Newspaper Page Text
TR-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. DECEMBER 4, 1883 U, ANXIOUS HEART. Be quieta, restleso heart I The long ligh lies In gleams of lingering sunshine on th< hill; The home-bound swallow, twittering as li flies, Makes silence seem more still. The shadows deeper grow, and in the woods The air a latent sweetness hokds in fee; An odor faint of yet unblossoined buds So like, dear heart, tO thee I Far distant in the soft, cerulean leep, Where the lorizon bounds the nether world, Great ships becahned like brooding birds asleep, Lie with white sails Ipose furled, In peace the day is ended, ani1d the night Falleth as doth a veil upon the sea; Along its bosoni come with swift winged flight The gray mists, silently. O, anxiols heart, how naturespeaks I 11er powor 11ow leisurely she uses I How iitense The Iinilite peace of her most fruitful hour How soft her influence! Tine hath she for her storms to sweep tle nutin; To rock the tree tops with her winds of wrth I; To bring forth fragrance in tho suniner rain; And time for snow she hath I So, dear, for all thy eager soul desires, She keeps sweet times and seasons. In her mood Is hicd for thee all passion's subtle fires To round thy womanhood. Cease then I and in this dewy twilight IZlOVe As one who asks not whither, cares not why; This gift for all holds still theEternal love God's endless by and by. A BItOKEN TitUS-. 1, Edwhi Leigh, had been married just three months, and for twice that time a Junior partner in our banking firm, Debenbarn, Lockyer, & Co., of Crutc lied Friars. I had cause to remenber the day whenit a neighbor of ours, a young Ger man merchant, called, after dusk, at our house-Wolseley Place, N. W.--to ask me to take charge of a sum, in gold chiefly, which lie had received in the city after banking hours. "I am called off to France and start by the night mail at eight o'clock," said my friend; "nor do I care to carry so much gold with Me among the pick pockets of Paris, so please pay it in to my account when you go to the bank to-morrow-six thousand dollars.'' .1 insisted on giving Herman Kratz a receipt for his six thousand dollars. "Dat is all nonsense," said the wor thy Teuton, but he pocketed the paper I pressed upon him, and we shook hands and parted. I lo1ked up t ol menty in iy dressing-case up-stairs? meaning, of course, to colvey.it to drutchled Friars next day. Dinner, however, was not over before there was a loud peal of the door-bell, and I received a pressing letter of in structions, sent by special messenger, froin our principal's private residence. Mr. Debenhan requested me to start by.early train next morning for Man cliester on important business. It was the first separation between Blanche and myself, and it was a trial to both, for I loved ny young wife dearly; however, the journey was ne cessary, so at dawnil I set off, looking forward with pleasure to my prompt return, and enjoining on Bllanclie to keep an eye on the tall morocco case t hat contained 1Ierr Kratz's deposit. I was detained at Manchester longer than had been exptected. IHowever, on the third day I reached it, thme alfairs wvhi'h I had to arrange were satisfactorily settled, and I was able to teliphone to my wife that I should return home that night. I started. 'The weatheir-it was winter-had qmite changed. Th'ie cold was bitter, and the country white with snowrifts, while the loudi, lorce wind brought fresh flakes with it. Still, wrap~pinig myself in my wvarm ul st er, I kept miy place in the railway car, cheerfully looking forward to the pleasant welcome that awaited ime. More than once I feli asleep), but al ways my dIreams were of homne, the pretty little wife, the eager greeting, the warmith, the sense of comfort, the glowing fire, the hot supper, for the traveler returned. London, at last. - Slowly through the blinding snow (lid umy cabmnan mnake [his way to Wolseley J.lace, No. 2; but, that haven of peace once reached, I ran like a schuoolboy up thme flaggedh pathi of the tiy fronit gar deni, leaving grumbling Jehii to follow wvith the p~ortmaniteaui. Sarah, our housemaid, hurried to an swer miy imipatienit ring. .I did( not, at first, notice the girl's affrighted look, iior the flaring candle, snatched off tihe drawing-room table, in her hanid. Sarah had enough to do to prevent the candi~le from being extiinguished, while I had to push hard at the closing door, before, along wvith freshening wind~ and dIrivinig sinow, 1 could effect ain entrance. "You senm suirpris9ed, Sarah," I said. "Oh, sir, you doii't knmow what it is. No, there's nobody there " she said wildly, as I rushed to tbe (drawing roomi, time (door of which was ajar, one S candlle on the trim table, the fire ex tinct, the room empty and cheerless. I left Sarah to receive my portman tenu aiid pay the cabmnan, aind dashed up1-stairs. 'Thlere, in may wife's bed room, a bright lire burned, candles flickered, and kind, wihte-haired D r. Bland lord stood before the fire. Th'lere w as a strong odor of ether and other dirugs, and the medicine-chest stood open on a side table. Stretched on the bed, her plretty head ahutost buried among the soft pillows, but in the samie dress she must have worn that (lay, lay Blanche. . Wlien she heard my step and my voice, her hysterical sobs redoublea, and It was almost In a shriek that she cried out "Do niot ask it, Edwin, no, no, I cannot tell you. Do not question me, or it will kill me 1" I soothed my poor darling as wvall as I could, but my efforts seeming useless, I turned to the doctor, who drew me aside. . "There has been, It appears, my dear sir, an audacious robbery here," he said, In a low voice. I started. "And poor little Mrs. Leigh, who alone witnessed It, as I gather," went on the doctor, "has received a severe shock to nerves naturally weak." "I have done my best? but I am sure her husband's protection is the surest cure." Again, with some trouble, Dr. Bland ford contrived to administer restora tives, and then left his patient In IImy charge. Sitting down beside my wife, I gently took her hand in mine, and with much loving talk tried to (raw from her what had thus alaried her. But when I spoke indignantly of the scoundrel who had frightened her, and talked of sending at once for the police, Blanche startea up, and clasped her hands imploringly. "Oh, no, no-never!" she shrieked out. "Edwin, dear Edwin, say noth ing to the police. ie must not be pursued. "Let him go--pray, pray, lot him go freel'' This, I felt, was most extraordinary. Why should I let a thief go, if lie could be caught? And what could my poor Blanche mean? I began. for the first time, to wonder of what the stolen property could have consisted. That there had been a real robbery I could not doubt. But, unless some impudeit snatcher had slipped in to abscond with a few spoons, or burglars had been busy, I could not guess the meaning of the disturbance. Mecha'iically I glanced around the room, and missed from its accustomed 1 place my big dressing-case--new and i handsome, with its silver mountings I and patpent lock-the very case in which before starting for Manchester, I hail secured Herman Krantz's money. Whiere was the case now? "Blanche, love," said I, anxiously, t and in a quivering voice, "'surely, the N dressig-casec' "Yes, yes," she cried out, again I wringing her hands, with, a long wail e of agony; "cruel, cruel-yes, it is that 1 1 But spare him-pray do not set any one v to hunt him down-not if you love me -Ed4(I win' pray, pray!" t And then her hysterical attack be- a came a paroxysm of so violent a nature f that Dr. Blandfoad had again to be sent for, and lie had trouble enough to il calm, by skill and care, the violent d agitation under which poor Blanche now suffered. 13 "There must be no more talk of an exciting character to-night. My pa Hient must have absolute repose, bsid de good d r,l . ae I led fire in the lonely drawing-room, to fI tell me that Blanche had sunk into an uneasy slumber, and that Sarah. was with her. si What a night I spent! No sleep b visited me, after the fatigue of my P journey, so profound was my wretched ness. I was a ruined manl, I felt; W ruied and disgraced, for I could no fi more replace the six thousand dollars I left in my care by the German-himself v not rich-than I could give any reason- n ible explanation of the robbery. n y wife's bshvIor was QA g r id her anxiety lest the villain who 1ad made, off with this large sum-the loss of which ineant ruin to our pros pects-should be captured, was so inex- I plicable, that the suspicions of the World a it large would cling to us boah. I felt d myself miser-able and perturbed' a1 What could IBlanche's evident syimpa- n thiy with the robber- imp~ly, uinless indeed a the sudden shock had disorderedl her k brain? n Tihe early post brought me a letter s from Paris. My friend, Krantz, in formed me cheerfully Lhat lie found a lengthened tour in France wvould be required in the interests of his firm and1 that lhe was writing by the same post to our banking house in Crutchedv Friars, to request that the letter of credlit on R{ouen & Lyons, might be sent out to himn for the amount of slix thousand (dollars. a "Tihe sum11 you paid in for mne will b e hand y, now,'" sidi t he uniconsciousb 1 groaned aloud as I read the words, "Your mistress is asleep?'' I asked I of Sarah.b The answer was in the aflirmative; nor unt il I had the (loctor's approval, could I ventuire to disturb imy sick wife I by approachiing her. . My task was clear before me, and it was nio lheasanit one. I must be at our ofilc'e at the usual (I time, mor01e as a self-accused culprit y than as a colleague.d Certainly, I had been guilty of noth- g ing worse than carelessness. But then j, a banker has no right to be careless. t And .much of the affair could not be c exp~lamued. Blanche's behavir presented a riddle a not to be guessed. Mv object wasL to insure Iherr Krantzt e agaInst loss, and~ to entreat that the v fIrm would advaiice the money (1u1 to a him, deducting the amount from my a annual share ini the p~rofits. Still, six thousand dollars. . "We will take time to think of It, e Mr. Leigh,'' said the p~rinlcipal. And, good-naturedly, lie advised me u to go home, since, In the p~resent condi- s tion of my mind and spirits, I was unfIt 2 for the routine of my (daily duties. 11 I reached home, and met Dr. Bland- i0 ford at thme garden gate. s "You will find Mrs. LeIgh better .1 now," lie said. I: And, indeed, I found imy dear wife ( calmer, though pale1 andi trembling. I Ulearly, it would be rash to allude, for ' the present, to the robbery. .I spoke t soothingly to her, and I could not have t been half am hour in the room before a d telegram was brought to me. It wast addressed to Blanche, and mm came from Liverpool. . "I know nobody In Liverpool," she t sald wonderingly. "You read It, I Edwin." c 1 did read it. It was from the Chief Superintendent I of the Liverpool police, and Informed 1 Mrs. Leigh that, early that morning, as the steamship Arizona was sailing for New Xork, a passenger, a young mn, embarking had slipped from the lauding-stage into the river, and when his body was recovered life was com pletely extinct. Strapped to his waist was a large morocco dressing-case, with silver mountings and a patent lock. In the side-pocket of his coat was a found a letter, staneiod and ready to be posted addressed to Blanche, and signed 'Vour affectionate brother, Jasper Langtrey." "Jasper Langtrey." At the sight of that naie a light broke in upon me. Of my wife's relations, who lived in the country, I had seen but little. Yet I had heard of the one black sheep of the family, a scampali brother of Blanche's, who had caused sorrow and shame to his surroundings, and having made England too hot to hold him, was supposed to be leading a gold digger's life in Australia. ie, then, was the thief, as Blanche, when she had got over her first natural grief at the sudden tidings of her erring brother's untimely ending, .shuddexingly confessed. "lie had, it seems lately returned to Eigland, but this I was unaware of ludge, then, of my astonishment when, esterday, 1 siadenly saw him standing eside me. "It seemed that, finding the door >elow accidentally opened, Jasper had mttered unseen, and conic straight to ny room. "When iy first surprise was over te told me that, as usual, lie wanted noney. I offerred him the little I had -the few sovereigns in my puise. le vas awfully excited, and demanded nore. I told him there was no more n1 the house, except the suin left in rust by a friend of yours." "You told him that!" exclaimed I. 'Yes, that was my mistake," sobbed 31aiche, "for his eyos followed mine. niagine iy horror when, seizing on lie dressing-case with the money, Ie Vas about to leave the room. I ereamed and threw myself on my nees at his feet, aid clung to him, ntreating him not to wrong thus my usbaid and myself, but lie pushed me iolently from him." 'I trust to liiy sister,' lie cried, 'not D make a convict out of her brother I nd then rushed from the room and roi the house." "And what could I do, Edwin dear almost drove me mad-what could I o?') "My poor Blanche!'' I said, pitying r, as I took her in my arms and kissed Dr. I went to Liverpool, and there had oney, which I was proud and thank- t 0 -1 my return to London, to pay no L ank to Herr Krants's account. lei- directions, and the necessary im, to provide for Jasper's decent urial. Here is the letter which lie had nined: "DEA R SisTEit BLANUUn,--All is 'eli. i start for America this morn ig, per Arizona. packet from Liverpool. shall send this back by the pilot boat hben out of the Mersey. I trust to you ot to betray me. I will repay the ioney when I have made my 'pile.' I jiy 'oln y1. not to betray meC. Your afiectionate Brother, "JASPER LANoTRE Y." I need not say that this letter, which carried back to Iiiy wife, cleared way every doubt between us-every nubt from miiy mind. My Blanche id I have continued, as t~efore, the iost I rustful and hapuiest couple of my that I know. 11err Krantz did iiot ar~n uiitil his return to England, sonie tonthis afterwards, the daager lie had ) narrowly escaped. wisconin's Wonder, A strange case has come to light ini flauplina Wisconsin town around which tore still hangs an air of impenemetrable iystery. Every woman is gossiping .7out it. Last spring a young woman umied Gertrude Fuller became the ride of a young man- -calling himself rank ,D~ubois, and to all outward Lpe~aanes they have slince lived1 hap ily torcether. They have gained a velihocod by p)ainiting and other odd its of work, amnd not even their most itimate friends have ever thought of iem excep~t as pin55ig a qluiet, happy oiieymnoon at their modest little home. ,ast night S. J. Hudson, of Bielvidere, Ii., a former resident of Fond dui ,ac, Wis., presented himself at their oor and~ ciaimedi Gertrude Dubois' rhilom husband asi his wife, who had esertedl hint and his two children. Th'le ossips are greatly excited over the latter, sonic gomig so far as to claim 'lit the wvonman herself has been do civced as to the sex of the person she marriedl. This was the story told by reporter sent out to iivestigate it. 'rertruide, in reply to this question, tainitainied that the personi she lived titht through the summer is a man, nid her stepmother upholds her in this asertion. Hudson, who lived ini Fond dii Lac revious to his departure for Belvidere tirly last spring, lef t here for the for 10r lahce last iiighit, being unable to btami an interview wvith his wife, lie Lates that wvhen lie left Fond du Lao, irs. Hiudsonl was to follow him, lie aving left her a ticket for that pur ose, andl that lie has not seen her ice. Frank Dubois, otherwise Mrs. Ildsonl, left here on the nioon tralit orth. hi spite of the assertions of iertrudle amid his step-mothier the cop)1e here believe Dubohs to be a iomamn. Looking att past ovents in lie lights of the presenit, many little lungs, unnmoticed at the time, point irectly to this conclusion. T1here is, Li fact, ito doubt upon the subject, nd the people. are satisfied that Miss uller's husband is Mrs. Hudson. Why he two women should have done so enmarkable a thing as to marry each ther cannot be Imagined. Mrs. Hlud on Is a masculine-lookig person and L. did not require a great deal of Lrou hle to disgnise her sex. Howard'i Paul, Howard Paul, thb well-known en trepreneur, has probably carried one of his praotical Jokes too far. The jokc of it is that he did not contemplati perpetratiug it at all. While in Bos ton recently, in reference to the en. gageinent of Mr. Wyfidham and coin. pany at the Bijou opera house, lie visi. ted the great industrial fair, which h the pride and glory of Boston. He was much attracted by the display of goods at the tables of a proihinent manufac turor, and claimed. considerable atten tion from the young lady iu attendance im examining the san itlos, toilet soaps being one of his hobbies (although he also icludes soft soap in great quanti ties). Mr. Paul thought the young lady's courtesy needed'recognition, and hesitating to offer her a douceur of money, he begged her acceptance of two tickets for the theatre. The young lady, who was quite a beauty, colored, liesitated and finally declined, but Mr. Paul insisted. "Oh! no," she mur iured, "I could not think of accepting theatre tickets from a tranger." "It does not matter much," replied Mr. Paul, "as you may never see me again." "Unless," continued the maiden fair, "you can give me references as to your character and position." "Oh,' laughed Mr. Paul, "you want some references? Oh, I can give you any number;" and with that lie wrote a list of a dozen or more prominent gentlemen in Boston and New York, which s'iemed satisfactory to the young lady. Mr. Paul thouight the matter ended, but he finds that she has written a dignifled little note to all his friends lie gave as reference, making the most careful inquiries regarding him socially and pecuniarily. These friends replied eulogizing Mr. Paul, hoping thereby to serve him. Satisfied by these replies the young lady has now addressed a letter to Mr. Paul, which has been for warded to him from Boston, saying she would be pleased to receive him at her residence, and it appears she is well lonnected. Whether this letter in luenced Mr. Paul to defer sailing in ;he Britannic is not in, our ken. Like. a Fool. He stood at the ticlt window, slow y unrolling an old- jord leather he shouting of the - .0 ,heir trains. After lie got about a rard and a hall of wallet un rolled he iuddenly stopped and said to the ticket Lgent: "Is that clock right?" '"No, sir," promptly replied the a senmt. "'Tain't?" shouted the startled pas lenger, stooping down and making a iudden clutch at a lean and hungry marpet bag. "Tain't right? Well what 'In ie name o' common sense (10 ye have ,t stuck up there for, then?~" "Tn fnol peoplc," calmly replied the tgent; "that's what we're here for, to .ool people and misdirect them." "Well, by gol," said the passenger, mrriedly rolling up his wallet,"then L've missed my train. I'll report you, L will!'' "Won't do any good," replied the agent; "it's the compjany's orders. l'hey pay a man $85 a month to go a round every morning to mix and mud lIe up all the clocks so that not one of Lhem will be right and no twvo of them ulike." The passenger gasped twice or thrice, but could not say anything. Thme tick at seller wvent on: "It's the superintendent's idea, i~e as fond of funii, enjoys a joke, and it does tim good to see a man prance arounid mid hear him jawv wvhen ,he buys a tick it and then his train has been gone two tours, It saves himn the expense of ;onmg to the circus." "Which way is the clock wrong," thie passenger asked in despairing ac ::ents, "fast or slow?" "Donm't know," rep~lied tihe agent, 'That's part of the fun not to let any body in the building know anythiing ibout the right time. All that I know is that it's ahbat ninety minutes wrong, ime way or the other." With a hollow groan thme passenger iropped lisa carpet bag and wallet and mud made a rush for the door, upset Liug every man who got in his wvay. .in about twvo minutes lie camne back. irestfallen and meek, and took lisa place at thme end of thme line. Whem once more lie walked up to the window, bie said, as he named his station atnd bought his ticket like a sane man: "What made you talk to me hike a liar?" "What made you ask questions lik e a fool?" ansawered the ticket man. The LaIrgest Organ in the Worild. The largesat organ probably ever con itructed was lately completed at Ludwigsburg. It Is destined for the Uathiedral Church at Riga. There are in It 7,000 pipes, 1241 stops, with pe :lals, &c, proportionately niumerous. A very complete "swell" arrangement ullowsa thme Increase and diminution of mound to be effected with a singular p~erfection and delicacy of effects. Time lilling of thme pilpes could not be carriedl Dut by organ-blowers, but is effected by machinery worked by a gas engine of l'our-hmorse piower. Th'iis organ is 20) metres high, 11 broad amid 10 deep (about 05) feet, 36 feet and 33 feet respectively). The largest wooden pipe is 10 meters (321 feet) high, and its cubic contents are 708 cubic feet, wvhile by a curious contrast thme smallest pipe is made only a centimetre and a half high (little more thani half an inch), and is attached tn thn geatet one. Village Whttlers The Jittle village of Oxford, Ind., to which public attention has been attracted by the cruel murder of the young and pretiy Ada Atkinson, has some eight hundred sous--mostly slow, contented, hospitable, -stupid, Hoosior souls. And they all whittle. EUvery tore has its wooden box sitting before it, and every box has its whittlers sit tiug upon it. Near the public squarb is a railing-a long scantling on three posts-evidently once intended to pro tect pedestrians - against a yawning excavation, but now risen to the im portanet, of a free whittling post. Here one may btudy whittling as a fline art and a science. Here one who has noth ing else to do-and what else can one find to do in Oxford?---may studdy the characters of men by their whittling know the carpenter by his chips, as it were. Hero is a wee, pearl-handled pen knife with blade not an inch long, hold in clean, delicate fingers, while a tiny f shy, i is broken from the scantling and poised, pointing toward the breast, as, a woman holds a pencil that she vainly t ho )s to sharpen. Tue whittling is done towards he thick of the thumb that steoidies the end of the little sliver, and mites of shavings timidly fall at the feet of a "dude" whittler, who does r no, belong in Oxford, but is probably a h .traveler from some- Boston millinery 1 house and charges his cigarettes to his c expenas account, How different from the genuine Oxford whittler He whips n' out a huge bone-handled knife-a good 81 handful of a knifte-and throws open the great four-inch blade with a loud, 0 sharp click that proudly proclaims: i 'Thera's backbone in our family, I'd h have you to know." Striding con- P fitently up to the railing this whittier tl rubs the blade back and fourth over ci the soft, weather-drabbed pine, and b4 makes the assault. B-r-r-ripl and he .d has a stick laige enough for any school- A master's rod-as large as any school- t master should be permitted to use and the whittling begins. U] The stick has not-been cut from the g4 scantling; the knife started it and the sheer force of the whittler tore it off S And so also he whittles. His knife is not sharp, for this whittler is none of your lazy fellows who sits around the house all day with nothing to do but wear out whetatones and keep knives sharp. He is a vigorous, active man, S who, although there is nothing worth h doing, is never idle. He forces -the E knife into the stick and pries off sliver k( after sliver as he begrudgingly stays Ic long enough to hear the latest villiage to gossip; and when his stick is thus brok- s en into bits he hurries on to the post La nffiA. fr a iloh-h ,JA not a . "'.'.eau j gua . . n agos e ago last Valentine's day, lie goes tola. a post offlice on the arival of every mail us and, with the others, complains that the postmastor is slow in making the si< ctistribution. The justice of the piece is a thought- st. ful whittler. He made a dollar and six ril bits in fees last year, and whittled away th 83 worth of wood. His knife is neither of sharp nor (ull. It is like his wits- tu surprisingly dull over the straightest- by grain questions, but wonderfully keen le when knotty problems get in the way. ag He breaks off a piece of wood with his PC stumpy fingers, and sits on the edge of - h the sidewalk as if he had come to stay; lii and why should lie not stay sin ) he at: has till the time there is, end can do Fj nearly as much business there on the of sidewalk as in his little temple of justice W' hard by? .liefore proceeding to whittle Wi he thinks it over a long, long time, and m turns the stick end for end, and end for tI end again, Finally, breaking into a s0 low, soft whistling of 01ld "Coronation" is or "Pleyci's Hymn." he cuts a notch tii in one end~ of the stick, and, half listen- i ing to the gossip of hisi fellow-villagers, i1 he goes oni whittling and whittlin, ti wvhitting and whittling. sl Now and then lie slices a long, evenb shaving from the stick, and squints a along the surface to see if it is straight. Then-lhe sits and looks at the wood and b thinks, and thinks, and thinks! Wbatb wvill he make of that stick? Simply to nothing. Hie will squint along its sides and make it as level as the villagers suppose lis head to be; and he wilia snmoath it down until it is as glossy as the elbows of his coat. Bat, after all, he will have only a smooth, straight ki stick. Does it symbolize his thoughts? I [s lie sitting on the edge of that side- ta walk dreaming of the new Jerusalem and reminding himself that, notwith standing the gloss of varnish on the tortuous paths of vice, the straight way gg is the smoothest way? Nobody knows. y He only whittles and whittles, and y speaks not his thoughts. cC And here comes the young man with tLI the brand new knife that his visiting Ec uncle has just brought from the city. St He is in breathless haste to show it to pi the villagers who, each in his turn, at takes its German silver handle in lis w hand-actually takes it in his own hand ci -and looks from the knife to the u: sparkling eyes of the villagers who ol cluster arotind and tip whmnks back at Pd him, as if to say: "Ain't she a daisy, hi though?' He turns up the handle and b] reads the name of the matkor, a famous si one, and every villager says: "G Whil- ci likens!" The owner stands close, first fC on one foot, then on the other, anxious ir that every villager see the knife and 04 envy him, yet impatienit to get to work S( on the scantling with it, and more 'than LI half afraid that somebody will cut with si It before he does,.b Men come from the other side of the nI square, even the stiff-backed whittler from the post office, and tbe fat justice gets up with much exertion and many gruntr-all to join in the excitement of ei the day. Thej1 own~r takes his kulse, si and, with the air of a man who has been ni elected chairmuan pro tempor of a grange 14 meeting, approaches the scantling, the d envied of all observers. With a brave, '1 almost boastful slash that betrays the 2 very magnificence of faith he assaults LI the seantling, and peals, as from a ri yellow cheese, a long, smooth, curly a shaving, laying base a virgin surface so 'I smooth and mellow that one feels like o complaining against the winds and rains t and the hand of time that will come to ruffle and to tarnish and to spoil that fresh and clean and beautiful gash. The villagers rub the place with their Icaly fingeis and pronounce it a splend id out, and each in his turn gives the keen blade a trial. Some-clumsy creaturest-cuttinq nly a notch, apparently as American tourists climb Mount Blane-just to ay they have done it. Offhers take the mife up foudly, and .with gleatims of iatisfaction on tueir prickly faces, make )ng, slow deep passes through the )asy pine, hanging on and on with their rery souls. No gushing actress ever )urned a kisi into the fluttering heart )> a jealous loer with more I-wouldn't et-go-if-1-could-a n 1-1- o i I d n't - i f-I Yould-itiveness than these villagers [rew the shining blade through the nodestly wliliug heart of the yellow oine. And the knife is declared the west piece of steel that has ever came ato Oxford since poor Bobby Dobson -peace to his asheal -brought over his )tmous Sheffleld blade, that wore out a ozen handles and Joir generations of rhittlers before it was lost, and became 10 olj wet ol asearch thatwill never end. When Women are Sea Saok, A ruddy-faced steward sat on the %il of an ocean steamer and clicked is heels together as he smoked a brier ood pipe. He was short, stocky, and lcery. "Were you ever sea-sick?" asked the iporter, planting himself before the eward. "Oh, yes. I suffered once. I got eer my first attack without much ouble, however, and have not been t since. When I first went to sea I it myself in excellent condition for Le malady. I hadn't taken a bit of Lre of myself for two weeks. I had .en eating good-by dinners for three tys, and kept it up all the night be ,re I syiled. Tle result was disas OUs. I began to think. my case over hen I got over the attack, and made my mind that anybody could do a )od deal tQward preventing sea sick ,ss by careful dieting and a little i edicine, I have never been bothered I ace, and 1've been at sea for twelve tars.'' "You must see some very amusing ses of sea sickness." "They are seldom amusing to me, " id the steward solemnly, "because ey always recall my own experience. ost cases are pathetic, though I Ple sometimes when the braggart els over. On every trip we have at ist one man who boasts of his ability withstand sea sickness. Ie always ys that the trouble is as largely men l as physical, and that a man of in lt ".ward it off sWTVO -ornw&J~~1 of this -not for the mai." *n "Are women more subject to sea kness than men?" "Yes, but, on the other hand they mnd it better. A woman struggles Ilt up to the point of despair against e-what I might call the impropriety the thing. She isn't so much tor red by tile pangs as she is worried i the prospect of becoming dishevel- r 1, haggard, and dragglea. She fights I ainst it to the last, and keeps up ap arances as long as she can hold up r head. Then ahe become- maud. t and pathetic. She takes to her room d invariably asks three questions. rat, whether people die frequently sea sickness, then how many miles y are from shore, and lastly, when will get there. She also often asks 'r 3 how deep the water is, and if I a ink ,it possible for any one to go von days without food!I The doctor always talked over. I am asked ne and again if I think lie is capable .d eflicient, and if I have confidence him. Whenu the patient gets so ill I at she loses interest in the doctor, e usually lies on her side and cries the hour. Luckily the more violent tacks only last a short time." "Hiow is it with men?" "Ohi, men give in at once. They hlow like bulls and make a great m~pus until they are comp~elled toa take to their berths. Then they umble and swecar until they are wvell tough to go on (lock again. A great mny passengers come aboard loaded" ith medicines and schemes for the evention of sea sickness. I never Ieow a preventive yet, except the one mentioned whien we first began to 1k.'" 001(1 in south Wale. Notwvithstanding that the search for id has beeni carried on for thirty ars i4 the colony of New South 'ales, h'a~w fields or new dleposits are I ntinually being discovered, some of em in localities which were supposed have beeni thoroughly examined. inme of the fields recently discovered omise to equal in extent and richness iy discovered in the early days, hile the oldest fi eldIs, though appar atly exhausted, so lar as the miner, mided by cap~ital and skill, is capable exhausting them, yet contain do sits of gold wich will yield a rich urvest to the skilled miner who shall ing to bear upon them appliances ichi as are being successfully employed sewhere. Gold has alwvays been und in association with certain for ations, and the extent of country cupied by these is about 70,000 umare miles, or nearly one-fourth of eO whole area of the colony-a con-I ilerablo portion of which has not yet ~en touched by the pick or the mi iiuanaza Ficood's New I'alace, lionanza Fledid's new palace, to be ected on the north sidle of Cabnfornia reet,, San Francisco, wvill be a twvo ory-and-a-basement structure of 100x )0 feet superficial area. The foun ution wvll contain 1,000,000 bricks. lie central hall will beo 45x32 feet and i feet hIgh, the dining-room 45x30, me library 20x39, the grand reception om 26x'29, the drawving-room 45x30, ad the hall and music room 50x37. 'hese last three rooms may be throwni pen and made one. No estimate of 18 cost has haenn made public. THE VERDICT -or.-_ THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! Mu. J. 0. BoAG-Dear Sir : I bought the brat Davis Machine sold by you over fve years ago for ny wife who has given It a long and fair trial. I am weil pleased with It. It never gives any rouble, and is as good as when first bought. J. W. ISOLIOK. Winnsboro, 8. C., April 183. . Mr. BOAG: 1 ou wish to know what I have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. I feel I can't say too much in its favor. made about 180,00 within five months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per fecti hot from friction. I feel confideni I could not have done the same work with as much ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine i have ever treadled. DrotherJames and Willains' famlies are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought or you. I want no better machine. As I Raid before, I don't think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Respectfully, RLLRN STEVTENSON, Falrfi'd County, April, 1883I. MAR. BoAa: My macnine gives me perfect satts faction. I find no fault with it. The attachments are so mimple. i wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. Respectfully. Fairleld county, April, 88Ms. R. MILLING. M P. BoAo: I uougat a ilavis Vertical Food w lug Machine from you four years ago. I sm lighted with It. It never has given me any o uble, and has never been the least out of order. t is as good as when I first bought it. I can .theerfully recommend it. Respectfully, AIRS~. M. J. KIRKLAND. Monticello. April 30, 1883. This Is to certify that I nave beenaising a Davis fertical Feed Sewing Machine for over twayears, iurchased of Mr. J. 0. Hoag. I haven't found i ,assessed of any fault-all the attachments are so Imple. It neverref ases to work, and is certainly he lightest running in the market. 1 considor it first class machine. Very respectfully, MINNIE Al. WILLINOuA X. Oaklan.1, Fairfield county, 8. C. MAit IOAG: I am wen paeaert in every partiout vitl the DavIs Machine nought of you. I think . first-class macitine in every respect. You knew on sold several machines of the same make to lirerent members of our families, all of whom, a far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respeotfully, MRS. M. iLt. MOaLIsY. Fairfield county, April, 1883. ,Ilnatanlt use etler machine. It In aw r laAy a id , W1rk we nave to do. No puckerlug or skping titches. We can only say we are well pleased ut wish no better machine, CATHERINEC WYLIE AND SzSTuit. April 25, 18938. I have no fault to an with my maca:ne, and on'4 want any better. I have made tihe price of severa. times by taking in sewing. It is always eady to do its work. I think it a drst-class ma lue. I feel I can't say too muoli for the Davis 'ertical Feed Machine. Mas. THoMAS SMT. - FaIrflied county, April, 1883. MA. J. 0. 13oA-i)ear Sir: it gives me m ich leasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Vor cal Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of on about 1i'/e years ago. has been almost in con Lant use ever since that lime. I cannot see that is worn any, and has not cost me one cent for upatra since we have had it. Amivuwel pleaseet ndi don't wish for any better. Yours truly, ItoBT. CaAWvoin, GranIte Qt'arry, near Winnsboro 8. 0. We have used the Davis Veriloal Feed Sewing lachine for the last five years. We would not ave any otiier make at any price. Ths machine Las gIven us unboundeu satIsfactIon. Very respectfully, Mus. W. KC. TUaNER AND DAfloirTsas! Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 2T, 1883. liavylg bought a Davis Vertical Feed Soing lachine from Mr. J. 0. Boag seine three years go, and it hiaviug given me perfect, satisfaction in very resplect as a lamily machine, both for heasy nid liglit s owlng, and never needed the least re--' air ini any way, 1 can cheerfully recommend It to imy one as a first-class machine in every partiu r, and tink it second to none. It is one ot the imuplest nmchmies made; my cildmrent use it wItu II ease. Th'le attachments are mocre easily ad. - usted aind it does a greater rnge of work by ieans of its Vertical s'eed than auy other ina hine I have ever seen or used. MRS. Tloaf ASB OwINlig. Wininabiro, Fairfield county, 8. C. We have had one or the Davis Maclines about our years and have aiways found it ready to tio aUl inda of wora we have bad occasion to uo. Can't ce that thie machIne is worn any, and works as veil as when new. Mas. WV. J. Cmtkwvonw Jackson's Creek, Fairfield county, 8.'U. My wvife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma. hine bought or you. She would not take double vimat silo gave fur it. Th'ie macohine has not meon omit of order since she had it, and she can do ay kindt of work on it. Very ltespectfully, d As.F. F Rs8. Monticello, F'airfleld county, S. U. Trho Dr~lc Sewing Machine is simply s froaa. MaMn. J. A. 0100oawYN. Itldgeoway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1888. .J. O BA, Efsq., Agent--Dear Sir: My wife las ueen using a Davis Mewing Machine constant. y for tile past four years, and it has never needed ny repairs andi works just as well as when Airst ought. Mile says it will do a greater range of 'ractical work Pnd do it easier and better than my macnine she nas ever used. We cheerfully -ecommiend it as a No. 1 family machine, Your tru.y,JA. D is Winnsboro, 8. C., Jan. 8, 1883. MR. BJOAo: I have always found my DavIs Ma ihint, ready do all kinds of to work I have had oc asion to do. I cannot see that the machine is wyorn a paricle aind it works as wedi as when new. ltespectfully, MIRS. It. C. (GooDINO. Winnsboro, 8. C., April. 1883, MR. BIOAo: My wife has been eonstantly using lihe Davis Machine bought of you about five years ag0. I have never regretted buying it, as it is inwaya ready for any kind of family sewiug, either iteavy or light. It is never out of fix or ueeding iepa~rs. Very respectfally, Fairfield, S. C., March, 1888.