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1 * - ■■ •. i * * i ■ •' ■« * v % i. ;%g ,->fv TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. 8. 0.. JUNE 9. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 TRIUMPH. The dawn came in through the bars of the blind, The the winter’s dawn is srray— And said: However you cheat your mind, The hours are flying away, A ghost of a dawn, and pale and weak— Has the sun a heart, I said, To throw a morning flush on the cheek Whence a fairer flush has fled? As a gray rose-leaf that is fading white Was the cheek where I set ray kiss; And on that side of the bed all night Death had watched, and I on this. I kissed her lips, they were half apart, Yet they made no answering sign; Death’s hand was on her failing heart, And his eyes said: She is mine. I set my lips on the blue-veined lid, Half veiled by her death-damp hair; And oh, for the violet depths it hid, And the light I longed for tnerei Faint day and the fainter life awoke, And the night was overpast; And I said: Though never in you spoke, Oh, speak, with a look at last! For the space of a heart beat fluttered her breath, As a bird’s wing spread to flee; She turned her weary arms to Death, And the light of her eyes to me. THE PURPLE STAR. “The next time Qua Rybolt is brought before me for some of his numerous misdemeanors I will sentence him heavily.” And Judge Johnson stirred his tea vigorously, while a deep wrinkle grew between his fine iron-gray eyes, under which glowed his keen earnest eyes. His little daughter Janie lingered to pour his second cup of tea. She was very fond of waiting on papa, for Janie, though only twelve years old, was the old judge’s housekeeper, her mother having died two years previously. “Who pays his fines—for you often speak of his arrests, papa?” “His brother Warren, who is as fine a young man as the town contains. I cannot understand Gus; he’s handsome; bright, and might be almost anything he chose. He’ll end on the galllows yet.” “Oh, papa!” But reckless, wild Gus Ivbolt was soon forgotten when the parlor was reached, and Janie sat down to the piano. * A servant entered an hour later and handed the Judge a telegram “Uncle Rube is dying, and has sent for “Yes; you afraid to remain with the servants and Mrs. Smith. I feel uneasy owing to that money. I ought to have put it in the bank but have been overcrowded with work and busi ness. Too bad!” muttered the judge a trifle anxiously, glancing at his daughter dubiously. “Oh. no, papa, I’m not afraid. Poor uncle Rube! You had better start at once. Don’t worry about -me; Mrs. Smith sleeps in the next room; you re member.” But the judge did worry and fret, not only over the danger of his daugh ter and his money, but blamed him self seveiely, for his carelessness. Even among the graver fear for his brother, the thought of thieves and burglars haunted him. “I ought to be ashamed of myself to leave that amou.A of money in the house even for a day, for the place is so isolated, the servants such arrant cow ards and cousin Sallie such a weak help. Only Janie’s brave little heart to be depended on. Heaven bless the child. Now what can be the matter with Rube I cannot imagine; he was well enough last week.” Mrs. Sallie Smith, a forty-second cousin of the judge’s, and a confirmed invaliu, occupied the room on the right of Janie’s, while that on the left was her father’s, and in it the iron safe that contained the money referred to. “I am afraid lam a bit nervous,’ mused Janie, looking around the cham ber with a shudder. “The servants are quite a way off, and cousin Sallie takes so much laudanum she would never waken. I wonder if I would feel safer with the money under my pOlow?” And foolish little Janie, having the combination of the safe, went to it, opened it and took out the roll of bills. “Oh, oh,” said a soft voice behind her. “That is exactly what I want; I bad no idea you would be so accom modating. Don’t scream on your life. ” And the bold fellow actually laughed as he seized her wrist. Janie did not cry out. She gave him one sudden, startled indignant look, and bending her head, buried her white strong teeth in the exposed wrist of the hand that held her captive. “You little tigar-cat,” he cried, in a rage and intense, suffering. “Let go or I will kill you.? But while the sharp pain had un over that cash, or I’ll ” and the slick of a revolver hammer sounded. Janie’s eyes flashed in scorn. “You harm a helpless little girl! “You, who always boasted of bravery! For shame, Gus Rybolt; you are a cow ard!” But in a gentle tone—“If you will make me a promise I will also make you one, and keep mine as long as you do yours. If you will leave me now and become a better boy—an hon est, honorable one—I will never tell.” The temptation to persist in his undertaking was great, but down in wicked, dare-davil Gus Rybolt’s heart there was a tender spot, which beauti ful Janie Johnson had held ever since she was a mite of a child, and he had taken care of her at school. Harm her? He wouldn’t have harmed a hair of her head to have saved his own life, and she knew it. “You cannot have the taoney; but won’t you accept the promise—won’t you make the compact?” “Yes,” he said at last, in a husky, strained voice. “Hea en bless you, Janie Johnson and may Heaven help me!” and he was gone. And Janie, with eyes full of tears, slipped into bed, and after a long time fell soundly asleep. But wasn’t that old judge furious when he came home. “An abominable practical joke,” he fumed. “There was Rube well as I am, and very much surprised to see me. I know who did it.” “Why, papa,” laughed Janie, “you ought to be so thankful that Uncle Rube is well, and not dying, as you thought. How can you feel provoked or angry? I am so glad it was not true. The next morning Gus Rybolt had disappeared. Ten years later Janie Johnson was a lovely, stately woman. The radiant promise of early girlhood was more than fulfilled, while the brave tender heart was unchanged. The wife of the governor was receiv ing, and her rooms were filled with dis tinguished guests. The last comer was a young man of thirty, of com manding presence, whose grave and noble face made him appear somewhat older. After paying his respects to the hostess, he made his way slowly for ward, and was met by many smiles and greetings. He was evidently a great favorite in society. “Oh, there is General Rybolt, who Indlganoiu Pueblo Indian Trait*. says, because he has another and better mission among the poor of New York. You know him by reputation, dear; but very few know the half of the great and good things he is doing with his wealth and talents.” The speaker was the Governor’s daughter. Janie Johnson turned her lovely hazel eyes carelessly toward the person pointed out—looked one instant coolly upon lim, and her face underwent a sudden strange change. “It is—yes, it must be Gus Rybolt! How marvelous are thy ways, O God!” she breathed. Slowly yet steadily he found his way toward her. Her face was no longer pale, but flushed, and her upraised eyes showed pleased recognition. His first words were: “I have kept my promise; have you kept yours?” “Yes, oh, yes,” she breathed, then added “Thank Heaven!” to which he gave a low “Amen.” To say the old judge was astonished is putting it mildly. To find in the eminent editor and reformer bis ©Id as he supposed—incorrigible Gus Rybolt, utterly nonplussed him. To an old friend he said confidentially; “Yes, the boy has turned out a trump, and the wonder of it is Janie thinks so too,” and he laughed. And Janie never told of her robber, yet she kisses sometimes a purple star on her husband’s wrist. “It is the beginning of the new life,” she says, “the beautiful new life of an honest man.” Native potatoes have been discovered in Arizona by Prof. Lemmon. They were found in a cleft of the highest peaks north of the Apache pass, under a tangle of prickly bushes and cacti. Eager to know if the Solanum found was bulb bearing, he carefully uprooted the little tuber, which proved to be an undoubted Representative of the true potato family. According to the re searches and reasonings of Humboldt, this was the location to look for the home of the species from which our first potatoes sprang. In May last, Prof. Lemmon again set out in search of more specimens, choosing the Huachuca mountains as his point of exploration. These mountains have two peaks over 10,000 feet .high, with sides furrowed into deep canons, those of the northeast being filled with trees, among which are maple and ash. In July last he dis covered the potato plant he was search ing for on the southwest side of the range, hidden among the rich bottom soil of a dell in a high valley. A few plants of the white species were found in full bloom, and farther on blue blossoms were found. The white flowered specimens formed tubers on shoiter subterranean stems than the blue ones. The blue flowered potato plants sent off their runners from eigh teen inches to two feet. July 12, they were in full bloom. The blossoms were large, and the white flowered were of a creamy white color, witq greenish mid-ribs to its co rolla lobes. The subterranean stems were not longer than those of our com mon potato. The blossoms of the blue flowered are smaller, bright purple, with pale white midribs to the corolla, with flfeteen to twenty flowers to a head. They are found at an altitude of about 8,000 feet in Tanner’s canon, and some of the plants were 2 feet high. Later in the season they pro duced potato balls of unusual size, com paratively speaking. These native species of potatoes, which may have been and very likely are the original native stock from which all our potatoes now used have sprung, deserve a fair trial and careful propa gation to develop them to the size now attained by our best potatoes. ' By the 1st of September the blue flowered plants formed bluish colored potatoes, oblong, about 1$ inches long by half to wide, and a third as thick, with from l'our to ten unmistakable potatoes on each plant. The white flowered plants produced white potatoes, nearly round, rom half an inch to one inch in diame ter. These potatoes are unquestionably indigenous. Still another variety wae found near the summit of a peak 10,000 feet high, under the shade of fir, pine and poplar trees, growing in soil kept moist during the greater part of the year by melting snows. Its nodding balls of ripened seeds were surrounded by- golden-rods and brilliant asters. Their tubers were tinted with purple, and seed balls were either solitaity or in pairs. Prof. Lem mon brought back with him over three quarts of these small potatoes, com prising the different varieties, besides some seed balls. A hermit in these mountains, whom J rof. Lemmon interested in his dis* covery, has recently written him that in digging up the bed of an old pond he has secured a lot of these potatoes, perfectly white as large as hen’s eggs, which on being cooked tasted well, and have all the appearence of very fine po tatoes. Various cultivators have man ifested the utmost interest in Prof. Lemmon’s discovery, and are making careful preparations to cultivate the specimens he has forwarded them. Alme«sin Pjrt* A company of Algerine dancing girls, four in number, are now exciting a con siderable degree of interest in Paris, Mariam and Aloha are very young and pretty, and the other two, both of whom bear the name Zora, make up for the lack of a beautiful face by a certain richness o( costume and grace of gesture. The oldest Zora wears a magnificent coronet of diamonds, and is said to resemble a Japanese idal. The orchestra consists of a violin, a guitar, and a drum: and the dancingto be properly appreciated should be seen in a small room. Mariam wears a bodice of blue silk embroidered in sil ver, white silk trousers, a band of purple around her jet-black hair, and earrings, bracelets and spangles of gold. Each manned him, with the other hand ahe' ^1 rises and dances in turn, then two more repeat the dance with variations. - thrust the roll of money into the irfe and sprang the lock. “Now,” she said triumphantly, “gel it if you can, but—oh, Gus Rybolt, I know you.” “You—no you don’t—ah, well, you will tell your precious * father before another day clones. Come, hand over the cash; I want to have some chance of getting away.” ‘ No, you cannot have the money, Oh, GuS Rybolt, remember your sainted mother. The dark skin of the ankles is relieved by gold bracelets. Their feet are bare and at first glide softly over the floor without seeming to leave the surface. The body is swayed from the hips, and pieces of red silk are swayed by the danc era. The contortions become more com' plex and the movements more rapid as the time of the music increases. From the account one would judge that the dance is of a rather a voluptuous nature. It is termed the Oriental cancan. The , your good brother; what will , , , _ . ,. , . , they think now? How can you be so girls now in Paris are said to be remark Lwicked?” “I nave no time for nonsense. Seeing a Man Home. I picked Simmons up pretty near dead drunk, and took him home. When I got to his house, as I thought I shook him a bit and said: ‘Here you are. ’ ‘Right,’ said he, and he gave a big bang at the knocker. Up went the window. ‘Who’s there?’ screamed a woman. I have brought the old man home,’said I ‘All right,’ she cried, and came to the door. She immediately seized hold of Simmons and gave him such a shaking that his teeth seemed to rattle in his head. ‘Who are you shaking of?’ says he. ‘Goodness gracious,’ cried the woman, ‘that is not my husband’s voice. ’ I struck a match and she found she had been shaking the wrong man. ‘There, cried the woman furiously. ‘I’ve been setting up here expecting my husband home drunk, and now I’ve wasted my strength on a stranger. ’ ‘Don’t he live here?’ lasked. ‘No,’saidthewomam; ‘he don’t.’ ‘What made you knock?’ said I to Simmons. ‘Knock,’ said he’ ‘you told me to. ’ ‘I thought you lived here,’ said I. ‘Glad I don’t, said he. I supposed he was thinking of the shaking he had. At last I found where he did live,' and got him home. Mrs. Simmons was sitting up for him. As soon as ever we knocked out she came. ‘Oh,’ says she ‘you’re the wretch as makes my poor husband drunk, are you?’ and she gave me a slap across the face. I’ve never seen a drunken man home since. ’ To sum up the Pueblo’s character in a few words, and to omit many illustra tions which might amplify the hasty enumeration of his more general traits, we found him social in disposition, clev er as an artificer, shrewd at a bargain, gentle in his family, controlled by the precepts of the elders ; maintaining a sys tem of government curiously complete in all fundamental principles of civil law; a shepherd, caring for immense flocks of goats and sheep; an agriculturist; and, withal, an Indian, priding himself in the mark; still using the bow, the eagle plumes, the barbaric fineries at dress; and though falling on festal daysto the level of the brute in the observances of his heathenish rites, ynt seldoto'committing upon his fellow any act of injustice or cruelty. Recalling the goat-skin which be sold us as a cinnamon bear bide, we smile and forgive him; as well as for the theft of the missing sketch-book—we re gard the latter as indicative of a prom ising tendency toward art. But when we bring to mind his hospitality, his jovi ality, and picture him as our modem Arcadian free-liver, it is impossible to think of him as other than a good fellow. His quick wit was exhibited on many occasions, but notably in connection with a bargain for a coat and trousers of buckskin attractively displayed over the wearer’s fine physique. We were quite willing to wait and receive the pur chase from the hands of the man through his window or door, but he too well un derstood the importance of working the hot iron. A moment’s thought, a series of rapid contortions, and the tight-fitting garments were drawn off and thrown at our feet, Before payment could be made the ludicrous had impressed itself upon the crowd, and hardly bad the money been clapped into his mouth than, adroit ly snatching a blanket from a bystander and wrapping himself therein, the youth scampered off, hands over ears, towards the village. A 1'ng, lean man, garrul ous in witticisms, followed him with bantergobbled out of a turkey throat. But the annoyance was soon left behind in company with a puff of dust which followed the red bandana and flying locks, over the edge of the gulch. On another occasion one of those small skin-lined saddles, dangling a multipli city of straps, awakened an interest. “Quanto:” (how muctjA Six fingers are instinctively prermtedstiSward, with an und.6 ciclscL ssvsiitli Hie per- pendicular. Obedient to instructions, we lose all interest immediately and as sume the expression of total mdifference. (Exit.) Tableau II perhaps comes off next day. We notice our friend Lucero has frequent occasion to drag his saddle back and forth before our door. At length we mutually discover each other. We smile, and raise three fingers, which ob serving the change of countenance this awakens, is finished off as something be. tween military gesture and a sidewalk salutation, and the saddle moves on. Before both have gone far there is a sudden decision. One man stops short, and returns a five-finger salutation,very much as an auctioneer elevates his ham mer for a last call. The proposition %r» «1.1%-rv,A.-* *»*-•>*' 4-,---- AVT*. JULIpAVTAJlAAOV/ AO OAAK/AJUAVWM VKJ £LKXhjK3l. experience within, but meets with no favor. “He’ll stick you yet on your own bar gain and don’t you forget it,” says our nterpreter, Juan Lucero is softened into approach by the indicision; butthe Western man’s promptings are obeyed to the full extent of indifference, (Yeryffastyexit—pres sing engagement.) Still the saddle was seen often, We had already taken seats on the morning of departure, with the impedimenta ad- usted to a fit: but the man and the sad dle were on hand. At the right mo ment he emerged from the shadow of an adobe wail. Three fingers this time, and an evident swallowing of emotions as an accompaniment to the nods affirm ative. The whole bespoke the obstinate wrestling of flesh and spirit over the de cision. For want of room we tied it to the axle, where, for seventy-five miles it required constant watching, as it had a way of. inching on to the wheels, and marvelously defying all sorts of knots. Some time after, when sauntering through the plaza of Santa Fe, the words of the Western man were brought to mind by seeing a quantity of pack-sad dies at one dollar apiece. have asked me if I had not at some period ot my life been the victim of some sudden and awful calamity. You have read, of course, of hair turning gray in a single Right through fright. Mine was not caused that way. Was I bora that way? Oh, no; at twenty my hair was as black as a coal. Those streaks of gray were caused by my three or four years’ experience as a train dispatcher on a great trunk line running out of Chicago. “People who climb on a passenger train when she is two or three hours late little imagine what endless planning and management it takes to get her through safely. Let a freight get behind time and we can handle her by running her on another train’s time, bat a pas senger breaks up everything on .V i/oqjL A train dispatcher must be familiar with every circumstance and every possible combination of circumstances. He must know on just vhai portion of the road fast time can be made and give orders accordingly. He must never give an order for certain time to be made un less he is positively certain that the grade and condition of the weather will permit of such time being made. To-day I may order a train to run from station A to station B, and another for a train to run from B to A, when the same order to morrow would precipitate a collision, You have got to know all the men on the line. Why, on that road that I worked on there would be engineers and conductors that could never get a train through on time. Then there would be others that would never be late except in case of accident. Why, sometimes during my eight hours of duty I would give 250 train orders. Just think of that a moment. Here is a passenger train four hours late and a freight side-track ed at almost every station. Of course that puts every train behind time. First I have to order the operator to put out his flag and hold the train for orders, and then I have to send the order and wait for it to be repeated back. At the same time a train may be passing a station five miles away, where I want to hold and side track her. All this time I must not only keep a clear track for the passenger train, but must not un necessarily detain the freights. Some times right in the midtile of a rush ot business like this the wire will break or some operator will leave his key open. Then everything is to pay. Fortunately the train dispatcher’s orders is the law. *4. o JL4WAJ «0AAA^/AVfJ*7 AO IkMJILUVt LU Ufe QU we do not have tor worry about that. “Did I ever have an accident? No; but I’ve come mighty near it. Once I left the office by permission in care of my assistant, and when I returned I found that he had two trains running toward each other on a single track and only a station between them. Fortunate ly I got a message to the station in time to flag the first train that got there, but if one of them had happened to have pass ed there would have been a fearful ac cident, It was a very natural mistake. My assistant had been with me two years. He had everything side-tracked all right, but had forgotten the ‘unwrit ten law’ of the road prohiting two trains passing on a single track. On another occasion I lost a train.” :: Lost a cram?” “Yes, sir, lost it completely, It was a local freight, and was a little late. It left F—»twenty minutes behind time. and was due at M in forty minutes, where it was ordered to side track for No. 3, a fast express. F and M were eleven miles apart, and No. 3 could not leave F until the local was re ported side tracked at M—-. Well, I waited an hour, and then called M -, who had the message for the local, and asked him where the freight was. He didn’t know, In the meantime the ex press was at F , and the passengers were getting mad. Thirty minutes more and still no trrJn. Then I order ed No. 2 to run cautiously to M . She did so, but found no local. To say that we were paralyzed is patting Hone-Car Manner*. When a gentleman boards a horse- car he should jump on to the feet of as many platform passengers as possible. By so doing he not only discovers the easy self-position of the man of society, but he also assists in the discourage ment of the dangerous practice of riding on the outside of a car. It is preferable to get on the front platform, which will give you an oppor tunity to open the forward door, thus ventilating the car and distributing ca tarrh, sore throat and pneumonia among the passengers. Be not in an immoderate hurry when the conductor passes through the car collecting fares. Patience is a virtue, and you should do what you can to as sist the conductor in cultivating it. Never offer your seat to an elderly woman. She has not long to live, and a little redt can not materially lengthen her days. It is in youth that the seeds of disease are implanted. Therefore, you should never give up your seat to any but a young lady. You help her to build up a strong constitution by avert ing weariness and undue tension of the muscles. If yon can do it without making your self sick, chew tobacco, using the straw for a cuspidor. Tobacco, you know, is a powerful disinfectant, and, besides, if passengers were too careful to preserve the cleanliness of the straw, the penuri ous officers might neglect to replenish it as often as sanitary considerations de manded. Smoking, unfortunately, is forbidden, except in the open cars; but by carrying a lighted cigar into the car and letting it go out gradually, you will be enabled to permeate the interior w'th effluvia which will drive out any disease germs that may be floating about. Never give your seat to a homely woman. It is the duty of a woman to be beautiful, and if she neglects that duty, take good care that you do yours by punishing her for her negligence. Never take the child in your lap, that a gentleman may have a seat, and if the conductor suggests that children occu pying seats must pay fare, refuse al«o- lutely to notice his suggestion. Take advantage of your sex when opportunity offers. Conductors rarely put women off the cars. When a lady leaves a car while it is in motion let her face to the rear. She will probably get a fall, but what of that? xi aiie is a luiijr uf opuit olio jo nut gumg to be dictated to by an arrogant mono poly. When the car stops within a few feet of where she wishes to land, no lady who respects her rights will get out. She will wait until* the car starts, and then have it stopped for her individu ally. She has paid her fare and is en titled to her rights, and ought to have them, even if it kills the horses. Of course it is unnecessary to remind the gentlemen that it is their bounden duty to look the ladies on the opposite seat out of countenance. It is also unnecessrry to say to the ladies tlmt when taking an open car they should never neglect to sit upon one of the smokers’ seats. The man who smokes in public is never so happy as when a face is near to receive his tumid exhalations, and you tints con tribute to his happiness, besides making yourself happy by having something to jrowl at. YERDIGT -or- THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! Mb. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir: I bought the am D*vi* Machine aold by yon over flee year* ago tor my wife, who haa given It • long and fair trial. I im well pleased with It. It never give* any rouble, and la as good aa when am bought. „ J. W. uoucx. Wlnnsboro, 8. C., April 1888. Mr. Boxo : Too wish to know what I hare to wy in regard to the Daria Machine bought of you three year* ago. I feel I can’t aay too much In its favor. I made about $80.00 within nve months, at times running It so tost that the needle would r :t perfectly hot from frlctlou. I feel oonddent could not have done the same work with aa much esae aud so well witu any other machine. No time lost in adlust'ng attackoenr*. Tne lightest running machine I have ever treadled. Brother James and William’s families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought of you. I want no better u.achine. As I said before, I don’t think too moch can be said for tbeDav.s Machine. Respectfully, _ Ellin Stivinson. Fairfield county, April, 1883. My machine gives me perfect sat is - Alt Mu. Boxo faction. I find no fault witE It The'attacuments are so simple. I wish for no better than the Davit Vertical Feed. • Respectfully. Mia. R. Milling. Fairfield county, April, 1888. Mm. Boxo: I bougat a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from you fonr years ago. I am delighted with it It never has giveu me any trouble, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good as when I am bought it. I esn cheerfully recommend It. Respectfully, Mb*, m. J. Kirkland. Monticello, April 80,1888. This Is to certify that I have been nalng a Davis Vertical Feed sewing Machine for over two yean, purchased of Mr. J. O. Hoag. I haven't found li possessed of any fanlt—all the attachments are so simple. It neverrefuaes to work, and Is certainly the lightest running In the markeL I consider it a flm class machine. Very respectfully. Minnii m. Willingham. Oakland, Fairfield county, 8. C. Mb Boao : 1 am well pleased m every particular with the Davis Machine nought of yon. I think It a flm-ciaas machine In every respect. Ton know you sold several machines of the same make to different members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respectfully, Mrs. M. H. Moblkt. Fairfield county, April, 1888. it lit* The Train PUpaSeliaw. | ably fond of champagne, a singular taato TTanri fo i followers of the Prophet. « Soapstone ground fine can he meal* tied L to different shape* fay mixing with water-glass, and when dried cloee- | y resembles the natural atone. Great cares almost oaiversally hasten nature in heaping up the appearance of age. Young men suddenly falling heirs to great responsibilities soon become premat,arely old, and not a few have lost their identity, even to their nearest friends, beneath the weight of care sud denly imposed upon them. Men rush* lug through life with the burdens and responsibilities of ordinary mortalf on their shoulders, little appreciate the ter- ibly heavy burdens borne by men upon whose shoulders have been laid the lives of hundreds of people and millions of dollars of property. “Yes, sir, I dou’t mind telling you why it is,” answered the conductor of one of the accomodation trains running out of the city, in response to areporter’s inquiry, as to why his hair was so streak ed with gray, while his face indicated a young man scarcely over thirty. “Many j mildly. Ten minutes later W , a tie station near the city, reported the local there. She had got by M in some way without disturbing the opera tor. Diogenes never hunted so diligent ly for an honest man in the degenerate days in which he lived as did we for that train.” “Why did you leave the business?” “Because 1 was growing a year older every week. I had the work of ten men upon my shoulders. You often hear about the brave engineer, clinging with firm resolve and calm resignation to the throttle while the engine is plunging on toward inevitable destruction. His re- Take Care of the Eye*. ThU ft to certify we have had In oonatant use the Davu Machine bought ot you About three year* ago. Aa —e take In work, ffh* have made the w*rirA a# H_ AAv-orw? H-nAo 2G!a*t mmj better machine, it la always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No puckering or akipping stitched. We can only aay we are well pleased ana wiah no better machine, Cathbxinb Wvlii and Siam. April 25,18.-8, I have no fanlt to find with my machine, and don’t want any letter. I have made the price of It several times by taking In sewing. It la alwaya ready to do Us work. I think It a flrat-claaa ma chine. I feel I can't aay too much for the Davis Veatlual Feed Machine. Mrs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1888. Mr. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir: It gives me much R leasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver- cal Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of von about live years ago. has been almost In con- slant use ever since that time. I cannot see that it Is worn any, and has not coat me one cent for repairs since we have had It Am well pleaaed and don’t wish for any better. Youra tru'y, hoar. Crawford, Granite Quarry, near Wlnnsboro, 8. C. We have used the Davie Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the laat five yean. We would not have any other make at any pnee. The machine has given us unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turnbr and Daughters; Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 27,1888. “Nellie, J? sponsibility is nothing. He has only single train and has no duty but to obey rules. The train dispatcher has a hun dred trains under his finger that presses upon the key. A moment’s delay to a passenger train, a trifling accident to freight, and the dispatcher is cussed. The eight hours you put in bending over your key seemed like a week. Your head swims and grows dizzy beneath its awful responsibility. No more train dispatching for me if you please. I was offered that position on this road with a comfortable salary, but told them all I wanted was a train. All those gray hairs that you notice were caused by my short experience as train dispatcher. ” It was Love who invented music. Perform present dutiee that time may be apportioned for future labors. I fear you will injure your eyes,” I said to a young girl, who sat reading in the twilight. “My eyes are very strong,” she replied, “why, I can ook right straight at the sun.” Now every one will acknowledge that such eyes are a great blessing, seldom pos sessed by the present weak-eyed gener ation; but I fear even Nellie’s strong eyes will soon be injured if she persists in using them under such trying cir cumstances—reading fine print in the moonlight, or at a long distance from the lamp, or allowing the full glare of the noonday sun to reflect into her eyes from the printed page. Sewing on black goods by the lamp light she thinks nothing of, nor of sitting up until midnight half the night in the week to read an interesting book. Now all these tilings are hurtful to the eyes, and no more than one person in a thousand can practice them and remain uninjured. As no one can be sure o:' being the lucky person, it behooves all to take proper care of these priceless members. When the eyes are tired and inflamed at night I find it rests them for the next day to bind over them a wet towel on retiring, Lately, I have laid next my eyes a little sack containrag damp- ened.salt, and find it better still. No matter if the brine finds its way beneath the closed lids; the smarting will last but a minute. Indeed I often rub it into the eyes and find it strengthens them. Years of practicing this have proved that although it will not make weak eyes strong, it will do more to ward warding off the day of spectacles than an improper use of them, and a dozen bottles of eye water and boxes of salve. I became quite interested in knit ting lace; but last winter I found that the necessary fine work with my reading and writing was all my eyes could en dure. I have not knit six inches «! lace in as many months, and although I often think of the real thread I wanted for my curtains, I know it will not pay to knit it. Having bought a Daria Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three years ago, and It having given me perfect satisfaction In reapectaaafan " every reti and light amtly machine both for heavy < u .v.,. B u.aewlng 1 and never needed the leaat re pair In any way, I can cheerfully recommend It to any one as a firat-cloaa machine In every partlcn- lar, and think It aecond to none. It la one ot the almpieat machines made; my children uae It with all ease. The attachments are more easily ad- oafed and It doe* a greater range of work by means cf its Vertical Feed than any other ma chine I have ever seen or used. - m ■ --j i Mrs. Thomas O wings. Wlnnsboro, Fairfield county, 8. C. 'wi . We bare had one of the Davis Machine* about fonr year* and have always found it ready to do all kinds of work wa have had occasion to da Can't see that the machine la worn any, and works as well as when new. \v-. Mrs. W. J. Cbawiord, Jackson’s Creek. Fairfield county, S. C. My wife la highly pleaaed with the Darts Ma chine booght of yon. She would not take double what she gave for It. The machine has not been out of order since she had it, and she can do any hind of work on U. Very Respectfully, Jar. F. Fkih. Monticello, Fairfield ooonty, 8. C. The Darla Sewing Machine la simply a treas ure Mrs. J. a. uoodwtn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1888. J.O Boag, Esq., Agent—Dear Sir: My wife has bven uslug a Daria Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four yean, and It has never needed any repairs an i worts just as well as when first bought She says It will do a greater range of practical work and do it easier and better than aay machine aha has ever used. Wa cheerfully recommend tt ae a No. 1 family machine, Your* truly. Jar Q. Davis. Wlnbiboro, a C., Jan. 8,1881 Mr. Boag : I have always found my Daria Ma chine ready to do all kind* of work I have had oc casion todo. 1 cannot see that the machine la worn a particle; and it wortca aa wed a* when new. Wlnnsboro, 8. C„ April, 1888, Mr. Boag: My wife has been constantly utng the Daria Machine bought of yon about! nr* years Fairfield, &C., March, IMS. I •4- (fe*- ■■ 1 «> 'M r. -