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h .1 :» \ -.u (k* . !'(j» tit % ^ | .‘! 1/ = TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. HO GOES THE WORLD. J T = WINNSBORO. S. C.. DECEMBER 25,1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. When I wear the cap and bells, Many friends have I; Unto careless, merry hearts, Merry hearts reply, Just as this earth of ours Dimples in a hundred flowers, When above, in summer’s hours, Laughs a summer sky. When Grief bides with me, alas! Not a friend have [; Sad hearts meet on every side With a cold “Good-by,” Just as this earth of ours Parts with all the drooping flowers, When above iu autumn hours, Glooms a sombre sky. A MAGICIAN 'M WAND. “What!” cried Mrs. Morwatt, in shrill accents of dismay. “Marry Bess Harding. Why Joshua, you ain’t never In earnest, be you?” Joshua Morwatt’s broad, good-humor ed face brightened into a smile. “Well, I rather think I am,” said be. “At any rate I am engaged to her, and we have set the day for the 30th of May. “Without asking me?” “You are not 6ne of the contracting parties,” laughingly retorted Joshua; “But seriously, mother dear, it only definitely settled last night, and I was coming to tell you when you met me half way, with the milk-pail in your hand.” Mrs. Morwatt screwed up her lips like a button; her little eyes sparkled like electric fire. “She shall never come into this house!” said she venomously. “Mother, don’t,” pleaded Joshua, with a pained look in his honest face. “Remember when you and father were young.” “But your father had a little common sense,” sharply retorted Mrs. Morwatt, “and I was a daughter—not hard working farmer’s one of your dancing frolicking gypsies who spend their whole time in candy pulls and apron parties, and all that sort of nonsense.” “And you will find, mother,” urged the young man, “that Bess will be just as good a wife as you were.” “Pshaw!” was Mrs. Morwatt’s curt rejoinder. “When you know perfectly well that it was the dearest wish of my heart to see you married to your cousin, Nancy Simpson.” Joshua Simpson shook his head. “Nancy never would suit me,” he said. ‘ ’She is one of these cold, serpent like women that go gliding about like the ghost in the play. And I’m no; vain enough to suppose that I correspond wit her ideas any more than she does with mine.” “Well,” said Mrs. Morwatt, severely, “you’ve made you bed and you must lie on it, Joshua. That’s all I’ve got to say on the subject.” “But you will come and see her, mother?” “No, I won’t!” “You will welcome her to a daughter's place in your heart? For m y sake, mother!” vehemently pleaded Joshua. “For nobody’s sate,” said Mrs. Mor watt. “I don’t li*e Bess Harding, and I never liked her! And if you marry tier, you deliberately separate yourself from all your home associations!” Joshua Morwatt turned away, deeply pained and stung to the very heart. “It must be as you say, mother,” said he “But if there is an estrangement, it shall be neither Bess’ fault nor mine.” Mis Morwatt kept her word. She never looked upon Bess Harding, although the girl, deeply wounded at the idea of thus being shut out from the heart of Joshua’s mother, came more than once to beg admittance to the house. She sent no message of affection, no bridal gift—she would not even lead the grace of her presence to the simple wedding. “They shall see what it means to offend me!” said she, with a quiet vindictiveiiets. But pretty Bess, a girl of twenty, with soft, gazelle-like brown eyea, curly hair, and a genuine “sunrise pink” complexion, was innocently happy in the little farm house which Joshua hired, where she played housekeeping, with her china which had once been her mother’s, gathered roses for vases, and cooked all manner of delicious dishes for her husband’s delecatiou. But hard times came, skeleton like and ghostly, as they came to all. The succediug summer was unusually dry. Crops were parched and shriveled in the ground. The cows cessed to give rich streams milk; the bees could find no wild flowers to suck honey from. And, to crown all, Joshua fell from a beam in the second story of the barn and broke his leg. “Send for my mother,” said he, with white lips which betokened his suppress ed agony. “ You are not strong enough, Bess, to endure this yourself.” Mis. Morwatt, however, refused to come. ’ “My son married to s lit himself, she said “now let his fine lady wife nurse him up.” Yet all the while her heart yearned or one look at her son’s face, one sound of his voice. If it had not been for Bess—if only it had not been for Bess—how gladly would she have hastened to his side! And now ensued real trouble. The little money which the young couple had saved was soon scattered. Every thing went at loose ends and Bees >egan to count the very pennies at the bottom of her purse. <+ “But, Joshua, ” she said, “I thought ! lira. Morwatt was rich.” My mother is well off,” Joshua answered sadly, “but the property is aH in her own name, and she has never offered me any of it. Can’t you see, ! Jess, darling, that I would rather die than ask for it?” Bess looked at him with troubled eyes. “What shall I do?” she asked herself. “Can I sit here and see him suffer for ;he very necessities of life?” Just at that time came a letter to her a letter from a city friend who had spent a summer in Blooming Vale. “Darling Bess.” wrote Mrs. Germyn, ‘Don’t be amazed at what I am going im ask you. But I am to have a Christ mas party for my little girls—and I do so long for some of those cream candies, and sugared nuts, delicious chocalate caramels that you used to make when we boarded with your aunt at Blooming Vale. I enclose a ten dollar bid. Please send the ‘goodies’ by express, just as soon as you can possibly make them, and oblige everlastingly. Your friend. “Laura.” The joyful tears came into Bess Mor- watt’s eyes as she sat looking at the crisp bill, neatly folded into the letter, it was not only a ten dollars greenback —it represented health and ease for Joshua-it seemed to open to her the gates of escape from all the petty tortures of this poverty-stricken life.” “Why have I never thought of it before?” she questioned herself. She made haste to prepare the caramels, the dainty cream bars, the walnuts enclosed in a crystal garment of translucent sweemess, and with them she enclosed the lettter, begging Mrs. Dare to open an agency for her with one of the prominent confectioners of New York. And then she ordereded a barrel of sugar, all manner of dainties and flavors, and went up to the garret and cracked all the butter nuts and hickory nuts which were leftr'from the last autumn’s store. “To be sure, it is only an experiment,” she thought. J’But I hope—I believe— it may succeed. The doctor says that Joshua will not be strong enough to go out doors until spring. Our expenses are continually draining us, and theie is nothing coming in. Ob, it must suc- ceedl” “It did succeed. Mrs. Morwatt' 3 delicate home confections, in hand painted boxes tied wit> colored ibbons, became the fashi' fl - Every body asked for them—ev^T** 0 ^ bought them. Bess was oblit*^ to hire assistants and transfer wr working quarters to the old u-osed wing of the house. Money -a™ 6 iu with a promptness and ateouy flow which seemed to the young wife almost a Golconda. There was no ack of good refreshing fruit, and strengthening food for the invalid. The farm-house was new, needful machinery was ordered for farm new railway shares were so much paper. Joshua managed the farm, kept up the confectionery branch of of the business, and Mrs. Morwatt did the housework. But she someties looks at Bess and says, with tears in her eyes: “What would have become of darling, if it wasn’t for you. r Twftnty Cigar* a Day. ur au jeling 'T'HT case, in the containing, first, purposes, new furniture came in, and Bess even indulged in the—to her un heard of—luxury of a black silk dress. “Bess, you’re a good fairy,” said Joshua exultantly, “a regular enchan tress!” But one day B ss came in with a sober face. “What’s the matter?” asked Joshua. “Has our new ban* failed? Is the maple candy scorched? Or has the kitten tumbled into the kettle of boil ing chocolate?” “Oh, Joshua, don’t jest,” said Bess. “It's your mother! She has invested everything in the new railroad that was to be cut throrugh Walton’s Pass—and its a failure A gigantic swindlei The stockholders are men of straw, the president has gone to Japan, and all who invested iu the concern are ruined totally!” Joshua grew pale. “What are we to do?” said he. “There is but one thing to do,” Bess answeied; “we must go to her. We must bring her here. Our home must henceforth be her home.” “Bess,” cried Joshua, iu a husky voice, “you are an angel.” “She is your mother, Joshua,” said Bess, gently, “and being yours she is mine.” Mrs. Morwatt half stunned by the suddenness of the blow which had robbed her of her all, scarcely knew, where she was when she found herself sitting in a big arm-chair by the fire in the farmhouse parlor, with her hand in Joshua’s, while Bess tenderly removed her bonnet and shawl. “But I have no right to be here,” she said, piteously. “I refused to recognize your wife—I have withheld from you your birthright, and squandered it away. Why don’t you take me where I belong—to the poorhouse?” “Mother, don’t talk so,” pleaded Joshua. “Here’s where you belong uow and henceforward! Here, by our hearthstone.” “You are my mother now,” softly whispered Bess, and the touch of her oft lipe on the old woman’s withered cheek loosened the floodgate of her tears —the blessed tears that wash away all bitterness and pain. “And you,” she sobbed, “are daughter!” And therefore the three were bliss- uUy happy together, even though the “Yes,” said the old physician, “I was in an insane asylum for many years.” “As a patient?” “Well, hardjy, though I confess con stant association with insane people nearly set me crazy. I really believe I should have lost my balance if I had i remained there. I should either have become insane or turned out a poet.” “I liave a patient now who was just on the verge of ‘tobacco insanity,’ as it is sometimes called, a few weeks ago. He came to me about the middle of Oc tober, and said he feared he was becom ing insane; that he had some of the most horrible and frightful thoughts and impressions, and felt sure he would sometime do something terrible if he were not cured of them. He was a pale, nervous man with large, round eyes, and altogether a very intellectual- looking face. He looked like a close student. I asked him if he had not been studying too hard, and he said he had once thought so and had quit all study for several weeks, but found' self growing worse each day. He he could not get rid ef an awful feel that something terrible was going to happen; it followed him wherever he went, no matter what he did. ‘Why.’ said he, ‘My room is on the fourth floor, and I dare not tfit by the window nor look out at it, for fear that I will yield to the awful impulse to jump out, And the horrible things that come to my mind—oh, they will surely drive me crazy and I shall do some awful thing one of these days!’ “Then he told me how he saw things double, and sometimes saw himseil coming toward himself with a big knife. ‘Why,’ said he, I was walk inf: home the other night, and, although could see no one, I ' felt a man coming toward me. I thought him away off, several miles, but that he wes coming toward me rapidly. Ad this time 1 knew nobody was copdJg, yet I coud feel him, and was a* 8ul 'e ^ m y imagination that I soo k should see him, as i was in my re* 8 '’ 11 that I should not. The fee^g grew in spite of me. 1 tried to flfeht it off with my reason. the imagination was the stronger, and with the never-ceas- inE impression that something ter rible was about to happen, I stopped under a street lamp, and sure enough right there before me stood an exact counterpart of myself. I knew I couldn’t run away from it Indeed, I knew there was nothing there to run away from, yet I could see it, and feel its presence. Finally I shut my eyes a moment, and when I opened them again the apparition was gone, and I walked on home.’ “Qh, he told me a long rigmarole of his sort; said he often waked in the night and saw himself lying dead in bed Deside himself; that he had, not less han a hundred times, been almost tempted to kill his little sister just for the sake of seeing how she would look, i .hat he had wondered how it would 'eel to be stabbed through the heart, and had, one night, gotten out of bed and threw his pocket-knife out of the window for fear he could not resist the temptation to use it.” “What did you do for him, doctor?” “Well, to tell the truth, 1 never thought of tobacco until he took out a cigar and lit it. He seemed very ner vous before that, but the cigar seemed to calm him, and he was quite jolly for a time. Then I thought of tobacco in sanity, and made up my mind that he was about to have delerium tremens. Carefully I questioned him and found that he smoked from a dozen to twenty cigars a day, and, as he put it, ‘They’re about the only thing that do me any good,’ ‘The cure was yery simple. I shut him up and took tobacco away from him gradually until he got through a day with three cigars and felt so much better that he was convinced bis whole trouble was all due to smoking, and, of his own accord, he resolved to quit it entirely. Of course I gave him some nerve tonic and built up his. general health, which helped him in his good resolution.” is generally require! to wash out the liver and intestin e thoroughly. Not more than half a pint of hot watsr should be drank with the meals. To make tte beverage palatable or to medicate it, aromatio spirits of ammonia, clover blossom?, ginger, lemon-juice, sage, salt of sulphate of magnesia are sometimes added. Where there is la- tense thiist or d yness a pinch of obolride of oilciam or of nitrate of potash may be added to allay the thirst and leive a moistened film over the a valuable ar- [> 1 J it palm is to the rift; It furnishes , clothing, fans, shelter, arid an jhcome generally. Oautlene** In FanuliM. Gentleness and kindness in certain relations are almost synonymous terms. A person who is kind is apt to be gentle, and one who is gentle is quite sjure to be kind. Kindness, however, is a trait; gentleness a habit. The absence of gentleness in families may not prove unkindness, but its presence promotes kindness. Gentleness involves self-con trol and consideration for others.. It is. — rare that persons living together In the psvehed and dry mucons aurfuce. When close relations of a family do not find ,hele is diarrhces, rinnamon, ginger .... 1 , and pepper may be boiled in the hot ,t* of disagreement. Incongni-1 waU £™ d the ' uantity les8eDed . For per, ill-health, weariness, the I constipation, a tsaipooufnl of sulphate ribution of duty or reward, of magnesia, or half a teaspoonful of or a thousand circumstances, tend to (taraxacum niay be used in hot water, produce attrition, and thus harsh words. Children in some Hmms have cultivated the hibitf of quan^ling to an extent that Igadi to the qpnstaht interchange of unpleasant words. Ill temper is al ways present. Such homes are the scenh bT contention and strife. Yet naturally the children are no more disposed to contention than others who rarely indulge in. If began in trifles: and, unnoticed, grew, until at last it was hard to control. This is the. history of many families. It Is against the biginning, o.fsuch things that parental watch and care is needed. And the manifestation of gentleness betwfQi {husband and wife is the best possible means of promoting it among children. Example is very potent.'* Ijf parents disregard the little courtesies, and speak indifferently or even harsh- lyy the children very speedily learn the lesson, and if they are gentle, consider ate and polite, the children observe and follow. This is the rule. Of course, there are exceptions. Rude, boister ous boys, or children with strong pro- ttoge Boston Exhibition samples of all kinds of the color ropes and yarns. “Coir,” as all the world knows, is the rough, strong, fibrous substance obtained from the outer busk of the cocoanut. Ti ey people busy themselves working L into ropes and strong mattingaa-wd alone* with, {lie fUfufaMiAi^tticfe &shc>v# a pile of iftj ftif, *u« Tt 1 stripped from the cocoanut. 2 Topping the coils ef rope are two bright little bottles, which catch the light so that they look As if they were filled with “the sun-filled rapture of the topaz^’b^t (they v® )'W clear yellow oil. Tbs Cingalese are great adepts in the art of expressing oil —obtaining them from substances the most promising. Their open hillsides are covered with the Juxuriant; growth of the lemon grasi, ai» from this ^ he y express an oil of great delicacy. A large use to which put theSd oils is that of anointing themselves, in order to ward off and cute the bites ef the insect tribes Indigenous to the climate; but the oil of the coOmmut finds a moi dignified destiny, beirfe a valuable ticle of export. Indeed, the cocoan natives there all In them with food, dishes. m jh< The wealth of an individual is Judged by his property in these tree*. Ceylon is the favorite home of the cocoanut palin, and if is etfpnated tM r $here are twenty millions of them on the island. But no one lias ever*been able to estimate the number of moukoys that are after the nuts. ' ‘ i * ».. ■, . i • * , . , There »aUo eho.na large maae ptj Bearitre. tor evil, require etroager treat-1 ttlrmg ».ter .t £ tw xkiiimKa.irrk ment than mere example. But even ^ ve yeara practice the foam i-iie 'PtumoeHO xouie m |. . . . I **«***;**» hsxt THE VERDICT -OF- THE PEOPLE . BUY THE BEST! Xr my jfoufl tl, and is oDtainea m large’quantities; auditor a remainder of the jungles, they have sent a little elephant a foot or so in length, carved out of the plumbago- very nicely carved, only the sculptor forgot to add tusks ao that it looks like one of the [re-historic animals. Then there are sacks of native Ceylon coffee, cinnamon bark and nutmegs. Nature very benevolent in Ceylon. She makes wooden nutmegs for them. The spicy nutmeg of coriimerce grows on ittle shrubs, and is cultivated. But in the forests^are large trees which bear nutmegs, which, externally, are the perfect article;—there is a lit tle network of mace surrounding them, and everything complete; ’ only when you come to test the nut, there’s tbemb—It is just a wooden nutmeg and nothing else—no space at all, It is a cheat on the part of nature. Tbe solid log of ebony that is the crowning glory of the exhibit gives solid satis- action. “til* *5007, That deap-lnearthed, and hating light, A leafless tree, and barren of all fruit. With darkness feeds its bough* of raven grain.” An expressive description, but uot quite exact, for the ebony does bear eaves despite its hopeless look. Does every one know how the ebony tree grows? It wouldn’t be enlivening to gopicknickinginagrove of them, but] ’twould be fine to see one cut down. The bark is of sooty blackness, like a tree that has been charred. The in ner wood is of perfect whiteness till the centre is reached, when it turns out to be perfectly black-hearted—and there- is the ebony of cofemerce. Notwith standing that it is only the centre of I the tree that is used, they grow to such an immense siae, some of them being circumference, uce reduced logs This 6ile* at thb fftir is’ about & foot fn diam eter. Portage stamp*. Collectors of postage stamps have long bad to guard carefully against tbe danger of paying large pricea fbr'skill ful conies of rare issues, and now, it appears, bibliophiles must confront a similar deeeipt, a flrom in Dusaeldor! having taken out a patent for its pro cess of imitating all books. They print with old-fashioned type upon hand made paper, which has been saturated with an aniline solution, and then sprinkle the pages with various dyes have been bound up into a volume, the tbe edges of the leaves are steeped in spirit, and fired; and it is Said that after a reprint has undergone this treat ment, it is all but imp^i^ia f or an i r •ne, unless he makes use of chemica tests, to distiuguish the forgery from the original. In order to obtain a patent, the Dusseldorf firm have proba bly convinced the authorities that their dwn immediate Intentions are honest, but some of their successors are sure to be scoundrels. AAAA (AAs vlACAA WUAgUAUg UA. LUO 1CL received a£ the potyofflee in New Y and Philadelphia shows that 94$ —An actual weighing of the letters m m * Y ° rk . per cent, of them weigh leas than half an ounce each. The weighing was done at the request of the Postmaster General, who, it is believed, may recommeac. Congress to Increase the weight allow anoe tor single rate letters from half an unce to an ounce. here gentleness, mixed with firmness, is best. Timqthy Titcomb once wrote: “Thera is either human nature in a pig or pig In human nature; you cau lead, bnt cannot drive him.” Govern ment by sheer force rarely succeeds well in families. The cases where it is needed are very rare. But the pow er of gentleness has rarely been mea sured. It molds character and smooths away rough tendencies. It is the po- Hot water thus Uken causes the skin to lieoome healthy to the touch and iu _ appjarance, »digestion, makes tin patient fed brighter and the phybioial machine w>rk better. Io>- water in hat weather is not craved (it is disallowed iu ait easas, sick or well), and those who have drnn t ioa water freely aie cured of the propensity. In ebriety has a deadly loe in tbis use o! hot water. All thirst and dry mu joas membrane disappear in a few days, snl a moist condition of the muoens mem- Irene and skin takes place. The re laxing influence of heat i iside the ali mentary canal relieves spaim and coho Of the bowe s, just as heat outside the abdomen relieves. Hot water delates the xopy secretions ct the while bjdy, and rtnders them leas adhesive and tenacious, it dissolves the abnfmal crystalline substanois that may be in tbe blood urine. It washes out the stomach and leaves it fresh and clean for eating. It promotes elimination evirywhere. As we are 75 per cent, water, to kiep from stagnation we need continual renewal. Tne universal use of hot beverages at meal-time is based on a physiological uejeasitj. If ho: water in due quantity is taken between meals, there will be but little cejd of ‘ ter twen y- der of this method ox using hot water says: “If I were confined to one means of medica tion I would take hot water.” Mr. J. o. boro-near sir: l bcugut tit* Dari* MacUne Hold bj jou over flv* year* ago 1 my wife, wbo ba* given it a long and lair trial. I am well pleased wlta It. It never alvea am rouble, and la aa good aa whan 11 rat bought. J. W. nouca. W Inns boro, 8. C.. April 18SS. Mr. Boao: ton with to know what 1 nave to aay In regard to tbe Davia Machine bought of yon three J ean ago. I feel i can’t aay too much In iu lavor. made about <80,09 within five month*, at tnpe* running it »o faaituat the needle womd get per fectly not from fr.cucn. I feel uonfldenl I couki not have done the name work with aa muen eaae and ao well witn any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachment*. The lighteat running mach.ue i have ever treadled. Brother James ana V\ hhaiua’ families are aa much pleased with their Daria Machines nought ot you. I want no better machine. A* I laid before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Respectfully, hlXXN STSVXM80M, Fsirfl-ld County, AprlU 1888. Mr. boao : My maemne gives me perfect satis faction. I ilnd no fault with It. The attachment* ai e so simple, i wish for no better then tne Davis Vertical Feed. Respectfully. Mu*. R. Milliso. FslrileUi county, April, 1883. Manner of Eating. Let us suppose a well-cooked meal on the table (which will hardly admit of any fried meat, by the way), aud the family seated, it may be a question how to dispose of it. The American fash ion is generally to get through it as soon as possible, to save time. This is another economical ferror. Food eaten iish that beautifies even rough natures. I slowly and well masticated, is less like- ly to produce temporary indigestion, or permanent dyspepsia tbau when eaten It does not, rightly cultivated, pro duce effeminacy. A strong nature may lie back of it, but the self-control, which is essential to gentleness, is one of tbe noblest elements of manhood and womanhood. Tbe noble qualities should always be cultivated in chil dren and the ignoble repressed. But what we urge in gentleness seeks this result. The cultivation of the strong with the suppression of the weak. It is from such homes that our best citi zens come—men of strong natures un der perfect control. Hot Water. Mr. Boao: i uougot a oavii vertical rood w ing Machine from you four years ago. I am llguttfu with it. it uavar Qua gives me any o uule, and baa uavar been tbe least oat of order, t 1* a, good ss wuen I drat bought 1L I can cheerfully recommend it. Respectfully, Mae. M. J. Kirkland. Montlcello, April 30,1883. This is to oertity that I nave been aimg a Darts Verticil Feed dewing Machine for over tw jyears, purchased of Mr. J. o. tkfcig. I haven’t found 1 v p assessed of any faolt—all the attachments are so simple. It neverrefuses to worK, aud is certainly the iighteei running in tbe market I consider it s drat class maemne. Very respectfully. MlNNIR M. WILLlNUliAM. Oakland. Fatrfleld county, 8. 0. Mh Boao : i ar%weu piesseu in every paruusi with the uavia Mlbhlne bought of you. I think s drst-ciasi maculae lu every respect. You knew you sola several machines of the same make to dnterent members of our families, all of whom, as far ss 1 know, are well pieased with them. Respectfully, Mrs. ML H. Mobley. Fatrfleld county, April, 188*. j tpn or (fifteen ? feet in ttiat it iseisy 16 produc aft one □i DlfTereut IfciRds ot Eyes. No branch of science has been more thoroughly mastered than optics. The principle of vision must be essentially the same in ail eyes, but they differ remarkably according to the habits of the animal. Birds of lofty flight, as the cohdor, eagle, vultures, and carrion seeking prowlers of tne feathered race, have telescopic virions, and thus they are enabled to look down and discover their unsuspecting victims. As they approach noiselessly ftom above, tbe axis of vision ebangee—shortening, so that they can see distinctly within one foot of tbe ground as when at an eleva tion of one mile in the air. This fact explains the balancing of a fisbhawk on its pinions a mile above a still pond, watching for fish. When one is selected, down tbqsavage hunter plpfagee^tho toeal axM^arying always ttr the square view of his intended prey. As they ■ ascend, the axis is elongated by a curious muscular arrangement so as to see far off again. Snails have their keen eyes fit the extremity of flexible horns, whieh they can protrude or draw in at pleasure. By winding the instrument around the edge of a leaf or stalk they can ape how matters stand on the opposite side. The hammer-headed shark has wickedlooking eyes nearly two apart. By an effort they can bend thin'edges of the head, on which organs are located, so as to examine two rides of an object the size of a fi sized codfish. Flies have immovable eyes. Th stand out from the head like half i apple, exceedingly prominent. Instt 1 of smooth hemispheres, they have* immense number of facota, resemb old-fashioned glass watch seals, one directing tbe light directly to optic retina. That explains why cannot be approached in any ~ J^^^seejnswhat is coining. Bathing as a remedial agent is no new thing. Hippocrates, who lived 300 years before Ohrist, understood the value of the bath both in health and sichkness; Cesar Augustus had his hydropathic pbysioian, and Gilea, who flourished,in the second century after Christ, was well acquainted with the worth of water as an external means of removing disease and promoting health. Bat internal bathing is some thing new; and for tbe benefit of some of our readers who ask about the “hot water cure,” we condense an article which recently appeared in tho Lancet, and which is from tbe pen of a physic ian of this city. In 1858 Dr. Salisbury concluded e a senes of experiments on feeding man and anima's to ascertain the relations of food as a cause and cure of disease, He found that the fermentations food, and tne products of thesa fi mentations, were the chief primi factors in producing the diseases which from unhealthy. alimentation, f Ike disdaris he include* con sumption, Bright's disease, diabetes. With the idea of removing these dis eases by removing the causes, he em ployed at first cold and afterwards hot water to wash out the various acids and fermentations from the stomaoh and boweia. Cold water oineed distress, pain and oolio, lukewarm water caused ilokner'. of the stomaoh and peristals upward. The temperature was increase 110 deg. and 150 deg, with the happiest effects. The hot water excites normal downward peristalsis of the alimentary canal, washes out the liver and kidneys, and the bile is eliminated through tbe bowels, and not tnrough tbe blood via the kidneys. The daily use of the uriuemeter de termine tbe quantity of hot water need ed. Tbe speoiflo gravity of healthy unne varies from 1.015 to 1.025. The falling belew thh number would indi cate a call for less hot water the rising above this number a call for more water. The quantity of hot water needed vanes usually from half a pint to a pint and a half at one drinking and should be takeu from •ne to two hours before e*ob meal and leg to bed. dose of rapidly, or bolted, as tbe saying is Moreover, a smaller quantity of food ealou Slowly, actually nourishes tbe system more than a larger quantity eaten with undue haste and insuffi ciently masticated. There is a rational mien between loi tering over meals aud eating too hastily or boiting, which should always be ob served. Very often a man hurries too much to get back to his business, or his children are hurried to get to school. Tliis is all wrong, taken regularly neither feasting in the sense of over feeding, nor fasting, is commendable under ordinary circumstances. Indeed either is apt to entail the other as a common sequence. Children should never have long intervals between the times of taking meals or food. Their digestion is more rapid than that of adults. The process of digestion is, or ought to be, accomplished usually iu from four to six bours;and this accomplished, Nature calls, for a new supply, and her demands should be duly respected. No mau can do bis work effectively either mefital or physical, without a suffleieut supply of food, abundant in quantity and good in quality; but wbeu he has enough he ought to stop. Enough is as good as a least, it is said, and more than enough is sure to bring penalties. Remote disease surely, and sometimes sudden death is the result of overload ing the stomach. Thu uto certify vs uav* sal m constant use the Dows Machine bought ot you snoot tuee years AgU. Am tAlras In an.I mart* tne price of it several times over, ve oofla trim si/ better machine. It is always ready to do any kin J or work we have to do. No paukerliif or skipping stitche*. We canomyaay we are well piearei auu wish no better machine. IATHRRINR Wru* AMO SISTER. April 88,1888. 1 have no Malt to had with toy lurch he, and dou’t want any better. Ihavemr ietas price of MoiTm should be 1 11 *e ver * by taking lu sewing. It Is always Mcais snotua oe reaajf w d01U #ort j tBinlt lt B ms and deliberately, chine. Ifeel leant say loo much for the Davu Vertical Feed Machine. Mss. Tholas Smith. FalrfleM county. April, 1883. Mr. J. o. Boao—Dear Sir: it gives me m ich pleasure to testify to tne merit* of the Davia Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of yon about nve years ago. has been almost In con- stsut use ever since that time. I cannot see that it u worn any, aud ha* not cost mo one cent for repairs since we nave had it Am well pleased an 1 don’t wish for any better. Yours tru'y, HOST. CRAWFORD, Granite Uimrrr. near Wlnntboro S. C. We have used the Dr vis Vertical Feel Sewing Machine for the last live years We would qjc Rave any other make at any price. The maoiune has given os unboondeu satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Turns* asp Dauohtsss Fairfield county, S. C., Jan. *•' m*. uaving bought a Davu Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. U. Boag some three years ago, and It having given me perfect satisfaction la every resiwct aa* family mac nine, bom for he* j and ilgut ae wing, aud never needed me lead re pair In any way, i can cueerfully recommend It to say one as a drst-cias* machin - in every particu lar, and think it second to none. It 1* one ot the slmpieat machine* made; my children use It with all ease. The atuoamenu are more easily ad justed and it doei a greater range of work |>y means of its Vertical r eed than any other ma chine I have ever aeen or need. '). r. - trit-J i rv ' HO ova aH3 Henry Coons’ Cate Better. %ns/of$4toPpJfc.V*., NWooded Irish SpRa-' a^tesenl from a gentleuLtn of New York city. One day he and a neighbor fnend, who slab owns a fine turkey and bird dog, started oat turkejr hunting. On the premises of Mr. Franklin Stearns, near what is known as the Bosk honse, on the Hazle river; they flashed a lot of tnrkeya, and at the first fire killed a fine turkey. Then on the opposite side of the river, in a large tree, they saw a turkey silting. Mr. Ojous, with mnoh precaution, gained the river bank opposite tbe turkey, and firing at it aoroes the river, saw the tnrkey fall. He ani his triend called on their dogs to go for the tnrkey. After swimming the nver they captured it, a large yonug gobbler. Tne dogs, however, disagreed river to them, and then Mr. O. said to his dog: “Dick, go back and bring the turkey to me,” keeping the other dog back. Dick at onoe reorossed the river, bnt the tnrkey not being entirely dead had ancoeeded in getting some thirty or forty yards from the nver bank. He, however, dragged it to the bank, and viewing the premaes, threw it to the water’i edge* and than in the river, taking the same across Tne river here is fgffy fiftjr v»ais wrk, be ing the upper end of Mr. SceanB mill- dam. Tue dog first dragged the tnrkey by the neck, but making a change pat it on his back and swam with it. When Dick reached tbe shore he was com pletely exhausted, having .croaped the ttfe river four times, and thh entire in all two hu li the JmM cross- weighing fifteen pounds or more. Mas. Thomas owinos. WloDsbir j Fairfield county, tt C. We bare had one ot me Davti Maculae* about four yaars and nave always found it ready to do all kinds of work we nave aa 1 occasion to aa Can’t ae* mat the machine la worn any, and work* as wall aa when new. . Mbs W. J. Crawford, Jacksoa’a Creek. FalrfleM countv, S. U. My wife la highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought ot you. Sue would not take double wnat sue gWVe for’tt. The maculae has not boon out ot order since aha had U, and she can do sny kind of work on It. Montlcello. Fairfield county, 8. C. afflsssss Tue Davis Sewing Machine Is atmplv s treas ure Mrs. j. a uoopwym. Ridgeway, N. c., Jan. to, lass. j, u boao, Kaq., Agent—Dear Sir: My wife has oeen using a Davia Sewing Machine constant ly for me past four years, and It has never needed any repairs and works just aa well as when first itougtaL She says It will do e greater range of practical work end do it easier end better than any machine she nat ever need. We cheerfully recommend It as a No. 1 family machine. Your truj, Jab. Q. Davu. Wlnnaborb, S. C., Jan. 3,188S. Mb. Boao : l have always found my Davu Ma chine ready do all kinds of to work 1 have had oc casion to do. I cannot ae* that the macula* is worn a particle and It wonts aawatiaa waannew. Respectfully, Mas. H. C. Goopino. Wlwuboro, s. C., April, 1883, and not drank bo k rum ntteeu w tinny . Apetri^Tofaix monttu —Tourists complain that the Swiss hotel-keepers now charge as much as eight and ten cents per glass for milk, and this extortion in the country par I excellence of milk,' they think Is too bad. ■ Mr. hOAfl: My wile has been constantly using me Davu Mauume bought of y on abont Sv* years ago. 1 have e jver regretted baying M, as a u always ready for soy kind of family sewing, either or ligaL It 1* never oat of fin or needing ueavy or tepelr*. FalrfleM, A ft, March, IMS. Very reepeottaUr, mm '^1