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JRI-WEEK LY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. .. SEPTEMBER 25. I83. C.. EPTEBER 5. 183.ESTABL1 ISHEDfl4 PHE VERDICT -OF T1H E PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! Ma. J. 0. B1oA-Dear Sir: I bought the brat Davis Machiue sold by you over tlve years ago for my wife who has given it a long and fair trial. I am well pleased with it. It never nives any rouble, and is as good as when first bought. J3. W. 1sor.1cK. W innsboro, S. t., April 1883. Mr. B3OAO: 10ou wish to know what. T have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three ears ago. 1 feel I can't say too much in Its favor. made about $80,00 wiihin five months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per fectl hot from friction. I feel confident i could not have done the Patae work with as Hulch ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjustin attachments. The lightest running machine i ave ever treadled. BrotherJames and Williams' families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought or you. I want no better machine. As I said before, I don't think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. tespectfully, RI.Ia,N .TVKINSON, Falrli^ld County, April, 18.53. MR. BOAG : My macblue gives me perfect satils faction. I find no fault with It. The attachments are so Su le. t wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. RIespect fully. Mits. It. MII.I,No. Fairfleid county, April, 1883. Mn. BOAO: I bought a uavls Vertical i eed ew.ng Machine fron you four years ago. I am slighted with it. It never his given me any rounle, and has never been the least out of order. It Is as good as when I first bought if. I can cheerfully recomnindil it. lespectfully. M1ue. M. .l. KIRKLAND. Montleello, April 30, 1883. Tls is to certify that, I have been usiug a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over t w l ye Irs, purchased of Mr. .1. 0. Boag. I haven't foun I i t p3asessed of any fault-all tie attachments are so aim pe. It never Iefuses to work, and is cer.ailly the lightest running in the market. I consiler It a first class machine. Very respectfully MINNIE .f. WIi.l.INOIIA3. uaklau.l, Fairfield county, S. C. M BoaU : I amd well pleasett in every particut with the Davis Machine uought of you. I think a first-class mactine In every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same make to ditlerent members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. ltespectfuliy, MiRS. M. If. 11oul.iv. Fairfldbt county. April. Iacn. 'Ihs is to certify we have ha.l in e.onsta'it use the Davis Machlue bought of you about three years ago. As we take in work, and have madc the price of it several limes over, we don't. want any better machine. It Is always ready to do any kind of work we have to dIo. No puckeringor skipplug stitches. We can only say we are well please I anti wish no better machine, tATllERINR WYi.t1 AND Starel. A pril 25i, 1983. . I have no fault to ad with my macl ne, and don't want any better. I have n tle the irice of it severa times by taking in sewing. It is always ready to do Its work. I think it a first-class ma chine. I feel I nan't. sy too much for the D.ivL Vertical Feed Machine. Mas. THoMAs SITlH. Fairfield county, April. 1883. Mu. J. 0. BoAa-D'ar Sir: It gives mne micl pleasure to testify to the merits of the Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The na, line I got of you about five years ago. has been almost in con-. stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that it is worn any, and has not cost me one cent for repaIrs since we have hadl it. Am well pleasel1 andI doni't wish ior any better. Yours truly, htooT. Ua wPoup, Uranite Qu'arry, near Winnsboro 8. C... .We have used the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for the last live years. We would not, have any oilier miake at any price. The mnachine lia given us unboundlei satisfacion. Very respectfully, Mae. W. K. TUaNsR AND D)AUaTRras Fairfld county, S. C., Jan. 2?. 1883. Having h)oughit a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing MachIne fronm Mr. J. 0. Iloag some three years ago, anti it havIng given me perfect, satisfaci on In. every respect as a family machine, both for hea/y and hlt sowing and never needed the least re pair In any way, Ican cheerfully recommend It to' any ofte as a first-class mnachlne~ in every particl.i lar, and think It second to none. ft is one of tile sinmplest machines made; my childiren use it witti all ease. T1he attachmente are more easily ad justed and It does a greater range of work by mteans of Its Vertical treed than any other msa chine I have ever seen or used. Mae. THOMAS OwiNos. - Winnahoro, Fairileid county, S. C. We have had one of the Davis Machines idbout four years and hlave always found it read to do all kinds of work we have hadl occasion to do. Can't see that the machine is worn any, anti works as well as whten new. Mas. W. J. CaAwvoupi) Jackson's Creek, Fairfld county, S.'C. - My wife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma chiine bought, or you. Shte wouid not take dotuble what sue gave for It. The machine has not been out of order since sihe had it, anid sihe can (10 any kind of work ott it. Very itespectftuli, JAS. F. Fan. Monticello, Feairileld cotunty, 8. U. The DavIs Sewing Machine is simply A fes ire Mas. J..A. GooDwvYN. Itidgeway, N. I., Jtan. 10, 1883. S,0O BAG, Esq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife as ueen uing a Davis Sewing Machine constant ly for the past four years, anil it has never neceloid -any repaIrs an i works just as well as when iirset bought. She says it will doe a greater range of practi3al work and (10 it easier and bet'er -than aity mDaquiine she has ever used. We cheerfully recommend it as a No. 1 family mnachine, Your tru.y, JR .DVS Winnaboro, SI. C., Jan. 5. 1888. Mat. B0Au : I have always fotund my Davis Ma. chine ready do ali kinds of to work I have had uc - . easion to do. I cannot see that the macblue Is Worn a partIcle and it works as weil as when ne Wv. lIespectfn.iy, .Mas. it. U. GJooDiNo. Winnaboro, B. C., A pril, 1883, Ma. BeAG: My wife has been constantly using thle Davis Machie bought of you about fiye yeari age. I have never regretted buyig it, as it is always read tor a .ind of fAily sewing, eite iiea or ight t, l never ont ofli or nieeding ispara.Very rempectfuily, A, W. LADD. Fairld,t S. C,, Ms rch, 18. rc TOO LATE. le plucked some sprays of mignonette One morning, while the dewdrops, yet Bright, glistened on each tiny flower. IIe thought the blossoms passing fair, Boause their fragrance filled the air, Until the sultry noontide hour. And then they dropped; his careless hand Frailed to supply their life's demand; And yet, man-like he marveled, when They fainted, in the sun's bright glare. He was so strong, that their despair Seemed strangely far beyond his ken. "Thirsting?" he questioned in surprise, Then gave thorn drink, with tear tilled eye'. Each floweret raised its low-bowed head Save one, whose fragile stein had brokenI Too late the carol sweet love's fond token, The fragrant mlignonotte was dead. SEEKING A DIAMOND. Mr. Peter Pinto was, perliaps, one of the most enthusiastic of modern col lectors. Far be it from us to convey the im pression that lie went around with a pencil and a pocketbook bulging full of papers in behalf of Tas companies and cheap coal associations. On the con trary, he despised trade and all its plebeian concomitants, He kept a gen ealogical tree, and prided himself on being distantly related to some one or other who had come over in the May flower, and having a cousin who had once known Longfellow, the poet. lie read, studied high art and devoted him self to the dream-world of the ideal. Ilis floors were carpeted with tiger skins, dimly splendid Eastern draieries hung on his walls and shut out what little sunshine filtered through the medieval glass of his stained windows. lie delighted in mouldy folios, rare edi tions grinning Chinese idols and masses of charmingly ugly Eastern lacquer-work. But the taste which had the stiongest possession of his soul, and which drag ged most persistently at his purse strings, was one for precious stones. "If it hadn't been for that, I should have been a rich man long ago." sighed Mr. Pinto. "Of course I can't indulge 1 in it, as I should like-no man could, unless lie had the income of a duke. But I can aspire-I can aspi'rel" And as Mr. Peter Pinto had inherit ed a snug little fortune from his father and fallen heir to the united savings oI several maiden aunts, lie was enabled to prosecute his caprice in no contem ptible uegree. lie owned an Eastern. opal, a black pearl, a pair of unap- 1 proacehably-tinted topazes,several peculi arly-shaped turquoises and an agate f with a human face distinctly massed in its outlines. lie kept his treasures locked in velvet-lined cases within the I safe, and prowled around the jewelery stores, pawn-shops and second-hand re positories with a perseverance worthy 1 of Bruce's spider. And when lie became inedit.ative and inclined to be confiden tial lie would say: "I think if once I could gain posses sion of this White Heart I)iamond, I should be quite-quite happy!" But the White Ileart Diamond had I to all appearances been withdrawn from I circulation. It was known only by ru mor. It had retired somewhere into conventional seclusion, and, with unparalleled modesty, declined to reap pear. ''hat there had once been a White Heart Diamond was proved by the con- I versation of grizzly-headed old lapidar ies, who had grown crooked by long sitting over magnifying glasses, and the tales of retired jewelers who had made their fortunes long ago. From all accounts, it was a stone of m.edium size, but rare color and flre-a stone wvhich was a veritable General George Washington among diamonds a stone whose renown had eveni reached foreign parts, and achieved the dlignity of ani especial article in the Lapidaries' Journal of Vienna. And to Mr. Peter Pinte ~the White Heart Diamond represented the Roc's Egg of Aladdin's Palace! Until one day an old workmian in precious stones beckoned him into thme den where lhe was cutting sapphires w ith a whirling little wheel, which sung like a meochanical bmblebee at its work. "I've heard of it " said lie. "Of-" grasped ki r. Pinto. ''or.the Vhite heart Diamonid" said the workman. "No!" shouted the collector, breath lessly. "As true as you live," nodded the old man. "I always knowed it was in thme Jorgensen family. Couldn't ha' got out of it, don't you see? But I never found out afore yesterdhay as there was an old lady-Miss Mehitable Jorgensen -a second-cousin of old Jan Jorgensen's daughter, livin' up ini the Catskills. There was some old-fashioned sleeve buttons come In to be mended yester day with 'J. J.' on 'em. Bless your heart! I could have told old Jan's twisted initial.a anywhere. Didn't have no monograms in them (lays, you know, Niece left 'em. A pretty girl,, with red cheeks. I'm to send 'em back by mall when they're done." Ni r. Pinto drew a long breath. -'ll1 go to the Catskills at once," said he.. "Fair and softly, fair and softly I" said old Caleb Griinder. "Tme White Heart Diamond was always shy game. IMinud you don't frighten it1" I"I shall know how to behave," said Mr. Pinto, with dignity. "The address Grinder, if you please!" And so, clad like uiito thme inevitable sketching tourists who infest all the wildernesses within a hundred imiles of INew York Mr. P'eter Pinto put money in his purse and started for time cottage m the Catskills resolved to approach the suibject with the most' cautious wids and turnings of dip loimiatic skill. Miss Jorgensen was a tall crooked woman of lifty, with scant Ironl-gray hair, a forbidding visage, and eyes as sharp amid keen as those of a hawk. llatty, her nelce-Mehmitable, junior, as the old lady called her.-was plumpl and -pink-cheeked with hair of real poet's gold, aiid a laugh like the chirp of a blackbird. "Oh, yes," sai ietty, with the ut most frainess, "amnty will be glad to taie a boarder, Only, please, you may transact all the business with me. Aunty belongs to a fine -old family-I'm only~ related on my mother's side-and it hurts her pride to think of keeping boarders. So, if you would make be lieve to be a visitor, it would be a great accommodation, and no hari (one. We can only spare the little garret bed room; but there's a fine view, and you will find everything very clean." And thus to his unmitigated surpris9' and amazement, Mr. Pinto found him self at last under the same roof with the White Heart Diamond. Of course there was a certain outward show to be kept up. Mr. Pinto was obliged to spend much of his time in the woods, making meaningless attempts at sketching, while his heart yearned after the mystic jewel. IIe strove vainly for something like confidential intimacy with his hostess; but in vain-Miss Jorgenson froze him. She kept him at ceremonial arm's length. IIetty was social, smiling always ready to talk, but Miss Jorgensen never forgot that she belonged to a fain ily. Until, one day, an inspiration seized upon our hero. "By Jove!" he profanely exclaimed, "'ll marry the old woman, if there isn't mny other way to get at the White heart Diamond I" But that evening, as he came in, a little later than usual, with the purple twilight glowing in the horizon, and a icore of whip-poor-wills singing in the rlen, he met Hetty at the gate. She itarted and colored like a rose-bud, md, murmuring some trivial excuse, litted away. Mr. Pinto stopped and picked up a lower which she had dropped. "Hello!" lie said to himself; "this omnplicates matters. Little Iietty Is i love with me!" It was not such an unpleasant idea; lut, of course, it could not be enter :ained for a moment. The White [Ieart Diamond was his soul's sweet leart. The White Heart )iamond mly was the treasure on which he was )ent. Accidentally, as it seemed, but in 'eality from a carefully-laid train of as iociations, the conversation turned on ewels that evening, as Miss Jorgensen at knitting by the lamp, and IIetty was >icking over blackberries for the mor ow's jam, in the outer porch. "Talking of diamonds," said Miss forgensen, fortifyiig herself with a )inch of snuff-Mr. Pinto hated snuff 'there's a very valuable Siam in our amily, which-" "Aunt," said Hietty, coming in, 'Mrs. Didcomb wantsttjhW *f~the Miss Jorgensen bustled out. Mr. ?into smote the table with the flat of is hand. "I'll do it!" he said. And he did it, within the next half iour. "It may seem premature, dear Miss forgensen," he said after having go,ie titily down upon his knees, "but our earts do not beat by rale or calender. behold in you a congenial spirit. I ove youl Will you be mine?" "Goodness me l" said Miss Jorgensen 'Well, I never didl But, of course if rour haipiness is involved- I wonder what Hetty will say?" Mr. Pinto clasped the wrinkled hand, >ressed a kiss on the snuff-flavored heek and with an ecstatic thrill, hought of the White Heart Diamond. Hetty came smiling in, presently, and ffiss Jorgensen told her of the new page in her life's history. Mr. Pinto expected to see her blush, cream, or perhaps, even faint away. But she did nione of the three. She lid nt behanve at al like a brokeni aearted heroine of romance. "uli, I'm so glad!" said she. "Nowv can leave you with a clear conscience, Aunt Mehiltable." "She has been engaged to P'hilo Wetherlie for a year,'" explained Miss Jorgensen. "P'raps you've noticed her )f an evening hangiing over the gate wyaltin'. for him to go by with the "Oh, aunty, I didn't!" said Hietty. "La, child, it's nothing to be asham xd of," said Miss Jorgensen, chuck ling. Mr. Pinto bit his lip, lie would like to have p)itchied Philo Wetherlie, who sver lie might bet over the cliff. But, however, this had nothing to dho with the White Heart Dliamnond, and when hiotty tripp)ed out again, lie led the way tis gently as possible to the fascinating subject onice again. "You wvere speaking," said lie, with an Insinuating smile, '"of a famuous diamond which "Oh, yes, ' said Miss Jorgensen. *'The White Heart Diamond, they call ed its" "I am something of a judge of such matters,'' said Mr. Pinto, his heart beating a reveille in his bosom, "If you would allow mile to look at It--" ~Miss .Jorgensen shook her head. I couldn't," she said. "I sold it three and twenty years ago to my cousin, PIllo Jorgenisen. lie wasa drowned oni thme very next voyage lie made to Am sterdamn-diamond and all, for lie al ways carried it in a little chamois-heath er bag next his heart, lie had a very goodl imitation put into the setting for me. I've got It. sonmewhiere up staire. And, after all, what counhl I do with a thiousanid-dollar diaimnd?" Mr. Pinto drew his breath with a lht tle gasp. IIad lie sold himself for thme rest of his days for a mere bit of paste, a fasceted lump of glass, while all the time thme White heart Diamond lay fathoms deep in the sea! Angels and( imfilsters of grace defenid him! It could not be! But he had a gecat deal of fortitude aiid self-reliance, lHe played the de voted lover to Miss Jorgensen's entire satisfaction all tate evening, but when ietty calne to epll him to breakfast the niext, moring, his bed had not been slept in, and lie was over thme lills and far away. In fact he had run away. Miss Jorgensen was rather indignant at first, but when Hletty exclaimed, "'He must be a crazy man, aunty " she concluded that all was unmdoubtelly for the best "But," she said, with a smirk, "lhe was cartainliy very much in hoval" "Yes, indeed, apnity," said Ietty with the utmost gravity. And thus briefly and logically ended Mr. Pluto's search for the faimous White Ieait Diamond. Dried Apples. If there is one thing more than another hat Pulasai county, Ky., is or should be noted for, it it her immense production of dried apples. In years when the crop is good, the amount shipped from this place is something enormous, (heasured by tie dozens o' car-loads in rE -A the apple crop this year is very geod, Pulaski county can be depended on to io her share to wards inflating-well, it not the currency, at least the stoumache of the country. There are no notably large orchards in the coun ty, the most' extensive containing only 400 or 500 trees. It is rather singular, too,that this should be the case, as no better fruit. produo'ng county can be found in smorl ca than many parts of Pulaski county. The large quantities shipped from this place are the united production of a great many persons Nearly every farmer in the county has more or less of an orchard, and aq soon as the apples are fl, for the purpose (sometimes sooner, perhaps) the female portion of the household coninence con verting them into the well-known 'schultz.' Ordinarily they are simply peeled and cored and laid out in the sun, either on boards or a convenient roof, and old Sol does the rest of the work. There are a few ovap raters in the county, however. It is only a question of time when they will, to a great extent, supplant the old method of drying the fruit in the sun The evapo rated article always commands a ready sale at several times the price of ordinary truit and in additu:m no risk Is ria of having it spoiled by rain like tihat which lies out on roofs and boards. The evaporated fruit is much the nicest and most wholesome arti cle of food,and as, aside from the first cost of an evaporator and the little fuel requir ed to run it, the cost of the production Is the sanie as the sun-dried-arucle, the dif forence of from 100 to 800 per cent. in the value of the two is no small item in its favor. During their se-ison dried -apples form an important part of the currency of the county. The most of the merchants in Somerset and all of the' country store keepers deal in them,and when the farmer or any of his family need any arttele for personal or hoasehold use, they are sure ot getting it if they have the requisite nun ber of pounds of dried applo. ''hey are paid for by the merchants altogether in trade, no one as yet ever having done a cash business in them. No dbu,t wht,over would do so would do a laud- ill 1a busi og s, but whether it would be..a.Jtw:-ng price ieTtdif?dMh& 'r"pboid. $1 04 bushel of twenty-six-pounds, thoughson,e times the price has gone a little below that and at other times above it, Last year they brought four cents, while the year be fore they sold at fro:n four to six cents. Last year the apple crop was light conse quently the shipments of the dried article were not nearly so large as usual. Only about 800,000 pounds were shipped from here. The year previous the crop was tin uusally good, and there was also a good peach crop, and the shipment of dried ap pies and peaches from this point airgrega ted the enormous amount of nearly $1,300, 000 pounds, or over sixty nar-i'tw?.. Of this amount probably not more than one fourth or one-flith were poaches. The av erage price pitd was five cents per pound, so the revenue of the county front this source alone was over $00 000. It must be taken into consideration, too, that there are numerous small stores scattered throughout the county that bought up and shipped a great deal of fruit, though just low much there Is no means of knowing. i'he apples as .bnoughit are put away in the merchants' store rooms, andi when sufil cient have been taken ini t.o make a car load or more, they are sacked up in from 100 to 150 pound sacks and shipped to Cin cinnati and sold. At present they are bringing $1 50 per buanel in the elt,y, wit,b prospects that the price will advance. I'hore is a visible Improvement in the qual ity of those brought to market this year over former years. which adds considera bly to their sieleableness. (Aardens. Gar-dens have always p)layedl a gieat part ini all our drieamis and r-omaiices. In "Romeo and Juliet" you seue the heavy-headed flowers hanmging in the moonlight; muichi of the action of "Twelfth Night" goes on in Olivia's garden; of "Much Ado About Notha lng' inm Leonato's garden; and we have a Venetiaii gar-den in the "Merchant of Venice,'" and lessoiis in Sicilian garden lng in the "Winter's Tale," Whatonue poet did all the others (lid, and the inovoi of mlodern (lays wouild be missinig its opp)or-tunity to make much Qf the tuix ur-y of life that did not give ina a gaLrdlen scone. For a garden .1s the out-door home, whlere nature makes roofs and walls, haigings and pictures, w~her-e snshino andi( birds and flowers are not guests, but imemnbers of the family, and health is wooed to conme, and being there, to stay. Wherever there Is a garden, one thinks of it, as peop)ledl by lovers, by pleasant gray-hi lred peopile sitting ini the sun, by happl)iy laughing chiildiren with their peCts anid plays. Thioseof us who have a gardena count the days before we caii stay there hours togethe-, book In hand, without injuiry; thmo.e of us who have none long for the time to come when we can walk ini omir own piathis, p)luck the grape of oiii owvn vines, and the roses of our owni trees: we aire only too sure that there are few thlings bettor in lit'e than the lpossess on and cultivation of-a gardeii; andi we nill rmemmber read Iiig the old propheit's words whxen the Lord promises to turn the wilderness into a gar-deni with pools and streams anid trees for the sulfei-ing, as If it were the last, best, greatest blessing that couid be given: "\When the poor and needy seek water, anid there is none, aiid their tonigue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel wvill not forsake them. I-will open rivers in high places, and fountains in time midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of wat er, and the dry land springs of water, I will plant in the wilderness thte cedar the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set.in the dert the fir tree, and the pingm and the box tree W0gothey%4 Telegraph Operators. While a reporter was sitting behind the railing of a large telegraph otflce yesterday listening to the ceaseless chatter of the instruments, he vent nred to ask a youthful manipulator of lightning if he had been long on the line. The youth straightened up and replied: "'Bout flve years." "Must know all the boys on the line?" "Yes, know 'em over the wire if I don't any other way. Lots -of 'eit never saw, but when they take hokt o the key and begin to call I know who they are." t rThere is no more interesting feature of the telegraphic service than the ability, acquired through practice, to distinguish between the different opera tors on a line by the manner of their sending. A corps of operators each familiar with his fellow's method of sending would scarcely need to waste time to allix their oflice signature to their calls, the oilce wanted being able to judge what operator was working the key. No operators in the city be come more thoroughly acquainted and conversant with the men on their wire thtan those at the head of the great railroad divisions, which extend in almost every direction from the city. ihe ianners of sending of their different men - become as familiar to them as does the handwriting of his book-keeper to the owner of a batik. During the conversation given at the opening, a flashily dressed "sub,' bent over the table and transacted the busi ness with an air of dignity that would have become a bank clerk. A moment later some oflice on the line began calling the main ollice, repeating the call a dozen times without signing. "Answer f-w," said the operator to his assistant. "But he hasn't signed yet," ventured the now man suspiciously. "Yes, but I know himu," explained the operator and just then the ollice calling ended up with a terse '"f-w." "liut can you tell all the operators on the line by their method of making a single letter?" "No, not always by a single letter; but, there are very few men on my wire that I cannot tell before they hive written a dozen words. Just as one learns another's peinnanship we learn each other's mnanner of sending. We have to get accustomed to all the different styles. Some operators start off with a hop-skip-and-jump gait and keep it up all the _yav throult a mes siowly and. steadily, and, should hI have 5000 words to transmit, Ie will not increase his pace. Then there are follows who will rush in a iMessage of six or eight words, sign, and close their key before anything short of an expert has time to get down the date. By that we are able to distinguish between theni." While the electricity jerker was de livering himself of the above informa tion, his ear was keenly fixed on the business of the line. lie turned toward the instrinent a mnoment and said: "That isn't George working at. "No." said his youthful assistant. "Ii was sent down the line yester day." A moment later he heard another friend in an oflice in which he knew lie was not work ing. lie reached over to the key, called up the ofllec, and then spelled out: "Ain't that you, F--?" "Es," came back the answer, sleepily; "been down to see my girl." "1 knew it was F ," said the operator, "you can never get rattleti oni his sendling."' Operators never tire in telling theI woniderful legends of their craft, and the stories of their skill and achieve mxents. One toldl yesterday is good and worth relating. It was durinig the late wvar, when everythiing wvas considered suspilcious. A con fedorate general, accomnpainied by an expert in telegraphy, dashed openl the door of a little office on the Missis Hipp)i river, and( placinig a revolver at the operator's head toldl him1 to 'ask "M ," 20 miles above, if there were any gutn boats there belonging .to tihe governmiient. T1hie operator was ai Union man, iIe knewv if lie received a negativye respon se thei uonfederate would( move uipoin the helpless townt of "M--." But, there was nto alterna Live. T1hie other op)erator was watch ing hint closely. So lie calied __M___" and asked previously If there were any gunboats In sight. There wvere none withini 50) miles, but something in the oplerator's mannier of seniding led the receivinig operator to suspect, the truth. So) be anisweredl, "Yes; theme are two I the bay, and from my wlidow I can see the smoke from two others coming around the bend." "M ' "vas not mnolestedl. The operator's sagacity had saved the towna. An interesting incident it dlirect, line with this subject, occurred during the recent telephtonic exp)erimnents be t,ween this city and New Yocrk. While onte of tihe inistrumments was beimg tried the wire becamie grounded. The Mol'se inistrunitent, was cut antd the words, "You are a crank," "You0 are a crank," were heard over and over again. TIhme ollice men were for a long timte undertermnined to what cause t,o attribute the breaks. No sooner would an attemplt, be made to use t,he t,ele phone than time same breaks would oc cur agam, amid the samte message lbe .sent, "You are a craink." By listening atteint,ively, old operators conchluded t,bat it wats the wvork of sonie oporator hired by anm op)posing comnpaniy to th wart the experimuent,s. TIhiose who wvere unaicquaintedl with the circunmstances held to the~ belief that the sender was a student; but the opiuion of the opera tors proved correct. Th'le "bridge" was p)ut on, the brealc located and fouind to occur between stations. It was af terward traced down as thte work of an operator paid to hinder the workings of the telephone then being tried. Trhteeason why so few marriages are happy is because . young ladies spend their time In making noe, not in mnak lng cages. Vuttng the Hair. It may be that cuttijg and shaving may for the time increase the action of the growth, but it has no permanent effect either upon the hair-bulb or the hair-sac, and will not in any way add to the life of the hair. On the contrary cutting and shaving will cause the hair to grow longer for the time being, but in the en(1 will inevitably shorten its term of life by exhausting the nutritive action of the hair-forming apparatus. When the hairs are frequently cut they will usually become coarser, often los ing the beautiful gloss of the line and delicate hairs. The pigment will like wise change-brown, for instance, be coinmg chestnut and black changing to a dark brown. In addition, the ends of very many will be split and ragged, presenting a brush-like appearance. If the hairs appear stunted in their growth upon portions of the scalp or beard, or gray hairs crop up here and there, the method of clipping off the ends of the short hairs, of plucking out the ragged. withered and gray hairs, will allow them to grow stronger, longer and thicker. Mothers, rearing ttneir chil ren should not cut their hair at certaiin periods of the year, in order to increase its length and luxuriance as they bloom into womanhood or manhood. This habit of cutting the hair of children brings evil in place of good, and is also condemned by the distinguished work er in this department, Prof. Kaposi, of Vienna, who states that it is well known that the hair of women who possess luxuriant locks from the tiie of girlhood never again attains its original length after having once been cut. Pincus has mia(de the same observa tion by frequent experiments, and he aids that there is i general opinion that frequent cutting of the hair increases its leng'th; but the effect is different from that generally supposed. Thus, upon one occasion he states that he cut off circles of hair an inch in diameter on the heads of healthy men, and from week to week compared the intensity of irowth of the shorn place with t'e rest of the hair. ''he result was sur prising to this close and careful observ or, as he found In some cases the nun bers were equal, but generally the growth became slower after cutting, and he has never observed an increase in rapidity. Many beardless faces and bald heads in the m1id(l1e and alvancinig age are often due to constant cutting 1mnd shaving in early life. The young girls and boys seen daily upon our .rI .A.h wit.h m .l . ..- - -.. maven faces are year by year by this fashion having their hair-forniiuig up Jaratu1s overstrained. Littlo Flower sellers. "it ain't in"sulniner as I gets my pro [Its. "a lie was about twelve years old and me was selling small bouquets at an ex seedingly moderate price ill) and down lourteenth street, Now York. "Look at these 'ore roses-two for lye cents. There ain't any money in that. We've got to go a long way to get 'em and we've got to walk ever so rar to sell 'em. Why, I suppose I walk bwenty miles a day right up and down bere. About Christmas and - New Year's, and when balls Is a rupnin' best, we often stay up night after night putting together them big flow er pieces that costs such a heap of money. They pay us $5 a night for that there work and it counts up fast. See this ere rose. Nice isn't? We buy 'em for a cent apieco by the hunildred and have to take our chances on iiot sellimng 'oem, so you see we've got for to Hell a good many to do any business wvorth talking about. B3ut in the winter this ere saine rose brinigs ine in about 25 cents, and I git 'em for about 10 cents. The sale of three or four roses gives me a pretty good profit,* you see, and if I sell a dozoii why I have miade a uine day of it. liut somietinmes I got stuck, even in winter1 and1( that means a hefty loss. You ain't got nio idea how these crc florists Is dowvn on us. They won't buy anything that we've got over 'cos they want to drive us out-no miatter how badly they wvant what wve've got. We git coldl anid wet anid I rost-bitten, aiid somietimes we gits kicked off cars, but that doni't matter so as we kin sell our flowers. A good (day ini winter is wuth, oeverything comn sired, $4 or $5-takin' the average of night work ini. A good day in sam mner never goes much more nor $1,50. .Anythinmg's better than nmothin', and that's all you kini say for the flower business now. Ontionu. 'The ancIent glory , of Wethershleld, Conn., is departing. Tihis good old towin can lio loniger claimi to be the strongest town in the State because of its onions. Fairfld counity is now the on ion garden of the State. Tme land there is adapted to the cultivation of oinionms and they have Immense yields. A resident of Southiport boasts that from six pounds of seed lie got one thousanmd bushels of onionis from a simn gle acre of hind. Tihis year the onion crop is doing usually wvell iiot only ini Fairfield county but also In' this locality. The onion pirodiucers of Wethersllold report that they have had iio such luck as niow gladdens their eyes f'or years. The yield Is large, and( the on ions are uncommonly large. Tihme prices are not so large as somietimes obtained In years gone by, but thme average has been fair. The early ones sold readily for $1 per bushel, but now tile price huas drop~ped to abont 75 cents. At these figures thme farmers are well paid for their labor, but remembering old times they are always looking for bet. ter prices. .Back Iln war times one Wethorrield man had a fine fIeld of onions which he sold readily at $7 per barrel. On figuring it up hie found that lie had been getting at the rate of $2,900 an acre for his onions. This gentleman tried for the last twenty years to equal it, but lhe failed to come anywhere riear it. He died a few days ago, and tTiough the crop of onions on the same piece of land to-day is equal to that which brought the fancy price, it is doubtful if they would bring more haumi ne uartor a much. Tlie Allen Manalon, ie"hmoad. A correspondent recently visited the Allen Mansion, in Richmond, Va. and gives the following description or the room where Poe wrote the "Raven," and other of his pieces. The room was large, spacious, and papered in the florid style of a by-gone age. Two large windows looked to the southward, giving egress to a wide covered balcony, with sanded floor. That part of the James river thickly obstructed with little green islands is visible from here, while beyond lies the pretty city of Manchester. But within the room all was emptiness desolation, and the spirit of despair. here it wat. when in Richmond that Edgar Allen Poe read, studied, thought, and wrote. producing many of those wonderful creations of genius which challengel the-admiration of the world. I raised 0110 of the high windows, pushed open a shutter, which resisted creak:igly ily effort to make it performted a function for which it had long been 'utlusecd, and stood pon the long wide balcony. Gazing down over the railing, i saw an einclosire which gave evidence of hav img once been one of Flora's favorite nooks. It. was laid out in labyrinthian paths, b >rdered with the evergreen box which is so plentiful and luxuriant. But now, large llg trees, crape myrtles, o tenderly cared for, and doubtless fondly looked uon by the poet's beaut,y loving eyes, are trying to conquer an existence in an unequal strife with wild unfrieully weeds as tall as themselves. I desceteld Ia flight of rickety stairs leading into this forsaken garden, to pather a few mementous of mny visit 'rui this once blooming and fragrant parterre, and then, retracing my steps, toiled up into the garret to see if per hauce L could llud( anything- m11ore -losely identified with the personality of the poet. 'I'here before me on the garret floor in piles and scatterod hiith 3r and thither in proniscuous disorder was a nass of rubbish that, must hvo been ages in atccuulatinhg. Fragments of books 1 picked up, one after another, searching the pages to .sc' i' any of them bore his name. Here was at part, of an old 1liad. There were dainty en velopes with daintier waxen seals, such as were fashionable in those days, in dorsed in delicate writing. There were bills from tichnond, New York, and Baltimore mnerchants, in the name of roster-father Allen. Bere was a copy of The Colulbia fagazine, and very likely Poe wrote for t,at, but his ntne loes not appear in thi. - L.. ..- .-. . .aac riO T s :a Ill, - iloude, and lace. It had environed the laintiest of waists in its day, and hid lon a heart bounding with the hapiY motions of youth and love. Outside, the line old Allen Mansion ears the perceptibie tokens of neglect Lid decay. The window-glass in naniy >laces is shattered, and shutters are umbling from their fastenings the once is falling down piece-meal, the ;ate drags heavily on a single hinge, rttlhs are overgrowt with grass and veeds, flower-beds are obliterated, vhile sounds of love and inerrimnenht art then to the place. The kind old foster >arents are dead and gone, and tlue >rodigal so often welcomed there with oy and pride, and yearned for with ).oken hearts, crosses its threshold 'nevernore." 8harks Along Jorsoy, Within the past week or two sharks ave been very numerous in New York tmd Newark bays, and along the coasts >f Long Island and New Jersey. As It s cutstoma~ry for thlese t ish to stay ini leep water away front the shore, their )>resenice near the beach Is regarded by r,he fishermilen and1( seastidO dwellers as a remarkable ci rcumistance. Mr. George Dempsey, of Elizabethport, N. J., whio nas been engaged for neatrly a quarter f a century in taking fish and oysters from Newark bay, informed a New York Star relporter that no0 less than rorty sharks had been caught in the hay this summlIer. "I have capituredi four of the sea var mnints, and I mean to catch more of them," saidi Mr. D)empsey, its lie gave a hlitchl to his trowsers and took a fresh eb,ew of tobacco. "'Of what good are sulch fish after you have capturedl tlhem?" quieried the re - piorter. "WVell, thley are nuot good to eat and their skinis are wvorthl'nothIig for boot leather,'' wIas thle relhy; "butt whenever I catch 0on0 of them I have the sittisfac tioni of knowing that tliere is one less it the ocean." "'As there atre millions of themn in the sea asin le shark cannot make much "That's so; but I enjoy seeing the 'critters' die. It's its good as a circus when they squirm andI( flap about.'' "D)o thLey die herd?" "1 shouhl1( Say so. There is a wonlder futl amiount of vitalIty in a shark. Some times one of these luhcky fIshes will live two hours after lhe lhas beoen taken otut of the water." "iDid you ever know of a person be ing bitteni by a shark?" "Yes; several such1 cases have takeni place in Newark bay. I was bitten once miyself. Ti'wo years ago my sion, a ula in his teens, took it into his head that lhe would take a swim. lie svas out with me1 ini ai small boat, dredging for oysters at the time. D)ivesting him-. self of his.clothing, lie juimied iinto the wvater, anid wvas swimming about, when suddely lie screamed thlat lie ha'd( beeni bitten. I sprang inl after him11 and was pullig him toward tile boat wVlenl I was bi ttenl also- A shark had grabbed mnc by the foot. .I kieked as hard as I could 11( ani ade the fish let go his hold. My boy hand been wounded in the .1eg. We managed to get into the boat as best we could. We rowed ashore and had alt Eliziabethport doctor dress our wQunds. It was lucky5for~ lis that the lish that attacked uts was a little fellow or we might have fared a great deal worse thtat we did. The sharks that come Into the waters near the shore be long to a small vairiety of. their tribe. Usually they'are not more then 'three or four feet 101ng.- Out in the deep sea, far from land, there are sharks which can bite a man's body into ihalves with a single snap of their Immense ja.w,"