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The Judgment of Pari* stars and moon—refuse to shine; ' The goda themselves must see it is In vain to eclipse, with light of thine. These mytholngic deities, Though Paris with a dog-like air May spurn the earth he trod as his— yet still we deem no “judgment” fair Between such rival goddesses. Sure Juno, with her regal brow And coronet begemming it, yf or e charm that should have won—we trow— Yet Paris knelt condemning it. The knave! to pass such beauties by— Perhaps some passion blinded him; Or else the light in Venus’ eye. Of other charms reminded him. And Pallas, with her glittering helm And wealth of jetty tresses too; The fairest in th’ Olympian realm To pay a god’s addresses to. Ah! Paris, fickle-minded cove! Thus slightingly to serve her so! Yet, by the teeming brain of Jove— She looked the true Minerva, though. But see, upon his bended knee, The shepherd judge between us is: Aside—and yet between the three, And near to where sweet Venus is! Aloft is poised the golden prize— An arm is poised to receive it too— The smile that beams in Venus’ eyes Tells whom he means to give to it. Political Economy. [Mark Twain ] Political Economy is the basis of all good government- The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the— [Here I was interrupted and informed that a stranger wieh- ed to see me down at the door. I went and confronted him, and asked to know his business, struggling all the time to keep a tight rein on my seething poli tical economy ideas, and not let them break away from me or get tangled in their harness. And privately I wished the -stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. I was all in a fever, but he was cool. He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as he was passing he noticed that I needed some lightning rods. I said, “Yes, yes—go on —what about it?” He said there was nothing about it, in partic ular-nothing except that he would like to put them up for me. I am new to housekeeping; have been used to hotels and boarding houses all my life. Like anybody else of similar experience, I try to appear (to strangers) to be an old house keeper; consequently I said in an off hand way that I had been intending for some time to have six ur eight lightning rods put up, but The stranger started, and looked inquiringly at me, but I was serene. I thought that if I chanced to make any mistakes, he would | twist—do anything and not catch me by my counten ance. He said he would rather have my custom than any man’s in town. I said, “All right,” and started off to wrestle with my great subject again, when he called me back and said it would be necessary to know ex actly how many “points” 1 wanted put up, what parts of the house I wanted them on, and what quality of rod I pre ferred. It was close quarters for a man not used to the exi gencies of housekeeping; but I went through creditably, and he probably never suspected that I was a novice. I told him to put up eight “points,” and put them all on the roof, and use the best quality of rod. He said he could furnish the “plain” article at 20 cents a foot; “cop pered,” 28 cents; “sine plated spiral-twist,” at 30 cents, that would stop a streak of lightning any time, no matter where it was bound, and “render its er rand harmless and its further progress apocryphal.” I said apocryphal was no slouch of a word, emanating from the source it did, but, philology aside, I liked the spiral-twist find would take that brand. Then he said he could make two hundred and fifty feet answer; but to do it right, and make the best job in town of it, and at tract the admiration of the just and the unjust alike, and com pel all parties to say they never saw a more symmetrical and hypothetical display of light ning-rods since they were born, he supposed he really couldn’t get along without four hundred, though he was not vindictive, and trusted he was willing to J r y- I said, go ahead and uie jour hundred, and make any kind of a job he pleased out of h. but let me get back to my work. 8o I got rid of him s[t last; and now, after half an- bour spent in getting my train °f political economy thoughts coupled together again, I am ready to go on once more.] ., .. T _ procession of sylla bles that might be fifteen min utes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him—he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied. He was standing in the contemplative attitude of the Colossus of Rhodes, with one foot on my infant tuberose, and the other among my pan sies, his hands on his hips, his hat-brim tilted forward, one eye shut and the other gazing criti cally and admiringly in the dir ection of my principal chimney. He said now there was a state of things to make a man glad to be alive; and added. “I leave it to you if you ever saw any thing more deliriously pictures que than eight lightning-rods on one chimney?” I said I had no present recollection of any thing that transcended it. He said that in his opinion nothing on earth but Niagara Falls was superior to it in the way of na tural scenery. All that was needed now, he verily believed, to make my house a perfect balm to the eye, was to kind of touch up the other chimneys a little, and thus^'add to the gen erous coup d’ceil a soothing uni formity of achievement which would allay the excitement na turally consequent upon the first coup d'etat." I asked him if he learned to talk out of a book, and if I could borrow it anywhere? He smiled pleasant ly, and said that his manner of speaking was not taught in books, and that nothing but familiarity with lightning could enable a man to handle his con versational style with impunity. He then figured up an estimate, and said that about eight more rods scattered about my roof would about fix me right, and he guessed five hundred feet of stuff would do it; and added that the first eight had got a little the start of him, so to speak, and used up a mere trifle of material more than he had calculated on—a hundred feet or along there. I said I was in a dreadful hurry, and I wished we could get this business per manently mapped out, so that I could go on with my work. He said, “I could have put up those eight rods, and marched off about my business—some men would have done it. But no: I said to myself, this man is a stranger to me, and I will die before I’ll wrong him; there ain’t lightning-rods enough on that house, and for one Fll never stir out of my tracks till I’ve done as I would be done by, and told him so. Stranger, my duty is accomplished; if the re calcitrant and dephlogistic mes senger of heaven strikes your’ “There, now, there,” ' said, “put on the other eight— add five hundred feet of spiral- every hours It is ago. whether I am calm thing you want to do; but calm your sufferings, and try to keep your feelings where you can reach them with the dictionary. Meanwhile, if we understand each other now, I will go to work again. I think I have been sitting here a full hour, this time, try ing to get back to where I was when my train of thought was broken up by the last interrup tion; but I believe I have ac complished it at last, and may venture to proceed again.] wrestled with this Brest sub ject, and the greatest among them have found it a worthy adversary, and one that always comes up fresh and smiling after every throw. The great Confucius said that he would rather be a profound political econo mist thap chief of police. Cicero fre quently tuid that political economy was the grandest consummation that the human mind was capable of con suming; and even our own Greeley has said vaguely but forcibly "Political—~ [H°re the lightning rod sent up another call for me. I went down in a state of mind border ing on impatience. He said he would ratner have died than in terrupt me, but when he was employed to do a job. that job was expected to be done in a clean, workmanlike manner, and when it was finished and fatigue urged him to seek the rest and recreation he stood so much in need of, and he was about to do it, but looked up and saw at a glance that all the calculations had been a little out, and if a thunder storm were to come up, and that house, which he felt apersonalinterest in, stood there with nothing on earth to protect it but sixteen lightning-rods “Let us have peace!” I shrieked up a hundred and **“11 some on the kitchen! Put a dozen on the barn! Pqtq couple on the powl—Put one on the cook!—scatter them all over the persecuted place till it looks like a sine-plated, spiral-twisted, silver-mounted cane break. Move! Use up all the material you can get your hands on, and when you run out of lightning- Put Put richest treasures of their genius, their experience of life, and their learning. | , eiim-rods The great lights Of commercial juris- rods put up ramTOd*, cam roQS, Prudence, international confraternity, end biological deviation, of all ages, "* civilization, and all nationalities, from Zoroaster down to Horace Greeley, have [Here I was interrupted again, &hd required to go down and Copper further *v;ttl that light" h'ng-rod man. t hurried off, boiling and surging with pro digious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself ft stair-rods, piston-rods — any thing that will pander to your dismal appetite for artifical scenery, and bring respite to, my raging brain and-haa'lng to my lacerateds^ulf* Wfiolly un moved-further than to smi.e sweetly—this iron being simply turned back his wristbands daintily, and said “He would now proceed to hump himself- Well, all that was nearly three questionable enough yet to write on the noble theme of political economy, but I cannot resist the lesire to try, for it is the one subject that is nearest to my heart and dearest to my brain of all this world’s philo sophy.] “ economy it heaeen't bett boon to man." When the loose but gifted Byron lay in hie Venetian exile heob- served that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give hit lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhy mes, but of essay* upon political eoon- omy. Washington loved this exquis ite science; such names as Baker, Beckwith, Judson, Smith, are imper- ishably linked with it; and even im perial Homer, in the ninth book of the Iliad, has said:— Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. Post mortem unum, ante bellura, Hie jaoet hoc, ex parte res, Politicum e-oonomloo est. The grandenr of these conceptions of the old poet, together with the felicity of the wording which clothes them, and the sublimity of the im agery whereby they are illustrated, have singled out that stauza, and made it more celebrated than any thatever [“Now, not a word out of you —not a single word. Just state your bill and relapse into im jenetrable silence for ever and ever on these premises Nine hundred dollars? Is that all? This check for the amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America. What is that multitude of people gathered in the street for? How?—‘looking at the lightning-rods!’ Bless my 1 fe, did they never see any lightning-rods before? Never saw ‘such a stack of them on one establishment,’ did I under stand you to stay? I will step down and critically observe this popular ebullition of ignor ance.”! Three Days Later.—We are all about worn out. For four- and-twenty hours our bristling premises were the talk and won der of the town. The theatres languished, for their happiest scenic inventions were tame and commonplace compared with my lightning-rods. Our street was blocked night and day with spectators, and among them were many who came from the country to see. It was a blessed relief on the second day, when a thunder-storm came up and the lightning be gan to “go for” my house, as the historian Josephus quaintly ! >hrases it. It cleared the gal- eries. so to speak. In five min utes there was not a spectator within half a mile of my place; but all the high houses about that distance away were full, windows, roof, and all. And well they might be, for all the falling stars and Fourth-of-July fireworks of a generation, put together and rained down sim ultaneously o it of heaven in one brilliant shower upon one helpless roof, would not have any advantage of the pyrotech nic display that was making ray house so magnificently con spicuous in the general gloom of the storm. By actual count, the lightning struck at my es tablishment seven hundred and sixty-four times in forty min utes, but tripped on one of those faithful rods every time, »ud slid down the spiral twist and shot into the earth before it pro bably had time to be surprised at the way. the thing was done. And through all that bombard ment only one patch of slates was ripped up, and that was be cause, for a single instant, the rods in the vicinity were trans porting all the lightning they could possibly accommodate. Well, nothing was ever seen like it since the world began. For one whole day and night not a member of my family stuck his head out of the win dow but he got the hair snatch ed off it as smooth as a billiard- ball; and if the reader -will be lieve me, pot one of ns ever droam^ of stirring abroad. But at last the awful siege came to an end—because there was ab solutely no more electricity left in the clouds above us within grappling distance of my insati able rods. Then I sallied forth, and gathered daring workmen ther, and not a bite or a nap did we take till the premises were utterly stripped eralt their terrific armament except just three rods on the house, one on the kitchen, and one oq the barn—and behold these remain there even unto this day. And then, and not till then, the peo ple ventured to use our sfpe^t again. I will remark hare, in passing, that during that fear- fql tfme l did not continue my essay upon political economy, t am not even yet settled enough in nerve and brain to resume it. To Whom It Mat Concern. —Parties having need of three thousand two hundred and eleven feet of best quality zinc plated spiral-twist lightning rod stuff, and sixteen nund-ed and thirty-one silver-tipped points, all in toleraole (and, although n^ch worn hy use, stilf eau&l to ftuy ordinary emergency;, can hear of a bar gain by addressing the publish er. Did You tvsr Try Electric Bitters as a rem edy for your troubles? 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( B E it ordered and ordained: That, for the purpoee of electing live members of a Board of Health, as re quired by an Act of the Legislature ol the State of South Carolina, En titled, “An Aet to Establish Local Boards of Health in the Cities and Incorporate Towns of the State and to Define the Powers Thereof’ Ap proved January 5th., A, D. 1890; It is hereby Ordered and Ordained: That the Town of Darlington shall be and hereby in divided into five wards, designated as ‘ " With but little care and no trouble, the beard and mustache can be kept a uniform brown or black color by using Bucking ham's Dye for the Whiskers. - desire to announce to the people of Darlington County in general, and to the ladies in particular, that they are now opening, at their handsome establishment on the east side of the Public Square, a large and varied assortment of Which for STYLE AND PRICES is not to he excelled in this section of South Carolina. Give them a call and examine their beautiful stock before decid ing where you will make your Spring purchases. THE follows, to wit; Word 1. Shall compromise all the territory lying to the West of Kail road Street, beginning at the croaaiu) of the C. 8. and N. railroad , extend ing down Railroad Street to Pearl Street, crossing Pearl Street down through Earle’s Avenue to Orange Street, down Orange Street to the East and down the Street divldin the Factory grounds from the ree deuce of G. W. Darg&n to Swift Creek —the same being the Town limits. Ward 2. Shall embrace all the ter ritory lying between the Eastern line of Ward 2 to Ward’s Lane, in a straight line from Swift Creek, through Ward’s Lane to theTo.wn limits towards the South. Wh r( i Shall embrace all the ter- ritory lying between Ward's Lane and Main Street, the Eastern bound ary of whictushall begin at the cross ing of Swift Creek by Main Street, ex tending to the crossing of C. 8. & N. railroad on Main Street, so that the said ward will be bounded on tbe North by Swift Creek, on the South by C. S AN. railroad. East by Main Street, and West by the Eastern line of Ward 2. Ward 4. Shall comprise all territory lying to the South and South-East of C. S. and N. railroad tqa straight line designated by Ward's Lane on the West; said Ward to be bounded North by CVS, B N. railroad, on the East by Shift Creek and the corporate limits, and on the Weet by E&stern bound ary of Ward % Ward 5. Shall compromise all the territory lying North of C, 8. A N. latlroaa and East of Main Street, bounded on the North by Swift <!iwek, ou tbe East by Swift Creek, as the South by the C, S. A N- sattroad, and on the West by (ha eastern boundary of Ward !(, By Order of Council: J.W. EVANS, May 23—Ot, OUrk. TTARTSVILLE RAILROAD. June 8, 1894. MIXED TRAIN. Leave Hartsville . 4.30 a a Jovann Floyd’s Darlington Palmetto 5.40 a m Arrive Florence 6.00 a m Leave Florence 9.00 p m Palmetto 9.15 p m Darlington 9.25 p u. Floyds 9.46 p m Jovann 10.00 p m Hartsville 10.15 p m J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. f'l A D. and C. A S. RAILROADS. In effect June 8, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Wadeslioro 2.00 p m Bennett's 2.25 p ic Morven’s McFarland Cheraw 3.45 p m Cash's . 4.10 pm Society Hill 4.40 p in Dove’s . 5.15 pm Floyd’s 5.30 pm Darliugton 6.05 p in Palmetto Arrive Florence Leave Florence Palmetto . 8.40 a m Darlington — 9.15 a m Floyd’s 9.40 a m Dove’s . 9 55 a m Society Hill . 10 35 a m Cash's Cheraw 11.40 a m McFarland 12.20 p m Morven’s 12.35 p in Bennett’s 12.50 p m Arrive Wadesboro 1.10 pm Local Freight. Leave Darlington 4 30 p m Palmetto 4.42 p m Arrive Florence 5.00 p m Leave Florence 8.15 a m Palmetto 8 .40 a m Arrive Darlington 8 55 a in A. F. RAVEN EL, President. I ORTH EASTERN RAILROAD. In effect Nov- *8, 1894; SOUTH BOUND. Leave Florence Lanes Arrive Charleston Leave Florence Kingstree Lanes Arrive Charleston No. 85. .. 0.1O a m 4.20 a m 6.10 a m No. 28. . 8.46 p m 9.07 p m No. 53. Leave Lanes Arrive Charleston . 7.05 p m 8.40 p m NORTH BOUND. No. 78. Lanes Kingstree Arrive Florence . 6.80 a m . 6.49 a m 7.56 a m No. 82. Leave Charleston Lanes Kingstree Arrive Florence 4.30 p m . 6.08 p m . 6.23 p ru . 7.15 p in No. 52. Leave Charleston Arrive Lanes . 7.00 a m No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. Train Nos. 78 and 14 runs via Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Line—and makes close connection for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Sopt. v\ ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA * AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect May 26, 1893. COMPANY, whose place of business is at their new warehouse on Russel Street, near the C. S. & N. Depot, offer to the retail trade, as well as to consumers, in original, unbroken packages, FOR SPOT CASH, a full line of choice family groce ries, at the very lowest wholesale prices. Housekeepers are now re minded that they need not send off to buy their usual barrel of sugar or barrel of flour, and the like, for they can get them just as cheap at their very doors, and save freight. SOUTH BOUND. No. 53. Leave Wilmington *3.80 p m Leave Marion 6-24 p m Arrive Florence 7.06 p m Leave Florence *7.30 p m Arrive Sumter 8.88 p m Leave Sumter 8.88 p m Arrive Columbia 10.09 p m No. 51. Leave Florence *3.15 a m Arrive Sumter 4 19 a m No. 52. Leave Sumter *9.48 a ro Arrive Columbia 11.05 a m No. 62 runs through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lone* 8-88 a m, Manning 9 15 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 56. *5.20 a u Leave Columbit Arrive Sumter.... . 6.48 a u Leave Sumter 6.43 a nr Arrive Florence . 8.00 a m Leave Florence 8.25 a m Leave Marion 9.06 a m Arrive Wilmington 11.50 am No. 58. Leave Columbia *4.25 p m Arrive Sumter 6.48 p m No. 50. Leave Sumter *6.05 p m Arrive Florence 7.15 p m •Daily. tDaily except Sunday. No. 53 runs thiougn to oiiarleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 6.21 p m, Lanes 7.00 p m charleston 6.40 p m. Trains on South and North Caro lina R. R., leave Elliott 7.02 p. m., ar rive Vishopviile 7.39 p. m., Lucknow 8.10 p. m. Returning, leave Luck now 6.30 a. 111., BUhopville 7.00 a. in., arrive Elliott 7.38 a. m. Daily except Sunday. Trains on Wilmington A Conway B K., leave Chadbourn At 10.20 a m, ar rive at Conway 12.85 p m, returning leave Conway 2 30 p m, arrive Chad- bourn 5-00 p. m., leave Chadbourn 5.88 p m, arrive at Hub 6.20 p 111. re turning leave Hub 8.15 a m, arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a m. Dally exepet Sac day. Trains leave Pregnalls 8.15 p. m., Summerton 4.47 p. m., Sumter 5.50 p. m., Darlington 7.20 p. m., Bcn- aettsville 8.19 p. m., arrive Hamlet 9,16 p. m. Returning, leave Hamlet 6.15 a. m., Bennettavllle 7.11 a. m., Darlington 8.11 a. m., Sumter 9.45 a. m , Summerton 10.40 a. m., arrive Pregnalls 12.15 p. m. Daily excef Sunday. JOHN V, DIVINE, Own Sip*.