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VOLUME XXL
M. T. MCKIBBEN. A. W. I AXE.
McKibben $< Lane
ATTORN EYS AT LAW,
Jackson Ga.
LUCIE! L DM, CUIiIOETfIE
Athens, ba. laekson^Ga.
RAY & RAY,
ATTORN EYS.
Negotiate loans on real estate lower than
a*y Loan Broker in Georgia.
. Superior advantages in collecting claims
iD the. South.
Practice in all Courts, both Federal and
State: Also Supreme Court of U. S. A. by
iqiecial contract.
WRIGHT & BECK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OrFICK IN COURT HOUSE.)
jrAOKSOIif, • - O-A..
M. M. MILLS,
SouMtUor & Attorney at Law.
Will practice in all <&• courts. Money
feoaod drill estate at low rate of inter
ftt. Lost tiM mated with small pay
thiote. Mmj ooUiaed at onoe without
(<ItWOK nv OOtTKT BOUSE.)
l)r. 0. H. Cantrell,
DENTIST.
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
Up stairs ©for i. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. D.
JACKSON, 9 A.
Wifi practloe medicine in its various
transited.
OAoe at J. W. Lee A Son’s drug store.
Residence first house west or Mrs.
Brad/*a.
DR. T. K. THARPE.
DXSTZST.
FLO VILLA .... GEORGIA.
Crown and bridge work and all the la
tent methods of dentistry, Teeth ex
racted without pain. Prices moderate.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Feb 14 93 ly.
UQ TELS.
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
EVERTTUINO NEW AND FIRST
CLASS.
Coareaientlj Located,
Free Hack to n**o*
C. R. GRESHAM, Proprietor.
Wilkinson House.
Fir-t Glass iu Every Particular.
Tin- only brick hotel between Atlanta
nad Muoou.
Oc'arcoiont to all busiaew.
Mb*. A. E. WiLEiNsoa, Prop.
MOAEY TO LOAN,
ffe are prepared to negotiate loans for
y amount on real estate on the most
avorable terms. Call on us and investi
asla before borrowing elsewhere. Office
n the court house.
Tliaxta n * Mills.
ETHERIDGE & KINARD.
FIRE IMSURANCE AGENTS.
Rink taken on all classes of Insur
mnee.
We insure Cotton, Cotton Gins Satv
inills, Country Stores, • Dwellings,
Barns Ac. We represent some of the
and oldest companies in the Uni
ted Sates.
21st Annual Announcement
or xaz
North Georgia Ajriciltiiral Collep,
AT DAHLONEQA.
A branch of the State University
Spring Term begins First Monday in Feb
ruary. FRI Term begins First
Monday in September.
But school in the south, for students with
limited means. The military training it
thorough, being under a XT. S. Army offlocr,
detailed by the Secretary of War.
BOTH SEXES H ATE EQUAL. ADTAH
TAGBS.
Studen‘B are prepared and licensed to teach
in the public schools, by act of the legislature.
Lectures, cm Agriculture and the Sciences
by distinguished educators and scholars.
For health the climate is unsurpassed.
Altitude 2257 feet
Board $lO per month and upwards. Misting
at lower rates.
Bach senator and representative of the stats
is entitled and requested to appoint one pupil
hum his distrlot or county, without paying
matriculation fee, during his term.
For catalog or information, address SfpTO*
Isryor Treasurer. Board of Trustees.
mmit #corgk 2trpo.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Dr. R. W. Mays is on the sick list
this week.
Mr. R. 11. Cautheu is a whole-sole
allij ncemau.
Mr. Frank McKibben sold three cof
fins last Sunday. Rather unusual for
the trade of Jackson.
Don’t repeal the Sherman act untff
you show its subsitute. We want it
or something better,
Fifteen days front today will be a
regular March day, On that day the
republican otllce holders will begin to
hustle.
When the “wool hat” boys come to
town, they call in the A nous office,
where they know they are welcomed,
aud give ns the news.
If you want a good hat try the
Gate City. Alraand,Mcon &Cos.
Link Tanner, whose ‘bird death :/e
mentioned some time since is alive
again. Mr. J. T. Edalgo saw him
•plitiing rails last Friday. When he
dies again we will mfnr; our readers
as usual.
There was a People’s party club or
ganized at Phillippi, in Henry county,
last Saturday. That is right, take
it out of the Alliance, and let it be
separate as it should.
Best parch coffee—Jersey cof
fee. Buy one package at
Almand, Moon & Cos.
The oil mill is now waiting for ihe
scattering seed to be brought in, and
will then make auotl,er run and close
down for the season.
Every teacher in Butts county
should take the Argus, so as to keep
posted as to dates, etc, pertaining to
the Institutes, and ail other school
business. It is the official school er
gan of Butts county.
Mr. Mack Watkins came in recently
and paid a year in advance for the
Argus and Atlanta Constitution. lie
said the Constitution had written him
several times to know why Ive had
stopped taking it. Ilis answer was
because they had quit sending it
We think his retson is good.
The old reliable Butts and Eu
tavv acid and Jackson High
c 5
Grade fertilizers.
Almand, Moon <& Cos.
It sometimes takes three sessions ot
the County court to try a misdemean
or crimnai. The first, the accused i 8
sick stul the case has to go over; Sec
ond, he demands a jury and it goes
over to another term and sometimes at
the third call of the case his attorney
is sick, or some important witnesses
are absent and thus it requires aboet
twelve months for the ease to b.,
heard.
A Mr. Fiank SavagcofHenry coun
ty was adjudged a lunatic last t/eek.
He lias a wife and three children with
no means ot living comfortably. There
being no room in the asylum lie will
remain iu McDonough jail. There
is no provision in the law t© furnish
necessary expensi s aud all this falls
on the humane neighbors and unfor
tunate family.
When you want to buy cheap
goods, give us a call. Shoes, hats,
clothing, jeans, flannel,
chocks, shirting, calico, table lin
en, bed spreads, silk hosiery,
gloves, handkerchiefs, pins,
needles, buttons, thread, umbrel
las of all kinds, corsets, cuffs,
collars, shirts, suspenders and
gents neck wear, at
Almand, Moon & Cos.
LEE BROOKS DEAD.
On last Sunday morning Lse
Brooks was lying dead in his bed.
He had beta complaining for sever
al days, but nothing serious was
coteniDlatfd until the above event.
The doctors themselves were mis
taken but he realized his condition
and told his litTe brother he would
dis befo e day, but not to tell the
family and disturb them —seeming
perfectly reconciled. This brother
was by him when he died.
Leo was one of the best young
colored men in Georgia. When
young and living on the farm of Dr.
Mays, he got the sympathy of the
Doctor by Ids studious habits, and
truthfulness, who carried him to
the Atlanta University, where he
graduated, and he was holding first
srade teacher’s license when be
died. He has paid Dr. Mays back
all the money loaned him to enable
him to complete his education.
Lee had no enemies, and Dr. Mays
has never had cause to regret the
ntv rest taken in him.
JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 1893.
A MIDNIGHT EXPERIENCE.
J/ark! what a woeful noise I hear,
At this dismal hour of the night-
Must I from my person tear
The spread, and let the cold air bite?
Now, I am sweetly dozing
Aad the room is dea’hly still—
Hush! is that something bouncing
And screaming again so shrill?
O yes, I see, I’m awake,
Rut its too dark to smile
I knew the law, when she spake:
“Make a light and take this chile.”
N. J. 11.
LET GEORGIA BE THERE.
By all means Georgia should be re
presented at the cotion growers’ con
vention, to be held at memphison the
22d ot this month.
The object of the convention is to
take such action as will limit the ac
reage of cotton to a reasonable degree.
A similar convention was heid last
year and there is every reason to be
lieve that the reduced acrerge and
consequent better prices were in a
great measure largely attributable
to its action.
All agricultural organizations are
invited to send delegates to the con
vention of this month, and all Indi
viduals who are interested in cotton
planting will be welcome. It is de
sired to make the meeting as repre
sentative as possible, so as to give a
full interchange of views, and then
to give general effect to the conclusion
that may be reached.
We hope th.it Georgia will iiava a
representation at Memphis on the 22.
—Atlanta Journal.
POSITIONS GTJAAJJNTEL’D.
By The Georgia Business College of Ma
con, Georgia.
7he estaulished reputation of the Geor
gia Business Col'egs, which ranks al
other southern institutions, enables it to do
wliat no other is doing, viz: Guarantee a
position to every persoa of average ability
and good moral character, who completes
its prescribed course.
Many T ext 2?ook clleges are studiously
seeking to conceal tlieir lack o' merit and
influence, by hinting that no reputable in
stiution will guarantee positiojsta. l r et.
this celebrated college, which teaches real
business by purely p radical methods, no
only boldly gives this guarantee, but si
making it good in every instance.
It had fifty students from a dozen states
North aud Sojith, to enter last month; and
in addition to placing every graduate, has
now on hand numerous unfilled applica
tsoin from the best professional and mer
cantile firms for book-keepers and stenog
raphers, at salaries of $600.00 to $1500.00
per annum.
Evejy young lady and gentleman, de
siring to become independent, should
write for full particulars, to
JFyatt & jVaktix,
Macon, Ga.
JURY LIST.
Jurors Drawn for the March Term of
Butts Superior Court, 1893.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
R. G. Plynaale Samuel Hodges
J. M. Goggius P. It. Watkins
M. L. Duke J. W. Anderson
Elmo Andrews J. H. Ham
Me D. Henderson J. G. Thompson
J. M. Fiudly B. C, Ware
S. T. Ilaislip J. L. Crawlev
G. W. Coleman. W. F. Duke
T. J. Cele J. A. Pitman
B. B. Biles O. B. Willis
J. R. Mayfiield W. H. Bai nes
W, kf. Andrews G. S. Barber
Cornelia McClure W. C. Whidley
Wilson Smith G. T. Fossett
B. A. Wright H. P. Dodsou
J. J. Thornton IJ. J. Maddox
T. J. Waldrup R. G. Lavender
J. r . Boon. A. A. Lemon
GRAND JURORS.
A. H Ogletree C. F. Etheridge
J. H. McCallum G. W. White
T* 11. Grier T. J. Dempsey
F. S Etheridge J. B. Moore
J. F. McKibben Jas. Wilson
H. L. Daughtry W. F. Smith
J. J. Thompson Z. T. Smith
J. M. Bali J. G. Colwell
Drake Knew lea Jas. C. Maddox
J. W. Terrell R. V. Smith
J. S. Carter J. T. Bickers
R. W. Aiken T. J- Carson
M. G. Barfield W. M. Hammond
J. T. Mayo T. N. Biownlee
H. L. Grant J. P. Britton.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
SYLLABUS.
Our Commissioner, Hon, E. E.
Pound, ha appointed those who
will discuss the different subjects ef
the Syllabus, prepared by the State
School Co.i missions, Hen S. D.
Brad well, for the first Saturday's
Institute, which will he held on the
fourth Saturday, the 25th day of
March, 1893. The following is the
Syllabus and those set apart to dis
cuss the several subjects.
Orthography—l. Definition ; 2
Letters and their divisions, by N, J.
Harmon.
Reading—l f The best method of
teaching reading, by Miss Eva Sas
nett.
Writing —1. Writing as a aci* nee,
by Prof. G. H. Cornwell.
English Garmmar—l. Grammar
ii general; 2. English grammar in
particular, by Prof. W. M Spann,
Geography— 1. T e earth and its
natural division*, continents,
oceans, etc, by Prof. V. D. Harris.
Arithmetic —1. The origin of fig
ures ; The elementary principles, by
Prof. C. S. Maddox.
Science and Practice of Teaching
—1 Organization ; 2 Rules, by Prof
C. R. Thompson.
History—l Definition; 2 Ex
plaining the five points of history—
who, what, whi.e, when, why, by
Prof J C Blassingame,
Declamation —1 Instructions as
to position, gestures, bows, etc,, by
Miss Elia Pound
COLORED TEACHER3 INSTITUTE.
Orthography, Susie Juiley.
Reading, Mary L, Digmuke.
Writing. F. L. Rogers.
Eugliah grammar, Sarah Randolph.
Geography, A. L. Atwater.
Arithmetic, Anna F. Sere van.
Science and Practice of Teaching,
Mattie Mahone.
History, Thomas li. Malone.
Declaimation, Annie Williams.
Meets on the same day as the
white’s. All persons ai; required
to attend whether they are teaching
or not it they are holding license.
The law is compulsory and fines
noli be imposed on those who ab
sent themselves without good
cause,
Some teachers have a great knack
of keeping themselves, their schools
and their work entirely out of sight.
Their school should be a feature in
the community. It should be known
and telt. This will depend entirely
upon the teacher. The newspapers
are always more than willing to
make mention of anything of interest
iu school matters, but they cannot be
expected to keep a force of reporters
at work hunting up items.
We rejoice in the fact that the two
foremost campaign issues in Georgia
are agriculture aud education.
Better returns to the farmer fo ihe
products of the soil, aud better schools
| for his children are the two subjects
now uudei consi> eratiou by the best
men of the state.
Let the watchwords continue to be
agriculture and education.
The country school ought to be as
good as the city school. While our
town aud city schools and higher in
stitutions flourish, it is deeply humil
iating to see our country schools lan
guish. Yet four-fifths of the youths
of the state are dependent on the
country schools for their education.
BUTTSC OClslY SCHOOLS AN
TEACHERS.
Jackson Institute-. C. Blasin
game president; Prof. Kelley vice
president; Miss Eva Sa3nett and
Miss Rosa Thornton, teachers.
Music Miss Helen Rogers. Art
deparmeni Miss Mahone.
ir g— C. R. Thompson,
Miss Elia E. Pound.
Flovilla High School: —W. M.
Spann > ■ id> and ; .C. Spann asst.
Mrs, G. B. Eider Music.
Elgin High School—C. §. Mad
dox,
County Line -Prof. Ward.
Henly's Mill—Prof. Aike..
Corinth—Miss McGheebee.
Indian Spicgs— Miss Far nnieM
Ogletree.
Worthy ilk —Miss Estelle Wal
thall.
Stark— G.II. Cornwall
Cedar Rock—Miss Clyde Hunt.
Barnett's Mill—Miss Ida Smith.
Base -Miss £, T lovis Jinks
Flynt Hill Miss Magie Scar
brough
Cork—V. D. Harris.
Grady Institute—Miss Dollie
Rogers.
MAIL SERVICE LOCKS.
Uncle Sam’s Safeguards to
Prevent Robbery.
Hereafter the Government Will
IVlake Its Own Locks For Mail
Bags—The Work to be Car
ried on in Secret.
Hereafter the Government will
manufacture its own locks for use
in both the mail service and free
delivery system. Ever since its
establishment the “repair shop”
has worked over the locks that
needed tinkering, but during the
last few months an addition was
made to the building in Washing
ton, the necessary maohinery was
put in, and forty skilled mechan
ics, who are paid by the day,
carry on operations behind lock
and key on the top floor. The
crude steel required for the appa
ratus is, of course, purchased from
the contractors, but the finished
product is now turned out from
the “repair shop.”
The knot catch employed on the
canvas and jute sacks, Is the sim
plest in construction, and easily
made after the so-called “dog
lock” and slide have been turned
to their proper shape. Like the
employes at the Bureau of En
graving, the real locksmiths are
not allowed to leave their separate
workroom during business nours,
and the operation of making new
locks out of old ones goes merrily
on, while the Division Chief has
provided safeguards against any
possible filching of the mechanical
secrets which would make rob
bing mail bags an easy matter.
The contracts with lock-making
firms have expired, and gradually
the Government product will take
the place of corporation outputs.
It is claimed that the official job
is a much more serviceable and
less expensive idea and the experi
ments with free delivery system
locks have so far filled the bill sat
isfactorily.
Naturally, it will be many a
long day until the supply of con
tract locks has been absolutely re
placed, but the most important re
sults are expected from, the regis
tered lock department. There only
one employe labors, and he is in a
room closely locked, even against
his fellow mechanics.
Nobody is ever admitted to the
secret precincts of the registered
locks, and the coin vaults of the
treasury are not more exclusive.
The locks used on registered mail
pouches are infinitely more intri
cate than the common mail bag
article, and their mecanism is
guarded as closely a* the scheme
of running silk threads across the
back of treasury notes. At anv
rate, the Postmaster-Generaffs
scheme affords, through the trick
of the new-fangled registered lock,
a less degree of temptation to the
dishonestly-inclined postal clerk
while the pouch is en route.
Fast Trains the Safest.
Superintendent Darlington of
the Pennsylvania lines is of opin
ion that fast trains are the safest,
and unless there is a defect in the
track an accident seldom happens
to them. Our No. 7, says he,
is known to be an exceedingly
fast train and everyone keeps out
of its way. At Knightstown, for
instance, where our fast trains
pass through at nearly sixty miles
an hour, no one has ever been
hurt. The people know the trains
cannot be stopped in a second and
govern themseives accordingly. It
is in towns where there are slow
ordinances that the people are
hurt. They know the trains are
compelled to run slow and take
their time about getting across the
tracks.”
The experience of railroad men
is that fast trains are the safest.
In the event of cattle on the track
it is better, too, to hit them hard
than easy. I was on the engine of
a freight train once when we ran
into a flock of sheep. The ani
mals were huddled together around
the bell wether, and my hair be
gan to rise. I thought surely we
would be thrown from the track.
The engineer put on a full head of
steam and struck the flock at great
speed. The engine threw the
sheep to one side like chaff. Had
he tried to stop or run slowly the
engine would have been derailed. ”
Two years ago a cow was seen
in the middle of the Monon
tracks in front of a train.
The engineer tried to stop,
and the result was the loco
motive was derailed and the engi
neer killed. A few months ago
the writer was riding on an engine
on the Chicago division of the
Pennsylvania, and a herd of cattle
got on the track. The train was
running almost forty miles an
hour, but when the engineer saw
them he ‘‘threw her wide open”
and went into them at full seven
ty-five miles an hour. No damage
was done except to “muss up” the
engine extensively. The engine
man was asked why he had thrown
on the extra speed. His reply was
that had he been running slow it
was eight chances to ten that he
would have left the track. —India-
naooUa. .Start
HIS FUTURE WIFE. "
There is an 61d tradition that
the man who sups alone at mid
night on All Hallowe’en will see
his future wife.
It is indispensable that the man
should be alone, that he should
begin supper while midnight is
striking from the nearest steeple,
and that a cover sohuld be laid
opposite him, as for an expected
guest.
Lord Peregrine was a great be
liever in old traditions, but no
believer in marriage. He was too
rich and too young to care about
encumbering himself with a fam
ily, too good natured to risk break
ing a pretty wife’s heart by his
incurable propensity for roving.
Foreign travel develops one’s
reverence for home traditions,
and, sitting outside Tortoni’s on
the evening of Oct. 31, Lord Pere
grine remembered the legend of
All Hollowe’en. The recollections
made him smile. Perhaps he had
lost some of his ad version for mar
riage, and was wondering what he
should do in his own country,
among new faces and with no one
to care for him. Lord Peregrine
looked at his watch. It was near
eleven, and the tide of walkers
was flowing down the boulevard
as gayly as at midday.
“ Well,” said he, rising, with a
laugh, “let me go to a restaurant
and see whether the future holds
a wife in store for me.”
As he was standing on the
pavement, trying to remember
whereabout the more ancient
churches lay in the strange city,
he heard 11 o’clock boom from
Notre Dame. It was a clear
moonlight night, and the cathed
ral bell is at such times distinctly
audible over half Paris ; so Lord
Peregrine entered Durand’s, oppo
site the Madeleine, and ordered
supper for two, in a private room,
at midnight punctually.
The waiter was an old hand at
serving midnight suppers for two.
“Will monsieur require a bou
quet?” he asked, setting forks on
the table.
“Yes; why not?” laughed the
peer. “Order me a nosegay of
white flowers—rosebuds if pos
sible.”
The waiter went out and soon
returned to say that the flower girl
attached to the establishment
no white rosebuds at this season of
the year, but had gone off to the
Passage de I’Opera to see if any
could be procured. HeJ laid an
evening paper before the English
man, brought a glass of traditional
peppermint liquor, and retired,
saying the supper would be served
precisely at 11:55.
x
Lord Peregrine had almost an
hour before him, and as he had
passed the previous night in a rail
way carriage, and had contracted
in his travels the faculty of sleep
ing at odd moments, he stretched
himself at length on the ottoman
and began to doze. In his slum
bers he of course saw a lady in a
bridal wreath, and with a white
nosegay, start up before him. Un
happily this lady had the counten
ance of the waiter who had just
gone out, and Lord Peregrine
dreamed that he tried to run from
her. He was awakened by hearing
the door suddenly open, and just
at that moment the stroke of mid
night echoed through the open
window. Lord P. had slept his
hour, hut remembering the condi
tion of beginning supper while
midnight was striking, he snatched
at a roll, broke it, and put a piece
in his mouth, then looked up and
saw a girl holding out to him a
large bouquet of white rosebuds.
She seemed to be about 15, and
was rather ugly than pretty, if
her mere features were considered:
but she had that freshness and
cheerful expression which Paris
ians call beaute du diable. She
smiled and said:
“It appears I startled mon
sieur?”
“Who are you, mademoiselle?”
asked the peer, with his mouth
still full of bread.
“The sister of the flower girl.
I went to several shops before I
could find the rosebuds, for they
are hard to get in October.”
“Ah, yes, I remember; well, if
there is any faith in traditions you
are my future wife.”
These last words Lord Peregrine
muttered in English, but the,
flower girl smiled again, redden
ing a little.
“Je ne demande pas mietix.
milord.”
“Hallo! then you speak Eng
lish?” cried the peer, in some con
fusion.
“I understand him better than
I him speak,” answered the flower
girl with amusement, as she
dipped her bouquet on the glass
jar on the table.
“I believe you French young
ladies understand every tongue
under heaven when a man speaks
it,” was the Englishman’s philo
sophical reply, and saying this, it
occurred to him that the vision of
All Hallows Eve would come to
nought if he supped in company.
H© was not anxious to live under
the superstition that he should
marry a French flower girl, and
so he added, “I qjq goipg to bo
NUMBER 7.
alone, missy; will you sit downi
and sup with me?”
“Oh, no. What would my]
sister say?” laughed the girl,
quietly.
“Ask your sister to jolh us—the
more the merrier.”
“My sister has her flowers to,
mind; and, besides, she wouldn’t.”
“I mean no harm, I assure you;,
but at least do mo the favor to
break bread with me—it’s a cus
tom of my country.” The girl
advanced her hand to break off a
{>iece of the roll which the Eng
ishman held, but of a sudden she
withdrew shyly, and fixed her
eyes on him.
Lord Peregrine protested that
his motives were pure; but the girl
v r as not to be inveigled, and there
was nothing for it but to desist.
The Englishman drew a hundred
franc note to pay for his bouquet,
and at the same time unfastened
from his watch chain a turquois
and gold locket,
“Do me the pleasure,, to accept
this, mademoiselle. I shall know*
you by it if ever we meet again.”
“I shall know you again without
any locket,” murmured the girl,
blushing; but she accepted the
gift, and vanished just as the
waiter was entering with a tray
burdened with game, mayonnaise
and champagne. He was much
astonished to find the Englishman
alone.
“I thought monsieur was ex
pecting a lady ?”
“She has come and gone,” an
swered Peregrine, and he set to
work upon his solitary supper with
a good will, which made the
waiter think that these love-crosses
which so mar the appetites of
Frenchmen provoke extra voracity
in the English.
The next day Lord Peregrine re
turned to his own land, but he
did not find that it had improved
in his absence. After a few
months he grew moody, and one
day set out afresh on his travels,
resolving to stay away until he\
had educated himself to sing in
tune with his countrymen or until
they had got into harmony with
him. He stayed away ten years,
and when he got back to Europe he
was nearly 40 years of age and had
a black beard about a foot long,
but, consistently enough with hu
man nature, he felt younger than
when he went away. He was be
ginning to ask himself whether he
had spent his manhood to good
profit, and was longing to retread
the paths of civilization ploddingly
and submissively, like the rest of
mankind.
in pursuance of this desire he
asked the waiter at his hotel after
dinner whether there was anything
doing at the San Carlo, and was
told that the celebrated songstress,
Rosina Filomeli, was giving a
series of performances there. The
waiter went on to explain that la
Filomeli was the arch-songstress
of the universe, having been over
whelmed with applause, flowers
and gold in Milan, Paris, London
and St. Petersburg. She was
going to play in “Lucia” that
evening, and places were impossi
ble to procure, and it was a benefit
and all the seats had been engaged
a month beforehand.
Lord Peregrine soon proved that
nothing is impossible to a man
who will pay 20 pounds for an
orchestral stall.
So long severed from the sight
of European beauty and the
graces of life, the Filorneli broke
upon him like a ravishing incarna
tion of the charma which sweeten
existence. Her beauty was equal
to the melody of her voiec, and
her voice transported her hearers
into whatever dreams of joy or
pathetic melody she chose to lead
them. At the close of the per
formance, when the 15,000 spec
tators had risen in their frenzy,
and were making the roof shake
with their bravas, Lord Peregrine
walked out steadily and passed his
card to the manager, saying he
wished to go behind the scenes
and compliment the Filorneli in
person. He was soon in the
presence of the Filorneli.
“ Let me thank you, signora,
for the inexpressible pleasure you
have afforded me.”
“Ah, how do you do, milord?’'
exclaimed the songstress, quickly
rising and extending her hand to
him. “If I have given you a few
hours’ pleasure, then I have in
part repaid my debt.”
“You know me then?” ejacu
lated the Englishman, trying in
vain, as he gazed at the beautiful
features glowing upon him, to
recollect where he had seen them
before.
“Oh, yes,” murmured the Filo
meli, archly, yet softly. I warned
you that I should need no locket
to remember you again;” and she
pointed to the trinket of gold and
turquoises that hung around her
neck.
It was the locket which Lord
Peregrine had given, ten years
before, to the flower girl of Dm
rand’s.
“Kismet—it was written,” mut
tered the peer, after a
silence. “Will you allow me to
call on you to-morrow, signora!”
I “Yes; we will break bread,” she
said, smiling —The Million.