The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, January 12, 1893, Image 4
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HENRY T. THOMPSON,
WADOY THOMPSON,
Editors.
Thursday, Jan, 12, <893.
WILD AND FOOLISH.
Governor Tillman is quoted
as saying that “after the 1st day
of July next all bar rooms in
tue State will be closed at all
hazards he is also quoted as
giving expression to the view
that not even the Courts could
interfere with the enforcement
of the law. This is wild talk
f"om the Chief Executive of the
t tate and is very unbecoming
in one holding that high posi
tion. The very man who should
set an example to the people
talks of over-riding the Courts.
Such wild utterances from
our Governor are bearing fruit.
In every section his satellites
are following his example.
They are filling the public prints
' ith all sorts of bumcombe. In
tneir eagerness to follow their
worthy Governor, they rave,
tnd raving, they talk about
declaring martial law, besieging
cities with the militia and.
if the militia be not sufficient,
invoking the aid of federal
troops.
Of course all this talk is fool
i-sh in the extreme and its only
e ffect is to engender bad feeling
Tillman is to blame for it. Seat
ed in the Chief Magistrate's
chair he undertakes to dictat •
what the Courts, a branch of
thegoverumentco ordinate with
the executive, shall do: His
t hreats are eagerly accepted b>
his followers and .the further
the talk goes the more wild and
foolish it becomes.
The liquor dealers are citizens
of the State and as such they
l ave rights guaranteed them by
the Constitution. Their inter
osts must be protected from un
lawful injury and, if they be-
live the prohibition law is die
gal, they have the right as oiti
z ns to appeal to the Courts,
md, if the Courts declare the
law illegal, it cannot be enforc
ed. Opposition to this theory
< f government means tyranny.
The Governor and his party
i re again failing to practice
" hat they preach. They cry
</loud for “equal rights to ail,”
£"it they wish to over-ride the
Courts should the latter refuse
to disregard the fundamental
1 iw of the land. Their position
k;, legal or illegal, the law
against the liquor men’s inter
ests must be enforced
A ROAD CONVENTION.
The question of havingaState
road convention is being agi
tated considerably. The advo
cates of the convention hold that
a discussion of the road ques
tion at a representative conven
tion of the people might result
in a feasible plan for the better
ing of the condition of our roads.
North Carolina is to hold a road
convention shortly and it is this
that has given rise to the agita
tion of the question in South
Carolina. That we are sadly in
need of better roads goes with
out saying, but we doubt if there
is any question more difficult to
solve than how are we to get
them. This question has re
ceived the attention of states
men and public spirited citizens
since the inception of our gov
ernment, yet our roads are at
this day in a deplorable condi
tion.
We agree with the advocates
of the road convention that a
discussion of the question of
better roads may be productive
of good, but we are not prepar
ed to say that a convention
would help matters much. A
free and full discussion of the
subject through the newspapers
would be just as apt to prove
t he means of formulating a feas-
ible plan and, a plan once form
(d, the Legislature, the repre
sentative body of the people,
«ouid act upon it. This certain
iy would be a cheaper course,
and probably a better one, than
the holding of a State conven
tion.
A GOOD EXHIBIT.
Most every State in the Un
ion. except South Carolina, will
have its industries and resources
extensively exhibited at the
World’s Fair. The South Caro
lina Legislature thinks the
State is too poor to have a good
exhibit. A cheap exhibit has
therefore been suggested.
While it is considered very ap
propriate, it tiAS unfortunately
come too late for consideration
by the Legislature. In view of
the passage of the dispensary,
or prohibition law, it is suggest
ed that South Carolina send to
the World’s Fair as an exhibit
an immense barrel of whiskey,
with the great seal of the
State upon it. It will represent
South Carolina’s latest industry
and will show to the world a
State that has converted itself
into a dealer in liquors.
GENERAL NEWS.
Items o' Interest From All Over The
World.
The President has pardoned
all the Mormans who have
not been guilty of polygamy
since 1890.
At a fire in Liverpool on Fri
day a wall collapsed, killing
three firemen and wounding
several others.
An explosion of natural gas
in a printing office in Chicago
on Wednesday of last week in
jured seven persons, two fatal
•y-
Three persons were killed and
another seriously injured b>
trains in Cincinnati on Satur
day. The victims were at
temptin ; to cross the track.
Typhus fever has become ai
epidemic in New York. Tin
spread of the disease is said to
be chiefly due to the crowded
condition of tenement houses.
B. G. West, secretary of the
cotton bureau of the National
Farmers Alliance, has issued an
address to the members of the
order advising a reduction of
acreage in cotton.
The select committee of the
United States Senate on Wo
man’s Suffrage has presented a
majority report recommending
the extension of the right of
suffrage to women.
James and Will Nevins and
Jack Langdon,all cowboys, had
a triangular fight on horseback
with r fles and pistols in Indian
territory last week. Will Ne
vinsand Langdon were killed
and James Nevins was riddled
with bullets and cannot live.
The Czar of Russia has turn
ed over the administration of
all church affairs in his empire
to the authorities of the Greek
Church, the i ourt religion
This means the persecution of
all the inhabitants of Russia
who are members of other de
nominations.
The Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania has affirmed the decis
ion of the lower court in con
victing Thomas Matthews, of
Pittsburg, for publishing his
paper on Sunday. A law was
passed by that State in 1794, and
has never been repealed, pro
hibiting the publishing of news
papers on Sunday.
STATE NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges, and
Put in Paragraphs.
Governor Tillman is of the
opinion that Clemson College
will be ready for students in
June.
The Piedmont guano mills in
Charleston were destroyed by
fire on Friday. The loss is
$70,000.
Col. W. W. Holland, a promi
nent citizen of Anderson county,
died last week in the seventy
fourth year of his age.
An old lady, Mrs. Duncan, was
run over and killed by a train
at Duncan’s, in Spartanburg
county, a few days since
The News and Courier sta'es
editorially on Tuesday that it is
confident that Governor Tillman
will be able to refund the State
debt.
The question of holding a
State convention, for the pur
pose of discussing the ways and
means for getting better roads,
is being agitated.
Anderson was visited by a big
cotton fire on Thursday. Two
thousand bales of cotton were
burned and the loss is estimated
by some as high as $100,000.
Lawyers representing the
State and the railroads have
gone to Washington to attend
the trial of the famous railroad
tax cases of last year in the
United States Supreme Court.
A constable, named Trescott,
a white man, was killed while
trying to arrest a party of ne
groes at the Wando phosphate
works, near Charleston, on Fri
day. Another while constable,
named Cox, was wounded at the
same time.
Flora Fontaine, colored, died
in Columbia, ou Thursday, at
the remarkable age of 117 years.
She knew Columbia when it was
but a plantation settlement;
saw it first laid off as a village
and has watched its growth to
the present day.
The Central Club of South
Carolina, composed entirely of
ladies, which has done indefati
gable work to have the State
represented at the World’s Fair,
hasdisbanded. The Legislature
refused to appropriate any mon
ey for South Carolina’s exhib
it and the club felt that it could
not do the work alone.
UNITED AT THE LAST. A V ' CT,M OF A co **>**™ N - WHERE WOMEN REIGN
English gunpowder is composed of
seventy-five parts of saltpeter, ten of sul
phur and fifteen of carbon. Proportions
ore often slightly varied.
General William T. Sherman was fa
miliarly called “Uncle Billy" by his
soldiers, and also “Old Tecnmseh.”
Saxon ladies never appeared in public
without the hood, which covered the
hair and a large part of the face.
In a temple in India there is preserved
and worshiped a tooth claimed to have
once been in the jaw of Buddh.
PITIFUL TALE OF AN c ,MIGRANT
FAMILY THAT PERISHED.
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Tta* TerrlbU Bllssard of 1M1 H»4 for
Son* of IU Victims a Whole Family
Which Froso to Death In Dead Man’s
Coro—Heroin Efforts of a Mother.
“That’s Dead Man's cove right before
your eyes," said the old man as he point
ed to a recess of half an acre in extent
in the southern face of the Little Rocky
mountains. “That's Dead Man’s cove,
and you kin ace the iron work of the
wagon lyiu about when ye git closer.
When I first looked in here thar was
five human bodies lying dead in that
wagon. Me nn my pard we dng a big
grave and buried 'em all together back
agin that cliff, thar whar the rocks is.
We piled the rocks that way so the
wolves couldn’t git at the dead.”
“But there is no headboard — no
names," I protested as 1 rode closer to
the spot pointed oat.
"Couldn't be no names, ’cause we
couldn't find any,” he replied, "and them
rocks is a grarestnn as will last forever.
Well git off and sit down for a smoke,
and I'll gin ye the full particklers. I've
passed here a hundred times in the last
three years, and it alios gives me the
heartache. Poor husband—poor wife-
poor children 1
“It was this way,” he continned after
his pipe was alight. “Me and pard had
oar shanty down the valley about a
mile. Plenty of emigranta in the’r kiv-
ered wagons used to come by this trail
and turn south into Wyomin, or keep
west into Idaho. They’d come five or
six families at a time, and they’d come
singly. Some of 'em wonld take sich
chances of Injuns, sickness, landslides,
starvashun and death as would make
your ha'r stand on end to think of. No
man kin begin to guesa how many graves
thar be of men, women and children be
tween the Dakota line and the west
branch of the Missonri river. I've
counted a hundred in a day’s ride.
“Waal, one December mornin me and
pard woke up to feel that thar was a
blizzard makiu ready to bust on us. It
had been coohsh but pleasant up to that
time. We could tell by the feel of things
what was comin, and began to git ready
fur it. It was jest arter noon when a
woman walked into our shanty. She
was an emigrant. Right here in tbia
cove she had left her husband and fonr
children to try and find some help. He
had bin sick fur three weeks and was
little better than a dead man, and she
had bin drivin the team an takin keer of
things gener'Iy. She otter to hev turned
back long before, but some fool of a
doctor had told the man he'd get well if
they kept on.
“They had got separated from the
party they started with, and had made
the last hnndred miles alone. They
war out o’ grub, hadn’t a match left to
build a fire, and the woman knowed a
change fur tne wuss was blowin up.
She was a frail, leetle woman, and she
had gone through with nuff to down a
man, bat she hadn't lost all her pluck
yit As soon as she told ns the story we
got ready to go back with her an bring
in the outfit. We made a start, but we
never got thar."
“The blizzard prevented, eh?”
“She did. She came swoopin down all
of a sudden, like some great bird droppin
from the sky. A fine snow begun to
fall, the wind started right in to blow a
iivin gale, and 1 believe the thermom
eter went from 45 degs. above to 10 degs.
below inside of half an hour. We hadn't
any with us, but the change was sudden
an amazin. You couldn't face that gale
to save your life. It jest stopped us and
turned us around before ws had got fif
teen rods from the house. As to the
cold, it jest paralyzed you. We had to
go back, and arter takin a big drink o’
whisky all arcund and puttin on more
clothes we tried it agin.
“Me and Sam was as tongh as b'ars
them days and could hev laid down in a
pond of water and let it freeze np with
ns, bat we couldn't buck agin that bliz
zard. When we made the second start
we got about half way up here, the little
woman leadin the way all the time.
Then we had to stop. You couldn't see
three foot from your nose, and all of ns
was freezin to death by inches.”
“And you went back?”
“We did. The woman was deter
mined to push ou, and we jest had to
pick her up and carry her back. It was
only by tho Lord's hand piutin the way
that we ever reached our cabin agin.
We had onr ears, noses and fingers friz,
and an hoar arter we got back water
friz solid in our cabin within five foot
of a roarin fire. The woman prayed to
God and appealed to us, but we knowed
it was no nse. That was the blizzard of
1881, and I’ve heard men say it was 42
degs. below zero in this valley that
night.
The woman got nipped wuss than we
did, bat her mind was on the family
back here. She was bound to come back
alone, but we stood her off till about
dark. Then she made a bolt fur it and
got away.”
“And went to her death?”
“Jest as sartin as if she had jumped
off that cliff. The blizzard shet us in
fur three days. When we got out we
found her within twenty rods of the
cabin. She had friz to death goin that
far. Of coarse we knowed how it wonld
be np here. The horses had been on-
hitched and turned ont They lay over
by that tree. The folks in the wagon
had crowded together and kivered np
with all the blankets, but all war stun
dead and as hard as rocks. They never
saw that fust night come down.
“Me and pard overhauled the wagon,
bnt we couldn't find anythin givin the
name of the family, and so, like hun
dreds of others out in this kentry of
mountain and valley, Injun and wolf,
we kivered 'em in to sleep till the Lord
gits ready to call ’em fur judgment.
Seems awfnl that a hall fam’ly should
be wiped ont that way, bnt they ar’
aleepin thar together, and I gness the
Lord'll know the spot even if thar is no
gravestnu to mark it.”—New York Her
ald.
CIumm la Japan.
Not only are there a great number of
pieces and moves't Japanese chess, hot
their valne changes; for instance, on
reaching the enemy’s camp promotion
ensues and captured pieces are re-en
tered nnder^irious conditions. In fact,
the game demands, if that were possi
ble, more undivided attention than Eu
ropean chess, and in its provisions and
contingencies, especially the last, is
strictly military.
The pieces, agreeable to the enrolling
of prisoners, are all of one color. Chess
has always held considerable position in
Japan. It flourished during the shogun-
ate, and again after the revolution is
being revived. A grand tourney was
held not very long ago at Tokio.—Lon
don Spectator.
v ft Hiring Wlr. r<
An ingenious landowner at Melbourne
has applied the wire fences in his dis
trict to telephonic nee. By utilising the
top wire two extensive estates are con
nected. Mr. Edward Argle, the mana
ger, carries an instrument with him in
his boggy, and by connecting with the
wire at any point can communicate with
either homestead.—London Tit-Bits.
How • PlwsidMl sod Ooe.ral Manager
Was Frosss Out b/ His “—ayaalraa
“Speaking of corporations,” said a
prominent St. Louis banker, “I recall
with painful reminiscence the first one
of which I had the honor to be a stock
holder. It happened in 18(8, and I was
jnst fifteen years of age. Of course 1
had no idea that it was really a corpora
tion in which I had invested, bnt as 1
look back upon the incident the realiza
tion rashes upon me that I was a victim
of corporation methods.
“It happened in this way. At a very
early age my tendency for mercantile
pursnits developed. At school I noticed
a very general demand for candy and
cakes and an exceedingly limited supply
in the market. Many of the children
possessed coppers and nickels, but it
was nearly a mile from the school house
to the country town, and the boys were
compelled to forage upon the neighbor
ing sugar cane fields and orchards to sat
isfy the youthful stomach. After a care
ful survey of the market I decided that
the school was confronted by a condi
tion, not a theory.
“In a few days I had secured the co
operation of half a dozen boys, with s
capital of thirty cents, in which I held
ten cents of the stock, and was conse
quently named as president and man
ager of the candy store which we pro
posed to open on the grounds. We found
an enormous dead and fallen tree, whose
butt end offered little resistance to ou:
penknives. At noon one day I notified
ths stockholders that a meeting wonld
be held immediately after school, and at
that meeting I, as president and man
ager, eat an opening into the dead tree,
fashioned a shelf therein and attached s
door, while the stockholders looked on
in admiration. I then proposed that early
in the morning each stockholder should
bring with him five cents’ worth oi
candy wherewith to stock the juvenile
store.
“To my astonishment it was moved
and seconded and carried that the candy
should be purchased and delivered at
ones, so that the store might have au
early and perfect opening. Tired as 1
was I repaired to the town, invested my
ten cents in cheap candy, returned to
the school grounds, where already the
twilight was making ghostly figures
among the trees, and deposited my treas
ure in the store. It was quite dark when
I reached home, and being unable to ac
count for my whereabouts the presi
dent and manager went to bed supper
less and with a back stinging from the
effects of a switch liberally applied.
Next morning I hastened to the school
grounds in order to be first at the cere
monies. Imagine my surprise when 1
found there, seated in a row, all the
stockholders. I congratulated them on
their interest in the enterprise, and then
threw open the door of the candy store.
It was ethptyt
“For a moment I was speechless. The
stockholders bent their heads and said
nothing. They looked suspiciously con
tented, and when 1 intimated that some
good man among ns bad gone wrong
they were all prepared to prove that a
daring buzglar had, in the midnight
hoar, deprived the corporation of its as
sets.
“Ten years later one of the stockhold
ers admitted that he had helped his
brethren in disposing of the stock.”—St.
Lonis Republic.
shavlos tbs Beard In Hauls.
Peter the Great thought to civilize his
savages by making them shave and im
posed a tax of 100 rubles on the wealthy
and middle classes and a copeck on
peasants and laborers. Now it was a
superstition among the poorer people
that no beardless son of Adam could
ever enter heaven, and being obliged to
part with their beards the great ma
jority treasured up their hairs to be
buried with their bodies. In dealing
with his soldiers the great Peter enlisted
the aid of the priests, who cunningly
pointed out the fact that they were go
ing to fight the bearded Turk and that
their patron, St. Nicholas, would be un
able to distinguish them from their ene
mies unless they sacrificed their beards.
This was all right, and the beards of
the beloved Russians went down before
the razor in deference to St. Nicholas.
Bnt, nnlnckily for the priests, the next
little war happened to be with the
Swedes, who wore no beards, and thus
it was that the Russian soldiers de
manded to be allowed to abjure the
razor, so that the holy Nicholas might
have no difficulty in arranging for their
protection.—English Illustrated Maga
zine.
B*e«nt Applications of Paper.
The year 1861 was certainly one of
those in which new indnstrial applica
tions of pap'T were most numerous.
The idea of using paper in place of stone
in the construction of houses is already
old, but paper to take the place of glass
in windows, of clay in flowerpota, of
iron in railway rails, wagon wheels and
horseshoes, of porcelain in laboratory
ware, of wood in barrels, it having al
ready taken the place of that inatsrial
in small boats, paper in pulleys, are ap
plications as novel as bold. The mann-
faoture of window panes of paper was
first tried in the United States.
The panes have the appearance of
milky glass, and the property of inter
cepting the light rays while letting the
heat rays through, which makes them
suitable for greenhouses. It is estimated
that a paper window pane ninety-fonr
by sixty-three centimeters in dimensions
in a wooden sash with iron appliances,
will cost about eighty-five cents, and
last c« an average four years. — E.
Ratoin in Popular Science Monthly.
THE GENTLE SEX HAS BECOME A
POWER IN WASHINGTON.
Hua«lr#4a of Wvaaaa Hold Warklo* Po-
altloaa la tho Vorioaa Doportmato of
tho Notloaal Capitol Without Loolog
Their Social Staadta*.
Washington is getting to he wom
an’s paradise. There is no other place
in the wide, wide world where women
earn as mnch money, are as independ
ent and are as deferentially treated by
men as they are in Washington. The
influence of women in the affairs of this
mighty nation has been a subject of fre
quent comment. Many interesting and
highly imaginative stories have been told
of the woman lobbyist until the discreet
wives of most of onr migratory states
men have taken to traveling around
with them, and never under any circum
stances let them remain alone amid the
temptations of ths capital. This is a
palpable injustice to the lawgivers, and
involves an unnecessary hardship upon
ths anxious matrons.
In the place of an imaginary and ro
mantic influence Mpon the lawmaking
of this free for all government there
has thus grown up the real and substan
tial influence exercised by the ever pres
ent and zealous guardian of her hus
band's morals. Meanwhile, from being
the mender of her lord’s socks and torn
trousers, the wife of the statesman has
come to realize that she can occupy an
other and higher sphere in life, and feel
ing her power has begun by making all
around her feel it, who in turn emu
late her independence. So it comes
that from a combination of politics, so
ciety bobbing and female domination
the women of Washington have estab
lished a status for themselves.
Should all the men be suddenly called
away from the capital for a journey
across the Styx there is no legitimate
business that would be left without a
votary and no profession wonld fall into
decline. Beyond the closing of a few
charitable institutions things would re
main as they are. Lawsuits would be
no fewer or less skillfully conducted;
doctors and druggists would still get in
their daily work; butchers and bakers
and candlestick makers would still be
sufficiently numerous; preachers and
merchants would equal the demand;
barbers would be more plenty than
beards; real estate ageuts would still be
forming pools and combinations and
speculating in city and suburban prop
erty. An undertaker is about the only
thing of importance which wonld not
be found. Thus far the men have that
business to themselves.
When Spinner opened the departments
for the emplyment of women he gave
them an opportunity for advancement.
The thing has worked itself ont now and
the female clerk is an established insti
tntion, so to speak, in good standing,
with a fair income—and sometimes r.
fair face as well—recognized and ap
proved of by good society, and in a
measure fashionable. Her social stand
ing as a class comes perhaps from the
fact that she is more often the friend of
the wives of statesmen than of the
statesmen themselves, those watchfnl
guardians exercising some discretion in
the matter of favom to their own sex.
Out of this has come the recognition
of woman as a sell supporting creature,
without loss of standing, and not all
being able to get into the departments
or to always hold places once secured
they have invaded other occupations and
professions once sacred to the wearers of
trousers. Of course female teachers,
doctors and lawyers are no longer a nov
elty, and a great many have gone into a
small private brokerage business. One
woman has gone regularly into the real
estate, loan, trust and insurance busi
ness, and has turned ont to be one of the
best “businessmen” of the thonsand and
one who keep their eyes on every foot of
ground in and about Washington. She
has opened up new subdivisions, formed
syndicates and done booming with the
beet of them. The girls have almost
driven young men out of the stenogra
phy and typewriting business, and even
around the political headquarters, where
men only used to be employed, women
now outnumber men two to one.
The best of it all is that with all this
the social status of the women remains
unchanged; they are still treated with
the greatest deference and courtesy, and
a “strong minded” woman is a rarity.
What wonld yon think to see a shop
girl in a tailor made riding habit gallop
ing through Central park on a stylish
horse? It would not be a common sight.
1 It is not at all uncommon to see parties
of shopgirls—salesladies—well dressed
and well mounted, riding along the most
fashionable drives, looking as stylish
and pretty and enjoying themselves as
much as the richest danghter of fashion
whom they may pass on ths road. The
girls in some of the larger stores belong
to riding clnbs and have riding masters
who take them ont two or three times a
week.—Baltimore News.
Douglas Jerrold la School.
Douglas Jerrold wrote “Black Eyed
Susan” when he was twenty-one, and
contributed to Punch the immensely
popular “Candle Lectnree”not long aft
erward. Bat at nine years of age young
Jerrold had been scarcely able to read,
and it was not until he was apprenticed
to a printer, after serving for some time
aa a midshipman at sea that he showed
either desire or capacity for intellectnal
Improvement—London Standard.
Haw They Robbed the Man)a la.
In the old range cattle boom days,
when money from foreign lands waa
pouring into the weet like water, there
were a good many sharp tricks prac
ticed in delivering cattle. It is recalled
that the Marquis de Moree, who tried to
eat snch a conspicuous figure as a revo-
Intaoniser of the American meat trade,
and who later became notorious aa a
duelist, was badly sold. While in Da
kota he bought 10,000 head of cattle
from two Englishmen. They were first
class cattle and cost forty dollars a head.
When these two Britons delivered the
cows they worked one of ths neatest
“skin” games that was ever heard of.
Medora, yon know, site in a valley, with
table land* an each side.
Well, the Englishmen ran 8,000 head
of cattle in on the marquis and collected
for 10,000. The way they did it was by
running the seme 8,000 twice around the
hill. De Moree never “tumbled” until
he had paid his $400,000 and ths merry
cockneys were bound for Sonth Amer
ica. It was a clear steal of $200,000, bnt
the marquis didn't make much bones
about it He had plenty of money and
didn’t care.—Chicago Drovers’ Journal.
A FORTUNE FOUND IN COAF.
Mr. Raney, in conversation with a
number of travelers, told the following
story, which he says actually occurred
iu Ms yreesane white aa route on a Great
Northern freight train Bear Morris,
'linn.:
I boarded a freight train at Han
cock, (he began) eu route to Brecken-
ridge. There were about forty hobos on
board the box ears. I arranged with
three braketnen to make the rounds and
sea if they couldn’t be made to put np
for their ride. I acted the part ot the
conductor, while the trainmen followed
out my instructions. We went from
one car to another on til we had visited
all bat one. Few failed to comply with
onr request, but showed hostility, and
would doubtless have taken the advan
tage of our small number had I not pro
vided myself with a gan, which pro
truded in fall view from my coat pocket.
The last car we visited was partially
loaded with lime, and between the l>ar-
rels we found two Swedes who handled
the American language in the most hu
morous manner. We informed them
they would necessarily have to pay for
their ride or get off at the next station,
to which the spokesman replied; “Vwe
don’t gat no many. Vwe bane com from
Nort Docota, und York party hard and
gate no mnny."
“Where do you want to go?" asked
a brakeman.
“Vwe vant tu go to Mainopolis.”
“You are headed in the wrong direc
tion,” returned the brakeman.
“Val, vwe go tu Brekenridge und vwe
den go set. V we no mane dare 1h> ba
gude faller und let us rads."
The brakeman was not satisfied with
the Swedes’ statements that they wero
moneyless, so they were searched.
While ths searching was going on one
of the Swedes said again:
“Vwe don’t gate nn muny Sopnse
vwe ly ’bout laddie ting like date?"
The brakeman, being satisfied that
there was no money oh their persons,
was about to withdraw from the car
when he discovered a small bundle in
the corner of the ear tied np with a
handkerchief. The handle was ex
amined. A pair of old socks and sev
eral rags were tightly wrapped around
a piece of soap about three by six inches
in sise. The brakeman said he guessed
he would take the soap anyway, as he
could use it himself. Here the Swedes
made a robust protest, saying, “No,
vwe don’t vant yon tu take dote sope.'
“What good is the soap to you?” asked
the brakeman.
“Vwe vant da sope for vash wid bafar
vwe gate in Mainopolis.”
“What do you expect to do in Minne
apolis?” said the brakeman.
“Vwe tank vwe vilie gate leddle vork
tu du dare, as a ba prutty gude toon.’ 1
The brakeman then said be would do
the fair thing and only take half the
soap, to which the Swedes begged ear
neatly for him to leave the soap. The
brakeman took the cake over his knee
and broke it throngb the center, and lol
to the amazement of all, a twenty dol
lar gold piece rolled ont By this time
the Swedes were nearly wild, and their
ejaculations were side splitting in the
extreme.
The soap was then cat into bits and
$200 in gold coin, consisting of twenties,
tens and fives, taken oat. The Swedes
had adopted this strange method of
safely disguising their possessions; bnt,
as misfortune had it, their novel idea
failed. It is needless to say that the
brakeman appropriated one of the shin
ing pieces for his own nse, to ths heart
rending dismay of the sons of Sweden,
and departed for the caboose. —Fargo
Argot.
Drees Goeda trom Spirit Load.
“A conductor on the International and
Great Northern once told me a qneer
story,” remarked Ezra Morgan at the
Lindell. “His name wss Painter, and
hi* run waa from Galveston to Willis,
Tex. He said that shortly after his mar
riage he made a compact with his wife
that whichever died first sheuld appear
to the other. She only lived about a
year, and shortly after her demise, while
he was sitting reading one evening, she
walked np to him and laid her hand on
his shoulder. She talked with him a
few minutes as freely as though in the
flesh; then, picking up a pair of shears
that laid on the table, said: ’After I am
gone you may douM that I appeared to
you. You mqy think it a dream or a
hallucination. Keep this aa a souvenir,
and doubt not.’ She cat a piece from
her drees, laid it ofi the table and van
ished. The goods resemble white silk,
but the textile experts confess that they
do not know what it is; that if any such
goods were ever woven in an earthly
loom they do not know it.”—St. Lonis
Globe-Democrat
Ths Old Follea Tax.
The chief authorities of towns in post
ages incurred mnch responsibility. At
Ripon we have a good example of their
liabilities. Here formerly, after the
blowing of a horn at 2 o’clock at night,
and nntil sunrise next morning, if a
house were robbed, and the owner and
his servants had taken proper precan-
tions for its safety, the wakeman had to
make good the loss sustained. Each
householder paid an annual tax of two
pence if he had one door, and fonrpence
if he had two doors to his dwelling, for
maintaining a watch over the city. The
tax has long since been discontinued,
bnt the horn is still blown at night.—
London Tit-Bits.
The SraaotlMS of Battla.
A gentleman who was distinguished
in the war of the rebellion for his per
sonal bravery, and who fought in some
of the most bloody battles, was re
cently asked jnst how it felt to be ondei
fire.
“Shall 1 tell yon jnst how a battle
affects meT’ he asked, smiling. “It is
not elegant, bnt it is at lesot. true.”
“Yes,” was the reply, “tell ns exactly
what it is like."
“I can only speak of my own feel
ings,” the old soldier said, “bat as fsr
as ths effect on me personally goes, a
battle is like a champagne drunk.”
“Yon mean that it is so excitingP'
the questioner asked.
“I mean,” was the reply, “that there
is first an intense end glorious excite
ment, sad that after that comes a most
undignified, bat inevitable nausea. 1
was never in battle in my life with
out being seasick afterward.'*—Boston
Courier.
Oroat Mo* oad Tkotr Pollolco.
Suppose the Marquis of Sshsbary or
Mr. Gladstone were this night to become
conscientiously convinced that tbs party
of which he is tbs mouthpiece is the
party of false doctrines, end had the
courage to say so. What howls there
would be from a hundred platforms!
Does say one doubt that the men who
deify today wonld crucify tomorrow?
Each particular section of the British
public likes to have its own particular
piper, and it insists on celling ths tone.
Let ths piper play a tune of his own,
and thsrejp • faddaa change of pipers.
SOI PLAIN PACTS PR III
With tho nhort crop and lew prneshow are
the people to supply t etr many wants? Our
answer is, Bu / where your dollai will bring you
the most. Friendship and small favors in the
past wire all very well, but this year every dol
lar must nft double i»utv IF Fossim-E. We claim
to be the place to buy, and ask your considera
tion of the following—
WE BUY STRICTLY FOR
CASH
and discount every bill, thus bating fifteen to
twen y per cent, cheeper than our competitor
who buys on f ur months time. We are willing
to give our customers this difference. We have
just returned from New YiTk with the most com
plete stock of
— Hr? IM, lotto, Slots, Sits til tlotlui; - - -
that we have ever shown here. No Seconds,
Misfits, Ofl'Colors, or Job Lots from auction, but
all elegant and reliable goods. Kerr.e tiber,
flon\ buy a dollar’s worlh until you see our stock
Ail we ask is a fair and square comparison of
our goods. Tiankingyou for yenr past liberal
patronage, we invite you to call and see us.
Yours respectfully,
A. J. BROOM.
W'illcox’s Old Drug Store.
S. CLHUS
* HARTSVILLE! *
Big money saved by buying your Christ
mas goods from
NUNLEY &. CO’S.
We have a large and well selected assortment of toys of all
kinds, china ware, vases, toilet sets, dolls, and everything that
goes to make Christmas a big success.
Wo have just received 1,600 pounds of assorted
WCdriLllGSa candies, at prices to suit all. See us before
buying.
Fruit and Nuts of All Kinds.
Apples, figs, dates, bananas, Florida oranges, cocoanuts, wal
nuts, almonds and many good things too numerous to mention, all
of which we are selling at popular prices.
We still keep up our regular stock, and we now offer some real
bargains in shoes cheaper and better than ever. Shoes from 35c
up to $4 75.
Big bargains in clothing, hats and notions. Suits from $1 40 up.
We have just received a carload of flour and
^still keep up our stock of other lines that we
are selling at prices that defy competition. See us before buying.
Remember our motto, “We will not be undersold.” Calf and
see us. Yours for a large trade and a pleasant Christmas,
J.F.MLET&CO,
Hartsville, S. f
Sept 8— 6m.
SHNTH
Eaxll.k Taste and tha Army,
Welter Besant, in hie very entertain
ing and valuable book on “London,’
notes an important change in ths early
pert of this century in the feelings of
the English gentry shout trade. Mer
cantile life ceased to attract the younger
sons of ths gentry, who found employ
ment in the army or navy, and ths city
was thus severed from the conn ties.
BAUSON l KRML,
General Commission Merchants,
Wholesale Dealers in
M^nWogl^gfi,
Etc.,
230 East Bay, North of Market Street,
CHARLESTON, 8. 0.
C >nslgninents solicited.
■ — . —. ■
We handle all kinds of fish in sea
son. large South Mullet, Bass. Sheep-
head, Dram, Blacklist], Salmon,
Trout, Pompano. Spanish Mackerel,
etc. Write for prices.
BF'No charge for ice and barrel._£)
Bull's Bay Oysters, $3 per BM.,
$1.25 per Gallon.
Jan 12—3m
Lost.
O N the night of December 20,1892,
between Mf. E. C. Rotholz's res
Until after Christmas his headquarters will be at the
Darlington Book Store.
Call on him and see his magnifiemt
array of presents, such as
Bools, To^ aid lit Sets!
CONFECTIONS & FRUITS.
UP TO
CHRISTMAS
WE WILL SELL
OUR EITIIIE STOCK
OF
movements ,
1 with peai I
setting. A reward in money equiva
lent to the value of.the watch will be
given for the return of the lost
perty to E. C. Rotholz’i store.
Jan. 12—It.
Dtssolutioi of Copartnership.
T HE copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned,
as dealers in wines, liquors and to
bacco and under the firm name of P.
B. Allen A Co., is this day dissolved
by mutu 1 consent. Mr. W. T. Mills,
vho will contlnne the business at the
same stand, assumes all liabilities of
the firm.
P. B. ALLEN,
^ W. T. MILLS.
Darlington 8. C., Jan. 2 '93.
Jan. 8—ft.
Dry Goods Clothing and
Shoes
At First Cost!
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