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RI-W EEKLY EDITION. WUST 2 E T.- ESABLISHED 1848 THE VERDICT -OF, THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! Mn. J. 0. IIOA-Dear Sir: I bought the first Davis Macblue sold by you over five years ago for my wife who las given It ai long and fair trial. I an well pleased with it. It never gives any rouble, and is as good as when first bought. J. W4.1$O1.I1c. Winnsboro, S. C., April 1U33. Mr. BoAo: Ton wish to know what I have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. I feel I can't say too much In its favor. I made about $80,00 within five months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot from friction. I feel confident I could not have done the saine work with as muca ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machie I have ver treadled. Brothr James and Williamts' fanilies are as nuch pleased with their DaVIS Machines bought or you. I want no better mnachmne. As I said before, I don't think too mnuch can be said for the Dayis Machine. ltespet"fully, Fairleld County, Apri', 1843. MuR. HoAC : Iy machtne gives Vnc perfect sati Sfaction. I-ind no fault with It. The attachinent a so n le I wish for no better than thoe Davis Vliericly red.ntnm t Itespe,-ttully. Mhn' i. J. Miik.I.tNo. FairflId county, Apri, 1883. Mi. 1OAt: I bougtht a iav a Vertial Foed Vwin cleg Machine from youtour year ago. I a elilghted with It. It never hus given oni any rouble, ane has never been the least out of order. It is as good ts when t Igri t bought it. I can eferfully recoimeni It. ie tespeclfully, MiNIu: I. J. KitI.AND. Monticello, April 80, 1863. This 1s to certify t hat I have been usttg a erAiut Vil el-h e v u1t ewng Mache for over tw,ye trs, purchased of MAir. .. . evg. I haven't fouun.l i1 p rssessed Ir any fault-all the attahnents are so r! slwpie. It never I eIusea to work, and is certainl y ,! th r lightest running In the in.trke6. I consider it a first class inawne. Very respectfully MIINNIK Ni. WI,i.INUMAnt. a.klan 1, Fairtld couity, 8 C. li BOAO: e art we pleasve it every part e with the Davis Machine ought of you. I think a grst-clas inatiane i every respet. You kne you sofi several machines of the sane wake to dtilerenit ineenliers of our famnilies, all of whiom, ts fur as I know, are well pleased witn thein. Respectfully, Mus. M. ie. Moi.isy. Fairleld county, April, lss3. Svhie toa certidy we have ya In constant usd the Dayla Machlne bought of yon about. thbree years ago. As we take t work, and hav me ptade of price of it several iines over, we don't. wtut any yetter achine. it is always ready todl any kind of work we nlave to do. Nto pueckering or sktpptng stitches. We can only say we are well pteive.l Vti wish no better niacline, lATnICtINlE WYi.rtt AND SiaPEn. April 25, 1,p8. I have no fault to ilnd with iy nae hne, and don't want any better. I hive tlo the price of It several tlines by taking In aewelg. t is always :. ready to do its work. I thinK it a hiraw-class m a chine. I feel I ca:'t say too nucu for tEl Dv Vertical Feed Machine. burs. Tuly, Srru. Fairfield county, A pril, 1813. M n. J. 0. Boat-Deaur or: It rives mte linnh pleasure to testily ito the muerits of the Dlavis Vur t,lcal Feed Sewing Ml!nu. T'hc mna -fine I got of you about live years ag. hais been a1nost in con Wstantttue ever sd ine that V n i alnt e eIhat It Is worn anly, anad htav not cost tue0 one cent for - repairs since w he lat had it. Ai well pleased andtv doy' owiert mker t y Prtter. ''m m.ci V Yrouepe ruly, Mit. W K.'i'3itai AnT. i)UcniTWFOnD Gallcurry, ne('. arWnnb8. 21. lain havtigedtth DavIs Vert'lal Feed Sewilng Machine fromr the 0,s Elvmn metre years.Wwohnt aosmu tvn givei mitenpemnd eet s atifactiot i i evey rspet s alaetry e ciet botulrly,v aliim couny, S. ., cJan.fi 2ly m1883.nilitt 'aionerm Mra J O nsm firtlasmehm. vro ypamrum lagm, manid t hin i enc tone. fIt satsction tin everypespt ahns aclniy chilre bom.h for weavy nt eaght.'ling attneersneed more eas a'd us imted andl it dtoes a greater ranige of work by mmeassof its Veri cal teed thani any other sma chine I have ever seomn or useud. MRs. TH'iOMAs OwiNos. Winunsbar:i, tairileld cotuty, 8. C. W,e have had onme of the D)avic Maclines about four years amid nave always lound it ready to do am kimtils of wvork we hauve had occasion to ito, Can't see tilat the machine is worn anmy, and works as well as whean miew. Mus. W. J. CsAwFonD, Jackson's Creek, F"airhleid coutmmy*, ,U My wife Is highly pleased wIth time Da1vls Mint chline boumgiht of yout. Shte would not, take double what acl gave for it. 'The macthine has not boeei oimt of order since she had it, amd she can do amny kimnd of work on It. Very Itespectfulily, JIAS. I. Vauts. Montieello. F"airfield county, 8. U. Tihie Davls Sewving Macinex is simply a treas tire Miss. J. A. 000b.wYN. Itudgeway, N. U., Jan, tO, 1883. J, O oAG, Esq., Agent-Dear Sir : My wvife has b)eeni uslimg a Davis Sewing tMicine conmstanm.. iy for limo past four years, andi It has never nmeedled -any repairs an i works just as well ais whemn first bought. Shme says It will do it greater range of practical work Pod do it easier and. bet'er than any inchilno she has ever used. We cheerfully recnunemid It as a No, I family imachinme, iour tru.y, JAS. Q. DAl'is. WVinnsb >ro, 8. U., Jant. 3, 1883. Mn. ihoAGo: I have alwvays founmd my D)avls tla clhie ready (d0 aic kindus of to work 1 havo hmad oc eavion hodmlo. I c.manot see thmat tIme mtacline is Worni a particle mind it works as weul as when new. Itespectfmily, Mite. It. C'. GooonrNo. WVinnsboro, ii. C., ApilhI, 1883, Ma. BJOAG: My wife has been conlstcantly using the Davis Machine bought of teu about five year. SO. I have never regretted buying . ii, as it is always ready for any imid of fat,s'ily sewing, either heavy or light. It ia iever out of fis or necedamg liepairs. Very respecfsully, Fairfiald i3. 0. Ma, in88. A W' .in' UNBELIEF. There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod,-. He trusts in God. Whoever says, when clouds are in the sky, "Be patientf heart; light breakoth by and by,' Trusts the Most High. Whoover sees, 'noath winter's field of snow; The silent harvest of the future grow, God's power must know. Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep, Content to look each sense In slumber deep, Knows God will keep. Whoever says, "To-morow," "The Un known," "The Future," trusts that Power alono He daros disown. The heart that looks on when the eyelids close, And dares to live when life has only woes, God's comfort knows. There is no unbelief; And day by day, and night, unconsciously, The heart lives by that faith the lips deny God knoweth why I )ID s11IC DEEIEV IT? The month was May, and through my half-open window came stealing a soft wind, filled with summer warmth and sunmer fragrance. The trees in the garden were full of blossoms. The early roses were in bloom, but of all this I saw nothing. My gaze was fixed upon two figures slowly walking down the garden path a manll and a woman. The man was tall, and strong, and na.sterful, yet tender as a mother with her first-born, gentle as a girl in all the little acts and courtesies of life. The woman was young and very beautiful, with a figure slender and swaying like a reed as she walked, and dark, lustrous eyes, which brought to many a man his heart's undoing. I fancied the light in theml now, as she lifted them tu Hart Sidney's face. IIe was her guardian, and he loved her. She was but my half-sister, flive years my senior, and so I was not entitled to her confidence. She bad never told me of her love for Mr. Sidney. Indeed. only a little month ago I had returned from school, with my educa tian completed, in the fashionable sense of the term, and since then I had been very ill. Overworked, the doctor said, but I knew better. To my own soul I could whisper the humiliating truth, could pour out the cruel colfession, with a sort of savage pleasure at the self-inflicted torture. It was my heait, not the body, that suffered, the heart that had for ever passed into Hart Sidney's unconscious keeping. if I had 1qy'er suspected it before, I should have known it by the new light in her eyes, the new radiance of her beauty, as it burst upon me on the day of iuy retura. And what could be more natural than that things should be as they were? Did not guardians always love their wards, and wards their guardians? I have never read a book which trea ted of such a relationship in which such was not the sequel of the tale. And yet-and yet, did it make it t easier for me to boar? I turned my gaze away from that other picture, and lifted myself up from the depths of the great chair in which I I lay, until I could catch a glimpse of my own face in the mirror olssite. What a contrast! My eyes, the only beauty I possessed, looked many a time too large for theIu thin, dark face and my hai', was close cr'oppled to my headh. .T'hey had cut it off as I lay delirious with ifever', and crying that its weight I sank back with a groan. At that mnstant my sister, returning, entered the room. "Aline I" she cried, '"Aline, child, I am11 50 hupy!'' And1( r'apidly crossing thme 1loor she sanlk downm on her knmees beside my Th'Ie contr'ast was too great. Never had I seen her half so beauti "Dilon't tell me1 don'tl"' I hasilly ex. claimed, and lhfted up my hand 'as ifI to ward off a blow. "'I know," I con tinued. "I congmatulate you; but don't say aiiy mfore. "You know dear"?" she answered, a look of surpr'ise sweep)ing over hmei' face. "IIow is that possible?" "I)on't ask mec. Onuly, I know, I But I could say noe more. My weakness conquered my strength, and I burst into bitter weeping. "Poor child! Dear little Aline," shle whmisper'ed tendi(erly. "Do you love ine so wvell that you hate to lose me? But you will not really lose me, dear'. Whenol I aim mar1riedl- "--' "Ilush!" I interr'upted. "I won't hear anmy mucre., And sobing bitteily, I bur'ied mny face In my hands. Of .course no0 heine would have (d0n1 such ia thiing, but I was noD 1101 1 was only a foolish gir'l who had lived bult eighiteeni years, and who could only look forwvard to a long, long life of lonmely misery-for I lovedl IIar S(iney. iIe had1( not meant to miake me love him-I knew thamt, buit when I had come hionme fomr my C.hrijntmas holidays, AlIce hiad been away onm a visit, and so I had seen him every (lay. We had1( ridden5 and diveni, and1( walked togethmer, andl, as I have said, this mannmer held that unmconscious and14 linherent tend(ernless to wards tiIngs weaker than himuself whlih had(1chamfed my heart hito0 recklessly pouinig forth itsa unhleeded treasures at hIs feet. My excitement in repressing all tis, and setting tile seal upon my misery, brought Its ownm punishment. For a week my life wvas again dles paired of. Then, because I did not wilsh the blessing, strength came slowly back. At last, when I. grew better, time phy sicians said I mustB have a chan3e, ami 4 I stood with wide open riuns, waiting to close about ine. No need for me to tell the story, as I hil my face upon his breast., and felt hid kisses rain upon 'my hair. Alice, my noble, darling sister, had told it all. No need for me to ask for giveness. Already It was mine. 1)id I deserve my happinless ? Per haps not, but it was mine-mine at list, as was the great noble heart of my sister's guardian. Alice had her wish- was her only bridesmaid'; but after the ceremony was ended which made her lIarry Strettont's beloved wife, I took her place beside the altar, no longer bridesmiaid, but bride. Hencefort,h mny sister's guardian was mine. . i New Styles t1 Fans. Who that has attet4c ci tle eti-as listening to the stale gags and jokes of the painted clown, while the band blares and toots out. "My Mary Ann,'' butt hats heard the melodions voices of of the boys that sell fruit, candies and peanuts on the seats as he yells out., "Wave-coolers, only a nickel apiece the paliu-leaf fan. Buy one ?" 'ans are conmion now, yet there are many unconuinoit fans. The styles hatve greatly changed for the better since the days when the huge peacock-feat her fan andl paln-leaf were known at. every colonial settlement anI camp tleeting. Dropping into on of the largest, dry goods stores in Chicago, while the mer cutry was steadily climbing i'rou the middle of the box clear up higher tlau the price of butter, amnd the counter whore the collection of fits were spread out was thronged by fair buyers, when at lnll in business pertnitted the neat looking lady saleswomnan to talk to a reporter, she retnarked: "Yes, the hot, weather is making sales lively. ~.. began to feel discouraged wlen i 1he weather was so colul, and there were few sales except 'party lans,' or wet dingt dowis.' "There are a few new styles in fat ns, but 1 think they are niotly very Ioie' ly. A new thing is a .h:ipatese fan, only to tell you the trtIi, it is inade itt this country. It is a loug htandlhe, has a black silk center, with hideous 'anl painted '.lap' seems, iid with smiall Inmgles all around the edge. Monte or the old fans used to be ones wit.h Itand paiitted port,rait of Garlield and moirn ing trisiges. " lHere is a crape inourning fan, and here a white point lace aii down fait lor weddings. This otte is worth $15. Hlere is the highest priced fan in the store. It is tnother-of-pearl sticks and point, lace body, with pearl-dust on the laice. It is inported froni Paris. But we had one fan here for a Wab:tsh avenue lady that' was specially ordered for her frot Paris, n'id cost. $l5. It was or point lace, with antiqte designs, and was a beauty. Now here are soine nice little fans that will be all the rage among young girls for street and theater use. They are long handles, fully eighteen inches long, with an oval body of black silk, some having hitad-paitited flowers ati ferns in the center; others little birds of genuine feather. Soine iniiiiature pea cocls, others gold-plated montogramis inl tbe center, while black lace fringes en circle most of them. Now, you would think that these fans would lie very costly, but, they ain't. It is surprising how cheap these fatns are lauuflactured. It only takes about 50 or 75 cents to possess these fanls. " There are some cheap fats here in this lot, ranging from 15 cents to 25 cents. Here is one, a nice little con ceit in straw. It. is braided tiwly, and then t,urns and ols til. IIere is a'ehteapl fait, a regular Chinese inake, with odd fIgures ont the ritce paper, and little bells. llere is a fan of swani's dlown, for smune fair belle, thmat will cos1t her parenit soineth ing like $20.. It, has d iamnol d ust, strewnt over it. "IlHere are the piahn leafs that are almost given away. They conic in shiji loatds, Packed in cratles, to New York, anid are then sonit over the land. Ani 01(1 Idea at the senishlore last year was to have your sweetheart's porttait, pain ted on silk of light tinits, with 0odd coupllets at the bottom. OhI, I cotild tell you1 of many ftunny points ini fans, but. I nuist attend to these ladies,'' and the lair saleslaidy moved auway, while t.he re l)orter sw~ain out,, The I maiginanlon, of a niad nloy. "I (lon't, think you atre reforminig very much. It is wicked for a boy of' yotur size to argue about such t hings. Your folks hadl better sendl you to coli loge,'" said the grocery imant to tihe hadi boy. "' What do I want, t.o go to col lege for and1( be a heartless hazer aml1( poor base hall player? I canti bet 1boa enough home,'' said thte boy. "' Thte 1mor1 1. readl, t,he mor0e I think. Somte boys can take things as they read them and( unot think anty for themselves, but. I am a thinker fromi Thinkerville, amnt tmy imaginat,ion play3s the dickens with mte. There is nothing I read about, old t,imes but what I comipaLre it w'.it,h the mie line of busiiness of the present daty. Nowv, when I tinmk of' the ishtermeni of 'iahilee drawinug their seinies I wonder' iyhiat, they would hav'e done if t.here hiatd beeni a law.~ against hauling seines, ats there is ini WVisconsin to-day, atndl J cam see a constable with a warrant for' the a:rest, of' t,he Galilee hlshet'mnn, sniatih lng thme old ap)ost.les and taking t,bem to the p)olice stationi ini a patrol wagonm. kniow it is wrong to thdik like thtat, but, how cian 1 help1 it? Say, suppose those fishbermen'i had been ottt hautlinhg t.hei r seines, andl011 ourmiister shoutld comie atlonag with his goodh clothies on, his jointed rod, his niiekel-lhatted r'eul andio his silk fishiniie amid his ptttt ilslhhook and limt a ft'og on the hook andl cast his line neatr the Gahlcee-liermnen and go trolling for bass '? What (10 you siup pose the lone fishiernmen of t,he J3iblde times woul have thought about the gall of then jointed rod fisherman? 1)o yoit suppose they would have thr'own stones in the water where he was troll lng, or would they have told hhiun there was good trolling around a point. about a half a mIle up the shore, where t,hey knew he wotikhi't get a bite in a week ?" IowA and llinois report~ poor corni proeptot. In some IoO.dities the corn as rotting in tihe groud1,anid considerable replanting is necesary. so they sent me to the seaside, to visit in aunt who had a cottage by the sea. I was glad to go. Had I stayed at home I should have gone mad. Alice and Mr. Sidney went with me to the train. I, hid bade her good-bye, and the train was just about to start, when he put his head In through the window. "You will let me come and see you? he said. And I only had time to answer-"No, no-you must not come!" Only time for this, and to note the swift look, so like pain, which swept over his face, ere we moved away, and my last glimpse was of them both standing side by side, as they would henceforth stand through life. Not withstanding my injunction to the con trary, he came. I had been In my new home a fort-night, and some of the col or was stealing back into my cheeks, when one afternoon, as I sat alone upon the piazza, dreaming as I dreamed ill my idle hours away, a step sounded Dn the walk, and looking up I saw the face which a moment before had floated in my fancy. For an instant I was happy--supremely haPpy-and, spring ing up, I held out both hands with a rapturous cry of wlcone, then I sank back, cold and stern again. But that cry had brought him close besine me, miid my hands were so tightly held in his strong clasp, while his great brown ayes looked into the very depths of mnie, that I trembled and was still. Merciful IIeaven! what was it that I read there? Could it be that he loved mte, and that he had wooed and won Alice for her gold? I should have said before that my sister was an heiress. I had no power-not even that of beauty; but IHart Sidney, I would have sworn. was not ia man to be bought or sold, to buy or to sell. I don't know just what camle to me in that hour, that moment, but though I realized, or thought I realized, his baseness yet 1 coitld not snatch from my lips the cup whose sweetness slaked their thirst. We spoke no word of love, but every day 'ound him by my side. I was no longer listless; I was brilliant even merry. I laughed and sang as one might laugh imd sing at the feast of death. These rew days were all that were given to ie to satisfy the hunger of a long, lreary, empty life. Otice ie was about ,o speak to ine of Aliee. But I stopped lim. I would not be reminded of the hrrong I was doing her, for (lay by day tid hour by hour told me that, though the would share his life and have his ]aite, she w'ouldl never share his eart, That. was mine! Another fort light passed, and still he lingered. But us return was tixed for the morrow. Oi ,he last evening we wandered down ,1pon the beach, silvered by the moon ight. Standing in its rays, he turned md faced me, clasping his hand over nine as it lay upon his arn. "Alie," lie said, "I love you, child. roul are but a child and I am a man vhto has outstripped you in the race >f life by twenty years. But will you rive yourself to mle, dear? Ilas it been ny own blind fancy which has given iirtlh to the sweet hope that I alone night make your happiness?" Ile paused then, waiting for iy an wer. Only a minute passed, but I ha<f vakened from my dream. I had not hought his baseness ever could ind vords-had not thought my sister would mnow his perjury. 1Icr good ness to me, ier loving kindness to the child who tind been her pet and plaything always, and who thus reqIuitted it., Only a ninute; but I had ton out my leart, mdo tramtphed it. beneath my feet.. I urned upon01 the man with hot, fierce >assioni. I forgot that I had led him mn. I forgot my own business, my own ove, as I hurled my scorn at his dle enioelessness. W hat bitrn ing, scatinig vordis I utsed I know mnot, but when I iad finished lie offered me again his Lrmn, from which I haid wvititirawni my :hasp, and he wvalked back in silenice to Ite house. Yet as hte left me, st.ill vithiout a wvord, I felt, strange to say, imly my ownt guilt. lie had not b)orne timnself like one convicted of a wvrong, I.'he next week I wemnt home. Alice wvas the h'rst to mieet. me, and hat night sihe crept into my rooin aiid Encit down beside ime as she had dotne ;efore. " I)arling,'" she wvhisered, "' next, ntonth 1 am to be imarried, andl you ame o be my only bridesmaid." "1 canniot I" 1 answered, "I)on't 8sk me, Alice, it would kill mec I"' "1Do you really love me so wvell, dear? hit you will niot refuse mte this ? it vould mar all my hiappintess, Aline, and am1 5o hiappy. WVhten yout haive seeni larry -wheni you learn to kntow and11 ove him for hitmself-you wvilI better mnderstand." " larry I"' I gasped. " Who is he ?" " JIarry-Itarry Stretton ; the nmn I cm to marry. WVhy, Ahine, you told no you knew it aIll. Is it possible you 11(1 not know ?'" Anid then site told me of tIhe entgage nent which had been entered inito durii tig her (Chrmistmaus visit-an entgagementt intally ratifled amid applroved by her guiardhian whilst I was so ill. It had >eent this she had beeni about t,o tell ne-this 1 1had( refuised to hear. Oh he burniimt shame with which I listenmed t last I Antd then a wild impulse cized me to tell her all the truth. Site hiould not believe mue better thamn I was. shte should know how mean, how piti tble I had1( beeni, event though I bought. ier hate andl contemtpt, as doubtless I itd b)ought liartt Sidntey's. I (lid not pare myself as I told the story. in ilence site hteard it through anid then he sealed mty lips with the kiss of~ love ndi( pardon. All nightt I battled with nty misery andl remorse.-. Alice expected her lover the next (lay. felt I dared nt meiet htiun. In the ifterinooni she canto Into miy troom. "Somne 0one wishes to~ see you in the Ibrary, (lear," she said. " WVIIl you go lown ?"' SIhe spoke so quietly that I suspected tothting, anid asking nto qutestions, wett town stairs, and crossed the hail to the 'om designated. I thought It empty or a moment a.s I closed the door be uind me. but at the sound seine one tepped from the window recess-some ne who advanced one step and then Actors' lomes. A., a rile, only the small fry actors are left lounging aroind the lamp-posts and bill boards of Union Square. The better people--porhaps no better than those who remain, but the people who earnt the better salaries at ai' rate have found rest and recreation in many shady nooks around about the country side. It is only necessary to visit sonie of these actors' retreats to realize how trite is the notion that actors are all i3oleinilans, living from hand to mouth without visible imeans of support. Why along the New Jeisoy coast. froin Sandy hook to Ocean Grove there are two dozen actors' hoines as o9 aconmfortable as anym nant in es would wish a e_ r6*v e H4| ldidas of Nave sink-,,1ebk1Ijg fuipo 'thei b6dnde waters, three Or four T - thei I have es taDltshe(l their lares and penates. Joseph Wheelock was the pioneer here. lie has a ' lain little cottage, but, in deflitely e,infortable and cosy. 13Lt within a stone's throw there is the itore p retentious and inore inodern homie of the Welsters--,luhn of that ilk and Nellie Mcileiry his wile, the cleverest of soubrettes-antm beside this again is the still larger place of W. I. llalydnc, nlanager of Toitn Keene. 'I'lte house, which will be a large one, is not. yet iiiislied, and will cost altogether some $21,000. Tle view that is to be obta.inued froti the front stoop of these threo houses is not to be surpassed in all A nerica. Ilalf a inile inlaind is the beautiful houso Neil Butrgess is buil(ling. Pour or live imiles over the roast there is the Queen A ie band-hox of Oliver l)oltl lyronl. It runs fron the road right' down to the spacious beach, anud Itron is never tiredl of putting add...onal bits to this house, ant by the way, though seltioin spoken of because lit ruus to a low order of art, Byron is une of the wealthiy actors. Ile lias tbrec or four lots oil Aoninouth u.etchi, and half a dozen houses in Brooklyn. All this has beeni obtained at. t he price of great frugality; but, at hiine iByront is "oie of the boys." 1)1iving down Oceau' avelnie a little way fturt.her on there is a tract. I land froiting on the sea, belonging to little Maggie Mitchell. it is worth $7r,1000. Beyond the United States, one of, the handtsoinest cottages seen ol the great, drive is Theodtore Aloss's. But he has rented it of late years and lives near Red Baiink, on the threvs,ury, with his lanily. Frank Mtaeder's anl Nate Mals bury's little places are on l'Ieasure Ba), Beyond the West E.ndl Hotel there is the fatted Actors' Row, beginning with .ohn I1oey's intgnilicent place. Further on there is Mary Aniersnu's prett,y estate, which she aiupuired fruom ALatt Cainiig, the mianager. It is about eight acres ink extentantlid increas iug in vattlue every year. Next door, S81 to alpealk, is John W. Al1augh's place. It is coniifortable andl pleasant., but one of the sitallest, of all of thein. Alhost, opposite is the house and ex tenlsivu grounds belonging to Mr. Villian llendcrson, late the nialager of the Standard Theatre, aiid the geni tlenuan who thinks that, by process of law, he can prevent Lillian Itiussi,ll froit singing inl l,aundon. Alri. Ilen derson is t,e wife of AI r. I Iiitlderson. butt Ett.ie Ilende'rsonl is nuores. Slhe has written at least one successful play, andL soilo years back wat: a Starh a ctress of reutlwnl. Site has a ehallr1i ing daughter. Furltier uip the road there is the (hafn'ratit, ainong iltIn allI the nist Ioiielnike an(I beatiUI'tl. Tie old hih)uie stretches over i godl are o gi oniidt. I"roin the low porch we etr t.he p)laLin suite of roonis, in the priinci pal1 of whliichi ani aiile sideboa,rd is full of hospitable rellet.ionis. No kini dher hosht, no inore buautiful hiostess than rieI this (chainliing hiomte. A side r'oad( runnin bg towanit iElberun leadls to Alaggie Mlitchells hotiie. .N ature,t tto, has beautifully etidowed the plaice with its old and1( rare trees, its beatuttiful shtrulbbery and its geniitrah .Old Womrlt air. I.0 ftrntis one osf the iinost, pleats anlt, to visit, of all1 these aLctors' honties. D)iagonlhly oppo.site here is the )hld Watlhitck estate, where t.he prince of all t,he Wallacka, .Jamesc W., liad his httunt. Ilere lhe died. liere Alr. Willianut WlIlack( passedi aLway soic twou yearis sintce, atitt t.he estate went to Ish iss IFannity I 'rest.yr, at distanit, relat,ive of1 Mir. WaLhIIIk. Its last, iioted tenant, was Mir. .Johnit Itissell 'Yoiung, jutst, before lhe was aphpoinitedl AIlister to CJhina. Lookinig tiown the coalst, andi tleavinig Actors' 1tow~~ behiniid we lh l no lu riter bionues of thleini t.ill we conio to OJceani GArove, bit t.hen we aIre wellI reswantedsu. lIIere L ew is MAlorrisoni has 1bu1ilt himi a house that, is as5 pret,ty as5 anythig along thus whitle cost,t. lier' his wif'e ItOi, W, tAud, passes~ ani l abnot, ideal i but,weent her t,wo chianinig dauighiteis, fron whoin Albel-ltose villa derives I itlitune. Th'Iis is the niew~est, ofl the aLctorts' htomecs atlontg thtis coast, but severaLl inore aie go,ing tip this comning yeaIr. t, maity be w~ort.l hm ilIt to dhevog e a fe5w paIges by anid by to t,er actors' hiomes in ther' places, for t,h is list dhoes ntot ichtide one-tiuart er of thetn. I buiinig ai recenut visit, to a farmier re 5idl ing ini ihe nieighbhorhiood of Aliiineapto his, we bieamie imore i mipressedi than esver'1. that, eveirgreen's atkI niture to t,he beauIi fuil appehtaranie of aL f4am homie t.lui dcciuous Irees. Th'ley are nt onily ttannetal, but tbey are uisefuil as win d -breaks. Tihie piclturiesquin appleatr antces of evergreenis whlen tastefully set, out. aroumd the buibulinigs auth in ther lawts, cau tses an enjo'yiinenit to everyone whot visits tIhe neighiborhoodl, and what, is iinterestiing to those who set, t hem oitt on their puremnises is that,, besides the besauty thtey unpallrt, they aLre ler feet,ly handy. Th'Ie Norway spruce, Scotch, A ustrian, 'white and1( nat.ive puine, red and wvhite cedIar at-e in most giotuds as har'dy as the oak. We Ihnd these and ot.hiet' varnieties of esvergr'een~s in t.hi hands of all our nurseryimn, so it is in the lprovince of all to purchiase themi at a smatll expense. TEPFI milk and water oigang oil cloth - ithout ,soa I - e'Ctase the Cirott." A telegraph operator in Uhicago recentlj said about the stran(est thing I reienbel was when I was working nights at a littlh station on the Chicago, Burlington anc Qilucy R >ad. The wire was pretty busy, for it was a had, sleety night, and th< trains all got off their time and had to gel orders from the train dispatcher at alnosi every station. At about one o'clock in ti< morning the line was opened-that is, thi circuit was broken-for a little while, and then I heard the word ''Help" cone ovet tle line several tunes. The dispatcher be. came very angry and when the line closed an ins,ant he would make a figure 8, which means for everybodly to close th< circuit and keep off the lne. That wori 'help' cane a dozen times or so, and then he w)4 left open. Bornohow I wat aw 11y.frlghtet4d. , .1 .Jould*feel chilli rui nlg down my -back, ahd. felt' as II there was sometling standing right behind inc. We all had to switch our iustru nents to another wire and finish up the work that needed to be done at once. 'hen we set about locating the break by means of our ground wires. While thi was going on I became very nervous and was sure something terrible had happened; and that samie feeling that sonething wai behind inc grew until I was almost airahd to look. Then the door right behind me opened, and the (lay operator stood a mo unent and said *11L11)' in a st.range, weird kint of voice, and went away with not another word, closing the door as he went. I was so fright.ened I did mot lollow at once, but when I went out I"rank-Frank Jel'rsl n1 was hiis naie-was nowhere to be seen. I felt strange, tin,l of bewil dered, as if it was half dratn inI half real. When I went back mo the all1.:e the tis pat.cher hatt lecatedt the break between iny oiH :e and the next one east, about six niles away. in those days the operators were all supplied wit,h eliil ,rs, and letl to go out anud repair hues under sui cir cnmtanlces, but 1 wiuildn't have gone out over the hoe tlist night, for the whole rail roatt I was ordered to go east until I met the operator who would go out, from the nexn station, but I clidu't do it. I said I wouli, and then . I lay down on my Iounwe and waited for something to tun u1' tutid I knew it woihl Ie aoie tiing turrible. I thought of Frank's strange way ol coiting to thits ior ant saying "IlIelp iIn so agonizing a tone, antit then going aw'y and noteining back, anti i caine to the cuueition there hail heen a sinash -up anui lrnik huad run off to it. Bit if I had known 1 ou!ht, to ,o I couhin't have done it, ftor I was as weak as a cal. in ab. ut half an hour the line was cI'sedi, andu in auot.her h'lf hour a mas saigi was received fromi the next station syting tihe reak was at a bridge between oti stations, and that 1''rank Jefierson lay there with hLit legs (tit oil, dead, and with one enit of the broken wire in his hanti. We afterw'nt leanwued Ihat Frank h.itI been over to the next. town to a iiaince, and was 4!.lmin14 honie ()n at freight whom he fell oil unoeel oat the bridge and was run over. ' w'hn, it.h his t'e \mining life, lie eriwlei to the edge of the brige, wi'ere the telegraph wire was strung, and breakingl the wire telegraphied the word 'llelp,' .hat we heard by touching the einds to.et.her. If you c*m tell how it was I saw i"rank in the dloorway at the time he lay 1here tiead, 1" dytyt1g, you ein dIo more t.han I hope ever to t. Aty way, 1 shall always th,ink lie died at. just. the ininite i saw liin in the doorway; alnit, nioreover, I shall always think thi're is somet.hing true behind sone of the ghost stories. Long Lim il thu Stiiit+w. A studenit of the relorts of the teth ecntIas his cotli(iled at tailhe t'or the pmIr ja.oae ta'fli hw inig ini what Stalt e oi Stat en oine hams theat best, ubanace tor a lonig life. Niew liainphatira' e.'ins to hiajn to be the famvtorite retfuge of grteen old( age, ri lie linitls thfat. onme-sevenit y-fo'urith ofat thie im habitinits arme ami. Ieasnt 80 years obil. TIhet proporlt.mioni ainitong imtt.ivye wihit" iia lte is 1 to 80I, huil. tIhe enivirinenit, ini New l 4ianlhirie neis ta hmave baeeii even mtoie t'av iorable toa pra~ei'rvation of a lfe ini the oilier sex, foir the proorait ioni amoiig tiative white tfeanales is I ta 5>8. their Neow Enaglandmi Stat en doa not, coan taini (jlite Sto inaniy 01(1 pers5ons, thte average proporlmtit)i for' the six being 1 ini i3l. Cioinig to New Yoirk lie hinds t-hat t'or' one parson wiho has reacheit.d t.he age tat 80) there are 161 who have inot. beenm Xo fotaiuniate, amnd in the three M iddt te Sl ates l te average paroporat ioni is I ini 182. As het gosn ouithiwardt lit isciovers a. gr'eater' paiiondeiraince of yoiang bloodei. tor ian nix South At,antic State the aiverage propt,ii onii is I ini 21)3. Th'le G tail' St at es afford a less at. tn'iet.ive shlteir foru tihe aigetd, f'or t.he averaige i.s I ini 300. lIn '.'exasi, wYherte it inanyii wVorthy personis tdi( wvith thmeir boots oin ini hae prlimie tof life, oinly one octotgeiiarin cnbe founad ini a gromup of. 497 eitizenis, Th'ie average r'ises agin ini thme initer(or .StaLU i.est of. t.hx Atlinsissippli, but in: the great, hake States it, falls to one in 263, a goodi ti age beiing attainied with the gretiest dillicuilt,y ini (l.h wealt,by amid priosperousii Stalte of Illtinotis. Iin seven States west, of the Mississippi R{iver thme agedi rarely appear, for,i thae aveaage proport)itioni is oine ini 4t5. Ln Iowai a eirop of 334 personas yields onaly tote who hams reachmed thme age of four-. seore. lit Minnaesota, Nebraskca and( Kainsas onmly onte of these aiged citizens~ canm lie fonid in a gr'oup thmat, wombt yield t,wo in Iowa, andh ini Colotado1 150 inhlabitanits amst, pass ini revlivw before ani tat.agenaariani comaes ina sight. Thel oli amre evenI amor)e r'are ini Nevada, but ini (ahfornaia and1( Oaegoni the priopiortion, is narlly one1 in 500. I f theo inhmabitanits of t.he wvihoecouintriy could be assemiibled ini 227 grouups it would be0 possible t. place at, tIme head1 of' each gr'oupj onie patiarch of' 80 or mmor'e years. So on1 studenait, aasuminmg tamt tontg life is tht inalienaible right oh' thoie who r'eside in; .New IIalashireo, Vermnonit anid Mainae, ciles :"lee to the mnounitains oh .New~ Enighand for health and longevity I" hInt these figures, although they ay have been carefully compiled, areo mis leading. If the bounmdarles of' our1 States were walls so high and so thihck that no oneo could get over thom, and if these walls had secture ly shut in the inhabitants for eighty oi ninety years while they were coming Into the world growing and dying ar enumeration o1 each segregated d3att group- with a. nintamant:onf aeh narnan age, might Prove that in one State old men and women could be more easily grown than in another, and might re veal the best soil for such mature crops. Boundaries are not walls. Emigration is a mighty factor in this problem. Young men and women have been go ing out of Now England into other States, and especially into the West. Old nen and women have returned to New England to pass their last days whore they were born, by the side of other old men and women who have passed all their lives there. And so we find that the young are comparatively few while the old are many in the States of New England. The figures which relate to other Eastern States should be accom pauied by e exp ipation, and. by othe ' aiu nr 'to..ever' thtotight pers .' .' -., --r - , .. z ;l"', , ' And hy should we expect to find aged men in Colorado or in the other States which were almost tininhabited a few years ago? There has not been time for them to grow there atl very few of them have gone there trotn other parts of the Couit,.v. The same state 1ent can be tade concerning other States, but with le.ss and less force as we approach the Atlantic coast from the west. The subject. grows as we ex anine it, itnaiy explanations-the in 1huence of foreign imigration, the vary ing attractions of otte's native soil, inortality in the late war, a thousaiit and one causes for mIovenients of the young and niiddle-aged-crwdcl the uinid. Figures, it is said, do not lie, but sonmetimes they deceive those who hltdlh theiln with t1he best tntentiins. Long life cai be more easily attained it, is true, il sonie places than it can Ie in others, but tlie ligures quiloted above throw but little, if any, light upon the subject of the iuluiry. (iarrI$onl L,tie. In the great war forts of otur country Reveille roll-call is sounded at. sunrise. 'Theni all the enlisted men of the garri son forin inl front, of their respective Cenpianliy quarters or barrack-buildings and answer to their nanies, which are called by the First Sergeant.. The First Sergeant. reports the result of the roll call to his cotipaiy ollieer, who in turn reports it to the ltllcer-of-the-Day, wvho standing in the centre of the parade grotid, receives the reports, which he in tiurn hands over to the commanding ollicer later on, during ollle hours. )irectly after reveille the men have stables and then breakfast. 6 A. M. goes sick call, when the lame, the halt and the blind not already in the hospital, and who are in need of tuedical attendance, report to the sur geon inl charge and have their several ills att,ended to. At 7 o'clock A. By. fatigue call Is sounded, and the differentL working part ies are assigned to their several ditties, and at 8 o'clock is heard the Iirst call for guard mount. This is a beautiful cereioiy, and in reality iatguartes the new military day, as an entire chaige of the guard details, is tuade, the new Imenl marching on duty and reieving the old guard of ita twent y-four iouirs of watching. After ihe iount there is a drill for two hours. A ll the ollieers and all the uien who are not on duty' at, this timie altend the d till. 'I' private soldliersare instruct Of iii the inanual of aris, tactical nioveients and the general use of the service rille. Recall from all dnty is aitotuiced ott the bugle at 11 o'clock, aned the 1ien rest ihenselves until i o'clock, wliei fat., , call is again heard and o wrk roe -ed. iecall is giv'.en at. -I o 'clock, ii. supper soon af ter. Precisely at t undo)wn1 i eard the first, call for retreat and ten minutes later the asselnbly. Th'le mntn again fall ini ranks to anisw.t-r to their nanies, and ani untdtess parade is gone through witt. Soittetiunos thtis is variedl be dtress parade, whvlichi is one of the fiest. ceretinonies kntownt to thme military icr vicze. TIattoo is beaten at 9 o'cleck t'. .1., whleni all iniust, lbe present, once inote to antswer to their nantes, anid fifteen iiuttes later ithe sound( of' the lahs is heard, all lightts are extingutish ed atnd sleep becoinies the business of the hourt. 'lThis endus thte rezitino of rIt,y for the enlisted miie. For)i the tIllier, the&ir t,iine is as coii liuotusly o(citcuie, but, iii a diiferet way. At least one ollicer' of each cotin huaty inutst, lie prtesent at every roll-call --reveille, ret-reat and tat,too, atnd otto iist go ott ditty with thme new guard every inorintg ats tificer of thle day. All attenid drill who are tnot engaged ini ot.her dluty, w.~itht the excetion of the Contautandulig (O)licer, Adljutant,, Qumart eriniaster andiu I astructor of Mlusketry. For t,wo hours tbey Hsuperintecnd with great, care the instruction of the mtemn inistilhinug into the solilier a proper sense of his dtuty . l'Tere atre general atnd garrison courtS-itnart,ial, Boards or' Surt voy, aind other inninerable duities which detizantd t,izim and attenttioni itttil the retreat,gitni is heard. ILt is a mtistake to Suppose5 t,bat. ohlicers of' the arnmy stationme(t ont the fr'ontie sI penmd the matmjom; port,ion of' their t,ittue in gamnblinig, drmikmg aul cardi-platyinig. AMany i'hasteirt lpaper's have advanceed this idea, bitt it is nt,trite that, time hmangs hmeavy on t,heir hanzds fromz anty wanit of dut,y t.o perform. Those ollicer:s of the army who have lat,ely broutght dhiscredit upont t,he ser'vice are not examples by w.hich the entire lute antd stall are to be judged; they ate exceptions to the rule. No civilian in the United States can feel the poinited disgrace as keenly as the ofllcer's do theumseves ; and that they are ntot part,iial in their jud(gment,, but adminitster justice wivth conscieni t,ious flieflt,y, wit.ness tIme result of the coturit-mtatiat in cx- i'aymaster Wassomn's case. Wit,h one or two exceptions, every army oflicer itt the Untited States service woul stfer ain)ost any degree of pun ishnment rather tihan bring dishmonor uip on thme straps he wears. To PIREVENT the hair falig oli'horses' mamnes and to restore tue growth rub the skin or the part with the following mixture, vii. One pmnt of alcohol and one dram of tinotare of oanltharide. Give the horse a dose of salts (twelve ounces) and feed some wheat bran, which will allay the irritationi of the skn to wi iQlh the loss of htin dt