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V 4 IPJ!!. « ; . v - ‘..'■■>v < •* ' ■*f f> a .. >>'. • ., r. , •' /.:-. .. i^s^nagsaiagg TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. AUGUST 16. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 THE BITER OF TIME. fl Broad, and deep and swift the current Of time’s rushing tide, Bearing on through sun and shadow, As the season's glide, Fpce of friend and foe and lover, On its bosom wide. O the days when light was brightest, Dear, lost days of old! O the love that thrilled our pulses With a joy untold! How their saddened memories only In our hearts we hold. Hearts that loved us, hopes that cheered ns, Voices dear and sweet. Thoughts that perished like the flowers ’Neath our treading feet, Through our tears we see them drifting With the river’s beat. O our Father, when the passion Of this life is o’er, When the river bears us onward To the farther shore, May we hear again the voices We have loved of yorel May we find the flowers that withered , At an earthly shnne, Blossoming again, O Father, At thy touch divine, Where our lives meet full fruition In that home of thinel Where deep harmonies forever O’er the spirit roll, Where the mocking past shall never Vex the weary soul, And the tired ones loose their burdens At the heavenly goal. A LEAK IN THE ROOK. Chere, the Mrs. Drayton had just put the tea kettle over the fire for tea. That bright, cheery New Hampshire kitchen—not even the driving north east rain, which poured in torren’s out side, could put a damper on its merry aspect. Close to the window a bulfmch whistled meditatively in its cage ot woven wicker boughs—a pomegranate- tree on the other side was all sprinkled with scarlet buds, and the very stripes of the rag carpet were suggestive of sunshine and cheerful thoughts. And Mrs. Drayton herself, one of those plump, motherly, good-natured souls who are born to make home happy was setting the table with white and blue- edged cups and saucers that had be longed to her grand mother before her. The bread was whiter than snow, the apple-sauce was pleasantly flavored with cinnamon, and a freshly baked loaf of “cup cake” occupied the center of the feast. She was reaching up for a little jar of home-made pickles, when a pair of strong arms encircled her wast, and a handsome bearded face appeared on t s e level with her own. “ My goodness gracious 1” said Mrs. Drayton, “how you frightened me! But I do think, Harry, you get more harum-scarum every day.” He lifted her lightly to the floor. “Do you want any more eggs, moth er ?” he asked, “there are plenty in the bam!” “I’ve got enough for to-day,” said Mrs. Drayton, pouring the tiny pickled cucumbers into the plate. “ Rosalie takes omelets, you know,” mischievously suggested the young man. A frown darkened Airs. Drayton’s face. “Harry,” she said, “you’ve made a mistake! ” “Have I, mother dear ? But you’ll find that I’ve not 1 ” “ Rosalie Hartley is a selfish, heart less coquette 1” cried M 1 s. Drayton, excitedly. “ Mother, hush 1” said the young man, tenderly putting his hand over her mouth. “She has promised to be my “6h, Harry ! Harry 1” “It is so, mother dear,—and you must learn to love her for my sake. You will soon find how completely you are mistaken in your estimate of her character, and she will be like a daught er to you!” Mrs. Drayton sat down, still with the pickle-fork in her hand, and began to cry. Now there was nothing in the wide world that made Harry Drayton feel so uncomfortable as tears. A whole dic tionary full of remonstrances would not have melted him like one of those crystal drops. “Didn’t you say there was a leaky spot over the Iritchen chimney, moth er ?” said he. “ If I go up and look at it now I can perhaps see where the trouble is.” And, thus speaking, he hurried away. Mrs. Drayton looked after him with tearful eyes, as she shook her head doubtfully. “There never was a better son,” said she. “ If he had only selected Celandine Hall 1” Poor Uro. Drayton t When sho tnnk the two pretty factory-girls to board, just to earn money enough for a new parlor carpet, she had not dreamed that she was setting a trap to catch Harry’s true and loyal heart. To be sure it had once or twice occurred to her mind that little Celandine Hall, with her soft voice and dove-like-eyes and the “handy ways” that she had about the house, would make a very acceptable daugh ter-in-law, but Rasalle Hartley,—the brilliant, saucy brunette with her Ibud, ringing laugh, her cheap jewelry, her abject following of the latest devices of thefashion-pletes, the subrosa flirtations which she conducted with the foreman of the factory, the good-looking young miller down town the handsome car riage-maker who was building the big house under Ransom Rock, and her un tidy fashion of leaving Celandine to care for the room which they occupied in common,—all these things were an abomination to her mother-so jl. “ Why is it, she aa cl to herself, in a sort of desperation. “ that sons always select the women for wives that their mothers most dislike ? I’m almost sure that Rosalie paints, although I never could detect her at it,—and there were only three buttons on her boots yester day. A real womanly woman is as tidy with her shoes as with her gloves. Anc Mrs. Jessup told me yesterday that she was flirting disgracefully with Mr, Peckham, that Spaniard-laced foreman at the factoiy. What cam Many possi bly be thinking of to trust his future to the care of such a frivolous creature as this ? ” Even as these reflections passed inco herently through her mind. Rosalie’s shallow laugh echoed in the hall—Miss Hartley had once been told that she had a musical laugh, and had ever after lost no opportunity of airing its sweetness! “ Is tea almost ready, Mrs. Drayton?” she asked, putting her pretty blonde head into the room. “ I’m to go out this evening, and we are to be early ?” “It will be ready very soon,” said Mrs. Drayton, so coldly that Rosalie, springing up stairs two steps at a time, audibly remarked to her companion that “ something had put the old lady out!” Celandine Hall followed more quietly into the large, airy room which was dedicated to the use of the two factory- girls. “Goodness me I” cried Rosalie, with a start, “ what is that strange rustling noise overhead ? Is the house haunt ed?” Celandine smiled. “I suppose it is nothing more serious than rats in the garretT” she said. “Do, Rosalie, hang your waterproof cloak up, insi of throwing it on the floor 1 T1 noise has ceased now 1” Nor was it all strange. For Mr. Harry Drayton, who had contrived to twist and writhe his six feet of humani ty into the merest cranny of space close under the eaves, in search of the leaky spot in the roof, was even then consid ering whether he had better twist him self back again,—an undertaking not quite so easy as it might at first appear, or keep quiet until the girls should have gone down stairs. “They’ll laugh at me,” he thought. “ They are always laughing, bless their hearts. I think I’ll presen e my incog nito. It will be only a minute or two before they go down to tea.” Rosalie gave a tremendous yawn as she twisted up the yellow luxuriance of her hair, little recking that her affianc ed lover w r as separated from her only by a trail thickness of lathe and plas ter ! “How is that Greek knot, Celan dine ?” she asked. “ I want particu larly to have it look nice to-night. Ru dolph likes my hair in the ancient clas sic style.” “ Rosalie,” said Celandine Hall, gravely, “ does Harry know where you are going to night ? ” “No, you goose,” said Rosalie. “ Why should he ? I shall tell him I am going to a sacred concert w’ith Polly Wright and her sisters.” “But he will want to go with you.” “ Then I shall find some pretext to put him off.” “Rosalie,” cried Celandine, “is it right for you to go to a party under Rudolph Peckham’s escort, when you are engaged to Harry Hartley ? ” “ You don’t suppose I am going into a nunnery, just because I happen to be engaged ? ” said Rosalie, pertly. “ Rosalie ” began Celandine, in dignantly. “ Now don’t go on lecturing me,” said Rosalie, waxing impatiant. The Catskill or Katzberg mountains, were so named by the Dutch on account the catamounts with which they were infested. The Indians called lem the Ontioras or Mountains of the Sky, by reason of their cloud-like ap pearances. Their traditions held that unong these peaks was kept the i reasury of storms and sunshine for the Hudson valley, guarded by a powerful spirit, who kept day and night impris oned. letting them out one at a time, “‘his spirit made new moons and cut up red ones into stars. These mountains with their dark and wide spreading forests (abounding in those days with a jreat variety of wild game) were doubt- ess grand hunting grounds for the In- uians. Settlers of the upper Shandaken valley in the neighborhood of Pine Hill often, while tilling the soil, found flint ftiKi nrrow heads, etc., which assures us that they frequented that part, and aside from that, the scenery and intci- est of the region to-day fully equals the quaintness ot the old legion. The mountains are rugged and wild, many daces of them nevei vet trodden by the oot of man, full of piefuresque beauty, “lie forests abound in cJd and spark- mg springs, which wind their way i hrough ravine and meadow toward the iudson or Delaware, ferns and wild i owers grow 7 on all sides, and the sn*?ll the green moss and foliage, deepenea by the dew and borne on the cool air, is delicious. The wildest and most unsettled part of the Catskills are in Ulster county, and in the towns of Shandaken, Har- denburgh and Denning and surround ing the Slide Mountain, which is the highest of the Catskills. The highest peaks were always said to be in Greene :ounty until the past few years. Aleasurement has decided the matter (ifferently, and it is now a well known fact that the old Slide is the highest peak in the Catskills (being 4,220 feet), and surrounding it the scenery is wild and romantic. Deer and bears are yet ;o be found in that part of the moun tains, For the past fifty years the eastern face of the Catskills in the neighborhood of the old mountain house and nearest to the Hudson has been a resort for people seeking rest from city cares. At that time the Southern or Shandaken Catskills wery a genuine wilderness, and very little was known of them. Occasionally an artest or sportsman followed up the deep defile of the Esopus Creek, through the Shandaken Valley, and crossed over ?ine Hill to the headwaters of the Del aware. Shandaken is an Indian name, the definition being “Swift Water,” and it is quite probable that this valley derives its name from the swift flow of the Esopus. The scenery along banks is enchanting and cannot equalled in the Catskills. have promised to marry Harry Drayton, not because I love him, but because I am tired and sick of the drudgery of this endless factory work. Harry Drayton is a countiy lout—not half so polished and charming as Mr. Peckham —but he’s better than no husband at alh And Rudolph will be my lover still, like those dear Platonic creatures in the French novels, because, you know —” At this mament, however, there was sudden crash from overhead. The plaster of the ceiling came down in a limey shower of pieces, directly into Miss Hartley’s rouge-pote, and balm-of- jeauty ; and Hairy Drayton, who, in the agony of his mind, had writhed him self a little further than he had intend ed, descended most unexpectedly into their midst. Rosalie screamed hysterically. Celan dine looked as if she did not know whether to laugh or cry. Harry Dray ton sat up and rubbed his elbow-joints, ‘ I’m sorry to startle you, ladies,” said he ; “ but upon my word, I couldn’t help it.” And then he explained to them the precise nature of the dilemma in which he had been placed. “ I couldn’t go forward on accoun , of the kitchen chimney,” said he ; “ and when I tried to back myself gracefully out, the ceiling gave way and down came. And my collar is full of rain from the leak in the roof, and I think I’ve swallowed about a pint of lime dust.” Rosalie turned first scarlet then white. “ You were up theie over our heads,” she said, “ in tin garret corner.” He nodded, calmly. ‘■‘■You heart! all tre said “I am sorry to say—yes,” he answer ed. “I regret to be considered ‘country lout,’Miss Hartley, but as I don’t approve of the Platonic system of loye and lovers, I must beg to ab dicate in favor of Mr. Peckham I And now, if you will allow me to retire. I’ send up little Tim, the cowboy; with basket and a broom to remove some o:' this superfluous dust and lime from your floor.” Miss Hartley wept and bewailed her self stormily, but she went with Mr, Peckham to the party, nevertheless,— and Celandine stayed at home to sew buttons on the beauty’s boots. While Harry, as he unfolded the newspaper which had come by the evening mail, remarked incidentally : “Oh, by the way, mother,—that engagement of mine with Rosalie is broken off!” Mrs. Drayton’s face lighted up. “ Really and trully, Harry ?” cried she. “Yes, really and truly, mother, don’t think we should have suited each other at all! But don’t you want to hear how comically it happened ?” And he told her about the leak in the roof. Miss Hartley changed her boarding place the next week,—but little Celai dine remained. And Mrs. Drayton already beginning to flatter herself that perhaps Celandine may be hei daugh ter-in-law after all. Who knows how love might weave his warp and woof ? Peak* of the Catskill*. and smoothes the lower edges of the boards. The immense piece of timber is run through in a few moments, and what was five minutes before a rough tree trunk has passed into the inch boards of commerce. Nor does the work end here; for the slabs are passed to a new machine, which grasps them with almost human intelligence, and whatever part of them can be made so become laths. Other machines take the harder woods, ash, elm, or oak, and convert them with equal speed into staves, barrel heads or shingles; and finally the otherwise useless debris passes to the furnaces to feed the fires of the engine. There is seen little or no sawdust around the Saginaw lumber mills for the reason all used which one i w made to seems as Ity can make for the furnace flames; and, imgener&l, the cycle of utilities b: branch of the great ind feed or supplement an< rounded as h> mian mgenn it* Sometimes, particularly in the more modern mills, the routine as described is varied by lifting the logs from the river on an endless chain; and a num ber of minor mechanisms fill out the de vices by which the lumber is cut and distributed. One ingenious machine, working double emery wheels, sharpens the buzz saws on both sides of the teeth during a single revolution, and re quires no attention beyond simply the fastening of the saw upon it and the unfastening after the work is done Another flattens out, by a clever me chanical expedient, the teeth of the saw, so as to cut a wider rent and pre vent clogging as the cut becomes deep er ; finally, a system of elevated rail roads takes the lumber-laden trucks and distributes the boards at the points in the yard or on the wharf whence they are to be shipped. Some addition al conception of the size and in nortance of the industry may be derived from the fact that the Michigan Ceidral Railroad Company takes away from ons station here 100 carloads of lumber lor each day of the working season, to say nothing of the large quantities shipped from the river by the Flint & Fere Marquette Railroad line, and even large shipments by the lake barges. Caterpillar*. its be Trees, Logs and Lumber. Inland Whalimr. Up the Saginaw' in a wide region, reached either by the river or its tribu- aries, the great pine saw-log, often ,hree feet in diameter, has its birth. Pine forests, now rapidly thinning out, once covered several thousand square miles around the headw-aters. Enter- : ng that lumber region in the late au- .umn, the lumbermen establish camps, ’round which during the whole winter ong the axes resound, the tall trunks fall, and in sections are rolled to the adjacent streams for the spring floods lio bear away. Floating dow'n to the main river, the boom men pick out out each ow'ner’s logs as identified by the brand, and gather them inside the booms, which may be curtly described as long tree-trunks chained together at the ends, often inclosing a smooth wat er surface of several acres. The coves of the Saginaw—called locally bayous, a term borrowed from the Low f er Miss issippi—are especially adapted for the gathering and organization of these log armies. The military metaphor, in deed, has peculiar fitness here, for the logs are mustered side by side in com panies, held together by a rope fastened to each log by a device not unlike the domestic clothespin. As these logs dowh stream are worked up by the tire less mills, these upper booms are drawn upon for more, until the freezing river finds them quite empty, and another winter comes on to yield its fresh sup ply. But the saw'-log’s story becomes most dramatic as it nears the mill and, loos ed from the restraining rope, is steered into the glade of open water that leads up to the wooden slide. Enter now the great lumber mill, and we shall be in at the saw-log’s death. Down the slide on a wooden railroad runs a heavy truck, fitted with two cross lines of heavy iron teeth. With a plunge it dashes below the water, still holding its place on the rails. Then three giant logs are floated above it. At a signal the steam is let on, the machinery re versed, the strong chain holding the trues tightens, and the truck itself be gins to ascend. The sharp teeth catch the logs, which, in a trice, are lifted dripping from the water, whisked up like twigs 100 feet to the mill, and roll ed off opposite the first set of saws. These saws are two in number; one set below is of the buzz variety, perhaps siz feet in diameter, and cutting, there fore, through a three-foot log ; but as this semi-diameter is often insufficient for a big log, a second and smaller buzz placed above and in front of the first, cuts the slice, which otherwise might still hold fast the slab. One of the largest logs weighs a number of tons, and human strength alone would never suffice to tnm it after one of its sides has been slabbed. Just here comes in a beautiful piece of powerful mechanism. At the touch of the lever a stout beam, armed with iron teeth, rises by the forest Titan’s side. It snatches the wood, and. in less time than words can tell it the log is tumbled over, and the framework, rushing back and forth with amazing speed, has driven the edges of the tree athwart the saws, until the once rough stick stands forth a symmetrical square. Then, in another instant it is shifted below the gang, a set of ordinary up right saws placed an inch apart, and of ten with thirty or even thirty-five blades. Below an ordinary circular planer revolves in front of the gang On the lake front, Chicago, stands a blue-painted flat car, on which is a huge skeleton with a “story. ” It is of inter est to all, for it is the skeleton of “the whale.” This was known from Maine to California, and there was some talk at one time of sending his lordship to Europe. Every one knew “the whale,” and it has been gazed upon by millions of people in its day. It belonged to Mr. Fred Englehart, and he organized what he called “the Inland Whaling Company.” This meaig jus employes, side showmeo, ticket seljEF", etc. They had another car built, somewhat like a freight caboose, and with bunks, tables, stove, and cooking-place, all in very comfortable shape. This car was also painted blue, and both had “Inland Whaling Company” on the sides. These two and a baggage and tent car com pleted the train. The whale was stretched out in flabby shape upon this ffat car. and great ropes and chains kept the Ihuge mass of flesh from roll ing off. The attendants had a mixture containing carbolic acid and other dis infectants to pour over his shiny brown hide, and this operation was continu ally being done while on exhibition. The mass was therefore always moist. When the train struck Chicago, adds the News of that city, which was the headquarters, a side track was built on the lake front, the tent pitched, and the whale on his car was run under the canopy. A little box -office was opened, and that was all. But it was enough. Crowds poured in to see the monster of the deep, and when the deep-voiced talker explained the capture, weight, habits, etc., of the animal stood up like a pigmy beside the whale, every one was well satisfied that he had the worth of his quarter in seeing such a curiosity. It was the only one on ex hibition. Now they should visit him at the lake front. All that remains of him is a tew flapping pieces of canvas and rot ting hide, while the frame work, bones, and flesh are gone. In their place is a lot of shavings, old barrels, sticks, dirt, and the frame proves to be of stout hickory, bent into whale shape. These are the bones. The shavings were the flesh. Some quicklime has eaten up considerable hide or skin, but the tail, ah, the tail was genuine, though the rest was a delusion and snare. The hairy caterpillars are now infest ing the trees, and au eminent entomo logist in New York was recently ask ed: “ Do not the birds eat these caterpil lars ? ” asked the reporter. “No. I know of no bird that will eat them. The sparrows did eat the measuring worms that were so plentiful here a few years ago, and that nuisance has now about disappeared. The pre sent nuisance is what is known as a hairy caterpillar. They multiply very rapidly. I have counted 234 eggs in a space about 11-10 by } inches. Each one of these eggs was capable of becom ing a caterpillar.” “Is there no other insect that preys upon these ? ” “ x 68; mere is a son or ny, me tachina, but there are not enough of them. I am satisfied that the only way to save our trees is for the authorities to employ some one to kill them off. Boys could do it. It would require some one to climb the trees and collect the worms and eggs and burn them.” “What is the course of propaga tion ? ” “ First you see this bundle of eggs I have spoken of. They are laid by the females on the cocoons. In about four teen days these eggs are hatched into caterpillars. The caterpillars live upon the soft part of the leaves of the trees. You may see plenty of trees now with out a whole leaf. Then the trees in time die of lung complaint, for the leaves are their lungs. Each caterpil lar will eat say twelve or fourteen times its weight of leaves, until it gets to be about an inch and a tenth long. Each caterpillar discharges its skin about four times before it gets its growth. It then weaves its cocoon of silk and the hair of its own body, and then under goes its change to the chrysalis state and becomes a moth. “ The species is well known to ento mologists,” continued Air. Edwards. It is indigenous to this country, and has been known ever since entomology was studied here. It was described by Abbott a..d Smith in 1892-4 among the lepidopterous insects of Georgia. You may imagine how rapid must be their ncrease when one insect lays 234 eggs. Fortunately, the rain kills many, and other causes Intervene to keep down the supply. I was glad to see that the voracious insects spared tire tulip trees. “ The destruction of our city trees is ;>itiful, and some decisive action is need ed to prevent its further progress. When very hungry these caterpillars will eat pear and apple trees, and the possibility that they may yet be numer ous enough to get into that sort of busi ness should be sufficient to stir up some official action to prevent it.” Doc Middleton’* Doing*. Health Food. Doc Middleton, whose exploits as a highwayman, brigand and desperado are a part of the early history of Colo rado, Wyoming :.nd Nebraska, who has been serving a five years’ sentence in the penitentiary for stealing cattle in the North Park, was discharged from that institution lately, and imme diate boarded the east-bound train. He informed the prison- officials that he was going to a new country where the name of Middleten was unknown, and where he would have an opportu nity of leiiding a new life among stran gers. During his long imprisonment he behaved himself like a man, and conformed himself to the rules of the irison to the letter, not receiving one flack mark. A few days ago before his discharge, while at woranu uuo vt the shops of the prison, and intently reflecting on the few days mire of prison life, he put his fingers too near the buzz saw, cutting it off. The prison physician attended to the finger, and the next day Middleton reported to the warden that he was ready for some light work. He was told that he might go into the hospital for repairs, if he chose; but he answered that his service belonged to the State and he was ready to put in the time faithfully. During the early days of the Black Hills excitement Doc and his gang operated on the road between Cheyenne and Deadwood City, at times varying the business of robbing stage coaches by stealing cattle. Once he was cap tured and tried by a crowd of cowboys and sentenced to be hanged. His arms and legs were bound, and he was mounted on a horse and driven under a limb of a large tree, from which a rope hung. A noose was made and tied under his neck and the horse driven away, leaving Middleton suspended in mid-air. Two of the members of his gang happened to be in the neighbor hood, and after the cowboys had ridden away they cut Doc down, and after two hours’ hard work resuscitated him. For several years after the occurrence it was claimed that Doc’s ghost haunted the territory, and innumerable stories were written of its exploits. One night the ghost attacked a stage coach, and one of the more courageous passengers shot at and wounded the ghost, which proved to be the veritable Middleton masquerading in the guise of a ghost and carrying on his usual avocations During the early part of the year 1875 Middleton and a pal planned and exe cuted a bold bank robbery at Deadwood City, which was for a long time laid at the door of the James gang, and Pinkerton’s detectives spent thousands of dollars hunting them, while Middle- ton with his swag remained quietly in Deadwood laughing in his sleeve. VERDICT —OF- THE PEOPLE. BUY BEST! Mr. J.o. Boio—Dear Sir: 1 bought the first Davis Machine sold by you over five years ago (or my wife, who has given It f long and (air trial. I am well pleased with iu It never elves any rouble, and is aa good aa when first bought. J. W. POLICE. Wlnnsboro, S. C., April 18S8. Mr. Boao: Ton wish to know what I have to say In regard to the Duvis Machine bought of you three f ears ago. I feel I can’t say too much In Its favor. made about S80,<w within five months, at times running It so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot from friction. I feel confident I could not nave 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 and Williams’ families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought ot yox I wao' to better machine. As I said before, I don’t think too much can tie said for the Davis Machine. Kespectfully, ELLIN STBVKNSON, F.ilrfi“ld County, April, 1883. Mk. Boao : My mtciiine 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, Apr!', 1888. Mr. Boao: 1 bought a Davis Vertical Feed ewing Machine from yon four years ago. I am alighted with it. It never has given me any rouble, and has never been the least oat of order. It Is as good as when I first bought it. I cau cheerfully recommend It. Respectfully, Mrs. M. J. Kirkland. Monticelio, April 80, 1883. This D to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over tw >ysars, purchased of Mr. J. O. Boag. I haven't found 11 possessed of any fault—all the attachments are so simple. It neverrefuses to work, and is certainly tha lightest running In the market. I consider It a first-class machine. Very respectfully. Minnii M. Willingham. Oakland, Fairfield county, 8. C. Boutbwest Savages. A Yard of Beard. Charles Peterman, a fanner living just outside the city, states the Kansas City Times, has probaWy the longest in tl beard possessed man that by any place or vicinity. H« 6 rathe., a short man and the heard, which is ever three feet in length, falls below his knees. But few people would notice anything peculiar about his appearance, because he keeps this hirsute appendage tied up in curl papers and hid away within his vest. In addition to its length, the beard, which covers almost the entire face, is very thick, and is surmounted by an immense mustache. “How long have you been growing that beard?” be was asked. “Oh, this is only a seven years’ growth. I have had it nearly as long before, but it was so inconvenient that I cut it off. Its length now is due to my friends, who insist upon seeing how long it will grow. My wife puts it up in papers every morning as religiously as she puts up her own hair. ” “Any other members of the family affected in the same way ?” “I have six brothers and nine sisters, all, except one brother, living in Ger many. All my brothers have extraor dinarily long hair. My brother living in this country is in Vermillion County, 111. His beard is a pure blor '.e,' and is fully as long as mine, which, you see, is black. My brother’s head,” contin ued Air. Peterman, “was as destitute of hair in manhood as a billiard ball.” —There are 21 cities along 'the line of the Mexican Central having an ag gregate population of 806,609. Bill Nye says I, I almost ate myself into an early grave in April by flying into the face of Providence and demor alizing old Gastric witli oat meal. I ate oat meal weeks, and at the end of that time my friends were telegraphed for, but before it was too late, I threw off the .the shackles that bound me. with a desperation bom of a terrible apprehension, I rose and shook off the fatal oat meal habit and began to eat beefsteak. At first life hung trembling in the balance and there was no change in the quotations of beef, but later on there was a slight, delicate bloom on the wan cheek and range cattle that had barely escaped a long, sever winter on the plains began to apprehend a new danger and to seek the secluded canyons of the inaccessible mountains. I often thought while I was eating health food and waiting for death, how the doctor and other invited guest at the post mortem would start back in amazement to find the remnants of au eminent man filled with bran I Through all the painful hours of the long, long night and the eventless day, while the mad throng rushed onward like a great river towards eternity’s ocean, this though was uppermost in my mind. I tried to get the physician to promise that he would not expose me and show the world what a hollow mockery I had been and how I had deceived my best friends. I told him the whole truth and asked him to spare my family the humiliation of knowing that though I might have led a blameless life, my sun ny exterior was only a thin covering for bran and shorts and middlings, cracked wheat and pearl barley. I dreamed last night of being in a large city where the streets were paved with dry toast and the buildings were roofed with toast and the soil was bran and oat meal, and the water was beef tea and gruel. All at once it came over me that I had solved the great mystery of death and had been consign ed to a place of eternal punishment. The thought was horrible 1 A million eternities in a city built of dry toast and oat meal 1 A home for never end ing cycles of ages, where the principal hotel and the postdfflce building and the opera house were all built of toast aad the fire department squirted gruel at the devolving element forever I It was only a dream, but it has made me more thoughtful, and people notice that I am not so giddy I was. Perfectly B*tl«fled. When we made the landing at the town of Waterproof, La., the overflow had reacted the aecond-atory windows of all the houses. On the roof of an abandoned grocery sat a ragged darkey in the most complacent manner, and as the boat swung in a lady passenger, who had exhibited tne greatest curiosity about everything all the way down from Vicktknrg, caught the name of the town and hurried forward to the captain and said: “Captain, they say this town is oxlled Waterproof.” “Yes, ma’m.” “B.'t the water is all over it, you see. The name is inoonsistert with facts.” “Oh, they didn't have referenoe to the town itself in calling it Waterproof, ” chuckled (he old man. “What they meant was that the water would never reach that nigger on the roof over there,'’ ‘ Oh, that's It, eht Well, that makes it plain, and I don’t believe it will either I” she said as she retutned to her chair. Of the 40,000 Indians located on reser vations in the Southwest, the Nava joes, numbering 15,000, hare become largely civilized. Their possessions in horses, cattle and sheep are great and valuable. This tribe is nearly seif-supponing, and in a few years will be no burden to the Gov ernment. While still holding the tribal relation, their system of internal govern ment Is exact and just, and for the good of a)L Only occaslo ially do the younger bucks ally themselves with the predatory Indians and go on the warpath. Essen tially the Navajoes are good Indiana, how ever strange this anomaly may seem. The Z ims, a small band of ancient stock, closely allied to the Aztces m many of their peculiarities, are found on a reserva tion in the middle western portion of New Mexico. They have many interesting characteristics as a tribe, but some of their customs are even more barbarous than esthetic. Their moon dance, at which time the young men are received into the brother hood of warriors, is an orgie of a moat heathenish nature. During the latter part of the month of March of each year all the tribe are assembled at once place, guards are thrown out on all sides, and no white man or Indian belonging to other tribes Is admitted within the festive circle. Around a huge fire blazing high they dance and sing in unrestrained merriment, under the mellow influence of mescal, a fiery whisky distilled trom the catua. At about mid night the young men who are to receive the honois of warrlorhood, and thereafter to be be known as braves, if they success fully undergo the ordeal ef initiation, come into the circle dressed In the uniform of a Patagonian chief, less the nose ring and nbbon. With keen-edged knives they make two vertical slits in the flesh on either breast, and having fastened there to a lariat of raw hide about thirty feet in length, which is held at the other end by a stake set firmly in the ground, they begin the wildest incantations, moving to and fro in skipping and dancing attitudes, while the warriors are indulging themselves m the innocent amusement of hurling the toma hawk, sharp pointed knives and other missiles of sporting barbaric ingenuity at the novitiates, who in the wild dellrum of stolid heroism must endure their fiendish suffering until the flesh breaks away and releases them from the cruel thongs. Their ceremonies are now inaugurated for a duration of seven days, when ali the tribe apjiear, from the oldest to the youngest, only dressed in nature’s primitive garb. Their practices in the succeeding festivi ties are so hideus it is revolting to think of them. And these Inditus, too, are wards of the Government. Milk an<l Lime Water. Milk and lime water is said to prove beneficial in dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. The way to make the lime water is simply to procure a few lumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in a fruit-can, add water until it is slacked and of the consistency of thin cream ; the lime settles, and leaves the pure and clear lime-water at the top. A goblet of cow’s milk may have six cr eight teaspoonfuls of lime-water added with good effect. Great care should be taken not to get the lime water too strong; pour off without disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness of the stomach is promptly relieved by teacup ful of warm water with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. If it brings the offending matter up, all the better. Mr boag : i urn wen n 1 eased m every particui with toe Davis Machine nought of yon. I ttitnk a first-class mac’ilne In every respect. Yon knew you sold severs’ 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. Mobi.rt. Fairfield county, April, 1888. This Is to certify we have had in constant use the Davis Machine bought ot you about three year* ago. As we take In work, and have made the price of il MvetiUtmea over, we don’t wwat any better machine, it u *Iway« reaffv to do any Wn»' of work we nave <o do. No pnokerlngor skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased and wlsb no better machine. l ATHRKINK WVLIE AND 8I8TK1L April 85, 18H8. I have no fan 1 1 to find with my much ne, and don’t want any '.letter. I have made trie price ot It several times by taking In sewing. It la al ways ready to do Its work. I mink It a first-class raa " nc. I ?csl I can*? too sbugU Tor tho Pavh Vertical Feed Machine.' Mrs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. J. O. Boag—Dear Sir: It gives me moon pleasure lo testify I > the merits or tne Davis Ver tical Feed Dewing Machine. The ma. btne I got of yon about five years ago. has been almost in con stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that It Is worn any, and has not cost me one cent fo" repairs since we have had It. Am well pleased and don’t wish for any better. Your* tru'y, Robt. Criwporp, Granite Quarry, near Wlnnsboro 8. C. We have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the last five years. We would not have any other nuke at anr price. The machine has given us unboundeo satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turner and Daughters] Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 27,1883. Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three year* ago, and It having given me perfect satisfaction in every respect as a family machine, both for heu •• y and light aewing, and never needed the least re pair In ony way, i can cheerfully recommend It to any one as a first-class machine in every particu lar, and thin., it second to none. It is one ot the simplest 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 means of its Vertical Feed than any other ma chine I have ever aeen or used. Mrs. Thomas Owings. Winnsbjro, Fairfield county, 8. C. We have had one of the Davis Machines about four years and have always found U ready to do all kinds of work we have had occasion to da Can't see that the machine U worn any, and worlta a* well as waen new. Mbs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson's Creek, Fairfield county, 8. C. My wife la highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought of yon. She would not take double what sne gave for It. The machine has not been out of order since she had It, and she can do any kind of work on It. Very Respectfully, Jab. F. Free. Monticelio, Fairfield county, 8. C. The Davla Sewing Machine Is simply a treas ure Mrs. J. a. goodwtn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1888. J.O Boao, Esq., Ag?nt—Dear Sir: My wife has been using a Davis Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four years, audit has never needed any repairs an I works just aa well aa when first bought She says It will do a greater range of practical work *nd do It easier and better than any machine she nas ever used. We cheerfully recommend It as a Na 1 family machine, Your tnty, Jab. Q. Davis. Wlnnsboro, S. C., Jan. 8,1888. I have always found my DarU Ma la of to work I have had oc- Mk. Boag : chine ready do all kinds of aaslon to do. I car not see that the machine la worn a particle and it worka aa wed aa when new. Respectfully, Mrs. R. C. Gooding. Wlnnsboro, 8. C., April, 1868, Mr. Boao : My wife has been the Davla Machine ago. I have never always heavy or repairs. constantly using bought of yon about five year* have never regretted buying it, as tt le ready for any kind of family sewing, either >r light. It Is never ont of fix or needing ..'1 Very respectfully Fairfield, A C., March, 188*. -i 4 x"!5 V. */'