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’ ®ht Sarlinjton JRtira. CREDULITY OF MAN. HENRY T. THOMPSON. WADDY THOMPSON. — ON THE VERGE OF THE UNKNOWN. Editors. TWO GOOD STORIES ILLUSTRATING A BROKER’S THEORY. A.k. Thursday, May 4,1893. gome Men Will Believe Almost Anything Without Logical Investigation if Some- hotly They Happen to Know Appears to I Be In Earnest. THE WORLD S FAIR. The World’s Fair was opened in Chicago on Monday, May 1. This is the fair that everybody has been talking about for three or four years; it is the fair that has been discussed in the pul pit, in the press and in the leg islative halls; it is the fair that has furnished themes for arti cles in all the leading periodicals and subjects for illustrations in all the pictorial magazines of the country; it is the fair that has attracted exhibits not only from every section of this coun try but from all over the uni verse; in short, it is the greatest fair that the world has ever seen. It is not surprising then that Monday should be a proud day for America. The great fair has been opened! From every land, from every clime will come the millions who will look with wonder upon the greatest country and the greatest people on earth—America and Ameri cans People of every nation ality and of every tongue, of every creed and# of every shade of complexion will commingle at the exposition to witness the glories of the great western world. And our home people, they will be thereT From Maine to Texas, from Florida to Califor nia will the crowds press for ward. The Northerner and the Southerner, the Purtan of New England and the cow-boy of the plains, the banker of the East, the farmer of the South and the miner of the West, all will be at the fair to show to the visitors from across the waters that the republic that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific holds a united peo ple, proud of their history and proud of their achievements. The fair commemorates the four hundreth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, the sturdy explorer who braved the stormy Atlantic with his little fleet and disclos ed to the white man a new world—the fairest of them all. This world then a land of forests inhabited by savages and wild beasts has been converted into a land of civilization, prosperity and wealth. Where stood the wild woods now stand fertile fields and immense cities, with intervening towns and villages, all connected by the giant loco motive. The savage and the wild beast have been driven back to make room for the ad vance of the civilized man, who has made America the garden spot of the universe. This is what the faircommem- orates in so magnificent a manner and Thk News wishes that all its friends may be able to witness the big exposition —the greatest event of its kind in this, and perhaps for several successive, generations. GENERAL NEWS. Item* o.' Interest From All Over The World. Two negroes were hanged at Bonham, Texas, on Friday. Frost greatly injured Missis sippi's cotton crop last week. Edwin Booth, the greatest actor of the day, is lying at death’s door. Three negro children who were left alone by their parents, were burned to death in Ala bama last week. Fire destroyed a house at Burlington, Iowa, on Sunday and six of its occupants were burned to death. A railroad accident near Somerset, Pa., last week, caus ed the death of fourteen people and the injury of a large num ber. The negroes at Newberne, N. C., threatened to give trouble last week but the quick arrival "of troops brought them to their senses. The town of Cisco, Texas, was almost wiped out of exis tence on Friday. About twenty people were killed.- Only one ho-'vv was uninjured and the ” ' to property was over to property VUon dollars. They wandered from subject to sub ject in ft listless way over their coffee and cigars, as men often do when they have enjoyed a good dinner, until the broker got on his favorite hobby—the average man's credulity. HU companion, a lawyer, disagreed with him, anil that at once started them on a lively argu ment. After a few minutes of general discussion the broker said: "Well, i’ll give you an instance. It is a pretty good story anyhow, and per fectly true, almost incredible as it seems. [ In the town where I was born there lives ; an old river captain named Stewart, who | Ua great practical joker. The proprie tor of one of the two hoteU in the place U a rather pompous and conceited old man. Stewart walked into the office of | the hotel one day a few years ago, and drawing out a one dollar bank note asked the proprietor if he could change an eleven dollar bill. The old fellow said ‘yes,’ an* took the bill, which, sure enough, had the number eleven in the corners, and just glancing at it handed the amount in change to Stewart. “The joker had added another figure in Ink to the numbers on the bill, and as the proprietor did not like to acknowl edge that tie had never seen an eleven dollar bill before he had only glanced at it casually before putting it in the drawer. Stewart walked out of the hie tel and told all the men he met abont the joke. “About fifteen minutes after Stewart went away a man walked in and said to the proprietor: ‘Mr. Kennedy, I understand that you have an eleven dollar bill here. May 1 look at it? I never saw one.’ "Kennedy produced it, and the man marveled over it for several minutes. Before he got through examining it an other man walked in and asked to see the bill, and then another and another. Finally Kennedy’s curiosity became ex cited, and he thought he would see what tbo bill really looked like. He saw at once how it had been ‘fixed,’ and his face was a study. The boys shouted with laughter, and the old fellow had to acknowledge that the cigars were on him, and he set them up like a man.’’ “Hum I that was funny,” commented the lawyer. "Well, here's another instance,” said the broker. "Stewart went to a picnic one day with some men, and one of them had on a brand new hut he had just bought in the city. It was an almost white derby, and it at once attracted Stewart's attention. •• ‘Well,’ he said, going up to the young man, ‘you’ve got one of those new hats, have you? Let's look at it?* “The fellow took it off with some show of pride and handed it over for inspec tion. “ T saw one of them hats the other day in the city,’ said Stewart to the lit tle group of men who had gathered around him, ‘and I had half a mind to get it, but as I was in a hurry I didn't stop. They are something entirely new They don't burn, you know. I'd like to have that hat. What’ll you take for it? 1 " T don’t want to sell it,' answered the owner, grinning with pleasure at being the object of so much attention. ‘1 didn't know it was fireproof though. Are you sure about it?* “ ‘Oh, yes,' replied Stewart confident ly. Sell it to me and I'll show you.’ “ ‘No, if you're sure I’ll try it myself.' And the young countryman walked over to a wood fire, followed by the crowd of men who had been gaping with wonder at the reported qualities of the new hat. *' 'How will I put it in?’ he asked Stew art, who stood near by with a look of in tense interest on his face. " ‘Oh, chuck it right in. It can’t hurt it,’ replied the joker. "So the innocent victim threw his hat into the fire, which of course made short work of it The man's face was con vulsed with rage and astonishment, and his temper was not improved when the crowd of men burst into a roar. He looked around for Stewart, but that gentleman had discreetly disappeared. “Oh, come offl Go and tell that to the marines as your ‘experience.’ You can’t make me believe such fairy sto ries," said his auditor. “Those stories are perfectly straight; I knew the men myself.”—New York Tribune. An Elp«r(m«nt That Makaa V* “What ComincT" Mr. W. H. Preece, chief engineer and jlectrician to the [jostoffice, has put up a wire a mile long on the coast near Lav- smock and a shorter one on FMatholm, a little island three miles off in the Bristol channel. He fitted the latter wire with a “sounder” to receive messages, and sent a message through the former from a powerful telephonic generator. That message on the mainland was distinctly heard on the island, though nothing con nected the two, or, in other words, the possibility of a telephone between places unconnected by wire was conclusively established. There is a possibility here of Inter planetary communication, a good deal more worthy attention than any scheme for making gigan‘’c electric flashes. We do not know if we can communicate by telephone through the ether to New York or Melbourne with or without rabies, but we do know that, if we can not, the fault is in our generators and sounders, and not in any prohibitory nat ural law. ABigFire in Lynn, Mass’t-Woods-iWoods,-* A Novel Diving Bell. Archibald Price, one of the pioneer settlers of Kanawha valley. West Vir ginia, was making maple sugar in a grove across the river from his house, when he caught sight of three Indians skulking in tno vicinity. “The var- mintsl" he said to himself. "So they mean to pounce on me when I’ve two pails o’ sap aboard.” He was just starting for some of the more distant trees. Of course he changed his purpose on the instant, but he was quick witted enough to give no sign of the fact, and for a fow moments bnaied himself abont the boiling place, whistling merrily. M It he set off across the river in his canoe, the Indians would pursue and shoot him. He had a brother who was a sea diver. From him he had learned something about diving bells, and he now took a sodden resolve to make his kettle serve him in that capacity. He emptied it, but in such a way that an observer at a little distance would have supposed he was filling it from a tnb standing uear. As soon as it was emptied he lifted it quickly, and hurried down the river bank, where he raised it, in an inverted position, over his head, the rim resting on his shonlders, and walked into the water. The bunk was steep, and the water was soon up to his shoulders. Keeping a firm hold of the kettle, he proceeded. The water got deeper and deeper until It was several feet over the top of the kettle. The improvised diving bell answered its purpose excellently, supplying air for him to breathe until he emerged on the home side of the river. So Mr. Price saved himself and his Iron kettle from falling into the hands of the savages.—Youth’s Companion. Will our habitual readers bear with us for a moment as we wander into another, and, as many of them will think, a snpra- sensual region? The thought in a man's brain which causes him to advance his foot mnst move something in doing it, or how conid it be transmitted down that five or six feet of distance? If it moves a physical something, internal to the body, why should it not move also something external, a wave, as we all agree to call it, which on another mind prepared to receive it—fitted with a sounder in fact—will make an impact haring all the effect in the conveyance of suggestion, or even of facts, of the audibility of words? Why, in fact, if one wire can talk to another without con nection, save through ether, should not mind talk to mind without any “wire” at all. None of us understands accurately, or even as yet approximately, what the con ditions are, but many of us know for certain that they have occasionally, and by what we call accident, been present to particular individuals, and that, when present, the communication is completed without cables, and mind speaks to mind independently of any machinery not ex isting within itself. Why, in the name of science, is that more of a “miracle"—that is, an occur rence prohibited by immntable law— than the transmission of Mr. Preece’s message from Lavernock to Flatholm?— London Spectator. The search for the golden fleece had not for its sole object the conquest of a mine, or a precious fleece, or to rob the treasure so carefully heaped by the ava ricious Aetes. Champagne owes its quality to the soil, a mixture of chalk, silica, light clay and oxide of iron, and to the great care and delicate manipulation in manu facture, A book of a thousand pages could be written on “Wonders and Curiosities Respecting the Crab Family,” and each chapter made apropos to the title too. The Prickly Pear. The prickly pear of Africa is so tena cious of life that a leaf, or even a small portion of a leaf, if thrown on the ground, strikes out roots almost Immedi ately and becomes the parent of a fast growing plant, -*-r ‘i-r" Feb23—tf For Sale. iy KOft hard pineGuage shingles ' * at a very lowprice. J. H. EARLY. And SPOT CASH do the Work Our Northern Buyer with the ever ready AMERICAN DOLLAR secures a fine lot of SHOES AT HALF PRICE. We quote a few prices that prove. Ladies’ $2.00 Genuine Dongola Button Shoes for $1.15. Ladies’ $2.50 Genuine Dongola Button Shoes for $1.50. Ladies’ $3.00 Handsewed “ Button Shoes for $2.00. We make the old time 50 per cent Fogies V/esp and Gnash Their Teeth! They are not in it! We alpo qall your attention to our complete stock of SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, Comprising Dry Goods, Notions, Straw and Felt Hats, Clothing, Shoes, &c. We still carry a line of Staple Gro- qeries. Agenh-'STANDARD PATTERNS ■ - Catalogue Free on Request Good News for the Ladies : We cfvry a full line of Patterns for Ladies, Misses and Children. In fact, we have a complete stock of first-class goods at prices that tell the difference between the mer chant that buys for cash and one that buys on long time and pays when he can. " 1 «• Thanking our friends and the public for the liberal patronage of the past, we invite you to call again. Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM. The Only Leader of Low Prices. Willcox’s Old Drug Store. Nonnius, a Roman senator, absolutely preferred exile to parting with a brilliant opal of the size of a filbert, which was earnestly coveted by Mark Antony. When the young king of Spain has been a bad boy he is taken to cbnrch in stead of being allowed to spend the Sun day in seeing a bull tight “There!” exclaimed the fair syndicatress, “I think this ar ticle will fill a long-felt want.” “What is the title, dear?” “How to ManageaSon-in-law.” It is wonderful how well the world gets ou, considering how many people there are who do nothing toward helping it along. A tornado swept over Okla homa last week. Ninety people were killed, and about two hun dred and fifty injured and much property was destroyed. The Standard and*No 9 sew ing machines are found only at Blackwell Bros. ‘‘IDOINUAUCGNESI-AP ’ — IS NOW A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware Store. Also a full line of Agricifal lailfflats, Elgin' Salles, IMiierf, to A.3STID TIlSrWA.IR.E, And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing .A. SIPZEOXAlLTTT. Oct 6—tf Extracts MMnt Pali! Safe and Sure Remedy! No Bad After Result*! J. S. GARNER, D. D. S. Office in Hewitt Block, Upstair*. May 4—tf Creditor’s Notice. A LL persons indebted to the es- cm tate of J. E. Woodham, deceas ed, will make payment immediately and all (lersons having claims against said estate will present them proiierly proved to SARAH W. WOODHAM, Executrix. or LORENZO WOODHAM, Executor. Apl 27—»t Stockholders’ Annual Meeting. FB1HE annual meeting of the stock- I holders of the Pee Dee Cotton Compress Company will be held in the office the president. Dr. J. C. Will- cox, at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, May 9, 1N9H. DR. J. C. WILLCOX, Apl 27—8t. President. IF YOU DOH’T— Like the Watch you have trade it off for another at Mason’s Jewelry Store. We have plenty of Waltham,Elgin and Illinois Railroad Watches, in Gold, Silver and Nickel, at reasonable prices. Harris Lithia W ater, HARRIS’ LITHIA SPRINGS, S. C. After a long and varied experience in the use of mineral watersj from many source*, both foreign and domestic, I am fully persuaded that the Harris Lith ia Water possesses efficacy in the treatment of afflictions of the kidney and bladder unequalled by any other water of whicli I have made trial. This opinion is based upon observation of its effects on my patients for the past three years, during which time I have prescribed it freely and almost uniformly with benefit in the medicable maladies above mentioned. When failure to relieve lias occurred, I have imputed it to insufficient use of the water, for my eiperience teaches me that from one to too quarts daily should be taken from two to four weeks, to secure its full remedial effects. A. N. TALLEY, M. D. Columbia, S. C., October 8th, 1892. Camden, January 28,1892. J. T. Harris, Esq., Waterloo, 8. Dear Sir—1 find great benefit from the use of your Lithia Water. 1 consider it a fine tonic and general regulator of the digestion, as well as verv efficacious in those diseases for which Lithia is con sidered somewhat of a specific. JUDGE J. B. KERSHAW. My wife has been using your Lithia Water and is very much benelltted. I consider it in every respect equal to the famous Buffalo Lithia Water, Abbeville, 8. C. JUDGE J. S. COTHRAN. Having spent last summer days at your Springs, and having since used sev eral cases of the Harris Lithia water, I am glad that I can bear willing testi mony to its valuable qualities. The analysis made by Dr Doremus ought to attract to your place mauy vititors, and send the water to every part of the county. G. W. HOLLAND, New bury, S. C. President Newberry College FOR SALE IN DARLINGTON BY WXIULCOGC & CO. -A-JSTJD J. BOYO. MarSO—3m On Time! S. WOLFRAM is keeping up with the times in his line of business. He has Jewelry of the Latest Styles, Jewelry at the Lowest Price, FULL STOCK OF Silverware and Spectacles. Everything guaranteed as represented. Erne Repairing a Specialty. First-class workmanship on all repair work warranted. Call and look at his stock be fore purchasing elsewhere. 8. WOLFRAM, East side Public Square, Apl3—3 DARLINGTON,8. C. WILKINSON’S BESS MilEUL WEE, THE Most Wcndertul Tonic IN AMERICA, A* revealed by the chemical analy sis made at the University of Alaba ma. Cures Dispepsi* in it* worst form. Chronic Diarrhiea, Diabetes, Sick or Nervous Headache, all Blood and Skin Diseases, Ac, Ac. For sale by Moorhead, Cox & Co., Who will furnish on demand a com plete line of circulars, showing some of th* results achieved by the use of this, the Best N atural Tonic IN AMERICA. Ap 18—tf DR Y GOODS, DRESS GOODS, SHOES, Clothing, E3SEEECARPETS Sc MATTINGS. DRESS GOODS. The most complete stock of Fine Dress Goods with Trim mings to match. Just opeened, a new line of China and Surrah Silks, Figured Indias, handsome line of Shot Silks, Bengalines, Sublime Cloths, the“new thing” in silk and wool, evening shades. HOSIERY. We have an immense quanti ty of Ladies’, Misses’and Child ren’s Hosiery. Ladies’ Initial Handkerchiefs at a bargain. EMBROIDERIES. In this department we carry the largest Tine in the city. See our three job lots at 5, 10 and 20 cents. CLOTHING. Now, if yo.u want a nobby suit or pretty pair of pants see our line. Anything in the lat est shapes in Hats, Collars, Cuffs, Shirts, Neckwear and Underwear will be found at our store. SHOES. Our line of Men’s Fine Shoes gives entire satisfaction. Com plete outfits for Gentlemen, La dies, Misses and Children. GROCERIES We carry a very fine line of Staple and Fancy Groceries. We will guarantee you satisfac tion. RESPECTEULLY, WOODS j^lsTID WOODS. Mar30 $pring£Summer Goods In wool dross goods. All the novelties are found here, in pattern lengths, no two alike. We have also quite a lot of cheap wool dress goods at 10c, 12 l-2c, up to 25e per yard. In Wash Dress Goods, such as Pongees, Organdies, Epingline, Satin Gloria, Belfast and Irish Lawns, Crepons, Corduroys, Zephyr Ginghams, Etc. We are showing the Largest Assorlmenl Ever Brought To Darlington! and would be glad to give prices on these goods and if not cheap enough don’t buy. * DRESS GINGHAMS AT 61c PER YARD, FIGURED LAWNS AT 21c PER YARD. Embroideries, 3 and 4 inches wide, good muslin, nice work 10 cents per yard. Remnants of fine quality figured Lawns 7c per yard worth much more. * A pure white, nice quality, pearl dress Buttons, 10c per doz. And in fact a thousand of other goads at prices seldom seen m a retail store. \ ou 11 not know what a dollar, or, in fact, a few cents, will buj until you visit our establishment. Our stock for the Spring and Summer of 1893 far surpasses any stock ever handled by us. Call early and get some of these bargains before they are all sold. A fine {issortment of Men’s and Boys’ Straw Hats. Our stock of Shoes end Slippers is full. Iic . We.,Stock Your ^ $ S' l.rnuns. Mar 23-