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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
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