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CHAPTER IX. TUB MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD. More than u week went by, in which the ill luck that had hitherto pursued the (Covenant upon this voyage grew yet mark. And if yo can ao it cieveny i n bear it in miml when it’ll be good for you to have friends, and tHht'e when we come to GirhMtng” 4 Were Sir. Uisch whisporod luma little. “Very right, sir,"aid The captain, and then to myself, “And see here, David, yon man nas a beltful of gold, and l give you my word that you shall have your fingers iu it." 1 told him that 1 would do as he wished, though indeed I had scarce breath to speak with, and upon that he gave me the key of the spirit locker, and 1 began to go slowly back to the roundhouse. What was I to do? They were dogs and but 1 learned atterwara ue was a great thleve * : the >' had stolen men fru,u m >' churchgoer while on shore. “But for own country; they had killed poor Ran- ' some, and was I to hold the candle to another murder? But then, upon the all that," says he, “I can be sorry to see another man with his back to the wall." “Can ye so, indeed?" asked the Jacob ite. “Well, sir, to be quite plain with other hand, there was the fear of death very T plain before me, for what could a more strongly marked. Some days she ye, I am one of those honest gentlemen | lx,y “ nJ a Iuan • if the >' wt 'f e BS “ she was driven that were in trouble about the vearg Uon9 ’ a D ainst a whole ships company? made a little way; others actually back. At last we were beaten so far to the south that we tossed and tacked to and fro the whole of the ninth day within sight of Cape Wrath and the wild, rocky coast on either hand of it. There followed on that a council of the officers, and some decision which I did not rightly understand, seeing only the result—that we had made a fair wind of a foul one and were running south. The tenth afternoon there was a fall ing swell and a thick, white, wet fog that hid one end of the brig from the other. All afternoon, when I went on deck, 1 saw men and officers listening hard over the bulwarks—“for breakers,” they said, and though I did not so much as understand the word, I felt danger in the air and was excited. Maybe about ten at night I was serv ing Mr. Riach and the captain at their supper, when the ship struck something with a great sound and we heard voices singing out. My two masters leaped to their feet. “She's struck,” said Mr. Riach. “No, sir,” said the captain. “We’ve only run a boat down." And they hurried out. Tbe captain was in the right of it. We had run down a boat in the fog, and she bad parted in the midst and gone to the bottom with all her crew but one. "Oho!" toys the ttranyer. “Is that how the wind sets?” This man (as 1 heard afterward) had been sitting in the stem as a passenger, while the rest were on the benches row ing. At the moment of the blow the stern had been thrown into the air, and the man (having his hands free, and for all he was encumbered with a frieze overcoat that came below his knees) had leaped up and caught hold of the brig’s bowsprit. It showed he had luck and much agility and unusual strength that he shonld have thus saved himself from such a pass. And yet, when the captain brought him into the roundhouse and I set eyes on him for the first time, he looked as cool as I did. He was smallish in stature, but well set and as nimble as a goat. His face was of a good open expression, but sun- burned very dark, and heavily freckled and pitted with the smallpox; his eyes were unusually light and had a kind of dancing madness in them that was both engaging and alarming, and when he took off his great coat he laid a pair of fine, silver mounted pistols on the table, and I saw that he was belted with a great sword. His manners besides were elegant, and be pledged the captain handsomely. Altogether I thought of him at the first sight, that here was a man I would rather call my friend than my enemy. The captain, too, was taking his oB servations, but rather of the man's clothes than his person. And to be sure, as soon as he had taken off the great coat, he showed forth mighty fine for the roundhouse of a merchant brig, having a hat with feathers, a red waist coat, breeches of black plush and a blue coat with silver buttons and handsome silver lace; costly clothes, though some what spoiled with the fog and being slept in. “I’m vexed, sir, about the boat,” says the captain.' “There are some pretty men gone to the bottom,” said the stranger, “that 1 would rather see on the dry land again than half a score of boats.” “Friends of yours?” said Hoseason. “You have none such friends in your country,” was the reply. “They would have died for me like dogs.” “Well, sir," said the captain, still watching him, “there are more men iu the worliHhan boats to pnt them in.” “And that’s true, too,” cried the other, “and ye seem to be a gentleman of great penetration.” “I have been in France, sir,” says Ihe captain, so that it was plain ho meant more by the words than showed upon the face of thorn. "Well, sir,” says the other, “and so has many a pretty man, for the matter of that.” “No doubt, sir,” says the captain, “and tine coats.” “Oho!” says the stranger. “Is that how the wind 8018?" and he laid his hand quickly on his pistols. "Don’t be hasty,” said the captain. “Don’t do a mischief before ye see the need for it. Ye’ve a French soldier’s coat npon your back and a Scotch tongue in yonr head, to be sure; hot so has many an honest fellow in these days, and I dare say none tire worse of it.” "So?" said the gentleman in tbe fine coat; “are ye of the honest party?” (Meaning was Ire a Jacobite, for each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own.) “Why, sir,” replied the captain, "1 am a true blue Protestant, and 1 thank God for it.” It was the first word of ■AV religion I tuul ever beard from him. I was still arguing it back and forth and getting no great clearness when I came into the roundhouse and saw the Jacobite eating his supper under the lamp, and at that my mind was made up all in a moment. I have no credit by it; it was by no choice of mine, but as if by compulsion, that I walked right up to the table and put my hand on his shoul der. “Do ye want to be killed?" said 1. He sprang to his feet and looked a question at me as clear as if lie bad spoken. “Oh!” cried l, “they're all murderers here; it’s a ship full of them! They've murdered a boy already. Now it’s yon.” “Aye, aye,” said he, •'bntthey haven’t got me yet.” And then looking at me curiously, “Will ye stand with me?” “That will I!” said 1. “I am no thief, nor yet murderer. I’ll stand by yon.” “Why, then,” said he, “what’s your name?" “David Balfour," said I, and then thinking that a man with so fine a coat must like fine people 1 added for the first time, "of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to doubt me, for a highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty, bat as he had no estate of his own my words net tled a very childish vanity he had. “My name is Stewart,” he said, draw ing himself up. “Alan Breck, they call me. A king’s name is good enough for me. though I bear it plain and have the name of no farm midden to clap to the bind end of it.” And having administered this rebuke, as though it were something of a chief importance, he turned to examine our defenses. The roundhouse was built .very strong to support the breachings of the seas. Of its five apertures, only the skylight and the two doors were large enough for the passage of a man. The doors besides could be drawn close; they were of stout oak and ran in grooves, and were fitted with hooks to keep them either shut or open, as the need arose. The one that was already shut 1 secured in this fashion, but when I was proceeding to slide to the other Alan stopped me. “David,” said he—“for I cannae bring to mind the name of your landed estate, and so will make so bold as call yon David—that door, being open, is the best part of my defenses.” “It would be yet better shut,” says 1. “Not so, David,” says he. "Ye see, 1 have but one face, but so long as that door is open and my face to it, the best part of my enemies will be in front of me, where 1 would aye wish to find them.” Then he gave me from the rack a cut lass, of which there were a few besides the firearms, choosing it with great care, shaking his head and saying he bail never in all his life seen poorer weapons; and next he set me down to the table with a powder horn, a bag of bullets, and all the pistols, which he bade me charge. “And that will be better wprk, let me tell yon,” said he, "for a gentleman of decent birth, than scraping plates and raxing drams to a wheen tarry sailors." Thereupon he stood up in the midst with his face to the, door, and drawing his great sword, made trial of the room be had to wield it in. “I must stick to the point," he said, slinking his head, “and that's a pity too. It doesn't set my genius, which is all for the tipper guard. And now,” said he. ‘ilo you keep on charging the pistols, and give heed to me.” I told him I would listen closely. My chest was tight, my mouth dry, the light dark to my eyes. The thought of the numliers that were soon to leap in npon ns kept my heart in a flutter, and the sea, which 1 heard washing around the brig and where i thought my dead body wonld be cast eiu morning, ran in my mind strangely. "First of all,” said he, “how many are against ns?” 1 reckoned them up, and snch was tbe hurry of my mind I had togast the num bers twice. "Fifteen,” said I; Alan whistled. “Well,” said he, “that can’t be cured. And now follow me. It is my part to keep this door, where 1 look for the main battle. “Ana'reJ sword?” says he. "This ts a strange return for hospitality.” "Do yon see me;” said Alan. “I am come of kings; 1 bear a kings’s name. My bad** is the oak. Do ye see my sword? It nUeWt'l the heads off tnajr Whigamores than you have^oes npon yonr feet. Call up yonr vermin to your back, sir, and fall on. Tbe sooner the clash begins the sooner ye’ll taste this steel throughout yonr vitals.” Tbe captain said nothing to Alan, bnt he looked over at me with an ugly look. “David,” said he, “I’ll mind this,” and the sound of his voice went through me with a jar. Next moment he was gone. ‘And now," said Alan, “let your hand keep yonr head, for the grip is coming." Alan drew a dirk, which he held in his left hand in case they should run in under his sword. I on my part clam bered up into the berth with an armful ef pistols and something of a heavy heart, and set open the window where 1 was to watch. It was a small part of the deck that 1 could overlook, bnt enough for our purpose. A little after and there came a clash of steel npon the deck, by which I knew they were dealing out the cutlasses, and one had been let fall, and after my chief wish was to | have the th’gig begin and be done with it. it came all of a sudden when it did, with a rush Of feet and a roar, and then a shout from Alan and a sound of blows and some one crying ont as if hurt. I looked back over my shoulder and saw Mr. Shuan in the doorway crossing blades with Alan. “That’s him that killed the boy!” 1 cried. “Look to your window!” said Alan, and as 1 turned back to my place I saw him pass his sword through tbe mate's body. It was none too soon for me to look to my own part, for my head was scarce back at tbe window before five men. carrying a sgare yard for a battering ram, ran past me and took post to drive tbe door in. Just as they swung the yard I cried out, “Take that!" and shot into their midst. had broken m aga had nis eur'asa raised. The door was thronged w’h their faces. I thought we were lost, and catching up my cntlass fell on them in flank. But I had no time to be of help. The wrestler dripped at lasV * ri| l Alan, trouble about the years forty-five and six: and, to be still quite plain with ye, if I get into the hands of, any of the redcoat gentry it's like it would go hard with me. Now, sir, I” was for France, and there was a French ship cruising here to pick me np, bnt she gave us the go by in the fog—as I wish from tbe heart that ye had done your self! And the best that I can say is this, if ye can set me ashore where I was go ing, I have that npon me will reward yon highly for your trouble.” “In France?” says the captain. “No, sir; that I cannot do. But where ye come from—we might talk of that.” And then, unhappily, he observed me standing in my corner, and packed me off to the galley to get supper for the gentleman. I lost no time, I promise yon, and when I came back into the roundhouse 1 found the gentleman had taken a money belt from about his waist and poured out a guinea or two upon the table. Tire captain was looking at the guineas and then at the belt and then at the gentleman’s face; and l thought he seemed excited. “Half of it,” he cried, “and I'm your man!” t The other swept back the guineas into the belt, and pnt it on again under his waistcoat. “I have told ye, sir,” said he, “that not one doit of it belongs to me. It belongs to my chieftain"—and here he touched his hat—“and while 1 wonld be but a silly messenger to grudge some of it that the rest might come safe, I should show myself a hound indeed if I honght my own carcass any too dear. Thirty guineas on the seaside or sixty if, ye set mAon the Linnhe loch. Take it, if ye will; if not, ye can do your worst." “Aye,” said Hoseason. “And if I give ye over to the soldiers?" “Ye would make a fool’s bargain,” said -the other. "My chief, let me tell yon, sir, is forfeited, like every honest man in Scotland. His estate is in the hands of the man they call King George, and it is his officers that collect the rents or try to collect them. But for the honor of Scotland tire poor tenant bodies take a thought npon their chief lying in exile, and this money is a part of that very rent fur which King George is looking. Now, sir, ye seem to me to be a man that understands things; bring this money within the reach of govern ment, and how much of it'll come to _yon?’’ Little enough, to be sure,” said Hosea son, and then, “If they knew,” he added dryly. “Bnt I think, if I was to try, that I could hold my tongue about it.” “Ah, but I’ll begowk, [befool] ye there!” cried the gentleman. "Play me false and I’ll play yon cunning. If a hand's laid npon me they shall ken what money it is.” “Well,” returned tire captain, “what must be must. Sixty guineas and done. Here's my hand upon it.” “And here's mine,” said the other. And then the captain went out rather hurriedly, I thought, and left me alone in the roundhouse with the stranger. “And so you're a Jacobite?” said I as I set meat before him. “Aye," said he, beginning to eglt. “And you, by your long face, shonld be a Whig?” “Betwixt and between,” said I, not to annoy him, for indeed I was as good a Whig as Mr. Campbell could make me. “And that's naethiirg,” said he. “But I'm saying, Mr. Betwixt-and-betweeji,” he added, “this bottle of yours is dry, and it’s hard if I'm to pay sixty guineas and be grudged a dram upon the back of it.” “I’ll go and ask for the key," said 1 and stepped on deck. The fog was as close as ever, but the swell almost down. They had laid the brig to, not knowing precisely where they were, and the wind, what little there was of it, not serving well for their true course. Some of the hands were still harkening for breakers, lint the captain and the two officers were in the waist with their heads together. It struck me, I don't know why, that they were after no good, and the first word 1 heard as I drew softly near more than confirmed me. It was Mr. Riach, crying out as if upon a sudden thought: "Couldn’t we wile him out of the roundhouse?” “He’s better where he is,” returned Hoseason; “he hasn't room to use his sword.” “Well, that’s true,” said Riach; “but he’s hard to come at.” “Hut!” said Hoseason. “We can get the man in talk, one upon each side, and } pin him by the two arms; or if that'll not hold, sir, we can make a run by ! both the doors and get him under hand | before he has the time te draw.” At this hearing I was seized with both I fear and anger at these treacherous, "'“T i,u ""“'‘v T ‘'“‘T jumped and when i 11„ ,i,, n, f i „ charged than ye must climb up into < , ‘ greedy, bloody men that I sailed with. | , | whipped straight an Specimen Cases. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with Neural gia and Rheumatism, his Stom ach was disordered, his Liver j.* • -rr.— a was affected to an alar’’ing de- leaping becW5 get his ihst^ce, ran ^ appetite fell away, and he upon tire others like a bull, roanng as " t / ’■ - - he went. They broke before him like WaS reduceJg water, turning and running, and falling one against another in their haste. The sword in his hands flashed like quick silver into the huddle of our fleeing ene mies, and at every j^ish there came the scream of a man hurt. I was still thinking we were lost, when lo! they were all gone, and Alan was driving them along the deck as a chases sheep. ! ri * , „ Yet he was no sooner ont than he was Catawba, O., back again, being as cautious as he w as j Fever Sores on brave, and meanwhile the seamen con- ! said he was incjral HU. tinned running and crying out as if he bottle Electric Bitters and one was still behind them, and we heard ‘ ~ was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Throe botHes of Electric Bitters cured h n Ed ward Shepherd, Harrisburg,111., had a running sort on his leg of eight years’ standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters jand seven boxes of Bucklen’s sheep'dog ! Arni ®* Salve, and his leg is .sound iind well. John Speaker, had five large his leg, doctors able. One them tumble one npon another in the forecastle and clap to the hatch npon the top. The ronndhonse was like a shambles: three were desd inside, another lay in his death agony across tire threshold, and there were Alan and I victorious and unhurt. He came up to me with open arms. “Come to my arms!” he cried, and em braced and kissed me hard npon both cheeks. “David,” said be, “I love yon like a brother. And, oh, man,” he cried in a kind of ecstasy, “am I nae a bonny fighter?” Thereupon he turned to the four ene mies, passed his sword clean through each of them and tumbled them out of doors one after the other. As he did so he kept humming and singing and whis tling to himself, like a man trying to recall an air, only what 1 a was trying was to make one. All the while tire flush was in his face and his eyes were box Bucklen’s .Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold at Willcox & Co’s Dr ig store. “But if you don t love him, Clara, why are you going to marry him?” “Because he dared me to, ma ma. He knew my high-spiri ted nature, too. 0, I’ll make him sorry enough for it, don’t you be afraid !” I hit. Now I ry It will cost you nothing and will surely do you good, if you have a Cough, Cold, or any trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumptioi, Coughs and Colds is guaraateed to give relief, or money will be , . .. . L or money will be paid as bright m a five-year-old chiUlswith back . Sufferers from La Or ppe a new tov. And nresentlv he sat down r > ^ found it just the thing and un- Hi* sword was running blood to the hilt. 1 must have hit one of them, for he sang out and gave back a step, and the ! rest i opped as if a little disconcerted. I Before they had time to recover 1 sent another ball over their heads, and at my third shot (which went as wide as the second) the whole party threw down the yard and ran for it. Then 1 looked around again into the deckhouse. The whole place was full of the smoke of my own firing, just as my ears seemed to be burst with the noise of tire shots. But there was Alan. 1 standing’as before; only now his sword I was running blood to the hilt, and him- ! self so swelled with triumph and fallen ! into so fine an attitude that he looked I to be invincible. Right before him on the floor was Mr. Shnan on his hands and knees; the blood was pouring from his month and lie was sinking slowly lower, with a terrible white lace, ard just as 1 looked some of those from be hind caught hold of him by the heels and dragged him bodily out of the round house. I believe he died as they were doing it. “There’s one of your Whigs for ye!” ! cried Alan, and then turning to me he asked if 1 had done much execution. 1 told him i had winged one, and thought it was the captain. "And I’ve settled two,” says he. “No, there’s not enough blood let; they’ll be I back again. To your watch, David! | This was but a dram before meat.” i settled back to my place, recharged the three pistols I had fired and Wbping | watch with both eye and ear. Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shnan bauchled [l ungled] it,” 1 heard one say. And another answered him with a “Wheesht, man! He’s paid the piper.” After that the voice fell again into the same muttering as before. Onlj nod- one person spoke most of the time, as though laying dowm a plan, and first one and then another answered him briefly, like men taking orders. By this a new toy. And presently he sat down upon the table, sword iu hand; the sir that he was making all the time began to run a little clearer and then clearer still, and then ont he burst with a great voice into a Gaelic song. In the meanwhile, what with the long suspense of the waiting, and the scurry and strain of our two spurts of fighting, and more than all, the horror 1 had of some of my own share in it, the thing was no sooner over than I was glad to stagger to a seat. There was that tight ness on my chest that 1 could hardly breathe; the thought of the two men 1 had shot sat npon me like a nightmare, and all npon a sudden, and before i had a guess of what was coming, I began to sob and cry like any child. Alan clapped my shoulder and said 1 was a brave lad, and wanted nothing but a sleep. 'I’ll take the first watch,” said he. will not work “Ye've done well by me, David, first and last, and 1 wouldn’t lose you for all Appin—no, nor for Breadalbane." So he made up my bed on the floor and took the first spell, pistol in hand and sword on knee; three hours by tbe captain's watch npon the wall. Then he roused me np and I took my tnn. of three hours, before the end of which it was broad day and a very quiet morn ing, with a smooth, rolling sea that tossed the ship and made the blood run to and fro on the roundhouse floor, and a heavy rain that drummed upon the roof. All my watch there was nothing stirring, and by the banging of the helm I knew they had even no one at the tiller. Indeed, as I learned afterward, there were so many of tlrem hart or dead, and the rest in so ill a temper, that Mr. Riacb and the captain had to take turn and turn in, like Alan and me, or the brig might have gone ashore and nobody the wiser. It was a mercy the night had fallen so still, for the wind had gone down as soon as the rain began. Even as it was 1 judged by the wailing of a great number of gulls that went crying and fishing around the ship that she must have drifted pretty near the coast or one of the islands of the Hebrides, and at last, looking ont of the door ot the roundhouse, 1 saw the great stone hills of Skye on the right hand and a little more astern the strange Isle of Rum. [TO BE CONTINUED.] der its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn for yourself just h jw tjood a thing it is. Trial boi tlet free at Willcox & Go’s D/ug Si ire. Large size 50c. and $1)0. “Could you make it conven ient to lend me $100, Jack ?” “I don’t know. If I should lend it to you I should be a man of some distinction.” “How is that?” “One out of a hun dred.” "Any Port in a Storm.” That’s a good maxim, but it as a rule in the I purchase of a remedy for Rheu matism. Any of the cheap nos trums will not effect a cure—in fact, none of them. Don’t trifle with life and prolong agony. 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A knot of them made one rush of it, cut- fire to this side unless they get me down, for I would rather have ten foes in front of me than one friend like you cracking pistols at my back.” I told him indeed 1 was no great shot. lass in hand, against the door, and at the same moment the glass of the skylight And that's very bravely said,” he was da8he ‘! “ thousand pieces and n My first mind was to run away; my second was bolder. "Captain,” said I, “the gentleman is seeking a dram and the bottle’s out. Will you give me the key?” They all started and turned about. “Whv. here's our chance to get the i. , . . .. " ° have eyes upon, both sides to keep the firearms!” Biach erred; and then to me lwoof ’ thel i ; f * r when my Uce ^ at Hark ye, David, le sau , o ) the one , my back is to the other." where the pistols are, “And that’s very true,” said Alan. “Aye, aye, pnt in Hoseason, David . <But h8V(J V(J no eara ^ boadr kens. Davids a good a <L W see, , „ To lx , gurer cned L ^ mu8t hear David, my man yon wUd Hielandman the bur9til)(? of the KlllMjr is a danger to the ship, besides hemg a «,Y e have some rudiments of sense,” rank foe to King George. God bless ^ A , au grijuly . him!"’ t — 1 had never been so be-Davided since 1 CHAPTER X. came on board, but I said yes, as if all 1 T he sieoe of the roundhocsb. heard were quite natural. Cut now our time ol truce was come “The trouble is,” resumed the captain, ' to an end. Those on deck had waited “that all our firelocks—great and little f or my coming till they grew impatient, —are in the roundhouse under this uian’s gn( j bc . irce had Alan spoken when the nose; likewise the powder. Now if I or CB pt a i u showed face in the open door, one of the officers was to go in and take Standi” cried Alan, and pointed his them he would fall to thinking. But a gwor j a t him. lad like you, David, might snap up a The captain stood indeed, bnt he horn and a oistol or two without re- J noj^er winced nor drew back a foot , man leaped through and landed on tire j floor. Before he got his feet 1 had clapped a pistol to his back, and might have shot him, too, only at the touch of him (and him alive) my whole flesh mis- I gave me, and 1 could no more pull the Aye,” said he, “and that is a part of j ‘rigger than I could have flown. work. No sooner the pistols’. He ^ ad dro PP ed '»« oitlass as he : jumped, and when he felt the pistol I whipped straight around and laid hold of me, roaring out an oath, and at that either my courage came again or 1 grew | so mnch afraid, as came to the same j thing, for I gave a shriek and shot him in the midst of the body. He gave the i most horrible, ngly groan and fell to *ie cried in a great admiration of my can dor. “There’s many a pretty gentleman that would nae dare to say it.” “But then, sir,” said I, “there is the door behind you, which they may per haps break in. yon bed where ye’re handy at the win dow; and if they lift hand against the; door, ye’re to shoot. Bnt that’s not all. i Let’s make a bit of a soldier of ye, David. What else have ye to guard?” "There in tire skylight,” said 1. “But indeed, Mr. Stewart, 1 wonld need to ; floor. The foot of a second fellow, whose ! legs were dangling through the sky light, struck me at the same time upon the head, and at that I snatched another pistol and shot this one through the thigh, so that be slipped throngh ami j tumbled in a lump on his companion’s body. There was no talk of missing any , more than there was time to aim. 1 clapped the muzzle to the very place and fired. 1 might have stood and stared at them for long, bnt l heard Alan shout as if for help, and that brought me to my senses. He had kept the door so long; but one of the seamen, while he was engaged with others, had run in under his guard and caught him about the body. Alan was dirking him with his left hand, but tha fallow clnmr like a leech. Another Bucklen s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at Willcox & Go’s drugstore. Mother (policeman’s wife)— “Willie, I’ve been shouting for you this half hour. 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Boyd can furnish them with Blushof Roses, which is clear as water, purifies the skin, and positively removes blackheads and all skin dis eases, take the shiny look from the face aud whitens it soon as applied, Private Instruction. P RIVATE instruction given in La tin, Greek. Mathematics, English, oranyof other branches usuallytaught at school or colleges, by the Rev. Ed ward McCrady, A. B., a recent grad uate of the University of the South An appointment may he made with Mr. McCrady for the purpose of ob taining information as to terms. Ac., by applying at Thb Daklinoton Nbws Office. 31 A.M. 6.45 8.48 0.22 10.40 11.15 11.40 12.10 12.40 Close connection is made at Hamlet for all points reached by or via the Seaboard Air Line System ; ab Ben- uettsville for all points via O. F. A Y. V. R R. ^ No. 2 does not take passengers south of Sumter. Nos. 21 and 22 do not run north of Bennettsville. J. H. AVERILL, General Manager, m NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver. In Effect Jan. 16, 1893. NORTH. SOUTH. P.M. 1 A.M. 6.50 8.15 8.30 1.00 1.20 1.41 205 2.21 2.41 3 01 8.60 4.30 P.M Charleston Pregnall’s Sumter Lamar Syracuse Darlingffin Mont ClarC Robin's Neck Mandevllle Bennettsville Gibson Hamlet 2 22 A.m.^p.m 10.30 ' 9.05: 12.50 11.81 11.11 10.46 10 2b 10.10 9.50 P.30 8.40 7.50 P.M. 1 20 11.39 11.03 10.29 953 8.18 7.58 7.23 A.M. Notice of Limited Partnership. To all who it may concern: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have formed a Limited Partnership ; that the Name of Firm under which such Partnership is to be conducted is Edwards & Company. That the general nature of the business to be transacted is a General Merchandise Business to be carried on at Darling ton, South Carolina. That C. B. Ed wards, and H. A. Edwards, who re side at Darlington. Court House, South Carolina, are the General Part ners ; and James L. Coker, who resides at Hartsville, South Carolina, is the Special Partner; and that the said James L. Coker has contributed the sum of Five Thousand Dollars as cap ital to the common stock ; and that said Partnership is to commence on the 30th. day of January 1893, and is to terminate on the 1st. day of Janua ry 1898. Dated this 30th day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine ty Three. <5. B EDWARDS, H. A. EDWARDS, General. JA8. L. COKER, Special. Feb. 2—6t- aaT^Snr H ARTSVILLE RAI1 ROAD. In effect , an. 2, 1893. DAILY MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartsville 5.00 a m Jovann 5.20 a m Floyd’s 5.35 a m Darlington 5.50 a in Palmetto — 6.02 a m Arrive Florence 6.15 a m Leave Florence 9.00 p m Palmetto 9.1b p m Darlington 9.30 p B Floyd’s 9.45 p in Jovann 10.05 pm Arrrive Hartsville 10.26 pm J. F. DIVINE, Gsn. Supt. C A D. and C. A 8. RAILROADS. • In effect Jan. 2, 1893. Leave Wadrgboro 1.40 p in Bennett's 2.01 p m Morven's 2.25 p m McFarland 2 40 p m Cheraw 4.00 p m Cash's. 4 30 p m Society Hill 5.05 p m Dove's. 5.45 p m Floyd’s 6.00 p m Darlington 6.25 p in Palmetto 6.40 p m Arrive Florence 7.00 p m Leave Florence 6.30 a m Palmetto 6.50 a in Darlington - 7.30 a m Floyd’s 7.55 a m Dove’s 8 10 a in Society Hill 6 40am Cash's 9.35 a in Cheraw 10.00 a m McFarland 11.45 p in Morven’s 12.05 p m Bennett’s 12.20 p m Arrive Wadesboro 12.45 p m Local Freight Train. Leave Florence 9.00 a in Arrive Darlington 9.45 a m Leave Darlington 5.00 p m Arrive Florence 5.45 p in A. F. RAVENEL, President. N' ORTH EASTERN RAILROAD. In effect Jan. 2, 1893. south bound. No. 15 Ireave Florence 6 25 a m Kingstree |7.35 a m Lanes 7.55 a m Arrive Charleston 9.44 a m No. 27. Leave Florence 10.50 p|m Kingstree 11.50pm Lanes 12.08 a m Arrive Charleston 2.19 am No. 23. Leave Florence 11.00 p m Kingstree 12.14 am Lanes 12.32 a m Arrive Charleston 2.38 a m No. 53. Leave Lanes 8.45 p m Arrive Charleston 10.40 p m Train on C. A D. R. R. connects at Florence with No. 15 Train. NORTH BOUND. Leave Charleston No. 78. Lane* Kingstree Arrive Florence Leave Charleston.... . No. 66 Lanes 7.83 am Kingstree Arrive Florence Leave Charleston No. 14. Lanes Kingstree... Arrive Florence Leave Charleston No. 52. Arrive Lanes No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. No. 78 runs solid to Wilming ton, N. C., making close connection with W. A W. R. R. for all point* North. Trains Nos. 14 and 66 run via Wilson an Fayetteville—Short Line—and make close connection for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. n 7ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA A AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect January 2 1893. SOUTH BOUND. No. 28. Leave Wilmington 6 25 p m Marion 9 41 p m Arrive Florence 10.25 p in No. 50. Leave Florence 3.20 a m Sumter 4.35 a m Arrive Columbia 6.15 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 Arrive Columbia No. 52 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8.32 a m, Manning 9 09 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave Columbia 10.45 p m Sumter 12.05 a m Arrive Florence 1.80 a m No. 78. Leave Florence 5.10 a m Marlon 5.53 a m Arrive Wilmington 9.10 am No. 59. Leave Columbia Sumter 7.30 p m Arrive Florence 8.50 p m No. 53. Leave Columbia 6.10 pm Arrive Snmter 7. 25p m No. 53 runs through to charleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 8.00 p m. Lanes 8.40 p m, charleston 10.80 a m. Trains on Manchester and Augusta B. R-, leave Sumter daily except Sun day, 10-50 a. in., arrive Rimini 11:59 a. m. Returning leave Rimini 12:30 p m.. arrive Sumter 1:40 p in. Trains on Hartsville R. R. leave Harts,ille 5:00 a. m., arriving Floyds 5:35 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 9:45 p. m., arriving Hartsvill 10:5 p. m. Daily except Sunday. Trains on Wilmington, Chadbouru and Ccnway Railroad leave Chad- bourn 10:31) a. m., arrive at Conway 1:00 p. m„ returning leave Conway at 2:30 p. m., arrive (hvibourn 5:20 p. iu Leave Chadbouru 7:15 a. m. and 5:50 p. m., arrive Hub at 8:00 a. m. and 6:25 p. in. Returning leave Hub 9:00 a. m. and 6:45 p. m , arrive at Chad- bourn 9:45 a- m. ai d 7:30 p in. Daily except Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE. Gen’l Sup t. Attenion Mechanics! All persons in need of babbitt metal can purchase it cheap at TUX Daa unoton Nxws office.