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ihc fjarlington Jrtpas. Pcblishki) Evert Thursday Morning. fiBNRV J t Jhompsow, PROPRIETOR. TERMS—11 Per Amuiin in Advance; 50 cents for 8 months; 20 cents for 3 months. Advertising Rates; One Square first insertion...$1.00 One Square second insertion 50 Every subsequent insertion 50 Contract advertisements inserted npon the most reasonable terms. IN OCEAN’S DEPTHS. STRANGE CREATURES OF THE DEEP BROUGHT TO LIGHT. Animal Life That Falls to Pieces When the Pressure of the Water No Longer Holds It Together—The Uottom of the Sea. What It le Like. The new submarine world now ex plored and mapped out presents a very different picture from that painted for ns by the poets. Dnt a short time has •lapsed 4 nee the bottom of the ocean was supposed to he the counterpart of the face of the earth above water—with bills and valleys, with predipitousmonn- tains lifting toward the surface and pro found gorges sinking to unfathomable depths. The ocean floor Is far loss di versified than the land. Mere end there, to be sure, islands in midocean are the summits of enormous mountains, rising more or lees abruptly from a generally level surface, and th< sea lying over a narrow, depressed re gion in the northwestern Pacific reaches its greatest depth. But this is excep tional. In its general character the ocean bottom consists of vast flat or slightly undulating plains. An extraor dinary circumstance that has Iwen no ticed with interest and that always cre ates surprise when first learned is the entire absence of foreign matter in the deeper part of the ocean’s floor. Of all the vessels lost in midocean; of all the human beings that have been drowne,d; of all the marine uniinaU that have perished; of all the day, sand and gravel let Jail by dissolving icebergs; of all the various substances drifted from every shore by shifting currents, not a trace remains, but in their place water from 1,000 to 9,500 fathoms in’ depth covers the nmform deposit of thick, bln- ish, tenacious slime culled globigerinu ooze. A bit of this under a powerful lens is a revelation of bennty not readily forgotten. The ooze is composed Almost entirely of the daintiest, most delicately beautifnl shells imaginable. At depths greater than 2,500 fathoms the bottom of the sea consists mainly of products arising from- exposure, for al most incalculable periods, to the chem ical action of sea water, of pumice and other volcanic matters. This finally re sults in the formation of the red clay de posits that are considered characteristic of the profoundest depths of the ocean. Carbonate of lime, which in the form of the shells of fdraminifera, makes up so large a part cf the globigurina ooze, is here almost entirely absent. Sea water is very nearly a universal solvent, and before any shell, large or small, reaches the bottom of these tre mendous abysms It is chemically eaten up, literally dissolved—a result which the enormous pressure of the water must materially hasten. At 1,000 fathoms the weight of the water pressing on all sides of an object immersed to that depth is very nearly one toi. to the sqnoro inch, or more than 100 times that snstained at the sen level, and pt the greatest depths the pressure is so increased that it would seem nothing could withstand it. in fact, heavy metal cylinders let down With the sounding apparatus are sometimes, being drawn np again to the surface, found bent and collapsed; strongly made glass vessels which the metal enclosed are shattered into fragments. in the profonndest abysms of the sea are strange forms of life that never, save when bronghtnp by the trawl, see the up per light. The work carried on by means of the United States fish commission ves sel, the Albatross, bus established the fact that forms of sea life inhabiting up per waters may descend to about 1,200 feet from the surface, but that below this, to a depth of 800 or 800 fathoms, a barren zone intervenes where marine life seems absent. But still deeper, strange to say, has been discovered as abundant and varied fauna, new to sci ence, living under conditions of tremen dous pressure and pancity of the life sustaining element of oxygen that in duced an eminent zoologist to any quite recently, “What we know of tile great- oat ocean depths forbids us to expect to find them inhabited by living organ isms.” Here indeed survive forms of life the like of which no Inhabitant of the upper world, not even tho snn him self, has looked npon before the dredges of the Challenger, the Albatross, the 1 Blake and similarly equipped vessels dragged up marine creatures from con genial cold and dark. it might reasonably be supposed that these denizens of great sea depths wonM be built more firmly and strongly than surface animals to resist the pressure of the element in which they live, but it is just the contrary. The most universal characteristic of these creatqrcs is the looseness and flabbiness of texture they exhibit Indeed they seem to neod the excessive pressure of the water abont them to keep their parts together, for when they are brought to the surface they are ready to fall to pieces. It is a problem, so strangely are some of them formed, how they can move from place to place. Were they not entirely below the disturbing element of wave action, they would, to all appearances, be help less. Inhabiting these abysemal spaces, as completely cut off from communication with the upper waters as we are from the inhabitant! of ot’itg planets, we can only vaguely speculate on their habits and jndge their manners of life from their somewhat remote analogies to the surface species nearest akin to them. Plant life is entirely absent from their place of abode, and although they doubt less prey npon each other some original sources of food supply must of course be conjectured to exist.—Cosmopolitan. The Irlv* Gr«‘at OrcaiiA. ' The following are the Istest estimates of the five great oceans: Pacifiu, ? 1.000.• 000 square miles; Atlantic, 85.000,000 square miles; Indian, 28,000,000 square miles; Antarctic, 8,500,000 square miles; 1,500,000 square miles Charaetcrtsttes of Crtmlaala. The measure aronnd the shall of the criminal, taken horizontally, is always less than that around the sknll of the upright man, and his brain is found to be lighter, hit constitution feebler, too, and his heart is weak. Bnt even among culprits themselves there are great dif ferences—thus ti e highway robber is naturally found to be taller than the pickpocket, and the boneeof his skeleton are stronger. Ho and the murderer, when they write at all, write a large ronud hand with many flourishes. Tiie thief writes with effeminacy, a small hand. These people are apt to give the stu dent surprises. He finds, for instance, that they are not habitually cruel. Wan ton murderers will be kind to a pet. Whore they are cruel it is the women who are most so, and who discover the most shocking forms of cruelty, and al though a few have talent they are all wanting in the ability to nse their talent to advantage, but most of them have great stupidity. They are flighty and faithless always, clinging long to nothing. And with it all they are extraordinarily superstitious The one satisfactory thing that comes out of all this investigation is the estab lishment of the fact that education di minishes the tendency to crime, and that as by slow degrees the day aball come when a whole generation is educated the children of that generation will be born with less and less tendency to crime or to crime made easy.—Harper’s Bazar. Mr. .farrett'a Experience u a Forty-niner. “The first time 1 was in Portland," saiil Theatrical Manager Henry C. Jar- rett, “was In 1619. I came aronnd the Horn from New York as snpercargo of three ships bound for San Francisco. After we had d icharged our cargoes I had some little leisure on my hands, and I conclnded to come to this country and take a look : t it. I took passage on the Sea Gull, one of the very first steamers that ever came np the Colum bia river. The I lowing of the whistle caused considei able fright among the Indians along th > banka I brought np from San Francisco a hogshead of sugar on speculation. When we landed in Portland the h gshead fell overboard, bnt was soon fished out. The sugar was about 150 pounds heavier after the acci dent, but I sold it, v. ater and ail, for 82 cents a pound. The sugar cost me 16 a pound. “I bought a large lot of potatoes here by the bushel at a very low price, and gold them in San Francisco at f 1 a pound. I also took bock with me four turkeys and told a sailor if he would hitch them np with strings and drive them through the streets of f an Francisco and sell them he could have 25 per cent of the procecdst He sold the turkeys for |50 apiece to a couple of restaurant keepers, who wanted the birds as an advertise ment. Tliis was just before Christmas, 1849.’’—Portland Oregonian, An Old Truth Proved Once More* A pneumatic tired safety bicycle that rested against the curb in Eighth avenue opposite the Grand Opera Honse on Fri day night had a crowd abont it for an honr. It bore a huge placard with the inscription, "For Sale, Price |12." The placard hod been placed there by the owner, who bad made a wager that he would display the bicycle for two hours, and that no one would venture to buy it. There was a lot of lively talk among the crowd that stared at the bicycle, but nobody went icio the cigar store where the man who had bet that a pnrchasei would appear was anxiously waiting for some one with $12 to materialize. A stout Englishman neatly dressed came along ana studied the placard with a frown. “I hate these practical jokes," he cried. *1 ride a bicycle myself, and 1 only wish I had $12 in cash, and I'd get that wheel. That reminds me of the story of the man who stood on London bridge and offered to sell gennine gold sovereigns for a pen ny apiece and stood there an hoar with out selling any.” The bicycle owner won his bet finally, to the chagrin of the man who felt sure that a bargain would be snapped up. The fun of it was that the owner would have been forced to part with it under the terms of the wager.—New York Sun. RUtorl'x Dual Nxtnra, I have never met with a more passion ate, fiery actress than Ristori, with one possessed to the same degree by the demon of tragedy. Yet when she came to Paris for the first time she was nurs ing her last child. Well, on the days she was acting the bronght her baby with her to the theater, pat it to sleep and went to g ve it the breast daring the Intervals of "Myrrhs,’’ which is sim ply the most n. mstronsly passionate of all dramatis works. Did the part of nnree detract from the partof the tragic actress? By no means. Did the part of the tragic actress detract from the part of the nurse? No more than in the oth er case. I am. no doubt, quoting an ex ceptional fact, which may be solely ac counted for by the strength of organiaa- tion possessed by Mme. Ristori, but La Malibran also showed us numberless contrasts of fe .ling altogether unlocked for.—“Recollections of Sixty Years.•• Th* Chmiaplsa Cantaloup* Farm. Back Anthony, colored, of Early coun ty, Ga., is said to be the best cantaloupe raiser in the state. His methods are thna described: "He fertilizes them with moc casins, adders, coachwhips and tnch other snakes as he can conveniently catch In the spring, which imparts to them the finest flavor imaginable. He also raises the moat delicious rattlesnake watermelons." Thay War* Net Votlaf. Foreign Visitor—Ah, yon have a b tiful country and a noble system of ernment—every man a freeman am equal. What is that great crowd ai that hotel? Are they voting for against some new law? American Citizen—N-o—ahem—a { ceasis stopping there.—New York W iy- _ Purehitaing Safety. Mr. Oldtimer—I think tho pay of 1 latora nowaday s is outrageously hig Mr. Nowadays—Nonsense, man! don’t know when you are well of Wish they were paid more. "Merer “Certainly. Pay 'em enough to s steam yachts and race horse*. 1 they won't be so eternally anxious t< at their desks and spoil our laws,”—] York Weekly. It is said that a pinch erf salt place the tongne and allowed to dissolve si ly is helpful in sick headache. WHV BOOKS ARE CHEAP. A Machine That Prints and Folds Three Thousand F.very Hoar* There are various rumors and tale* floating about town among those in the business concerning some wonderful ma chinery over on the west side of the city in a certain monstroue bookmaking es tablishment. The “novel machine” is a large web | press similar to the kind newspapers are printed on, hut arranged to take curved electrotypes of each page of a book in stead of a single large metal cylinder casting. There are two cylinder*, on each of which 144 pages may he screwed, and as the long strip of* paper goes through, first one side is printed and then the other, making it possible to print 288 pages at every revolution. The strip of paper, after being carried over rollers which dry the ink, is ent, folded and bronght together in the shape of a small volume, with the edges all trimmed. Ev ery time the great cylinder goes round a novel is printed, folded and trimmed, and 5,000 of these are turned out every hour, while, If it were necessary, 7,000 or 8,000 might be the qnota. From the printing press these books are carried to a little machine that looks like a sewing machine, and two wire stitchee are taken in the back of each. The stitched volumes are thbn carried to the covering machine, where they are pat aide to side in a long feeding trough. At the end of this is a little compartment large enough to take a book, carried on an endless chain running over wheels at each end. Indeed, there are a series of little compartments on this chain, and as the chain moves along each one re ceives a book. As the book proceeds a wheel running in a gluepot presses against its back, smearing it with glne. A little further along there is a pile of covers that comes np at just the right moment, leaving a cover sticking to the glney hack of tho book. In this way 50 hooks can bo covered every minute. Two hundred and fifty thousand of these paper covered novels are thus turned out every two weeks, and extra editions of 50,000 or so are often worked in besides.—Now York Commer cial Advertiser. The Last English Rabbit. The game of the world is decreasing, and as new lands are opened to civiliza tion so it will get less and less. In the straggle for existence, there will be no room for the sportsman. His require ments will grow more modest as time advances, bnt they will not bo satisfied. The last British wolf was killed in Suth- erlandshire abont the year 1700 by a man named Poison. Who will be handed down to posterity as the slayer of the last British rabbit? What a pathetic picture might be drawn of the last cock pheas ant! Perhaps some Macaulay of the far distant future may astonish his readers by his account of what went on in the rural districts of Great Britain in the nineteenth century. He would relate how, owing to the scantiness of the population, men used to shoot partridges and pheasants by the thonsand on ground then and for gener ations past the sites of immense towns; telling how the great garden of England, then mapped ont into small teuements, each laboriously and minutely culti vated, with no waste of wood or hedge row, used in those far away years to be furiously ridden over by hundreds of horsemen in pursnit of an animal long since extinct in the land and only known to the curious in old books of natural history.—Macmillan's Magazine. French Servants and Wealthy Shopkeepers. The one extravagance of dress of the French servant girl lies in having her best gown made by a dressmaker instead of making it herself. Hence her corsages always fit her well, and her plain stuff costume has a degree of style about it which she is fully capable of appreciat ing. The ladies of the so called bour geois set—the wives and daughters of rich shopkeepers and manufacturers— very rarely indulge in rich fashionable toilets. Mme. Boucicant, the foundress of the Bon Marche, was worth millions upon millions. Always arrayed in black silk or satin of excellent quality, bnt made in the plainest possible style, she looked to the last hour of her life just what she was—the greatest and richest shopkeeper in Parts possibly, bnt still a shopkeeper, and one that never tried to look like anything different. When the daughter of one of these wealthy trades people marries, her trousseau is usually very superb, but tho famous masters of the art of dress are seldom or never called upon to exert their inventive tal ents in her behalf.—Lucy -Harper in Home Journal. How Air Raalata a Locomotlra. Experiments made by the scientists appointed for that purpose by the French government show that the resistance of the atmosphere to the motion of a high speed train often amounts to half the to tal resistance which the locomotive most overcome. Two engines, of which the resistance was measured repeatedly and fonnd to be 19 pounds per ton at 87 milee per hour, were coupled together and again tried. In the second trial the re sistance fell to 14 pounds per ton, the second engine being shielded from at mospheric resistance by the first It strikes me that there is an idea for some inventor half unmasked in this item.— St Louis Republic. A Sign of Good Brooding. , One of the most convincing signs of good breeding is respect for other people's rights. We all sobscribe to that state ment in theory. Yet how many of ns always remember in any pnblic place, in the street car or at a hotel table not to introduce the two subjects that are inevitably certain to hurt some one pres ent—religion or politics? Women are not exempt from dabbling in politics, though generally professedly ignorantof pnblic affairs. Sometimes their speeches apropos of one’s favorite politician re- mied one of the hint conveyed in the as sertion that the wasp can sting as well without its head aa with it.—Chicago Mail. A Slam*** Statu* of Buddha. The reclining statne of Bnddha in the Temple of the Sleeping Idol at Bangkok is 180 feet long, made of brick and cov ered with gold. The soles of the feet are 16 feet long and are inlaid with mother of pearl in designs representing flowers and fruits.—Philadelphia Press. A Wl*« Lad. "If fishes knew enough to live In the gronnd instead of water," remarked Frank, “they could, get all the worms they wanted without hooks in them.”— Harper’s Yonng People. WHNTEDI 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 Y/ORK ON 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. THE “CALIGRAPH.” d-M-H-1 4 111 >♦♦♦♦♦»♦■ It is now Thirteen years since the “Caugraph” Typewriter was first put upon the mar ket and in all that time has responded faithfully to what is required of a first-class writing machine. The Caligraph is recognised 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 This Dar lington News Office. C. Irvine Walker, Jr., A Co., GENERAL AGENTS, 6 BROAD STREET, • • CHARLESTON, S. C. E/tablifhed 1858. Re Established 1889. i • | J.D. BHIRD “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 IgriciU bgiluts, Eigtars’ Sie;11ss, Miner?, ta JNJNUD TINWAHE. And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing octe-tf ^ r 1 1 ■ ■ 1 ■ What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Intents and Children. It contains neither Opitun, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a hnrmia^e for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria is the Children’s Panacea —the Mother’s Friend. Castoria. “Caatartalaso wen adapted to cMUrae that I reoommaod it aaauparlor toanypraacriptiea known to me." n. A. Amcnxn, X. D„ 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " The u» ot ‘Caxtorl*’ a to onhanal and It* merit* so well known that It aeema a work of wp< .-errv^utlno to endorse It. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Outoria with.n assy reach." Ccxin* FUbtyx, D. D„ New York Oty. Castoria. Caatoiia cure. OoUc, CoMOpation, Sour Stomach, Uarrhcm, Eructation, KiUx Worm*, give* alaep, and promote* dt- geation. Without i.ijuriou* medication. “For several year. I have rtirninmidail yo’ir • Ctotorta,' and shall always roatlaue to do so as it has lavarlably produced haa^mal ramits." Zbwm T. Ptanaa, M. t>., MOth Street and 7th Av*„ New York (JtJ. Tax Cawraom Oowi tt. 77 Xraaar Snuurr. Nxw Tom An Insure Your Property WITH IF. E. Who represents the un m nmns mum liras mi! Satisfaction Guaranteed. Represents Twelve First- class Companies, September 11,1890 Darlington Lodge No. 7, Knights of Pythi as, meets on 1st and 8rd Tuksday Evenings in each month, at Castle Hall, Florence street, opposite Broad. Visit ing brothers fraternally invfted. LAW CARO*. a. W. BOYD. OBO. W. BROWN BOYD A BROWN- Attorneys and OobbssIoys at Law Office in brick building south of the Bank of Darlington. DARLINGTON G. B., & O. PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS. SCWS PROM OUR NEW SERIAL O. W. DAROAN. H. T. THOMPSON. DAROAN & THOMPSON, Attorns ji at Law, Office in Darlington Guards’ Armory building, lower floor. Darlington. S. C- a. O WOODS. T. H. SPAIN WOODS & SPA IN, (Successors to Ward ft Woods,) Attorneys & Counsellors at Lav. Offices formerly occupied by Ward & Woods, over Bank of Darlington. Practise in State and Federal Courts. Prompt personal atten tion to all business. fltaflpft. deOQ&iPOas DSBodjj A Story of Love # # and Adventure ON THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA DR] ¥000© IMPEffi 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- v 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. GIBBES, JR., * CO., COLUMBIA, 8. C. Dec28—ly Mitw’s Notice. Auditor’s Officr. Darlington, 8. C., Dec. 1,1898 T HIS office will be open for purpose of listing ail real , personal property aad poll taxes the fiscal year commencing Hot 1898, and ending Oct. 81, 1894, fr January 1, to Febraarv 80, indusi excepting days required in filling jury box and days named below. 1 will attend in nts In pereon or by. ‘Philadelphia, Monday, Jen. 8 Lamar, Tuesday and Weduead Jan. I and 10. Uypreea, Thursday, Jan 11. Ashland, Friday, Jan. 18. Stokes Bridge, Saturday, Jan. 1 Lydia, Monday, Jan. IS. Hart evil la, Tuesday and Wedi day, Jan 16 and 17. Antioch, Thwraday, Jan. 18 Leavenerworth, Friday. Tan. 19. SocietytHUI, Thursday and Frid Jan. 18 and II, by deputy. Jasper, Saturday, Jan. 80, by d iigh Hill, Monday, Jan. 29, by d jfechanicsville, Tuesday, Jan, existing would cease. The fund would be increased if all taxi K ile could be entered. Male |>er tween the ages of 81 and 60 are deemed taxable polls except tl incapable of earning a suiiport _ W. H. LAWRENOl Dec 7—It Auditor D