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CHAPTER VIII, fcoDtinued.! Meanwhile, Kates had made hU way Into the kitchen, taking the precaution to shut the door after him. Kitty Bart lett looked quickly around as the door ghut. Before she oonld speak, the young man caught her by the plump shoulders—• thing which be certainly had no right to do. “Miss Kitty Bartlett," he said, “you've been crying.” “I haven’t; and if I had, it is noth ing to yon." "Oh, I’m not so sure about that. Don't deny it. For whom were you crying? The professor?” “No, nor for you either, although I suppose you have conceit enough to think so." “Me conceited? Anything but that. Come now, Kitty, for whom were you crying? I must know." "Please let me go, Mr. Yates,” said Kitty, with an effort at dignity. "Dick is my name. Kit” "Well, mine is not Kit.” “You're quite right. Now that you mention it, I will call you Kitty, which is much prettier than the abbrevia tion." “I did not ‘mention it’ Please let me go. Nobody has the right to call ime anythingjont Miss Bartlett; that is, you haven't, anyhow.” "Well, Kitty, don’t you think it is about time to give somebody the right? Why won't you look up at me, so that 1 cun tell for sure whether I should havi accused you of crying? Look up !—Miss Bartlett.” . “Please let me go, Mr. Yates. Moth er will bo hero in a minute.” “Mother is a wise and thoughtful woman. We’ll risk mother. Besides, I’m not in the least afraid of her, and I don’t believe you are. I think she is at this moment giv ing poor Mr. Stoliker a piece of her mind; otherwise, I imagine, ho would have followed me. I saw it in his eye.” ■ "I hate that man,” said Kitty, incon- : sequently. “I like him becanse he brought me here, even if I was handcuffed. Kitty, why don’t you look up at mo? Are you afraid?" “What should I be afraid of?” asked Kitty, giving him one swift glance from her pretty blue eyes. "Not of you, I hope.” “Well, Kitty, I sincerely hope not. Now, Miss Bartlett, do you know why I came out here?” “For something more to cat, very likely,” said the girl, mischievously. “Now, Miss Kitty, that, to a man in captivity, is both cruel and unkind. ■Besides, I had a flrst-ratc breakfast, .thank you. No such motive drew me into the kitchen. But I will tell you. You shall have it from my own lips. That was the reason.” ' lie suited the action to the word, and kissed her before she knew what was about to happen. At least Yates, with ^all his experience, thoughthe had taken her unawares. Men often make mistakes -in little matters of this kind. Kitty pushed him with apparent indignation from her, but she did not strike him Across the face as she had done before when he merely attempted what he kad now accomplished. Perhaps this was because she had been taken so com pletely by surprise. “I shall call my mother," she threat ened. “Oh, no, you won’t Besldea, she Wouldn't come.” Then this frivolous young man began to sing in a low voice the flippant refrain: “Here’s to the girl that gets a kiss and runs and tells her mother,” ending with the wish that she should live and die an old maid and never get another. Kitty should not have smiled, but she did; she should have rebuked his levity, but she didn’t “It is about the great and disastrous consequences of living and dying an old maid that I want to speak to yon. I have a plan for the prevention of such a catastrophe, and I would like to get your approval of it.” Yates had released the girl, partly l>ecause she had wrenched herself away from him and partly because he heard a movement in the dining-room and expected the entrance of Stoliker or some of the others. Miss Kitty stood with her back to the table, her eyes fixed on a spring flower, which she had unconsciously taken from a vase stand ing on the window ledge. She smoothed the petals this wav and that, and seemed so interested in botanical investigation that Yates wondered whether she was paying attention to what he was saying or not. What his :plan might have been can only be guessed, for the fates ordained that thsy should be interrupted at this critical moment by the one person on earth who could- make Yates' tongue falter. : The outer door to the kitchen burst open and Margaret Howard stood on the threshold, her lovely face aflame with indignation, and her dark hair down over her shoulders, forming a picture of loveliness that fairly took Yates’ breath -away. She did not no tice him. “Oh, Klttyl” she cried, "thoss wretches have stolen all our horses. Is your father here?” “What wyetches?” asked Kitty, ig noring the question, and startled by the sudden advent of her friend. “Yon are much safer here," said the girl, with downcast eyes. “A man has brought the news that the United States gunboats are sailing up and down the river, making prisoners of all who attempt to cross from this side.” "You don't sayl Well, I might have known that. Then what am I to do with Stoliker? I can’t keep him tied up here. Yet the moment he gets loose I’m done for.” “Perhaps mother could persuade him not to do anything more. Shall I go for her?” “I don’t think it would be any use. Stoliker's a stubborn animal. He has suffered too much at my hands to be in a forgiving mood. We'll bring him a chair anyhow, and see the effect of kindness on him.” When the chair was placed at Sto- liker’s disnoeal. he sat down upon it. still hugging the post with an enforced fervency that in spite of the solemnity of the occasion nearly made Kitty laugh, and lit up her eyes with the mischievousness that had always de lighted Yates. “How long am I to be kept here?” asked the constable. "Oh, not long,” answered Yates cheerily; "not a moment longer than is necessary. I’ll telegraph when I’m safe In New York state, so you won’t be here more than a day or two.” This assurance did not appear to bring much comfort to Stoliker. “Look here,” he said,“I guess I know as well as the next man when I’m beaten. I have been thinking this all over. I am under the sheriff's orders, and not under the orders of yhat offi cer. I don’t believe you've done an/-, STOLIKER BET HIS TKKTH AND THIRD TO HOLD HIS GROUND. thing, anyhow, or you wouldn't have acted quite the way you did. If the sheriff had sent me it would have been different. As it is, if you unlock those &uffs I'll give you my word I’ll do noth ing more unless I’m ordered to. Like as not they've forgotten all about yon by this time; and there’s nothing on record, anyhow.” “Do you mean it? Will you act square?” “Certainly I’ll act square. I don't suppose you doubt that. I didn’t ask any favors before, and I did what I could to hold you.” “Enough said,” cried Yates. “I'll risk it.” Stoliker stretched his arms wearily above his head when he was released. “I wonder,” he said, now that Kitty was gone, “if there is anything to eat in the house?” “Shake!” cried Yates, holding ont his hand to him. “Another great and mutual sentiment unites us, Stoliker. Let us go and see.” CHAPTER X. The man who wanted to see the fight did not see it, and the man who did not want to see it saw it. Yates arrived on the field of conflict when all was over; Renmark found the battle raging around him before he realized that things had reached a crisis. The result of the struggle was simi lar in effect to an American railway accident of the first class. One officer and five privates were killed on the Canadian side, one man was missing, and many were wounded. The num ber of the Fenians killed will probably never be known. Several were buried on the field of battle, others were taken back by O’Neill’s brigade when they retreated. Although the engagement resulted as Yates had predicted, yet he was wrong in his estimate of the Canadians. •‘now LONG AH I TO BK KEPT HERE?” Volunteers are invariably underrated by men of experience in military mat ters, The boys fought well, even when they saw their ensign fall dead before them. If the affair had been left en tirely in their hands the result might have been different, as was shown after wards, when the volunteers, unim peded by regulars, quickly put down a much more formidable rising in the northwest. But in the present case they were hampered by their depend ence on the British troops, whose com mander moved them with all the pon derous slowness of real war and ap proached O’Neill as if he had been ap proaching Napoleon. He thus man aged to get in a day after the fa Iron every occasion, being too late for the fight at Ridgeway and too late to cap- eheery voice relieved the tension of the situation: “Como, come, Stoliker, don’t be an idiot. I do not object in the least to the handcuffs, and, if you are dying to handcuff somebody, handcuff me. It hasn't struck your luminous mind that you have not the first tithe of evidence against my friend, and that even if I were the greatest criminal in America the fact of his being with me is no crime. The truth is, Stoliker, that I wouldn't be in your shoes for a good many dollars. Yon talk a great deal about doing your duty, but you have exceeded it in the case of the professor. I hope you have no property, for the professor can, if he likes, make you pay 1 sweetly for putting the handcuffs on 1 him without a warrant or even without one Jot of evfdence. w nat is me per- | ally for false arrest, Hiram?" continued Yates, suddenly appealing to the old man. “I think it is a thousand dollars.” Hiram said gloomily that he didn't know. Stoliker was hit on a tender spot, for he owned a farm. "Better apologize to the professor and let ns get along—Good-by, all— Mrs. Bartlett, that breakfast was the very best I ever tasted." T he w-oman smiled and shook hands with him. “Good-by, Mr. Yates; and I hope yon will soon come back to have another.” Stoliker slipped the handcuffs into his pocket again and mounted his horse. The girls from the veranda watched the procession move up the dusty road They were silent, and had even forgotten the exciting event of the stealing of the horses. CHAPTER IX When the two prisoners with their three captors came in sight of the Can adian volunteers they beheld a scene which was much more military than the Fenian camp. They were prompt ly halted and questioned by a picket before coming to the main body, and the sentry knew enough not to shoot until he had asked for the countersign. Passing the picket, they came in full view of the Cauadian force, the men of which looked very spick and span in uniforms which seemed painfully new in the clearlightof the fair June morning. The guns, topped by a bristle of bay onets that glittered as the rising sun shone on them, were stacked with neat precision here and there. The men were preparing their breakfast, and a temporary halt had been called for that purpose. The volunteers were scattered by the side of the road and in the fields. Renmark recognized the colors of the regiment from his own city, and noticed that there was with ] it a company that was strange to him. Although led to them a prisoner, he felt a glowing pride in the regiment and their trim appearance, a pride that was both national and civic. He in stinctively held himself more erect as he approached. "Renmark,” said Yates, looking at him with a smile, “you are making a thoroughly British mistake.” “What do you mean? I haven’t epoken.” “No, but I see it in your eye. Yon are underestimating the enemy. You think this pretty company is going to walk over that body of unkempt tramps we saw in the woods this morn ing.” “I do, indeed, if the tramps wait to be walked over—which I very much doubt.” “That’s just where you make the mistake. Most of these are raw boys, who know all that can be learned of war on a cricket-field. They will be the worst-whipped set of young fellows before night that this part of the coun try has ever seen. Wait till they see one of their comrades fall with the blood gushing out of a wound in his breast. If they don’t turn and run, then I’m a Dutchman. I’ve seen raw recruits before. They should have a company of older men here who have seen service, to steady them. The fel lows we saw this morning were sleep ing like logs in the damp woods, as we stepped over them. They are veterans. What will he but a mere skirmish to them will seem to these boys the most awful tragedy that ever happened.” Some of the volunteers crowded around the incomers, eagerly inquiring for news of the enemy. The Fenians had taken the precaution to cut off all the telegraph wires leading out of Fort Erie, and hence those in command of the companies did not even know that the Fenians hod left ths locality. They were now on their way to a point where they were to meet Col. Pea- cocke’s force of regulars—a point which they were destined never to reach. Stoliker sought an officer and delivered up his prisoners, together with the in criminating paper that Yates had handed to him. The officer’s decision was short and sharp, as military decis ions are generally supposed to be. He ordered the constable to take both of the prisoners and put them in jail at Port Colbomc. There was no time now for an inquiry into the case; that could come afterwards; and as long as the men were safe in jail everything would be all right. To this the constable mildly interposed two objections. In the first place, he said, he was with the volunteers, not in his capacity as con stable, but in the position of guide and man who knew the country. In the sec ond place, there was no jail at Port Colborne. “Where is the nearest jail?” “The jail of the county is at Welland, the county town,” replied the consta ble. “Very well; take them there.” “But I am here as guide,” repeated Stoliker. The officer hesitated for a moment. "You haven’t handcuffs with you, I presume?” “Yes, 1 have,” said Stoliker, produc ing the instrument. “Well, then, handcuff them together, and I will send one of the company over to Welland with them, llow far is it across country?” Stoliker told him. The officer called one of the volun teers and said to him: “Yon are to make your way across country to Welland and deliver these men np to the jailer there. They will be handcuffed together, but you take a revolver with yon, and if they give you any trouble, shoot them.” The volunteer reddened and drew himself np. “I am not a policeman,’ he said. “I am a soldier.” “Very well, then, your first duty as a soldier is to obey orders. I order yon to take these men to Welland.” The volunteers had crowded around as this d\^cussion went on, and a mur mur rose among them at the order of the oflicer. They evidently sympa thized with their comrade’s objection to the duties of a policeman. One of them made his way through the crowd and cried: “Uellol This is the professor. This is Mr. Renmark. He’s no Fenian.” Two or three more of the university students recognized Renmark, and, pushing up to him, greeted him warm ly. He was evidently a favorite with his class. Among others young How ard pressed forward. “It is nonsense,” he cried, “talking about sending Prof. Renmark to jail. He is no more a Fenian than Gov. Gen. Monck. We’U all go bail for the pro fessor.” The officer wavered. “If yon know him,” he said, “that is a different mat ter. But this other man has a letter from the commander of the Fenians recommending him to the consideration of ail friends of the Fenian cause. I can t let him go free." "Are you the chief in command here?” asked Renmark. “No, I am not." “Mr. Yates is a friend of mine who is here with me on his vacation. He is a New York journalist, and has nothing in common with the invaders. If you insist on sending him to Welland I must dqtnand that we lie taken before the officer in command. In any case he and I stand or fall together. I am ex actly as guilty or innocent as he is.” “We can’t bother the colonel about every triviality.” "A man's liberty is no triviality. What in the name of common sense are you fighting for but for liberty?" “Thanks, Renmark, thanks," said Yates, “but I don’t care to see the colonel, and I shall welcome Welland jail. I am tired of all this bother. I came here for rest and quiet, and I am going to have them if I have to go to jail for them. I’m coming re luctantly to the belief that jail's the most comfortable place in Canada, any how.” “But this is an outrage,” cried the professor, indignantly. “Of course it is,” replied Yates, wearily; ‘but the woods are full of them. There’s always outrages going on, especially in so-called free coun tries; therefore one more or less won’t make much difference. Como, officer, who's going to tak“ me to Welland? or shall I have to go by myself? I’m a Fen- wonld be kept. Renmark left tne road and struck across country for the tent, which he reached without further molestation, finding it as he had left It. [TO BK COBTTINl’KD. J PRAISE, ONLY, FROM ALL WHO USE AYER’S Hair Vigor of th •'WHERE IS THE NEAREST JAIL?” ian from 'way back, and came here espe cially to overturn the throne and take it home with me. For heaven's sake know your own mind one way or other, and let us end this conference.” The officer was wroth. He speedily gave the order to Stoliker to handcuff the prisoner to himself and deliver him to the jailer at Welland. “But I want assistance,” objected Stoliker. “The prisoner is a bigger man than I am.” The volunteers laughed as Stoliker mentioned this self-evident fact. “If anyone likes to go with yon he can go. I shall give no orders.” No one volunteered to accompany the constable. “Take this revolver with yon,” con tinued the officer, “and if he attempts to escape shoot him. Besides, yon know the way to Welland, so I can’t send anybody in your place, even if I wanted to.” “Howard knows the way,” persisted Stoliker. That young man spoke up with great indignation: “Yes, but Howard isn't constable, and Stoliker is. I'm not going.” Renmark went up to his friend. “Who's acting foolishly now, Yates?” ho said. “Why don't you insist on see ing the colonel? The chances are ten to one that you would be allowed off.” “Don’t make any mistake. The colonel will likely be some fussy indi vidual who magnifies his own im portance and who will send a squad of volunteers to escort me, and I want to avoid that. These officers always stick by each other; they’re bound to. I want to go alone with Stoliker. I have a score to settle with him.” “Now, don’t do anything rash. You've done nothing so far, but if you assault an officer of the law that will be a different matter.” “Satan reproving sin. Who prevent ed you from hitting Stoliker a short time since?’.’ . “Well, I was wrong then. You are wrong now.” “See here, Renny,” whispered Yates, “you get back to the tent and sec that everything's all right. I’ll be with you in an hour or so. Don't look so fright ened. I won't hurt Stoliker. But I want to see this fight, and I won't get there if the colonel sends an escort. I’m going to nse Stoliker as a shield when the bullets begin flying.” The bugles sounded for the troops to fall in, and Stoliker very reluctantly attached one clasp of the handcuff aronnd his own left wrist while hi snapped the other on the right wrist ol Yates, who embarrassed him with kindly assistance. The two manacied men disappeared down the road, while the volunteers rapidly fell in to con tinue their morning’s march. Young Howard bedkoned to the pro fessor from his place in the ranks. “I say, professor, how did you happen to be down this way?” “I have been camping out here for a week or more with Yates, who is an old school-fellow of mine.” “What a shame to have him led off in that wayl But he seemed to rather like the idea. Jolly fellow, I should say. But I wish I had known you were in this neighborhood. My folks live near here. They would only have been too glad to be of assistance to you.” “They have been of assistance to me, and exceedingly kind as well.” “What? You know them? All of them? Have yon met Margaret?” “Yes,” said the professor, slowly, but his glance fell as it encountered the eager eyes of the youth. It was evi dent that Margaret was the brother's favorite. “Fall back, there,” cried the officer to Renmark. “May I march along with them? or can you give me a gun and let me take part?” “No,” said the officer, with some hau teur; “this is no place for civilians. Again the professor smiled, as he re flected that the whole company, as far as martial experience went, were merely civilians dressed in uniform, and he became grave again when he remembered Yates' ominous prediction regarding them. “I say, Mr. Renmark,” cried young Howard, as the company moved off, “if yon see any of them don’t tell them I’m here — especially Margaret. It might make them uneasy. I'll get leave when this is over and drop in on them.” The boy spoke with the hopeful con fidence of youth, and had evidently no nremonition of how his aonolntment “Ayer’s preparations are too well known to need any rommen- flat ion from me ; but I feel com pelled to state, for the lienelit of others, that six years ago, 1 lost nearly half of my hair, and what was ‘left turned gray. After using Ayer’s Hair Vigor several months, my hair began to grow again, and with the natural color restored. 1 recommend it to all my friends.”—Mrs. E. Fkank- havker, Imx 305, Station C, Los Angeles, Cal. Ayer’S Hair Vigor rnEPAREn ry DR. 1. C. AYER & CO.. LOWELL, MASS. $ poooooooooooooooooooooooi , Sumier and North ern Railroad Company. MASTER’S SALE OF RAILROAD. Notice !b hereby given that in pursu ance of a Decree of the United States Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina, dated January 14th, 1895, and made in the causes entitled Alfred A. Hewlett vs. The Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad Company and Tiie Atlantic Trust Company vs. The Charleston, Sumter and Northern Rail road Company, the undersigned as Special Master, named in said Decree, will sell for cash at public auction, to the highest bidder, at twelve o’clock noon, at the depot of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad in the City of Sumter, in the State of South Carolina, on the fifteenth day of Feb ruary A. D. 1895, the followiug de scribed property of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad Com pany. All and singlar the lauds, tenements and hereditaments of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad Com pany, wherever situated, including all its railroads, tracks, right-of-way, main lines, superstructures, depots, depot grounds, station houses, engine houses, car houses, freight houses, wood houses, sheds, watering places, work shops, machine shops, bridges, viaducts, cul verts, fences and fixtures together with all its leases, leased or hired lands, leased or hired railroads, and all its locomo tives, tenders, cars, carriages, trucks and other railing stock, its machinery, tools, weighing scales, turn tallies, rails, wood, coal, oil, fuel, equipment, furni ture and material of every name, nature and description, together with all the corporate rights, privileges, immini- meuts and franchises of the said rail road company, including the franchise to be a corporation, and all the tolls, fares, freights, rents, income, issues and profits thereof, and ail the reversion and rever- sious, remainder and remainders thereof. The said property being more fully set out and described in and by a cer tain mortgage or deed of trust execuled by the ( harleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad Company to the American Loan & Trust t ompany of the City of New York, Trustee, dated April 2nd, 1890, and also in the decree in this cause; and consisting among other things of the following railroad lines to-wit: All and singular the lines of railroad owned, constructed and operated by the Charleston, Sumter aud Northern Rail road Company over the following gen erally described route, namely: A line of railroad which extends from Preg- nall’s Station on the line of the South Carolina Railroad, formerly known as forty-one mile station, in the county of Colleton, State of South Carolina, through llarleyville in said last men tioned county; Pecks, Holly Hill, Con nors and Eutawville in the county of Berkeley in said State; Bull’s and Van ce’s in the county of Orangeburg in said State; Merriam, St. Paul, Summerton, Silver and Packsville in the county of Clarendon in said State, and to the City of Sumter in the county of Sumter, and thence through the counties of Darling ton and Marlboro, to or near Bennetts- vllle in said county of Marlboro, id said State, a distance in all of about one hund red and twenty-one and 1-10 miles; also a line of railroad which extends from Eutawville in the county of Berkeley in said State of South I arolina, to Fergu son in the county of Berkeley in said State of South Carolina, a distance of about six miles; also a line of railroad which extends from Vance’s in the county of Orangeburg, in the State of South Carolina, through Snell’s and Par- ler’s in the said last mentioned county to Harlin City (formerly Elloree) in said last mentioned county, a distance of about eleven and two tenths miles; and also the line of railroad known as the Gibson extension or continuation of the track and other property of the Charles ton, Sumter A Northern Railroad Com pany, such extension or continuation, extending from the town of Bennetts- yille at the former terminus of the Charleston, Sautter and Northern Rail road to a point in the State of South Carolina near the line dividing the State of South Carolina from the State of North Carolina, the said point being almut four thousand feet from the town of Gibson in the State of North Caroli na; said Gibson extension consisting of about ten 85-100 miles and having been constructed by the receiver of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Rail road with funds of the trust estate, by orders of the Circuit Court of the United States passed in these causes; the entire railroad lines being altogether a dis tance of about one hundred ami forty nine miles of railroad, constructed and in active operation, under and by virtue of the charter of the railroad company as now amended. The said Master shall receive at such sales no bid of less than tbe sum of Fonr Hundred Thousand Dollars, and shall receive no bid from any person offering tobid who shall not first deposit with him, as a pledge that such bidder will moke good his bid in case of its ac ceptance, the sum of 910,000 in money or by certified check on some responsible heart or 920,000 in Receiver’s certificates if Uv receiver of the Charleston. Sum- tor arid Northern Railroad or 92*81,000, •a bonds of the said railroad compafiy. Thadcposit so received from any unsuc- to—fnl bidder shall lie returned to him whan the property shall be struck down, •ad the deposit so received from the »acce>>tul bidder shall lie applied on ac count of tin' purchase price, if cash, or receiver's certificates then at par, and if bonds then at proportionate value, as further provided in tins paragraph. Such further payments on the purchase price shall be paid in cash as the Court in this cause mav from time to time di rect, aud the Court reserves the right to re-sell in this case the premises and property herein directed to be sold upon the failure of the purchasers thereof or their successors or assigns to comply within twenty days with any order of the Court in that regard, ami any de faulting bidder and any purchaser who shall default, shall be liable to make good any and all expenses and any and all deficiency or loss occasioned by the property bringing a less price at any such re sale, and the amount so deposited by such bidder, shall be applied on ac count thereof : Provided, however that the purchaser may turn in to the special master, in lieu of cash, either receiver’s < ertideates of Charleston, Sumter and . irthern Railroad at par, or any cou- pous, bonds or other claims adjudged to be payable out of the proceeds of the mortgaged premises, the same to be re ceived and the bidder to be credited therefor, on account of the purchase price, to an amount equal to the dis tributive amount of the proceeds of sale payable as hereinafter provided on the bonds, coupons or other claims so turned in. For all further particulars of the property to be sold, and of the terms and conditions of sale and of the terms and conditions of tbe payment for said property, reference is hereby made to the above named decree now on file in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston, South Carolina, and the said sale will be made subject to all the terms aud conditions stated in said decree. JAMES. E. HAGOOD, ^rfvsTTOrsnV TlW TTARTSVILLE RAILROAD. JuneS, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartavllle 4.30 a m Jovann 4.45 a m Floyd's 5.05 a m Darlington 5.25 am Palmetto 5.40 a m Arrive Florence 6.00am Leave Florence 8.50 p m Palmetto 9.05 p m Darlington 9.25 p m Floyds 9.45 p m Jovann 10.00 pn. Hartsville 10.15 pm J F. D1VINL. Gen. Supt. Special Master. Charleston, S. 0., Jan. 15,1895. Notice to Creditors. ^^OTICEis hereby given that all 1W persons indebted to Z. C. Nor wood, late of Darlington county, de ceased, will make pavment to, and all persons having claims against the said Z. C. Norwood, deceased, will pre sent them duly proved to BETHANY G00D80N, Administratrix. GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC 18 J UST AS GOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 60 ots. GALATIA, ILLS., HOT. M, 1833. Psrts Medicine Co., Bt. Loots, Mo. Gentlemen:—We sold Issl rear. 600 bottle, of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC sod boro bought three gross already this year. In all our ex perience of 14 rear.. In the drug buslneu, bnve never Mild an article that gave .ucn universal autla- faction as your Tonic. Yours truly, ASKir, Caob A Co For sale by J". -A.. BOYD. f*HARLE8TON. SUMTER AND ^ NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Kecetvor. In Effect Jan. 10, 1894 NORTH. SOUTH. 9 8 P.M. P.M. Lv 4.(0 Charleston 2.30 Ar 5 20 PregnalFs 1.10 7.25 Sumter 11.02 8.37 Darlington 9.50 9 29 Hennettsville 9.00 9.52 Hibson 8.87 Ar 10.20 Hamlet 8.10 Lv P.M A.M No. 9 connects at Hamlet with S. A. L. Vestibule train for Raleigh, Rich mond. Washington, Baltimore, Phil adelphia and New York. No 8 connects with S. A. L. Vesti bule train/rom above named points. Trains run solid to and from Charles ton. C. MILLARD, Superintendent. c. & D. and C. & 8. RAILROADS. In effect June 8, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave WaiWboro . 2.00 p m Bennett’s . 2.25 p it Morven’t ... 2.40 p in McFarland Cheraw . 3.45 p m Cash's Society Hill Dove’s Floyd’s . 5.30 pm Darlington 6.05 p m Palmetto Arrive Florence Leave Florence ... 7.35 a m Palmetto Darlington - Floyd’s - 8.35 a m . 2.00 a m Dove's Society Hill Cash's Cheraw McFarland . 11.40 am Morven’s 11.55 am Bennett’s .. 12.10 a m Arrive Wadesboro Local Freight. Leave Darlington . 4 10 p m Palmetto . 4.42 p in Arrive Florence . 5.00 p in Leave Florence . 8.30 a m Palmetto . 8.50 am Arrive Darlington . 9 05 a in A. F. RAVEN EL. President. N ortheastern railroad. In effect Noy. 18, 1894; SOUTH BOUND. N d. 85. Leave Florence Lanes Arrive Charleston No. 28. Leave Florence Kiugstree Issues Arrive Charleston No. 53. Leave Lanes Arrive Charleston NORTH BOUND. No. 78. Leave Charleston Lanes Kiugstree Arrive Florence No. 32. Leave Charleston Issues Kiugstree Arrive Florence No. 52. Leave Charleston Arrive Lanes No. 52 runs ttirough to Coikmbia via Central R. K. of S. C Train Nos. 78and 14runsviawilBon and Fayetteville—Short Line—and makes close connection for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. AHriLMINGTON, COLUMBIA * T W AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect June 3, 1894. SOUTH BOUND. No. 55. Leave Wilmington Marion Arrive Florence No. 6b. Leave Florence 7.25 p m Sumter 8.30 :>m Leave Sumter . -d( 8.38 p in Arrive Columbia ... 10.00 p m No. 58. Leave Florence Arrive Sumter No. 52. Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia Docs This Bit You? The management of the | Equitable Life Assurance * -Society in the Department of J the Carolinas, wishes to se cure a few Special Resident Agents. Those who are fitted 5 for this work will find this J A Rare Opportunity i: It isuwrk, however,and those ■who succeed best in it possess character, mature judgment, tact, perseverance, and the respect of their community. Think this matter over care fully. There’s an unusual opening for somebody. If it fits you, it will pay you. Fur ther information on request. W. J. Roddey, Manager, Rock Hill, S. C. No. 52 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8.43 a in, Manning 925 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave ColmnbU .mm m<mwsm. 4.30 a m Sumter... . 5.53 am Arrive Florence . 7.10 a m No. 56* Leave Florence &..... 7.35 a m Marion - 6.16 a m Arrive Wilmington.. Leave Colombia Arrive Snmter -...11.00 a m No. 53. ... 4.20 p m ... 5.43 p m No. 59. Leave Columbia Snmter ***** •Jjlffi 1 * ■ • * “ ••• 5.47 p m Arrive Florence. ^(V-- * 6.55 p m No-58 runs thiougu to uuarleeton via central Railroaa; arriving Man ning 6.21 p m. Lanes 7.05 p m, charleston8.40 pm. Trains on South and North Caro lina R. R., leave Atkins'MO a. m. and 6.30 p. m., arriving Lucknow 11.10 a. m. and 8.00 p. m. Returning leave Lucknow 6.45 a. m. and 4.20 p m., ar riving Atkins 8.15 a. m. and 5.50p.m. Daily except Sunday. ^ Trains on Wilmington, Chadboorn and Conway Railroad leave Chad- bourn at 10.10 a m. arrive at Conway :8.80 p m, retumingleave'Conway at 2:00 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 4:50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 5.85 p m arrive at Hub 6 20 p. m. Re- tumiug leave Hub 8.15 a m, arrive at Chadbohrn 9.00 a m. Daily exepet Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE, Ganl Bap*.