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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. 8. 0.. NOVEMBER 10.1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. M> LONGER SMILING ISCHIA. \ My soul to-day Is far away, Sailing the Vesuvian bay; My winged boat, A bird afloat, Tw iu os round the purple peaks remote. Round purple peaks It sails and seeks, Blue inlets, and their crystal creeks, Where high rocks grow, Through depths below, A duplicated golden glow. Far, vague and dim, The mountains swim; While on Vesuvius’ misty brim, With outstretched hands, The gray smoke stands, O’erlooking the volcanic lands. Here Ischia smiles O’er liquid miles; And yonder, bluest of the isles, Calm Capri waits, Her sapphire gates Beguiling to her bright estates. THE HOUSE OPPOSITE. At the death ot her brother Wilfred, Vivia de Forest felt broken-hearted. He had been her only near living rel ative. The news of bis death had come to her with fearful suddenness, (jailed to a Western city lor the purpose of superintending some business connected with the estate of his late lather, Wil fred (who sometimes, though rarely, had periods of dissipation) was shot in a barroom quarrel. Poor Vivia had suffered teiriblv. The funeral was over now, and the dull quietude of her present life had a mo notony which almost made her long for the more exciting painfnlness of the previous week. A distant cousin of hers, an elderly lady, had come to Jive with her iu the large family mansion, which was now Vivia’s exclusive property. But old Winifred Carr was rather doleful com pany. To-day it had rained dismally from dawn until late in the afternoon. Vivia could not fix her thoughts very long on the books she was reading. In spite of herself they would somehow wander back to recollections of her dear lost brother, cf their childish life together, and of the untimely death which had parted them now. Several times during the day Vivia went to the window and looked out upon the rainy street. In the house directly opposite was one special window, where, ever since morning she had seen a girl of her own »ge. The girl was very pale, and wore an expression of undoubted woinment. Some times Vivia thought that she gazed toward her owu window, with a wistful, appealing look. . She had known in years past, the previous occupants of this house, but it had receutly passed into other hands, and she had never known the name of the people' who had taken it. Now and then the pale girl whose sad looks liad to-day attracted her notice, had been before seen by Vivia. while as cending or descending the stoop. But she had never seemed as troubled as at present. “I wonder what her trouble is, ’ thought Vivia. “Ah, I am sure it is not as bitter as mine!’ tihe started while this thought was crossing her brain, for the girl oppo site had made with one hand a quick, beckomug gesture, that there seemed no mistaking. And after having made such gesture she had hastily left the wndow. In about tea minutes sbe returned again, however. Vivia was waiting for her. If ever girl had a kindly heart in her breast, that girl was Vivia de Forest, She now made signs which plainly indicated: “Do you wish me to come over?” An eager nodding of the head gave emphatic affirmative to this silent guestion. “She Is in trouble.” thought Vivia. “I may do some good; I will go!” The rain had stopped. It was now almost nightfalL Vivia threw a dark shawl about her shoulders to defend her against the raw December wind, and ran acrosss the street. She had not to ring the bell. The door was opened as she reached the top stoop. The pale girl opened it herself. •Tt was good of you to come,” she said, while her dark, sad eyes swept Vivta’s face as they stood in the hall together. “I hope I cau be of some service to you,” Vivia answered. “You seem to be in trouble. I know myself what trouble is. Fray tell me how I can help you.” They were presently seated together, and the girl had taken one of Vivia's hands between both her own. •T have a brother here iu this house,” she said, “who is pursued by the police. He wishes to escape. Once iu a foreign land, he can elude the law’s vigilance, I am quite alone, being an orphan, and only Laving Hugh to love and care for out of all the world. I wanted to fly with him, but that, he says, is impossi ble. He will not hear of it, though he promises to write for me to join him after he is safely beyond pursuit,” “And what crime has he committed?” asked Vivia, “Oh, it was no crime,” answered the girL “He has been falsely accused of murder.” “Falsely accused,” murmured Vivia; “how terrible! Have they convicted him?" “No; he has not been tried yet. He was in St. Louis only a,short time ago, when a fnend of his, from whom he had but recently parted, was found kili«d in his hotel. Hugh was arrested on the charge of having murdered him, but escaped.” “And why should he not have faced his accusers?” questioned Vivia, “Was ho afraid to do so?” “No,” said a voice in the doorway. Vivia looked in the direction whence the voice had come. A very handsome young man, though worn and haggard-looking, had just entered. It was Hugh. “I see, Ella,” he said, “that you are trying to enlist the sympathies of this lady in my behalf. Bat have you thought of what a reckless thing yon are doing? - ’ “You need not feel any tear of me, sir,” said Vivia, quietly. I should have no motive in betraying you, even though I thought you guilty.” “Hugu is as innocent as I am!” ex claimed his sister, iu a plaintive, tear ful voiced The young man was now close at Vivia’s side. The dimness of the room had not previously let her see how handsome he was. He fixed his darkiy- brilliant eyes intentely on Vivia’s face, and said: “If I had passed through a trial might have been sure that circumstan tial evidence wonid have convicted me Can you understand this?” -“Yes,” said Vivia, “but surely, if you are innocent, it would have been belter to suffer conviction than go through the rest of your life a fugilive from justice.” “I do not vhiuk sol” cried Ella at this point. *.T would have him live at any cost!" More than an hour elapsed before Vivia went home again. And she visit ed that house many times more during the next lew weeks. Both she and Ella believed that her exits and entrances were watched, and that Hugh’s presence there was suspected by certain spies posted in the neighborhood, but they were not by any means sure. By this time Viyia had sileutly ad mitted to her own heart that she loved Hugh Bobertson. It bad been love at first sight ’ with her. His beauty and his melancholy fate had both preidneed disastrous results with her young, ro mantic soul. She had determined to help him to escape. She was a girl of strong will and inflexible determination. One day she said to him: “I have been working oat a plan. The bouse directly in the rear of yours is mine. I purchased it yesterday. To morrow night it will be quite vacant, You can erots by the back fences, and get into the next street through that house. There will be a carriage wait ing for you a few doors below. It will drive you wherever you wish to be driven. ” Hugh's face lighted with a softly grateful i-mile. Ella thiew both arms about Vivia’s neck and rapturously kissed her. On the following night they all three met for a lew last words of farewell, just before Hugh’s venture was tiled. Iu the back garden a ladder was ready, by which Hugh would climb into the garden of the other house. Hugh, Vivia aud Ella all stood in a room which communicated with the rear piazza. Hugh first said farewell to Ella, who clung for a few minutes sobbing about his neck. Then he turned to Vivia Ho was frightfully pale. What I have to say,” he began, “Ella ought not, perhaps to hear. It may kill her. It will probably give you, Vivia de Forest, au intense an guish. I have deceived my sister up to this moment. I am not innocent. I shot the man of whose murder I am accusiid—shot him openly enough, iu a barroom iu Si. Louis. He insulted me! I was very mnoh enraged! We had both beeu drinking. There is no doubt that l was terribly to blame!” Hugh!” now broke from Ella’s lips, “this cannot be! Yon are deceiving us! ’ Would I were!” he murmured; “aud would, too, that this were all I had to tell. But it is not all. Vivia de Forest, from the first moment that I looked on you I loved you. But it was days be fore I knew who you were. Wilfred Caldwell was your half-brother! You bear a different name from bis.” “What do you mean?” faltered Vivia, with paling clucks. Ah, why did you not remember when you first met me,” Hugh Bob- ert on uow cried, “hiat I bore the same name (common a name as it may have beeu) as the man who shot your brother? But you did not think ot ibis! You pitied mel Then you cared for me even loved me. Vivia, since at this hour I need not deny that I guessed your love! Yet all the while I was—oh Heaven! how hard, it is to speak the words!—I was your brother Wilfred’s muiderer!” A faiot shivering moau broke from Vivia’s lips. The next instant she and Ella were clinging together, as if for mutual support It was a common im pulse with the two unhappy creatures. Each had been cruelly deceived. Each uow woke with horror to a realization of the truth. “Farewelll” they now heard Hugh call to them, while they stood with heads bowed on each other's shoulder. God guard both of you if we should never meet again.” They heard him open the window and go out into the gaidea Then came quite a long silence. And then a gruff voice whose tones seemed to curdle their blood, called oat amid the still night: “Stop, or I fire.” There was no answer. Perhaps three seconds of silence followed, and then keen pint >1 shot rang out on the tranquil night air. After that there was a long, heavy groan. , 4 He has been shot!” cried Vivia, looking with dilated eyes into her com panion's ghastly face. It was true. Vivia’s plans, shrewdly as she had conducted them, had been watched. A neighboiihg house had been taken by the deotiyes as a pest of observation. Perhaps, after all, Hugh Bobertsou's appearance, climbing the back fence there in the bright winter moonlight, had beeu somewhat of' a surprise, else the shot would not have been fired. But it was a shot that proved fatal. A few years later Ella Robertsor msr- lied, but Vivia de Forest has never changed her name, and never will. There are some woands that, although they do not kill, never heal And Vivia’s is one of them. Horrible Haytl. I How te Subdue a Wife. An American traveler in Ilayti says; we left Jamaica, however, in late July or early August and steamed across through indigo seasto Jacmel and other Haytian ports, making the circuit of the entire island, shooting into shelt ered harbors here and there. Nearly always the mountains lay like great iridescent lizards against the horizon- monstrous saurians sprawling m blue or in bronze-green against the edge of the sky; singular and fantastic moun tain piles iu whose hidden gorges the half-wild negro tribes live and spawn. The infamies said to be practiced by this population are beyond description. Cannibalism is said to prevail; the white man is held in the greatest abhorrence; and we heard of the rooted determina tion of the jet-blacks to exterminate the yellow-skinned, feeble, mulatto castes of the sea-ports. Our captain warned us not to spend the night on shore in any of the ports we visited, for fear of personal violence or of simple malignity. The island is pretty thickly peopled aud is divided between the Haytians of the West and the light skinned, intelligent, French-speaking San Domingoans of the East. The greatest dissimilarity exists be tween these geographical divisions. The San Domiugo people are full of energy and push, eager for railroads and telegraphs, enlightened and more or less civilized. The Haytians are reported by those who know them intimately to be savage, depraved, opposed to every form of white civilization, aud devoured by the most baleful vices and diseases. They speak a French jargon very hard to understand, a lingo made up of lacer ated French conjunctions and genders plentifully sprinkled with words of their own coinage. There are peculiarly hor rible maladies prevailing among them; their sense of decency is of the slightest and their reputation for trickery is such ;hat we had to guard ourselves con stantly against their cunning and fraud. The country is one of striking love- iness, a flower-garden stocked with tne rarest growths. We saw the finest growths of rosewood and mahogany, woods smothered in imperial vines, au atmosphere laden with suggestions of blossoming spices; but to get to all tins, nothing but difficult bridle paths or in accessible lanes, with here and there a road wide enough for a carriage. We met troops of silent, malicious-looking, oblique-glancing blacks as we rode on horseback or wandered through the towns; creatures that gazed with amazement and horror to see white people invading their demesne. One old woman riding on a tall horse was so startled by our cavalcade that she forgot herself and was suddenly taken under the chin by an over-arching limb, lifted off her animal, and deposited not very gently on the ground below, to the infinite amusement £>f the narfcsu was paiutuTand shockmgto hear the stories of Haytian depravity to which we had to listen—the foul su- lerstitions, the rank barbarism, the to tal illiteracy and indifference to educa tion prevailing In the country. We were told that a traveller had discovered human flesh for sale at one of the mark ets of the interior, aud had bought a piece of it to bring away with him as a, curiosity and as a piece of evidence 'of the state of things there. Witchcraft, voodouism, nameless immorality are rampant. If there is any Christianity it is of the lowest type. The grossest corruption festers iu the municipal or ganization and in the administrative scheme, if there is anything that can be called such. Eat’nK at Night. Popularly, it is thought injurious but unless dinner or supper have been late, or the stomach disordered, it is harmless and beneficial, i. if one be hungry. Four to five hours having elapsed since the last meal, invalids and the delicate should always eat at bed- i ,ime. This seems heretical, but is not, ; rood, of simple kind, will induce sleep, Animals, after eating, instinctively sleep. Human beings become drowsy after a full meal. Why? Because blood is solicited toward the stomach to sup ply the juices needed in digestion Hence the brain receives less blood than during fasting, becomes pale, and the sowers grow dormant. Sleep theref ore ensues. This is physiological. The sinking sensation in sleeplessness is a call for food. Wakefulness often is merely a symptom of hunger. Gratify the desiie and you fall asleep. The writer recently was called at two a. m. to a lady who assured him she was dy ing. The body was warm, the heart doing honest work. To her indigna tion, he ordered buttered bread (hot milk or beef-tea were better) to be eaten at once. Obeying, the moribund lady was soon surprised by a return of life and desire to sleep. The feeble will be stronger at dawn if they eat on going to bed. Fourteen hours lie between supper aud breakfast. By that time the fuel of the body has become expended. Consequently, the morning toilet fatigues many. Let such eat at bed-time, and take a glass of warm milk or beef tea before rising. Increased vigor will result. “But the stomach must rest.” True. Yet when hungry we should eat. Does the infant stomach rest as long as the adult’s? The latter eats less often merely because his food requires more time for diges tion. Seldom can one remain awake until half-past ten or eleven p. m., with out hunger. Satisfy-it and sleep will be sounder. Col. Srauggins is a rare gentleman of the old school, while his wife is devotee of the new. Up to the present life to the twain has not passed on “golden wings,” but the time has been filled in a slipshod, go-as-you-please kind of way. She has always had her way, and he has always submitted un der protest. She is proud and defiant, and pluck to the core. It was the d ream of his life to subdue this defiance. He had studied for years a plan to ex penment with his wife without any practical result, when one evening, not quite a month ago, as he was seated up-stairs quite neglige, the idea which has since worked like a charm struck him. Like the inatheqiatician of old, he rushed wildly down-stairs and yelled “Eureka!” ^ His wife loomed up, and he recover ed. He swore nothing \the matter, but she told him he was. lotting, and that it might be against a lone woman like herself. For the first time in years he kissed her a regular Judas Iscariot kiss, which was so unexpected she for once ceased to animadvert upon bis wrongs aud his coldness. This was the scheme he intended to tiy. As long as he had been married his wife had never gone in bathing at the bqach, although he had importuned her a hundred times to go with him. He soon discovered the reason. She hated to appear in a bathing-suit that would display her thin form, for m public she did not ap pear thin. He had an india-rubber bathing suit made that could be inflated, and depos ited it at the store where his wife trad ed. He gave the head clerk a pointer, and promised him to treat to cham pagne if he succeeded. His wife went to pricejj^oods as usual when the suave-mannered clerk told her that a man in New York had pat ented a bathing suit of india-rubber for ladies that were thin, but, said he, “Mis. Smuggins is noo ou the thin list, and I’ll not show it.” But she desired to see it, if not too much trouble. Af ter a thorough examination, she told him her niece was coming shortly to see her, and she would buy it for her. What was the Colonel’s surprise to hear her say next day if some husbands were like other husbands they would take their wives in bathing. He asked her to go that evening, and chuckled inwardly with diabolical glee. At the bath-house she took a long time to dress in her room, but he wait ed for her with patience, confident of success. When she emerged from the room she had the “patent” o'i under the other suit. She lool plump as usual and ■■'jo*-**-—x- * . ri _ His triumph was near. In the foam ing waves they went. It was new to her. She enjoyed it. So did he. Her friends were theie, all surprised to see her out. The sport became general now. The Colonel swam around his wife, aud did something with a small penknife which he immediately drop ped in the water. In a few miuutss his wife called h'm to her, pale and trembling with fright. “Hubby,” she said, coaxingly, “my bathing-suit is torn, and I don’t want to go out before the crowd.” “Let me see,” he said. Oh, no; can’t you believe me?” He told her coldly no, and, further more, she had to walk out before the crowd or not go out with him at all. Things looked dreadful for her now, and she called him pet names, just like she did before they were married, be fore she promised to obey, love and cherish, and all those things. She told him she had imposed upon his good nature, that he was an angel, and that from that moment her life would change, and her diminished figure trembled like an aspen leaf, while one little hand clutched the rope, and the other was held out to him in mute de spair. Col. Smuggins was not stone, so her child-like form wrs gathered in his arms and she was taken out unobserv ed and taken home. She is now the sweetest and most tractable wife on the island, and Col. Smuggins is a happy man again. But she never dreams of the put-up trick, and the Colonel is contented to pay the annuity to the clerk in the way of treats to keep it a secret fr@m her. okfid os round aud w^lk*i4 cuhuly past Tonquln. Few .words are necessary regarding the Aohamite Administration in China. The system is precisely that of the Chinese. Tonquin is divided into six teen provinces, seven of the first order, eight of the second, one of the third, the latter two orders being attached to the first. Each commune has a mayor. Each lot of twenty or thirty communes forms a sub-prefecture; six of these make a prefecture, governed by a tuan- fu or prefect. Provinces of the first class have'each three great mandarins, similar to those of China; the first is tongdoe or governor,the second bochink or treasurer, the third aneat or judge. Once Tonquin had a viceroy, but lat terly it was found unwise to have ofli cials of such lugh rank and power per manently there, and only an occasional royal commissioner is sent to report. The titles viceroy and governor repre sent very different positions from those of similar officers in China, where the power, wealth and responsibilitses of those officers are considerable. In mountain and plateau districts there are tribes forming administrative divis ions, the oflice of mandarin being held by a tassu, an aboriginal hereditary chief, similar to those of China. Ton quin has copied from China, as indcat- ed, its administrative system, and bor rowed its literature, religion and man ners; in fact, Tonquin is a copy of the level parts of eastern China. Nothing new, nothing original, arrests the at tention of the stranger who has travel led in the Celestial Empire. The Ad ministration, though admirable, fails lere as in China, and from the same reason, the main cause being the inade quacy of pay. Corruption as a fine art las been carried to the highest limits. When you leam the scale of official sal aries you will understand one reason why honesty is au unknown quantity in Tonquin, at least among officials. The monthly pays are: governor, 10s; nefect, 2s fid; private soldieis, 9d. Higher officials have to maintain a certain degree of pomp. Their ap- ;iointments are gained on the Chinese competitive system. An Aunamese scholar is as conceited, priggish and iffhorant of all useful knowledge as ils Chinese confrere. The Annamite mandarin has the reputation, aCcord- ;o the French, of being shrewd, cun ning, cruel and oppressive to those be neath him, and of being subservient to -hose above h'm, and, above all, to un derstand the art d'attemlre. I see no reason to doubt the justice of the criti cism. Not Dying out so Fast. reason A Sullivan of the sky: The why the lightning does not strike twice m the same place is because nothing of the place is left to strike after the first round. The New Game of Hl'deKarde. The progress of fashion is ever re tarded by the opposition of sticklers for propriety. Very likely the new game of Hildegarde will encounter adverse criticism. Many a staid moth er will not let her. daughter play it, though the girl, if shapely and grace ful, could not possibly be employed to greater admiration. Hildegarde is a combination of foot ball and cricket, a big, soft ball being struck with a wide bat as well as kicked. It is the kicking that will subject a girl to condemna tion, but she will be able to stand it if fully convinced that she looks well at the exercise. As I viewed her at the new game, on the secluded lawn of a Washington Heights residence, she wore what I learned on inquiry was a casaque, made of stockinet cloth, which fitted her body very closely. To be exact in small particulars, it was double-breasted, and had a stand-up collar and lapels like a man’s coat It’s established, however femininity was During the night give wakeful chil-| by asmall sash draped at the back dren food. Sleep will follow. The sick should invariably eat during the night. This is imperative. At night, the delicate and children may take, slowly, warm milk, beef tea, or oat meal gruel. Vigorous adults may also eat bread and milk, cold beef, mutton, chicken and bread, raw oysters, all, of course, in moderation. Do not eat if not hungry. Eat if you are, births by 30 per cent.; and the same is true of Indians similarly situated in Michigan—the Chippewas,Ottawas and Pottawatomies of the Mackinac Agen cy. In each of these remnants of tribes there was about the same per cent, of loss. These Indians nearly all wear civilized dress, and they are surrounded by whites. In the Indian Territory, however, nearly all the tribes are increasing The agent of the Cheyennes and Arap- ahoes reports 324 births, 110 deaths among G769 Indians; the Kiowa, Ca manche and Wishita Agency reports 149 births, 9G deaths. Reports from the twenty-one other tribes in the in dian Territory indicate a small per cent, of increase in all except two. The ever unfortunate Poncas and the Senecas suffered a further loss in numbers last year. Outside of the Territory, without go ing into detail, it may be said generally that the Indians of the northern plains, the great Sioux tribes and the Crows, are about stationary, There is perhaps a small increase, but reports are not full enough to show more than that there is no decided change. The Utes and the Mescalero Apaches are annually increasing in numbers. The fishermen along the borders of Puget Sound, the Puyallup, Quillehute, Coeur d’Alene, O’Kanagans, Ac., are slowly increasing while the S’kokomish and Quinaielt In dians of the same region report a decid ed loss last year. Be Careful about tHe FreiuiKss. The Mexican Government is encour aging the manufacture of paper aud tex tile fabrics from cactus,and has recently . , granted important concessions to the firmly around the ankles, must be worn individuals jvho proposa engaging in the I for good kicking can’t be dons new industry, • French gaiters or Newport ties, There were skirts, too, but they were brief and scant. How else could she kick freely? Manifestly, there must be no dress restrictions about the feet that are to be used at Hildegarde. Croquet and lawn tennis are both pas • sive compared with this sport. It is exercise of the most active sort, and a TP^nw of striking more numerous and varied attitudes to the minute, if the player is quick and pliant, than any previous undertaking by the softer sex. Solid and rather heavy shoes, with broad soles, low heels, and buttoned According to the latest data in the possession of of the Interior Depart ment at Washington the number of In dians in the United States In 262.000. dian tribes receiving supplies' ffoUi' fffB Government reasonably accurate statis- ;ics have been obtained, as in making issues of goods to the Indians the in dividual receipt of each hea'd of a fami- y is required. The accounts division of the Indian Office therefore possesses a register roll of the names of all heads of families to whom goods, supplies or annuities are issued by the Government, n most of the States there are remain- ug small communities of Indians, like 1 ie Six Nations in New York, the Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina, ie Miamis in Indians, Ac. Having ii’bal property, they maintain a tribal organization. The Indian Oflice exer cises a soit of guardianship over them in the protection of their funds, limit- ug the contracts they may mane and the fees they may pay to attorneys, de ciding questions of membership in the tribe, etc.; but they are self-support ing, and receive no goods or supplies :rom the Government. The same may ie said of the “five civilized tribes” of the Indian Territory,and of the Indians of the Pacific coast, although some of the latter receive about five per cent, of their subsistence from the Department. They are not dependent upon the Government for the supply of their daily wants, and consequently the Indian department is not able to obtain ::rom them such minute and detailed reports as are required from the semi savage tribes. In some cases the Gov ernment is therefore in possession of better statistics from the “wild” tribes than from such as are partially civiliz ed, or at least self-supporting. Leaving the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory out of the ques tion, these statistics show that the In dians are not now and for several years past have not been decreasing in num- cers. The births 'reported in all tne tribes last year aggregated 2993; the number of deaths was 2478. An exam ination of the reports from all the Agencies in detail shows many instan ces of decrease; but the general result Is as stated. It is not claimed that these figures are either complete or ex act: but they are, beyond reasonable doubt, sufficient to establish the fact that the Indian race, as a whole, in spite of disadvantageous circumstances, is not dying out. The mortuary customs of most of the tribes render it improba ble that many deaths should escape the knowledge of the agent. As regards the death of a relative or friend the In dian is not a stoic; mourning for the deceased whether slain in battle or dy ing from natural causes, is usually loud and long continued, and accompanied with ceremonies likely to make every person with!* the sound of beating tom toms and wailing voices aware of the loss the tribe has sustained. Over births no such demonstrations are made, so that the error in the figures given is probably that of reporting too small an increase in the tribal num bers. It is easy to find reports from parti cular tribes showing a decided decrease during the past year. The Six Nations New York, lost 236 by death, while there were only 187 births. There are 5116 Indians on the several reservations in New York—the Senecas, Oneidas Cayugas; Onondagas, Tonawandas am Tuscaroras. These Indians are second- rate farmers, as ate the Pottawatomies, Kickapoos and Munaees of Kansas, who We have on many occasions in going over the outbuildings upon some farms noticed a great deal of carelessness in guarding against man-traps, scythes, edge-tools, etc, which might prove very dangerous to life and limb, if a know ledge of the existence and remembrance of them were not at all times borne in mind; or of contrivances where cattle may be hurt. Passing through farm buildings some time ago we came on a cistern for catching water from the roof, the lid of which opened in a place which was passed over many times every day. On our expressing surprise, our friend wondered at tke alarm, “For,” said be “all about us are rained to such careful habits there really is no danger. No one would ever think of leaving the trap-door open.” This reasoning seems corroct, and yet the newspapers are filled with accidents which occur in cases where “all hands” are supposed to exercise the greatest care. Some one comes in with a loaded gun and does not draw the charge. He knows how eargful everybody is in handling firearms, and yet numbers of people die every year simply through forgetfulness on the iart of some fool (in the face, too, of in act of the Legislature prohibiting the handling of firearms), that the ar ticle may possibly be loaded. A roan pajXieajyui c.ommou dangerous matches anything loose in his pocket, and goes through his stables and over bis bay- mows and straw-stacks. He is quite sure that his careful habits will never et him drop one so that something may tread or tall on it, or a mouse nibble it and a fire ensue. But some day the whole thing “goe s up,” and there is no end to wonder how such a thing could be. We make a note of these things now because the season has arrived when fires will be necessary, and with it the reason when things take fire from “defective fives” and other acci dents. These things never occur where people are ready careful, but the best rule is to so order things that no matter how careless people may be, accidents are next to impossible. Some Interesting Comparisons. THE VERDICT -OF- • THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! Mr. J.O. Boao—Dear Sir: I txraght tne first Davis > achine sold by you over five years ago for ray wife, who has given tt a long and fair trial. I am well pleased with it. It never gives any rouble, and is as good as when first bought. w „ „ J. W. Bolicc Winns boro, S. C., April 1833. Mr. Boao: \ on wish to know wnat I have to «ay in regard to the Davis Machine bought of yon three years ago. I feel I can’t say too muoh in its favor. I made about $80,00 within live months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot from friction. I feel confident I could not have done the same work with as ranch ease and so well with any other machine. No time lest in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine l have ever treadled. Brother James and \\ ullams’ families are as much plessed with their Davis Machines bought of you. I want no better machine. As I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Respectfully, „ , „ ,. Ellen Stbvenbon. l-airfl«ld County, April, 1883, Mr. boag : My machine gives me perfect satis faction. I find no fault with it. The attachments are so simple, i wish for nabetter than the Davis Vertical Feed. y* 7 Respectfully, „ Mrs. R. Milling. 1- airfield county, April, 1883. Mr. Boag: 1 Dougnt a Davis Vertical Feed owing Machine from you four years ago. I am elighted with it. it never has given me amu 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, „ , „ Mrs. M. j. Kirkland. Montlcello, April 30, 1883. This is to certity ttnu i have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over two years, purchased of Mr. J. o. Boag. I haven’t found 11 possessed of any fault—all the attachments are so simple. It never refuses to work, aud is certainly the lightest running In the market. I consider it a first-class machine. Very respectfully, „ , Minnie M. Willingham. Oakland, Fairfield county, S. O. Mr boag: i am wen pieasea m every panicm with the Davis Machine bought of yea. I think a first-class machine In every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same Riake te different members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respectfully, „ , Mrs. M. H. Mobley. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This iSto certny we nave tract in constant uae the Davis Machine bought ot yon about three years &S°- As we take in work, and have made the i»cttci xv-nraiwaja xcauj ww ouj kihu of work we have to do. No puckerlngor skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased and wish no better machine, CATHERINE WTLIB AND SISTER. April 85,1888. I have no fault to and with my machine, and don’t want any better. I have made the price of it severa times by taking in sewing. It is always ready to do its work. I think it a first-class ma chine. I feel I can’t say too much for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. Mrs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Of course any Congressman who is hunting quarters for tiie coming long session, says a Washington correspon dent, thinks that the United States government does not pay money enough to its officers, writes a correspondent from Washington. It does really seem so. No country in the world pays its c'vil officers so badly. Take England for example. England pays nothing to the members of its lower house of con gress, which every intelligent person knows is wrong. But England makes up in other ways. Let us look into the subject for a moment. We pay our minister to France $18,500. England pays her minister to France $50,000, aud gives him a place to live in. We »ay our minister to England $17,500. ngland pays her minister to Washing ton $30,000 a year, gives him a great mansion, fully equipped and furnished, and $6,000 a year for entertainments. England even pays her minister to Per sia $25,000 a year, and gives him a pal ace. She even pays her representative i;o the beggarly court of Greece more than we pay our highest officers. We pay our chief justice $10,500 a year and our associate justices $10,000. We are just now making much of Chief Justice Coleridge. How much, dear reader, do you think he gets a year in the way of salaiy? Forty thousand dollars! The other eight judges of his court get $25,- 000 a year each. Even tho English consul at New York receives a salary of over $20,000 a year. General Sher man gets something like $15,000 a year. General Woiseley gets about $40,000. The clerk of the House of Representa tives receives, I believe, $4,000 a year. The clerk of the lower house of Parlia ment in England receives about $12,000 a year. All this, mind you, in a small er country than ours, a poorer country than ours, and with less population than ours. Yellowstone Fur It. It gives me much of tt Mr. J. O. Boag—Dear Sir: Measure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver- ;ical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of you about five years ago. has been almost lu con stant uae ever since that time. I cannot see that It is worn any, aud has not cost mo one cent for repairs since we have had It. Am well pleased and don’t wish for any better. • Yours truly, Robt. Crawford, Granite quarry, 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 has given us unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. k. Turner and Daughters) Fairfield county, 8. C.. Jan. 37,1888. Having bought a Davis vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. U. Boag some three years ago, and It having given me perfeot satisfaction In evegy respect as a family machine, both for heavy andllght sewing, aud never needed the least re pair In any way, i can cheerfully recommend It to uay one as a first-class machine in every particu lar, and think It second to none. It Is one ot the simplest machines made; my children use It with all case. The attachments are more easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by means of its Vertical Feed than 'any other ma chine I have ever seen or used. Mrs. Thomas owings. Winnsboro, Fairfield county, 8. C. * Wc have had one of the Davis Machines about four years and have always found It ready te do all kinds of work we have had occasion to do. Can’t see that the machine Is worn any, and worka aa well as wnen new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Creek. Fairfield oonntv, 8. C. The National Yellowstone park em braces in its limits 3,575 square miles —more territory than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It is sixty-five miles wide and sixty-five long. It lies mainly in the northwestern comer of Wyoming territory, but includes a thin strip of Idaho on the west and Montana on the west and north. The body of it is between 110 degrees and 111 degrees west longitute, and 45 degrees north latitude; The lowest elevation in the rk is 6,000 feet above sea-level, and My wife Is highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought of yon. She would not take double what she gave for it. The machine has not been out of order since she had it, and she can do any kind of work on It. Very Respectfully, jas. F. Free. Montlcello, Fairfield county, s. C. The Davis Sewing Machine U simply a treas ure Mrs. J. a. Goodwtn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10. 1883. Agent—Dear Sir: My wifa Davis Sewing Machine constant- i, and it hag never needed J, o Boag, Es< has been using a 1 ly for the past four years, i any repairs and works Just as well as when first bought. She says it wUi do a greater range of practical work ond do it easier and better than any macnino she has ever used. We cheerfully recommend it as a No. l family machine. Your tru-y, Jas. q. Davis. Winnsboro, S. C., Jan. 3,1863. Mr. Boag : I have always found my Davis Ma chine ready do all kinds of to work I have had oc casion to do. I cannot see that the machine ia worn a particle and it works ru wed aa when new. Respectfully, Mrs. r. c. Gooding. Winnsboro, S. C., April, 1888, its highest (mountain peak) from iu,000 to 12,000 feet. It is, therefore, an im mense table-land, with a surface broken also lost in numbers last year, the mense table-land, with a surface br< deaths among them exceeding the | into mountain ranges, valleys, etc. Mr. Boag : My wife has been constantly using the Daria Machine bought of yon about fire years aso. I have never regretted baying it, as it la »iwav« readv for any kind of family sewing, either Heavy or light. It is never out or nx or netraiu* i tpalra. _ , Very respeotfuUr, A. w. Law. Fairfield, & C., March, ISSB.