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fe Itarlington ^po. PlJBLISHKD EVRRT THURSDAY Morniso. fiBNKT J. Jhompsok, PROPRIETOR. TERMS—11 Per Annum in Advnnce; 50 cents for fl months; 25 cents for 8 months. Advertising Rates: One Square first insertion 00 One Square second insertion 50 Every subsequent Insertion 50 Contract advertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms. IT IS A USELESS GIFT. THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX CAUSES SERIOUS TROUBLE. Science AdviMices to Hie Bettcae and Show* the Only Way to Hafety—A PoMlblllty That the Coming Man Will Be Without That Dangerous Organ. Will the coming man have a vermi form appendix? Who has not heard of that troublesome little pouch in the ab dominal regions which serves no good purpose, but is responsible for thousands of deaths each year? Emmons Blaine, Senator Hagan and hundreds of other persons of prominence had trouble with the vermiform appen dix—and they died. Hew science is asking in all serious ness whether the vermiform appendix shall be allowed to exist; whether it shall not be removed entirely before it has the opportunity to poison and destroy. Profeiywr B. O. Wilder has said flatly that children should be relieved of the vermiform appendix, just as they arc vaccinated. But other students in this new Hold are not yet ready to pronounce in favor of so radical a scheme. Physicians have known for centuries that the vermiform appendixexiste<l, but it was not until 1888—not until five years ago—that any one of the profession had the daring to make an incision into the abdominal cavity and remove this rank offender against the laws of health. The attack on the vermiform appendix is but five years old, but it is being pros ecuted with remarkable vigor in New York city, where it originated, and tho reason is not far to seek. It is simply be cause physicians feel sure that they have evidence that appendicitis, as disease of the vermiform appendix is named, causes more deaths every year than consump tion, the long acknowledged chief among fatal diseasee. The appendix vermiformis in normal condition is about the size of a lead pen cil and obout 0 inches long. It is very well shown in a i)ieeimen which was re moved at a clinical lecture at the Post graduate Medical school on Jan. 18. This appendix had ulcerated and in creased in size somewhat, but gavea very fair idea of the part When perfectly normal, it so compares with an ordinary lead pencil that it is most frequently de scribed as Uks it. It is a pencil that write* only death warrant!. Even today very few physicians out side of New York city have any accurate knowledge of appendicitis or would un dertake an operation for the removal of the appendix. So entirely is the discov ery of the disease and the prsper method of treating it an American development of knowledge and practice that among scientists of other countries today ap pendicitis is known as “the American disease.” Since the recent discoveries removals of the cause of all the trouble have been very frequent. One general practitioner has had 48 such cases within a year. Speaking in the light of recent re search, it seems safe to say that appen dicitis is far more prevalent than con sumption, and in just that proportion causes more deaths, the chief difference being that the cause or seat of appendici tis may be removed bodily with success in most cases, and success means restor ation to perfect health. The removal of the vermiform appen dix in the early stages of an attack of appendicitis is now held to be one of the safest of surgical operations, while such an operation, when tho case has come to new its last and fatal stage, is one of tiie most desperate. The sad case of Senator Hagan is ope in point. He bad long de sired an operation, but it had been de layed until too late for an assured suc cess. And now, after all these facts are re cited, recurs the question of whether the coining man will have a vermiform ap pendix. It is not meant by this to in quire whether the coming man will have his appendix slain lest it slay him. A much wider question is indicated. The number of appendixes removed in this city since the discovery that such an op eration could be safely performed is very great, all things considered. One gen eral practitioner, not a surgical special ist, told the representative of The World that lie had removed 100 appendixes in two years. Possibly 1,000 appendixes have been removed since the first opera tion of this sort In 1888, and most of these in the past three years. What follows? If such a rate U to be maintained, there will soon be a very large proportion of the people of New York city who have eliminated their vermiform appendixes, and we are glad of it. Will the children of these people be likewise possessed of vermiform appen dixes? Undoubtedly. But should the eliminsting process be continued for a fsw generations, how long would it he before this useless and dangerous, de generate and rudiraeatary portion of the body is permanently bred out of exist ence?—New York Werld. ▲ Clock That Registers ths Tide. The chamber of commerce of Rouen has erected a clock tower which gives the time on three sides and the height of thatide on the fonrth, namely, that front ing the harbor. The tide indicator con- siata essentially of a float, which, by means of a cord and counter weight hung on a drum, actuates a series of shafts with bevel wheel gearing and moves a hand or pointer on a dial like that of a dock, marked with the necessary figures to show the level of the tide. The dials are of opal glass and are illuminated at night. The clock has an apparatus for distributing the time to othw clocks in Rouen and also for unifying the time after the method adopted in Paris.— London Globe. When Maha Mongkut, father of the t king of Siam, died in 1868, his y was embalmed and loft sitting in i for nearly a rear and a half. Difficulty of Sslllnr a Boat. Watched from the wharf, a sailboat seems sn easy sort of craft to manage. The wind app <,1 ‘ r s <5° everything. Tho casual guest of a skilled skipper likewise is apt to thi ik that as his host takes things so easy it cannot be so very diffi cult to handl>‘ a sailboat after all. Ho regards the warning of cxiiorienre ns based on the jealousy of competition. Let him who thinks sailing a science whuih its followers try to represent as hard to learn Itecauso they want to keep it to themselves take a trick at the helm once. It looks easy to keep the boat on her course. Your friend who takes yon out sailing barely touches the tiller once in awhile. Some day he asks you to take tho tiller while he goes forward. He tells yon to keep that sjrire and that tall chimney in line. You take tho helm; you do what yon think you have seen him do. The chimney and the steeple act as if they were bewitched. They positively will not come into line. Yon observe in a knowing tone, “She doesn't seem to mind her helm.” Bnt she is minding her helm, and pretty soon you find out what jibing means. Most of the fatalities of summer sailing are duo to tho errors of tho man who thinks sailing is easy, who is confident that he knows all abont it. In reality many a sea esptain who can handle a big ship without difficulty does not feel at wise in command of a sailboat. Boat sailing is a coarse at the Naval academy in which tho cadets undergo arduous training undi r the most skilled instruct ors.—Boston Transcript. MISSILES FROM THE HEAVENS. The Fox, the ftadgor ami UubbitM. The fox noses the rabbits out at times and scratches them out. As to tho badger, what could l>o more delicate for his very accommodating appetite than tender young rabbits? They put flesh onto his ribs after his fast—often a long and com pulsory onp—in winter. So he digs for them in the most businesslike manner, just like a mole. He knows where they are exactly—his nose tells him that—and in less than two minutes the fore part of himS i buried. All you will see will bo his hind legs working vigorously a<ul a lot of eartli moving. But ho gets his rabbits. Hungry stomachs are hard to reason with. The badger is, I know, iu. a rule, nocturnal in his habits, so is a fox; but where the places that they fre quent are quiet and secluded they will at times hunt by day for their food. A vixen and her mate at times reverse the order of things. Like humans, wood land wild creatures are governed by cir cumstances. 1 have at different times met with the fox and the badger in spot* where I cer tainly did npt expect to see them. And when I have gone where, according to my reckoning, they ought to have been —so far as locality could lie relied on - they were net there. Very contradic tory experience* one lias in looking for wild tilings. Blackwood’s Magazine. The Habit of CureleiisnegA. In youth men are self reliant, self as sertive and self sufficient. Soon they find themselves mistaken, possibly in lit tle things at first, fotnhe fact is they are still small in knowledge and influence. Hence the chagrin of the first errancy is softened by the reflection that its conse quences cannot work much harm. Too often they fail to emphasize the impor tance of the value of their utterances as their personal influences widen. Hence their testimony without strident proof for themselves begins to work mischief for others. Then follow surprises, mis understandings, alienations, crimina tions, heartaches and occasionally some thing worse. Friendships are broken, in tegrity is wounded, confidence is shaken, human testimony is suspected. Now all this is not the resalt chiefly of any essentially bad trait in human nature. It arises rather from careless ness and a sort of insincere habit of con doning the fault on tho score of personal insignificance. “Oh, I didn’t mean it!” covers a multitude of these sins among our younger friends. But, alas, “younger friends” soon grow into midlife, and the careless habit, onee indulged, barnacles itself upon age.—Boston Commonwealth. MlMtakea of Missionaries. Come behind the curtain with me while I whisjier into your ear a few of the mis takes made by missionaries, who talk so mnch about the mistakes of the heathen. One evening an English missionary in Peking took a friend who was visiting him to a regular Chinese theater. It happened that tho play for that evening was a burlesque on foreign preaching. A Chinaman dressed up to represent a foreigner came upon the stage with his arms full of books, attended by his Chi nese servant. He began to preach a mock sermon, making the mistakes in talking which a foreigner is likely to make. These mistakes were received with bnrsts of laughter from the audience, to whom the books were distributed. The fun came to a climax when the preacher, after delivering a sentence particularly full of laughable mistakes, turued to his servant and said; “How did I speak? Did I do pretty well?" and the servant replied with great gravity: “The foreign teacher speaks the Chinese langnags ex ceedingly well. No mistakes at all were made.”—New York Independent. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Story Writing. Mr. R. L. Stevenson says that he be gins work eveiy morning at 6 o'clock and sometimes keeps at it all day in spite of an impression that three hours of writing is enough. “I am a laborious writer,” he avers, thereby encouraging tho worthy bawl whose motto is “Labor Omnia Vincit” and who have fsith that nothing ia beyond the reach of hard work. But straightway be dashes their hopes when he says, “I inherit a taste for story telling from ray father, who used to tell a story every night before ho went to bed.” Is not that a mostunfair advantage for a romancer to take of his contemporaries, to burst upon the current story market with the prodigions endowment of de scent from a Scotchman who oat of mere love of yarning was used to tell a story every night? Frankly it seems a worse blow to ordinary competitive endeavor than for an Astor to take up the busi ness of publishing magazines.—Harper’s Weekly. Toy. on ■ Tombitons. In the cemetery of Marietta, Ga., there is an infant's grave that attracts atten tion of visitors to that place. There is no headstone, bnt resting on the top of the grave is a glass box containing the playthings the little one had before its death. There are dolls, rubber and china, rubber ball, rattler, china cup and other toys. On the sides of the grave are three bottles of medicine, that which was in use presumably during the last sickness. —Eachange. Billion, of Them Fall, bnt f'omparnllT.lf Few Keuvh the Earth. “It is a mistake to suppose that mete orites hurst in the proper sense of the word," said a scientist to a writer. "But it often happens that they are broken to pieces on striking the atmoephere of the eartli This may see.,i surprising, but let me call your attention to an analogy. Strike the surfact of water with yonr fist, and, though a fluid, the resistance it opposes to the blow seems almost as strong as if it were solid. Now, the me teorite is moving at a tremendous rate of speed. If small, it is set on fire in an in stant by the friction of the air, and after glowing for a moment brightly is con sumed. "On any night in snmmer yon will see ‘shooting stars' now and then. They are meteorites, which on coming into contact with the earth's atmosphere are set afire. This is not surprising, inas much as they approach the planet on which we live at a speed which often at tains 44 miles a second. By causing the destruction of meteorites the atmosphere serves as a protection for people on tho globe, who would otherwise be pelted by such missiles to a dangerous extent. It Is estimated that not less than 10,000,- 000 of them, big enough to he visible to the naked eye, strike the earth «very 24 hours. "By contact with this plaint the me teorites are raised to a temperature which reaches from 8,000,000 to 4,000,000 de grees—high enough to consume the hard est known substance almost instantly. Thus only those of large size reach the earth before being entirely bnrned up. Tiie greatest number of such bodies can be seen just before daybreak, because by that time we are on the front side of the globe as it moves throngh space. The elevation at which most of them are vis ible has been found to be between 45 and 80 miles, very few being seen at a greater height than 100 miles. “It is believed by most astronomers that some very large meteors have en tered our atmoephere and have passed out into space again, their great mo mentum being sufficient to take them away from the earth’s attraction. What these flying Inxlies are is a question that has been mnch disputed, but it is con sidered most likely that they are the debris of broken np comets. In one re cent instance the correctness of this the ory has found striking proof. That was the case of the comet of Biela. It was discovered in 1826 and was again ob served in 1882, 18-15 and 1852. In 1845 it had split into two parts, and in 1872 it failed to appear when and where it should have done. Evidently it had been smashed np, and prediction was made that there would be a great meteoric shower composed of the remains of tho lost comet. This prediction was fnlfilled “Certain groups of meteors move in elliptical orbits around the sun. Occa sionally the earth pasaes throngh their clusters, producing what are known as meteoric showers. Such showers occur annually from the 9tb to the 12th of Au gust, and there is a similar display ir November once every 83 years. The stream of the August meteors is esti mated to be from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 miles thick. The earth, though travel ing with the velocity of 2,000,000 miles a day, is Immersed in it for several days. “The fall of meteorites to the earth is sometimes accompanied by a great dis play of light, occasionally lllnminating an area of many thousand square miles When such an event occurs at night, and with loud detonations, so great in some instances as to shake houses and fright en men and animals, the explosions are caused by the breaking up of the me teor. Ordinarily you will find that such meteoric bodies are coated on the out side with a black substance, which is the effect merely of fusion of the super ficial material by great heat. A piece of Biela’s comet was actually picked up in Mexico in 1872 at the time of the showei of its remains. Naturally it is consid ered interesting. “Such great interest is taken in mete orites that all of those collected have been carefully catalogued. They are mostly composed of iron, with usually a peroeqtage of nickel and cobalt and sometimes copper and tin. It is custom ary to saw them into slices, which is a laborious process, for sale or for ex change among museums. Sometimes the slices are prettily polished, or the cut surfaces are etched with acid so as to ex pose the crystalline structure. This structure is in no two snch bodies exact ly the same, and the differences are thought well worth studying. Attem pts have been made to counterfeit meteor ites because they are so valuable, but without success.”—Washington Star. —J Fortune! From Rags, It is astonishing what immense sums ragpickers receive in the course of the day. The combings of women's hair sell at 80 cents a pound. This means (300 to the knights of the hook. "Merinos,” as they are called, are another source of profit. These are the scraps of tailors and dressmakers and bring about $36,000 a year. The old bones are another source of profit and bring about $100,000 a year. The papers, corks and crusts of bread all go to different industries and bring a not less fabulous sum. As for the election bulletins, which to the number of 1,825,000 are pasted upon the walls of Paris, they are mnch sought, especially immediately after an election, for tho making of buttons.—Paris Letter FTadlng a Law. When Ben Bntler was a young lawyer the selectmen of Lowell, then a town, issued a mandate that all dogs should wear muzzles. The next morning Ben walked down town, followed by his big Newfoundland dog, with a very small muzzle tied to the end of its tail. Ben remarked, "My dog is wearing a muz zle.” A callow imitator of Ben living in Ward One has fastened a bicycle bell under his saddle and anticipates mnch fun when a bluecoat stops him because he has no bell on his “bike.”—Springfield Homestead. Wonderful Smokeleu Coal. Some wonderful “smokeless coal" is reported from the Ouachita river dis trict in Arkansas. The vein is 42 inches wide. The coal burns without smoke or poke, and one ton will go as far as 10 of the ordinary variety. Twenty per cent of it Is oil, which makes a paint you can't burn at all.—New York Recorder. A woman says that a man can be a senior wrangler and acquire fame as au authority on the most abstruse subjects, hut he cannot answer the questions of a 8-year-old child without revealing hie ignorance. WANTED! Our customers and friends throughout the county to know that we have just opened the Largest Stock of Goods We have ever had the pleasure of offering to the public, and that these goods were bought with a view to the present hard times, which means that in order to sell this large stock, we pro pose TO WORK OH SMALLER PROFITS. We ask the people of Darlington and adjoining counties to sustain us by giving us their patronage and we will not disap point them. Remember, our stock embraces everything in the way of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats. Hardware, And Groceries. Respectfully, BRUNSON, LUNN & CO. J.D. BAIRD “The Furniture Man” Will advertise something new in his line NEXT WEEK. Jan 4— IS NOW A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware Store. Also a full line of Igrinltinl loplmts, Itpsn’ Sifgilies, Miter;, Stow -A. IDTID TIISTWAIRE, And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing Oct6- -tf j&. siFEoi-A-i/nr. What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Inffcat* and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is m harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee Is thirty yrnrs* use by Millions of Mothers. I Castoria is the Children's ] —the Mother's Friend. Castoria. “Caatoria lx ao well adapted toehOdren Chat I recommend It aa wperior toanjpmcripttan known to me." n. A.. Amenta, M. D„ JH So. Oxford »., Brooklyn, K. T. “Tho tap of ‘Caatorta* b ao wairrrmlcjtd ita merle* so well known that it teems n work of auparerogatirti to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Caatoria within easy reach.” Ctiuca Uaana, D. n.. Row Tort City, Castoria. Caatoria core* Colic, Conatipaiiau, Soar Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, dOUa Worm*, girt* aleop, and promataa O- gretlon. Without injurioua madioatlon. THE “CAUGRAPH.” ^ It is now A Thirteen years since the "CALIGRAPH” TyP*WRITER first put upon the mar- time has responded faithfully to what is required of a first-class writing machine. The Caligraph is| recognized everywhere as the most simple and most durable typewriter. It is easily learned, does beautiful work, and will last a decade, if properly cared for. In speed contests it has repeatedly taken first place and in telegraphic work has nevei been excelled. For manifold work it has no superior. With interchangable parts the Caligraph is well nigh indestructible. The expe rience of business men, ministers, telegraphers, short-hand schools and government departments all go to prove that the Caligraph is without a peer. SOLID OUST E.A-SY TERMS which can be ascertained by applying at The Dar lington News Office. C. Irvine Walker, Jr., A Co., GENERAL AGENTS, 6 BROAD STREET, - • CHASLXITON, S. C. X Eftablifhed 1858. Re Established 1889. Insure Your Property WITH Who represents the un me imurc cms n tee mi! Satisfaction Guaranteed. Represents Twelve First- class Companies. September 11.1890 CD CD CD PG CD CO S' £2 cr*“ CD CQ w CO I 3 > a 3 S (D *d c •v o . o' D O'? o e c 5 a > f > H *1 H Cl AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELl JUST OPENED NEW Fall liner;! Pretty Styles AND Lowest Prices. AT Get 5—8m "For aorcrul yean I ham r-oommaDdad your 'CaOorta,’ and dial! always uoatiau* to do no c* it haa invariably j F-awr* T. rixnaa, 1L D, l.Jbth Street and 7th Awe., Now Yaric ORy. Ta* aorta n Oosraav, 77 KtmaaT Saw Ton Cm To Our Customers of the. Pee Dee Section: We have decided here after to conduct our business in your terri tory direct with buyers. We can thus better as sure you of prompt at tention, low prices, and clear agreements not liable to misunderstand ing and confusion as in past under a different system. To responsible and honorable buyers we will make it an object to correspond with us, and we want to deal with no other class. Write us for prices on any make or kind of machinery you want, and we will make an honest effort to serve your best interests. W. H. GIBDES, JR., ft CO., COLUMBIA, 8. C. DeeSS-ly SC&riE PROM OUR NBW SERIAL ffiffijJDttu flBODttPO®* DSfloDJJ A Story of Love # % and Adventure ON THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA oei tood© \pmm htitw's Natict. Auditor’s Office. i Dahiazston, 8. C., Deo. 1,1803 | T HIS office will be opea tor t purpose of listing all real a personal property and poll taxee I the fiscal year commencing Nov 1883, and ending Oct. 81, 18M, frt Jaanary 1, to Pebntarv SO, iaclueb * —-*—requited in filling t * named below. person or by d< uty: Philadelphia, Monday, Jzn. 8 Lamar, Tuesday and Wedutedx Jan. 9 and 10. iress, Thursday, Jan 11. ‘ id, Friday, S Bridg*, Lydia, Monday AL Stokes B lay, Jan. 18. >, Saturday, Jan. 18 — y, Jan. 16. Hartsvllle, Tuesday and Wsdn day, Jan. 19 and 17. Antioeh, Thursday, Jan. 18. iffiavensworth, Friday. Jon. 19. i ^""“y And Frid Jon. 19 and 19, by deputy. ^jMpsr, Saturday, Jan. 20, ’by d ^filgh Hill, Monday, Jan. tt.Jby’d Mcchanieevilie, Tuesday, Jan. 91 If taxpayer* will aid theAuditor ia g ting all the taxable property on ( tax books much dissatisfaction n existing would cease. The sch would be increased if all taxa polls could be entered. Male per. i between the agee of 91 and 00 yei are deemed taxable polls except thi incapable of earning a support W. H. LAWRENCE Dee 7—4t Auditor D.