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Consider the Liliei.
Said the rorn to the lilies,
•‘Prose not near my (eet!
You are only Idler*,
Neither corn nor wheat.
('an one Kain a living
J nst by being sweet
Naught answered the liiies,
‘ Neither yea nor nay ;
Only they grew sweeter
All the livelong day ;
And at last the Master
Chanced to pass that way.
While the tire 1 disciples
Rested at his feet,
And the proud corn rustled,
Kiddding them to eat;
“Children," said the Master,
“The life is more than meat ”
“Considerthe lilies,
How beautiful they grow.
Never had king such glory,
Yet no toil they know."
Oh! happy were the lilies
Tliat He' loved them so.
July Number of the Laws of I,fe.
n
EASiiS
BY BRET HARTII
[Copyrighted by Hough ton, Mifflin & Co., and
published by arrangement with them.]
CHAPTER XL
Eagle's Court, one of tho highest onnyens of
the Sierras, was in reality n plateau of table
land, embayed like a green lake in a semi
circular sweep of granite, lifting itself
AAOO feet higher, lx*/-.me a foundation for
i^H^eternal snows. Tho mountain genii o 1
space and atmosphere jealously guarded its
seclusion on«l surrounded it with illusions; it
never looked to be exactly what it was; the
traveler who saw it from tho North ridge
apparently at his feot in detrending found
himself separated from it by a mile long
abyss and a rushing river; those who fought
it by a seeming direct trail at the end of
•n hour lost sight of It completely, or,
abandoning the quest and retracing their
steps, suddenly came upon the gap through
which it was entered. That which from the
ridgo appeared to be a copse of bushes be
side I ho tiny dwelling were trees 300 feet
high; the cultivated lawn before it, which
might have been covered by the traveler’s
hand kerchief, was a field of 1,000 acres.
The house Itself was a long, low, irregular
structure, chiefly of roof and veranda, pict
uresquely upheld by rustic pillars of pine,
with the bark still adhering, and covered
with vine* and trailing roses. Yet it was
evident that the coolness produced by this
vast extent of cover was more than the ar
chitect, who Lad planned if. under the influ
ence of a staring and bewildering sky, bod
trustfully conceived, for it bad to bo miti
gated by blazing fires in open hearths when
the thermometer marke 1 100 degrees in live
field beyond. The dry, restless wind tbet
continually rocked the tall masts of the
pines with a sound like tho distant sea, while
it stimulated outdoor physical exertion and
defied fatigue, left tho sedentary dwellers in
these altitudes chilled in the shade they
courted, or scorched them with heat when
they ventured to bask supinely in the sun.
White muslin curtains at tho French win
dows, and rugs, skins and heavy furs dis
persed in the interior, with certain other
charming but incongruous details of furni
ture, marked tho inconsistencies of the cli
mate.
There was a coquettish indication of this
in tho costume of Miss Kate Scott as she
stepped out on the veranda that morning.
A man’s broad-brimmed .Panama hat, partly
unsexed by a twisted, gayly colored scarf,
but retaining enough character to give
piquancy to tho pretty curves of the face
beneath, protected her from tho sun; a red
flannel shirt—another spoil from tho enemy
—and a thick jacket shielded her from the
austerities of tho morning breeze. But tho
next inconsistency was peculiarly her own.
Miss Kate always wore the freshest and
lightest of white cambric skirts, without the
least reference to the temperature. To the
practical sanatory remonstrances of her
brother-in-law, and to the conventional
criticism of her sister, she opposed the same
defense: “How else is one to tell when it is
summer in this ridiculous climate? And
then, woolen is stuffy, color draws tho sun,
and one at least knows when one is dean or
dirty.” Artistically tho result was far from
unsatisfactory. It was a pretty figure under
tho somber pines, against the gray granite
aiuHhe steely sky, and seemed to lend the
yellowing fields from which the flowers had
already fled a floral relief of color. I do not
think tho few masculine wayfarers of that
locality objected to it; indeed, some had
betrayed an indiscreet admiration, and had
curiously followed the invitation of Miss
Kate’s warmly colored figure until they had
encountered the invincible indifference of
Miss Kate’s cold gray eyes. With these
manifestations her brother-in-law did not
concern himself; he had perfect confidence
in her unqualified disinterest in tho neigh
boring humanity, and permitted her to
wander in her solitary picturesqueness, or
accompanied her when she rode in her dark
green habit, with equal freedom from
anxiety.
Fqr Miss Scott, although only 20, had
already subjected most of her maidenly illu
sions to mature critical analyses. She had
voluntarily accompanied her sister and
mother to California, in tho earnest hope
that nature contained something worth say-
irjg to her, and was disappointed to find she
had already discounted its value in tho pages
of books. She hoped to find a vague free
dom in this unconventional life thus opened
to her, or rather to show others that she
know how intelligently to appreciate it, but
os yet she was only able to express it in the
one detail of dress already alluded to. Some
of the men, and nearly all of tho women, she
had met thus far, she was amazed to find,
valued the conventionalities she believed she
despised, and were voluntarily assuming the
chains she thought she had thrown off. In
stead of learning anything from them, those
children of nature bad bored her with eager
questionings regarding tho civilization she
had abandoned, or irritated her w ith crude
imitations of it for her benefit. “Fancy,”
she had written to a friend in Boston, “my
calling on Sue Murphy, who remembered the
Bonner tragedy, and who once shot a grizzly
that was prowling round her cabin, and
think of hor begging mo to lend her my sack
for a pattern, and wanting to know if ‘polo-
nays’ were still worn. ” Hhe remembered
more bitterly tho romance that bod tickled
her earlier fancy, told of two college friends
of her brother-in-law’s who were living the
“perfect life” in the mines, laboring in the
ditches with a copy of Homer in their pockets,
and writing letters of the purest pbiloscphy
under the free air of the pines. How, com
ing unexpectedly on them in their Arcadia,
the party found them unpresentable through
dirt, and thenceforth unknowable through
domestic complications tliat had filled their
Arcadian cabin with half-bred children.
Much of this disillusion she hod kept
within her own heart, from a feeling of
' jjjily lightly touched upon it in her
re**, new jfcuif mother and sister. For
Mrs. Hale bad no idols to
shatter, no enthusiasm to subdue. Firu iy
and unalterably conscious of their own
superiority to the life they led and the com
munity that surrounded them, they accepted
their duties cheerfully, and performed them
iwnscieaUoiuly Tho* doties wwe loyalty
wor*. connutea rather in
own ideas undentooil than In
>dlng tho idaas of their audience.
Old Urn. Scott’s seal was partly religious,
on Inheritance fran her Puritan ancestry;
Mia. Hale's was the affability of a gentle'
woman and tho obligation of her position.
To this was added tho slight languor of the
cultivated American wife, whoso health has
been affected by the birth of her first rbild,
and whose views of marriage and maternity
were slightly tinged with gentle Kepticbm,
Nbe was sincerely attached to her husband,
“who dominated the household,” like tho rest
of his “women folk,” with tho faint con
sciousness of tliat division of service which
renders tho position of the sultan of a serag
lio at once so prominent and so precarious.
The attitude of John Halo in his family cir
cle was dominant because it had never been
subjected to criticism or comparison; and
perilous for the same reason.
Mrs. Hale presently joined her sister on the
veranda, and, shading her eyes with a nar
row white hand, glanced on the prospect
with a polite Interest and ladylike urbanity.
Tho searching sun, which, as Mias Kate once
intimated, was “vulgarity itself,” stared at
hor in return, but could not call a blush to
her somewhat sallow cheek. Neither could
it detract, however, from the delicate pretti
ness of hor refilled face, with its soft gray
shadows, or the dark, gentle eyes, wbise
biuo-veinod lids were just then wrinkled into
coquottishly mischievous lines by the strong
light. She was taller and thiuner than Kate,
and had at times a certain shy, coy sinuosity
of movement which gave her a more virginal
suggestion than her unmarried sister. For
Miss Kate, from her earliest youth, had been
distinguished by that matronly sedateness ol
voice a.ui step, and coMpleleness of figure,
which indicates some membei's of tho gallina
ceous tribe from their callow infancy.
“I suppose John must have stopped at the
Summit on romo business,” said Mrs. Hale,
“or bo would have been hero already. It’s
scarcely worth while waiting for him, unless
you choose to ride over and meet him. You
might change j-our dress,” she continued,
looking doubtfully at Kate's costume. ‘Tut
on your riding habit, and take Manuel with
you.”
.u« aiiee. ui vuv suu smiesi to i.i »no,„
, of their power. This compelled her to walk
more briskly than she was conscious of. for
in less than an Hour she came suddenly and
breathlessly upon the mouth of tho canyon or
natural gateway to Eagle's Court
To her always a profound spectacle of
mountain magnificence, It asemed to-day ok
most terrible in Its cold, strong grandeur.
, 'ho narrowing pass was choked for a mo
ment between two gigantic buttresses of
granite, approaching each other so eloaely at
match Dy impressing upon each of them
the advantages that would result from
it To Napoleon he dilated upon the
power tliat would follow the acquisition
of the wealth which MUe. Moutansior
could give him; to the lady ho enlarged
on the position that his talented young
friend was bound to make for himself,
and that would, of course, be shared by
his wife.
For the purpose of introducing the
couple to each other, he decided
their towering summits that trees growing upon giving a supper, to which tliey
hi opposite clefts of tho rooks intc'rmingled
j their branches and pointed the Snaring
| Gothic arch of a stupendous gateway. She
! raised her eyes wita a quickly beating heart,
j bile knew that tho interlacing trees above
her were as large a. those she bad just quit-
were both invited. He so arranged
matters that they were placed together
at the table, and hoped that this precau
tion, added to the injunctions which he
had given to Napoleon to behave for
»nce in his life with some show of civil-
ted; she knew also that Ibo point where they *ty to a lady, would have the happiest re-
met was only half way up the cliff, for she •'•It- But in this he was fated to bo dis
had once gazed down ujioii them, dwindled
to shrubs from tbo airy summit; she knew
tliat their shaken cones fell a thousand feet
perpendicularly, or bounded like shot from
tho scarred walls they Uimburded. She re
membered that one of these pines, dislodged
from its high foundations, bad once dropped
like a |>ortculli.s in tho archway, blocking the
pass, and was only carried afterward by as-
cault of steel and lire. Bending her head
mechanically, she ran swiftly through the
shadowy passage, and halted only at the be
ginning of the ascent on tho other side.
It was here that the actual iiosition of the
plateau, so indefinite of approach, began to
he realized. It now api>earod an independent
elevation, surrounded on three sides by
gorges and water courses, so narrow as to be
overlooked from tho principal mountain
range, with which it was connected by a long
canyon that led to tho ridge. At the outlet
of this canyon—in bygone ages a mighty
river—it had the appearance of having been
slowly raised by the diluvium of that river,
and the debris waslied down from above—a
suggestion repeated in miniature by the arti
ficial plateaus of excavated soil raised before
the mouth of mining tunnels in the lower
flanks of the mountain. It was the naliza-
tion of a fact—often forgotten by the dwell
ers in Eagle's Court—that the valley below
them, which was their connecting link with
the surrounding w orld, was only reached by
ascending the mountain, and the nearest road
was over the higher mountain ridge Never
before had that impressed itself so strongly
upon the young girl as when she turned that
morning to look upon the plateau below her.
It seemed to illustrate the conviction that
had been slowly shaping itself out of her re
flections on tho conversation of that morning.
It was possible that the jierfect understanding
of a higher life was only reached from a
height still greater, and that to those half
way up the mountain the summit was never
as truthfully revealed as to the humbler
iwellers in the valley.
I do not know that these profounil truths
prevented her from gathering some quaint
ferns and berries, or from keeping her calm
gray eyes open to certain practical changes
that were taking place around tier. She had
noticed a singular thickening in tho atmos
phere that seemed to prevent tho jiassage of
appointed. Napoleon was quite the lost
man to rely upon in such a respect. His
manners toward the fair sex were those
af a costermonger, ami though ho could
generally hold his own in a conversation
with men, he was entirely without the
knack of making himself interesting or
agreeable to women. Ho felt tliat his
place was in the camp or the field, and
ho was quite out of his element among
the conventionalities of a salon.
Had lie been inclined to woo, it would
ba\ e been in a straightforward, soldier
like fashion, not with the dallying* and
compliments so dear to the French woman
of his time. So, presently, Barras had
the mortification of seeing Mile. Montan-
sier, hor back turned to Napoleon, en
gaging in a lively conversation with the
gentleman on the other side, while the
future conqueror was making, with little
pellets of bread, a plan of battle on the
table before him. Hardly a word passed
between the two during the remainder
cf the meal. Hurras watched with grow
ing annoyance the indifference of Na
poleon, and felt his plans melting into
thin air as lie saw the evident delight
with which the widow* turned from him
to llic more entertaining companion stie
had found elsewhere.
Supper over, Barras drew Napoleon
aside and sjioke forcibly to him of the
foolish way in which lie was throwing
away his chances. “You know,” said
lie, “that money is everything to you;
here are 1,000,000 francs, and you will
not stretch out your hand to take them;
a most attractive woman, and you will
not show her the smallest gallantry.
Mile. Moutansior lias come here tins
evening prepared to hear a declaration
from you. Strike while the iron is hot,
and win the wealth that you cauuot do
without at one bold stroke."
“The woman is old enough to be my
grandmother." said Nufioleoii, who was
then 2> v. a: old: “not that is no mat
ter, for to i..c all women are alike.
Money is what I want: and, if I cannot
get it without a wife, 1 must take the
two together. I am no coiner of pretty
speeches, but before the evening is over
I will say to her: ‘Mademoiselle, are
you willing to accept me as your bus-
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tho sun’s rays, yet without diminishing tho 1 More than that I canuot do.”
11 You might change your dress."
“And take tho only man we have, and
leave you alone?” returned Kato slowly.
“No!”
“There are t^e Chinese field hands,” said
Mrs. Halo; “you must correct your ideas,
and really allow them some Immanity, Kato
John says tliey have a very pood compulsory
school system in their own country, and can
read and write.”
“That would be of little use to you here
alone if—if”—Kato hesitated.
“If what?” said Mrs. Hale, smiling. “Are
you thinking of Manners dreadful story of
tho grizzly tracks across the fields this morn
ing? I promise you that neither I nor
mother, nor Minnie, shall stir out of tho house
until your return, if you wish it.”
“I wasn’t thinking of that,” said Kate;
“though I don’t believe tho beating of a gong
and the using of strong language is tho best
way to frighten a grizzly from ttur house.
Besides, the Chinese are going down tho river
to-day to a funeral, or a wedding, or a feast
of stolen chickens—they’re all the same—and
won’t bo here.”
“Then take Manuel,” repeated Mrs. Hale.
“We have tho Chinese servants and Indian
Molly in the house to prelect us from Heaven
knows what! I have the greatest confidence
in Chy-Loo as a warrior, and in Chinese war
fare generally. One has only to hear him
pipe in time of peat o to imagine what a terror
he might become In war time. Indeed, any
thing more deadly and soul harrowing than
that love song he sang for us last night I can
not conceive. But really, Kate, I am not
afraid to stay alone. You know what John
says: we ought to be always prepared for
any tiling that might happen.’’
“My dear Josie,” returned Kate, putting
her arm around her sister’s waist, “I am per
fectly convinced that if Throe-fingered Jack,
or Two-toed Bill, or even Jouquim Marietta
himself should step, red handed, on that ve
randa you would gently invito him to take a
cup of tea, inquire about the state of the
road, and refrain delicately from any allu
sions to the sheriff. But I sha'n’t take
Manuel from you. I really cannot under
take to look after his morals at the station,
and keep him from drinking aguardiente
with suspicious characters at the bar. It is
true he ‘kisses my hand’ in his speech, even
when it is thickest, and offers his back to me
for a horse block, but I think I prefer the
sober and honest familiarity of even that
Pike county landlord who is satisfied to say,
‘Jump, girl, and I’ll ketch 36!’ ”
“I hope you didn’t change your manner to
either of them for that,” said Mrs. Hale with
a faint sigh. “John wants to be good friends
with them, and they are behaving quite
decently lately, considering that they can't
speak a grammatical sentence nor know the
use of f ork. ”
“Aq|i Uonr tho man puts on gloves and a
tall hat to como hero on Sundays, and tho
woman won't call until you've called first,”
retorted Kate; “perhaps you call that im
provement. The fact is, Josephine,” con
tinued tho young girl, folding her arms de
murely, “wo might as well admit it at one*
—these people don’t like us.”
“That’s impossible!'' said Mrs. Hale, with
sublime simplicity. “You dou't like them,
you mean.”
“I like them better than you do, Josie, and
that’s the reason why I feel it and you don't”
She checked herself, and after a pause re
sumed in a lighter tone: “No; I shan't go to
the station; I’D commune witli nature to-day,
and won't ‘take any humanity in mine, thank
you,’as Bill tho driver saya Adios.”
“I wish Kate would not use that dreadful
slang, even in jest,” said Mrs. Scott, in her
rocking chair at the French window, when
Josephine re-entered the parlor as her sister
walked briskly away. “I am afraid the is
being infected by the people at the station.
Bbo ought to have a change.”
“I was just thinking," sold Josephine, look
ing abstractedly at her mother, “that I would
tty to get John to take her to San Francisco
this winter. The Careys are expected, you
know; tho might visit them.”
“I'm afraid if she stays here much longer
the won't care to soe them at ail. She seems
to cars for nothing now that the ever liked
before,” returned the old lady ominously.
Meantime the subject of these criticisms
was carrying away her own reflections tight
ly buttoned up in her short jacket. She had
driven back her dog Spot—another one of her
disillusions, who, giving way to his lower
nature, had ones killed a sheep—as she did
not wish her Jacques-like contemplation of
any wounded deer to be inconsistently inter
rupted by a fresh outrage
panion. The air waa really very
for the first'*<» to h"
transparent quality of the air. The distant
snow peaks were as plainly seen, though they
appeared os if in moonlight. This seemed
duo to no cloud or mist, but rather to a fad
ing of tho sun itself. Tho occasional flurry
of wings overhead, the whirling of larger
birds in the cover, and a frequent rustling in
tho undergrowth, as of the passage of some
stealthy animal, began equally to attract her
attention. It was so different from the ha
bitual silence of these sedate solitudes. Kate
“The very kind of proposal that any
woman would expect from a blunt sol
dier,” replied Barras. “Say that, and I
desire no more. You are to be envied;
for, besides her wealth, mademoiselle is
very handsome still.”
THE FORESTALLED PROPOSAL.
Napoleon turned away with a gesture
of impatience; but half an hour later
Barras noticed, to bis joy, that the two
were alone together in a recess. Presently
had no vague fear of wild beasts: she had Napoleon got up and went away, and
been long enough a mountaineer to under
stand the general immunity enjoyed by the
unmolesting wayfarer, and Isept her way un
dismayed. She was descending an abrupt
trail when she was stopped by a sudden crash
in the bushes. It seemed to come from the
opposite incline, directl}* in a lino with her,
and apparently on the very trail that she
was pureuing. The crash was then repeated
again and again lower down, as of a descend
ing body. Expecting the apparition of some
fallen tree, or detached bowlder bursting
through the thicket, in its way to the bottom
of the gulch, she waited. The foliage was
suddenly brushed aside, and a large grizzly
bear half rolled, half waddled, into the trail
Oil the opposite side of the hill. A few mo
ments more would have brought them face
to face at the foot of the gulch; when she
stopped there were not fifty yards between
them.
She did not scream; she did not faint; she
was not oven frightened. There did not seem
to be anything terrifying in this huge, stupid
beast, who, arrested by tho rustle of a stone
displaced by her descending feet, rose slowly
on his haunches and gazed at her with small,
wondering eyes. Nor did it seem strange to
her, seeing that he was in her waj r , to pick up
a stone, throw it in his direction and say sim- a
ply, “Sbo! get away!” as sho would have done
to an intruding cqw. Nor did it seem odd
that ho should actually “go away” os he did,
scrambling back into the bushes again and
disappearing like some grotesque figure in a
transformation scene. It was not until after
he had gone that sho was taken with a slight
nervousness and giddiness, and retraced her
steps somewhat hurriedly, shying a little at
every rustle in the thicket By the time she
had reached the great gateway she was
doubtful whether to be pleased or frightened
at tho incident, but she concluded to keep it
to herself.
It was still intensely cold. . The light of the
midday sun had decreased still more, and on
reaching the plateau again she saw that a
dark cloud, not unlike the precursor of a
thunder stonn, was brooding over the snowy
peaks beyond. In spite of the cold this sin
gular suggestion of summer phenomena was
still borne out by tho distant smiling valley,
and oven in tho soft grasses at her feet. It
seemed to her the crowning inconsistency of
tho climate, and with a half serious, half
playful protest on her Ups she hurried for
ward to sock the shelter of the house.
the lady beckoned to Barras with her
fan “Take away that dreadful little
man,” she said with a shudder; “he has
bored me to death, and I only prevented
him from proposing by sending him for
a glass of lemonade.”
“But why prevent him?” said Barras.
“He w ill be a great man yet.”
“(live myself and my money to such a
little horror, such an ill-mannered boor
as that!” replied mademoiselle. “Never!
1 would sooner take the first beggar man
cut of the streets. What have I done
that 1 should be given such a wretched
evening? Don't let your”
But at this moment she was checked
by the arrival of Napoleon with the
lemonade. Barras hurried away, still
hoping for the best; but soon be saw at
the other end of the room Bonaparte
standing in the attitude in which ho has
so often been depicted, with his arms
folded and his chin sunk upon them.
“Well, are you to be married?” he said,
hastening towards bis protege.
“Tliat old actress,” said Napoleon,“tliat
female Croesus refused me before I had
opened my mouth to ask her hand. I was
on the point of speaking, as 1 told you I
should speak, when she began to inform
me that her wealth was the cause of her
constantly receiving offers from adven
turers who cared nothing for herself; that
she thanked Providence she had so far
seen through some fellows, and tliat she
w’as resolved to keep her independence.
I waa glad I bad not spoken, for it gave
me the opportunity of saying; ‘Made
moiselle, pray persevere in that praise
worthy intention; it is one which I am
sure no one will ever try to persuade you
to alter.’ Let her keep her millions to
bait the book for some one else; I have
done with her.”
And in spite of Barras’ endeavors tb.
affair ended there.
In after years Mile. Montansier wai
fond of boasting that, bad she chosen, she
might have been empress of France and
wife of the most famous man of the age.
Gould she have been gifted with the fac
ulty of foresight, no doubt she would have
regarded more leniently the young mar.
whom M. Barras wished her to marry.—
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Base Ball Supplies, Croquet sets, Ham
mocks, etc.
EDW. L. GERNAND, Gen. Agent.
COLUMBIA, S. C„
The Oldest, Largest, Strongest and the
Best Company in the World.
Cash Resources Over One Hundred
and Thirty Millions of Dollars.
— THIS —
Great Corporation
Has earned for and paid out to
its policy holders in t ash
profits in twenty-one
years the enormous sum of
$73,000,000,
WHICH IS NEARLY
Eleven Millions of
DOLLARS
More than the combined returns
attained by the next two
leading companies
LINDSAY & LATTA, Agts.
For the Counties of Darlington,
Florence, Chesterfield, Chester
and York, Yorkville, S. C.
Feb. 27, 1890.
Mechanics!
All persons in need of babbitt metal
can purchase it cheap at Tub Dah-
linoton News office.
June 12, ’90—tf
1 HENRY M. SMITH,
Real Estate Agent,
Florence St., Darlington, S. C.
o
Special attention paid to the buying
anil selling of real estate, collection of
rents, Ac. The strictest attention
will be paid to all business entrust
ed to me.
March 27, 1890—ly
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.
EverytMng Yon Want in the
Stationery Line,
C^IST BE BOTJG-BIT -A-T
THE DARLINGTON BOOK STORE.
Terms Cash :
DARGAN & LIDE, Proprietors.
January 10, 1890.
Head
prices,
GEO.E.TOALE.
HENRY OLIVER
Undertaker's Supplies.
We have a large line of handsome
Coffins, which can be obtained as
cheaply as anywhere else in Darling
ton. \Ve further offer the use of our
hearse free of charge, provided the
distance from town l>e not too groat.
N. L. HARRELL & CO.
April 10-tf
(To be Continued.)
DonapHrte'a Match Making Frlcn.l Meets
with ■ Sure Disappointment—Tli. Young
Corsican Needed Money, but Not a
Grandmother.
At the commencement of his career
the groat Napoleon fell In with an ardent
revolutionist, M. Paul Francois Barras,
who took a great liking to the young
Corsican, and conceived the highest
opinion of Ids abilities and of the powers
which, events proved, he possessed in so
remarkable a degree. But in the opinion
of Barras, Napoleon’s want of means
was a most serious obstacle to his chance
of achieving fame, and ho proposes to
remedy this by selecting for him a rich
wife. Now, whether it was that he did
not number among his acquaintances
many women with the requisite dot, or
whether he thought that his porteges , , ,,
fiery youth would be better for the re- You haVG, tniud it Oil for anotn-
straining influence which a wife of some er a j.
experience in the ways of the world |
would no doubt be able to exert, Barras Unnnn’c Inutfilpu
chode-for this position a woman who, ; UidDvII D JCffCII | Dll’Ivi
though still undeniably handsome, was
no longer young. ] Key and Stem Winding Railroad
PETER BOWLES,
ThOES first-class House and Sign
Painting; Kalsomine Work a
specialty.
JJjT He solicits
Darlington.
the
intronage or
Feb. 27-lyr
If you don’t like the
Though the was called MUe. Montan
sier, sho was in reality a widow, who,
because she had been on the stage, had
never adopted the name of her husband.
She was 00 years of age, but it was said
that sho made herself appear to be not
more than 40 by the intiihate knowl
edge that she possessed of the secrets of
the toilet table.
DIPLOMACY or BAMAB.
Barras made up his mind that it
Watches of All Kinds on hand.
Feb. 20. 1890.
For Sale.
Geo. E. Toale k Co,
MANUFACTURERS
—AND—
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Doors, Sash, Winds,
Builders Hardware,
AND
lit
OFFICE AND SALESROOMS
10 and 12 Unyiio Street,
CHARLESTON, - • S. C
Write for Estimates
May 31, 1888.
I will offer for sale at Mr. J.
C. Clements’ place, near Lydia,
on Wednesday, August 20, a
six-horse power engine, in good
Imperative to the success of Napoleon's running order.
■ that he should make this- elderly
his wife, and accordingly be set
Jf ttt work to hrijuT about the
N. L. Harrell,
Aug 14, ’90 Adm’r.
U. Auvn,
Marmlacturers
-OF—
Doors, Sash, Blinds,
jSvfroxjLDiisros
—and—
Building Material.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
CHARLESTON, S. V.
April, 20 1889—1
The Darlington Land la
ment Company
! litre desirable Building Lots snl lend,
.foreale, Apply to
J. J. WARD,
President and Trea.urer.
I Jan. 24,’89-ly
J.
iL' I
1,000 yards assorted Worsteds at 10 cts, worth 20 to 40cts
A full line Cashmeres at 121 and 15 cts. Wo 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 consisting of Cash
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 Department war
rant us in the belief that oui Clothing and Hats
Men’s, Youths’ and Roys’ suit the people,
both as to quality and price.
We carry always in stock a full line of Hardware, Crockery,
Tin, Harness, &c.
GROCERIES.
The Grocory Department is large and kept well supplied, at
Rock-bottom prices.
HARDWARE.
At the Hardware Store, Managed by J. H. Early,
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 31,1889.
these roads will run as follow! (Sunda/ ex-
ceptcd) every day;
DOWM TRAIN.
Leave Wadesboro
...5.25 A M
Dennetts
...5.40
Morvcn's
...6.55
McFarland
Leave Cheraw
Society Hill
Dove’s
. 7 13
Darlington
. 7.60
Palmetto...
Arrive at Florence
. 8 15
UP TRAIN.
Leave Florence
8.10 P M
Palmetto
8 25
Darlington
8.35
Floyds
8.40
Dove’s
8.02
Sooietyllill
0.12
Cash’s
9 17
McFarlan
10.08
Morvcn’s
10.20
Bennett's
10.35
Lake Wadesboro a.
11.00
Freight Train going up.
Leave Florence
8 1 b • m
Arrive Darlington
9.05 a m
Freight going down
Arrive DarlinSlon
3.00 p m
Leave Darlington
8.30 p m
Arrive Florence
4.10 p in
A. F. RAVENEL, Pres.
G II Master Transportation.
mrORTIIKASTERN RAILROAD.
0iiaulkston, S. C., May
1, 189ft.
On and after this date the following
schedule will be run :
DOING SOUTH.
No. 27, Daily.
j Leave Florence
*1 85 a m
Leave Kingstrce
2 29 a m
Arrive Lancs
2 60 n m
Leave Lanes
2 60 a rn
Arrive Charleston
6 00 a in
No. 23, Daily.
Leave Florence
*8 30 a m
Leave Kingstree
9 40 a n
Arrive Lanes
10 07 a i
Leave Lanes
10 07 a I.
Arrive Clmrloston
11 59 a in
No 53.
Leave Lancs
*7 60 P. M.
Arrive Charleston
9 30 p. m.
Train on C & D R It conn
els at Fior-
ence with No 23 Train.
GOING NORTH.
No. 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*! 20 s m
Arrive Lnnos
3 00 ft in
Leave Lnnos
3 00 a ni
Leave Kingstree
3 17 a m
Arrive Florence
4 20 a m
No. M.
Leave Cnarleslon
*4 30 p m
Arrive Lanes
f> 29 p bi
Leave Lanes
0 29 p m
Leave Kingstree
0 4ti p HI
Arrive Florence
7 56 p m
No. 62, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*7 00 a in
Arrive Lanes
8 27 a ra
* Daily, f Daily except Sun
Nos 52 run. through to Columbia
via Central II R of S C.
Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wilmington,
N. C., making close connection with W. h
W R It for all points north.
J. R. KENLY, J. F. Divim,
Supt. Trans. Qcn’l Sup't.
T. M. Embksok, Oen'l Pass. Agt.
MLIINCTON COL LIBIA All AlCLSTA KAILKOA
May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
Leave Wilmington
*0 16 p m
Leave Marion
9 <33 p m
Arrive Florence
10 20 a m
No. 60.
Leave Florence
3.20 a u
Arrive Sumter
4. 6 ft IK
Leave Sumter
4 36 a in
Arrive Columbia
6. 15 a to
No. 37
Leave Wilmington
*10.10 p ra
Leave Marion
12.40 p m
Arrive Florence
1 20 a m
No 62
Leave Sumter
f 9 45 a m
Arrive Columbia
10 66 p m
No 68
Leave Florence
f8 26 a n
Arrive Sumter
9 36 a in
No 62 runs through from
Chariest*!! via
Central R 11.
Leaving Lanes 8 80 A M., Manning 9 10
A M.
Train on C & D R R conneoisat Flcrenci
is kept wi<h No 58,
| Leave Sumtci
i Arrive Flore
Fldfc E
^eaTo Marioi
(jjljr ptmk of Piurliitflfbif,
• - -
♦ %
HAS OPENED A
SA/viisras idefartjviiei'Jt,
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.
BRIGHT
GOING NORTH.
No. 61.
/.cave Columbia.
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
loreoce
Nff. 78.
nee,
lave Marion
i Arrive at Wilmington,
•No. 59
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
v No. 53,
j Lease Colasnbia
I Arrige Sumter
No W
Leave Florence .
Leave Marion
*10 85 p n
11 58 p a
11 58 p m
1 15 a m
4 35 a m
f. 20 a a
8 36 a m
fC 37 p m
7 50 p a
*5 20 p m
0 32 p a
*8 16 p m
8 55 p m
11 45 p m
W. C. COKER,
President.
Darlingtod, 8, C., June 18, ’89
WILLIAMSOH,
* Cashier.
Hanoi
Arrive at Wilmington”
*Daily. fDally except Sunday.
N» 63 rune through lo Charleston, via
Oenlrai R it/ arriving Manning' 04 P A
Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 30 P M.
No 69 conueeis at Florence with CAD
train for Cheraw and Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make close eonneotton at
Wilmington with W A 17 R R for all point
! 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 0.30 A. M., arrive Pec Dee 8.50
A.M.
Train ou Mnncheeter & Augusta R. R.
leaves Sumter daily except Sunday. 10.50
A.M..arrive Rimini 12.01 M. IL -
turning leave Rimini 12.16 P. M , ar
rive Sumter 1.80 P, M.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen. Snp’t.
J. R. KENLEY, Asst, Oen'l Manager.
|T.M. EMMERSON.Gen. Pas. Agt.