The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, March 08, 1894, Image 2
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* HOME FROM SCHOOL.
Now here I am In the good old plaro—
Yes, little mother, I’m here to wUy.
Let me hold yonr hair against my face
And ki«s both elm kh in the dear old way.
Just look at me hard Tin well and Htroi:g;
Just feel my arms—they’ll stand the teat;
I’ll go to the kitchen where I belong;
You go to the porch and rest.
Now hear, little mother, you dear little mother,
bit under tho vines and rest.
1 liked my teachers. I liked my hooka
I had my share of the pranks and fun.
But my heart came back to t he sweet home
nooks
And rested with you when the day was dona
I used to think what you had for tea;
Jus,t what you were doing and how you were
dressed,
And somehow or other It seemed to me
You didn't take half enough rost.
You sly little mother, you spry little mother.
I'm going to have you rest.
Dear little mother. It brings the tears
VVhervever I think what I’ve let you do.
You’ve planned for my pleasure years and
years-
It’s time 1 planned a little for you. •
Eo drop that ap*Jh and smooth your hair;
Read, visit or knit—what suits you best;
Lean back In your chair, let go your care,
And really and truly rest.
You neat little mother, you nweet little mother
Just take a vacation and rest.
—Eudora H. Btimstead in Youth’s Companion.
FLE5H EATING HARES.
EXERCISE FOR THE EYES.
Absolutely Koeeaeary fa Order That the
Vision May lie Preserved.
When the eyea are treated fatrJv, *’oy
are «tr.n*thened... I ii(rtof a blacksiDith
v " < *! t -.itl> r ¥frcmger for hie trade, ao the
eye* of watchmaker* wrho work under
healthy conditions are found to Improve
and not to deteriorate In vigor and
quickiiea*. It is the abuse of the eyce,
not their use, wbieh is to be avoided.
If a man is aw are either that his eyes
need no artificial correction or else
have received their proper adjustment,
and if his work, whether literary or
mechanical, is done in a light both
steady and sufficient and with a dno re
gard as to ordinary sanitary rules, he
may feel sure that bo is strengthening
his eyes, not weakening them, by hard
work. Men of intellectual pursuits
sometimes are afraid of losing their
meutal [.ewers in old age toe a use they
have drawn so much upon them when
young. The reverse is nearer the truth,
and if they have not overtaxed their
brains the f-ar is alisolutely groundless.
Tho man whose intellect goes first in
old age is generally some farmer or la
borer who has never strengthened and
invigorated it by use: not the politician,
the lawyer or the man of letters. So
with the eyes. Thuee who had stiength-
ened their eyes by using them properly
keop keen sight longer than those who
have never trained them. In the case
of the man who has neglected to give
his eyes full development they will fail
in power along with hU other bodily
functions. When, however, the man
who, born with gixsl eyes, has kept
them in constant hard work and yet
never strained them reaches old ago, he
may find them capal lo of performing
their functions better than any other or
gan of the laxly. — Philadelphia Times.
A Skeptic Wa» Convinced When He Snw
One MunchliiK Motion.
flare is a dish never seen on a Spanish
table, because in S|>ain there is a super
stition that hare* in the night go into
churchyards and dig up the graves and
eat the dead bodies, A writer who spent
some time shooting in Castille, where
game is very plentiful, relates how he
was convinced of the fact that the hares
do eat flesh. He had been told so by
the country people, but had treated their
assertion as a ridiculous Action. The
next time he found himself in a party of
sportsman he repeated what he hail
heard as a joke, but to his surprise every
one listened quite gravely and assured
him that it waa perfectly true. They
themselves had frequently seen hares
eating flesh. Ashe still expressed donbts
on the subject, however, one'of the com
pany offered to bet htm 50 liters of wine
that he (the German) should see a hare
eating meat. The bet was accepted.
The next morning,very early, tie Span
iard, the German and two greyhounds
went out to a great heath to look for
flesh eating hares. As they were sitting
waiting for the hares to appear, the
Spaniard, to the German’s amazement,
took a little live crab out of his pocket.
“What do you want that forr said the
German. “To catch the hare with,” re
plied the Spaniard. It struck thesGer-
man that perhaps the Spaniard hail
brought him out merely to make a fool
of him. But then he reflected that that
was not the Spanish way with strangers.
So he held his tongue and went on wait
ing. By and by a fine bare appeared.
In a moment the two dogs were after
him (they were well muzzled, so that
they could not do him any harm), and
in a few moments more the hare had dis
appeared again in his hole, and the dogs
were barking at its mouth. Tlie men got
up and hurried after them.
“Now,” said the Spaniard, "this is
where my crab comes In.” He pulled
out the crab and put it down at the
mouth of the hole, and it, glad to hide in
the dark shade, erupt in with all the ex
pedition it could manage. The Span
iard instantly spread a large coarse sack
over the entrance, and in a few moments
out rushed the hare, terrif ed by ita un
expected visitor, right into the sack.
Home they went with their prisoner,
which they placed In a cage. When the
hare had recovered from his fright, he
ate before the German’s astonished eyee
several pieces of the mutton which were
thrown in.—Muenchener Zoitung.
Iron In Pharmacy.
The phannacopmia has long recom
mended Iron wire as material for iron
preparations. Musical wire, being steel
and therefore purer, is also often ap
plied and yields sufficiently pure prep
arations. More lately there have been
recommended for this purpose soft steel
drillings, as being cheaper, purer and
not so difficnlt to dissolve as wire, which
by the various procease* of forging, ham
mering. rolling and final drawing be
comes denser and harder.
The more impure an iron the quicker
it will dissolve, but tlie same piece of
iron or steel will more rapidly dissolve
the less It has undergone the mechanical
treatments In question. Tims, if the Im
mense amount of mechanical labor be
considered to which an iron or steel bar
is subjected in reducing its diambter to
that of wire, it is argned that soft steel
drillings, shavings or turnings deserve
preference. In a word, the turning* and
drillings of axles and steel boiler plate,
which can bo obtained at any steel works
or machine shop, are ranked among the
purest brands of iron, in the chemical
aense of the word. According to ex
perts, it may be considered a practical
rule that any brand of steel capable of
making good axle or boiler plate will
also yield pure preparations on dissolv
ing.—New York Tribune.
. The Native. B»d X«ru|>lM.
Once un amusing story was told me
by u Sooth sea trader, writes Mrs. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson. • He had been in the
habit of carrying all sorts of tinned
meats, which the natives bought with
avidity. Each tin was branded with a
colored picture—a cow for beef, a sheep
for mutton and a fish for sardines.
It hapiened that the firm who fur
nished the mutton thought it
plan to change their labels, tl
goods might b? more cc nly distil
from others. The mark c
red dragon.
The natives catco with their copra to
trade as usual. The new tine were
shown them, but they recoiled with bor
ror and gave the trader to understand
religious lu-
> deluded in-
dOVEKNJIE.NT BflSm. ]
. -no FORGET TO COLLECT
INTEREST OR PRINCIPAL.
Threo Prayer* of a Little Girl.
“God bless us every one.” A little
girl in bod in tbeothor room is praying
to go to sloop, but fighting to stay
awake. “O Lord,” said she, “make me
good and let me go in the omnibus to
see Aunt Margaret and all the aunts
and nieces and mothers. Don't let it
bail or snow or rain, for I want to go
in the omnibus to see Aunt Margaret
very much indeed, and all the aunts
and nieces and mothers. Make me well
so that 1 can go in the omnibus, please
do. Bless grandpa and grandma, Aunt
Kate and Aunt Sophia and Mr. Charles
Swan. Bless papa and mamma, and
make us all good so that we can go to
heaven at last, for Jesus' sake. Amen.
There was a short pause, and then the
wide awake, defiant voice went on:
“Keep grandma from dying before
she gets here. Don’t lot anything hap
pen to bur. Don't let any bears or wild
boast* eat her op. Bless grandpa and
grandma and Mr. Charles Swan and
Aunt Kate and Aunt Sophia.”
Another pause, a little louger than
tho first, and the unconqucrod one be
gan again:
“I long for apples. I long for milk.
I long for pie. 1 long to be good. I
wish 1 had not that cold. 1 long for
some brown bread. I long for some mo
lasses. I long for some white bread. 1
long to be a woman. I thank thee that
it did not rain or snow. Give mo a
clean spirit. Let me be good when papa
is here, for it grieves him to have me
uaughtyi and lie buys Me things—play
thing*. I have prayeothat I should go
to sleep. That makes three prayers.”
A yawn, a long drawn breath, and
then silence presently announced that
the last prayer was answt red, and sleep
reigned.—Dan McCauley in Washing
ton Poet. «
a good
at their
iinguisiied
sen was a
that they had
struct!',a and wi
to em,
of i
istock
could
Now It’* an Aluminium Wedding.
The already long list of jnbileee and
family celebrations has been enriched
by a novelty In the line of wedding fes
tivities. The fxraily and friends of a
rich manufacturer living In the neigh
borhood of Berlin deemed the interval
between the silver and golden wedding
to be altogether too loug, and halviug
it introduced last week an. aluminium
wedding by o(firing tbe happy couple
on the occcasion of tho completion of
i)7 ^ years of wedded life a choice va
riety of preecute made of aluminium. If
thiauovel idea should take, the alumini
um industry has a great future before it.
The Prussian capital, of all German
cities the one most given to societies and
fetes of svery possible name and descrip
tion, has since gone even one better by
celebrating a seVen year wadding, which
the friends of the parties, with true Ber
lin humor, christened the jubilee of the
seven yeiua' war.—Paris American
Register.
Sympathetlo Varcln.tion.
The Listener has heard of something
very queer and quite new to him. It
is sympathetic vaccination, which sev
eral people are said to have suffered
from. Without haring been vaccinated
at all, but with vaccinated people all
about, you presently feel at times a
stinging or itching sensation in a spot
on your arm where the doctor would
have vaccinated yon if you had been
vaccinated. In some cases this sympa
thetic vaccination affiicts only tbe left
arm, but occasionally it shifts from one
arm to the other, appearing first on the
left and then for a time on tbe right.
It is believed to lie a nervous outgrowth
of the continual complaints of vaccinat
ed people and their everlasting descrip
tion of their sensations.—Boston Tran
script.
“More Haute, Wo rue Speed.”
Of all the '‘tournaments” 1 ever saw,
one among tbe “dairy maids” at an ugri-
cnltnral show was perhaps the last to
associate itself with that heroic proced
ure which such a word suggests. There
were about 40 of them armed with
‘‘churns’’ and started at the same mo
ment to make butter against time. Each
came provided with a watch, and the
temptation was almost irresistable to
turu the handle of the machine as quick
ly aa possible. Bnt no, bntter mast be
"hninored,” not driven. The silent lists
were filled with the provokingly delib
erate “flip, flop" of 40 charm One of
the slowest combatants won the race. I
never realized m .re plainly that “meet
haste is worst .peed,”—Com bill Mag
azine.
IJho Lots* Sentctt Muata.
Lady Elgin is very musically inclined
and has a special predilection for the
characteristic compositions of her native
j S:iud and has taught all her children to
I sing the fine old Scottish melodies. It is
[ her custom every evening to have them
join her at the piano, from the oldest
down to Lady Rachel, a tiny fairy of
three summers, * lose place do ledstanje
at present is the familiar “Boatie Rows.”
—London Gentlewoman.
Sum. Int.r**tlng Inform.lion Rrprrued
In Lnrg* rigarw—Tbs Hiffcrrnc K»-
tween Coupon mnd KrgUtrrnd Bonds
How Into rent I’llr* Up.
A number of snng fortnnes are lying
in the United States treasury waiting
for somebody to step up and claim them.
This money is due on bonds long ago
called in. Some of them have never
been cashed by the holders. On the
old debt.” which embraces all loans
made to this government up to 1837,
|I21,000 is still owing. Since that date
more than $1,000,000 has accumulated,
being uncalled for by the persons en
titled to it. either through negligence or
for other reasons.
A considerable fraction of this great
sum is now held by the treasurer of the
United States in the shape of checks.
Interest on registered bonds it paid by
check, but as people are constantly
changing their addresses it not infre
quently happens that track is lost for
awhile of an individual bondholder. Un
der snch circumstances the quarterly in
terest checks are retained as they fall
due and in the course of time pile up.
They are kept for an indefinite period
and are good forever.
There are such checks in the treasur
er’s office now which have accumulated
during more than 10 years. On the oth
er hand, knowing that they are always
gcxxl for the money they represent, peo
ple often keep these interest checks, put
ting them away and hoarding them, just
as if they were so much cash. Only the
other day a batch of 40 checks for $1
each was received at the treasury. The
owner had simply put them away as
they came in year after year.
The millionaire is commonly repre
sented as engaged in clipping coupons
from bonds. This is an egregious error.
Rich men, as a rule, do not hold coupon
bonds. Such bonds are not safe prop
erty. They are always payable to bearer
like treasury notes. If lost, the govern
ment will not replace them. According
ly, for the sake of security, people are ;
constantly exchanging them for regis
tered bonds. The sum total of coupon
bonds is now about $70,000,000, mostly
in the hands of small holder*.
Registered bonds are rich men’s prop
erty par excellence. At present about
$200,000,000 worth of them is held by
private individuals. Of this great sum
$87,000,000, or not far from one-half, is
owned by 1,000 persons, roughly speak
ing. whose holdings average $80,000.
The names of these fortunate •individ
uals are kept secret by the treasury.
Some of the fortunes possessed in this
shape are enormous. Among the great
est holdings are those of the Vander
bilts. Old William H. Vanderbilt had
$45,000,000 in registered bonds at one
time.
About 20 years ago $40,000 worth of
the consols of 1865 and 1887 were stolen
in Havana. The thief altered them by
erasing the name from the face and sold
them to ignorant persons. They were
for $1,000 each. Ever since then they
have been coming in to the treasury
through banks and otherwise. Of course
they were useless to the holders, being
registered and only payable to the orig
inal owner.
The original owner lost nothing, of
conrse. All h« had to do was to notify
the secretary of the treasury, giving an
affidavit and a bond of indemnity, and
the stolen consols were replaced. That
is the advantage of registered bonds.
The number of such bonds that have
been lost and stolen is astonishing. A
list of them, numbering nearly 1,000, is
printed and circulated by the govern
ment
It is called the “caveat list” and is de
signed to warn bankers and others
against accepting seenrities of the num
bers mentioned. Some time ago a report
came from Indianapolis of a bond that
was said to have been destroyed. Affi
davits, etc., being furnished, a new one
was issued to replace it. Ten years later
that identical security was forwarded to
the treasury from Holyoke, Mass.
It had been found in a lot of waste
paper at a paper mill. There waa no
question of fraud in this case. The own
er lost it and supposed that it had been
burned.
A great many bonds called for re
demption 20 years and more ago have
never been presented for payment. Some
of them have doqbtlees been put away
and forgotten. It is imagined that oth
ers have been lost at sea together with
their owners. The quantity of gold and
silver in coin and bullion sunk from
wrecks in the ocean amonnts to many
millions of dollars in the course of a cen-
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 tho way of
Dry Goods, Clothing,
• Shoes, Hats. Hardware,
And tlroceries.
Respectfully,
BRUNSON, LUNN & CO.
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. W e will make a
Special Price of $5
On these beds for the next 30 days only and you should not fail to
got 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 of these beds you will never regret it.
J.D. BHIRD
ii
The Furniture Man”
Jan 4-
E/tabli/hed 1868.
Re Established 1889.
BOWIES. Painter.
Insure Your Property .
WITH
IB 1 - E.
Who represents the
lmt m nsw tow n the m
Satisfaction Guaranteed. Represents Twelve First-
, class Companies.
September 11,1890
tury.
Only about $2,000,000 worth of bonds
la possessed by comparatively poor per
sons, and these in sums of $500 or less.
About 80 year* ago Uncle Sam lent a
lot of money to help build various trans
continental railways. It was understood
that the companies would refund the
cash aa soon as they got well started.
There is little likelihood that any con
siderable part of it will ever be paid.
There is still owing $64,000,000 of orig
inal indebtedness, plus $70,000,000 of in
terest.
To raise this money for the use of the
railways, the government issued boude
at differenttimes from 1865 to 1869. They
were to run for 30 years at 6 per cent
Tbe treasury is still paying this big in
terest, which is more than twice what
the loan is worth today.—-New York
World.
r.lr.-. l of Mule oa Pan.
Walter Savage Landor introduces Pe
terborough in conversation with Wil
liam Penn and makes him applaud Penn
cynically, when the latter declares that
there is something in a violin if played
directly that appeareth to make hot
weather cool and cold weather warm
and temperate, not. however, when its
cords have young maidens tied invis
ibly to the end of them, jerking them
np and down in a strange fashion before
one’s eyee, and unless one taketh due
caution wafting their hair upon one’s
face and bosom, and their very breath,
too, between one’s lips if peradventure
one omitteth to stmt them bitterly and
hold tight—Musical Courier.
She Wee Invited.
“Did any one say anything to mef"
| asked Mamie as she saw tbe family at
luncheon.
"No, iny child, but will you have
j some salad?”
“I don’t know,” replied tbe child.
“Mamma said I must not eat ’less I
was ’vited.”—Newport Daily News.
Watches Repaired
AND WARRANTED,
— AT —
MASON’S JEWELRY STORE.
FeblC—if
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lington News Office. •
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GENERAL AGENTS,
6 BROAD STREET, - - CHARLESTON, S. C.
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Inlhnte
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
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.
‘‘Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.” H. A. Archer, M. D. t
til So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ The use of ‘Castoria’ is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supe/erogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy i’each.”
Carlos Martyr, D. D.,
New York City.
Castoria.
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhcea, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes i
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
“For several years I hare ]
your ‘ Castoria,’ and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results.”
E»wi* F. Paoosz, X. D,
12Sth Street and 7ta Aw., N«w York GXy.
Tax CcNTAtm Conn tv, 77 Muauv Sraxar, Nav Took (
LAW CAROS.
R. W. BOYD. GKO. W. BROWN
BOYD & BROWN-
Attorneys and Oonnselori at Law
Office in brick building south of
the Bank of Darlington.
DARLINGTON C. H , ts O
« ,
PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
ALL BUSINESS.
. •
G. W. DAROAN. H. T. THOMPSON.
DARGAN & THOMPSON,
Attorneys at Law,
Office in Darlington Guards’
Armory building, lower floor. _
Darlin/fton. S. C'
AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELL
K. O WOODS.
T. H. SPAIN
Why
Is It?
That the mest successful biasi-
ness men -are the strongest
believers in Life Insurance ?
That they r.re.is attested Ly the
following letter from a well
known businessman who held
a Tontine Policy in the
Equitable Life
powkll a sMinrn,
SVAVLX AND PaXIY Guot ERIE*,
aa.ix and riotra.
a.hi'vilt x, K C. Jan is. iwt
Mb. W. J Roudev. Ik ina,8. C..
BeamSia -
I haw accrpevl ttw cart value of my
Tontlnv Policy In the ' E>ia!UIM." which
matimtl Jan. 8d. ISH I ttcaire to say that I
Em very well ph-ascX with th. rvaaita aaan
evidence of which I have applied for
luxmian on same plan.
Bevpectftilly, w F SaiDEa
If yon are interested send your '
age and let us give you figures
on a Tontine Policy. Address
W. J. RODDEY, Manager,
Department of Carollaaa,
Rock Hill, S. C.
01
CAUTION.—If a dealer oBerg W. I.
Douglaa shorn nt a reduced price, or wy*
he has them wlthont name .lamped on
bottom, pat Aim doom as a tread.
W. L. Douglas
S3 SHOE thYworld.
W. 1m DOUGLAS Shoe* *tw stylish, easy fit
ting, and give better satisfaction at the prices ad
vertised than any other make. Try one pair and
ba convinced. The stamping of W. L. Douglas’
name and prict oa the bottom, which guarantees
*»*•• thousand* of dollars annually
to tboM who wear them. Dealers who push the
o(W. U Douglas Shoes gain customers,
A.. «T. BROOM,
Darlington, 8. C.
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WOODS&SPUN,
(Successors to Ward i Wood*,)
Attorneys & Counsellors at Law.
Offices formerly occupied by
Ward & Woods, over Bank of
Darlington.
Practise in State and Federal
Courts. Prompt personal atten
tion to all business.
SCWE FROM OUR NBW SERIAL
GBaiQDfta ffiDoanpOos Kfimj)
Invited.
Darlington Lodge
No. 7, Knight* of PythiJ
as, meets on 1st and 3rd
Tuesday Evening* i n
each month, at Castle
Hall, Florence street,
opposite Broad. Visit
ing brothers fraternally
To Our Customer^ of the Pee
Dee Section:
We have decided here
after to conduct our
business in your terri
tory direct withjbuyers.
.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.
55217 To responsible and J5
honorable buyers we
will make it an object
to correspond with us,
and we waut 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.
A Story of Love #
' # and Adventure
ON THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA
0E1 TOfll® DWEflB
B. F. CAMPION.
W. H. GIBBES, JR., Jt
COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Dec28—ly
CO.,
IpteriigliMtHBgpwiig
Old Furniture Made to Look as
Well as Hew.
; WOBK ROf.K rirED.
Exchange street, in rear of Dar
lington Guards* Armory.
DARLINGTON, - - - 8. C.
FebS—tf
Great Bargain!
IN
Sewing Machines
Soma of them almost as good as
are now offered at the Dari n
Guards’ Armory building by I
GAN* THOMPSON, Attorney,
the White Sewing Machine Co. .