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DARLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY. JULY 15, 1886.
WHOLE NO 601.
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ATTENTION!
Summer Bargains
Outside the Limits-
“Get out of this, you little vaga
bond ! Ain’t you ashamed of your
self to be found loitering in the
streets at this hour of the day f Go
home now, or I’ll take you to the
lockup,” said a sturdy guardian of
the peace to a thinly clad girl
liugerio" in the doorway of a large
office building on La Salle street.
U I wasn’t doing any barm, sir. I
only wanted to get warm,” she re
torted, croncbiug back into the
doorway as a gnat of wind whirled
the snow into her face.
“Nice place to get warm ! Come
along, I’ll take yon where it is
warm enough,” said he, laying his
hand roughly on her arm.
With a frightened cry she jerked
her arm from his hold, and ran
swiftly away.
“Well, I’ll be beat,” he matters,
and opens the door from which be
has driven the girl, and warms his
hands over the register.
The girl meanwhile continues to
run, occasionally looking back to
see it she is pursued. In turning a
corner she comes in forcible contact
with a belated pedestrian. He looks
at her in astonishment as she raises
her eyes to his face and murmurs
an apology. He is evidently of a
benevolent torn of mind, as he stops
to inquire into the cause of her ap
parent tiigbt.
“I was only standing in a door
way, sir, trying to get a little away
from the wind, and they told me to
leave. That is all, sir.”
“Have you no home to go to!”
“Yes, sir, I have a home, but I
want to earn some money before I
go there to-night”
“I understand,” b e returns
thoughtfully. “It is really too bad,
too bad. But come with me; per-
E-A iRXjir’S *» .*>.*.
block, wheu he stops abruptly be
fore a policeman, tramping his
rounds with much vigor to keep
his blood in circulation in the frosty
air.
“I met this girl on La Salle street,
near Washington street. She seems
to have no place to go to. You had
better take her to ibe police station
for shelter. It is a pity that she
should throw herself away iu the
streets; she seems very young.
Here is my card,” says the good
Samaritan.
The policeman looks at the card,
acknowledges the introduction of
the good, great (in avoirdupois)
man with : “As long as such gentle
men as yon live, sir, we will be able
to disiiense charity to good effect,”
and turning bis eyes to where the
girl bad been standing, he stares in
amazement, and, muttering a hasty
apology to the gentleman, starts in
pursuit.
“As I thought; a professional
beggar,” murmurs the man of good
intentions, and he swings himself
on a passing car.
The policeman soon loses sight of
the girl, and to warm himself steps
into a brilliantly lighted saloon and
imbibes freely of warming liquors,
receiving with becoming resigna
tion the commiserating comments
of the customers of the place at bis
unfortunate position in that cold
weather.
Meanwhile the girl has continued
her course northward and crossed
the Wells street bridge. Exhaus
ted she lingers in the entrance to
the Northwestern Railway depot.
As no one seems to observe her she
ventures into the waiting-room and
warms her blue, cold fingers by the
register.
A lady in rich attire views her
distrustfully, and gathering up her
parcels walks to another end of the
room. The child watches ’ her cur
iously with her large, dark, sunken
eyes, and a defiant tear rolls down
the thin, sallow cheeks. With a
swift, nervous movement she wipes
it away with a handful of her dark
hair, which hangs in tangled mas
ses over her back and shoulders,
giving her a strange, oncanny ap
pearance.
A small, silk parse lying on the
floor catches her eyes, and the
gleam of the gold and silver within
is tempting She picks it up, and
walks to the lady, who bad evident
ly dropped it when she changed
her seat at the time the little v»
grant approached the register. She
looks op at the girl’s approach, and,
seeing the parse in her hands, rises
hastily and snatches it from her.
“My parse,” she says shortly, but
adds, as if somewhat ashamed of
herself, “Thank you,” and turns to
a gentleman approaching her and
bids him a smiling good-evening.
The girl lingers in her viemity a
moment and timidly lays her hand
on the lady’s arm. Hhe toms im
patiently, and says, with a shiver
of disgust,—
“Go way, you wretched little beg
gar.”
One of the depot policemeo hears
the remark and roughly orders the
little girl to leave the premises.
She hurries swsy, and after run-
uing some blocks turns down aside
street. She looks at the aky now
clear and blue and studded with
innumerable stars.
“You see cruel,” she says, shak
ing her head reproachfully, and as
A large lot of desirable
white goods, consisting ot
plain and figured Lawns,
Bull, Organdie lace stripes
Lattice Cheeks, Piques,
Nainsooks, French satins,
Etc*, Etc** Will be sold
within the next 60 days
AT COST!
J. H. EARLY,
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Gins, Feeders. Condensers, Cotton Presses—repairs for same.
Stowes, Engineer’s supplies, such as Belting, Packing,
Pipes. All kinds of Steam Fittings, in Iron and Brass. Repairs
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Stoves, ail the best makes. Furnish repairs for all Stoves
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Cucumber Pumps, Farr patent Sand-box for Buggies, Wa
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April 8,1886. I7
she hears footsteps advancing, she
tarns abruptly and runs.
A young woman, walking just in
front of the terrified child, makes a
misstep and is precipitated into a
anow drift at the edge of the aide-
walk. The girl extends her bands
to assist the other to rise.
“Thank yon, child,” says a pleas
ant voice. “Why, you have no
gloves on ! How cold your hands!
A small bunch of icicles! Here,
run away and bay yourself a pair
of mittens if you have none,” and
ahe slips a coin into the child’s
hand, and continues ou her way.
The little homeless one stops un
der the first lamp-post to examine
her treasure.
“A half dollar!” she exclaims,
and the weary little heart gives a
great bound of joy.
She again runs, and this time
her speed is cheeked in a grocery
store, where she invests all but live
cents ot the fifty iu tea, bread and
sugar. On regaining the street
she hails a car, and cnrling herself
up on a seat iu a corner looks with
wide, tbonghtfni eyes on the frozen
window opposite.
“This is as far as we go,” an
nounces the cond actor, after a long,
tedious ride, and the little figure
again stuggles iu the snow, hug
ging the small parcels close to her
breast.
Nothing but snow ! Great white
fields of snow, though the city be
hind and the heavens above are
gleaming with thousands of lights.
BtHler and colder the night grows
bnt still that, dark dot moves along
throngh the vast stillness of the
night.
The large, dark eyes at length
spy an apparently long sought for
light ahead. She soon reaches the
structure from which it gleams, and
opening the door without a key, she
enters, and seeks her way up a dark
flight of stairs. The great bright
eyes of rats peeping out of their
boles do not frighten her.
“Go way you,” she says cbidiug
ly, as if surprised at their boldness
in confronting her.
Rapping lightly at a door at the
head ot the stairs, or more properly
speaking, Udder, she gains admit
tance.
“I’ve got something to eat, papa,”
she says cheerfully, holding her
bands to a small stove emitting
consideiable warmth.
'’Something to eat,” he repeats
eagerly, and grasps the cold hands
in his own and chafes them gently.
“1 have been watching for you, my
Pearl, and I was fearful that the
winds bad dug vour grave and the
snow filled it. But you have come
back, my Pearl,” and the long
white hair of the old man mingles
with the black locks of the child,
and he kisses tier often and tender
ly, as if they bad been separated
for a term of years. “Here, Pearl 1
see here! I have perfected my
discovery; the secret of perpetual
motion is ours!”
The long white fingers pointed to
a sheet of brown wrapping paper
ou the table, coveied with angles,
squares, and all maimers of shapes
and curves, which, iu their intric
acy, formed no definite outline of
any kind.
“Yes. papa ; we will talk it over
after we have bad something to
eat,” and she unclasps his arm
from about her waist and prepares
the tea.
“How did you earn the money ?”
he inquires fondly.
“I did not earn it, papa. A young
lady gave it to me.”
A shadow passes over her face as
she replies, and the keen eye of the
father observes it
“Come here, my Pearl,” he says
gravely, and draws the light on the
table by bis side nearer to him.
She lays the bread she has been
cutting on a cracked plate, which
she places on a napkin in the centre
of the table, then turns her face to
him. He takes it between bis
hands and looks anxiously into the
eyes of his child.
“They have been rough to you,
my Pearl. Gome, rest your head
on my breast and ery. I see the
tears in your heart My sweet
lower, 1 have leaned on you till the
slender stem is ready to break. But
I may yet be able to use my limbs
So cheer up, my precious Pearl.
But let us drink the tea. It smells
good after we have had nothing
but warm water for days and dsw-
Hand me my medicine chest We
must both take some medicine to
make ns stronger and cheer our
spirits.”
She smiles throngh her tears, and
places a small paper box beside
him on the table. Brushing bis
hair from his face, she draws the
table closer to the stove, moves his
chair nearer the table, and seating
herself, pours out the tea.
“It tastes good, papa,” she says,
touching it daintily to her lips, and
then takes a long draught as if to
emphasise her words.
“That is right, Pearl. Drink and
enjoy it.”
He drains the tea in his eop at a
draught, and when ahe refills their
eupe says:
“Let me pat some medicine in
this, my Pearl, so that we will grow
stronger. Perpetnsl motion and
perpetual life—two grand discover
ies: they ought to bring me fame
and fortune.”
“Perhaps they will yet, papa.
They have a book in the city, as
you told me, in whiob they have all
the names of the great people who
live in Chicago. They call it
‘Directory,’ so if you oould remem
ber the names of some ot the doc
tors and mathematicians you used
to know I can find yon where they
live in that book and tell them ail
vou have discovered ”
“They would not believe it,
Pearl.”
“Bat, papa, I would explain it all
to them just as you do to me. I
would tell them that the philosophy
of perpetual motion is plainly de
monstrated—”
“Do not speak of it now, my
child. We will rest for a time. I
was so fearful lest evil should be
fall you when you left me this morn
ing that I worked without ceasing
to quiet my anxiety. Later in the
evening we will discuss the latest
phaso of our intricate labors, but
uow when you have bad enough to'
eat, you can move your chair olose
to mine and sing to me some song
like you used to do when you were
only a child,”
“ButI am a child no longer, papa.
I am almost a woman. I will be
fourteen years old next week.”
8he sits down beside him and
leans her bead on his shoulder. He
strokes her soft hair gently till it
looks glossy and smooth. Her
heavy eyelids quiver and she
endeavors to resist the desire to
sleep.
“Sleep, Pearl. You require
rest.”
She puts her arm about his neok
and kisses him. He draws her
close to him with one arm, and with
the other baud raises his second
cup of tea to his lips.
“My poor, tired Pearl,” he mur
murs, and the lean, white fingers
toy restlessly with her black
hair.
The stars looked down and smil
ed when they saw the two asleep.
“They are tired,” they whispered to
each other, and winked and blink
ed, and looked wise. But when the
moon came she said, “This is wrong
They used to watch me nightly and
ponder on strange things. I must
wake them,” and she flashed tier
regal splendor lull into the old barn
upon the sleeping man ami ddid.
“Let them rest, they are weary,”
said the frost, and he spun a curtain
of rarest design over the often-
patched window panes. Wheu the
sun saw them iu the morning still
asleep, lie thought: “Not yet at
your labors, my friends. I must
despoil your borne of this pretty
curtain the frost has wrought across
your wiudow.”
And the stars, the moon, the frost
and sunlight all did what they
oould for those who had lovod them.
But the father and child did not
stir; and the rats and mice danced
about them, and ate at the bread
she had brought, and tore bits of
bis and her hair away to build them
uew nests for their young, and ate
at their flesh. And the vermin
lived all Ihroiigh the cruel winter,
and in the spring time they scamp
ered over the fields and enjoyed the
sunlight, but at evening always re
turned to the old bare, and wrought
uew nests for tneir young of black
and white, hair and bits of old
cloth.
But one day a stray match got
ignited, and burned full many a
uestbuiltof black and white threads,
soft and warm, like the finest silk,
and the old barn for half an hour
was a sight for passers-by. The
fire department was called, but it
was registered as a false alarm,
for it was an empty barn that bad
taken fire just outside the city
limits.
And the stars, the moon, the
frost, and the sunlight have looked
upon a few white scattered bones,
and the heavens have wept upon
them, and as they crumble to dost
the earth absorbs them. And the
stars, the moon, the frost and son
still gaze on strange ambitions,
strange misfortunes, strange sad
endings.
Excitement In Texss.
Great excitement has been caus
ed in the vicinity of Paris, Tex., by
the remarkable recovery of Mr. J.
E. Corley, who was so helpless hs
could not turn in bed, or raise his
head; everybody said he was dying
of Consumption. A trial bottie of
Dr. King’s New Discovery was sent
him. Finding relief, he bought a
large bottle and a box of Dr. lung’s
New Life Pills j by the time be bed
taken two boxes of Pills and two
bottles of the Discovery, be was
well and bad gained in flesh thirty-
six pounds. Trial Bottles of this
Great Discovery for Consumption
free at Willoox A Co.
Care For Sisk Headache.
For proof that Dr. Gann’s Liver
Pills cares Sick Headache, ask
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size boxes, 25 cents. Sold by Will-
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Florence District Conference.
(From S. C. Advocate.)
The eleventh session of the Flor
ence District Conference convened
in the Methodist Church at Lake
City, Thursday morning, July 1,
0.30 o’clock. Iu the absence of a
Bishop, Rev. Wm. O. Power, Pre-
sidiug Elder, took the chair, and re
quested Rev. J. Thos. Pate to act
as Secretary pro tem. The roll was
called, and a goodly number of min
isters and lay delegates answered
to their names. Thu Conference
was then organized as foilpws:
Rev. J. Thos. Pate was elected Sec
retary, with J. C. Clements and
Ira M. Koger, assistant secretaries.
A committee of seven, with Rev. E.
T. Hodges chairman, was appoint
ed on Quarterly Conference records
A committee consisting of one from
each charge in the district, with
Rev. A. H. Lester chairman, was
appointed ou the general state of
the Church. The bar of the Con
ference and the hours for meeting
and adjournment were then fixed,
and the business^ of the body, as
briefly outlined in' the 8. C. Advo
cate a few weeks previous, was tak
en up, item by item, and reported
on from the various charges. The
facts brought out in these reports
are fully covered by the report of
committee on the general state of
the Chnri-b, whiob is as follows:
“The facts presented to the Con
ference in regard to the general
state of the Church have been con
sidered by the committee as care
fully as practicable under the cir
cumstances; and the following re
port, necessarily brief aud hastily
written, is submitted.
1st Property. The Church prop
erty seems to be in a tolerably good
condition, with considerable im
provements iu church buildings and
parsonages during the past year.
Only four of the sixteen charges in
district are now without parsonages,
aud ot these four several are com
paratively new appointments, and
have hardly had time to procure
snob property. The one exception,
which gives the committee some
surprise, is Darlington station. No
good and sufficient reason is appa
rent for longer delay on the part of
the Church iu that town to provide
a parson iu accordance with their
ability and customary lilierality iu
other respects. It is hoped that
steps will soon be taken to supply
this long felt want.
2nd. Finances. The finances of
the district, as a who'e, are deplor
ably behind hand at present. Only
a few charges have paid more than
oue-thfrd of the amounts assessed
for support of the ministry, and
several are very tar below this frac
tion. (Darlington station is oou
spicuously in advance of every oth
er place in this particular—having
already paid about three fourths of
the whole amount assessed for the
year.) Various explanations are
given of this general backwardness
of the collections; bat none are sat
isfactory which do not involve
blame, more or less, of either stew
ards, people or preacher. The
preacher is sometimes possibly not
argent enough for the adoption of
some plan aud method for making
the collections; the stewards are
not always as active as they ought
to be in discharging their duties;
and many of oar people have no
proper conception of their obliga
tions to snstain by pecuniary con
tributions the institutions aud eu
terprises of Christianity. Notwith
standing the present state of the
collections, strong hope is express
ed of mneb success on most of the
charges in the final outcome of the
the fiscal operations of the year
The committee strongly recom
mends the assessment plan to all
the charges; and frequent pay
meats, beginning early in tbe year,
will be found to suit most persons
best, and to yield tbe largest in
come
3rd. Training of Children. In re
gard to tbe mental cnlture of the
children of the Chnrcb, our people
appear to be doing about as well as
their means and apportuuities will
permit; but there is complaint iu
many places of a lack of diligence
and zeal on the part of parents in
training their children m the social
practices and doctrinal views of
our Church. It is certainly oar daty
to make proper efforts to guide
those whom God has committed to
our parental oversight, in tbe way
which we ourselves believe to be
tbe true, tbe good, and right Way,
both In faith and conduct. While
violent or compulsory means are
not to be thought of io bringing oar
children into oar denominatioi fold,
we cannot noderstand how any pa
rent can be indifferent or indeed
otherwise than greatly solicitous in
regard to this vary important mat
ter.
.4th. Fithfiiliieas of preachers, etc.
Our pastors are reported ae faith
ful in their efforts to advance the
interests of tbe Choreb by diligence
in the exercise of all tbe fanotkma
of their sacred office. The local
preachers, exhorters, stewards and
trustees are in the main doing ac
ceptable service—some deserving
mneb praise, and others not spe
cially distinguished for official teal
and efficiency.
. 5th. The Sunday-schools. Tbe
average attendance of teachers and
scholars 9in Sunday schools is good,
and this department of our church
work is, upou the whole, in >ui en
couraging and improving condition.
A considerable number of the
schools still continue to suspend
during the winter mouths, it is
much to be regretted that the hou
ses are not properly warmed ai.d
made sufficiently comfortable for
school exercises to be kept up in
cold weather. It is hoped this will
be attended to with increasing
promptness and lilierality. There
is in many places a deplorable lack
of interest and active oo-operatiou
on the part of parents This ought
not so to be. Our people ought to
look u|>on the Sunday-school as
justly making large demands upon
them in work, in money and in
time. No better inves'meut of a
reasonable share of these things
may ever be made. Wo urge tbe
duty of parents to exhibit a lively
interest in the Snnday-sohool in
every practicable way. Our ow»
Nashville publications are used al
most, if not quite, everywhere
throughout the district Tbs use
of some approved oatachism with
tbe younger children is iu in tuy
cases advisable, aud peibaps in
general is the best mode of instruc
tion for the little ones. This may
be done, however, and ought to lie
done without wholly neglecting oth
er methods commonly employed.
6th. Tbe literature of the Church
is not by auy means so extensively
circulated os it ought to be. Not to
8|>eak of other publioations whiob
deserve approving mention, the
committee taken pleasure iu eom-
mending to all our people tbe 8. 0.
Advocate Its circulation is by no
means as extended as is desirable.
Its value in the family as a source
of iutormatiou and as an influence
for moral and spiritual improve-
ineut cannot be measured. It mer
its all the patronage which can be
I^Teb it, and will be sate to repay
its cost incalculably iu manifold
blessings and benefits to every fami
ly in which it is found. Let every
preacher and every member of oar
Chureh seek to increase tbe sub
scription list within the bounds ot
tbe district.
7th. Spiritual condition. Lastly
and chiefly. The spiritual condition
of our membership, as far as can be
learned, is ordinarily good. In
some places tbe signs of spiritual
life and growth are more apparent
than iu others, but iu all we trust
there is some progress. There is
general complaint of too little at
tention to family worship, and that
many members of tbe Church neg
lect the high and sacred privilege of
communion iu the Lord’s Supper.
The person who habitually tunis
away from this holy sacrament is
surely far ont of tbe true path, aud
really forfeits his connection with
tbe Church if discipline were rigid
ly enforced. It is earnestly desir
ed that all should oe done by our
preachers and lay brethren which
may be possible to enforce this da
ty, and retonn tbe practice of those
who disregard it. It is greatly to
be desired, too, that there should
be an altar in every household,
from which shall daily ascend tbe
acceptable ordor of spiritual sacri
fice. Tbe spiritual itv of the people
is tbe end and aim of all true Chris
tina endeavor; to this all-embrao-
ing pnr|K>se every thing else whioh
tbe Church is doing is subordinate
aud tributary—only means to the
end A. H Lester. Cb’mn.
The genial, brotherly spirit of the
body in all they did and said was
especially noticeable. The preach
ing during the occasion was done
by Revs. A. H. Lester, John W.
Elkins, P. B. Jackson, M. L. Banks,
E. T. Hodges sod W. D. Kirkland.
On Sunday morning, at 9.30
o’clock, a love-feast was held in tbe
church. It was well attended, and
was an occasion of mneb spiritual
power aud blessing. At 1115 tbe
congregation repaired to tbs arbor
adjacent to the ehorab for paMie
preacuing. Rev. W. D Kirkland
preached the sermon. At tbe dose
of the service a collection of about
9200 was lifted to pay for tbe re-
E dra of the parsonage and ebureh.
oth of these buildings are now ia
excellent condition, reflecting maeh
credit ou both pastor and people.
Sunday afternoon was devoted to
tbe interests of the children, ad
dresses being made by Rev. A. H.
Lester, P B Jackson and W. D.
Kirkland.
The delegates eleet to the Anaa-
at Conference are, J B. O. Wright,
J. F. Camway, G. Hoffmeyer and
Ire M. Koger. Alternates, Rev. J.
W. Shell and J. J. Graham. The
next session of tbe Conforanee will
be at Tinitnonsvitle.
P- B. Jackson.
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