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There was a glare from the rood, a glare from the sky, a glare from Koscomtox’s. the rocks, a glare from the white canvse roofs of the few shanties and rabtna which made up the village, There waa even a glare from the unpainted redwood boards of Roscommon's grocery and tavern, and a tendency of the warping floor of the veranda to curl up be neath the feet of the intruder. A few mules, near the watering trough, had shrunk within the scant shadow of the corraL , IX THK COURTS, CHAPTER VI. DOW a GRANT waa GOT fOB I*. BILE the Bins I 2\ictviv THE RIVER. We stood on the banks of a river And its tide was calm and still. While soft shadows fell upon it. From the moon behind the hill. There was never a reetiees ripple On its bosom fair and wide. But 1 stood on this bank of the river. And you on the other side The (lowers bloomed on this side the river. The birds sang, the night wind was se With pale moonlight soft in its bosom. The wide river flowed at my feet. Yet my eyes were heavy with weeping. As I gazed on the wonderful scene— For we stood on the banks of the river, And its waters flowed silent, betw Tis a beautiful, cold, moonlit river, But the name of the river it death. And we only cross over its waters When done with our frail, mortal breath. It floureth for ever and ever; On its bank lies the “city of gold;’’ But it shuts from our wondering vision The hearts that have loved us of old. I stand on this side of the river And I call, but no echo comes o'er. To show that you listen, my darling. From your home on the far away a And the river that floweth so calmly Bears no ripple to me on its breast. To tell me that you still remember And love me, though you are at rest O river of death, wide and boundless. With moonlight of grief on thy br Wilt thou bear me away into silence. To silence, to love—and to rest? Wilt thou take my poor heart, worn and broken. Away from this life’s changing scene. And bear mo .away to my loved one. Where no more thy waves are between? Oh, rest, to be borne on thy bosom. To float with the outgoing tide Till I laod on the shore of “the dty“— And ctand by the waiting one's side; Oh, joy—when we stand by the river And no more our souls are apart. While wa wander in heaven forever, With peace in each wild weary heart —Agnes L. Pratt In Boston Globe STOUT OF A MU. By BEET HABTE. {Copyrighted, 1HS0, by Houghton, Mifflin 4 Co., and puhtUhed by arrangement with them.] CHAPTER IV. WHO TOOK IT. wfco had offered it ae a laat aop to headed Carbenu that guarded the © i’lutonean traaeuree, and who it in a tingle gulp. U was fat The furrow, of its red-tiled roof looked tm if . they were the reaolte of ago and decrepitude. Itt best room hod • musty smell; there was the dampness of deliquescence la its slow de cay, but the Spanish Californians were sensi hie architects, and its massive nulls and par titions defied the earthquake thrill, and all the year round kept an even temperature within. Victor led Miguel through a low ante room into a plainly furnished chamber, where Car men eat pointing. Now Mistress Carmen was a bit of n painter, in a pretty little way, with all the ▼ague longings of an artist, but without, I fear, the artist's steadfast soul. She recog nised beauty and form as a child might, with out understanding their meaning, and some how failed to make (hem oven interpret hoi woman's moods, which surely were nature's, too. Bo she painted everything with this ui- noeont lust of the eye—flowers, I.inis, insects, landscapes and figures—with a joyous fidelity, but no parti, ular poetry. Tho birds never sang to her but one song, the (lowers or trees spake but one language, and her skies never brightened except in color, tihe came out no longer, my Co How is this' Nothin - evil ho; befallen him, surely florid infl droopiug'HJj closed hnif pa thetically. MiguM’s jealousy took fire. “Ho is drunk, senwlt*, doubtless, and has ton-gotten not only tlioc I sit, mayhap, his mule anil; ..icL 1 It is his custom, ha! ha!’ each other'. purses, bunks, cabins, provisions, gpjrjte, Bn '* °ften friend!!, with that perfect freedom - ftom obligation which belonged to the pioneer life. The varying tide of fortune had just then stranded Tliotcher on a desert sand hill I in San Francisoo with an uninsured cargo of i expectations, while to Thatcher's active but j not curious fancy it had apparently lifted his I friend’s bark over the bar in the Monterey FOR OrgPKPBIA, Indigestion, and fitomteh disorders, un imowiro iron rittkrb. All dealers keep It, f 1 per bottle. Genuine bee trade-mark and creased red line* on wrapper. lM IIWS AMI HW Schedule of the Hartstille A. A. ■■ Hartsvillk. 8. C., Dec. 7, '89. DAILY MIXED TRAIN< The MS died out of Carmen's ripe Upland nxAintains into a« open quicksilver sea. 8o Mass company, with more seal than discretion were ac tively pursuing FMro and Wiles •ver the road to Tree Pinos, Benore Mignei and Manuel were comfortably seated in a fonda at Monterey, smoking dgarritos and dis cussing their late discovery. Bnt they were in no better mood than their late companions, and it appeared from their con versation that in an evil moment they had soil out their interest in the alleged silver mine to Wiles and Pedro for a few hundred dollars—succumbing to what they were as sured would be an active opposition on tho part of the Americanos. The astute reader will easily understand that the accomplished Mr. Wiles did not inform them of its value strong on the Catholic saints, and would toss "Then we don't wont no d—d warrant." The grocery business of Mr. Roscommon, although adequate and sufficient for the vil lage, was not exhausting or overtaxing to the proprietor. The refilling of the pork and flour barrel of the average miner was the work of a brief hour on Saturday nights, but the daily replenishment of the average miner with whis ky was arduous and incessant. Roscommon spent more time behind his bar than his gro cer's counter. Add to this the fact that a long •htd-lika extension og wing bore the legend, “Cosmopolitan Hotel, Board or Lodging by the Day or Week. M. Roscommon,” and you got an idea of the variety of the proprietor's functions. The “hotel," however, was more directly under the charge of Mrs. Roscom mon, a lady of thirty years, strong, truculent and good-hearted. Mr. Roscommon had early adopted the theory that most of his customers were in sane, and were to be alternately bullied or placated, as the case might be. Nothing that : occurred, no extravagance of speech nor act, ’ ever ruffled his equilibrium, which was as dogged and stubborn as it was outwardly calm. When not serving liquor, or in the in terval while it was icing drank, he was al ways wiping his counter with an exceedingly dirty towel—or indeed anything that came handy. Miners, noticing this purely perfunc tory habit, occasionally supplied him slily with articles inconsistent with their service —fragments of their shirts and umkrclotbing, floor sacking, tow, and once with a flannel petticoat of hie wife’s stolen from the line in the back yard. Rcaoamncn would continue his wiping without lenMng up, but yet oonecksu of the preeaioe of each customer. “And it’s not another dhrop yell git, Jack Brown, until ye’vo wiped out the black score that stands agin ye.” “And it's there yo are, darlint, ami it's hnniV the bottle that's been lukin’ for ye sins Saturday.” “And fwhot hev you done with the last I scut yc, ye divil of a MeCorkle. and heres me hack that's bruk entiorely wid dipping intil the pork Inrl to giv yc the best sides, and ye spending yur last chit on a taro into Gilroy. Whist I and if it’s fer foigkting ye are, hoys, there’s an illi- gsnt bit of sod beyont the corral, and it may bo inenclf 'll come out with a sbtick and be sociable.” On this |iarticular day, however, Mr. Roe common was not in his usual spirits, and when the clatter of horses' hoofs before the door announced the approach of strangers, be ab solutely ceased wiping his counter and looked Up as Dr. Guild, the president and secretary of the new com|<any strode into the shop. “We are looking," said the president, “for a man by the name of Wilee, and three Mexicans known os Pedro, Manuel and Miguel.’' “Ye arc?” “We ore!” “Falx, and 1 hope ye’ll foind 'em. And if ye'll git from ’em the score I’ve got agiu ’em, darlint, I'll add a blessing to it.” There was a laugh at this from the by standers, who, somehow, resented tho intru sion of these strangers. “I fear you will find it no laughing matter, gentlemen,” said Dr. Guild, a little stiffly, “when I tell you that a murder has l>een com mitted, and the men I am seeking within an hour of that murder put up that notice signed by their names," and Dr. Guild displayed the pajior. There was a breathless silence among the crowd as they eagerly praned around the doctor. Only Roscommon kept on wiping his counter, “You will observe, gentlemen, that the name of Roscommon also ajqiears on this paper as one of the original loraterx.” “Ami sure, darlint," mid Roscommon, with out looking up, “if ye’ve no better ividence agin thim boys than you have fomiust me, it’s borne ye’d betther be riding to wanst. For it's ineeelf as hasn't stirred futout of the store the day ami noight—more betoken as the boys I've surved kin testify.” “That's so; Ross’s right,” chorused the crowd. “We'vs been running the old man all night." “Then how conics your name on this paperf" “O murdher! will ye listen to him, boys! As if every felly that owed me a whisky bill didn't come to me ami say: ‘An, Misther Roscommon,' or ‘Moike,’ as the case might be, ‘sure it's an iliighant sthrike I've as a quicksilver mine, although be wae ob liged to impart his secret to Pedro as a necessary accomplice and reckless coadjutor. That Pedro felt no qualms of conscience in thus betraying his two comrades may be in ferred from his recent direct and sincere treatment of Concho, and that he would, if occasion offered or policy made it expedient, as calmly obliterate Mr. Wilee—that gentle man himself never for a moment doubted. “If we had waited but a little he would have given more—this cock-eye!” regretted Mantiel querulously. “Not a peso,” said Miguel, firmly. “And why, my Miguel) Thou knowest we could have worked the mine ourselves.” “Good, and lost even that labor. Look yon, little brother. Show to me now the Mexican that has over made a real of a mine in California. How many, eh) None! Not! a one. Who owns the M ex can’s mine, ehl| Americanos! Who takes money from the Mexican’s mine) Americanos! Thou re- memberest Briones, who spent a gold mine to make a silver one) Who has tbs lands and house of Briones) Americanos! Who has the cattle of Briones) Americanos! Who she bhul them together with a snap like a steel pane. The dove lm.l suddenly changed to a liawk; tho child-girl into an antique virago; «*• spirit hitherto dimly outlined in her brae, of some shrewish Gama anceetrosB, came to the fore. She darted a quick look at her mide, and then, with her littio hands on her rigid lips. Strode with two sto;* up to MigucL "P isiblv. O S< nor Miguel Domiuguez Perez (a profound courtesy here) it is os thou sayost. Drunkard Concho may, be; but dnralfor aober he never turned his back on his friend—or—(the words grated a little bore)—bis enemy." Miguel would hare replied, but Vic tor was ready. “Fool," lie said, pinch- jug his arm, “ Tis an old friend. And—and—the application is still to be filled op Are yon crazy!" But on t ids point Miguel was not, and with Hie revenge of a rival added to his other in- si in.•ts, ho permitted Victor to lead him away. On their return to the fonda, they found MasterMtinuci too far gone with aguardiente and a general animosity to the average Americano to 1h> of any service. Bo they workeci alone, with pen, ink and paper, in the Stuffy, cignrrito-clouded lack room of the fomlq. 11 w as midnight, two hours after Con- cho had started, tliat Miguel elaiqied spurs to his horse for tho village of Tree 1 ’inoe, with an application to Governor Miebeltorena for a gi ant to the "Rancho of the Red Rocks” com fortably bestowed in his pocket. you up a cleanly-shaven Aloysius, sweetly destitute of expression, or a dropsical, letbar gic Madonna that you couldn’t have told from an old master, so bad it was. Her faculty of faithful reproduction even showed i itself in fanciful lettering, and latterly in the i imitation of fabries and signatures. Indeed, with her eye for beauty of form, she bad al ; ways excelled in penmanship at tho convent, an accomplishment which tho good sisters I held in great repute. In person she was petite, with a still un- j formed girlish figure, perhaps a little too flat across tho back, and with possibly a too great tendency to a boyish stride in walking. Her brow, covered by blue-black hair, was low and frank and honest; her eyes, a very dark hazel, were not particularly large, but rather heavily freighted in their melancholy liifc) with sleepless passion; her nose was of that un important charactor which no man remem hers; her mouth was small and stru;;. !,:; her and his own convictions. A majority of the teeth white and regular. The whole cxprasiou i jury objected to there being any Inquest at of her face was piquancy that might be side ; all. A sincere juryman thought it hard that dued by tenderness or made malevolent by ] wbenevi r a Greaser i>egged out in a sneakin' that ho was considerably surprised on receiv ing a note from Biggs to this purport: “Deah Roy . Run down hero and help a fellow. I’ve too much of a load for one. Maybe we ran make a team and pufi‘Blue Mass’ out yet. Bigusiy. ” Thatcher, sitting in bis scantily furnished lodgings, Joubtful of his next meal and in arrears far rent, heard this Macedonian cry as St. Paid did. He wrote a promissory and soothing note to his landlady, but fearing the “sweet sorrow'' of a personal parting, let Ids collapsed ralise down from his window by a I coni, and, by means of an economical com bination of stage riding and psdestrlanism, he presented himself at the clots of ths third day at Biggs’ door. In a tew moments he was in possession of the story; half sn hour I later in possoadon of half the mine, its Infehx , post ami Its doubtful future, equally with hit friend. Business over. Biggs turned to look at his . partner. “You've aged some since I saw yet. last.” he said. “Starvation luck, I s'pose. Pd ! know your eyes, old fellow, if I saw them among ten thousand; but your lips are [arched, and your mouth's grimmer than it used to be.” Thatcher smiled to show that he could still do sn, but did not say, as he might have said, that self-control, suppressed rveent- i mrnt, disappointment anil occasional hunger i had done something in the way of correcting nature’s obvious mistakes and shutting up a ] kindly mouth. Ho only took off his thread- lare coat, rolled up his sleeves, and saying, "tVo'vo got lots of work and some fighting he- { fore us,” pitched into the affairs of the Blue Muss company on the instant I For sale at reasona ble terras. Call and see for your- selves. r* w. W. Hewitt. tr. CHAPTER VII. WOO PLEAD KOIt IT. HERE can be little doubt the coroner’s Jury of Fresno would have re turned a verdict of "death from alco, holism,” as the re sult of their inquest Bufkleu’8 Arnica Salve. iifio the cause of The bp8t Salve in the world not' Dr. o u i id ^ or cut8 ’ ^ ru i 8e8 - sores, ulcers, fought nobly in I sa ^ rheum, fever sores, tetter, (To be Continued.) anger. At present it was a salad in which the oil and vinegar were deftly combined. has tho mine of Briones) Americanos! Who S Tl10 a * tuU> feminine reader will of course i mpport of the law | chapped hands, chilblains corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos itively cures piles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to gi ve perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Willcox & Co. HERE was presist- i nt neighing on th« summit. Concho’s hors© wanted hi* breakfast. This protestation reached tho ears of a party ascending the mountain from its western face. To one of tho party it was familiar. “Why, blank it dr. guild. all, that’s Chiquita. That d Mexicans lying drunk some where,” said the president of the B. M. Co. - “I don’t like the look of this at all.” said Dr. Guild, as they rode up beside the indig nant animal. “If it had been an American, it might have been carelessnes;, but no Mexican •ver forgets ULs beast. Drive ahead, l>oys; we may l>e too late.” In half an hour they came in sight of the ledge below, the crumbled furnace, and the motionless figure, of Concho, wrapped in a blanket, lying prone in the sunlight. “I told you so—drank!” said tho president The doctor looked grave, but did not speak. They dismounted and picketed their horve*. Then crept on all fours to the ledge above the furnace. There was a cry from Secretary Gibbs. “Look yer. Some fellar has been jumping us, boys. See these notices. ” There were two notices on canvas affixed *to the rock, claiming the ground, and signed by Pedro, Manuel, Miguel, Wiles and Ros- eommon. “This was done, doctor, while your trust worthy Greaser locator—d n him—lay . there drunk. What’s to l»e done, now?” But the doctor was making his way to the unfortunate cause of their defeat, lying there quite mute to their reproaches The others • tfollowed him. The doctor knelt beside Concho, unrolled | him, placed his hand upon his wrist, his ear •over his heart, and then said: “Demi” _ “Of course. Ho got medicine ot you last Tiight. This conies of your d d heroic practice.” But the doctor was too much occupied to j tnode this day, and it’s meaclf that has put hoed tho speaker’s raillery. He had jieeml | down your name os an original locator, and into Concho’s protuberant eye, opened his | y Cr fortune’s made Mr. Roscommon, and will month, and gazed at the swollen tongue, and y cr ‘ftu ino up another quart for the good lias the silver Brioues never found? Ameri canos! Always the same! Forever! Ah! carramba!” Then the Evil One evidently took it into his head and horns to worry and toss these men—comparatively innocent as they were— still further, for a purpose. For presently to them appeared one Victor Garcia, whilom a clerk of the Ayuntemiento, who rallied them over aguardiente, and told them the story of the quicksilver discovery, and the two mining claims taken out that sight by Concho and Wiks. Whereat Manuel exploded with pro fanity and burned blue with sulphurous male diction; hut lOguel, the recent ecclesiastic, sat IMd and thoughtful Finally came a pause In Manners bombardment, and some thing like this conversation took place be tween the cooler actors: Miguel (thoughtfully)—When was it thou didst iietition for lands in the valley, friend Victor? Victor (amazedly)—Never! It is a sterile waste. Am I a fool? Miguel (.softly)—Thou didst Of thy gov ernor, Micheltorena. I have seen the appli cation. Victor (beginning to appreciate a rodential odor)—Si! I hail forgotten. Art thou sure it was in tho valley? Miguel (persuasively)—In the valley and up the falda. J,, Victor (with decision)—Certainly. Of a verity—the falda likewise. Miguel (eyeing Victor)—And yet thou hadst not the grant. Painful is it tliat it should have been burned with the destruction of the other archives by tho Americanos at Mon terey. Victor (cautiously feeling his way)—Poa- siblemente. Miguel—It might be wise to look into it Victor (bluntly)—As why? Miguel—For our good and thine, friend Victor. We bring thee a discovery; thou bringest us thy skill, thy experience, thy gov ernment knowledge—thy custom house pa per. + Manuel (breaking in drunkenly)—But for what? We are Mexicans. Are we not fated! We shall lose. Who shall keep the Ameri- canos off? Miguel—Wo sliall take one American in! Ha! seest thou? This American comrade shall bribe his court, his corregidores. After a little he shall supply the men who invent * FaUla. or valda, i. e., that part of the skirt of a woman’s robe that breaks upon the around, and is also applied to the Anal slope of a hill, from the angle that it makes upon the level plain. derstand that this is tho ordinary superficial masculine criticism, and at onco make up her mind both as to the character of tho youug. MlYaTright a lady ami tho competency of the critic. I only w know that / rather liked her. And her func tions aro somewhat important in this ve racious history. She looked up, steuted to her feet, leveled her block brows at the intruder, but, at a sign from her uncle, showed her white teeth and spake. . It was only a sentence, and rather a com monplace one at that; but if she could have put her voice upon her canvas, she might have retrieved the Garcia fortunes. For it was so musical, so tender, so sympathizing, •o melodious, so replete with the graciousness of womanhood, that she seemed to have in vented the language. And yet that sentence was only an exaggerated form of ‘How d’ye do,’ whined put, doled out, lisped out, or shot out from tho pretty mouths of my fair coun- Ary women. Miguel admired the paintings. He was struck particularly with a crayon drawing of a mule. “Mother of God, it is the mule itself! observe bow it will not go.” Then the crafty kiud 'o say, American sltizens should be taken ft an their business to find out what oiled him. “S’pose he was killed,"’said an other, “thar ain’t no time this thirty year he weren’t, so to speak, just sufferin’ for it, ez Mexican.” The jury at last compromised by bringing in a verdict of homicide against certain parties unknown. Yet it was understood tacitly that th. so un known parties were severally Wiles and Pe dro; Manuel, Miguel and Roscommon prov ing an unmistakable alibi. Wiles and Pedro had fled to Lower California, and Manuel, Miguel and Roscommon deemed it advisable, j u ■,. , . in the then excited state of the public mind, to ; * ® Mistress—“Fave you any ref erences!''’ New girl—“No, mum Have you?”—Street & Smith's Good News. Happy Hoosiers, Wm. Timmons, Postmaster of Idaville, Ind., writes; “Electric done more for me XU VAZV VAAVAA O UtLUV VJ1. U1AC IJUIJUk/ lillUd. bd l,| . 1 . ... withholdtheforgedapplicationandclaimfrom jl'UH all Other medicines COm- the courts and tho public comment. Sothatfor : Dined, for that bad feeling a year after tho murder of Concho and the ! arising from Kidney and Liver flight of his assassins "The tBIuo Mass Min ing Company” remained in undisturbed and actual jjosscssiou of the mine, and reigned in them suddunly rose to his feet. “Tear down those notices, boys, hut keep them. Put lip your own. Don't be alarmed; you w ill not lie intcrfttvd with, for here is .murder added to robbery.” “Murder!" “Yes," sold the doctor, excitedly, “I II take my oath on any inquest that this ninii v.as strangled to dcuth. lie was sniqirisisl w hile A«f..y Vt< V”f ” P'>.X'. revolver , Concho's stiffening Luis'., which Ibe murdered man had inetcntly cocked, bin could not ase in the struggle. “That's so," said the president; “no man go<* to sleep with a cocked revolver. What's to be doneT “Everything,” said the doctor. “This deed was committed within the lost two hours; the body is still warm. The murderer did not come our way, or we should have met him ou the trail. Ho is, if anywhere, between here and Tree Pinos.” “Gentlemen," sakl the president, with a • slight preparatory and bolt judicial cough, “two of you will stay here and stick 1 The . others will follow me to Tree Pinos. The law has been outraged. You understand the court!" me odd influence the little group of .cynical, half-trifling and wholly reckless ■u hail become suddenly sober, earnest citi- TVy sakl: “Go on,” nodded their , and betook themselves to their horses. “Had wo not better wait for the inquest and out a warrant?" said the secretary, “How many men have we!" lupth* >of California in luck beta no you and me. Ah, but ask Jack Brmvn over yan if it isn't siek tliat I am of I his original l<x*ations.” Tho laugh tliat followed this speech, and its practical application, convinced the party that i they had blundered, that they could obtain no dew to the real culprits here, and that any attempt by threats would meet violent oppo sition. Nevertheless the doctor was persfatant: “When did you see these men last!” ' ‘When did I sea them, if? it? liedad, what * with sarvin up the liquor and keeping me | counters dry and swate, I never see them at ‘ oil.” “That’s so, Ross,” chorused tho crowd ogsin, to whom the whole proceeding was delight fully farcical. “Then lean toll you, gentlemen,” mid the doctor, stiffly, “that they were is Monterey last night, that they did not return an that trail this morning, and that they must have pemed here at daybreak.’’ With tbeee words, which the doctor re gretted ae soon ns delivered, the party rode away. Mr. Roscommon resumed hit (ervios and counter wiping. But late that night, when the bar was closed and the last loiterer waa summarily ejected, Mr. Roscommon, in the conjugal privacy of his chamber produced a legal koking paper. “Read it, Maggie darlint, for it's meteU never had the fauming nor the porta” Mistress Roscommon took tilt paper: ■Share, it's law papers, making over soma property to ytn O Moike! ye havVt been ■pekiiatiiig!” “Whist l and fwhots that durty gray wid tho solas and flourishes!” “Falx, it bothers me Sutofrsly. t Grants, applications and official notifications, under the Spanish jrovornment, were drawn on a stamped paper known as Custom House itaper, the machine of steam, the mill, the furnace, ah? Victor—But who is he—not to steal? Miguel—He is that man of Ireland, a good Catholic, at Tree Finos. Victor and Manuel (omnee)—Roscommon? Miguel—Of the same. We shall give him a share for the provisions, for the tools, for the aguardiente. It is of the Irish that the Americanos have great fear. It is of them that the votes are made—that the president is chosen. It is of him that they make the alcalde in Son Francisco. And we are of the church, like him. They said “Bueno w all together, and for the moment appeared to be upheld by a religious enthusiasm—a joint confession of faith that meant death, destruction and possibly for gery, as against the men who thought other wise. This spiritual harmony did away with all practical consideration anti doubt “I have a little niece,” said Victor, “whose work with the pen is marvellous. If one says to. her, ‘Car men, copy me this or the other one’—even if j it be copper plate—look you it is done, and | you cannot know of which is tho original. ! Madre do Dias! tho other day she makes me a rubric* of the governor, Pio Pico, the same, j identical. Thou knowest her Miguel. She ; asked concerning thee yesterday.” With the emlKirassmcnt of an underbred man, Miguel tried to appear unconcerned, but failed dismally. Indeed, I fear that the black eyes of Carmen had already done their perfect and accepted work, and hod partly induced the application for V ictor’s aid. He, however, dianrabled so far as to ask: “But will she not know*” “She is a child.” “But will she not talk?” “Not if I say nay, and if thou—eh, Miguel?” This bit of flattery (which, by the way, was a he, for Victor’s niece did not incline favor ably to Miguel) had its effect They shook hands over the table. “But,” said Mignei, “what to to be done most he done now.” “At the moment,” mid Vidor, “and thou shall ece H dona. Ehf Dorn It content thee? ♦The Spanish “rubric” is the complicated flour ish attached to a signature, and is as individual and characteristic ns tho handwriting. Victor broke in with, “But it is nothing to her writing; look, you shall toll to me which is the handwriting of Pio Pico;” and, from a drawer in the secretary, he drew forth two signatures. One was affixed to a yellowish paper, the other drawn on plain white fools cap Of course Miguel took the more mod ern one with lover-like gallantry: “It is this is genuine!” Victor laughed triumphantly; Carmen echoed the laugh melodiously in childlike glee, and added, with a slight toss of her piquant head, “It is mine!” The best of the sex will not refuse a just and overdue compliment from even the man they dislike. It’s the principle they’re after, not tjie senti ment. But Victor was not satisfied with this proof of his niece’s skill. “Say to her,” he demand ed of Miguel, “what name thou likes., and it shall be done before thee here. ” Miguel was not so much in love but he perceived tho drift of Victor’s suggestion, and remarked that the rubric of Governor Miebeltorena was ex ceedingly complicated and difficult. “She shall do it!” responded Victor, with decision. From a file of old departmental papers the governor’s signature and that involved rubric, which must have cost his late excellency many youthful days of anxiety, was produced and laid before Carmen. Carmen took her pen in her hand, looked at the brownish-looking document, and then at the virgin whiteness of the foolscap before her. “But,” she said, pouting prettily, “I should have to first paint this white paper brown. And it will alisorb the ink more their stead. But the spirit of the murdered Concho would not down any more than that of the murdered Bnuquo, and so wrought, no doubt, trouble.” John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of the same place says ; ‘‘Find Electric Bitters to he the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like a new man.” J. W. Gardner, in a quiet, Conctuviike way, sore troubkwHh i hardware merchant, same town i .vrt wrra • L’ I 4-v z-v 1-? v 4-4* *vo v ci "l l V o 4 4 le i Manufacturers —OF— Doors, Sash, Blinds, jVLOTJLIDIIN-QS —AND - Building Material, F.STABF.ISMED 18-IC CHARLESTON, S. C. April, 20 1889—I A. C. McFall, iieaves Jovatin, 7.20 Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.43 “ ! Making connection with tlie South Round passeniter train on the Cheraw & Darlington Railroad. RETURNING. Leave Floyd’s, 10.00 A. M. Leave Jovann. 10.20 “ Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 1 This train waits two hours, if necessa ry, for the North bound freight train on C. ti. D. R. R. J. L. COKER. President. FOR C. 4 D. ANDC. A 8. RAILROADS rXESIDKNT'sOrriCS 1 C. A D. a*dC. A S. RAILROADS, 1 Charleston, S. C., May 1,1890. j On and after Msy 12, the train! on these roads will run ss follows (Simla / (X- jepted)every days HOWS THAIS. Leave Wadesboro 5.25 A 3 Bennetts 5.40 Morten's h.55 McFarland 6.It) Leave Cheraw * 48 Caah’a Society Hill 7 18 Dove’ Floyd's J'*} Darlington Arrive at Florence * 15 cr T«AI». Leave Florence * P M ® Darlington Boyd’s 1:% Dote a q .„ Society Hill r r c ** h ' r’.M pm riX Morten’s — Bennett’* Lake Wadeaboro 11 ' uu Freight Train going up. p 8 1 •) a m Leate Florence 9 (,6 a m Arrite Darlington Freight going down Arrite Darlington » 00 P » Leate Darlington * P ™ Arrite Florence 410 P m A. F. RAVENEL, Pres. 0 II Master Transportation. N ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. the “Blue Mass Company.” For a great capi talist and master of avarice came down to the mine and found it fair, and taking one of tho company aside, offered to lend his name and a certain amount of coin for a con trolling interest, accompanying tho generous offer with a suggestion that if it were not acceded to he would be compelled to buy up i o i tn. oa various Mexican mines aud flood the market COX ^ S ^ 1 Store, with quicksilver to the great detriment of the “Blue Mass Company,” which thoughtful sug gestion, offered by a man frequently alluded to as one of “California’s groat milling princes,” and os one who had “done much to develop the resources o£ the state,” was not to l)e lightly considered; and so, after a cau- •tious non-consultation with the company, and a commendable secrecy, the stockholder sold out. Whereat it was speedily spread abroad that the Great Capitalisl had taken hold of -mr „ nr* ** . . t>i • ‘‘Blua Mas.." ;i,tl the stock went up, and the Micheai Curtail^ Plain- other stockholders rejoiced—until the Great makes the Statement Capitalist found it was necessary to put up j that she Caught Cold, which expensive mills, to employ a hi.,h Kalnriisl i settled On her lungs; she was superintendent—in fact, to develop the mine j treated for a month by herfami- by spending; of its earnings, bo that the stork j [y physician, blit grew worse, quoted at 113 was finally sadxlletl with an as-1 fj e (old j, er gj le W as a hopeless Agent of Manufacturers for the sale of Engines, Hollers, Haw Mills, Grist Mills, Gins, Presses, Threshers, Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Circular says; Electric Bitters is just the j Saws, and machinery supplies. Par- thing for a man who is all run ties who contemplate buying inaelun do wn and don’t care whether he lives or dies; he found new strength, good appetite and felt just like he had a new lease on life. Only 50c. a bottle, at Wil- Lillie—“Oh, Minnie! I have such a dear, unique fad. I have stuffed a pillow with all Cholly’s love letters.” Minnie—“How soft your pillow must be!”— Epoch. Remarkable Rescue. ery of any kind will find it to their interest to get prices from me before buying elsewhere. I have for sale at a bargain, a complete Ginning outfit, consisting of alio saw Hall Gin, feeder and condenser, a Bass Press, net shaft ing and pulleys, belting, &c., a 2fi corn mill, very little used, and a new 10-Horse Engine 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 20, ’90. Ohaelxstos, 8. C., Msy 1.J8 0. On and after this date the fol'owin schedule will be run : GOING SOOTH. No. 27, Dally. Leave Floreace Leave King.tree Irrive Lanes Leave Lanes t reive Charleston No. 28, Daily. Leave Florence Leave Kingstree Arrive Lanes Leave Lanes Arrive Charleston No 53. *1 86 a m 2 29 a n> 2 50 a m 2 50 a m 6 00 a m *8 30 a m 9 40 a n 10 07 a i 10 07 a t. 11 59 a m Leave Lines Arrive Charleston •7 50 P. M, 9 30 p. m. sessrnent of 8-70 per share. Another assess ment, of 830 to enable the superintendent to proceed to Russia and Spain and examine in to tho workings of tho quicksilver mines there, and also a general commission to the gifted and Scientific Pillagemnn to examine into the various component parts of quick silver, and report if it could not be manufac tured from ordinary sandstone by steam or electricity, speedily brought the other stock holders to their senses. It was at tills time the good fellow “Tom,” the serious-minded “Dick” end the speculative but fortunate "Harry,” brokers of tho Great Capitalist, found it convenient to buy up, for the Great quickly than that. AVhen I paipted tho Ban Capitalist aforesaid, the various other shares Antonio of the Mission Ban Gabriel for a t great sacrific®. Father Acolti, I liod to put the decay in with , j f ear tliat I have bored my readers in thus my oils and brushes before the good podn giving the tiresome details of that ingenuous would accept it.” American pastime which my countrymen dis- Tbe two seampsdooked at each other. It i miss in their epigrammatic way aa the "freez- was their supreme moment “I think I have," i j n g on t process.” And lest any reader should •aid Victor, with assumed carelessness, ‘ I i llu ,. B tjon the ethics of the proeoeding. I beg think I have some of the old custom bouse] hj m to remember tliat one g paper.” Ho produce<Lfrom the secretary a aheet of brown paper With a stamp. “Try it On that” Carmen smiled with childish delight, tried it, and produced a marvel! “It is as mngie,” mid Miguel, feigning to cross himself. victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefited from first dose. She continued its use and after taking ten bottles, found herself sound and well, now does her own house work and is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Wilcox & Co’s Drug Store, large bottles 50c, and $1.00. UDiES «*I7°5 N., s Vs .Ss W. L. DOUGLAS dfr 4% ^ fl fl f \ P and other *peci&l- ^ ties for Gentlemen, Ladies, etc., are war ranted, and so stamped on bottom. Address W. L. DOI/GLAri, Brockton, iUast*. Sold by For sale by A. J. Broom, Dar lington, S. C. Feb. 20, 1890. “How is your son getting on at school, Uncle Abe?” “Mighty fine, sah. Gitten ter be a gem’- man mighty fast. Ye jes orter iman accom- j see how he makes fun of us two' plished in thh art was alwo; s sincere an.! ole ignereilt nigger folks when direct opponent of the late Mr. John Oak | ie come s home. It makes me mighty proud, sah.”—Epoch. When Doctors Fall Out. “A philosophy for dogs” is what Carlyle pronounced one of Prof. Tyndall's carefully pre-1 pared lectures. He said it with I a disdainful snort, too. When eminent authorities like these disagree, you cannot blame the public for being chary in the premises; hut when from all I" to MmumI. “Wo win iw- tarw ka aa hoar; watt thou bam* Tbayflladout into Urn dark, irregular strosA Fotstad than topam tiMoflkaof Dr. OwOd that Concho mounted his “It u os matte” eaid Utgnel. Victor's role was more serious. He affected tr. b* deeply touched, took the paper, folded! It and placed it in his breast “I sliall make i a good fool of Don Jose Castro,” be said; “he will declare it la the governor’s own signo- ] taro, fer be wae hie friend; bat have a core, Carmen! that you spoil it not by the opening { af your red Upa. When he ia fooled I will tell him of tide marvel—this niece of mine, i end he tiudl bay her pictures. Eh, littlej oner end he gave her the avuncular carres, L e., apat of tbo bend on either cheek and a| Urn Miguel envied him, but cupidity out- 1 Cupid, and preeentiy the convert*- until a convenient recollection himself end comrade wei del Toro* 4 10 o’clock t tho opportunity to retire, without a chance shot ft hurst, gambler. But for once the Great Master of Avarice | bad not taken into sufficient account the av- j arice of others, and was suddenly and virtu-; ou-ly shocked to learn tliat un application for ] a patent for certain lands, known as tin* “Bed- Rock Rancho," was about to be offered bo- j fore the United States land commission. I This claim covered his mining property. But j the information came quietly aud secretly, os ] all of the Great Master’s information was ob-' tallied, aud be took tbo opportunity to sell oat his clouded title and his proprietorship to ' the only remaining member of the original { “Blue Km, axapnny,' a young follow of pub, gj^gg a subject is showered with before raosy-tonpied rumor had voiced the univf , rBal commendation, it is news far and wide. Tl>* blow was a heavy . . . , , * • one to the pertv left in potion. s ;i .Tai*i I becoming m you to be of a sinii : by tbo enomme- debts ami czpensm,-of the l«r mind. It would require col-1 Grout Capitalist, with»credit nmnev injured limns to merely note the many by the (Weciiou of tin. lucky magnate, who j eminent sources from whence. 1 was admired for his skin hi anticipating a! have come praises of Dr. West-, j loos, and whowroUnquishment ot nny project moreland’s Calisaya Tonic. meant rain to it, the single bandied, impover- popularity is phenomenal. Mr I isbed possessor of the mmc, whose title was j 5, u. ,,e . Contested and whose reputation was yet to .* £ S ’ BuckhaUer, of Augusta, 1 made—poor Biggs, first secretary and only ; t\l6 Tonic a rart* antl- remaiuing officer of the “Blue Mass com- periodic aud an GradlCator OI pany,” looked ruefully over his books and malarial poison from the SyS- bi.< inst transfer, and sighed. Bui I have be- tem. He is pleased to reCOm- fore intimated tliat lie was built of good stuff mend it to his friends. It is for and that he believed in his work—whk-h was ga ] e a (, J) r . Boyd’S drug Store. II 1 J.. 1. ! f wrrKS.-sV. ^ ’ THE BEST LIVER MEDICINE CHILL CURE. CHEAPEST MEDICINE KNOWM CONSIDERING QUALITY AND SIZE OF DOSE. IT WILJL A.3JSO OXJItK BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, AND CHRONIC CONSTIPATION. W. J. GARNER, M.D. s. c. DRUGGIST. Darlington, $300(1: A * »’. AH! I undertuk* to briefly racii uny lainy iii(ei)i«tent P'roon of either u*x, ttbocsn read and write, and who. Inner luatrmtion, will work induetrioualv, - _ _ _ how to earn Three Thouaund Dollar* ’a Ttfi **» r lnrheirown localilies,wherever they liee.l will alac fiirmeh * *- 0 | the situation or eniployinent^t which you ran earn that t 'nount. No money for me utiles* aticeeaafttl aa above. Knsilv aud auk-kiy I well—and in himself, which was Ixdter; and so, having faith even as a grain of mustard seed, I doubt not that he would have been able to remove that mountain of quicksilver beyond tho overlapping of fraudulent grants. And, again, Providence—having disposed of these several scamps—raised np to him a friend. But that friend Is of sufficient im portance to this veracious history to d<wr a paragraph to himself. Tlie Pyladcs of this Orestes wss known . t ■ ordinary mortals os Royal Thatcher. His genealogy, birth and education are, I take it, of Mttle account to this chronicle, which is only concerned with his friendship for Biggs 1 and the result thereof. He bad known Biggs | • year or two previously; they had shared | Wliea Baby waa tick, we gave her Caatorio. When ahe waa a Child, she cried for Castor la. When ah* became Mias, she clung to Castorta. When ahe hod Children, she gave them CaMcrla I.ADIBfl Needing atonic, or children who want t Jpg up, rbould take imoWN’atHO* BITT B l» pteawti to take, rare* Malaria, ! flaMoa, Hluounma and Liver c rv for nioutilrss sueteMfttl ggabove. Kindly •uri learned. I dyaire but wte worker from each district or county. have already taught and provided with employment« large number, wl.-wgre making over tSOOO a year each. It a IN K TV •nd HO Is I O. Full particular* Fit EK. Ail, I re is at one*. ALrLJbX, Uok 4VO t Augusta, Maine Snuff little fhrtunea have been made at work for us, by Anna Paffe, Auatln. A Texas, and Jno. Honn, Toledo, Ohio. " « cut. Other* arech-ingaa well. Why t you? Some earn over tiOO.ta a imtli. You ran do the work and live t home, wherever you are. Evan be- ionrr# are raallr earning from 94 to ilOaday. All affea. We show you how and start you. Can work In spare time or all the time. Big money for work- era. Failure unknown among them. NEW and wonderfei. Fartlrulara free, flullettar Cm.eUuM HnO Fort!aftel,M*ia« V604)0. M a year la being made by John R. Good win,Troy,N.V.,at work for ua. Header l you may not make aa much, but we can I taach you quickly how to earn from 64 to ff C1U a day at the atart, and more aa you go loo. Both aexes, all agea. In aay port of oerica, you can com men re at home, giv- g all your t lmr,„r spore momenta only to e work. All i# new. Great pay M H* for every worker. Wa start you, fora taking everything EASILY, M EKDILY learned. rAllrii l LAKH FREE. Addrasi at oaca, „ STIhBOB A ttl.^FVBTLAIB, BAlSlT irKYWHneofwmfc, ' tboee nf Train on C A D R R conit once with No 23 Traiu els at Fior GOING NORTH. No, 78, Dat'y. Leave Charleston •1 20 a m \rrive Lanes 8 00a » Leave Lanes 3 00 a m Leave Kiugstree 8 17 a m Arrive Florence 4 20 a m No. 14. Leave Cnarletlon •4 30 p m Arrive Lanes 6 29 p tn Leave Lanes 6 29 p m Leave Kingstree 6 40 p m arrive Florence 7 65 pm No. 62. Daily. Leave Charleston •7 00 a m Arrive Lanes 8 27 am * Daily, f Daily exerpt Sun Nos 62 runs through via Central il R of 8 C. to Columbia Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to Wilmington, N. C., making olose connection with W. A W R R for all points north. 1. R. KENLY, J F Dtvisa, Supt. Trans. Gcn’l Snp’t. t. M. Emerson, Gen’l Pass. Agt. limiUTON CfLEIMA AM ACStSTA RAILK May 1, 1890. GOING SOUTH No. 23. Leave Wilmington •6 15 p m Leave Marion 9 33 p in Arrive Florence 10 20 a m No. 60. Leave Florence 3.20 a u Arrive Sumter 4. '6 a a Leave Sumier 4 35 a tn Arrive Columbia 6. 16 a in No. 27 Leave Wilmington •IC.10 n m Leave Marion 12.40 p m Arrive Florence 1 20 a m No 62 Leave Sumter f f ' 45 a m Arrive Columbia 10 56 p to No 68 Leave Florence |8 25 a in Irrive Sumter 9 86 a m No 62 runs through from Charleston via Oenlral R K. Leaving Lanes 8 30 A M., A M. Manning 9 10 Train on C A D R R connects at Flcrenca with No 63. GOING NORTH No 61. oeave Columbia. *10 85 p n Arrive Sumter 11 68 p is Leave Sumter 11 5* p m Arrive Florence 116am No. 78. Leave Florence, 4 36 a m Leave Marion 6 20 a m Arrive at Wilmington, No. 69 8 35 a a Leave Sumter Arrive Florence ffl 37 p m 7 60 p is No. 63, Leave Columbia Arrive Sumter •5 20 p a C 32 p ts Na 14 Leave Florence Leave Marion •8 15 p ie 8 65 p m Arrivr *1 Wilmington 11 45 p tu MONEY ]■ fc»L year op*re entirely hing. Wa atartyou^Noi sk. T >t«. c* ad your time to the worl ’ lead,and brings’ Beginners are earning from and more after a little mu .wonderful.; •SS to $461 _ . Bi to f 46 per week and apwarda, ani more after a little agnorieaoa. We eau fomlsh you the am- •Daily. fDaily except Sunday. Nc 63 tuna through it Charleston, via tentral R R, arriving Manning? 04 I* I. Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 30 1* M. No 69 conueete at Fiareaoe with CAB 'rain for Cheraw and Wadasbwo’. Nos 78 ami 14 make close connection at 'Vilmington with WAV/ HR for all point, torth. Train on Florens* R. K. leave Pee Dr* iaily except Sunday 4.40 P. M„ strive Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave Rowlo-d 6.80 A. M., arrive Pre D«c 8.60 A.M. Train Ou Manchester A Augusta R. R Inatea Sumter daily except Sunday. 10 ). M , arrive Rimiui 12.01 P M R'- turning leavt Rimini 12 16PM, ar rive Sumter 1.80 P, M. JOHN F. DI) J. R. KENLEY, Asst ( T. U. EMMERY