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cr*fy. mere azuien oeiwwn tUH two ;{reat nmity and fhendKnnax »ud in *mii» iiiHtaiMtw. where the tie wm ot I<kik at and inn between employer and employed, a eort.of fend a) feoltnR which led the one to yield protection and cor dial liking, and the other an lulinirinR raapect and loyal, if laxy. service. It ia no uncommon thing even yet in the ninth to other: "I've But you must not cay in a tie, nee, oe- canae twaa Aunt Neelie that laid it She reid it when mamma told her that the gentleman had come that bought the land, yon know—grandpa'a land and father a. She cried when mamma told her, and aaid the Beverley* were pau per* and that mamma didn't care on* . bit and waa glad the land wa* gone, be- hear one man *ay of an can*e*he waan't a Beverley." kuowed him all my life, j -she Is a Beverley," asserted Hector; My father was hi* father's overseer'way “and Cm going to have the land hack buck in siaiery times. They are right | when 1 get to be a man. I'm going to down clever people, his folks are; we work hard and make a lot of money, and !!!“ ‘! " , " {h . ty ask the gentleman to let me have it tUT buck; and I know he will, because he won't love it like we da He's just a CHAPTER HI. •• nn George! If th(it'n Mury," he muttered. The road led through a stretch of woods, crossed a shallow creek and gradually ascended to the snnnnit of the long, low hill where it branched, one fork leading back into the country, where it merged into the broad country road and the other diverging to the left and following the crest of the elevation to the old Beverley homestead. Into this Anthony turned, following it even in the dusk with the assured step of a man to whom the way is familiar. After a little he peered about him for a small gate which he remembered used formerly to admit pedestrians to the orchard through which a path gave a short cut to the house. It was still there, and as he raised the latch with one hand he lifted the whole gate slightly with the other; it had always sagged a little and been hard to open; it sagged still. The orchard was on ground a trifle higher than the house, which stood on a small plateau in the side of the hill. In front, next the river, the hill sloped, giving to the yard on that side a deep undulation, while at the back it was al most level until it gained the trifling rise of the orchard ground. The old trees in straggling, unkempt rows came down to the yard fence, and to a person stand ing under them the slight elevation gave a good view of the premises. The fog. dense in the low grounds, was scarcely perceptible here, and the moon had risen. With the coming on of night it had grown colder. The air waa sharp, and by morning there would be frost. From his station under one of the leafless trees Anthony could see very well in the moonlight. The bouse, an ample old brick structure, stood in a grove of oaks and locusts, and the moon cast the interlacing shadows of their bare branches in fantastic tracery over the time stained walls. At the south ern end a thick mantle of English ivy concealed the old imported bricks. On one side of the big back yard were the offices, the carriage house, stables, smokehouses, houses of the indoor do mestics and other necessary outbuild ings. On the other side was the old fashioned garden; from where he stood Anthony could see the tall, (plaint box trees and the long, fonual borders. How familiar it all looked in the moonlight! In that old garden he remembered he had once killed a rattlesnake live feet long with thirteen rattles. He had carried it to the hack porch, dangling across the stick with which he had slain it, to show it to little Mary Beverley. All the family had come out to see it and wonder over its size and rejoice in its death, and old Mr. Beverley had cut off the rattles with his penknife, and saying that the lx>y must have a dime for every rattle and two for the button had dropped three bright half dollars in l>is hand, and Mrs. Beverley had smiled on him and called him a “brave boy," and little Mary had danced about, full of excitement and pleasure in his prow ess, but dared on no account come very near, for fear that it might still harm her, although its head had tieon crushed. Anthony laughed a little when he thought of his pleasure in that first money he had ever owned, and of hi- pride in his own achievement. He had done far lugger things than kill a rattle snake since, and for every cent of the sum that had looked so large then he could now have laid down many thou sands. Time had brought changes to him. if not to his old surroundings, but it had never brought anything that seemed as good as little Mary's praise and those first three half dollars. “I wonder if she’s living still," he muttered, “or whether she's married and gone away. 1 came near asking that lawyer fellow this morning, bnt he's new to the place, and somehow I didn't like to. I've always been a fool about that child; it's the only soft spot in me. Lord! if she should be dead' I’d rather that, though, than the other thing—a damned sight rather." From the window of the room which he remembered was the parlor streamed a broad glare of light, making on the ground beneath a facsimile of the case ment, the divisions between the pane* checking off the light into squares with slender crossbars of shadow. Hampered by no nice discriminations, Anthony opened the gate and crossed the yard to the lighted window, keeping in the shadow as much as possible and treading as softly as a savage. No fear of dog* distorted his mind, since if there ha i teen any they most have discovered him ere this. The house wa* low, the win dowsills of the first floor scarcely the height of a man's breaat from the ground. The curtains of thin lace obscured with out concealing the interior, and through their parting Anthony could obtain satisfactory view without pressing hi* face against the glass. The room, cheerful with the light of the shaded lamp and the glowing wood fire, had a qnaint picturesque charm which appealed even to the unimagina tive nature of the man outside. It was different from any room to which he bad ever teen accustomed—as far removed from the gorgeous pomp of his later ex perience as It was from the rude sim plicity of his boyhood and early man hood. It was a room that had grown old in the keeping of one race; it wa* tender, hannonions, fnll of associations. The lofty ceiling, the tall mantel, nnder whose narrow shelf a man of ordinary statnre could stand upright, the wain* sooted walls and the old fashioned fur niture, all told the story of contentment and conservatism, of respect for associ ation* and obedience to traditions. Even the active man .f the present felt the subtile charm of the past, as he gazed into the old room and let his eyes wander from the antlers above the door to the family portraits on the walls. The light touched the faded gilding of their frame* and made a faint golden eUmnwr here and there against the dark- was generally mutual: and that the “overseer" class of the sonth remained so long, and remain still in a great measure, in a lower position is dne partly to their own willingness, partly to th# habit of subordination. Across the ravine from the Beverley mansion, beyond a little stretch of woods, stood a settlement of cabins which had formerly been occupied by slaves belonging to the estate. Borne of the houses had fallen into partial or to tal rain, bnt a few were still inhabited, as Wiis shown by the curling smoke as cending from their chimneys. Above them, nearer the crest of the hill, stood the overseer's house—a neat building of hewn logs with a rough porch in front, and still in a good state of preservation. It had teen occupied by a family of white tenants at the time when this por tion of the Beverley plantation passed into other hands; but the lawyer, in obedience to instructions received from the new proprietor, had moved them out and had the bouse done up a little Not that Ned Anthony cherished any sentiment connected with the honse in which he had teen bora: on the con trary. he considered it emphatically "a dog hole;" but he was a practical fellow and well used to roughing- it, and thought that the “old shanty" would do ness ,»t tnj wainscot, tie anew tuem all, those pictured men and women—the founder ot the Virginia branch of the family, in a curly wig and lace raffles the statesmen, soldiers, men and women of repute who were little Mary's grandfa thers and grandmothers and greatnnrle* and greataunts. When he was an unkempt lad ip homespun and used to steal over from the overseer's house across the ravine to play with the dainty little daughter of the Beverleys, she used to tell him stories about them, for she was an eai nest child, older than her years. He had forgotten all the stories and had never cared ranch about them, hut he had never forgotten the narrator. There were changes in the room which his eye was quick to note—slight change*, such as grow into most rooms with the passing of the years. A soft red cover with an arabesque border covered the old piano on which Miss Cornelia Bev erley, the elderly young lady of the house used formerly to practice scales and tinkling, threadbare old tunes—Miss Cor nelia, whom his boyish soul had al>- horred because she treated him exact!c as she did the little negroes, with im periousness and condescension, and if i ,, , . .. . , ,, , ' . ; well enough to live in for a month or so aitterences arose preferred even them , , , , , , a,,.,,,. . • u 1 . while he should run up a decent house, before him. He wondered what had U , ,. , . . i that is, if he should decide to make any j sojourn in Virginia Anthony stood in one of the rooms j whistling softly and looking about him one morning about a week after the night on which he had renewed his ac- He wondered what had 1* come of her, and whether she w:is dead, and rather hoped that she was. Against the wail, in the recess by the fireplace, underneath the portrait of the i Revolutionary soldier, five modern! te^Tto. f “ te, * ed f int0 . a ^ of fltar i quaintnnoe (as he thought) with his old te ween the points of which hung five Uow t) the K 1)Itr , ((r window riZ S < T' • f 7 s “ ' : Tte next day he had gone down to Rich- . r V, n ' ere ^ aIK 18 mond to ordef some things he needed for ’ . ' n "' rt * er an an his temporary establishment and to talk ijiere had been ten years at i *. * * t . ... , I,„1„ u...... si. to a Contractor about putting tip a house for him in case he shonld decide to "stop sons, dolph. least tetween little Mary and her young est brother, he remembered. Within the first few years of his absence had come the civil war. and he knew that Mr. Beverley and thioe of his sons had laid down thoir lives for Virginia. He knew also that, since the ending of the strife, Hector Beverley had married and died, leaving behind him some children and a widow. The center of the picture of which the old room formed the background was a woman sitting by the hearth rug read- on the ranch" for a year or so He was not a man that ever let the grass grow under his feet. Standing in the middle of the old room, the past got hold of him some how and pushed its way through the hard crust of the outer man to the sanc tuary which even the roughest of us keep somewhere about our anatomy for the refnge of a few tender associations— our youth, our homes and mother*, the girl, [lerhaiis. whose eyes gave nsonr first ing. Anthony had teen conscious of her ! heartache presence from the first, although an awk- old Mrs. Anthony had not teen in any ward shyness had prevented him from way a show figure. She was tall and looking squarely at her. and sent hu eyes spare of limb, and slow of speech and roving about the familiar objects of her gait, her eyes were sad. ami her thin surroundings. His bold, assertive nature Hallow face had rather a monrnf il ex- chafed under the unaccustomed re straint. and be shook himself and squared his strong shoulders as though ridding himself of a visible oppression. If this was little Mary—and lie hoped it was —he would take a long look at her and discover into what manner of wom an she had developed. The lady was sitting by a small table with her profile toward the window bnt partially concealed by the shadow of her wrist, for her head rested on her hand and her elbow was on the table Her figure waa full and womanly, her dress plain and well fitting, and her gen eral apiiearance indicated height. Her book lay upon the table within the circle of the lamplight, and she tent over it in an attitude of deep absorption There was something grand and gracious about her that impressed itself on An thony and made tiie wish in ins heart grow stronger. 'By George! if that's Mary." he runt tered, pressing his face to the glass •she'd stand to a fellow as steady and true as she used to do in the old days when every damned nigger in the yard used to laugh at her for playing with the overseer's brat, and Miss Cornelia used to twit her Wit li her taste for low com pany Mary didn't care a continental for any of 'em She was stout of heart and straight of grain for a little kid God bless tier!’' Now that he was here, he was fain to admit to himself that this was what he had come for; that as all the romance and teanty of his bare, prosaic boy tnxsl had been gathered around Mary Beverley the child, so, when a scarcely understood yet keenly felt yeartiingafter romance and beauty cropped up amid the sterility of Ins bare prosaic man hood, that strange conservatism, that mysterious clinging to tilings of associ ation which is inherent in Virginians of all grade* had brought him back to the vicinity of Mary Beverley the woman to *eek its fruition. And yet, so complex are human moods so subject to the ebb and flow of im pulse, passion or presentiment, when Ned Anthony turned away at last from the window and retraced his steps across the yard his face was clouded and hi* eye* dark and moody under their heavy lids His gloom deepened as he let the orchard gate slam shut behind him. and aa he walked away beneath the old moss covered apple trees it culminated and found expression in one short sentence ‘You fool!" he muttered, aiiortropliiz tng himself, “you blamed, infernal fool' What did yon come hack fort What do yon suppose you're going to make by it? Why couldn't you rest satisfied out yon der and agree to let the old days got" CHAPTER “Ke* have another a untT" he auerted rather than guest toned. The -overseer" class of the sonth in antebellum days constituted as distinct a grade us can be found in aay country where birth, not wealth, is the etandard of respectability From the higher class f —their employere—they were removed by ignorance and poverty: from the Invar—their charges—by race instinct. There was no antagonism tetween the Inhabitants of the large house where the proprietor lived and the inhabitants of the small boose in which dwelt his prime minister, such as appear* to exist be tween the rich and poor of other sections. Nor was there any effort on the part of the upper clase to keep the lower down or to binder members of it from acquir or property. Qnlhnoco- stranger, you know. Ran, so he won't care for it. and will like the money tet ter." “That will te Jolly," said Ram TU help." The listener inside smiled to himself. Prosperity had departed from the old family, and they felt the change: he had thought they would, when he saw the land advertised. He had not bought it 1 himself to gloat over their downfall and | his own uprising. He scarcely knew yet I why he had bought it. Perhaps he was j a little influenced by the feeling that the to have before we were bo>n. There was a little Mary once that wasn't our sister. She must have teen our aunt, you know, Hcc: although it seems funny, don't it? She was grandpa's baby long ago, and she's over there with the rest." He pointed as he spoke toward a ■pot back of the home buildings, where a group of cedars were outlined darkly against the clear blue sky. Anthony felt as though some one had struck him in the face. He knew that those trees stood in the family burying ground. Things looked black around him for a moment and the dream of years shriveled slowly, like a morning glory when the day grows old. The children watched him as he slowly cat into the bit of wood he had picked ap from the path. They were not surprised at his knowledge of their family matters. Their world waa small a* yet, but it was the world, and with its concerns and history of course all men were familiar A lady came out of one of the cabins with a little willow basket in her hand Behind her hobbled an old negro man who wa* talking to her volubly, chuck ling to himself and seemjug very well pleased aliout liim*clf. Anthony watched his Orandisouian bow and the sweep he gave to hi* old ragged hat as he stepped Desirabls lot for Sale. WE off-T for sale the lot of the late Mrs. A. A. Baker it, the Town of Dar llngton. Ap 81-tf PAUL WHIPPLE, J. GI EGG McCALL, J. K. NETTLKH, Executors. LAW ( »H * PETER BOWIES D OES flrst-clas* House and Sign Painting; Krlsomiue Work a specialty. In addition to i ty other work, I am now prepared to do PAPER HANOI NO, etc. land had tetter be in his hands than in those of strangers; perhaps it was only a forward to open the gate for her. She passing whim, but anyhow he had wag ml] Hn ,i gtatelv, but no longer in bought it, and, while he knew perfectly j b er first youth, Anthony could see, a* well that it was a poor investment for , she lingered to give a last word ordirec his money, he was not sorry that he had ti on preasion She wore rough clothes and a kerchief folded cornerwise over her grizzled hair, and smoked a coracoh pipe in the intervals of her labors; bnt she wa* a good woman, a faithful, dutiful wife and a devoted and self sacrificing mother, kind and gentle and patient and indulgent to her offspring, as women of her class usually are Her son—her youngest horn—hail loved her, and it was of her alone he was thinking as he stood by the hearthstone and looked at the Comer where her spinning wheel and her old *plit bottomed rocking chair used to stand Poor old mother! if she could see him now, standing there wealthy educated well dressed, hon ored among men and owner of the old plantation on which, they had lived a# servant*! Of the satnmine, long haired father and the five lank, slab-sided brothers, the problem of whose useless existence it had taken a civil war to solve, he thought little He had not cared for them greatly and it was no distress to him to know that they were dead But his mother was different She had lieen the one tinman creature he had loved un selfishly—besides little Mary Beverley He was thinking of her. of his grief at her death, his indignation when within the year his father had brought home another m her place, his hatred of hi* stepmother, which had resulted in hi* running away from borne to seek hi* fortune, and all the old time matter* when he wa* aroused by bearing a voice outside It was a clear, full voice, soft ly modulated and its intonation wa* very pleasant—unmistakably the voice of a lady “Stay here laddies," she was saying •and play until I get through talking to the old people, and then we 11 walk over to Judge Wilmer'a for some apples. I can't let you come, indeed, Ran. The last time 1 took you to the cabin you up set Aunt Kitty's churn and wasted all the poor old woman's buttermilk on the floor Yes. my child, 1 know it waa an accident, but such accidents are al way* happening to you. Yon are a very un lucky and heedless little boy, and to take you visiting is simply to invite calamity. Stay here, and he good chil dren I won't te long." Anthony drew pear the window, and in a moment had the satisfaction of see ing a tall, graceful woman, with a little willow basket in her hand, pass and en ter the farthest of the group of cabins Meanwhile the hoys, two in number, and aged respectively five and seven years, had taken possession of the [Kirch and were climbing on the railings. They were large, straight limbed children, and the smaller had a crop of chestnut cnrls that fell almost to his waist As they jumped about they laughed and chat tered. The door was a trifle ajar, and Anthony could hear every word. “Aunt Neelie didn't want mamma to put any coffee in her basket." remarked the smaller child; “she said mamma oughtn't to give the servants things, 'cause maybe we'd want ’em ourselves. That's mean, ain’t it Hector? We've got a whole bucket of coffee in onr store room and poor old Aunt Kitty hasn't any in her cupboard. She asked mamma to save her the grounds; I beard her that day 1 knocked the churn over." "Aunt Neelie's such a bunks! 1 hate her I" resiKinded Hector. “She's alway fussing about something. Other folks want coffee too, just as well as she does, 1 reckon. Mamma don’t listen to her, one good thing, and gives the old folks things all the time. White people al ways give to black people; Annt Neelie ought to know that If they didn't, who would?" Bnt this was much too difficult a ques tion for little Ran to settle; he avoided it, therefore, and introduced another topic. “Hec, what is panpersr "Folks that haven't any money, nor any place to live, nor things to eat, nor clothes to wear," defined Hector com prehensively. “Then we ain’t that 1 thought weren't, because we’ve got land and a house, and lots of things. And you've got a calf, and I've got ten cents, and a gander, and a little pig. and a Bjicckled pnllet, and”—growing wear) with enumeration of hi* wealth—"and, oh, yea! a drake with a wen under his chin." “Who said we were paupers?" fired Hector. “It’s a lie!” "So tie," sctjuieeced Ran pleaaantly, “if not haring.thing* U beiag ugW*.! done so. These boys were Hector Bev erley's sou* of course; indeed, their names. Hector and Randolph, made that fact patent He wondered if there were any more children. "Aunt Neelie" must te his fonuer object of detestation —Miss Cornelia, lie recognized her at once. The little boys were sitting on the sL'i>* Hector had a straight pine to bacco stick in his hands, and was split ting it with his knife into long slender I splinters to make a bird trap Ran was watching him with interest Anthony, looking out at them, remembered many a time when be had sat there splitting tobacco sticks for the same purpose. Hector took up the discourse. "Ran!" he said, and paused to wrestle with a knot. "What?" “Mamina says we must not talk about Aunt Neelie. 1 asked her what made Aunt Neelie so nasty one day, and she said when I got old. and had lots of trouble and a pain in my hack 'most all the time, I wouldn’t like folks to call me nasty, and I reckon I wouldn't neither She tells ns bnlly stories some times. too. and then I almost like her. Maybe when she gets to heaven, where her hack can't ache, and the coffee won't ever te burned and the rolls won’t ever te sour, she'll te real pleasant.” Ran pushed back his hat with his hand until the brim rested on the mass of cnrls on his shoulders, and regarded his brother steadfastly, an expression of dismay on his face that was comical. Evidently the future held possibilities for which he was unprepared. "Is Annt Neelie going to heaven?" he demanded abruptly. “Of course she is,” responded Hector. '•There ain’t any other place for her to go. She's old, and she’s a woman. Yon couldn’t say a woman was going to hell, could yon? I’d like to know what sort of manners you'd call that. Of course she's going to heaven." With this triumphant settlement of the difficulties of the future state on the plain principles of life laid down for him here below by his very old fashioned mother, Hector returned to his whittling. Ran pondered! “Hec," tie said, "l reckon she will go in a good way ahead of ns. and she's sure not to like it down by the gate, because she’ll think some body else has got a tetter place. I tell you what we'll do; we'll squat down right by the middle walk, behind the box hushes, and wait till we hear some of the angels talking alsmt her and say ing where’s she's gone, and then we'U clip the other way and hunt for father." "That ain't a good way," objected Hector; “you're snre to meet her walk ing around, anyhow; so there isn’t any use of dodging. You can’t stay in one place fifty hnndred millions of years without seeing all the people." "Can't l?" despondently; then, with more hopefulness, "1 can everlastingly toddle. Hoc, and Aunt Neelie walks so slow. When I see her coming toward me. you just watch out sharp, and you’ll see one little angel hustle." Hector laughed, and the listener had much ado to keep from joining. There wa* another skeleton over in the old gray house besides straitened means. In his blunt, straightforward way he was beginning to be sorry for Mary Bev erley, and to feel, as he would have ex pressed it, that life "wasn't toting fair with her." With his habitual quick movements and light, almost stealthy step, he passed into the inner room and out at the back of the house. After a moment he came around and seated himself on the steps beside the boys and made overtures of friendship. They were friendly little fellows, neither shy nor pushing, and the trio got on well together. Indeed, when they discovered that ho knew all about making bird traps, ami had a knife with six blades in it, besides a corkscrew and a pair of scissors, and conld imitate wild birds and creatures, and—oh, bliss! —had seen live tears, the acquaintance showed signs of deepening into inti macy. After the talk had gone on some time and Anthony felt that his popularity justified it, he commenced plying them with questions. How many children were there in all? Who took care of them and the like? Only them, the Children said: they had had a little sis- “Who’s that?" he asked abruptly, al most harshly. She was walking toward them now. and Ran wa* racing down the path to meet her. Hector, who had started like wise, looked back over his shoulder. “It's my mother," he said, and then ran on. [continued. ] Ijr He solicits Darlington. the patronage of For !>ale. 7 p:/")/■) hard pine Ullage shingles, > ** vz at a v jrv lowpriee. J. H. EARLY. THE WHITE DEER ! See the beautiful a ilmal at J. H. JAMES’ when you come to town. SepSA—tf. There’s Nothing Cheap About It. Dr. Drummond’s Lightning Remedy for heumatism put up in large bottles, and the price is five dollars a bottle. It cu-os every time. All the cheap rem edies put together are not worth one bottle of Dr. Drummond’s Lightning Remedy, and any sufferer will bear witness to that fact, and any druggist who has sold it is ready and willing to offer evidence. One bottle will cure any ordinary case, and the money will he returned if it fails. Sent to any address prepaid on receipt of price Drummond Medicine Co., 48-5 ' Maiden Lane, New York. Agents wanted. Jonesey—So you are thinking of getting married ? Brine—Yes. Jonesey^-Wheu is it going to occur ? Brine—To-morrow. Jonesey—Great Scott! To morrow ? And you say you’re only thinking about it? Brine—That’s what I say. You didn’t suppose a man only one day off from his wedding day wouldn’t he thinking about it, did you T—Exchange. Answer This Question. Why do so many people we see around us seem to prefer to suffer and he made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Comit g up of the Food, Yellow Skin, when for 75c. we will sell them Shiloh’s Vitalizer, guar anteed to cure them. Sold by Dr. J. A. Boyd. He (irritably)—What sort of a supper are we going to have to night—good or had ? She—Both. Deviled ham and angel cake.— Truth. —- — Shiloh's Consumption Cure. This is beyond question the most successful Cough Medi cine we have ever sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst cases of Cough, Croup and Bron chitis, while its wonderful sue cess in the cure of Consumption is without a parallel in the his tory of medicine. Since its first discovery it has been sold on a guarantee, a test which noother medicine can stand. If you have a cough we earnestly ask you to try it. Price 10c., 50c. and $1. If your lungs are sore, chest, or hack lame,useShiloh’s Porous Plaster. Sold by Dr. J. A. Boyd TOBACCO SEED FREE. —AN 3— All About Growing Tobacco. It yts mat t* try tliU Monty Miking Crtg, •rlts it— SOUTHERN TOBACCO JOURNAL, Wlnitan. N. C. W- F. DARGAN, Attorney at Law, Darlington, - - - S. C- Office over Welling & Bonoit’s | R. W. BOYD. GKO. W. BROWN BOYD <L BROWN- attorney* and Counselor* at Law Office in brick building south of the Bank of Darlington. DARLING TOS C. D., & 0. PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS. ; a. W. IIA ROAN. H. T. THOMPSON. , DARGAN & THOMPSON, Attorney* at Law, 1 Office, Hewitt building (up stairs) north side of the Public j Square. DarllntHon, S. C ■ t. ii. srm Attorney Lt I aw, DARLINGTON, C. ('■ ' Will practice In Circuit Court* and Supreme Court of South Carolina- Prompt attention );iveu to all bus!- ness, and special attention given col lections. Misses A. & J, Fountain, Desire to announce to their friends and customers that they have just opened their stock of M ni Visl’! llitiry! Which they have selected with their usual care, with a view to securing the very Latest Styles in that department. IWA continuation of their past patronage is solicit ?d, and no effort will be spared to pi ‘a»e their custom er*. Sep 22—3m J- J. WARD. K, O. WOODS. WARD & WOODS. Attorney* ft Counselors at Law, DARLINGTON, S. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Special attention paid to all matter* 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 have control of some of the most de sirable property in the town and county. J. K. NKTTLKS. C. 8. NBTTLKS. Nettles & Nettles, Attorney* ft Counselors at Law, IlHrliiiKlon O. II., Si. Will practice in all the State and Fed eral Courts. Prompt personal at tention given to the collection of Claims. To the Public: w HEN you aie in the city don't fail to call at the Enterprise Hole. Barber Shop It is the only firs*-class *hop In the city. Fashionable hair cuts, first- class shaves and the “I am not worthy of you, Maude. I am not all I should be. I have not made the most of my opportunities. But I love you. Will you he mine ?” “Acting upon your advice, my dear George,” returned the fair young girl, “I am constrain ed to say no. 1 must have a man who is worthy of mo.”— Harper's Bazaar. SHILOH’S CATARRF REM EDY. A marvelous cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria, Canker ter, named Mary, but she had gone to mol j t h, and Headache. With ! each bottle there is an ingenious nasal Injector for the more sue- M Mia Egg Ship. Four polite Barbi rs always on hand to wait on you. Nizon k Harllee, Proprietors. I’n Icr Enterprise Hotel, South •'de Public Square. Gibi & Wood: P. Bishop Parrott, Stenographer and Typewriter, HTGffice with Ward & Wood* ^*1 LEGAL AND OTHER COPYING SOLICITED. Testimony reported in short hand and type-written transcript of same furnished at reasonable rates. Good Spelling, Correct Punctuation and Neat Work Guaranteed. Jan. 8-lvr. i lor ertreii aaked, aa tboiiaam aeainr. *500. *4.00 *3.50 — FIRE - Insurance Agents, Represent some if the strongest I companies in the world, such as THE HOME of New York, and THE H \RTFORD of; Hartford, Con i. :o: General Agents for THE MUTUAL LIFE Insuhance Company Of New York, For the Counties of Darlington, Sumter and Marion. 00 *2.50 *2.00 FOR LADIES *2.00 11.75 ron boy* ♦ 1.75 Prompt personal given to all business to them. June 9—lyr attention entrusted heaven. She had been older than Hec tor. Their mother took care of them. Who else should? “They had an annt," Anthony sug gested. y They admitted that;they had, but she was old; she could not take care of any body. She needed people to take care of her, to wait on her and fetch her things “I don't mean the old lady," said their new friend brusquely. “You've got a young aunt—a girl named like yonr lit tle sister." Anthony conld never re member that Mary, if living, was only t couple of years younger than himself, the word ‘yes’ ten “The idea of my wanting to know any- wish, thing about Miss Neelie! She's an old tartar, ain’t she?" Now, The children, while ready to dis cuss their relative tetween themselves and to pass judgment upon her freely, were quite well aware of what was proper and becoming in the matter. cessful treatment of these com- pllints without extra charge. Price 50c. Sold by Dr. J. A. Boyd. —- •' 1 — — — Young Lady—How much ? Telegraph Operator—Twenty- five cents. “For that one word ‘yes’ ?” “Yes’m. Same price for ten words or less. You can repeat j times, if you BANK OF DABLINGTON, DARLING TON, S. C., Capital, — — *100,000 Surplus and Undivi ded Profits, — $4. r >,973.80 DIRECTORS: W.C. Coker, J. L Coker, K. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward. E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman, Bright Wdliamson. Transacts a General Banking Busiress. H artsville railroad. In effect Oct. 2, 1893. DAILY MIXED TRAIN Cheap Wrapping Paper. Old newspaper*, answering exceed ingly well for the purpose of wrapping paper, for sale at Thk DARLINaTON Nk ws office at 20 cents a hundred, IT IS A DUTY T»o owe vooroelf ond Com* 111 lo *el the beat value for rour monry. Kc«uoml7.e in your foot wear by purchasing W. L. Deuglan Mhorn, which represent tfcje Leave Hartsville 5.55 a'm Jovann Darlington Palmetto 9.25 a m Arrive Florence 9.50 a m Leave Florence Palmetto 2.15 p la Darlington 2.35 p m Floyd'* 3.25 p in Jovann 3.45 p ta Arrrive Hartsville 4.05 p m J. F. DIVINE, Gen. Supt. PHARLKSTON, SUMTER AND ^ NORTHERN RAILROAD 'CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver. In Effect Oct. 2 1892 NORTH. SOUTH. 1 2 A M. A. M. 6.50 Charleston 10.30 8.00 PregnalT* .905 10 15 Sumter 6.54 11.(Hi la mar 6.58 11.20 Syracuse 544 11.34 Darlington 5.30 11.49 Mont Clare 5 15 12.00 Rotiin’sNeck 5.05 12.15 Maudeville 4.50 12.30 Beunettsville 4.35 1.00 Gibson 4.05 P. M. P. M. Close connection is made at Gibson for all iMiints reached by or via the Seatioard Air Line System ; at Ben- nettsville for all itoints via C. F. & Y. V. R R. J. H. AVER1LL, General Manager. gN A D. and C. A S. RAILROADS In effect Oct. 2, 1892. Leave Wadeshoro Bennett’s McFarland 5 27 a m Cheraw . ... 6.05 a m Clash's Society Hill 6.32 a m Dove's Floyd’s Darlington Palmetto Arrive Florence Leave Florence Palmetto 9.13 p m Darlington Floyd's Dove's Society Hill Cash's Cheraw McFarland Morven’s Bennett's Arrive Wadeshoro 11.59 a m Freight Train. Leave Florence 7.45 a m Arrive Darlington Leave Darlington Arrive Florence W. L. DOUGLAS 83 SHOE CEN-fLyVlEN, THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOH THE MONET. OTHER HPECIAliTIEH In footwear an of the same high grade, an4 represent a money value far beyond the prices charged. Hee that name and price are stamped on bottom of each shoe. ^ TAKE NO HITBMTITrTB* XV, Ij. Douglas* Brockton* Mass. Bold b? For Sale by A. J, Broom, Darlington S. C, N A. F. RAVEN EL, President. ORTH EASTERN RAILR )AI). In effect Oct. 2. 1892. SOUTH BOUND. No. 27. Leave Florence . 1.15 a in Kings! rec 2.32 H|in Lanes 2.50 a in Arrive Charleston 6.00 a m No 88. I^ave Florence . 8.05 a m Kingstree 9.80 a in Lanes it.55 a m Arrive Charleston .11.59 a m No. 53. Ia>ave Lanes 8.45 p m Arrive Charleston 10.20 p in Train on C. A D. R. It. connects at Florence with No. 23 Train. NORTH BOUND. No. 78. la^ave Charleston .. 1.00 am Lanes 3.25 a m Kingstree 8 43 a m Arrive Florence 4.45 a m No. 14. Leave Charleston 5.16 p m Lanes 7.05 p m Kingstree 7.24 p m Arrive Florence 8.30 p m No. 52. Leave Charle*ton 0.50 a m Arrive Lanes No. 52 runs through to via Central R. R. of S. C. Columbia Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to M ilming- ton, N.C., making close with W. A W. R. U. for North. connection all point* J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. \\ ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AUGUSTA RALKOAD. In effect October2 1892. * SOUTH BOUND. No. 23. Leave Wilmington ‘i-2. r ) p m Marion !> 35 p m Arrive Florence 10.25 p m ( SUGAR COATED) il Haydock’s New Liver Pills. A wonderful and extraordinary combination of concern. « ated medicine. 1 ho \ ictorlee of Keience^Btectne jlecraphs, Steam and Printing—revolothmised the whole system of tbo globe, and made mankind wiser end better. So, although there are coanUeoa I ilia need fer disease, and claiming much aa to their merit, the re- m ark able dineorery of I)r. Haydock Luui eclipaed them all, and haa founded a NEW MEDICAL SYSTEM. Um—n-o; that wouldn’t look | well. It’s an answer to a pro-1 posal of marriage Advertiser. Savings Department, Deposits of *1 and upwards It Should Be in J. B. Wilson, will They would comment and criticize,,., , p themselves, bnt nortranger should take ''fG' ! F’ . .! J.. , „ the liberty Hector drew himself away : be without Dr. king s kew a little ami remarked. In a reserved tone. Discovery for Consumption, that Annt Neelie was an old lady, and , houghs and Colds, that it cured had teen ill and had trouble; she must |‘ te treated with consideration. Portland received. _ Interest allowed at rate of 6 Every House. ^ P*^ cent ' P er » n n um from date g t ]of deposit—payable quarterly 371 Clay he on the first day of January, April, July and October. Anthony did not know that the child rendering verbatim hi* mother'* daily precept to himself, nor did he at all realize that he shonld not havs put the question. He was amused at the boy’s change of manner, but he was a little annoyed too. “You have another aunt?" he asserted, rather than questioned, a second time. “No," said Hector; “we haven't.” But Ran waa a child who liked exact- his wife who was threatened ! with Pneumonia after an at- jtack of “La Grippe,” when var ious other remedies and several i *vV»xrcjir*»ov*cj r»or* f* /“vty c rx xa*» vx e~\ rv/’v/x/i i stab V *? s\y *XAi a* ■ * aav*>v* v%*-r*Aw * * ' ' V, . Robert Barber, of Cooksport, I Pa., claims Dr. King's New Dis-! j covery has done him more good ! than anything he ever used for! Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. For further information ply at the Bank. ap- Accounts in both Depart ments solicited and win be given careful attention. The Doctor*, who«o vaet doses of four or five pllls.en- fcoble the etomAch and paralyse the bowels, mast give way to the man who restores health and appetite with one o* *wo ot hU ci»raydlnary VmjgUhle Wlw. « two Oi DR. HAYDOCK’S NEW LIVER PILLS euffioea to place the atom*oh in perfect order, creates an apoe* —a—spirit light and buoyant. If the functions are restored, and if the B te, and renders the t ivor 1* affected its functions are reeto Jervooa System, is enfeebled, it ia invigoraSod and aus tained. SYMPTOMS OF BIUOUIHIM. 1 The patient complains of a fullnesa of the stomach. 1 Distension of Us bowela by wind. . A feeling of wariness, sleepiness after meala. i A bad taste in the mouth, and furred tongue. 4 Constipation, with an occasional diarrhoea. 1. Headache in front ef heed. 4 Depression of spirits and great Uaeitnde. All of the above symptoms go to show functional dorsngetneni of th* Liver: and now comae* he greet importance of any error made aa to the eondittoi of the patient. He should immediately provide himself with a i grert of the • iti.nt. He mould immealetelir pro.ld. himMlf wl»h e LIVKft STIMULANT, tbo maaconuapli term of wlu. (; U e Plfi. Dellr eiperieoce «how. thet thU,wh«« the Jill le oompoinded properly, Is the reediest mod* of loetttu ted promoting the ertioa of the Llrer.end c.d beelwegt rolled on. I here detoted men y yrtrt of my life inooro. puaadle, e Pill, thet wiQ set reedlly end iyitemetloellj us DUIoas Remedy I do not hoUere In'*rest purge, tires, sod thereltoreheee mede e Pin, one of which te eh hetlre sod theeoogh dose. 1 hire celled It Haydock’s New Liver Pill. The* ere the tree grelne ewd meewee of beelth, sod the .'cstest bleaalng tbat Science haa given to the world. § F^iV^Vlwratinn Weaknett, Oenernl I^a - ituU. Want of Appetite endSick Headache, gr. Ha* deck's New Ltver Fills eiU be found ^Each^vial contains Twenty Pills. Price Twenty-five SUNT HIM PRElt No. 5o. Leave Florence Sumter Arrive Columbia No. 27. lyeavelWilmington Marion 12.40 a m Arrive Florence 1.20 am No. 52. Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia 10.55 a m No. 58. Ijeave Florence Sumter Arrive Columbia No. 52 run* through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lane* 8-32 a m, Manning 9 09 a in. Train on C. and D. Railroad con nect* at Florence with No. 58. NORTH BOUND. • No. 51. Leave Columbia 10.45 p u Sumter 12.04 a m Arrive Florence 1.15 am No. 78. Leave Florence 5.00 a m Marion 5 44 a m Arrive Wilmington 8.55 a ra No. 59. Leave Columbia Sumter 7.30 p m Arrive Florence 8.40 p m No. 53. Leave Columbia 8.10 p in Arrive Sumter 7.30 p m No. 14. Leave Florence 8.50 p in Marion 9.35 p m Arrive Wilmington 12.20 a m No. 53 ran* through to cbarleiiton via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 8.00 p m. lanes 8.40 p ur, Charleston 10.30 a m. No. 59 connects at Florence with c. ft D. train from cheraw and Wades- boro. No*. 78 and 14 make close connec tion at Wilmington with T\ . & W. Railroad for all point* North. Trains on Florence Kailrond leave Pee Dee daily except Sundt y 8.85 a m, arrive Rowland 11.40 a m. Return ing leave Rowland 12.18 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 Kimim 12 30p. m, arrive Sumter 1.40 p. m. J. F. DIVINE. Gen Supt- GIN HOUSES! Willcox k store. “W. harent now.- he amended, “bnt Large bottles, 60c. and $1.00.