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Hhe Darlington Ueirss. Pcblisqbi) Evkrt Thursday Mornino. JiENRV ■J', J HOMPSOR , PROPRIETOR. TERMS—#1 Pur Annnm in Advance: SO cents for 0 months: 25 cents for 3 months. Adf<rt{8ln(?,B^fei: J7 } One Square flrst insertion $1.00 One Square second insertion 50 Every suhsequent Insert ion ■ Contract advertisements inserted n;>on the most reasonable terms. THE LEQENO OF EVIL. This l» the eorrowftil »torr ^ T»1S when the Urlhitht telle. Ami the monkeye welk together Holding each other's tells: “Our (ethers lived la the forest! Foolish people were they. . , They went down to the cornlena To teach the farmers to pier. “Our fathers frisked Ut the millet. Our fathers eklppeiMn ttie wheat. Our fathers hung In the branches Our fathers danced In the street. "Then came the terrible farmers Nothing of play they knew. Only they caught our fathers And set them to labor tool “fist them to work In the cornland. With plows and elcklea and flallst Put them In mud walled prisons And out off their beautiful tails! "Now we can watch our fathers, Sullen and bowed and old, *» Stooping over the millet. Stirring the silly mold. “Driving a foolish furrow. Mending a muddy yoke, Sleeping In mudwallwl prisons. Steeping their foodln smoke. “We msy not speak to our fathers, For if the farmers knew They would come up to the forest And set us to labor tool” Tide Is the horrjhle story Told as the twilight fhlU, - As the monkeys walk tjff;ether Holding each other’s tails. -Rudyard Kipling. USE OF \ FILING MACHINE. What May Be trained by ttie the laventlon. Perfection ef What irAortaut purpose can flight in air serve? Maxim, Langley and all who have studied the subject thoroughly agree that the speed of aeriation will greatly exceed that of any terrestrial locomotion. rProm this follows an entire economic change in the direction of rendering im- . mansotraotaof comparatively worthless teMtvify at dlettifices of 20 to 40 miles from cities much more aval lable. There would also result the relegat ing of city property in large measure to pusineaa and storage purposes. This would to a largo extent accom plish what, Henry Uforge sigba for, bat would do it by means which do not in volve any wrong to the land owner by the wage earner. With flying navies capable of carry ing unseen at night large quantities of explosives to the center of a city war wonld become bo destructive that it woald be aoon snpplaitted by arbitra tion as a matter of common sense sad •elf preservation. Arbitration once established, an in ternational police system controlling na tions as we do individnals, and enforc ing the decrees of boards of arbitration, would be enormously assisted by this power of rapid aud if neceMary deatruc- tive patrolling. Immense ureas of country, now well nigh impenetrable, would be opened to usefulness. Large sources of wealth would thus be added to the civilized world and would resnlt in the amelio ration of the condition of the savages of such regions as osntral Africa. We should bavs to give up selfish leg islation, and restriction upon the com merce of other nationa, and he obliged perforce to '.'stand on a broader her itage than that of a nation or of xone." —Samuel Cabot in Boeton Traveller. Tito Strange Brother*. It had always been the habit In the Ward family if two relatives differed strongly to arrange net to he on speaking terms. Dr. William G. Ward was onoe asked how much ho had known of his ti- thor’s first cousin, Sir Henry Ward. He replied quite gravely: “I only saw him twice—once as a boy, when he came to see my father, and then again I had an interview with him about a matter of business soon after I came into my prop erty. We arranged at the end of it not to be on speaking terms,” quite a super- flous arrangement, as Sir Henry,Ward lived at that time in Ceylon. 6t which he was governor, and in fact never came again to England for a prolonged visit. Dr. Ward and his brother Henry had been estranged for a year or so, and one night they met at the Haymarket thea ter. Ea^h of them had for the moment quite forgotten the quarrel, and friendly greetings passed, nnd they had a talk about the play. Next morning came a letter from Henry Ward: Dear William—In the hurry of the mo ment tonight 1 quite forgot that we had ar ranged to meet aa strangers, and I write thle, leet you should misunderstand me, to aay that I think we had better Adhere to our arrange ment, and I remain, dear William, your affec tionate brother, Hknhy Ward. Dr. Ward replied: , Dear Henbt—J, too, had forgotten our ar- rangemont. 1 agree with you that we had bet ter keep to It, and I remain yonr affectionate brother, • W. O. Ward. —San Francisco Argonaut . The Kpldemle ef Liberty. ! The idea embodied in American insti tutions is the most radical that ever took the concrete shape of legislation. We may say, without being charged with a boastful spirit, that we have on the whole the best government on the planet. That is to say, the government which offers the largest opportunities and pro duces the greatest amount of content ment and prosperity. It is a good thing for 100,00a of our citizens to visit Europe every summer in order to compare the condition of affairs abroad with that enjoyed at home. And it ia safe to assert that no man can travel in England or Germany or Russia or Italy without reacliing the prood conclu sion that the American flag represents more popular rights andamore advanced political economy than any other strip of banting that floats in the breeae,. The tourist who reaches .Sandy Hook after a three or six months' journey in foreign lands without having his pulse jump into the nineties qught to have been horn In Nova Zembia orTimbnctoo.—New York Telegram. L • «» Harmony nnd Erudition. There is a popular fallacy among par ents that harmony means erudition, and erudition of so abstruse a nature as to be quite beyond the reach of the every day child and to be reserved for the later years after he is grown up, if undertaken at all, and then chiefly when the yonth or maiden has what is called “talent” Ah. the much abused word! How glad ly would all artists banish it from the vocabulary and from the ears of the American child I Harmony is only gram mar, and grammar of each an entertain ing kind that if rightly presented it is fascinating, and of a nature so essential that the musical nonpossessor of It young or old, is crippled.—Harper's Ba zar. Blundera of Paintera. *- Tinoret, an Italian painter, in a pic ture of the “Children of Israel” gather ing manna, haa taken the precaution to arm them with the modern invention of guns. Cigoli pointed the aged Simeon at the circumcision of the infant Saviour, and as aged men in these days wear epoctaclee the artist has shown his sagac ity by placing t’.iem on Simeon’s nose, lu a picture by Verrio of "Christ Heal ing the Sick” the lookers on are repre sented as standing with periwigs on their heads. To mutch, or rather exceed, this indicrons representation. Oarer has painted "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve From the Garden of Eden" by an angel in a dress fashionably trimmed with flounces. The same painter, ia his scene of “Peter Denying Christ,” repre sents a Roman soldier very comfortably smoking a pipe of tobacco.—Exchange. Why St>» St«pp...l. - Harie—Professor, 1 did enjoy my Span ish lessons so mnch, but I have to give them np because e^gs are so high. Professor (in profound astonishment)— Because eggs are so high I Marie—Yes. Yon see I learned to ask for eggs ia Spanish beau-tt-foily, and ! then, of course, we had to have theta i three times a day so I could ask for them. r flew York Times. < The Final Splurge. Arthur Outlier-Couch’s story called “The Pauper” cohtains the description of a poor old Couple who give the last little entertainment to their friends be fore going into the workhouse. It seems to be the usual thing for Cornish folks, whoso hcjepitality even under the most disadvantageous circumstances is pro verbial. They like to make a splash be fore going under. “Miss Scantlebury did.it hetter'u anybody I've heard tell of," say these gtissips. “When she fell into redooced circumstances, she sold the eight day clock, that was the only thlngA’ Mains the had left. Brown o' Trcgarriok made It, with a very enri- •qi) brass dial, whereon he carved a fall rigged ship that rocked like a cradle an went down stern foremost when the hour struck. 'Twas worth walking a nrito to see. Brown’s grandson bought it off Miss Scantlebury for 8 guineas, be being proud of his grandfather's skill, an the old lady drove into Tre- garrick workus behind a pair of grays wi’ the proceeds. Over and above the carriage hireshe'd enough left to adorn the horses wi’ white favors an give the rider a crown, large ae my lord. Aye, an at the workus door ahe said to the fellow, said she: ‘All my life I've longed to ride in a bridal chariot, an though my only lover died of a decline when I was scarce 23 I’ve done it at last,' said she, ‘an now heaven an airth can’t undo it!’ * r The Rurth's Journey. The earth doo* not travel at the same reti) all tbr'eogh its journey. Its orbit being- elliptical, it must at oome time appfoacj) nearer to the sun than at others and will take leas time in mov ing through one part of its path than through another. In winter the earth ia nearer the sun than ia summer and movee through space more rapidly. On Jan.. 1 the earth is about 8,000,000 miles nearer the sun than it is on Jnly i, and fis the velocity of a planet in creases with if nearness to the snn the earth paseea over one-half of its orbit in less time than over the other half. Between the vernal equinox, which bappehs on March 2 i and the autumnal eqninox, which falls on Sept. 93, the earth ia 184 days in accomplishing that half of her journey round the sun, while the other half occnpies only 179 days. It has been said that, owing to the friction caused by the tides and other reasons, the earth la moving more slowty than it used to do, and that the days are consequently lengthening, but as this is only to the extent of half a second in a centnry it will be a long time before there will be any apparent difference.—Brooklyn Eagle. Wntlmnl Handwrttla*. If individual character influences in dividual handwriting, national charac ter should influence national bandwrit ing. Anthorities tell ns that such is the case; that the art of the Italian, the pride of the Spaniard, the vivacity of the Frenchman, are all displayed in their penmanship. jt may be so. bnt as a rule it would take an expert or an enthnaiast to tell the difference between the writing of the shrewd Scotchman, the staid Eng lishman and the lively Irishman. Ger man handwriting, however, ia truly in dicative of the national character; it requires nearly as mnch patience to read it as to write it. On the other band, one seeks in vain to discover the temper of a Jew from the dots and points of Hebrew or to de cipher the character of Mr. Pitman from the phonetic alphabet.—Cham bers’ journal. Trent men! ef Cholera. Dr. Norman Kerr, the London physi cian. was asked, “What treatment would yon aay ia a wise one in case of choleraic seixnre?” He answered: “If i bud cholera, after a first prelimiary treatment for the diarrhea, I would rather have no physic. I wonld take lots of hot and cold water—ad libitnm, in fact. And I wonld keep myself in sur roundings of warmth. I wonld rather have that treatment than all the medi- cinoe tn the world. "—London Ex change. The Name of Stebblns. The Stebblns family is fairly numer ous. R is not now a classic name. Its owners wear it ignorantly. More the .fiiame for them. It is by right a classic naipe, borne aa it was by the first of Christian martyrs —St. Steven, some times spelled Stephen. Steven is the Dutch wny of spelling it Spell it in Spanish—Estclmn. Drop tiie initial si lent e and then you have Steban. A mong the ignorant the step to Stebhins is very short. And the honorable name of SL Steven takes ou degradation, even as the fine old Norman-French name D'An bains becomes the homely Dobbins. An CnreaAonabl* Mermaid. "This here show business,” said the dime museum man. “ain’t what it’s cracked np to be by a long shot. A man's alius rnnnin agin things that do him np." “What’s troubling yon?” inquired the advance agent "Why. that dnrn mermaid of mine is gettin me into debt over my bead. Now, yon know I've got the only genuine mer maid on exhibition. She's a maid of the sea, she is, a living example of the storied nymphs of the wave of old, as my programmer says. I pay her a big salary, and she puts all my other attrac tions In the shade. It wonld pat your eye out to see the way the people look at her. I tell yon, she's the greatest freak in the business, and the best of it is she’s genooine. But to come down to cases, as I wnz saying, she keepe me in hot water all the time. There ain't a day that I don't have to do somethin special for her. I don’t dast refuse, for I can’t get along without her in these dull times. Sometimes, though, she makes me crazy by her unreasonable requests. What do you suppose she wants now?” “Couldn't imagine,” replied the ad vance agent, "unless it is fresh sea water every day or something like that.” “Hnht” said the dime museum man disgustedly, “that would be easy. That dura mermaid don't want a thing but a pair of button white kid shoes.”—Buffalo Express. A Conversation by Noted Authors. “I never beard distinguished people talk among themselves but once,” de clared a young lady the other day, “but then I was quite satisfied. It was even more interesting than I had expected.” “What did they talk about?” asked her companion curiously, “and who were they?" The young lady named them—two noted authors, a gentleman and a lady. "And they talked,” she added, with a smile, “about pokers." "Pokers?" ejaculated the friend incred- ulonsly. “Pokersf repeated the first speaker firmly. “The anthoress had just built a new house, and her furuace did not work well. She thought her companion had one of the same hind in the house and asked abotft it. “He gave her information and advice, and then they branched off to pokers and the iniquity of manufacturers who make them of soft iron so that they bend out of shape the first time they are red hot. You have always heard, haven’t S ou, that his style is exquisite and his inglish singularly clear and vigorous? Well, it is so, I assure you, when he talks of pokers, and she is charming when she talks in a humorous vein about back dampers and cold air boxes. I was de lighted with the entire conversation, though it certainly was uot what I an ticipated.”—Youth’s Companion. Two Remarkablo Cures. An old Irish woman's cow was sick unto death, so she turned to the priest to save it “I can’t do anything to keep your cow from dying," he said impa tiently. "I’ath an begorra It’s yon that can if any one can,” the answered in simple faith. Unwilling to have her reverence in him shaken, the old man went to her cabin. The sick cow was brought out into the yard and propped np, then the priest began a solemn march around it, chanting monotonously, “If yon die, yon die; if you live, you live.” When at last the tired priest sat down, the cow was reviving, and it afterward lived to a green old age. Some years later the priest was at the point of death with a terrible quinsy, when the old Irish wom an presented herself at the house and told the doctor she could cure him. She was laughed to scorn, but at last had her own way. She insisted npon having the dying man's bed brought ont into the middle of the floor, and aronnd it she slowly cantered, singing, “If you live, you live, and if you die you die.” The humor of the situation tickled the suffering priest so that a hearty laugh broke the qninsy, and he also lived—to a green old age.—Springfield Homestead. Power of the Imagination. ”1 never was more firmly convinced of the power of imagination,” said a man, "than I was by something that happened to me on the occasion of a visit to a friend. It had been an extremely hot day, and when I went to bed at night the heat seemed almost insupportable It seemed to me that if 1 should open the door from my room into the hall it would make a little circulation and mike the air more comfortable, and 1 felt safe in doing this because I am an early riser, and I knew I could get the door shut before any body was stirring In the morning. So 1 opened thedoor, with the pleasant result that I had anticipated, and when I went to close it in the morning I found that 1 had opened not the door into the hall, but the door Into a closet."—New York Sun. A Plea Pur KgoUm. ^ Ask yourself hard questions about yourself; find out ail you can about your self. Ascertain from original sources if you are really the manner of man yon say you are; if you are always honest; if you always tell the square, perfect truth in business deals; if your life is as good and upright at 11 o'clock at night as it is at noon; if yon are as good a temper ance man at a fishing excursion as you are at a Sunday picnic; if yon art as good when yon go ont of the city as yon are at home; if, in short, yon are really the sort of man yonr father hopes yon are and yonr sweetheart believes yon to be.—Panola (Tex.) Watchman Waited Twenty Tear. For a Kolullon. A bit of pure andharnileesTnischief at recitation at Yale was the device of • member of the clans of 1872, who intro duced at recitation a turtle covered by a newspaper pasted on the shell. The tutor had too mnch pride to come down from his perch and solve the mystery of the newspaper's circulation, bnt 90 yean after, meeting a member of the class, his first and abrupt question was, “Mr. W., what made that paper mover—N*w Haven Cor. New York Poet. C..Kb! a PtIm. ~ Father—I've just found oat that the strange young man who comes to as# yon has been borrowing money right and left. Daughter—Isn’t that lovely? Be must be a nobleman in diagniae.—New York Weekly. Not lees than 1,500 people were tram pled to death in the crowds which gath ered at the fete given in celebrattoa of the marriage of Louis XVI of Fraoce. June 91, 1770. VtfHNTEDI 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. f Have You? SEEN- Our New Spring? bed ? IF NOT YOU SHOULD! Come in and see the BEST SPRING FOR COMFORT, DURA BILITY AND CLEANLINESS in the world. They have 120 oil- tempered spiral elliptical springs and each of these is braced in such a way that they will last a lifetime. We will make a Special Price of $5 On these beds for the next 30 days only and you should not fail to get the width of your bed the next time you come to town and get one. Remember, One-Third of Yonr Life is Spent in Bed! and if you buy one ofjthese beds you will never regret it. J.D. BAIRD “The Furniture Men” THE “CALIGRAPH.” It is now W W 1 giES • Thirteen years since the “Caliqraph” Typewriter £ •was first put upon the mar- "ket and in all that time has pgPpJr 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 OISJ" mASTT TERMTS which can be ascertained by applying .at The Dar lington News Office. C. Irvine Walker, Jr., A Co., GENERAL AGENTS. 6 BROAD STREET, • • CHARLESTON, S. C. What is Jan 4— ’-review-reviews the one magazine which the world has agreed is INDIS PENSABLE. It will be more brilliant than ever during 1894. The readers of The Review of Reviews say that it would keep them well informed if it were the onlyliterature printed. It is especially valuable to clergymen, professional men, farmers, and to all those who can take but one monthly. FAMOUS PEOPLE AND GREAT JOURNALS HAVE GIVEN IT THE MOST UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENTS EVER RECEIVED BY A PUBLICATION: NEW YORK. A London. Mortal Bryc, M. F. Author of Tlw A«wrf- i Cum can Coamon wealth. we kava wanted. ’ It ia juat what Mlaa France, Willard—“ Ttu, Ban tine haa the brightest outlook window In Chrlaten- 4« lor Duty people who warn to aao what I* going on in the great world.” Cardinal Qlhfeotu —"To the buy world who hare oot leieure to perute the current monthlies. Th« Ravtaw or Raviewt wU be specially welcome, aa h will aarre aa a mirror, reflecting the contempoarv thought of Great Britain and Aacrtaa.* Now York Wurtd.-” Thi Ravtaw or Re view, it admirable.'' Boeton Otnhe.—” To rend n number to to resolve to never mtoe one.” CMrogo Tribune. That useful and always Inter eating periodical, Tus Review or Atlanta CnnetMntlon.-" Givaa aa clear an Idea of the history of the month as could be obtained from volumes elesewhere." tprlngllaei Union.-” Thu Ravtaw or Rt- viawi to the beet publication of the kind extant, and no buey man can afford to rims.” mtoc its monthly, To the beat agents we can oflhr extra ordinarily liberal terms, which make The Review op Reviews without a peer from the canvaaaer’s point of view. Review of Reviews,^ 1) Astor Place, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Year, • • $3.50 Trial Subscription, 1.00 • Menthi Sample Copy, • 10 cents. For this pries The Rbvtbw or Re views gives ss much reading matter as Is contained in two ordinary E/tabli/hed 1MI8. Re-Established 1889. BOWLES, Painter. Insure Vour Property WITH Who reprereets the a w she Mm 11 tee n 8atl*faction Ooanuitoed. KcpreaerU Tarelvc First- cUea Oott —*“ September 11,1890. Castorin is Dr. Samuel Pitcher'* prescription for Infects and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor. other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor (ML It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria is the Children’s Ps —the Mother's Friend. Castoria. “Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it os superior to any prescription known to me.” IT. A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. “ The use of ‘Castoria* is so universal nnd its merits so well known that it seems a wort of supfc.’erogation to endorse it. Few arc tho intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach.** Carlos Martyn, D. D„ New York City. Castoria. 1 CautarU cured Colic, O—Hpurtou. Bour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kilto Worm*, gives uUep, aud grniiHa <B- goMJou. Without injurious mdieutloa. “For several yuan I hsvu your 'Castor!*,'end shell si ways do so as It hs* la variably produosd Thu Chutaos Oottri v», 77 Hnuur I Zbwni F. Pssmu, X. D. Wth Strcst sad 7th Avu., N*w Teak OKy. r, Rsw You errr LAW CARDS. R. W. BOYD. GKO. W. BROWN BOYD & BROWN- Attorneys and Oonnaelorf at Lav Office in brick building south of the Bank of Darlington. DARLINGTON C. B., & C. PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS. G. W. DARGAN. H. T. THOMPSON. DARGAN & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Lav, Office in Darlington Guards’ Armory building, lower floor. Darlinffton. S. 6’* K. O WOODS. T. H. SPAIN WOODS & SPA IN* (Successors to WatJ & Woods,) Attorneys & Counsellors at Law Offices formerly occupied by Bi ‘ ' AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELL -1 SCLtfE FROM OUR NBW SERIAL Ward & Woods, over Darlington. lank of Practise in State and Federal Courts. Prompt personal atten tion to all business. 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 aud 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., ft CO., COLUMBIA, 8. 0. Dj«98—ly (EtaQP'Q. GBOdsifOos DXBaojj A Story of Love # # and Adventure ON THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA m TOflO© OWEl 15 P H 15