Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-29

people are to be found in England than the
North Country manufacturers, but the quail
ties OF frankness. directness. which are con.
spicuous IN them, were precisely those quail
ties which Mrs. Sidebottom was incapable of
appreciating, were qualities which to her mind
savored of barbarism.
And yet Mrs. Sidebottom belonged, neither
by birth nor by marriage nor by acceptance, to
superior class. She was the daughter of
manufacturer, and the widow of a small coun-
try attorney. AS the paralytic in the sheep
market waited for an angel to put him into the
pool, so did Mrs. Sidebottom spend her time
and exhaust her powers in vain endeavors to
get dipped in the cleansing basin of county So
ciety in which she might be purged of the taint
OF trade And, like the paralytic of the story,
she had to wait and was disappointed annual
~, and had the modification of seeing some
neighbor or acquaintance step past her and en-
ter the desired circle, while she was making
ready and beating about for an introducer.
She attended concerts. public balls, went to
missionary meetings; she Joined working par
ues for charitable objects, took stalls at
bazaars, hoping by these means to get within
the vortex of the fashionable world and drawn
in, but was always disappointed. Round every
eddy may be seen sticks and straws that spin
on their own axes; they make dashes inward.
and are repelled, never succeeding in being
caught by the coil of the whirlpool So was she
ever lowering on the outskirts of the aristo-
cratic ring, ever aiming to pierce it. and always
missing her object.
A poem by Kenrick, written a: the corona
ton of George Ill, represents that celebrated
beauty and toast, the Countess of Coventry. re-
Gently deceased, applying to Pluto for permis-
sion to return to earth and mingle in the enter
tainments of the coronation. Pluto gives his
.cnrA l,r1N 1ancf in
unseen.
Then says the Countess:
ga fig for fine sights if unseen one,s fine face,
w nat signifies seeing, If oneself Is not seenT'
So Mrs. Sidebottom found that it was very
little pleasure to her to hover about genteel So
ciety and see into it, without herself being
seen init. Her descent to Mergatroyd was in
part due to a rebuff she had met with at York,
quite as much as to her desire to conciliate her
half-brother. She trusted that when she re-
turned to York she would be so much richer
than before that this would afford her the
requisite momentum which might impel her
within the magic circle, within which. when
once rotating. she would be safe, confident of
being able to maintain her place.
"My dear Lamb" said she, II may inform
you, in the strictest confidence. that see my
way to become wealthy. There is speculation
on foot, of which have received information
through my York agent, to buy up land and
build great health resort near Bridlington, to
be called Iodinopolis or Yeoville, the name is
not quite fixed. No one is to know anything
about it but the few who take preference
shares. am most anxious to realize some of
the securities that came to me through my dar-
ling brothers death, so as to invest. The man.
ager is called Beaple Yeo."
Never heard of him.
"And the chairman Is the Earl OF Schofield.
Mr.. Beaple Yeo and the Earl together guaran-
tee Hper cent-think of that. Lamb!-on their
own guarantee!-ah Earl, too-and the funds
are only three or three and halfr'