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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.
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