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Prudent Marsh read this editorial
mad thanked God for Edwart! Norman.
At the e^nie time he understood Well
that every other paper in Ray?
on the other aide. He did not
id the importance and sori
of the fight which was only just
?m\ It waa no secret that The Newt
lost enormously since it had been
gevafasd by the standard of "What
' wooid Jeans do?' The question now
warn, "WonId Um? Christian people of
JUtymood stolid by it?" Would they
mil Irr it possible for Norman to conduct
* daily Christian paper, or would their
deatrefor what is called "news," in
tana way of crime, scandal political
?partisanship of the regular sort and a
dislike to champion so remarkable a re?
form in journalism, influence them to
tat paper and refuse to give it
financial support ? That was, in
the question Edward Norman was
while ha wrote the Satur?
day editorial He knew well enough
Hist his action expressed in that edi
Sflftal would cost him vory dearly from
law hands of many business men of
Bftormood. and still as he drove his pen
the paper ha asked another ques
"What would Jesus do?" That
become a part of his life
It was greater than any other.
But for the first time in its history
Baymond *iad seen the professional
men, the teachers, the college profes
aora. the doctors, the ministers, take
foUUcal action and put themselves
definitely and sharply in antagonism to
iaa aril forces that had so long con?
trolled the machinen9 the municipal
Baten! The fact itself waaatton
President Marsh acknowledged
to himself, with a feeling of hum ma?
tters, that never before had he known
what civie righteousness could accom
tih. from Imat Friday night's work
dated for himself and his college a
aww definition of the worn phrase, 'fthe
scholar in politics " Education for him
and those who were umUr his influence
ever after meant some element of suf
taring
Sacrifice must now enter into
the factor of development.
At the Rectangle that week the tide
af spiritr1 life rose high and as yet
showed nc signs cf flowing back. Rachel
and Virginia went ever* night Vir?
ginia waa rapidly reaching a conclusion
with respect to a large part of her
?She had talked it over with
1. and they had been able to
agree that if Jesus had a vast amount
af money at hia disposal he might do
with some of it as Virginia planned.
At any rate, they felt that whatever
Jesus might do in such a case would
have as large an element of variety in,
it as the difference in persons and cir
aamstinoea There could be no fixed
Christian way of using money. The
rale that regulated its use was unselfish
utility
But meanwhile the glory of the
Spirit's power possessed all their best
thought Night after nit<ht that week
witnessed miracle* as great as walking
on the sea or feeding the multitude
with s few loaves and Ashes, for what
greater miracle than a regenerated hn
inanity* The transformation of th> - ?
coarse brutal, sottish lives into pray
iag. rapturous lovers of Jesus struck
Rachel and Virginia every time with
the fee I i mo* that people may have ha?.
when they saw Lazarus walk out of
flaj tomb. It was an expericfjet full of
profound aaaj tomcat to them.
Ro'lr.i Page came to all the meetings.
Then was no doubt of the change that
Ind i II" was wond ?rfnV
ry quiet It sk illed us if h" w.-r" ihink
tag all th- tlm - ' r: inly ho was not
the nair?* pcr?< u He talk-?! r ? with
Oray than with any on-; else. He did
not avoid st?chet bet he s?'em?d t"
shrink from ant appear mot of seeming
to wi*h to rei the old acquaiatanos
with her Kach 1 r >nv\ it evendifli? It
toe .; r. ^ ' . I ? < l< i pleasure at the
life h ? had liejrnn to know. He
to be waiting to adjust himself
te?hn i .wi >ns relations before thin new
life I) ;.m }]? hail not forgotten those
relations, but he was not >et able to
at his aonscio?*u - m? . i. w out *
The end of the week found the Rec?
tangle ?traggling hard between two
mighty - [>|iosing forces. The Holy
Hpirit was battling with all his super?
natural strength against the saloon
devil which had so loiu h* Id a jealous
grasp on its ?laves If the Christian
pti.j.'. ( I: i\c.. iid onee could realize
whr t th" i ? : t i... ,ir.r t th" ?oiils
aawly awakened to a n<m Hfa it did
?ot narn pos-able that th?? ? !? - tn cor.Id
result in the old tyttcni of Hceaea Hat
that remsin si yet to l*< ween Th" Iwr
ror of ihe daily surroundings ?( i
af mw eeai rte a i < rlowly haraiag its
wsy into the knowledge of Virginia
and Rachel, und tvorj i |hi at Ihey
went no town t.. thetr ktaufioua han* i
they ; heavi r h< art-*.
*'A g?ssl many of th >??? poor creat
aras v ill an bail again." Orn Id
say v.iih a ".i I' 'i ? i? 1 i' t<
??Tie? envin am? nt dues have u good
deai to do with the t hurucl r It 4 I
not stand to n.i - n that tie ??? |* opln
ran always sag t |hc stghl aad small af
the d. vi'h- 'i drinl: ell ?I owl th m. (>
Lord, t v Im mi t liri iaii people
eontimiM ton ppoii by Uk If oca aad
th?'?r bail : . ? t t v , hlav
ery aow kaawi ka .N. ? erica 1"
}':>> i . d til< f| otit*SI I 'it did aa|
have noch I ?p*< of au tu i liat I an
swit Ther v..,h a r ij i I h rp la the
actioa of Priday night'i primary, ?nt
what the result would be he did not
dare to anticipate. The whisky forces
w - - 'anised. alert, ssjrrea?ve, roused
? 'Tit? of
the lust week at the tent and in the
city. Would the Christian force act as
a nn't against the salmon, Of would it
be div.ded on account of its business
interests or because li was not in the
habit of acting together, as the whisky
powers always did? That remained to
be seen. Meanwhile the saloon roared
itself about the Kec angle like some
deadly viper, hissing i nd coiling, ready
to strike its poison into any unguarded
part
Saturday afternoon, as Virginia was
just stepping out of hor house to go
and see Rachel to talk over her new
plans, a carriage drove up containing
three of her fashionable- friends. Vir?
ginia went out to tlie driveway and
stood there talking w ith them. They
had not come to ma'-ce a formal call,
but wanted Virginia to go riding with
thorn up on the bculevard. There was
a band concert in the park. Th* ^rvy
was too pleasant to be spent indoors.
"Where have you been all this time
VirginiaT" asked one of the girls, tap?
ping her playfully on she shoulder with
a red silk parasol "We hear that yon
have gone into the show business. Tell
us about it"
Virginia colored, but after a mo?
ment's hesitation she IranhtAold some?
thing of her experience at the Rectan?
gle. The girls in the carriage began to
be really interested.
"Tell you what, gills, lot's go slum?
ming with Virginia this afternoon in?
stead of going to the band concert 1 I've
never been down to the Rectangle. I've
heard it's an swful wicked place and
lots to see. Virginia will act as a guide,
and it would be real"?"fun," eho was
going to say. but Virginia's look made
her suiistitute the Word "interesting."
I Virginia was angry. At first thought
she said to hers df she would never go
under any such circumstances. The
other girls eoemed t .> be of the same
mind as the speaker. They chimed in
with earnestness and asked Virginia to
take them down there.
Suddenly she saw in the idle curi?
osity of the girls *n opportunity. They
had never seen the sin and misery of
Raymond. Why should they not see
them, even if their motives in going
down there were simply to pass away
an afternoon?
"Very well; I'll go with you. You
must obey my orders and let me take
yon where you can s<? the most,'' sho
said as she entered the carriage and
took the seat beside the girl who had
first suggested tho trip to the Rectangle.
"Hadn't we better take a policeman
along." said one of \h? girls, with a
nervous laugh. "It*, really isn't safe
down there, you know.''
"There's no danger." said Virginia
briefly.
"Is it true that Rollin has been con?
verted?" as lad the first speaker, look?
ing at Virginia curiot.sly. It impressed
her during the drive to tho Rectangle
that all three of her friends were re?
garding her with closo attention, as if
she were Very peculiar.
"Yes; ho certainly is. I saw him
mvself on the night of tho first interest
shown, a week ago Saturday," replied
Virginia, who did not knov just how
to tell that scene.
"I understand ho i? going around to
the clubs talking with his old friends
there, trying to preach to thorn. Doesn't
that seem funny ?" said tho girl with
the red silk parusol.
Virginia did not answer, and the
other girls were beginning to feel sober
as the carriage turned into the. street
leading to tho Rectangle. As they
neu red the district they grew more and
more nervous. The sights and smells
and sounds which had become familiar
to Virginia struck the senses of these
n finrd. delicate society girls as some?
thing horrible. As they entered farthtr
tnto the district the Rectangle seemed
I > stare as with one great bleary, beer
soaked countenance at this fine carriage
with it* load of fashionably dressed
young ladies. "Slumming" had never
been a fad with Rayn ond society, and
thi was perhaps the first time that the
two had come together in this way.
The girls felt that, ins eadof seeing tho
Rectangle, they were objects of curi?
osity. They were frightened and dis?
gusted.
"Let's go back. I've seen enough,"
said the girl who was sitting with Vir?
ginia.
They were at that moment just op?
posite a notorious saloon and gambling
ho*iati The street was narrow and the
sidewalk crowded. Suddenly out of the
door of the saloon a young woman
faeled. Sin- was sin'/in^ in a broken.
draaaaa sob that teemed lo indicate
that the partly realized her awful con?
dition, ".lest as I a n. without one
pl"a."andas the carriage rolled past
the leered at it. lahdag bat face so that
Virginia paw it v ry close to h r own.
It was the face of the girl who had
kneeled sobbing that night with Vir
ginia kneeling I side her aad praying
for b< r
??Mop"' cried Virginia, motioning
to the driver, who was looking around.
Th" carrii pre stopped, and in n niom< nt
the was out and had gone np to the
girl end tain n her by the arm.
M]ami n l ' the i id. and that was nit
Th * girl looked into her face, nnd bet
own changed with a I? "k of utt r hor?
ns. The gifhi m th" carirage were
amitten Into help! m o onishmeat The
mbfftn hfiftrr hH come to the door of
t' loon an'l was i tandiug th< re look
tag on, trith hit hands on his hips, aad
the Bactangle from its windows, its
saloon steps, its Hhhy sidt ?valk. gutter
and roadway paused and with uudis
gnised wonder stared at the two girls.
Over the scene the warm sun of spring
poured it9 mellow light. A faint breath
of music from the band stand in the
park floated into the Rectangle. Tho
concert had begun, and the fashion and
wealth of Raymond were displaying
themselves up town on the boulevards.
CHAPTER VI.
For I camp to sot a man at variance apainst his
father, and the daughter atrainst her mother, and
the daiwhter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
and a mun's foes ahall be they ot his own house?
hold.
He ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved
children, and walk in love even as Christ also
loved you.
When Virginia left the carriage and
went to Loreen, she had no definite idea
as to what she would do or what tho
result of her action would be. She sim?
ply saw a soul that had tasted of the
joy of a better life slipping back again
into its old hell of shame and death,
and before she had touched the drunken
girl's arm she had asked only one ques?
tion, "What would Jesus do?" That
question was becoming with her, as
with many others, a habit of life.
She looked around now as she stood
close by Loreen, and the whole scene
was cruelly vivid to her. She thought
first of the girls in tho carriage.
"Drive on. Don't wait for me. I am
going to see ray friend here home," she
said, calmly enough.
The girl with the red parasol seemed
to gasp at the word "friend" when Vir?
ginia spoke it. She did not say any?
thing Tho other girls seemed speech?
less.
"Go on. I cannot go back with you,M
said Virginia.
The driver started tho horses slowly.
One of the girls leaned a little out of
the carriage.
"Can't we?that is?do you want
our help? Couldn't wo"?
"No, no!" exclaimed Virginia. 11 You
cannot be of any use to me."
The carriage moved on, and Virginia
was alone with her charge.
She looked up and around. Many
faces in the crowd were sympathetic
They were not all cruel or brutal. The
Holy Spirit had softened a good deal of
the Rectangle.
"Where does she live?" asked Vir?
ginia,
No one answered. It occurred to Vir?
ginia afterward, when she had time to
think it over, that tbe Rectangle showed
a delicacy in its sad silence that would
have dono credit to the boulevard.
For th? first time it flashed upon her
that the immortal being who vas flung
like wreckage upon the shore of this
earthly hell called the saloon had no
place that could bo called home.
The girl suddenly wrenched her arm
from Virginia's grasp. In doing it she
nearly threw Virginia down.
"You shall not touch me I Leave lie'.
Let me go to hell 1 That's where I be?
long 1 The devil is waiting for me I See
him I" she exclaimed hoarsely. She
turned and pointed with a shaking fin?
ger at the saloon keeper. The crowd
laughed.
Virginia f tepped up to her and put
her arm about her.
"Loreen," sho said firmly, "come
with me. You do not belong to hell.
You belong to Jesus, and ho will save
you. Conic.''
The girl suddenly burst into tears.
Sho was only partly sobered by the
shock of meeting Virginia.
Virginia looked ?round again.
"Where does Mr. Gray live?" she
asked. Sho knew the evangelist board?
ed somewhere near that tent.
A number of voices gavo her the di?
rection.
"Come, Loreen. I want you to i*o
with me to Mrs Gray's. " she said, still
keeping her hold of the swaying, trem?
bling creature, who still moaned and
fiobl>ed und now clung to Virginia as
before she had repulsed her.
So the two moved on through the
Rectangle toward the evangelist's lodg?
ing place. The sight seemed to impress
the Rectangle seriously. It never took
itself seriously when it was drunk, but
this was different. The fact that one of
tho most beautifully dressed girls in
Raymond was taking care of one of the
Rectangl?'s most notorious characters,
who reeled along under the influence of
liquor, w.vs a fact astonishing enough
I > throw more or less dignity and im
|>rtanee about Loreen herself. The
event of Loreen stumbling through the
gutter dead drunk always made the
Rectangle laugh and jest, but Lov< en
staggering along with a yonng lady
from the society circles up tov.H sup?
porting her was another thing. The
Rectangle viewed it with soberness and
more or le^.s wondering admiration.
When they reached Mr. Gray's board?
ing place, the woman who answered
Virginia's knock said that both Mr. and
Mrs. Gray were ont somewhere and
would not be baek until o' o'clock.
Virginia had not planned anything
further than a possible appeal to the
(?Jrays either to take charge of Loreen
for awhile or find some safe place for
her until she was sober again. She stood
now at the lodging after the woman
had spoken, and she was really at a loss
to know what to <!?'. Loreen sank down
stupidly on the step; and buried her
face in her arms. Virginia eyed the
miserable figure with a feeling that she
w;:> fearful would grow into disgust.
Finally a thought possessed Virginia
thai ?he conld u< I resist. What was to
hinder Loreen from going homo with
h rl Why should not this homcl< ?,
wretched creature, reeking with the
fumes of liquor, be cared lor in Vir
ginin's own home, in ?1 'ad of b< ing
consigned to strangers In some hospital
or house of charity? Virginia really
knew very ?i'l i about any such places
of refuge. As a matter of fact, there
were two or three such Institutions in
Raymond, bul it is doubtful ii any'*'
them would have taken n person like
Loreen In h pr< ent condition. But
th t was not tho question with Virginia
jn-; now. "Whui would Ji ins do with
1 ( wen f" wa i v> hn1 Vii ;iuia faced, and
?he finally answered it by touching
Lorn n again.
"Loreen, pomel Yon nre going home
with lite, \? e will take tlu* ear here al
the c< >rncr.''
Loreen staggered to her feet and. to
Virginia's relief, made no trouble.
nad expected resistance or a stubborn
refusal to move. When they reached
the corner and took the car, it wa*
nearly full of people going up town.
Virginia was painfully conscious of th?
stare that greeted her and her compan?
ion as they encered, but her thought
was directed more and more to tho ap?
proaching scene with her grandmother.
What would Mme. Page say when she
saw Loreen?
Loreen was nearly sober now, but she
was lapsing into a state of stupor. Vir?
ginia was obliged to hold fast to hex
arm. Several times she lurched heavily
against Virginia, and as tho two went
up the avenue a curious crowd of peo?
ple turned and gazed at them. When
she mounted the steps of the handsome
house, Virginia breathed a sigh of re?
lief, even in the face of the interview
with her grandmother, and when the
door shut and she was in the wide hall
with her homeless outcast she felt equal
to anything that might now come.
Mme. Page was in the library. Hear?
ing Virginia come in, she came into the
hall. Virginia stood there enppcrtinja
Loreen, who stared stupidly u) the rick
magnificence of the furnishings around
her.
"Grandmother"?Virginia spoke
without hesitation and very clearly?
"I have brought one of my frieneh
from the Rectangle. She is in trouble
and has no home. I am going to care
for her a little while."
Mme. Page glanced from her grand?
daughter to Loreen in astonishment.
"Did you say she was one of your
friends?" she asked in a cold, sneering
voice that hurt Virginia more than any?
thing she had yet felt.
"Yes; I said so." Virginia's face
flushed, but she seemed to recall the
verso that Mr. Gray had used for one
of his recent sermons, "A friend of pub?
licans and sinners.'' Surely Jesus would
do this that she was doing.
"Do you know what this girl is?"
asked Mme. Page in an angry whisper,
stepping near Virginia.
"I know very well. She is an out?
cast. You need not tell me, grand?
mother. I know it even better than yon
do. She is drunk at this minute. Bu1
she is also a child of God. I have seei
her on her knees repentant, and I have
seen hell reach out its horrible fingen
after her again, and, by the grace ol
Christ, I feel that tho least I can do if
to rescue her from such peril. Grand
mother, we call ourselves Christians.
Here is a poor, lost human creature
without a home, slipping into a possible
eternal loss, and we have more thar
enough. I have brought her here anc
shall keep her.''
Mme. Pago glared at Virginia anc
clinched her hands. All this was con
trary to her social code of conduct.
How could society excuse such famil
iarity with the scum of the streets'
What would Virginia's actions cost the
family in the way of criticism and the
loss of standing and all that long list ol
necessary relations which people ol
wealth and position must sustain to the
leaders of soeiety ? To Mme. Page so
ciety represented more than the churcr
or any other institution. It was a pew
er to be feared and obeyed. The loss ol
its good will was o loss more to be
dreaded than anything, except the lost
of wealth itself.
She stood erect and stern and con
fronted Virginia, fully roused and de
termined. Virginia placed her arn
about Loreen and calmly looked bei
grandmother in the face.
"You shall not do this, Virginia.
You can send her to the asylum foi
helpless women. We can pay all the ex
pen."es. We cannot afford, for the sake
of our reputations, to shelter such si
person.
"Grandmother, I do not wish to de
anything th&t is displeasing to you.
but 1 am going to keep Loreen here to?
night and longer if I think it is best."
"Then you can answer for the conse
qnencea I do not stay in the iam<
house with a miserable"? Mme. Page
lost her self control. Virginia stoppet:
her before she could speak the nexl
word.
''Grandmother, this house is mine
It Is your home with me as long as yor
choose to remain, but in this matter 1
shall act as I fully believe Jesus would
in my place. I tun willing to bear all
that society may say or da Society if
not my God. By the side of this poor,
lost soul I do not count tho verdict ol
society as of any value."
"I shall not remain hero, then." said
Mme. Page. She turned suddenly and
walked to tho end of the hall. Bhe thex
came back and said, with an emphasif
that revealed her intense excitement
and passion:
"You can always remember that yon
have driven your grandmother out oi
your house in favor of a drunken wom?
an." Then, without waiting for Vir
ginia to reply, she turned again anc
went u;vtr-'s..
[to BI continued.)
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lington Sunday only 8 60 a m, arrive Flor*
?uce 9 15 a m.
J. R KSNLKY, JNCv F. DIVINE,
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't
T M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
H M . KMKRSON. G-?n'l Pare. Agent
]?r$2775 PQ* RAiN c<w
*>KSP _A UKtil I Alt #d.OI> ?Ali Kl bOUi
~BP"-'jui kivtuhll H>R $2.75.
Send Wo Money. g*???*J
?U te >uiir hrlaht and weight, i<tate
number of luchcs around body at
brm?t taken over veat under coal
close lip under arms, and we v. ill
send you lbt? coat n> express. C. O.
tl. t?bjrit lo t'XBmluatiuot examine
and try it on at your nearest ex
urcbsofiiv-e and if found exactly
us represented and tbe most won
dMfol vatuavoe ever saw or board
of and e iualV>aayeoa*jro*canl ay
,r t.~> 00. pay tlieeiur*?? atrrat ?ur n; rci^l
ofr.-ri.rif?, ft. 11, n:ui efpeeai chargaa.
this mackintosh >* lafcrt
lStYatj le, ma :<? from fceaty waui-mof,
i - n color, arruini- ?a,i.Co??rt Cloth; f Xtra
lontt\ douhle breasted, Soger velvet
collar, fancy plaid lining, waterproof
iewed. strapped and cemented seams
suitable for both rain or otorcoat, nnd
B uaranfed tTeataat ?alue e-. er offered
vfiv us or anv other hon e, torrrre
rfaih ?aiaatta of Han't Maekirtoahaa up
to a.-,.oo. nnd MftdrvtoMeafure sima
ad Overcoats at from tf.OO to Sio.00, write tor Ira
I?M%'0rtUCK ft CO., CHICACO, ILL
Fire Insurance Agency
ESTABLISHED 1866.
Represent, among other Companies :
LIVERPOOL k LONDON k GLOBE,
NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE)
HOME, of New York.
UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y.
LANCASTER INSURANCE CO.
Capital represented $75,000,000.
Feb 2S
DR. W. B. ALFORD,
DENTAL SURGEON,
SUMTER, S. C
Orrici HcuttS?8 a. ro to 2:30 p. m.; 3:15
to 6:30 p u.
Office over the Sumter Dry Goods Co .
May 2 ?6m
SEND US ONE DOLLAR ^aM8S
IW i Oft rMtrrr. kWrh-aradr KKHKKVOlll COAL AND *OOB
iouK STOV1C, by freight C.O.I?., subject to examination.
Kx.-.irni'? it at
your freight
donofl a>ul if
? ..und r?erf?t?t
ly ? atraiaveton
ar? ih ? trraieal
vivo i?AH.
??XL* J ii
. raw ?c-w
? ?r hei.pt
..f.V/.v the
. v.i WM
U 1 It our
i'::t. K,
$13.00
ti.ee?
?it With < r
-r or t N
?id rrtlgut chars^
fxISall, toj; i~ i-..
writk for our r;<; FR(CE
STOVE CATALOCUt.
7?d!? stovo <3 Biro No. f.. o?en ts
ui^do from let ingi vu, evf.-.v
rg?- f: es, iieuvy covers, hc?vy linini.*a atMt gmt^a,
ianwo*aaahaif, acavy tai4ine?l area doer.ha <J. ? a?
nicUfl niatt'l <>n .m- r.tati ni' and SrttavlMKF.
I (teep, pMMtM i-'taBdi?!! pgaajflaiaj llaaal W ? rxcrir. b.?"l
mine ianrt nrnamontadbaue. Hokt aaalkaeMvwurnm,*a4
ara furniirt) FSKai aa axtra wood ar rat?, mal . if a i
feet noM burter. H IWri A pt?atXUSI ?KAS"
? vp-j' atova anl .-la-intce ?aia)deiivvry v?ycurrui!
roadMattoa. i*oarl??oal ?uaiararoal i ci>ary<* j-- u KS*i
foraaaii a vto.e. tne Crakrhf h only alMmc St*a f ?
pich 50U ndlos. ??e ??"?)?'?i leaal SlO.fa*.
* H ARS, RO E S U CK &? O.rtaU.! C- IC ?Iii, r
^ a?ara, li<-. ? :n i. A <'?> ??p UMr?ajfM| taSaMa, ?
Atlantic Coast Lina
WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND A*
GUSTA RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule.
Dated November 19, 18^3.
?O YEArlS*
EXPERIENCE
Trade Marks
Designs
. . Copyrights Ac.
Xnvonc sending n skoteh and description -nay
aniiekly juscertaln our opinion free whether an
Invention ta pror-nbly putentanle. Communiee.
ttonaatrtCtiyOOUfldentl ?. Handbook on Patent;
sent free, oldest acenry for aercring patents.
Patents taken throuL'h Munn & c'o. recetv?
Ipecfal sottet, without charge, i:i the
Scientific American.
a handsomely UtartfMtfd weekly. Largest olr
rulatiou of any scientific Journal, 'forma. ?3 a
yeur , tour months, $L Sold by all newsdealers.
MUNN & Co.36,B?ad-a? Hew Yorft
Bran oh Office. t~25 v BL. Ifastalactoo. i>-vi
TRAINS GOING SOUlh
Leave Wilmicgton
Lenvr Mariou
Arrive ?ioreoce
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
lio. 55 No. 35
p. pa.
?3 45
6 54
;7 15
p. ? a m
?7 45 ?2 24
8 r-7 3 5g
No. 52
8 57 ?9 40
10 20 11 00
Atlantic Coast Lice
Company of Smtl Carolina.
OONDKNSKD BCRBDULt
Ir. iffect Nov?moer ifuh, 1899
SOUTH.
No
?3??
3 f6
4 69
5 2^
6 12
>i tn
No
f57
o 03
8 4">
9 2)
5 4f)
9 IS
NORTH.
No No
No. 52 runs through from Charleston rta
Central R. R , let.vitig Charleston 7 a. m.
Line? 8 34 a m, Manning 9 OS a m
TiiAINS GOING NORTH
To. 54 No. 53
Leave Colnmoia
Arrive Sumter
Leave 8cmtsr
Arrive Florence
Ltive Florence
Leave Murion
Arrive Wilmington
a. lb.
?6 40
8 05
a. m
8 05
9 20
a. m.
9 50
10 30
1 15
p. ru.
?4 15
5 II
No. 32
i> m.
?6 06
7 3C
Lr Darlington Ar
Lv Filiott Ar
Boaster
Sumier
Cretton
Crtficn
Ar
Lv
Ar
Lv
Ar
8 05
7 '20
6 40
Lv
Ar
Lf
Ar 3 ^
Pre. nnlla t.v 10 10
i trenfrebarg
Den Dai l<
p m
?32
6 03
5 If)
4 '8
4 II
p n
* Daily tl),,,!v vi* M' '*'u " vv
TraioN 32 rt carry ihroueh Pultraai
PaUre Buffet Sleeping Can i.tvem Ne*
V< ik and Maroo via Auguata
T M BMRRSON Ii M BMRRFON,
Trafliti Maoacer. OanM l'af?. Aut
.1 R K ON V. Gei 'I Maneger.
Vinegar.
1 have on hand a lot of
Home-made Vinegar of very
fine quality. Tho flavor is del?
icate, while the strength Lb
equal to any to be had.
Will be sold at my residence
for 40 cents per gallon.
N, U. OSTK1K1*.
?Daily fDailv except Sunday.
No 53 runs through to Charleston, 8. C.
v.aCentrRi R. R , arriving Vsnn.rg 5 41 p
rp, Lar.ee 6 17 p n , Chatuaton 8 00 I m.
TrutnBon Conway liratch leaveChad^ocro
5 35 pm, rrriveConaa> 7 40 p m. return?
ing leave Conwav 8 3(? a arrive Chad
bourn 11 20 am, leave I bhdt cum 11 10 a re,
arrive Mut? 12 25 p B>, re'urr mg Wave Kufc
3 00 pro, arrive Cr tdtapara 3 35 a m, Daily
except Sunday.
r R EBVIT, G^r.'l Manager.
T M . BMBRsON, Traffic Manager
H M RMBR80N GVnMPaai Agr?>t
.95 BUYS A S3.50 S?ll
S.OUO ? r I 1 iiK*Ol? "kAM ?. KABIN 1 "doalila
t?al ant donl> 1^ lore. K. '.'uur fX.5() B???* ??
Ptoaa I'awi f>ttti? wvinir at si.99.
* Kl w ?I ll Mill i ?: yoCUkCM -ulta
vrhtcbd? ttgivt imUsfartory vrrac m
Send No Money. CLt V '" c,:f
. and uMid to u>.
at air ?r<- a| Iwf aiulaay v hethrr Inr^o or
mall for aca, and vse v .:i r.iy? u ttie
FUii bjrrs i n *,C ?' i1 . Mbjei: to cxauun
ttlon. You c.m i samiw It nt jt urciprc??
'; > >? and r 1 | perfectly aaitlafacfory
and equal to buUj k. m la your tcw n i r
'? l?aj Jour W cur a?rcial
iffrr pr.?.-. 5t.?!>a'<'! riprraa[iai|H.
THEi B KM] 1 TAr.'i" BUXXSavatM
tioja lr..m f toll ;. ur- ? t rrf, nn l r rrrrtiilr-d
awriaaaia at ?'. BaO? with ?;? uhla aaat
ami attcoa, lai.-?t latfai.ifl lUuatratetf,
mado front ? aprrlil mr?w?laala>, be?%y
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in nt. si rtni nnd roiuforeitiF, niit and In? n t"-\ inaj.taa
<jioi.i.'?jr laraaraaai, a i?; i ant hnror parent *.'wH
beproadof. nut n:i tt MUH Biari? a m B< re'Ciwii -
(auita,orcreoataor Birten),tor i?^\.- 4 ri>io IBaaa,
?rlta lac aaaaplt B**a MC, i m faj [on |
laMtaaaaaraaadfa) attanwtlona b< ar to < rder,
Krn'a KuKa arc Orrrfoala mailo lo ortlrr from o;\
Rami'le-* n'nt trM or. appHeotion. A?idr. k?,
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (fnc>. Chicago, lit
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