The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, July 19, 1894, Image 3

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A YEL-L;0W BY © lOTA.^S CHAPTER X. The function was arranged for a certain Wednesday ii Feb ruary, the day before Dacre was to leave for school, and the children had been given formal notice to appear in the drawing- room at three o’clock. They were now waiting in the school room speculating on the event. They knew it must be something very unusual from the fact of the drawing-room of all places in the world, being appointed as the scene of action. It was at the end of a dismal six weeks of holidays, mostly spent, by reason of colds, be tween the nu sery and the school room. Indeed, it had been the very flattest bout of holidays the two had ever yet endured. Dacre’s object being attained, there was no further use for organized “cussedness” so he had relapsed into his ordinary state of gusty wickedness, which being natural was noth ing very especial in the way of a pastime, and quite unlike the six months’ excitement ol his raid on society. There was no thing to supply the place of this now, nothing—neither cricket, foot ball, nor even riding—so small wonder that life was pret ty much of a blank to the boy. It was even worse for Owen, the mover and the mainspring of the enterprise. When she found herself landed victorious ly on the threshold of her goal, with her conscious triumph there got mixed other sensations of a most unpleasant nature. The horrible feeling of flat in action after the whirl of action, that plays havoc with all great conquerors, seized on her, and did the same by this little one, and then she had none of the fetes and the follies that follow hot on the heels of other con querors for their consolation. She felt the most miserable breathing, her soul was brim ming with bitterness and the overflow vented itself largely on Dacre’s luckless pate. The children having nothing to go upon could arrive at no very satisfactory solution to their mysterious summons. Mary’s look as she smoothed Gwen’s hair, put Dacre’s collar straight, and kept on fussing round when she had no more to do, made things look more my sterious still, then she sighed like a steam engine the whole time, which added a presage of- ill character to the mystery that irritated Gwen horribly. “For goodness sake, Mary, do go!” she cried at last in despair, “go’ You are like the old turkey when her ducklings ran out in to the lake the other day.” Mary straightened her glasses and looked at the child. “ ’Tis brains is the matter with you, my dear,” she said; “however could you guess at the very thoughts as were running in my head? I was thinking of the creature flapping there helpless, and I was lik’ning myself to her that very minute. Master Dacre would never have guess ed it, bless him!” Gwen felt she had scored a point and continued: “What is going to happen to us, Mary?” Mary regarded her in silence. “If you know you might tell us,” said the girl impatiently, “or,” she added scornfully, “are you still more like the turkey’, and are only frightened because you know so Tittle?— you look like that.” “Oh, Lord!” muttered the wo man under her breaih, feeling very hard hit, but she replied with dignity, “My dear, it cer tainly ain’t my place to tell you what your parents have thought fit not to acquaint you with.” “They see fit to acquaint us with nothing as far as I can see. Well, as you can’t tell us or don’t know anything to tell us, do go away, please. You move about so, and look so queer, jou make one think that a horrible new thing is coming on us, so do go, please. I’m not cross or nasty, only I feel queer myself and frightened, I could scream and yell and howl this minute —oh, I wish Mrs, Fellows was here,” •’She is coming, my dear,” said Mary, looking anxiously at the girl, “Oh, she often looks like that,” said Dacre consolingly, “I believe she is mad—she is dying to squeal and screech and J et she is as quiet as an old rat, believe myself one good roar would do her good.” Mary was a sensible body and knew when a thing was beyond her powers, she said nothin but went down and intercepts Mrs. Fellowes on her way to the drawing room and carried her off. “Is Gwen well, Mary?” she asked, as they went up stairs. “Eats and sleeps well, ma’am, but she has an over active brain, ma’am, I should say, and if ’tis, it’s only God can help her,” whispered Mary solemnly. Gwen had recovered by this time and she and Dacre were engaged in a wrangle, stormy on Dacre’s side, sarcastic and calm on Gwen’s. At sight of Mrs. Fellowes they left off. “Oh you dear, you dear!” cried Gwen sweeping up to her, and taking the kiss with a sort of gasp, “we feel av.ful, as if some horror was coming on.” “You’ll stand by us, Mrs. Fellowes? Do you think they might repent of Eton? Gwen| gets mad when I say that, but, you know, no fellow knows what they will do next,” he add ed plaintively. “Dacre, I wonder if you know how horribly impertinent you are? If you belonged to me and spoke of me like that, I’d cut you for a week!” “Oh, but you’re quite differ ent, of course no one would speak of you like that—Oh, come in!” A new footman, a tall, awk ward creature, who found his brains softening in this as tonishing family, had been giv ing a succession of small knocks for the last five minutes, at last he supplemented them by a choking cough. “There is that giraffe,” said Gwen impatiently, “1 suppose we are wanted! Mrs. Fellowes, look at him,” she whispered, “everybody who comes to this house looks like that in a week, and as for Mary, she is awful, going about in a muttering way and glaring at me as if I was a penny show. The tutors are the same, even that great leggy gawk—oh dear, what’s the mat ter with us all?” “And another thing—oh, wait just a moment, they’ll never know if we’re one minute late or twenty, they don’t want us a bit, oh no, they never do, I tell you, they are quite happy and oh, so busy, so appallingly busy —I want to tell you another horrible habit the people here have. I must tell you ail this,” she added seeing Dacre’s rather astonished face, “it has all just come up to the surface of me. The people in this place always whisper in the most diabolical way, there is never a single sound in these corridors, never, and that’s why I often nearly— burst to howl and screech. Dacre is an idiot as everyone knows, and he says I’m mad.” “Hush, child!” “Oh well, come on then, but there’s not an atom of hurry, they don’t want us. Mrs. Fellowes isn’t such an ass as not to know that,” said Dacre scornfully, “but I want to know what’s on in there, so does she, so come on.” “It’s nothing nice, you may be quite sure, it’s probably got something to do with lessons. Perhaps they want to examine you before you go to school,” she added, with a fiendish laugh. Her mouth was terrible in its hardness. Mrs. Fellowes stoop ed down quickly and kissed her on it. “Gwen, love, you don’t ki ow, something very nice may be go ing to happen to you, the very nicest thing that has ever yet happened.” Gwen looked up at her aston ished, some tone in her soft voice touched her. “I wonder—” she said slowly, “I wish—” ‘What dear?” “Oh, I don’t think I know,” said she, with a short laugh. “Come on! Gru! Look at the table covered with books and things! I knew it was an exam! Look, Dacre!” When her greetings to her host and hostess were over, Mrs. Fellowes went over to her hus band, who was standing by the table of books. “One of the evidences of Christianity to be placed before the infant mind,” he said softly, pointing to Lord Am&er/y. “An other!” and he put his finger on Renan’s Life of Jesus. “Good gracious! you’ll stop that?” “If I can—what’s wrong with Gwen?” “I don’t know, I put my foot in it just now by pressing for an explanation.” Dacre, raeauvJk’Te, was feel ing less tb in a w* •pi under the concentrated of his par ents. After the first remarks concerning health addressed to both children, with a casual al lusion to his projected depart ure for school for Dacre’s bene fit, and an earnest request from his mother to consider his teeth and his stomach and to eschew sweet-stuff, “the great tempta tion of public schools,” she ob served sadly, and when some supine observations with regard to things in general had been turned on Gwen, Mr. and Mrs. Waring looked appealingly at each other and subsided into a silent and curious inspection of their son. The dumb endurance of the boy showed a good deal of pluck; he merely wriggled spas modically from time to time. But he had come to the extrem- est end of his tether and was on the point of some outbreak, when deliverance reached him in a low swift sigh from his mother, and a queer sudden movement on his father’s part, who pushed back in his chair, loosed his wife’s hand with a deprecating “Pray, my love!” and began to speak in a general inoffensive way, fixing his gaze on no one in particular, to Da cre’s infinite relief. “There are subjects that are usually comprised in the educa tion of young children,” said he “which we, after deep and anxious thought, have seen fit to omit from the curriculum of our son and daughter. Wt have taken special pains to impress upon their various instructors, as also upon the persons ap pointed to their personal service that a certain part of their minds should be kept free, en tirely clear and free from cer tain impressions, that they should remain, so to speak, a blank as far as regards this form of knowledge. The form of knowledge I allude to—” he continued, his eye falling once more on the luckless Dacre who was drinking in his words with open-eyed wondei, and, finding the boy useful as a target, he fixed him inexorably until the end of the discourse. “The form of knowledge I allude to is that known as the knowledge of religion. It is sometimes called a sense and has in a man ner become so by heredity, but I doubt much whether it was innate in the race in the begin ning. This point of view has of course powerful advocates, as we all know, at leaet—” he added coughing nervously, “as Mr. Fellowes and his wife know. However, this question though most interesting is not necessary to my explanation.” Here his eye which had swer ved for a moment, again caught Dacre’s. “The reasons why we have insisted upon the denial of this knowledge to our children are many. Firstly, my wife and I consider that it is hardly fair to any human creature, with normal brain power in its young receptive condition, to give this brain power a distinct bias with regard to the funda- mtal points of any science. I speak of it not in the common but in the original application of the word, which is merely empiric and can certainly not be looked upon as proven in any part,—however great its ethical value as a factor of culture may be,” he added with an apologe tic glance at the rector. “For the same reason we have with held geology and the advanced parts of several of the natural sciences, wherein is evolved the doctrine of evolution. But of these later. “We have been more string ent in our regulations with re gard to religion and its most advanced and refined develop ment—that known as Christ ianity—because it enters so largely into all current ques tions and entrenches, or at least the arguments of its ex ponents do, on so many of our more exact sciences. Another reason for withholding this knowledge was the strange me thods so many of its disciples have of apprehending and ap plying it—even of considering its literature. The process of exclusion by which we have striven to our goal has, I fear, seemed to our dear friends here to-day an unwise one, but we have taken deep thought con cerning this matter, and have taken no step lightly. We have awaited a state of consciousness in our children capable of re ceiving and judging the evi dences of religion—more especi ally of that form of it known as Christianity—in an unprejudic ed and reasonable manner, with out bias, and with no early half-true, half-false impressions to confuse and mislead. “Mr. Fellowes,” he concluded with solemnity, “we have done, as we consider, our duty, and in the best way we know of. Heredity and other inner in fluences will no doubt in some measure nullify our efforts, as will also the possible impres sions—no doubt of a low order —which our children, in that period of mere physical develop ment before the culture of their higher parts began, may have received from outside; but with these exceptions, I feel confid ent that, as regards all knowl edge of religion, the minds of our children are a blank.” He was silent for a moment and regarded the blanks with supreme satisfaction. “Mr. Fellowes,” he began again, “my wife and I are most anxious thatour children should receive all the facts and argu ments in favor of Christianity before the counter arguments are put forth before them, and in the most reasonable and en lightened manner. We have therefore invited you to be pres ent to day and would feel our selves under still one more obli gation to you—” here he looked frpm Mr. Fellowes to his wife and so made one of them, “you who are so eminently fitted for the task—if you would make our children acquainted with the leading points in the history of religion. Would you also be so good as to direct them in their course of reading—our daughter, at least, for Dacre, I believe, goes to Eton to-mor row? My wife and I have, as ? mu know, been reluctantly ob- iged to relinquish our plans in this instance, owing to the pres sure of string ancestral bias which will, I fear, also compel us to allow the boy to devote himself to brutal pursuits, and finally to enter the army. His ordinary culture then in relig ious matters must be entrusted to the tutors of his school, who, no doubt, will fill his mind with strange vagaries. “However,” he went on with a fixed melan choly look at the boy, “Dacre’s intellect is not of a high order, it matters little; but with Gwen very specially we desire your aid. We have discovered in her an unusual power of apply ing knowledge, and we would be glad if you would examine her from time to time, that she may have a sound and reason able knowledge of the argu ments on the one side of this very interesting question, be fore she considers those on the other; we may be accused,” he continued with a sigh, “and perhaps justly of an unfair at tempt to bias the girl’s mind by not arranging that the study of the opposed facts and arguments should run side by side with these. But in this matter, I fancy,” he said, with a little smile at his wife, “I fancy both my wife’s and my hereditary tendencies have rather handi capped our intelligence, I do trust with no ill-results to our children,” he added, embracin, them both in one perturoei glance and sitting down rather wearily. [to be continued.] Bucklen't Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at Willcox & Go’s drugstore. When Baby was sick, we ffave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she hod Children, she gave them Castoria. LADIES Needing a tonic, or children who want build ing up, should take SHOWN’* IKON BITTER*. 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MIXED TRAIN Leave Wadesboro 2.00 p a Bennett’s... 2.25 p tc Morven’s 2.40 p m McFarland 2 55 p m Cheraw 8.45 p m Cash's 4.10 pm Society Hill 4.40 p m Dove's 5.10 pm Floyd’s 5.80 pm Darlington 6.05 p m Palmetto 6.20 p m Arrive Florence -. 6.45 p in Leave Florence 7.35 a m Palmetto 8.00 a m Darlington 8.35 a m Floyd’s 0.00 am Dove’s 9 15 a m Society Hill 9 45 a m Cash’s 10.15 a m Cheraw 11.00 a m McFarland 11.40 a m Morven’s 11.65 a m Bennett’s 12.10 a m Arrive Wadesboro 12.30 a m Local Freight. Leave Darlington 4.30 p m Palmetto 4.42 p m Arrive Florence 5.00 p m Leave Florence 8.80 a m Palmetto 8.50 a m Arrive Darlington 9.05 a m A. F. RAVENEL, President. N ortheastern railroad. In effect J une 3,1894. SOUTH BOUND. Leave Florence Kingstree No. 61 7.45 a m 9.20 a m Arrive Charleston 12.10 a is No. 85. Leave Florence 3.10 a m Lanes 4.20 a m Arrive Charleston 0.10 » m No. 23. Leave Florence 7.45 p us Kingstree 9.02 p m I^ines 9.23 p m Arrive Charleston .11.18 p m No. 53. 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Leave Sumter 9.58 a m Arrive Columbia 11.10 am No. 59 runs through from Charles ton v’a Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8.48 a m, Manning 9 25 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave Colnmblt 4.30 & ni Sumter... -m*********** • 5.55 ft xu Arrive Florence •:****(*<'»'*4 • 7.10 a m No. 56. Leave Florence 7.40 a m Marion 8.23 a m Arrive Wilmington 11.10 am No. 58. Leave Colombia 4.20 p m Arrive Sumter 5.45 p m No. 59. Leave Colombia Sumter 5.55 p m Arrive Florence 7.05 p m No-58 runs thiougu n> cuarleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 6.22 p m, Lanes 7.00 p m, Oharleston8.40 pm. Trains on Manchester and Augusta B. R-, leave Sumter daily except Sun day, 10.59 a. m., arrive Rimini 11:59 a. m. Returning leave Rimini 1.00 p. m.. arrive Sumter 2:10 p. m. Trains on Wilmington, Chadbouns and Conway Railroad leavd Chad- bourn at 10.10 a m, arrive at Conway 12.80 p m, returning leave Conway at 2:00 p. m., arrive Chadbonro 4:50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 5.85 p m and 5.15 p m, arrive at Hnb 8 20 p m Re turning leave Hob 8.15 a m, arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a m. Daily exopet Sunday. JOHN F, DIVINE, •tf&’l SopH * -Mi* /