(Din family Story.
STUM I'V.
KLOKKX* K HA L?l<OVV Kl.I. HOVT.
He wax only the boy who attended
lo the chores al>out the hotel, and so
he was never invited to play croquet
or lawn tenuis, or to substitute in the
baseball nine: ai.d he was laughed at
a g?x>d deal because he had freckles,
red hair, and woroclothos a groat dchl
too small for him. Ills name was
Kphraim, but every one called him
"Stumpy," for he was short and rather
stout -every one oxeept Carrie Mowbray,
that is, Carrie never used bis
nickname. She said she didn't cousidor
it kind.
" He'd like to be tall. I dare say. So
would a groat many other people," she
said to her eousin Hollo Towers, one
day on the porch.
"13uthe is hideous, actually hideous."
said Hello.
uji, no; you exaggerate. 11 no
didn't nave frock lets he would hardly
Ik* culled even plain : and the freckles
will wear oil in time."
' 1 doubt it: and then his hair- so
red ! and he is awkward, too."
''He'll outgrow his awkwardness,
and he can't help having red hair.
I've heard you say you'd liko to have
dark eyes- hut you'll never have thorn.
We're obliged to be content with
nature's decrees usually; and you
can't deny that Ephratin looks honest.
Ho is amiable, too. and very obliging."
"To hear you talk, Carrie, would
imagine him a paragon. 1 suppose
you found out all these virtues when
you wore talking to him on the hooch
yesterday." -<i
" I was simply asking him ulnmt the
tides."
" You could have asked some one
else. You'll make him familiar if you
talk to him, Carrie. I've scon that
sort of thi-.g happen before. I only
hope he'll never have the assurance to
speak to mo."
"Oh. he has enough good sense to
see where he is wanted. Ho never
thrusts himself forward in the least ?
I've noticed that."
" Woll, don't enoourago him to talk
to you. People of that class arc vory
apt to presume upon any attention,
however trivial," and Hollo strolled
down the steps in the direction of the
beach, fooling that Carrie, had justly
deserved the rebuke she had given
her.
Iielle did not intend to bo either unkind
or ungenerous; but, like many
other gilds, she had an exaggerated
idea of her own importance and the
aristocracy of wealth. Ephraim found
it pretty hard to be at the beck and
call of everybody at the Hoacli House,
and he had to grind his teeth sometimes
to keep from " answering back "
when his orders came in a peremptory
tones from some young fellow no older
than himself.
" But 1 mean to see it through," ho
said to his sister, as he sat talking to
her one evening in the doorway of
their cottage, after the labors of the
day were over. " You know i have
always said that a fellow was a coward
who'd give a thing up just because it
proved hard. By next Summer 1 can
liud something else to do, and all I'm
going through now wont matter."
" I'm real proud of you, Enhraim,"
said his sister, as she looked at him
with tender eyes. " You'ro so bravo."
Ephraim laughed.
" Don't be proud until you've something
to be proud about," ho said.
Kphraim made it a point to take a
plunge in the sea ovory morning on
his way to the hotel, lie was a lino
swimmer, and thoroughly enjoyed his
ten minut -i in the water. It seemed
to tone him up for all day. Me hail
always had the seauto himself at that
hour, for ho was an early riser from
necessity as woll as inclination, but on
the morning after his talk with
Barbara, he .had just entered the
water, and was only a few yards from
shore, when ho hoard a shout, and,
turning around, saw half a dozen of
the boys from the hotel on the beach.
"Here, you fellow," called out Porclval
Peyton, a young man who boasted
that ho belonged to the " K. H. V's."
" Come out of that."
His tone, more than the command,
irritated Ephraim. He turned about
again and struck out for deopor water
without making any reply.
" You insolent young hound, don't
you hear me V" called Peyton, the
anffl'V blond mniin?ln? e:.. t
o. >T ...x/vtiivtug it/ HID iilUUi j
" Come out of that. The follows want
to go in."
" Well, you can cjmc in," answered
Ephraim. "I'm not in your way.
Thoro's plenty of room."
" Yes : wnut's the uso of making a
row V" drawled Frank Chapin.
" I'm not making a row," said
Peyton, " but 1 never have gone into
the water with the hotel servants, and
1 don't propose to do it now. The fellow
might as well learn his place now
as any time."
"Oh, lot him alone; Stumpy is a
good sort," said Charles Colwell.
" Ho can outswim you any day, Peyton."
" Not much," said Peyton, who considered
himself the best swiminor on
the beach.
" Take a pull together and decide it,"
said Calwell.
"Thank you for the suggestion, but
I don't enter any swimming match
with a fellow not my social equal,"
answered Peyton snobbishly.
Ephraim by this time was an eighth
of a inile from the beach. He remained
in the water his usual length of
tiino ; then came out to llnd Peyton
waiting for him, a very dark frown on
his handsome faco. Tho other boys
had all gone into tho water.
" I'll so" hat you aro properly dealt
with for this impertinence," lie said, us
Ephraim started toward one of tho
bath houses. , " You will hear from
this, and very shortly, too."
Ephraim made no rejoinder, but he
couldn't help feeling a litle uneasy,
and almost wished he had obeyed Peyton's
order, insulting as it was. The
Peytons occupied the best rooms at
tho hotel, and had the cream of everything.
" if it weren't for Aunt Martha and
narbara, I would'nt caro," the boy
reflected. "But if I lose my place
it'll come hard on them."
By the time ho was dressed Ephraini
had decided on the hardost tit.sk ho
had over set himself. He would
a{>ologize to l'ercival l'eyton.
He gave himself no time to hesitate,
but went straight to the iH)int.
" Mr. Peyton," ho said, " perhaps I
was wrong not to come outof the water
when you told me to. I hopo you'll
overlook it, and notf report mo to Mr.
Springer. 1 can't afford to loso my
place.'
" You should have thought of that
before." rejoined Peyton, haughtily.
"One of the lirst duties of a servant is
to learn his place," and ho turned on
his heel and walked away.
Ephraim went to his duties at the
hotel feeling as if lie hated the coldblooded
young aristocrat, and it didn't
improvo his temper to hear Peyton
? I
rotating tho incident to Hullo Towers
when tney wore on tho porch together
after breakfast, and Kphraim was
holding a horse at the block. Hello's
rejoinder reached Ills earn with cruel
distinctness.
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?.iiv- iiii|>uueu<:c ?>1 11, sno HUIU.
" It all oame of Carrie's talking to him.
1 told hor ho'd be getting famlliur.
The next thing we'll know ho'il consldor
himself privileged to go into the
water when wo girls are In. I hope
Mr. Springer will discharge him."
Ephruim's heart swelled with indignation
and pain. How these
wealthy people despised him ! I lis
father had been the captain of the
Life Saving Station, and they had
lived in comfort as long as ho hail been
spared to them : but be had lost bis
life one bitter night in the performance
of bis arduous duties, and dark
days bad come to the little family.
Ephraira, who had boon attending
school regularly, had been obliged to
put his young shoulder to the wheel at
once, and had taken any sot of work
he could lind. As lie hoard the eonelusion
of Hello's spoech he wondered
what ho was going to do in ease Mr.
Springer acted on I'oreival I'eyton's
request. There was Hen Todd who
would he only too glad to jump into
his place if the chance olTorod. And
the chance <1 i?l olTor. .lust before noon
Mr. Springer sent for lOphraim, and as
soon us tiie )w>y saw his face ho got
ready for the blow that he knew was
about, lit full
"Complaint of iinpudenco and disobedience
has boon lodged against
you, Warner," suid Mr. Springer, as
lie turned over the leaves of a ledger
on his desk. " I oan't have any one
here who is obnoxious to my guests.
So 1 won't need you after to-day. I
ihavo engaged Todd to take your plaee."
Kphraim was too much stunned to
utter a word in response. He simply
nodded and left the otlleo.
Going outside be walked slowly toward
the roar of the building, trying
to think how he would bieuk the news
to his aunt and Uarbnru.
Suddenly ho heard a ery, and, looking
toward the beach, saw the people
running excitedly to and fro. Ho
understood at once that some person
must ho In danger of drowning, and
without hesitating a moment ho
dashed (, ?vn the board walk, throwing
oil his emit, und uh/ioi! 1... ........ i
V <<><v> 1,1 * V7VU t%0 1 I V? H U II l/l 1 \ D
ho reached the beach ho saw Mr.
Towers, u nuin of midUlo age, spring
into tho water; and far out beyond tho
breakors saw tlio objects of his solicitude
-two girls, who liad vonturod too
far out and wore unable to return
against the strong current. Another
instant and Kphraim had dashed into
tho soa, almost throwing over i'orcival
I'oyton in his impotuous eagerness to
los;o no time, and, being a strong
swimmer, he soon ovortook and distanced
Mr. Towers, and in a few
minutes more succeeded in reaching
the girl nearest him. it was Hello
Towers, and she clung to him desperately.
What eared she now that
ho was freckled, that his hair was rod,
and his gait awkward? He was tho
one plank between her and a watery
grave, and she held to him with wild
despair. With groatdilllculty Kphraim
persuaded her to loosen her grasp, and
gave her into the euro of her father,
who had now reached them.
" Take her in?I'll got the other,"
if.o said, and struck out to where Carrie
Mowbray was struggling in the water
200 yards from shore. She was just
about giving up, her strength having
almost failed.
" Courage," he cried, " keep up till
I got there ; I'll save you."
His words gavo her fresh strength.
Hy a great etVortsho kept herself from
sinking, and the next moment Kphraim
had reached her and extended one arm
so that she could grasp it.
" Cling to my shoulder," he said.
Carrie obeyed him, and tho gallant
follow turned about for shore. lie
made fair headway for a time, and
then, finding that the great exertion
he was putting forth was overtaxing
his strength, and that the girl's weight
was burying him deeper and deeper,
so that every wave broke over t,h<e?
heads, he spoke again;
" You'vo got to holp mo or we'll
both drown," ho said.
"If you think wo can't reach tho
shore I'll take my hands oil'," answered
tlio noble girl. "There is no need]
that wo should both go down. Save
yourself, and never mind about me."
1 Sut plain, poor, and awkward us he
was, Kphraim Warner was not one to
desert a woman in deadly peril. He
had gone ont to save her and lie proposed
to do it or die in the attempt.
" I won't leave you," he said ; and
then, with ready resource, told her to
grasp one of his shoulders with one
hand, and use tho other as in swimming.
" If you can do this we'll get to
the shore all i ight," ho added. " We
musn't drown if wo can help it. Do
your best now."
Thus encouraged, Carrie was able to
follow his directions implicitly, and
under the changed conditions the intrepid
swimmer put forth all his
remaining strength, and within a few
minutes they were within reach of the
assistance of those from the shore.
As they all rose from the wator and
Mrs. Mowbray staggered forward to
fold her daughter in her arms, a great
shout went up from the oxcited crowd.
"Three elinor* fin* l<'r?n> ? ...
_ _ .W. . 'I'll I (11111 V Y ill"
nor," cried a voice. Instuntly it was
taken up, and cheer after cheer rang
out, while Kphraim, too weak to utter
a word, gazed around him for a moment
in bewildered astonishment, and
then, for the lirst time in his life,
quietly fainted away. !
* * * * * * *
That evening, as Ephraim lay on the
old couch in his aunt's little sittingroom,
feeling still the elTccts of his
desperate battle with the waves, a
shadow darkened the doorway, and,
looking up, ho saw I'orclval Peyton
standing there.
" I'vecomo down to apologizo to you,
Warner, for what happened between
us this morning," began l'eyton. " 1
thought 1 ought to do it, you seo. I'm
not given much to apologies, but I
hope I'm not a cad. Vou'ro a bravo
fellow, and I'm proud to know you.
Shake hands and let's call it square."
r.phraim's hand went out at once,
and ten minutes later he found himself
promising to take a plaeo in the
iron works of Peyton & Co., if room
could bo made for him.
" And I imagine I can fix that all
right," youug Peyton said, and went
away fooling that ho had shown himself
a gentleman.
This was not all that came to
Kphraim through his courageous act.
The United States Government, in
recognition of his bravery, sent him a
gold medal, the highest award that
can be made, and when ho put it on
for Barbara to admire, she almostorlcd.
" Vrt.. .?i.. ? r
. vr.. x^v/i icviin^ ? ?? t say i nitvon I a
ri^hti" bo proud of you now, Kphroim,"
aho said.
44 Oh, almost any ono would havo
done what I did if ho'd known how to
bwira ii8 well," rojoined honeat ICphraim
inodoHtly.
But hia eyoa ahoue, novertholeas, aa
ho looked at that gold modal wiiioh
bore teatimony to hia bravery.
ItlliL AUP AM) THK IKKiS.
11?' In Determine:! to Kill Some of,
i in-ill The iingn Hold n Convention '
?>n Ills 1*1 itA7ii iiikI (-'emit on Mis Pel
ltulibltN.
Hewaro uf dogs. I wunt a dog law
right now. I can't got up luilf a do/on
times ill the night to shoot a popgun
pistol at tho dogs. I never saw such a
crop as there is this your; I never knew
thorn so Impudent. Kvory night they
congregate all round my house und on
tlie front porta a?rd the hack piu/./u.
They play a while and light a while.
My tho time I gel the liii tol and oncn
tho door they scatter and i can't got
aim in tho dark on any ono?novor
could shoot much on tho wing nohow.
Hut give mo a double-barrel shotgun
and a fouco to rout it 011 and a dead btill
gumo within easy roach and I cun shoot
us good us unybody. I'm waiting for
moonlight nights now, and then woo
ho unto dogs. Thoro arc a dozen or
inoro hero ovory night. Thoy arc
holding a protracted mooting or a dogmatic
convention and I think that our
Scotch dog laddio presides. I think
ho invites them, for ho won't light
them. Our grovo is such a beautiful
attractive playground and tho piuzzus
are so long and broad and tho tennis
court is near by. I hit it is a late thing
- this dog campmcoting at my house
and wo don't understand it. Tho other
night I got up and slipped around in
my celestial garments until I caught
cold. I shot throe times, )>111 tho dogs
never even yelped nor run away. Next
morning my wife gave her consent for
mo to use strlohnino. So I visited tho
drug store and called for the deadly
poison. The young man looked at me
with a suspicious tone of voice and.asked
me if I had boon reading lioblngersoll
on suicide, hut he finally put up
the strichnino and made mo sign a receipt
on tho pi/on book. That night
just before wo went to church I locked
up our dog and put out two pieces of
beef at tho back door and two at the
front door. When we came hack the 1
beef was gone, but not the dogs. It
looked to mo like they wore more
thicker, more denser, as Cobe says. I
put out four more pieces ami got up 1
about midnight and prowled mound
with a lantern. I found a big spotted
hound staggering and reeling at tho 1
back door. He fell over the old mare's ! 1
water bucket and seemed to me to ho i
enjoying Ills agonies. I waited on him
a while and concluded to hurry him
up a little : so I went back and got the
little pistol and put it in about a foot,
of his head and lired. He kicked the I
bucket uwhilo and departed this life :
intestate.
But as yet wo have no relief. I don't
know how many have wandered olV to <
die, but last night the convention was
bigger than over and more tumultuous i
and I see no relief hut moonlight nights
and hall a dozen shotguns. Some of i
the town hoys are going to come over
and have a picnic.
Dogs are curious creatures. There (
is no animal of hotter qualities or
worse ones : no race of animals of such i
endless variety. There is none so myal i
to his master and disloyal toother people,
and hence nobody cares for any
dog except his own. The good St.
Bernard's maxim, "Love ine, love my ,
dog," is good theory hut poor practice, i
A good, faithful dog commands more i
alVoction than the favorite horse that
is far more stately and valuable. A 1
man will defend his dog from abuse
almost as vigorously as ho will his
chilli and tho maxim might well bo
modi lied to " if you love me, you must
respect my dog. '
Hut the best dogs in tho world have
a streak of wolf nature in them. The
most faithful watch dog will slip olT between
midnight and day to join in a
raid upon the neighboring (lock of<
sheep. 1 have known them to go two 1
miles to engage in this business and
nothing betrayed them but the wool
that was found between their teeth.
The discovery was astounding to their ,
owners. 11
Somehow or other dogs have been
under the ban in all ages and conn- ! j
tries. At least other peoplo's dogs ?
have, (ioliath said to David : "Am I
dog ?" etc. David said : "1 am compassed
about with dogs." St. John
ruled them out of heaven, for lie said : "Without
are dogs and sorcerers and
murderers and idolaters." lie saw 1
horses in heaven, hut no dogs. The j i
ancient astronomers declared the dog 11
star to have an evil, malignant inllu- :
once, and hence the weather was hot i
and liery during the thirty or forty
days that it rose and set with the sun
in.Iuly and August. i
Kven the small boy t akes his first los- ,
son in swearing by saying " dog on it."
or " I'll be dogged." This may lie j i
called a cursory expression, but sometimes
it leads to cur-sing. ;
The dog star is a bright star in the <
tail of the dog?major canis?and sailors
guided their vessels by it before
the discovery of the magnet. They !
called it Cynoseuros, which, in (ireek, ; i
means a dog's tail. Tho pretty word j
" cynosure " comes from this. So when i
it is said of a beautiful woman in an
assembly that she was the cynosure of i
all eyes it literally means that she was i
the dog's tail of the whole concern.
The word " cynic " is an unkind reflection
upon tho dog, for it means a dog
in mo shape of a snappish, snarling,
ill-natured man. To say of a bad man
that ho is as moan as a dog is another
unjust reflection. Hotter say ho is as
mean as a moan dog, or a suok-ogg
dog, or a sheep-killing dog, or a nigger's
hound. Some men are moaner
than the common run of dogs.
Shakespeare says : "I'd rather ho a
dog and bay the moon." One of the
first hymns we children learned washy
Dr. Watts, and it bogan?
" Lot dogs delight to bark and bite, j
forded hath made them so." ' i
Hut llyron was more appreciative i
and said : " I love to hear the watch i
dog's honest hark." And for tho last I
century mankind luivo boon more con-1
sidorato of those useful and trusty
creatures. The breed has boon improved
very greatly. Indeed, there '
have been exceptional breeds afar back
in tho centuries. Tho St. Bernard
dogs had great renown and the beautiful
stories of thoir roscuing travelers
from the Alpine snows woro tho dois..i.i?oi..
? 'i ? > - - -
uKiibui mo uniiuron in our youthful
days. The dogs in tho arctio regions
arc indispensable to arctic life and
comfort. They arc tho horses of the
Esquimaux and tlicir food and their
clothing. Without thoir aid tho arctic
explorers vould not venture in arctic
teas. Indian hunters lovo their dogs
better than they do their wives and it
is their religion to believe
"That when admitted to tho heavenly
sky
His faithful dog will bear him Company."
Hut, nevertheless, we are desperately
hostilo to dogs right now at my
houso. My wife says i must do something
and I'm going ' to do it. I give
warning right now to all my nabors,
white and black. A dog that won't
stay at home at night is not worth
keeping. Our littlo grandchild bad a
pair of beautiful pet rabbits and thoso
dogs have killod them and I'm going
to kill tho dogs. 1 don't say it in any
dogmatic manner, but I'll be dogged if
1 don't. \ hp.
1IIK COM M BRCK OF CH AHLKHT(>N
A ilev lew of Tra<le I'or the I'ftMt Year
Tl.n H-I.>l-' " -
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III I III* StUt?'.
The Charleston News and Courier
according to its custom lias published
an annual review of the trade arid commerce
of Charleston for the commercial
year ending August HI.
The year has Ikjcu one of unprecedented
trial, yet the report shows that
Charleston has hold its own remarkably
well. The storm in August, IHU.'l,
laid waste hundreds of miles of territory
directly tributary to this market
and deprived Charleston of a rich and
renumorativo trade. The rice crops
wore almost totally destroyed : the Sea
Island cotton crop was nearly all lost
and the turpentine forests were blown
down for miles, and the river phosphate
mining companies so badly damaged
that thev could not operate for
more than half tho year. The dispensary
liquor law drove a great deal of
capital from tho city and destroyed a
hitherto lucrative business. The storms
in the State last year and tho general
depression throughout the country, albu
affected the trade of tho city, but in
spite of all those calamities and drawbacks,
the trade of Charleston shows a
falling oil' of only about three and a
naif million dollars as compared with
tho preceding year. Tho aggregate
value of tin* business of the city is more '
than seventy-one million dollars. This,
under the circumstances, is a splendid
showing. L'lio prospects for the new
year are full of encouragement.
Tho completion of tho jetties makes
Charleston one of the linostdocp water
ports in the world, and insures to this
city a great increase in its foreign
trade. Ships drawing twenty-throe
feet of water can now cross tho bar
with safety. Tho government work ou
the jetties has been most successful,
and Capt. I'. V. Abbott, the engineer
in charge, says that there is every
reason to iintl<dnni? tin.i ?i..? -1?
v I'ow/ uiiuu \j 11 v; lull UUJJtll
of twenty-six feet contemplated by tho
project, will bo attained with loss expenditure
than the amount of the estimate.
During the year, he says 1,07b,*
IH)0 cubic yards of material have disappeared
from between the jetties and
the areas about their landward and
seaward ends. This gain in waterway,
ur dceroaso of obstructing material, he
adds " equals the whole amount that
was gained front 1881 to 1803."
The completion of the jetties will
lead in the near future to the establishment
of direct steamship lines to
Kuropo and to the improvement of the
terminal facilities of the port already
the inest in the South Atlantic coast.
Now cotton and exporting linns will
do business hero this year and it is expected
that there will bo a largo increase
in the cotton receipts of the
port. Last year tho cotton receipts
exceeded those of tho previous year by
more than one hundred thousand bales.
The News and Courier also published
letters from its correspondondonts
in all parts of the State describing the
condition of the agricultural and industrial
interests. Those lettors. with
very few exceptions, are pleasingly
monotonous in their statement of the
Mubbur ( diKi liion oi the fur mors and in
attributing tho cause to tho forced
economy c( nseijuent upon the disasters
of the previous your and the increased
attention to cereal products, induced
by the low prico of cotton. The sumo
resolutions havo also led to more attention
being paid to the raising of hogs
and other live stock. If we aro to accept
the toncurrent testimony of so
many persons in so many varied localities,
South Carolina was never so well
prepared to supply its own hog and
hominy as it is to-day. In some parts
of the State, people are raising their
horses and mules and cattle, and supplying
themselves with-beef, butter
and milk. In the upper tier of counties,
wheat and oats, as well as corn,
are available as food crops. Tobacco
and truck farms and orchards have
also come into favor, and diversified
farming and intensive cultivation have
apparently come to South Carolina to
itay.
Will. I<> SIX liCSKANIiS.
\ New .Jersey Woman Who lias llroken
i lie iMntriiiioniul Record.
Tili.NTON. N. )., September 1.?The
matrimonial record breaker of tho continent
has just landed In jail here.
She is a w< man and she now calls herself
Mrs. I cue Carson. She has been
married more times than tho average
person hereabouts can keep record of,
ami is now in the jail on complaint of
I'aul Redmond, one of her husbands,
who charges her with assault and battery.
(>11 June 110. 187b. Mrs. Carson was
accused of killing her third husband,
Urson A. House, a New York divorce
lawyer, at their homo on a farm in
west vv tnusor township, In this county.
Shi- was acquitted of tho charge of
manslaughter at tho following October
term of court, and, after securing possession
and control of her dead husband's
farm, entered on a marrying
career that landed her in tho lunatic
usylum last spring. Uocently she was
released through the elTorts of her
counsel, who declared she was deprived
of liberty in order that interested
persons might get possession of her
property.
Sho says she has had but six husbands.
The first was Charles A. Anderson,
whom sho married when 1 1
yea -s old. Now she is ii>. Anderson
deserted her after the birth of a son,
and she married .1. W. Denver, a
wealthy car manufacturer. After securing
divorces from Anderson and
Denver, she married her lawyer,
House. frank Darker, a baseball
player, was tho fourth husband, and
after ho got a divorce, Mrs. House says
she married Haul K. Kedmond because
she wanted a man to look after her
farm and farm hands were scarce.
Ho professed to be a Christian and a
good farmer, but Mrs. House says ho
was '' nothing but a tramp, and has
turned out to be insane, and was martied
under an assumed name." After
she had " placed a pistol under his nose
he went away," and Mrs. AndersonDenver-1
louse-1 'arkor-Hedmond married
Harry G. Carson, a telegraph operator
at Lawrence station, about a
year ago. They have been living together
in this city recently.
A few days ago Kedmond made them
a visit and was thrown out of tho house.
He then had Mr. and Mrs. Carson ar
ri-M^u, nr.fi rncy are in jail to await
tho grand j.iry's action. Mrs. Hou.sc
Hays hor son by her llrst husband,
William Anderson, is socking hor
money. She ascribes her matrimonial
career to doiieieneies in hor early
training, and says she has recently
ombraeod tho Catholic faith because
she has bocome a firm boliovor in tlio
church law allowing but one marriage
and prohibiting divorce.
H. C. Taylor, Murfroesboro, Tenn.,
writes: ''I have used tho Japanese
I'ilo Curo with great sat isfaction and
success." Sold by Carpenter llros.,
(ireonvillo, S. C.
Magnetic Nervine, the great restorative,
will cause you to sleep liko a
child. Try it. Sold by Carpenter
Urea., Greenvillo, S. C.
BREAK IN THE R/NKS.
Sfimittloii In III* of III* <
l.ctttlliiK SiiKnc Stiilc of tin' South.
\V tilth iiml InHuriu'c CuDililiifd.
iu>n>ll<. It..--1-. ?
N K.w Ollf.KANf. September 7.?The
ilrst serious break in tin.' democratic
party In this state in twenty years is
now actually threatened. The sugar
piuliters convention yesterday declared
in favor of an alliance with the republican
party on national issues, and two
and possibly three congressional districts
comprising tiie sugar region are
endangered to the c^yniocrats. There
were probably three hundred representative
men present at the convention,
and as nearly all of tlieiu are men of
wealth wiili large influence and with
power to control a considerable following,
the action they have taken cannot
be underestimated. The meeting was
called to order by Kichard McOall, one
of the leading planters of the third district,
and Air. 1?. N. I'ugh, of Ascension,
a near relative of Justice Nichols,
was made chairman. Among those who
participated in the discussion were Mr.
W. K. Ilowell, a prominent democrat of
Lafourche; II. P. Kernoclian, who was
u naval ollleer under Cleveland; Albert
| Kstopinal, democratic state senator,
who may bo the planters candidate in
' the first district; (3. P. Anderson, a
! wealthy planter of Plaque Mine; .lames
A. Ware, democratic representative in
the legislature from Iberville! Colonel
J. 1). Hill, Captain J. N. Phurr, and
others. Mr. John Dymond wus the
only speaker who strenuously opposed
secession from the democratic party.
A committee reported elaborate resolutions
setting forth that the white people
of Louisiana and the planters for
many years had been loyal to the democratic
party throuirli victorv niul de
feat, but that the state liutl been betrayed
aud u blow struck ut its chief
industry by that party that threatened
its absolute ruin, and that the nomination
of protection candidates and their
election had becomo a necessity. The
resolutions were adopted by a rising
vote. It was decided to meet ugain on
September 17, in this city, when the
plans of the sugar planters will be perfected.
It was also decided to nominate
u candidate in the three sugar districts
and to afliliule with the republicans.
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HAPPILY IN THE LEAD.
Heavy Increase In tho llimli ClonrliiRn o<
Some of I lie 1 .11 i rc ( it Ich of I lie South.
Attention Attracted to llur
l*'roiit North ami Went.
11 ai.timouk, September 7.?The Manufacturer's
Record of this week says:
Tho encouraging condition of business
and the extent of its revival in tho
south are shown by the bank clearings
of several southern cities, notably ilirluingham.
Louisville, Memphis, and
Jacksonville. At the tliriw> pitinK lntit
named the increase for tlio week ending !
August. 25 was 202,181) and "JO per cent,
respectively, over the corresponding
week of 1898, while at IKrmingluim the
clearings increased over 400 per cent.,
indicating to what an extent manufacturing
industries arc being alTected.
Special reports received during the
past week include the construction of
forty miles of new railroad in Alabama
and twelve miles in Tennessee, the
opening of three more coal mines in
Alabama and the formation of a line of
twenty-live barges for the Mississippi
river trade; two steamship lines, one
coastwise and one to the West Indies;
a number of sales of land in small tracts
to settlers, and the sale of 80,000 tons
of Tennesee phosphate by a single corporation.
Through the entire south
there is a better feeling in business
circles than has been seen for the past
two or three years, and reports from
all over the country show that the increasing
prosperity of the south is attracting
wide attention from capitalists,
uuinufactarejrs and farmers.
TRAGEDY IN A GEORGIA TOWN.
J. '*. Koblimon, <>f Tnllulnh Knits, Uien a
IMfltol on K. \V. Slilrloy.
Tat.t.ulaii Fai.i.s, Gu., September 7.
?.1. F. Robinson shot and seriously
wounded F. W. Shirley yesterday. Tinball
entered below his right shoulder,
ranged downward through the right
lung and eaino out just below the right
shoulder blade. Robinson says lie did
not intend to kill Shirley, but did intend
to disable him. The. doctors say
that recovery is extremely doubtful.
Robinson is a partner in the Tallulali
furniture and lumber company, and a
brother to the state senator, T. A. Robinson.
The trouble occurred about a
difference in settling a lutnbor transaction.
THE VIKING SHIP SUNK.
FoundnriMl In th? Chicago Itlvcr In tho
Keeont Storm.
Chicago, September 7.?After sailing
thousands of miles over the Atlantic
ocean, up the St. Lawrence and through
the lakes to Chicago without a mishap,
the Viking ship was sunk in the river
during the recent storm. This famous
vessel was one of the notable exhibits
at the World's fair. It was built on the
model of an old Viking rover found
fourteen years ago under the villugo of
Qogstad,
GOLD MINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
A Now FiitorprlH* for Oconee ItmtiRurMted
l>y Western Capitalists.
Wai.hat.i.a, S. C., September 7.?A
now enterprise for Oconee is being inaugurated
by capitalists from Indianapolis
wbo are making arrangements
to open a gold mine. The directors are
0. S. Fieblowran, T. J. linrker, S. H.
(Josby, state geologist, and liaymen
Cohen of Indianapolis, and Carl Williams
of Walluilln, 8. C.
Itail HUmd Among th? f.ongntioremen.
Savannah, (?a., September 7.?There
is bad blood between the two elans of
longshorcsinen here, the union men ami
the non-union men. The cotton season
is about opening up and already there
is one cotton steamer in the harbor,
which will begin loading in a few days.
The strike is still on among the union
longshoremen.
South t'Hrollna'nIHntlllcrlen Hli.'iiett.
Waliiam.a, S. C. September 7.?The
entire distillery warehouses of C. W.
Tatham, three miles from Walhalla,
were distroyed by incendiaries Wednesday
night about 14 o'clock. Seven
thousand gullonv of old corn whiskey
wore destroyed with the buildings.
There was no insurance. There are no
elues to the incendiaries.
ITS QUITE A STEP
/"Tv from the grcftt,
dreadful
-reStA&r pills to Dr. I'ieroo'fl
I'luasant Pollct*.
i/y'^tC W'"lt aU U^"
These little Pellargor
than
n* u s t a r (1
smallest and the easiest to take?
tiny, sugar-coated granules that every
child is ready for.
They act in the mildest, easiest,
most natural way. No violence, no
reaction afterward, and their help
lasts. Thev permanently cure Constipation,
Indigestion, Hilious Attacks,
Sick or Hilious Headaches, and
all derangements of the liver, stomach
and liovvels.
They're put tip in sealed vials.
This keeps them always fresh and
reliable, unlike the ordinary pills in
wooden and pasteboard boxes.
They're the cheapest, for they're
guaranteed to give satisfaction, 01
your money is returned. You pay
only for the good you get.
You'rk tiikouoii with Catarrh,
li n a 11 y a n d
steJJ) f.?Zr: . ^ completely,?
ra\JV/ ==----a* or you nave
??vV""" 1 45500 in cash.
r~:~?m That's what
?. |Tr | . is promised
I 11^ II I you, no mattei
how bad your case or of how long
standing, by the proprietors of l)r.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Sold by all dealers in medicines.
JONKS gUITH THIS I'AllTV.
The Honator From Noviuin Is No Ijnnger
a Kepnblien11?Jle .loins i lie I'opiilists
anil Crouton a Kcnsnt Ion.
A genu i no sensation was created in
tho political circlesof Washington last
week by tho statement that Senator
John 1\ Jones, of Nevada, who has represented
his State in the IJuitod Statys
Senate for over twenty-one years as a
Republican, has formally renounced
his allegiance to that pariy and cast
his lot with the I'opulists.
Senator Jones authorized the publication
of his letter to tho Republican
chairman of Nevada, which explains
his ohauge of base, and is as follows:
"Having become fully convinced
that the Republican organization is
unalterably opposed to tho free coinage
of silver at the American ratio of lb to
1, oa at all, except with the consent of
foreign governments and at a ratio to
bo dictated by them, I have to announce
that I can no longer act with
that party. I have not arrived at this
conclusion without extreme regret.
It is alwaVS imillful to novel* nvwmln.
tions of long standing, but fidelity to
my own convictions and my imperative
duty, as 1 see it, to the people of Nevada,
who luivo long and greatly honored
me, compel me to this eourse.
" To my constituents 1 need hardly
say that whatever change has occurred
in the relations between the Republican
party and myself is not a change in
mo. My opinions are in every respect
what they have always been. 1 hold
to-day with all the earnestness of the
day of my election every one of the
principles for whoso support in the
Senate I was for the fourth time honored
by my constituents with a seat in
that body. I abate not an iota of my
convictions with reference to thohenoficont
influence on American industry
of the policy of protection. A protective
policy 1 regard merely as a means
by which the people of the JOuntry
may secure to themselves the doing of
their own work in such volume and
with such complete variety and perfect
co-ordination of industries as to afford
uninterrupted employment for all. Hut
while fully convinced of the moral and
material progress made possible for our
people by their doing their own work.
1 am no less firmly of the conviction
that in the absence of a monetary system
that will admit of tho quantity of
money constantly keeping pace with
tho demand, it is in vain toexpectsuch
progression."
NIr. Jones declares himself a protectionist,
but ho holds that tariff and all
other issues are subordinate to tho
question of money supply.
Senator Jones left Washington at
once for Now York. His bolt makes
tho Nevada Congressional delegation
solidly Populistic, Senator Stewait
having loft tho Republican party some
tlrao ago, and Representative Newlands
having been elected as a Populist.
SI
A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN.
A Page From Her History.
Thn 1 m ivtptn ?it ?a .11
. vv??v vaiaii >cui:v? ui UUICrS (11*0
Interest ing. Tho following Is no exception:
"I had boon troubled with heart disease 35
years, much of that time very seriously. For
flvo years I wastreatod.by one physician continuously.
1 was In huslnouft, but obliged to
retire on account of my honllh. A nhyalclan
told my friends that I could not live a
month. My root and limbs were badly swollen,
and I wns Indeed In a serious condition
whon a gentloman directed my at tent Ion to
Dr. Miles' Now Heart (lure, and said that his
Ulster, who had been afflicted with heart disease,
had beou cutod by tho remedy, and was
again a strong, healthy woman, I purchased
a oottlo of tho lloart t;uro, and in leas than
an hour after taking tho first dose I could
fool a docldod Improvement. In thoclrculatlon
of mv blood. Whon I had taken throe doses I
foulu move my ankles, aomotbinff i n<wi
done Tor montliB.and my Uml>s hu<l beon swollon
ao long t hat. thoy seemed almost put rilled.
Kefnro I had taken ono liottio of tho Now
Heart Cure the swelling had all gono down,
and I was so much hotter that I did my owr.
work. On my recommondatlon six others are
taking this valuable remedy."?Mrs. Morgan,
6tW \V. Harrison St.,Chicago, III.
l>r. Miles' Now llourtOuro, a discovery of an
eminent specialist in heart disease, is sold by
all druggists on a positive Ruarantoo.or sent
by tho Dr. M lies Medical Oo.iKlkhart, liul.,on
receipt of price. ?1 per liottio, six bottles for
?5, ox press prepaid. It. Is nosltlvely free from
all opiates or uauguroua drugs.
Sold by Carponttr Bros.. Druggist. ,
What Caused the lUnl Tines.
Conductor and Driver.
.lud^o Iluhluird, of Iowa, Mt)h it is
the existence of itMipcnUious.
t!corit?> (i oil * d s.iv> it is the hostility
to corporntians.
'i'l.n r?h.?.>. ? S"
in itu iiivi *?;n > H?* hih |?i i* v i'i
wheat.
'1'ho silver iiut says it is tho action
of Wall street.
Wall at reel says ii is the action ol
the silver men.
The inaiinfactu rer says it is the fear
of tree trade.
The consumer sa\s it is thujlarilF.
The debtee says it is the creditor.
The creditor says it is the debtor.
The Democrats say it is i lie IlcpubIL
cans.
The Republicans says it is tho Democrats.
The Populist say it is both.
The Prohibitionists say it is whiskey.
The preachers say it is the devil.
Now, what isyour idea?
^ mm ?
?The death of (Ion. N. P. Dunks
recalls the memorable strugg'o in
electing a Speaker in the 34th Congress
which gave Banks a worhl-wid?
fame. On tho 133d ballot after a eontest
lasting two months, he was chosen
by a pluurality only, the House having
agreed that tho rule requiring a
majority should bo set aside. The vote
stood : Banks 103, Aiken of South
Carolina, 100, scattering 11.
If you havo sour sto.'.neh ami fool
bilious and your bond ac mko a
Jupaneso Liver Pellet-., i will relieve
you. Sold by Carpi liter Bros.,
(Jroenvillo, S. C.
ljiulies, if yoa want a pure, delicate
soap for tho complexion, Carpenter
Bros., Greenville. S. C.. DrmonsfcH. will
ill ways recommend Johnson's Oriental
Medicinal Toilet Soap.
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a JOHNSON'S
MAGNETIC OIL!
instant Killer of Pain.
Internal and External.
( urea RHEUMATI8M, NEURAL*
OlA, Lame Rack. Bpraina. Bruises.
Swellings, Bttff Joint*. COI.IU nnd
CRAMPS instantly. Cholera M~i*
bus, Croup,Diptherla, Bore Throat,
HEADACHE, as if by magic.
THE HORSE BRAND,
he most Powerful and Penetrating! Jnlmontfor Man
>r Ucastiu existence. Large fl size 75c., 60c. elzo 10c.
JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP.
aiodleated nnd Tollot. Tlio Great Skin Cure and
' aoo Benutlfler. Lndiee will find It the moat
delicate nnd highly perfumed Toilet Soap on
the market. It Is nbsolutely pure. Makes tho
?kin ooft and velvety and reatorea tho loat complexion;
1? a luxury for the Beth for Infants,
it nlnyn itching, cloansoa theacalp and promoted
'he growth of hair. Price'28o. For aalo by
Carpenter Bros , Greenville, SjC
W Aft'AM AW LIN L STKAMKHS.
Tho Steamer will leave her wharf
nt Conway every Monday and Wednesday
morning for Georgetown at 4 o'clock, touching
all intermediate points. And will leave
her wharf ni Georgetown every Tuesday
and Friday morning for Conway* at 4
fmiriK(>i<r .>11 ?II..*
? x iini^ on im'UUiiu jioilllH.
I I) T. M'NEIL, Gcn't Ag't nndTreas* Conway,
S.
I?. A. Ml NNKltl.VN, Agent,Georgetown,
h c.
Scheduie of Local Mail Routes.
ROUTE NO. 2027:i.--From Galivanls Kerry
to Conway, mail arrives 1.45 pin,011 Monday,
Wednesday and Friday; leaves at
2.30 p 111 on satno days. Mail closes ut
2.05.
ROUTE NO. 20280.?From Conway to Birewuy,
N. C., uiail arrives at 4:30 p in on
Tuesday, "annulay and Saturday; leaves
at 5 p til 011 Sumo days. Mail closes at 0
4:65 pro.
ROUTE NO. 2028L--From Conway via
Forney, Jordanvillo, Gideon, Lnlmna and
return, mail arrives at 7 pm 011 Tuesday,
'Thursday and Saturday; leaves at 0 a iu
011 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Mail
closes at 9 p 111.
ROUTE NO. 20282.?From Conway to Little
River, mall arrives at 5 p in'on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday: leaves at 7
a 111 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Mail closes at )> p re.
ROUTE NO. 20283?From Conway to Tort
llarrelson, mail arrives daily "at 12 m;
leaves daily at 1:45 p m. Mail closes at
1:40 p 111.
WILMINGTON. CHADBOUltN Ac
Conway It. It. Passenger and
freight daily, except Sunday.
SOUTH ROUND.?NO. 40.
Lv Huh 8 15am
Lv 1 lions 8 80am
Ar Chadhourn $) 00am
Lv Chadbourn 10 10am
Lv Clarendon 10 40am
1 ,v M t Tabor 10 55am
Lv l.oris 11 aiinm
IjT sanTord 1137am
Lv Bayboro 11 47am
Lv l'uvetta 11 57am
Lv Adrain 12 02pm
Ar Conway 12 30pm
NORTHBOUND?NO. 44.
Lv Conway 2 00pm
Lv Adrain 2 30pm
Lv I'rivotta 2 35pm
Lv llayboro 2 45pm
Lv San ford 2 55pm
Ar Loria / 3 20pm
Ar Mt. Tabo^j' 3 55pm
Lv Clarendon 4 20pm
Ar Chadbourn 4 50pm
Lv Ohndbourn 5 15pm
I a llion 5 45pm j '
I Ar Hub. . 6 00pm J
Atlantic coast line, wilmington,
Columbia a Augusta r.
J 11. Condonaed schodulo, in effect Dec.
i 2, 1893.
TRAINS GOINO SOUTH.?NO. 55. '
Lv Wilmuigton 3 20pin
Lv Chadbourn 5 50pmJ|HIa|Marion
f> OOpvaK*
Ar Florence 0 50J*?
NO. 60. 1 ..
Lv Florence 7 lOptn
Ar mi inter . 828pm
Lv Sumter 8 28pm
Ar Columbia . in OOpaa
NO. 58.
Lv Florence 7 45am
Ar in rotor 0 20uui
no 52.
Lt Sumter ... fm V 53am
Ar Columbia . 1105am
TRAINS GOINO NORTH.?NO. 51.
Lv Columbia .. I 80am
Ar Sumter ? 5 57am
LvSunibr 5 57am
.1
... ? .... 7 15am
no. 60.
Lv C olumbia .' 4 20pm
Ar Sumter ...... ...... . 3 85pm
no. r?i?.
Lv Sumter 6 46pni
Ar Florence ... 0 66pm
no 66.
Lv Florence 7 40am
Lv Marion 8 88am
l.v < hndhaurn 8 20am
Ar Wilmington 10 10am
No. 52 runs through from Cliurleston via
Central It nil road, leaving Lanes 8.41 a m,
Manning w 20 a m.
No. 68 runs through to Charleston, 8. CM
via Central-arriving Manntag 8 p m,
Lares 8.40 p in, Charleston 10.40 p in.
Train on Manchester ?fc Augusta It. R.
leaves Sumter, daily ? xcept Sunday 10.60 a
in, arrives ltiniini 11.60 a m. Itoturning
leave ltimini 12.30 p in, arrive Sumter 1.40
p nt.
'1 rains on Hnr'svUle It. R Lave Hartsvlllo,
dally except Sumter, nt 6 a m, arrirng
Floy da 6 25 a m Returning, leave
Floys 0.45 p in, brrlving at tlartsvd'e 10.15
pin. * '*
J. F. DlVINK, Gon'l Supt.
J. It. Kinly. Supt. Trans.
t. M. Kmkkson, Gen'l i'ass. Agent.
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