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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
WINNSBORO. S. 0.. SEPTEMBER 0. 1883.
ESTABLISHED 1848
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THE VERDICT
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THE PEOPLE.
BUY THE BEST!
Mr. .1.0. Boao -Dear Sir: I bouglit tiie first
Davis Machine wold by you over dve years a|{o for
uiy wife, who has Riven it a long and fair trial. I
am well pleased with It. It never Rives any
rouble, and is as good as when first bought.
J. W. UOMCE.
Wlunsboro, S. C., Aprl. 1883.
Mr. Boao: Ton wish to know what I have to say
lu regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three
years ago. 1 feel I can't say too much In its favor.
I uia le about <180,11(1 within dve mouths, at limes
running it so fast that the needle would get per
fectly hot from friction. I feel conddeni I could
not have done the same work with as much ease
and so well with any other machine. No time lost
in adjusting attachments. The lightest running
machine I have ever treadled. Brother James and
\\ Ilhams' families are as much pleased with their
Davis Machines nought of you. I want no better
machine. As 1 said before, I don’t think too
much cau tie said for the Davis Machine.
Respectfully,
hi.l.KN 8TSVKSS0N,
Faird“ld County, Aprl', 1SS3.
A WIFE TO HKK HUSBAND.
Mr. Boao : Mv machine gives me perfect satis-
faction, i Und no fault with it. The attachments
u'e so simple. 1 wish for no better than the Davis
Vertical Feed.
Respectfully.
Mrs. R. Mim.ino.
Fairdeld county, Aprl 1 , 1883.
Mr. Boao: I nought a Davis vertical Feed
ew.ng 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 drat bought it. I can
cheerfully recommend If.
Respectfully,
Mrs, M. J. Kireland.
Moutlcelio, April SO, 1888.
This is to certify that I have been using a Davis
Vertic.il Feed Sewing Machine for over tw lyeirs,
purchased of Mr. J. o. Hoag. I haven’t found it
p issessed of any fault -all the attachments are so
simple. It never refuses to Work, and is cenamly
the lightest running in the market., 1 consider It
a drat class machine.
Very respectfully,
Minnie M. Wiiainouau.
Oakland, Fairdeld county, s. C.
Mr boao: i am wcii pieasen in every part lent
with the Davis Machine nought of you. 1 think
a drsi-claa, mac nine iu every respect. You knew
you soul several machines of the same make to
dulerent members of our families, allot whom,
as far as 1 kuow, sre well pleased with them.
Respectfully,
Mrs. M. if. Mobi.kt.
Fairdeld connty, April, 1888.
This is to certify we nave nai in constant use
the Davis Machine bought of you about three years
ago. As we take lu work, and have made the
pi ice of it several limes over, we dou’t want auy
better machine. It is always ready todo any kind
of work wu nave to do. No pnckerlngor skipp ng
stitches. We can oniy say we are well pleased
and wisn no better machine,
t.'ATBKKiNk Wylie and Sister.
April A i8s«.i
f have no fault to and with ray mach ne, and
don’t want any better. I have nu le the price of
li severa. times by taking in sewing. It Is alwayi
ready to do Us work. 1 think it a drst-dass mo
chine. I fee! I can t say too aucl*. for the Davu
Vertical Feed Machine.
Mrs. Thomas Smith.
Fairfield county, April, 1883.
Mr. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir. It gives me m ich
pleasure to testily to the merits of the Davis Ver
tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of
yon about dve years ago. has been almost in cou-
ataut uae ever since that lime. I cannot sec that
it is worn any, and has not cost mo one cent for
repairs since we nave had it. Am well pleased
and don't wish lor any better.
Yours tru'y,
iiOBT. C’RVWFORD,
Granite Quarry, near Winnsboro S. O.
We have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing
Ma bine for tne last dve years. We would not
have any other make at auy price. The machine
has given us unbonndeu satisfaction.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. W. K. Turner and Dauohteks)
Fairdeld county, S. C„ Jan. XI, 1883.
One of us, dear—
Hut one—
Will ait by a bed with a marvelous fear,
And clasp a band,
Growing cold as it feels for the spirit
land—
Darling, which one?
One of us, dear—
But one—
Will stand by the other’s coftin bier,
And look and weep,
While those marble lips strange silence
keep,
Darling, which one?
One of us, dear—
But oue—
By an open grave will drop a tear,
Aud home want go,
The anguish of an unshared grief to
kuow—
Darling, which one?
One of us, darling, it must he;
It may he you will slip from me;
Or perhaps my life may just be done—
. Which oue?
Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing
Machine from Mr. J. O. B mg some three years
ago, and it uaving given me perfect satisfaction in
•very resiiect as a tamilv machine, both for hea y
and light sewing, ami never needed the least re
pair in any way, I can cheerfully recommend It to
any one as a first-class inachln- in every particu
lar, and think It second to none. It Is one ot the
simplest machines made; my children use It wltn
all ease. The attachments are more easily ad
justed aud It doei a greater range of work by
means of its Vertical Feed than any other ,Ra-
chlne I have ever seen or used.
Mrs. Thomas owinos.
Winnsboro, Fairdeld county, 8. C.
ANNIE’S REVENUE.
We have had one of the Davli Machiues 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 is worn auy, and works as
well as when new. „ _ „
Mrs. W. J. Crawford,
Jackson’s Creek, Fairdeld county, h. O.
My wife Is highly pleased with the Davis Ma
chine bought ot you. She would not take dounle
wnat sue gave for it. The machine has not
been out ot order since she had it, aud she can do
any kind of work on it. -
Very Reapectfullv, V
J as. F. Free.
Monticello, fairdeld county, s. C.
The Davla Sewing Machine W simply a treas
ure Mrs. J. A. Uoouwyn.
H.dgeway, N. C., Jan. 10.1&83.
Annie Ilamson was twenty-seven,
and the handsomest young lady in Lar-
onville.
Her grace of manner was wonderful,
and the women who envied and dis
liked her were won to admiration by her
matchless courlesy. And, of course, it
was difficult for any man to withstand
her.
She was a flirt. Hearts and fortunes
innumerable had been laid at her feet,
but she rejected them all. To do her
justice, she never sought admiration
and the men whose wings she had singed
closest, all averred that she had never
encouraged them.
By and by Julian Erskinecame home
from the Cape. A handsome fellow,
with self-conceit enough to sink a ship,
and fortune enough to enable him to
practice his profession, the law, or let it
alone, as he chose.
Erskine was in some degree unprinci
pled. He has been left an orphan at a
tender age and adopted by a miserly,
eccentric uncle, who alternately petted
him and swore at him, until the boy l»e-
came, in a degree, reckless, and very
nearly desperate as to what any one
thought of him. When he grew up all
the women went to work and made a
fool of him, its they generally do of a
handsome man. Then his uncle died and
left him a fortune; so there wasnptihng
for the young man to do but to enjoy
himself. He traveled extensively, and
broke all the hearts which were ready to
be broken. Indeed, more than one sweet
girl’s happiness lie blighted for life
Against one unfortunate girl he had
commtited the deepest and bitterest
wrong in the whole black catalogue of
crime and sin! Helen Andrews died
when her child was born and was glad to
hide herself in the grave. Julian Erskine
held up his head, and fair women, virtu
ous women they called themselves,
smiled on him
Of course Mr. Erskine soon met Miss
Harrison.
He admired her intensely and left
every other fancy to devote himsqlf to
her. And I think no man w as ever more
a devoted slave to a woman than lie was
to her.
It went on for three months in the
usual way, Erskiue everywhere Miss
Harrison’» utieudaiil.
In February there was a fete at Harri
son lodge. All our set were present
Miss Harrison was magniiicunt. Her
dress of black velvet with diamonds on
her neck and arms became her perfectly;
and among her guests she moved with
queenly grace and beauty
Burton whispered to me, and she had
jilted Burton some two years ago; “Look
out for breakers ahead, Alden. Miss
Harrison is on her high horse to-night
and Erskine is spoonier than ever.”
. ,Pshaw!’ replied I;‘Erskine cut his
eye teeth long ago, and Annie Harrison
knows it.
‘Perhapsso,’ returned Burton, quietly.
‘But 1 am satistied this is a real tiling
with Erskine. Look at him now, while
she is talking to him. Why, man there’s
a flush on his cheek like a girl’s blush at
the ttrst kiss of her lover. And she, by
Jove—don’t I know the meaning of the
steely gleam in those eyes of hers? Well,
1 rather think I do.
I laughed, for I had not given Julian
Erskine the credit of having any heart;
and as for Miss Harrison, I accepted s >-
ciety’s verdict, aud looked on her as a
scientific coquette.
A little after my conversation with
Burton I strolled into the convervatory.
1 heard some persons come in, but did
not notice them until the intensely pas
sionate voice of the man arrested my at
tention. 1 glanced up and saw Mr.
Erskine and Miss Harrison.
‘1 implore you to answer mel’lie said,
grasping her hands; ‘for three intermina
ble weeks you have kept me in agony
A week more like tins would kill me.”
‘Oh, no, indeed,’ she said, ‘1 think you
exaggerate, Mr. Erskine. People are not
so easily killed. ’
‘But I love you! I love you!’ he cried
almost savagely.
‘Ho you? That is very kind of you,’
she returned, languidly.
Ho you mean to drive me mad? Annie
Harrison, 1 love you with my whole heart
and soul, with every nerve and tibre of
my bodyl 1 want you for my wife! my
own, own wife! Come to my arras—it is
my right to hold you against the heart
which knows no life but that you give
it.’
:ier without a word. His face was white
as death, and his eyes had in them a sort
of stony desperation, which seat a chill
to my heart.
Half an hour later I was sent for In
haste to the lloyal hotel. Erskine stayed
there. He had shot himself, the mes
senger said, but was still living.
1 found him conscious, but sinking
rapidly. He was bleeding internally, and
the agony lie was suffering would soon
lie over. There was nothing l could do
but administer something to make ids
pain less jioigiiaut.
“Alden,” said he, feebly, I meant to
do the job without bungling, but failed
miserably. You know the reason why 1
judged it better to die than live. Miss
Harrison ”
“Yes, yes,” I said, I heard your con
versation in the conservatory.”
<( She was Just. Idon’tblaftieher. But
oh,doctor, I loved her so! and she might
have changed the whole tenor of my life!
I would have been just what she had
willed I should be! And I must see her
before I die! I want to ask her forgive
ness—to hear her say that she will accept
the sacrifice of my worthless life as an
atonement for the wrong I did her
sister.”
I tried to dissuade him, for I knewMiss
Harrison’s haughty pride. As I was ar
guing with my patient the door of the
room opened and Annie Harrison came
in.
She went straight to the bedside, knelt
down, and lifted Erskine’s head against
her bosom.
“My darling, she said, in atone whose
wondrous tenderness made my own
blood thrill like wine, ‘will you forgive
me? I had no right to take God’s ven
geance out of His wise hands. I had no
right to spurn you as I did. And yet
only He knows what it cost me, for
Julian, I love you as I have never loved
any earthly thing! Oh, my darling! my
darling!” and bowing her face on his she
gave way to a tit of sobbing which shook
her from head to foot.
I left them together. When I went
back death was already dropping its
palor over the brow of poor Erskine. He
knew that he was passing rapidly; and
with his last strength he turned his lips
to her cheek.
“Farewell, dearest,” he said softly, I
will wait for you in another world.
His eyes closed—he lay still. After a
while 1 touched his pulse, and knew lie
was dead.
Annie Harrison is an old woman now,
but she has never married. She is liv
ing out her life quietly.
How CmU are Taken.
Base Han as a Business,
Houses at Home aud Abroad.
Spices.
J.o Boao, Esq., Ag#nt-Dear Sir: My wife
has ueen uslug a Davis Sewing Machine constant
ly for the past four years, an t it has neve- needed
any repairs an i works just as well as wheu drst
bought She says it will do a greater rauge of
practical work *nd do it eaaler aud bet'er than
any machine she uas ever used. We cheerfully
recommend it as a No. 1 family machine,
Your tru.j,
Jas. Q. Davis.
Winnsboro. S. C., Jan. 3, 1883.
Mr. Boao: I have always found my Davis Ma
chine ready do ah kinds of to work I have had oc-
•aslon to do. I cannot aee that the machine la
worn a panicle and it worka as wed aa when new.
Respectfn ly,
Mrs. R. U. Uoodino.
Winnsboro, B. C., April, 1883,
Mr. Boao: My wife has been constantly using
the Davla Machine bought of >on about Sve years
ago. I have never regrened buying It, as it is
always ready for any kind of fan ily aewlng, either
neavy or light. It is never out ot flx or ueeurng
wp&ira.
Very respectfully,
A. W. Ladd
Fairfield, S. C., March, 1888.
There are large quanUlies of spices irn
ported inti) Ihm country. Black pepper,
however, has the preponderance, the ag
gregate for the year ending June 30, 1883,
lieiug 70,000 packages of 120 pounds
each, or an aggregate of 8 400 OOO pouuds
of whole pepper. Of this nearly 100,
000 pounds has been ground by one
house within the same period. White
pepper aggregated 2 500 packages of 100
pounds each, or a total of 250,000
pounds, about 6,000 pounds of which had
been ground. Bed or Cayenne pepiier
aggregated 3.000 packages ot 80 pounds
each, or 240 000 pounds, of which 6 594
pouuds had I et-n ground in New Yore.
Pimento amounted to 10.000 packages of
100 pounds each, or 1,000,000 poun
imported whole, of which neat ly 12 500
l>ouuds aie now annually giound New
York. Of Cassia buds 10.000 packages
were imported from Saigon, Caina, and
10 000 packages from Rstavis; making a
total of 26,000 packages of 80 pounds
each, or an aggregate of over 2,000,000
pounds, of which about 35,000 poumls
are ground here instead of being im
ported in the manufactured stale. About
20,000 pounds of cinnamon are annually
imported from Ceylon, but as this spice is
mainly used in Mexico, where the natives
chew the sticks, very little is ground here;
only such quantities as are likely to be
required for domestic use. About 8,000
packages of whole cloves are imported
from Zanzibar, and 1,500 from Amboyna,
making an aggregate ot 790,000 pounds,
of wbicb about 12,000 pouuds were
ground by oue house from the bud only.
The records show, however, that there are
also imr.orUd over 100,000 p mnds annu
ally of clove stems, which are useless,
being devoid ot taste. These are used by
unprincipled persons for the adulteration
of ground cloves being cheaper than the
bud, aud easily ground with it. Ginger
is very largely exported from Africa, Cal -
cutta, Cochin C nna and Jamaica. The
first named place supplied during ihc year
jest past 10,000 packages of 100 pouuds
each, or a total of 1,000,(’00 pounds;
Calcutta 6,000 packages or 600,000
pouuds; Cojhm China 2,000 packages of
110 pounds each, or 220,000 pounds, and
Jamaica 2 000 packages of 120 pounds
each, or 240,000 pouncs, making the total
amount of whole ginger imported during
the year over 2 OoO.OOO pounds; ot this
about 60,000 pouuds are now ground an
nually in New York. Nutmegs aggregate
12.000 packages of 60 pounds each or
720,000 pounda, and the mace reaches a
total of 90 000 pounds. Of the former
very little is sold ground;* but of the latter
the aggregate for this year was about 2,000
pounds. The total amount of the above
mentioned importations is 25,755,000
pounds.
A Noted Mountain.
In Grand street. New York, stands a
plain-looking, three-story building. Sur
rounded by an atmosphere of restless busi
ness activity, it nevertheless has the ap
pearance within of a veritable abode of
silence. None of the hurrying passers-by
would suspect that its frout wall hides
from view a “oitv ot the dead,’ the mina-
ture streets ot wtiich are lined with the
torms of many who have gone over to the
great majority. It may be entered with
out dismay, however, for its ‘‘sheeted
dead’’ are but plaster-casts, quite unable to
“squeak and gibber,” though many have
mdecd a “speaking’' likeness. Here may
be found the gods and goddesses, the
emperors, generals, statesmen and authors
of the ancient world, and famed ones of
the modern world as well. In the con
structive eemomy o4 tl.hi museum the dii-
tinctions of casts obse»A»d In tiro outside
world are no longer found. On the same
shelf are the “Ox-evcd Juno, Queen of
Heaven" ami the “Greek Slave,” Jupiter
Touans and the “Supplicant Youth,”
Augustus aid the “Hying Gladiator,”
Nero and St. Francis, the Madonna and a
Venus. Here Mercury is ever “new-ligh
ted on a heaven-kissing hill,” there the
heroic Fallas Athene stands with upright
spear, Diana the Chaste again starts for
the chase, the Discobolus never quite lets
go bis quoit. On the extended arm of the
Fighting Gladiator the Mow is ever coining
as of old. About are scattered relievos
of fruits, flowers cud leaves; animal torms
and heads arc jumbled together in a happy
family; prizes, medallions, vases, pede-
tals and brackets fid up the interstices.
One feature of the collection, the fractions
of the human body, suggested the follow
ing conversation between a reporter aud
the proprietor, C. Ginocchio.
“Does auy one ever come here to have
a cast made ot an arm or hand or a leg?
and what is the process and time taken?'
“We have frequent calls for casts of
hands; not so much for arms aud legs.
The casting varies in regard to the time,
a leg or an arm taking much longer, of
course, than a foot or a hand. Tne pro
cess, however, is the same in all these
cases. First, the hand is coveted with
piaster from an inch to an inch and a halt
thick. We wait till this settles and grows
lukewarm, perhaps twenty minutes in the
case of a hand. Then 'with a string the
plaster is cut into sections and removed.
It is now put together aga ; n, the iuside
hollow having the exact shape, lines and
thickness of that part of the hotly to which
the plaster was applied. This hollow Is
next washed with oil, because we are now
to fill it with plaster, and this must not be
allowed to stick (as it would without the
oil) to the outside plaster first put on.
Then the mold thus filled, is laid away,
for five hours or so iu the case of a baud.
Afterward, the workman cbissels away
the outside plaster, working down to the
baud formed within. This of course re
quires care aud deltoaoy lest the inside
hand be cut. The ctussehng takes a half
a day, and the whole operation consumes
a day. Two days are required for a leg or
an arm.”
“For what purpose,’’asked the repor
ter, “are these casts generally made?”
“For personal gratification, or for sur
gical operations—a surgioa frequently
finding a cast of a dlaortcd or diseased
limb, useiul for study before the o|K-ration
is performed. Also, you know, art schools
need them for anatomical study. A cast
is copied iu marble sometimes. ’’
Is the mark of the human face ever
taken from hte?”
“Yes, it is done. We have taken such
a mask several tunes, though we dislike it
end wd! probably refuse to do so again.
The plaster is put on in three sections
separately, the space around the mouth
forming one section, aud a line reaching
from the centre of the forehead down to
the tip ot the nose dividing the rest of the
face into two sections. A small pipe is
passed through to the nostrils for breath
ing purposes. The plaster is likely to stick
to any hairs on the tace and hurts a deli
cate skin. Our charge for this cast is over
eight times as much as for a band, so you
see that wc regard it as a matter requiring
great care.”
T suppose you are called upon to make
masks of dead men’s faces?’'
“Yes, and busts, too. The cost of these
is rather high; $15 for the mask and $60
for the busi, but we have had a number ot
calls in that department of our work. This
operation requires more time than others,
a half day being needed for applying aud
removing the plaster, aud then three days
more for the mask aud a week for the
bust.”
“Are there ever cases of 'monstrosities'
applying for c ists of themselves?”
“Well, i don’t know that you would
call this a case of montroflily, but oue
woman recently hail a leg taken iu plaster
. ust above the knee which measured
twenty-two inches. It was to be put in a
show-case, she said.”
Site retreated a pace or two and raised
her face to Ins. Every word she spoke
was clear and distinct, and yet her voice
was lifted scarcely above a whisper.
‘I will answer you, Mr. Erskiue, with
pleasure. Y r ou have heard of Helen
Andrews? Yes; I see you have. She
was my half sister, and 1 loved her next
to my God. You know your part in the
tragedy where you and she were the
principal actors—you know how it end
ed. It was fortunate for you, coward
and hypocrite, that I was in a foreign
laud at the time she died, for if I had
been on the same soil with you I should
have killed you. When the wretched
tale came to my ears, I swore to be re
venged on you, and I have taken my own
way to fulfil tmy vow. Sooner than
wed you 1 would make myself the wife
of the lowest brute in the universe who
could be called a man. There, you have
your answer! Go!”
She pointed to the door. He obeyed
Sky-Augusta is a Georgia mountain
that viewed Irom ngkt point, presents
the outline of a prone Indian, and in
cites a spectator to this florid descrip-
tiod: “Aa tne sun dipped beyond the
verge there was a general oonfljgratiou,
and Sky-Augusta was seemingly burned
upon his funeral pyre, as no Bom an or
Greek or latter pagan was ever wrappei
in fire. And yet a httls later, nncou-
Burned »' d everlasting, we beheld the
mighty Indian still battled in rosy floods
of radiance.” Accepting the correction
from a lady, the Augusta (Ga.) Chron
icle says that the Indian profile on the
mountain range near (Jlerkesville, that
State, is ca led “Skiajagu-tah,” and not
• Sky-Augusta,” as it first printed it
and adds:—“Skisjagnstah was a famous
Cherokee chief, who in 1730 went to
England with Sir Alexander Gumming.
In a perse nai interview with the King
he formulated a treaty that was ob
served for years afterwaids. He was an
eloquent savage, and deserved the im
mortality of fame that the late Robert
I can remember, said Harry Wright,
the noted Base Ball player “when the
first admission fee of 10 cents a head
was charged by the Atlantics of Brook
lyn. It occasioned a vigorous kick,
for up to that time base ball had been
the game, but the crowds didu’t dimin
ish, ami when the Rail Stockings, of
Cincinnati, went East they charged 50
cents admission aud got large crowds
from the start. I have seen crowds so
dense that the gates were closed long
before the game was called, aud, fear
ing a rush if the gates should ho opened
to admit the players, the latter had to
dimb the fence. The great base ball
event of this country was the formation
of the league, composed of representa
tives of ionr eastern aud four western
clubs, formed in 1876. It has raised
the tone of base ball, made it next to
impossible for players to sellout a game
and resulted in inspiring a degree of
confidence iu the game that horae-rac-
iug doesn’t enjoy. The penalty for
throwing a game is expulsion from the
league with no prospect of reinstate
ment. Four men were expelled from a
Louisville nine on charge of throwing
game, aud although they have applied
every season for admission to the league
they have been refused. This league is
one of the most perfect aud strict or
ganizations iu the country. It has dis
couraged pool selling and done away
almost entirely with drinking on the
part of the players. This league was
organized by the late W. A. Halbert,
a member of the Chicago Board of Trade
a man of promptness and great decision
of character, I believe that base ball
instead of deeming will become more
popular. One of the features suggested
by the League is a uniform system of
salaries, so much for the catchers and
pitchers, who are the most valuable men
as a rule, so much for the iu-lielders aud
so much for the out-fielders.
The league employs four umpires at
$200 a month and all expenses. As to
the justness of the laws, U upire Burn
ham, now at the Weddell House, thinks
that the rule mrking it possible to dis
miss an umpire upon the complaint of
four clubs, without hearing his side of
the story, is unjust. “Four clubs,
Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and Boston,
have combined against me, aud I ex
pect to get my walking papers Saturday
night;" said Burnham. “I don't much
care. It’s worth $500 a month to stand
the abuse that an umpire has to en
dure,”
“Has any of these players grown rich
on their good salaries?” was the part
ing qaestion thrown at Wright. “Yes
several of them are reported to be well
off. My brother George, who invented
many of the tricks, so called, now iu
ball playing, is keeping a sporting goods
Mtoru in BtNitou, Mpuluiug, Uu old bauo
player, runs a similar business iu Chi
cago, and Al Reach in Philadelphia.
They all do a big business. The item
of balls alone is an inqiortaut one. The
regulation ball, fist made by Mann, of
Boston, now costs $15 a dozen. It is
made of an ounce of pure rubber
covered with worsted yarn, then a cover
of horse hide, then more yarn and then
the outer cover of horse hide, riinee a
new hall is provided for each game the
number used in season is not small. A
player’s expenses are paid by the club
while on the rood, but he is assessed 50
cents a day. The hotel bills are from
$2 to $2 50 a day for each player, and
the traveling expenses two cents a mile.
Balanes are paid uu the 1st and 15th of
each month.”
“How much capital dees the League
represent?'’ was asked of George Howe,
president of the Cleveland club. “That’s
hard to answer,” was the repjy, “It
cost $10,000 or more to start this club.
The stockholders had to stand assess
ments until last season, wheu we made
a little money. This season we will also
probably make some.
The l.lbrary.
A correspondent recently makes some re
flections on the subject of carriage entran
ces, as arranged in Parisian houses, which
are quite worthy of attention. Very few of
our architects, aud still fewer persons of
other professions, understand the value of
this feature in giving dignity aud import
ance to an elevation as well as a plan, and
aa a consequence many opportunities for
the display of architectural maguificence,
which would lie eagerly seized aud adroit
ly used by a French architect, are iu this
country thrown away. In fact, the whole
subject of dignified domestic architecture
needs serious study among the profession
here. The increase of wealth ami expend
iture has been so great that scores of
houses are now built every year \u New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and other
cities which would, so far as cost is con
cerned, be classed in auy other country as
palaces, just aa their owners would rank
among princes to the extent that money
aud luxury cau give such disliuction; but
these structures, so far from presenting
any grandeur or stateliness of aspect, gen
erally have an air of in Hated mediocrity,
like a hotel, rather than the appropriate
shelter of that complex organism of serv
ice aud responsibility winch even here
goes to make up a large establishment.
With all our democratic ways, there is no
need of planning great houses, as we often
find them, in which hundreds of visitors
aud guests are entertained every week,
with exactly the same provisions for re
ceiving them that-would be furnished in
the cottage of a mill operative, with the
difference that everything in the mansion
would be on a larger scale. On the occa
sion of a reception or ball the friends of
the owners of houses ou which millions of
dollars have been spent are generally ex
pected to land from their carriages on the
sidewalk, to be welcomed by a gibing
crowd ot ruftitus, restrained by one or
two policemen from pressing upon the
dirty little strip of carpet which leads up
a steep flight of stepi to the scene at the
festivities, which proclaim themselves to
the hearing aud sight of all the passers-by,
in a manner quite destructive to dignity.
Common as this disposition is to large
houses iu Lmdon as well as in our own
cities, we imagine that there are few per
sons who cannot seo the advantage of the
French plan, by which the guests of the
bouse, instead of landing on tne sidewalk,
an brought directly into the coirtyard,
where they are received, if not by their
hosts themselves, at least by their servants,
instead of a dirty mob, and lake their
leave in the same way, without fear ot
annoyance from the rudeness ot strangers.
Such distinctions as the carriage entrance
and courtyard give are easily obtained,
even iu a house built with strict economy
in regard to the amount of ground cov
ered; but where the owner of the mansion
can afford the cost a great increase of dig
nity can be obtained in buildings placed
KTtCre COUr n Jurittn, the otroot front
being formed by a law structu'e, contain
mg the rooms of the concierge aud other
servants, with the carriage entrance in the
center, flanked sometimes by two project
ing wings of the main house, which are
brought forward to the street. These,
willi the low structure ou the street, en
close the courtyard, beyond which is the
higher portion ot the building, containing
the state entrance and the grand saloons,
whicli extends across the whole width of
the lot; a id behind this portion, whose
lacadc gains greatly iu distinction by its
haughty withdrawal from the public thor-
ou*hfare, is the garden, which is entirelj
concealed from the view of auy one ex
cept the inhabitants of the house, and is
oiien brought into very close connection
with this, as a sort of open-air parlor.
Every architect cau see the admirable
way in which this Hriaigement lends
itfelf to stately and convenient distribu
tion of rooms, as well as to perfect
light and venlilaiiou, and although a
house so planned would not be cheap,
there are many people now who would
be both able and willing to pay for the
advantages which it would possess, if
they were once pointed out to them.
Put* and Calls,
“I believe you have gambled in Wall
street, Mr. Breezy,” said Mrs. Breezy,
helping her lord and master to a cup of
coffee.
“I have speculated a little in stocks,
dear, if tliat’s what you mean,” said
Air. Breezy, unfolding his napkin.
“Same thing,” said Mrs. Breezv,
“you can call it speculation; I know
it’s gambling. How do they do it, any
way? I read about puts and calls and
straddles, aud buy a three’s, but I never
can make any head or tail out of it. I
suppose it’s all some horrid slang you
men have invented.”
“Well, no, dear,” said Mr. Breezy,
helping his better two-thirds tqa chop,
“it isn’s exactly slang. Yon see, for
instance, I buy a hundred short ”
' “You do what?” cried Mrs. Breezy.
hny a hundred short,“ repeated
Air. Breezy.
“Well, what In the name of common
sense do you mean by that?” asked Airs.
Breezy. “Why don’t you talk United
States—I mean English? You buy a
hundred short, and what has short got
to do with it?”
“If you will give me time I will ex
plain, my dear,” said Mr. Breezy. “You
see if a man is long ou stock lie is ’’
“Long on stock?” said Airs. Breezy.
“Now, what are you getting to? First
you are short and then you are long.
What dres a man want to get on stock
for. anyway?”
“Aly dear, if you will allow me *”
“To be sure. Go ahead. Tell me
something about Wall street, hut dou’t
talk nonsense,” said Airs. Breezy.
“Well, my dear, we will suppose that
I have a put on Wabash, and ”
“There you go again,” said Airs.
Breezy. “Will you or will you talk iu
a language I can understand? What
is Wabash, anyway? I suppose it is
another slang term?”
“No, that’s a stock,” said Air. Breezy
“you see. dear, if I have a call ou Wa
bash or Northwestern—
“If you call on the Northwest?”
cried Airs. Breezy; “are you really go
ing mad, Air. Breezy? Well, I might
expect as much from the life you have
led recently. What with clubs and
polstics, you are going headlong to some
terrible fate.”
“My dear, it will he impossible for
me to explain anything unless you will
give me five minutes to do it iu,” said
Mr. Breezy, with unusual warmth.
“Now, at the beginning of this week
Omaha preferred started at 1064 aud
105 ”
“Omaha preferred!’' asked Airs.
Breezy. “What is preferred? Who
preferred it? What lias Omaha got to
do with New York and Wall street
anyway, aud what do you mean by
1064?”
“I shall have to give it up,” said Mr.
Drcccj* in <t doapairing? voice;.
“No, Mr. Breezy, l have started out
to kuow something about Wall street,
and 1 won’t allow you to get out of it
iu that way,” said Mrs. Breezy, setting
herself more firmly in her chair. “Nowq
Air. Breezy, you will please drop slang
and come to something I can under
stand. For instance, what is a bull-
bear?’’
“11a, ha, ha-oh!” laughed Mr.
Breezy.
“What do you mean by laughing at
me, Mr. Breezy? I’m sure I ”
“Ho, ho, ha-oh!” and Air. Breezy
fairly doubled up with laughter.
“Air. Breezy, , you haven’t the mau-
ners of a savage,” cried Airs. Breezy,
pushing back her chair, “aud I don’t
believe you kuow any more about Wall
street than a two-weeks’ old baby,”
and Airs. Breezy made Hazael time to
the kitchen to take revenge upon the
cook.
Should Women Bide Like Men?
Campbell helped bestow upon bun."'greaterpressure.
Be Finn.
Never knock nuder. Never! Always
rally your forces lor a more desperate
assault ujKiu adversity.
If calumny assails you, aud the
world—as it is apt to do in such cases—
takes part with your tradneers, don’t
turn moody or misauthrop o, or worse
still, seek to drowu your unhappiness
iu dissipation. Bide your time. Dis
prove the slander if you can, if not, live
it down.
If poverty comes upon yon like a
thief in the night, what thou? Let it
rouse you as the presence of the real
tliid would do, to energetic action. No
matter how deep you have gone into
hot water—always provided you did
not help the father of lies to heat it—
your case, if you ore of the right kiud
of stuff is uot desperate, nor is it in ac
cord with the divine order and sweep of
tilings that life should have any diflu-ul
ties with which au honest, determined
man, with heaven’s help, cannot sur
mount.
U. icks t’roiu Slag,
The utilization ot s.ag waste is fast
asanmiuK considerable economical im
portauce. The maunfaeture of bncks
from granulated blast-furnace slags will
soon be begun in Germany. The slags
are run into water, and the grii thus ob
tained is mixed np with lime, concrete,
or plaster of Paris, and formed into
bricks, which are dried for a month,
They possess greater solidity than com
mon brick, and seem to resist a much
Books whicli children cau read should
be put ou the lower shelves of the book-
ease, so that the children may be temp
toil to take them down for themselves
aud have a try at their contents. These
books within a child's reach need not be
“juveniles,” aud, indeed, had better not
be. They ought to be travels ami bio
graphies, brightly writteu aud full of
pictures. Especially should the file of
Harper's Magazine or the Century
stand w here the young ones may readily
get at it.
Ou the other hand, liooks which
children should not handle should not
be within reach of their bauds. Lead
not ttie little oues into temptation.
Lock up your Rabelais, and perhaps
even your Fielding, where little fingers
may not hapi*eii ou them. Put the
Etizabethau dramatists and the comic
writers of the Restoration where no
Paul Pry, Jr., or his sister, may chance
to spy them. Out of sight out of
mind.
All books need air. The doors of all
book coses should be opened now ami
then, every few days, to let iu light, and
to change the air. Books are no more
benefited by solitary confinement than
are men. AM l>ooks get dnsty. Every
shelf should be cleaned out once in six
mouths, every book beiug dusted and
returned to its place. The best duster
for fine bindings is a bit of soft chamois
leather.
Never cut open the pages of a book or
a magazine with auything but a paper-
cutter, a Huger is too blnut, aud tears
the edges. A knife is too sharp, and
cuts the edges unequally. The best
paper-cutter is a thin slip of ivory.
Wood ami bone are nearly as good.
Metal is not.
A good book is a good friend, and
should be treated with the respect due
to a friend.
Never wet yonr fingers to turn over a
leaf. Be warned by the fate of the king
in the Arabian tale. Never turn down
the corner of a page to hold your place,
Never put in a soiled playing card, or a
stained envelope, or bit of dirty string,
or piece of damp newspaper.
Never allow yotu: books to get damp,
as they may mildew. Never allow them
to get hot, as the boards may warp and
the leather may crack. Never put them
on a shelf high np near the ceiling of a
room lighted by gas.
Mine in ilie MalakoflT Tower.
During the Russian aud French, E ig
lish and Italian war a formidable mine
had been duz aud loaded nailer the Alal-
akoff tower. If General MacMahon had
not chanced to discover in the barrack
one wire leading from a well-concealed
voltaic-pile to a large quantity of powt’er
under it, and another connecting it with
the powder magazine, the whole viclo
nous force might have lieen blown Into
air after having gamed possession of the
tort. The wires were cut, but the pow
der magazine could not lie found. Some
of the French soldiers were setting fire to
the empty gabions which had l>een thrust
into the small windows of the tne bomb
proof cellar under the tower, iu order to
barricade it. One of the gabions ap-
peared to be moving. A French officer
called out that, if any oue was there
who could speak French, he might come
out without tear. The gabion was pushed
through the window, and a very young
Russian officer crept, out. He was as
sured that he and any others surrendering
as prisoners of war would be well treated,
Alter saying a few words in Russian at the
window he was joined by four officers aud
200 co umon soldiers. They begged,
thiougli him, to lie taken away at once.
This request suggested some knowledge of
an impending explosion. The voting offl.
eer was ti erefore ordered to point out the
p* tion ot the powder magazine. The
lad made no answer, A French subalUnu
said in a loud voice to the commanding
officer that the Russian ought to be shot if
he refused to obey the order given to save
so many lives. The youth kept silence,
with a haughty glance of indignation at
the subaltern, apparently for supposing
that he would heiruy a secret under a
threat. Tiie French chief formed a pla
toon to shoot him and be turned to face
h'.s executioners. An old Russian Major,
who seemed to understand French, ran
forward, to k the commandant by the
hand, drew him to a heap of earth, and
pointed downward. The earth was quick
ly ahovcied away, and barrels containing
88,000 nounda of gunpowder were discov
ered. A strong Ftcnch guard was placed
over them The young Russian officer
was told to go with the other prisonera.
He gave a military salute aud kissed the
old Russian Major’s hand “Do not blame
him for showing you the powder,” he said
in French to the commandant, with
trembling voice and tears in his eyes. ‘ ‘He
is my father.”
Such is the question which is beiug
seriously discussed. Perhaps it would
be as well to leave the determination of
the question to those whom it principal
ly concerns. We fancy they have no
wish to change the custom. As a mat
ter of fact, although it may not appear
to be the case, tiie seat which a woman
enjoys on a side-saddle is fully as secure
and not nearly as irksome, as that
which a man lias to maintain, unless he
simply balances himself, and does not
grip the side of his horse either with
the knee or tiie side of the leg. It is
curious to note the different ways in
whicli the legs of men who pass much
time in the saddle are affected. Riding
with a straight leg and a long stirrup
almost invariably produces what are
popularly called knocked-knees. • Near
ly all the mounted soldiers of the
British army suffer from this deformity,
as any one who will take the trouble to
notice the men of the Life Guards aud
Blues walking may satisfy himself. On
tiie other hand, riding with a short
stirrup produces bowed legs. Jockeys,
grooms, and most hunting-men who ride
frequently, are more or less bow-legged.
The long stirrup rider grips his horse
with the knee, while the short stirrup
rider grips him with the inner side of
tiie leg bidow the knee. Tiie difference
of action explains the difference of re
sult. No deformity necessarily follows
the use of the side-saddle if the precau
tion lie taken with growing girls to
change sides on alternate days, riding
on the left side one day and the right
on the next. The purpose of this
change is to counteract the tendency to
lean over to the side opposite that on
which the leg is swung.
Waste in Gas.
The waste which takes place in the
manufacture of gas is estimated by Dr.
Siemens at £2,000,000 annually in Eng
land alone. This waste occurs in the
non-utilization of the tar, sulphur and
ammomacal liquors produced in the
process of extracting gas from ooaL
The only element bexides tne gas that
has been used is the coke. A new oven
is now being introdnoad in England
which, at an extra cost of only about
thirty cants per ton. saves something
more than a dollar's worth of the ele
ments hitherto wasted, besides produc
ing ten per cent, more ooke than the old
••bee-hive” oven.
—Twice as many men as women diq
of pneumonia.
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