Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORIO. S. C.. AUGUST 25. 1883. ESTABlISHED 1848 There is a medium on Cherry street, Philadelphia, who does a thriv ing business. Private carriages fre quently drive up to her door. and fash ionably dressed ladies alight and enter the mysterious presence of the Cherry street medium. Her price is two dol lars, and she will not admit gentlemen. The majority of these swindlers who prey upon the superstitious and illiter ate classes charge fifty cents and a dol lar a sitting. A sitting lasts from five minutes to an hour; the length of the seance is generally regulated by the size of the fee. The smaller fry of fortune tellers are patronized by factory girls and servants, who, like the rest of hu manity, have felt the prick of Cupid's dart. These girls, from the time they begin to keep company, fr quent these mediums and spend their hard-earned money in trying to ascertain whether their sweeth-iarts are good and true. In order to bring the girls back again their feelings are played upon and all kinds of wildcat stories are invented to entice them to return. Frequently these witch-hags cause young people of little or no education to sever their bonds of love, and thus many a young girl is made miserable through the medium's mercenary machinations. A reporter had an extensive experience xisiting mediums in different parts of the city. "Is it a case of lost love or business reverses?" asked a medium on Noble Atreet of the reporter, "Lost love," said the reporter, assuming an I-have nothing-to-live for air. "Ah," sighed the elderly female in a dowdy wrapper; "one dollar, please. My terms are strictly in advance, and I don't take trade dollars under any circumstances." The reporter handed out a one-dollar bill, and with a greasy pack of playing cards in a dark, dingy little parlor, the fortune-teller began to tell the reporter of his destiny. "You are in love with a young girl; she has dark brown hair and gray eyes; she toils for her bread from morn to eve; so do you; you stitch shoes or some tling of that soit. I see," she went on, "there will be trouble between you; un pleasant letters will pass between you; she isn't true to you; she likes you, but she doesn't love you; she layers a young married man, with dark eyes and black hair; beware of him; you have known her for two years or more; in less than nine days, or weeks or mouths will pass you, you will break oil with her. "Out the cards as near the centre as you can," went on the medium in a wheezy voice. The reporter obeyed her bidding, and feigning that he was suntering with a bleeding heart, he asked; "Will no other girl care for me?" "Oh,'. said the fortune-teller, "i see a young girl with a dark complexion. hhe is madly in love with you. She has only seen you twice, but she will see you in less than nine days. You will marry her inside of two years. She is very handsome and has great wealth." The reporter's face brightened at this prospect of liberation from comparative poverty. The cards tell me." continued the medium, "that you won't lead a happy life for two years." This phase of the prospect caused the reporter to shudder. "You are wor ried," said the would-be prophetess, "do not try to hide it from me; but you will 1ju happy in the end." With these consoling words the reporter started to go. Just then the door bell rang, and two young girls, cheaply but flashily dressed, were ushered into the back room. "Come again in two days and tell me what has happened, and I can tell you more about your future," said the me dium. When the reporter reached the street lie crossed over to the opposite side and asked a man sitting on ai doorstep, "Do many persons visit that medium?" '-Yes, strings of them," said the man on the step. "They are mostly young girls, ' he continued, "begin to come about dark You see they don't want to be seen going in daylight." The reporter referred to his note book and found that a real trance maaium held forth on 3d street In the neighbor hood of Girard avenue, and thiirsting for more of the wonderful revelation lie rang the door bell, There was a l'ght in the front room, but the moment the bell rang the light went out, and a middle-aged woman, wearing scraggy bangs and a dowdy gown which was a cross between a wrapper an<d a linen duster, opened the door far enough to imoke her nose out and ask what was wanted. "I am In trouble," said the reporter. "Ah, you mean business, do you?" queried the trance artist in a pleasing voice. "I do not know whether y ou call it business or something else," saitt re porter; "I'm in love," he continued, as the gilty blush of falsehood rushed to his f ace. "My terms for 'gents' is two dollars, ten minutes for a trance and twenty minutes for revelations," said the woman in the dowdy gown. The reporter was ushered into a neatly-furnished room. It was dark, and an incense of (dried herbs pervaded the room. The trance medium neatly tucked the two dollars away in her pocket with a business-like air, and seating herself in a low rocking chair before the reporter, began twitch ing her hands nervously and rubbing them over her forehead. She feigned sleep at once. All was still save the barking of a dog ini the i.treet and the heavy breathing of the woman, who thought she had caught a genuine flat. 'i'he miiddle-aged temala sat with her eyes tightly closed and her hands prlessed upon the forehead. While une sat in this attitude the reporter watched her closely, and mentally estimated her as an old fraud. In somethiag like ten minutes she rubbed her eyes, ginaned, and awakened with a start, and as she rubbed her eyes she said, in startled tones, -'Where I am?" The reporter told her she was some whereon 3d street. * Oh I" she exclaimed, "I remeniber all now, I have been in a trance, ohi what a heavenly dIream I had about you. You are deepl.y in love with a lovely blonde, She worships you. Y',u (10 not know her, but she knows y ou and before the harvest moon dies you two will be engaged,"~ The repoiter was $hrQwnI intQ A #tAt 91 blissfu1 sostaoy by this revelation, "When you get ao quainted with her do not let her see how madly you love her. Do not reveal your infatuation for her until she is thoroughly bound up in you, then break the truth to her by degrees, and you will be very happy. You are going to change your business before nine days or weeks pass you, and you will make money rapidly." Again the reporter smiled with ecstatic joy. "The blonde young lady is highly accomplished," continued the trance artiste, "and you will be very proud of her." There was an awkward silence, which was broken by the reporter, who asked: "1 there any more?" "No; that is ali; isn't that enough for two dollars?" The reporter coneluded it was and left. At a place on North 8th street an other self-style:t business medium told the reporter lie would always remain a bachelor on account of his jealous dis position. "Fifty cents, please," she said as she put up the caras, "'nd for a quarter extra I will give you a box of wizard powder, Scatter it about the house and it will keep death and disease from your door. Burn some of it in the fire and you will have good luck come to you." In a place on 3pring Garden street, not far from the Iteading depot, four young girls barely fifteen were waiting to have their fortunes told, while a fifth was being apprised of the past, present and future. The reporter hastily withdrew. .'Unuso the Circuit." A telegraph operator in Chicago recently said about the straniest thing 1 remembe~r was when I was working nights at a little station on the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney Road. The wire was pretty busy, for it was a bad, sleety night, and the trains all got off their time and had to get orders from the train dispatcher at almost every station. At about one o'clock in the morming the line was opened-that is, the circuit was broken-for a little while, and then I heard the word "ltelp" come over the line several timies. 'The dispatcher be came very angry and when the line elesed an insiant he would make a figure 8, which means for everybody to close the circuit and ikeep off the lie. That word 'help' caine a dozen tunes or so, and then the line was lett open. Somehow I was awfully frightened. I could feel chills running down my back, and felt as If there was something standing right behind me. We all had to switch our inatru ments to another wire and finish up the work that needed to be done at once. 'l'hen we set about locating the break by means of our ground wires. While this was going on I became very nervous and wits sure soinething terrible had happened; and that same feeling that something was behind me grew until I was almost afraid to look. ''hen the door righJ chnd me opened, and the day operator Blood a mo ment and said 'Help' in a strange, weird kind of voice, and went away with not another word, closing the door as he went. I was so frightened I did not hollow at once, but when I went out Frank-Frank Jefferson was his name-was nowhere to be seen. I felt strange, kind of bewil dered, as if it was half dream and half real. When I went back in the office the die patcher had located the break between my < ice and the next one east, about six miies away. In those days the operators were all supplied with climbers, and had to go out and repair lines under such cir cunistances, but 1 wouldn't have gone out over the lite that night for the whole rail road I was ordered to go east until I met the operator who would go out from the next statien, but I didn't do it. 1 said I would, and thtn I lay down on my lounge and waited for something to turn up; andi I knew it woul be some thing terrible. I thought of Frank's strange way of coiming to the oor and saying "lielp" in so agonizing a tone, andi then going away and niot.cominag back, and i came to the conclusion there had been a smash-up and Frank had run off to it. But, if I had known I ought to ao I couldn't, have done it, for 1 was as wecak as a cat. In ab)out half an hour the line was closed, and ii another half hour a imas sage was receivedi from the next stat,ion sayinug the creak was at a bridge between our stations, anitthaut Finank Jeiferson lay there with both legs cut off, dead, andit with one end of the broken wire in his handi. We alterwardl learnedo that Frank had been over to the next town to a dance', and was coming home on a freight, wheni lie fell off unseen on the brige andi was run over, Then, with his litt,le ramalning life, lie crawled to the edge of the bridge, whiere tne telegraph wire was strung, andl breakinig the wire telegraphed the word 'llelp,' that we hieardl by touching the ends together, If you c'im tell how it was I saw Frtunk In the door way at the time lie lay there dead, or dhying, you can do more than I hope ever to o. Any way, 1 shall always think he died at just the miiniite I saw him in the doorway; atod, moureover, I shall always thmnk there is something triue behind somne of the ghost stories. singular Fancies. Chief Justice Waite will wear his summer sombrero at his home in Oio. Gen. Grant is exceedingly fond of corned beef and cabbage. Paul dui Ciaillu is so thoroughly tanned that he looks like a bronze bnst of himself. Ghen. Crook wears lia hair short. Judge Ritchile of Maryland has 16 beautiful and accomplished daughters, only one of whom is married. He keeps several shiot guns and a dlozein savage dogs, bedides having his front stoop painted early every evening. Gov. Cleveland is so bashful that lie can't pass a pretty girl without blush. ing. Ex-Gov. Plaisted of Maine has retired fromn the newspaper business. Perhaps the price of paste is too high, Signor Coccapieller of R>me is so broken up because a wretched composi tor set up his name as "Stinger Cater p lIar," that he can just manage to crawl around, Congressman Lanyb of Indiana feels so very much cut tip ever the assault of 3anit C. Davis that he declines to eat green pcas, Alderman Rtoe, the newly elected member of Parliament, is fond of shad, but doesn't like bass, Some of tnese Englishmen are queer fish, but admire ha Prtinsa of Wala, A Big Ilast. For three months past preparations have been making for a great powder blast in the granite quarries at Syenite, about a hundred miles lown the Mount am railroad and immediately south of the St. Francis river, Missouri. The blast took place when 4,000 pounds of powder were discharged and over 50,000 tons of rock, by actual measurement, were lift ed and turned over in masses conveni ent for cutting into pavement blocks, and some 20,000 or 30,000 tons more moved so as to make future quarry ing operations comparatively easy. '1'he place where the enormous blast took place, the greatest that has ever occured in any quarry in the United States, was on the face of a granite hill fronting to the north. At or near the foot of this hill a cutting some twenty-two feet deep had been made for quarrying in the usual way, but after this depth had been reached the rock was found so tightly bound that an ordinary quar ry blast had no effect on it, the force of the discharge coming directly out of the drill holes. Under these circumstan ces it wasdecided to run a tumiel from the bottom of the cut southwards through the hill. ''his was done and an entrance made 8(t feet into the body of rock. When this had been done it was found that the tunnel, which had start ed from the bottom of the cut 22 feet below the surface, was 47 feet below, the rise of the hill accounting for the difference. Then at the extremity of the tunnel a chamber eight feet in length was bored to the west, and about midway of the tunel another chamber of the sane length was bored to the east. In each of these chambers 40 kegs, or 1,000 pounds, of powder were placed, and then rough masonry was built up> in front of each chamber and down the length of the tunnel to about. twenty feet north of the middle chamber, insu lated wires being carried from each charge to the mouth of the tunnel, and thence about 1,000 feet over the crest of the hill to tihe electric bat teries The difficulty of the operation was largely enhanced by the heavy rains that have rt;cently fallen, in fact had it not been for the rains which continually keep flooding both tunnel and chambers, the blast would have taken place three weeks ago. On Wednesday night Mr. W. R. Allen, president of the granite company, was notified that the water had been pumped out. and the mines charged, and that if nothing untorseen occurred all would be in readiness to fire the shot on Thursday afternoon. lIe consequently went down by the morn ing trai and superintended the final operations. 'TPhe people in the neighborhood were considerably excited. There are about 1,000 inhabitants of the village of Syenite, and they were exercised about the safety of themselves and their houses. Most of them took the window-sashes out of their dwellings and carefully stowed them away iii cotton or wool to prevent the blast smashing the glass, and some took the precaution of getting behind a hill about three miles away. It had been agreed that half an hour before tiu tiiie for expiuding he charges the steam-whistle of the works should be blown, and when the shrill blast was heard about 3.30 in the afternoon it was amusing to see the people scampering off over the hills to places of safety. The blasting party, headed by Mr. Allen were the last to leave the cut. They picked their way quickly up the face of the hill, below which the volcanic charges lay, and finally reached the batteries. On their way from the point of (langer care was taken to look out and warn any stragglers that might have been found, but all seemed to have beeni so well informed on the subject that iothling in the semblance of hui mnanity could be seen outside of their ownI party. Having been thmoroughmly 'satisfied about the safety of others, Mr. Allen quietly took thme cigar from his lps and said, "Shoot her off." The battery operator turned tile key, while anxiety was despicted onm every face. Tihe dead silence that ensued seemed awfully long, and the first implressioni wvas thlat the whole thing w.as a failure, and( several minds were wondering who would be the first to have the haiirdihlood to go down inIto the9 mine. But hust thlen, p)robably not half a second from the timle tihe baittery key had been turn ed, a slighlt quiver under foot was felt. Tihe giant below had conmnenced his struggle. Then a low rumble, like tile muttering of distant thuniider, anid then a loud roar, which reve,rberated thlroughi the distant hills; and that was followed by tile sound1( of falling rock vast masses. This last sound( was followed by the appearance of a vast volume of (dense smoke which rose in great whlite columns and floated over tihe enitire valley. Men who hamve been in in haLt tle at Petersburg saidl thley had never seeni tihe like before. But the blast had been successfuli amnd thlosand(s of. tOlns of rock lay ready for thle hand of tile stone-cutter, and1( so perfect ha&d beeni tile alrangemnents that nmot a soul was hulrt. H ardlly hlad thle rev'erherat ions ceased whien thle people who hmad lied with so much precipitation comnlmenlced rushinug back withl eqlual speed. T1hie impelhlig power now was to see effects of thme ex losion of whiCh thley had beeni in such terror. Tile thick smoke that was floating away on tihe breeze hlad left be hind (dense volumes of p)oisonous gases. Sulphluric amnd carbomnic acidl gases in va rouls pr'oportionls filled all tile hlollows and1( dents mn jie neighborhood of tile blast. In vain did tile paIrty in charge attemplt to warnl them b)ack. Curiosity was as powerful in one (directioni as ter r'or had1( beenl in another. They would thbrong into tile pllace. Eight of tile adl vance guard of tile rushing crowd wvere taken by tihe gases anId promptly asphyxiated. Others inot quite so eager took warninlg by the titillation of their throttles and withdrew mu time to save loss of consciousness. Tile too eager ones were in a few mliutes(dragged out by experienced men, whmo with closed nostrils and muchl daring wvent to tile rescue. All were finally restoredl to consclousnessi and life, but they will re member the experience to their dymng day, particularly an old gentlemen whose life hung many minutes In the balance. The effect of the blast was most satisfactory to al 09il00rl4 Actors' flumes. As a rule, only the small fry acto are left lounging aroundji the lamp-pos: and bill boards of Union Square. TI better people-perhaps no better tha those who remain, 11ut the people wh earn the better salaries at any rate have found rest and recreation In man shady niooks arouand about the countra side. It is only necessary to visit somti of these actors' retreats to realize hoN trite is the notion that actors are a I3ohemians, living from hand to inmout without, visible means of support. Why along the New Jeisey coac from Sandy Itook to Ocean Grov there are two dozen actors' homes il elegant and comfortable as any man i good circuistaices ; " i t - se On the brow of the I ahhiids of Nv sink, looking out upon the boundles waltro, three or four of them have es tablished their lares and penates Joseph Wheelock wa the pioneer here lie has a plain little cottage, but in definitely comfortable and cosy. Bit within a stone's throw there is thi more pretentious and more moder home of the WYebstrs-John of thal ilk and Nellie Mellwnry his wile, thi cleverest of soubrettes-atnd besid this again is the still larger place o W. 1H. Ilayden, manager of Ton Keene. h'1 e house, which will he ; large one, is not yet finished, and wil cost altogether somle S20,00. The view that is to be obtained froln thi front stool) of these three houses is no to be surpassed in all Amnerica. llal a mile inland is the leautiful hotis Neil Burgess is buihliing. Four o live miles over the coast there is th, Queen Anne band-box of Oliver D)out Byron. It runs from tle road righ down to the spacious becachi, andl 3yroi is never tired of putting additiona bits to this house, and by the way though selom spoken of becaus1; i runs to a low order of art, Byro is one of the wealthy actors. IIe ha: three or four lots on Alonmouth Beach aid half a dozen houses in 3rooklyn All this has been obtained at the pricc of great frugality; but at home I3yror is "one of the boys." Driving dowr Ocean avenue a little way further oi there is a tract of land fronting on thu sea, belonging to little Maggie Mitchell. It is worth $75,000. Beyond tht United States, one of the handsoines cottages seen on the great drive i: Thieodore Moss's. But he has rentet it of late years and lives near Ret Bank, on the Shrewsbury, with hi: family. Frank Maeder's and Nate Sals bury's little places are on Pleasure 13a. Beyond the West End Hotel there i; the famed Actors' HIow, beginmiinp with John Hoey's mlagniticent place Further on there is., lary Anderson': pretty estate, which :he acquired fron Matt Canning, the manager. It i about eight 'acres in et,ent and Ilcreas ing in value every year. Next door so to speak, is John W. Albaugh' place. It is comfortable and pleasant but one of the smallest of all of them Almost opposite is the house and ex tensive grounds belonging to Mr WVilliam Hendersoni, late the mniamgei of the Standard Theatre, and the gen tlenian who thinks that, by process o law, lie can prevent Lillian Russel from singing in London. Mrs. lien derson is the wife of Mr. Henderson but Ettie Henderson is more. Slit has written at least one successfu play, and some years back was a sta actress of renown. She has a charm ing daughter. Further up the roa< there is the Chianfrau, among them al the most hoielike and beautiful. TIhi old house stretches over a good area o ground. From the low porch we enite the plain suite of ro)oms, in the princi p)al of which an amp)le sideboardi full of hospitable rellections. No kin der host, no more beautiful hiostes: than rule this chiarmiing home. A sid road running toward Elberon leads t. Maggie.Mitchell 's home. Nature, toc has beautifully endowed tlhe place wvit] its 01(d and rare trees, its beautifu shrubbery and its general 01(1 Worhi air, it forms onie of the most pleam ant to visit of all these actori homes. D)iagonally opposite herei the 01(1 Wallack estate, where thi prince of all the Wallacks, James WV. had his home. Here lhe died. Iler Mr. William Wallack passed awa somie two years since, and1( the estat went to Miss Fanny .Presityr, ai dhistan relative of Mr. Wallack, Its laus inotedl tenant was Mr. John Iluisse. Young, j ust before lie was appoiinte Minister to China.. Looking (town the coast and leavin Actors' Rowv behind we 11h1d no furithi homes of tliem till we come to Ocea Grove, but thien we ar'e well rewardlec Here Lewis Morrison has built him house that is as p)retty as anythin along the whole coast. Here his wifi Rose Wood, passes an almiost idleal lii between her two charming daughter; from whom Mabel-Rose villa derivi its,namne. Tihis is the newest of thm actors' homes along this coast, bi several more are going up thuis cornm year. Il may be worth while to dlevoi a few paiges by anid by to other actor: homes in oilier pilaces, for this list dot not incilde one-luiarter of them, Evergreens onl the Farm. I)uring a recent visIt to a farmer r 8iding in the neighborhood of Minneap lis, wve became more Impressed the ever that evergreens add more to tL beautiful appearaiice of a farm lion than diecliouis trees. Tihey are n< onily ornammental, but they are useful wind-breaks. Th'le picturesue appea ance of evergreens wvhen tastefully s omit aroumnd the buildings and in ti lawns, causes an enjoymnent to everyom who visits the neighborhood, and whm Is Interesting to those who sot the out on their premises Is that, besid, the beauty they impiart, they are pe fectly handy. The Norway spruc Scotch, Austrian, white and natib pine, red and white cedar are in mo grounds as hardy as the oak. We lh these and other varieties of evergree In the hands of all 6ur nurserymen, it Is In the province of all to purcla themn at a small expense. IowA and lllinois 'report poor co: prospLot. In some idealities the com ia rotting in the groud,anid onidera renlaanting innaaa The Latest Amerlean Silks. It; 18 not generally known, certainly s not among the wearers of silk fabrics, 8 how the manufactured product of this e country has advanced of late years or n how closely it competes in everything . but price with the finest production of the looms of France. Many still asso Y ciate the idea of American silk with the woolly black spun silk as it was present 0 ed to the public years before capital, V skill and enterprise had developed the present magnificent result. Thelargest silk manufactory in this country is in New York city, and an examination of t its fabrics is sufllcont to demonstate its ? possession of knowledge and skill equal s to any achievement or any demand that 11 may be made upoinWeom within indus trlalpossibilities. -The fabrics in vogue at the present time are damasks, bro caded silks in two tones and solid black and i combinations of armure with - satin Ottoman and . armnure, the latter forming the figure upon an Ottoman - ground, or interchangeably the satin torning the figure upon an arimure ground, with flat outlines which form the shading to what is often as complete at composition as if made for a picture. These are as rich in texture and true in workmanslhip as any silk nmde abroad, and are perfectly pure. The wear there fore, can be guaranteed. Not'ting can be imagined more stiitable for an elegant dress than these handsome fabrics with the armure figure woven through and through the soft, thick, close saliin sir face, so that fraying or "rubbing up" is an illpossibility, and the silk must re main rich and fihe tolned to the hast. W hen it is considered that these beauti ful fabrics can be purchased at retail for $2.50t per yard, and t hait a large quantity is not needed, for they are so complete in themselves I hat trimming or overlaying reduces rather than heightens their di - tinction and general effect, it will be seen that this is really obtalnng beauty and elegance at at inillilmum cost, con pared with the pric"es of some years ago, -before we had a really handsome Amer ican silk in the market. In plain silks the newest and most fashionable, as well as the most etiec tive, is the Ottoman Supreme, whilchl as every one knows, is a thick, ribbed, satin-finished silk, which can be used equally well alone or in combination. This has the fast woven back and will not pull or slip. It has very largely tak en the place of gros-grain and almost entirely of plain satin, as it ho'ds light and shade and proves so much more be coining than a plain, smooth surface. The surahs, which are very line and soft in texture, with a satin twill woven into the body of the fabric, which ren ders them very serviceable, have now an enduring place in the list of inexpensive silks because of their adaptability to many pretty and graceful purposes their use in making up into lovely even ing dresses for young girls who ciannot properly wear heavy flowered and da lmask silks. One of the specialties is a surah of heavy and extra quality, which works up beautifully in conjunction with fine cashmere or camel's-hair cloth, and is particularly well adapted for summer silk suits, black (gathered) cloaks and other purposes where a soft, silken, gracerul and easily draping ma terial is required. Heavy black is a specialty, but there is-an infinite variety of lovely colorings in Surah, the newest being apricot, three different shades of strawberry, electric blue, a new shade of gendarme, the gray blue, known as "cadet,"and the bronze shades. Terra cotta is still good, but superseded large. ly by the strawberry shades. Colors and combinations of colors in the silks of American maiufacture ar considered superior, if aniythling, to the impilorted. We do iiot. yet see any in which so many colors are put into one p)atterii as are found in some1 foreign silks, but in purity of color and skil and taste in grading, shading and( coim bination American silk.s cannot be sur l)assed. Among the most, recent coim binations are olive and strawberry, Ielectric blue1 and teirra-cotta, strawberry mi two tones, oneC forming tihe saitiin ground(, the other an armnure design upon0l it. A brown armure designi upon Sblack is quiet but very rich, andI there are very striking effects In black and1( goldl, and black and cardiml. Thmie whbite birocatdes of this mianufac tueaebeautiful--as reiht as) couli e Sdesirn d for the finest eveniing anld bri dlal dIresses, yet forming a1 compal1rative ly modest, and certainly nlot extrava anit, toilet for an important otcasionl. 1All that Is necessary to comp)lete it is lace at tihe neck aind upon01 (tsleeve. Father Burxe, wno (lied July 2nd, Swas born ill Galwvay on Sep)temnber 8, 1830. In 1847 lie wenit to Perugia, [ialy, where lhe became a mlinberi oft thle Order of St. D)omninic, ta king the iamie of' Thiomas Aqulinals. F"roni Peh'rugia hIe was senlt to Rome, where lit e spent live years in study. Hie was or tlained in Enigland and spent four yean~ gmi a missionl in Gloucestershire. .A e the 0end of thait time lhe e.stabhlihed ' uovitiate for (lie Order of St. Doimb i< Sit Tallaght, County D)ublin, where lam remiained ais master of novices for sovei ,'ears. DJuring this period he visite< various parts of Ireland and becamn famiouis throughout the island for ii .tloqueiice. lie was next called t< )iLome and made Supecrior of St. Clement ' c he oldest basilica in the .ity. l1e ire '1 .nained at Rome several years, taktini rom 1859 to 18(14 (lie 0lace of tlma , resent Cainaiiil MainiIg as t,he pareach. it *.r of the Lenteni sermons in the Chiurch i& if Santa Maria del L?opolo. In 18634 hi< r- retuined to Dublin, In October, 1871 31 mfathier Burke caine to the Uniitei te states as Visitor-General of his order it .id for about a year he delivered a ser It anon or lecture almost daily, (lie pro na deeds being dlevoted( to p)ublic chailitie;, 3z in November 12, 1872, lie began at thi r- Academy of Music in,.New York ; , eries of lecture s In reply to Mr. James 'C A. Froude's views on time relations be, si rween England and Ireland. Then Ld tectures, wvhich gave rise to an animal. 1s od controversy, were published in 18% 1o ander the titles of "Eiiglish MIsrule IL Jn Ireland" and "Ireland's Case Stated ib mn lieply to Mr. Froudo." Fathiel Burke also published "Lectures and ?i Sermons" (1813) and "Lectures or n F?aith and Fatfierlnd." HIe was ro Ie cognized as a preacher of rare elogqtenc4 #Rd .0 Ug 94m . New Styles in Fans. Who that has attended the circus listening to the stale gags and jokes of the painted clown, while the band blares and toots out 'My Mary Ann,'' but has heard the melodious 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 palm-leaf fan. Buy one ?" Fans are common now, yet there are many uncommon fans. The styles have greatly changed Tor the better since the (lays when the huge peacock-feather fan and palm-leaf were known at every colonial settlement and camp meeting. Dropping into one of the largest dry goods stores in Chicago, while the mier cury was steadily climbing from the middle of the box clear up higher than the price of butter, and the counter where the collection of fanls were aipread out was thronged by fair buyers, when a lull in business permitted the neat looking lady saleswoman to talk to a reporter, she remarked: "Yes, the hot weather is making sales lively. We began to feel discouraged when the weather was so colel, and there were few sales except 'party fans,' or wed dlinga downs.' "There are a few new styles in fans, but. I think they are mostly very home ly. A new thing is at .lapanese fan, only to tell you the truth, it is made in this country. It is a long handle, has a black silk center, with hideous hand painted 'JYap' scenes, and with small bangles all around the edge. Some of the old fans used to he ones with hand painted portrait of Garlield and mourn ing fringes. " Here is a crape mourning fan, andl here a white point, lace and down fait for weddings. ''his one is worth $15. Here is the highest priced fan in the store. It is mother-of-pearl sticks and point lace body, with pearl-dust on the lace. It is imported from Paris. Bit we had one fan here for a Wabash avenue lady that was specially ordered for her from Paris, and cost $125. It was of point lace, with antique designs, and was a beauty. Now here are some nice little fans I hat 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 hand-painted flowers and ferns in ie center; others little birds of genuine feather. Some miniature pea cocks, otheri gold-plated monograms in the center, while black lace fringes en circle most of them. Now, you would think that these fans would be very costly, but they ain't. It is surprising how cheap these fans are manufactured. I t only takes about. 50 or 7 cents to possess these fans.. "There are some cheap fans here in this lot, ranging from 15 cents to 25 cents. here is oue a nice little co coit in staw. ,It4'* braided linAly, ali then turns and folds up. here is a cheap fan, a regular Chinese make, with odd figures on the rice paper, and little bells. Here is a fan of swan's down, for some fair belle, that will cost her parent something like $20. It has diamond 1 ust strewn over it. "IIere are the palm leafs that are almost given away. They come in ship loads, packed in crates, to New York, and are then sent over the land. An old idea at the seashore last year was to have your sweetheart's portrait painted on silk of light tints, with odd couplets at the bottom. Oh, I could tell you of many funny points in fanis, but 1 must attend to these ladies," and the fair saleslady moved away, while the - re porter swam out. flow Dii( the an aiikercief (ot Ther.? T'he great Robert li.'nddm went b)y royal commiand to Saint (Josid to gIve a show before ho,uis l'inhlippe aind his faily, it the course of [his etuo V ho borrowed six haniidkecielfs I romn [lie audienice. Th len various nmembhers oft the audiece wrote downi on slips ofi paper the name of pisces whither they would lino [lhe hiandlkrchlets to be transported. This (lone, thie conju rer ask(ied the hing to choose three of these slips at ramndom), andl from [lhe three to select the place lie preferred. "Come," said( lsoums Philippo, "'let us see what is on [hins slip." I should like them to be found under one of thie candl1e9tick8 on thie man tlepiece. "Thant is too easy for a wizard; let us try again." I should like [hem to lie found on the dome11 Of [lie invahdeis. "' [hat us too far, not for [lie handker chiefs, biut for uus, Al you will, 1 fear, 11ind it dliflicuilt [0to comly with the request onl the last slip." 'Te r(rquest was that the huandkerceniefr: should be found in the box of thie last orange tree on [lie right hand of [lie avenue at St. Cloud. 'Ilihe conjutrer expressed his readiness to comply with the request, and the King immedilately sent off a party of mnon to keep guard over thie orange tree. The :onijuiner put the handkerchiefs under a bell1 of thick glasa, waved his wend. took up the bell, and showed a white (love in place (of theo hiandkerchiefs. TIhcn the Kmig, with a skeptical smile, sent orders to thte head gairdener to open [lie box of the oranuge tree chosent, and1( to bring what ever lie mnight flid rt,ere. "S8i toutefois il y trouve quelqueios OS." Tis~ was donie, and presently there wats brougt in an irons coihfer coveredl with rust. "Well," cried the King, "here we have a coffer. Are the handkerchIefs in in?" "'Yes, sIre," replied I Robert Hlouidin, "Llhey have been there a long time." "A long time, when it was onitly a quarter of an hour sInce they were -'given to you?" "WVhat, sire, would be the use of magic if it, could not, perform uinpossib)le featr? Your Mlajesty would be surprisedl when I prove to you that, the coffer andl its contents have been m the biox of the orange tree for s~Ity years. Thei King now observed [hat a key was nIeededl to open [he box, and Robert Iboudin asked him to take the key which was hmung by a ribbon roundh the white doive's neck. This was a key as rushy as the coffer, wihich it opened, and thie first [lung found In thie coffer wits a parchinient, bearing these words: "1'o-day, June 6, 1786, thuis Iron coffer, holding~ six hand kerchiefs, has been placed amid the roots of an orange tree by- me,O Balsanmo, Count of1 Oag'mostro, to aid the accomnpllshmment of a magical feat which will be done this day sixt.y years before Louise P'hlippe of Orleans amid his famiily.t" Below ~the parchment lay a pacait sealed with (lag. Ilhostro's seal, which was well known ini the King, and In the, packet were tie six borrowcd handkercluefe. "Out.our," says Robert Houain, ad We can well belheve it. "me valut de vife annlandisemant. THE VERDICT --)OF- , THE PE~OPLE. BUY THE BEST! Mit. J. 0. IloMt[-Dear Sir : I bought the first Davis Machine sold by you over ivo years ago for my wife who has given it a long and fair trial. I asn well pleased with it. It never alves any rouble, and is as good as when first bought. Winnsboro, S. C., Aprli 1883. Mr. BOAo: You wish to know what I have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three ears ago. I feel I can't say too much in its favor. rtntie atout $8,)e within five months, at times rtinIIg it so fast that the needle woiit get pet fectlV hot froni friction. I feel confident I could not have done the same work with as mucn ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjustuig attachments. The lightest running inuchite I have ever treadled. BrotherJamesand Willtams' fatuilies are as much pleased with their Davis Niacliines bought or you. I want no better uhitaitie. As I saidi before, I don't think too much can be sail for the Davis Machlue. liteapeit fully, 1:L.83N sTEvI'NsoN, Fairil"ld 'ounty, April, 1883. M it. o.ii : M.\y ichilne gives tie perfect satil' fartiou. I tIn4 no fault with it. ''ie attachmilnts a so slinple. I wish for no better than the Davis Veri teai Feed. itespect fully. Mias. It. MIi... Fairfleld rouutiy, A pril, 1883. Min. Bow: t uI ittgnt a taavis vcitl al Feed ewing M.thine ruim you four years age. I amn ulighted with it. it never has given me any -ottole, and has never been the least out of order. it IA as good as when I first bought it. I can cheerfully recommend it. Rfespect fully, Mu, M. J. KIRi.Aiu. Montileltu, April 30, 1883. This is to certify that I have been using a i.bvis Vertle,il Feed Sewing Machine for over tw ayvars, purchased of Mr. .1. u. 110.1g. I haven't found i' p issessed of any fault-all the attachments are so simp e. It, nevertefuses to wora, and is certainly the ightest running in the market. I consider it a first -class machine, Very respectfully MINNIE . WILLINonaiM. Oaklaul, Falrtleid county, S. e. M HOAG : I alt wei pleasea in every parttcut with the bavis Machine nought of you. I think a first-clas-i macuitne in every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same make to diflerent members of our families, all of whom, as far as 1 know, are well pleased with them. ltespectfoily, MRs. M. If. Mostar. Fairfield county, April, 1853. This [Sto certify we have ha t in consuant sa the Davis Machine bought of you about ihree years ago. As we take in work, and have made the irice of it several tines over, we don't want any better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we have to do. No puckerlugor akipping stitches. We can only say we are well plnase and wish no better machine. L'ATIEnI!NK WYLt AND SisTaBt. April 25, 1i3. I have to fault to find with my mach no, and don't want auny botter. I have m tife tue price of it several times by taking in sewing. It is always ready to do its work. I think it a i.rsl-class ma chine. I feel I cant say too muclt for the Davis Vertical Feed M:ichine. Mts. TuoMas SMITS. l'airfield cou,i ", A pril, 1sy:. Mit. J. 0. BAou-Dear Sir: It gives me ntoh pleasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got of you abmut five years ago. has been almost in eon st ait ise ever since that titne. I canniot see that it is worn alny, anid has not cost mue one cent for repairs since we have hiad it. Am well pleased andt don't wish ior any b)etter. Your. truly, liOBT. Cit twFoD Uranlte Quarry, near Winnsboro hI. C. WVe have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for tihe last five years. We would not have anty othier make at any price. TIhe mnachine has given us unbounden satisfaction. Very respectfully, MRS. W. K. TIUaNuR ANtD DAUalrTEasl Fairfield county, S8. C., Jani. 2?, 1898. Having boulght a Davis Vertical Feed Bowing Mactine from Mr. J. 0. Buag somec tiiree years ago, andl it hiavinig given me perfect satisfaction ini every respect ass anily mactine, both for heady and light seo lng, atiu never needed the ieast re pair iia any way, I cain enceorfully recommend it to any one as a first-class muachline in every particu lar, anid think it second to none. It is one of the slimlplest machines wade; my chlitiren use it witis ali ease. Th'ie attactintents are mnore easily ad justed and it does a greater range of work by7 means of its Vertical Feed thain any other sa chine I have ever seen or used. Mite. Tutokas Owl NoB. Winnsboro, Fairfield county, S. C. We have had oiie of the Davis Macnines about four yeatrs and have always foutnd it ready to do all kinds of work w~e have hail occasion to do. Can't see that the machine is worn any, and works as well as wnett new. Muts. W. J. CntAwFoao, Jackson's Creea, FairfIeld county, S. C. M,5 wife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma chine bought of you. She would not take doubie wnat sne gav, for it. 'rho macine has Dot been Out of order since she had it, and alto can do any kind of wor-k ont it. Very Itespectfuiiy, JAs. F. FxE. Moniieoiio, Fiairfleld county, 8. C. The Davis Sewing Machine is sImply a troaa are Mae. J. A. GouwvN. lidgoway, N. C., Jan. 10. 1ssa. J, 0 BoAo, Esq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife has ueen using a Davis SewIng Maebine constant ly for the past four years, anti Ittas never needed tiny repairs an i works just as well as when first botught. She says it will do a greater range of practical work and do it eaaier and bet%.r than any umacutlu she nas ever used. We cheerfully recommend it as a No. 1 family machIne, Your tru.y, ,QDA. Winnisb yro, S. C., Jan. Si 1888. Ms. BoAo: I flaye always found myDavis Ma chine ready do alt kinds of to work I have had oo esion to dfo. I cannot see that the machine Is wvora a particle and It works as wedl as when new. Rtespectfully, Mite. R. C. GJooDING. Winnsboro, 8. C., A prIl, 1888, MR. BoAo:i M1y wife has been COnstantly usIng the Davis Machino bought of you about live year. ago. I have never regretted bnysgii, as it IS always read for any hand of tam fl ewing, either neav;or light. It is never out of fxor needlog ICP,,afU.Very resect fully, )'alrflld, S. (1., March, 1868. ~ W AD