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the title and
0* tho custodian and dishuner of the nattoat
id received a salary that a bank
woukl have miifed at For it iraa
jtenRY J. Jh.mpjon, , part of this constitutional inconsistency and
PHOPUIETOU administrative absurdity that in the matter
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aowuts for 0 months; 6~> cen.a Hr the offlcial wa.alw.yse*-
3 months pected to bo too superior of the government
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Gontr^.-t a.lvirtisi'uieuts inverted
u;k)u tie* mod reasonable >ertus.
Job Depratment.
Our jol> department is supplied with
these various inconsistencies were not really
the perfect expression of the most perfect
government the world hod known. Ami it
is to be recorded that the unanimous voices of
representative, orator and unfettered [xietry
were that it was!
Even the public press lent itself to the groat
every facility necessary to enable u 11 inconsistency. It was as clear as crystal to
to eom|H!te both us to price and quali the journal on one side of the avenue thatthe
tj of work, with even those of the ei- rountry w<w g6ing to the d m ,i,^ th( ,
tiet», and we guarantee satisfaction in ^ ♦ au • * »
every particular or charge nothing^" 1 * “ fatht ' s ~mtcd
for our work. We are always prepnr ,Le .f ubli , t ' ; !t w i “ ^ to ihe
ed to till orders at short notice for 0,1 ^ ie ot * 1< ‘ r B ^ e 0 * avenue that only a
Blanks, Bill Heads, Jitter Hea'ds, i ri R' < J adherence to the letter of tho fathers
Cards, Hand Bills, Posters, Circulars, would save the nation from decline. It was
but aawahothatka
bad gone too far to stop. “Pedro," be mid,
“was strongly suspected of having murdered
Coocfco, one of tho original locaters."
Mr. Gashwiler turned white as a sheet, and
then flushed again into an apoplectic glow.
“Do you dare to say,” bo began a* soon os he
could find his tongue and his legs, for in the
< xercise of his congressional functions these
oxtreiffo members supported each other—"do
you menu to sny,” be stammered in rising
rage, “that you have dared to deceive an
American lawgiver into legislating upon a
Pamphlets, &c.
fj'ffctn’i.
'lOlMY AND YESTERDAY.
Ufe is not lived by days nor yet by years;
These come and go, or, baply, sometimes stay.
As Time his changes Hogs; and if Today
Lingers relentlessly when fraught with fears.
If perfect harmonies and smiles it hears
In one short moment—Lo! ’tis Yesterday
And reverently the joy or pain we lay
Safe in the Past's dear shrine with unshed tears
So, when the deepest chords of Life vibrate
And quiver 'neath the master hand of Pain
Or Eestacy, our quickened breath we bate.
And listen, hoping that perchance some strain
Of heaven's own music soothe, ere 'tis too late,
The troubled waters of Life's boundless main.
—Chamber’s Journal
TIE STOW OF A 1
Ey BRET HABTE.
ICopy right ‘d, 18H0, by Houghton, Jllfflin & Co., and
published by arrangement with them.]
PART m.
IN C’ONGKESS.
CHAPTER X.
WHO LOBBIED FOR IT.
T was n midsum
mer's day in Wash
ington. Even at
early morning*
while the sun was
yet level with the
laces of pedestrians
in its broad, shade
less avenues, it was
insufferably hot.
Later the avenues
themselves shone
like the diverging
rays of another sun—the Capitol—a thing
to be feared by the naked eye. Later
yet it grew hotter, mid then n mist arose
from tho Potomac end blotted out the
blazing arch above, and presently piled
up along the horizon delusive thunder clouds,
that spent their strength and substance else
where, and left it hotter than l>efore. 'To
ward evening the sun came out invigorated,
having cleared # tho heavenly brow of perspira
tion, but leaving its fever unabated.
The city was deserted. Tho few who re
mained apparently buried themselves from
tho garish light of day in some dim, cloistered
recess of shop, hotel or restaurant , and the
perspiring stranger, dazed by the outer glare,
who broke in upon their quiet, sequestered re
pose, confronted eollttrless and coatless spec
ters of the past, with fans in their hands,who,
after dreamily going through some perfunct
ory business, immediately retired to sleep after
tho stranger had gone. Congressmen and
senators had long since returned to their sev
eral constituencies, with’tho various informa
tion that the country was going to ruin, or
that tho outlook never was more hopeful and
cheering, as t he tastes of their constituency
indicated. A few cflbinet otlieem still lingered,
having by this time become convinced that
they could do nothing their own way, or indeed
in any way but the old way, and getting gloom
ily resigned to their situation. A body of
learned, cultivated men, representing the
highest legal tribunal in tho land, still
lingered in a vague idea of earning the scant
salary bestowed upon them by the economical
founders of the government, and listened
patiently to tho arguments of counsel, whose
fees for advocacy of claims before them
would have paid the life income of half the
Ixindi. There was Mr. Attorney General
and his assistants still protecting the govern
ment's millions from rapacious hands, and
drawing the yearly public pittance that their
wealthier private antagonists world have
scarce given os a retainer to their junior
counsel. The little standing army of do
partmental employes—tho helpless victims of
the most senseless and idiotic fonn of disci
pline the world has known—a discipline so
made up of caprice, expediency, cowardice
and tyranny that its reform meant revolu
tion, not to be tolerated by legislators and
lawgivers, or a despotism in which half a
dozen accidentally-chosen men interpreted
their prejudices of preference as being that
reform. Administration after administra
tion and party after party had persisted in
their desperate attempts to fit the youthful
colonial garments, made by our fathers after
a by-gone fashion, over the expanded limits
and generous outline of a matured nation.
There were patches here and there; there
were grievous rents and holes here and them;
there were ludicrous and painful exposuies of
growing limbs everywhere; and the party in
power and the party out of power could do
pothiug biiVmcnd and patch, and revamp
and cleanse and scour, and occasionally, in
the wildness of despair, suggest even the cut
ting off the relxdlious limbs that i>crsistcd in
growing beyond the swaddling clothes of Its
infancy. -
It was a capital of contradictions and in
consistencies. At one end of the avenue sat
the responsible high keeper of the military
honor, valor and warlike prestige of a great
nation, without the power to pay his own
troops their legal dues until some selfish
quarrel between party and party was settled. 1
Hard by sot another secretary, whose estab
lished functions seemed to be the misrepre
sentation of the nation abroad by tho least
characteristic of its classes, the politicians—
and only then when they had been defeated
as politicians, and when their constituents had
declared them no longer worthy to be even 1
their representatives. The national absurdity
was only equaled by another, wherein an ex
politician was for four years expected to up-
bold the honor of a flag of a great nation
over an ocean he had never tempted, with a
discipline the rudiments of which hp could
scarcely acquire before he was removed, or
his term cf office expired, receiving his orders
from a superior officer as ignorant of his
', and subjected to the
suv Mon of a congress cognisant of him only
> a politician. At the further end of the
Avenue was another deportment so vast in its
extent and so vartad in its functions that tow
of the really great practical workers of the
land would have accepted its
obvious to the first named journal that the
“letter” meant government patronage to the
! other journal; it was potent to that journal
that the “shekels” of Senator X really ani
mated the spirit of the fathers. Yet all
I agreed that it was a great and good and per-
; feet government—subject only to the preda-
| tory incursions of a hydra-headed monster
known as a “ring.” The ring’s origin was
! wrapped in secrecy, its fecundity was alarm-
| ing; but although its rapacity was preter
natural, its digestion was perfect and easy.
I It eircumvolved all affairs in an atmosphere
! of mystery; it clouded all things with the
i dust and ashes of distrust. All disappoint-
j meut of place, of avarice, of incompetency or
j ambition, was clearly attributable to it. It
even permeated private and social life; there
were rings in our kitchen and household ser- J
J vice; in our public schools, that kept the |
active intelligences of our children passive; j
there were rings of engaging, ham Lome, dis
solute young fellows, who kept us moral j
but unengaging seniors from tho favors !
of the fair; there were subtle, conspiring j
rings among our creditors which sent us into j Wiles, blandly,
| bankruptcy and restricted our credit In | record.”
fact it would not be hazardous to say that all
1 that was calamitous in public and private ox-
I perience was clearly traceable to that com-
| bination of power in a minority over weak
ness in a major t}’—known hs a ring. ,
Haply there was a body of demigods, as
j yet uninvoked, who should speedily settle all
| that. When Smith, of Minnesota, Robinson,
| of Vermont, and Jones, of Georgia, returned
j to congress from those rural seclusions so
I potent with information and so freed from
j local prejudices, it was understood, vaguely,
j that great things would be done. This was
always understood. There never was a time
in the history of American politics when, to
use the expression of the journals before al
luded to, “the present session of congress” did
not “bid fair to l>e the most momentous in
our history,” and did not, as far ns facts go,
leave a vast amount of unfinished important
business lying hopelessly upon its desk, hav
ing “bolted” the rest as rashly and with as
little regard to digestion or assimilation as
the American traveler has for his railway
refreshment.
In this capital, on this languid midsummer
day, in an upper room of one of its second
rate hotels, tho Hon. Pratt C. Gashwiler sat
at his writing tabic. There are certain large,
fleshy men with whom the omission of even a
necktie or collar has all the effect cf an in
decent exposure. The Hon. Mr. Gashwiler,
in his trousers and shirt, was a sight to l>c
avoided by tho modest eye. There were such
palpable suggestions of vast extents of unc
tuous flesh in, the slight glimpsd offered by
his open throat that his dishabille should have
been as private as his business. Nevertheless,
when there was a knock at his door, he un
hesitatingly said, “Como in!” pushing away a
goblet crowned with a certain aromatic herb
with his right hand, while he drew toward
him with his left a few proof slips cf his
forthcoming speech. The Gashwiler brow
became, as it were, intelligently abstracted.
The intruder regarded Gashwiler with a
4 Decritc an American lawgiver."
measure connected with a capital offense'!
Do I understand you to say, sir, that mur
der stands upon the record—stands upon the
record, sir—of this cause to which, as a repre
sentative of Remus, I have lent my official |
aid? Do you mean to say that you have de
ceived my constituency, whose sacred trust I
hold, in inveigling me to hiding a crime from !
the Argus eyes of justice?” And Mr. Gash-'
wiler looked towards the bell-pull as if about'
to summon a servant to witness this outrage ;
against the established judiciary.
“Tho murder, if it was a murder, took.
place before Garcia entered upon t his claim, |
or liad a footing in this court,” returned
‘and is no part of the |
“You are sure it is not spread ujion the
record?”
**! am. You can judge for youAelf. ”
Mr. Gashwiler walked to the window, re-1
turned to the table, finished his liquor in a
single gulp, and then, with a slight resump- j
tion of dignity, said:
l‘That alters the case.” ^
W iles glanced with his left eye at the con- j
gressman. The right placidly looked out of i
the window. Presently he said quietly, “I’ve !
brought you tho certificates of the stock; do
you wish them made out in your own name?”
Mr. Gashwiler tried hard to look as if he
were trying to recall the meaning of Wiles’
words. “Oh!—ah!—umpb!—let me sec—oh,
yes, tho certificates, certainly! Of course
you will make them out in the name of my
secretary, Mr. Expectant Dobbs. They will
perhaps repay him for the extra clerical
labor required in the prosecution of your
claim. He is a worthy young man. Although
not a public officer, yet ho is so near to me
that perhaps I am wrong in permitting him
to accept a fee for private interests. An
American representative cannot be too
cautious, Mr. Wiles. Perhaps you had better
have also a blank transfer. Tho stock is, I
unde-stand, yet in the future. Mr. Dobbs,
though talented and praiseworthy, is poor;
ho may wish to realise. If some—ahem!
some friend—better circumstanced should
choose to advance tho cash to him and run
the risk—why it would only be an act of
kindness.”
“You arc proverbially generous, Mr. Gash-
wiler,” said Wiles, opening and shutting his
left eye like a dark lantern on the benevolent
representative.
j “Youth, when faithful and painstaking,
’ should Do encouraged,’’replied Mi'. Gashwiler.
“I lately had occasion to point this out in a
few remarks I had to make before the Sab-
| bath school reunion at Remus. Thank you, I
! will see that they are—ahem!—conveyed to
* him. I shall give them to him with my own
glance of familiar recognition from his right ; hand,” he concluded, falling backiu his chair,
eye, while his left took in a rapid survey of | as if the better to contemplate the perspective
the papers on the table, and gleamed sardon- of his own generosity and condescension. Mr.
ically. | Wiles took liis hat and turned to go. Before
! he reached the door Mr. Gashwiler returned
“You are at work, I see,” ho said apologet
ically.
“Yes,” replied the congressman, with an
air of perfunctory weariness, “one of my
speeches. Those d—d printers make such a
mess of it. I suppose I don’t write a very
fine hand.”
If the gifted Gashwiler had added that he
did not write a very intelligent hand, or a
very grammatical hand, and that his spell
ing was faulty, he would have been truth
ful, although the copy and proof before him
might not have borne him out. The near
fact was that the speech was compostHl and
written by one Expectant Dobbs, u poor re
tainer of Gashwiler, and the honorable mem
ber’s labor as a proof-reader w as confined to
the introduction of such words as “anarchy,”
“oligarchy,” “ satrap,” “ palladium ” and
“Argus-eyed” in the proof, with little rel
evancy as to position or place, and no per
ceptible effect as to argument
The stranger saw all this with his wicked
left eye, but continued to beam mildly with
his right. Removing the coat and waistcoat
of Gashwiler from a chair, he drew it to
ward the table, pushing aside a portly, loud-
ticking watch—tho very image of Gashwiler
—that lay Ixjside him, and resting his elbow's
on the proofs, said:
“Weflr
“Have you anything new?” asked the par
liamentary Gashwiler.
“Much! a woman!” replied the stranger.
The astute Gashwiler, waiting further in
to tho social level with a chuckle:
“You say this woman, this Garcia’s niece,
is handsome and smart?”
“Yea”
“I can set another w oman on the track
that’ll euchre her every time!”
Mr. Wiles was too clever to appear to notice
the sudden lapse in the congressman's dig
nity, and only said, with Ins right eye:
“Can you?”
“By G—d, I wxU, or I don’t know’ how to
represent Remus.” %
Mr. W ilos thanked him with his right eye,
and looked a dagger with his left “Good,”
he said, and added persuasively: “Does she
live here!”
The congressman nodded assent. “An aw
fully handsome woman—a particular friend
of mine!” Mr. Gashwiler here looked as if he
would not mind to have boon rallied a little
over his intimacy with the fair one; but the
astute Mr. Wiles was at the same moment
making up his mind, after interpreting the
congressman’s look and manner, that he must
know this fair incognito if he wished to sway
Gashwiler. He determined to bide his time,
and withdrew.
The door wtis scarcely closed upon him
when another knock diverted Mr. Gashwiler's
attention from his proofs. The door opened
to a young man with sandy hair and anxious
face. He entered the room deprecatiugly, as
if conscious of the presence of a powerful
being, to be supplicated and feared. Mr.
formation, concluded to receive this fact! Gashwiler did not attempt to disabuse his
Dobbs assented. Then my duties will
keep me with you lierof' he asked doubtfully.
“No, r.o,” said Gashwiler hastily; then, cor
recting himself, he added: “that Tor the
present—no! ’
Poor Dobbs' face fell. Tho near fact was
that he had lately had notice to quit his pres
ent lodgings in consequence of arrears in his
rent, and he had a hopeful reliance that his
confidential oerunation would carry bread
and lodging with it. Bqt he only asked if
there were any new pfqiers to make out.
“Ahem! not at present; tho fact is I am
obliged to give so much of my time to callers
—I have to-day been obliged to «*» half a
dozen—that I must lock myself up and say
‘Not at home’ for tho rest of the day.” Peel
ing that this was an intimation that the inter
view was over, tho new private secretary, a
little dashed os to his near liop»«s, but still
sanguine of the future, humbly took his
leave.
But here a certain provider“e, perhaps
TifYlfal of pool- Dobbs, threw iutis his simple
bauds—to be used or not, if he were worthy
or capable of using it—a certain’ power and
advantage. He had descended the staircase,
and was passing through the lower corridor,
when he was made the unwilling witnew of a
remarkable assault.
It appeared that Mr. Wiles, who had
quitted Gashwiler's presence as Dobbs was
announced, had other business in the hotel,
and in pursuance of it had knocked at room
No. DO. In response to the gruff voice tliat
bode him enter, Mr. Wiles opened the door,
and espied the figure of a tail, muscular, fiery-
be&rded man extended on the bed, w ith the
bed clothes carefully tucked under his chin,
and his arms lying flat by his side.
Mr. Wiles beamed with his l ight cheek,
and advanced to the bod as if to take the
hand of the stranger, who, however, neither
by word or sign, responded to his salutation.
“Perhaps I'm intruding?” said Mr. 4Vik»
blandly.
“Perhaps you are,” said Red Beard dryly.
Mr. Wiles forced a smile on his right cheek,
w hich be turned to the smiter, but permitted
the left to indulge in unlimited malevolence.
“I w anted merely to know if you have looked
into that matter?” he sail meekly.
“I’vo looked into it and around it and
across it and over it and through it,” re-
spondol the man gravely, with his eyes fixed
on Wihis.
* \nd you have perused all the papers T
coi tinned Mr. W flee.
“I’vo read every paper, every speech, every
cffilavit, every decision, every argument,”
said the stranger, as if repeating a formula.
Mr. Wiles attempted to conceal his embar
rassment by an easy, right handed smile,
that w r ent off sardonically on the left, and
continued: “Then I hope, my dear sir, that,
having thoroughly mastered the case, you
are inclined to lx> favorable to us?”
The gentleman in the bed did not reply, but
apparently nestled more closely beneath the
coverlids.
“I have brought the shares I spoke of,”
continued Mr. Wiles, insinuatingly.
“Hev you a friend within call?” interrupted
the recumbent man, gently.
“I don’t quite understand!” smiled Mr.
Wiles. Of course, any name you might sug
gest ”
“Hev you a friend, any chap that you
might waltz in here at a moment's call?”
continued the man in bed. “No? Do you
know any of them waiters in the house?
Thar’s a bell over yan!” and he motioned with
his eyes toward the w-all, but did not other-
wi$e move his body.
“No,” said Wiles, becoming slightly sus
picious and wrathful.
“Mebbe a stranger might do? I reckon
thar's one passin’ in the hall Call him in—
he’ll do!”
Wiles opened the door a little impatiently,
yet inquisitively, os Doblw passed. The man
in bed called out, “Oh, stranger!” and, as
Dobbs stopped, said, “Come yar.”
Dobbs entered a little timidly, as was his
habit with strangers.
“I don’t know who you tic—nor care, I
reckon,” said the stranger. “This yer man”
pointing to Wiles—“is Wiles. I'm Josh Sib-
bTeC of Fresno, member of congress from the
Fourth congressional district of Californy.
I’m jist lying here with a derringer into each
hand—jist lying here kivered up and boldin’
in on’y to keep from blowin’ the top o’ this
d—d skunk’s head off. I kinder feel I can’t
hold in any longer. What I want to say to
ye, stranger, is that this yer skunk—which
his name is Wiles—hez bin tryin’ his d—dcst
to get a bribe onto Josh, and Josh, onto re
spect for his constituents, is jist waitin’ for
some stranger to waltz in and stop tho d—dost
fight-—”
“But, my deal- Mr. Bibblee, there must be
some mistake,” said Wiles, earnestly.
“Mistake? Strip mo!”
“No! No!” said Wiles, hurriedly, as the
simple-minded Dobbs was about to draw
down the coverlid.
“Take him away,” said the Hon. Mr.
Bibblee, “before I disgrace my constituency.
They said I'd be in jail afore I get through
the s(«sion. Ef you’ve got any humanity,
stranger, shake'him out, and pow'ful quick,
too.”
Dobbs, quito white and aghast, looked at
Wiles and hesitated. There was a slight
movement in the bed. Both men started for
the door, and the next minute it closed very
decidedly on the member from Fresno.
(To be Continued.)
Half a Century
U li at least fifty years too late to
dispute the proposition that newspa
per advertising pays. Tho reverse may
ha vs l»oon true when Kip Van Winkle
went to sleep, but Rip has waked up.
and even “Schneider" can bark out the
trutlfto him. Not only does newspa
per advertising pay, but it pays well,
and on the whole better than it ever
did liefore.
A few years ago newspapers were
not what they are now. They were
fewer in number, and in all that char-
noterizes good newspaper management
they were inferior to the newspapers
of the present day. Remembering that
our allusion is chiefly to the papers of
tho smaller cities and country towns,
noone who is familiar with the facts of
twenty five years ago will dispute \\i‘h
us when we say that, wonderful a,ai
been much of the progress of the last
two or three decades, the ad vance in re
spect to our newspapers has not been
surpassed in any other direction.
In the days of the past advertising
paid. Conspicuous incidents of men
who grew rich by early perception of
the advantages of newspaper advertis
ing readily come to mind, while the
truth that thousands of persons who
achieved no personal celebrity made
handsome profits by the same means
can be easily shown.
In this day the newspapers have
much to commend them which they
did not then possess. They are better
printed, for one thing; they are more 1
prosperous and have a better commer
cial standing, for another. The papers
of the class s|>ecialiy referred to have
at their command a reading matter
service which puts them fully on a
level, as to matter, with the most pros
porous metroplitan daily. And so an
advertiser, when presenting his an
nouncement for insertion, may feci
confident that his advertisement will !
be printed in good company, and,
since these are also the times of per
fected printing machinery, in good,
legible form also.
Therefore since newspaper adver
Using has always paid, even in the
day when newspapers were, by com
|prison, poorly printed and only mod
eratcly edited, the business man is
'landing in his own light and casting
the blackest kind of a shadow if he is
not a student and a liberal user of
newspaper advertising.
Ones Advertising Pay?
He is a slow man indeed who af
firms that judicious advertising does-
not pay. Let the skeptic look around
him, in any city or business center,
and note the most successful business
men there. Who are they? Tlie care
ful and judicious advertisers invari
ably.
Some raise tho objection that every
thing i > now sold at so small a margin
of profit that they cannot afford toad
vertise. This is just why 'hey should
advertise. Where is the advantage of
selecting particularly cheaper offerin'!
especially great bargains if the peoph
are not made aware of them?
There is no questioning the fact that
there is an iiuuiense amouutof money
waste 1. positively thrown away, in so
called advertising schemes that areab
solutoly worthless, and that fail utterly
to bring the investor in them any re
turns whatever for the money expend
■■d All the experienced advertisers
avoid them, using only the standard,
long tried, reliable mediums—tin
newspapers, the host and the cheapest
As it is known that the most sue
cc.ssful business men are the greatest
advertisers, so is it a fact that all sue
cessful advertisers arc firm believers in
the newspaper—believers not only in
its effectiveness, but its cheapness.
„ , T.sntKK
Needing »tonic, or children who want holld-
tug up. (houlcl trite
BROWN’S IKON BITTERS,
It U pleuxnl to take, cum Malaria, Indi
gestion, Uilibiuneautd Uver Complaint*.
IUII Il»:s AMI MULES
Final Notice.
Notice is hereby given that I will!
file in the office of Protuite Judge of
Darlington County, my final account
as Administrator of the Estate of Mrs.
C. E. Hyiues, on January 81st, 1801,
and apply for letters of dismission.
Dec. 81, 1SH0. V. ALEXANDER.
Final Notice.
Noi'c' is hereby given that I will
file in (lie office of the probate judge
of Darlington county, on the lath of 1
January next my final account as ad
ministratrix of estate of \V. W. fciuu-1
bn y and w ill apply for lette s dh-
missary. M. J. SANSBURY.
dee? -d Administrati i.'.
NOTICE.
Notice is In reby giv. n that a mnri
gage from C. Pate to W. A. I 'arrig.- i\
whieh has been lost, is not iiego'.iible ,
and will lie value! -ss in band of
finder.
W. A. CARRIGAN.
Nktii.es & Netti.es. Att vs.,
Nov. 27, tf For C. Pate.
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Jan. 8-3m.
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or C. B. EDWARDS.
July 17, ’0T>—tf.
For sale at reasona
ble terms. Call
and see for your-
sel ves.
C. W. Hewitt,
Dec. 25-tf.
i iuimii & m,
Manilla cturers
-OF—
Doors, Sash, Blums,
aVEOTTLiOilUNJ-QS
—AND -
building Material,
ESTABLISHED 1842.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
April, 2o IHfcy—i
GEO.E.TOALC.
HENRY OLIVER
Ceo. E. Toale k Co,
manufacturfhs
— AND—
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Doors, Sash, Blinds,
Builders Hardware,
AND
M liii;
OFFICE AND SALESROOMS
10 and It’ lluj tie Street,
CI1ARLBJTON, - • S.
II 'rite for Estimates.
May 31, 1888.
gaily and gallantly. “A woman?—my dear
Mr. Wiles—of course! The dear creatures,” j
he continued, with a fat, offensive chuckle, |
“somehow are always making their charm- i
ing presence felt. Iln! ha! A man, sir, in '
public life becomes accustomed to that sort ’
of thing, and knows when he must l>e agreea- j
ble—agreeable, sir, but firm! I’ve had my i
mind. “Busy, you see,” he said shortly,
“correcting your work.”
“I hope it is acceptable?” said the young
man timidly.
“Well—yes—it will do,” said Gashwiler;
“indeed I may say it is satisfactory on the
whole,” he added with the Appearance of a
large generosity; “quite satisfactory.”
“You have no news, I suppose,” continued
experience, sir—ray awn experience”—and . ...
the congressman leaned back in his chair, not! the , >' oun 8 man ' with » Rli 8 Ut (lu8h ' bo rn of
unlike a robust St. Anthony who had with- i pru !® or <5 *P« cttttl on.
stood one temptation to thrive on another. | “ No ’ nothln * “ ^ Mr " G “ llwiIer I*” 901 *
“Yes,” said Wiles, impatiently, “but d n ! “ “ * thou S ht h * d * t ™ ck llim -
It, she’s on the other „ /<•.” 1 hav0 thou « ht ’ ^ “ id ' flnall y’
“The other sido!” repeated Gashwiler, va-' ' oln<> P^bon-sneh as a secretaryship with
,^1 me—would help you to a hotter appointment.
' “Yes, she’s a niece of Garcia’s. A little she ‘ Now ' that 1 mnke T 0 " P rivate
devil” - secretary, giving you some important, and
confidential business. Eh I”
“ But Garcia's on our side,” n-joiinvl Oasb-
wiler.
“ Yes, but she is bought by the ring.”
“ A woman !” sneered Mr. Gashwiler! what
can she do with men who won’t be made
fools of t Is sho so handsome r
“ I never saw any groat beaoty in her,”
said Wiles, silently, “although they say that
: she’s rather caught that d—d Thatcher. In
spite of his coldness. At any rote she is his
protege. But slie isn’t the sort you're think
ing of, Gashwiler. They say she knows, or
pretends to know, something atiout the grant
Who may have got hold.of some of h.r uncle's
papers. Those greasers were always d—d
fools; and, if he did anything foolish, like as
| not he bungled or didn’t cover up his tracks.
> And with his knowledge and facilities, too t
| Why, if I’d—” but here Mr. Wiles stopped
‘ to sigh over the inequalities of fortune that
wasted opportunities on the less skillful
Mr. Gashwiler became dignified. “She
us,” bo said potintially.
wicked eye on hint
who sold out to on
ly wei
Dobbs looked at his patron with a certain
wistful, dog-like expectancy, moved himself
excitedly on his chair seat in a peculiar canine-
tike anticipation of gratitude, strongly sug
gesting that he would have wagged his tail if
he hod one. At which Mr. Gashwiler became
more impressive.
“Indeed, rtnay say that I anticipated it by
certain papers I have put in your charge and
in your name, only taking from you a trans
fer that might enable me to satisfy my con.
science hereafter in recommending you as my
—ahem'—private secretary. Perhaps, as a
mere form, you might now, while you are
bore, put your name to then transfers, and,
so to speak, begin your duties at once.”
The glow of pride and hope that mantled
the cheek of poor Dobbs might ha vs melted
a harder heart than Gasbwllarh. But the
senatorial toga had invested Mr. Omhwileu
with a more than Roman stoician toward the
feelings of others, mud he only fell back in
his chair in tbs pom of conscious rectitude ss
Dobbs hurriedly signed the paper.
“I shall pines them in my
mid Gashwiler,
My Heart’s Might.
A Charming Story of the Adventure!
of an Editor Among the Hun-
gariar Miners at Tiger Hill.
By LOUISE STOCKTON.
Don’t Fail to Read It.
It Will Appear jn these Columns.
Baqalsltes af a Good Talker.
It is not neceosary that one should be
born a genius to become a good orator,
bat it is necessary that great attention
be paid to the rules of articulation, to
Min pie and natural expression, and to
quick thinking when on one's feet, to
insure dearness of speech and convinc
ing logic, at all times and seasons.—
Jenness-Miller Magazine.
" ' 1
TLs farthest point northward ever
reached by Arctic explorers thus for is
I dega 23 min., which was toudicd
members of the Qreely party in
. As tbs pals U 90 degree, from
who reaches it
fiTiWi
Nuts for .Advcriisers to Crack.
The man who does not find advertis
iiiff profitable generally finds business
unprofitable.
A business may bo likened to an
arch; if capital and labor represent
tho pillars, then advertising is the key
stone, without which the structure
must crumble
Was nc wspapar advertisi ng a .success
with you lust year? If not, why not!
It pays others. It ought to pay you
and will if wisely done.—Ayers’News
paper Manual.
I.et your advertisement in all cases
exactly corres|ioiid with what you real
ly propose to sell. Be prepared to show
the customer who inquires the ideuti
cal gcxxls, and lot price and terms al
ways tally with your announcements.
Half the buttle in advertising is iu
knowing what to say and how to say
it Of all things don't try to say too
much in one advertisement. Remem
ber that “Brevity is the soul of wit’ -
If you've a thing to sell, name it, with
the price, briefly. If you want any
tiling, waste no words in needless ex
planation.
How lo Display an Advertisement.
It is difficult to fix any rule, since
each ease requires different treatment
In every instance a “catch line” or a
“catch word” is desirable, which will
arrest the attention at a glance.
The fewer words used the better
in purely displayed advertisements.
Avoid lengthy descriptions of articles;
people seldom read them.
Use plain type, easily read. The
test of an advertisement is its legihil
ity. Fancy letters and intricate de
signs are a waste of time and space.
Puzzles, inverted words, lines set on
angles or lengthwise in columns never
accomplish what is expected of them.
Leave a margin of blank space on top,
sides and bottom of your advertise
ment, and it will always add to its ef
fectiveness.
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for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers,
Salt Kheuni, Fever Sores, Tet
ter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guarantee 1
to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cts.
per box. For sale at Willcox
& Co’s drug store.
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and all Patent business conducted for
Moderate Fees.
Our Office is Opposite U. 8. Patent
Office and we cun secure patent in
less time and at less cost than those
remote from Washington.
Send model, drawing or photo., with
lescription. We advise, if pateutabh
>r not. free of charge, Our fee not
lue till patent is secured.
A Little Book. “Howto Obtain Pat
ents,” with names of actual clients in
your State, County or town sent free.
Address,
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Opp. Patent Office, Washington, D. C
MAKE YOUR TAX RETURNS.
A. C.
Schedule of the Hartsville R. R.
HahtsVILLK. 8. C., Dec. 7, '89.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN
Leaves Hartsville, fi.45 A. M.
Leaves Jovaun, 7.20 “
Arrive at Floyd's, 7.4. r > “
Making connection wi.h the South
bound passenger train on the Cheraw
Si Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd’s, 10.00 A. M.
Leave Jovann. 10.20 “ *
Arrive at Hartsville, lO.M) ’
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. Si. D. K. R.
J. L. COKER.
President.
FUR C. & D. AND C. ft ff. RAILROADS
I’BKSIDEST’sOTriCS
c. & D. and V. & 8. RAILROADS,
Cbarleaion, 8, C’., May 1, 1800.
Jn and after May 12, the train! on
iheae roads will run as fol’ows (Suuda , SX*
oepted) every day:
DOWS T it AIN.
Leave Wadeshoro 5.25 A p?
Bennetts 5.40
Morven’s 5-55
McFarland ^10
Leave Cheraw 0 48
Cash’s .‘".OO
Society Hill 7 18
Date’s 7 fiO
Floyd s J-8*
Dkrlington i “0
Palmetto £
Arrive at Florence 8 16
CP TRAIN*
Leave Florence 8 ' 1( ‘ V
Palmetto ° "
^ °
Floyd’s I'll
p. a,h 9.43 P M
McFarlan
Morten’s
Lake Wadeshoro
» Freight Train going up.
Leave Florence ? ' *
Arrive Darlinglon ■ h” “ m
Freight going down
Arrive DarlinSton * P ""
Leave Darlington 8 3 p m
Arrive Florence 4. in pm
A. F. RAVENEL, Pres.
G 11 Maeter Transportation.
ORTHEASTERN railroad.
Agent of Manufacturers for the
sale of Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Gins, Presses, Threshers,
Shafting. Pulleys, Belting, Circular
Saws, and machinery supplies. Par
ties who contemplate buying machin
ery of any kind will find it to their
interest to get prices from me before
buying e'sewhere. I have for sale at
abargain, a complete Ginning outfit,
consisting of a fiO saw H ,11 Gin, feeder
and condenser, n Bass Press, netshaft-
ing and pulleys, belting, Ac., a 96
corn mill, very little used, and anew Arrive Charleston
10-Horse Engine and boiler, which
will be sold on easv terms at a bar- Train on C & D
0HARLBBTON, S. C., M«y L ' 8 ''°;
On and after this date the fol owin
schedule will be run :
going south.
No. 27, Daily.
Lea?e Florence
Leare Kingstree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
No. 23, Daily
Leave Florence
Leave Kingstree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lanes
Arrive Charleston
No 53.
Leave L ines
*1 35 a in
2 2^ « rn
2 50 n m
2 50 n ni
6 00 n ni
*8 30 a ni
9 40 a d
10 07 n i
10 07 a t
11 59 a »n
*7 60 V M.
9 30 p. in.
R R conn cts a» F'or
gain. For prices and terms, call on
A. (’. McFALL,
Darlington Oil Mill.
June 20, ’IK).
er.ee with No 23 Train.
Whes Baby was dck. we gave her Caatorto.
When she was a Child, she cried for Oaatoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she tua. Children, she gavs them Castoria.
BOB DnmtlA,
, and I
otrips noil i
sit, Apert
taaa
, AUDITOR'S OFFICE )
Darlington, C. H., Dee. 1st, 1890. j
This office will be open for the pur
pose of listing the personal property
tnd polls of the county for taxation
for the fiscal year, commencing Nov.
1st., 1890, and ending Oct. 31st., 1891.
from Jan.l, 1891,to Feb'y. 20,excepting
days advertised below for country
precincts, and days required by law
in filling the jury box.
Leuvensworth, Tuesday January 6;
Antioch, Wednesday January 7;
Hartsville,Thursday January 8;Stokes
Bri 'ge, Friday and Saturday Jan
uary 9 and 10; Lydia, Monday January
12; Cypress, Tuesday January 18; Lis
bon, Wednesday and Thursday Jan
uary 14 and 15;' Jasper, Friday Jan
uary 16; Philadelphia, Saturday Jan
uary 17; Society Hill, Tuesday and
Wednesday January 20 and 21; Me-
chanicsvilfe, Tuesday January 20;
High Hill, Wednesday January 21;
Swift Creek, Thursday January 22;
Jilling jury box, last week in January.
The following instructions from
Comptroller General's office will be
observed. “Circular No. 18, second
series.
The attention of this office has been
called to the fact that in some counties
of the State the Auditors have been
in the habit of distributing loosely the
returns for personal property and
allowing individuals to fill out the
same sending the said returns to the
i County Auditors without the oath
i which attaches to the same being ad
- ministered. The practice must be
I stopped and each and ev ry taxpayer
! will be required to appeer before the
respective County Auditors either by
I themselves, their" agents, or assigns,
guardians, trustees, administrators,
etc., and answi r the various questions
as appear iii>on the returns. And the
I County Auditors will put these ques
tions eatogorieally to each and every
person making a’ return of personal
property. When the said return is
made, the Auditor will administer the
oath and swear the party making the
return in each ai d every instance.”
Any person, company, or corjicra-
tion commencing any business in the
county after the first day of January
j 1891, shall within thirty days after
commencing such business report to
the Auditor under oath, the average
capital employed or to be employed in
such business unless such capital is j
shown to be listed in some other
county or State for taxation for fiscal
year 18 0-91 in accordance with sec
tion 216 of General Statutes.
All real estate owners will be re
quired to state under oath all im- 1
provements to buildings as well as ad
dition of new buildings since making i
last returns.
They are requested to state an£ ir
regularities, errors, or transfers in
real estate.
It is the desire of this office to avoid
mistakes and give to the taxpayers as
i little trouble as possible and any in-
I telligent co-operation on the part of
i taxpayers will be accepted.
Every male between the ages of 21
; and 50 years except those incapable of
earning a support from being maimed
I or from any other cause shall be
| deemed taxable polls.
W. M.LAWKENCE,
ty Anditor
I to*
UfllES
af 00
?*l.75
jGovs
*1,75
»E S
W. L. DOUGLAS
^ ^ B B B"" and other speclal-
4. M W" ties for Gentlemen,
t ■■■ I < a(lIe8,ete.,arGwar-
ranted, and so stamped on bottom. Address
• L. llrocktou, dlunet. Sold by
For sale by A. J. Broom, Dar
lington, S. C.
Feb. 20, 1890.
GOING NORTH,
No, 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*1 20 ni
Arrive Lancs
3 < 0 « nt
Leave Lanes
3 00 a tu
Leave Kingstree
3 17 a m
Arrive Florence
4 20 a ra
No. 14.
Leave Cnarleslon
*4 30 p m
Arrive Lanes
t 29 p hi
Leave Lanes
6 29 p ni
Leave Kingstree
0 40 p hi
Arrive Florence
7 66 p ro
No. 62. Daily.
Leave Charleston
*7 00 a m
Arrive Lanes
F 27 a ro
* Daily, f Daily rttcept Sun
Nos 52 runs through to
Ijoitimbi*
via Central R R of 8 C.
Nob. 78 ami 14 run solid to Wilmington,
V. C., making close connection with W. A
»V H R for all points north.
J. R. KENLY, J F Divins,
Bupt. Trans. (len’l Sup’t.
T. M. Embusos, Oen'l 1’sss. Agl.
HILNHGTON COUHBU AND klZ'.
May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
HAIU
r as
THE
BEST
LIVER
MEDICINE
CHILL CURE.
CHEAPEST MEDHTKE KNOWS
CONSIDERING QUALITY AND SIZE OF DOSE.
IT WILI. .ALSO CUH.E
BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA,
AND CHSONIO CONSTIPATION.
J. A. BOYD,
DRUGGIST.
Darlington, S. C.
Leave Wilmington
*0 15 p m
Leave Marion
9 33 p in
Arrive Florence
10 20 a m
No. 60.
LeaTe Florence
3.20 a u
Arrive Sumter
4. ’6 a a
Leave Sumter
4 35 a m
Vrrive Columbia
G. 15 a m
No. 27
Leave Wilmington
•IC.10 n m
Leave Marion
12.40 p m
irrive Florence
1 20 a m
No 62
Leave Sumter
f f 45 a m
Arrive Columbia
10 56 p ir
No 68
Leave Florence
f8 2.') a n
Vrrive Sumter
9 35 & m
No 62 rune through from
Charlceten via
Central R R.
Leaving Lanes 8 30 A M.
Manning 9 10
A M.
Train on C A D R R connects at Flcrenct
$3000
\ Y K A It f I nndcrtiik# to briefly
h any (airiy intelligent person of either
, who can read and write,and who,
[after instruction, will work industriously,
_ how to earn Three Thousand Dollar* a
Tear In their own localltina,wherever they lived will nlao furnish
the aituation or employ tuciit^t which you ran earn thatamounf.
No monev for roe unless successful as above. Ka»ily and quickly
learned. I desire but one worker from each district or county. 1
have already taught and provided with employment a large
number, who are making over fiMMUl a year each. It's AI K TV
and NOf.I II. l ull t>at ticu!ar« I 1 ' IK K I'. Address af once.
C\ A I. I.F. A, At ox 420, Auictiklu. Alnint*
Snug little fortunes have hern madeat
work for us, by Anna Page, Austin,
Texas, and Jno. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio,
tee cut. Others are doing as well. Why
tot you? Rome rare* over §400.OO a
uonth. You can do the work and live
home, wherever you are. Even be-
f oners arc easily earning from fk to
IDs day. All ages. We show you how
and start you. Can work In snare time
or all the time. Big money for work
ers. Failure unknown among them.
NftW and womierfiil. Partb-alars free.
ll.Klitllt'U «V C , o..Il»x Ms O Portland, Aluine
f #000.00 ft year Is being made by John B.
GoodwIn.'lroy.N.Y.^t work for us. Header
k you may not make as much, but we can
k teach you quickly how to emu .rom #S to
I#10 a dav at the. start, end more as you ge
Both sexes, all ages. In any part of
America, you can commence at home, giv-
Jing all your time,.,r spare momenta only to
f the work. All is new. Great |*y 81 Kk for
everv worker. We start you, furnishing
everything. EASILY, Sl'EfcDILY learned.
PAKTICULAKS KUEB. A (Id mas at once,
HTIhbUX * to., PUMTLAAB, ■AIMU
MONEY
W ftwniah everything. W«
lean be earned at ourMtWlloaofwork,
'rapidly apd honorably, by those of
either sex, young or old, and In their
itics,wherever they live. Any
_ o tlw work. F.say to learn.
itish everything. We start you. No risk. Yon can devote
your spare moment«, or all your time to the work. Tkla la an
entirely new lead jnul brings wonderful success to every worker.
“ • mro earning from MM© fbO pert
a littie experience. e can fl
mriib No 6S.
GOING NORTH.
No 61.
L,eave Columbia.
•10 36 p n
Arrive Sumter
11 68 p a
Leave Sumter
1168pm
Krrive Florence
116am
No. 78.
Leave Florence,
4 85 a m
Leave Marion
6 "tt » IT
Arrive st Wilmington,
8 36 a a
No. 69
Leave Sumter
f 6 37 p o
Arrive Florence
7 60 p is
No. 53,
Leave Columbia
*5 20 p m
Arrive Sumter
6 32 p a
No 14
Leave Florence
•8 16p a
Leave Marion
8 56 p m
Arrive al Wilmington
11 46 p m
EXSS
u here. Full
qBAlUk
•t'siljr. ticept Sunday.
No 53 runs through Is Charleston, via
Osnlral R R, arriving Manning? 04 P &.
Lanrs 7 42 F M. Charleston 9 30 P M.
No 69 oonuects at Flarence with C & D
irain for Cheraw and Wadeshoro’.
Nrs78 tnd 14 make close connection at
Wilmington with WAV/ R K for all poinii
North.
Train on Florenoe R. R. leave Pee Dre
daily except Sunday 4.40 P. M., arrive
Rowland 7.00 F. M. Ketnrning leave
Rowla- d 6.30 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8.60
A.M. „ ,
Train o.. Manchester A Augusta U. tt
leaves Sumter daily except Sunday. 10
t. M . arrive Bimini 12.01 P. M R'-
uirotng leave Bimini 12 16 P M , «r-
rue Snmter 1.8H P. M.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Geu. Supt
J. B. KENLEV, Asst Gen’,
T. M. EMMEBSON, Gen. *