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» V * 4 -• -li I *-v ■ft*'* r' TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. SEPTEMBER 27. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 THE VERDICT —OF— THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! Mr. J.O. BoiG—Dear Sir: l bougnt the Oral Davla Machine aold by yon over live yeara ago (or my wife, wbo baa given it a long and (air trial. I am well pleaaed wltb It. It never givea any rouble, and la aa good aa when 11 rat bought. J. W. no LICK. Wlnnaboro, S. C., April 1888. Mr. Bo>«: lou wlab to know what I have to aay In regard to tbe Davla Machine bought of you three f eara ago. I (eel 1 can’t aay too much In ita favor. made about. $80,00 within five months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per- iY -- fectly hot from friction. Keel conlldenl I could not have done the same work with aa much ease and ao well with any other machine. No time last in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine 1 have ever treadled. Brother James and Williams’ families are aa much pleaaed with their Davis Machines bought or you. I want no better machine. Aa I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davla Machine. Heapectfully, Ellbn strvbhsom, Fairfield County, Apri\ 18S8. My machine gives me perfect satis- Itn it. “ Mr. Boaq _ faction. I find no fanlt with it. The attachments are so simple, i wish for no better than the Davis Vertical F eed. Respectful./. Mrs. R. Miluno. Fairfield county, Aprl’, 1883. MR. Bo ao : 1 bought a Davis vertical Feed e wing Machine from you four years ago. I am eligbted 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. I can cheerfully recommend It. Respectfully, Mr.-. M. J. Kirkland. Montlcello, April SO, 1883. This Is to certify that I have been using a Dans Vertical Feed Sewing Machine or over tw >yeirs, purchased of Mr. J. O. Hoag. I haven’t found It possessed of any fault—all the attachments are so simple. It never refuses to work, and is certainly ths lightest running in the market. I consider It a first class machine. Very respectfully, Minnir M. Willingham. Oaklan Fairfield county, S. C. Mr Boao : i am wen pieaseu in every particui with tbe Davis Machine nought of you. i think a first-claas machine In every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same make to different members of our families, all of whom, aa far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respectfully, Mrs. M. H. Moblky. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This isto certify we nave na; in constant use the Davis Machine bought of you about three years ago. As we take In work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don’t want any better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased anu wish no better machine. catbbrinr Wylie and Sistrr. April as, 188$, I have no fault to find with my machne, and don’t want any better. I have made the price of li severa times by taking in sewing. It la always ready to do Its wort. I think it a first-class ma chine. I feel I can t say too mnch for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. Mrs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. J. O. Boag—D.-ar Sir: It gives me mich pleasure o testify to the merits Oi tbe Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine 1 got of yon about five years ago. bas been almost m con stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that it la worn any, and has not com me one cent for repairs since we have had it. Am well pleased and don’t wish for any better. Yours tru'y, Rost. Crawford, Granite Qrarry. near Winnsboro 8. 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 bas given us unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turner and Dacohtkks Fairfield county, S. C„ Jan. 81,1883. Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three years ago, and it having given me perfect satisfac. on In everv respect as a tamlly machine, both for heavy and light sewing, and never u?eded the least re pair In any way, I can ciieerfu t'y recommend It to any one as a firat-clxA machine in every particu lar, and th’nk It second to none. It Is one of the simplest machines made; my chllilien use It with all ease. The attachments are more easily ad justed and it doei a greater range of work by means of ita Vertical Feed than any other ma chine I have ever seen or nsed. Mrs. Thomas owinos. Wlnnaboro, Fairfield county, S. C. We have bad one of the DavD Machines about four years snd bave always found U ready to do all klnda of work we have had occasion to ao. Can’t see that the machine la wom any, and works as well as wnen new. , V' Mrs. W. J. CRAWFORD, Jackson’s Creek, Fairfield county, 8. C. A REVERIE. Ah me, ’Ms not so long ago Since first I fondly hoped, and so All pleasures grew, and, with each throng, Came strains of summer’s sweetest song, And darkness fell, scarce seen by me, And, though unknown, I strove to be So wise and good that men might say: “Around his brow dwells constant day.'* But now I daily older grow, And sadder, toe, they tell mo. so I watch the shadows ’mong tbe trees, And hear the sigh in evening’s breeze; And weep tnat wisdom Is far off, And grieve that men at goodness scoff, And think, perhaps, the night may be Less dark than is each day to me. And so, in sadness, still I wait, For soon I know, or maybe late, The gates will open wide for me, And 1 shall journey toward the sea, Whose breakers roar In every ear; Whose moaning song I ne’er shall fear, Whose saddest music oft has waked The mem’ry of a thirst unslaked. THE DOCTOR’S SURPRISE, The gas flared brightly in the drug room in the great city hospital of W My wife la highly pleased with the Davla Ma chine bough, ot you. She would not take doable what eue gave for It. The machine has not been oat of order aince she had It, and she can do any kind of work on it. Very Respectfully, Jas. F. Fker. Montlcello, Fairfield county, 8. C. The Davla Sewing Machine D simply a treas ure Mrs. J. a. goodwyn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, ls83. J,0 Boao, Kaq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife has oeen using a Da via Sewing Machine constant ly (or the past four years, and 1. has never needed any repairs an i works Just aa well aa when first bought She nays it will do a greater range j. practical work ••nd do it easte. and better than any machine she has ever used. We cheerfully recommend It as a No. Vfamlly machine, Yomr troy, Jab. Q. Davis. Wlnnsborc, 8. C.. Jan. 3,1888. Mr. Boao : I have always found my Davla Ma- chine ready do all kinds of to work I have had ocw eaalon to do. I cannot see that the machine R worn a particle and it work* aa wed aa when new, Respectfully, Has. R. C. Goodino. Winnsboro, 8. C., April, 1883, Mr. Boao : My wife has been constantly using tbe Davla Machine ago. bought of you about ave_ years always ready for any or lighi rei lavyo ipalra. I have never or light. Itta never out of’fix or needing Very respectfully, A. w. Ladd. Fairfield, & C., March, 188k of , Dr. Wharton, one oung physicians in charge, stood the by up a prescrip- ’ ic marble slab putting 1 on. Near him lounged idly. Dr. Fra zier, his colleague, a dark, moustached young fellow, witn a hard, intolerant ast of countenance, rendered more re- pellant just now by an angry scowl. “Don’t talk to me, Phil,,’ he said. There is a miserable poor outlook for either of us here. The poorest hod- carrier that walks the streets has a bet ter chance for success than you or I, even though we have M. D. attached to our names. Toucan brag of your irofession if you like, but I am sick of t. I’ll try something else before the year’s out.” “I haven’t bragged of it,” said Dr. W barton j good humoredly, “I have said nothing. You never gave me a chance.” “To think of how I’ve wasted my life,” continued Frazier, without heed ing him. “Four years at college, two in a doctor’s office, two in a Philadel phia medical school. And here I am nd here you are, men of twenty-four, glad to have a year’s practice in a hos- )ital for our board, when my brother, i ;wo years younger, and without an edu cation, is making a handsome living speculating on the Stock Exchange. A great difference, truly.” Philip Wharton made no reply, but ground away steadily at the mortar. “Do stop that screakl” said Frazier, irritably. “Come out and have a smoke.” I haven’t finished putting up this pre scription.” you' Uktvu’v rho your supper, either:” “No, but I shall f nish the prescrip tion first.” You always stick at a thing until it is finished. You’ll stick at your pro fession until it finishes you.” “I hope not,” said Wharton, laugh- iag. “What are you going to do when you eave the hospitals Our time will be up in September. W here are you going to settle‘i 1 ” “1 don’t know yet,” said Philip, his cheerful face suddenly clouding. “I mow of no place where there is much chance of success. My cousin John ad vises me to go West. But there are lalf a dozen doctors in every village out there already.” “There,” said George Frazier, tri umphantly. “What did 1 say? There is absolutely no chance for a young doctor, unless he has a fortune or friends to push him on. You and I have neither. We had better go out and ireach this new cire of fasting, We iave every prospect of becoming good examples of its effects, whatever those maybe,” Dr. Wharton laughed, but made no reply. His face showed, however, that he telt the truth of what Frazier said. “You had better come to supper, J hil,” Frazier added, in a more cheer- !ul tone. Having succeeded in making his companion feel miserable, his own spirits began to revive. “No, I must put up this prescription first.” “Very well. I’m going to cut my ward and take a stroll to-night.” He sauntered out into the clear moon, light and fresh air. Dr. Whar ton glanced after him, feeling as if he. too, must escape from the nau seating smell of the drugs and the heavy, Igb- tid air of the sick wards. But he ground steadily at his powder. He was a homely little man, whose only attractive trait was a happy, hearty buoyancy of heart, but that was gone now. When the prescription was made up in little papers, labelled and direct ed, he washed his handa, put on his hat, and looking at his watch, walked quickly into the street. Half an hour was the time he gave himself for meals, )ut to-night he would use the half hour for something else than supper. He turned into a quiet cross street, and in a few minutes reached a little hook shop which wore a melancholy, watchful air, as if tired of looking out for customers. Inside a young girl Was perched on a high stool, writing in a ledger. She had a round, merry face, which grew suddenly rea as she looked up. “Oh, Fhilipl” she cried, Jumping down and catching his hand with nervous sob and laugh. “Such a good day as this has been I Mr. Nixon has not scolded since morning, and I have made two sales, and now you are come. ” “So Nixon was scolding you, was he?” said Philip, his face darkeuing. 'The scoundrel. To think that you must submit to the tyranny of a ruffian like him, aud I can do nothing.” ‘Hush!” She glanced in terror at the half-open door. “He is at supper in the hack room. Don’t offend him, Philip, or he would discharge me, ana then what should I do? It is impossible for girls to get work in the city now, and I must live. ” “Yes, and you must earn your own living,” he said bitterly. “If I were half a man I w>uld ha~e been able to marry before now. It’s ten years since you promised to marry me, Susie. Do you remember? You were a little freckled tot then, munch- He does not like to see cheerful tone, Nixon coming, you here.” No,” said Philip, “he is afraid he will lose his clerk. He’ll not find another that he can grind as much work from on starvation wages.” Gol gol” She pushed him to the door still laughing, but when he was gone she laid her head on the ledger and sobbed. Susie was an orphan and had no xiends in this world but the man who tad loved her since she was a child. She had more courage and energy probably, than he, but the life of the 'irl in Nixon’s shop was almost intol- trable, and she was very lonely and tired. If Dr. Wharton was moody and des pairing the next day his patients did not know it. He had never been more jentle or untiring in his care of them. They were all poor, for the hospital was a city charity. But the more heavily lis own trouble pressed on him the more tender to those wretched paupers he grew. • He was busied all the morning with one old countryman, who had fallen in the street from his horse, and been car- Dr. Frazier found man’s cot early in ing candy, and I a lubberly farm boy. But I deternuned to make you my wife, and keep you from all trouble, though slow enough I’ve been about it.” “ You have done more than any other man ever didl” cried Susie, hotly. “You have educated yourself—earned your profession--” Profession! I’m beginning to think Frazier is right, and that I had better je a hod-carrier tnan a doctor. Then at least I would he sure of work aud wages, but now, when I leave the hospital next month, where am I to go? It may 3e years before I can earn enough to keep us from starving, if we should marry.” “Never mindl” said Susie, laughing, though her blue eyes were wet with tears. “What are years? We are very young, Philip.” “Frazier is going to try something else.” “And will you?” Wharton hesitated, and then that determined look came into his face which Susie knew so well. “No, I’ll stick at it. I never have given up anything until I did it, and I’ll not begin it nowl But you, you must help me to keep up heart, Susie,” and with a long breath he took both her hands in his. “Why, there’s no reason why we should give up heart,” she said, with a “Go now, there is ned in insensible, lim beside the old the afternoon. Frazier had been absent nearly all day Hia faoA flushed and k ' i£ ’ "t—~ were burning with excitement. He beckoned Philip aside. “There’s a chance. It’s something jig,” he whispered excitedly. “Call Poor to take your ward this afternoon and come with me. He’s going to take mine.” “I can’t give up my ward to Poor. He’s a blunderer,” said Wharton, gruffly. “You may if you choose.” “No need to snub me, Phil, when I’m trying to do you a service. You said the other day you had saved a couple of hundred dollars.” Yes, that’s my capital to begin the world with in September.” “Well, Frank—my brother, you know—has just had private informa tion of a great expected rise in the Dar ling Silver Mine stock. He’ll let you anu me into the chance. We’ll go down with him to the Stock Exchange and buy up all the shares we can.” I can’t leave my ward to Poor,” he said. “There is no patient in danger but this man. But he is in a very cri tical condition. I won’t leave him. “Nonsense? What can a couple of hours matter! It is a chance that may never come to you again. It’s a dead sure thing, I tell you.” Wharton shook his head. ‘Listen to reason, Phil. You may clear enough by this venture to make a beginning for a competency for years. You can afford then to wait for prac tice. You might even marry, if you can find a nice girl,” he said, with a laugh. Marryl” Dr. Wharton’s hand shook, as he dropped the medicine into a spoon. ‘I would need time to consider the in vestment,” he said, “even if I could leave this man. I would wish to be clear in my conscience that it would be a proper one to make. But the old man’s condition is such that my present duty is clear.” He sat down by the cot, watching the sick man. The pic ture of Susie at work in the miserable shop, with that brutal old Nixon driv ing her, rose before him. She might have to bear this for years, and now that possibly he might help her, was he to give it up for this man—an utter stian ger to him. The clock ticked swiftly. Wharton’s face was haggard. “Gomel” Frazier said hurriedly. “I’ll not go. Frazier.” “Not gol You are not going to lose your one chance in life for that old pauper—that—old hawbuck?” nodding contemptuously towards the cot, “I’ll not leave him.” Dr. Frazier stooped over the old man and examined him. “He may lay in this way for days,” he said. “It is likely you will find him just as he is when you come hack.” “Yes, but he may change at any mo ment. The treatment I am trying is a new one. Poor knows nothing about it. “You’ll not come, then?” said Fra zier, halting on his way to the door. Wharton bad followed him a step or two, and did not reply for a moment. The closed eyelids of the withered old face on the pillow flickered, a sharp glance shot out from them. “No,” he said, quietly. “I will stay with him. This is no common work, and I will not leave it to Poor.” Frazier went to the exchange, and by several ventures cleared several hun dred dollars. He was greatly elated over his success. Dr. ..^arton drudged along in his daily rounds among his pauper patients with no other reward than the old •man’s recovery. “You are ready for discharge to morrow,” he said to him oue day wheu a fortnight had passed. * “Discharge, eh! That was a queer experiment you tried on me, young man. I’ve had some little experience in physic in my day, and I can’t say I ever saw the like Of that treatment.” “No, it was not the old method.eir,’’ said Wharton, respectfully, goidg on lis rounds. When he came back, his patient called out querulously: ‘‘Where’s the dollar and a half that was in my breeches pocket when I was brought in? Some thief has robbed me.” “You will find it with the Superin tendent.” Oh, aye! I hope s#.- i*vo no mind to be rolibed, even byTum Institution. I suppose the bill for my keap here’ll be high, young man?” T ‘Therei8no charge. It is a free hospital.” “So! so!” grumbled the old fellow to himself, turning over in bed. The next day he left the hospital, while Philip was at dinner, without a word of farewell. “So that is the end of it,” thought the doctor. This-one great struggle of his life had cost him so much, that he could not understand how the man who had gained by it could he so indifferent. “1 wish he had said good-bye, at east. But no matter.” The next week the Superintendent sent for him. “Who is John Sands, doctor?” he asked, as soon as Philip opened the door. “A poor old countryman who was in my ward. Discharged last Tues day.” “Poor, indeed! It was Dr. Sands, as t turns out—Dr. Sands, of Schollsburg. The old man has had all the practice of ;hat county for forty years, and has amassed a fortune, but he chooses to ijo about like a beggar. He was mis taken for one and brought in here, it seems. He encloses a check for a hun dred dollars, for the hospital, and says he doesn’t chose to be indebted even to an institution.” “Well done for Sands!” laughed Wharton. “He has done better than that,” said ihe Superintendent, with a twinkle in lis eyes. “Sit down a minute, Whar- xm. The old doctor, it seems, is feel ing his age, and wants to take some young man in as partner, to whom he can leave his practice in a year or two, and he has fixed upon—upon—well, Wharton, he has fixed upon you I” “Me!” aud Philip sprang to his feet. “You. Yes, I said you. You have made the old fellow your debtor in some way, by a favor, which he says he can never repay. Besides, he says he o v ^oS^^ftfe^^ur'ESthner, and, above all, your inflexible devotion to your duty. There is his letter.” Philip read it with eager eyes. “You see he says he wants you to come in September, and to bring a wife with you, if possible. A married man, be says, is always more successful. Ec centric old fellow, I fancy?” But Philip did not answer. Ho was buttoning his overcoat with trembling hands. “Excuse me,” he said, but there is a friend to whom I must tell the good news,” and in a moment more he was on his way to the book-shop and —Susicl ^ Dr. Wharton is now the principal practitioner m Scholl county, and a happy, successful man. “I gained wife, tortune, all I have,” he says, “simply by sticking to one thing until it was finished.” Dr. Frazier’s success was but tempo rary. He risked all he had on one un lucky venture, and lost. He is now a ejerk on a small salary in his brother’s office. Eamoua Escapes From Indians. A Crockery Rat. About 8 o’clock, a man smoking plug tobacco in an old clay pipe, walked out of a Michigan avenue saloon, Detroit, with a rat in a trap. He looked neither to the right or the left until he had reached the middle of the street. Then he placed the trap on the ground and whistled for his dog. If he had a dog, the animal did not respond, but the public did. In less than two minutes thirty men were rushing to the spot. “Hi! there! Don’t let him out till get my dog,” shouted one. “Hold on! Wait for the dogs!” yelled half a dozen voices at once. “Keep cool and form a circle 1” com manded a policeman, as he took a fir mer grip of his baton. The man with the trap spread a large handkerchief over it and waited. He was not a bit excited. On the contrary he was as placid as a chip sailing in tbe wash-dish. “Whar’ did ye ketch him?” inquired a newsboy. Tbe placid man did not deign to reply. “What’ll ye take fur him?” asked another, but his inquiry was treated with the same silent contempt. Then four or five men came running up with dogs under their arms, and ten or fifteen dogs on foot followed behind. There was a fight between a bull-dog and a Newfoundland, and there would have been a row between owners bad ‘ not a second policeman appeared. Or der was finally restored. The dogs were arranged in a circle and held by their collars, and the placid man slowly knocked the ashes from his pipe, looked carefully around, and then raised the trap and shook the rat out. All the dogs made a rush, but in ten seconds each and every canine walked off on his ear and seemed to be hurt iu his feel ings. A boy stepped forward and held the rat up to view. “It’s a crockery rat!” he yelled as he whirled it around. “Yes, it vhas a grogery radt, und he cost me den centsL’ calmly replied the placid man as he walked off with his trap. —There has been found among a Bedouin tribe east of tbe Jordon, pieces of skin containing portions of Deutero nomy and the commandments, made about 8CQ years before Christ, and the British Museum is expected to pay a fabulous sum for it. There is little doubt, among experts, as to its gen uineness. “Stories of marvelous and ingenious esespss were the romance ot the colonies, and such adventures date back to the earliest Indian war in Virginia, where a man and his wife, who had been spared in the wholeaale slaughter, found their opportu nity to escape while the Indians were danc ing for joy over the acquisition of a white man’s boat that bad drifted ashore. These captives got into a canoe, and soon after ward surprised their friends in the settle ments, who had believed them to be dead. Very like this waa the escape of Anthony Bracket and his wife in Maine. They were left to follow on after their captors, who were eager to reach a plundering party m tuns to share in the spoil. Brack et’s wife found a broken bark canoe, which she mended with a needle and thread; the whole family then put to sea in this rickety craft, and at length reached Black Point, where they got on board a vessel. A little lad of eleven yeara named Eunes, taken in Pldlip’a war, made his way thirty miles or more to the settlements. Two sons of the famous Hannah Bradley, previously mentioned, effected an ingenious escape, lying all the first day in a hollow log and using their provisions to make fnends with tne dogs that had tracked them. They journeyed in extreme peril and suffering for nine days, and one of them fell down with exhaustion just as they were entering a white settlement. A young girl in Massachusetts, after three weeks of cap tivity, made a bridle of bark, and catch ing a horse, rode all night through the woods to Concord. Mrs. Dean, taken at Oyster River in 16#4, was left, with her daughter, in charge of an old Indian while the rest finished their work of destruction. The old fellow asked his prisoner what would cure a pain in his heatL She recom mended him to drink some rum taken from her house. This put him to sleep, and the woman and child got away. Another down-east captive, with the fitting name of Toogood, while his captor during an attack on a settlement was disentangling a piece of string with which to tie him, jerked the Indian’s gun from under hti arm and, leveling it at his head, got safely •way. “Escaping captives endured extreme hardships. One Bard, taken in Pennsyl vania, lived nine days on a few buds and four snakes. Mrs. Inglu, captured in the valley of Virginia, escaped in company with a German woman from a place far down the Ohio river. After narrowly avoiding discovery and recapture, they succeeded m ascending the south bank of the Ohio for some hundreds of miles. When within a few days’ travel of settle ments, they were so reduced by famine that the German woman, enraged that she had been persuaded to desert the Indian flesh-pots, and crazed with hunger, made an unsuccessful attack on her companion Rous^oFall^lie’escapes of New England captives was that of Hannah Duston, Mary Neff, and a boy, Samuel Leonardson. These three were carried off, with many others, In 1107, in the attack on Haver hill, Mrs. Doston's infant child having been killed by the Indians. When the captors had separated, the party to whom the two women and the toy were assigned encamped on an island in the Merrlmac river. At midnight, the captives secured hatchets and killed ten Indians—two men, two women, and six children—one favorite boy, whom they meant to spare, and one badly wounded woman, escaping. After they had left the camp, the fugitives remembered that nobody in the settlements would believe, without evidence, that they had performed so redoubtable an action; they therefore returned and scalped the Indians, after which they scuttled all tbe canoes on the island but one, and in this escaped down the Memmac, acd finally reached Haverhill. This was such an ex ploit as made the actors immediately fa mous in that bloody time. The Massa chusetts General Court gave Mrs. Duston twenty-five pounds and granted half that amount to each of her companions. The story of their daring deed was carried far to the southward, and Governor Nicholson, of Maryland, sent a valuable present to the escaped prisoners.” Poison in the T« Among the many articles of common family use that have become the subjects of cheap adulteration there is probably no one more conspicuous than tea. Poor anc cheap teas are flavored and colored to re semble, in a faint degree, those of a better grade, while teas that have been once used and their strength entirely extracted are redried, recolored by the use of copperas and Prussian blue, and by the aid of a slight admixture of genuine tea are palmed off on an unsuspecting public. The fraud of selling tea that is entirely worthless is bad. enough, but when suf ficient of poisoa is added to the tasteless decoction to irritate and injure the stomach the evil becomes of sufficient magnitude to call for preventive measures of a vigorous kind. Just how this can be best accom plished is somewhat uncertain. Reliable dealers of course refuse to handle the fraudulent and poisonous stuff. But ras cally dealers in the adulterated goods es tablish agencies, employ canvassers to go from house to house, and as they can af ford to sell these worthless goods cheaper than the family grocer can sell an honest article, they manage to deceive Ignorant and well-meaning people and work off the poisonous and spurious goods In large quantities. beveral States, Pennsylvania included, have stringent laws against the sale of adul terated articles of food and drink, but the laws fail to provide practical methods for detecting these adulterations and are thus insufficient Congress passed an act at its last session to prevent the Importation of adulterated and spurious teas and, as all teas are imported, If the inspectors are efficient and watchful tbe evil should be checked ao far as new importations of the worthless stuff is concerned. There is, however, a vast stock of the doctored herb already in this country and then are firms which follow the business of adulteration in some of our own cities. Against these two sources of supply the public must still iv-mtinnw to guard itself. The best method of doing this at present is net to be too anxious to get cheap teas and to be sure that the tea dealtr of whom the family purchases are made not only Is honest, but knows what real tea is when he sees it. Glimpses of Alaska. Three sunny and beautiful days were spent sailing through the enchanted islands, with steep mountain sides and bold rocks reflected m clear waters, cascades dashing down between the pine trees, and lofty snow peaks taking on the delicate glow and flush of tho late sunset light. The midnight skies had been dyed with the flames of the aurora, and the early sunrise was a dream of faint and misty colonng just before we rounded the point ot a green island one morning and saw the town and totem poles of Fort Wrangell before us. Next to Kodiak and Sitka, Wrangell Is one of the oldest ■ettleo.ents in Alaska, and for eighty years has been a great trading post along the coast. The Hudson Bay Company and tho Russian Government had forts and stations here, and for a few years after the puc. '••e of Alaska a garrison of United States troops was maintained at Fort WrangelL As different counsels prevailed at head quarters, the troops were withdrawn and then returned, and after a small fortune bad been expended in this abandonment and restoration of the military, the soldiers took a final leave twelve years ago, and the block house, stockade, and the log quarters were given ever to picturesque ness and decay. As a point of departure for the Casiar mines on the Stickeen river, Wrangell has maintained its importance even after the withdrawal of troops, and the miners and prospectors of the gold region make it a base of supplies in all seasons, and a place for social hibernation when the snow and ice drive them down from their mountain retreats. A few trading stores Itraggle up the main street that runs parallel with the beach. At one end this thoroughfare is guarded by the stockade and sally-port of the old fort, while at the other U gradu ally changes into a rambling Indian village, set with totem posts and fnnged along the water front with long cedar canoes. The Indian houses front directly on the beach, and behind them are the grass-grown ruins of the old Russian tort and ita outlying graveyard. The houses are low and square, built of rough-hewn cedar planks, with few attempts at paint and outer decorations besides the tall totems that guard the doorways of the chiefs and the other great men. These totems are the shrines and show places of Wrangell, and tho ordinary tourist can appreciate something of the great interest that ethnologists have taken in them. A pair of especially fine totems were taken from here in 1876 and sent to the Centen nial Exposition, and since then they have occupied a place in the great hall of the Smithsonian Inatiute. The totems of Wrangell are ancient and weather worn, spotted with moss and lichens and bearing tufts of grass and waving bushes in the crevices, and the teiy rf teiifi , ywa“ifSr , \iiK- , t(fefig* oarsoit- ening ot the elements. The totems by the doorways stand forty and sixty feet high; carved from base to crown with huge, grotesque faces of men and animals, the bear, the whale, the wolf, and tho raven standing as most prominent among the heraldic beasts that represent tbe great families of the Thllnkets. Each one of these faces has a significance equivalent to the quartenngs on the shield of a noble family, and a man’s ancestors and able- ances are to be read on his totem posts by all who run. The carving and painting of the symbolic heads is a work of savage skill, and the cost of these poles is aston ishing even in this day of extravagance in decorative art. The noble Tblmket must first fell his tall cedars and set the artist to work, and then comes the grand cere mony of erecting the posts before his home. A feast is given of all tbe deli cacies the Alaska market can afford, and potlach or gifts of blankets and calico are given away so generously that the totem party often costs as high as $1,000 and $2,000. A man's rank and riches are considered greater tbe more he gives away, and as the blanket is tbe unit of value, his wealth and standing increases according as he tears and distributes blankets on the occasion of his house-warming and pole- raising parties. Totems are slso erected over the square-box houses in which they deposit the ashes of tneir cremated dead, and thu town abounds In picturesque Utile tombs niched in between the houses of the living. Surmounted by a fox or a whale once painted in brilliant colors, but now toned down by the mosses, the terns, trailers, and rank vegetation that rapidly creeps over and conceals everything in this moist, temperate climate, the houses of the dead are more picture'que than those of the living. Th« Bobber’s Caro. Borne of the quiet homes iu and around the village of North Tanytown, in Westchester county. New York, have been disturbed in the last few months by burglars, The property taken has not been always of great valne, but the losses nevertheless have been felt. The villagers and the local polios have made efforts to find the criminals, but the searoh has heretofore been fruitless. It has especially puzzled the police to con jecture how the goods have been carried off without attracting the attention of the neighbors. Messrs. Thayer, Leg gett, Mason, and others whose homes have been entered have been especially active in seeking the thieyes. The in formation that had been songht in vain, however, by the constables and deputy sheriffs, was obtained on Monday, Aug. 20th, in an unexpected and romantic manner by two citizens of North Tarry- town. Mr. Van Tassel and a friend were strolling through the Sacha woods in the afternoon when their attention was attracted by the mysterious move ments of a stranger at a little Hutumyn. They could scarcely determine whether he was developing a recently-discovered gold mine, searching for a mineral spring, sinking a well, or digging a last resting-place for himself. Their thoughts were rudely disturb- * ed, however, by the mysterious being in whose movements they were taking ao keen an interest. The stranger, hap pening to see the two men. resented the intrusion, and seizing a rifle which lay conveniently near, suggested the advis ability of being left to the solitude he so much desired. Mr. Van Ta«el and his friend not being at that time in an argnmentive mood, agreed to the propo sition of the genial stranger. They strolled in another direction until they seonred tho aid of some of their towns men, and then the party returned to the neighborhood where the digging warrior had been seen. The man had disappeared, but the inquisi tive villagers proceeded to examine the ground in the rieinity, and they were soon rewarded by the discovery of a piece of natural scenery hitherto un mown to the oldest inhabitant. This was a cave which had been concealed ly boards covered with earth so as not to be noticed from the path. The boards were taken off and the acquisitive dispo sition of the stranger became manifest. He had secured boots and shoes, cloth ing, and provisions enough for many people's needs. The property which the stranger had taken such pains to acquire and preserve was taken by the villagers to the office of Justice Ken dall, the local magistrate, where they bVbeM. tfhoT Wfli prdbabTy receive them unless the man with the rifle should put in further olaims for their possession. Xhelnjadisioiu Vs* of Farts Groan. —Mr. Flood’s San Francisco “houss” will cost, It is given out, nearly $6, 000.000. Foar of tbe Dentist. Ten thousand dentists, whose thriving business attests badness of American teeth, meet with amusing adventures when they encounter those who are suf- fvnng from what Burns calls the “grim, mischief-making chiel” that makes “man kind aft dance a reel” A reporter describes some of these experiences, as they were described to him by several dentists. “We encounter more that is ridicn- ions in the extraction of teeth than in any other branch of the profession,” said a dentlsL “Why, 1 have had great strong men come into my office with the intention of having a tooth extracted, and at the sight of the instrument actually turn and run,— yes, run, as if the angel of death had sud denly appeared before them, “On the other hand 1 have seen frail- looking bttle women come in, and without a word or look that wonld indicate any timidity, take a seat and undergo the oper ation with scarcely a sign of fear. “Men and women of large ita'ure as a general rule, make more tnss than smaller men and women, and women exhibit less fear than men, “Some very amusing incidents occur during tbe practice of a dentist. For iw» stance, not long since a prominent lawyer, being greatly annoyed by an aching tooth, decided to have it out; so, mustering up courage, he went to a well-known dentist and told him he required his services. “The lawyer took the chair and the dentist got everything In readiness, when the lawyer spoke up and said, T am going to faint,’ znd he did. “Nevertheless, the tooth was extracted, and the loss of blood bringing bun to consciousness, the dentist asked him if it was a common thing for him to faint, and receiving an affirmative answer, said that the fact of his fainting had removed the necessity ot his administering gas.” Farmers should remember, that this is a poison that is as dan gerous to man and animals as to In sects, and that too great caution can not be observed in its use. And first, it should be known that an almost in finitesimal amount, if eaten by an in sect, will cause death in a few hours. When using the poison upon potatoes vines, or upon fruit trees, the aim should be to make the green go over as much ground as it will effectually cover. We have known of several jhj- tato fields being badly injured the pre sent season, by too free use of the dust upon the leaves. A leaf killed by the green is as useless to the plant as one eaten by the bug. We have generally applied the poison dry, and mixed with very fine plaster of pans of the rate of one part in weight to 100 parts of the plaster, and then without making a very heavy application, the beetles have been thorougiily cleaned out. It is only necessary to have the poison remain on the leaves two days to destroy all that partake of it. Later hatchings may require subsequent applications. As the msects are found upon the tender- est leaves, those which grew last, there is no necessity for dusting over the whole of a large hill of vines, but a little poison shaken into the central portion of the stems will be quite as ef fectual. If one has a large field to treat, it will be well to cover the mouth and nose with a thin clotif wet in cold water, while doing the work, and spe cial caution should be taken against getting a particle of tbe dust into any tlesh wound or sores on the hands, feet or face. The past season we have ap plied the poison in water, through a small sprinkler, which worked better than anything else previously tried. Oneteaspoonfui of the pure green in two and a-half to three gallons of wa ter, was found sufficiently powerful to destroy all the weevils within two or three days after the application. Hair Dresalng in Japan. The following details with regard to the hair-dressing of Japanese ladies may be Of Interest in these days, and may help to elucidate muoh of the mystery which always surrounds the meaning of a Japanese picture. In Japan a girl at the age of nine wean her hair tied up in a red scarf bound around the back of her head; the fore head is left bare, with tbe exception of a couple of locks, one on each side. When she is of a marriageable age she combs her hair forward, and makes it up into the shape of a fan or butterfly, and at the same time decorates it with silver cord and balls of varied colors. This means everything, and is fully understood by the young men of Japan. A widow who wishes for a second hus band puts a tortoise-shell pin horizontal ly at the back of her head and twists her hair around it, while an unconsohvble widow cuts her hair short and goes in for no adornment of any sort These last aiu very rare. By iheee simple means much confusion is avoided. A glance around a ball-room suffices to tell the age and status of every lady in tbe place, and a great deal might be said for tne introduction of such a cus tom into this country. —Bancroft, the historian, though 80 years old, is reported as one of the best equestrians at Newport '"-V