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Show I - THE SALT LAKE TIMES. MONDAY, AUGUST 4. 1SD0. V J Iff. 0VER THE KlYER'llit 4 10 Acres at $50 per Acre. i rr " --- 320 Acres at 100 per Acre. 80 Acres at 50 per Acre. 7 Only eight miles west of the Jordan. i " ; - 5 This is a snap and will sell for 100 per Jl,st ,aml to plat aiuI onl-- v () milcs You 1)0 R,acl t0 bu this at $1")0 IK'r ? acre inside of six months. wcst of thc nven acre next spring. . 'J a 50 Lots in b you want something cheap? fs it something'in the city you want ? Davi; SIAK1, & Stringkr Addition, If so, can sell you 640 acres or any nor- - If so, we can please you; 20 lots, 25x140 Cor. 2nd West and 10th South. Cars A tion of same at $15 per acre. n ock 79, Plat C, at 350 to $400, will he running past this addition within ' ' on terms to suit you. 00 days. Now is thc time to buy heforo ' the advance in price on these lots. ah -- i Residence and Business Property in Different Parts of the City !H DAVISBTRINGER e 23 West 2nd South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. m : I KENTUCKY PRINCESS. I .. , I Time, 1857. the perfection of summer noon, when lesof corn tassels seemed in a trance li tlieblueness of far off hills suggested I use rising, was not without its effect I Miss Sally Vandewater as she rode rani Gen. Peyton's plantation. The ppike, stretching its ash colored rib--I across the greenness of the country, 1? like a causeway of rock to the beat horseshoes. pom this plantation or from that, as sweep of woodland revealed them, I'tie marble stones in family burial lots. Iiccasionally Miss Sally met girls or Inns; men on dashing horses, who call-- I out gayly and cordially to her in ping. But in all that blue grass re-pwhere each member of every coni-- I table family has his own saddle horse, Ited there was not a finer animal p Miss Sally's Pacer. Csesar and his tones were aboard when she mounted, pr was her entire capital in life, car-fi- g her on visits among good families preby she subsisted, and furnishing ps her pin money. The camel is t as much to the Bedouin. Had Pacer pd Miss Sally in any point, she must pe fallen into those straits known only reduced gentlewomen instead of ca-rps high head through all tho best rises of the county. pet Miss Sally showed no extravagant ptitude for benefits received. She rode per at a steady hand gallop throuih f sultry day, disregarding a whinnying p of a young colt behind and a gontle 'tier's distress, increasing her speed pt one pillared brick house set far tip avenue. The woods about it were le trimmed and free from underbrush p all stretches of Kentucky woodland. evergreens made gloom close about f oaves, but not such gloom as the repu-1'iu-n of the house itself. There lived a pn who was said to have a chain ptched across his cellar. He bought fi slaves and handcuffed them in pairs f fch- side of this chain until he was I to ship them to the market, when I md of musicians was employed to lead I or march, cheerfully playing "Yankee podle." The house was worse than I 'tinted. Both whites and blacks hur-- I , Past its handsome rustic gate with orrence spot of mystery and abonii-l''no- n on those pleasant corn lands. I Jlws Sally was anxious to get out of tT nding skirt at Peyton's and bully p black boy who would come to take bridle. The wealthiest slave owner F Kentucky hardly exacted as much pfcrcnee. Everybody humored her, and f wuntry where hospitality was sa-- tif3 KiM .little visits of a pontn or two were cheerfully received tne?Then crowded dearer guests, f , 'hough she had good traits concealed fid lthe hauShtv airs f nomad, well know how to crowd people dis-lef- al to her. I WTien she turned in at Peyton's ave-p- ie the white pillared house of her seemed to doze. Miss Sally was pipping one place in her rounds and , fining her visit by a week at another might 1)6 at Peyton's in time to Leverything which preceded the Toe quarters in a long whitewashed L HiHSlretched fifldward. Miss Sally P,,notsee the kitchen standing , by I ', h'nd the great house. Xo drow-p- " had settled there. Htir and 'great A. nitiun Were going n, not only for I o clock dinner, .but for the wed ding, which was 01 Jy a week distant. A yellow boy skipped out to help Miss Sally at the mounting block; he would have' lounged to his master. With ap-proval she saw him pull his hat to her. "Miss Sally, you sho'ly bake you'self." "Yes, it's a hot day, Peach. And if you're concerned about me I hope you'll feel more concerned about Pacer. For she's had the worst of it." Miss Vande-water- 's anxiety about the welfare of her property grew in the ratio of its ap-proach to a crib. . "Sam'U rub her. down," promised Peachy. "I'll tell Sam to give her a good feed." "You attend to it yourself," com-manded Miss Sally. "But I ain't a stable boy," remon-strated Peachy, "I'se a house boy." "House boy or stable boy, you mind what I tell you. In my father's time and he owned fifty our boys did what-ever they were told to do." "Ya'-a- s, ni'm," conciliated Peachy. "And the poor little colt," said Miss Sally, making that infant's discomfort her own; "I don't want my colt kicked to death among a lot of wild, shod heels." "He go with his mammy. No ha'um nevah happen to yo colts on this place, Miss Sally." "You see to it that none happens this time All the family at home?" she stopped to inquire, with her riding skirt gathered in her hands. "Ya-as- , m'm." "Has my trunk been earned up? 1 gent it up by one of Jameson's boys this morning." "Ya-a- s, m'm." "Who's here?" demanded Miss Vande-wate- r, stiffening her figure. Peachy followed her eye to the stable vard, where stood a vehicle she never be-held with calmness. It was the hand-pom- e and shining carriage of Judge 1 ey-to- n, from the county seat of Pans. Peachy grinned. "Miss Judge come out this mawnm fo' to spend the day." The wandering spinster had always on approaching Mrs. Peyton, of Pan-s-desire to clothe herself in complete pan-oply of war for the encounter. So sore does one's pride become when chafed by ; poverty that she hated that plump and opulent woman for naught but being plump and opulent; though Miss Sally would have told you it was for putting airs of a woman mar-ried on the aggressive above her wildest expectations. Even Kentucky hospitality had yield-ed to the languor of summer mid-da- y. Miss Vandewater followed the colored who admitted her upstair before lie drowsy mistress of the house trailed in muslin wrapper to meet her. riding skirt up to "Yon can fetch my said the guest, drop-S- g HcVoss the stair rail as she ascend-- . to the same room I ed "I reckon I go things is all spread out m SUrooL," of tne them out "You can soon move Wt Miss Maria bleeged to have j back bedroom fo tins tn set in the n.rethen,nndsof J Kentucky families entitled one to fft any back bedroom im-- T "SKfiS suffered her hostess to "T".her hand and touch iS aSUetic attiWde of anovercrowd-Yo- n' ought to have sent me word if it was Inconvenient to nave me now, Mrs. Peyton, and I wouldn't have skipped Moore's as I did." "Miss Sally, it is not inconvenient to have you now!" With outstretched palms, and nods, and anxious distention of eyelids the lady pleaded her cause. "It is never inconvenient. Only America's things are so spread out. I am so glad you have come. We expected you at least this long before the wedding." "The judge's wife is here." "But she is not staying," unconsciously apologized the hostess. "It is only for the day. And Sue Bet Moore has been here helping America to try on. Her dresses are all done now. But Sue Bet has gone." "Yes, I heard Sue Bet was to be Amer-ica's bridemaid," said Miss Sally. It was not necessary to begin about bridemaids to a woman of Miss Sally's thorough in-formation. "We have all been lying down; the day is so sultry.' Wa shall not have America's things filling up the bedrooms much longer. ' I feel as if I could give her all the rooms in the house; yes, the plantation itself. If yon will only make yourself comfortable a few ' days we can change it." ' "Tho back bedroom makes not the slightest difference in the world to me, Mrs. Pe3-ton- " "Oh, MiRS Sally, I am bo glad if it makes no difference!" "But I am sorry I came at such an in-convenient time." Thus the det went on in struggle to appease and repetition of regrets. Yet a most gracious figure was Miss Sally Vandewater when she descended from the back bedroom to dine with the fami-ly and sit in the parlor through a long afternoon. Shewasquito 50 years old, but sprightly and still youthful in shape. Her muslin dress was cut low and her shoulders concealed by the bertha of lace. Fine embroidered undersleeves made delicate frills around her folded hands. The curling iron had created two large spirals at each temple, but the rest of her hair was pinned in a knot at the back of her head. She was always an amusing study to the judge's wife, who watched her with the furtive smiles which enraged Miss Sally, Mrs. Peyton meanwhile talking to them of Amenca, and nothing but American America came into the parlor in her tight fitting habit of black velvet and sat down with the guests, holding hrr riding whip, her gauntlets and tall hat in her hands. "Yon ain't going to ride?" demanded Miss Sally. "We always ride Thursday afternoons after 4 o'clock, if the weather i3 fin," replied America. "Then I reckon hell be coming pretty soon," said Miss Sally, looking at her huge, open face gold watch, which was guarded by a fanciful chain of human hair. "Ross is prompt," said Amenca. She looked no less cool and white in the heavy fabric than in a gold dotW vaporous tisnue she had worn at dinner. Her black eyes moved with languid in-terest from speaker to speaker as the visiting chat ran on. America Peyton was called the proudest girl who rode into Paris from the surrounding plants tions. The manners of this tall beauty were considered too quiet by romping voung people who danced, drove and flirted to the limit of their pri vilegw, j et she was sovereign among thni and ruled more completely by a look than others by much noisy effort. It wa. told of her that iha nftAB ut roil in th ..rW t save her complexion from sun glare and wind. She had a robe of black cnrls in which she could wrap herself 'when her maid let it down to be brushed. 'Amer-ica was Gen. Peyton's only child!" She owned a plantation adjoining her father's with more than a hundred slaves, which she had inherited from her grandmother. When she went to boarding school in the county town one of her sorvants led to her every pleasant Friday evoning a niilkwhite mule, saddled and bridled in silk, fine leather and silver. Though above such pastime as flirta-tion, America had more offers than any other girl in her set. Her low1, slow voice never recounted these conqupfits, but the victims published themselves, wonder-ing whom America Peyton would marry, since she was so hard to suit When sho accepted Ross Carr, therefore, the aston-ishment was general. He was good enough for somG girls, but nobody ex-pected America Peyton to take an ordi-nary man. He had also been a wild yonth, but people said he was settling down to worthy manhood. The Carrs were not as good a family as tho Pey-ton-and Ross had do plantation of his own. Yet when the community thought it over they were willing to accept him as Amorica's husband if he proved a credit to her. . "Miss Maria," said Nancy, coming to tbe door with a face full of meaning, "Miss Becky Inchbald's done lighted down by the quarters and tied her horse." "What does she want?" inquired Mrs. Peyton, disturbed. "Dunno. Miss Maria." "Why doesn't she come to the honse?" "She hardly ever came here in her best days," murmured the judge's wife. "Perhaps she's sick," continued Mrs. Peyton. "Some of you run and see." Peachy been down to her and she say she just waitin' there in the shade. Mis Becky got her baby long with her." The general's wife heard this with ris-ing dignity. "Don't annoy her," she commandod. "Let the poor girl alone." "Laws, Miss Maria, nobody won't say nothin' to Miss Becky. But all tho litila niggers has come out to look at her." Go out yourself and see if sheneedJ anything." "I have heard," remarked Miss Vande-water through the silence which fol-lowed, "that Becky InchbahL for aU she was so close mouthed at first, threaten to carry her child to its father now." Mrs. Peyton, with an imitant'. pause on the subject, hoped he could be f id and made to do his duty. The judge's wife heard with a mere lifting of the eyebrows. She thought it scarcely a fit thing to mention before America. But America's plane, of thought was so much above Becky Inchbald that she had never even disapproved of tho girL Eecky InchbaliTs people were not poor whites, for they owned land and slaves, but their raw unfitness for encountering the old stock held them on the vergs of society. That Becky was uneducated was her own fault; such women scarcely learn even from experience. Sbo had been the mother of a hapleiw baby and the scand;J of the neighborhood for more than two months. "She. spiteful about that baby," pur-sued Miss Sally. "There'll be trouble somewhere before sundown if she', start-ed out with it." "I do sot see that Inchbald' affair need disturb us." suggested the judge' wife, making dimplv at the finger rmU j of one hand a she wnnnthel hr polwhed hair. "Some women are never disturbed about any of the ain in the word," said Miss Vandewaton, inuiaively, "until it comes into thfiir houses and take their children by the throats. " "That can nover be said of you, Miss Rally," the jndgo' indolent wife re-sponded, smiling. Though alio gener-ally boro Miss Sally's attacks aa a lady should, and felt indulgent sympathy for the migrating spinster, alia sometime allowed herself to retort. "Aunt and Miss Sally, kiss and mako up," said America with tho deliberate accent which gave weight to all her words. But without ruKpunm one of tho combatants sat glowering, and tlie othvr, waving a lazy fan, indicated Itowi Out cantering to his appointment; man and animal moving like one, so perfect was his horsemanship. America' mother was impatiently anxious to goon recount-ing to Mis Bally the silver and linen bought for America's new home. How Carr threw his bridlo to a groom, who was walking America's rtatless thoroughbred, saddled and ready for her use. Ho entered the mom and sho gavehira her hand with a light word, and hnirtood, hat in liand, talking to her elders. It was tho culminating moment of her engagement; a dot of tinio stamping iU languid easo and freedom from rare upon her mind, by contrast with what fol-lowed. Tho young man chatted idly with three women, when another screamed out behind him: "lit re it is, Ross Carr, so you've got to take it and no words betwixt us, for I won't take care of it no lunger!" 'Why.MbwBocky why, MuwBocky!" Mrs. Peyton herself ran ganping forward to interpose hwwii such scandalous outcry and America's lover. "Como away with tne, Mine Becky, and let mo help you with your baby, and don't speak that way before the gentle-man!" A shaker bonnet fell bark from the girl's hot and furious face. She had nar-row sunken temples like a hen'; her whole profile w;ui chicken beaked, yet a lliiff of golden down made lu-- r comely. Tho wrathful rings in her eyes sent out their fires toward RsCarr. "Ho think he's a gentleman, and be thinks he's going to get a grnat lady" "Becky Inchbald, sit down in that chair," commanded America, standing at the other (ride of tho room. Iter Int and glove and whip lay on tbe floor. The other women, even her mother, sat blanched and wailed. Carr remained with his band on the back of the hair, I ke a frown figure, while Becky, frightened, placed herself in it and stretched the baby aero hor lap. Her first courage leaving her, she bcgRU to cry. The men of the wert do not cower when found out in their sins. It' Carr i ftood six ft and one inch hizh; a band-- I some, K?ht haired Kentuekian, tho man most abundant in vitality and the bt horseman in Boarbon county. A culprit waiting to be nhot, be looked his death in the fae. erect, but blighted through every ontiine. He had carried this guilt a long time, trying to shape it into some disclosure, while day after dsy further separated him from the part Urns Carr and made harder his inheritance from that wwtth. Wbtn you or I stand on our day of judgment to be looked at throagh the dark medium of our Laest moment mar tome eve amoDK! our contniucrae the angul shape trembling in anguish be-hind the bar. "Is thl child yours?" America demand-ed of him, pointing itont fur his identifi-cation. Tbe baby, opiirewwd by the jaunt, un-der arm or on lap according to ite mother's convenience in riding, was covered ovor all its vim bio surface by that prickly rash which nurses call "heat." It was gowned in pink calico and diffused a sour odor. Roe Carr looked at it with the slight-ing masculine eye wliioh sine the time of Saturn has seen little to admire in ex-tremely young offHpriug, and ha con-trolled tho mukolns of his lips to roplyt "I reckon it is." "Answer nin on your word as a man. Is this your cluldr "Yes; it is." "He knows It's his, and he' got to take care of it and support it it's his place to take care of It, not mine," sobbed Becky, her hsad waring with bnr grievance. America directed her face to Becky. "Do you Intend to turn It off your hands ntlreli--r "Yes, I do. It' his and he onght t keep It." "But you are its mother." "I won't be its mother," exploded Bocky, flinging the ill kept and wretched baby about on her knees with a vicious ' grip. "I'll give It awsy or leave it on some doorstop If he don't keep It." Tho child put up a piteou lip and ut-tered those cries by which brniiwd in-fancy protest agaiast bruisers whom it feels but doc not know. America stared at the girl ; hr face was suddenly drained of horror at the wrong which had ben done to a woman, and filled with pas-sionate contempt. "Then I'll be it mother. C,r It to me." She gathered it off Becky's lap and laid it Iwat bloteh.d fac SKainst her shoulder. The tiny creature discharged a mouthful of its wretchedness tbwe, America dtanrhing the spot and making a softer nt for its cheek with her rows scented bandkerrhi'f. Her nucons1ou swp of figure In taking the child and sUndlng up pub-licly with it thrOled beholdrrs liie piercing rauitlc or the sight of ((real wurku of art The mother spfrit which ha brooded over this wrld for centuries that pa.'BUon for fostering, and train-ing, and protecting fhone white sod laro in hrr fane. She wss that fsir.im-perwiatio- n men call the j?oxMe of liberty boiling tbe outcast to her breast. She wa Mother Mary with a reminder of the heavenly infant in hr arms. j No one remonstrated or spoke a word to her as she kiov.1 from the rwn. j Becky In? hbald, pulling her shaker over j her face, went out and rr.onnted her horw. I Rossi Carr followtd Amen. as far rs j the f't f.f the starr. Hh was airtaiy j ! at tbo tp. but when sh beard hira j i speak hoaniery, "One. word, America." , : she turned and stood looking at bun over i I the balustrade. Tho baby wu qutet. "America, w all over bcewtn us?" , He could hear hi watch ticking and t outdoor soundd buzJting in bis ear. "So," said America. "It la not sU I over between us." ' Ross Carr dropped hi groptag hand tm tbe stair newrl. hi next sent'O' s corn- - ing alio in fracmeote. "Tk9 won't te any we Shall I corn hero for the rerwiiony cert Thursday?" "Thursday," spoke the luw, slow rric above him, "at 8 o'clock was the tim We set." The culprit lifted hi eye to her and exclaimed: "America, tell me what )m wont me to do!" "I want yon," she said, "to la fatlkrf to your child!" Jl mouth struggled.. She flung out the mt in wjI "and never speak to me of this atfninf Not tit to pritraU himself Ufore br virgin motherhood, the tamislied maitj hid his face on his arm sgninst the stain rull. She carried tlwi child out of sight. There was scarcely a wirro on th plantntimi who did not know what runt happened when K Carr swung out at, the Imnw and sed hts rhailng bur and the groom as if he had forgotten him own property. Rwtnleas moWltiunS nverliesd which, had b'm floating and pihug loront PsJg over peak now seemed to stnk in sinok tothoeffaremmitof thesun. Tbe stretch of frt and road, plantations and dim-pl- od hills, from hurt ana to borlo reawd smiling and looked grave, Uit th day's heat was about to pa 'fT it drenching rnin. This r.londy interval before the thus dcrtiumt was jtint the time stealing; corn to roast at the quarter in the evao-in- g. iky Peachy crept on all fours down, narrow avenues to aoid agitating th p(rnto, such tell tele are the tassel finipirs. Ilia sack sirred buiKt pehtncfc one elbow, but unerprrtedly he rtn against a man stretched oat In the dirt, face downward -- Mia MaTry Mutt.' Ke Carr. Peachy liarkl away from tbe cl. He coold haw gnndtng of ttt aud see veins on the man nee.k smlL, Not until many cornstai mTmnnl him bail l'eaf by the courage to burst, r klecsly down a slim alley, spilling fo stolen ears, while the com k sres sUehnt his face with tlwir rls(c4 salirTs. Th chil'liiih African nuixl, without paruuog; to sort imt catif, iiwtiocttvly flrid frtmi tli sight of angnij-- so duaib and dr'wi-fn- l. W'liU tiie county as ulimJuiil br Alurni.i Peyton's adoption ut Kms Crr's child, her brjuty a a bnde tifl-ru- ed ait rrittcs. went to W wiUt fc.-- r hulaiid on her pUlitatKjn, ami there the bt.ygrew into robtmt and happy lryhol. Kfticence on the mbj.-r- t( J!ctky Iw hlld wwdiiTturd thfmh her small worl-- i At that date ani!i wt.rH held alt the arts of many lives, Kei Mimi Sally Vandewater. sweUing her viintirg lit wtth another k'w, rrw into rompl-t- e fcarmor.y with the j.wl'a Wlf, on the snljeet ef flrrky l'rh(Krl. IrcofTiId weefai along n,t tt Tiunee. came that sh hf married thsrip, and in the cenr of years that h hal dwA. So in as human knowMi Warn Carr wife tek n hrwib rrver., thiyugh a wtian at her afur mo hVf! w&tvl troa tiie blot. She always pr,Ue iA his sun a "our ktent boy." audi hf grew up among brotimrs and utr wtthual noting that he was part altfc until neighbors dropped the fact in hia ear. PtTVinally be was much like him father, whose wrong tuatarcd its bitter-t- st fruit shea that child threw huostsii! on the ground to sob in secn-- t agony b carise beaatif tU and teiuter wooiaa he !ed with such dcTtin wm not his tnchrr. Mary H.vtwU Cathr I wood in ClieTo Tnbaae. |