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V** . • ■ jT'\ •».■.• < -- wj THE DARLINGTON NEWS, PUBUSHBB BYBBYTHUB8DAY MOENIMO HENRY F. THOMPSON. pROFBlgTOR. TKirtLS—$2 Per Annum In Advance. Cue Square, first insertion $1.00 One Square, second insertion 60 I'",very subseqent insertion 60 'Contract advertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terns. Carriage Notices and Obituaries, not xeeeding six lines, inserted free. :vr<jL TUF llllj •FOR US PRINCIPLE IS PRINCIPLE—RIGHT'IS RIGHT—YV KR1 TO-LAY. TO MORROW, FOREVER. VOL. XV. NC 8. DARLINGTON, S. 0., TEDRSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 188a. WHOLE NO 736. urimK . * , ’ Ourjob department is supplied with e»er facility uecessary to enable us to cou.j.ci , r both as to price and quality el work, with evet*' those ef the cities, aui we guarantee satis* faction in every particularer charge nothing for our work. We are always prepared to fill orders at short notioe 'for Blanks, Bi!' Heads, Letter Heads, Cards, Hand bill'i Posters, Circulars, Pamphlets, 4c. ' ' All job wtrk must be paid for Gash on Delivery SHE HATH GROWN COLO. gbe bath grown cold whose kindness won me to her Wherefore is this? Wishing them more. I And her favors fewer. What U amiss? If, when we Hked, to love my friendship flowered With too fond haste, Qh, taj, should hers by cruel Fate o'erpowered. Assuddeu n aster “Shall 1 complainr" ••Oh. no: true love com plains not, ' Being denied." •fhall Idlsdainl" ‘Oh, uo’ true love disdains not. Only false pride.” “Shall 1 leas love her for her long denial}" “Ksy; year by year. Since (be 4 worthy, thou -halt find thy trial Ever more dear; TIB, it may be, the master spirit In thee. Fresh rrutit Luve a fast, Ont of her eyes hia !6ok of looks shall win thee. Win thee at last." —The Spectator. In an Old English Churchyard. Not far from the ina, down a wall bor dered lane and then through a paved pas sage whore not more than three persons Can walk abreast, wo came to the grounds enclosing the old church built in sixteen hundred and something. (Onlv places of Worship here in which is conducted the service of the Church of England arc balled churches; all others are “dissen- tera’ chapels.”) It is a handsome edifice exteriorly, built of stone, with a steeple whose fine proportions have been much admired by students of architecture. All Around, in the great churchyard, lie the dead of past generations—a few of the Inscriptions dating hack nearly three hun dred years. Some of the graves, I was told, contain the remains of a dozen per- aons—one coffin being placed upon the (op of another, room being made for the pew comers os the earlier tenants of the graves moulder into dust. Here, after patient search, I found the graves of an r tors long since passed away.—William Tinsley in Lyons Republican. One’s Own lifts Experiences. What would be the effect upon litera- J ctre if every person of spirit and the biiity to write fairly well were to em body in a single romance the most vivid and commanding experiences of his own life, from the time when he began to think to his maturity, and tell faithfully the most sacred emotions of his own Veart, while faithfully photographi the people and the life around him? We should nave a flood of intimate autobio graphies, but elightlv guarded by the veil of fiction; heart breaking confes sions, interspersed with broad views of thejbeauty that there is in life, and dashed with humor; and whose reality would command our attention and our sympathies in spite of ourselves.—Boston Transcript. A Watch’s Gain or loan A ship's chronometer is so adjusted remain always in one position, no C after what the motion of the ship may , and on tha) account it keeps better time than a watch that is placed in the pocket during the day, on a table at night and is more or lees irregularly jarred from day to day by the motion of the body. A pocket watch that gains or loses only a second a day is considered an exdfllent timepiece, but in order to be so considered it must make the gain steadily one day after the other, or lose in the same way—it must not be a second fast ine day and a second slow the next.— l ,‘B. B.” in The Epoch. ‘ THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE. Snake Bite and Yellow Fever. Dr. Urias da Silveira has sent to the Medico-Chirurgical society of Rio do Ja neiro a quantity of a vegetable substance Which is very common in the provinces— Minas geraes and Barra mansa—and which, he says, he has used with great advantage in the bites of cobras, espe cially during the period in which the C ost serious symptoms—hemorrhages id ataxo-adynamic phenomena—ap peared. He points out analogies between the effects of snake bite and of yellow fever, both of a symptomatic and patho logical nature, and suggests that the drug be sent should be tried In cases of yellow fever.—Scientific American. sn: r Than Go Back. “Yes,” said she, “I will accept your proposal this time, and we will be mar- •Your before winter.’? •*0, delight!” exclaimed he. sudden change bewilders me.” : “I know it must, ” continued the sweet » “but the fact is I have just learned didn’t pass in my examination last nring, and rather than go back to the seminary and stand the disgrace of being put down I’ll—I’ll even marry you. ” ' No cards.—Chicago Tribune. , A Truth Well Exprewed. "Many persons criticise in order not to seem ignorant; thev do not know that Indulgence is a mark of the highest cul tures” says Carmen.Sylva in the current btUMMlr of Th* Woman’s World, and it U a truth well expressed. It is the little learning, the narrow culture, that is and censorious, and mistakes ; fox criticism. The highest and meat Unocal culture is generous and believing.—Boston Traveller. Electric Eight In War. - The German military authorities hare experimented successfully with night at tacks by the aid of electrio light. The beam of light is reflected from a mirror BOO yards distant from the lamp, so that tstt whsre fbc Uttery Mysterious Inconsistency—The Animal Kingdom—Moral Cowardice. A very mysterious inconsistency in human nature lies in the contrast be tween life which makes self preservation Us first love, and that utter contempt and intolerance of it which induces self de struction. By all human laws, the man who takes another's life in defending his own is held guiltless of murder; his deed is accounted justifiable in recognition of the self saving ipstinct with which the creator lias accompanied the gift of life to all his creatures. With the earliest consciousness of young animals this In stinct api>cars in timidity and shrinking from danger, real or imaginary; and down to tl;e lowest order of beings, a wounded thing will exert its last strength to esaupe having iis existence blotted out. As for the human species, we have it on Scripture authority that “all that a man hath will he give for his life. ” In view of this, who that is unaware of the facts would expect to so con stantly hear of men and women, and even children, finding life unbearable and ending alR What a surprising vio lation of tliis innate principle it seems, when for this or that cause, and often for no cause that is evident, some choose death rattier than life! Suicide is not entirely confined to the human species. There are numerous well authenticated instances of different animals deliberately killing themselves ifrhen circumstances rendered life no longer desirable. A recent traveler in the tropics tells of coming at various times upon the skeleton of a species of poisonous serpent within a circle of leaves of the prickly cactus, and later the riddle was solved by his seeing some monkeys engaged in surrounding a sleep ing reptile with the spinous vegetation. Upon awaking and finding itself im prisoned and all its attempts to escajie futile, the serpeut presently took refuge in stinging its own body and dying at once. It is commonly rejiorted that the same thing happens when a poisonous snake is hemmed in by fire, in a spasm of desperation at finding no chance of es cape, it turns its means of self defense into means of sfelf destruction. The animal kingdom is a law unto itself. Not so with man. He is subject to the higher taw of duty and accounta bility; and no environment can be called hopeless to one who believes in a gra cious overruling power and the better life to come. A portion of the alarming number of current suicides, it must be confessed, awaken only the sincerest in every susceptible and benevolent and probably there are very many mom casts of this kind, were the secret causes that have actuated the victims brought to light Yet wherever human law is founded on the divine law, self destruction must necessarily be regarded aa a crimo. A man's buildings are not bis own in the sense that he can st^t them on fire tuid bum them down with impu nity; much less is his life—a possession which cannot he restored—so exclusively lersonal that ho has the right to end it jy violence in an hour of discourage ment or disgust The yearly list of suicides in some of the countries of Europe is appalling to contemplate. The waters of - the Seine give up their dead daily, and drowning is hut one among the common methods for shuffling off this mortal coil. Pas sion, impetuosity and, above all, infidel ity, are prominent factors in recruiting Uio army of suicides. Statistics of all nations show that occasionally there oc curs what has been called on epidemic of suicide; though whether this is an illustration of the force of example, or the result of some general imjxilling. force, such As temperature during the exhausting heat of summer, remains an unsettled question. That the month of July has long been noted for the large number of its suicides favors the latter conclusion. Of direct causes among young people, affairs of the heart, love matters that have taken gn unfortunate turn, must bo reckoned the leading one. Very often, too, the circumstances at tending these cases are unspeakably pa thetic. Next come losses of money and business, friends and health. Of crim inals who have recourse to dagger, bul let or rope to evade just penalty, it is unnecessary to speak. There is a moral cowardice in fleeing from the battle of life, which strikingly contrasts with the patient, heroic endur ance of multitudes of men and women in every land and in all sorts of hard conditions. To tho tempted it might serve as a tonic to read history on this point, or better, to recall events. Think, for example, of the crew of the Jean nette in their frozen fastnesses, and of- Capt. DcLong and Ms men in the Lena A Cargo of Itun’Uun Criminal*. I was enabled to inspect, the internal arrangements of the Russian convict transport. Nizhui-Novgorod, which sails hence with 4GC criminal deportes for the Russian penal island of Saghalien. The Nizhni-Novgorod is an iron steamer of about 8,800 tons burden and is specially fitted as a convict transport. With a full complement of convicts the vessel carries 052. The more desperate charac ters are manacled and chained to iron staples in their berths, from which they are released when necessary. Among tho 400 convicts carried by tho Nizhni- Novgorod about 100 are murderers. Ujion | tho greater number of these murderers, in addition to their various terms of hard Ihbor in the unn<*s and quarries, will be inflicted upon their arrival a number of blows from the knout, varying from fifty to 125, according to their crimes. Man acled and crouching at the end of one of tho cages was a convict alxiut 85 years of age. There was nothing particularly villainous in the man’s face, though it was by no means well favored by nature. What struck me especially was his pallid look and apparently general bodily lan guor. Seven years ago this man had committed murder and was sent to Sibe ria for life, the first five years’ hard labor to be worked in the mines. After tho expiration of his mino labor he managed to escape, and was only rearrested after committing a second murder. Ho is now sentenced to mine labor in Saghalien for life, to receive 125 blows of the knout on arrival on the island, and thereafter to be chained to his barrow or hand wagon for the first twelve months of his sentence. In these cases there is no unchaining; the chains are welded on the convict’s limbs. “How lon£ do you imagine this poor wretch will exist under the conditions of his first year’s punish ment f” 1 asked my guide, who has spent some years of official service In Saghalien. “Possibly a month—or two. Tho shorter the better for the i>oor devil.” It is this question which does not appear to occur to the “humanitarian” defenders of the Russian penal code—whether capital pun ishment were not an unqualified mercy to such criminals, and their number is terribly large in Russia. The convict’s horror and dread of having to live out three sentences is shown by the desperate attempts qt self destruction he is ever ready to make. Tho scene on board these departing ships is altogether saddening pity in heart, am) depressing, perhajis the more so that one does not near a murmur or lament from the stolid looking and broken spir ited wretches crowded behind the bars of the!jo cages, which remind the si>eotator only too forcibly of the wild lieast dens we tire accustomed to sec in a traveling menagerie.—Odessa Cor. London News. miv* Wanted to Know. -Mjr darling, yo» m*st bo i for you every day. -That’s all right; but what I want will ya« earn for me everv are parried i—New York If a note i account is lout or stolen ; ho must it does not ust pay it, if the It was given and provan. State Geologist Proctor, of Kentucky, Hat the most valuable pearls in rricn are to be found in tne umestouo 'in* U that state. Qow to Prolong; Life. I have been much interested in recent arik'les on “The Christian Science," “No I More Sickness and Death,’’ and “The i Prolongation <>f Life. ” 1 like tho.-e articles amazingly well, as for years I ! Iiavb had a hobby like them and am still astride of it, o; ./ mino is a muscular one, and it doesn't matter whether' your ! Thinker is wound up and going or not. If I tell you of it, in an old fashioned way, so you may keep your spine crooked iu tho right direction and make yourself | feel ten or more years younger, it may do some good. Please cal! to mind how listlessly old people crawl oirt of bed in the morning, also if (hero are any young people in the room getting up, notice how tho urchins stretch themselves. Also call to mind how a person just recovering from a sick bed is inclined to do the same. Call to inind how seldom middle aged and old folks oro inclined to stretch unless ex pecting something of importance. I have found that a good, long stretch in tho morning, as soon as on my feet, has turned tho bend of my back to tho front, has taken the stoop out of my shoulders, and my wife says my hair is becoming dark again. I have sons past 80 years of ago who step no lighter than I ; and ns for my eating qualifications, I defy any man to get away with me. Of course I Lake a stretch several times a day. with great benefit. I don’t know why it does mo good, only to force the bloo 1 and other juices of the body where they belong. Anyhow, I know it makes me feel young, and others I have told about it say it does them great good.— James Laurie in New York Sun. THE NAMES OF JEWS. Home Have ClioHen GentUc Suniaiae*. Eh-IUti Form*—-Chung®!.. Lord Coleridge touched upon an in- teres ting theme the other day when ho inquired of certain Jewish witnesses how it was that they had adopted tho names of Mordauul and Saville in lieu of their native l atronyntios of Most's and Sam del. It is i;ot '.nite correct to say that Jews ever change their original names. In tho pynngoguos they bear throughout their lives ihu Hebrew names—iu the traditi. : il Oriental form of So-and-so, sou ci' Mo-aud-so—given to them shortly aftei tilt h birth. The instability of the liana s by which they are known to the world is dud to the fact that originally, like all Oriental peoples, they had no family names, and that wherevet they have congregated very closely together the secular i so of the traditional genea logical feints has bwo tenaciously pre served. In sonic countries, such as Ger many and Austria, special legislation has been found necessary to compel them to adopt fixed surnames. As, at different times, they Itnve come into closer con tact with the Gentile world,'they have themrclves seer, the necessity of sur names, und it is not surprising if, under these circumstances, some of them should have cho n the most sonorous and dis tinguished they, cotfld find. An examination of the lists of scat hold ers in the twelve principal synagogues of London shows that less than 6 per cenL of tho names—such os Beddingtou, Clif ford, Coburn, Curtis, Graham, Halford, Hamilton, Uardinge, Hardy, Herlwrt, Howard, Lumley, Mauvillo, Marsden, Merton, Montagu, Morley, Morton, Neville, Norman, Russell, Sydney, AYul- ford, etc®—arc accounted for on this hypothesis. The foreign surnames and place names preserved by tho Jews of England form a small epitome of tho history of the Israelitish dispersion. Side by side with tho Hebrew Abrahams, the Egyptian Moses, and the English Mordaunt, we have tho Greek Alexander and Margolire, the Latin Marcus, and the AraUc Mocatta. Those derived from mediaeval house ligns are Rothschild, Adler, Oanz, Sclnff, Btrauss, SUberkron, etc. Some of tho occupation names are interesting. Rophe Is Hebrew for physician, and Rapjioport Is a corruption of Ropho d’Oporto; Jalfon Is Hebrew for money clianger, and Mocatta is Arabic for mason. More strictly Anglo-Jewish are tho natural assimilations of Hebrew and Jewish names to English forms. Thus, poleman is a corruption of Kalman, which is an abbreviation of Kalonymos, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Shem Tob (Good Name). Bonny Is de rived, through Bondi, from a Latin translation of Yom Tob (Good Day). EbiHips comes from tho Hebrew Uri or Meier, Loth mooning “light," through the -Greak equivalent Phoebos and its Oerwan-Polah diminutive Pheibul. Sa ville is a moro natural corruption of i Samuel than i* generally imagined, see ing that in Germany tho Scriptural name has been shortened into Sanvel. and in England we have the authority of Mr. ; Weller, senior, to ejH'll it with a “we. - Freeman is from the Germafl Friedn .; n. 1 .i translation and apocopation of Shmr m ,1011 Menacheiu. Daymen is : .oM through HymtUi md Hyar. from t;- D Crew Haim (life). Je»ol is from tel, the Hebrew pronunciation <! 1 h Lici. Yates is from Goetz, an ubo, .. lion of Gottschaik, which in Low C-. r |nan means “Uod’s servant,” and is a i literal tramlation of Eljidcim. Among simpler changes are Cowan—Cohen, Lewin—Levi, Victor—Avigdor, Archer —Asher, Jessop—Joseph, and Soman jnd Slowman—Solomon. Curious in stances of misdirected translations are af forded by the names Marchant and Chaj)- aian, loth of which are Anglicizations jf tho Gftrman Kaufmann or Handels- tnann. Originally, however, neither of these names meant “merchant” among )ho Teutonic Jews. Kaufmann is a cor- tuplion of Koppolman, of which tho first two syllables u;o a German diminutive pf Jacob and tho tim'd an abbreviation of Menacheut, the whole being a contrac tion of Jacob biji Blenachem. Handels- tnanu has a similar history, being flerived from Elchanon ben Mecachem, through Ilandl, a recognized German | diminutive of Elclianon. In the same ; way Sdigman is a contraction of fctelig : ben Mcnachem, and Felberman a cor- i rupted contraction of Phoebus (Uri) ben i Mcnachem. i One of die most curious instances of LE3 MlijERABLES. For what arc av thankful? O satfes, declare. From yourhlph, carven pulpit*. toBufferinp men Wo Us’to your sermon, your anthem, your | a.. ■ . Your soft bcnoiiictCn No answer is then. To the question w© ask you: the ehUl outumn alt Blows the words to our faces attain. You've talked of the merchant ships railing the seas. And tol.l of the treasure* the harvest would yield: Of the fruit liauging low on the o'erburdeued ; trees; Of tho-odorous breath of the vine on the breeze; But whence comes the mandate, the law that de crees That we starve in the brown Stubblefield? We battled at noonday with dust and with hCAt; Wo sauK and we jested to lighten our toll; Wo ho|>ed the drear w inter with plenty to Rn-et- Ah, the mirage to near fainting hearts was so sweet— |ju; jmpty our hands, hare and bleeding our feet; The labor was ours, not the spoil. Tho harvests are garnered, tho myriad sheaves That plied tho whlo fluids like gold from tho mine Fill up the great barns from the floor to the eaves The gnipi-s that grew ripe amidst wbisperU leaves Stain red, laughing lips while a starving one Superstitions of the Highlands. The belief in fairies and brownies, or the more playful end fanciful kind of fairy, seems to belong more to tho Low- - : :n erroneous etymology is the name lands of Scotland than tho Highlands. | la (To, which figures among the landed Delta, dying of slow starvation, yet b avc to the last But what need to go beyond the streets of a citv, with its views of pinched and haggard faces and toiling decrepitude, for heroes and hero ines that shall be forever nameless?— Lavinia S. Goodwin in Boston Globe. ) / n ci^ht clay cttx'k can now ho con vened e;J *y .which need ho wound But oi.i" l ' vi r. A person ultcv heter by the sun-la. As Old as the Exodus. A most interesting experiment culmi nated the other day in the raising of some wheat grown from seeds as old as the Exodus. The experimenter is David Drew, who last year received from a friend lu Alexandria, Egypt, some grains of wheat taken from a mummy exhumed hear tho ruins of Memphis, and belong ing, it is believed, to the period of the Ninth Dynasty, which would make it C wn alxiut 8,000 B. C., or be nearly DO years old. He planted the seed early la the spring, and carefully nursed it. if grew rapidly, and at the time of cutting measured from six and a half to seven feet high. The leaves alternate on the stalk like common wheat, hut the product of file plant is the most singular part of it, for, instead of growing in tho ear like modem corn, there is a heavy cluster of small twigs in place of the fepindlo which hangs downward from its weight, and each twig is thickly studded with kernels, each of which is in a sepa rate husk. From what is threshed a larger crop will he grown next yetfr, as the result proves this ground to exceed i.i quality anything that the modem grr.in can grow.—-Plymouth (Mass.) Gor. jj^icianati Enquirer. Tho character of the people was softer, and the lighter forms of superstitious be lief found a more fiit'ng home there than in tho Highlands, whero the gloomy and austere character of the people led them to invest tho supernatural inhabitants of their glens and mountains with some thing more akin to their own darker and sterner natures. Thus tho fairies and brownies of the Lowlands take in the north the form of warnings, that come in gruesome guise to foretell misfortune and calamity to the family to whom they belong, and to TJIii USUAL FINE STOCK OV ^ GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOLACCO AND CIGARS. IS TO UK FOUND AT UORNKK OF 1*EARLE AM) UHOVE STREETS. Large Quantities ot Goods art* b< oifi reteimi deily and the n a jy cuij tourers ol this wtul kiit>\su estahlfshtm iit thiooglott! I)ai ingtoii County me grarantretl that a continuance ot their pa’iou.iye wil! ipt-oii lor tljeu. “Tho Best Uoiwis for the Leas September <». 1NS8—tv t *1 Money, )!* f Ttev a for the iregs of tho wine. For vital arc we thankful? For prison* anil |kUi.; gor our babes luurJ'rin^ sleep with tbelr famish iat; cries; For tho snow and tho sleet, tho wind and the rain tkating out tho dull life from the heart and the.[ bram; For tho grave wo at last In potter's field trail'; For the stono with lt« deeply cut lies. —Margaret Holmes iu New York World. "arcs I jcTitry of county Down. It is tho Hc- ! art tv word for “beautiful,” and is a | Sirect trairdationof the German “Scbon.” i As a Jewibh euruaun*, however, Schon or j Be hen has no meaning. It is simply an ; icrosric of the Hebrew Schliach Neetnon | [faithful messenger). These acrostic | names are peculiarly Jewish, and many | jf them are found among English Jews. For example, Katz, which ouo of these I jays will perhaps be Anglicized into Cat, E derived from the initials of Kohen zed ok (priest of righteousness); Schatz, tvhich in Hungary has actually been whom they appear when danger or mis- Translated into Kincz, tire Magyar for fortune threatens their patrons. Every i "treasure, ” is from Schliach Tzibur great and powerful family in the north (messenger of the congregation); Babad was believed to have a supernatural is from Ben Ab Beth Din (Son of tho warning or omen wlfich appeared before | President of tho House of Judgment); the death of any prominent member. It Back is from Sera Kadosh (holy poster- varied in most cases, but each family of Ity), and when the name of a town be- a clan generally received tho same warn- j finning with s is nodded—as, for exam- ing before death as the chief. Very striking coincidences no doubt have oc curred, quite important enough, to con vince a highly superstitious people of their infallibility.—Murray’s Magazine. “ Swine Bridges ” of tho East. At this stage of the proceedings we fall fn for the first time during tho present expedition with one or two of those fa mous “ swing bridges,” which are such a characteristic feature both of India and ‘of Ceylon. Their construction is very simple. Two ropes are stretched from hank to bank abqut four feet apart, and a number of thin planks fastened across them so as to make a kind of rude foot way; but the addition of a handrail on Bird "tandanl of cliar- a L.j holds for others American bred t each get fanciers say that tho i say foa canaries become in each generation. German birds must bo consta'dl” imported to pi i;. ilk)v either side is absolutely i this primitive F by the time you i toe whole fra like a awing, much as if you were an a i mu a alack rope,—Dav York Times. to make all, for of it to and 'eel very dsnHng Kef In New you MULES! Tho Face of a Scoundrel. Undoubtedly Caglicstro was the most able and successful scoundrel who ever lived. Thomas Carlyle, after carefully inspecting his portrait, describes his face as follows: “Fittest of visages were they to be worn by the quack of quacks 1' A most portentous face of scoundrel ism; a fiat, snub, abominable face; flat, nosed, greasy, full of greediness,-st usuality, ax like obstinacy; a forehead impudent, re fusing to bo ashamed: and then two eyes turned up seraphlciiily languishing, as if in divine contemplation and adoration; a touch of quiz, too; on the whole, jier- hai>8 tho most perfect quack face pro duced in the eighteenth century.”—De troit Free Press. i & CO, % sale at their. * '• 4k. A* an uniiiually fine large mu es^ which csi refully selected by Blackwell on a re- Both Sides of the Question. Ethel (entering suddenly)—Jack, dear, I wish you to lend me your liaseball mask for—well, for six montlis at least. ' Brother Jack—Gracious 1 sister mine, | what on earth are you going to do? Ethel—Well—if I must tell—it is this ! way: You know Harry and I are engaged now-. He comes every evening and stays—quite a while. He is so extremely I demonstrative, and he lias such an—ag gressive mustache. I believe iu free trade up to a certain point, then I am for protection.—Pittsburg Bulletin. His Place u> Soclet). U'-oiding to a New York correspond ent, the western man is looming up on the horizon of the New York woman in a most astonishing way. “He is just bo- giailing,” be writes, “to take his place hero in social life, and lie takes an aw fully big place. Tie takes away the breath of the eastern girl by his self confident methods, and by the time she recovers it she very often finds that it is tn reality her heart that is gone.”—Chi ■ cago Herald. Wow have on stables lot of were ^ apt cent trip to the Wes Cnll and make 3our purchases wfyUe you ^a-e a large lo^ Irom which to select, and can thus bu^ to the best advantage January 10, 1880, Bremen’s Statue of Liberty. The quaintest thing in Bremen is its atstluc^of liberty, tho “Boland” as it is caliid. It is a colossal figure, eighteen feet high, and was erected in the center of the town iu 1412. In one huge hand the giant holds a shield marked with an eagle (that symbol of liberty in all ages), in the other a naked sword. It was the gauntlet thrown down to all the world that Bremen would be free.—Chicago Herald. .v- SUk from Wild Worm*. A curious method of silk manufacture is said to exist in the Chinese province of Kwangtung, whero are found wild silk worms feeding on the camphor tree. The full grown caterpillar is cut open and the silk is taken out in a form resembling catgut, subjected to a hardening process, ami made into fish lines.—Ark&usaw Traveler. Sharks aud Convicts. There (at Cayenne) when a convict dies the body is borne to the sea and a great bell is tolled. And then is the vis cous, glaucous sea surface furrowed sud denly by fins innumerable, swart, shorn, triangular—the legions of the sharks rushing to the hideous funeral. They know the belli—Harper’s. e IV % IJegs to K.mimt the public that he its better prepared than eve before ton.eet the demandh dl the present season, which promises tq be the most active that Darlington ha; seen for years. " * His stock, which embraces every line, almost, one can think of, taken as a whole, is probably the largest ev» r carried bv any single linn in Dari ngtoii; has been carefully selected witt a view to meeting tha wants of the multitude who favor hint With their patronage “ lleie a.e a few of the muiiy’ B A. 3rl C3r A. J JNT SL? ins STOIIE 1 FILI KD WITH 36 inch Wool Cashmere at 25 cents per yard, worth 35 36 inch Henrietta Cloth at 50 cents per yard, worth 65 cen(t A full line ol Black Cashmeres from 15 cents to $1 per ^nid A full line of Braided Sets and Velvets at various prices un - shades to match the large line pf DU ESS GOODS. n, i Knowledge of Human Nature “And so your nice clergyman is going to bo married, Mrs. Marigold! I ho; you’ll like bis wife ns well as you lum.” hope like -A. FFTTILI- Xal-lJ-qp: OF ■i" v * . t * ' , ' GENTS’, LA.DLE»S, AND CHILDREN’ SHOES. ? ij 12000 yards Plaids, bought fjelow the market, and will he sola accordingly. ■ hut wogemrMty find foaTwhroX^rT. 500 suits Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s ready-made clothing, at Uemanishaffabie, the lady’s ’aughty!” Sweeping Bargains. Hats and chirts in proportion. •* 200 Barrels Flour bought direct from the Mills before ad vance in the market, and being sold at less than legulaV'price. All heavy Groceries bought in Car Load quantities, and al ia bulk at prices tluU corapaie favorably with Charleston. —Loudon Punch. Chlefk as Top Spinners. An independent state in tho Malay “Pe ninsula is Pahang. It has just been ex amined from tho outskirts by some En glishmen, who report it capable of sup porting a large poulation if the rulers would cease from spending their time chiefly in top spinning.—New York Sun. all t ie, Sera Kadosh Sjieyer (holy poeterit.. f Speyer)—it beedhies Saks or Sachs, j tvhich lias been frequently mistaken for ! re abbreviation of Saclieen (Saxony); ; Bram is from Den Rabbi Moses; Bran j (corrupted into Braun, aud translated ! Into Brown) from Ben Rabbi Nachman; Bard, from Ben Rabbi David; Be real, from Ben Rabbi Solomon the Levite, and Bril from Ben Rabbi Judah the Levite. The excjjet ical names are also peculiar ly Jewish. They consist of equivalents for Hebrovy names; derived from colloca- | lions in biblical teste. Thus the com parisons in Jacob’s blessing furnish equivalents for Benjamin in Wolf, for iudah in Lion and for Napibteli in Hart. Fisher is an equivalent for Ephraim, be ta twe it was foretold (Gen. xlviii, 121 that he should multiply exceedingly, ana fish is a symbol of fruitfulness. It is sometimes a substitute for Moses, Pharaoh’s daughter, in giving his name, said (Baudos U, 10)1 •For I drew him out- of the water.’' -St. James' Gasclta The Ideal Battle Ship. The ideal battle ship, according to Ad miral Sir George Elliott, possesses quali fications ranking in this order; 1. Sea worthiness; 2. Guns at^ armor; 8. Handiness; 4. Coal endurance; 5. Speed; Uvir Hardware Department, in charge of Mr. J. H. Early, has in stock the largest, as well ns the best, assortment of Stoves and SUm Furniture ever exhabited in Eastern SontH Carolina. Having bought by Car Load enUrely, we ' are pre Sun. » • ' On a Peace Footing. At 260 yard* the Lopel riflo would go through two men. The French arsenals liave enough ammunition to supply each soldier with 2,500 cartridge*. —New York Sun. • Better Ttiao Soap. It is asserted that, under certain con ditions, the bark of the quilla tree of Chili possesses cleansing properties su perior to tliose of the best soap.—Arkan- saw Traveler. 6. Light draught of water?—New York pared tp make figures that defy competition. - • In Sewing Madiihe«V~ tpe White, Aniejicau. House hold and Hartford, all strickly first-class j also iriachino need les. oils and attachments lor all machines. * We carry a large line of Engines and Mill supplies, such nc Belting, Packing, Lacing, and all kinds of Steam Fittinga ill iron and brass; Lubricating and Cylinder OPs Tallow, v et& Machine Bolts in every size. r • r Agricultural machinery, such as Cottpn Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Presses, Mowers, Horse Rakes, Grain Drills, etc. 1 Pumps for driven wells, & specialty. *" We are agents for several first class Steam Engines and Mille It fa generally understood that Lwnjt and would be pleased to give bottom figures to those desiring Tennyson com; during bis much of rambles. Iks poetry To do so no more fa the truest rer«ot- attoe.—Luther toJt •. -Y . - to purchase a ginning or saw mill outfit September 13, 1888. "4 fi:-'