The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-03

INE a member of congress from one
Of the southern states His
e. forefathers had represented the
same commonwealth, and so, it was
likely, would his descendants, if there
Is virtue in the fitness of things and
the heredity of love. While intrepid
frontiersmen were opening the trails
through the fertile wilds west of the
Alleghanies strong branch of the Cal
houn family followed close in their
footsteps. The majors great grand
father saw the glories and the posi-
bilities of the new territory. He struck
boldly forward from the cid Revolu-
tionary grounds, abandoning the luxu-
ries and traditions of the CarolinaS for
fresh, wild life of promise. His sons
and daughters became solid stones in
and his grandchildren are still at work
on the structure. State and national
legislatures had known the Calhouns
| from the beginning Battlefields had
tested their valor, and drawing rooms
had proved their gentility.
Major Calhoun had fought with
! Stonewall Jackson and won his spurs,
and at the same time the heart and
hand of Betty Haswell, the stanchest
| Confederate who ever made flags,
bandages and prayers for the boys in
! gray. When the reconstruction came
) he went to congress, and later on be-
came prominent in the United States
/ h0I
important European post. Congress
claimed him once more in the early
, nineties, and there he is at this @ery
time.
Everybody In Washington's -~cfal
and diplomatic circles admired the
beautiful Beverly Calhoun. According
to his own loving term of Identified
ton, she was the majors youngest"
The fair southerner had seen two sea-
sons in the nations capital. Cupid,
standing directly in front Of her, had
shot his darts ruthlessly and resist
lessly into the passing hosts, and mas
culine Washington looked humbly to
her for the balm that might sOothe its
pains. The willy god of love was fair
enough to protect the girl whom he
forced to be his unwilling, perhaps I'M
conscious, ally. He held his impene-
trable shield between her heart and
the assaults of whole army of suit
ors, high and low, great and small. 1t
was not idle rumor that said she had
declined a coronet or two, that the
millions Of more than one American
Midas had been offered to her and that
she had dealt gently but firmly with
score of hearts which had nothing but
love, ambition and poverty to support
them in the conflict.
The Calhouns lived in handsome
home not far from the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. Grenfall Lorry. 1t seemed
but natural that the two beautiful
young women should become constant
and loyal friends. Women as lovely
as they have no reason to be jealous.
1t is only the woman who does not feel
secure of her personal charms that
cultivates envy. At the home Of Grau-
starks princess Beverly met the dukes
and barons from the far east. 1t was
In the warmth of the Calhoun hospital
ity that Yetive formed her dearest love
for the American people.
Miss Beverly was neither tall nor
short. She was of that divine and in
definite height known as medium; slen-
der but perfectly nodded; strong, but
graceful-an absolutely healthy young
person, whose beauty knew well how
to take care of itself. Being quite
heart whole and fancy free, she slept
well, ate well and enjoyed every min
ute of life In her blood ran the warm.
eager impulses of the south; hereditary
love of ease and luxury displayed itself
in every emotion; the perfectly normal
demand upon mems admiration was as
characteristic in her as it is. in any
daughter Of the land whose women
are born to expect chivalry and hon.
age.
A couple Of years in a New York |
finishing school" for young ladies had |
served greatly to modify Miss Cal |
houn's colloquial charms. Many of her |
delightful way down south" phrases |
and mannerisms were blighted by the |
cold, unromantic atmosphere of a sem |
mary conducted by two ladies from |
Boston who were too old to marry, too |
penurious to love and too prim to think |
that other women might care to do |
both. There were times, however-if |
she were excited or enthusiastic-when |
pretty Beverly SO far forgot her train
ing as to break forth with a very at
tractive "yo' ALL" "suah 'nough" or "go
long naow" And when the bands
played Dixie" she was not afraid to
stand up and wave her handkerchief.
The northerner who happened to be
with her on such occasions usually |
found himself doing likewise before he
could escape the infection.
Miss Calhoun's face was one that
painters coveted deep down in their
artistic souls. It never knew a dull in
slant; there was expression in every |