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Since he began to practice his profession he had never had a deliberate vacation. But a man who had just designed and built a new opera house-the best in the world-could afford to take a rest, even were the^e no other ground for doing so. Bellingham, at all events, packed his trunk and took passage on the Arizona bound for the Old "World, and betook himself to an ancient, abandoned, lovely little town on the southern coast of Ire? land. It was one of the loveliest, least known and most secluded retreats in Europe. The gray and ruinous houses were over? grown with soft green moss, the steep and narrow streets were made beautiful j with tender rims of grass. The warm ! breezes brought thither by the Gulf ! stream gave to December and January the gentle geniality of an English spring. The sparse inhabitants were a far de? scended race of fishermen, still bearing in their dark complexions and vigorous forms the traces of their handsome Span? ish ancestry. At. the inn, in addition to a most en? gaging landlady and a couple of ex? tremely pretty daughters, Bellingham encountered to his agreeable surprise an American artist, Helwise by name, Thom he had known years ago in Nc\v York. Thi??onely man of genius was, it appeared, in the habit of spending the winter months here, transferring to can? vas the matchless wealth ef color and character which met him at every turn. He was of a grave, kindly, meditative nature, but brimming over in certain moods with wit and philosophy and the fruits of years of penetrating and amused obscvation of human character and life. Bellingham and he suited each other well and were soon conversing with the frankness and cordiality of a friendship long in abeyance but never forgotten. Bellingham inquired whether there were any other countrymen of theirs in the town. "It is like the region Irving tells of in *The Adalantado of the Seven Cities,"* Helwise replied; "it has been lost for ages, and nobody knows were it is ex? cept myself. That is, such was the case until about three weeks ago. But last month two mysterious strangers made their appearance, and have betrayed some symptoms of intending to stay. I should have had them expelled, for I consider this place to be my peculiar and inalienable property, bail I not found them entertaining as a study, and admirably disposed to keep themselves to themselves. I have never spoken to the lady at all." "Ohl Husband and wife, aie theyT . "Apparently that is just what they are not. No, I don't mean to insinuate -and I don t believe-that they ought to be. I should suppose they might be brother and sister, only they are of dif? ferent nationalities. The man is evi? dently an American, and the lady, though she sper.Ks English perfectly well, evidently ^s not She is probably four or five years older than he, and has a certain air of experience. She is de? cidedly handsome, and has what they call distinguished manners; that is, she makes you perceive that they are man? ners, though very good ones. She has rented that large house on the top of tho hill." "She or they?* "She. He has his room here, and turns up every night at 10 o'clock. They spec d the day together; he is undoubtedly in love with her, and she seems to be anything but indifferent to him. You see it isn't an ordinary affair. Here they are, buried from the world beyond discovery, and they might live as they liked; and yet they-or she at an}'rate prefer to conduct themselves in this anomalous fashion. There is some mys? tery in it, my dear Geoffrey-some deep, dark, inscrutable mystery! Tb^y are known respectively as Mr. Edwardes *nd Mrs. Peters, but I have an idea they call each other something else. Ono theory of mine about them was that she was a younger sister of his mother; his father, you know, might have married a foreign woman. In that case she would be his aunt and the mystery would be solved; but, as I said before, they are plainly in love, and nephews and aunts neither fall in love nor marry, so far as my experience goes. Come, you are fresh from tho States: can you guess?*' "I guess not," said Bellingham: and the conversation took another turn. Suddenly Helwise, who had been look? ing toward the southern approach to the terrace on which they were standing, ! said in a low voice: "There come tho ; mysteries. Now you can j adge for your? self." Bellingham turned his eyes in the di- ! rection indicated and saw a man and j woman approachingslowly, side by side. They seemed to be conversing intermit- ' tently, and as they walked her .shoulder j occasionally brushed his ann and their j glances constantly met. The mau seemed to be under 2.*> years of age: he was tall and active and . of rather ?lender build, ' and as he approached Bellingham noticed that his features were of a bold and striking cast, with bright and somewhat intolerant eyes. His expression at tho present moment was troubled and i gloomy. He frequently looked on the ! ground and struck the pebbles from his path with a stick. He would speak a few sentences at a time, energetically and rapidly; then r-lapse into a moody silence, responding L>y a shake of tho head or other brief gesture to the di course of his companion. The latter was a woman whose aspe (if the distinction be permissible) w; younger than her looks. Her face ar figure were youthful, but her bearir and gestures were mature. Her featur were of a clear paleuess, regular in on line and of remarkable beauty. Som thing in her aspect enchained Bellini ham's regard; she did not resemble an woman he had seen, and yet she remine 1 ed him in some intangible, elusive wa of a woman "^hom he wished to forge She was different-different at evet point; and yet if he turned away au glanced at her from the corner of h eye there was an indescribable likenes: Was it the way she had of slowly lif tin her chin? Was it the slope of her shon ders? Was it in the way the soft hai grew on the nape of her white neel Was it in the smile that lighted her eye before it touched her lips? It was all c these things-it was noneef them! Af te a minute Bellingham forcibly dismisse the question from his mind. Of why earthly consequence was it? Here were a good looking woman an< an enamored young man, a commo: sight enough. They seemed to be in lov with each other, as Helwise had said but while the gentleman had evident!; lost his head the lady was entirely sel possessed. She seemed to be amuse? superficially at some extravagance o perversity in her companion, but ther< was an underlying sadness or anxietj perceptible wben her face was at rest She had the air of trying to make hin take some step or comprehend some thing which he refused to do or under stand. As they passed the young mai glanced for a moment toward Helwis* and nodded recognition. The lady di< not turn, nor evince consciousness of th< presence of any third party. The] slowly traversed the length of the ter race and disappeared through the gate way at the farther end. '.She knows how to dress," remarket Bellingham. "And how to walk," added Helwise "She must have learned that on th< stage." "An actress, then, you think?" "Yes; or an opera singer, perhaps Well, what do you think is the matter?*4 "He hasn't money enough, maybe/ said Bellingham; "or perhaps she likes him too well to marry him. A woman like that knows that an ounce of imagi? nation is worth a pound of reality both to her and to him!" "You have studied women since 1 knew you last," remarked Helwise witt a smile. "If I have," replied Geoffrey, "thej have only taught mc to disbelieve the little I ever thought I knew. Come, let us be moving." That night Bellingham dreamt vivid? ly of Mlle. Marana, and his dream awakened him before dawn in great dis? tress of mind. He imagined that he was walking across the Brooklyn bridge, which on this occasion extended from the roof of the opera house in New York to the parapet of the terrace where he had sat with Helwise that afternoon. The bridge was unfinished, and he was obliged to make the transit on a series of precarious planks irregularly disposed. When midway across the Atlantic,whose angry roar reached his ears from the immeasurable depth beneath, he saw walking before him the figure of a wom? an, in whom he at once recognized Mlle. Marana. He hastened to overtake her, for she seemed in imminent danger of falling. Just as he was on the point of reach? ing her, however, the plank on which he stood gave way, and at the same mo? ment she whom he had meant to save tottered and fell He closed his eyes for an instant: then he felt his arm seized by some one from behind, and, looking round, he found himself standing on the stage of the opera house, with Marana herself before him in the costume of Marguerite, with a bunch of daisies in her girdle. He heard the applause of the audience, like " the roar of the sea, and perceived that the performance was going forward, and that he, instead of be? ing properly attired, was in his every day dress. It came across his mind also that the figure he had mistaken for Marana was Mephistopheles, disguised to mis? lead him. He looked at Marguerite; her face was deatlily pale. She said below her breath, "You did not believe in me; do you know who"- Her voice died away, the lights were suddenly extin? guished, and in the silence and darkness Bellingham awoke. Too much disturbed to sleep again for the dream, grotesquely extravagant though it was. had seemed absolutely real to him-he got np, lit a pipe, and sat smoking at his window watching the dawn slowly illuminate the eastern sk}*. He took an early breakfast and went for a solitary walk along the coast, and from the summit of a lofty headland saw a great ocean steamer pass west? ward through the gray sea. She was bound for New York. As he watched her diminish and vanish in the distance, till only a faint plume of smoke remain? ed on the far horizon, for the first time since his journey began he was conscious of an urgent longing t o return-to return at once. The unfinished question in his dream kept ringing in his ears, it assum? ed a momentous importance; he must know what it meant. He laughed at his own absurdity, but the longing remain? ed. At last he returned to tho inn. He found Helwise painting in the room he used as a studio: he was in his shirt sleeves, slippers down at the heel were on his feet, and he wore an old straw hat to shade his eyes from the light. He was whistling softly to him? self, and would turn his head on one side al ter putting a tonel) on the canvas. "Did you hear any noise Inst night?" he asked after they had chatted for a while. **I had a bad dream. What was it?" "That young fellow who calls himself Edwardes. His room is next to mine. He came in a little later than usual last night, and by and by 1 fancied I heard him crying. I was debating whether 1 ought to go in and see what was the matter, when he knocked at my door. He looked badly cut up. I made him sit down and gave him some whisky and a cigarette. He seems to be in a scrape." "Did he exnlain the mystery?" "Well, he talked somewhat. He fell in love with this woman in Moscow. From what fie said I judge she is an act? ress or a si jiger, as we were saying yes? terday. She is a public character of some kind, and has had adventures be? fore this. She took a great fancy to him, so he says, and I believe him. Dat it seems to have been somewhat as you suggested: she liked him too well to let him have his way. She wouldn't risk a disillusionment; perhaps her heart bad never been touched before. Sho would not marry him. either: for that matter, 1 suppose the one thing is about the sanie to her as the other. Dut she did an odd thing she offered tosuspend her career, what j ever it is, and be with him as long aa j be wished. And she appears to have j given np some important pecuniary ad j vantage to do so. He accepted her offer, I thinking no doubt that she would capit ! ulate in due time, in the meanwhile j taking care that she should lose nothing I in the way of money. He represented j himself to her as inexhaustibly wealthy, and she took him at his word. But the fact is, after he had spent a hundred thousand or so, and ruined his father and sister, as ho tells me, there was no more left. He was ashamed to confess this to her, and it is only within the hist few days, when he had got down to his last fifty pound note, that she found it out." "And now she means to shake him-is that it?" said Bellingham. "Well, apparently not. She seems to have plenty of money herself, and she has made him a proposition which does her credit She has proposed to marry him and pay back the money that he has spent on her. I have begun to fall in love with her myself! And I may do it if she'll have me; for Mr. Edwardes' pride, as he calls it, would not allow him to accept her proposal, and hence his misery, which at one time last night assumed quite a suicidal complex? ion, but I remonstrated with him, and he felt a little better this morning." While the}* were sitting there the door was suddenly opened, and in came young Mr. Edwardes himself in a state of great excitement. He had a newspaper in his hand. "Did you know what was in this pa? per?" demanded he, striding up to Hel? wise. "What one generally finds in a New York Sunday paper two weeks old," re? turned Helwise, tipping back his hat and looking up at him. "This is Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Edwardes." The latter looked at the architect, and seemed to hesitate whether or not to pro? ceed, but the emotion by which he was possessed was too much for him; he went on. "lt says here," he exclaimed, hold? ing the paper toward Helwise, with his finger on the paragraph, "that-here, read it yourself!" Helwise took the paper and read: "Mlle. Marana, the great Russian prima donna, who has endeared herself to all New Yorkers during the past season by ber channing behavior as well as b}* her unrivaled musical powers, will next month bring to a close the mast success? ful engagement ever known in this city. Mlle. Marana has lately been in delicate health. To those of thousands of her friends and admirers we add our own cordial hopes that she may return to -us next spring with renewed strength and energy. Meanwhile we shall not look upon her like again." "Is that the paragraph you mean?" asked Helwise, looking up. "What's the trouble with it?" "Only that there's no such person as Mlle. Marana in New York, nor ever was-that's all!" cried out the young gentleman in a violent tone. "You're mistaken, sir," put in Belling? ham. 'Tm personally acquainted with Mlle. Marana , and have heard her sing in New York this season a score of times." "You heard an impostor, then!" re? turned the other angrily. "I know what I'm talking about. Good God! don't I know who the Marana is?" "Keep your coat on, young man," said Helwise with a quiet laugh. "Possibly you are mistaken instead of Mr. Belling? ham." "Well, I beg your pardon, gentlemen," said Edwardes, putting a restraint on himself and speaking in an agitated voice. "If you only knew you would pardon me. But look here, sir - Mr. Bellingham-I'll tell you. I met Mlle. Marana in Moscow last summer. She well, the truth is, she's the lady who is liere with me now. She had an engage? ment with a fellow named Inigo to sing this season in New York for four thou? sand dollars a night, and-she gave it up because I asked her. I guess there isn't more than one Marana in this world! There's only one woman alive who could sing anywhere near her, and that's my own sister-whom I ruined and disgraced, by George!" Here, in spite of his struggles to prevent them, tears forced themselves into the young gentleman's eyes, and he sat down and Md his face in his hands. "And now, to think," he cried out. starting up again and walking to and fro in tho room, "to think, after all she's done for me, that scoundrel Inigo should trump up an im? postor to take her place! By George, I'll bring him to book if I live another fort? night!" "You are making a singular accusa? tion, Mr. Edwardes," said Bellingham sternly. "Will you vouch for its accu? racy?" "Yes, I will vouch for it, Mr. Belling? ham," returned the other, facing him; "and my name is not Edwardes. I've had enough of this humbug. There's my card, sir." Bellingham took the card. "Edward Randolph," he read and paused. Ile looked at the young mai? curiously. "May I ask your father's namer be saki at length. "Alexander Randolph," Eid ward re? plied. "A tall man, about fifty-five, with gray mustache and imperial?" '.That's the man. Do you know him?" "I have met him. You had better go home and look after him," said Belling? ham gravely, "and get your Mlle. Ma? rana to go with you."" Bellingham left for Liverpool the same evening, and took passage for New York two days later. Edward Randolph and Mlle. Marana sailed the same day on another steamer, and they all arrived at their destination within ten days after? ward. CHAPTER XI. WHAT HAPrKNKD TO HER IN* THE MEAN? WHILE. l*Pcrhrt]tn H inntJd !>e pl-cnxantcr for yon : tn (ju ont nf your omi accord." Hamilton .Jocelyn had observed with anxiety thc progress of the ^acquaintance between Bellingham and the prin donna and was casting about in his mil how to put a stop to it, when Bellin: ham suddenly disappeared. He won] have inferred that lie must have pr posed to mademoiselle and been ref ?S? had not the latter's aspect plain: showed that she was suffering qnite i much as Bellingham could bo suppose to Ix?. Jocelyn's acuteness was not of fine enough order to enable him to h upon the real explanation. But the ep sode also admonished him that it wi full time he himself rook a leading and winning hand in the game. Accordingly Jocelyn insensibly bega to draw nearer to the object of his ai tentions. He talked to her a great de; abont her profession, about the preroga tives of genius, and the peculiar priv: leges permitted to the artistic and e< pecial?y to the musical temperamem He launched into philosophical speculi tions about the constitution of society and demonstrated what a gigantic tyi anny the marriage covenant was as a present administered. The time woul come, he declared, when we should loo! back upon such a state of things wit] wonder mingled with disgust. Consider the immense number of di vorces and scandals that were coming t light in all degrees of the social scale what were they but the blind and in articulate protest of the individua against the selfish injustice of the ma jority? What was the remedy for thes< abuses? Did it not lie in the hands of th< superior persons in the world-of tbos< who could see through the show o; things, who were clear headed, and pos sessed the courage of their convictions Let them lead the way. Doubtless the? would be pursued by the sneers ant slanders of fools and bigots; but fool: and bigots had ever been the foes o: progress and enlightenment. We wh( take the broader and profounder view? can afford to disregard their clamor We (said Jocelyn, taking the prima don na's hand in his, and stroking it gently can set them the example of couragi and independence, which will sooner o: later be followed. It is not merely om privilege, but our duty, and it would tx base for us to shrink from it The prima donna withdrew her hanc as unobtrusively as she could, and asket her mentor what objection there was t* marriage if people loved each other He replied that if they loved ead other what was the use of marriage'. She rejoined that for two larsons t< love each other was for them to feel thal they must belong to each other forever, and that marriage was simply their oper declaration before God and man of thc existence of this feeling in their hearts. To make such a declaration was, shi conceived, a natural and inevitable im? pulse, and it was natural and expedienl that it should be made according to cer? tain forms, the gradual outcome of tra? dition and custom. Therefore sh? thought marriage was not so much an in justice of society to the individual, as a demand made by the individual thai society be the witness and a voucher ol his covenant. But Jocelyn hereupon pointed out that a covenant always implied a binding promise, involving penalties if it were broken; that this again implied distrust in the power of pure love to hold its own, and that any outside pressure brought to bear upon a passion essentially so free as love must tend to promote the very re? action and revolt which it professed to guard against. She made answer that the covenant of marriage was not a bondage, and had not that effect upon thc parties to it, but that to make ono's happiness known to others endowed it with a reality and substance which were else wanting to it That even* ?>erson one met tacitly or explicitly confirmed it, reechoed it and assured it, and that the wedded state would consequently lose half its delight, and security if it ex? isted, for example, between two persons on a desert island, debarred from ever communicating the fact of their mutual relation to others. Jocelyn here changed his ground, the better to convey his meaning, and put it to his interlocutor whether a large per? centage of marriages were not notori? ously unhappy, and tliis being admitted, whether it were not thereby demon? strated that a great many marriages were a mistake? She answered that even if all marriages which had ever oc? curred were mistakes, that would not prove that marriage itself was a mistake, but only that the wedded partners had been mistaken in each other. Upon his maintaining that every institution must be judged by its practical application, she rejoined that if there were no such thing as love, there was an end to all argument about it. He said that love did unquestionably exist, and that it was the strongest and most enduring passion of the human heart, but that it by no means followed that we could always love the same per? son with equal fervor. Life was growth, and love, which was the essence of lifo, must therefore be subject to growth likewise. As we developed, as our minds and capacities expanded, we put aside the things of our less ma? ture time, and embraced the interests and the loves corresponding to our larger sphere. There was one love for child? hood, another for youth, another for the primo of life. Tho greater a person's in? herent scope and energy, the finer his organization, the more often would he find it necessary to change the object of his affections. To do so was not in op? position to true morality, but in ol>e dience to it: but society; consulting sole? ly its own selfish convenience, had arti? ficially and arbitrarily made such acts criminal, and had thereby l>owildered and mortally injured myriads of inno? cent human beings. To this the prima donna replied that love could grow inimitably without dan? ger of ever outgrowing ils object. Tho need was not of more to love, but to love more. God. who was love itself, loved tilt? meanest of his creatures, and what God loved that, surely, is not unworthy the aJIection of tho most richly endowed of mankind. As Jocelyn did not imme? diately confute this argument the prima donna arose and gently intimated that it was necessary for her to be alone in | order to prepare for the evening's per? formance. Jocelyn ought to have known the futil? ity of argument with a woman about a . subject in which the emotions are main- i ly involved. Even if he had demon- i strafed his proposition and obtained her ! assent to it, he would not have been a ; bit nearer his goal. A woman overpow- j ered by passion will act in direct oppo? sition to the most elementary dictates of , reason; and the same woman will not [ swerve a hair's breadth from the path of rectitude if the most unanswerable logi- ; cal demonstration do not tally with her emotional prepossession. The fatal flaw in Jocelyn's syllogism was Jocelyn him- \ self. Man may sometimes be lexi by thc intellect, but woman only by thc heart ! -and by curiosity. Af ter the above discussion it liecame vaguely apparent to Jocelyn that the prima donna was drifting away from lum. She parried his attempts at famil? iar intercourse gently but effectively. He had in fact done her a service against his own interests. He had assisted her to formulate her instinctive recoil from the view which he sought to inculcate, it was incumbent upon him, therefore, to take some practical step. The close of the season was at hand. While he was racking his brains as to what he should do, accident came oppor? tunely to his aid. As he was walking about one evening behind the scenes, while the opera was in progress, a car? penter, who was tinkering a defective joint in the scenery up somewhere in the wings, let fail a chisel, which struck Jocelyn on the head, inflicting a super? ficial but alarming looking wound along the right side of his forehead. He stag? gered and fell, and blood streamed down his face. A surgeon was sent for, and meanwhile Jocelyn was removed into the prima donna's dressing room. Just then thc prima donna, warm and pa?pi tating from her scene, came in with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes, the thunder of applause still sounding in her ears. Jocelyn's ghastl}* aspect filled her with compassion and tenderness. She knelt down beside him where he lay upon the sofa, dipped her handkerchief in water, and with soft murmurs of sympathy and ruth washed the blood away from his wound. He recognized his good luck and lay still for a time, apparently in the dead faint that precedes dissolution. But watching his opportunity when they were left alone for a few minutes he fal? tered out an entreaty to be lifted to a sitting position, and when she clasped her strong young anns about him to ?ac? complish his desire she found herself un? awares entangled in his embrace, and before she could extricate herself she felt his lips on her cheek. She placed him in the attitude he wished, and then got slowly and wearily to her feet, her face pale and her eyes dark. ' '.So," she said, with a perceptible in? tonation of contempt, "I was not mis? taken!" "Forgive me, Beatrix," he sighed out, still affecting to be overcome by weak? ness. "I could not help it. Darling girl, I love you so! I can fight against it no longer." "I might have known that you were like the others-or worse," said she, "but I could not believe it till now. I shall never be mistaken again." "Oh, Beatrix! have you no pity-nc consideration for-for my condition: Heaven knows how I liave struggled! lake off this bandage," he continued querulously, snatching away the hand? kerchief from his forehead. "Let me bleed to death-I will not live without you!" "It will take you a long time to bleed fc> death, Mr. Jocelyn," returned she quietly. "I shall not be able to wait for yon. Perhaps Madame Femax wilL Shall I call her?" "You shall not speak to me in that :one!" exclaimed Jocelyn, raising him? self on his couch in real or feigned pas? sion. "I have not deserved it! Have 1 not done everything for you? Have you forgotten what you owe me?" "You cannot have forgotten that I long since told you I could never marry you, so how could you expect that I would pay you what I owe with my? self?" "I am not a man to make cold blooded calculations!** said he, getting impul? sively on his legs. "If you had any heart you would understand, Beatrix," he went on, suddenly changing his tone and attempting to seize her hands; "I do not ask an irrevocable compact-I do not hope that you can love me always. You will go on, 1 know, and leave mo behind. But, oh! my dearest one, woul? you regret in the future that is before you, and which my poor aid will have helped you to enjoy-will you regret, then, having made a man who loves you insanely-having made him, for a little while only, the happiest of human beings? You may be loved by younger men than I, and handsomer and richer, but never" "Mr. Jocelyn," she interposed, with a manner that indicated a lamen table hardening of her once sweet and gra? cious nature, "if you would look at yourself in the glass you would under? stand why I appear so iiusympathetic Even a prima donna, who holds herself at the beck and call of every good look? ing fellow who happens to take a fancy to her-evon I cannot listen to you uutil you have washed your face. Perhaps you had better not use my washstand people are so censorious, and your sensi? bilities are so delicate; but if you will go to your own place and get yourself in presentable condition then you may come to-morrow and we will talk over your proposal as quietly iis your passion will admit. I will ask my father and Gen. Inigo to be present as witnesses and to oifer suggestions: for you aro so young and impulsive that perhaps I might otherwise get the better of yon. I think I hear some one coming," she add? ed, laying her hand upon the door latch; "perhaps it would be pleasanter for you to go ont of your own accord, instead of waiting to be-assisted!" Jocelyn departed, feeling sore ontside and in. But he fancied he knew a way to make the prima donna regret Iiis dis miss?iL [TO BE CONTINUED ] THE WHOLE SECRET EX? POSED. The Mysteries of the Alliance Made Public FCJ.L TKXT OF THE INITIATION* CERE? MONIES AT TUE INTRODUCTION 0F <;EX. CORDON INTO THE ORDER. The Athen?. Ga., Banner is re? sponsible for thc following exposition of thc valuable secrets con ncctcd with the Alliance. In an interview with a prominent Allianccman in that conn-; ly, he admitted to the Banner man ? thc coi redness of thc report, except | that thc (ail number of boar-Is were not used on thc distinguished candi? date for Alliance honors. Gen. (.Jordon is is now a full fledged Allianccman. ami will hereafter be j made to toe thc mark, and aodrcss Livingston, Macunc ami Harry Brown ! as -brother/ Thc initiation ol' this distinguished geni loman went 'lirough ! without a jostle, ami was witnessed j by n large and enthusiastic audience ol Allianceinen. At the risk of being shot for <x posing the secrets ol'our order, I will ? give the Banner a lull rqwrl of thc j impressive ceremony that snatched j General Gordon fro?n the clutches ot the politicians and made ki iii an humble disciple of I he plow. Thc candidate was escorted into the ante room of the AUianccincn by a body guard of farmers. He mani-, le ted some nervousness when his conductors demanded that, he pa tinily disrobe and submit to thc onie: ot* being curried oil' with a corn ct and rubbed down willi a bundle i fodder ; thc reason for this phautoi agricultural bath being that it wa necessary to cleanse his person froi the contaminating eliects ol'too clos a contact with Atlanta politician: Jeffersonian Democrats, Indcpei dents and other unclean clement, and that he might enter thc realm of agricultural bliss. lie was the arrayed in a pair ot coperas pant: upheld by one suspender and a hid ory shirt, wool hat and brogan shoes The Alliance (his guide explained was no rcspector of persons au every member must bc on an com footing. Three raps were given on thc lodg room door, and a sepulchral voie from within demanded : 'Who comes there V 'A poor penitent who is grovclin in darkness, and asks that the ligh of the Alliance bc turned upon lum. was the reply. 'Is the candidate a tiller of th soil V was the next querry fror within. 'Ile says he has always been th best friend the farmers ot' Georgi: ever had,' was the evasive response. 'See il there are any corns in Iii hands or cockle-burrs m his hair" wa: thc command. .Thc seeker oflight says he is onb a farmer by proxy, and the corns ari in the hands of thc men who worl his land/ was the response. 'Does thc candidate ask admittane< into our order in his own volition and is he prepared to pass throng! the ordeal of initiation V 'Ile docs and he is,' was the replj from without. 'Let the candidate then remain ir darkness until his eyes are prepared to receive thc great light that thc Alliance will turn upon him and he cat*bc admitted into our sacred pre cincts,' was the next order. Thc eyes of thc applicant for Al? liance knowledge were bandaged with a second-hand guano sack, thc door of the lodge-room thrown open, and Georgia's ex-Governor" and United States Senator, tor the first time in his life, found himself in thc inner sanctuary o? the fanners' lair. He was marched three times around the room, while thc members wel? comed him with "While the lamp holds out to burn The vilest, siunet* may return." With a 'gee' and 'haw' thc candi? date was escorted to thc Grand Ty? coon, who used as a chair of state thc small end of a bale of cotton. 'Our would-be brother, your humilia? ting entry into this room teaches you a usciul lesson. A few minutes ago, you came to us reeking with the odor of thc politician, and arrayed in thc paraphernalia of a great man. Von were stripped of yonr fine ap? parel, which means that you must also leave behind 3'ou in your future communications with farmers your worldly dignirv, or the Alliance will strip you of your honors, as easily as it did of your tailor-made garments. All men (except the nigger) are free and equal. 'The odious bandage that obscured your vision is a necessary attach? ment to thc farm ; ami whi;C it teaches an Allianceman that bc must not expect his pathway through life to bc sprinkled with the ottar of roses, will bc a special reminder to yon of the otfensivo manner that yon spoke of our leaders and friends dur ing your recent campaign. The con? ductor will now convey thc candidate to tire high and mighty hister tor further instructions, while the breth? ren will please sing, "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand." Tie H. and M. hister was squat? ting between the handles of a plow stock. Without further ado, thc candidate had an iron hook fastened in the seat of his pants, to which a rope was attached and thrown over a beam above. With a steady pull by two sinewy Alliancemen thc dis? tinguished gentleman was soon dang? ling in thc air, with hands and feet vainly clutching at the floor. .Now hohl the candidate in that position, where he can better ap? preciate thc beautiful lessons inculca? ted by thc Alliance,' remarked thc G. and M. H. 'lt is needless tor thc partially initiated brother to longer clutch at the floor, lie has already had some experience at resigning and the wisest thing he can do is to put into practice that virtue and be resigned to the position we have placed him in, and not postpone this matter until he gets to Washington again.' That hook.' thc High . Hister explained 'illustrates the linn hold the Farmers' Alliance has on man kind. Your struggles in thc air shows thc folly of a candidate trying to gain his equilibrium while in thc mighty grasp of our order. It also illustrates our political power to ele? vate or lower a niau at will. Your futile clutches in thc air is to show thc folly ol' a candidate trying to reach for office through politicians. Thc candidate can now be released and earned before the Supreme Spanker for further enlightenment : and while he is making the circuit ol the room the brothers will sing. 'On Greenland's ley Mountains,' as I notice that the candidate is begin? ning to shiver in the cold air ol the* rcjpm.' Thc Supreme Spanker sat upon a bale of hay. Ile ordered the band? age removed irom the candidate's eyes, remarking that he had perhaps progressed far enough to stand I lie light ol'the Alliance: ami. besides, he was to go through ano;her ordeal that required all of a man's faculties to eiidui e. The seeker alter light was then led up to a barrel, and in a twinkling stretched over it. 'Bring lort h the sub-treasury plank,' commanded the Supr?me Spanker, 'and convince the new brother that it is not a rouen one, but made of good sound t imber. Lei the high executioner do his duty like a good and true Alliance man. while we will ali sing : "Once I was blind,- but now I cun see."" Forty times tliat p?an-fc rose- in tlio ah- and came down with' a mighty thump, before the writhing victim? was released and earned before thc Supreme Spanker again, to have the lesson he had just received explained, .You have passed thrrMurh one ot tho most beautiful and edifvyng eiiap ters in thc Alliance mode o? mitra tion. You have publicly a-sserted that we ha<i only one plank fra our platform, and that a rotten oue.. I feel asstired that you are now pre? pared to correct this statement,, and assert that our sub-treasury plank is one of the soundest that you have ever felt* We have several other planks, as we can prove to your en? ure satisfaction, ii'so desired.. Oh I you say you arc satisfied !' Walis be careful in the future how you speak blurringly of something JOG know nothing about. Sow carry the can? didate, Brother conductor, for other useful lessons, and while he is on the move ict t he members sins* :. "This is the way I long have sought.*7" Tiie Great Drencher had on the table before him three black leather* and a goblet haM f??eti with- what ap? peared to be old Bourbon* .After Iiis long fatiguing- pilgrim? age our brother is doubtless in med of rest and. refresh meats. Pktcc a chair tiiat he may be scated/ This was <lone, but by some sight of-hand the candidate made a mi$?T and landed on the iloor 'My unfortunate brother, you have now learned thc uncertainty of politi? cal campaigns. Just asa man thinks he has lound a nice, comfortable scat, the Alliance slips it from be? neath him, and painful indeed is his disappointment. 1 spoke just now of refrcshmentSj an-d had prepared a nice mess of corn for you; but I now discover in your recent anxiety Xv explain t he famous speech you made before the Alliance convention, tint you have already eaten all the sub treasury crow except a few tail feath? ers. But herc is a glass of Jefferson? ian Democracy, according to the Epistle of Romans, that you were so partial to a short time since. This is thc last of the eask an4 please swallow the same. Well, if you hesitate, I have to order the grand executioner to show you another one of thc planks in our platform. Ahr you find the liquid is encased in glass, so that it will not wet your parched lips. Thal, my brother, is Jeffersonian Democracy. It is very nice to look upon, bat like Dead Sea fruit, is tasteless. This shows you that to depend on other classes than the Alliance and the organized Demo? cracy for office and honor is to par? take of a phantom political lunch. 'This, my newly-made brother, ends the first degree in the Farmers* Alliance. I trust the great and beau? tiful truths you have seen illustrated to-day will make a lasting impression on your mind. The brethren will now join hands and while they march around the new member sing : "Once I was lost, but now I am found.** Tims ended one of the most en? tertaining ceremonies ever performed in our State. It is to be re-rretted that every Al? liance man in Georgia could not have witnessed the snatching of this dis? tinguished brand from the fire built around it by thc politicians. History of South. Carolina, We notice that two histories of South Carolina are soon to be published -one by Mr. J. I?. Weber, School Commissioner of Charleston County, the other by Mr. John A. Chapman, of Newberry. The claims of both of these gentler OD will be presented to the State ?>o?.rd cf Examiners at an early day. We Deed a better school history. Davidson's history is the ooly ooe that we now have, aud it does not fully meet the demand. It is too brief, aud does not seem to be as well suited io the average pupil as a school history should be. Although it is tbe only ODe we now have, aud should be used on (hat accooot at Last, io all public schools, yet such is not the case. We find a great many teachers who do n??l teach S^uth Carolina history at all, that is, no more than is found ia the U?itcd States histories. In conse? quence of this, pupils know as much about the history of New York or any other Northern or Westero State as they do about that of our own State. When the new histories come out we hope that there wiil be a change, and that the history of South Carolina will be prominent in our common schools. It ought to be at least.-Newberry Herald. An exchange asks this question : . 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