Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The tide, iu their rhythmic emotion, To the gathering waters unfold The infnite grief of the ocean On the breast of the billows outrolled! A PARISIAN NOVELETTE. She was only a poor sewing-girl noth ing more. .er days were spent in ai :factory, where, with hundreds of others, - she worked early and late to earn the - poor pittance that gained her daily bread, and her nights were spent up In a garret, where the noisome sinlls froin the court below and the curses and cries sometimes made her shudder. But she i was no heroine. The other girls said she was not even pretty, but her braids of s long, fair hair were bright and soft, and her eyes, though her face was pale, were sweet and pure, and in spite of her life, as it was, she was innocent as when long ago her mother had (ied in the samei garret where she now lived. She was not even a Christian-few in Paris are, I believe-and then churches are not for t poor people, you know-alid when her Sundays caie they were such days of rest after her hard, hard week that she was glad to be away from the crowd and rattle and noise, and ait by herself I alone. One day there caie to the factory some gentlemen, all friends of the pro - prietor, who walked through and looked at- the machines, how the girls worked i them, how nimble their fingers were, and ( how the clothes were cut-all matter of fact enough to the girls, but curious to e them. They all laughed and joked and 1 said something to the girls, and one e stopped before her chair and said, "What beautiful hair!" touching just so gently i some one of the long golden strands. ( She blushed very red, and they walked t Ont. Her name?" "Marie," said the proprietor. " Yes, pretty hair2 but nothing else; she is only I a poor sewing-girl, not even one of the t heads of the department; only a very f poor girl, Monsieur." As the stranger walked out there was caught in his coat a long thread of hair, which he laughed at, smiled, and then c Joosing slowly, placed it in the rich lock et he wore on his chain and passed out. le did not return again, hut nn aniy passing on the Boulevards she heard her niame called. "Marie!" A gendlarme in r uniform stepped up and handed her a card: "Monsieur Ienri de Lannes, C Marquise de Plaquemine." - She was surprised. Gentlemen do not bother themselves about poor sewing girls often; and then a marquis. Who t lasie? What could it mean ! "lHe is here, Man'selle, and wishes to t speak to you. Will you go?" I She followed, she did not know why and when the soldier stopped at a rici saloon, and the door opened, sho stepped in anid sawv the gentleman who spoke at ~ the factory some weeks ago. Then, she burst into tears-" Mon- I sicur, don't, for God's sake, Monsieur, I amn only a poor girl, and what can a mar- C qluis want with me? For 'God's, sake, e don't, please;" and she buried her face % in her hands. a The long fair hair fell in its two braidsi (down over her shoulders, and( as she sank 1 almost oni the floor it covered her almost () like a cloud. Monsieur arose; lie was an old1 mani, t past fifty; his hair was gray and his face was hard, clear-cut aind cold, andl his e eyes were like steel just so clear and 11 sharp anmd cold; he walked to thme window I of the rich saloon, and then, returning r half way leaned with one haiid Oin a am chair and the other tenderiy, ever so d. tendCerly for a hard ok(1 manii vPoted for q one moment On her fair hair, and it trem- a bled. 't By mainy strange ways and( much t blood had Monsieur come to be standing i in that pla0ce, and1( then for one moment t there seemed to float before him a vision 4of fair Lorraine, a youth long ago, a 7 face sitting in a cottage, and two long I braids of hair, a p)romiise that when liet returmed w ith wealth and fame, she I wvouki 1)0 his. Years of toil and( pain, of success anid triumph, and n,,returni to find 11er married to a churl, a common t counltry peaos(lmt, and they both gone to 1 Paris. Siunce then Monsieur was knowvn to be I aar iman-a very hiardl man; and( w~hen I with his legions in Africa 'twas said lie cutand all praised1 and1 honored hun. Hestood for a mnomnent thus and then 1 wondered to himself half aloud; "Mario, is that your namie?"] " Yes, Monsieur." YOurj1 mother's nlamno?"] "Yes, Monsieur." "Was she from BasIc in Lorraie?" -" Yes, Monsieur."' The hands were reimoved from tile face now and the fair soft eyes were 'ralsedl woindrouisly, but the face of Men sieuir was hard again, eonly just in the corners of his mouth, wvhere the curves were, there was a tremblibig, a vague dreftm of something to be said, whc died with thiemi unspoken. ' hc I lie took 11cr hand, though tendedly and( as lie led her to the door lie stooped as she turned and( kissed her. Before she looked lie was gone. After that sihe wvorked hard as ever In the factory, and though she said no0th ing she thiou'ght often of the great hion. sieur, and what It could1 all mean.. The time came, though when she was takeni Ill. It came uponAher o (day in the street, when she wvould have fainted and fell but that some one caught her. Ahoe was iseinsible for a long, long tine, but In 11cr sickness she could hear 110 noise as from the court,, and when'one morning' she Awoke she was lying In a rich roon img With pictures of rich anid n1arvelous beoauty, Ovet the pillow was her fair hair, and her hand was thin and pale andI she was veyweak. Ove y th idwws h ueo it man-an old man, she thought-half hid In the heavy curtains. As he rose liowever, she was so weak that she closed her- eyes, and then half sleeping and dreaming, she coulc feel him sttuiding by the bed. Who it was she did not know and was too tired and weak to care hardly at all; but one evening, as the sunset streamed, Into the room she 'ound on the pillow beside her a picture of-a lady that she thought she had once icon. It was a fair - lady-a very fair lady-and the long hair hung in two braids down over the breast. She was alone and -looked at It curiously, and taw underneath inscribed "Marie d Lisle." "Marie de Iisle," that was her nother's name, and the poor weak hand wandered up to the pale,face, and slle volidered what'could-tit-iean' Well the days passed and she recov- a wed. It was in mid July, and she must i o. Those around the chateau said not, t )ut she could not stay. Somehow her i ieart would not let her; and so one night t vhen all were sleeping, she arose and j vandored away back to Paris. She did not go back to the factory. e FIe might find her there, and she dreaded t in now, somehow, with an Indefinite a ear of she knew not what; and so, with S >ther poor girls, she worked in the cafes, I hiero there was much talk now of the n var. There was revolutionary talk, too, it f what "the reds" woul do were thq y army away, and once in a while when she y tared ask, she made timorous inquiries s f '.'Mbnsieur the Marquis," so she called e in, and once when his name was read c loud as the leader of a desperate charge, I nd only retreated when borne back by ' oldiers, she shuddered. o This time also passed, and Paris, in ti sabots" and 'red caps," was in an up- u oar. Napoleon had surrendered, Paris 't mad fallen, and after the enemy loft the st ity was crazy, .wild, mad, and furious st vith blood and fire; but she worked on. I fYhat was it all to her, only a poor sew- a ag-girl except that bread was*hard to d ct, and at that 'very poor and clear? v But one (lay she heard there was to be a i execution. What was that? Only omething she had heard of, never seen; t nd so in the press of the crowd she hast nied to where La Commune waved its r ed flag, and where the ruined, blacken- al d walls showed where La Commune's C engeance had fallen. c There were three hostages-:-only three. )ne a young luau, a chasseur, in his rich lniformn. le was handsome all said. uis eyes were bound; he stood against lie wall. A crash, a roar, and he fell orward on his face, while his gilt uni 'orm was draggled in the (lust. The second was a priest In his black 0 ombre dress and beads; he looked up nee, and then died, as the other before; s1 id the third, he was a general they a aid, and 1Lad dejled,th.e-nannlA lifhad vas a -press l orward to see and Marie a vas pushed forward to tile foremost ank. She looked. le was a man of b ver sixty, with white hair and features lear-cut and hard and very cold even hen; lie stepped up proudly and smiled. The Red in command gave the orders, I 'one" "two"-there was a rush from h he foremost rank, a sudden cry and tt hen a girl's form was seen to be Iying 1 ia the arms of the hostage, "three, fire" ti lhouted the Red, but somehow the mus :ets didn't roar, and somehow the Sa- y otes in the crowd raised a faint cheer t vhich deepened into a roar, and a sug- b estion was heajd to put the Red in his a lace. d Paris, especially common Paris, is hi ick of feeling, and when Ihe poor girl N xplained in her tears that "the general" ti was dear, very dear to her; that he had a aved her life once wvhen she was very ti ll. Aye, more, lie was her mother's 11 >ver long ago in Lorraine; that she had ti icd while married to another man, and e -aind-that she loved him. Would il bey? She was not fair; she was not p)retty fi yen; but her pale golden hair covered I im like a halo and cloud, and Red I 'aris, erstwvhile so furious for his blood, fi aised him and her on their shoulders, c mnd a wild, furious array marched away a own the street to where La Commune e~ at with; closed portals. La Commune ti vas, however, easily got at, and when li no wild array burst in with its hostages hi 'orn alof t, it was only too happy to grant o vhat was wvanted, and when they re uirnedi, like a sea goiing out, the twvo - u vore handed close together, and lie, the o :reat genieral, the proud marquis, folded ai ter In his arms and kissed her, while thme si ears stood inm his eyes. They were very a * * * * * g Do you see that couple yonder--that o all gentleman with gray hair, ridinig t iehind thme Marshal of France? -Well, c hat Is Monsieur tihe Marquis, and the t all lady, with hair like a sunbeam, is a mis wife, e They are married! Yes; and though i lie red ashes of La Coimnune are crush- r ~d out dead forever, as they rIie on the s ioulevard many a cap Is touched that s vay, for they are always very kind to lI ?arls In "sabotes " she never forget- 1 ing, thmoughm she ?s now -Madaime the a diarchioness, that she wvas once only a i' ioor sewing-girl. , r Coppor has been uetected in tlze soil t >f a ochurehyard, and i"orhons of ex. mumed bodies. Puniedc by Death.--At the begin- ~ ung of the present century the Euglish ~ aws made one hundred and sixty crimes mmsihable by death, -Thme chief of the bureau of statistica elports that the total values of the ex >orts of domestic breadstuffs durig LTebruary amid during the two and eight a rionths ended February 28, as comp)ared t Aith tihe corresp)ondink months of 1882, vere: February, 1883, $15,773,009, 1882, p11,175,193; two months ended Febrry ' i8, $31,608,586, 1882, $23, 152,717; eight nonthms, $149,431,142, 1882, $135, 290,- 1 132'. - --T'he main builinmg fo,r the Southern E E~xposition, which loens at Louisville, < Ky., on the 1st of August, is now in a mfilcenetly advanced state of construe ulon to give sorne idea of Its proportions.; [t will be one of thme largest of tihe kind I rver bhmilt, covering an area of (677,400 square feet, being inferior only to the I mai 'buildings.at the London Expost bion f 1851 and 1862, and the~ Centen nin1 onattiah. Trapping the Turtle. " No, they ain't in pain," said at mcient skipper at the Fulton Markel look, as he rearranged a piece of scant ing under the head of a blear-eyed tur le that was lying in the sun. "It looki ,ruel to keep them turned on thoi )acks, but water is dashed over *'en ivory hour or so, and' I reckon thej tave an easy-time of it; but it is rougl o put 'em out in the sun before a res aurant, and tack a placard on the shell, To be served this day.' That says I, s takin' an undue advantage, but you an't expect feelin's in men that dealf a food; all they care for is to fill you tp. I'in down on 'em." " How so?" asked his companion. " I struck here a month ago." replied lie Skipper, "on my smack, from Key Vest. The cook and all hands went um Mystic, so I had to shift-like for nyself.:I signed papers with a restaur nt man up the street here to provide bIree square meals a day, and'one day bein' fond of turtle, I brought in a oung green that I'd kept, and request d to have it made into soup. Wall, lie next day I dropped into the market, nd there was that very turtle for sale. e see, I had my private mark on him. didn't let on, but on the way to din er I picked up an old shipmate o' line, now on the police force, and in ited him to try the soup. Wall, the raiter brought in some black stuff, and >on as I'd tasted it. 'Salt junk seasen L.' I says, 'send the boss.' Out he Ene, a-smilin' all over, but I .brought imtt up with a round turn. Says I. L'his 'ere soup's kind o' weak, I reck. n,' says I; that turtle kind o' waded trough, and he went so fast he's caught p with Fulton Market, and.' says I en dollars down or the turtle,' or, tys I, 'I go with my friend here, who,' Lys I, 'is a particular friend o' the [ayor.' Wall," said the old man with grin, "lie 'pllnked down the ten dol ollars and we walked out. It's windy hen they get the bilge on old Sam. No tlt hoss mock turtle for me." "Then you are in the turtling busi ess?" asked his companion. "Wall, sort o' half an' half," was the )ply. "We fish in the Havana trade i1 witer, and in the spring, if we :me North, fetch all the turtles .we in. There's always a market for 'em. here do we catch 'em? Wall, mostly ound Markeys (Marquisas). Tugoses 'ortugas). Then we buy a likely lot :om the Conch crawls at Key West. port? Wall, some thinks it's sport. I sed to think it sport to go crow shoot i' when I was a yonker, but when the td man sot me out in the cornfield to ioot crows all day, it didn't seem so inny. So it's with turtlin'. Ye git irfitted with it. About this month rond the Tit s ie.t i. l mn'up tO rrn smter i. y are bout six or seven in number; nothin' i 'em but sand, pasley, and bay cedar ushes. On Garden Key there's a big >rt but there's only two Keys that irtles comes ashore on, and why that's I'm blest if I kin tell. On Logger ead Key, to the westward, the logger eads come up, and I never see a green irtle there 'et, but on East Key, about ve miles o , there you git all the green irtles ye want. "Wilat's the difference? Wall, if mu had the two made into steak, you'd ill like enough. The loggerhead is igger, tougher, and uglier, and brings )out one-third what the green turtles D, the latter bein' fine formt delicate ke. The loggerhead is jest like an old ew Bedford whaler, while the green irtle is a regular clipper ship. Wall,' i to how we catch 'em. We run down >the Keys, and lay the smack off, and te in the afternoon put ashore in e dingies and make camp in the bush m. Then one hand takes a walk round ue beach clost to the water; In that ay lie si,rikes the tracks up, at onct ~llows 'em up, and so findis the nest. ggs good? Wall, its a matter o' taste. 'Ye seeni turtle eggs on the galley stove ~rty-eighit hours, and they never ianged a bits cooklin' don't affect 'em mite, and the only wvay I ever saw 'em uten, wvas wh'len they weore taken out of me turtle half formed, lookin' like yel >w grapes, and( dried in the sun until ardl, anmd eaten like cheese; they kind taste like it. "Turtles (loll't generally come ashore ntil after dark. Every twenty minutes r. so one of the hands takes a round, ad when he comes to a track easy to ue by moonlight or stars up lhe rushes, ud if thme turtle is layin' she wvon't move, and you've got to wait till she its through; but if she's. jest through r about dliggin' she'll tura and make :acks to the water in a way as is a ~ution to sinners. Tme fIrst time I ickled one she got the -.start on me, nud I ran up behind jest in time to atchi about a barrel of sand. She threw with all four flippers like a Mississip i stern-wheel steamer, fillin' my eyes I jest sot down and yelled while she lid off into time water. hBut a good and willl slip up, and with a grip jest ehind the fore flippers send a big one ver. This done, the flippers are slit rlth a knife and made fast by ropb arn, and she's ready to ship and left Ight there. If it's a big turtle the turner gives a sing out, and a couple o' ands go on the run to give him a lift. 've been one o' these men, and I aint o babby, a-tryin' to lift a big logger ead over, and couldn't. She struck uy mate over the head with her fore ippuer the fh'st time-I raised her, and e wvent down just as if he'd beeun sent or, and his jaw looked like the gang lamnk of a tread mill-all 'gormned' up. hle next lift she took hold o' my foot; nd talk about bull (logs! she nigh oni to uick me overboard, thme other men beat ii' herwith scantlins. But, Lord bless et she was a-movin' for tne water all hie time, takini' us right along, and hrowin' sand like a wind ml . At ast, in she got, and thme only satisfac. ion I got was a 'ride. 'Thei'o was a hoal piece that ran off about two huwn ired yards, and as,she hinged oft, I ~rabbed her by the back of thme neck, nd she towed me to thme edge of the hannel quicker than .[ ever went burough the water afore. "Ttrtles .ain't so stupid as people hinks. .I've- often watched them hi ometimes tliey come up in front of'the limp. Pist you hear a kind o' sigh,. dnedt asthma-like; then in the moon light you'll -see a lack head a-looklh around. Up she 'ames, a little at time, but afore sh letves the Water sl) makes sure there n't no one aroun< then goes for the beach, crawls rigi up close to the btish whore the watt never reaches and Where durin' the do it's almost red h4-. Then she picli out a-place and co QIonecs to dig wit her hind feet, until' hole about thrc feet deep is dug, 4 1nto. this the egu are dropped-soni .i es a hundre( more or less. Wl tA,"he's done, 1 covers it up, and, h d of goin' rigli back-and there yo,: e the ounnin' < the brutes-she cri 1i6nng tb edg of the bush a ,ways,a st1 tf the water, porha from where she, ? know w%lien'y ,ft ra6ks is tla ti nest ias some Where ; ;>e 'oem and green hand is like rnake a atill hni for it. "Sometimes ats I1any as a dozen at turned in a night, aid sometimes nar one. They like brigllt moonlight night though.' The next morning we git 'en into the dingy and loen rig a block an tackle and git 'em aboard the smac1 and run for Key West. Most skipper that make any business of turtlin' hay crawls on the flats on the northwes side of the Key. Crawls? Wall, crawls a place where turtles can't crawl out Nothin' but a fenced in place in four o five feet of water, and into this all th, turtles is put to be kept till called for as Capt. Kidd said when he buried thi pot o' gold. -On these crawls, or thos of the Conchs, we call when we worl up along. The turtles are taken ou and stowed on their backs and dashe( with water, and live for any time. "What are the Conchs? Wall, they'r a part of lthe population of Key West livin' in a part called Concltown an( supposed to live on conchs. lint never see one eat one, and I reckol notlin' but groupers would tackle 'em The Conchs have a curious way o: catchin' turtles with a peg. Spearin ye might call it, but the spear is a peg lookin' jest like about two inches of the end of a three-sided file. That ert is made fast to a long grouper lin< about as big as our cod line, and mad( to fit into a long pole. With this rif they scull over the reef with a dingy and when they see a turtle asleep of the bottom or lying' on top, they lei him have it. You'd think such a plu would pull out, but it don't; suctior keeps it in, and a big loggerhead wil pull a boat a couple o' miles afore the] git it alongside. Then agin, it don' hurt the critter; only sticks in the shell and can be worked right out, which barbed spear couldn't. "There's another turtle they git of the reef-the hawksbill ; they're find eatin', but the shell .i -thl -te, W n,munrmro uorbs ai11the~1ike On the South America coast they-tak the shell off by roastin', and lettin' thi critter go to grow another. )ict yi ever see a Gallapas turtle ? No. Wall there's a terrapin for you. Land tur ties four feet long and three feet high that'll tote along a man or three of 'en just like a horse. I landed on thi island in '431 and brought away a hal a dozen of 'em. The whole island i marked with their tracks leadin' fron the water up into the cones. They'ri the biggest land turtles a-livin', bul there ain't much call for 'em except foi curiosities. The biggest sea turtle to day is the Leather turtle, sometime; weighin' two thousand pounds. 1'hI back is made up of one piece, havin' n< scales like the others. They are prettl rare, bein' found only out to sea There's a big one in New London thel say. The owner gave it red eyes an stuffed it all out of shape, and showvsi every year as the great sea monster and actually don't know himself wham lie's showin'." The Gallapagos turtle mnentionled b, tile skipper is from gigantic stoch Several years ago soin wvorkmen excai vations in lower India, when they cai on to what was evidently a house ; a least suchl the natives considered it. 1 was carefully unearthled, and( turne< out to be the shell of an enormous tur tie that lived during the tertiary period It was fourteen feet long and nine fee high, and competent natura lists express ed the opinionl that whleni alive it mus have been twenlty-fiye long. It. was land tortoise, and crawledi about lki our common wood tor1toises of to-day making footprints as large as those o hin elephant. In the Westrni countr known as tile Ball Lands hundreds c fossil turtles have been found, their in teriors filled1 with solid rock, 0once th sanld or muddy lake or sea bed in wvhici they lived. Onl one of the Government expedl tions a turtle, perhaps,tthirty feet Is length, was found, -which, curiousit; enloughi, had rudimentary chlaracteri1 tics, showing it to be a.missing linik, a It were, conniecting other forms. I was a forefather of thle great leathe turtle of. to-day. Its lenigth froni flippe to flipper was over seventeen feel making it the largest turtle yet knowi Death on the Ocoan. A terrible memorial of' the recei dreadf ul loss of tIhe steamship Navarm wvas fished up a few days ago b)y smack, whlose peolIe found in thel trawl the bodIes of a man andl woma tied together, wIth thleir eyes bandagec Probably the mysterious deep neve yielded up a secret more shockingly suj gestive thtm these corpses. Whethc tihe man andl woman were a mnarie coulie, or sweeharts, or brothler and sli ten, we knowv not; but their bodies, fats ened together in death, tell a movini story of devotion, just as their bandage eyes convey a most pathetic picture c -resolultion and anguish. In the wreck < the Cimbria it will be remembered thei the survivors spoke of seeing some 4 tile emIgrants at the last momnent en ting thleir throats to shorten the I hu struggle. Most nlatratives of disaster sea contain passages of this kind, tel ing how those Who seemed of a shrhii ing and timid nature when, all, was we stood forthl most noble and peffect typ< of heroes when danger was -supreme how the swaggerer, the bully, the ty ant proved an abject cur, .casting hin self down upon the deck hi huis' terro alternately praiying and sh lekdng the agony 6f Is fear: hdw som~e, unalb to awatit theo approachi of the last mor i' out destroyed themselves while others, a with folded arms and contracted brows, LB stood motionless upon the sinking hulll 1; going to their death like men lost. in t thought. sr One of the most pathetic stories in the ,y language is the acco nt of the loss of s the Kent East Indiamtn by fire in 1825, it for the reason that a hundred particu a lars are introduced by the writer relat s lug to the behavior of the people when 1, all hope was abandoled.and death seem. 3 ed inevitable. We read of the little t children who, when the fiaibs had.mas " tered the ship, and all was uproar and ,e horror on the deck '"ontinued to 'play Ssusu aitt their bed t ,e ques tons to tosh cr 7t'tct's io young military ofilcer ronoving fion a his writing desk a lock of hair, and pllac t ing It in his bosom, that he might (lie with that sweet keepsake upon his heart; o of another *riting a few lines tq his y father, and enclosing It in a bottle, "in s the hope that it might eventually reach a its destination, with the view, as lie I started, of relieving him from the long k years of fruitless anxiety and suspense s which our ,uelanchony fate would o awaken"; of the older soldiers and sail t ors seating theiselvei over the fore 8 hatch under which was the magazine, so that they might be instantly destroy r ed when the powder caught first; of cow cow-ards drinking themselves Insensible or writhing in their terror uponthe decks; of young girls praying calmly amidi a kneeling crowd ; of brave men standing c collectedly with their eyes on the setting sun? whose light they never hoped to see I agan. It is a wonderful and thrilling picture, and how often has it been re peated since in other .ways and amid other seas! The last is not, indeed, the l worst, but it is among the worst. The Navarre is but one' of scores of ships which have gone to their doom offering, before they took the final plunge, the most dreadful of all pictures of human anguish ; but the suffering she embod ied seem to survive yet,|even in death, when we hear of those two corpses tied to gether coming to the surface, with their 3 oyes blindfolded, and when we endeavor to realize by thote devoted, silent wit. nesses from the bed of the ocean sonic thing of the terror and the resolution, the fear and the courage, the wild des pair and the passionate supplication to Heaven which made up the picture of that as of all other wrecks of a similar nature. A Wook'K Iage. 'They had gone down to the seaside for a week's change. The day was a perfect one, with now and then a capful of - wind blowing out of the little round clouds that swelled up over the horizon _ km bubible. - "Will you go niit withiiierasietl Helena. 3 Wit1 all these flaws?" he said. "Just as 'you please, then I will go alone." 'Alone! What in heaven's name could you do alone?" "I am not Grace Darling nor Ida Lewis," she said, the laugh brightening all the rich color in her cheek; "but I fancy I could pull a boat about in these smooth waters." "Life would be much more comfort able, Helena, if there were something you were afraid of in it! Well, here we go," and he gathered lp his lazy length and reaclted his hat. "If we drown it is your fault." "It doesn't nmuch matter about d rown ing," she said, swinging her hat as they wvent along the shingle, and( unaware that she spoke in other than a matter offc da~y. "If we drown together." "Are you so indlifferent to life-inl such a hurry to get through-" "Oh, no, no, neveri Bunt it is all so blest that I am half the time af raid s01me 'thing will hallpen-,' '"But the worst that could( happen)Ol is -death, and-'' " 'No, ind(eed; the worst that could happen would be that you might look at somec other woman!" and thon they both laughmed, knowing well the habit of her -jealous pangs, and rn along to the boat, - it signifying little that neither of themi knwmch of anythig about a boat, and1( thait they wore running before the Swind diretly in the track of the sea going steamners. " 'Couki anything be more p)erfect?'' '- saidl Ielena, balf recumbe)nt in tile stern, sea1 and sky making a sapp)hire and1( lalpis lazuili ring about her. '"We seenm to be - alone in this great hollow shell of the sky and11( sea. It is like our 01ld lovoer (laysi over again." 1"Only bettor," lhe answercd her, "Only better," she repeated. "We mulst come out at night, with the sea and the stars and( the freedom of the Vuniverse alone together " andl as they sailed, lhe told her historles of tihe old Scraft that had ploughed these waters 'ed to her verses of his own indliting, for rnow and then lhe turnied off a little song as perfect as a pearl. ' "That' Is the strangest thing," 8110 8sa(d, ''that you, whmo don't know wvhat music Is, should have the writing of t such verses, anid I, who am muic's a confidante, cannot write a melody." a "You are a melody," lie said. And r just at that instant there was a roar, a i, rush, a ringing of 1hells that sounded in .* their ears like gongs, willd cries, a vast, r black 11ul1 towering over them, a crash, .a sweep) of many waters, and thon noth r ingness. (1 IIalf an hour afterward a fisherman . found a broken boat afloat, bottom-sideo - up, a man enltangledl ini the rigging, his gh11ad( above water, unconscious, but dalive. Trimming h'is sail speedily, lie ftook the ltalf dlrowned man ashore. And fafter the sickness and dlelirlum of weeks, It as wretched and desolate a man as walk f ed on earth, -Leonlardl Vance took .up 1 .. his colorless life alone, as lhe said till 1 the sea gave up ibs deadl. For IIe'lna Lt was never foundl.' I scraped thme 1mo0s 1- Aiway, the other day, from a stone set upj . as a memorial without a gr'avel and i overgrown with bramnlAe roses, to read a the nanie upon it, IIelena Vance, lost at ;sea, aged 28, i- -The .Japanese Indemnity. fund r, bonds, amounting to $1,887,825, have d~ been placed in the treasury for cancel to lation, the proceeds, less the Wyoming 'prize money, to be paid to Japan. VelauUig Houase. r The advantages of oiled and shellac ed' floors, where all the cracks aie filled in with putt re as. plain in closet room as els in the house.. If you have mov a house. where' the cracks:i: floor have a s'u&pic. Ious look, well' rubbed in with concentrat e.' the first thing, in qqutitlest at wilthardon hi th'e cracks. vill u neat, if it is not co venie)i ifvb a few closets finish ed off this house lteaing with the hard and polished. surface. If you can" do this, however, ilds worth all thi trouble spare are put 'away, with velvets dtid furs hung up in their bags so that they do not crush, got all the smaller a.rticles In a trunk or chest, If you have not a cedar chest or closet, an old starched and shining table cloth will do to make a-trunk lining or shelf lining that will entirely protect. and can be sewed over at the top of the whole contents. When closets and woolens. &c., are attended to, take a day's breathing time and rest. Xeep yourself strong, and see that you do not. begin to take up carpets wash floors, and turn mattresses out o doors, except on a bright, warm day. There are people ill with pneumonia at this writing, in spite of May in the al maaiic. Let it be settled, warm, before the larger operath.ns begin. You can have pictures lifted from the walls, the glasm rubbed off with whiting and the frames rubbed with linseed oil, and all stored away in a spare room out of the dust and away from the walls on some previous day. The walls do not get as muchl attention, otherwise, as they should. Take down all curtains, shades anl laimbrequins, and wipe and beat thoroughly, getting then previously out of tie way. Then take up your carpets and clean your walls. Brush papered walls with a soft towel around the brush; scrub Painted walls in clear water, no soap, but use a little ammonia where there are dust marks. Liue water is again recommended for use on [tll unpainted floors that are not hard 1hnished, amid treat your ceilings as you to your walls, brushing, washing or white-washing, according to the finish. If you have had the forethought to pro lde an extra cover for the mattress, of blue check, this can come off and be washed at any time as the mattress is kept free from dust. If not, let it go lown into the yard and give it first a thorough dry brushing with a whisk, thi go over it again with the whisk dlampened; so as to cleanse it thorough ly. It must have a good sunning after thiis. Very few people wash their pil lowa yet there is )azdiy any article of They can be dropped intia hot soap suds and stirred about, one at a time, so that 1he gathered dust will be washed out of them, thou hang across the clothes line in a good breeze and sun, turning them freqtently to have them dry evenly.. Midical Value of vogetabies. Asparagus is a strong diutretic, anid toris part of the cure for rheumatic ratients at such health resorts as Aix es-hlainis. Sorrel is cooling, and forms lie stai)le of that soupe auxct;hcrbcs which t French lady will order for herself af er a long and tiring journey. Carrots, lS containing a (iiantity of sugar, are ivoided by some people, while others ,omplain of them as indigestible. With regard to the latter accusation, it may )o remarked, iii passing, that it is the fellow core that is dliflcult of digest ion -the o,uter, aL red layer, is tend(er muongh. In Savoy tihe peasants have recouirse to ani infusioni of carrots as a plecific for jundioice. Time large sweet uion is v'ery ichl ini those alkalinme ole nients whuich counteract tihe p,oiso,n of cheumnatic gout. [f slowly steowed in w'eak broth, and eaten with a little Nepauil pepper, it will be0 found to lbe an admirable article of (ici, for p)atienmts of studious anid sedientary habits. The stalks of the cauliflower have time same sort of value; (only too often the stalk of aL cauliflower is so ill-boiled and uimpalatale thaumt few peons51 would' thank you for propbosinug to them to imakei p~art of their meal consist, of so uninvit ing an article. Turnuils, in tho same wa re often thouighit to be ind(igesti ble, and better' suitedlfor cows and1( sheep thanu for delicate leople ; but here the fault lies with thme cook as much as withi the root. The cook boils the turnip badly, anid theni pours somie butter over It, ail thme eater of such a dish Is sure to 1)0 thme worse for it. Try a bettor way. What shallh be said( about our let tuce? The p)lant has a slight narcotic action, of which a French 0old woman, like a French doctor, will knowv theI value, and wvhen p)rop~erly cookedl it is really very easy of digestion. styles In II,r DreAssuag, lhair dlresSers are beginnuing to comn p)lain of the prevailing styles. They say that the fashion Mrs. Langtry introdunc 0(d of wearing thme hair dlrawnu back In IL small knot at tihe back of the headl and fhuffy in front has jaken awvay all the p)rof it they once dlerWedl from their. call ing. Eilaboratte coilYouirs are 1no longer tihe fashoin. Extremle simpllicity 1 l ow in vogue. Nothing shows off a well formed head or a p)retty face so wvell as this simple anud naturalI way of wearing the hair. It is parited very accurately Inl the midle and1 the knot is worn low on the nec0k, so that the full shape of thle head Is revealed. T1he bang has gone out of fashmion~ pnd In its place our the fluffs Of course, this arrangement is very trying to ugly faces. Many women passi as beauties simply on account of tucir hair, and to thlem tile preshnt'fash Ion is very obnfoxious. Thmey evade itV by having braids of twisted coils at tile back comiing up well on the head and a very fluffy fringe in front. Thie wig igkr owever, -have made money. 'i.hemajority of ladies 'do not care to eult their hair se a~s to nmdke it fluff llp in front, and very few huave han' that is availables for this style .f acedecotation. Th,eefore, thle wlgigars pr'ovid e thie frige8.with the exact s1de of the hair, and they make Jt gonatural that it is i pQssileto detect whiere nature y~d oadatbegins. TUE VERDICT THE PEOPLE. BUY THE *ST Ms. J. bo. 13oj4-Dea. Ir :'I bougtti At DavIs Maohln6 sod by over r* forr k mit .1 a Whoipea h V AIi tI ve ,IV . alrO5St Wt - Winigboro, . C. 1843 Ma. BoAo : You wish to know what I have to say In regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. I fool I can't say too much in its favor, I made about $80.00 within five months, at tim=s running it so fast that the needle would get perf[wtly hot from friction. I feel confident lcould not have done the same Work with as much ease and ho well with any other machine. No tO lost in adjut ing attachments. .Tho lightest running machino I havo ever treadled. Brother James and William's families are as much pleased wilt their Davis Mach.nos bought of you.* I want no better niachmue. As I said b ore, I don't think too much can be said for the Dav.s Machine. Respectfully, Fairfieli county, April,18E31.N B13sNsoN. Mn. BoAO : My machine gives tue perfect sa'ts - faction. I find no fault with it. The attachments are so simple. I wiaNt for no b Ater than the Davis Vertical N'eed. Itespeotfully. Mite. It. MILLINO. Fairneld county, April, 1888. MR. BOAU: I llought a Davis Vertical Feed Sowing Machine front you four years ago. I am deligh ed with it. It never has given mne any . trouble, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good as when I first bought it. I can cheerfully recommend it. tespectful'y, 'Mn:i.. M. J. KIRKLAND. Monticello, April 80, 1S8n. This is to certify that I have been using a Davis Verticial Feed Sowing Machine for over tw.)yoars purchased of Mr. J. 0. iUoag. I haven't found it p-Jasessed of any fault-all the attachments are so simple. It neverIofuses to work, and is uertainly the 1ightest runni')g in the market. I consider it a first class machtne. Very respectfully MINNIB Si. WII.LINOtIAM. Oaklan-1, Fairfledl county, S. C. MR BoAU : I am well pleased in every particular with the Davis Machine cought of you. I think it a first-class machine in every respect. You know you sold several machines of the sane make to different members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased witit them. ltespectfully, MAn. M. H. Moil.Y. Fairfilelid county, April, 1883. -rnt-,asti rtTtTyLIT -ave-lmr-'OnStatrC the Davis Machine bought of you about throe yoars ago. As we take in work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don't want any better mschine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we have to do. No puckeringor skipping stitches. Wo can only say we are well pleased and wish no better machino. l'AT11RNR WYIK AND) Stis'Kcli. April 25, 18 3. I have no fault to find with my machine, and don't want any better. I have made the price of it several times by taking in sowing. It is always ready to do Its work. I think It a first-class ma chine. I feel I can't say too much for - the Davts Vertical Feed Machine. TMhs. Tir )t NAS STin. Fairfield county, April, 1883. AIR. J. 0. ioAU--I)ear Sir: It gives me ntiolt pleasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver toal Feed Sewng Machine. The macnine I got of you about live years ago. has been almost in con sant use ever since that time. I cannot soo that it is worn any, and has not cost me one cent for repairs sinen wre have had it. Anm well pleasedi andi don't, wish for any better. Yours tru'y, R ouT. C aawF'oR , (Granite Quarry, ntear Winnsboro, 8. C. We h.tve used thu Davis Vercical Feed Sewing( Machine for the last five years. \Ve waoiid not have anty othier make at any price. The macuhine has given us unbounden satisfaction. Very respect fully, Mitt. W. K. TiURtNR An DAuonnmcas] Fairfield count y, 8. C., Jani. 2 f, 1888. hlaving bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J1. 0. Bong some three years ago, and It having g iveitn m pcrfect, satisfacttoni in every respect asa family machine, both for hoa y and light. sewing. andi never needled the least re pair in tiny way. I enn cheerfully recommetnd ii to uny one as a llrst-class mach ine it every -particu lar, aimi thintk it second to none. It is one ot the simplest tmachinies madoe; my childiren use it with alt ease. lThe attacitients are more easily ad justied and! it does a greater range of work by means of its Verlical teed thant any other ma chine I have ever seeni or used. MRS. TuoMAs Ow:Nos. Winnshnro, Fairfiei'd counity, 8. C. We have bad onte of the Davis Machitnes about four years and have always found it ready to (10 all kindls of work we have had occasion to dto. Can't see that the machine is worn any, and works as well am whent new. MRs. W. J. CRtAWFoRD, Jackson's Creek, Fairfild county, 8. C. My wife is highly pleased with toe Davis M a chine bought of you. She would not take double what mite gave for it. The machine has not been ont of order ince site had it, and she can do any kind of work on it. -Very ItCspectfull, Monlicello, Fairlleid county, 8. 0. The Davis Sewing Machine is simply a Irets-. tire Mae. J. A. GooDwvn. Itidgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1888. J, OO, Esq., Aet--Dear Sir: My wife has been timing a Dai Sewin Mahhino constant. ly for Lhe past four years, anil i has never neeuded any reairs an I works just as weli as .when first bouht She says it Will do a greates range of , practical work atd (10 it easier anti better than. any machine ahO has ever used. 'W cheerfully recommend it as a No. 1 family machine, .Yours truly, JAS. Q. DAVIR. Winusboro, S. C., Jan. 8, 1888. Mx.Ito I I have'always fonn4 m Davis Ma ohine ready to do all kinds of work I ha9e had oc- - easion to do., I ouanot; de- tht 'te 'machine is worn a paritice0 anid it worke #w0Msilen new. ~ - I 'i 0. G oDINQ. Witinaboro, 8 .0* Apr''~