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-‘ .!«' ' ' ir ' '•.■tf'*T^vsT»:' ^ 1L _ y. .fj^. ^-*'- ' :.J THE DARUNGTON NEWS, 7VSUEBBKI. IVIftTTHU&SDAT MOKNINO HENRY rTThOMPSON. PBOPBIBTOB. TERHS—$S Per Annani In AdraHce. 0*«8fiur«i Ant iniertion $1.00 One Square, eeeo&d insertion 60 (very subseqent insertion • ••••••••••••••••• • 60 Contraot advertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms. . Marriage Notices and Obituaries, not ezeeeding six lines, inserted free. THE PUNCTUAL TIDES. _ I Odes, with sullea roar. Wash «a the sea coast's pebbtar floor; > Dusk drift and floatliu OrtMHnc tha old and) ns— —<# » t why— lot why. I So Ms long jrean, with muflled sound, • Bring tribute bom the Car profound; Boane winds and stooping clouds go fax. And man Utm hence wo know not \ ' We know not i Ibe tides of time, they rise or fan With that white waste that circles all; ! Our rears In vaster periods move. An our poor loves (a lasting Love- In lasting Love. —Dora Bead Ooodale In The Coogregationallat. MY MOTHER’S HYMN. i What an unconscionably long time aeenos to have elapsed since the old days on the far away homestead In the Berk shire hills! How the years have dragged themselves along, so that, although I have several more birthdays to come to me (if I live) in “the twenties,” I seem to be already an old man when I think upon the farm and mother and the old meeting house and all the sweet mem ories of the time when I was a boy and knew nothing—absolutely nothing—of sorrow and trouble and bard knocks. Even today when, young as I am, I have to confess myself worn and wearied, bettered, bruised and broken, scarred and seared by contact with all the rough ness, the rudeness, the dirt, the grime, the sin and the heartlessness of the world —even yet 1 bless God for the halo of goodness which has followed me, in all my wanderings, front my Massachusetts home. I wae the youngest of the merry young sters who had grown up, under our fam ily roof tree, to youth and manhood, and was the'last to break away from the comparative quiet of New England for the bustle and hurly-burly of the great My two brothers were full grown men while I was still n small boy, attending our village school, and nothing could keep them at home when the gold ex citement broke out in the Black Hilln After they went away my mother and father never saw them more. The next events of Importuii -e in our family were 'the weddings of my two sisters, follow ing in rapid succession. Then, rnon more than ever, I became my mother's companion and might have re mained so. perchance, to this day had not death claimed her and father for his prey within a few short weeks of each other. Father was a good man and I always loved, honored and respected him; but tome I think, nay, I am certain, he was never as dear as mother—and I felt this more during the few short weeks that mother lingored after father's death. How kIu* 1. .rd to have mo sit by hei bedside and read to her—sometimes from one of Dickens' masterpieces and sometimes from her well used Bible! How it pleased her when I would sing (as a boy, 1 believe I had a pleasant, mu sical voice) one of her favorite songs or a hymn from the little brown covered hymn book! How contented she was, on the day that she passed away, to have me place my hand in hers while she whispered her farewell words. “Give me the hymn book. Rod.” she .said to wards the last. I gave it to ber and watched her as with much feebleness she tore from it one of the pages—worn •o thin and much soiled by constant handling. “Keep it. Rod, my boy; keep it always, and when you ore a man read it and sing it—it is your mother's favorite hymn.” I have never parted with that torn scrap, and while I live it will never be bartered for the largest bank note In ex istence. Sickly sentiment, is it? Be it so; there has, God knows, been little enough of sentiment in my life, and I can afford to indulge this one soft feel ing which I possess and treasure. Ten years passed away. Amid a group of rough men assembled in a saloon in a small frontier town I was the central fig- w*. I was arraigned as a culprit before a mock judge and a mock jury, undergo ing a mock trial for stealing a man's en tire outfit—coat, pants, belt, pistols and boots. I was innocent, quite innocent— Iwt the circumstantial evidence was •hong against me, and, besides, I had csrtalnly U-o-n associating with a very “hard” set. I knew full well that the chances wen- greatly against a verdict of “notguiUy," and 1 was also well aware that punishments were not graded in feat locality. Sentences for all crimes wsre uniformly severe and execution prompt The evidence was taken in five nlautea and then the judge (a miner like fee rest of us) turned to me: “Hev you got owt to say for yesself. Bod Kimberly?” “Onlv this,” mid I: “1 am not guilty.’* **1» that aUT said the judge, while a • Amr rafia laugh went around the room. "We all thought that you waa squar', Bod," went on the judge, “and we feel like giving you a fair show. Why don’t Fpu own Up, now, and throw yourself on ttonarej of the court?* "Judge," I replied, giving the man his ®ock title, “1 am square. All you boys «ow me," I went on, appealing to the Crow d, on whose faces I failed to aee fljch expression of sympathy. “You feBowx know I don’t pretend to be any yfe* rtwihm, hot, before God, I have ® rrcr told a lie to yon or any one else, 1 neither have I ever taken what don't fflM. I swear I am Innocent of i asked the judge. " I fumbled in L oOBp of paper which I ' ■nlfcft, “Yon follows all J&orewna a coaree, loud guffaw, while n»aa exclaimed: a regTar bald headed, palsied AUUiitf game, jedge,an’Ignemit wou't with this gangH liut jn then a tail, broad shouldered ,! “ *~sBs«r-«-ntered the saloon. > nod Ik ird «uy uppeal and had also l the rough woniaofthe min«r who "said thauiiw DARLINGTON NEWS. •FOR 08 PRINCIPLE 18 PRINCIPLE—RIGHT 18 RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-DAY. T0-M0RR0n, FOREVER. VOL. XV. NC 14. regulator, judge, fel)ow ou ought to arrival, “1 am an cl 1 and think the young have his say, whatever it is.” “Good,” came from the lips of the judge; “go on, my lad." "I was going to say, judge, that I liave a little scrap of paper here—not much account, certainly, to anybody but my self; but my dead mother gave it to me and I’ve treasured it about ten years. It isn’t Scripture, but it’s mighty near it. and I couldn't say anything more sol emnly than what I would say with my right I land on that page torn from my mother’s hymn book. Judge, lam inno cent I” “Gentlemen of the jury, what do you say? Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" “Guilty 1’’ came from a score of throats. Now I was not greatly afraid of death, though I would have preferred to live, and anyhow did not particularly fancy death by means of a hempen rope. I felt that I was hardly prepared to die, for I had of late given very little thought to religion and to the teaching of my earlier life. So it was not any morbid and false notion of religion nor yet the promptings of fear which led me to make a last request of my prosecutors. “Judge,” I said, “I should like you to grant me a last request before you pass sentence. On this scrap of paper there is a hymn, which I liave a fancy to hear sung before you begin business. Jerry Davis, there, can play and knows all the church tunes. I’d like him to play and slug this one. And, judge, ask the boys that don’t want to hear it to step out side, because I shouldn’t like to aee them poking fun at it.” 1‘Boys, you heart” said the judge, and strangely enough there was absolute silence, while not a man left the room. There was an old piano in that western saloon, used for free-and-easys, noisy concerts and occasional dances, though it is doubtful if sacred songs had ever been played upon it during its sojourn at that settlement. Jerry Davis took the little torn page, struck a chord or two, and then com menced to sing in his rich tenor voice: There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's reins, And sinners plunged beneath o»f* flood Ixiae *11 their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to eee That fountain In bis day. And there may I, though rile ae ha Wash all my sins away. Somehow Jerry Davis’ voice weakened and he could not finish the hymn, which must have been familiar to many a liar- dened man in that strange company. As for me, I was sobbing violently—not so much moved by the words of the hymn as by the sadly sweet memories which it brought me. There was absoluto silence for several minutes, when the stranger who had spoken a word in my bclialf walked over to the piano where Davis sat with his fingers listlessly resting on the keyboard. Ho took the tom leaf, examined it critically and then walked over to me. Taking my hand in his strong grip he spoke in a loud If rather husky voice. “Judge,” he said, “I feel certain there is some mistake here, and 1 ask for a postponement of these proceedings for further investigation. This lad is my brother; my name is Phil Kimberly, "l own the Kimberly claim over the hill, and am pretty well known along the Turtle valley." It was indeed my oldest brother, whom I had not seen for sixteen years. That hymn of my mother’s had some how softened the feelings of the boys, for they willingly acceded to Phil's re quest. Two days later I was cleared of all suspicion and became for a time the most popular man in the camp. It is almost needless to add that I now treasure with more care than ever the little scrap of paper upou which is printed, In old style type, my mother’s favorite hymn.—W. H. 8. Atkinson in Detroit Free Press. A Plot for • Play. T. Adolphus Trollope, in a communi cation to Notes ond Queries, propounds a knotty point that might be worked up into a subject for a drama, a farce or a comic opera. It is put in all serious ness, however, as a question of law. A. B. goes from London to Naples, leaving his wife resident in the former city. But he, unfortunately, falls in love with a young lady at Naples; and being a wicked man, with no fear of God and little fear of the law before his eyes, he determines to deceive her by a bigamous and invalid marriage. He is according ly married, to all appearance legally, on board an English man-of-war in the bay, in the presence of the captain, at 11 o'clock In the morning of Feb. 10—the (hue being unquestionably ascertained. But tho wife left in London died on that same Feb. 10 at half past 10 in the morn ing, the time being certified beyond all question. Well, the case is clear and simple. A. B. had been a widower for half an hour when he married and could, of course, legally do so. But, stay! When it was half past 10 in London it was twenty-three minutes past 11 in Naplea Had a telegram been dispatched instantly after the wife’s death it would have reached Naples a few minutes later than twenty-three minutes past 11, and would have found A. B. a married man of over twenty minutes standing! His first wife died, in fact, twenty-three minutes subse quent to the Naples marriage, though that was authentically declared to have taken place at 11 a. m., and the wife’s death wae with equal certainty shown to-have occurred at half past 10. Was the marriage legal and valid or biga mous and null? Jules Verne and W, 8. Gilbert, each i in his different way, are the only two men competent to solve this problem.— Philadelphia Times. rale lafcmic*. Little Jeannette’s mother found her one day with her face covered with jam from cor to oar. “O Jeannette,” said her mother, “what would you think if you should catch ms like ***** some day?” { “I should think vou’d had a awful good time, i.uiuuna,” said Jeannette, her taro brigUeuiug.—Youth’s DARLINGTON, 3. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1889. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, DARLINGTON, 8. C., M.rch 21, '89 T he following act is publish ed in •eeordiiDcv with Section 3: An act tallow ni,improved landi which have not be«n on the tax hooka aince 1876 lo be liated without penally. Section 1. Be ii enacted by the Senvte and House of Reprea'oUtives of the State of South Carolina, now met and titling in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same That in all casta where unim proved land which has been u P on the lax books sines the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1887, and which are not on the forfeited list, shall at any lime before the 1st day of October, 1889, be returm-d lo tbe Cou ly Auditor for taxation, the said Auditor be, ind is hereby instructed, lo asress the same and to eater it upon the duplicate of tbe fiscal year commeuciog November 1, 1887. with the aimp'e taxes ot that year. Section 2. That all such lands as may be returned tt tbs Auditor far (station be tween the first day of October, 1888, and tbe first day of October, 1889, shall be as sessed and charged wiib the simple taxes ot the two fiscal years commencing, re sprciively, on tbe first day of November, 1887, and the first day of November, 1888. Section 8. That as soon as practicable after the passage sf this Act, the Comp troller General is directed to furnish a copy, of tbe same to each Auditor in the State, and the Auditers are required lo publish the same in each of their County papers, ouee a week for three monthe dur ing tbe year 1888, and for tbe same pe riod of time during tbe year 1889 ; and the coat of auch publication abail be paid by tlie County Treasurer, upou the order of the County Commiestoners, out of tbe or dinary couoty tax iast collected. Approved December 19, 1887. W. H LAWRENCE, Auditor Darlington Co, March 21,’89-3m. TO T1PIK! Do not buy an Engine, Boiler, Saw mill, Corn mill, Cotton Gin, or Cotton Preas, until you write to me for pricer. I AM GENERAL AGENT in ibis State for tbe well-kuown fiini ol TALBOTT Sr SOXS, Richmond Ya., and offer to you tbe best machinery for ;bo money that is sold iu tbia market. Agents for HALL, EAGLE, and LUMMUS GINS at popular prices. Write to me l>e- foie you buy V. 0. BADBAM, Columbia, S. C. or Talbott k Sons, Richmond, Va. May 17, ’88- T. G. BLACH-SM1TH AND HOR8E-8HOER. Florence Street, - - Darlington, 8. 0. The very finest class of work guaran teed' Give him a trial, and you will be sure lo gel sulNfictico. March 2i. ’89. Some distinguishing fea- * tures of JIppletons’ Readers. MODERN METHODS MADE EASY. The question, “How sh ill we teach read ing?” fully answered. WORD, PHONIC, AND ALPHABETIC METHODS. Tbe series prepared on a combination of tee Diihttlr GRADING. New sounds inlroduced gradually. Per fectly graded throughout the eulire aeries. SPELLING. Words selected from the lessons are given for spelling with each piece. ILLUSTRATIONS. Unexcelled in beaut y and attractiveness CORRECT EXPRESSION. Tbe pnpil taught lo think about what be reads, and to express his thoughts cor rectly. ORAL READING. Tbe key note to Professor Bailey’i les sons on sccent, emphasis, inflection, and general vocal expression. GREAT SUCCESS. Since the publication of tbeaa Readers tbeirvale has averaged nearly. A MILLION A KEAR. I EAR! Begs to remind the public that he is better prepared than ever before to meet the demands of the present season, which promises to be the most active that Darlington has seen for years. His stock, which embraces every line, almost, one can think of, taken as a whole, is probably the largest ever carried bv any single firm in Dari ngton ; has been carefully selected witL a view to meeting the wants of the multitude who favor him with their patronage. Here are a few of the many 23 A. H Ci- A. I 3XT S ! HIS STORE I FILLED WITH 36 inch Wool Cashmere at 26 cents per yard, worth 36 »•» 36 inch Henrietta Cloth at 60 cents per yard, worth 65 cent? A full line ol Black Cashmeres from 15 cents to $1 per yard AHull line of Braided Sets and Velvets at various prices and shades to match the large line of DRESS GOODS. ime HMIR, Fine Mr. I wish to inform the citizena of Darlington that 1 keepconstantlyon band (he largest aaaortment of watches, clocks, jewelry and silver ware in tbe Pee Dee section, which I offer at prices which will compete with New York, or sny other city. Solid gold gents’ watch (not tilled) Waltham make $32; gold filled, warranted to wear for 20 years, $20; silver watches, buntiogoropen face from $10 up; silverine watches $7. All of these are of the celebra ted Waltham make. Other goods equally as low. All repairing of tine watches dons personally. May 17, ’88. -A. FULL LL JE OF GENTS’, lADIE’S, AND CHILDREN’ SHOES. 12000 yards Plaids, bought below the market, and will be sold accordingly. 500 suits Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s ready-made clothing, at Sweeping Bargains. Hats and iiTiirts in proportion. 200 Barrels Flour bought direct from the Mills before ad vance in the market, and being sold at less than tegular price. All heavy Groceries bought in Car Load quantities, and all in bulk at prices that compare favorably with Charleston. SUMMARY OF FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE New luturmce Tola 1 AmcI*. TOntioe Surplus g Divisible Surplus, Oompany’e New SUnduriJ Total WHOLE NO 742. F. Our job department is supplied with ever facility ueoeasary to oaablo ue lo fo*pti t both aa toprioa and quality afwork, with ever tboee ef the oitiea, and wa guarantee enlie faetion in every particulararahnrge nothing for our work. Wo are alwaya prepared tn fill order* at short naliee for Blank*, Bit Heade, Loiter Heade. Card*. Hand Bill* Posters, Circulars, Pamphlets, he. All job work mutt be paid far Oash on Delivery RE ® XJ IF*, el IV" O IS acke*tt. REPRESENTS TEN OFTHh LARGEST AND OLDEST NiES IN THE WORLD. Insure* nil clanne* of property, including Gin Hnnee* in anv nan f be County. Office over DARLINGTON NEWS bnilding! T P * f Decern m ber 6, 1888. COMPA. BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS ad CAPS. A FULL LINE OF EACH New Goods, LOWEST PRICES 'W Uur Hardware Department, in charge of Mr. J. H. Early, has in stock the largest, as well as the best, assortment of Stoves and Stove Furniture ever exhabited in Eastern South Carolina. Having bought by Car Load ent 5 rely, we are pre pared to make figures that defy competition. In Sewing Machines we handle the White, American, House hold and Hartford, all strickly first-class; also machine need les, oils and attachments tor all machines. We carry a large line of Engines and Mill supplies, such as Belting, Packing, Lacing, and all kinds of Steam Fittings in iron and brass; Lubricating and Cylinder Oils Tallow, etc. Machine Bolts in every size. Agricultural machinery, such as Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Presses, Muwers, Horse Rakes, Grain Drills, etc. Pumps tor driven wells, a specialty. We are agents for several first class Steam Engines and Mills and would be pleased to give bottom figures to those desiring to purchase a ginning or saw mill outfit. September 13, 1888. •AT 1 COST! Groce i. s A Specialty AT Enterprise Grocery. A- S WHITE, Manager. Septemlier 13, 88 THE Darlington Milling, Ginning, mu ns hoe comm (BEGAN BUSINESS 1845) Office: Nos. 346 and 348 Broadway, N. Y. J AX VARY 1, 1880. BUSINESS OF less. REVENUE ACCOUNT. Premiums %>y\ 107 7* lorerests, Rauls. Etc .......Z!ZZ"Z" 41273,692 08 e r z e AND Tetal Income $25,401,282 83 Death Claim* and Endowments f 5 426 926 78 Dividends, Annuities, Purchased Policies 5,647,143 27 W arehouse Total Paid Policy-holders $10,973,070.05 Company $126,019,731.00 January 1, 1889 $ 98,480,186.66 Liabilities, New State Standard j 79,974,169 17 8.428,777.18 7,0*2 260.25 8nr P ,a s $ 18,300,000.00 IVM. H. BEERS, President HENRY TUCK; Vice-Pree dent. ARCHIBALD H. WELCH, ^d Vice Presides! RUFUS W. WEEKS, Actuary. CHURCH & LANE, General Agents for North and South Carolina. For further infermelioB apply lo W. F. DARGAN, Darlington. 8. C. FACTS AINU FIOUEES. The New York Lift wae the first Company, and far thirty-five year* tbe only Com- penv, to omit from its policies the clause making them void in ease of suicide. Very lew compamee do now. Being convinced that moat suicide* are tbe reeult of insanityf and that many eases of accidental death ant murder aanaot be distinguish*.! from suicides, the New York Lite adopted, ia 1860, one rule for all—namely, the prompt payment of every claim not vitiated by evident fraud. The New York Life was the first Company to recognise the policy-holder’s right, to paid up inauranee, in ease of a Jiscootiouauee af payment of premiums, by arlginatiag and introducing, ia I860, the first aoe-farfeitara poliviM—the beginning af the modern non forfeiture system—which has beeom* a part of tho is*urabo* .totatee ef the reua- try. On the present volume of business, tbe saving te poliey-holdere. by reason of the non forfeiture principle as originate i and introduoed by the New York L fe, is ever five million dollars per year. The Now York Life issue* a greater variety ef policies than any other life company, thereby adapting t contracts to tho largest number of people. Ii has lately nerfeete i a Mortuary-Dividend system, under which many af Its po’ieias era issued with gnaraa- ter* return of all premium* paid, ia addition to the fee* of the poiiey, in ease ot death during a speeified period. The returns on tbe New York Life’e Tontine Policies that have matured have been larger than those of any ether oempany, comparison being made bet ween policies taken at aama age and premium rata, and running through the same period ef time. The peHtie* (| m N* 9 Tor fc Life* u ft 0 " Us a «d. "ottoty frM from reatrietiena as te •eeapatira, reel dense and travel, and elaims are paid npen receipt and approve I by tka Company ef latiafaetory preofr of death. February 28,1889. are now prepared to sup- ply'the very best fertilizers at the lowest market rate*, haying laid in a fine sup ply before the recent rise, and I he farmers of the County are urged to pur chase promptly if they wish to do so to the best advan tage. ...