Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V ? 5v> L. THE GREAT MYSTERY. Could we but know The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel. Where lies those happier bills and mea dows low. Ah! If beyond the spirit’s Inmost cavil. Aught of the country could wo surely „ know, 1 Who would not go? Might we but hear The hovering angels high, Imagined, chorus, Or onteh, betimes, with wakeful eyes, and clear. One radiant vista of the realm before us— With one rapt moment given to see and hear, Ah! who would fear? Wore wo quite sure To And the peerless friend who left us lonely, ^[Or there, by some celestial stream, as pure. To gaw> in eyes that here were lovellt only— , This weary mortal coll, wore wo quite sure, Who would endure? —Edmund Clarence Stedman. K)ieie!eiei©e!oi^^ A Woman Scorned. BY OCn^LOISK WTBI nSB o'SEtL. T was rather embarras sing for Maurice Con sidine that when he ar ' p 0 /'"? r * Te ^ ^ tb® hotel at 4*' c |sy rf Point of Rocks, having come down there in order to be near his fian cee, who was spending the snimner there, he found that the girl who had been his fiancee and whom he had jilted, was also staying at the Point. For however he justi fied his conduct, and glossed things over to himself, there can be no <lonbt that he had acted heartlessly to Bessie Minturn, and his knowledge of this and his knowledge of Miss Min- tnrn’s ideas of him, did not tend to fill his mind with unalloyed pleasure. But he was agreeably surprised when the moment came for him to meet his old love. She was not scorn ful, or theatrically cold to him; she was just as gracefully courteous to him as to the other men at the hotel, and to all appearances had entirely gotten over her ttttaok of that dangerous dis- ane'omrmn and which annually makes more fail ures and gibbering idiots than ever did the Demon Drink. She had be come fast friends with his new love, little Violet Grantley, and they were well nigh inseparable; Bessie’s man ner to the little girl was most tender and even caressing, and, though Vio let knew that Maurice and Bessie had been engaged and had parted, she could not help bnt like her, that is, as mnoh as a girl can ever like the Other Woman, the one whom He liked first, and perhaps still likes better than yon. Maurice was much in Bessie’s com pany during the next month, and he only 'serhe^s he doi« T n- ont my boat, and we will go out by moonlight. Have you ever been out? It is a pretty sight.” So they went down to the pier, where the Fly-by-Night lay, and Manrice and Violet got in and sat for ward. Bessie cast loose the rope hold ing the boat and jumped in. Then she and Maurice pushed the boat from the pier with their hands, and together hoisted the sails and the Fly-by-Night took the breeze, softly heeled over and went creeping down the little bay, threading the crooked lanes of moon lit water between the sea grass. They reached the outlet and swept through into the broad sea, which was almost smooth, there being just enough breeze to fill the sails and carry them along. Bessie sat at the tiller and held the sheet. She managed her boat with perfect command, and the Fly-by- Night seemed to obey her like a living thing. She only moved slightly from timo to time as she shifted the helm, and in that light her white yachting suit and cap made her look like a marble figure, except when the light sparkled on her red-brown eyes or the coils of her red hair, which glittered like burnished copper. They passed Gallows Hill, where the English Governor hanged forty- five pirates in a row in the good old Colony times; they skirted the Haunt ed Beach, where they say Captain Kidd’s spirit walks o’ stormy nights, and they drew up abreast with Point Goodbye. To tho east they saw a brightly lighted bulk coming up swiftly, “Tho Fall River boat, City of Glo’ster, coming up,” said Bessie, and shifted her helm, holding her boat to the wind to let the steamer pass. The steamer came np at speed; they could see tho brightly lighted port holes, and the green side lights, hear the rumb ling, pulsing thunder of tho engines and the steady “cur-nr-nr-urr,” of the paddles. It was close at hand, and the little boat swung to the snrgo of tho steamer. “Violet,” said Bessie, suddenly and sharply,” do you two people love each other?" “What a question” said Maurice, with an awkward laugh. “No, but do yon?” said Bessie again. The steamer was so near now that tho deck lights shone on their boat. Then jealonsy raised its head in Vio let’s mind. “Of course we do,” said she and gloried in the pang she thought she inflicted on the other woman’s heart. “Then,” said Bessie, and her voice rang like a bell, “kiss each other, for you are about to die.” She swung the tiller hard over, and ITT-I j-r 1 i ** - swings in a waltz, the sails filled and the boat rushed clear into tho track of the onooming steamer. There was TEMPERA* TOPICS. "the NOTES OF II ANTI-UQl Water I^astha^ Shorten* It— In the Strnet- Evil Effect*. 1EST TO THE LEADERS. If* While Liquor aperanco Lecture Urlaklog and It* ’'Sign tfl IMeilgo.' a . - ' w — iv». Oclief-questions of interest to farmers will be discussed, and wre sincerely hope—nay, we con fidently predict, that this meeting will be productive of permanently good results. In union there is strength. Local Pie kings. A hull dog fight excited our cit izens in the neighborhood of the Postoffice yesterday. The Gorton’s Minstrel car was side tracked at the depot this morning. The troupe will give a performance at Darlington to night. Deputy Grand Chancellor Hen ry H. Husband installed the newly elected officers of Harmony Lodge in Pythian Hall last night. The meeting was well attended and the ceremony was enjoyed. Dr. Robert L. Dabney, the noted divine, scholar and educator, is dead. He was nearly eighty years old, but his intellect had lost none of its vigor. The interment will take place at Hampden-Syd- ney, Va. A reliable gentleman of this city, whose duty it is to do a great deal of walking, has made a calculation that he has traveled during the past year 5,500 miles in one pair of shoes bought from Chas. Bultmann. How is this for shoe leather? Itch on human, mange on horses dogs and all stock, cured in 30 mimutea by Woffort’s Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by F. U. LAKE, Druggist Florence, S. C. far-. no time to speak, to rise, to cry out; it happened in a flash, in a moment. For one breathless instant the steam er’s lights shone on Bessie’s face, marble white, her eyes shining and her teeth glistening between her part ed lips. Then there camo one shout from the steamer’s lookout man, and the thirty-foot stem of the City of Glo'ster struck the side of the boat a crashing blow that smashed it as a paper box crumbles when yon step on it, the mast flew over and whipped the water and the iron keel of the steamer rode on, over and through the boat, while the “bat-bat-bat-bat” of the in couh'.Poddle wheels ground it to pieces, the Lord’s 11 ^® City of Glo’ster ran on a quor- that injustice* a mile » stoPP® 11 . reversed and "V. ’ v-k nearly to the spot. With pt u ion ma^ . orders and some stifled forbearance, peace, BO me of the deck hands hood may be cultivate, an officer took the pies.—Dan. 2: 1-6. 1a l-4;Tive way,” and they e circle of the Three huudred acre* fine iengers and timber two miles from Floremy rail » aa ‘i tn W. C. * A. R. R. Address L? to aafl A. McCall. Florence, 8. C., or 8. M. McCall, Mayesville, S. C. ItniP. Sign the pledgl Sign the ple<Jgt-T In the name o| Will encourage From the dan? Your example t« Shall be as a For the sake of Sign the pledG Sign the pledge! Rise to heavi Many a fre*h ^ Many a cheer When fond pai In the battle For the sake Sign the plei ICN the pledge! we now entriat you; Come with us and take your stand. Many friends with joy will greet you. Give you wrleome to our band! Sign the pledge! our country ca eyou, bids yiu help us In the light: Ere the tempting cup entnralU you, to-n^fht! alse given High. fve striven to fly! Status of Saloonkeeper*. If saloon-keepers are indeed best men on earth,” as a certain mayor himself one of them, asserts, we shall have to revise our ethical systems so as to represent the worst as the best and the best as the worst. It would seem to be nobler to make a man drunk than to help him to keep sober; to minister to the Indulgence of his appetites than to influence him to con trol them; to start him on the road to the almshouse or states prison than to encourage him to thrift, industry and uprightness. If saloons are the best places on earth, homes and school- houses and churches must be the worst, they are so widely different.—The In dependent. to 01 ling l| leaker oh. si] iers *ht; jrother*. rn to-night! I 'he children's voices h, heeil their cry! ig heaiyt rejoices, pplants a sigh. help'their dear ones (the right, clous near ones ‘then! sign *o-nleht! -Frederick Sherlock. Longevity Solid and d pears, water c fourth of its b of life are rea bath, and, alt may be trust water when r Imbibed most reasons besi, thirst. In th when commi complete. It moderate dra> integrates an of the stom gence and p: tlon. Hence ter In mod meals contri cates the fai health reso: bibing the ueoced by Water. e human body ap es more than one- ami all the functions carried on in a water _h the sense of thirst o call for. a draught of Ired, the fluid can be vantageously for many s merely satisfyiug tter stage of digestion, Ion of the mass is in- much facilitated by a ht of water, which dis- dissolves the contents fitting it for emul- arlng it for assimila- e habit of drinking wa- te quantities between ites to health and Imlt- that those who visit for the purpose of im- ters of mineral springs Beer Drinking and Longevity. Insurance ooctors are much against beer drinking. Dr. Rogers of the New York Life, in reference to beer, says.' "Recently I had occasion to make some study of what happens among persons engaged in the manufacture of beer. My caiies included not only the workmen engaged in breweries, but also the proprietors of breweries. It is a curious fact that the mortality among the proprietors is about as bigh as among the workmen, showing that they are all given to copious liba tions. The mortality is strikingly low among brewers In early years. Up to forty or thereabouts, brewers seem to be about as good risks as pretty much anybody else. After forty the mortal ity rises very high, and I should say that at fifty-five or sixty years of age about three Irewers may be expected to die where one average person dies.” W|t( might profit |y staying at home and drinking morq water and less whisky. Water is the universal solvent of na ture, and the diief agent In all trans formations of ‘natter. When taken into an empty stomach it soon begins to pass out through the tissues into liquefy effete solids, thus facility think of the inside as well body, and he healthy should cleanliness of his his skin. Very few’’ people esslty of washing the s the outside of the 0 would be perfectly e as careful about the stomach as that of Public Hack. The undersigned offers his ser vices to the public as a hackman. Will meet all trains with a good covered carriage and will carry passengers to any part of city. Patronage solicited. Come to 220 Dargan street. W. P. Rogers. Two Wicked Editors. ; From the Rock HU! Herald.j The Abbeville Press and Bauuer has diagnosed the * ( bard times” case pretty well. It says; “We let our timber rot and buy feuciug. We throw away our ashes and grease and buy soap; we raise dogs and buy hogs; we raise weeds and buy vegetables; we catch five-ceut fish with $24 rods; we build school houses and send our children off to be educated, and lastly, we tend our boys out with a 940, guu and $10 dog to hunt 10 cent birds.” The Press and Banner might have added that we work at 50 cents a day and ride $30 bicycles; we run a $10 farm with a $5 mule aud ride in a $40 buggy; we board with our daddies and spend our days play ing bate tall and our nights drink ing liquor. « .e, and ■it the andi l l« cuts, 111 morn in A Temperance Lector*, v The following “news item” printed by the New York Sun, is by Itself a pretty good temperance lecture. We copy it verbatim: “A carriage con taining four well-dressed men in four stages of intoxication stopped in Union street, near Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, at about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. On the curb stood a wheel man bargaining with a peddler for fruit. He bought ten cents’ worth of bananas, and offered in payment a two- dollar bill, which the peddler could not change. The wheelman asked the men In the carriage if they could change it. The least responsible one of the four at once drew a handful of paper money from his pocket, handed two one-hun- dred-dollar bills to the wheelman, stuffed the two-dollar bill into his pocket with the rest of his money and called to the driver to go ahead. In a moment the carriage was rolling down the street. The wheelman stood gaz ing at the two hundred dollars in his hands. Then he fumbled the bills, as if to restore his mind to working or der, Jumped on his wheel, and spun af- . ter the carriage. He caught it at the Mr. C % ^ orner of Sixth avenue, returned the to relativfeivo hundred dollars with some difli- ton countllty. as the party of four seemed slow Charleston, omprehend the situation, and got ibis two dollars. The only loser Misses Car it transaction was the peddler. In Misses Matti Ration, the wheelman forgot all Claussens, hve re bananas, throp Col leg at R, . r .’ PCRRy-ientific experiments upon t0 an< ,000 persons, Dr. J. H. Kel- Wilmingtoa last nigttle Creek, Mich., has de- pleased to kow Mrs?e effects of one ounce of proving. ilnlstered internally to be LI r n u • G) To diminish severe ML L. ILMuggint to diminish cerebral actlv- zen of the Johnson impair the co-ordinating died on Sabrday laste brain; (4) to lessen mus- heart failur. His 5th; (5) to decrease dlges vices were held Mf to a notable extent. Both Huggins ws an tiaef experience and laboratory B. Hugginsof this Q ve convinced him that it is p ' p regard alcohol as an aid % i>^*cTen'T n ’ aB 11 ^ as P roven highly Wo 4 L This influence upon the * ?ns declares, Is exactly what v*v'. • Expected of a drug that, like •edding fiVkj mconUa paralyzer of protoplasmic t©r daring leep. Cb anaesthetic and a sedative, young alike It arnM has been erroneously sup- ble at onot $1. SoRimuiant. Lokt, Dr agist. Three Were Total Abstainers. So the o’erwearied pilgrim, as he fares Along life’s summer waste, at times is fanned, Even at noon tide, by the cool, sweet airs Of a serener and a holier land. Fresh as the morn, and as the dew- fall bland. Breath of the blessed heaven for which we pray, Blow from the eternal hills! make glad our earthly way! —Whittier. We receive everything, both life and happiness; but the manner in which we receive, that is what is still ours. • • • Watch, then, disciple of life, watch and labor towards the devel opment of the angel within thee. We j must dare to be happy, and dare to confess It, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own Joy.—Amiel’s Journal. ~* I go to prove my soul: see my way as birds their trackless I 8half r arrrvffr“‘‘Wbat tiffie, Wwut «*»*-“ cult first, I ask not; but unless God sends his hail, Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In good time, his good time, I shall arrive, He guides me and the bird. In his good time. —Browning. Tho time of seed-sowing passes quickly. Ere It be gone, let me con sider closely, “Have I sown the seed of all I purpose to have?" For as Is the seed-sowing, so must be the sum mer glory and the autumn fruition.— Sarah Smiley. The battle of our life is won. And heaven begun. When we can say, “Thy will be done!” But, Lord, until These restless hearts in Thy deep love are still. We pray Thee, “Teach us how to do Thy will.” —Lucy Larcom. Of all the perils of advancing age none is greater than that of losing the faculty of wonder. That which is commonest is, indeed, the most real cause of wonder.—Westcott. The time a man spends in getting ready is never wasted time. It is a suggestive fact that nine-tenths of our Lord’s life was spent in prepara tion.—Charles H. Parkhurst. D. D. Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest— Quarles. The bee and the butterfly Live longer In one active, sunny hour Than the poor tortoise In his torpid years. —Richard Monckton Milnes. Hath any wronged thee? Be brave ly revenged! Slight It, and the work is begun; forgive It, and the work is finished.—Quarles. True happiness Consists not In the multitude of friends, But In the worth and choice. —Ben Jonson. That friendship should be able to endure silence without suspicion is the surest touchstone of its sufficiency.— J. R. Lowell. We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end to them.—Ad dison. We must accept or refuse one anoth er as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my friend.—Thoreau. Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. —Emerson, SPORTSMEN m TOURISTS! TUTU SEABOARD AIR LIRE -BEACHES ALL THE FAMOUS- HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS -OF- Virginia and the Carouhas. Commencing Jane 1st, Bummer Tourist Tickets on sale st all Stations. Stop Over Privileges Allowed all Tourists. Sports men's Bicycles Carried Free. Solid Pullman Veetibuled Limited Trains. Train Service Unequaled. Ho Extra Fares. E. ST. JOHN, H. W. B. OLOYER, Vlce-Prer. A Oen. M'g’r. Traffic Manager. T. J. ANDEBSOH, Oen’V Pass. Agent. - Portsmouth, Va. General Office*: Atlantic Coast Lina. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD OF SOUTH CAROUNA. Condensed Schedule in Effect Dec. 20, 1897* SOUTHBOUND No. 35 No. 23 No. 63 A M PM P M Lv. Florence ....3 25 7 65 * • * • Lv. Kingstree— 8 57 • • * • Ar. Lanes ....438 915 • * • • Lv. Lanes ....4 38 915 748 Ar. Charleston... 10 65 915 AM PM PM NORTHBOUND No. 78 No 32. No. 92 A M P M AM Lv. f barlesMn .. ....633 5 17 700 Ar. Lanes ....810 6 45 326 Lv. Lanes ....8 10 6 45 e.e. Lv. Kti.gstree.... ....829 • • • • * • • • Ar. Florence.... ....935 7 55 • • •• AM PM AM No 62 runs through to Columbia via Oen- jlroad of South Carolina Noe. 78 and 82 run via Wilson and kvllle—Short Line—and make close on tor »U point* North. I on C. A D, R, «t. Wave Florence daily except Sunday 966 a m, arrive Dar lington 10 28 a m, Cheraw 11 40 a m. Wades- boro 2 25 p m. Leave Florence daily except Sunday 8 15 p m, arrive Darlington 8 40 p m, Hartsville 9 35 p m, Bennettsville 9 38 p m, Gibson 10 00 p m. Leave Florence Sun- da} only 9 56 a m, arrives Darlington 1027 a m, Hartesvillell 10 a m. Leaves Gibson daily except Sunday 6 15 a m, Bennettsville641 am, arrive Darlington 7 40 a no. Leave Harts* llle dally except Sunday 6 45 a m, arrive Darlington 7 80 a m, leave Darlington 9 00 a m, arrive Florence 9 25 a m. Leave Wadesboro dally except Sunday 3 00 p m, Cheraw 5 15 p m, Darling ton 6k9 p m. arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8 20 a m, Dar lington 9 05 a m, arrive Florence 9 25 a m. J. B. KENLY. JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen’l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen’l Pass. Agent loutti Carolina and GaorgfaR.il*Go. “The Charleston Line." .Ianiitir, 'JL*, 1897. FAST DAILY. WTS8T DAILY. It Augusta 6 20 a Iv Charleston 7 10 a ar Aiken.. 7 08 a It Columbia. 7 00 a arKingT’lelO 10 a It Kingville. 7 40 a ar Col'bia. in 55 a ar Aiken.... 11 09 a arCharla’tnll 00a ar Angnsta..!! 51 a ■AST DAILY. WB9T DAILY. W AugnsU 3 20 pTrCbarleston 5 30 p at Aiken.. 4 07 p W Columbia. 4 00 p arKingT*le 9 20 p It Kingnlle. 4 44 p »r Ool’bialO 10 p ar Aiken. ... 9 57 p arCh’rla’tn 8 0C p ar Aogoate..l0W > OAMDENBRANCH, daily ex. Sund’y. NORTH. SOUTH. lTKingv’lel025 a It Charleston 8 45 • arOamdenll 55 a ar KingTille..lO CJ j WKingr'le 6 00 a It Camden.. 2 25 p ar Camden 8 25 a sr Kingville. 4 55 p AIKEN ACCOMMODATION. Daily except Sunday. It Angnsta 6 40 p tr. Aiken. 7 30 p iv Aiken..4 15 p ar Angnsta 5 07 p NORTH and SOUTH, Via Denmark. Through sleepers to and from New York. It Angnsta 3 05 p It New York 9 30 p ar Richm’d 8 40 a It WaaVgt’n $ 10 f srWaah’ton 7 00 a It Biohm'nd 7 81 a ax New Y’k 1 23 p k Aagnsta. 8 lO e Connections at Charleston with New York steamers, also with steamers lot JaoksonTille, Fla., on sailing datev and at Angnsta with the Georgia Boat to and from all points West and Sout^ also at BlacksTille with the Carolina Midland Railroad to and from Barn well. Connections with Sonthern Rail way at Colombia to ail points in upper South end North Carolina. E. S. Bowen, L. A. Emerson, 1 Gon. Manager. Trafflo Manager