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ttoctry.
The Tear and the Smile.
\ little teiir and ft little tiiuile
out to run n, nice,
yj c Pitched tlieiu closely all t he while,
1'1,,'ir course was baby’s face.
The little teiir begot the eturt,
\y,. really feared he’d win ;
' H,. ruu so fast, and made a dart
Straight for her dimpled ehlu
gut somehow—it was very i[ueer,
We watched them all the while—
Tlie little, smiling, fretful tear
(jut beaten by the smile.
[The Churchman.
BY BSXT HAHT2.
[Copj’HRhU'd liy Houghton, Mimin & Co., aud
published by arrangenieut with them.]
CHAPTER L
For some moments profound silence and
darkness had uccompaniad a Sierran stage
coach toward the summit. The huge, dim
bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its
straps, glided onward and upward as if obey
ing some mysterious impulse from behind, so
faint and indefinite appeared its relations to
the viewless and silent horses ahead. The
shadowy trunks of tall trees, that seemed to
approach the coach windows, look in, and
then move hurriedly away, were the only
distinguishable objects. Yet oven these were
so vague and unreal that they might have
lieen the mere phantoms of some dream of
the half-sleeping passengers; for the thickly-
strewn needles of the pine, that choked the
way and deadened all sound, yielded under
the silently crushing wheels a faint soporific
odor that seomed to benumb their senses,
already slipping back into unconsciousness
during the long ascent Suddenly the stage
stopped.
Three of the four passengers inside strug
gled at once into upright wakefulness. The
fourth passenger, John Hale, had not been
sleeping, and turned impatiently toward the
window. It seemed to him that two of the
moving trees hod suddenly become motion
less outside. One of them moved again, and
the door opened quickly but quietly, as of it
self.
“Git down,” said a voice in the darkness.
u Git down,” said a voice in (hr. darkness.
All the passengers except Halo started,
t he man next to him moved his right hand
uddeniy behind him, but os quickly stopped.
One of the motionless trees had apparently
closed upon the vehicle, and what had seomed
to be a bough projecting from it at right
angles changed slowly into the faintly shin
ing double barrels of a gun at the window.
“Drop that!” said the voice.
The man who had moved uttered a short
laugh and returned his hand empty to his
knees. The two others perceptibly shrugged
their shoulders as over a game that was lost.
The remaining passenger* John Hale, fearless
by nature, inexperienced by habit, awaking
suddenly to the truth, conceived a desperate
i esistance. But without his making a ges
ture this was instinctively felt by the others;
the muzzle of the gun turned spontaneously
on him, and he was vaguely conscious of a
certain contempt and impatience of him in
his companions.
“Git down,” repeated the voice impera
tively.
The three passengers descended. Hale,
furious, alert, but helpless of any opportu
nity, followed. He was surprised to find the
stage driver aud express messenger standing
beside him; he had not heard them dismount
He instinctively looked toward the horses.
He could see nothing.
“Hold up your hands!”
One of the passengers had already lifted
his, in a weary, perfunctory way. The others
did the same reluctantly and awkwardly,
but apparently more from the consciousness
of the ludicrousnoss of their attitude than
from any sense of danger. The rays of a
bull’s eyo lantern, deftly managed by in
visible bonds, while it left the Intruders in
shadow, completely illuminated the faces and
figures of the passengers. In spite of the
majestic obscurity and silence of surround
ing nature, the group of humanity thus il
luminated was more farcical than dramatic.
A scrap of newspaper, part of a sandwich,
and an orange peel that had fallen from the
floor of the coach, brought into equal prom
inence by the searching light, completed the
absurdity.
“There Is a man here with a package of
greenbacks,” said a voice, with an official
coolness that lent a certain suggestion of
custom house inspection to the transaction;
“who is it?” The passengers looked at each
other, and their glance finally settled on
Hale.
“It’s not him,” continued the voice, w ith a
slight tinge of contempt on the emphasis.
“You'll save time and searching, gentlemen,
If you’ll tote it out. If we’ve got to go
through every one of you we’ll try to make
it pay.”
The significant threat was not unheeded.
The passenger who had first moved when the
stage stopped put his hand to his breast.
“T'other pocket first, if you please,” said
the voice.
The man laughed, drew a pistol from his
hip pocket, and, under the strong light of the
lantern, laid it on a spot In the road indicated
by the voice. A thick envelope, taken from
his breast pocket, was laid beside it. “I told
the d—d Tools that gave it to me, instead of
rending it by express, it would be at their
own risk,” he said apologetically.
“As it’s going with the express now it’s all
the same,” said the inevitable humorist of the
occasion, pointing to the despoiled express
treasure box already In the road.
The intention and deliberation of the out
rage was plain enough to Hale’s inexperience
now. Yet he could not understand the cool
acquiescence of his fellow passengers, and
was furious. His reflections were interrupted
by a voico which »cemcd to eomo from a
greater distance. Be fancied if was even
KOfo’fcJn tone, ns if a certain austerity was
relaxi
■‘’'top in #4 like, gentlemen.
You’ve five minutes to ^
The paseengen reentered the coach; the
driver and express **«cnger hurriedJjr
climbed to their places Hale would have
spoken, hut an impatient gesture from his
companions stopped him. They were tvi.
dcntly listening for something; he listened
too.
Yet the sitaws renuOned unbroken. It
^nMd incndibl* that than should bo do in
dication near or far of that forceful pi. .uro
which a moment ago had been go doian.r.nt.
No rustle in the wayeidj ‘■bru. ’.; M nor < <ho
from the rocky canyon below 1., in
sound of their flight. A faint br'o/ • j-tl: red
the toll tips of the pines, a cone dropped on
the stage roof, one of the invisible hoi vs,
that seemed lo ho listening too, moved rhght-
ly hi his harness. But this only appeared to
accentuate the profound stillness. The mo
ments were growing interminable, when the
voice, so net • ns to startle Hale, broke once
more from tbo surrounding obscurity
“Good night 1”
It was the signal that they were free. The
driver’s whip cracked like a pistol shot, the
horses sprang furiously forward, the huge ve-
hielo lulched ahead and then bounded vio
lently after them. When Hale could make
his voico heard hi the confusion—a confusion
which seemed greater from the colorless in
tensity of their last few moments’ experience
—he said hurriedly, “Then that fellow was
there all the time?”
“I reckon,” returned his companion, “he
stopiKHt five minutes to cover the driver with
bis double barrel, until the two other men
got off with the treasure.”
“The two others!” gasped Hale. “Then
there were only three men, and we six.”
The man shrugged his shoulders. The pas
senger who had given up the greenbacks
drawled, with a slow, irritating tolerance,
“I reckon you’re a stranger here?”
‘T am to this sort of thing, certainly,
though I live a dozen miles from here, at Ea
gle's Court,” returned Hale scornfully.
“Then you’re the chap that’s doin' that
fancy ranchin’ over at Eagle’s,” continued
the man lazily.
“Whatever I’m doing at Eagle’s Court I’m
not ashamed of it,” said Hale tartly; “and
that’s more than I can say of what I’ve done
—or haven’t done—to-night. I’veT*een one of
six men overawed and robbed by three.”
“As to the overawin’, ez you call it—meb-
be you know more about it than us. As to
the robbin’—ez far as I kin remember, you
haven’t onloaded much. Ef you’re talkin’
about what oughter’vo been done, I’ll tell you
what could have happened. PVape ye no
ticed that when ho pulled up I made a kind
of grab for my wepping behind mo?”
“I did; and you weren’t quick enough,”
said Halo shortly.
“I wasn’t quick enough, and that saved
you. For ef I got that pistol out and in sight
o’ that man that held the gun ”
“Well,” said Halo impatiently, “he’d have
hesitated.”
“He'd hev blown you with both barrels
outer the window, and that before I'd got a
half cock on my revolver.”
“But that would liave been only one man
gone, and there would have been five of you
left,” said Halo haughtily.
“That might have lieen ef you’d contracted
to take the hull charge of two handfuls of
buckshot and slugs; but ez one-eighth of that
amount would have done your business, and
yet left enough to have gone round, promis-
kiss, and satisfied the other passengers, it
wouldn’t do to kalkilate upon.”
“But the express messenger and the driver
were armed,” continued Hale.
“They were armed, but not fixed; that
makes all the difference.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I reckon you know what a duel is?”
“Yes.”
“Well, the chances agin us was about the
same as you’d have ef you was put up agin
another chap who was allowed to draw a
bead on you, and the signal to fire was your
<lrawin’ your weapon. You may be a
stranger to this sort o’ thing, and p’r’aps you
never fought a duel, but oven then you
wouldn’t go foolin’ your life away on any
such chances.”
Something in the man’s manner, as in a
certain sly amusement the other passengers
appeared to extract from the conversation,
impressed Hale, already beginning to be con
scious of the ludicrous insufficiency of his own
grievance beside that of his interlocutor.
“Then you mean to say this thing is in
evitable,” said he bitterly, but less aggres
sively.
“Ez long ez they hunt you; when you hunt
them you’ve got the advantage, alius pro
vided you know how to get at them ez well
as they know how to get it you. This yer
coach is bound to go regular, and on certain
days. They ain’t. By the time the sheriff
gets out his [>osse they’ve skedaddled, and the
leader, like as not, is takiu’ his quiet cocktail
at the Bank Exchange, or mebbe losin’ his
earnings to the sheriff over draw poker in
Sacramento. You see you can’t prove any
thing agin them unless you take them ‘on the
fly.’ It may be a part of Joaquini Murietta’s
band, though I wouldn’t swear to it.”
“The leader might have been Gentleman
George, from up country,” interposed a pas
senger. “He seemed to throw in a few fancy
touches, particlerly in that ‘Good night.’
Sorter chucked a little sentiment in it.
Didn’t seem to be the same thing ez *Git, yer
d—d suckers,’ on the other line.”
“Whoever ho was he knew the road and
the men who traveled on it Like ez not he
went over the lino beside the driver on the
box on the down trip, and took stock of
everything. He even know I had those
greenbacks, though they were handed to me
in tbo bank at Sacramento. He must have
been bangin’ round there.”
For some moments Halo remained silent
He was a civic-bred man, with an intense love
of law and order ; the kind of man who is the
first to take that law and order into his own
hands when ho does not find it existing to
please him. Ho had a Bostonian’s respect for
respectability, tradition anej., propriety, but
was willing to face irregularity and impro
priety to create order elsewhere. Ho was
foiid of nature with these limitations, never
quite trusting her unguided instincts, and
finding her as an instructress greatly in
ferior to Harvard university, though possi
bly not to Cornell. With dauntless enter
prise and energy ho had built and stocked a
charming cottage farm in a nook in the
Sierras, whence ho opposed, like the lesser
Englishman that ho was, his own tastes to
thoco of th;* nih il west. In the present in
stance Ue felt L incumbent upon him not
only to us'iert. lu« principles, but to act upon
the n with Lii usual energy. How far he
was impelled by the half tontemptuous
passiveness of his companions It would be
difficult to say.
“What is to prevent the pursuit of them at
once?” he asked >uddcnly. “We are a few
miles from the station, whore horses can bo
procured ”
“Who’s to do it.”’ replied tho other lazily.
“The stage company will lodge the complaint
with the authorities, but it will take two days
to get tho county officers out, and it’s nobody
else's funeral”
“I will go for one,” said Hale quietly. “I
have a horse waiting for me at the station,
and can start at once.”
There was an instant of silence. Tho stage
coach had left tho obscurity of the forest, and
by tho stronger light Hole could perceive that
his companion was examining him with two
colorless, lazy eyes. Presently he said, meet
ing Hale's clear glance, but rather as if yield
ing to a careless reflection:
“It mij/tt bo done with four men. We
oughter raise one man at tho station.” He
paused. “I don’t know ez I’d mind taking a
hand myself,” ho abided, stretching out hi*
legs with a slight yawn.
“Yo can count me in, if you’re goin’, kernel.
I reckon I’m talkin’to Kernel Clinch” said
tho passenger beeido Hale with sudden alac
rity. “Pm Rawlins, of Frispo. Hecrd of ye
mSsr*'’ ber' d and kinder spotted yt>u jist
now from your talk. ^
To Hole’s surprise tho two nivu, t awk
wardly and perfunctorily gnwpf
ither’s hand, entered ct onco into i
conversation on tho r ‘ ^
Without tho slightest
pursuit of the robbers.
I airneq to rnue, miu, regreiuiig uiat iwTiuia
immediate business at tho Summit, offered to
*ci ornpany the party if they would wait a
fouple of hours, that Col. Clinch briefly re-
turned to the subject.
“Four men will do, and < z we’ll hev to take
horres from tho station we’ll hev to Ukc the
fourth man from there.”
With there words he monied his uninter
esting conversation with the equally uninter
ested Rawlins, and the undenominated pas
senger cubsided into an admiring and dreamy
contemplation of them loth. With all his
principle and really high minded purpose,
Hale could not help feeling constrained and
annoyed at tho sudden, subordinate and aux
iliary position to which he, the projector of
the enterprise, had been reduced. It was true
that he had never offered himself as their
leader; it was true that the principle he
wished to uphold and the effect he sought to
obtain would bo equally demonstrated under
another; it was true that the execution of his
own conception gravitated by some occult
impulse to the man who hail not sought it,
and whom ho had always regarded as on in
capable. But all this was so unlike precedent
or tradition that, after the fi*hion of con
servative men, ho was suspicious of it, and
only that his honor was now involved he
would have withdrawn from the enterprise.
There was still a chanre of reasserting him
self at tho station, where ho was known,
and where some authority might be deputed
to him.
But even this prospect failed. The station,
half hotel and luilf stable, contained only the
landlord, who was also express agent, and the
new volunteer whom Clinch had suggested
would be found among the stable men. The
nearest justice of the jieaco was ten miles
away, and Hale had to abandon even his
hope of being sworn in os u deputy constable.
This introduction of a common and illiterate
ostler into the party on equal •terms with
himself did not add to his satisfaction, and a
remark from Rawlins seemed to complete
his embarrassment.
“Ye had a mighty narrer escape down
there just now,” said that gentleman coufl-
deAtially, as Hale buckled his saddle girths.
“I thought, as we wore not supposed to
defend ourselves, there was no danger,” said
Hale scornfully.
“Oh, I don't moan them road agents. But
him.”
“Who?”
“Kernel Clinch. You jist «/. good as al
lowed ho hadn’t any grit.”
“Whatever I said, I suppose I am respon
sible for it,” answered Hale haughtily.
“That’s what gits me,” was the imperturb
able reply. “He’s the best shot in southern
California, and hez let daylight through a
dozen chaps afore now for half what you
said.”
“Indeed!”
“Howuummever,” continued Rawlins, phil
osophically, “ez he's concluded to go with yo
instead of for ye, you’re likely to hev your
ideas on this matter carried out up to the
handle. He’ll make short work of it, you
bet. Ef, ez I suspect, the leader is an airy
young feller from Frisco, who hez took to the
road lately, Clinch hez got a personal grudge
agin him from a quarrel over draw poker.”
This ;was the last blow to Hale's ideal cru
sade. Here he was—an honest, respectable
citizen—engaged as simple accessory to a
lawless vendetta originating at a gambling
table! When the fhst shock was over that
grim philosophy which is the reaction of all
imaginative and sensitive natures came to his
aid. He felt better; oddly enough ho began
to be conscious that he was thinking and act
ing like his companions. With this feeling a
vague sympathy, before absent, faintly
showed itself in their actions. Tho Sharpe’s
rifle put into his hands by the stableman was
accompanied by a familiar word of sugges
tion as to an equal, which he was ashamed to
find flattered him. Ho was able lo conHnu*
the conversation with Rawlins more coolly.
“Then you suspect who is the leader?”
“Only on giniral principles. There was a
finer touch, so to speak, in this yer robbery
that wasn’t in the old fashioned style. Down
in my country they hed crude ideas about
them things—used to strip the passengers of
everything, includin’ their clothes. They say
that at the static*! hotels, when the coaches
came in, the folks used to stand round with
blankets to wrap up the passengers so eznottc
akcer tho wimen. Thar's a story that the
driver and express manager drove up one day
with only a copy of The Alty Calif or ny
wrapped around ’em; but thin,” added Raw
lins grimly, “there was folks ez said the hull
story was only an advertisement got up fer
Tho Alty.”
“Time’s up.”
“Are }'ou ready, gentlemensaid Col.
Clinch.
Hale started. He bad forgotten his wife
and family at Eagle i Court, ten miles away.
They would bo alarmed at his absence, would
perhaps hear some exaggerated version of the
stage coach robbery and fear the worst.
“Is there any way I could send a line to
Eagle's Court before daybreakF he asked
eagerly.
The station was already drained of its
spare men and torses. Tho undenominated
passenger stepped forward and offered to
toko it himself when his business, which he
would dispatch as quickly as possible, was
concluded.
“That ain't a bad idea,” said Clinch, re
flectively, “for ef yer hurry you'll head’em
off in case they scent us, and try to double
back on the North ridge. They’ll fight shy
of the trail if they see anybody on it, and
one man’s as good as a dozen.”
Hale could not help thinking that he
might have been that one man, and had his
opportunity for independent action but for
his rash proposal, but it was too late to with
draw now., Ho hastily scribbled a few linos
to his wife on a sheet of the station paper,
handed it to tho man, and took his place in
the little cavalcade as it filed silently down
tho road.
**l ve seen i nomson s pass ououea up vmn
fifteen feet o’ snow earlier than this," said
Rawlins, answering HtU’u gn/o; ‘an.l last
September tho passenger* sledded ovit tho
road wo came last night, ami all tho time
Thomson, a mile lower down over the ridge
In the hollow, smoking his pipu under rosea
in his piazzy! Mountains is mighty un
certain; they make their own weather e*
they want it. I reckon you ain't wintered
here yeti"
Hale was obliged to admit that he had
only taken Eagle's Court in tho early spring.
“Oh, you’ro all rigid at Eagle’s—whan
you’re there! But it’s like Thomson’s—it’s
the gettin' there that's—Iloilo! What’s that I"
A shot, distant but distinct, had rang
through tho keen air. It was followed by
another so atiko as to seem an oeho.
“That’s over yon, on the North ridge,”
said the oetler, “about two miles as the crow
flies and five by the trail. Somebody's
shootin’ b’ar.”
“Not with a shot gun,- said Clinch, quickly
wheeling his horse with a gesture that elec-
trifled them. “It's them, and tliey've doubled
ouus! To the North ridge, gentlemen, and
ride all you know !-
It needed no second challenge to com
pletely transform that quiet cavalcade. The
wild, man hunting instinct, inscjiaraldo to
most humanity, rose at their leader's look
and word. With an incoherent and unintel
ligible cry, giving voice to the chase like the
commonest hound of their fluids, the order
loving Halo and the philosophical llawlins
w heeled with the others, and in another in
stant the little band swept out of sight in the
forest.
An immense and immeasurable quiet suc
ceeded. The sunlight glistened silently on
cliff and scar, the vast distance below seemed
to stretch out and broaden into repose. It
might have been fancy, hut over the sharp
line of the North ridge a light smoke lifted
as of an escaping soul.
We hat e reserved for the last of the
puxzies the century question, which will
never be hud to rest, wo believe, us long
as the world stands. Wo printed 250
proofs of a former answer, and they
have nil Ivon distributed to parties who
have quarreled over it. A w riter whose
iuitials are K. K. U. asks us in a letter
just to hand whether the Twentieth
. century Ur.ins with Jan. 1, 1900. or Jan.
I, 1901, and declares that of all udioiuho
addressed for an answer about half took
one date and half the other. There
| should lie no question about it. This
century ends with the last moment of
the year 1900. and the next begins with
Jan. 1, 1901.
The muddle grows out of the fixed
Dargan & Lide.
Book-Sellers ad
DARLINGTON, S. C.
Schedule of the Hartsville R. R.
Hartsvilmc. S. C., Dec.
DAILY MIXED THAI
9.
Leaves Hartsville, 0.45 A. M.
Leaves Jovtton, 7.20 “
■ Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.45 “
Making connection with the South
i bound passenger train on the Cheraw
& Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd’s,
Leave Jovann.
Arrive at Hartsville,
(continued.)
recL^u'-'ofTmVi^'in 'with .‘.‘cf ^ Pur l>«s*‘ conducting an establishment that will be a credit to ThuYrain wait^two hqurs,?!
and that'one is counted when the hour Darlington County at the stand next door to Dr. Boyd’s ry, for the North bound freig]
a —..i ■ ■ . . ’ _ on iv. A. Jf. tv. tv.
10.00 A. M.
10.20 “
1.50 **
necessa-
freight train
Books always on hnad.
day. month or year lias closed; whereas Drug Store,
all the counting of time begins with one,
and at the end of tho first period two
begins to count. Thus, when a child is j
horn, ho enters on ids first day of tho 1
mZSfXZSiSZfSX: A full line of Stationery and School-
enters in his tenth year, but at its close;
and his hundred years are comptetM,
not when the hundredth year is begun,
but ended. When we write 1900 we
have begun the last year of the century,
not ended it. Tho centuries do not
begin with 0, 100, 200, hut with 1, 101,
201, and thus the Twentieth century
begins w ith 1901 at the first moment of
that year. The quoted date comes with
the beginning, not the close of the twelve
months; and therefore, while we quote
the year 1900 as we do every other year
ut its beginning, we must wait till it
ends to close the century.—Journal of
Commerce.
J. L. COKER.
President.
Law Blanks in great variety.
And took his place in the cavafeade.
They had ridden in silence for nearly an
hour, and hod passed the scene of tho rob
bery by a higher track. Morning had long
ago advanced its colors on tho cold white
peaks to their right, and was taking pomes-
siou of the spur where they rode.
“It looks like snow,” said Rawlins quietly.
Halo turned toward him in astonishment
Nothing on earth or sky looked less likely.
It lead been cold, but that might have been
only a current from tho frozen peaks beyond,
reaching the lower valley. The ridge on
which they had halted was still thick with
yellowish-green summer foliage, mingled
with the darker evergreen of pine and fir.
Oven-like canyons in the long flanks of the
mountain seemed still to glow with the heat
of yesterday's noon; tho breathless air yet
trembled and quivered over stifling gorges
and passes in tho granite rocks, while far at
their feet sixty miles of perpetual summer
stretched awsy over the winding American
l' / rer > " l ‘W and then lost in a gossamer haze.
iy ripe October where they
Reviving a Conundrum VVhidl Was Satis*
factorUy Solved Forty Years Ago—Tricks
That Are Flayed with Numerals—Inter*
estlng Problems in Arithmetic.
There are certain problems, chiefly
arithmetical, endued with a vigorous
immortality. No matter how often tho
solution is printed, or how widely an ex
haustive answer is published, the ques
tion comes up again, before tho ink is
fairly dried, to the lips of hundreds who
have not seen the reply, or who eitliei
cannot understand it or will not accept
it. There are several of these which we
have printed so often, but which still
kept coming, that to savo further time
wo struck oil a hundred proofs of each,
and mailed one to the inquirers iu suc
cession wiihuul comment. Tliese proofs
are exhausted, and we have accumulated
from a score or more of correspondents
the same old ques'.ious, witli urgent re
quests for a fresh solution. We notice
that The Brooklyn Eagle lias been strug
gling with one of these. The editor who
has charge of that department is very
clever, and we think lie is playing a little
witli his inquisitor.
The original question sent to us forty
years ago and involving the same point
submitted to The Eagle was, how to find
the product of £19 19s. lid. Sf. multi
plied by itself. Of course if the parts of
tbo pounds were stated as fractions, and
the pounds as whole numbers, then
19 959-960tlis could bo multiplied by
itself. But mouey of account has not
two dimensions. If a table is 4 feet wide
and 4 feet long, then 4x4=16 feet,
and wo have the number of square
feet on the surface. Five times five
pounds are £25, but live pounds times
five pounds is unmeaning, as money
does not measure itself in that fashion.
Twice two children are four children,
hut twice children two children lias no
meaning. So ‘'nineteen pounds, nineteen
shillings, eleven pence, three farthings
times nineteen pounds, nineteen shill
ings, eleven ponce, three farthings.” is
utter nonsense.
TROUBLESOME MILLS.
The next puzzle on the list, and one
which comes the oftenest to our desk, in
some form of a problem which proposes
to divide a whole sum into fractions that
together did not make the dividend.
Tho original of this in our columns was
an answer to an actual ease where a
man in his will had devised one-third,
one-fourth, one-fifth and one-sixth of
his property respectively to his four
children, supposing that lie had thus de
vised tho whole of ills estate. The frac
tions mentioned only made nineteen-
twentieths of a whole number. This is
easily seen if they are reduced to a com
mon denominator. One-third is twenty-
sixtieths, one-fourth is fifteen-sixtieths,
one-fifth is twelve-sixtieths, and one-
sixth is len-sixtieths, which together
make but fifty-seven sixtieths, leaving
three-sixtieths (or l-20th) to make up
the whole number.
Tins puzzle reappears in some form
every few days the year round. It is
answered on tho same principle involved
in tho interpretation of tho Arab's will.
Ho had fifteen horses and four sons. He
devised his estate, giving one son a half,
another a quarter, another an eighth
and the last a sixteenth. They found it
ini]>ossiblo to agree on a division. The
eldest son insisted that as seven horses
would not he half of fifteen lie should
have eight; hut tho other sons objected,
and as neither one-half, one-fourth, one-
eighth nor one-sixtoeuth would give
either son an even lot they had a fierce
dispute over the division. A venerablo
sheik rode up just as the quarrel was at its
height, and to compose their differences
dismounted and generously offered to
add ills mare to the fifteen belonging to
the estate, agreeing that each should
take ins allotted share from the whole
sixteen, only stipulating that his should
he the last selected. The addition made
an easy solution of tlie difficulty. The
first then took eight as his half of
the sixteen, the next took four for his
quarter, tho third took two for his
eighth, and the fourth took one for his
sixteenth. As this made but fifteen the
sheik mounted his mare and rode away.
Tlie Arab boys regarded it as a miracle,
and exclaimed that Allah iiad given a
horse to the sheik for his generous inter
ference. Ii. spite of this oft told tale tho
problem still survives and annually puz
zles hundreds of our countrymen.
JUOOLINO WITH FRACTIONS.
A more recent prohlerii which wo have
already answered several times, but
which is repeated every week from some
quarter, is tlie division of one fraction
by another. The original question which
we answered several years ago was:
' ‘‘WTiat is the quotient of two-thirds di
vided by one-half?” The unthinking per
son would say that as the half of two-
thirds is one-third, this must be the solu
tion of the problem, but Daboll will easi
ly refute it. The quotient of 2-3 divided
by I is 1 1-3; that is, 4 will go in 2-3 one
and one-third times. The last form of
tlie problem, received as we write this,
is to find the quotient of 1 divided by j,
two partners in a leading banking house,
having disputed, as they say, all one day
over the result, the senior maintaining
'' that 1 divided by j is j, and defying any
one to refute it. We answer that when
1 is divided by I the quotient is 2; that
I is, I will be found two times in 1. If 6
i Ub divided by | the answer is 12; that is,
there are twelve halves in six. We
should beg pardon of our readers for re
peating these demonstrations if it were
not for the character and magnitude of
the disputes which occur every day con-
oernincr them.
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cepted) every day:
DOWN TRAIN.
Leave Wadesboro 3.25 A M
Dennetts 5.40
Moreen's 6.55
McFarland 6.10
Leave Cheraw 6.48
Cash’s .'7.00
Society Hill 7 13
Dove’s 7.30
Floyd s 7.38
Darlington 7.60
Palmetle 8 00
Arrive at Florence 8 15
nr train.
Leave Florence 8.10 1* M
Palmetto 8 26
Darlington 8.36
Floyd'* 8.46
Dove's 8,62
Society Hill 912
Cash's 9 17
LeaveChcraw 9.43 H M
McKarian 10.08
Morven’s 10.20
Bennett’s 10.85
Lake Wadesboro 11.00
Freight Train going up.
Leave Florence 8 1 ’ a m
Arrive Darlington 9.05 a m
Freight going down
Arrive DsrliaSlon 2.00 p m
Leave Darlington 3.30 p ni
i Arrive Florence 4.10 p m
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ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
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All persons in need of babbitt metal;
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June 12, ’90—tf
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Painting; Kalsomine Work a
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Call at
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On and after this dale the following
schedule will be run :
CIOINO SOUTH.
No. 27, Daily.
Leave Florence
Leave Kingstrec
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
No. 23, Daily.
Leave Florence
| Leave Kingslree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
prices,
J. ¥. EARLY
*1 36 a ni
2 29 a in
2 50 a m
2 50 a in
5 00 a in
*8 30 a in
9 46 a ii
10 07 a i
10 07 a i
11 59 a in
No 63.
Leave Lanes »7 60 V. M.
Arrive Charleston 9 30 p. ui.
Train on C & D R R conn els at Flor
ence with No 23 Train.
GOING NORTH.
No. 78, Dei'y.
Leave Charleston
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Leave Kingstree
Arrive Florence
*1 20 a m
3 00 a is
3 00 a m
3 17 a ui
4 20 a in
j specialty.
Of* lie solicits
Darlington.
the
patronage or!
Feb. 27-1 vr
HENRY H. SMITH
Real Eslate A§ent,
Florence St., Darlington, S. C.
No. 14.
Leave Cnarleslon
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Leave Kingslree
Arrive Florence
No. 62, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*4 80 p in
6 29 p m
6 29 p m
• > 4<i p m
7 66 p in
*7 00 s in
8 27 a ui
1,000 yards assorted Worsteds at 10 cts, worth 20 to 40cts
A full line Cashmeres at 12£ and 15 cts. We arestill run
ning our famous 25 cts. yard wide Cashmere in all shades
I more popular than ever this season. 45-inch Henrietta at 50
C cents. A large line of Black Goods consisting of Cashmeres, Arrive Lanes
* Daily, f Daily except Sun
Nos 52 runs through to Columbia
via CentralU R ofS C.
Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wilmington,
N. C., making close connection with W. A
W R It for all points north.
A specially large line of Staple Dry Goods, and Notions at j. R. kenly, j. f. divimr,
. . ,, . ,, Supt. Trans. Gcn’l Sup’t.
prices that move them rapidly. T. M. Emerson, Oen’l Pass. Agt
SHOES.
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.
Special attention paid to the buying
and selling of real estate, collection of
rents, &e. The strictest attention
will be paid to all business entrust
ed to me.
March 27, 1890—ly
- 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 Department war
rant us in the belief that om Clothing and Hats
Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ suit the people,
both as to quality and price.
GEO. E. TOALE,
HENRY OLIVER
#ILil\GT0\ COLtltlA AM AISISTA KAILKOA
. May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
Geo. E. Toale & Co,
MANUFACTURERS
—AND—
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
No. 60.
Doors, Sash, Blinds,
Builders Hardware.
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
*6 16 p m
9 33 pm
10 20 a m
3.20 a u
4.35 a a
4 36 a m
6. 15 a in
AND
No. 27
OFFICE AND SALESROOMS
10 anil 12 llnyne Street,
CHARLESTON, - - S. 0
Write for Estimates.
May 31, 1888.
Leave Wilmington
, Leave Marion
We carry always in stock a full line of Hardware, Crockery, Arrive Florence
Tin, Harness, &c. Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
GROCERIES.
The Grocery Department is large and kept well supplied, at Arr17 ' !,umt * r
Rock-bottom prices.
HARDWARE.
At the Hardware Store, Managed by J. H. Early, is kept
Stoves, Sewing Machines, Pumps; Gins, Belting Steam
Engines, &c M in fact everything that comes
under the head of machinist’s supplies.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
October 31,1889.
No 62
No 68
*10.10 p m
12.40 p m
1 30 a m
t 9 45 * m
10 55 p m
f8 25 a n
9 35 a m
No 62 runs through from Cbarlestvn via
Central R R.
Leaving Lanes 8 80 A M., Manning 9 10
A M.
Train on C 4 D R & connects ai Florence
wilh No 58,
GOING NORTH.
No 61.
1 Leave Columbia.
Arrive Sumter
, Leave Sumler
Arrive Florence
No. 78.
1 Leave Florence,
; Leave Marion
i Arrive tt Wilmington,
ii, s. limit & m ^ ^' ,nh
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
Leave Columbia
Arrive Sumter
No. 69
No. 53,
*10 35 p n
11 68 p u,
11 58 p m
1 15 a m
4 35 a m
5 20 a m
8 36 am
fS 37 p m
7 60 p ns
*5 20 p in
6 82 p ni
Doors
Manuiacturers
-OF—
, Sash, Dliims,
JVtOTTJLiIGIJSrOS
—AND-
Duilding Material.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
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April, 20 1889—1
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Have desirable Building Lois and lands
I for sale, Apply lo
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PruidMrf and Treasurer
i Jnn. 24, ’89—ly i
HAS OPENED A-
SA.'VIJSTOS IDEP’-A.R.TMEINrT,
And from and after this date will receive deposits of One Dol
lar and upwards, and pay quarterly interest on the same,
at the rate of five per cent, per annum, under regu
lations to be made known at the Bank. This is
a favorable opportunity for
Farmers. Clerks,
Mechanics. Laborers,
Factory Operatives,
To Save Their Earnings.
w. C. COKER, BRIGHT WILLIAMSON,
Prasident. Cashier.
Darlington, S. C., June 18, ’89.
♦8 15 pm
8 55 p m
11 45 p m
No 14
Leave Floreuce
Leave Marion
[ Arrive al Wilmington
•Daily. fDaily except Sunday.
No 53 runs through to Charleston, via
Central R R, arriving Manning 7 04 P h.
Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 30 P M.
No 59 connects at Florence with C 4 D
! train for Cheraw and Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make elose connection at
Wilmington with W 4 17 R R for all point'
j North.
Train on Florence R. R. leave Pee Dee
daily except Sunday 4.40 P. M„ arrive
Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave
Rowland 6,80 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8,50
A.M.
Train on Mancheater 4 Auguata R. R.
leaves Sumler dally except Sunday, 10.60
A. M., arrive Rimiui 12.01 P. M. R. -
turning leave Rimini 12.15 P. M , ar
rive Sumter 1.80 P. M.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen. Sop’t.
J. R. KENLEY, Aset, GeuT Manager.
| T. M. EMMERSON, Gen, Pas. Agt