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Without another word she left him. S)ia
took the boy by the hand and went through
the gates of Hazlewcocl House. Hervey
watched hor disappear, chuckled maliciously,
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f In a mechanical way Mrs. Miller gave the
V boy his dinner. She ate nothing herself, bat
1 her hps moved as if framina words, and her
"i . ,hurt offered up its fervent, but incoherent
I, ? and illogical prayers. Knowing that it was
1 1 Beatrice's custom to visit the nursery won
'A fter lunch and assure herself that her boy
P- .i,L'""seaicu ol her. She listened for the expected
I step, and when she heard it opened the door
I and motioned her mistress to enter tha
Isdjoining room, the night nursery. Sue fol
lowed, and the look on her face told Beatrice
what had happened.
"It ha? oomei" she whispered, and turning
.very paie. . -
S Hlf tnrew herself on her knees,
Vucfrtafffug Beatrice's bind,'gobbed aloud.
t'Oh, my poor dear!. My poor dear!" she
Wiiiled. "It has come. Yes, it has come.
The Lord has not thought fit to answer my
prayers. Oh, my dear mistress, may He
, stretch forth His arm and lighten t,h? sorrow
which is before you 1" ..
She kissed Beatrice's hand. She fawned
upon her almost like, a doj. Her mistress
teemed scarcely to hear her words scarcely
- to notice her actions. ,
"It was bound to come," she said, dreamily.
"I have been Waiting for it for weeks. The
sword was over my head. I knew it must
fall. Where is he!" she added.
"He was hero, close at hand," said Sarah,
Then, noticing Beatrice's shudder: "He has
gone away tor awhile; butt I saw him. Ho
gave me a message. Oh, my dear, my dear!
You must expect no mercy." ' .-
"I expect none. I will ask for none. Give
me the message."
Mrs. Miller gave it word for word and
then handed her the paper with the address.
"I must go," said Beatrice. "Tnere is no
help for It. The shame which I dared not
face the crash I shrank like a coward from
preparing for, has come. Well, jf all must
be known it will rid my life of the deceit
( wmcn ror years has made it a burden."
,i t She turned away, entered the nursery and
ij , . kissed the boy. Suddenly she gave the nurse
I J a frightened look. "Yousawhim'shesaid;
V "did he see the boy I" ,
f i ! trs. Miller nodded sadly. .
ifr.i,fSi3id he know did he guess?'
i f "He sid nothing. -But, oh, my poo' dear!
..there was something in bis manner that made
ma tremble something that told me he
n guessed all." , .
"Then Heaven help me!" said Beatrice,
leaving the room.
bhe went to her bedroom, in which she
staved for hours. Hours during which she
, lived again in thought the whole of her life
during the past five years. Years which had
turned her from a light-hearted, Impulsive
girl into a grave and saddened woman. A
woman who, partly by her own folly, partly
by the crime and cruelty of another, found
, herself to-day in as sore a plight as ever
. woman knew.
CHAPTER XX.
WHAT SHE LOOKED BACK UPON.
As the story of Beatrice's past is made up
of things she knew, things she guessed and
things of which she knew "nothing, it will be
better to learn it iu its veracious entirety
! thsu to glean it from the saddened musings
that winter's afternoon.
I After the battle royal between Lady Clau
1 oa and her stepdaughter, and when Sir
Uaingay weakly and for the sake of peace
leit his daughter at home, whilst he fled to
the Continent with that newly acquired
'fBsure, his beautiful wife, Beatrice settled
yxd to the dullest of dull lives, or what
rtainly promised to be so unless the girl
I lid brighten it by drawing on her own re
Jirces for amusement. On one point, how
jer, she had nothing to complain of. A
-childless widow with a large income could
Ji net have enjoyed more freedom of action.
V Mrs. Erskine, the aunt in whose care she was
nominally placed, was old, wrapped up in
her own varied ailmente, and so selfish as to
keep herself clear of suspecting people, be
cause suspicion brought trouble and worry.
Beatrice was free, to spend her hours as it
best suited her ; to come and go as she chose,
and generally to do what pleased herself.
By this arrangement Mrs. Erskine saved her
self much trouble and responsibility things
which are extremely injurious to an old gen
tlewoman in feeble health.
But Beatrice, who was in magnificent
health, a9 all young girls of eighteen should
lie, soon found that to render life at Mrs.
Erskina's worth living she must find occupa-
tion for her lonely hours. Perhaps there
4 were times when the ideal pleasure and joy
with which an untraveled mind invests a
f foreign tour made her repent of her hastiness
' in disdaining to occupy a secondary plaoe In
i 1 er father's heart But if it was so, her
V. .tide forbade any proposals of surrender.
Nevertheless, something had to be done to
She cared little or
nothing for general society, and even had she
done so the fact of ber possessing few friends
anvwhere, and none in London, would nave
rendered her going out into the world a mat
ter of difficulty.
So that Miss Clauson, who was a young
lady of no mean abilities, and who bad some
bow Imbibed the modern notion that, if
rightly directed, a woman's brain-power is
equal to a man's in acquiring knowledge, do
cided that the most satisfactory method by
v , which time could be killed was by continu
ing her studies from the point at which she
, laid them down when she left the fashionable
finishing school.
Being also rather troubled by the feeling
that she ought to do something for suffering
. humanity, she organized a little charitable
scheme. She had plenty of pocket money.
Sir Maingay, who, since old TalberPs death,
had received a considerabUvsum par annum,
; paid out of the trust, for his daughter's main
tenance and education, bohaved most gener
ously in this respect There U no salve to
( the conscience so efficacious as a money mc
'rifloel - '
Beatrice, then, did what good she could on
' ber own account As a piwous tale always
c 1 i r i t.i j), n i f , , i 'mid
.' rtif? nitf tiji't 1 Itvt bfretoru.
leruar tvT bore Do fruit save in one note
worthy instance.
Charity broupit her In contact with
wo: ii. wfeo, frora a variety of rireum
stancea, lad been rolatal from the state of a
supnrior dotCttrtlc servant to abjoot poverty,
and who wag lying almost at death's door.
Beatrice heard ber history, relieved her
wnnta, had her doctored and cured, and by
these acte made the woman her slave for life.
She riveted the links forever, when, fancying
Bhe could do with a maid, she, in spite of a
grumble from her great-aunt, took this
woman, named Sarah Miller, into ber ser
vice. This happened in the early days of her
sojourn at Mrs. Erskine'. ' . .
; The course of Btudy progressed.; For the
most part Beatrice taught herself.'; After a
while it struck her she should like again to
take up her drawing. Here, as her ambitioa
rcee higher than wishing to execute the
usual schoolgirl masterpieces, she needed a
master. A caller; an acquaintance of Mrs.
Erskine's, gave her a name and address,
which bad beea given to her by some one
else, Beatrice wrote and asked the artist's
terms. He replied. She wrote again, ao
eeptmg the terms-nW)e(:ging him to call
on a certain day. So Maurice Hervey came
into her liie. ' -
When first she n him the girl was sur
prised to find she had sumironed to her aid a
young man of about twenty-five,' But the
age of a drawing master appeared to Miss
Clauson as a matter of. secondary import
anoe.. So long as he knew his business what
mattered il be was twenty-five or fifty-five.
Mra Erskine troubled nothing about the
Affair. She kn9w that a master gave her
niece lessons twice or thrioe a week. The
old lady never ven acquired his name. To
her he was the drawing master, no more and
no km There are many such aid ladies as
this:
In order tharwhut napueuedinay be read
aright, two facts must bs distinctly borne in
mind. The first, that Beatrice Clauson was
not then the stately and apparently emotion
less young lady, whose calm and self-contained
demeanor was such a subject of con
gratulation to her uncles, and such a puzzle
to Frank Carruther3. She was but a girl of
eighteen, proud, if you will, but romantic,
Impulsive, and notwithstanding the shatter
ing of the paternal idoL trustful of man and
womankind. She was lonely; craved for
sympathy; and in spite of her position in the
world, her life, so far as she could see it.
looked void and colorless. A long stretch
without a visible goal. Lastly, she believed.
as most young people of eighteen believe,
that her judgment us to what was best for
herself wo.3 infallible. . .,
The second fact to be borne in mind is that
Maurice Hervey at twenty-five was not, in
appearance, the scowling, crafty-looking
felon seen by Mrs. Miller in Portland prison;
not even the malicious, mocking ruffian who
confronted her on his release. The mask
worn by the man when Beatrice first knew
him fitted to perfectic, and, until, the
wearer chose, showed no glimpse of tha vil
lainous, sordid nature it hid. He was de
cidedly good-looking, he was well dressed,
sod if he carried a touch of the Bohemian
about him it was not more than was pleasant
aud compatible with the profession he fol
lowed. Hi hands, a matter upon which
young girls set undue store, were white and
well formad. He was attentive and respect
ful in the discharge of his duties doubly so
after the first few lessons!
For by that time he had found out much
about hU pupil not all he wanted to know,
but a good deal. He had learned that she
was a baronet's daughter, and an heiress.
He could not ascertain how much money
she would come into or from whom it came.
But, so far as it went, ha believed bis
information to be trustworthy, and acted ac
cordingly. He began by awakening the girl's sym
pathy for his unworthy self. He told her,
or, it might be said, conveyed to her pro
digious lies about bis own hard lot; he
dilated on the drudgery of lesson-giving to a
uiau who believed he had genius. So cleverly
did he talk that Beatrice was persuaded that
she was under an obligation to him for the
very act of teaching. His lies were master
pieces, because he did not, like many Belf
styled niN?le"ted geniuses, believe in bis own
talents. The man knew that such skill as
he possessed could make him, at tie outside,
a fifth-rate artist, or, it might possibly be, a
first-rate drawing-master.
But all the same he made Beatrice believe
he was one day destined to storm the Royal
academy, and when once she believed tliisall
differ ence. in station between them vanished
Our age, as ovory one knows, is the triumph
of art Poor artists and struggling literary
men do not now fawn upon lords lords ask
them to dinner and make much of them, or
such is the common belief. So, now that
Mks Clauson was convinced that Maurice
Hervey was a genius, no cold spectre 'Si
social distinction rose between the man and
his desire.
He drawing lessons grew longer and more
aud more conversational. Hervey wag an
educated map, or at least knew bow to turn
such education as was his to the best account.
The first sign of what was about to happen
was Beatrice's beginning to wonder how she
should be able to offer this man money for
his services. Then followed other symptoms
which aro invariably distinctly prouounced
when the sufferer in a self-willed girl of
eighteen. ,
Hervey, as soon as he found himself on the
same platform as his pupil, hurried matters
on. Ho had pressing reasons, known only to
himself, for bringing things to a conclusion.
Perhaps his ;"dacity helped him. At any
rate, when one day he dashed the drawing
materials aside end vowed he loved her, and
-"-And vowed he loved her ,.
unless she loved him he must fly and see her
no more, the girl's answer was all he could
nave hofd for. To Beatrice, the fairy
prince of hor childish dreams had come.
She wished to write to her father at once.
Strange to tuy, lois did not suit her lover.
With great modesty be represented that
until he bad made his name famous in art
Sir Maingay might naturally object to the
alliance. Be was not, however, selfish enongh
to suggest a term of probation whilst the
making famous process was going on. On
Mm ooutrary, he assured Beatrice that he
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ds wife. Ho rwloubM tlrse assurance
R hea Beatrice tuld hit indirectly that whn
3f age she ca're ii'o a hs.- I ic l"t
'.iit'iu be married at on. IImt iuaicr's con-
icnt could be won so much bettor after the
remony. His (Maurice's; darting rmirt be
uide-i by him. Beatrice htsitated. Hervey
pressed, and at last, like other darlings of
sightoen, she consented to be guided by the
nan she lovod. .
He guided her to her first acfeof deceit
3he informed Mrs. Erskine that she was
oing to Bournemouth for a fortnight to see
in old school friend. She comforted herself
by thinking it was but an equivocation. She
ras going to Bournemouth, and friend of
lers lived, or did live there-no doubt she
would see her.' Every ene knows that equivo
ation is the inclined plane down which
people slide to the pit . .
With respect to herfatker she comfoi-ted
Mrself by thinking that, as he married to
please himself, she had a right to doUhe
nme a kind of roasouing by analogy ; not
incommon to; young people. . Besides,, he
would know Maurice very soon, and, of course,
learo to love him. , "
' So to Bournemouth she went, bat before
joing was quietly married to Maurice Horvey,
uid the fortnight spent at Bournemouth was
sheir honeymoon. The rays of the honey
iioon go sometimes far towards dispersing
She glamour with which a bride surrounds
ier bridegroom. Some curious things hap
pened to Beatrice.
In tha first place, her husband even now
jbjtutoi to Sir Maingay's being told of his
laughter's happiness, and Beatrice, not wish
ing to cross him in these early days, con
tented as before for a limited period to be
raided by his superior knowledge of the
world. .'
' In the second place the postman one morn
ing broughta largo letter for Harvey. Beatrice
watched him rather curiously as he opened it,
ind she saw it contained a document, the
indorsement of which informed all who could
rood that it was a copv of the last will and
testament of William f albert, Esq. Hervey
axplained that ho merely took an interest in
Ilia darling's affairs, and thinking he ought
to know something about them had written
for the copy. This explanation sufficed, and
Beatrice laughingly suggested that she should
t beside him and read the will with him.
This was agreed to.
Hervey, with & smile of satisfaction, road
how one-third of the residuary estate was be
queathed to Beatrice, or rather to Horace
and Herbert in trust for Beatrice, This was
followed later on by another clause which in
the event of Beatrice's making, before she
was of the age of twenty-one, an unsuitable
match, or oven what appeared to her trustees
an unsuitable match, Horace and Herbert
were given what amounted to cn unlimited
power of dealing with her share, a power
which fell little short of appropriation. Old
Talbert had determined that until his grand
daughter arrived at years of discretion her
uncles should be able to defy fortune hunters.
This clause, which was so clearly worded
that even sho could understand it, mode
Beatrice glance ofc her husband.' His face
wad pale, his bands wero shaking, and all of
a sudden a string of fierce oaths dropped
rrom nw upa a sharp pain ran through the
girl's heart Without a word she rose and
left him.
He soon followed her, apologized and be
lieved he had pacihed her, but his conduct
had planted in her heart the doubt the most
painful doubt which a young wife can feel
that her hufband bad married her for her
money, not for herself.
The next day Hervey went to town, on Im
portant business, he said. Beatrice naturally
resented the desertion, but not having been
long enough married to know what a fraud
that plea of business often is, made no com
plaint Nevertheless, something told nor
that ber husband's business was in some way
connected with the will. So the doubt be
came all but certainty.
Curiously enoutrh, or naturally enough,
Beatrice hod no longer the wish to apprise
her father of what had happened. Dimly
she began to see the meaning of the step she
had taken.
It was settled she should return to Mrs.
Eiukine's. and as a slight misunderstanding
is not sufficient to terminate the relationship
between a husband and wife of a forfhight'e
standing, it was also arranged that Hervey
should take lodgings in the neighborhood,
to which lodgings his wife could come as a
pupil to a drawing master. The fellow had
by now resumed his mask, and seemed to be
trying to efface the recollection of the will
scene.
But the mask had been dropped once, and
Beatrice, except in her conduct, was no fool.
She went back to her home with a pain in
her heart, and feeling years oldir than when
she had left a fortnight ago. Mrs. Erskine
manifested no interest in the visit to Bourne
mouttk ' She merely hoped that Beatrice had
spent a pleasant time.
The girl felt very miserable; a kind of
dread, wtich she vainly strove to thrust
away, hung over her. She needed sympathy,
needed a confidant Such a secret as hen
was too great for one breast. So she told her
maid Sarah what hod happened. The woman's
slave-like worship and dog-like fidelity assured
her8ilence.
Mrs. Miller, who, in spite of her religious
peculiarities, knew the world, and knew also
what such a marriage as this meant, sup
pressed the grief sho felt But to endeavor
to ease hor mind, she made such inquiries as
she could respecting Mr. Maurice Hervey. She
even watched him, waited for him, tracked
him in his goings out and comings ia Bhe
told Beatrice nothing of this self-instituted
inquiry. To do the woman justice, had she
found Bervey up to the standard of her re
quirements for Beatrice, she would have of
fered up thanks to heaven niore ferfontly
than she had ever done in her life.
One day when Beatrice was paying a visit
to her husband, he turned to her suddenly.
"I must have money," he said "there's no
good beating about the bush."
"Have you no money?" asked Beatrice.
"I have twenty pounds, the remnant of a
large sum I borrowed."
Beatrice had expected an apcal of this
sort Although Hervey had again and again
told her that by the drudgery of teaching he
could make a good income, so that, in murry
Injr, money was a secondary consideration,
this had been port of the dread hanging 6ver
her. An appeal of this sort would give her
fears a stronger foundation. Sue said noth
ing, but taking out ber purse, shook its con
tents on the table. The man laughed scorn
fully. "it is no driblet like that I want I must
Lave a thousand pounds by this day fort
night." "Why toll me sol I cannot get it" Bhe
could not help the growing coldneM of her
voice. . t
"Yes you can, if you wilL Will you do
so?"
She looked at him steadily. "You are my
husband," she said. "If I can, I will."
"I knew it," he said, with a nervous laugh.
"All you will hve to do is to sign an under
taking promising to repay the money and
interest out of your income within a certain
number of years. You will do this?"
"Yes, I will do tha. You are my hus
band." "It is also necessary," he went on, with a
covert glance at her, "to make a declaration
a mere matter of form. You must declare
yourself to be twenty-one years of age."
The truth la Mr, Hervey hod been to the
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offered, borne of tne ut-urars kuutuol in h'
face, but he ft- u f. winu; business
it was never to refuse to knd money on a
forged bill or a fl declaration piwidd toe
friends of the iort- r or the parjuiw were of
the stamp who would pay money to avoid
criminal proceedings.
"I do not quite understand," said Beatrice.
She would not understand.
"It's a mere matter of form, my dear girl
it can do no harm. It is only to swear you
are twenty-one. I'm sure no one would doubt
it" ,
Beatrice covered" her face with her hands,
and the tears trickled through her fingers.
Hervey attempted to caress her. Sadly but
firmly she pushed his arm away. '
, "i cannot do it," she said, .
His brow grew black. "Damn itt you
must!" he said.' ' ;
She rose. "I will not, she said in accents
which told him she meant what she ibid. "I
will do this much: I have some jewelry; it
shall be. placed in your hands. ,. The only
favor I ask is that money may be raised on it
in such a way that same day I can get it
back. Part of it was my motherV
Hervey knew that her Jewelry would not
help him. So he pressed her to make the
false declaration. First, be commanded,
secondly he reasoned, thirdly he besought in
an abject way. And with his groveling en
treaties for money, every atom of love for
him went out of the girl's heart.. Love may
survive fll-usaga, faithlessness and wicked
nessmeanness kills it She turned and left
him before he could stop her. i
.She did as she had promised. That even
ing Mrs. Miller brought him the packet of
jewelry. ' There were some valuable articles
in it, as Sir Maingay, who had great faith
in his daughter's discretion, and who per
haps had feared that if not given at onco,
they would never be given, had mtrueted her
with some diamonds which had belonged to
her late mother. 80 it was that Hervey was
able to raise some two hundred pounds on
the trinkets. To his credit be it said that he
sent certain mysterious tickets to Beatrice
which, upon inquiry, she found would enable
her to redeem the things of which she had
deprived herself.
Three days after this Sarah made a dis
covery, or rather completed her Inquiry into
Kerrey's real natare. By pertinacity in
tracking and watching; by questions asked
in certain bouses in a neighborhood to which
she had followed him, Bhe found the man
had for some space of ftne, and was even
now, pursuing a low intrigue with a girl
With flasKng eyes Mrs. Miller went to
Beatrice and told her this. .
Beatrice hoard her in silence. Then she
spoke coldly and gravely. Events were fast
making a woman of her. "Sarah," she
said. "I will arei Mr TJiwvatr anA it ni..i
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you will see him. Bear in mind that if your
ixjurgra against mm ore raise, yoo leave me
at once."
She took Sarah with her, told her to wait
in the street and then entered her husband's
room. She told him coldlv and without ap
parent emotion what she nod learned. She
gave the name of a street, und the number
of a house. - v
Hervey of course denied it Beatrice then
said she would fetch his libeler, who Bhould
be properly dealt with. Hervey wavered,
stammered, and then once for all dropped
the mask. Be brutally told his young wife
to let him manage his own affairs of that sort
in his own way. So Beatrice knew that
Sarah had snoltnn thn rnit;, A nA , tv,,o
knowledge the love for this man which had
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an cnujr ueeu unven oui was replaced Dy a
feeling of absolute hate and contempt.
Once more and only once she saw him.
A few dayB later he wrote, bade her come to
him, and threatened in case of refusal to
Come to her. She went. Rl annmarl him
too much to fear him.
He renewed his request that she would sign
the false declaration of age.
"I will not," she said.
"Will you telegraph tq your father and
say you must have a thousand pounds tell
him it means life or death."
'I will not; nor would he send it if I did."
Hervey, who by now was getting to know
something of his wife's character, felt that
nothing would make her bend to his will.
With on oath be raised his hand and struck
her. His true brutal nature leapt forth. He
covered her with reproaches; lie reviled her,
ne loiu uer ne naa never careq lor ner, told
her he had but married her to stave off ruin,
thinking the small sum he noeded would be
cosily raised upon her prospects. He vowed
to be revenged for her obstinacy. He would
make ber life a hell He would drag her
He would make her life a hcil
name through the dirt. She should iuo un
til her death the day on which she refused to
do his bidding.
When Beatrice got away from this storm
of words, she walked back home with a buzz
ing in he head. Once inude toe door she
fainted.
Three days afterwards she read that Mau
rice Hervey had been brought before the
magistrates on a charge of forgery, and
committed for trial. She found means to
send him a message, asking if he had money
to pay for his defense. He sent back word
that he should plead guilty. He really did
so, and as the forgery was a ciaf ty, premedi
tated, cruel affair, the judge very properly
sent him to penal servitude for five years.
His wile as sue read tne sentence gave a
groan of relief.
flow tne weakest part 01 her nature, a part
no doubt inherited from Sir Maingay, showed
itself. She let things drift. To a girl Just
past 18 five years seems as inexhaustible as
five hundred sovereigns would seem to a
schoolboy. The remembrance of her secret
marriage haunted ber like the remnants of a
ghastly dream. Five years. Five long years!
Surely somothing must happen before they
wore spent. Something did happen!
What were hor feelings when the truth
first came home to her! When she knew she
could cheatorsolf no long or i When no imag
inary ailment would account for her condi
tion? When in plain words the fact thai she
was to bear the burden common to woman
hood was forced upon her J Then Beatrice
prayed that she might die! -
Even then she would not go to her friends
and tell them all. Still those long uncer
tain years stretched out before her. If she
eould only conceal this Dew trouble as sb
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than to others who, without the acl mil
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Brief Sketches of the Faculty of the
Industrial Instltuteand College for
White Girls of Mississippi.
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" BY B'. . JONES. ' ' -
1-MIjs H. J. 8. CALLAWAY, of Macon, Missis
sippi, MiBtressol Mathematics.'
Miss Callaway la a native Missls
slppian. the daughter of the Rev.
Elisha Callaway an honored and useful
Minister oi the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. Miss Callaway enjoyed
educational advantages of the highest
order, and has always beea. a diligent
student. She was endowed by nature
with a strong mind with special api
tude for mathematics. She has taught
In some of the most prominent Female
colleges She was at one time a
teacher In the old Columbus Institute.
Miss Callaway presented Testimonials
of the highest order from the most
competent sources. Dr. C. G. Andrews,
President of the Southern University,
Greensboro, Ala., says she is their
finest lady mathematician he has ever
known. She is prepared to teach all
the branches of Mathematics, Including
Differential and Integral Calculus.
Under Miss Callaway girls may purBue
as extensive course in Mathematics as
is offered by any of the best Male
colleges.
2-Mles PAULINE V. ORB, Mistress of English
LauguHge, Literature aud Klocutlon.
Miss Orr belongs to a South Caro
lina family that has been noted for
three generations for Intellectual abil
ity and literary culture as well as for
high moral and social bearing and dis
tinguished public services.
She was born and reared In Missis
sippi. She graduated at the Columbus
Institute, there studied Latin and
English for two years under Prof.
Barrow. After this she spent two
years in Packer Collegiate Institute,
UrookJy, 3Jew i. ork ; and two years in
special schools of Literature and Elo
cution in New York city.
She was indorsed by the distin
guished authoress, Mrs. Dickinson, by
Madame Dishl the principal of the
New York school of Elocution, Presi
dent Backus of Packer, Gen. A. P.
Stewart chancellor ot the university
of Mississippi.
Gen. S. 1). Lee president of the A.
& M. College, Dr. J. S. Johnson, pro
fessor oi English University of Missis.
sippi and a score of other men and
women prominent in the literary and
educational world. Her experience
has been very successful.
a. ?,Ilss ELI.KN MAKTIX. of Vlcksbiirir
Hiss., Mistress of History, Criticism, Mental
and Moral ruuosopiiy anu political tcouoiuy.
Miss Martin is known throughout
the State as one of our foremost think
ers one of the strongest friends of
this movement for the higher educa
tion and the industrial training of
women, she has bad the finest train
ing and large experience as a teacher.
There is no woman in the South in our
opinion who could fill this chair with
more ability than Miss Martin and if the
trustees of the university are not ex
ceedingly careful in their selection we
doubt if any institution in the State
will oner higher advantages m this
line.
t-Miss MARY BACOX, of Winona, Mistress
oi Latin.
She is a daughter of Prof. Milton 12.
Bacon, whose life has been devoted to
the education of girls. The daughter
graduated in her father's school, taught
several years with success in the same
and two years ago entered the Nash
ville University and Peabody Normal
school. Last year she made the high
est record for scholarship in the Insti
tute and this year she was the valedic
torian of the graduating class. Chan
cellor Stearns recommended her strong
ly. She is thoroughly versed in the
best Normal methods. She will bring
to the discharge of the duties a thor
ough preparation and high inspiration.
5,-Miss KUTM'S ROUDEBUSH, Mistress ot
Penmanship, Book-keeping, Presiuiug teach
er in the btudy 11 all.
She is the daughter of liev. Dr.
Boudebush, and has been educated
under her father's personal supervis
ion. She exhibited a beautifully kept
set of books an4 writes with rapidity
and beauty.
-Miss LOUISE HARHI8, Book-keeper end
Secretary, t
Miss Louise Harris was born in
Bolivar county, Mis3. She graduated
at the Columbia (Tenn.) Athenum
witn the first Honor in her class, bhe
is a rapid penman and an expert book
keeper. In disposition she is as cheer
ful and bright as a sunbeam and is
universally recognized as a most ad'
mirable appointment.
T.-MIss 8ALL1E MCLAURIN, of Brandon,
miss., juisireis ui industrial anu uecorauve
Art. .....
Miss McLaurin graduated about ten
years ago at Brandon Female College,
and has been engaged in teaching
witnout interruption. At the time oi
ber election she held an important
position In Stuart's College, Shelby-
vine, &y. she has cone on to jNew
York to pursue her studies in Art.
8-MI88 IDA RUST, of Nashville, Tenn.. Mis-
Jess of Telegraphy, I'uotograpiiy uuu iypc
wntiug. . .,
She possesses a rare combination of
vocal Qualifications and is an elegant
lady socially. . She studied telegraphy
under her brother wno is cniei oi tae
night service in the city of Nashville.
She Btudied phonography and type
writing in the iiowara institute, Cin
cinnati, 0. ,
She is a fine vocalist, having a supe
rior contralto voice. She will be an
acquisition to the institution in many
respects. .
9-Miss ISETTIK B. CLAY, Mistress of Instru
mental musia.
She is from Noxubee, but is , well
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Mrs. Owen Las been known to the
people of Columbus from childhood.
She is the most talented of a family of
gifted musicians. She is an enthusiast
in music. fche plays admirably on the
piano and organ and also gives ltssocs
in singing She has a large circle of
friends, who earnestly desired her
election both on her account and for
the good of the institution.
The music department of the college
under Miss Clay and Mrs. Owen will
take rank from the first with the very
best in th.i South,
Both the ladies teach thorough bass
and harmony.
The trustees and president are to be
congratulated on these wise selections.
The New Mississipplan says that a bet
ter faculty could not have been chosen.
Such a faculty can not fail to do a
great work for the education and in
dustrial training of Mississippi girls.
The prospect gladdens our hearts.
LAKE PROVIDENCE.
Flattering Crop Prospects New
' Officials Take Charge of Their Of
fices. Special to Commercial Herald.
Lake Providence, La., July 3.
The corn and cotton crop in East Car
roll promises an abundant yield, and
the increased acreage is fully 10 per
cent, more than last season. The re
cent rains, which have been general
throughout the parish, have contrib
uted to the growth of cotton, corn and
cereals.
The Nimrod Gun club, recently
organized, with Dr. F. B. Bernard as
president and W. S. Brown as captain,
is increasing in number and is practic
ing daily in pigeon shooting and from
their continued Improvement will be
enabled to compete with any club in
the State.
F. II. G. Taylor, the new postmaster
assumed the duties of his cilice on the
first and J. C. Bass, the newly ap
pointed sheriff, will enter upon the
discharge of his duties to-day.
The river at this point is still rising.
but no apprehensions of an inundation
are anticipated, and the dreaded army
worms, recently reported in the lower
portion of the parish, have evidently
gone into water quarters.
Tne Carroll Banner, edited by Mrs.
L. L. Garner, is increasing it's circula
tion rapidly and is quite spicy in it j
editorials and communications, und
promises to be the leading journal in
North Louisiana.
The examinations of the while pub
lic school was concluded yesterday,
and the exhibition and distribution-of
premiums will take place at the opera
house this eveniDg.
A Much . Needed Rain at Jackson.
Special to Commercial Herald.
Jackson, Miss., July 3.A very
fine rain fell here this afternoon, which
was needed, and judging from appear
ances of the clouds.it must have been
general. Reports of both corn and
cotton were never more promising in
this State than now, and farmers and
merchants are looking forward to large
harvests.
VALUABLE WAR RELIC,
Showing What Became of Money In
the New Orleans Mint at the Out
break of the War.
Detroit, July 3. James II. Stone.
has In his collection of war relics the
original ordinance adopted by a Con
federate convention in Louisiana,
which evedently accounts for a part of
the funds reported unaccounted for in
the New Orleans mint. Yesterday's
dispatches said that the record of the
mint, which closed January 31st, 1S61
shows that 11,355,216.50 had
been coined, all of which probably
went into tne enemy's Hands. Lou-
siana seceded January 16th, and trans
ferred all the federal offices to the
Confederacy on March 4th. The doc
ument referred to is an ordinhnce to
transfer certain funds to the govern
ment or the Uontederate States or
America. In the first SBdion Sit is
ordained that 13.892,267.46, now in
the hands of A, J. Guizott, the State
depository, and known as 'he bullion
fund, be transferred : to the
Confederate government and the said
depository of the secretary of the
treasury of the Confederacy. , The
second section orders the payment to
the secretary of the treasury of $147,
519.66 custom-house collections since
January 31, 1861. The ordinance was
adopted in New Orleans March 7, 1861,
and is signed by A. Menton, president,
and P. M. S. Wheat, secretary of the
convention. It is attested by
the seal of "the convention'
of the State of Louisiana." The
" bullion fund" referred to is thought
to be part of the coinage. The docu
ment was found in the archieves or
the Confederacy, when the Sixth Mich
igan was quartered in the mint after
New Orleans was taken.
Death of Mrs. Fanny H. Davis.
Special to the Commenlal Herald.
Canton, Miss., July 2. Mrs. Fanny
H. Davi3, a neice by marriage of lion.
Jeff Davis, died at this place to-day,
after a lingering illness, aged seventy
years, She was a native of Virginia
and married Gen. Joseph 11. Davis,
nephew of , Jefferson Davis, but
obtained divorce from him some tea
years ago. She was a woman greatly
admired tor her rare acjompltshuients
and wa3 beloved for her many Christian
virtue.
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