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COPYRIGHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION IS9I CHAPTER VIII. ti:k rktukn The impressidh left in Rosalie Chenier's mind by Elgar Julian was not altogether a pleas., at one; and yet as t he days passed and she saw and talked with him fre quently, she could not say she disliked him There was such a lack of parallel ism in their beliefs that little sharp an tagonisms of feeling were constantly starting up. antagonisms whose origin lay in the very tenderest memories of one and in the proudest memories of the other; for although Rosalie had no dis tinct recollection of the terrible days of the war. she had seen the humiliation of her mangled father, the unmurmuring despair of her mother, the bitter migra tion of her sister, and had been thorough ly educated to hate those who were looked npon by her household as the workers of all this misery; and, on the other hand. Edgar Julian was frond of his war record. He looked upon Sherman’s de structive march to the sea as the grandest thing in history, and upon his own par ticipation in it as the very flower of his life. Of course they both endeavored to abut out of their conversation every thing likely to suggest their points of difference; hut a hint, a comparison or an allusion would now and then come to the surface and burst like a bubble full of poisonous-recollections to tinge and embitter their sentiments withal He very quickly discovered the narrow limitations of her knowledge and experi ence. and the almost infantile purity and simplicity of her nature. She was a revelation to him of the charm of utter innocence. Her lips, her eyes, her voice, the bloom of her cheeks and the outline of her beautiful form exactly correspond ed with the freshness and fragrance, so to speak, of her curiously subtile sincer ity She asked questions as a child would have done, opening wide her eyes and waiting for the answer with slightly parted lips and a charmingly expectant air He liked this; it pleased him to be interesting. (Jn the other hand, Rosalie magnified his ex|>erieu<;e and knowledge, and took without question his explana tions of tilings. I :*?*< “A Immllc Wits thick.” •1 start to Amsterdam to-morrow,” he said one day, after Mr. Roosevelt and Mr Largely had agreed nixm certain terms of contract relative to their exten sive railroad scheme. “To Amsterdam! why. what for?” she exclaimed “To arrange some negotiations for your uncle and Mr. Largely. I hope 1 shall not be gone long It will be a great bore, the journey." “A bore! Oh, no!” she quickly said. “How I should like to go! Crossing the ocean has been my dearest, sweetest dream. My ancestors were from the south of France, and my father has read to me and talked to me so much of the vineyards, the old rnins, the strong winds and the golden summers of his forefathers’ country 1 shall go some day.” If Edgar Julian, just then, could have seen a little way into the future! “But you will find all the pleasure in anticipation,” lie responded, reflectively contracting his brows, as if recalling un pleasant experiences in foreign lands; “our own country is far more beautiful and interesting than the older ones." "But our country is not itself any longer, since”— Site checked herself, col ored slightly and turned to look out of the window She was thinking of the old mill. "Oh, there’s a reaction,” he said, cheer fully parrying the suggestion Iter abrupt silence offered “A few years will clear things all up. But I was going to ask you to give me a commission. 1 should bo glad to servo yon. Can I fetch yon cr send yon anything from London or Paris? It will lighten the burden of my journey to have some pleasant duties to perform aside from the dull object at Amsterdam." "Shall you go to Paris?” “Yes, for a few days—a mere business call.” "But yon will not be in the southern provinces?” “Oh. no." “Then 1 can give yon no commission," she said with a sweet, far away smile, a haze of dreamy longing in her am tier gray eyes. He looked intently at her. but she was not aware of the sudden scrutiny. “Is there any special place? What town In the south of France?" he presently in quired. “Oh, It was a foolish whim," she ex claimed, quickly recovering herself. “1 was thinking how it would please papa to have some souvenir of bis ancestral place.” "What place is it?” he carelessly in qnired. “Lc Chateau Chenier, near Apt, on the road from Avignon. There is much evidence, papa says, that the estate is rightfully ours. ” "Ah, how romantic, even if it isn't I real!" he responded, plucking bis mas-' |tache, and lost in thought. “Papa has great faiiu. Just before [the war broke out he had got ready to [go look into it, bnt when that came be [lost everything, and” “This is extremely interesting," said Julian, taking advantage of her falter- “are there auv documents?’’ Rosalie smiled, and holding ber bands about a foot apart said: “A bundle this thick." Edgar Jnlian’s mind worked like light ning for a few moments. “How much is the estate supposed to be worth?'' he prenently asked. /"Oh. i don't know, ever so innch, some hundreds of thousands, though, quite a fortune," she replied "1 have heard papa say how much, bnt 1 have for gotten." /■ The mature and stalwart man sat there gazing at that lithe, beautiful girl. Some obscure feeling, hitherto unknown to him. began to stir in his liosom, as if a new element was softly diffusing itself thremgbont his source of consol oneness. He rose, and standing a moment before her, as (he half drooped in the easy chair, he looked down upon ber shining hair as one who looks npon something grown suddenly very dear to him. His deep set, magnetic eves grew soft and his swarthy cueeits paled a little. lia rallied, passed his hand across his fore head, and looking • toward the piano said: “Play something for me, please; some thing cheering; I’m gloomy." "1 am very sorry, but l do not know the piano—I do not play,’’ she replied. She inotantly tho’.’.ght of her dear old banjo at the mill "But haven't you a guitar? All the southern ladies play the guitar." He spoke lightly and resumed his seat near her. “1 play on the banjo," she said, and regretted it Instantly, for Mrs. Roosevelt had charged her not to speak of this to any one. “Oh, you're seized by the new craze!” he exclaimed. "It is the latest fashion able thing, I believe Won't you let me hear you?" "But 1 left my banjo in Georgia," she responded "1 wish I had not. I sadly miss it sometimes." She ended with a little quick sigh. "One misses so many things away from home,” he said, "it's a great bore to go anywhere; one always has to go just at a point when one doesn't wish to. and to a place one doesn't cure anything for.” He still spoke lightly, but there was a ring of real petulance in his tone. “1 am sorry you have to go away, if it will trouble you," she frankly said, look ing steadily at him with Her sweet, mys terious eyes. “It is ever so kiud of you to sym pathize with me,” he replied, a gentle thrill of pleasure running over him. “1 wish I were going to get back your es tate. le Chateau Chenier, for you instead of this matter of hobnobbing with a Dutch syndicate. That would have something interesting, something de lightfully romantic in it. I shouldn't mind the journey with such an object at the end of it.” He went away without seeing her again. As the distance grew between them his impressions of her unique grace and innocence took clearer form, and he spent many hours studying them. She was so unlike any girl ho had ever known, so gentle and sweet and yet so spirited and clever. When he was gone Rosalie missed him in an indefinite sort of way, which made the streetsbf Chicago glare and the long rows of heavy buildings frown in a way she had not noticed before. From Chicago to Put-in-Bay, thence to Saratoga, thence to Newport, staying some Weeks at each place, and finally to New York city in September, our three southerners leisurely wandered. The day on which they sailed for Savannah Wi»s unusually cold, and the streets were heaped with snow. They were glad to set their faces to the south. The voyage proved a pleasant one, however, and they reached their destination in the midst of a season of sunshjne and of balmy breezes. In due time dispatches and letters were received from Edgar Julian, an nouncing liis success with the Dutch syndicate. Ho would not be home im mediately (this was written to Mr. Large ly at Chicago), as he had determined on a tour in the south of France. It was while in New York that Mrs. Roosevelt handed Rosalie a paper in which was printed a circumstantial ac count of a raid made by government officials on an extensive illicit distillery situated in a secluded valley of northern Georgia known as the “pocket." The raid had been quite successful. Thedis tillery was demolished and a considera ble amount of spirits seized. The sup posed controller of this celebrated moon shine establishment, one Frank Ellis, had escaped. It was supposed that he had amassed quite a fortune from his distillery before it was destroyed. He was described as a young man of good family, handsome, bold, well educated and exceedingly clever in conducting his operations. A few days later Rosalie received let ters from home, but not a word of refer ence to Frank Ellis or of the revenue raid was in any of them. CHAPTER IX. AT UOOSEVELT PEACE. Ok- Colonel IVnrrr.n Tolhot wok a thorough man of the south. The Roosevelt mansion stood a little distance south from the Pulaski House, and fronted east on a beautiful open square or park. It was a large rectangu lar bnildiug of the old time southern nrchitectnre, surrounded by rows of pal metto trees and gnarled live oaks. In the days of slavery, when Mr Rooseveft and his wife were young, this house was filled with notable gnests. art ists and literary folk chiefly, who spent the winter months in a round of gay. bnt quiet and elegant, social pleasures. The only change that the war and its sequela) had brought to this fine old honso was the discontinuance of its lib eral hospitalities, not on account of its owner's reduced means, but because of the general gloom and poverty which had rendered society moody, retrospeo- !ive and bitter. The Roosevelts had managed to keep together a little coterie of immediate frievda to whom they dispensed a libera) ujspttttliiy in sooethiug like tue old southern style, bnt none of their north ern friends had returned rince the war. No doubt many of the Utter were dead, and the rest swept past Savannah every winter in the gay stream of pleasure hunters going to Jacksonville, Fernan- dina and the upper waters of the St John’a _ .. Mrs. Rooaevelt dreamed of making 1 Roealie the means of relighting tho so cial fires in ber house, aad she waa not disapjKilnted. The strong and merry mountain girl brought a breath of the np country with her. She had her honre of h T-eeicknese, it is trne, and cried over her father's letters; but she rallied readily, taking up her cheerfulness and girlish activity where she left off, and making the most of the opportunities ' her surroundings offered. She was, in some indefinite way, aware that she waa ‘ taking into her life some new and pow- I erful elements. She had been delighted | with Chicago, she was enraptured by i Savannah. In a little while she had made ac quaintances iimung the young people of her annt's set, one of them, Mildred Fain, becoming her devoted friend. Miss Fain was three years older than Roealie, a petite brunette, with finely cut features and a faultless grace of manner. Her family traced itself back to the early days of the city, where it was honorably connected with colonial history. Her grandfather tiad been a cabinet officer or something of the sort under a Demo cratic administration, and ber father had ; fallen, a distinguished Confederate gen- ' eral, in one of the terrible battles of the j Virginia campaigns. In many points she J was quite Rosalie's opposite. Rosalie loved her from tho beginning; | and in fact that sweetaffection that girls ' have for each other was quickly formed between them, greatly exaggerated by their wholly opposite temperaments and characteristic elements. They found in each other something new and fascinat ing. quite unlike what usually draws girls together. They soon fully confided j in each other; and so Rosalie discovered thatMisa Fain had a lover, a Colonel War ren Talbot, lawyer and politician, whose name seemed much honored by the daily newspapers of Savannah. This young man often dropped in at the Roosevelt mansion to smoke and chat awhile with Mr. Roosevelt, but it chanced to be some j weeks after her first momentary meeting j with him that Rosalie found herself in ! conversation witn him on the broad veranda. It was the merest accident, 1 this little tete-a-tete, but Colonel Warren Talbot found it a most charming bit ef experience. “What a delightfully naive and pretty J girl your new friend is!" he said to Miss Fain soon after. “I'm quite charmed that you think so," responded that young lady: “she is the sweetest girl I ever saw, and she j knows so much, and is so brilliant, too. and so good and kind, and altogether unlike any other girl I ever saw.” “Oh,” exclaimed the colonel gayly, “you are an accomplished eulogist. Go on, however—it is a bird singing of a bird, one flower shaking out its perfume on another—it's all very beautiful” / Tho next time he went to Roosevelt I place he again talked with Rosalie. lie ; had not been much in the north, and her vivid descriptions of the great cities and the social whirlpools into which she had merely dipped while there were to him as charming ns anything of the sort could be, and they gave him as imme diate an impression of western power and eastern agility as if they had been sketches and photographs of the scenes ami persons mentioned. "I like those people," she said in a tone of enthusiasm; “their vim and movement, their alert eyes and bright shrewd faces, give one the idea of irre sistible energy.” “Then yon like the north better than the south?” he remarked in a careless tone, but fixing his eyes questioningly upon her. "No, sir. 1 like the south immeasur ably better,” she quickly responded, a half suppressed rebuke coming with her words. Colonel Warren Talbot was a thorough man of the south, both physically and mentally. Tall, well proportioned, with olive complexion and large, dark eyes, finely cut features, black hair, mustache and imperial, a refined, haughty bearing and a voice possessed of all the passion ate music of the low country, ho waa a representative of the long boasted chiv alry which in the proud days of slavery kept alive the medupval fires and en throned physical courage and literal pur ity at the expense of liberal humanities "As compared with your north Georgia mountains, how do you like our low country?" he presently said, as if to change the subject. “Oh, I cannot compare the two, they are so different. But I am charmed with everything here. Our life in the •pocket' is sweet and drowsy, much as it is here; but there we have no society, no beautiful homes, no tropical things, no churches, no theaters." She said this in a voice indicative of retrospection. A vision of the old mi 11 was hovering be fore her She beard the water bubbling over the big mossy wheel “Yottr aunt, Mrs. Roosevelt, has been describing tho ‘pocket' and the mill to me,” he said, "and I imagine you must have found life there delightfully calm and uneventful almost Arcadian, in its simplicity and evenness." "Would you call an nneventfn) and simple life delightful?" she demanded, looking quickly and earnestly into his face. . He hesitated a moment and then said frankly; “No, 1 like excitement." “So do I." she exclaimed, with a little flush in her cheeks. “That is why I like the north, it is all excitement.” “Well, Savannah will not be so dull after a few weeks.” he said, in the tone of one who apologizes, "when the north ern tourists begin to arrive they will make qni ;e a movement in our streets and parks." He had risen while speaking, and was now standing before her as if in the act of going, his tall, singularly erect form n-itt’/ied against the clump of banana ■talks. She felt the effect of his per sons 1 magnetism, in some indefinable way, withont the slightest thought of what it was. He was regarding her with grave, clouded eyes. He felt bewildered by her rare beauty. She seemed to him as fresh and pare and (imply sweet as some dew-dashed mountain violet. “But Savannah doesn’t appear dull to me," she said, rising to say goodby; “it is quite interesting. I am going to like it ever so much." “That is very kind of you, Mias Chenier," he said, bowing low over the exquisite little hand the gave him. “Come to see us often,” she naively added. “Yon know my aunt has made me the mistress of Rooeevelt Place, and I intend to be exceedingly hospitable.” “1 have been coming here since my earliest boyhood,” he said. “I am glad I shall have a continuance of the privi lege. This house has always had a strange charm for me, quite apart from the social and hospitable aspect." "It is a place one grows attached to at once, a sort of dream palace. I have really found myself half expecting t< come across the old lamp of Aladdin among my aunt's bric-a-brac." She sail' this very lightly, but Colonel Talbot’: warm imagination seized the suggestion 5rd he silently wondered if this Mmpli child of the mountains would not iudeei find some source of magic hiddri awa> in this vast twilight place to glorify ho life withal He went away, bearing with him u semiconsciousness of a swe . influenot caught from her. The light of her eyes, the low melody of ber voice, with its aught np country peculiarities, ana the gleam of her pale gold hair lingered in hie ifind. He walked along in the ahady atreet under the china tree* and the moss hung live oaks, with his eyes bent upon the ground. He did not M eo in ms own estimation and mu of as surance that lie should get on well with others. He stood erect—strong, defiant, handsome. His eyes had lost tho old restH-KNiiess and watchfulness As .they stuml thus, tie holding her Miss Fain and her mother as they slow- band, they made a very striking picture, ly were driven by in an open landau. aqd a wry (tmngo one to the eyes of rMiss Mildred Fain, who just then ap proached them, and stopped as she no ticed the stranger. mjOTICE. 8-S. Htireh has this day withdrawn from the linn of Ed wards, Norment & t o. The remain ing partners will continue the business under the sumo firm name. EDWARDS*. NORMENT 4 CO. Januaty 1, 18U2. 8t CHAPTER X A SL’BUBBAN drive. \ - t - - Dress-Making. "Are i/mi illrcctlj from the millf’ Not long after the conversation set forth in the preceding chapter. Rosalie, together with a number of her new i friends.was driven down to Thunderbolt and Bonaventnre to enjoy an afternoon rambling amid the quiet and lovely scenes of that famous locality. It is a j drive of five or six miles along a smooth shell road, white as lime and hard tis a pavement. The carriages entered Bonaventnre i through a wide gateway, passing at once | into an atmosphere of shade and solem- j nity. Huge live oaks spread their arms . above the road and trailed their long j drapery of funereal moss to within a ! few feet of the ground. Many weather stained tombs and a number of snowy i cenotaphs wore scattered through the dark grove. The breeze from over White- marsh brought its saltish breath under the canopy and shook the clumi>s of un dergrowth and the long streamers of air plant. A broad creek or arm of the river, in which the tide was at the flood, came in sight at the end of long vistas, shining with the bluish gleam of silver. But even here in this heavy shade, with the breeze washing through, there was a pervading heat, a .palpitating current of summer fervor which thrilled through the blood like strong wine. Rosalie leaned out of the carriage, and for a mo ment Colonel Talbot, from his place in another vehicle, saw her bright hair tossed about her forehead by the wind and her happy face turned by merest chance toward him. The next motion of the carriage shut out the vision. Ho turned to ills nearest companion, a Mrs. Farley (tall, dignified and a widow), and half closing his eyes said: “Miss Chenier is a singularly beauti ful girl, I think." “Yes, quite pretty and sweet,” Mrs. Farley replied, “and I daresay good.” Colonel Talbot smiled as if he thor oughly understood the guarded phrasing of bis companion’s speech. He added: “She's extremely clever, too, or” “Unsophisticated," interrupted Mrs. Farley. “Yes, I should have said that: but she is very Interesting. She has decided opinions of her own, and expresses them with a sincerity and readiness as refresh ing as an up country breeze.” “Oh, is she strongmindedr “Not in the sense yon suggest. She is not obtrusive. She is charmingly naive and original in conversation, taking one unaware with her questions and sugges tions, like a child. 1 suspect that she’s, a genuine mountain violet, fresh, sweet and" "Don't, Colonel Talbot," cried Mrs. Farley: “keep some of the adjectives for future use. 1 can interpret your feel ings without any further waste of words. ” “Your Interpretation would be as far from correct as any guess of the prag matists who pretend to explain the beau tiful myths of the old i>oets," he said, looking away and stroking his long mnstache. “1 should not turn your poetry into prose at all,” she added softly: “I should give it a very deep and tender mean- Vg." "Peep and tender." he repeated; those are adjectives, 1 believe. You may reserve them for future use. 1 imagine Miss Chenier has a mountaineei for a lover, a strong. !>old young fellow of the true north Georgian type." ‘Oh, no doubt of it; but she'll soon for get him now," she replied. "Girls usually do,” he said dryly. They all got out of their carriages and were soon scattered about among the tombs and flower beds of that incompar ably beautiful old place. Rosalie sat down alone on the verge of the bluff in the shade of a tree. She, who from childhood had reveled in wind, was fascinated with tins steady breeze from the sea. The broad areas of silver and emerald spread out before her, the bright sky above, and the picturesque clumps of palmetto trees in the distance suited the mood into which the drive through the cemetery had led her. It chanced that her friends wandered away from where she sat, so that she was quite alone when a tall man approached and stopped within a few feet of her. She in stantly recognized Frank Ellis, notwith standing his changed appee ranee. He was no longer a mountaineer or a "moon shiner" in dress, being fashionably and tastefully clad. He bore in his hand a small cane. It seemed that he did not at once make sure of his right to speak. Rosalie had not changed much, It is true, but she hardly looked like the coarsely dressed miller girl of the “pocket,” as she sat there arrayed in the latest and most elegant styleof walking dress. She rose at once and a quick flush came into her cheeks. "Ah, Miss Chenier," he said in those old fluent tones, so persuasive and me lodious, “you have not forgotten me. I hope." “Ob, no, Mr. Ellis, 1 am glad to see yon," she reejionded, taking a step or two forward and holding out her hand to him. "Are you directly from the mill?" “No,” he said. “I have been here for some time. 1 am a resident of Savannah now. Bnt you were the last person 1 waa expecting to meet today You are not alone?" He had taken her hand and was hold ing it while he looked down into her np- tnrned beautiful face, all rosy with the emotion of thus unexpectedly meeting a friend from the “pocket” with news from home possibly. “Then you haven't seen papa recently? 1 she inquired, withont noticing hia own question 'No,' be answered; “l had trouble with the revenue men. They destroyed my mamifactory, and 1 had a close straggle for my liberty." “1 remember," she said; “I aaw It in a paper." “It’s quite settled now," he added. “I compromised with them—bribed them. In other words, and so am quite free again. 1 have opened a broker’s office here in Savannah." Bespoke with the oonfidont freedom of a man well croond- ■ t Rosalie quickly withdrew her hand nod turned, all flushed as she was, in time to see the look of half surprise, half deprecation which passed across the face of Mildred. ‘Come here, Mildred." she said quick ly; “this is a friend from the ‘pocket.' We met here by the merest chance." A self consciousness of manner rath.r than self consciousness in fact put her in a wrong light before both Ellis and Miss Fain. It was as if she had been discov ered in some compromising situation, when, in truth, she was wholly unaware of any improper appearance connected with what her friend had just seen. At this moment Aunt Marguerite joined them. Her sharp little eyes rec ognized Ellis promptly, and a gleam al most malignant shot out from them. She stopped short, close to him, and with a quick glance from head to foot I took in the great improvement in his Iiersotial iqqiearance. Her mind worked ; with that swiftness and certainty so | valuable in a sudden crisis. The first impulse was to Ignore him and hurry Rosalie away from his presence; but caution whispered ber that this might | arouse that perversity for which young girls who fancy themselves in love are noted. Then, too, Miss Fain was pres ent. and there might be a scene. She changed her manner in a moment. “Why, Mr. Ellis, this is quite a sur prise,” she said in that cold, half careless j tone which is used toward one who is a j mere valueless acquaintance. She gave him her hand, however, and turned to ward Miss Fain, but she had walked away “I am glad to see you looking so well, Mrs. ffiiosevelt,' he said, throwing into his voice an irresistible music. "Y’our summer sojourn in the north must have been pleasant. Is Mr. Roosevelt well?" “Y'es, quite, thank yon." Site dared not trust herself to say more. He was ready, however, and went easily forward into graceful talk, draw ing her out in spite of herself, and, aftei a manner, winning upon her interest if not Iter respect. He was a charming talker in every way, and his knowledge of human nature was broad and accu rate. Colonel Talbot and Mrs. Farley had seated themselves on a log. the bole of a tree cut down in the coarse of some im provement of the grounds, and were sur veying the wide expanse of water, is lands and marshes through an opera glass. While Mrs. Farley was thus amusing herself she chanced to bring the glass to bear on the group by the river, composed of Rosalie and young Ellis. He was holding her hand and gazing in tently down into her face It was a very suggestive situation. Mrs. Farley did not know who the young man was, but site could be sure he was a lover, she thought. After looking for a moment she handed the glass to Colonel Talbot, and pointing in the direction, said: 'See if yon can make out the young man with Miss Chenier on the blnff yonder." He looked, and when he had succeeded in finding the proper line of vision he started, not perceptibly to any one but himself, and watched the little tableau develop as has been described, “It is some friend to Miss Chenier,” he presently said, as Mrs. Roosevelt came upon the scene, “but I do not know him. He must be a visitor to SavannaM 1 think; a northerner, possibly." “But he is not a northerner,” said Mrs. Farley. “His face and manner deny the possibility He may be a north Geor gian, however." Colonel Talbot lowered the glass and looked at his companion. “He would Ik* her mountain lover, then,” he said, smiling complacently and turning the opera glass over and over in his hand. “Well, neither you nor I need care as to that." she replied. "But 1 do won der who he is.” She took the glass and looked again. “Ah, Mrs. Roosevelt has joined them," she exclaimed. "He is no stranger to her, that is plain He is strikingly hand some—distingue—a military man, possi bly. I wish 1 could hear what he is say ing. No doubt it is vastly interesting.’ Mrs. Farley was a clever woman, and she rarely did or said anything, no mat ter how apparently light and unstudied, without having some well defined object In view. She had begun to suspect that Colonel Talbot felt some sort of tender interest in Miss Chenier, and she was now endeavoring to surprise him into something like a confession of it But he was too reserved and self poised to be caught in her slender net. He knew her better than she thought, and he played with her webs without seeming aware of their existence. Ellis did not remain long at Bonaven- ture. After a short conversation with Mrs. Roosevelt and her niece he went away, bnt not before Rosalie bad in vited him to call at the mansion. Having recently moved into the new apartments prepared for me in the Hewitt Building, on the North side of the Public Square, 1 am now prepared to resume my work of dress making with In-tter facilities than ever before, and desire to solicit a continuance of tin* public's patronage. All measurements taken by means of the McDowell Garment Drafting Ma chine, ami jicrfect tits guaranteed. MRS. L. E. WILLIAMSON. I Every one should use P. P. P.; nearly every ono needs a good medicine to r ify, vitalize, and enrich the blood. P. P„ Poke Root and Potassium is the greatest blood purifier of the age. It cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Primary, Sec ondary. and Tertiary Syphilis where sll other remedies fail. P. P. P., Prickly Ash and Potassium will cure Syphilis, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Syphilitic Rheu- matlRm,Malaria,Old Sores, Blood Poison and Dyspepsia. If your head aches and you are out of spirits take P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke Root, and /or a Tired Feeling, Impure Blood, Dis tress after Eating, Dysix-rsia, Pair s in the Back, Headaches and Nervous Pros tration and Debility and Weakness all yield readily to P. P. P. For Hleeph ss- ness, Exhaustion and Malaria use P.P.P. Mortgagee Sale. STA TK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Darlinyton County. ‘XKTH EREAS, Manuel Lever of said ** County and State on the 2nd day of April, IbStt. executed and delivered a mortgage to J. S. Gar ner, Guardian, of the same County and State, to secure the payment of the bond of the said Manuel Ijever to the said J. S. Garner, Guardian, for the sum of Seventeen Hundred Dol lars. payable as therein specified, which mortgage was recorded in the office of the Register of Mesne t on- veyapee for said County of Darlington on the Jud day of April, !Ss;i, in H<>ok No, 8 page 2'.I4 and tho whole amount of said mortgage debt, less $75 paid October 15th. 18i)o, together with in terest end cost and expenses of collec tion as fixed therein is now due; and whereas the said* Manuel Lever on the 10th day of February 18!>1 executed md delivered a mortgage to the said .!. S. Garner to secure the pavment of the bond of the said Manuel Lever to the said J .S. Garner for the sum of Light Hundred and Twenty-one 40- 100 I tollm s payable as therein specified which mortgage was recorded in the thee aforesaid in IhKik No. 8, page C> and the whole amount of said mortgage debt, together with interest and the cost and expenses of collection ;s fixed therein is now due and un paid: and whereas default lias been made in the payment of said bonds, secured by said mortgages, the said mortgages will be foreclosed by sale of the mortgaged lands by virtue of the power contained in the mortgages, which sale will be made by the sub scriber at public auction at Darling ton Court House, in front of the Court House door on the first Monday in February next, during the usual hours of sale. Terms of sale, cash. The following is a description of the said mortgaged premises: All that tract or parcel of land situate in the County and State aforesaid, contain ing three hundred acres, more or less, known as the McNeese place, ami hounded on the north by Jeffries I reek, east by lands of McCall, south by lands of George - E. McCall and Jo seph Norwood and west bv lands of W. E Rhodes. J S. GARNER and J. 8. GARNER, Guardian, Mortga gees. ►ALMKTTO RALROAD. In effect Oetober_25, 1891. Leave Cheraw 4 SOlp.' 111. Kollock 4.50 Osborne 5.15 Arrive Hamlet 5.40 Leave Hamlet 8.90 a. m. Osborne 8.50 Arrive Cheraw 9.40 WM. MONCUHt, Supt. TXAKT8VILLE RAILROAD. X - L In effect Sept. 20, 1801. DAILY MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartsville 5.55 a m Jovann (1.20 a m Floyd’s 7.10 a m Darlington 0.00 a m Palmetto 9.25 a la Arrive Florence 9.50 a m Leave Florence 2.00 p m Palmetto 2.15 p in Darlington ; 2.35 p m Floyd's 3.10 p m Jovann 3.30 p m Arrrive Hartsville 3.50 p m J F. DIVINE, Gen. Supt. C HARLESTON, SUMTER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. In Effect October 5, 1801 NORTH. SOUTH. 1 2 A. M. A. M. 0.55 Charleston 10.40 8.10 Pregnall’s 9.00 8.48 Eutawville 8.20 10 23 Sumter 0.50 11.12 Lamar 6.55 11.27 Syracuse 5.42 11.42 Darlington 5.29 11 57 Mont Clare 5 14 12.09 Robin's Neck 4.59 12.24 Mandeville 4.41 12 27 Benuettsville 4.25 P. M. P. M. Trains 1 and 2 have through cars between Charleston ami Fayetteville. All trains daily except Sunday. J. H. AVKRILL, General Manager. Catarrh and a Shattered Constitution, both male and female, nothing better than P. P. P. 1 • V', V li. i II ICKEl! & ladies whose systems are poisoned and whose blood is in an impure condition, due to Menstrual Irregularities, are peculiarly benefited by tho wonderful tonicand blood-cleansing propertiesof n AA1 , c , kJ.Ach Hlii.iln P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke Root, and IJOGTS^ OtlSIlj l)llll(]S« Potassium, the greatest cure known for all diseases of the Manulacturers —UK— ( 1 4 D. and C. & S. RAILROADS. J % In effect Sept. 20, 1801. BID D O. LIPPMAN BROS., Proprietors, SAVANNAH, - - - GEORGIA- Sold by J. A. Boyd and Willcox 4 Co. ivd o xjx, id i isr a-s —AND — (To be continued.) Mortgagees Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlinyton County. TJy virtue of the power vested in us by and under a chattel mort gage, executed to us by Enoch Alford, of date January 28th. 1801, duly rej corded, we will sell at Darlington Court House, County ami State afore said, at public auction, in front of the Court House door, during the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 8th day of February next, the following per sonal property, to-wit: One Sorrel Horse. D. G. CRENSHAW & CO. Jan 21. Mortgagees. Notice. 4 ccording to the provisions of the Act of the legislature establish ing the School District of the Town of Darlington, a meeting of all the lefjal voters living in said District and returning real or personal property therein, is hereby called, to be held in the t ourt House on Friday, Jan uary 2Hih, at 12 o'clock, M ., to decide what additional tax. if any, shall bo levied for the school purposes of said District. Hy order of the Board of Trustees. C. B. EDWARDS, Secretary. Tobacco Growers Attention. T OBACCO growers in South Caro lina and those contemplating en gaging in the culture of the staple would do well to call on or address R. H. ROGERS, Darlington, S. C.; or J. A. < RITCHEK, Holloway, Person Co., N. C. Jan. 21—8t ,, CIB^ ° y' A * O W > ^ v -* ^ S O-TT-A-Hro —MANUFACTURED BY— Tie Wilcox & Gibbs Gnano Co. CHARLESTON, S. C-, Howard Fleming 270 East Bay, CKARLESTOH, S. C., IMPORTER OF English Portland Cement AND DEALER IN LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HA lit, <tC., and all BUILD ING MATERIAL. Lowest Prices. Best Satisfaction. CAR LOAD LOTS A SPECIALTY. Oct. 29—Ivr. Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S. C. April, 20 1889—1 Town Tax Notice. On and after the second Monday in January, 1892, the office of the Clerk of the town of Darlington will be open to receive the returns for both real and personal property in said town, and will continue qpen for said pur pose for the period of thirty days. Every inhabitant of said town, within the time limited, must list for taxation the following property, namely: All leal estate and tangible personal property within the corporate limits of said town owned or controlled by him or her; all tangible personal prop erty owned and controlled by him or her or other resident of the town, and under his or her control, which may be temporarily out of the town and intended to be brought into the town; all the moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint companies, or otherwise, owned iyid controlled by him or her, either in or out of this State: and all persons owning, con trolling or holding property of what soever kind, either in the fiduciary or ; n official capacity, shall return the same in such manner as is required by law for county taxes. All persons subject to poll and street taxes shall make a return within the time men tioned. By order of the Council. 4t J. YV. EVANS. Clerk. ALL GOODS GUARANTEED. GEO.E.TOALE, HENRY OLIVER Geo. E. Toale k Co, WHITE! EIHSTE DOORS, SASH, BLIHDS, AND Swi! Miiig Maitriil OFFICE AND SALESROOMS 10 and 12 Llayne Street, CHARLESTON, - - S. C Special Prices Cheerfully Fur nished. Red. This famous stallion will be at Mc Cullough V Blackwell's stables until April 15, when he will be sent to Ken tucky to fill an engagement. tf - .. Do You Wish To Ee Boss of Your Own GIN HOUSE? Then buy the Thomas Steam Press AND Seed Cotton Elevator. It is the most perfect system in use, unloading cotton from wagons, clean ing and delivering it into gins or stalls. Cotton does not passthrough fan, and press requires no pulleys or belts. It saves time and money. Talbott d’ Son’s Engines and Boilers — Stationary and, Portable. “Old Dominion” Corn Mills $125 to $300. Talbott's Saw Mills, Im proved Friction and Ropes Feed, $200 to $600. Lummus and, Van IVin- kle Cotton Gins and Colton Presses. We offer saw mill men and ginners the most complete outfits in the State and at bottom prices. 0. CF. itadlxaw, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, S. C tSTThe Talbott Engines are the Best. Leave Wadesboro .... 5.00 a m Bennett’s ... 5.15 a m Morven’s 5.22 a m McFarland 5.32 a m Cheraw ... 5.68 a m Cash's .... 8.10 am Society Hill .... 6.25 am Dove’s 6.43 a m Floyd’s ... 6.51 a m Darlington .. 7.05 a m Palmetto 7.15 a m Arrive Florence 7.30 a m Leave Florence 8.35 p m Palmetto .... 8.50 p m Darlington - 9.00 p in Floyd's ... 9.11 p m Dove’s .... 9 17 p m Society Hill ... 9.37 p m Cash's .... 9-52 p m Cheraw McFarland Morven’s .. 10.38 p m Bennett's ... 10.45 p m Arrive Wadesboro Freight Train. Leave Florence 0.40 am Arrive Darlington. Leave Darlington 6.40 p m Arrive Florence ... 7.25 p m A. F. KAVENEL, President. WTORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. In effect Nov. 15 , 1891. No. 27. Leave Florence 1.85 a m Kingstree .... 2.32 a m Lanes Arrive Charleston ... 5.00 a m No. 23. Leave Florence 10.35 p m Kingstree Lanes .... 12.15 am Arrive Charleston No. 53. I.eave Lanes Airive Charleston No. 78. Leave Charleston 1.20 a m Lanes ... 8.25 am Kiugst ree .... 3 43 a m Arrive Florence ... 4.46 a m No. 14. lieave Charleston .. 7.01 p m Ijuies .... 8.38 p m Kingstree .... 8.56 p m Arrive Florence ... 9.55 p m No. 52. Leave Charleston ... 5.50 a m Arrive J^uies 7.25 am No 78 stops at l-ane's and Kiugs- tree; No. 14 stops at all stations be tween Ashley Junction anij Florence oil signal; No. 52 stops at Monck's Corner, 8t Stephens’s and l-ane's. No 27 stops at Lanes’s; No. 23 stops at all stations between Florence and charleston on signal. No. 53 stops at St. Stephen's and Monck’s corner on signal. No. 52 stops at Monck’s corner, St. Sterphen’s, Lane’s, Greeleyville, For- reston, Wilson’s Mill, Manning, Sum ter and Wedgelield. No. 53 stops at Sumter, Manning, Wilson’s Mill, Forreston, Greeleyville, Lane’s, St. Stephens’ and Monck’s corner on signal. Nos. 52 and 49 connect at Lane's with trains to and from Georgetown. J. F. DIVINE, Gen. Supt. WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOC. GENTLEMEN THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY? It Is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt the feet; made of the beat lino calf, stylish j and cany, and because we make more shore of this j grade than any other manufacturer, it equals Hand- I sowed shoes costing from *1.00 to $r>.<X). CLtZ 00<»en»lne llaiid>*»rwe«l, theflnestcalf j shoe « v< r offered for $£001 eqUMllS French | I Imported shoes which cost from $**.00to $12.00. Ci A 00 IInntl-Sewed Welt Shoe* tine calf, ; stylish, comfortable and durable. The best shoe ever offered ut this price ; same grade as cus- ! tom-made shoes costing from $8.00 to $9.00. €2 0 50 Police hlioe; Formers. Railroad Men and Letter Carriers all wear them; fluecalf, i seamless, smooth inside, heavy three soles, eaten- i Sion edge. One pair will wear a year. 30 fine rnlft no better shoe ever offered at a this price; ono trial will convince those who want a shoe for comfort and service. OO and $*£.00 W'orkiimmnn** shoes yrmme are very strong and durable. Those who j have given them a trial will wear no other make. BfWC* ^»00 nnd $1.73 school shoos are KfJ 9 worn by the boys every where; they sell on their merits, as the im-reusiug sales show. I arfioc Ilnud-Ncwed shoe, best ■■aUlwO 1». igola. very stylish; equabiFreacn i Imported shoes costing from to $6.UU. _ Indies' \4.30, $'.£.00 mid $1,73 shoe for ! Misses are the best fine Dongola. Stylish and durable. • C aution.—See that W. L. Douglas’ naino aad price are stamped on the bottom of each shoe. TAKE NO HI’BSTITITE.. Insist on' ' “ * * • For Sale by A. J, Broom, Darlington, S. C. W aiLMlNGTON, COLUMBIA & AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect Nov»15, 1891. No. 23. Leave Wilmington 6.25 p m Marion 0.34 p m Arrive Florence.. 10.15 p m No. 50. Leave Florence 3.20 a m Sumter 4.35 a m Arrive Columbia 8.15 a m No. 27. Leave Wilmington 10.10 p tn Marion 12.40 p m Arrive Florence 1.20 a in No. 52. I^ave Sumter 8.40 a in Arrive Columbia 9.50 a m No. 58. Leave Florence 7.40 a m Sumter 9 05 a m Aarrive Columbia 10.40 a m No. 52 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 7.45 a m, Manning 8 21 a m. Train on C. and D. Railroad con nects at Florence with No. 58. No. 51. Leave Columbia 10.45 p m Sumter 12.04 a in Arrive Florence 1.15 a m No. 78. Leax-e Florence 5.00 a m Marion 5.44 a m Arrive Wilmington 8.55 am No. 59. Leave Columbia 5.35 p m Sumter 7.00 p m Arrive Florence 8.15 p m No. 53. Leave Columbia 9.80 p in Arrive Sumter 10.35 p m No. 14. Leave Florence 10.25 p m Marion 11.02 p m Arrive Wilmington 1.40 a m In addition to above, train No. 49 leaves Columbia 7 00 a m daily except Sundav, arriving Sumter 8.20 a m. Train No. 48 leaves Sumter 8.35 p in, daily except Sunday, arriving Colum bia 10.00 p m. No 53 runs through to charleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 10.89 pm Lanes 11.17 p m, charleston 12.50 a m. No. 59 connects at Florence yvith C. & D. train from cheraw and Wades boro. Nos. 78 and 14 make close connec tion at Wilmington with W. & W. Railroad for all points North. Trains on Florence Railroad leave Pee Dee daily except Sunday 4 40 p m, arrive Rowland 7.00 p m. Return ing leave Rowland tt 30 a m, arrive Pee Dee 8.50 a m. Trains on Manchester St Augusta Railroad leave Sumter daily except Sunday 10.50 a m, arrive Rituini 11 50 a m. Returning leave Rimini 12.30 p m, arrive Sumter 1.40 p. m. J. F. DIVINE, Gen-lSupt. , • '