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~4 • it TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. 8. O.. NOVEMBER 29.1883. THE VERDICT -or— THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! r Mr. j. o. boao—Dear sir: I bougnt tne nrst Davis Machine sold by you over live years ago for my wife, who haaglyen It ai»oS any .',wiu u> •• guouas when Orst boaght. t J. W. ISOUCK. Wlnnsboro, 8. C., Aprl. 1891 Mr. Boao: Vou wish to know what 1 have to say In regard to the Davis Machine boaght of you three years ago. I feel i can’t say too much In its favor. 1 made about $80,00 within live months, at times ruuning it so fast that the needle would get per fectly not from friction. I feel confident x could not have don 3 the same work with as much ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine 1 have ever treadled. Brother James and w linams’ families are as much pleased with their D.ivis Machines bought of you. I want no better iiiaclime. As I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Macnins Kespectfully, „ „ ISIAKN STBVEN80N, Fairfl“ld County, April, 1888. Mr. Boao : My machine gives me perfect satis faction. I and no fault with It. The attachments ere so simple, t wish for no better than the Davis > ertlcal Feed. Respectfully. Mrs. R. Millino. Falrfleld county, April, 1883. M r. Boao : 1 uougm a Davis Vertical Feed wing Machine from yon four years ago. I am lighted with it. It never has given me any o uole, and has uever been the least out of order, t is as good as when 1 nrst bought it. I can cheerfully recommend it. Respectfully, Mrs. m. J. Kireland. Montlcello, April 30,1883. Reverses. The rose that blooms the purest Has need of summer showers; The oak that stands the surest Has felt the tempest’s powers. The gold that shines the fairest The furnace fire must feel; The gem of lustre rarest Has known the cruel steel. The feet that stand the strongest Have trod temptation’s path; The heart that bears the longest Has known affliction’s wrath. And not on fields successive Gleams Truth’s triomphaut form The cause that is progressive Reels oft before the storm. mio . TA.W —****6 lAign'all creation runs, Framed by the arm untiring That guides the starry suns. Yet to that soul possessing Unwavering trust in right, Defeat is but a blessing— The rod, a sceptre bright. For, by reverses chastened We plainer see our needs, Our onward march Is hastened, We rise to greater deeds. Until from heights supernal, A grander view we gam; And bless the “Great Eternal” For what we counted pain. THE YOUNG WIDOW. Thu Is to certify that I have been using a Darn Vertical Feed Hewing Machine for over two years, purchased of Mr. J. o. Hoag, i haven’t found It possessed of any fault-all the attachments are so simple. It never refuses to work, and is eertalnly i he lightest running in the market. I consider it a tlrst-class machine. Very respectfully, Minnii M. Oakland, Falrfleld county, S. O. Willingham. ^Vik Boao: i am wen pieasea m every pamcut with the Davis Machine nought of you. I think a arsi-ciass machine In eve., respect. You kne w you sold several machines of the same make to dmerent members of our families, all of wnom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respectfully, Mas. M. 1 Falrfleld county, April, 1883. , H. Mobley. This is to certify we have na i w constant use the Davu Machine bought of you about three years ago. As we take In work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don’t want any better machine. It Is always ready to do any kind of work we have to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased ana wish no better machine, c ATHBRiNk Wylie and Sister. April 25,1888. I have no tan it to and with my macnne, and don’t want any better. 1 have made the price of li severa times by taking In sewing. It is always ready to do Its wont. I think It a first-class tua chine. I feel I can t say too much for the Davu Vertical Feed Macnine. Mrs. Thomas Smith. Falrfleld county, April, 1883. Mr. J. 0. boao—Dear Sir: it giv pleasure to testify to the merits of the DavU Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of yon about live years ago. has been almost In con stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that it u worn any, and has not cost me one cent for repairs since we have had it. Am well pleased and don’t wish lor any better. Yours tru'y, Host. Crawford, Granite Quarry, near Wlnnsboro 8. C. We have used the Davig Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the last flvs years. We would not have any other make at any price. The machine uas given us unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turner and Daughters Falrfleld county, 8. C., Jan. 21,1888. Having bought a Davu Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three years ago, and it having given me perlect satisfaction in every respect as a lainlly macaine. both for hea y and light sewing, and never needed the least re pair In any way, I can cheerfully recommend it to any one as a nrst-clasa machine in every particu lar, and think it second to none. It Is one of the simplest machines made; my children use It wltn all ease. The attachments are more easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by means of its Vertical r eed than any other ma chine 1 have ever seen or used. Mrs. Thomas Owinss. Wlnnsboro, Falrfleld county, 8. C. We have had one ot the DavU Machines about fonr years and have always found it ready to do all kinds of work we have had occasion to uo. Can’t see that the machine is worn any, and works as well as when new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Creek, Fairfield countv, 8. C. My wife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought of you. 8he would not take doubla wnat sue gave lor 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, ^ ^ Montlcello, Falrfleld county, 8. C. Free. The DavU Sewing Machine is simply a trecu- ure Mrs. J. A. Uoodwyn. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10. 1b88. j.o boao, Esq., Agent-Dear Sirs My wife has ueen using a Davu Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four years, and it has never needed any repairs am works Just aa well as when first Ih>tight. She says It will do a greater range of practical work *nd do it easier and better than any machine she nas ever used. We cheerfully recommend It as a No. 1 family machine, Your triLy, Jab. Q. Davu. Wlnnsboro, S. C., Jan. 3,1883. Mr. Boao : I have always fonnd my Davis Ma chine ready do ah kinds of to work I have had oc- (isUtion to Uo. 1 cannot see that the machine u worn a panicle and it works aa wed aa when new. Respectfully, Mrs. K. C. ucoding. Wlnnsboro, 8. C., April, 1883, Mr. Boao : My wife has been constantly using the Davia Machine bought of yon about nve years ago. I have never regretted buying it, as it la always ready for any kind of family sewing, either aeavy or light. Ills never oat of fix or needing lepaura. Very respectfully, A. w. Ladd. Falrfleld, 8. a, March, Utt. Mrs. Pieroy was not in good Immor ♦hat day, aa she sat at the breakfast table pouring coffee for her husband, and dispensing bread and butter to the three little Piercy’s. She was a hand some, overdressed woman, with a good deal of false nair, frizzed and puffed and braided on the top of the head, and a complexion that bore remote witness to the constant use of cosmetics. And Mr. Pierey, at his eud of the table, was evidently ill at ease, as he broke his egg and nibbed diligently at his roll. “But what was I to do, my dear?” said he, after a brief silence which was by no means peaceful Do?” shrilly retorted Mrs, Pieroy. “Why, what do other people do? Are we to keep a home for the indigent poor?” Or a refuge for the widowed and fatherlebs?” “My dear, my dear,” pleaded Mr. Pieroy, who was a small mun, with thiu hair and spectacles, “you may be a widow yourself, some day.” “And if I am, I shall not go begging among my relatives, that you may de pend on,”said Mrs. Pierey. “And, after all, she isn’t any relative of yours—only your brother’s wife! I’d like to know what earthly claim ahe has upon you 11 declare, thannore I think of it, the more I am amazed at the woman’s presump tion. Her verv name is an accruvitinri, too. ‘Piume Pieroy, indeed. 111 wager my new lace pm that she was a second-rate actress when she married your brother. No, Mr. Pierey, if you think that I— But there the torrent of the lady’s eloquence was cut short by the unex pected appearance on the scene of the very subject of her objurgation—a tall, pretty woman of about four and twenty’ whose wavey, golden tresses and deli cately fair complexion contrasted vivid ly with the deep mourning weeds she wore. “A veil down to her feet,” mentally ejaculated Mrs. Abel Pierey, “And a six inch bias baud of the very best Courtland crape on her gown, I won der who’s expected to pay for all this?” Abel Pierey, the kindest hearted of little men, welcomed his brothers' widow with genuine hospitality; but Matilda, his wife, looked askance at her, with uo friendly smile upon her countenance. “Of course you will consider this your home,” said Mr. Pieroy, as he made haste to draw a chair close to the lire. ‘Until you are able to suit yourself somewhere else,'’ crispely added his wife. The widow said little; she only looked with large, wistful eyes, from one to the other, as she sat there, the morning snnshine turning her fair locks to braided masses of gold, the pearly delicacy of her skin arousing the liveli est envy in Mrs. Abel’s heart. “Though, or course, it’s only some French balm, or Circassian dream or other, that I havon’t heard of,’’ said she to herself. But, after Mr, Pierey had buttoned on his overcoat and gloves, he came back to the breakfast room, while his wife was putting up the ohildreu’s school lunches in the pantry. “I’m not mneb of a talker. Plume, said he, in an odd, hesitating way; “but you are welcome, my dear—very welcome! And 1 hope you will try to feel at home. Don’t mind Matilda— just at first. She’s a little peculiar, Matilda is, but I do assure you she—‘ “Mr. Pieroy!” uttered a sharp, warn ing voice, at this instant, from the threshold, “is it possible you haven’t started yet? And you know how par- ticnlar Budge & Bodley are as to your getting at tne store at nine pre cisely.” Mr. Piicey turned pink all over. •Yes, my dear, yes,” said he; “I’m quite sure to be in time!” And off he started on a trot. When he was gone Plume took off her bonuet aud veil, removed her mantle and gloves and went into the kitchen, “Cannot I do something to help you, sister Maiilda?” said she pleadingly. Mrs. Abel Pieroy looked, witn cold blue eyes and lips primly compressed, at tne fair face, which was younger and fresher thau ever without the jet-black circiet of the bonnet, and tne slight graceful figure before her. “No, I thank you,” said she. “lam not ui ed to having fine ladies iu my kit- I'cheo. ‘ But if you will lend mo an apron—’’ “No, 1 thauk you. Mrs. Oswald Piercj 1” repeated the housewife. “You will hud the newspaper in the hall. Per haps the advertising colums may inter est you.*’ “We are aistera,” said the young widow, with a quivering hp. Will you not call me P uine?' slity,” said Mrs. Abel Pierey, weighing out ounces of sugar and pounds of flour with au unerring hand. “And really, J our name is such a very peculiar one. ane or Martba, or Eliza, would have been more to mv taste. Perhaps, how ever,’’ with a keen, sidelong glance, “you have been on the stage?’ r “No,” said Piume. “I was a teacher when Oswald married me. But what did you mean about the advertising col umns of the papers?” ‘•Situations, you know ” said Mrs. Pieroy, reaching over to the raisin box “Bridget, you have been at these rais ins as true as I live! There's half o: ’em gone since I was here last.” i umiai hc suarpiy re sponded Bridget, who was used to these kitchen skirmishes. '“Sure I never lived in a uorufe wnere they counted the raisins and the lumps o’ coal, aud if I don’t suit, mum, it’s month's warning from to day, if ye’s plaze.” "Situation!” repeated Plume, half afraid of Bridget's warlike demeanor, half-puzzUd at her sister-in-laws words. “Yes,” said Mrs. Abel, tartly, paying no attention to Bridget and her skillet —• in a glove factory, you know, or a fancy store, or ev«,n as nursery govern ess or attendant to some elderly invalid. For, of course, you know,” with an other of those oblique looks that made poor Plume feel uncomfortable, “you expect to work for a living. We are not rich enough to support all our rela tions. Abel s salary was reduced last year, and no one knows hoW / strictly I have to economize in order to make both ends meet. And a strong young woman like yon ought to be ashamed to sit down ou a sickly man, with a family, like my husband* because—” Stop—oh, stop!” said Plume, lifting up her hands as if to ward off some in visible terror. “He said I was welcome. He told me—’’ “That's just like Abel” said Mrs. Pieroy scornfully. “He’d take iu all creation if he could. He never stops to think whether he can afford it or not.” *1 am sorry that I intrude,” said Plume, with dignity. “It shall not be lor long. I will look at the newspaper at once. “Yes, that’s a deal the best plan,’ as sented Mrs. Pierey, ungraciously. Of course you won’t mention our little chat to Abel. He might be vexed, and, after all, I’m only speaking for yoor own good.” Plume looked at her with an expres sion of face which somehow made Mrs. Abel Pierey feel as if she were shrink ing up like a withered walnut in its shell ‘Yaa T Irimw 7 Bald uha •iRqt need not be airaid; I am no tale-uearer to make mischief iu any one’s family.” Mrs. Pieroy felt very uncomfortable after this little conversation was end ed. “How she did look at me!'’ thought she. ‘ But I only spoie the truth, after all. We can't he hardened with her support, let Abel talk as he pleases. And uo matter what she says, I believe she has been an actress. No one but au actress could ever put ou su«h royal ways as that.” Half au hour afterwards when the bell rang, aud some one inquired for firs. Oswald Pidroy, Mrs, Abel nodded ler head to the cake she was taking out of the oven. ‘Company already,” said she, “and gent.emnu company, as I live! Well, if this is the way she intends to go on, the soouer she suits herseli with a situation the better.” ’ < * Mrs. Pieroy had been secretly anxious for au opportunity of quarreling with ler sister-in-law. Here it was at last; and when the old gentleman with the glossy broadcloth suit was gone, she xrauoed into the parlor with a red spot ou either cheekbone like signals of war. So you have been receiving com pany, Mrs. Oswald?” said she. “Yes,” Piume innocently answered. “Gentleman company, too!” cried Mrs. Pierey. “It was Mr. Van Orden, my hus band's lawyer,” explained Plume “Oh, I date say I” said Mrs. Pierey, ‘All that sounds very well; but 1 have the character of mv house to look to, aud—” 'He is coming back with a carriage,” hurriedly spoke Plume. ' I am to go to his wife’s house at once. Mrs. Van Orden is willing to give me the shelter which my own husband’s relatives grudge mel” “1 wish hefjoy of her bargiin, I am sure,” said Mrs. Abel Pierey, wit a toss of the mountains of false hair tnat crowned her head. And so the two womeu parted, iu no spirit of amity. “I dare say she’ll go straight to the store,” thought Mrs. Abel, “and invent a painful story for my husband's bene fit. Aud Abel will make a great fuss— Abel was always soft about his relatives —but I shan’t mind it. I always have been mistress in my own house, aud I always intend to be, Oswald’s widow or no Oswald’s widow. ’* Nevertheless, she could not help feel ing a little apprehensive when her hus band came into tea. For when Abel teally was aigry; his anger S'guified something. But to her surprise he en tered all smiles, aud rubbing his palms, gleefully. •ido Plume has gone,” said he. ‘Yes,” said Mrs. Pieroy, pretending to be busy with a knot ia tue second child s shoe. “She has gone but how did you kuow it?” “Van Ordeu stopped at the store to der she had committed! Alas for the rained ebanees of her three httle gills to inherit their aunt’s money! She made some trivial excuse about a for gotten pocket-handkerchief, and went up stairs to weep the bitterest tears she had ever shed. It was a lesson to her, bat it was an expensive one. For Plume Pierey, al though she always remained ou the most excellent terms with her kind httle brother-in-law, nev0r crossed Mrs. Abel’s threshold again. She hod been too deeply stung—too bitterly insulted there. ‘ r&z said An Unknown “Add one dollar for •x» way dry Qlleotioiia tall me,” autwered Mr. Pieroy, Brian ^c, waan’t it? Aud quite roman tic, too. Wuat on earth is the man talking about?” said Mm. Pierey, aroused at last into something like active interest. “Why didat Plum a tell you? It seems tuat tho^e last investments that poor Oawal i fancied ho had beggared the clerk wt ^ - , goods b-- 5 ®’ Vl10 was & 1 Pur tne entry of a bill of goods, as a re porter was passing. The box was one of those large, cumbrous affairs with which Broadway pedestriamsm has been of late so needlessly impeded and the seeming moderation of the charge of “one dollar for boxing” arrested the reporter’s attention. “Do you me;.n to say that you only charge one dollar to your customers for such a monstrous affair as that?’’ said the scribe. '* ‘That’s all,” said the clerk. “Al though there is wood enough in it for a small shanty, that’s all it costs us, and we charge it up at cost price. Oh, no, it’s not a new box,'” continued he, in terpreting the reporter’s inquiring look; “it’s a second-hand packjug-case. but just as good for all purposes as a new one that cost not less than $2.50. Are there many of them uset? Oh, yes; you would be surprised if I told you the large quantities of tlAm that are used by shippers of all kirns of goods Where do we g«t themf Why, the repairing and sale of Second-hand boxes is a regularly established business, and one firm alone has foi^: places and keeps a large force of men and horses and trucks busy in collecting and de livering boxes. Here’s hi$ card.” The reporter repaired to the princi pal stand of the dealer in second-hand boxes. The street up ami down told of it, and in the vacant lot on one side the pile of packing cases towered high above the adjoining roofs. As the re- >orter stumbled over the boxes into the ittle office and began catechising the clerk of the establishment a messenger boy squeezed past him and handed in a note. Passing it to the reporter the clerk said: “Well, as to how we do business this is about as good a starting point as you want. This note tells me to have a truck at No. 58 Greene street at seven o’clock, and, if you notice, it is marked ‘sharp.’ That means if our truck should happen along at half-past seven somebody else would have closed “Where does your supply come from?” “From all over. We don’t know the minute we may be called upon to take from a half dozen to a round thousand xixes off somebody’s hands or out of somebody’s way. We refuse nothing. Everything is fish that comes to our net, that is if it is a box. We take them of all sizes, dimensions and shapes and can’t get enough of them. We pay the highest prices, all the way from two to three cents up to sixty each. Here’s a lot,” and the clerk, now tho roughly interested, led the reporter up a rickety flight of stairs and pointed to a long tier of brand new boxes; “heie’s a lot of 8,000 boxes made to order by a regular manufacturer for a prominent candle dealer, and unfortu nately when the whole lot was finished and ready for delivery it was found that they were short by only a half inch and the candle dealer refused to receive them. His candies wouldn’t go into them, so here they are; we paid four cents a piece for the lot, and by this time next week you won’t find one of them here. There will be a clear profit on the transaction of not much less than $200. The original cost was fifteen cents each. There’s a load of them going off now to one of the up town fancy grocers. He thought them cheap at seven cents, as they are just the thing to deliver his orders with.” Have you regular customers from whom you get aud to whom you sell boxes?” “See that rack?” said the clerk, pointing to a set of pigeon holes alpha betically arranged aud tilled with small passbooks; “well, every book in that rack represents a steady and constant customer. From most of them we buy one kind of box and sell them back another. They all have something to sell or want to buy something every day, and sometimes often in the day. In the dull season we take boxes off the hands of the dry goods men,, as they have no room to store them and we have plenty. We pay for them 40 or 50 cents—repair them and sell them again for $1. The smaller boxes we get from the grocers and shoe dealers and pay all the way from 50 to 50 cents.” “And notv as to how you get rid of them?” “There never seems to be any diffi culty about that. Everybody seems to want them. We sell to wholesale grocers, soap manufacturers, station ers, tobacco dealers, musical instru ment dealers, toy houses, ’most every body. Some firms know that we can always suit them, and are constant buyers. We sell a single box, but mostly by the hundred and sometimes by the thousand. Some merchants charge the expense of boxing to their customers and some don’t, but all ap pear to have discovered the saving that is made in buying second-hand boxes, and the business with us has assumed Sport In China, Of all parts of the world visited dur mg a service of over five-and-twenty years in her Majesty’s navy, I think China bea's the palm for “wild shoot ing.” By the term “wild shooting, must be understood to mean that most enjoyable of all sport, going out with out the least knowing what your bag is likely to consist of at the end of the day. There is, of course, great pleasure in a day devoted to either pheasant, partridge, rabbit, or wild-fowl shoot ing; but to my idea a day upon which all, or nearly all. of the above are met with, and in which you can uever tell what ganre ts Ttfceiy'lo give you a chance next, is to the sportman and naturalist th® acme of enjoyment. And for this glorious uncertainty commend me,above all places, to China. When commanding H. M. S. G I was stationed for over a year at Can ton as “Senior Officer,” and as the duty was not very arduous I was frequently able to enjoy my favorite sport. To do this 1 generally organized a party, con sisting of one or two of the British resi dents, some of my officers and mvself, and usually hired a “house-boat” for the trip. These house-boats are simply mastless junks of about twenty tons burden, having on the after part of the deck a suit of three room-like cabin furnished with tables, chairs, and lock ers, and of course with the invariable shrine aud pot-bellied Joss, without which no Chinese boat, however small, is ever seen. They are propelled either by long sweeps or poles, but more fre quently drift up or down with the tide, and are really most comfortrble. Their crew generally consists of two men and two women, but I also took my own attendant sampan, with its crew of “Boglish Mary” (of whom more pre sently) and her four girls, who purvey ed and cooked for us. All the sampans at Canton are man ned by women—an elderly one as cox swain, and two or four young girls to pull. “English Mary” was, and I trust still is, always employed by the senior officer to attend upon him, to take him io and from the shore, to pilot him through the city, to act as interpreter between him and the tradespeople, and m fact to do everything to add to his comfort. At daybreak one bright November mornuig a party of six guns, besides myself, embarked in our house-boat, and with a strong flood tide turned out of the river up the Fat shan Creek; aided by our sweeps we soon reached a smaller arm or creek, which is known by the English name of “the brook,” and which is a noted place for wild duck. At about two miles from its entrance we moored the boat to the the regularity of any other line of trade. We give receipts for all the boxes we get and require the same for all we deliver. Our statements are made out monthly and settlements made as in any other business. We keep twenty- four carpenters constantly employed in repairing boxes or in making new ones to order, and five teams are re- ESTABLISHED 1848. had elapsed since the bandages had been removed I This was enough, we were more than satisfied, and declined to see any more. “Mas-kee, mas-kee,” said the fair one, and she hobbled off for a few paces, and, sitting down, carefully replaced the disturbed folds. Mary and our boatmen were now very anxious that we should return to the boat, for the appearance of the day had considerably changed. It was get ting very overcast, and frequent gusts of wind plainly indicated a change of weather, so shouldering our guns we made tracks for our floating home. One of the peculiarities of China is the extremely sudden changes that fre quently take place in the weather, and the rapidity with winch such changes occur. We no sooner got on board than we carried two anchors well out into the paddy field, aud, burying them well, roused their hawsers as taut as possible; we then drove the boat‘poles well into the brook's bed, on the port side, and made the boat as secure as our means would permit, and the sam pan coming back we hoisted her in and well secured her. By this time the bright blue sky hail disappeared, black lurid clouds massed up to the eastward, and the veering and increasing breeze moaned and whistled overhead with a mournful warning sound. Bresently, after one or two squalls,we got the full blast. A heavy blinding rain came with the wind, aud hid everything from us. For two hours it blew as if heaven and earth were coming togeth er, and thundered and lightened as it only can in China, and then it settled down to a hard gale which continued all that night and until evening of next day, by which time our grog was all expended, so directly it moderated sufficiently we got under way and re turned to Canton, where we found the river all in confusion,an immense num ber of the boats forming the floating part of the city having been wrecked, and a very large number of lives lost. Oranges and Lemons. A Wild Bide on • Fish. oranges and lemons plentiful?” prominent fruit dealer in New himself with, have turned up trump I quired in Collecting and delivering cards after ail. And Van Orden tells | me that Oswald’s widow is worth $150- 0Q0 Mrs. Abel Pierey turned first green. “Oh, we’re no relation at all, in re- then crimson. Alas for the fatal blon- We keep well insured, but have to pay as high as two and a half per cent, on account of the perishable nature of our merchandise and the impossibility of saving anything once a lire was started. ’ ’ further up the brook, the rest lauding in the paddy fields on the left hand side. Of this latter party I made one. We had not advanced ten yards before snipe were rising all round us, and all guns were going merrily. No occasion there to pick your ground, for every dry bit held its bird,and we soon found our dogs were incumbrances, so we coupled them up, reserving them for later in the day. On we went, working straight across the paddy fields, towards a hill about two miles distant, on which, is a large burial-ground, thickly planted with dwarf evergreens, and surrounded with groves of lichee trees, a well-known co ver for pheasants. By the time we reached the foot of it cur game-bags had become considerably heavier, and our cartridge-belts correspondingly lighter. On aniving at the end of the paddy .fields we determined to have a quiet pipe and a 8. and B. before at tacking the long tails, and while so do ing took the opportunity of examining the contents of our bags, which con sisted of thirty couple of snipe, eigh teen couple of painted snipe—a much larger bird,—and four and a half couple of teal, not including some score or so of both kinds of snipe shot by one of our boatmen, with a matchlock about eight feet long, with which he shot from his hip in a marvellous manner. Having finished our pq'es, etc., we uncoupled the dogs, and setting our faces to the hill commenced beating to wards the graveyard. In a very few moments a whir-r-r, followed by a dou blc reuort ou my left, signalled that the sport had begun, and almost immedia i.ely a fine old golden cock gave me a esson in patience for blazing at him xjo quickly. 1 missed him clean with loth barrels, and had the joy of seeing him fall to my next neighbor. We worked the lichees well, and then beat over the mouldering remains of a past generation of Celestials, and by the time we arrived at the pagoda that crowned the hill, we all felt that it was time for “tiffin” and repose; so, taking possession of a lower room, Mary made a fire, and in a few moments had curry and rice preparing for us. In the mean while we explored the pagoda and its surroundings. While enjoying our curry we were visited by a very smartly-dressed young lady, who, Mary informed us, had been visiting the tomb of her ancestors in the graveyard below. She was dressed in something more like a frock than the usual jacket.of brown quilted silk,with a border of red aud black, aud light blue silk trousers very wide in the leg, reaching just down to her ankles. Her hair was plastered back from her face, with two great rolls on each side, and on very high structure at top, with se veral large globe-headed gold pins through it. Her small deformed feet were covered with little shoes about five, or perhaps six inches long, with very thick soles, and the upper part, over the unnaturally high instep, em broidered in different colors, the foot being tightly bandaged to preserve the deformity intact. To enable her to walk, or rather hobble along, she had to support herself with a long bamboo pipe-stem. Noticing that we regardet her fe t somewhat curiously, she told Mary to inform us that for a “cum' shaw” ahe would show us one of them so we gave her half a dollar, and she began unbandaging one; but when ii was nearly uncovered a dreadful smell became perceptible, which she account ed for by telling Mary three months An OKI Mine. “Are asked a York. “Well, no,” said the dealer iu answer, “for the simple reason that the fruit has not commenced to arrive iu great quanti ties as yet.” “When does the fruit come?” asked the reporter. “A steamer is expected this week; after that tney will come on an average of two or three steamers per week. That does not seem much, does it? But when you count from 20,000 to 30,000 boxes eich steamer, as there are, you really see the great amount of fruit they contain.” “Will next week’s steamer be the first this season?” asked the reporter. * Yes, that will be the first regular arri- at present, but they bonuMlrfu n lntB«fomh of them fit for use. As to oranges, there are none except what have been stored away by dealers last season; tnese are dry and insipid, but bring a big price as there are no others in the market.” “Where uo the oranges and lemons come from?” “They come chiefly from Messina, Paler mo, Catania and Sicily. All the fruit is brought to this country In steamers and sailing vessels; these latter hold about 6.000 boxes, it takes the steamer about twenty days to come here if the weather is favorable, but in stormy weather they have often been two months. As to the sailing vessels mere is no certainty what ever, the fruit often coming in decayed and selling for less than the cost of freight age.” “These are Florida oranges, - and to-day they are one of the bust oranges grown. Tne skin is very thin, and the fruit is sweet and Juicy; there are several varieties of these oranges, the choicest being the Indian river; another kind known as the russet, on account of the color of the skin, while it sells at a less pries than the Indian river, ia nevertheless just as tweet fruit. The Florida oranges have ready sale and command good prices; for instance, when the ordinary Palermo oranges sell at $2.61) per box, the Florida fruit brings $5.00 readily.” “How about Florida lemons?” was then asked. “Well, the experiment of raising Florida lemons has been tried, but a hard, thick skinned lemon Is the result that cannot be compared to the juicy, thin-skinned Mes sina lemon.” “Are there not large profits in the busi ness?” Yes, there are large profits,” said the dealer, “and,” with a significant look, big losses also. A* you probably know, the fruit is sold at auction to the highest bidder. On a steamer of 30,000 boxes, there may be 200 different brands ot fruit. Well, a sample, that is, one or two boxes of each kind, is shown at the sale, and the buyer has to bid according to that. When tne ship is unloaded that in the bottom of the ship may be damaged; this, nowever, is ail the buyer’s loss, so you see there is a risk in buying. Are there any heavy buy ers? Yes, I know of one dealer who buys about 3,000 boxes at every sale. •Several years ago when lemons were very high, 1 had sold completely out, and was in a dilemma to replenish my stock. Luckily I managed to buy twenty boxes from a wholesale dealer who had some stock on hand. I paid him $5 per box for them, buying them more for the accommo- dation of my customers than with the intention of making a profit on them. Three days after 1 purchased them, I sold them back to the same man 1 had bought them of for $9 per box. Ou another occasion I purchased fifty boxes at auction for $1 per box, thinking them cheap, but they turned out completely rotten, and I did not get fifty cents out of the whole lot.” “How are lemons selling now?” “Good lemons are worth $4 per box, and you can get them as low as $2 per box.” ‘ How are oranges?” “Fiondas are commencing to come now and are bringing about $5 per box. There are also a great many Havana oranges in. Good day. The following story of the adventure of an old sturgeon fisher is vouched forand was told a Dublin reporter by two very reliable gentleman of this country. The scene was at Bkull Shoals, near Dublin. The namo of the old gentleman who, by the way, nearly lost his life tfy hunger and starvation was Pierce Bell. B.-ll had been fishing and with good success. On one night he caught as many as thirteen of these mon ster Ash, with which the Oconee river abounds, and the thirteen aggregated in pounds, 1,737. Near tnese shoals the fish come out in the fallow water to “wallow." Bell spied one of these resting in one of these shallow basins by the rocks, and it bethought him to approach as gently as possible and when near enough to leap upon the sleeping m>meter, push hu hands through his gills and then secure hu game. But wheu the leap was made and hu grip secure the sturgeon took It aa a signal for. ready aud darted out into the river. Down, down, down they went, until Bell had about given up. Tne fish came to the surfaci and gave the enemy a chance to get his breath, but tiice was scarcely given before under he went a second time, up stream, until the sturgeon ran its head between two rocks and clasped the gilia by their sides, so that poor Bell’s hands were securely fastened, and then ten thou sand thoughts of escape began to present themselves, but none of them proved fruitful. The fish would have withdrawn from the vlcehke halter, but it went into it with such force that escape was impossible. Bell was not rescued until by mere chance, some days after and in an almost famished condition. He had eaten a hole into the sturgeon’s back as big as a man’s hat and had water to drink and had thus eked out a subsistence. The sturgeon, as a matter of course, bad died in the meantime. A Steed of the Sew. A strange sea animal has been seen off St. Elmo, one of the Pearl Island group, situated between forty and fifty miles of Panama. The boats were out waiting signals from the vessels as to the direction in which the whales were heading. Sud denly the water broke at a short distance from the boat Captain Seymour was steer ing, and he made ready to catch a whale; but, to his surprise and that of the men in the boat, who ceased pulling and looked around when he shouted to them, an animal somewhat like a horse slowly rose out of the water and then dived, apparently alarmed at the sight ot the boat. None of those present had ever seen an animal like it before, although they ate all old sailors, and they agree m saying, as do another boat’s crew, who saw it the following day, that it is an animal which has hever been previously encountered. The glaoce which Ciptain Seymour ob tained enables him to describe it as about with. horns protruding frem it, with four legs or double-jointed fins, a brownish hide, pro- tusely speckled with large black spo’a, and a tail which appeared to be divided into two parts. Tne animal was seen on two d fferent days and an effort would have been made to catch it had it not been that whales were about at the time. Captain Seymour and his officers agree In behoving the monster is peculiar to the locality and tnat it could be easily killed with lances and bomb guns. Officers of the Pacific Mail Company state they have seen thu animal on several occasions, although they never had the opportunity for cloae obser vation which was obtained bv tbe Hope On. The other day iu England a coal mine was sold which was first opened in the days of the Ctesars, and which has been worked at intervals ever since. This fact indicates that mining is a tolerably permanent business after all. It is quite possible that furnaces will be smoking in tbis valley two thousand years from now, for there is no valley iu the world that issurrounded by more enduring miiles. This should be an encouragement to gentlemen who spend their time iu telling what uncertam business mining is. They should try to make arrangements to get back here five hundred years hence and see what the people will think of the business by tnat time. Tnere will be failures of the crops before then; there will be potato bugs, and wire worms, and locusts, there will be floods, droughts, cloud-bursts and snow-slides; there will be mildew, and before that time new and perplexing insects will abound to try tbe patience of the agriculturist, but the treasure left in the hills will be just the same; and men will turn the same loving eyes to gold and silver that they do now. A good mine is about the safest and best property that a man can get in this world and it is easier to secure now, than it will be five hundred ; rears hence. Pilchard catching in Ireland, —The sale of liquor is now prohibi ted, in whole or in part, in seventy-one counties in Georgia, leaving less than half of the counties in which the sale is unrestricted. The last Legislature prohibited the sale in nine counties more and provided for elections thirty others. Ireland is returning to one of its old- time industries—that of pilchard catch- :ng and curing, This wai formerly a coding occupation among the Garnish fishermen, though it has declined dur ing the last few years. A number of lishermen from Cornwall have recently gone over to the south coast of Ireland, where the pilchard are found in greet quantities. This occupation is carried on all along the coast now, and its re vival perhaps indicates an improved state of business in Ireland. During i ixe Bummer watchers are ktpbonthe lookout day and night for the Approach of the pilchard ahoals, and when the Deacon fires appear the fishermen hasten to their boats. There ia greet rivalry umnng the fisherfolk of neighboring til lages, and disputes are frequent as to the qnality of the fish canght by them, each cne generally claiming that its own are the beet, though the villages maybe within a few miles of each other. These flahj though caught for pilchard, are sold aud eaten for sardines, and are con sidered far superior to them by tbe fishermen themselves, —The cigarette smoking nuisance has reached such proportions in New York that many prohibitory notices appear in business places, and mer chants and business men largely refuse to employ youths who use that form of tobacco. X