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t*»wTord, she said. •• w hen 1 was a cnalr. U you will cieir 6nr belongings
UUte girl 1 used to sit with my uncle in out I'll send Manrey for the scrub woman
his pew just where I could see yon as 1 and Til go for the matting.”
lookt-d at the painted glass window, and "Ey Oeorge!" said he, "are you daft?
now from the choir of course we have What on earth are you talking about/ -
you in full view." • And when I told him he listened and his
And you do not think me rude bo- only reply was an occasional ejaculation
cause you so often catch me watchis ; of "Oh, Lord!" but his intonation of
waua I wouki small tt. Jack M tn the in ms eyes pity, svmpathy. Instead 1
right. Mies Margaret. He makes a mis- j saw judgment and disapprobation. I
take in not conceding more than he doea. ; knew ho condemned her as a coquette
but in this he is right." 'who had not-known her, own mind.
You are fond of yonr nephew and This 1 greatly resent-1. nv ’ I felt he was
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GEMS IN VERSE.
8»ng.
The VweeUwt notign are tltone
That few meu ever hear,
And no meu ever sinir;
Tl»e clearest skies are those
That farthest off appear
turds of utrou^est win;;
The dearest loves are those
That no man can come near
With bis beet following.
* Jean Ingolovr.
The Children.
Ah: what would the world be to us
If U*e children were no more?
We ftiroukl dread the desert behind um
W-rrw? t tan the dark before.
The/ are letter than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said,
Tor they are living poems.
And ail the rest are deed.
Joy.
Kot Ly an*ointment do we meet delight
Aud yty. they heed not our expectancy;
But rvauul some corner in the streets of life,
Tliey on a sudden clasp us with a smile.
—Oerakl Massey.
Ilf Ms Miglit.
By LOUISE STOCKTON.
[Oopyrikht. All Rights Reserved.]
CHAPTER I.
you.'
The girl slightly colored. "You have
the kindest face in all the church. 1
«»uld never think you rude." And with
that she became scarlet.
“I will not say what I think of yours,"
I said gently, “or you might think me 1
very rude indeed, but can I do anything
for you?”
She crushed her veil tightly in her
hands, “I do not want to take up your
time, Mr. Crawford; but I do want to
talk to you a minute. I have to support
myself, and I want to get newspaper
work, Mr. Crawford, and 1 thought per
haps you would give me some. It. is so
quiet here."
I looked at her with surprise. "I
thought you lived with your uncle, Mr.
Mason/'
"I^id, but we do not agree, and I
have no money of my own, and as I
haves to leave there I nf 1st support my
self.”
"But surely your natural resource
would Ise in music, Miss Woolstine.
Your voice ought to be worth a great
deal to you.”
“I could noising in public,” she quick- !
ly answered. “The church I do not
that expression never varied.
CHAPTER H.
are blinded to his mistakes." said she
stoutly.
“1 hardly Irnow him," 1 replied. "1
never saw him but once, and that is five
years ago. Ho is good looking.”
By that time the kettle had boiled,
and Hale came in with a basket of
grai>es, and we talked no more of the
narrow and prejudice 1. And because
he was hard in his thought’s of her I be
came more tender, and I should have
liked to have comforted her as I should
lay own daughter. But I said to her
that 1 lielieved in her aud I should help
her, "but 1 cannot see," I siid, "why
now that yon are free Jack should keep
miners nor of the perplexities they pre- 1 p his resentment. Had I lieen
sented.
But of Jack we did speak, and to the
purpose twfore the day was over. The
evening papers had come in, and Miss
Woolstine had carried them off while
Hale and 1 talked to an eminent rose
culturist who had just produced a now
rose of a pink that was yellow, and a
yellow that was pink.
All at once I heard a little cry, and
Mias Woolstine appeared at the door
1 >ver at his age I should have flown
yon."
Her eyes dashed at.this.
“Do you supjKise 1 would send him
word that I was free/’
“Surely you could in some w;
him know."
“No girl would do such a thing as
that," she promptly answered, and then
her lips trembled, her eyes filled and she
broke into a bitter weeping. W T e could
"uon't be unreasonable, uan," sam
he. “Don’t qnarrei to-night, my boy.
It is as much as I can stand to see you
go off, and I declare I will go with von! 1
j Of course I will. I can look after Mar- [
! garet and leave you free.”
"And who will get this week’s num
ber ont? No, no, Hale"—and I fell into
line at the ticket office—“it wouldn’t j
be wise. I'd do better by myself, and
; three of us would be min to everything, j
And I never did quarrel with you. Be
gin tonight? Not much, Reuben."
And so getting my ticket I went into
the waiting room and found Margaret I
composed, alert and confident.
Hale pressed through the gate, carry
ing onr bags, and when tilt train ran
out of the station I glanced back out of
the window and saw him trying to look
cheery and hopefal, but a more mlser-
av let woebegone face never did I see.
He waved his hat as iniv-h as to say, “1
knew you’d do it!" and turned away.
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opening into her room. Her face was not stand this, old fellows as we were,
white as snow, her eyes filled with hor- : and Hale jumped up and walked around
ror. 1 did not wait for her to speak, but I the room, and cleared his throat, and
at once arose and went into her little ! blew his nose, and ejaculated all sorts
/ sat th ic-i crushed uiul guilty.
It Is very certain that had Miss Wool-
mind, because I have gone there all my : Bt ' ne tt 0116 to the office of The Royal Ex
office. For a moment she stood, still
looking at me.
“I cannot tell you,” she whispered.
“Is it bad news—bad news for me?"
She nodded her head like a dumb
person.
Now, as my wife was dead and I had
no child and I knew my office was safe,
my heart beat still steadily as I took her
hand in mine.*
“I am Jft*s Margaret Woolstine."
The newspaper which Reulien Hale
and I own and edit is, I am aware, a
“one horse" affair, but we are satisfied
with it. It is a small eight paged week
ly, largely made up of advertisements
and scissorings, and the subscription
price is one dollar a year. Wa have no
reporters; we never print telegrams nor
murders, and we have a subscription list
of 173,000 names—farmers, gardeners
and country people, because wherever
there are people raising fruit, truck or
flowers there goes the little Seed and
Graft, and we are old fogy enough to
employ girls to fold and direct these
newspapers, and these girls do their
work cheerfully and seem to be happy.
W hen one of them marries we give her
a sewing machine and a dining room
table.
One day I came into the office after an
absence of a couple of hours, and found
Hale scissoring the New York dailiee.
“Dan,” said he, “there was a young
woman in here to see you.”
“Very well,” said I getting a glass of
water, “you saw her, I suppose? It is as
hot as ginger outside, Reuben."
“I saw her,” ho replied, “but she didn't
want to see me. It was the old gentle
man she was aftey.”
“Now, come,” said I, sitting down, “1
am not going to shirk the title, but you'll
have to take shares In it. Yon can’t be
distinguished from me by it, my boy! 1
am gray, but you are bald; I am lean
and you are stout, and there isn’t a six
months difference in our years or onr
looks, Reuben Hale.”
“Have it ns yon please," said he, “but
that is what sRo said—she wanted to see
old Mr. Crawford. I think sho thought
me the young one.”
. “Was she a blind young woman/’
“Blind!" ho repeated. “Just wait un
til you see her eyes. Oh, sho is coming
back! At 2 o’clock, Daniel. Even if she
didn't want vO soe me I asked her to do
that, 1 told her you'd be sure to bo in
then."
“Well, I won’t,” I answered. “I am
going out lo Melvin on the 1:45. I am
not going to stay in town this sweltering
afternoon."
“Yes, you are. You'll thank your
happy stars if you do. If you miss her.
Daniel, you'll break hor heart, and after
you have seen her she'll break yours.”
“I am going on the 1:45 train,” I re
peated.
“Bet yon a dollar you don’t,” said
Hale. “I told her to come at 2, but she
said 1 o'clock would be more convenient,
and she would try to find yon then, and-
Daniel, yon had better take your feet
off the chair, and brush that hair of
yours up a little, for here she comes. I
hoar the echo of her voice and the patter
of her heels in the out office, where she
lias just asked Marvey if you are in.”
“What a dunce you are! 1 really
think”— But at that moment the door
opened, and Marvey appeared.
“Lady to see Mr. Crawford," said he.
stepping aside, and there entered a young
woman dressed very plainly in dark
blue, with a smoke colored veil pretty
well covering her face.
“Yon do not remember me, Mr. Craw
ford,” she said. “1 am Miss Margaret
Woolstine. I see yon very often in
chnreh, but of course yon do not see me,
but you have to”— and she nervously
laughed, “you have to hear me, yon
know.”
“Mr. Crawford," said Reuben, getting
up without the glimmer of a smile and
with great deliberation, “I am going to
Melvin on the 1:45, and I shall have to
leave at once. Will you kindly pay that
dollar for me on account/' He put on
his hat, took his cane, bowed to Miss
Woolstine, went out the door, and I
heard him immediately tramping up
stairs to the composing room, where I
knew he had proofs to read. There were
times when Reuben Hale was 18 years of
age instead of 80.
Miss Woolstine looked more comfort-
x- v -V r* rrc-"« j-.i 1 she took
•£ her veil, holding it in her hands.
“I almost felt m if I knew rpu. Mr.
life, but the concert (.tage!—oh, I could
not do that! And I would rather not
teaoh. It worries me to teach music.”
“You would make a success in con
certs.” She shook her head. “And,” 1
continued, “it would be far more lucra
tive than any work I could give yon.
kuu would not like a position here at
all. The girls are gcxid, respectable
girls, but they would not suit Jou at all.
And the wages is low.”
“I have my salary in the church,” she
: aid; “that would help a little, and 1
do not want a situation with your girls,
Mr. Crawford; I want editorial work.”
“Ho, ho, editorial work! - ’ 1 smiled at
this; "hut you know Mr. Hale and I do
all that and have time to spare.”
“But I have helj-ed you a little,” she
explained with eagerness. “I have writ
ten you several things and you have al
ways published them. Last week you
made an editorial of one.”
“So, indeed! Then you are ‘Mark
Willis?’ ” and I nodded my head like a
Chinese mandarin, I have since been in
formed. “Well, yon are not only a very
beautiful young lady, but you are a clev
er one, too. I don’t know that we ought
to refuse Mr. Mark Willis!”
“Oh, please do not,” she cried. “I
should be so glad to come here, and I
think I could so^ loam to be useful. 1
could cut out paragraphs for you, and
that must be such stupid work for you
to do; and I could write on what subjects
you thought best, and if you or the other
gentleman wanted to go away for a few
days I am sure I could do different things
for you. Aud," sho added, "you might
both want to go away together. Suppose
today you also would have liked to have
left town on the 1:45 train. Wouldn’t
you have been more comfortable to have
known solne one was here ready to re-'
ceive messages or attend to your orders/'
At this how could I help smiling, and
I told hor that her reasoning almost con
vinced me. “Indeed,” I added, “it
would do so but for two reasons—one,
we do not iioetl you in the slightest, and
the other is that this stuffy office is no
place for a young lady.”
She stood up and I could see tried to
look entirely indifferent, but her lips
trembled and her face paled.
“Of course then,” she answered me,
“there is nothing more to be said, and 1
can only beg your pardon, Mr. Craw
ford. for having troubled you."
As I sat still looking at her it flashed
upon me that perhaps if I knew more of
the history of this girl I should not so
hastily shut the door upon her. And I
have a very strong feeling about disap
pointing women. When I married my
wife and I had only a megger salary
upon which to live, and 1 grumbled
enough because I had to work all night,
and iu consequence slept nearly all day.
I thought I was d-prived of my share of
sunlight and social life, and my wife
tenderly agreed with me.
After she suddenly failed in health
and died I discovesad that she had work
ed in our little house all day and sewed
for the shops at night! It was thus she
bought my little comforts! And now
that she was dead and could not share
the comfort and repose of my life it
seemed to me that because of lur de
privations I ought to bo more thought
ful c * other women. Little enough did
the girls guess how often they owed
some little pleasure or indulgence to the
mute pleading of my wife's memory.
Thinking thus, I said:
“Are you quite determined on news
paper work. Miss Woolstine?”
“Quite. And perhaps I should tell
you that I have an offer which I can ac
cept from The Royal Express, although
I have not written for them, hut I have
just come from there and they seem de
sirous of trying me."
“Do you want to go there/’
She flushed painfully. “No, I do not.
It is so public. There are so many men
going and coming."
I rublied my hands nervously.
“Sit down, Miss Woolstine; who did
yon see there—at the office?”
“Mr. Finley, the editor.”
“And you will go there/’
“I think I ought at least to try it,
don’t you? It is one of onr best papers.”
I have not described Margaret Wool
stine, and I do not know how to do so.
She was a lovely creature, tall, slender,
with a superb carriage of the head and
the most charming coloring. Her eyes
were dark and tender, but pride and ob
stinacy curved her pretty mouth, and I
often thought that it could not be pleas
ant to cross her will. But thus far I
have never had to do more than observe
what has happened to others who tried
to subdue and conquer her.
i,e she flood before mo se> young and
atuirming and innocent, I thought of my
wife, who was also a Margaret, and I
knew she would not have allowed the
child* to go Into such a crowd as fre
quented The Royal Express, and I said:
“Have yon no mother?”
“I have only my uncle,” she answered,
"and he is angry with me. My mother
and father are dead.”
‘•Very well,” said I, "some one must
take care of yon, and I am going to ask
you to let me try’ for a little while until
your uncle has slept his anger off. And
although we do not actually need an
other editor you can be of use to us, and
I want yo#to come.”
Did she resent this half grudging invi-
.tation? No. She looked at me with
content and happiness in her eyes and
asked me if she should begin the next
morning. ...
When Hale came down stairs Miss
Woolstine was gone anil I was in a little
roonsjiack of our office hiking papers out
of a di sk.
“How is this,” ho said with a fine af
fectation of wonder, “didn't yon get off?
“Pale," said I, “we are going to have
mother editor, and this room will have
to bo made ready for her at once. I think
we’ll put a matting on the floor and
make it look clean and cool, and we 11
hang a pink cortain at the window. This
will do. bnt we most get » better
press she would not have had the chance
for housekeeping that we afforded her.
With a little white apron tied over her
dark dress, and an obtrusive dnster in
her hand, she very soon learned to keep
us in very good order indeed. But she
had the rare, most angelic talent of
making that order ours and not her
own. She never pnt onr inkstands in
tlie middle of the tables. Mine stood as
I likes! it, close to my hand, while Hale's
was at arm’s length from his, and she
never mixed a revise with the first
proofs. If I put a book on a shelf I found
it there, dusted no doubt, bnt where I
had laid it. Life in our establishment
was very simple. There was no rush of
reporters, no late hours, no excitement
over news.
The flowers bloomed in the spring,
and we told how to care for them and
what to buy, and we grafted, budded,
plowed and reaped without even as
much as a harvest dinner to look after.
Vainglorious old farmers sent us sam
ples of prodigious corn and pumpkins,
and market gardeners didn’t forget to
lot us see their prize fruit and berries.
Everything sweet and pretty went to
Miss Margaret as her natural fee; and
she it was who opened the boxes of flow
ers, the baskets of fruit, and it was she
who introduced the spirit lamp and tea
kettle, and who made a corner in her of
fice where she served our little Arcadian
lunches of bread and batter, fruit and
coffee. Buj R was Hale who bought the
teacups, and money enough must he
have spent on them.
There were not two happier old boys
than we in the city that summer, and
we never tired of telling each other what
an affinirable person Miss Woolstine was. j
She was very useful to us. Her style in
writing was full of sparkle, and her very
notices of giant radishes or now harrows
had little graceful terms of expression
that took them out of the common and
made them readable. She wrote our
business letters, she scissored, she read
proof and filed it, she sorted the mail,
she kept the water cooler in order, she
opened the exchanges, she took the most
complete and unobtrusive interest in
everything, but with it all she kept her
self apart vjith a gentle reserve that
made us greatly admire her.
As I knew her better I saw there was
trouble in her life, and I suspected it
arose from her quarrel with her uncle.
He had been a father to her, and she
had left him and was boarding in an-
■other part of the city. I knew that it
was impossible that he should not miss
her. and she often spoke of her old home
with a lingering tenderness that was
pathetic. Of the circumstances of the
quarrel I knew nothing, bnt Halo and I
agreed that Mr. Mason had been to
blame.
And so the summer wore away. Hale
went back and forth from his house by
the sea, and 1 came in every day from
my farm at Melvin, but Miss Woolstine
staid in the city. We invited her to
visit us, we urged her to take a holiday,
but she replied that she was perfectly
well, and that work suited her better
than play.
“Tf we did that sort of thing,” said I,
one day, “we’d send yoff to write np the
Tiger Hill strike. You’d like that.”
“Why should I care to go there/’ she
answered, coloring, as she was apt to do,
when conversation became personal.
“You are so much interested in min
ing affairs,” I replied. "I hsve often no
ticed how you stop to read The Hill
Beacon, no matter what you are doing.
Let the mail bring that and at once ev-*
erytlung else is dropped. See! Your very
eyes confess your guilt!”
She met my accusation with as brave
a front as she could command.
“Now come, Mr. Crawford," she re
plied. “You notice that I read that paper
because you are interested in it youreelf
and on the lookout for it! Pray, do you
notice how much I also like to get The
Orchard and Meadow/’
“I am interested in the Hill Beacon,"
said I, “liecause my nephew, Jack Lewis,
edits it. I am always anxious to see
what fool thing he will do next. There
never*was a boy who so loved to stir np
the wasp nest. I want to see what he
will say when he is stung.”
“And I,” she boldly asserted, “am in
terested in those poor miners whom he
abuses so much.”
“Abases!” I repeated. “They are a set
of rascals, every-one of them. An in
sane, law defying crew.”
"They are a poor, ignorant crowd of
men,’* - said she, “and it is oul duty to
educate and civilize, not abuse them.”
“My dear," said I, "the United States
offers refuge to the oppressed, but it does
not offer a free fight territory for out
laws, and that is what these men ask of
us. It is the duty of their own govern
ments to ‘educate and civilize - them.
We do not aspire to make onr country a
reformatory school.”
“All that Is true; bnt their own gov
ernments won’t do It, you know, and
they are here. We must do it.”
“That they are here is unfortunately
true,” said L
"And your nephew’s paper says they
ought not to have schools where their
own language is used. I think that un
kind. Their native tongue must be dear
to them, and they naturally wish their
children to know it."
“Then let them teaoh it to their chil
dren at home; bnt in the public schools
of this country the language of this
country is in place. How else can we
educate, civilize and make good citizens
of them? If they are to be part of ns
they shonld speak opr language, read
our books.”
“They will learn English. It is in the
air and they cannot help It. But it
keeps the children and parents together
if the children’s school life is that which
the parents knew. How would yon like
your child taught in a French school a
language and a method of thooght of
which yon were perfectly ignorant?”
“If I fled with my child to France, and
expected him to he • French dtaxes, J,
of exclamations, while in broken words,
in wavs foreign to me for many years, I
tried to soothe and quiet her. But when
sho ceased hor sobbing it was only to
break into a wailing still more pitiful,
j until at last she lay exhausted, her head
I against my shoulder. Hale brought
| coats and whatever he could find, and
j he made her a bed on chairs and per
suaded her to drink wine. Then we laid
"Nothing dreadful can happen to me, ! her down and we left her and went into
my child. I am so poor that Halo has onr own room. We closed the door and
little to take from me. But you—do not I looked at earh other.
1 said
be afraid to tell me—my poor girl
She looked at me still with great hor
ror in? her eyes. . She turned her head
back and gasped for breath; her voice
was choked and she could not speak.
“Do not distress yourself so.” I held
her hand firmly in my own. “If the
trouble is mine do not so increase it; if
it is yours, let me help yon bear it.”
“It is Jack!” sho gasped, “Jack! They
have killed him! They have raided the
office—they have killed him!”
Ah, I was not so poor! Fate had left
mo a possession—vague, not in my
grasp, but still a possession, for it was
Jack 1 had meant to know—Jack who
was yet to lie my son and to inherit my
fortune. And so- 1 in turn looked in
horror at her.
“How do you know it?" 1 asked.
She pointed to the paper still in her
hand. And there it was—all in head
lines. A mot), an attack on The Hill
Beacon, a defense, pistol shots, a dash*
into the office, and a tearing out of all
that was in it. Jack's body had been
carried off by the mob.
And he w:is dead —the handsome,
gay fellow who found life with me too
slow even to try for a little! And he
was my wife's nephew, and 1 had not
tried to make the career I offered him
pleasant and inviting! I sat down
crashed and guilty, for at least I should
have forced him to leave the miners, or
cease his rating of the strikers. 1 could
not look at Margaret. But in a moment
she was kneeling by me, and she w r as
telling me that he was not dead—no, no.
not dead! “If he was dead they would
not carry him away. He is alive—oh,
you may be sure he is alive, and we
must go at once to him. We must find
him, for he must be sorely hurt, and we
will have to nurse him. Come!” sho said.
“Not you, my poor child,” 1 answer
ed. “1 cannot ask this of you. But,
you are right. Ho may not be dead, yet*
even if ho is it is my duty to go. The
scoundrels! The poor boy!"
The tears shone in her dark eyes, bnt
she did not weep. She looked at me
with a ghastly smile.
“What would Jack say if you came
without me? He would never believe
me—never! And 1—oh, do you think
1 could stay here* I should go mad,
mad!”
“Margaret, you do not know what
you say. You never knew mj- nephew,
dear child.”
She turned her head away as if in ap
peal. “Ask him that question. Why,
he loved me. He told me that his love
forme would be his death—and I laughed
at that—yes, 1 did. I thought my fate
far the hardest. But I coaid not tell
him so. Yon see, the very wedding day
was fixed, and I could not tell him that
I loved him better than the man I was
going to marry. Could I? You aro his
uncle, but you know I could not. Soine-
times women have to listen when they
cannot answer.”
“I do not understand yon, but you
must be calmer. You must sit down.
Hale, come speak to her. I do not know
whether she knows what she says.”
“Indeed I know very well. It was 1
who killed him—I! I! He was desper
ate. He did not care. He told me he
should not care.”
Hale was standing at the door. Our
visitor had vanished, and I looked in
mute appeal to my friend, still feeling
that the girl #as distracted. Bnt Hale
understood. He came directly to her,
took her in his strong grasp and made
her sit down. He gave her a drink of
water and sat down in front of her.
“Now,” said he, “we will help yon, bnt
first yon must control yourself and tell
ns so we can understand. If Jack is to
be helped cool heads, not broken hearts,
will have to do it.-Crawford,” and he
turned to me, “sit down. Yon are as
much upset as she is. Now what is the
matter with Jack? It is Jack Lewis,
yonr nephew, I suppose/’
I silently handed him the paper, and
he read it without a word of comment.
“And you knew him/’ he said to Mar
garet.
She nodded her head. “And you
were engaged to him?”
The color swept np over the face that
had been so dcawn and white.
“No,” she answered, “I was not en
gaged to him.” She looked from one to
the other, put her hand to her throat as
If she was choking. Then she spoke:
“I will have to tell yon! It was my
fault, becanse I should have come away
sooner. 1 met him in the Adirondacks shoulder. “Sho is in the waiting room,'
last summer and we were in the same said, and taking my bag he added:
party because I was visiting the wife of , - - She carries less baggage than you do.”
an old college friendof his, and I thought “Did*you see her/’ said L “Couldn't
there was no harm in it in seeing him y 0a convince hor? Surely you could
(To b Ci ntlni ed )
When Baby was sick, we gave her Oastoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
FOK DYSPEPSIA,
Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, nso
HROWS’S IRON HITTERS.
All dealers keep it. *1 iwr bottle. Genuine h as
trade-mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
IF TOUR RACK A>MFS,
Or you are all worn out, really good lornoth-
ing, it is geueuil debility. Try
JlftOII.Y'a I NOS 11 / IT Kits.
It will cure you, cleanse your liver, aud give
a good appeUte.
For sale at
ble terms.
and see for \
• »
selves.
Schedule of the Hartsville R. R.
Hartsvillk. 8. C., Dec. 7, '89.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN
Leaves Hartsville, 8.45 A. M.
Leaves Jovann, 7.20 “
Arrive at Floyd’s, 7.45 “
Making connection wi.h the South
bound passenger train on the Cheraw
& Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
reasoiia- 1 Leave Floyd’s, 10.00 A. M.
i Leave Jovanu. 10.20 “
Arrive at Hartsville, 10.50 “
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. A. D. K. U.
J. L.
Call
our-
C*. W. Hewitt.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world
for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers,
Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tet
ter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
she has acted as be- and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cts.
per box. For sale at Willcox
& Go’s drug sto e.
“Why did you give up calling
on Miss Ansonia?” “No man
can make love successfully to a
,*tr ms luture your i • a •
bring him east and ! wolni ] n "’ho persists in keeping
in this very office? ■^ 00 luck.
Now Try This.
It will cost you nothing and
will surely do you good, if you
have a Cough Cold, or any
trouble with Throat, Chest or
Lungs. Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds is guaranteed to give
relief, or money will be paid
hack. Sufferers from La Grijipt
found it just the thing and un
der its use had a speedy aud
perfect recovery. Try a sample
bottle at our expense and learn
for yourself just how good a
thing it is. Trial bottles free at
Willcox & Co’s Drug Store.
Large size 50c. and $1.00.
“This is a pretty piece of work,
Hale.
“It is pitiful—it is terrible!” I groaned.
“He was a good fellow. I could have
loved him.”
“1 remember him well,” replied Hale;
“a handsome, impetuous fellow, much
too fine to be made the sport of a girl’s
caprice.” •
“There was no caprice there," and I
looked up, irritated by his persistent
misunderstanding:
came a conscientious girl."
“Well, well,” rejoined Hale, "we will
not discuss that question, but now—
how now?”
“1 shall go at once to Tiger Hill—spot
fitly named! Whether Jack is dead or
alive I must see after him. Hale—he had
•’Wthe.v father nor mother.”
“Now look here,” said he; “haven’t
you again and again written to him that
you desired to make his future your
care? Didn’t you
set him to work
Didn’t you give him to understand you
wore prepared to treat him as a son?
You know all this is true! And yon
know Jack declared his work stupid, the
paper poky. You know he was deter
mined to be the maker of Ins own des
tiny Grieve as much as you choose,
Dan, but don’t full into womanish re
proach of yourself. Jack was a fine fel
low, but he was pig headed, and I truly
believe that when he fell in love with
Miss Woolstine it was partly because
she was out of his reach. He is just the
boy to want the moon and refuse the
green cheese.”
“You were jealous of Jack,” said I
feebly.
“That is stuff! I was not blind.”
“And you are at this moment jealous
of the girl,” I added.
What reply Hale would have made to
this accusation I know not, for at that
moment the door opened and Margaret
came in. Her face was still pale and
her eyes swollen, but she was perfectly
calm, and I noticed that her hands did
not tremble as sho held them together,
her fingers lightly clutched.
“You are going at once/’ she said.
I got up and Imnted the time tables,
mid found my best train left the city at
10:30 p. m., bringing me to Tiger Hill : g ; a am l Kheuinatism, his Stom
the evening of the next day This gave k ach w?g (lisor(Iored hl8 Liver
me time to go to Melvin aim get what 1 1 av * i * i • i
needed for the trip. was affected to an alarming de-,
“Well, then,*’ said the girl, “I will be ! appetite fell away, lit*
at the station at 10. I can meet you was terribly
Maimtacturers
—OF—
Doors, Sash, nimus,
IMIOTJXaX'iTTTGS
— IM>—
building Material,
/.ST \BMSHKD 1842.
G7L1 RU'STOX, 8. C.
Aprit, 20 1889—1
A. C. McFall,
COKER.
President.
FOR C. & D. AND C. & 2. RAILROADS
Prisidrnt’sOffice ]
C. & D. and C. & 8. RAILROADS, [
Charleston, 8, C. f May 1,18^0. J
On and after May 12. the trainr o
these roads will run as follows (Sunda, ez
oepU-tl) erery day:
DOWN TRAIN.
l,i &ve Wadetkboro 5.25 A M
Dennetts 5.40
5.55
V cFurland 5.10
Leavi Cheraw ** 18
Caeh’s “Wt
Society It id 1 tS
Floyd's
l>»rlinglon ^
Palmetto.-- * ^
\rrlvt at Florence
up train.
„„„ 8.10 P M
Leave Florence g , )6
f" 1 "' 1 ’ 1 ' 0 ’ --
^ 4g
Floyd’s p
tio^’s 9 ; 12
SooietylliH ^
9.43 P M
in 08
Me Parian 1() - 20
Morten s 1()
Bennett -. aq
Lake 1A,V
Freight Train going up- ^ ^
benre Florence ° ag a m
Vrrire Darlington *
Freight going down
WX ai $.00 p m
Arrive Darlinaion g g 0 ' m
!„.»,e Darbnzton * nl
Arrive !• lorcnce
A F. RAVENEL, Free.
0 It Muster Ti aneporlBlion.
N
ORTHEA8TERN RAILROAD.
The youna man who. courted
an investigation says that court
ing a girl is much better fun.—
Syracn.se Herald.
Specimen Cases.
8. H. Clifford, New Cassel,
Wis., was troubled withNeural-
Agent of Manufacturers for the I
. | sale of Engines, Boilers, Haw Mills, |
I Grist Mills, is ins, Presses, Threshers, |
Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Circular j
I Saws, and machinery supplies. Par
ties who contemplate buying inachin- '
ery of any kind will find it to their j
interest to get prices from me before j
buying elsewhere. 1 have for sale at
a bargain, a complete Ginning outfit, |
consisting of a60 saw U 11 G in, feeder
and condenser, u Hass Press, net shaft
ing and pulleys, belting, &c., ft 26
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 ami terms, call on
A. C. MeFALL,
Darlington Oil Mill.
June 21!, ’90.
0harckstos, 8. C., M*y 1. 18 0.
On and after this dale the fol’owin
schedule will be run :
GOING SOUTH*
No. 27, Daily,
brave 1toreace
Leave Kingstiee
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lane.
Arrive Charleston
No. 23, Daily.
Leave Florence
Lt-ave Kings tree
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lancs
Arrive Cnarieslon
*1 85 a m
2 29 a m
2 50 a m
2 50 a m
5 00 a m
«8 30 a m
9 46 a o
10 07 a I
10 07 a t
11 59 a m
No 53.
Leave Lanes
! Arrive Charleston
Train on C & D It R
cnoe wilh No 23 Train.
*7 50 P. M
9 30 p. m
conn els at Fior
GOING NORTH.
there.”
"But—Lut that is impossible!” 1 ex
claimed. "I cannot take you. It would
not do at all—not at all! I will tele
graph, write—you should hear at once
and fully, bnt it is impossible to allow
yon to go."
Never in all my life di d I meet u look
so determined, so full of scorn for re
straint as the one Margaret shot at me!
She said not a word, but going into her
office returned with her hat on, her veil
tightly drawn and so sileutly left the
office.
Hale shrugged his shoulders.
“There was a pair of them,” he said.
“I do not wonder they had tumultuous
scenes."
“She won't go—you do not think she
will go/’
“Not if you wreck all the trains. But
even then sho might walk. Yee, Craw
ford, she will go.”
"But sho shall not! What could I do
with her? Suppose she falls to weeping,
to fainting in the train? And after we
get there! Why, Hale, I am not suro of
my own safety; and with her to hamper
me— It is impossible! Sho must be
locked up—tied—not allowed to do it.”
“She won't faint nor weep,” said Hale,
“still she will be a dreadful burden for
you. HI go see her, but 1 have no hope
of influencing her.”
“Go to her uncle," said I; “surely he
has some authority over her.”
“I’ll do my best,” said he, “but I
won't promise you success.”
I went to Melvin, packed up my hand- i
bag, made arrangements with my house
keeper, and all the time my thoughts
dwelt on-Margaret iu fear and dismay”
My only hope was that her violent agita- ♦
tion might make her ill, and so prostrate
tier that she wonld be unable to force |
herself to take the journey.
When I reached the station a few !
minutes aften 10 I found Hale standing
at the entrance.
“Well?” said L
He pointed with his thumb over his
reduced in flesh
and atrength. Three bottles of
Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harris-
burg, HI., had a running sore
on his leg of eight years’ stand- j
ing. Used three bottles of Elec
tric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and his
ifg is sound and well. John
Speaker, Catawba, O., had five
large Fever sores on his leg,
doctors said he was incurable.
One bottle Electric Bitters and
one box Bucklen’s Arnica Salve i
cured him entirely. Sold at]
Willcox & Co’s Drug Store.
A Liberal Proposition.
To the subscriber who pays us
$2.80 cents in cash, we will givej
acomplete set of Dickens’novels-
twelve volumes(pamphlet form),
and "111 send The Darlington
News, the Weekly News and
Com ter and the Southern Culti
valor, each for one year. The |
News and the Dickens’ works,
will be supplied for $1.50. This
paper, the Cultivator and the |
News and Courier will be sentj
to any address for $2.30 per an-
i num, while The News together
j with either one of them will be
I supplied for $1.05 a year.
No,
78, Daily.
Leave (’barlestoo
*1 20 a m
\rrive Lanes
3 00 a ia
Leave Lanes
3 O” a ni
Leave Kiiigatree
3 17 a m
\rrlve Florence
4 20 a in
No. 14.
Lcave Cnarieslon
*4 30 p m
Wrive Lanes
6 29 p m
Leave Lanes
6 19 p m
Leave KingMree
t3 46 p hi
vrrive Florence
7 66 p in
No.
62, Daily.
Leavt* f linrlealon
*7 00 a m
\ i rive Lanes
8 27 a in
* Daily, f Hail
v except Sun
Nos 62 rune through to Columbia
W. L. DOUGLAS
^ ^ I B ■■■ anl other speclal-
SiTlwIl ties r.r '■• ntfeiYHii,
Ladies, cte., are war
rantor!, and so atamped on . Address
W. JL. liOLULAS, llroc-ktou, .Hums. Bold b/
For sale by A. J. Broom, Dar
lington, S. C.
Feb. 20, 1890.
via Central R R ot 8 C.
No«. 78 and 14 run solid lo Wilmingfon,
N C., making close connection with W. &
W R R for all pow ts north.
I R. KEN LY, J F. Divinr,
8upt Trans. (jcn’l Sup’t.
T. M. Emkkson, Gen’l Pass. Agt.
HILIIM'OSI CVLIIBIA AM) AULSTA KAIU
May 1, 1890.
GOING SOUTH
No. 23.
A Breach of Faith
Is tho title of a pleasing ro
mance by
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,
the well-known Writer.
THE
BEST
LIVER
MEDICINE
CHILL CURE.
CHEAPEST NKDI4TNE KNOWN
CONSIDERING QUALITY AND SIZE OF DOSE.
IX 'WIXIS ALSO CAJK.E
BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA,
AND CHRONIC CONSTIPATION.
J. A. BOYD,
DRUGGIST.
Darlington S. C.
j Leave Wilmington
‘6 15 p m
Leave Marion
9 33 p m
Arrive Florence
10 20 a m
No. 60.
Leave Florence
3/.0 a n
Arrive Snuiitr
4. 6 a n
Leave ‘Sunuer
4 35 a m
Arrive Columbia
6. loam
No. 27
Leave Wilmington
*10.10 n m
Leave Marion
12.40 p Lu
Vrrive Florence
1 20 a m
No 52
Leave Sumter
f f 45 a m
Arrive Columbia
10 56 p m
No 58
Leave Florence
f8 25 a a
Vrrive Sumler
9 85 a m
No 62 runs through from
Charlestpn via
Central R 11.
Leaving Lanes 8 30 A M.
Manning 9 10
so often, I mean—becanse every one
knew that I was engaged to my cousin.
But the night before I left there he 1 leg
ged me to break the engagement, and he
told me what was true, that I didn't;
love my cousin. But I did not know
then.that I could not marry Ned Mason.
You see I had been engaged to him ever ;
since I was 18, and I refused to even
think of breaking it. Jack said some | among the strikers,
hard, hard things to me and I was angry hor nerve, 1 think,
with him. After I came home I found I
could easier die than marry Ned. And
my uncle was so violently disappointed
that I had to leave the house. Then I
came here.”
The shadow of a smile passed over
Hale's face, bnt I took her hand iu mine.
“And yon did rightly,” I said,
was the one to whom you should have
come.”
“But 1 came because I had so often
watched you in chnrch end thought
there never was so kind a face, and I
had heard how good you were to the
girls you had here, and of course I had -
to earn some money; I would not take
any from my uncle.”
“Still you knew I was Jack’s under
“Yee," she said gently.
The very incoherence and simplicity
of her little story touched me greedy,
end I looked at Halaeznectuir to read
have done that.
“Conld I pnt the rings of Saturn
around Jupiter? My dear boy, I did not ’
try to convince her. She would not die
cuss the qnestion. She asked me about I
the mines and the strike, but she knows
far more about it all than we da She
has used the exchanges to advantage.
Sho even knows the names of tho leaders
There is no end to
She won’t break
down again.”
“She’ll break down as soon as the ex
citement of starting is over. Surely you.
a married man, know that a woman's
calmness may be as hysterical as her
tears. Good heavens—!” and I stood '
still, “I will not go until 7:15 to-morrow
morning! I will not lose much time. 1
' VI'.AIC! I to brltS,
Every lover of a Good Story $3000^™^^
• ^ li"iv to Mint Thrcr Thwii-pftd Dollars a
Should Read this One.
v **ar in theirown Iu, alii
lh« (iluaiit.ii orrmpl yn > hI.n
No motirtr for me uiilrM mi. • •
1< MMi I ! -
liare already taugiit a<id pre
Btinaber, who are making ove
and HOI.I !». l ull i-atlieu
l:. C, AlalaKX. lioK
hI*o furnish
t which > “U < un < am that amount,
••ful «s ah-ivp. Fnsily ami quickly
icr Iruni each diatrirt or county. 1
vlded with employ meat a In rire
r #S«i«H4 a *e«re 8 . h. It • ft T.W
lure K 1C fq I'. Address at out «,
420. AiifciiatM, Mutne
It will bo Finely illustrated and will
Soon Appear in this Paper.
LaoSt i Out for
PETER BOWLES'
TYOES first-class House and Sign I
„ .. , .... .! Painting; Kalsomine Work a!
1 cannot do anything the night 1 get specialty.
th ‘‘Ti.’en she’ll go alone. She has her 1,1 addition to my other works,
ticket, and when her train is called she I am now prepared to do !
will be off. She won’t wait for you." PAPER HANGING, etc.
“How do you know she has her ticket? ” ; jar He solicits the patronage or
"I bought it for her. I went to her Darlington. Feb. 27-lyr
hoarding house and brought her here, ..
W. B. McGIRT, D. D. S.
“There was no nse in seeing any one. . , ,
Apollyon would not have snipped her. Gffers his professional services to
All 1 cwld do was to take a little caro the f «?ople of Darlington and vicinity.
of her.” Office over the store of huwards, Nor
“I believe in my heart you encouraged mt l at * Co.
bet." I testily cried. I J»nl9,’»0-ly
Snug Utile f. rtones have been
work for n«, by Anna I'a|fe. Auatln,
Texas, and Jno. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio,
iriee eut. Other* are doing: az well. U hy
"ot you? Nome earn over H&4KI.04I a
lor^li. Ton ran do ihe.m rk and lira
t Imme, wherever you are. Even be-
inner* are eiiailv earning from fa to
l«a dny. All aprea. We show you how
and start you. Can work in spare lima
or all the rime. Big money for work
er*. Failure unknown ani»n(f them.
NEW and wondarfril. Particular*free.
i ll.llnlleti«fcr €'o.,ltoa HKO Portland, Maaiue
A M
Train pn C & D R R conneufeat Flcrenct
vvlih No 68,
GOING NORTH.
No- 61
oGftve Columbia.
Arrive Humter
L«aTe Sumler
Arrive Florence
No. 78.
Leave Florence,
Leave Marion
Arrive at Wilmington,
No.69
Leave Sumter
\rrive Florence
No. 63,
Leave Columbia
Arrive Sumler
No H
Leave Florence
Leave Marion
Arrive at Wilmington
*10 35 p n
11 68 p a
II 68 p m
116am
4 35 a m
5 20 a m
8 36 a H
f 6 37 p m
7 50 p ip
J
*5 20 p n
6 32 p d>
*8 16 p m
8 66 p m
11 45 f m
f <10041. OO a year i* h' lngr made by John ft
Goodwin,! ruy.N.Y^at work hw ua. Header
you may wt make *» much, but wa can
teach you quickly how to ram from §6 to
fie a day at the atari, and more aa you fo
Both aria*, nil age*. In any part of
America, you can eommenca at home, giv
ing all your tline,.,r •|*are momenta only to
lha wont. All is nevt. Ureal pay M Mb for
•very worker. Vl’a afsr! yon, furnishing
•vetythiug EASILY, SPEEDILY leamao.
1‘AKIBl i.AKS FkLK. Address at one*,
HIl\SON * to., PORTLAND, ftAlAR.
I
MONEY
a after a liula exnariei
nloyment and teach yon HIKE. No •para to explain hare. Full
hfarauth* IRK*. r Jr«UK4tCO:,A‘«taTA,
'can ba earned at onr VFW line of work,
rspidiy and tx-norably, by those of
either sex, younf or old, and In their
own liN-alitivs.vi herever they live. Any
one ran d<> the n< rk. Easy to leant.
fumi«h everything!. Wa start you. No risk. You can devots
y<>ur spare m»m«iitt, or all your lima to the work. This ia an
entirely nvw l«u(|.an>l brinfs wonder fa! success to every worker.
Beginner* are earning from f 2i to B&O per week aud upwards,
and wore after a Hula experience. Wa can forn!»h you the am-
•Daily. fOsily except Sunday.
No 53 runs through lo Charleston, via
Central R R, arriving Manning 7 04 P h.
Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 30 P M.
No 69 connects st Florence with CAD
trsin for Cheraw end Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make close connection at
Wiliningtou with W & W R R for nil pointi
North.
Trnin #li Florence R. R. lesee Pee Dee
dnily except Sunday 4.40 P. M.. strive
Rowland 7.00 P. M. Relurniig leave
Rowland 6.30 A. M„ arrive Pee Dee 8.60
A. M.
Trsin o>. Manchester A Augusta R. R
leaves Sumter daily except Sunday.10
M , arrive Rimini 12 01 P M R--
turning h ave Rimini 1215 P M ar-,
rive Sumter 1.30 P. '1
JOHN F. DIVINE, den. Su| t
J R. HENLEY, Aunt Gen’, Managr
|T. M. KMMERSON, Gen.Pas. Agt.