Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-04

just because some people in the eitv co hungry What good would it do if 6e dla7 tell you. Felicia, there will al. ways be poor and rich in spite of all xa can do. Ever since Rachel has written about the queer doings in Raymond you have upset che whole family Poos pie cant live at that concert bitch all the time. You see if Rachel doesn r give 1t up soon. It's a great pity she doesn t come to Chicago and sine in the Auditorium concerts I heard todav sine had received aa offer. Pm going to write and urge her to come. Tn inst dying to hear her sing. ''
 Felicia looked out of the windew I'd was silent The carriage rolled on rasf two blocks of magnificent private resiz denees and turned into wide drive way Rndef a covered passage, and the sisters hurried into the house. It was an elegant mansion of gravstone. fnr- alshed like 8 palace. every corner of it warm with the luxury of paintings. sculpture. art and refinement
 The owner Of it ali. Mir Charles R. Sterling, stood before an open grafe fire smoking a cigar. Ie had made his money i'll grain speculation and rail road ventures and was repated to be wor1h something oyer two millions. Hls wife Was 6 sister of Mrs Wfnslaw of Raymond She had been an invalid for several years. The two girls. Rose and Felicia, were the only children. Rose was ? years old. fair. yivacious. educated iH fashionable college. just entering society and alTeadv somewhat cynical and indifferent. very hard young lady to please. her father said sometimes riayfullyt sometimes 8teTnlY. Felicia was I9. with a tropical beauty somewhat like her cousin Rachel Wins low, with warm, generous impulses just waking into Christian feeling. ca pablo of all sorts of expression, 3 puzzle to her father, q source Of irritation fo her mother and with great. rnspE= Veyed territory of thought and action in herself q which she was more than dimly conscious. There WAS that in Felicia tha5 would easily endpre any condition iii lie if only the liberty t8 act fully on her conscientious eonyie= tions were granted her.
 Here's lef5er for you. Felicia, = said 1r. Sterling, taking it out Of his pocket.
 Felicia sat down and instantly opened the letter. saying as she did so its from Rachel '
 "Well, whats the latest news from Raymond2 2s asked Mir Sterling, taking his cigar out of his mouth and looking at Felicia. as he often did. with half shut eyes, as if he were studying her
 Rachel says Dr Bruce has been studying in Raymond for two Sundays and has seemed very much interested in Mr. Maxwell's pledge in the First church ''
 What does Rachel say about her self?' asked Rose. who was lying on 8 couch almost buried under half dozen elegant cushions.
 "she is still singing at the Rectangle Since the tent meetings closed she sings in an old hall until the new buildings her friend Virginia Page is putting up are completed.
 'I must write Rachel to come to Chi cago and visit us. She ought not to throw away her voice in that railroad town upon all those people who don't appreciate her.
 Mr Sterling lighted new cigar, and Rose exclaimed:
 Rachel is awfully queer, l think. She might set Chicago wild with her voice if she sang in the Auditorium, and there she goes on, throwing her voice away on people who don t know what they are hearing
 Rachel won't come here unless she can do it and keep her pledge at the same time, ? said Felicia after a pause.
 What pledge?' Mr Sterling asked the question and then added hastily "Oh. l knowl Yes very peculiar thing that. Powers used to be friend of mine. We learned telegraphy in the same office; made a great sensation when he resigned and handed over that evidence to the interstate commerce commission and he's back at his te- legraphy again. There have been queer doings in Raymond during the past year. I wonder what Dr. Bruce thinks of it, on the whole must have talk with him about it. "
 .sHe breaches tomorrow, said fell- cia Perhaps he will tell us something about 1t.
 There was silence for a minute. Then Felicia said abruptly. as if she haa gone on with spoken thought to some invisible bearer And what ii he should propose the same pledge to the Nazareth Avenue church
 "Who2 What are you talking about asked her father. little sharply About Dr. Bruce. say what fl he should propose to our. church what ar i Maxwell proposed to his and ask for volunteers who would pledge themselves to do everything after asking the qnes- f;on What would Jesus dog
 tioAI, V it'.s lo,sr.o,. f if said Rose,