The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, October 18, 1888, Image 7
Die Jerseys, 1779,
IT EABTX.
KtMon, Mifflin * Oo., and
Itigement with them ]
PTKE L
he year of grace 17TO;
st«»tvn, N. J.
eoW. A northeasterly
(Teitlng the mad of the
a rigid record of that
i the Basklngridge road,
f eavitlrj-, the deep ruts
'agoiin, and the deeper
artillery, Liy stark and
t light of an April day.
on the fences, a rime of
Iward bark of maples,
re spots on the rocky
the road, as if nature
oat at the knees and el-
ig waiting for the tardy
ives disinterred by the
P again, and rustled In
the summer a thing so
mman hope and conjec-
em.
the wayside fences and
a down or dismantled;
i fields of snow down-
lored and strewn with
ler, camp equipage, har-
dothiug, showed traces
mpment and congrega-
sorns there were still
is of rudely constructed
mblance of fortification
d incomplete. A fox
lalf filled ditch, a wolf
a earthwork, typified the
tent and desolation,
faint sunset tints faded
m far off crests of the
’ darker; the nearer files
rhatnong mountain be
ll background; and with
night came too an icy si-
! to stiffen and arrest the
. The crisp leaves no
le waving whips of alder
ed no longer; the icicles
ed a cold fruitage from
1 spray, and the roadside
» stony quiet, so that the
hoofs breaking through
•terless films of ice that
rowed road might have
the nearest Continental
if.
edge of this, or the diffl-
d, evidently irritated the
in. Long before he be-
voice was heard In half
i*tion of the road, of his
itry generally. “Steady,
mp, you devil, Jump!’’
and the beggarly farm-
>t mend it!” And then
of horse and rider sud-
»the hill, floundered and
ten as suddenly disap-
attting hoof boats ceased,
sd turned into a deserted
sd with untrodden snow,
me hand—in better keep-
on than the boundary
the outlying fields—be-
and exclusiveness. Half
t the rider checked his
mnting, tied his horse to
ig. This done, he went
rd toward the end of the
bouse from whose gable
twinkled through the
. Suddenly he stopped,
tered an impatient ejacu-
ied sharply on his heel,
s steps until opposite a
tood a few paces from the
, a large elm cast the
’ its leafless limbs on the
nlingsnow. The stronger
is shadow, and ut once
is a part of Ita trembling
moment It was certainly
* a tryst. There was snow
he trunk of the tree, and
ts bark; the adjacent wall
h frost, and fringed with
all there was a ludicrous
me sentiment past and un-
ral dislodged stones of the
posed ss to form a bench
mder theelm tree’s film of
I seen carved on ita bark
sart, divers initials and the
forever." •
, however, kept his eyes
• farm shed end the open
Five minutes passed in
mcy. Ten minutes! And
moon slowly lifted herself
range of the Orange hills,
im, blushing a little, as if
t were her own.
I figure thus illuminated
strongly built, handsome
toldierly In bearing that it
bolt epaulets and facings
ptaln’s rank in the Contl-
fet there was something in
■skm that contradicted the
is presence—an irritation
ass that were Inconsistent
id strength. This fretful-
m the moments went by
motion In the faintly lit
U4I1, in peevish exaspera
te kick the nearer stones
urma you took Tbr me to can
“OmA AIu/tT Wtpect m ® to ,hout <«t,
''•PA Allan Brewster’ ”
“Thankful, hush!"
mi A11 * n Brew *ter, of the ConnecU-
cont,nued ^ tw. wkh
•n effected raising of a low, pathetic voice
inaudible beyond the
pwoofied and humble servant and sweet-
Bwt to command. 19
.wP 4pt . B " W8ter •nooeeded, after a slight
,n P^^ing Wm-
self of the girl’s hand, at which, although
still struggling, she relented slightly.
"It Isn’t every led that I’d low for,"
she said, with an affected pout, “and there
i may be others that would not take it
«ntos; though there be fine ladies enough
at the assembly Ulls at Morristown m
might think it hoydenishf"
“Nonsense, love," mid the captain, who
had by this time mounted the wall, and
encircled the girl’s waist with his arm.
Nonsense! you startled me only. But,"
he added, suddenly taking her round chin
in his hand, and turning her face toward
Uie moon with an uneasy half suspicion,
why did you take that light from the
window? What has happened?”
“We had unexpected guests, sweet
heart," said Thankful; “the count Just
arrived." 1
“That infernal Hessian!" He stopped
and gased qneetlontngly into her face.
The moon looked upon her at the —
time; the face waa ns sweet, aa placid, as
truthful as her own. Possibly thess two
In constants understood each other.
itarted. Not that he was
that he had tailed to rec-
I prolonged syllables the
alt drowsy low of a cow,
IS so near him—evidently
m wall If an object so
ve approached him so near
owledge, might not ahe ■ ■ ■
Barer the wall cautiously.
Modyl Come up, Bossy!"
isively. “Moo”—but here
tpectedly broke down and
ary human and rather nra-
Ih-
” exclaimed the soldier,
ggk a trifle uaieeily and af-
, hooded little head arose
h
died the figure, sapporting
aded ehin at tsr ksots ss
dhows oanplMsnu, ‘x the
shat did yoa expect? Did
to stand hers all night while
moonstrnrk. under a treef
Pottibly theie two incotutanU understood
each ottier.
“Nay, Allan, he Is not a Hessian, bnt
an exiled gentleman from abroad—a no
bleman”—
“There are no noblemen now," sniffed
the trooper contemptuously. “Congress
hss so decreed it All men are born free
and equal.”
“But they arc not, Allan," aald Thank-
j ful, with a pretty trouble In her brows;
“even cows are not born equal Is yon
calf that was dropped last night by Brin-
dle the equal of my red heifer whose
mother came by herself in a ship from
Surrey? Do they look equal?”
i "Titles are but breath," said Capt.
Brewster doggedly. There was an omi
nous pause.
“Nay, there is one nobleman left,” sold
{ Thankful; “and he is my own—my na-
| tnre’a nobleman!"
Capt. Brewster did not reply. From
; certain arch gestures and wreathed smiles
with which this forward young woman
accompanied her statement, it would seem
to be implied that the gentleman who
j stood U'fore her was the nobleman alluded
to. At leas!, he so accepted it, and em
braced her closely, her arms and part of
her mantle clinging around his neck. In
tills attitude they remained quiet for some
moments, slightly rocking from side to
side like a metronome; a movement, I
fancy, peculiarly bucolic, pastoral and
idyllic, and as such, I wot, observed by
Theocritus and Vlfgil.
At these supreme moments weak woman
usually keeps her wits about her much
better than yoor superior reasoning mas
culine animal; and, while the gallant cap
tain was losing himself upon her perfect
lips, Miss Thankful distinctly heanl the
farm gate click, and otherwise noticed that
the moon was getting high and obtrusive.
She half released herself from the captain’s
arms, thoughtfully and tenderly—but
firmly. “Tell me all about yourself, Al
lan dear," she said quietly, making room
for him on the wall—“all, everything.’’
Site turned upon him her beantlfnl eyes
—eyes habitually earnest and even grave
in expression, yet holding in their brave
brown depths a sweet, childlike reliance
and dependency; eyes with s certain ten
der, deprecating droop in the brown
fringed lids, and yet eyes that seemed to
say to every man who looked upon them,
“I am truthful; be frank with me." In
deed, I am convinced there is not one of
my impressible sex, who, looking in those
pleading eyes, would not have perjured
himself on the spot rather than have dis
appointed their fair owner.
Capt Brewster’s month resumed its old
expression of discontent
“Everything is growing worse, Thank
ful, and the cause is lost Congress does
nothing, and Washington is not the man
for the crisis. Instead of marching to
Philadelphia, and forcing that wretched
rabble of Hancock and Adams at the
point of the bayonet, he writes letters.”
“A dignified, formal old fool," inter
rupted Mistress Thankful indignantly;
“and look at his wife! Didn’t Mistress
Ford and Mistress Bally, ay, end the best
blood of Morris county, go doW& to his
excellency's In their finest bibs and tuck
ers, and didn’t they find my lady in a pin
afore doing chores? Vastly polite treat
ment, indeed! As if the whole world
didn’t know that the general was token
by surprise when my lady came riding np
from Virginia with all those fine cavaliers,
just to see what his excel.ency was doing
at these assembly balls. And fine doings,
I dare say.”
“This is but idle gossip, Thankful,”
said Capt Brewster with the faintest ap
pearance of self consciousness; “the as
sembly balls are conceived by the general
to strengthen the confidence of the towns
folk, and mitigate the rigor of the winter
encampment I go there myself rarely:
I have bat little taste for junketing and
garotting, with my country in such need.
No, Thankful! what we want Is a leader;
and the men of Connecticut feel It keenly.
If I have been spoken of in that regard,"
added the captain with a slight inflation
of his manly breast, “it is because they
know of my sacrifices—licoause as New
England yeomen they know my devotion
to the cause. They know of my Buffer-
tag"—
The bright face that looked Into his was
suddenly afire with womanly sympathy,
the pretty brow was knit, the sweet eyes
overflowed with tenderness. “Forgive
I forgot—perhaps, love per-
you are hungry now."
“No, not now,” replied Capt Brewster,
with gkjomystoktom; “yet,” he added,
“it is nearly a week since I have
1 " 1 r 1 Z t> ™ n « ht » tevr things with me,”
continued the girl, with s certain hesitat-
tog timidity, she reached down and pro-
dueed a basket from the shadow of the
wall “These chickens’’—she held np a
pair of pnlleta—“the commahder-in-chiof
himself could not bur; I kept them for
my commander! And this pot of marma-
uwe, which I know my Allan loves, is the
samel putnp last summer. I thought
[very tenderly] yon might like a piece of
that bacon you liked so once, dear. Ah,
sweetheart, shall we ever sit down to our
little board? Shall we ever see the end of
this awful war? Don’t you think, dear
[very pleadingly], it would be best to give
it up? King George U not such a very
bad man, is he? I’ve thought, sweetheart
(very confidently], that mayhap yon and
he might make it all np without the aid
of those Washingtons, who do nothing
but starve one to death. And if the kin ff
only knew you, Allan—should see you as
I do, sweetheart—b« d do Just ss you
say.”
During this speech she handed him tbs
several articles alluded to; and he re
ceived them, storing them away In inch
receptacles of his clothing as were conve
nient—with this notable difference, that
With her the act was graceful and pic
turesque; with him there was a ludicrous
ness of suggestion that his broad shoul
ders and nnifortn only heightened.
“I think not of myself, lass," he
putting the eggs in his pocket and but
toning the chickens within his
breast. “I think not of myself, an^ per
haps I often spore that counsel which is
but little heeded. But I have a duty to
my men—to Connecticut [He here tied
the marmalade up In his handkerchief.]
I confess I have sometimes thought I
might, under provocation, be driven to ex
treme measures for the good of the cause.
no Pretense to l—iUr-Mp
“With you at the head of the army,"
broke in Thankful enthusiastically,
“peace would be declared within a fort
night."
There is no flattery, however outrage
ous, that a man will not accept from the
woman whom he believes loves him He
will perhaps doubt ita influence in tbs
colder judgment of mankind; but he will
consider that this poor creature, at least,
understands him, and in some vogue way
represents the eternal but unrecognized
verities. And when this is voiced by lips
that are young and warm and red, It is
somehow quite as convincing as the blood
less, remoter utterance of posterity.
Wherefore the trooper complacently
buttoned the compliment over his chest
with the pallets.
“I think you must go now, Allan," aha
said, looking at him with that pseudo-
maternal air which the youngest of women
sometimes assume to their lovers, as if
the doll had suddenly changed sex
grown to man’s estate. “You must go
now, dear, for it may so chance that father
is considering my absence overmneh. You
will come again a-Wednesday, sweetheart;
and you will not go to the assemblies, nor
visit Mistress Judith, nor take any girl
pick-a-buck again on your black horse;
and yon will let me know when you are
hungry?"
She turned her brown eyes lovingly, yet
with a certain pretty trouble in the brow,
and such a searching, pleading inquiry
iu her glance, that the captain kissed her
at once. Then came the final embrace,
performed by the captain in a half per
functory, quiet manner, with a due regard
for the friable nature of part of his provis
ions. Satisfying himself of the Integrity
of the eggs by feeling for them in his
poclct, he waved a military salute with
the other hand to Miss Thankful and was
gone. A few minutes laitr the sound of
his horde's hoofs raii^ sharply from the
icy hillside.
But as he reached the summit two
horsemen wheeled suddenly from the
shadow of the roadside and bade him halt.
“Capt. Brewster, if this moon does not
deceive me?” queried the foremost
stranger with grave civility.
“The same. Maj. Van Zandt, 1 calcu
late?” returned Brewster querulously.
“Your calculation is quite right. I re
gret, Capt. Brewster, that it is my duty
to inform you that you are under arrest."
“By whose orders?”
“The cotnmandbr-in-chief’s.”
“For what?"
“Mutinous conduct, and disrespect of
your superior officers. ”
The sword that Capt. Brewster hod
drawn ut the sudden upiwarnncc of the
strangers quivered for a moment iu his
strong Lund. Then, sharply striking it
across the pommel of his saddle, he
snapped it in twain, and cost the pieces
at the feet of the speaker.
“Go on,” he said doggedly.
“Capt. Brewster,” said Maj. Van
Zandt, with infinite gravity, “it is not
for me to soint out the danger to you of
this outspoken emotion, except practically
in ita effect upon the rations you have in
your pocket. If I mistake not, they have
suffered equally with your steel For
ward, march!”
Capt Brewster looked down, and then
dropped to the rear, as the diseased yolks
of Mistress Thankful’s most precious gift
slid slowly and pensively over his horse’s
flanks to the ground.
(To be continued.)
To Planters and Mill
Men of
DARLINGTON.
Your eapecial attention is invited
to tbe celebrated Boss Presses.
Variable Feed Saw Mills, Straight
Line Engines, New Eva Boilers,
and Shafting, Pulleys, (fee.
roanofactored by tbe Liddell Go., of
Charlotte, N. C., for which I am
State agent, and upon which I am
prepbred to make close estimates.
Van Winkle, Pratt antLWinship
cotton gins; Corbin Disc Barrows,
Planet. Jr, Horse Cultivators;
Thomas Impeiial Hay Rakes. Cot
ton Planters, &c. Deering one anil
two-horse mowers, binders, and
light reapers. Wind mills erected
and fitting san e a specialty. Esti
mates furnished on brick making
and wood working machinery.
Write to W. H. GIB BBS. Jr.,
Coianib.a, S. 0.
or R O. ComniHuder, agent for Dar
lington Co, Cartersville, K. V.
Final Notice.
I will file my final account as ad
ministrator of the Estate of George
Flake, on tbe 20tb of October next,
and apply to tbe Judge ef Probate
for Darlington Coenty, for Letters
Dismissory. C. T. DeLORME,
Sep ao-ltn adm’r
WANTED!
MCMMMM
10,000 bales cotton,
. Within the If ext
60 DAYS,
and the very highest
MARKET PRICE
will he paid tor them.
Great
Rush
Mannft
30
Cent.
Per
LESS THAN ANY OTHER
House in Town.
September 6, ’88—9m
TH USUAL FINE STOCK OF
GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS
IS TO BB FOUND AT
O. j^leixcLnclex^s,
CORNER OF PRARLE AND GROVE STREETS.
Large Quantities ut Goods are bring received daily and the many cus
tomers of this well known eatablishnirnt throughout Daiiingtou Comity
are guaranteed that a uon tin nance of their patronage will mrau lor them
‘•The Best Good- for ihe Least .Money.”
September 6, 1888—ly
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NOTICE.
To members of t)ie “Farmers’ Alliance” and all whom it
may concern:
Blackwell Rros.
Would respectfully call your attention to a few of the one hundred and
one bargains in»w offend at their «sfahliahment :
Men s Heavy Boots at 82 ; Men’s Heavy Brogan Shoes at 81; Wo
men's Heavy Shoes (solid) at II; Children’* Shoes st 35 tents; Men’s
good suits at 84A0; Men's heavy Overcoats at 83; Men’s Pants at CO
eon?*; Boys’ ..he Suits st 12.50; Heavy P aid*, f;,*t colors, at 0) cents,
iruuk* Valises, Satchels, Handbag*, C..ahiuei< s, Dress Plaid*, Prints
ALSO A FULL LINE OF
GSrHOOEniES.
All of whieh are offered down at Rock-bottom, Sledge
hammer, Xew 1'ork, Racket Prices.
Not “Racket Goods” at Auction bought,
But al first hand, bought i >*,
So fill, at BLACKWELL’S when in Town, •
For Jin* your Health will grow.
8 pt 27. 1888.
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HAT#
and
CAPS.
A FULL LINE OF EACH.
New Goods,
CO WEST PRICES!
H _A_ IR, ID W .A. IR, IE
.IT COST!
Groceries A Specialty,
A.T
Enterprise Grocery.
A S WHITE, Manager.
September 13. 8-i
Bring your Cotton
to
Florence, 8. C.
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BUG DIRECT BUM FOR A
lETTROiRiE-A-Hsr :fi:r_m:
I AM PREPARED TO PAY THE
HIGHEST
Market Price,
And Can Handle the Staple in
A. n y CD ». n t x t y.
SIDNEY JACOBI.
Florence, 8. 0., Sept. 20, 1888
IF YOU WANT YO GET BARG A lNS, GO TO
Who carries a complete Lino ol'Dry Goods, Dress Good -, No
tions, Boota and Himos, ClMliiitg, Hats, and Caps, Hnidwa’c,
&c. A large stock ol Staple and Fancy Groceries always « n
hand. Call and inspect his Large Stock and you will go'home
well satisfied.
Opposition we invite—Competition we defy.
WEINKKI G.
September 13, 1888.