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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
WINNSBORO. S. C.. AUGUST 23, 1883.
ESTABLISHED 1848
SO GOES THE WOKt.D.
Tlie eagle plucks the raven,
And the raven plucks the jay,
To whose voracious craving
The cricket falls a prey.
The big fish dine at leisure,
Upon the smaller fry,
And the minnow eats with pleasure
The poor unconscious fly.
The miser skins his neighbor,
The neighbor skins the poor,
And the poor man doomed to labor
Spurns the beggar from his door.
And thus the world is preying,
The strong upon the weak,
Despite the precious saying:
“The earth is for the meek.”
SECRET OF A LARCH-TREE.
A lady, young, beaut ful, blonde,
sparkled with diamonds as she danced,
herself the magnet of all eyes, amidst
the music, light, and revelry of the
August night at Silver Spring. Dia
monds twinkled in the fair hair, poised
there as a butterfly; diamonds trembled
like dewdrops about the snowy throat,
and formed a blazing pendant medallion
amidst the flowers of the satin corsage:
diamonds flashed in the tiny ears and
on each dimpled wrist.
“Professor Horton, do you see the
lady with the diamonds?” inquired tne
Colonel, with his soft, good-natured
laugh.
“Yes, I see her. What then?” re
torted the Professor, grimly.
“Oh, nothing at all, only the Silver
Spring will be regarded as a fashion
able resort, wbat with the new Belle
vue Hotel and such guests. Next
year we will be able to hold up our
heads with Saratoga and Newport, if
we can add a race-course and club
house, sir.” Here the Colonel rubbed
his bands together with a gesture which
has become traditional with the hotel
proprietor of $11 ages.
The face of Professor Horton was
lean, sallow and dolorous, on the con
trary, and was clouded by the discon
tent of one w’ho has a grievance to lay
at the door of circumstances.
He retorted, sharply, “Mrs. Delaunay
is the name, eh? Are the diamonds
real?”
“Real! They are of the purest
water, and cost seventy-five thousand
dollars, I am told. She was an heir
ess, you know, and when she married
last year, the accumulated interest of
her minority was invested in these
jewels.” Such w r as the Colonel’s glib
explanation.
“Who is her partner?” pursued the
Professor.
“Oh, the French Marquis de Ratti.
They say he followed Mrs. Delaunay
here, after being all about iu society
at New York and Washington last
winter.”
“I do not believe in foreign noble
men,” grumbled the Professor, “They
prove xo be valets and barbers more
often than not. He looks more like a
prize-fighter than a gentleman; but
perhaps the prize-fighting element is
the highest element of blood among
the nobility,” mused the republican
spectator.. “Humph! I should not
care to meet him on a dark night.
He might crack my skull like an egg-
sell betweer finger and thumb. Oh,
the customs of fashion. That young
husband, leaning against the wall,
pennits the Marquis to waltz with his
wife, instead of knocking him down
for Ins impudence.”
At this moment a pretty girl ap
peared behind the professor and the
landlord, with round, fair face and
hair meekly brushed back from the
temples, and ingenious blue eyes. The
pretty girl smoothed her neat apron
and lowered her eyes demurely as she
demanded, in the softest of voices, “if
you please’, sir, may I have my tea?”
“Mrs. Delaunay’s English maid,
Alice,” explained the Colonel, when he
had granted the request.
Why did Professor Horton follow 7 the
English maid, so young, so genteel, so
demure with his eye? He could not
tell. He saw her pause outside an
other window, where the Marquis de
Ratti was taking the air, the dance
being over, and it seemed to the ob-
erver that the two exchanged a glance,
1 smile, a signal, before the girl dis
appeared around the corner of the
louse.
•We only lack the gallantries of
noblemen and ladles’-maids to complete
he ruin of our Silver Spring,” mut-
Bred this stern moralist, whose ideas
rese so old-fashioned. He sought his
[fwn chamber gloomily, for in addition
perturbation of mind, owing to hav-
his sylvan retreat invaded by the
Philistines of fashion, he was literally
broken by bodily fatigue. lie had
ibled many miles that day, botan-
ing in the valleys, and seeking geo-
jical specimens oA adjacent hills.
Lis shoes were dusty, his raiment
irier-tom, his lo<xse sack-coat freighted
ith the “rubbish” precious to the sa-
irant in the wide external pockets,
vhile rheumatic twinges in knee and
ack reminded him that he was no
anger young, thereby increasing his
sasperation. Then to return to a
Mel where all the world was dancing,
id one woman was decked like an
iol with seventy-five thousand dollars’
Forth of diamonds. The Professor’s
gup of bitterness brimmed over at
reflections. The room was stif-
ngly hot, but he lighted his lamp,
[Ld forced himself to read an extract
am Dr. Dollinger, while moths blun-
ed about the flame, frying them-
iives to a condition of unpleasant
spness, and mosquitoes stung his
iples. His watch marked midnight.
I still the movement of the ball-room
the twang of musical instruments
ched his ear, precluding the possi-
iities of sleep.
[‘Squeak, squeak, fiddles! Boom
ay, bass viols! Keep it up till morn-
[, by all means. I wonder if that is
1 music of the future? Ahl” Here
listener clinched his teeth, with a
L alical expression of countenance,
[the violins shudder over his nerv-
system, snatched up his broad felt
, and strode out of doors, actuated
he impule of escape,
tie night was sultry and oppressive.
Professor breathed a sigh of re-
liof as he quitted the vicinity of the
hotel, which sparkled with many lights
through the trees like an ogre’s eye.
Darkness and the obscurity of the
shrubbery welcomed him abroad at
this unusual hour. He strolled about
the gravel paths, fanning himself with
his hat, and paused beneath the pro
jecting roof of the ornamented kiosque
of the Silver Spring.
“There will be a thunder storm be
fore morning,” soliloquized the Pro
fessor, replacing his hat.
All was deliciously still here, and far
below, guarded by the encircling basin,
bubbled the Silver Spring, cool and
limpid source of health, as the Profes
sor firmly believed. Had not the
nymph of the fountain spread her
wings in startled flight in the disas
trous change from rural tranquility to
a fashionable resort? The Professor
leaned on the parapet, and peered into
the crystal depths of the spring, musing
in this vein. As he did so he perceived
two persons advancing from opposite
directions to meet a few yards distant
from himself. They proved to be a
man and a womdn, and they scarcely
paused before separating again with
the same rapidity of movement as they
had met.
“Wait for me.” said the woman. “I
shall have to manage, to get away at
all.”
“I will wait till morning,” replied
the mau.
“She is sure to dance tc the very
last, you know,” added the woman.
“Don’t lose your head, that’s all,”
admonished the man.
“I lose my head, indeed!” retorted
the woman, whose voice and bearing
were youthful.
The Professor moved slowly away,
scarcely heeding these words wafted to
his ear by a passing breeze. At an an
gle of the path was a rustic bench be
neath a larch-tree, known, as Professor
Horton’s favorite seat. Hither he
directed his steps in an irritated mood,
and sank down on it in sheer weari
ness. The scent of flowers reached
him, while the foliage seemed to spread
above him ‘ ‘fragrant robes of darkness. ”
Grateful repose succeeded noise and
light, lulling all his senses to soft obliv
ion; he fell asleep.
He was awakened by a terrific peal
of thunder, and opened his eyes with a
bewildering uncertainty as to surround
ing objects. The trees swayed wildly
in the rising wind; a few large drops of
rain fell heavily among the leaves;
lightning quivered on the horizon.
Suddenly a female form bent over him,
some small object was thrust into his
hand, and a voice whispered in his ear:
“I am early. She had a headache.
Quick! take them, or I shall be missed.
The thunder rolled, the trees swayed,
the woman vanished. Professor Hor
ton winked several times, and opened
his mouth to speak, then closed his lips
without a sound. The object thus
unexpectedly consigned to his care was
a small leather bag, scarcely more
than a tobacco pouch, and heavy.
Mechanically he thrust it into one of
the wide pockets of his loose coat.
Hark! A heavy footstep crushed the
gravel on the patch to the right. The
professor rose to his own feet as if
moved by a spring, his knees shoo]-:,
his teeth chattered, a deadly fear
smote him.
Fear of what, evil? He did not kn .w.
To shrink to the left, gam the next
clump of shrubbery, and conceal him
self, was the work of a mqment, and
accomplished with the more ease that
he knew every inch of ground from
long familiarity. Had he not planted
many of these trees which now proved
friends? The hiding place gained was
a larch surrounded by stiff little Japa
nese cedars, and forming a sort of
labarynth. Scarcely had the Professor
glided into this shelter than a vivid
sheet of lightning illuminated the whole
country side. He saw himself seated
on the rustic bench beneath the larch-
tree 1 He could not believe the evi
dence of his own senses; the breath
remained suspended on his lips. Had
he been a devout Catholic he would
have crossed himself, invoking the
protection of a calendar of saints; a
chill of superstitious dread certainly
stagnated his blood. Was he to be
lieve that his hour had cony;! There
sat his own image on the rustic bench,
the soft felt hat pulled down over the
brow, the broad shoulders, the slouch
ing nondescript attire; nothing was
lacking to complete the resemblance.
Was he still asleep, victim of night
mare, or had he gone mad? He
pinched his flesh and rubbed his eyes
violently. The figure under the larch-
tree did not vanish. Swift realization
of the truth dawned on the drowsy
scholar. He was alone, at a distance
from the now silent hotel, and he had
in his pocket a bag which belonged to
the other. What if this unknown had
found him still on the bench? What if
he emerged now, accosted the stranger,
and gave him the bag?
“I should be murdered as sure as
there is a heaven above us,” shuddered
the man of letters, with a conviction
for which he could give no reason.
At this junction the wind freshened,
and the rain fell in torrents, while the
lightning became less frequent. Pro
fessor Horton quitted the larch-tree,
reached the hotel with surprising agil
ity, found a window of the recent
ball-room unfastened, groped his way
through that deserted apartment and
gained his own chamber. The bag
was gone. He had lost it from the
wide pocket, probably in his fight. His
watch marked two o’clock. The Pro
fessor extinguished the candle, opened
the shutters of the window, and Beated
himsi If with his eyes fixed ou the
eastern horizon. He was a prey to the
most exciting emotions.
Professor Horton was the first votary
of the Silver Spring abroad next morn
ing. If he was feverish and haggard,
with a stealthy, even furtive aspect,
the boy at the fountain did not notice
the circumstance. Always an early
riser, the Professor sipped a glass of
the sparkling water, and then walked
along the upper paths of the grounds.
Cautiously he skirted the rustic seat
beneath the larch-tree, and approached
the larch. A short, dry laugh of tri
umph escaped the bps of the usually
undemonstrative student. A leather
bag, half pouch, lay, concealed by the
long grass, beneath the spreading
boughs. The larch-tree had kept its
secret well. The bag remained where
it had fallen from the Professor’s wide
pocket. He clutched it, returned to
to his room, and proceeded to investi
gate the contents. The little bag held
the Delaunay diamonds. Necklace,
bracelet, butterfly ornament—nothing
was lacking in this precious heap swept
hastily from cumbersome case and
casket.
Five minutes later the rosy landlord
was seized by the collar, dragged into
his private office, and confronted by
Professor Horton, whose agitation
verged on sheer lunacy. The latter
took "from his pocket a little bag, and
poured out the Delaunay diamonds,
telling a wild and incoherent tale,
meanwhile about a larch-tree and mid-
night'rambles.
“Nobody would believe it, you
know,” said the Colonel, coolly. The
hotel proprietor is never surprised in
this world.
“Take the trinkets, and restore them
111 your own way. Do not mention me
in this transaction,” retorted the Pro
fessor. He stooped and plunged his
fingers once more in the rainbow of
precious stones with a sort of intoxica
tion; the starry rays of rose and blue
dazzled, blinded him. “Beautiful and
fatal gift to man!” he murmured, with
parched lips.
The Colonel closed one eye, with the
aspect of a sagacious bird.
Professor Horton sought his bed,
and slept heavily until 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. He was awakened by
voices, and peered through the shut
ters of his window. A carriage waited
to take the Delaunay party to the
steamboat on the lake. Mr. and Mrs.
Delaunay were already seated, while
Alice, the maid, had paused to reply
to the head waiter, after which she
re-entered the hotel. At this moment
Professor Horton’s door was opened,
and the Colonel entered with the
bouncing swiftness of moment peculiar
to fat men in haste. If the conduct of
the Professor had been extraordinary
in the morning when he had restored
the jewels, that of the Colonel was not
less so in the afternoon. He locked
the door, made a warning gesture to
the Professor, and stole on tiptoe to a
second door at the extremity of the
large room, where he lay down on
floor and applied eye and ear to
crack. Voices became audible in
adjoining chamber.
“I was there at one o’clock, and gave
it to you,” said a woman.
“A lie! I waited all night, and you
did not come,” said a man.
“I gave it to a person under the tree,
and he took it,” gasped the woman.
“Fool! Then the game is up. Get
yourself dismissed at Newport, and cut
to New York. If I believed you were
tricky, my girl, it would be the worse
for you.”
“There was a sound of footsteps, and
immediately afterward the Delaunay
carriage rolled away.
The Colonel rose to his feet, chuck
ling at the success of his stratagem.
“Set a thief — ahem—I mean a
woman to catch a woman. My wife
thought of having the English maid
sent back in search of the missing bag,
in order to give her a chance to com
municate with her accomplice in the
hotel, if she had one. The bag was
dropped in the empty room next to
you, for the purpose, and a man joined
her there. Your story is amply cor
roborated, you see, by the few words
exchanged.”
“I believe the Marquis de Ratti is
the accomplice, and no more a French
man than you are,” exclaimed the
Professor.
“So do I; but how to prove it?” re
joined the Colonel.
“You should have them arrested,”
urged the Professor.
“What is the charge? Your advent
ures of the night? The noble Marquis
is caught whispering with a pretty girl?
No, no; I gave back the diamonds to
Mr. Delaunay—with a suitable expla
nation—and he has carried them away
in a money belt. We alone know the
truth.”
“And the larch-trees,” added the
Professor. “It was the noble larch-
tree that kept the secret, my friend.
Well, well, I hope you are pleased with
the fashionable elements attracted to
our Silver Spriug. Doubt 1 ess the Mar-
quis de Ratti and the demure English
maid Alice belong to one of those bands
of English thieves who are said to keep
a map of country-seats with reference
to the plate chest, and are now trying
their fortune in America. How beau
tiful they were—those diamondsl”
The Marquis de Ratti departed by
the nine o’clock boat that same evening.
His foreign accent was never more
apparent than when he took leave of
Silver Spring.
the
the
the
Railway Exhibition.
The receipts of the Chicago Railway
Exhibition amounted to $85,0b0, bnt
the amount of loss has not yet been as
certained. The electrical railway was
in operation 118 hours, and in that time
carried 26,805 passengers. The entire
distance run was 466 miles. The report
of the electnoian in charge of the ruad,
although it gives these and other par
ticulars, and says that the motor proved
the theoretical calculations made as to
the power developed, does not contain
one word about the amount of power
actually required to operate it, the per
centage of loss in conversion, or any-
thing that would indicate either its suc
cess or failure from a commercial stand
point. This omission is significant.
There has been no doubt, in recent
years, that trains could run by electri
city, but the question is, how much
does power thus applied cost? The en
gineer, instead of answering this ques
tion, repeats what was already known,
that trains can be run by electricity.
—A monster lobster in the London
Fisheries Exhibition was sent over from
America. It measures three feet in
length, and oneof its claws weighs eight
pounds, the total weight being about
twenty-eight.
Two Electric Freak*.
A most extraordinary instance of an 1
electrical fog is mentioned by Mr.
Crosse, of Bromfield, England. This
gentleman, for the purpose of studying
atmospheric electricity, had a long wire
extending from tree to tree in his park.
The wire being perfectly insulated con
veyed the atmospheric electricity to the
room of the observer, where one end
terminated in an insulated brass bail,
near which was a second ball connected
with the ground. Mr. Crosse’s account
is as follows : “ Ou a dark November
day I was sitting in my electrical room,
during a very dense fog and rain which
had lasted many hours accompanied by
a strong south-west wind. J had at
this time 1,000 feet of insulated wire,
which crossing two if nail y"
brought the electric fluV^to'tfiy room.
From about 8 o’clock in toe morning to
4 in the afternoon the wire gave no
sign of electricity. About 4 o’clock,
while reading, I suddenly heard a very
strong explosion between the two balls,
which was an inch apart. Shortly, the
explosion became more frequent, until
there was one uninterrupted stream of
discharges, which gradually died away
and the a recommenced with the opposite
electricity in equal vio'ence. The
stream of fire waf too vivid to look upou
for any length of time, and the discharge
continued for five hours without any
intermission and then ceased entirely.
The least contact with the conductor
would have occasioned instant death ;
the stream of fluid far exceeding any
thing I have ever witnessed, except
during a thunderstorm.”
An extraordinary display of atmos-
pheriec electricity, in connection with
telegraphic lines, which may fairly be
attributed to the prevalefice of a snow
storm, was observed some years ago on
our western plains, and is thus told by
a writer in the Hartford Times : “ It
was first noticed on tlfe telegraphic
wires in central Iowa. The lines, lead
ing west, were rendered useless for the
transmission of messages, owing to an
incessant discharge of ejectricity, in
creasing in intensity untilft would leap
from one strap iu a luininfins stream to
the ground-plate of th*lightning-ar
rester. At times the whole brass-work
of tho switch-board would appear as a
mass of flame, illuminating the office
with a blinding glare. ' For several
hours previous, and for some time after
the electric discharges, a south-west
wind was blowing at the rate of thirty-
five miles an hour, acoimpanied by
jilt snow, with the thermometer at
o'-- F. This display took place within
the region having Minnesota on the
north, Detroit on the east, southern
Iowa on the south, and Omaha ou the
west. It was observed Yr- many tele
graph operators, who all united in say
ing that its effects were entirely dif
ferent from those experienced during
ordinary auroral storms. Where a
number of wires were on the same pole
one would be highly charged with
electricity and the others butslightlv,
or not at all. During the remarkable
electric phenomena that occurred on
the 17th of November, 1882, one source
of disturbance was a snowstorm, which
prevailed in England, and seriously in
terfered with the transmission of tele-
praphic messages from that country,
and had also obstructed the land service
there.
Dres* Reform.
In spite of the attack of “A Woman”
on male dress, it is obvious that men on
the whole run little danger to health
from the caprices of the mode. Their
clothes are at all times so fashioned
that they can wear unknown any
quantity of inner clothing, and the
gayest dandy in evening dress may be
amply protected from sudden chills.
This is not the case as regards lathes
at balls, and herein men show more
sense than women. The open coat,
also, may always be buttoned across the
chest, and inner drawers may make up
for thin trousers. As to the latter gar
ment, which some women envy and
others attack, there is, if we may say so
and absurd fuss made about its advo
cacy and use. We believe it is an open
secret that “dual” garments have long
been worn by ladies of all ages, from
schoolgirls up to matrons, and that, as
they are not exhibited, they may be as
long or as short, as light or as warm, as
tight or as loose, as the wearer wills or
the seasons demand. Men show their
trousers, women conceal them; that is
all the difference. If a girl desires free
dom she has only to concentrate all the
comfort and warmth in these invisible
garments, and then with a light, loose
skirt she can walk as freely as any man
and yet look as feminine as any fashion
able lady. No public meetings, no
ostentatious exhibitions are required
for this reform. Any woman may dis
pense to-morrow with heavy skirts
without even the knowledge of her lord.
Perhaps a solution so simple derives the
improvement of its attractiveness, there
must be a cause and a crusade with
protagonists and martyrs—speeches,
resolutions and leaders, committees,
councils, exhibitions and appeals—all to
compass a change that any girl can ac
complish by half an hour’s shopping
and a few minutes’ trouble and
thought.
The June Crop.
Melon* for Chills.
A correspondent writes iu relation to
chills: Some years ago I was in a min
ing town in California during the melon
season. As melons and fruits gener
ally had to be hauled in wagons a dist
ance of some twenty miles, I could not
procure them with the usual regularity.
Upon one occasion my supply of melons
gave out, and 1 remarked to an ac
quaintance ihat, as a result, I expected
I would have a chill. Sure enough, one
day while engaged in a mine 1 was
taken with a very severe chill. I spread
out in the sun with all the coats that
could be gathered around piled uu, but
of coarse could not keep warm. Just
about this time a supply of melons ar-
. rived and I at op<jp bi^ym jWMng the;
>'s| heartily. 4 had a craving appetite for
oysters and vinegar, but little or no ap
petite for anything else except melons.
I procured from an adjacent store some
Baltimore canned oysters and consumed
about three cans daily, served with
strong vinegar, and between meals ate
heartily of melons. Strange as it may
seem, these two remedies combined,
without any medicine whatever, cured
the chills as thoroughly as could have
been done by means of quinine or any
other remedy. I had only one chill.
The philosophy of the matter appears
to be this; The melons reopened the
bowels, which had probably become
costive, and the oysters, bei ng a strong
diet, strengthened nature, thus enab
ling her to throw off the disease and
restore the system to its normal condi
tion. The fact that the chills were
completely eradicated while using me
lons must be conclusive proof that they
will not produce chills, if eaten regu
larly. 1 afterwards spent much of my
time during several melon seasons in
Marysville, a city much addicted to
chills, by reason of adjacent swamps
and low lands, 1 ate melons regularly
and had no chills, while many who
were afraid of them had chills. I have
never been in any place where chills ap
peared to be so prevalent as in Marys
ville, and 1 will give it as my opinion
that melons, regularly eaten, would do
more to eradicate them than any other
means that could be devised.
iifi 4 'Wine
From the June crop report of the
Agricultural Department of Illinois, it
appears “that the estimated increase in
the coni acreage over 1882 is three per
cent., making the corn area this year
over 7,500,000 acres. The condition in
dicates a yield three-fourths as large as
as the average, or 168,750,000 bushels
less than the crop of 1882. The condi
tion of green com and sugar cane is dis
couraging. Winter wheat prospects
are not as good as in May, and the pres
ent estimate is 16,000,000 bushels. Oats
are nearly up to the average condition,
and the prospective yield is 100,090,000
bushels. Rye, flax and barley have fal-
kn off 10 per cent, in the acreage.
There will be 100,000 acres of Irish po
tatoes. Severe frosts have greatly in
jured the fruit crop.
—The number of sheep in New Mex
ico is reported to have increased from
10,000,000 in 1880 to 20,000,000 at the
present time.
lie Ueilexetl In Tein|>eranee.
“Fact is,” said Mr. Swiller, sitting
down at the round table with his
friend. “Fact is—two beers, Tony!—
there’s just as much .intemperance in
eating as there is in drinking, and
that’s what puts me—by George, tliat’s
refreshing, isn’t it? Cold as ice. Fill
’em up again, Tony—out of patience
with these total abstinence fanatics.
A man can be temperate in his eating
and he can be temperate in his drink
ing, and I go—light a cigar?—in for
temperance in all things. Now I like
to—thank you, yes, 1 believe I will re
peat—sit down with a friend and enjoy
a glass of beer in a quiet way, just as
we do now. It’s cool, refreshing,
mildly stimulant—have another with
me—and does me good. I know when
I have enough and—once more, Tony
—when I have enough I know enough
to quit. Now do I look—hello, there’s
Johnson; sit down here with us John
son; three beers, Tony—I was just
asking Blotter here if I looked like a
victim of dyspepsia. I don’t drink
much water this weather; I believe it’s
the worst—this time with me, fellows
—thing a man can put into his system
such weather as this. I believe beer is
tne best thing for any man, and I know
it’s the best thing for me. But 1—
don’t hurry; have another before you
go; here, Tony!—don’t gorge myself
with it; I don’t sit around and get full
every time 1 take a drink. 1 like to—
three more Tony—sit down quietly
with a friend and enjoy a glass of beer
and a bite of lunch, but 1 don’t like to
gorge myself. I don’t eat myself into
a — fill these up again — dyspepsia,
either, and then claim to be a temper
ate man. Temperance in all things is
my mozzer-mozzo-motto. Thatsh me.
Now, I don-donk-donkall, i donkall
myself a drinking man—once more
wiz me, fellows—I like to sit down
quieshly wish few frens and ’joy glash
beer—just becaush does me good; good.
But I don eat myself to death—oncesh
more all roun’—like these temperals
falatics—oncesh in while I like glash
of beer—jush in quiet way oncesh in
while I like glash of beer—but you
don’see—you don’see me gettin’ full
ev’y time—” (Talks temperance in
all things and undue indulgence in
nothing over twelve more glasses and
succumbs.)
Rasing Upon Crutches.
There was a novel race from the custom
house to the Commercial office, in L'iuib-
ville, Ky., the other morning between 12
and 1 o'cloctt, between a couple of one-
legged men named Cook and Rogers. The
lifer is a recent arrival from Memphis,
wnere he was considered the crack one-
legged runner of the country. Since his
arrival in Louisville he has been talking
pretty loud about his lacing abilities, and
he met Cook, who claims the reputation of
being the fleetest one-legged runner in
Louisville. Upon meeting both men
claimed to be able to “do” the other, and
a match was soon arranged between them.
They divested themselves of their coats,
vests and bats, and each with a single
crutch under his right arm, got in position
for the tace. At a given signal they star
ted and the Louisville man with three
tremendous hops sprang in the lead. But
Memphis was alongside ot him in a mo
ment, and then ensued one of the grandest
races ever witnessed. The men hopped
together as though they were one man,
and the time made was wonderful. A race
horse could not have caught them, for
they made fully twelve feet at every stride.
Together they wen', and as they reached
the string running from the Commercial
office to the Kentucky School of Medicine,
the belated pedestrians who witnessed the
race declared that it would be a dead
heat, when suddenly the Memphis man's
crutch struck a treacherous rock and away
be went head over heels, first one end up
and then the other. The Louisville man
put on an extra spurt to keep his adver
sary from rolling In under the string ahead
of him. But when the Memphis man
struek the high street crossing he stopped
rolling, and the Louisville man went under
the wire an easy winner by two lengths.
UarberinK at Hume.
obs answering thejmll, reading, Veii'^M^whS^itTr^er
upTos «e oaw, snartTTOking such rouble, and 1* w good as * ben first txn
* sUl,d wiUloQt Winusboro, S. C., Aprl. 1883. * J - W *
A New York barber recently remarked
there are a great many families who dis
like to bring their children to the shop
to have their hair trimmed. They pre
fer naving it done at iheir homes. This
is a lucrative branch of the practice, as
the price charged is treble that which
rules in the shop. Already I have
twelve families ou my list. I visit their
children once a month, and keep their
hair in order. Next mere are gentle
men who can afford the luxury of a pri
vate barber. The valet, as a rule, is a
bad workman, ontside of his natural
duties of brushing his master’s clothes
and boots
all the _ r
as hq| cun stand without being
caught by his master I wait ou about
twenty gentlemen now at their homes.
All of my clients are gentlemen of
wealth, and nil of them are very partic
ular about the trimming of their heads
and hair. i have one exceedingly
liberal customer at the Faimer House.
He tbiuks that my manner of combing
his hair conceals bis growing boldness
Irom a prying world—an important
matter to any mau who finds himself
nearing the fortieth milestone, which,
is called the old age of youth. It le not
shaving and hair catting only that I do
among this class, I am provided with
materials to produce a delicate gloss on
the whiskers, also with an incomparable
mixture for restoring gray hair to its
youthful color. Do you want a bottle?
No? You may, when you grow older,
feel as many of my customers do—that
gray hairs are insulting. I have a
bachelor who entertains his friends, male
and female, in regal style in his apart
ments in the—well, in a flat on Michi
gan avenue. His hair and beard daily
grow thinner. Why? Because every
morning he has me make a microscopic
examination tor gray hairs in each. If
there are any, out they come with the
tweezers. 1 expostulate and cite my
restorer as the proper cure, but he in
sists. He'll be sorry when he has no
hair, which won’t be a very long time
from now if ne keeps up his present rate
ot pulling it out. The pernicious prac
tice of men shaving themselves is the
worst opposition existing to the tonso
rial trade. But, fortunately, every one
cannot learn to handle his own razor,
and as for cutting their own hair, none
of them can do tba\”
“Another very lucrative branch of
practice is among lady clients,” droned
the barber. “1 attend a good many
ladies regularly once a week to shampoo
and dress their hair. The Importance
of every art which tends to preserve and
beautify the hair is very highly re
garded, I am glad to say. When the J
scalp is kept free of dandruff and is
over a certain fragrance. Ladies should
use little oil. The hair brush is better
than sticky liquids, They should be
careful about keeping their hair
trimmed. It is liable to split at the endi
and grow harsh when not attended to.
I am; as I say, waiting on a great many
ladies at their residences, and, by the
way, it would surprise people who have
no opportuniti s of seeing for them
selves to learn of the elegence and lux
ury of certain Chicago homes. I recall
the mistress’ dressing-room in a house
on Prairie avenue. Its walls are mostly
mirrors with silver frames, the spaces
between them tilled in wi:h costly lace
adornments. The toilet set is silver
and geld, heavily studded with precious
stones. Every article in the room is of
the richest and most expensive charac
ter, as, indeed, it can aftord to be, see
ing that the owner's husband makes
half a million a year.
Volcanic Eruption at S«a.
THE VERDICT
—OF-
THE PEOPLE
BUY THE BEST!
Mr. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir: I bought the lint
Davia Machine sold by you oygjtflva
alvas aay
bought.
POLICE.
Mr. Boao: Ton wish to know what I have to uy
In regard to the Davia Machine bought 0' you threa
years ago. I feel I can’t say too much In na favor.
I made about $80,00 within five months, at times
running It so fast that the needle would get per
fectly hot from friction. I feel confident 1 could
not have done the same work with aa much ease
and so well with any other machine. No time loat
In adjusting attachments. The lightest running
machine ' have ever treadled. Brother James and
Williams’ families are as much pleased with their
Davi* Maciiiuea bougiii oi you. i want uo better
machme. As I said before, I don’t think too
much can be said for the Davia Machine.
Respectfully,
Ellen Stevenson,
Falrfl“ld County, April, 1883.
Mr. Boao : My machine gives me perfect satla-
faction. I find no fault with it. The attachments
are 10 simple, i wish for no better than the Davis
Vertical FeeJ.
Respectfully.
„ Mrs. R. Millino.
Fairfield county, Apn', 1883.
Mr. Boao: I bought a Pavla Vertical Feed
e wing Machine from you four years ago. I am
elighted with it. It never has given me any
rouble, and has never been the least out of order.
It Is as good as when I first bought it. 1 oaa
cheerfully recommend It.
Respectfully,
Mrs. M. J. Kibeland.
Montlcello, April 30,1883.
This is to certify that I have been using a Dana
Vertical Feed Sewing Machine *or over twoyeara,
purchased of Mr. J. u. Hoag. 1 haven't found 11
possessed of any fault—all the attachments are ao
simple, i, never refuses to work, aud it eertaluly
the llghtesi running in the market. I consider it
a first-class machine.
Very respectfully,
Minnie M. Willingham.
Oakland, Fairfield county, S. C.
Mr Boao : i am wen pleased m every partiom
with the Pavia Machine bought of you. 1 think
a first -class machine In every respect. You knew
you sold several raachlnea of the same make to
different members of our families, all ot whom,
as far as 1 know, are well pleased with them.
Hesnectfully,
Mrs. M. U. Moblet.
Fairfield county, April, 18S3.
A violent volcanic eruption recently
took place in the Java Heas. During
May 20 and 21 the outbreak at Krakatau
Island, situated in the Strait of Sunda.
was very heavily felt at Batavia. From
Anjer it is reported “there was a tre
mendous eruption, with continual shak
ing and heavy rain of ashes,” on the
20th of Miy, and on the night of the
following day it was distinctly seen
there. A steamer which reached Ba
tavia on the 24th of July having passed
Krakatau Island ou tne north, met with
a heavy rain of ashes, covering the decks
with one and a half inches of volcanic
matter.
While tills eruption seems to have
been notably violent it is an agreeable
surprise that no fatal effects aooompany-
ing it arj reported. The great curve
made by the islands circling round
Borneo, including Java, defines an aiea
of most intense volcanic activity, and it
would have been nothing remarkable
had the recent outbreak been exceed
ingly destructive. In 1822 the eruption
ot Mount Gilung-gung on the main
island desolated over a hundred villages
and destroyed four thousand persons.
The eruption of Mount Guntur, in 1843,
according to the estimate of J unghuhn,
a writer on Java, threw out thirty mil
lion tons of sand and ashes. That the
volcanoes of this island—the gem of the
Indian Ocean—have not exhausted their
energy by these exploits is shown by
the fact that in 1872 the eruption of the
active volcano Merapi proved fatal to
many inhabitants of Kadu, and the
damage feared from the ashes ejected
by this fiery cone is said to have inter
fered with coffee planting in the dis
tricts of Probolingo and Bemaneh. As
late as 1878, according to seismic statis
tics of Dr. Bergsma, there were sixteen
earthquakes registered throughout the
island.
As the scene of the recent disturbance
lies on the West Java coast, and the
whole island is swept at this season by
the regular south-east trade winds, the
volcanic ashes must have fallen mostly
at sea and cannot have affected the
the growing coffee crops. It u to be
hoped that the recent eruption at Kra-
katan, by relieving the earth of the in
ternal pressure, will be a safeguard
against further disturbances at present.
But as Java is the centre of the most
active volcanic region now known on
the globe, having standing on a single
plain twenty-eight distinct volcanic
cones, varying in height from five thou
sand to fourteen thousand feet, it must
be some time before a sense of security
returns to the Javanese.
This Iftto certit; we have hail m constant tut
the Davis Machine bought ot 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. R is always ready todo any kind
of work we have to do. No puckering or aklpplng
stitches. We can only sav we are we 1 , pleased
and wlab no better machine,
Catherine W’yme and Sister.
April 86, 18*8,
I have no fault to find with my mach ne, and
don’t want any .tetter. I have made the price of
it several times by taking In sewing. It is always
reaily to Oo Its work. I think it a flrst-claaa ma
chine. I feel I can't say too mach for the Davi*
Vertical Feed Machine.
Mrs. Thomas Smith.
Fairfield county, April, 1883.
Mr. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir: It gives me mTcb
pleasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver
tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine 1 got of
yon about five years ago. has been almost .'a con-
slant use ever since that.time. I cannot see that
it la worn any, and has not cost me one cent for
repairs since we have had it. Am well pleaaed
and don’t wish for any better.
Yonrs truly,
Rost. Crawfobb,
Granite quarry, near Wlnnsboro 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 unbounded satisfaction.
Very reapectfully,
Mrs. W. K. Turner and DauobtiksI
Fairfield county, S. C., Jan. 87, 1888.
uavip<i bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewlug
Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three years
ago, and it having given me perfect satisfaction In
every res|«ct asa family machine, both for hea-'y
and light sewing, and never needed the least re
pair In any way, 1 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
simplest machines made; my children use It with
all ease. The attachments are more eaally ad
justed and It doet a greater range of work by
means of its Vertical Feed than any other ma
chine I have ever seen or used.
Mas. Thomas Owinos.
Wlnnsboro, Fairfield county, & C.
We have had one of the DavL Machine* about
fonr years and hav* always found It ready to do all
kinds of work we have had occaaion to da Can’t
sgs that the machine is worn any, and works aa
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 yon. She would not take double
what ahe gave for It. The machine has not
been ont of order since she had It, and she can do
any kind of work on It.
Very Respectfully,
Jae. F. Free.
Montlcello, Fairfield county, S. CL
The Davis Sewing Machine Is simply a tr*a$-
ure Mrs. J. A. uoodwth.
Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1883.
J.O Boao, Esq., Agent—Dear Sir: My wife
has been using a Davis dewlag Machine constant
ly for the paat fonr years, and It has never needed
any repairs and works Jnst as well as when first
bought She says It will do a g.eater range of
practical work »nd do it easier and better than
any machine ehe has ever used. We cheerfully
recommend It as a Na 1 family machine,
Your trujr,
Jas. Q. Davis.
Wlnnsboro, 8. C., Jan. 8,1883.
Me. Boas : 1 have alwaja found my Davis Ma
chine ready do all kinds of to work I have had oc
casion todo. I cannot see that the machine Is
worn a particle and It works as wed as when new.
Respectfully,
Mia. R. C. Goodino.
Wlnnsboro, 8. C., April, 1888,
Mr. Boas : My wife has been oonstantly using
the Davis Machine bought of yon about nve years
seo. 1 have never regretted baying It, aa K M
always ready for any kind of famuj sewing, either
heavy or light. It ta never out of fix or needing
»«, ,w «r Kw
miMM, & C. Kink, UM.