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Puctrij. The Proviuee ot Woman. A* some fair violet, loveliest of the ' ide, lone- glade, (Shells its mild fragrance on the ly shade, Withdraws its modest head from pul- lie sight, >„r courts the sun, norneokatheglare of light, the new with him, that was where l would find him. So tho next morni'tg, at 0 o’clock, I took the train at iiuena Vista station Should some rude hand profanely dare stools to the apparently secure retreat intrude. And hear its beauties from its native wood, Imposed abroad, its la nguid colors (ly, and m their cigars, they began to talk in Its form decays, and all its odors die; . low tone. It,,. So woman, horn to dignify retreat, Unknown to flou ish, and unseen be great; To give domestic life its sweetest charm, With softness polish, and with virtue warm ; Fearful of fame, unwilling to be known Should seek but Heaven’s applause and her own. Hannah More, 1 teet on me rail an attitude said to is? a wen of nun; ne was nan.i m glove- 1 ■ -r : »i;t, whs marneu u> mm favorite one with Americans, and which w ‘ t ^ ^ 10 prcRiiicnt. and he was at tluit three or tour years ago, ia New Zealand. moment out in Pachuca, 8ii;«‘riuteuding I hadn’t a word to sav -1 understand he the Put« n 8 Up of Oio skw* machinery In , ms into his'propertv,’said she. mmo. If I had any busmess . WeU> 1J( to tliat , h he ! lias; but lie has_ refused pomt blank to havo anything to do with it.' She turned to Omeltusco, and then by diligence anii 1 wldt* and looked at me very sharp, horse car to Pachnca, which I reached at ‘What do you mean?’ she cried out. Just, sundown, dead tired, and chock full of j what I tei! you,' said 1, and then I went dust, and a precious cold, disagreeable, on and gave her the storv of mv visit to shabby hole Pachuca is. and I don't care fun, " “Rnt I'wn*intsinwa* i i r "Well, that seemed to iloor her, at uut i was on business, and when I o ^, , , , . , , , learned that Mr. Valentino was camping b t ’ U Le Pt makingexciunanbons. and out about five miles above I hiredamulo f aj in ? ‘ u liersclf, ar.,1 biting then and there, and a black fellow to | K ' r *‘P E - * l ' vas plain she didn’t know show me tho way; and by nightfall I i what to make of it any more than 1 did. had him!’’ any person who lias stu.oed the circula- tion of the blood and its action on the brain will gladly put himself into. The window, it should lie added, was pro tected by a wooden blind with fine slats not noticeable from without. The iKu.se which had caused the bearded gentleman to break olf so ab ruptly in Ids monologue had boen caused by the advent of two persons with camp which the narrow strip of deck already alluded to afforded. Having established themselves there to their satisfaction, ill FROM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYRNES. Py JULIAN HAWTHORNE, Author of “The Great Bank Robbery," “An American Penman," Eto. [Copyright by O. 1L Dunham, and published, through special arrangement by the American Press Association with Cassell & Co., New York and London ] CHAPTER XVII. A HUNTER’S YARN. N a warm even ing in October the steamship Pil grim, of the New York and Fall River line, had just left her dock at tho former place and was on i her way up the sound. A rather stout but actively made man, with curly red hair and side whisk ers, and r a t li e r prominent gray eyes, mounted the gangway from below, and stood near the door of the saloon. He liad just taken a cigar from Ids waistcoat pocket, and was in the act of cutting off the end of it with his penknife, when a tall per sonage with bony features and a thin neck came In through tho door and con fronted him. Ho was about to pass on. but, at a second glance, stoppedand said, as if to himself: “Henry Clifton.’’ Tho red haired man turned sharply. "Bob Stapleton, by jingo!" ho exclaimed. a low tone. But although the blind of tho bearded gentleman’s stateroom was shut, the window itself was open; and ns ho had reason to supi>ose that the con versation was going to be of particular importance to himself he took caro to leave tho window as it was, and even to sit down beside it. As tho reader will already have surmised, tho speakers were the two gentlemen to whom wo have al ready been introduced—Henry Clifton and Bob Stapleton. “You went first to New Zealand, eh?’’ Stapleton was saying. “How happened your man—Valentine do you call him?— I to be there?” “He was the second son, don't you see? and consequently, after he’d run through tho money his father gave him, ho had only himself to fall back on. So he started for New Zealand to mako bis fort une at sheep farming. When I got there he bad been gone tho better part of a year or more. Tho sheep farming had not turned out very well, but he had got a sum of money somehow, and had gone off to enjoy it; whether he would come back again, and where he had gone, no one could tell mo. You may ho sure that if ho had known that Ids elder brother was going to die, and let him into full possession of an estate worth throo-quarters of a million of dol lars, ho would have left his address.” “It’s a most curious thing,” observed Mr. Stapleton, philosophically, “how some men will run after a good thing all their lives and never catch it, and an other man will run away from a good tlung all his life, and never let it catch “Well, as 1 was saying,” Mr. CUfton continued, “this Mr. Valentine—as I call him—liad loft for parts unknown, and my business was to liud out where that was. I thought it all over, and made up my mind tliat America was about the most likely place, for ho wouldn't be likely to go back to England, and, being of a roving disposition, and never hav ing visited the States, that was naturally | tho first place he’d think of. And when I a man goes to America he’s pretty cer- j tain sootier or later to fetch up in New York. So it was in New York that I figured 1 should find him. But bcforeT started I thought it would bo as well to j mako the thing certain by sending on a cable message, addressed to certain par ties in Now York that you may have ; heard of, asking whether my man was ! there. Sending telegrams half round CHAPTER XVIII. A DILEMMA. ND go you hand ed him over the deeds of his es tate, and that’s the end of the 4 story?" said kJ Stapleton interro gatively. “YouTo going a bit too fast,” the other replied. "Tho story U just going to begin; what I’ve told you is merely by way of explain ing tho situation. After chasing a man half round the world, and a little more, you don’t expect to get through your business with him in five minutes. When I first saw him lie was smoking a cigar by a firo that was built outside of one of them adobe huts, and drinking a stuff they call pulque, which is the near est they can get to whisky in that coun try, and pretty poor stuff it is. Well, 1 stepped up to him and says 1, ‘Good evening. Mr. ’(givinghim his name, you understand) ’for I am told that you aro that gentleman II? looked up at me, and I said to myself tliat I laid made no mistake. He had on a Mexican scrape and a wide brimmed bat; but his figure and face answered well enough to my description of him. though instead of side whiskers he had a mustache and chin board, as if he meant to bo a Mexi can through and through. “‘Yes,’ says he, looking in mo. and have you any business with me?’ '“Well,’says 1.'1 think I may say 1 have, since I've come some fifteen thou cand miles to find you. lie stopped a hit and then said. From England. Oh?' ‘You are right, sir, said 1; ‘but before 1 go further, and to be sure there's no mistake, 1 must ask you to be kind enough to give me an account of yourself - your family and so forth—so that 1 may know you arc the man I’m scut to see, and no other.’ 'And what if 1 refuse?’ said lie. ‘Then,’ said I, ‘all I’ll have to do is to go back where I came from; though 1 may jumping up from the table. ‘I must see him, and'— 'Speak of an angel, madam,’ says I; ‘here he is!’ and sure enough, by tho funniest chance in the world, in walked Mr. Valentine into the patio at that moment. I don’t think he was over- pleased at the meeting; but it was too late to get out of it, so ho came up; and j I noticed lie only glanced at tho lady, as if she was some one he had never seen before; then he gave me good day, and took my hand. It was a bit awkward, I said, T suppose you will wish to con verse with your wife alone, sir; I will leave 'you.' ‘My wife!’ says ho; T was not aware there was such a person!’ Ts not this lady your wife?’ cried I Ho stared at her like a man astonished, and then at me. T never saw her till this moment,’ said ha 'Come, sir,’ said I, T itavo just seen the certificate of her mar riage with you.' 'Oh, it's all a mistake,' put in tiie lady. T was never married to this gentleman; I never saw him; I am tho wife of Mr. Valentine.’ 'Well, and this gentleman is Mr. Valentine,' said I. Tie may have the same name. At Hie Gas Ofiler Wimloir. “Anything now this year for the poo- ! pie in the way of gas meters?’’ asked a subdued looking citizen at one of the windows of the gas office on Dearborn and Hake streets. The man on the inside, whose long at tention to duty at that post has made him look haughty, tried to thaw out in front of the inquiry. “You may say,” he replied, as if he were conferring a favor, “that our gas meters will run this year as usual— which is to say, all right. And let me say another thing. There has been a good deal of complaint in the year gone, at this very window, and to this very person now speaking, sir, that wo have rendered bills to people for gas who were out of town and who had nol lighted a burner in six weeks. They have come to us and exclaimed with ait of triumph, sir, that they had us at last. A sort of ah-ha business, you know, like j the villain in the first act of the play.” Then the man at the window paused, \ took a fresh grip on his breath and re sumed: “You may say to these deluded peo ple that a certain amount of gas is forced through the meter, any way. and if it isn’t burned it will leak, and ibt register niarj's it up just as if it wen burned. So you see that the gas com pany is not a robber after all. Tell that to tho people.” The man without gave a longipg look and gasped: “Then there is no hope?” “You can take out the meter,” sale tho wretch inside, as he resumed hi> work of compounding.—Chicago Trib j nnc. & Lide. * ifiifxYslkx*! BooMers and MRHNGTOtj, S. G. Purpose conducting tin establishment tliat will l Darlington County at the stand next door Drug Store. be a credit to o Dr. Boyd’s Schedule of the Hartsville R. R. Hahtsvillk. 8. C., Dec. ’ 9. DAILY MIXED THAI Leaves Hartsv^le, 6.45 A.M. leaves Jovaun, 7.20 “ , Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.45 “ i Making connection with the South ; bound passenger train on the Cheraw A: Darlington Railroad. RETURNING. Leave Floyd's, 10.00 A. M. Leave Jovann. t0.20 “ Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 “ This train waits two hours, if necessa ry, for the North bound freight train on C. ii. D. K. R. J. L. COKER. President. FOR C. k D. AND C. & 9. RAILROADS A full line of Stationery and School- Books always on hand. 1 jftW Blanks in great variety. -0- -0- but he is another person altogether,' said she. 'As to that,'said I, 'you mustsottlc it between you: Mr. Valentine's papers ire all correct, and there is only one estate in England with the name tliat his boars. But 1 have proviso, cried the lady, ‘that I am the wife of the heir of that estate; and if this gentleman says he is the heir. I denounce him as an im postor!’ “At that, 1 looked at Mr. Valentine He had kept his eyes on tho lady all the whilo, with a sort of perplexed expres sion; but now he smiled very quietly, and said be, 'I think I have heard of this lady before. 1 wish to say r.otluag against her. She seems to be in a dilem ma from which there is no way of extri- i eating her. If sho wishes to lay a claim to tho estates, sho can do so only by ac knowledging mo as her husband. But | you have just heard us both declare that we have never seen each other before. But she also declares mo an impostor. ; Suppose 1 am, slie must find the real man before she can profit by the Inheritance. - If I am not ho, where is he? Grant, on tiie other hand, that I am he, and this lady is my wife; I still decline to touch a penny of the hundred and fifty thousand pounds; and what I will not accept she The IJest Wearing Leather; But very few people who wear Cordo van shoes have any idea where tin | leather bearing that name con es from This is tho place to buy your ledgers and blank books of all kiad hence the question is often asked, “What i tell you that if you arc the gentleman in S f n ' 10 ‘ , 6, ' ar0 ' That is lo K l0 and ^ question it will be your loss, and a big both, I believe?* uouDiapt^on, juigu. , tho carth costs money, Bob; butitdoesn’t They shook hands evidently P^ cost quite as much as to go yourself, let the encounter, eyeing each other all [ a , one the tlm8 and ttl0 , vear and t<?ar ... at over, us if to make sure that no port of either was missing. “Well, and what have you been doing with yourself these three years past?" inquired ho of the red hair, who an swered to tho name of Clifton. “Let’s see; it was hi Liverpool I saw you last, wasn't it? You were after that forging Bang.” “Yes, and I got ’em," responded the other, who liad been addressed as Bob Stapleton. “It was a good job; I’ve liad nothing better since. But what brings you over here?" “Oh, a private affair—something par ticularly choice,” replied Clifton, sticking his cigar in his mouth. “All expenses paid and twenty pound a month.” “Hullo! That’s not bad. A hundred dollars and expenses. What Is it? Is Scotland Yard after the Fenians again?” “No, no. I don’t belong to tho Yard any more; doing business now on my own feet. I’m engaged on a case involv ing a hundred and fifty thousand pounds —seven hundred and fifty thousand of your money.” “Great Scotti A robbery?” “No; no such common business. A lost heir!" “A lost heir? That sounds good! Come, we’ve got the evening before us; suppose you spin tho yarn.” “Humph! I'm not so sure about that,” returned Clifton, scratching his whiskers thoughtfully. “This isn't tiie sort of story that ono tells to everybody. How ever,” ho added, “you’re not everybody, though I suppose you consider yourself somebody; at all events, if you promise to keep it dark, I fancy I can trust yoa But let's go into some quiet corner—as it's a warm evening, suppose wo sit out side, where we can smoke. I have cigars enough, and this yarn will probably last out more than one of them.” As they passed out of tho door, a gentleman who liad been sitting in a chair not far off, witli his hat drawn down over his nose, and who had seem ingly been asleep, rose quietly from his seat and proceeded to tho door of a state* room a little way forward of tho paddle box. He entered the rotim and locked tho door after him; then ho breathed a sigh of relief. Ho took off his hat and looked at his reflection in the mirror. It showed the countenance of a man be tween 20 and 80 years of ago—perhaps nearer the latter ago than the former— tbs lower part of which was thickly covered with a brown beard, cropped short at tho sides and round tho throat, but allowed to grow to a point on the chin. The forehead, cheeks and nose w;ro deeply bronzed by the sun, giving a peculiar appearance to a pair of hand some blue eyes. The hair was cut short; any one would have taken the head for tliat of ti Frenchman. This idea would have been confirmed when tho gentle man put across his nose a pair of tinted eyeglasses, mounted in gold. He re garded himself critically. “Yes," ho muttered, in the undertone which people uso when conversing with themselves, "it's a good get up, consider ing tho simplicity of tho materials. No one can say I am disguising myself; and yet I doubt if my own mother—God bless her!—would ncognize mo at the first glance, though my sister might. I must have iiccn intended by nature for an actor; my features lend themselves so readily to a disguise. At one time I am an American; then an Englishman; now a Frenchman; to-morrow 1 may attempt a Turk or a Russian. But what an ex- tranrdhmry piece of Lid luck that tiiat fellow Clifton hi ion Id la* on this steamer! Docs he know that I am on board? Hardly And yet, w hat is he hero for? It must lie on tliat same business; and In that business I am concerned, how ever unwillingly Perhaps lie has come to look up my record. Confound him, why can’t he let me alone! I shall have a hard enough time of it w ithout him. Of course lie will go straight to Insiiector Byrnes, and when the inspector flnils out that I am not—wliat’s that?" In order to answer this question, it must lie observed that the state room occupied by the bearded gentleman was an "outside" one; its window opened on tiie water, or rather on a narrow strip of deck which intervened between the rail and the wall of the state room itself. This strip of deck was just wide enough to admit of a person sitting there, with his shoulders acainst the wall and his loss, too, not to let me know it." “ ‘As to that,’ he says, '1 don't know that you can give me anything I care to have, whatever you may have brought; but if you want to know my history 1 always carry my (iu|ieis about with mo, and I’ve no objection to your looking tiiein over.' And with that h» took a wallet out of his pocket, and handed it to me. I opened it and examined the papers one a fter the otlier 'They seem all right, sir,' 1 said, ‘and I Mipjiose 1 that everything is “However, expenses being paid,” said Bob. “That’s all very well, but parties em ploying one like to have a good account of their money; and a good recommenda tion is sometimes worth more than cash in hand. Well, 1 didn’t look for an an swer inside of a week or ten days; but forty-eight hours after I had sent off the dispatch tho landlord of my hotel came [ may as well take it up to mo and told me tliat lie believed I correct and regular:’ so then I went on was looking for Mr. Valentine, and that and told him what had happened, how a man had just arrived from Panama ids brother wjis dead, and lie the heir of who had met a party going by that name the property. He heard it all with a in Mexico some six weeks before, and ho sort of strange look on his face; and thought likely he'd be there yet i told when I got through at liirt he said him to bring the man around, and he nothing at all. He got up and took a came and I had a talk with him. turn up and down, smoking Ids cigar; i “Hs had seen Valentine, sure enough; but at last he comes back, and nays he, I made up my mind as to that. He de- Who's the next heir after me?' scribed him as near as could be: for “1 didn t see just what that had to do though I had never seen him myself 1 »'ith it; but I said I supposed it would be liad all the points about him from those Ids cousin or whatever relative wasnear- who had, and a photograph taken four est his own blood. ‘Well, says he, chuck- or five years before. Tho fellow said that big away his cigar, ‘whoever lie is, he ; Valentino had come to Mexioofrom New ma ) have it. I m very well satisfied as York, after being wrecked in a big gale I am . an( i ! won t have anything to do at St. Thomas, and a friend of his—1 11 with it,’ Those were Ids very words, and , call dm Percy—was drowned in tiie you may suppose I was a bit surprised. | same storm.” ‘You won't have anything to do with a : “You call him Percy, do you?" in- hundred and fifty thousand pounds?' terposed Mr. Stapleton, “and ho was sa >’ s L 'Not with that hundred and drowned in the St. Thomas hurricane? lifty thousand, at any rate, said lie. And what might ids other name be?” 'Uut what are you going to do j .... . • • ., . . ,, about it?’ says I; ‘the property is 1 “I m not giving naries; I in telling you , ... * i 1 .. . „ ? ,, yours, and its entailed, and-you cant a story, returned Mr. Clifton curtly. T , „-m , .A ,, ,, UmL i, ii • 11. ,, • , get rid of t. ‘Oh, don ttrouble yourself "Tliat sail right; aametbing occurred 0 . ... . . ’ ... . 1 . i i fu J, „n „„ i „ „!„i,(.„ about that, said bo, with a laugh. It to my mind, thats all and a mighty , , , , ... , , „• ,, 7 A won t be buried in tiie ground. And if good story it is you ro telling, rejoined , , , p. J / ,,r, „ tho worst comes to tiie worst bow do the other aflnb.y. “So Mr. Valentino ... „ I x • jij i „■> you know that I am tiie tight man after i went over to Mexico, did he? And what ° . , ... hah V' all? I have got tho papers and I am ,i°, f!" e , ,. i „ ( f called I ly tliat name; but you yourself "Well, he d brought some letters, so it ■',.*' , i . ’. , . 7. . ,, „ . said tliat you never saw me before; and seems, introducing mm to tho president , y • . i , ,, 6 ,, „ , . „ . you cou d not swear that I am not some- and some other swells and he handed ( , , , . ,., . , „ “ . j i 1a t „*,.i„ Wwly else. I should have to go to Eng- em in, and was received in good style. , ; . . ., . .. _ ’ , . . . ? ,j land in any case to prove my identity. He gave em to understand that ho d / * i * aai„ But I prefer to stay here, and tha* s the come to settle, and grow up with the . . , , * end of it” coun 17, 80 o apea , , “It was the queerest case ever I heard “One thing led to another, and at i didn ' t know what to make of hey got talking about mmes; and with ^ j ^ ^ am] and a niod that ho president gave him a guide, and wlth him for an ll0ur and moro , , )Ut sent him off up to a place called Pachu- n , ^ ade a bit of dif . ca, about sixty or seventy miles north of - ° TT ., . J j u a ~ Terence. Ho wouldn t have tiie property the city. He moused about there—he . , , , . * * , *; , J ... . . . ^ at any price, and he .didn t care what knew something of mining, it ap- # •*. T £ . » °„ .1*. came of it. I gave it over, at last, for pears—and examined tho mines that .... , . b , , • , 4 • 1 i • .v . it the time being, and passed tho night in were working, and some others that had ...... . 1 t 4 • f i • , . 0 ’ j . * . * « t „ the hut; the next morning I tried luni been given up; and at last he fixed on a / . . u «.• * u-i. # a *1 „„„ . again,, but ho was as obstinate as ever. bit of ground where there wasnt any .. • ... . ... , mine at all; but he took a fancy to it W^, I didn t believe yet that ho meant for all that, and went back to Mexico to a 1 Ue said so 1 made up my mind to see about getting possession of it. He S lvo blm a b,t ‘ ,lore ro .f-. 1 told hi . m 1 managed things very cleverly, and got two> ^ d f et him } understand tUat if he o swe ® ®re , _ , ., , wanted to change his mind he'd have an he wanted to let them into a good thing, . .. .. . .. . , and w ould bo satisfied with a very small opportunity ; and then I said good day share himself, and would take all the androd f ° of ' * 'T , ’ , ° trouble of looking after the business off “ d P ut «P at the hotel and tl.ouglit . their hands into the bargain. So what a ‘‘ ov ^ ; bu { ‘ho more I thought about did he do but raise a company, and the ‘t the less I could make R out. If he into viiui m , c and jf ( 10 wns an impostor, who had pointed him manager, and tho firet tests somebow raana d to t hold of the te made showed a bigger percentage of man , 8 and to 1K . rtiunato him silver than had been known In that then f ‘ hat on ral l . tll could hig neighborhood for a hundred years. objec t bo if not to get tho property? If "That was the news my informant J hi that , vould tbo stra t brought mo; he said all Mexico was talk- cag J Q of lhe twQ ing of it, and that Mr. Valentine s pick- ,.j b:ld tack from Pachuca just a tags, though they might be smaU, com- week whcn j wa3 t0 | d that there was a patatively speaking, were likely to stand ladv , in the i 10U3e _ au English lady-that him in a cool hundred thousand doUars wanted to seo me . Thinks I. ‘Now,what | a year, which is enough to keep a man mcan y i brushed myself up a off the parish.” bit and went down to find out She was j “Yes, I should think It might, Mr. gating at a table in tho patio, with a cup Stapleton assented. “And that s the way of teJ1 in front of hcr y lie was si good | it is in this world, Henry Clifton; luck woman, and us I judged might goes dead against a man for years mid b;) under 30 years old. years, and no let up, and then all of a ra y bow, and she asked me to 1 sudden, for no reason that ever anybody ^ ^.ted After a little Bilk, says she. can find out, his brother dies and leaves j ir3r -- u b^ve been inquiring after Mr. him a million In England, and ho goes valentine’-giving Lis full name, vou i to Mexioo and coUars a mine worth a undcr£ tand. I told hcr that 1 hod. Did i hundred thousand a year. The million flnd aK ' uod B i ie . 1 did,' said I. ain’t enough, and the mine ain’t enough; £ he 8Comed a bit excited or anxious, and ; he must have’em both; that’s the way j to liavo my own ideas; hut I of the world every timel' wasn't prepared for what sho said next. Mr. CUfton accepted this statement .j wUh vou to know ibat i an) bi» wife,’ without comment and went on with his ghc ^ . ant . w luitovcr is his business is rtory- m inc also.' ‘I am bound to inform you, “As you may suppose, I lost no time I said at lust, 'that bis family in packing my grip for Mexico, and I got ha3 n0 knowlcdgo of bis marriage; they there in due season and without accident boUevo him l0 i^, a bachelor.' T am I put up nt the best hotel, m Is always of that,' said she, ‘but fortunately my v«y, for it costs no more in the end, Iam in a , R)b i t i un t 0 prove what I say,* and gives a man a good standing at the , . , . , . , , . .. first lend off. I made my In.pitaMn a <md " lt| . that sho took her marriage cer- quiet, off lutnd way; and I had Wdiffi-; tifleatoout of hcr pocket and showed it culty at all in hearing all I wanted. Mr. [ to me; It was a* regular ns the multipu- Vadenttao was there; nobod v could sneak “Upon my word, Henry CUfton,” ejac ulated Mr. Bob Stapleton at this junct ure, “this is about as peculiar a yarn ns over I listened to! It's as good as a play, and better toe. When you get to New 1 York, do you go straight to a manager and offer to sell it to him; and if he don’t give you a good price for it I'm a , DutchmanI” “Good or bad,” returned Mr. Clifton, | “it happened just as I tell It you. When Mr. Valentino said that, the lady seemed staggered for a moment; and then all at onco sho called out: T see how it is! You 1 two have arranged this thing between | you! You are in a conspiracy to cheat mel You havo plotted to get hold of this property and sharo it between you, and keep mo out! But I will have ! my rights in spite of you! I will denounce both of you to the uu- ; thorities. For aU I know, you may have murdered my husband and taken his papers. But you wiU not succeed; I will expose you, and you shall bo punished!’ “Well, that made mo a little angry, and I told hcr that if sho wanted to charge me with conspiracy sho had bet- ! ter set about it at once, and the sooner ' the better, for I knew who would get the worst of It. As for Mr. Valentine, j bo didn’t lose his temper, but he said | very quietly, T am not a murderer, ma dam, and you will only waste your time in trying to prove me such. But I can assure you that, if I am not your hus band—and I certainly am not—no such person exists in tbo world. Neither can you sustain tho charge that I am aiming —either in combination with Mr. Clifton or alone—to keep you out of this prop erty. I told him a week ago, before you arrived in Mexico, that I would have nothing to do with it, and to tliat deter mination I shall adhero. The utmost you can attempt to do is to show that I am not Mr. Valentine, and that you are wel come to attempt. But I warn you before hand that all the evidence is on my side, and that you will faiL I advise you to go back whence you came, and to give up any idea of over becoming a great English lady. Meanwhile, I have the honor to wish you good mornlngf “He bowed to hcr as polite and cool as (you please, and walked out of the patio and I followed him. ‘What in the name of wonder docs all this mean? 1 I asked him. “ ‘Really, Mr. CUfton,’ said ho, T can give you no explanation. You have heard tho whole conversation, and you must draw your own conclusions from it, as I do minc. If you behovo that that lady is tho wife, or tho widow, of the Mr. Valentino who has inherited the es tate, you are at liberty to act in accord ance with your conviction. The most difficult thing will probably bo to make other people believe as you do.’ “ ‘That's all right, Mr. Valentine,’ said I, ‘but there is ono thing you can tell me. You said just now that you had heard speak of that lady before, and tho inference was that what you had heard was not to her credit. Now what did you mean by that?’ “ ‘Well, Mr. Clifton,’ said he, ‘perhaps I may have heard of her before, or per haps I may bo mistaken in thinking I had; but I don’t see why tho inference to be drawn is necessarily a bad one. At all evnets, she has never doneme any harm, and I don’t believe she ever will, or can; and I have no present intention of harm ing her, either by word or deed. As I said before, you must follow your own judgment; as for me, what I have said 1 stick to, and nothing wiU change me. 1 is Cordovan?” “Cordovan,” the name by whicl. | leather made from tho hides of horses i.-, now known, was first finished in Ham I burg, Germany, under the name of Ross leather. In combination with it the hide lie* j four 1310111 of muscular skins which with the “shell,” give to the horse tin great and tremendous pulling power tliat makes the animal so serviceable to man , kind. This “shell,” if properly tanner \ and shaven clean of its sinewy matter— ; a most difficult ta*! makes the besi wearing leather in existence, and proves | the theory of old time shoemakers—that only leather of a long fiber will wear—i to bo a mistaken one. us the “shell" hat! no fiber. In this it hasa decided advantageovei 1 calfskin w!;h its fibers; the breaking ol any one I k: 'additional strain upon the other.and a l leak in the leather soon fol lows. Experience has demonstrated that the “shell” will wear two or three times long er than calfskin. Cordovan possesses another great ad vantage in being the nearest waterproof of any leather made. Tho fineness o' ; texture also permits its taking a verj high ixdisli.—Si. I.'iuii Ueii.ihlie. Kightlni; Parson. During the Eighteenth century Pres-1 byterian ministers settled among tiie peo ple of northern Scotland needed to be men of great strength, piety and zeal. I The Rev. Eneas Sage, whose story is told j in “Parish Life in the North of Scot land,” belonged to the order of muscu lar Christians, being more than six feet in height and stout in proportion. A year or two after lie liad become minister of Lochearean, bo announced one Sunday bis intention of holding “a diet catechising” at the house of a dis solute man, a desperate character of great physical strength. Tho minister’s friends remonstrated with him, but he went to the man’s house, and was ordered to go away. “Easier said than done,” answered the minister; “but you may turn mo out if you can.” They were both powerful men, and neither of them hesitated to put upon tho other his ponderous strength. After a short but fierce struggle, tho minister The Great Bank Robbery,' became the victor, and the landlord,! at the lowest market prices. ! Sporting Headquarters Base Ball Supplies, ('roquet sets. Ham mocks, etc. PassiDKST’sOrncr. t C. St ». and C. & S. RAILROADS, l Charleston, S. C., M»y 1,1880 J On and after M»y 12, tho train! on these roads will run as follows (Sumla ex cepted) every day: uowx TRAIN. Leave Wadcsboro 5.25 A M Dennetts 5.40 Morven’s 8.55 McFarland 6.10 Leave Cheraw 6.48 Cash’s .'7.00 Society Hill 7 18 Dove’s 7.30 Floyd's 7.88 Darlington 7.50 Palmetto 8 00 Arrive at Florence 8 15 CP TRAIN. A LARGE LINE OF HANDSOME BOOKS SUITABLE FOR PRESENTS. Any book not in stock will be ordered out on a few day’s notice at catalogue prices. Leave Florence 8.10 P M Palmetto 8 25 Darlington.... 8.35 Floyd's 8.46 Dove’s 8.52 Society Bill.... 9.12 Cash’s McFarlan 10.08 Morren’s 10 20 Lake Wadesboro 11.00 Freight Train going up. Leave Florence 8 1 •• a m Arrive Darlington 9.05 a m Freight going down Arrive DariinSton 3.00 p m i Leave Darlington 3 30 p m Arrive Florence 4.10 p m A. F. RAVENEL, Pres. G 11 Master Trnnsportalion. Every thing You Want in the Stationery Line, O^irsr BE 330TTG-HT -A.T THE DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. Terms Cash : DARGAN & LIDE, Proprietors. January 1<>, 18‘JO. ANOTHER/S_ CRIME! FROM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYRNES. 0RTHEASTERN RAILROAD Oiiarlbston, S. C., May 1, 1880. BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE, — AUTHOR OF- ‘An American Penman,” Etc. prostrated upon bis own door, was with Copyrighted by O. M. Dunham, and published through special arrangement by a rope coiled round his arms and feet bound over to keep the peace. The people of the district were then ' called in, and the minister proceeded' seriously to discharge the duty of cate- j chising them. When that was finished, bo set himself to deal with the delin quent present. Tho man was solemnly rebuked, and the minister so moved his j conscience that lie afterwards became a decided Christian.—Youth's Companion. Exchanging Confidences. — Clara—“I have such a horror of growing old.” Maud (sweetly)— “I should think you would have f ot over it by this time.”— brake’s Magazine. the American Press Association with Cassell & Co., New York and London. IN The Darlington On and after this dale the following schedule will be run : GOING SOUTH. No. 27, Daily. Leave Florence *1 35 a in Leave Kings!ree 2 29 a m Arrive Lancs 2 60 a m Leave Lancs 2 60 a m Arrive Charleston 5 00 a m No. 23, Diily. Leave Florence *8 30 a in Leave Kingslrce 9 46 a n Arrive Lanes 10 07 a i Leave Lanes 10 07 a i. Arrive Charleston 11 59 a in No 53. Leave Lanes *7 50 P. M. Arrive Charleston 9 30 p. m. Train on C & D R R conn els at Flor- enoc with No 23 Traiu. GOING NORTH, No, 78, Dully. Leave Charleston *1 20 a m Arrive Lanes 3 00 a m Leave Lanes 3 0O a m Leave Kingstree 3 17 am Arrive Florence 4 20 a in No. 14, 1 Leave Cnarlerton *4 30 p m Arrive Lanes 6 29 p rn i Leave Lanes 0 29 p ni : Leave Kiogstree <» 46 p ni i Arrive Florence 7 55 p m No. 52, Daily. Leave Charleston *7 00 a tn i Arrive Lanes 8 27 a in News. Diptheria is dangerous when it gets among our little ones, but there is nq danger if you will give them Radam's Microbe Killer. It never fails to cure, and as a preventative it is sure. For sale at Garner’s Drug Store. Read these prices. I ' Call at J. F. EARLY * Daily, f Daily except Sun Nos 52 runs through lo Columbia } via Centra! R R of S C. Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wilmington, | N. C., making close councotion with W. St W K R for all pomls north. | J. R. KENLY, J. F. Divinr, Supt. Trans. Gen’l Sup’t. T. M. Embuson, Gen’l Pass. Agt. WILMINGTON COLIMBIA AND Al'GlSH RAILIIOA May J, 1890. GOING SOUTH No. 23. Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence No, 50. 1,000 yards assorted Worsteds at 10 cts, worth 20 to 40cts A full line Cashmeres at 12i and 15 cts. We arestill 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 Black Goods Henriettas and Imported Reps from A well selected stock of Ladies’ and of Jackets, Modjeskas and falli e ng U down r -1 A s P eciall y lar S e line of Staple Dry Goods, and prices that move them rapidly. SHOES. Our line of Shoes is large and complete and well the wants of the people, our reputation for “Hackmetack,” a lasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. At Boyd’s 2 Marks of Civilization.—Tele graph poles are getting to be so close together in cities that there is no longer much excuse for a drunken man Ram's Horn. Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy—a positive cure for Catarah, Diph theria and Canker-Mouth. For sale at Boyd's. 2 Why will you cough when Shiloh’s cure will give immedi ate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 cts., and $1 At Boyd’s 2 consisting of Cashmeres, 15 to $1 per yard. Misses’ Wraps consisting New Markets, Notions at adapted to We continue to maintain selling solid goods. Leave Florence Arrive Sumter Leave Sumier Arrive Columbia Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Floreuce Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia No. 27 No 52 ‘0 15 p ai 9 33 p in 10 20 a m 3.20 a u 4. 5 a is 4 35 a m 6. 15 a m *10.10 n m 12.40 p m 1 20 a m f 9 45 a m 10 65 p m No 58 Leave Florence 25 a m Arrive Sumter 9 35 a ni No 62 runs through from Charlesten via Central R R. Leaving Lanes 8 80 A M., Manning 9 10 A M. Train on C & D R R connects at Florenci with No 68. GOING NORTH. No 61. t,eave Columbia. Arrive Sumter Leave Sumier Arrive Florence No. 78. Leave Floreuce, Leave Marion j Arrive at Wilmington, No. 59 Leave Sumter i Arrive Florence A flirting woman can cause By that timo we had got to tho door of more trouble to mankind than a the offico of the secretary of tbo inter jf>r, .WW-itino- „rmv hut sin- is who was a friend of his, and ho went in astuting tinny. DUt sue is and left mo in tho street, to do my own l very much nicer than tho devas- thtaktac.” tating army, alter all.—Snim-r “Well, and what was the upshot of it. all?” inquired Mr. Stapleton. “It Isn't ended yet,” Mr. Clifton ro- — plied; “but from facts that subsequently Tho CW. H Thavor of came to mr knowledge I came to the „ lh ? R« v • Geo. n. lhayer, Ot conclusion that I might learn something Bourbon, Inu., says : noth by coming on to New York.” myself and wife owe our lives ‘•Now that l thtak of it, it’, growing a t o Shiloh’s Consumption Cure.” little chilly, too, rejoined Mr. Stapleton, ir„_ •> “and as the governor of South Carolina : b bale at boy d 8. once^emarked to the governor of North Carolina, ‘it’s a long time between Farmer Harrows — ''What’s ^ rin . k3 ’’ J If 0 ™® ac T u . ablt ? nc ? with that noise out in the barn?” tho head steward on board this boat; sup- , tt„ , pose wo go down stairs?” i Smarty Harrows (\i ho aspu es Apparently Mr. Clifton accepted this ! to be a wit)—“I don’t know, pa; suggestion: for when, a few minutes ; but I think the corn is on its later, the bearded gentleman pushed *> r / open his blind, the two camp stoob were ' No. 53, j Leave Columbia Arrive Sumter *10 36 p n 11 68 p ik 11 68 p m 1 15 a m 4 35 a m 5 20 a m 8 86 a m fG 37 p m 7 50 p n *5 20 p in G 32 p m No 14 Leave Florence Leave Marion Arrive at Wilmington . *Daily. fDaily except Sunday. No 63 runs through le Charleston, via Central K R, arriving Manning? 04 P I. Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 30 P M. *8 15 p ra 8 66 p m 11 45 p m (To be continued) Shiloh’s Cure will immediately j relieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis. For Sale at ! Boyd’s. 2 I Gents’ Furnishing Goods Our success in the Gents’ Furnishing Goods Department war rant us in the belief that oui Clothing and Hats Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ suit the people, both as to quality and price. We carry always in stock n furl line of Hardware, Crockery, Tin, Harness, &c. bar* j. 0 jg conuecls at Florence with C S D The Grocery Department is large and kept well supplied, at cherew -^^"^connect.on at Rock-bottom prices. Wilmington with W & W R R for all poinh 1 North. HARDWARE. At the Hardware Store, Managed by J. H. Early, is kept Stoves, Sewing Machines, Pumps; Gins, Belting Steam Engines, &c., in fact everything that comes under the head of machinist’s supplies. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. October 31,1689. Train on Florcnc. K. R, leave Pee Dee daily except Sunday 4.40 P. M., arrive Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave Rowland 0.30 A. M., arrive Pee Dec 8.60 A. M. Train ou Manchester li Augusta U. R. | leaves Sumter daily except Sunday, 10.50 A. M , arrive Rimini 12.01 P. M. ID- ; turning leave Rimini 12.15 P. M , ar rive Sumter 1.30 P. M. JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen. Sop't. J. R. KEN LE Y. Asst, Gien’l Manager. T. M. EMMERSON, Gen. Pas. Agt.