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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
WINNSBORO. 8. O.. NOVEMBER 29.1883.
THE VERDICT
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THE PEOPLE
BUY THE BEST!
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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. ‘
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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.
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