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V THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 30, 1887 LALLAN COURTLAND; OR, An American Countess. Author of By T. K. SHARKEY, "Shadowed Hearts,” "The Heritage of Sin,” "Out of the Depths,” “Viola,” Eto. CHAPTER XI. Herbert Castleton returned to his home In in Louisiana immediately after his uncle, Mr. Eric Oliver, was buried. He had remained away long enough to satisfy himself that the appearance of the detective that night at the ball was an accident, that he had had really no cause for the Jecrible alarm. Where that tracedv, in which he had taken the leading role occurred it was still believed that the murdered man was Castleton the faithless yourg husband. Marjory’s escape, old Miss Lindsay’s death and disappearance of Mar jory's child had created a sensation in that primitive village but it soon died out as other sensations die. The people there secretly re joiced over Marjory’s escape. They thought her guiltv but believed she had just cause to slay the villain. Hence there had been but a feeble attempt, a feint as it were, to recapture Herbert arrived too late for the funeral but he was prestnt when the will was opened and read. All was bequeathed to Adrienne, not one cent to Herbert. This astonished them all. In the evening of the same day after the will was read there were three persons m the libra ry—Adrienne, Herbert and the woman with the white hair and dead black eyes. Herbert was silent and moody. It was bitter disappointment to him. 1 he paramount passion with him was the love of wealth. Adrienne smiled in silent triumph. “Will neither of you speak,” said the wom an in black. “We all know that the will was made in that way in view of an immediate union in marriage of the two heirs. The mar riage settlements prove that. But without the consummation in marriage of the betrothal upon which these settlements were based, all the settlements are worthless Under the cir cumstances even in the deepest mourning a private marriage is allowable. I advise that the ceremony shall take place at once. “Never!’’ said Adrienne. “I will not marry Herbert. There was a time when I might have loved him. But be scorned my girlish adora tion. It is my turn, now, to scorn the pro posed relationship.” “What mean you Adrisnne?” said her mother angrily. _ ,, , ... “Just exactly what I said. I will never marry Herbert and I will refuse to make good the marriage settlements. A princely fortune has been bequeathed to me alone, and, mone, I will enjoy it. I would not for the world be cumbered with a husband who does not love me and whom I do cot love. I am quite wil ling to be friends with you, Herbert, but it must be at a distance. 1 will also be generous enough to give you a few thousands in consid eration of your expectations and present great disappointment. As for you, whom for the first time I knew to be my own mother, I will be glad to have you live with me if agreeable to you. We have never known each other in the relationship of mother and daughter. But perhaps with the knowledge of this tie, and living together, we may learn to care for each other with the natural love that usually exists between two thus nearly related. As you did not love my father it may be difficult to you to foster such affections.” “No. I never loved your father. He ren dered my life bitterly unhappy. He separated you from me. But as his child I did not care for you. My presence will add respectability to your establishment,” with a bitter smile. “Well, be it so. 3 will live with you. I am tired of wandering.” “Whenever you choose, Herbert, I can make over to you the limited sum of money I pro pose to give.” Bowing to both of them she swept out of the room imiwriouslj-. Fortune moments the two remaining were s lent. Then the woman placed into Herbert’s hands the seal* d package which old Lric had been so “I am bewildered!” She drew a small ova! case from her pocket ami |>ave it to him. “Look at the picture in this half first,” she sard, “then look at yourself in the mirror.” lie obeyed her—standing in front of a large mirror, looking first at the miniature in tbe oval flame then a, his own image rellected in he mirror. lie smiled curiously, and returning he seated himself beside her, saying: “I comprehend perfectly now.” She laid her hand on his shoulder and spoke slowly. For the first time there was weariness in her voice, aud there was a touch of sadness in it. “My work in a measure is finished. I feel something of the feeling that I think must come to an aulh )r after completing a tragic story or poem wherein was depicted passionate love, passionate hate, black deeds, heroic mar tyrdom, and wrongs suffered, worse th in death —wrongs that made revenge seem God-like and its necessity pre-ordained fate. Yes. Something of that feeling stirs me. The wea riness of a work done brings to me the desire to lie still, to fold my hands and die,” her hand bore heavily on his shoulders. “1 would like to live to see you established as the heir to Delvynne. But I feel strangely to it it'lit, as if the curtain was about- to drop on the last scene of my life’s drama.” She sighed. Jt was like a broken sob. “It will not matter to you,” she continued. “The way has been cleared for you. You have a clever brain and a bold nature. Your credentials of birth will bear the authority which they will never think of questioning coming as they do from Eric Delvynne will! the authenticated news of his death. One thing more. You will not have money, scarce ly enough to keep a gentleman. When once you have established your claim there will be but one life between you and the Earldom, l’hilip’s youngest brother. He is a doomed invalid. He will not he in your way very lot g. But, even as Lord Delvynne, Earl of Delvynne, you will be poor. There is no pov erty so poor, so pitiful as that which is gilded with a giand name and a grand old ancestral heme empty of the moans to keep up its grandeur. The Earls for two generations have been fast livers and inefficient nten. They were too proud to stoop to make raonov, too loyal to sell any part of the ancestral domain. And the last Earl has had a hard struggle to hold it. Jt is, I am told, heavily mortgaged. I am sure that you wiil soon come into pos to deal with. But that was part of the fate pursuing him. Money was needed absolutely to keep up a grand ancestral inheritance. He would represent a proud race, and without money he could not sustain its glory. It would bo most difficult to him now to play the lover, lie had been so desperately sickened of late with the lover’s role. But one could school hiutBelf into any kind of personation. No doubt he could play the lover just as a pro fessional does on the theatre boards. After all, the world is only a grand stage. The best actor in it is the most successful man. So be it! The die was cast! The tlico had been loaded for him—and he would take the winnings and get the most out of life on a grand scale. “l’oor little Marjory! She would pine away in her broken hearted solitude. It would only be one life less. Ho had left her in a cosy little nest. He would manage somehow to keep her in money to maintain herself and child; and it might not be impossible to him to visit her occasion ally. On his way home, little dreaming of all that had happened, he had thought a good deal about her and of the old happy days they had spent together. Her love had been very sweet to him once, and he had thought only .a few days ago that if any affection could ever warm his chilled nature again, it would bo love for Marjory and her boy. ‘ She loved me so well. I’oor little martyr! Sbo had even wanted to die for me. But that is all in the past now, never more to be any thing to me—unless—perhaps ” There was no answer to his thoughts in the hushed silence. Ah, Herbert! what villainy are you madly running into! Is it the inevitable outcome of that lirst black deed? Before that he was not a bad man, only very passionate and selfish and a very jealons nature. And now, he was meditating cool, deliberate, villainy, step by step. “Was the moon shining down upon many very happy people?” he thought. “It was shining upon him in the softest silver rays, sweet as a woman’s smile. He onght to be the happiest of men with the brilliant pros pects so suddenly and marvelously offered to him, aud accepted." Yet, he sighed profoundly. And, retracing his steps to the house he looked along the edge of the shrubbery at the flickering little shad ows made by the breeze-tossed leaves, aud shivered as if he had seen something uncanny, something that weakened him! CHAPTER XII. It is two yeare since the closing scene of our last chapter. “The day is simply perfect. In such a beau tiful world all the human family should be happy.” It was Lallah Courtland speaking to her cousin, Philip Delvynne. They were walking together through the beautiful woods of Nardene, the ancestral home of the Courtlands. Spring had put on her fairest dress. The violets were blooming, the starry primrose nestling in the shadows. The great lime trees were in blossom, filling the air with their perfume; and the chestnn s were in full flower. Overhead the sky was one broad wave of illuminated blue. “Of all the world, you should be happy,” Phillip answered. “Yet I have sometimes thought that you are not as happy as you should bo.” “Is perfect, cloudless happiness possible to any out:? Most certainly I am not unhappy. Siuce the loss of my dear mother my life has known but one sorrow, and that ” she stopped with a sigh and a smile. / “And that?” her-epea’. I “Belongs to my inner life and will no# be abiding.. And you, Philip, aro you io&PJitm, Do nt»pi-yr * 1 . TlaSl among ns a new- wili have every opportunity and you possess all the gifts most women admire. Do not ask her to be your wife for at least two years. Give her time to forget the other attachment. It was love born of enthusiasm, hero worship—tbe effects of a generous but rash impulse. When once she is presented in society she will meet and mingle with people so different to her boyish lover. The compar isons, together with the glamour of one or two seasons, will efface his image and accomplish the much desired forgetfulness on her part. God speed you, my boy. To unite her to you, the son of my dear relative and best beloved friend, would be tbe proudest and happiest event of my life. I wronged yoar father once in doubting his honor. I do not think I can love his son well enough or do enough for him to atone for that error." The two years had passed, and Sir Richard thought his prediction had come to pass, since Laliah never spoke with him about Kenneth. He was glad to believe that she had ceased to care for him. Philip, too, had been deceived by her frank, sweet manner toward him. He had but to speak, he thought, to discover to herself her love for him.‘ Sir Richard had persuaded Philip to rent his own place ami make his home with them at Nardene. He did not dis courage his young kinsman’s disposition to accumulate money, for which pttrposo Philip had spent two-thirds of his time in America engaged in various speculations, lie had not been very successful, though he had not in curred heavy losses. Sir Richard always ad vanced the money for these ventures. As Philip and Lallah walked back to the house he was thinking deeply, lie was more perplexed than ever before in all his eventful life. He would not give her up, he determine!, grating his teeth. He must fot m some plan to get that fellow Rayburne out cf the way. He must by some means destroy Lallah’s faith in her young husband. He was st.isfied that that would be the only way to cure her love, lie would accomplish it. He must somehow, before the expiration of tho three years’ test, manage to separate them effectually and for ever. Philip little thought how soon he would have cause to rejoice, how soon the opportunity he craved would offer, haw soon the break in that marriage would come ready prepared for the finishing touch of his own hand to annul it. They went into a handsome drawing-room where a bright fire burned, where rich aud fra grant flowers gave forth a sweet perfume. Sir Richard met his daughter with a kiss, saying tenderly: “When you have rested a little I wish to speak with you in my study.” Tha interview with Philip had been painful to Lallah. It was not tbe first time she had been forced to listen to declarations of love. She always felt it to be a wrong to Kenneth, bnt, having given the promise to her father, she hsd carefully kept the secret of her mar riage until that day. Tbe wedding ring . she had worn in her bosom attached te her neck by a gold chain. On reaching her own cham ber she drew the ring cut and kissed it, smil ing happily. Half an hour later she descended to the study. She found her father walking the roo n much disturbed, and Philip sitting by the window watching him silently. With a vague feeling of uneaainess Lallah seated herself at a table. “What is it, father?” she said at last lu a tone of anxiety. Silently he picked up a newspaper which he placed into her hands, pointing out a column for her special notice. “I would not show it to you so abruptly if I did not believe that you have long since out lived that girlish sentimentality. Besides, even if there were a faint memory of that old fancy left in your heart, I know that a Court- land is too proud not to scorn such baseness and spam, without regret, the recreant.” Lallah turned pale as she sought the coluufn indicated. It was a letter from a foreign correspondent giving an account of a social event in a duel, with its exciting effects on a hotel party in Vi enna. The combat was the result of rivalry between two lovers of a dazzlingly beautiful and brilliant woman; the duelists Kenneth Rayburne and a Russian Count. The former being the successful suitor, the latter, in jeal ousy, had investigated the American’s char acter and revealed to tho woman they both loved the story ho had learned, to wit:. “That Konncih Rayburne was bound to ahoUVcr wo man in a secret marriage. The acet sld de nied the charge and challenged the-fount. nothing but the happiness of their children. I see that Mr. Barnett has presented a shingle that is a hundred years old the Agricultural Department. I expect itf ^:-flled his grand- father, and is therefore a sacred relic of the old South. The new South don’t paddle much. But the school teachers do thrash around some in these parts. Carl was telling me to-day how the teacher whipped one of the boys yesterday. “1 tell you what, papa, that boy got for .y-nine licks, for I counted 'em, and he never blinked nor winked, and set down langling.’’ “Why, he is a tough one,” said 1; “he must have a hide like an alliga tor.” “No, sir,” said Carl, “but he had on a big, loose jeans coat, and he held hack his shoulders so the coat never touched him, and nothing got a whipping but the coat.” Smart boys these days, and shifty. The old South nmy whip, but the new South knows how to dodge. the(oiTnti\y Philosopher (C’opjrriMhtwi by t ithor All riirhte reserved.] confess tho . . . , to the woman who had won , 8 I ? ve ^ r t om , lhe flrst Uncled allegiance of the heart. The lovely fiancee, no, two, fojgave found relative. My father has taken you into I “‘® rI 7 a 8 e was tui exaggeration by the his heart. 1 think really that you have made al , I{ “ 8 “ lau - He kad concealed the earlier amends to him for having been denied a sort mn'mi i*. b | he expected, within a few Sometimes I am almost jealous. My father to b ° reIeas « 1 from that obligation, loves mo dearly, but 1 thinghe has neverquite ft ’ by a fi rw . uie “‘> he could withdraw from forgiven me for being a girl.” She smiled ud wl conlract without compromising his honor, into his face so sweetly, so frankly, with eyes 'p!'/', ° n ,? e fr v e ’ 16 had uleaut confess the so pure and clear. 3 I oi<1 attachment He thougiit the face tho noblest ho had ever looked upon. . . „ “You are right,” he said. “Theyears since , lbia c ?P la nation. my birthright was recovered to me have been J ' aliaa seemed turned to ice as she read. It very gracious to me. 1 should not have said n™ f 8 'L® , 6 , bad besn Plunged into her that my life is empty. But a man to be happy i Mie leaned on the table, shading her requires one special pi ft, love.” ejes with both bands to hide the suffering “Yes,” she said softly, “that is nee Jed to C * a® l fall,er ' s searching look. render any life satisfied.” 1 Aa lie looked at her intently. “You say your fattier has taken me into his heart, how- is it with you, Lallah? Have you taken me into your heart, too?” 3 ‘■Yes. I am very fond of you. I’hilin Even as my father has adopted you as a son, my heart welcomed a brother.” 3 .•vi'7‘! h 7 ! "- be 8aid witb a 'l" ick impatience. Not that—give me more or nothing.” Noth.—Hy spxHiiid RrrangoL- e^t with the author of eh**** article*! and the A:la*.la Constitution, lor which prrier they are written under a hi>eci«l contract, wo publish them in th» Sunny South niid«r the copy ritfht. Nnoth? r j apernm-e allowed to publish them. The “Old South” is not dead by a long shot, andT am proud of it Just let anybody come out with a fling at her aud hsr friends comeout like hornets front a nest, Professor Tillett, of the Vanderbilt University, has been ventil ating bis sophomoric opinions in the Century, and belittleing the grand old gentleman of the olden tint: as “dependent idlers” and “gen tleman idlers," and says they were little more than “overseers of the blacks.” He asserts that “all our advancement in industry, and prosperity, and education, and literature, and morals, and religion ie due to the emancipation of the white man from his bondage to idleness, which is inseparable from the ownership of slaves." I don’t know who this professor Is, nor where he was born, but the spirit of this arti cle is a foul slander upon the old South. He either knew nothing about her or he is just writing for buncombe. Just such a tissue of misconception and misrepresentation was never gotten together—not ever by Cable. The Chnetian Advocate, of Nashville, seems to be intensely disgusted, and says: “Is it all new? Was there no manhood un til now? Were the great names that we rev ered ouly the creatures of fancy—the myths that appear in the early history of all barba rous people? Were Washington, and Jeffer son, and Madison mere creatures of a mythol- ogic age? Were Jackson, and Clay, and Cal houn, and Benton, and Macon, and Polk, and Bell, and Stephens, and Crittenden, the demi gods of a prehistoric race? Is it all a delusion that Tay lor, and Houston, and Crockett, and Travis, aud Lee, and Jackson, and Sidney Johnston, and Stuart, and Morgan, and For rest belonged to the old South? Who are the men that now lead tbe new South, but the men who led the old South? Who represent us in tbe halls of congress, and who administer our state governments? Who run our railways, and factories, and furnaces, and educational institutions? In a word, what is there that is good in the new South that was not rooted in the old South?” Then tt^i Christian Index takes it up and says: Woman’s Work. “Men work from morn till Bet cf snn.” They do. ‘ But a woman's work Is never done.” Q Lite true. Far when oue task she’s finished, sumelhlug’s found Awaiting a beginning, all yoar round. Wnctiter It be To draw the tea. Or bake the broad. Or make the bed, Or pijr tbe broom. Or dust tbe room. Or floor to scrub. Or kulves to rub, Or table to set, Or meals to get, < >r shelves to scan, O ' fruit to can. Or seeds to sow. Or plants to grow. Or Incus bleach. Or lessons teach. Or butter churn. Or J ackets turn, Or polish glass. Or plate or brass. Or clothes to mend, Or children tend, Or notes Indite, Or stories write— Bnt I most stop, for really If I should Name all the ors, take me a day It would. Bo many are there that I do declare More boats than I could count might have a pair And yet enough be left; and, men louts, these name ors propel yonr barks o’er household seas, Into sunn; havens where you rest a eaae, And, one word more—don’t you forget It, please. “That fellow calls himself a soldier, and he never smelt powder,” said Jones to Smith. “Never smelt powder, eh?” “No, sir." “I think you're wrong. I saw hint kissing a society girl the other night.” keep abrt” is go-d. anti rru uur .P8J,’ 'la id anti not t> ,o the new South, and hope to her in all her progress in what a'so belong to the old South, f her history. We acknowl- as the offspring of our past, [body e!se's past. Wnat there not of Puritau origin. The There WAS bloodshed, but nqmortai wuVnds. > s good i l j J*!. IIR A "lift llrj 1 now jf Jirw secret marriage was an exaggeration by the But &i|»Jj-labi.rate ami admirable reply to i’rofc.gspr 111 let t comes from Dr it ’ l- Dearest," said a fond but practical lover after the wedding day had bean set, "can you—ar—do you know how to sweep?" “Sweep?” repeated the girl with a proud glitter in her eye. “At the party to-morrow night, George dear, just watch mo as 1 sweep into the room!” A passenger by rail, aroused from a serene slumber by the tooting of a whistle, exclaimed: “Tha traiu has caught up with those cattle again.” They are very strict in the enforcement of the game laws in the South Pacific Islands. Fitfc natives were recently hanged for killing and eating one missionary.—Church llill(lld.) .Yews. j Prosperous Passenge (to street car/!•'.,er): - , - ht' v ell, my man, whak do you do with your wee any., Unu,^ As she finished the article she shivered, aud tioir t iere WaS U ° OLher Tisab!e sign of tmo- “My daughter,” said her father sternly, “it is time for us to take some action in that mat ter of your part.” “Yes, father.” The cold tone sounded in her own tars like tho voice of another. “We will at once demand the fulfillment of the conditions m that agreement. She was speechless. She felt like crying out p?” in her misery. b whn h. r. f - ,t a b !’ otber but As a lover, Philip watched her closely, thinking with who begs for the same kind of love in re- tnuuiph that late was kind to him, that while ’ ... he was trying to conceive some plan to brin- “Philip!” raising her hand to silence him about t|“sve r ycrisi8 an accident worked “f am sorry, very sorry. I did not dream of „2.V fulIy . in , t0 b,s bands - this. I he article of agreement,” said Sir Rich- “Has my wooing been so misunderstood? ? r( ” to c, ther the right to demand a re- How have I failed to show the lover’s I wlthol,t «l at ‘ng reasons for doingso. W* warmth?" he spoke with suppressed irrita- I W . amic ‘I )a te this faithless cad’s demand bv tion I au immediate call for your freedom. I am glad “My dear cousin, your kind affectionate be ! lad I= be g ,7* ce t0 wait {or }' ou to act in the care of me at all times has had a far different rSt „ meaning to me. If it meant more than a I Philip, will you please come to the desk and brother’s love, I certainly have misunderstood wrl ^® :ui I dictate,” Sir Richard added, it. If I had not, I would bit-erly renroaeli I "Father, yoa will word it in—” rnvself.” 3 1 acu “A becoming manner. \'emr f iv •• comes from Dr. B."F Want in Urn Mfstssippi Clarion. It is grand t is eloquent and convincing. 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With this book at hand any one may readily find a suitable word to express their exact meaning and convey a thought correctly. This book ia invaluable to speakers, writers, authors anti the conversationalist. Handsomely bound in oloth. For two new f ebteribere we will send a copy of either cf these valuable bo«>*.« in napir bind TIaijv hometalks - BY DK. E. B. FOOTE. i or three new subscribers we will sei ,t a coi>y ol Dr. Foote's l’laiu Home Talks Linimsnf eminence, twenty-nine Associa'e Justices K '"r» »l»fht wear cr.,wu 9 . w!- h rl-h.at 1w-i„ ,,;. ^° ne AUor ?‘T Generals and ninety- I Tt^tP ral ? e to greatness aS?:’ nine ministers to foreign countries. there ts no new South. Tne term is a mis- tume r in bd -r "V ^'t t U ‘ S fiiaply a pbrase co3 - thranah . ' 1C : °' d I )re Jtic) ices masquerade thiough modern [.nuts seeking to pervert the education of Southern children info the com we e?h. « at A r aDC * stor ‘ i . if not criminal. vrjVu'll T tba , n a rac “ of idlers, blunder' ere biockheads and failures. The literature ten by our statesmen will iUnd as monuments of wisdom an,, models of classical lore. In ait the departments of government, in law lit erature and science, while the South has 5°“^ “ f ''O great arm y of writers, she has furnished the minds productive of the grand est results to the country and the worid. • * When a prolific lit tie animal, vain of her progeny, twitted the lioness for nursing ouly one, the noble beast repitd: Yes only one—bnt it is a lion.” ’ 3 i J ,r ' Ward closes his splendid defense by say- TheirweairbaiidKloryl'wouidenvy^ot U ‘ eSS : Had i hut you. ffcKof E'eu’s happy bowers 'h* beauties touurview ' fitUl would I pr • as fairer spot, by far My house with you. And when our souls had hade farewell to earn- And In immortal lauds Old live anew ” I a crave uo other paradise than tuts-. Your love aud you. myself.” J I “A becoming manner. Never fear. “We are nearing the garden," she added “But I mean—that—there should’be—that “J.et us stop awhile in the arbor; I have some- ,, WIsb to leave U °P e, ‘ for an explanation—” tbir g to say to you. I am too sorrv now that Her father frowned, and l’hiiip bit his lip i'lid not confide in you long ago. Believe f ve ^ ed T’ me, Philip, if I Lad imagined that you were ^at is necessary is to request the man learning to care for me in that way I would f.° P roceed at 0I,C, ‘, in the county where the have told you my secret. That it is a secret is Ilcense ,s recorded, to petition the court for not my fault. I never approved of the con 811 art 'cle of divorce. Thete need be nolaw- ccalment, but my father demanded it.” I suit." When they were seated beneath the vines ! • b ‘ a * ab wi! ' bave t0 sign such a petition ’’ she told him, very gently and quM] v ‘the > nU 'rrupted Philip. 1 would not allow tbe fel- story of her marriage in America. ’ low to institute the proceedings. If you allow “You wish me to believe that you feel bound me 1 wilt sim T ly request hint to secure a prop- „r,, . ... , —- r — , to that man, that you will throw vonrs.lf I e ' form of a Petition, to sign it himseif in the sessiott of t.ie title and this grand empty es- away upon a person without even unlimited !> , rest " c ‘ ! of o<f*ciaI authority and to forward tate. > < u are handsome and clever enough to social position—a man so far vonr ™ lted 1 ' win a rich bride with gold sufficient to restore ! You cannot mean it.” i , , J ^ e will not discuss n.y private affairs anv I ° o—--j * -« -*»*> uuusu, upon tt i , , a womarl alwa J'S needed to make further. Already you abuse my confidence 3 C ? n SJ . w , otd the communication as to give him fu.l completeness in a man s life? which was meant at a kindness to you. I do lbe Privilege of defending his conduct throu -h . he looked at him onrinnslv I nteau lo he true to my husband. Please to be M* P rivate correspondence with her before tak- silent upon the snbject ever after this.” mg any steps in tbe matter.”, He bit his lip fiercely and there was a flash . “Thank you, l’hiiip. That is what I de- of fire in his b'ack eyes, But he said with 8lre ' ... ” Him spring irom a racf* tedbv r » 8 ) WhOSetn f rs i e8 bave be< u emascula te 0 “J the curie of slavery. * « • . j , b°o U vs ,e "'t ,Jar r t3 ., l0Ok t0 tbe e(!uca tion of their , I Wdh etreumspection when the |" 8 ? dls . of education comes to us ’bearing gifts’ ill the hope of endowments for southern uni versities, where the boys are to bo tau-ht to deeds of' t| 0i;y aC< ‘ b l U8b /.° r ^ cbara cter and ueeoa of their ancestors. 'J hat’s it; that’s it exactly, that’s what I hav e been thinking for lo these many years and what I have been trying to say but no man b.'ia ever said it as well ;is Dr. Ward I know him personally, and was his guest at muffin?’ M ir 8i ^: , 1 feUtbat I com muning with a thinker, a philosopher a southerner of the old school, a lype of the grand men that the old south produced and the new south will not produce and cannot and wffh ! “,? rm tbi * b «“ b !y. conscientiously and with faith—reluctant faith—that our pres- t J ,0 't'f\ Ca11 “ lar ” e ’ b i iDew y man a prcvnrica- „® r ', ^ > ou are sure be is a prevaricator, hire another man to break the news to him. The first bluebird of the season put iu an appearance at Chicago. He wore an ulster bada r iC8 , on b,s fect - a pmt of whisky in his pocket and a mustard plaster on his chest. Mistress (to seryant)-“I)id you tell those ladies a„ the door that i was nut at home?” servant—“1 is, mum.” Mistress—“what did they say? ’ Servant—“How iortinit!” ‘With All Her Faults.’ SAUK BENNETT. 10 two • t’s” Where one would do. Ana spells ‘ dog” with an extra “a" • But not a girl la this wide land * Is naif so dear, and very few One-tenth as sweet as sle to me. Dcc-thlug! sometimes she says “I seen ■' Tlwy was,'* “Ts not J’ or * - t»o be you”: ”—hi “They's good”—narth to Site looked at hint curiously. “Is it possible, Herbert, that you love Adrienne too well to wed another?” “No. I think I hate her.” ‘ There is a young girl, rich and of noble bntb, whom you can win lor your wife.” “Who?” “i’he daughter and only child of Sir Rich ard Courtland, who is I’h ilip's cousin and was his best beloved friend. I think it would be the proudest and happiest act of Richard’s life to give his daughter to Philip’s son.” Sho stooped and kissed him, and then glided away silently. Herbert sat where she left him until late in m the night, thinking and planning. Before he retired he walked out into the garden. The air was full of the perfume of flowers and was warm and rich. He looked at the soft light of the moon and wondered if it was not, after all, only a dream. It seemed to hint as though a whole decade had swept by since the broad radiance of the last full moon. Poor Marjory 1” escaped his lips in a whis per that made him start. Tue hushed silence around was as the silence of the grave, and the whispered words seemed --rberate in the softest, most mysterious My fate pursues me,” he goes on thinking, a pre-ordained fate I think it must be. I have not the power to struggle against it even if j had the desire. On the oue side is poverty without even the illusion of love left for the woman who is my wife, and her very ex istence is a secret to all the world. On the other side, riches, a proud title, and perhaps fame. What mortal man would hesitate which to take? He wa] sorry there would be another woman forced humility: “Pardon me! I meant no offense. Disap pointment is bitter and will make the best of men crot-s and presumptious. Will you for give me?” She inclined her head kindly. “I can but think,” she said, “that you are deceiving yourself. A woman rarely fails to discover a love of that nature, Philip. I do not think I could mistake it.” “If it plcaves you, eases your conscience, you can ” He stopped abruptly, aware by the look in her grave face that he was about to offend again. “It does please me to think it,” she said quietly. “I would be very sorry to believe that you are not mistaken in it yourself. When you do really find your true mate and once experience such love you will see the difference yourself, which I hope will be your happiness seme day.” “Come, let us forget it all and go into the house. Father will be waiting for us,” she said, walking out of the arbor. He followed and they continued their walk to tbe dwelling in unbroken silence. Lallah little suspected that Philip had long known the secret of her marriage. A few months after he first met her he had asked of htr father her hand in marriage. At that time Sir Richard confided to him the story of Lai- iah’s connection with Kenneth Rayburne, when he had said to him: “Win her, Philip and I will bless you. Do not be’ hasty.’ Teach her slowly to love you. You ■ . significant. , ffidsoufh SC h rapfr ’ m Ward ’ 8 dt fe>‘ a «of the ?ta south, ter mtn and nteasuns, her patriot- srn, her integrity, her statesmanship, but if I had my way I wtuld have it published as a classic and have it planted in every school and college in the sorth as an authority not to be questioned. I say to my children: “There is no taint upon yojr ancestry. There was no curse in slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe wro' e a ™ ,aant .‘ c lie a,,d the whole fanatical crew revelled in slavery—but slavery had its dav and served its purpose. Its time was out—let « t* ' -f — — •'••v vvwmmuu | 1 ,. out. We are giad of it if it was th« will JJappiJy your name was not known of Providence, but be careful lest a worse evil to be mixed up mthts disgraceful affair at Vi- Wall ua. Lei us fortify and entrench gainst the love of money, which the Bible telU us is “It is lowering yourself to do it,” grumbled the Baronet. Philip smiled curiously. “I do not think so,” she said. “There can be no explanation acceptable to me. He will know that. I simply want him to confess to me directly his faithlessness, his falsehoods ” “Very well, my dear. It will only occasion slavery question, but with other tmes- ttons , uore radically significant. I have only ‘•rtem’s yours,” my ears; But she is Btili my lovely queen, Wi’ose itearr-beatsare to mine moat tiue And will be yet fer many ytars. S >me say that love is blind, and I Would arid that love Is deaf also. 1 Hough grammarless and spelling bad My love 18 handsome, sweet and shy. The secret of our love you’d know? Silo’s only five ar.d I’m her dad. CURES Sciatica, Scratches, | Contracted Lumbago, Sprains. I Muscles. Rheumatism, Strains, Eruptions/ Burns, Stitches, HoofAiL Scalds, Stiff Joints, Screw Sungs, Backache, I Worms, Bitea, Galls, Swinney, Bruises, Sores, Saddle Galls, Bunions, Spavin Piles. Corns, j Cracks. this cood old stand-by forl/ol// IV F '’ er ? h0 ' 1 ? what is claimed “ „ °“ e ot ‘ h0 re^ns for the great popularity of the Mustang Liniment Is found Inlts uuiverral avplicabilitr. Everybody needs such a medicine! x ao I.ninocrinnii needs It In case or accident. The Housewife needs It for K cneraIfamIly turn. U he Cannier needs It for his toanuand Ids men. bench Meclmi ‘ ic aeod * 11 Mnays on his irerlc The Miner needs It In case of emergency. Tb e Pioneer needs it-can’t get aJong without It. TU© eariiicr needs it ia his house, his stable and his stock yard. * l. m h ,n S,e ,‘ U,,b, ’ U, m “ n or lk * Bon>m.n needs It In liberal supply afloat and ashore. The Horac-fancier needs lt-tt Is his best friend and safest reliance. The Stock.grower needs ft—It will save him thousands of dollars and a world ot trouble. The Itallrond man needs it and will need It m ,0 ™' 1S « SI ? e 13 “ roUni1 of ucc *J pa£ aand dangenT tens "“ cI “ v< >‘> d »>ii>ra needs It. There is noth, tog like It as an antldoto for the danger, to Ufa, Ihnb and comfort which surround tho pioneer The Merchant needs It about hu store a'mong hU employees. Accidents will happen, and when thffiio come the Jfustang Liniment Is wanted at onco. Keep a Battle iu the If ouae. ’Tis the beat of economy. Keep a ISotilo in ehc Factory. Itaimmedlate use la case of accident saves pain and lot., of wagea. Keep a Bottle Always In the suable for *• when truDted. 6&7-lyr and women, ffie n -^ Stem ’ tbehaWt8 ‘* > cause and prevention o. i !'\ d <;alSfcs t prevention and cure of I chronic diseases, the ralumi r .,|,.A- . men and women to ^ch "other s’rietv love,Dunnage, parentage. Ac. embeJiish!^ !»; '‘M'teffatioits. The look contai^ pages, handsomely bound in cloth aim A GOOD PBOPOSITM. Catarrh The young man who has his evening to himself generally goes aud gives them to°sotne one else. Twenty widows own twenty adjoining farms in Green county, O. What a country that must be for weeds! “Philip, I wish to keep a copy of the letter you write,” she said. “Certainly. I can easily write a duplicate ’’ he answered secretly glad of the request. ’ The letter was soon written. Philip read it aloud. There waano mention of the due). It w^s approved and signed by the Baronet and h s daughter. Lallah went from the room like one dazed. She had loved him so well. There had never arisen in her mind the iainlest doubt. Ifis honor, truth, and love had been to her unques tionable. She could not stay in her room—she felt that she would suffocate iu-doors. She quitted the house hurrying out into the grounds. Night had come on. Ths moon shone sil very bright. Shadows of wondrons grace and we rd-iike aspect lay upon the earth. Half mad with the passion of her sorrow she rushed on, her light footsteys crushing the fal len lime blossoms. fro na coxtinled.] the root of all evd.” We want no more of slavery. It had ita mission, not its sin nor its curse, but its mis- co >I t 1,0111 10 wb ' te and t0 bIacl£ > and we are Here are a whole lot of fools wh j strut a £? n ! ld on speculators’ money and say let the old South alone, she’s a dead dog and stinks. I heard a bloated bondholder say that not tong ago, and ia the same conversation he bragged about a painting be bought at Stu- »rt s sale, and said it was 300 years old. We »ul talk about the old South just as much as we please, and no man shall make us afraid. We love old things SDyhow. They aro the best. The poet says: “I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm chair?” There is Old Hundred and Old Lang Syne, and here are the old trees and the old land marks and the old men and old women with good old honest habits and limited desires, who indulge in no folly and hanker after no big thing, but live calm aud serene and covet “Whv do I pause?” asked a sti-eet orator one day, and some ono in the crowd answered “ho got breath." ’ A Heartbroken Wail. I once bad a sweetheart. Her batr was punkiu yetlew; A"d dorgone If she didn’t Km elf with another fetter. “If Jones undertakes to puli my ears,” said a loud-spoken young man, “he’ll just have his hands full.” Those who heard him looked at his ears and smiled. An old gentleman, finding a couple of his nieces fencing with broomsticks, said, “Come, come, my girls, that kind of accomplishment will not aid you in getting husbands." “I know it, uncle,” responded one of the girls, as she gave a lunge, “but it wiU help to keep our husbands in order when we get ’em.” Sttggingj married his type-writing girl. Be fore they were married he was in the habit of uictatisg to her, but after marriage she dicta ted to him. A few days ago two men wire in Smith’s barber-shop. One had red hair and the other was baldhi adjd. Bed-hair to bald-head— i oa were not around when they were giving S“* ^ . Hald head—“Yes 1 was there, bnt they only had a little red hair and 1 wouldn’t take that.” ft* rim™ trie gold, etc ” ring' is cent's 3 b,r*fk - Cheap - ffiken. Send slip el taper Stamp, si-f HALT JEWELRY^ FObX Tit Our Famit, Physician WiU mTe hundreds of dollars m an, family in which it Is nJd!lt j stootb . Med,cal book, and is no, d^otil £ advertising some “institatlon,” qnaok defter r “patent” medicine. and S^/T ' hU b °° k CW sells for *3.) «md Scaur South ono year and The the melodista 10 EGA Nl little Musical Instrument Hie nU^ Cle “ 0re *° “* '»mily circle. It is played with a crank like a regular hand h^“ d th * mn8,< * 1 cote8Rre ««*«»»"‘rips of brown paper winch are drawn through the in- strument as the orank is turned and the masio . ' S ® 1* *» l°°d and sweet as a regn- .* b “ d0rg * n bn ‘ *'• “ bvrge and will play of the Popa’ar airs of the day. One of >s»— organs with three pieces ot mnffio will be sent to any address for 1C new subsoibera. Any nom- rf mn8i0 *“ b * Procured atm agnail Additional ooa|. Map of A WOMAN’S HEART. ' cn"to tel Z£,K,Y’,7 »“? " ®u float tv. L„. of more, Md '• 306 W - Lonbara Hr. Haiti W7-4L
