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X 1 - **&&&&#&' ‘^ : S0 J • • —> * i 'A~\ • WINNSBORO. S. 0.. DECEMBER 8.1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. SCATTlCB HKKDS OF KINDNESS. There was never a golden sunbeam That fell on a desolate place. But left some trace of its presence That time could never efface. Not a song of Ineffable sweetness That ravished the ILtenlng ear, Then slumbered in silence forgotten For many and many a year. But a word or a tone might awaken Its magical power anew, Long after the sweet voiced singer Had faded from earthly view. Nor a heart that was ever so weary, Or tainted with sin and despair. But a word of tender compassion pat Might find an abiding place there. Tet countless thousands are yearning For sympathy, kindness and love, And souls are groping m darkness - Without one gleam from above. There was never a sunbeam wasted, Nor a song that was suug ln vain. And souls that seem lost in the shadows A Savior’s love may regain.. Then scatter the sunbeams of kindness, Though your deeds may never be known, Th# harvest will ripen in glory If the seed be faithfully sown; And life will close with a blessing, And fade into endless day; Like the golden hues of the sunbeam That fade in the twilight gray. MAlDOr AI.LWORK. Richel Ramsay looked very pretty indeed, as she came down the narrow woodm staircaie iu the brown little farm house that afternoon, dressed in a white muslin dress strewn all over with tiny rosebuds and a fresh lace frill around her neck, tied with a piuk rib bon, while her pretty feet w -re but tomd into n u< w pair of boots, witu high French heels, and her hair was curled in loose, glossy coils of shiniug brocze, ‘ Eul ' said Gr.mny Ramsay, looking np from her everlasting knitting-work, over which she was half asleep, “going to chnioh, he. ?'’ “It isn’t Sunday, grandma,’’explained the girl, laughing and coloring, “I’m going to the Tower to st e Miss Cal houn. She has often invited me there —she ami Miss Bell,” “Pshaw!” said Granny Ramsay, who was one of those venerable people privileged to speak their minds on all occasions, “what do the fine city ladies at ine Tower want of a farmer’s daught er like you?” “But, grandma, they invited me!” “It reminds me,’ - said g>andms, si r* * wdly, “of tue ttory of the iron pot and the ohma pot swimming down the r.ver together, and they didn’t nowise suit” Rtchel said no more, but escaped into the shady lane, where the maples were beginning to turn yellow in the first September frosts. “Grumlhiii a J ways criticizing every body,” sUo thought. “I know the ladies at ihe Tower will be glad to see me. Miss Alice wants to sketch my head for •Elaine,’ and Miss B;11 asked me to sing duttv with her. She said I had a voice like a laik. And perhaps Harold Haroldson will be there! For I snow he often visit a the house.” And Rachel smiled to herself as she crossed the rustic bridge and went through the woodi to the Tower, a fan tastic wooden cottage, w.th a semi circular front, whim was let for the summer, the owner prefernns to live in a square brick structnre in tne village. The iitt.e side door was open and Rioiei went iu. From the lelt of the pa.-s.it;e w *) tuere was a door whitsh opened into the kitchen, and there, to her infinite amazement, she saw Miss Aiica Calhoun herself, in an esthetic dress ol pale sage green and ri ses in her hair, contemplating a pair of de capitated fowls which lay on the table. “Miss A'ioel’ me exclaimed. “Is that yon, Rachel?” cried the city young lady, pouncing on her, as a drowning man pounces on the nearest floating strrw. “Uh, I never was so glad to see anybody in all my life! Those horrid hens! Bridget has gone away in a rage because I presumed to find fault with the coflee this morning, and we have got company to dinner, and I haven’t an idea how to get the feathers ofl these creatures. But now that you are here, everything will be ail right” And sue shook off the big bib apron and stepped back with a aigb of relief. R .ouel looked perplexed, She had had come there, not to enaot the role of t. e kitchen maid, bat to visit Miss Gal- hi uu, to sit in her drawing-room and enjoy the conversation of her guests, and she aid not t taotly relish this sum mary dismissal to the kitchen. “Tut re is soup stock, ”»went on Miss Alice, “and a salad, and a delicate piece of haltbnt, and with tue fowls roasted, and a pie or a padding, or something which I dare say yon can make, we shall do very nicely. I’m particularly anxious about the dinner, because we are to have company, loa’il excuse me now, because 1 have to dress.’’ And away tripped Miss Alice, selfish end smiling as ever was Queen Cleo patra’s self. F or Rachel! she stood a minute in the hot kitcheu, the tears sprang to her eyes, a pang of disappointment at her heart. Blie k' ew all about it. Harold Haroldsou and Mr. Dallas were to dine there that day, and she—she was to b« cook, waiu ess, maid of all work—what signifiod it what she palled herself. Bhe renminbi rod what grandma had said, and fot once in her life g ive that venera ble olit lady credit tor dfepriminatiog. Th»re was no l.elp for it, however. She tried ou the bib aprpn, tucked the curls i-a-ik of her ears, and went to work tu prepare the chickens for the r-iasung pan, now and then pansing to brnoh away ihe round, bright lean wh pb rolleu down her cheeks, Tue young isdi a evidently intended to make her loefuL Sn« might have known that they md beforehand. She could near the soft sound of Bell Cal houn’s guitar; the sweet subdued tinkle of Alice’s laughter, the deep monoton ous undercurrent of gentlemen’s voices; aid then she glanced down at her pret ty muslin dress and bows of pink nb- bou, and began to think that Misa Cal houn had taken rn unfair advantage of her. If sha could only have heard the rapid and energetic cotloquey which trans pired between the two sisters in their dressing room, when first Alice cama up stain, she would perhaps have compie- hended the drift of things.” “Good newsl” Miss Calli mu had cried, waving her scented ocket hand kerchief in the air. “I’ve got a girl in the kitchen!” “Ni ?” said Miss Bell, a Mr-haired cream-complected damsel, with pale bine eyes, and a perpetual smile. “Riohel Ramsay.” nodded Alice, “came up here in her best bib aud tucker to spend the day. Of course I oonfl-oated her atonoo, ’ “The bold, pushing thlngl”said Bell, with a disdainful gesture. “She’s a deal too pretty to bring into the drawing-room for Haroldson aud Armine Dallas to flirt with,” added Mies Alice knowingly. “And I don’t see any way that I could have avoided it, ii it had not been for those lucky chickeus and Bridget’s fortunate fit of temper. Aud t know that little Rachel is a first- class cook, for I have been there to tea.” So the yonug ladies of the Tower were enjoying the least of reason and the flow of sonl in their cool drawing room, with books, new gathered roses and blue ribboned guitars, while poor Rachel R unsay was broiling in the kitchen over peach tarts and Neapolitan creams. She bad forgotten her disappoint- men; bnt, artist like, she had thrown herself into her occnpation with engros- ing iuteres*;, and she was stirring the cream with a quick, energetic hand, when a step crossed the threshold. “Here are some fresh tront, Bridget, to surprise your mistress,” said a clear voice. And to her infinite amazement Harold Haroldson stood before her in his hunt ing costume with his fishing rod lightly Dalanced on his shoulder. •‘I’m not Bridget,’’ said the girl laugh ing, bnt still stirring on. “I’m Rach el” “Miss Ramsayl’ he exclaimed, lift ing his hat. “How in the name of ail that is wonderful came yon here?” And then, not without humor, Rachel detailed the maoner apd incidents of her capture. “I am the maid of all work, if you please," she said with a courtesy. ‘ Then let me help you,” said Harold- sod, .briskly tying a second bib apron around his hunting suit. “I used to be a pretty good hand at the spider and grid-iron when I camped out on Lake Onpsuptic, up in Maine.” ‘•But you’re not engaged,” said Rach el, half pleased, half frightened. “I can volunteer,” observed the young man. “Give me the oil and viuCgar, and you will see what a dress ing, a la mayonnaise, 1 can provide for tor that salad of yours.” And if a pair of cooks ever spent a deiightlni. unoonversational sort of morning in the kitchen, this pair did. They laughed, they made innocent J >kes, they behaved like two school children. Aud at last, when Rachel rau out iuto the garden to gather some water cresses to deck the newly roasted fowls, Mr. Haruldson heard ihe voice of Miss Bell Calhoun calling down the stairway; * Richell Richei! you may serve the dinner. Every one is here bnt that tire some Haroldson I ” “Aud he’s here, too,” camly respond ed that gentleman, who was washing his nauds at the pump. “Whatl” cried Bell, shrilly. ‘•The cook and the butler are ex pected to eat their meals in the kitchen, ’ said Mr. Haroldson, with commendable gravity. “And I’ve no objection to that arrangement” And nothing could induce Harold Haioldson 11 come up to the dining room. He and Rachel together ate their pionieiug sort of repast and washed the dishes—although the matter some what lost its spice when the Misses Cal houn and their company all adjonrned, en masse, to the kitchen and persisted iu joining their ranks. “Was anything ever so provoking,” said Bell “He has actually gone home with her,” said Alice, banting into angry tears. “And alter all the pains we took to keep them apart?” sighed Bill, “It was all yonr fault,” petulentiy exclaimed Alice. ' ‘Noticing that farmer's dauehter, aud dragging her out of her sphere in that sort of way!” “But it was you who plumed yourself on getting her into the kitchen!” scolded Bell, “and a nice piece of woik you’ve made of L I” “But how were we to tell it was go ing to end eo?” groaned poor Alice. '<>♦**•* “Well, Rachel,” said Granny Rimsay, when ihe girl came, in, just as the lamps were lighted, ‘‘what sort of a day did yon have?” “Humph!”grunted Granny, after her auswer. “T rat’s a queer way of euter- taiuing visitors. But p’raps that's city manners. ” “Perhaps it b,” said Rachel, de murely. “W do was it that came home you? ’ asked Granny, who was not qi deaf or blind as yet, “aud left you the garden gate?” “One of the other servants,’ Raonel. Sjj “ Well I never,’’said Granny. “W here’s all your pride, R rebel Ramsei?” “J never was prouder in ail my life than I am to-night,” said Rachel. "Listen, grandma, fori have so mnoh to tell you. Mr. Haroldson, of New York, waited heme with me, and .I've met him ever so many times before this summer, at picnics and archery parties, and such plaoes, but I never xuew that he cared for me. And to-night he asked me to marry him, and he is to come here to-morrow to see father.” “Do you love him?” laid Granny Ramsay. Ana Rachel answered: “Yes.” “Tuen God bless yon, my child, and give yon both a long aqd happy life!” ! said the old lady, sortly smoothing the goung girl’d brignt head. I Aud everyone was satisfied, except the ladies of the Tower A Boy’s Battlo for Lite. While Captaic Johnson, of Clinch coun ty, Georgia, was helping a party or tweuty. five or thirty men haul for tront Id a mill pond tue other day, his little son, Joseph, haa a most thrilling experience. Master Joseph carried a bag, or corn sr.ck, in which to deposit the fish wnen caught. W ben loaded with as many as he could carry, he would take them out and make a deposit aud return for more. In making one of these trips while wading through water about three .eet deep some distance f'oui tue fishermen, a monster alligator, said to be of unusual size, rose suddenly right at the boy and seized him by the thigh. A desperate struggle^ensued—the boy battled for tus life ana the alligator for his prey. It so happened that the bag, which hung by the boy's side, was caugut in the alligator's mouth With tue thiga, and it proved a sort of shield—lessoning greatly the incisions u.ade by the brute's teem, and thus, perhaps, preventing a shock to ms nervous system which might have made him succumb without tue struggle whmh saved him his life. By au effort—one of those superhuman efforts which come to men when only lacing death—the boy tore his bleeding licsn from the alligator’s jaws. The monster grimly held to tne sack a moment with the delusion, perhaps, that he still had his prey, affording the boy an opportunity to escape. He had hardly extricated himself from the jaws of death before the fisoeruien, alarmed by the struggle, were at hand, and another battle ensued. Thirty men. ai rned with gigs, poles, pocket knives, and such Ocher instruments of war as were near ai hand, charged upon the monster. Being in three feet of water, the Igator had con siderable advantage, bus tuose men had their blood up and were not to be outdone. Tuey poled, and punched, and harpooned him untu the brute was almost outdone, when one o. me party made bold to seize mm by me tail. Taw was a signal tor a general assault, in less time man it would take to tell it a number of the mure daring uad him by the tad and legs. There were too many of them lor me ‘gator to slap around with his tail a peculiar mode ol ’gaior wanaie, aud he had to give up the fight. A narpoou was plunged into his mouth and men it was sate to approach him with pocket knives. >?oon hw head was severed irom his body, and the victori ous party marcued out ot the pond with the monster's head on a note. Buying Boots. A boot should have a good and suffi cient stiffener inserted at the heel to strengthen its back ami facilitate the getting of it on aud off. Tins suouid be carefully inserted, and be soaped away s<.> as to offer no resistance to the inser tion of the foot. Tne top portion there of should be hrinly secured to tne back it is intended to strengtuen; so muenso mat mere should be no rucking duwn upon the insertion of me foot, it snould be ooserved whether there is a superflu ity of leather in me waist of the foot, tuat is, under the arch of the foot. The existence of a non useless learner is a sure sign mat me boot lias been badly lasted, ana that it has little ornospnug iu it, aud that it whiconsequently give little or no suppoit to me arch of me foot it covers. Tue buttonhole of a boot upper, if it have any, snould be well aud carefully stitcued, and they will be found to wear inucn better if protected by tbe insertion of a cord. Tms cord sustains me drag or strain that the unprotected learner would oth erwise have to bear. The channel is that part of a boot that is sewn iu wmeu me thread mat attaches the outer sole to me welt lies hidden. Care should be takeu by the purchaser to see that this channel is well and snfficieutly closed over. Otherwise it is easy to peiceive that the sote has lost more than half its resisting power touarnp or wet, aud that tnesuvcues whi get soak ed aud speedily rot. Tne “seat’’ of a boot is mat portion just above its heel. Look at mis careuuiy. If it is hkeiy to tread over, by lautug to resist the press me it wm oe called upon to bear, do not by any means be persuaded to become me puicnaser of bouts with this defect. The reason why the front part of tne upper of a boot is cut in two por tions is because that practice Conduces to economy, iu selecting a pair of boots great care should be taken not to select those in wmc i me joint fads over me great toe joint. Tuere is an unyielding narduess aoout joined learner mat is not to be found m leather not joined. SVoMatoui to a rortuna. Signs of Antomu. When the fashionable sample-room dispenses soup to customers at noon. When the pique scarf is cast rudely aside for one made of satin with a patent-leather finish. VV hen it gets so cold that trout won’t bite, aud anglers are obliged to tell pickerel lies for a change. When the turkey struts around and wonders why in the world his food has been improved aud multiplied. When members of street bands give up the midsummer troubadour act aud s>nk iuto oblivion for tne winter. loins small in its ( up to e tree, wn by $ When the y speak to her brother iu aud has her back hair hr a descending apple. Wnen the forest is spoken of as beeug ablaze and wrapt in haze,and the whole business is summed up in the term “meiauchoUy days.” Wnen the divine tragranoe of the sausage and the pork chop float through the house like an angel’s dream, aud tell the sad-eyed poet that roast duck and th< full blossom. Amj “ When the' small boy bis father won’t allow footed any longer; but takes his snoee it cold Weather | liat shortly the e ditto goose will be in food is about due, and that shortly the howls .because ip go bare- out of off sifter he gets < sight, and carries them undot his arms, and is as happy as a kihg to think that he qau run over sharp stones afid dance on ash-heaps covered with broken me dicine bottles. Then we may know autumn is here. Vaiurliu In a Storm. Wayne county, Pa., has a character with an evelltful history. His name is George Avery, and at present he is m one of the drestem States. In 1870, when Avery was only 21 years old, he was charged with the murder of John Hay ns, of Rowlands, Pike county. He was arrested. The evidence against him was said to be so conclusive that he could uot escape hanging. While on the way to Mnford, where the county prison was located, ini charge ot a deputy sheriff, the official inbibed freely and became helplessly drunk. Avery secured the man’s keys, and umloakiag nis handcuffs, he placed them in the bottom of the wag on. He took the reins from the offi cial’s hands and drove to the nearest hotel, where he arrived at a lute hour. He put the drunk man to bed, roused him the next morning, drove on to Milford, aud after he had put the deputy to bed at the hotel he walked up to the jail and delivered himseif up to the keeper, telling aoout his. experi ence. Tnree months later he was tried for murder, aud, in spue of overwhelming proof against iffm, was acquitted. Tue day alter lie was discharged from cus tody he was arrested cuargeU with burglary, convicted, aud sent to State prison for eighteen months. He served the full term, reading law dining ins confinement. Wnen ne .eft tue East ern Penitentiary at Pmiadelphia fie returned home, opened a law office, and had several citizens arrested wno had testified ugaiiioi mm wnen ne was on trial lor burglary, charging them with perjury. Failing to make out ins case ne was sentenced to pay tue costs. He had no money, so he went to jail again, where he lemamed until ms friends could sorape up enough money to get him out. r unuly ue oecaiue a free man again, and returned to nis old home in Jttowhuids, From that time burglaries were nu merous aoout there, out there was never evidence enough to convict Avery. A year or so Uter fie went to Oil City, wuere he hung out his sniu- gie as a lawyer. Clients were numer ous and fees were large. Avery was reaping a golden harvest wnen ne was convicted of forgery and sent to tue Western Penitentiary lor your years aud eieven montns. Wniie tneie ne tell in love witn the daughter ot one of the prison keepers, and sue offered to assist him to escape, but ne refused to leave until his tiny* yv^s out. At the end of tue teun no- went back to Row lands, soon alterward fie proiuaaoa re ligion, began pfMfefthg a iittie, swin dled a neigubor out Of 8100, and was induced by the neighbor, wno enforced nis argument witu a shotgun, to refund uie money. ' ■ ’ Avery tueu left for Luzerne county, where ne got into difficulty aud was sent to Mio Eastern Penitentiary for a snort term. Upon his reiease ne stole enough money to take him to tue min ing regions of the far west, wuere under an assumed name, he opened a law office and. speculated hi stocks. iu 1882 he struck it ncu, cleared 876,uOd, gave* up stocks, invested nis money in government bonds aud sent for his fiancee, tue prison keeper s dauguter, wno joined him m Chicago, wueie they were married. Avery is only thirty-four years old. He never toucaed liquor, never gamoied nor used tobacco and maims to nave been a victim of circumstances. He writes to friends near here tuat ue is leading an honest, upngnt life, aud tbat wnen ne comes east it win to*as a United States Senator from one of the western •States. From Portugal. A letter from Lisbon, says my Lav eliug companion, a Brazilian noO.emnn wen acquainted with Portugal, bare interrupted my road-dde sketches and cogitations. “You are about to see tue most wonderful country m me world,” said he—“a country of 4,OOJ,oOO peop.e —never over 6,0011,000—wno once hold (he dominion of tue seas and. tne scep ter of commerce; a country whose word was law to au empire in uie Ease great er than British India aud to an cuier m the West larger man tue United Spates. It is now ruined—utterly, hopelessly rui' td, Its Helds are deserted, its streets echo to Uie unaccustomed tread, us marme cousistsof a few rotten feluc cas, it- king and aristocracy are carica- tu.es, its civil proceedings a farce. Aiam-Tejo, me province you see b -foie you, was called by Janus Csssar me Sicily of the peninsula; m some of the oid jumate of Portugal U is sty led tue granary df the w6rAi. ‘ Wuat is it now. Look at it. Soru.imzc it, it is a desert, a miserable desert wiuiout image, wuu out lunaeuajugu Snail i feu yt>d want has caused tue desolation? Yes, 1 wm tell you. Tuat evil, less commented upon man any otuer, is known by me very uticommou name of empuyteusis.” “Empuyteusis ?” i ecuoed. “And wba. in mercy’s name is emphyteusis? is it ktt ifestruufcii ol coriiire?” “iu one sense, yes,” said my compa nion. “Emphyteusis is Hie name given by me Greens to a certain tenure land, waicn, coming through tne mans to tfie ecclesiastical orgauizam Mr. Keeler has written another series of letters to friends in this country, in which he gives some vivid and interest ing features of the trip through Italy,in which he has boon spending his fall va cation, His ascent of Vesnvins is given below. As the volcano is represented as in a quiescent state, the minor erup tions referred to may be considered as of every day occurrence, and they for- niah a unit for estimating what moat bo the enormous violence oi such convul sions as tne Isohian and Java disasters, and for the repetitions of which we might look in 1886, if the predictions of the French speculator, Delaney, were open to serious belief, Mr. Keeler tays: From Rome 1 came to Naples, the journey by rad lasting all day. For some time before reaching the city I had been looking at a peaceful bine m inntain, and the conviction gradually dawned upon me that it was Vesuvius. Nothing is to be seen of it as I write, lor it is covered by a heavy cloud. Something is to be heard, however, for at not nnlreqneut intervals there is a roaring and booming. sound, which seems half in the air and half in the earth. A most terrifying sound it is, bnt the people here take little notice of it, although the host, at an unusually heavy report, points significantly at the stone arches above. He can not speak English ;bnt no language could make his meaning plainer. I have just returned from a hard climb to the top ot Mt. Vesuvius. I hired a guide and bones in Pompeii,and started nut ftom that city in the morn ing. The weather was bad; rain fell every i^w minutes, aud the top of the mountain was I juried in clouds. We rode through the most luxuriant or chard* and vineyards, the latter heavily laden with enormous bunches of ripe grapes. No wonder the foot of the mountain is inhabited in spite of the dangers. We went at a furious gallop through several small villages, then up over s field ot finely powdered lava, until the road became too rough for the horses. We dismounted and walked for abont half an hoar, when we came to a stream of lava rolling down the mountain. We oonld not see the lava actually flowing except in a few plaoes, where the descent was too steep for a crust to form. This crust is so poor a conductor of heat that we dimed tor a quarter of a mile np on this stream, over rough block* aud ser pentine curves of lava ornsts, wuere of ten a few inches below the surface the «tream was a bright./»k«rry red. The guide, of coarse, drew some oat with a stick and stamped a com into it. No tourist ever went away from V esuvius without such an imoedded coin. Alter climbing up, as I have said, we came to the upper end of this great stream of rocks, and in the middle the lava was still pouring np from the interior of tbe mountain. We sat down on a rook to watch it, and after awhile became con scious tuat we were being lilted up. Bare enough the lava was bursting forth in a new place, where we were. Very slowly the cakes cracked and parted and the lava was loiced out. It whs a novel sensation to be sitting on top of an erup tion. I was afraid it might go off with a bang, but the guide not, so we stayed there until the lava was running out. Several other outlets were formed around ns at the same time. There is a railroad np Mt. Vesuvius which carries passengers up to the level where we were—namely, the old crater or great surrounding nm, bnt the great central cone,the hardtet of all to climb, is still ahead. When there is no erup tion of lava, one might as well remain in Naples except for the beautiful view of tne bay and samnuding country. My arranaeueut with the guide had been only as lar as the old crater; bnt I wanted so mnoh to go to the top of that central cone that we started np the loose cinders. We were perhaps three- quarters ot the way up when one of the most ou rageous storms burst upon ns. We took shelter in a depression of a stream of lava not half cooled off and raised the guide’s old umbrella. It rained most violently, and in spite of the umbrella we were soon wet through. Tuen hail was added witn thunder aud iffhtning. The ram failing on the lava generated vast clouds of hot steam, and oar she ter became a perfect steam-box, we couid not see five feet btreams of water poured down iuto the cracks, and coming in contact with the red-hot rock made a hissing and roaring noise which was quite alarming, it certainly was au internal kina of a place. The storm gradually passed away and w» emerged irom our steam-box, only to take rofuge in another a tew xuuaieB later After this, however, we were favored with blue sky, and climbed to the top of the great ooue. A magnificent panorama lay below os which we stopped ior some minutes to admire. Ahead of us was still a small ooue, perhaps fifty feet high, in the middle of a rough, not stretch of ground, emitting steam and sliding sulphurous Vapors Irom numerous orifices and cracks crusted wiuiytLowsulphur.From this central cone, at short intervals,vio lent explosions threw cloud a of dust iuto the sir, with black which floated off leeward. The „[ iu» nuadte ««,, ly uu! ■«•>*» “M ■O'M Vfay <‘“8"°“" ‘°6» no,U,uunv,.iu* until after the second Panic war tuat tne Romans conquered Portugal, In B. 0. 140 they organized it into a pro vince ot the republic and subjugated It to its laws—among them tne tenure o< euip .y.eusia. Wnen tuey conquered a country the Romans divided it up among their colonists or soldiery, the occupant paying au annual fixed rent to the republic, called vectlgal. The cou- dition of the holding was tuat the occu pier should improve the laud, but as tfie rent was liable to be increased aud the occupier evicted whenever the Suite chose, no improvement took place, only over-cropping and exhaustion. Tuis tenure was empuyteusis,” SBAflOHDia Bansiygi Meat. -For on* hundred pjonus meat aae salt twelve ounces, peppf> six ounces, saprj foar ounces. 7 _ to char our stick held across the open ings. The inside was dear sue we oonld see passages and caverns extending down to greaf depths. From other oj»en- ings snlphnr smoke was issuing, and the bright red-hot rooks were visible below. The gas was wafted around by the eddying winds so that we had to hold our breaths frequently, and wait for fresh air. When we got back to our horses we found 4 men holding them, besides one boy, each expecting to be paid for his services. Having pair* the guide and boy, and been swindit . out of a few miserable oenta.I left the mountain very wet and tired, but mnoh satisfied with the grand volcano and disguste I with its contemptible inhabitants. You ha-d- ly know how delightful it is to have something done for you for the sake of love, friendliness or common politeness, and not for the sake ot a few wretched pennies you may give In return. Thank heaven that America is my native land. Why. to-day a man charged me three cents because we took refuge from he rain under his own shed. A native Florida “cracker” would scorn a man who offered him money for such trifling hospitality. Written m Bloou. into the very throat of the monster, aud as the stones all seemed to fail ou the tee word aide; we climbed up the loose, bdt cinders and readied tbe Very high est pomt. At our feet was s vast shaft so fl led with sulphur smoke that we could uot sec into it, and Irom it every few sec onds atones, dust and smoke wi re t jec- ted high above our heads, but tortan- atcly nut failing on them, as we looked k terrible explosion occurred, filling the air with debris, and the guide shouting “Come on! come on|” started down the slope aa if the whole infernal regions were after him and i waa not far in nis rear. We reached a safer place, and watched the grand spectacle at oar leis ure. Then we wandered around the smoky track surrounding tbe cone. Here were several circular orifices, crusted with sulphur, from which nothing but hot air was issuing,but that hot enough A St. Petersburg dispatch of October 22 savs tbat the new Nihilist journal, the Messenger of the Will of the. People, contains a letter from the Nihilist prisoner Netchaiiff to the Czar, Tfie original letter was written in blood. It says: • Sik: On taking charge of the fortress; the new Commandant U&netsky addressed the subordinate officers in the ravelin on the event of March 18. The character of the speech, and also the tact that it was made in the hall not far from my cell, showed to me that it was intended tor my ears. And, indeed, 1 heard every word of itr But bis intimidation did not reach its aim. The indirect threatening of General Ganetsky did not frighten me. It showed me only that, under the influence of the late events, even the highest representa tives of the Administration have lost '.heir heads and their feeling ot personal dignity. 1 would not mind the trick of His Excel lency It, for ne fault of mine, he did not aggravate my lot, which has already ex hausted my endurance. “Tne Alexis ravelin is a secret prison. No supervision is allowed there. The late Commandant, Baron Meidel, used to re strain, to a certain degree, the thievish Warden Pdilimonoff. While fulfilling his hard duty, be did not torture the prisoners to gratify his personal cruelty. But after that speech of Ganetsky, the thief Philir irom ub the last crust Of bread, saying impudently that such wss the order of the Commandant; the officers of the ravelin have tried their utmost to oppress political prisoners in all possible ways. For montns they hare kept me in my cell without permitting me to see day light. Gazetsky ordered thut even the warming holes in my cell shculd tie closed on the pretence that I might there get soto and make ink of it. The upper pane of my window was eletut and through it 1 could see part of the sky. It is necessary to experience the horrors of long solitary confinement in order to understand what relief a prisoner gets from the sight ot passing ciouds and shiniug stars, Ganetsky closed that pane. The t wo Commandants, six of the chiefs of gendarmes, and even the chief of the Supreme Commission, General Mellkoff, while visiting me, saw the clean pane and did not think tbe State was in danger on account of it. (Here tbe letter was illegible.) Ten years already have 1 suffered hero. The further aggra vation of my lot cannot proceed from any political consideration, but only from the cruelty of the man to whom rou have en trusted the fortrecss. General Mezenbeff was my personal enemy. For two years he kept me in heavy chains, and yet he did not thut up out of sight of the sky. - 1 had another enemy, General Potapoff. He insulted me in words and 1 slapped his face. Of course be hated me, yet ho did not take revenge. He knew that to take revenge upon a man who is bound arms and legs would be an action fit only tor a wild beast, and Gen. Potapoff was a man anyhow. Ganetsky enjoys the sight of Buffering prisoners, Perhaps he expects to bring me into a state of despair id order to see tears and Ihe passion ot helpless mad ness, and to listen to insane shouts of rage trom me like those I bear from a neigh boring ceil, where a comrade, at the end of a long confinement, has tiecame a lunatic. Oh, no, I will not treat Gtnetakv to such a pleasure. I hope he wnl preserve even a hundredth part of the cam and sell-control 1 possess, when he shall be carried to a scaffold. “in 1876 the Governor requested me to express my views on tbe state of affairs in Russia, in my memorial sent to your late lather I explained tbat the time of absolute power had gone; that the unlimited mon archy was undetermined, and that f. liberal constitution might /et save Rusfia from the horrors of revolution. I insisted on the need of libera) institutions, which, and which only, could stop the series of daring attempts. * I said then that in a few years even a Const! ution would be too late. Subsequent events have justified my views. The reaction which set in after the catastrophe of March 18 waa a matter of course. It was in the nature of things. But, being carried too far, even the reac tion will bring about quite unexpected re suits. I do not expect any relief from tbs new Ac ministration. I snail not be sur prised if my lot becomes stiU harder on account of the present letter. L ints XV L realized the honors to wnich the prisoners of the Basttle were subjected only when be became himself a political prisoner. “6*x«* NktohaIiIF. “I write this with my nail in my own blood. “8. N." In December, 1882, Netcbaieff was tor* tured by tbs Warden, and soon after was found dead. Is to than Tire certain way to be cheated fancy one’s self more cunning others. —Astoria, Or., has 7,000 population in the fishing season, and 4,OoO the rest of the year,. She has a dozen canning establishments, which yield $3,01)0,000 a year.. Suffering is the surest means of mak ing us truthful to ourwivea. A pro* 1 v man never shows bis pride so much as vrhen he la civil. THE YERDICT —OF— THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST I Mb. J. a Bozo—Dear Sir: I boagnt us am David Machluo sold by you over five years ago ft>i my wife, who has given it a long and fair .tnaL I am well pleased witn It. It never alvea ahy rouble, and la aa good aa when ant bought. J. W. homos WUuuboro, S. C„ April 10*3. M A Boao : 1 oougnt a tiavH Vertical Feed w ing Miohlne trout you four years ago. 1 am llgutej with it. It never tut* given me an; > uule, and haa never been the least out of order, t le aa good iu when I drat bought it. I oaa cheerfully recommend It. Kespectfully, Mkh. M. J. Kirclzno. Moutleello, April 30,1883. This Is to certtty .hat I have been aging a Dari Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over two year*, purchaaed of Mr. J. u. Hoag. 1 haven’t found 11 p Mgeaaed of any fault—all the attach menti are i* simple. It never refuge* to wore, aud la certain! > the lighteai running in the marhet. I ooualder it - ant-cla** machine. Very respectfully. MINNIB M. WlLLIMOKAM. Oakland, Fairfield county. S. <7. Mr Boao : i am weu pieased in every partioui with the oavtg Machine nought of you. I think a nm-ciaa* maculae In every respect. You knew you sold severs! mac tinea of tne aame make to dioerent members of our fagfiiJli'Vitli (fteiS!""**" keapeutfuljL Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. Bozo: v ou wuh to know what I have to aay In regard to the Davia Machine bought of yon three years ago. I feel i can’t aay too much in ita favor. I made abont 880,00 within five months, at tlmaa running it so fast that the needle womd get per fectly not from friction. I feel confident 1 oonld not have done the same work with as '-men ease and so well with any other machine. I. time loot in adjusting attachments The Ughtaat running machine i have ever treadled. Brother James and YV Imams’ families are aa much pleased with their Davie Machines nought of you. I want no better machine. Aa I aald before, I don’t think too much can be aald for the Davis Machine. Keapectfnlly, ElJ.kX nTBVBXBON, Fairfield County, April, 1883. Mb. bozo : My machine gives me perfect satis faction. I and no fault with it. The attachments a> e so simple, i wish for no better than the Darts Vertical Feed. Respectfully. Mrs. R. Mrudse. Fairfield county, April, 1883. 0. Moilit. This isjo certify we have nad iu constant use the Davis Machine bought ot yon abont mrea years ago. Aa we take in work, and have made toe luce of it several times over, we don’t went as; better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No paokerlngor skipping stitcucs. We canomyeey we are well pieased ana wian no better machine. ( ZTHBHINB WTUB ZN» StSTU. April 96,1883. I have no laultto and with my mach ne, aal don’t waut any better. 1 have nude too pnoe a( K severe times oy taking iu ae Wing. It Is al ways ready to do iu work. I think It a first-class uu ohloe. I feel I can t say too auca for tae Davu Veniesi Feed Machine. Mas. Tbomai Surra. Fairfield county, April, 1S8S. Mr. J.O. Bozo—Dear Sir: it gives me a ioa pleasure to testify to tue merits of the Davis Tar- tmui Feed Se wing Machine. The nuadne I got of yon aoout five years ago. haa been almost In oca eiaut use ever smoe that time. I osnnnt aee taat it is worn any, aud has not cost me ona cent fer repairs since we nave had it. Am wall pleased and don’t wish tor any better. Yoon tru'y, host. Oazwroao, Granite Quarry, near Wlnnsboro s. 0. ^ have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the last five year*. We would act save any other make at any pnoe. The macame fas given us onboandeusatisfaotlou. Verj mpoctluUj, Mrs. W. X. I'nasBR z.,p Dzcaorktaj Fairfield county, 8. C., Jan. 91 1183. Having bought a Davis Verttoal Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. O. Boag some three year* ago, and U having given me perfect sanafautioH In every respect as a lamlly maculae, bota for hsa ; and Iigut sewing, and never needed me least re pair Ui any way, I can u.ieerfuuy recommend It to auy one a* a flret-ciasa uiacnin • in every paruou lar, and thing It second to none. It is one ot the almp.est machines male; my coiuren use It wit* all ease, me attachments are more eaauy ad justed and it doe* a greater range of work oy means of its Vertical r eed than auy other ma chine I have ever seen or used. Mbs. Thomas owimos. Wlnnsboro, Fairfield county, 8. C. We have had one oi the Davts Machines about four years and nave always found it ready to do ail kind* of worg we nave had occasion to aa Can’t see tuat the machine la worn aay, and work* aa weu as wnen new. Mbs. W. J. Cmzwroab, Jackson’s Crees. Fairfield county, S. C. My wife is highly pleased with tha Davts Ma chine bought or you. Sue would not take doobla wnzt sue gave for U. The maculae has out heon out of order ainoe she had It, and she oaa dp any kind of work on It. Very Respectfully, Jar. F. Fabb. MonticeUo, Fairfield county, S. C. The Davts Sawing Machine li limply a treas ure mbs. J. A. uooowtm. Ridgeway, N. c., Jan. io. less. J.O Bozo, £aq.. Agent—Dear Sir: My wife ha* <>eea using a Davis Sewing Machine constant ly for tne past four years, an I It has never needed any repairs an i works Just as well as whan first b mght. hoe says U will do a greater range of practical work end do it easier and better thus •uy machine she uai ever used. We cneertuui recommend U aa s No. 1 family manBina, You trauy, Jam. Q. Dana. Wlnasboro, 9. C.. Jan. s, 1183. Mr. Boot: 1 have always found my Davts Ma- (ady do ali gl to do. I cam particle and i Wlnnsboro, 8. C., < chine ready doaligludsof toworklaate Ud-oe- oaslon to do. I cannot see that the macUae la worn a particle and it worn as wailaa waafeaew. Respectfully, T MBA R. C. UOOSOMl April, lags. Mr. Bozo: My wife has been oonatanUy tbe Davis Macame bought of yon about five j ago. I have never regretted buying it, ns id ways ready for any Jndof famUy MWlng, el ueavy or light. It Is never on tor fix or aee Fairfield, A C„ Marsh, TUB. < \/ S' X