The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, May 16, 1895, Image 4
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Ceiling Out of • Meze.
fje ome K. Je.’ome. |
Harris asked me if I’d ever
been in the maze at Hampton
Court. He said he went in once
to show somebody else the way.
He had studied it up in a msp.
and it was so simple that it
seemed foolish—hardly worth
the twopence charged for ad
mission. Harris said he thought
that map must have been got
up as a practical joke, because
it wasn’t a bit like the real
thing, and only misleading. It
was a country cousin that Har
ris took in. He said:
‘'We’ll just go in here, so that
you can say you’ve been, but its
very simple. It’s absurd to call
it a maze. You keep on taking
firsl turning to the right. We’ll
just walk round for ten min
utes, and then go and get some
lunch.”
They met some people soon
after they had got inside, who
said they had been there for
three-quarters of an hour, and
had had about enough of it.
Harris told them they could fol
low him, if they liked; he was
just going in, and then should
turn round and come out again.
They said it was very kind of
him, and fell behind, and fol
lowed.
They picked up various other
people who wanted to get it
over, as they went along, until
they had absorbed all the per
sons in the maze. People who
had given up all hopes of ever
getting either in or out, or of
ever seeing their home and
friends again, plucked up cour
age at the sight of Harris and
his party, and joined theproces
sion, blessing him. Harris said
he should judge there must have
been twenty people following
him, in all; and one woman
with a baby, who had been there
all the morning, insisted on tak
ing his arm, for fear of losing
him.
Harris kept on turning to the
right, but it seemed a long way,
and his cousin said ho supposed
it was a very big maze.
‘‘Oh, one of the largest in Eu
rope,” said Harris.
‘•Yes, it must be,” replied the
cousiu, ‘‘because we’ve walked
a good two miles already.”
Harris began to think it very
strange himself, but he held on
until, at last, they passed the
half of a penny bun on the
ground that Harris’s cousin
swore he bad noticed there sev
en minutes before. Harris said:
•‘Oh, impossible!” but the wo
man with the baby said, “Not
at all,” as she herself had taken
it from the child, and thrown it
down there, just before she met
Harris. She also added that
she wished she never had met
Harris, and expressed an opin
ion that he was an imposter.
That made Harris mad, and he
produced his map, and explain
ed his theory.
“The map may be all right
enough,” said one of the party,
“if you know whereabouts in it
we are now.”
Harris didn’t know, and sug
gested that the best thing to do
would be to go back to the en
trance, and begin again. For
the beginning again part of it
there was not much enthusiasm;
but with regard to the advis
ability of going back to the en
trance there was complete un
animity, and so they turned,
and trailed after Harris again,
in the opposite direciion. About
ten minutes more passed, and
then they found themselves in
the center.
Harr's thought at first of pre
tending that that was what he
had been aiming at; but the
crowd looked dangerous, and
he decided to treat it as an ac
cident.
Anyhow, they had got some
thing to start from then. Thev
did know where they were, and
the map was once more consult
ed, and the thing seemed simp
ler than ever, and off they start
ed for the third time.
And three minutes later they
were back in the center again.
After that, they simply
couldn’t get anywhere else.
Whatever way they turned
brought them back to the mid
die. It became so regular at
length, that some of the people
stopped there, and waited for
the others lo take a walk round,
and come back to them. Harris
drew out his map again, afler a
while, but the sight of it only
infuriated the mob, and they
told him to go and curl his hair
with it. Harris said he could
not help feeling that, to a cer
tain extent, he had become un
popular.
They all got crazy at last, and
sang out for the keeper, and the
man came and climed up the
ladder outside, and shouted out
directions to them. But all
their heads were, by this time,
in such a confused whirl that
they were incapable of grasping
anything, and so the man told
them to stop where they were,
and he would come to them.
They huddled together, and
waited; and ho climbed down,
and came in.
He was a
luck would have it,' and new to
the business; and when he got
in, he couldn’t find them, and
he wandered about, trying to
et to them, and then he pot
They caught sight of him,
lost. . _
every now and then, rushing
about the other side of the
hedge, and he would see them,
and rush to get to them, and
they would wait there for about
five minutes, and he would re
appear again in exactly the j
same spot, and ask them where
they had been.
They had to wait till one of
the old keepers came back from
his dinner before they got out.
Harris said he thought it was
a very fine maze, so »ar as he
was a judge; and we agreed
that wo would try to get George
to go into it, on our way back.
We will pay cash or exchange meal
for all sound cotton seed delivered at our
Mill between now and May 20th. It will
Advertisement of W. H. Snow.
Aft<sr three years of costly
litigation the writer and paten
tee holds all the patents and
trade-marks which he formerly
assigned to the Modern Barn
Company, and is now prepared
to sell territory and tobacco
sticks and baskets and material
of all description used in the
construction of barns.
During the last three years
the Snow process of curing to
bacco has received marked at
tention from seven different
States, whose experimental sta
tions have issued bulletins high
lycommendingthe new method,
and in some States have enter
ed into an exhaustive analysis
of the tobacco after curing, ful
ly demonstrating the superority
of the new plan, while W. F.
Clark received the highest
award at the World’s Fair for
tobacco grown in Louisiana and
cured in the Snow Barn for ci
gar and chewing tobacco.
My inventions are fully cov
ered and protected by a number
of Letters Patent of the United
States. The short cross wire
with its sharp fixed points set
tles forever the process of the
leaf cure. As the placing of the
eye in the point of the needle
held the perfect sewsng ma
chine and prevented any man
from defrauding its inventor,
we intend that our device shall
be held for the benefit of the
man who invented it. There
have been, and we expect that
there will be, many attempts to
rob the invenoor of the fruits of
his labor by evasion of his pa
tented rights. None have suc
ceeded and none can succeed.
My patents cover, among oth
er things, all tobacco sticks
with projecting prongs on each
side, at right angles to the stick,
by any and all permanent means
of attachment, no matter how
attached or fastened.
I will, at any cost, protect
customers aa well as myself
against any attempt to evade or
infringe upon my rights by us
ing, making or selling any part
of our patented inventions. I
give this early notice of my pur
pose that no one may have trou
ble. My next move will be ac
tion. Mr. J. E. Brockington, of
Kingstree, 8. C., whom I have
this day appointed as my sole
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South Carolina to sell county
rights, to make and use my pa
tent Tobacco Sticks, Tobacco
Baskets and Tobacco Furnaces
and Barns, he being my only
true and lawful agent lor the
State of South Carolina.
W. H. Snow,
High Point, N. C.
April 13, 1895.
pay every farmer who lias a remnant of
See the
planting seed to exchange it rather than
use it as a fertilizer.
MIMTON MATE
Tour p
Please, just long enough to say that while
we don’t claim to be doing ALL
the business done in Darling
ton, nor do we claim to sell
Below Manufacturers' Cost,
we do CLAIM to sell as
cheap as any house in Darlington.
We carry a full line of
PRICES THAT WILL PARALYZE ALL COMPETITION!
STATIONERY.
24 Sheets note paper, .01
12 Good envelopes, .01
1 Bottle best ink, .03
12 Good lead pencils, .03
12 ” ” ” .10
24 Sheets 6ft note paper, .04
24 Commercial envelopes, .04
24 9-inch, legal envelopes, .05
1 Receipt book, 50 receipts, .08
1 10xl6-inch scrap book, .10
136 Page blank books^ndexed. 18
100
500
.14
Including a Full Line
LADIES' OXFORDS.
HATS AND GiROCERIES.
taw it Mrolm Packages
AT WHOLESALE PRICES
FOR SPOT CASH,
RESPECTFULLY,
Free Pill*.
E.
Send your address to H
Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and
S et a free sample box of Dr.
ling's New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their mer
its. These pills are easy in ac
tion and are particularly effect
ive in the cure of Constipation
and sick headache. For Mala
ria and Liver Troubles they
have been proven invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be per
fectly free from every deleteri
ous substance, and to be purely
vegetable. They do not weak
en by their action, but by giv
ing tone to the stomach and
bowels greatly invigorate the
system. Regular size 25c. per
box. Sold by Willcox & Co
“I understand that your son
went west, intending to rise
with the community,” said the
neighbor. “Yes; and be did
what he started out to do
“How?” “He hadn’t been there
a week before a cyclone struck
the town.— Washington Star
As the name indicates, Hall’s
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renew-
er is a renewer of the hair, in
cluding its growth, health,
youthful color, and beauty. It
will please you.
First lieutenant—“By Jove,
as we were going over the river
on the plank bridge it gave way
and the men fell in.” Second
lieutenant—“What did you do?'
“I ordered them to fall out, of
courje.”—Pearson’s Weekly.
Ten people out of a dozen
(are invalids,” says a recent
j medical authority. At least
j eight out of these ten, it is safe
young keeper, as . to allow, are suffering from
of blood-disease which a per
sistent use of Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla would be sure to cure.
Then, don’t be an invalid.
” Ledgers, Counter
books, journals, blotters
&c., 10 cents and up.
Cannot mention half;
coir.e and see. A big
job in novels and other
books by best authors.
Webster’s Dictionaries
and family Bibles to go
cheap.
TOILET GOODS.
5 Cakes fine toilet soap, .05
(1 cent each.)
Dr. Ningua’s magnetic
complexion soap, only .05
1 Cake cuticle soap, .10
3 Cakes buttermilk soap, .24
3 ” Turkish bath soap, .05
1 Fine tooth brush, .05
Noend to brushes, combs,
hair curlers, powders,
hair ointments and such
f oods at half price,
aper sewing needles, .01
1 ” pins, .01, .02 and .04
1 Leather belt, .05
2 Dozen dress buttons, .05
1 ” safety pins, .03 and .05
A never-ending variety
of small not ons that can
not be mentioned.
COSSET DEPARTMENT.
Just think of a fine summer
set for only 44 cents! Corset
cor
fronts, only 5 cents. Cobsets*
We have them from 24 and up.
HOSIERY.
We have first-class hose for
cents per pair. Men’s seam
less socks, 5 cents. All grades
up to silk stockings.
LADIES’ READY-MADE
GARMENT DEPARTMENT.
These goods are first-class,
well made, and good fits. Think
of a handsome wrapper for 65
cents; a dandy, full sleeves,
collars and trimmed, only 98
cents; a “smasher,” ribbon
trimmed, only $2.35; a “hum
mer”,—it dazzles,—5 rows rib
bon, round collar, only $2.55.
All kinds of underwear at prices
that makes it go the way it
should and is going.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
All we can say of this superb
stock is that it is in the hands
of Miss Hall, an expert trimmer,
and the stock is selected from
the best houses. Our prices
have no competition. A hand
some hat sells as low as 50 cents;
others, 50, 75 and up; all ready
to wear.
LACE DEPARTMENT.
12,000 yards of woven Torchon
8, 9, 10.12, 14 and 19 cents per
yard. Bolt, half price. All laces,
white and cream, at half price.
Embroideries, all widths; come
and see it.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
140 cases. Think of a high
cut, solid plow shoe for only 88
centsl A $3 calf for only $1.78.
Dongola button, 85 cents; grain
button, solid or no go, 75 cents.
Slippers, oxfords, black and tan,
for ladies, misses and children,
all prices; come and see.
MEN’S AND BOYS’ HATS.
In this line we have straw and
felt. Think of a $2.50 fine crash
hat for $1.28. They were com
pared last week; that settled it;
i hey are going lika. hot cakes.
Straw hats from 6 cents up.
Fine parasols, silk and ging
ham, 35 cents and up. Fans,
all prices. Umbrellas, silk and
gingham. 55 cents and up.
Think of a heavy duck shirt
for only 25 cents' A big lot of
shirts selling way below value.
Pants cloth, 7 cents and up.
Handsome striped dner for
men’s shirts, boys’ jackets, &o.,
only 7J cents. 40 inch Persian
lawns, 71 cents. Best table oil
cloth, 15 and 18 cents.
Next and most important is
our giant stock of summer dress
fabrics in Organdies, Foulards,
Pogees and Sateens in all the
latest patterns. Also draperies,
piints, &c., at prices not easily
matched. If we should receive
advice from our Broadway
headquarters to sell goods at
manufacturers’ prices and take
out our profit, we would do it.
This places us absolutely beyond
competition. See the effect:
fruit of the loom muslins, only
6 cents. We make our profit
standard. Calico, 41 cents per
yard, in lots of not less than 10
yards of one piece; as much
more as you want. We handle
only standard prints; come and
see and be convinced.
Miss Maggie Jones
desires to announce to the ladies that she
is opening up a line of
MILLINERY
that for STYLE and PRICES »
not to be excelled, and to fit all the
babies. Also a line of
MAIL ORDERS receive careful and prompt attention.
M\Zoods ££ TWilling
Have just received a very large and carefully selected stock of
FOR THE
SPRING
AND
SUMMER
A beautiful line of
ToloT SHOES
for gentlemen.
For LADIES, Ml SES and CHILDREN
Their line cannot be excelled anywhere in quality, variety and
style.
A culete le ol UiHas, Tuts, Valises, Shoe Films
&o. 1
THEIR HATS ARE JUST SOMETHING NOBBY.
The Darlington Shoe Store,
WOODS & MILLING, Proprietors.
Yes, the RACKET MAN has returned with
$15,000 Worth of the latest
styles of
SPRING and SUMMER GUODS
of all kinds, bought at prices that defy competition: with us it is
BIZ OR BUST!
We are not going to be “lost in the shuffle or soaked in the
soup;” not if we know it. We are here to stay and compete with
all comers, stock against stock and dollar against dollar.
We are after the
& shekels #
and we expect to get them by giving value tor them; we dont want them on any other termc.
Come and see us and you will find us death on high prices: yes,
“DEATH ON THE DICKER
We take no man’s dust on the trade track without value returned. We won’t be bluffed out of the
business game. We are now ready to show you the largest and best assorted stock of
SUMMER GOODS AND MILLINERY
you ever saw here. They are all marked at a low price. Come and size them up, and you will see
WE ARE FIXED TO STAY IN THE GAME!
No fakements or shenanigan with us. “A fair deal to all” is our motto.
CREDIT, NO DISCOUNT. We please, or it’s “no go. ,f
NO BAITS, NO
RESPECTFULLY,
J. J. SHEPPHD,
| The acknowledged leader of low prices. No over quotations below.