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ttUMTJEK WATCHMAN, established April, 1850. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THE TRUE SO?THROW, Established June, 1190 STJMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1891. New Series?Vol. X. No. 29. ' * ??MT?Ml, S. C. -ga^cs?*?- T?MIfr"?* Two Dollars per annum?in advance. ADV?8.TI8IMUT8. One Square, firstrinsertioe.......-?...$1 00 Svary subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will bs made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserveprivate interests will be charged for atrad vertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect .will be charged for. STJ|JN? -SIDE PO?tTBY Y1 EGGS FOR SETTING IN SEASON Jrosn the following thoroughbred strains; - ?GBT BRAHMAS. ITH ROCKS B?FF COCHINS. BLACK MD?ORCA3. SINGLE CC ilB -BROWN LEGHORNS SINGLE COMB WHITS LEGHORNS. Pn?of Eggs : $1.50 for 15 ; $2.50 for 30. Afttifeto poeltey raising witL valuable receipt for core of Cholera and Hoop given with each purchase of eggs. H^B.?Leghorns sod Black Minorcaa have ^e?(j^aais>eTa.- * ? Address or call on W. B MURRAY, Detr24 ~ ~- - * -?mter, S. C. H. A. HOTT, v Successor to : fe <S a i. BOYT & BRO. Sold and Silver Watches. FINE DIAMONDS. ?esta, "OwWdry, Spoctaclcs, HERIDIiN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, 4c REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Febl -AND NEW GOODS. To accommodate my largely increased ^and increasing busi ness, ?^re^ removed to the handsome and commodious new Brick Store next to John Reid's, tfppbafe~my old stand, where I can now be found with a stock of DIAMONDS, Watctes, Clocks^ Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, SPECTACLES, &c, surpassing in brilliancy, extent and variety any stock of the kind ever shown in this city, with daily additions of new at tractions. Thanking mj friends sod the public generally for the very liberal patronage bestowed on me at my old stand, I hope to merit a continuance of the si>me, and I hereby extend to all a cordial invita tion to pay me a visit at my new stand, where, with a larger stock and increased facilities in every way 1 am better pre* pared than ever to eater to their wants. Don't forget the place, BEID'S BLOCK. MAIN ST., SUMTE?, S. Ca Yoors, anxioas to please, L W. F0L80M. Everything in the line of repairing done as heretofore. Oct 8 ?nrtained. and ail PATKNT Jtl^iNASS at tended to (or JtOf.'ZZA TE FEES Our office is opposite the V.S. I'au-nt Office, and we can ob tain I*atenta i? les? time than th<*e remote from WASHING TOS. Send MODEL. 1 WAKING or PHOTfant inxentiot?. Mfeadvwe as to jutent ability free of chaire and We make NO CHARGE UNLESS PA TEST IS SE* ? UED. For circular, advice, term* and references to actual cHenta In y??nr??wn State. r??*inty. < if y or ?owu, write to C.A*S:N0W.&0Q Opposite Paient Office. Washington, D C REAL ESTATE AGENCY. THE UNDERSIGNED has established a Real Estate and Collection Agency in Sumter and desires property holders having property for sale or rent to list same with him. Tenants secured and rents collected promptly. Best references given. Office on Main Street at T. B. Curtis' store. Apr. 3*. W.H.COMMANDER. FOR SALE. ?LSON LOT, WITH TWENTY-ONE Acres adjoining, in Statebarg. Terms modtrate. Apply to ' WM. H." PARKER, Jr., Attorney a*. Law, Jan 25 Charleston, S- C. TBE SIMOKDS NATIONAL BANfi, of s um ter. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital ' U . . . . $75,000 00 Surplus Fund . . . . . . 7,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. r SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. - Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, Vice President. L. S. Carson, A ug. 7 . Cashier* _ THE BAP Iii! SUMTER* S C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also be8 A Savings Bank Department Deposits of $K00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSW0RTHr A. White, Jr., President. Cashier. Aujr 21. J. F. W. DeLOKMG, Agent* -DEALER IN DRUGS & TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KKPT IN A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORK. Tobacco, Snuff and Segars, GARDEN SEEDS, &C5 Paints, Oils, Varnishes, OJ.ASS, PUTTY, &c. DYE STUFFS. Physician's Prescriptions carefully zompounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. -The public-.will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genu ine, and of the best quality. . Call and see for yo u reel v es. Fox Infants and Children. Castoria promote* Digestion, and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep natural. Castoria contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. " Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known tome.". EL A. Archer, M. D 211 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. "I use Castoria in my practice, and find it specially adapted to affections of children." Aus. Robertson, iL D? 10573d Ave., New York. "From personal knowledge and. observation I can say that Castoria is ar. excellent medicine for children, acting as a laxative and relieving the pent up bowels and general system very much. Many mothers have told me of its ex cellent effect upon their children." Da. G. a Osgood, Lowell, Mass. Thr Ckktaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. Salaria, Dumb Chills, Fever and Ague, Wind Colic, Bilious Attacks. They produce veralsr, natural evac uations, never gripe or interf?ra wUti daily business. As a family med leine, they should be in every household. SQU> EVERYWHERE. CATARRH COLDEST wfever; Ely's Cream Bal m Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Al lays Inflammation. Heals the Sores. Restores the Senses of Taste, Smell and Hearing. A particle is applie? Into each nostril aad Is agreeable. Price 50c. a t Drwft-giata or by " ELY EROT?IERS,56 Warren St ?New York. Siinir little forttmea hare been made at w irk for u?. ?iy Alma Annita, Tevaa, and Juo. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio. |i>ee cut. Othrr* are doingaa well. Why ?t you? Xome ? ? rn over *5?>0.00 a ?onth. Y ?u cau do th? work and live it home, wltrr^rrryou are. Even he 'jrinuer* are eaaily rumine from $5 to * IIa I la y. All atrra. We nhotv you how and atari you. Can work in ?t>aro (into or all th? time. Bijr monry for work ers. Failure unknown tmonf tbrm. NEW a ml wonderful. I'artirulara free. W.HLatlettafe CohBoz ?*?0 .Portland, Maine M0G0.00 a yra, ta belnr made by John R. Coodwln.1 roy,X.Y.,at work for ut. Reader, you aiay not truika aa morel, hut we can teach you quickly how to ram fron f 5 to SIS a < I ?y at the atart, and worr-as you go r-n. Both arxee, all apea. In any j.nn of America, you can commence at hotna, a^r ?na; all your tiote.or apare momenta only to the work. AU ia new. Oreat j.ay 81KK for every worker. We atart voe. furniahing verythinr. KA81I.Y, Sl'EEMLY learned. I-ARTICIXAKS FREE. Addreac at once, smsox a CO., i*ortlam>, j?i.nk G. W. DICK, D. B. S. Office over Bogin's New Store, ENTRANCE ON MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours.?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sent 8 Dr. T. W. BOOKHART, DENTAL SURGEON. Office over Bult man k Bro.'s Shoe Store " ENTRANCE ON MAIN STRKET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hoars?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Lpril 17?0 Beatrixmm. By JULIAS HAWTHOKNE ' Cof'jrigbt, 1890, by An-erican Press Association.] lCOXTmJKD.l SYNOPSIS. In Chaptkr 1 Gen Inigo, a prominent im presario, confides to Hamilton Jocelyn, a man about town, tbat Marana, a Russian prima donna, engaged at enormous expense to open his new opera house in New York, has cabled that she cannot keep her contract. Jocelyn offers to find an acceptable substitute at once. Chapter 2 introduces to the reader Beatrix Randolph, a thorongbiy trained amateur, possessing a remarkable voice and struggling under financial and social reverses. She lives with her widowed father on heavily in cum bered estates np the Hudson. Chaptbb 3 brings Gen. Inigo and Jocelyn, who is an old acquaintance of the Randolphs, to their retired homestead, and Beatrix is en gaged at a large salary to impersonate Ma* rana, using the Russian's name. I? Chapter 4 Mr. Geoffrey Belli ogham, a rising young architect, who is superintending work on the new opera house, suggests some changes to Gen. Inigo and wins a high com pliment. ?n Chapter 5 Jocelyn, acting as a friend of all concerned, arranges temporary quarters for Beatrix in New York and secures a chaperon for ber, inadvertently showing him self to be a man of shady antecedents, living by his wits. CHAPTER VL SOCIETY ENTSKTAJNS THE NEW DIVA. The Cadwalader Dinsmores are peo ple such as can exist (as a social fact) nowhere bot in America, and, indeed, in New York. Mr. Dmsmore (called WafJie Dinsmore by iyerj one who knows him) is a man of paramount though rm obtrusive usefulness. He is? or for the sake of the unities let us say !>e was?a gentleman of medium size, plain exterior and remarkable quiet ness of speech and demeanor. He wfj> like the heart of peace in the midst of the fashionable social whirlwind, the undemonstrative center of all demon strations, the reposeful culmination of all activities. To say that he knew everybody and everything, not only that everybody else knew, bat that every body else would like to know, bat im perfectly expressed his accomprbhments. He lived in New York, but he was at home in all countries and in-all socie ties, and occasionally was met with in an. He was about forty-two years of age, bat looked younger, having light hair and a subdued reddish complexion, and ho seemed, when you considered his ex perience and serenity, indefinitely or in fact mfmitely older. He had unexcep tionable manners, was genial, kindly, gently humorous and insensibly enter taining. He never was detected making an effort, and he never forbore an effort to be obliging. He was as accurate as a pendulum, and as versatile as a conti nent. He could neither play, sing, act, make a speech, write a book, nor paint a picture; but no one knew better than he how all these things ought to bo doce, or was more sympathetically appreci ative of others' attempts to do them. He smiled easily, but always as if he Gave her hand ?rst to Mrs. Cadwalader. could not help it. His laugh was a low, contagious chuckle, and seemed to sug gest an unexpected charm and drollery in life, There was a manly, masculine look and quality about his plain face and ordinary figure, and In the tone and utterance of his voice. Ton felt that there was substance in him when re quired?that he was by no means a phantom of conventions and escapes? that, when everything else had been eliminated from him, a gen&eman would remain. He was a great favorite with women and with children, and his relations with the former were just as cordial and sim ple as with the latter. If yon dropped in to see him during a morning you were sure to find a number of men whom it was particularly worth while to meet, sitting about in the easy chairs and smoking Walhe's famous cigars and cigarettes. He had a fine old fashioned house down m West Twenty-third street and plenty of money, which he knew how to- spend; that is, he was both generous and economical. Bat the most remarkable thing about W&nie Dinsmore was that, instead of being in fact the bachelor uncle of so- [ ciety that he was in spirit, he was actu ally and conspicuously married. Mrs. Cadwalader Dinsmore (they never called her Mrs. Wallie) was a few years older than her husband and weighed about fifty pounds more than he. She was mighty and imposing, convincing and memorable. Upon her massive counte nance, which had the texture and hue of ' the finest pink-and-white enamel, was axed immutably a gracious smile, which ] served to condense, as it were, into man ageable dimensions the else too ponder ous acreage of her cheeks and to refine 1 the contour of her scarlet lips. Her ] hair, of a dense yellow hue, without a 1 thread of gray, was arranged in an in- 1 scrutable manner, upon what might be 1 termed the cylindrical principle; it re- i sembled a carving in varnished maple; 1 it looked brittle. i As for her figure, Mrs. Cadwalader 1 might have stood for the capstan of a I 1 three decker, round which the jovial 1 seamen trip as they heave the mighty 1 anchor. Her voice^neanwhile, was small, ] soft and caressing, and she regarded i ber interlocutor with a glance of indui- ' arent coquetry, as if to mitigate the ter- 1 ror of her proportions, though it really rendered them only more alarming. Nor j was her usual talk, as might have been i expected, about devouring quarter i beeves, or causing earthquakes, or obi it- < ?rating populations, but about embroid- < ?red handkerchiefs, and summer zeph- > prs blowing on wild roses and the holi- i i aess of infants' slumber. Was she, then, | i % sardonic humorist, or a fool buried j dive in flesh? No; she was a hard \ 1 ?iearted, practical, shrewd woman, with 1 sharp eyes, a politic disposition and un- ! 1 relenting d?termination. j 1 The fact that she was not of aristo- ' \ ;ralic or indeed discoverable lineage f may have sharpened her claws, so to 1 ?peak, and steeled her heart; she had 1 bad to fight her own way, and was a lit- I tie too much alive to tho value of the ? worldly objects she had striven for. The most telling success she had ever scored was, of coarse, her marriage with Wal lie Dmsmore. How she contrived it is not known; bat it mast have been, in every sense, easier to embrace her fifteen years ago than now. Wallie was the most humane of mankind, generously appreciative of everything except bis own value. At any rate the thing took place, and Mrs. Cadwalader proved to be an admirable and substantial wife. She made war upon none of his hob bies; she broke up none of his habits; she sacrificed none of his bachelor friends; she kept oat of his way except when she could be of ose to him, and then she was always ready. She made him pay, as the vernacular hath it, bat she let it cost him nothing. In short, though she and her husband had almost no tastes or traditions m common, they were completely in harmony, had no children, and were a model of New York domestic virtue, happiness and prosperi ty. It is no small thing for a husband to be able to affirm that his wife has not had bis study dusted for a week, nor launched even an oblique criticism at Ms African lemur. Such as they were the Cadwaladcr Dmsmores made up their minds to ex tend the right hand of hospitality to Mite. Marana. Mrs. Cadwaladcr called on her m person, and Wallie, as a mat ter of course, in the shape of his name .written on a piece of pasteboard. The diva's acceptance having been secured the other invitations were issued, and the day arrived. "You will have to put in an appear ance," said Wallie to Geoffrey BelHng ham during the previous week. "You built the opera house, and decency de mands it.** "The more reason why not," the archi tect replied. "I should have to be intro duced, and I don't care for it." "You will have to come," the other re peated calmly. "Do y?u want the wo man to be disrespectable?'* "It*8 none of my business." "It is. A woman is what her asso ciates arc. If respectable people don't receive her they are to blame if she cuts up." "If she were a novice?but she's no torious r "You affect Phariseeism in imitation of your Puritan ancestors. But this poor girl is neither a witch nor a Quaker. Her notoriety comes from her genius; the rest is mere hearsay, which it's none of your business to attend to. . I intend that she shall leave New York without a spot on her reputation, and you must bear a hand. Otherwise you're not the fellow I took you for." Wallie knew Be?lingbam better and had more influ ence over him than any one else, and the end of it was that Bellinghaus con sented to come. There were less than twenty persons at the dinner. The dining room walls were of a soft Indian red hue, the wood work being mahogany and maple. The Sowers on the table were yellow and blue. The room was lighted by tinted wax candies, each provided with a little colored shade. Everything looked cool, fresh and sweet. The host and hostess received their guests in the adjoining drawing room. By previous arrange ment Mile. Marana and Mrs. Bemax were the first to arrive. The diva was dressed in something white, of a lithe and feathery effect, giving the impres sion of a beautiful great bird. Her heart was up, for this was her first ir revocable step in her assumed personal ity. She was a high spirited girl, and having entered upon her course she had laid aside fear and irresolution. Whatever she did she would do with her might. Such a vision of parity and loveliness as she was did not often en ter a New York drawing, room. She gave her hand first to Mrs. Cadwalader and then to Wallie, The latter grasped it cordially, and seemed about to say something, but suddenly checked him self, and looked at her with an odd. per plexed expression, like a man who is taken by surprise. Doubtless so much beauty would be a surprise to any one. After a moment's hesitation he said, "I'm glad to welcome you to this coun try, mademoiselle. I hope you will learn to feel like an American as much as you already look Hke one.'* ' Thank you; if it is American to feel happy then I am one," she answered, and it was observable as she spoke that this foreign lady's pronunciation was re markably accurate. Wallie forbore to make the observation, however; he only took his chin between his thumb and forefinger with a quietly smiling look. Mrs. Cadwalader said: "What deli cious lace, Mademoiselle Marana! It is like frost work on ivory. Will you take a cup of teaf Mile, Marana declined, and presently the other guests began to arrive. There was Mr. Barcliffe, a wool mer chant, but for social purposes an ama teur composer. He was a small, slender, lively man, with gray hair and an im mense gray mustache, like a great bar across the lower part of his face; he had the air of always standing on tiptoe to peep across this bar with a sportive, twinkling expression. There w?is Mr. Bidgood, a rosy, roistering, spherical personage, bald headed and short of breath; he smiled at you with a pene trating look, as if there were a private joke between yon and himself which it would not do to mention. There was Mr. Grasmere, tal\ courtly and romantic, with a resonant voice and an occasional gleam from beneath his upper eyelids, as if Ins soul were kindling within him. He had been a lawyer by profession, bat had married well, and ?vas now the proprietor of an artistic weekly. There was Mr. Knight, a dis tinguished politician with fresh com plexion, clear cut features, powerful black eyes azA snow white hair; his bearing was covertly condescending, as though he were reluctant to have you realize how greatly he was your supe rior. There was Mr. Damon, also white haired and white bearded, a somewhat 1 unsuccessful publisher, but gifted with i warm iieart, a keen wit and a bitter tongue. Thero was a certain unconven tional wrath and heat about him, mixed ; with laughter and mockery, and noth- ' ing seeined to delight him so much as to 1 ?hock a fastidious person or to bully a iiumbug. There was Mr. Plainter, a gentleman ill profile and eyeglasses, with a grat ng voice, a retentive memory and an < nsatiabie earnestness. He was presi- 1 lent of the American branch of the So ciety for the Scientific Investigation of Supernatural Phenomena, and his nor nal condition was one of high argument j ,nd exposition. He spoke of himself as *we," and of the rest of the world as 1 4you"?imparting to that pronoun an in onation significative of bigotry and ' uvjudicc. His neck projected forward, md his figure was thin and curved like j he new moon. There was Mr. Beau- j ort, once a clergyman, now an actor, a j argo headed, small bodied man, with a j rig nose and deep set eyes, extremely j rraceful and deliberate m his attitudes i : md gestures, wearing in_repoge_ an ex pression of thoughtful melancholy, as if reflecting that ha had been a clergyman, but brightening, when addressed, with a smile of almost excessive sweetness, as if remembering that he was an actor. Such of these gentlemen as possessed wives were accompanied by them, but tho latter were for the most part like the engravings of ladies in fashion pa pers?though their faces might be pret ty, it was the dresses you looked at and recollected. When an American lady is distinguished at all she is apt to appear almost too much so. Not to mention the hostess of the evening, there were, for example, Mrs. March, of the Wom en's Political association, slim, erect, holding her elbows close to her sides, with a tight business mouth and yearn ing, melancholy eyes; possessing an in sufferable command of language, en hanced by a faculty of seeming te re press more than she Tittered'; Miss K?r ner, of German extraction, wtth short, sandy hair, pale, prominent eyes, a snub nose and protruding jaw; her volubility was as great as that of Mrs. March, and her rapidity greater; but whereas the former lady's conversation was mainly explanatory and argumenta tive. Miss Komer's was interrogator}* and anecdotical; Mrs. Bright, a beauty, the wife of a wealthy brewer, holding herself as if she were on horseback, rush ing at a topic or an enterprise as if it were a five barred gate, and forgetting it the next moment, headstrong, enthu siastic, blase; she had embraced Her bert Spencer during the last season, and reproduced him in jets and sparkles; Mrs. Musgrave, the dramatic reader. But why continue? The peculiarity of New York society is that no two people are alike; you have to focus yourself anew for every person you meet; where as abroad the difficulty is to distinguish Mr. Smith from Mr. Brown and Mrs. Jones from Mrs. Robinson. People there seem to be born, bred and molded in platoons; the various social grades each has the same traditions, the same pros pects, the same resources, the same top ics of conversation, the same tailors, and the same faces. 3ut in New York we have not settled down yet; our people have what may be called a New York look, but there is no New York type?the former being a trick of facial expression merely; the latter a matter of feature and struct ure. But we are preparing to people a hemisphere, while the European nations have to pack themselves together like sardines in a box, or pickles in a jar, mathematically, economically and ir revocably, and by natural selection have long since lost their elbows and idiosyn crasies. We are all elbows on this side of the water, especially since we have ceased any longer to be all fists and shoulders. In addition to the guests above men tioned there were several of our older acquaintances?Gen. Irdgo, Hamilton Jocelyn and Bellingham. When dinner was announced Wallie Dinsmore took in Mile. Marana and seated her at his right hand, and it turned out that Bel lingham sat next below her, much to his displeasure. He told himself that he owed Wallie one. On the other side of him sat Mrs. Bright, whom, indeed, he had taken into tie table. The other gentlemen thought that Bellingham had nothing to complain of. Mrs. Bright, who could interest herself about almost anything, provided it did not last more than an hour or so, noticed that her ccmpanion was good looking, and deter mined to exploit him on the subject of architecture. She had read Ruskin's "Stones of Venice,*' and had seen classic and mediaeval antiquities abroad. Accordingly she rode at him with great dash and courage, and at first he answered her graciously enough. Be fore long, however, he perceived that she did not know the meaning of her own information, and then he became laconic Young Mrs. Bright, on the oth er hand, was not accustomed to rebuffs, and Bellingham's reticence only stimu lated her enterprise. She sparkled on like cataract in a rainbow, determined that he should fall in love with her at any rate. Meanwhile his other ear was be ing visited occasionally by the low and varied music of a voice the freshest and most melodious, he thought, he had ever listened to. At times, too, as the dishes were passed, the lovely speaker would lean toward lorn, so that her soft white plum age brushed his shoulder. The Ma rana and Wallie were having a most en tertaining conversation. It was not about architecture, and yet Bellingham felt attractc d by it Wallie was smiling and chuckling, and ever and anon mak ing some pithy or arch remark. The diva seemed to be attempting to describe the mental visions which certain kinds of music called up for her. At last she said, "The end is like 'the awful rose of dawn,' and it seems to keep unfolding more and more, but the twilight darkens between, and you can only feel that the great flower blooms at last in the morn ing of the other world." At the same moment Mrs. Bright was saying to Bellingham: "In that way, dont you see, the second and third boxes would have just as good a view of the stage as the first, and yet. the parquet wouldn't lose anything. Now, isn't that 1 a nice plan?" Either Bellingham had not heard her or else he didn't think it worth while to 1 answer. He turned to the young diva and said, "That must be Beethoven." Wallie's eyebrows went up. He had been quietly watching Bellingham, and had been much amused by his evident 1 distraction and final surrender. He ' asked Mr. Knight, in the second seat on his left, whether it were true that Grant intended to found a college of politics in 1 Mexico, and left the young people to ar- i range themselves as they liked. ' Mrs. Bright turned pale, took up a ' silver pepper box, and overwhelmed her croquette de volaille with red pepper, i Blinded by her indignation, she was on 1 the point of putting a piece of the highly i eondimented viand in her mouth, when ' Gen. Inigo, who was on her loft, and i who had been assimilating his nourish ment with knife, fork and forefinger, j and vast enjoyment of champing and deglutition, hurriedly set down the glass 1 of sherry he was raising to his lips, and with great good nature arrested the 1 vonng lady's hand by laying bis own 1 fat paw upon it. "My dear madam," 1 he exclaimed with his unctuous Hebraic 3r*wl, "would you commit suicide at a ' table like this?" } "Oh, I'm awfully obliged," returned 1 Mrs. Bright, really feeling so on more i u-ccounts than one, though she had never k before l>een able to endure that horrid free and easy impresario. She over- ? came her repugnance, and recouped her- 1 self for Bellingham's scant courtesy by i extracting whole hogsheads of it from " the ample reservoirs of her other neigh- < bor. After all it amounted to the same i thing. So a woman receives attention, ? it is small odds whence it comes. t Bellingham and the diva meantime < had taken a short cut to a mutual under standing, and would have been ;?stoH- 1 ished, had they stopj^Jojthmkjtbout c. It,- at the vistas of sympathetic feeling that were opening up before- them. Sun shine arose on their way, and they rambled orrward at their wiB. To talk with the prima donna on a subject that attracted her was like drawing har monies from some exquisite instrument She responded to the lightest touch, and you could see the promise and invitation of music in her face before you spoke. Bellingham forgot that this was the woman-whose adventures and audacities everybody had been discussing for weeks past; she was to him a delicious outlet for a part of his nature which he had heretofore repressed even when by him self ; so the seed first discovers itself in the earth, and the flower in the sunlight When, half an hour ago, he had been presented to Mile. Marana in the draw ing room he had felt that she was beau tiful, but remembered that she must be repellent, and had passed on without a second look. She, on the other hand, had been sensitive to his hostility, toM herself that he looked cross and frigid, and thought it fortunate that he was an architect instead of a singer, liable to appear with her on the stage. But now, under the mingled persuasion of happy accident and the genial stimulus of lights, company and the table, their averted regards had unawares turned to accord- au accord which might prove temporary, uut was certainly delightful. It was strange to both of them, but with the sort of strangeness that seems like a sweet familiarity till now forgotten. Now they would let air and warmth into the secret chambers of their minds; now they could read the answer to their spiritual riddles in each other's face. At the other end of the table Mrs. Cadwalader was prospering blithesome! y with Mr. Grasmere on ono hand an* Mr. Barclyffe on the other. The conver sation was of an-aesthetic cast?would the Wagnerian method of musical com position prevail, and if so, would not music ultimately be chargeable with in fringing on the preserves of the other arts? Mr. Barclyffe, propping np his mustache occasionally with his napkin, was of opinion that music was the soul and reconciliation of ?11 the arts, and that a knowledge of music would hence forth be indispensable to enable the painter, the sculptor and the poet to do their work intelligently. "As to archi tecture," added he, "we all know that in its higher manifestations it has been termed frozen music." "Some of Wag ner's music that I have heard," retorted Mr. Grasmere, "was dry enough to be called harmonized hay lofts." This epigram was overheard by Mr. Damon at the center of the table, and he immediately called out, "There's a portrait of Grasrnere down at the club that is said to have been painted to the tune the old cow died of.** Hereupon Mr. Bidgood burst into a hearty laugh, and observed that the old cow probably died from feeding on the harmonious hay loft Mr. Grasmere, who was prob ably of Scotch extraction, drew himself up to his full height and said to Mrs. Cadwalader, with a gleam from beneath his eyelids, that such men as the last two speakers did more than vice or igno rance to delay civilization. Mrs. Cad walader smiled with scarlet lips, and said in her small, caressing voice, "The proprietor of the 'Professional Amateur' cannot believe that civilization is de layed." If there was any further (lange - of a breach of the peace it was averted by the action of Wallie, who now arose in his place and proposed the health of the guest of the evening. "Though our guest to-night" he said, "she is a host in herself; and if she was bom in a foreign land, we all know that some of the tru est Americans have never set foot in the United States." The toast having been drunk with much cordiality, Wallie added, "I didnt learn that speech by heart, ladies and gentleman, but that is where it came from." When the applause had subsided there was a pause, and the prima donna per ceived with a beating heart that every body's eyes were fixed upon her, as if ex pecting a reply. She cast a dismayed look at Bellingham, but his eyes were cast down, and an expression of coldness had suddenly overspread his face. She <lrew a long breath, and rose, wrth a soft rustle of her white dress, and glanced down the table. She heard the clapping of hands, and saw Jocelyn smiling and nodding encouragingly, and Inigo ham mering the table and beaming unctu ously. The thought passed through her mind, "I am not myself; they are ap plauding some one else." Instead of dis concerting her, this thought gave her self possession. 4*Ladies and gentlemen," she began, "I did not loam a speech; where I came from we did not make them. Some time I shall sing you my thanks. But 1 feel now how kind you are. A little while ago I knew nothing of you, and now we art friends! Your belief in me will help me to deserve it. All this seems hardly real to me?ns if it were not possible. It is not I who speak to you, but the music, that is the reason of my being here. And yet I should like to have you like me for myself?else I should feel very lonely. I have only my music to take the place of my mother and my father. It is a great deal, I know, but not quite everything. And I cannot help feeling almost as if it stood between me and you. It is a disguise that I must wear, and I know that the disguise is better than what is beneath it." Here her eye happened to encounter Jocelyn's. He was gazing at her appar ently in much anxiety, and his li\ s seemed to be forming some voiceless words. The prima donna did not know what he meant but she stopped and re flected that she was thinking aloud in stead of making a speech, and that wliat 5he was thinking had more reference to the blue eyed man with the brown beard who sat on her right than to any one else in the room; whereupon a blnsh rose to ber face, she murmured something hardly 1 irticulato, and 6at down. Everybody ?niled and applauded and seemed to be I much pleased. i "My God, what an actress!" muttered , Mr. Beaufort to his neighbor, Mrs. March. ; "The delicious audacity of that last sen tence was inimitable!" "She must be very clever," returned , :he lady, veiling lier business mouth arith the bouquet she carried; "but how rcry noticeable her foreign ?accent is!" "Ach! well, my dear, it has been a 1 ong time before I could come to dalk so us one would not know I was German," i rat in Miss K?rner charitably. "Made noiselle shpeak very well for a be- < nnner." I "They say the Russians are a very tnperstitious people," remarked Mr. Plainter, putting up his eye glasses; "I ( nust remember to ask Miss Marana ivhether she has ever investigated any | of the phenomena. She looks like a ' nedium herself: I should like to investi- 1 rate, under rigorously scientific tests, ho range and quality of her abnormal i opacities." j "Since meeting Mile. Marana," said ; , tfr. Knight, addressing Wallie, but gr;i- ' riouslv pitching his voice so as to be over heard by the ?Tva, "T ho longer marvel at Russian despotism. I should be a slave myself were I her countryman? I nay, my slavery has begun even as it far "By George! old fellow,* whispered Jocelyn aside to the general, "hanged if I didn't tliink for a moment the giri was going to give us awayr "Don't you believe it," tti general mumbled in reply. "She a going to give us away, nor give ht-self away, neither?not to you, anyhow, and don't you forget it!" Tile dinner came to an end, the ladies withdrew, and the gentlemen presently followed them to the drawing room. People were already arriving for the reception, and the room was getting crowded. A number of immaculate young gentlemen, in tight fitting even ing drees, were reaching over their shirt collars to get a grknpse of the rxrtorions* Marana. There was on rminjermitteirt buzz of talk that made H difficult to hear anything that was said. The la dies were numerous and brilliantly dressed, but many of them looked a little uneasy, as if they suspected they were assisting at a somewhat hazardous enterprise. The prima donna wore on her breast a locket set with diamonds that had belonged to her mother. "Say, Wittnau," said one of the young gentlemen above mentioned to another, "did you notice the locket?" "Haven't been able to get up to her yet, confound it! Does she speak En glish?" "Pretty well, I believe; I spoke French with her. Pull of the dev?T "What about the locket?" "Given to her by the czar of Russia, before ho came into the business." "By Jove! Say, does a fellow have to be introduced, or can you go right up and talk to her?" "Oh, sail in! She won't mind. These women always like to be taken by storm!" So Mr. Witman struggled for ward to try his luck as a stormer. Bellingham, after wandering about restlessly in the crowd trying to keep his back turned toward the diva, and finding himself, nevertheless, constantly brought up within a few feet of her, at length made up his mind to go home But just as he was on the point of bid ding adieu to Mrs. Cadwalader some one struck a chord on the piano, a hush fell upon the assembly, and it became evident that the Marana was going to sing. And there she stood at the piano, the pure loveliness of her countenance looking across the crowd, and looking at him. He folded his arms and stood still, and no one bat he knew that she sang to him. When the song was over there was 8 great stir of admiration and surprise and comment; for though everybody hail ex pected something very good nobody Took her hand, looked to her eyes and mid, "Good nigTUr seemed to have anticipated that it would be good precisely m the way it was; and they all tried to express what they thought in suitable language, with in different results. It takes the world some time to formulate its opinion accurately about a new thing. As for Bellingham, whatever he may have thought, he ex pressed nothing. He simply pushed his way through the throng that surrounded the singer, took her hand, looked in her eyes and said, "Good nightf Strange to say this uncerem?niona behavior seemed to satisfy her: a glow of pleasure mounted to her face, and thereafter she appeared light hearted and content. Bel lingham went away immediately after ward, and without saying good night to any one else. At the end of the evening Jooe?yn sauntered up to Wallie, and putting both hands on his host's shoulders said, "Well, old man. what do yon think of her?" "I think a great deal," Wallie replied. "You saw her abroad, didn't you?" "No, the general did. Why?" "Nothing," said Wallie, quietly fixing his gray eyes upon the other's dismayed visage, "except that I saw Mile. Marana last year in Vienna, and I think her greatly improved." [to be continued ] The Keitt-Stokes Controversy. f From the Newberry Observer.J We stated last week that when Col. Keitt and Dr. Stokes should close their controversy we would make some re marks on the subject. In reviewing ail that has been said by both the controversial!: to we are forced to the conclusion that Col. Keitt has the better of the argument from an Alliance standpoint?and that was the standpoint of the discusion Under the St. Louis agreement, which our State Alliance ratified, it is perfectly clear, to our mind that the candidate for the United States Senate should have beeo selected by a purely Alliance caucus, as was dune in Kmsas last week, and as was done in Georgia re cently, if we mistake not. In that argument Alliancem^n pledge themselves to "support for office ouly such men as can be depended upon to snact these principles into (statute law.'' etc Who is to decide what man, or men, "can be depended upon'' to do this? The president of the S'ate Alliance ? NTo. The Alliance and outsiders ? No. It must be decided, under that agree ment, by AHiancemen alona. 1? w;.s not decided that way in select ing Senator Hampton's ^accessor; but was decided by a caucus which was composed partly of Alliance men :.nd part iy of men calling themselves "lieformers " Dr. Stokes makes two defences to Col. Keitt's charge of "treason" to :he Order. We should not call it that, but would call call it a violation of the St Louis agreement. 1. His first defence is, that by j means of the mixed caucus a S< r>aror | was selected who "can be depended ! jpon" to carry out Alliance piiuciples. j Fhat is ouly saying "the cud justifie? ; the means," which is no oVfence at all. It may be tree tbat Col Irby can be depended upon to carry oat Alliance principles 'r it may be trne, for the sako of argument, that he is the best man that could have been selected tor the place. But there is a question behind that, which is : Cannot ?llisuoemeo "be depended open" to select a man who will carry out their principles without calling iu the aid of outsiders ? And there is another question still ; Who knows bot what a purely Alliance caucus would bave selected a man who could '"be depended on,r to carry out Alliance principles? Dr. Stokes evidently was afraid that it would not, and was afraid to trust the selection to a purely Alliance caucus?afraid that* such a caucus might not select the man that Dr. Stokes wanted. It looks that way. We speak of Dr. Stokes particularly because be has voluntarily assumed tbo "sole responsibility" for changing the caucus from a purely Alliance oue to a* mixed one. A conclusive answer to Dr. Stoke?r first defence is that the St. L<>ui? agree ment provides the manner of selecting men for national offices, and Senator Hampton's (successor was Dot selected iu that manner It is no defence to say the selection is a good one. It is a perniciosa doe?rise Shat we may do evil that good may result, 2. Dr. Stoked second defenco ',is?. that the Alliance In South Carolina is not a third party. Are the "Reformers" a third party? If not, why coald not a* Alliance caucus be held as weU as a mixed caucus ? The second defence falls to the ground. It seems to ns perfectly clear tbat the St, Louis agreement was violated by admitting Non-Alliance men into a caucus called to select a United States Senator. And Dr. Stokes assumes the sole responsibility for it. We do not, by any means, endorse Col. Kritt*s charge of motive against Dr. Stokes We make no charges whatever. By the public? discussion between him and Col. Keitt it has become a proper inquiry whether the St. Louis agreement was violated. We think it has been ; but we do not im* pute any wrong motive to anybody io connection with the matter. We would like to bave this bare question submitted to the National Economist, the organ of the National Farmers* Alliance : Was the St. Louts agreement violated in the selecting of a Senator to succeed Senator Wade Hampton. We have said that Col. Keitt is right from an Alliance standpoint. But we think both be and Dr. Stokes are wrong from a Democratic stand point. We do not think that Democrats should ever, uoder any circumstances, caucus against Democrats, bot tbat io all eleetions before the Legislature or before tbe people every D?mocratie candidate and every D?mocratie vo?cr should have an equal chance. *'Equal rights to all ; epccLl privi leges to none." Stokes and K?itt. The great Stokes-Keitt controversy appears to bave about sifted down to the familiar formula of dispute between naughty little girls which is : -You did." I didn't." "Did." -Didn't." To be continued indefinitely nu fil somebody's breath is exhausted. 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