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Down the utreaui, love, we are floating,
Floating alowly down the stream;
Scarce disturbing, with our floating,
Sleeping lilies as they dream.
Sleep, lilies! dream, lilies!
Underneath the heaven’s blue ;
For her hand, so soft and dimpled,
Reaches forth to gather you.
Little wavelets, dancing, wimpling,
Bear us onward all the while ;
And your maiden ch-eks are dimpling
As they blush toward a smile.
Sleep, lilies! dream, lilies!
Do not listen while I sue:
For her hand, so soft and dimpled, „
Shall forget to gather you.
I
Darling, let us float forever,
Geflklv, down JiOve's silver stream ; |
I^t us float, but let us never
Pluck the lilies as they dream.
Sleep, lilies! dream, lilies !
Dream of lovers young and true ; j
For her hand, so soft and dimpled,
Cannot, will not, gather you.
—J. Soule Smith.
By WALTER BESANT.
CHAPTER HL
HOW RALPH SOUGHT FORTUNE.
A young man’s walk from Wark worth
all the way bO London cannot fail to be
full of interest and adventure.
There were wagoners to talk with,
friendly hawkers, whom the people call
muggers, and faws, or tinkers, who are
too often robbers and pilferers; also far
mers, their wives and daughters, cattle
drovers, carriers, honest sailors, who
would scorn to rob upon the highway, on
their way to join ship, and pleasant little
country towns every eight or ten miles,
where one could rest and talk, and drink
a tankard of cool small beer. Then, as it
was early summer, when there are fairs
going on In many places, the roads In
some parts were full of the caravans and
the show people, whom Ralph found not
only a curious and interesting folk, but
also friendly, and inclined to conversa
tion with a stranger who was not a rival;
who was ready to offer a tankard; who
admired without stint or envy the pre
cious things they had to show, and who
watched with delight unbounded and be
lief profound, the curious tricks, arts,
artifices, and accomplishments by which
they secured a precarious livelihood.
Ralph walked with them along the road,'
and heard their stories. He also learned
some of the strange language in which
they talk to each other when minded not
to be understood by the bystanders.
When they came to their destination,
and set up their canvas booths he stayed,
too, and enjoyed the fun of the fair.
There wore lotteries also; you could put
in and draw everywhere all day long;
there were prizes of sixpence and prizes
of £10; he put in; sometimes he won,
but oftener he lost, which is generally the
way with sportsmen and those who wait
upon the Goddess of Chance. At this
Capua, or Paradise of Pleasures, which
was then, and Is still, called Grantham,
Ralph had well nigh taken a step which,
would have made his story much less In
teresting to us, though perhaps fuller 01
incident. For he made acquaintance—
beluga youth of Innocent heart, and apt to
believe in the honesty and virtue of every
body—with the company of players. Now
it happened, first, that the troop were
sadly in want of a young actor, if only to
play up to the manager's daughter; and,
secondly, that this young lady, who was
as beautiful as the day and as vivacious
as Mrs. Bracegirdle (she afterward became
a most famous London actress, and mar
ried an aged earl), cast eyes of favor on.
the handsotne lad, longed very much for
him to play Romeo to her Juliet, or
Othello to her DcSdemona, or any other
part in which the beauty of a handsome
woman is set off by the beauty of a hand
some fellow, a thing which very few act
resses can understand; they think, which
is a great mistake, that it is better for
thorn to bo the only well favored creature
on the staga Wherefore the manager
took Ralph aside privately, and offered
him refreshment, either ale, or rum bo, or
Barbadocs water, with tobacco if he chose,
and had serious conversation with him,
providing all his victuals, and those as
abundant as the treasury would allow,
and a salary—say five shillings a week, to
begin in a few months, as soon as he had
learned to act, and to teach him the rudi
ments, and the honor and glory of playing
principal parts, and his own daughter to
play up to, and a possible prospect of ap
pearing at Drury Lcne.
It was a tempting offer; the stage—even
the stage in a bam—seemed splendid to
the lad, the voice and manner of the man
ager were seductive; mere seductive still
was the voice of his daughter. When she
lifted her great eyes and met his he trem
bled and could not say her nay. When
she laid her pretty hand upon his, and
begged him to stay with them and be her
Romeo, what could he reply? Tet he re
membered in time that he was on his way
to seek his fortune; that the troupe were
obviously out at elbows, all horribly poor,
and apparently badly fed; that to fall in
love with an actress was not the begin
ning he had contemplated, and that Drusy,
for her part, would certainly not consider
a strolling actor’s life as the most honora
ble in the world. He took a resolution;
be would think no more upon those limpid
eyes; he hardened his heart; he would fly.
He did fly, but not before the young
actress, who was already beyond his own
age and ought to have known better, had
laid her arms around hi s neck and kissed
farewell with many tears, to her first love,
who would not love her In return. But
her father was not displeased, and said,
speaking more from a business point of
view than oat of paternal tenderness, that
nhe would act the better for the little dis
appointment, and that it does them good,
whon they are young, to feel something of
what they are always pretending. Said it
put backbone Into their attitudes and
real tears in their eyes. Nothing on the
*V> stop wfth (Asm and bo her Borneo.
so difficult as real tears, except a
which cannot be had for love or
Thus it happened that It was four or
five week, before Ralph got to London.
He arrived hr wav of . Hirlurate. He
reaenea tus top or Highgute cun at«in
the afternoon. Here ho sat down to rest,
end to look upon the city he had come Bu
far to see. He saw In the distance the
towers and steeples of London; his long
journey was done; the fortune he cams to
seek was—where was it? All the long
way from Warkworth it seemed to him
that when ha reached London he would
immediately find that thing known as
fortune in some visible end tangible form,
waiting to be seised by his strong young
hands. Yet now that he saw before him
the City of the Golden Pavement. It
seemed as if, perhaps—it was a chilling
thought—he might not know or recog
nize, or be able to seize this fortune when
he actually saw it. What is it like—
Good Fortune? In other words he began
for the first time to experience the cold
ness of doubt which sometimes falls upon
the stoutest of us. His cheek was by *hi«
time burned a deeper brown; his h«ni«
were dyed and tanned by Jhe June sun;
his coat and waistcoat were stained with
travel and with rain; his shoes were worn
through the soles; in his pocket jingled
the last two of his eleven guineas. When
they were gone, he reflected with dismay,
what would have to be done? But it was
not a time to sit and think. Every fort
une must have its beginning; every young
adventurer must make a start; every
Dick Whittington mr t enter the city of
London. He roee, seized his bundle, and
set off down the hill, singing to keep up
his spirits, with as much alacrity as if he
were only just starting ou his way from
Wark worth, and as if his heart was still
wanned by the recollection of his cousin’s
irmises.
The way from Hlghgate to London lies
along a pleasant road between tall hedge#.
On either side are fields and woods, and
here and there a gentleman’s seat or the
country box of a successful citizen. Pres
ently the boy reached Highbury, where
the road bends south, and he passed
Islington, with its old church and its nar
row, shady lanes thick with trees. On
his right he saw a great crowd in a gar
den, and there was music. This was Sad
for nobis feasting. And so he talked
until the lad’s brain reeled for thinking 0 f
all these splendors, and he grew sad in
thinking how far off Drusilla would be as,
one by one, all these grandeurs became
achieved.
Another thing he observed; that while
the husband talked in his confident and
braggart way, the wife, who was a thin
woman, sat silent and sometimes sighed.
Why did she sigh? Did she want to Uvs
on in obscurity? Had aha no ambition?
Than the merchant had filled and lit a
pipe of tobacco, and proceeded to tell
Ralph how he would have to begin upon
i this ambitious career in search of a fortune.
, First, he would have to be an apprentice.
• “I was myself," said Mr. Hethmington,
' "an apprentice, though who would think
it now?” As an apprentice he would
sweep and dean out the shop, open it in
the morning, and shut it at night; wait
upon the customers all day, run errands,
obey dutifully his master, learn the busi
ness, watch his master's interests, behave
with respect to his betters, show zeal in
the dispatch of work, get no holidays or
playtime, never see the green fields ex
cept on Good Fridays, take for meals what
might be given him, which would certainly
: not bo slices off the sirloin, and sleep
under the counter at night. In short, the
shop would be his workroom, his parlor,
his eating room, and his bedroom.
The boy listened to his instructions
with dismay. Was this the road to fort
une? Was he to become a slave for some
years? But—after? His apprenticeship
finished, it appeared that he might, if hs
could find money, open a shop and become
a master. But most young men, he
learned, found it necessary to remain in
the employment of their masters for some
years, and in some eases -tor the whole
term of their natural lives.
He did not consider that he had already
such a fortune as would, if laid out with
judgment, enable him to open a shop or
: to buy a partnership. He forgot at the
t&ne that he was the owner of Morwlck
MilL It seemed to him, being so young
marn- inis,
f~*at are tLAr
t • netimes com
w'th £100,000—ay,
Ur.t, hoy! So great a thii
this honorable company.”
The boy’s eyes showed no amotion. A
dull dog, indeed, he seemed to Mr. Silver-
top, net to tremble at the mere mention of
so vast a sum.
“Leave him here, my good friend." said
Mr. Sllvertop. “I have business, bnt I
will return and speak with him again. Hs
can walk in the hall and wait"
Mr. Hetherington went his way and
Ralph waited.
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Attorneys & Counselors at Law,
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leris Wells. Soon after this he arrived at, j “ d ^experienced, that he had run away
Clerkenwell Green, and so by a rna«A of'
streets, not knowing whither he went, to
Smithfield, where he found himself in the
midst <4 the crowd which fills all the
streets of the city from dawn till night.
It was 7 o'clock when he found him«Alf
At the place whither he was bound. He
had been wandering for an hour and a
half looking about him, and at last vent
ured to ask the way of a servant girl, who
seemed astonished that he should not
know so simple a thing as the most expe
ditious road to Cheapside, seeing that it
was only the other side of Paul’s. But
she told him, and he presently found him
self In the bread and wealthy street called
Cheapside.
The Leg and Star was on the south side,
between Broad street and Bow church.
It was a glover’s shop, and because it was
growing late, the boxes of gloves were
now taken from the window, and the ap
prentices were putting all away. Ralph
stopped and looked at the sign, then at
the letter—which was not a little crum
pled and travel stained—and again at the
sign. Yes, it must be the house, the sign
of the Leg and Star, in Cheapside.
At the door of the shop stood a tall and
portly man, between 60 and 60 years of
from his inheritance, and abandoned it to
Mathew. He, too, might therefore have
to remain in a master’s employment.
This was fine fortune, truly, to be a ser
vant all your days. And the boy began
already even to regret his cousin
Mathew’s blows and Barbara’s cruel
tongue.
His pipe finished, the merchant remem
bered that at 8 his club would meet, and
therefore left the lad with his wife.
“Boy,” she leaned over the table and
whispered eagerly as soon as her husband
was gone, “have you como up to London
without money to become a merchant?”
; "Indeed, madame,” he replied, "I know
not what I may become.”
"Then fly," ahe said; "go home again.
Follow the plow, become a tinker, a tailor,
. a cobbler—anything that is honest. Trade
, is uncertain. For ooe who succeeds a
dozen are broke; you know not, any mo
ment, but that you also may break. Your
fortune hangs upon a hundred chances.
Alas! if one of these foil, there is the
Fleet, or may be Newgate, or Marshalsea,
or Whitecross Street, or the Kingj.
Bench, or the Clink—there are plenty of
places for the bestowal of poor debtors—
for yourself, and for your wife and inno-
OSO. W L'.vnOAN
Ml * HY T. TH O.H I'SllN.
age, with ’large red cheeks and doubl.
chin. He was dressed in plain broad
cloth and tye wig, but he wore ruffles and
neckcloth of fine white linen laced, os be
came a substantial citizen. Ralph knew
it could be none other than Mr. Hether
ington, wherefore he took off his hat and
bowed low.
"What is thy business, young man?”
asked the master glover.
“Sir, I bear a letter from your honor’s
daughter, now staying at Warkworth, in
Northumberland. ”
"My daughter! Then, prithee, bey,
who ore you?”
"My name is Ralph Embleton, and"
"Thou art the son, then, of my old
friend, Jock Embleton? Come in, lad,
come in.” He seized the boy by the arm
and dragged him into the house and
across the shop to the sitting room at the
back. * "Wife! wife!” he cried. "Here is
a messenger from Drusy with a letter.
Give me the letter, boy. And this is
young Ralph Embleton, son of my old
friend and gossip, Jack Embleton, with
whom I have had many a fight in the old
days. Poor Jack! poor Jack! Well, we
live. Let us be thankful. Moke the boy
welcome; give him supper. Make him a
bed somewhere. What art thou doing in
this great place, lad? So the letter—ay!
the letter.”
He read the superscription, and slowly
opened it and began to read:
"Dear and Hon’d Parents : The
bairer of this is Rafe, who has run away
from eruell treetment, and wants to make
his fortune in London. He will tell yoa
that I am well, and that I pray for your
helthe, and that you Till he hind to Rafe.
Your loving and dutifuld’ter, Drusilla."
"So,” went on the merchant, "cruel
treatment. Who hath cruelly ill treated
thee, boy?”
"I have run away, sir," he said, "from
my cousin, Mathew Humble, because he
seeka every opportunity to do me a mis*
chief. And sines hs is my guardian there
la no remedy but to enduro or to run away."
"Ah, Mathew Humble, who bought my
form. Sam Embleton married his father’s
sister. Did your Uncle Sam leave Morwlck
Mill to Mathew?"
"No, sir; he left it to me."
"And Mathew is your guardian? Yet
the mill Is your own, and you have run
away from your own property? Morwlck
Mill is a pretty estate. It likes me not.
Yet yon would fain seek your fortune in
London. That is well. Fortune, my lad,
is only to be mads by men of resolute
hearts, like me.” Hs expanded as he
spoke, and seemed to grow two feet higher
•nd broad in proportion. "And strong
arms, like mine"—he hammered his chest
as if it had been an anvil—"and keen eyes,
like mine. Weak men fall and get tram
pled on in London. Cowardly men get
set on ona side, while the strong and the
brave march on. I shall be, without
next year, a common councilman,
men, clever men, brave men, boy,
I say, fro nr honor to greater honor. I
shall become alderman hi two or three
years, if providence so disposes. There is
no limit to the exalted ambitions of the
London citizen. You would climb like
me. You would be, some day, my lord
mayor. It is well. It does you credit. It
is a noble ambition."
Meantime a maid had been spreading
the table with supper, and, to say the
truth, the eyes of the boy were turned
upon the cold meats with so visible a
longing that the merchant could not
choose but observe- his hunger. So he
bade him sit and eat. Mow, while Ralph
devoured his supper, being at the moment
ono of the hungriest lads in all Stagland,
the honest glovar went to talking in
grand if not boastful language about him
self and his great doings. Yet, inexpert*
•need as he was, Ralph could not but
wonder, because, although the merchant
was certainly past 60 years of age, the
great things were all In the future. Hs
would become one of the richest mer
chants in London; hs would be lord mayor;
hs would make his daughter a great heir
ess; ha designed that she should marry a
lord at least. At this announcement
Ralph blushed and his heart sank. One
of the reasons, said the merchant, why he
kept her still in Northumberland was that
ha did not wish her to return home till
they were removed to a certain great
houao which he had in his bnt had
M&yiffjwahaaad She should go
would give suen -
tut *
i doubt,
Yet," said Ralph, "Mr. Hetherington
is not anxious.”
"He leaves anxiety,” she replied bit
terly, “to his wife.”
Then she became silent, and spoke no
more to the boy, but sat with her lips
working as one who conversed with her
self. And from time to time she sighed
as if her heart was breaking.
In the morning the merchant was up
betimes, end began again apon the glories
of the city.
"Art still of the same mind V he asked.
"Wilt thou be like Whittington and
Greaham and me, also one of those who
climb the tree?”
Then Ralph confessed with a blush—
which mattered nothing, so deep wss the
ruddy brown upon his cheek—that he
found city honors dearly bought at the
price of so much labor and confinement.
“Then,” said his adviser, in leu friend
ly tones, “what will yon do?"
Ralph asked if there wu nothing that a
young man may do besides work at a
trade or ait in# shop.
“Why, truly, yes,” Mr. Hetherington
replied with severity; “he may become a
highwayman, and rob upon the road, tak
ing their money from honest tradesmen
and poor farmers—a gallant life Indeed,
and so he aftl! presently hang in chains,
or be anatomized and set up in Surgeon's
Hall. There is the end of year fresh sir
for you.”
“But, with respect, sir,” Ralph per
sisted, “I moan in an honest way.”
"If he is rich enough he may be a scho
lar of Cambridge, and so take orders, or
he may become a physician, or a lawyer,
or a schoolmaster, or a surgeon, and go to
sea in his malestv’s shins and lead a door’s
ute, or a soldier and go a-ttgnuug
"Let me be a soldier,” cried the boy.
“Why, why? Bnt you must first get
his majesty’s commission, and to get this
yoa must first beg for letters to my Lord
This and my Lord That, and dangle about
great houses, praying for their influence,
and bribe the lackeys, and then perhaps
you'll never get your commission after
all.”
This wu discouraging.
"Rolling stonu, lad,” sold the gnat
merchant, "gather no moss. Better stand
quiet behind the counter, sweep out (he
shop, serve customers and keep accounts*
and perhaps some day be partner and
grow rich.”
But Ralph hung his head.
"Then how can I help thee, foolish boy?
Yet, because I knew thy father, and for
Dnzsy’s soke Stay, would you go to
India?”
To India! Little, indeed, of the great
doings in India reached the town of Wark
worth. Yet Ralph had heard the vicar
talking with Mr. Carnaby of Col. dive
and the famous battle of Plusy. To
tndlai His eyes flashed.
"Yu, sir; I would willingly go to
India."
"My worthy friend, Mr. Nathaniel 8il-
vertop, is in the service of the company.
Come, let us seek his counsel.”
They walked, the boy being much aston
ished at the crowd, the noiu, and the
never ceasing buaineu of ths streets,
down Cheapside, through the Poultry,
put the new Mansion house and the Royal
Exchange Into CornhlH, where stands ths
honorable East India company’s house, a
plain, solid building, adorned with pillars
of the doric order. Mr. Hetherington led
the way into a great hall, where was al
ready assembled a crowd of men who had
favors to ask of the directors, and finding
a servant hs sent his name to Mr. Silver-
'“W for nothing wu done in un
dignified hast# In this house, Mr. Silver-
top himself—a gentlemen of three sooro
and of grave appearance—descended the
stairs. To him Mr. Hetherington unfolded
his buslneu.
Here, he said, wu a young fellow from
Northumberland, heir to a mall and
pretty estate, but incumbered for three or
four yean to come with a guardian,
whose affection he appeared to have un
fortunately loot, ao that it would be wall
far both to remain apart; hut ha wu u
young gentleman of roving tutu, who
would fain see a little of the world, and
—but thie he whispered—sfbreve and bold
fellow.
Mr. SUvsrtop regarded the lad atten
tively.
"Our writera," ha said solemnly, "go
out on -small salaries. They seldom rise
ifegr* £4Qp or £W> » year alJtejMtfc
i J. J. WABU. K O. WOOD! 1
WARD & WOODS.
Attorneys A Counselors at Law,
DARLINGTON, 8. C.
Wil practice id *i! J'tuic it art Federal
Coiutz.’
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; lets (wrtnm-.ug t* t the buying, ;ell-1
j ing, renting «m le smg of teal emate.
I Any pari having Ini-iness in tin*
line would do well to call on the'
After an hour or so he saw Mr. Silver- : firm, who li.W: coii’nlot t-onu* of
top earning down the stairs again. He the most deaiftribV prepi riv in tl>*>
wu escorting, or leading to the door, or Town and County.
in soma way behaving in respectful and | _ . _
deferential fashion to a tall and splendid
gentleman, brave in scarlet, wearing a
sash and a sword and a gold laced hat. At
ths foot of the stairs, Mr, Silvertop bowed
low to this gentleman, who joined a little
group of gentlemen, some of them also in
scarlet. Hs seemed to be the chief awienj
them, for they all behaved to him with
the greatest respect. Then Mr. Silvertop
looked about in the crowd, and spying
Ralph, beckoned him to draw near «nd
speak with him.
"So,” said Mr. Silvertop, "you an the
lad. Yu, I remember." Ralph thought
it strange that he should not remember,
seeing that it was baton hour or two
since Mr. Silvertop had spoken last with
him. "You ore recommended by my
friend Mr. Hetherington. Well, I know
not—we ore pestered with applications for
our writerships. Every runaway—Ralph
blushed—"every out at elbows younger
son”—the great gentleman in scarlet,
who wu close at hand, here turned his
head and looked at the lad with a little
interest—“every poor curate’s bnt who
can read and cipher wants to be sent to
India.”
"You cannot, sir, ” said the gentleman
in scarlet, “send too many Englishmen to
India. I would that the whole country
wu ruled by Englishmen—yet not by
quill drivers."
He added the last words in a lower
voice, yet Ralph heard them
Mr. Silvertop bowed low, and turned
again to the boy.
“A writership," he continued, “is the
greatest gift that can be bestowed upon
a deserving lad. Remember that, and if
—but I cannot promise. I would oblige
my friend if I could—but I will not under
take anything. With my Influence—yet
I do not uy for certain; a writership is a
greater matter than yon seem to think—I
might bring thy case before the direct-
ora. Is thy handwriting fair, and thy
knowledge of figures absolute?"
Ralph blushed, because his handwriting
wu abort of the clerky standard.
•T thank you, sir," he said, “but I love
not writing. I would rather carry a
sword than a pen.”
"To, ta, ta,” replied Mr. Silvertop,
whose influence lay wholly in the mercan
tile department of the company. "We
waste our time. A sword! I know
naught of swords. Go thy ways, boy-
go thy ways. Is London city, think you,
a place for the carriage of swords! Go,
take the king's shilling, and join a march
ing regiment. I warrant you enough of
swords and bayonets."
Ralph bowed and tamed away sadly*
The gentleman in scarlet, who hod appar-
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Leaves Hartsville, 7.15 A. M.
Leaves Jovann, 7.40 “
Arrive at Floyd’s, 8.05 “
Making connection with the South
bound passenger train on the Cheraw
& Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd’s, 10.00 A. M.
Leave Jovann. 10.20 "
Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 "
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. &. D. R. R.
Extra train every Monday and Sat
urday connects with the North bound
passenger train on C. A. D. R. R.
Leave Floyd’s, 0.00 P. M.
Leave Jovann, 9.20 “
Arrive at Hartsville, 9.45 “
J. L. COKER.
, President.
FOR C. * D. AND C. ft 8 RAILROADS
Psasi out's Orrios )
C. & D. azbC. & B. RAILROADS, l
Charleston, 8.C., May 12,1889. J
Oa and after May 12, ths trails sn
these roads will run as follows (Suds/ sx*
oepted) every dsy:
DOWN TXAUT.
Leave Wadesboro....
Bennetts
Morven’a 6.86
McFarland.
.6.60
Will practice in Ciicuit Court* ami
Supreme Court of Soutli Carolina.
Prompt attention given to all bu
siness, and special attention given
to collections.
a. W. BOYD, GKO W. BROWS
BOYD & BROWN-
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Office in rear of Darlington Nation- j
al Bank.
DARLINGTON C. H., & 0.
PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
ALL BUSINESS.
. Feb. 8, '87-ly.
of
corded tha firm.
-O-
GREAT RUSH TO MANNE’S
-A.TTC'Z’IOIfcT Q-OOIDS I
THIRTY PER CENT. LESS THAN ANY HOUSE IN TOWJI.
September 12, 1889.
W- F. DARGAN.
Attorney at Law,
Darlington, - - • g. C-
Office up staiis, over tin* Post office
March 28, ; 89 ly.
~c. p. DMMn,
Attorney at Law
and Trial Justice.
Pruciices in the Uiiile,! Slates Court and
in the 'Mb and 5tb circuits Prompt alien - \ To Save their earnings.
(£l)i’ ihink ojf Parliii(|ti!ii,
HAS OPENED A
SA.T7"X3SraS IDISFARiTIVIENX,
And from ami after this dato will receive deposira of One Dollar and
tipwaids, and pay quarterly interest on the same, at the rate of
five per cent, per annum, under tegulations to be made
known at the Bank. This is a favorable
opportunity for
Farmers,
Mechanios,
— and —
Factory Operatives,
Leave Cheraw 7.80
Cash’s .-7.46
Society Hill 8.02
Dove’s 8.22
Darlington 8.42
Palmetto ..8 65
Arrive at Florence 9 16
vr TBAIN,
Leave Florence 8.10
Palmetto • •••••••••••••••• ••• 8 26
Darlington H.85
Dove’s 8.62
SooietyHill 9.12
Cash’s 917
LeaveCheraw 9.48
MoFarlan 10.08
Morven’s 10.20
Bennett’s 10.85
Lake Wadesboro 11.00
Freight Train going up.
Leave Florence 7.00 am
Arrive Darlington . 7.45 a m
Freight going down
Arrive Darlington 8.00 p m
Leave Darlington 3.50 p m
Arrive Florence , 4.10 pm
A. F. RAVENEL, Pres.
G H Master Transportation.
P M
P M
Clerks,
Laborers,
tion lo ,il business enlrusted to him.
Ofiioo in Exchange Street, next the Dak-
lington News Office.
For Rent.
J. L. COKER,
President.
Darlington, S.C., June 18,1889
BRIGHT WILLIAMSON,
Cashier.
JSTEW SaHEJDUXJB
ORTH EASTERN RAILROAD.
Ohaelxstos, 8. C., May 12, 1889.
On and after this date the following
schedule will be rua s
GOING SOUTH.
No. 27, Drily.
Leave Floreaoe
Leave Kingstree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
No. 23, Drily.
Leave Florence
Leave Kingetree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
No 68.
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
# 1 85 a m
2 29 a a
2 60 a a
2 60 a a
600am
•9 80 a m
10 65 aw
11 20 a ■
11 20aa
1 30 a a
•7 60 P. M.
9 80 p.
Two comfortable offices, situated
down-stairs, on the Public Square.
Apply to
DARGAN & THOMPSON.
Nov. 28, ’89
Ralph bowed and tamed atcay sadly,
ently been listening to the conversation,
followed him to the doors with thought
ful eyes.
"A lad who would rather handle a
sword than a pen,” he said. "Are there
many such lads in this city of trade and
greed?"
They looked at the Leg and Star that
day for the return of the young Northum
brian in time for dinner. But he came
not; nor did he come at night; nor did he
ever coma No one knew whither he hod
gone or what had become of him, and
much Mr. Hetherington feared that in
this wicked town he had been enticed by
some designing wretch to his destruction.
(To be continued.)
FI45BEMCE
IT Ml HOI STOEE!
To the Citizens of Darlington
and Vicinity:
I take this method of thank
ing you for the very liberal pa
tronage heretofore extended to
me by you, and respectfully so
licit a continuance of the same.
I call your attention to mv
large and well selected stock
of Ladies’, Gents’, Misses and
Children’s Boots and Shoes ; not
surpassed by any other dealer
in tne State. I call special at
tention to my
Custom Made
BOOTS and SHOES,
which I warrant to fit and give
perfect satisfaction.
CHAS. BULTMAN.
Dec. 19, 89—6m
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Red
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FOR
GENTLEMEN.
LADIES.
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W. L. DOUGLAS
83 SHOE
S3 SHOE FOR
«6t in the woi
*.60 BXTRA VALUK CALF SHOE.
*.*5 WORKINGMAN’S 8HOK.
2.00 and *1.75 BOVS’ SCHOOL SHOES.
Fraudulent when mv Dime and price are not stamped
Mtbottom. W--UDOUGLAS. Brockton,Hass.
For sale by A. J. BROOM. '
March 7, ’89.
FREMONT
IF. IE. IsTOR^dlEITT,
FIRE ^
iaxnSXma,KTOE3
-A^a-EHSTT-
RBPRE8BNTS TEN OFTHb LARGEST AND OLDEST COMPA-
NIES IN THE WORLD.
Insures all classes of property, including Gin Houses, in any part ol
the County. Office over DARLINGTON NEWS building.
Decemmber 6, 1888.
Train No. 63 takes No. 63 South of Lanes
Train on C & D HR conn eta at Flor
ence with No 23 Train.
GOING NORTH.
No. 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Leave Kingstree
Arrive Florence
No. 14,
•12 26 am
2 46am
2 60 a a
8 10 am
4 20am
•4 80 p a
6 28 p a
6 28 p u
U46 p a
7 66 p a
7 <0 a m
9 i0 a <n
Read these Prices.
Call at
Leave Charleston
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Leave Kingstree
Arrive Florence
No. 52, Daily.
Leave Charleston
Arrive Lanes
• Dally, f Daily except Sun
Train No. 52 takes No. 62 North Lancs.
Train No. 14 connects st Flor with
Train on C & D R R for Cheraw ..and
Wadeeboro, N. C.
Nos. 62 runs through to Columbia
via Central R R of 8 C.
Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wilmington,
N. C., making close couneotion with if. A
W R R for all points aorth.
.J R. KENLY, J. F. Diviza,
Supt. Trans. G en ’i sup’L
T. M. Emerson, Gen’i Pass. Agt.
Hast Fill Corps of Teachers
.EAR
VILIIMTOH COLUMBIA AM AUCUSTA BA1LB0AI
May 12, 1889.
GOING SOUTH
No. 28.
J
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
TBORorcn
8TCDF.
Its location is flue; patronagv
law: growth healthful and
steady.
EXPENSES MODERATE
Write for Catalogue.
CAPT. W. H. HAND, Principal,
FREMONT. N. C.
NO MORE EYE-GUSSES
*0 jSSS, WU
MODE EYES.
MITCHELL’S
Eye-Salve
A Certain, Safe, and Effective Remedy for
SOUL WEAK, & INFLAMED EYES,
Producing Long-Sightednett, 4 Restor
ing the Sight of the Old.
Cures Tear Drupe, Granulatlone, Stye
Tumors, Red Eyra, Matted Eye Lathee,
in mMcnetnciuuD in rnanmem.
Atan, equally efficadona whs# used In ether
wbeiyveriafemmeiion exists. JU$CMJLk , a
•dA STBmay be need to advantefe.
B#ld fcy #11 Drafflsts #t 33 Cents.
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Celumbia
Leave Wilmington
Leave Mario#
Arrive Florence
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
No. 60.
No. 27
No 62
No 68
*6 26 p a
9 88 p a
10 30 • a
8.20 # «
4.40 a a
4 40 a a
6. 15 # a
*10.10 n a
<2.40 p ■
I 20 a a
flO 33 a a
11 66 p m
f9 20 a
10
28 a i
No 52 runs through from Charlottes via
Central R R.
Leaving Lanes 9 15 A M., Manning 8 68
A M.
Train on C & D R R connects al Flcrtnes
with No 68.
GOING NORTH.
No. 61.
ctTMaa,
& Go.
Darlington, S, C,
September 26,1889—tf.
1,000 yards assorted Worsteds at 10 cts, worth 20 to 40cts;
A full line Cashmeres at 121 and 15 cts. We arestil I run*
ning our famous 25 cts. yard wide Cashmere in all shades
more popular than ever this season. 45-inch Henrietta at 50
cents. A large line of Biack Goods consisting of Cashmeres,
Henriettas and Imported Reps from 15 to $1 per yard.
A well selected stock of Ladies’and Misses’Wraps consisting
of Jackets, Modjeskas and New Markets,
A specially large line of Staple Dry Goods, and Notions at
prices that move them rapidly.
SHOES.
Our line of Shoes is large and complete and well adapted to
the wants of the people. We continue to maintain
our reputation for selling solid goods.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Our success in the Gents’ Furnishing Goods Depattment war
rant us in the belief that our Clothing and Hats
Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ suit the people,
both as to quality and price. Leave Florence
Leave Marion
We carry always in stock a full line of Hardware, Crockery,
Tin, Harness, &c.
GROCERIES.
The Grocery Department is large and kept well supplied, at
Roek-bottom prices.
hardware.
I daily except Sunday 4.40 P. M.. arrive
At the Hardware Store, Managed by J. H. Early, is kept
Stoves, Sewing Machines, Pumps; Gins, Belting Steam
z,eave Columbia.
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
No. 78.
Leave Florence,
Leave Marion
Arrive at Wilmington,
No. 69
Leave Sumter
Arrive Floreaee
Leave Colombia
Arrive Sumter
*10 35 p u
11 6ftp *
11 68 p a
1 15 aa
4 86 a a
6 20am
8 86 a ir
f6 87 p a
7 60 p a
•5 20 pa
6 82p a
•8 16 pa
8 69 p a
U 60 p a
•Daily, fDrily exeept Sunday.
No 68 rune through u Charieeton. via
Central R R, arriving Manning 7 04 P L
| Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 80 P M.
No 69 conueete at Florvaeo with CAD
i train for Cheraw and Wadetboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 mahe close eonaectien at
I Wilmington with W A W R R for all point)
North.
Train on Florenoo R. R. leave Pee Dee
| daily exeept Sunday
No. 68,
No 14
*T*^*r*_i*z4r v
FOl sale at Dr. J. A. Boyds.
Engines, &c M in fact everything that comes
. under the head of machinist’s supplies.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY-
October 81,1889. ti |
A. M.
Train ou Manchester A Auguei# R. E
leaves Sumter drily exeept Sunday. !!.«
A. M., arrive Pinewood 12.01 P. M R-
turning Ie#ve Pinewood 19 80 P M . A •
rjve Sumter 1.30 P, M.
JOHN P. DIVINEi
ij. R. KENLY. Sup’t Trene.
I T M. ElfMIMON, 0e«. Pm