Select? ing a secluded seat, ho atc half of tho loaf, put tho other half in his pocket for tho next day, and walked wearily back to West Eleventh st reek He made up hi3 mind that night, as ho tossed excitedly from ono sido of his bed to tho other, that he had fooled away time enough in trying to get a position on The Dawn, and that ho would try his hand at something else if ho did not get an as? signment thc next morning. Ile started listlessly down town, and his landlady, as she passed him on thc steps, shook her head, and .said to herself: "That young man is not getting enough to cat I've suspected something ever since he stopped his coiTee and rolls. If it was want of money ho need only have told mc lie was a little short. I'd trust that face for any amount. Poor young gentleman I he doesn't look like thc samo person ho did six weeks ago." Rush was just about in front of the Astor house when some one slapped him on tho back and called him by name, and, looking around, ho saw his old col? lege friend Archie T?Hnghast. Ardno Tillinghast was in a class ahead of Rush Hurlstone, and had graduated since Rush Jcft Harvard. They had not Uni par? ticularly intimate at college, but Rus!? had alwa\ . liked Archie, Ix cause ho was gentle in hi ; manners and because the other students were rather inclined to Poke fun at him. They called him a "cad." and jeered him for reading De Musset when they wanted him to play football: and they rnoroov* r thought that ho was too much cf a dandy for | every day uso. Archie Tillinghast was not brilliant, but he got along in his studies much better than somo of his nighter companions, probably because his tastes wero more studious and he was industrious. Ho belonged ta an old and wealthy family, and was somewhat inclined to ?ook down upon the "un? washed." Ho would rather sit alone in his room than associate with meo whom be considered coarse; so in revenge they called him a "cad." If Archie had been his dearest friend Rush could not have been more delight? ed to see him than he was just at this moment He nearly shook his eye glasses off in his heartiness. "My dear boy," said Archie, "I never was moro pleased in my life. But how is it that you are in Sew York without letting me know?" "I was waiting to get established, and then I meant to hunt you up." "And aren't you established yet?" "Well, not exactly," said Rush, with a faint blush. Archie noticed a slight embarrassment in his friend's manner and determined to find out what the trouble was-if there was any. Rush at the same time remembered that Archie was a man of wealth, or at least that his father was, and hesitated to talk over his affairs with him lest he should think he wanted to borrow money. "This is luck indeed,** said Archie, taking his friend's arm and walking along with him. "It is not often that I am down town so early in the morning, but this is pay day at The Trumpet office, and I hadn't a cent to bless myself with. What's the matter? You look aston? ished?' "I was astonished for a moment,'* re? plied Rush; "but I suppose you are joking. I thought you were a bloated bondholder, Archie." "Sol was, dear boy," said Archie, with a sigh; "but I am so no longer. My father died-rascally executors-tho old story-mother, the girls and I left penni? less; but the worst is Over. Como hajre br?akfast with me at Mouquin's. We'll have deviled kidneys and a bottle of wine, and I'll tell you what little there is to tell, it may amuse you. Then we'll talk over old times and the present that is, if you are not otherwise engaged." . "Unfortunately, no; I'm quite the gen? tleman of leisure. My time's my own." Rush would never have suspected from his appearance that Archie Tillinghast was not as rich as ever. Ile was fault? lessly attired. Careful examination later on showed a little wear in his clothes that had come from hard and constant brushing, but their fit was perfect and gave him the appearance of being better dressed than he really was. "You cer? tainly look as much the man of wealth as ever," said Rush, regarding Archie's city stylo with admiration. "Ah, my boy, I've tnad? the study of economy a fine art. I can wear a coat about as long as any man you ever 6av, but it looks well to tho end, becausc-^ I don't mind telling you tho secret-it fits me. I have a jewel of a tailor, who makes my clothes from a fashion book that I furnish him. You smile. You will smile more when I tell yod what thc book is-Punch. Du Maurier's men dress like gentlemen, not Uko tailors' dummies. My clothes arc the envy of tho club. Tliey think I get them direct from Poole. If I wcro not a journalist I should be a tailor. The art of dress is a great art. Think of tho pleasure of creat? ing a well dressed mani But hero wo aro at Mouquin's. I seo they have my table ready for me. I breakfast here every Tuesday morning." Archie entered tho room with tho dig? nity of a lord mayor at tho great banquet of tho year. Ai? they seated themselves at the table, he said to tho waiter: "Tho samo breakfast, Louis-only enough for two; and don't let tho cook burn those kidneys. I am very partic? ular, you know; and they were a little too brown last week. Now, dear boy," turning to J\ush, "tell mo something about yourself." "You have whetted my curiosity to hear your own story. Archie Tillinghast as a workingman is something I never dreamt of. You spoke of journalism, so' that is \-our profession, is it, and you are on Tho Trumpet? What do you do?"' "What don't I do, you might ask with greater propriety. Well, I do little odds ?md ?*nds of everything; but my great day is Sunday. A page of tho Sunday paper is given over to my pen." "A page! you must bo making a fort? une, Archie." "I'm not a 'spaco man,* dear boy;- rt rs; tho salaried men-the small salaried man, I should say-who fill two col? umns a day, and a page on Sunday." "Dut wliat department gets a page to itself?" "Tho ono that least deserves it-so? ciety. You know tha? I am connected by blood or marriage with half tho so? ciety people of New York, and, notwith? standing the loss of my money, I am in? vited everywhere. Young men aro scarce, and well connected young men aro at a premium, and I am invited nono tho lcs3 because I write tho society notes for Tho Trumpet. . Timo was when an American gentleman seriously objected co having his balls and routs described in the newspapers; but it is done so much nowadays that his wifo is afraid they will be called nobodies if their namo is not seen in print in connection with the winter's festivities. I am in great de? mand from Murray Hill to Mackerel ville; they all want me. What it is to bo popular!-eh, old fellow?" By this timo tho breakfast was served. There were more than kidneys, amV it was a most delightful repast; but Rush was not in a condition to do justice to it. He had eaten so little for a week past, and such plain;foOd. that even tho rich aroma of the kidneys, with their wino' sauce, was almost moro than fcc could digest "Where's your appetite, old man? ' You're not eating anything. Perhaps ! you had a late breakfast and aro not ! hungry." "On tho contrary," raid Rush, who waa beginning to fee! as though ho were I going to Lo ill. and that ho net d have no j moro pride in tho matter, "I have had I no breakfast, and I am very hungry- | too hungry, in fact, to cat." And he thon made a clean breast of it, and told Archie just how ho was sit? uated. To say that amiable young mun was shocked would be doing injustico to his kind heart. He was genuinely dis? tressed at his friend's condition; but be? fore ho entered into particular:? ho or< dered a bowl of bouillon, which was ! easier of digestion than tho deviled | kidneys, and he made Rush eat it and : then drink a glass of brandy and Poda, j Then, when he had got bira into better ; condition, he began by scolding him for i not looking up his friends, after which ! they discussed iii.- situation calmly. "I mad ! up my mind to give Tho ? Dawn one more trial," said Rush, "and '. then, ir there was no work for mo there, j to try some other paper or break stones on tho highway; but I certainly would not go back to Farmsted and sponge on my mother. If a chanco does not occur ! here sooner it will later, and Tm young 2nough to wait for it.'3' "There is always tho chance, but it is ?evilish slow in coming sometimes. Now if you are not too proud I'll put yoiijn thc way of a job that will bring you in fifteen or twenty dollars a week, and need not interfere with your work on The Dawn, if you get any. Fm not toe proud to increase my limited Income by tho samo moans, but I tell you fxmkly, dear boy, I would not caro to have it known among tho rich and great with whom I hobnob out of business hours. Can you write poetry?" "Hardly that; but I cari make rhymes," said Rush, wondering what bomb his friend was about to burst.' "So much the better. A poet would scorn to engage in this business, but it is the fortune of the rhymester. Now, I am paid S20 a week by the wealthy proprie? tor of the Damascene soap to write rhymes in praise of his wares. I do thc New York morning papers; and he told mo tho other day that if I could get Up a new batch for the evening papers lie would liko to have one, or, if I had not the time, perhaps I could suggest somo ono with a poetic talent who would take the job. He didn't know much about poets himself-thought they were a rum lot-and he would bo obliged to mc if I would bag a Byron for him. You're just thc man. No one need know it, and it will keep your stomach from getting in such a condition again as it was in when I found you. You need not be particular about being original; you can work over your Tennyson or your Longfellow; only get in the word Damascene, and your duty's done. Meet me at the culb to-mor? row with a batch of verses. We'll dine together; and in the mean time I'll see old Penny packer ard have a check ready for you, from which I will deduct $0 that I'm going to give you now." "No, Archie, old man, said Rush, pushing away his hand, and with diffi? culty speaking for the lump in his throat. "Wait till I've earned it. Your kindness lias completely upset me, but I can't take your money. I'll gladly try my hand at tho soap verses and take my pay when they're written; but hot till then." "Nonsense! What isa friend for if not to help one when ho needs it? I shall really feel hurt, Rush, if you refuse mc, I wouldn't treat you as formally. It's only $D, and you will havo earned it be? fore midnight I'll lay a wager. Come, old man, don't mako mo feel that I am asking you to do something dishonora? ble. Much moro than a paltry $5 ha3 passed between us at college." "Yes, to be sure there has, but neither of us needed it as much then as wc do now. It is much easier to borrow money for tomfoolery than for food. But I'll do as I would be dono by; I'll tako your ?5, Archie, and try to think that it is old times. I feel that this is tho turning point, and I can't thank you enough." "Don't mention it, dear hoy. I'm sorry you take a tritio 60 seriously. It all comes of tho condition of your stomach. I think you can venturo on eating a fairly hearty dinner to-night and a good breakfast to-morrow. And then you must dine with mo at tho club to-morrow night at half past 0 sharp, fori have three receptions and a wedding on hand. By tho way, put on your drcs3 coat, for I shall tako you to ono of tho recopiions with mo at my undo Archer's. I want you to know my cousin, Bessie Archer. She's au awfully jolly girl. I'll tell them I'm going to bring you. They will bo delighted, for they've often heard me speak of you. Come, dicer up, man; you look 50 per cent, better already. 'So long.' and don't forget to-morrow night, 'Powwow' club. Fifth avenue and Nine? teenth street." Archie put out Iiis hand, and Rush took it with a grip that drove tho rings on his friend's fingers into tho flesh; but tho latter was too polite to wince. Before ho could quito, man himself to confront thc people in the wailing room of Tho Dawn office, Rush walked rap? idly down Broadway as far as Trinity church, where lie stood for a moment looking through tho iron railings of tho fence into tho grass grown church yard. Tho clock in tho church tower struck 3, which reminded him that thc city editor would not bc long at his desk: so, with his mind fixed upon tho business in hand, thc strain on bia nerves relaxed, and ho walked up the street and ran up thc winding iron stairs at (ho office as lightly as on that hopeful first day which now seemed so long ngo. Ho had hardly put his foot on the threshold of thc waiting room door when the old messenger stepped up to him and 6aid, "Just in time, sir. Mr. Mus gravo sent out hero for you only five minutes ago, sir, and I told him this was the first day you had missed in three weeks. I'll go at once and tell him you are here, sir"-which ho did, returning with tho mossago that Mr. Musgrave would like to sec him. "It never rains but it pours," thought Rush, as he walked eagerly to the little room. "Ah, Mr. Hurlstone, how aro you? Sorry not to havo been ablo to do any? thing for you before, but wc have been pretty well lilied up. Just at this mo? ment, however, wo aro short handed, and I want to work upa particular case at once. Do you know where tho Acad? emy of Music is?" Rush looked at Mr. Musgrave to see whether lie was joking; but ho was busily writing, and not even looking- at him. "!:i Irving place, I believe." "Quite right. Irving place and Four? teenth street. I have been informed that there i's a strike in tho orchestra. I want you to go up there and seo Mr. Maxmann and get what he has to say about it, and then seo some of the or? chestra and get their story. 'What tho Bass Drum Says,''How it Strikes the Cy m i m good head lines, eh?" Then, laying his pen down, ramming his hands into tho depths of his pockets, ar. 1 taking aim at Rush with ono eye, ho raid, "Do you know Miss Knowlton?" Rush f. It that he started, and knew by the tingling in his chi eksthat he blushed. Luckily, Mr. Musgrave was thinking Iiis own thoughts, and. although his right eye was etaring-hard at tho young man before him, his mind was upon some? thing clr.o. "? must havo an interview with Mi?3 Knowlton ou this strike: it. would bc im niense. I'll give yon an open letter from Tho Dawn, Mr. Hurlstone, and she can? not refusa: you're a persuasivo young I?.-!?., {<><>, I r.uicy.and you must d? your [>T <'t ! i< st."' Seizing a pen* he wrote in a quick, flowing hand: "Will Miss Know hon do Mr. John G:isp?*r Plann.it tt the honor of ^rivinr: his ivpnsetitalive. Mr. R. Hurlstone.the Ixv.ror, her views on the recent strike among tl;'- musicians in Mr. Maxmanu's orchestra f r publication in Tho Dawn?" ..Tina.-! I guess that y ill do lt," said Mr. Musgrave,.running his eye rapidly over 'he note. ..Nov. see how successful ! you will l>c with your first assignment. . (....( ??heAeademj llrst. You arc more j likely to lind Miss Knowlton in later in j tho day. ( J- KM! hick \<> \ on!" Rush stood a. moment in thc corridor j and read Mr. Musgraw's note carefully ! o\< r, won! by word. ..I don't think I shall ever forg? t this j day," said ho to himself asthc&lass door I clicked behind him. CHAPTER V. ^r^^&^usn nURL ^ ^^^^p ST^ON E lost ^^^^^^^^^^rough ' to find ??^?i }WW}t% Mr. Maxmann in SS? thcnttlc room l>o f?rJ^Ey?^p bind tho box of ^^$?3 ??3^?^ fice,where ho was ^^TT4"' : ^^^^-^ wiping tho foain ' ^*]\../?ffi^?r o?? a ^res^ glass of r?f^^p:''/-' lager from his ?||J|J tache. Hie day Was a rather warm one for March, and Mr. Maxmann -? small, stout man, with a very red face-had removed his collar and neck? tie, which lay oh thc table in front of him, beside Iiis beer mug. His waistcoat was unbuttoned and thrown back,reveal? ing ? not too immaculate shirt front. Rush, as soon as lie announced that ho was from The Dawn, was uslflcred into the managers presence, but was about to retreat with an apology for intruding upon his deshabille, when the little ma? sprang to his feet and embraced him in the most affectionate manner. "Gome ride in, mein 'dear young geri dlcman," said he, forcing Rush into ? chair. "Sid town and make yourself ad homo. A glass herc, you young rascal." (This to thc omeo boy.) Then, filling tho two mugs, "Your goot bel, my frient." Rush drank tho toast and explained his .business, "Yes, you rudy call it a strike, a leedle one; but I don't tink we'll haf any moro drouble. It all comes of tad flageolet of mine-such a stupid vellow. lie's ? regular agidator, and he won'd bo habby till ho gets up a row. He's sugeccded in making some of tho odders tink that they wand moro money for rehearsals^ but they don'd, and they know it. But somo mens aro never satisfied. That's ali there is: the performances will go on all ride. Do you care for music? Of course you do. ! seo you aro a young gendlo mari of taste. Here aro some tickets. Don'd ref uso mc. I nef er asked you a vavor before. Come, and bring her." And tho manager winked Iiis good nat? ured fishy gray eye at Rush, who smiled to himself as he thought who tho only "her" was. Rush thanked Mr. Maxmann for his courtesies, and had just risen to leave the room, when the door buist open and a gayly attired young woman swooped in upon them. I beg tho reader's indulgence for saying "swooped," but no other word would describe this young person's man? ner of entrance. "Ah, herc you are, papal" said she, giving tho manager a resounding kirs upon his bald head. "I was afraid you'd bo gone before I got herc; but I've been flying round like a hen on a hot griddle all tho morning-rehearsals and costum? ers; there's no rest for the wicked. Don't forget you're to take mo out to dinner to-night. You must give me a good one, too. All the exercise Pto had today has given mc an appetite and a thirst too; don't forgetthat. papa-and a thirst too." Then, suddenly discovering Hush, who was tugging ineffectually at a spring lock, "Who's the young gentleman? Why don't you introduce meir'' "You didn't give mo time. paby. Mr. Hurlstone, of Tho Dawn. Rush bowed politely. "Happy to meet you1, Mr. Hurlstone, of Tho Dawn, said tho young woman, staring boldly into his eyes, as she put out her large hand, swathed in lavender colored kids, for him to shake. "Hope you've had a satisfactory chat with papa, and that he's given you lots of items for your paper and tickets for yourself." "Year father has been very kind," said Rush. But ho had hardly said the last word when she gave vent to such a laugh as ho had never heard from tho mouth of woman before, and tho old manager's face was actually purple in his efforts to keep from bursting. "There! you've said enough," saul she, as soon as ehe could control her laugh? ter; "that's as much as I can stand for one afternoon." The ofiice l^oy entered the room at this moment. Rush' availed himself of tho opportunity to escape and bowed himself out. The manager was choking with sup? pressed laughter and tho young woman was pounding him on tho back as Rush turned to make hi3 parting bow. "Good heavens!" said tho young man to'himself as ho steped out upon the sidewalk. "I was just pitying Maxmann for having such a loud, vulgar daughter, and to think that she' ?s a matter of Choice! This is tho stage, is it? This is thu sort of man who conics in daily con? tact with Helen Knowlton. Well, she is an angel, so 1 suppose she eau walk through lira without being scorched: but, h's a pity she has to do it. If 1 had a million dollars I would send it to her anonymously and beg her to take it and retire into private life." Standing by tho stage door of tho Academy, Rush saw a group of excited men gesticulating after tho manner cf foreigners. When he came up to them ho knew at once that they vVero thc striking, musicians, among them being tho bellig? erent iiagcolet, as Rush could see by tho shane ot thc imie leather ca.se bo carried rh1 Iiis hand. ! lo at .once bogan talking with the mon, who were Very glad to tell their ; tory toa reporter, lt-was. a very different ono from'that of tho manager fie didn't want to pay them at all. they said, and vowed"that he had no money ..Mooch liku that." said the flageolet 'lie h.iva plenty money. He spend him - oh, yes, ho spend plenty fora his 1 Jolie fie oulla her." '.Snail you play to-morrow?" asked Hush. ..si, si," answered the s?v>fcosman .He pay we play. We t- ?la him he no pay we no play." Hy further questioning Rush learned that there had boen a close-approach to serious trouble at the rehearsal that morning-that the musicians, ie i hy the flageolet, had refused to go on till they got their money, and' thru Maxmann had said positively lie had not a dollar in the bank, but1 would pay them in full on the urst of the month, when he would get an assessment from tho directors. They bad heard that story before, and refused lo put any confidence in it. und would have walked "!? w iib their instru? ments linder their arms if Miss Knowl? ton had n<>t conic to the rescue and in? sisted that the Orchest ra should bo'pa id j with the ni"!iev whieh was due ber tbat I * i dav, uud which &I10 knew Maxmann \ would have ready for her, because he could not afford.to treat lieras ho had : treat?'d'th? poor musicians. ..?Noble creature!** said liush lo him- j self. "Sin? is as good us sin* is great." And to think that he w as going to see IK r. and ? iii that very day. t< .<?! 1 ie leann d from s.?;ne of the p? opie ?if tho theatre that she drove .oui with her aunt every afton:?mn on the days when she didn't sing: -iud as lids was ene of them, Rush concluded that ho would not lind lier nt home then, but that he had better call at ?er house just before dinner time, when he would be pretty sure of finding her In. This would give him time to drees, as it was not quite 5 o'clock. So he mimed over to West Eleventh "street. Never before did tliis young man dress himself with so much care. ?Io had taken his usual bath in tito morning, but lie took another, and put on the best o* everything he owned. He looked over his stock of shirts with the oyo of a Brummel Tho collar of one was too high, the collar of another too low. Fi? nally ho completed his toilet and set forth. His landlady met him in the hall "Bon jour, Mme. Pinot," ho said, gayly, as ho ran downstairs; but Mme. Pinot was so struck with his changed appear? ance that she could not find words to return his salutation, "Well," said she, ni French, for she said it to herself, "something has hap? pened; ho doesn't look like the same per? son I saw this morning." And indeed he did not. There was ? color in his cheeks and a brightness in his eye that had not beer: there in many a day. His encounter with Archie Til? linghast and his assignment from The Dawn office would have been exciting enough without this great climax. Ile lost no time in walking to West Twentieth street, but when he turned into that street and tho little gothic houses stood in all their prettiness before him, ho slackened hus speed. For a moment ho thought that lie was ill, but ho corS cluded that it was only thc effects of ari exciting day. Back and forth ho walked in front of tho houso he was so soon to enter, and could not make up his mind to pull the bell handle. "Rush Hurlstone; you're a fool!" ho finally said. "Don't you know this is business?" Then he mounted thc steps and rang tho bid!. How musically it tinkled in thc basement below! The door was opened by a man servant in livery, of whom ho demanded, "Is Miss Knowlton in?" "I will inquire if you will be good enough t > send up your Card,", replied tho man, with tho evasive answer of tb? well trained servant of a public person, at the samo time ushering Hush, who" handed him Mr. Musgravc's note of in? troduction, into a gem of a drawing room. A grand piano stood in tho mid? dle of thc room, which was adorned with! fine paintings and somo rare portraits of distinguished singers. Flowers in bas? kets and in vases filled the place with ? rich perfumo. Easy chairs and bric-a brac abounded. Tho wholo atmosphere of the roora was one of luxury and good taste. "This is her Jiome," thought Rush, looking about him; "these are the rugs lier tiny feet tread upon; these are her books; thcro stands ber piano, over whose ivory keys her ivory fingers, glide." In this way ho amused himself until he heard thc rustling of a woman's gown on the stairs. His heart stopped beating and seemed to grow- so big that bc was afraid he could not speak when sho entered. Ten thousand thoughts flow through his mind. Ho arose from his chair, and, shutting his eyes, said to himself: "When that door opens I shall see tho most divinely beautiful creature' that treads this earth; one for whom I would lio down and die-nay, moro, for whom I would stand up and live." A sort of ecstasy took possession of him. Tho door 6wung back on its hinges; ho opened his eyes and Aunt Rebecca Sandford entered the room. Rush start? ed. If ho had been struck in the face he could not have had a harder Jblow. It took him a few seconds to recover his wits. If ho had had to speak first he would certainly have disgraced himself, but Aunt Rebecca began at once. "She's very busy just at this moment" (Miss Sandford had an ugly way of say? ing "she" or "her" when she meant her niece, forgetting that there were any other shes or hers in the world), "and asked me to step down and see you, I'm very partial to press boys myself, Mr. Hailstorm" (another ugly trick cf hers was to get people's names wrong), "and I'm always glad to have a little chat with them. Take a seat, pray. You' wanted to see her about that strike. Well, now, I really don't seo how sho Could say anything on that subject. She' doesn't want to pitch into Maximum lo? calise tho man really means well: but. vdu'know, italian'?pera is an expensive luxury. That's why it's fashionable. It'll never bo popular, though, mark my words. English opera is wbat'?l f<-t rh the people. If that chil J ever sings in English opera she'll make her everlasting fortune. 1 tell her so, too; but they all haven foolish prideatxwt Italian opera, rf s nonsense, arrant nonsense. The big? gest money is in the English opera, you* mark my words.** Rush had no doubt that she was cor? ree t, 1 nit he hadn't come thereto hear Miss Rebecca Sanford's opinion of tho relative merits of English and Italian opera. He was a diplomatic young niau, however, and when he found that the prospect of seeing Miss Knowlton looked dim, ho tried all his arts. When Aunt Rebecca, who was an impulsive woman for all her shrewdness and brusque mari? ner, teamed that it was his first assign? ment she took a personal interest, and said he should "soe that child as sure as there was a Moses in the bulrushes." mid' she left the mom to fetch1 lier. This time there was no mistake. Rush beare! the clear notes of Miss Kr.owlton's' voice ns s!ie descended tho stairs, and in a moment she was advancing toward him willi her hand extended: Such a" beautiful hand, roo! lt felt like a rose' leaf as it lay in his for half a second. "I am very glad to meet you, Mr. Hurlstone, and shall be most happy if I can hi' of any service to you." Then she sat down on one side of him' (Aunt Rebecca sat on the other), an?! j "took him all in," as she afterwards loki him. She saw a tall, well made young j man with brown hair, acloar, dark skin, ami strong, white teeth that a budding mustache made no eifert to coticeal. lie was certainly handsome, and ho had an easy, na; ural manner, that was very at- ; tractive. Ahout tho strike she would rather not' j say anything, but. as he had uk? n the j trouble t/> lind lier and di 1 not want to'! go back empty handed.-she would say that, although sha did not believe in'j strikes, her sympathies were with tho strikers i u this instance. ..They did not strike for higher pay." | she said, "bat for what they had already earned I do not, l^ov/cvei*. want to ac- | cu>e Mr. Maximum. He had no inten? tion of cheating them out of their money; he only wants time. Von seo, Italian j opera is very expensive, and tue ex? penses PTO not properly apportioned. WV prime donne are not paid in thc ric, ht w iv. We should net got such largo certainties. 1 have always lull ; that a prima donna.should bo paid in proportion to her'drawing' power.-'. -a small certainty and a pei'? outage." I "Hear that child. now'" interrupted Aunt Rebecca, "you might know that < she was m artist-no head for business, j A small certainty, indeed! Who ever; hoard of such a thing?*' ! "Not a prima donna ? will venturo to say," said Helen. "No manager would be bold enough to mention tho subject in her presence." So they chatted on for fiftcn or twenty minutes. "I haye been very frank with you, Mr. Hurlstone," said Helen, "and I leavo it for you to draw tho lino between what I havo said to you and what I have said to The Dawn. I think that I am perfect? ly safe in trusting myself in your hands.''' And she gave him a look of such con? fidence that ho was quito beside himself. Both Heien and her aunt wero pleased with Rush. "When you are at tho the? atre come around and see us," said Aunt Rebecca at parting. Ho was so young and so enthusiastic that she liked him; and then he was ? "newspaper man I" Rush had a column of Tho Dawn for his story, and it was a good one. The city editor complimented him upon it, and told him to come inside the next day and he would try to find him a desk. Bo at last he had got a foothold, and his prospects seemed to* him simply dazzling. What a glowing letter he wrote homel It was to his mother, with whom he could be confidential, and the glowing was largely about Helen Knowlton. "How young men will rave over wd men on the stage!" said that good lady. "But it will blow over. I won't scold bim yet, dear boy!" And she put tho lotter carefully away in her writing desk, that "the giris" might not sec it. ITO BB CONTINUED J A Dying Man Lynched. UNION, S. C., June 25. Last Thurs? day afternoon Daniel Gallman, a yoting white man, brother of thc chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, was driving in his buggy past the house of Andrew McNight, a uegro. McNight asked Gallman tc give Iii ni a seat in bis buggy and Gallman kindly complied with his request. They had not pro? ceeded far when the uegro, for no cause whatever, kicked the dashboard o?r the buggy. Gallman told him lie would have to pay for it. NcNight thereupon became enraged, and tried to force Gallman out of the buggy. In the scuffle, Gallman got ot?t his knife aod cut the negro's throat from ear to ear. but not deep enough to produce serious j results. McNigh't then jumped out of the buggy and tried to attack G ai lin au with a stick. Gallman whipped up his horse and drove to ? neighboring house, where he procured a" shotgun. As McNight followed him, h? warned bim to stop, but the negro replied : "Fm goin' to kill yon, or yon kill nie." Gallman thereupon emptied the contents of one barrel into McNight's stomach, producing what -were ??p'posed to be fatal injuries. McNight was taken to the house of Sol. Cook, near by, wh?re he lay suffer? ing until Saturday night, when a-feor rible sequel to the tragedy occured. At a late hour that night while McNight was lying on the floor on a quilt, suffer? ing from hrs wounds, a knock was heard at the door, and immediately afterwards six masked men entered the house, and roughly picking op the wounded negro, rushed off with him down the road, about a mile and a half to a churchyard, wher? they literally riddled the poor wretch's body with gunshot an i pistol balls. He evidently died almost in? stantly. The body was discovered the next txforning. There were two shot? gun wounds in each side, as large as j one's hat, and in several other placea were pistol ball vfounds. His earrings were torn from his ears', and, in snort, he was mangled in a terrible manner. His entrails were oozing from the gap? ing wounds in his side, and it seemed, from the position tu? body was in, and j from the position of his bauds, that, as near death as he was, he attempted to keep in hrs stomach his already wouuded vitals. There is no clue to thc identity of the murderers. The verdict of the Coronet V jury was that "The deceased | came to his death by gunshot wounds io bauds of unknown perlons."-Co- j Jinnbla Register. The Railroad Mail Service. All over the country there is a perfect storm of invective and. complaint against the United iStates mail service. Every? where the mads have gone wrong, and j letters, papers and packages are we;*ks in reaching their points when only a few hours should be required for their i delivery. Some time ago a lefter plain- j ly addressed to ..Chester, S. C.," was returned to the writer with the endorse? ment that there was no such place in South Carolina. A'rfother letter reach? ed its destination after Having been on the road forty days. The Columbia Register of June 4~th reached Marion on the loth of June, elovsu days being required for a journey of a little more than one huudred milos Oh the trains j the mails are carried by the stopping points until some one accidentally finds them and fends them back on their homeward journey. They aro again j errried on and ai'atn sent back until I finally the messenger becomes weary of! their company and in desperation j throws them off anywhere, just to bo i rid cf them for a time. Complaint after complaint has gone up to tile post office department in Washington but the service grows more I inefficient every dav as mail agents rf familiar wirb the work are replaced by j new men without experience and even j without capacity and fidelity. Pub- i Mahers of newspapers arc in despair. j Day after day complaints are made that \ papers are not properly delivered. The ! publishers know, but the subscribers do ; not, thai the papers were properly made up and duly mailed and .-dioald have reached their destination at trio accus- J touted time. But the papers fail to j arrive when due, and sometimes fail to ! arrive *t all, and the publisher is blain- ! ed when the. fault is nut his The cen sure shuuld be placed where it properly belongs, on thc mail service.-Marion \ huh/. j Colton vs into ba ?g in ff is tho case now on trial bef?te the Southern farm ers. As the Manning Times says, last ye3r thc jute manufacturers forme:! a trust and raised the price Tho farm? ers were naturally incensed at it. Now ! tho cry i* down willi jute af any cost. I CVttoti or pine straw is to take its place. And we dont coe why it can't. It will co. t more ihc first year, possibly the first few years, but then it will even? tually be bold at low p?icetj. Black Jurors in the South. The most noteworthy^ criminal trials begun in the South pince the war is. , cow in progress at Charleston. Thet; '. most noteworthy feature of the trial, ia \ the jury, of five w?ite ?'nd seven black " member?. ' . . 1 Had a novelist a generation ago. \ depicted a fictitious trial scene in. ?. ; Southern court in which tue fate of a: k white prisoner was in the hands of. * colored jurors the production would ha7e leen criticised as absurdly im?, probable. Had a statesman prior t?>; " the war pred'ct-td that ?he jory box. would be thrown open throughout the. South to blacks before the close of tbisV century he would have been voted a fa? na ic dreaming of Utopia. Yet in the year 1389, in Charlestone where the first gun was fired in defence^ of African slavery, we see a prominent white citizen on trial for the murder of another well known white eititeny while the greater number of the "twetee.*? peers'* to whom the prisoner appeala.. for mercy, if not justice, , are drawt^ from the colored race. These Dlacl?. jurors are there by law, in the enjoy? ! nient of an equal right with fhe?r ?feite?J colleagues. But it is Hardly less^fiigr,'? nificant to note that they are there also .. by choice of the prisoner. For he.,, deliberately accepted them \\i preference to white jurors, when he might have' rejected them by peremptory challenge..: Mixed j aries in the South are no: novelty. But we recall no such case . as this one-a sensational murder trial,, where the prisoner is and his victim was . a prominent white citizen, and the jurors stand seven blacks to five whites..'' Such a thing was hardly possible in the South even a dozen years ago. The emancipation proclamation o? President Lincoln converted black slaves into black freemen, and the, thirteenth amendment, adopted it> December, 18(55, abolished slavery, forever in the United States. But even then the negro was hot a citizen anet, had no civil or political rights. Not only was he shut out from office and'* barr?d from the polls, bat courts of-, justice were practically closed to him.. He could not enter the jury box or take, the witness stand. Ile could not sue or enforce ? contract. He was the. victim of barbarous discrimination under both civil and criminal iaw. He was. denied the privileges enjoyed by white : persons in pqblic conveyancer, hotel? and places of amusement. By reasori of his color he suffered more severe punishment than a white criminal for the same offence. The fourteenth amendment, adopted^ in 1868, was designed to change ali this. That great charter made tho negro a citizen and clothed him with civil rights. In everything pertaining: to civil status ii abolished the color Une, and declared that no discrimination should be made against a colored person.. It took the negro from the grap'p \Vf. State power and put him under the pr?? tec?ton of the national government.* Exempt from slavery by the thirteenth, amendment and clothed with citizenships and civil rights by the fourteenth, ne' was still without political rights-the*, right to vote and hold office. This was", secured by the fifteenth amendment, ra 1870. jrf Bat while the right to sit on juries* was guaranteed to colored citizens'Tu 186*5 by the fourteenth, amendment," it. was not then fully secured. For yeat^ afterward colored or mixed j a ries wera unknown in parts at least of the Southe \ tn some States blacks Were systemati-^ cally excluded from the jury "box either by statute or by action of jury officers. This was done in Virginia ;,:3ud West Virginia as late as 1879, and both States claimed the right to do it in spite of the fourteenth amendment. In that year the United States Scprcmc Court held that under the I4?h amend C mont no color distinction cr.n be made id j empanelling juries. Black jurors can ? .not be expressly selected nor can the? be expressly excluded. Jurors must be chosen without regard t<7 color. That decision of thc Supreme Coori embodies" the law under which the jur$: to try Dr. 3?cD'ow for the murdor.of . Captain Dawsou was empanelled in 'Charleston. . . : Yet it i> just ten year.? sTuc^the tega? - possibility of snell a jury"?vas "dei'i?tf*r?j[ at lea*t. two Southern States.A7". ? Herald. *<* *i "The Wildest Sclieme of W l?ge." . \ The Boston Civil Service Record",, four of whose board of seven'editors vottd for l?a rr ison, gives it as itsoprir iou that the present distribution of JMUT ronnge * may be called, without exag? geration, the wildest scheme of anar? chy aud pillage of government offices ?that Has been presented to thc eyes <?t" the younger generation.*'. Up to May IS, u points OUT, there bad becu 9". new appointments, against ody 2,'JnO for the same time auder Cleveland. At,. : this rate only sixteen' months wnult* he... required to make an absolue ly cl*?Ji**:{l sweep of everybody ia ellice on M ?rs?,, t. lu one week more fourth-class pe>ita masters have been chanced in Jndutra* than in the whole year ending june 5v. I'SS'S' -WM - Gen. Longstreet's Luck- ., jColoncl Jack Brown, who is . wi Washington, D C., on business c.on-; nectcd with politics, tells a curious story of how a big loss brought big wealth to General Longstreet. The barning of, the general's house acd his finding gold., on his plantation have already Jheen,. tvdd Colonel Brown says: "After tne fire the workmen were engaged in clear-, iiig away the ruins, and in a hopeless sort of way looking tc see if anything could*be saved. While at work, with pick and shovel they struck a gold mine on the site of the destroyed home? stead. Further investigation, assays,' ere. have disclosed that is a gold mine of great richnes. General Longstreet' and his family are raised from the der pression of a loss they could ill afford! to tlc prospect-the actual possession-of wealth. There is gold throughout all that region of Georgia.'* A dispatch from Wa-diiugtcn says President Harrison has dismissed t??w-' kins, his colored coachman, and eta-, ployed a white man in his place?*-^?W*-" kt us was the last colored >;persoQ ? .^ix-" pionca 0.1 thc;;White ilou>fc.