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CHAPTKB 2 introduces to the reader Beatrix Randolph, a thoroughly trained amateur, possessing a remarkable voice and struggling under financial and social reverses. She lives witb her widowed father on heavily incum bered estates np the Hudson. CHAPTKB 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. Is CHAPTKB 4 Mr. Greoffrey Bellingham, 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. Is CH AP TEE 5 Jocelyn, acting as a friend of all concerned, arranges temporary quarters for Beatrix in New York and. secures a chaperon for her, inadvertently showing him? self to be a man .of shady antecedents, living by his wits. CHAPTKB 5 brings the heroine, in the assumed character of Marana, before New Yory society. She meets Geoffrey Belling? ham at a dinner given in ber honor by a rich patron of the muses. CHAPTER yjL wrm FBXiahisji E& V&eMXES, AND BEB LOVEES. " toa cnn hone, ?uxt,x^eck>H aahi ImiQO. Within the next few days everybody in New York cot?d quote a more.or leas an^orita?tce<^pprn3DR as 4? tte roeaits of MQe. Marana; for the guests ai the Dinsmores' dinner and vedsptkm had been ^-selected. that their various re? ports could reach all sections of polite society. The verdict on the part of both sexes" was almost universally favorable, and every one consequently made preparationsto extend furber m vitations .tomber. The oitfy : noteworthy 'dissentient Voice was that of Mrs. Bright, who affirmed *Jb&t the great prima donna was underbred and pre? suming. : Even ?f?s critic, however, ad? mitted tha^sjue hgd redeeming traits. "In her pr?perp?ace she is very welL She is a professional singer; and, thongh she is very professorial, she is really a very good^nger, too." ? contributed an able article to a leading journal, in which he attempted to as? sign MDe, Karana her peace among the great singers of the last forty years. "To lite culture, the vivacity, and the subtlety of the present,*" be wrote, ^"our Bossian guest unites -the training, the knowledge, and the solidity of the past. Booted in the soil of the best traditions of her predecessors, the flower of- her genius blossoms in the new sunshine of today.- The grandeur and dignity of her method are vivified and sweetened 3>y rar? perjjc?al ciiarms of manner, and by that seeming artlessness of execu? tion which is the finest triumph of art. Her appearance lunong us . is another ^neexV^ibtodry o??&*i$mtfon which weof the western world have attained of being the final tribunal in matters of musical * tast and judgment, but of the great fac? that real genius zs always unique. "Mlle. Marana recalls no other singer; she is herself! and. to say this is (as those who have heard her will testify) to pay her the highest compliment. She does not accen tuate an epoch-?he makes one. Of her dramatic capacities we have yet to judge, but simple and unassuming as is her bearing in private society it is easy for the initiated to discern in the grace, effectiveness and precision of her gestures and carriage the results of that long training upon the stage and command of its resources which alone can make the poetry of movement a second nature. Our only misgiving is. " added the writer, "that the ordinary repertoire of operas may fail to afford MDe. Marana an ade? quate opportunity for the manifestation of her powers. While yielding to none in our reverence and admiration for the operatic productions of the great com? posers, from Mozart to Wagner, we may be permitted to wish that some new work might be forthcoming, essentially mod ' ern in its scope and quality, and thereby j answering more completely to the re? quirements of modern culture. It would indeed he a matter of congratulation were such a work to claim an American origin!" ?; : Those wno knew the authorship of this article made merry over the perora? tion, and mquired archly whether Bar clyffe had at last found somebody capa j hie of appreciating his musical accom? plishments. But by the majority it was j accepted, with becoming docility; and the impresario, it is needless to say, was enchanted with it The allusions to the Marena's familiarity with the stage were especially grateful to him. "1*11 just tell you how it is,** he said to Jocelyn; "yon play off a little game on the public, and yon feel nervous because there's one or two weak points in it Well, sir, by Jupiter! those weak points are just the very ones the public swal? lows the quickest Now, here's this girl -she can sing; we all know that; but she's a born American, and she's never been on the stage. Well, sir, there was old Lucretia March at the dinner, who Faid she could hardly understand her on account of her Russian accent; and now Barclyffe comes out and swears she must have been born behind the footlights! The next thingTl be we shall have some woman turning up and vowing the Marana has nm off with ber husband aod a hundred thousand dollars!" "Are you aware, Moses," inquired his friend, "that Wallie Dinsmore has seen foe real woman , in-Vienna, and knows this one to be a f rau?T The general set down the cocktail with which he Was about lo. celebrate his good fortune. "Are yon lying, or what's the matter?" he demanded brusquely. "I had it from the maj! biinself, you old blackguard," rejoined the other a poeedly. "Does he know who this one ia?* "If he doesn't he probably will bei long." The general reflected. At last he ss "Well, I ain't scared. What should make a row for? It ain't going to h him, and what's more, he's taken np girl himself. It may tickle him to f ont the facts, but he ain't a fellow talk. If it was you, now, I might w, to boy yon off; :but he's another soi And Gen. Inigo tossed off his cocki with renewed serenity. "Fll bet you you're mistaken,'' s Jocelyn. "I don't bet with, you, my gc friend," replied the nnpresario, sh lng his head and chuckling sard?nica! "HI tell you what I will do, thong he added, after a moment. Hie tc from his pockets a check book and Mackinnon pen, and wrote a che which he showed to Jocelyn. It v $10,000, and was drawn to Jocelyn's der. "You can have that check," si Inigo, "and be fingering the bank no in half an hour from now, on one con tion." "Go on," said Jocelyn. "On condition that you take yours out of the whole business, and leave 3 to deal with the girl direct. It's damned shame, by Jupiter, that y should be putting 30 per cent, of 1 money into your pocket every time s sings, and making her think I pay I that much less than I do. ni buy y out for |10,000, cash down, today, a take the risk of her bursting up, a everything else. Tm talking moue that's what Tm doing; and there it Will you do itr "You may go to the devilr said Jo< lyn, pushing back the check book, thou not without an effort. "FU have you know that money's net the only thi. Tm after. Tve got my own views abo the girl, and m manage the business r own way." The impresario detached the che from the book, and having rolled it in an allumette lit his cigar with "That's all right," said he, crushing t burnt remnant under his foot, "orj don't you talk to me no more about b< ting! I know a man when I clap ey on him, and I know a woman, too, ai I guess you'll have time to grow to be bigger rascal than yon are before y< rope in my prima donna! She's meet f your betters, my boy, and they're not f to look for!" Jocelyn contrived to maintain a co temptuously indifferent demeanor, b it is certain that whoever made mon? ont of the impresario was obliged earn it in one way or another. Meanwhile Miss Beatriz Randolph, 1 the Marana, as all the world now call? her, was in more cheerful spirits thi she had been before her reception at tl Dinsmores. She liked the Dinsmort she was inclined to like almost ever body. She tried to take a charitab view even ot the young gentlemen : high shirt collars who complimented h 30 badly, and said things which she kn? were witty only because they laughed ; Them? She reflected that she knew not. ing of the freemasonry of modem s ciety, and that probably the young ge? tlemen intended only to be polite ar entertaining. Mrs. Bemax, when a; pealed to on the subject, said they-M Witman and the rest of them-wei wealthy and well connected, and that was desirable for a lady connected wit the stage to cultivate their acquaintance "A little social relaxation is an exce lent thing for you, my dear mademo selle," declared this worthy lady, "an a capital way to get rid of that litti frigidity and stiffness you have brougr with you from the country. Ladies coi nected with the stage nave to work han but, en revanche, they are allowed moi freedom in social intercourse than othc people. It will be quite proper for yo to let Mr. Witman drive you hom from rehearsal in hw brougham if I ai along, or even without me at a pine! All the others do it. You will not le him take any liberties, of course; br? don't betray any timidity; he wouldn understand it." "It is one thing for mo to do as I like, replied mademoiselle, "and another thin for me to let other people do as they like I dont mean to be stiff, but there ia n reason why I should be bothered either. "It will be no bother when you ar used to it," Mrs. Bemax replied; but a the time she did not advocate her vie\ any farther. The finishing touches were being pu to the theatre, and Geoffrey Bellingham was constantly on hand to oversee th work: consequently he and the prim; donna must needs meet occasionally. H said very little to her, and was generali; very busy when she might have entere< into conversation with him; but she ha< an impression that he kept his eyes upoi her often when she was not looking a him; and his appearance at the theatn was generally coincident with the hpui of her sehearsals. One day after sht bad been singing a grand scene very ef fectively she happened to catch his ey in the stage box, where he stood leaning against the curtained partition, abstract cdly knotting and unknotting v\ piece ol tape. His gaze was so earnest, and a the same time so melancholy, that th( prima donna, obeying an impulse Jhai was partly curiosity, but partly seine thing else, went round to the box whei the scene was over, and met him as h< was coming out. "How unhappy you looked!" she said "Was anything wrong'/" He stared at her for a moment, and said ironically, "Oh, you're a great artiste!" "I mean to be," she ?answered smiling. "A great actress, too! I should like to see you when you aro yourself." "1 am myself now," replied Mlle. Marana. Then she remembered that she was not telling the whole truth, and blushed and looked down. '.Then you must be a remarkable woman! But you probably don't know that you always appear to me like a fresh and innocent American girl. I can't see anything foreign or-stagey in your talk or manners. Extremes meet; I suppose, and, like Paul, you are all things to all men." This speech made thc young diva feel that the world was very wide and very erne!, and tears came into her eyes. She w.i8 alone; there was no one to an? swer for her or to protect her. She would not have minded so much what most people thought of her, but it would 1 nave been a great comfort to her if this man, ar. any rate, had by some divine faculty of vision been able to see through j the disguise that veiled her from the rest of the world. He did through it; but he did not believe what he saw. He thought that his discovery was her , deception, and the more shs wan frank and simple, the more she was her real self, the less would ho believe in her. It was a dilemma between intuition and reason; and, with a man of the world, reason, in such cases, is apt to have tho best of it. It would bftre been easy for the pt donna to haye enlightened Mm, and: der certain circumstances she m: have been tempted to do so. But J it was a matter of pride to her? if n mg else, to say no word that could ] bim to infer that his sympathy was t thing to her one way or the other, she was at liberty to resent an ins and she felt that to do so would help to preserve her composure. "You probably dont know, sir,** said, imitating his phrase, "that to even an opera singer the extreme oj site of fresh and innocent is not pd I am not so contemptible a thing to men as I seem to be to your "It was a brutal thing to say, an did not mean it," he replied in a voice. "But I can't say what I wish yon. There's no middle way." And fore she could make np her mind w this meant he passed by her and wal heavily away down the corridor. The prima donna fell into a deep i not altogether painful revery. She a ed herself on a bench behind the see and followed out her musings with chin on her hand. The rehearsal " going forward in front, the duets, quartets and the choruses, but she y lost in thought. "There's no mid way." What was in his mind-in heart-when he said that? There 1 been something very potent in his ej that she was sure of. What eyes had! What a stern, resolute face, w nothing mean or commonplace in it! was not like the others, either in asp or in manner. His very carelessness i roughness were more high bred tl their best behavior. Though he mij go among other men, he would alw; be apart from them; he was lonely, 1 herself, but, unlike hers, his was a \ untary and a noble loneliness. And despised her because-because so other woman was despicable! That v unjust, and yet perhaps there was in vertent justice in it. Perhaps, if knew the truth, he would despise her less on other grounds. But again tin was some other feeling beside conten at work within him. What Could ti I be? The girl raised her head slight with a doubtful, musing smile on 1 lips. There was a stealthy step behind 1 which she did not hear until it was cl< upon her. Then suddenly a pair of har were pressed over her eyes, and her he was drawn back. For a moment she v> too much amazed to resist; besides, s thought, it must be-could not but b< some one who had a right to treat her -her father, or even her brother Ed; stranger would dare! Any impossibili was more possible than that The ne moment she felt kisses on her cheek a mouth-clumsy, offensive . kisses. S was not a screaming woman, but s gave a passionate outcry of disgu twisted herself free, and sprang to h feet The offender stood before her, evidei ly not at all convinced of the enormi of his outrage. His visage was wrinkl into a waggish laugh, in which he seei ed to expect the prima donna to join, bad already been made apparent to h that the man had been drinking, but tl mist of wrath in her eyes kept her f an instant from recognizing in him tl newly engaged musical director, He Plotowski. ' She felt that if she had hi a weapon in her hand she could ha? lalled him on tho spot. And he w laughing! "Aha! my beautiful ma'm'selle! catch yon fair dat timer he exclaim* jovially. "Oh! dose beautiful lips! I h. often long to salute demi" "If you ever come near me or speak me again"-began the prima donna; bi she checked herself. She would n condescend even to threaten such wretch. Besides, what power had si to carry a threat into execution? He: Flotowski had been engaged at gre expense; he was considered a vainab acquisition. No one could lead a orchestra moro ably than he. If si complained of him her complaint wonJ be put off or disregarded; nor could al bring herself to confide the outrage to man like Gen. Inigo. He would I sure to laugh, and answer with son: coarse, good humored jest In this ne"1 world she had entered into everybod, seemed to make a jest of everything There was no one to defend her; sb must submit if she could not def en herself. But, as ber glance fell upo Herr Plotowski, she told herself sh would rather die than submit to sue! another insult. Her passionate indignation must hav made itself perceptible through th calions hide of the director, fortifie though he was by whisky. The wrinkle laugh gradually faded from his count? nance, and gave place to an expressioi of absurd solemnity and irritatioB "You be angry dat I kiss yon, ehr' h cried in a harsh voice. "Let me tel you, ma'm'selle, I kiss all ze ladies vo sing byrne. Zey dake it as compliment if not, I make it vorso for zem, eb Plotowski kiss all he please, and dat al right ain't it? You ask ze general, an< you find out! Now denr And h stalked away haughtily. This incident would perhaps have af fected her somewhat leas poignantly i: it had not occurred immediately aften her interview with Bellingham, ant while*her thoughts were full of him, The revulsion was almost unendurable and made her feel as if the pollutioi could never be removed. Her boson: heaved, and bitter tears ran down hei face. A woman is helpless enough at best, but 6he more than the rest, because she was fighting under a false name and reputation. Nevertheless, she could not retreat now nor srive np the battle. She knew that her father bad incurred pecuniary obligations to Inigo which could only be repaid through her. Be? sides, should she let her career be de? stroyed at the outset because a creature lijce Plotowski had insulted her? Should she not rather persevere until she had won t\ich position and such power as should enable her to protect herself against all the world? There was a proud, unconquered spirit in her, which asserted itself in her forlornness and dis? tress more than it had ever done in her security and happing. And, after all, she was not without friends. At the worst she could apply to her father; and then there was Ham? ilton Jocelyn, who, although rather worldly and absnra, was really a good man, with her interests at heart, as was proved by his having obtained for her this splendid engagement, and there wa? Mr. Dinsmore, wi io seemed kindly and a gentleman: and Mr. Barclyffe, who had written all that praise of her in the newspaper; and there, too, was Geoffrey Bellingham; whatever his opinion of her might be, she did not believe that he would havo stood by and allowed Herr Plotowski to insult her. No; things were not so hopeless, after all. Mme. Beuiax had l>een ont to make a few purchases on Broadway; She now ? returned, carrying her little bundies by 1 loops in the strings that tied them. She^ hoped mademoiselle had not been delayed OT inconvenienced. Mademoiselle replied' that she had not been delayed; bat some? thing prevented her from telling Mme. Bern as about Hie adventure with the di? rector. She feared madame would say something about the benefits of a little social relaxation and about getting used to it; and she did not wish to feel an aversion toward the good lady, who was in many respects agreeable to her. So she held her peace and bid her secrets in her heart; but she could not forget them. [TO BE CONTINUED ] George Washington and the Columbia Centennial. The city of Columbia will celebrate next May the one hundredth anniver? sary of the first meeting of the Gen? eral Assembly of South Carolina in that place as the capital of tbe State. General Wade Hampton will deliver an oration ; there will be a trade's display and probably a military en? campment ; the city will be decorated aud illuminated at night ; water will be turned into the great canal, and many other attractions will be offered the visitor and tight-seer during the three days of the celebration. In addition to tbe meeting of tbe Legislature, there was another occur? rence io the city of Columbia in May, 1791, that deserves a passing notice. During that month President George Washington mad* his first and only visit to this State, and spent several daysin Columbia-from Sunday, May 22, till Wednesday morning, May 25. The President left Philadelphia (then the capital of tbe United States) on Monday, March 21st, 1791. Mrs. Washington and her two grandchildren accompanied him to Mount Vernon, where they spent tbe time during his Southern tour. He reached Mount Vernon on bis return June 12th, "having made a most satisfactory journey of more than seventeen hun? dred miles, io sixty-six days, with the same team of horses.'4 In his diary be says : "In this tour I was accompanied by Major Jackson. My equipage and attendance consisted of a chariot and four horses drove in hand, a light baggage wagon and two horses, four saddle horses, besides a led ono for myself, and five, to wit : my valet de chambre, too footmen, coachman and postillionV The route of the President through our State was as follows : Leaving I Wilmington, N. C.. Tuesday, April 25th, 1791, he "crossed tbe boundary line between North and South Carolina about half pa?t 12 o'clock77 on tbe following ds.y. His course was through Georgetown to Charleston, and then by Savannah to Augusta, Ga. We copy his diary for a few days, begin? ning at this point : 8AT?RDAT, 21sT, (MAY, 1791 ) "Left Augusta about 6 o'clock, and taking leave of the Governor and principal gentlemen of the place at the bridge over the Savannah River, where they bad assembled for the purpose, I proceeded ia company with Colonels Hampton and Taylor aod Mr. Lithgow, a committee from Columbia, (who had come on to meet and conduct me to that place) and a Mr. Jameson from from the Village of Granby, OD my route. "Dined at a house about twenty miles from Augusta, aud lodged at one Odem 's, about tweuty miles farther." SUNDAY, 22D. "Rode about, twenty-one miles to breakfast, and passed through the Village of Granby, just below the first falls io the Coogaree, (which was passed in a fiat-bottomed boat at a rope ferry,) ! lodged at Columbia, the newly adopted seat of the government of South Carolina, about three miles from it, on the North side of the river, and twenty-seven from my breakfasting stage. "The whole road from Augusta to Columbia is a pine barren of the worst sort, being hilly as well as poor. This circumstance, added to the distance, length of the stages, want of water and heat of the day. foundered one of my homes very badly. "Beyond Granby, four miles, I was met by several gentlemen of that phce and Wynnesborough, aud on the banks of the river OD the North side by a number of others, who escorted me to Columbia. MONDAY, 23D. "Bined at a publie dinner io the State noose with a number of gentle? men and ladies of the town of Colum? bia and country round about to thc amount of more than one hundred and fifty, of which fifty or sixty were of the latter. TUESDAY, 24TH. "The condition of my foundered horse obliged me to remain at this place, contrary to my intention, this day also, "Columbia is laid out upon a large scale, but, tn my opinion, had better been placed on the river below the falis. It is DOW au uncleared woods, with very few houses in it, and those all wooden ones. The State House (which is also of wood) is a large and commodious building, but unfinished. The town is on dry, but cannot be called high ground, and though sur? rounded by piney and sandy land is itself good. Tbe State House is uear two miles from the river, at thc con? fluence of the Broad River and Saluda. From Granby the river is navigable for craft, which will, when the river is a littie swelled, carry 3,000 bushels grain ; when at its usual height!) less, and always some. The river from hence to the Wateree, below which it takes the name of Santee, is very crooked, it being, according to thc computed distance, near four hundred miles Columbia from Charleston is one hundred and thirty miles WEDNESDAY, 25TH. "Set out at 4 o'clock for Camden the foundered horse being led slowly on -breakfasted at an indifferent house, twenty-two miles from the town, (the first wo came to.) and reached Camden about 2 o'clock, fourteen miles farther, when an address was received and answered. Dined late with a number : of gentlemen and ladies at a publio dinner. The road from Camden to r Columbia, excepting a mile or two at i each pl?ce, goes over the theH n J abie pioe barreo I ever saw, i quite a white sand and very billy. the Wateree, within a mile and a of which the town stands, the land very good. They cohere corn, tob and indigo. Vessels carrying fifi sixty hbd8 of tobacco oome op to ferry at this place, at which there tobacco warehouse.'* ****** i $ ? mm Our Modern Mammon Greenville Newe. So mach is beiog said of Jay G in the South just now that an atti at a pen picture of him and the pressions obtained from a first vie him may furnish interesting readioj One morning last week he walked on the depot platform at Saolisbury C., coming from the palace on wt in whioh he had ?pent the night, waa with Sidney Dillion, who. tow above bim, and by comparison him, looked majestic and aristoera for Mr Dillion is rather tall, cai himself well and IK.S snow white, ne trimmed side whiskers. As the stepped from one end of the pUsf and dowo between the rails of the ? they are supposed to have large it es ts in, three negroes were huddled gether at the other end anxiously de iog ways and means to recover a cent piece which one of them had d ped through a crack between the plat It was a vivid contrast. One of tl dealt in millions of dollars and other in dimes. One was bur den ec an accumulation of wraith, the ol was annoyed by a lack of it. But negroes were seeking their own mo and Mr. Goold was probably after st other man1:). The negroes were rag and patched but their limbs mo with the strength and freedom health and ease and the frowns anxious cogitation on their faces mel into gieeful laughter as the abson of their situation broke upon th< Mr. Goold did not look healthy or b py or easy in his mind. He wore a heavy shaggy overcoat black eoat and waistcoat, white si and collar, a plain black tie cue black Derby bat. His breeches w Uark with a small stripe in them. 1 legs bow decidedly, and his should stoop aod he had on his hands a p of dark colored cloth gloves which p bably cost half a dollar and are ; beautiful or ornamental, having peculiarly awkward and shabby ; pearanoe. He >es not look to kn what to do ''" his hands very ? while walkie, ?o he usually, as far the observation of this writer go carries them in his overcoat pocke When they are not there they i crossed in front of him io a peculia meek and penitential attitude. In fact his whole appearance is c of meekness. Hts plain, unobtrusi dress, hts humble carriage, hi) diffidf glance make him a perambulating jo] He is not more than five feet and fe inches high, and the idea of this litt insignificant, shrinking, bow-legg man being the financial monarch of t world's greatest coootry-with mc available wealth and little less pon than the Czar o? all the Kassians, wi more ready casu and general proper than any of the Roman emperors conqaerers ever knew-is absurdly i congruous. It may be ao ioheritan from barbaric ancestry, bot there is the homau mind an instinctive ass ciatioo betweeu power and eminen and physical strength and presenc There is really no physiological philosophical reason why greatness soul or intellect should not be wrapp? in the smallest or ugliest of framet bot it is oot easy for the ordinary rn] to reconcile socb contents with sat casing. Mr. Goold has a good, well round< forehead, bat there is nothing peculi; in tts shape, except that it is rath, narrow io front. His eyes are dar aod the lid*4 have deep, creases in the as if they had been held open too lor and too tightly and eould not be easil closed down. The eyes themselves ai well set, oot too close together or tc deep set or too prominent. fr. strongest visible feature of bis face his nose, which is large and broad an projects over his upper-lip-not sharp! as we sometimes see in an old ma who bas lost his front teeth, but sui leniy and absolutely, its whole breadth It is a peco.?arly shaped nose. It ha an outward corve but the curve is no the sharp, clear ooe of thc bridge tha gives a shape like the "agle's beak The entire nose, flesh, bone and all appears to join in the curve and th feature looks to be thc same width fron cheek to bridge, from eyes to end The mouth, chin and cheek are hid bj foll Mack beard and moustache streaked with white, the former abou three inches long from the chin, th< latter coming well down over the mouth both neatly kept. Mr. Gould walks gently but awk? wardly. He does not lift his feet lng! from the ground or put them down firmly and looks as if be would stumble easily. He apparently never looks anybody in the eye. When he meets people he looks upward at them quick ly with a shy half smile as if anxious to speak. If not spoken to be drops his eyelids shyly. When spoken to he bows ?readily and quickly. Being talked to he sit? or stsnds with his eyes cast down but with sn expression of close attention on his face as if he read and judged men with his ear*. Looking at anything his eyes have a tired expression as if they bad seen it all and were moch wearied with it, and that expressian is appropriate to his sallow complexion. When he shakes hands be does it limply and as if he was anxious to get through with it as quickly as possible and have his hand back in his own keeping. Bia general aspect in company is that of a man who is tn the habit of being stared at and who endures it but. bas nev r got over being embarras.?etl by ir, f?r there is constraint and ill-at-ease in his every movement when before a num? ber of strangers. He smiles frequently and mechanically when the occasion requires it, but he does not look like a man who laughs much or very heartily The only time the writer saw bim actually laugh during a day's journey land four hours of banquet, when thc j wine was going freely and everybody was trying lo bc as amusing as possible, was when PresideBt jieBoe spoke of getting a long fate for a short haul over the Western North Carolina road. Then Mr. Gould did not emit any uproarious or musical ha ha's. It seemed to be pomatbiog between a cackle and a giggle and showed a sefof teeth which looked to be well worn away from the front as if he used his back teeth to eat with and they do nos ftand the service very well, while his front ones are left intact for show. His toice ts rather fiat and slightly nasal, and his pronunciation is New York-not four hundred "New York which has come to be a whine in *o4e? for a drawl and a bastard cross between New England and old England -but the chipper, chipped, business? like, rapid, irritating (to Southern ears) sharp and unmusical New York of down town. There is no strength or depth to? bis tones, such as we find sometimes ia the voices of small but deep-chested men. All he says seems to come from the roof of his mouth as if hts braios were talking and his heart and lungs and soul-allowing that he owns one-. had nothing to do with it. Glancing at Mr. Gould carelessly, taking in bis meekness and awkward? ness and constraint, one would take him for the preacher of a eountry church with some brains but lit?le self assertion who had been a good deal 7epres8ed and not very well treated by bis congregation. Looking more closely, one would see rn his face and aspect the indescribable marks ar>d linen of a man who knows the world and is of Kt and would "size him up7' as a sharp and not over-scrupulous trader in a small way who had made some gains. There is not about bim anywhere a sug? gestion of a man who counts the mil? lions of bis dollars by tens and scores, whose brain controls and manipulates past systems of railways and huge and complicated dealings ir. finances. He has precisely tbe samt .^pression in bis eyes and on his brow as a man the writer knew once who put up one of the largest and most elaborate swindles on dre insurance companies tn the history of the business and was defeated only by what the clear intellect of a high souled gentleman and observer of human nature read written in tbe lines about his eyelids and forehead. Mr. Gould uses no tobacco. His drinking ts apparently a mere uniter bf form and without enjoyment and his eating is little better. He is said ta enjoy solid reading and a good picture, but he has little time for either and is not a player of any game of cards, chess, or backgammon or an admirer of horses or athletic sports. Le does not seem to take any interest in women, and if he bas any musical cr artietio tastes or religions tendencies they have never been devoloped. He is not a miser. He spends his rooney freely for bis family and probably buys everything he wishes for himself, but fae wishes very little. Unlike most rich meo, he appears to enjoy joking and being joked about bis wealth. At Asheville be said, demurely, that a man in his circumstances could not be expected to afford a dress coat and he evidently relished the laugh that greeted the rather fiat witticism. His purpose, hope, amusement, care and occupation tn life seem to be to amass money and power, to pile fortune on fortune by any means and at any cost of strength or friendship or trust or reputation. So far as we know, no? bods bas ever ventured to ask bim what be intends to do with it all or whether be is not, in bis opinion mak? ing rather a bad bargain by exchanging health and pleasure and all the better things of life as wei! as all its fun and comfort and physical, intellectual and moral enjoyment for more dollars wheo he already has more than he eau possibly spend. He does not look to be a man of very broad views, however. There be men who give for whiskey or gaming or other vices and pursuits the same things. Mr. Gould is giving for money. So far as we can make out they have rather the best of it. Yet there may be in the accumulation of dollars with htm precisely the same satisfaction of appetite, gratificatoin of craving and feverish* delight that thc drunkard finds in strong liquors or tho gambler in :he shuffling of cards. A debauch of dollars-a huge deal-may give him exactly the same sensations that one man finds in a long drinking bout or the other in a protracted sitting with luck running his v?ay-and exactly the same resulting headaches, relaxation, remorse and general results, physical and moral. There be many different kinds of men and many curious organizations and performances in this wonderful con? tradictory, beautiful, ridiculous, misera? ble, pleasant old world of ours. La Grippe Again, Daring the epidemic of La lirippa last reason Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Cough* and Colds, pr-ved to bo the best remedy. Reports fruin the many who 'use I it confirm this pt*tetnont. They were not only quickly relieved, but the disease left no bad after resu'ts. We a.-k you to give this remedy a trixi ?nd we guarantee :h:?t you will he satis? fied with results, or tha purchase price will be refunded, lt ha? no equal in I.a Grippe, or any Throat. Chest or bung Trouble Trial bot ties free at J. 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