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The colonel ordered out the entire command, to the utter consternation of Miss Winifred Berrien and the supreme disgust of some half a dozen junior officers, who, count ing on the weather indications at nine a. in., hail eagerly accepted Mrs. Ber rien’s suggestion that they spend their rainy afternoon at the major’s hospita ble quarters, by way of making it pleas ant for two young damsels from town and three or four from the fort itself, all of whom were supposed to be deeply interested and engaged in the embroidery of certain altar cloths, lecturn and pul pit adornments, with which to rejoice the eyes of their amiable chaplain at Christmastide. Here it was well along in November, and beyond a vast amount of chatter and conjecture over the pros pective pleasure of the reverend dominie, nothing had been done. True, the colonel had astonished every body by ordering out the entire regi ment, at least the eight companies there of present at the post, to parade for in spection and review, equipped for Held service, at nine-thirty that morning, and only reluctantly recalled the order when the persistent plashing of the rain warned him that it would take a day or two of sunshine to dry out the clothing and equipments subjected to such a downpour. And then if anything should happen and they should lie suddenly called upon to bundle everything right into the waiting train— But, [ishaw! the thing wasn’t possible; the idea could not be entertained. Of course matters were looking squally, very squally, up there in the Dakotas, and everybody from Missouri to the mountains and north of the Platte was already out in the Held, and in little detachments from the scattered poets even far away in Montana, even far in southern Wyom ing, the soldiery were converging to ward those swarming agencies where thousands of truculent warriors of the great Dakota nation were drawing ra tions for every man, woman, child and pappoose they possessed. Bo it known to the reader that paternalism is ram pant in the land—that while peace so cieties anil Indian rights associations and prayerful congregations away at the Atlantic seaboard are deluging the press with diatribes upon the wrongs of the red man and the criminal neglect of the nation, and declaring that Man’s inhumanity to Lo Makes countless Indians mourn, in this last “century of dishonor" Uncle Sam has disbursed millions upon mil lions in the desperately hopeless task of Ailing the aboriginal stomach, and in striving by means of honest census to re duce the number of the “countless” so pathetically referred to. Indians would make splendid ward politicians, and bow it is that the sachems of Tammany have not long since possessed themselves of so available a means of swelling their ranks passeth all understanding. After the Indian had had himself, several wives and bis blooming olive brandies, “oksheelah, wiciucha," boys and girls, and such pappoosus as his better halves had at tho back (either of home produc tion or borrowed for the moment from the tepee of Two-Bricks-in-his-Hat), duly enumerated, would he not swell the cen sus of his tribe by jndiciona distribution of all his wives' relations among those tepees not already checked off? Oh, If the truth could ever reach the ears of the general pnblic what tales of Indian sagacity might not yet be in store for them! What annals might not he un folded! Dealing with his own. his white children, who are nonvoters, Undo Sam serves out one ration a day to each en listed soldier. The wife and the lads and lasses that tumbled about the married men's quar ters in the queer old days were ail to be fed from that one ration, unless, per chance, mamma was a laundress. Bnt when dealing with the wronged and in jured red man hs could not be too mag nanimous. Every bead counted. The mumbling old beldam, great-grand mother of "countless thousands,” braced np from the edge of the grave for the occasion. The big bellied little four- year-olds, reveling in the dirt about the reeking shambles, the tiny hour-old papoose, even many a puppy, blanket awathed and slung squaw back, passing for a wee baby, anything be could show as possessing a spark of Indian life was duly credited to the warrior lord of the lodge for another ration, a full one. Cattle might and did shrink, but to the Indian there is more meat in a lean cow than in the stall fed ox to the white, for the reason that "everything goes." Horns and hoofs are the only things the Indian doesn't eat. Agents might and did cheat and steal, bnt so did the Indian, and many a re joicing old sinner has been credited with a family of twelve when his sole avail able domestic assets consisted of two squaws and three children, the papooses having been borrowed or personated by bandied np doggies, the grandmother being pnblic property passed around for the occasion; the others, pickaninnies painted so as to look entirely unlike the grinning urchins counted in the flock of brother irtab-in-the-Da, k. whose people bad just been enumerated. There were agents who lent themselves to that sort of thing because the more Indians they could show as their especial wards, the more bairels and boxes and bales were invoiced to that agency and deftly "raked off" en route. There was a time when the man who wouldn’t make hay when such a sun won m *b vusottakUt Kmal vbo , couidu t contribute to campaign ronus. “What tho devil do you suppose we liad ' you made agent ’way up at Gallatin for?” usked an irate political “hoes” of a deposed and crestfallen late incumbent who came home superseded. “Why, it was you and onr congress man who exposed the stealings of my predecessor and had him fired. 1 suj>- posed you wouldn’t stand that sort of thing. I snpiMwed you wanted me to be perfectly honest." “Of course we did; but, damn it. you don’t seem to understand; he was paying to the other party.” Bnt railways and telegraphs have brought all this, or much of it, within range, to to speak. Things have changed, except iierhaps human nature, white or Indian. There has been failure - to provide for carrying out the earnest recommendations of the best friend the Indian has known for years—the man whose word was his bond, whom they feared in war and loved and trusted in peace. There has been shrinkage both in the cattle and the count. No matter how much beef might shrivel on the hoof in the old days, the Sioux, if he were at all sharp, got more than was his share, and most of the Sioux were os sharp us their knives. Other tribes might hare starved and suffered, bnt not they. With the new order of things came full stom achs for hosts of other alxirigines, bnt fault finding for these Dakotas. No more “tepee connts;” on the contrary heads of families paraded their entire force, and while enumerators with book and pencil went along tho front of the line, Uncle Sam’s blnecouts on the bonier keenly watched the rear and put rudden stop to all sham and swapping. Now the shrinkage came to be privation, and, turning in apjieal to the genera] who headed the great commission and won their faith, appealing to Crook for the remedies congress had utterly failed to provide, their hearts were bowed with the tidings that the Great Spirit had summoned the "Gray Fox” to happier limiting grounds. Then was there no other appeal? One —one which had never failed to wring from the government the concession de sired. Old chiefs might plead in vain, but the blood of the young warriors is hot and strong, the Inst for reputation as vehement as of yore. Every brave stood ripe for action, and no. Indian leader ever equaled in craft, in cunning, in adroitness the scowling old sinner Sitting Bull, and no man need doubt that it was he who gave the cue. Every medicine man in the Dakota Nation be gan to preach the coming of the Mes siah, but the Messiah craze was only the means to an end. Un-koi-to, the In dian redeemer—he who ordained that his children should prepare themselves by the savage rites of the ghost dance to meet him and all their dead ancestry and with them wipe the paleface from the land—Un-koi-to was a fraud of the first water, a masquerading scamp of a white man at odds with his own kind, and progressive Indians knew it. But even to such a saviour, when urged by the charlatans in every village, the su perstitious nature of the red man turned in eager adulation, and the ghastly, mad deniug dance went on. Night after night all over the broad northwest the skies were aglow with the Indian fires. The vault of the heavens echoed to the sound of frenzied shriek and yell and the furious beat of the Indian drum. It is but a step from the ghost dance to the scalp dance—from Indian worship to Indian war. A year ago in every valley of beantiful South Dakota cattle were browsing on the bnnch grass, settlers plowing on the plains, women sewing and singing under the new raised rooftrees, and gleeful children playing in the golden heaps of corn. Now the plow stands idle in the abandoned furrow: the cattle have gone, to make np, presumably, for the reser vation shrinkage; women's songs have changed to sobs, children's laughter hushed to terrified silence, as the settlers seek the refuge of the towns. New red glare in the sky at night, and the new ranch house lights the way of many a savage warrior, bound with arms and ponies to swell the hostile ranks In the mazes of the Bad Lands. “God only knows how soon it may come,” read Farquhar, bnt a week be fore, "bnt 1 think you would better be with your command.” Farquhar re- liuqurshed his shooting trip and at once got him home. He could not bear to tell his people, in the happiest garrison the regiment had ever known, that per- hape it might be as well to drop the plans for tho cavalry ball and the Christmas theatricals, the cherished projects for the coming holidays. H* hated to have any one ask him if ho thought there were not just a chance- just a chance—of their being ordered np there. But even before he left he Berrien had been talking the mat ter over. The idea was to always have the regiment ready for anything, ami il did seem as though with all the sum tner and fall marching and scouting ano maneuvering in the ' field they were, as the Englishmen would say, “pretty fit.' Fit, certainly, for any amonnt of scout ing or fighting on the southern plains and yet utterly unprepared for the rigors of a Dakota winter. Any colonel who, serving In Arizona or in the Indian Territory, was to apply for canvas overcoats, blanket lined, for fur caps, gloves, boots, leggings, etc., intended only for service in tho high latitadee. would have been langhod at, if not snubbed. Farquhar decided it best not to let any of the women worry over a possibility. No nse borrowing trouble he said. Long years had the regiment served in tliJt wintry land. Fierce and incesftant had been its campaigns against the Indians. Dire had been its suffer ings and looses. Only recently—oulj within the year—had they reached this paradise, with its hazy landscape, its lovely, jieaceful homes, its kindliness and greeting yetwann in remembrance the edge of its cheer still new amt nn worn. And then Kenyon come back from leave, a bnrly major of foot who had been visiting at his old home in Chicago and waa reported to be wearing the wil low for a girl who had but just married a mere junior first lieutenant in the Eleventh, their predeceseors along this line. *Tt might be that Kenyon was cross and crabbed. The youngsters called him "grumbly” at first acquaint ance. It might be that he waa so hipped ami unhappy himself he conld not bear to see the bliss and content on every face about him. He and Rolfs were con genial spirits, said the boys, for "both of them got left." But Kenyon, close mouthed as be was at times, had watched things a day or two and then had given Farquhar a “pointer." Ha had heard wfwihlw. to**. •* 4WBi» tod- Hence tne oraer for •turn out everybody, fluid kite and fifty rounds." The maddest man at mess at one-thir ty was Ur. Carroll Brewsten—"(hirly B” his i omradee called him in the years gone by, when he had much kink to the blond hair of his laandsume head, and not a vestige thereof to the down on his lip. Now, as first lieutenant of the “Black Troop,” with a mustache all bristle and curl, and with a pate where on the curls were cropped to regulation lines, he was a very different sort of fel low. All the morning loug he had sal on a garrison court, where as “swing memlier” he had not enongh to do to krep him from brooding over his woes He had counted on spending the hoars from two until stables basking in the light of those wonderful, deep, dark eyes of Miss Winifred Berrien. Some what potted and spoiled in his earlier years of service, Brewster had hadmiu-h of the nonsense knocked ont of him In the harsh experiences of seven years In the saddle with a regiment renowned for its touch-and-go sort of work. He had steadied greatly in those years, part of the process being dne to his own latent good sense, and not a little thereof to incessant striving on the range to win high honors as a sharpshooter, and to day there was not a finer looking soldier wearing the broad yellow stripes in the Twelfth than this same ex-dandy "Cur ly Brewster." There still lingered about him a cer tain repute for self consciousness, if not for actnal conceit, but he had grown to be thoroughly respected in the regl ment and was vastly popular with the men. He was ever ready to umpire their matches at baseball, coach then shooting, lend bis own fishing taekte 01 shotguns to longing sportsmen in the ranks who had none of their own and he had won the lasting gratitude of C troop, two of whose men were being mobbed by a gang of tough* one windy night in Sheridan City just as Curly came trotting back en route to the poet. “He was off hi* horse and into that crowd quicker that, winking,” said Murphy, “ami the way he laid over that gang with them whit* fists of his just made my sides crack with delight.” He had more sense that they gave him credit for, said the sen iors of the regiment after a while, ami barring an early experience, a cadet love affair that he was long ago web over, had never let himself go uguiu- never until the Twelfth came to settle in this happy valley and Winifred Bet rien returned from her eastern school Then he went all of a sudden. Only out man did not see it; that was Berrien Only one woman couldn’t forgive hi* devotioa, and she had no business inW fering, being herself otherwise dis posed of. To his credit be it said, Brewster and the lady’s husband were about the only men who apjieared unaware of this an tumnal infatuation. Nevertheless, in those numberless ways in which women can claim and secure the appearance, at least, of attention from men, the dam* had managed to monopolize consider able of his spare time up to the week ol Miss Berrien s coming, after which it was not he who rode to town, but stir who drove ont to the post and sent foi him to come and talk to her as she leaned back in her stylish victoria ami looked np at him from under her tinted lashes. She could have found it in hei heart to strangle the lovely girl so dark ly, richly beautiful, but her call upon “the ladies” had been returned when she was conspicuously absent from home, and opportunities for meeting were not afforded by the damsel's par ents. There were girls at the post who were quick to see how "Antinous" had lost his heart; but these, those at leasi who were near enongh to Winifred to dare allude to the matter at all. were content to archly quote the warning— Change the same and not the teller. Marry for worse and not for heller. There was one man with whom Brew ster waa at odds, a sentiment dne to an old difference when both were younger and that was Rolfe. There was one man the gallant major especially liked and swore by, and that was tiolfe These facts, added to the coincidence that the captain had never forgotten the hot words used by his second lieutenani long years before, made a combination most unfortunate for a fellow so much in love as was Carroll Brewster. On this particular morning he had striven to hurry matters through on the court—to try three or four cases where the accused were only too ready to plead guilty and “throw themselves on the mercy.” etc., ami then adjourn on tho specious plea of giving the judge advo cate time to write up the proceedings. But the president of the tribunal had other views and held him. Brewster know that Randolph and Hunt and Ridgeway, perhaps others, had taken advantage of the weather and no drill to slip over to Berrien's for a blithe morning hour with the girls. He conld imagine that pretty parlor, with its pic tures and piano, its attractive curtains and portieres, the group of bright, sweet faces, the animated chat, Winifred her self, In her dark, rich beauty, seated at the piano, with Ridgeway hanging over her, eager to turn the leaves, eager to do anything that might keep him at her side. Confound the fellow! he had money ami a handsome old family home stead. What business hail he roughing it in the cavalry, with no end of chances of getting his head knocked off, when his doting mother was so eager to have him come home, marry, settle down and take up the management of tho property his father had left him two years lie- fore? Poor “Curly!” be could only gaze wistfully out across the dripping parade from his seat in the dark courtroom and watch the glinting of the firelight on the Berriens’, parlor window. The major loved a broad fireplace and a hickory blaze, and here he had them to his heart's content for the first time in full twenty years of army wanderings. How must that firelight enhance the coziness and comfort of the scene with in! How must it bo flickering about the dark masses of her lustrous hair at this very moment! How “How do you vote, Brewster? Are yonr wits wool gathering?” He palled himself together as best he could, but that was a morning of tor ment. And now to think that, after all, he conld have no moment at her hide this day! To think that Farquhar should have ordered them ont for honrs of pot tering around at saddlebags, noseliage, side lines, lariats, picket pins and all that sort of truck! It was simply bar barous, He curbed his tongue as well M he knew how, tor plainly he saw tiiat hi* chums were mischievously exulting over him, bnt any one who knew Brew ster could see his wrath and discom fiture. The announcement was made just before luncheon was o rer. The ad jutant came bolting in with the order, and shotting his ears to the choms of exnletives. “What time did yon say boots and saddles would sound?” fiercely demanded Randolph. “In a quarter of an hoar; so you've no time to waste saying swear words or asking damn fool questions. And as fer yon, Curly, you’re for guard tomorrow." Brewster finished his enp of tea in an undignified gulp, quitting the table and the room in three strides. There wm , juat time to scwct am to BerxW. | and Me her for five minuted before he had to jump hack to his quarters and into riding boot*, etc. Any pretext would answer—the dance tonight, for instance. i “Get my field rig ready at once and bring my horse up here in ten minutes," . he called to his servant, slashed at his natty uniform with a whisk broom and bounded out of the door, only to en- J counter the man of all others he least cared to see coming in. “Were you just going, Biewster? There is a matter I want very much to aok yon about, and 1 thought this the time to catch you without fail.” The voice waa that of Captain Rolfe. “I am just going out, captain, and I'm harried, but if you will step in I’ll be back in ten minutes." | “Well-L ordinarily, I would not de tain you, and-d, pardon me, if you were going to Major Berrien's, they are all at luncheon. I have just left there." Brewster flushed in spite of his effort at control. His first impulse was to say he was going over anyhow, if only to leave word, but, since he could not hope to see her, what was the use? It chafed him, however, to note that Rolfe, in that calmly superior way of his, was pressing on into the hall, as mnch as to say, “It is my will that you give up what yon h we in view and attend at once to my behest,” just as though Brewster were still his second lieutenant, instead of First Lientenant Brewster, commanding the “Black Horse’’ troop. It must be confessed that there was about Rolfe an intangible something that ever seemed to give that impression to the juniors. It was one of the things that set their teeth on edge, as they expressed it, and set them against him. Feeling as he did toward the captain and exasperated at the way in which events seemed conspir ing against him, Brewster threw open his door. “Walk in. as I said, captain. Make yourself at home. I wish to go into Haddock's a moment, and will be right back.” It wasn't that he had anything to say to Haddock, bnt Haddock had succeeded him os second lientenant of Rolfe's troop, and was no fonder of his stern, self willed commander than Cur ly himself had been. It was simply that he would not yield a moral victory to Rolfe, and that in naming Haddock he knew he gave at least a slight return for the annoyance afforded him by the captain's untimely call. Giving no sign whatever as Brewster sprang away down the step# the captain passed on into the plainly furnished sit ting room. Already McCann was busy hauling out the lieutenant’s field boots, breeches and overcoat, whisking off the dnst and indulging in Milesian comment as he did so. At sight of Rolfe he abruptly ceased, bustled forward and offered the captain a chair, and a mo ment later bolted across the hall to per form similar services in overhauling and dusting Mr. Randolph's possessions. Left to himself, Rolfe wearily turned to the mantel, and without show of in- tereet glanced over the various photo graphs there displayed. They were mainly of army friends, young fellows in whom he felt slight interest at any time and none at all now. So were those in the basket on the round table. Brew ster was popular, if one were to judge by the array of pictures that had been sent to him by their prototypes. Then there was a large, handsome album lying open on the desk near the window. Turning listlessly thither Rolfe gave a shrug of the shoulders, soiflething al most like a shudder, at sight of the pho tograph which lay uppermost, a cabinet portrait, highly burnished and finished, of an exuberant woman in evening dress. In that neighlxirbood everybody knew her by sight. He himself had received invitations in her hand to lunch or to dinner. He knew the writing of the note that lay lieside the albnni, first page uppermost. He would have had no eyes at all had he not seen the “Carroll, mon ami,” with which it began. With a shiver of disgust he whirled over a jiage of the album, as though to cover and hide the beguiling face, the betraying words, and then Brewster came liound- mg back and in. Rolfe's hand was still on the album as he turned to face him. The’eyes of the two men met, and again Brewster flushed hotly. He re membered that only in the morning's mail had the large packet arrived con taining this unasked for and unexpected addition to his portrait gallery. He had not opened it until after court—had not more than glanced at the photograph even then, beautiful as it was from an artistic point of view. Then that note, and that idiotic, semiscutimental begin ning! She had never called him Car- roll, but in certain evasive, insinuating, in—well, we have no word for it in all the vocabulary of the United States—in a way he conld not bnt see and conld not find a way to object to, she hail been lately verging in that direction. It was, “Now, Mr. Carroll Brewster,” or "my good friend Carroll,” or “Sir Carroll," or in some way Carroll; but here was an out and ont Carroll, the first of tho kind. A month before he might not have flinched; now he shrank from the mere idea of familiarity of the faintest kind. He had been striving to cut loose from her in every jiossible way, but hers was a friendship that “clung closer than a brother,” and just as sure as shooting Rolfe must have seen that Infernal pic ture, those misleading words. Brewster read it in Rolfe's calm brown eyes, but he would not discuss matters with him. much less stoop to explain. “You wish to see me, captain. Will you take a seat?" “No. What I have to ask need occupy but little time, and the call will sound in a moment or two. I am going to ask you a question, and as man to man 1 want you to answer it.” He pansed, as though awaiting submissive reply. “And the question?” asked Brewster, finally and unyielding. "I was in hopes you would assure mo of a readiness to answer. Whatsoever have been the differences between us in ! the past, yon can never accuse me of 1 having pried into your affairs, and tho question I wish to ask is one of deep im portance to myself, and its answer can not, I believe, unpleasantly involve you.” And still Brewster stood silent, the bine eyes looking straight into the brown. “I will not prolong matters unnecessa rily. What I desire to know, Mr. Brew ster, is this; Have you or have you not some knowledge of the past history of Sergeant Ellis?" “Pardon me. Captain Rolfe, hut I do Dot see how that can concern you in the least." “1 have stated substantially that it did,” was the quiet reply, after a mo ment's thought. "It concerns me very deeply. I need to know something of hie antecedent*. I have reason to ask, and I repeat my question.” There was a painful pause. Then Brewster spoke firmly: “Captain Rolfe, it is a question 1 re fuse to answer." |TO BE CONTINUED.] School Notice. T H E next session of the Darlington Public Schools is to liegin Mon day, September 8(1. All pupils that have not received grade tickets and all new applicants tor admi ision must be examined and graded liefore they can enter sehool. The following is ; the schedule of examinations : MAYO SCHOOL. Children under 10 years of age, Mon- i day, September IB. 1 l hildren over 10 years of age, Tues day, September ?0.' FACiORY SCHOOL. Wednesday, September 81. ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL. Children under 10 years of age, Thursday, September 88. Children over 10 years of age, Fri day, September 38. Mem tiers of the High School of St. John's are requested to see me about the arrangement of their studies, Sat urday, September 17. PATTERSON WARDLAW, Sep 8—3t. Superintendent. It i* an interesting fact that ont of sixteen cities of over 800,000 population in the United States, fourteen, or over 87 per cent., are using the electrical rail- 1 way system or equipping roads with the : system. _______ | -Mr gun* were first made by Onhr, in Germany, !u 1856, and the invention i* to Shaw, of America, to Teachers’ Examination. T HE examination for teachers of tlie Public Schools will be held at Darlington on the third Friday the 21 of October next. By order of the Sate Superinten dent. W. H. EVANS, Ch. Hoard of Examiners. Sept 8—4t. Teacher Wanted. 4 teacher is wanted to take charge of the free school at High Hill, t he school session continues three months. All applicants must be well recommended and able to furnish a diploma or a first grade certificate. Apply to A. F. STUCKEY, Trus., Sept. 8—1m. Darlington, S. C. Notice to Creditors. TtoT OTICE is hereby given that all Xw persons indebted to J. 8. Black- well, late of Darlington county, de ceased, will make payment to, and all S iorsons having claims against the said i. S. Blackwell, deceased, will present them duly proved to A. M. WATKINS, Sep 8—8t. Administrator. THE The 25th Collegiate Year of the Sumter Institute begins on Thursday, September 17th, 1892, and closes June 9th, 1893. In the reorganization of the Faculty, made necessary by the withdrawal of Mrs I^ura A. Browne, H. Frank Wilson, Esq., of the Sumter Bar, has been as sociated with Miss Eliza E. Cooper, and by the terms of agreement, will assume the en tire control and management of the Institute. He will be in charge of the Boarding Depart ment, and by his constant pres ence and attention, will seek to make it a cheerful and well reg ulated Christian.home. A full corps of competent Teachers, including many of those heretofore connected with the Institute, will be employed. No efforts will be spared to make the course of instruction complete and thorough in every department. The dormitories and class rooms are being re furnished and repaired, and every care will be taken to pro mote tlie welfare and comfort of the young ladies attending the Institute. Board, including rooms, fuel and lights, and tuition in all regular studies for the entire scholastic year : Collegiate course ^ 175.00 Academic course 140.00. The only extras are Music, Drawing and Painting, French, German and Elocution, and for these a moderate additional charge is made. For further in formation applv to H. FRANK WILSON, President Sumter Institute, Sumter S. C. BANK OF DARLINGTON, DARLINGTON, S. C., Capital, — — 1100,000 Surplus and Undivi ded Profits, — $45,973.80 -o- D1RECTORS; W. C. Coker, J. L Coker, R. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward. E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman, Bright Williamson. Transacts a General Banking Business. Savifigs Department. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at rate of 5 per cent, {ter annum from date of deposit—payable quarterly on the first day of January, April, July and October. For further information ap ply at the Bank. Accounts in both Depart ments solicited and will he given careful attention. BRIGHT WILLIAMSON, President. L. E. WILLIAMSON. Ca*hier. Dec. 31—tf Fine Confections Fresh every week at DR. JOHN A. BOYD’S DRUGSTORE. May 5—tf X of age with whom infant defendants RTATK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Darlington. Court of Common Pleas. Summons for Relief. (Complaint not served.) J. P Mczlngo, Jr., Nancy A. Mozingo, Sarah A. Smith, Julia A. McKenzie, Oilly A. Beasley and N. D* Marshall, plaintiffs, against Julia V. Hendrix, Dozier Hendrix, Oliver Hendrix, Fannie Hendrix, Cleveland Hen drix, Calvin V. Marshall and W. K. Hendrix ami W. K Hendrix, father of infant defendants under 14 years ige de, defendants. To the defendants Jnlia V. Hendrix, Dozier Hendrix. Oliver Hendrix, Fan nie Hendrix, Cleveland Hendrix, Cal vin V. Marshall and W. K. Hendrix aud W. K. Hendrix, fattier of Oliver, Fannie and Cleveland Hendrix, in fants under 14 years of age and with whom said infants reside ; You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint i>' this action which is filed in the orb e of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Darlington Court House within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail Vo answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded I in the complaint. Dated Aug. 24, A. D. 18S)2. T. H. SPAIN, Plaintiffs' Attorney. ] LAW CAROS. W- F. DARGAN, Attorney at Law, | Darlington, - * - S. C. iOfliceover Welling & Benoit’s R. W. BOYD. GKO. W BROWN BOYD BROWN’ Attorneys and Counselors at Law Office in brick building south of the Bank of Darlington. DARLINGTON C. H, & C. PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS. a. W. DARGAN. H. T. THOMPSON. DARGAN & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Office, Hewitt building (up stairs) north side of tlie Public \ Square. Darlington. S. C • T. II. SPAIN. Attorney at I aw, DARLINGTON, C. IL, S. C- To the Defendant Calvin V. Marstu.!!: Will practice in Circuit Courts and Take notice that the complaint in I Supreme Court of South Carolina. this action was filed In the office of tlie Clem of the Court of Common Plea* for eaid county of Darlington on the 26th day of August, A. D. 181)3. T. H. SPAIN, Plaintiffs’ Attorney. enutt’ori X Prompt attention given to all busi ness, and special attention given col lections. J. J. WARD. K. O. WOODS. WARD & WOODS. Attorneys & Counselors at Law, DARLINGTON, S. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts Special attention paid to all matters pertaining to the buying, selling, renting or leasing of real estate. Any party having business in this line would do well to call on the firm, who 1 have control of some of the most de sirable property in the town and j county. | J. K. NETTLES. C. 8. NKTTLKS Nettles & Nettles, Attornoys A Counselors at Law, Darlington C. II., K. Will practice in all the State and Fed- j eral Courts. Prompt personal at tention given to the collection of Claims. ■ ■ P. Bishop Parrott, Stenographer and Typewriter, i Uf Office wit h Ward A Woods.jp LEGAL AND OTHER COPYING SOLICITED. ' Testimony reported in short-hand 1 and type-written transcript of same furnished at reasonable rates. Good Spelling, Correct Punctuation and Neat Work Guaranteed. Jan. 8-lvr. Manulacturers —OF— Doors, Sash, Blimis, js/roTJXjXDiisr qs —AND - Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S. C. April, 20 1889—1 Cheap Wrapping Paper. Old newspapers, answering exceed ingly well for the purpose of wrapping paper, for sale at Thk Darlington N k ws office at 20 cents a hundred. ALL GOODS GUARANTEED. GEO.C.TOALC HENRY OLIVE* Geo. E. Toale & Co, ■WHITE IPIUSTE DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FT 18 A DITTY yon oweyoarnplf and fam ily lo get the bent value for your money* Kroiiomlze in your footwear by purchaHlng W. Lt. IXougiaN Shoe*, which represent tho •**,•1 P»*lce» aoked, a* thououudo Will leotlfjr. 00 12.50 12.00 FOR LADIES *2.00 *1.75 FOR BOYS OFFICE AND SALESROOMS 10 anil 12 Hayne Street, CHABLEJTON, - - S. C Special Prices Cheerfully Fur nished. Howard Fleming, 276 East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C., IMPORTER OF English Portland Cement AND DEALER IN LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR, &C., and all BU1LI- ING MATERIAL. Lowest Prices. Best Satisfaction. CAR LOAD LOTS A SPECIALTY, Oct. 29—Ivr W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE ec.fL°A.E*. THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY. OTHER HPEOIA1.TIES In footwear are of the name high grade, and represent a money value far beyond the prices charged. Set* that name aud price are stamped on bottom of each shoo. . TAKE NO HI IIHTITI TE. W. I#. Douglas, Brockton, Mass* Sold by For Sale by A. J. Broom, Darlington S. C, ■ 1 Desirable Lot For Sale. WK off.T for sale the lot of the late Mrs. A. A. Baker in the Town of Dar lington. PAUL WHIPPLE, J. GREGG McCALL, J. E. NETTLES, Executor*. Ap 21—tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OK DARLINGTON. By T. H. Spain, Esq., Probate Judge, Whereas, A. M Watkins hath made suit to me, to grant unto him letters of Administration of the Estate of and effect* of J. S. Backwell. These are therefore to cite and ad- monish ail aud singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. 8. Black- well, deceased, that they be and ap pear, before me, in the Court of Pro-; bate, to tie held at Darlington C. H.,; on September 7th next, after imblica-i tion hereof, at 11 o’clock in the fore- j noon, to shew cause, if any they have why the said Administration should; not be granted. Given under «ny hand, this 22d day nut August, Auiio Domini, 1892. T. H. SPAIN, Juilge of Probate. Aug 25—4t (SUGAR COATED) . / Haydock’* New Liver Pills. A wonderful and extraordinary combination of cone to- « ated medicine. i'Ue Victories of Science—Electric olographs. Steam and Printlna—revolutionized tl:s whole system of the xlobe, and made mankind wiser and hotter. So, although there are coant le** Pills used f r disease, and claiming much as to their merit, the 10. markable dlr.covcry of Dr. U&ydock has eclipsed them all, and has founded a NEW MEDICAL SYSTEM. Tho Doctors, whose vast doses of four or five pills, en- foe’ole the stomach and paralyse the bowels, must gits way to the man who restores health and appetite with one or two ot his extraordinary Vegetable Pills. One f-r two oi DR. HAYDOCK’8 NEW LI VKK PILLS sufflo • to pDce the stomach in perfect order, creates an app v tite, and renders the spirit light and buoyant. If tl e Liver is affected its functions are restored, and if tie Nervous System, is enfeebled, it Is invigorated and su> tained. SYMPTOMS OF BILIOUSNESS. I. The patient complains of a fullness of the stemaoh. 9L Distension of the bowels by wind, i. Heartburn. 4. A feeling of weariness, sleepiness after meals. 6. A bad taste in the mouth, and furred tongue. Constipation, with an occasional diarrhoea, f. Hoadacho in front of bead. A Depression of spirits and great lassitude. All of the above symptoms go to show function. I derangement of the Liver: and now comes tho great PARTSVILLE RAILROAD. L In effect May 8L 1893. DAILY MIXED TRAIN I eave Hartsville 6.55 a‘ 'in Jovauu a in Floyd's 7.10 a m Darlington a in Palmetto a in Arrive Florence a in Leave Florence p in Palmetto 2.15 p m Darlington p m Floyd’s 3.25 p in Jovann 8.45 p m Arrrive Hartsville 405 p in J. F. DIVINE, Gen. Sui>t. C HARLESTON, SUMTER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver. In Effect March 2, 1898 NORTH. SOUTH. 1 2 P. M. A. M. 5.30 Charleston 11.05 7.05 Pregu&U'* 9.50 9 20 Sumter 7.35 10.15 Lamar 6.35 10.30 Syracuse 0-20 10.45 Darlington 6.05 1101 Mont Clare 5.50 11.11 Robin'* Neck 5.39 11.26 Maiuleville 5.24 11.40 BennetUville 5.10 P. M. A. M. AM trains dally except Sunday. J. H. AVER1LL, General Manager. AN & D. and C. & S. RAILROADS. ^ J. In effect May 31, 1892. ls>ave Wadesboro . 4.40 a m Bennett's 5.01 a m M linen's McFarland .. 5 27 a m Cheraw 0.05 a m Cash's . 0.17 a u Society Hill . 0.32 am Dove’s Floyd's 0.58 a m Darlington 7.12 a m Palmetto Arrive Florence ... 7.37 a in Leave Florence .. 9.1)0 p m Palmetto . 9.13 p m Darlington 9.23 p m Floyd’s 9.33 p m Dove's . 9 10 p in Society Hill Cash's 10 00 p in .1015 p in Cheraw 10. 27 p in McFarland 11.04 p in Morven’s 11.16 p m Bennett's 11.04 p m Arrive Wadesboro 11.59 a m Freight Train. Iieave Florence .. 7.45 a in Arrive Darlington 8.30 a m I,eave Darlington Arrive Florence S.oo p m A. F. RAVEN EL, President. Attention Mechanics! All person* in need of babbitt metal can purchase it cheap at tu Dar lington Nrw* office. JunelVW—tt rolled on. 1 have devoted many years of my life In com* pounding a Pill, that will act readily and systematical ly as a Bilious Remedy. I do not believe in great purga tives, and therefore have made a Pill, one of which is an active and thorough dose. 1 have called it Haydock’s New Liver PilL T0*7 are the true grains and essence of health, and the greatest blessing that Science has given to the world. For Nervous Prostration, Weakness, General Lasai- lude. Want of Appetite and Sick Headache, Dr. Ra; - dock’s Now Liver Pills will be found an Effectual Remedy. Each vial contains Twenty Pills. Price Twenty-five Cents. For sale by all Druggists. ,,, Any sceptic can nave a vial of Pills SENT KIM FRED on receipt of bis name and address, for a trial. Send a postal card for copy of pamphlet*- THR LlV. WK ANDtrS MYSTERY.” It furnishes valuable in. formation to alL HAYDOCK it CO., NEW YORK. U. S. CAUTION!-Druggist* are desired to notfee that the same of J V HL Francis, sole a^ojk ls wrtUou aorees eaeh N ortheastern railroad. In effect May 31, 1892. SOUTH BOUND. No. 27. Leave Florence 1.35 a in King*tree..... Lane* 2-50 a m Arrive Charleston 6.00 a in No. 23. Leave Florence 8.05 a m Kiugstree 9.30 am l^uie* 9.55 a m Arrive Charleston .11.59 a m No. 53. Leave Lanes 8-45 p m Arrive Charleston 10.20 p m Train on C. & D. R. U. connects at Florence with No. 23 Train. NORTH BOUND. No. 78. Leave Charleston 1.30 a m Ijiues 3.25a m Kiugstree 8 48am Arrive Florence 4.45 a m No. 14. Leave Charleston 5.16 p m I>nne* 7.05 p m Kiugstree 7.24 p m Arrive Florence 8.30 p m No. 53. Leave Charleston 6.60 a m Arrive Lanes 8.27 am No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central It. It. of 8. C. Nos. 78 ami 14 run solid to Wilming ton, N. C., making close connection with W. & W. R. R. for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Oen. Supt. AWJILMINGTON, COLUMBIA * WJ AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect March 27, 1892. SOUTH BOUND. No. 23. Leave Wilmington 0.35 p m Marion 9.35 p m Arrive Florence 10.25 p m No. 5<>. Leave Florence 8.20 a m Sumter 4.35 a m Arrive Columbia « 15 a in No. 27. Leave Wilmington 10.10 p m Marion 12.40 a m Arrive Florence 1.20 a m No. 52. Leave Sumter 9.43 a m Arrive Columbia 10.55 a m No. 58. Leave Florence 7.57 a m Sumter 9 20 a m Aarrive Columbia No. 52 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8.32 a m. Manning 9 09 a m. Train on C. and D. Railroad con nects at Florence with No. 5". NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave Columbia 10.45 p m Sumter 12.04 a m Arrive Florence 1-15 a m No. 78. Leave Florence 5.00 a m Marion 5.44 a m Arrive Wilmington 8.55 am No. 59. Leave Columbia Sumter 7.30 p in Arrive Florence-— ii?-40 n m No. 53. Leave Columbia 6.00 p in Arrive Sumter 7.95 p m No- 14. Leave Florence 9.50 p in Marion 9.35 pm Arrive Wilmington 12.20 a in No. 53 runs through to charleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 8.00 p m, I-anes 8.40 p m, charleston 10.30 am. No. 59 connects at Florence with C. & D. train from cheraw and Wades- boro. Nos. 78 and 14 make close connec tion at Wilmington with W. & W. Railroad for ail points North. Trains on Florence Railroad leave Pee Dee daily except Sunday 8 35 a m, arrive Rowland 11.40 a m. Return ing leave Rowland 12.16 p m, arrive Pee Dee 4.00 p m. Trains on Manchester & Augusta Railroad leave Sumter daily except Sunday 10 50 a m, arrive Rimini 11 59 a m. Returning leave Rimini 12.30p. m, arrive Sumter 1.40 p. in. J. F. DIVINE. Oen Supt- Notice to Creditors. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Darlington. The South Carolina Loan and Trust Company, Trustee, vs. The Darling ton Light, Water and Power Com pany. Complaint for Foreclosure and Sale. Pursuant to the order of His Honor, Judge J. H. Hudson, of date A igust 11, 1892, in above stated case, all cred itors of the Darlington Light, Water and Power Company, are required to establish their claims before the un dersigned on or before the 15th day of September, A Receiver, D. L-, W. * P- Co. Aug 1&-3L