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■ K ' A £7 \ & TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. JULY 7, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 A NOItTUKKN MAY. The robe of lace that, decks her rounded form Is donn’d too early for the spring vide feast; Her cheek is pale, and on her bosom warm A wind is blowing from the chill north east. In futile search for downy shelter there Her shiv’ring arms upon her breast are cross’d; The airy veil above her golden hair Is all aglow with diamonds of frost. And from her hands a wreath of daisies slips, And at her feet, in blighted beauty, lies; The smile is frozen on her lovely lips; An icy terror dims her dewy eyes. Turn back, O May! turn back and warm thy wings In Time’s old cate, at Vinter’s funeral pyre, And come not forth til! Karth, thy bride groom, spring? To clasp thee, glowing, to his heart of fire! LOST AND FOUND. My Aunt Hester declared it to be an insufferable nuisance living in the midst of mills and factories, having for your neighbors workmen and mill-hands. Indeed, her august indignation knew no bounds when the manufactory of Mr. Shields was erected just outside her gar den, on the ground adjoining. The village was a village no longer but a town, spreading its borders over the hills to the east and west, to the north and south. And down in the valley was the throb bing heart, teeming with its busy peo ple. Its factories and mills were being erected in what had once been the suburbs of a village. My aunt, Hester Stuart, and her daughters, Geraldine and Clotilde, were ladies of fashion, and all that the word implies they were. The greatest “catch” of the season, the newest opera, and the styles were the sum total of their conversation. It was conceded by all the household that Miss Geraldine was the lady of the house. Even the mamma called her Miss Geraldine. It was a high misdemeanor to omit the important prefix. Miss Geraldine always had the first and best of everything; and Clotilde was obliged to submit to her, sometimes in a very humiliating maimer. I, the poor dependent orphan niece, was chided by one and upbraided by another, until, between them all my “lines” were Hard ones. I thought if my aunt possessed such a thing as a conscience, surely it would say to her, “Sleep"no more.” When Mr. Shields was building, and my aunt was unacquainted with his per sonal history, this sooty manufactory, with its smoky chimneys, was an eye sore to her fastidious taste. ' “It ought to be declared a nuisance, this grimy old factory and those greasy workmenl “What a desirable view from our sit ting-room window! “It is outrageous!” Thus would my aunt comment upon Mr. Shields’ workshop. But very soon it began to be generally known that Mr. Shields was a bachelor. Then she began to cultivate his ac quaintance and to court his favor. He was rich. He would be such a capital husband for Miss Geraldine. Siege was laid immediately, and if cunning diplomacy was to be depended upon, surely the citadel must surrender. Mr. Shields was reported to be per fectly impervious to the arts and wiles spread out for him by mammas and daughters who were on the “look-out” so to speak. It was generally supposed that he had been through “deep waters.” The gossips said that he had, when a journeyman and poor, loved a lady whose father would not consent to the match until he could produce a stipulated sum. He worked hard, and began to amass a fortune. But the girl was fickle, and before he was ready had married another. This embittered him. Now be was wedded to his work. Business was his idol; money his wife and children. He scarcely gave a second glance to any woman. - My aunt and Miss Geraldine began to lay their plans, and the distant, reserved Mr. Shields was often invited to balls and dinners. Almost any afternoon you could hear them laughing and exchanging mem sallies from the window. As the days went by I often noticed him looking intently at me as I perform ed my daily work. Sometimes, when I was dusting the sitting-room, I would chance tu look towards the mill and catch his glance. I often wondered what he thought of me, if he thought of me at all. Perhaps he was only meditating, lost in his speculations, and hix eyes happen ed to rest on me. I tortured my brain to find a solution to this enigma, asking myself if 1 was vain enough to suppose tliat Kenneth Shields was thinking of me. This indifferent man was only think ing of his gains and losses. He had no possible interest in a girl who washed dishes and dusted rooms in her aunt’s fine establishment. Shall I tell you how his appearance struck me, and how deeply I became in terested in him, in those days? I cannot describe him quite as he aupeared to me. I can tell you only of his sunny blonde hair and his deep gray eyes,' of the well- built figure, standing perhaps five feet seven. I cannot tell of a beautiful Apollo, tall and beyond all men fair; but I can say in pure truthfulness that this calm, almost grave^Cace fascinated and drew me oif with a powerful hold which other fairer faces had no power to do. I felt my poor heart fluttering when his eyes rested upon me. I crept away to chide myself with re newed vigor in the privacy of my own apartment. 13ms I had grown familiar with him, and his dauy~ appearance I began to watch for, and when ;he failed to come, I often went to my room, and cried, just out of sheer loneliness. His presence was a solace; although he had never spoken tome, yet I was sad and disconsolate when he was absent. One evening my aunt and cousins were going out. I was assisting them, when I chanced to drop Miss Geraldine’s ivory fan and break the tiny mnror. She tapped me smartly on the ear, and, in bitter anger, said, “You awkward little fool! Now my fan is in a nice condition! If you cannot be more care ful hereafter, you had better let things alone!” Turning to her mamma, she said, “Mr. Shields always takes my fan, if I chance to lay it down, and now it’s utterly ruined by the carelessness of that thing!” She looked daggers at me. Aunt Hester, I thought, might have given me some sympathy; she only turn ed stud said, “Mona, hereafter try to be careful; you have irritated Miss Ger aldine considerably. Do not vex your self; I will get another for you, dear child ” she said to her daughter. When they were gone, I threw mysely upon the sofa and gave vent to my pent- up sorrow. No reproaches, however unjust and harsh, no cutting reprimands, no scorn ful looks, could cause me to cry in their presence; I kept control over my emo tions, add wept only when alone. I cried and sobbed, and longed for most any fate that would free me from this thraldom. Finally I must have fallen into an un easy slumber. The sense that tells us someone is near awoke me. Standing motionless looking down upon me in silent pity, was Mr. Shields. I hurriedly started up, muttering some kind of apology, and very much ashamed of my tear-stained face and rumpled hair. I requested him to be seated, and he sat down, not on the chair near him, but beside me on the sofa. I was confused, and knew not what to do or say. I suppose he had perception enough to notice my agitation. He was all calmness and ease. I wondered if it were possible he could hear my foolish heart beat, and see the tremor of my lips, when I tried to answer hi? questions. “You are in trouble to-night, Mona?” I shall remember to my dying day the inexpressible sweetness of those sym pathizing tones. I thought, as I always have since, that it was the most musical voice 1 had heard in all my troubled, dreary life. “You were sobbing in your sleep when I came in; what was it? Are you lone ly? Aunt and cousins are gone, aren’t they? Well, cheer up; I will stay here until they return. Are they unkind to you?” I could not tell an untruth now, with the tear-stains still oa my cheeks; so I replied “Miss Geraldine scolded me lie- cause I dropped her fan and broke the mirror, and Aunt Hester, too.” Here I completely broke down, and cried as if I was never going to stop. He sat awhile in silence, and let me sob un disturbed; then he said, laying his hand upon my head, “Don’t give way to your grief; come, cheer up; you are hurt by cross wards and reproaches, but there is sunshine after rain. Mona, to-night you and I are drawing very near to each other; I too, have been stung by ingrati tude. I have sounded the depths of bitter waters and by the perfidy of one person I was sunk to the depths of des pair. But I am out of this slough of despond, and am now far happier than I would have been had affairs gone dif ferently. I am in a position which per haps I should not have attained if I had gained what I coveted above all these at one time. I outgrew my bitter dis appointment, and in my work I found a panacea. “Now I am in a very tranquil state of mind; and Mona, little friend, I have observed you, and am aware you are not happy. “We will sympathize with each other, and in our mutual friendship dispel part of the gloom.” His kind words, so mildly spoken, the most gentle that it had been my good fortune to hear since I was an inmate of my aunt’s house, went to my lonely heart like a soothing balm. I rallied and soon we began to talk. The horn’s flew by rapidly. “You and I are’ only beginning to know each other, Mona,” said my new- found friend at last. “We are going to be capital friends, and ” No more was said, for aunt and cousins came in, and our evening to gether was cut short. They were profuse in playful re proaches, and Mr. Shields was scolded in a pretty way for not attending the party. He said, “Well, you see, I was de tained by important business until 1 feared it was too late; then I dropped in here, thinking perhaps some of you were at home. I found Miss Mona, and as she was all alone, I thought I should be doing my duty by remaining with her. “So I stayed, and we have had quite a delightful talk.” Aunt Hester made some reply, cal culated to annihilate m6. They all seemed to want to box my ears. So I just “folded my tent like an Arab, and as silently stole away.” The next morning I had my orders. I was givep my dismissal. I was soundly reprimanded for my forwardness, and my aunt and cousins took turns in taunting me. Then I was spirited away in the night-time to my aunt’s farm far out in the country, exiled, abandoned, driven away. One evening I went to a neighbor’s to get a book. The short winter day was closing in on my return. A wagon passed me. It’s occupant, a man, was muffled up; he looked at me as he passed; the ejacu lation, “Mona!” came out in a very em phatic manner. I looked up; it was Kenneth Shields. Hurriedly he jumped out. “Mona, where are you going? Is this where you have been all this time? I made bold to inquire your whereabouts, but your aunt gave me very unsatisfac tory answers. “You did steal away in a dreadfully mysterious manner. ‘‘From standing at my elbow you fled into the vast unknown.” I could hardly speak for joy; for the light in Kenneth’s eyes was clearly that of love. I no longer accused myself of vanity when I confessed with delight that he really did think of me. Well, it is the old, old story. . The next day f bade adieu to the dreary farm, and with my promised husband started for the city, on reaching which we went to his sister’s where I stayed till we were quietly married. Then we took rail to my aunt’s, and Kenneth introduced me as “Mrs. Shields” to aunt and cousins. They were astonished and ashamed, and I confess that the sudden transfor mation from plain Mona Norton to Mrs. Kenneth Shields quite startled me.* They welcomed us in a tolerably hos pitable manner; and for fonn’s sake we stayed to dinner; still a latent spark of resentment lingered underneath the show of good-will. “Mona, dear,” said my husband when we were alone, “were you resigned to your fate, and would you have made no effort to let me know your place of resi dence? You did not intend to forget me?” “Indeed I did not; and if you had not come to rescue me, I don’t think I could have gone on living. But I am happy now so let_us forget the past.” The Derby course. Canes. A young American who has traveled, says in correspondence about the Derby track at Epsom, that the course is en tirely different from anything we have in America. There are not fifty yards of level ground anywhere. I should say that a run of the whole circuit must be about two miles long. On this side the ground slopes rapidly down into a deep valley, so that tne horses run on ground that slants up toward the out side rail. From the bottom of the valley the way up on the other side is very steep, where the track runs along the crest of a ridg^ beyond, it must be four or five hundred feet higher than where we sit. Up towards the be ginning of the home stretch is the place which they call Tottenham corner, and all England tells you what terrible place it is for a horse to come around. But that is taffy. There are worse turns at Jerome Park and Sheepshead Bay. The only difficulty about thi; one is that it occurs where the horses are coming down a slight slope. The Derby races begin part way aound the course, as the distance they run is about a mile and a quarter, I believe. They start in an upward slope to the crest of the distant ridge, come down around Tottenham corner, into the straight stretch home, and end on a down hill part of the track. The course is turfed, not turned up like those in America.. Much of the space down in the valley, inside the track and up on the hill beyond, is taken up with refreshment tents. Punch and Judy shows, those machines which send wooden horses around in a circle, parties of men with blackened faces, singing and d uncing without time o r tnne, jugglers, acrobats and a surging mass of people. From the grand stand for half a mile in each direction, out side the track, there is the same sort of thing, added to a tremendous crash of carriages, from which the horses have been taken and housed for the day. A third of the people present want to sell you something that is of no earthly use, and that you wouldn’t be found dead with, and the other two-thirds want to steal whatever you may have around in your clothes. They are the most accomplished thieves I ever struck, and they will steal anything they can lay hands on, no matter whether it is worth anything or not. I have seen some pretty big and some rather promiscuous crowds in America, but this one certainly captured the pnze in all respects. There must have been six hundred thousand to one mil lion people there. Nobody can convey a notion of such a crowd with mere fi&rures. It was at least ten times as largo a gathering as I ever saw at a race before. A Grand in Scene. Jesse Barritt, County Superintendent of Schools, m Missouri, recently, while going from Hillsboro to Butler, a village four miles northwest- of Hillsboro, witnessed one of the most magnificent sights he ever saw and one which, perhaps, few men have ever had the opportunity of seeing. Arriving at" the top of Cross Hill, a high eminence about two miles west of Hillsboro, he says the air sud denly became entirely calm, producing an oppressive, stifling sensation, which was followed by a peculiar, sickening smell. lie then saw five distinct cyclones in the west and southwest, which ha describes as huge balls of cloud travel ing in a northeasterly direction at a terrific rate of speed. All were dis tinctly outlined and appeared at times to come to the ground and bound into the air to a great height. They were In a constant state of agitation and as they rose from the earth they became illumi nated; while near the earth they ap peared to be of a greenish color. They were accompanied by a deafening roar. One of them passed immediately over him, but, fortunately, did not reach low enough to do any damage. He asserts that he saw nothing of the funnel shape so often described, but that they appeared most oi the time perfectly round. They were a number of miles apart apparently, but all going m the same direction. He says that while the display was grand beyond description, be never wants to witness such a sight again; but they were evidently stragglers belonging to the army of cyclones that passed over our State an hour or two betore, and fortunately bad no time to unsheath their devastating “funnel” and strike the earth. Only those that appeared at a great distance seemed to come to the ground. They passed out of sight in less thim three minutes and were fol lowed by a heavy wind and torrents of rain. Tbe horrible.habit of Americans of put ting their bands in their pockets has led to the popujanty of oanes in this country. The Japanese gentleman shows apprecia tion to the same feeling when his costume is incomplete—without his shutting fan, which he hangs at his belt, over his right shoulder, or in the breast folds of his silken gown. The French or English gentleman for the same reason never attends a full- dress party without his crush hat in his hand. * ’ . The fashion of carrying canes, however, an .ong the swells and lah de-dah lads of New York has each season its rules which are observed with . as much exquisite punctilio as those of ladias who wear a poke bonnet one year and auoop hat the next. Most of tnese Bash Ions originate in Europe. A year or ttfo ago there were two styles—the shepherd’s crook, shaped like a fishhook, and a Z ilu crook, a plain, curved handle. The Zulu came from Paris, the shepherd from London. These styles in canes were introduced in the spring, and were preceded by the orutch. When our fathers were lads the whalebone cane was the proper thing. Now they are so scarce that they are worth to the dealer from $3 to $3,50. Last year the fashion was to carry a silver ball cane. Then there is a style in carrying a cane, and this varies each year. One year it was to walk with aspring gait, with bent knees and arms akimbo as far forward as possible, and the cane was held between one finger and thumb, correctly balanced so as to swing gracefully. Then came the esthetic style. The cane was held in front of the body by the first and second fingers of both hands, and was allowed to bang limp, while the elbows were still further forward, and the shoulders, if possible, more round. Then there was a fashion last year of holding the ferule down. This year it is to hold it in the middle, with the ferule to the front, just as Mr. Spot Dandridge does after his return from the east. That’s the proper “caper.” The material is as various as can well nigh lie conceived of. Many are of im ported woods; some from the tiopics, China- and tbe East Indies. The cele brated Whongee canes are from China, where tney are well known and celebrated for the regularity of their joints, which are the points from which the leaves are given off, and the stems of a species of phyllosiachys, a gigantic grass, closely allied to the bamboo. The orange and lemon are highly prized, they are imported chiefly from the West Indies, and perfect specimens command enormous prices. The orange stick is known by its beautiful green bark, with fine white longitudinal markings, and the lemon by the symmetry of its proportions and both prominence and regularity of its knots. Myrtle sticks possess also a value, since their appearance is so peculiar that their owner would sel dom fail to recognize them. They are im ported from Algeria. The rajah stick is an importation. It is the stem of a palm, and a species of calamus. It is grown in Borneo, and takes its name from the fact that the rajah will not allow any to go out of the country unless a heavy duty is paid. These canes known as palm canes are dis tinguished by an angular and more or less flat appearance. Their color is brownish, spotted, and they are quite straight, with neither knob nor curl, They are the petioles of leaf stalks of the date palm. Perhaps tbe most celebrated of the foreign canes are the Malacca, being the stems of the calamus sceptonum, a slender climhiug palm, and not growing about Malacca, as the name would seem to indicate, but im ported from Stak on the opposite coast of (Sumatra. Other foreign canes are of ebony, n me wood, partridge, or hair wood, and cactus, which, when the pith is cut out, presents a most novel appearance, hollow, and full of holes. The manutacture of canes is by no means the simple process of cutting the sticks in tbe woods, peeling off tbe bark, whittling down the knots, sandpapering the rough surface, and adding a touch of varnish, a curiously carved handle of head, aud tip ping the end with a ferule, in the sand flats of New Jersey whole families support themselves by gathering naaneberry sticks, which they gather in theswamos, straight en with an old vise, steam over an old kettle, aud, perhaps, scrape down or whittle into size. These are packed in large bundles to New York city and sold to the caoe factories Many Imported sticks, however, have to go through a process of straightening by a mechanical means, which are a mystery to the uninitiated. They are buried in hot sand until they become pliable, in front of the heap of hot sand in which the sticks are plunged is a stout board from five to six feet long, fixed at an angle inclined to the workman, and having two or more notches cut iu the edge. When the stick has become per fectly pliable the workmsr places it on one of the notches, and, bunding it in the opposite direction to which It is naturally bent, straightens It. Thus, sticks appar ently crooked, bent, warped aud worthless are by this simple process straightened; but the most curious part of the work is observed in tbe formation of the crook or curl for the handles, which are not natur ally supplied with a hook or knob. Tbe workman places one end of the cane firmly in a vise, and pours a continuous stream of Are from a gas pipe on the part which Is to be bent. When sufficient heat has been applied, tbe cane is pulled slowly aud gradually round until the hook is complete ly formed, and then secured with a string. An additional application of heat serves to bake and permanently fix the curl. The under part of the handle is frequently charred by the action of the gas, and this is rubbel down with sandpaper until* the requisite degree of smoothness is attained. Lamps in Yokohama. As the hour approaches for the lighting of lamps in the evening at Yokohama, the sound of tbe patrol is heard, and ail nigbt long the streets are perambulated by these warning guardians, who beat two hand- sticks or clappers together with the regu larity of clockwork, giving forth a sharp, ringing sound that there is no mistaking, and they also have a regular note of warn ing, which they O'y out at regular intervals of time, so that the necessity of precaution is present to the mind of all the dwellers in the city, throughout tbe haursof darkness, whether they will or nt>. The incendiary is tbe most depraved of criminals in the estimation of the people, and none others were so fesrtully punished in the past. At present death Is the penalty meted out to one who commits aison. A “Crowing;” Match. This peculiarity of the barn yard chain- pion became the subject of conversation at a little dinner given at Delmonicn’s, New York, on the 8th of last January, the occasion being the commemoration oi the birthday of Mr. Larry Jerome, who asserts that he is ot the same age as General Andrew Jackson. “I don’t see,” said Mr. Alexander Taylor, Jr., “why if this is so, a rooster cannot be trained to crow as well as to fight. I believe that by taking one when a mere chick and cultivating its lung power assidiously, putting before it, from its earliest infancy, the best and most illustrious Growers, a rooster could be trained to crow a dozen times consecu tively.” Mr. Jerome seeing here an opportunity for a wager—something which he never neglected—said:—“It would all depend upon a man’s own training. ’ A f brought up in the country, as I was, observant of the habits of the fowl from boyhood, there is little doubt but that experiment of this kind would be a success. 1 think, however, that you would fail,” “I'll bet you $5,000,” said Mr. Tay lor, promptly, “that in six months I’ll produce a cock that will outcrow any thing you can show.” ‘I’ll take that bet,” said Mr, Jerome, quietly, and the conversation diverged to other topics, neither party again alluding to it, and each gentleman trusting that the other would forget all about it so that he might be able to claim a default when settling day arrived. The next morning Mr. Taylor went bright and early to Washington Market, and, from information there obtained, was induced to go to Rosedale, N. J., where Mr. Philip Timpson resides. In giving the particulars to a reporter, Mr, Taylor said:—“1 learned that Phil Timpson was a most successful hatcher of chickens by artificial process, and I went to him and told him I wanted a lot hatched, all cocks and of the best crowing breeds. He said I'd have to take ’em as they coma, cocks and hens together, and that he had no process for hatching cocks exclusively. He said, however, that he would lay the world under coatribution for eggs, and that if I would agree to take all that he would hatch there was no doubt that among the lot 1 should be able to secure the champion crower. “So, after signing a contract, I returned to my place at Mamaroneck, and bad a house built 150 feet on the water-line— siio, I don’t mean that—I thought 1 was speaKing of a yacht: but she’s 150 feet over all; that is, it is that length along the water, and I’ve bad It fitted up with porches at different elevations, no that at the earliest age the young rooster will have a place from which to crow, and can advance from perch to perch, raising his notes at each elevation.” “I’ve got over 500 fowl there already, and Timpson is goinz to have 500 more on Thursday morning. Until about a week ago 1 thought ttiat 1 had a sure thing on Larry Jerome, but I theu learned that he had constructed a crowing nursery at Oyster Bay, L. L, under the superin tendence of bis brother, Tom Jerome. Still I think I’ll beat him, after all, for Timpson says that there’s not a known breed of towl but what 1 possess of it a representative cock.” Mr. Jerome was found immersed in weighty transactions at the Stock Ex change. lie had but a moment to sp ire for an Intervie w and said that he consid ered it a gross breach of confidence on the part of Mr. Taylor to have given the thing away. “Since it has gone so far, how ever,” said he, “I may say that my hen nery a* Oyster Bay is 250 feet long and 50 feet in width. My fowls, of which 1 have 2,000, represent 100 distinct breeds, all of which have been produced by patent process and with especial reference to crowing. I don’t feel the least anxiety about the matter, as I have no doubt but that my bird will win. ” “Wlire will the trial take place, Mr. Jerome?” “VVe have not decided upon that as yet. We of course never Imagined that the event would be of so much public interest, and expected to have it up at Taylor’s place at Mamaroneck, or else down‘at Oyster Bay, with only a few of our friends present; but the Interest in it seems to have been aroused to such an extent that I told Alee the other day that I thought we would have to secure the Garden, or else the American Institute building in Third avenue. 'The judges are Mr. Andrew Gaboon for Mr. Taylor, apd^l have asked Mr. Charles Minton, the Secretary of the New York yacht Club, to act for me; they two to choose a third if necessary. ’ The Preelons Metals. The special report of Mr. Burchard, Director of the Mint, upon the produc tion of the precious metals in theUuited States, which was ordered to be printed by the last Congress, shows that the yield of the mines of the United States for the year 1882 was $32,500,000 in gold, $46,800,000 in silver, a total of $79,300,000—a decline ot $2,200,000 of gold and an increase of $3,800,d00 of silver Compared with the preceding year. The greatest relative decline was in California, while in silver production Idaho, Montana and New Mexico showed the greatest increase. The ex cess of production over consumption of the year, added to the net imports of gold, resulted in a net gain to the circulation of less than $200,000 in gold, but by coinage and net iiifyort of coin the metallic circulation gained nearly $39,700,000 in gold and about $27,600,- 000 in silver coin. The California gold fields show no evidence of exhaustion, aud Nevada gives signs of recovery from the mis management aud stock speculation that have affected its production. Idaho, Montana, Utah and-New Mexico furn ish evidence of the increased importance of mining industry in those Territories, while Arizona maintains her large pro duction of the precious metals. —There is said to be one physician to every thirteen families in the United States. —In 1764 England had over 20,000 negro slaves, and they wore collars like dog collars. —An entire suite of bedroom furni ture made of glass is the freak of a Spanish grandee. pas****-? was Temple* of the Sun. In Persia, in ancient times, they had temples which they called “Temples of the Sun,” and they worshiped the sun always. They felt that It was he who presided over the destinies of mankind, who gave them the light of day and also warmth, who was the founder of tneir empire, and in nearly every city temples dedicated to the sun were raised. They acknowledged a Supreme Being, a Creator of the world in fact, but he did not seem to hold the first place in their hearts, for only one small temple was erected to him. The grandest tern pie of all was in the city of Cuzco and it was such a rich temple that it was called "Coricancha,” which meant “The Place of Gold.” it was-built of hewn stone, so beautifully put togetbat, the place of join ing could not be discovered, and it con sisted of a chief building with chapels adjoining, and several other inferior buildings, and covered quite au area. Everything inside the temple was gorgeous beyond description. On the western wall the Sun Deity ww represented, it con sisted of a human face surrounded by rays of light. This face and tiguure was en graved on an immense plate of gold, massive and heavy and thickly bestrewn with diamonds, emeralds and other pre cious stones. When the sun rose in the morning, the figure was so placed iu the temple the light fell full upon it, making a most dazzling effect, and all the gold in the room (and the walls were adorned and inlaid and overlaid with gold) caught up the glory aud reflected it, and everywhere were shining plates of gold and heavy ornaments of the precious metal and those, too, sent back a flood of light as the sun beams fell upon them. One of thd smaller chapels was dedicated to the moon, the next deity of importance, styled the “Mother of the lucas.” All the decora tions of this room, as well as the figure representing the moon, and the burnished plates, etc., were of silver. Theu there were other chapels—one consecrated to the stars, another to the iainoow, and an other to thunder and lightning. All these belonged, you must remember, to the Temple of the Sun. Everything used in connection with the worship ot the sun was of gold and silver. There were a dozen or more silver vases of immense sue, standing on the flooj of the main room, filled with Indian corn. “The censers for the perfumes, the ewers Which held the sacred water, the pipes which conducted it through subterrabean chan nels into the buildings, the reservoir that received it, were all of gold or silver.” Then there were artificial gardens outside, with plants iu them, curiously constructed of silv#r aud gold and precious stones; there were animals of gold, life size, and even the agricultural implements used m the garden were of the precious metal. The name of Inca was applied t> tlie Sovereigns of Peru as well us to all those males who descended from them. The Sovereign was far, above his people, even the noblest of the Inca nobility could not enter into the presence of the reigning Inca without making bare his feet and carrying a slight burden to signify homage. The Inca was considered the sun’s repre sentative, and he claimed to be vastly superior to all others, and lived and dressed in grand style. He had a uuin her of wives, a great many children and devoted attendants. When an Inca died, his wealth did not descend to his heir, but all his treasures remained just as he had left'them, and all his palaces ex cept one were closed up forever. They believed the spirit would return some day and would require all his personal effects. The funeral was au occasion for grand display, and sometimes thous ands—among them his wives and attend ants—were sacrificed on his tomb. The b«dy of the Inca was eubalmed, aud robed in royal attire, placed on a g dd chair, taken to the Temple of the Sun. There all the dead Incas sat with their hands crossed and their heads inclined in the midst of all the gold and silver, the men on the right and the queens on the left of the blazing effigy of the Sun. The one palace or mansion of the Inca that was not closed up was kept just as if the owner had gone for a day and was expected to return at any moment. The guard was retained, the servants were all at their posts and everything went on as before. Sometimes entertainments were provided in the name of a dead Inca by the Captain of the guard stationed in tbe unclosed house ol the Inca. Then the body of the Inca would be brought out into the public square with great pomp and ceremony, and tbe display of gold and rtlver plate and jewels was something far ahead of anything we can now imagine. The Peruvian process of enbaiming todies was as suceessful as the Egyptian, but it is supposed that it was much more simple and brought about by exposiug the body to the action of the peculiar aud ranfied mountain atmosphere; and they were as perfect as life, “and not even the hair of an eye-brow lacking,” while their counte- nauces retained their natural, somewhat swarthy hue. A portion of the body, the intestines, etc., were buried aud with them a quantity of treasure, and it was at tils time and place Iheir wives and attend ants were sacrificed. GatheriuK and Drying Tea In Japan. Tea gathering is commenced in May, Girls are employed, at an average of five cents a day, from sunrise to sunset. The sprig of leaves is nipped off carefully with the finger nails and deposited in a basket, and other servants carry the$e baskets, as they are filled, to the tea planter’s house and necessary outhouses. Here other employes spread them out on large palm mats and here the first and only adulteration essayed by the tea planter is executed. Having decided the percentage of exhausted leaves to mix with his fresh leaves these are put also on tbe mats. The drying ism the open air and in the sunlight That having been completed, the next .operation is the curl ing. To effect this tbe dried leaves are poured into open cast-iron receptacles over a charcoal furnace beneath of accurately graded heat Sufficient laborers are placed around these pans to constantly take in their hands tbe leaves as they be come heated and to roll them. When the curling is done the leaves arc packed m coarse, cheap boxes, freighted to the nearest tea market and there sold to a foreign tea dealer. Every foreigner keeps a special variety of tea-taster, who has to tell the quality of the fresh leaf and to make a guess at the amount of leaves that have already done service. an. a.ulllCT —OF— THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! Mr. J. O. Boao—Pear Sir: I bought the Brat Davis Machine sold by yon over live yea rs ago lor my trite, who has given it a long and fair trial. I am well pleased with it. It never gives any rouble, aud is as good as when first bought. - ■ ,1 J. W. noucx. Wh ni.aa. ft* Vt, April 1888. Mr. Boag: You wish to know whpt I have to say In regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. 1 feel I can’t say too much In Its favor. I made about $80,00 within five months, at times running it so fast tfiat the needle would get per fectly hot from friction. I feel confldeni 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 1 have ever treadled. Brother James ana Williams’ families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought or you. I want no better machine. As I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Respectfully, Ellen Stevenson, Fairfield County, April, 18*1. Mr. Boao : My machine gives me perfect satis faction. I find no fault with it. The attachments are so simple, i wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. Respectfully. Mrs. R. Milling. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. Boag : I bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from you four years ago. I am delighted with it. It never has given me any trouble, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good as when I first bought it. I can cheerfully recommend it. Respectfully, Mrs. M. J. Kirkland. Monttcello, April 30, 1883. This is to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over twayears, purchased of Mr. J. O. Boag. I haven’t found it possessed of any fault—all the attachments are so simple. It neverrefuses to work, and is certainly the lightest running in the market. I consider it a first class machine. Very respectfully, Minnie M. Willingham. Oakland, Fairfield county, S. C. Mr boag : i am wen pleased m every particula with the Davis Machine bought of you. I think it a first-class machine in every respect. Yon know you aolitseveral machines of the same make to different members of our families, all ot whom, as far as 1 know, are well pleased witn them. Respectfully, Mrs. M. II. Moblev. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This Is to certify we have had in constant use the Davis Machine bought of you about three years ago. As we take In work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don’t want any better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased ana wish no better machine, Catherine Wylie and Sister. April 25,18-3. 1 have no fault to find with my nrich ne, and don’i waul any 'fitter. I have made the price of it several times by taking in sewing. It Is always ready to do Its work. I think it a first-class ma chine. I feel I can't say too rnnch for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. Mrs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. J. O. Boag—Dear Sir: It gives me much pleasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of you aiicui nve years ago. has been almost in con- sia.ii csd e'er since that time. I cannot see that it is any. and has not eost me one cent for r< ■ nave had : . u well pleased an . »•'*• "i ’< ’or a ly bet'.e . Y- Tv. tru'v, .o. l. v i; .WFORD, Granite quarry, near Winnsboro S. C. We have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the last five years. We would not have any other make at any price. The machine has given us unboundea satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turner and Daughters) Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 27,1883. Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewiug Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some t!pvc years ago, and it having given me perfect satisfaction in every respect as a family machine, both for heavy and light sewing, aud never needed the least re pair in any way, I can cheerfully recommend it to any one as a first-class machine In every particu lar, and think it second to none. It Is one ot the simpilst machines made; my children use it with all ease. The attachments are more easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by meaus of its Vertical Feed than any other ma chine I have ever seen or used. Mrs. Thomas Owings. Winnsboro, Fairfield county, s. C. * We have had one of the Davis Machines about four years and have always found it ready to do all kinds of work we have had occasion to do. Can’t see that the machine U worn any, and works as well as when new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Creek, Fairfield county, 8. C. My wife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought of you. Slie would not take double what sue gave for It. The maculae has not been out of order since she had It, and she can do any kind of work on It. . Very Respectfully, Jas. F. Free. Monticello, Fairfield county, 8. C. The Davis Sewing Machine Is simply a treas ure Mrs. J. A. Goodwtn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1b83. J, O Boao, Esq., Agent—Dear Sir: My wife has been using a Davis Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four years, and it aas never needed any repairs an i works just us well as when first bjugiiu She says it will do a greater range of practical work »nd do it easier and better than any machine she has ever used. We cheerfully recommend U as a No. 1 family machine, Your tru.T, . Jas. Q. Davis. Wtnusboro, 8. C , Jan. 8, 1883. Mr.' Boao : I have always found ray Davis Ma chine ready do all kinds of to work 1 have had oc casion to do. I cannot see that the machine Is worn a particle and it works as wed as when new. Respectfully, Mrs. K. C. Goodino. Winnsboro, 8. C., April, 1883, Mr. Boag: My wife has been constantly using tbe Davis Machine bought of yon about five- years ago. I have never regretted baying It, as it is always ready for any kind of family sewing, either heavy or light. It i« never oat of fix or neeamg repairs. . Very respectfully Fairfield, 8. C., March, 1883, .’Lapp, . (•.