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liPL NG ND HIS WORKS Anglo-America's Poet Laureate and Premier Story Teiler. A REMARKABLE LITESAEY CASEEB Sn Antlior Whose Tal s a a cl Poems Have Made Kaa One of tae Most Widely Known and Admired of. laving Writers-He Holds tue Mir ror Ci to Xatnre. t Not an til the light of a great genius seemed abont to be extinguished did people generally begin to nilly realize what an important place Rudyard Kip ling bolds in the literary world and in the affections of millions of Anglo-Sax ons and Anglo-Americans No great ruler at death's door could have excited a more universal and sincere sympathy and interest than did Kipling, lying at Iiis hotel in New York, stricken with what for a time seemed a fatal disease Here was a man only 35 years old, who had won no battles, taken no part in politics, born to no high rank and hold ing no official position, who had so moved the world that it stood watching with deepest anxiety at his bedside !This is the reason For words are things, and a small drop of ink. Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps mil lions, tiunk. Rudyard Kiplh ig was born in Bom puj Dec. SO, 1861' and is the son of okn Lockwood Kipling, head of the "^s^ahore School of Art in Bombay. The eMer Kipling is a native of Stafford shire, England, where he was formerly - designer of decorations in a large pot RUDYARD KIPLING. tery firm, DouKon's, formerly Pinder, Bourne & Ca Pinder's son tells the fol lowing story of how Rudyard received Ids rather peculiar name : "One day my mother gave a picnic to the young people of the neighborhood at a pretty little English lake between the villages of Rudyard and Rushton, not far from Burslem. John Kipling went, of course, and there he met a pretty English girl. Mary McDonald, tee daughter of a Methodist minister at Sudon. Kipling fell in love with her at once. They met very often at my mother's house, and it grew into a love affair on both sides. Then John Kipling went to the art school in Kensington and was afterward sent out to direct the art schools of the Madras Presidency in India. When he went to India, he took pretty Mary McDonald along as his wife **In the fullness of time a son was born to the Kiplings in Bombay. Their fest meeting at Rudyard lake must nave been the pretty bit of sentiment of their lives, for when they named the son they took for him the name of the little lake on the banks of which they first saw one another. " Young Rudyard was the apple of his father's eye. and as he matured in years he soon showed that he had unusual ability and aptitude for learning and scorned all playthings that were com monplace toys, but any sort of instruct ive puzzle or game that required thought and intelligence appealed to hingst once, and with these he found endless pleasure and pastime. His mother was his early instructor. He proved an apt pupil and in a very short space of time accomplished reading and writing, and when this time came to pass the difficulty was to persuade him to play and do as other boys. Books were his one pleasure No matter how erudite the work might be Rudyard attacked it and absorbed its contents in fact, he was quite beyond his years in intellect He had a will of his own, as a boy. and at times asserted it in gpite of the remonstrances of his par ents When he was about 8 or 9 years of age he was taken over to England and left in charge of a certain elderly relative. Here he passed seme of the most miserable and uninteresting years a of his youth Eventually the time came when Rudyard was old enough to be sent to school and was accordingly placed as a boarder in the well known naval school at New Cross, near Black heath, a few miles from London. He proved an able scholar and kept his place in his classes throughout his ca reer there Strange to say, he never seemed to study seriously and continu ously as otb--"* students, but was always ready for a lark or some practical joke, which kept him frequently in disgrace and a prisoner in the school. During his frequent terms of confinement to his quarters he conceived the idea of edit ing and publishing a weekly schooi newspaper This aroused the admira tion of the professors, and then and there he made his first reputation as a writer -He finally ran away from the naval school, and later the editor of The Pioneer at Lahore, India, where his parents then lived, offered- him a hand ca, Ho i iii, Jarman,-'Chiiia, and so ! Lahore, writing letters tor publicatic The offer was accepted. When he retained to Lahore, he ? tered the office of The Pioneer and tc a subordinate position in order to lea everything in the publishing line. T work was not congenial to him, and was anxious to turn his attention something else. It happened that t Duke of Connaught, then military coi mander of the northwestern district India, would occasionally pay a visit the Kiplings and spend an evening their house. When he met Rudyard, became greatly interested in him an in the course of conversation, remarks 4'What are you going to do. Mr. Ki ling, now that you are in India again ! "Weil, sir, I have an ambition b youd the drudgery of working in tl office of The Pioneer. " "What would you like to do, the: Mr. Kipling?" "I would like, sir, to live with tl army for a time and go to the fronti to write up Tommy Atkins. " The dui considered the matter and finally ga-* him carte blanche to do whatever 1 liked, go to any military station in h command and, if he wished, go to tl frontier and live with officers or mei and if at any time he required an esco: I he could have one. Rudyard, availe himself of the duke's offer and went c to make acquaintance with Tomn Atkins. At the same time he became great student of nature and the life ar character of the people. Thus began a career in literatm which has given Mr. Kipling wide an enduring fame. Mr. Kipling was married Jan. 1! 1892, in London, to Miss Balestier, sist< of the young American novelist, Wolcoi Balestier, who died in Dresden in lS'D: and with whom Kipling collaborate in the story called "The Naulahka.. It was through this brother that she b< came acquainted with Mr. Kipling Her father, Joseph Navarro Balestiei was a very successful real estate ma and lawyer of New York city. H bought very extensively property in an around Brattleboro, Vt., and today th Balestier estate there includes maia hundreds of acres. It was thus that Mr. Kipling settle in Brattleboro shortly after his mai riage. He and Mrs, Kipling lived i: the town until their new home was fin ished just outside the Brattleboro line It is fashioned after the plan of an In dian bungalow, in which one long coi ridor from end to end of the buildinj divides all the apartments, as in a ho tel, and 3 built on the side of a hilL I is a long, curious looking structure without an entrance on the side tha faces the roadway and with but on door in the house, that on the hillside The property slopes down from th hillside to the roadway, and at the bas of the hill, although there are no fence or obstructions, are scattered sign reading, "Trespassing on These Premise Is Forbidden. " Here Mr. and Mrs. Kipling lived fo some time the year round, and man;; stories are told in Brattleboro of hi life there. Strangers who saw him fo: the first time thought a cowboy ha< come to town, and his boots, hi: greatcoat and his sombrero, wheneve the weather permitted him to go with out a thick cap, were familiar to all thi town folk. There are few personalities more in teresting than that of Rudyard Kip ling, and there i no man of letter: about whcm there has been so much in quiry, yet he is very little known. H< has what is sometimes called the Britisl insular prejudice against inquiry int< his private life and habits. A good many hundreds of people whc have come in contact with him hav< called him all the names that one maj use in polite society. The explanatior ; thereof is simple enough. Mr. Kipling did not care to know them and resented their attempts to know him. To these Kipling is inclined to be exceedingly short, not to say rude. He believes *;haf he gives the best he has to the public in his writings and that it has no right to bother about his private life. To those to whom he gives his friend ship he is as genial, as kindly, as warm hearted, as any one could ask He is the most delightful of companions. Personally Kipling is as complex and i remarkable as his writings. His affec tion for his wife and children amounts to worship. Everything in connection with his I life in this country shows how desirous j is the young man to avoid people who bother him. He absolutely refuses to be lionized, and the thought of seeing in print what he ate for dinner draws from him language as picturesque and as vivid as his poems, but not so print able. While Kipling has steadfastly refused to tell the reporters much about him self, his personality is quite fully re vealed in his works. He may have had Scudery's idea. "I know better than any other writer how to tell anecdotes about myse.f. " As a newspaper man Kipling is described by himself. In his remarkable story of "The Man Who Would Be King" he has given us a sketch of himself sitting at his desk one Saturday night waiting to put the pa per to press. "A king or courtier was dying at the ether end of the world, ' he says, "and the paper was to be held until the last possible moment. "It was a pitchy, black, hot night, and raining-now and again a spot of almost boiling water would fall on the dust. * * * The thing, whatever it was, was keeping us back. It would not come off. * * * I drowsed off and wondered whether the telegraph was a blessing and whether this dying man was av%are of the inconvenience and delay he was causing * * * The clock hands crept up to 3 o'clock, ami the machines spun their flywheels two or three times to see that ail was in order before I said the word that would set them off. I could have shrieked aloud. Then the roar and rattle of the wheels shivered the quiet into little bits. " It was in this trying environment that Kipling nevertheless composed some of jais best things. In a couple of, rr0? o "Ky First Book, " whieh.be contributed to " McC'ure's four or 'five j years ago, he told something about the j way in which his verses wer,e written, j saying: "Bad as they were, I burned twice i as many as were published, and of the ; survivors at least two-thirds were cut \ down at the last moment. Nothing can j be wholly beautiful that is not useful, j and therefore my verses were made to . ease off the perpetual strife between the manager extending his advertise j ments and my chief fighting for his reading matter. They were born to be sacrificed. Rukn-Din, the foreman of our side, approved* of them immensely, for he was a Muslim of culture. He would say : . 'Your poetry very good, sir. Just coming proper length today. You giving more soon. One-third col umn just proper. Always can take on ; third page. ' "Mahmoud, who set them up, had an unpleasant way of referring to a new lyric as Ek aur chiz-one more thing-which I never liked. The job side, too, were unsympathetic, because i I used to raid into their type for private j proofs with Old English and Gothic headlines. Even a Hindoo does . ot like to find the serifs of his f's cut away to make long s'a "And in this manner, week by week, my verses came to be printed in the paper. " Of course these verses immediately attracted the attention of the English exiles in India, and scores of people soon began to demand the publication of the rhymes in book form. This was a little more than Kipling had bar gained for when he dashed off his lines as the exigencies of the paper or the inspiration of the moment suggested. Here again we may quote his own words : "A real book was out of the ques tion, but I knew that Rukn-Bin and the office plant were at my disposal at a price, if I did not use the office time; also I had handled in the previous year a couple of small books, of which I was part owner and had lost nothing. So j there was built a sort of a book, a lean ! oblong docket, wire stitched, to imitate I a D. 0. government envelope, printed j on one side only, bound in brown paper j and secured with red tape. It was ad ; dressed to all heads of departments and all government officials, and among a pile of papers would have deceived a clerk of 20 years' service. Of these *books' we made some hundreds, imo as there was no necessity for advertis ing, my public being to my hand, I took reply postcards, printed the news cf the birth of the book on one side, the blank order form on the other and posted them up and down the empire from Aden to Singapore and from Quetta to Colombo. There was no trade discount, no reck oning twelves as thirteens, no commis sion and no credit of any kind what ever. The money came back in poor but honest rupees and was transferred from the publisher, the left hand pocket, di rect to, the author, the right band pocket Every copy sold in a few weeks, and the ratio of expenses to profits, as I remember it, has since prevented my injuring my health by sympathizing with publishers who talk of their risks and advertisements." The price received by Kipling for his work he regards as nobody's business but his own; nevertheless everybody will feel a keen interest in The British "Weekly's paragraph on this subject: "Perhaps no one receives such large prices for his work as Mr. Rudyard Kip ling. He has contracted to write eight stories for one of the magazines next year, for each of which he will receive about - 240. This is simply for the Eng lish serial rights of the stories. Tn ad dition Mr. Kipling receives payment from America. India and the colonies. This will probably bring up the price of the stories to about 500 each, making 4,000 for the year. In addition to this, Mr. Kipling receives the royalties for book publication in England and Amer ica. This will not amount to less than about 4,000, ao that for each story the author ultimately receives not less than 1,000. Whether these high prices will be kept up is very doubtful. If the cheap magazinism succeeds in injuring the older periodicals they cannot be maintained. It remains to be seen whether the public cares much for names, and it must be remembered that the papers with the largest circulation in this country do not depend upon names at alL I remember some years ago Mr. Kipling contributed one of his best pieces of work, better work by a great deal than he has been doing lately, to a monthly review The editor inform2d me that not one extra copy of the pe riodical was sold. " Among the first of the stories of Kip ling to attract attention was "The Man Who Would Be King," and later came from his prolific and versatile pen such fascinating stories as "The Phantom Rickshaw, ' ' ' 'The Taking of Lungtung pen," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes." "The Matter of a Private," "The Rout of the White Hussars" and "The Story of the Gadsbys, " a number of which-are included in "The Plain Tales From the Hills," which give vivid and interesting pictures of native and garrison life in India. Kipling's fame as a poet is not less well merited than his reputation as a writer of fiction. "The Truce of the Bear. " in which he attacked the aggression of Russia, is one of his strongest poems, while "Be trothed" may be regarded as one of the most delightful of the products of his poetic genius. Otbsr poems which have attracted wide and favorable attention are "The Seven Seas," "McAndrew's Hymn." "The Mary Gloster," "Tom my Atkins" ami "Files on Parade.' His latest pcems. which ill the English speaking world know almost by heart. "The Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden " have given him endur ing fame as a poet Successful Physicians. We heartily proani?n<l Dr. Hathaway S Co. pf 22VJ S Broad Sr.. Atlanta? Ga., ab bainz per fectly relinkand remarkably eiicces^fui a tho treatment o? chronic disea8e:?of rr.cn and wemen. They ciro whou others fail. Or.- readers if in need of medical help shoaler certainly -write these eminent doctor* and yon will receive a frc* &nd expert opinion of your case by iccura ma without cost. Old Sewing Machines made new at Randie's SHIPS SAVED AT SEA. ! WHAT IS MEANT BY "SALVAGE" AND HOW IT S PAID. \ There Ia ?< Laiv That Sipmals of Dis j trexs at Sea 3 us Be Heeded-Pub lic Opinion Alone Enforces Re sponses to Calls For Help. Salvage on ships saved at soa by oth ers in the majority of cases is paid by the underwriters, although tho big steam ship companies insure themselves. The insurance companies think that a board of arbitration can mere satisfactorily adjnst salvage claims than can the courts. The word salvage, as defined by that celebrated admiralty authority, Boscoe, is "the reward which is earned by those who have voluntarily saved or assisted in saving a ship or boat or their apparel or any sort thereof or the lives of persons at sea or a ship, cargo or any part thereof, from peril or a wreck from total loss." The last part of the definition is a trifle puzzling. In discussing the merits of salvage cases it must be remembered that there ia no obligation, written or implied, upon the master or crew of any vessel to heed signals of distress. Public opin ion alone enforces the idea that "a call for help at sea must be obeyed.s> The laws of salvage are merely framed to encourage the saving of life and proper ty cu the deep. There is avarice in the mariner as in landsmen, and the laws are made to overcome and curb these mercenary ambitions. For that reason a master and his crew cannot expec| salvage for saving their own vessel. It is the natural assumption in law, as well as in fact, that they must do everything they can to preserve their charge and under an agreement with the owners keep it from danger when ever possible. In salvage one of the first laws is that the peril must be actual. The bargain made in time of danger by the master or agent of the imperiled craft with an other volunteering aid need not of neces sity hold in court, and generally does not. Asa rule the bargain is exorbitant and made at a time when the victim would be willing to guarantee the pay ment of millions for proffered assist ance. This point has been decided hun dreds of times, the courts taking the stand that the peril made an exor bitant bargain necessary. As a general thing, the salvage award is equal to about one-third the value in the case of sailing craft and from one-third to one-half in the case of steamers. The owners cf the salving craft, whose money was wasted by de lay, wear and tear, are of course en titled to the bigger piece of the plum. The master of the salvor sets about twice the sum that his mi receives, and the mate is paid something like double the amount of each sailor. Should the latter have been a mem ber of a lifeboat crew used in runuing hawsers or in going aboard as a prize crew he and his mates are entitled to an extra compensation. Naval officers cannot claim salvage when the work accomplished is in the direct line of their duty. In the case of a abandoned vessel there is a peculiar law as applied to ownership. No matter where the dere lict be found and towed or assisted in by a prize crew or otherwise the court holds that she is still the property of her original owners, although abandon ed by her crew, their agents, and that no effort has been made by them to re i cover her. It sounds peculiar to the average mariner, but it's the law. To make a successful salvage claim it is necessary that the property must be actually saved and saved by those claim ing to bo salvers. In other words, the j salvage services must be rendered by persons not bound by contract to render them. If the mariner or other encoun ters the danger cr misfortune or dam age which might possibly expose the ship to destruction unless assistance is rendered and does all he can to save tho vessel, and his services tend in some de gree to save or preserve her, compensa tion will be awarded him, although the vessel is mainly preserved by other means. The longest time that any one steam er has been at sea with disabled ma chinery before reaching port was 77 days. This was the United States cor vette Iroquois in 1890. She was bound to Samoa from Honolulu, and had only seven days' rations left when port was reached. In 1S97 the steamer Indralema was towed into St. Thomas after hav ing been at sea for 47 days. The Glas gow steamer Strathness, after drifting 82 days out of the range of steamers, was towed into St. Michael's in Janu ary, 1S97, by the British steamer Han nah M. Bell. Another Strath, the Strathuevis, drifted helplessly on the Pacific for two months and over in 1895, and was finally towed into Puget sound. The Disptach in 1864 was out 61 days with crippled machinery, and four years ago the British cruiser Ca lypso broke down 2,000 miles from port and sailed in unaided, much to the de light of the dwindling band of * aval experts who maintain that every war ship ought to be provided with ample sail power. The owners of those ships that were obliged to drift for weeks, and in sev eral cases fof months, would not have found fault with the question of salvage had a helping hand come along-at least there would have been no com plaint just then.-New York Mail and Express. Work of Helpmates. I was driving through one of the best farming districts in western Ontario a few years ago. I expressed my admira tion. "Yes," said my companion, who knew the country thoroughly, "nearly all the farmers around hum have second wives." "Why?" was my surprised iuquiry. "Oh," ho answered, "they killed j their first wives making the farm!" j Perth Expositor. Paper novels, Dew paper <o?e 3a H. G QsteeH Co's. A Fairy Cat Story. The last issue of the Lancaster S. C. Review contained the following, which it calls "A True Cat Tale/' ^ A little 5 year-old Sumter girl to whom the story was repeated, very dryly remarked "that must be a fairy story." The fellowing is the Lancaster "true cat tale :" "We have always heard that when cats <zo back on rats yon may look out for the millennium. If there be any truth in this old saying, the time for tsing the Devil is at hand, for the finest mousers in the country have discarded their side arms and made peace with all rodents, from infancy to old age. They have most assuredly "gone back on" what has been regarded from time immemorial as the choicest diet of well-bred oats and aristocratic Chinamen, namely, a rompi ' rodent, roasted or rare. "The Bell cats, that is to say, the finest mousers of the country referred to, claim Lancaster as their habitat. There are but three of them, Polly, the mother, and her two daughters, Bell and Josephine. Polly and Bell abide with Mr. Joseph Clark, while Josephine 6 the pet of Capt. Elves's household in East Ead. Polly and Bell are the ones that have adorned their names and tales with a new glory byjjbreaking long established records and inaugurating an era of peace and friendship with their former victims and chief artiole of diet. But hereby hangs a tale. "A few days ago the mother and daughter gave birth to kittens about the game time and in the same place On Friday last Master Earle Clark, a grandson of Mr. Joseph Clark, found a bed cr nest of young rats, and thinking that they would afford a good square meai for Polly and Bell and their offspring, he gathered them up and placed them in the box with the fe ice families. Much to his and bis grandfather's surprise, the cats and rats consorted together like old acquain tances, and in a short time Polly and Bell were suckling the little rats just tbe eame as their kittens. They seem muon attached to their adopted mothers, and are thriving right along in their new found home. The mothers are treating rats and kittens with the same maternal consideration, showing no partiality whatever, while the little cees clay and cavort together like brothers and sisters " "Any cn " abo doubts this story can verify it by calling at Mr. Clark's r sidence. " The volunteers who have served in Cuba have brought back the unani mous opinion that tbe Cubans are a sorry lot, unlit for freedom and im mensely inferior to their late Spanish masters That they are ungrateful beggars is shown by tha cheeky appeal for more aoney to pay off the insurgent army, largely recruited since the ending of the war. In giving them $68 apiece Uncle Sam has been more generous than just, for the majority of them deserve assignment to the chain gang for general worthlessness. The lives of the Americans sacrificed to win their freedom were worth more than the entire caboodle-Barnwell People. Of the origin of Judge Lynch the Chicago Tribune says : It goes back to 1493, when James Fitisfepheos Lynch was mayor and warden of Galway, Ireland. He sect his son to Spain to purchase a cargo of wine. The young mac squandered the money, but bought a shipload of wine on credit, bringing with him back to Iralaod the nephew of bis creditor, to wbcm the debt was to be paid. Young Lynch threw the Spaniard overboard to conceal bis on defalcation, and was received at home with great honor, as having oocducted a successful business operation. But a sailor confessed on bis deathbed to the father of the cul pt it, and young Lynch was taken before the mayor of Galway, his own father, tried and condemned to death. The family tried to prevent the execution, but the stern father, rather thsn see justice thwarted, took bis son up a winding stairway, opened a window overlooking a public street, fastened tbe noose with his own hands and acted as executioner. Ever since, whenever a man bas taken the law into bis cwn hands, it bas been said that Judge Lynoh presided at the trial. The military commander of Par'.g has ordered tba' placards illustrating the evil effects of alcohol shall be placed on all the barracks in that city. These cards, which are hung in con spicuous plaoes, show on one side the ioterior organs of a drunkard and on the other these of a temperate man. Beneath is a brief expianatioo of the pathological and moral effects of the abuse of alcohol. --SB- - Q - - - -tB.* A Mournfel Contrast. "There is no boubt about it," re parked Willie Washington, with a sigh, "some girls are veiy fickle " "Yes," answered Miss Cayeuue ; "it is positively depressing to see how some of them have stopped kissing heroes and gone camly back to pug dogs "-Washington Star ANY PERSON Wishing to know the truth in regard to their health should not fail to pend for a valuable and new 6-l-pa e Booklet which will bo tent FREE for a short time to these who mention this p^per. This book is published by tho celebrated physi cians and sp cialiste-Dr. Hathaway a; d Co. oi 22*4 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga., whom you should address. Write to-day. ATLANTIC COAST LINE, North-Eastern R. R. of S. C CONDENSED SCHEDULE TRAINS GOING SOUTH Dated Mar. 26, '99 No. No. 23* No. 53* Le Florence Le Kiog6tree Ar Lanes Le Lane? a m 3 25 4 33 4 33 P os ; 7 45 8 55 9 13 9 13 p m 6 20 Ar Charleston 6 03 IC 50 8 DO TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. 78* No. 32* No. 52* am pm am Le Charleston 6 33 4 49 7 OG Ar Lane: 8 08 6 14 8 32 Le Lanes 8 68 6 14 Le Kingstree t 8 26 Ar Florence 9 30 7 20 am pm am ?Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 52 rnns through to Colombia via Cen tral R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 ron via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for all point9 North. Trains on C. D R. R. leave Florene daily excep* ^nnday 9 50 a m, arrive Darling ton 10 15 ' -, Hartville ll 35a m, Cberaw ll 3D a rn, Wadesboro 2 25 pm. Leave Florence daily except Sunday 7 55 p ra, ar rive Darlington 8 20 p rn, Bennettsville 9 17 pm, Gibson 9 45 p n. Leave Florence Sunday only 9 50 am. arrive Darlington 10 15 a m Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 00 a rn, Bennettsville 7 00 a m, arrive Darling ton 8 02 a m, leave Darlington 8 50 a m, ar rive Florence 9 15 am. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 3 CO pm, Cberaw 4 45 p m. Hartsville 2 15 p rn, Darlington 6 29 o m, arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave Dar lington Sunday only 8.50 a rn, arrive Flor ence 9 15 a m. J. R KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Geo'! Manager. Gen'l Sop'tj T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass:Agent Attic tel Lie fiailrea CUM of SO Carolina. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Ia affect November 20th, 1898. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 No 57t Lv Darlington, 8 02 ara Lv Elliott, 8 45 am Ar Sumter, 9 25 am Lv Sumter, 4 29 am Ar Creaton, 5 17 am Lv Creetgn, 5 45 am Ar PregnaUs, 9 15 am Ar Orangeburg, 5 40 am Ar Denmark, 6 12 am NORTHBOUND. No 32 No. 56* Lv Denmark, 4 17 pm Lv Orangeburg, 4 CO pm Lv Pregnalle, 10 00 am Ar Creston, 3 0 pm LT Creston, 5 13 pm Ar Sumter, 6 03 pm Lv Sumter, 6 40 pm Ar Elliott, 7 20 pm Ar Darlington, 8 05 pm JDaily except Sunday. Trains 82 and 35 carry through Faltman Palace Buffet Sleeping cara between New York and Macoo via Augusta. T. M EMERSON, H. M. EM EPSON, Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager, Atlantic Coast Line WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND A ' GUSTA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Dated February 16, 1893. TRAINS GOING SOUTE. Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence Leave Florence Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia No. 55 No. 35 p. m. .3 45 6 34 7 15 p. m. a. m *7 45 *3 25 8 il 4 29 No. 52 8 57 *9 40 10 20 ll CO No. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R. R , leaving Cbarlestoa 7 a. m.f Lanes 8 34 a m, Manning 9 09 a m TRAIN8 GOING NORTH. No. 54 No. 53 a. m. p. m. Lea? Columbia *6 50 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8 15; 5 13 No. 32 a. m. p. m. Leave Sumter 8 15 *6 06 Arrive Floreoce 9 SO 7 20 a. m. Leave Florence 10 00 Leave Marion 10 40 Arrive Wilmington 1 25 ?Daily. "fDaily except Sunday. No 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C.; via Cer.tral R. R., arriving Manning 5 41 p rn, Lanes 6.17 p rn, Charleston 8 CO p m. Trains on Conway Branch leave Cbadboorn 5.35 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 pm, return ing leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Chao. bouru ll 20 am, leave Chadbourn ll 50 a m, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hob 3.00 p va, arrive;Cbadbourn 3 35 am,] Daily except Sunday. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. ' T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M . EMERSON, Gen'l Pass Agent Vinegar 1 have on hand a lot c Home-made Vinegar of very fine quality. The flavor is del icate, while the strength is equal to any to be had. Will be sold at my residence for 40 cents per gallon. ff. G. OSTEEL.