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• - • ESTABLISHED 1848. THE PEOPLE. illY THE BEST! jIr. J. O. Uoao—Dear Sir: 1 bougnt tne drat kvla Machine gold by you over live years ago for r wife, who has given it a long and fair trial. I i well pleased with it. It never gives any guble, and is as good as when first iwught. 3. W. BOI.ICK. VVinnsboro, 8. C., Aprli 1883. Mr. Boao: icon wish to know what 1 have to say Tregard to the Davis Machine bought of you three srs ago. I feel 1 can’t say too much In its favor, uade about $80,00 within five months, at times inning it so fast that the needle would get per- K-tly hot from friction. I feel confident I could ot have done the same work with as much ease lid so well with any other machine. No time last 1 adjusting attachments. The lightest running tachine 1 have ever treadled. Brother James and rllllains’ families are as much pleased with their mvis Machines bought ot you. I want no better hachine. As I said before, I don’t think too inch cun be said for the Davis Machine. Kespectfully, Ellen .stkvenson, I Fairfield County, April, 1883. i Mr. Boaq : My machine gives me perfect satis ctlon. I find no fault with It. The attachments i-e so simple, i wish for no better than the Davis fertlcal Feed. Kespectfully. Mrs. R. Milling. . Fairfield county, April, 1883. a. hoag : i uougnt a navis vertical Feed fifw ing Machine from you four years ago. I am Righted with it. It never has given me any > uble, and has never been the least out of order, is as good as when I first bought it. I can heerfully recommend It. Kespectfully, Mrs. M. J. Kirkland. Montlcelio, April SO. 1888. 'This Is to certify that I have been using a Davis lertical Feed Sewing Machine for over twayears, nrchased of Mr. J. O. lioag. X haven’t found i t. iussessed of any fault—all the attachments are so imple. It ueverrefuses to work, and is certainly Is lightest running in the market. I consider it i first class machine. Very respectfully. Minnie m. Willinoham. Oakland, Fairfield county. 8. C. They all shall pass; the radiant days Song-threaded, flashing quick with light And those that, veiled in gloomful haze, Creep on, slow-pulsing, to the night. Upon its outward wave, the last Will float us to the tranquil sea, Where, all the storms forever past, Shall peace in tidal fulness be. There no harassing care shall fret, Nor ever vague foreboding chill, Shall fall no shadow of regret; Shall jar no dissonance of ill— Beyond the tumult, fierce and rude, Of earthly loss and earthly gain, Beyond the soul’s disquietude, Beyond the body’s mortal pain. In all our loneliness we wait, In all our weariness we hope; The harbor of the Golden Gate Before our longing eyes shall ope. With broken mast and shivered spar We drift adown the darkling sea, But shines before us like a star, O God, our home, our peace in Thee. THE LAWYER'S SECRET. Mr Boao : i am wen pieaseu m every purucui ritb the Davis Machine nought of you. I think i first-olasi machine in every respect. You knew you sola several machines of the same make to lifierent members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pieused with them. Kespectfully, ‘Mrs. M. li. Moblky. Fairfielil county, April, isss. fiiv ■ 'I bis teto certify we nave nai in constant use the Davts Machine bought of you about three years As we take in work, ami have made the |iriee of it several limes over, we don’t want any etter machine. It is always ready to do any kind |f work we nave to do. No puckeringor skipping Hitches. We.can only say we are well pieaied ud wish no better machine, Catherine Wylie and Sister. April 35,1888. it was iu a luxuriously furnished room where a glowing grate threw genial light aud warmth upon the occu pants, that General Langton, lawyer and millionaire, listened with bated breath and pallid cheeks to a low aud melodious voice that told a story of a life. The speaker, a beautiful young woman of about thirty, yet teu years younger than Mr. Langton, reclined in a low cushioned chair, her attitude, speaking of the ease wealth gives, but her face was full of the deepest anguish, as her lips recounted her story. “Yon love me,” she said gently, yet sadly, “and I love you as I never loved anyone before, although I am a widow. That you kuew, but did not know my husband’s name. By m> uncle’s last request 1 dropped it aud took his with the property he left me. Do not look at me tenderly, Gerald, do not shake my voice or my heart, for when you know who I am you will not repeat the offer you made me, which Heaven is my witness I tried to avert.” “Let you conscience be at rest there,” said her listener, iu a grave yet tender voice; “you have never given me one hope, Maude. By what instinct I knew that yon loved me I can never tell, something in your eyes—some tone of your voice betrayed you If, as you say, something iu your past life does separate us you have been no coquette to torment me with false hopes. But Maude, tell me again, whatever stands between us—you lova me?” * [ love yon,” she said gravely, ‘ and it is beciuse I love you that 1 will not let you link your honorable name with that o« the wretoh who was my hus- bnud. I was vory young—not eixtoon when he came to make a visit to some friends living at Grassbank. Uncle Richard had a country seat near the village. I first met Alexander at a pic nic, where he was the very life of the party, everybody’s cavalier, courteous to I jong er| f 0 r ail, full of wit and animation and ser- heart.’'’ j vice to all. I believe every girl on the g e ^ad no thought but of the glad | grounds thought she had captivated j (fjmnph when he turned up the gas in his office. He was iu the habit of mak for my husband. Respect had died out when I kuew the dissipated life he was leading, and foolish as I Vas, I could not continue to love a man whom I de- opised. I refused the errand, and brought down a torrent of such great abuse that I really expected that Alex ander would end by striking me. “Day after day the request was re newed, but I would not yield. Upon my marriage. Uncle R’chard had sold his city residence and took up a perma nent abode at Grassbank, where, know ing my husband to be an unwelcome visitor I never visited him. 1 wrote oc casionally, but the love of years, like that of father and child, had been so sadly strained by my persistence in marrying Alexander that even our cor respondence was languid aud common place. “I would not, therefore, write to him to ask a favor that I kuew would not have been necessary without criminal recklessness of expenditure and each re fusal made my husband more furious. Then came an overwhelming blow. Alexander forged a check, and drew £2,000 of Undo Richard’s money from the bank. I don’t think my uncle would havo prosecuted him, had he guessed who was the forger; but he handed the whole matter over to the law as soon as it was discovered that the check was forged. It was then traced to Alexander, and at the same time it was found that he had robbed lu the same way his former employers. He bed given up all work upon bis marriago; but when he found himself without money, his knowledge of the business enabled him to forge the note of Der- kiss k Co. Even if Uncle Riceord had spared him for my sake this other for gery would have entitled him to penal servitude. He was sentenced to seven years, and uncle took me home full of heavenly pity and forgiveness for the child who treated nim ungratefully. ‘Then your husband is in prison?” said Gerald, iu a hard strained v<ffbe. “No, no, he is deadl He died with in the first year. Uncle Richard saw the death iu a paper, and sent the money for his burial. No, I am free: but hone the less I am the widow of a convict felon,” “But none the loss’” quoted Gerald, “the woman I honor aud love above all others, and hope still to make my wife. It took however, more thaq one in terview, full of love’s pleading, to win Maude from bar resolution. She so honored her lover, aud was proud of his name and the position he had obtained by his talents, that her sensitive nature, shrank from even the shadow of her misery upon his life. But the victory was -you at last, aud me lawyer walked home one evening full of a proud, glad joy, for Maude had then promised to be his wife. ‘If you are willing to take Alexander Hull’s widow to be your wife,” she said, “I will not oppose you any I love you with all my for Mrs. Alexander Hull yo’d must ask; but Mrs. Maude Temple.” Was the room reeling—the ceiling falling—the wall closing around him? Gerald Langton felt as they were, as tne name fell upon his ears. Maude— his Maude—the wife of this cool villain who talked of his hideous crimes as if they were ordinary events? Well, he knew that to carry this man’s message was to separate himself from Maude for ever, Never would she let him marry the widower of a murderer! Very rapid ly all the terrible facts passed oue after the other, aud he said: “If you love her why add a misery to her life? She may have lived down the old pau.youcaused her, why, for selfish gratification, will you make her whole life a misery!” “She was my wife! I won-d bid her farewell.” “She is uot your wife. Your own crimes have released her from auy alle giance to you.” * ’You know her?” “Yes! I know what she has suffered aud beg of you let her still believe you died years ago.’’ “She is happv?” “Scarcely that. Such wounds as hers never heal entirely, but it is cruelty to tear them open when they are quiet?” “Has she married?” “No! J3he is still your widow.” “It is hard to deny myself one more sight of her face, aud the hope I had that she would say she forgave me.’’ “Think of her, not yourself.” Every throb of Gerald Laugton'g heart was piin to him, but Alexander Hull sat in moody silence, evidently re luctant to give up his wish. At last he spoke, “You have been very good to me. Tell me, now, if you have any personal reason for your request. Perhaps you ove her!” “I-do!” was the brief reply. She has promised to be my wife.” “Then it will be James Fox who is hanged to-morrow! I meant to give my real name, but I will carry my secret to my grave. It may be in another world that the little last self denial will be a plea for me. Go now. You may trust me.” He kept his word, and Gerald Lang ton his secret. When Maude, a few weeks later, be came his wife, she little guessed the terrible ordeal which he had spared her or the added disgrace that belonged to the name she had given up. Tobacco. A tobacco user says: The Asiatic, so far as my observation goes, never smokes his tobacco pure. The simph leaf is too strong for him: aqd his for sweets leans nun to mix it wun sugar, muiamv, or 1 Have no tault to find witti my maun ne, aud lou’t want any better. I have made tne pnua of ; aevera times by taking in sewing. It is always eady to do us work. 1 think it a first-class ma chine. I leel I can’t say too much for the D ivu fertlcal Feed Machine. Mrs. Thomas smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. it gives me much its of the #avU Ver- Mr. J. O. Boao—Dear Sir: pleasure to testily to tne merits < fioal Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of you about five years ago. has been almost In con stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that him, his attentions were so well divided | and yet so impressive to each one, He claimed to be uo more than a salesman j in a large wholesale house with a good sal try. but he had the manners of a gentleman of good education, and the I most perfect beauly of face, and form that I ever saw in a man. It was not long before it was evident he wished to win my love, aud he had an easy task. Such love as a child of sixteeu can give | I gave him. He was the impersonation of every hero of poetry and fiction with t is worn any, and has not cost me one cent lot i _, n rpuiliutr had made me repairs since We nave nad it. Am well ploasef whom my Dmnea reading ua; u muuu me repairs ud don’t wish lor any better. Yonrs tru'y, Kobt. Crawford, UraHlte quarry, near Winnsboro 8. C. i We have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing fe Machine for the iast five years. We would not have any other make at any price. The machine m has given ns unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turner and Dauohters Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 3i. 1888. Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. o. Hoag some three years | ago, and it navlug given me perfect satiitaction in •very respect as a laiuily machine, both for hea y and light sewing, and never needed the least re- t pair In any way, I can cheerfully recommend it to say one as a first-class machine in every partlcu- I Ur, and think it second to none. It is one ot the I simplest machines made; my children use It with all ease. The attachments are more easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by l means of its Vertical Feed than any other raa- t shine I have ever seen or used. Mrs. Thomas owing*. Winnsboro, Fairfield county, 8. C. familiar. School-girl like, I made an ideal hero, and fitted this, my first admirer, with all his imaginary perfec tions. “From the first Uncle Richar.l dis liked him, pronouncing him false and shallow, and’ assuring me that my per sonal attractions had not won his heart, but the fact of my being an heiress to a large property had gained me the pro testations in which I so firmly be lieved. “It is a painful story to me now, Gerald. Let it suffice tnat 1 have lived in a world of pleasant dreams while Alexander remained at Grassbank. When he left me he carried my promise to be his wife at Christmas, I think if my money had depended mg a late visit ihere before going up to his bed-room, in osse notes or messages were left for him. One lay there on this evening, a shabby looking enve lope, but directed in a bold, handsome hand which he recognized at once. He tore it open. Aftei.afew wordi of introduction, the note ran: You did the best you could on my trial, but the facts were too strong for you, 1 have now a last favor to ask of you. I die, as you know, at noon to morrow. You, as my lawyer, can see me at any time. Will you come us soon as you rtejive this and win the grati tude of the man you know as Jambs Fox?” The man I know as James Fox,” mattered the lawyer, “the smooth, plausible scoundrel who actually made me believe him innocent of the hideous murder for which he was convicted. I can find extenuation for some murders, but this cold-blooded assassination of an old man for money was only revolt ing. How he deceived me, though, for a time. And how he exulted over his success in doing so when he saw facts were too strong. Shall I go to him? suppose I must. It is still very early It was not yet midnight when Gerald bairn Bean nrfivented bv his threateninsr I man w ^°» m a few B ^°” , was to meet the extreme penalty of the law tor the worst of all crimes. We Have had one ot tne DavD Machines about flour years and nave always found it ready to do all f kinds ol work we nave nad occasion to uo. Can’t i tnat the machine la worn any, and works as well as when new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Creek. Fairfield county, 8. C. have been prevented by his threatening to disinherit me, but both from my father and my mother I had inherited money that made me independent in a pecuniary sense of his control or con sent. ‘Most giudgingly, however, uncle did consent, after searching inquiry about Alexander, resulting in no worse Yet there was nothing revolting in the appearance of the criminal. His dress was neat, his hair carefully ar rauued, his moustache fau’ttejs, his hands white- and refined looking. He rose fromithe seat upon the bed as his My wife U highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought or yon. She would not take double what sue gave for It. The machine has not been out ot order since she had it, and she can do any kind of work on it. • • Very Respectfully, Jas. F. Free. Montlcelio, Fairfield county, 8. C. report than his employers thought him lawyer entered the cell, fast, idle, and just the man to be a for- “I knew you. would come,’ he sau Even then my dear uncle courteously, “though you were offender at my want of frankness. Well, that is all over? You will not refuse the last request of a dymg man, Mr. Lang The Davis Sewing Machine it slmplr a treas ure Mrs. J. A uoodwyn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10. ls83. tune hunter, would have protected my fortune by setting it upon myself, but with the reckless generosity of extreme youth, I refused to have this done. Never, I was firmly convinced, would my adored Alexander rob me ia any way. VFor a year after the splendid wed ding that made me Alexander's wife I was very happy. I was too ignorant of values to understand that we were living ton?” “Not if I can grant it,” was the reply. “This,” said the murderer, is not my first offence against the law. Some years ago I was sentenoed to a term o years for forgery. By a strange acci dent I escaped the penalty. On the J.O jBoag, Esq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife has ueen using a Davis Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four years, and it has never needed any repairs an i works Just as well as when first bought. She says It will do a greater range ol practical work »nd Co it easier and better than any machine she has ever used. We cheerfully recommend it as a No. 1 family machine, Your tritj, Jas. Q. Davis. Winneboro. S. C., Jan. 8,1883. Mw. so ag : 1 have always found my Davis Ma chine ready do all kinds of to work I have had oc- oaaion to uo. I canoet aee that the machin la worn a particle and it works as wed as when new. * Kespectfully, Mrs. K. C. Uoodino. Winnsboro, S. C., April, 1883, Mr. Bjag : My wife has been constantly using the Davis Machine bought of you about Eve years I * aao. 1 have never regretted buTing It, as it ie perty always ready for any kind of faiLliy sewlng. etther 4l g Yori.gut. it le never out o( fix or needing i isavy or v.r,mp^ w Fairfield, A CL, Marsh, UH. far beyond our income, and enjoyed to the Bam e day James Fox was sentenoed to utmoet the luxuries around me—the con- t w0 years for pettty larceny, and we staut gaiety that was in such strong con- were sent together to prison. James trast to the school routine from which I Fox—my companion understand, noli had been released. myself—was deranged, but his lawyers ‘Then began a life of neglect, often had not been able to save him, as his of quarreling, when I objected to my aberration was not always apparent husband’s course of conduct—his drink-1 When we were upon the books ot the ing, his extravagance, and his late I prison, imagine my amazement when my hours. Still I found my own pleasure fellow prisoner gave my name for his in sccieiy, and a renewal of some of my J own. Like a flash I saw the advantage favorite studies, especially language and to be gained by the deception, and al music. I was fond, too fond, of water- lowed the error to pass, My companion color painting, and made presente to my committed suicide, and I escaped with friends of specimens of my skill in that two years’ imprisonment instead of line. seven. But 1 feared recognition, and “it was lour years alter my marriage | we nt 1o Canada. There I lived by my when 1 was thunderstruck by Alexander asking me to request a loan of money from Uncle Richard, with the informa tion added that every penny of my pro was gone. moe then I have known that a honey, and—in the case of the luxuri ous, notably the young Mohammedan ‘swells”—to perfume and qualify the mix ture witn paste of rows and spices. When ready for the pipe it looks like crude opium, a tenacious black amalgam, and when kindled gives out a faint sickly odor, surprisingly tenacious and penetrat ing. A. Hindoo, smoking ins hookah, or even the plebeian hubble-bubble, can be smelt out from a long distance as the lurk ing servant often finds out to his coat. Apparently unconscious ot the far-reach ing properties of the scent, he will squat ust around the corner to have a quiet smoke with a friend when he ought to he about his work; and retribution, guided to the spot by the nose, suddenly overtakes him in his fancied security. The varieties of tobacco grown in the East are chiefiy Shiraz” and “Ltiakia;” aud though they differ in degrees of quality, they are very seldom above mediocrity for the European ste. There is no preparation of the leaf worth calling preparation; for the Oriental smoker depends upon his particular tojac connist or his own servants to mix up the compound to suit his own taste. The flavor of the actual leaf itself, therefore, goes for little. When away from their own country, however, the natives of India will change their habit and smoke the pure leaf—as, for instance, iu the sugar plantations of Mauritius, where J have seeu the coolie smoking original' 1c iking cigarettes of his own manufacture, But the most surprising specimens of the self-made cigar are to be found among the emancipated negroes of that earthly Fara- disc, tka Seychelles Islands. There the tobacco plant has run wild, and the negro will sometimes so far bestir himself as to order his wife to make him some cigars; and the results are such distorted preposter ous caterpillars of tobacco as might make a Regent street tobacconist howl. The material, however, is excellent, being the best Havana or Virginia leaf run wild, but without curing or preparation of any kind it is naturally coarse aud acrid. The negro, however, likes it, and consumes his home-rolled cigars in unstinted abund ance. Duriug the bombardment of Alexandria one of the houses that suffered severely was that ot Hajji Nasim, tne cigarette manu facturer. But he improvised temporary quarters, and in a jury r.gged sort of way mauaged to keep abreast of the extraordi nary demand which the presence of so many British officers created. And what superb cigarettes the old Uajji made. I remember sitting with him one evening smoking, overlooking the bombarded Square, and listening to his reminiscences of Alexandria temporis acti; and he told m°, among other things, that one of the hist judges of tobacco he had ever known was the late Sultan. And he dapped his hands, and a girl brought him a box of his Majesty’s private brand, “the Sultan;” and i oirtainiy found it the daintiest,most ladylike smoking. Bat in the evening 1 unrolled a couple and charged my Turkish pipe—a large amber bead tor mouthpiece, jessamine stem, aad bowl of damascened clay—with the contents; aud wheu I had finished the pipe it seemed as U 1 had been smoking only the ghost of tobacco, mere adumbration of the weed. Fairies, if they smoke at all, probably smoke “Sultan.” The Latest Shoeing. Clang! clang! jingle! bang! clink! clink! clang! What have we here? A blacksmith-shop? Not exactly that, but it is the shoeing department of the West Division street railway company, and is not the least interesting of the many ramifications of the horse-car business. Step inside and take a look around. That good-looking man with the black moustache is the foreman, and will cheerfully explain the modus operandi litre. It is not like an or dinary shoeing shop. It is much raort spacious, to begin with, for a large number of horses are shod here daily; but its most notable peculiarity is the total absence of fire. No flaming forges, no wheezing bellows, no flying sparks, none of that fiery furnace light That re lieves the dingy gltom of the common smithy aud marks the face of the brawny smith with alternate streaks of perspiration and coal dust. Here all is cold and cheerless, and the muscular manipulators of the sledge look cool and clean. Let us ask the well-dress ed foreman about this. Heat is no longer a necessity in shaping shoes for horses,” he replied. “You see the forges which we form erly used are now idle, and we have reduced our working force to one-half its former size. This is the result of adopting what is known as the Good- enough shoe, which comes to us already made. The shoes are all one size, and can be made to fit the largest or smallest hoof. Here is a sample. You see it is made of the best of iron, but is much lighter than the old-fashioned shoe. The corks on the ends are done away with, and it is not so long by an inch or more. In fact, you will oh serve that the new shoe doesn’t extend hack far enough to bind the frog of the foot and interfere with the free, natur al action of the muscles and tendons in that part. It is sufficiently corked, and the absence of the rear corks don’t interfere with its merit in the least.” But how do you make a shoe of that size fit a large foot?” The foreman picks up from the floor an old-style shoejof the largest size, weighing about two pounds. “If I wanted to fit the foot that wore that shoe, here is the way I would do it,” he says; and stepping to the anvil he strikes the new shoe a dozen blows with a hammer, spreading it till tlie in ner semicircle is precisely the same as that of the old one. it is now about three mouths,” he continues, “since the company adopted this method of shoeing its horses, and the result has been found beneficial in every respect. The ball of the foot is left unhampered and a healthy circula- ^ hCff TimnuttiM in o ...,,1 UO,.....,. T'l.oo n.n I T- . * r-t- . 1 frequent and severe. Then the differ^ euce in the weight is an important item. This old shoe weighs about two pounds; this new one, twelve ounces. The horses don't slip nearly so much with the new ones as they did with the old.” How many horses are used by the west side company?” “About three thousand.” “How often are they provided with new shoes?” “Every two weeks. The horses in this barn travel eighteen miles a day; That is, they make three trips to State street and return. Of course their feet sometimes get in bad condition from corns and swelling, but our stock is well cared for and every precaution is taken to keep the animals in good, healthy shape. Would you like to take a peep into the hospital?” “What hospital?” “The hospital for horses. It is on the opposite side of the street. Come along.” Across the street is a large brick barn, and into it the foreman of the shoeing establishment leads the way. This is the hospital. Here are long rows of stalls, and in almost every stall stands a horse, fet lock deep in water. “About every two weeks,” explains the foreman, “the horses are brought in here aud permitted to stand an hour and a half in these vats of salt and water. The solution takes the swell ing out of their feet and limbs, and cools the fevar, if there is auy. When a horse’s feet are in very bad condition the brine is made extra strong, but ordinarily it is weak. A horse’s aukles cannot fail to puff up a little from con staut travel on hard pavements.” “Which, in your opinion, is the best lavement for car-horses—the wood or the stone?” “The stone is now generally conced ed to be the best. Some people con tend that stone pavements are hard on tiorses, but I think wooden ones are worse. Besides, horses slip less on stone.” The Flagstaff Mau, shire. Scotland, the sou of a fisherman When a lad of 19 he left home ant w ( ent to Manchester. There for two years he worked as a carpenter, ant helped to build one of the first railroat bridges, seven miles from Manchester, In the fall of 1846 he sailed as a passen ger on board the Orphan, from Liver pool for New York. When the vesse’ was 1.400 miles out from Liverpool, having been lieaten entirely out of her course to northward by a tremendous head wind, she was dismasted and had to put back to the Irish Channel. There again she collided with another vessel and had to seek shelter in Carrickfer gus Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, none of the 275 passengers having been iost.however. She went back to Liver pool under a jury mast. Again young Halket embarked, but this time on the old packet ship Rappahannock, the big' gest craft, sail or steam, in the world at that time. The voyage to New York lasted forty-one days, and when he ar rived in New York times were very slack and the young Scotchman went back home again on board a vessel as ship’s carpenter. In the same capaci ty he made a trip to New Orleans, the passage taking eight weeks. From there he went up the river to St. Louis, at that time the spring of 1647, a town of 25,000, and stayed there until 1848. Then lie came to Chicago, but he could not stand the severe winter aud return ed to St. Louis. He helped to build the ship Matilda, which was intended as a passenger ship for Sau Francisco. French and the other owners of the Matilda getting into financial troubles the vessel was sold. Mr Halket then made several trips as ship carpenter,be tween Now Orleans and Liverpool, on the James Brown, of Boston, and on the Josiah Bradley. In the fall of 1859 he settled in Chicago and has remained ever since, with the exception of a few trips up and down the Mississippi, on board the Great Western and the Mem phis. In Chicago Mr. Halket has devoted his energies exclusively to ship carpen tering. and to the making and putting up of flag poles, artesian well boring, poles and fenders. He enjoys a virtual monopoly of the flag pole business, be ing the only one in Chicago who carries it on. He keeps a stock of about 100 flagstaffs of all sizes, varying in price between $10 and $250. Since the big fire he has put up about 100 flag poles on roofs, nearly every one of the big ones being his make.. Not one of them has come down yet,despite storms,rain, and lightning. Spruce is exclusively used for flag poles. Tt comes from the Lake Superior region, and must be, light, rough, staight and supple. Green timber is preferred, so that he can sea- of a ^ ex- through a hole in the roof,often extend^ ing to the floor below, and it is then fastened tight with pitch or braced up with scantling or iron. No accident has ever occurred in the putting in of his poles, though there have been a good many narrow escapes when the derricks were too short or the pole was not well guyed and tumbled down. In putting up a new flag pole on the Tribune building recently a shutter was unhinged in hoisting up the pole. It fell into the alley, but injured nobody. As to the danger of the wind blowing down flagstaffs, Mr. Halket says that is not nearly so great as people suppose. The pole being round and smooth, and offering no resistance to the blast, the wind glides past it. Bread and Butter. Observe the Birthdays. wits until a year ago, when I returned to try to raise money for my wife, and thought I saw an easier plan by com mitting the crime for which I die to morrow. But I want to see my wife. I have wronged her—I robbed her—but large portion of it waa lost at the gam- heaven is my witness,I love her. When I ing table. was In prison she dropped my name “Long before this I had lost all love' and took her own again. So it is not The Scientific Americanb&jh: “The idea that lightning is not so destructive in the United States as it used to be, because the network of railroads and telegraph wires lessen the number of accidents, is met by the record of the summer. Fatal thunderstorms have never been more common.” Vice and wrong degrade us. Almost any day an elderly man may he seen in the business streets of Chica go, standing on the edge of the side walk, or even in the middle of the road, gazing up at the eaves of some prominent building. The structure which for the time engages his atten tion invariably has a flagstaff on top, but passers-by do not generally notice this, and jump at the conclusion that something dire is happening away up there on the roof, and it sometimes happens that a crowd collects and stands staring upward until the prime cause of their curiosity, the elderly man, who like Saul towers above his fellow men, moves on. He stands six feet two in his stockings, is commensurately broad and brawny, with a plenteous crop of gray locks, smoothly shaven face of a ruddy hue, clean cut features, and blue eyes as sharp as a hawk’s. He is a man with a history. He walks through the streets and looks at the houses just as a gardener walks through his flower-lieds and looks at his roses. He convinces himself that the flagstaffs which he has put on top of the houses are still there, safe and sound, and watches them as they^sway in the strong wind. This is George Halket, and in his little office ar the corner of Kingsbury and Kinzie streets the Herald reporter had a talk with him. Mr. ago on Let the birthday of each member of the family be always rememberea when it comes. Let there be something a little out of the ordinary routine in the arrangement of the table; cookies fash ioned as Johnny likes them best; one of Frank’s favorite plum puddings, or Julia’s special liking, a loaf of ginger cake, or a wonderful lemon pie, such as only mamma cau make. Then there must be presents. Sometimes people may think they cannot be afforded; but reflect. The little one needs shoes, dresses, aprons aud many other things. Purchase one or more for the birthday. It «vill seem just as much a preseut to the recipients as though they were not obliged to have it. Next come school-books and story books, a set of furs or a pair of skates, (should the birthday occur in the win ter,) a pretty little dinner-basket, or, if the parents can afford it. a little gold band for one of the white lingers, a necklace, a watch with a shining chain, or the pony that has been wished for so long. Encourage the little ones in giv ing to each other, and also remember father and mother’s birthday; believe me, it will be bread cast on the waters; the days will only be a few ere some re turns, and there will be a never-failing supply of pleasure as long as you and your children live. Old Arraa Tapestries. It’s a very clear case of negatives,” he said, summing up the replies which he had made to questions of him con cerning a young girl for whom the problem of bread and butter has arisen, brother upon whom to rely for support? She lias all four, but no one of them both can and will burden himself or herself with the girl. “ ‘Would it be well for her to be thus dependent, if she might?’ No! “ ‘Is there any apparent way by which she can support herself?’ No! “ ‘Would it be well for her to be thus independent if she might?’ No!” No wonder that somebody propounds the query, “What are we to do with our daughters?” aud then devotes a whole lecture to answering it. And then I doubt if it is answered. The young girl in question has been brought up in the West, in a fashion of reckless prodigality, and not only has not the faintest idea of the value of money or how it should be handled, but has also the idea that only the very best aud the most expensive of every thing to eat, drink and wear is possible for her, audin these ideas her friends jom who are willing to aid hor but cannot, and those who could aid her but will not. A general chorus of dismayed Impossibles!’ ’ would arise from all side* if it should be suggested that she take side room iua third-rate boarding muse at $1 per week, with table-board at $3, wash out all her smaller articles of clothing in her hand basin and wear them without ironing, and get along with two vory cheap dresses a year, making them herself in the evenings. Yet how else do the thousands of self-supporting girls who have no spe cial training iu any branch of lucrative 'abor manage their weekly fluancial problem? “I suppose,” said my partner in the conversation quoted above, “that there are very few positions which a young woman who has no special training of any kind, ean get, which will pay ten dollars a week, and that sum would be entirely inadequate to the necessities of the one iu question, even if she could get it.” “Teu dollars! I fancy that there are jut few even of those who are trained so far as a girl of twenty can be trained, who can command that sum.” 1‘eople who see the young ladies who stand behind the counters at our splen did city establishments which yield royal incomes to the merchant princes who are at their head; young (ladies of I ;ood education aud evidently refined habits aad tastes, ueatly and stylishly dressed, bright aud cheerful in manner —people who do not know have very ittle idea of the salaries which these girls receive for standing from eight in the morning till six iu the eyeuing, aud goods anil ahnwlnff Well, in one of our two largest dry goods establishments in Boston they will rarely engage a new salesgirl unless she is a high school graduate and has a good home in which to live. They will then make her sign an agreement to work for them oue year at a given aa- ary, said salary being $2 per week. At this rate of payment they by no means teach her “the business,” as boys ex pect to be taught under similar circum stances, nor is there any possibility of rising to really valuable positions. They are taught merely to sell goods behind a counter, and it they remain, and be come expert and successful, their sa uries are very slowly raised after the lirst year, but of the few who can stand i ,he work, and who do not choose rather to marry the first man who offers, and who are clever enough to be successful, very, very few ever receive a dollar over $0 per week. And on this they must live aud be always stylish and keep up appearances, for if they ate not well dressed they cannot keep their places! Ah! it is no wonder that we often hear fearful whisperings of salesgirls who have sold that which is far more precious than the goods on the shelves, in the vain struggle between poverty aud necessity. And the question is how can this dire evil be remedied? What hand is power ful enough to reach aud check it? Sewing girls, if deft-handed, clear brained, physically strong and devoted to their work, may earn more—from eight to ten dollars being the average salary paid good workers in the great dress-making establishments, but this is only after considerable experience, and it is difficult, to begin with, to get into these places at all. It is only by greatest good luck, and through very influential friends, that a girl can get a place in any of our lib raries; one who was recently adde<f to the three or four already at the State library was very fortunate, but her pay is but $6 per week. Teachers in the large cities are better paid, but a long training, is necessary, beside unusual ability, aud even then it is exceedingly difficult to get situations, as hundreds of normal school graduates in every State could tell you. It is indeed a‘ ‘clear case of negatives! : ’ In the Chapelle du Saint-Esprit o:! Toumay Cathedral there are now hung some splendid Arras tapestries which date back to 1402. They were manu factured at Arras by Pierre Fere, aud were presented to the cathedral by Canon Toussaint Priez. The Belgian amateurs believe them to be the only extant examples of the famous Flemish high warp of the early Fifteenth (Jen tury. There were originally seventeen scenes representing the legend of SS. Plat and Eleuther. but three have been lost. The history of these tapestries is curious. Originally they covered the backs of the cathedral stalls. They es caped the attention of the image break ers in 1566, but during the last century they were removed as barbarous rub bish, tom up, and made into rugs. When they seemed to be no longer good enough to he Lodueu upon, they were used to stop some holes in the roof. They have not been restored so far as practicable; and, although sadly muti lated, the scenes are still vivid and spirited. As works of art, indeed, they are exceedingly fine. Thereseued * twenty-two Parisian Shops. Halket was bom fifty-eight years portions cover a space of twen i the banks of the Tay, in Perth- metres long by two metres wide. Writing of Parisian shops, an authority calls attentioa to the fact that very few people realize the immense number of second-hand stores in that city. From the Rue de Paris to the ragpickers' quarter there is not a street in the commercial dis tricts that does not boast on* or more each establishments of every grade and quality. They are represented alike in the lordly and elegantly fitted np store whose propri etor deals only in antique cabinets, bronzes and upholstery, old miniatures and ancient laoe, and in the dingy httly booths stuck in a corner behind some massive building, wherein old stoves and old shoes are vend ed to whomsoever comes to buy. In the larger and handsomer shops the assortment of wares to be found u practically limit- ieaa. All the elegauctes of a lady’s ward robe may fill one window, blended into a bewildering chaos; the shoes of an opera dancer m another appear tangled in the lace of a cardinal’s robe; an ivory-bound prayer book supports a box of cosmetics, and n carved crudflx reposes on a sofa cushion of embroidered velvet, aide bj «de with a broken opera glass. ■ V'5.