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ALLIANCE DIRECTORY,
ifaetrij.
The Banks O' Doon.
Ye banks and braes V> bonnie Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and
fair;
How can ye chant, yo li tie birds,
And I sac weary, fu’ o’ care f
Thou ll break my heart, thou warb
ling bird,
That wantons through the dowering
thorn ;
Thou minds me o’ departed joys.
Departed—never to return!
Oft ha’e 1 roved by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodbine twine;
And ilka bird sang o’ its hive,
And fondly sae ilid 1 o’ mine.
Wi’ lightsome heart 1 pu’d a rose,
Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree ;
And my fause lover stole my rose,
But, ah! he left the thorn wi’ me.
[Robert Burns.
what is called sport and sportsmen. Put .. .....
rifle seems” ' her acciu more a vs tun. Uaii you say the
“Whatr said Folkncr.
u More—"entlemtnl v."
same of yourself and that Pcritua girl I"
' “But you did not advise mo to Keep aloof |
from her; on the contrary, you”
She had mhed her pretty head in .he. air, | . t lh<>u; . ht you mlgllt ^ Utebertof th. :
rni , ni.u ler am s n mig her eyes, waa ^Walton end pay her some attention, because
ks-tlns around Urn clour ether, and said T , M ,™u „otro a„v further ”
meditatively, ‘ I wonder—no matter.”
“What is itr
“Oh, nothing.”
“It is sometUhiE,” said Fulkner, with
amused smile, reloading his rifle.
‘Well, you once promised me an eagle’s |
Officers Darlington County Alliance.
President, Lucas McIntosh; Vice-
President, J. W. Beasley; Secretary,
W. H. Lawrence ; Treasurer, M. T.
Lide; Chaplain, Rev. Simpson Jones;
Lecturer, H. C. Burn ; Assistant Lec
turer, J. Wilson Warr; Doorkeeper,
8. E. Moore; Assistant Doorkeeper,
W. S. Atkinson; Sergeant-at-Arms,
CL B. Howie.
KXKCUTIVK COMMITTKK.
E. M. Williamson, J. W. Ferguson
and J. B. Witherspoon.
County Trustee and Bl sincss Agent,
J. W. FVsrguson.
Lydia, No. 416, meets in the Lydia
Academy, on the first and third Satur
day in each month, at 8 P. M. T. D.
King, President; C. W. Galloway,
Sectetary.
Lamar,'No. 62, meets in the Acade
my building at Lamar, on the first
and third Saturdays of each month,
at 8 o’clock. President, J. 8. DuBose ;
Secretary, J. T. Warr.
Mechanicsville Alliance, No. 192,
meets the second and fourth Satur
days in each month at 3 o’clock in the
school house at Mechanicsville; J. W.
Fountain, President; A. Warr, Jr.,
Secretary.
Antioch, No. 87, meets at Coldwater
School House, on the 2nd and 4th
Saturdays of each month; President,
J. W. Davis; Secretary, J. A. Chap
man.
Dovesville, No. 88, meets in the
Dovesville Academy, on the second
Thursday of every inonthat 3 o'clock;
President, Lucas McIntosh ; Secre
tary, E. M. Williamson.
Cypress, No. 189, meets on the third
Saturday of each month, at 2. P. M.,
in the Temperance Hall at Cypress;
President, W. F. Chaplin; Secretary,
Walter J. DuBose.
Swift Creek, No. 191, meets at Flinn's
Cross Roads on the second and fourth
Saturdays of each month ; President,
G. B. Howie ; Secretary, W. S. Atkin
son.
'elphi
Garner’s School House on the first
and third Saturdays of each month ;
President, Dr. P. A. Wilson; Secreta
ry, W. A. Dowling.
Mt. Eton, No. 131, meets in the Mt.
Elon School House on the Saturday
before the 2d and 4th Sunday of each
month, at 2 o’clock, P, M.; President,
J. B. Witherspoon; Secretary, T. L.
Northcutt.
L ;y:
Village Library, on the last Tuesday
of each month; President, E. E,
Evans; Secretary, J. J. Lucas.
Darlington, No. 186, meets in the
Court House, on the first Saturday
of each month, at 4 o’clock, P. M. ;
President, W. E. James ; Secretary,
M. T. Lide.
Hartsville, No. 187, meets in the
Hartsville Masonic Hall on the first
Saturday of each month, at 3 o’clock,
P. M. ; President, E. W. Cannon;
Secretary, H. Lide Law.
Oats, No. 139, meets in the Oats
Academy Building, on the first and
third Saturdays of each month, at
2.30 P, M.; President, J. C. Clements;
Secretary, R. M. Josey.
Stokes Bridge, No. 128, meets the
third Saturday of each month in Sa
vanna Chapel; President, John W.
Woodham; Secretary, W. W. Alex
ander.
Calvin Rhodes, No. 417. meets the
first and third Wednesdays of each
month in the school house on Mr. N.
H. Blackman’s place; President, E. H.
Carter, Jr.; Secretary, J. L. Odom.
Oak Grove, No. 89, meets in Oak
Grove School House (Hartsville Town
ship) on the second and fourth
Saturdays of each month ; President,
J. T. Goodson; Secretary, W. M. Mc
Intosh
Clyde, No. —, meets near Clyde on
the second and fourth Saturdays of
gvery month; President, H. M. Pope;
secretary, D. P. Walters.
Newmarket, No. 188, meets in New
market Church, on the first and third
Saturdays of each month, at two
o’clock; President, R. E. Panrell; Sec
retary, D. F. Morrison.
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BY DUET HAUTE.
[Copyrighted by Houghton, Jlimin &. Co., and
puuliriwHl by arrangement with them.]
CHAPTER VII.
A week had passed afc Eagle’s Court—a
week of mingled clouds and sunshine by day,
of rain over the green plateau and snow on
the mountain by night. Each morning had
brought its fresh greenness to the winter girt
domain and a fresh coat of dazzling white to
the barrier that separated its dwellers from
the world beyond. There was little change
in the encompassing wall of their prison; if
you uxihl not go any further
“You thought I was utterly heartless and
selfish, like”
“Ned!”
Falkner walked rapidly to the fireplace and !
returned.
“Forgive me, George—Pm a fool—and an |
feather for ray hat. Isn't that thing an ■ un g Vn ,ef u l one."
I Leo did not reply at once, although lie took
“I am afraid it is only a hawk.*’ an( j retained the hand Falkner had impul-
\\ ell, that will do. Shoot that!” sively extended. “Promise me,” he said
Her eyes were sparkling. Falkner with- ; slowly, after a pause, “that you will say noth- *
drew his own with a slight smile and raised i f n g y e t to either of these women. I ask it for
his i ifle tv ith provoking deliberation. ! your own sake and this girl’s, not for mine.
“Are you quite sure it’s what you want?” on the contrary, you are tempted to do so
from any Quixotic idea of honor, remember
that you will only precipitate something that ;
will oblige you, from that same sense of
anything, the snowy circle round them \ a more difficult one.”
he asked demurely.
“Yes—quick!”
Nevertheless, it was some minutes before
the rifle cracked again. The wheeling bird j honor, to sejiarate from the girl forever.”
suddenly struck the wind with its wings j “I don’t understand."
aslant, and then fell like a plummet at a “Enough!” said he, with a quick return of
distance which showed the difficulty of the; Ms old reckless gayety. “Shoot-off-his-mouth, j
feat. Falkner started from her side before the beardless boy chief of the Sierras, has
the bird reached the ground. Ha returned to ipoken! Let the pale face with the black
her after a lapse of a few moments, bearing a mustache ponder and beware how ho talks
trailing wing in his hand. “You shall make hereafter to the Rippling Cochituate Water!
your choice,” he said gayly. I
“Are you sure it was killed outright?” , Nevertheless, as soon as the door had closed j
“Head shot off,” said Falkner briefly. ! upon Falkner, Lee’s smile vanished. With
“And, besides, the fall would have killed j his colorless face turned to the fading light at
it,” said Kate conclusively. “It’s lovely. I the window, the hollows in his temples and
suppose they call J'ou a very good shot?” ' the lines in the corners of his eyes seemed to
“They—who?” i have grown more profound. Ho remained
“Oh! the people you know’—your friends ! motionless and absorbed in thought so deep
and their sisters.” I that the light rustle of a skirt, that would at
“George shoots better than I do, and has other times have thrilled his sensitive ear,
had more experience. I’ve seen him do that passed unheeded. At last, throwing off his
with a pistol. Of course not such a long shot, reverie with the full and unrestrained sigh of
Kate did not reply, but her face showed a
conviction that as an artistic and gentle
manly performance it was probably in
ferior to the one she had witnessed. Falkner,
who had picked up the hare also, again took
his place by her side, as they turned toward
the house.
seemed to have drawn its lines nearer day by
day. The immediate result of this restricted
limit had been to confine the range of cattle
to the meadows nearer the house, and at a
safe distance from the fringe of wilderness
now invaded by the prowling tread of preda
tory animals.
Nevertheless, the two figures lounging on
the slope at sunset gave very little indication
of any serious quality in the situation. In
deed, so far as appearances were concerned,
Kate, who was returning from an afternoon
stroll with Falkner, exhibited, with feminine
inconsistency, a decided return to the world
of fashion and conventionality just os she was
effectually excluded from it. She had not
only discarded her white dress os a concession
to the practical evidence of the surrounding j 88 id Kate, “and they’ve got down to only
winter, but she had also brought out a feather four. There’s a bear and that shabby, over-
hat and sable muff which had once graced a grown cat you call a Califomia lion, and a
fashionable suburb of Boston. Even Falkner w °lf. a,1 d a creature like a fox or a squirrel.”
had exchanged his slouch hat and picturesque “It’s a pity they’re not all of a kind,” said
serape for a beaver overcoat and fur cap of ; Falkner.
Hale’s which had been pressed upon him by j “Why ?” . ' ■ , ”1
a man who believes himself alone, he was
startled by the soft laugh of Mrs. Hale, who
had entered the room unperceivod.
“Dear me! How portentous! Really, I
almost feel as if I w’ere interrupting a tete-a-
tete between yourself and some old flame. I
haven't heard anything so old-fashioned and
conservative as that sigh since I have been in
“Do you remember the day you came, j California. I thought you never hod any
when we were walking here, you pointed out! Past out here?”
that rock on the mountain where the poor | Fortunately his face was between her and
animals hail taken refuge from the snow?” the light, and the unmistakable expression of
“I need all my persuasive powers in that I
way for myself,” said Leo boldly.
Mrs. Halo rose. <*1 think I hear Kate com
ing.” she said. Nevertheless, she did uot move
away. “It is Kate coming,” she added hur
riedly, stopping to pick up her work basket,
which had slipjxvi with Lee’s hand from her
own.
It was Kate, who at cnee flew to her sister’s
assistance, Leo deploring from tho sofa his
own utter inability to aid her. “It’s all my I
fault, too,” l.o said to Kate, but locking at '
Mirs. Hale. “It seems I have a faculty of up
setting existing arrangements without the
power of improving them, or even putting I
them back in their places. What shall I do?
I am willing to hold any number of skeins or i
rewind any quantity of spools. I am even j
willing Ij forgive Ned for spending the whole
day with you, and only bringing me the wing
of a hawk for supper.”
“That was all my folly, Mr. Lee,” said
Kate, with swift mendacity; “he was all the
time looking after something for you, when I
begged Mm to shoot a bird to get a feather
for my bat. And that wing is so pretty.”
“It is a pity that mere beauty is not edible,”
said Lee, gravely, “and that if the worst
comes to the worst here you would probably
prefer me to Ned and his mustachios, merely
because I’ve been tied by the leg to this sofa
and slowly fattened like a Strasbourg goose.”
Neverthelem bis badinage failed somehow
to amuse Kate, and she presently excused
hei-self to rejoin her sister, who had already
slipped from tho room. For the first time
during their enforced seclusion a sense of re
straint and uneasiness affected Mrs. Hale, her
sister and Falkner at dinner. The latter ad
dressed himaelf to Mrs. Scott almost entirely.
Mrs. Hale was fain to bestow an exceptional
and marked tenderness on her little daughter
Minnie, who, however, by some occult child
ish instinct, insisted on sharing it with Lee,
her great friend, to Mrs. Halo's uneasy con-
sciousnesa Nor was Lee slow to profit by the
child’s suggestion, but responded with certain
vicarious caresses 'hat increased the mother’s
embarrassment. That evening they retired
early, but in the intervals of a restless night
Kate was aware, from tho sound of voices in
tho opposite room, that the friends were
equally wakeful.
said Kate, suddenly.
“Yes,” answered Falkner; “they seem to
have diminished. I am afraid you were right;
they have either eaten each other or escaped.
Let us hope the latter.”
“I looked at them with a glass every day,’
Kate, under tho excuse of the exigencies of
the season. Within a stone’s throw of the
thicket, turbulent with the savage forces of
nature, they walked with the abstraction of
people healing only their own voices; in the
face of tho solemn peaks clothed with white
austerity they talked gravely of dress.
They walked with the abbtraetton of people
hearing only their own voices.
“I don’t mean to say,” said Kate demurely,
“that you’re to give up the serape entirely;
you can wear it on rainy nights and when
you ride over here from your friend’s house
to spend the evening—for the sake of old
times,” she added, with an unconscious air of
referring to an already antiquated friend
ship; “but you must admit it’s a little too
“There’d bo nothing to keep them from be
ing comfortable together.”
“On the contrary. I should think it would
be simply awful to be shut up entirely with
one’s own kind.”
“Then you believe it is possible for them,
with their different natures and habits, to be
happy together?” said Falkner, with sudden
earnestness.
“I believe,” said Kate hurriedly, “that
the bear and the Hon find the fox and the
wolf very amusing; and that tho fox and
the wolf”
i “Well?” said Falkner, stopping short.
! “Well, tho fox and the wolf will carry
| away a much better opinion of the lion and
Ijear than they had before.”
| They had reached tho house by this time,
and for some occult reason Kate did not im-
j mediately enter tho parlor, where she had
| left her sister and the invalid, who had al
ready been promoted to a sofa and a cushion
; by the window, but proceeded directly to
I her own room. As a maneuver to avoid
meeting Mrs. Hale, it was scarcely neces-
j sary, for that lady was already in advance of
I her on the staircase, as if she had left the
j parlor a moment before they entered the j
! house. Falkuer, too, would have preferred
tho company of his own thoughts, but Lee,
apparently the only unpreoccupied, all per-
annoyance and impatience which passed over
it was spared her. There was, however, still
enough dissonance in his manner to affect
her quick feminine sense, and when she drew
nearer to him it was with a certain maiden
like timiditj’.
“You are not worse, Mr. Leo, I hope?
You have not over exerted yourself?”
“There’s little clinuce of that with one leg
—if not in the grave at least mummified
with bande.ges,” ho replied, with a bitterness
new to him.
“Shall I . l ...a il.ein? Perhaps they ore
too tight. There is nothing so irritating to
one as the sensation of being tightly bound.”
The light touch of her hand upon the rug
that covered his kness, the thoughtful ten
derness of the blue veined lids, and the deli
cate atmosphere that seemed to surround her
like a perfume cleared his face of its shadow
and brought back the reckless fire into his j
blue e3’es.
“I suppose I’o intolerant of all bonds,” he
said, looking at her intently, “in others as
well as myself!”
Whether or not she detected any double
meaning in his words she was obliged to ac
cept tho challenge of his direct gaze and,
raising her eyes to his, drew back a little
from him with a slight increase of color.
“I was afraid you had heard bad news just
now.”
“What would you call bad news?” asked
Lee, clasping his hands behind his head and
leaning buck on the sofa, but without with
drawing his eyes from her face.
“Oh, any news that would interrupt your
convalescence or break up our little family
party,” said Mrs. Hale. “You have been |
getting on so well that really it would seem
cruel to have anything interfere with our
life of forgetting and being forgotten. But,”
she added with apprehensive quickness, “has
anything happened? Is there really any
hailed him from within, and obliged him to
present himself on the threshold of the par
lor with the hare and hawk’s wing ho was
still carrying. Eying the latter with affected
concern, Leo said gravely: “Of course, I
can eat it, Ned, and I dare say it’s the best
part of the fowl, and tho hare isn’t more
than enough for the women, but I had no
j idea wo were so reduced. Three hours and
gorgeous and theatrical for the sunlight of | a ha , f „ unnin ^ and only ono hare and a
vading and boyishly alert spirit in the party, news from—from the trails? Yesterday Mr.
day and tho public highway.
“But why should that make it wrong, if the
experience of a people has shown it to lie a
garment best fitted for their wants and re
quirements?” said Falkner argumentatively.
“But you are not one of those people,” said
Kate, “and that makes all the difference.
You look differently and act differently, so
that there is something irreconcilable between
your clothes and you that makes you look
odd.”
“And to look odd, according to your civil-
Consumption Among momteys.
The monkeys in oar menageries usual
ly die of consumption. Recent investi
gations which connect pulmonary tuber
cles with bacilli, and Indicate that
the germs of these pestiferous creatures
may be communicated by the breath,
render it a matter of small surprise that
the poor creatures, confined together in
the detestable atmosphere of such places
as the monkey house of the Zoological
gardens, should become thus infected
—-d speedily die. It is a curious fact
that tiie keepers of caged animals in
menageries are usually victims of pul
monary consumption.—New York Tele
gram.
How City Water Kay B« Waited.
In a recent water works report a table
is published giving in gallons and hun-
drodths of a gallon the discharge of water
per minute tarongh various Mass of ori
fices at different heads. Rough calcula
tions are also mads showing the im
mense quantities of water which escape
in the small streams sometimes allowed
to run from faucets In cold weather to
prevent frees! ng. It is also shown that
a stream the stss of a pin running one
year with head of 150, will flow 115,683
K»bon», at a loeu, counting at the rate of
| hawk's wing. It's terrible.”
Perceiving that his friend was alone, Falk-
j nor dropped his burden in the hall and strode
I rapidly to his side. “Look here, George, we
| must—I must—leave this place at once. It’s
I no use talking; I can stand this sort of thing
j no longer.”
“Nor can I, with the door open. Shut it,
| and say what you want quick, before Mrs.
I Hale comes back. Have you found a trail?”
“No, no; that’s not what I mean.”
“Well, it strikes me it ought to be, if you
ired prejudices, is to be wrong,” said Falkner to get away. Have you proposed to
bitterly. j Beacon Street, and she thinks it rather pre-
“It is to seem different from what one nature on a week’s acquaintance!”
really u which is wrong. Now, you are a ., No . but „
mining superintendent, you tell mo. Iben ; “But you will, you mean! Don’t, just
you don't want to look like a Si»anish brig- yc £ ■,
and, as you do in that serape. I am sure if ; i‘g ut j cann ot live this perpetual lie.”
you had ridden up to n stage coach while I “That depends. I don’t know how you're
was in it I’d have handed you my watch lyin} , when rm not w j t h y0 u. If you’re
and purse without a word. Tbcrol you arc walkin g round w ith that girl, singing hymns
not offendedr she added, with a laugh, ‘ an(1 0 f y0 ur class in Sunday school,
which did not, however, conceal a certain j oj . jf you , re insinuating that you’re a million-
earnestness. “1 SUPIKMO I ought to have said air0 and tl]lnk of t , uy i ng the place for a
I would have given it gladly to such a ro- , summer hotel, I should‘say you’d better quit
mantic figure, and perhaps have got out and i that kln( , of lying Buti 0 „ t i, 0 other hand,
danced a saraband or bolero with you—if j j ^ the neP0SS ity of your dancing
Falkner said tho snow had recommenced in
the pass. Has he seen anything, noticed any
thing different.”
She looked so very pretty, with the rare, |
genuine and youthful excitement that trans
figured her wearied and wearying regularity
of feature, that Lee contented himself with |
drinking in her prettiness as ho would have
Inhaled tho perfume of some flower.
“Why do you look at me so, Mr. Leel” she
! asked, with a slight smile. “I believe some-
I thing has happened. Mr. Falkner has |
brought you some intelligence.”
“Ho has certainly found out something I
I did uot foresee.”
"And that troubles you?”
“It docs.”
“Is it a secret!”
“No."
“Then 1 suppose you will tell it to mo ct
^ dinner,” she said, with a little tone of relief. ;
“I am afraid if I tell it at all I must tell it j
now,” ho said, glancing nt tho door.
“You must do as you think best,” she said,
coldly, “as it scons to be a secret after alb”
| She hesitated. "Kato is dressing, and will
uot bo down in somo time."
“So much the better. For I am afraid that |
Ned has made a poor return to your hospi- j
tality by falling in love with her.”
“Impossible! He Ims known her for ;
scarcely a week.”
“I am afraid we won’t agree as to the
length of time necessary to appreciate and
lovo a woman. I think it can bo done In i
seven days and four hours, the exact time we
have been here.”
Yes; but as Kate was not in when you
silenoe.
“How else can I get you the red snow we
saw at sunset the other day on the peek yon
der!'' said Lee, gayly. “Ill hove to get up
some moruing very eerly ami catch it when
it comes nt sunrise."
“What Is this wonderful snow, Minnie, that
you arc tormenting Mr. Leo fori" asked Mrs.
Hale.
“Oh I it’s a fairy snow that he told mo all
about; it only comes when the sun comes up
and goes down, and if you catch over so little
of it in your hand it makes all you fink you
want come true! Wouldn’t that ho nicer
But to the rhiM’a astonishment her little
circle of auditors, even while assenting,
sighed.
Tile red snow was there plain enough the
next morning before tho valley wa* warm
with light, and while Minnie, her mother
and aunt Kate wore still peacefully sleeping.
And Mr. Lee bad kept his word and was evi
dently seeking it, for ho and Falkner were
already urging their horses through the isiss,
will) their faces toward and lit op by its glow.
(To be Continued.)
she said, after a dangerous pause, “consider
that Pve said it”
He had been walking a little before her,
with his face turned toward the distant
mountain. Suddenly he stopped and faced
her.
that is the thing to do nowadays. \\cll!’ she berc with a shot gun, and yelling for arrived, ami did not come until later, you
~ ~ Harkins’ blood, or counting that package of j must take 0 ff at least one hour,” said Mrs.
greenbacks in the lap of Miss Scott to be j gayly.
truthfnb It seems to me th»-o ought to be j “Sfej can4 J shall uot abate a second.”
something between the two.” “But are you not mistaken in his feel-
“But, George, don’t you think—you are on ; j ngs j» B h 0 continued hurriedly. “He cor-
such good terms with Mrs. Hale and her ta j„] v has not aaid anything to her.”
“You would have given enough of your ; mother—that you might tell them the whole “That is bis last hold on honor and reason,
time to tho highwayman. Miss Scott, aa 6tory | That is, tell it in your own way; they An d to presei-ve that little intact ho wants to
wonld have enabled you to identify him for w |jj bear anything from you and believe it” r un away at once,"
the police—and no more. Like your brother, J “Thank you; but suppose I don’t believe in
you would have been willing to sacrifice Iying either r>
yourself for the benefit of tho laws of civillza- “You know what I mean! You have a
tion and good order.” wa y ) ,j_ n it, of making everything seem like
a matter of course, and the most natural
If a denial to this assertion could have been
exprewod without tho use of speech, it was thing going."
certainly transparent hi the face and eyes of my ell, suppose I did. Are you prepared
the yourg girl at that moment If Falkner for tho ,’ vors t!”
had been less self-conscious lie would havo Pulkner was silcut for a moment and then
seen it plainly. But Kate only buried her “Yes; anything would bo better than
face in her lifted muff, slightly raised her th(g ^"
pretty shoulders, and, dropping her tremulous “j don't agree with you. Then you would
eyelids, walked oil “It seems a pity,”sho ^ filing to have them forgive us!”
said after a pause, “that wo cannot preserve don’t understand you."
our own miserable existence without taking
something from others—sometimes even a
life!” He started. “Audi t’a horrid to havo
to remind you that you have yet to kill some
thing for the inval id's supper,” she continued.
“I saw a hare in the Gold yonder.”
“You mean that jackass rabbit?” he said
abstractedly.
“What you please. It’s a p J ty yon didn’t
take your gun Instead of your rifle.”
“I brought the rifle for protection.”
“And a shotgun Is only aggressive, I sap-
poser
Falkner looked at her for a moment, and
then, os the bare suddenly started acroas the
open a hundred yards away, brought the rifle
to Ml shoulder. Alonginterval—as it seemed
to Kate—elapsed; the animal appeared to bo
already safely out of range, when tho rifle
suddenly cracked; tho hare bounded in the
air like a ball and dropped motionlcsa. The
girl looked at tho marksman in undisguised
admiration. “Is it quite deadr she said
timidly.
"It never know what struck it 1
“It certainly loci™ less brutal thonehoot-
Ing it with a shotgun, as John does, and then
it outright. ’ said Kate. “I' “
iill
“I mean that their forgiveness would bo the
worst thing that could happen. Look here.
Nod. Stop a moment; listen at that door.
Mrs. Hale has the tread of an nngel, with the
pervading capacity of a cat Now, listen! I
don’t pretend to bo in love with anybody
here, but if I were I should hardly lake ad
“But that would bo very silly.”
“Do you think so?” he said, looking at her
fixedly.
“Why not!” the asked in her turn, but
rather faintly.
“PH tell you why, ’ he said, lowering his
voice with a certain intensity of passion un
like his usual boyish lightheartedness. “Think
of a man whose life has been one of alter
nate harduess and aggression, of savage
disappointment and equally savage successes,
who has known no other relaxation than dis
sipation or extravagance; a man to whom
the idea of the domestic hearth and family
tics only meant weakness, effeminacy, or—
worse; who hod looked for loyalty and devo
tion only in tho man who battled for him at
his right hand in danger, or shared his pri
vations and sufferings. Think of such a
man, and imagine that an accident has sud
denly oil ced him in on atmosphere of purity,
■ •outage of a woman’s helplessness and soli- ! gentleness and peace, surrounded him by tho
tudo with a sensational story about myself. : - — —
It’s not giving her a fair show. You know
she won’t turn you out of tho house.”
“No,” said Falkner, reddening; “but 1
should expect logo at once, and that would
bo my only excuse for telling her."
“Go! where? In your preoccupation with
that girl you haven't even found the trail by
which Manuel escaped. Do you intend to
camp outside the house and make eyes at her
when she comes to the window?”
“Because you think nothing of flirting
with Mrs. Hale," said Falkner bitterly, “you
00 “My t dear Ned,” said Lee, “the Get that
Mrs. Hale has a husband and knows that she
can’t marry me puts us on equal terms.
Nothing that she could learn aliout me bere-
•fter would make a flirtation with me any
lam wrong rtiaw it would be now, or nmke
refinements of a higher life than he had ever
known, and that he found himself, as In a
dream, on terms of equality with a pure
woman who had never known any other life
and yet would understand and pity his. Im
agine his loving her! Imagine that the first
effect of that lovo was to show Bn his own
inferiority and the immeasurable gulf that
lay between his life and here! Would he not
fly rather than brave tho disgrace of her
awakening to the truth? Would be not fly
rather than accept oven the pity that might
tempt her to a sacrifice?”
“But—is Mr. Falkner all that?”
“Nothing of the kind, I assure you!” said
be demurely. “But tha/.’a the way a man in
love feels.”
“Really! Mr. Falkner should get you to
plead hia cause with Kate," said Mrs. Bala
with a faint lauarh.
“It's all my fault, loo,” he said to Kate,
A morning of bright sunshine and a soft,
warm air did not, however, bring any change
to their new and constrained relations. It
only seemed to offer a reason for Falkner to
leave tho house very early for his daily
rounds, and gave Lee that occasion for un
aided exercise with an extempore crutch on
the veranda which allowed Mrs. Hale to pur
sue her manifold duties without the necessity
of keeping him company. Kate also, as if to
avoid an accidental meeting with Falkner,
hod remained at home with her sister. With
ono exception, they did not make their guests
the subject of their usual playful comments,
nor, after tho fashion of their sex, quote their
ideas and opinions. That exception was mode
by Mrs. Hale.
“You have had no difference with Mr.
Falkner,” she said, carelessly.
“No,” said Kato, quickly. “Why!”
“I only thought ho seemed rather put out
at dinner last night, and you didn’t propose
to go and meet him to-day.”
“He must lie bored with my company at
times, 1 dare say,” said Kate, with an indif
ference quite inconsistent with her rising
color. “I shouldn’t wonder if ho was a lit
tle vexed with Mr. Lee’s chaffing him about
his siwirt yesterday, and probably intends to
go further to-day and bring home larger
game. I think Mr. Lee very amusing al
ways, but I sometimes fancy be lacks feel
ing.”
“Feeling! You don’t know him, Kate,"
said Mrs. Halo quickly. She stopped herself,
but with a half smiling recollection In her
dropped eyelids.
“Well, ho doesn’t look very amiable now,
stamping np and down the veranda. Per
haps you’d better go and soothe him.”
“I’m really so busy just now,” said Mrs.
Halo, with sudden and inconsequent energy;
“things have got dreadfully behind in the
last week. You had better go, Kato, and
make him sit down, or he’ll bo overdoing it.
These men never know any medium—in any
thing."
“Contrary to Kate's expectation, Falkner
returned earlier than usual, and, taking tho
invalid's arm, supported him in a more am
bitious walk along tho terrace before the
house. They were apparently absorbed in
conversation, but the two women who ob
served them from the window could not help
noticing the almost feminine tenderness of
Falkner’s manner toward his wounded
friend and the thoughtful tenderness of his
ministering care.
“I wonder,” said Mrs. Hale, following them
with softly appreciative eyes, “if women are
callable of os disinterested friendship ns men?
I never saw anything like the devotion of
those two creatures. Look! if Mr. Falkner
hasn’t got bis arm round Mr. Lee’s waist,
and Lee, with his own arm over Falkner's
neck, is looking up in his eyes. I declare,
Kate, it almost seems an indiscretion to look
at them.”
Kate, however, to Mrs. Hale’s indignation,
threw her pretty head bach and sniffed the
air contemptuously. “I really don’t see any
thing but somo absurd sentimenff lism of
tlieir own, or some mannish wickedness
they’re concocting by themselves. I am by
no means certain, Josephine, that Lee's influ
ence over that young mun is the best thing
for him.”
“On the contrary 1 Lqe’s influence seems
the only thing that checks his waywardness,”
said Mrs. Halo quickly. “Pm sure, If any one
makes sacrifices it is Lee; I shouldn’t wonder
that even now ho is making some concession
to Fulkner, and all those caressing of
y our friend are for a purpose. They're not
much different from us, dear.”
“Well, I wouldn’t stand there and let them
see me looking at them as if I couldn’t bear
them out of my sight for a moment,” said
Kate, whisking herself out of the room.
‘‘They’re conceited enough, heaven knows,
already.”
That evening at dinner, however, the two
men exhibited no trace of tho restraint or un
easiness of tho previous day. If they were
less impulsive ami exuberant, they were still
frank aud interested, and if tho term could
be used in connection with men apparently
trained to ^ither self-control nor rejiose,
there was a certain gentle dignity in their
manner which for the time had the effect of
lifting them a little above the social level of
their entertainers. For even with all their
predisposition to the strangers, Kate and
Mrs. Halo bad always retained a conscious
attitude of gantlo condescension and superi
ority toward them—an attitude not incon
sistent with a stronger feeling, nor altogether
unprovocative of it; yet this evening they
found themielvee Impressed with something
more than on equality in the men who had
amused and interested them, and they were
perhaps a little more critical and doubtful of
their own power. Mrs. Hale's little girl, who
had appreciated only the seriousness of the
situation, had mode her own application of
it “Are you dow’uT away from Aunt Kate
and mammal" abb asked, in an interval of
ARM
Sister Jennie Didn't Rhyme.
Ruskin failed to commend Ro-
setti's poem “Sister Jennie” to
Thackeray, when the latter was
editor of the Cornhill Magazine,
because “guinea” did not prop
erly rhyme with Jennie. That
may be so in their literary field,
but when it comes to the do
main of usefulness no authority,
whatever its eminence, but
would have found a delicious
jingle between “success” and
Dr. Westmoreland’s “Calisaya
Tonic.” The very way in which
it so firmly establishes itself in
every home is eloquent of its
virtues as a home medicine. To
it care-worn man and enervated
woman instinctively turn. It is
pre-em : nently the boon that
medical research has conferred
on a beseeching world. It fur
nishes instant relief for a torpid
liver, dyspepsia, chronic head
ache and loss of appetite, gen
eral debility and serious blood
aud malarial poison. It is a
“dead shot” against chills and
fevers. For sale at Dr. Doyd’s
drug store.
A Suspicious Question.—Col.
Hooks—“Well, Pete, I offered
$5 for the return of the dog;
and, as you’ve brought him in,
here’s the money.” Pete Jack
sing—“Thanks, boss ; an’ say—
if de dawg dun got stole—dat
am, lost, agin, would year offer
de same reward agin, sah ?”—
Liff/it.
Epoch.
The transition from long,
lingering and painful sickness
to robust health marks an epoch
in the life of the individual.
Such a remarkable event is
treasured in the memory and
the agency whereby the good
health has been attained is
gratefully blessed. Hence it is
that so much is heard in praise
of Electric Bitters. So many
feel they owe their restoration
to health, to the use of the
Great Alterative and Tonic. If
you are troubled with any dis
ease of Kidneys, Liver or Stom
ach, of long or short standing
you will surely find relief by
use of Electric Bitters. Sold at
50c. and $1 per bottle at Wilcox
& Co’s Drugstore.
“Charley,” said young Mrs.
Tocker, “I have just read some
where that coffee is a mild in
toxicant, and I do wish you
would stop the habit of chew
ing coffee grains that you seem
to have fallen into.”—Washing
ton Post.
The Pulpit and The Stage.
Rev. F. M. Shrout, Pastor
United Brethren Church, Blue
Mound, Kan., “I feel it my
duty to tell what wonders Dr.
King’s New Discovery has done
for me. My Lungs were badly
diseased, and my parishioners
thought I could live only a few
weeks. I took five bottles of
Dr. King’s New Discovery and
am sound and well, gaining 26
lbs. in weight.”
Arthur Love, Manager Love,s
Funny Folks Combination,
writes: “After a thorough trial
and convincing evidence, I am
confident Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, beats
’em all, and cures when every
thing else fails. The greatest
kindness I can do my many
thousand friends is to urge them
to try it ” Free trial bottles at
Willcox & Co’s Drug Store.
Regular sizes 50c. and $1.00.
“Hypnotism is a great thing
I can hypnotize any one, and
what I desire the subject to do
he does.” “See here, profes
sor,” said the little tailor, “I’ll
give you 10 per cent on all the
collections you can hypnotize
out of my customers.”—Har
per's Bazar.
Llano, Texas, May 13, 1889.
To Wm. Radam, Microbe Kill
er, Austin, Texas.
Dear Sir—I believe your Mi
crobe Killer a certain cure for
rheumatism. Up to a year ago
I was down a great part of my
time with rheumatism. I began
taking your remedy, and after
taking two gallons have never
been troubled with it since but
once. I bought a gallon then,
and after taking a few doses it
entirely disappeared. I have
offered in several cases to pay
for the Microbe Killer provided
it failed to cure rheumatism,
hut have never had to pay as
yet, as it invariably did the
work.
Respectfully,
Wm. Matthews,
Dealer in Lumber and all kinds
of Building Material.
For sale at Garner’s Drug
Store.
Those who have patent busi
ness of any kind to transact
would do well to communicate
with that old and trustworthy
firm of patent solicitors, Messrs.
C. A. Snow & Co., 710, 8th St.,
Washington, D. C. 1
Judge — “Prisoner, are you
married ?” Prisoner—“No, yer
Honor, those scratches on my
face came from stumbling over
a barbed-wire fence in the
dark.”—Texas Siftings.
Mr. R. T. Poole, of Cedar-
town, Ga.. writes:
“I believe it to he one of the
best medicines sold. The phy
sicians, two years ago, said my
wife had consumption, both
lungs affected. 1 have had to
send her South for several
springs to keep her alive, but
since she has been taking Rad-
am's Microbe Killer she has
been right at home attending to
her business, and is in better
health than she has been in 20
yea rs.
For sale at Garner’s Drug
Store.
Am Old Maxim—Watchmaker
—“The first time ,1 cleaned your
watch it was in a gold case, the
next time in a gold-filled case,
and now it’s in a silver case.”
H. A. R. D. Upper.—“Yes, sir ;
‘circumstances alter eases,' you
know.” —Jeweters’ IVeekly.
Bnoklen's Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world
for outs, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum, fever sores, tetter,
chapped hands, chilblains corns,
and all skin eruptions, and pos
itively eures piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Willcox & Co.
Schedule of the Hartsville R. R.
I
Hartsville. 8. C., Dec. 7, ’89.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN
Leaves Hartsville,
Leaves Jovann,
6.45 A. M.
7.20 “
Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.45 “
Making connection with the South
| tionnd passenger train on the Cheraw
A Darlington Railroad.
ilugton
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd’s, 10.00 A. M.
Leave Jovann. 10.20 “
Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 “
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. &. D. R. R.
J. L. COKER.
President.
(i. i iiffiii & iy
Manutacturers
-OF—
Doors, Sash, Blunts,
JSAOTJLIDIIsrOS
—AND-
Building Material,
ESTABLISHED 1842.
CHARLESTON, 8. C.
April, 20 1889—1
FOR C. & D. AND C. ft 8. RAILROADS
PasdDiKT'tOrrics )
C. ft D. axu C* ft S. RAILROADS, V
Charleston, S, C., May 1, 1890. J
On and afttr May 12. lha traim oa
these roads will run ss follows (Sunda . «x-
copied)every day:
uowx TEAIX.
Leave Wadesboro 5.25 A M
Bennetts 5,40
Morven's 5,55
McFarland 6.10
Leave Cheraw 6 48
Cash's .'7.00
Society Hill 7 13
Dove’s 7.80
Floyd’s 7.88
Darlington 7.50
Palmetto 8 00
Arrive at Florence 8 15
IT TSAIS,
Leave Florence 8.10 P M
Palmetto 8 26
Darlington 8-86
Floyd's 8.46
8.62
Society Hill 912
Cash’s 9 17
LcaveCheraw 9.43 P M
McFarlan .10.08
Morven’s 10.20
Bennett's 10.86
Lake Wadesboro ...11.00
Freight Train going up.
I Leave Florence 8 15 » 1,1
Arrive Darlington 9.05 am
Freight going down
Arrive Darlington 3.00 pm
I Leave Darlington 8.80 p m
Arrive Florence A10 p m
A. F. RAVENEL, Pres.
Q H Master Transportation.
N
ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
A. C. McFall,
Agent of Manufacturers for the
sale of Engines, Hoilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Gins, Presses, Threshers, :
Shafting, Pulleys, Melting, Circular
Saws, and machinery supplies. Par
ties who contemplate buying machin
ery of any kind will And it to tlieir
interest to get prices from me before
buying elsewhere. I have for sale at
a bargain, a complete Ginning outfit,
consisting of a 60 saw Hall Gin, feeder
and condenser, a Mass Press, net shaft
ing and pulleys, belting, Ac., a 26
corn mill, very little used, and anew
10-Horse F.ngine and boiler, which
will be sold on easy terms at a bar
gain. For prices and terms, call on
A. C. McFALL,
Darlington Oil Mill.
June 26, ’90.
No. 14,
PilTTTnM W. L. Douglas Shoes are
ValUliViV warranted, and every pair
haH his nniuii and price Htuniped on bottom.
«1 20 a m
8 00am
3 00 a m
3 ,7 a m
4 20 a in
*4 30 p in
6 29 p m
6 29 p hi
6 46 pm
7 66 p in
Leare Cnarletlon
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lnucs
Leave Kiogslree
Arrive Florence
No. 52, Daily.
Leave Charlealoa *7 00 a m
Arrive Lanes • 8 27 a ig
* Daily, f Daily except Sua
Nos 52 rune through to Columbia
*ia Oenlra! R R of 8 C.
Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wiimingten,
N. C., making close connection with W. ft
W R R for ail points north.
J. R. KENLY, J, F. Divixa,
Supt. Trans. (Jen’l SupT.
T. M. Emibsox, GenT Pass. Agt.
(ULMNCTON fOLlMBIA AND AICISTA RAILKOA
May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
No. 60.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN.
Fine Calf and Laced Waterproof (araln.
The excellence and wearing qualities of this «hoo
cannot be better shown than by the strouf? endorse
ments of Its thousands of constant wearers.
Sg.oo Genuine Hand-sewed, an elegant and
O stylish dress Shoe which commends itself.
%MJOO Hand-aewed Welt. K fine calf Shoe
unequalled for style and durability.
Goodyear Welt ' J
*6 15 p m
9 33 p m
10 20 • di
3/20 a y
4. ■'6 a &
4 35 a m
0. 16 a »
No. 27
*10.10 p ta
12.40 p oi
1 20a m
*3*°
Al
$3&*2 SHOES lad
$0.00 Goodyear Welt Is the standard dress
O Shoe, at a popular price.
Pollcemnn'n Hhoe is especially adapted
for railroad men, farmers, etc.
All made In Congress, Button and Lace.
hare been most favorably received since Introduced
and the recent Improvements make them superior i
to any shoes sold at these prices.
Ask your Dealer, and If he cannot supply you send
direct to factory enclosing advertised price, or a
postal for order blanks. _
W. L. DOIGLAH, Brockton, Mono.
i>y
lington, 8. C.
Feb. 20, 1890.
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumler
Arrive Columbia
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
No 62
Leave Sumter j- 9 45 a m
Arrive Columbia 10 66 p m
No 68
Leave Florence f8 25 a n
Arrive Sumler 9 35 a m
No 52 runs through from Charleslea via
Central R R.
Leaving Lanes 8 30 A M., Manning 9 10
A M.
Train on C & D R R connects at Florence
with No 58,
GOING NORTH.
No. 51.
We/JP
"as
THE
BEST.
^ LIVER
r MEDICINE
CHILL CURE.
traT MEDICINE KNDWE
CONSIDERING QUALITY AND SIZE OF DOSE.
XT WIX.t. A.X.SO CU’K.-K
BILIOUSNESS, OYSPEPSli,
AMS CHBOHIO CONSTIPATION.
J. GARNER, M.O.
DRUQOIET.
Darlington, 3. C.
x-eave Columbia.
•10 36 p n
| Arrive Sumter
11 68 pa
| Leave Sumler
11 68 p m
j Arrive Florence
No. 78.
1 16 am
Leave Florence,
4 35 a a
: Leave Marion
6 20am
Arme tt Wilmington,
8 Siam
1
Na. 59
t Leave Sumter
f6 37 p a
Arrive Florenca
7 to pm
No. 63,
Leave Columbia
•5 20 p at
| Arrive Sumter
Vo 14
• Mp«
l Leave Florence
••11 pa
Leave Marion
5 46 p a
Arrivp nt Wilmington
11 46 p m
w.
iittiiw bifiiss binsnir;.
fchiiaistoCre.
Pries,$1.00. BddlqraaSMaWa tatl*
(bln psckip vik BaUsr feikgiftr ILM
For sale by Dr. John A. Boyd, Dar
lington, S. C.
“Daily. fDaily axoept Sunday.
No 63 run. through to Charlealoa, via
Central R R, arriving Manning 7 04 P k
Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleslea 9 10 P M.
No 69 conueeis at Ploreasa with C t D
train for Cheraw aid Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make oloee eonaeetlon at
Wilmington with W S W R R for all geiati
North.
Train on Iloreaoa R. S, leave Pet Bet
daily except Saaday 4.40 P. arrive
Rowland 7.00 P. M. Retnrniag lew**
Rowland 6.30 ft. M., arris* Pea Dm ISO
ft. M.
Traia eu Mancheitar S ftagaeta B. S-
1 eaves Samter daily eweeft Saaday, 10.60
ft. M., arris* Rimini 1101 P. M. Mi-
taraiag lease Rimini 11-15 P. M ., or
ris* Samter 1.S0 P, M.
JOHN F. DIVIRR, Gea. Snp’t.
J. R. RI5LRT, Amt, Gan 1 RaaagSr.
T. M. EMM1R80*, Gen. Put AgT
ays
Ohaelxstox, S. C., May 1, 1890.
On and after thii dale the following
schedule will bo run ;
GOING SOUTH.
No. 27, Daily.
Leave Florence *1 35 a m
Leave Kingstree 2 29 a m
Arrive Lane, 2 60 a m
Leave Lanes 2 50 a ra
Arrive Charleston 6 00 a m
No. 28, Daily.
Leave Florence *8 80 a in
Leave Kingstree 9 46 a n
Arrive Lanes 10 07.1
Leave Lanes 10 07 a a.
Arrive Charleston 11 59 a m
No 53.
Leave Lanes “7 60 P. M.
Arrive Charleston 9 30 p. in.
Train on C ft D R U conn eta at Flor
ence wilh No 23 Train
GOING NORTH.
No, 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Leave Kingslrce
Arrive Florence
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