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f TRI-WEEKLY EDITI ;V,*. -or— THE PEOPLE f BUY THE BEST! WINNSBORO. S. O.. DECEMBER^, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. Then a man shal and rejoice . U Nor vet cwne hoi ' ^ .Mad, Men in that tUieVcomlng shall work Mr. J. O. Boag—Dear sir: I bcugtit ttie nr»t Dana Machine sold by you over five years ago for my wife, who has given it a long and fair iriai. I am well pleased with It. It never gives any Mr. bIao: lou In rbgaM tothi; Dai I ears ago. I (eel i can’t say too made aoout 180,00 within live months, at timet running it so fast that the needle wdiim gat per fectly not from fraction. I feel confident I could not have done the same worn with as muon ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachments. The lightest lunniug machine 1 have ever treadled. Brother James and Williams’ families are as muoh pleased with their Davis Machines oought ot you. 1 want no better machine. As I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Kespecifully, Kllbn stsvbnson, Fairfield County, April, 1883. Mr. Boao : My machine giveame perfect satis faction. 1 and no lault with it. The attachments ai e so simple, i wish for no better than tne Davis Vertical Peed. Respectfully. Mrs. R. Millimo. Fairfield county, April, 1883. ^ « . ! 4 f Mr. Boao: 1 oougnt a Hevi9«vertical Feed w ing Machine from yon four years ago. I am lighted with it. It never has given me any o uole, ami has never been the least out of order, t Is as good as when I urst bought iu I can cheerfully recommend It. Respectfully, - Mr.-. M. J. Kirkland. Montlcelio, April 30,1883. This is to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over tw > years, purchased of Mr. J. o. du.ig. i haven’t found it p assessed of any fault—all the attaenmepta are so simple. It uever refuses to wont, and is certainly ths lightest running in the market. I consider it s first class macuine. * l ■ * Very respectfully. , MiRnir M. Willingham. Oakland, Fairfield county. S. C. Mr Boao: i anmeu pwaspnmevery particoi with tine Davis Machine nought of you. 1 titOsk a fini-Olass macuine iu every respsek. You Res w you sold several machines of the same make to dnierent members of our families, all of wuom, as far as 1 know, are well pieased wita them. Respectfully,' Mrs. M. il. MOBLBT. Fairfield county, April, 1883. ’’e lack of earaUig-and hunger-wolf onear. O'Strange new wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the gala? For ourselves and for each of onr fellows, and no hand shall labor in vain. Then all mine and all t/tine shall be ours, and no more shall any man crave, For riches that serve for nothing but to fet ter a friend for a slave. And what wealth then shall be left us when j none shall gather gold To buy his friend in the market, and pinclf and pine the sold? and the lit- nd beauty, U. . homes of ancient stories, the tombs of the mighty dead; And the wise man seeking out marvels, and' the poet's teeming head. And the painter's hand ot wonder; and the marvelous flddie-bow, And the banded choirs of music—all those that do aud know. For all these shall be ours and all men’s, Hbr shall any lack a share, Of the toil and the gain of living in the days when the world grows fair. ,.r Thisistocertu we have sal a constant use the Davis Machine bought ot youkbout taree years ago. As we take in work, ami have made tue puce of it several times over, we don’t want aay better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We canomysay we are well pieased ana wish no better machine, t. ATHBR1NB WVLIB AND SlBTBR. April 85,1883. IN UARVBST-TIME. II I have no fault to end with my machine, and don’t want any better. I have m t ie (he price of ii severa. tunes by taking (u sewing, it is alwayf ready to do its wont 1 Uihk it a dm i-class ms chine. I feel I can t say too much for tne Davis Vertical Feed Machine. . ■ , • Mbs. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. J.O. Boao—Dear Sir: it gives me much pleasure to testify to tue merits of me Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The ma-hlne I got of yon about five years ago. has beeu almost In con stant use ever since tnat time. I cannot see that it is worn any, aud has not cost me one cent for irs since we don’t wish i tW. Am well e nave uad it, lorany better. i ft 0 Granite Quarry,£ear Wlnnsboro s. C. d its trn'y, a OUT. CRaWrltR! «>. We have used the Davis Venteal-Fsed sewing Machine for the last five years. We would not have any other make at any price. The maoiime has given us unboundeu satisfaction. ' , Very respectfully, Mrs. W. k. turnbk a.«p DAUOHTiKsj Fairfield county, a. C., Jan. 8; 1*33. Having bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. U. Hoag some tftnje years ago, and It uaviugglveu me perfect satisfaction tn every resi>eotasa tamily macuine. bom for he* y and light sewing, auu never needed me least re pair hi any way, I can uueerfuny reco.umeud It to aay one as a drst-uiass macula in every, particu lar, and think It second to none.. It U one ot the simplest machines made; my chit iren use It wita all ease. 1'he attachments are more easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by meaneofits Vertical Feed than any other ma chine 1 hare ever seen or used. ‘ Mrs. Thomas owinob. Wlnnsboro, Fairfield county, S. a We have had one ot the Dam Maohlos about four years and nave always found It ready to do aU kinds of work we nave nad occasion to uo. Can’t see tnat the machine is worn any, and works as well as wnen new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Crees. Fairfield county, a C. I.i My wife Is highly pleased with the Davis Mv chine bought o< yon. 8ae would not take douois wnat sue gave lor It. The machine has not been oat of order eince she had it, and she can do any kind ot work on Ik Very Heepectfully, Jas. F. Free. Montlcelio, Fairfield county, a C. The Davis Sewing Machine Is simply a treas ure mbs. J, A. GOODWBN. Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. IQ^ioSa. ; j • { ■Without, a fierce sun burned and blistered; witMn, was delightful cool ness gnd' greenish bloom. But with- iniwas ajho the silence which follows a piock, aid the shattering of staunch- ly-buildea hopes. Iu the grqat library, two men faced each bther, <one bent; gray-headed, small of stature, the older tall, and strdflg as a young gladiator, with a handsqme. olive skinned face, just now vfry set [and grave. “My dear 'bojr, it has been no easy task for me to come and tell you this,” Mr. Roche said, speaking slowly. “You have all your life been consid ered, and have been taught to con sider yourself, master of Silver Cliff. It i» hard .now, when for twt> years you hav4 reigned as shch, to be, ab ruptly deposed. No one ever dream ed that Nicholas Edgerton had left a the fact has been ^ megest accident fs are, howfTer, flawless, hey have been thoroughly investiga ted and authenticated. You are cou sins, you know, three times removed Of course you would never hayje sue ceeded to the estate had Utert’been the least suspicion of her existehce.” - H* paused to take out Us handker chief and wiped his forehead. He had been the Edgerton’s lawyer for many years, and, as he said, it came hard, on him to be the bearer of ill news to the boy he had loved from babyhood. "When is she coming—homei” Maurice Edgerton asked, quietly, but choking a little over the last word. Naturally, this sudden information was a blow to him. To be dashed from wealth to absolute pennilessness, with out a profession or the priceless expe rience of those who have learned what the bare struggle for existance implies, was, in truth, appalling, . *T am not positive,” Mr. Roche plied. “It will certainly be some da next week. In regard to world! matters she must be quite a child, having never in her life been without the walls of that old Belgian con- Week?” smarting seems—so sfJtmT” hsn he excused hilase went away. August blushed to joyous being; and with i(» pomp of birds and flowers, and ender dawns and rare white nights, the new heiress came to Silver Cliff. Mr. Rdclie met her at the depot and quite forgot to dislike her, as she had resolved to do. ' • . She stepped out on )he platform and looked around her bewilderedly,ja len der girl, gray-clad from head to foot. And how pretty she was, to-be sure! Stately and a tall Idly, with a fair, pearl- skined face, lit by brown eyes, clear and gracious. L : ~ i On the homeward drive she turned to Mr. Roche. “Where Is Maurice?” she asked. “He has gone awny. I do not know where.” He spoke shortly, his lips tightening, rememberingAvhy he had gone away. “Gone a way,’* she cried. “Not for good?” . - ^ “He’s gone, anyhow,” he answered, sturdily. “More like forbad.” ■ She did not heed the grim'joke. “It is not fair, or right, or just!” she went on, excitedly, her pale cheek flush ing hotly. “He cannot surely think that I mean to accept all; to rob him of what for years he has looked on as his 1 I have never expected good fortune, so for me a little'will suffice. The rest shall hold in trust for him. My dear young lady,” the old man exclaimed, testily, but touched in spite of himseif, “what a Quixotic scheme 1 Maurice would never agree to that which yon propose. The property is “We do not know what day he may come home,” was her invariable re joinder. But the winter was gathered to the numberless winters which had gone before spring swept on with chill, and rain, and breaking buds, and still to one woman’s gentle heart, so generous in its patience, came no word or tiding of the exile. Over the mantal in the library a great portrait of him hung. Occa- sionhbly she went and stood before it, looking up at the grave, kind face with the soulful eyes and firmly sweet mouth. Then she would turn and go half-guilty away. P hands with autumn, ound Hjfvet i'-liff h£bf goM.;, fiartest Bright blaaes flashed as swung by strong arms the scythes, mowed down the sunny seas of grain. One Aay Miss Edgerton, driving down the country ijpad, feined in her milk- white ^ponies; and leaned- forward to wa'ch the reapers. The day was excessively warm, but she. was attired in the coolest and air- est of India lawns, and held above her head a parasol of snowy satin." Quite suddenly she sprang from the h»ton, and leaped the low stile With a frightened cry. ne of the workers had reeled and ‘alien heavily. They were all around lim m a moment—his co-laborers.— They fell hack and made way lor Miss Edgerton as she approached. “What is it?” she cried. “What is the matter? Is he dead?” No, miss; it’s only the heat. He’s a new un—only come this morning, Seems as if he ain’t been used to the business. Seems kind of delicate like. He’s coming to. It’s only the heat.” The prostrate man raised himself little and looked up. He had a thin, dark face, still young but heavily beard ed, and with a tired look in the sunken eyes Just a second Rose Edgerton regard ed him, speechless. Then she fell on ajer knees beside him, and caught his hand in her own slim, kidded fingers, Mauricel” she cried. “You have come home, Maurice. ” But once more his head dropped, his eyes closed. They bore him to Silver Cliff, and there for many weeks he lay almost within the valley of the shadow. When he awoke to consciousness it was to find a kind, old face bent over him, and strangely familiar all his sur roundings. “Roche!” he whispered. “Ypn musn’t .talk,” i he other com- itejnly. .“Go to sleep, and I’ll f Barmah and The Kingdom of Bnrmab, ont off from the sea by the provinces of Pegu and Araoan, both in the hands of the English, separated by mountain ranges from Siam and Yunnan, and bounded to the west and northwest by Bengal and Assam, is doubtless destined ere long to fall, more or leea quietly, into British hands. The Irrawaddy is not only Hs’sole navigable outlet, bnt almost the sole practicable commercial outlet of the country. Englibh steamers now ascend this river twieea week to Maude- ley, and twioe a moutn to Bahmo, where they deposit goods destined te Hod their way through thi»V. w’~7 of Tspeng to Yunnan. The Burmese belieee Ane ourmese oeii^w themselves de-1 aQd ma savage Kansa Kach- scended from Hindoo emigr <nts coming ^the bordemof the Ganges; but, T i* moaDta{DB of Upper Barmfth are oredlantrens and Bengal lights make a brilliant show. * The Karens are savage inhabitants of the moontsdns, yet are known for their intelligence, courage and loyalty. Their traditions assert that they came origin ally from “a vast country of plains, where the wind rolls the sand as it does the waves of tne sea.” This descrip tion seems to apply to the desert of Gobi The Shan race, which is widely scattered through the peninsula of Farther India, aud everywhere preserves the same manners, costume and lan guage, together with the same talent for business and aptitude for agricul ture, extends also into Burmnh. In ttye northern part of ths coqimy,wbHew Hfeddlefs ttie mountains are lofty and the Irra waddy is barred by rapids, Jive the Charcoal. “The charcoal trade ef the Chicago,” said a large dealer obaraoteristio Chinese o7l\ianian and pu 4 0 ^t. $&£** * ^ b ? tom 18 .res. Sir Arthur Phavre ^ mteAe tjist,though the workman is WAX” ig. slightly, limself and J, O Boao, Esq., Agent—Dear Sir: My wife has ueen luiug a vurm Sefflog Maoblue cooatent- ly for tse paw four year*, *401 i* fctWer Miedfet' any repair* ana wont* Just as well as wnen first bought. She saya u will do a greater range of yraotijal work <°nid do it easier and better tnan aay maualne sbe.uat ever tued. We cneerfonj reuo Jimend it as a No. 1 family machine, tour trnjr, . . , bjfcs. q. norm / Wlnnsboro. S. C., Jan. S, lass. j Mr. Boas : 1 have always found my Davis Ma tins ready do all kind* of towfiaACmMa had tx> • sion to oo. I cannot aee that the maculae la urn a particle and it works as wed as wnen new. Respectfudy, Mrs. K. C. uoodimo. Wlnnsboro, B. a, April, 1883, Mr. Boao : My wife has been constantly using ; the Davis Macuine bought of >on aoout nve year* f ago. I have niver regretted buying it, a* it u always ready for any alndof la.utijr sewing, either nesvy or light. It is never ont oi fix or u—mug lepaua. Vary reapectfolly, A. w. Laso. Fairfield, S. C„ March, IMS. y-and-by” there were mutu& explanations. I cquld not succeed,” Maurice with*one of Bis slow, sad smiies. tried a little erf everything, from teach ing in a school to work before the mast. But I tell you a boy who grows up with a profession, taste or course of busines training is very easily worst ed in coinpetition with those who have been in harness all their lives. 1 did not dream of stopping here, you know, but happening to be passing through the village, I heard there was a demand for laborers up at Silver Cliff. So, be ing penniless, and—I suppose you have guessed it— hungry, I presented myself. I did not dream of recognition, so com pletely one year had altered me. I went re- away a strong lad : I have eome hack a Sr •• get 8 T ng ^ t* Once, when he had lain silent for some time, he looked up suddenly. Strange how she, and she only knew me—wasn’t it ?” Roche nodded. “God bless her I” he said, huskily. But the^lay came when Maurice, coated and capped, approhehed nis faithful nurse, aud held out his hand in farewell. “Good-by!” he said. She sprang to her feet startled and Meet. “Yon shall not go!” she cried, pas sionately. “The place is yours—your home, by God’s law! If either mqet go. it is I.” He had fought a Rattle far more bitter than she oould ’ have dreamed. And he had conquered. Now, at one word agian, he fqltAunnanned. Don’t make it too hard forme,” he pleaded, hoarsely.. _ “I must! Rose, Rose! You know why!” ’ The woid, the tone, the look in his eyes was , a levelution. Her face dropped. Slie spoke no word, but her scarlet cheeks had grown brilliant ah scarlet poppies. Five minutes later Mr. Roche pop ped his gray head into the ot&rry library. “Coming, Maurice—readyf Gar- ridge Is Waiting. Why, great Jeru salem! not going after alii Tleia there! children! don’t ye mind me.” A Holt Think on Him. le legally,” she aumitted, quick ly, “but not morally. I hold my slen der claim secondary to his.” , Jfl# (lay t went swirtly by—the sweet scented summer days. All the people of .note in the neigh borhood of Stiver Cliff called on its E g mistress, and voted her charming, jiraai qp* Jair and graceful, and al so cnarmingly original, they saA. They gave balls and dinners in her honor, till she became quite a toast A> aftPf- -l September came and passed—Octo ber, November, and at last the dreary December. But this year there were no blithe Christppas lest 1 vities up at the grand 'housebn the hill. 1 hardly care to have much merry making while the master of the ho ‘ is away,” Hose Edgerton would say her fneuds. “You expect your cousin back soon then?” they would question. son the other night, “look here; yon burned up a good deal of coal and kero- sene last winter, coming around here and staying till 10 and 10.30 two or three nights a week. Now 1 have no objections to your visits, but you are a respectable young man, but you’ve gc; to find your own fuel and lights this Winter. 1 cannot afford to keep fires running and a lamp burning in this parlor ail the winter.” “AU right sir !” responded the young needn’t tell i soft thing I’ve got on him.” even if ibis be partially true, the in coming tribes are now so completely mixed,with the tribes previously inhab iting the country that no trace of the Hindoo type remains.. Whether balled Burmese, the features. Sir Arthur Phayre believes them to be Thibetans who have removed southward. Their features and their build, as well as - the Conformation and roots of their language, strangely re semble those of the Thibetans. The Burmese are well built, wi h broad shoulders and, strong muscles, black and abundant hair, but rather short legs. They aye extremely lasy. Living in a Country where moderate labor would insure oomparative riches, they only work anffioiently to procure food and satisfy taxes. To Canoe, to smoke, to chew betel, and to be present at theatrtohl performance* are the ae rious business of life with. most Bur mese. If here and there one is ambi tious he becomes the bumble courtier of adme nch mandarin, and stops at nothing to curry favor. Cnngiug and submissive to superiors, insolent and oontebaptuona to inferiors, the Burmese, as usually painted by travelers, ore not models of humanity i Yet there is an other side to the picture: thdy are ac knowledged to be- apt, ready aud sober; and capable, should opportunity occur through a change of government, of becoming good agriculturists, mer chants and artisans. They excel in wood carving, have much power of com position, and are of a jovial and happy disposition. Dissimulation is so muoh s part of their character that one can never know what a Burmeao really things. Men and women arrange their hair ooquet- iahly, and the latter wear bhghu^* col ored flowers iu their long tresses. The .women _ are reputed* stoat reserved _ ..t tike imt *last. ' fet they enjoy much liberty, passing their tune dressing and oaring tor their bodies, instead of in the hard labor whioh so often fails to woman’s lot A married woman retains her rights to her dower, and, if divoroed, takes with her also half the goods acquired during the term of married life. Polygamy is recognized and permitted, yet mod Burmese have only one wife. An olu law, tailing into disuetude, forbids the men to marry before the age of 26. hety is earned to excess among thin > opie. . Many will spend all that they Msaeas in decoratings pagoda or found ing a monastery, and live without an anna in a miserable cabin, happy and proud in the idea that they are beuelao- to.a of their country, and with no em ployment except tne care of the temple they have built. No people is so fond o! theatrical performanoea aa this. Scarce a man can be found tfho has not at leaat once in his tile acted a part iu a play. The piece is acted out of doors in tne evening, and all who choose at tend without payment. Some rich man pays for all, and receives ins thends in a little pavilion constructed for the pur pose. On the announcement of such a fete business is ssspended; stall i, pre sided over by young girls, spring tip at the sides of the road-and do a brisk business In cigars,-cakes, fruits and sweetmeats; aud crowds Of men women and children flock to the spot. The Burmese do not applaud or hurrah like Europeans. When Yen daw indn- lay, the prima dona of Mandelay.sUigs. or when Moung Tha-Byah. the lamoos marionette showman, gives a seance, there is no noise in the immense crowd, and the intense- silence is quite as im pressive a tribute as the noisy bravos and clapping of bauds indulged in by Teuton and Latins. We cannot ap preciate the Brumese plays, for we have not been saturated from infancy with the prodigious adventures of Buddha ; yet we can see that the dispair of the deceived lover, the majesty of a sovert eigu, the bestial fury of a drunkard are marvilously portrayed, and can ad mire the coarse chants aud grotesque contortious ot the clever clowns. There is no green -room; the actors, male and female,perforth all the details of ther toilet before the audience, who amuse themselves by criticising the personal appearance and gestures of the actors. The play lasts all night, and 'most of the spectators sit through the entire performance seated on the mats they have brougnt with tnem. lue marionetie showman is the rival of the actor. The pefformauce takes place on a platform of bamboo, about ei^ut feet long, bounded by a cettaut, beuind which the players concealed. One side of the small stag* represents Ja court, with a throne, gilded parasols and otner signs of royalty, while the other, set with some branches of trees, is Intended to represent a forest. The puppets are about three feCt high, carved m wood and luxuriously coatumec. A band of musicians, with goiigs, cymbals, a bell, clairooets and castanets. euiiNens tue representation. Moung-iW By an, sing er aud play writer as well as snowman, has acquired such cretiltjihat bis judg ments. wnen he plays the {o^rt of prince have btcome orqeiesu Tue King has given him the right to walk beneath a gilded parasol. Dances, regattas, box ing matches, hull. aud cock figuts aud other entertainments of the Burmese. Muqn bus mem and pleas ure arc canfMjt urn /iu boats; weddlnss and lunerals often take place upon the'rivers, and at night col Upper rion in iron, lead, copper, tin, gotd and precious 'stones, aa are the mountains of Yuonah, of which they are a con tinuation, There are also petroleum Msxloan windows. relieved in a few minutes, he comes up almost suffoeated, and requires hours to regain his strength. To the north of Baumo are jade quarries, the prouaot Of whioh is mainly exported to Oluua. Though the peooliaily tropical part of the country is couflued to tue delta of the Irrawaddy, the soil is every where higniy fertile; teak, India rubi er trees, eagle wood, and ucuer valuable woods aooond in tne fmeats; while nee, cotton, tea, tue augareant , the mango, the aqoaui, the banana aud many otner vegetables aud fruit trees oau be oulfi Fated with lutle trouble. Bahmo is almost the only considerable town in the kinguom outside of Man dalay,, the brand-new capital. Ava, Tsaqipenango aud Amarapoora are rap idly disappearing beueatu the exuber ant vegetation. Mandalay is a square, surrounded by high walk* and a uitch, and enclosing * second square, the royal any, an assemblage of pantoes, pagodas, temples, statues aud parks, miugied with huts aud taverns. It is in the suburbs .that all business is transacted, ana most of it -is in tue hands of Fer- sums, Cuineee, English or other foreign merchants. ••Big Game” In India. Huuters who wish to bag “big game” should lose no time in visiting the un nappy hunting-grounds that are situa ted among the jungles of the Madras Fresidency, India. Hunting, which is a pasttime in most countries, is a neces sary occupation, if not a duty, in this 1 neck ef woods.” It the human inhabi tants should not keep up an active war against the ferocious animals, the latter would soon exterminate the former. A constant warfare for the supremacy is going on. The official reports show that during last year wild beasts killed 1,105 persons, while human beings killed 2,055 dangerous wild beasts. Amoug tue dangerous beasts killed were five ferocious elephants. This was not a large number, but it must be kept In mind that one elephant can do a great amount of damage. He goes through a country spreading desolation like a tor nado, uproots trees, overturns houses, demolishes carriages, and kills domesti cated animals aud men. Each of the elephants slam last season had “killed his man.” Among the animals killed were 27t) tigers, 1,300 pantheis and leo pards, 213 bears and 24 woives. No less than 92U huge serpents were also slain. These monsters had killed 200 human beings. Bears are credited with killing 11, and panihers 20. Tne tiger is held iu the greatest terror Ic is far more dangerous than tne lion. It is the impersonation of hunger, cruelty and cunning. Its appetiie appears never to be fully satisfied, in early life it devours the helpless young of other wild animals. As it becomes larger and stronger it attacks full grown do mesticated animals. Finally It gets sufficiently bold to pursue men. It lurks by the wayside or near weds and springs, ready to leap upon the travel r or water-seeker. Leopards and panthers are dangerous enougu, but are less de structive ot human me than tigers. Tne charac.tr of the wiki auunals of a country exerts a most powerful influ ence ou us settlement and the prosper ity of its inhabitants, in this respect the territory occupied by the United States was most remarkable. In the opinion of an eminent naturalist, it con tamed no wad animal that was not of morf benefit than disadvantage to the settlers, it ifbouuded in fur-bearing animals, whose skins were in great de mand iu all the great centers of wealth aud civilization. These skins constitu ted a source of woaltn to the early sec Hers, Hunting aud trapping Were profitable employments wuen people could uot engage w farming. Some of the skins were converted into garments aud others into money. Toe skins of buffaloes were made into garments, employed as coverings for beds, or used as protections in sleighs. Moose,deer, antelope and bears furnished meat until domestibued animals could be intro duced aud raised m sufficient uumoers to supply the people witu food. Tueir fat aud nides were usexul for a great variety of purposes, ttaubits, squirrels, ground-nogs, opossums and coons also iuruisned valuable meat and akins. Foxes and bears did some damage, but were (iserui for keeping in caeca many of the small animats tnat rank as ver min. They were easily caught m traps cr killed by the use of firearms, aud their skins were veiy valuable aud brougnt a high price at a tune when agricultural products raised at a distance from water coinuiuuicatlou oould not be sold for money or exchanged for articles qf food and clouting. Ail the native aninuAiR of this country are of easy ex termination. Must of them disappear before the march of civilization, aud only stay as long as they are wanted by the inhabitants. The Himhioa might lead happier and less exciting lives if their games were as valuable and as itiue troublesome. ■ , r sit- ■ ■—• Our greatest glory is not In never falling, but In rising every time we nil. city of in that article of fuel to a reporter, “is a large one, and is in the hands of but a few men. I speak now of the wholesale, not retail or peddlers’ trade.” There are not very many peddlers’ in the city, are there?” Oh, yes, but people don’t notice them as much here as they do in the Eastern or Southern cities. There the familiar cry of ‘Carcoal, charcoal. Save my so-ull,’ is heard from morning till night, as the MT6)«r tfagonS plf ttieir trade through the streets. Here the business is carried on more systematically. Each peddler has his own particular route to supply, and goes over it every two or three days.” “Whom do they principally supply?” “Tailors and peanut stands. The former, as every one knows, use the charcoal to heat their “gooses;” the latter to roast their nuts and keep their fingers warm as they stand o-i the cor ners when the Manitoba zephyrs sweep through the streets. Dealers like my self sell to these peddlers.” “Of course, you have other persons to supply?” “Yes; we do a very large business with hotels and restaurants. Some of them take from 100 to 150 bushels a week, and nearly all of it is used for broiling purposes. Notbiug is more palatable than a good steak broiled over a hot bank of charcoal. But the largest customers we have are tm-roof- iug firms, cornice makers aud tiuuers. They use it for heating their soldering irons, and the tin-roofers call for a good deal. Then, again, Chicago supplies a arge territory west of here.” “And how many bushels a year do you suppose are handled here?” “The home consumption is at least four hundred and twenty thousand bushels, while 180,000 thousand are shipped to other points ” “Where do these 600,000 bushels come from each year?” “The most of it from Michigan, and the bulk of it from Van Bureu county in that State. Then northern Indiana supplies the balance. N one is ’burned, ’ or made, near Chicago, as there is uo timber about here.” “What is the process of making it?” “Nine-tenths of it is now “burned” in brick kilns. The old process of using pits is almost entirely gone out of fashion in the West. Here is a photograph taken on the spot ot two of our square kilus near Michigan. These will hold ninety cords of wood each. They are filled through a man hole in the top entirely full, save a square place in the middle, which ex tends clear to the bottom. The tire is started at the bottom of this square bole, and then the kiln Is closed tight In fifteen days the smouldering tire has done its work, aud the wood has become charcoal. It is taken out of a door in the end, loaded into a truck holding 25 bushels, which jp pushed by mau along a tramway to the railroad track where cars are waiting to receive it. Beside the square kilns there is oue In the shape of a bee-hive, which holds about 5U cords.” “How many bushels will a car hold?” “In the neighborhood of about twelve hundred bushels.” “And how much will a cord of wood produce?” “A good yield Is about forty bushels to the cord. Yes, the charcoal business is a large one here, as i said before, and It takes experience to know bow to obtain the best results in burning it. The mere selling is easy. Tne business is carried on very quietly, aud the only evidence Chicagoans see of it is the huge wagons which go through the streets filled with the stuff, but the noisy charcoal-vendor is an unknown quantity here.” These are peculiar institutions whose like is not to be to . id in any other country under the sun. They gener ally reach from floor to ceiling, are wider than church doors, and have al ways wooden or iron bars before them. A comparatively few oasas lux urate iu window glass, but, as the duty on that substance *s tittle less than robbery, the vast majority dispense with it al together. Tne inside shutters are of solid wood, not furnished with Mats tike ours, usually unpainted, and open ing both ways in the middle forming four square doors. As their peculiar construction renders curtains an im possibility, the only way to secure the slightest degree of privacy when the household machinery is not on exhibi tion, U to close the lower half of the shutters; and then outsiders frequently climb up outside aud gaze in upon you over the top, with sharpened curiosity because of the evident attempt to de prive them of their rights. Mexicans entertain the idea that windows were made to look in at, rather than to look out of, and it is a matter of daily oc currence for men, women and oniidreu of tne lower classes to congregate out side and stand calmly watcumg you by the hour. In ibe deep recesses tnese window open n^s from in the thick walls is ample roain for placing chain upon the ledges, aud therein tne family sit in the cool ot tne day. in summer time this is very pleasant, but wuen ioug, cniily rains come on (and they sometimes even have a little snow in liiese higher anitudes) the absence of window glass is a great discomfort, foi to close me shutters entirely means to- lai uarxiiess wituin. In tialtillo and a few otner mountain cities the winters are realty cold, aud now they bear them wnhoui any protectiou from the outer air is a mystery. There is not a house in Mexico with any provision for grate or stove, or possibility of making a tire, except that for cooking purposes ui the kitchen, wliich does not warm the room in tne slightest degree. When tne winter of their discontent arrives, ail hands from oldest to youngest, wrap themselves in rebosos, aud sara- pas, and possess their souls in pa tience, for navmg never known any otner mode of tile they do not dream of making tnemselves more comforta ble by knocking out a chimney. The hrst sight of the barred windows strikes tue stranger in Mexico unpleas antly, aud he is apt to feel himself iu prison bemud them, with his stone floor and iron bedstead for suitable accompliments: lu time, however, he sees not only the convenience but the necessity of them, and by and by comes to feel an uneasy sense of insecunty, it by rare chance he finds himself not turn* protected, lutnuet boramemhered that tue greater portion of Mexico is a land ox perpetual summer where win dows must be open both night and day. and these gratings cannot be ’picked” tike locks or noiselessly cui tike panes of glass. Thougn one may sleep in perfect security without clos ing a shatter, it is well to remove one’s eiiects from too close proximity to the bars, for the ladrones have a cheerful uabit of throwing in ropes with hooks attached and dextrousiy drawing out even your garments—which perhaps gave rise to tue slang word “hooking” lor stealing. The Speaker's Orb. As the time draws near fyr the as sembly of the Forty-eighth Congress, which it will be ramembarei msecs ou December 31, next, a peculiar spectacle is sometimes afforded to those w.io hap.ien to visit the House of Repre sentatives. A new memoar of Con gress may be seen to euter. He looks around as if heoai at la it arrived at the place he o wns, aud tueu he goes furtively aud sits down iuo.ie of cue comfortable caue seat coairs before oue of tue bright oak desks, aui tries it to see how it fits. A broad smile eu- iMhteos his features as he sits there and gazes towards the Speaker's desk. Hits imagination is at work. He sees Cue listening assembly eutraacei oy ms oratory; hanging oreatuless on his ut terances; he is in his mind solving tue political questions of tne day anl pcov mg hiinseif to b i the states n in of tne hour. 1 once knew a mj.uoer of Con gress from a city of Micnigao. He was a lawyer. Yet tins gentleman tried in vam for some long weary mouths to catch the speaker s eye in order to introduce tue one oill wuioa he hoped to get turougu during the ses sion. Day after day he womd come to ni* lodging rooms and lament in a ludi crous way m* failure to induce tue wayward optic of the powerfm parlia meutary leader to rest approvingly upon him. fne session ended and tne Dili was never introduced. He was in Congress two years without a cuauce to speak once except to yeti “aye” or no.” I tnougut of this as l watched the neophyte sitting silent but happy in the vacant cuamoer snooting off ms oratory to his imagination. Ii is get ting to be a question with senmole men whether it is worcti wmie to come to Congress at all. Lawyers predominate iu Congress now. Tnese professional gentlemen usually have a good practice before tuey can come to represent their district, aud it generally pays them better than tue 45,000 a year allowed to Senators aud Representa tives.. Am absence of two years, i am told, bretks up tueir business, aud fre quently leases them without ocunpauon when their term ends. 1 know tugt a dozen or more uruiiaut men were left ont in the cold at the close of the last •eaaiom Legions of Swallows, Iu the little Ruode island town of Westerly, there has been annually oe- currimi lor several yean past a peculiar pueuoinenon of great interest. The pneuumeaon consists in the fact that unJhons of swallows and other buds are accustomed daring each summer season to congregate every night in kCertain grove in tne town of Westerly, making me trees their roosung place, and iheir me vemeuts as tuey come and go about mu resort afford a oasis for much com • meat and speculation. Wnen we first reached the scene we noticed several swallows flitting here and mere in the air, but at 7 o’clock their number seemed legion. One could think of notnmg but a snowstorm, with large oiaoz flakes. From the plainest out lines of tue lowest flying oirds to tne merest black specks of tne moat aspir ing WALderers, the picture waa that of constantly moving, intermingling m 1- aons ox little winged creatures. It was a sigut never to be forgotten. At times do t*o birds seemed to oe flying in the same direction, tuoagh, as e wnoie, tue Vast company would sway from side to •ide above me grove. Again a group ol nuadreis would lake a common di rection, ctroung around tne inner ou- ouauereuoe of tbe general oompAny, now aescsniuig toward tue treo-topj, wita a symmetrical awoop, tnen rising ai tue air tin almost loot to view. Tuey taeu would return to tue common crowd and resume tneir separate oouraesas be- lore. Tne individual dyers wooid tilt sud j >u t wita eson otner, or pisy at oroe 1-nag in toe air. it wees constantly moving kaleidoscope. All toe wmie newcomers wore etui streaming in from ad q lortors. and at 7,15 o’oiook th* multitude nad become dense. Aoout tills tims there was a audieu ossedtion nl tne various digate and a general cir cular motion of tae wnoie company wa* apparent. R mud and round in a bro id s weeping oircie over the grove they d , w ■ tor several minutes, until all had joined tue common direction. Tnan they Degm to draw oioeer and closer to- getner in a constantly narrowing circle, and tne centre of the main waaebaervad gradually to sink in fonoat shape tow ard tne tree topi. Soddealy, with al most tue rapidity of thought, the whole uoet vanished, circling in the tree-tops wita a wnirnng of wings distinctly neard, and aopn tne air was almost stti ; orokeu only by the greeting chirps oi tue now late comers, who ware still straggoag in in emal/ groups and singly. t'neae last arrivals did not pause lo circle about in the air, oat flaw in tow ard tue grove aa atralght as an arrow aud vanisued among their sat Usd bro.L era with tigutniug rapidity. Ae we now grow htiu nearer tne edge of tbe grove tue rostdug and chirping of tbe birds among the leaves and branches as they settled tnemselves in oomfoti tat ti** night could be distinctly heard. ‘Mi