The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, November 15, 1883, Image 1
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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
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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.
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